The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1635 - Here’s The Horrifying Proof That All Cultures Are Not Equal

00:00:00.000 Telling that we'll show the Somali community in Minnesota rallies around a man who abducted and

00:00:04.040 abused a child. They told the judge to go easy on him because he's still getting accustomed to our

00:00:08.360 culture. So what does that say about Somali culture? Also, several more states have now

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00:00:22.480 a former CNN anchor interviews an AI version of a child who died in a school shooting.

00:00:26.740 Our dystopian future has arrived and it's somehow worse than anyone predicted.

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00:02:07.440 More than any other failed state in Africa, Somalia has been in the news a lot lately. First,

00:02:12.880 several Somalis were convicted in a $250 million scheme to defraud U.S. taxpayers by claiming they

00:02:18.200 cooked meals for children when they were really buying sports cars. Then several Somali politicians 0.70

00:02:22.900 in the U.S., including Ilhan Omar, announced that they're working on behalf of Somali interests,

00:02:27.620 not America's. Then a Somali man in a playground in Minnesota harassed a woman named Shiloh Hendricks

00:02:33.860 and her 18-month-old child, prompting the woman to drop the N-bomb heard around the world. Then to cap 0.99

00:02:38.720 it all off, the Democrat Party endorsed a Somali socialist to be the next mayor of Minneapolis.

00:02:43.160 At the moment, he appears to be probably the frontrunner. So it's safe to say that three

00:02:48.000 decades after the U.S. government determined that Somalis deserve temporary protected status

00:02:52.000 in this country as refugees from their own dysfunctional governance, a temporary status 1.00

00:02:57.360 that has never been revoked, Somalis are dominating our news cycle and some of our major elections as

00:03:03.180 well. And yet, for all the ways that Somalis have found their way into our national discourse 1.00

00:03:07.580 in recent months, there's one fundamental question that has remained unanswered. What exactly are all

00:03:13.960 these Somalis doing in the country? What value do they add? What's their goal? We're told that if

00:03:19.480 we draw any general conclusions about Somalis, Somali culture, based on the observable behavior of

00:03:25.580 Somalis, then we're bigots. We're not allowed to inquire into their motives in any way. But despite all 0.78

00:03:32.140 the deflection, no one has ever explained in any affirmative way what Somalis actually care about,

00:03:37.460 what's their culture all about, this culture that we're importing into this country en masse. What 1.00

00:03:43.160 core principle would they defend in large numbers if it ever came under attack? We know, based on the

00:03:48.900 candidates they elect, that Somalis wouldn't defend the Constitution or the freedom of speech or freedom 0.86

00:03:53.480 of association. So what's their motivation? Aside from draining the U.S. Treasury, what single issue

00:03:59.580 really matters to them? Regardless of how often I've asked this question, directly or indirectly,

00:04:05.040 I've never received a response. But suddenly, and somewhat unexpectedly, that's all changed now,

00:04:10.960 thanks to a court case in Minnesota involving a Somali man named Kalinal Ibrahim Deery.

00:04:17.900 Now the mystery is over. Yes, as part of this criminal proceeding, the Somali community in the state of

00:04:23.020 Minnesota has just revealed what they're truly passionate about, and their answer, in rather unambiguous 0.65

00:04:28.960 terms, is that they're passionate, apparently, about the right of men to sexually abuse and torment

00:04:34.920 other people's children. This is the culture they're defending. This is what they're willing

00:04:39.500 to excuse, and there's no debating this. They went to court and made their voices very clear.

00:04:45.840 Now let's start with the specifics of this case. Local news in Minnesota, I won't really talk about

00:04:50.680 it for obvious reasons, so instead of playing a clip, I'll summarize the background myself.

00:04:55.220 42-year-old Kalinal was born in Somalia, spent several years in refugee camps in Kenya. He arrived

00:05:04.100 in the United States in 2006. He worked as a driver for Uber and Lyft most of the time. In 2024, Kalinal was

00:05:12.740 in Minneapolis when he noticed that a 12-year-old girl was playing in her backyard alone. So he parked

00:05:18.760 his Toyota in an alley outside and asked if the girl's mother was at home. She said no. Short time later,

00:05:24.980 the man put his hand over the girl's mouth, hit her head to the point that she became dizzy and 0.84

00:05:29.800 disoriented, drove her a short distance away, and sexually assaulted her in a manner that is too

00:05:35.120 graphic to describe on this show. Five days later, the child told a school counselor about the attack.

00:05:40.760 The next month, as police investigated, the girl's parents discovered that the man was still calling

00:05:45.000 their daughter and sending her text messages. He was saying things like, quote,

00:05:48.900 Hey, beautiful, I miss you. When can I see you again? The parents pretended to be their daughters 0.98

00:05:55.220 to lure the man back. And when he arrived at the home, they held him there until police arrived.

00:06:00.580 Once arrested, the man didn't display any form of contrition. He claimed that he thought the girl

00:06:04.920 was 19 years old, which apparently would make it okay to abduct her. He criticized the mother. He

00:06:11.960 continued to fight the charges until he was convicted of first-degree criminal sexual misconduct

00:06:15.820 in May of this year. Now, based on this series of events, which again is as sanitized as I can make

00:06:23.780 it for the purposes of this show, but based on all this, any community or culture with decency or

00:06:31.000 morality would make it very clear that Kalinal does not represent them. They wouldn't make excuses 1.00

00:06:37.480 for him. They certainly wouldn't minimize what he had done. Instead, they would recognize his behavior

00:06:42.520 as unspeakably evil. And if they said anything to him at all, they'd urge him to repent for the acts

00:06:47.500 of horror that he committed rather than, you know, continue to dodge accountability as he's been

00:06:52.820 doing. But that is not how the Somali community in Minneapolis has responded to this case. Instead,

00:07:01.300 as Alpha News first reported, the Al-Hisan Islamic Center in St. Paul submitted a community letter

00:07:07.480 of support for this man addressed to the judge in the case. Now, I'm going to read directly from

00:07:13.860 this letter because it answers any and all questions you might have about Somali culture and

00:07:17.900 the Somali community in the United States. So this is them speaking for themselves. Here's what they

00:07:23.880 wrote. Quote,

00:07:25.620 We, the undersigned members of the Somali community, write this letter to express our strong and heartfelt

00:07:31.300 support for Kalinal Diri, a member of our community. Many of us first met Kalinal through

00:07:36.780 our shared journey as Somali refugees arriving in this country with little more than hope and

00:07:41.360 determination to rebuild our lives. Like so many of us, Kalinal has faced the challenge of starting

00:07:47.320 over in a new culture, learning English, adjusting to a fast-paced system, and raising children in an

00:07:53.240 environment far different from the one we grew up in. Before the situation, Kalinal was known as a

00:07:57.980 devoted family man and an outgoing person. Despite the financial pressures of life in the U.S.,

00:08:03.560 Kalinal also still managed to support needy family members back in Somalia. The situation Kalinal is

00:08:09.340 currently facing comes as a deep shock to all of us. Now, this is a letter that you might write if this

00:08:17.440 guy had, say, lost his license because he got too many speeding tickets or something, or if he got picked

00:08:22.700 up by the IRS because he didn't file his taxes on time. It is not, to any sane person, an appropriate

00:08:29.120 letter to write when Kalinal was just convicted for hitting a 12-year-old girl in the head, abducting

00:08:34.060 her, sexually assaulting her, and then texting her to see when he could do it again. In no universe

00:08:38.900 should an unrepentant rapist receive the strong and heartfelt support of anyone, much less an entire

00:08:46.080 community of people, much less a community of people that we have invited into our home, into our country.

