The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1626 - It’s Time To Put Barack Obama In Handcuffs

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, Tulsi Gabbard provides evidence of what she calls a treasonous

00:00:04.360 conspiracy by Barack Obama and his top officials. We'll go over the evidence today and then we'll

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00:02:04.580 slash Walsh. Around noon on Donald Trump's first inauguration day in January of 2017, while every

00:02:10.980 other Democrat in Washington was either destroying store windows or sobbing uncontrollably or a bit of

00:02:15.800 both. Barack Obama's outgoing national security advisor was hard at work. She logged onto her

00:02:21.180 computer and sent a lengthy email to her own government email account, even though very soon

00:02:26.640 she wouldn't be able to access that account. So yes, the national security advisor, Susan Rice,

00:02:31.440 wrote an email to herself. And to be clear, this email wasn't a reminder to pick up dog food at the

00:02:38.000 store or a motivational quote for herself as she headed towards unemployment or anything like that. 0.52

00:02:43.320 Instead, the email that Rice sent to herself amounted essentially to a lengthy statement claiming

00:02:47.980 that nobody in the Obama administration had committed any kind of treason whatsoever,

00:02:53.320 nor would they ever dream of doing such a thing. Why would you ask? In other words,

00:02:57.340 it was exactly the kind of email you'd send if you had just committed treason. Short of an outright

00:03:02.620 confession, it does not get any more incriminating or bizarre than this email. Just a few miles away,

00:03:09.320 at exactly this time, Donald Trump was taking the oath of office. Barack Obama was getting ready to

00:03:14.780 board a helicopter and leave Washington. The wailing Democrat lady from the meme was screaming in the 1.00

00:03:19.980 street, entering into eternal internet infamy. And contemporaneously with all of that, this is what

00:03:27.720 Susan Rice was sending to herself. The email describes a meeting that took place in the Oval Office

00:03:33.540 back on January 5th, in which several senior Obama administration officials met to discuss

00:03:39.420 Russian interference in the 2016 election. So for some reason, we're summarizing a meeting that took

00:03:45.680 place more than two weeks earlier. But here's what Rice wrote, quote, President Obama began the

00:03:51.800 conversation by stressing his continued commitment to ensuring that every aspect of this issue is

00:03:56.040 handled by the intelligence and law enforcement communities by the book. The president stressed that

00:04:01.400 he is not asking about initiating or instructing anything from a law enforcement perspective.

00:04:05.940 He reiterated that our law enforcement team needs to proceed as it normally would, by the book.

00:04:12.740 Now, shortly after the Trump administration declassified this email, it was obvious to everyone that

00:04:17.980 Susan Rice had written the document because, in fact, Barack Obama had not ordered the investigation

00:04:23.540 into Russiagate to be conducted by the book. Instead, he had done the opposite. He had invented

00:04:29.520 Russiagate out of whole cloth with the intention of sabotaging the incoming Trump administration and

00:04:34.600 discrediting the populist movement that Trump represented. And in an attempt to cover for her

00:04:40.820 boss, Susan Rice was engaging in some last-minute CYA. That's what this email is all about. After all, 0.99

00:04:45.720 if everybody was doing everything in accordance with the law, there'd be no reason to say that.

00:04:49.860 There'd be no reason to say twice, in fact, that this was by the book. It was by the book.

00:04:54.380 That's supposed to be the default assumption. It's a very bad sign when you have to note in

00:05:00.060 the official logs that you're totally not committing any crimes at all. But despite this

00:05:06.180 evidence and a lot of other evidence like it, no document directly linked Obama himself to the

00:05:11.460 creation of the Russiagate fraud. The evidence of Obama's involvement up to this point has been

00:05:16.720 overwhelming, but it's also been mostly circumstantial. That all changed on Friday when

00:05:22.180 Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard declassified hundreds of new documents

00:05:26.320 that leave no doubt about this. Obama deliberately orchestrated Russiagate and his top lieutenants

00:05:34.080 in the intelligence agencies, all of whom are now open partisan hacks, willingly carried out this fraud.

00:05:41.500 So this is one of the greatest crimes that a president has ever committed in this country. That's not an

00:05:47.660 exaggeration. As Gabbard put it, this is a, quote, treasonous conspiracy. And it is. The same people

00:05:56.760 who claim to care deeply about American democracy had, in fact, met in secret to begin a sustained

00:06:03.100 campaign to subvert and sabotage the will of the voters. Now, before we get into the new documents and

00:06:11.300 how they prove this conspiracy, we'll start with this news report, which I found while I was looking

00:06:16.160 through old footage from late 2016, this is how the Russiagate fraud began. Now, by now, we've all

00:06:23.020 probably blocked this period of time from our memories. So it's worth a quick look back to frame

00:06:28.020 what was happening. So this is footage from the Today Show on December 11th, 2016. Watch.

00:06:36.620 The election has been over for weeks, but this new report is raising questions about how the Russian

00:06:43.300 government may have interfered, not just in general, but specifically to help Trump win this

00:06:49.440 election. Trump is fighting back overnight, but members of his own party are promising that

00:06:55.480 they're going to keep digging into it. By the way, I don't need the hat either, right? Who wants a hat?

00:07:00.940 This morning, President-elect Donald Trump is at war with the intelligence community.

00:07:04.960 The Washington Post reported late Friday, the CIA thinks the Russian government interfered with

00:07:10.380 the US election to help Trump win by hacking emails from the Democratic Party and Hillary

00:07:15.440 Clinton's campaign chairman. The Trump campaign reacting to the report within minutes, dismissing

00:07:20.500 the claim, saying, quote, these are the same people that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass

00:07:25.480 destruction. This kind of coverage, as I probably don't need to remind you, was nonstop for the next

00:07:33.040 several years, and it had a very observable effect on tens of millions of people. There was a YouGov

00:07:37.480 poll that found in 2018 that, quote, 67% of Democrats believed it was definitely true or

00:07:42.760 probably true that Russia tampered with vote tallies in order to get Donald Trump elected.

00:07:47.920 This was the narrative that led to multiple criminal investigations that destroyed the lives of

00:07:52.040 several Trump advisors solely on the basis that they had supposedly lied to investigators who were

00:07:57.400 looking into a non-existent crime. And we can be sure that Russiagate, along with the

00:08:01.920 magic of untraceable mail-in voting, was a big part of the reason that Joe Biden ultimately became

00:08:07.000 president. All of that has been known for a while. What's new is the timeline that's created by

00:08:13.020 Gabbard's document, which directly implicates Barack Obama himself. Again, that clip I just

00:08:19.360 played is from December 11th, 2016. By that point, the leaks from the Obama administration about

00:08:23.900 Russia collusion were all over the media. Here's a document which was just unsealed by Gabbard,

00:08:29.360 dated December 8th of that same year. This is an email in which intelligence officials are

00:08:35.840 preparing the president's daily brief that's about to be sent to Barack Obama. And according to these

00:08:41.440 officials, as of December 8th of 2016, the conclusion is that, quote, Russian and criminal

00:08:46.700 actors did not impact recent U.S. election results by conducting malicious cyber activities against

00:08:52.020 election infrastructure. The officials say that the brief will be published the following day due to

00:08:57.100 high administration interest. Documents that were just declassified by Gabbard show that this was

00:09:03.900 not a new conclusion by the intelligence agencies. For months, in various internal emails and reports,

00:09:08.900 they had concluded that Russia did not have the capacity to hack the election in any way.

