The Matt Walsh Show - September 08, 2025


Ep. 1653 - The Savage Crime That The Media Doesn’t Want You To Know About


Episode Stats

Length

1 hour and 5 minutes

Words per Minute

168.75587

Word Count

11,120

Sentence Count

726

Misogynist Sentences

35

Hate Speech Sentences

32


Summary

A career criminal savagely murders a Ukrainian refugee on a train in Charlotte. The media refuses to cover the story. I ll give you one guess why that s the case. Also, the Trump administration considers banning trans people from owning guns, the city of Austin ditches their century-old city logo in favor of something that makes Cracker Barrel look brilliant by comparison, and we will discuss the very absurdly viral story of a kid getting his baseball stolen at a Phillies game. Everyone s talking about it, but everyone is missing the point.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, a career criminal savagely murders a Ukrainian refugee on a train
00:00:04.280 in Charlotte. The media refuses to cover the story. I'll give you one guess why that's the
00:00:08.340 case. Also, the Trump administration considers banning trans people from owning guns. The city
00:00:12.680 of Austin ditches their century-old city logo in favor of something that makes the Cracker Barrel
00:00:17.040 rebrand look brilliant by comparison. And we will discuss the very absurdly viral story of the kid
00:00:22.740 getting his baseball stolen at a Phillies game. Everyone's talking about it, but everyone is
00:00:26.360 missing the point, as always. We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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00:01:55.800 Just a few hours after a career felon named George Floyd overdosed on the streets of Minneapolis,
00:02:01.700 just outside of the store that he was attempting to rob, while being restrained by the officers that
00:02:06.400 he had physically resisted, a lengthy video of Floyd's death appeared on every mainstream cable
00:02:11.720 news station. The footage was disturbing, viewers were warned. But we were instructed to watch it
00:02:17.080 anyway, because it supposedly amounted to clear and convincing evidence that America is unsafe for
00:02:22.000 black people due to the scourge of systemic racism. Never mind the lethal level of fentanyl in Floyd's
00:02:28.160 system, which prosecutors later lied about during Derek Chauvin's trial. Never mind the lack of any
00:02:33.060 physical injury to his neck whatsoever. Focus, they told us, on the footage. Wasn't exactly a rational
00:02:39.380 argument, but it didn't need to be. Even alleged conservatives like Supreme Court Justice Amy
00:02:44.740 Coney Barrett explained that they had wept after seeing the video. That's how powerful the video
00:02:50.280 was, or at least that's the way things seemed at the time to a lot of people. What's become very
00:02:55.700 evident in the aftermath of the Floyd hagiography is that the footage of his overdose wasn't actually
00:03:03.060 that important to the narrative. Far more important was the footage that we weren't allowed to see
00:03:07.760 under any circumstances. And I'm not just talking about the footage of Floyd telling the officers
00:03:12.080 that he couldn't breathe long before he was on the ground. I'm talking about all the videos of black
00:03:17.700 career, career felons, violent thugs who should have been executed a very long time ago, murdering
00:03:23.820 white people in public places for no apparent reason whatsoever. These are videos that are rarely
00:03:30.000 shown to the public. When these videos are released, they're usually edited to the point that you don't
00:03:35.160 actually see the crime itself, and the mainstream media outlets ignore them entirely. The aggregate
00:03:41.500 effect of this censorship is that to many Americans, black people are seen as the victims of systemic
00:03:48.500 racial injustice, while whites are cast as their oppressors. That's the kind of pre-existing narrative
00:03:54.080 you need in order to sell a BLM martyr to the public. Now, shortly after a 23-year-old Ukrainian
00:03:59.660 refugee by the name of Irina Zarutska was murdered on the light rail system in Charlotte, North Carolina
00:04:06.000 back on August 22nd, the same campaign of censorship remained in effect. In early reports about the
00:04:13.940 murder, news outlets omitted some key details from the story. Here's one example. See if you can tell
00:04:20.100 what's missing from this report. Watch. Turning to this now tonight, the Charlotte and Mecklenburg
00:04:25.580 Fraternal Order of Police is voicing their concerns about leadership and safety here in the Queen
00:04:30.820 City, and this is after the stabbing death of a woman on the light rail just days ago, and city
00:04:36.820 leaders' response to it. WCNC Charlotte's Bria Smith is joining us live right now in South End. So,
00:04:42.360 Bria, what is the FOP saying?
00:04:48.440 Well, Vanessa, in a Facebook post, the FOP says that the mayor, quote, coddled the man responsible for this
00:04:54.860 latest incident, and it's the reason why city leaders and residents in this area say solutions
00:05:00.300 can be made. Now, in a statement released by the mayor, she expressed her sympathies to the victim
00:05:05.420 and her family, stating, quote, my thoughts and prayers go out to the young woman's family and
00:05:10.340 friends. When it came to the suspect, she wrote, while I do not know the specifics of the man's
00:05:15.100 medical record, what I have come to understand is that he has long struggled with mental health
00:05:20.360 and appears to have suffered a crisis. That report aired nearly a week after the murder.
00:05:25.980 Authorities knew the identity of the suspect within hours of the attack, and as you just heard,
00:05:30.300 the mayor clearly knows who he is. She even knows his medical record, apparently. But they still don't
00:05:35.420 tell you anything specific. No photos are provided, so the audience has no idea what the man looked like.
00:05:41.680 His name wasn't provided either, and they certainly didn't air any video of the attack,
00:05:45.960 edited or otherwise. And there's a reason for that. Democrats in Charlotte wanted to cover up
00:05:51.480 their role in this murder, as well as the broader pattern of black felons targeting white people.
00:05:56.560 And that's why no major media outlets in the entire country, except for Fox,
00:06:00.720 have even mentioned this story. It's a complete media blackout pretty much everywhere on all the
00:06:06.680 networks and all the newspapers. You could search the Washington Post, NBC News, CBS News, ABC News,
00:06:13.020 the AP, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, NPR, the BBC, CNN. None of them are talking about
00:06:18.940 it. No national Democrats have weighed in either. And for its part, Wikipedia is now in the process of
00:06:24.620 deleting its article on the murder completely. For all their stated concern about Ukraine and
00:06:29.820 refugees, this is one Ukrainian refugee that these people definitely don't want to talk about.
00:06:35.160 I mean, they'll run a million articles about the plight of Ukrainians and how we should accept them
00:06:38.860 with open arms. But when one of these Ukrainians is murdered on public transport, they don't even
00:06:43.920 pretend to care. I mean, we hear all the time about refugees who come to America for a better life.
00:06:49.800 Well, this is one who came here for a better life, ended up getting butchered on the light rail
00:06:53.740 instead, which is the kind of tragic story that you think people with Ukraine flags in their bios would
00:06:59.200 immediately rally around. But again, none of them can even pretend to care about this.
00:07:04.100 They all feel the need to destroy the evidence of this homicide because they know it's proof of a
00:07:09.700 larger trend, one that they have absolutely no answer for. These statistics on this disparity are
00:07:15.500 not remotely close. A white person is more than 30 times more likely to be violently attacked by a
00:07:21.240 black person than the other way around. In 2019, roughly 85 percent of the 560,000 violent interracial
00:07:29.700 incidents involving whites and blacks were black on white crimes.
00:07:35.280 OK, these are statistics that are hard for most people to comprehend. They don't just destroy the
00:07:41.640 narrative about white supremacy or about a mental health crisis or whatever. They also demonstrate
00:07:46.500 very clearly that white people are being hunted and killed by an extraordinarily dangerous demographic,
00:07:52.840 which is an urgent problem that rises to the level of a national emergency.
00:07:56.780 I mean, you often hear it said that 13 percent of the population accounts for 50 percent
00:08:01.340 of the homicides, but it's actually far worse than that, because most of the murders are being
00:08:07.880 committed more specifically by young black males between the ages of about 15 and 40.
00:08:14.480 So that's more like three or four percent of the population that's doing all that damage.
00:08:20.500 But at the end of the day, these are just numbers. Without graphic videos airing 24-7 on every cable
00:08:28.880 news network showing the reality of this racial violence in everyday life, these statistics are
00:08:35.040 hard for people to hear about or to understand. And that's why over the weekend, Charlotte's political
00:08:41.400 leaders were very quickly thrown into a state of panic and horror. The city's public transit system,
00:08:48.140 upon the request of journalists invoking the state's public records law, released footage
00:08:53.020 showing the moments before and after the murder of that Ukrainian woman in Charlotte. Several weeks
00:08:58.720 after the fact, after the authorities initially refused to release this video, it finally became
00:09:03.740 public. And this is a moment that Charlotte's mayor clearly did not want to see, nor was she prepared
00:09:10.400 for it. Now, as you can see, the footage shows the victim entering the light rail car. She has her
00:09:18.540 AirPods in. She sits down in front of a large black male without interacting with him in any way.
00:09:26.160 You know, these are people, there are other people sitting nearby on in other seats on the train. It's a
00:09:31.900 busy, it's a full busy train. The woman is wearing the uniform of a pizza restaurant. So presumably she's
00:09:38.120 just getting off of work. And then after a few minutes, which is condensed in the video into a
00:09:43.180 few seconds, the black man stabs the woman several times out of nowhere. The footage pauses so it
00:09:51.660 doesn't actually show the stabbing. But then the attacker walks throughout the train with nobody
00:09:57.540 responding in any way as blood is dripping from his knife. The attacker was later admitted to the
00:10:03.880 hospital with a wound to his hand. So it's possible the knife also cut him as he was murdering his
