The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1678 - Foreign Socialist Zohran Mamdani Doesn’t Want To Assimilate Into America. He Wants Us To Assimilate To Him

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00:00:56.700 Today on the Matt Walsh show, Zoran Mamdani and his comrades have come to remake American society 1.00

00:01:02.240 in their image. He's been very clear about that even if the video where he says it explicitly is

00:01:06.600 potentially fake. Also, failed MSNBC anchor Mehdi Hassan claims that Muslims built the United States

00:01:12.600 and that's why they have the right to blast their call to prayer over the loudspeakers at all hours

00:01:17.000 of the day. We'll address that insane take. Plus, Jeff Daniels serenades an MSNBC anchor live on air

00:01:22.860 and an iconic museum in France hired a female head of security for the first time in its centuries

00:01:27.440 long history. A year later, burglars stole priceless jewels in broad daylight. Are these two things

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00:03:41.920 confirmed that it's legitimate, which of course doesn't mean that it's not. But if this footage

00:03:47.860 is fake or AI generated, then it's convinced a lot of people. Joe Concha, who regularly appears on Fox

00:03:52.880 News, reposted the footage, suggesting it was authentic. Elise Stefanik, a high-ranking member

00:03:58.920 of Congress from New York, also posted the video. So have various other commentators. And as far as I

00:04:04.480 know, nobody has come forward with any proof or even an official statement stating definitively that

00:04:09.480 the footage is fake. As far as I know, at this point, Zoran Mamdani's camp has not denied it.

00:04:16.420 So with that in mind, we'll roll the tape. This is a video that purports to show Zoran Mamdani,

00:04:23.440 the Muslim socialist running for mayor of New York at a private Antifa-style event,

00:04:27.860 wearing a mask. And here's what he allegedly says. Watch.

00:04:34.800 We came here to remake the state in the image of our people.

00:04:40.700 We came here to remake the state in the image of our people, presumably referring to people of Africa,

00:04:47.560 where Mamdani was born. And that's it. There's no other context in this footage, which is often

00:04:55.460 the biggest reason to doubt that it's real. If it is AI, we can expect to see many, many more videos

00:05:01.120 like this one over the next months and years. There will never be another major election in this country

00:05:05.480 in which AI-generated video doesn't play some kind of role. The existence of AI won't simply introduce

00:05:12.040 a lot of fake content into the discourse. It will also lead people to doubt the legitimacy of videos

00:05:16.880 that are actually authentic, which maybe end up being the most harmful thing about it.

00:05:21.680 But whether the video is real or not, we can say for absolute certainty that Zoran Mamdani

00:05:26.780 does indeed want to remake the city and the country in his image and the image of his, quote, people.

00:05:33.340 In fact, if you look into the data, you'll find that New York has already been remade in the image

00:05:38.980 of foreigners like Zoran Mamdani. So here's data from Patriot polling. This is some of the most 0.94

00:05:44.020 extraordinary polling you'll ever see. Although at the same time, especially if you've been in New

00:05:47.560 York recently, it's exactly what you would expect. So as you can see, among New Yorkers who were born

00:05:54.260 in America, Andrew Cuomo has a nine-point lead in the mayor's race over Zoran Mamdani. In total,

00:06:01.580 Mamdani only has 31% of the vote when you exclude foreign-born voters. And Curtis Sliwa has 25%.

00:06:10.260 So if this election were held without mass demographic replacement in the New York City

00:06:17.420 that existed, say, 30 years ago, it would be a blowout. I mean, Mamdani wouldn't have even made it 0.94

00:06:23.360 through the primary. We wouldn't know his name. We wouldn't be talking about him.

00:06:26.800 But the numbers change completely when you look at a different demographic. New Yorkers who were not

00:06:34.000 born in the U.S., and that includes illegal aliens as well as so-called naturalized citizens.

00:06:39.560 And among that demographic, Mamdani is winning the vast majority of the vote. He has 62% compared to

00:06:45.480 24% for Cuomo and 12% for Sliwa. So given that Mamdani currently has something like a 90% chance of 0.56

00:06:53.480 winning the election, you have to ask, how many Americans actually live in New York at this point?

00:06:59.440 I mean, based on these figures, it doesn't seem like a very high number.

00:07:02.600 It looks like the nerve center of our economy has been taken over by foreigners, almost completely. 1.00

00:07:10.360 And by the way, that's not surprising. Half of all global population growth now comes from Africa.

00:07:14.880 You can see the trend line right there. Population growth all over the world has fallen off a cliff

00:07:21.360 starting around the 1990s, except in Africa. Meanwhile, Africa's population has surged.

00:07:27.760 Get this, Nigeria by itself currently has more births than every country in Europe combined.

00:07:35.200 And then back in 1950, the opposite was true. Again, those numbers are on your screen. You can see

00:07:42.900 overall, Africa has more than six times as many births as Europe every year. Pakistan has roughly

00:07:49.300 as many births as all of Europe combined. And keep in mind, at this point, many of the births that take

00:07:56.560 place in Europe are actually the children of foreigners, many of whom are so-called asylum seekers. So in other 0.89

00:08:02.840 words, the reality is stark when you look at these numbers, it's even more stark than the numbers

00:08:11.140 suggest. So if someone made that video of Mamdani with AI, they didn't need to do that. They didn't

00:08:18.900 need to make a fake video to establish this point. The point is that the rest of the world is indeed

00:08:23.700 remaking the U.S. in their image as we speak. They're not assimilating. They're dismantling what we have 0.90

00:08:31.420 and rebuilding it into what they want. Now, Mamdani himself has actually openly admitted this. He

00:08:40.000 stated on camera that it's an illusion that foreigners can become New Yorkers and assimilate

00:08:45.200 into the city. So here's a video that everybody agrees is real, not AI. This is from 2019.

00:08:51.820 And listen to what he says.

00:08:53.800 There is still, you know, this illusion, and it's partially a result of settler colonialism,

00:08:59.780 that all of us can become New Yorkers, that all of us can settle into the city. And yet there

00:09:04.840 would be these moments where I would be reminded by someone whose intent was to tell me that you do

00:09:09.900 not belong. And one of those first moments was on 9-11, when, before I knew what had happened,

00:09:17.180 my teacher had pulled me and a Muslim classmate of mine out of the class and told us that something

00:09:23.340 has happened and you may be bullied. And I want you to tell me if that happens. And frankly, I was

00:09:30.260 lucky because most Muslim students in the city were not given that kind of care from their teachers. 0.92

00:09:36.020 And yet in that moment, I realized that I was not simply another classmate in a middle school.

00:09:41.280 I was distinct. Where a few months ago, I went with a client of mine to a bankruptcy court. And as

00:09:47.380 we're going into the court, the security guard takes me aside and pats me down with additional care

00:09:51.980 and asks me multiple times if I have any weapons of mass destruction on me.

00:09:59.560 Okay, so first of all, that didn't happen. Okay, nobody took this guy aside and asked him

00:10:06.380 multiple times if he was carrying weapons of mass destruction. Okay, that did not happen in the

00:10:12.380 year 2019 in a bankruptcy court. Now, they might have asked him if he had any weapons, standard

00:10:17.880 procedure. There's precisely zero chance that a security guard was grilling Mom Donnie about

00:10:24.180 dirty bombs and suitcase nukes on his way to a bankruptcy hearing. Now, the guards maybe should

00:10:30.600 have done that, but we all know they didn't. They just didn't. So this guy's a total liar.

00:10:34.780 But more to the point, that video is remarkable because his own anecdote about his experience after 0.93

00:10:43.380 9-11 manages to disprove the point he's trying to make. If his anecdote is true, okay, it means that 0.91

00:10:50.800 his teacher's very first priority after the planes hit the towers was to warn Muslim students that they

00:10:59.160 might be bullied. So this shows both that suicidal empathy is a long-standing problem in our culture,

00:11:05.420 the emotional health of Muslims should have been the last thing on this teacher's mind,

00:11:10.620 and also that this country not only didn't persecute Muslims after 9-11, but actually went out of its

00:11:17.320 way to protect and celebrate them. I mean, we allowed this guy to grow up in a luxury apartment

00:11:23.140 building that's reserved for Columbia faculty members. We allowed him to attend elite private

00:11:27.500 schools. Lived a very comfortable life here. And for all that effort, all we get are ungrateful

00:11:34.660 brats still whining about settler colonialism. And he also tells us that assimilation is an illusion,

00:11:43.440 which is the one thing that he's right about, so glad we could find some common ground.

