The Matt Walsh Show - September 02, 2025


Ep. 1650 - How Big Pharma Covered Up The Dark Truth About Birth Control


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56 minutes

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177.70424

Word Count

10,041

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648

Misogynist Sentences

30

Hate Speech Sentences

39


Summary

For decades, Big Pharma has been pushing drugs onto the public without having any idea about the side effects and downstream consequences. Trump is now calling for accountability over contraceptives. A new study shows, again, that we need to be having a similar conversation about birth control pills. Also, the longer that Jasmine Crockett is in office, the more she loses her ability to speak proper English. It s a very strange phenomenon. And a new article asks the question, Why did vegans lose? I think I know the answer.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Today, the Matt Wall Show. For decades, Big Pharma has been pushing drugs onto the public
00:00:03.880 without having any idea about the side effects and downstream consequences. Trump is now calling
00:00:08.700 for accountability over COVID drugs, but a new study shows, again, that we need to be having
00:00:12.260 a similar conversation about birth control pills. Also, the longer that Jasmine Crockett is in
00:00:17.840 office, the more she loses her ability to speak proper English. It's a very strange phenomenon.
00:00:22.360 And Donald Trump calls out a contractor who did shoddy work at the White House.
00:00:25.160 Is this petty or totally justified or both? And a new article asks the question,
00:00:30.740 why did vegans lose? I think I know the answer. We'll talk about all that
00:00:34.540 and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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00:02:00.960 Here's a very unsettling and bizarre criminal case you almost certainly haven't heard of, even though
00:02:05.480 it should have been national news at the time. In 2021, an 18-year-old named Cora Vides was a senior
00:02:11.980 at Laguna Blanca School. And on Valentine's Day, Cora invited a longtime friend over to her family's
00:02:18.440 house. Everything was normal, right up until Cora declared, out of nowhere, that she was bisexual.
00:02:24.480 And then Cora told her friend to close her eyes, supposedly so that she could demonstrate a new
00:02:29.460 technique for meditation. But it was all a ruse. And after counting to three, Cora suddenly began
00:02:35.640 stabbing her friend in the neck. Now, the victim managed to escape, although she nearly bled to death
00:02:40.680 in the hospital. Her lung had collapsed. She needed surgery to reconstruct her larynx. At no point did
00:02:46.820 she have any idea why her friend had just tried to kill her. All she knew was that Cora had snapped,
00:02:52.400 entered some kind of disassociative state, and ambushed her violently. Now, at trial, Cora was
00:02:59.940 found guilty of attempted first-degree murder. But the jury also found that Cora was insane at the time
00:03:05.100 of the attack, meaning that she might not face any prison time at all. She'll spend a few months in a
00:03:09.360 psychiatric hospital instead, because that's how the legal system works in California. In reaching that
00:03:14.960 decision, the jury considered Cora's claim that she was non-binary, as well as the fact that she had been
00:03:21.140 diagnosed with various mental health conditions. But maybe the most important piece of evidence
00:03:25.880 concerned a hormonal birth control pill that Cora had been taking. Quoting from the Santa Barbara
00:03:31.640 Independent, defense attorney Robert Sanger said a new birth control medication Cora Vides was taking
00:03:36.960 was also known to cause significant side effects, including depression. Cora's older sister,
00:03:42.740 Maya, testified that a month before the stabbing, Cora told her that she was cutting herself. Maya
00:03:47.260 responded that she'd also struggled with self-harm and suggested that Cora try the same oral contraceptive
00:03:52.700 that she'd been prescribed, which helped balance her hormones. Cora did so, but complained to friends
00:03:59.140 that the pills made her feel even more off. Now, it wasn't just the defense attorneys who made this claim.
00:04:06.460 Dr. Brandon Yakush, a court-appointed forensic psychologist, asserted that the new birth control
00:04:11.340 medication was, quote, a major factor in how her depression got worse during that time. In other
00:04:17.200 words, because this person took hormonal birth control, she degraded her already fragile mental
00:04:22.040 state even further. But the doctor added that, as far as he knew, there wasn't much literature on
00:04:27.780 birth control's ability to affect the mind on a deeper level beyond causing depression.
00:04:32.100 This is one of the reasons that you rarely, if ever, hear about cases like Cora's. Now, yes,
00:04:37.980 media outlets don't like running stories that are critical of the pharmaceutical industry because
00:04:41.320 big pharma buys more advertisements than anybody else. And we all know, as we discussed last week,
00:04:46.780 that the non-binary slash transgender angle of the story also guaranteed that nobody would talk about
00:04:53.080 it. But it's also true when you look at scientific research that there isn't a lot of data
00:04:57.520 about hormonal birth control medication. They've been mass prescribed without much investigation
00:05:04.480 into the possible side effects. And this is something we talk about a lot with the pharmaceutical
00:05:10.400 industry because we see this a lot in the pharmaceutical industry, if you haven't noticed.
00:05:15.320 It was the same story with ADHD drugs and SSRIs and Alzheimer's medications, the COVID shot,
00:05:22.260 Ozempic, even over-the-counter decongestants and so on. In every one of these cases, miraculous drugs
00:05:29.800 supposedly have been marketed and widely distributed. And then many years or even decades later, we finally
00:05:36.380 get to see some hard evidence. And that hard evidence at a minimum dramatically changes the narrative
00:05:42.100 that big pharma has constructed around a particular drug. And that moment is now arriving for hormonal
00:05:49.800 birth control. For generations now, women who take these medications have reported psychiatric
00:05:54.720 side effects, but the specific nature of those side effects beyond mood swings and depression
00:05:59.500 hasn't been spelled out very clearly in medical literature, at least not often. And that's why a
00:06:06.480 new study from researchers at Rice University in Texas published in the journal Hormones and Behavior
00:06:10.920 has been getting some attention. In short, the researchers found that hormonal contraceptives affect
00:06:17.860 emotional processing and memory. And these effects haven't been disclosed to any of the tens of
00:06:24.420 millions of women who are currently taking these drugs, nor has anyone considered the broader
00:06:29.560 implications of these side effects, which are obviously significant. So to run this experiment,
00:06:34.860 the researchers at Rice showed positive, negative, and neutral images to two groups, the control group
00:06:39.900 that wasn't taking hormonal birth control and another group that was. And then in addition to administering a
00:06:45.180 memory test, the researchers instructed their test subjects to apply a variety of emotion regulation
00:06:50.000 strategies, including distancing, reinterpretation, and immersion. Now, in case you're not up on the
00:06:56.400 lingo, psychological distancing involves, quote, taking an objective third-person perspective to an
00:07:02.260 emotional event, while reinterpretation involves reframing or imagining a better outcome in the context of
00:07:07.960 the emotional event. Meanwhile, immersion means deeply engaging with the aspects of an emotional event
00:07:12.760 to increased effect, rather positive, either positive or negative. So anyway, this is all, you know, a lot
00:07:20.180 of meaningless psychobabble, but the basic idea is that they told the test subjects to work on their
00:07:25.600 feelings. And the end result, according to Rice, is that, quote, women on hormonal contraceptives
00:07:30.740 showed stronger emotional reactions compared to naturally cycling women. When they used strategies like
00:07:36.680 distancing or reinterpretation, they remembered fewer details of negative events, though their general
00:07:42.080 memory remained intact. In other words, they could recall the overall event, but not all the
00:07:47.760 specifics. Now, the last part is especially interesting. You know, whatever you make of this
00:07:54.100 stuff about immersion and psychological distancing and whatever else, the impact of hormonal contraceptives
00:07:59.500 on memory has implications that nobody ever talks about. I mean, what happens when millions of women
00:08:06.520 become more forgetful and more emotional at the same time? And this happens at scale with millions of
00:08:15.020 women at the same time? Do these women vote differently? Are their relationships more unstable as a result?