00:10:09.280 victim. So again, compared to the Floyd footage, it's sanitized. It doesn't actually show anyone
00:10:16.940 dying. And it's not airing constantly on every single news channel, or almost any news channel,
00:10:22.040 in fact. But although it's censored, it's still extremely damaging for the city of Charlotte and
00:10:27.360 the narrative of the Democrat Party, which exists to protect criminals who attack white people.
00:10:32.940 And that's why when the transit system released the footage, the Democrat mayor of Charlotte,
00:10:38.280 a black woman named Vi Lyles, did not issue a statement condemning the killer. She didn't provide
00:10:44.760 any background information about the man, including any previous arrests and convictions he might have.
00:10:50.580 She did not explain how the city could have easily prevented this murder from occurring.
00:10:55.520 Nor did she say a word about black on white violence in general, of course.
00:10:59.340 Instead, in a post on social media, Vi Lyles denounced everyone who shared the footage.
00:11:05.680 That's who she's mad at. Here's what she wrote. Quote,
00:11:09.420 The video of the heartbreaking attack that took Irina Zaruzka's life is now public.
00:11:14.860 I want to thank our media partners and community members who have chosen not to repost or share the
00:11:19.660 footage out of respect for Irina's family. That's an actual message from the mayor of Charlotte.
00:11:25.820 According to Lyles, if you shared the footage that the city transit system provided,
00:11:31.540 then you're not demonstrating respect for the victim's family.
00:11:36.200 The respectful thing to do in the mayor's eyes is to bury all of the evidence that this happened.
00:11:42.800 It's to pretend that it didn't happen. It's to pretend that this woman never existed.
00:11:46.120 That's the respectful thing.
00:11:47.320 And if you don't see that, then you're just not as altruistic as Vi Lyles.
00:11:52.780 You have no decency.
00:11:55.300 Now, of course, the reason that the mayor wanted to memory hold his footage is not to respect the victim,
00:12:00.540 but really the opposite of that.
00:12:02.920 The reason is that the killer,
00:12:05.720 somebody named Carlos Brown Jr.,
00:12:08.040 has predictably an extensive criminal record.
00:12:11.100 Specifically, he has at least 14 prior arrests
00:12:14.360 for crimes like armed robbery, assault on a female, felony larceny,
00:12:20.120 breaking and entering, shoplifting.
00:12:22.780 You know, all the crimes you would expect somebody like this to have.
00:12:26.020 He has mugshots like students have yearbook photos.
00:12:29.580 And there's a new one every year, basically, if not more often than that.
00:12:33.960 One of his more recent arrests came after he misused the 911 system,
00:12:38.240 reportedly by claiming that man-made material was inside his body and controlling his mind.
00:12:46.120 And he was brought to court on that charge.
00:12:47.900 A judge named Teresa Stokes, rather, was reportedly assigned to the case.
00:12:53.500 And now let's think about this for a second.
00:12:57.280 Put yourself in the judge's position.
00:12:58.840 You have a violent felon with a, at this point, lengthy history of attacking people.
00:13:06.400 According to the police, he's now experiencing psychosis,
00:13:08.920 in addition to committing even more crimes.
00:13:11.420 He's certainly demonstrating antisocial behavior
00:13:13.620 that's clearly incompatible with life in a civilized society.
00:13:17.060 And yet, despite that track record,
00:13:19.300 the judge, a black woman who reposts pro-DEI content on LinkedIn,
00:13:23.940 and who just happens to run a treatment facility
00:13:26.060 that treats mental health disorders in her spare time,
00:13:29.660 allowed DeCarlos Brown to go free with no cash bail.
00:13:35.000 Just went, just let him go.
00:13:38.220 She didn't lock him in a prison.
00:13:40.800 She didn't commit him to a mental hospital.
00:13:43.820 She allowed him to board a light rail car and murder an innocent white woman.
00:13:50.560 Given every opportunity to imprison a repeat offender,
00:13:53.840 a clear danger to everybody around him,
00:13:56.880 the justice system just turned him loose.
00:14:00.520 Didn't even make him pay bail money.
00:14:03.880 Now, this is a point that cannot be overstated.
00:14:07.680 Our society is held hostage by a tiny minority
00:14:11.380 of violent antisocial degenerates like DeCarlos Brown.
00:14:16.840 And what makes it all the more infuriating
00:14:18.880 is that it doesn't have to be like this.
00:14:21.120 We could have all of these criminals off the street permanently
00:14:25.980 in the span of a few months if we had the will.
00:14:30.540 Now, here's a statistic that you almost never hear about.
00:14:35.400 And it tells us this,
00:14:37.500 that if we rounded up every criminal
00:14:40.460 with three or more prior arrests,
00:14:44.520 crime would drop by 80% nationwide.
00:14:47.120 Yes, 80%.
00:14:50.280 And you can make this determination
00:14:53.020 by looking at the percentage of new inmates in prison systems
00:14:56.060 who have a prior arrest,
00:14:58.160 which is virtually all of them.
00:15:01.400 And this is exactly the result that you would expect.
00:15:04.560 And the lesson is obvious.
00:15:06.920 The single best way to predict future criminal behavior
00:15:10.300 is to look at past criminal behavior.
00:15:12.460 And the single best way to prevent future criminal behavior
00:15:16.060 is to begin implementing ruthless punishments
00:15:18.960 for serious offenders.
00:15:21.460 And when I say ruthless,
00:15:23.000 I mean public execution for violent criminals
00:15:26.560 and habitual offenders.
00:15:28.320 There is, again, a very, very small percentage
00:15:31.820 of barbarically violent sociopaths
00:15:34.580 causing almost all of the problems.
00:15:36.720 Our communities are unsafe and unlivable.
00:15:40.260 You can't even sit on a train with headphones on
00:15:42.600 because of a tiny fraction of the population.
00:15:46.820 If not for this fraction,
00:15:48.520 nearly every city in America would be a utopia
00:15:52.080 compared to what it is today.
00:15:54.040 We could easily deal with this problem,
00:15:57.980 again, simply by punishing criminals.
00:16:02.640 At a minimum, long prison sentences
00:16:05.600 as well as hard labor.
00:16:08.100 I mean, to Carlos Brown,
00:16:09.880 when you look at his rap sheet,
00:16:11.420 when you look at the fact that he was just
00:16:12.400 a dysfunctional person with nothing of value
00:16:16.180 to add to society,
00:16:17.640 he should have already been serving 30 years
00:16:20.320 in a labor camp.
00:16:21.400 At least by his, I don't know, fifth arrest.
00:16:27.240 He should have been in a labor camp somewhere.
00:16:29.960 And then he could bring some value to society.
00:16:32.260 Force him to work in a labor camp.
00:16:36.400 This is the only way, as our ancestors knew.
00:16:40.440 We've tried compassion.
00:16:42.940 We've tried restorative justice.
00:16:46.300 And this is the result.
00:16:48.880 It was inevitable.
00:16:51.400 So, here's another question.
00:16:55.280 And I want you to think about this.
00:16:58.520 Why exactly don't we give capital punishment
00:17:01.980 to armed robbers?
00:17:05.020 And to Carlos Brown had armed robbery on his rap sheet.
00:17:08.020 Again, very typical.
00:17:10.960 Why shouldn't anyone who would use violence
00:17:13.820 to rob another person
00:17:15.240 be permanently removed from society?
00:17:17.980 Until it's safe to ride public transit
00:17:21.160 or walk your dog in the park,
00:17:23.540 what exactly is the argument
00:17:24.580 for showing any amount of leniency
00:17:26.640 to career criminals whatsoever?
00:17:29.900 Our current system only gives capital punishment,
00:17:32.400 and then only rarely,
00:17:34.200 to someone who actually kills another person.
00:17:36.220 But what about someone who,
00:17:38.300 through their behavior,
00:17:40.040 has shown a willingness
00:17:41.100 to kill another person?
00:17:42.620 What about someone who is willing
00:17:45.280 to murder another human being
00:17:46.820 just to take their wallet
00:17:48.460 or their shoes
00:17:49.700 or their car?
00:17:51.840 What is the argument?
00:17:52.860 What is the actual argument
00:17:54.240 for waiting until that
00:17:56.100 already violent offender
00:17:57.500 actually kills someone
00:17:59.240 before giving them
00:18:00.500 the maximum punishment?
00:18:01.380 I want someone
00:18:03.300 to explain this to me.
00:18:04.560 If a guy walks up
00:18:05.400 to a woman on the street
00:18:06.300 or a man,
00:18:08.920 points a gun
00:18:10.480 at the person's head
00:18:12.360 and takes their purse
00:18:13.260 or their wallet,
00:18:14.820 why shouldn't that guy
00:18:16.260 be hanging from a rope
00:18:17.580 24 hours
00:18:18.580 after he's convicted
00:18:19.420 in a court of law?
00:18:21.600 Why not?
00:18:23.660 Don't give me some platitude.
00:18:25.140 Don't just shout the word
00:18:26.240 compassion at me.
00:18:27.780 Give me an actual argument.
00:18:28.940 It would certainly make
00:18:31.160 our communities much safer
00:18:32.500 if we started executing
00:18:33.740 armed robbers.
00:18:35.640 If we responded
00:18:36.780 with that kind of
00:18:37.720 brutal decisiveness
00:18:38.760 to violent criminals,
00:18:39.800 there's no question
00:18:40.580 that it would make
00:18:41.340 our communities much safer.
00:18:42.560 So why shouldn't we do it?
00:18:45.460 Here's the question.
00:18:48.160 Is the cost
00:18:49.920 of having
00:18:51.720 much more dangerous communities
00:18:54.040 worth the benefit
00:18:56.600 of keeping guys
00:18:58.600 like DeCarlos Brown
00:18:59.560 alive?
00:19:02.900 Does anyone think
00:19:03.740 the answer to that
00:19:04.360 question is yes?
00:19:07.620 So the benefit
00:19:10.100 is that
00:19:10.840 guys like
00:19:12.500 DeCarlos Brown,
00:19:13.360 we get to keep them alive.
00:19:16.240 And the cost
00:19:17.220 is that our communities
00:19:18.180 are very unsafe
00:19:18.940 and people like
00:19:20.060 Irina die.
00:19:22.960 What do we think
00:19:23.560 about the cost-benefit
00:19:24.460 analysis there?
00:19:26.980 Look,
00:19:27.360 I've been making
00:19:28.000 this point
00:19:28.420 for a long time.
00:19:30.900 As a society,
00:19:32.420 we have two choices.
00:19:34.680 Okay,
00:19:34.900 only two.
00:19:36.320 Either
00:19:36.760 we are going
00:19:37.420 to inflict
00:19:37.940 severe
00:19:38.640 merciless suffering
00:19:39.900 on the criminals,
00:19:41.500 the violent degenerates,
00:19:42.920 the sociopathic predators,
00:19:44.620 the dysfunctional,
00:19:45.900 the barbaric,
00:19:46.860 or
00:19:47.780 we're going
00:19:48.680 to allow
00:19:49.260 severe
00:19:49.880 merciless suffering
00:19:50.840 to be inflicted
00:19:51.560 on the innocent,
00:19:52.800 the women
00:19:54.040 sitting on the train