00:11:47.540 Mom Donnie is admitting that no amount of acceptance, no amount of welcoming and tolerance will ever be

00:11:52.180 enough for these people, for the invading hordes. It doesn't matter what you do, no matter how much

00:11:59.120 you open your arms and welcome them, it's never enough. It is never enough. It's never good enough.

00:12:04.820 And to be clear, this is the official position of Mom Donnie's entire campaign, which is why Mom Donnie's

00:12:09.240 closest allies are saying the exact same thing. So let's take, for example, Mehdi Hassan, the former MSNBC host.

00:12:17.500 Now, Hassan doesn't have an actual audience. His show is typically pulling in fewer than 40,000

00:12:22.040 viewers in the key demographic, which is much, much less than I would get if I let the inanimate

00:12:28.100 fish in the background host the show. Okay, if we just had the fish cam, if the only thing we had

00:12:33.700 on the show was the fish cam, we would clear 40,000 views easily. There it is. So in lieu of attracting

00:12:42.240 an audience, Mehdi Hassan has attempted to spend his time attacking Americans and Christians on behalf of

00:12:46.980 socialists like Zohran Mondani. And to that end, here's Mehdi Hassan's latest argument. Listen to

00:12:52.460 this. I think that if you can play church bells, you can pray the call to prayer. We are as American

00:12:58.140 as anyone else and don't take any BS from it. You're as American as anyone else? Really, Mehdi? 0.81

00:13:07.620 Really, Mr. Hassan, you're as American as anyone? You're a Muslim who was born in the UK, came to

00:13:14.340 this country less than 10 years ago in your mid-30s to work for Al Jazeera. Okay, is there anyone who

00:13:20.820 seriously thinks that Mehdi Hassan is American at all, much less as American as anyone else?

00:13:27.540 It's even harder to buy the idea that Mehdi Hassan is an American if you actually listen to the things

00:13:31.400 that he says, which no one does. So let's review. Before he got his MSNBC contract, Hassan started

00:13:37.780 out as a propagandist for Iran who told his followers that non-Muslims were, quote, animals. Watch. 0.95

00:13:45.920 In Islam, the ends do not justify the means. This idea is totally alien to Islam. In Islam, 1.00

00:13:53.000 what is halal is halal, what is halal is halal. We do not bend our law, our morality for our short-term

00:13:59.600 aims. Never. And we never lose the moral high ground. If we know anything as Shia al-Muhammad, 0.92

00:14:07.980 as Shia al-Ali, as Shia al-Hassan, as Shia al-Husayn, we know that keeping the moral high

00:14:13.160 ground is key. Once we lose the moral high ground, we are no different from the rest of

00:14:18.860 the non-Muslims, from the rest of those human beings who live their lives as animals, bending 1.00

00:14:23.920 any rule to fulfill any desire. Once we do that, we are lost.

00:14:30.300 All of these ulama unanimously agree that at the very minimum, if Yazid was not a kafir, 0.93

00:14:38.860 then at the very minimum, he was a fasiq, a transgressor, a breaker of Islamic laws, 0.92

00:14:44.600 a corrupt individual, a tyrant, a killer, a drunken, a dog lover, a music lover, 1.00

00:14:50.060 a homosexual, a pedophile, a sexual demon, someone who slept with his own mother, 1.00

00:14:55.540 these are their views, of these ulama, in their books, not my view. 1.00

00:15:03.100 You know, this is just how Americans talk, according to Hassan. He's just as American as

00:15:09.800 anyone else. This is as American as apple pie. This is what down-home average blue-collar Americans

00:15:15.920 say. Yeah, you hear it at any 4th of July barbecue. People comparing Christians to cattle,

00:15:23.220 calling us animals, ranting about music lovers in the same breath as pedophiles and people who 1.00

00:15:29.660 sleep with their own mothers. Now, all morally equivalent to the average American. Nothing more 0.98

00:15:35.040 American than that. Apparently, it's also as American as apple pie to berate white people, 0.96

00:15:40.520 who, you know, are the vast majority of Americans, including the people who founded this country.

00:15:44.080 There was not anybody with the last name Hassan at the Constitutional Convention, okay?

00:15:51.400 There were no Hassans dying on the battlefield in the Revolutionary War. Not a single one.

00:15:58.620 There were only the kinds of people that Hassan despises, even as he tries to co-opt the country

00:16:03.040 that they created. Hassan, of course, has made millions of dollars in this country, disparaging

00:16:07.580 white men and women. Most recently, after the 2024 election, here's what he tweeted.

00:16:12.960 Good job, white men and women, you know, blaming them for Kamala Harris's defeat. So he comes to a

00:16:19.940 country founded by white people that's mostly made up still of white people, and then he attacks them,

00:16:24.560 invoking their skin color in the process, for not voting the way he wanted them to vote.

00:16:30.240 He just got to this country five seconds ago, and he's already saying, well, this should have

00:16:34.700 gone the way I wanted. Who the hell are you, Mehdi? Who are you? Who cares what you want? 1.00

00:16:44.160 Imagine if I went to Uganda or Nigeria and tried something like this. Imagine if I ran for office,

00:16:49.840 lost, and then wrote on social media, nice going, black people. You really got some internalized black 0.98

00:16:56.620 supremacy going on, don't you? You know, I'm just as Nigerian as anybody else. 0.86

00:17:04.900 Now, in that scenario, how long would I last before they stoned me to death? 10 seconds, 20?

00:17:11.100 In fact, what if I went to Hassan's actual home country, India, and ran for office, lost, and then 0.54

00:17:16.220 said, great job, brown people. Tell you, brown people really screwed up again. You know, I'm just as 1.00

00:17:23.900 Indian as any of you are. Yeah, I just got off the plane last Tuesday. I'm just as Indian as any of

00:17:31.080 you. What if I did that? How long would Mehdi Hassan spend crying about that? Would he ever stop

00:17:37.880 crying is the question. Of course, Hassan also used to appear on television every other day,

00:17:44.160 warning of the supposedly grave threat posed by white supremacy. He also celebrated a plane crash in

00:17:49.500 Georgia saying, make American planes crash again. This is the person we're supposed to believe is 0.74

00:17:56.620 as American as any Christian who can trace his lineage in this country going back to the

00:18:00.960 Revolutionary War, just as American. Just as American as any American who doesn't hate white 0.96

00:18:06.640 people, who actually wants our civilization, our system of government to succeed. This is the person

00:18:12.620 who we're supposed to take seriously when he compares church bells to the Muslim call to 0.84

00:18:17.360 prayer, which happens many times a day, starting around 5 a.m. and sounds like this.

00:18:42.620 So this is the lie that they want you to believe, including even some conservatives will tell you

00:18:48.800 this. They'll tell you that what you just heard there is just as American as a church bell.

00:18:55.300 Just as the Muslim call to prayer at 530 in the morning, wafting through the air,

00:19:00.360 just as American as, you know, a good old American small town with a church bell going off at noon.

00:19:08.000 Hmm. That's what we're supposed to believe. And we all know that it's not true. We all know

00:19:13.380 that it's not true. And the thing is, even if the call to prayer wasn't so obnoxious and so

00:19:18.380 obviously disruptive to the lives of everybody living nearby, in this case, it's in Dearborn,

00:19:23.440 still doesn't matter. And even if church bells also rang at 5 a.m., which they don't,

00:19:29.880 it also would not matter because there's still a very good reason to say that in this country,

00:19:33.920 church bells are acceptable in every city while the Muslim call to prayer is not. And that reason 1.00

00:19:39.560 is this, okay? Christianity built this country. Islam did not at all in even the slightest way. 0.91

00:19:48.480 Islam has nothing to do with America. If Islam had ceased to exist 300 years ago,

00:19:55.080 this country would not have lost a single thing. There is not a single good thing about our country

00:20:00.060 that we would not have if not for Islam. And if you doubt that, then go ahead and give me an example 1.00

00:20:06.500 of the great gift that Islam has given to this country since its founding. Give me the example

00:20:12.720 of the thing that if Islam had ceased to exist 300 years ago, we would not have in America. 0.96

00:20:18.740 Go ahead. I dare you. Medi Hassan, I dare you. Go ahead. Name one thing. Go ahead. You can't.