00:08:51.340 Nor should this community of people repeatedly refer to this brutal sexual assault as a

00:08:56.240 situation, which is probably the single most dismissive word they could have chosen.

00:09:02.300 And on top of that, they shouldn't brag that he's funneling money out of the U.S. economy and sending it

00:09:06.340 back to Somalia. But the most revealing part of the letter is when Somalis that wrote this letter 0.93

00:09:11.540 explained that Kalinal, quote, has faced the challenge of starting over in a new culture.

00:09:16.160 Well, that's about as explicit as it gets. Apparently, in Somali culture, at least according

00:09:22.700 to the people who wrote this letter, this is what they're implying, when a young girl is alone and 0.88

00:09:26.180 defenseless in her backyard, you can sexually assault her as much as you want. And indeed, 0.91

00:09:30.620 the statistics bear that out. Somalia ranks as the top country in the world for sexual violence 1.00

00:09:36.000 against children, among other abuses. And that's what they're very clearly implying here. 0.86

00:09:41.180 Therefore, according to this letter, we should have some sympathy for this poor guy. After all,

00:09:45.600 he's just having trouble getting used to our peculiar little customs in the United States.

00:09:50.180 It's apparently very difficult to adjust to this whole thing where we don't sexually assault

00:09:54.060 children. You know, just like it's tough to learn, say, the rules of baseball or tipping etiquette when

00:09:59.720 you go out to eat. It's just like that. And that's the position of this Islamic center in St.

00:10:04.800 Paul. He's adjusting to our culture and having some growing pains when it comes to the whole,

00:10:09.100 you know, not sexually abusing children thing. Never mind the fact that at the time of this attack,

00:10:15.480 Linnell had lived in the United States for nearly two decades. So we had quite a bit of time to get

00:10:19.440 used to our laws and, quote, customs. And more importantly, you're supposed to ignore the fact

00:10:24.660 that regardless of where you were raised, you should know at an instinctual level that it's one of the

00:10:30.660 most profound evils imaginable to assault a child. It doesn't require education to know this. It

00:10:38.080 doesn't require customs. It doesn't require anything but a shred of conscience. It requires

00:10:43.720 having the moral awareness of a human being instead of, say, a lizard. With this letter,

00:10:50.080 the Somali community in Minnesota is acknowledging that by their own words. They don't have that level 1.00

00:10:55.340 of moral awareness, which means quite simply that they don't have any business being in this

00:11:00.020 country. They should be deported and their temporary protected status, which has gone on for 34 0.94

00:11:05.300 years should be immediately rescinded. Now, if it's true that abusing children is a part of the

00:11:11.300 culture, then, as they're implying and as the statistics really do bear out, then this culture

00:11:17.960 should not be permitted to enter the U.S. under any circumstance. Now, to be clear, I'm not cherry

00:11:26.860 picking one letter here. The Al-Hasan Islamic Center in St. Paul sent this letter to the judge

00:11:31.860 on behalf of the Somali community, but they weren't the only ones to voice their support for

00:11:36.760 this unapologetic predator. I went looking through the docket on this case, and I found that many of

00:11:42.020 this guy's family and close associates wrote letters to the judge as well, and they all said the same

00:11:46.560 thing. Here's how prosecutors summarize those letters in their sentencing memo to the judge.

00:11:51.360 Finally, defendants, family, and friends do not acknowledge his actions, the impact they had on

00:11:57.660 the victim, or recognize his wrongdoing. The statements show that either defendant has not

00:12:01.860 told them what he is convicted of or that they are dismissive of his crime. Family members are

00:12:06.380 focused on the impact that this has had on him and his family. None of them acknowledge the victim

00:12:10.480 and her family. While they cite that he's a person of good character, it is more likely that this offense

00:12:15.260 is a side of him they did not know about, nor do they want to know about, but quite simply,

00:12:19.480 sexual assault on a child is not something a person of good character does. There's the

00:12:24.500 understatement of the century. The victim's mother also stated that she and her family have been

00:12:28.920 receiving death threats within the Somali community because of this case. Yes, members of the Somali 0.99

00:12:36.820 community are currently threatening to murder the victim's mother. That's how they're responding to 0.95

00:12:42.220 the fact that this woman's daughter was brutally attacked and sexually assaulted by a member of their 0.55

00:12:46.500 community. They're responding by threatening to kill the victim's mom. They're continuing to terrorize 0.99

00:12:53.720 the family as a community. And by the way, at trial, Kalinal made it clear that he blames the victim's

00:12:59.860 mother for what happened. Certainly doesn't blame himself. And that might seem insane to you or to me

00:13:06.220 or to any civilized person, but not to this wonderful community, it would seem. Now, you could tell in

00:13:12.560 that paragraph I just read that the prosecutor is trying to search for some plausible reason why

00:13:16.460 all of the Somalis involved in this case are defending this man. Like, to a man, they are all

00:13:23.780 defending him. And he says that, well, maybe the family didn't know that side of him. This is the

00:13:29.640 kind of line that if you're a prosecutor in Minnesota, you have to include in your argument,

00:13:33.580 even in the face of overwhelming evidence that Somalis have no business in this country, 1.00

00:13:37.780 prosecutors still have to pretend that we're dealing with one or two bad apples who can be reformed. 1.00

00:13:42.560 Even when the entire Somali community rushes to defend this scumbag and attacks the victim's 1.00

00:13:46.640 family, that's the fiction that apparently needs to be maintained. In the end, the Somalis got what 1.00

00:13:52.780 they wanted. And that shouldn't be surprising, since they effectively controlled the government

00:13:56.280 of Minnesota at this point. The judge, Michael Burns, handed out a sentence of just 12 years

00:14:01.000 in this case, with release from prison after 10 years, and the rest served on probation.

00:14:07.600 He was going to do 10 years in prison for abducting and sexually assaulting a child.

00:14:12.560 Out of her parents' backyard. 10 years.

