The Matt Walsh Show - February 04, 2025


Ep. 1529 - Democrats PANIC After Their Horrifying Money Laundering Scheme Was Revealed


Episode Stats

Length

1 hour and 14 minutes

Words per Minute

167.37932

Word Count

12,474

Sentence Count

839

Misogynist Sentences

14

Hate Speech Sentences

36


Summary

Today on the Matt Walsh Show, Democrats panic as Trump destroys their slush fund and money laundering operation. He s making good on his promise to drain the swamp, and the swamp is not happy about it. Also, trans activists rally to demand that hospitals continue castrating children, the Governor of New Jersey appears to be breaking federal law by harboring fugitive aliens in his house, and photographs from the surface of Mars have led some to speculate that there may be remnants of an advanced civilization buried beneath the surface.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, Democrats panic as Trump destroys their slush fund and money laundering operation.
00:00:05.400 He's making good on his promise to drain the swamp, and the swamp is not happy about it.
00:00:08.940 Also, trans activists rallied to demand that hospitals continue castrating children.
00:00:12.380 The governor of New Jersey appears to claim that he's breaking federal law by harboring fugitive aliens in his house.
00:00:18.240 And photographs from the surface of Mars have led some to speculate that there may be remnants of an advanced civilization buried beneath the surface.
00:00:24.460 Do I buy that theory? Well, of course I do.
00:00:26.380 All of that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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00:01:53.540 As Twitter began to gain popularity around 15 years ago,
00:01:57.080 millions of people in Cuba were looking for a similar website
00:01:59.860 that they could use to send short messages to the world.
00:02:02.960 It was difficult to access Twitter itself because Cuba's communist government
00:02:07.000 restricted internet access, so there was a big untapped market there.
00:02:11.080 Fortunately for Cubans, an alternative quickly emerged.
00:02:13.540 It was called Zunzunil, which is a Cuban expression
00:02:17.220 that's supposed to sound like the noise a hummingbird makes, I guess.
00:02:20.680 So we had Twitter, and they had a knockoff called Zunzunil.
00:02:25.280 But even though it was a pretty cheap knockoff,
00:02:27.720 the application quickly became popular,
00:02:29.220 gaining tens of thousands of users in a matter of months.
00:02:31.800 The creators of the app had obtained a list of 500,000 Cuban cell phone numbers
00:02:35.740 from somewhere, presumably the black market.
00:02:38.460 So they were able to pitch the program directly to users,
00:02:41.580 and cell phones were the key to the whole business model.
00:02:44.240 Zunzunil was able to evade Cuba's internet restrictions
00:02:47.540 because it relied entirely on text messaging and cellular services.
00:02:52.240 And after just a couple of years in service, though,
00:02:54.860 Zunzunil abruptly disappeared.
00:02:57.740 It just went offline without any warning whatsoever.
00:03:00.500 Nobody had any idea what had happened to it.
00:03:02.780 It wasn't until several years later that we learned the truth
00:03:06.160 because of an investigation that was published by the Associated Press.
00:03:08.980 It turns out that Zunzunil was secretly created
00:03:13.460 by the United States Agency for International Development, or USAID.
00:03:18.300 Yes, the U.S. government's International Development Agency
00:03:21.100 had created a social media app in Cuba without telling anyone,
00:03:25.540 in this country or in Cuba.
00:03:27.540 In response to this reporting, the White House spokesman at the time
00:03:29.740 claimed that it was all a big misunderstanding.
00:03:32.620 Watch.
00:03:32.920 The U.S. has admitted to being behind a Twitter-style text messaging service
00:03:38.580 in Cuba, but denies it was a covert operation to topple President Castro.
00:03:43.120 The Associated Press news agency revealed that the U.S. aid agency funded Zunzunil,
00:03:48.780 claiming it aimed to stir unrest, something the White House refuted.
00:03:53.700 Congress funds democracy programming for Cuba to help empower Cubans
00:03:57.700 to access more information and to strengthen civil society.
00:04:01.360 These appropriations are public, unlike covert action.
00:04:05.620 The money invested has been debated in Congress.
00:04:09.520 So the White House spokesman, Jay Carney, was, whatever happened to that guy?
00:04:14.800 The first 14-year-old to ever be appointed White House spokesperson.
00:04:18.580 I don't know whatever happened to him in the preceding years,
00:04:20.480 but he claims that everything's above board.
00:04:23.340 After all, USAID is all about helping other countries,
00:04:26.580 and we were just helping Cuba out.
00:04:28.300 What's the problem?
00:04:28.840 As it turns out, even if you assume that the U.S. should be helping out foreign countries
00:04:33.480 by sending them taxpayer money, which we obviously shouldn't be doing,
00:04:36.980 there are still major problems here, and here's a big one.
00:04:39.700 According to the AP, quote,
00:04:40.940 the estimated $1.6 million spent on Zunzuneo was publicly earmarked
00:04:45.560 for an unspecified project in Pakistan,
00:04:47.660 but those documents don't reveal where the funds were actually spent.
00:04:51.480 So in other words, this is what we call fraud.
00:04:54.020 Congress authorized the money to go to Pakistan.
00:04:57.480 The president signed an appropriations bill sending the money to Pakistan,
00:05:01.540 and the money did not go to Pakistan.
00:05:05.140 Not that we want any money going to Pakistan, by the way,
00:05:07.600 but they said that's where it's going, but instead it went to Cuba.
00:05:12.060 American voters were told the money was going to one place, but it went to another.
00:05:16.080 And there's a very clear reason why USAID might have been interested in lying
00:05:19.640 about where the money was going, which is this.
00:05:21.680 The point of spending the money was not to develop Cuba.
00:05:25.040 The point was to overthrow Cuba's government.
00:05:27.660 Quoting again from the AP,
00:05:29.000 USAID and its contractors went to extensive lengths
00:05:31.620 to conceal Washington's ties to the project,
00:05:33.540 according to interviews and documents obtained by the AP.
00:05:36.100 They set up front companies in Spain and the Cayman Islands
00:05:38.700 to hide the money trail and recruited CEOs
00:05:41.340 without telling them they'd be working on a U.S. taxpayer-funded project.
00:05:45.380 Eventually, they hoped the network would reach critical mass
00:05:48.160 so that dissidents could organize smart mobs,
00:05:50.760 mass gatherings called at a moment's notice,
00:05:52.900 that could trigger political demonstrations
00:05:54.440 or renegotiate the balance of power between the state and society.
00:05:59.300 Now, reading that, you can't help but think that,
00:06:02.360 think about all the smart mobs
00:06:04.580 that the government has probably worked to organize in this country.
00:06:08.760 This is clearly what our intelligence agencies are good at.
00:06:11.620 They launder money with the goal of overthrowing governments
00:06:14.400 with color revolutions all the time,
00:06:16.180 whether it's in Ukraine or Cuba or dozens of other places.
00:06:19.780 But you're supposed to think that they would never do the same thing here.
00:06:23.020 They would never say,
00:06:24.700 stoke racial tensions so that half the country is lit on fire
00:06:27.920 in the name of racial equity.
00:06:29.820 Now, in this particular case, the U.S. government got caught,
00:06:32.880 and that led to some embarrassment among Democrats.
00:06:35.160 For example, one prominent Democrat,
00:06:37.200 Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont,
00:06:39.440 asked USAID,
00:06:40.780 quote,
00:06:40.960 what in heaven's name are you thinking?
00:06:43.500 If you're going to do a covert operation like this for a regime change,
00:06:46.940 assuming it ever makes any sense,
00:06:48.800 it's not something that should be done through USAID.
00:06:51.700 So he gave them a finger wagging,
00:06:53.940 and that was it.
00:06:56.900 Nothing else happened.
00:06:58.500 USAID suffered no consequences whatsoever.
00:07:02.600 I bring all this up because it's one of many egregious examples
00:07:05.960 of how USAID has been operating with total impunity
00:07:08.980 over the past several decades.
00:07:11.660 This is an agency that JFK created by executive order
00:07:14.260 during the Cold War to allegedly help fight the spread of communism,
00:07:17.480 and then Congress formally established USAID
00:07:20.220 with a law called the Foreign Assistance Act.
00:07:23.000 And ever since then,
00:07:23.620 the agency has steadily grown
00:07:25.180 and spent more and more taxpayer money overseas.
00:07:27.680 Like all government programs,
00:07:29.620 it has simply consumed more and more resources over time,
00:07:32.560 like cancer,
00:07:33.680 with no sign of ever going away.
00:07:35.960 There is no accountability
00:07:37.280 for any of this spending ever.
00:07:40.540 This is Enron-level accounting,
00:07:42.520 and we've been tolerating it for decades.
00:07:44.740 If Americans knew what was happening,
00:07:46.760 they would overwhelmingly oppose all of it.
00:07:49.740 So take a look at this chart
00:07:50.940 to give you just one more example.
00:07:52.740 This is from USAID's website,
00:07:54.600 and it was first flagged by somebody named Jeff Carlson.
00:07:58.240 You can look at the image on the screen.
00:07:59.880 As you can see,
00:08:01.020 as of September 2024,
00:08:02.420 USAID has already spent
00:08:04.020 most of the $39 billion
00:08:05.900 it has been allocated to for Ukraine.
00:08:10.240 Supposedly, this is not military assistance,
00:08:12.380 because after all,
00:08:13.080 USAID is about international development,
00:08:15.940 supposedly.
00:08:16.960 By contrast,
00:08:17.760 the Defense Department
00:08:18.520 was allocated something like
00:08:20.760 $124 billion for Ukraine,
00:08:23.540 and they spent around $49 billion of it.
00:08:26.600 In other words,
00:08:27.300 if you thought that Pentagon spending
00:08:29.240 accounted for the vast majority
00:08:30.600 of our spending in Ukraine,
00:08:31.600 you're wrong.
00:08:32.940 As it turns out,
00:08:33.740 USAID is doing a lot of work in Ukraine.
00:08:37.040 And the truth is,
00:08:38.220 we have no idea
00:08:39.720 what they're doing there.
00:08:41.980 Supposedly, the money is going
00:08:43.080 to an economic support fund
00:08:44.660 to pay the pensions and salaries
00:08:46.340 of Ukrainian government bureaucrats.
00:08:48.760 That's the stated reason,
00:08:50.840 which is bad enough.
00:08:53.540 Okay?
00:08:53.820 Like, giving money
00:08:54.860 to Ukrainian bureaucrats,
00:08:56.820 our tax money,
00:08:58.200 the money that comes out of our paychecks,
00:08:59.940 going to government officials
00:09:01.740 in Ukraine is bad enough.
00:09:04.640 It's very, very bad.
00:09:06.400 But almost certainly,
00:09:07.540 they're also laundering
00:09:08.440 a lot of money
00:09:08.960 to promote propaganda
00:09:09.940 for the war effort there.
00:09:11.980 The level of fraud
00:09:13.620 that's going on here
00:09:14.680 is just hard to comprehend.
00:09:18.260 Just imagine auditing
00:09:19.320 a $39 billion economic support fund
00:09:22.160 for Ukraine.
00:09:23.520 But there are no line items,
00:09:25.720 so you can only imagine it.
00:09:27.220 I mean, it's impossible
00:09:27.980 to actually audit it.
00:09:29.680 Again, this has been going on
00:09:30.500 for a very long time.
00:09:32.920 As far back as 2017,
00:09:34.520 Congressman Francis Rooney
00:09:35.680 pointed out that USAID
00:09:37.100 was subsidizing
00:09:37.980 the World Economic Forum
00:09:39.080 for no apparent reason.
00:09:41.200 Check it out.
00:09:42.720 And there are so many abuses of AID.
00:09:45.220 I found out that AID
00:09:46.960 has given money
00:09:48.160 to support the World Economic Forum.
00:09:50.320 Why would the United States taxpayer
00:09:52.040 be subsidizing
00:09:53.180 the World Economic Forum
00:09:54.300 when everybody that arrives over there
00:09:56.060 arrives in a Gulfstream G5?
00:09:57.980 Yes, we are paying
00:10:00.600 globalist billionaires
00:10:01.960 with your tax money.
00:10:04.180 You never voted for that.
00:10:06.160 Congress never authorized it.
00:10:08.000 But it happened.
00:10:09.520 And no one ever put an end
00:10:11.100 to this slush fund,
00:10:12.280 so it just grew bigger
00:10:13.320 and bigger and bigger.
00:10:14.780 The other day,
00:10:15.240 the White House press secretary
00:10:16.100 outlined a small percentage
00:10:17.620 of where some of this USAID money
00:10:20.080 is going today.
00:10:21.620 Watch.
00:10:22.920 Karen.
00:10:23.760 Do you know if Mr. Musk
00:10:24.720 took the same oath
00:10:25.500 that you and other senior advisors
00:10:27.280 to the president took
00:10:28.380 about adhering to the Constitution
00:10:30.420 following the law?
00:10:31.300 Do you know if he took that oath?
00:10:32.460 I don't know the answer
00:10:33.220 to that question,
00:10:33.900 but like I told Caitlin,
00:10:34.760 I can get back to you guys on that.
00:10:35.780 And do you know what expertise
00:10:36.900 he has in the areas
00:10:38.340 of global health
00:10:40.020 or humanitarian aid
00:10:42.460 to be able to assess
00:10:43.400 what's happening at USAID?
00:10:45.240 Well, first of all,
00:10:46.140 Elon Musk is a once-in-a-generation
00:10:48.380 business leader.
00:10:49.540 He is an entrepreneur.
