The Matt Walsh Show - February 18, 2025


Ep. 1538 - CBS Claims That Free Speech Caused The Holocaust


Episode Stats

Length

57 minutes

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166.19102

Word Count

9,492

Sentence Count

711

Misogynist Sentences

6

Hate Speech Sentences

34


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, a CBS anchor claims that free speech caused the Holocaust.
00:00:04.200 That's not a straw man. That's actually what she said. Also, yet another plane disaster has
00:00:08.660 occurred. Why has this become a trend? Conservatives are outraged at an SNL skit. Is the outrage
00:00:12.900 warranted? And a viral video has sparked a very important debate, maybe not so important,
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00:02:02.280 In just a few days, Germans will vote in one of the most important elections in their country's
00:02:06.620 history. For the first time since the Second World War, a true nationalist party, one the media
00:02:11.280 dubs far right, which is a term that has never been defined and will never be defined, stands to win a
00:02:17.220 significant number of seats in parliament. In this party called Alternative for Germany promises to
00:02:22.040 end unrestricted migration into the country. They'll stop destroying Germany's nuclear plants
00:02:26.820 to appease climate cultists and focus instead on energy independence. They'll reject the fiction that
00:02:32.460 people can change their gender whenever they want to. And above all, they'll affirm that there's
00:02:37.400 nothing shameful about or embarrassing about being German. This is all very basic stuff. In this country,
00:02:43.980 largely because of the political rise of Donald Trump, America First, has been a rallying cry for
00:02:48.000 tens of millions of voters for more than a decade. But in Europe, this kind of thinking isn't just
00:02:52.740 taboo. It's basically heresy. And that's why the Alternative for Germany party is currently being
00:02:57.220 investigated by several German intelligence agencies. And it's also why J.D. Vance just gave what may be
00:03:03.860 the single most consequential speech by a U.S. politician in Europe since Reagan was in office.
00:03:10.540 And just before Germans head to the polls, Vance delivered a message at the Munich Security
00:03:15.660 Conference that the media could not censor. He was speaking to European elites in the room, but his
00:03:20.760 message was actually directed at voters, and in particular, voters in Germany. Watch.
00:03:26.400 The threat that I worry the most about vis-a-vis Europe is not Russia, it's not China, it's not any other
00:03:33.240 external actor. And what I worry about is the threat from within. The retreat of Europe from some of its
00:03:41.940 most fundamental values, values shared with the United States of America. Now, I was struck that a
00:03:48.100 former European commissioner went on television recently and sounded delighted that the Romanian
00:03:54.860 government had just annulled an entire election. He warned that if things don't go to plan,
00:04:01.520 the very same thing could happen in Germany too. Now, these cavalier statements are shocking to
00:04:08.920 American ears. For years, we've been told that everything we fund and support is in the name
00:04:14.840 of our shared democratic values. Everything from our Ukraine policy to digital censorship is billed
00:04:23.180 as a defense of democracy. A little over two years ago, the British government charged Adam Smith
00:04:29.760 Connor, a 51-year-old physiotherapist and an army veteran with the heinous crime of standing 50 meters
00:04:38.620 from an abortion clinic and silently praying for three minutes. Not obstructing anyone, not interacting
00:04:46.400 with anyone, just silently praying on his own. This last October, just a few months ago, the Scottish
00:04:52.080 government began distributing letters to citizens whose houses lay within so-called safe access zones,
00:04:58.060 warning them that even private prayer within their own homes may amount to breaking the law.
00:05:05.160 Democracy rests on the sacred principle that the voice of the people matters. There's no room for
00:05:12.760 firewalls. You either uphold the principle or you don't. After this speech, which was obviously
00:05:21.220 excellent, it's not an overstatement to say that European elites lost their collective minds. One
00:05:27.240 European official told The Economist that the speech was a direct assault on European democracy.
00:05:32.360 Meanwhile, a senior diplomat stated, it's very clear now Europe is alone. And he added that Europe now
00:05:37.040 considers the U.S. to be an adversary. But maybe the best reaction came from a guy named Christoph
00:05:43.320 Housgen, who is the chair of the Munich Security Conference. Apparently he's retiring, so he delivered a speech
00:05:48.220 about how America's values don't align with Europe's anymore. And then at the end of the speech,
00:05:52.920 he did something that no grown man should ever do in public. I've been very clear about this.
00:05:58.500 He broke down crying. Watch.
00:06:02.000 This conference started as a transatlantic conference. After the speech of Vice President Vance on Friday,
00:06:08.780 we have to fear that our common value base is not that common anymore. I'm very grateful to all those
00:06:18.400 European politicians that spoke out and reaffirmed the values and principles that they are defending.
00:06:24.880 No one did this better than President Zelensky. Let me conclude, and this becomes difficult.
00:06:32.040 Thank you.
00:07:02.020 Man starts breaking down in tears in public. He should be booed off the stage. And in response
00:07:06.960 to this footage, the Munich Security Conference put out a statement that, for my money, is the
00:07:11.940 single most humiliating statement that a security conference can possibly put out. Keep in mind,
00:07:16.880 this is supposedly a very serious conference about saving the world from Russian military
00:07:21.640 aggression, keeping us out of nuclear war, making sure we're not all speaking Chinese in five years,
00:07:26.140 and so on. So the Munich Security Conference is supposedly the real deal. Like,
00:07:30.600 these are serious people dealing with serious stuff. And with that in mind, here's the official
00:07:35.140 statement from the Munich Security Conference after that footage went viral online. Quote,
00:07:39.940 our former chair, Christoph Housgen, did not shed a few tears out of frustration. It was his farewell
00:07:44.800 speech as he was leaving the Munich Security Conference after this year's conference. He was
00:07:49.180 saying goodbye to the team at this very moment. Close quote. In other words, the Munich Security
00:07:55.320 Conference is taking a break from keeping the world secure, allegedly, in order to clarify that the
00:08:01.160 footage you may have seen online was edited unfairly. They're saying that their fearless leader was not
00:08:06.400 crying in public over anything that J.D. Vance said. That would be ridiculous. Instead, he was crying in
00:08:11.360 public because he's leaving his job. Now, of course, that explanation doesn't change the fact that
00:08:16.120 Christoph Housgen is not a child under the age of 12. He is, in fact, a 69-year-old man.