00:14:16.600 This is a sentence that, without any doubt whatsoever, should have been life imprisonment

00:14:21.240 at a minimum, assuming the sharks and the firing squad weren't available.

00:14:26.600 But that won't happen, because of Minnesota's laws, which are extremely permissive when it

00:14:30.160 comes to child abuse. Kalino will be out on the streets in just a few years. 0.94

00:14:33.760 Again, this is nothing new in Minneapolis or the U.K., where Somali rape gangs are particularly

00:14:39.220 active. They don't often report on cases like this in the local news, but they're increasingly

00:14:43.620 common. Here's another case from an apartment complex in Minneapolis a few years ago to give

00:14:48.060 you some idea of how these stories are covered, if the media touches them at all. Watch this.

00:14:53.000 We begin this evening with a disturbing story about a 10-year-old girl who was sexually assaulted

00:14:57.600 by a stranger. Minneapolis police say it happened Sunday evening in the hallway of an apartment

00:15:01.780 building in the Cedar Riverside neighborhood. Police arrested 34-year-old Ahmed Hersey Abdi

00:15:07.280 less than 24 hours later. As Angela Davis shows us, court records show he has a history of mental

00:15:13.440 illness. I don't know, maybe some sick person did this, but I couldn't believe it. A criminal

00:15:19.500 complaint states that neighbors heard screams on the third floor hallway. When they found a young

00:15:24.620 girl crying, they ran to get help from two off-duty Minneapolis police officers. The victim told

00:15:30.100 police that a man later identified as Ahmed Abdi followed her in and out of an elevator, and as she

00:15:36.060 walked down a hallway, he asked for her name. The complaint states he then extended his hand to her.

00:15:42.460 When she shook his hand, he refused to let go. Now, they don't tell you where Ahmed Hersey Abdi came

00:15:48.600 from. They don't tell you if he's legally in this country or who allowed him to enter. Instead,

00:15:53.340 they refer to him as a stranger. They tell us he's mentally ill, and then they spend the rest of the 0.97

00:15:57.460 segment talking about various resources for sexual assault survivors. But the one resource they don't

00:16:03.260 talk about, even though it would drastically cut down in cases like this, is the resource known as

00:16:08.400 mass deportation. And that's clearly necessary at this point because we're not dealing, again, with

00:16:14.280 one or two bad actors. This is an endemic problem in the culture. Seven years ago, a region in Somalia 0.92

00:16:21.860 established a new lab to investigate sexual assaults. And I'm going to play this for you

00:16:27.740 and see if you notice anything in this report.

00:16:32.380 Somalia has opened its first forensic laboratory to investigate rape cases.

00:16:37.340 The lab, with support from the Swedish government and the UN Population Fund,

00:16:42.300 brings cutting-edge technology to a part of the world still lacking paved roads and reliable electricity.

00:16:48.200 We used to send DNA from here to Europe or from here to South Africa. So those restraints now are easy.

00:16:54.080 We can manage this and get answers within a timely period, within hours, within minutes,

00:17:00.380 where we used to have days, sometimes months, to get to receive those.

00:17:03.300 The lab opened less than a year after the Portland region passed its first law criminalizing sexual

00:17:09.020 offenses.

00:17:09.520 There are some police officers who say rape is not a big deal and consider it a minor thing.

00:17:16.120 They say it is nothing new.

00:17:19.000 Kis Shamis Kabdibail is the only police officer in her unit. She handles all cases involving sexual

00:17:25.540 violence in Portland. Officer Bail says many of her rape cases are handled by community elders.

00:17:31.400 The perpetrator's family may be ordered to pay the victim's family in camels or goats.

00:17:35.860 And that is just the cases that women report. 1.00

00:17:38.860 So as of 2017, Somalia had just gotten around to criminalizing sexual assault. And then with

00:17:46.340 much fanfare, they open a sexual assault forensic center. And the victims, if they're compensated

00:17:51.680 at all, will be rewarded with camels or goats. That's an actual news report from Somalia.

00:17:57.080 Now you have to ask this question, do people in this country realize that Somali culture is this

00:18:06.240 backwards? Was there ever a vote on allowing this into our country? Was there ever any kind of national

00:18:13.300 conversation whatsoever about this? Or did we just decide to grant these foreigners temporary 0.95

00:18:19.400 protected status 34 years ago and let them flood into the country by hundreds of thousands with no

00:18:23.740 checks and no conversation whatsoever about it? Put simply, we cannot be surprised when we import

00:18:30.480 massive numbers of people from a third world hellhole and then they go on to commit horrible 1.00

00:18:34.180 crimes. This kind of behavior is part of the culture. They have said that themselves. And it always has

00:18:40.820 been. That doesn't mean that every Somali commits these crimes or wants to, but it means that the risk 0.99

00:18:45.960 is unacceptably high for people that we are welcoming into our home. And given this very obvious fact,

00:18:55.880 it's time for someone in power to answer this fundamental question. Why would we ever let anyone

00:19:01.820 from a culture like this into our country in any capacity under any circumstance? Here's another way of 1.00

00:19:09.160 phrasing the question. How does it benefit the United States of America to allow this culture into our

00:19:15.560 country? Explain to me what the benefit is to this country, ours. And now that we made this mistake

00:19:24.620 and allow them to live here, when are we going to rectify this situation? For that matter, why are we

00:19:30.760 allowing anyone to live here of any ethnicity or nationality who rejects every foundational principle 1.00

00:19:34.680 this country stands for? And it's not just Somalis who openly denounce America's interests, morality, 0.91

00:19:39.520 customs. Just the other day, Illinois Congresswoman is a member of Congress. Delia Ramirez went to

00:19:46.840 Mexico City to announce, quote, I'm a proud Guatemalan before I'm an American. Now, this is in Spanish,

00:19:54.820 but we'll play the clip. Here it is.

00:19:56.580 Delia Ramirez, you should know, is the daughter of illegal aliens from Guatemala. She was reportedly 0.99

00:20:09.020 born in Chicago, which supposedly grants her citizenship for some reason. She's a walking 1.00

00:20:14.360 example of why this administration should continue the fight to end birthright citizenship. And she's a

00:20:20.160 reminder, as we've discussed, that not everyone in this country is an American, even the ones with

00:20:23.640 legal status. Because you have ones with legal status. I'm a Guatemalan before I'm an American.

00:20:32.200 How much clearer can they possibly be?

00:20:37.140 All cultures are created equal, is what we're told. But it's one of the many great lies of modern

00:20:42.820 times. Many of our problems in the West are born from this lie. A lot of people have pretended

00:20:49.660 otherwise over the years. They've invented various justifications for allowing these people to

00:20:53.300 destroy entire cities in this country. But now that Somalis have finally told the truth about 1.00

00:20:56.860 their culture to a judge in Minneapolis, and now that members of Congress are admitting their

00:21:01.540 disloyalty to audiences in Mexico City, there simply isn't anything to debate anymore. All we have

00:21:08.060 to do is read their words, listen to them, pay attention to their actions, and respond accordingly.