00:08:23.200 I mean, being very forgetful and overly emotional, not a great recipe for relationships. Now, over at Rice
00:08:30.160 University, they're not concerned, apparently, with any of these possibilities. Instead, their researchers
00:08:34.480 described the potential for large-scale memory loss as, quote, exciting, saying that it might help women
00:08:40.760 forget about traumatic, unhappy experiences. Now, this is a logic that would not fly in any other
00:08:47.880 environment. Imagine if you're an engineer who makes passenger airplanes and you suddenly discover
00:08:52.800 that one of your safety features actually has a totally unexpected side effect. And it could be good,
00:08:58.320 could be bad. You're not entirely sure. Most likely in that case, your first response would be to shut
00:09:03.940 everything down until you figure out exactly what the risks are and what other risks there might be that you
00:09:09.920 don't know about. Yeah, it should be a response anyway. If Boeing had done that, then there's a good chance that
00:09:16.320 their MAX jets wouldn't have crashed on two separate occasions. But in medicine, the discovery of unintended
00:09:22.140 side effects that directly impact the human brain, the mind, we're told that that's really exciting, which is
00:09:30.700 complete nonsense. I mean, it's spin masquerading as science. In reality, what these researchers have
00:09:34.880 discovered is additional evidence that hormonal birth control has effects on the brain that no one,
00:09:41.300 including the self-described experts, actually understand. And this evidence is continuing to
00:09:46.880 pile up year after year. In 2023, for example, researchers in Montreal writing for the journal
00:09:52.980 Frontiers in Endocrinology discovered evidence that hormonal contraceptives shrink a portion of the
00:09:58.260 prefrontal cortex, specifically the portion of the prefrontal cortex that's involved in controlling
00:10:02.320 emotions, maintaining self-control, making decisions, and handling fear. This part of the brain
00:10:09.000 is called the ventromedial prefrontal cortex. Quote, we recruited healthy adults aged 23 to 35 who
00:10:15.140 identified as women currently using or having used oral contraceptives, as well as women who never used
00:10:22.620 any oral hormonal contraceptives. Compared to men, only current users of hormonal contraceptives showed
00:10:28.520 a thinner ventromedial prefrontal cortex. So I'll say that again because I'm stumbling over the harder
00:10:37.000 words, but only current users showed a thinner ventromedial prefrontal cortex. So the current users of the
00:10:44.180 drug are the only ones that had this thinner part of the brain. Now, admittedly, I don't understand what half of
00:10:49.300 those words mean, but the takeaway is still pretty clear. These drugs, at least while women are taking
00:10:54.140 them, have an observable effect on a critical area of the brain. And that's not a small thing.
00:11:03.480 Even the best neurologist in the world doesn't have a complete understanding of how the brain works.
00:11:09.740 That's what makes neurology a cutting-edge competitive field of medicine. And it's also what makes hormonal
00:11:14.140 birth control a far more uncertain and dangerous proposition than most women realize.
00:11:21.400 Again, you don't need to take my word for any of this. Writing in the European Journal of Neuroscience a year later,
00:11:25.960 the same researchers from Montreal observed that oral contraceptives are, quote,
00:11:30.440 generally used for years and often initiated during adolescence, a sensitive period where certain brain regions
00:11:35.780 involved in the fear circuitry are still undergoing important reorganization.
00:11:39.840 They stated that it's unknown whether these contraceptives cause, quote,
00:11:44.560 long-lasting changes in the fear circuitry. So they ran the following experiment to try to figure that out.
00:11:50.740 Quote, we collected structural MRI data in 98 healthy adult women and extracted gray matter volumes
00:11:58.480 and cortical thickness of key regions of the fear circuitry. Among women who initiated oral contraceptives
00:12:05.180 earlier in adolescence, the short duration of use was associated with smaller hippocampal gray matter
00:12:12.060 volumes and thicker ventromedial prefrontal cortex compared to a longer duration of use.
00:12:17.440 For both gray matter volumes and cortical thickness of the right ventromedial prefrontal cortex,
00:12:23.440 women with an early oral contraceptive onset had more gray matter at a short duration of use than
00:12:29.280 those with a later onset. Our results suggest that oral contraceptives use earlier in adolescence
00:12:34.140 may induce lasting effects on structures related to fear learning and its regulation. These findings
00:12:40.620 support further investigation into the timing of oral contraceptive use to better comprehend how it
00:12:45.640 could disrupt normal brain development processes. Close quote. Well, you know, that's an understatement.
00:12:53.360 The fact that these contraceptives can impact the size of the prefrontal cortex, according to these
00:12:58.300 researchers, supports further investigation. Yeah, you think? I mean, it would have been nice if this
00:13:04.860 investigation had commenced before tens of millions of women were given these drugs, which functioned by
00:13:10.720 tricking their bodies into acting like they're pregnant. This is the conversation that we should
00:13:15.480 have had at any point in the past half century, but I guess we're supposed to conclude that, you know,
00:13:20.400 it's better late than never. I don't know. Again, the impact on society at large is completely ignored.
00:13:27.160 I mean, what happens when we break the fear response in the brains of millions of women?