00:20:25.300 And you know, that's why we can have our church bells, Medi. We earn them. This is our country.

00:20:34.680 It is not yours, Mr. Hassan. Any actual American would understand that concept very well. If you

00:20:41.860 want to hear the Arabic call to prayer five times a day in every neighborhood, you can go to one of

00:20:45.960 the other 50 countries in the world that are into that. And by the way, if you want to hear church

00:20:50.240 bells instead, most of those countries would not be nearly as accommodating. Now, when I made this

00:20:55.860 point on X, Medi Hassan responded with this. He said, quote, one in three of the slaves who built

00:21:01.620 this country were Muslims. They were here long before the Walsh family arrived. You know that if

00:21:06.760 you studied history, but I know MAGA has an issue with studying. Oh, and I'm guessing you don't count

00:21:11.620 slaves as people or Americans. So, and by the way, he followed that up with another tweet claiming

00:21:18.900 again, that Muslims are more responsible for building America than the Irish. 0.90

00:21:27.000 So, as you could easily have predicted, Hassan responded with just a layer upon layer of lies, 0.96

00:21:32.080 delude, just absolute delusion, heaped on top of delusion. So for one thing, this country,

00:21:38.640 just to be clear, was not built by slaves. It wasn't. Much less the handful of Muslim slaves 1.00

00:21:45.460 owned by the 2% of Americans who ever had slaves to begin with. The Industrial Revolution is what 0.61

00:21:50.520 made this country wealthy, and it was spurred by the invention of technologies like the steam engine,

00:21:55.100 the coke blast furnace, not the cotton trade or the slave trade. In fact, cotton exports accounted

00:21:59.640 for roughly 5% of the overall GDP of the United States prior to the Civil War. 5%. So these people

00:22:06.140 say slavery built the country, 5% of the GDP built the country. Give me a break. There's a reason we 0.86

00:22:13.920 became a much, much richer country once we abolished slavery. Not only did slavery not build the country,

00:22:18.900 it actually held the country back, if anything. And again, if the handful of Muslims picking cotton in 1.00

00:22:23.780 the fields had never been here, it would have had no impact on the country at all. Okay?

00:22:32.720 The vast majority of infrastructure and industry in this country was built by the labor of freemen. 1.00

00:22:39.500 Okay? This country was built by freemen. Every Muslim country on the planet, on the other hand, 1.00

00:22:46.540 had slavery for exponentially longer. They relied on it exponentially more than the United States ever

00:22:52.500 did. Which is why Western countries had to shut down the Arab slave trade by force. Look up the 0.99

00:22:57.960 Africa squadron sometime. We had a whole unit of the U.S. Navy from 1843 to 1861 devoted to suppressing

00:23:04.740 the slave trade along the coast of West Africa. The Arabs clung to slavery like a fat kid holding a 0.92

00:23:10.920 donut. They refused to let it go. It was such an integral part of their culture and still is 0.99

00:23:14.860 in some Arab countries. And by the way, the slave trade in Africa was extremely wide-ranging and global

00:23:22.320 in nature. This is one of those stories that isn't taught in school, but it's absolutely true. 0.97

00:23:25.840 In the 17th century, Barbary pirates from North Africa raided several towns in Iceland. Yes,

00:23:32.920 Iceland. And they went into Ireland also. Thousands of people were captured, transported in North

00:23:39.360 Africa, and sold into slavery in places like Algiers. Many of the slaves died. Actually,

00:23:45.560 by some estimates, more than a million European Christians were enslaved by Barbary pirates and

00:23:51.960 slave drivers from the 16th century to the 18th century. Here's why I bring that up. 0.76

00:23:59.600 Number one, okay, if you're a Muslim, you got no room to be lecturing about slavery. None. Number two, 0.97

00:24:06.880 Mediasan, let me ask you this. Given that we had a million white European Christians who were enslaved

00:24:15.080 in the Muslim world for 200 to 300 years, would you say that white Christian slaves built North Africa?

00:24:23.360 Can we say that white Christians built the Middle East? Why not? Answer that, Medi. I want you to answer 0.95

00:24:31.740 that. Did the one million white slaves build the Arab world? If a few Muslims in the cotton fields built 1.00

00:24:38.120 America, what can we say about the one million whites enslaved by Muslims in their countries?

00:24:44.420 What do you think, Medi? What do you think? Now, this is a rhetorical question. Of course,

00:24:49.000 Mediasan is a British Muslim who came here less than 10 years ago, so I don't expect him to know 1.00

00:24:52.780 anything about my country. And he doesn't. He is as vapid and clueless as his non-existent audience

00:24:59.320 would suggest. He has neither the integrity to tell the truth nor the intelligence to lie convincingly. 0.99

00:25:04.180 He has come to this country to live off of the fruits of the labor done by people he despises. 1.00

00:25:09.160 He's as ungrateful as he is useless. He's exactly the kind of immigrant that we should not allow 1.00

00:25:15.000 into this country, a spiteful, lying, self-entitled brat with nothing to offer the country but demands 1.00

00:25:20.600 and accusations. He's a bad person, although not a bad American, because he's not an American at all. 0.99

00:25:28.280 Now, Zoran Mamdani, by contrast, does have an audience. He has a very, very big audience.

00:25:32.500 The mass of foreigners who have been imported into this country are his base, and they are 0.99

00:25:37.760 rabidly loyal to him. These are people who are as American as he is, and very soon, 1.00

00:25:44.040 they will control the nerve center of the entire U.S. economy. Barring some kind of miraculous event,

00:25:50.040 foreigners who despise white people, who mock Christianity, and who don't understand history, 0.98

00:25:54.440 or pretend not to understand it, will assume full control of New York City. 0.98

00:25:59.080 And we all know what they'll do with that power. They will turn New York into yet another

00:26:04.460 dysfunctional, unrecognizable ghetto, not unlike Somalia or Minneapolis or Dearborn.

00:26:10.800 And at that point, assuming any Americans are left in New York, they'll leave. 0.87

00:26:16.080 Americans will be forced to flee, as they've been forced to flee from so many other centerpieces

00:26:20.420 of diversity over the last few generations. The real question now, and it's the Trump administration's

00:26:25.560 job to answer this question, is whether these Americans will have anywhere to go.

00:26:31.400 No priority is more urgent than this. Once the United States is no longer a sanctuary for

00:26:37.140 Americans and for Christians, it ceases to exist. Medhi Hassan understands that.

00:26:43.960 So does Zoran Mamdani.

00:26:46.520 Sometime very soon, ideally before New Yorkers head to the polls in November,

00:26:49.880 every American in this country needs to understand that as well.

00:26:56.520 Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:30:27.340 mainstream media, in particular MSNBC, could not possibly embarrass itself any more than it already

00:30:32.400 has, but they always find new ways. And that brings us to a segment on MSNBC yesterday where

00:30:39.340 an alleged news anchor is interviewing, for some reason, Jeff Daniels, the actor. And then for some

00:30:45.740 reason, the actor Jeff Daniels breaks into song in the middle of this news segment. Now I haven't

00:30:53.540 watched this yet. I'm anticipating levels of cringe never before witnessed by mankind. But

00:31:00.660 so here it is after now there was a, I guess they talked about the issues for a while and Jeff Daniels

00:31:09.060 talking about how bad Trump is and why Trump is so terrible and all that sort of thing. And then he says,

00:31:14.880 say, you know, I also brought along my guitar here. Oh, I forgot I had this old thing. Well,

00:31:19.900 since I have it, let me play you a little song. And so let's listen.

