The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1624 - Yelling At Us To Stop Talking About Epstein Only Makes Us Talk About Him More

00:00:00.000 So 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.

00:00:07.540 This revelation comes as administration and some of its surrogates demand that we drop the subject and move on.

00:00:12.700 We will ignore that directive and talk about the latest today.

00:00:15.460 Also, 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.

00:00:24.640 It's been a strange week, to say the least.

00:00:25.940 And false media reports accused Trump of cutting all spending on AIDS prevention overseas.

00:00:30.860 It's not true, but why aren't we cutting spending on AIDS prevention overseas?

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00:02:19.760 In every single criminal trial in this country, whether the crime is petty theft or murder or anything in between,

00:02:25.860 there are very clear standards that deal with video evidence.

00:02:29.000 And in particular, if the government wants to introduce video evidence,

00:02:32.120 they have to provide all of the available footage that they have.

00:02:35.840 That's a pretty intuitive concept.

00:02:37.700 So if somebody robs a convenience store and police recover surveillance tapes from the store,

00:02:42.780 then they need to turn those tapes over to the defense.

00:02:45.340 The prosecution cannot modify the tapes in any way.

00:02:47.660 They can't splice together different tapes.

00:02:50.480 They certainly can't delete anything.

00:02:52.920 They have to provide the raw, unedited footage to the defense team.

00:02:56.520 And on top of that, they have to verify that the tapes are authentic

00:02:59.720 and they haven't been tampered with by establishing a sworn chain of custody.

00:03:03.440 This is about as basic as it gets.

00:03:05.100 Every judge in the country, even Kentonji Brown-Jackson, I bet, can grasp this very straightforward concept.

00:03:12.620 You can easily get a case thrown out of traffic court if they won't give you all of the relevant footage that they have.

00:03:19.080 Or, of course, if they give you footage that's been doctored in some way.

00:03:22.880 On the other hand, when it comes to the single most watched sex trafficking case in the history of the United States,

00:03:28.380 this rule apparently doesn't apply.

00:03:31.580 You can forget all about chain of custody.

00:03:33.840 And you can forget about obtaining raw footage as well.

00:03:36.120 Instead, in the case of Jeffrey Epstein, the DOJ produced a video that was clearly manipulated.

00:03:41.920 As we've discussed previously, Wired Magazine found that the footage from outside Epstein's jail cell,

00:03:47.280 which the DOJ claimed was raw footage,

00:03:49.180 had actually been edited and saved multiple times back in May of this year.

00:03:53.460 Specifically, quote,

00:03:54.500 the file was assembled from at least two source clips,

00:03:57.060 saved multiple times, exported,

00:03:58.960 and then uploaded to the DOJ's website.

00:04:01.500 Additionally, viewers noticed that there was a glitch

00:04:03.480 when the timer in the footage moved from 11.58 to 11.59 p.m.

00:04:07.880 It seemed to jump ahead to midnight.

00:04:10.540 None of this was initially explained or disclosed by the DOJ,

00:04:13.200 which, again, referred to the footage as raw.

00:04:15.120 Of course, the reason the DOJ claimed the footage was raw is that they understand,

00:04:19.560 as most people do,

00:04:20.180 that any edits for any reason would immediately raise a lot of questions.

00:04:24.240 There should be no need to save the file multiple times or combine clips to delete things.

00:04:29.860 They could have just posted everything they had,

00:04:32.820 raw footage, that's what that means, just here it is,

00:04:35.600 and the public can sort it out from there.

00:04:37.840 But the DOJ didn't do that.

00:04:39.920 It was possible they were hoping that no one would look at the metadata

00:04:42.320 or study the videos closely.

00:04:44.040 And if that was the plan, it didn't last very long.

00:04:46.520 After the footage was posted in Wired Magazine,

00:04:48.940 I noticed the problem.

00:04:49.740 Pam Bondi had to come up with a justification for all of the discrepancies. 1.00

00:04:54.000 And what she said, ultimately,

00:04:55.580 is that the security system in the jail resets every night for around a minute.

00:05:00.040 And therefore, we're told there was nothing nefarious about the missing footage.

00:05:03.380 It's just a fact of life that in one of the most secure prisons in the country,

00:05:06.820 we can't design a camera system that stays online 24-7.

00:05:11.540 That's beyond our capacity.

00:05:12.960 We can, you know, land a man on the moon,

00:05:14.580 but we can't prevent the cameras from shutting down every night

00:05:16.860 just long enough to, you know, maybe allow someone to get murdered.

00:05:21.180 We also can't make sure that there's more than one functioning camera

00:05:24.480 in the vicinity of this cell block.

00:05:27.460 Now, already this was an unsatisfactory explanation.

00:05:31.060 The DOJ didn't actually provide proof

00:05:33.520 that the system needs to go offline for a minute every night.

00:05:37.220 Bondi just claimed that it was normal,

00:05:38.880 and we're all supposed to accept it.

00:05:40.500 She also didn't say anything whatsoever about why the footage needed to be edited in the first place.

00:05:45.760 Again, this would not fly in traffic court.

00:05:48.400 And it definitely doesn't pass muster when we're talking about Jeffrey Epstein,

00:05:51.600 who had the potential to implicate the most powerful people in the world.

00:05:54.120 And yet, somehow, the story just got much, much worse for Bondi and the DOJ.

00:05:58.820 It turns out that even after they were exposed for hiding relevant information from the public

00:06:03.760 about this tape, they still haven't come forward with the full story.

00:06:08.400 So it falls on Wired Magazine, a small Internet publication, to fill in even more details.

00:06:14.320 And here's what they reported the other day.

00:06:16.300 Quote,

00:06:32.560 Now, before we read on further in the article, there is just simply no way to justify this.

00:06:54.600 So it doesn't matter if the extra two minutes and 53 seconds, you know, were irrelevant.

00:06:59.040 It doesn't matter if those extra two minutes and 53 seconds were duplicated in another video file.

00:07:03.400 In this case, and in every other case, the duty of the government is to be transparent.

00:07:07.540 It's not to save people a very small amount of time when they're watching an hour's worth of video footage.

00:07:13.860 Any government that's functioning properly would understand this calculation immediately.

00:07:18.240 Just give people all of the information that you have and let them sort it out.

00:07:24.160 The article continues, quote,

00:07:25.800 The nearly three-minute discrepancy may be related to the widely reported one-minute gap between 11.58 and 58 seconds p.m. and 12 a.m.

00:07:33.280 that Attorney General Pam Bondi has attributed to a nightly system reset.

00:07:36.920 The metadata confirms that the first video file, which showed footage from August 9th, 2019,

00:07:42.020 continued for several minutes beyond what appears in the final version of the video.

00:07:44.780 It was trimmed to the 11.58, 58 p.m. mark right before the jump to midnight.

00:07:50.000 The cut to the first clip doesn't necessarily mean that there is additional time accounted for, unaccounted for.

00:07:54.020 The second clip picks up at midnight, which suggests the two would overlap,

00:07:57.500 nor does it prove that the video, that the missing minute was cut from the video, close quote.

00:08:01.920 In other words, we can't say definitively what's in the three minutes of footage that were cut.

00:08:06.260 It's possible there's nothing of interest, but there's one way the government could provide some more clarity.

00:08:10.880 They could simply dump all the files on the DOJ's website without any editing whatsoever.

00:08:16.060 At the moment, no one in the Trump administration can come up with a coherent justification for why this hasn't been done.

00:08:21.520 They also can't explain why they haven't released phase two of the Epstein files, which was originally planned,

00:08:28.400 or the truckload of documents that Pam Bondi said the DOJ had recovered in the last few months from the Southern District of New York.

