The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1592 - American Cities Are Making The Pride Flag Their OFFICIAL Flag!？

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, cities across the country are adopting the LGBT pride flags as

00:00:04.440 their official flags. Wokeness is not as dead as we might like to believe. Also,

00:00:08.400 the Attorney General says the FBI is still going through Epstein material. What is taking so long

00:00:12.520 exactly? And the media mourns as an entire family of illegal immigrants face deportation.

00:00:17.420 They committed no crime except the crime of coming here illegally, which is more than enough 1.00

00:00:20.440 reasons to deport them. And Times Square has a new statue. It's a 12-foot tall, overweight black 0.99

00:00:24.940 woman. Why exactly? Well, we'll try to figure that out. All of that and much more today on

00:00:29.500 the Matt Wall Show.

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00:02:16.860 You may have missed it, but a couple of years ago, history was made in the state of New Hampshire.

00:02:21.180 We're not talking about the invention of some miraculous drug or a breakthrough in rocket

00:02:26.100 technology or anything like that. We're talking about something much, much more significant.

00:02:30.800 A woman named Talisha St. Mark became the first black woman in New Hampshire to serve as a federal 0.99

00:02:36.500 magistrate judge. As one lawyer said during her swearing in, quote, I don't think anyone in this

00:02:41.540 room is surprised that you're making history. The New Hampshire Bar Association wrote a lengthy

00:02:45.820 article about how Talisha was breaking barriers. And as you can see, the new judge was all smiles in the

00:02:51.100 court. There she is. By all accounts, thanks to Talisha, great things were coming for the state

00:02:55.020 of New Hampshire. But a couple of questions remained unanswered. What exactly would Talisha

00:02:59.620 accomplish once she got on the bench? And what ways would she shock the world with her legal acumen? 0.90

00:03:05.640 Well, we don't have to guess about the answers to those questions anymore. And that's because

00:03:08.560 recently Judge Talisha issued the first major ruling of her career. And it's a ruling that it's worth 1.00

00:03:15.020 talking about because it underscores a much larger effort that's underway to undermine the identity of

00:03:19.180 this country at a very fundamental level. Specifically, Judge Talisha, in her infinite

00:03:22.940 wisdom, determined that it was completely legal for Nashua City Hall to ban the appeal to heaven

00:03:28.300 pine tree flag, while at the same time flying the so-called pride flag outside of City Hall.

00:03:34.540 Never mind the fact that the pine tree flag was flown at the Battle of Bunker Hill, which is a battle

00:03:38.320 that many New Hampshire residents participated in. Never mind the fact that it was used by ship's

00:03:43.280 commission by George Washington. None of that matters, according to the city,

00:03:46.920 because the pine tree flag, quote, was not in harmony with city policies or was contrary to

00:03:52.600 the city's best interest. Now, on the other hand, the pride flag, which is just a horizontal rainbow 0.93

00:03:57.940 that some gay guy drew in San Francisco in the 70s, is apparently completely compatible with the 0.97

00:04:03.380 policies of the city of Nashua. And therefore, the judge ruled that the city can fly the gay pride flag

00:04:09.040 while prohibiting people from flying the Revolutionary War flag. Now, to be clear, the city hall

00:04:14.800 at Nashua has a citizen's flagpole, which normally flies flags that citizens want to be flown.

00:04:22.200 And over the years, those flags have commemorated everything from Greek Independence Day to

00:04:26.260 International Francophone Day. And in fact, here's a picture of the Greek national flag flying outside

00:04:33.000 Nashua's City Hall. You can see it there. So it's usually a pretty open forum for people to fly the

00:04:37.480 flags they want. But it's not an open forum anymore. In order to protect their ability to fly the pride

00:04:43.220 flag, which is profoundly sacred to them, the city government has effectively shut down the ability

00:04:48.120 of citizens to fly flags commemorating what they want to commemorate, including major battles of

00:04:52.540 the American Revolution like Bunker Hill. And pathbreaking judges like Talisha St. Mark are 1.00

00:04:58.080 signing off on it. This is an extraordinary development, especially since it's taking place

00:05:03.080 not far from the birthplace of the American Revolution. But it's not just happening in very liberal

00:05:08.540 states like New Hampshire. We're seeing similar efforts to canonize the pride flag in liberal

00:05:13.480 cities that are located within conservative states, particularly in Utah and Idaho. This is the

00:05:19.080 big act of resistance that several liberal enclaves have decided on. And we'll start with Boise, which

00:05:25.600 is the capital of Idaho. And recently, the state passed a law requiring that only official government

00:05:31.640 flags could fly at government buildings, which makes a lot of sense.

00:05:35.660 And in response, Boise just passed a resolution declaring that the pride flag is indeed an

00:05:42.480 official flag of the city. Yes, they have named the pride flag as an official flag of the capital

00:05:47.900 city of Idaho. Now, before we break this down and all the perverse implications, I have to admit that,

00:05:54.260 you know, a random female protester at the Boise City Council said pretty much everything that needs 0.99

00:05:58.600 to be said about this decision. I don't know if she's interested in a political commentary career,

00:06:03.200 but if not, she should be because she really sums up the situation pretty well. Watch.

00:06:09.160 You're a bunch of frickin' commies. You think gay people are the only people who are entitled to 1.00

00:06:15.420 anything? The American flag covers everybody in the country. No, it doesn't.

00:06:22.020 Yep, pretty much. In case you couldn't make it out, she calls all the pride flag supporters

00:06:25.900 frickin' commies, which they are. And then she explains that every single demographic group does

00:06:30.940 not need to have its own flag. And that's, you know, because we already have the American flag,

00:06:35.220 which covers everybody. And, you know, says that all these people are incredibly narcissistic. And

00:06:39.640 she does all this in about 10 seconds, so it's really quite poetic. It's also a much better argument

00:06:44.560 than anything the pro-pride flag people could come up with. Here, for example, is the statement from

00:06:49.940 someone named Colin Nash, who was apparently the president of the Boise City Council. And here was his

00:06:57.020 argument in support of making the pride flag an official government flag in Boise. Now, I'm not

00:07:03.180 going to spoil anything, but this has to be one of the greatest rug pulls in the history of political

00:07:10.180 speeches in any context. Because this guy really leads you into believing that things are going a

00:07:15.740 certain way. And then right when you think you know where it's going, he completely subverts your

00:07:20.600 expectations. None of it really makes sense, but it's incredible to behold all the same.

00:07:25.380 And again, this is his argument in favor of making the pride flag an official flag of the city at City

00:07:33.020 Hall. And here's what he says. Watch. I want to take a chance, get a little personal, and hope I can

00:07:42.040 trust you all. About 15 years ago, I was recently married, and I had a secret. And

00:07:55.220 in retrospect, the secret was very small and dumb. And but when you're young and 20, and

00:08:01.020 it felt very big, and it felt very weighty. And sometimes I would drive home, I had a long commute

00:08:08.560 along the highway. And I would just wonder, like, what if another car just hit me? And I wouldn't have

00:08:13.940 to talk about this. I wouldn't have to bring this up with my family. And I wouldn't have to deal with

00:08:18.800 the consequences of what I felt were a pretty big deal. And it was a really hard time in my life.

00:08:28.040 Eventually got out of it with great support from my lovely wife. And I'm not gay.

00:08:35.960 Now, you can watch that clip 15 times. And even when you know that's coming, it's still a surprise.

00:08:43.400 There's all that buildup. He's giving you the stock story about how he was contemplating hurting

00:08:48.060 himself back when he was young because he was in the closet. That's what you think it's leading to

00:08:52.800 based on the context. We're talking about the pride flag. And then he drops the hammer and informs

00:08:57.400 you that he's not gay. But if you watch the whole speech, he never tells you actually what his secret

00:09:02.380 was. You can listen to the whole speech. He never says it. So no one has any idea what he's talking

00:09:06.280 about or how it's relevant to anything. All we know is that the Boise City Council president has

00:09:11.020 some kind of secret. And it's a secret so bad that he thought about causing a fatal car accident.

00:09:16.900 But we don't know what it is or how the hell any of that is related to the pride flag.

00:09:21.680 Now, as best I can tell, the idea is that some people are suicidal because they have secrets of

00:09:26.820 some kind. And therefore, the government of Boise needs to endorse the pride flag to make people

00:09:32.340 with secrets feel better. Even if your secret has nothing to do with being a closeted homosexual, 0.97

00:09:38.100 still the pride flag will cheer you up, I guess. And I'm not cherry picking an argument here. I

00:09:42.940 didn't find some random activists ranting about this particular issue. This is, as I said, the

00:09:47.240 president of the Boise City Council delivering remarks that he prepared in advance in support of

00:09:52.280 a proposal to officially endorse the pride flag as an official city flag. And that's the best he could

00:09:57.840 come up with. The rest of the city council, which, by the way, voted to endorse the pride flag

00:10:02.180 by a margin of five to one, was pretty much the same way. Some of them mentioned that gay people

00:10:07.000 don't have enough rights, even though they didn't explain what they were talking about.

