The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1609 - How Biden’s Border Policy Turned Into A Child Trafficking Operation

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, you may remember the fake kids in cages controversy during the

00:00:04.140 first Trump administration. The media panicked over Trump housing unaccompanied illegal alien

00:00:08.140 children in detainment facilities. The Biden administration pledged not to use these facilities.

00:00:12.600 Well, now we know what they did with those children instead, and it's truly horrifying.

00:00:17.420 Also, Pete Hegseth announces that Harvey Milk's name will be taking off of a Navy ship, as well

00:00:22.560 it should be. And Sesame Street hasn't gotten the memo that everyone is tired of the Pride

00:00:26.480 Month theatrics. We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:02:36.220 the government could do to a child, according to pretty much every expert, NGO, and media mouthpiece

00:02:41.600 on the planet, was to put that child in a quote-unquote cage. That was, as you probably

00:02:47.180 remember, a major line of attack during the first Trump administration. The consensus was that Donald

00:02:51.580 Trump was so evil, so unhinged, that simply for his own personal amusement, he instructed 0.97

00:02:57.100 immigration officials to incarcerate children in the worst conditions imaginable, like they were 1.00

00:03:01.740 animals. Things were so bad that AOC wept outside of an empty parking lot near an immigrant detention

00:03:07.580 facility, as you probably recall. Lin-Manuel Miranda sang a lullaby for the Mexican children

00:03:12.940 in cages. Oprah and Rihanna and John Legend and George Clooney, the luminaries of our time,

00:03:18.920 came together to formally condemn the Trump administration. Now, in response, conservatives

00:03:23.240 made the case that children weren't actually being placed in quote-unquote cages of any kind.

00:03:28.720 They also pointed out that the alleged cages, which are not really cages, predated the Trump

00:03:34.440 administration, and all of that was true. But the strongest argument was actually pretty simple,

00:03:41.100 which is that Democrats couldn't answer the following question.

00:03:46.580 How exactly would a Democrat-run administration handle tens of thousands of children who are

00:03:52.540 apprehended attempting to enter this country illegally at the border? If they weren't going to deport the 1.00

00:03:58.100 children or use Obama's quote-unquote cages, which weren't cages, then what exactly would they do?

00:04:04.440 I mean, what's the alternative when you have unaccompanied children? We all knew that Biden

00:04:11.060 couldn't use the quote-unquote cages because now Democrats are saying that that's evil. So what

00:04:17.240 would Biden's administration ultimately do with this influx of unaccompanied minors? And as it turns

00:04:23.060 out, a big part of their solution was to place unaccompanied minors inside the homes of people they 0.97

00:04:29.240 called sponsors. So if a minor attempted to enter this country alone, or if their parents were being

00:04:35.660 prosecuted for a serious crime, the Biden administration would try to find someone for

00:04:40.300 these minors to live with inside the country. They wouldn't simply deport the children because they'd 0.97

00:04:46.560 ruled that out. They wouldn't put them in any secure government facility that they'd been calling a

00:04:51.380 cage because they'd ruled that out. And so instead, they'd house them with an adult.

00:04:56.780 Now, of course, the perverse incentives in this situation are off the charts. The Biden

00:05:01.880 administration was effectively encouraging children to cross the border without a legal

00:05:06.200 guardian, or rather, I should say, encouraging adults and parents to send their kids across the

00:05:12.220 border without guardians because then they'd be allowed into the country instead of being deported

00:05:17.480 with their families. And predictably, foreigners caught on to the situation. The number of unaccompanied 0.99

00:05:21.860 minors attempting to enter this country increased by more than 100% under Biden to more than 130,000

00:05:28.080 children per year. But it was all necessary, the Biden administration said, to avoid placing children

00:05:33.340 in cages. Instead, they'd all be going to sponsors. Well, a year ago, the HHS secretary at the time was

00:05:39.780 asked about this program, and he conceded that once children were handed off to sponsors,

00:05:45.640 the administration had no idea what happened to them. They completely lost track of these children.

00:05:50.300 And they knew this would happen because they understood that they didn't have any legal

00:05:54.100 authority to follow up on the whereabouts of the kids. It's almost as if they intentionally

00:05:57.920 pawned these kids off as quickly as they possibly could to make them go away.

00:06:02.100 And they said this was the more humane approach. We'll see how humane it actually was in a moment.

00:06:06.900 But first, let's watch a little bit of this.

00:06:08.960 We have a whistleblower that appeared before judiciary who stated that 85,000 minors are missing from your

00:06:16.440 agency. Now, you say it's not 85. You say that it's somewhere around 25.

00:06:21.820 Well, that's completely inaccurate. They're not missing from our agency. We don't longer have

00:06:25.820 jurisdiction over those children. You can't get a hold of these children.

00:06:28.520 We don't have jurisdiction to get a hold of the children.

00:06:30.660 Okay. What authority do you have to place the children with a sponsor?

00:06:35.400 We do have authority to place the child.

00:06:36.960 So you place the children with the sponsor?

00:06:38.980 Correct.

00:06:39.260 How do you decide who they can be placed with?

00:06:43.180 We usually work with the parents if they are in the home country. We work with the child,

00:06:47.800 especially if they're older. And we try to work to find out who they know or who they consider to be

00:06:54.280 close and could be protective of the child. We have tried to do what we can through the

00:06:59.780 post-release service calls to try to see if we can find out if they're doing okay to check in with them.

00:07:05.480 But as I said, they have no obligation to answer the phone or speak to us once they are placed with

00:07:11.800 their sponsor.

00:07:13.000 Well, it's not exactly the most reassuring testimony. He's admitting that the federal

00:07:16.860 government has handed off tens of thousands of kids to adults who, in many cases, are not even

00:07:22.000 related to them. Then he's acknowledging that the government has no idea what happened next.

00:07:26.420 That's because the HHS, which is overseeing this whole program, is not a law enforcement agency.