00:09:15.720 Here's just a small handful of those assessments from August. This is from August through early

00:09:21.260 December. And as you can see, the intelligence agencies were not talking about Russian Facebook

00:09:26.360 memes or Russian blackmail on Trump or WikiLeaks emails or anything like that. Instead, they were

00:09:33.320 assessing whether Russia had hacked voting machines or other U.S. infrastructure or had the capacity to do

00:09:40.280 so. And they concluded that it didn't. So really, this latest conclusion on December 8th of 2016

00:09:48.900 was just affirming their assessments from before the election. But interestingly enough, this president's

00:09:56.980 daily brief was never published. Within hours of the email about the draft daily brief, somebody at

00:10:02.700 the FBI said the agency would dissent from the conclusions in the draft of the presidential daily

00:10:07.760 brief. And then around the same time, the deputy director of the intelligence of the office of

00:10:11.080 national intelligence wrote, quote, based on some new guidance, we are going to push back publication

00:10:15.880 of the president's daily brief. At the time, it wasn't explained what this new guidance was or

00:10:22.240 where it came from. A day later, though, it was obvious to everyone what was going on. Obama assembled

00:10:28.020 all of his senior intelligence officials for a meeting, including James Clapper, John Brennan,

00:10:32.700 Susan Rice, John Kerry, Loretta Lynch, and Andrew McCabe. And all these people, of course,

00:10:38.300 are rabid left-wing activists. Immediately after that meeting concluded, the assistant to James

00:10:43.500 Clapper, the director of national intelligence at the time, sent this email to senior leaders of the

00:10:48.720 office of the director of national intelligence. And let's put that up on the screen. You can see it

00:10:52.900 here. The email is entitled, POTUS tasking on Russia election meddling. And right there in the email,

00:11:00.340 all of those senior officials are told to prepare, quote, an assessment per the president's request.

00:11:07.360 This is proof in writing that Obama personally directed all of the intelligence and national

00:11:11.860 security agencies, including the CIA, FBI, NSA, and DHS, to investigate Russian election interference

00:11:18.220 after they had indicated that Russia did not hack the election machines. Keep in mind, by this point,

00:11:25.560 Obama's director of national intelligence had already issued a statement about the DNC emails that were

00:11:30.680 released by WikiLeaks. The Obama administration concluded, probably fraudulently, that Russia had

00:11:35.800 orchestrated that hack. That was back in early October of 2016. And then after that statement,

00:11:41.300 the intelligence agencies went on to conclude that Russia didn't hack any election machines or

00:11:46.540 infrastructure whatsoever. So there was no need at this point for any additional investigation to

00:11:52.640 occur. The big fear of the intelligence community that Russia would somehow hack voting machines just

00:11:57.820 as easily as the DNC servers were supposedly hacked had turned out to be unfounded. But Obama wasn't

00:12:05.160 satisfied with that conclusion from the intelligence agencies. So here are the specific areas Obama told

00:12:12.260 them to go back and investigate. This is also from the Clapper email, quote, how did Moscow seek to

00:12:18.180 influence the U.S. presidential election 2016? What tools did they use? Then the email runs down

00:12:24.460 several domains of election interference, hacking, leaks, cyber activity, media spin, trolls, fake news,

00:12:31.740 domestic Russian intelligence efforts. Then it ends with this question. Why did Moscow direct these

00:12:38.100 activities? The prodding is pretty overt. Now the agencies are told to assume that Moscow directed all

00:12:47.040 these activities, including hacking and trolling. They're told to make this assumption, not because

00:12:53.020 of any evidence, but because the president told them to assume it, even though they knew at this point

00:12:59.580 that it wasn't true. All of a sudden, online trolling is something that the intelligence agencies are

00:13:04.920 supposed to take seriously and to present to the public as a vector of election interference.

00:13:12.200 Now, this was never a serious idea, but it didn't have to be. The absurd suggestion that trolling has

00:13:19.060 impacted the 2016 election would easily be laundered through the national news media. Within just a few

00:13:24.100 hours, the leaks began as Gabbard's report reveals the CIA went straight to the Washington Post and leaked

00:13:29.900 that the intelligence agencies had, quote, concluded in a secret assessment that Russia intervened in the

00:13:35.320 election to help President Trump. Yes, Russia intervened. Don't worry about how exactly. They

00:13:42.080 just intervened. We just know that they did. That reporting from the Washington Post led to the

00:13:48.780 footage from the Today Show that I played at the beginning of this segment, along with thousands of

00:13:55.200 reports like it. Russia had attempted through cyber means to interfere in, if not actively influence,

00:14:01.480 the outcome of an election is what the Washington Post claimed. Vladimir Putin became personally

00:14:07.580 involved in the covert Russian campaign to interfere in the U.S. presidential election, reported NBC

00:14:12.440 News, citing anonymous intelligence officials. So you see how all this works. The details of the

00:14:17.940 interference are left vague and unsubstantiated. It's something about cyber warfare, though, and that's

00:14:26.400 all they had to say. And from this point on, the floodgates were open. Within a few weeks, we saw

00:14:31.520 additional hysteria over the Steele dossier, which was an obvious fabrication with funding from the

00:14:37.140 Clinton campaign. And as all these leaks were underway and the hysteria was ramping up, Obama went out of

00:14:42.220 his way to promote the lie. On December 16, 2016, several days after he ordered the intelligence

00:14:47.480 agencies to commence the hoax, and after the frantic reports about Russian collusion had been

00:14:52.340 published in the Washington Post, Obama was asked directly about Russian interference in the 2016

00:14:57.840 election. Specifically, he was asked, did Clinton lose because of the hacking? Now, he had an opportunity

00:15:05.940 to explain that actually the intelligence agencies looked into this and they did not think that Russia

00:15:11.480 had interfered with the election. But instead, Obama strongly implied that there was hacking, even though

00:15:17.760 he knew that there wasn't, but that he couldn't talk about it because it was all classified. Watch.

00:15:24.140 Did Clinton lose because of the hacking?

00:15:28.120 I'm going to let all the political pundits in this town have a long discussion about what happened

00:15:35.580 in the election. It was a fascinating election, so I'm sure there are going to be a lot of books

00:15:39.940 written about it. We will provide evidence that we can safely provide, that does not compromise

00:15:53.700 sources and methods. But I'll be honest with you, when you're talking about cybersecurity,

00:16:02.440 a lot of it is classified and we're not going to provide it because

00:16:06.620 the way we catch folks is by knowing certain things about them

00:16:15.220 that they may not want us to know.

00:16:19.520 Now, a few weeks after this press conference, the intelligence agencies under Obama announced

00:16:23.320 that, quote, we assessed with high confidence that Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered

00:16:27.560 an influence campaign in 2016 aimed at the U.S. presidential election.

00:16:31.100 Put another way, Obama told the intelligence agencies to allege that Russia had impacted

00:16:38.180 the election one way or another. They could even say that trolling had impacted the election

00:16:44.060 if they wanted to. And indeed, the intelligence agencies, all of them run by lunatics who would

00:16:50.440 go on to become MSNBC personalities, did exactly what Obama asked them to do.

00:16:55.700 Now, this is about as overt and explicit as a conspiracy can be. Everybody involved in this

00:17:03.800 fraud knew exactly what they were doing. When given the opportunity to pull back, they kept

00:17:10.280 pushing the lie. They doubled down. Solely to undermine the incoming administration, Obama told

00:17:15.940 his deputies to go back to the drawing board to find some other way that Russia could have

00:17:21.240 influenced the election. Now, he knew that it was absurd to suggest that Trump had won because

00:17:26.300 Russia spent, you know, $100,000 on Facebook memes or that Russia wanted Trump to win because

00:17:31.320 they could blackmail him. He also knew there wasn't any real evidence that Russia had ever

00:17:35.700 hacked the DNC. But Obama knew that he didn't need to prove any of this. Instead, he could simply

00:17:42.060 order the intelligence agencies to start leaking about their phony investigation. The media would

00:17:46.980 just take it from there. Now, it's clear that Tulsi Gabbard understands all this, and

00:17:51.200 here's what she had to say the other day about it on Fox. Watch.