00:10:11.580 Even the lone dissenting voice was embarrassing. The woman who voted against the pride flag just said 0.92

00:10:16.660 that, well, essentially, she was worried that the city would be sued if it endorsed the pride flag.

00:10:20.700 So she had no backbone at all. The bottom line is that no one on the Boise City Council delivered a

00:10:26.100 rational explanation for why the city should fly this flag. Because there is no rational explanation

00:10:31.980 for it. But in Boise, a lot of people support it. A local news station interviewed a few random

00:10:37.100 people on the street. And here's what they had to say. When you're walking past Boise City Hall,

00:10:44.420 you'll see three flagpoles flying five flags, one of those being a pride flag. But a new law makes

00:10:51.740 flying it illegal. At the end of the day, it doesn't hurt me. If the mayor decides that she wants

00:10:56.360 to fly it, great. The city of Boise simply tells Idaho News 6, quote, the city will continue to fly

00:11:02.300 existing flags on city property. They declined to expand on that statement in any way. You're not

00:11:08.200 taking the American flag down to fly it, right? So I don't know why it matters. You know, I'm just

00:11:13.920 like, let's let people be who they are. What would be the harm in it? And it makes a positive

00:11:20.080 statement about our community and its values. I think it's very important to show representation

00:11:26.120 for people in this city. We have gay and LGBTQ plus members in our community.

00:11:32.300 who I think at this time need our support. Live your life. Let them live their life.

00:11:36.480 That's right. There you go. There you go.

00:11:39.260 Now you can see the reporter who presumably, like the president of city council, is definitely not

00:11:43.920 gay. Nodding along at the end of that footage, and this is the kind of dispassionate coverage you 1.00

00:11:49.220 get on issues like this. But of course, nothing these people are saying makes any sense. Live your

00:11:54.020 life. Let them live their life. That's what he says. But that has nothing to do with shoving a

00:11:59.140 partisan, radical ideology down the throats of everybody who doesn't agree with it,

00:12:04.420 which in particular includes all real Christians in Boise. The LGBTQI plus pride cult is effectively 0.97

00:12:11.540 a secular religion, or at least a sect of a secular religion. And giving these people,

00:12:17.420 and only these people, the endorsement of the government is the exact opposite of live and let

00:12:22.100 live. It's an attack on both Christianity and the national identity of this country. Live your life and let 1.00

00:12:26.560 them live their life is precisely what you aren't doing when you make a homosexual flag into an

00:12:31.400 official flag of the city. And again, the reason this is worth talking about is that it's happening

00:12:36.640 all over the place. It's not just New Hampshire and Idaho. It's also happening in Utah, of all places.

00:12:41.620 So take a look at this image. There you see the mayor of Salt Lake, Erin Mendenhall, and she's unveiling

00:12:47.780 a set of new flags that are officially sanctioned by the city, including an LGBTQ plus pride flag,

00:12:53.440 the Juneteenth flag, and the transgender pride flag. Just like in Boise, Salt Lake's government

00:13:00.720 is introducing these flags in response to a state law that prohibits government buildings from flying

00:13:04.480 flags that don't represent a city or a county country. So their solution is to declare that

00:13:10.800 the Juneteenth flag and the trans flag and the LGBT flag do in fact represent the city of Salt Lake

00:13:16.140 officially. Because, you know, nothing says Mormon values like BLM holidays and child castration, 0.84

00:13:22.560 apparently. So these cities are doing the opposite of what they should be doing. And I don't just mean

00:13:28.480 that, you know, they shouldn't be recognizing the LGBT flag. Obviously, they shouldn't do that. 0.94

00:13:34.960 I mean that the government shouldn't recognize the quote unquote LGBT community at all. LGBT people are

00:13:41.040 not a nation, so it makes no sense for them to have a flag, much less one that flies on a government

00:13:46.720 building. They also aren't really a community. The fact that a bunch of people share the same

00:13:51.140 sexual proclivity does not make them a real community or a coherent group that the government

00:13:57.400 should give any special recognition to at all. Right? As the woman said in the first video we played,

00:14:04.480 well, you're just an American. You're already covered. We don't need to like, we don't need to give you 0.96

00:14:08.160 special recognition because you're an American who also happens to have these sexual proclivities.

00:14:12.640 That should just, there should be no context where the government recognizes that. It has nothing to

00:14:16.220 do with public policy, or at least it shouldn't. Now, it seems that the current administration

00:14:22.220 realizes that. Reading now from the postmillennial quote, the Trump administration has slashed more

00:14:26.220 than $800 million in federal research funding from the National Institutes of Health for studies

00:14:30.140 related to LGBT health. One example of cut funding included research being done at Harvard

00:14:36.180 University's medical school regarding the mental health of LGBTQ youth. The funding was terminated

00:14:40.820 by the NIH on March 12th. The NIH informed Harvard that research programs based on gender identity

00:14:47.000 are often unscientific, have little identifiable return on investment and do nothing to enhance

00:14:52.200 the health of many Americans. Many such studies ignore rather than seriously examine biological

00:14:56.600 realities. It is the policy of NIH to not prioritize these research programs, close quote.

00:15:02.080 Now, one of the reasons this matters is that at Harvard and many other universities,

00:15:06.060 they blame Republican legislation for the mental health of LGBT youth. And that's the goal of these 1.00

00:15:12.860 studies. They try to make the argument that, you know, if you ban child castration, you're going to

00:15:18.220 cause mass suicides. And the premise here is obviously ludicrous because we didn't have mass suicides back

00:15:23.900 when transgenderism was not recognized as a thing at all. And we didn't have it when it was recognized,

00:15:31.020 but it was basically treated like a punchline. I mean, there were no mass suicides in response to

00:15:35.580 Mrs. Doubtfire, as far as I know. So this is all fake research. It's explicitly political and

00:15:41.600 fraudulent. And now it's being shut down. The Hill adds this, quote, the HHS began laying off thousands

00:15:47.780 of workers earlier this month, including personnel at the National Center for HIV, viral hepatitis,

00:15:52.480 STD, and tuberculosis prevention, and the Global Health Center Division of Global HIV and TB.

00:15:59.680 Within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Division of HIV Prevention,

00:16:03.920 five branches were eliminated completely, including the research, surveillance, and

00:16:07.440 prevention communication branches. Now, none of this is happening without a lot of complaining,

00:16:12.660 as you might expect. NBC News interviewed the CEO of a gay nonprofit in Los Angeles who issued this

00:16:17.940 dire warning, quote, we've seen a radical decline in new HIV cases as a result of our HIV prevention

00:16:23.240 efforts here in Los Angeles. What I'm incredibly worried about is if the county stops funding HIV

00:16:28.800 prevention work, that new cases will skyrocket. They also interviewed a scientist at Harvard who

00:16:34.280 said, quote, most of my colleagues are afraid to speak out. This is what authoritarianism looks like.

00:16:39.720 Fear keeps people silent, close quote. So the message is that by eliminating a bunch of fake research

00:16:46.580 into gender and homosexuality, a lot of people are going to die. And specifically, the gay nonprofit 0.99

00:16:51.780 guy in Los Angeles says that people are going to die of HIV because apparently we need to study HIV some

00:16:57.900 more. And if you disagree, you're basically Hitler. What's being overlooked here, of course, is how

00:17:04.120 exactly HIV is spread. And if you think about that for two seconds, you'll realize that in reality, the

00:17:09.440 impact that LGBT health issues have are either made up in the case of, you know, claiming a lot of this

00:17:18.560 stuff about mental health or self-imposed. You know, they're very often the product of reckless and

00:17:23.260 dangerous sexual behavior. The AIDS crisis is the most obvious example. Monkeypox is another one.

