The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1701 - I Did A Deep Dive Into The Air Traffic Control Subreddit And What I Found Is DISTURBING

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00:01:29.860 Today on the Matt Wall Show, who exactly are the people responsible for directing air traffic in the sky?

00:01:34.920 We did a deep dive into what these people are posting openly online and what we found will probably disturb you.

00:01:41.280 Also, the results of the special election in Tennessee are in.

00:01:44.220 It's bad news for Republicans, even though they won.

00:01:46.260 When Donald Trump attacks Somali immigrants, saying they, quote, contribute nothing, and he's right.

00:01:51.180 Quentin Tarantino gives his top films of the century, and he's wrong.

00:01:54.440 And what happens when a driverless AI taxi cab encounters a police standoff in the middle of the highway?

00:02:00.700 Well, apparently it just drives right through it.

00:02:03.420 All of that today on the Matt Wall Show.

00:02:05.260 Throughout 2023 and 2024, one of the major themes that I kept...

00:02:35.240 ...emphasizing on this show was that a major disaster involving a commercial airliner was extremely likely to occur in the near future.

00:02:43.760 There were simply too many close calls in the skies happening far too often, especially close to the ground, to come to any other conclusion.

00:02:51.340 And many of these mistakes were the result of failures by air traffic control and the FAA,

00:02:55.940 which openly began discriminating against qualified white applicants during the Obama year.

00:03:00.420 So, when 2025 began with a low-altitude mid-air collision at Washington's Reagan Airport,

00:03:06.560 it wasn't exactly a surprising development, if you've been paying attention.

00:03:10.720 The signs were all there.

00:03:12.980 Everyone who was paying attention knew that a disaster like this would happen, and then it did.

00:03:18.760 Now, one of the many lessons that we should draw from that mid-air collision is that when a pending catastrophe seems obvious to you,

00:03:26.420 even if you're not an expert in the field, you should draw attention to it.

00:03:31.960 There's a very good chance that you'll be right, and the experts are wrong, as they so often are,

00:03:36.860 particularly if those experts are politically motivated, which almost all of them are.

00:03:40.200 When I did my monologues on the air traffic control system a couple of years ago,

00:03:44.460 plenty of leftists mocked me for doing so.

00:03:46.820 They said that I had no idea what I was talking about.

00:03:48.700 I'm not an expert.

00:03:50.260 And, well, we see how that turned out.

00:03:52.860 So today we're going to talk at length about a new threat that poses a significant danger to every American

00:03:59.340 who travels on a plane in this country, up to and including the President of the United States.

00:04:04.460 This is a threat that, as far as I can tell, no mainstream news outlet or commentator has mentioned.

00:04:11.080 But it is urgent, and federal action should be taken immediately.

00:04:15.060 I'm talking about the very uncomfortable but also very apparent fact

00:04:19.280 that there are quite a few unhinged leftist air traffic controllers in this country,

00:04:25.220 many of whom have spent the last year or so posting on social media

00:04:29.320 about their plans to sabotage the aviation industry and the United States at large.

00:04:34.440 Several of these individuals are deranged, entitled, and, by their own admission, dangerous.

00:04:40.740 And they need to be dealt with.

00:04:43.180 Before we get into specific examples,

00:04:45.240 I want to briefly go back to the mid-air collision over the Potomac in January.

00:04:50.880 There are many factors that contributed to this disaster,

00:04:53.120 including poor flying by the Black Hawk pilot.

00:04:55.920 We know that.

00:04:57.040 But if you ask the White House,

00:04:58.360 and if you listen to the audio transcripts between air traffic control

00:05:01.800 and the two aircraft involved in the incident,

00:05:04.060 it's clear that air traffic control was not entirely blameless.

00:05:08.020 This is the first significant interaction between the controller and the military helicopter

00:05:12.980 that would later crash into the passenger plane.

00:05:16.120 If you haven't heard this, or even if you have, listen again.

00:05:19.820 Here it is.

00:05:20.200 This is a useful instruction.

00:05:42.800 The controller is telling the pilot of the Black Hawk

00:05:44.960 that a CRJ aircraft, the passenger plane,

00:05:47.820 is just south of the Woodrow Bridge.

00:05:50.200 And he gives its current altitude and some information about its approach.

00:05:53.900 And the Black Hawk pilot acknowledges the information,

00:05:56.420 saying they'll steer clear of the CRJ.

00:05:59.460 But the controller doesn't seem to notice that the Black Hawk,

00:06:02.340 over the next 30 seconds, does not, in fact,

00:06:04.840 steer clear of the airliner.

00:06:06.280 Instead, the two aircraft are on a collision course.

00:06:08.900 It's not until an automated alarm sounds in the control tower,

00:06:12.820 warning of an imminent collision,

00:06:14.360 that the controller notices the issue.

00:06:16.020 So listen to what he says at that very moment.

00:06:21.240 Listen.

00:06:21.400 Alright, this is Rhett.

00:06:51.400 Now, this time around, at a critical moment,

00:06:58.620 the controller does not tell the Black Hawk helicopter

00:07:01.520 where the CRJ is or what its altitude is.

00:07:04.940 He doesn't say, avoid the CRJ at 10 o'clock at your same altitude,

00:07:08.300 or anything like that, something specific like that.

00:07:09.940 Instead, he simply tells the Black Hawk pilot to avoid the CRJ.

00:07:14.020 And it appears that, in response to that vague instruction,

00:07:17.700 the Black Hawk pilots scanned the sky for a CRJ

00:07:21.180 and identified the wrong CRJ in this very crowded airspace.

00:07:26.460 So, you know, they were avoiding the wrong plane.

00:07:30.060 This was obviously a critical mistake,

00:07:32.020 one that the controller shares responsibility for.

00:07:35.160 Although, to be clear, a small portion of the ATC's command

00:07:37.920 wasn't audible in the Black Hawk

00:07:39.280 because the Black Hawk keyed their radio at the same time.

00:07:41.900 So, as we said, a whole combination of factors went into this.

00:07:46.740 Now, after the crash, it emerged that Washington's Reagan Airport

00:07:50.240 normally has a dedicated controller

00:07:51.900 who focuses solely on helicopters,

00:07:53.700 but at this particular moment,

00:07:55.220 one controller was doing double duty,

00:07:57.120 handling fixed-wing planes in addition to helicopters.

00:08:01.000 In an interview with federal investigators,

00:08:02.780 the controller stated, quote,

00:08:03.720 There was one point that I thought about asking for backup,

00:08:06.840 but it was, as soon as I was thinking about it,

00:08:09.960 you know, I got rid of a few helicopters,

00:08:11.500 so it was a little complex,

00:08:13.180 but it was manageable for me.

00:08:15.900 Now, I'm beginning with the crash above the Potomac

00:08:17.940 because it illustrates a couple of facts

00:08:19.460 that are very important to keep in mind.

00:08:21.480 First of all, air traffic controllers are

00:08:23.280 apparently capable of an extraordinary degree of self-deception.

00:08:27.160 After all, when you allow two aircraft to fly into one another,

00:08:29.780 by definition, the situation was not manageable.

00:08:34.000 But more importantly, the crash illustrates

00:08:35.900 that air traffic controllers,

00:08:38.080 I mean, if you needed this illustrated for you,

00:08:40.940 air traffic controllers have a very important job.

00:08:43.980 Even with all the automation that we have,

00:08:46.580 they are a critical line of defense

00:08:48.280 against aviation disasters.

00:08:51.000 Our lives, when you're in a plane,

00:08:53.100 your life is in the hands of these people.

00:08:57.420 And therefore, they should behave professionally

00:09:01.080 at all times, even when they're off the clock.

00:09:05.340 You shouldn't have to worry that these people are,

00:09:07.720 you know, insane or sociopathic.

00:09:11.660 You're paying their salary.

00:09:13.500 You put your life in their hands.

00:09:16.400 And in return, at a minimum,

00:09:18.060 they should demonstrate that they're not crazy.

00:09:21.500 But many air traffic controllers are instead demonstrating,

00:09:24.140 particularly on Reddit,

00:09:24.900 one of the, of course, largest social media platforms

00:09:27.220 in the world.

00:09:28.740 They're demonstrating that, alas,

00:09:30.620 they do not clear this very low bar.

00:09:33.780 So let's back up for a second.

00:09:35.900 On Reddit, which is especially popular with leftists,

00:09:39.340 you'll find plenty of forums

00:09:40.880 where employees of various organizations,

00:09:44.160 from Panera Bread to Walmart to, you know,

00:09:47.000 McDonald's, anything,

00:09:48.400 they talk, sort of shop,

00:09:50.460 about their experiences on the job.

00:09:52.140 And very often, as you might imagine,

00:09:54.540 the posts are extremely negative.

00:09:56.940 And that's why they're there.

00:09:58.600 People are airing out their grievances

00:10:00.500 and making all kinds of highly inflammatory statements.

00:10:03.880 Sometimes the posts are threatening

00:10:05.440 or reveal signs of obvious mental illness.

00:10:07.900 This is very common on Reddit in general.

00:10:11.380 And all things considered,

00:10:12.180 that's, you know, probably fine

00:10:13.860 when you're talking about the guy

00:10:15.320 who's making your sandwich

00:10:16.480 or boxing up your flat screen TV

00:10:18.680 or whatever.

00:10:19.520 But it's not so fine

00:10:22.240 when you're talking about somebody

00:10:23.600 who has the capacity to kill

00:10:25.260 hundreds if not thousands of passengers

00:10:27.280 in a matter of seconds.

00:10:29.400 Air traffic controllers,

00:10:30.460 unlike the delivery guy at Jimmy John's,

00:10:33.240 can direct two planes to collide

00:10:35.260 if they want to,

00:10:36.560 or if they aren't competent enough

00:10:37.800 to avoid doing so.

00:10:39.680 They can order planes

00:10:40.540 to perform unnecessary maneuvers

00:10:42.100 that put passengers in danger.

00:10:44.280 And they can certainly cause

00:10:45.120 all kinds of major inconveniences

00:10:46.900 that cause significant problems

00:10:49.460 for the millions of people

00:10:51.380 who populate airports and airplanes

00:10:52.920 every day across the country.

00:10:54.160 And if something like that does happen,

00:10:56.540 it can be very difficult to prove

00:10:58.600 that the controller did it on purpose.

00:11:00.620 I mean, he has plausible deniability.

00:11:02.400 He can claim he made a mistake.

00:11:04.400 This is the power

00:11:05.320 that air traffic controllers have.

00:11:06.680 And therefore,

00:11:07.600 they need to be vetted.

00:11:09.560 They need to be sane.

00:11:11.900 And there really cannot be

00:11:13.140 any question about that.

00:11:15.360 And yet, if you look at

00:11:16.900 various subreddits

00:11:18.300 that are frequented

00:11:19.000 by air traffic controllers,

00:11:21.040 you'll find that,

00:11:22.140 you know,

00:11:22.360 we have a pretty big problem

00:11:23.560 in this regard.

00:11:24.760 There are a slew of posts,

00:11:26.480 all of which are really easy to find,

00:11:28.300 in which air traffic controllers

00:11:29.760 demonstrate that they are

00:11:31.200 unfit for the job.

00:11:33.040 And I'll give you

00:11:33.680 just a few random examples.

00:11:34.920 You can go and find

00:11:35.680 many more for yourself

00:11:36.820 if you want.

00:11:38.280 And to be clear,

00:11:39.180 most of these posts

00:11:40.060 receive support from the community.

00:11:41.620 So we're not just talking

00:11:42.420 about one or two random trolls.

00:11:44.080 We're talking about

00:11:44.660 dedicated communities

00:11:46.240 for this profession

00:11:47.240 where they're openly talking

00:11:49.000 about committing acts

00:11:50.800 of sabotage on the job.

00:11:53.180 They're also,

00:11:54.100 in general,

00:11:54.600 at least on these forums,

00:11:56.100 very unhappy people

00:11:57.940 who are extremely bitter

00:11:59.320 about the Trump administration

00:12:00.640 to a degree

00:12:01.320 that is pathological.

00:12:03.760 So we'll start with these comments

00:12:05.180 from the ATC subreddit.

00:12:07.120 These are in response

00:12:08.100 to a post from

00:12:09.120 Donald Trump's

00:12:11.300 Truth Social account

00:12:12.240 where Trump used a meme

00:12:13.520 to mock government workers

00:12:15.340 for being lazy.

00:12:17.340 And just for the record,

00:12:19.360 here's the meme.

00:12:20.680 And as you can see,

00:12:21.960 it shows Spongebob

00:12:23.180 with a list of things

00:12:24.060 that he got done last week.

00:12:25.400 And the list includes

00:12:26.300 cried about Trump

00:12:27.160 and made it into the office

00:12:29.260 for once.

00:12:31.080 Because this is the modern age

00:12:34.940 and the president

00:12:35.640 is posting Spongebob memes.

00:12:37.380 It is what it is.

00:12:38.600 Now, needless to say,

00:12:39.980 the air traffic controllers

00:12:40.740 didn't find this meme

00:12:41.580 to be especially amusing.

00:12:42.640 So here's what they wrote.

00:12:45.260 Quote,

00:12:45.680 give the private jets

00:12:46.600 a few extra circles

00:12:47.680 before landing.

00:12:49.220 That post has

00:12:50.080 more than 100 upvotes.

00:12:51.360 And then the reply comes,

00:12:52.640 Air Force One,

00:12:53.280 go around,

00:12:53.900 fly runway heading.

00:12:55.780 Then somebody replies,

00:12:56.900 wouldn't it be great

00:12:57.620 if the president's pilot

00:12:58.740 took one for the team?

00:13:01.680 And someone then replies

00:13:02.600 that no,

00:13:03.180 it would not be good

00:13:03.900 if the president's pilot

00:13:04.920 crashed Air Force One

00:13:06.060 or if air traffic controllers

00:13:07.320 intentionally gave

00:13:08.160 bad instructions

00:13:09.040 to Air Force One.

00:13:09.780 And that person's post

00:13:11.560 was downvoted

00:13:12.380 by the community

00:13:12.980 to the point

00:13:13.440 that it became invisible.

