Ep. 1644 - This Case Is An Insane Miscarriage Of Justice
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A man will spend the next 50 years of his life in prison after shooting and killing a car thief. This case is an absurd miscarriage of justice, and we ll do a deep dive into it today. Also, as war is brewing with Venezuela, we ll discuss that a man is left beaten and bloodied after asking a group of teens to quiet down in a movie theater. Plus, Cracker Barrel unveils their exciting new rebrand. Of course, as always, rebranding just means making everything ugly and generic. We ll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, a man will spend the next 50 years of his life in prison after
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shooting and killing a car thief. This case is an absurd miscarriage of justice. We'll do a deep
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dive into it today. Also, as war brewing with Venezuela, we'll discuss that a man is left
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beaten and bloodied after asking a group of teens to quiet down in a movie theater. Plus, Cracker
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Barrel unveils their exciting new rebrand. Of course, as always, rebranding just means making
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off your first order. If you've ever been forced to take a concealed carry class,
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the odds are pretty good that you thought the entire thing was a waste of time. These classes
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are designed to make firearm ownership more of a hassle and more expensive so that you give up on
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the idea of owning a gun. To the extent you receive any instruction at all, you're told some very basic
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rules of self-defense. And the most important rule of all, of course, is that you can't use lethal force
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unless you have a reasonable belief that you or someone else is in imminent danger of death or serious
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bodily injury. So if someone is running away with your property, even if it's your car,
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you can't shoot them. This is one of those rules that pretty much everyone is familiar with. If you
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watch crime shows or pay attention to the news, you understand the concept as well as anyone.
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You'd like to believe that this is, this is one of those fundamental common law principles that we
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carried over from England and that Western societies have always had some kind of general rule like
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this. But that's not remotely true. In fact, the opposite is true. As recently as the 1980s,
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yes, the 1980s, the law of self-defense was very different in this country. Now, until the commentator
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Jeremy Kaufman mentioned this the other day, I didn't really realize this, but it's an incredible
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piece of history that everyone should be aware of. So here's where it started. A little before 11 p.m.
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on October 3rd, 1974, two Memphis police officers were dispatched to a residential neighborhood to
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investigate a prowler. And once they arrived, a witness told them that someone had just broken
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into a house next door. One of the officers went around the back of the house to investigate.
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And at that point, the officer saw someone named Edward Garner running across the backyard
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and attempting to scale a six foot high chain link fence. Now, from the officer's perspective,
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Garner was about five foot, seven inches tall, roughly 17 years old and unarmed. In reality,
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it turned out he was 15. He wasn't directly threatening anyone at that precise moment,
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as far as the officer could tell. But nevertheless, the officer was concerned that Garner, who had
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probably just broken into a house, would escape into the neighborhood if he made it over the fence.
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The officer recognized that burglary is a serious crime and it was important to prevent the suspect
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from getting away. So within seconds, the officer shot Garner in the back of the head and killed him.
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Now, very quickly, the Memphis Firearms Review Board and a local grand jury looked at this case
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and they cleared the officer. And that's because Tennessee at the time had a law which allowed
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police to use any means necessary, including lethal force, to effect a lawful arrest for a serious crime.
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Years later, when the case wound up in a federal district court because the burglar's family filed a
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lawsuit, the law was upheld. The court held that Garner had, quote, recklessly and heedlessly
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attempted to vault over the fence to escape, thereby assuming the risk of being fired upon.
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That was the law of the United States, as understood by federal courts, as of 1985.
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If you run away after committing a felony, then it's legal for the police officers to shoot you.
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The idea was that even if you weren't pointing a gun at someone at a particular moment, the mere fact
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that you had committed a serious crime by itself made you a threat as you ran away from the scene.
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And more than half of the states in the country had similar laws in the books.
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And indeed, the common law tradition dating back centuries was that felons were fair game,
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even if they were running away. In fact, all the way back in the year 1285, there was a famous law
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in Winchester, England that actually required communities of private individuals to chase
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and apprehend felons who fled the scene. And if the private citizens didn't catch the felon one way
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or another, the community itself would be held liable for the damages caused by the felon's crime.
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So it wasn't just the police who had this obligation. Everybody did.
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Now, deterrence, of course, was the main rationale for this kind of policy. That's been true for
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centuries. And it was true in states like Tennessee prior to 1985. After all, if felons know they can be
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killed on the spot, if they commit a serious crime, then they'll commit fewer crimes. And the
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idea was that criminals have no right to commit crimes in the first place. So the moment they make
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the decision to commit the crime, they forfeit most of the legal protections that law-abiding
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citizens enjoy, which is why in most places in the world for most of history, including in this
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country, it was perfectly legal to shoot someone who was in the middle of committing a crime or who
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had just committed a crime. And that made a lot of sense. The logic was, okay, don't want to get
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shot? Well, don't commit a crime. Don't want to get shot? Don't try to steal my car. Don't break into
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my house. You decided to do that. Now the law is not going to protect you. Sorry. And that was the
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attitude for really most of the history of human civilization. And it's pretty simple.
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But on appeal in 1985, the Supreme Court decided to overturn all of this precedent. They held for
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the first time that under our constitution, fleeing suspects can't be shot unless they're posing a clear
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imminent danger, as in pointing a gun directly at somebody's head or running with a gun, brandishing
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it into a crowd of people, carrying a nuclear bomb or whatever. Something like that. This ruling had the
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effect of instantly overruling half of the states in the country on this point. It was arguably as
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undemocratic as some of the worst decisions in the Supreme Court's history, including Roe v. Wade.
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But no one really talks about it. And indeed, this is a decision that you've probably never heard about
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in any context, but it's one of the most important and catastrophic Supreme Court decisions that's ever
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been issued. It places a constitutional burden on police officers to carefully assess whether a violent
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criminal is supposedly an imminent threat at any particular moment. If you shoot a second too
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early or too late, then your life is over. So what has happened is that the burden, you know, when
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someone decides to commit a crime, they've created this burden. They've created this very difficult
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situation. They've created it through their own actions. But now, whereas before, the burden was on the
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criminal and the attitude was, well, you decided to do this. So if you get shot, that's your problem.