00:07:30.520 They have no power whatsoever. They're not remotely capable, legally or practically,

00:07:36.000 of figuring out what actually happened to these kids that the government relocated. And on top of

00:07:40.240 that, Kamala Harris and other Democrats made sure to block HHS from informing local schools about the

00:07:45.540 kids. In other words, because of the deliberate policy choices of the Democrat Party, there was no

00:07:51.100 way for anyone, even school districts, to verify that the children were attending school. Teachers

00:07:55.620 couldn't check up on them or anything like that. So what were all these kids doing? What was

00:08:00.060 happening to them? Thanks to new reporting from the group Illegal Alien Crimes, as well as the Daily

00:08:05.280 Wires' Luke Rosiak, we now have some more clarity on this question. And the answer is far more

00:08:10.000 horrifying than any quote-unquote cage could possibly be. It turns out that, in effect, the Biden

00:08:16.320 administration launched a human trafficking operation. That was their solution to kids in

00:08:21.440 cages. Instead, now we have kids being forced to live with sexual abusers. That was their better 0.76

00:08:28.380 alternative. Quoting from the Daily Wire, a 37-year-old illegal immigrant man was arrested for

00:08:33.620 allegedly sexually abusing at least one teen girl who the federal government sent to live with him as

00:08:37.720 part of the Biden administration's scheme to place unaccompanied alien children in the homes of

00:08:42.140 unrelated, loosely vetted sponsors. Wilson Manfredo Lopez Carrillo was arrested by the Palm Beach

00:08:48.780 County Sheriff's Office in Florida on May 22nd and charged with three counts of sexual assault on a

00:08:53.240 minor. Now, this is the level of vetting that the HHS conducted during the Biden administration to make

00:08:59.660 sure that the sponsors had the best interests of the child in mind. Of course, there wasn't any way to

00:09:05.320 vet this guy or check his record, anything like that, because he was also an illegal alien. In other words,

00:09:11.120 yes, the Biden administration housed a 16-year-old girl with a 37-year-old illegal alien man who had

00:09:18.720 already broken our laws to enter this country. They put her with a known criminal who they could not

00:09:23.600 vet in any meaningful way. If you pull up the probable cause affidavit, you'll find that these

00:09:28.320 alleged sexual assaults took place in February of last year. The victim arrived in this country in

00:09:32.820 August of 2023. So within about six months, she was attacked several times in the home that the Biden

00:09:38.520 administration set her up with. And the other thing you'll notice as you look at this probable cause

00:09:44.440 statement is that at least a third of the document is redacted. There's a lot of information that's

00:09:49.240 not being disclosed here. Now, to be sure, there are probably legitimate reasons for these redactions.

00:09:55.000 In some cases, we're talking about a very sensitive case involving a minor after all, but it's enough

00:09:59.020 to make you wonder whether we'll ever receive anything approaching a full accounting of what the

00:10:03.500 Biden administration has done here. What we know for sure is that the scale of this particular human

00:10:08.260 trafficking operation is staggering. Late last year, the DHS inspector general under the Biden

00:10:13.620 administration disclosed that something like 300,000 minors are unaccounted for. And even the

00:10:20.780 minors who are accounted for in some cases are raising very obvious concerns. For example,

00:10:24.880 the inspector general pointed out that, quote, one ICE officer expressed concern with not being able to

00:10:29.400 take action in a case involving an unaccompanied minor whose sponsor claimed the unaccompanied minor

00:10:33.680 was in an inappropriate relationship with her husband. So the Biden administration placed this

00:10:39.620 unaccompanied minor inside of a household, and the husband started abusing the minor, allegedly,

00:10:45.260 causing the woman to complain to federal authorities. And in response, federal authorities did nothing.

00:10:50.260 And this kind of thing happens a lot. Quoting again from the report, ICE ERO, Enforcement and

00:10:55.360 Removal Operations, has no authority over unaccompanied children beyond managing their immigration cases.

00:11:00.380 Therefore, even if ICE were able to identify unaccompanied children in unsafe conditions,

00:11:04.960 the agency has limited authority to respond. ICE personnel at two field offices affirmed this

00:11:09.760 and explained that they had identified unaccompanied children in unsafe conditions,

00:11:15.060 but were unable to intervene. Now, unfortunately, the report doesn't go into any more detail on that

00:11:21.040 point. You'd think that if illegal alien children were suspected of living in unsafe conditions after

00:11:25.740 the federal government placed them in a household full of other illegals, it would be pretty easy to 1.00

00:11:29.760 kick the door down and investigate. But apparently, these children have just fallen through the cracks.

00:11:34.160 No agency wants to assert jurisdiction. And of course, whenever anyone in Congress tries to

00:11:38.760 press for answers, the Biden administration stonewalled because in the end, all this was

00:11:43.540 deliberate. Last November, for example, Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy tried to conduct an audit

00:11:48.220 into the status of these unaccompanied children. Quoting from the Daily Caller,

00:11:52.360 HHS would repeatedly take months to respond to Cassidy's requests, and sometimes the department would not

00:11:57.640 respond at all. HHS officials also stonewalled state investigators when Florida Governor Ron DeSantis

00:12:02.800 demanded answers. DeSantis, in response to findings that alien children smuggled into Florida were

00:12:07.220 being sexually exploited or used for trafficking in drugs and weapons, petitioned the Florida Supreme

00:12:11.560 Court to investigate criminal activity related to the smuggling of unaccompanied alien children from

00:12:16.100 the U.S.-Mexico border into Florida. However, HHS allegedly refused to provide witnesses or documents

00:12:21.960 to a grand jury, ignored subpoenas, and actively encouraged Florida entities that contract with

00:12:26.660 federal immigration officials to not cooperate with investigators.

00:12:30.620 Now, predictably, nearly a decade after the fake outrage over kids in cages,

00:12:35.500 there has been no concern whatsoever from any political figure or media outlet on the left about

00:12:40.880 any of this. There's no outrage about the fact that the Biden administration, fresh off the moral

00:12:45.980 outrage over the kids in cages, constructed an elaborate human trafficking operation with a

00:12:50.720 code of silence that rivals any mafia. So keep that in mind the next time you're told that some policy

00:12:57.600 you support is supposedly horrific or barbaric or racist or whatever. When people tell you that,

00:13:04.380 ask them what the alternative is. And if they can't answer that, it's a pretty good sign that

00:13:10.840 in their quest to score some political points, they're willing to endorse evils beyond all comprehension.

