The Matt Walsh Show - April 09, 2025


Ep. 1572 - The Rise Of 'Assassination Culture' In America


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59 minutes

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174.7121

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630

Misogynist Sentences

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00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, a majority of left-leaning Americans say that it would be
00:00:03.200 justified to assassinate Donald Trump. So-called assassination culture is rising in America.
00:00:08.360 Why is this happening? We'll talk about it. Also, Republicans introduced a bill designed
00:00:11.160 to make it easier for mothers to stay home and raise their children. It's well past time
00:00:14.340 to start having this conversation. And scientists claim that they have resurrected an extinct
00:00:18.320 species. Have they really done that? And more importantly, why? We'll talk about all that
00:00:23.040 and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
00:00:30.000 We'll see you next time.
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00:02:01.380 T-R-Y-A-R-M-R-A dot com slash Walsh. Normally, when a major new law is proposed, it's given a name that
00:02:10.120 makes it catchy and appealing to as many people as possible. Of course, pretty much every time the name
00:02:15.400 is an obvious lie, but it's still an effective lie because every time someone says the name of the law,
00:02:20.120 they're giving you a positive soundbite. Obama's health care plan, of course, was famously called
00:02:24.500 the Affordable Care Act. So all the news articles and cable news segments that talked about the law,
00:02:28.980 even if they were critical of it, ended up reinforcing the message that it would make health
00:02:32.680 care affordable. And the same principle applies to the so-called Equal Pay Act, the Freedom of
00:02:37.060 Information Act, the Fair Housing Act, and so on and so on. Now, with that in mind, it's worth taking a
00:02:42.200 look at the name of a new ballot initiative that was introduced last week in the state of California.
00:02:47.640 And this ballot initiative was proposed by a retired lawyer in the state,
00:02:51.860 and it would prevent insurance companies from denying coverage for medication or procedures
00:02:56.020 unless those insurance companies could demonstrate by clear and convincing evidence
00:03:00.280 that the medication or procedure is completely unnecessary in every way. In other words,
00:03:04.520 they can't reject the procedure because it's too expensive.
00:03:07.660 If they do that, they'll face a lawsuit that will almost certainly be successful.
00:03:11.360 In practical terms, this would mean that the cost of health insurance and medical procedures
00:03:14.860 would skyrocket. I mean, it would have the exact opposite of its intended effect.
00:03:18.840 Insurance companies would probably go bankrupt very quickly, and a lot of people would lose
00:03:23.300 access to health care as a result of that. So calling this bad policy would be an understatement,
00:03:28.340 but that's not really the point. The point is the name of this ballot initiative. It's not called
00:03:33.960 the Better Health Care Insurance Act. It's not called the Save Lives Act or the Free Money Act or
00:03:40.140 anything like that. Instead, this ballot initiative is called the Luigi Mangione Access
00:03:45.300 to Health Care Act. Yes, a law has just been proposed in the state of California. It's named
00:03:50.120 after someone who just allegedly shot a health care CEO in the back on camera after stalking him for
00:03:57.220 weeks. And as much as I'd like to say that most people in this country have rejected this legislation,
00:04:02.880 that's not true. It's actually getting a lot of support and mainstream attention at the moment.
00:04:06.820 Watch. For now, it's officially called the Luigi Mangione Access to Health Care Act and the name,
00:04:15.160 as you might guess, stirring a lot of controversy for it seems to honor an accused killer. As Mangione
00:04:21.960 faces a New York trial for the murder of United Health Care CEO Brian Thompson, Californians will soon
00:04:29.260 be petitioned on whether or not an initiative inspired by his alleged actions should make it onto
00:04:36.340 a ballot in November of next year. Now, the words delay and deny were written on the bullet casings
00:04:44.620 found in December at Thompson's murder scene. The proposed legislation would make it a felony for
00:04:51.760 insurance companies to delay, deny or modify any medical procedure or medication suggested by a licensed
00:05:00.360 doctor in California, especially if denials lead to consequences such as disability, amputation or death.
00:05:08.360 The initiative specifies that delays and denials can only be made by doctors on behalf of insurers.
00:05:16.600 So evidently, it's not enough for the ballot initiative to be named after an alleged murderer. On top of that,
00:05:22.740 the text of the ballot initiative also referenced the words that the assassin wrote on the bullets that he used to
00:05:27.720 murder Brian Thompson. So this is about as sociopathic as things can possibly get, but it's got a fighting
00:05:32.740 chance to pass in California. Already, many people are supporting the proposal on social media, as you can probably
00:05:36.860 imagine. They're especially fond of the idea on Reddit, which has become a breeding ground for domestic
00:05:41.760 terrorists as of late. And the state of California is well known for passing ballot initiatives like
00:05:46.480 this one. Reason Magazine reports that, quote, California has a history of gadflies getting far
00:05:52.040 reaching policies on the ballot and then winning and then end up winning. Liberal California likes to
00:05:56.980 point to Proposition 13, which limited property tax increases as a canonical example of this.
00:06:02.480 Another example would be Proposition 103, an initiative pushed by consumer advocates that created
00:06:06.880 California's current regulatory regime for property and auto insurance. Prop 103 limits insurers' ability to raise
00:06:13.580 rates on policyholders and creates a laborious system to justify whatever price increases they are still
00:06:19.720 permitting, close quote. And there's another reason to think that this initiative will pass. This is a poll that
00:06:24.720 was just conducted by the Network Contagion Research Institute, which just surveyed Americans across the
00:06:32.160 political spectrum in order to determine their level of tolerance for political violence. And quoting
00:06:38.580 from Fox, which reported on the results, 38 percent of respondents said it would be at least somewhat
00:06:43.940 justified to murder Donald Trump, and 31 percent said the same about Elon Musk. But when counting only
00:06:50.380 left-leaning respondents, justification for killing Trump rose to 55 percent, and for Musk it was 48 percent.