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Now we've taken that burden and we transit it from the criminal over to the police officer or the
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private citizen. Which means for the most part, you're expected to watch as thugs commit crimes
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with impunity. Meanwhile, some of the worst people in the country were given a massive incentive to
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commit more crimes knowing full well that no one's allowed to shoot them. They get the benefit of the
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doubt under this new system. That really is what it is. For most of human history, in a case where
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someone gets killed while committing a crime or after committing a crime, the benefit of the doubt
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is always going to go to the police officer or the private citizen who was trying to apprehend them
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or prevent them. Now the benefit of the doubt goes to the criminal and the criminals take full
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advantage of it. This is a ruling that made this country far more dangerous than it ever was before
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and everyone can understand why. While the court's decision in Garner's case only applied to police
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officers, it had a significant impact on how states saw the private right of self-defense as well,
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as well as how they handled citizens' arrests and that sort of thing. And it laid the groundwork for
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a new pattern of discrimination in the judicial system. Specifically, it led to a wave of prosecutions
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of police officers and private citizens who used deadly force against fleeing felons. It also
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contributed to the decline of citizens' arrest laws all over the country. And it just so happens that
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again and again, white defendants who violate the Supreme Court's revised rule on self-defense as of
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1985 tend to face extremely long prison sentences. But non-white defendants are often given much more
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lenient sentences, even when they commit indefensible acts of violence. And here's the latest example.
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It involves a 29-year-old former Space Force sergeant named Oerst Schur. Around 11 p.m. on July 5th of
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2023, Schur, who is not a police officer, was sleeping in his home in Aurora, Colorado, near the Buckley Space
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Force base. And that's when he heard the car alarm going off on his wife's Hyundai Elantra. Now, this is
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important. This was the third time that someone had tried to steal a car from his home.
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So Schur grabbed his pistol, went outside, where he saw two people, dressed in all black, trying to break
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into his wife's car. And so far, it's a story that sounds very similar to what happened to Jamie White, the
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Infowars reporter who was recently murdered in Austin when he tried to confront his car thieves. But when Schur
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confronted the people trying to break into his wife's car, there was a different outcome. The criminals fled in a
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separate stolen vehicle. Now, in pre-1985 America, which is to say for the vast majority of the history
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of this country and the world, Schur would have had every right to pursue those two criminals. And in
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this case, that's exactly what he did. He didn't want to wait for a fourth attack on his home. He was
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tired of this constantly happening. He's tired of living with this lawlessness, as most law-abiding
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citizens are. So he got into the Elantra and he chased them. And as he did so, he fired several
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shots into the getaway car, ultimately causing it to crash just a few blocks away. When the occupants
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attempted to escape on foot, he continued to fire. And at that point, he killed 14-year-old Xavier Daniel
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Kirk and injured his 13-year-old accomplice. And neither of the teenagers were carrying firearms,
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apparently. Now, whatever you think of this man's actions, it shouldn't be controversial to point out
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that in all likelihood, he probably saved the community from having to deal with a lot of
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future criminal activity and violence. The two teenagers he shot were habitual car thieves.
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Their parents completely failed them. The criminal justice system would have given them a slap on the
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wrist, assuming the police ever got around to arresting them, which they probably wouldn't have done.
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And then most likely they would have continued committing more crimes into adulthood until one way or
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another, somebody died. I mean, that's how these things always go. And we all know that's true.
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And if we're living in a country that values the rule of law, then we should be able to acknowledge
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that. Say that out loud without any reservations. Even if you condemn what Scherr did, legally or
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morally, you should still be able to acknowledge this. It's just a statistical reality. But states like
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Colorado see things differently. Therefore, in one of the most farcical court proceedings you'll ever see,
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Oris Scherr was just sentenced to 54 years in prison. He's not going to be eligible for parole until his 70s.
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For shooting these two criminals, his life is now over. Because he was fed up of three times people are trying
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to steal his car, finally did something about it. His life is over. And as we'll discuss in a minute, this is a
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wildly disproportionate sentence when you compare it to other cases. But before we get into that, it needs to be said that
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this whole trial was nauseating in every possible respect. People in Colorado had to watch several
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pouty-faced news anchors lamenting the death of this, you know, 14-year-old boy as if he was a
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treasured asset of the local community. And then came the victim impact statements at sentencing.
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54 years in prison. That's the sentence handed down today for the U.S. Space Force sergeant who shot and
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killed a 14-year-old boy in July 2023. Prosecutors say Oris Scherr chased and then gunned down 14-year-old
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Xavier Kirk and his 13-year-old friend on the night of July 5th, 2023, after reporting they stole his card.
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And I'm Jessica Porter. Kirk later died from a gunshot wound to the back and neck. The 13-year-old was also
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shot in the back and survived. An Arapahoe County jury found Scherr guilty of second-degree murder two
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months ago back in June. And today we heard victim impact statements from family members of Kirk.
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We also heard from Savior's friend who was there that night and also shot by Scherr for the first time
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Today was a hard day. I mean, it's been, it's been a long two years.
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I just, I just keep thinking like everybody was going up there talking about how great he was and
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how good of a father he was. But then the thought that crosses my mind right after is if that's the
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case, then why isn't Xavier here if he was just such a great person? The whole sentencing went like
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this, of course. Watch. Yeah. Xavier Kirk's family and friends packed the courtroom today. They say they
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feel like this, a 54-year sentence was justice served, though they will still have to live with
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the grief that they carry with them every day for the rest of their lives. And we got to hear some of
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those emotional statements today. I'm happy that he's finally put behind bars for killing my son,
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even though I wish he would have got 80 years. But at the end of the day, he's still locked up
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and my son got justice. A sense of justice for Xavier Kirk's family and friends after former
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U.S. Space Force Sergeant Orist Shore was sentenced to 54 years in prison.
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Well, you know, a sense of justice would actually involve that mother being thrown in prison.
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She somehow managed to raise a career criminal who wasn't even 15 years old.
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I mean, it cannot be overstated just how horrible of a mother you have to be for your 14-year-old son
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to already be a habitual career criminal. And that is or should be a crime all by itself.
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It doesn't happen without an extraordinary amount of terrible, unforgivably bad parenting.
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But again, this woman is telling us how to define justice, and we're supposed to listen to that.
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And things didn't end there. Somehow the victim impact statements, as they're called,
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became even more embarrassing as the proceedings went along. Watch.
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Shackled in an inmate-striped jumpsuit, Orist Shore heard from those who he devastated.
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I can't express enough how much pain and grief that we're going to for two years to pass by
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and still having the absence of my nephew. And the memories that we have of him will be cherished forever.
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Each recounted July 6, 2023, the night Xavier Kirk, just 14, was shot and killed.
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His friend survived a gunshot to the back. The duo had attempted to take a car that wasn't theirs,
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You know, kids make, you know, make mistakes. And so I always teach my kids and my family,
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like my nephews and nieces, about consequences and repercussions.
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We're not trying to excuse any wrongdoing that, Xavier, or Ron we're involved in.
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The part that's messed up is that Orist Shore's car was never stolen.