00:08:20.700 And by the way, he's held this particular job since 2022. So he's breaking down in public because
00:08:28.480 he's leaving a job after a period of time that qualifies, at best, as a short stint. This is
00:08:34.740 what broke him. He had to just walk off the stage, head in his hands, because he's really going to miss
00:08:40.320 being the chair of the Munich Security Conference after three entire years. Now, at this point, they
00:08:46.540 should probably just admit that J.D. Vance is the one who made him cry, you know, obviously. That
00:08:51.220 would actually be maybe less embarrassing than whatever they came up with. And not to rub it in,
00:08:55.600 by the way, but this guy, Christoph Housgen, is the same German diplomat who laughed at Donald Trump
00:09:01.020 back at the United Nations in 2018 when he warned that Germany was dangerously dependent on Russian
00:09:06.580 energy. Watch.
00:09:08.000 Germany will become totally dependent on Russian energy if it does not immediately change course.
00:09:18.900 Here in the Western Hemisphere, we are committed to maintaining our independence from the encroachment
00:09:27.700 of expansionist foreign powers. It has been the formal policy of our country since.
00:09:35.940 Well, if you follow world affairs, you know what happened next. When Russia invaded Ukraine and
00:09:42.400 cut off a majority of Germany's energy, the Germans had to reopen a bunch of coal plants and delay the
00:09:47.100 shutdown of their nuclear plants. They also had to find natural gas elsewhere, including from the
00:09:50.740 United States. So it's fitting, I guess, that a few years later, this same guy isn't laughing
00:09:55.020 on camera anymore. Instead, he's crying for one reason or another. It's obviously a flattering
00:10:00.360 comparison for J.D. Vance. I mean, it's almost like Europe's leaders wanted to appear as weak as
00:10:05.100 possible in the wake of his speech and right before this weekend's elections in Germany.
00:10:10.440 But Europeans were not the only ones giving J.D. Vance a big assist this weekend. Over at CBS News,
00:10:16.100 Margaret Brennan suggested that Vance was wrong to extol the virtues of free speech because
00:10:22.280 the Nazis used free speech and that's how we got the Holocaust. And yes, to be clear,
00:10:28.640 this is a real segment that actually aired on national television. Here it is.
00:10:34.980 Well, he was standing in a country where free speech was weaponized to conduct a genocide.
00:10:41.680 And he met with the head of a political party that has far right views and some historic ties
00:10:49.780 to extreme groups. The context of that was changing the tone of it. And you know that,
00:10:59.240 that the censorship was specifically about the right.
00:11:02.460 No, I have to disagree with you. Free speech was not used to conduct a genocide. The genocide
00:11:08.060 was conducted by an authoritarian Nazi regime that happened to also be genocidal because they hated
00:11:12.880 Jews and they hated minorities and they hated those that they had a list of people they hated,
00:11:16.820 but primarily the Jews. There was no free speech in Nazi Germany. There was none. There was also
00:11:21.520 no opposition in Nazi Germany. They were a sole and only party that governed that country. So that's
00:11:26.160 not an accurate reflection of history. Now, keep in mind, the woman who asked this question
00:11:32.080 moderated the VP debate in which she cut off J.D. Vance's microphone because he refuted one of her
00:11:37.020 lies about immigration. And now here she is claiming that the Nazis somehow weaponized speech to
00:11:42.720 quote, conduct a genocide. She's not even saying that speech was used to promote a genocide,
00:11:49.480 which would also be wrong, but she's saying the speech was used to conduct. They actually
00:11:55.220 committed the genocide with speech somehow. Now, on reflection, it's actually impressive how little
00:12:04.020 her question makes sense. First of all, it doesn't actually mean anything to weaponize free speech to
00:12:09.900 conduct a genocide. The words don't come together in a way that makes any sense at all. It's like saying
00:12:15.100 the Nazis weaponized air to conduct genocide. So therefore, we need to ban air, I guess, since the
00:12:20.780 Nazis used it. But in this case, she's just wrong on the basic facts also. Before the Nazis rose to power,
00:12:27.280 Weimar Germany had laws against so-called hate speech, including laws that prohibited hate speech
00:12:32.200 against Jews. And prior to the rise of the Nazis, they shut down something like 100 newspapers in
00:12:37.180 Prussia alone over a two-year period. In 1925, Hitler was banned from speaking in some states
00:12:42.080 because of his rhetoric. And in the end, all of these speech restrictions actually emboldened the
00:12:48.520 Nazis. People assume that because these Nazis were being censored, maybe they were on to something.
00:12:54.340 So censorship had the exact opposite of its intended effect, as it so often does. And then,
00:12:59.140 of course, when the Nazis took over, they eliminated free speech, you know, as Rubio said. You couldn't
00:13:04.600 criticize Hitler in any way. So there are about a million reasons why Margaret Brennan's question
00:13:09.760 is complete nonsense. Now, I could go on and pick apart Brennan's logic some more, but I really don't
00:13:14.660 need to because her own network, CBS, did it for me. This weekend, CBS just so happened to do a whole
00:13:20.600 segment about how Germany cracks down on free speech today. They conduct pre-dawn raids on people who post
00:13:28.060 offensive content on the internet. Watch. It's 6.01 on a Tuesday morning, and we were with state
00:13:37.420 police as they raided this apartment in northwest Germany. Inside, six armed officers searched a
00:13:46.980 suspect's home, then seized his laptop and cell phone. Prosecutors say those electronics may have
00:13:53.700 been used to commit a crime. The crime, posting a racist cartoon online. At the exact same time,
00:14:03.060 across Germany, more than 50 similar raids played out. Part of what prosecutors say is a coordinated
00:14:11.880 effort to curb online hate speech in Germany. 50 raids at the same time for offensive memes.