00:06:59.160 So yes, more than half of the left-leaning respondents, which include anyone who identifies
00:07:04.860 as a liberal in any way, believes that it would be acceptable to assassinate the President of the
00:07:10.660 United States. And nearly half of the left-leaning respondents believe it would be acceptable to kill
00:07:15.240 Elon Musk. And on top of that, nearly 60 percent of left-leaning respondents declared that it would be
00:07:21.700 acceptable to destroy a Tesla dealership. So they're saying it's fine to commit acts of domestic
00:07:26.600 terrorism, not to mention presidential assassinations, solely because they disagree with the political
00:07:31.860 views of the President or of the CEO of the company. Now, before I respond to this, I want to
00:07:36.920 acknowledge that, you know, of course, yes, polls can be misleading. We talk about the bias that exists
00:07:43.020 in polls all the time. They're not necessarily a reliable indicator. But in this case, based on everything
00:07:48.540 that's happened in this country in the last few years, I mean, we all know that the poll is probably
00:07:52.740 accurate. We've all seen the outpouring of support for Luigi Mangione, support that continued even
00:07:58.520 after it became very clear that he's a raging, wealthy narcissist who had no reason to be upset
00:08:02.840 with UnitedHealthcare whatsoever. In fact, a few months ago, many of Luigi Mangione's supporters
00:08:08.280 dogpiled one of my videos on YouTube in order to inform me that I should read the room and defend
00:08:15.840 first-degree murder. Because, you know, if everybody is saying that first-degree murder is cool, that means
00:08:20.620 that you should just accept that it's cool. It was the message, basically. We've also played
00:08:25.860 dozens of clips of random Tesla stores and vehicles being attacked, mobs cheering on the
00:08:30.440 carnage. People are being terrorized solely on the basis of a vehicle they've purchased, which,
00:08:34.540 as far as I can tell, has never happened before in the history of this country. At the height of the
00:08:38.740 Bud Light boycott, no one was violently assaulted for drinking a Bud Light. But for Tesla owners,
00:08:43.820 it's a different story. And these attacks are continuing. By the way, just yesterday,
00:08:46.820 shortly after midnight in Washington state, an explosion destroyed a Tesla charging station.
00:08:52.600 Along the same lines, as we discussed earlier this week, there's been a groundswell of support
00:08:57.660 for Carmelo Anthony, who just stabbed a white high school student to death in Texas at a track meet.
00:09:03.180 Carmelo Anthony's family has now raised, the latest update is, a quarter of a million dollars on
00:09:09.980 give, send, go, on the theory that the killing was somehow an act of self-defense,
00:09:15.060 even though Carmelo Anthony himself asked officers, as they arrested him, whether self-defense was a
00:09:20.760 viable strategy for him to pursue. And at this rate, he'll raise a million dollars for killing
00:09:26.200 a white 17-year-old. Yes, there's essentially a bounty for killing white people in this country.
00:09:31.360 Doesn't matter that these people, to these people that Austin Metcalf didn't hurt Carmelo Anthony in
00:09:35.720 any way. Doesn't matter to them that Carmelo Anthony instigated the fight. And then, if you could even
00:09:40.660 call it a fight, and then threw away the murder weapon as Austin Metcalf died in his brother's
00:09:44.980 arm, does it matter that Carmelo Anthony bought a deadly weapon to, brought a deadly weapon to the
00:09:49.940 opposing team's tent at a track meet, and then dared someone to touch him? Of course not. None of that
00:09:55.420 matters. All that matters is that Austin Metcalf was white and Carmelo Anthony was black. So,
00:10:00.400 no, it's not surprising in the slightest that most self-described liberals in this country are
00:10:05.640 explicitly supporting political violence. And we see evidence everywhere. But at the same time,
00:10:12.900 the diagnosis from the political science experts, so-called experts, is obviously lacking in several
00:10:18.760 respects. They are not fully grasping the problem. And to give you some idea, here's what they have
00:10:24.940 to say. This is from CBS. Quote, Stanley Schwartz, a history professor at Cedarville University,
00:10:31.280 tells us, violence has a long history in American democracy. But it was still striking to read through
00:10:36.340 the report. A lot of folks on the left are probably feeling a sense of hopelessness or despair
00:10:40.640 following the election law, said Schwartz. Another expert, Daryl Paulson, who specializes in political
00:10:46.520 parties and elections at the University of South Florida, tells us, there used to be rules in how you
00:10:50.820 conducted politics, but those rules don't exist anymore. Those rules of the game have been thrown out,
00:10:55.780 and it's every man for himself, Paulson said, close quote. And that's the explanation that the
00:11:00.400 academics have come up with. They're saying that something has abruptly changed, and a lot of
00:11:04.940 folks are mad that a Republican won the presidency. But that doesn't actually capture the magnitude
00:11:09.760 of what's happening here. So-called assassination culture, as these pollsters have referred to this
00:11:16.100 phenomenon, is not merely the result of hyper-partisanship, political division. We've had a lot of very
00:11:25.220 intense political disagreements in this country's history, including all-out brawls on the floor of the
00:11:30.300 Congress in the 19th century. What we haven't seen until now are coordinated terror campaigns
00:11:36.200 endorsed by a major political party that are conducted against American citizens on the basis
00:11:41.540 of their political beliefs. That is new. You know, when the Weather Underground bombed the Capitol,
00:11:47.220 both Democrats and Republicans have the good sense to condemn it. But when the modern Weather Underground
00:11:51.600 gets to work against Elon Musk and his supporters, Democrats say nothing. Actually, it's worse than that.
00:11:56.260 They come out and publicly taunt Elon Musk and his company, and they suggest that he got what he
00:12:01.740 deserves. We're seeing this response because, at its core, leftism is relativistic, fundamentally
00:12:09.280 amoral, and dehumanizing. Leftism has, of course, taken over the Democrat Party, and that's been the
00:12:16.440 case for a long time now. And we're now witnessing the consequences of that takeover. This is why leftists
00:12:22.000 are celebrating the murder of Brian Thompson without any pushback from elected Democrats. Like,
00:12:26.420 that's another one. How many elected Democrats stood up to say to their supporters,
00:12:31.080 no, you know what, we should not go out murdering CEOs? How many said that? Did any?
00:12:38.480 Did any prominent Democrat on the national stage stand up to defend the notion that, you know,
00:12:45.240 even CEOs we don't like have the right to exist without being murdered in the street? No, none of
00:12:51.160 them did. And that's why they're happy Austin Metcalfe is dead. It's why they're now desperately
00:12:56.160 hoping that they'll get to kill Elon Musk and Donald Trump. Above all else, leftism is concerned
00:13:00.760 with advancing the interests of the party. That's the overriding goal. It's all that interests them.
00:13:05.940 Nothing else matters. Ends justify the means. And they will continue their campaign of violence at
00:13:10.520 any cost. They don't even feel the need to hide it anymore, as the Luigi Mangione Access to Health
00:13:15.860 Care Act demonstrates. The same people who cheered the killing of Brian Thompson would cheer your death
00:13:21.840 as well, if they felt that it advanced their interests in any way. You know, countries can
00:13:27.920 survive economic upheaval, political disagreements, even civil war. But they cannot survive an ideology
00:13:35.500 that is fundamentally anti-human, that's completely uninterested in any form of human progress.
00:13:42.300 And that is what leftism now stands for. And a majority of Democrats agree with this sentiment.