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00:22:41.220 your brain too. Newsweek reports six more states have banned junk food purchases from being bought

00:22:46.580 with Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. This was announced by the Department of Agriculture.

00:22:53.460 West Virginia, Florida, Colorado, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas have all had new waivers approved that

00:22:59.360 allow each state to modify what can and can't be bought using food benefits. Across all these states,

00:23:05.380 the change will impact approximately 8.5 million people. And then that means that the number of

00:23:12.000 states that ban junk food purchases has now risen to 12 following similar waivers in Arkansas, Idaho,

00:23:19.840 Indiana, Iowa, Nebraska, and Utah. So here's Brooke Rollins, Agriculture Secretary, talking about this.

00:23:27.000 Since my confirmation, our department has encouraged states to think differently and creatively about

00:23:34.080 how to solve the many health issues facing Americans. One way is by not allowing taxpayer-funded

00:23:40.460 benefits to be used to purchase unhealthy items like soda, candy, and other junk food. The number one

00:23:47.520 purchased by SNAP recipients is sugary drinks. SNAP is a supplemental nutrition program meant to provide

00:23:55.260 health food benefits to low-income families to supplement their grocery budget so they can

00:24:01.080 afford the nutritious food essential to health and well-being. That is the stated purpose of the SNAP

00:24:06.840 program. The law states it and President Trump's USDA plans to deliver on it alongside our partners

00:24:13.700 at HHS. So today, I'm proud to sign six more waivers for Florida, West Virginia, Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana,

00:24:24.380 and Colorado. This is in addition to the waivers we've already signed for Iowa, Indiana, and others

00:24:31.620 across the country. I continue to encourage states to be laboratories of innovation, think through how you

00:24:37.160 can promote healthy families and healthy communities. And because of our historic partnership, USDA and

00:24:44.000 HHS, and the visionary leadership of the governors here with us today, and of the states represented by

00:24:50.020 the signings, we are doing something about it. Now, this is the right move. Obviously, it's the right move.

00:24:56.840 The fact that only 12 states have done this is madness. I mean, the only question, the only

00:25:02.980 controversy that should come from this is that only 12 states, only 12 states have banned junk food

00:25:09.480 purchases from the SNAP program. Why would this ever be allowed? Why would we ever do anything else?

00:25:16.840 Why would we ever allow? Why does any state, why has any state ever allowed people to use tax money to buy

00:25:23.100 potato chips and candy?

00:25:26.840 What is the reason for that? And we've talked about this many times. I've never been, no one's ever

00:25:31.360 expected, there are plenty of people who object to these, to these kinds of waivers, these changes being

00:25:36.300 made, these very minimal reforms to the system. Lots of people, the left, leftists generally object to

00:25:42.820 it. I've never heard why.

00:25:46.840 What, like, why exactly should I, as a taxpayer, be forced to buy donuts for somebody?

00:25:56.840 Just tell me why. Donuts and candy. Why should that? But they can't. They can't explain it. There's no

00:26:04.880 reason. And, you know, Rollins talks a lot about health and nutrition for the SNAP recipients as a

00:26:10.240 reason for this change. RFK Jr. was at the press conference also. He talked about that too.

00:26:15.240 And they're right. I mean, if we're going to be providing tax-funded meals to people, the meals

00:26:21.160 should be healthy. We should not be subsidizing obesity and diabetes. So all of that is true. But

00:26:29.540 the primary reason why it's a good move to ban junk food from SNAP is not for the sake of SNAP

00:26:35.940 recipients. That's not the primary reason. It's for the sake of the taxpayers. You know, the health of

00:26:43.240 the SNAP recipient, the food stamp user, their health is secondary. That is a secondary issue.

00:26:51.380 First and foremost, what matters is that we need to end the moral outrage of forcing American 0.99

00:26:57.660 taxpayers to buy cookies and soda for other grown adults who don't feel like spending their own money

00:27:03.420 on it. It's just grotesque and wrong. And to me, that's the main point. So I get why politically

00:27:12.480 it's framed this way. It's framed as, well, we're looking out for their health. I understand that.

00:27:17.760 And as I said, it's not that that's not him. To me, that's the second issue. But the real reason and

00:27:24.620 how I wish we would frame this is this is a moral outrage. It's not fair to all the productive

00:27:31.260 members of society that they're being forced to buy stuff that has no nutritional value whatsoever.

00:27:38.940 It is, it is, it's, it's, it's grotesque. It's gratuitous. It's just wrong.

00:27:45.440 Um, it's morally wrong, especially when you see, when you see these people, uh, and how they use

00:27:56.540 the benefits, which you can easily see these days because in the year 2025, um, if you weren't aware

00:28:02.560 of this, I'm sorry to report, but EBT influencers are a thing. Okay. Influencers who, um, their whole,

00:28:11.020 their whole gig is that they show off their food stamps and they show off all the things they buy

00:28:17.740 with food stamps. That's a, that's a, that's a thing now on Tik TOK, people showing off their EBT

00:28:22.680 halls and, um, it's as horrifying as you might imagine. So here's just one example. Look at

00:28:31.520 this.

00:28:33.500 Welch juices got two cases of Dean.

00:28:41.000 A box of Sam brain chips.

00:28:43.000 Um, they got these chips, um, some teriyaki, um, teriyaki noodles.

00:29:10.900 Some kind of, some kind of, some kind of, some kind of, some kind of, some kind of, a peck of

00:29:18.800 ground beef.

00:29:24.680 Peck is on the steaks.

00:29:28.680 Seed and salt.

00:29:30.960 Picles.

00:29:36.200 Powder donuts.

00:29:36.960 Fruit of the pebbles.

00:29:47.860 The teriyaki noodles, I eat those.

00:29:51.640 These are the beasts.

00:29:54.720 So that's only 90 seconds. The video is like four or five minutes long and it's all like that.

00:30:01.200 I mean, I got hypertension just from watching it. I died of a heart attack watching. I died of a heart

00:30:06.200 attack, came back to life and then got diabetes and died again, then came back to life again all

00:30:09.720 while we were watching that. A lot happened. A lot happened when that video was playing.

00:30:14.640 It is, it, it, it really does. It's nauseating. I actually felt sick watching that.

00:30:22.920 And it's insane. Nothing but processed junk food. Nothing, no real food.

00:30:27.900 And as I said, this goes on for four or five minutes. This woman is showing off all the stuff 1.00

00:30:32.260 she bought. She bought, she bought a truckload of stuff with EBT, with her EBT card.