00:14:21.580 Now, try to imagine how CBS would be covering raids like this if they came at the direction of Donald
00:14:28.260 Trump. Let's say Trump decides that he wants to ban hate speech, so he'll conduct pre-dawn raids
00:14:33.320 against anyone who posts hateful content about white people on the internet. I mean, how do you think 60
00:14:38.140 Minutes would react to something like that? Imagine Joy Reid or Jameel Hill getting carted away by armed law
00:14:42.760 enforcement in the middle of the night because they made their one millionth post about how white people
00:14:47.320 are evil. Like, how do we think CBS might respond to that? Well, I can tell you this. Margaret Brennan
00:14:53.820 wouldn't come out and declare that Trump was doing his part to prevent another holocaust.
00:14:58.540 That's because the corporate press isn't actually concerned about the rise of an authoritarian
00:15:02.000 government. They just want to make sure that they're the ones running it. And if you doubt that,
00:15:06.740 watch how the CBS anchorwoman reacts as German officials explain their draconian laws to her.
00:15:12.600 What's the typical reaction when the police show up at somebody's door and they say,
00:15:19.200 hey, we believe you wrote this on the internet? They say, in Germany we say,
00:15:25.120 das wird man wohl doch mal sagen dürfen. So we are here with crimes of talking, posting on the internet,
00:15:30.860 and the people are surprised that this is really illegal to post these kind of words.
00:15:37.600 They don't think it was illegal? No, they don't think it was illegal. And they say, no, that's my
00:15:42.240 free speech. And we say, no, yeah, free speech as well, but it is also has its limits.
00:15:49.200 Now, in case you missed it, here's a screen grab of the glee on her face. She just, I mean,
00:15:55.520 she loves it. She's being told that people in Germany are shocked to realize that their electronic
00:15:59.540 devices are being seized and that they're being arrested for using, for talking, for using words that the
00:16:07.320 German authorities don't like. And this woman, the CBS anchor, I mean, she's smiling through the
00:16:11.940 whole thing. And if you watch this entire segment, you won't find any pushback whatsoever from CBS.
00:16:18.220 They don't bring on a guest to explain how actually this is a horrible idea. Instead,
00:16:22.820 the whole segment comes across like a promotion for state censorship, because that's what it is.
00:16:27.320 And as it continued, it became more and more bizarre. Watch.
00:16:30.600 Is it a crime to insult somebody in public?
00:16:35.200 Yes.
00:16:35.360 Yes, it is.
00:16:36.240 And it's a crime to insult them online as well?
00:16:39.100 Yes.
00:16:39.760 The fine could be even higher if you insult someone in the internet.
00:16:45.020 Why?
00:16:45.800 Because in internet, it stays there. If we are talking face to face, you insult me,
00:16:51.620 I insult you, okay, finish. But if you're in the internet, if I insult you or a politician...
00:16:56.460 That sticks around forever.
00:16:57.800 Yeah.
00:16:57.920 The prosecutors explain German law also prohibits the spread of malicious gossip,
00:17:04.660 violent threats, and fake quotes. If somebody posts something that's not true,
00:17:10.540 and then somebody else reposts it or likes it, are they committing a crime?
00:17:15.700 In the case of reposting, it is a crime as well, because the reader can't distinguish whether you
00:17:21.120 just invented this or just reposted it. That's the same for us.
00:17:25.280 The punishment for breaking hate speech laws can include jail time for repeat offenders.
00:17:31.060 She's just so happy. She loves every minute of this. And notice how he snuck in there,
00:17:37.180 well, if you insult someone or a politician... So what we're being told is that if you insult
00:17:42.920 or criticize a politician in Germany, they can have you arrested. And CBS News thinks that this
00:17:48.360 is wonderful. In Germany, at least. But again, if Donald Trump tried to do the same thing, I think
00:17:54.200 they'd feel a little different about it. And, you know, conservatives are reacting with shock and
00:17:58.620 horror to footage like the one we just played, which is understandable. But we can't forget that
00:18:03.580 something very similar has already happened here in this country. And we would have gone full Germany
00:18:08.520 if Trump hadn't won. I mean, that's where this was heading. We were already arresting people for
00:18:13.720 offensive means. That already happened. And everybody on the left understands this. That's why
00:18:17.980 they're lying to their viewers about what life is like in Germany at the moment. Here, for example,
00:18:22.360 is MSNBC talking head Rick Wilson explaining that Germany, despite the pre-dawn raids over memes,
00:18:27.800 has a far better free speech environment than America does somehow.
00:18:32.860 I communicated with somebody from the German CSU a little while ago. I asked her what she thought
00:18:39.360 about what had happened with Vance. And the degree to which they were shocked and appalled and offended
00:18:44.480 that Vance came there daring to lecture Germany, one of the most free countries on earth when it
00:18:49.700 comes to expression, where America is now rated 55th in the world on freedom of expression,
00:18:55.320 was appalling. They're shocked and appalled. If they could have had J.D. Vance arrested for it,
00:19:02.800 they would have. But, you know, unfortunately, it's hard to arrest the American vice president.
00:19:08.840 He says that America is rated 55th in the world for freedom of expression.
00:19:12.560 And I had no idea where he got that figure. My assumption was that some left-wing group rated
00:19:17.340 us 55th because some states banned drag queens from performing strip teases in front of children
00:19:22.360 and so on. But after looking into it, he could be referencing something called the World Press
00:19:27.780 Freedom Index, which basically surveys journalists and asks them if they feel threatened. And of course,
00:19:33.600 all the journalists here say that Trump is going to put them in camps tomorrow, so we rate poorly
00:19:37.740 as a result. And somehow this survey has Canada ranked 40 spots higher than the U.S., which is a
00:19:43.620 pretty good indication that the survey is totally useless, given that Canada was arresting journalists
00:19:48.900 who covered the trucker convoy just a couple of years ago. Now, of course, Rick Wilson is pointing
00:19:53.200 to this useless survey because he knows that by every actual metric, Americans have far more free
00:19:59.700 speech rights than Europeans do. And people like Rick want to change that. But there's an even deeper
00:20:05.260 issue here, which often gets lost as conservatives justifiably resist restriction on speech.