00:13:35.040 If we did something like that, could it explain perhaps why so many American women are petrified of
00:13:40.440 climate change or the plight of criminal illegal aliens, the prospect of losing the right to kill
00:13:47.280 their children, the fate of a tiny country in Eastern Europe that they can't even locate on a
00:13:52.020 map? If they don't have the correct fear response, does that explain why you have a lot of liberal
00:13:57.300 women who aren't nearly as concerned about, like, the things in their everyday life they should be
00:14:02.700 concerned about, like crime? Again, criminal illegals coming into your community. There's like a
00:14:09.620 disconnect with a lot of female voters on that. Could this explain part of that? Could it explain why
00:14:15.960 if only women could vote, then Kamala Harris would have won all 50 states? Could there be a connection
00:14:22.180 there? And while we're at it, what about the study published in the Journal of Computational Biology
00:14:27.820 showing that doses of hormonal birth control could be reduced by more than 90% while remaining
00:14:34.760 effective? And what about the study from Denmark showing that birth control pills affect the body's
00:14:39.500 ability to regulate stress? Let's put a quote from one of those researchers on the screen. This is a man
00:14:44.720 named Michael Winterdahl. And here's what he said, quote, our results are really important because
00:14:50.680 they indicate that people who use birth control pills do not experience the same reduced stress
00:14:55.360 hormone levels in connection with social activity as people who do not use the pill.
00:15:01.620 And then there's the possibility that birth control affects the kinds of men that women want to be
00:15:06.320 around. In fact, I mean, we know that there's tons of studies about this, and this is obviously true.
00:15:10.720 After all, in normal circumstances, male testosterone is reduced when they're around pregnant women.
00:15:16.680 And if these drugs are making most women seem pregnant, then it stands to reason that men around
00:15:21.460 them will have lower testosterone. That explains the dating scene in most of California, Oregon,
00:15:26.400 New York, Virginia, so on. And we could talk for the next month about studies like this, most of which
00:15:32.780 are never discussed on the national news. No matter where you stand on the issue in general,
00:15:37.560 you have to admit that there are a lot of unknowns and a lot of red flags that are mostly just being
00:15:42.800 ignored. No one in any position of authority is interested in addressing any of these questions
00:15:47.240 or the issue of fraudulent medicine more generally. And that said, there are some signs that there could
00:15:53.440 be changes in the near future if you're the optimistic type. The other day, as you might have seen,
00:15:57.720 Donald Trump suggested that he's going to push for more accountability in this particular domain
00:16:02.540 of medicine and big pharma. Here's part of what he wrote. Quote, it is very important that the drug
00:16:08.060 companies justify the success of their various COVID drugs. Many people think that they're a miracle
00:16:12.580 that saved millions of lives. Others disagree. With the CDC being ripped apart over this question,
00:16:17.340 I want the answer and I want it now. I have been shown information from Pfizer and others that is
00:16:22.400 extraordinary, but they never seem to show the results to the public. Why not? Now, this is obviously
00:16:28.460 not a post about birth control, but it gets at the same kind of underlying question, which needs to
00:16:32.980 be resolved as quickly as possible. The largest pharmaceutical companies in the country have
00:16:37.560 been hiding data or outright lying about it for a long time now. Just in case you've forgotten just
00:16:43.740 how overt and shameless this propaganda was during COVID, here's a couple of clips from just a few years
00:16:49.120 ago in which Pfizer reports that its vaccine is 100% effective for children. And then CNN and MSWC
00:16:56.700 dutifully repeat that talking point. Watch. And today Pfizer is out with potentially incredible
00:17:03.040 news for parents and children. The drug company released the first findings from its child vaccine
00:17:08.260 study and found it's both safe. And here is the big headline here, 100% effective in preventing COVID-19
00:17:15.960 in kids ages 12 to 15. We should note that these are early findings and have not yet been peer
00:17:22.120 reviewed. So stay tuned for that. We do have some breaking news. Drug maker Pfizer just announcing the
00:17:28.600 results of its vaccine trial for adolescents. It says its coronavirus shot was 100% effective at preventing
00:17:36.300 infection and sickness among 12 to 15 year olds. This could be a major game changer for reopening schools
00:17:43.540 across America. But we all know how that turned out. Eventually, we learned the truth about the COVID shot.
00:17:48.800 And by that point, for millions of Americans, it was already too late.
00:17:52.120 And in the same way today, we're now finding out very slowly, piece by piece, the truth about the various
00:17:57.660 effects of hormonal contraceptives on the brain. Now, this is not how science is supposed to work. It's not how
00:18:04.840 public health is supposed to work, but it's the way things operate at the moment. And before you or someone
00:18:10.760 you know takes one of these pills or any other pill that's handed to you by a doctor with the promise of correcting
00:18:16.780 some alleged deficiency in the human condition, you have to recognize this simple fact, none of the
00:18:23.500 people involved in the production or distribution of that drug really have any idea what it will do to
00:18:29.420 you, especially if it affects your brain and your mind. They have no clue how that happens or why or what
00:18:37.960 the ultimate effect will be. And if they claim they know they're lying. But like the friend of Cora
00:18:44.820 Vides in Santa Barbara, you might nevertheless find out one day in a very painful and tragic manner
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00:21:21.080 Let's start off the week, an abbreviated week, by checking in with our dear friend Jasmine Crockett.
00:21:27.980 What is she up to these days? What is she thinking about right now? That's what you're wondering.
00:21:33.440 That's what I was wondering. Well, the answer is not much. The inside of Jasmine's head is a dark and
00:21:39.900 hollow cavern. It's an empty tunnel going nowhere. And that is very obvious when you hear her speak.
00:21:49.700 And yet it's this really strange phenomenon where the longer that Jasmine Crockett spends in public
00:21:55.980 office, the dumber she sounds. Based on the way she speaks and the things she says, it appears that
00:22:04.380 she's losing brain cells at a really alarming rate. I mean, she'll be Joe Biden in a manner of a couple
00:22:13.000 of months at this point. I don't know how this is happening. I don't know if she's going home and
00:22:17.620 just like banging her head against a brick wall 14 times before she goes to bed every night. I don't
00:22:22.580 know if that's part of her nightly routine. I'm not sure. But in any case, this is what she sounds like
00:22:29.580 now. Listen to this. Maybe because these people, they are crazy because they always talk about how
00:22:35.180 Christian they is. Yeah. I don't know how many of them on that side are getting divorced because
00:22:40.180 they getting caught up sleeping with their co-workers, staffers, interns, all the things.