00:19:54.880 after work,
00:19:55.380 the pedestrians
00:19:55.940 walking their dogs
00:19:56.840 in the park,
00:19:57.340 the Uber drivers,
00:19:58.100 the gas station clerks,
00:19:59.040 and so on.
00:20:01.020 One group
00:20:01.700 or the other
00:20:02.220 is going
00:20:02.620 to be made
00:20:03.060 to feel
00:20:03.560 immense suffering.
00:20:05.100 One group
00:20:05.700 or the other
00:20:06.200 is going
00:20:06.560 to be met
00:20:06.960 with brutality
00:20:07.740 and violence.
00:20:08.580 There's no third option,
00:20:09.580 at least not for us.
00:20:11.260 Now,
00:20:11.420 other countries
00:20:11.980 may be able
00:20:12.540 to find a middle path.
00:20:13.660 Japan is one
00:20:14.280 of the safest
00:20:15.200 countries in the world.
00:20:16.120 It's also
00:20:16.420 completely homogenous.
00:20:17.560 98% of Japanese
00:20:18.620 citizens
00:20:18.960 are ethnically Japanese.
00:20:20.760 They are a small,
00:20:21.620 homogenous country
00:20:22.480 where everybody
00:20:23.040 shares the same culture,
00:20:24.120 same values,
00:20:25.100 same priorities,
00:20:26.340 the same fear
00:20:27.040 of public shame
00:20:27.880 and embarrassment.
00:20:29.140 And yet,
00:20:29.480 even in Japan,
00:20:30.860 the death penalty
00:20:31.460 is mandated
00:20:32.220 in their penal code.
00:20:33.960 They don't use it often,
00:20:35.260 but when they do use it,
00:20:36.580 the accused
00:20:37.120 finds out
00:20:37.700 their execution date
00:20:38.440 on the day
00:20:39.060 of the execution.
00:20:40.500 And then they're
00:20:40.980 taken off
00:20:41.380 to be hanged
00:20:41.920 without any further appeal.
00:20:44.320 So Japan's secret sauce
00:20:45.660 is homogeneity
00:20:46.920 with severe
00:20:48.420 and lethal punishment
00:20:49.340 dispensed
00:20:49.900 on the rare occasion
00:20:50.880 when it's necessary.
00:20:51.600 That is not
00:20:54.280 our situation.
00:20:55.020 We are a very big country.
00:20:57.200 We are,
00:20:57.940 as we're always reminded,
00:20:58.900 very diverse.
00:21:01.580 So we are left
00:21:02.640 with the two options
00:21:03.640 I just outlined.
00:21:05.180 Severe,
00:21:05.860 brutal,
00:21:06.460 ugly punishment
00:21:07.220 of the guilty
00:21:07.960 or
00:21:09.720 severe,
00:21:11.200 brutal,
00:21:11.600 ugly punishment
00:21:12.260 of the innocent.
00:21:13.880 Either the former
00:21:14.860 or the latter.
00:21:15.640 To choose neither,
00:21:16.620 to refuse to choose,
00:21:18.380 is to choose the latter.
00:21:19.440 It is to say
00:21:21.160 that it is worth it
00:21:22.280 for the innocent
00:21:23.640 to suffer
00:21:24.160 so that the guilty
00:21:25.060 don't have to.
00:21:27.160 And that's the answer
00:21:27.820 that our system
00:21:28.360 has decided on.
00:21:29.380 It's decided
00:21:29.860 that it's better
00:21:30.620 for a million
00:21:31.520 innocent women
00:21:32.240 on the train
00:21:32.960 to be butchered
00:21:34.120 in broad daylight
00:21:34.840 than for one
00:21:36.960 violent criminal
00:21:37.620 to be severely punished.
00:21:40.520 And even worse,
00:21:41.200 the people who give
00:21:41.920 this answer
00:21:42.440 have the nerve
00:21:43.320 to call it compassion.
00:21:45.360 It is not compassion.
00:21:47.060 It is callousness
00:21:48.200 in the extreme.
00:21:49.440 It is monstrous cruelty.
00:21:53.400 And that is why
00:21:54.200 the outrages continue
00:21:55.180 every day.
00:21:55.700 Just two days ago
00:21:56.380 on Saturday,
00:21:56.980 a 59-year-old
00:21:57.840 Auburn professor
00:21:58.640 named Julie Gard
00:21:59.660 Shunelli
00:22:00.520 was butchered
00:22:01.840 with a knife
00:22:02.540 in the city's
00:22:03.420 largest park
00:22:04.120 while she was
00:22:04.520 walking her dog.
00:22:06.060 She worked
00:22:06.480 at Auburn University's
00:22:07.580 College of Veterinary Medicine
00:22:08.940 and on Saturday
00:22:09.780 police say
00:22:10.360 a 28-year-old
00:22:11.620 black man
00:22:12.120 named Harold Rashad
00:22:13.260 Dabney III
00:22:14.140 stabbed her to death
00:22:16.340 and then stole her truck.
00:22:17.520 Yet another example
00:22:19.900 of black-on-white violence
00:22:21.000 to go along
00:22:21.540 with the other
00:22:22.000 500,000
00:22:22.940 that occur
00:22:23.460 every year,
00:22:24.180 give or take.
00:22:25.560 Yet another example
00:22:26.580 of a murderous degenerate
00:22:27.920 making public spaces
00:22:28.980 unsafe for the rest of us.
00:22:31.240 Here's another one.
00:22:32.340 On the left,
00:22:33.080 you see a 34-year-old
00:22:34.160 Lyft driver.
00:22:34.860 On the right,
00:22:35.320 you have one of the suspects
00:22:36.680 in her murder
00:22:37.860 and robbery.
00:22:39.320 She was shot to death.
00:22:41.380 Authorities didn't release
00:22:42.180 the shooter's name
00:22:42.800 because he was a juvenile.
00:22:44.000 That's how the system works.
00:22:45.380 You don't,
00:22:45.880 you know,
00:22:46.320 see these kinds of attacks
00:22:47.260 happening the other way,
00:22:48.280 period.
00:22:50.080 There are not
00:22:50.800 constant stories
00:22:51.720 of white people
00:22:52.460 hunting down
00:22:53.020 black Lyft drivers
00:22:53.960 or black men in parks.
00:22:56.140 The statistics
00:22:56.940 say what they say
00:22:57.840 and they are becoming
00:22:59.680 increasingly difficult
00:23:00.640 to deny
00:23:01.120 no matter how skeptical
00:23:02.060 or passive
00:23:02.820 you might be.
00:23:03.480 At the same time,
00:23:05.780 there are a lot of people
00:23:06.680 even on the right
00:23:07.460 who don't want to talk
00:23:08.420 about the racial elements
00:23:09.460 of crimes like these.
00:23:11.020 But here's the truth.
00:23:13.240 If I told you
00:23:14.260 that a person
00:23:15.060 was randomly butchered
00:23:16.060 on a train
00:23:16.640 and then I asked you
00:23:18.380 to guess the race
00:23:19.840 of the assailant,
00:23:21.040 I told you I'd give you
00:23:22.160 a billion dollars
00:23:23.120 if you guessed correctly
00:23:24.060 the first time,
00:23:26.020 well,
00:23:26.800 every single person
00:23:27.880 is going to go home
00:23:28.640 a billionaire
00:23:29.020 because you would guess black
00:23:30.800 and you would be correct
00:23:31.540 nearly every time.
00:23:32.460 That's just the simple
00:23:33.300 reality.
00:23:34.160 It just is.
00:23:35.000 We all know it.
00:23:36.220 There's a very obvious
00:23:37.160 pattern here
00:23:37.780 well established
00:23:38.540 over the course
00:23:39.120 of many decades.
00:23:39.900 The dividing line
00:23:40.560 is not between
00:23:41.420 those who recognize
00:23:42.860 the pattern
00:23:43.440 and those who don't.
00:23:44.520 We all recognize
00:23:45.240 that the line
00:23:45.680 is between those
00:23:46.180 who are willing
00:23:46.640 to say it out loud
00:23:47.760 and those who aren't.
00:23:50.260 In response,
00:23:50.880 the only argument
00:23:51.340 you'll hear from Democrats
00:23:52.380 like Vi Lyles
00:23:53.220 is that we need
00:23:53.840 to show compassion
00:23:54.660 for these killers
00:23:55.440 because their mental health
00:23:57.140 is supposedly to blame.
00:23:58.920 That's what she said
00:23:59.580 about the guy
00:24:00.120 with 14 arrests
00:24:01.140 who stabbed the woman
00:24:01.820 to death
00:24:02.140 on the light rail.
00:24:04.060 Here's the key part
00:24:04.920 of her statement.
00:24:05.480 Quote,
00:24:06.100 We will never arrest
00:24:07.000 our way out of issues
00:24:08.000 such as homelessness
00:24:08.720 and mental health.
00:24:10.080 Mental health disease
00:24:10.740 is just that,
00:24:12.040 a disease like any other
00:24:13.120 that needs to be treated
00:24:14.040 with the same compassion,
00:24:15.280 diligence,
00:24:15.720 and commitment
00:24:16.240 as cancer
00:24:17.480 or heart disease.
00:24:18.360 This mentality
00:24:20.980 is the root
00:24:21.480 of so many
00:24:22.040 of our problems
00:24:22.700 in our society
00:24:23.360 that we,
00:24:24.180 it's that we don't talk
00:24:26.100 about in our society,
00:24:27.500 we don't talk about
00:24:28.960 sin,
00:24:30.640 evil,
00:24:31.800 vice,
00:24:32.980 bad choices.
00:24:34.980 All of that
00:24:35.860 has been subsumed
00:24:37.080 under the banner
00:24:37.980 of mental health.
00:24:39.700 Every evil action
00:24:40.600 is a symptom
00:24:41.340 of a disease.
00:24:42.620 A guy randomly murdering
00:24:43.900 an innocent woman
00:24:44.480 on the train
00:24:45.020 is merely showing
00:24:45.800 signs of a medical illness.
00:24:48.240 Savage killers
00:24:48.920 are morally indistinguishable
00:24:50.940 from cancer patients.
00:24:52.660 That's explicitly
00:24:53.740 what she's saying.
00:24:55.240 And the reason
00:24:56.800 that black people
00:24:57.740 are statistically
00:24:58.540 overwhelmingly
00:24:59.200 more likely
00:24:59.840 to assault white people
00:25:00.880 apparently
00:25:01.420 is that there's
00:25:02.180 some unknown pathogen
00:25:04.720 lurking in the water supply.
00:25:07.120 I don't know.
00:25:08.500 Mental illness
00:25:09.400 supposedly explains
00:25:10.340 why this particular
00:25:11.720 black man
00:25:12.340 lied in wait
00:25:13.380 for this woman
00:25:14.620 to sit down
00:25:15.200 in front of him
00:25:15.680 for several minutes
00:25:16.480 before ambushing her
00:25:17.740 and then taking off
00:25:19.560 his shirt
00:25:19.920 and then fleeing
00:25:20.540 with his knife
00:25:21.560 dripping blood
00:25:22.960 all over the train.
00:25:25.160 He can't simply
00:25:26.060 be evil
00:25:26.640 and unfit
00:25:27.700 to live in civilization.
00:25:28.880 No, he's sick.
00:25:30.940 And maybe one day
00:25:31.900 he'll magically
00:25:32.740 get better.
00:25:35.200 Even though
00:25:35.760 he never will.
00:25:37.880 This person,
00:25:38.120 call it mental illness
00:25:38.740 all you want,
00:25:39.020 this person
00:25:39.680 will never be fit
00:25:40.980 to live in
00:25:42.160 civilized society.
00:25:43.100 Never, ever, ever, ever.
00:25:45.780 And again,
00:25:46.200 we all know it.
00:25:48.680 Americans have been fed
00:25:49.680 some variation
00:25:50.400 of this excuse
00:25:51.060 for many generations now
00:25:52.300 and the violence
00:25:53.280 is only accelerating.
00:25:55.020 We're now at the point
00:25:56.000 where, for some women,
00:25:57.200 you're safer
00:25:57.640 in a war zone
00:25:58.340 in Ukraine
00:25:58.760 than you are
00:25:59.420 in a Democrat-controlled
00:26:00.400 urban environment
00:26:01.240 with a large
00:26:02.580 black population.
00:26:04.400 It's not bigotry.
00:26:05.400 It's not spin.
00:26:06.180 It's just a factual statement.
00:26:09.020 The execution
00:26:10.000 of this Ukrainian woman
00:26:11.400 is infinitely more
00:26:12.560 horrifying and disturbing
00:26:13.560 than the deaths
00:26:14.360 of every BLM martyr
00:26:15.800 combined,
00:26:16.460 times a thousand.
00:26:18.640 Because she was not
00:26:19.500 resisting arrest,
00:26:20.520 she was not high
00:26:21.220 on lethal levels