00:17:28.700 It's very easy to not get those diseases. We don't need to study it anymore. It's very easy to not get

00:17:35.280 them. Every rational adult knows how to avoid it. If you're having random gay sex with strangers, 1.00

00:17:39.960 you might get HIV and monkeypox. If you aren't, you almost certainly will not get either of those

00:17:46.240 diseases. So really no need to spend another $100 million studying the issue. In cities where

00:17:53.020 the pride flag is the equivalent of the American flag, you're not allowed to say any of this out

00:17:57.540 loud. They'll give you a lot of nasty looks in Boise and Salt Lake City if you besmirch the state 0.66

00:18:01.740 religion. But the more these activists try to force this nonsense on everybody, the more it's important 1.00

00:18:06.920 to say what's actually happening. So let's do that. A country that recognizes multiple flags

00:18:14.060 carved out among various narcissistic interest groups cannot survive for very long. Everyone

00:18:20.060 knows that. As the random lady said at the Boise City Council, only a dumb commie would disagree. 1.00

00:18:26.720 And the more these cities pass absurd laws like this and the more Harvard researchers pretend that

00:18:30.920 they need a few more billion dollars to study gay health issues, the more everyone can tell that

00:18:36.680 the random lady in Boise is a lot smarter and a whole lot more honest than any of the activists 1.00

00:18:41.620 and government officials who shouted her down. The LGBT club is clearly scrambling in desperation

00:18:47.340 at the moment. All the Trump administration has to do now is continue what they're doing

00:18:51.780 and take every step necessary to shut them down for good. Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:20:03.460 this, the news has just broke that there's white smoke coming out of the Sistine Chapel, which informs

00:20:11.280 us that a new pope has been selected. At this moment, we don't know who the new pope is, so I'm not

00:20:17.880 going to speculate about that, so tune in tomorrow and I'll get my take on, as that news comes out,

00:20:22.160 and I'll get my take on it tomorrow. But there is, at least at this exact moment, we know that there

00:20:28.060 is going to be an announcement today. So we'll put that on hold for tomorrow, and we'll start with

00:20:34.980 this. Attorney General Pam Bondi yesterday was asked about the Epstein files, and here's what she said.

00:20:44.980 James Comer said yesterday that all the Epstein files are missing.

00:20:49.120 They still haven't heard from you. No, no, the FBI, yeah, the FBI, they're reviewing. There are tens

00:20:55.760 of thousands of videos of Epstein with children or child, and there are hundreds of victims,

00:21:05.860 and no one victim will ever get released. It's just the volume, and that's what they're going

00:21:11.260 through right now. The FBI is diligently going through that. I haven't seen that statement,

00:21:16.360 but I'll call him later and find out. Okay, so if you didn't hear the question,

00:21:20.540 it was about the claim that the actual Epstein files are missing or destroyed,

00:21:26.200 and that was the question. It was like, is that why we haven't seen them?

00:21:30.980 And Bondi says, well, that's not true. So she says that they haven't been destroyed,

00:21:36.320 and the reason, she says, that we haven't seen any files is that the FBI is still going through

00:21:42.380 them, and there are lots of videos of child abuse that they have to sift through, you know.

00:21:49.440 Now, that excuse makes sense if you, you know, just woke up from a coma yesterday,

00:21:57.600 but if you didn't, then you know that Epstein was arrested six years ago. Are we supposed to believe

00:22:06.980 that the FBI is still going through this material six years later? Is it that much material that it

00:22:13.820 takes six years to go through it? We're supposed to believe that six years after the fact, they're

00:22:19.260 still gathering the facts. Six years after he was arrested, right? Like, whatever, five years after

00:22:26.380 he died, and they're still gathering, they're still on a fact-finding mission. I just don't buy it.

00:22:37.640 Like, I don't, I just don't buy it. Especially because, obviously, nobody expects or wants them

00:22:45.100 to release videos of child abuse. That's not, you know, when we talk about releasing the Epstein files,

00:22:50.900 the actual Epstein files, not the files that were released in the binders, you know, several weeks

00:22:57.520 ago, which had no new information at all. But when we talk about that, we're not saying, you know,

00:23:02.360 these horrifying videos are made. Clearly not. All we want to know, all we want to know is who Epstein's

00:23:11.960 associates were, which prominent and powerful people are documented to have engaged in sexual,

00:23:18.600 the sexual abuse of minors. What are the names? And what is the, the, the documented evidence against

00:23:28.620 them? And if that evidence, as we expect it does, includes horrific videos, clearly you're not

00:23:35.680 publicizing those, but we want to know that they exist. And then the next follow-up question is

00:23:42.420 going to be, okay, so why, when are they getting arrested? Why are they not arrested?

00:23:50.120 So that's all we want to know. And it's just impossible to believe that six years later,

00:23:54.520 they still don't have answers to these questions. It's absurd. You know, it's just not credible.

00:23:59.020 So why are we getting the runaround? I mean, that, that's certainly what it seems like. It seems

00:24:07.180 like this is a runaround because I just don't, I don't buy it. The fact that we can't release

00:24:15.660 anything, the claim that nothing can be released because they're still going through it. I just

00:24:20.360 don't buy it. I can't, how can anyone believe that you're like insulting our intelligence? It's

00:24:25.880 been six years. Obviously, you know, everything that's in there. Uh, so it seems to me that there

00:24:33.300 are two possible answers as to why we haven't seen the actual Epstein files, why, um, nobody's been

00:24:40.960 arrested, why there's been no, as far as we know, there's not even any plans to arrest anybody.

00:24:45.680 Like there, there are two possible answers and neither of them are good. One answer is that for

00:24:53.640 some reason, some of the people in the administration are involved in covering this information up.

00:25:00.300 Um, the other is that they don't actually have much more information than what's already been

00:25:07.920 made public. That's the other possibility. Either this is being covered up or there, or you don't have,

00:25:17.560 or you, or you got nothing, you don't have anything. Now, if it's the second option, that would mean

00:25:23.260 that these smoking guns were destroyed a long time ago. And so now they just don't have anything.

00:25:30.260 And, um, which remember is the, that was the question that was asked because there have been

00:25:36.160 claims to that effect that just have this, has this stuff been destroyed? And so now there's just

00:25:41.800 nothing. Um, no, I, I, being a, someone who tends towards cynicism, I tend to believe it's, I, I,

00:25:54.580 I think there's a good chance that it's the second option. The evidence, you know, the evidence that,

00:25:58.920 the evidence that implicates rich and powerful people was destroyed a long time ago. And, uh,

00:26:05.680 and now it's, and so they don't have it. Um, it's either that, or as I said,

00:26:13.780 they have it, but they're not telling us they're covering it up and then they're covering it up

00:26:20.920 because why would they be doing that? Well, I don't know. I mean, one of the reasons would be,

00:26:26.240 could be that they have this blackmail material and they want to still be able to use it.

00:26:31.140 And once you publicize it, you can't use it as blackmail material. I don't know. I mean,

00:26:36.880 we can only speculate. We're left to speculate because we're not being given the whole story.

00:26:42.760 Um, and the problem is that, you know, the, the answer that would let Pam Bondi off the hook

00:26:54.720 potentially is that this stuff was destroyed a long time ago. The coverup already happened before we got

00:27:00.500 here because there was a whole other administration that was, you know, there in between. Uh, and so

00:27:07.200 this, and this stuff was now, so that, if that happened, then it would let Pam Bondi off the hook.

00:27:12.760 The problem is that she's claiming that didn't happen. And we've, we were, you know, there was

00:27:18.860 that, that whole episode several weeks ago when we were told that, yeah, we've got information.

00:27:22.520 It's really shocking. Get ready. We're going to release it. And then we get it. And it's all the stuff

00:27:27.760 we already knew. So if the stuff was destroyed, then that's, you, you tell us that like right away.

00:27:37.460 That's, that's what the attorney general should tell us like a day after getting into her position 0.89

00:27:42.720 should come out and say, look, this stuff's been destroyed. There's a lot missing.

00:27:47.720 So now that it becomes, we're going to find out who did that and we're going to hold them accountable.

00:27:51.380 But I don't know that this kind of, the stringing us along and saying like, yeah, there's, we have it,

00:27:59.840 but we're still going through it. I just don't buy it. I just don't buy it. And, um,

00:28:07.400 it, it pisses me off, frankly. All right. The New York post has what I guess is supposed to be a sad

00:28:15.580 headline. The headline is Georgia college student faces deportation after running red light.

00:28:21.340 Police discover her entire family is living illegally in the U S for years.

00:28:27.480 Now there's a, I'm going to read this. There's one sentence in this article that I want you to

00:28:30.980 really focus on and we'll read it and we'll see if you pick up on it. I'm sure you will,

00:28:36.620 but here's the, here's what it says. A Georgia college student faces deportation after she ran a

00:28:42.860 red light and authorities discover her entire family has been illegally living in the U S for

00:28:45.820 nearly 15 years. Mexican national Ximena Arias Cristobal, uh, 19 was pulled over by police in

00:28:53.680 Dalton, uh, Georgia after she failed to adhere on a no turn on red sign. Ximena Arias Cristobal was

00:29:01.020 driving without a driver's license, but told officers she had an international driver's license.

00:29:06.300 She admitted she didn't have the foreign document when they, she was asked about it.