00:17:55.260 The implications of this are, frankly, nothing short of historic. Over 100 documents that we

00:18:02.120 released on Friday really detail and provide evidence of how this treasonous conspiracy was

00:18:10.360 directed by President Obama just weeks before he was due to leave office, after President Trump had

00:18:17.660 already gotten elected. This is not a Democrat or Republican issue. This is an issue that is so

00:18:23.260 serious it should concern every single American because it has to do with the integrity of our

00:18:28.760 Democratic Republic. What we saw occur here, as the documents we released detailed, was that we had a

00:18:35.400 sitting President of the United States and his cabinet and leadership team, quite frankly, who were not

00:18:40.240 happy with the fact that President Trump had won the election, that the American people had chosen

00:18:45.020 Donald J. Trump to be the next President, Commander in Chief of the United States. And so they decided

00:18:50.660 that they would do everything possible to try to undermine his ability to do what voters tasked

00:18:56.940 President Trump to do. Everything Tulsi just said is obviously true. This was a treasonous conspiracy.

00:19:03.300 It's in writing. It's all based on a fraud. That's why every single analysis that would follow, even the

00:19:10.520 Mueller report and even the bipartisan Senate report on election interference that liberals cite all the

00:19:16.080 time, failed to demonstrate that the Trump campaign had colluded with Russia or corrupted the election in

00:19:21.580 any way because it was all a fabrication. From the beginning, the objective of Russiagate was to spread

00:19:27.880 fear and uncertainty when it was all completely unfounded. If a Trump official spoke to a Russian or shared

00:19:36.360 publicly available polling data, it was supposedly proof that the election was was rigged. If a random person with a

00:19:44.000 bank account living within 5000 miles of Moscow spent 10 rubles to promote a gay Bernie meme on Facebook, then it was

00:19:51.240 more proof that the election was compromised. This was not insanity. This was not mass hysteria. This was

00:19:57.720 premeditated political sabotage. It was, as Tulsi Gabbard said, a treasonous conspiracy.

00:20:09.420 So, what then? What of it? What's next? That's the question.

00:20:21.240 The Trump administration is making a claim on the record about a criminal conspiracy at the highest

00:20:28.180 levels in Washington, D.C. to undermine Trump and subvert the will of the voters. And it's far from

00:20:34.760 the first criminal conspiracy that people in the Trump administration or Trump himself have claimed.

00:20:39.940 I believe them. I mean, I believe this conspiracy happened. The evidence is overwhelming.

00:20:44.260 So, what then? What will the consequences be? Right now, President Trump is making a bunch of

00:20:54.300 posts on Truth Social depicting Obama officials in orange jumpsuits. Tulsi Gabbard is doing

00:20:59.000 hits on Fox News and posting these threads on Twitter. They're sounding notes of indignation and outrage.

00:21:06.600 All that is fine. But none of that matters if they fail to actually go and make arrests. Barack Obama

00:21:16.580 himself should be in handcuffs. You cannot allege a treasonous conspiracy and then do nothing about it.

00:21:26.600 Now, if I seem a bit cynical here, the typical pattern by Republicans since forever is to make these

00:21:32.840 kinds of claims, but to make them only on social media and Fox News and to never actually bring it

00:21:37.600 to a court of law so the parties responsible can be held accountable for their crimes.

00:21:43.200 And I'm tired of it. I'm sick to death of it. Go arrest these people and bring them to justice.

00:21:52.500 Funny memes and outrage soundbites on Fox News are not going to cut it anymore. Go make an arrest.

00:22:00.200 Put somebody in prison. And if you won't do that, then what does any of this matter?

00:22:08.940 Why should we care about any of this if you won't follow it up by putting people in prison?

00:22:17.400 In fact, I'll say this. The consequences of these allegations from Tulsi must be one of two things.

00:22:24.760 Either top Obama officials are arrested or Tulsi Gabbard should be fired. Now, I like Tulsi.

00:22:36.760 I hope she's not fired. But the only valid reason to not make any arrests is if the claims that she 0.99

00:22:43.400 made are false. And if the DNI is falsely alleging treasonous conspiracies publicly, then clearly she

00:22:50.580 should be run out of town. But if what she's saying is true, and I believe that it is, as I just outlined

00:22:56.760 for 15 minutes, then failure to make arrests would make top Trump officials complicit in the conspiracy

00:23:04.540 after the fact. There is no legitimate reason to make no arrests if the claims are true. So

00:23:11.120 something must happen here. Someone has to be punished. Or else none of this means anything

00:23:17.680 at all. It's just fodder for cable news and nothing else. Go make an arrest. Put somebody

00:23:25.820 in handcuffs. Put Barack Obama in handcuffs. Not just in a meme, not in some AI-generated funny video.

00:23:33.000 But in real life. Now, they did it to Trump with far less justification.

00:23:39.840 So what are you going to do, Trump administration? What are you actually going to do about this?

00:23:47.200 Maybe something will happen, and I hope it does. But the pattern has always been that Republicans

00:23:53.100 allege high crimes and misdemeanors only to punish precisely no one for them and to hold no one

00:23:59.480 accountable in any way whatsoever. And this has to change. It has to change. Right now,

00:24:08.080 Democrats just spent years trying to imprison the President of the United States for fake crimes.

00:24:12.260 They pursued fake charges shamelessly and relentlessly for years. For once, Republicans

00:24:19.020 should apply that kind of intensity towards pursuing Democrats, including Barack Obama, who have

00:24:25.140 all clearly committed actual crimes. Enough with the tough talk. Go kick down some doors. It's time.

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00:27:11.840 big entertainment news. It was announced on Friday, I believe, that the Late Show with Stephen Colbert

00:27:16.780 is coming to an end. CBS is canceling Colbert and the whole Late Show franchise in May of next year.

00:27:24.540 So here is Stephen Colbert on the Late Show on Friday making the tragic announcement.

00:27:29.340 Oh, hey, everybody. We got a great show for you tonight. Senator Adam Schiff was my guest.

00:27:36.440 We harmonized on Seven Bridges Road. What a voice. I cried. But before we start the show,

00:27:42.680 I want to let you know something that I found out just last night. Next year will be our last season.

00:27:48.520 The network will be ending the Late Show in May. And yeah, I share your feelings. It's not just the

00:28:03.820 end of our show, but it's the end of the Late Show on CBS. I'm not being replaced. This is all just

00:28:09.500 going away. It's all just going away, he says. It's all just going away. And I'm going to, I for one,

00:28:14.860 I'm going to miss. I'm going to miss the show. I missed every single episode that's ever aired,

00:28:21.220 and I'll keep missing it. And now everybody will. Although everybody was already missing it,

00:28:27.360 which is sort of the whole problem. Now, naturally, the cancellation of Stephen Colbert was treated like

00:28:31.980 a national tragedy by the media and Democrat politicians. Colbert was the most overtly political

00:28:38.020 and left wing of all the late night hosts, which is saying a lot. So the left has been very upset

00:28:44.940 about it. And the other thing people have to understand is that when you're looking at the

00:28:50.180 reaction from the media to this and from Democrat politicians, and we're used to them being hysterical

00:28:56.180 about dumb things, they're even more hysterical about this than maybe you would expect. The reason

00:29:00.540 is that, uh, is, is very simply that Stephen Colbert would have those people look at any,

00:29:09.120 any Democrat politician or journalist news anchor who has expressed outrage and, and, and indignation

00:29:17.060 at the fact that Stephen Colbert shows it canceled. Look at any of them. Every single one of them

00:29:21.740 has, has been on Stephen Colbert show. He would have them on his show. They, he treated them like

00:29:27.160 celebrities. And that's why they're really so upset about it is that this, this was their one

00:29:33.880 opportunity to sit, you know, to go on a late night show and be treated like a celebrity.