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Yes, the part that's messed up is that Orist Shore's car was never stolen.
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The fact that Orist Shore woke up, went outside, and interrupted the car thief is what's messed up.
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That's the part of the story that, you know, really is supposed to blow our mind, I guess.
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Meanwhile, the fact that you have a 14-year-old and a 13-year-old dressed in all black,
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stealing every car they can find, is just a mistake.
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But a kid that age doesn't make a mistake like that, after all.
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One minute they're hiding the silverware and taking cookies from the cookie jar,
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and next minute they're committing grand theft auto.
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What could the parents possibly have done to prevent this?
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And practically everyone at the sentencing made that same claim.
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Though they never took the car, Shur chased them down, gunning down the unarmed teens.
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Even the judge said, Shur, a discharged soldier should have known not to take lethal action that night.
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Kids make mistakes, but adultery is supposed to be the ones to guide us through it.
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The prosecution read a statement from the boy who survived.
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I'm not proud of that, and I've had to live with the consequences of that choice.
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But no mistake, especially one that didn't involve any violence should ever lead to someone being hunted down, shot, and killed.
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And no matter what we did that night, I didn't deserve to be shot, and Xavier did not deserve to die.
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What punishment do you deserve if you dressed up in all black and tried to steal someone's car?
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If you don't deserve to get shot, then what should happen to you?
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If you take someone's car, in many cases, you're seriously impacting their life.
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So what should the punishment be for doing that repeatedly to other people?
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And if there were real, and as an extension of that question, if there were real punishments, like maybe part of the problem is that there aren't, there aren't.
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So you're saying, well, the punishment shouldn't be this.
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Because the problem right now is that there's no punishment.
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That you've got these, you know, kids, these teens, quote unquote, running around committing crimes, and there's zero punishment.
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So maybe we need to take a look at that as well.
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What is clear is that Western nations are suddenly having a very difficult time answering all these questions.
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In Canada, a 44-year-old homeowner is now facing aggravated assault charges for beating up a thug who broke into his home.
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They arrested a man for defending himself against a home evasion.
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Apparently, the idea is that the man who lived in the home took things too far by sending the home invader to the hospital.
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He should have just allowed himself to get murdered, I guess.
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That's the position that the CBC, which is Canada's state media, is taking.
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Now, for his part, Doug Ford, who runs Ontario, just spoke out about the case.
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So this criminal that's wanted by the police breaks into this guy's house.
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I know if someone breaks into my house or someone else's,
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You're going to use any force you possibly can to protect your family.
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He'd beat the living crap out of the guy, as he should.
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Violence and breaking in people's homes, putting guns in their heads.
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So we're going to let him out on bail five more times because he's on his fifth, you know, being let out on bail five times just to go do the same thing the next day.
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So what's going to change and how is it going to change exactly?
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In 1985, when the punishment for committing felonies was lethal force, the Supreme Court explained that we were savages.
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We were terrible people for allowing criminals to be shot in the back, even when they weren't posing an imminent threat or whatever.
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So what system do we have now in the United States?
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Do we have an improvement over the system from 1985?
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New developments in a story we've been covering closely for months.
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A judge handed the youngest girl in that deadly carjacking near Nats Park the maximum sentence.
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Two girls killed Uber Eats driver Mohamed Anwar in that crash.
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She'll be in youth detention for the next seven years.
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And as our Bruce Lashan reports, she has to be released when she turns 21.
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Prosecutors say that the girl has shown no remorse.
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Even muttering to herself when she thought no one was listening about the man she had just killed.
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If you'd just given me my blanking phone, you'd still be alive.
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But no, you wouldn't put my damn phone in your pocket.
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Prosecutors say she may have been the younger of the two teen carjackers, but they say she was just as responsible.
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Lying to bystanders who had come to help Mohamed Anwar, they say, grabbing the steering wheel, jamming the Honda Ford into gear, and yelling at the other girl to go.
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Prosecutors say Anwar was crushed when the car door slammed into a tree box and killed when he was thrown to the sidewalk right in front of the ballpark when the girls made a sharp right turn and flipped the car on its driver's side.
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He asked the judge to detain her for just four more years until she turns 18, suggesting she has impulse control issues and has become more thoughtful about her actions since the tragedy.
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So she brutally murders an Uber Eats driver in broad daylight and steals the car.
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One of the most horrific crimes imaginable, the man's drag to his death on camera, entire family's destroyed, she has no remorse whatsoever.
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Her lawyer's best defense is that she has issues with impulse control, and after all that, she gets a seven-year sentence.
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I mean, even if you're playing devil's advocate, is there any logic behind this whatsoever?
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And there are many, many cases along these lines.
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This is about a shooting that took place shortly after the George Floyd hysteria began.
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Quote, William Wilson, a biracial black man, fired his legal handgun at a pickup truck of white teens who he says were yelling racial slurs at him and trying to run him off and his white girlfriend off the road near Statesboro, Georgia.
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One of those bullets struck and killed 17-year-old Haley Hutchinson, who was in the backseat of the truck.
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The shooter told police that he had seen, quote, a truck full of white males driving the car at me and are flipping me off and yelling racial slurs.
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So in response, he shot and killed an unarmed 17-year-old woman, someone who was in the backseat of the truck.
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As it turns out, he received 10 years in prison, with the potential to be released several years earlier.
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So on the one hand, you have a Space Force sergeant shooting criminals committing grand theft auto.
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On the other hand, you have a black man shooting a white 17-year-old woman who, by his account, was a passenger in a car that was shouting nasty words at him.
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One of those crimes is punished by 54 years in prison.
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The other barely gets less than 20% of that sentence.
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C.C. McDonald is a man who identifies as a woman.
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He stabbed and killed an unarmed 47-year-old man named Dean Schmitz.
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After an altercation involving allegedly transphobic insults and some physical contact,
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C.C. used scissors to penetrate the victim's chest three inches deep, puncturing his heart.
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When police arrived, C.C. reportedly claimed that the man had charged into the scissors and impaled himself,
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He pleaded to manslaughter, received just 41 months in jail.
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He got fewer months than Orist Schur got years.
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And now he's received a whole bunch of, you know, awards from the LGBT industry and all of that.
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Even if we concede that the Space Force sergeant's case doesn't qualify under the current law of self-defense,
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Our system of laws provides that prosecutors and judges have an extraordinary amount of discretion
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when they're deciding how to charge and how to sentence criminal defendants.
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And this discretion is used all the time in the name of compassion for violent criminals,
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In every case, compassion only applies to the worst and most dangerous kinds of people.
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In this country, you'll be punished more severely for killing someone who's trying to steal your car
00:27:40.300
than you'll be punished for killing someone while trying to steal their car.