00:13:16.480 That's the bargain Democrats made under Joe Biden. And now locked away with sponsors who no one can

00:13:24.440 track, there are tens of thousands of children who are suffering every day as a result. So if you needed

00:13:31.680 another reason to support mass deportations, this is a pretty big one. At the very least, deporting some

00:13:37.780 of these sponsors would help break up one of the largest human trafficking rings ever created,

00:13:41.620 the one the Biden administration spun up right here in the U.S. In the end, the only sustainable

00:13:48.380 solution is a secure border, one that's ruthlessly enforced in a way that might make some liberal women 1.00

00:13:55.660 uncomfortable. Unless we want tens of thousands more children to suffer untold horrors with their

00:14:01.560 sponsors, we simply have no choice. Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:16:53.760 ordered the Navy to strike the name of pioneering gay rights activist Harvey Milk from one of its ships

00:16:58.840 orchestrating the change as Pride Month celebrations take place. According to sources,

00:17:02.640 defense officials said the timing of the decision was intentional. The order was first reported by

00:17:07.240 military.com, confirmed by ABC News. Milk was one of the first openly gay men elected to public

00:17:11.960 office in the United States after winning a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977.

00:17:16.380 He was assassinated a year later. Before serving in public office, Milk in 1951 enlisted in the Navy and

00:17:23.360 attended officer candidate school in Rhode Island. And now they want to take, so they will be renaming the

00:17:31.260 Harvey Milk ship. They chose to announce this during Pride Month, which they say is intentional. Of course 1.00

00:17:37.200 it was. And all of that is great. That's a, that's an awesome move on both counts. I love that they're

00:17:42.900 taking this guy's name off the ship and I love that they waited until Pride Month to do it. That's,

00:17:46.860 that's great. But of course the left is very upset about this. The media are outraged. And just as

00:17:53.320 one example of that, here's CBS News. The Trump administration has been changing the names of

00:17:59.640 military bases and geographical landmarks, and now more changes may be coming. CBS News has learned

00:18:04.780 that name changes are being considered for Navy ships. Pentagon says Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth

00:18:10.480 wants the names to reflect the commander-in-chief's priorities, our nation's history, and the warrior

00:18:16.440 ethos. Here's Tom Hanson. Navy documents obtained by CBS News propose a timeline to the rollout of the

00:18:24.260 name change of the Harvey Milk, a ship named after the first openly gay man to be elected to office in

00:18:29.900 California. The proposal comes during Pride Month, the month-long observance of the LGBTQ plus community 0.89

00:18:36.240 that coincides with the anniversary of the Stonewall uprising of 1969. That's you. That is absolutely me.

00:18:43.380 Mark Siegel was there when police raided the club. Protesters resisted. It was a major milestone in

00:18:49.840 the LGBT movement. We were a unified force, and that meant supporting our trans brothers and

00:18:55.100 sisters. That history is preserved both here at the inn and a few steps away at the Stonewall

00:19:00.620 National Monument, commemorating the birth of what ultimately became LGBTQ plus. But on its website,

00:19:07.340 the National Park Service, without explanation, removed the entire back part, including tea,

00:19:12.620 for transgender. I was part of that history. I know what my trans brothers and sisters did,

00:19:18.420 and I'm going to continue telling that story with or without a government webpage which erases that tea.

00:19:25.200 What disturbs me is that I don't know that we're done yet seeing this effort to scrub and rewrite

00:19:30.180 American history. Alan Spears is the resident historian with the National Parks Conservation Association.

00:19:36.480 What's your biggest fear? Seeing what we're seeing today. These things always start slowly.

00:19:41.720 We're going to remove a photograph from a website. We're going to scrub some language.

00:19:48.000 It doesn't make a great deal of sense to talk about the American Civil War, not talk about the

00:19:52.520 issues of race and slavery. Now, we should also note Harvey Milk was a Navy veteran who served during

00:19:58.280 the Korean War. The documents obtained by the absolute gall, the absolute gall of these people. 0.98

00:20:04.520 It's amazing to behold. Totally shameless. Right. So now we're concerned about erasing American history. 0.51

00:20:12.520 Now, now you're worried. Now you're concerned that we might be starting slowly and erasing American

00:20:18.700 history. It starts with, it starts with removing a photograph from a website. No, actually,

00:20:25.180 dummy. It doesn't start with that. Actually, it starts with tearing down historic monuments all over the

00:20:31.420 country. As your side has been doing for years, it starts with renaming buildings and towns and streets

00:20:38.740 and schools as your side has been doing for years. These people tore down over a hundred statues just in the

00:20:48.620 year 2020 alone. And now they're worried about erasing history. And let's remember, it was not

00:20:57.840 just the Confederate names that they erased and Confederate statues they tore down, which was bad

00:21:03.160 enough. That never should have been tolerated. But they also took down statues of Theodore Roosevelt

00:21:09.620 and Columbus and the founding fathers and guys like that, that we just saw, the dude with the dreads.

00:21:19.880 Those guys were fully on board with all of that. I mean, they, they, they were excited about it. They

00:21:25.020 were promoting, they were doing it. They were the ones doing it. And yet taking a name off of a ship

00:21:31.180 is a big tragedy. Now we're erasing history. 10 years of pulling down every monument they can find.

00:21:39.480 One name is taken off a ship. Oh no, history is being erased. And remember something else.

00:21:45.940 Remember that when they were running around tearing down statues, they would often say,

00:21:50.940 you probably remember this, that our complaints were unreasonable because the, when we would say,

00:21:58.880 oh, when we said this, you're erasing history, they would say, well, uh, no, we're not because

00:22:04.760 the statues are only a hundred years old. They would say this all the time. Did you know? Oh yeah,

00:22:11.620 we tore down that statue, but did you know they actually put it up only in 1930? What's the big deal?

00:22:21.140 Okay. So it doesn't count as historic after a century. You could tear down a century old statue and

00:22:28.140 that's not tearing down history, but a ship that was named after Harvey Milk in 2016.

00:22:35.380 Suddenly that is erasing history. His name's only been on it since 2016.

00:22:41.800 Less than a, so after less than a decade, if you take it off, you're erasing history and you're not,

00:22:47.820 you're not getting rid of the ship, by the way, the ship will still be there. It'll just be named

00:22:50.940 after a different historical figure, a worthy one. Um, and so, so a decade, take it off. That's a

00:22:58.740 history. Tearing down a, an actual historic work of art that's been there for a hundred years.

00:23:05.220 That's not erasing history. Okay. Makes sense. Yeah. Got it. These people are just so shameless.

00:23:15.500 Um, and, and, and, you know, of course the main point here is that Harvey Milk is not a man deserving 0.66

00:23:24.300 of being remembered or honored. Uh, Harvey Milk was a bad person. He was a, he was just a bad person.