00:10:50.800 He serves as a great ally
00:10:52.060 and a friend to the president.
00:10:53.600 And I think Elon Musk
00:10:54.660 also has a little bit
00:10:55.980 of common sense.
00:10:56.880 And I think the American people
00:10:57.940 really appreciate that
00:10:59.040 when it comes to
00:10:59.940 the federal government
00:11:00.680 because it seems like
00:11:01.620 all common sense
00:11:02.260 has been lost in this city.
00:11:03.780 And that's what you see
00:11:04.600 when you look at USAID.
00:11:06.120 I know Secretary Rubio
00:11:07.240 made some comments
00:11:08.060 about how he will be acting
00:11:09.340 as the director
00:11:10.480 over that agency.
00:11:11.840 And here's the reason
00:11:12.780 why Elon Musk
00:11:13.800 and others have been
00:11:14.480 taking a look.
00:11:15.120 Because if you look
00:11:15.820 at the waste and abuse
00:11:17.080 that has run through USAID
00:11:19.320 over the past several years,
00:11:20.640 these are some of the
00:11:21.460 insane priorities
00:11:22.620 that that organization
00:11:23.580 has been spending money on.
00:11:25.340 $1.5 million to advance
00:11:27.620 DEI in Serbia's workplaces.
00:11:30.820 $70,000 for a production
00:11:32.320 of a DEI musical in Ireland.
00:11:35.240 $47,000 for a transgender
00:11:37.340 opera in Colombia.
00:11:39.240 $32,000 for a transgender
00:11:41.220 comic book in Peru.
00:11:42.560 I don't know about you,
00:11:44.120 but as an American taxpayer,
00:11:45.200 I don't want my dollars
00:11:46.140 going towards this crap.
00:11:47.460 And I know the American
00:11:48.060 people don't either.
00:11:48.880 And that's exactly
00:11:49.640 what Elon Musk
00:11:50.420 has been tasked
00:11:51.360 by President Trump to do,
00:11:52.420 to get the fraud,
00:11:53.540 waste, and abuse
00:11:54.120 out of our federal government.
00:11:55.880 As bad as all those
00:11:57.420 line items sound,
00:11:58.460 and they obviously
00:11:59.080 sound really bad
00:11:59.960 and are really bad,
00:12:02.680 the truth is that
00:12:03.460 it's probably much worse
00:12:04.880 than that.
00:12:05.600 It's the federal government
00:12:06.480 that's saying
00:12:07.500 they're spending your money
00:12:08.900 to make gay comics
00:12:10.360 in Peru.
00:12:12.040 It's the federal government
00:12:13.420 that's saying
00:12:14.260 they dropped $70,000
00:12:15.660 to promote DEI
00:12:17.080 in Irish theaters.
00:12:18.960 That's what they're claiming.
00:12:20.460 And as we've established,
00:12:21.580 they have no problem
00:12:22.400 lying about all this.
00:12:23.460 So the chances are pretty high
00:12:24.440 that in reality,
00:12:25.300 all this money actually
00:12:26.420 went to coup attempts
00:12:27.440 that you know nothing about
00:12:28.880 and that you will never
00:12:30.120 know anything about.
00:12:31.600 In a previous era,
00:12:32.900 this is what we would call
00:12:34.400 a constitutional crisis.
00:12:36.960 A federal agency
00:12:37.780 has gone rogue.
00:12:39.220 They are spending money
00:12:40.160 that Congress
00:12:40.720 and the voters
00:12:41.480 have not authorized
00:12:42.800 them to spend.
00:12:43.480 And on top of that,
00:12:44.960 none of this
00:12:45.660 is a good idea anyway.
00:12:47.440 Since we're the only
00:12:48.380 country on the planet
00:12:49.100 that routinely dishes out
00:12:50.120 huge amounts of money
00:12:51.000 like this to foreign governments.
00:12:52.660 We shouldn't be giving
00:12:53.240 a single penny
00:12:54.040 of American tax dollars
00:12:55.040 to any foreign government
00:12:56.060 anywhere,
00:12:56.840 but we're doing
00:12:57.800 a lot more than that.
00:12:58.660 So now finally,
00:13:00.300 the Trump administration
00:13:00.860 is putting an end to it.
00:13:02.120 The USAID website
00:13:03.200 was just taken offline.
00:13:04.400 USAID workers
00:13:05.400 weren't allowed
00:13:05.920 in the building yesterday
00:13:06.780 and Trump and Elon Musk
00:13:08.440 have agreed that the agency
00:13:09.360 should be shut down.
00:13:11.040 In response,
00:13:11.560 Democrats are panicking
00:13:12.500 over this in a way
00:13:13.520 that they haven't panicked
00:13:15.220 over anything else
00:13:16.340 Trump has done.
00:13:16.960 I mean,
00:13:17.080 they panic about everything,
00:13:17.980 but this is several levels
00:13:20.900 beyond what we've seen
00:13:21.920 from them so far.
00:13:23.260 They are extremely animated
00:13:25.160 and upset
00:13:26.800 about the collapse
00:13:28.160 of an agency
00:13:28.740 that funnels money overseas
00:13:30.040 without accounting
00:13:30.960 for any of the spending.
00:13:33.080 So it's almost as if
00:13:34.140 they benefited
00:13:34.880 in some way
00:13:35.580 from this spending.
00:13:36.520 Here, for example,
00:13:37.220 is Congresswoman Ilhan Omar
00:13:38.980 who claims that this moment
00:13:40.420 is the official beginning
00:13:42.300 of Trump's dictatorship.
00:13:44.500 Yes, we're currently living
00:13:45.800 in the first dictatorship
00:13:47.260 in history
00:13:47.860 that began
00:13:48.560 with a popular vote victory
00:13:50.660 and that will end
00:13:52.840 four years later
00:13:54.400 at the conclusion
00:13:55.240 of the term
00:13:55.880 as prescribed
00:13:56.640 in the Constitution.
00:13:57.800 That's the kind
00:13:58.520 of dictatorship this is.
00:14:00.400 Watch her explain.
00:14:01.120 It is really,
00:14:04.120 really a sad day
00:14:05.340 in America.
00:14:06.760 We are witnessing
00:14:07.840 a constitutional crisis.
00:14:10.560 We talked about
00:14:12.380 Trump wanting
00:14:13.700 to be a dictator
00:14:15.140 on day one
00:14:16.180 and here we are.
00:14:18.760 This is what
00:14:20.140 the beginning
00:14:20.760 of dictatorship
00:14:21.820 looks like.
00:14:23.060 when you gut
00:14:24.600 the Constitution
00:14:26.080 and you install
00:14:28.280 yourself
00:14:28.840 as the sole power
00:14:30.600 that is how
00:14:31.920 dictators
00:14:32.500 are made.
00:14:34.340 What Trump
00:14:35.340 and Elon
00:14:36.200 and all
00:14:37.620 of their
00:14:38.280 croonies
00:14:39.080 are trying
00:14:39.780 to do
00:14:40.440 is take away
00:14:41.840 the constitutional
00:14:42.720 power
00:14:43.520 of Congress.
00:14:45.540 We get to decide.
00:14:47.380 We have
00:14:48.200 the power
00:14:49.080 of the purse.
00:14:50.040 Now,
00:14:51.940 if you get past
00:14:52.360 all the hysteria,
00:14:53.140 the point
00:14:53.460 she's trying
00:14:54.260 to make
00:14:54.720 is that USAID
00:14:56.340 was established
00:14:57.040 by Congress
00:14:57.860 and therefore
00:14:58.280 only Congress
00:14:59.160 can get rid
00:14:59.880 of the agency
00:15:00.720 and until that
00:15:01.860 happens,
00:15:02.320 if the president
00:15:02.780 doesn't want
00:15:03.440 to send
00:15:04.080 billions of
00:15:04.780 taxpayer dollars
00:15:05.400 overseas,
00:15:06.000 then he's a dictator.
00:15:07.760 That's what
00:15:08.220 she's saying.
00:15:09.200 But on the contrary,
00:15:10.480 this is of course
00:15:11.300 the exact opposite
00:15:12.020 of a dictatorship.
00:15:13.580 Trump ran
00:15:14.240 on certain promises
00:15:15.140 and is now
00:15:15.740 delivering to the voters
00:15:16.960 precisely what
00:15:17.940 they asked for.
00:15:18.640 One of those
00:15:20.200 promises
00:15:20.560 from the very
00:15:20.980 beginning
00:15:21.280 has been
00:15:22.040 to cut waste,
00:15:22.900 root out corruption
00:15:23.500 and drain the swamp.
00:15:24.920 It's pretty clear
00:15:25.460 that Trump
00:15:25.740 is doing
00:15:26.060 all three
00:15:26.500 of those things
00:15:27.120 through this
00:15:27.520 assault on USAID.
00:15:29.400 Trump,
00:15:29.980 as the executive,
00:15:31.100 doesn't have
00:15:31.700 to waste our money
00:15:32.480 even if Congress
00:15:33.280 has authorized
00:15:33.920 him to do so.
00:15:34.840 Even Democrats
00:15:35.400 agree with this,
00:15:35.920 by the way.
00:15:36.500 You might remember
00:15:36.940 that Democrats
00:15:37.420 once argued
00:15:38.040 that Barack Obama
00:15:38.740 didn't have to
00:15:39.980 enforce immigration law
00:15:41.160 even though it
00:15:41.620 was passed by Congress.
00:15:43.440 To the extent
00:15:44.120 anyone was acting
00:15:44.920 like a dictator
00:15:45.600 in this scenario,
00:15:46.420 it was the
00:15:46.820 unelected bureaucrats
00:15:48.120 at USAID.
00:15:50.620 No one voted
00:15:51.440 for them.
00:15:52.660 No one even
00:15:53.120 knows their names.
00:15:54.960 They routinely
00:15:55.800 lied about
00:15:56.420 where your money
00:15:56.880 was going.
00:15:57.380 They spent money
00:15:57.880 without congressional
00:15:58.580 authorization
00:15:59.020 in order to overthrow
00:15:59.880 foreign governments,
00:16:00.960 which is criminal
00:16:01.940 for about five
00:16:02.700 different reasons.
00:16:04.480 Even Democrats
00:16:05.180 have admitted that.
00:16:06.520 None of that
00:16:07.240 sounds particularly
00:16:08.020 Democratic,
00:16:09.260 and yet no one
00:16:10.760 in the Democrat
00:16:11.420 Party ever objected
00:16:12.540 to it.
00:16:12.800 The real reason
00:16:14.740 Democrats are
00:16:15.340 freaking out
00:16:15.780 is pretty obvious.
00:16:16.580 Trump is tearing
00:16:17.420 their money-longering
00:16:18.380 operation to pieces.
00:16:20.260 Their slush fund
00:16:21.340 is being drained.
00:16:23.160 You might remember
00:16:23.640 that Ilhan Omar
00:16:24.520 previously stated,
00:16:25.640 according to a translation
00:16:26.400 of her remarks
00:16:27.060 that was obtained
00:16:27.580 by the Daily Wire,
00:16:28.960 that as long as
00:16:29.760 she's in office,
00:16:30.740 quote,
00:16:31.060 Somalia will never
00:16:32.060 be in danger.
00:16:33.340 She also said
00:16:33.840 she would work,
00:16:35.220 quote,
00:16:35.300 day and night
00:16:35.980 to preserve
00:16:37.420 the interests
00:16:37.920 of Somalis
00:16:38.720 in the United States.
00:16:41.060 And part of that work,
00:16:43.000 we can assume,
00:16:43.540 means ensuring
00:16:44.060 that billions of dollars
00:16:45.000 in USAID
00:16:45.780 continues flowing
00:16:47.140 into Somalia
00:16:47.960 so that Somalia
00:16:48.900 can,
00:16:50.040 as it has always done,
00:16:51.480 squander all of it,
00:16:52.940 and the country
00:16:53.820 can continue
00:16:54.380 to be a hellhole,
00:16:55.580 which it has always been
00:16:57.040 and always will be.
00:16:58.860 This is the kind
00:16:59.800 of corrupt arrangement
00:17:00.780 that USAID
00:17:01.460 has established
00:17:02.000 for many politicians
00:17:03.060 in many different contexts,
00:17:04.620 and that's what
00:17:05.020 Ilhan Omar
00:17:05.460 is actually upset about.
00:17:06.880 And that would certainly
00:17:07.360 explain why,
00:17:08.100 seemingly out of nowhere,
00:17:09.600 Democrats are taking
00:17:10.460 to the streets
00:17:11.060 in defense of USAID.
00:17:13.060 They had a whole parade
00:17:14.160 of speakers outside
00:17:15.060 the agency headquarters
00:17:16.000 yesterday.
00:17:16.500 Here was Congressman
00:17:17.480 Jamie Raskin.
00:17:20.120 Elon Musk,
00:17:21.600 you didn't create
00:17:23.000 USAID.
00:17:24.520 The United States
00:17:25.440 Congress did
00:17:26.500 for the American people.
00:17:29.700 And just like Elon Musk
00:17:31.380 did not create USAID,
00:17:33.780 he doesn't have the power
00:17:35.060 to destroy it.
00:17:36.600 And who's going to
00:17:37.400 stop him,
00:17:38.320 we are.
00:17:39.700 We're going to
00:17:40.480 stop him.
00:17:41.420 And just like the president
00:17:42.800 who is elected
00:17:44.360 to something
00:17:45.060 cannot impound
00:17:46.760 the money
00:17:47.300 of the people,
00:17:48.680 we don't have
00:17:49.460 a fourth branch
00:17:50.420 of government
00:17:51.120 called Elon Musk.
00:17:53.140 And that's going
00:17:53.860 to become
00:17:54.360 real clear.
00:17:55.440 So he begins by saying
00:17:59.160 that Elon didn't
00:18:00.020 create USAID
00:18:01.180 as if that's a damning
00:18:02.380 point in some way.
00:18:03.580 We're supposed to be
00:18:04.040 outraged that Elon Musk
00:18:05.060 did not create a massive
00:18:06.600 and unaccountable
00:18:07.240 government bureaucracy
00:18:08.020 that lights money
00:18:08.860 on fire.
00:18:10.340 Congress did that.
00:18:11.620 So thank you for
00:18:12.400 establishing that,
00:18:13.040 Jamie Raskin.
00:18:13.580 That's,
00:18:14.040 yeah,
00:18:14.220 you're exactly right.
00:18:15.960 Congress.
00:18:16.800 Only an idea
00:18:17.580 that stupid
00:18:18.420 could come from Congress.
00:18:20.520 And then
00:18:21.060 things descend
00:18:22.540 into self-parody
00:18:23.200 when he talks
00:18:23.800 about Elon Musk
00:18:24.580 and Donald Trump
00:18:25.440 impounding taxpayer money
00:18:26.880 as if they're stealing it.
00:18:28.740 No,
00:18:29.300 what they are doing
00:18:29.980 is precisely
00:18:30.900 not stealing it.
00:18:31.940 They are refusing
00:18:32.760 to steal it.
00:18:34.460 No,
00:18:34.720 they're saving
00:18:35.340 taxpayer money
00:18:36.080 from being wasted
00:18:36.760 on foreign countries.
00:18:37.600 They're not stealing it.
00:18:38.320 They're preserving it.
00:18:40.520 They're keeping it
00:18:41.460 within the United States.
00:18:44.260 Okay,
00:18:44.440 that's like
00:18:44.980 if there was a bonfire
00:18:46.240 and you handed them
00:18:48.180 a bag of cash
00:18:50.300 and said
00:18:50.720 throw it in the fire
00:18:51.560 and they refused
00:18:52.920 to throw it in the fire
00:18:53.900 and then you accused them
00:18:55.000 of stealing it
00:18:55.700 for not burning it.
00:18:56.860 I mean,
00:18:57.060 that's what they're doing.
00:18:58.960 And this is what voters,
00:19:00.440 again,
00:19:00.680 overwhelmingly want.