00:08:36.300 She says there are graphic depictions of children on the videos that she can't release,

00:08:40.080 but she hasn't said anything at all about any of the documents beyond telling us that they're apparently not important,

00:08:46.140 which is different from what she initially said.

00:08:48.900 Nor has she unsealed the search warrants or financial disclosures in the case.

00:08:52.780 Instead of getting any transparency here, the Trump administration is continuing to tell us that these materials are boring

00:08:58.780 and that we shouldn't care about them.

00:09:02.080 Here's how the president put it yesterday.

00:09:04.540 Listen.

00:09:05.940 I know you've urged people to move on, but I'm curious,

00:09:08.800 why do you think your supporters in particular have been so interested in the Epstein story and so upset about how it's been handled?

00:09:15.740 I don't understand it.

00:09:16.820 Why they would be so interested.

00:09:19.160 He's dead for a long time.

00:09:21.600 He was never a big factor in terms of life.

00:09:25.820 I don't understand what the interest or what the fascination is.

00:09:29.960 I really don't.

00:09:31.440 And the credible information has been given.

00:09:34.300 Don't forget, we went through years of the Mueller witch hunt and all of the different things,

00:09:38.940 the Steele dossier, which was all fake.

00:09:42.140 All that information was fake.

00:09:43.680 But I don't understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody.

00:09:48.780 It's pretty boring stuff.

00:09:50.600 It's sorted, but it's boring.

00:09:52.440 And I don't understand why it keeps going.

00:09:55.820 I think really only pretty bad people, including fake news, want to keep something like that going.

00:10:03.100 But credible information, let them give it.

00:10:05.820 Anything that's credible, I would say let them have it.

00:10:09.280 Now, 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.

00:10:20.800 And, 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.

00:10:32.980 But I happen to believe that bringing sex predators to justice is extremely important.

00:10:38.740 And I just can't accept being blatantly gaslit by people in power, even if they're people that I otherwise support.

00:10:46.720 In fact, especially if they're people I otherwise support.

00:10:50.800 So I must say that this answer from Trump is just simply awful.

00:10:55.460 First, there's the personal attacks on anyone who asks questions, saying that they're bad people.

00:11:00.700 It's always a winning argument.

00:11:02.300 If 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.

00:11:10.040 Works every time.

00:11:12.560 And in general, you know, screaming at people to stop talking about something is, and I know this is the way that I work.

00:11:20.800 Like, the number one way to guarantee that I keep talking about something is to yell at me to stop talking about it.

00:11:27.500 And then there's the implication that the Epstein files are boring.

00:11:34.160 Well, in that case, release everything.

00:11:36.740 Bore us to death.

00:11:38.840 Go ahead.

00:11:39.920 Then the story's over and everyone can go on with their lives.

00:11:42.760 The 9-11 report was something like 600 pages.

00:11:45.800 Parts of that document were boring.

00:11:47.560 Almost nobody actually read the entire thing.

00:11:49.240 But it was still very important that the 9-11 report was written.

00:11:55.080 You know, it's extremely confusing, to put it mildly, to see the President of the United States take the opposite position.

00:11:59.980 He says he doesn't understand why people care about Jeffrey Epstein, as if that's some kind of moral failing on our part.

00:12:05.420 Guess what?

00:12:05.740 Why would anyone care about some of the most powerful people on the planet spending time on a sex trafficker's private island? 0.87

00:12:12.700 Who could possibly be concerned about the possibility that a cabal of pedophiles and perverts are running entire countries and major corporations?

00:12:19.680 And this is where the comparison to Russiagate comes in.

00:12:24.060 It's probably the worst part of the answer you just heard.

00:12:25.920 Russiagate was a disaster for this country precisely because we didn't get the whole story.

00:12:32.440 Russiagate was premised on lies and distortions at every stage.

00:12:36.360 If Donald Trump made a joke at a rally, the media interpreted it as a coded message to Putin.

00:12:41.720 They pretended that he had a secret computer in Trump Tower that was communicating with Moscow.

00:12:46.340 They said that there was the P-tape.

00:12:48.060 They claimed that Russian hackers were being housed at a non-existent Russian consulate in Miami.

00:12:53.700 They claimed that Trump had weakened the GOP's platform on Russia, even though the opposite was true.

00:12:59.740 When Hunter Biden dropped his laptop off at the repair store full of incriminating evidence about Joe Biden's influence peddling operation,

00:13:07.160 the media blamed that on Russia, too.

00:13:08.980 And on and on and on.

00:13:10.920 So Russiagate was an utter fraud.

00:13:12.620 And to the extent that it was successful, it worked because the media and the Obama administration repeatedly lied to us.

00:13:19.340 They didn't give us information.

00:13:21.840 They lied to our faces for the better part of a decade.

00:13:24.660 With the Epstein situation, what we want is the opposite response from the media and the government.

00:13:34.160 We want total transparency.

00:13:37.960 At the end of his answer, Trump talks about filtering the documents so that we can only we only obtain credible information.

00:13:44.480 But that's not the job of the government.

00:13:47.520 Their job is to give us whatever information they have.

00:13:51.060 Once they start assessing credibility, they give themselves a license to hide incriminating information.

00:13:56.040 There's no reason to grant the government that license, no matter which political party is in charge.

00:14:03.220 That's what makes the Democrats' sudden interest in the Epstein file so galling and intolerable. 0.85

00:14:08.000 They're obviously turning this into a dumb partisan issue, and it isn't one. 0.89

00:14:13.700 Like, there are those of us who just want to know. 0.99

00:14:16.020 We want child sex predators and sex traffickers brought to justice.

00:14:18.900 It's not a partisan issue.

00:14:21.760 And we want that regardless of who's in power.

00:14:25.540 And we talked about this a bit yesterday.

00:14:27.200 All of a sudden, after years of complete disinterest in the entire topic, Democrats are suddenly clamoring for the release of the Epstein files.

00:14:33.240 Or at least they're publicly pretending to want the Epstein files to be released.

00:14:37.220 Here's Adam Kinzinger, for example.

00:14:38.940 He's essentially a Democrat, of course.

00:14:40.260 Quote, 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.

00:14:53.600 This 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.

00:15:04.260 I mean, that was the issue he claimed to care about.

00:15:07.680 But no one actually cared about January 6th, so the whole plan backfired.

00:15:11.320 So 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.

00:15:16.820 It's not hard to see what's going on here.

00:15:20.220 Neither party, Democrat or Republican, wants to see the full, unredacted release of the Epstein files, apparently.

00:15:27.700 At a minimum, we can assume that top donors of both parties are implicated in some way.

00:15:32.220 So they both want to neutralize this whole issue as quickly as they can.

00:15:37.740 For Democrats, that means turning the Epstein files into yet another partisan football and turning into another, just a stunt.

00:15:43.740 They're going to make performative efforts to release the files, even though they know that it will never work.

00:15:48.580 For example, here's Axios' reporting from yesterday.

00:15:50.900 Quote, House Republicans on Tuesday voted down another Democratic procedural maneuver aimed at forcing the Justice Department to release documents related to Jeffrey Epstein.

00:15:58.900 Democrats' 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.

00:16:06.400 It came after Republicans on the House Rules Committee voted Monday night against attaching the Epstein language to a broader cryptocurrency and defense funding vote.

00:16:14.440 And 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.

00:16:24.620 And 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.

00:16:31.880 So Democrats are using this whole issue to play very transparent political games.

00:16:37.860 That's how seriously they take child sex trafficking, which is not at all.

00:16:41.420 But ultimately, if we're being honest, the problem here still goes back to the White House.

00:16:49.020 They've given the Democrats this opening by bungling the situation so badly.

00:16:54.980 The Trump administration seems mystified or is acting that way by the anger from the base.

00:16:59.260 But, you know, but number one, many of us were not saying anything different from what we've been saying for years about Epstein.