00:20:10.320 And that issue is this, that what makes the left's assault on free speech so insidious,
00:20:17.500 whether in this country or in Germany or anywhere else in the Western world,
00:20:20.960 is not just that they seek to ban open expression, but that they seek to ban specifically the expression
00:20:29.100 of true and morally right ideas. Okay, that's the key element that will always separate left-wing
00:20:36.480 assaults on free speech from alleged right-wing assaults on free speech. Because whenever somebody
00:20:43.040 claims that the right is waging an assault on free speech, it always means, when you look into it,
00:20:49.840 that some conservatives are advocating for restrictions on pornography or trying to get
00:20:56.500 pornographic books out of schools or trying to ban adults from staging burlesque shows for children,
00:21:03.720 you know, that sort of thing. On the other hand, when the left bans free speech, they're trying to
00:21:09.340 stop us from saying that men can't have babies or, you know, they're demanding that we show religious
00:21:14.240 reverence to the pride flag. They're arresting people who leave tire marks on rainbow-colored
00:21:18.880 crosswalks, just as one example. The alleged right-wing restrictions on speech aren't really
00:21:24.540 restrictions on speech at all. But even if they were, it's still a very different kind of speech.
00:21:30.640 Okay, there's no equivalency here. And this is the point that promoters of the woke right narrative
00:21:36.180 seem to consistently miss. The Atlantic, for example, just ran a big think piece entitled
00:21:41.080 How the Woke Right Replaced the Woke Left. And they equate Republicans' dismissal of fake words like
00:21:47.760 Latinx, with Democrats' many, many attempts to dictate what words people can and cannot use.
00:21:54.080 But, you know, the reality is that the far left and the far right are not, in fact, two sides of
00:22:01.580 the same coin. They are not equally delusional and dangerous ideologies that are just on opposite
00:22:06.680 extremes. That's not the case. Because one side, the left, denies and seeks to suppress the most
00:22:14.220 basic and fundamental realities of human existence. There's one side that manipulates language and
00:22:21.420 denies statistical data in order to hide the truth. The other side does not do that. The people
00:22:26.820 demanding that you use the word Latinx because they think Hispanic people can sometimes be, you know,
00:22:31.600 non-binary superhumans or whatever, are not, in fact, identical to the people who understand that
00:22:36.640 the entire concept of Latinx is ridiculous and incoherent. But the left has to draw an equivalence
00:22:42.620 because they have no other response. When J.D. Vance points out that so-called asylum seekers are
00:22:47.640 constantly murdering innocent Americans and Europeans, they know it's true. In fact, just
00:22:50.900 hours before Vance spoke in Munich, a girl and her mother were mowed down by an Islamic terrorist in
00:22:55.620 the city. Dozens were injured. And then after Vance's speech, a Syrian asylum seeker, quote-unquote
00:23:00.440 asylum seeker, murdered a 14-year-old boy in Austria. And he was grinning as the police arrived.
00:23:05.900 Again and again, reality intrudes on left-wing narratives. That is the fundamental problem
00:23:12.600 with their ideology. And it's why they're so insistent on censorship. It's why J.D. Vance's
00:23:18.760 speech had European elites in tears, whether they'll admit it or not. And it's why, in just a few days,
00:23:25.320 Germans will send a message that in Europe, as in this country, tens of millions of regular people
00:23:30.500 have had enough. Now let's get to our five headlines.
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00:24:39.620 down, and caught fire on the runway at Toronto Pearson International Airport while attempting to land on
00:24:43.900 Monday. The latest in a string of passenger plane crashes since December. All 80 people on board the
00:24:50.300 CRJ-900 twinjet aircraft survived, but 18 were injured, according to Delta. Video was obtained showing
00:24:57.420 the rear landing gear of the jet buckling and the right wing shearing away in a fireball after the
00:25:03.020 plane landed hard on the runway. And this morning, that video was released of the crash actually
00:25:09.160 happening. Let's take a look at the footage. Okay, so I'm definitely not a trained observer,
00:25:29.260 but it looks to me like the plane is coming in way too fast and landing too hard. And maybe that's why
00:25:36.720 the wheels and wings just like, or just one of the wheels and one of the wings seems to buckle
00:25:42.460 immediately on impact. I'd be interested to hear from any pilots in the audience. Leave a comment if
00:25:49.300 you, with your analysis based on that video. Because I don't know, but that's what it looks to my
00:25:57.440 untrained eyes. And as of this moment, we haven't been given any additional details. We don't know
00:26:01.700 anything about the pilot or the pilots. There's still a lot we don't know. But what we do know
00:26:07.560 is that this is now at least the third crash in as many weeks. So there's a real trend starting to
00:26:18.120 develop here. And it's just about the worst trend imaginable. Okay, an airplane crash trend is about
00:26:25.200 as bad as it gets. And the important thing to keep in mind is that the trend actually stretches back
00:26:31.980 much further than a month. Like we talked about, you know, after the crash in DC, this is, this didn't
00:26:40.100 just happen out of nowhere, right? This is, I mean, for many months up to this point, there was a string
00:26:46.240 of near misses and near catastrophe. So this is a, a real deep, uh, systemic problem in the airline
00:26:55.700 industry. And that systemic problem does at least involve a systematic industry-wide lowering of
00:27:03.920 standards. It just does. Like this is all happening in that environment. So am I saying that this was a
00:27:12.740 DEI pilot who crashed the plane? No, I'm not saying that. It might be. At this point, we don't know. But maybe
00:27:20.720 it wasn't. Because we don't know anything about the pilot who landed the plane or failed to land it, as the
00:27:25.820 case may be. But what we do know is that intentionally lowering standards across the industry, prioritizing
00:27:33.680 things other than merit in hiring, has a corrosive effect on the whole industry and touches every part of it.
00:27:42.740 And, um, the effect is deep and pervasive. So none of these things are coincidences.
00:27:52.840 When you've got many people, including pilots, including people who are actual experts, right?
00:27:58.780 Trust the experts, quote unquote. Uh, when you've got people warning for years that, hey, we're lowering
00:28:04.420 standards. We're, we're getting very close to a disaster. Bad things are going to happen. And then
00:28:09.960 they start happening. Um, it's, it's, it's hard to argue that it's, it's just a coincidence because of
00:28:18.140 course it's not. All right. More protests against Trump in DC over the weekend. I'm afraid to report
00:28:23.940 that the protesters are singing again. And, um, yes, I'm going to make you listen to, to it. Uh,
00:28:31.900 I have no choice. I'm compelled by forces beyond my comprehension to, um, make you listen to this.