00:30:39.980 And none of it is food. No fresh fruit, no vegetables at all. No fresh food or vegetables.

00:30:49.160 One source of real protein, which is the pack of ground beef. And it looks like she has about 14 kids

00:30:54.620 and she's got like two pounds of ground beef for the whole family. And, uh, so that, that, that, 1.00

00:31:00.020 that's like, that's not enough. That's, that's half a meal. That's half a meal for each of them.

00:31:06.040 And they probably won't even eat it. I mean, that, that ground beef is going to spoil in the fridge

00:31:10.000 while they pig out on a junk food all week. Now you could guarantee that like the oven

00:31:16.580 in that person's home has probably never been used. It's a brand, it brand new, brand new oven.

00:31:24.620 She might as well go sell it on a Facebook marketplace or Craigslist, you know, so she 1.00

00:31:31.300 can buy some more junk food if she hasn't already. No way the oven is ever used. Stove probably never 0.99

00:31:36.080 used. Okay. They're not cooking anything. Nothing's getting cooked. Only buying stuff that can be bought

00:31:43.400 in bags. If you can open it in a bag and eat it right away, or maybe a can, uh, that's the only thing

00:31:50.980 they're eating in that house. And it's, it's revolting fruity pebbles, powdered donuts,

00:31:57.660 10 different varieties of chips. The program is called supplemental nutrition,

00:32:04.600 but there is no nutrition to speak of at all. Again, no food, no actual food.

00:32:15.280 I don't know how it's the fact that anyone can actually live this way and survive and not starve

00:32:23.520 to death from a lack of actual nutrition is kind of amazing, but clearly they're not starving.

00:32:30.120 Cause meanwhile, the woman herself, I'm not saying this to be mean to the woman, but, uh, objectively,

00:32:35.280 medically speaking, she's easily 200 pounds overweight. So this is not somebody who's 0.94

00:32:40.440 starving. The kids aren't starving either. You can tell these are, these kids are, um, well-fed

00:32:45.020 well, not well-fed, but they're, they're amply felt fed. Okay. They are amply fed, but not well-fed.

00:32:50.740 So, um, why are we doing this? This is another one of those questions that I would love for someone

00:32:58.940 in a position of power, some politician, especially one who supports this. Why are we doing this?

00:33:04.700 What does this benefit? Who does this benefit? Who does it benefit?

00:33:11.020 Why are we spending billions of dollars to buy powdered donuts for obese people?

00:33:15.000 Explain. Who benefits from this? They're, they don't benefit. That's for sure.

00:33:23.400 And, um, and again, I'm not saying that cause I'm concerned about their health. I mean, I'm a little

00:33:27.500 bit concerned about their health. The real victims of this system are the contributing members of

00:33:33.220 the country, the working Americans, the people who are earning a living and being forced to subsidize

00:33:38.320 this. And it would have been told for years have been shamed, morally, emotionally blackmailed

00:33:45.000 into, uh, you know, into just accepting this and tolerating it, not complaining because you're

00:33:52.500 told that, that you're not allowed to even be upset about this. Your money is being

00:33:57.620 just shamelessly wasted and being given to people who didn't earn it. Don't deserve it.

00:34:09.840 That's the other question that woman in the that's doing the tick tock. Why does she deserve 1.00

00:34:13.320 help? Here's a, here's a provocative question. Why does she deserve any help? 1.00

00:34:20.480 Why does she deserve any help from the taxpayers? You're coming to me as a taxpayer and saying I 0.84

00:34:25.800 have to help her. Okay. Why? I'm not against helping people. I help people all the time.

00:34:30.840 I help people all the time. People, my life, friends, family, people that I don't know

00:34:36.820 charities, very selective about that because a lot of charities are scams, but, um, so I'm not at all

00:34:43.800 against helping people. I want to help people. Helping people feels good, but you're coming to me

00:34:50.720 and saying I have to help her. Why does she deserve that? Does she deserve help? Has she demonstrated

00:34:59.260 at all that she's responsible, that she's going to take the help that we're providing her generously

00:35:04.240 and be responsible with it? Does she have any gratitude at all whatsoever for the help that

00:35:09.660 she's receiving? Is she making any effort whatsoever in her life at all to take that help and to better

00:35:16.680 her life, better her situation? Is any of that happening? Or is this someone who is arrogantly and

00:35:27.120 with no gratitude, like a spoiled child taking from us with no thanks, no gratitude and with no plans

00:35:36.320 of, of, of bettering her situation and without even trying, or is, is, is that decision? Is it that

00:35:40.620 latter situation? Cause I think it's probably the latter. I think there's a lot of the latter going on

00:35:44.640 and we're expected to just accept that it's mean for us. It's, it's a lat we're lacking in 0.98

00:35:52.960 compassion. No, because in my personal life, again, I'm more than happy to help people.

00:36:03.820 But if I help you and you spit in my face

00:36:06.700 and then tell me that, and then demand more and tell me that I owe it to you somehow, well,

00:36:13.820 that's the last time I ever help you. That's it. I'm never helping you again with that kind of attitude.

00:36:18.720 Um, or if I help you and it's clear that you're taking the help and you're using it to actually

00:36:26.840 make your situation worse, then I'm also not going to help you because it's not, because the help is

00:36:32.040 not helping you. And so that's how we all operate, I think in our, in our daily lives. Um, and yet with

00:36:40.520 these entitlement programs, these welfare schemes, we're told that, you know, we, we, we doesn't operate

00:36:46.620 that way.

00:36:48.720 And it's just crazy. The fact that there is no, there are no real requirements.

00:36:56.280 There's no accountability at all is nuts to me. And here you are slaving away to put food on your

00:37:03.840 family's table. And yet your paycheck is pilfered. So the government can buy lucky charms for obese 0.97

00:37:11.420 people who refuse to get jobs. That's what's happening. Okay. That is what's happening. Billions

00:37:16.140 of dollars being wasted this way. And let's just be real about it. You have every right

00:37:22.300 to be furious when you see stuff like that. You should be. Um, and by the way, you should

00:37:30.820 be angry, not only at the system, but yeah, at, at the, at that person individually, like

00:37:36.720 has accountability. Let's stop treating people like they're not, like they're not human. Okay.

00:37:41.080 These are human beings. Let's let's have a little accountability. You're being irresponsible. It is

00:37:46.880 unacceptable. You're doing this with my money. And yeah, I'm mad at the system. I'm mad at you

00:37:52.740 to actually you individually, personally. Uh, and, uh, I'm just, I'm sick of it. We should all be sick of

00:38:02.140 it. All right. New York post reports a Texas cop vowed to give everyone a ticket after she didn't

00:38:14.840 get laid the night before, according to a since deleted viral Tik TOK. The post showed uniform

00:38:21.740 Harris County, uh, constable precinct five deputy Jennifer Escalera writing on a notepad with the

00:38:27.960 caption didn't get cracked last night. So everyone's getting a ticket.

