The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1619 - It's Time For America To Focus On Its Own Problems

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, President Trump brokers a ceasefire in the conflict between Iran and Israel.

00:00:05.060 That ceasefire is immediately broken.

00:00:07.460 We'll give you the latest, and then we'll try to refocus the conversation back on issues here at home,

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00:01:38.520 The way that I've always done this show is that I write my opening monologue and my closing monologue,

00:01:43.760 The Daily Cancellation.

00:01:44.720 I like doing it this way.

00:01:45.580 I like writing it because it allows me to deliver commentary that is, I hope, anyway,

00:01:50.340 more thought out and interesting than what you might get on the average podcast.

00:01:55.340 The downside is that, first of all, it's way more work and effort to do it this way.

00:02:00.280 And second, it presents practical complications during the rare moments when major news events

00:02:05.080 are breaking and developing by the minute, because by the time I finish writing my monologue,

00:02:09.460 the situation I'm writing about may have already changed.

00:02:12.200 And we are in one of those rare moments right now.

00:02:15.100 My plan today was to bring the focus back to the home front, to problems that we face in

00:02:19.400 our own country.

00:02:20.000 And I will still do that, but I want to begin by providing an update on the situation in

00:02:25.340 the Middle East.

00:02:26.120 Unfortunately, the situation is rapidly developing, changing, deteriorating, then improving, then

00:02:30.260 deteriorating again, then improving again.

00:02:32.640 So I'll try my best to get us all up to speed with the understanding that, you know, everything

00:02:36.980 I say in the first half of this monologue might be out of date by the time you hear it,

00:02:40.800 or by the time I finish talking.

00:02:43.080 Not much I can do about that.

00:02:44.320 Anyway, barring any order from a federal district court judge ordering the president,

00:02:50.000 to resume bombing Iran, which is a lot more plausible than it should be. 0.98

00:02:53.740 We now have a much clearer situation, a much clearer, you know, vision into the situation

00:03:00.460 in the Middle East than we did just 24 hours ago, although it's not perfectly clear, as

00:03:05.420 we will see.

00:03:06.760 Last night, as you've heard, Iran, Israel, and the United States agreed to what Donald

00:03:11.580 Trump called a complete and total ceasefire.

00:03:14.400 And the agreement came just hours after Iran launched a small number of missiles towards

00:03:18.460 a U.S. air base in Qatar.

00:03:20.060 Here's footage of what those missiles look like from the ground.

00:03:23.460 The vast majority of these missiles were intercepted in midair, and none of them caused any damage

00:03:27.140 or casualties, we're told.

00:03:28.720 And that wasn't an accident.

00:03:29.880 Through diplomatic channels, Iran informed both the United States and Qatar of its plan

00:03:34.700 to launch the missiles ahead of time, apparently.

00:03:37.220 So yes, Iran informed us that they were going to fire the missiles at us before they did so.

00:03:41.920 And then they immediately agreed to stop launching missiles entirely.

00:03:44.920 And the whole display was choreographed.

00:03:47.560 The only conclusion you can draw here is that Iran knows it's in a very weak position, and

00:03:52.240 therefore they fired off a few missiles to get it out of their system, as Trump put it,

00:03:56.660 or rather to put on a tough face for domestic consumption.

00:03:59.940 And then they backed down.

00:04:01.860 Now, regardless of what your position was 24 hours ago, this would obviously be a very favorable

00:04:08.640 conclusion to America's involvement in this conflict.

00:04:12.160 If no American lives are lost, and we're not pulled into another Middle Eastern quagmire, 1.00

00:04:18.120 that is clearly something to celebrate.

00:04:20.740 At this point, no politician or commentator should have any difficulty admitting that fact.

00:04:25.460 And yet, strangely enough, not everybody was happy yesterday.

00:04:29.720 Indeed, some of the biggest cheerleaders of military intervention in Iran, the people who

00:04:33.480 were the loudest voices urging Donald Trump to bomb those nuclear facilities, don't seem to

00:04:38.700 be especially happy at the moment.

00:04:40.180 I mean, you'd think they'd be overjoyed that their position ultimately prevailed, they got

00:04:44.900 what they wanted, and that the United States has just taken the historic step of bombing

00:04:48.800 Iran's nuclear program, and that no American lives were lost in the process, and you'd think

00:04:53.740 they'd just be a, hey, let's celebrate it.

00:04:56.240 But that's not the case, as it turns out.

00:05:00.380 Now, to be sure, some politicians, like Ted Cruz, seem thrilled by what's transpired.

00:05:04.500 They got what they asked for, and now they're praising the Trump administration, as you would

00:05:08.520 expect. But then you have senators like Lindsey Graham, who just took to the floor of the 1.00

00:05:14.260 Senate to demand regime change in Iran.

00:05:16.680 He made it very clear that a ceasefire isn't acceptable, nor is military action that eliminates

00:05:21.120 Iran's nuclear capability, if that's all that happens.

00:05:23.980 He wants more.

00:05:25.400 Even though that was his previous goal, supposedly, was just to get rid of the nuclear capabilities,

00:05:31.520 but it's not what he wants anymore.

00:05:33.140 And to that end, Lindsey Graham began his speech by comparing Iran's leadership to Nazis, because,

00:05:38.260 of course, that's the only analogy that anybody in public life is capable of.

00:05:42.880 There's only one other thing that's happened in history before this current moment, and

00:05:48.140 that is World War II, which is why everything is like World War II.

00:05:52.920 And then he called on Israel to overthrow the government because the Iranians aren't, quote, 0.93

00:05:56.660 normal. Watch.

00:05:59.080 Regime change is coming to Iran one or two ways.

00:06:04.100 The regime renounces what they've been doing since 1979 and change course, or it's replaced.

00:06:13.900 To expect Israel to do anything else is offensive to me, to our friends in Israel.

00:06:21.280 Finish the job.

00:06:22.240 Do what you have to do to bring about the regime change that will allow your children to sleep

00:06:27.640 through the night.

00:06:28.800 To the American people, wake up.

00:06:32.060 Understand what we're fighting.

00:06:34.800 The Ayatollah is not normal.

00:06:37.040 These are not normal people.

00:06:40.080 Stand with Israel.

00:06:42.080 Quote, to our friends in Israel, finish the job.

00:06:44.520 Do what you have to do to bring about regime change.

00:06:47.620 That's coming from a U.S. senator who's supposed to represent the interests of South Carolina,

00:06:51.320 a state that's around 6,000 miles away from Israel.

00:06:55.440 He's not happy that bombers just flew all the way from Missouri to take out those nuclear

00:06:59.380 sites in Iran.

00:07:00.080 Instead, without missing a beat, he wants more upheaval and uncertainty.

00:07:04.780 Forget a ceasefire.

00:07:06.100 He wants more shooting immediately.

00:07:09.280 And by the way, if that happens, there are no guarantees that Iran's going to tip us off

00:07:13.440 to their next rocket barrage.

00:07:15.080 It's very possible American soldiers would die.

00:07:17.440 What happens then?

00:07:18.300 Well, you know the answer.

00:07:19.040 There will be a much wider war, at which point Lindsey Graham will demand a full-scale

00:07:24.660 invasion, which is what he wants.

00:07:27.260 Mark Levin has adopted a similar position.

00:07:29.600 Here's what he wrote, following the news that Iran had effectively chosen not to respond

00:07:33.820 to our attack on the nuclear facilities or responded only in a symbolic way.

00:07:38.200 He wrote, quote,

00:07:38.820 The Iranian Nazi regime is desperately trying to hold on to power with no effective options. 0.76

00:07:44.500 Will the regime be provided an off-ramp without surrendering unconditionally?

00:07:48.120 In other words, will the regime be given a lifeline and survive to terrorize and murder,

00:07:52.560 build more ballistic missiles, and develop nukes and intercontinental missiles in the future?

00:07:56.520 That would be a disastrous outcome after all of this.