00:28:39.820 I have to do it. I'm sorry. Uh, here it is.
00:28:43.240 Keep on moving forward. Keep on moving forward. Never turning back. Never turning back.
00:29:05.220 Trump is not a king. Trump is not a king. Trump is not a king. Never turning back. Never turning
00:29:26.720 back. Stop the fascist now. Stop the fascist now. Stop the fascist now. Okay. This is, I don't
00:29:44.680 know. We got, we got about a minute into it, maybe longer. All right. So there's, there's
00:29:51.160 a lot going on here. Um, first you have the guy singing of course. And how could you miss
00:29:56.960 him? And you know, he thinks he's good at this. He like, that's what gets me. He actually
00:30:03.880 thinks he's good. You can tell he's getting into it. He thinks he's crushing it. He thinks
00:30:08.960 he is. He thinks he's getting a record deal out of this. That's what he believes. Like this
00:30:13.960 guy, I guarantee you has auditioned for American Idol, The Voice, America's Got Talent. Never
00:30:21.140 made it on any of them. And so this is his big moment. This is his, uh, his debut. This
00:30:27.260 is where he becomes a star, he thinks, in his own mind. And it's not his fault really, because
00:30:32.420 people have told him his whole life that he's a good singer. People have lied to him. They
00:30:37.420 lied to him to be polite. They, they didn't have the heart to tell him that his singing voice
00:30:44.140 sounds like a female goat in labor. They didn't, they didn't, they didn't want to tell him that.
00:30:48.580 Uh, they didn't want to tell him that his singing voice is so bad that if he went down to perform
00:30:53.380 for the immigrants in Gitmo right now, it would be a violation of the Geneva Convention. Um,
00:30:59.960 nobody had the heart to say to him, listen, when you sing, it sounds like you're being stabbed.
00:31:08.320 And also it makes me want to stab you. And it makes me want to be stabbed. So it's just a lot
00:31:16.760 of stabbing. There's a lot of stabbing being evoked by your singing voice. I just want everyone to be
00:31:22.280 stabbed in the whole room. When I hear this, no one ever said, I'm not saying, I'm not saying that
00:31:27.460 to him. I would, I'm not advocating violence against anybody. Uh, even if they have the worst singing
00:31:32.140 voice known to man, I'm just saying that no one apparently ever said that to him. And, um,
00:31:38.860 this is what happens as a result. And meanwhile, you've got the woman next to him, I guess, trying
00:31:43.160 to clap along to the song. But the, the only problem is that, you know, she has the rhythm of a
00:31:49.160 hearing impaired toddler. I mean, she looks like a baby who's just, you ever see a baby that just,
00:31:54.700 just learned how to clap and is really proud of himself. He just figured it out. And, uh,
00:32:00.600 that's what she looks like. And then you have the sign language interpreter
00:32:05.020 and the guy singing thinks that the sign language interpreter is interpreting his song, but,
00:32:14.580 and maybe she is, I don't know, but it could be a distress signal that she's sending out.
00:32:19.240 Like she's sending a signal out asking someone to come rescue her. That's the, that's the message
00:32:25.240 that she's actually communicating with the sign language. Um, so it's just a mess, the whole
00:32:31.060 thing. And, and to think that the left used to do protest songs really well, you know, that was the
00:32:38.180 one thing they were good at, but, uh, they, they can't do it anymore. And it's kind of amazing because
00:32:44.160 Donald Trump has been in office for, uh, you know, 10 years, not in office, but he's been on the
00:32:51.060 political scene for 10 years now, a decade. And in that entire time, nobody on the left has come up
00:32:59.640 with a good anti-Trump song. And if anybody did, you know, I wouldn't agree with it, but if it was
00:33:05.920 a good song, I would at least admit like, okay, that was a good song. And no one's done it. Even
00:33:11.120 though the left has all of the relevant musicians on their side and they haven't been able to do it
00:33:17.880 in 10 years, which is amazing. And it's not just anti-Trump. I mean, when's the last time
00:33:23.880 somebody made a good song attacking the system, you know, going after the man, et cetera.
00:33:32.160 It's been at least 20 years. You know, if you go back to the Bush administration, you had some of
00:33:38.940 the rock bands like System of a Down or whatever that would, uh, make songs, uh, protesting the Iraq
00:33:44.420 War. You go back to the nineties, you had, uh, Rage Against the Machine, Killing the Name Of is a,
00:33:51.000 is a, uh, was about the, a song about police brutality, I think, or something. Um, and obviously
00:33:57.580 you go all the way back to the seventies and sixties, you get all kinds of music about the Vietnam War and
00:34:01.920 so on. And now there's just nothing. And, and the reason is obvious that the left took control of the
00:34:09.160 culture and became the man. So they no longer have any incentive to rage against the system that
00:34:15.840 they control. Now, the power dynamics are changing. So maybe we'll see a resurgence of protest music,
00:34:23.980 uh, music attacking the man and all that. But I don't know. I'm not so sure because the problem is
00:34:30.020 that rock and roll is where a lot of that stuff comes from. But, uh, the rock and roll, I mean,
00:34:37.140 rock and roll is dead. You know, it's, it's just gone because the rock bands packed it in or became
00:34:43.800 shells of themselves once the left took over. And now they were shilling for the system and I just
00:34:48.920 killed rock and roll. And so now there's nobody around to, uh, make a good protest song and we're
00:34:54.860 left with, uh, with this. Um, it's pretty bad, pretty grim. Okay. So there's been some outrage over
00:35:04.300 an SNL skit. Um, in this case, it has been conservatives on X very ticked off because of
00:35:10.200 a skit featuring Tom Hanks as a Trump supporter. And I've seen this clip circulating all over X and,
00:35:16.420 uh, and, um, the claim is that Tom Hanks' character in the sketch refuses to shake a black man's hand
00:35:23.140 because, you know, he's racist. And, um, so that's the headline that Tom Hanks is playing a racist
00:35:30.060 Trump supporter who refuses to shake a black man's hand. This is from a black Jeopardy skit,
00:35:35.200 which is a recurring bit on SNL. Uh, Tom Hanks' character is also recurring. He was, he was,
00:35:41.220 he did a, one of these exact same skits playing the same character at least one other time. I think
00:35:46.240 it was probably seven or eight years ago. Um, but here's the recent clip from the SNL episode,
00:35:54.000 uh, this past Saturday that has a lot of people in the right, very upset. Uh, let's take a look.