00:22:45.240 Yeah. You ain't got to believe me. Just go Google. You'll find some of it. I'm telling you. And the
00:22:49.580 wives is being messy and petty. They putting it in the divorce. I'm like, oh, that's got to be true
00:22:54.640 because your lawyer would know that they're going to lose it if they... Baby, because these people,
00:22:59.800 they are crazy. These people, you know, the D there, because they are, they always talk about how
00:23:07.280 Christian they is. This is a, this is a sitting member of the United States House of Representatives.
00:23:19.040 How Christian they is. They always talk about, they always talk about how Christian they is.
00:23:24.640 Uh, this is a, this is a member of the United States. This is a Congresswoman. In case you
00:23:30.420 forgot, this is a person who goes to work in the sacred halls of Congress. At least the halls they
00:23:37.320 told us were sacred on January 6th. Remember we heard all about how sacred everything is.
00:23:42.460 And I'll say this, Jasmine Crockett simply existing as a Congresswoman is a greater attack on Congress
00:23:48.020 and on the dignity of our system of government than January 6th ever was. Okay. Jasmine Crockett's
00:23:53.400 whole political career is like a million January 6th is every day. Every day she goes to work. It's a,
00:23:59.180 it's a January 6th times a million. Um, nobody who speaks like this should be allowed to hold a seat
00:24:05.280 in Congress. Uh, it just should not be allowed. If you can't speak basic English, uh, not even
00:24:11.040 because you're fluent in another language. I mean, that also shouldn't be allowed. If you can't speak
00:24:15.100 English because you're fluent in another language, you know, uh, cause it's not, if you can't speak
00:24:18.840 English because it's not your first language, you should not be allowed in Congress. Even worse
00:24:23.500 though, is if you don't speak another language, English is your only language and you still can't
00:24:28.260 speak it. You're not fluent in the one language that you allegedly speak. So you are, you are,
00:24:34.040 you're not bilingual. You're no lingual. You're zero lingual. You have no, you have no, you have
00:24:38.860 no lingual at all. You can't speak. Um, you, you're not fit for Congress at that point. And
00:24:44.540 that shouldn't be controversial to say. Now you'll, you'll hear it claimed that she can,
00:24:50.020 she can speak English, that this ghetto act is just a put on she's pretending.
00:24:54.740 And that may be true, but whatever the reason behind it, if you speak like this, you should not
00:24:58.920 be allowed to serve in public office at any level. And I know that when I say this, I'll be accused
00:25:04.860 of being racist. I was making fun of Jasmine Crockett's that Jasmine Crockett clip on X yesterday.
00:25:09.480 And, uh, and I had a bunch of people saying, oh, now you're just being openly racist,
00:25:15.000 openly racist, making fun of, um, well, this has nothing to do with race to be very clear.
00:25:20.800 I think that any person who can't speak proper English, regardless of race should not be allowed
00:25:25.800 to hold public office in this country. If we want to be a serious country run by adults,
00:25:30.520 then any, any human who can, who is a citizen of this country cannot speak proper English should
00:25:38.560 not be allowed. I don't care. Black or white doesn't matter to me. Speaking our own language
00:25:43.020 fluently and coherently should be a prerequisite for holding public office, white or black.
00:25:51.220 This is not about having an accent, uh, or even using slang. Okay. This is about not speaking English.
00:25:58.840 Day is how Christian day is. That's not, that's not English. I'm sorry. It's not,
00:26:04.020 that's not how English is spoken. English is a, is an actual language and that's not,
00:26:08.560 they is, is not, uh, that's not, that's not English. That's not our, that is not actually
00:26:13.880 English. And needless to say at this point, because you know, that, you know, you know,
00:26:20.100 my take on, on the right to vote, uh, which is that I'm not a big fan of it, uh, for most people,
00:26:25.960 I'm not a big fan of the right to vote for most people. I think most people should not have the
00:26:29.920 right to vote. Um, but, uh, so, so it doesn't even need to be repeated at this point, but I will
00:26:38.180 that, that anyone who would vote for a woman like this should not have, uh, the right to vote anymore.
00:26:43.560 Uh, you are, you are not fit to exercise that right. You're not fit to exercise the right of
00:26:48.640 self-determination. If you would vote for Jasmine Crockett, this country doesn't work.
00:26:55.240 No country works at all. Nothing works. So long as you insist on giving equal say to the sorts of
00:27:01.180 people who would vote for Jasmine Crockett, the sort of person who would see that clip that we just
00:27:05.640 played and go, yeah, that's what I want. I'm going to vote for that person. I want that person
00:27:10.560 representing me in Congress. Yeah, I want, yep. She's the one of all the possible people that I got.
00:27:15.500 Yeah. Let's, let's have her. Anyone who would say that shouldn't have the right to vote.
00:27:23.900 Um, and you know, everything starts to make more sense when you realize this, when you realize and
00:27:28.140 accept that it's just impossible to have a functioning country when you allow the dumbest,
00:27:32.560 most gullible, most hopelessly deluded and stupefied morons to vote. You just, it doesn't
00:27:38.360 work. Like it it's, it just doesn't work. You can't do that. You cannot have a functioning
00:27:44.140 country that way. Um, so it's almost like all the, all of our debates, political debates are
00:27:49.920 sort of pointless. As long as we're allowing the dumbest, most clueless people to steer the ship,
00:27:57.280 it can't, nothing can work. And, um, which is why you would never do this in any other context.
00:28:05.520 You would never leave any other important decision to a Jasmine Crockett or a Jasmine Crockett voter.
00:28:12.500 I mean, if you bought a piece of property and you'd build a house on it, you wouldn't take a poll
00:28:17.380 of the general population to figure out the design and blueprints of your house. If you wanted to get
00:28:23.020 the engine fixed in your car, again, you wouldn't just take a general poll, like no qualifications or
00:28:28.300 anything. It just, Hey, I want to know just, just, I'll just, I need to get my car fixed. I'll stop a
00:28:33.560 thousand random people on the street. It doesn't matter who that matter. No, no qualifications,
00:28:37.460 just a thousand random people. And, uh, whatever they say I should do to my car, I'll do that to
00:28:43.280 the car. You would never do that. It's crazy. You would never do that. Nothing can work that way.
00:28:51.620 You cannot have a functioning anything. If it works that way, there is no important decision in your
00:28:58.540 life. Not a single one that you would leave up to a vote of just like the general public with no
00:29:04.080 qualifications and with weighing everyone's voice the same. And yet we think it's possible to maintain
00:29:11.080 a country this way. It it's not, it's just not, which is why, uh, it was never actually supposed
00:29:20.560 to work this way. It was never supposed to be that just like, yeah, everyone, everyone gets to say
00:29:25.700 the right to vote is this, uh, sacred right that we just give to anyone at all. Don't have to be
00:29:31.980 citizens either. Like just anyone. If you're here, you get a say. Doesn't matter if you're citizen
00:29:38.120 doesn't matter. You know, increasingly it's like, they won't even matter what, what, how old you are.