00:17:11.420 OK, and and also what Trump has been saying for years about it.

00:17:15.740 Now, Trump has decided all of a sudden that the issue doesn't matter.

00:17:20.480 It's boring. And anyone who talks about it is a weakling and not one of his supporters. 0.62

00:17:23.840 He decided that in the last two weeks.

00:17:25.860 They never said that before.

00:17:26.840 So the idea that we as conservatives are obligated to just adopt that perspective out of the blue.

00:17:35.980 Is madness.

00:17:37.440 It's also not possible, by the way, even if I wanted to just decide that I don't care about this anymore.

00:17:43.580 I it doesn't work that way.

00:17:44.940 I can't. I can't just you can't say to me, well, you shouldn't care about this.

00:17:49.620 OK, well, then I don't.

00:17:50.640 Well, never mind.

00:17:51.200 Even if I wanted to obey that directive, I just can't.

00:17:57.320 I care about the issue.

00:17:58.440 I've cared about it for the last five, six years.

00:17:59.900 I've cared about the whole time.

00:18:01.220 I still do.

00:18:04.160 But I'm not interested in obeying that directive because I'm an American.

00:18:09.380 Like I'm an American.

00:18:10.820 I can think for myself.

00:18:13.080 And if you're a person in position of power, I'm going to hold you accountable.

00:18:16.220 I'm going to I'm going to criticize you if you do something I don't like.

00:18:18.240 I don't care what party you're in.

00:18:21.200 But 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.

00:18:30.200 OK, we have not seen any high profile or powerful people held accountable for their crimes.

00:18:40.980 No one's even been fired, let alone arrested, for allowing an assassin to almost kill Trump last year.

00:18:45.560 Trump was elected in 2016, partly on a promise to lock her up.

00:18:51.100 You know, we all recall that.

00:18:53.700 So when do we start locking people up?

00:18:57.360 Trump himself has spent 10 years calling out many different crimes and scandals.

00:19:01.320 Rightly so.

00:19:01.860 Just this past weekend, he was talking again about the rigged election in 2020.

00:19:07.340 Why hasn't anyone been arrested or charged for any of this?

00:19:10.240 What about the people who lied about the COVID shot?

00:19:12.760 What about the people who funded the BLM rights in 2020?

00:19:15.360 What 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?

00:19:24.320 No one is even being fired for any of this, let alone arrested for any of it.

00:19:31.860 And that is the context that all of this is happening in.

00:19:34.760 And a lot of us are just fed up with it.

00:19:38.660 Speaking 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.

00:19:46.700 Quote, Mr. Zients hit reply all and wrote, I approve the use of the auto pen for the execution of all of the following pardons.

00:19:55.440 That's a reference to Jeff Zients, the White House chief of staff.

00:19:58.280 That's a sentence that no government official other than the president should ever write.

00:20:03.740 The chief of staff does not have the authority to use the president's signature to pardon people.

00:20:08.600 That's exactly what happened.

00:20:10.520 Now, that's not to say that digital signatures shouldn't be allowed.

00:20:13.360 Various outlets, including NBC News, have tried to claim that conservatives are attacking the idea of digital signatures.

00:20:17.680 It's a straw man.

00:20:19.020 That's not the case.

00:20:20.000 If Joe Biden had said, use my auto pen to approve these pardons, there'd be no story.

00:20:26.500 Okay, that's not a scandal, but that's not what happened.

00:20:28.300 Instead, a bunch of aides got together, said that they heard Joe Biden authorize certain things,

00:20:34.040 and then solely based on their claims about what Joe Biden wanted, they used his signature to do what they wanted.

00:20:42.580 Now, back to the point.

00:20:44.200 Republicans are saying that this is a major scandal.

00:20:46.820 I agree.

00:20:47.780 It is.

00:20:48.280 It is.

00:20:50.000 So then, who will be held responsible?

00:20:53.400 Who will be punished?

00:20:55.780 What person, what actual person with a face and a name are you going to arrest and put in prison for this scandal?

00:21:08.020 Well, Republicans are investigating it.

00:21:10.720 Great.

00:21:12.740 I mean, they're constantly investigating things.

00:21:14.980 The problem is that nobody is ever punished at the end of it.

00:21:20.640 And I don't even think that's hyperbole.

00:21:22.360 Like, nobody is ever punished at the end of any of these investigations.

00:21:30.100 That's not how the Democrats operate.

00:21:31.640 Democrats spent the last four years prosecuting Trump and throwing conservative activists and political advisors in prison.

00:21:36.660 And now, even after the majority of Americans have voted for transparency and justice, we're not getting it.

00:21:48.240 And that's just not going to work.

00:21:50.300 It's not what any Republican voted for in the last election.

00:21:52.640 We want to see accountability.

00:21:57.260 We want to know that even the rich and powerful will pay for their crimes.

00:22:02.260 And that hasn't happened yet.

00:22:03.560 And so, for a lot of people, understandably so, this Epstein stuff is kind of the last straw.

00:22:11.340 Give us the information we've been promised.

00:22:13.300 Give us the information we're entitled to.

00:22:15.160 If 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.

00:22:25.320 We're also facing a total collapse of legitimacy in our country.

00:22:28.620 You can only deny reality for so long before people decide that they've had enough.

00:22:35.900 And whatever donors or intelligence assets are being protected here, they're not that important.

00:22:41.700 They're not worth risking a revolt.

00:22:46.160 So give us the boring Epstein files.

00:22:48.420 Publish all the uninteresting footage you clipped out of those videos from Epstein's cell block for reasons that no one has bothered to explain.

00:22:54.920 Otherwise, in the absence of transparency, people will come to their own conclusions.

00:23:00.380 And when they do, whether you're a Republican or a Democrat, you won't like what happens next.

00:23:07.480 Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:23:22.320 Recently, 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.

00:23:31.380 Sean told me he tried to eat at one of his old favorites recently and couldn't even finish the steak.

00:23:36.520 So it was borderline inedible.

00:23:38.480 I've had the same experience.

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00:24:25.540 Well, we haven't heard from Jasmine Crockett since I returned from vacation.

00:24:29.760 So let's check in with her.

00:24:31.160 During a hearing yesterday, Crockett made the case that we have to keep funding PBS

00:24:36.740 because, very important to fund PBS, because we need Sesame Street to help us to de-radicalize

00:24:46.160 the Middle East, which may sound like an implausible justification, but let's hear her out.

00:24:55.120 Listen.

00:24:55.300 When you start to talk about whether or not Sesame Street or anything else that's on NPR or PBS

00:25:03.560 ends up in other places, this is so that there is not this warped thought process about the Western world

00:25:11.340 or about the United States.

00:25:13.180 We're talking about making sure that we don't end up allowing people to be radicalized against us

00:25:20.200 because they have a terrible vision of us, because they may be in a government

00:25:25.660 that actually puts out bad, terrible propaganda about us.

00:25:29.500 So that's all it takes.

00:25:31.940 You know, if only the terrorists could see Sesame Street, they would throw down their suicide vests

00:25:38.800 and get a Costco membership and become fully Westernized.

00:25:43.220 They'd become good Western people if only they could see Sesame Street.

00:25:48.740 If only Osama bin Laden had seen Sesame Street. 0.64

00:25:52.580 If only he'd been exposed to the cookie monster earlier in life, then the whole trajectory of the 21st century

00:26:00.200 could have changed.

00:26:03.640 Who knows?

00:26:05.380 You know, if they could see Oscar the Grouch, they'd have a pretty accurate view of what life is like

00:26:11.560 in New York and Los Angeles with people literally living in trash cans, which is also kind of a Dave Chappelle bit. 0.99

00:26:17.560 But the funny thing about this argument from Jasmine, aside from how incomprehensibly stupid it is, 0.98

00:26:23.600 is that that's really the main thing. 1.00

00:26:25.160 It's just a very dumb argument. 0.94

00:26:26.360 Now, to her credit, perhaps, if you're trying to make the argument that we need tax money to fund PBS, 0.98

00:26:37.060 there is no good way to make that argument.