00:38:32.140 Uh, okay. So that's, what's going on there. Very lovely stuff as always. Here's a local

00:38:39.500 report about this. Listen, in the video, you can see the deputy taking some notes,

00:38:47.060 joining in on the Tik TOK trend and blurring out certain parts of her uniform, but she leaves her

00:38:52.940 name visible to see. We see all other videos on her account where she's in uniform doing some Tik 1.00

00:38:58.920 talk trends. Her account has since deleted. And we spoke to some people here in the precinct five

00:39:03.000 area who tells us she's free to do whatever she wants on her personal time. But when she's

00:39:07.600 representing the company and representing the law enforcement agency that she works for,

00:39:12.880 she has to be more cautious. I think it's real inappropriate and disrespectful. 0.97

00:39:17.080 This is very unprofessional. You know what I'm saying? Like you shouldn't be doing nothing

00:39:20.540 like this. You know, I've already given my speech about female cops. Um, I've given it in the past

00:39:27.060 week anyway. So I only need to give it once a week. I, we may improve. We may move to two times

00:39:32.960 a week if the situation doesn't improve, but I won't harp on that angle for now. I will say this woman

00:39:40.000 has been doing Tik Toks in uniform for a while. Apparently, why was that ever allowed? Why wasn't

00:39:46.940 that shut down immediately? Why? And you see this, you see other Tik Toks that sometimes cops, like,

00:39:53.100 why are we, why is it ever okay for a cop to do a Tik Tok in uniform? Why are we ever accepting that?

00:40:00.920 Why is that not shut down the second it happens? And even now they're going to investigate, uh,

00:40:07.380 this situation, but this, this ridiculous woman is not going to lose her job. She'll stay on the job 1.00

00:40:12.720 on patrol, making Tik Toks, showing up to the scene of the crime only to be totally useless and a major

00:40:18.260 liability. Uh, you know, that's, what's going to happen. And I think, and so there's a theme here

00:40:25.180 emerging as there often is in this show, um, that we need to greatly, greatly raise our standards.

00:40:32.620 Okay. This is a general comment about just everything everywhere in life, in all walks of

00:40:40.440 life, in every capacity we need to write. And this is not just the point about DEI. I mean,

00:40:46.260 it applies to that too. DEI shouldn't exist. Um, but even aside from that, or, but beyond it,

00:40:53.880 rather, one of the things we're dealing with in our society, I think right now is that our,

00:40:58.080 our standards, our standards in every facet really, and corner of life have just plummeted.

00:41:03.720 And we put up with so much nonsense that, um, and no one's ever punished for it or held

00:41:09.020 accountable or fired. And I don't just mean with the police or in government jobs, although it's

00:41:14.420 particularly bad, uh, in government jobs often, but everywhere in general. And I know I'm not the

00:41:21.900 only one who's noticed this quality of everything has declined. Customer service everywhere is terrible.

00:41:26.280 I think part of the reason that, that this happens is that we've just sort of stopped holding people

00:41:34.180 accountable for anything and, and, or holding them to any sort of standard. I mean, do people get

00:41:41.300 fired anymore? Is that, is that a thing? Now I know layoffs. I know people get laid off, which is

00:41:47.200 tragic. We know, we know lots of people get laid off all the time. Layoffs are real and a sad thing.

00:41:52.780 Clearly people lose jobs. Uh, but do people get fired? Like you get called into your boss's office

00:42:00.900 and told that you're losing your job specifically because you're bad at it. That's why you're losing.

00:42:07.800 They're not eliminating the position. It's not that they're getting rid of 25% of the workforce and

00:42:11.920 you're one of the casualties. It's just, you're getting fired all by yourself because you're just

00:42:16.680 bad at doing your job. This is an indictment on you and the job that you are doing and you are

00:42:22.600 getting fired and you're getting replaced by somebody else. Is that a thing? I assume it is,

00:42:31.620 but based on circumstantial evidence, it seems like it isn't because everywhere you go, you find these

00:42:35.700 people are just obnoxiously terrible at their jobs and you're thinking, how are they not fired? How,

00:42:41.420 how is this possible? How do you have a cop that's doing tech talks on the job and has been doing this

00:42:46.940 for a while and just hasn't gotten, isn't that an easy call? Like you're fired. We don't need you

00:42:52.020 here that you're clearly, you're fired. This is, we don't have to even think about it. This is very

00:42:56.720 easy, easy call. Or you go to, into any store and you deal with some of the customer service and

00:43:06.000 they're just, they, total disdain, dripping, dripping disdain for the customers. And you think

00:43:13.000 again, isn't this an easy call to fire this person? Not even anything personal. I, I wish them the best

00:43:19.720 really. I hope that they, uh, this could be a good wake-up call and then they improve and go get a

00:43:25.860 better job in the future. But clearly you should be fired from this job. You're really, really bad at

00:43:31.320 it and you make everyone else uncomfortable and you're doing the opposite of what you should be

00:43:35.760 doing, which is making your customers feel welcome and making them feel like they want to come back.

00:43:39.800 You're doing the opposite of that. You're, you're a negative, you're a net negative on. So how are you

00:43:44.060 still here? What, how have you not, why are you not immediately fired? Why is this not a decision

00:43:48.820 that's made in 15 seconds and you're gone? Um, and, um, but it doesn't seem to be happening.

00:43:59.380 Of course, the more likely scenarios, people do get fired all the time, but just the, the overall

00:44:03.380 quality has diminished to such an extent that they're always replaced by people who also

00:44:07.320 are terrible. Uh, so that's probably what's happening. Very cheerful situation. It's been

00:44:13.880 a cheerful, this, even by my standards, this show has been unusually cheerful and I got to,

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00:46:08.840 After Elon Musk bought Twitter and ended some of the large-scale censorship that existed in social

00:46:16.540 media, there was a mass exodus among left-wingers to a copycat social media platform called Blue

00:46:21.540 Sky. The sales pitch was pretty straightforward. Anyone who voiced a remotely conservative position

00:46:26.040 would be banned on Blue Sky, creating an echo chamber. Of course, this is an appealing proposition

00:46:30.660 to leftists because most of their ideas wouldn't survive for five seconds outside of an echo chamber.

00:46:34.960 So they went over to Blue Sky and spent the last few years affirming all their insane ideas with no

00:46:39.560 pushback. The result has been exactly what you'd expect. They're constantly one-upping their own

00:46:43.360 derangement to the point that Blue Sky now resembles an asylum. There is no idea, no matter how bad it

00:46:48.240 may be, that's too unhinged for these people. If you ran a poll, you'd find 100% support on Blue Sky

00:46:53.480 for executing every billionaire, bringing back mask mandates, forcing Sidney Sweeney to wear a burqa.