00:26:22.080 of fentanyl,
00:26:23.060 she wasn't charging
00:26:24.000 at a police officer
00:26:24.700 and trying to steal
00:26:25.260 his firearm.
00:26:27.520 Instead,
00:26:27.980 she was trying
00:26:28.600 to go home
00:26:28.980 after her shift
00:26:29.580 at a pizza place.
00:26:30.900 Just like that
00:26:31.600 Auburn professor
00:26:32.160 was trying to walk
00:26:32.800 her dog
00:26:33.160 and just like
00:26:33.560 the Lyft driver
00:26:34.140 was trying to
00:26:34.700 make some money
00:26:35.520 driving people around.
00:26:36.300 She was attempting
00:26:37.080 to live a normal
00:26:38.040 and productive life
00:26:38.980 when she was slaughtered
00:26:40.400 without any hesitation
00:26:41.440 by someone
00:26:43.100 who has never
00:26:43.540 done anything productive
00:26:44.400 and who has never
00:26:45.900 been capable
00:26:46.380 of doing anything
00:26:46.940 productive
00:26:47.320 in his entire life.
00:26:49.680 The video footage
00:26:50.640 erases all doubt
00:26:51.380 about this
00:26:51.860 and that's why
00:26:52.900 they don't want
00:26:53.220 you to see it.
00:26:55.080 You know,
00:26:55.660 the media,
00:26:56.400 entertainment companies
00:26:57.080 like Netflix,
00:26:57.820 Democrats,
00:26:58.960 and their aligned
00:26:59.940 non-profits
00:27:00.600 and NGOs,
00:27:01.220 all of them
00:27:01.760 would prefer
00:27:02.400 that you continue
00:27:02.960 to live under
00:27:03.440 the illusion
00:27:03.980 that white people
00:27:05.320 are tormenting
00:27:06.060 black victims
00:27:06.680 and making them
00:27:07.280 feel chronically
00:27:08.020 unsafe
00:27:08.380 as they go
00:27:08.980 about their day
00:27:09.620 in a society
00:27:10.120 that's systemically
00:27:11.160 racist.
00:27:12.740 But the opposite
00:27:13.580 is true.
00:27:15.920 And these criminals
00:27:16.780 are more brazen
00:27:18.100 and emboldened
00:27:18.700 than they've ever been
00:27:19.460 precisely because
00:27:20.780 they know that
00:27:21.400 they won't face
00:27:21.920 punishment
00:27:22.320 for their crimes.
00:27:23.460 In fact,
00:27:23.840 if anyone tries
00:27:24.460 to stop them,
00:27:25.760 they'll be the ones
00:27:26.740 who are arrested
00:27:27.580 as we saw
00:27:28.780 with Daniel Penny.
00:27:31.440 Last night,
00:27:32.040 the president
00:27:32.340 indicated to a reporter
00:27:33.300 that he had just
00:27:33.860 heard of the case
00:27:34.540 and that some action
00:27:35.420 would be forthcoming.
00:27:36.220 Presumably,
00:27:36.680 that means the arrival
00:27:37.500 of more troops
00:27:38.260 and federal resources
00:27:39.280 in places like Charlotte.
00:27:40.480 Optimistically,
00:27:41.700 it could also mean
00:27:42.280 the removal of judges
00:27:43.280 who allow repeat offenders
00:27:44.500 like the Carlos Brown Jr.
00:27:46.020 to avoid prison time
00:27:47.040 as they rack up felonies.
00:27:49.620 If there's ever been
00:27:50.440 grounds for impeachment,
00:27:51.460 it's using your office
00:27:52.340 to endanger the lives
00:27:53.320 of millions
00:27:53.700 of innocent victims.
00:27:56.540 The reality is that
00:27:57.760 no one in this country
00:27:58.640 can feel safe
00:27:59.420 on public transportation
00:28:00.720 or in public parks
00:28:01.880 or in any other public space
00:28:03.300 in any major American city.
00:28:06.760 This is as great
00:28:07.780 a civil rights crisis
00:28:08.880 as this country
00:28:09.520 has ever faced.
00:28:11.500 You know,
00:28:11.740 we're told that
00:28:12.220 it's a civil right
00:28:13.100 to ride the bus,
00:28:14.380 to use public accommodations.
00:28:15.700 That's what the Rosa Parks
00:28:16.600 story was all about.
00:28:17.540 And I agree.
00:28:18.420 It is a civil right.
00:28:20.320 So what happens
00:28:21.240 when normal law-abiding people
00:28:22.740 can't use these accommodations
00:28:24.020 anymore because violent criminals
00:28:25.600 might stab them in the neck?
00:28:27.440 Is that a civil rights issue?
00:28:29.420 Undoubtedly, it is.
00:28:31.040 But unlike the 1960s,
00:28:32.380 mainstream news outlets
00:28:33.240 aren't talking about it.
00:28:34.560 There are no marches
00:28:35.560 or protests
00:28:36.940 on behalf of women
00:28:37.880 who are being slaughtered
00:28:39.340 in lifts,
00:28:39.940 in parks,
00:28:40.480 on light rail cars,
00:28:41.460 and so on.
00:28:43.360 Maybe that's the first thing
00:28:44.400 that needs to change.
00:28:46.180 If we could pass
00:28:47.000 a series of laws
00:28:47.820 in the 1960s
00:28:48.760 that reoriented
00:28:49.640 all of American life
00:28:51.380 on the back
00:28:52.280 of a massive social movement,
00:28:54.060 then we could do
00:28:54.660 the same thing today.
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00:28:58.580 are slaughtered,
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00:32:34.080 if I can pull it up,
00:32:37.220 here it is.
00:32:37.940 New York Post,
00:32:38.340 the Justice Department
00:32:39.020 is discussing proposals
00:32:40.300 to potentially block
00:32:41.880 transgender Americans
00:32:42.920 from buying firearms,
00:32:45.160 sources told the Post.
00:32:46.500 In the wake of the deadly
00:32:47.420 Minneapolis Catholic Church
00:32:48.360 shooting conducted
00:32:49.000 by Robin Westman,
00:32:51.420 who identifies
00:32:52.020 as a quote-unquote
00:32:53.160 trans woman,
00:32:54.780 DOJ officials
00:32:55.340 are mulling the options
00:32:56.300 the Trump administration
00:32:56.980 could take
00:32:57.460 to restrict the
00:32:58.080 Second Amendment rights
00:32:58.760 of some Americans,
00:32:59.780 according to sources
00:33:00.740 familiar with the talks.
00:33:02.020 Some DOJ members
00:33:02.820 believe the move
00:33:03.500 could be approved
00:33:04.280 as a follow-up
00:33:05.280 on Trump's executive order
00:33:06.360 barring military service
00:33:07.660 by transgender people.
00:33:11.020 Lots of other people
00:33:11.860 disagree, however,
00:33:13.160 as you can imagine.
00:33:14.860 So,
00:33:15.040 but that's the proposal
00:33:16.040 that they are
00:33:16.740 reportedly considering.
00:33:18.960 You know,
00:33:19.280 I have two minds
00:33:20.540 about this issue.
00:33:22.240 I'm kind of dysphoric,
00:33:23.520 you might say.
00:33:24.100 I have issue dysphoria
00:33:25.720 about this.
00:33:26.460 And,
00:33:26.780 on the one hand,
00:33:27.820 I support the policy,
00:33:30.100 the suggested policy,
00:33:31.600 or I should say
00:33:32.840 I support it in theory,
00:33:33.920 because gun rights
00:33:37.180 are not absolute.
00:33:39.260 I mean,
00:33:39.520 that's the first thing.
00:33:40.340 I know gun rights people,
00:33:41.940 and I'm a gun rights person,
00:33:43.080 I have multiple guns,
00:33:44.340 I'm a big Second Amendment
00:33:45.120 supporter,
00:33:46.620 but,
00:33:46.920 you know,
00:33:47.780 gun rights supporters
00:33:48.960 can sometimes talk
00:33:50.140 about gun rights
00:33:50.800 as if they are absolute.
00:33:53.580 Right?
00:33:54.020 As if, like,
00:33:54.780 anyone has a right
00:33:56.460 to own any gun they want,
00:33:57.860 period,
00:33:58.300 end of discussion.
00:34:00.140 But that obviously,
00:34:01.400 and that's not,
00:34:01.900 you know,
00:34:02.060 that's obviously
00:34:04.260 not what everyone thinks,
00:34:05.400 but that's the way
00:34:06.220 it's talked about sometimes.
00:34:08.920 But that's obviously
00:34:09.940 not the case.
00:34:11.080 You know,
00:34:11.260 no rights are absolute.
00:34:12.800 The right to life
00:34:13.480 is not absolute.
00:34:14.840 You can be executed,
00:34:15.900 as we just talked about.
00:34:17.240 You can be legally shot
00:34:18.660 if you break
00:34:19.740 into somebody's house,
00:34:20.820 unless you do it
00:34:22.400 in California
00:34:22.900 or, you know,
00:34:23.720 a place like that.
00:34:25.460 But still,
00:34:26.300 rights are not absolute.
00:34:28.220 There are scenarios
00:34:29.440 where you can lose
00:34:30.320 certain rights,
00:34:31.800 up to and including,
00:34:32.760 again,
00:34:32.900 the right to life.
00:34:34.200 And there are obviously
00:34:35.360 scenarios where a person
00:34:36.540 should lose their gun rights.
00:34:38.040 A convicted murderer
00:34:38.980 should not be allowed
00:34:39.900 to legally purchase
00:34:40.920 a firearm.
00:34:42.720 Now, granted,
00:34:43.320 in my opinion,
00:34:43.900 a convicted murderer
00:34:44.480 should not be out of prison
00:34:45.380 in the first place,
00:34:46.860 but we do let murderers
00:34:48.260 out of prison all the time,
00:34:49.480 unfortunately.
00:34:50.260 And no,
00:34:50.660 I don't think they should be able
00:34:51.460 to walk into a gun shop
00:34:52.540 and buy a gun.
00:34:55.320 You know,
00:34:55.840 it's like,
00:34:56.660 this should really be
00:34:57.540 a one-strike-and-you're-out
00:34:58.480 type of deal.
00:34:59.180 I mean,
00:34:59.340 you use a gun
00:34:59.920 to kill somebody,
00:35:00.960 to murder somebody,
00:35:03.060 then you shouldn't be allowed
00:35:04.840 to get a second gun
00:35:05.720 after that.
00:35:06.280 Or if you use
00:35:06.800 any other weapon
00:35:07.400 to kill someone,
00:35:08.400 you shouldn't be allowed
00:35:08.920 to buy a gun.
00:35:11.260 I also don't think
00:35:12.060 that we should be selling guns
00:35:13.140 to delusional schizophrenics.
00:35:14.780 I mean,
00:35:14.960 if I walk into a gun shop
00:35:16.240 and I'm talking to myself
00:35:18.020 and acting erratic,
00:35:19.740 and then I announce
00:35:21.020 that I am Genghis Khan
00:35:22.560 and I need to purchase firearms
00:35:24.400 because I'm raising an army
00:35:25.480 in Central Asia
00:35:26.280 to go invade China
00:35:28.200 and bring down
00:35:30.240 the Jin dynasty
00:35:31.700 or whatever,
00:35:33.040 then no,
00:35:35.160 I don't think they should
00:35:35.680 actually sell me the gun.
00:35:37.000 I don't think the guy
00:35:37.780 behind the counter
00:35:38.340 should say,
00:35:38.780 well,
00:35:38.980 okay,
00:35:39.240 Mr. Khan,
00:35:39.860 right this way.
00:35:42.040 And I think that
00:35:42.840 should all be pretty obvious.
00:35:43.860 If you murder someone,
00:35:45.200 then you lose your gun,
00:35:46.400 right?
00:35:47.260 Permanently.
00:35:47.660 If you're a delusional schizophrenic,
00:35:49.340 if you're actively
00:35:50.060 in the middle
00:35:50.580 of a psychotic break,
00:35:52.060 then you should not
00:35:53.700 be able to buy a gun.
00:35:55.400 I mean,
00:35:55.560 that's,
00:35:56.240 I think,
00:35:58.480 a pretty reasonable position.
00:36:01.020 Now,
00:36:01.420 what about trans-identified people?
00:36:03.160 Well,
00:36:03.600 these are people
00:36:04.540 who are deeply
00:36:05.640 disconnected from reality.
00:36:07.300 They are profoundly confused
00:36:08.740 about the basic nature
00:36:10.040 of reality
00:36:10.860 and of themselves.
00:36:12.300 They belong to a demographic
00:36:13.980 with an astronomical
00:36:15.160 suicide rate.
00:36:17.080 they are much,