00:13:15.240 So to restate,

00:13:16.760 in response to a meme

00:13:18.800 where Trump implied

00:13:19.980 that air traffic controllers

00:13:20.860 are lazy,

00:13:22.400 the air traffic control

00:13:23.840 subreddit

00:13:24.620 responded by saying

00:13:26.540 that air traffic controllers

00:13:27.540 should give bad instructions

00:13:29.060 to Air Force One

00:13:30.080 and then for good measure

00:13:30.940 the air traffic control

00:13:32.560 subreddit endorsed

00:13:33.400 a post in which

00:13:34.120 somebody suggests

00:13:34.920 killing the president

00:13:35.780 while he's on board.

00:13:36.880 Now, you know,

00:13:39.220 that one comment alone

00:13:40.700 is enough to make the point.

00:13:42.280 I could kind of

00:13:42.680 stop right there.

00:13:44.100 And it's easy enough

00:13:44.940 to say, hey, you know,

00:13:45.800 it's the internet,

00:13:46.460 it's not real life,

00:13:47.380 but this is real life.

00:13:50.380 You know,

00:13:50.720 a real human being

00:13:51.820 in real life

00:13:53.800 suggested that

00:13:54.660 Air Force One

00:13:55.260 should be intentionally

00:13:56.100 crashed to kill

00:13:57.080 the president

00:13:57.520 and real human beings

00:13:59.440 reacted approvingly

00:14:01.040 to that statement

00:14:01.760 and those human beings

00:14:02.820 are in air traffic control.

00:14:04.200 In fact,

00:14:05.340 they're at air traffic

00:14:06.020 control towers

00:14:06.620 right now,

00:14:07.320 perhaps,

00:14:07.900 as we speak,

00:14:09.100 directing air traffic.

00:14:11.460 That's a problem.

00:14:13.300 That's like a big problem.

00:14:16.160 This was not a one-off.

00:14:17.540 This is an entire genre

00:14:18.780 of this subreddit

00:14:19.920 and related subreddits.

00:14:21.020 Here's another post

00:14:21.740 from just three weeks ago

00:14:23.220 that you can see,

00:14:24.540 quote,

00:14:24.840 so could you guys

00:14:26.100 just like let Air Force One

00:14:27.560 sit in a three-hour taxi line?

00:14:30.120 It was posted in response

00:14:30.980 to Trump saying

00:14:31.620 that air traffic controllers

00:14:32.460 should get back to work

00:14:33.740 during the government shutdown

00:14:35.080 because Trump dared to suggest

00:14:37.260 that they shouldn't

00:14:38.220 call out sick.

00:14:39.100 They're threatening retaliation

00:14:40.540 against Air Force One.

00:14:42.760 And here's one more.

00:14:44.340 This was in response

00:14:45.400 to a post complaining

00:14:46.440 about Sean Duffy,

00:14:47.420 the transportation secretary.

00:14:49.580 And it says,

00:14:50.460 quote,

00:14:51.300 whenever he flies,

00:14:52.200 just delay his takeoffs

00:14:53.340 and landings.

00:14:54.080 Easy peasy.

00:14:55.320 Ask him about the Congress

00:14:56.640 members on vacation

00:14:57.520 right now while he's

00:14:58.340 in the air.

00:14:59.060 When he answers correctly,

00:15:00.360 you'll allow his plane

00:15:01.340 to land.

00:15:01.860 So these are just

00:15:04.000 a few examples

00:15:04.660 of threats directed

00:15:05.480 at the president

00:15:06.040 and members of his cabinet,

00:15:07.500 all of which were highly upvoted

00:15:09.480 by the air traffic control

00:15:10.920 community on Reddit,

00:15:13.380 meaning they reflect

00:15:14.420 a common sentiment

00:15:15.540 in the community.

00:15:16.920 But there are many more

00:15:18.600 concerning posts

00:15:19.340 which suggest

00:15:20.200 that the broader

00:15:20.940 traveling public

00:15:21.860 is also in danger.

00:15:23.500 Here's one of them.

00:15:24.960 This was posted

00:15:25.500 just a few days ago.

00:15:27.820 Quote,

00:15:28.040 if a candidate starts

00:15:29.020 talking about healing

00:15:30.060 or letting Trump

00:15:31.040 administration officials go,

00:15:32.560 I'm intentionally voting

00:15:33.440 to keep this administration

00:15:34.620 in office

00:15:35.100 to speed run

00:15:36.060 the whole collapse.

00:15:37.460 I cannot abide

00:15:38.180 not arresting

00:15:39.080 and punishing

00:15:39.500 these corrupt Fs

00:15:40.640 to the maximum extent

00:15:41.920 of law.

00:15:42.680 I would rather

00:15:43.020 they just destroy

00:15:43.780 everything

00:15:44.200 than see these dorks

00:15:46.000 walk away scot-free

00:15:47.080 for the 15th time

00:15:48.040 in a row.

00:15:49.020 Seeing Levitt,

00:15:49.960 Noam,

00:15:50.660 Hegseth,

00:15:51.600 all these people

00:15:52.360 do perp walks,

00:15:53.600 that's the real healing

00:15:54.660 this country needs.

00:15:56.440 Again,

00:15:57.660 this is a popular post

00:15:58.640 in the online community

00:15:59.660 of air traffic controllers.

00:16:01.780 You have someone

00:16:02.480 clearly unhinged

00:16:04.340 talking about

00:16:05.440 speed running

00:16:06.720 the collapse

00:16:07.340 of the country.

00:16:08.660 He would rather

00:16:09.220 destroy everything

00:16:10.520 in his words

00:16:11.100 than live in a world

00:16:13.080 where Donald Trump

00:16:13.920 and his cabinet

00:16:14.500 aren't sent to prison.

00:16:16.980 And you could say,

00:16:17.660 well,

00:16:17.940 you got free speech

00:16:18.900 in this country,

00:16:19.360 you can say that

00:16:19.820 if you want,

00:16:20.220 and you can.

00:16:21.040 I mean,

00:16:21.260 legally,

00:16:22.020 you could say that.

00:16:23.940 But you just have

00:16:24.240 to ask yourself,

00:16:24.900 you're in the air.

00:16:26.000 If you knew for a fact

00:16:27.080 while you were in the air

00:16:28.680 and you were in a plane

00:16:30.060 that's landing,

00:16:31.660 if you knew for a fact

00:16:32.920 that the guy

00:16:33.680 who wants to see

00:16:34.880 the United States

00:16:36.140 collapse

00:16:36.840 and be destroyed

00:16:37.880 because he hates

00:16:39.440 Trump so much,

00:16:40.360 if you knew that

00:16:41.120 that was the guy

00:16:42.280 who was directing

00:16:43.740 your plane to land,

00:16:46.740 how would you feel

00:16:47.520 about that?

00:16:48.400 Is that the guy

00:16:48.780 you would want?

00:16:49.340 If you could choose,

00:16:50.220 would you choose

00:16:50.700 that guy?

00:16:53.160 I know I wouldn't.

00:16:55.260 Now,

00:16:55.660 of course,

00:16:55.900 if this guy

00:16:56.360 had said he voted

00:16:57.180 for Donald Trump,

00:16:57.880 his comment would

00:16:58.440 have been downvoted

00:16:59.160 into oblivion

00:16:59.940 if not censored entirely.

00:17:01.200 But because he's

00:17:01.780 talking about

00:17:02.400 destroying the U.S.,

00:17:03.860 he gets the exact

00:17:04.560 opposite response

00:17:06.620 among air traffic controllers.

00:17:07.660 He gets upvotes.

00:17:09.060 No moderator bans him

00:17:10.540 or removes the post

00:17:11.500 because this is

00:17:12.760 what they believe.

00:17:14.060 These are people

00:17:14.740 who shouldn't be allowed

00:17:15.500 to probably make

00:17:16.980 a sandwich,

00:17:17.620 but they're directing

00:17:18.240 planes full of

00:17:19.460 innocent passengers

00:17:20.420 every single day.

00:17:22.060 Now,

00:17:22.460 before we get into

00:17:22.980 more of these posts,

00:17:23.680 I should clarify

00:17:24.380 why these people

00:17:26.240 claim to be upset.

00:17:27.040 Obviously,

00:17:27.480 they're deranged

00:17:28.760 and their posts

00:17:29.400 are incoherent,

00:17:30.320 so there's no logic there,

00:17:31.600 but there was no universe

00:17:34.040 in which they'd support

00:17:34.860 Donald Trump

00:17:35.360 or accept the fact

00:17:36.160 that he's the president

00:17:36.840 without frothing at the mouth.

00:17:38.140 But if you ask them,

00:17:39.540 one of their biggest grievances

00:17:40.800 is that the Trump administration

00:17:42.420 just gave $10,000

00:17:44.380 to every controller

00:17:45.620 who didn't take

00:17:46.640 a single day off

00:17:47.620 during the government shutdown.

00:17:48.760 But in the end,

00:17:50.400 only a few hundred controllers

00:17:51.560 received the bonus

00:17:52.660 because the vast majority

00:17:54.360 of them

00:17:54.920 took pre-planned leave

00:17:57.100 or a sick day

00:17:57.940 or something like that.

00:17:59.780 Now,

00:18:01.280 if these government employees

00:18:02.200 were well-adjusted individuals

00:18:03.480 instead of extremely unpleasant

00:18:04.820 and entitled lunatics

00:18:06.160 with the emotional maturity

00:18:07.260 of small children,

00:18:08.580 this wouldn't bother them

00:18:09.440 in the slightest.

00:18:10.060 I mean,

00:18:10.180 the handout is a bonus.

00:18:11.980 It's compensation

00:18:12.620 that they had no reason

00:18:13.940 to expect in the first place.

00:18:15.300 It's a thank you

00:18:16.080 to the rare government employees

00:18:18.080 who managed to go a month,

00:18:19.560 yes,

00:18:19.740 an entire month

00:18:20.440 without pretending to be sick

00:18:22.580 or taking vacation.

00:18:24.160 In the government world,

00:18:25.340 that's an extraordinary achievement.

00:18:27.620 You came to work

00:18:28.640 every day for a month.

00:18:30.580 Wow.

00:18:32.120 It's almost unheard of

00:18:33.820 among government workers.

00:18:36.500 And so the ones who did that,

00:18:38.040 they got a nice little bonus.

00:18:40.520 But air traffic controllers

00:18:41.640 aren't willing to let this go.

00:18:42.860 They're demanding

00:18:43.360 that everybody gets

00:18:44.260 the $10,000 bonus.

00:18:45.420 And on top of that,

00:18:46.560 like angsty teenagers

00:18:47.600 that are also vowing

00:18:48.440 to get their revenge

00:18:49.280 on the administration

00:18:50.160 and on the air-traveling public.

00:18:52.060 For example,

00:18:52.520 here's one post

00:18:54.120 about a plan

00:18:54.660 to berate Sean Duffy.

00:18:57.680 How much trouble

00:18:58.520 would I get in

00:18:59.320 if I saw Duffy

00:19:00.040 on official time

00:19:00.980 and I told him,

00:19:01.860 F you,

00:19:02.340 we all hate you?

00:19:04.200 This post also has

00:19:04.980 dozens and dozens

00:19:05.720 of upvotes.

00:19:06.420 But the funny thing is,

00:19:07.380 if you read all the replies,

00:19:08.780 everyone is basically saying,

00:19:09.940 go for it.

00:19:11.220 You're not going to suffer

00:19:12.060 any consequences whatsoever.

00:19:13.920 How much trouble

00:19:14.640 will you be in?

00:19:15.420 None.

00:19:16.740 So here's one post

00:19:17.520 to give you an idea.

00:19:19.360 It says,

00:19:20.100 quote,

00:19:20.340 at Jacksonville

00:19:21.020 Air Traffic Control,

00:19:22.640 they'll pick good staffing days

00:19:24.440 to put you on suspension,

00:19:25.560 but then you'll work overtime

00:19:26.680 and basically get more

00:19:27.720 than your original salary

00:19:28.780 anyways.

00:19:29.940 One controller

00:19:30.540 got a week on the beach

00:19:31.680 for talking trash

00:19:32.820 to pilots,

00:19:33.440 while another

00:19:34.060 got a week on the beach

00:19:35.000 for stealing thousands

00:19:36.120 in overtime

00:19:36.600 before being caught.

00:19:37.600 We live in a clown world.

00:19:41.380 So in other words,

00:19:42.000 you know,

00:19:42.160 you can behave

00:19:42.720 extremely unprofessionally

00:19:43.640 as a controller

00:19:44.160 and actually come out ahead

00:19:45.900 of where you were before.

00:19:48.140 You can harass

00:19:48.860 your boss in public

00:19:49.600 and you'll suffer

00:19:50.300 no consequences whatsoever.

00:19:52.380 This is the culture

00:19:53.380 among government employees

00:19:54.380 who direct planes

00:19:55.320 for a living.

00:19:55.780 I mean,

00:19:55.900 it's the culture

00:19:56.300 among really all

00:19:57.220 government employees,

00:19:58.520 including these ones.

00:19:59.740 They openly celebrate

00:20:01.520 the most adolescent,

00:20:02.720 inane behavior imaginable,

00:20:03.880 and they do it

00:20:04.620 because they know

00:20:05.160 they'll get away with it.

00:20:06.200 There'll be no consequence.

00:20:08.000 So they're taking full advantage

00:20:09.200 of the opportunity.

00:20:10.120 And after all,

00:20:10.860 when you have adolescent,

00:20:13.000 inane people

00:20:13.480 in important jobs,

00:20:14.340 they can't resist

00:20:15.080 punishing innocent people

00:20:16.120 as a way of satisfying

00:20:17.180 their narcissism.

00:20:18.100 And that's why,

00:20:19.000 at the moment,

00:20:20.180 some of the most popular posts

00:20:21.280 on this subreddit

00:20:22.040 involve threats

00:20:23.100 of walking off the job

00:20:24.480 in January

00:20:25.060 when the next government

00:20:25.920 funding bill

00:20:26.500 is going to be debated.

00:20:27.700 Here's just one of those posts

00:20:29.340 of the very many.

00:20:30.780 Quote,

00:20:31.180 not feeling so well

00:20:31.980 in January,

00:20:32.820 wrote one user

00:20:33.480 in response

00:20:33.900 to a melodramatic post

00:20:35.520 accusing the Trump administration

00:20:36.540 of a $10,000 betrayal.