00:29:39.060 Somebody on X said that Elizabeth Warren, for example, who was of all the elected Democrats is

00:29:44.380 maybe the most upset about this. And Elizabeth Warren had been on the late show interviewed by

00:29:51.560 Colbert like 14 times or something crazy. I don't know if it was a bunch of times, Elizabeth Warren,

00:29:56.500 Elizabeth Warren has been on this late night comedy show, not just once, but multiple times.

00:30:05.480 Now Letterman and Leno back in the old days, what qualifies as the old days. Now they used to

00:30:11.060 interview big popular movie stars and musicians. And meanwhile, Stephen Colbert was interviewing

00:30:16.800 Elizabeth Warren once a week. And then on other days, he'd have some random CNN reporter that nobody's 0.65

00:30:22.780 ever heard of or cares about. And that explains both why the show is canceled and also why the media

00:30:28.700 and these politicians are so heartbroken about it. Um, because now they don't get to pretend to be

00:30:33.820 celebrities anymore, which is what they all want to be. That's what they all actually want to be.

00:30:38.220 There's a lot of speculation that Colbert got canned by CBS for criticizing Trump too much,

00:30:43.700 which is, I mean, total nonsense, obviously for a lot of reasons, starting with the fact that they're

00:30:50.480 letting him stay on for almost a year. Okay. So if you've got any kind of conspiracy theory about why

00:30:55.080 they're canceling the show, well, if, if you're, if you're firing somebody because you don't like what

00:31:00.800 they're saying, if you're, if you're firing them because you're trying to silence them,

00:31:04.220 you're not going to give them another year on the air. It's like when you're firing someone,

00:31:11.000 uh, especially if you want to silence them, you fire them and they're gone.

00:31:17.300 So I guess the theory here is that they're silencing him, but they're going to give them

00:31:20.060 another, they're going to get another year on the air to, you know, with nothing to lose now to,

00:31:24.820 to, uh, continue criticizing Trump. It doesn't make a lot of sense. No, he got, he didn't get fired

00:31:30.600 for that. Um, mostly because criticizing Trump is about the safest thing that somebody in Colbert's

00:31:37.120 position can do. Oh, he got fired because apparently the show costs more than a hundred

00:31:41.300 million dollars to make a year and was losing $40 million a year. Now, how in God's name can you

00:31:50.820 manage to spend a hundred million dollars a year on a show where people sit in chairs and talk? I have

00:31:57.140 no idea. Where's that money going? Like, what were they doing with it? Were they paying audience

00:32:04.680 members 50 grand a piece to show up every night? I mean, that would explain how they managed to fill

00:32:11.280 the room every night, I suppose, but I don't know. Did, did they have, do they have a furnace in the

00:32:15.940 basement where they're literally burning pallets of cash to keep the place warm? I don't know.

00:32:22.040 Uh, I'm not sure. Colbert's exorbitant salary is part of the expense. We know that. And the other

00:32:29.260 problem to go along with the production costs is that ratings for the late show and late night shows

00:32:32.620 in general are way, way down from what they used to be, uh, way down. Like these late night shows

00:32:39.200 have never cost more money to produce and they've never produced lower ratings. And that is a very

00:32:44.240 bad combination. If you want to keep your job, you know, but, but the cost of having you around is

00:32:50.920 going like this while your production's going like that. That's, that's not a good combination.

00:32:55.240 That doesn't give you a lot of leverage. So, uh, why are the ratings down? Well, there's,

00:33:01.580 you know, there's the obvious reason, especially for Colbert. He's a partisan hack and ideologue,

00:33:05.940 a guy that never even tried to appeal to about half of the country. He was essentially,

00:33:11.420 you know, he's essentially Rachel. He was a, he was a feminine version of Rachel Maddow. 0.84

00:33:16.460 Okay. He was like the womanly version of Rachel Maddow. And there are many examples of this that

00:33:21.880 have been sort of circulating online. People are going down memory lane, remembering what a,

00:33:26.660 what a hack Colbert was probably the most infamous example, which is also one of the most humiliating

00:33:32.420 moments in the history of broadcast television is of course, when he would dance around on stage,

00:33:38.040 which I think was a recurring bit, if you could even call it that, but he would dance around on stage

00:33:42.920 back in, you know, 21, 22 as a tribute to the COVID vaccine. Let's watch that again.

00:33:50.460 The vaccine.

00:34:12.920 Now, if I were Stephen Colbert and there was video of me doing something as humiliating as that,

00:34:33.880 you would not need to fire me because I would have already, I would have performed,

00:34:40.300 you know, Harakiri to atone for my sins and to preserve my family's honor. That that's what,

00:34:47.160 and if Colbert did that, by the way, I'm not, I'm not advocating for, I'm not advocate, but if he did

00:34:50.920 that, all I'm saying is that it would easily be the highest rated late show episode, at least since

00:34:57.680 Letterman left. I mean, you could argue that that should be like, maybe that's, maybe that should just

00:35:04.900 be the tradition. Is that when your late night talk show comes to an end, you have to perform,

00:35:09.960 uh, you know, Japanese style ritualistic suicide on air. I, I, I'm not advocating. I'm just saying 0.89

00:35:15.980 that there's, there's some people who would say that that's, that that would be an interesting way

00:35:19.540 to wrap things up. Not me though. I would not support that anyway. So, but this still is not the

00:35:25.400 full story. It's not just that Colbert is a partisan tool. It's also that he's just not funny.

00:35:30.080 The show isn't funny. Late night shows in general aren't funny and politics aside,

00:35:36.660 because conservatives tend to focus on, Oh, they were, it was so partisan. It was,

00:35:40.920 that's not just it. I mean, you can, you can be partisan and still be funny. You could,

00:35:45.440 I mean, it's, it's possible to like be, be an ideologue. So you're, you're only making jokes

00:35:51.960 about one side, but you're also funny. It is possible to do that, but these shows have just

00:35:58.420 forgotten how to be funny entirely. Uh, so for example, I saw somebody posted this, I forget who

00:36:03.180 making the point that if you want to know why late night shows are tanking, this video I'm about to

00:36:10.560 play is a good example. And this is a very, this is like a recent skit. I think it's from

00:36:14.560 the last couple of days. It was from last week skit. I don't know, whatever you call it.

00:36:19.620 And it's from, uh, it's from the tonight show. It's not from the late show, but it just goes to

00:36:26.200 show how abysmal the comedy has gotten in the late night world. If you don't watch these shows at all,

00:36:31.320 as I don't, because I'm under the age of 70, which by the way was, that was the, the average age of a

00:36:37.560 Colbert show viewer was about 70. I think it was 68. So when he came on, the average age was 60,

00:36:46.820 which was already too old. And so CBS brought Colbert on. Cause they're thinking like, okay,

00:36:52.200 well the idea is that you're going to make the average age of our viewer go down. We'd like for

00:36:56.660 the average age to be like 45, maybe that's right in that key demo. That's what we want.

00:37:02.160 And it went the other way. Now the average age is 68. Okay. But, um, so if you're not in your

00:37:09.280 seventies and you probably don't watch these shows and you don't realize just how bad it's gotten.

00:37:13.900 And I think that this will, will show you, okay, this, this is, this will be revelatory.