00:13:49.240 I mean, it's impossible to overstate this. I'll say it again. They will rationalize your murder
00:13:52.760 if you don't agree with them. They will rationalize your murder, as we've seen with Austin Metcalfe,
00:13:58.980 if you're white. And it's incumbent on every sane person, anybody with a survival instinct,
00:14:06.900 to stay as far away from these people as possible. And if we accomplish nothing else in the next few
00:14:10.820 years, we should do everything we can to eradicate this ideology so that it doesn't result in any more
00:14:17.500 death and destruction that it already has. Leftism arrived in this country relatively quickly.
00:14:22.540 And if there's one silver lining, it's that it can be pushed out just as quickly.
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00:15:49.520 Yesterday, we responded at length to John Oliver's latest diatribe defending men in women's sports,
00:15:56.000 trying to explain why trans women, quote unquote, should be in women's sports.
00:16:00.040 Well, today the Daily Mail has an article revealing one of the reasons why maybe Oliver keeps obsessing
00:16:06.480 over this issue and seems to determine to die on this hill. Daily Mail reports,
00:16:12.820 John Oliver has been hell-bent on defending transgender athletes as of late,
00:16:16.520 and some recently unveiled correspondence coming from one of his staffers appears to show why.
00:16:21.360 Dee Brent, a transgender fact-checker for Oliver's show,
00:16:25.620 sent a strongly worded comment request to the Women's Liberation Front Wednesday,
00:16:29.780 and the latter, a self-admitted radical feminist organization, has laid it bare for all to see.
00:16:34.480 In it, Brent, also the show's researcher, is seen asking a series of seemingly slanted questions
00:16:39.860 aired ahead of a Last Week Tonight with John Oliver segment that went to air the following Sunday.
00:16:44.860 Billed as the main section of Sunday's show, saw Oliver again expressing support for transgender women
00:16:48.700 competing in women's sports, claiming to have debunked a prevailing myth that women have lost 900 medals
00:16:55.260 to trans athletes in a mere year. In the process, the comedian presented his word as fact.
00:16:59.780 He also attempted to cast doubt on data, bringing up rare events like an all-female Irish dance competition
00:17:04.900 held in Glasgow in 2023, won by a trans woman, in three poker competitions, won by trans competitors
00:17:11.100 that year as well. However, what Oliver did not mention is the 900 number refers to 890 medals
00:17:16.460 won by trans women since April 2024, a number proven by publicly available data.
00:17:21.280 Okay, so the article goes on into detail about Oliver's attempts to frame this figure about the lost medals
00:17:34.440 as somehow absurd or false. And he did that with slanted, misleading articles, misleading framing.
00:17:41.760 But the point is, the point is that in the revelation, I suppose, is that John Oliver's fact checker,
00:17:46.620 his researcher, and also listed as associate producer on the show, is trans. It's a man identifying
00:17:53.440 as a woman. So this obviously discredits everything that Oliver says on the subject. I mean, everything
00:17:59.700 he says on the subject is already discredited because it's absurd and false, and easy to debunk,
00:18:05.020 as I did yesterday, without even knowing that a trans guy is behind all of this pro-trans propaganda.
00:18:10.180 But this really drives the point home. You know, a trans-identified person is not going to be
00:18:15.700 capable of being remotely honest about any of these issues, with rare exception. I mean,
00:18:20.620 I know there are a few, a handful of trans-identified people that you could name who are honest about
00:18:26.600 the sports issue. But for the most part, the vast majority are not capable of looking at this
00:18:32.260 objectively. And that's who John Oliver has feeding him information. His researcher is a trans person.
00:18:39.020 And that obviously is a problem. First of all, these are people who are either deeply confused
00:18:46.180 about human biology, which discredits them in the debate, or they're committed to the lie,
00:18:53.240 to the fantasy, which also, again, discredits them. But more to the point, you know, keep in mind what
00:18:59.040 I've said a few times now. One of the reasons why the left will not drop this subject, one of the reasons
00:19:05.100 why they will die on this hill is that a lot of them are closely tied to people who identify as
00:19:12.420 trans. And I'll tell you this, by the way, if you, if you, if you, I mean, if you listen to them,
00:19:18.220 they, they will proudly say this. They'll often say, if someone like me, someone who's critical,
00:19:23.260 they'll say, well, you don't know any trans people. I know a ton of trans people. These are nice people.
00:19:28.160 Famously, what was it? The Sex and the City actress who got up on stage at some rally and
00:19:35.740 said that basically all the kids she knows are trans. Her kid is trans. Like her nephew is trans.
00:19:42.100 Her kids' friends are trans. This is not the reality for the vast majority of normal people.
00:19:50.040 But for elitist leftists, this is the world they live in. There's like trans identified people
00:19:58.180 everywhere. I mean, most of us could, could go about our lives, our everyday lives for like an
00:20:04.040 entire two or three months and never run into a trans identified person. But if you're on the left,
00:20:11.180 you know, it's kind of like most of us could go about our lives at this point and never run into
00:20:15.340 somebody wearing a mask. But if you're a committed leftist and you live in one, as I, as I discovered
00:20:22.180 when I was in Sacramento and California testifying at the hearing over the women, women's sports bill
00:20:27.820 and tons of people there in face masks and visors. So if you're, if you're on the left,
00:20:36.560 especially if you live in a place like California, this is still like a part of your reality when it's
00:20:40.940 not a part of anyone else's reality. But they'll pride, they'll proudly say this and talk about
00:20:47.740 all the trans people they know as if it gives them more credibility in the debate, when it actually
00:20:53.080 does precisely the opposite. Because all it shows is that you are emotionally tied to this issue
00:21:00.000 in a way that makes it almost impossible for you to be honest about it.
00:21:04.920 And what that means, and this is in particular, if you're, if you're on the left in places like
00:21:10.680 Los Angeles, New York, DC, you're gonna, you probably are closely tied to some people identify
00:21:18.600 as trans. And so that means that a large number of the leftists who are on TV, who are in positions
00:21:24.280 of influence in government, whatever, large number of them have friends, have colleagues,
00:21:29.560 have siblings, have children who have quote unquote transitions. And those people are in
00:21:35.780 this for life. They're in it too deep. They've sacrificed things to the trans God that they
00:21:42.760 can't get back. And so when people say, why won't the left drop this? Why are they dying on this hill?
00:21:47.620 Well, this is the reason. I mean, it's maybe not the whole reason, but it's a large part of the
00:21:53.580 reason that they themselves or people that they know are in it too deep and they can't leave it.