00:29:41.960 They want to drop the voting age. Doesn't matter if you, uh, are literate. Doesn't matter if you have
00:29:48.180 a job. Doesn't matter if you have any stake, any skin in the game whatsoever. Doesn't matter if you're
00:29:53.300 a functioning person. Doesn't matter if you have any clue what's happening in the world. Doesn't matter
00:29:58.640 if you even know what system of government this is. Doesn't matter if you can name the branches
00:30:03.000 of government. Doesn't matter if you can even name who the vice president is. None of that matters.
00:30:07.440 Just everyone, everyone. Yeah. Everyone has a say throw, throw your vote in the, in the hat here.
00:30:12.440 And we'll figure out, yeah, we'll, we'll, uh, whatever, whatever all these people say,
00:30:16.600 that's what we'll do. Doesn't work. It obviously doesn't work. It cannot work.
00:30:23.500 So, uh, so much of what we're dealing with in this country is just a, is just the inevitable
00:30:29.340 result of this insane system that is, that is by the way, again, very new. This is not,
00:30:36.100 this is, this is not ever how it's actually supposed to work. Um, where there are no qualifications
00:30:42.900 to vote whatsoever. Okay. That's, that's, uh, anyone who acts like that's like, it's,
00:30:51.340 you know, it's like self-evident that this is how voting is supposed to be. Well, of course,
00:30:57.060 there should be no qualifications. Everyone should just vote. Anyone who acts like that,
00:31:02.040 it's like, that's, uh, well, these are the people that shouldn't be allowed to vote. They're
00:31:06.440 just incredibly stupid. Uh, okay. It, it just, it should not be possible for someone like Jasmine
00:31:14.160 Crockett to get into office. When you see Jasmine, you watch that clip and you see Jasmine Crockett
00:31:19.700 and he's like, okay, well, she was elected. Well, we got a major systemic problem. There, there's,
00:31:25.460 there's a major, major problem that it's even possible for someone like this to hold office.
00:31:31.680 Um, but you know, I've been beating this drone forever. This is, it's, uh, it's unfortunately,
00:31:42.200 it's like, I don't know how you fix it because, um, I understand as a politician, it's very hard.
00:31:51.580 Well, the politicians are not interested in, most of them are not interested in
00:31:55.120 shrinking the voting base. They want a bunch of morons to vote
00:31:58.320 because obviously if you're a politician, it works better for you.
00:32:03.200 There's a lot less accountability when morons are voting. Uh, but even if there was a, uh,
00:32:08.660 a politician that was, had the integrity to want to change the system, that's a, that's a hard pitch
00:32:14.580 to the voters is to come out and say, Hey, um, I think like a huge number of you shouldn't have a
00:32:21.900 say anymore. And so that's what, that's the, yeah, I think that's where, I think that's where we want to,
00:32:26.220 I think that's where we want to head. That's a tough pitch. I understand that, but someone's
00:32:33.240 got to make it because this just isn't working. All right. New York post has this president Trump
00:32:38.920 called out a stupid white house subcontractor Saturday who says damaged stonework in the
00:32:44.540 Rose garden during a renovation, uh, who he says damaged stonework in the Rose garden during
00:32:48.440 renovation to the outdoor area. The commander in chief shared security camera footage of the
00:32:52.640 alleged incident on truth, social calling foul on workers. So he says caused a huge dash in custom
00:32:59.140 stonework in the vaunted garden. Trump wrote surfaces are very important to me as a builder.
00:33:05.100 As everyone knows, the Rose garden is completed and far more beautiful than ever. Uh, anyone ever
00:33:10.180 had in mind when it was conceived of decades ago, three days ago, while admiring the stonework,
00:33:14.280 I happened to notice a huge gash in the limestone that extends more than 25 yards.
00:33:17.880 Uh, it was a deep and nasty gash in the stonework. In the post, Trump shared security footage of the
00:33:26.260 stupid people employed by an unnamed subcontractor who cracked the stonework while transporting a
00:33:31.200 shrubbery on a steel cart. Trump also blasted the worker's boss who was watching in sunglasses
00:33:36.180 as the beautiful stone was cracked. I love and respect great workers and contractors, but something
00:33:41.480 like this should never happen. Now I'll replace the stone, charge the contractor and never let that
00:33:45.960 contractor work at the white house again. We caught them cold, make America great again.
00:33:54.100 So Donald Trump sent out this post publicly shaming a contractor who did shoddy work. And a lot of
00:33:58.740 people thought that this was very petty and inappropriate and beneath the dignity of the office.
00:34:04.380 But I have to tell you, I kind of, I kind of love it. I I'm sorry, but I just do. I, I, I kind of love
00:34:11.300 it. Uh, it might, it might actually be all of those things. It might be petty, inappropriate
00:34:16.080 and be beneath the dignity of the office, but I still love it. And a lot of other people also loved
00:34:21.520 it. And you know what, you know why that is? It's because we're all just tired of the terrible
00:34:27.820 service that we get everywhere. This awful half-assed work that's done everywhere. We're tired of it.
00:34:34.440 It's an epidemic. It really is not just with contractors, although certainly with contractors
00:34:39.140 too. Uh, we've hired many contractors over the years at my house and in our experience, they,
00:34:46.160 they almost always go over budget. They almost always take longer than they said they'd take.
00:34:51.240 And often, not always certainly, but often the final product just isn't satisfactory. That's why
00:34:56.140 contractors rank at the top or near the top, um, in terms of, uh, you know, for categories of,
00:35:04.220 for consumer complaints. And that's true year after year, like 40% of homeowners are dissatisfied
00:35:10.920 with the work that their contractors do. I saw another poll that said 25% of homeowners
00:35:15.340 regret hiring their contractor, which is a very high number, still probably a conservative estimate.