00:37:20.300 So this is a, the, the latest comedy skit from Jimmy Fallon over on the tonight show. Watch this.

00:37:26.900 I'm in my jorts. I'm in my jorts. I'm in my jorts shorts. I'm in my jorts. Jeans shorts. That means

00:37:40.480 jorts. My name's Carl and I wear jorts. I like all sorts of racket sports. Jorts. I got my jorts shorts

00:37:48.560 on the court. I'm in my jorts. I'm in my jorts. Jeans shorts. That means jorts. My name's Tony

00:38:04.580 and I wear jorts while I'm giving book reports. Jorts. I got my jort shorts and I'm smart.

00:38:12.300 Yeah. You, you watch that and you have to ask, why does that exist? Why does that exist?

00:38:23.100 And I'm not even saying, oh man, that was weird. That was so bizarre.

00:38:28.480 That's the reaction we're supposed to have. We're supposed to think that it's quirky and random.

00:38:32.540 We're supposed to think that, uh, oh, look at this. This is eccentric. It's trying to be that,

00:38:39.260 but it's not because this is a product. This is this, what you just saw there. This is the product

00:38:45.820 of a bunch of hacky, bad millennial writers sitting around in a room trying to think of something quirky 0.91

00:38:56.080 that two, uh, Gen X past their prime comedians can do to appeal to zoomers on Tik TOK, even though

00:39:03.900 their actual audience is baby boomers. Okay. That's the, so that's, that's how all the generations 0.96

00:39:08.840 are implicated. This, that's the weird, that's the weird calculus that you've got millennial writers,

00:39:15.660 Gen X past their prime comedians trying to do stuff that appeals to zoomers, even though really the 1.00

00:39:21.080 audience are boomers. Okay. That's what this is. And, um, and it just fails across the board. 0.80

00:39:25.980 It's unfunny, witless, not charming, not interesting, dumb, dumb in the worst kind of

00:39:31.320 way, dumb and contrived at the same time, worst of all worlds. If you're going to be dumb, at least

00:39:36.560 be unique, but dumb and contrived, dumb and tired, dumb and lame at the same time. And why are they

00:39:43.100 trying to do viral skits to appeal to zoomers in the first place? Because the only people watching 1.00

00:39:47.540 broadcast TV, especially late night shows are again, boomers. So even if you succeed and you come up 1.00

00:39:55.200 with some viral hit on Tik TOK, it doesn't actually translate into audience. And that's the quandary.

00:40:01.440 Right. That's the, if you're going to do anything, if you're going to create any kind of anything

00:40:05.900 creative, you have to be able to say who you have to be able to answer the question, who is this for?

00:40:12.980 You hope that like anybody will enjoy it, but who is it primarily for? Who's your audience?

00:40:17.540 And I think with these late night shows, they just have no idea anymore who their audience is or who

00:40:22.820 this is for. Now there were rumors all last week that some media outlet was working on some kind

00:40:31.880 of explosive report relating to Trump and his ties to Epstein. And then on, I guess it was Thursday

00:40:39.220 night, the explosion allegedly came, right? The wall street journal came out with this report and,

00:40:48.420 um, you know, to read from Colin Ruggs report on X right now, it says the wall street journal

00:40:52.400 releases an alleged letter from Donald Trump to Jeffrey Epstein for Epstein's 50th birthday.

00:40:57.740 President Trump, um, says the letter is a fake thing. The letter allegedly involved a hand-drawn

00:41:04.780 woman with text that read, uh, happy birthday and may every day be another wonderful secret. 0.99

00:41:13.060 So this is, this is some kind of birthday note supposedly that Trump sent Epstein 20 plus years

00:41:17.820 ago. There's also a really weird dialogue or script or something that they're claiming Trump wrote,

00:41:23.980 depicting himself and Epstein having some sort of cryptic ominous conversation where they reference

00:41:30.560 secrets and enigmas. And then there's this doodle, this picture that Trump wrote, uh, drew of a woman.

00:41:39.160 Now, notably there's no screenshot of the actual letter. There's no image, no proof.

00:41:48.220 They saw the letter supposedly, but they didn't take a picture of it,

00:41:51.000 which means that there's no way because the letter was signed supposedly. So we should be able to look

00:41:56.800 at it and, and, you know, have, be able to analyze the handwriting at least, but we can't do that

00:42:03.000 because there's no image. There's no picture of the letter. So we just got to take their word for it.

00:42:08.660 And of course I do not take their word for it. Uh, not for a single second. I don't think anyone

00:42:13.940 really bought this, which is why this whole thing fizzled in a couple of days. This was supposed to be

00:42:20.140 the big bombshell, right? And by, by Saturday, I like nobody was talking about it anymore. So it's just

00:42:25.760 pathetic all around, completely fake. Clearly. Uh, it doesn't sound like Trump. It doesn't make

00:42:30.820 any sense. I mean, none of it makes any sense. It doesn't make sense that they didn't take a

00:42:36.080 picture of the letter. It doesn't make any sense that this thing has existed supposedly for 20 years

00:42:40.240 and hasn't come up before. Trump's been on the political scene for a decade. He's run for office

00:42:50.340 three times. He's won twice. And yet this, this letter of where Trump wrote to a famous sex trafficker

00:42:58.720 and said, you know, Hey, let's, let's make sure we keep all of our secrets. Somehow that letter

00:43:06.820 never, no one ever thought to mention that before. So it's all nonsense and, um, not much more to say

00:43:14.060 about it than that. I suppose this is not how people talk to each other. If they actually have

00:43:18.380 dark secrets, I would think like, if you're a powerful person with dark secrets, I would,

00:43:26.300 I would assume, I would assume that I've never been in the smoky dark rooms where they have these

00:43:31.960 conversations, but I would assume it's, this is not what you do. Like you're not going to write a

00:43:36.620 letter that says, Hey, how about all those evil secrets? Huh? Let's hope no one finds out about those.

00:43:42.800 Am I right? Hey, do you like this picture of a naked woman I drew? It's a, it's just makes no

00:43:51.480 sense. It goes back to my point that I made back when Elon accused Trump of being in the Epstein

00:43:55.620 files. And as critical as I had been towards Trump over the Epstein stuff, I have never bought that

00:44:01.640 Trump himself is criminally implicated. Uh, that's never made any sense to me because if that were the

00:44:08.700 case, there is just no way, I'm sorry, there is no way in hell, there is no possible way that they

00:44:14.340 wouldn't have used that against him by now. Like it's just not, but it's not possible that he could

00:44:20.900 run for president three times and they had this on him and it never came out. Um, if they had the

00:44:28.920 slightest evidence that Trump, you know, abused minors on Epstein Island, then that evidence would

00:44:35.140 have made it into the public domain years and years and years ago. So there's no way they sit on

00:44:39.700 it. Not remotely plausible. Um, a lot to criticize, I think with the way the Epstein files have been

00:44:46.680 handled. And there's a lot, you could speculate about why they've been handled this way, but this

00:44:50.600 is not it. I don't believe that for a second. All right. Finally, we'll, uh, mention this briefly.

00:45:03.400 The WNBA all-star game happened on Saturday. Of course you didn't know one, you didn't know that

00:45:08.740 nobody knew that, but you know, the WNBA all-star game is a bit like, it's like talking about

00:45:13.680 the best dressed person at Waffle House or something. It's like the best dressed

00:45:18.360 Waffle House customer is, is that's about on par with saying you're an all-star of the WNBA.

00:45:24.680 Very low bar. Um, in WNBA's case, they, they don't have any all-stars except one. They have

00:45:30.160 Caitlin Clark and who I, who I think wasn't even playing. I don't think, maybe I'm wrong about that,

00:45:36.300 but nobody cares about any of the rest of them or even knows who they are, but that didn't stop them

00:45:42.540 from taking the court in this attire. Uh, here it is. Check it out.