00:36:19.060 much,
00:36:19.400 much more likely
00:36:20.400 to exhibit
00:36:20.960 self-destructive behavior
00:36:22.080 than anyone else
00:36:23.160 by a mile.
00:36:25.100 Not even close.
00:36:27.360 And by the way,
00:36:28.140 the trans activists
00:36:28.880 are the ones
00:36:29.700 who will tell you this.
00:36:31.400 They're the ones
00:36:32.060 who will go around
00:36:32.560 saying that trans people
00:36:34.180 have a suicide rate
00:36:35.060 that's like 40%.
00:36:36.260 Or at least the rate
00:36:37.780 of suicide attempts
00:36:38.720 among trans-identified people
00:36:40.280 is 40%.
00:36:41.460 And,
00:36:42.840 um,
00:36:43.700 let's take them
00:36:44.300 at the word on that.
00:36:45.940 That is
00:36:46.600 I mean,
00:36:47.920 so we have someone
00:36:48.600 who belongs to a group
00:36:49.840 with a suicide attempt rate
00:36:51.940 of 40%.
00:36:52.940 In fact,
00:36:53.600 there was a study
00:36:54.140 in 2015
00:36:54.660 that found that
00:36:55.660 80%,
00:36:56.520 80%
00:36:57.840 of trans-identified people
00:36:59.740 reported having
00:37:01.000 at least seriously
00:37:02.040 considered suicide
00:37:03.160 at one point.
00:37:05.380 80%.
00:37:05.780 And these are people
00:37:08.000 who, again,
00:37:08.460 are deeply disconnected
00:37:09.580 from reality.
00:37:10.820 So,
00:37:11.180 I mean,
00:37:12.560 should we be giving
00:37:13.700 firearms to these people?
00:37:15.160 it seems very obvious
00:37:17.220 that we shouldn't.
00:37:20.640 You know,
00:37:20.960 not even a close call,
00:37:22.080 really.
00:37:24.080 Someone who's
00:37:24.480 extremely confused,
00:37:25.380 disconnected from reality,
00:37:26.980 high,
00:37:27.520 high,
00:37:27.920 high propensity
00:37:28.700 for self-destructive behavior.
00:37:31.460 Should they be allowed
00:37:32.440 to legally purchase
00:37:33.200 a firearm?
00:37:33.760 I think,
00:37:34.040 again,
00:37:34.500 no.
00:37:36.180 I mean,
00:37:36.480 I think there are
00:37:37.080 a lot of reasons
00:37:38.200 that I just outlined them
00:37:39.520 why we could say
00:37:40.860 no to that.
00:37:41.960 Now,
00:37:42.220 on the other hand,
00:37:42.780 of course,
00:37:43.200 the concern is that
00:37:44.140 we'd be setting
00:37:45.420 a dangerous precedent
00:37:46.340 by revoking
00:37:47.260 Second Amendment rights
00:37:48.200 based on mental health concerns.
00:37:50.380 You know,
00:37:50.560 what is the limiting principle here?
00:37:52.060 Is there a limiting principle?
00:37:53.700 What happens
00:37:54.360 when that power is abused
00:37:55.380 in order to take gun rights
00:37:56.580 away from
00:37:57.280 law-abiding conservatives?
00:37:59.680 And all that.
00:38:01.620 Wouldn't we be giving them
00:38:02.680 the rope
00:38:03.200 to hang us with,
00:38:04.540 metaphorically speaking?
00:38:06.040 That's the counter-argument,
00:38:07.220 and I understand that.
00:38:08.060 I mean,
00:38:08.220 it's a reasonable
00:38:08.900 position,
00:38:11.060 but ultimately
00:38:11.700 I'm not persuaded
00:38:12.380 by it
00:38:12.760 because I think
00:38:13.300 that this fear
00:38:15.280 about having
00:38:16.040 our own policies
00:38:16.960 flipped against us
00:38:18.100 has prevented
00:38:19.540 conservatives
00:38:20.260 from actually enacting
00:38:21.560 any conservative policies
00:38:22.880 for generations now.
00:38:24.440 We are so worried
00:38:25.680 about this.
00:38:26.420 We're so worried
00:38:27.000 about,
00:38:27.520 you know,
00:38:28.780 setting the precedent.
00:38:29.580 We're so worried
00:38:30.080 about being hoisted
00:38:31.320 with our own petard
00:38:32.320 that we don't have
00:38:34.520 any petards
00:38:35.360 to begin with.
00:38:35.940 I don't even know
00:38:36.260 what a petard is,
00:38:37.040 but you get my point.
00:38:38.660 We're so worried
00:38:40.680 about establishing
00:38:41.500 a problematic precedent
00:38:42.720 that we just
00:38:43.420 don't do anything.
00:38:45.040 We don't establish
00:38:45.980 any precedents at all
00:38:46.960 because we don't want
00:38:48.040 it to be used
00:38:48.500 against us.
00:38:51.020 So on any specific
00:38:52.500 individual basis,
00:38:53.520 this kind of concern
00:38:54.760 seems reasonable.
00:38:56.240 You could always
00:38:56.720 come along and say,
00:38:57.520 yeah,
00:38:57.760 but, you know,
00:38:58.260 if you do this,
00:38:58.880 then the left
00:38:59.260 could do that.
00:39:00.520 And again,
00:39:01.520 looking at it
00:39:02.440 in a vacuum
00:39:03.120 on a case-by-case basis,
00:39:06.180 yeah,
00:39:06.740 that's a reasonable point.
00:39:08.660 But taken together,
00:39:09.620 this becomes
00:39:10.540 an argument
00:39:11.240 for paralysis,
00:39:12.500 an argument
00:39:12.860 for being weak
00:39:14.040 and ineffectual
00:39:15.680 and impotent
00:39:17.280 and just not
00:39:18.260 doing anything.
00:39:20.420 Because here's
00:39:21.100 the fact of the matter.
00:39:21.920 The left has been
00:39:22.540 trying to take
00:39:23.120 our guns away
00:39:23.800 for decades,
00:39:24.960 mostly unsuccessfully,
00:39:26.220 but they've wanted
00:39:27.880 to do that for decades.
00:39:29.040 They've been trying
00:39:29.520 for decades.
00:39:30.620 They don't need
00:39:31.400 any precedent
00:39:32.100 or permission
00:39:33.520 from us to do it.
00:39:35.820 Nothing we do
00:39:36.780 will make them
00:39:37.380 more or less likely
00:39:38.540 to continue
00:39:39.400 their campaign
00:39:40.180 to take our
00:39:41.140 Second Amendment
00:39:41.580 rights away.
00:39:43.680 And even if I'm
00:39:44.560 wrong about that,
00:39:45.280 it doesn't matter
00:39:45.760 because when you
00:39:46.320 have the power,
00:39:47.140 you have to use it.
00:39:47.840 You have to govern.
00:39:50.260 And you have to
00:39:52.740 just do the right thing.
00:39:55.480 Govern according
00:39:56.200 to your principles.
00:39:59.960 And some of these
00:40:01.740 concerns about,
00:40:02.380 well,
00:40:02.540 how will the left
00:40:03.160 respond to that?
00:40:05.040 Well,
00:40:05.240 you deal with that
00:40:05.880 when it happens.
00:40:08.440 You know,
00:40:08.700 that is a cross
00:40:09.780 the bridge
00:40:10.180 when you come
00:40:10.620 to it kind of thing
00:40:11.680 as far as I'm concerned.
00:40:14.860 All right,
00:40:15.160 rebrands have been
00:40:16.080 in the news lately.
00:40:17.200 And of course,
00:40:17.560 we all remember
00:40:18.040 the great Cracker Barrel
00:40:19.460 rebrand of 2025,
00:40:20.880 which lasted about
00:40:21.500 45 minutes or so
00:40:22.900 before they started
00:40:23.860 backtracking.
00:40:25.540 And as we talked
00:40:26.280 about at the time,
00:40:26.880 Cracker Barrel
00:40:27.440 is not alone.
00:40:28.800 Many companies
00:40:29.440 have rebranded
00:40:30.480 in the same way.
00:40:31.960 And it's always
00:40:32.780 the same kind of thing
00:40:33.760 where they go from
00:40:34.600 a very distinct look,
00:40:37.940 a very distinct feel
00:40:39.020 and aesthetic
00:40:39.520 to something generic
00:40:40.920 and soulless.
00:40:42.980 And that's always
00:40:43.860 the rebrand strategy,
00:40:45.360 right?
00:40:45.880 As it turns out,
00:40:46.860 it's not just companies
00:40:47.900 that do this.
00:40:48.600 Cities are getting in
00:40:49.280 on the action too.
00:40:49.860 The city of Austin
00:40:50.620 is doing a big rebrand
00:40:51.840 and they've decided
00:40:53.100 to get rid of
00:40:55.060 the city seal
00:40:56.200 and the logo
00:40:57.140 that's been
00:40:57.520 their official brand
00:40:58.500 for,
00:40:59.580 although they wouldn't
00:40:59.940 have called it
00:41:00.420 a brand
00:41:00.980 a hundred years ago.
00:41:03.840 But for a hundred years
00:41:05.020 now,
00:41:05.220 they've had this
00:41:05.740 city seal,
00:41:06.440 this city logo.
00:41:08.120 And reading now
00:41:08.760 from the Statesman,
00:41:09.480 it says,
00:41:10.980 Amid a swarm
00:41:11.540 of online criticism,
00:41:12.600 city officials
00:41:13.100 unveiled a new logo
00:41:13.980 this week
00:41:14.380 as part of a broader
00:41:15.260 strategic modernization
00:41:16.840 effort
00:41:17.360 meant to help
00:41:19.060 residents more easily
00:41:20.060 identify city workers,
00:41:21.240 facilities,
00:41:21.680 and services.
00:41:23.520 City manager
00:41:24.260 TC Broadnack
00:41:25.640 said in a statement,
00:41:26.660 We want our community
00:41:27.200 members to be able
00:41:27.960 to identify members
00:41:28.900 of our team
00:41:29.440 as City of Austin
00:41:30.580 employees
00:41:31.020 and trust the services
00:41:31.980 we provide.
00:41:32.980 Whether they see
00:41:33.700 the brand on a website,
00:41:34.700 a utility bill,
00:41:35.240 a street sign,
00:41:35.700 or the site of a vehicle,
00:41:37.240 they'll know exactly
00:41:37.900 who it's from
00:41:38.480 and what it stands for.
00:41:42.300 The new logo
00:41:43.060 will replace
00:41:43.580 the city seal
00:41:44.300 currently displayed
00:41:45.040 on trucks,
00:41:45.500 uniforms,
00:41:45.880 and other property.
00:41:46.840 Designed in 1916
00:41:48.160 by a San Francisco
00:41:48.880 illustrator
00:41:49.360 for a flag design contest,
00:41:50.760 the seal is
00:41:51.400 not a brand
00:41:52.660 and does not promote
00:41:53.440 the city's distinctive
00:41:54.400 values and mission,
00:41:56.760 the city said
00:41:57.360 in a news release.
00:41:58.900 So they are,
00:42:01.900 and then the article
00:42:03.800 goes on,
00:42:04.340 people are very
00:42:05.080 upset about this,
00:42:06.400 people don't like it,
00:42:07.660 but they're getting
00:42:09.380 rid of the old logo
00:42:10.600 because it's not a brand
00:42:12.040 and they want a brand
00:42:13.960 is what they're saying.
00:42:16.640 Well,
00:42:17.020 let's take a look
00:42:17.560 at the new logo.
00:42:18.340 Here it is.
00:42:18.760 You can see it there
00:42:19.320 on the screen.
00:42:20.660 It's a kind of
00:42:21.360 a squiggly A.
00:42:22.620 That's the logo
00:42:23.440 and people don't like it
00:42:28.500 and you can see why.
00:42:30.320 And before we comment
00:42:31.460 on this or give it a review,
00:42:32.620 let's first compare it
00:42:33.740 to the old city seal.
00:42:35.640 This is the one
00:42:36.240 they're getting rid of.
00:42:36.900 They've had it since 1916
00:42:38.180 and you can see it there.
00:42:39.980 And the old logo
00:42:40.900 is great.
00:42:41.760 It's regal.
00:42:42.640 It's historic.
00:42:43.480 It feels imposing.
00:42:44.520 It feels proud.
00:42:45.620 It feels stately.
00:42:47.340 It feels impressive.
00:42:49.900 You see that logo
00:42:50.920 and you think,
00:42:51.660 you know,
00:42:51.860 you want to visit that place.
00:42:53.520 That's like something
00:42:54.160 you see on a flag
00:42:55.260 if you went to a jousting match
00:42:57.660 in medieval Europe.
00:43:00.200 That's like something
00:43:00.800 they'd be waving
00:43:01.320 outside of an enormous
00:43:02.900 stone fortress.
00:43:04.340 You know,