00:27:47.940
And if you don't see the fundamental problem with that dynamic, I don't know how else to explain it.
00:27:54.320
So even if you think that this guy shouldn't have done it, it was terrible,
00:27:58.580
okay, well, why can't he get, why can't he get the same kind of slap on the wrist,
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compassionate sentence that we give to actual violent murderers all the time?
00:28:07.980
Probation, time served, manslaughter, pled down.
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The worst people in the country get those kinds of deals all the time,
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and then they let out back on the street and they kill more people.
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Does anyone really think that if Orist Schur was released, that he'd be a threat?
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No matter how you feel about what he did, you condemn it, you think it was wrong.
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I'd be worried about living next to him and then breaking into his house or stealing his car.
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But I wouldn't be worried at all about having a guy like that in my neighborhood.
00:28:48.940
I mean, this is a guy that's shown that he's willing to use violent force to defend himself against people
00:28:56.420
So, in fact, if anything, I'd probably feel safer with him with a guy like that in the neighborhood.
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And yet, we give these light sentences all the time to people who, we all agree,
00:29:09.440
The kind of person where they commit a crime that, okay, you release them,
00:29:12.560
like they're almost certainly going to commit more crimes.
00:29:14.140
Is that the system of justice that the Supreme Court had in mind 40 years ago
00:29:19.700
when they ruled that criminals should be allowed to rob houses and then jump fences to escape?
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And if there's ever been a moment to revisit this travesty,
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as the Supreme Court has revisited many other terrible rulings in its history,
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then the case of Space Force Sergeant Orris Schur presents the perfect opportunity.
00:29:41.900
54 years in prison for this crime, when so many other violent degenerates are walking free,
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is so obviously absurd and unjustifiable that it violates our Constitution,
00:29:50.380
as well as our basic sense of morality and justice.
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He may have violated the laws, as it currently stands.
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But if you're pretending to put on a sad face when you talk about the criminals he shot
00:30:02.000
as you defend the constant release of violent carjackers into American communities,
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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced on Monday the deployment of 4.5 million militiamen
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militiamen throughout the country, assuring that no empire will touch the sacred soil
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of Venezuela after the U.S. doubled the reward for information leading to its arrest and increased
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the number of troops sailing around Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Last week, the U.S. government confirmed to CNN that it had ordered naval movements in
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the region to contain the threat from drug trafficking groups.
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On Monday, Reuters reported that three U.S. Navy destroyers and some 4,000 military personnel
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would arrive at the edge of Venezuela's territorial waters within the next 36 hours.
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On Tuesday, a U.S. Department of Defense official said there are currently no ships in the area,
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White House Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt was asked Tuesday about a possible troop deployment
00:32:53.860
She said, President Donald Trump has been very clear and consistent.
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He's prepared to use every element of American power to stop drugs from flooding into our country
00:33:03.620
So tensions are rising between the U.S. and Venezuela.
00:33:06.020
Trump is sending U.S. warships to the waters just off Venezuela.
00:33:10.900
The Venezuelan dictator Maduro is not happy, telling us that we better not dare step on
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And the media are claiming that we're on the verge of war.
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Drudge had a big headline yesterday, war with Venezuela, question mark.
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And I will say, as the non-interventionist guy who famously doesn't care about other countries
00:33:33.780
and doesn't want to get involved in their problems as the American chauvinist,
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not just America first, but America chauvinist,
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I fully support what Trump is doing here because this is America first.
00:33:53.480
American chauvinism is not just we're first, it's we're better than all of you,
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which is the attitude you should have about your own country.
00:34:03.040
So we're going to use our strength, our power to impose our will for the sake of our national
00:34:07.240
interests and to protect our country and our people.
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That's how American might, American force should be used.
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There's a reason I've never described myself as anti-war.
00:34:22.540
There are a lot of non-interventionist types who I often agree with.
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And I find myself agreeing with them on issues all the time.
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They'll frame the argument against, say, U.S. involvement in Ukraine
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or U.S. attacks on Iran at the behest of Israel.
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And I think that's wrong because being anti-war is stupid.
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I'm against someone getting robbed and killed, but that's not because I'm anti-violence.
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I'm anti-unjust violence inflicted against innocent people.
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But if the guy doing the robbing and killing was himself killed in the process,
00:35:11.660
The violence inflicted on him, that violence would be good.
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Now, I don't think the U.S. will go to war with Venezuela.
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Venezuela will have no choice but to do what we tell them.
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They're a small, weak, pathetic, puny, poor country.
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A war with Venezuela would last about four minutes.
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But I am in favor of using force, using American might, American warships to get what we want.
00:35:39.300
Because in this case, what we want is to protect ourselves, our homeland, our people,
00:35:44.620
which is very different from getting involved in far-flung conflicts for the sake of the national interests of other countries.
00:35:54.500
All right, a Harvard researcher found himself bruised and bloodied after trying to tell a group of quote-unquote teens,
00:36:04.240
just teens as the media calls them, to stop being loud in a movie theater.
00:36:09.340
Told them to stop being loud, and they didn't like that.
00:36:12.420
And so apparently they waited for him after the movie, and they blocked his exit, and they beat him to a pulp.
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That's why 35-year-old Tiago Renz, a Harvard researcher from Brazil, has this black eye.
00:36:30.340
He says it happened early Thursday morning inside the Boston Common AMC Theater.
00:36:35.260
A group of teenagers were being loud, clapping, and screaming, so he asked them to be quiet.
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I asked them to leave the theater because we just wanted to watch the movie.
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After the 9.45 p.m. horror movie Weapons finished,
00:36:54.480
the violence offscreen started as the crowd was leaving the second floor theater.
00:36:59.100
They made like a wall, so I tried to pass, to leave, and they couldn't let me pass.
00:37:07.060
His friend didn't want to show her face, but tells us what she remembers seeing and hearing.
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Let's go outside to solve this. That's what I remember. When I looked back, they were already
00:37:19.940
In the head. And then like, I saw four. I think there were more. I think five, maybe.
00:37:25.540
I was like scared, and I just faced the wall, and I just protected my face and my head.
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His friend ran for help, but had no luck at first. Eventually, she found a cleaning lady
00:37:39.460
who led them to a security guard. Then after 30 minutes or more, the police came to get my
00:37:46.500
statement. According to the police report, Rent said he was assaulted at 12.15. When officers arrived
00:37:52.480
around 12.45, they noticed a minor injury to his nose. The report also says it should be noted the
00:37:59.280
victim was already seen by Boston EMS prior to the officer's arrival. The theater doors were locked
00:38:05.360
when police arrived, so they couldn't get a statement.