00:45:58.860 So the shirts say, pay us what you owe us.

00:46:03.480 Which I actually thought was, was pretty admirable and selfless because these ladies are 1.00

00:46:12.360 volunteering to work for free. It would seem, um, that's cause that's what that means with one

00:46:18.040 exception. That is what they're owed. Nothing less than actually they're owed. They should be paying

00:46:24.240 to play. They should be, they should have to pay their way in like it's a little league,

00:46:27.800 right? That's, that's how it should go because the WNBA loses tens of millions of dollars a year 1.00

00:46:33.940 every year. It's propped up by the NBA, as most people know by now. And that's still the case,

00:46:38.540 even with record levels of interest in the sport due entirely and solely to Caitlin Clark, still

00:46:45.480 the league loses money by the truckload. It lost $50 million last year on a record year for ratings.

00:46:55.020 So what does that tell you? So how much are the rest of these ladies worth as basketball players? 1.00

00:47:05.320 Literally nothing. I mean, not a dime that Caitlin Clark should be, I mean, she really should be,

00:47:11.920 should be getting paid many millions of dollars, not because I'm interested in watching, but just

00:47:16.420 because the fact that she's been able to generate any interest in the WNBA is a, I mean, you could argue

00:47:23.600 it's one of the most impressive feats in human history. I don't, I didn't think it was, I honestly

00:47:27.540 didn't think it was possible. I didn't think it was possible that anyone could generate even the

00:47:33.220 slightest interest in the WNBA and she's generated a little bit. And so I think that that is, I mean,

00:47:37.900 that is really moving a mountain. Um, so she should, they should pay her, you know, exorbitant sums, 1.00

00:47:44.800 but for all the rest of them, it should be like Caitlin Clark has paid whatever, I don't know,

00:47:48.740 20 million a year. And the rest of them, actually the rest of them should be really what it should

00:47:53.920 be is that all the other WNBA players are paying Caitlin Clark. They should all be, there should be 0.74

00:47:59.220 a pool, right? There should, they should all be putting money in a pool. Uh, and then it all goes

00:48:03.780 to Caitlin Clark as tribute. That's what it should be. But you know, they demand raises anyway, which is

00:48:11.460 a, which is a common problem. Of course, people who bring nothing to the table and contribute nothing at

00:48:16.040 all still want to get paid like they do. Uh, they still want raises. You know, I hear this from

00:48:22.260 employers all the time, this complaint that, I mean, people have always done this since time

00:48:29.280 immemorial for as long as there have been anything like jobs people. But I think these days it's worse

00:48:33.780 than it's ever been that people just have absolutely no clue what they're worth in the context of their

00:48:40.460 profession. Okay. As a human being, you have infinite value. You're a, you're a child of God.

00:48:46.820 Sure. Uh, you can't put a price tag on a person as a person, but in your job, there is a price tag

00:48:53.160 and you got a lot of people in the working world these days. Um, in, in all professions really just

00:48:59.780 have no, I, no concept of what they're actually worth. And here's what you have to be able to do.

00:49:06.400 You got to be able to do kind of the theoretical math and you have to say, okay, if I wasn't here,

00:49:16.320 right in this organization, what would happen? What would happen to this organization if they

00:49:24.280 didn't have me? Right. And in Caitlin Clark's case, her departure would be devastating to the

00:49:30.760 organization. It would be a, it would be a catastrophe. It would be the apocalypse. Um,

00:49:34.760 if Caitlin Clark were to leave. And if that's the case for you and your job, then you have leverage.

00:49:39.800 I mean, you've got a ton of leverage and then you can kick down the door and march in there and say,

00:49:45.080 Hey, pay me what I'm owed. You can do that because you have immense value in the context of, of the

00:49:51.880 organization where you work. Uh, but unfortunately for literally every other player in the WNBA, 1.00

00:49:58.020 if they left, nothing would happen. I mean, not a single thing would happen. It would have no effect

00:50:04.120 at all. They'd be replaced by somebody else and that would be it. Um, so they have no leverage.

00:50:09.580 And it just astounds me to see the number of people. It's not just the WNBA again, who have,

00:50:15.300 who have no concept of this, no idea how to reasonably and honestly assess their own professional

00:50:19.900 value. I saw a tweet with like 60,000 likes that said, and I'm not, this is not a, this is what it

00:50:26.480 said that, um, basically the WNBA player salaries shouldn't have anything to do with the profits they

00:50:38.300 generate. I don't have the tweet in front of me. It was like 60,000 likes saying that, you know,

00:50:43.780 the profit that for the business you work for is not your problem. It shouldn't have anything to do.

00:50:49.180 It shouldn't have anything to do with your salary. It's just, it's, it's delusional. It's a totally

00:50:55.820 delusional attitude that people have. And, uh, they're living in a fantasy land. People like they're

00:51:00.180 walking around on a permanent 24 seven acid trip. And you see this anywhere you work. You see these

00:51:06.480 useless people who expect to get paid and promoted, no matter how little they contribute.

00:51:12.460 On the other hand, you work with some people, right? The Caitlin Clarks. And you're like, man,

00:51:18.340 this, we can't lose this person. Don't leave us. Please don't leave us. But then there are other

00:51:24.660 people who, for them, it's like they could leave. And I don't, we wouldn't know why you like they could

00:51:30.620 not be here. They could evaporate and I'm not, it would change nothing. We wouldn't even,

00:51:35.100 it's like office space, right? You could be working that we wouldn't even know that you were

00:51:38.460 gone. Um, and yet it's often the people in the latter category who go around talking about what

00:51:44.120 they're owed. That's the, so that, that's the thing. It's the people that that's why, and there

00:51:49.720 was a, there was a clip from some other WNBA player, some salty player who, uh, said that

00:51:54.940 talking about the shirts and they're really proud of the fact that they wore the shirts that say,

00:51:58.820 pay us what you owe us. And there was some WNBA player again, I don't have the clip. It doesn't

00:52:03.560 matter who said, uh, said, well, you know, I'm not tattletaling, but, uh, team Clark,

00:52:09.820 Caitlin Clark's team, they weren't really on board with the shirts. Like they didn't really

00:52:13.520 want to do, they weren't excited about wearing the shirts. Now I think Caitlin Clark did put 0.99

00:52:18.640 on the shirt ultimately. Um, and she's, you know, cause she, she's, she's no courageous

00:52:23.780 hero herself, by the way, she's, she's paid the tribute many times, the woke tribute. She's

00:52:27.560 bowed to the mob and all of that. Um, and it looks like she did that in this case.

00:52:33.560 But do you know why Caitlin Clark wasn't excited about wearing the shirt according

00:52:39.060 to you? Cause she doesn't need to. Okay. Only the people who are, who are owed nothing

00:52:44.920 and worth nothing need to put on the shirt saying, pay us what you owe us, right? It's

00:52:51.660 the most useless people who go around constantly talking about what they're owed. That's the

00:52:57.600 number one way to know if somebody is useless is if you constantly hear them talking about

00:53:03.320 what they are owed. Okay. There's this inverse correlation between how often you talk about

00:53:10.600 what you're owed and what you're actually owed. Now, if you have great value in your profession,

00:53:18.620 then you need to advocate for yourself. So sometimes those are conversations you need to have,

00:53:23.280 but you, you shouldn't, you shouldn't need to be constantly saying it. If you're a real

00:53:28.600 contributor, you, you, you, you don't have to constantly do it because your work speaks

00:53:33.100 for itself. Caitlin Clark, what she should have done. And she just doesn't have the guts

00:53:36.260 to do this, but she should have been the only one not wearing that shirt. Cause her thing 1.00

00:53:40.780 is like, Hey, I'll, I'll, I'll let my play on the courts be. I don't need to put this

00:53:44.280 dumb shirt on. Okay. I'm not going to join all you people with this, with your dumb,

00:53:48.540 stupid shirt. I'll go out and contribute. Okay. I'll, I'll make myself undeniable. I will

00:53:53.720 be undeniable in the way that I, uh, in, in the way that I conduct myself in the way that

00:53:58.480 I perform and produce. It's only the people who do nothing, you know, and then you hear

00:54:05.100 these people say everywhere I work, everywhere I go, I'm never paid what I deserve. Nobody

00:54:10.460 appreciates me. I'm always taken advantage of. Well, it's cause you're useless. Okay. That that's

00:54:15.880 why. Okay. Every, everywhere you go, every relationship I'm in, it never works out.