00:26:41.480 There is no intelligent argument for that position.

00:26:48.640 So you're, because, because in reality, it's like 30 years ago, we should not have been funding PBS.

00:26:55.240 But at least back then, maybe you could make, you could point to actual human beings in the country

00:27:01.680 who watch PBS a lot and maybe rely on it to some extent for information 30 years ago, 35, 40 years ago.

00:27:09.940 Now, these days, who's watching PBS at all?

00:27:15.520 That's a small list.

00:27:17.020 And then who relies on it?

00:27:19.960 Who's actually like, this is their, their window to the outside world is through PBS.

00:27:27.940 Who are those people?

00:27:29.180 I'd love to know.

00:27:30.780 Well, they don't exist.

00:27:31.800 So you're, you don't have, there's not, there's not much you can do.

00:27:34.520 And so she goes with this, maybe it's, maybe it's the best possible argument.

00:27:39.200 Although it is weird because she's talking about Sesame Street, de-radicalizing people.

00:27:44.560 Only a day after Elmo went insane.

00:27:47.840 I don't know if you heard about this, but Elmo went insane and started posting anti-Semitic content on his Twitter page.

00:27:53.280 Um, so these are some of the things that Elmo's account posted on Tuesday.

00:27:57.560 I'll put it up on the screen.

00:27:59.760 He posted quote, this is what I'm reading Elmo's quote. 0.99

00:28:03.500 He said, Elmo say all Jews should die. 1.00

00:28:05.960 F the Jews. 1.00

00:28:06.640 Donald Trump is Netanyahu's puppet because he's in the Epstein files. 0.99

00:28:10.760 I can't do the Elmo voice at all. 1.00

00:28:12.480 That would make this better, but, uh, Jews control the world and need to be exterminated. 1.00

00:28:17.060 And then in a follow-up post, he remarked again, kill all Jews. 0.99

00:28:19.780 So that's, that was what Elmo said on Twitter and, um, now Sesame Street has released a statement condemning anti-Semitism.

00:28:27.580 And 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.

00:28:38.520 It was important for, for Sesame Street to come out and condemn that.

00:28:43.120 Uh, and they also had to say that Elmo was hacked.

00:28:46.520 It was important for them to clarify.

00:28:49.780 Uh, now, is that true?

00:28:52.020 Personally, I don't know.

00:28:52.940 I don't know what happened.

00:28:54.380 Was the Elmo account hacked?

00:28:57.760 Maybe.

00:28:59.360 Was Elmo finally letting loose and telling us how he actually feels?

00:29:03.640 How he's felt this whole time?

00:29:06.120 I don't know.

00:29:07.860 I can't say.

00:29:10.180 Um, I can only ask questions is all I do.

00:29:11.800 If, if, if, if Elmo, here's what I, here's what I will say.

00:29:15.380 Here's what I will say.

00:29:16.380 If Elmo did want to exterminate the Jewish people, would Sesame Street admit it? 0.95

00:29:24.540 Or would they just claim that he was hacked?

00:29:27.560 It's a question.

00:29:28.400 I don't know the answer.

00:29:29.840 Where does Big Bird stand on all this?

00:29:31.640 To me, that's the thing that's really suspicious about it.

00:29:34.960 Just, 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.

00:29:45.980 What 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.

00:30:04.680 So, who knows?

00:30:05.580 I 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.

00:30:20.800 Too popular, honestly.

00:30:23.440 In 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.

00:30:34.900 The Post Millennial has this story.

00:30:38.960 The 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.

00:30:51.940 Good Trouble Lives On?

00:30:53.600 The hell does that mean?

00:30:54.840 The CEO of Crowds on Demand, Adam Stewart, told reporters at News Nation,

00:30:58.040 We rejected an offer that probably is worth around $20 million.

00:31:00.380 The value of the contract would have been worth around that amount nationwide to organize huge demonstrations around the country.

00:31:04.900 But personally, I just don't think it's effective.

00:31:09.580 When News Nation addressed who had offered the money, he would not say who it was.

00:31:14.880 The anti-Trump Good Trouble Lives On protests taking place on Thursday follow other large nationwide protests,

00:31:22.000 such as the No Kings demonstrations that took place last month, as well as others.

00:31:26.260 The protest website said that there are going to be multiple locations for the demonstrations taking place on Thursday.

00:31:32.580 Partners for the Good Trouble Lives On organization includes the SLPC, the NEA, the Women's March, many other left-wing activist organizations.

00:31:43.540 Okay, so some unnamed person or entity offered this guy $20 million to organize protests.

00:31:50.180 No surprise there.

00:31:51.240 I mean, this is how it works on the left.

00:31:54.180 That's why it's not a conspiracy.

00:31:55.560 When you talk about paid protesters, this is not a conspiracy.

00:32:02.380 I mean, it is a conspiracy, but it's not a theory.

00:32:05.160 This is what is happening.

00:32:06.860 All of these protests, all of them are funded, paid for, and staged.

00:32:12.280 All of them.

00:32:13.540 Not a conspiracy theory.

00:32:15.100 It's just clearly how it works.

00:32:16.660 They pay protesters to show up.

00:32:18.540 They pay protesters to show up to their own protests.

00:32:24.480 They also pay counter-protesters to show up to right-wing protests on the rare occasion that there is a right-wing protest.

00:32:31.660 I will say on that, any rally I've ever been to or been involved with, any rally where I've spoken, anything like that,

00:32:38.780 there 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.

00:32:48.740 And often it's the same people.

00:32:50.200 I 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.

00:32:59.000 And you'll have some guy from Minneapolis who somehow manages to just always be there.

00:33:05.660 How is that?

00:33:08.540 It'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.

00:33:20.480 Happening on a Thursday, in the middle of the day.

00:33:23.800 And so the question for conservatives is always, don't these people have jobs?

00:33:26.760 Don't they have jobs?

00:33:28.360 This is their job.

00:33:29.720 Yeah, they do have a job, and this is it.

00:33:32.120 They're getting paid to be there.

00:33:33.540 Now, there are also a lot of people who show up, actual activists who don't have jobs.

00:33:42.100 So the left has a lot of people who don't have jobs.

00:33:43.880 They're living on the government.

00:33:45.960 They're on the dole.

00:33:47.840 But a lot of people on the ground there, this is their job.

00:33:51.940 They get paid to be there.

00:33:54.200 And it's effective.

00:33:57.040 This is a very effective tactic.

00:33:58.580 And because of all the money that they put into it, their protest movements always look massive.

00:34:05.160 They're always nationwide.

00:34:06.720 They're always big.

00:34:09.740 And it looks like a real movement.

00:34:12.840 It looks like one.

00:34:15.500 Now, a lot of it isn't real, but that doesn't matter because the only point of a protest is it's optics.

00:34:23.220 That's the only reason you're there.

00:34:24.880 The whole point of the protest is optics.

00:34:29.860 And so if the optics aren't—so you've got to do whatever you can to have good optics.

00:34:33.500 And their counter-protest strategy, you know, paying for the saboteurs to show up, is also really effective.

00:34:42.280 It's demoralizing to be on the right and plan your big rally and get everything together.

00:34:47.460 And 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.

00:34:54.060 I've been through this plenty of times.

00:34:55.940 I'll admit—I probably shouldn't admit it, but I'll admit, yeah, it's effective.

00:35:01.440 It's effective.

00:35:02.280 How could it not be?

00:35:03.900 Like, it's annoying.

00:35:06.080 It's very annoying.