00:38:07.960
So, uh, the quote-unquote teens were being loud and obnoxious during the movie, during the movie
00:38:14.380
Weapons. Decent film, by the way. I actually saw that last week, and, um, interesting story told in a
00:38:21.900
creative and unique way. Surprisingly funny, actually. It's a build as a horror movie. I didn't think it was
00:38:27.720
really that scary. It's disturbing. More disturbing than scary in certain parts.
00:38:32.160
Um, if you're squeamish about violence in movies, if you're squeamish about gore, then definitely
00:38:36.220
don't watch it. There's not a lot of violence, but it's, it, there are a few bursts of violence in
00:38:40.440
the film that are pretty intense and, uh, disturbing. Overall, though, it's, uh, uh, you know, I, I give it
00:38:46.660
a two thumbs up. It's, it's a net positive when original films, original stories are doing well in the
00:38:52.360
box office. I'm, I'm always happy to see that. Even if I don't like the movie, just to have an
00:38:57.060
original film doing well, is that's, that's a good sign. And I did like this movie. I thought
00:39:01.760
it was good. Anyway, um, what were we talking about? Yeah. Well, it's, it's, it's, um, net positive
00:39:09.060
to have a movie like this in theaters. Not a net positive, though, when you can't watch the movie
00:39:12.900
because teens are ruining the experience for everybody. Um, and here's my question.
00:39:22.220
Anyone who's been to a theater recently has probably experienced something like this.
00:39:25.520
Um, hopefully not getting assaulted, but the theater going experience has been ruined
00:39:32.140
because of this sort of thing. And if you've ever been in a theater where there's an unruly
00:39:36.740
group of quote unquote teens, you know, you've, you've looked around and you've asked the same
00:39:43.140
question that everyone else is asking that I'm sure this guy was asking before he decided
00:39:46.640
to speak up, which is why is this being allowed? Why are you allowing this? You're a theater.
00:39:54.540
This is your private property. Why are you just letting this happen? Where is security?
00:39:59.980
Where are the police? Why aren't these people being escorted out of the building?
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Instead, they're allowed to carry on this way while everyone else just sits and takes it.
00:40:08.940
Or you can speak up and say something, but then you run the risk of getting gang tackled and
00:40:13.640
pummeled, which is what happened to this guy. So it's really, it puts, it puts everybody else,
00:40:20.220
it puts the good, normal, decent people in an impossible situation
00:40:23.640
because you can sit and you can get up and leave. And so now you've just paid for a movie that you
00:40:31.040
can't even watch. Your night is ruined, right? You wanted to go out on a date with your girlfriend
00:40:35.300
and your wife and you set everything up. You got the babysitters and now you got your, your night
00:40:40.900
has to be over because of these hoodlums. Really? So that's not a great solution. Or you can try to
00:40:47.800
ignore them and just sit there and not say anything, but now it's ruining movie experience.
00:40:52.300
And also now you feel like, uh, you know, you feel like a wimp because you're not speaking up.
00:40:59.040
On the other hand, you know, if you do speak up, you know, it's going to be seven on one and you're
00:41:03.560
not John wick. So, uh, this is not an action movie and you're just going to get your ass beat.
00:41:08.460
Like that's, that's what, that's what happens in real life when seven people decide to assault you.
00:41:12.680
Um, so it, it, it, it puts normal, decent people in impossible situations and it doesn't have to
00:41:23.080
be this way. That is what makes it so incredibly frustrating. It doesn't have to be this way.
00:41:28.660
It would be easy to solve these kinds of problems. Easy. Actually not to, it's not one of those things
00:41:36.620
where it's a difficult problem to solve. It's a, there's a lot of, it's not difficult. It's actually
00:41:40.220
really easy when people are, we could make it so that you didn't have public nuisances like this
00:41:46.220
anymore. We can do that overnight easily. No problem. When people are being public nuisances,
00:41:52.100
uh, causing a disturbance, you kick them out. And if they refuse to leave, which probably they will,
00:42:00.180
then you arrest them. We have prisons in this society. We have police officers, we have prisons,
00:42:05.660
we have jail. We, you know, we have, we, we, we have a way of dealing with this. And so we could
00:42:11.300
do that as a society. We could arrest these people, charge them with crimes, real crimes,
00:42:15.200
real consequences. I don't care if they're unruly teens. Oh, he's only 16 years old. Okay. You're,
00:42:22.460
you're, you're part of an unruly crowd, um, causing a disturbance, refusing to leave.
00:42:27.980
There's, I mean, be creative. You could come up with like 20 different charges to put on someone
00:42:36.000
like that. If you wanted to get creative, rather than being creative the other way to find ways to
00:42:41.060
not charge these people, find ways to charge them, find extra things to charge them with.
00:42:47.600
Find a way that if someone causes a scene like that at the movie theater,
00:42:50.140
that they're going to be in jail for like the next year. They just like cause real problems in their
00:42:55.700
lives because they decided to act this way. We could do that as a society. That's easy.
00:43:02.720
When you have someone acting like this, charge them with crimes, real crimes, real consequences.
00:43:07.000
And the next time you have a group of teens causing a disturbance in a movie theater,
00:43:10.360
arrest them too. Just keep arresting them, punish them, punish them severely. And if you do that and
00:43:16.680
you do it consistently, the behavior will stop. It really is that simple. It's a, it's a,
00:43:20.000
it is a choice to allow this stuff. We can make a different choice as a society. We can,
00:43:23.780
you know, we can talk about cultural factors and other things leading to this sort of behavior.
00:43:29.240
No fathers in the home and blah, blah, blah. But I, you know, that's not a, that's, that's real.
00:43:34.660
Those are real problems. But the most basic problem, the reason we get this bad behavior
00:43:40.340
is that it is not punished. So when we're trying to assess, why is this happening? Why are people
00:43:47.760
acting like this? Why can't I go to a movie theater anymore without having to deal with
00:43:51.600
this kind of stuff? We could spend all day dissecting all the reasons, but the number
00:43:57.260
one reason we don't need to get past number one on a list, which is the behavior is not being
00:44:06.600
Um, and it really is that simple, but we don't, what's going to happen to these teens
00:44:16.840
who not only causes disturbance, but physically assaulted someone, what's going to happen to
00:44:21.340
them? Will any of them face any real consequences at all? Will any of them spend more than a night
00:44:27.860
in jail? I think we all know the answer is no to that. It doesn't have to be no. It doesn't have to
00:44:34.760
be. You can make an example of them. You could say, okay, guess what guys? Congratulations.