00:22:01.860 And so they feel like they have to just defend it until they die because the other option is too
00:22:09.560 horrifying to even consider. The option, the possibility that, that, you know, you yourself or
00:22:17.160 someone that, you know, someone that you're close to has destroyed their lives on the basis of a,
00:22:24.240 of a ridiculous lie. Uh, that's something that requires, it just requires a lot of intellectual
00:22:31.200 integrity to even consider that possibility. And these are people who have no intellectual integrity
00:22:36.580 to speak of. Okay. Daily Wire has this report. West Virginia Congressman Riley Moore and Utah Senator
00:22:43.220 Mike Lee on Tuesday introduced legislation that would ensure that new moms are not,
00:22:47.160 penalized under federal law for deciding to leave the workforce and stay home with their child.
00:22:52.200 The Republican lawmakers introduced a new bill that would amend the family and medical leave act to
00:22:57.220 ensure that parents are not required to pay back healthcare costs. If they decide to stay home
00:23:01.280 after the birth of a child, the bill first shared with the daily wire is titled the fairness for stay
00:23:05.920 at home parents act. Moore said being pro-life means being pro-family. That means ensuring families
00:23:12.780 aren't penalized for deciding to have a parent stay home with their baby. Our bill ensures families
00:23:17.060 won't face a huge bill for insurance premiums simply for choosing what's best for their family.
00:23:22.820 If past legislation could save families thousands of dollars, if a parent decides to stay home to
00:23:27.020 take care of their child after parental leave. Currently, employers are allowed to claw back
00:23:30.580 insurance premiums. If a parent decides to leave the workforce, family insurance premiums cost an
00:23:34.880 average of $25,000 per year. The legislation would prohibit an employer from recovering any healthcare
00:23:39.340 premium paid by the employer for an employee. If the employee fails to return to work due to the birth of a
00:23:44.820 child. Now, whatever you think about the specifics of this legislation, it is pointing in the right
00:23:52.900 direction, which is trying to make it easier for moms to stay home with the kids. I mean, it says
00:23:58.580 a parent, a parent staying home, but really we know we're talking about moms and that's the right thing.
00:24:05.380 That's the right direction. That's what our policy should be focused on. That's what our policy should
00:24:11.260 focus on rather than, as we talked about yesterday, maternity leave or parental leave. This is what our
00:24:17.920 goal needs to be, to have more moms in the home raising their children. And we have to not be embarrassed
00:24:24.600 saying that or working towards that goal. You have to be not embarrassed about saying,
00:24:31.560 you know what? Our goal as a society should be fewer women in the workforce because a lot more of them
00:24:38.100 are home raising their kids. We need to not be embarrassed saying that because it's such an
00:24:44.780 obviously good, healthy thing. And we all kind of know that at some level, I think.
00:24:53.600 Our current system that we have right now is unsustainable. I mean, it really is as simple as
00:24:57.520 that. This system of having both parents leave the home every day, that just can't go on forever.
00:25:03.820 It's never worked that way before at any point in history. And when I say that, people will always
00:25:09.860 respond and say, well, that's not true. Throughout history, women have actually been involved in all
00:25:15.060 kinds of trades and professions, which, yeah, they have. And that really, by the way, exposes the lie
00:25:21.200 that women have been oppressed for all of history until the middle of the 20th century.
00:25:24.320 That isn't true. It is true that women have been involved in plenty of trades and professions
00:25:30.160 throughout history. A lot of the guilds in the Middle Ages, for example, had female members.
00:25:36.240 But you did not have at any point anywhere what we have now, which is women in mass leaving the home
00:25:46.360 all day, every day, so that their children are raised by strangers that the parents are paying.
00:25:52.500 Okay, that did not exist. So yeah, you had women who did other things aside from the dishes and
00:25:59.960 washing the clothes, but you did not have what we have now, which is all day, every day, at least
00:26:06.940 five days a week. Both parents are out of the home and the kids are being raised by strangers.
00:26:12.460 That did not exist. That's a system, that's a setup that has just never existed until right now,
00:26:18.620 until the last few generations. It's a wholly new approach. And I think it's clearly a worse approach.
00:26:27.640 And by the way, having other people help raise your kids, that's not new. I'm not saying that's new.
00:26:33.180 I mean, historically, you had multi-generational families and homes and homesteads and farms and
00:26:39.440 everything else. And so you had grandparents, even great-grandparents, aunts and uncles that
00:26:48.660 were all in the vicinity helping to raise your children. And nothing wrong with that. I mean,
00:26:56.880 that's the way it really should be. But what makes this unique, what makes our setup unique is, again,
00:27:04.120 both parents out of the home completely for all day, for five days a week, and the parents being
00:27:11.840 raised not by other family members for the most part, but by strangers whose only attachment to
00:27:18.940 the child is that they're being paid money to care about the kid for a certain hour during the day.
00:27:24.620 Um, so that, that's, that's the, uh, it's a new setup and it's obviously worse. Like this is
00:27:34.240 obviously a worse approach. It's worse for the child. It's worse for the family. It's worse for
00:27:39.480 society. It's worse for the mother. Objectively speaking, it's better to have more women raising
00:27:44.760 their children and fewer sitting in cubicles. Um, we don't need women in cubicles, you know,
00:27:50.540 like no problem is solved in society by taking women out of the home and putting them in cubicles.
00:27:54.620 Um, you know, you can look at the home that doesn't have mothers there and you can say,
00:27:58.960 we really need mothers. Like we need, there's a real need here that cannot be exactly filled by
00:28:05.080 anybody else. But you don't really look at an empty cubicle and say, well, we need women
00:28:12.060 specifically here in this cubicle because no one else can do this. We don't say that. And, um,
00:28:18.680 you know, I say it's, it's that this new system is not better for women.
00:28:24.500 Well, think back to that, to that video that I played yesterday. It's that the viral video of
00:28:30.700 the mother with the twin babies crying because she has to go back to work. And she says that when she
00:28:36.720 leaves her babies and goes to the office, she has guilt and she comes home and she is worried that
00:28:43.220 her babies will have forgotten who she is. She has a lot of guilt, but then she says that, well,
00:28:48.600 that's just mom guilt. And she knows that mom guilt, that a lot of moms have it and you just have
00:28:54.600 to, you have to get over it. Right. And this is a very common theme. This is the, this theme of mom
00:29:00.440 guilt. Okay. Google the phrase mom guilt, and you'll find a million articles about it,
00:29:07.040 a million videos about it, how to deal with it, how to overcome it. Women talking about their mom
00:29:12.980 guilt and how irrational the mom guilt is. And, you know, that's kind of the, the implied always
00:29:18.720 when you hear about this mom guilt, what's being implied or outright stated often is that it, that
00:29:27.360 it's irrational, that you feel this mom guilt, but you shouldn't because you actually have no reason
00:29:31.980 to feel guilty. Now I'm not doubting that moms and dads may feel sometimes inordinate or misplaced
00:29:44.660 guilt. There is, there is an extent to which parental guilt in general is like a real thing that can be
00:29:51.640 irrational. Every parent experiences that sometimes where you just, you, you know, you, you, it's,
00:30:00.720 some of it is just the fear as a parent that, oh my gosh, I'm screwing up. I'm screwing these kids
00:30:04.620 up. You know, you make a small mistake, you react to something the wrong way, uh, whatever it may be.
