In the latest episode of The Matt Walsh Show, Matt talks about the new evidence in the Jeffrey Epstein case, and how the government may have intentionally edited it. Plus, a new plant-based alternative to traditional teas and more.
00:00:00.000So in the Matt Walsh show, new data reveals that the raw footage, quote unquote, from Epstein's prison actually has nearly three minutes cut from it.
00:00:07.540This revelation comes as administration and some of its surrogates demand that we drop the subject and move on.
00:00:12.700We will ignore that directive and talk about the latest today.
00:00:15.460Also, Elmo goes on an anti-Semitic rant on the same day that Jasmine Crockett insists that we have to fund PBS so that would-be terrorists in Afghanistan can still watch Sesame Street.
00:00:24.640It's been a strange week, to say the least.
00:00:25.940And false media reports accused Trump of cutting all spending on AIDS prevention overseas.
00:00:30.860It's not true, but why aren't we cutting spending on AIDS prevention overseas?
00:00:34.680All of that and more today on the Matt Walsh show.
00:00:55.940Now, if your idea of gut health is eating a handful of Tums after every meal and hoping for the best, it might be time to level up.
00:09:52.440And I don't understand why it keeps going.
00:09:55.820I think really only pretty bad people, including fake news, want to keep something like that going.
00:10:03.100But credible information, let them give it.
00:10:05.820Anything that's credible, I would say let them have it.
00:10:09.280Now, and by the way, just this morning, he lashed out again on Truth Social, attacking anyone who's still asking about Epstein as weaklings and saying that he doesn't want their support anymore.
00:10:20.800And, you know, I know some people are annoyed at me for harping on this and criticizing the president, who in many other ways is doing a fantastic job.
00:10:32.980But I happen to believe that bringing sex predators to justice is extremely important.
00:10:38.740And I just can't accept being blatantly gaslit by people in power, even if they're people that I otherwise support.
00:10:46.720In fact, especially if they're people I otherwise support.
00:10:50.800So I must say that this answer from Trump is just simply awful.
00:10:55.460First, there's the personal attacks on anyone who asks questions, saying that they're bad people.
00:11:02.300If you want to convince millions of skeptical people that their leaders are lying to them about their behavior, then the best approach is to mock them.
00:12:05.740Why would anyone care about some of the most powerful people on the planet spending time on a sex trafficker's private island?
00:12:12.700Who could possibly be concerned about the possibility that a cabal of pedophiles and perverts are running entire countries and major corporations?
00:12:19.680And this is where the comparison to Russiagate comes in.
00:12:24.060It's probably the worst part of the answer you just heard.
00:12:25.920Russiagate was a disaster for this country precisely because we didn't get the whole story.
00:12:32.440Russiagate was premised on lies and distortions at every stage.
00:12:36.360If Donald Trump made a joke at a rally, the media interpreted it as a coded message to Putin.
00:12:41.720They pretended that he had a secret computer in Trump Tower that was communicating with Moscow.
00:12:48.060They claimed that Russian hackers were being housed at a non-existent Russian consulate in Miami.
00:12:53.700They claimed that Trump had weakened the GOP's platform on Russia, even though the opposite was true.
00:12:59.740When Hunter Biden dropped his laptop off at the repair store full of incriminating evidence about Joe Biden's influence peddling operation,
00:14:21.760And we want that regardless of who's in power.
00:14:25.540And we talked about this a bit yesterday.
00:14:27.200All of a sudden, after years of complete disinterest in the entire topic, Democrats are suddenly clamoring for the release of the Epstein files.
00:14:33.240Or at least they're publicly pretending to want the Epstein files to be released.
00:14:38.940He's essentially a Democrat, of course.
00:14:40.260Quote, every, and I mean every Republican incumbent or candidate or even anyone thinking about running as a Republican for even dog catcher, needs to be asked over and over and over about Epstein.
00:14:53.600This is a guy who spent his only significant time in Congress, the only time people knew who he was, screeching hysterically about elderly women and a Q shaman walking around the Capitol building on January 6th.
00:15:04.260I mean, that was the issue he claimed to care about.