00:23:32.280 He was a sex predator and a molester who preyed on underage boys. That's who Harvey Milk was. Harvey Milk 1.00

00:23:39.560 got into, quote, relationships, big scare quotes with 16 year old boys with runaways. One of those

00:23:46.820 boys, at least one of them went on later to take his own life. So that's who Harvey Milk was.

00:23:53.860 He was a predator and a creep. He does not deserve to be honored. 0.99

00:23:59.200 And even if you were to somehow ignore this fact about him, which you can't,

00:24:03.940 he still would not be worthy of any great honor because he didn't achieve anything.

00:24:12.560 Right. So you could say, oh, well, what about there are historic figures that you think should

00:24:17.560 have, there should be monuments of, and we should honor, and they did bad stuff in their personal life.

00:24:22.840 Um, well, you're, you're ignoring the other piece of this, which is when deciding who we're

00:24:31.900 going to honor and remember and name ships after and build statues to, um, yes, you are doing an

00:24:39.140 analysis of the, of their, of their virtue of their, was this, uh, uh, you know, on balance a

00:24:45.760 virtuous person. But before you even get to that, like the only people who should be considered in

00:24:52.000 the running are people who achieved historically significant things. People who helped to shape

00:25:00.100 history in a positive way, people who helped to build our civilization and our country. Um,

00:25:09.480 those, those are our icons, our heroes, our forefathers, uh, those people, the pioneers, right?

00:25:17.720 Those are the only people who should even be in the running.

00:25:21.740 Well, Harvey Milk didn't do anything. He didn't, he didn't achieve anything.

00:25:26.000 Harvey Milk. Oh, he was, uh, what was he? What was his exact position?

00:25:33.640 He was, uh, he won a seat on the San Francisco board of supervisors. Oh, wow. Great achievement.

00:25:40.900 Really? Like, is it even putting a, uh, uh, putting to the side, the fact that he was sexually

00:25:46.700 abusing 16 year old boys, uh, which is like, that's a, you can't really put that to the side,

00:25:51.660 but even if we were to somehow find a way to do that, we're left with, okay, well, what did he do?

00:25:58.260 What was his achievement? Oh, he was a San Francisco board of supervisors. So who cares if,

00:26:06.220 if Harvey Milk never existed, how is the world different today? In what way? Um,

00:26:11.900 you could argue it would be a little bit different, but in a good way

00:26:15.780 because yeah, he was a champion of the quote gay rights movement and what good has come of that

00:26:23.840 exactly? In what way has the quote gay rights movement improved society?

00:26:31.140 Look around at society right now. What area can you point to and say, oh yeah, that is better now.

00:26:37.640 Right? Like people's lives are better in this area, uh, because of this person and because of

00:26:46.120 this movement. I don't think you can do that. So, uh, he didn't achieve anything of significance.

00:26:52.940 It's like these, the, again, I keep like, they're so shameless. The absolute gall of these people

00:26:58.040 that they would tell, they would tell you, I mean, this is what they really believe. Every single,

00:27:02.800 every leftist believes this. This is not a, this is not a straw man. Every leftist will tell

00:27:07.600 you that Harvey Milk deserves to be honored and remembered more than somebody like Columbus.

00:27:15.940 Columbus, who is responsible for one of the great achievements in the history of Western

00:27:22.960 civilization. Our entire civilization looks different in, in a, in fundamental ways we can't

00:27:30.020 even conceive of if, if, uh, Columbus didn't exist. In fact, Columbus is the kind of guy that if he didn't

00:27:36.540 exist, that would send, that would have a ripple effect so significant that it's a very good chance

00:27:43.260 that none of us would exist right now. I mean, there would be people on earth, but not us like

00:27:48.400 the, the particular chain of events that led to all of us existing in the first place, uh, was,

00:27:53.520 was deeply affected by guys like Columbus. Now, does that mean that Western civilization never would

00:27:59.840 have made it into the new world? No, that was at some point that would have happened,

00:28:04.440 but that whole story would have been so different that it would have fundamentally altered our lives.

00:28:11.380 And, uh, to, to the point of probably we don't even, most of us don't, don't exist in the first

00:28:16.220 place. So that's what, that's what we're supposed to believe. And, uh, it's, it's, it's totally absurd.

00:28:21.600 And, and that's before you even, again, that's before you get to the moral, that's before you

00:28:30.180 get to the moral and ethical flaws of this man, uh, which were, which were, you know, quite significant

00:28:38.800 and, and something that leftists will just not contend with. Like they won't, they won't contend

00:28:45.840 with that. They'll pretend they won't talk about that. That's it's, there's no denying it by the way.

00:28:49.720 There's no, no one denies that even, even Harvey Milk's most favorable biographers will not deny

00:28:55.060 that the guy was, uh, was as they would say in a relationship with a, with a, a 16 year old

00:29:01.580 boy when he was in his thirties, um, which in any other context, they would say is a sexual abuse,

00:29:12.220 but for Harvey Milk, somehow we're supposed to make some great exception. And we're supposed to

00:29:17.880 understand it within the context of the times. Well, this guy lived a few decades ago, right?

00:29:26.020 So understand him in the context of the time, the times a few decades ago, but no, but when it comes

00:29:33.540 to someone who lived 500 years ago, we're not supposed to understand them in the context of the

00:29:37.680 times. So none of it makes any sense. Okay. A, uh, a sheriff's deputy in Florida has been cleared of all

00:29:47.040 charges after being, um, initially charged with assaulting a trans identified male that he met

00:29:54.740 at a nightclub. Um, a lot of trans activists are upset about this case and, uh, let's, here's a

00:30:02.780 local news report about it. We came back to my place of residence. Okay. And that's it. And what

00:30:08.940 happened inside? Nothing. So you guys didn't argue. We are not, we didn't argue. You just

00:30:15.160 stated that you did. This is the moment. Daniel Chala, Miami Dade County deputy of more than 30

00:30:21.220 years is questioned by police at his apartment after a night out at 11. Why did you kick her

00:30:27.080 out? Because I didn't care for her. Why didn't you care for her? Because I didn't like her. Okay.

00:30:33.180 Did something happen inside that made you not like her whatsoever? Chala denies being violent to his

00:30:41.200 guest, but records show he went home with a woman who accused him of wrapping his arm around her neck

00:30:47.080 tightly and refusing to let her go. The woman who eventually ran out to get help record show was 1.00

00:30:53.480 seen by witnesses bleeding from the mouth and with marks represented at all times that she was a woman

00:30:59.720 when in fact, she was a man, meaning that she still had male anatomy.