00:54:20.420 Everyone's always backstabbing me. Everyone, I know no one's night. It's cause you're a

00:54:24.820 terrible person. You're awful to be around. You do nothing. And you're a loser. That's

00:54:29.340 why nothing works for you in your life. No one wants to be around you. No one wants to

00:54:32.920 pay you. No one wants to be in a relationship with you. Like it's because of that. It's cause

00:54:36.100 you're a loser. You're awful person. And you are the common denominator in this life of

00:54:40.700 you've made for yourself. And so get it together and, uh, and stop complaining.

00:54:45.880 That's, that's the message. That's my general message. It's also a message to

00:54:49.980 the WNBA players who are not named Caitlin Clark. All right, let's get to the daily cancellation.

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00:56:01.400 It was the kiss cam scene around the world. As everyone in America and every other country on

00:56:08.060 earth knows by now, the CEO of a tech company called Astronomer, Andy Byron, was caught on the

00:56:13.780 Jumbotron at a Coldplay concert in a romantic embrace with the head of his HR department,

00:56:17.500 Kristen Cabot. Both of them are married, just not to each other. Although we can expect that their

00:56:22.640 marital statuses may be rapidly changing after this video went mega viral, massively, massively viral.

00:56:28.280 We haven't seen anything this viral since Hawk Tua. Okay. This is, this is Hawk Tua territory.

00:56:33.260 And, uh, that's how viral went over the weekend. And here it is. If somehow you've managed to not

00:56:38.400 see it, I'm going to ruin that streak for you now. Watch. Yeah. Oh, look at these two. All right.

00:56:44.480 Come on. You're okay. Oh, what? Either they're having an affair or they're just very shy.

00:56:51.060 Absolutely shameful display. Uh, it is just shocking and incomprehensible that two people

00:57:01.360 would go to a Coldplay concert. Uh, and now I know that a million people have already made that joke,

00:57:07.780 but as a dad, I have no aversion to repeating worn out jokes. As anyway, as you saw, they were

00:57:13.560 caught cuddling up to each other and then panicked when the camera panned to them. Andy hit the deck like

00:57:19.080 somebody just threw a grenade. Kristen turned away and covered her face, but it was too late.

00:57:23.080 I mean, the train had left the station along with half of their net worth in the divorce settlements.

00:57:27.880 Granted, there is no good way to react when you end up on the Jumbotron at a Coldplay concert,

00:57:32.140 hugging the coworker you're having an affair with. But of all the bad options, these two chose the

00:57:37.840 absolute worst one. Now, if only they'd practiced improv or something, then they might've thought to

00:57:43.700 pretend like Kristen was choking and Andy was doing the Heimlich. Maybe she could have pretended that 0.80

00:57:49.300 she passed out from sheer boredom. It is a Coldplay concert after all. Andy was dragging her out to

00:57:54.100 receive medical attention. Any of those tactics or any other tactic at all would have been better.

00:58:00.560 Now I'm making jokes and so is the rest of the planet. And rightfully so. These two did something

00:58:06.420 evil and shameful and they did it brazenly in public in an arena surrounded by thousands of people.

00:58:11.720 And now they're experiencing the consequences. And there is something incredibly absurd about

00:58:17.680 the whole thing, which makes the jokes justified and inevitable, if not perhaps very nice. But

00:58:23.780 amid all the mockery, we should not lose sight of the fact that we're talking about adultery and

00:58:29.560 adultery is incredibly harmful and deeply wicked. That's why when this first went viral, I responded

00:58:36.520 on X with a take that will surprise nobody in my audience. I said that adultery ought to be

00:58:41.700 against the law. There should be not just personal and professional, but legal repercussions as

00:58:47.040 well. This is the kind of statement that shocks and appalls the modern mind, but would not have

00:58:52.260 shocked or appalled anyone in the world until very recently. Laws against adultery were commonplace for

00:58:57.780 centuries everywhere. And I'm not saying that we should criminalize adultery solely for that reason. But

00:59:03.320 when the voices of our ancestors speak up unanimously on a subject, it's wise to at least listen to them.

00:59:12.820 Maybe everybody in the world was wrong for thousands of years until you came along. I mean,

00:59:16.600 it is possible they had, they were wrong about certain things, but there's a very good chance

00:59:21.300 that they had a very good reason for approaching things the way they did. In the case of criminalizing

00:59:25.440 adultery, the reason is exceedingly clear. It's quite simple. Adultery is a deeply evil act that

00:59:33.900 causes grave harm to other people, namely your spouse, your children, your family, and to a lesser,

00:59:40.900 though still very real extent, especially in this case, your friends, your colleagues, and your

00:59:45.440 community. Now, I would argue that if an act is A, deeply evil, which adultery is, and B, it causes

00:59:53.500 grave harmed innocent third parties, which adultery clearly does, then by definition, it should be

00:59:58.600 illegal. Laws quite literally exist to prohibit such behavior, which is why I could provide a

01:00:04.740 laundry list of things that are an order of magnitude less harmful than adultery that are

01:00:09.760 nonetheless illegal and should be. Things like shoplifting, littering, obvious examples, but even

01:00:15.660 something like assault, you know, walking up to a stranger and punching him in the face is clearly,

01:00:20.840 in my mind, less evil and usually less harmful than adultery. With adultery, you're destroying the

01:00:27.580 lives of the people closest to you in the world. With the punch in the face, in this example, you're

01:00:32.460 causing probably temporary physical damage to a stranger. So if the latter is obviously illegal,

01:00:38.440 then how much more obvious is it, or should it be, for the former? In any case, this is what I wanted

01:00:46.080 to talk about for our daily cancellation, and I guess I already have talked about it for a while

01:00:50.420 at this point, but the conversation took an interesting turn because of some of the feedback

01:00:56.220 to my post. A number of men, including some prominent ones, responded that my idea is bad,

01:01:03.180 not because adultery is okay universally, but because it's okay specifically for men. This is the point that

01:01:10.820 Andrew Tate made in a reply to me on X. It's worth responding in some depth because his perspective

01:01:16.460 on marriage and family life has proven, we must admit, quite appealing to a large number of young

01:01:22.100 men, and I think that that is a very troubling thing because his perspective on this topic is wrong,

01:01:27.700 and I'll explain why. So here's Andrew Tate, reading, quote,

01:01:32.940 Great way to put the nail in marriage's coffin. Nobody gets married anymore because of women like 1.00

01:01:38.660 her. Men are men, always have been and will be. He's allowed, she isn't. Telling men if they touch

01:01:44.580 another girl at any point in their lives equals financial decimation is why nobody gets married 1.00

01:01:49.200 anymore. Now I responded and said, I disagree. Loyalty and integrity are essential virtues for a man.