00:29:09.800 Uh, in 2010, Arias Cristobal was brought into the U S illegally by her parents, which was only 0.99

00:29:15.180 four years old. Uh, because of her non-citizen status, Arias Cristobal was paying out of state 0.98

00:29:21.700 tuition for school, despite living in the area. The officer who pulled her over attempted to speak

00:29:26.580 to the teen's mom and the owner of the car, but neither of them spoke English. According to the

00:29:30.020 report, Arias Cristobal was arrested and charged with driving without a valid license and failure to

00:29:35.140 obey, uh, traffic control devices. And now the whole family faces deportation. Okay. So

00:29:40.460 a whole family of illegal, illegal aliens, uh, she's driving without a license. She's disobeying 1.00

00:29:46.340 traffic laws. Already there's enough reason to deport everybody and it's got nothing to do with

00:29:52.060 the traffic laws. It's you're here illegally. That's all the reason we need. That's the one

00:29:57.340 single reason we need to deport you. Uh, you're not supposed to be here. And the, by the way, 0.77

00:30:03.680 the post article has a bunch of pictures of this girl and her graduation gown. I don't know why the

00:30:08.560 media is so obsessed with graduation photos. Like they always do this. Of course, anytime there's

00:30:13.740 a martyr that they want us to feel sorry for, they always beat us over the head with the graduation

00:30:18.700 photos. And it's always high school graduation too. Like we're supposed to be impressed. Okay.

00:30:26.440 Congratulations. You graduated high school. You literally have no choice but to graduate high

00:30:30.540 school. You cannot fail high school. They won't let you. Trust me. I tried when I was a kid. So

00:30:36.100 you, you can't, it's not an option. And when you try to fail high school, they say, no, you can't,

00:30:40.660 you're not allowed to do that. Okay. Well then I'm just not going to turn in any of my work for the

00:30:45.280 entire year. Okay, fine. But you're still going to graduate whether you like it or not. Um, so,

00:30:49.520 you know, it's, it's not exactly a great achievement.

00:30:52.320 And, um, but it's also irrelevant. Like it's, so I guess we're supposed to, oh, she graduated high

00:30:59.540 school. Why would we want to deport her? It's a, it's a, it's a non sequitur, but maybe you picked

00:31:07.540 up on the one very salient sentence and all of this. I'm sure you did. Uh, it was this part again.

00:31:12.760 The officer who pulled her over attempted to speak to the teen's mom and the owner of the car,

00:31:15.940 but neither of them spoke English. Of course they didn't. Now keep in mind, they've been here

00:31:24.100 for 15 years. Her family has been here for 15 years and they can't speak English.

00:31:33.600 Now learning a new, a new language, if you're fully immersed in it, right? If you're using the

00:31:39.100 immersion technique, it should take about six months and it could take, it could take three months.

00:31:45.940 Right. But it should be like three to six months. Uh, and that's, and that's six months

00:31:52.600 after living and being immersed in a language, you should be able to get by conversationally.

00:32:01.080 After another six months, you've been, you know, for a year, you should be totally fluent. Like you

00:32:05.900 can speak, you should be able to speak the language as well as any native speaker. 15 years later.

00:32:12.140 I mean, there should be no difference in your grasp of the language and anyone else who was born there.

00:32:20.280 15 years. They've been here through like four different presidential terms.

00:32:27.020 And, uh, I mean, they got to this country three years after the iPhone was invented. So, so it's like,

00:32:35.060 it's been a long time and yet they can't speak the language at all, apparently. And this of course

00:32:43.280 is very common. It's not shocking. It should be shocking, but it's not because immigrants come here 1.00

00:32:50.040 and they don't learn the language. And that's not just annoying. It is annoying. It's extremely

00:32:55.540 annoying. Uh, I shouldn't have to encounter anyone in my own country who can't, who I can't communicate

00:32:59.820 with. Um, unless it's a tourist or like a baby. Okay. Those are the two kinds of people that

00:33:07.440 I'm okay with not being able to communicate with. If you're an adult who has full capacity, you know,

00:33:14.960 use of your vocal cords and, and, you know, your hearing, uh, and you live here, you're a resident

00:33:21.000 supposedly, then I should be able to communicate with you. So, uh, it's annoying. It's also incredibly

00:33:31.160 disrespectful. I mean, how dare you come to this country and not even pay us the basic respect of

00:33:37.460 learning our language. It's presumptuous. It's lazy. It's entitled. It's selfish. It's offensive.

00:33:45.000 And it's not a small thing. Language is a basic element of human civilization. Like one of the most

00:33:51.360 fundamental requirements of a country, of a nation, of a people in order to be a country, nation, and

00:33:57.440 people is that everyone can speak to each other and understand each other. A shared language is step

00:34:05.360 one, right? So it's the most, it's the most basic requirement. And these people won't even fulfill

00:34:12.480 that basic requirement. And what that shows, of course, is that these immigrants come here without 1.00

00:34:18.380 the slightest intention to actually assimilate into our country. The problem isn't that these immigrants 1.00

00:34:23.820 are lazy and selfish and refusing to learn our language. Although that's true too. It's that it's,

00:34:29.540 it's, it shouldn't be possible to live here for 15 years and not learn our language.

00:34:37.220 That should not be possible. Even if you speak broken English, if you speak with an accent,

00:34:42.340 um, you know, if you have an accent, you can have an accent. If you're learning a new language,

00:34:47.600 fine. You should still know English though. You should be like, someone should be able to

00:34:53.440 communicate to you with you in, in the, the, the language of that country.

00:35:01.520 And, um, and like I said, that should be, it, it, there shouldn't be an option. It should just

00:35:07.140 not be possible to live here for 15 years and not at least have that basic grasp of the language.

00:35:13.760 But many of these illegal immigrants don't speak, speak the language at all because it is possible to 1.00

00:35:19.480 not learn it because they come here and they form their own little cells, their own little colonies

00:35:24.560 in the middle of our country where they speak their own language. They continue living in every way as

00:35:29.700 though they were still in their motherland. That's not assimilation. Okay. Assimilation is fake. It's a

00:35:37.080 myth. It's not happening. It's not actually happening. When you bring mass amounts of foreigners into your 1.00

00:35:43.340 country, you get disorder and disarray and dilution and confusion. Uh, you don't get assimilation. 0.99

00:35:49.600 That's, I mean, it's, it's very clear. You got people that come here. They're here for fit. They're

00:35:54.100 here for a decade and a half. They're here for longer than any of my kids have been alive and

00:35:59.780 don't speak the language. So that that's, don't tell me about a melting pot. It's a melt. What,

00:36:05.060 what melted? They haven't melted into anything. That's not a melting pot. It's not assimilation. It's not

00:36:10.160 anything. And I just hate the gaslighting over this. And I don't use that word very often because

00:36:16.460 it's overplayed, but this is gaslighting. Uh, they bring in all these foreigners and then act 1.00

00:36:22.100 like they don't understand why we have a problem with it. You know, they'll listen to someone like

00:36:27.980 me complain or someone like you, any, any, any rational American who has a problem with this and

00:36:33.660 they'll complain that the immigrants don't speak our language and they'll act like they can't possibly 0.99

00:36:39.440 understand why that's upsetting to us or why, like why speaking the same language is important.

00:36:45.480 And yet with any other country on earth, any, any non-white, non-Western country, 0.99

00:36:50.960 they would fully acknowledge the problem and they'd complain about it to themselves. I mean,

00:36:56.900 if let's say 30 million white English speaking Americans move to, um, India. Now I think right 1.00

00:37:10.040 now in India, there are thousands of Americans living there, definitely not millions. So, um,

00:37:16.240 you know, not enough for it to be like noticeable, but let's say it was, let's say it was tens of

00:37:21.260 millions of English speaking white Americans just moved en masse to India. And let's say they all 1.00

00:37:30.120 moved there. They kept speaking English. They kept all of their white American customs. 0.97

00:37:37.820 And over time, as a result, India started to become Americanized. India started to become more like 0.96

00:37:43.140 America and less like India. Let's say that all of these white Americans who moved there en masse 0.99

00:37:49.740 illegally, let's add, not, not in accordance with the laws of India, but they just did, they

00:37:55.980 ignoring the laws, they just took it upon themselves. And, um, and, and, and not too short a time,

00:38:02.740 what ends up happening is that India is pulled more too close. They pull India towards themselves 0.99

00:38:10.120 rather than them going and assimilating into India. So let's say that happens. 0.68

00:38:14.300 Um, everybody would view it as a problem. Like no one would say that. Oh yeah, that's fine.

00:38:26.000 That's fine. Nobody would say that. No one would say that. And when India came along and said, okay, 0.98

00:38:31.720 uh, Hey guys, we're not doing this. You got, you got to go now. You can't do that. This is India. 1.00

00:38:36.180 This is our country. You can't just move. You can't move here by the tens of millions

00:38:40.660 and try to turn our country into yours. You, you, you can't, we're not going to let you do that. 0.97

00:38:46.720 Um, so if, if India rounded them all up and kick them out, nobody would object. 1.00

00:38:56.040 Everybody was, I wouldn't object. I would say, yeah, I mean, that's, that's what you should do.

00:39:01.080 I would do the same thing if I was in your shoes.

00:39:02.600 Um, and so it's only with our country that it's a problem only in our country. We expected to put

00:39:11.120 up with this thing that no one else would tolerate. No one would tolerate. And only for us is an issue.