00:15:07.680But no one actually cared about January 6th, so the whole plan backfired.
00:15:11.320So now that he's out of office, he's demanding that everybody talk about Epstein, an issue that he didn't care about until this week.
00:15:16.820It's not hard to see what's going on here.
00:15:20.220Neither party, Democrat or Republican, wants to see the full, unredacted release of the Epstein files, apparently.
00:15:27.700At a minimum, we can assume that top donors of both parties are implicated in some way.
00:15:32.220So they both want to neutralize this whole issue as quickly as they can.
00:15:37.740For Democrats, that means turning the Epstein files into yet another partisan football and turning into another, just a stunt.
00:15:43.740They're going to make performative efforts to release the files, even though they know that it will never work.
00:15:48.580For example, here's Axios' reporting from yesterday.
00:15:50.900Quote, House Republicans on Tuesday voted down another Democratic procedural maneuver aimed at forcing the Justice Department to release documents related to Jeffrey Epstein.
00:15:58.900Democrats' procedural motion would have scuttled the GOP's legislative agenda for the day in favor of the bill, making it difficult for Republicans to vote for it.
00:16:06.400It came after Republicans on the House Rules Committee voted Monday night against attaching the Epstein language to a broader cryptocurrency and defense funding vote.
00:16:14.440And specifically, that broader cryptocurrency vote involved legislation that could have paved the way for a central bank digital currency, as well as restrictions on cryptocurrency ownership.
00:16:24.620And whatever you think of this bill, although it seems to be a pretty terrible idea, the fact remains that it has nothing whatsoever to do with Jeffrey Epstein.
00:16:31.880So Democrats are using this whole issue to play very transparent political games.
00:16:37.860That's how seriously they take child sex trafficking, which is not at all.
00:16:41.420But ultimately, if we're being honest, the problem here still goes back to the White House.
00:16:49.020They've given the Democrats this opening by bungling the situation so badly.
00:16:54.980The Trump administration seems mystified or is acting that way by the anger from the base.
00:16:59.260But, you know, but number one, many of us were not saying anything different from what we've been saying for years about Epstein.
00:17:11.420OK, and and also what Trump has been saying for years about it.
00:17:15.740Now, Trump has decided all of a sudden that the issue doesn't matter.
00:17:20.480It's boring. And anyone who talks about it is a weakling and not one of his supporters.
00:17:23.840He decided that in the last two weeks.
00:18:21.200But the other thing, too, is that the Epstein scandal, and this is what has to be, you know, you have to understand, is that the Epstein scandal is not happening in a vacuum.
00:18:30.200OK, we have not seen any high profile or powerful people held accountable for their crimes.
00:18:40.980No one's even been fired, let alone arrested, for allowing an assassin to almost kill Trump last year.
00:18:45.560Trump was elected in 2016, partly on a promise to lock her up.
00:19:01.860Just this past weekend, he was talking again about the rigged election in 2020.
00:19:07.340Why hasn't anyone been arrested or charged for any of this?
00:19:10.240What about the people who lied about the COVID shot?
00:19:12.760What about the people who funded the BLM rights in 2020?
00:19:15.360What about the cabal of unelected bureaucrats who were using Joe Biden's auto pen to sign pardons and executive orders, effectively seizing control of the federal government?
00:19:24.320No one is even being fired for any of this, let alone arrested for any of it.
00:19:31.860And that is the context that all of this is happening in.
00:19:34.760And a lot of us are just fed up with it.
00:19:38.660Speaking of the auto pen thing, the New York Times just uncovered emails from Biden officials in which they made executive decisions to sign certain documents.
00:19:46.700Quote, Mr. Zients hit reply all and wrote, I approve the use of the auto pen for the execution of all of the following pardons.
00:19:55.440That's a reference to Jeff Zients, the White House chief of staff.
00:19:58.280That's a sentence that no government official other than the president should ever write.
00:20:03.740The chief of staff does not have the authority to use the president's signature to pardon people.
00:22:03.560And so, for a lot of people, understandably so, this Epstein stuff is kind of the last straw.