00:31:06.360 So the rivero Ayala, Chala's attorney says the woman lied to the officer about her gender.

00:31:11.720 He wanted her out. You guys are like standing here. Like if I assaulted her, I did not assault her.

00:31:18.820 Chala was arrested for allegedly battering and preventing the woman from leaving.

00:31:24.640 Because you seem intoxicated. I am intoxicated. Okay. The thing is, is that the thing is, is that

00:31:30.560 I never assaulted her. But today, about a month after this arrest, prosecutors cleared Chala of

00:31:36.320 any crimes. The state attorney's office tells NBC six, after numerous attempts to get the victim to

00:31:42.140 cooperate, she refused to assist with the investigation. The right, the right decision was made there.

00:31:49.320 Half of the right decision. Anyway, the deputy should have, should have been cleared of all charges,

00:31:54.520 which he was. The other part of this is that the quote unquote trans woman, who's a man,

00:32:00.740 should be charged with a number of crimes. If he misrepresented himself as a woman,

00:32:05.280 then he should be charged with attempted sexual assault. He should also be charged with crimes

00:32:10.900 related to gaining entry into the deputy's home under false pretenses. I mean, there are several

00:32:15.620 crimes committed here by, by the trans identified individual. Um, but most of all, again, if you're 1.00

00:32:21.560 a man and you're attempting to have a sexual encounter with another man without disclosing that

00:32:25.840 you are a man, then that's assault. Um, the deputy, if he did use physical force was defending himself

00:32:32.220 against an attempted assault. Now, I don't know how the deputy could have not known. I mean,

00:32:41.540 the biological reality, uh, is, is always pretty obvious. Um, especially in person, once you get

00:32:50.840 past the filters and the Photoshop and all the rest of it. But, uh, but then again, the deputy was

00:32:56.200 intoxicated. So maybe that, maybe that helps explain it, but in any case, the trans identified male 0.98

00:33:00.880 was misrepresenting himself in order to have a sexual encounter. And that is again, assault. So he's the

00:33:07.860 one, um, who should be charged here. I think pretty obviously. All right. Here's an interesting

00:33:15.840 article this week in the Financial Times. I don't know why the Financial Times is covering this

00:33:19.860 exactly, but here's the headline. Um, finding their religion, why Gen Z are turning to faith.

00:33:27.140 So there's been a series of articles in different publications about this,

00:33:30.080 this phenomenon, but let me read a little bit of this one. Slowly, slightly faith is

00:33:37.740 trickling back, at least into Britain. There's something in the water. Religion is civilized

00:33:41.180 table talk. Even non-believers mourn the death of Pope Francis with secularism yet to devise a

00:33:45.520 credible alternative as the world's moral conscience. The pews are filling up, notably with

00:33:50.520 young people. Gen Z's attendance at church has quadrupled in recent years. Um, which I didn't, 1.00

00:33:57.080 I didn't know that it was that high. That's pretty, uh, incredible from a small base, but the

00:34:01.920 significance lies more in the direction of travel. This is shaping up to be the first new generation 1.00

00:34:06.940 in a very long time to be making the country more, not less religious. Tick-tocking digital

00:34:13.460 natives for whom the world, the old world is unfathomable, yet who retrieve now from its analog 1.00

00:34:18.420 wreckage of all things, Bibles and hymn sheets. Today's culture is certainly more sympathetic to 0.99

00:34:24.620 faith than the noughties when, um, the millennials like me grew up ensnared by the four horsemen of

00:34:30.100 new atheism in their era-defining bestsellers, which was Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens,

00:34:34.960 Daniel Dennett. Dismissing religion as child abuse, mental illness, or terrorist propaganda. They

00:34:40.060 seem now as dated as the Dead Sea Scrolls. Um, and then it goes on. It's an interesting article. Uh,

00:34:48.760 so it's another, another article noting correctly that there is a real, a real revival of religious

00:34:53.620 conviction in our culture. Um, not just our culture, but across the West. It's a real thing.

00:35:00.940 We can officially say that now. I think people were noting this initially, cautiously optimistic, but

00:35:07.140 not sure. Is this some sort of blip? Is this some sort of anomaly? What's going on here? Um,

00:35:13.180 you notice this anecdotally. A lot of us noticed this anecdotally for a while that

00:35:17.580 when you go to churches, especially conservative, more conservative, reverent churches, uh, that you

00:35:25.000 walk in and wow, there's a lot of young people in this church. And that's something that we've been

00:35:32.860 noting for a long time anecdotally, but now there's a lot of data to back this up. So we can officially

00:35:38.540 say it's not a fluke that Gen Z is the first generation in many years to be probably more religious

00:35:44.320 than their parents. And now Gen Z is still in the majority, not religious, but the trend lines are

00:35:53.100 pointing in the right direction for the first time in many decades. And that's, um, pretty extraordinary

00:35:58.400 and heartening. Um, now the big question of course is why this is happening. And well, the real answer

00:36:06.180 is that the Lord is working in the hearts of the younger generation and leading them back, leading

00:36:11.160 them back home back to the truth. And I mean, that's, what's actually happening. Jesus is

00:36:15.760 happening, but on a, on a, like a psychological level, uh, what's going on. And I think, I think

00:36:23.040 it's a, it's a deep yet simple truth, which is that human beings need, and the article kind of touches

00:36:32.820 on this, which is that human beings need not want, not, not just desire. They need meaning in their

00:36:40.900 lives. Human beings need meaning in their lives. This is, this is what's happening with Gen Z. 1.00

00:36:47.500 They're searching for meaning. They can't live without meaning. And you cannot have a society that

00:36:54.160 exists without meaning for very long. A society without meaning will either collapse and be destroyed,

00:37:00.920 or it will, it will be revived and it will rediscover meaning. What can't happen is that it

00:37:06.320 just kind of lingers on indefinitely in this haze, in this zombie state without meaning that just can't

00:37:12.700 be sustained. So it's got to head one direction or another. Um, and human existence without God,

00:37:19.980 without faith, without religion is in existence without meaning, without purpose. There's just no 0.54

00:37:23.580 way around that. There's no way around it. This is why the article mentions the, the four horsemen

00:37:29.600 of atheism, new atheism, right? And this was in the nineties and the early two thousands. Um,