00:19:01.420 They want their money
00:19:01.960 to be saved,
00:19:02.520 obviously.
00:19:03.620 And any Democrat
00:19:04.280 who claims
00:19:04.700 this is somehow
00:19:05.160 unconstitutional
00:19:05.920 needs to explain
00:19:06.680 why they allowed USAID
00:19:08.080 to unconstitutionally
00:19:09.620 steal our money
00:19:10.440 for the better part
00:19:11.060 of a century.
00:19:12.940 The Democrats know
00:19:13.540 they have no explanation
00:19:14.340 for this,
00:19:14.740 which is why
00:19:15.120 they're in a full-on panic
00:19:16.280 as they attempt
00:19:16.880 to convince Americans
00:19:17.920 that USAID,
00:19:18.880 an entity that
00:19:19.460 most Americans
00:19:20.380 didn't even know
00:19:20.920 existed until 24 hours ago
00:19:22.220 is somehow vital
00:19:22.960 to their daily lives.
00:19:24.240 Here is the Democrats
00:19:25.020 leader in the Senate,
00:19:25.920 Chuck Schumer,
00:19:27.160 and I want you
00:19:28.560 to listen to
00:19:29.180 his concerns
00:19:31.060 about what might
00:19:32.920 be coming next.
00:19:34.300 Also know
00:19:34.880 this is just
00:19:35.400 the beginning.
00:19:36.500 If Doge
00:19:37.180 attacks USAID
00:19:38.400 today,
00:19:39.300 then you can be sure
00:19:40.340 they'll move on
00:19:41.020 to another target
00:19:41.880 tomorrow.
00:19:43.080 Who knows?
00:19:44.260 Maybe it'll be
00:19:44.820 the Postal Service
00:19:45.860 or the IRS
00:19:46.660 or even the
00:19:47.520 Social Security
00:19:48.320 Administration.
00:19:49.340 They could be next
00:19:50.260 or maybe our
00:19:51.400 national security
00:19:52.280 agencies.
00:19:55.900 Yeah,
00:19:56.340 the horror.
00:19:56.960 I mean,
00:19:57.160 just imagine
00:19:58.020 he's going to
00:19:59.540 get rid of
00:19:59.900 the IRS.
00:20:02.300 Guys,
00:20:02.720 we've got to
00:20:02.960 put a stop to this
00:20:03.560 before he gets
00:20:03.960 rid of the IRS.
00:20:05.260 First he does this,
00:20:06.440 next he gets rid
00:20:07.000 of the IRS,
00:20:07.760 next thing you know
00:20:08.320 he's giving free beer
00:20:09.420 and puppy dogs
00:20:10.420 to everybody.
00:20:12.020 So it's going to
00:20:12.480 be a horror show.
00:20:13.320 So as far as
00:20:15.180 I can tell,
00:20:15.900 Chuck Schumer
00:20:16.640 meant for this
00:20:17.340 soundbite to seem
00:20:18.320 menacing.
00:20:19.040 He meant for
00:20:19.400 Americans to
00:20:20.040 tremble in fear
00:20:20.860 at the possibility
00:20:21.620 that the IRS
00:20:23.020 might cease to
00:20:24.100 exist.
00:20:25.760 One day,
00:20:26.500 Schumer has warned,
00:20:27.220 you may be able
00:20:27.660 to go about your
00:20:28.280 life without worrying
00:20:29.160 about whether the
00:20:29.780 IRS will suspend
00:20:30.760 all of your
00:20:31.160 constitutional rights
00:20:31.960 under the guise
00:20:32.440 of an audit
00:20:32.920 and attempt to
00:20:33.540 squeeze just a
00:20:34.200 little more money
00:20:34.760 out of you so
00:20:35.800 that the federal
00:20:36.360 government can
00:20:37.000 waste it on gay
00:20:38.260 plays in Peru
00:20:39.100 or whatever.
00:20:39.740 Can you even
00:20:40.300 comprehend the
00:20:41.040 horror?
00:20:41.320 Now,
00:20:43.000 there will be
00:20:43.480 legal challenges
00:20:44.220 to the closure
00:20:44.800 of USAID.
00:20:45.740 Democrats will
00:20:46.220 continue to lie
00:20:46.940 about this
00:20:47.240 organization and
00:20:47.820 what it does.
00:20:48.740 They'll do
00:20:49.120 everything they
00:20:49.560 can to make
00:20:50.480 you afraid of
00:20:51.180 something that
00:20:51.780 should have
00:20:52.480 happened a long
00:20:52.960 time ago.
00:20:54.020 And that's
00:20:54.260 because they're
00:20:54.960 the ones who
00:20:55.400 are terrified.
00:20:56.660 They're not even
00:20:57.280 doing a very good
00:20:57.800 job of hiding it.
00:20:58.800 They understand
00:20:59.280 that finally,
00:21:00.180 they're going to
00:21:01.220 have to account
00:21:01.820 for the taxpayer
00:21:02.500 money, your money,
00:21:03.760 that they've been
00:21:04.600 spending.
00:21:05.680 And the more
00:21:06.300 Democrats melt
00:21:07.040 down, the more
00:21:08.340 it becomes apparent
00:21:09.060 that they have no
00:21:10.360 way of doing that.
00:21:11.980 Doge has gone
00:21:12.700 from a meme
00:21:13.540 to an existential
00:21:14.840 threat to
00:21:15.660 entrenched
00:21:16.060 government corruption.
00:21:17.660 And now, much
00:21:18.920 more rapidly
00:21:19.500 than we thought
00:21:20.480 possible, that
00:21:21.940 corruption is
00:21:22.500 finally being
00:21:23.360 exposed and
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00:22:51.220 New York Attorney General
00:22:52.140 Letitia James warned local
00:22:53.760 hospitals Monday that they'll
00:22:54.800 be in violation of state
00:22:55.820 discrimination laws if they
00:22:56.880 comply with President
00:22:57.580 Trump's executive order
00:22:58.420 aimed at outlawing sex
00:22:59.720 change procedures for
00:23:00.720 minors.
00:23:02.100 Regardless of the
00:23:02.800 availability of federal
00:23:03.540 funding, we write to
00:23:04.460 further remind you of your
00:23:05.540 obligations to comply with
00:23:06.600 New York state laws,
00:23:07.380 including those that
00:23:08.680 prohibit discrimination
00:23:09.280 against individuals based
00:23:10.500 on their membership in a
00:23:11.200 protected class, such as
00:23:11.960 sex, gender identity,
00:23:12.860 expression, sexual
00:23:14.100 orientation, race, creed,
00:23:15.060 color, national origin,
00:23:15.940 citizenship, or immigration
00:23:16.740 status, blah, blah, blah.
00:23:19.320 Electing to refuse services
00:23:20.540 to a class of individuals
00:23:21.580 based on their protected
00:23:22.460 status, such as withholding
00:23:24.240 the availability of services
00:23:24.980 from transgender individuals
00:23:25.960 based on their gender
00:23:26.600 identity, their diagnosis of
00:23:27.640 gender dysphoria, is
00:23:29.440 discrimination under New York
00:23:31.380 law.
00:23:31.720 And her letter comes as
00:23:34.100 several hospitals across
00:23:34.860 the country have already
00:23:35.920 taken steps to cut back on
00:23:37.120 so-called gender-affirming
00:23:38.040 care, quote-unquote, in
00:23:39.420 apparent effort to comply
00:23:40.340 with Trump's January 28th
00:23:41.440 executive order protecting
00:23:42.360 children from chemical and
00:23:43.320 surgical mutilation.
00:23:44.620 The White House also pointed
00:23:45.460 to the New York City's NYU
00:23:47.080 Langone Health, which has
00:23:50.120 reportedly started canceling
00:23:51.940 appointments for minors
00:23:52.940 seeking transgender
00:23:53.580 procedures.
00:23:55.040 Hundreds of protesters
00:23:55.880 gathered outside the hospital
00:23:58.260 last night, and we have some
00:24:00.280 clips from this protest, just
00:24:02.660 a couple of clips.
00:24:03.520 Here's one from a trans
00:24:05.660 identified man, it's
00:24:08.160 addressing the crowd.
00:24:09.460 Listen.
00:24:10.720 Shut this entire city
00:24:13.280 down!
00:24:17.320 Not on our watch.
00:24:20.940 Because what they will try to
00:24:22.080 do, they will try to separate
00:24:24.020 us, they will kick the trans
00:24:25.720 people off the bus, they're
00:24:27.460 kicking the indigenous people
00:24:29.020 off the bus, they're kicking
00:24:31.020 our intersex community off
00:24:32.440 the bus, our two-spirit plus
00:24:34.640 family, they're kicking them
00:24:35.500 off the bus, they just want a
00:24:37.440 membership LGBT bus.
00:24:38.940 Well, guess what, babe?
00:24:40.020 That LGBT bus, it's not going
00:24:41.500 to have any gas, it won't have
00:24:43.140 any tires, y'all not going any
00:24:44.940 far.
00:24:47.220 Because we are a community
00:24:49.140 that is made and has been
00:24:53.080 woven with the fire and the spirit
00:24:56.120 of revolution, revolution,
00:24:57.700 revolution, revolution.
00:25:05.000 So the people that are not here
00:25:06.620 with us, we will take note.
00:25:08.960 It's not that cold.
00:25:12.960 Says they're kicking the trans
00:25:14.220 people off the bus, they're kicking
00:25:15.540 the non-binary off the bus.
00:25:17.320 They're kicking the two-spirit plus
00:25:21.980 off the bus.
00:25:25.380 Sounds like a nice bus ride to
00:25:27.660 me.
00:25:28.000 I mean, it was, it sounds like a
00:25:30.340 pleasant bus ride through the
00:25:32.000 countryside at this point.
00:25:34.740 But, and screaming that they're
00:25:39.040 going to shut the city down.
00:25:39.820 They did not shut the city down.
00:25:40.960 I can tell you that the city
00:25:42.960 continued on functioning as
00:25:44.640 normal.
00:25:44.940 And just to make sure we're very
00:25:46.600 clear about this, all of these
00:25:48.860 adults are outside in the cold
00:25:51.460 at night protesting to demand
00:25:53.820 that children are sterilized and
00:25:55.360 castrated.
00:25:55.920 I mean, just so we're clear about
00:25:56.900 what they're protesting.
00:25:58.620 Trump did not sign an order
00:26:00.560 banning men from dressing up like
00:26:02.380 women or whatever.
00:26:04.040 This is specifically to stop young
00:26:05.940 children from being given life
00:26:07.280 altering drugs that can damage
00:26:08.660 their bodies forever.
00:26:09.520 That's what this is about.
00:26:10.980 That's what they're protesting.
00:26:12.900 They're protesting not against that,
00:26:14.940 but for it, of course.
00:26:16.240 And I think this little speech
00:26:17.400 from, I think this is a Sex and
00:26:20.300 the City actress.
00:26:22.060 I'm pretty sure.
00:26:23.240 And she has a, a quote unquote
00:26:25.420 trans kid.
00:26:27.240 There's a couple of things she
00:26:28.300 says in this short little clip
00:26:30.340 that are notable.
00:26:32.520 Listen.
00:26:34.040 Most importantly, I am here today
00:26:36.300 as the mother of a proud trans
00:26:38.940 trans man.
00:26:39.940 I am here today as the aunt of a
00:26:48.200 proud trans man.
00:26:51.940 My best friend's kid is trans.
00:26:55.620 And my kid's best friend is trans.
00:26:59.140 My wife and I, our lives are filled
00:27:04.840 with the most amazing, beautiful,
00:27:08.920 brave trans people, young and old,
00:27:11.560 but especially young.
00:27:17.940 My trans kid had his top surgery
00:27:21.900 at NYU a number of years ago.
00:27:25.300 Okay, so her kid is
00:27:26.980 quote unquote trans.
00:27:28.760 Her niece is trans.
00:27:30.460 Her best friend's kid is trans.
00:27:32.580 Her kid's best friend is trans.
00:27:35.100 All the kids in her life are trans,
00:27:36.820 apparently.
00:27:37.880 So she is confirming beyond any doubt,
00:27:40.160 if you had any doubt,
00:27:41.280 that it's a social contagion.
00:27:43.660 She has just basically
00:27:44.760 mathematically proved it.
00:27:46.720 She didn't mean to do that,
00:27:48.100 but she has offered mathematical proof
00:27:50.560 that this is a social contagion.
00:27:52.300 Because if we look at trans
00:27:54.360 as a naturally occurring phenomenon,
00:27:56.100 which it isn't,
00:27:57.500 but if we looked at it that way,
00:27:59.200 which is how they would look at it,
00:28:01.580 well, then naturally,
00:28:02.560 the chances of it occurring
00:28:03.640 are like one in a few thousand.
00:28:07.500 Okay, it depends on how you get,
00:28:08.460 but it's one in a thousand,
00:28:10.700 one in, or even more rare than that.
00:28:13.620 Let's just say one in a thousand
00:28:14.760 just to be as generous as possible.
00:28:22.300 So the chances then
00:28:23.660 of having a trans kid,
00:28:26.440 a trans niece,
00:28:27.860 and being surrounded
00:28:29.700 by a bunch of other trans kids,
00:28:31.740 those chances statistically
00:28:33.900 are like one in several billion.
00:28:38.680 And that's if we look at it
00:28:40.120 as a natural phenomenon.
00:28:42.820 You have a scenario here
00:28:44.300 that as a natural phenomenon
00:28:45.360 is essentially mathematically impossible.
00:28:48.260 But if we look at it as it is,
00:28:53.080 as a social contagion,
00:28:54.300 well, then actually,
00:28:54.860 it makes a ton of sense.
00:28:58.120 The chance of having other trans kids around
00:29:01.360 once you have one trans kid
00:29:03.240 are quite high.
00:29:05.960 Now, if it's a naturally occurring phenomenon,
00:29:07.940 the existence of one trans kid
00:29:09.800 in a group
00:29:10.880 should not increase the possibility
00:29:13.340 of other kids in that group being trans.
00:29:15.600 But if it's a social contagion,
00:29:18.980 then the chances are,
00:29:21.300 once you have one trans kid in a group,
00:29:23.420 the chance that another kid
00:29:24.540 identifies as trans
00:29:26.000 is not one in a thousand,
00:29:27.700 but the odds are much better than that,
00:29:32.020 or much worse,
00:29:32.740 depending on how you look at it.
00:29:34.520 Because it spreads.
00:29:36.520 It's an idea.
00:29:37.360 It's a contagion.
00:29:38.140 It spreads.
00:29:38.960 It's an idea that catches on.
00:29:41.020 Other kids are influenced.
00:29:42.040 And that's what this woman
00:29:42.960 whose name I can't remember,
00:29:45.580 Cynthia Nixon, right?
00:29:46.700 Isn't that who she is?
00:29:47.920 Cynthia Nixon,
00:29:48.440 that's what she is admitting
00:29:50.220 unintentionally.
00:29:52.740 And I want to point one other thing out
00:29:54.160 because she says that her daughter
00:29:55.500 had quote-unquote top surgery
00:29:57.020 a number of years ago.
00:29:57.780 It's not clear if
00:29:58.520 she had her daughter's breasts removed
00:30:01.380 when the daughter was still a child,
00:30:03.480 but it seems highly likely that she did.
00:30:05.300 She seems to be implying that.