00:44:41.320
We're going to do everything we can to make sure you're in jail for the next 10 years.
00:44:46.520
Oh, but you can't do that. I had plans for my life. I wanted to go play. Sorry. Well,
00:44:51.300
plans over plans canceled. Yeah. You just screwed your life up. Sorry. Too bad. Go cry about it.
00:44:57.300
We don't care. We're going to make you an example to the next group that comes along.
00:45:01.040
Um, we could do that. We used to do that. Um, speaking of crying over the weekend,
00:45:09.940
there was a, an emotional scene at a university of Nebraska football press conference. One of the
00:45:15.140
players, the punter named Archie Wilson started crying because he, uh, missed his, uh, his, uh,
00:45:22.400
misses his family is far away from his family and he misses them. And, uh, he got emotional about it.
00:45:27.780
Let's watch that. Yeah. I love, I love it. I love it a lot.
00:45:36.420
Yeah. I've, I've got two little brothers and my mom and dad and I, yeah, that's the tough part
00:45:41.140
about being here. I love them a lot and I miss them, but it's, uh, I mean, they know this is
00:45:46.680
what's best for me and it's, it's good. I can still talk to them plenty over the phone and they're
00:45:50.560
coming here to see the first, uh, first few games. So I'm looking forward to that.
00:46:00.640
Now a number of people reacted to this on X, including, including some women like Taylor
00:46:04.540
here who we'll put up on the screen. She wrote, wish men understood how attractive it is when
00:46:09.560
they can feel and openly show their emotions instead of acting like a sociopathic brick wall.
00:46:14.940
And that comment has 4 million views, thousands of likes. A bunch of women are echoing that
00:46:20.360
sentiment, that idea that they find it attractive when men cry like, like Archie did in the video.
00:46:26.440
Now, I just want to be clear. I'm not going to give Archie a hard time. I'm not making fun of the
00:46:30.300
kid. He loves his family. He misses them. It's good. I mean, it's good that you love and miss your
00:46:35.400
family and you're close to them. So I'm not picking on him at all. Just to be clear, what I want to do
00:46:41.340
is respond to the comment from Taylor and other women saying similar things.
00:46:46.560
And so I'm just playing the video as the setup for the comments because we need to know what
00:46:49.800
she's responding to. And I feel like I have to respond to it because it was just yesterday that
00:46:55.880
we talked on this show about the newly minted term called mankeeping, which is a word that liberal
00:47:02.840
women came up with to describe their frustration with men who rely on them for emotional support and
00:47:08.280
burden them with emotional labor, as they call it.
00:47:11.340
unpaid emotional labor, if you can believe it. And here's the problem. It's the same women who
00:47:17.660
complain about mankeeping who also say that they want men to cry and open up more. These are the
00:47:23.660
same women, the same people who make both claims. In both cases, these are things that liberal feminist
00:47:29.700
women say. Now, traditional conservative women don't. They don't use terms like mankeeping.
00:47:36.460
And they also don't claim, usually, that they like to see men cry. So there's no contradiction there.
00:47:44.780
Liberal women make both of these claims. They say they want men to be more emotionally vulnerable,
00:47:51.020
but also they're exhausted by men who are emotionally vulnerable. How could both be true?
00:47:57.840
How could that be? Well, they aren't both true. It's a trap. And it's unfair. You know, it's unfair to
00:48:08.000
guys, especially young guys who are trying to figure all this out. The age old question of what do women
00:48:15.520
want, which has not always been the easiest thing for men to answer. It's never been harder than it is
00:48:20.940
now, because now you have this kind of messaging. One day, it's like all the women on social media
00:48:27.120
are saying, yeah, we want men to cry. The very next day, it's all the mankeeping. We don't want to be,
00:48:31.860
keep your emotions to yourself. Well, it's like, which is it? So I just want to warn men about this
00:48:43.620
and, and let you know that, um, it's a trap. Don't fall for it. They're trying to lure you into
00:48:51.720
opening up and showing your emotions just so they can turn around and accuse you of being a needy
00:48:55.600
man child. I mean, that's, that's the game that women like this are playing. That's the game. I'm
00:48:59.380
afraid to say that's the game that liberal women play because here's the reality. No matter what any
00:49:07.680
woman claims, none of them, none of them, period, zero of them actually find it attractive to see
00:49:18.060
a man cry. Now they may find it understandable in certain limited circumstances, right? You lost a
00:49:25.760
close family member, that sort of thing. I'm not saying that they'll hate you for crying in that
00:49:30.180
situation, unless they're just awful people, but, um, you know, they'll, they'll understand it in a
00:49:36.340
case like that, but they won't actively find it attractive. And in most, in most cases,
00:49:43.740
seeing you cry will be repulsive to them. They are repulsed by it. Now, sure. If, if, if you aren't
00:49:53.500
in a relationship, that's, that's another source of the confusion here is that if you're not in a
00:49:58.240
relationship with them and you're just a stranger and they see you cry about something, then, then maybe
00:50:04.100
you'll get a kind of, oh, poor guy reaction. But if they're in a relationship with you, your tears,
00:50:10.020
most of the time, there are always exceptions. Most of the time, your tears will be actively
00:50:15.800
disgusting to them. Okay. Now, how do I know that? How, how could I, how could I just say that
00:50:22.580
given that I'm not a woman? Well, because it's nature. It's, they're biologically wired to find a
00:50:29.600
man's tears, grossly unappealing. And that's because every woman is looking for a man who is
00:50:33.220
stable, strong, and who makes her feel safe. Men are not looking for that in a woman, which is why
00:50:39.500
we are not disgusted by women crying. It may be annoying sometimes. I mean, if women cry over dumb
00:50:45.500
things and cry too much, it could get annoying, but a little irritating, but generally it's fine.