01:01:56.160 If you make a vow before God, you keep it. Sneaking around with another woman while your wife is at home 1.00

01:02:00.200 with your children is a violation of the promise you made to her and to God and therefore unmanly

01:02:04.620 and weak. I have four sons and raise them to always keep the promises. Never make a promise you don't

01:02:09.040 intend to keep. This is fundamental. Now Tate had another rebuttal. He wrote, agreed on this point

01:02:15.520 about teaching our sons to keep the promises, which is why any man with a brain doesn't hand over keys to

01:02:20.500 his castle to a misandric legal system and over-emotional unchecked females. The world's changed, Matt. 0.53

01:02:26.880 Women are a fraction of what they were, telling men to just get married and 1.00

01:02:30.000 just be loyal gets men wrecked. The only way they hold the relationship together is to give up any

01:02:35.100 amount ounce of masculinity. Living hell. The smartest move on the chessboard for a man now 0.99

01:02:39.860 is to get rich and have as many children as he wants or as many women as he wants and take care

01:02:44.000 of them all. Second world, avoid first world courts. Own your empire and women will respect you in return 0.99

01:02:49.440 for their provision. Four sons isn't bad. I have more and I always will. And no woman can steal my 0.57

01:02:56.640 hundreds of millions. Marriage is suicide. Feminists built a world where females have no duty as wives 1.00

01:03:02.060 and every possibility to destroy you. If you can't change the game, win the game. Now,

01:03:08.500 I've already made the argument that laws against adultery, which I support, have a lot of historical

01:03:16.880 precedent. I must acknowledge then the same thing here. The setup which Andrew Tate describes and

01:03:24.960 promotes where men have children by many different women has lots of historical precedent. It does.

01:03:31.740 This is the way that primitive societies have operated for thousands of years. And today,

01:03:36.080 this strategy, if we can call it that, is very popular in certain communities in this country.

01:03:41.340 And you could always spot those communities because they're the ones that are the most dysfunctional,

01:03:46.600 the filthiest, most destitute, and crime-ridden places in the country. Show me the murder rate

01:03:51.700 and the average yearly income in any neighborhood, and I will tell you whether most of the children

01:03:56.320 in that neighborhood have a father in the home or not. And I will never be wrong. Andrew Tate talks

01:04:02.600 about this kind of lifestyle as though it's natural. In a post on Sunday, he made that claim

01:04:06.820 explicitly. He said, quote, monogamy isn't natural for men. Men are men. This is how they'll always be.

01:04:15.440 And he's right in a certain way. It is natural. It's natural in the sense that it appeals to our most

01:04:20.920 base and uncivilized impulses. Another word might be primitive. An even better word would be animalistic,

01:04:28.100 which is why it's so commonly found in the animal kingdom. Reptiles and fish behave this way.

01:04:33.060 You're not going to find a monogamous lizard or shark. Monkeys are almost always non-monogamous.

01:04:40.380 Go down the list of animal species and they almost all approach family formation the way that Andrew

01:04:45.240 Tate prescribes. But the problem is that we are not monkeys or lizards or sharks. We are human beings.

01:04:53.740 And my controversial contention is that we should act like it. Is monogamy natural? Even better,

01:05:02.900 it's supernatural. Man and wife become one at the altar. They are bound together by the vow they made

01:05:09.020 before God. This is above our base instincts. And so is composing a symphony or sculpting the

01:05:17.460 statue of David out of a massive hunk of marble. These things are achieved just like any great thing is

01:05:23.320 achieved by rejecting temptation, subordinating our base desires, embracing some measure of hardship for

01:05:30.120 the sake of something far greater than whatever momentary pleasure we can experience by giving

01:05:34.500 into them. And there is nothing in this world more manly, more masculine than that. In fact, I would say

01:05:41.300 this is the very definition of masculinity. Can you do the harder thing for the sake of the greater good?

01:05:49.260 If you're going to impart one thing to your sons and your daughters as a father, it should be this.

01:05:58.120 Teaching them how to do the harder thing for the greater good. And if you can't, or if you won't,

01:06:06.580 then you aren't manly. And no matter how much money you have or how much you can bench press,

01:06:11.180 doesn't matter. Now Tate says that men will be men, and yes, that's true, but will they be good men?

01:06:19.760 Will they be men of virtue and fidelity and discipline? They can be if they pursue the higher

01:06:27.120 thing. In a similar way, I might say that many men will father children. That's easy to do. 0.76

01:06:33.540 But will they be fathers? They have children. Will they raise them? That's the hard part.

01:06:42.120 I keep talking about hardship and difficulty, rightly so, but I don't want to make it sound like being a 0.92

01:06:47.700 faithful husband and father is nothing but misery and drudgery, and all you can do is just grit your

01:06:51.780 teeth and bear it. That's not the case. I love being married. I love being a dad. It's a lot of

01:06:58.360 fun much of the time. It's a source of great joy. That's what happens when you simply let go of your

01:07:04.660 childish need to put your own immediate gratification before anything and everything all the time.

01:07:08.700 You discover an ability to do the harder thing and actually enjoy it. The way that guys like Tate

01:07:16.320 describe marriage makes it seem like, you know, we're living in entirely different universes, and

01:07:20.940 perhaps we are, because he describes marriage like it's a labor camp. A man is imprisoned by his

01:07:26.520 controlling, ungrateful, promiscuous wife who runs out to cheat on him as soon as he leaves for work in

01:07:31.540 the morning. He makes it seem, or outright claims, that it's essentially impossible for a man to find

01:07:36.180 a good, faithful woman who will bear his children, stay true to her vows, and respect and love him

01:07:42.380 until he dies. But how could it be impossible? I am currently in such an arrangement. I know many men

01:07:51.380 in the same boat. If you don't know any truly happy and faithful marriages, then I would suggest that the

01:07:57.800 problem isn't with marriage. It's that you are surrounding yourself with awful people.

01:08:05.040 Now, finally, back to the subject of raising boys. I will say that if you want boys to become men,

01:08:13.840 you cannot leave them to be raised almost entirely by women. Boys need the daily guidance and example 1.00

01:08:21.920 that can only be provided by a man who lives in the home and has committed himself to that family

01:08:28.340 and that family alone. Now, Tate says that he has more sons than I do. I believe him.

01:08:34.960 But my sons and my daughters have more of me than Tate's children will ever have of him.

01:08:42.900 I come home to them every night. Their home is my home. I sit at the head of our table when we eat

01:08:47.620 dinner. We say our prayers before bed. I give them a kiss goodnight. And every night,

01:08:51.920 every night for years, as I'm turning off the lights in their room, they say to me,

01:08:58.100 Dad, will you stay up for a while? Because they want to know that I'll be there awake,

01:09:02.940 watching over the house so they can rest easy. And my answer is always yes, no matter how tired I am.

01:09:10.760 You need to be at home with your children. You need to be the captain of the ship,

01:09:15.760 which means you have to be on the ship. You need to eat and sleep there and walk the deck

01:09:22.040 with your crew and share in the hardship and the struggle and the joy and the triumph.

01:09:27.520 And most of all, you need to be there when the storms come, and they will come.

01:09:33.300 And that's why I have one wife and one family, and they will be mine until I die.

01:09:39.420 And I'd rather die than leave them or betray them or, frankly, go to a Coldplay concert

01:09:48.740 just to bring this all full circle. And that's why all adulterers and fornicators and polygamists 1.00

01:09:54.800 and Coldplay fans are today canceled. That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching.

01:10:00.820 Thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow. Have a great day. Godspeed.

01:10:04.000 Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - July 21, 2025

Ep. 1626 - It’s Time To Put Barack Obama In Handcuffs

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