00:07:58.900 Now, reading all this, the only appropriate response is to demonstrate a characteristic

00:08:04.940 that Mark Levin is apparently incapable of demonstrating.

00:08:08.760 You have to show some humility and recognize what you know and what you don't know.

00:08:12.900 We don't know whether and how quickly Iran's current regime will be able to develop nukes

00:08:16.700 and intercontinental missiles.

00:08:17.900 They've just suffered a massive setback to their nuclear program by all accounts.

00:08:21.100 And we also don't know what a new government would do if we somehow orchestrated a regime change,

00:08:27.260 whatever that means.

00:08:28.800 If we sponsor an effort to overthrow Iran's government,

00:08:31.800 we have no idea what would happen next.

00:08:35.420 But there's a very real possibility that the outcome would be catastrophic.

00:08:38.420 And I say that because U.S.-led regime changes have been catastrophic

00:08:41.720 every other time they've been tried.

00:08:44.360 But so far, Trump has managed to avert catastrophe for the U.S. in the Middle East.

00:08:48.500 And again, obviously, that's worth celebrating.

00:08:51.680 But not everybody's happy with that.

00:08:53.100 And that should tell you something.

00:08:55.340 Although, and here's where we come to the latest updates as of this moment.

00:08:59.360 This episode is not quite over.

00:09:01.840 Mere hours after the ceasefire was seemingly settled,

00:09:04.640 Iran and Israel began accusing each other of violating it.

00:09:08.680 So the initial ceasefire lasted for like five or six hours, if that,

00:09:13.700 before the two parties were at each other's throats again.

00:09:15.660 And this morning, President Trump was obviously fed up with the whole thing

00:09:18.900 and especially frustrated with Israel,

00:09:21.660 who he called out in pretty stern language.

00:09:25.260 Here's what he said.

00:09:26.900 Do you believe that Iran is still committed to the ceasefire?

00:09:30.160 Yeah, I do.

00:09:31.040 They violated it, but Israel violated it too. 0.78

00:09:33.660 Are you questioning if Israel is committed to the ceasefire?

00:09:35.380 Israel, as soon as we made the deal,

00:09:37.280 they came out and they dropped a load of bombs,

00:09:39.520 the likes of which I've never seen before.

00:09:41.500 The biggest load that we've seen.

00:09:43.520 I'm not happy with Israel. 0.99

00:09:44.780 You know, when I say, okay, now you have 12 hours,

00:09:48.400 you don't go out in the first hour and just drop everything you have on them.

00:09:51.880 So I'm not happy with them.

00:09:53.460 I'm not happy with Iran either. 0.99

00:09:55.140 But I'm really unhappy if Israel is going out this morning

00:09:58.260 because the one rocket that didn't land, that was shot,

00:10:01.680 perhaps by mistake, that didn't land.

00:10:03.960 I'm not happy about that.

00:10:05.820 Now, in addition to that, Trump also said that Iran and Israel,

00:10:09.080 and I quote,

00:10:10.020 have been fighting so long and so hard that they don't know what the F they're doing.

00:10:14.780 And he followed that up with a post on Truth Social,

00:10:16.660 demanding that Israel send its plane home and not drop any more bombs.

00:10:22.080 A follow-up post reported that Israel was returning the planes

00:10:24.540 and that the plane they sent to Iran would only do a, quote,

00:10:27.560 friendly plane wave and then return.

00:10:29.780 Now, I don't know what a plane wave is or why Israel would be doing that, 0.89

00:10:33.220 but that's what Trump said.

00:10:34.740 But as of this exact moment,

00:10:37.340 a measure of calm seems to have been restored again.

00:10:41.500 And most importantly, still, no American lives have been lost in the chaos.

00:10:45.660 I mean, we'll see how things stand an hour or a day from now.

00:10:48.880 No matter what,

00:10:50.940 the one thing we know is that

00:10:52.880 no ceasefire will hold forever in the Middle East.

00:10:56.900 You know, that's, that's, we know that for certain.

00:11:01.620 There is no ceasefire that will hold indefinitely in the Middle East.

00:11:06.460 Across the region, there have been factions that have been fighting for years,

00:11:11.760 for decades, arguably centuries in some cases.

00:11:15.940 And they will continue to fight no matter what we do.

00:11:19.720 President Trump can definitely handle this stuff better than most presidents.

00:11:24.240 In fact, he handles it better than any other president in my lifetime, hands down.

00:11:28.960 But even so, there's only so much an American president can do

00:11:32.200 when he's dealing with ancient blood feuds 10,000 miles away.

00:11:36.080 He cannot fundamentally solve the problem,

00:11:39.100 not because of a deficiency on his part,

00:11:42.000 but because of a deficiency of human nature

00:11:43.940 and because of the particular conditions in the Middle East

00:11:47.520 and because there are lots of other forces at work who want conflict over there.

00:11:52.460 And when people want conflict, they get it one way or another,

00:11:55.640 at one point or another, in one form or another.

00:11:59.840 And that's why what I want, what a lot of people want,

00:12:03.960 is for the U.S. to leave this circus behind, back out of it completely,

00:12:08.660 focus on our own problems.

00:12:10.000 Trump's done everything he can do.

00:12:11.300 Now, let's focus on ourselves.

00:12:14.440 Now, you can call that simplistic or isolationist if you want.

00:12:17.640 I really don't care.

00:12:19.940 I call it rational.

00:12:22.020 I call it learning the lessons of history, including recent history.

00:12:26.820 Most of all, I call it, we call it, America first.

00:12:31.060 Our country is in a state of existential crisis on multiple fronts internally.

00:12:37.100 We don't have the time, the resources, the manpower, the will,

00:12:41.540 the ability to fix problems for other countries right now.

00:12:45.560 We need to focus on ourselves and let them handle their own disputes.

00:12:49.100 I made this point yesterday.

00:12:50.280 I make this point all the time, going back to the very beginning of my career.

00:12:53.600 Um, but when I, when I said this yesterday, again, for the umpteenth time

00:12:58.460 about focusing on our own problems, I said it on X, somebody responded in a tweet that

00:13:03.660 got hundreds of likes and said that, well, we need to, we need to do a regime change in Iran

00:13:09.620 if we quote, believe in shaping a better world.

00:13:14.020 And I responded that actually it's not America's job to shape a better world.

00:13:19.160 I don't believe in shaping a better world as a foreign policy objective,

00:13:23.100 as an objective of the United States.

00:13:26.460 And lots of commentators seem to be scandalized by that assertion.

00:13:29.720 They can't believe that I'm opposed to a better world.

00:13:33.940 Well, let me break this down for them as slowly and plainly as I can.

00:13:39.920 Yes, I'd like for the world to be better, whatever that means.

00:13:44.280 That'd be great.

00:13:46.000 I'm in favor of better things and not worse things.

00:13:48.900 I mean, every time, actually, in every case, if you give me an option,

00:13:52.480 better or worse, I'll take better every time.

00:13:55.960 Now, I'm not convinced that U.S.-led regime changes actually have made the world better

00:14:00.320 ever, like at all, but sure, a better world sounds great to me.

00:14:05.360 But the burden of improving the entire world and bringing peace and happiness to everyone

00:14:13.180 who lives on the globe does not fall on the United States of America.

00:14:18.100 That is not our job.

00:14:19.600 And it is insane that I even have to explain this.

00:14:23.140 The principal job of our leaders and our people, our citizens, is to make this country better.

00:14:32.060 That is the obligation.

00:14:33.520 That is the duty to our own country.

00:14:36.780 It is to see to the prosperity, health, safety, and well-being of our own nation and our own people.

00:14:43.740 And if we do that, guess what?

00:14:45.180 The world will be a better place, too.

00:14:48.980 You want to help the world?

00:14:50.560 Put America first.

00:14:52.380 More importantly, you want to help your own family, your own community, your own people,

00:14:56.880 your own culture?

00:14:58.100 Put America first.

00:14:59.900 Always.

00:15:02.460 Now, on to the practical steps that we could take.