00:35:58.680 Now, speaking of church, can I say something? If more folks went to church,
00:36:05.020 we wouldn't be in this mess we're in now. You know what? I agree with you, Doug. I'd like to
00:36:09.640 shake your hand, sir. Here we go. Oh, no, no, no. Oh, no, no. It's just, it's just a handshake.
00:36:14.820 Yeah, it's just a handshake. Yeah, all right. You're welcome at Black Jeopardy anytime.
00:36:18.040 Oh, well, all right. Well, uh, thank you, my, my, my brother. Uh, my, you know, maybe I'll start a show
00:36:23.120 for you to come on and we'll call it Lot Jeopardy. No. We don't need it. We don't need it.
00:36:30.240 I have to say, this is going to be an unpopular opinion, I guess, maybe with, with some in the
00:36:34.400 audience, but, uh, I'm not offended by that joke. Uh, I think the reaction from conservatives
00:36:40.620 to this has been a tad bit overblown. Uh, it's, it's, it's been a bit much, you know, there's been
00:36:50.180 a lot of, uh, tweets and, and selfie videos that various conservatives are posting. So I got a
00:36:57.520 message for Tom Hanks, you know, you know, that kind of thing. And it's just, I, I, I recoil
00:37:04.220 automatically because it's, it's too similar to how the left responds to jokes they don't like,
00:37:10.500 like taking it way too seriously and getting up on a soapbox and all that kind of stuff.
00:37:14.780 It's a bit cringe, a bit cringe. Um, and we don't want to be cringe, you know, let the left be cringe.
00:37:21.000 Let let's not be cringe ourselves. And also I think the joke is not that Tom Hanks is refusing
00:37:29.900 to shake the guy's hand because he's black. The joke is that Tom Hanks thinks that the black guy
00:37:35.020 is going to rob him. And that's why he, he steps back and then realizes that he's not and then
00:37:40.740 shakes his hand. Um, so that's the joke. It's just, it's some very mild racial humor and it's,
00:37:47.020 it's not the kind of thing that offends me personally. I'm, I'm a little offended that
00:37:51.620 the whole skit is so unfunny. Like I'm not saying it's funny. I didn't laugh at that. It's actually,
00:37:56.560 it's quite lame. It's not offensive. It's just lame. I mean, it didn't even get a laugh in the
00:38:00.960 audience, uh, because it's just not very funny. And also it's a rehash. Like I said, they did this
00:38:07.080 exact same skit, whatever it was, six, seven, eight years ago with that exact same joke. And they just
00:38:13.560 did it again. But if you go back and watch the original skit, which is a little bit funnier than
00:38:19.560 this one, but not much. Um, it's the, the whole premise, the joke in the skit is that the, the, the
00:38:29.300 white Trump supporter and the black people on stage actually agree. And so the black Jeopardy host is
00:38:36.460 surprised to learn that he actually agrees with the white Trump supporter on everything. And they have
00:38:42.400 a lot more in common than, than what he assumed. That's the joke of the bit. And, um, so if anything,
00:38:51.800 you would expect that the left would be the ones getting upset about it because it, uh, you know,
00:38:56.660 quote unquote, humanizes, normalizes Trump supporters. So if you, if you showed me that skit,
00:39:04.420 especially the original one, and like I said, this one is just a rehash of the original
00:39:07.540 and I had no context. And you told me that one side of the political aisle was getting really
00:39:13.820 upset about the skit. I would assume it's the left, uh, uh, because of the premise of the joke
00:39:21.060 that actually black people and Trump supporters have a lot in common. So, but instead it's conservatives
00:39:25.340 and, um, and you know, I don't like SNL. I don't like Tom Hanks. I'm just saying that an outrage cycle
00:39:33.340 where we all get offended over a very mild joke is probably not the best use of our time. And it,
00:39:39.680 it just, it just looks, it's not a good look. It just makes you look kind of lame. Um, which isn't
00:39:46.140 to say you have to laugh at it because it's not funny. Instead, you just say, okay, that's not really
00:39:50.040 that funny. And you move on. All right. Finally, time for something of an update, um,
00:39:57.960 or maybe a, a revision to past statements. You may remember a few months ago when video came out
00:40:05.820 from parliament in New Zealand, where a woman started doing the haka, uh, the haka dance
00:40:11.960 in the middle of parliament proceedings, because she was mad that there was a, a law being considered
00:40:19.300 that would give equal rights to white people in New Zealand. Whereas right now, uh, you know,
00:40:24.820 indigenous people in New Zealand have special rights. They have more than equal rights. They
00:40:29.580 have, they're on a higher legal plane, uh, with their rights than white people are. And so there's
00:40:35.200 been some consideration to, Hey, maybe we should actually have equal rights in this country. What
00:40:39.040 do you think? And this woman was upset about that. And so she broke into this haka thing
00:40:43.440 in the middle of parliament. And it was speaking of cringey, this was cringe overload.
00:40:48.220 And, uh, we played the clip of the haka routine and, uh, I mocked it pretty ruthlessly.
00:40:54.360 It deserved to be mocked in that context. The woman was making a total ass of herself. There's
00:41:00.240 no doubt about it, but I also made fun of the haka in general. And, um, that's the part that I need to
00:41:06.520 clarify a bit because it turns out that there are occasions where the haka is not only appropriate,
00:41:12.140 but pretty great. I have to say. And one such occasion occurred in New Zealand a few days ago.
00:41:18.100 This video, uh, is also going viral where a group of young men interrupted a gay pride parade,
00:41:23.620 um, by doing the haka. Let's check that out.
00:41:28.280 Is that?"
00:41:39.560 The boy.