00:30:10.200 And in your head, you've spun this out to be, oh, okay, well now my kids are going to be screwed
00:30:14.500 up for life because of this. So every parent goes through that to some extent. But what I'm saying is
00:30:21.540 that if mom guilt is this hugely prominent widespread phenomenon right now, maybe we should stop and ask
00:30:28.640 why. Are we sure that the mom guilt is always misplaced? Is it always an unreasonable emotion
00:30:35.280 that we should just overcome? Or is it possible that a lot of moms feel guilty about leaving their
00:30:41.600 children and going to the office? Because in reality, um, a large number of them should not be
00:30:49.160 leaving their children and going to the office. I guess what I'm saying is that the feeling that the
00:30:54.400 mom has of, I feel guilty leaving my babies. Is that a feeling that maybe we should explore a bit?
00:31:00.860 Maybe we should think about that a little bit. Maybe there's something there. Like maybe that's
00:31:06.640 your heart. Maybe that's your soul telling you that, that, that maybe you should consider not going back
00:31:13.240 to work. And, uh, and, uh, and we're all saying, well, why is everyone feeling this pain in their
00:31:29.760 hands? What's going on? You know, there's a million articles written about it. We do videos
00:31:34.060 about overcoming the hand pain. When in reality, if you just look down, you would see, oh, well,
00:31:40.220 it's because we all have our hands on a stove. So it's, it's not the pain. That's the problem.
00:31:44.820 It's the pain is actually trying to tell us something. It's alerting us to something that
00:31:48.360 we need to pay attention to. And so probably the best strategy is to take your hand off the stove.
00:31:56.560 And so if the woman in the video is feeling that pain deep inside,
00:32:03.100 maybe she's got her hand on the hot stove and we should think about that.
00:32:13.280 All right. Yahoo finance has an article attempting to pour some cold water on Trump's stated desire
00:32:19.380 to abolish the income tax. And these are always fun because how can you possibly convince people
00:32:24.540 that it wouldn't be an amazing thing if they no longer had to pay the income tax? That's a,
00:32:28.500 that's a tough sell. So let's see how they do, how they go about it. Um, they report president
00:32:35.780 Donald Trump has said that he'd like to eliminate the internal revenue service and with it income
00:32:39.180 tax, his plan would be to replace the approximately $3 trillion per year that the federal government
00:32:43.620 gets from the income taxes with sweeping tariffs. One issue with this plan is that tariffs high enough
00:32:48.040 to replace that $3 trillion in federal revenue would ripple into higher prices for consumers.
00:32:51.840 So any tax savings would be undercut by a higher cost of living. In addition, eliminating federal
00:32:56.680 income tax is tricky to implement. The power of taxation rests with Congress, according to Article
00:33:01.020 1, Section 8 of the Constitution. Still, if Trump could make it so a, uh, could make it so,
00:33:06.560 and personal federal income tax became a thing of the past, how much extra would you take home if
00:33:11.020 you paid, if you made $100,000 a year? If you make $100,000 a year, you fall into a 22% tax bracket.
00:33:17.560 However, taxes are progressive. You pay 10% on a certain amount, then 12% and 22% on a set
00:33:22.960 amounts as they rise. This means your effective tax rate on $100,000 is 13.61%. That equates to
00:33:30.980 about $13,000 of extra take-home pay. This doesn't take into account FICA, Social Security,
00:33:36.840 and Medicare taxes, which changes the equation slightly depending on whether you're a W-2
00:33:41.660 employer, pay taxes, or self-employed. Before you get too excited about all the extra grain in your
00:33:46.240 account, consider the potential implications of Trump's tariffs. They're basically a tax on the
00:33:49.780 American consumer, since most, if not all, of the import tariffs businesses pay will be passed
00:33:55.480 on to consumers. Okay. So I guess we're supposed to think that an extra $13,000 a year is meager
00:34:00.940 savings, but that's more than $1,000 a month, every month, which would truly be a life-changing
00:34:08.180 savings for a lot of people. Just imagine if you had an extra $1,000 a month, every month.
00:34:15.700 And that's just the savings you make if you're making $100,000 a year. Obviously, as you go up in
00:34:19.040 income brackets, the savings are quite a bit more substantial than that. So this would be
00:34:24.000 transformative for hundreds of thousands of hundreds, hundreds of millions. This would be
00:34:29.320 transformative. Abolishing the income tax would be transformative for hundreds of millions of
00:34:34.800 Americans. And I'll say this, whenever you think about the tariffs, there is something missing from
00:34:42.660 the tariffs plan. And it's this. This is the other half of the plan that Trump has talked about. But
00:34:49.580 right now, it's the missing piece. The way that you really make the tariffs work is by abolishing
00:34:53.840 the income tax, greatly increasing the take-home pay of every American, the income of every working
00:34:59.640 American. And then you have tariffs as a way of making up the lost revenue. So right now, we're making
00:35:04.580 up the lost revenue, but we don't have the lost revenue part of it. The government needs to lose
00:35:09.600 revenue from income taxes, and you make up a lot of it with tariffs, which I personally think is a
00:35:16.480 great plan. That's exactly the way it should work. But you got to do the second part of it also,
00:35:22.260 which is abolish the income tax. So we need to be pushing for this. Abolishing the income tax needs
00:35:28.680 to be a major part of the conservative platform. It has not been. It has never really been, oddly enough,
00:35:35.120 a major part of the conservative platform. This is like a niche sort of fringe position.
00:35:41.920 That's how it's treated anyway, abolishing the income tax. But we need to change that. It needs
00:35:49.220 to be a central part of the conservative platform going forward, abolishing the income tax. And keep
00:35:55.780 in mind, abolishing the income tax is not just about saving thousands of dollars a year or a month for
00:36:02.880 millions of Americans. That's, I think that's the most important part. But I mean, the way that it
00:36:10.580 will drastically improve your quality of life instantly, instant approval, putting more money
00:36:18.900 in the pockets of Americans without giving out any checks, putting significantly more money into
00:36:26.840 the pockets of hundreds of millions of Americans without any kind of entitlement, without any kind
00:36:31.740 of payment from the taxpayers. It's your own money being put back into your pocket. So that's, I think,
00:36:39.320 the most significant thing. But it's also about abolishing the IRS. Of course, you wouldn't need
00:36:46.260 the IRS anymore. And thereby greatly, greatly increasing the freedom, the liberty, the privacy
00:36:52.780 of all Americans. We basically don't have freedom as long as the IRS exists. We are not really a free
00:37:01.440 country. We can't call ourselves a free country. It's a bit of a farce to say we're a free country
00:37:05.840 as long as the IRS exists. Because as long as the IRS exists, it means that the government has
00:37:14.100 total access to all of your finances. They can come in and take however much money they want.