00:43:04.880 it's great.
00:43:06.740 And you see the new logo
00:43:07.860 and that looks like
00:43:09.700 a logo you'd see
00:43:10.520 on packaging
00:43:11.260 behind the pharmacy counter
00:43:12.540 at Rite Aid.
00:43:13.720 It looks like a brand
00:43:14.940 of Alzheimer's medication.
00:43:18.200 And just so you kind of see it
00:43:23.100 in its natural environment,
00:43:24.200 here's the city manager
00:43:25.080 unveiling the new logo
00:43:26.320 very proudly
00:43:27.460 and wearing it
00:43:28.880 on his chest.
00:43:30.800 Watch.
00:43:32.020 The city will be getting
00:43:32.940 a new look.
00:43:34.620 For the first time
00:43:36.000 in Austin's history,
00:43:37.800 we will have a logo
00:43:39.700 to represent the city's services
00:43:41.340 and unify us
00:43:43.180 as one organization,
00:43:45.120 one Austin.
00:43:45.800 We will go
00:43:48.160 from this
00:43:49.380 to this.
00:43:54.420 While this effort began
00:43:56.140 before I arrived
00:43:57.560 as city manager,
00:43:59.180 it is a project
00:43:59.980 I was glad to champion.
00:44:02.240 We will go from this
00:44:03.760 to this,
00:44:05.680 he says.
00:44:06.820 We'll go from this
00:44:07.860 awesome thing
00:44:08.580 to this absolute bullcrap.
00:44:12.960 And you can see
00:44:13.880 the logo on his shirt there.
00:44:15.340 And I mean,
00:44:17.300 he really looks
00:44:19.080 like he works
00:44:19.740 at a bank or something.
00:44:20.620 He looks like he works
00:44:21.340 at something called
00:44:21.940 Austin Financial.
00:44:23.980 He looks like he's about
00:44:24.660 to give your teenager
00:44:25.620 a student loan
00:44:26.800 with a 12% interest rate.
00:44:28.980 It really is awful.
00:44:30.220 And it's even worse
00:44:30.980 when I tell you
00:44:31.820 that this rebrand
00:44:32.680 took them seven years.
00:44:35.620 Seven years
00:44:36.420 and more than a million dollars.
00:44:38.220 Seven years
00:44:38.880 and a million dollars
00:44:39.980 for a logo
00:44:41.720 that looks like
00:44:42.700 ChatGPT generated it.
00:44:44.460 It looks like
00:44:45.180 if you went
00:44:45.540 to ChatGPT
00:44:46.360 and asked it
00:44:46.900 to generate a logo
00:44:47.820 for an autism
00:44:48.940 awareness non-profit,
00:44:50.300 that's what
00:44:51.340 it would give you.
00:44:53.840 So it's really
00:44:54.560 terrible stuff.
00:44:55.140 But hey,
00:44:55.380 at least it's modern.
00:44:56.980 Right?
00:44:57.760 And modern
00:44:58.500 is very important.
00:45:00.460 I mean,
00:45:00.720 you wouldn't want
00:45:01.260 a logo
00:45:01.620 that has
00:45:02.240 history.
00:45:05.300 You know,
00:45:05.780 you don't want history.
00:45:06.620 That's yucky.
00:45:07.660 That's ew.
00:45:08.460 Who wants history?
00:45:09.360 The old logo
00:45:11.480 was based on
00:45:12.100 the family crest
00:45:12.980 of a Stephen F. Austin
00:45:14.220 who's the father
00:45:14.980 of Texas.
00:45:16.540 But, you know,
00:45:17.100 he lived a really
00:45:17.660 long time ago
00:45:18.260 and plus he was white.
00:45:21.100 So we got to do away
00:45:22.160 with that,
00:45:22.620 of course.
00:45:23.960 Go from something
00:45:24.760 with history
00:45:26.980 and meaning
00:45:27.580 to something
00:45:28.420 that means
00:45:29.240 absolutely nothing
00:45:29.900 at all.
00:45:31.140 And that kind of
00:45:32.120 tells you,
00:45:32.440 that kind of tells you
00:45:33.080 where we are culturally.
00:45:34.680 That
00:45:35.000 the word
00:45:37.060 modern
00:45:37.600 almost always
00:45:39.140 is a stand-in
00:45:39.920 for meaningless.
00:45:41.520 To make something
00:45:42.460 modern
00:45:42.940 is to make it
00:45:43.840 meaningless.
00:45:45.360 Anytime you hear
00:45:46.280 that they've taken
00:45:46.900 something,
00:45:47.780 whether it's a logo
00:45:48.620 or, you know,
00:45:50.340 a film franchise,
00:45:51.640 anything at all,
00:45:52.680 and they've taken it
00:45:53.620 and they've modernized it,
00:45:55.380 it means that they've
00:45:56.160 taken all of the
00:45:58.260 meaning out of it.
00:45:59.620 They've also taken
00:46:00.460 the beauty
00:46:00.900 and the aesthetic appeal,
00:46:02.280 but all of that
00:46:02.920 is wrapped up
00:46:03.460 in meaning.
00:46:04.360 They've taken the meaning
00:46:05.380 out of it
00:46:05.900 and replaced it
00:46:06.840 with nothing.
00:46:09.060 That's what it always means.
00:46:12.020 All right,
00:46:12.480 I said two headlines,
00:46:13.320 but maybe we'll do
00:46:13.880 one other quick one.
00:46:16.300 This is the big report
00:46:17.720 from Politico.
00:46:18.440 Here's the headline
00:46:19.060 on X.
00:46:19.900 Trump,
00:46:20.340 the fertilization president,
00:46:22.200 has yet to deliver
00:46:23.540 the babies
00:46:24.200 that conservatives want.
00:46:26.460 Yes,
00:46:26.920 Trump has not
00:46:27.420 delivered the babies.
00:46:28.600 That's the criticism.
00:46:30.660 Now,
00:46:31.100 of course,
00:46:31.360 if Trump is supposed
00:46:31.980 to be delivering babies
00:46:33.180 or assume
00:46:34.600 that they don't
00:46:35.680 expect him
00:46:36.060 to physically
00:46:37.200 be the one
00:46:37.700 delivering the babies,
00:46:38.660 but if Trump
00:46:39.260 is supposed
00:46:39.500 to be causing
00:46:40.100 people to have
00:46:40.920 babies somehow,
00:46:42.300 you do have
00:46:42.920 the technical problem
00:46:43.800 that Trump's been
00:46:44.340 in office for,
00:46:45.340 what,
00:46:45.500 eight months?
00:46:47.200 But babies take
00:46:48.040 nine months
00:46:48.580 to gestate,
00:46:49.280 so Trump is
00:46:50.020 supposed to be
00:46:51.320 generating babies
00:46:52.600 out of the ether,
00:46:53.380 apparently?
00:46:53.820 I don't know.
00:46:54.900 He's supposed
00:46:55.280 to be mass
00:46:55.860 manufacturing babies
00:46:56.980 on an assembly line
00:46:57.840 or something?
00:46:58.160 I'm not sure,
00:46:59.000 but I want to read
00:46:59.580 a little bit
00:46:59.920 of this very
00:47:00.480 bizarre hit piece
00:47:01.400 because there's
00:47:03.580 one point I want
00:47:04.100 to make about it.
00:47:06.080 It says,
00:47:06.600 Donald Trump
00:47:07.000 this spring
00:47:07.420 dubbed himself
00:47:08.040 the fertilization
00:47:09.040 president,
00:47:09.780 but some conservative
00:47:10.940 family policy advocates
00:47:12.020 say he's done
00:47:12.640 little so far
00:47:13.380 to publicly
00:47:13.960 back that up
00:47:14.780 and are pushing
00:47:15.560 to get the White House
00:47:16.320 in the remaining
00:47:16.880 months of the year
00:47:17.620 to prioritize
00:47:18.280 family policy
00:47:19.360 and help Americans
00:47:20.720 make more babies.
00:47:22.380 A top priority
00:47:23.100 is a pro-natalist
00:47:24.240 or family policy summit
00:47:26.140 that spotlights
00:47:27.240 the U.S.'s
00:47:27.840 declining fertility rate.
00:47:30.100 Other asks,
00:47:31.460 which typically run
00:47:32.240 through the White House's
00:47:33.380 Domestic Policy Council,
00:47:34.940 include loosening
00:47:35.640 regulations on daycares
00:47:36.960 and child care car seats,
00:47:38.920 further increasing
00:47:39.700 the child tax credit
00:47:40.760 and requiring insurers
00:47:41.580 to cover birth
00:47:42.400 as well as pre-
00:47:43.500 and postnatal care
00:47:44.380 at no out-of-pocket cost.
00:47:48.080 Now,
00:47:48.540 the article goes on
00:47:50.460 and,
00:47:50.900 you know,
00:47:52.460 we could,
00:47:52.820 we could,
00:47:53.240 we could keep
00:47:54.640 talking about that.
00:47:55.360 The claim is that
00:47:55.920 Trump hasn't done enough
00:47:57.620 to promote family
00:47:58.500 and fertility.
00:47:59.440 And you could decide
00:48:00.460 if that's a fair
00:48:00.980 criticism or not.
00:48:02.800 But here's the point
00:48:03.620 I want to make.
00:48:04.720 Just imagine for a second
00:48:06.140 that you woke up
00:48:06.960 from a coma
00:48:07.560 and you had no idea
00:48:09.600 who the president was
00:48:10.700 or what party
00:48:11.700 he belonged to
00:48:12.540 or anything like that.
00:48:15.100 But I read this
00:48:16.240 political article to you
00:48:17.500 without saying the names
00:48:19.100 or the parties.
00:48:20.700 And you have no idea
00:48:21.780 who the president is,
00:48:22.520 but I read this too.
00:48:24.120 I read,
00:48:25.020 some family policy advocates
00:48:26.180 say the president
00:48:26.800 has done little so far
00:48:27.800 to publicly back up
00:48:28.660 his pledge to promote
00:48:29.360 fertility and are pushing
00:48:30.440 to get the White House
00:48:31.040 in the remaining months
00:48:31.720 of the year
00:48:32.040 to prioritize family policy
00:48:33.440 and help Americans
00:48:34.060 make more babies.
00:48:35.080 A top priority is a
00:48:35.820 pro-natalist or family
00:48:36.860 policy summit that
00:48:37.680 spotlights the U.S.'s
00:48:39.500 declining fertility rate.
00:48:42.520 Now,
00:48:42.940 if I read that to you,
00:48:44.700 you would immediately know
00:48:46.280 that this is about
00:48:48.040 conservatives
00:48:48.600 and a Republican president.
00:48:51.640 Family policy advocates,
00:48:54.080 family policy summit,
00:48:56.200 pro-family,
00:48:57.180 pro-natalist,
00:48:58.320 the fact that the president
00:49:00.700 is being criticized
00:49:01.440 by his base
00:49:02.440 for not doing enough
00:49:04.100 to promote families
00:49:05.060 and promote fertility
00:49:05.820 automatically means
00:49:06.900 that you're talking
00:49:07.620 about a Republican.
00:49:08.560 You're talking about conservatives.
00:49:09.580 All of this is conservative coded.
00:49:11.960 And I know I'm not telling you
00:49:12.740 anything you don't already know.
00:49:13.620 This is not, you know,
00:49:14.320 this is not some big,
00:49:15.240 bold assertion.
00:49:15.940 And you hear me say this,
00:49:18.160 you go, well, yeah,
00:49:18.660 of course, obviously.
00:49:20.480 That's exactly my point.
00:49:23.140 I mean,
00:49:23.800 just think about it.
00:49:26.240 Really reflect on this.
00:49:27.500 Reflect on the fact
00:49:28.240 that pro-natalist,
00:49:30.140 that is being in favor
00:49:31.760 of fertility,
00:49:33.380 in favor of human reproduction.
00:49:37.100 This is a position
00:49:38.260 with a label now.
00:49:40.060 Pro-natalist.
00:49:42.940 Think about the fact
00:49:43.700 that this is a political position.
00:49:45.940 which is unique
00:49:47.100 to one side of the aisle.
00:49:50.980 Which really tells you
00:49:52.520 what you need to know
00:49:53.100 about the culture.
00:49:55.000 That only one side
00:49:56.520 even pretends
00:49:57.200 to want people
00:49:57.860 to have children
00:49:58.440 and create families.
00:50:00.380 Promoting the continued existence
00:50:01.880 of human civilization
00:50:02.780 is a conservative thing.
00:50:05.640 The question of whether or not
00:50:07.180 the human species
00:50:07.960 should exist
00:50:08.840 is, in our culture,
00:50:11.200 a hotly debated
00:50:12.240 political topic.