00:31:24.520 This is a song called Crazy World, which is how I cope. Okay, let's hear it.

00:31:31.280 I've seen a young girl smiling. It's something he just said. I watched him fall into her pretty

00:31:42.080 green eyes. His cheeks turned valentine red. I've seen an old man walking with his wife by his side.

00:31:55.280 I watched him reach down, take her hand. Damned if I didn't cry. This crazy world's gone crazy. 0.98

00:32:07.820 Who am I to judge? It's nice to know in a world full of hate. There's someone out there still

00:32:19.340 making love. I've seen a dog's tail wagging. I've seen a grandchild run. I've sung along to a day

00:32:44.120 break and dawn and a hundred thousand setting songs.

00:32:58.120 It's the song isn't terrible. I hate that. I have to say that.

00:33:01.520 It's not, it's not my fault. I have to admit that. It's not like I don't, I wanted it to be bad.

00:33:09.200 I thought it would be. I'm, you know, usually when these boomers start singing, it's like, 1.00

00:33:13.120 it's a train wreck. It's a human rights catastrophe.

00:33:19.300 But, you know, I mean, it's like, it's a, it's a, it's not a, I mean, it's a good little folk song

00:33:26.060 around a campfire. And I just, like, I like the little folk songs around campfires. So I like the

00:33:30.360 little, you know, a guy picks up the guitar and starts singing about his troubles around the

00:33:36.520 campfire. And yeah, I'm kind of like, I'm into it. I, that's, that's, you know, he didn't break

00:33:43.160 out the harmonica, but that was the one thing that was missing. And so don't be mad at me about it,

00:33:49.160 but it's just, I don't think it's like, it's not a terrible, so I know, because I saw all these

00:33:52.700 conservatives were passing this along saying it's the worst song they've ever heard. And, you know,

00:33:58.320 I think we're, I don't want to say credit where it's due, but it's just, it's, I, I, it's not as

00:34:08.020 bad as I wish that it would have been is all I'm going to say. So, man, I put the fish cam up.

00:34:18.000 I got to collect myself. I need a second. I need a second to, oh, we have music with the

00:34:25.720 fish cam now. Good. What kind of music is this? Why is this the fish cam music?

00:34:37.220 Is that Saving Private? Why is it the Saving Private Ryan theme song? Why is this the end

00:34:41.860 of Saving Private Ryan with the fish cam? It should be like elevator music. Anyway. All right.

00:34:53.440 Why do we have heroic, it's like heroic music with the fish cam.

00:34:59.340 Maybe that's appropriate anyway. So even if the, even if Daniels did kind of nail the song

00:35:05.260 tragically, this is still incredibly embarrassing. I will say that because the thing is if I was

00:35:12.500 sitting around the campfire and some guy started playing that song, I would say, yeah, pretty good

00:35:16.800 song. Not bad. But, but they're not sitting around a campfire. They are on the news, right? They're

00:35:25.640 doing a news show. And of course the whole premise here is that Jeff Daniels had to write this soulful

00:35:31.360 song to sing about his troubles because Trump's America is so terrible and traumatizing. This is

00:35:37.360 how he copes with Trump's America. So the, the, the context is still incredibly embarrassing and cringy

00:35:44.720 and very embarrassing for, for MSNBC because I would ask in what way, so Trump's America is so terrible

00:35:52.780 for you, Jeff Daniels. In what way has Trump made your life worse? Like be specific. You can sing

00:36:03.900 your answer if you want to, but can you answer how Trump has made your life worse specifically

00:36:09.960 or anybody's life worse? Now, sure. If you're an illegal immigrant who doesn't belong in this 1.00

00:36:15.220 country in the first place, then your life is worse because now you have to go back to your country 1.00

00:36:19.520 and your country sucks. And that's why you came here. But for everybody else, for actual Americans, 1.00

00:36:23.440 in what way has Trump made your life worse?

00:36:29.000 There might be plenty of things you can complain about. Not if you're Jeff Daniels. I mean, he's got

00:36:33.060 a pretty comfortable life, but a lot of other Americans can complain about a lot of things.

00:36:38.160 But which of those things are Trump's fault is the question. And, uh, he can't answer that because

00:36:44.400 it's just not true. All right. Karen Jean Pair, the former Biden spokeswoman is making the rounds.

00:36:52.620 Hopefully she's not singing. I would not put money on her. I put even less money. Now I wouldn't have

00:36:56.980 put money on Jeff Daniels and have, you know, singing a good song. I'd put less money on Karen 0.99

00:37:01.940 Jean Pair, but I think she's hawking a book or something like that. And here she is. I think this

00:37:06.300 is also MSNBC. So too many MSNBC clips on the show so far. I apologize for that, but, uh, here she is. 0.94

00:37:13.020 Let's watch. For me, as a black woman, as a person who's also LGBTQ, I feel as if those communities

00:37:23.960 that I am part of largely get taken for granted. And I see that today in groups that are being

00:37:32.420 thrown under the bus for a short term win. And it is not the big tent party that I, that I loved

00:37:40.920 and enjoyed and was part of and fought for. And so for me, I want to start a conversation at with

00:37:47.600 how do we fix this? The system is indeed broken. The two party system is not functioning in the way

00:37:52.760 where our democracy is being protected right now. I feel as if the democratic party right now is too

00:37:59.560 timid. They're not speaking up. We need to be, they need to have a strategy and be really clear

00:38:05.780 about how they're moving forward in this moment.

00:38:11.120 So Karen Jean-Pierre has the wig on. Uh, it's a less convinced, that's a worse wig than the one 0.97

00:38:17.640 that I wore in Am I Racist? She looks more ridiculous in that than I looked with my man bun wig. 0.97

00:38:24.720 Um, but you know, some, for some reason it's cultural appropriation for a white woman to 1.00

00:38:30.700 have dreads, but not cultural appropriation for a black woman to pretend to have a white woman's 0.99

00:38:34.740 hair. Beyonce bleaches her skin and wears a blonde wig and a cowboy hat. And somehow that is not cultural 0.99

00:38:42.500 appropriation, but, uh, dreadlocks, which were not even invented by black people, uh, somehow are.

00:38:50.060 But anyway, so you notice how Karen says that, uh, that the system is broken. She also says that

00:38:56.120 black women are taken for granted by the Democrats and she's actually right about that. So she's right. 1.00

00:39:03.020 That's true. Black women are taken for granted by Democrats. It is taken for granted among Democrats 1.00

00:39:08.540 that black women will support them no matter what. And do you know why that is? Karen Jean-Pierre,

00:39:14.320 because it's true, because that's exactly what happens because 95% of black women will vote for 1.00

00:39:19.640 Democrats no matter what year after year stretching back decades, no matter what happens, no matter

00:39:29.400 who's on the ballot, no matter anything, it does not matter. Black women will just vote for the 1.00

00:39:34.500 Democrat. Yeah. There are a few exceptions like Candace Owens is, is the only one her and like four 1.00

00:39:42.680 others. But other than that, uh, black women, uh, are taken for granted because it's, it's taken for 1.00

00:39:51.260 granted that you as a black woman will, will vote for Democrats and support Democrats because you will

00:39:56.140 because, because you just will. And they know it. Uh, now by showing even the slightest willingness to

00:40:02.380 vote for anyone other than a Democrat, that is how you could, uh, stop being taken for granted. If you

00:40:07.500 don't want to be taken for granted anymore, then just show that you're willing to use discernment

00:40:13.680 and vote for people based on their actual merits rather than their party affiliation. But you've

00:40:20.640 never, as a group, black women have never demonstrated that, you know, black women are

00:40:26.920 the most single-mindedly loyal voting bloc in existence. There's no other demographic that is

00:40:34.940 like this. I mean, there, there are plenty of other demographics that vote overwhelmingly for

00:40:38.920 one, for one party or the other, but for black women, it's like almost every black woman for all 1.00

00:40:44.680 intents and purposes, every black woman in the country will just vote for the Democrat no matter 1.00

00:40:48.700 what. And there's like 0% chance of anything else happening. And so that's why they get taken for

00:40:53.800 granted. You know, Democrats, now Democrats do pander to black women all the time, but they actually 1.00

00:41:03.500 don't need to, they don't have, they, that's one of the reasons why it's so silly that they pander 0.98

00:41:08.340 so often. You don't have to like this group of people, they are not ever going to vote for

00:41:13.500 Republicans no matter what. And so, and that's, and that's not me guessing. That's just what all of

00:41:22.140 our experience has shown us. That's what all of the data shows. And then to the other point,

00:41:28.200 Karen says that the system is broken. And just to be clear about what she means by that,

00:41:31.560 she means that the Democrat party, their system of rigging the vote and doing whatever they want,

00:41:37.640 that is what is broken. According to her, you know, she witnessed a complete breakdown of that

00:41:42.620 system while she was in the white house. And, and, you know, first of all, the media turned on Biden

00:41:46.880 and demanded that he be ousted, not because of integrity on their part or anything like that,

00:41:51.680 or because they were doing real journalism, but just because strategically they realized that

00:41:55.700 Biden was about to get trounced. And so they threw a Hail Mary pass and decided to turn on him.