00:37:22.780 Right? The government could just decide to pass a tax increase, and then they're going to just go
00:37:28.360 take that money. Whatever amount of money they decide they want to take from you, they can just
00:37:32.660 take it directly from you. To call us a free country when you have a system like that, it's farcical.
00:37:40.560 And if you don't pay it, they can take anything they want from you. They can take your money. They can
00:37:49.620 take your home. They can throw you in prison. They can do anything. Your rights are forfeit.
00:37:56.200 They get complete access to your finances. They could take anything they want. And if you block
00:38:01.800 them from doing so in some way, they can, everything, your whole life is theirs. And so to have a system
00:38:08.380 like that run by the IRS, who, of course, a bunch of unelected bureaucrats, and the Bill of Rights
00:38:18.200 basically don't apply to them, to have that and then say at the same time we're a free country is,
00:38:24.600 you know, for the third time, it's a farce. So, you know, I say that the greatest advantage of
00:38:30.960 abolishing the income tax is the amount of money that it saves for everybody. But probably this is
00:38:35.580 number one. We actually want to call ourselves a free country. Well, then the first step is to get
00:38:42.600 rid of this monstrous system called the income tax, which our founding fathers never would have
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00:41:00.720 You missed the point on maternity leave. We had exactly this situation at the last place I worked.
00:41:05.580 What does a woman do after a year of maternity leave? She has another child. Rinse and repeat.
00:41:09.400 We had one employee who spun this out for four years. Yeah, I don't think I missed the point,
00:41:16.280 but that is a point about this that is true that I guess I didn't mention. Yeah, well, and I said
00:41:22.400 the maternity leave policies, especially when you want to codify them into law and force employers
00:41:29.360 to give X amount of maternity leave, which is always going to be an arbitrary amount.
00:41:34.100 Whatever the number is you settle on, totally arbitrary. Because whatever you want to say,
00:41:39.180 oh, it's really important for the mother to be home for the first eight months of the child's life.
00:41:43.620 No, it's just as important for the next eight months and the next eight months and the next
00:41:47.660 eight months. So whatever number you pick, it's completely arbitrary.
00:41:50.660 Um, but I said that it's unsustainable also. And yeah, you point to one of the reasons why this
00:41:57.440 is anyone that's been in the working world has seen this. Um, we all have examples of, um, you know,
00:42:04.500 you could, you could have a woman who's has a job and is paid by a job for like five years,
00:42:10.020 but only actually works for, you know, 13 months out of that five years. Cause the rest of the time
00:42:16.120 she's on maternity leave having kids. Um, it's just, it's gets to a point where it's ridiculous.
00:42:22.060 It's like you, you, you have companies that are for years paying someone to not work. And obviously
00:42:29.160 that doesn't work. That's that just, that's not a sustainable way of doing business. And, um,
00:42:38.160 we're only going through all of this because nobody wants to say what is obviously true, which is that,
00:42:43.700 yeah, you should be home with your child and then just stay home. Like, just go do that.
00:42:50.940 Um, but this is like the ultimate sort of have your cake and eat it to be home with my kid,
00:42:58.100 but still be paid by a job for years on end that I'm not doing. It's like, uh, it just doesn't work.
00:43:06.300 It's, it just doesn't work. All right. Lance Armstrong's defense. He wasn't doing anything.
00:43:10.740 The rest of the Peloton wasn't doing. He was just better at it and trained harder.
00:43:14.800 Yeah. I actually don't really care about the steroid scandals. I don't care in general. I
00:43:18.580 never cared about any of them. Um, I never understood why it was always a big, you know,
00:43:23.080 whether major league baseball and then Lance Armstrong thing, it was, uh, always this huge
00:43:26.960 scandal about steroids. I don't care. It's like, everyone's doing it. It doesn't make it okay.
00:43:31.840 But when am I supposed to care? Like one, we pick one random person when everyone in the sport
00:43:36.220 is doing it and turn them into the great villain. I've never quite understood that. Um,
00:43:41.960 so yeah, I'm with you on that. Archery, shooting darts, those kinds of sports are the ones that men
00:43:47.340 and women can compete on a level playing field. Yeah. Those are probably the few sports you could
00:43:51.520 name where men don't necessarily have a significant advantage over women. Um, I mean, I wouldn't call
00:43:56.860 darts a sport. That's like a, that's a game. It's not a sport. Uh, archering, archery and shooting.
00:44:01.580 Um, yeah, I think men probably have a slight advantage in something like archery because
00:44:06.280 there is strength and endurance involved just with drawing the bow, uh, over and over again and
00:44:11.340 all that. But, um, although I think the way they build the bows these days, even that is there's
00:44:17.420 not a lot of strength involved. So basically the only sports where men don't have a significant
00:44:22.080 inherent advantage are the sports that involve little to no strength, endurance, or agility,
00:44:27.620 which if you want to be a purist, you could argue that, well, if it doesn't involve strength,
00:44:33.780 endurance, and agility, it's not actually a sport. It might be a contest or a game. Um,
00:44:39.340 but it's not a sport. And you know, that's a whole conversation. People take that very seriously.
00:44:45.280 If you, if you take someone's favorite activity and you say, yeah, not really a sport, they take,
00:44:48.780 they get, they get really offended by that. I don't, I don't take it. I love to fish. Um,
00:44:54.080 I even like will watch competitive fishing. I'm that insane that I'll watch competitive
00:44:58.580 fishing. It's not a sport. It's a, it's a activity. It's a con, it can be a contest if
00:45:03.900 you do it competitively. Um, it's not a sport because there there's, there's no strength,
00:45:10.420 endurance, or agility involved. There's strategy, there's skill. Um, but I think to call it,
00:45:17.320 look, if, if you can be 50 years old and overweight and compete in this activity
00:45:25.660 at a high level, it's not a sport. I mean, it's just that I think it's as simple as that. So
00:45:32.700 if you take the, that kind of what you might call the more purist, which I think is a rational
00:45:38.840 definition of sport, then there actually is no sport where, where men don't have a, uh,
00:45:44.880 really significant inherent physical advantage. Um,
00:45:49.520 one root issue regarding maternity leave debate, stop believing the lie that you can have it all.