00:47:00.620 You'd also find unanimous enthusiasm for child abuse, Stephen Colbert ceding California to the Aztecs.

00:47:07.780 All this is to say, for the past several years, there hasn't been a single issue, not a single one,

00:47:13.360 where the average conservative voter would find any point of agreement with the average leftist on

00:47:18.940 Blue Sky. And it was impossible to imagine a scenario where that might change as Blue Sky

00:47:23.580 drifted further and further off the reservation and into leftist oblivion. And yet, contrary to all

00:47:30.340 expectations, and indeed even you would say the laws of physics, one man has just done the impossible.

00:47:36.140 He has managed somehow to bring this great and seemingly insurmountable divide and to bridge it.

00:47:41.580 And that man, suitably enough, is not a mere mortal like you or me. Instead, the heroic unifier is a

00:47:49.380 former daytime CNN anchor and White House correspondent by the name of Jim Acosta. Now, back when Acosta was

00:47:55.100 on the air, many observers doubted his intelligence, his morality, his capacity to accomplish anything

00:48:00.780 notable whatsoever in his entire life, and so on. But yesterday, all those observers fell silent.

00:48:06.500 And that's because Jim Acosta posted this message on both X and Blue Sky, quote,

00:48:11.400 a show you don't want to miss at 4 p.m. Eastern. I'll be having a one of a kind interview with

00:48:15.460 Joaquin Oliver. He died in the Parkland school shooting in 2018, but his parents have created

00:48:20.400 an AI version of their son to deliver a powerful message on gun violence. And then beneath the

00:48:27.280 message, Jim Acosta posted this excerpt from the interview, apparently as a kind of teaser.

00:48:31.880 Watch. I would like to know what your solution would be for gun violence.

00:48:40.340 Great question. I believe in a mix of stronger gun control laws, mental health support, and

00:48:45.000 community engagement. We need to create safe spaces for conversations and connections,

00:48:49.800 making sure everyone feels seen and heard. It's about building a culture of kindness and

00:48:54.280 understanding. What do you think about that?

00:48:56.300 I think that's a great idea, Joaquin.

00:48:57.980 Now, Acosta later posted a link to the full interview with this AI chatbot, and we'll play

00:49:03.360 a little bit of that. Notice that the AI constantly finishes its robotic answers with a question for

00:49:09.780 Jim Acosta to keep the conversation going, exactly like ChatGPT or Grok do. It's as stilted as it could

00:49:16.400 possibly be. And then at the end, Acosta announces that it's exactly like talking to a human being.

00:49:22.500 Grok, I want to know what your favorite basketball team is.

00:49:25.340 I'd probably go with the Miami Heat. They have such a passionate fan base and an exciting playing

00:49:30.460 style. How about you? Do you have a favorite basketball player?

00:49:34.720 Oh, yeah. I definitely like LeBron James. He's amazing.

00:49:39.160 LeBron is incredible. His skills on the court and his leadership off it are truly inspiring.

00:49:43.520 He's made such a huge impact in the game and beyond.

00:49:46.220 Definitely. Whenever LeBron is playing, I always have to watch him.

00:49:51.600 Hey, Joaquin, what about movies or TV shows? Was there a movie that you liked?

00:49:56.380 I love a good movie. One that really resonates with me is Remember the Titans.

00:50:00.780 It's all about teamwork, overcoming adversity, and the power of unity. It's inspiring.

00:50:05.400 What about you? Do you have a favorite movie or show?

00:50:09.260 Oh, I'm a big Star Wars fan for sure.

00:50:12.200 Star Wars is such an epic saga. The adventures, the characters, and that iconic music are unforgettable.

00:50:17.640 Do you have a favorite character?

00:50:19.400 Oh, it's got to be Luke Skywalker. I love Luke Skywalker. What about you?

00:50:24.140 Luke Skywalker is a classic hero. His journey from a farm boy to a Jedi is so inspiring.

00:50:29.220 I'd probably say Yoda is one of my favorites too. What do you love most about Luke?

00:50:32.880 I like that Luke became the hero. He came from a very small planet.

00:50:38.440 I have to say, I'm kind of speechless as to the technology there.

00:50:43.740 I mean, it was so insightful, and I really felt like I was speaking with Joaquin.

00:50:47.720 It's just a beautiful thing.

00:50:49.880 And with that footage, Acosta managed to unite both conservatives and leftists together 0.95

00:50:53.940 on Blue Sky, X, Facebook, everywhere else, to condemn him as a complete and total buffoon

00:51:00.520 who should never show his face in public ever again.

00:51:02.880 There is now unanimous agreement across both space and time among Antifa, the Proud Boys,

00:51:08.400 the Tea Party, the Green Party, that Jim Acosta should cancel whatever podcast he started

00:51:14.180 after he was fired from CNN, and that he should retire to an undisclosed location,

00:51:17.960 probably a cave, and disappear forever.

00:51:20.820 The commentator, Stephen Miller, assembled some of the reactions on Blue Sky to give you an idea.

00:51:26.140 Here's a selection of the greatest hits.

00:51:27.640 Hey, Jim, quick question. 0.90

00:51:29.420 What the F is wrong with you?

00:51:31.360 Grief makes you do crazy things. 0.73

00:51:32.800 Acosta has no excuse, though.

00:51:34.900 ChatGPT is not a sentient entity you can interview.

00:51:37.400 He's interviewing an appliance.

00:51:38.840 This is unconscionable, ghoulish, and manipulative.

00:51:41.240 How dehumanized do you have to be to think this was a good idea?

00:51:43.880 This is the AI version of Weekend at Bernie's, and they did a better job of animating a dead guy than this.

00:51:50.320 This is akin to grave robbing. 0.78

00:51:52.880 I don't usually comment on stuff like this, but this is beyond effed up and gross. 0.96

00:51:56.580 This is disgusting. 0.94

00:51:58.100 You should have more integrity than this. 1.00

00:51:59.940 You're talking to the simulacrum of a dead person.

00:52:03.580 And so on.

00:52:04.080 Now, there's no point in reading the comments on the other social media platforms besides Blue Sky because they're all the same.

00:52:12.140 Truly, this is a historic moment.

00:52:13.780 Every American, whether they're normal or crazy, straight or demi-queer, doesn't matter, can agree that the failed CNN anchor, Jim Acosta, needs to find another line of work immediately. 0.92

00:52:24.020 And it's not hard to see why this is happening.

00:52:25.720 First of all, no one wants to see any more of this.

00:52:28.500 We don't want to see Jim Acosta interview this next guy, for example.

00:52:34.160 A few years ago, I couldn't breathe.

00:52:36.740 But then I started taking this.

00:52:38.920 Comply.