00:35:09.940 And these people are evil because of what they're supporting.

00:35:13.180 But, 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.

00:35:26.880 So here's my question then.

00:35:28.460 We can complain about the left funding protests, paying protesters.

00:35:34.040 We can complain about it.

00:35:35.900 I've complained about it plenty of times, but it's not going to stop.

00:35:40.460 In fact, the more we complain, the more they know that it's working, so they keep doing it.

00:35:44.220 So I'm not going to complain about it anymore, especially because I get why they do it, right?

00:35:52.960 The organic protests and marches and rallies are almost impossible to organize.

00:35:58.980 Talk to anyone who's been involved in doing this organically, doing it in a grassroots way.

00:36:07.060 It's extremely difficult.

00:36:10.260 You can do it, but what's going to happen is you're going to end up with something small.

00:36:14.980 If 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.

00:36:29.800 It's going to be you and, like, 12 other people standing around holding signs and looking kind of sad.

00:36:34.240 Huge, massive, organic, grassroots rallies are almost impossible.

00:36:42.980 So if you can pay to ensure that your rally is well attended, why wouldn't you?

00:36:52.500 I get it.

00:36:53.520 As Gavin Newsom would say, come on, man, I get it.

00:36:58.240 Come on, man, I get it, okay?

00:37:00.320 I get it with his hand movements.

00:37:01.980 So this is my question.

00:37:05.820 Why aren't we doing this?

00:37:08.860 Why aren't our rich people spending tens of millions of dollars to fund rallies and demonstrations? 0.86

00:37:13.920 Why isn't there a movement?

00:37:16.240 Like, why don't we do this?

00:37:18.080 We have rich people.

00:37:19.640 Why aren't we doing this?

00:37:21.800 This guy was offered $20 million.

00:37:23.840 Why isn't anyone offering someone on our side $20 million to put together?

00:37:29.380 I'm not volunteering.

00:37:30.280 I don't want it.

00:37:30.880 I just, I'm, this is not, organizing is not my strong suit.

00:37:36.080 But why, why isn't this happening?

00:37:39.340 Why 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?

00:37:51.380 Why isn't that happening?

00:37:54.160 We have lots of very rich people on our side.

00:37:56.280 Why aren't they paying to make that happen?

00:37:58.480 Why 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.

00:38:14.220 We want our sovereignty back.

00:38:15.300 Why isn't there a nationwide pro-American sovereignty movement?

00:38:20.820 Now, when I say this, I know that you might listen and you might say, well, Matt, you have a microphone.

00:38:30.360 Why don't you go out and organize the movement?

00:38:32.960 Why don't you organize a rally in support of mass deportations?

00:38:36.660 Now, the answer is that I'm happy to do that kind of thing.

00:38:40.540 If there was a movement like that, I would happily show up.

00:38:43.240 I would speak.

00:38:44.000 I would give it my, I would promote it.

00:38:48.060 But the answer is that if I were to say, well, no one is doing this, I'm going to do it.

00:38:53.880 And 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.

00:39:04.680 And if I were to do that, I would get a few thousand people to show up in one city for one afternoon.

00:39:15.240 And that's after weeks and weeks of, of nonstop effort.

00:39:23.320 And that'll be it.

00:39:26.920 And that's a lot of people for an actual organic grassroots demonstration.

00:39:32.000 It is.

00:39:32.920 I mean, that's like impressive.

00:39:35.220 I've done this in the past.

00:39:36.420 I mean, we had our rally in Nashville against child mutilation and it was actually organic.

00:39:42.960 It was grassroots.

00:39:43.720 We didn't have tens of millions of dollars.

00:39:44.880 We didn't pay anyone to show up.

00:39:45.960 We don't have that kind of money.

00:39:46.820 We can't.

00:39:48.260 And we don't have the infrastructure for it.

00:39:49.800 So it was purely grassroots.

00:39:51.320 We got thousands of people to show up.

00:39:52.780 And in that case, it was actually effective because it was like, we didn't need this at the time.

00:39:59.640 This was not intended to be a nationwide protest.

00:40:03.280 I mean, of course, the movement against child mutilation was nationwide, but we were specifically calling.

00:40:08.720 We were responding to something that happened locally with Vanderbilt in Nashville.

00:40:12.180 We were talking to our own representatives.

00:40:13.760 And so in that case, it made sense and it was effective.

00:40:16.780 But 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.

00:40:31.180 Because we're not competing with organic grassroots demonstrations.

00:40:36.080 So we can't afford to have little mom and pop protest operations here.

00:40:40.260 We're competing against like the Walmart of protests.

00:40:43.660 We're competing against the big boys, which means that my impressive grassroots protests would look pathetic compared to their highly funded operation. 0.96

00:40:53.460 And I can point out rightly and say, yeah, but all those people are fake. 0.91

00:40:56.540 They're paid to be there.

00:40:57.280 Doesn't matter.

00:40:58.880 You know, once you start explaining, you're losing.

00:41:01.420 It's like in football.

00:41:02.480 You as a fan, you start complaining about the refs, you're losing.

00:41:07.600 Even if you're right.

00:41:09.780 Even if you're right.

00:41:11.580 Even if the refs are bad. 0.99

00:41:13.360 Even if the whole thing is rigged.

00:41:16.340 You're only complaining because you're losing.

00:41:19.300 Once you start complaining like that, you're losing.

00:41:24.680 And so that's the problem.

00:41:26.780 That's why it's not as simple as, well, you just go out and do it.

00:41:29.840 Okay, 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.

00:41:38.640 It will send the opposite message from the one we're trying to send.

00:41:42.360 The reality is that there are millions of Americans who want our country back and want our sovereignty.

00:41:50.460 There are millions of Americans who feel that way.

00:41:52.060 But you try to approach this through a purely grassroots organic way that that will not be reflected in what you see on the ground.

00:42:00.560 And so it's going to hurt.

00:42:02.460 It will do the opposite.

00:42:03.420 It's not going to help.

00:42:04.180 What we need is funding.

00:42:08.940 Massive funding.

00:42:10.560 And yeah, you need to pay protesters to show up along with the real ones.

00:42:15.360 Pay people to show up.

00:42:17.520 Bust them in from out of town. 0.74

00:42:18.860 Like, I'm tired of complaining about, oh, they bust people in.

00:42:21.540 Yeah, that's smart.

00:42:22.360 That's a good strategy.

00:42:23.360 We should do it.

00:42:24.620 Why not?

00:42:26.960 You're having a protest.

00:42:28.020 You need boots on the ground.

00:42:29.840 No one is going through interviewing each person as why you're really here.

00:42:32.800 No one's doing that.

00:42:33.960 You need people there.

00:42:35.620 That's the whole point.

00:42:38.560 This is how the game is played.

00:42:40.540 This is how the game is played now.

00:42:42.520 I wish it wasn't played this way.

00:42:43.980 This is how it's played.

00:42:45.740 And we either play it or we lose.

00:42:50.180 And so that's all I think now.

00:42:51.900 That should be our response now.

00:42:56.620 It's not, oh, they're paying.

00:42:57.780 Well, you shouldn't do that.

00:43:00.280 Of course, they're going to like, what do they care?

00:43:01.740 We complain.

00:43:03.460 Are they going to listen to us?

00:43:04.640 That's not fair.

00:43:05.580 Don't do it.

00:43:06.500 Have some sportsmanship.

00:43:08.040 Be a good sport.

00:43:09.860 Yeah, you know, on that side, you could spend.

00:43:12.360 You have the resources and the money and the people that are willing to put up tens of millions of dollars to fund your protests.

00:43:18.300 We know that you can do that, but we want you to be a good sport and not do it because we're not.

00:43:24.740 Come on.

00:43:25.300 That's a loser mentality and it's not going to work.