00:30:06.940 But either way,
00:30:07.800 her daughter's breasts were chopped off
00:30:09.360 with her,
00:30:10.540 the mother's,
00:30:11.240 blessings and presumably encouragement.
00:30:15.400 And so this is what you have to keep in mind,
00:30:16.740 that people like this woman,
00:30:17.840 Cynthia Nixon,
00:30:19.200 people like Cynthia,
00:30:21.700 you know,
00:30:22.000 they can't let this go.
00:30:24.600 They can't give up on this fight.
00:30:28.060 They have to defend trans ideology
00:30:30.760 to the hilt forever.
00:30:33.220 Because the other option is to admit
00:30:35.000 that they've done something horrific
00:30:36.520 to their children,
00:30:37.400 which they can't do.
00:30:39.360 That,
00:30:39.900 that's the situation that they're in.
00:30:43.960 So,
00:30:44.800 you know,
00:30:45.940 when you hear these people say,
00:30:48.020 they get quite hysterical
00:30:49.360 and talk about how they're fighting
00:30:50.320 for their lives
00:30:51.180 and their lives are on the line.
00:30:53.360 And it's easy for us to listen to that
00:30:55.040 and say,
00:30:55.560 and say,
00:30:56.140 well,
00:30:56.280 this is,
00:30:57.300 you know,
00:30:59.220 they're,
00:31:00.100 this is hysterical,
00:31:01.340 this is a,
00:31:02.740 to call it a gross exaggeration
00:31:04.560 would be a massive understatement.
00:31:07.320 And that's true.
00:31:09.260 Like,
00:31:09.760 in the way that they mean it
00:31:11.740 on the surface,
00:31:12.800 it's hysterical
00:31:13.900 to say that their lives
00:31:14.960 are on the line.
00:31:16.120 But at a deeper level,
00:31:18.440 in a sense,
00:31:19.560 it's true
00:31:20.140 because
00:31:20.620 what I think they actually mean,
00:31:22.820 and they don't know
00:31:23.840 that they mean this,
00:31:24.880 I think it's subconscious,
00:31:25.780 but what they actually mean
00:31:28.280 is that
00:31:29.060 they won't be able
00:31:30.960 to live with themselves
00:31:32.200 if they're wrong.
00:31:35.080 So if,
00:31:35.900 say,
00:31:36.240 Cynthia Nixon says,
00:31:37.700 fighting for our lives,
00:31:38.820 life is on the line,
00:31:40.140 life and death struggle,
00:31:41.280 uses any language like that,
00:31:43.740 what she's actually saying is
00:31:45.860 that I,
00:31:47.000 as a mother,
00:31:47.960 could not live with myself
00:31:49.940 if I had to admit
00:31:51.960 that I mutilated
00:31:53.860 and destroyed
00:31:54.700 my daughter's body.
00:31:57.600 I couldn't live with that
00:31:59.240 as a mother.
00:32:00.560 I can't look at myself
00:32:01.860 in the mirror
00:32:02.380 and live every day
00:32:03.940 for the rest of my life
00:32:04.920 knowing that I have
00:32:06.880 physically abused
00:32:07.960 my child
00:32:08.640 in the
00:32:09.780 most grotesque manner
00:32:11.560 possible.
00:32:13.320 that's what
00:32:15.860 they're really saying
00:32:16.600 because most people,
00:32:19.620 you know,
00:32:19.820 to admit that you're wrong
00:32:20.720 about anything
00:32:21.220 is difficult
00:32:22.560 and most people
00:32:23.740 just in general,
00:32:25.240 it's rare
00:32:25.920 to find a person
00:32:27.260 who's willing to admit
00:32:28.880 that they're wrong
00:32:29.580 about anything
00:32:30.400 ever,
00:32:31.660 but to admit
00:32:33.560 that you're wrong
00:32:34.460 when,
00:32:38.780 in a situation
00:32:39.380 like this,
00:32:40.660 when being wrong
00:32:42.580 means that you have
00:32:43.260 made a mistake
00:32:43.960 that has
00:32:44.680 permanently altered
00:32:46.780 your life
00:32:47.400 or the life
00:32:47.900 of someone you love
00:32:48.840 irrevocably,
00:32:53.220 well,
00:32:53.460 that,
00:32:53.860 to admit that
00:32:54.900 takes
00:32:55.460 immense
00:32:56.780 honesty
00:32:58.000 and moral courage,
00:32:59.480 which we know,
00:33:01.680 you know,
00:33:01.860 there are plenty
00:33:02.540 of D-trans
00:33:04.260 people out there,
00:33:05.920 Chloe Cole
00:33:06.460 and others
00:33:07.200 who
00:33:07.680 have
00:33:12.400 will talk
00:33:13.480 about this
00:33:14.060 and of course
00:33:15.040 in their case,
00:33:15.560 someone like Chloe Cole,
00:33:17.300 she didn't,
00:33:17.940 it's not that
00:33:18.460 she made a mistake,
00:33:19.400 it's that her,
00:33:19.920 because she was a child,
00:33:20.780 it's her parents
00:33:22.080 and the doctors
00:33:22.800 that did the horrible thing,
00:33:25.660 but either way,
00:33:27.480 there are exceptions
00:33:29.200 to this,
00:33:29.600 but generally speaking,
00:33:31.380 most people
00:33:33.000 just lack
00:33:33.920 the honesty
00:33:35.080 to look
00:33:36.680 at something like this
00:33:37.780 and say,
00:33:38.340 you know what,
00:33:38.680 I got this wrong
00:33:39.340 and I got it
00:33:40.440 horrifically wrong
00:33:41.240 and
00:33:42.520 I can never
00:33:44.480 make it right.
00:33:47.060 And so I think
00:33:47.760 that's what's
00:33:48.000 happening here.
00:33:48.880 All right,
00:33:49.120 the mayor of Minneapolis,
00:33:50.220 Jacob Fry,
00:33:51.220 has announced
00:33:52.180 that he will not
00:33:53.140 cooperate
00:33:53.560 with Trump's
00:33:54.620 deportation plans.
00:33:56.440 Watch.
00:33:57.980 I want to speak
00:33:58.900 directly to people
00:33:59.780 who are undocumented.
00:34:02.500 We love you.
00:34:04.160 We care about you.
00:34:05.980 In the city
00:34:06.740 of Minneapolis,
00:34:07.340 we will stand up
00:34:08.440 for you
00:34:08.980 and we will do
00:34:10.260 anything in our power
00:34:12.080 to help.
00:34:14.100 Because you're not
00:34:15.000 an alien in our city,
00:34:16.320 you're a neighbor.
00:34:20.560 Now,
00:34:21.320 in Minneapolis,
00:34:23.040 we have what is called
00:34:24.460 a separation ordinance.
00:34:26.960 And that separation
00:34:28.220 ordinance states
00:34:29.280 clearly that our
00:34:30.300 city officials,
00:34:31.520 our police officers
00:34:32.720 and beyond
00:34:33.580 will not be
00:34:34.940 gathering information
00:34:36.260 showing who is
00:34:38.200 and who is not
00:34:39.080 documented.
00:34:40.380 We do not ask
00:34:41.540 the question
00:34:42.160 with regard
00:34:43.000 to immigration status.
00:34:44.460 And because we
00:34:45.020 haven't asked
00:34:45.680 the question,
00:34:46.440 we don't have
00:34:47.240 any data
00:34:47.960 to show documentation
00:34:50.080 status in our city.
00:34:52.380 Our police officers
00:34:53.820 will not be
00:34:54.660 cooperating with
00:34:55.560 federal law enforcement
00:34:56.720 around federal
00:34:58.560 immigration law.
00:34:59.640 We enforce state
00:35:00.700 and local laws
00:35:01.600 here in Minneapolis,
00:35:02.520 and we will do so
00:35:04.060 to the best
00:35:04.620 of our ability.
00:35:06.000 But as for
00:35:06.860 cooperation with ICE,
00:35:08.940 the answer is no.
00:35:10.060 Well, first of all,
00:35:10.900 he doesn't enforce
00:35:11.600 state or local law
00:35:12.800 either.
00:35:13.340 I mean,
00:35:13.560 this little weasel,
00:35:14.660 you may recall,
00:35:15.380 allowed Minneapolis
00:35:16.120 to burn during
00:35:17.060 the Floyd riots.
00:35:17.820 In fact,
00:35:18.160 he went and wept
00:35:18.980 before George Floyd's
00:35:21.000 golden casket
00:35:21.760 while his city
00:35:22.300 was burning.
00:35:22.900 So he doesn't really
00:35:23.620 enforce any laws at all.
00:35:24.840 Nothing new here.
00:35:25.560 Second,
00:35:26.960 mayors who announced
00:35:27.900 that they're going
00:35:28.480 to interfere with
00:35:29.660 and not comply
00:35:30.320 with federal law,
00:35:31.980 mayors who declare
00:35:33.260 their intention
00:35:33.840 to take illegal measures
00:35:35.100 in the name of
00:35:35.620 undermining our
00:35:36.280 national sovereignty
00:35:37.620 should be arrested.
00:35:39.960 And,
00:35:40.520 I mean,
00:35:41.300 I would arrest them
00:35:42.380 and send them to Gitmo.
00:35:43.320 We're already going to
00:35:43.940 be using Gitmo
00:35:44.580 for illegal aliens.
00:35:45.800 Send these mayors
00:35:46.540 with them.
00:35:48.300 You like illegal aliens
00:35:49.320 so much,
00:35:49.980 Mayor Frye,
00:35:50.580 well,
00:35:51.040 go stay in a cell
00:35:52.920 in Gitmo with them
00:35:53.640 if you like them so much.
00:35:56.020 And I'm not even joking.
00:35:57.280 I mean,
00:35:57.380 these mayors are,
00:35:58.320 these mayors are terrorists.
00:35:59.900 They are national security threats
00:36:01.860 and they should be
00:36:02.340 treated like it.
00:36:03.540 Our national sovereignty
00:36:04.520 is a national security issue.
00:36:06.200 He is directly interfering.
00:36:07.620 He is trying to
00:36:08.540 destabilize our country.
00:36:09.820 He's directly trying
00:36:10.400 to make our country
00:36:11.480 and his own community
00:36:12.340 less safe.
00:36:13.360 He's breaking the law.
00:36:15.620 So,
00:36:16.280 lock his ass up.
00:36:17.320 Lock him up in Gitmo.
00:36:20.060 Now,
00:36:20.740 if that doesn't happen,
00:36:21.920 which I'm guessing it won't,
00:36:24.080 at the very least,
00:36:25.060 the Trump administration
00:36:25.700 has every right
00:36:26.220 to prosecute
00:36:26.940 these criminal mayors.
00:36:28.800 And Tom Homan
00:36:29.560 has already said
00:36:30.360 that he will.
00:36:31.280 In fact,
00:36:31.580 Tom Homan
00:36:31.940 has responded
00:36:32.780 to Governor Phil Murphy
00:36:34.300 of New Jersey
00:36:35.360 who went a step further
00:36:37.240 than most of the other
00:36:39.200 government officials
00:36:39.780 who have pledged
00:36:40.480 to not cooperate
00:36:41.240 with federal law
00:36:41.960 in that Murphy
00:36:43.140 seems to indicate
00:36:44.800 that he is
00:36:45.560 personally harboring
00:36:46.840 an illegal alien
00:36:48.340 in his house.
00:36:49.320 Listen to this.
00:36:49.780 I don't want to get
00:36:51.140 into too much detail,
00:36:52.820 but there's someone
00:36:54.320 in our broader universe
00:36:56.520 whose immigration status
00:36:58.600 is not yet at the point
00:37:01.140 that they are trying
00:37:02.680 to get it to.
00:37:03.800 And we said,
00:37:04.760 you know what?
00:37:05.240 Let's have her live
00:37:06.220 at our house
00:37:07.140 above our garage.
00:37:08.880 And good luck
00:37:10.020 to the feds
00:37:10.600 coming in
00:37:11.060 to try to get her.
00:37:12.160 I got an old of it.
00:37:13.400 Won't let it go.
00:37:14.380 We'll look into it.
00:37:15.200 And if he's knowingly
00:37:16.600 knowingly harboring
00:37:17.760 and concealing
00:37:18.300 an illegal alien,
00:37:19.720 that's a violation
00:37:20.580 of Title 8
00:37:21.120 United States Code 1324.
00:37:22.900 I will seek prosecution
00:37:23.980 or the Secretary
00:37:24.740 will seek prosecution.
00:37:26.180 So maybe he's bluffing.
00:37:28.260 If he's not,
00:37:29.000 we'll deal with that.
00:37:31.060 So there you have
00:37:32.280 Phil Murphy
00:37:32.820 and then Tom Homan
00:37:33.460 responding,
00:37:34.140 saying we're going
00:37:34.580 to seek prosecution,
00:37:35.640 which of course he should.
00:37:37.500 Interesting euphemism
00:37:38.460 from Phil Murphy
00:37:39.820 who says
00:37:41.620 of the illegal alien,
00:37:43.780 her immigration status
00:37:44.600 isn't yet to the point
00:37:45.740 that she's trying
00:37:46.540 to get it to
00:37:47.260 or whatever.
00:37:48.620 In other words,
00:37:49.320 she's an illegal alien.
00:37:51.160 And then Governor Murphy
00:37:53.000 says good luck
00:37:54.020 to the feds
00:37:54.840 trying to come in,
00:37:55.920 which we can only interpret
00:37:57.040 as a violent threat
00:37:59.360 against law enforcement.
00:38:00.580 Because what else
00:38:01.220 could that mean?
00:38:02.720 What do you mean
00:38:03.080 good luck getting in?
00:38:05.500 What are you trying to say?
00:38:08.580 What else would you mean?
00:38:10.520 Why would you imply
00:38:11.300 that they would have trouble
00:38:12.480 somehow detaining
00:38:13.440 this illegal criminal?
00:38:16.120 You're saying that
00:38:16.860 federal law enforcement
00:38:17.740 officers would have trouble
00:38:18.720 enforcing federal law
00:38:19.800 in your house?
00:38:20.540 What kind of trouble,
00:38:22.220 Phil,
00:38:22.460 are you talking about?
00:38:26.200 But of course,
00:38:27.460 you know,
00:38:27.940 by the way,
00:38:28.700 if the federal government
00:38:29.660 wants to get her
00:38:30.500 out of your basement,
00:38:31.780 they're getting her out.
00:38:32.840 Okay,
00:38:33.180 I don't know what,
00:38:33.740 I don't know what it is
00:38:34.420 you think you're going to do,
00:38:35.440 but they won't have
00:38:38.440 a lot of trouble doing it.
00:38:39.640 And there's also,
00:38:41.200 there's a lot of this
00:38:42.100 going on right now,
00:38:43.700 in particular,
00:38:44.880 this idea of like
00:38:46.120 personally hiding
00:38:47.440 illegal aliens,
00:38:50.260 stashing them in your attic
00:38:52.560 or in the basement.
00:38:54.320 There's a lot of leftists
00:38:55.500 that are pledging
00:38:56.100 to defy federal law
00:38:57.140 in this way.
00:38:58.000 It's not only stupid
00:38:59.180 and criminal,
00:38:59.880 but also very creepy.
00:39:02.620 I mean,
00:39:02.860 very creepy.
00:39:03.560 For example,
00:39:04.600 listen to this TikToker
00:39:05.920 and as she explains
00:39:08.160 her plan.
00:39:09.740 All right.
00:39:13.120 ICE is doing
00:39:14.960 whatever the f***
00:39:15.680 the Orange Tyrant
00:39:16.400 is telling them to do.
00:39:18.260 They're,
00:39:18.620 you know,
00:39:19.440 being schools,
00:39:20.540 churches,
00:39:21.220 hospitals,
00:39:22.280 nothing's f***ing
00:39:22.920 off limits.
00:39:23.680 Listen,
00:39:24.660 I live right next
00:39:26.140 to an elementary school.
00:39:28.380 My house
00:39:29.120 has been used
00:39:30.540 to harbor