00:39:20.100 And so that that's the gaslighting.

00:39:25.440 You know, because you know what people recognize that I'm just using India as an example.

00:39:31.020 Um, people recognize that India is not just a geographic spot on the map. Um, people recognize

00:39:46.220 that India is India because of Indians because, and they also recognize that, you know, um, if you

00:39:54.600 were to, uh, if the, if you ever, ever seen the show, uh, the leftovers on HBO, which is a great

00:40:03.840 show by the way, but in that show, it, the premise of the show is that one day, like I forget what it

00:40:11.160 is, but 5% of the, of the world population just disappears and it is with no explanation. They just

00:40:17.220 gone. Right. Well, if, if there was a scenario like that and tomorrow, uh, it was a leftover

00:40:26.520 situation, but it only hit India and all the Indians in India just like disappeared.

00:40:32.920 And then a bunch of white Americans moved India and took over. Well, that's not India anymore. 0.92

00:40:40.420 Like everyone would understand that's not what to call that. India doesn't make any sense anymore. 1.00

00:40:45.320 The only similarity is that they're on the same ground, but all the Indians are gone. And these 1.00

00:40:51.740 are a bunch of white Americans from Ohio and, you know, Minnesota that are living here now. And so

00:40:56.620 it's, that's not, it's just not India. It's not. And again, everybody would understand that. And no

00:41:04.160 one would object to that point in the case of India or of China or Japan or, you know, South Korea,

00:41:11.800 right. Or, or Saudi Arabia or Honduras or any other country. Um, it's only in this country where

00:41:20.600 we're told that, well, you're just as much a, a, a valid citizen of this country. As long as you

00:41:27.600 just happen to be here. The only, the only thing that's required to be, to be fully American is just to,

00:41:33.520 is just to be here, to physically stand here. You don't even have to go through any of the paperwork.

00:41:42.060 We're the only country where that's expected to see things that way. And, uh, it's gaslighting

00:41:49.460 and it's outrageous and, uh, I'm sick of it. All right. Uh, New York post has this, uh, we've got a

00:41:58.100 little customer service controversy. Those are always fun. Wild viral footage has captured

00:42:03.260 Frontier Airlines, uh, gate agents getting into a bust up with a passenger, a bust up B-U-S-T up.

00:42:12.760 I've heard of a dust up and not a bust up. Is that even a, is that a real phrase?

00:42:16.980 Anyway, getting into a bust up with a passenger who had sniped, I'm never flying this airline again

00:42:22.000 after being hit with an unexpected $25 fee just to check in. The caught on camera saga erupted when

00:42:27.740 the male passenger, 45 year old married father of three, trying to check in for his Frontier flight

00:42:32.400 from Raleigh, North Carolina to Boston. The passenger who didn't want to be identified told

00:42:36.800 the Post that he'd arrived at the airport with 50 minutes, five zero to spare, but wasn't able to

00:42:41.800 check in on the electronic kiosk because unbeknownst to him, he had missed the airline's 60 minute

00:42:46.080 pre-departure window. When he went to speak to a Frontier employee, he was told he needed to cough up a

00:42:51.600 $25 fee to check in at the desk per the airline's policy. And that's when he claims things turn

00:42:58.460 sour. Um, and they got into a back and forth and that's where I think the video that this passenger

00:43:05.420 took begins. And let's watch a little bit of that. And you think, oh, you're going to check me in. I bet

00:43:11.980 you we won't. I paid, I paid for a ticket. Yeah. I paid for a ticket. You checked in three hours later.

00:43:18.980 Hello. I just said that I, I just said that I would pay the $25. And you thought you were going

00:43:23.960 to get on your flight. And you thought you were going to get on your flight. And you thought you

00:43:28.320 was going to get on your flight. I literally paid for a ticket. I'm here 30 minutes. I'm here 30

00:43:32.720 minutes before my flight. And they're not letting me check in. And you're not getting on your flight.

00:43:37.760 Because it's a policy. We don't control that. You better get up. You are about to let me check in.

00:43:43.480 You are about to let me check in. And you decided that you ain't going to let me check in.

00:43:48.320 Make me take you literally work for a company that I bought a plane ticket for I'm here 30 minutes before the flight

00:43:58.340 I'm not in your personal space. This is not your personal space. This is not your personal space

00:44:04.880 You work for a company. This is not your personal space

00:44:10.480 You don't have to worry about it

00:44:11.980 You're literally not doing your job for a customer that has paid for a plane ticket to get home

00:44:18.320 Now so yeah, that's so that continues

00:44:21.000 Normally, I'm not a huge fan of taking your phone out and recording these kinds of interactions

00:44:25.460 You're having an annoying experience with customer service. Why does it need to be made public? Why do we need to bring the public into it?

00:44:33.940 But in a case like this, I also understand it because

00:44:36.840 You know as a customer you're frustrated

00:44:41.260 And helpless and this is how customers feel when they're dealing with awful customer service from these big corporations

00:44:47.420 And frontier counts as a big corporation

00:44:49.940 I mean you might think that like their corporate office is a tent made out of blankets

00:44:54.440 With one phone that's actually a can connected to a string

00:44:58.240 You might think that but actually it is a it's a corporation and as far as I know it has at least one real building

00:45:04.140 And uh, so when you're in that spot as a customer you have no other recourse a lot of times like nobody in the company

00:45:10.460 Gives the slightest crap about you or the issue that you're having

00:45:14.620 The customer service representatives actively despise you

00:45:18.460 They hate you just for being there. Nobody in the corporate office cares at all

00:45:23.140 You're getting ripped off and uh, what are you supposed to do?

00:45:25.960 You know, so this guy resorts to filming and

00:45:29.380 And in in this case I get it

00:45:32.400 And I I I so I I increasingly understand when people even though I still find it kind of annoying but

00:45:38.520 When people bring the take the phone out when they start complaining about

00:45:43.280 Customer service stuff, you know on social media

00:45:46.480 It's the only way to get any kind of response. It's the only way because otherwise

00:45:51.520 Nobody cares

00:45:53.300 Otherwise, you can't get anyone at the company to care

00:45:56.260 And in many cases like they've already taken your money. You can't even get your money back

00:46:02.200 And so people have to resort to this. It's the only way to get any response

00:46:07.240 And we've all been in these situations so many times

00:46:11.500 Um

00:46:12.740 With uh

00:46:15.180 You know at airlines with just any big corporation. We've all we've all been

00:46:20.400 In this spot

00:46:21.980 Especially when you're on the phone you're dealing with customer service on the phone

00:46:26.420 Because you have you know, it's an issue with your cell phone bill or anything

00:46:30.320 And you're just trying to get someone on the phone who cares even a little bit

00:46:37.040 About solving your problem and you can and no one does

00:46:41.060 So, uh, if I were to blame this guy for anything, it's flying frontier in the first place

00:46:48.160 I mean

00:46:49.620 As a frequent flyer myself, I will just never fly frontier

00:46:54.200 I think I flew it once like 11 or 12 years ago

00:46:57.120 We were flying to some location that didn't have a lot of flights and the frontier flight was cheaper

00:47:01.480 At least it seemed that way until you get hit with like 19 different additional fees

00:47:05.800 So we took frontier and um

00:47:09.000 Awful service awful plane awful everything

00:47:12.940 It would be too generous to say that frontier is the greyhound bus of the skies. That's too generous

00:47:18.420 frontier is like

00:47:19.860 It's it's it's like the school bus of the skies. It's not the magic school bus. Okay. This is not a whimsical fun school bus

00:47:28.260 This is um, this is a this is a a like a middle school

00:47:31.460 This is a a bus

00:47:32.900 Going to a middle school in baltimore

00:47:35.620 Except it's 30 000 feet in the sky

00:47:38.100 And that is frontier airlines the accommodations the service the clientele. They're all just bust here

00:47:43.500 It is a bus tier experience

00:47:45.700 God awful

00:47:47.040 And since then i've had a few experiences where

00:47:49.900 I had to go somewhere we looked at the flights the only flight that could get me there on time was like a frontier one of these budget airlines

00:47:56.480 And when that happens now, I just say

00:47:58.700 Well, okay, I guess i'm not going to that place

00:48:02.340 I guess whatever that place is. I guess i'm just not going to it

00:48:05.720 Um, because uh, there is no place on earth

00:48:09.340 Worth enduring a budget airline for

00:48:12.740 It doesn't exist. So

00:48:15.020 In this case after this guy made a stink about it. He did get reimbursed

00:48:19.320 Frontier put out a statement claiming that these women were contractors and 0.99

00:48:23.460 Now they no longer work with the company

00:48:25.560 No apology by the way

00:48:27.940 Is it frontier even after all this?

00:48:31.800 So that this is with getting like the media involved and social media

00:48:35.920 even then

00:48:37.560 The best that this guy will get is frontier saying okay, here's your money back and yeah, they didn't even work for us

00:48:44.240 No apology not even like well, we're sorry. You had this experience

00:48:47.620 Frontier's attitude is basically yeah. Well, what did you think was going to happen?