00:41:46.000 All right. So there's a Hawkeye like. I would have done it with him if I was there. I would
00:42:08.380 have joined in. I don't know if that's culturally appropriating, but that's great stuff. Because
00:42:14.260 one thing that makes this not cringe while the one in parliament was cringe is that, for one thing,
00:42:18.820 these are young men doing it. And it just, it looks kind of ridiculous when some small petite
00:42:24.160 woman is flailing around and trying to be intimidating. It's just, you know, it doesn't
00:42:28.880 work. I mean, the men in this video are the ones who, in a different age, would have been the
00:42:35.060 warriors, you know, of the Maori tribe. So for them, it fits. It just fits a lot better. But of course,
00:42:42.820 the most important difference is the context. And a Hawkeye in the middle of parliament just
00:42:47.380 makes you look either insane or like a really embarrassing theater kid. And I think it's
00:42:53.400 probably more the latter, which is far worse than the former. But disrupting a pride parade with the
00:42:58.700 Hawkeye is, that, I'm a fan of that. That's a good idea. You know, especially because of the awkward
00:43:06.200 position that it puts the left in, you know, because they claim that LGBT people are a persecuted
00:43:13.200 minority, but then indigenous people, they would also say are a persecuted minority. And they believe
00:43:19.060 that pride parades are sacrosanct, but they also would say that the Hawkeye is sacrosanct. So how do
00:43:26.880 they sort this out? You know, you've got a clash of two persecuted minorities, in their minds anyway,
00:43:31.180 both with their own, you know, sacred cultural celebration. And these, these two things are
00:43:39.160 literally clashing in the street. So if you're on the left, what do you do about this? It's very
00:43:45.380 awkward. Well, the organizers of Rainbow Pride Auckland put out a statement that tried to navigate
00:43:53.000 this minefield. And here's what they said. While today has been a painful reminder of imported
00:43:59.320 ideologies and the violence they bring, we remain confident in our community's resilience.
00:44:05.340 So that's the tack they're trying to take here. They're saying that these young men represent an
00:44:09.360 imported, imported ideology. Now, of course, that couldn't be further from the truth.
00:44:16.220 You know, the situation is exactly the opposite. Nobody imported opposition to the LGBT agenda.
00:44:22.560 They didn't need to import that. It's the LGBT agenda that was imported. Okay, the Maori were not
00:44:30.140 flying pride flags 300 years ago. You know, pride flags were imported. Everything the pride flag
00:44:37.960 represents was imported. The Maori would have lived lives and had a culture that modern leftists would
00:44:47.080 consider sexist, racist, homophobic, patriarchal, oppressive. Every indigenous culture would fit
00:44:54.360 those labels by modern leftist standards. In fact, every culture, every society on earth 300 years ago
00:45:02.080 or 200 years ago or 100 years ago or even probably 50 years ago, every society would be considered
00:45:09.020 sexist, racist, homophobic, patriarchal, oppressive by modern leftist standards. So it's leftism that was
00:45:17.020 important. Leftism ideologically colonized countries like New Zealand. That's the truth. And this
00:45:24.200 Haka performance of the Pride Parade makes that pretty clear. So I think it's great. Well done.
00:45:30.780 Well done. Let me know next time there's a Haka at a Pride Parade. I'll be there. Well, not really,
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00:47:29.200 So today we will deal with one of those situations where everybody involved is wrong. It's also a
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00:47:39.980 moments such as this. The pettier, the better. The more wrong everybody is, also the better.
00:47:45.240 That brings us to this breaking news, first reported by the New York Post. A bride in Texas was very angry
00:47:50.040 recently when a baby started crying during her wedding ceremony. This was apparently supposed to
00:47:55.300 be an adults-only wedding, but this person brought their baby anyway. And the bride posted the footage to
00:48:01.360 social media where it racked up millions of views and sparked a heated debate about the ethics of
00:48:05.540 child-free weddings, which we'll discuss in a moment. But first, here's the video.
00:48:12.180 Times over the last few weeks, but I'm the only one that knows them. And one of the questions I asked
00:48:18.160 was, when did you know you were in love and wanted to spend the rest of your life together as husband
00:48:25.720 and wife? Claire, you look beautiful today. And Josh, you don't look too shabby yourself.
00:48:33.320 First and foremost, I'm incredibly honored to be up here with you both today.
00:48:37.960 Okay. So the baby's crying. I think we get the idea. You know what a baby crying sounds like. And
00:48:44.080 sure enough, the baby was crying. And as I said, this has started a debate about the concept of child-free
00:48:50.580 weddings. Most of the comments on social media, from what I've seen, seem to be largely on the
00:48:55.420 bride's side. They say that's perfectly reasonable for the couple to exclude children from their
00:48:59.320 festivities. In fact, I've been told, as I've waded into this dispute, that weddings aren't for
00:49:04.620 children. Children are disruptive. They're bored at weddings. They'll ruin the special day for the
00:49:09.640 bride and groom. And literally, the only thing that matters is that the bride and groom have a good
00:49:14.520 time. All of the guests are there simply to serve them and worship them and adore them and obey
00:49:20.340 their every whim. That seems to be the argument. And it is, of course, totally wrong. Now, I'm not
00:49:25.600 going to stick up for the parents of that crying baby. They are also wrong. If your baby is crying
00:49:31.120 during a wedding ceremony or any other kind of ceremony or any church service or anything similar
00:49:37.000 to that, you need to take him back to the lobby or outside or wherever you need to go to ensure that
00:49:43.340 he is not a disruption to everybody else. I have had to stand in the lobby for many a church service
00:49:48.660 in my time because of crying babies. I don't particularly enjoy it, but that's just how it
00:49:53.020 is. When you're the parent of a young children, it comes with the territory. That's the gig.
00:49:58.300 You just have to deal with it. This past Christmas, I spent half of Christmas mass standing outside with
00:50:03.760 our two babies, not even in the lobby because the lobby was also full of people. And also,
00:50:09.340 there were balloons in the lobby. And the toddler is almost two years old, but they kept pointing to
00:50:15.640 the balloons and shouting balloon, balloon, like really loudly. And so on top of crying, so we had
00:50:23.060 to just take them out of the church entirely. The other option was to keep them inside and allow
00:50:29.960 them to disrupt the mass for the hundreds of other people in attendance. That was not an option for me
00:50:34.200 and my wife, so we took turns with the babies outside. Either we could have our time disrupted or
00:50:40.560 hundreds of people could have their time disrupted. And obviously, they're our children, so we're the
00:50:45.980 ones who have to take the hit. We're the people who should have to deal with our own crying babies.