00:41:59.400 But, you know, the media is supposed to be the, the, uh, propaganda out for, for the Democrat

00:42:05.640 party, for the Democrat administration. That's the system that she's talking about. And that system

00:42:11.100 broke down. And that is why she is so mad about the system. That's why she's raging against the 0.95

00:42:16.500 machine because she's in the white house and she's looking at the media that, and they've been her good

00:42:22.620 little lapdogs for three and a half years. And suddenly at the last minute, they're all turning

00:42:28.140 on her. And she's saying, what are you guys doing? This isn't the system. This isn't how it's supposed

00:42:31.640 to work. So that's the system that she's worried about. I also wanted to briefly, uh, changing gears

00:42:41.620 here for a second, switching gears. Uh, so a couple of days ago, I closed the show with a monologue

00:42:47.940 where I laid out my theory that pop culture, um, this is not really a headline, but it is in my,

00:42:55.380 in my life it is. So I laid out my theory that pop culture peaked around 20, 2007 and started

00:43:02.600 collapsing rapidly and is now dead. That culture itself is dead. The mono culture that is our shared 0.71

00:43:08.900 cultural experience is dead. And, um, you know, it was a long monologue and it was a non-political

00:43:15.160 topic. I wasn't sure how much interest there would really be in the topic or if the like five

00:43:21.360 hours I spent writing that would prove to be worth it. But fortunately it seems like, uh, much of the

00:43:25.920 audience was interested in the conversation and there's a lot of great feedback. And so I had,

00:43:31.460 and I, so I've been thinking more about it, reading some of the comments. A lot of the comments were

00:43:34.960 quite interesting and thoughtful. And I had just a couple of other thoughts on the topic because I've

00:43:40.000 reflected more on it. And, um, and I wanted to sort of pass them along and keep in mind, my main point,

00:43:47.400 my most important point is simply that the mono culture, our shared cultural experience died after 0.99

00:43:54.120 2007. And now we live in what I would call, uh, and others have called the, a fractured culture,

00:44:01.440 which is really a non-culture. And that's my main point. So you don't have to agree with the idea

00:44:06.360 that the culture peaked in 2007. You don't have to agree with anything else I'm about to say,

00:44:11.580 uh, in order to agree with, with that sort of overarching thesis. And with that said, I've been

00:44:19.380 thinking about this, which is why did the culture peak in 2007? Because it's not really necessary for

00:44:26.760 the culture to have peaked in order for this fracturing to have happened. It's almost like

00:44:31.960 these are two different theories that I haven't quite connected. I haven't quite married them.

00:44:36.260 They're sort of related, but there's a one last move that I didn't make to connect them. And I've

00:44:40.900 seen that feedback in some of the comments saying, well, you didn't quite, it's like, yeah, I agree

00:44:46.240 with you on that. I agree with you on that, but you didn't quite, but why are they, how would do they

00:44:49.680 connect? And, um, and I think that that's, uh, and I think that those comments probably have a point.

00:44:55.060 So I've thought more about it and here's what I came up with. So the monoculture is really,

00:44:59.580 is, is a relatively, uh, and I could be wrong about a lot of this. I'm just sort of thinking

00:45:05.600 through it, but the monoculture is a relatively new phenomenon. Uh, the monoculture came into

00:45:10.800 existence with the advent of mass media, you know, TV, movies, radio. And prior to that, there was,

00:45:19.580 there, there wasn't really a shared cultural experience on a national scale because people

00:45:24.980 in different parts of the country were not connected in any way. I mean, they had some

00:45:29.260 very basic and important things in common. They were Americans, you know, and most of them were

00:45:34.260 Christians more importantly. So in some ways they had a lot more in common than Americans would in

00:45:40.820 more modern times, but there was not a shared cultural experience really. And they had no way

00:45:46.620 of communicating with each other. They had no way of knowing about each other. You know, they were

00:45:52.440 in their local communities. They were very much isolated from all the rest of the country in a

00:45:57.960 way that we never have been. I mean, we can't even, it's hard to even conceptualize what that would be

00:46:04.320 like, but that's what it was, especially prior to telephones becoming household items in, you know,

00:46:09.840 whatever the 1910s, 1920s, when they really became something that every house had. So before that,

00:46:16.380 a farmer in Wyoming in 1892 had no cultural connection to a lawyer in New York, right? They

00:46:25.420 would never meet each other. They would never see each other. They would never talk to each other.

00:46:28.860 They would never have any kind of shared experience at all. And that's not to say that they had no

00:46:34.360 culture back in those days. They definitely did, but it was a localized culture. There was not a

00:46:40.000 monoculture. There was a localized culture. People were very strongly tied to their local communities.

00:46:45.680 And in that local community, there was a very vibrant, unique local culture. And then America

00:46:51.720 as a whole was this collection of local cultures, American cultures. You know, these were Americans,

00:46:59.480 but they had their own local cultures. And then mass media started to change that. As people became

00:47:05.240 more connected, local culture started to be subsumed by a national culture, by the monoculture. By the

00:47:10.700 1990s, you know, the guy in Wyoming and the guy in New York, and then certainly by the early 2000s,

00:47:17.780 those two guys would have nearly as much shared experience with each other as they would with

00:47:25.220 their neighbors. And, uh, and certainly by this time, most Americans would feel more patriotism,

00:47:32.400 more pride, more connection to their country as a whole than they would to, you know, their state

00:47:37.540 or their neighborhood. And it definitely was not always like that, but, but that's what it became.

00:47:43.380 So you have the formation of the monoculture in the early 1900s. As mass media technology improves

00:47:48.440 and expands, the monoculture grows, eventually becomes dominant. And then you add computers and

00:47:55.160 the internet into the mix. And by the time, uh, that happens, the monoculture has completely overridden

00:48:02.280 localized culture. And then you get into the early 2000s and localized culture is basically gone.

00:48:08.120 And what we have now is the monoculture. By the early 2000s, we've reached a point where people

00:48:13.480 are more connected than they've ever been. There's an unprecedented level of connectedness

00:48:18.780 and, uh, the monoculture is all there was. Now, at the same time, pop culture, movies, television,

00:48:25.700 music, uh, pop culture is also developing. I would argue that in particular with movies and television,

00:48:31.040 and this, this will be kind of controversial. That's why I say like, you can ignore everything

00:48:35.480 I'm saying now. I don't think it, it, it does not affect the, the more important thesis about the

00:48:41.480 collapse of the culture. But I would argue that movies and television, those art forms improved,

00:48:49.820 you know, became more sophisticated over time. There's a kind of linear improvement that you can

00:48:54.760 track. Now, there were a lot of really great films. I say this, people will get upset because

00:48:58.420 I'll say, what do you say? You say that everything made in the year, you know, in the year 2002 was

00:49:02.700 better than what came out in 1972. I'm not saying that at all. There were a lot of really great

00:49:06.460 films and even some good TV shows in the early days of the art form. Obviously some of the greatest

00:49:10.880 films of all time came out in those first few decades, but on balance in general, I would argue

00:49:15.920 that films improved over time on average, not in every case, but on average and TV certainly did.