00:50:51.640
It doesn't, it's, it's, it's, it's, you know, it's, it's expected because we aren't looking for a woman
00:51:00.980
to make us feel safe and protected. No man is looking for that in a woman. It's just not a
00:51:06.220
quality that a man's looking for. We aren't looking for a woman to provide a sense of security and
00:51:11.960
stability in our lives. Um, and so it, it, these, these, uh, unregulated displays of emotion are not
00:51:22.840
troubling for us. But the problem with crying is that if you're a man is that you are making yourself
00:51:29.380
look weak, unstable, and unsure. Again, most of it, I'm not going to keep, I'm not going to, I said most
00:51:34.600
of the time, that's the qualifier. I'm not going to keep saying it. Um, and so there's just no way
00:51:40.760
that a woman can find that attractive. It would be like if a man claimed that he finds it attractive
00:51:46.860
when a woman is cruel or uncaring to children, right? It's, it's impossible for, unless you're,
00:51:55.200
I mean, if you're insane or something, but if you're a healthy, sane man, there's no way you
00:51:59.800
could find that trait appealing in a woman because it's the opposite of what you as a, as a heterosexual
00:52:04.240
man want. You want a kind, sweet woman who has maternal instincts. We want a woman who will be a
00:52:09.760
good mother. This is biological. This is natural. We're human beings. And that's what you're looking
00:52:14.620
for. And anything that advertises the opposite of that is disgusting to us. It's just going to be,
00:52:20.760
it's nauseating. Women are looking for men who will be strong providers and protectors and good
00:52:24.740
fathers. Anything that advertises the opposite of that is going to be disgusting to them. That's
00:52:29.540
the reality, no matter what they claim, no matter what they say, that's the reality. It's, it's,
00:52:33.080
you know, just like there are liberal guys who will say, you know, I'm attracted to women who are
00:52:38.420
tough, no nonsense CEO boss babes. No, you aren't. No, you aren't. Are you telling me what I'm
00:52:46.120
attracted to? Yeah, I am. You're not actually attracted to that. Yeah, whatever. You're not.
00:52:50.220
You're lying. You think you're supposed to be attracted to that. That's the difference.
00:52:54.500
You think you're supposed to be, but you aren't really. And it's same goes for women the other way
00:53:00.460
around. You know, I've used this example before. I'll tell you, I think it's the perfect way to
00:53:07.140
illustrate it. I'll tell you the, the most unattractive and disgusting thing you can do
00:53:12.440
in your wife's eyes right now. One of them, right? Something that will change her opinion
00:53:18.920
of you forever, as unfair as it sounds. I mean, forever, seriously. Like it's going to be a hit
00:53:25.520
on her respect for you that you'll probably never recover from. And I'll tell you what that thing is.
00:53:29.020
go home tonight and cry because you had a stressful day at work. Now, I don't mean because you work in
00:53:39.340
emergency services and you saw a child die or something horrible, horrific happened. Okay.
00:53:43.500
I don't mean a tragedy occurred. I mean, you go home and you just had a tough, overwhelming day at
00:53:48.380
the office. That's all. Lots of stuff going on. You know, it's a lot of, a lot of pressure and it's
00:53:52.600
just, it's an overwhelming day and you go home and you cry about it. Now, if men and women are really the
00:53:58.580
same, if gender roles are social constructs as liberals claim, then there should be no problem
00:54:03.780
with you doing that. Should be no problem. And if the tailors of the world are being honest when
00:54:08.840
they say, yeah, man, we want men to stop being a brick wall, open up, be vulnerable. Well, then you
00:54:14.460
should be able to do that. You should be able to go home tonight and you know, you, you, you start
00:54:19.520
sobbing. And when your wife asks you what wrong, say, I just had a stressful day. It's such a tough day.
00:54:28.580
And it should be fine. After all, your wife does that, right? Wives do that. There've been plenty
00:54:34.240
of times when your wife cried because she was stressed out and overwhelmed. Most husbands,
00:54:39.040
that's a, that's, we we've seen that before. A wife gets teary, gets, starts sobbing, starts crying
00:54:45.100
a little bit. And it, it, there's not even any specific reason. It's just, it's a tough day,
00:54:49.480
stressful, overwhelmed. Like we've seen that perfectly normal. So why shouldn't you be able to do the
00:54:54.760
same? You're opening up, you're being vulnerable. Isn't that good? Well, it isn't. Your wife will
00:55:01.980
be absolutely disgusted. Absolutely disgusted. She probably won't tell you that. She probably
00:55:07.420
won't say, well, this is disgusting. What is wrong with you? You disgust me. But she won't say that,
00:55:12.740
but she, she, she's never been less turned on by you than she will be in that moment. Why? Well,
00:55:17.880
because she needs you to be the person who handles stress and conflict and turmoil in a calm and
00:55:23.120
resolute way. That's why she married you. That's why she's attracted to men in the first place.
00:55:27.620
So seeing you in that state would be like, it'd be like if you were on a plane, right? And you hit
00:55:32.760
turbulence and the pilot came over the intercom and was sobbing because he's stressed out by it.
00:55:41.800
Ladies and gentlemen, I'm sorry. I'm just really stressed.
00:55:43.680
I don't care how sympathetic and compassionate you think you are. You would not be sympathetic
00:55:50.680
and compassionate in that moment because you need the pilot to get his act together. Okay. You can be
00:55:56.340
nervous, but you need him to be unbothered and stoic. That's what you need that guy to be.
00:56:05.180
Is it unfair? Yeah, I guess everyone else can be freaking out in the back, but you got,
00:56:10.920
you cannot be bothered by this. I cannot see you bothered you because you're the pilot of the plane.
00:56:19.160
And that's how it is for men. You're the pilot of the airplane. You're the captain. And everyone
00:56:22.860
in the family is looking over you to you during turbulent times. They're looking to you to know
00:56:27.620
that they're okay, that they're safe. And if you're sobbing like a baby, it's a problem.
00:56:33.760
And that's why when men get married, they get frustrated sometimes because they notice that
00:56:37.300
whenever they get emotional, uh, not even just cry like angry when they get, when they get overly
00:56:44.460
emotional about something, their wives will, will often get, will, will start mirroring those
00:56:53.720
emotions. So you're angry. Now she's angry. You're stressed. Now she's stressed. And to a man,
00:56:58.080
it may seem like, well, she's making it all about herself,
00:57:00.020
but really she's reacting to the fact that her rock, her stability, which is you has,
00:57:08.080
have suddenly gone shaky. And that's why you need to be the man. You need to be strong and confident
00:57:14.700
and in control. That's, that's what heterosexual women are looking for men. And that's what,
00:57:23.400
and that is what is attractive about men to women. So, uh, it really is that simple. Now I will say
00:57:30.720
the one, one of the, one of the big problems here is that, yeah, for men, you got, you get,
00:57:41.680
you, you're the pilot, you're the captain of the ship. You're the pilot of the airplane. And so you
00:57:45.440
can't start crying when you hit turbulence. Everyone else can, but you can't.
00:57:49.980
And I think that to men that, that, that kind of idea makes sense.