00:20:39.120 So here's a government worker

00:20:39.960 announcing that

00:20:40.840 he's going to take

00:20:41.640 fraudulent sick days

00:20:42.580 defrauding the taxpayer

00:20:43.700 and potentially

00:20:44.480 endangering the public

00:20:45.380 because he didn't get

00:20:46.960 an extra $10,000 check

00:20:48.320 that he was never entitled

00:20:49.700 to receive in the first place.

00:20:51.400 There are about

00:20:51.740 a thousand posts like this.

00:20:52.960 It's very common.

00:20:53.860 Here's another one

00:20:54.540 with nearly 100 upvotes

00:20:55.720 in which a controller

00:20:56.480 responds to a post

00:20:57.360 by Trump on Truth Social

00:20:58.360 by saying

00:20:58.820 he's going to take

00:20:59.640 more sick days

00:21:00.400 to infuriate Trump.

00:21:02.700 Quote,

00:21:03.960 if I knew I was personally

00:21:05.080 in the thoughts

00:21:06.160 of that dip,

00:21:06.860 I would have

00:21:07.540 banged more.

00:21:10.220 Meaning more sick days,

00:21:11.260 I think.

00:21:11.740 What he's talking about,

00:21:12.540 banging.

00:21:13.620 You want to bang sick days?

00:21:15.840 Maybe that's

00:21:16.420 air traffic controller

00:21:17.220 lingo.

00:21:17.740 I don't know.

00:21:18.260 Then there's this very

00:21:19.180 popular post

00:21:20.100 from a couple of weeks ago.

00:21:21.020 It's in response

00:21:21.620 to the news

00:21:22.040 that an air traffic controller

00:21:23.040 had recently committed suicide.

00:21:25.640 It says,

00:21:26.340 quote,

00:21:26.400 between the shutdown snap

00:21:27.820 and firing the feds,

00:21:29.520 Trump has killed

00:21:30.160 a lot of Americans.

00:21:31.160 One of the most

00:21:31.880 popular responses

00:21:32.840 to that post

00:21:33.480 was this,

00:21:34.000 quote,

00:21:34.520 Trump killed a quarter

00:21:35.300 of a million

00:21:35.820 during COVID too.

00:21:38.340 Now,

00:21:38.480 to put this in context,

00:21:41.120 you know,

00:21:41.400 that's just kind of

00:21:42.000 standard lefty

00:21:42.800 talking points there.

00:21:45.260 But to put this

00:21:45.640 in context,

00:21:46.560 remember when we learned

00:21:47.600 that the FBI agents

00:21:49.200 were texting one another

00:21:50.220 about how to stop

00:21:51.380 Donald Trump

00:21:51.960 from winning

00:21:52.440 the 2016 election?

00:21:53.560 They were doing

00:21:55.320 that in private

00:21:55.880 because they knew

00:21:56.580 it'd be a national scandal

00:21:57.720 if anyone found out

00:21:58.660 about it.

00:21:59.300 And then indeed,

00:21:59.820 when people did find out,

00:22:01.080 the agents were terminated.

00:22:02.400 It was a scandal.

00:22:03.620 Congress had hearings.

00:22:05.280 Ultimately,

00:22:05.700 the FBI was gutted

00:22:06.760 from the top down.

00:22:08.720 And that's what really

00:22:09.560 needs to happen

00:22:10.080 to air traffic control

00:22:10.960 in this country.

00:22:12.460 Gut it,

00:22:13.000 privatize it,

00:22:14.640 bring in some accountability.

00:22:16.820 You know,

00:22:17.000 we've talked about this

00:22:17.640 in the past.

00:22:18.340 Air traffic control

00:22:18.960 can be privatized.

00:22:19.800 It is in many countries.

00:22:21.500 Hire people

00:22:22.000 who aren't deranged.

00:22:24.040 Anything would be

00:22:24.620 an improvement

00:22:25.080 over the current arrangement.

00:22:27.900 And we have to act quickly here

00:22:29.280 because if you look

00:22:30.140 deeper in this forum,

00:22:31.500 you'll find that

00:22:32.300 in various posts,

00:22:33.460 certain agitators

00:22:34.280 appear to be encouraging

00:22:35.380 posters to take

00:22:36.560 more drastic action.

00:22:39.000 Here's one example.

00:22:40.780 Quote,

00:22:41.560 There's a difference

00:22:42.700 in staying silent

00:22:43.600 and doing something.

00:22:44.700 The fact you think

00:22:46.180 you and most people here

00:22:47.340 are doing something

00:22:48.160 more than commenting

00:22:49.140 and hoping it will change

00:22:50.320 is what is most bothersome.

00:22:52.280 It's like Paul Revere

00:22:53.160 yelling from the window

00:22:54.480 about the midnight ride.

00:22:56.120 Look at history,

00:22:56.940 see what actions

00:22:57.560 have actually caused change,

00:22:59.460 and there's your blueprint.

00:23:01.220 I think it's pretty

00:23:01.780 black and white.

00:23:02.780 When you guys are trying

00:23:03.600 to reinvent the wheel,

00:23:04.780 I'll never understand.

00:23:06.940 In a separate post,

00:23:07.680 this same person writes,

00:23:08.600 quote,

00:23:09.840 The fact that you think

00:23:10.860 a strike is the only way

00:23:12.280 to get what you want

00:23:13.040 just proves that

00:23:13.900 you won't ever get anything.

00:23:15.320 And then when somebody

00:23:16.020 points out that he's being

00:23:17.020 conspicuously vague

00:23:18.500 about his proposed solution,

00:23:20.680 he responds with this,

00:23:22.320 quote,

00:23:23.620 There's nothing vague about it.

00:23:25.560 Your inability

00:23:26.060 to comprehend the issue

00:23:27.180 and subsequently

00:23:27.900 the solution

00:23:29.100 isn't because of a lack

00:23:30.340 of clarification

00:23:30.940 on my part.

00:23:33.360 Now, again,

00:23:34.040 all that is vague.

00:23:34.880 You could say,

00:23:35.280 well, you know,

00:23:36.740 he's talking about

00:23:37.520 protesting or something.

00:23:39.680 And in the context

00:23:40.360 of a subreddit

00:23:41.120 where traffic controllers

00:23:41.900 are openly planning

00:23:42.840 to berate the

00:23:43.820 Secretary of Transportation,

00:23:45.240 crash Air Force One,

00:23:46.320 and skip work in January,

00:23:47.560 this kind of post is

00:23:48.440 more than a little ominous.

00:23:50.600 And there's an awful lot

00:23:51.500 of posts like this

00:23:52.340 on these forums.

00:23:55.120 And it's very reminiscent

00:23:56.180 of the mysterious guy

00:23:57.880 with ties to

00:23:58.700 foreign intelligence agencies

00:23:59.700 who kept talking

00:24:00.540 to Thomas Crooks

00:24:01.340 on YouTube

00:24:01.820 and encouraged him

00:24:03.820 to go to war,

00:24:04.780 right,

00:24:05.720 before he ultimately

00:24:06.460 shot Donald Trump

00:24:07.400 in the head,

00:24:08.080 in Butler.

00:24:09.340 It was the same kind of thing.

00:24:10.760 Oh, you're just talking.

00:24:11.840 Like, when are you

00:24:12.260 going to do something?

00:24:14.100 Same sort of thing.

00:24:14.920 Now, the entire

00:24:17.200 ATC subreddit

00:24:18.500 is a cesspool,

00:24:19.460 but it's also a cesspool

00:24:20.340 that the federal government

00:24:21.220 should be paying attention to.

00:24:23.640 And that said,

00:24:24.300 there was one good sign

00:24:25.100 that I came across

00:24:25.900 in this entire forum.

00:24:27.580 One post was

00:24:28.200 moderately reassuring.

00:24:30.600 And it's a post

00:24:31.500 that suggests

00:24:32.120 that Secret Service

00:24:33.140 is aware of threats

00:24:34.560 that controllers may pose

00:24:35.640 to the president.

00:24:37.220 Here's what it says,

00:24:38.120 quote,

00:24:38.480 The one time President Biden

00:24:39.720 came to my airport,

00:24:40.520 a Secret Service guy

00:24:41.260 showed up 30 minutes

00:24:42.220 to one hour ahead of time,

00:24:43.280 basically monitors you

00:24:44.940 and monitor you

00:24:47.000 and control Air Force One.

00:24:48.120 In this case,

00:24:48.880 it was actually Marine One.

00:24:50.400 And we sterilized

00:24:51.400 our airspace.

00:24:52.580 So if anything,

00:24:53.260 it makes our workload easier

00:24:54.700 so we don't have

00:24:55.300 to do anything else

00:24:56.260 except clear them to land

00:24:57.960 and had zero other aircraft

00:24:59.620 to worry about.

00:25:01.400 Now it's one level

00:25:02.360 of defense

00:25:02.880 against these people,

00:25:03.760 which is obviously

00:25:04.200 a very necessary precaution.

00:25:05.920 You could put an agent

00:25:06.680 in the tower,

00:25:07.420 make sure they don't

00:25:08.120 kamikaze a plane

00:25:09.100 into Air Force One.

00:25:09.960 But the Trump administration

00:25:11.760 should go much further.

00:25:14.160 I mean,

00:25:14.300 there's more than enough

00:25:15.340 reason at this point

00:25:16.240 to investigate the people

00:25:17.980 posting these comments

00:25:19.600 and threats

00:25:20.120 and deranged statements

00:25:21.200 on the Air Traffic

00:25:22.460 Control Forum,

00:25:23.500 start a federal investigation

00:25:24.740 and subpoena Reddit

00:25:25.800 for the IP addresses

00:25:26.940 of anyone

00:25:28.540 who's pledged

00:25:29.420 to commit a crime,

00:25:30.120 including calling in sick

00:25:31.340 fraudulently,

00:25:32.040 that's a crime,

00:25:33.120 or targeting Air Force One.

00:25:35.680 You simply cannot allow

00:25:37.620 government employees

00:25:39.060 to openly plot

00:25:41.600 acts of terrorism

00:25:42.540 or any federal crime.

00:25:45.100 But that's the state

00:25:46.240 of air traffic control

00:25:47.280 in this country,

00:25:48.740 and it's been that way

00:25:49.300 for some time.

00:25:50.620 Two years ago,

00:25:51.240 for example,

00:25:51.680 the New York Times

00:25:52.200 reported that air traffic

00:25:53.160 controllers were routinely

00:25:54.260 showing up to work

00:25:55.140 while drunk or high.

00:25:57.200 Quote,

00:25:57.520 one air traffic controller

00:25:58.460 went into work

00:25:59.220 drunk this summer

00:26:00.080 and joked about

00:26:00.820 making big money buzzed.

00:26:03.260 Another routinely smoked

00:26:04.300 marijuana during breaks.

00:26:05.540 A third employee

00:26:06.160 threatened violence

00:26:07.140 and then aggressively

00:26:08.000 pushed a colleague

00:26:09.020 who was directing airplanes.

00:26:11.060 In the past two years,

00:26:11.800 air traffic controllers

00:26:12.500 and others have submitted

00:26:13.580 hundreds of complaints

00:26:14.580 to a Federal Aviation

00:26:16.220 Administration hotline

00:26:17.080 describing issues

00:26:17.880 like dangerous

00:26:18.840 staffing shortages,

00:26:19.960 mental health problems,

00:26:21.380 and deteriorating buildings,

00:26:22.900 some infested by bugs

00:26:24.200 and black mold.

00:26:25.500 There were at least

00:26:25.940 seven reports

00:26:26.620 of controllers sleeping

00:26:27.620 when they were on duty

00:26:28.740 and five about employees

00:26:30.140 working while under

00:26:31.040 the influence of alcohol

00:26:31.920 or drugs.

00:26:32.920 In the fiscal year

00:26:33.600 that ended September 30th,

00:26:35.320 there were 503

00:26:36.340 air traffic control lapses

00:26:37.920 that the FAA

00:26:38.480 preliminarily categorized

00:26:40.680 as significant,

00:26:42.280 65% more

00:26:43.640 than in the prior year.

00:26:46.380 So this has been going on

00:26:47.320 for a while.

00:26:49.060 And to be clear,

00:26:49.640 most of these controllers

00:26:50.460 were not fired.

00:26:52.620 That's how it works

00:26:53.400 in government jobs.

00:26:54.520 Another reason why

00:26:55.260 we should privatize.

00:26:56.480 That's how low

00:26:57.220 the standards are.

00:26:58.260 And that's how powerful

00:26:59.280 the union is.

00:27:01.380 You can come to work

00:27:02.220 drunk as an air traffic controller

00:27:03.660 and you might not

00:27:04.660 even be fired.

00:27:06.900 When in reality,

00:27:07.920 of course,

00:27:08.140 you should be fired

00:27:08.820 and then put in prison

00:27:09.660 for a long time.

00:27:11.820 Now, you can debate

00:27:12.760 whether or not

00:27:13.600 these controllers

00:27:14.360 are overworked

00:27:15.380 or underpaid.

00:27:16.280 Privatizing the entire system

00:27:17.340 would address

00:27:17.900 all these issues

00:27:18.640 and allow the market

00:27:20.180 to correct for them.

00:27:21.340 But, you know,

00:27:21.700 the controllers

00:27:22.120 don't want that either

00:27:23.040 because there'd be

00:27:24.660 more accountability

00:27:25.260 and they don't want that.

00:27:26.840 But really,

00:27:27.420 the question of whether

00:27:28.240 these controllers

00:27:28.860 are overworked

00:27:29.840 isn't relevant.

00:27:30.340 The most relevant question

00:27:31.860 is whether we're hiring

00:27:33.780 good people

00:27:35.280 who are mentally competent.

00:27:38.620 And based on what I found,

00:27:41.400 there's very good reason

00:27:42.200 to suspect

00:27:42.600 that we're not doing that.

00:27:44.880 Or at least we are failing

00:27:46.100 to do that

00:27:46.620 a significant number

00:27:47.580 of times.

00:27:49.460 Now, Reddit,

00:27:49.960 as we've discussed

00:27:50.460 so many times,

00:27:51.100 is a breeding ground

00:27:51.920 for domestic terrorism.