00:22:11.340Give us the information we've been promised.
00:22:13.300Give us the information we're entitled to.
00:22:15.160If you refuse to do that, if you insist on insulting us instead, then we're facing a much worse outcome than Democrat control of Congress in less than two years.
00:22:25.320We're also facing a total collapse of legitimacy in our country.
00:22:28.620You can only deny reality for so long before people decide that they've had enough.
00:22:35.900And whatever donors or intelligence assets are being protected here, they're not that important.
00:22:48.420Publish all the uninteresting footage you clipped out of those videos from Epstein's cell block for reasons that no one has bothered to explain.
00:22:54.920Otherwise, in the absence of transparency, people will come to their own conclusions.
00:23:00.380And when they do, whether you're a Republican or a Democrat, you won't like what happens next.
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00:23:22.320Recently, my producer, Sean, and I were grilling some steaks, and we started talking about how going out to steakhouses isn't the same experience after having good ranchers.
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00:28:12.480That would make this better, but, uh, Jews control the world and need to be exterminated.
00:28:17.060And then in a follow-up post, he remarked again, kill all Jews.
00:28:19.780So that's, that was what Elmo said on Twitter and, um, now Sesame Street has released a statement condemning anti-Semitism.
00:28:27.580And cause that was important, it was important to do for, for all the people who thought that this was like a genuine, uh, reflection of Elmo's values.
00:28:38.520It was important for, for Sesame Street to come out and condemn that.
00:28:43.120Uh, and they also had to say that Elmo was hacked.
00:29:29.840Where does Big Bird stand on all this?
00:29:31.640To me, that's the thing that's really suspicious about it.
00:29:34.960Just, just to be, you know, not what's, what is weird to me is that Sesame, some, someone put out a statement, but we have not actually heard from the residents of Sesame Street personally.
00:29:45.980What I, what I think we need, and the statement is, that's step one, but what I think we actually need, and what I would love to see, for so many reasons, is a press conference with all of the Sesame Street characters, in character, answering these questions.
00:30:05.580I will say, though, that just to bring this all for, full circle, that with, with Sesame Street characters engaging in rhetoric like this, I think actually the show would be very popular in the Middle East.
00:30:23.440In fact, I've, I've heard that, that sales of the Elmo doll have gone up like 9,000% in Iran since Tuesday, so I don't know what that's all about, but, so we'll, but we'll keep track of that story.
00:30:38.960The CEO of Crowds on Demand has said that he rejected an offer of $20 million to organize the Good Trouble Lives On protests taking place on July 17th, so that's tomorrow.
00:30:54.840The CEO of Crowds on Demand, Adam Stewart, told reporters at News Nation,
00:30:58.040We rejected an offer that probably is worth around $20 million.
00:31:00.380The value of the contract would have been worth around that amount nationwide to organize huge demonstrations around the country.
00:31:04.900But personally, I just don't think it's effective.
00:31:09.580When News Nation addressed who had offered the money, he would not say who it was.
00:31:14.880The anti-Trump Good Trouble Lives On protests taking place on Thursday follow other large nationwide protests,
00:31:22.000such as the No Kings demonstrations that took place last month, as well as others.
00:31:26.260The protest website said that there are going to be multiple locations for the demonstrations taking place on Thursday.
00:31:32.580Partners for the Good Trouble Lives On organization includes the SLPC, the NEA, the Women's March, many other left-wing activist organizations.
00:31:43.540Okay, so some unnamed person or entity offered this guy $20 million to organize protests.
00:32:18.540They pay protesters to show up to their own protests.
00:32:24.480They also pay counter-protesters to show up to right-wing protests on the rare occasion that there is a right-wing protest.
00:32:31.660I will say on that, any rally I've ever been to or been involved with, any rally where I've spoken, anything like that,
00:32:38.780there are always a throng of counter-protesters on the left who show up, they're always there, and they show up with megaphones, and they have air horns to drown us out.
00:32:50.200I mean, if you do enough of this, and if you're an activist, and you show up to enough events, you start seeing the same people showing up, and it doesn't matter where you go.