00:49:25.120 So the average movie in the nineties was much better than the average movie in the 50s, 60s,

00:49:31.100 and 70s. And it's easy for us to forget that because we don't remember the bad ones from the

00:49:34.940 50s and 60s and 70s because they were bad. So they're forgettable. We only remember the great ones.

00:49:39.660 And so you think back to the seventies and films in the seventies. And, and, you know, if you know

00:49:43.880 something about film, there are like 20 movies that immediately come to mind that were absolute

00:49:47.380 masterpieces, but there were other movies that came out that were really quite bad. I mean,

00:49:51.940 a lot of them were really quite bad. And that's what you would expect because this was a very new

00:49:56.160 art form. If you go back and watch movies from the thirties and forties, there's a reason that

00:50:00.620 they feel so different. And it's not just because it's black and white. It's because these are theater

00:50:06.660 actors, right? These were basically stage productions transferred over onto the screen. And in the early

00:50:11.720 days of making movies, that's kind of what they were doing. It's like they were doing plays,

00:50:15.980 but they were filming it and a film had not come into its own really as its own distinct art form by

00:50:21.300 the second and third generation of filmmakers and actors. The art form had finally established itself

00:50:25.920 as its own thing. And that's why you start seeing in the seventies, a very different kind of acting.

00:50:30.760 It's more subtle. It's more realistic. It's more sophisticated. Um, now I'm no film historian.

00:50:37.140 I admit that, but I think that film historians would say that like Marlon Brando, um, who of course was

00:50:43.340 acting before the seventies, but he was one of the first real like movie actors, right? He was,

00:50:48.980 he was not a stage actor. He was, he was, he wasn't a stage actor doing movies. He was a movie actor

00:50:53.560 and he was a pioneer of that specific craft. And as the decades go on, now you have filmmakers and

00:50:59.460 actors who have grown up steeped in film, studying the great filmmakers before them studying, you know,

00:51:05.740 Francis Ford Coppola and Marlon Brando. And, um, and so you expect to see the art form improve

00:51:12.300 and become more sophisticated. And I think it does. And you see this even more so with television.

00:51:16.960 I mean, there were good TV shows in the sixties, seventies and eighties, but then the Sopranos 1.00

00:51:20.720 came along in 2000, whatever it was, 2001, I think. And it's just operating on a level that

00:51:27.600 no show before it ever had. I mean, almost no show ever had it is more sophisticated. It's much

00:51:32.400 more sophisticated. It's just doing things as a show, as a TV show that no one had ever done

00:51:38.840 with that art form. It is, it's just in its own league. And people kind of recognize that they

00:51:44.000 saw that and said, like, this, this is something totally different. I would never seen anything

00:51:46.820 like this. And, um, why is that? Well, everybody involved in the Sopranos had the benefit of

00:51:53.920 growing up in an environment where they were steeped in TV and movies. So these things are

00:51:59.800 happening simultaneously. The monoculture is growing, becoming dominant. These modern mass media

00:52:03.760 art forms are becoming more sophisticated by the nineties and early two thousands. We are connected

00:52:08.420 more than we've ever been. And pop culture dominated by these art forms has reached a

00:52:13.320 level of sophistication that we've never seen before. Then you add in the advent of like modern

00:52:17.800 special effects and you have movies like Jurassic park in the mid nineties, a story told by a master

00:52:22.940 storyteller with this state of the art technology, these incredible mind blowing visuals. You know,

00:52:28.300 people don't realize what that was like back in the day as like a 12 year old boy going to see

00:52:31.580 Jurassic park. It's like, you're actually seeing a dinosaur in real life. I mean, that's what it felt

00:52:35.340 like. And it's something that we could all experience together as a culture, right? So when

00:52:40.340 people look back wistfully on this period, the nineties into the early two thousands, this is what

00:52:45.100 they're remembering. This is what they're nostalgic for. It is a connected monoculture fueled by these

00:52:50.080 art forms that had fully come into their own, that are at the peak of their sort of powers that are

00:52:54.960 more advanced, more sophisticated than it ever been. And then you get to 2007, by then you have

00:53:00.160 my space and Facebook and social media had just sort of come into existence. Twitter was in its

00:53:06.300 infancy. And now the level of connection had reached a point that people even 20 years before

00:53:12.020 could not have imagined. And the reason why the nineties in particular into the early two thousands

00:53:16.580 feel like the golden years in a lot of ways is, is feel like the peak is also that we had this mass

00:53:24.260 media connectedness, but we hadn't yet lost the in-person, the real world connection, right? And

00:53:32.020 that's largely because all of this stuff was still at home. So you could go on social media in the early

00:53:38.520 days, you could go on the internet, uh, but it was all in your computer at home. And then you would

00:53:44.140 leave your home and you didn't have it with you anymore. And then you would also have that in-person

00:53:48.720 connection. So when I was a kid in say 2001, I would watch the music videos on MTV and engage

00:53:54.660 with the media and all that stuff. I had AOL and my buddy list on AOL, but then I would also ride my

00:53:59.560 bike to my friend's house after school. And we would stay out until dark playing basketball and

00:54:03.040 playing, you know, tackle football and people get their teeth knocked out and it's real rough and

00:54:07.620 tumble. We had all of that, right? It's like, you had kind of all of it. It's, it's when, it's when the,

00:54:11.600 the old way of living where you're meeting people in person and you're getting grass stains on your,

00:54:18.160 on your jeans that has not died yet. That still exists. But then we've got this new thing also

00:54:23.600 that feels really exciting and different and new. And, and so everything just feels vibrant and

00:54:29.200 there's so much possibility. And it was the time when both of these things existed at the same time,

00:54:33.700 right? That was kind of the sweet spot, uh, film and television shows had reached their best form.

00:54:38.360 Also, I would argue when I mentioned there will be blood, some people objected that the movie is

00:54:43.440 boring or whatever. And I totally disagree. I think that's was absorbing and fascinating,

00:54:49.080 but regardless, right? That was one of the great film actors ever to exist. Daniel Day-Lewis in a film

00:54:55.460 made by an artistic genius in his prime. I keep using the word sophisticated. I know it sounds like

00:55:00.800 pretentious, but that's what it was. And I mean, that movie, the first 10 or 15 minutes, there's no dialogue

00:55:06.160 at all. And it's captivating and you should not be able to do that, but it breaks every filmmaking

00:55:13.040 rule. But these were geniuses at the top of their game. No Country for Old Men. I mentioned that to a

00:55:17.320 movie by two filmmaking masterminds written based on a book by one of the last great American novelists,

00:55:23.680 Cormac McCarthy. They put out this movie. There's no soundtrack. There's no music. Again,

00:55:27.860 you're not supposed to do that. They do it. It completely messes with the form with the,

00:55:32.120 with like the structure of filmmaking. They kill the protagonist in the second act of the movie

00:55:37.280 off screen. And then you don't find out until the very end with, I think, a brilliant monologue

00:55:42.220 from Tommy Lee Jones, the sheriff, talking about this dream that he had of his father. You find out

00:55:47.480 at the end that he was really the protagonist the whole time. And you didn't know that. So they kind

00:55:51.800 of hide the protagonist until the end of the movie. It breaks every single rule, but these were

00:55:57.600 virtuosos at the top of their game, masters of the craft, geniuses of the art form who had grew up,

00:56:03.380 grown up studying this art form. And they just, they were just like bursting at the seams with

00:56:08.600 these ideas. And, and they, they put out these movies and it's just like, again, it's a little

00:56:14.820 bit like when they watched Sopranos a few years before that. It's like, no one has done this with

00:56:19.240 a movie before. I didn't know you could do that. And so all of these things are reaching a

00:56:24.200 crescendo, monoculture, connectedness, movies, television, music too. As I said, I think music

00:56:28.560 reached its peak, at least in terms of the different genres of music are all thriving in

00:56:32.840 a way never seen before. All this stuff is happening and it's building, it's building all

00:56:37.700 together and they're feeding off of each other. And, and this is the culture that we're all living

00:56:41.960 in and we're sharing it together and we're talking about it. And yeah, you're going to the

00:56:46.200 movies, but you're also, and then it's not just that too. I mean, there's also, because of this

00:56:50.180 disconnecting this, it's, it's, there are things happening in the world that become like global

00:56:54.580 events become for the first time. It's like, we're all living through this event together in a way

00:56:58.500 that we never did before. And, and then you introduce smartphones onto the scene and social

00:57:05.220 media proliferates and takes over and the internet is captured by algorithms. And now you can, and now

00:57:10.780 this thing that you, you would experience at your house and then you would leave it and go out into

00:57:16.180 the world and talk about it. Now you bring it with you, right? Now you never leave it. Now it just

00:57:23.420 comes with you. And, and that's, and that's what changed everything. And that's what, and that's

00:57:28.360 where this, we reached this moment of maximum connectedness and then it tipped over into isolation.