00:15:05.180 There are a lot of issues we could address here, issues that directly impact the lives

00:15:08.840 of American citizens.

00:15:10.360 The Trump administration has already secured the southern border,

00:15:12.500 which is one of the most important steps towards restoring our national sovereignty

00:15:16.000 and protecting Americans from foreign criminals.

00:15:18.400 But that still doesn't address the millions of illegal aliens who have already entered the

00:15:21.580 United States.

00:15:22.200 Securing the border is critically important, of course, but the problem

00:15:24.540 is that the next Democrat administration can undo those efforts in, like, five seconds.

00:15:30.240 They cannot, however, so easily reverse mass deportations.

00:15:35.480 I mean, they'll try, but they can't do that overnight.

00:15:38.380 Which is why the mass deportations must commence.

00:15:41.040 The latest estimates show that only around 55,000 illegal aliens are currently in ICE detention.

00:15:47.180 Around 30% of them have criminal convictions.

00:15:49.620 Another 29 or 26% have pending criminal charges.

00:15:53.540 Additionally, news reports suggest that roughly 15,000 illegal aliens are being deported every

00:15:58.920 month on average, which would put us at around 180,000 on the year if that pace holds.

00:16:03.680 These are not anywhere near the numbers that we need to see if we want to make a dent in the massive

00:16:08.720 number of illegal aliens who currently live in this country.

00:16:11.220 That number is at least 11 million, although that actual, the actual number is definitely much,

00:16:16.440 much higher because they've been giving us that 11 million figure for more than a decade.

00:16:20.400 So, let's do some back of the math, back of the envelope math here.

00:16:26.860 If we keep deporting illegal aliens at the current pace, after four years, we'll have deported less 0.97

00:16:31.960 than 10% of the illegal alien population in this country, using the most optimistic estimate

00:16:37.260 imaginable.

00:16:38.040 I mean, in reality, it's more like 5%, maybe even 1% or less.

00:16:43.320 And that's not sufficient, to put it mildly.

00:16:46.500 And unlike generational conflicts in the Middle East, this is something that we can start addressing

00:16:51.000 immediately if we choose to do so.

00:16:53.700 Here's one idea of how we can get started.

00:16:55.840 In Los Angeles, local media outlets are openly advertising the services of fake nonprofits and

00:17:02.360 charities that are aiding and abetting illegal aliens in this country.

00:17:05.660 This is a story that every conservative should be talking about.

00:17:08.300 It's far more relevant to our daily lives than anything happening halfway around the world.

00:17:13.840 Watch this.

00:17:15.020 As you know, ice rates are sparking fear in many communities.

00:17:18.240 And some people, they are too afraid to even leave their homes.

00:17:22.240 And that's why this man, known as the Hood Santa, is stepping in to help.

00:17:27.560 Today, we're going to Compton, Long Beach, Paramount.

00:17:31.780 On a regular basis, Tito Rodriguez, Executive Director of Local Hearts Foundation, and a team

00:17:37.540 of volunteers prepare grocery bags for those in need.

00:17:41.140 Some bags of bread and some rice.

00:17:43.820 Lately, that includes people too afraid to leave their homes because of the ongoing ice

00:17:49.240 rates happening across Los Angeles.

00:17:51.840 Yeah, people are scared to come out.

00:17:53.420 We've gotten thousands of messages.

00:17:55.240 We're afraid to go out.

00:17:56.160 We're even afraid to go to the doctor at this point.

00:17:58.900 So then we assemble and we have somebody deliver groceries.

00:18:03.820 And after watching video after video of ice agents detaining street vendors, Tito, known

00:18:09.640 to many as Hood Santa, and his wife, Petrina, knew they couldn't just stand by.

00:18:14.960 Hola, senora.

00:18:18.080 Vámonos, vámonos.

00:18:19.180 Está muy peligroso andar en la calle.

00:18:21.200 Sí, vámonos.

00:18:22.040 They pick up vulnerable street vendors, buy their flowers and other merchandise, then

00:18:26.980 drive them home to get them off the streets and out of harm's way.

00:18:31.420 Por favores, no salgan un rato.

00:18:33.680 Dios los cuide y Dios los bendiga, eh.

00:18:35.160 Thanks to cash donations, Tito was able to cover the woman's rent this month.

00:18:40.120 He urged her to stay home while the rates continue.

00:18:43.440 OK, no salgan, OK? 1.00

00:18:45.080 Por favor, cuídese, OK?

00:18:48.240 Yeah, that's right.

00:18:49.000 This guy's going around in a van and picking up random illegal alien street vendors.

00:18:53.580 He's yelling and luring them into his unmarked white van with wads of cash, enough to buy

00:18:58.440 all their products and pay their rent for a month.

00:19:00.900 Nothing sketchy or crazy about that at all, we're told.

00:19:04.260 This is supposedly life in Trump's America, even though, as we've as we just discussed,

00:19:08.140 barely anyone's getting deported.

00:19:09.320 And those who are getting deported in the majority of cases have criminal records.

00:19:12.540 I mean, they've committed crimes in addition to the crime of entering the country illegally.

00:19:18.620 Put all that aside for a second.

00:19:21.180 Imagine if instead of helping illegal aliens, he was driving around in his van and offering 0.93

00:19:24.880 to pay money to shelter, say, cop killers or armed robbers who just escaped from prison.

00:19:30.520 Pick any crime and then imagine that this guy's going around and helping the criminals evade

00:19:34.560 the authorities.

00:19:35.140 In those cases, the media would presumably have no problem calling this guy what he is.

00:19:40.200 Well, actually, even in that case, they wouldn't want to.

00:19:43.400 But it would be very clear to everybody that this is a crime.

00:19:48.260 You're helping criminals evade detection.

00:19:51.380 That's a crime.

00:19:51.800 He's acting a lot like a criminal himself.

00:19:57.580 Certainly, his fake charity or NGO or whatever should be shut down immediately.

00:20:02.400 Any tax-deductible donations or expenses he's recording as part of any plot to help criminals

00:20:07.320 evade accountability are obviously fraudulent.

00:20:09.940 There should be raids immediately to determine where his funding is coming from and also to

00:20:14.180 shut down the whole operation and throw anybody involved in prison.

00:20:16.540 Until that happens, until people like this are held accountable for openly defying the

00:20:22.660 law on the local news, then we shouldn't tolerate another word from any politician about getting

00:20:27.160 the United States more involved in the Middle East.

00:20:30.840 I mean, this should be the red line.

00:20:32.140 There's a massive web of NGOs and nonprofits that do exactly what this guy's doing, although

00:20:37.340 they're a bit more subtle about it in many cases, and they all need to be shut down.

00:20:42.140 And then for its part, the administration needs to drastically step up deportations.

00:20:46.540 Because we're just, it's not enough.

00:20:49.300 The pace is not enough.

00:20:51.720 And that's what Donald Trump ran on.

00:20:54.660 That is why he won every swing state.

00:20:58.720 But nobody in Wisconsin or Pennsylvania voted for Donald Trump because of the things that

00:21:03.720 he would do for a foreign country.

00:21:06.020 They voted for him because of what he would do for this country and its own people.

00:21:09.760 They voted for him because he said he would secure the border, punish open lawlessness, restore

00:21:18.200 our national sovereignty, our national identity.

00:21:21.440 The first part of that promise has been fulfilled, which in and of itself is a great victory.

00:21:27.280 Now it's time to remove the criminals who are already here, as well as the people who are

00:21:33.320 facilitating them.

00:21:35.560 And if we manage to achieve that, then we'll have a country 10 years from now.

00:21:41.820 And nothing, not even the fate of various countries in the Middle East, is more important than that.

00:21:48.860 Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:22:53.380 So there's a study just conducted by MIT that deserves a lot of attention, I think.

00:22:58.100 And I say that even as a guy that, you know, as you know, thinks studies are fake for the

00:23:02.280 most part.

00:23:03.340 But Time reports.