00:43:31.660 So the only response is to say, all right, look, you can play at that game.

00:43:35.980 And let's do it.

00:43:39.260 But we need people to step up.

00:43:42.000 We need the funding.

00:43:42.860 Like we just do.

00:43:43.620 And we don't have it right now.

00:43:48.240 All right.

00:43:48.520 Let's get to the comment section.

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00:44:39.180 All right, a few comments here.

00:44:40.980 Not all cultures are the same. 0.97

00:44:42.480 Some are barbaric.

00:44:43.440 Someone who emigrates from Japan is far different from someone who emigrates from Somalia.

00:44:48.840 Yeah, look, of course not all cultures are the same.

00:44:51.280 Not only are they not the same, but some cultures are superior to others.

00:44:55.040 And this is maybe the ultimate red pill, the one that I think a lot of people are ready to take, but maybe haven't taken yet.

00:45:04.540 The one where you realize that equality is a myth.

00:45:09.980 Cultures are not equal.

00:45:12.160 Humans are not equal.

00:45:14.780 They're not.

00:45:16.980 Equality exists in mathematics and really nowhere else.

00:45:22.660 It doesn't exist anywhere else.

00:45:25.040 Now, it exists conceptually as a legal concept, and it should exist that way.

00:45:31.760 All 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.

00:45:41.540 But does that mean that all Americans or all people across the world actually are equal?

00:45:48.500 Well, what does that mean?

00:45:51.580 I mean, what do you mean by equal?

00:45:53.040 Equal in what way?

00:45:53.820 Equal means the same. 0.96

00:45:55.320 That's what it means.

00:45:57.740 So, is it all people are the same? 0.90

00:45:59.880 No, they're not.

00:46:00.760 What do you mean by that?

00:46:01.920 It's the kind of thing that just everybody says, and we've said with our whole lives, we've been saying it.

00:46:06.340 We've been told it.

00:46:07.300 We've been brought up on this notion.

00:46:08.700 All people are the same.

00:46:10.520 It's clearly not true.

00:46:12.000 That's obviously in no way true.

00:46:18.220 So, and people, they're not the same.

00:46:20.600 People are not equal physically. 1.00

00:46:22.040 We know that.

00:46:22.660 They're not equal in terms of their intelligence.

00:46:24.720 They're not equal in terms of their skills.

00:46:26.260 They're not equal in terms of their personalities.

00:46:28.020 They'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.

00:46:33.340 is they're not equal in any of those ways. And they're not equal in the cultures that they 0.51

00:46:41.080 create. So what do you mean equal? The only equality you can find in people is not something

00:46:53.240 that can be physically observed or measured. It's a matter of faith. It's a matter of our

00:46:59.040 Christian faith. I believe it, which tells us that all human beings are possessed of human worth and

00:47:05.260 dignity, that we're all created by God and loved by God. And that is a spiritual truth. That's a real

00:47:13.700 truth, but it's a spiritual truth. It's a deep spiritual truth. Outside of that, in all other

00:47:20.180 senses of the term, in terms of anything observable, anything physical, anything sort of practical,

00:47:26.400 there is no equality. The human beings are not equal. Cultures are not equal. And that does

00:47:34.920 matter. It matters in a lot of, there are real implications. So this is not, it's not academic,

00:47:43.560 right? Believing the myth that everyone's the same, everyone's equal, all cultures are equal,

00:47:50.320 that has real ramifications. We're living through them right now. When we disabuse ourselves of that

00:47:56.920 notion, when we do away with that myth, that has implications. And one of them can be seen in

00:48:05.140 particular when it comes to immigration. Because now you can look with honest eyes and see that,

00:48:11.340 okay, you got a bunch of people coming to this country. They're not all the same and they're coming 1.00

00:48:15.020 from different cultures and they're not all equal. All these cultures are not equal. 1.00

00:48:22.980 So, and all of that is, you know, it's just like, it's obvious, it's undeniable, but people feel that

00:48:31.220 they have to deny it for whatever reason. Let's see, Matt Walsh, how can you be so ignorant to at 0.97

00:48:37.960 least one quality Somalians can bring to the table? America has been sorely lacking in our piracy 0.98

00:48:41.940 abilities. When have you heard of a successful American piracy attempt? Think of it, a trade

00:48:46.880 school for piracy. Yeah, the Somalis do have that. They've got that. Well, they used to have that. 1.00

00:48:53.400 Piracy was at one point 15% of Somalia's GDP. Okay. 15% of their GDP was piracy. And now it's a lot

00:49:04.980 less because the civilized world got sick of it finally. And they allowed it for way longer. I mean,

00:49:11.940 the idea that like some Somalis on a, on a glorified canoe, right. Can, can just show up and like 0.99

00:49:22.040 hijack a cargo ship. It's crazy. It's crazy. This was ever allowed. It was ever tolerated. It never

00:49:26.760 had to be tolerated, but it was, it's not anymore. And, and so now Somalia's economy is even worse than

00:49:33.620 it was before because they don't have piracy. Now it's an agricultural economy, but they aren't very

00:49:38.900 good at agriculture either. So, uh, that's what it is now. Matt, I'm pretty optimistic. Our society

00:49:45.160 at some point soon will hit a critical mass. We'll reach a point of no longer tolerable, uh,

00:49:51.820 civilization-wide nihilistic despair, and we'll revolt to return to back to the world of analog

00:49:57.280 human-made art, music, and work. It'll be the new MAGA, make art great again. I hope you're right.

00:50:03.620 Uh, that's one way that this could go. Now that's, that is the more optimistic way.

00:50:10.500 And it's a bit of a morbid optimism because even in your version of events, right, it's, it, it requires

00:50:16.220 us to hit a rock bottom of, as you say, civilization-wide nihilistic despair. You know,

00:50:23.280 you said you're pretty optimistic. We're going to reach a point of civilization-wide nihilistic

00:50:27.420 despair. Uh, so that's, so we're good. That's happening. And it's happening right now.

00:50:34.780 And then the question is, how do we respond to it? And so that the optimistic view is that, well,

00:50:39.900 maybe people just reject all this technology. They get to a point where we say, you know what?

00:50:46.260 We don't want it. We want to have real human lives. And, uh, so no, so even though this technology

00:50:54.180 is available to us, even though we can go to chat GPT and just like generate whatever movie we want

00:50:59.980 to 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

00:51:07.240 that it will go that way. I, um, because there's no precedent for it. The precedent suggests that

00:51:14.780 whatever technology is available to us, we're just going to use. And not only are we going to use it,

00:51:19.640 we're going to allow it to take over our lives. We've already done that. I mean, people walk around

00:51:23.560 with their phones and they allow their phones to absorb their entire lives. People spend, you know,

00:51:29.600 13 hours a day on their phone, just doing nothing but staring at their phones. And so if there was

00:51:36.520 any capacity in the critical mass of people to reject this and return to, as you say, an analog life,

00:51:44.740 where we decide to live in, to live our physical lives, uh, and, and, and reject some measure of

00:51:52.760 the convenience that's, that is offered to us by these devices, like if, if that was, if that was

00:51:57.680 in the cards, it would be happening already. And it's not. Um, I think what experience shows us is

00:52:07.860 that convenience is the ultimate drug. It's, it's the ultimate kind of heroin that the critical mass,

00:52:15.980 and there are always going to be exceptions to this, but the critical mass of people just

00:52:19.640 aren't, aren't capable of turning it down. So no matter how much that convenience ultimately

00:52:28.880 harms them and, and makes them miserable. The name Velvet Sundown sounds like the ripoff of Velvet

00:52:36.560 Underground, which was a sixties independent music band. Well, of course it's a ripoff.