00:27:53.260 And in this case,

00:27:54.140 the threat couldn't be

00:27:54.900 any more apparent

00:27:55.620 or more urgent.

00:27:57.020 When Americans

00:27:57.840 board a plane,

00:27:58.720 they should have

00:27:59.180 some assurance

00:28:00.020 that the person

00:28:00.740 guiding that plane

00:28:01.840 doesn't hate the country

00:28:03.660 or, you know,

00:28:05.540 want to see the country

00:28:06.360 collapse

00:28:06.900 or want to murder

00:28:08.340 hundreds of people

00:28:09.120 despite Donald Trump.

00:28:11.360 Sean Duffy

00:28:12.160 and the Trump administration

00:28:13.040 at large

00:28:13.520 need to provide

00:28:14.240 that assurance.

00:28:16.860 And they need

00:28:17.700 to do it quickly

00:28:18.240 before any of these

00:28:20.400 air traffic controllers

00:28:21.160 manage to act out

00:28:22.140 their fantasies

00:28:22.880 and hurt a lot

00:28:24.780 of innocent Americans

00:28:25.600 in the process.

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00:30:33.860 Republicans will hold on

00:30:34.840 to a GOP-controlled

00:30:36.020 vacant

00:30:36.640 congressional seat

00:30:38.100 in Ruby Red, Tennessee

00:30:39.020 after winning

00:30:40.100 a hotly contested

00:30:41.000 special election

00:30:41.600 that grabbed

00:30:42.060 plenty of national attention.

00:30:44.300 Republican nominee

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00:30:45.960 on Tuesday

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00:30:49.000 according to the

00:30:50.580 Associated Press

00:30:51.400 in the high-stakes race

00:30:53.220 to succeed

00:30:54.720 former GOP

00:30:55.520 representative Mark Green.

00:30:58.320 Van Epps

00:30:58.980 said in a statement

00:30:59.520 this race was bigger

00:31:00.260 than just one campaign

00:31:01.060 that represented

00:31:01.460 a defining moment

00:31:02.440 for Tennessee

00:31:02.980 and for the direction

00:31:04.860 of the country.

00:31:06.380 President Donald Trump

00:31:07.060 carried the 7th

00:31:08.060 congressional district

00:31:09.080 by 22 points

00:31:10.800 in last year's

00:31:11.600 presidential election

00:31:12.300 and Green won it

00:31:13.240 by 20 points

00:31:14.340 in 2022

00:31:15.160 2022 and 2024.

00:31:17.820 And it looks like

00:31:18.540 this was

00:31:19.080 Van Epps

00:31:19.760 just won by

00:31:20.760 about a 9-point victory.

00:31:22.540 A little bit less

00:31:23.040 than 9 points.

00:31:25.240 So Afton Bain,

00:31:26.640 the lunatic feminist

00:31:28.580 who openly hates

00:31:29.700 the city

00:31:30.180 that she wants

00:31:30.860 to represent,

00:31:32.180 wants to burn down

00:31:33.100 police stations,

00:31:34.380 loves to kill babies,

00:31:36.220 she lost.

00:31:38.860 Okay.

00:31:40.160 Lost by 9 points

00:31:41.600 which is a comfortable

00:31:43.300 victory to be sure.

00:31:45.180 You know,

00:31:45.460 we wouldn't say

00:31:46.620 that he squeaked out

00:31:47.700 a win like Van Epps

00:31:48.720 didn't exactly,

00:31:49.480 it wasn't

00:31:49.920 wasn't exactly

00:31:51.500 a nail-biter

00:31:52.240 but 9 points

00:31:54.020 is not a landslide.

00:31:55.320 9 points is

00:31:56.260 as we just

00:31:57.000 saw there

00:31:58.180 is less than half

00:31:59.280 of Trump's

00:32:00.120 margin of victory

00:32:01.100 in the same district

00:32:02.440 right?

00:32:03.960 A year ago

00:32:04.560 it's less than half

00:32:07.080 of Mike Green's

00:32:07.780 victory

00:32:08.120 in the same district

00:32:09.180 last year.

00:32:12.800 So,

00:32:13.760 you know,

00:32:15.740 when you look

00:32:17.620 at it objectively

00:32:18.460 if this district

00:32:19.640 had,

00:32:20.540 if this district

00:32:21.220 went to Republicans

00:32:22.520 by 20-plus points

00:32:24.420 recently,

00:32:25.160 which it did,

00:32:26.460 then it should

00:32:27.280 have gone Republican

00:32:28.020 by like 40 points

00:32:29.480 yesterday.

00:32:31.940 Okay,

00:32:32.180 that's,

00:32:32.580 looking at it

00:32:33.280 objectively,

00:32:33.940 that's what

00:32:34.260 should have

00:32:34.680 happened.

00:32:36.280 When you consider

00:32:37.180 who this woman

00:32:37.900 is,

00:32:39.400 I mean,

00:32:39.700 this is a

00:32:40.160 far-left extremist.

00:32:42.020 Even by

00:32:42.620 modern Democrat

00:32:44.520 standards,

00:32:45.320 this is

00:32:45.820 far-left.

00:32:47.320 Far to the left

00:32:48.180 on every issue.

00:32:48.940 She is like

00:32:49.380 20-20 levels

00:32:51.000 of woke

00:32:51.680 in 2025.

00:32:54.320 And on top of that,

00:32:54.960 she's viscerally

00:32:55.720 unappealing.

00:32:56.560 I mean,

00:32:56.780 she's shrill,

00:32:57.640 tedious,

00:32:58.400 annoying,

00:32:59.820 hates the city,

00:33:01.000 hates most of the

00:33:01.720 people in the city.

00:33:02.680 Right?

00:33:05.100 I mean,

00:33:05.300 she wants to

00:33:06.040 represent the city,

00:33:07.700 not just the city,

00:33:08.700 but she wants to

00:33:09.100 represent Nashville.

00:33:10.240 And she's on the

00:33:11.160 record saying,

00:33:11.780 I hate this city.

00:33:12.940 I hate it.

00:33:14.700 And she basically

00:33:16.020 checks every box

00:33:17.120 for the sort of

00:33:17.720 person that the

00:33:18.480 voters in Tennessee

00:33:19.160 don't want.

00:33:21.820 She's like,

00:33:22.500 if you created

00:33:22.980 the perfect candidate

00:33:23.960 in a laboratory

00:33:25.000 and then took

00:33:26.680 that candidate

00:33:27.280 to a different

00:33:28.120 laboratory and

00:33:29.000 said,

00:33:29.620 make the opposite

00:33:30.420 of this candidate,

00:33:31.620 then that's

00:33:32.260 what they would

00:33:33.000 create.

00:33:35.360 And yet,

00:33:35.720 she did like

00:33:36.180 13 points better

00:33:37.300 than Kamala Harris,

00:33:39.280 who's also

00:33:40.180 a terrible candidate.

00:33:42.160 She did 11 points

00:33:43.360 better than the

00:33:43.840 last Democrat

00:33:44.360 to run for Congress

00:33:45.120 here.

00:33:46.840 So that's a bad

00:33:47.960 sign for Republicans.

00:33:49.940 You know,

00:33:50.080 that statement

00:33:50.540 from Matt Van Epps

00:33:51.220 saying,

00:33:51.520 this is a statement

00:33:52.480 victory.

00:33:53.080 You know,

00:33:53.260 this is a sign

00:33:53.980 of things to come.

00:33:55.480 I think he meant

00:33:56.220 that in a good way,

00:33:57.100 but he's right,

00:33:58.420 but in the opposite

00:33:59.200 way.

00:34:00.780 Like,

00:34:01.020 it is a statement

00:34:01.800 and it's a bad

00:34:02.400 statement.

00:34:03.740 Now,

00:34:04.140 it's not going

00:34:04.500 to be seen

00:34:04.960 as any kind

00:34:05.440 of catastrophe

00:34:05.960 for Republicans

00:34:06.940 because the

00:34:07.300 Republican won,

00:34:08.120 but I think

00:34:09.220 it is kind

00:34:09.820 of catastrophic.

00:34:12.420 I mean,

00:34:12.680 it's like,

00:34:12.980 imagine that you

00:34:13.700 ran for Congress

00:34:16.000 against a deer

00:34:18.960 tick.

00:34:20.140 It's like if you

00:34:20.840 ran for Congress

00:34:21.620 against a tapeworm

00:34:22.780 and won by

00:34:24.400 nine points.

00:34:27.240 Okay,

00:34:27.520 how would that

00:34:28.560 make you feel?

00:34:29.960 How much would

00:34:30.700 you be able

00:34:31.020 to celebrate

00:34:31.540 the victory?

00:34:33.720 Okay,

00:34:34.000 you run for Congress

00:34:35.660 against head lice

00:34:36.820 and you get a

00:34:38.180 single-digit victory.

00:34:41.300 That's like the

00:34:42.040 most demoralizing

00:34:43.420 kind of victory

00:34:44.260 imaginable.

00:34:46.080 Okay,

00:34:46.300 you ran for,

00:34:47.080 your opponent

00:34:49.860 was a giant

00:34:50.680 pile of cow dung

00:34:51.880 and the cow dung

00:34:53.660 won 41%

00:34:54.760 of the vote.

00:34:57.580 Right?

00:35:00.140 42%.

00:35:00.620 I mean,

00:35:00.920 that's what we're

00:35:01.700 talking about.

00:35:03.280 So,

00:35:04.860 Republicans have

00:35:06.840 big problems.

00:35:08.220 You know,

00:35:08.460 and in some ways

00:35:09.600 that was inevitable.

00:35:10.700 I mean,

00:35:10.880 this is the pattern,

00:35:11.780 right?

00:35:12.060 The party in power

00:35:12.880 gets annihilated

00:35:13.680 in the midterms.

00:35:14.380 We've seen this happen

00:35:15.160 time and time again.

00:35:17.060 We've grown accustomed

00:35:18.040 to this pattern.

00:35:18.940 It's expected,

00:35:19.740 but it shouldn't

00:35:20.320 be this way.

00:35:22.380 It hasn't always

00:35:23.960 been this way.

00:35:24.520 It doesn't have

00:35:25.020 to be this way.

00:35:27.040 This is the way

00:35:27.840 it is now

00:35:28.320 because Congress

00:35:29.000 is full of

00:35:29.760 unserious people

00:35:30.800 who don't even

00:35:32.680 try to solve

00:35:33.660 the problems

00:35:34.260 that Americans

00:35:35.100 actually face.

00:35:36.340 They don't really

00:35:37.300 even try to do

00:35:38.440 anything to improve

00:35:39.580 the lives

00:35:40.180 of American citizens,

00:35:41.340 which is their

00:35:42.480 whole job.

00:35:44.280 Right?

00:35:44.480 And so,

00:35:45.160 the voters

00:35:47.060 just vacillate

00:35:48.120 wildly between

00:35:48.940 the two

00:35:49.360 from disappointment

00:35:51.260 to disappointment.

00:35:52.080 That's what

00:35:52.500 ends up happening.

00:35:54.440 And so,

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00:36:49.340 Donald Trump

00:36:50.080 yesterday

00:36:51.320 had quite a few

00:36:52.660 things to say

00:36:53.220 about Somalians

00:36:54.760 in America,

00:36:56.220 an issue that

00:36:56.740 obviously we've been

00:36:57.440 following closely,

00:36:58.540 talking about

00:36:58.940 quite a lot.

00:37:00.500 And Trump

00:37:01.160 is now

00:37:01.700 clued into it

00:37:02.860 and this is

00:37:04.440 what he had

00:37:04.880 to say

00:37:05.200 on the topic.

00:37:05.860 Listen.

00:37:06.520 And they contribute

00:37:07.360 nothing.

00:37:08.920 The welfare

00:37:09.440 is like 88%.

00:37:10.820 They contribute

00:37:12.360 nothing.

00:37:14.040 I don't want

00:37:14.740 them in our country,

00:37:15.540 I'll be honest

00:37:16.080 with you.

00:37:16.720 Somebody would say,

00:37:17.400 oh, that's not

00:37:17.980 politically correct.

00:37:18.920 I don't care.

00:37:19.940 I don't want

00:37:20.560 them in our country.

00:37:21.420 Their country

00:37:21.900 is no good

00:37:22.420 for a reason.

00:37:23.860 Their country

00:37:24.380 stinks

00:37:24.920 and we don't

00:37:26.340 want them

00:37:26.660 in our country.

00:37:27.380 I can say that

00:37:28.040 about other

00:37:28.500 countries too.

00:37:30.000 I can say it

00:37:30.820 about other

00:37:31.300 countries too.

00:37:32.160 We don't want

00:37:32.720 them to help.

00:37:33.240 We got to,

00:37:34.000 we have to

00:37:34.640 rebuild our country.

00:37:36.220 You know,

00:37:36.460 our country

00:37:36.860 is at a tipping

00:37:37.520 point.

00:37:38.760 We could go bad.

00:37:39.920 We're at a tipping

00:37:40.540 point.

00:37:41.340 I don't know

00:37:41.720 if people mind

00:37:42.380 me saying that,

00:37:43.140 but I'm saying

00:37:43.720 it.

00:37:44.620 We could go

00:37:45.420 one way

00:37:45.840 or the other

00:37:46.320 and we're

00:37:48.320 going to go

00:37:48.620 the wrong way

00:37:49.220 if we keep

00:37:49.660 taking garbage

00:37:50.580 into our country.

00:37:52.560 Ilan Omar

00:37:53.460 is garbage.

00:37:54.560 She's garbage.

00:37:55.840 Her friends

00:37:56.320 are garbage.

00:37:57.720 These aren't

00:37:58.060 people that work.

00:37:58.940 These aren't

00:37:59.280 people that say,

00:38:00.020 let's go,

00:38:00.480 come on,

00:38:00.840 let's make

00:38:01.220 this place great.

00:38:02.000 These are people

00:38:03.020 that do nothing

00:38:03.720 but complain.

00:38:05.460 They complain.

00:38:06.960 And from where

00:38:07.720 they came from,

00:38:08.840 they got nothing.