00:57:57.920
But the issue is that a lot of modern liberal women, every liberal woman will, she, she agrees
00:58:05.380
like, yeah, you can't start crying when you hit the turbulence, but she won't acknowledge that
00:58:09.740
you're the pilot of the plane. So she wants to also be the pilot and get all the credit and where
00:58:16.460
the captain's at, but she still needs you when the turbulence hit hits to be the. So in those
00:58:23.800
moments, now she needs you to be the, be the, uh, the captain. And that's also confusing to men,
00:58:31.340
which is all the more reason to just avoid liberal women. And, um, and I think you can avoid a lot of
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Cracker Barrel has always held a special place in my heart. My wife and I live two hours away from
01:00:45.180
each other when we first met. And so for dates, we used to meet in the middle at a Cracker Barrel
01:00:50.160
and, uh, we would, you know, eat country fried steak and play that little triangle board game with
01:00:55.280
colorful, colorful, uh, pegs. Suffice it to say, I was really spoiling her in those early days of
01:01:00.340
our relationship. It was a, it was a first class experience. It did raise some concerns. I worry
01:01:04.800
that she might be marrying me just for my Cracker Barrel rewards points. I'm not saying she was a
01:01:09.820
gold digger, but she knew that I was a man with enough points to buy like three pancakes and a
01:01:13.780
key chain from the gift shop and that kind of wealth that can really entice a woman. Um, all that to say,
01:01:19.840
we have a history with Cracker Barrel, which is why I read with interest about the controversy
01:01:23.820
surrounding the restaurant chain's new remodel and rebrand. The company started remodeling the
01:01:28.640
interior of the restaurants last year. Um, as you recall, Cracker Barrel used to look like a
01:01:32.880
combination of kind of like your grandma's house and a hunting cabin on the inside. It was warm. It
01:01:38.400
was inviting, had character and personality. And here's what it looks like now. Um, as you can see,
01:01:44.760
the, uh, down home country feel has been entirely expunged from the place. Now it looks and feels
01:01:51.000
sterile and generic. It went from your grandma's house to the house of a suburban white woman who
01:01:56.460
buys all of her furniture on Wayfair. Looks like the kind of house where the kitchen is decorated
01:02:01.640
with wall decor that says kitchen. Cracker Barrel has gone from down home to home goods. Basically
01:02:07.280
the interior looks like, looks like every home that's ever been remodeled on any HGTV show ever.
01:02:12.820
The Joanna gainsification of American life continues and it gets worse somehow. Yesterday, Cracker Barrel
01:02:18.780
unveiled their newly revamped logo. We'll put that up on the screen. And the old logos on the left,
01:02:23.720
of course, the one the company has had for about 50 years. It's distinct. It's recognizable. It's
01:02:27.700
iconic. You see the old guy in the barrel. Now the old guy is gone. And even the Cracker Barrel
01:02:32.860
barrel is gone. Once again, everything unique and distinct has been removed. They went out of their
01:02:37.960
way to make the logo as bland and generic as they possibly could. The marketing gurus at Cracker
01:02:44.880
Barrel looked at the old logo and said to themselves, hmm, this is charming, visually
01:02:48.660
pleasing, lots of personality. How can we fix those problems? And after months of deliberations
01:02:54.700
and brainstorming sessions and Zoom calls, they finally came up with the idea to just make the
01:02:59.540
Cracker Barrel logo look like every other logo for every other product or business in the country.
01:03:04.320
As everyone has noticed, most major brands have done the same thing. They're all going for this
01:03:08.720
minimalist look, which simply means removing everything unique and aesthetically interesting
01:03:14.080
from their logos and their buildings and making it all bland, ugly, and uninspired on purpose.
01:03:19.880
Now we should note that according to an article in Adweek, Cracker Barrel enlisted not one, not two,
01:03:25.660
but three marketing agencies to help them come up with their new look. Three agencies collaborated
01:03:32.660
for months to come up with a logo that is in every way less appealing than the old one.
01:03:39.580
The combined efforts of three high-powered marketing firms came up with this. One can only
01:03:46.440
imagine the buzz in the boardroom when they dropped the curtain and unveiled the exciting new concept.
01:03:50.820
After working on this for 450 combined billable hours, we've decided that Cracker Barrel's new logo
01:03:55.760
should be the word Cracker Barrel. And that's it.
01:04:02.660
Thank you. That'll be $30 million. This is, of course, just more evidence that the entire
01:04:10.280
marketing profession is completely fake. It is a $500 billion industry staffed and run by people,
01:04:17.720
mostly women, who have no clue how to market anything. The marketing industry exists primarily
01:04:24.120
as a jobs program for talentless women with useless degrees and lots of college debt. That's what it is.
01:04:28.900
And speaking of talentless women, the CEO of Cracker Barrel is a woman, of course,
01:04:33.580
we kind of already knew that, named Julie Messino. And she went on Good Morning America
01:04:38.260
yesterday to explain why the company decided to make all these changes that are sure to appeal
01:04:46.400
The Cracker Barrel needs to feel like the Cracker Barrel for today and for tomorrow. And again,
01:04:50.520
the things that you love are still there. We need people to choose us and we want people to choose
01:04:54.840
because people love this brand. They've loved it. Everybody's got a story, right? Did you go to
01:05:00.160
Cracker Barrel on the way to your grandma's when you were playing, traveling soccer or whatever those
01:05:03.920
things are? Our job is to make Cracker Barrel a place that they want to be today and tomorrow.
01:05:08.840
The Cracker Barrel of today. That's exactly the kind of meaningless corporate speak that you expect
01:05:13.760
to hear from a female CEO who looks and sounds like someone who would never be caught dead
01:05:17.920
actually buying the product that her company sells. It reminds you of Alyssa Heinerscheid. Remember the
01:05:22.640
former VP of marketing for Bud Light? She's the genius who decided to enlist Dylan Mulvaney
01:05:26.960
because she didn't want the brand to appeal to frat boys anymore. Alyssa never had a sip of Bud
01:05:31.800
Light in her life. Julie has never been inside a Cracker Barrel. Doesn't even know what country
01:05:36.940
fried steak is. She's probably vegan. These are the people who are now in charge of basically every
01:05:42.100
beloved American brand in existence. And that's why they've all been stripped of everything that made
01:05:47.440
them beloved in the first place. But does this really matter? I mean, should we care that Cracker
01:05:53.800
Barrel redesigned its logo and its restaurants to make them all sterile and soulless? Should we care
01:05:59.480
that every American brand is like doing the same thing? Yeah, we should. I mean, it's easy to look at
01:06:06.160
one little piece of the problem and shrug it off as no big deal, but you put it all together, you see a
01:06:10.440
deliberate and far-reaching campaign to drain our culture dry, basically. An effort to make everything
01:06:18.680
ugly and empty. An effort that even extends to Cracker Barrel. And so, yes, that does matter.
01:06:27.200
And it's why Julie Messino and her team of marketing geniuses are all today. Cancel.
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That'll do it for sure today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow. Godspeed.
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