00:39:31.740 escaping
00:39:33.160 black slaves.
00:39:34.660 My house was part
00:39:35.300 of the underground
00:39:36.020 f***ing railroad
00:39:36.780 and I will not hesitate
00:39:38.340 to hide those kids
00:39:40.280 in my basement
00:39:41.260 to keep them safe,
00:39:42.680 to get them back
00:39:43.420 to their f***ing families
00:39:44.420 and you're telling me
00:39:45.600 that I will not hesitate
00:39:49.200 to barricade my doors
00:39:51.820 to protect those f***ing kids
00:39:53.440 and I'll hide their parents.
00:39:55.300 I don't know
00:39:56.200 if my tunnels
00:39:56.840 are still connected
00:39:57.800 because there's houses
00:39:59.080 all down the street
00:40:00.100 that have tunnels
00:40:00.980 hidden in them.
00:40:01.880 I will hide those kids
00:40:03.360 to protect those kids
00:40:04.600 and their f***ing families.
00:40:07.040 Trump.
00:40:08.520 So just kind of
00:40:09.520 a pro tip here
00:40:10.320 but just a bit of advice.
00:40:12.960 Don't ever announce publicly
00:40:14.500 that you want to
00:40:15.280 take kids
00:40:15.980 from your local
00:40:16.940 elementary school
00:40:17.680 and lock them
00:40:19.440 in your basement
00:40:20.000 and then barricade the door.
00:40:22.220 That's not,
00:40:23.900 don't announce it.
00:40:24.980 More importantly,
00:40:25.580 don't do it.
00:40:27.540 Unless your goal
00:40:28.640 is to come off
00:40:29.540 like a serial killer.
00:40:30.820 How are you going to get
00:40:31.560 these kids in your basement?
00:40:32.980 What's the plan?
00:40:35.120 You're going to drive
00:40:36.000 by the school
00:40:36.560 in a van
00:40:37.420 and offer them candy?
00:40:38.560 Get them into your basement?
00:40:39.460 Like, what's the plan here?
00:40:42.300 So this woman needs
00:40:43.140 to be on a watch list
00:40:44.100 to say the least.
00:40:47.120 And also,
00:40:48.860 not that I'm trying
00:40:49.820 to give it a pointers here,
00:40:50.960 but if you are planning
00:40:53.660 on doing this,
00:40:54.200 why are you announcing it?
00:40:55.840 Whether it's Phil Murphy
00:40:57.000 or any of these
00:40:57.820 creepy, weird liberals
00:41:00.360 that are saying
00:41:01.360 they're going to start
00:41:03.020 announcing their plans
00:41:05.900 to start an illegal
00:41:06.920 alien collection
00:41:07.840 in their homes,
00:41:10.320 hiding under the floorboards.
00:41:13.180 Even if you were
00:41:14.000 going to do that,
00:41:15.200 like she's comparing it
00:41:16.080 to the Underground Railroad.
00:41:18.400 Okay, well,
00:41:19.040 but this is not how
00:41:19.740 the Underground Railroad
00:41:20.900 worked, okay?
00:41:22.900 Like Harriet Tubman
00:41:23.700 wasn't going around
00:41:24.600 in the South
00:41:25.240 openly announcing
00:41:26.440 to everyone,
00:41:27.340 hey, I got an
00:41:28.180 Underground Railroad.
00:41:29.020 What are you going
00:41:29.400 to do about it?
00:41:30.320 I'll tell you
00:41:30.900 exactly where it is.
00:41:32.600 What are you going
00:41:33.200 to do?
00:41:33.940 I dare you.
00:41:35.040 I dare you
00:41:35.700 to try to stop me.
00:41:38.020 Well, they could,
00:41:38.780 I mean, they could stop you
00:41:39.740 like pretty easily.
00:41:41.800 So the secrecy element
00:41:43.520 is really an essential part.
00:41:47.880 That's why they called it
00:41:48.840 the Underground Railroad.
00:41:49.700 Did you know that?
00:41:50.540 It's not because
00:41:51.180 it was literally underground
00:41:52.280 for the most part.
00:41:53.720 I mean, there were some
00:41:54.300 tunnels and things,
00:41:55.460 but like,
00:41:56.280 Underground mostly meant
00:41:57.800 hidden, secret
00:42:01.540 is what that meant.
00:42:04.280 So you're missing
00:42:05.080 the secrecy part.
00:42:05.760 But I am,
00:42:06.580 I'm quite happy
00:42:07.580 that someone like this
00:42:08.660 is announcing
00:42:09.480 their plans publicly
00:42:10.740 because this is something
00:42:12.440 that local authorities
00:42:15.000 can now be aware of.
00:42:16.440 And this is a woman
00:42:18.040 who should not be allowed
00:42:19.020 anywhere near
00:42:19.920 elementary schools
00:42:21.180 pretty clearly.
00:42:22.860 Okay, I want to briefly
00:42:24.520 mention this
00:42:25.580 before we get to
00:42:26.180 the comment section.
00:42:27.360 SpaceX CEO Elon Musk
00:42:28.860 has backed
00:42:30.120 a mission to Mars
00:42:30.900 to investigate
00:42:31.440 the remarkable square structure
00:42:33.020 that was captured
00:42:33.480 on NASA's Mars
00:42:34.300 orbiter camera.
00:42:35.760 The image,
00:42:36.420 which has gone viral
00:42:37.000 after being shared
00:42:37.520 on Reddit,
00:42:38.460 appears to show a possible
00:42:39.320 archaeological site
00:42:40.380 on the red planet.
00:42:41.480 Joe Rogan posted it,
00:42:44.200 branding it as
00:42:44.940 effing wild.
00:42:46.780 Musk responded,
00:42:47.540 saying we should send
00:42:48.120 astronauts to Mars
00:42:48.900 to investigate.
00:42:51.240 And so the square structure,
00:42:53.100 which, do we have it?
00:42:53.980 Let's put it up on the screen.
00:42:55.180 So there it is.
00:42:55.580 You see the image
00:42:56.820 and then there's
00:42:57.220 the enhanced image there.
00:42:59.300 And it looks,
00:42:59.780 it looks indeed very square.
00:43:01.360 And it is a lot bigger
00:43:02.380 than, you know,
00:43:03.920 without any kind of
00:43:04.700 reference point,
00:43:05.360 without anything to compare it to.
00:43:06.320 It's hard to tell
00:43:06.760 the size of it.
00:43:07.740 But this is estimated
00:43:08.960 to be about 770 feet
00:43:13.420 on either side.
00:43:15.040 And so,
00:43:17.380 so, you know,
00:43:20.480 at the base,
00:43:22.200 approximately the size
00:43:23.260 of the Great Pyramid
00:43:24.280 in Egypt
00:43:24.700 is how big it is.
00:43:26.520 So it's pretty fascinating.
00:43:28.100 And look,
00:43:28.740 if you've ruled out
00:43:29.580 the possibility
00:43:30.320 of alien life
00:43:31.040 existing anywhere
00:43:31.760 in the universe
00:43:32.240 at any point,
00:43:33.680 then this is not
00:43:34.280 going to be interesting to you.
00:43:35.640 I think a lot of
00:43:36.340 very interesting things
00:43:37.320 are not interesting to you
00:43:38.540 if you have just ruled out
00:43:39.840 in principle
00:43:41.260 the possibility
00:43:42.440 of the interesting thing
00:43:43.760 happening.
00:43:45.040 But if you've taken
00:43:46.420 a rational position
00:43:47.440 and are open to it,
00:43:48.820 then there's nothing outlandish
00:43:50.340 about at least wondering
00:43:51.320 whether this apparent structure,
00:43:52.940 which is, you know,
00:43:53.600 exact geometric squares
00:43:56.840 don't happen very often
00:43:59.040 in nature.
00:44:01.800 So there's nothing outlandish
00:44:03.800 about wondering
00:44:04.300 whether this might be
00:44:05.840 the remnants of
00:44:06.640 some sort of civilization.
00:44:08.140 There's a lot
00:44:08.800 of compelling evidence
00:44:09.740 and very good reason
00:44:10.580 to believe that Mars
00:44:11.400 once had a lot of water
00:44:12.700 in a mild,
00:44:13.980 hospitable climate.
00:44:16.040 And keep in mind
00:44:16.840 that we've only known
00:44:17.920 Mars as a desolate wasteland,
00:44:19.900 but we've also only known
00:44:21.100 Mars for a very short
00:44:22.460 period of time.
00:44:23.440 The first picture of Mars
00:44:24.820 was taken in the 60s,
00:44:25.900 I believe.
00:44:26.840 Telescopes were invented
00:44:27.720 in the, you know,
00:44:28.760 17th century.
00:44:29.820 So we're talking about
00:44:30.920 just a blink of an eye
00:44:32.880 in cosmic terms.
00:44:36.360 We might as well
00:44:37.560 have just discovered Mars
00:44:38.700 10 seconds ago.
00:44:39.980 Like, that's how long
00:44:40.760 we've known of it
00:44:41.560 and or have been
00:44:43.340 at least been able to
00:44:45.040 astronomers even
00:44:47.880 in ancient times
00:44:48.520 were able to pinpoint
00:44:49.500 in the sky,
00:44:49.980 but at least being able
00:44:50.840 to actually see it
00:44:52.120 up close,
00:44:53.500 it's been a blink of an eye.
00:44:55.420 So if Mars had life on it,
00:44:57.980 the life could have gone extinct
00:44:59.380 millions or even billions
00:45:00.340 of years ago,
00:45:01.000 which would mean that
00:45:02.000 we wouldn't be able
00:45:03.580 to confirm evidence of it
00:45:04.680 without actually going
00:45:05.580 to the planet physically,
00:45:06.620 landing a person there,
00:45:07.620 like Elon Musk suggests,
00:45:08.640 and looking under
00:45:10.240 the surface of the planet.
00:45:11.980 And even then,
00:45:12.920 we might never be able
00:45:13.740 to find the remnants.
00:45:16.660 The oldest ruins on Earth,
00:45:18.520 the oldest evidence
00:45:19.220 of human life on this planet,
00:45:21.560 at least of advanced
00:45:23.000 human civilizations,
00:45:25.480 are, you know,
00:45:26.660 just a few thousand years old.
00:45:28.040 But, so fast forward
00:45:30.940 50 million years,
00:45:32.800 are those remnants
00:45:34.520 still going to be there?
00:45:35.680 Probably not.
00:45:37.400 So all that to say,
00:45:38.540 we don't know what existed
00:45:40.440 on Mars millions of years ago.
00:45:41.860 There could have been life.
00:45:44.040 There could have been
00:45:44.720 a civilization as advanced
00:45:45.900 as our own.
00:45:47.640 It is possible.
00:45:49.200 I think it's fascinating
00:45:50.020 to ponder the possibilities.
00:45:53.520 And anyone who said
00:45:56.240 otherwise is just wrong.
00:45:59.300 Let's get to the comment section.
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00:47:19.780 I had never heard this guy speak
00:47:21.300 without knowledge
00:47:21.940 about a topic until today.
00:47:23.160 He's talking about Panama
00:47:24.780 and their canal.
00:47:26.280 I'm sorry, Matt.
00:47:26.920 You can't just take the canal.
00:47:28.360 The treaty was signed.
00:47:29.180 It's not our problem
00:47:30.380 that a moron as Carter
00:47:31.400 signed it off
00:47:32.080 to the Panamanians.
00:47:34.000 Panama is a small country,
00:47:35.680 but it's a great country,
00:47:36.620 minding their own business,
00:47:37.380 not messing with anyone.
00:47:39.740 Why does your crazy president
00:47:40.960 want to come here
00:47:41.620 and claim something
00:47:42.280 that's not his
00:47:43.060 just because a couple
00:47:43.800 of decades ago
00:47:44.400 the U.S. paid
00:47:45.160 to build the canal
00:47:46.760 in Panamanian land?
00:47:50.120 It was not a couple decades.
00:47:51.320 It was like a hundred years,
00:47:52.600 more than a hundred years ago,
00:47:53.660 but anyway.
00:47:55.940 Your loss, buddy,
00:47:57.200 the Panama Canal
00:47:57.920 is Panama's canal,
00:48:00.180 whether you like it or not
00:48:01.440 and will remain like that.
00:48:02.920 Besides, and more importantly,
00:48:03.960 the administration of the canal
00:48:04.920 has been under the Panamanians.
00:48:06.460 They've paid for their maintenance
00:48:07.360 and carried all the issues
00:48:08.420 that have come with it,
00:48:09.560 and I haven't seen
00:48:10.160 the U.S. offering their help.
00:48:11.400 Please inform yourself
00:48:12.160 on this topic
00:48:12.720 because you did stutter
00:48:14.900 a lot on that
00:48:16.060 with your only argument being
00:48:17.480 USA built it.
00:48:20.220 Ignorance.
00:48:20.620 Hey, look,
00:48:22.500 I don't begrudge you.
00:48:24.340 I don't begrudge
00:48:25.600 this response from you
00:48:27.180 as someone in Panama,
00:48:28.600 as a Panamanian.
00:48:30.060 I don't begrudge you
00:48:31.040 calling Panama
00:48:31.700 a great country.
00:48:33.460 You should think
00:48:34.420 that your country is great.
00:48:37.540 I don't see it as,
00:48:38.900 I don't see that.
00:48:43.580 I think,
00:48:44.500 now,
00:48:44.900 from your,
00:48:45.540 subjectively,
00:48:46.540 as someone who lives
00:48:47.780 in the country,
00:48:48.260 you think it's
00:48:49.060 a great country.
00:48:50.900 I think,
00:48:51.580 objectively,
00:48:52.340 it's hard to make
00:48:53.160 the argument
00:48:53.600 that Panama
00:48:54.920 stands out
00:48:56.600 as one of the great
00:48:57.640 countries in the world.
00:48:59.120 I'd have to ask,
00:49:00.100 like,
00:49:00.300 in what way,
00:49:02.480 by what measure
00:49:03.780 are we calling it great?
00:49:07.360 But,
00:49:07.900 the fact that you think
00:49:09.080 that about your country
00:49:09.680 is fine.
00:49:10.940 You should think
00:49:11.700 your country is great
00:49:12.440 if you live there.
00:49:14.060 And,
00:49:14.480 yeah,
00:49:15.240 you should probably
00:49:15.900 be offended
00:49:16.500 by the way
00:49:17.040 that I was talking
00:49:17.920 about the issue.
00:49:19.900 That's fine.
00:49:20.540 I get it.
00:49:21.680 In fact,
00:49:22.040 I encourage it
00:49:22.720 because I want people
00:49:23.860 to love their own countries
00:49:24.760 and even be a chauvinist
00:49:27.100 about your own country.
00:49:28.180 I think that's all.
00:49:28.640 I think that's good.
00:49:29.940 I think it's good
00:49:30.440 to feel that way.
00:49:32.140 No hard feelings.
00:49:34.240 But,
00:49:34.720 I'm American
00:49:35.320 and I love America.
00:49:38.100 So,
00:49:38.660 the fact that
00:49:39.540 the canal
00:49:41.120 was built
00:49:41.740 not just
00:49:43.140 with American money
00:49:44.440 but with American blood
00:49:46.340 and a lot of it
00:49:48.280 that means something
00:49:49.800 to me.
00:49:50.580 Now,
00:49:50.820 it might not mean
00:49:51.300 anything to you.
00:49:52.880 I understand
00:49:53.320 it means nothing to you.
00:49:54.300 So,
00:49:54.480 you could just
00:49:54.860 wave it away
00:49:55.560 and say,
00:49:56.000 just because you built it.
00:50:00.660 Well,