00:48:53.700 We're frontier airlines. What did you think was going to happen?

00:48:57.140 Okay?

00:48:57.540 We're stuffing you into a metal shoebox

00:49:04.000 That's basically the experience like a metal shoebox

00:49:07.220 That's being thrown from one location to another

00:49:10.540 Imagine just getting into a metal shoebox getting stuffed into it

00:49:15.120 And then some big giant just like throws you

00:49:18.020 To to a city 600 miles away. That's that's the frontier airlines experience

00:49:23.880 and

00:49:25.100 So that was kind of I'd almost respect them if that was their say I would respect them if they said yeah

00:49:30.780 Yeah, I mean it sounds like you got the frontier experience

00:49:34.220 Okay, the planes the tickets are 12 bucks

00:49:37.620 What did you expect?

00:49:39.680 What did you expect?

00:49:41.320 Well, you think actual professionals are working for frontier airlines?

00:49:45.360 Who did you think's gonna no front?

00:49:47.460 We're getting the people who couldn't get a job at the dmv. That's who we're getting at frontier airlines, okay? 0.80

00:49:52.140 We're getting the people that

00:49:53.280 The dmv didn't want

00:49:55.260 And and so that's who you're dealing with

00:49:58.200 So I would I would respect them a lot more if they just said that

00:50:03.200 And that should be their motto that should be the motto of these airlines

00:50:08.300 It should just be

00:50:09.140 We don't care about you at all

00:50:11.640 Shut up the tickets were cheap

00:50:14.180 The tickets are cheap shut up

00:50:17.480 That should be the frontier airlines the tickets are cheap shut up

00:50:21.960 That should be the whole ad

00:50:23.280 So but it's not just frontier customer service is abysmal everywhere

00:50:28.460 I went to dunkin donuts the the the I don't know why

00:50:31.920 I do this to myself, but

00:50:33.920 I went to dunkin donuts, which is like the frontier airlines of fast food breakfast establishments 0.73

00:50:39.300 And they they gave me a breakfast sandwich

00:50:42.260 That was ice cold in the middle

00:50:44.800 And I am not one to complain usually

00:50:47.620 About this kind of thing

00:50:49.720 I'm I'm very much a

00:50:51.460 You know

00:50:52.860 I'm very much

00:50:54.600 A middle-aged man

00:50:56.300 A middle-aged man approach to these sort of customer service things

00:50:59.960 And um

00:51:01.300 So usually if I order something and it's not exactly right

00:51:05.200 I'm like, all right, well, I guess i'm just eating this now

00:51:07.060 I don't you know, i'll go

00:51:08.540 I mean i've had times where I go to you know mcdonald's again

00:51:10.860 You ship it you know, I go to mcdonald's and they hand me a bag

00:51:12.800 It's like it's totally not what I ordered at all

00:51:14.600 It's you know, you order a big mac and you get the the filet fish

00:51:18.620 Right and I just go okay. Well, all right

00:51:22.280 Well, I guess I could just have that I mean fine

00:51:24.100 It's still food like it's it's all food made from the same thing. Probably this all comes from the same

00:51:29.060 I don't know it comes from the same part of the rodent that they're getting it from so who cares

00:51:33.180 um

00:51:34.340 But anyway in this is like I can't eat it. I can't it's it's cold in the middle

00:51:38.960 It's not even it's I know it's it's frozen to begin with so I can't say it's not cooked

00:51:43.620 It's already like pre-cooked frozen, but it's like can I at least get it heated like can you warm it up?

00:51:48.140 And so I went back to the guy

00:51:49.520 And I said, um

00:51:51.880 I said hey the breakfast sandwich is cold

00:51:55.380 And he this is what he said. He says

00:51:57.880 Okay

00:51:59.200 That's what he said

00:52:01.620 Okay

00:52:03.500 And so I said

00:52:05.540 Do I need can you can I get another one? Can you can I get one that's warm?

00:52:13.040 Can I get one that's not the temperature? Can I get one that's not a popsicle? I didn't I didn't want a breakfast popsicle

00:52:18.380 I didn't want a egg flavored breakfast popsicle. Can I get a and I like do I have to explain the rest of it?

00:52:25.700 I said can you can I get it? Can you

00:52:27.220 Heat one up can you put can you put it in the microwave for a couple of minutes

00:52:32.020 First but and then he goes um

00:52:34.880 Yeah, hold on

00:52:36.380 Then he takes it and then it comes back

00:52:39.300 And just hands it no apology nothing no it not even the slightest attempt to to put

00:52:46.240 I know he doesn't care. I get it that you don't care. I understand you getting paid 13 dollars an hour

00:52:50.980 You don't care at all. You just want me to leave. I get it

00:52:53.860 But your your job is to pretend that you do care a little bit

00:52:57.520 Because what what almost everything you're doing

00:53:01.200 I could do you could just or that's another option just get the hell out of the way and let i'll do it

00:53:07.420 Okay, I can pour my own coffee. I could put my thing in the microwave

00:53:10.160 That's fine, too

00:53:12.320 But then why do why do you have a job? Why are you even there?

00:53:16.820 The only thing that you can add to this is just by pretending a little bit that you care

00:53:22.060 And they can't even do that and then

00:53:25.100 And then that's why I always find it hilarious when I hear about raising the minimum way

00:53:30.220 We got to raise the minimum way. We need to raise the minimum wage for you know, these customers serve

00:53:34.080 Have you seen raise the wage? Have you seen customer lower it if anything?

00:53:40.980 I mean, I had that experience like that really you can raise the wage for that guy

00:53:44.580 Really for what?

00:53:48.880 For for openly despising his customers

00:53:52.440 For hating a customer for wanting a hot breakfast sandwich

00:53:57.300 And what what do we get? What is that worth?

00:53:59.420 $40 an hour

00:54:00.420 Should we pay him the same what?

00:54:02.720 200 let's pay him the same rate as like an orthodontist. How about that?

00:54:06.600 It's crazy. It's insane. Okay, and um

00:54:09.040 And I think most people are just fed up with it people are fed up with everything

00:54:12.700 People are fed up with the customer service

00:54:15.380 You know, I there I used to think it was kind of a debate about

00:54:19.280 What's worse are the you know, because there are terrible customers too who are also a-holes 0.99

00:54:23.880 But I used to think there was kind of a debate

00:54:25.640 What's worse the customer service or the customers? No, the customer service is way worse. It's so bad

00:54:31.340 It is so terribly bad and then that also creates

00:54:34.880 Customers who are jerks

00:54:36.840 Like you're getting me and I don't want my shock you to learn because of how but in customer like I said customer service

00:54:43.220 Situations i'm very i'm very easy to get along with I tip well easy to get along with

00:54:48.320 I'm not looking for trouble. I just want to get my food and go

00:54:50.660 I'm not looking for any kind of

00:54:52.620 I i'm i'm i'm very easygoing in those environments

00:54:56.560 And you're getting me to the point

00:54:59.440 Where i'm just sick of it where i'm like even i'm gonna start yelling and asking for for the manager

00:55:05.260 Which so when you can get take someone like me and get me to that point

00:55:10.120 Then that means that things are really bad

00:55:13.540 The customer service is just really really bad and uh

00:55:16.980 And it it honestly is so

00:55:19.380 Uh

00:55:21.420 That's it

00:55:22.580 That's the lesson there

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00:56:51.220 Now it used to be that if you were in the mood to see some exotic contemporary sculptures that were created by an unimpressive foreign artist 1.00

00:57:04.220 You had to go to a museum

00:57:05.680 And that was pretty much your only option

00:57:07.540 You know, it was like going to a movie theater before netflix or buying a book at barnes and noble before amazon

00:57:11.740 We had dedicated buildings for everything including contemporary art

00:57:14.740 And if you didn't drive to a museum with an express intent of quietly observing a groundbreaking new sculpture

00:57:19.300 In all likelihood, you probably wouldn't see one at all

00:57:22.180 But then as we all know museums fell out of favor at least for this particular purpose

00:57:26.440 Found a lot of theories as to why that happened

00:57:28.540 But in this case the simplest explanation is probably the best

00:57:30.700 People stopped going to museums to see contemporary art because contemporary art is really really bad

00:57:36.900 And normally when people stop consuming content because it's bad

00:57:40.740 That forces some kind of change in the content

00:57:43.360 The creators might go back to the drawing board and come up with something else as a way to entice audiences

00:57:48.320 That's normally how these things go

00:57:50.120 But in the field of contemporary art which of course is my true passion in life

00:57:54.420 That's not what happened

00:57:55.980 Instead artists and particularly sculptors

00:57:57.880 Have come up with new ways to force people to look at their most unimpressive and pretentious creations