00:32:59.000And you'll have some guy from Minneapolis who somehow manages to just always be there.
00:33:08.540It's funny when you have conservatives who look at these protests, and I'm sure I've said similar things, where you look at all these protests that happen during this thing tomorrow, this good trouble lives on, whatever.
00:33:20.480Happening on a Thursday, in the middle of the day.
00:33:23.800And so the question for conservatives is always, don't these people have jobs?
00:34:24.880The whole point of the protest is optics.
00:34:29.860And so if the optics aren't—so you've got to do whatever you can to have good optics.
00:34:33.500And their counter-protest strategy, you know, paying for the saboteurs to show up, is also really effective.
00:34:42.280It's demoralizing to be on the right and plan your big rally and get everything together.
00:34:47.460And then you show up, and you can barely be heard when you give your speech because these people are right in your ears screaming into a megaphone.
00:34:54.060I've been through this plenty of times.
00:35:09.940And these people are evil because of what they're supporting.
00:35:13.180But, yeah, it's an effective way to distract and drown out and demoralize the other side is to make it so that, like, we can't even do a rally anymore because we know that these people are going to show up and make it, like, impossible.
00:36:10.260You can do it, but what's going to happen is you're going to end up with something small.
00:36:14.980If you're relying entirely on grassroots, word of mouth, only true believers showing up, you know, people who this really matters to them, if that's what you're relying on, if that's all you're going to get, it's going to be very small.
00:36:29.800It's going to be you and, like, 12 other people standing around holding signs and looking kind of sad.
00:36:34.240Huge, massive, organic, grassroots rallies are almost impossible.
00:36:42.980So if you can pay to ensure that your rally is well attended, why wouldn't you?
00:37:39.340Why isn't there, why isn't there a movement in every major city in the country right now with thousands of people in the street supporting deportations and demanding more of them?
00:37:54.160We have lots of very rich people on our side.
00:37:56.280Why aren't they paying to make that happen?
00:37:58.480Why aren't they putting the tens of millions of dollars it requires, just like the left does, to orchestrate a nationwide movement of people who are in the streets saying, we don't want these invaders in our country.
00:38:44.000I would give it my, I would promote it.
00:38:48.060But the answer is that if I were to say, well, no one is doing this, I'm going to do it.
00:38:53.880And if I were to do that and put all my effort into it, spend weeks promoting it, networking, put my own money into it, line up all the best speakers that I can.
00:39:04.680And if I were to do that, I would get a few thousand people to show up in one city for one afternoon.
00:39:15.240And that's after weeks and weeks of, of nonstop effort.
00:39:51.320We got thousands of people to show up.
00:39:52.780And in that case, it was actually effective because it was like, we didn't need this at the time.
00:39:59.640This was not intended to be a nationwide protest.
00:40:03.280I mean, of course, the movement against child mutilation was nationwide, but we were specifically calling.
00:40:08.720We were responding to something that happened locally with Vanderbilt in Nashville.
00:40:12.180We were talking to our own representatives.
00:40:13.760And so in that case, it made sense and it was effective.
00:40:16.780But when we're talking about nationwide, something nationwide like this, even having something that like for us, for a grassroots movement is impressive, is just not good enough.
00:40:31.180Because we're not competing with organic grassroots demonstrations.
00:40:36.080So we can't afford to have little mom and pop protest operations here.
00:40:40.260We're competing against like the Walmart of protests.
00:40:43.660We're competing against the big boys, which means that my impressive grassroots protests would look pathetic compared to their highly funded operation.
00:40:53.460And I can point out rightly and say, yeah, but all those people are fake.
00:41:26.780That's why it's not as simple as, well, you just go out and do it.
00:41:29.840Okay, we can, but like it's going to actually hurt us in the end because we're going to end up with something so much smaller than what they have that the optics will be terrible.
00:41:38.640It will send the opposite message from the one we're trying to send.
00:41:42.360The reality is that there are millions of Americans who want our country back and want our sovereignty.
00:41:50.460There are millions of Americans who feel that way.