00:35:21.500 So it's a big problem, but it goes well beyond that industry. This is a problem,
00:35:25.080 uh,
00:35:26.140 that you find everywhere. Laziness, sloppiness, bad service. You know, we, we know how bad things are
00:35:32.480 in the customer service and food service worlds. It's just, it's just God awful. In fact, I just
00:35:39.240 had an experience the other day. I took my kids out to a restaurant and, uh, the food took 90 minutes
00:35:44.820 to come out. And after about, cause I'm, I'm, you know, you'd be surprised. I'm surprisingly patient
00:35:52.020 in these kinds of situations. A lot of other kinds of situations. I'm not so patient, but
00:35:56.120 in this kind of situation where it's, uh, you know, with like a, a certain, at a restaurant
00:36:01.940 and it's busy and I can look around and other people are, it's taken forever for their food
00:36:05.780 also. So, you know, and everyone else is already complaining. So I kind of feel like I, why do I
00:36:10.880 need to chime in and say, excuse me? I'd also like to complain. But after about 80 minutes,
00:36:14.900 uh, I was like, okay, well, it's been too long. And so I said to the waitress, I just said, Hey,
00:36:22.320 you know, it's been almost an hour and a half. The food's not out yet. And she said, this was
00:36:27.220 her response. This is what she said. Yeah. That was it. Just, yeah. There was no, sorry, no
00:36:38.660 explanation, nothing, no offer to make it right. Hey, we'll take the app off and we'll, uh, we'll
00:36:46.140 give you a free dessert or whatever. None of that. Now, later a manager came out and did,
00:36:51.540 and did do that. But with the waitress, it was just, Hey, the food's been waiting 90 minutes.
00:36:56.380 Yeah. Then she walked away. So, um, and you hardly get mad about it these days because
00:37:04.120 just, this is what you're used to. This service is awful. Every, it's just so bad everywhere you go.
00:37:11.620 And, um, I liked the fact that Donald Trump had enough of it and he took action. And, uh, I sort of
00:37:17.900 find myself living vicariously through him on this point because, uh, I would never do that.
00:37:23.220 You know, I would never publicly shame someone who provided bad service. Even now I'm not saying
00:37:28.020 the name of the restaurant. I'm not, you know, I'm not going to do that. Um, I don't, I don't have
00:37:31.820 that in me. I I'd feel bad. I just feel bad doing that. In fact, I'm ashamed to say this, this is
00:37:39.820 pathetic, but even after that bad service, I still gave a tip because I just feel bad. I feel bad if I
00:37:47.260 don't. And so many other contexts, I can, I can be a hard ass, but with this, in this situation,
00:37:52.540 I'm like, all right, I'll just give the tip. I just feel, I feel bad about it, but I respect the
00:37:57.320 fact that Trump doesn't. Trump is the president of the United States. And he's like, you know what?
00:38:01.120 I'm going to put this, I'm going to put this video out for, I'm going to shame this person in front of
00:38:05.820 the entire world. I'm going to shame them on a global level for this terrible service they provided.
00:38:12.920 it. And I couldn't do it, but I respect that, uh, that Trump did. I'm glad, I'm glad he's doing it.
00:38:21.060 There needs to be, there needs to be an uprising of sorts against the terrible service everywhere.
00:38:28.300 I would say, uh, Greta Thunberg set sail over the weekend for Gaza again, and she was bringing, uh,
00:38:37.200 aid into Gaza on a flotilla. And here she is giving a speech before she sets sail. Listen.
00:38:44.480 But this story is also about a global uprising, about how people are stepping up when our governments
00:38:53.400 fail to do so. For every politician that is fueling the genocide, further environmental and climate
00:39:01.620 destruction and further colonization and fascism, there will be people escalating the resistance
00:39:09.340 against that. So it appears that Greta went to the hair salon and told the lady at the salon to
00:39:15.100 make her look exactly like the bad guy from no country for old men. She wanted that, uh, Anton Chigur
00:39:20.980 hairdo for some reason, either that, or what Jeff Daniels and dumb and dumber was maybe her inspiration.
00:39:28.380 I'm not sure, but we could spend all day trying to figure out why her hair looks like that. Um,
00:39:34.060 it, it is, it is kind of mind boggling. I'm not one to normally notice those sorts of things, but
00:39:39.720 it is like, why, why would you do that? And you know that you're a publicity whore. And so you're
00:39:47.600 going to be on, on camera, you know, why, why did you make your hair look like that? It's, I don't get
00:39:54.180 it, but we won't spend a lot of time on that. Let's move on, um, from that. Here's the update
00:39:59.220 from the New York post. Greta Thunberg's aid flotilla was forced to turn back to port after
00:40:04.380 hitting stormy weather just hours into its journey. Uh, the 22 year old eco warriors, one of 20 boats
00:40:11.220 that set off from Gaza for Gaza from Barcelona on Sunday on what they call the largest solidarity
00:40:16.620 mission in history with Israel threatening to arrest her in harsh terrorist level conditions.
00:40:21.880 But then she turned around. So there you go. They made a big dramatic show of sailing into
00:40:26.180 Gaza, but then turn back after about 20 minutes. And that was that. And there's no surprise there
00:40:32.240 because obviously this is all for show. If she actually cared about getting aid into Gaza,
00:40:37.420 you know, she would just do it. I mean, if you claim that Gaza needs aid and that they're being
00:40:43.680 genocided right now, then why would you call the press and give a big speech and announce it as a,
00:40:51.580 Hey everybody, we're going to, we're getting on this big flotilla here. We're going to bring some
00:40:54.280 aid in. Why would you do that? You, you, you set off with trumpets blaring. That doesn't make a lot
00:41:00.820 of sense. Wouldn't you just sail there under the cover of darkness and try to be as discreet as you
00:41:05.380 possibly can be and alert nobody about the operation until maybe after it's completed.
00:41:12.720 That's what you would do if you were not a scam artist like Greta Thunberg,
00:41:15.780 who just jumps from one hot topic to another. And that's the funny thing about,
00:41:19.640 about Greta Thunberg, because she has completely bailed as many people have noticed. I'm certainly
00:41:23.980 not the only person to remark on this. She's completely bailed on the climate hoax.
00:41:30.780 I mean, I mean, notice that she just moved on from, from that. And now she's joined the
00:41:34.740 Palestinian resistance. But the problem is, even if you agree with her about the Israel Palestine
00:41:41.120 issue, how is that commanding any of her attention? Why waste so much time on the plight of Gaza,
00:41:47.560 when the entire world hangs on the brink of destruction because of climate change?
00:41:54.920 I mean, even if you succeed in freeing Palestine, whatever that would mean,
00:41:59.180 aren't all the Palestinians going to die anyway because of climate change? Isn't that,
00:42:03.900 if you claim there's some kind of global catastrophe
00:42:06.220 that's about to destroy the lives of billions of people,
00:42:10.640 people, it really makes no sense to pivot from that to talk about anything else.
00:42:16.120 And that is, of course, unless you never believed any of that climate change stuff to begin with,
00:42:20.220 if it was all nonsense, if it was all a scam, or maybe she did believe it at one point,
00:42:23.920 but has now realized that it was a lie. But instead of admitting that,
00:42:26.960 she just pivots to the next big cause.