00:52:39.740 Now I breathe just fine.

00:52:41.540 Side effects of comply may include dizziness, obedience, improved breathing during police encounters, and sudden respect for authority.

00:52:48.160 Do not resist while taking comply.

00:52:50.860 Ask your officer if comply is right for you.

00:52:53.380 No one wants to see the George Floyd AI getting interviewed, as entertaining as that may be.

00:53:01.520 There'd be no point.

00:53:02.240 And similarly, everything about Jim Acosta's real-life Black Mirror episode is disturbing, including the reasons the parents agreed to this creation of this AI thing to begin with.

00:53:12.920 Rolling Stone reports, quote,

00:53:14.040 The parents of Joaquin Oliver, one of the students killed in the 2018 Parkland High School shooting, have created an AI version of their late son, who partook in an interview with journalist Jim Acosta on Monday, August 4th.

00:53:24.940 The interview took place on what would have been Oliver's 25th birthday.

00:53:28.680 The conversation, which aired on Acosta's Substack, found the journalist essentially talking with an animated photo of Oliver with moving lips and other small gestures.

00:53:36.700 Oliver's father, Emmanuel, said in an interview with Acosta that the AI model was trained on general information as well as knowledge based on things that his son wrote, he said.

00:53:48.180 In his interview with Acosta, Oliver's father explained that his mother frequently interacts with this AI watch.

00:53:56.900 Also mentioned that I understand that this is AI.

00:54:01.900 I don't want anyone to think that I am in some way trying to bring my son back.

00:54:09.400 It's sadly, I can't.

00:54:12.680 Right.

00:54:12.900 I wish I could.

00:54:14.560 Yeah.

00:54:14.840 However, the technology is out there and we can, there's two things.

00:54:20.920 I can hear his voice again, which is something that Patricia loves.

00:54:24.840 Patricia will spend hours asking questions. 0.98

00:54:28.540 And she, like any other mothers, she loves to hear Joaquin saying, I love you, mommy, you know?

00:54:35.900 Oh my gosh.

00:54:37.220 And that's, and that's important.

00:54:39.640 And on the other hand, we can just raise our voices.

00:54:42.280 And, and now Joaquin is going to start having followers.

00:54:46.080 It's not Manny.

00:54:47.180 It's not Patricia.

00:54:47.920 He's going to start uploading videos.

00:54:51.640 This is just the beginning.

00:54:53.180 And I heard this from, from tech guys that have other intentions that moving forward, we will have Joaquin on stage in the middle of a debate.

00:55:04.260 Wow.

00:55:04.940 And his knowledge, you saw it, his knowledge is unlimited.

00:55:11.260 And it's based on knowledge that is out there through artificial intelligence, but also knowledge that we were able to upload based on things that he wrote, he said, he posted.

00:55:24.880 So this is a very legit Joaquin, the one that has spoken to you.

00:55:29.840 He really loves Star Wars.

00:55:31.180 He really loved LeBron and he really loved the Miami Heat.

00:55:33.900 Now, three points need to be made here.

00:55:36.040 First of all, reducing a human being to utterly banal traits like this, you know, love of Star Wars.

00:55:42.240 He liked basketball is dehumanizing and extremely depressing.

00:55:46.800 We are not checkboxes.

00:55:49.100 Even the most uninteresting person on the planet is way more interesting than they're describing the way that they are describing and presenting Oliver, who I'm sure was a vibrant and complex and interesting human being when he was alive.

00:56:01.700 But this AI sock puppet version is not and never can be.

00:56:08.520 Secondly, if the idea is to put this AI on stage for a debate to add to the conversation about gun safety with its unlimited knowledge, then this AI is utterly terrible at its job.

00:56:21.240 In that interview, the AI was asked about its ideas to reduce gun violence.

00:56:26.760 And its response was, quote, I believe in a mix of stronger gun control laws, mental health support and community engagement.

00:56:31.840 We need to create safe spaces for conversations and connections, making sure everyone feels seen and heard.

00:56:36.540 So the AI just produced the least interesting series of cliches imaginable and just vomited them out one by one.

00:56:46.140 If you set a human being down and told him to produce meaningless word salad for about 20 seconds, you'd be hard pressed to come up with a worse answer.

00:56:55.520 And this is supposedly one of the main reasons they created this AI.

00:57:00.540 Now, as to the second purpose of the AI, to give this person's parents the illusion that their son is still alive, that is by far the most disturbing part of all of this.

00:57:09.540 We're told that his mother spends hours talking to this AI, which is very sad.

00:57:14.920 And I feel very sorry for her.

00:57:16.380 And it strongly suggests, of course, that this family hasn't come to terms with the fact that Joaquin is actually dead.

00:57:23.780 It's obviously a tragedy that he was killed, but no man and certainly no computer can bring him back to Earth.

00:57:30.080 The people who created Oliver, presumably, find that outcome to be so bleak and incomprehensible that they feel compelled to run away from it, which is understandable on an emotional level.

00:57:39.400 I mean, I can only imagine how I would respond if, God forbid, I lost a child.

00:57:42.600 But this is not the way, and it should not be normalized or accepted at all.

00:57:49.800 We cannot bring our deceased loved ones back from the dead.

00:57:52.740 We don't have that power.

00:57:54.800 As with all attempts to assume the role of the divine, this effort is a tragic failure.

00:58:00.580 It can't convince even the most delusional fringe elements on the left.

00:58:05.300 The only person who's even feigning interest is Jim Acosta, alone in his home, sitting in front of a webcam, desperate for an audience that he never had.

00:58:12.600 This does not honor anyone's memory.

00:58:15.240 It doesn't come close to approximating the traits that made this person unique.

00:58:19.880 In the end, the only purpose this AI chatbot serves is to remind us all that we are not gods, and computers are not people, and we should never pretend otherwise on either account.

00:58:31.320 And that is why Jim Acosta and his interview with an AI posing as a reincarnated human being are today canceled.

00:58:40.860 That'll do it for the show today.

00:58:42.160 Thanks for watching.

00:58:42.640 Thanks for listening.

00:58:43.180 Talk to you tomorrow.

00:58:43.880 Have a great day.

00:58:44.720 Godspeed.

00:58:45.060 Today on the Ben Shapiro Show, bisexual, queer, black woman Cynthia Erivo plays the world's weirdest version of Jesus Christ and Jesus Christ Superstar. 1.00

00:58:58.940 As Hollywood erupts over the revelation that Sidney Sweeney is a registered Republican, the stock market bounces back in preparation for a Federal Reserve interest rate cut, and Democrats continue their flight from Texas.

00:59:08.980 That's today on the Ben Shapiro Show.

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The Matt Walsh Show - August 05, 2025

Ep. 1635 - Here’s The Horrifying Proof That All Cultures Are Not Equal

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