00:23:07.160 Reading now, does ChatGPT harm critical thinking abilities?

00:23:10.560 A new study from researchers at MIT's Media Lab has returned some concerning results.

00:23:16.380 So this is a big study.

00:23:17.220 It's actually a study that's gotten a lot of attention.

00:23:18.720 It's getting a lot of articles reporting on it right now.

00:23:22.880 Even in the lead-up to the study being published, there was a lot of conversation about it.

00:23:29.300 And so here's what it says.

00:23:30.820 The study divided 54 subjects, 18 to 39-year-olds from the Boston area, into three groups and

00:23:38.020 asked them to write several SAT essays using OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google search engine, and

00:23:43.580 nothing at all, respectively.

00:23:44.540 Researchers used an EEG to record the writer's brain activity across 32 regions and found

00:23:50.060 that of the three groups, ChatGPT users had the lowest brain engagement and consistently

00:23:54.400 underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.

00:23:59.180 Over the course of several months, ChatGPT users got lazier with each subsequent essay,

00:24:04.160 often resorting to copy and paste by the end of the study.

00:24:06.700 The paper suggests that the usage of LLMs, large language models, is I believe what that

00:24:14.000 stands for, could actually harm learning, especially for younger users.

00:24:17.960 The paper has not yet been peer-reviewed, and its sample size is relatively small.

00:24:22.100 The paper's main author, though, felt it was important to release the findings to elevate

00:24:26.240 concerns that as society increasingly relies upon LLMs for immediate convenience, long-term

00:24:31.380 brain development may be sacrificed in the process. 0.99

00:24:34.560 Okay, so AI makes us dumber.

00:24:38.940 And, I mean, that's not exactly what the study's claiming. 0.62

00:24:41.520 That is my editorialization, but I think that it's true.

00:24:46.060 It reduces critical thinking skills.

00:24:48.560 It hinders brain development.

00:24:50.780 It makes people lazier, both physically and intellectually.

00:24:54.660 It makes us less intellectually engaged in what we're doing. 0.99

00:24:59.540 So, yes, it makes us dumber.

00:25:02.360 And this is why I am very worried about a future ruled by AI. 0.70

00:25:10.680 I mean, I'm worried about it for a bunch of reasons.

00:25:14.360 It's going to erase millions of jobs.

00:25:17.900 Tens of millions of jobs are already disappearing.

00:25:23.260 But as this thing ramps up, you know, over the next five years, entire industries will just disappear.

00:25:31.960 Gone.

00:25:32.680 Not to be replaced by something else.

00:25:34.220 It's not like jobs are you losing one job, but it's being replaced by a different job.

00:25:39.680 It's just, no, the jobs are gone.

00:25:41.300 They don't exist anymore in any form.

00:25:43.960 And that is a major concern.

00:25:50.540 And as a corollary to that, one A on the list, I would say, is that it will destroy creative fields.

00:25:57.640 Which, you know, I have a certain bias when it comes to that because I'm in a creative field.

00:26:03.260 But once films and TV shows and books and music are all AI generated, human creativity is dead.

00:26:12.780 Because none of that is human.

00:26:14.340 Right?

00:26:14.780 That's not human creativity.

00:26:17.260 Putting a prompt into an AI and just spitting out a movie script or something, that's not, it's not like, oh, no, people will just become more creative in how they use AI.

00:26:25.600 There's no creativity.

00:26:27.520 Putting in the prompt and say, make me a movie about pirates.

00:26:31.040 And then the pirate movie, you didn't, that's no human creativity, zero involved in that.

00:26:36.880 And so it's just, it's a death of human creativity.

00:26:41.740 And then there's also what AI does to humans at a deep spiritual and psychological level, which is what this study touches on.

00:26:47.920 And you cannot be, and I think this should be obvious, you cannot be an intelligent or wise or interesting person unless you learn.

00:26:58.080 You have to learn things.

00:27:00.080 And learning is an active process.

00:27:02.560 You have to actively do it.

00:27:05.220 Your brain has to be engaged.

00:27:07.260 You have to put in effort.

00:27:09.600 But if AI can generate everything for you, requiring no mental power on your part, then you're not going to learn.

00:27:17.920 But we are rapidly entering a future where people just don't learn.

00:27:22.920 They don't, they just don't learn anything.

00:27:25.920 We are entering a future where people have no knowledge, no base of knowledge.

00:27:32.520 And like we talked about last week, this, we, we've been on the trajectory for a long time.

00:27:38.580 I mean, I, I firmly believe that, that, you know, I think this is a kind of like a common perception that a lot of people have that I think is totally true, which is that people in general today are very dumb compared to a hundred years ago, 200 years ago, 300 years ago.

00:27:58.780 I saw someone on, on X yesterday say that, that, you know, he, he thinks that like the, the average person in the 1700s would have been an intellectual giant compared to most people today.

00:28:14.060 And, uh, I think he's probably right about that.

00:28:16.760 I've said similar things.

00:28:17.660 And you can see, you know, I'm, I'm reading a book right now, for example, about, um, about the mutiny on the bounty and the book's called the bounty, uh, which I, I'm only about a third of the way into it, but I would, I recommend it.

00:28:33.060 It's very, very interesting.

00:28:34.020 It's a fascinating story.

00:28:35.200 And, uh, it is not just the story of the, of the mutiny itself on the bounty, obviously a very famous story that Hollywood has, there's been movies about and everything.

00:28:44.360 Um, but the second part of the story where Captain Bly is, is cast, cast out on a small boat along with his loyalists in the middle of the Pacific ocean left to die.

00:28:55.800 You know, all he's got is like a compass, very few provisions.

00:28:58.940 And he manages to make it home safely with everybody still alive, 4,000 mile journey on this little small boat.

00:29:04.800 Anyway, uh, fascinating, fascinating story. 0.99

00:29:08.220 Where was I speaking of being stupid? 0.99

00:29:10.000 Why did I bring that up? 0.97

00:29:10.680 Oh, well, because when I, when I read, when I read books like this and this jumped out at me when I was reading this book that you'll, you'll, you'll see that any kind of nonfiction book about a historical event, you'll often, you know, you get, you get quotes from the people back then, people involved, uh, from letters and journals and that sort of thing.

00:29:31.640 And I'm just reading some of the journal entries that are included in this book and the letters of people recounting what happened.

00:29:38.940 And, and I made this point before, but the, but the, the, the way that they write the, the language that they use to convey their emotions and to describe what happened, there's just a richness and a depth to it that no one today is capable of.

00:29:59.240 They write in a way where like, when you read it, you go, okay, that had to have been written 300 years ago or 200 years ago.

00:30:06.740 Um, you know, it, and not just because the, the language is archaic, but just, but because the, it's so descriptive and, and just kind of effortlessly, effortlessly poetic that nobody writes like that anymore.

00:30:20.660 Uh, and these are not now that it's, it's easy enough to say that when you've, if you're reading a letter written by a ship's captain, for example, I mean, these were geniuses.

00:30:29.220 The average ship's captain was a, was an absolute genius had to be, uh, but even just norm, like, you know, the average sailor on a ship, like barely literate, but still able to, through the kind of spelling problems and punctuation problems.

00:30:45.840 Some of that just has to do with the way things were written back then. Some of it is being barely literate, but, but even then it just, there's a, it's a, a depth and a richness to the language that people don't have today at all.

00:30:57.020 Um, and so that's been the case. We, we, we've been on this decline, I think for a long time. And I, so my worries with AI coming in, it's just, it just destroys it.

00:31:07.020 I mean, the 20 years from now, the average person's vocabulary will, will be like 50 words. Right. Uh, and worst of all, there isn't anyone in a position of power who's taking these impending catastrophes seriously or trying to do anything about it.

00:31:22.360 Instead, we're just kind of strolling casually into a future where the average human being doesn't have a job, doesn't have anything to do, doesn't know how to do anything, doesn't have any base of knowledge about anything at all.