00:38:10.680 You know,

00:38:11.080 they came from

00:38:11.800 paradise and they

00:38:12.940 said,

00:38:13.260 this isn't paradise.

00:38:14.820 But when they

00:38:15.500 come from hell

00:38:16.360 and they complain

00:38:18.620 and do nothing

00:38:20.120 but bitch,

00:38:22.060 we don't want

00:38:22.860 them in our country.

00:38:24.120 Let them go back

00:38:25.060 to where they came

00:38:26.200 from and fix it.

00:38:27.300 Thank you.

00:38:28.140 Thank you very

00:38:30.360 much.

00:38:34.680 Thank you.

00:38:35.480 Thank you guys.

00:38:36.660 Thank you guys.

00:38:37.480 Thank you guys.

00:38:39.520 Thank you guys.

00:38:39.940 Thank you guys.

00:38:41.780 Thank you guys.

00:38:42.760 Thank you.

00:38:43.300 You know,

00:38:43.860 I got to say,

00:38:44.980 I agree with Trump

00:38:45.780 on a lot of stuff,

00:38:46.680 but watching that clip,

00:38:48.480 that was,

00:38:50.180 it was a little

00:38:50.700 too far.

00:38:51.560 That was really

00:38:52.220 offensive to the

00:38:52.960 people of Somalia.

00:38:54.080 really uncharitable.

00:38:57.980 Got to call it

00:38:58.600 like I see it.

00:38:59.100 I think it was

00:38:59.400 uncharitable and

00:38:59.940 I think it was

00:39:00.180 offensive.

00:39:02.500 No,

00:39:02.860 I'm kidding.

00:39:03.160 Obviously,

00:39:03.440 that was great.

00:39:04.080 I couldn't agree

00:39:05.180 more.

00:39:05.980 Well said,

00:39:06.700 very well put.

00:39:09.080 Lays out the case.

00:39:11.280 Somalis don't really

00:39:11.900 contribute anything.

00:39:12.640 Majority of them

00:39:13.020 are on welfare.

00:39:14.200 They scam us.

00:39:15.000 They defraud us.

00:39:15.660 I mean,

00:39:16.420 that's all a fact.

00:39:18.160 Like,

00:39:18.460 that's what's

00:39:19.380 happening.

00:39:20.200 It doesn't matter

00:39:20.880 how you feel about it.

00:39:22.140 That's what's

00:39:22.600 happening.

00:39:24.080 And they don't

00:39:25.160 even say thank you.

00:39:27.460 So why do we have

00:39:28.360 them here?

00:39:28.680 What do we get out

00:39:29.260 of it?

00:39:29.520 What's the benefit

00:39:30.140 to America?

00:39:30.700 That's the question

00:39:31.160 Trump is asking.

00:39:32.420 And you'll notice

00:39:33.020 that lots of people

00:39:33.880 will be very angry

00:39:35.300 at Trump for

00:39:36.040 saying this.

00:39:37.900 Lots of people

00:39:38.540 are angry.

00:39:40.220 But none of them,

00:39:42.740 okay,

00:39:43.040 no one will

00:39:43.860 actually dispute

00:39:44.980 the point.

00:39:47.800 Okay,

00:39:48.340 he made a pretty

00:39:49.140 stark claim.

00:39:50.680 He said,

00:39:52.020 and it's a claim

00:39:53.100 that we've made

00:39:53.540 on this show

00:39:53.920 a million times.

00:39:55.420 He claims

00:39:56.140 that Somalians

00:39:57.140 contribute nothing.

00:39:58.900 I mean,

00:39:59.100 that is quite a thing

00:40:00.940 to say

00:40:01.340 about a whole

00:40:02.720 group of people.

00:40:04.940 Right?

00:40:05.480 It is.

00:40:06.520 And it's the kind

00:40:07.060 of thing that

00:40:07.600 if it weren't true,

00:40:08.900 then his critics

00:40:10.500 will be rushing

00:40:11.160 in to disprove it.

00:40:12.520 If that was like

00:40:13.260 an absurd thing

00:40:14.040 to say,

00:40:14.340 if it was just

00:40:14.680 absurd bigotry,

00:40:16.380 then his critics

00:40:18.160 will be saying,

00:40:18.780 what are you talking

00:40:19.280 about?

00:40:19.520 They don't contribute

00:40:20.040 anything.

00:40:20.400 So it's like,

00:40:22.320 if somebody said,

00:40:23.620 if someone said,

00:40:24.760 and this is the kind

00:40:25.320 of thing that the

00:40:25.980 left-wing race

00:40:26.740 hustlers will try

00:40:27.740 to say on occasion,

00:40:30.660 if they say,

00:40:31.420 if someone said,

00:40:32.160 you know,

00:40:32.880 white people

00:40:33.880 of European descent

00:40:35.200 have contributed

00:40:36.620 nothing to this

00:40:37.500 country,

00:40:38.400 if somebody said

00:40:40.220 that,

00:40:41.020 my first response,

00:40:42.840 your first response,

00:40:43.860 would not be to say,

00:40:45.200 oh,

00:40:45.400 that's offensive,

00:40:46.120 that's unkind,

00:40:47.040 that's uncharitable.

00:40:49.520 No,

00:40:49.960 our response would be,

00:40:50.920 what?

00:40:51.800 Wait,

00:40:52.300 you moron.

00:40:53.320 Here's a list

00:40:54.060 of 5,000 things

00:40:55.700 that whites

00:40:56.400 of European descent

00:40:57.300 have contributed

00:40:57.880 to America,

00:40:58.560 okay?

00:40:59.080 Here's a list

00:40:59.720 of 5,000.

00:41:00.840 You need more

00:41:01.380 because I can give

00:41:01.980 it to you.

00:41:03.400 And that would be

00:41:05.460 the response,

00:41:06.200 right?

00:41:07.400 Nobody is doing

00:41:08.120 that with Somalians.

00:41:09.200 Have you noticed

00:41:09.520 that?

00:41:09.960 No one is saying,

00:41:10.820 what are you talking

00:41:11.360 about?

00:41:11.620 I can list a million

00:41:12.340 things that Somalians

00:41:13.180 have contributed.

00:41:14.020 What are you,

00:41:14.720 crazy?

00:41:15.000 You know,

00:41:17.180 this is nothing

00:41:17.820 but ridiculous bigotry,

00:41:20.020 anti-Somali bigotry.

00:41:24.120 Here's a list.

00:41:25.780 Here,

00:41:26.260 I'll tell you exactly

00:41:27.200 what.

00:41:27.880 No one's doing that.

00:41:30.820 Because if you say that,

00:41:32.440 then the response

00:41:33.160 is going to be,

00:41:33.680 oh,

00:41:33.860 really?

00:41:34.320 You can list them?

00:41:35.600 Go ahead.

00:41:37.920 Oh,

00:41:38.360 you actually want me

00:41:38.860 to provide the list

00:41:39.700 of Somalian contributions?

00:41:41.420 Sure.

00:41:44.440 Okay,

00:41:44.840 well,

00:41:47.640 I mean,

00:41:48.020 first,

00:41:48.440 there was the,

00:41:50.300 you know,

00:41:50.620 you're not,

00:41:51.540 you literally wouldn't,

00:41:52.600 it'd be a list

00:41:53.380 that it's,

00:41:54.460 with nothing on it.

00:41:56.520 Okay?

00:41:59.360 And it's a list,

00:42:00.680 just a giant blank space

00:42:02.540 would be the list

00:42:03.420 of Somalian contributions.

00:42:05.200 And that's just,

00:42:05.940 again,

00:42:06.220 that's just a fact.

00:42:08.700 Because mass migration

00:42:09.920 from Somalia has,

00:42:11.760 like,

00:42:12.080 it has nothing to do

00:42:14.120 with their contributions.

00:42:15.920 They're not really here

00:42:17.220 to contribute to us.

00:42:18.400 We brought them here

00:42:19.260 so we could contribute

00:42:20.860 to them.

00:42:22.240 Which is how

00:42:23.160 immigration has been

00:42:24.380 approached for many years

00:42:25.260 in this country.

00:42:25.820 It's totally backwards.

00:42:27.260 It's flipped on its head.

00:42:29.780 And,

00:42:30.280 but that's what we've been doing.

00:42:32.380 And it's not that we don't

00:42:33.200 want to help people,

00:42:34.340 right?

00:42:35.300 We're a generous country.

00:42:36.380 We're a Christian country.

00:42:37.440 We like to help people.

00:42:39.520 We will always help people.

00:42:42.400 I believe in helping people.

00:42:44.220 But charity should be done

00:42:45.780 through the free choice

00:42:47.140 of individuals.

00:42:49.800 That's,

00:42:50.460 that's the thing.

00:42:51.620 It's,

00:42:51.900 it's not charity.

00:42:53.420 Like,

00:42:54.100 by definition,

00:42:54.780 it's not charity

00:42:55.840 unless it is a choice

00:42:57.460 to do it.

00:42:59.980 And people would,

00:43:01.260 if you get a GoFundMe

00:43:02.600 together

00:43:03.000 to donate

00:43:03.800 to the people of Somalia,

00:43:06.260 in Somalia,

00:43:06.980 to help

00:43:08.340 feed them

00:43:09.100 or whatever,

00:43:10.400 if you got a church

00:43:12.020 group together

00:43:12.600 to go do that,

00:43:13.600 if you organized

00:43:14.200 a charity effort,

00:43:15.500 Americans would contribute

00:43:16.460 in droves,

00:43:17.140 and they have.

00:43:20.340 I mean,

00:43:21.820 how many,

00:43:22.220 like,

00:43:22.820 millions

00:43:23.480 of dollars

00:43:24.940 have Americans,

00:43:26.740 Americans,

00:43:27.400 Christians in particular,

00:43:29.200 contributed by choice

00:43:30.580 to impoverished places

00:43:32.980 in Africa,

00:43:33.780 for example?

00:43:36.280 You know,

00:43:36.780 who knows?

00:43:37.600 It's a lot of money.

00:43:40.060 And people will contribute.

00:43:41.300 Now,

00:43:41.980 I probably won't

00:43:43.160 because I like to help people

00:43:44.340 who are closer to home.

00:43:46.960 I'd rather help someone

00:43:48.080 struggling in America

00:43:49.060 than somebody in Somalia.

00:43:50.720 You can't help everybody.

00:43:52.280 So,

00:43:52.820 you got to make your choice.

00:43:53.940 And I think

00:43:54.600 I like to focus on people

00:43:56.000 closer to home.

00:43:56.700 But that's me.

00:43:57.360 That's my choice.

00:43:58.560 The point is that Americans,

00:43:59.820 as a whole,

00:44:00.560 are very charitable.

00:44:02.180 Like,

00:44:02.480 easily the most charitable people

00:44:03.900 who've ever lived

00:44:04.720 on the planet.

00:44:05.920 It's not even close.

00:44:08.700 Okay,

00:44:08.900 Americans,

00:44:09.640 there is no competition here.

00:44:14.560 It's really only

00:44:15.880 the predominantly

00:44:16.880 and historically

00:44:18.040 white countries

00:44:18.860 that have any interest

00:44:20.340 in extending

00:44:21.040 really any charity

00:44:22.440 towards people

00:44:23.140 who live on

00:44:23.760 the other side

00:44:24.480 of the globe

00:44:24.900 from them.

00:44:25.420 They're really not

00:44:27.420 doing that

00:44:27.900 in Asia

00:44:28.420 or Africa

00:44:29.180 or South America.

00:44:34.240 Even the people

00:44:35.040 in those parts

00:44:36.180 of the world

00:44:36.480 who have the means

00:44:37.140 to do it

00:44:37.560 aren't really doing that.

00:44:40.120 Not to the extent

00:44:40.920 that we do.

00:44:41.720 Not even close.

00:44:44.060 So,

00:44:44.540 the point is

00:44:44.920 we are charitable.

00:44:46.060 We like to help people.

00:44:47.420 But the help

00:44:48.080 should be done

00:44:48.640 by choice.

00:44:50.640 Charity is not charity

00:44:51.920 unless it is chosen.

00:44:53.240 When you're forced

00:44:55.900 to do it,

00:44:56.380 when you do it

00:44:57.360 at gunpoint,

00:44:58.000 that's not charity,

00:44:58.660 that's theft.

00:44:59.600 That's extortion.

00:45:02.040 That's a ransom demand.

00:45:05.360 And the even more

00:45:05.980 important point

00:45:06.640 is that,

00:45:08.400 and this is the thing

00:45:09.180 that I think

00:45:10.100 everyone needs

00:45:10.600 to pay close attention to,

00:45:12.260 although most people

00:45:12.840 listening to this show

00:45:13.420 will already know this,

00:45:14.100 but

00:45:14.320 citizenship

00:45:17.700 is not charity.

00:45:21.400 Okay,

00:45:21.700 citizenship

00:45:22.300 is not a soup kitchen.

00:45:25.620 Citizenship

00:45:26.380 is not a charity drive.

00:45:29.540 Citizenship

00:45:30.220 in America

00:45:30.720 is not

00:45:31.380 an entitlement.

00:45:33.320 Citizenship

00:45:33.920 is not a welfare program.

00:45:37.140 Okay,

00:45:37.840 we should not be

00:45:38.500 granting people

00:45:39.400 American citizenship

00:45:41.260 as a form of charity.

00:45:43.940 That we should not

00:45:45.260 be doing.

00:45:47.080 And it really

00:45:48.320 is that simple.

00:45:50.660 You can help people

00:45:51.740 all you want

00:45:52.300 through your own choice.

00:45:54.960 Not at gunpoint.

00:45:56.620 Not because your money

00:45:57.520 is taken from you

00:45:58.260 by the federal government

00:45:59.100 and given to

00:46:00.020 other countries

00:46:00.680 across the globe.

00:46:01.420 That's not

00:46:01.840 what it should be.

00:46:04.200 But through your own choice,

00:46:05.380 you can help whoever you want.

00:46:06.900 And most Americans will.

00:46:08.100 but we should not

00:46:11.840 be granting

00:46:12.340 citizenship

00:46:13.040 as a way of,

00:46:13.940 well,

00:46:14.080 just help them out.

00:46:17.200 That's not what

00:46:17.840 citizenship is.

00:46:18.680 And I think it really

00:46:23.660 is that simple.