00:50:13.100 So, if you want to know
00:50:15.620 why political debates
00:50:16.460 seem so fruitless,
00:50:17.420 if you want to know
00:50:17.860 why we can't come
00:50:19.160 to an understanding,
00:50:20.620 why we can't find
00:50:21.460 a compromise,
00:50:22.740 well, it's because of this.
00:50:24.800 It's because this is
00:50:25.780 what we're debating.
00:50:27.240 When you get down
00:50:28.120 to the brass tacks,
00:50:30.360 this is who we're debating.
00:50:33.980 People who are
00:50:34.760 actively against family,
00:50:36.780 who are against fertility.
00:50:37.880 Which is like debating,
00:50:40.900 I mean, if you're debating
00:50:41.480 someone who is
00:50:42.340 anti-breathing,
00:50:47.380 anti-drinking water,
00:50:49.220 what is there to debate?
00:50:51.400 That's not an argument
00:50:52.780 you can even have.
00:50:55.080 I'm not interested
00:50:56.040 in sitting down
00:50:56.660 and having a conversation
00:50:57.700 and understanding
00:50:59.380 the position of
00:51:00.860 someone who is
00:51:02.480 avowedly opposed
00:51:03.740 to the family.
00:51:04.460 Like, that's not
00:51:06.740 the kind of thing
00:51:07.240 where they can say something
00:51:08.220 and all go,
00:51:08.940 oh, okay, wow,
00:51:09.820 that's a good point.
00:51:11.700 I hadn't thought of that.
00:51:13.400 Oh, yeah, yeah,
00:51:14.160 maybe the human race
00:51:15.120 should embrace extinction.
00:51:17.700 Very interesting.
00:51:20.280 Yeah, you know,
00:51:20.680 maybe we don't need families,
00:51:22.040 the bedrock
00:51:22.720 of human civilization.
00:51:23.560 Maybe we don't need it.
00:51:24.160 You're right.
00:51:26.700 Like, it's impossible
00:51:28.440 that they could say anything
00:51:29.460 that would elicit
00:51:32.160 that reaction.
00:51:34.460 So there isn't anything
00:51:35.100 to talk about.
00:51:36.960 You know,
00:51:37.440 when you're talking
00:51:37.920 to anti-human,
00:51:39.000 anti-family nihilists,
00:51:40.820 there's really not
00:51:42.500 anything to discuss.
00:51:44.540 We are so far apart.
00:51:45.840 We're living
00:51:46.120 in different universes
00:51:47.160 and there's nothing
00:51:49.140 more to talk about.
00:51:51.460 When you're on
00:51:52.140 the pro-natalist side
00:51:53.600 and on the other side
00:51:54.620 you have the anti-natalists,
00:51:57.440 what are you debating?
00:52:00.720 Should babies be born or not
00:52:02.860 is not the kind of thing
00:52:05.340 that you can have
00:52:05.960 a productive dialogue about.
00:52:09.540 And yet,
00:52:10.340 this is the kind of,
00:52:11.200 this is what we're down to.
00:52:12.460 This is really
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00:54:15.340 Now let's get
00:54:15.780 to our Daily Cancellation.
00:54:16.840 With the Daily Cancellation,
00:54:24.220 we have the highly viral
00:54:25.200 and already beaten
00:54:25.880 to death story
00:54:26.540 from the Philadelphia Phillies
00:54:27.660 game on Friday night.
00:54:28.580 This is a game
00:54:29.140 that was never
00:54:29.720 remotely interesting.
00:54:30.800 The Phillies beat the Marlins
00:54:31.820 by six runs,
00:54:32.840 which is about
00:54:33.320 what you'd expect to happen
00:54:35.000 if you follow baseball,
00:54:36.560 which I don't.
00:54:37.180 But just like that infamous
00:54:38.440 Coldplay concert,
00:54:39.300 people aren't focused
00:54:40.080 on the product
00:54:40.840 and how mediocre
00:54:41.960 this particular game was.
00:54:43.160 Instead,
00:54:43.520 everyone's talking about
00:54:44.420 the people in the stands.
00:54:46.060 So, you know,
00:54:46.700 that's good news
00:54:47.340 for Major League Baseball,
00:54:48.380 at least, I guess.
00:54:49.960 Now, in case you somehow
00:54:50.780 haven't seen the footage
00:54:51.820 from the Phillies game
00:54:52.860 that has gone massively viral,
00:54:54.420 put it up on the screen.
00:54:55.440 There's no audio here,
00:54:56.280 so I guess I'll narrate
00:54:57.220 the events that unfolded
00:54:58.240 as enthusiastically as I can.
00:55:01.280 So there's a home run ball.
00:55:02.440 It bounces around
00:55:03.160 in the stands for a bit
00:55:04.060 and a few people
00:55:04.780 are trying to grab it.
00:55:06.140 And then a man runs in,
00:55:08.120 takes the ball
00:55:08.720 as it's lying in the aisle
00:55:09.660 and then runs it back
00:55:10.860 to his son
00:55:11.440 and he places the ball
00:55:12.840 on his son's mitt,
00:55:14.100 apparently has an early
00:55:15.160 birthday present.
00:55:15.820 But it doesn't last there
00:55:17.280 for very long.
00:55:18.100 A woman runs in,
00:55:19.120 barks at the man,
00:55:20.420 looks very alarmed
00:55:21.260 and frankly terrified.
00:55:22.900 And he quickly
00:55:23.720 takes the ball
00:55:24.360 out of his son's mitt
00:55:25.220 and then hands it back
00:55:26.040 to the woman
00:55:26.460 with an effeminate
00:55:27.580 hand gesture
00:55:28.260 telling her to,
00:55:29.200 you know,
00:55:29.680 be gone.
00:55:30.760 And the child
00:55:31.560 looks perplexed
00:55:32.520 and frustrated,
00:55:33.560 understandably.
00:55:35.080 Now,
00:55:35.680 and that's the video.
00:55:37.000 This incident
00:55:37.500 follows similar drama
00:55:38.640 at the U.S. Open
00:55:39.420 where an adult
00:55:40.140 apparently took
00:55:40.840 a tennis player's hat
00:55:42.180 from a child,
00:55:43.660 from a boy,
00:55:44.800 leading half the internet
00:55:45.760 to dox the man
00:55:46.760 and threaten to murder
00:55:47.600 his entire family.
00:55:49.220 You know,
00:55:49.760 which is obviously
00:55:51.200 a proportionate response.
00:55:52.300 You take a hat
00:55:53.200 and you should be
00:55:55.740 villainized
00:55:56.860 across the globe
00:55:57.800 and have to move.
00:55:59.140 You should have to move
00:55:59.840 to a new home
00:56:00.540 because you took a hat.
00:56:03.000 In the case
00:56:03.720 of the Phillies game,
00:56:04.580 as you can imagine,
00:56:05.340 the same script
00:56:05.940 played out.
00:56:06.560 The woman became
00:56:07.300 the villain,
00:56:07.920 mobs of online
00:56:08.640 vigilantes doxed her
00:56:09.900 or tried to anyway.
00:56:12.820 At least they doxed
00:56:13.680 someone who looked like her.
00:56:14.980 They reportedly
00:56:15.500 identified the wrong person,
00:56:16.960 though.
00:56:18.000 Just like Reddit
00:56:18.640 falsely identified
00:56:19.500 the Boston Marathon bombers,
00:56:21.100 the internet of 2025
00:56:22.220 went all in
00:56:23.300 on some random lady
00:56:25.080 in Boston.
00:56:26.320 According to the New York Post,
00:56:27.540 Cheryl Richardson Wagner
00:56:28.740 has been roasted online
00:56:30.320 as the heartless Phillies fan
00:56:31.720 caught on viral video
00:56:32.840 throwing a stadium-sized tantrum
00:56:34.920 at Lone Depot Park
00:56:36.240 in Miami.
00:56:37.300 Bullying dad
00:56:38.360 Drew Falwell
00:56:39.300 into turning over
00:56:40.520 a home-run ball
00:56:41.260 that he gave
00:56:41.660 to his young son,
00:56:43.160 whose name is Lincoln.
00:56:44.320 However,
00:56:44.680 the crazed woman
00:56:45.380 falsely claimed
00:56:46.260 the ball
00:56:46.760 hit by Westchester County
00:56:49.580 native Harrison Bader
00:56:50.680 was rightfully hers,
00:56:52.420 earning widespread
00:56:53.100 condemnation online
00:56:54.080 over the past two days.
00:56:55.340 Footage even showed
00:56:56.040 her flipping the bird
00:56:57.120 to fans who booed
00:56:58.480 her at the game.
00:56:59.620 But the woman's identity
00:57:00.380 remains a mystery,
00:57:01.420 and Richardson Wagner
00:57:02.320 said it's definitely
00:57:03.260 not her.
00:57:05.140 Okay, everyone,
00:57:06.000 Cheryl Richardson Wagner
00:57:07.040 posted on Facebook
00:57:07.800 on Saturday,
00:57:08.640 I'm not the crazy Philly mom,
00:57:10.060 but I sure would love
00:57:10.920 to be as thin as she is
00:57:12.040 and move as fast.
00:57:14.160 And I'm a Red Sox fan.
00:57:16.060 Close quote.
00:57:17.480 The detail about the woman
00:57:18.500 flipping off the crowd
00:57:19.620 is admittedly entertaining,
00:57:21.100 so she didn't just
00:57:22.240 take the ball from the kid.
00:57:23.260 Apparently,
00:57:23.540 she also told everyone
00:57:24.400 to go F themselves.
00:57:26.120 It's enough to make you wonder
00:57:27.180 if this woman in the New York
00:57:28.120 Post story is lying
00:57:29.220 about her identity.
00:57:30.100 After all,
00:57:30.480 she has every incentive
00:57:31.780 to deny being the woman
00:57:32.840 in the video,
00:57:33.560 plus adding in the little,
00:57:35.060 you know,
00:57:35.320 humble brag detail about,
00:57:36.980 I don't know who that woman is,
00:57:38.540 but man,
00:57:39.080 she's really thin.
00:57:40.520 I don't know who that
00:57:41.460 thin, beautiful woman is.
00:57:43.220 It's definitely not me.
00:57:45.240 But no,
00:57:45.820 according to the New York Post,
00:57:46.880 they are definitely
00:57:47.980 two completely different people.
00:57:50.120 The school district,
00:57:51.000 which employs the woman
00:57:52.000 who was falsely identified
00:57:53.040 online as a culprit,
00:57:54.020 has confirmed it.
00:57:55.060 So,
00:57:56.580 safe to say,
00:57:57.240 this is not the person.
00:57:58.740 In any event,
00:57:59.320 whatever her actual name is,
00:58:01.420 the woman is predictably
00:58:02.260 being called a Karen
00:58:03.220 because she's white
00:58:04.440 and racial slurs
00:58:05.560 are fine to use
00:58:06.380 against white people.
00:58:07.460 And meanwhile,
00:58:08.280 MLB has sprung into action.
00:58:09.700 They gave the kid
00:58:10.280 a gift basket,
00:58:11.740 had to meet the Phillies team,
00:58:13.160 and he got a signed bat
00:58:14.780 and a bunch of other swag
00:58:16.000 and stuff.
00:58:17.000 It's a story that
00:58:17.700 pretty much is custom made
00:58:18.960 for shows like
00:58:19.620 Good Morning America
00:58:20.400 as viewers weigh in
00:58:21.640 on whether the man
00:58:22.340 should have taken the ball
00:58:23.080 or not,
00:58:24.040 even though obviously
00:58:24.720 he had every right
00:58:25.240 to take it
00:58:25.660 since it was in the aisle.
00:58:26.640 That's the way
00:58:26.980 these things work.
00:58:28.400 But contrary to what
00:58:29.220 the 10,000 outlets
00:58:30.400 covering the story
00:58:31.120 would have you believe,
00:58:32.260 this whole ordeal
00:58:33.220 isn't actually
00:58:33.820 a completely meaningless event.
00:58:35.180 Now, to be clear,
00:58:36.040 it is a completely
00:58:37.220 meaningless event by itself.
00:58:39.300 I mean,
00:58:39.460 it's about as interesting
00:58:40.200 as the hat theft
00:58:41.240 at the U.S. Open
00:58:42.060 or the two executives
00:58:43.980 at the Coldplay concert.
00:58:45.840 Now, I don't think
00:58:46.800 the ladies should have
00:58:47.420 taken the ball.
00:58:48.600 Okay, just to be clear,
00:58:49.660 I'm not defending the lady.
00:58:52.040 But this is not
00:58:53.000 a national emergency, okay?
00:58:55.320 I mean, at this point,