00:31:33.740 And to me, that is a horrifying nightmare future that we should try to avoid in some way. It's like a vision of hell because it's life without meaning, without purpose, without beauty, without any of the things that make life worth living.

00:31:47.940 And I don't really understand why people aren't taking this a little bit more seriously.

00:31:52.200 Now, I often hear, uh, that those of us who are warning about the dangers of AI are just fear mongering and, you know, uh, and, and, and the supposed evidence of, of this, of the fact that we're, we're, you know, well, you're just, you're panicking over the supposed evidence of that is that all throughout history, people have always warned about the dangers of new technology.

00:32:13.820 And this is no different, supposedly. So I hear this all the time. People say, Oh, come on. People said that about TVs and smartphones. People said that that would destroy society. And look, everything turned out. Okay.

00:32:26.540 Well, there are two big problems with this line of logic. The first is that AI is just different in kind from any other sort of technology. Not everything is the same as everything else. There are things that are just different from other things. Sometimes something comes along and it's different. It's not the same. Uh, AI is different. It's different because it removes the human element completely. That's the whole point of it.

00:32:51.880 That's what the supposed great advantage of AI is supposed to be. Um, all new technology up until now has just been new ways for humans to interact with each other, communicate with each other, create things and so on. But AI takes humans out of it, right? Because AI thinks quote unquote for itself. Uh, so this isn't even analogous to the industrial age when machines in factory started doing jobs that humans did before, uh, because that meant that now humans had jobs working machines.

00:33:20.460 Standing on the assembly line. And it was a more efficient way for humans to work. And whatever you think about that, whatever you think about humans ending up on the assembly line, uh, humans were still working. Same for when cars, uh, took over for horse and buggies.

00:33:37.220 Well, humans went from driving horse and buggy to driving a car, but humans were still driving. Now AI is coming along with self-driving cars and humans are taken out of it. It's not humans driving a fancy new contraption. Okay. It's not like, Oh, we're all driving flying cars now. Like we all hope that would be the next step. We're all driving hovercraft. No, it's just like, it's still a car, but you're just not driving.

00:34:02.060 Um, which by the way, which by the way, we'll wipe out millions of jobs, millions. And this will happen soon. I mean, again, it is already happening in the next five years. It rideshare taxi trucking gone, gone, gone, gone.

00:34:19.460 Um, and what then? What about all those people? What, what do we do? So this is different. Um, also the other point here is that the warnings that were issued about a lot of these other technologies turned out to be correct.

00:34:37.740 That's why it's always funny to me when people use this argument. Oh, you know, you sound like all the people that were warning about TVs, but yeah, well, they were right though.

00:34:47.720 What they warned about actually happened. Um, you know, you could go back and read what was written about these other technologies and guess what? They were mostly right.

00:34:56.100 It's like when someone criticizes modern pop music and then someone else goes, Oh, Oh, please. You know, people said that about Elvis.

00:35:05.220 Well, yeah. I mean, the people who were critical of Elvis in the fifties were worried that it would lead to exactly the kind of insane degenerate filth that we're surrounded by today.

00:35:14.020 So go back in time to find an Elvis critic and show them a clip of a modern music video or pop performance. And they're going to go. Yeah, exactly. That's what I'm worried about. So yeah. Okay.

00:35:25.980 Now, am I saying that all new technology is bad that we should not have new tech? Of course, I'm not saying that. I'm just pointing out that there are downsides to every new technology.

00:35:34.440 The people who talk about these downsides are usually correct and ignored. And because they're ignored, nothing is ever done to prepare ourselves for the downside or to mitigate it in any way.

00:35:46.020 And now we're looking at a new technology. And now we're looking at a new technology with AI that unlike cars, unlike the printing press, unlike computers, I think with AI, we're looking at something that is far more downside than upside.

00:36:01.360 Um, because of, because I think it, it harms humanity much more than it helps it. And not because I'm worried about some, about some, you know, sci-fi scenario terminator, the AI has become sentient and enslave us. Who knows that might happen. It's, but that's not even it. That's not it.

00:36:22.420 It's just a future where people have nothing to do and don't, and have nothing to expend any effort on or energy on. All of our experience as humans tells us that that is a recipe for just misery.

00:36:37.060 All right. Um, well, that was kind of bleak, but let's, let's, let's get inspired. Let's get inspired.

00:36:45.280 It's too much. Everything's been too bleak. So I want to show you something that should be inspiring to you.

00:36:49.240 There's an NBC affiliate in Maine that is celebrating pride month. Uh, nobody else is celebrating it, but they still are. 1.00

00:36:58.280 And they decided to commemorate the occasion by having a drag queen deliver their weather report. 0.89

00:37:05.680 And let's, uh, watch that.

00:37:08.540 Hello everybody. I am chartreuse money. And today as current temperatures right here, Saturday, it's 2 40 PM.

00:37:14.000 Honey, it is 80 degrees here in Portland right now, honey. And we are feeling the effects.

00:37:19.100 The sun is out. All it took was a pride parade to bring the sunshine out today, but honey, it is hot all over the state.

00:37:24.800 We've got 78 degrees in Lewiston. I know the people of Lewiston Auburn are probably celebrating and jumping in the river.

00:37:29.700 Please don't do that. Be safe because it is hot, hot, hot, and we need to find relief.

00:37:33.760 Sanford's 81. Portsmouth down in New Hampshire is a lovely 83. Honey, the water is 56 degrees.

00:37:39.200 Okay, now I know what you're thinking. That sounds so tropical, but you still got to be careful.

00:37:42.560 Okay, hypothermia is real. So take it easy. 78 degrees in Waterville, 71 degrees in Greenville, and 76 in Millinocket.

00:37:49.060 And shout out to my friends up in Caribou. I see you up there, Caribou. It's 73 degrees up there. Hope you're having a good old time.

00:37:54.660 So what is this guy's name? I watched that video. I went back and watched the first part of it, like the first three seconds, two or three times to try to get the name.

00:38:06.740 What's the name? Sharktooth Money. Is that what it was?

00:38:11.660 If that's true, it's the first cool drag queen name ever invented. Sharktooth Money. 1.00

00:38:16.060 It was either that or Sharktooth Money, which is probably it. That would make more sense.

00:38:23.400 Can I even say Sharkto without getting bleeped? I don't know. We're going to find out. Sharktooth. Sharktooth.

00:38:28.820 I think you can say that. Don't bleep it. We'll be fine.

00:38:32.760 So there's the weather report from Mr. Sharktooth. And it's kind of interesting watching that.

00:38:38.180 And not just because the people of Maine think that 78 degrees is boiling hot.

00:38:42.880 It's a beautiful 76 degree day with a slight breeze. And their map is colored in red and yellow, like the whole state is on fire, which is funny.

00:38:54.040 But it's interesting in a cringy, really embarrassing way, because it puts on display one of the major pivotal mistakes that LGBT activists made. 0.75

00:39:07.380 As we've covered, the LGBT movement hit its peak probably about five years ago.

00:39:11.880 It's been taking one loss after another ever since then.

00:39:15.880 And leading up to this Pride Month, which has just been the most pitiful one on record, and gloriously so. 1.00

00:39:24.460 And so it's kind of been this question of, well, what happened?

00:39:32.240 I think this is one of the things that happened. This is one of the reasons why the LGBT movement fell apart. 1.00

00:39:39.180 Not drag queens giving weather reports, specifically, but drag queens in general. 1.00

00:39:44.500 One of the big mistakes the LGBT camp made was putting drag queens front and center. 0.94

00:39:52.960 Because drag went from up to about eight, nine years ago.

00:39:57.920 It was just a kind of bizarre fetish that was confined mostly to whatever weird nightclubs where they do that kind of thing.

00:40:06.640 And if you were just a normal person, you never really saw it.

00:40:10.580 You never encountered it.

00:40:12.240 And it went from that to this thing that they were trying to force into the mainstream.

00:40:16.100 They were putting it in front of our faces every chance they got.