00:58:04.500 Maybe no sculptor on the planet is more adept at this particular skill

00:58:08.280 Than a man that you've never heard of named Thomas Price

00:58:11.020 Without any sense of shame Thomas Price has compelled innocent bystanders

00:58:15.680 To observe his garbage sculptures by placing these sculptures in their way in public places

00:58:21.760 In fact in some cases he's placing these sculptures in the middle of walkways

00:58:25.400 And on top of that every single one of these sculptures depicts the same thing

00:58:29.920 Which is a nameless random black woman who looks very annoyed and unpleasant 1.00

00:58:36.200 Yes all over the world sculptures of random black women are being thrust upon the public

00:58:40.960 And it's all because of a British guy named Thomas Price

00:58:43.580 Who's apparently very angry that people don't go to museums anymore

00:58:46.480 This is actually something of an epidemic

00:58:48.440 So we'll go through some of these black woman statues here 1.00

00:58:52.320 This is a picture of one of them

00:58:54.140 It's from New Orleans City Park

00:58:56.300 And as you can see the woman is positioned directly on top of the walking path

00:59:00.560 And according to the official description of the sculpture

00:59:03.260 Quote, Price's sculpture titled Time Unfolding 2023

00:59:06.840 Is a nine foot tall statue of a woman looking down at her cell phone

00:59:10.880 Seemingly paused in contemplation

00:59:12.680 The work is part of a series depicting everyday fictional subjects at a monumental scale

00:59:17.720 Combining traditional sculpting and digital technology

00:59:20.600 To question how society projects ideas and expectations through public space

00:59:25.860 Close quote

00:59:26.500 Now to me, this looks like a customer service representative for Frontier Airlines

00:59:32.320 Refusing to take my complaint seriously

00:59:34.000 But I guess she's supposed to look contemplative

00:59:36.640 And it wasn't just New Orleans that was treated to this extraordinary combination of sculpting and technology

00:59:42.900 Whatever that means

00:59:43.560 The good people of Florence were also treated to a blinged out gold version of the sculpture

00:59:48.260 Here's what that looks like

00:59:50.240 Reportedly, this particular statue was vandalized a few times

00:59:54.200 The authorities condemned the vandalism

00:59:55.820 Which they described as racist

00:59:57.820 But at the same time, the authorities didn't explain why in their understanding

01:00:01.900 Thomas Price is not also a racist

01:00:04.500 And after all, he's the guy who's constantly making sculptures

01:00:07.200 About random, unimpressive looking black women looking at their phones 1.00

01:00:10.240 And then he forces everyone to look at these sculptures

01:00:12.700 Seems kind of like something that an obsessive compulsive Klansman would do

01:00:16.640 As a practical joke, if we're being honest

01:00:18.480 Here's another one of his sculptures in London, for example

01:00:21.680 And this is from Three Mills Park

01:00:24.480 Again, it's nine feet tall

01:00:25.940 And according to Price, quote

01:00:27.840 I want this sculpture to be an opportunity for people to connect emotionally

01:00:30.940 With an image of someone they might not have noticed before

01:00:33.960 And then by a way of explaining his obsession with black women looking at their phones

01:00:39.360 Price said, quote

01:00:40.340 White artists are putting themselves forward to create replacement sculptures of slave owners

01:00:44.420 With no sense of irony

01:00:45.520 That's a savior complex

01:00:47.540 And that exemplifies what is wrong

01:00:49.020 When even the solution doesn't involve the black experience 0.99

01:00:52.060 Close quote

01:00:52.580 So what exactly is the black experience

01:00:55.120 Besides looking at your cell phone?

01:00:56.660 I mean, based on Thomas Price's body of work

01:00:58.520 That's a good question

01:01:00.260 His answer, from what I can tell

01:01:02.020 Is that the black experience 0.95

01:01:03.400 Also involves being overweight

01:01:05.540 And looking extremely annoyed all the time

01:01:07.860 That's all of his statues of the black experience

01:01:11.300 That's what they all are

01:01:12.500 And that would explain this statue

01:01:14.660 Which he just put up in Rotterdam Central Station in the Netherlands

01:01:17.960 As you can see, this one's a real winner

01:01:20.340 Apparently it's supposed to be the same black woman from London

01:01:23.420 Except she's added a few pounds to her waistline 1.00

01:01:25.740 That's what happens when you're a statue

01:01:28.860 You know, you're standing around a lot

01:01:30.540 Not burning a lot of calories

01:01:31.860 So maybe you just gained some weight

01:01:34.300 And her cell phone ran out of battery

01:01:36.200 So she doesn't have a cell phone 0.60

01:01:37.120 So we have kind of a narrative unfolding here

01:01:39.940 And if you follow these statues from place to place

01:01:41.940 You'll really see that story being told

01:01:43.840 Contemporary art is truly full of surprises

01:01:46.500 And so is Thomas Price, apparently

01:01:48.560 Because as you may have seen

01:01:49.740 In his latest act of mass artistic harassment

01:01:52.720 Price has managed to have

01:01:54.040 One of his plus-size black woman sculptures

01:01:56.400 Installed in the middle of Times Square

01:01:58.080 So that tens of thousands, if not millions of people

01:02:00.140 Will be forced to look at it

01:02:02.040 He's genuinely outdone himself

01:02:04.020 At least in terms of securing a captive audience

01:02:06.380 For his sculptures of unkempt black women 1.00

01:02:08.800 Watch

01:02:10.040 A new statue in Times Square is told

01:02:13.140 As we're told turning heads

01:02:14.480 It's making people not only stop and stare

01:02:16.340 But also reflect a rare feat in the middle of one of the busiest places in the world

01:02:20.720 Zinia Maldonado shows us why 0.57

01:02:22.640 At 12 feet tall in the middle of Times Square

01:02:26.840 Stands a bronze sculpture of a young woman

01:02:29.000 It's instantly stood out

01:02:30.460 It's powerful

01:02:31.100 It's so tall and big

01:02:32.400 The sculpture created by artist Thomas Price

01:02:35.420 Was unveiled at Duffy Square last week

01:02:37.500 And in just a matter of days

01:02:39.080 It has stopped hundreds in their tracks

01:02:41.160 Who is she? 0.99

01:02:42.220 Well, technically she's whoever you want her to be 0.99

01:02:44.700 Me being a plus size black woman 1.00

01:02:46.700 I kind of looking at it was just like

01:02:48.540 Oh, I wonder what me as a small child

01:02:50.460 Would have thought looking at something like that

01:02:52.380 Representation

01:02:53.500 Tourists and New Yorkers we spoke with

01:02:55.560 Express different interpretations

01:02:57.120 Of what she represents to them

01:02:59.460 It's a plus size woman 1.00

01:03:00.660 I'm a plus size man

01:03:01.960 I'm African American

01:03:02.920 It's the African American woman statue

01:03:04.500 So just seeing another piece for me to stop

01:03:06.780 And just have a moment with

01:03:08.540 Was very powerful

01:03:09.360 If you look at the eyes

01:03:10.440 It's looking straight at something

01:03:12.080 It's focused

01:03:12.720 It's purposeful

01:03:13.580 I really love the one

01:03:15.900 The woman who praises it

01:03:17.440 She's trying to find some way 1.00

01:03:19.640 To praise this statue

01:03:20.460 Because she doesn't want to seem racist

01:03:21.640 And so she says

01:03:23.020 It's really tall

01:03:25.080 Like that's

01:03:27.240 If that's the best

01:03:29.080 That's a pretty good

01:03:29.960 I mean if you make a statue

01:03:31.100 A 12 foot tall statue

01:03:32.780 And you show it to someone

01:03:33.520 Say what do you think of my statue

01:03:34.400 And they go

01:03:35.540 Oh man, it's so

01:03:37.080 Tall

01:03:38.920 Then that's

01:03:40.860 That's a pretty good sign

01:03:41.720 That they don't actually like the statue

01:03:42.580 Now at the risk of offending

01:03:43.740 All the plus size black people 1.00

01:03:45.260 Who find this statue to be inspiring

01:03:46.560 I do

01:03:47.100 Have to offer some criticism here

01:03:49.300 But before I do that

01:03:51.160 I'll offer a compliment

01:03:52.420 To Thomas Price

01:03:53.200 And according to the Times Square website

01:03:54.580 This statue was inspired

01:03:55.680 By Michelangelo's statue of David

01:03:57.560 Which

01:03:58.620 We'll put up on the screen here

01:04:01.240 Just as a

01:04:01.840 You know

01:04:02.060 For a comparison

01:04:03.320 Quoting from the Times Square website

01:04:05.420 In her depiction

01:04:06.180 One recognizes a shared humanity

01:04:07.740 Yet the

01:04:08.460 Contra

01:04:09.900 What?