00:58:56.300 we're treating the boy
00:58:57.120 like he just lost
00:58:57.980 his entire family
00:58:58.700 in a fire.
00:58:59.940 Yesterday, Marcus Limonis
00:59:01.100 said that he was going
00:59:01.620 to give the kid
00:59:02.560 World Series tickets
00:59:03.760 and a free RV
00:59:05.340 for his family.
00:59:07.580 Okay, so he meets
00:59:08.280 the team,
00:59:08.700 he gets the ball,
00:59:09.380 he's getting interviewed,
00:59:10.280 he gets World Series tickets,
00:59:11.640 he gets a free,
00:59:12.340 he gets an RV.
00:59:13.720 I mean, it's a little much
00:59:14.520 at this point.
00:59:15.780 Next thing we know,
00:59:17.200 we're going to have,
00:59:17.740 like, the flags
00:59:18.860 at half-mast.
00:59:20.720 There's going to be
00:59:21.220 a period of national mourning
00:59:22.480 over the lost baseball.
00:59:24.960 And again,
00:59:25.240 I'm on the kid's side,
00:59:26.300 it's just like,
00:59:27.160 calm down, everybody,
00:59:28.540 a little bit, okay?
00:59:30.120 It's not that big of a deal.
00:59:32.100 It's bad,
00:59:33.000 it's not that big of a deal.
00:59:34.560 It's not the worst thing
00:59:35.640 that's ever happened.
00:59:37.660 Now, all that said,
00:59:38.540 if you look deeper,
00:59:39.320 there is something meaningful
00:59:40.360 in this story.
00:59:42.360 If you think back
00:59:43.260 to the topic
00:59:43.760 that we discussed
00:59:44.280 at the beginning of the show
00:59:45.080 about the Ukrainian woman
00:59:46.080 who was killed
00:59:46.500 on the light rail car,
00:59:47.620 there's actually a connection
00:59:48.560 that's worth thinking about.
00:59:50.700 In order to understand
00:59:51.560 the connection,
00:59:52.000 you have to look beyond
00:59:53.340 the consequences
00:59:53.980 of these respective events,
00:59:55.200 which obviously could not be
00:59:56.540 any more dramatically,
00:59:58.800 you know, distinct.
01:00:01.200 And instead,
01:00:01.880 you have to think about
01:00:02.580 broader social attitudes
01:00:04.040 and how they're reflected
01:00:05.340 in day-to-day behavior.
01:00:07.120 And once you do that,
01:00:07.880 you realize that
01:00:08.620 in a very striking way,
01:00:09.480 it's actually fitting
01:00:10.180 that these two stories
01:00:11.320 are going viral
01:00:11.960 at precisely the same time.
01:00:14.420 Now, think of it this way.
01:00:15.140 We all know why
01:00:17.220 that killer was allowed
01:00:18.220 out on the street
01:00:18.900 instead of being locked away
01:00:20.200 for the rest of his life
01:00:21.040 after committing
01:00:21.560 14 separate crimes.
01:00:23.680 It's because
01:00:24.380 our criminal justice system
01:00:25.780 is run by
01:00:26.660 and tailored
01:00:28.080 to the sensitivities
01:00:29.080 of women
01:00:30.940 like the one
01:00:31.620 who stole the baseball
01:00:32.760 from the kid
01:00:33.940 at the Phillies game.
01:00:35.860 Now, I'm not saying
01:00:36.400 this woman herself
01:00:37.140 is in the criminal justice system.
01:00:38.080 I don't know who she is
01:00:38.720 or what she does.
01:00:40.180 But it's these kinds of women.
01:00:42.580 These women feel
01:00:43.660 immense compassion
01:00:44.800 for the animal
01:00:45.960 on the light rail car
01:00:47.240 on the right-hand side
01:00:48.980 of your screen.
01:00:50.160 Every poll shows it.
01:00:52.120 Women, especially on the left,
01:00:53.440 overwhelmingly favor
01:00:54.320 so-called restorative justice
01:00:55.860 and open borders
01:00:56.680 and all that.
01:00:58.320 But in many cases,
01:00:59.220 these women are themselves
01:01:00.220 deeply cruel
01:01:01.180 and callous people
01:01:02.380 like we talked about
01:01:03.980 in the open.
01:01:05.140 And you saw that on display
01:01:06.520 in this Phillies game.
01:01:08.460 Their sympathies
01:01:08.980 are limited to
01:01:09.920 the most destructive,
01:01:11.400 dangerous,
01:01:12.680 and also non-white,
01:01:13.820 savages in the country.
01:01:15.980 And they extend
01:01:16.820 no further than that.
01:01:19.400 Put another way,
01:01:20.700 it's not that
01:01:21.220 our criminal justice system
01:01:22.240 has been feminized exactly,
01:01:23.800 as you hear people say sometimes.
01:01:25.320 It's that it has been
01:01:26.160 feminist-ized,
01:01:27.880 if that's a word,
01:01:28.560 which it isn't,
01:01:29.060 but I just made it up.
01:01:31.080 If we're being honest,
01:01:31.680 it's also fitting
01:01:32.260 that the mayor of Charlotte
01:01:33.320 literally looks like
01:01:34.380 a black version
01:01:35.220 of the Phillies woman.
01:01:36.860 I mean,
01:01:37.280 you can see her right there.
01:01:38.260 It's like she gets
01:01:38.900 the Tropic Thunder treatment.
01:01:42.140 Put some glasses on the mayor,
01:01:43.520 subtract maybe 50 pounds,
01:01:44.700 and it's reasonable
01:01:46.000 to ask the mayor
01:01:47.020 where exactly she was
01:01:48.080 on Friday night
01:01:48.680 during that game.
01:01:50.380 As we see in so many cases,
01:01:52.060 physical appearance
01:01:52.680 is often a window
01:01:53.500 into beliefs
01:01:54.200 and behaviors
01:01:54.880 and attitudes,
01:01:55.380 and that's certainly
01:01:56.580 the case here.
01:01:57.740 It's like they both
01:01:58.540 came off the same
01:01:59.220 assembly line.
01:02:00.620 The other aspect
01:02:01.500 of this story
01:02:02.080 that's not being covered,
01:02:03.020 at least not nearly
01:02:03.660 to the extent
01:02:04.080 that it should be,
01:02:04.680 is that the father,
01:02:07.140 to my mind,
01:02:08.180 is clearly the biggest
01:02:09.620 villain in this story.
01:02:11.500 And it's amazing to me
01:02:12.480 how many people
01:02:12.940 are defending him.
01:02:14.560 He took the ball.
01:02:15.720 The woman did not
01:02:16.860 take the ball.
01:02:17.440 Okay, she demanded it.
01:02:19.040 She didn't take the ball
01:02:20.180 out of the kid's glove.
01:02:21.880 The father took the ball
01:02:23.440 out of his own son's hands
01:02:25.140 and gave it to this
01:02:27.280 screaming harpy.
01:02:29.440 I mean,
01:02:29.680 it is an act of submission
01:02:31.000 made out of fear.
01:02:33.140 And his kids
01:02:33.560 will never forget it,
01:02:34.340 I'll tell you that.
01:02:34.920 Nor should they.
01:02:36.920 You can tell if you watch
01:02:38.060 any of the post-incident
01:02:39.220 interviews
01:02:39.620 with the father
01:02:41.100 and his children,
01:02:42.400 you can tell
01:02:43.040 that they've lost
01:02:44.280 all respect for him.
01:02:45.760 Watch.
01:02:47.200 I wasn't very happy
01:02:48.440 that we had to give it
01:02:49.920 to her,
01:02:50.580 but we can't win.
01:02:54.360 She was going to
01:02:55.360 get it anyways.
01:02:57.100 Sure.
01:02:57.800 She wasn't going to
01:02:58.680 take it,
01:02:59.400 but I decided
01:03:01.860 to give her the ball.
01:03:02.620 I apologize to you,
01:03:05.360 but
01:03:05.680 it was the right thing.
01:03:08.540 We just wanted her
01:03:09.100 to go away.
01:03:10.680 Yeah.
01:03:11.340 And it worked out.
01:03:12.260 You got a bat.
01:03:13.720 Yeah.
01:03:14.720 Pretty cool.
01:03:15.240 she was
01:03:18.160 very,
01:03:19.900 very,
01:03:20.200 very close.
01:03:20.900 And I'm,
01:03:21.600 you know,
01:03:22.180 I'm dad of the family,
01:03:23.840 so I didn't want to
01:03:25.220 do something I'd regret.
01:03:27.580 And
01:03:27.740 that was the choice I made
01:03:29.760 is to just hand the ball
01:03:30.700 back and
01:03:31.300 tell her,
01:03:32.740 go away.
01:03:33.240 So his son can barely
01:03:35.560 muster any kind of
01:03:36.580 enthusiasm whatsoever
01:03:37.640 as his father
01:03:38.460 seeks assurances
01:03:39.860 that he made
01:03:40.600 the right decision.
01:03:42.240 And then his daughter
01:03:43.260 gives him,
01:03:44.020 you know,
01:03:44.660 side eye as he repeats
01:03:45.740 the same effeminate
01:03:46.640 hand gesture that he
01:03:47.560 performed during the game.
01:03:48.700 And then he emphasizes
01:03:49.680 that he doesn't have
01:03:50.620 any regrets,
01:03:51.400 even though he clearly
01:03:52.140 should.
01:03:53.660 When your own children
01:03:54.660 are obviously humiliated
01:03:56.200 by your cowardice,
01:03:57.700 which was also broadcast
01:03:58.600 to millions of people,
01:03:59.920 you should absolutely
01:04:01.160 feel regret and shame.
01:04:03.300 Now,
01:04:03.920 this is not to make
01:04:04.820 too much of a minor
01:04:05.780 kerfuffle at a baseball game,
01:04:07.320 but I don't think
01:04:08.140 it's overstating the case
01:04:09.120 to say that
01:04:09.700 our culture is in the
01:04:11.120 shape it's in
01:04:11.660 because men like this
01:04:12.960 father constantly,
01:04:14.680 in virtually every case,
01:04:17.420 surrender to shrill
01:04:18.680 harpies like that woman.
01:04:21.700 Women like that
01:04:22.420 can successfully browbeat
01:04:23.740 many men without much
01:04:24.780 effort,
01:04:25.120 and they know it.
01:04:26.680 This incident was
01:04:27.940 modern American culture
01:04:28.960 in microcosm,
01:04:29.900 a shrieking,
01:04:30.600 angry,
01:04:31.060 short-haired,
01:04:31.540 middle-aged woman
01:04:32.280 browbeat a cowering,
01:04:34.680 frightened,
01:04:35.140 pathetic man
01:04:35.960 into submission,
01:04:37.200 and then confronted
01:04:38.580 with the consequences
01:04:39.300 of his cowardice,
01:04:40.380 the man insists that
01:04:41.100 he couldn't have done
01:04:42.260 anything differently.
01:04:44.560 But the thing is,
01:04:45.560 of course,
01:04:45.820 things could have gone
01:04:46.580 very differently
01:04:47.840 at that game,
01:04:48.640 and they could go
01:04:49.940 very differently
01:04:50.380 in this country, too,
01:04:51.740 at least if men
01:04:53.060 stopped behaving
01:04:53.840 like this dork
01:04:54.740 at the Phillies game.
01:04:57.060 And this is why
01:04:58.000 the woman who stole
01:04:58.880 the baseball,
01:04:59.500 and also the father
01:05:00.400 who allowed her
01:05:01.140 to steal it
01:05:01.760 are both today
01:05:03.820 canceled.
01:05:05.280 That'll do it for the show today.
01:05:06.160 Thanks for watching.
01:05:06.660 Thanks for listening.
01:05:07.240 Talk to you tomorrow.
01:05:08.200 Have a great day.
01:05:09.060 Godspeed.
01:05:09.380 Today on the Ben Shapiro Show,
01:05:17.480 the media ignore
01:05:18.220 the stabbing
01:05:18.800 of a Ukrainian refugee
01:05:19.760 in North Carolina,
01:05:20.920 and the reason
01:05:21.380 is perfectly predictable.
01:05:23.000 After the president
01:05:23.660 authorizes the destruction
01:05:24.840 of a boat
01:05:25.240 carrying Venezuelan
01:05:26.060 drug traffickers,
01:05:26.940 Democrats,
01:05:27.480 and a few Republicans,
01:05:28.660 donned sackcloth
01:05:29.440 and ashes,
01:05:30.280 and Chicago remains on edge
01:05:31.320 as Trump prepares
01:05:32.000 for a federal intervention.
01:05:33.480 All that on today's
01:05:34.120 Ben Shapiro Show.
01:05:34.660 Give it a listen.
01:05:35.080 Bye.
01:05:53.520 Bye.