00:40:18.980 Foisting it on us. Foisting it on our children.

00:40:21.560 Worst of all, they wanted drag queens to be taken seriously as, essentially, as their own identity group.

00:40:29.300 And journalists even started referring to drag queens by female pronouns in news articles.

00:40:35.300 Even though the drag queens themselves will say that they're playing a character. 1.00

00:40:40.460 So it's like a news article referring to Christian Bale as Batman.

00:40:44.100 Like, talking about him as if he actually is Batman.

00:40:47.280 That's what the journalists do now with the drag queens. 1.00

00:40:51.040 So they're trying to normalize it.

00:40:52.480 They're trying to normalize it, in other words.

00:40:55.120 They wanted to normalize drag queens. 1.00

00:40:56.780 And this is one of the key mistakes they made.

00:41:01.540 Now, for those of us who were always opposed to the LGBT agenda, it didn't change how we felt about anything.

00:41:09.860 We were opposed to the LGBT agenda before.

00:41:12.940 And they shoved the drag queens in our faces. 1.00

00:41:14.820 And we were still opposed.

00:41:16.420 So we felt that way the whole time.

00:41:19.240 But for the people in the middle, the so-called moderates, who didn't have much of a position.

00:41:24.060 Or were maybe sort of casually pro-gay rights.

00:41:27.440 Or like they would have said that they were if you asked them.

00:41:30.640 And they hadn't really thought about it much.

00:41:32.680 For those people, forcing them to look at drag queens all the time. 1.00

00:41:37.800 Trying to force them to take drag queens seriously. 1.00

00:41:41.300 To accept them.

00:41:42.160 To normalize them.

00:41:43.340 To accept them being around their kids.

00:41:45.340 Because it was just too much.

00:41:47.860 It was one of several things the LGBT agenda did that proved to be just too much for normal, moderate people. 1.00

00:41:56.640 Because the fact is that no normal person can look at a drag queen. 1.00

00:42:00.800 Can look at shark poof.

00:42:02.180 And see anything but like a bizarre mockery. 1.00

00:42:10.600 A ridiculous woman-face minstrel show. 1.00

00:42:14.480 And people naturally recoil. 0.99

00:42:17.640 Not because they're ideologically committed to opposing it.

00:42:22.400 But because, again, some of us are.

00:42:24.700 But I'm talking about just sort of normal people.

00:42:26.680 Kind of in the middle, so-called moderate.

00:42:28.160 But they naturally recoil because they're normal.

00:42:33.080 And the LGBT movement tried to get normal people to see abnormal stuff as normal. 0.99

00:42:37.900 And it blew up in their face.

00:42:40.640 I mean, you're talking about thousands of years of human experience and development.

00:42:44.880 That tells us that it's weird for a guy to pretend that he's a woman.

00:42:49.940 When you see that guy on the news report doing the weather.

00:42:54.440 It's just your natural instinct is to go, what the hell is this?

00:43:02.160 And so it'll take thousands of years of work in the other direction to undo all of that.

00:43:07.460 And even then, it probably won't succeed because human nature is what it is.

00:43:10.800 So what the LGBT movement could have done.

00:43:16.560 What would have been a more effective propaganda is if rather than putting drag queens front and center. 1.00

00:43:26.160 They could have put like men in business suits, you know, like normal people, normal, functioning, successful people.

00:43:34.920 They had a choice.

00:43:39.560 It's like, okay, well, they had the LGBT agenda.

00:43:43.440 And they wanted to find their sort of mascots for it.

00:43:47.340 The people they're putting out front and center as their representatives, right?

00:43:52.260 Their door-to-door evangelists for this movement.

00:43:56.720 And if you're a smart person, you know that, okay, well, if I'm going to, if I need a door-to-door evangelist for my movement,

00:44:05.060 it's got to be someone who's like inoffensive, normal.

00:44:10.020 Okay, so that's what I'm going to find.

00:44:11.660 Let's just find like a friendly, normal person.

00:44:17.360 Right, that's what the Mormons do, the Jehovah's Witnesses. 0.92

00:44:22.200 They send someone to your door, it's going to be like a friendly, normal person.

00:44:25.140 But the LGBT movement, what they decided was, oh, no, we're going to put, we're going to put a shark poof there. 0.93

00:44:32.800 We're going to, we're going to take a guy dressed up like a, like a Tim Burton character,

00:44:37.880 dressed up like a, like a female character in a Tim Burton movie from the late nineties.

00:44:42.460 And we're going to, we're going to put him on your front door.

00:44:47.020 And it's, you've, you've lost right away because people open their door and shriek in horror.

00:44:52.120 So it would have been much more effective propaganda if they had just, but, but I'm so glad they didn't do that.

00:45:01.160 And in the end, they couldn't because the movement,

00:45:03.580 the agenda is one of dysfunction and disorder and destruction down to its core.

00:45:13.400 And it just couldn't help but advertise it.

00:45:19.360 So maybe this is a long way of saying that the problem with making, you know, drag queens into the avatar of their movement is that actually it was too honest.

00:45:26.440 It was, it was too honest about what they were actually up to.

00:45:30.480 And, um, that's what, uh, that's what, that's what killed it in the end.

00:45:39.940 So that's the lesson.

00:45:40.920 Don't be honest.

00:45:42.580 At least if you're, if you're evil and you have an evil agenda, don't be honest about it.

00:45:47.120 That's the, uh, but if you're a good person, then you can be honest.

00:45:49.640 That's, that's the advantage of being a good person.

00:45:51.100 All right, let's get to the, uh, comment section.

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00:47:24.700 All right, for the comments, I had these yesterday and I didn't get to them, but there was some interesting feedback, so I want to get to it.

00:47:31.520 This is feedback on the segment, not to belabor the point, but we did last week about how AI, specifically things like ChatGPT, are putting the final nail in the coffin of the education system.

00:47:42.160 We just talked about AI again, of course, in the headlines.

00:47:45.780 So there's a theme here.

00:47:48.440 But as we talked about last week, new studies show that, you know, and we don't need any study to show us this.

00:47:55.080 But it shows us that kids in school, college and lower grades, are just using ChatGPT to do all their work for them, which, as I said, is the end of the education system as we know it.

00:48:03.840 It's over. That's it. It's done.

00:48:07.500 And that's my take anyway.

00:48:09.260 But what's your take?

00:48:10.160 We'll read through some of these comments and then I'll have some comments on my own at the very end, but I'll just read a few of these back-to-back.

00:48:16.300 Let's see.

00:48:17.620 Teacher here, if I don't make them hand-write it in front of me, all of them will use AI to cheat.

00:48:24.620 Another comment says,

00:48:25.280 It makes me so annoyed when I take the time to study, actually put in the effort to learn, hand-write all my essays and assignments, then get flagged for AI when I wrote it completely naturally.

00:48:43.020 Then I see my classmates using ChatGPT and still somehow pass.

00:48:48.160 Our education system is screwed. 0.96

00:48:51.360 Another comment. 0.94

00:48:52.280 Worse, my teacher wrote his feedback of my graduation thesis with AI.

00:48:56.320 It's not just going in one direction.

00:48:57.760 The teachers are abusing the technology just as much as students, just as they're not being held accountable at all.

00:49:02.940 Academia is dead.

00:49:03.900 My diploma is worthless.

00:49:04.840 Another comment.

00:49:08.260 The teenagers I've hired over the last two years, over the last year, cannot divide by two, literally, do not know how to calculate 50% off.

00:49:15.700 And when I say divide by two, they cannot do it.

00:49:17.880 Actually, so a lot of just really depressing comments like that.

00:49:26.140 So, in fact, I didn't, I'm sure it's there.

00:49:31.860 I didn't read every single comment.

00:49:32.980 But I didn't see one from someone in the education system saying, oh, no, you're overreacting.

00:49:39.220 It's fine.

00:49:41.100 Usually, whatever I'm, whatever it is I'm complaining about, I can get, you know, a fair number of people who will have that response no matter what it is.