01:04:11.720 Contra

01:04:12.560 Posto

01:04:13.080 Pose

01:04:13.540 Of her body

01:04:14.100 Is that like a

01:04:14.720 I don't know

01:04:15.220 And the ease of her stance

01:04:16.540 Is a subtle nod

01:04:17.420 To Michelangelo's David

01:04:18.820 Close quote

01:04:20.320 Now if that's the case

01:04:22.040 And I have no reason to doubt

01:04:23.280 The Times Square website

01:04:24.720 Then we can only thank God

01:04:26.540 For the fact

01:04:27.020 That Thomas Price

01:04:27.700 Did not emulate

01:04:28.420 The whole nudity aspect

01:04:29.940 Of Michelangelo's David statue

01:04:31.840 So you know

01:04:32.960 That's something to be thankful for

01:04:34.640 The bigger difference though

01:04:36.300 Aside from the fact

01:04:37.100 That the statue of David

01:04:38.000 Is made with infinitely more

01:04:39.400 Skill in artistry

01:04:40.380 Is that David memorializes

01:04:42.560 And honors the biblical figure

01:04:44.100 Of David

01:04:44.620 Who is both a real person

01:04:46.780 And also

01:04:47.760 One of the most iconic

01:04:49.540 Religious and literary figures

01:04:50.980 In the history of the world

01:04:51.980 And by contrast

01:04:52.680 The black woman statue

01:04:53.900 And the others cropping up

01:04:55.320 Across the globe

01:04:55.900 Memorializes

01:04:57.380 Nobody in particular

01:04:58.920 Now

01:04:59.880 Maybe it's supposed to be

01:05:01.720 A celebration of blackness 1.00

01:05:03.160 Or something

01:05:03.840 But

01:05:04.180 It doesn't even accomplish that

01:05:05.780 Because the woman 0.99

01:05:06.340 Is frumpy and overweight

01:05:07.480 I mean he could have made

01:05:08.640 A sculpture of a black person 0.99

01:05:09.820 Who looks like Zeus

01:05:10.680 Or something

01:05:11.140 Like impressive

01:05:12.060 Strong

01:05:12.660 Imposing

01:05:13.220 Instead he gave us

01:05:14.640 A statue of Queen Latifah

01:05:16.440 On her day off

01:05:17.220 Now public art

01:05:18.700 Particularly statues

01:05:19.440 And monuments

01:05:20.080 Should do two things

01:05:21.700 First

01:05:22.780 It should point our eyes

01:05:23.760 And hearts

01:05:24.080 Towards something beautiful

01:05:25.080 And secondly

01:05:26.060 It should celebrate

01:05:27.460 Some important figure

01:05:28.820 In our history

01:05:29.420 Or our shared

01:05:31.200 Cultural mythology

01:05:32.480 And as long as

01:05:34.200 It does the first

01:05:34.980 Which is point our eyes

01:05:36.320 Towards something beautiful

01:05:36.980 The second

01:05:38.120 Isn't always necessary

01:05:39.260 But these statues

01:05:40.700 Do neither

01:05:41.300 And at the same time

01:05:42.700 The left is glorifying

01:05:43.580 This garbage

01:05:44.060 They're tearing down

01:05:45.260 Statues that actually

01:05:46.100 Do memorialize

01:05:47.080 Significant figures

01:05:47.860 In our history

01:05:48.440 New York took down

01:05:49.820 The Teddy Roosevelt statue

01:05:50.940 Outside of a museum

01:05:51.920 Of natural history

01:05:52.780 New Orleans and Virginia

01:05:54.340 Both got rid of

01:05:54.980 Their Robert E. Lee statues

01:05:56.240 And now in Chicago

01:05:57.700 The mayor is suggesting

01:05:58.600 That the city

01:05:59.120 Is about to hide

01:06:00.500 Two statues

01:06:01.300 Of Christopher Columbus

01:06:02.340 An infinitely more

01:06:03.920 Impressive man

01:06:04.620 Than any politician

01:06:05.480 Who's ever led

01:06:06.120 The city of Chicago

01:06:06.860 Watch

01:06:07.360 We do have to make sure

01:06:09.720 That our presentation

01:06:12.580 Is depicting

01:06:14.820 Not just truth

01:06:16.960 But the best part

01:06:18.260 Of our existence

01:06:19.080 Which is our

01:06:20.260 Collective humanity

01:06:21.200 The park district

01:06:22.880 Is planning to clear away

01:06:24.240 The larger Grant Park

01:06:25.480 Statues base

01:06:26.560 And redesign the plaza

01:06:28.040 As a gathering space

01:06:29.500 That will accommodate

01:06:30.340 Temporary art

01:06:31.460 Now as the Chicago

01:06:33.600 Tribune summarizes

01:06:34.540 This plan

01:06:34.980 Quote

01:06:35.320 The Grant Park

01:06:36.040 And Arrigo Park

01:06:36.880 Columbus statues

01:06:37.580 Have hung in political

01:06:38.480 Limbo 0.94

01:06:38.900 Since then

01:06:39.500 Mayor Lori Lightfoot

01:06:40.340 Removed them

01:06:41.280 Amid protests

01:06:41.900 In 2020

01:06:42.360 But Mayor Brandon Johnson's

01:06:43.580 Newly appointed

01:06:44.020 Park District CEO

01:06:45.040 Announced a deal

01:06:45.720 Last week

01:06:46.200 To loan the

01:06:47.500 Smaller statue

01:06:48.160 Which had been

01:06:49.140 In Arrigo Park

01:06:49.780 For a planned

01:06:50.680 Italian immigrant museum

01:06:52.060 And clear away

01:06:53.020 The larger Grant Park

01:06:54.160 Statues base

01:06:55.060 The Italian American

01:06:56.120 Human Resources

01:06:56.880 Foundation of Chicago

01:06:57.740 Blasted the agreement

01:06:58.680 To get the statue back

01:06:59.980 As cultural treason

01:07:01.140 Saying quote

01:07:01.880 The statue will be

01:07:03.140 Hidden away indoors

01:07:04.040 Out of public sight

01:07:04.860 As part of an

01:07:05.360 Undefined museum style exhibit

01:07:07.140 A sad final disposition

01:07:09.840 Of a statue

01:07:10.820 Of the heroic navigator

01:07:12.000 Whose voyages led

01:07:12.900 To the introduction

01:07:13.460 Of Western European civilization

01:07:14.700 And culture to a new world

01:07:16.840 Close quote

01:07:17.360 I think cultural treason 0.98

01:07:19.580 Is one of the better ways

01:07:21.760 Of describing what's

01:07:22.640 Happening here

01:07:23.140 They're not just

01:07:24.120 Removing the statue

01:07:25.000 Of heroes like Columbus

01:07:26.080 As deranged as that is already

01:07:27.720 To remove those statues

01:07:29.500 They're also installing

01:07:32.020 Random obese women 1.00

01:07:33.720 As a replacement

01:07:34.640 And they're doing it

01:07:36.020 Because they have no

01:07:37.120 Historical heroes

01:07:38.780 Of their own

01:07:39.380 You know

01:07:40.560 Everyone who was born

01:07:41.500 Prior to say 2005

01:07:43.000 Is inherently problematic

01:07:45.100 To the left

01:07:46.560 And therefore

01:07:47.940 Instead of monuments

01:07:48.840 To great men

01:07:49.920 Like Columbus

01:07:50.920 People all over the world

01:07:52.600 Are being forced

01:07:53.220 Against their will

01:07:53.780 To look at displays

01:07:54.500 Of generic mediocrity

01:07:56.000 But as annoying

01:07:57.620 And depressing

01:07:58.060 As this might seem

01:07:58.880 You have to remember

01:07:59.460 That the reason

01:08:00.860 These statues

01:08:01.320 Are being inserted

01:08:02.180 Into every public space

01:08:03.340 Imaginable

01:08:03.860 Is that

01:08:04.340 If people aren't

01:08:05.540 Forced to look at them

01:08:06.620 Nobody would bother

01:08:08.140 This art

01:08:09.920 This art is worth

01:08:10.320 This art is worth

01:08:10.340 Precisely what people

01:08:11.260 Would pay to see it

01:08:12.240 Which is zero dollars

01:08:13.560 And that is why

01:08:15.100 Thomas Price

01:08:15.700 And his weird obsession

01:08:16.580 With statues

01:08:17.180 Of bored looking

01:08:18.080 Black women 1.00

01:08:18.600 Are today

01:08:19.900 Cancelled

01:08:21.100 That'll do it

01:08:22.420 That'll do it for the show

01:08:22.720 Today

01:08:22.860 Thanks for watching

01:08:23.360 Thanks for listening

01:08:23.880 Talk to you tomorrow

01:08:24.620 Have a great day

01:08:25.460 Godspeed

01:08:26.080 And that will be

01:08:33.360 Thank you

The Matt Walsh Show - May 08, 2025

Ep. 1592 - American Cities Are Making The Pride Flag Their OFFICIAL Flag!？

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