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00:47:26.160 All right.

00:47:28.980 Fox 9 in Minnesota reports,

00:47:30.780 Minnesota's new

00:47:31.480 paid family

00:47:32.240 and medical leave law,

00:47:33.320 which allows up to

00:47:34.020 20 weeks of leave

00:47:34.900 and paid benefits,

00:47:35.820 will take effect

00:47:36.340 starting January 1st

00:47:38.020 of this coming year.

00:47:40.500 You can take paid leave

00:47:41.340 to care for yourself

00:47:42.220 during serious health conditions

00:47:43.420 like surgery,

00:47:44.240 injury,

00:47:44.560 chronic condition,

00:47:45.640 pregnancy,

00:47:46.040 and childbirth,

00:47:46.800 and other health needs

00:47:47.480 certified by your provider.

00:47:48.920 Your family leave,

00:47:50.220 for family leave,

00:47:51.780 it covers bonding

00:47:52.600 with a child through birth,

00:47:54.060 adoption,

00:47:54.680 or foster placement,

00:47:56.140 caring for a family member

00:47:57.220 with a serious health issue,

00:47:58.800 supporting a military family member

00:47:59.920 called for active duty,

00:48:01.500 responding to a safety issue,

00:48:02.960 including domestic violence,

00:48:04.000 sexual assault,

00:48:04.500 or stalking.

00:48:05.640 For you or a family member,

00:48:06.940 the law will provide

00:48:07.460 up to 20 weeks

00:48:08.260 of paid leave per year

00:48:09.600 for eligible employees,

00:48:10.600 including 12 weeks

00:48:12.860 of personal medical leave

00:48:14.120 and 12 weeks

00:48:15.140 of family leave,

00:48:16.260 both capped

00:48:16.800 at 20 weeks total.

00:48:20.220 So that's the law

00:48:21.460 that's going into effect

00:48:22.300 in less than a month.

00:48:23.360 Here's creepy

00:48:24.220 Minnesota Governor

00:48:24.980 Tim Walz

00:48:25.800 talking about it.

00:48:27.140 And one of the things

00:48:28.280 is that has been missing

00:48:29.280 in America

00:48:29.960 is what happens

00:48:31.440 if you have a child?

00:48:32.940 How do you take time away

00:48:34.460 and how do you bond

00:48:35.280 with that child,

00:48:35.940 which we know

00:48:36.300 all the research shows

00:48:37.380 how big a difference

00:48:38.320 that makes,

00:48:39.160 or what happens

00:48:39.680 if you've got a family member

00:48:40.660 that's sick?

00:48:41.300 My family's going through

00:48:42.140 that right now

00:48:42.740 with a mother-in-law.

00:48:44.260 Or what happens

00:48:45.120 if you yourself

00:48:45.900 have an illness

00:48:47.280 and have to be

00:48:48.220 either through treatments

00:48:49.980 or hospitalized?

00:48:51.080 The choice in the past

00:48:52.280 was lose your job

00:48:55.060 or go broke

00:48:55.760 or care for yourself.

00:48:57.280 Or as we were just saying,

00:48:58.580 if you're lucky enough

00:48:59.280 to have family support

00:49:00.180 and people who do that,

00:49:01.420 it's not the way

00:49:02.900 things should be done.

00:49:04.160 And I continue to say this,

00:49:06.000 United States

00:49:06.660 is about one of three

00:49:07.520 or four countries

00:49:08.260 that doesn't have

00:49:08.960 some type of program

00:49:09.900 like this.

00:49:10.660 Now we join the states

00:49:12.080 that are going to implement

00:49:14.120 a paid family

00:49:15.200 medical leave program.

00:49:19.380 Okay, so this law

00:49:20.760 is about to take effect

00:49:23.620 and 20 weeks

00:49:24.680 of paid leave per year

00:49:25.740 mandated by the government.

00:49:28.600 And we're told

00:49:29.760 that it's all good

00:49:30.320 because it'll be paid for

00:49:31.440 with a very small

00:49:32.320 little 1% hike

00:49:33.700 on the income tax,

00:49:34.460 I think is what

00:49:34.880 they're talking about,

00:49:36.460 or half a percent

00:49:37.460 on the part

00:49:38.920 of the employee

00:49:40.240 and the employer

00:49:40.960 is supposed to cover

00:49:41.360 the other half percent.

00:49:42.860 And now we know

00:49:43.440 that isn't true.

00:49:44.220 The cost will be much higher

00:49:45.440 because that's how

00:49:47.240 these things always go.

00:49:48.220 But in any case,

00:49:49.500 the upfront cost

00:49:50.420 is not even the point.

00:49:52.460 The point is twofold.

00:49:53.520 First of all,

00:49:55.340 Minnesota,

00:49:56.080 I mean,

00:49:56.280 the timing here

00:49:57.000 is just great

00:49:58.020 because Minnesota,

00:50:00.080 as we've been discussing

00:50:01.640 and is now

00:50:02.320 a national story,

00:50:04.460 Minnesota has a

00:50:05.220 massive fraud problem.

00:50:07.300 And we know that.

00:50:07.900 Billions of dollars.

00:50:09.460 Huge scandal.

00:50:11.300 And all they've done here

00:50:12.480 is create yet another avenue

00:50:14.260 for billions of dollars

00:50:16.540 worth of fraud

00:50:17.240 to be committed,

00:50:17.940 which is what's going

00:50:18.600 to happen.

00:50:18.960 I mean,

00:50:19.820 this law is going

00:50:20.480 to be exploited

00:50:21.380 and defrauded

00:50:22.420 into oblivion

00:50:23.600 by people,

00:50:25.060 many of whom

00:50:25.580 will not be

00:50:26.240 American citizens.

00:50:28.440 So if you like fraud

00:50:29.740 in Minnesota,

00:50:30.460 if you're a big fan of it,

00:50:31.360 congratulations,

00:50:32.200 you're about to get

00:50:32.620 a whole lot more.

00:50:33.760 You're about to get

00:50:34.400 a whole lot.

00:50:35.100 If you like your fraud,

00:50:36.320 you can keep your fraud

00:50:37.100 and you can get a lot more

00:50:38.500 because that's what's

00:50:39.160 going to happen.

00:50:40.200 And then also second

00:50:41.300 and related,

00:50:43.040 and this is important

00:50:44.980 for anyone who,

00:50:46.140 and you hear even

00:50:46.900 conservatives sometimes

00:50:47.700 that support these kinds

00:50:48.580 of things

00:50:49.060 because it's supposed

00:50:50.360 to be populist

00:50:51.280 and sometimes

00:50:54.660 you hear conservatives

00:50:55.360 say,

00:50:55.760 well,

00:50:56.080 you know,

00:50:56.240 we need to compromise

00:50:57.920 on some of the economic

00:50:58.920 issues and all that.

00:51:00.200 Like,

00:51:00.340 this is the kind of thing

00:51:01.040 they're talking about.

00:51:03.900 But it's a terrible idea.

00:51:07.560 Okay,

00:51:07.780 this is going to destroy

00:51:08.960 businesses in the state.

00:51:11.500 If I was a business owner

00:51:12.700 in Minnesota,

00:51:13.160 I would close up shop

00:51:14.440 and relocate immediately.

00:51:15.440 I would have no choice.

00:51:16.200 Now,

00:51:18.440 if you're Walmart,

00:51:19.540 if you're a big conglomerate,

00:51:20.740 then you can absorb the hit.

00:51:22.560 Still a significant hit,

00:51:23.740 but you could probably

00:51:24.300 absorb it.

00:51:25.960 But,

00:51:26.800 it's probably worth,

00:51:28.180 like,

00:51:28.720 it's probably worth

00:51:29.300 staying in the state,

00:51:30.420 having some locations there,

00:51:31.720 and just taking the hit.

00:51:33.220 You might lose more

00:51:34.300 just by leaving the state.

00:51:35.440 But if you're not

00:51:36.460 the size of Walmart,

00:51:38.700 then this is,

00:51:39.480 this will kill you.

00:51:40.380 This is death.

00:51:41.900 Okay,

00:51:42.140 this is a law

00:51:42.860 that requires you

00:51:44.160 to pay employees

00:51:46.060 to not work

00:51:47.380 for 20 weeks

00:51:49.280 per year.

00:51:52.260 Okay,

00:51:52.920 that's five months.

00:51:56.700 That's more than

00:51:57.500 a third of the year.

00:51:59.060 And the reason

00:52:00.040 for someone taking

00:52:00.880 their 20 weeks,

00:52:01.700 the reasons that

00:52:02.500 are allowed

00:52:03.440 are so vague

00:52:04.300 and so broad

00:52:06.120 and so unprovable

00:52:07.360 that everybody

00:52:08.320 will do it.

00:52:11.260 And you're at,

00:52:12.140 it's at a certain point

00:52:13.120 where you're almost

00:52:13.560 a sucker

00:52:13.980 if you don't do it.

00:52:15.540 Everyone else is.

00:52:17.620 And,

00:52:18.080 and,

00:52:18.480 and what,

00:52:19.040 you could get

00:52:19.400 20 weeks off

00:52:20.880 paid

00:52:21.520 and your,

00:52:22.020 your job is guaranteed

00:52:23.140 to you

00:52:23.640 when you get it back.

00:52:25.420 So you have to pay

00:52:26.220 them to not work.

00:52:27.280 You have to hire

00:52:28.080 someone else

00:52:28.660 to replace them

00:52:29.460 for almost half the year

00:52:30.540 for 20 weeks.

00:52:33.620 And then you have

00:52:34.220 to give them

00:52:34.520 their job back

00:52:35.260 and then guess what?

00:52:36.580 Six months later

00:52:37.500 they can leave again

00:52:38.640 for 20 weeks

00:52:39.540 and you have to

00:52:40.700 pay them again.

00:52:42.520 And this is now

00:52:43.340 a legal right.

00:52:44.740 So you can't question it.

00:52:46.100 If you're an employer

00:52:46.560 you can't stop it.

00:52:48.360 You could have an employee

00:52:49.460 who takes 20 weeks off

00:52:51.060 a year,

00:52:52.440 every year

00:52:53.580 and you can't

00:52:54.920 do anything about it.

00:52:56.220 You have to pay them.

00:52:58.880 It's

00:52:59.320 obviously

00:53:00.420 total lunacy.

00:53:01.720 I mean,

00:53:02.060 this is,

00:53:03.800 first of all,

00:53:04.320 to think that this

00:53:04.980 will not be

00:53:05.740 exploited into oblivion

00:53:06.960 is to reveal

00:53:08.180 that you have

00:53:08.600 no understanding

00:53:09.900 of human nature

00:53:10.460 at all.

00:53:11.420 Your understanding

00:53:11.900 of human nature

00:53:12.540 is,

00:53:13.720 I mean,

00:53:14.140 you must not

00:53:14.720 be human yourself

00:53:15.780 that your understanding

00:53:17.360 of human nature

00:53:17.940 is that

00:53:18.640 diluted.

00:53:21.420 It's human nature

00:53:22.560 that you give people

00:53:23.440 this option.

00:53:24.920 Many will take it.

00:53:27.180 And the more

00:53:28.160 who take the option,

00:53:30.340 the problem compounds.

00:53:32.200 It's an exponential problem.

00:53:33.720 Because the more

00:53:34.240 people doing it,

00:53:34.880 then other people

00:53:35.400 who otherwise

00:53:35.980 maybe wouldn't do it

00:53:36.760 are saying,

00:53:37.120 well,

00:53:37.420 I mean,

00:53:37.720 jeez,

00:53:38.020 everyone else

00:53:39.180 in my office

00:53:39.680 has taken 20 weeks

00:53:40.700 off a year.

00:53:41.300 Here I am,

00:53:42.200 the only idiot

00:53:43.160 still showing up

00:53:44.040 every day.

00:53:46.060 I might as well

00:53:46.740 do it too.

00:53:47.220 And then it very

00:53:48.680 quickly becomes,

00:53:49.260 it's just not sustainable.

00:53:50.180 You can't do this.

00:53:52.940 There's just realities

00:53:53.940 of life

00:53:54.540 and you've got

00:53:56.200 all these people,

00:53:57.840 leftists,

00:53:58.280 but not just leftists,

00:53:59.100 who have an understanding

00:54:00.100 of life

00:54:00.540 of like a child.

00:54:01.520 They have a child's

00:54:02.720 understanding of life.

00:54:03.960 And so they say,

00:54:04.840 well,

00:54:05.040 why shouldn't we be able

00:54:06.220 to take 20 weeks

00:54:07.020 off a year?

00:54:07.480 Well,

00:54:07.680 because you can't

00:54:08.500 because it's not

00:54:09.320 a job,

00:54:10.620 your employer

00:54:11.440 can't function that way.

00:54:13.780 It's not possible.

00:54:15.660 Yeah,

00:54:15.900 but I want to.

00:54:18.880 Well,

00:54:19.300 you might want to,

00:54:20.020 but you just can't.

00:54:20.680 It doesn't work that way.

00:54:21.980 It can't work that way.

00:54:24.500 It's reality.

00:54:25.580 You understand?

00:54:26.300 There's facts of reality.

00:54:28.700 This is one of them.

00:54:33.060 If you're going to do 20 weeks,

00:54:34.220 why not?

00:54:34.720 I mean,

00:54:35.480 why 20 weeks?

00:54:36.400 Why not 40?

00:54:38.380 Why not 52?

00:54:41.580 Why not just mandate

00:54:42.580 that people can take off

00:54:43.600 for as long as they want?

00:54:45.480 You know,

00:54:45.820 someone could take off

00:54:46.820 for five years if they want.

00:54:47.820 Why not?

00:54:50.400 You know,

00:54:50.920 five years to,

00:54:51.900 whatever,

00:54:52.080 get their mental health

00:54:53.000 in order.

00:54:53.940 Take five years

00:54:54.980 as a mental health break.

00:54:57.860 Why not mandate that?

00:55:00.960 I mean,

00:55:01.660 if we're in this fantasy world

00:55:02.900 where money doesn't exist

00:55:04.960 and reality is suspended

00:55:07.760 and,

00:55:09.420 you know,

00:55:09.900 companies can just like

00:55:11.040 stay open

00:55:11.980 and pay

00:55:13.640 everyone to not work

00:55:17.060 and like nothing matters

00:55:18.640 and it's all fake.