00:49:47.840 But in this case, I didn't see anyone.

00:49:49.160 Every comment from someone in the education system said, oh, yeah, it's bad.

00:49:52.140 It's worse than you think.

00:49:53.040 And it's only getting worse.

00:49:53.860 And there's no way to stop it.

00:49:54.900 So, I mean, first of all, a few weeks ago, I made the case against homework.

00:50:04.180 But that's all mood, I guess.

00:50:06.140 I mean, this is what kills homework.

00:50:07.520 There's no point anymore.

00:50:08.720 There's really no point, if there ever was to begin with, because kids will just have AI do everything.

00:50:13.620 The only answer, as some of these comments mentioned, is to have everything done in class, handwritten.

00:50:19.560 That's the only way.

00:50:20.280 So, the good news is that there is actually a way around it.

00:50:23.700 But it's just that.

00:50:24.740 Like, everything has to be done in class.

00:50:27.100 Got to bring handwriting back.

00:50:30.680 And that's how you can get around, to a large extent, you can get around the AI problem, at least in the context of schools.

00:50:37.780 But practically speaking, schools aren't doing that.

00:50:40.520 And there are just too many kids.

00:50:42.240 There are too many subjects.

00:50:43.580 Too many different teachers.

00:50:46.720 So, the solution of doing it in class will help in some isolated circumstances.

00:50:51.340 But generally speaking, it won't.

00:50:54.000 And AI will just kill the education system, as we've come to know it.

00:50:59.080 And look, despite everything I've said, I'm not against AI in principle.

00:51:08.560 I mean, I think that it would be better if the technology didn't exist, if it was never invented.

00:51:13.020 If I could flip a switch and erase it from the face of the earth forever, I would.

00:51:18.480 But, you know, that can't happen.

00:51:22.120 So, it exists.

00:51:22.920 And there are valid uses of it.

00:51:27.380 I use it.

00:51:28.760 I use it like a search engine, which is what it is.

00:51:32.440 Like, I think that's the valid use, at least for most, you know, in just kind of the everyday application.

00:51:36.700 And in particular, when you're doing, like, creative work or you're doing school work, that it's, you can use it like a search engine.

00:51:46.980 Whatever I would have asked Google for, I'll ask the chatbot.

00:51:53.300 So, like, if I need an article about a certain subject, I just ask to show me the article.

00:51:58.260 And then I read the article myself.

00:51:59.760 I don't say, send me the article and summarize it for me.

00:52:02.500 I just say, give me the article and I'll read it.

00:52:08.000 If I need data that I'm going to use for a monologue, but then I always end up cross-referencing it.

00:52:13.900 So, like, I get it there and then I'll check three or four other places.

00:52:16.280 So, then really there's no point actually abusing the chat GPT for that.

00:52:19.740 But I'll tell you what I don't do, and I give you my solemn promise I will never do, is, I mean, I mentioned at the top of the show, I write my monologues, at least for the open and close.

00:52:31.300 I will never go to chat GPT and just say, I need a 15-minute monologue in the style of Matt Walsh about X subject.

00:52:39.220 I will never do that.

00:52:40.980 Ever.

00:52:42.340 Like, I would rather die. 0.99

00:52:43.880 Death before dishonor. 0.99

00:52:46.280 Death before I ever give you a chat GPT written monologue.

00:52:49.740 I would never, ever do it.

00:52:51.440 Now, of course, right now it's, like, sort of easy to not do it because the technology isn't at a point where it can convincingly pull that off.

00:52:58.500 I have tested it just purely out of curiosity.

00:53:01.760 And then you read it and you're like, yes, I'm better than this.

00:53:05.160 This is not.

00:53:06.220 But even if it gets to a point where it actually, it's like, okay, well, this feels like something a person would write.

00:53:11.180 But I still won't do it because if I forfeit my creativity to a machine, then what's the point?

00:53:21.180 I mean, really, what's the point?

00:53:22.560 And this is our only real salvation when it comes to this particular issue is that we have to value humanity for its own sake.

00:53:31.880 We have to value human creativity for its own sake.

00:53:36.680 I mean, we're going to get to a point where we're saying, okay, well, we don't really need people to do this, but we're going to have them do it anyway.

00:53:43.100 Because we value people.

00:53:47.500 We're going to do it anyway because we value our humanity.

00:53:54.420 That's kind of the crossroads we're at.

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00:55:51.540 Well, it's election day in New York City, and according to the latest polls in the mayoral race,

00:55:57.220 former governor Andrew Cuomo is locked in a dead heat with a 33-year-old Muslim socialist from Uganda named Zoran Mamdani.

00:56:05.840 And this is an election that, without hyperbole, will help determine the trajectory of the whole country.

00:56:10.140 It's the single most important mayoral race that has taken place in recent memory, and it's not really close.

00:56:15.460 New York is our largest city.

00:56:16.920 It's our most important economic center.

00:56:18.660 Whatever you think of New York or the politicians who lead it, and I have a low opinion in both counts,

00:56:23.600 still, it's undeniable how important the city is to the country.

00:56:26.160 If New York were to collapse, the entire country would suffer, and this election could very well bring about that outcome.

00:56:33.540 Now, to be clear, New Yorkers don't have a good choice in this election.

00:56:37.500 Andrew Cuomo is an open-borders Democrat who has repeated the mantra over and over again that diversity is our strength.

00:56:44.240 And Cuomo's opponent, coincidentally enough, is the manifestation of diversity in New York.

00:56:49.220 Zoran Mamdani is the kind of candidate that just 15 years ago would have been unable to mount a serious candidacy for PTA president,

00:56:55.980 much less mayor, but because New York's demographics have shifted so sharply, largely because of the policies of people like Andrew Cuomo,

00:57:02.740 Mamdani now has the momentum.

00:57:05.100 Roughly 40% of New York City's population wasn't born in this country.

00:57:08.220 I'll say that again.

00:57:09.060 40% of New York City's population was not born in this country.

00:57:13.540 And that's the constituency that could propel Mamdani to victory.

00:57:17.000 So what does Zoran Mamdani stand for exactly?

00:57:20.040 Who is he?

00:57:21.160 We spent five minutes listening to him speak, and you'll quickly find the answers to both those questions.

00:57:24.920 Mamdani has no desire to assimilate.

00:57:27.120 He has no desire to improve this country in any way.

00:57:29.360 Instead, he dreams of turning New York City into Uganda, where half the population makes less than $2 a day. 1.00

00:57:35.960 Mamdani has only been a citizen of this country for around six years, which means he's not even eligible to run for Senate,

00:57:40.940 but he's determined to remake this country as he sees fit anyway.

00:57:44.520 And like so many foreigners who've come to this country recently, 1.00

00:57:46.980 Mamdani doesn't want to, rather wants to implement the same failed policies that destroyed the countries that they fled from.

00:57:55.440 There are too many examples to list, but here's one of them.

00:57:59.260 Here's a doozy.

00:58:00.560 Watch this.

00:58:02.040 Grocery prices are out of control.

00:58:03.900 The cost of eggs and milk has skyrocketed.

00:58:06.320 Some stores are even using dynamic pricing, jacking up the cost over the course of a day, depending on what they can get away with.

00:58:12.380 It doesn't need to be this way.

00:58:13.820 I'm Zahran Mamdani, and as mayor, I will create a network of city-owned grocery stores.

00:58:18.280 It's like a public option for produce.

00:58:20.880 We will redirect city funds from corporate supermarkets to city-owned grocery stores,

00:58:25.700 whose mission is lower prices, not price gouging.

00:58:29.320 These stores will operate without a profit motive or having to pay property taxes or rent,

00:58:33.660 and will pass on those savings to you.

00:58:36.320 Yes, Mamdani wants state-run grocery stores, an idea that has never worked anywhere it's been tried.

00:58:42.620 He wants a public option for produce.

00:58:44.780 In other words, he wants to turn your local supermarket into the DMV.