00:57:34.860 And now this thing that had, and this is an observation many people have made, I realize,

00:57:40.320 but this thing that had connected us now is a, is a source of our isolation. And we find ourselves

00:57:46.120 increasingly in our own little worlds guided by algorithms tailored specifically to us as

00:57:52.160 individuals and mass media art films and television and music give way to content. And now all of that

00:58:02.740 is just content. And now the big stars, the big celebrities are not artists. I mean, there are a

00:58:09.860 few of them left. There are a few like true global stars left Taylor Swift. Still, she's not anything 0.56

00:58:15.240 like what Michael Jackson was 20 years before that, but, or 30 years. But anyway, for the most

00:58:21.780 part, artists are replaced by content creators. And, and there's something to that. We call people

00:58:27.480 content creators. Like this is a label that's put on me. I hate it because it's just like, what do you

00:58:34.020 mean? You create content? Just, just, it could be anything, just content. It's like you get, you

00:58:43.080 hand somebody a glass and it doesn't matter even what's in the glass. Go ahead and drink it. What

00:58:47.760 is this? What am I drinking? Oh, just content. It's just the contents of the glass. It literally does

00:58:52.880 not matter what's in it, right? It could be water. It could be beer. It could be urine. It doesn't just

00:58:58.580 drink it. And, uh, and that's kind of where we are. And, but meanwhile, local culture. So we've,

00:59:05.780 we've killed the monoculture. Local culture was killed off a long time ago by the monoculture.

00:59:12.620 And so then when the monoculture is called is killed, what's left, you know, only the individual,

00:59:17.960 only the atomized individual, there's no shared experience. There's no shared culture. And, um,

00:59:23.240 that's what's left. And that's why I said that if there's any hope of having a culture again,

00:59:29.240 well, we're not going to have a monoculture that's gone forever. I think the monoculture era

00:59:32.740 lasted for, you know, 70, 80 years. I think it's gone forever and it will never be back.

00:59:38.660 And there are those of us who experienced it and, and, and we know that, you know, our children will

00:59:44.800 not, they'll just never know what that's like. It'll, it'll never exist again. What could exist maybe

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01:02:12.680 Normally, when it comes to the daily cancellation, I need to expend some degree of effort researching and

01:02:17.420 writing a script. I know that probably sounds difficult to believe, but it is true.

01:02:21.640 People don't simply cancel themselves. I have to think to myself, how can I present this cancellation

01:02:26.240 in a humorous or engaging way, given the facts on the ground? But today, there's a notable exception

01:02:31.800 to this general rule. In this case, I really don't have to do anything to highlight the absurdity of

01:02:36.120 today's topic, because all by itself, this is simply one of the most ludicrous, on-the-nose 0.51

01:02:40.460 stories in recent memory. I'm talking, of course, about the museum heist that took place on Sunday

01:02:46.360 at the Louvre in Paris, France. And it's one of the most, of course, famous museums in the entire

01:02:51.580 world. Every detail of the story from start to finish feels like a punchline. I mean, it feels

01:02:57.000 like a comedy. It feels like a movie, if they still made comedies. But it's not. You know, this is all

01:03:02.500 real. So we'll start with the fact that this robbery took place in broad daylight while the museum was

01:03:09.000 open during regular business hours. Watch. Thieves burst into the Louvre in Paris, stealing crown jewels

01:03:17.840 and prompting the world's most visited museum to be evacuated. Here's how the heist happened and why

01:03:24.200 French authorities are in a race against time to recover the jewels. The robbery took place in the

01:03:30.860 Galerie d'Apollion. At around 9.30 in the morning, four individuals drove motorcycles and a truck with a

01:03:37.400 portable furniture elevator to the museum. They used the elevator to get up onto a balcony. They then

01:03:43.680 cut through a window using what appeared to be angle grinders. Once inside the gallery, the thieves

01:03:49.260 used the grinders to threaten guards and to cut into display cases containing Napoleonic and royal

01:03:55.180 jewellery. The thieves tried but failed to set their truck on fire before fleeing on the motorcycles.

01:04:02.200 They were in and out of the gallery in less than seven minutes.

01:04:05.460 So yes, 30 minutes after the museum opened to visitors, the thieves drove up to the building

01:04:10.460 in a furniture elevator called a Montemoubou, I don't know, is that how you pronounce it, in France.

01:04:17.260 And then they used a glass cutter to break the window, which set off alarms, as you might expect.

01:04:23.940 So this is the point where the heist should have been over. I mean, really, it should have been over

01:04:28.740 as soon as a guard saw a random furniture elevator full of masked construction workers pulling up to the

01:04:34.560 museum. But we'll give them a pass on that for some reason. We'll cut them some slack. The moment

01:04:41.880 the alarm goes off with the criminals still outside the building, that should have been game over for a

01:04:45.860 heist like this. But it wasn't game over. As you heard, the thieves proceeded to threaten the guards

01:04:50.720 with their power tools. Okay, they they wave their power tools around. And and no, that's not a euphemism.

01:04:59.700 I mean, like actual tools. And instantaneously, the French guards, the French guards surrendered.

01:05:05.420 They just wave the white flag on the spot, as the French always do. They actually left the premises, 1.00

01:05:12.640 according to multiple reports, they saw a guy with a compact drill, and like a screwdriver,

01:05:19.020 and and measuring tape, and they just ran for the hills. And then the criminals were free to cut

01:05:25.140 open the display cases with $1,300 cut quick saws as seen in this cell phone image, which you can see

01:05:31.800 here. Now, admittedly, it's easy to mock this scenario, but and we should. But to be fair, if

01:05:39.560 you're a guard, and your entire job, the reason for your paycheck is to defend priceless works of art

01:05:44.020 from potential vandals. What are you going to do? If you see something like this?

01:06:04.160 Yeah, I mean, that's pretty, that's pretty scary stuff. I mean, obviously,

01:06:07.560 there's no defense against an attack like that.

01:06:10.580 What are you going to do? Use a gun? Shoot the guy? That would just be ridiculous.

01:06:19.020 I mean, using a weapon to stop bad guys from breaking the law?

01:06:25.180 Who's ever heard of that? I mean, they've long since moved on from that kind of barbarism in France.

01:06:30.140 You know, the barbarism of like law and order and civilization. Now, you can't interfere with him

01:06:37.820 in any way, or else you might put some holes in your drywall. Your only option is to just let them

01:06:43.220 do whatever they want. Actually, there was one thing the guards apparently prevented. They supposedly

01:06:48.260 stopped the thieves from setting fire to their furniture elevator on the way out the door. So,

01:06:52.400 you know, that's something. But other than that, there was no reason to have guards at all. I mean,

01:06:56.320 they might as well. The museum might as well have just been completely open to the public.

01:06:59.680 No alarms, no security measures of any kind.

01:07:01.760 And by the way, the criminals left the scene on scooters. They left on scooters. They might as

01:07:10.720 well have just been riding away on big wheels. They might as well have been on rollerblades,

01:07:15.720 just like casually skating down the street. How did the police not immediately chase them down?

01:07:22.040 You're talking about a brazen robbery in one of the most famous locations in the entire country.