00:37:36.320 there was a, a, a, a big surge of, of atheism and you had the, you know, Christopher Hitchens and,

00:37:44.400 and, um, Daniel Dennett and Richard Dawkins and those guys, Sam Harris. Um, and they were very

00:37:55.160 popular and they sold a lot of books, but they ultimately failed. And why did they fail? Well,

00:38:03.780 it's because they never solved this problem, which is the most important one, which is, okay,

00:38:10.720 where's the meaning in it? And atheists for, for really for centuries have been trying to find a way 0.51

00:38:16.220 around this, right? They've been trying to devise all kinds of philosophies, all kinds of existential

00:38:22.000 conceptions of life and existence that would imbue life with meaning and purpose, uh, without God,

00:38:30.060 but it always fails. And I've read the, I've read at least the, the, the, the most famous,

00:38:38.140 you know, anti-God book from each of those four guys. And, um, I read all four books and it's,

00:38:48.260 it's, it's, it's repetitive after a while or redundant. They all make kind of the same points,

00:38:52.480 but this is, this is the area where they all failed. And most of them attempted to deal with

00:39:00.080 this at least a little bit. They make all their same points, but then you get to the point of, okay,

00:39:08.640 why does life matter? Then like, if you're right, why does life matter? What's the point of life?

00:39:12.860 What's the point of any of this? Who cares? Why should we, it always fails because the stark

00:39:18.600 reality is that if there's no God, then our existence is an accident. We were formed by blind

00:39:24.000 chance and we will soon be obliterated into nothingness. That's our fate. It's the fate of

00:39:30.000 everyone we know and love the fate of the entire world, the fate of, uh, or the earth itself is

00:39:34.960 nothingness. And you can't escape that without God. You just can't escape it. Um,

00:39:42.860 and this is a, this is a thing that the atheists have never read. They've never been able to grapple 0.84

00:39:47.600 with it. They've never been able to find a way around it. They've never been able to come up with

00:39:51.720 a coherent and believable and, uh, powerful argument for why life can have meaning in a world without God.

00:40:02.480 Now there, there have been some atheists who have basically admitted that, but when they admit it,

00:40:12.140 it gets pretty stark and depressing pretty fast. In fact, I remember years ago, I read, uh, an essay

00:40:19.820 by a philosopher that very few people have ever read, uh, or, or ever even heard of because he's

00:40:25.080 very obscure, a, a, uh, Norwegian philosopher from like the twenties or thirties. And he, I think he

00:40:32.040 only had one essay that was translated in English. Uh, it was called the last Messiah. And the guy's

00:40:36.840 name was, uh, Peter Wessel Zapfa, I believe. I think I have the name right. And anyway, Zapfa was a,

00:40:43.040 he was an atheist and he was a, like a pessimist and a nihilist, but he was honest at least. And he

00:40:49.780 thought that in a world without God, which is the world that he thought we lived in life just had

00:40:55.520 no meaning. And, um, not only did it not have meaning, but life is therefore a curse. It's an

00:40:59.720 enormous error. It's a kind of cosmic joke. And he thought that human consciousness in particular was

00:41:05.660 an accident of evolution. That was the only way he could sort of figure out like, why, why are we

00:41:10.480 conscious? Why does life exist? Why are we conscious without God? And, uh, and he came to the

00:41:15.560 conclusion, well, if there's no God, then, then evolution, then consciousness is a product of

00:41:20.180 evolution because that's all that it can be. But why would, why would we, why would nature evolve

00:41:26.860 consciousness of all things? Why would we evolve in understanding of our own meaninglessness and of

00:41:34.540 the, of the nothingness of our, of our lives? Like why, how do you, how could that be an evolutionary

00:41:40.140 adaptation? Um, and his answer was, well, it's like a horrible accident. It's like a mutation,

00:41:46.940 basically. It wasn't supposed to happen. And he, he compared it to a, like a species of deer where

00:41:51.880 the horns grow too big. And so the deer has to chip off bits of the, of their horns. Otherwise the,

00:41:58.540 the horns become so heavy that they'd be, they'd be pinned to the ground by the horns. And so he kind

00:42:03.380 of compares that to that's what's happening with human beings, that this, we have our consciousness and

00:42:07.320 we're sort of in effect, metaphorically pinned to the ground by this, by this enormous weight of our

00:42:12.440 consciousness and our, our own awareness of, of the meaninglessness of our lives. Anyway, I stumbled

00:42:18.040 across this essay and, uh, I don't remember how exactly, but I, I found it actually quite profound

00:42:26.840 and powerful, profound and powerful as an argument for God, which is definitely not how it was intended,

00:42:33.240 but it really just shows you that this is the other option. Um, either there is a God or we are

00:42:40.360 walking accidents. Our lives are a curse. Our consciousness is a cosmic joke. And all we can do

00:42:45.500 is just distract ourselves until we fade back into nothingness. Like that's the only other option.

00:42:50.680 That's it. Those, those are your two choices. And I think that's become clear to a lot of people. I

00:42:56.860 think, I think that's why they're fleeing back to faith. Now, granted, just because existence

00:43:01.380 without God is a horror beyond comprehension, which it would be that in and of itself doesn't mean

00:43:08.500 that that like, that is not in and of itself proof of God. In other words, the fact that a

00:43:13.720 godless universe is terrible, doesn't mean in and of itself that we don't live in a godless universe

00:43:20.060 because you could say, well, maybe, maybe, maybe it's, maybe the truth is just, yeah, maybe that it is

00:43:25.200 terrible, but maybe we just live, maybe, maybe our lives, maybe that's it. Maybe our lives are terrible,

00:43:29.660 you know, terrible things happen. But I think the point is that we all innately recognize

00:43:35.700 that that isn't the case. We have an inherent recognition of the fact that life has meaning,

00:43:41.400 that existence has meaning. We see that existence without God is not only a great horror, but also

00:43:47.160 an absurdity. It's an absurd concept. It's almost like a contradiction in terms. Our existence,

00:43:54.000 therefore, testifies to God's existence. And I think people are seeing that. Gen Z is seeing that.

00:43:57.940 And our consciousness is also a testimony to God's existence. And I think actually that's how I

00:44:03.100 stumbled across this essay because I was, I was interested in how atheists deal with and explain

00:44:08.300 consciousness. Because to me, of all the kind of rational arguments for God's existence, the best

00:44:16.400 one is not the origins of life or the fine tuning of the universe, although those are both good arguments.