00:41:52.060But you try to approach this through a purely grassroots organic way that that will not be reflected in what you see on the ground.
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00:45:25.040Now, it exists conceptually as a legal concept, and it should exist that way.
00:45:31.760All Americans are equal under the law, which is to say every American citizen should get due process, should have a jury by his peers, basic constitutional protections, and so forth.
00:45:41.540But does that mean that all Americans or all people across the world actually are equal?
00:46:22.660They're not equal in terms of their intelligence.
00:46:24.720They're not equal in terms of their skills.
00:46:26.260They're not equal in terms of their personalities.
00:46:28.020They're not equal in terms of their values, in terms of their virtues, in terms of their vices, in terms of their strengths, their weaknesses.
00:46:33.340is they're not equal in any of those ways. And they're not equal in the cultures that they
00:46:41.080create. So what do you mean equal? The only equality you can find in people is not something
00:46:53.240that can be physically observed or measured. It's a matter of faith. It's a matter of our
00:46:59.040Christian faith. I believe it, which tells us that all human beings are possessed of human worth and
00:47:05.260dignity, that we're all created by God and loved by God. And that is a spiritual truth. That's a real
00:47:13.700truth, but it's a spiritual truth. It's a deep spiritual truth. Outside of that, in all other
00:47:20.180senses of the term, in terms of anything observable, anything physical, anything sort of practical,
00:47:26.400there is no equality. The human beings are not equal. Cultures are not equal. And that does
00:47:34.920matter. It matters in a lot of, there are real implications. So this is not, it's not academic,
00:47:43.560right? Believing the myth that everyone's the same, everyone's equal, all cultures are equal,
00:47:50.320that has real ramifications. We're living through them right now. When we disabuse ourselves of that
00:47:56.920notion, when we do away with that myth, that has implications. And one of them can be seen in
00:48:05.140particular when it comes to immigration. Because now you can look with honest eyes and see that,
00:48:11.340okay, you got a bunch of people coming to this country. They're not all the same and they're coming
00:48:15.020from different cultures and they're not all equal. All these cultures are not equal.
00:48:22.980So, and all of that is, you know, it's just like, it's obvious, it's undeniable, but people feel that
00:48:31.220they have to deny it for whatever reason. Let's see, Matt Walsh, how can you be so ignorant to at
00:48:37.960least one quality Somalians can bring to the table? America has been sorely lacking in our piracy
00:48:41.940abilities. When have you heard of a successful American piracy attempt? Think of it, a trade
00:48:46.880school for piracy. Yeah, the Somalis do have that. They've got that. Well, they used to have that.
00:48:53.400Piracy was at one point 15% of Somalia's GDP. Okay. 15% of their GDP was piracy. And now it's a lot
00:49:04.980less because the civilized world got sick of it finally. And they allowed it for way longer. I mean,
00:49:11.940the idea that like some Somalis on a, on a glorified canoe, right. Can, can just show up and like
00:49:22.040hijack a cargo ship. It's crazy. It's crazy. This was ever allowed. It was ever tolerated. It never
00:49:26.760had to be tolerated, but it was, it's not anymore. And, and so now Somalia's economy is even worse than
00:49:33.620it was before because they don't have piracy. Now it's an agricultural economy, but they aren't very
00:49:38.900good at agriculture either. So, uh, that's what it is now. Matt, I'm pretty optimistic. Our society
00:49:45.160at some point soon will hit a critical mass. We'll reach a point of no longer tolerable, uh,
00:49:51.820civilization-wide nihilistic despair, and we'll revolt to return to back to the world of analog
00:49:57.280human-made art, music, and work. It'll be the new MAGA, make art great again. I hope you're right.
00:50:03.620Uh, that's one way that this could go. Now that's, that is the more optimistic way.
00:50:10.500And it's a bit of a morbid optimism because even in your version of events, right, it's, it, it requires
00:50:16.220us to hit a rock bottom of, as you say, civilization-wide nihilistic despair. You know,
00:50:23.280you said you're pretty optimistic. We're going to reach a point of civilization-wide nihilistic
00:50:27.420despair. Uh, so that's, so we're good. That's happening. And it's happening right now.