01:07:26.840 It took several minutes. Alarms sounded. And not only did the guards fail to do anything,

01:07:32.480 but the police also failed to do anything. So the criminals left behind a bunch of evidence,

01:07:38.320 including a blowtorch, a yellow vest, a saw, and an imperial crown with more than a thousand diamonds.

01:07:45.620 So here is the saw, for instance, that they left behind, that they were lugging around.

01:07:49.820 But still, there have been no arrests. So they've got video, a mountain of evidence,

01:07:58.080 witnesses, and no one's been arrested. At the time, as you might imagine, at the moment,

01:08:04.700 as you might imagine, there are a lot of theories about whether this heist was an inside job or some

01:08:08.680 kind of long con. Apparently, the localized alarm system wasn't operational at the time,

01:08:13.460 and only the general museum alarm sounded. Additionally, there are reports that the museum

01:08:18.180 changed the structure of its glass cases recently. They supposedly went from armored cases,

01:08:24.820 which would drop the jewels into a safe if they were disturbed, to more accessible cases.

01:08:31.620 Now, we'll put up those images on the screen so you can see the contrast. Now, you might ask,

01:08:36.680 why would a museum intentionally make its treasures much easier to steal? Not to mention,

01:08:43.000 the original cases were beautiful. So why did you make them uglier? So you made it uglier and easier

01:08:50.340 to steal. That seems kind of odd. I mean, the very last thing that you would want priceless artifacts

01:08:55.480 to be is accessible, you would think. But as it turns out, it was all part of a plan to counter

01:09:02.480 the museum's elitist image. So this is from an article that was published five years ago.

01:09:07.500 Okay, this is real, apparently. Quote, the Louvre, the world's most visited museum,

01:09:13.980 is working on a major overhaul of how its vast collections are presented and explained.

01:09:18.540 Jean-Luc Martinez, the president of the Louvre, told reporters,

01:09:22.020 to counter its elitist image, the museum will strive for a cultural democratization to make its

01:09:27.120 treasures more accessible with improved presentation, labeling, and curating. Martinez,

01:09:32.980 who comes from a working class background, said he wanted to build on the outreach success

01:09:36.860 of the Louvre's Outpost Museum in Lens, a poor former mining town in northern France. He said,

01:09:41.920 sometimes the former royal palace in the heart of Paris can intimidate certain demographics and

01:09:47.660 the museum needs to reassure people that its collections are also for them. Because this

01:09:53.760 is always like, when they want to make things more accessible to supposedly like working class

01:09:58.740 people, they just make it uglier. Because you know, why would working class people want something 1.00

01:10:03.620 beautiful? We don't need to give beauty to them, those plebs. That's the attitude. And you know, 1.00

01:10:12.880 mission accomplished. The Louvre certainly became more accessible to more demographics. Now any old 1.00

01:10:18.100 working class Joe could just show up and steal whatever he wants. He doesn't even have to be an elite

01:10:24.080 burglar like in Ocean's Eleven. Just anyone at all can apply for a job as a jewel thief. As it happens,

01:10:31.200 the same principle applies to the museum's security team, apparently. So last year, this woman became

01:10:36.300 the Louvre's first ever female director of security. You can see her there. Her name is Dominique Buffen,

01:10:42.180 and she's 46 years old and really broke the glass ceiling here so that thieves could walk in off the 0.99

01:10:48.700 street and literally break the glass on the jewelry cases. Like I said, it's just like too easy with

01:10:53.520 this story. As it happens, Buffen was hired by another woman named Laurence Descartes, who happens

01:10:59.380 to be the museum's first female director. And she also looks exactly how you'd expect her to look.

01:11:05.420 So yes, in 2021, Laurence became the Louvre's first female director in its 228-year history.

01:11:13.300 And then very quickly, she hired another woman to lead the security team in another historic 0.99

01:11:18.100 breakthrough. This is not an accident. We see this all the time across a variety of positions,

01:11:22.600 particularly the government and technology sector. Certain demographics look out for each other.

01:11:28.140 They hire each other, and then everything falls apart. Remember, it was Jill Biden who recommended

01:11:34.340 the nomination of Kimberly Cheadle, the Secret Service director who nearly got Trump killed.

01:11:39.000 Cheadle claimed that sloped roofs are just too dangerous for the Secret Service as an excuse

01:11:44.040 for why the Secret Service allowed a sniper with an AR-15 to climb onto the roof of a warehouse just 0.92

01:11:47.880 450 feet away from Donald Trump with a clear line of sight to the stage and then shoot him in the head.

01:11:53.800 And once again, at the Louvre, we have yet another unambiguous triumph of feminism. 0.86

01:11:58.680 Just one year after they picked a woman to lead the security at this famous museum,

01:12:02.720 thieves stole millions of dollars worth of jewelry in broad daylight while the museum was open as the

01:12:10.820 guards ran away. Who would have imagined that this could ever be possible? Well, it certainly would

01:12:17.780 not have been possible to, say, put armed guards around the building or inside the building.

01:12:22.300 That would have just been unthinkable. As unthinkable as like putting an agent on a sloped roof.

01:12:29.420 To be clear, the media in France promoted this woman relentlessly prior to this heist, as you

01:12:33.320 would expect. Quote,

01:12:35.500 Never before has a woman held this highly strategic position, wrote Le Monde, probably the most respected

01:12:41.440 newspaper in the country. She has been responsible for security at the museum and its surrounding areas.

01:12:46.100 The Olympic Games provided her with accelerated training. So she's responsible for security at

01:12:52.380 the Louvre, as well as the surrounding areas, apparently. That's to make you feel comfortable

01:12:57.400 if you're living nearby. It also probably reminds you of this story from a few months ago. Remember

01:13:02.340 the Cincinnati police chief, a woman named Terry Thiege? She was the first woman to lead Cincinnati's 0.80

01:13:08.580 police department in its history. She's also grossly incompetent and malicious. After a mob beat up 1.00

01:13:14.300 several white people on camera, she decided that it was a good opportunity to berate people

01:13:17.880 for sharing the footage of the assault. Wasn't upset about the violence. She was upset that people

01:13:24.900 noticed the violence. Watch. Social media and journalism and the role it plays in this incident.

01:13:32.240 And yes, guys, that's you. That is you. Social media, the post that we've seen, does not depict the

01:13:42.300 entire incident. That is one version of what occurred. Well, now we have a belated update to

01:13:50.800 the story. The chief has effectively been fired. This is from a local news station, quote, Cincinnati

01:13:56.280 police chief Terry Thiege has been placed on paid administrative leave. City officials confirmed

01:14:01.340 Cincinnati city manager Cheryl Long states the move comes pending an internal investigation on the

01:14:06.180 effectiveness of her leadership in the Cincinnati police department. The city continues to face serious

01:14:11.100 public safety challenges to underscore the need for stability at the command level. Now, the good

01:14:16.920 news for chief Terry is that there's probably going to be a job opening at the Louvre pretty soon.

01:14:22.380 But for the rest of us, for people who prefer to have safe cities and secure museums,

01:14:26.620 probably a good time to give up on the idea of promoting women on the basis of their gender. 1.00

01:14:33.400 Because in every case, it ends in disaster.

01:14:36.740 It doesn't take much. In Cincinnati, it took a few people with cell phones to cause the chief of

01:14:42.300 police to melt down on camera. In Paris, it took a few thieves with power tools to clear out the most

01:14:47.140 famous museum in the world. And in Butler, it took a sloped roof. I mean, the truth is you could put a

01:14:53.440 Boy Scout troop in charge of security and public safety, and they would do a better job in all of

01:14:58.040 these cases. And at the very least, I mean, they'd probably do something. Although that's a very low

01:15:04.960 bar. It's a bar that none of the women I've just mentioned has been able to clear. And that is why 0.99

01:15:10.440 the first ever female director of security at the Louvre has many, many fewer jewels to guard today, 0.99

01:15:16.040 which I guess just makes her job easier on the bright side. And it's also why, along with Cincinnati's

01:15:21.600 first ever female police chief, she is today. Canceled. That'll do it for the show today. 1.00

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