00:44:21.140 But to me personally, I've always thought the best one is consciousness. The fact of human

00:44:27.240 consciousness. Consciousness is itself proof of a transcendent, immaterial realm of existence.

00:44:33.140 Consciousness, I think, is proof of the supernatural, I would argue, because otherwise, how is it possible

00:44:38.260 that inanimate matter in a blind and dumb universe could have somehow become aware of itself?

00:44:44.880 I mean, it just makes no sense. And as we said, it makes no sense. Then you would have to argue that

00:44:53.240 it's some sort of blind, dumb, evolutionary adaptation. And it makes even less sense in that 0.98

00:45:00.040 version of events. And then you're left with what this guy was saying in his essay, which is that,

00:45:06.900 yeah, it never should have happened. But it did. And it's a mistake. Like, it's a big, it's a big,

00:45:11.820 it's a big, something went horribly wrong. And now we have consciousness and the capacity for love and

00:45:18.440 self-awareness. All of that never should have happened. It's all a terrible thing. So that's,

00:45:24.480 that's like the honest atheist answer to the problem of consciousness. Although it's not really an

00:45:30.720 answer at all, because it still doesn't explain how that would be possible. How could that be?

00:45:36.320 How could you have inanimate matter that accidentally assembles itself in such a way as to trigger an

00:45:45.380 awareness of itself? To me, that just makes no sense at all. And is an extremely compelling

00:45:52.880 argument for, for God. And so I think, you know, some of this now I'm off in the weeds, but I think

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00:48:15.780 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:48:24.340 We began the week by talking about the collapse of Pride Month as parades are canceled due to low

00:48:29.040 attendance and corporate sponsors drop out. It didn't happen by accident. It happened because

00:48:33.100 conservatives organized rallies in defense of children, investigated hospitals and medical

00:48:37.000 providers that were abusing children, boycotted corporations that promoted gender ideology,

00:48:41.340 and ultimately voted to elect politicians who recognized the reality of human biology.

00:48:46.120 And for the first time in many years, conservatives rallied behind a worthwhile cause and secured

00:48:50.100 meaningful change to American culture. As you can imagine, this effective campaign by conservatives,

00:48:56.220 if only because it's so unprecedented, has led to sheer panic and confusion among many left-wing

00:49:00.440 activists. They're really not sure what to do with themselves or how to explain their massive

00:49:04.400 defeat. As recently as a few years ago, they seriously thought that they could convince people

00:49:08.240 to celebrate International Pronouns Day and Gay Uncles Day and 100 other fake holidays. They never

00:49:14.120 imagined that their whole ideology would be so discredited and so universally despised that people

00:49:19.020 would forsake Pride Month, their crown jewel. This is a total shock to them and therefore all over the

00:49:25.060 country, dramatic meltdowns are currently in progress. To give one example that's making the rounds,

00:49:29.480 here's a liberal woman who discovered to her horror that the local Target isn't selling trans t-shirts

00:49:35.180 and chest binders or tuck-friendly swimsuits this year. Instead, Target has replaced its Pride

00:49:40.400 section with patriotic clothing that says USA on it. The sacred Pride shrine has been defiled. This

00:49:46.280 woman's not happy about it. Watch. Happy Pride Month in my Target that used to have the Pride 1.00

00:49:51.440 section. It's now all USA. Yay. It's an American summer. Except for tourism because tourism is down

00:50:01.140 because no one wants to come here. USA. Woo. And honestly, my dad served the military and I'd love to be 0.99

00:50:07.240 really proud of this nation, but it's hard to be proud of it under Donald Trump. But hey, you know,

00:50:12.100 while you're here, pick up a USA bikini. You know, why not? Yeah, Target's really taken this anti-DEI

00:50:23.460 thing to another level. Nobody wants to come here, she says, as she smiles very angrily, which

00:50:30.340 is always a big red flag. Of course, that claim would be news to the millions of foreign nationals

00:50:35.480 who do everything in their power to come to this country every year, including committing felonies and 0.96

00:50:39.360 risking their lives and their children's lives. Also, even if it were true that nobody wanted to

00:50:43.200 come here, what does that have to do with Target selling American flag clothing? Just because every

00:50:48.140 single one of the 10 Canadians who can afford to go on vacation are boycotting America. We're

00:50:53.540 supposed to somehow buy clothing with, we're not supposed to buy clothing with an American flag on

00:50:58.160 it for that reason. This woman is fighting a battle that her side is losing. And at some level,

00:51:02.620 she clearly understands that. It'd be hard to miss. For example, this is the first year in a long time

00:51:07.820 where most corporations aren't even bothering to change their social media feeds to reflect LGBT

00:51:12.140 logos. As you can see, companies like Apple, IBM, Paramount, BMW, Netflix, Disney, Spotify,

00:51:20.620 and American Airlines are all sitting this particular Pride Month out, at least as far as the LGBT logos go.

00:51:26.500 And that's some progress, obviously. At the same time, it would be a mistake to say that Pride has

00:51:30.780 been eradicated because it hasn't been. There are still various corporations and nonprofits that are

00:51:35.300 pushing the message, including the people behind Sesame Street, which targets children as young as

00:51:40.180 two years old, if not younger. Sesame Street has been bombarding children with propaganda for some

00:51:45.440 time now. A few years ago, they pushed the COVID shot and endorsed the BLM riots. They also broadcast

00:51:51.460 a spinoff show where a demonic-looking drag performer from Queer Eye tells children that he's

00:51:57.380 going to show them his monster piece. Watch.

00:52:02.580 Elmo, Cookie, are you ready to see my monster piece?

00:52:07.260 Ready, Jonathan!

00:52:09.260 Mama Bear, some runway music, please. 1.00

00:52:11.560 Oh, yeah.

00:52:13.260 People and monsters alike, a round of applause for the Not Too Late show's newest monster,

00:52:18.920 Alan!