00:50:50.840 We fully understand that and have lived by that principle for 11 years now. So I get that.
00:50:57.200 But don't take any of this as an endorsement of kid-free weddings. It is, in fact, completely
00:51:04.400 ridiculous and gross to exclude children from your wedding. It is extremely tacky. And that's the most
00:51:11.460 generous way to describe it. To invite someone to a big celebration, like a wedding, and then tell them
00:51:16.800 that their children are not invited. Okay? Just like it would be tacky to do that with any other
00:51:24.580 member of the family. When you're inviting the family over to your wedding to say, oh yeah, but not
00:51:30.380 that guy in the family. Not him. You can't invite him. That, at a minimum, is very tacky.
00:51:37.240 So this idea of an adults-only wedding is, you know, it's a uniquely modern invention. It's a
00:51:42.460 symptom of a society with a birth rate below replacement level and an increasing number of
00:51:46.780 adults who have given up on having children entirely. Only in such a decrepit, dying, self-centered
00:51:51.940 culture could it be considered normal to exclude children from a wedding, of all things.
00:51:56.620 Like, not only should children be at your wedding, but indeed, children should especially be at your
00:52:03.860 wedding. Children are the reason marriage exists. They are one of the most fundamental functions and
00:52:10.720 purposes of the marital union, which is what your family and friends have gathered to celebrate.
00:52:16.980 You know, I keep hearing that kids are disruptive at weddings and will just be bored the whole time
00:52:21.960 anyway. First of all, if a child is disruptive, it's very easy to remove them from the situation.
00:52:28.480 Okay? Removing a disruptive adult from a wedding, and there have been many of those at many a wedding,
00:52:33.120 is much more difficult. In fact, I have never been to a wedding or even heard of one
00:52:39.820 where a child ruined the event. Like, the baby crying during the ceremony was the closest thing I've
00:52:46.220 ever seen to that happening, and even that was not that big of a deal and an easy problem to solve
00:52:51.360 without banning kids completely. What I have seen, and certainly heard about, many, many stories
00:52:57.500 where adults ruined weddings. So I'd say the ratio of adults to children ruining weddings is like
00:53:04.360 a thousand to one, and that's probably a conservative estimate.
00:53:09.740 As for kids being bored, again, this is completely backwards. Okay? Adults are bored at weddings.
00:53:16.500 I got news for you. If you're having a wedding, most of the adults there are bored to tears.
00:53:24.080 I'm bored at weddings. Most adults spend the whole time calculating when they can leave without seeming
00:53:30.200 rude. Like, there are two types of adult wedding guests. Okay? There are the ones who are bored
00:53:36.640 and the ones who are drunk. And then there's the especially miserable third category of both bored
00:53:43.020 and drunk. And you don't want that. But you're going to get some of that too.
00:53:47.600 Children, on the other hand, love weddings. They love them without any alcohol enhancement,
00:53:53.080 hopefully. That's why the dance floor at any reception that allows children will be mostly
00:53:57.820 occupied by children. And that's not because they're crowding the adults out. It's because kids are,
00:54:02.680 they're just full of joy and excitement. Why wouldn't you want them at your wedding?
00:54:06.960 A wedding without kids is lifeless and sterile. It's no different than having a Thanksgiving dinner
00:54:13.520 and telling your guests they can't bring their kids. I mean, you're missing the whole point of the
00:54:17.640 thing. And you're making the event much more boring in the process. You know, I'm told that
00:54:22.200 the wedding is really all about the bride and groom. Really just the bride, though. And if they or she
00:54:29.800 doesn't want kids at the wedding, then, well, the kids just shouldn't be there. And I acknowledge
00:54:35.380 that the bride has every legal right to decide who gets to come to her wedding, of course. But
00:54:39.080 the, and I know this is heresy to say these days, but it is true that the event is not really just
00:54:49.920 about her. Okay? This idea that the whole wedding, it's really just, it's just her day to celebrate
00:54:55.580 her. It's all about her. Actually, no. This is another invention of modern society. We treat weddings
00:55:02.240 like events designed to worship and cater exclusively to the bride so that no demand that she makes can
00:55:09.620 be considered too cumbersome and no barrier she puts in place of entry should be too difficult.
00:55:15.600 But that's not what a wedding is. Okay? A wedding is not an excuse to be a self-centered diva.
00:55:21.720 And if a woman sees it that way, she is from the, from the outset, setting a very terrible precedent
00:55:27.220 for her marriage and getting off on exactly the wrong foot. A wedding is, is not just about the
00:55:35.440 bride and not just about the couple. And we're actually not there celebrating the bride. We're
00:55:41.000 celebrating the marriage itself. The sacrament of marriage is what is being celebrated. And it's about
00:55:49.180 the whole family. That's why you invite them. If you're throwing any kind of party, even a wedding
00:55:55.380 reception, then especially a wedding reception, your focus and priority should be to make sure
00:56:03.980 that your guests have a good time. Did you know that? Your wedding reception is actually mostly about
00:56:10.060 your guests having a good time. That's just being a good host. Now, if you want it to be about just you,
00:56:18.680 don't invite anyone and don't have a reception. Just get married in front of the legally required
00:56:25.000 number of witnesses and then go home and start your married life together. If you're inviting
00:56:29.320 family and friends, then the event is also about your family and friends. Who says, well, you did.
00:56:36.600 You invited them. You decided to include them, which is good. But if you're going to include your
00:56:41.600 friends and family, it is not fair and is in fact pretty deranged to set an age limit. Children deserve
00:56:49.060 to be a part of the celebration. And at least they won't get drunk and vomit on the floor. So
00:56:54.240 that's another mark in their favor, I would say. And that is why child-free weddings are today
00:57:00.940 canceled. That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you
00:57:05.000 tomorrow. Have a great day. Godspeed.