00:50:01.100 yeah,
00:50:01.500 because we built it.
00:50:03.520 This country built it.
00:50:06.120 Bud,
00:50:06.780 you understand that?
00:50:07.460 There wouldn't be any canal
00:50:08.360 if it was left up
00:50:09.100 to the Panamanians.
00:50:11.180 Sorry.
00:50:11.540 You weren't building the canal.
00:50:14.680 The canal wouldn't exist
00:50:15.820 without America.
00:50:17.860 In fact,
00:50:18.360 if it was left up
00:50:18.960 to any other country
00:50:19.880 on the planet,
00:50:20.600 it wouldn't have happened.
00:50:22.100 And we know that
00:50:22.820 because other countries
00:50:23.460 tried to do it
00:50:24.140 and couldn't.
00:50:26.920 It was not the first time
00:50:28.460 or the last
00:50:29.120 in world history
00:50:29.840 when other countries
00:50:31.260 attempted to do something
00:50:32.020 and Americans
00:50:32.420 had to show up
00:50:32.900 and say,
00:50:33.240 all right,
00:50:33.680 get out of the way,
00:50:34.440 we'll do it.
00:50:35.660 This happened many times
00:50:36.840 and this is one
00:50:37.800 of the great examples of it.
00:50:39.120 It's not easy.
00:50:42.580 A lot of American lives
00:50:43.600 were spent.
00:50:47.540 A lot of Americans
00:50:48.340 died in the process.
00:50:52.540 And so,
00:50:53.180 yes,
00:50:53.400 that means,
00:50:54.220 as an American,
00:50:55.080 that means something to me.
00:50:58.280 So,
00:50:58.760 you have a canal
00:50:59.280 that Americans built,
00:51:01.160 Americans paid for,
00:51:02.900 Americans died for,
00:51:04.580 and,
00:51:05.580 as I said yesterday,
00:51:06.500 a canal
00:51:06.980 that America uses
00:51:08.160 the vast majority of the time.
00:51:09.120 70%
00:51:10.080 of the traffic
00:51:12.500 through the canal
00:51:13.060 is coming to
00:51:14.000 or going from America.
00:51:17.400 So,
00:51:17.940 yeah,
00:51:18.160 it's our canal.
00:51:19.080 I mean,
00:51:19.340 by any,
00:51:20.200 by any reasonable metric,
00:51:24.420 it's our canal.
00:51:28.900 The only way
00:51:30.700 that it's not,
00:51:31.360 it is just Jimmy,
00:51:32.720 if not for Jimmy Carter,
00:51:34.440 if not for the worst president
00:51:36.640 in American history,
00:51:37.360 who may end up
00:51:39.660 going down
00:51:40.060 as second worst
00:51:40.720 behind Joe Biden,
00:51:42.040 but that takes more time,
00:51:43.420 you know,
00:51:43.800 you need more
00:51:44.160 historical perspective.
00:51:45.140 So,
00:51:45.360 right now,
00:51:45.860 Jimmy Carter
00:51:46.220 is still the worst
00:51:46.760 president in American history
00:51:47.500 and one of the worst
00:51:49.180 Americans,
00:51:49.900 period,
00:51:50.260 to have ever lived.
00:51:53.200 Aside from him,
00:51:54.040 if not for him,
00:51:55.340 right,
00:51:55.580 it's still America's
00:51:57.280 property.
00:51:58.580 And like I said
00:52:01.020 yesterday,
00:52:01.420 you can say,
00:52:02.460 well,
00:52:02.740 you know,
00:52:03.340 sign on the dotted line
00:52:04.220 is what it is,
00:52:04.820 sorry.
00:52:08.280 Well,
00:52:08.740 there were
00:52:09.060 a lot of obligations
00:52:10.080 that Panama took on
00:52:11.360 according to that treaty.
00:52:14.400 And I know,
00:52:15.440 I'm quite sure
00:52:16.600 the Trump administration
00:52:17.580 has all their,
00:52:18.500 all the best lawyers
00:52:19.260 in America
00:52:20.480 looking at that thing
00:52:21.280 right now,
00:52:21.720 that treaty,
00:52:22.620 and finding about
00:52:23.680 50,000 different ways
00:52:25.200 that Panama
00:52:25.700 has violated it.
00:52:26.480 I'm sure they went
00:52:28.280 looking for those
00:52:28.960 and I'm sure
00:52:29.340 they found them.
00:52:31.580 So what then?
00:52:33.040 What happens when,
00:52:33.880 so,
00:52:34.080 I mean,
00:52:34.380 you're basing this all
00:52:35.120 on just who signed
00:52:35.900 the dotted line.
00:52:36.760 Well,
00:52:36.880 what happens when
00:52:37.340 Trump looks at it
00:52:37.920 and says,
00:52:38.200 well,
00:52:38.280 hey,
00:52:38.500 yeah,
00:52:38.700 but this treaty
00:52:39.720 was contingent legally
00:52:40.740 on this,
00:52:41.280 that,
00:52:41.440 and this,
00:52:42.000 and this,
00:52:42.940 that,
00:52:43.080 and this
00:52:43.240 didn't happen.
00:52:45.180 Are you then
00:52:45.760 going to say,
00:52:46.180 okay,
00:52:46.480 well,
00:52:46.680 hey,
00:52:47.380 it's the law,
00:52:48.580 you know,
00:52:48.800 it's what the treaty
00:52:49.380 will give up the canal.
00:52:53.260 No,
00:52:53.620 what you'll probably say
00:52:54.300 then is,
00:52:54.900 well,
00:52:54.980 I don't care what
00:52:55.360 the law of the treaty says.
00:52:56.460 This is on our property.
00:52:57.580 This is on our land.
00:52:58.320 You're not going to take it.
00:53:01.040 Then we're going to be
00:53:01.860 in a situation
00:53:02.600 where
00:53:03.160 apparently
00:53:05.900 what was written down
00:53:07.960 is being discarded.
00:53:10.660 And so now
00:53:11.700 what determines
00:53:12.520 who gets to have
00:53:13.520 the canal?
00:53:16.380 See,
00:53:16.600 now we're in like
00:53:17.480 a kind of
00:53:17.840 dog-eat-dog scenario.
00:53:23.500 And then it kind of
00:53:24.280 comes down to like,
00:53:25.360 to have this attitude
00:53:28.680 of,
00:53:30.180 well,
00:53:30.280 that's our canal.
00:53:31.020 You can't do anything
00:53:31.660 about it.
00:53:32.160 Well,
00:53:33.140 yeah,
00:53:33.560 but,
00:53:33.760 you know,
00:53:34.140 America can.
00:53:35.960 The United States
00:53:36.860 could just
00:53:37.460 take it.
00:53:38.800 So,
00:53:39.360 and there's literally
00:53:40.200 nothing you could
00:53:40.960 do about it
00:53:41.960 at all.
00:53:45.840 But,
00:53:46.480 you know,
00:53:46.700 I mean,
00:53:47.080 I certainly would hope
00:53:47.960 that it wouldn't come to that.
00:53:51.700 That's my hope anyway.
00:53:52.640 Never would have taken Matt
00:53:55.920 for a guy
00:53:56.420 who enjoys guacamole.
00:53:57.660 Can't explain why.
00:53:58.960 Just get that vibe.
00:54:02.240 Well,
00:54:02.600 not only do I enjoy
00:54:03.320 guacamole,
00:54:03.980 but I make excellent guacamole,
00:54:05.040 so I'm offended by that.
00:54:06.180 I don't know what you're,
00:54:07.400 I don't know what,
00:54:07.860 where you're coming from
00:54:09.140 with that,
00:54:09.580 but I am,
00:54:10.560 I am a,
00:54:12.940 I'm one of the great
00:54:15.840 guacamole makers
00:54:16.820 in America,
00:54:17.560 so that's,
00:54:18.220 there's some news for you.
00:54:20.020 I suggest a new segment
00:54:21.120 on your show,
00:54:21.740 Everything You Need to Know
00:54:22.520 About Onesies
00:54:23.220 with Matt Walsh.
00:54:24.900 That might get a little
00:54:25.700 repetitive,
00:54:26.340 but a different segment
00:54:27.220 where I whine about
00:54:29.060 some really small thing
00:54:30.840 related to parenting,
00:54:32.500 that could be an idea.
00:54:33.600 I mean,
00:54:33.740 I already do that all the time,
00:54:34.700 but,
00:54:35.200 you know,
00:54:35.780 that could be its own segment,
00:54:36.720 because there are so many things.
00:54:39.920 I mean,
00:54:40.440 I could do 45 minutes
00:54:41.740 right now
00:54:43.120 on the fact that like
00:54:44.180 90% of the toys
00:54:45.520 on the market
00:54:46.080 for toddlers
00:54:46.800 make noise,
00:54:48.540 right?
00:54:48.740 Every parent on earth
00:54:49.960 has complained about this.
00:54:51.760 We could all complain
00:54:52.480 about it for hours
00:54:53.180 and we have,
00:54:54.580 but it really is insane
00:54:56.160 when you think about it
00:54:57.060 because every parent alive
00:55:00.340 hates this.
00:55:01.360 They hate the toys
00:55:02.480 that make noise.
00:55:03.260 No parent likes this,
00:55:04.180 right?
00:55:06.160 No parent has ever,
00:55:07.680 it's like Christmas
00:55:08.360 and someone buys
00:55:09.080 your three-year-old
00:55:10.140 a toy
00:55:10.560 and it makes some
00:55:11.780 loud blaring noise
00:55:12.920 that sounds like
00:55:13.320 an air horn.
00:55:14.300 No parent has ever said,
00:55:15.300 oh, great,
00:55:16.160 wonderful.
00:55:16.920 I was,
00:55:17.380 I needed more noisy
00:55:18.640 in this house.
00:55:19.600 I'm so glad.
00:55:20.320 Thank you.
00:55:21.480 Like you never turned
00:55:22.560 to, you know,
00:55:23.500 the aunt who gave
00:55:24.420 that gift.
00:55:25.100 Thank you so much
00:55:26.100 for that.
00:55:26.740 I'm saying,
00:55:27.540 well,
00:55:27.760 that's what I was hoping.
00:55:29.080 I was hoping
00:55:29.520 there'd be some more
00:55:30.200 loud crap
00:55:31.060 in the,
00:55:32.740 that's what we needed
00:55:33.740 was just more noise.
00:55:36.200 No parent has ever
00:55:37.100 said that
00:55:37.460 except dripping
00:55:39.180 with sarcasm
00:55:40.320 and contempt.
00:55:41.060 So we all hate them
00:55:42.000 and yet every toy
00:55:44.240 for a child
00:55:45.080 makes noise.
00:55:46.460 But here's the point.
00:55:48.560 Every parent hates it.
00:55:50.360 Every parent.
00:55:51.780 Kids
00:55:52.220 don't need the toys
00:55:54.080 to make noise.
00:55:56.040 They'll have just
00:55:56.800 as much fun
00:55:57.400 with the toys
00:55:57.940 if it doesn't make noise
00:55:58.820 because they can make
00:55:59.440 the noise
00:55:59.780 in their imagination
00:56:00.560 and out loud.
00:56:01.700 Kids,
00:56:02.140 so they can handle that.
00:56:04.040 So if you just give a kid
00:56:05.380 like a plastic toy truck
00:56:06.900 and it doesn't make noise,
00:56:09.160 the child is not going
00:56:11.460 to be upset
00:56:11.980 saying it won't make noise.
00:56:12.980 The child's not going
00:56:13.460 to say that.
00:56:14.600 The child only becomes upset
00:56:16.300 when a toy
00:56:16.840 doesn't make noise
00:56:17.640 if it is supposed
00:56:19.320 to make noise
00:56:19.940 or if it used to make noise
00:56:20.960 and it doesn't anymore.
00:56:23.440 But if you just give them
00:56:24.520 the toy,
00:56:25.120 so what I'm saying is
00:56:25.840 if we just
00:56:26.400 had a federal law
00:56:28.120 banning all toys
00:56:30.120 for children
00:56:30.700 under the age of 10
00:56:31.640 that make noise.
00:56:32.340 Let's just say
00:56:32.700 we had that federal law.
00:56:33.740 I think we should
00:56:34.040 at least think about it.
00:56:35.000 And if we had that,
00:56:36.980 it would not,
00:56:37.880 the children
00:56:38.520 would be fine with it
00:56:39.440 if they were never
00:56:40.580 given another toy
00:56:41.240 that makes it
00:56:41.560 because they don't need it.
00:56:46.020 So what's the point?
00:56:47.240 Why does every toy maker
00:56:48.120 do this?
00:56:49.760 That's what I need
00:56:50.480 to understand.
00:56:52.360 Kids don't need it.
00:56:53.440 Every parent hates it.
00:56:55.460 And yet 95%
00:56:56.480 of the toys
00:56:56.780 on the market
00:56:57.240 for kids
00:56:58.780 under the age of 10
00:56:59.420 make noise.
00:57:00.580 I don't get it.
00:57:01.380 But anyway,
00:57:02.240 that's a whole thing.
00:57:03.300 That's a whole thing.
00:57:03.820 We could talk about it.
00:57:04.400 We could continue
00:57:04.880 talking about that.
00:57:06.300 And maybe we will.
00:57:07.960 You know,
00:57:08.140 it's February,
00:57:08.700 which means
00:57:09.040 the usual crowd
00:57:09.760 is claiming
00:57:10.240 we don't do anything
00:57:11.240 for Black History Month,
00:57:12.340 which is,
00:57:13.100 let's be honest,
00:57:14.020 complete nonsense.
00:57:15.080 We literally have
00:57:15.780 the number one documentary
00:57:16.760 of the decade
00:57:17.200 covering race in America.
00:57:18.380 It's called Am I Racist?
00:57:20.000 It was the surprise
00:57:20.780 box office hit of the year.
00:57:22.000 And here's the shocker.
00:57:23.180 It's not the narrative
00:57:24.200 the left wanted.
00:57:25.020 And now,
00:57:25.400 exclusively on Delaware Plus,
00:57:26.600 we're pulling back
00:57:27.320 the curtain
00:57:27.760 with the making of
00:57:29.620 Am I Racist?
00:57:30.400 where Matt Walsh,
00:57:31.600 which is,
00:57:32.220 that's me,
00:57:32.720 that's who I am,
00:57:33.360 director of Justin Folk,
00:57:34.300 and the team show
00:57:35.360 how it all came together.
00:57:36.660 Watch it right now
00:57:37.440 at dailywire.com.
00:57:39.700 Now let's get to
00:57:40.220 our daily cancellation.
00:57:40.860 We talked last week
00:57:48.200 about RFK Jr.'s
00:57:49.240 confirmation hearing,
00:57:50.180 which gave me
00:57:50.800 another chance
00:57:51.340 to stand on
00:57:52.100 what is to my audience
00:57:53.140 a very familiar soapbox.
00:57:54.660 I made the case,
00:57:55.300 as I have so many times
00:57:55.980 in the past,
00:57:56.440 that the greatest
00:57:57.320 Big Pharma scandal
00:57:58.240 is not the COVID vaccine,
00:58:00.460 though that is a huge scandal,
00:58:01.640 or how Big Pharma
00:58:02.840 has contributed
00:58:03.340 to the opioid epidemic
00:58:04.720 by getting thousands
00:58:05.700 of Americans
00:58:06.080 hooked on painkillers,
00:58:07.120 though again,
00:58:07.640 a major scandal.
00:58:08.280 It is the fact
00:58:09.580 that they have used
00:58:11.080 misinformation
00:58:11.580 and outright lies
00:58:12.580 and fabrications
00:58:13.280 to convince millions
00:58:14.100 of otherwise healthy people
00:58:15.200 to take highly potent
00:58:16.840 psychotropic drugs.
00:58:18.540 Working with the
00:58:19.460 psychiatric industry
00:58:20.300 Big Pharma has
00:58:21.120 over time
00:58:21.640 medicalized
00:58:23.380 the entire human condition,
00:58:24.560 every thought,
00:58:25.300 emotion, feeling,
00:58:26.840 prescribed a drug
00:58:27.780 to treat it
00:58:28.540 as though a feeling
00:58:30.000 or thought
00:58:30.460 or mental disposition
00:58:31.300 is automatically diseased
00:58:33.200 just because it happens