00:58:48.240 Never mind the fact that there isn't a single person alive in the entire country who's ever been to the DMV and thought to themselves,

00:58:53.260 wow, these people are great.

00:58:54.140 They should be put in charge of the food supply.

00:58:56.740 That's what Mamdani is going with.

00:58:58.800 He's apparently upset with dynamic pricing, which is another word for pricing.

00:59:03.740 It means that store owners can decide what they want to charge depending on demand.

00:59:09.560 It's like a basic function of free markets, which have directly resulted in places like New York becoming New York,

00:59:15.560 becoming extremely wealthy and successful cities.

00:59:17.480 But now Mamdani has decided that he knows better than the markets.

00:59:21.160 He knows better than, you know, than what made New York City a great city to begin with.

00:59:25.840 And he's going to use the dwindling resources of the city to arbitrarily prop up the state-owned stores,

00:59:31.060 which will put a lot of smaller bodegas out of business.

00:59:34.580 And once that happens, just like in the Soviet Union, most New Yorkers will have no choice but to use the state-run store.

00:59:39.880 And then you get bread lines.

00:59:41.440 And then New York City will have finally achieved the utopian state already achieved by countries like Uganda. 0.86

00:59:48.000 As best anyone could tell, Mamdani doesn't actually think any of this will work.

00:59:51.080 He's actually not a particularly political person, certainly not a thinker, not a serious person.

00:59:56.200 Instead, like so many prominent politicians we've seen over the years, he's an actor.

00:59:59.640 Mamdani is adept at using different personas to appeal to different demographics,

01:00:03.480 a skill he put to use during his short-lived rap career, and which still gets him into trouble sometimes.

01:00:09.400 Watch this.

01:00:10.900 Because I think that New Yorkers, more than they hate a politician they disagree with,

01:00:14.500 they hate a politician they can't trust.

01:00:16.020 On the subject of trust, you've adopted different speaking accents in different scenarios.

01:00:20.760 But they go to their local bodega.

01:00:22.560 Is there one that's real and one that's affected?

01:00:25.620 What I would say is, as any immigrant knows, having been born in Kampala, Uganda,

01:00:30.060 and then raised in South Africa, and moving here when I'm seven years old,

01:00:33.480 is there different parts of my life?

01:00:35.420 Worldwide tour is a worldwide tour is a worldwide tour.

01:00:38.460 Mamdani was talking about a worldwide press tour back when he was a rapper.

01:00:43.580 Bring the flavor to the fish, bring the flavor to the rice.

01:00:47.560 In a Disney movie directed by his mother.

01:00:52.100 Nepotism and hard work goes a long way.

01:00:54.780 Here in New York City, this is how I speak, this is how I am.

01:00:57.680 Do you believe in the First Amendment, Tom Holman?

01:01:00.800 Now watching that, you can see just how an actor like Zelensky became the president of Ukraine.

01:01:06.720 Except this situation is actually a lot worse, because at least Zelensky was born in Ukraine.

01:01:11.280 Mamdani is just parachuting into New York from a foreign country, 0.58

01:01:14.720 trying to find a way to use his connections and wealth to appeal to as many rubes as possible.

01:01:20.180 And after trying rap, he's settled on politics.

01:01:23.080 And very quickly, he realized that promising free stuff is a good way to get votes.

01:01:27.680 Especially when half the city is imported from the third world. 1.00

01:01:31.600 And especially when the voters in your city basically have a death wish.

01:01:35.480 Which many of these voters in these major cities do.

01:01:38.020 Which is why they keep electing people who are promising to destroy the communities where they live.

01:01:46.080 And this guy, he doesn't just want price controls on groceries.

01:01:48.360 Like any good socialist, he wants price controls on everything.

01:01:51.480 A few weeks ago, for example, he shilled for rent control.

01:01:54.160 Watch.

01:01:54.440 I'm Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, and I'm running for mayor to freeze the rent for every rent-stabilized tenant.

01:02:03.420 Wait, you're going to freeze my rent?

01:02:05.760 Yes.

01:02:07.080 Did I hear rent freeze?

01:02:09.260 Yes!

01:02:09.940 This guy's going to freeze the rent.

01:02:11.900 No hike?

01:02:13.640 None.

01:02:14.880 This guy's going to freeze the rent.

01:02:17.380 It's true.

01:02:18.300 As your next mayor, I will freeze your rent.

01:02:20.820 Yeah, you know, just prevent landlords from charging more.

01:02:28.520 And prevent grocery stores from charging more, too, while you're at it.

01:02:33.040 So if the prices are too high, just say to the people that are charging the prices,

01:02:38.960 don't make them so high.

01:02:40.840 And then problem solved.

01:02:42.800 Why didn't we think of that?

01:02:44.600 What could possibly go wrong?

01:02:45.840 You can't possibly run out of food or apartments, right?

01:02:50.920 It's not like suppliers are ever going to stop shipping you food at whatever arbitrary price you want to charge.

01:02:56.780 It's not like landlords are ever going to stop renting their apartments for zero profit.

01:03:04.000 Because, by the way, being a landlord is a very low-margin business.

01:03:08.720 Okay, these are generally not people that are reaping insane profits.

01:03:15.780 It is low-margin, high liability.

01:03:20.300 It's, you know, and so if you don't let people turn, even the small profits they're turning,

01:03:27.480 you're not going to have places to live anymore.

01:03:31.480 Unless you can just tell people that they have to charge less.

01:03:34.700 And then what?

01:03:35.100 It's like magic.

01:03:36.160 Problem solved.

01:03:36.740 Now, what's funny about this line of reasoning, such as it is,

01:03:40.360 is that Momdani's platform still depends on massive tax revenues.

01:03:44.480 I mean, even as he destroys New York's economy, like every other socialist who's ever lived,

01:03:48.360 he wants to spend money like it's water.

01:03:50.040 This is from the New York Post, quote,

01:03:51.480 Mayoral hopeful Zoran Momdani wants to spend $65 million in taxpayer funds on transgender treatment,

01:03:57.820 including for minors, if he's elected to lean New York City.

01:04:00.940 About $57 million would be allotted for public hospitals, community clinics,

01:04:04.240 federally qualified health centers and nonprofits, with another $8 million for more expanded services.

01:04:09.300 Momdani, 33, also vowed to go after private medical institutions that continue to deny trans youth care,

01:04:14.160 stating he would work with State Attorney General Letitia James and local district attorneys in the five boroughs

01:04:19.820 to investigate and hold public hearings on hospitals that deny trans youth their rightful health care

01:04:23.920 and hold them accountable to the law.

01:04:26.820 And the result of all this, although it doesn't really need to be said,

01:04:29.640 is that taxpayers in New York are going to flee to places like Florida.

01:04:33.580 It's already happening in large numbers, and it's going to accelerate immeasurably if this guy wins.

01:04:37.760 In New York City right now, 0.8% of residents, less than 1%,

01:04:42.860 pay more than 40% of all income taxes that are collected.

01:04:46.340 Yes, the 1% that socialists demonize are the only way that socialists can afford to do anything.

01:04:54.860 Without this 1%, there's no one to subsidize these government-run grocery stores,

01:04:59.320 or the trans surgeries, or the free rent.

01:05:03.500 The people of New York City will have no homes and no food.

01:05:07.400 We'll have nothing except a slick-talking, failed trust fund rapper from Uganda named Zoran Mamdani. 1.00

01:05:12.740 And by the time they realize what they've done, it will be impossible to recover the city that they've destroyed.

01:05:19.220 And that is why the socialist Muslim foreigner Zoran Mamdani 1.00

01:05:22.960 and everyone supporting his communist bid for mayor are today canceled.

01:05:28.340 That'll do it for the show today.

01:05:29.060 Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening.

01:05:30.180 Talk to you tomorrow. Have a great day.

01:05:32.160 Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - June 24, 2025

Ep. 1619 - It's Time For America To Focus On Its Own Problems

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