00:45:56.620 You cannot to choose one thing is to exclude all the other options to choose one husband is to
00:46:00.200 forgo all the amazing possible husbands out there. You have to choose. I pray young women will realize
00:46:04.860 you have such a short time to be a full-time mom. You have decades to pursue other things.
00:46:08.200 Please choose your babies. Yeah. Trade-offs. I mean, that's my point about maternity leave.
00:46:13.320 Um, and, and when we see these videos of the women weeping, cause they have to return to work,
00:46:19.440 it's, uh, it's, we're dodging the real issue and we're not dealing with the trade-offs. And
00:46:26.160 this is maybe, I think feminism has told a lot of lies. It's lied to women in many ways. Um,
00:46:36.500 um, and the greatest lie that feminism has told women is the child in your womb is not really a
00:46:44.240 person. That's the greatest lie and the most destructive one. But second, second place might
00:46:50.140 be this. It might be trade-offs don't exist. You can have it all, right? That's the, that is the,
00:46:58.080 the, the, the second greatest lie of feminism is you can have it all. And, um, you can't that that's,
00:47:07.600 that's not life. That's not how life works. There are always going to be trade-offs and being a
00:47:13.580 functioning person in society means just accepting that reality and facing the trade-offs and making
00:47:20.420 your choice and admit that you've made the choice. So when you hear these women say, Oh, just cause I'm
00:47:26.920 going to work. It doesn't mean I'm not prioritizing my child. Well, yeah, it does. It does mean that,
00:47:33.220 uh, unless you really have to, unless it's true, you absolutely have to work for, for financial
00:47:39.240 reasons. Um, you're only doing, you wish you didn't have to, but you're only doing it because
00:47:44.400 of that. And that, that's one thing. But if you're doing it as a choice, uh, because you love your job
00:47:50.240 or whatever, then however, anybody feels about that choice, it is a choice and it is a trade-off and you
00:47:56.860 are saying that, okay, I'm going to prioritize this thing that I love to do over my child.
00:48:04.660 And, um, I don't know, let's at least have the honesty to face it and talk about it in,
00:48:09.580 in those, in those kinds of honest terms. Finally, they act like, uh, black people weren't
00:48:15.260 main characters in movies from the eighties, nineties, and two thousands. And funny enough,
00:48:19.160 Aslan would be better played by a black guy from Africa than by Meryl Streep.
00:48:23.140 I had the exact same thought with Aslan. I mean, the idea of having Meryl Streep play Aslan is,
00:48:29.580 we're so used to all these diversifying efforts and movies and so many things like that,
00:48:35.420 that you're kind of numb to it by now. But that one I find really, that, that is, that,
00:48:40.520 that offends me at a, at a deep level. I think it does a lot of people because the story is
00:48:44.340 important to a lot of us. Um, especially if you're a Christian and you, you grew up admiring
00:48:50.260 C.S. Lewis as I did. So the story really means something to you. And to do that, to that story,
00:48:56.300 it is actually offensive, but it's also, it, on top of that, it's so unnecessary because you could
00:49:04.160 diversify Aslan, which I don't think you need to do, but you could do that here. It's an obvious
00:49:12.320 thing sitting right there. You could like Morgan Freeman is sitting right there. He's, he's still
00:49:18.300 alive and he's old, but he's, you still have a chance. And I don't think anyone would object
00:49:23.220 to Morgan Freeman as Aslan, right? It's a little bit on the nose and he's played like the God or
00:49:31.200 Christ-like figure and maybe too many films at this point, but I don't know. I mean, I wouldn't object to
00:49:36.280 that. So if you want to go that route, it's right there. Instead, they choose Meryl Streep.
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00:50:23.020 Around three years after Jurassic Park debuted in theaters, the biggest story in the country was
00:50:27.420 that we had cloned a sheep named Dolly. And if you think back to that period, the dark ages of the
00:50:33.160 late 1990s, not really dark ages, they were great. But this was both a very exciting moment for
00:50:39.000 scientists and the directors of various horror movies and also a complete letdown for most
00:50:43.440 everyone else. On the one hand, there was the promise that we could soon clone more interesting
00:50:48.400 creatures like, say, T-Rexes or dragons, which are real, I'm told. That was pretty thrilling at some
00:50:54.440 level. On the other hand, there was a very real legitimate concern that by cloning Dolly,
00:50:58.580 we had defied the natural order with a Frankenstein creation that contradicted basic principles of
00:51:04.420 ethics, that we had done so in order to clone perhaps the most boring and unintelligent animal
00:51:08.580 on the planet. However, you viewed the debate at the time in the late 1990s, nobody was quite sure
00:51:12.960 where this technology would end up. By 2025, would T-Rexes be walking among us? Would we be able to clone
00:51:19.420 ourselves and have little helpers doing our chores and going to our jobs for us? Nobody was quite sure.
00:51:24.380 And that was both exciting and terrifying at the same time. But now in 2025, the mystery is gone.
00:51:29.540 We finally have the answer to all these questions. Instead of cloning dinosaurs, now we're back to,
00:51:34.740 we're bringing back random extinct animals back to life using fossilized remains and some kind of
00:51:39.860 gene editing technology. Specifically, as you may have seen this week, scientists claim to have
00:51:45.560 resurrected, quote unquote, an extinct canine known as the dire wolf, which was last known to exist around
00:51:52.660 13,000 years ago. More recently, it's apparently been featured in Game of Thrones. So this particular
00:51:57.540 brand of wolf has been experiencing something of a pop culture resurgence recently. Before we get
00:52:03.380 into the implications here, I should note that while this animal does have a cool name, it frankly
00:52:07.840 doesn't look very different from any other wolf, which is, I guess, not something you're supposed to
00:52:12.180 say out loud, judging by all the breathless coverage of this development. Here, for example,
00:52:16.120 is ABC News' segment on this astonishing new scientific breakthrough. Watch.
00:52:20.120 We turn now to that remarkable scientific breakthrough. 13,000 years after the last dire wolf walked the
00:52:26.900 earth, scientists say they've now brought them back. Here's our chief national correspondent back
00:52:31.440 up and with the video tonight.
00:52:35.360 Tonight, a howl 13,000 years in the making. In a first for science, biotech company Colosal Biosciences
00:52:43.280 says it brought the extinct dire wolf back to life, a species that hasn't walked the earth since the Stone
00:52:49.880 Age. The dire wolf is the first extinct species. We've taken a gray wolf genome, a gray wolf cell,
00:52:57.200 which is already genetically 99.5% identical to dire wolves. And we've edited those cells at multiple
00:53:05.660 places in its DNA sequence to contain the dire wolf version of the DNA. That animal looks like a dire
00:53:12.900 wolf. It will behave like a dire wolf. And it is a dire wolf.