00:58:34.200 to be unpleasant
00:58:34.980 or inconvenient.
00:58:36.400 The invention of ADHD
00:58:37.920 and the mass prescribing
00:58:39.080 of amphetamines
00:58:40.020 to children
00:58:40.500 in an effort
00:58:40.980 to treat
00:58:42.040 this completely
00:58:42.800 contrived disease
00:58:43.920 is the worst example
00:58:45.880 of this.
00:58:47.020 And I've made the case
00:58:47.840 against ADHD
00:58:48.540 as a medical diagnosis
00:58:49.600 many times.
00:58:50.300 I won't repeat
00:58:50.700 the whole rant here.
00:58:51.480 You can check my YouTube channel
00:58:52.440 to find many different versions
00:58:53.580 of my anti-ADHD soliloquy.
00:58:57.540 If you listen to the case
00:58:58.440 that I make
00:58:59.060 and that plenty of other skeptics
00:59:00.260 have made over the years,
00:59:01.140 you'll understand
00:59:01.600 that we are not denying
00:59:03.120 the existence
00:59:03.760 of what psychiatrists
00:59:04.800 would call ADHD symptoms.
00:59:08.340 ADHD is not
00:59:09.340 a discrete disease
00:59:10.300 like liver cancer.
00:59:11.420 It is a description
00:59:12.240 of a set of behaviors.
00:59:14.180 And there's no doubt
00:59:15.140 that those behaviors
00:59:16.040 are real.
00:59:16.920 Yes, many children,
00:59:18.100 especially boys,
00:59:18.880 exhibit them.
00:59:19.540 What we deny
00:59:20.220 is that those behaviors
00:59:21.820 are inherently disordered,
00:59:23.800 that they are an indication
00:59:25.480 of an illness,
00:59:26.800 and that they should be eradicated
00:59:29.140 through the use
00:59:29.680 of psychotropic drugs.
00:59:31.240 That is our point.
00:59:32.000 And there's more to be said
00:59:34.080 on that general point.
00:59:35.340 I've said it again many times.
00:59:37.280 So instead today,
00:59:38.100 what I'd like to do
00:59:38.940 is share one specific thought
00:59:40.660 related to this topic.
00:59:42.260 It's been on my mind
00:59:43.020 after reading a message
00:59:43.920 from a parent
00:59:44.540 who insisted that
00:59:46.160 although they agree generally
00:59:47.720 with my point about big pharma
00:59:49.080 and even my point about ADHD,
00:59:51.820 they had no choice
00:59:53.220 but to put their own
00:59:54.260 seven-year-old son
00:59:55.260 on ADHD drugs
00:59:56.280 because his behavior
00:59:57.540 was so wild
00:59:58.520 and so disruptive
00:59:59.400 and he struggled
01:00:00.420 so much in school.
01:00:02.000 They, quote,
01:00:02.640 tried everything
01:00:03.340 before resorting
01:00:04.240 to medication,
01:00:05.380 they claim.
01:00:06.440 And that is a refrain
01:00:07.500 that I have heard
01:00:08.860 countless times.
01:00:11.040 I cannot tell you
01:00:11.800 the number of conversations
01:00:12.660 I've had with
01:00:13.440 and emails I've read from
01:00:14.640 parents who claim
01:00:15.960 that they went
01:00:17.120 the medication route
01:00:18.160 as a last resort
01:00:19.500 after, quote, unquote,
01:00:21.840 trying everything.
01:00:23.680 But here's my problem
01:00:25.440 with parents
01:00:28.440 who say they tried everything
01:00:30.000 before putting
01:00:30.640 their children on drugs.
01:00:32.620 My problem
01:00:33.580 is that it isn't true.
01:00:36.020 It can't be true.
01:00:38.380 How could you
01:00:39.640 have tried everything?
01:00:42.000 The child is seven years old.
01:00:44.620 Even if he's eight
01:00:45.780 or nine
01:00:46.320 or ten
01:00:46.820 or twelve,
01:00:47.960 there's no way
01:00:48.980 that you tried everything.
01:00:51.060 If your child's been
01:00:52.200 diagnosed with ADHD
01:00:53.060 or you suspect
01:00:53.920 that he has
01:00:54.740 this artificial illness,
01:00:56.480 consider this
01:00:57.100 before you claim
01:00:57.840 that you've arrived
01:00:58.800 at your last resort.
01:00:59.940 have you tried
01:01:02.380 drastically reducing
01:01:04.340 his screen time?
01:01:05.720 I mean,
01:01:06.060 cutting it down
01:01:06.500 to 30 minutes a day
01:01:07.600 from the hours a day
01:01:09.140 he's probably currently getting.
01:01:10.940 Have you tried
01:01:11.900 cutting down
01:01:12.660 your own screen time
01:01:13.700 and using that time
01:01:15.140 to interact with your child,
01:01:16.400 play games with him,
01:01:17.580 give him something
01:01:18.180 enjoyable and wholesome
01:01:19.180 and constructive
01:01:20.780 to focus on?
01:01:21.520 Did you try
01:01:23.220 changing his diet?
01:01:24.820 Did you try
01:01:25.660 getting all the processed
01:01:26.780 sugary junk
01:01:27.580 out of your house
01:01:28.320 completely?
01:01:29.320 Did you try
01:01:30.280 finding him
01:01:30.840 some kind of sport
01:01:32.200 or outdoor activity
01:01:33.120 that allows him
01:01:33.780 to burn off energy
01:01:34.640 and develop useful skills?
01:01:36.460 Did you try
01:01:37.340 mandatory
01:01:38.580 45 minute reading time
01:01:40.440 at night
01:01:40.780 before bed
01:01:41.360 where all screens
01:01:42.180 are turned off
01:01:42.780 and he sits and reads
01:01:43.660 or you read to him
01:01:44.500 and you kind of unwind
01:01:45.480 and you get that
01:01:46.720 experience of reading?
01:01:48.260 Did you try
01:01:50.260 harsher punishments
01:01:51.460 for misbehavior?
01:01:52.940 Did you try
01:01:53.880 introducing
01:01:54.520 serious consequences
01:01:55.900 for serious misbehavior?
01:01:59.700 Did you try
01:02:00.700 all of that?
01:02:02.180 Now,
01:02:02.740 I know that
01:02:03.620 you'll probably say
01:02:05.200 that you did,
01:02:06.640 but you didn't.
01:02:08.900 I know that you didn't.
01:02:11.860 And if you have a kid
01:02:12.780 in elementary school
01:02:13.320 on ADHD drugs,
01:02:14.220 I'm flat out telling you
01:02:15.400 you did not try
01:02:17.080 all these things.
01:02:18.260 I know
01:02:19.460 that you didn't try them
01:02:20.380 because trying them
01:02:21.900 means implementing
01:02:22.860 these strategies
01:02:23.620 and sticking with them
01:02:25.340 for years.
01:02:27.780 It means giving
01:02:29.120 these seeds
01:02:29.980 time to grow fruit.
01:02:31.760 It means giving
01:02:32.780 your child time,
01:02:34.520 a lot of time.
01:02:36.320 He needs
01:02:37.060 a lot of time.
01:02:38.960 You cannot
01:02:39.640 possibly be
01:02:40.800 at your last resort
01:02:42.140 when he's seven.
01:02:44.260 You haven't given
01:02:45.300 any of these strategies
01:02:46.540 even close
01:02:47.480 to the amount
01:02:47.920 of time they need.
01:02:48.760 In other words,
01:02:49.560 you actually
01:02:50.280 haven't tried
01:02:51.140 anything.
01:02:52.640 You've tried
01:02:53.540 nothing.
01:02:55.300 Medication is not
01:02:56.040 your last resort.
01:02:57.120 It's your first.
01:02:58.640 He's seven.
01:02:59.680 There is no last here.
01:03:01.680 What is last?
01:03:03.020 His existence
01:03:03.680 just began
01:03:04.400 seven years ago.
01:03:06.820 You haven't given
01:03:07.540 him any time.
01:03:08.620 You haven't given
01:03:09.180 him any chance
01:03:09.960 to grow and mature.
01:03:11.240 You tried
01:03:11.940 these methods
01:03:12.680 to help your son,
01:03:14.080 but you abandoned
01:03:15.040 them way before
01:03:16.140 they could have
01:03:16.620 possibly shown
01:03:17.420 results.
01:03:19.420 So,
01:03:20.100 give your child
01:03:20.900 time.
01:03:22.000 He needs time.
01:03:23.680 You tried
01:03:24.380 everything,
01:03:25.340 but the one thing
01:03:26.140 you didn't try
01:03:26.880 was time.
01:03:29.040 So,
01:03:29.540 it's like saying
01:03:30.000 that you tried
01:03:30.680 everything to make
01:03:31.440 a perfect loaf
01:03:32.100 of bread,
01:03:32.620 except leaving
01:03:34.140 it in the oven
01:03:34.720 for more than
01:03:35.340 two minutes.
01:03:36.960 You know,
01:03:37.200 you've tried,
01:03:37.840 you've employed
01:03:38.320 every bread-making
01:03:39.300 strategy you
01:03:39.940 possibly could
01:03:40.540 think of
01:03:41.060 so long
01:03:42.860 as it would
01:03:44.440 take less
01:03:45.560 than two minutes.
01:03:47.560 Well,
01:03:48.680 in that case,
01:03:50.500 you haven't
01:03:50.820 actually tried
01:03:51.360 to make bread
01:03:51.900 because,
01:03:53.240 sorry,
01:03:53.540 bread takes time.
01:03:55.380 Children take
01:03:55.940 a lot more time.
01:03:57.560 That's the job
01:03:58.260 of parenting.
01:03:58.940 It requires
01:03:59.340 sustained,
01:04:00.240 consistent effort
01:04:01.000 for years
01:04:01.900 and years
01:04:02.860 and years.
01:04:03.880 That's the gig.
01:04:05.480 Right?
01:04:06.020 It's what we
01:04:06.420 signed up for.
01:04:07.180 And this is
01:04:09.020 a very important
01:04:09.500 point
01:04:09.980 that I actually
01:04:12.440 think about
01:04:12.880 a lot
01:04:13.420 because
01:04:14.620 this false
01:04:16.560 urgency,
01:04:17.300 this need
01:04:17.660 to fix
01:04:18.320 our kids
01:04:18.920 in 30 seconds
01:04:19.600 or less
01:04:20.060 is what
01:04:21.000 Big Pharma
01:04:21.480 preys upon.
01:04:23.500 I mean,
01:04:24.200 they've made
01:04:24.660 billions on this.
01:04:26.600 It's the same
01:04:27.260 sense of panic
01:04:28.160 and need
01:04:28.700 for quick fixes
01:04:29.400 that led many
01:04:30.080 parents to put
01:04:30.660 their children
01:04:31.060 on chemical
01:04:31.580 castration drugs
01:04:32.440 as a way
01:04:33.260 of fixing
01:04:33.820 what would
01:04:34.700 have otherwise
01:04:35.260 been a very
01:04:35.880 temporary confusion
01:04:36.880 about their
01:04:37.300 gender.
01:04:38.720 Most of
01:04:39.560 the worst
01:04:40.100 decisions
01:04:40.740 parents make,
01:04:42.440 the most
01:04:42.860 unintentionally
01:04:43.720 destructive ones,
01:04:45.080 are made in
01:04:45.740 the name of
01:04:46.440 fixing a child
01:04:47.640 quickly.
01:04:49.140 They are
01:04:49.840 motivated by
01:04:50.700 a false
01:04:51.240 sense of
01:04:51.820 urgency,
01:04:52.760 by this
01:04:53.180 hallucinatory
01:04:54.020 idea that
01:04:54.720 a child's
01:04:55.240 most challenging
01:04:55.880 behaviors must
01:04:57.020 be changed
01:04:57.740 right away
01:04:58.600 or else
01:04:59.840 some unspecified
01:05:01.320 terrible thing
01:05:02.020 will happen.
01:05:03.600 They're made
01:05:04.400 because the
01:05:04.860 parent doesn't
01:05:05.580 want to
01:05:06.020 or has been
01:05:06.580 convinced that
01:05:07.160 they shouldn't
01:05:07.860 give it
01:05:08.960 time.
01:05:10.520 Here's the
01:05:11.220 thing about
01:05:11.840 kids.
01:05:14.820 And if I
01:05:15.560 could get
01:05:15.800 parents to
01:05:16.320 understand one
01:05:16.940 thing, it
01:05:17.500 might be this.
01:05:19.600 Nothing is
01:05:20.440 permanent.
01:05:21.840 Everything
01:05:22.200 changes.
01:05:23.440 And they go
01:05:24.240 through phases.
01:05:25.440 And those
01:05:26.100 phases can be
01:05:26.860 intense.
01:05:28.200 They could
01:05:28.580 last for six
01:05:29.360 days or six
01:05:30.580 years.
01:05:32.360 But either
01:05:33.560 way, they won't
01:05:34.100 last forever.
01:05:35.560 So just to
01:05:35.980 give you one
01:05:36.500 example of the
01:05:37.380 dozens and
01:05:38.060 dozens that I
01:05:38.680 could supply
01:05:39.180 from my own
01:05:39.820 life and my
01:05:40.320 family, my
01:05:42.940 oldest daughter
01:05:43.620 struggled to
01:05:44.380 read.
01:05:45.360 Hated reading
01:05:45.960 for many
01:05:46.640 years.
01:05:47.500 Many years.
01:05:48.460 From the age
01:05:49.220 of like about
01:05:49.840 four, right
01:05:50.460 around the time
01:05:50.880 you first start
01:05:51.340 reading, to
01:05:52.500 right around
01:05:52.940 11, getting
01:05:54.680 her to read
01:05:55.400 was like
01:05:55.880 pulling teeth.
01:05:56.940 And she had a
01:05:57.640 very hard time
01:05:58.240 with it for a
01:05:59.240 long time.
01:06:00.240 She was for a
01:06:01.380 long time way
01:06:01.960 behind her peers.
01:06:02.900 And yes, as
01:06:03.960 parents, we
01:06:04.400 worried about
01:06:04.880 it.
01:06:05.440 For all this
01:06:06.160 stuff that I'm
01:06:06.560 saying about
01:06:07.120 give it time,
01:06:08.060 it's not easy
01:06:08.840 to do.
01:06:09.180 I understand
01:06:09.540 that.
01:06:10.440 And so as a
01:06:11.300 parent, we're
01:06:11.700 worried.
01:06:12.380 And we're
01:06:13.020 fretting.
01:06:13.680 And we can't
01:06:15.280 help but imagine
01:06:16.080 a dark future
01:06:17.020 where our
01:06:17.460 daughter is 25
01:06:18.220 years old and
01:06:19.300 can barely
01:06:19.760 read.
01:06:21.340 Well, then one
01:06:22.280 day it changed.
01:06:23.460 And now at
01:06:24.500 11 and a half,
01:06:25.660 we can't get her
01:06:27.120 to stop reading.
01:06:28.500 I mean, she
01:06:28.860 reads like two
01:06:29.520 whole chapter books
01:06:30.240 a week.
01:06:30.580 I'm talking books
01:06:31.360 that are 300
01:06:31.820 pages.
01:06:33.380 She's just
01:06:34.500 burning through
01:06:35.840 them.
01:06:36.560 She reads
01:06:37.040 morning,
01:06:37.500 afternoon,
01:06:37.840 and night.
01:06:38.700 I catch her
01:06:39.340 in her room
01:06:39.680 with a flashlight
01:06:40.320 two hours after
01:06:40.980 bedtime, still
01:06:41.720 reading.
01:06:42.560 And then she
01:06:43.100 wakes up and
01:06:43.460 starts reading
01:06:43.860 again.
01:06:44.840 The other day,
01:06:45.320 I actually had
01:06:45.720 to tell her to
01:06:46.280 stop reading
01:06:46.980 and come watch
01:06:47.600 TV.
01:06:48.460 I wanted to
01:06:49.000 watch just
01:06:49.380 about an hour
01:06:49.820 of TV as a
01:06:50.400 family.
01:06:50.740 We don't
01:06:50.840 watch a lot
01:06:51.200 of TV, but
01:06:51.640 I wanted to
01:06:52.420 do that.
01:06:52.840 And she
01:06:53.300 wanted to
01:06:53.600 stay in her
01:06:53.960 room and
01:06:54.220 read.
01:06:54.680 I had to