00:55:19.820 if that's the world

00:55:20.820 we're in,

00:55:21.320 then

00:55:21.540 why not just mandate

00:55:25.220 paid indefinite leave

00:55:29.160 for everyone in the state?

00:55:31.780 Right?

00:55:32.200 Then everyone gets paid

00:55:33.220 to not work

00:55:33.920 and no one has to work

00:55:34.960 and it's a utopia.

00:55:36.600 Why not?

00:55:39.380 And of course,

00:55:40.060 I'm saying this

00:55:40.820 because to me

00:55:43.260 it's obviously absurd.

00:55:44.260 I'm trying to make a point.

00:55:45.980 There are plenty of people

00:55:47.180 who will hear me say that

00:55:48.240 and unironically will say,

00:55:50.520 well,

00:55:50.640 yeah,

00:55:50.820 why not?

00:55:51.420 We should do that.

00:55:54.520 It's like actual adults

00:55:55.880 in this country,

00:55:56.380 a lot of them,

00:55:57.040 who actually think

00:55:58.120 that it should be an option

00:55:59.560 for just no one

00:56:00.260 to ever do any work

00:56:01.020 ever again.

00:56:03.320 And they don't understand

00:56:04.860 it's like life,

00:56:05.760 life requires work.

00:56:07.860 There's no such thing

00:56:08.760 as living without it.

00:56:11.520 There's a disconnect.

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00:57:17.960 All right, Variety reports.

00:57:19.740 Quentin Tarantino

00:57:20.500 has named

00:57:21.020 Ridley Scott's

00:57:22.180 Black Hawk Down

00:57:22.900 the best movie

00:57:23.680 of the 21st century,

00:57:25.160 saying Scott's

00:57:26.180 feet of direction

00:57:26.880 is beyond extraordinary.

00:57:29.100 This is a lot of

00:57:29.680 conversations

00:57:30.100 on social media

00:57:30.520 about this.

00:57:30.960 Quentin Tarantino

00:57:31.600 has listed his top

00:57:32.380 I think he did

00:57:33.120 his top 20,

00:57:33.900 but this article

00:57:35.680 has his top 10

00:57:36.700 movies of the century.

00:57:38.680 So I guess

00:57:39.560 that would be

00:57:39.900 since 2000

00:57:41.760 or if it started

00:57:42.420 from 2001.

00:57:45.260 So the rest of his lips,

00:57:46.580 number two,

00:57:47.140 Toy Story 3,

00:57:47.960 number three,

00:57:48.780 Lost in Translation,

00:57:49.780 number four,

00:57:50.420 Dunkirk,

00:57:51.360 number five,

00:57:51.900 There Will Be Blood,

00:57:53.320 number six,

00:57:53.820 Zodiac,

00:57:54.320 number seven,

00:57:55.080 Unstoppable,

00:57:56.580 Tony Scott,

00:57:57.960 number eight,

00:57:59.020 Mad Max Ferry Road,

00:58:00.840 number nine,

00:58:01.460 Shaun of the Dead,

00:58:02.100 number 10,

00:58:03.020 Woody Allen's

00:58:03.580 Midnight in Paris.

00:58:04.540 That's Quentin Tarantino's

00:58:05.360 top 10 list of the century.

00:58:07.080 Now I like Tarantino films.

00:58:08.540 I like him as a film critic also.

00:58:10.060 I think he's

00:58:10.900 like obviously

00:58:11.380 very knowledgeable

00:58:12.000 and insightful

00:58:12.520 on the subject

00:58:13.120 and I've listened to

00:58:14.660 probably every Tarantino

00:58:16.260 film review

00:58:16.860 that I could find

00:58:17.500 on YouTube.

00:58:18.280 He has interesting things

00:58:19.280 to say about movies

00:58:20.020 as you would expect.

00:58:23.280 But I have to say

00:58:24.340 this list is a mess.

00:58:25.240 I mean this list

00:58:26.060 is a bit of an atrocity.

00:58:28.260 I don't know.

00:58:28.780 I think Tarantino

00:58:29.420 maybe was overthinking

00:58:30.340 a bit here.

00:58:31.720 That's my guess.

00:58:33.240 Got up in his own head,

00:58:34.640 ended up listing

00:58:35.280 Toy Story 3

00:58:36.420 as the second best film

00:58:38.160 of the century.

00:58:39.520 I don't know

00:58:40.000 if he was confused

00:58:40.720 or having a stroke

00:58:42.240 or something

00:58:42.820 while he said that.

00:58:43.720 I don't know.

00:58:44.160 I don't know what was going on.

00:58:45.540 I'm trying to be charitable.

00:58:47.820 Toy Story 3

00:58:48.460 does not belong on the list.

00:58:49.820 Mad Max Fury Road

00:58:50.760 does not belong on the list.

00:58:51.820 Mad Max Fury Road

00:58:52.540 is one of the most overrated films

00:58:53.920 maybe ever.

00:58:55.000 I mean it's good.

00:58:56.820 I liked it.

00:58:57.540 It's a good movie.

00:58:58.420 It's entertaining.

00:59:00.040 It's not a great film.

00:59:02.720 Toy Story 3

00:59:03.580 not a great film.

00:59:04.400 It's a good movie

00:59:05.380 as far as kids' movies go.

00:59:07.260 Not any sort of

00:59:08.160 monumental artistic achievement.

00:59:09.420 Unstoppable

00:59:09.860 was a fun movie.

00:59:12.020 That's the one.

00:59:12.520 Isn't that the one

00:59:13.020 with Denzel Washington

00:59:14.760 and who's the other guy

00:59:17.540 on a train

00:59:18.820 that's like

00:59:19.340 the brakes don't work

00:59:22.040 and it's barreling

00:59:23.180 and it's barreling through the

00:59:23.600 it's a fun movie

00:59:25.680 but it's not

00:59:27.800 a great film.

00:59:29.320 It's like

00:59:29.500 it's like a good

00:59:30.340 B-tier action film.

00:59:31.980 It's a good B-action film.

00:59:33.700 Not even the best

00:59:34.700 B-action movie

00:59:35.520 of the century.

00:59:36.780 I think that was probably

00:59:37.540 I'd give that to

00:59:38.220 probably Taken

00:59:39.740 you know

00:59:40.400 I would say

00:59:40.900 is the best B-action movie

00:59:42.160 of the century.

00:59:43.440 Shaun of the Dead

00:59:44.220 that he lists

00:59:45.480 is really good

00:59:48.320 but Hot Fuzz

00:59:49.960 was better.

00:59:50.900 Like it's not even

00:59:51.360 the best Simon Pegg

00:59:52.520 Edgar Wright movie.

00:59:54.780 I think Hot Fuzz

00:59:55.240 is better.

00:59:56.020 Most of the other films

00:59:56.640 don't belong on the list.

00:59:57.340 So let me correct the wreck.

00:59:58.240 I thought about this

00:59:59.420 for 90 seconds

01:00:00.220 and I'm probably

01:00:00.780 going to regret

01:00:01.320 my own list

01:00:02.260 but of course

01:00:03.380 you see a list like this

01:00:04.160 you have to come up

01:00:04.580 with your own.

01:00:06.360 So if I were to go

01:00:07.360 10 through 1

01:00:09.320 best moves of the century

01:00:10.400 I would say

01:00:12.060 number 10

01:00:12.740 I think you need some

01:00:15.140 I think you need

01:00:15.960 a pure comedy

01:00:16.720 on the list.

01:00:17.340 You need

01:00:17.540 I mean Shaun of the Dead

01:00:18.200 was a comedy

01:00:18.580 but it's also

01:00:19.560 a zombie movie

01:00:20.220 and it works

01:00:20.860 as a zombie movie

01:00:21.600 which was Tarantino's

01:00:23.280 point about it.

01:00:23.800 That's why it's

01:00:24.120 a really good movie

01:00:24.860 is that it works

01:00:25.580 as a zombie movie

01:00:26.840 and a comedy

01:00:27.380 which is true.

01:00:27.960 So just like a pure comedy

01:00:29.020 there were a lot of good ones

01:00:30.660 between 2001 and 2012

01:00:32.100 and then after that

01:00:33.080 there were none.

01:00:35.140 But so I'd probably say

01:00:36.720 there's like 10

01:00:38.820 that you could put

01:00:39.360 at number 10 on the list

01:00:40.120 if you're picking a comedy.

01:00:41.340 I'd probably say Borat

01:00:42.540 I think to me

01:00:43.580 was the funniest

01:00:44.320 certainly one

01:00:45.020 of the most iconic

01:00:46.280 certainly.

01:00:49.080 Nine I would put

01:00:49.960 Zodiac

01:00:50.340 which he has

01:00:50.920 on his list.

01:00:52.520 Eight

01:00:52.740 The Assassination

01:00:53.980 of Jesse James

01:00:54.620 by the coward

01:00:55.420 Robert Ford

01:00:56.120 criminally underrated

01:00:57.540 criminally underseen

01:00:58.740 probably because

01:01:00.380 it's 19 hours long

01:01:01.540 it is very like

01:01:02.860 artsy

01:01:03.420 it's a very kind of

01:01:04.380 artsy

01:01:04.980 western movie

01:01:06.340 which I

01:01:06.800 usually am not

01:01:08.480 a big fan of

01:01:09.160 but it is

01:01:09.900 a great film

01:01:11.060 tremendous performances

01:01:11.960 by Casey Affleck

01:01:13.080 and Brad Pitt

01:01:13.900 beautifully shot

01:01:14.680 from like

01:01:14.960 every shot

01:01:16.020 in the movie

01:01:16.540 is like a painting

01:01:17.480 a great film.