00:53:17.980 It looks like a dire wolf, she says. It behaves like a dire wolf. And therefore, it is a dire wolf.
00:53:23.520 Now, I'm willing to concede that somehow this woman knows how dire wolves looked and behaved back
00:53:28.420 in the Stone Age, even though we don't actually have any records of how they behaved back then.
00:53:32.960 I'm not sure how this person could possibly have any clue about the mannerisms and personalities of
00:53:37.100 animals that no modern human has ever laid eyes on. Let's just skip over that for a second.
00:53:42.260 Even with that assumption, how do we also know that this new creation, which was created by
00:53:46.620 combining fossilized remains with gray wolf DNA, is in fact a dire wolf? I mean, where is that coming
00:53:52.160 from exactly? As with so many other modern scientific insights, of course, it's basically made up.
00:53:58.080 I mean, these creatures are not really dire wolves, right? What is a dire wolf? Well, it's not this.
00:54:05.400 They are genetically modified gray wolves that have been given some of the features of their extinct
00:54:10.400 cousins. And even more so than Dolly, these are Frankenstein creations that we're talking about.
00:54:16.620 To be clear, I mean, it's fine if you want to argue that there's some major scientific relevance
00:54:20.400 to this experiment. I'm just saying that these things aren't really literally what we're being
00:54:25.660 told they are. And what's more apparent, though, is that this latest creation could have a lot of
00:54:32.820 unintended side effects. And this is where the Jurassic Park comparison really comes into play.
00:54:37.620 Quoting from the Daily Mail, I want you to listen to this quote.
00:54:40.960 Although the wolves are being kept in captivity, experts warn that releasing them into the world
00:54:45.020 could have disastrous consequences. Nick Rollins, a paleontologist at the University of Otago,
00:54:51.400 compared the colossal bioscience's ambitious efforts with sci-fi classic Jurassic Park.
00:54:55.860 If released into the wild in large enough numbers to establish a self-sustaining population,
00:54:59.840 this new wolf could potentially take down prey larger than those hunted by gray wolves.
00:55:04.060 There would also be the potential for increased human and wolf conflict.
00:55:09.020 This sort of conflict is increasing as wolf populations recover in the USA.
00:55:13.080 Close quote.
00:55:14.420 Well, that's comforting. We may have created a new super wolf that will increase the potential for
00:55:19.900 human and wolf conflict. Whatever that means exactly. Nobody's really sure. Aside from being the
00:55:26.060 premise for a Liam Neeson film, we don't know what that will look like in practice. We'll just have to
00:55:31.460 deal with that conflict if these things ever escape captivity, apparently. But really,
00:55:35.240 what are the odds of something like that happening? You know, I mean, if you can't trust the genetically
00:55:39.320 modified Frankenstein super wolf to stay in their enclosure, then who can you trust?
00:55:45.240 This is probably a good time to mention that there's basically no coherent ethical argument
00:55:49.820 in favor of creating these new dire wolf hybrids.
00:55:53.700 They have no, there's like a million ethical problems. There is no answer to any of them.
00:56:01.900 I mean, the most disturbing thing about this story is that the scientists involved don't seem to be
00:56:07.440 grappling with the ethical dilemma at all. In fact, they seem to acknowledge that they're playing God
00:56:12.080 explicitly and proudly. According to Time Magazine, Beth Shapiro, the chief science officer at Colossal
00:56:16.940 Biosense and said, quote, we are an evolutionary force. We're deciding what future, what the future
00:56:22.800 of these species will be. Yes, they're not researchers anymore. They're not conducting
00:56:27.580 experiments to improve our lives or make new discoveries. Instead, they are an evolutionary
00:56:31.700 force, which by definition means they're not accountable to anybody. You know, they are a higher
00:56:37.420 power, supposedly. This is a trend that extends far beyond the field of wolf experiments. Recently,
00:56:42.300 the New York Times published an article titled, Should Human Life Be Optimized? It's about how
00:56:48.100 the science of IVF has developed. Quote, today, some form of pre-implantation genetic testing,
00:56:53.180 or PGT, is used in over half of IVF cycles in the United States at a cost of $3,000 to $5,000 per
00:56:59.380 batch of embryos. The most common options patients have are tests for extra or missing chromosomes,
00:57:05.140 structural chromosome rearrangements that can trigger pregnancy loss and disorders linked to a single
00:57:09.580 gene, such as cystic fibrosis and muscular dystrophy. More recently, with the advent of
00:57:14.440 powerful statistical techniques that can analyze huge databases of genetic information, several
00:57:18.740 American companies have started offering PGTP, which screens embryos for their polygenic risk scores.
00:57:25.140 The technology has typically been used for adults, ostensibly to assess their probability of developing
00:57:30.060 specific conditions. For example, people whose tests show a high risk score for heart disease
00:57:35.240 might change their diet or increase their physical activity. The article continues, quote,
00:57:40.100 But polygenic embryo screening goes further than the dubious promise of health. Studies have
00:57:44.900 identified sets of genes linked to everything from educational attainment and height to mental
00:57:48.980 health conditions, such as depression and schizophrenia. It's one thing to screen for conditions like
00:57:53.520 type 1 diabetes. It's quite another to go looking for embryo deemed most likely to clear six feet and
00:57:59.240 test into the Ivy League. Now, what's interesting here is that, as the Times notes,
00:58:03.820 several European countries, including Britain and Germany, have banned polygenic embryo screening.
00:58:09.080 In Germany, you know, they're particularly sensitive to this kind of thing, given their
00:58:12.160 history of eugenics. But in the U.S., there is no regulatory oversight whatsoever for this kind of
00:58:17.520 screening. And it's already been heavily commercialized, and no one's paying attention
00:58:21.340 to the industry at all. In other words, American leftists, who will screech relentlessly about how the
00:58:26.740 Trump administration is essentially a Nazi regime, strangely have no issue with an industry that's
00:58:31.260 dedicated entirely to eugenics. Somehow they're completely fine with screening embryos for certain
00:58:36.860 genetic traits. It hasn't caused even a whisper of concern for a lot of these people. What this
00:58:41.980 tells us is that playing God is incredibly intoxicating for a lot of people. It's enough
00:58:46.780 to make scientists and self-described liberals forget all about their principles or lack thereof.
00:58:51.060 But this kind of experimentation will ultimately end in disaster at every instance, for the simple
00:58:55.500 reason that man cannot become God. And that's why decades after we cloned the dolly sheep,
00:59:02.140 the best we can do is create a Frankenstein direwolf. And it's why everyone who is pretending
00:59:07.060 to have supernatural powers to resurrect extinct species or to choose the ideal embryo is today
00:59:12.560 canceled. That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow.
00:59:16.980 Have a great day. Godspeed.