00:42:28.860 And now she folds the climate stuff into this broader narrative,
00:42:33.920 which actually is worse. That's in some ways worse than just simply dropping the climate change
00:42:38.080 narrative outright. Instead, she folds it into this broader narrative as if global apocalypse
00:42:45.120 is merely one facet of a larger issue. So in the speech we just heard, she blames unnamed politicians
00:42:53.640 for fueling genocide, environmental destruction, fascism, and colonization.
00:43:00.440 So she just kind of throws it all in. One big, mushy, intersectional stew. But again, I ask,
00:43:07.260 why are you worried about fascism and colonization if the entire world is about to end?
00:43:13.960 How could the destruction of the planet be just one threat alongside fascism and colonization?
00:43:20.900 That's like if a guy is drowning in the ocean and you stand on the shore and say,
00:43:28.120 well, it seems like this guy has really three problems. High cholesterol, skin cancer,
00:43:35.780 and he's drowning. Now, I would think that that third thing is really the only thing that would
00:43:42.400 matter in that moment. The other two aren't going to have a chance to kill him if he drowns in the
00:43:49.240 next 30 seconds. And yet Greta Thunberg claims that the entire world is drowning. The entire world
00:43:55.380 is on the verge of certain death. But here she is focused on Gaza and the problem of fascism and
00:44:02.740 colonization. And that's because it's all a scam. I mean, all this stuff is a scam and these people
00:44:08.440 don't believe any of it. They don't care about any of it. And it's just one big con. And Greta Thunberg
00:44:14.700 has been one of the preeminent con artists on the globe, really, for a long time. So it's
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00:45:13.160 After four years, countless arguments destroyed and millions of liberals triggered,
00:45:17.300 Ben Shapiro returns to do something that he's obnoxiously good at. He's written a new book.
00:45:22.240 The result is Lions and Scavengers, the true story of America and her critics.
00:45:27.000 Must be clear, this isn't just another book release. This is one of the biggest books of the fall,
00:45:31.240 the kind of book that goes straight to the top of the New York Times bestseller list,
00:45:34.140 which is especially fun because it means that Times has to put Ben Shapiro's name
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00:46:04.140 Today for our daily cancellation, we have an article in the Financial Times from a vegan writer by the
00:46:09.560 name of Henry Mance. Henry is trying to deal with a question that for him is quite woeful and tragic.
00:46:14.500 For the rest of us, it's cause for celebration, or at least maybe laughter. The headline,
00:46:20.700 Why the Vegans Lost? As you can see, the headline is accompanied by a little cartoon of a balding man
00:46:26.780 on a park bench cuddling with a bottle of milk while a carton of oat milk looks on sad and dejected
00:46:33.140 because apparently this anthropomorphized carton of oat milk wants to have its insides poured out
00:46:37.940 and consumed by the bald guy, which raises all kinds of strange psychological questions that
00:46:43.140 we're not going to get into. But the question of concern is the one in the title. Why did veganism
00:46:47.900 lose? Even the vegans are now willing to admit that they lost the battle. Veganism failed.
00:46:54.120 Nobody wants to be vegan. Nobody likes vegans. Why is that? Henry Mance of the Financial Times
00:47:00.040 shares his theory of the case. And if you were expecting even an ounce of self-awareness or
00:47:04.340 serious self-reflection here, well, then you apparently don't know vegans.
00:47:08.500 Reading on, A few weeks ago, I sat next to a former England footballer at lunch.
00:47:13.460 She had suffered a serious ankle injury in her early 30s. After researching how to recover,
00:47:17.760 she decided to turn vegan. Medical staff were skeptical until her statistics proved better than ever.
00:47:23.220 Today, her only regret is not changing diets sooner. Such stories have become rarer.
00:47:27.700 Veganism was once the biggest food trend. Now the zeitgeist is elsewhere. Google searches for the
00:47:32.420 word vegan rose steadily after 2010, peaked in early 2020, and have dropped since. Sales of beyond
00:47:37.560 meat and impossible foods, which make arguably the best vegan burgers, are failing too. Falling too.
00:47:44.200 11 Madison Park, the high-end New York restaurant, which went plant-based after COVID-19,
00:47:48.500 is reintroducing meat to its menu. One high-profile vegan crypto entrepreneur,
00:47:53.820 Sam Bankman-Fried, is in jail. Another New York mayor, Eric Adams, turned out to like eating at
00:47:59.160 fish restaurants. What went wrong? Actually, this understates the problem for veganism. Sales for
00:48:05.280 plant-based alternatives aren't just falling. In fact, reports suggested that the company Beyond Meat
00:48:10.220 is going bankrupt. Now they've since denied those reports, but the fact remains that things are going
00:48:14.680 very poorly in the world of disgusting plant mush shaped to look like delicious meat products.
00:48:20.700 Why are they going poorly, though? The question was just posed, what went wrong? Well, the writer
00:48:25.360 spends precisely one sentence on the fact that vegan food products perform poorly in blind taste tests.
00:48:31.700 Then he moves on from that and starts complaining about fickle food trends and the fact that, quote,
00:48:38.360 governments never intervened to help plant-based diets. Well, that really gives the game away,
00:48:45.460 doesn't it? Vegans knew that they could never entice us to drink liquefied nut juice when real milk is
00:48:52.020 readily available. They knew that we would never be tempted to eat pink plant slime instead of actual
00:48:57.260 ground beef, so they hoped that governments would intervene and just jam their vegan sludge down our
00:49:03.840 throats at gunpoint, which tells you everything you need to know. And the thing is, even if that had
00:49:09.280 happened, it still wouldn't have worked. Most of us would rather die than eat a tofu chicken breast.
00:49:17.160 Consuming a vegan meal is a fate worse than death for most of us. So even if the governments of the world
00:49:22.980 had, as the vegans hoped, rounded us up and put us into vegan concentration camps and served us a diet of cashew
00:49:29.020 milk and vegan sausages, it still would not have been enough to convince any of us to actually eat
00:49:34.720 it. We would all rather starve than put that poison into our mouths. But why are we so opposed to vegan
00:49:41.200 food? Well, Henry Mance of the Financial Times finally settles on the real answer, quote, even with
00:49:46.740 all the above, the retreat of veganism wouldn't have been possible without another ingredient, the decline
00:49:52.020 in idealism. Not long ago, liberals in particular were prepared to make sacrifices in the hope of a
00:49:57.720 better society. Faced with overwhelming bleakness, COVID, Ukraine, high energy costs, Donald Trump's
00:50:02.940 reelection, Gaza, they've lost faith. They understandably wonder if small changes matter. They want to escape
00:50:08.720 to the things that bring instant joy, meat, cheese, long haul holidays. Veganism wasn't meant to be like other
00:50:15.040 food fads. It was intended to benefit not just the individual, but society as a whole. Eating less meat would
00:50:20.140 reduce greenhouse gas emissions and animal suffering. The evidence is clear, but right now we can't be
00:50:25.100 bothered. But concerns about climate and animal welfare are the bedrock of veganism, the reasons
00:50:29.500 that will keep people feeling good about eating less meat, and that can get governments involved.