00:50:34.780And then the question is, how do we respond to it? And so that the optimistic view is that, well,
00:50:39.900maybe people just reject all this technology. They get to a point where we say, you know what?
00:50:46.260We don't want it. We want to have real human lives. And, uh, so no, so even though this technology
00:50:54.180is available to us, even though we can go to chat GPT and just like generate whatever movie we want
00:50:59.980to watch, we're not going to do it. Um, so that's one way it could go. I, I am just not at all confident
00:51:07.240that it will go that way. I, um, because there's no precedent for it. The precedent suggests that
00:51:14.780whatever technology is available to us, we're just going to use. And not only are we going to use it,
00:51:19.640we're going to allow it to take over our lives. We've already done that. I mean, people walk around
00:51:23.560with their phones and they allow their phones to absorb their entire lives. People spend, you know,
00:51:29.60013 hours a day on their phone, just doing nothing but staring at their phones. And so if there was
00:51:36.520any capacity in the critical mass of people to reject this and return to, as you say, an analog life,
00:51:44.740where we decide to live in, to live our physical lives, uh, and, and, and reject some measure of
00:51:52.760the convenience that's, that is offered to us by these devices, like if, if that was, if that was
00:51:57.680in the cards, it would be happening already. And it's not. Um, I think what experience shows us is
00:52:07.860that convenience is the ultimate drug. It's, it's the ultimate kind of heroin that the critical mass,
00:52:15.980and there are always going to be exceptions to this, but the critical mass of people just
00:52:19.640aren't, aren't capable of turning it down. So no matter how much that convenience ultimately
00:52:28.880harms them and, and makes them miserable. The name Velvet Sundown sounds like the ripoff of Velvet
00:52:36.560Underground, which was a sixties independent music band. Well, of course it's a ripoff.
00:52:39.820All AI is a ripoff. It's all plagiarism. It's all theft. AI cannot generate new ideas or original
00:52:46.220concepts. All it can do is crib from what already exists. Uh, that's one of the many problems with
00:52:52.560this technology. And I criticize the technology all the time. I always add the disclaimer. I don't,
00:52:57.640I shouldn't need to keep adding it. Yes, there are legitimate uses of this technology. There are
00:53:02.960potentially nearly miraculous uses of this technology. Uh, there might come, there might
00:53:12.220come, come a time in the future where AI is used to cure cancer. I mean, all that stuff. And that's
00:53:17.760all wonderful. But in many applications, I think that it's going to have a, and already is having an
00:53:26.360incredibly corrosive and toxic effect on, on human life. Um, and so one of the, one of the many
00:53:32.680problems with it is that, especially when it comes to anything creative, it's just pure plagiarism.
00:53:38.020It's all it is. It's just stealing from things that have already been done and reassembling it.
00:53:44.800Um, so, and it's not like a new interpretation. So here's the thing you could, okay. If, if we,
00:53:52.860you go to chat GPT and I've done this, but everyone's experimented with this just to see how
00:53:57.820it works. And you say, Oh, write me lyrics to this song, make me a poem, right? Whatever. Like
00:54:03.240create some. And it's, it's pretty fascinating to see it just generate, like, no matter what the,
00:54:08.980no matter how specific the prompt is, it'll generate something in a second.
00:54:15.620But what's actually happening, even though it is seemingly impressive, it's a less impressive when
00:54:21.860you realize what it's actually doing, which is that it's, it's a search engine basically. And
00:54:25.560it's just stealing from a whole bunch of different bits and cobbling it together. And you could argue
00:54:29.960that, well, all creative work is like that to some extent, right? That any movie that's produced
00:54:36.220today has influences. You can, and many times those influences are very clear. Uh, any filmmaker
00:54:42.560working today, any real human filmmaker is influenced by other things. And so the film that he creates
00:54:47.720today is going to be a product of a lot of those different influences, but that's not plagiarism
00:54:53.260in most cases, because that is a human mind that is influenced by things and taking ideas and
00:54:59.440reinterpreting it, giving it his own spin, um, and then creating something new from his own mind.