00:52:39.820 All AI is a ripoff. It's all plagiarism. It's all theft. AI cannot generate new ideas or original

00:52:46.220 concepts. All it can do is crib from what already exists. Uh, that's one of the many problems with

00:52:52.560 this technology. And I criticize the technology all the time. I always add the disclaimer. I don't,

00:52:57.640 I shouldn't need to keep adding it. Yes, there are legitimate uses of this technology. There are

00:53:02.960 potentially nearly miraculous uses of this technology. Uh, there might come, there might

00:53:12.220 come, come a time in the future where AI is used to cure cancer. I mean, all that stuff. And that's

00:53:17.760 all wonderful. But in many applications, I think that it's going to have a, and already is having an

00:53:26.360 incredibly corrosive and toxic effect on, on human life. Um, and so one of the, one of the many

00:53:32.680 problems with it is that, especially when it comes to anything creative, it's just pure plagiarism.

00:53:38.020 It's all it is. It's just stealing from things that have already been done and reassembling it.

00:53:44.800 Um, so, and it's not like a new interpretation. So here's the thing you could, okay. If, if we,

00:53:52.860 you go to chat GPT and I've done this, but everyone's experimented with this just to see how

00:53:57.820 it works. And you say, Oh, write me lyrics to this song, make me a poem, right? Whatever. Like

00:54:03.240 create some. And it's, it's pretty fascinating to see it just generate, like, no matter what the,

00:54:08.980 no matter how specific the prompt is, it'll generate something in a second.

00:54:15.620 But what's actually happening, even though it is seemingly impressive, it's a less impressive when

00:54:21.860 you realize what it's actually doing, which is that it's, it's a search engine basically. And

00:54:25.560 it's just stealing from a whole bunch of different bits and cobbling it together. And you could argue

00:54:29.960 that, well, all creative work is like that to some extent, right? That any movie that's produced

00:54:36.220 today has influences. You can, and many times those influences are very clear. Uh, any filmmaker

00:54:42.560 working today, any real human filmmaker is influenced by other things. And so the film that he creates

00:54:47.720 today is going to be a product of a lot of those different influences, but that's not plagiarism

00:54:53.260 in most cases, because that is a human mind that is influenced by things and taking ideas and

00:54:59.440 reinterpreting it, giving it his own spin, um, and then creating something new from his own mind.

00:55:06.060 That's, that's not plagiarism, but in order for it to not be plagiarism, there has to be that,

00:55:11.000 that human element of the reinterpretation, the thing where you take it, you say, yeah,

00:55:15.720 I'm taking this idea and I'm giving my own spin. I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm reinterpreting it.

00:55:21.600 AI is not doing that. AI can't do that because that requires a mind.

00:55:26.040 So it's not like when chat GPT makes you a poem, it's not, it's not taking from other poems that

00:55:31.640 already exist and then reinterpreting it. There's no reinterpretation. There's no mind there to do

00:55:36.460 the reinterpretation. It's purely just stealing. And that's all that's happening here.

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00:56:33.440 There's a little bit of good news that materialized in Washington late last night, or at least, uh,

00:56:38.680 it seemed that way at first and a 51 to 50 vote with JD Vance breaking the tie. The Senate voted

00:56:43.260 to advance a bill that would slash roughly $9 billion in federal spending on everything from

00:56:47.500 foreign aid to public broadcasting. It's a good start. Uh, although of course it doesn't go far

00:56:51.700 enough. Obviously we should eliminate all funding to propaganda outlets like NPR and PBS, along with

00:56:55.940 all of our funding for foreign countries, foreign aid in every case is either a fraud on the American

00:57:00.060 taxpayer or a way to launder money to intelligence agencies. Most of the time it's both, but even in the

00:57:05.380 absence of a total suspension of wasteful spending, which will probably never happen in our lifetime,

00:57:09.300 the bill that advanced in the Senate yesterday was, uh, still fairly encouraging, but there were

00:57:14.300 some unfortunate 11th hour changes to the bill. Turns out that several very important spending cuts

00:57:19.820 were eliminated at the last minute. And we can learn a bit about how Washington works. If we look at

00:57:25.520 some of these cuts in detail, additionally, if you can believe it, some brand new wasteful spending was

00:57:31.480 actually added to the legislation for the benefit of something called Native American radio stations.

00:57:37.320 Yes, they added pork to the big pork cutting bill. We cut funding for NPR, but we added millions of

00:57:43.320 dollars in funding for something called Native American radio. Watch.

00:57:47.980 So let's look at where this rescissions package we've been talking about stands right now. So originally

00:57:52.900 the proposal was for 9.4 billion with a B cuts overall, but now senators have drawn a line and it has been

00:58:00.600 reduced. Now the cut proposal is expected to be $9 billion. What has changed? Well, cuts have been

00:58:06.880 restored 400 million with an M in health global health funding. And especially that includes

00:58:12.640 PEPFAR, which of course is a global AIDS, HIV prevention and treatment program. Now, addition to

00:58:18.920 this, I want to make one smaller note. The white house also pledged a very small amount, relatively $9

00:58:24.120 million for native American radio stations. Why does that matter? They did that to win a vote. It is the vote

00:58:30.360 of this man, Senator Mike Rounds of South Dakota. Mike Rounds is a Republican. He represents South

00:58:37.380 Dakota in the Senate. And apparently, according to this reporting, he demanded nearly $10 million

00:58:41.060 in spending on a Native American radio station in order to win his vote for this bill. Again,

00:58:46.580 he demanded a payout for radio stations in order to vote for a bill that would cut wasteful spending

00:58:50.700 on radio stations, which is corruption, obviously. But his corruption made me want to answer a pretty

00:58:56.340 basic question, which is, what exactly is a Native American radio station? What kind of earth-shattering 1.00

00:59:00.880 content are they putting out? And how exactly does it benefit the United States? To answer that

00:59:07.060 question, I went on something of a internet safari. And here's what I found. Tonight, we're taking you

00:59:13.260 inside a one-of-a-kind radio station that's indigenizing the airwaves. The Daybreak Star Radio

00:59:18.080 Network launched just last summer here in Seattle.

00:59:20.120 It's elevating Native music from the Pacific Northwest and all over the world.

00:59:25.420 Kyra 7's Graham Johnson introduces us to some of the people behind this groundbreaking effort.

00:59:31.940 And you're listening to DJ Big Rez on Daybreak Star Radio.

00:59:37.660 DJ Big Rez is David Hilaire.

00:59:40.660 The salmon will run. The mountain will breathe. The rivers will flow.

00:59:45.320 A long-time DJ from the Lummi Nation, Big Rez is now heard around the world

00:59:50.460 on the Daybreak Star Radio Network.

00:59:53.240 Stand up with the First Nations and the people that have been living here for thousands of years.

00:59:59.040 To have a whole radio station just dedicated to, you know, Indigenous people, Native Americans,

01:00:04.860 is monumental, I think.

01:00:07.760 You heard it straight from the source. Big Rez is indigenizing the airwaves.

01:00:12.200 He's elevating Native music. It's a groundbreaking effort.

01:00:16.200 It's really monumental development.

01:00:18.700 This is the kind of innovation that apparently is worth subsidizing to the tune of $10 million.

01:00:22.500 But I have to confess that upon listening to that segment,

01:00:24.760 I wasn't impressed with the brief excerpts of content that they played from the radio station.

01:00:29.160 So I went looking for something slightly longer,

01:00:31.620 examples of what Native American radio is bringing to listeners in America.

01:00:35.160 Here's one of the songs that they're constantly replaying, apparently.

01:00:38.260 They call it a pipeline, but those on the front lines know

01:00:42.500 that Black Snake was sent for us to grow,

01:00:45.580 to shed the skin our ancestors pray, 0.99

01:00:48.220 of wounds old and calloused so that we may stay,

01:00:51.060 so that we may unite, unity our tool.