01:06:55.240 say words
01:06:55.840 that perhaps
01:06:56.240 no parent
01:06:56.860 has ever
01:06:57.320 uttered to
01:06:57.680 a child
01:06:58.000 before.
01:06:58.680 Put the
01:06:59.080 book down
01:06:59.620 and come
01:07:00.140 watch TV
01:07:00.680 because she's
01:07:01.980 a reading
01:07:02.340 addict.
01:07:03.100 It's amazing.
01:07:03.800 I love it.
01:07:04.260 It's incredible.
01:07:07.100 The point is
01:07:07.900 that kids
01:07:08.240 change.
01:07:08.760 And her
01:07:09.000 change seems
01:07:09.640 sudden and
01:07:10.220 out of
01:07:10.460 nowhere.
01:07:11.420 And it was
01:07:12.180 sudden, but it
01:07:12.980 wasn't out of
01:07:13.560 nowhere.
01:07:13.960 We worked
01:07:14.380 with her for
01:07:14.940 years, for
01:07:15.740 years and
01:07:16.580 years and
01:07:17.220 years, every
01:07:18.780 day, every
01:07:20.460 day for years.
01:07:21.480 And it's just
01:07:21.920 that we saw
01:07:22.500 little progress
01:07:23.420 visibly.
01:07:24.400 And then we
01:07:25.300 saw a gigantic
01:07:26.220 Grand Canyon
01:07:27.160 leap of progress
01:07:28.180 all at once.
01:07:29.240 That's the way
01:07:29.780 it is with
01:07:30.180 kids, in my
01:07:30.780 experience.
01:07:31.640 But you have
01:07:32.100 to give them
01:07:32.480 time.
01:07:33.260 Before you
01:07:33.780 start messing
01:07:34.340 with their
01:07:34.720 brains and
01:07:35.400 drugging them
01:07:36.000 and medicating
01:07:36.680 them and
01:07:37.020 medicalizing
01:07:37.620 them, give
01:07:38.680 them time.
01:07:39.720 Lead them
01:07:40.160 in the right
01:07:40.520 direction.
01:07:41.040 Take them
01:07:41.420 by the hand
01:07:41.880 and pull
01:07:42.300 them along
01:07:42.700 if you have
01:07:43.100 to, which
01:07:43.380 most of the
01:07:43.780 time you
01:07:44.080 will.
01:07:44.820 But give
01:07:45.540 them time.
01:07:46.540 And this is
01:07:46.960 especially important,
01:07:47.780 I believe, for
01:07:48.300 boys.
01:07:49.180 If you think
01:07:49.700 that your son
01:07:50.240 has a deficit
01:07:51.000 of attention,
01:07:51.860 if you think
01:07:52.280 that he's
01:07:52.580 incapable of
01:07:53.460 focusing on or
01:07:54.300 paying attention
01:07:54.780 to anything,
01:07:56.360 my question is
01:07:57.080 this, how
01:07:58.540 many things
01:07:59.380 have you
01:08:00.080 tried?
01:08:01.020 Are you sure
01:08:02.020 that he has
01:08:02.380 some sort of
01:08:02.820 neurological
01:08:03.220 inability to
01:08:04.320 focus?
01:08:04.760 Or do you
01:08:05.380 mean that he
01:08:06.560 very specifically
01:08:07.740 finds it
01:08:08.340 difficult to
01:08:08.940 focus in
01:08:09.560 school?
01:08:10.520 Is he able
01:08:11.320 to pay
01:08:11.560 attention for
01:08:12.040 long periods
01:08:12.560 of time to
01:08:13.240 anything else?
01:08:15.220 If there's
01:08:16.040 something he
01:08:16.600 can focus on
01:08:17.660 and pay
01:08:17.940 attention to,
01:08:18.560 but he
01:08:19.000 struggles to
01:08:19.600 pay attention
01:08:20.040 in school,
01:08:21.280 the problem
01:08:22.220 is obviously
01:08:22.960 not a
01:08:24.480 physical
01:08:24.840 inability to
01:08:25.520 pay attention.
01:08:25.960 The problem
01:08:26.540 is that he's
01:08:29.860 bored in
01:08:30.540 school.
01:08:31.600 If you are
01:08:32.360 drugging him
01:08:33.000 in that case,
01:08:33.780 the disease
01:08:34.520 you're drugging
01:08:35.280 and treating
01:08:35.960 is boredom.
01:08:37.560 You are
01:08:38.240 drugging your
01:08:38.980 son because
01:08:40.140 he's bored.
01:08:41.840 Bored by
01:08:42.540 something that
01:08:43.360 is in fact
01:08:44.140 very boring.
01:08:46.400 And if that
01:08:47.140 sounds pretty
01:08:47.600 awful, it's
01:08:48.300 because, I'm
01:08:48.920 sorry, it is
01:08:49.800 pretty awful.
01:08:51.800 Now, you
01:08:53.560 might say that,
01:08:54.320 well, there
01:08:54.520 really isn't
01:08:54.860 anything that
01:08:55.640 my son can
01:08:56.780 focus on.
01:08:58.340 But again, I
01:08:59.160 ask you, how
01:08:59.980 many things
01:09:00.800 have you
01:09:01.220 tried?
01:09:02.620 Another
01:09:03.020 personal
01:09:03.400 example.
01:09:04.780 Both my
01:09:05.260 11-year-old son
01:09:05.880 and my
01:09:06.020 8-year-old son
01:09:06.580 have recently
01:09:07.280 discovered a
01:09:08.020 passion for
01:09:08.620 archery.
01:09:09.740 Okay?
01:09:11.080 And they
01:09:11.380 picked this up
01:09:12.180 on their own.
01:09:13.660 Archery's not
01:09:14.260 my thing.
01:09:14.820 I've shot a
01:09:15.580 bow and arrow
01:09:15.900 like twice
01:09:16.320 in my life.
01:09:16.700 But they
01:09:18.800 discovered this
01:09:19.660 passion for
01:09:20.500 it.
01:09:20.760 And so I
01:09:21.260 took them to
01:09:21.660 the archery
01:09:22.240 range over
01:09:22.660 the weekend.
01:09:23.720 And I
01:09:24.240 watched them
01:09:24.860 practice for
01:09:25.800 an hour.
01:09:27.340 And focusing,
01:09:30.260 just one,
01:09:31.740 you know,
01:09:32.060 taking the
01:09:32.400 air out of
01:09:32.680 the quiver,
01:09:33.080 one after
01:09:33.440 another.
01:09:34.440 My son's
01:09:34.980 hitting bullseye
01:09:36.560 shots from 60
01:09:37.620 feet out with a
01:09:38.360 bow and arrow.
01:09:39.480 I mean, and
01:09:40.480 both of them are
01:09:41.340 very, very high
01:09:42.280 energy and
01:09:42.780 rambunctious.
01:09:43.380 Both of them
01:09:43.860 could easily be
01:09:44.840 re-diagnosed
01:09:45.260 ADHD, if we
01:09:46.060 went seeking
01:09:46.540 that diagnosis,
01:09:47.240 which we
01:09:47.580 haven't and
01:09:48.000 won't.
01:09:49.340 Yet they
01:09:49.680 practice archery
01:09:50.380 every day now,
01:09:51.220 a sport that
01:09:51.620 requires intense
01:09:52.600 focus and
01:09:53.340 concentration and
01:09:54.120 discipline.
01:09:54.960 And if they
01:09:55.360 stick with it
01:09:55.800 over time,
01:09:56.340 they'll become
01:09:56.840 more disciplined
01:09:57.500 and focused in
01:09:58.260 every area of
01:09:59.200 their lives.
01:10:00.320 I've already
01:10:00.900 noticed some of
01:10:01.540 those improvements
01:10:02.040 just from the
01:10:02.560 relatively short
01:10:03.200 time that they've
01:10:03.800 been involved in
01:10:04.380 the sport.
01:10:05.480 And why is that?
01:10:06.580 Well, because
01:10:08.360 discipline and
01:10:09.200 focus are skills.
01:10:11.740 You have to
01:10:12.220 hone them.
01:10:14.160 Okay,
01:10:14.340 focusing on
01:10:15.640 something,
01:10:16.120 focusing especially
01:10:17.200 on something that
01:10:17.880 you consider
01:10:18.460 boring is a
01:10:20.080 skill.
01:10:21.420 You need to
01:10:22.180 give your boy
01:10:22.820 an outlet to
01:10:23.880 hone the
01:10:24.820 skill.
01:10:26.320 And if you
01:10:26.700 want him to
01:10:28.280 be more
01:10:28.620 focused, help
01:10:30.280 him develop
01:10:31.040 the skill.
01:10:32.540 Have you done
01:10:33.020 that?
01:10:34.400 If you're
01:10:34.980 telling me,
01:10:35.280 oh, he can't
01:10:35.760 focus on
01:10:36.120 anything, have
01:10:36.940 you helped
01:10:37.580 him develop
01:10:38.500 the skill of
01:10:39.900 focus?
01:10:41.180 Have you tried
01:10:42.000 finding him an
01:10:42.780 outlet for that
01:10:43.780 purpose?
01:10:44.320 Find him
01:10:44.800 something he
01:10:45.300 loves that
01:10:46.660 requires focus.
01:10:49.040 And he'll do
01:10:49.880 it because he
01:10:50.280 loves it.
01:10:51.160 And in the
01:10:51.600 process, as a
01:10:52.700 byproduct, he
01:10:53.900 will learn how
01:10:54.580 to focus
01:10:55.240 generally, and
01:10:56.260 he'll start
01:10:56.620 being able to
01:10:57.120 apply that even
01:10:58.160 to areas of
01:10:58.740 life that he
01:10:59.300 doesn't love as
01:10:59.840 much.
01:11:01.620 If you put him
01:11:02.340 on drugs in
01:11:02.840 elementary school,
01:11:03.940 you didn't try.
01:11:05.400 You didn't give
01:11:06.360 him a chance.
01:11:07.520 You went for the
01:11:08.420 quick fix instead.
01:11:09.900 You didn't give
01:11:10.520 him time.
01:11:10.940 And he needs
01:11:13.080 and deserves
01:11:13.700 time.
01:11:15.380 Now, this way is
01:11:16.140 harder for a
01:11:16.660 parent.
01:11:16.920 I understand that.
01:11:18.180 I know that from
01:11:18.760 experience.
01:11:19.220 I'm not recommending
01:11:19.920 any course of
01:11:20.420 action that I have
01:11:20.980 not taken and
01:11:21.640 am not currently
01:11:22.260 living through at
01:11:22.940 this very moment.
01:11:23.680 I understand the
01:11:24.320 challenges of
01:11:24.760 raising children
01:11:25.340 without resorting
01:11:26.440 to drugs as a
01:11:27.060 shortcut.
01:11:27.440 I understand the
01:11:28.120 challenges more
01:11:28.660 than almost every
01:11:29.320 person who's ever
01:11:29.980 accused me of not
01:11:31.060 understanding them.
01:11:32.060 Four boys, two
01:11:32.800 girls, two sets of
01:11:33.500 twins.
01:11:33.780 I get it.
01:11:35.140 Drugging your
01:11:35.680 child into
01:11:36.120 submission is
01:11:36.820 easier.
01:11:38.220 Working with
01:11:38.820 them, being
01:11:39.240 patient, giving
01:11:40.060 them a chance to
01:11:40.720 grow and mature
01:11:41.380 naturally is
01:11:42.140 difficult, but you
01:11:42.960 owe it to your
01:11:43.540 child to do the
01:11:44.200 difficult thing.
01:11:46.580 Neither of you
01:11:47.260 will regret it in
01:11:47.860 the long run.
01:11:48.400 Very few parents
01:11:49.040 look back on their
01:11:49.760 child's life and
01:11:50.440 regret not dosing
01:11:51.820 them with
01:11:52.520 psychotropic drugs
01:11:53.380 in elementary
01:11:53.740 school.
01:11:54.320 Many regret having
01:11:55.480 done so, and many
01:11:56.640 adults regret that it
01:11:57.560 was done to them.
01:11:58.580 Avoid the regret.
01:11:59.880 Give your child
01:12:00.480 time.
01:12:01.840 There's no long-term
01:12:02.820 downside to this.
01:12:04.560 Don't listen to
01:12:05.380 anyone who tells you
01:12:06.200 otherwise.
01:12:06.680 The other day,
01:12:07.080 someone tweeted at
01:12:07.800 me with an
01:12:10.200 objection I've heard
01:12:10.800 a million times.
01:12:12.400 He said, dude, you
01:12:13.580 must not have kids.
01:12:15.000 Let them just grow
01:12:15.700 and mature means in a
01:12:16.580 lot of cases, letting
01:12:17.320 them fail out of
01:12:18.040 school early with not
01:12:19.020 much of a future.
01:12:20.260 Something has to be
01:12:20.860 done so they can at
01:12:21.580 least learn basic
01:12:22.520 stuff like reading.
01:12:23.600 I'm not saying meds is
01:12:24.440 the best answer, but
01:12:25.200 it's a precarious
01:12:25.900 situation.
01:12:27.400 First of all, of
01:12:28.320 course, this is why
01:12:29.360 it's best to glance at
01:12:30.240 Wikipedia quickly before
01:12:31.360 you accuse someone of
01:12:32.580 not having kids.
01:12:34.500 Second, this is the
01:12:36.220 kind of totally
01:12:37.260 delusional fear
01:12:38.320 parents have.
01:12:39.940 And I get it.
01:12:41.240 I get it.
01:12:42.100 But it is delusional.
01:12:44.140 Your kid is not going
01:12:45.740 to fail out of
01:12:46.740 school.
01:12:47.660 Listen to me.
01:12:48.540 It is literally
01:12:49.600 impossible for him to
01:12:50.760 fail out of school,
01:12:51.300 even if he tried to.
01:12:52.560 They won't let him.
01:12:54.000 If your son decided his
01:12:55.340 mission in life was to
01:12:56.440 fail out of school, he
01:12:57.640 wouldn't be able to do
01:12:58.280 it.
01:12:59.580 Okay, they say you
01:13:00.360 can achieve your dreams.
01:13:01.140 That's one dream you
01:13:01.740 can't achieve.
01:13:02.380 The school system
01:13:02.900 won't let it happen.
01:13:05.240 And he's especially not
01:13:06.500 going to fail out of
01:13:07.280 elementary school.
01:13:09.380 What the hell third
01:13:10.420 grader have you heard of
01:13:11.340 in modern times that's
01:13:12.840 failed out of school?
01:13:15.280 Now, what might happen
01:13:16.600 is that as you give him
01:13:19.640 time to grow and you
01:13:21.240 work with him slowly,
01:13:22.300 that he might get
01:13:24.280 mediocre grades in
01:13:25.600 elementary school or
01:13:26.320 even bad grades.
01:13:27.100 Do you know what will
01:13:29.640 happen to your child in
01:13:30.660 the long run if he gets
01:13:32.040 mediocre or bad grades in
01:13:33.660 elementary school?
01:13:36.360 Literally nothing.
01:13:38.080 Not a single thing.
01:13:40.160 There is not a single
01:13:41.180 adult walking the earth
01:13:42.300 today whose life is at
01:13:43.540 all hampered by the poor
01:13:45.320 report card they got in
01:13:46.760 third grade.
01:13:49.680 Now, I'm not saying that
01:13:51.220 bad grades are okay or that
01:13:52.440 you should just accept
01:13:53.160 them.
01:13:53.360 I am saying that they
01:13:54.580 are not the kind of
01:13:55.480 thing you need to
01:13:56.160 chemically alter your
01:13:57.400 child's brain just to
01:13:58.840 avoid.
01:14:00.960 Just work with them and
01:14:03.060 give them time.
01:14:05.200 Okay?
01:14:05.860 All good things take
01:14:07.280 time.
01:14:08.400 Raising children to be
01:14:09.460 virtuous, smart, high
01:14:10.640 functioning people in
01:14:11.700 this world is one of the
01:14:13.560 best things a person can
01:14:14.560 do.
01:14:15.720 And so it takes the most
01:14:17.220 time.
01:14:19.300 And that is why parents
01:14:21.160 who reach for the quick
01:14:22.180 fixes rather than doing
01:14:23.340 the hard work of
01:14:24.000 actually parenting are
01:14:25.000 today canceled.
01:14:27.940 That'll do it for the
01:14:28.300 show today.
01:14:28.600 Thanks for watching.
01:14:29.040 Thanks for listening.
01:14:29.560 Talk to you tomorrow.
01:14:30.240 Have a great day.
01:14:31.160 Godspeed.
01:14:31.460 Godspeed.