00:55:06.060That's, that's not plagiarism, but in order for it to not be plagiarism, there has to be that,
00:55:11.000that human element of the reinterpretation, the thing where you take it, you say, yeah,
00:55:15.720I'm taking this idea and I'm giving my own spin. I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm reinterpreting it.
00:55:21.600AI is not doing that. AI can't do that because that requires a mind.
00:55:26.040So it's not like when chat GPT makes you a poem, it's not, it's not taking from other poems that
00:55:31.640already exist and then reinterpreting it. There's no reinterpretation. There's no mind there to do
00:55:36.460the reinterpretation. It's purely just stealing. And that's all that's happening here.
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00:56:33.440There's a little bit of good news that materialized in Washington late last night, or at least, uh,
00:56:38.680it seemed that way at first and a 51 to 50 vote with JD Vance breaking the tie. The Senate voted
00:56:43.260to advance a bill that would slash roughly $9 billion in federal spending on everything from
00:56:47.500foreign aid to public broadcasting. It's a good start. Uh, although of course it doesn't go far
00:56:51.700enough. Obviously we should eliminate all funding to propaganda outlets like NPR and PBS, along with
00:56:55.940all of our funding for foreign countries, foreign aid in every case is either a fraud on the American
00:57:00.060taxpayer or a way to launder money to intelligence agencies. Most of the time it's both, but even in the
00:57:05.380absence of a total suspension of wasteful spending, which will probably never happen in our lifetime,
00:57:09.300the bill that advanced in the Senate yesterday was, uh, still fairly encouraging, but there were
00:57:14.300some unfortunate 11th hour changes to the bill. Turns out that several very important spending cuts
00:57:19.820were eliminated at the last minute. And we can learn a bit about how Washington works. If we look at
00:57:25.520some of these cuts in detail, additionally, if you can believe it, some brand new wasteful spending was
00:57:31.480actually added to the legislation for the benefit of something called Native American radio stations.
00:57:37.320Yes, they added pork to the big pork cutting bill. We cut funding for NPR, but we added millions of
00:57:43.320dollars in funding for something called Native American radio. Watch.
00:57:47.980So let's look at where this rescissions package we've been talking about stands right now. So originally
00:57:52.900the proposal was for 9.4 billion with a B cuts overall, but now senators have drawn a line and it has been
00:58:00.600reduced. Now the cut proposal is expected to be $9 billion. What has changed? Well, cuts have been
00:58:06.880restored 400 million with an M in health global health funding. And especially that includes
00:58:12.640PEPFAR, which of course is a global AIDS, HIV prevention and treatment program. Now, addition to
00:58:18.920this, I want to make one smaller note. The white house also pledged a very small amount, relatively $9
00:58:24.120million for native American radio stations. Why does that matter? They did that to win a vote. It is the vote
00:58:30.360of this man, Senator Mike Rounds of South Dakota. Mike Rounds is a Republican. He represents South
00:58:37.380Dakota in the Senate. And apparently, according to this reporting, he demanded nearly $10 million
00:58:41.060in spending on a Native American radio station in order to win his vote for this bill. Again,
00:58:46.580he demanded a payout for radio stations in order to vote for a bill that would cut wasteful spending
00:58:50.700on radio stations, which is corruption, obviously. But his corruption made me want to answer a pretty
00:58:56.340basic question, which is, what exactly is a Native American radio station? What kind of earth-shattering
00:59:00.880content are they putting out? And how exactly does it benefit the United States? To answer that
00:59:07.060question, I went on something of a internet safari. And here's what I found. Tonight, we're taking you
00:59:13.260inside a one-of-a-kind radio station that's indigenizing the airwaves. The Daybreak Star Radio
00:59:18.080Network launched just last summer here in Seattle.
00:59:20.120It's elevating Native music from the Pacific Northwest and all over the world.
00:59:25.420Kyra 7's Graham Johnson introduces us to some of the people behind this groundbreaking effort.
00:59:31.940And you're listening to DJ Big Rez on Daybreak Star Radio.