00:50:33.460 In Germany, where support for climate action remains strong, sales of plant-based food have kept
00:50:37.860 growing. Elsewhere, vegans will regain the momentum if the public regains a sense of possibility.
00:50:45.200 So that's it. We're not idealistic enough.
00:50:47.200 And we're depressed about Ukraine. We all look at that, at the, you know, the, the, the fake
00:50:55.240 vegan hamburger. And we say, you know, I would eat it, but I'm just so depressed about Ukraine.
00:51:03.020 If not for the fate of Ukraine, I would, I would, I'd have this vegan. That's true. When I go to a
00:51:07.800 restaurant, I say that all the time, I'm looking at the menu. And I, oh, I always say to the waitress,
00:51:11.920 you know, you got this, uh, you got this impossible meat, uh, burger here. This vegan, I would, I would
00:51:17.380 eat it. I would eat it. But you know, this thing with Ukraine, it's just, it's so depressing. I can't,
00:51:23.400 I can't, I, I need, I need the comfort of a, of real beef to make me feel better about Ukraine.
00:51:30.840 Um, and then also we've lost our sense of possibility and, and in a way that's true. You know,
00:51:36.280 we do not believe that it's possible for a vegan alternative to ever taste like anything,
00:51:40.720 but steaming hot garbage. And with every new vegan alternative on the market, our lack of faith
00:51:45.860 is further justified because in reality, there are two key reasons why the vegans lost. It's got
00:51:52.020 nothing to do with anything that was in the arc. And the first and biggest reason is simply this.
00:51:57.020 Your food tastes like crap. Your food doesn't even taste like food. It tastes like you're eating
00:52:02.780 random household objects. Vegan cheese is like eating a candle. Tofu is like you ordered something
00:52:09.400 fragile on Amazon and then ate the styrofoam packaging that it came in. Vegan bacon is like,
00:52:14.620 if you then ate the cardboard box, vegan beef tastes like soggy rubber that someone heated up
00:52:20.580 in a microwave. Vegan chicken tastes like a piece of yoga mat folded up with sawdust inside. It's
00:52:26.560 rancid, nauseating, offensive. Vegan food is so bad that it's upsetting on an emotional level. The last
00:52:32.980 time I tried a vegan product, I got so sad that I almost cried. I didn't, but I almost did. And that
00:52:37.920 would have been an approved reason for a man to cry. That's how bad vegan food is. And that's
00:52:42.720 the main reason that veganism failed. It's a dietary fad, but the diet is so repugnant that
00:52:47.640 its adherents need the government to intervene on their behalf. Okay? That's the problem.
00:52:54.640 The other problem is philosophical. And the philosophical problem is that veganism is morally
00:53:01.440 incoherent. You know, I won't even get into the fact that if you think meat is murder, it makes no
00:53:06.680 sense to sell food that's supposed to look and taste like murder. Like, if I wanted to make the
00:53:12.240 point that cannibalism is bad, I wouldn't sell food that's made to look and taste like human flesh.
00:53:19.020 Cannibalism is bad, so try our new human thighs. You'll never believe that you're not consuming an
00:53:23.900 actual human limb. It just, it seems like a bizarre sales pitch if you morally object to the thing that
00:53:31.640 the food is imitating. But more importantly, veganism hinges on the idea that human beings are
00:53:38.520 not superior to animals. They say that we are animals ourselves, no better than any other animals
00:53:43.760 in the animal kingdom. But animals in the animal kingdom eat each other. That's what animals do.
00:53:49.480 The majority of animals on the planet are carnivores. About 30% are herbivores. And those are mostly
00:53:54.180 animals that can survive by eating grass, leaves, vegetables. We cannot survive on that kind of diet.
00:54:00.420 I mean, if you just eat grass, you'll die. If you just eat leaves, you'll die. If you just eat
00:54:03.800 vegetables, you will die. Biologically, human beings are omnivores. And so, animals that need
00:54:11.820 to eat meat, as we do, eat meat. Like, in the animal kingdom, if an animal needs to eat meat,
00:54:17.260 they'll just eat meat. They have no compunction about it. They don't debate the ethics. They kill
00:54:21.280 and they eat. Many animals even start eating their meal before it's all the way dead.
00:54:27.260 This is the way of life. It's how nature works. And if we are but animals ourselves,
00:54:32.920 shouldn't we be a part of this natural process? Isn't that the most organic thing we can do?
00:54:39.660 Is to just be a part of the cycle of life? If we're not superior to animals, how can we be held
00:54:45.040 to a higher moral standard? It makes no sense. Veganism claims that we're superior and not superior
00:54:50.160 at the very same time. We shouldn't eat animals because we are animals, just like any other animals.
00:54:54.740 But also, we shouldn't eat animals because we are not animals, just like any other animal. Which is
00:54:59.520 it? Well, vegans ultimately answer the question the same way that the rest of us do. I mean,
00:55:04.120 that's really what they believe. Even if they don't want to say it out loud, they believe that
00:55:08.560 human beings are superior. That's the only way to justify holding us to some kind of elevated and
00:55:13.520 highly unnatural moral code. They expect us to act in a way that is distinct from every other species
00:55:19.200 on the planet because they believe that we are distinct from every other species on the planet.
00:55:23.020 And ultimately, as is so often the case, they went in a big circle and they ended back at
00:55:29.320 a basic biblical truth. Man was made in the image of God and given dominion over the fish
00:55:34.760 of the sea and the fowl of the air and over the cattle and over all the earth. But if that's
00:55:39.880 true, then it's all the more reason why we have the moral right to eat animals. Hamburgers
00:55:46.360 don't just taste good, they are also ethically good. And maybe that's why vegan food tastes so
00:55:52.760 horrible. They want it to taste like beef or chicken, but instead it just tastes like moral
00:55:57.440 confusion. And ultimately, that is why vegans are, by their own admission now, today, canceled.
00:56:06.980 That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow.
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