00:52:19.920 Ta-da! 1.00

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00:52:27.380 Now, where most companies and nonprofits have scaled back this kind of overt propaganda,

00:52:43.080 Sesame Street is doubling down on it. That's probably because they know that children are still extremely

00:52:46.980 susceptible to it. So, first of all, Sesame Street has invited that person back this season for an

00:52:52.600 episode that's going to air later this year. Presumably, they're going to do more monster makeovers

00:52:57.000 and show more children his monster piece, whatever that is. And secondly, just in time for Pride

00:53:01.820 Month, they posted this message on social media. It reads, quote,

00:53:06.600 On our street, everyone is welcome. Together, let's build a world where everyone, every person

00:53:11.560 and family feels loved and respected for who they are. Happy Pride Month. And they have the image of

00:53:16.500 the people grabbing the furry hands and all the different colors of the Pride flag. Now, if you wanted

00:53:23.060 to protect children, this is the exact opposite message you'd tell them. You wouldn't tell them

00:53:26.860 that every person should be respected because that's not true. For example, if somebody working

00:53:31.760 for Sesame Street was arrested for possessing sexually explicit images of young children on

00:53:35.480 his computer, which happened a little over a decade ago, then it would be a mistake to tell

00:53:39.900 children that he should be respected. Some people are evil. They do terrible things, and we shouldn't

00:53:45.400 respect what they do, and we shouldn't respect them either, personally. And every reasonable adult

00:53:51.060 understands that. But people who want to groom children push the opposite message. Again,

00:53:54.960 fortunately, we're seeing fewer and fewer of these messages lately because most adults understand

00:53:58.720 exactly what's going on. But children, as well as adults with the minds of children, are still

00:54:03.060 being targeted with this kind of LGBT propaganda. And it works particularly well on people whose brains 1.00

00:54:08.200 aren't fully developed. For example, Canadians are constantly subjected to LGBT propaganda, even in

00:54:13.840 2025. Some of this propaganda takes the form of advertisements, like this one from Air Canada.

00:54:18.720 Let's check in with their priorities.

00:54:21.620 We are doing the first ever, now let me get that one straight because a few letters have

00:54:27.760 been added to this one, 2SLGBTQIA plus flight ever in Canada. I do identify with the progress

00:54:35.620 flag. There is something in there that represents me as well. So it was a bit of joy having the

00:54:40.840 opportunity to do this flight today. Aujourd'hui, ce que ça signifie, c'est vraiment un moment

00:54:44.500 très spécial. C'est vraiment un terme de visibilité, de vraiment exprimer par tout le monde. On se sent

00:54:50.260 vraiment accueillis, vraiment acceptés pour qui on est. Pour célébrer l'inclusion à la diversité,

00:54:54.840 nous sommes heureux d'annoncer que le vol d'aujourd'hui…

00:54:57.840 It features our very first all 2SLGBTQIA plus crew. 0.86

00:55:02.740 The safety and the well-being of all the passengers on board rests in our hands. So

00:55:07.840 it doesn't matter who they are, what they represent, I am equally responsible for all

00:55:11.840 of them.

00:55:12.840 D'ailleurs, on aimerait vous souligner ces moments marquants de l'histoire canadienne.

00:55:15.740 And want to celebrate not just our community, but our freedom to be who we are, both at

00:55:20.640 work and in society. Valuing people equally, both in the air, on the ground, and celebrating

00:55:25.540 our identities, no matter what they are, with customers and our employees, is important

00:55:30.240 to us. Shantae, you all stay.

00:55:36.740 Now, Chris, in case you couldn't make it out, because some of it's in French, the captain

00:55:40.080 says that this flight is a watershed moment in Canadian history, and that's what he tells

00:55:44.240 the passengers. The first all 2SLGBTQIA plus flight, he says, was a major development for

00:55:51.140 Canada as a country. Truly, Canada will never be the same after this moment. They got a

00:55:55.840 bunch of two-spirits, lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgenders, queer, intersex, asexual, and 0.97

00:56:01.340 plus sign people together, and they flew the plane. It's like the Canadian version of the 0.83

00:56:07.180 moon landing. Actually, it's less impressive than it sounds. As best I can tell, they didn't

00:56:11.140 make sure that all the passengers were 2SLGBTQIA plus. That would have been more impressive 1.00

00:56:17.360 and probably very illegal and highly invasive. Instead, they're just referring to the crew.

00:56:22.040 Apparently, every crew member falls into one of these letters or symbols. But that still

00:56:27.000 raises the question of how exactly Air Canada determined the identities of its various crew

00:56:30.980 members. When they were signing this crew, did they look for someone who's intersex? Did

00:56:35.480 they ask the captain who he likes to sleep with? Did they grill him about how many spirits

00:56:39.740 he has? What if he said he had three spirits? Would he be disqualified because they're only

00:56:44.560 interested in people with two? That seems like a pretty obvious safety risk. I mean, you want

00:56:49.860 to pilot with as many spirits as possible, I would think. Sadly, though, even in Canada

00:56:54.680 in the year 2025, three-spirit discrimination remains very real. But we're picking on Canada

00:56:59.420 too much. To be fair, there are a few other entities that are still continuing down this

00:57:03.420 path. The New England Patriots uploaded some gay imagery, for example. So no surprise there. 0.99

00:57:09.040 For their part, the Philadelphia Museum of Art decked out their famous stairs with various

00:57:14.220 trans-colored flags. This is where the Rocky statue is located. You can see it here. And

00:57:20.720 for a long time, we've wondered how trans activists would up their game after painting flags all 1.00

00:57:26.040 over the roads so that people would be forced to drive over them. And now we have our answer.

00:57:30.120 They're going to put their flags all over the stairs that you're walking on. I guess the

00:57:34.740 idea is that we're supposed to trample the pride flag under our feet. I mean, that would seem to 0.98

00:57:40.380 be the obvious implication here. And if that's the case, I have to confess, I think it's a great

00:57:45.860 idea. It's a much better idea than the pride flags on random roads because everybody wants to emulate

00:57:51.620 Rocky and run up and down those steps. So I'll book my flight to Philadelphia right now. I'll fly Air

00:57:57.180 Canada if I can. Leave it to Philadelphia to construct the world's first pride monument that's 0.93

00:58:02.140 actually interactive and worth visiting. I have to admit, I didn't see that coming. Hats off to these

00:58:07.260 brilliant innovators in the city of brotherly love, I suppose. As for everyone else who continues to

00:58:12.520 push unironic and uninteresting Pride Month propaganda long after Pride Month has faded into

00:58:17.020 irrelevance, the Sesame Streets and the air candidates of the world, I have a very different message.

00:58:23.180 Like Pride Month itself, you are all today canceled. That will do it for the show today and this week.

00:58:30.140 Have a great weekend. Talk to you on Monday. Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - June 05, 2025

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