01:00:54.100 Stand up with the First Nations 1.00

01:00:57.200 and our people that have been living here for thousands of years.

01:00:59.660 Stand up!

01:01:00.740 We've been fighting for our freedom since the Nina and the Pinta and the Santa Maria. 0.71

01:01:04.320 Stand up!

01:01:05.380 Like Geronimo, Sitting Bull, Red Cloud, Crazy Horse, Leonard Paltier.

01:01:09.180 Stand up!

01:01:10.300 Now they're poisoning the waters for our sons and our daughters,

01:01:12.840 so we're on the frontier.

01:01:14.040 We want one nation, one cause, one people, one tribe.

01:01:17.680 Now it's us against the pipeline.

01:01:19.820 So there's the claim there that the pipelines are poisoning the water,

01:01:23.320 which they repeat constantly throughout the song.

01:01:25.140 It's a pretty great lyric, at least if you like lyrics,

01:01:27.680 that sound exactly like talking points from a Bernie Sanders stump speech.

01:01:31.380 Then there's my favorite line, quote,

01:01:32.500 We've been fighting for our freedom since the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria.

01:01:37.020 In other words, until Christopher Columbus arrived,

01:01:39.940 so-called Native people never once had to fight for their freedoms.

01:01:43.220 All the beheadings and tribal warfare were just par for the course.

01:01:47.500 But the moment Christopher Columbus arrived,

01:01:48.800 all of a sudden they had to fight for their freedoms,

01:01:50.940 and they're still fighting to this day.

01:01:53.660 Yes, they have the freedom to still steal millions of dollars from American taxpayers.

01:01:57.460 Yes, they have literally every other right that every other American has,

01:02:00.660 but according to this song, which, as anyone with ears will attest,

01:02:04.460 is as dreadful and embarrassing as a musical composition could possibly be,

01:02:07.880 the Indians are still fighting for their freedoms to this day. 0.99

01:02:12.160 And so this is the kind of garbage that we're still funding. 0.96

01:02:14.620 So if anyone ever tells you irony is dead, 0.97

01:02:17.440 tune your radio to Big Rez as he indigenizes the airwaves.

01:02:21.260 But as disgraceful as this display is, it's actually not the worst of it.

01:02:24.400 As you heard in that report, we also restored funding to AIDS prevention programs overseas,

01:02:29.640 even though those programs were originally supposed to be cut.

01:02:33.040 Here's the Daily Wire's reporting of what happened.

01:02:35.080 Quote,

01:02:35.500 A senior administration official told the Daily Wire that cuts to PEPFAR,

01:02:38.920 global health funding provided by the United States to combat AIDS and HIV,

01:02:43.620 were not impacting essential life-saving services.

01:02:46.340 America remains the most generous country in the world

01:02:48.140 because President Trump has a humanitarian heart,

01:02:50.360 and we urge other nations to dramatically increase their humanitarian efforts,

01:02:54.180 the official told the Daily Wire.

01:02:55.920 Official comments come as some media outlets, such as NPR,

01:02:59.340 have claimed the Trump administration is gutting AIDS relief.

01:03:03.540 So we're assured that Donald Trump has a humanitarian heart,

01:03:06.880 and therefore we need to continue spending millions of dollars on AIDS prevention in Africa,

01:03:12.100 which raises the question, which I think many people,

01:03:16.360 although we always hear about AIDS prevention efforts in Africa,

01:03:19.480 the question is, what does AIDS prevention look like exactly?

01:03:23.460 Here's how one activist describes the benefits of these programs.

01:03:27.120 Watch.

01:03:28.100 Winnie, you say that the risks are huge.

01:03:30.800 Can you put that in very real, practical terms?

01:03:33.940 What exactly does that mean?

01:03:36.820 Absolutely.

01:03:37.760 What we see now is that many clinics have been shut,

01:03:42.840 workers have been laid off,

01:03:44.500 and communities who had contracts to serve their own people in communities,

01:03:51.440 contracts were closed.

01:03:52.780 So now we see in many places fewer people showing up for a test,

01:03:59.840 fewer people coming to get what they need for prevention, like PrEP or condoms,

01:04:05.320 and so we see new infections rising.

01:04:07.820 So she's saying that America needs to continue paying for PrEP and condoms overseas,

01:04:13.360 or else a lot of people will die.

01:04:16.000 But actually, there's a much simpler solution here.

01:04:19.080 The only people who need to take PrEP and wear condoms in order to avoid contracting HIV

01:04:24.460 are people who are engaging in sexual activities that are likely to infect them with HIV. 0.99

01:04:29.440 In other words, we're talking mostly about promiscuous gay men. 1.00

01:04:35.800 I mean, all that's needed in reality is for these promiscuous gay men to stop behaving that way. 1.00

01:04:43.660 That's the solution. 0.99

01:04:45.460 That's how they can avoid contracting HIV.

01:04:48.760 We don't have to send them a dollar.

01:04:50.260 They can do it for free or not do it, as the case may be.

01:04:53.460 The thing is, no one at any point, and this is another controversial,

01:05:00.040 yeah, this is seen as greatly, it's, well, to question AIDS relief in Africa.

01:05:05.060 Who would do that? 0.94

01:05:05.980 You have to be a very cruel person.

01:05:08.200 And yet, no one at any point has explained exactly why it's our duty as Americans

01:05:14.240 to pay for the PrEP and condoms that are used by foreigners 1.00

01:05:18.520 who voluntarily engage in extremely dangerous sexual activities.

01:05:22.200 No one's explained why it's our responsibility as Americans

01:05:25.200 to facilitate the sexual activities of people in foreign countries.

01:05:33.280 I mean, it's crazy.

01:05:35.220 No one has answered this simple question.

01:05:37.980 Why shouldn't we cut AIDS funding for Africa and every other country on the planet? 1.00

01:05:42.900 Why exactly are American families held responsible to pay for HIV treatment for Africans,

01:05:48.300 especially preventative treatments,

01:05:49.620 which are designed so that these people can have risky sex without any fear of consequences?

01:05:56.400 It's a question.

01:05:57.420 It's not even a rhetorical question.

01:05:58.800 Why is it, you think about some, just any American family in Ohio somewhere sitting down for dinner,

01:06:06.620 and if you think that we need to have AIDS funding in Africa and other parts of the world,

01:06:11.640 what you're saying is that that family, because that's where the money comes from,

01:06:16.540 you're saying that family has an obligation to make sure that gay Africans don't get AIDS. 0.97

01:06:26.320 Why? 0.88

01:06:26.840 Why does that family have that obligation?

01:06:31.740 Says who? 0.65

01:06:34.660 Well, the answer to the question is pretty obvious, that we shouldn't pay for any of this.

01:06:38.400 It says Useless is subsidizing Big Res while he spins up indigenous remixes about pipelines and Christopher Columbus. 0.91

01:06:44.320 We elected Republicans so that they'd cut spending on anything that doesn't benefit American citizens,

01:06:49.760 and while there were useful cuts in the bill yesterday, there is still a lot more to be done,

01:06:55.160 and that is why funding for Native American radio and AIDS prevention in Africa is all today,

01:07:01.660 or should be anyway, canceled.

01:07:04.640 That'll do it for the show today.

01:07:05.480 Thanks for watching.

01:07:05.920 Thanks for listening.

01:07:06.420 Talk to you tomorrow.

01:07:06.960 Have a great day.

01:07:07.820 Godspeed.

01:07:08.140 Godspeed.

01:07:08.200 Godspeed.

01:07:08.260 Godspeed.

01:07:09.200 Godspeed.

01:07:10.200 Godspeed.

01:07:11.200 Godspeed.

01:07:12.200 Godspeed.

01:07:13.200 Godspeed.

01:07:14.320 Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - July 16, 2025

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