01:01:19.820 Seven I think

01:01:20.560 I'd put Whiplash

01:01:21.760 which is the best

01:01:22.840 movie about

01:01:23.700 ambition

01:01:24.320 that maybe

01:01:26.400 has ever been

01:01:26.880 made for my money

01:01:27.800 and it's so great

01:01:29.380 that you could

01:01:30.160 not like jazz music

01:01:32.780 like me

01:01:34.040 I don't like jazz music

01:01:35.700 and you could also

01:01:36.420 not really care

01:01:37.080 about drumming

01:01:37.820 which I don't

01:01:39.000 and yet be totally

01:01:39.960 absorbed

01:01:40.400 by this film

01:01:41.700 about a jazz drummer

01:01:42.820 so that's seven

01:01:45.920 six I put Sicario

01:01:47.220 which is one of the

01:01:47.980 greatest thrillers

01:01:48.700 ever made

01:01:49.180 unflinching

01:01:49.980 brutal

01:01:50.420 and it's an action

01:01:52.860 movie with a

01:01:53.480 female protagonist

01:01:54.360 who is actually

01:01:56.620 a female protagonist

01:01:57.780 one of the few

01:01:59.280 one of the few

01:02:00.980 action films

01:02:01.560 with a female

01:02:01.960 protagonist

01:02:02.340 that's any good

01:02:02.960 and where the

01:02:04.240 female protagonist

01:02:04.820 is a female

01:02:05.580 like she's not

01:02:06.240 there's no scene

01:02:07.340 where she is

01:02:08.080 single-handedly

01:02:08.920 kicking the asses

01:02:10.820 of a bunch of

01:02:11.680 brawny

01:02:13.140 huge men

01:02:14.260 that are three

01:02:15.140 times her size

01:02:15.880 that does not

01:02:16.340 happen

01:02:16.600 she's overmatched

01:02:18.180 and overpowered

01:02:18.980 through the entire

01:02:19.780 movie because

01:02:20.400 she's a woman

01:02:21.500 so it's very

01:02:22.620 realistic in that

01:02:23.540 way

01:02:23.840 but Emily Blunt

01:02:25.520 is the actress

01:02:26.440 and I think

01:02:26.760 she does a great

01:02:27.440 job

01:02:27.700 set number six

01:02:29.480 five I'd say

01:02:30.200 Children of Men

01:02:30.980 Prophetic

01:02:32.620 I think the

01:02:34.560 greatest pro-life

01:02:35.360 film of all time

01:02:36.220 I think the

01:02:37.660 people involved

01:02:38.160 in the movie

01:02:38.520 have denied

01:02:39.000 that it was

01:02:39.280 a pro-life

01:02:39.700 film

01:02:40.000 but it is

01:02:40.440 a pro-life

01:02:40.880 film

01:02:41.140 it just is

01:02:42.460 I mean it's

01:02:43.640 all about

01:02:45.780 the

01:02:46.540 sanctity of

01:02:48.420 life

01:02:48.780 the hope

01:02:51.100 that

01:02:51.580 you know

01:02:52.280 a new

01:02:52.640 birth

01:02:52.920 represents

01:02:53.600 the humanity

01:02:55.240 of the

01:02:55.600 unborn

01:02:55.900 I mean the

01:02:56.220 movie doesn't

01:02:56.700 work unless

01:02:57.320 you accept

01:02:58.080 that unborn

01:02:59.480 life is

01:03:00.800 life

01:03:01.460 you know

01:03:02.020 and sacred

01:03:02.540 the movie

01:03:02.800 doesn't work

01:03:03.340 unless you

01:03:03.720 accept that

01:03:04.180 as a premise

01:03:04.680 going in

01:03:05.620 number four

01:03:07.040 Apocalypto

01:03:07.820 I would say

01:03:08.620 a perfect

01:03:13.380 movie

01:03:13.760 it's one of

01:03:14.240 those movies

01:03:14.520 you watch

01:03:14.960 and there's

01:03:15.220 there's not

01:03:15.600 a single

01:03:15.900 frame of

01:03:16.380 it that

01:03:16.580 you would

01:03:16.820 change

01:03:17.140 it just

01:03:17.380 it's

01:03:17.940 it's

01:03:18.200 I think

01:03:18.960 Apocalypto

01:03:19.480 is what

01:03:20.040 a lot of

01:03:20.440 people think

01:03:20.720 Mad Max

01:03:21.180 Fury Road

01:03:21.640 is

01:03:21.840 and that

01:03:22.580 it's like

01:03:22.940 this

01:03:23.140 propulsive

01:03:24.040 movie

01:03:24.720 it never

01:03:25.620 slows down

01:03:26.140 it keeps

01:03:26.460 moving

01:03:26.940 you're on

01:03:27.500 the edge

01:03:28.040 of your

01:03:28.240 seat

01:03:28.420 the entire

01:03:29.220 time

01:03:29.660 Fury Road

01:03:31.280 is that

01:03:31.520 way

01:03:31.620 Apocalypto

01:03:32.060 is that

01:03:32.260 way

01:03:32.360 but I think

01:03:32.560 Apocalypse

01:03:32.860 is just

01:03:33.140 a better

01:03:33.480 film

01:03:33.760 all around

01:03:34.140 three I put

01:03:35.460 There Will

01:03:35.760 Be Blood

01:03:36.120 I think

01:03:37.760 there will

01:03:38.340 be blood

01:03:38.600 at number

01:03:38.840 three

01:03:39.080 so he was

01:03:39.380 right about

01:03:39.660 that

01:03:39.840 number two

01:03:40.420 Master and

01:03:40.920 Commander

01:03:41.240 I'm shocked

01:03:41.840 and appalled

01:03:42.200 that that film

01:03:42.820 didn't make

01:03:43.660 Tarantino's list

01:03:44.320 at all

01:03:44.660 it is another

01:03:46.180 perfect movie

01:03:46.900 I've already

01:03:47.480 I've sung its

01:03:48.080 praises many

01:03:48.680 times I did a

01:03:49.240 whole video

01:03:49.580 about it

01:03:49.960 you should

01:03:50.480 watch it

01:03:51.060 we'll watch

01:03:52.300 the video

01:03:52.580 and then watch

01:03:52.960 the movie

01:03:53.300 and then

01:03:54.200 number one

01:03:54.780 is No Country

01:03:55.240 for Old Men

01:03:55.700 that I don't

01:03:56.020 know how

01:03:56.420 that didn't

01:03:56.900 make Tarantino's

01:03:57.740 list

01:03:58.000 for my money

01:04:03.720 it's probably

01:04:04.240 my favorite

01:04:04.720 movie of all

01:04:05.220 time

01:04:05.540 it certainly

01:04:06.800 is top

01:04:07.460 three of

01:04:08.240 the century

01:04:08.880 if not

01:04:10.000 of all

01:04:10.260 time

01:04:10.460 all right

01:04:12.040 finally

01:04:12.580 quickly

01:04:15.380 a Waymo

01:04:18.400 self-driving

01:04:19.220 taxi drove

01:04:20.120 right through

01:04:20.600 a police

01:04:21.060 standoff

01:04:21.640 in LA

01:04:22.060 over the

01:04:22.400 weekend

01:04:22.680 and someone

01:04:23.640 was in a

01:04:24.900 different car

01:04:25.480 I guess

01:04:25.880 filming this

01:04:27.120 and watching

01:04:27.500 it happen

01:04:27.920 here it is

01:04:29.300 Waymo

01:04:30.760 oh my god

01:04:32.760 oh my god

01:04:35.080 what the

01:04:37.460 f*** is that

01:04:38.240 Waymo doing

01:04:39.040 so it goes

01:04:51.860 right through

01:04:52.120 the police

01:04:52.420 it's kind

01:04:52.880 of amazing

01:04:53.260 to me

01:04:53.540 that a Waymo

01:04:54.240 in Los Angeles

01:04:54.980 is not

01:04:55.580 specially

01:04:56.080 programmed

01:04:56.660 to avoid

01:04:57.960 police

01:04:58.340 standoffs

01:04:58.920 I mean

01:04:59.960 that's like

01:05:00.380 having a Waymo

01:05:01.100 in Pennsylvania

01:05:01.660 that doesn't

01:05:02.440 know how to

01:05:02.800 avoid

01:05:03.200 hitting deer

01:05:04.200 or something

01:05:04.600 I mean

01:05:04.760 it's like

01:05:05.000 it's a very

01:05:05.480 common hazard

01:05:06.200 on the roads

01:05:08.280 of Los Angeles

01:05:08.920 police standoffs

01:05:09.640 so you'd think

01:05:10.040 that they'd

01:05:10.700 have that

01:05:11.120 programmed in

01:05:11.900 and this is

01:05:12.880 what I've been

01:05:13.160 saying about

01:05:13.540 driverless cars

01:05:14.540 and AI

01:05:15.320 and all that

01:05:16.000 this is our

01:05:17.540 future

01:05:17.880 you know

01:05:18.960 and we got

01:05:19.380 we have to

01:05:19.740 put a stop

01:05:20.100 to it

01:05:20.280 now granted

01:05:21.240 I'll admit

01:05:23.320 because you

01:05:24.440 could point

01:05:24.860 out that

01:05:25.660 a lot of

01:05:26.620 people are

01:05:26.840 looking at

01:05:27.060 this video

01:05:27.480 and they're

01:05:27.960 making this

01:05:28.560 point that

01:05:29.060 this is the

01:05:30.080 problem when

01:05:30.440 you have a

01:05:30.740 driverless car

01:05:31.480 and there's

01:05:31.760 no human

01:05:32.140 there

01:05:32.480 you know

01:05:33.240 and they

01:05:33.660 can't identify

01:05:34.420 things like

01:05:34.860 police standoffs

01:05:35.500 well

01:05:36.860 true

01:05:38.580 I'll also

01:05:39.200 admit that

01:05:40.160 taxis and

01:05:42.140 Ubers

01:05:42.580 driven by

01:05:45.540 actual human

01:05:46.940 foreigners

01:05:47.460 often behave

01:05:49.520 in reckless

01:05:50.340 and erratic

01:05:50.820 ways

01:05:51.240 also

01:05:51.900 like that

01:05:53.160 that also

01:05:53.600 I mean I was

01:05:54.160 in an Uber

01:05:55.380 recently

01:05:55.840 and the guy

01:05:58.180 almost entered

01:05:59.060 the exit ramp

01:05:59.900 onto a highway

01:06:00.560 we were going

01:06:01.480 onto the highway

01:06:01.960 and he almost

01:06:02.400 took the wrong

01:06:02.920 he almost went

01:06:03.520 onto the exit

01:06:04.500 ramp

01:06:04.760 and I don't

01:06:06.580 know if it's

01:06:06.860 because he

01:06:07.300 couldn't read

01:06:07.920 English or

01:06:08.680 because he was

01:06:09.340 drunk or

01:06:10.220 you know he

01:06:11.040 was distracted

01:06:11.700 on his phone

01:06:12.240 the whole time

01:06:12.940 just like on

01:06:15.220 his Bluetooth

01:06:15.660 just like having

01:06:16.520 I can't

01:06:17.120 understand it

01:06:17.600 because he's

01:06:17.820 speaking another

01:06:18.240 language but

01:06:18.880 he appears to

01:06:19.920 be having a

01:06:20.380 totally aimless

01:06:21.120 conversation with

01:06:21.920 someone like a

01:06:23.040 conversation where

01:06:23.820 he says two

01:06:25.600 words every three

01:06:26.500 minutes and I'm

01:06:28.260 listening to his

01:06:28.880 side of it and

01:06:29.540 again I don't

01:06:29.880 know what he's

01:06:30.340 saying but I'm

01:06:31.040 like what what

01:06:32.740 is the other

01:06:33.200 person saying I

01:06:34.160 mean this other

01:06:34.720 person apparently

01:06:35.320 has this running

01:06:36.160 monologue that

01:06:36.840 went for the

01:06:37.180 entire 18 minute

01:06:37.980 car ride and

01:06:39.440 the guy that was

01:06:40.540 driving my car said

01:06:41.840 like two whole

01:06:42.860 words during the

01:06:44.560 whole conversation but

01:06:45.360 anyway I don't know

01:06:46.300 if that's why but

01:06:46.920 you know he was

01:06:49.280 about to turn on

01:06:49.900 to it and I

01:06:51.760 had to say oh

01:06:52.340 that's an exit

01:06:52.820 ramp yeah we're

01:06:54.780 gonna die but

01:06:56.040 excuse me I

01:06:56.960 don't I don't mean

01:06:57.360 to interrupt your

01:06:57.760 conversation yeah

01:06:58.400 we're gonna die

01:06:59.000 yeah I don't mean

01:07:00.900 to interrupt it's

01:07:02.400 obviously an

01:07:02.780 important conversation

01:07:03.180 but we are gonna

01:07:03.760 die right here so

01:07:04.740 that's the thing

01:07:05.260 that's the thing

01:07:06.160 about it is we're

01:07:06.660 gonna die and so

01:07:07.920 he swerved back the

01:07:08.620 other way and no

01:07:09.580 apology by the way

01:07:10.520 no acknowledgement

01:07:11.700 nothing and didn't

01:07:15.320 even end his

01:07:15.800 conversation so

01:07:16.600 you know and I

01:07:18.180 still tipped him

01:07:18.880 that's the crazy

01:07:20.480 thing that's how

01:07:22.100 white I am like

01:07:23.440 it was awful

01:07:23.960 service we almost

01:07:25.040 died I tipped him

01:07:26.720 18 percent the next

01:07:28.620 time I went on Uber

01:07:29.260 and it reminds you to

01:07:29.980 do the tip oh you

01:07:30.880 forgot to tip

01:07:31.480 Abdul and I still

01:07:33.760 tipped but I did

01:07:35.180 18 percent I needed

01:07:35.940 20 so I knocked

01:07:37.420 two percent off

01:07:38.020 that's the two

01:07:38.780 percent near death

01:07:39.580 fee so if he had

01:07:43.360 actually killed me

01:07:44.140 then that would

01:07:44.700 have been like that

01:07:45.300 would have been at

01:07:45.660 most a 10 percent

01:07:46.440 tip as I was

01:07:48.000 burning to death in

01:07:48.720 the car wreck I

01:07:49.380 would have pulled

01:07:50.120 out my phone and I

01:07:51.760 would have angrily

01:07:52.780 tipped only 10 percent

01:07:54.080 and hope that he saw

01:07:55.100 it before he died too

01:07:56.080 so anyway what was

01:07:58.060 the point well the

01:07:58.500 point was that that

01:07:59.800 that you know all of

01:08:01.120 that happened with a

01:08:01.740 human driver but you

01:08:02.660 know what you know

01:08:04.320 what if I'm gonna be

01:08:05.200 killed in a taxi or an

01:08:06.440 Uber I would rather be

01:08:07.780 killed because my

01:08:09.960 Pakistani driver named

01:08:11.560 Saeed Muhammad or

01:08:12.920 whatever drove

01:08:13.940 straight into

01:08:14.480 oncoming traffic I

01:08:16.420 would prefer that

01:08:17.380 over a soulless

01:08:19.260 robot self-driving

01:08:20.660 car malfunctioning

01:08:21.940 and I die alone in

01:08:24.580 this empty robot car

01:08:26.060 I mean I'd prefer

01:08:26.840 neither scenario just

01:08:28.060 to be clear I don't

01:08:29.020 like either one I

01:08:30.660 find them both to be

01:08:31.520 frankly disagreeable

01:08:32.420 but at least the

01:08:33.760 former is human okay

01:08:35.040 and we got to hold

01:08:36.280 on to that we have

01:08:36.900 to hold on to our

01:08:37.620 humanity that's what

01:08:38.280 I'm saying and and

01:08:39.260 because look in all

01:08:40.880 seriousness this the

01:08:41.880 the self-driving cars

01:08:43.300 will be and probably

01:08:46.320 already are safer

01:08:48.260 like if you're if

01:08:50.920 you're in the if

01:08:51.760 you're joining the

01:08:52.320 anti-AI ranks with

01:08:53.540 me then we've got to

01:08:55.380 be honest that it

01:08:58.280 will it will win the

01:08:59.200 safety contest AI in

01:09:01.440 general will win the

01:09:02.920 safety contest it will

01:09:03.920 win the efficiency

01:09:04.720 contest it will win the

01:09:06.180 affordability contest it

01:09:07.840 will win the maximizing

01:09:09.340 profits contest it will

01:09:11.780 win all of that it

01:09:13.420 will but we should

01:09:15.420 still reject it because

01:09:17.360 it loses the human

01:09:18.460 contest that's what it

01:09:19.640 loses so AI might

01:09:21.780 prove to be better at

01:09:23.100 everything in the end

01:09:24.500 except one thing which

01:09:27.360 is being human and the

01:09:31.900 thing we have to decide

01:09:32.860 in the end is whether

01:09:33.680 that matters to us or

01:09:34.600 not either being human

01:09:37.840 matters to us either

01:09:39.040 humanity matters at a

01:09:41.360 fundamental level or it

01:09:42.520 just doesn't and that's

01:09:46.480 what I take from that

01:09:47.160 video and we will wrap it

01:09:50.060 up there thanks for

01:09:51.260 watching thanks for

01:09:51.840 listening talk to you

01:09:52.820 tomorrow have a great

01:09:54.840 day thanks for

01:09:55.400 thanks for

01:09:55.460 all of this is an

01:10:04.300 illusion an echo of a

01:10:06.320 voice that has died

01:10:07.360 and soon that echo

01:10:11.020 will cease

01:10:11.620 they say that Merlin is

01:10:24.940 mad they say he was a

01:10:31.040 king in Dovid the son of a

01:10:34.020 princess of lost Atlantis

01:10:35.960 they say the future and the

01:10:39.040 past are known to him

01:10:40.720 that the fire and the wind

01:10:43.160 tell him their secrets

01:10:44.800 that the magic of the

01:10:46.500 hill folk and druids come

01:10:48.180 forth at his easy command

01:10:50.140 they say he slew hundreds

01:10:54.680 hundreds do you hear that

01:10:57.240 the world burned and

01:10:58.700 trembled at his wrath

01:11:00.120 the Merlin died long before

01:11:06.020 you and I were born

01:11:07.760 Merlin Emrys has returned

01:11:11.880 to the land of the living

01:11:12.960 Vortigin is gone

01:11:16.200 Rome is gone

01:11:17.720 the Saxon is here

01:11:20.360 Saxon Hengist has assembled

01:11:23.140 the greatest war host ever

01:11:24.340 seen in the island of the

01:11:25.520 mighty and before the summer

01:11:26.960 is through he means to take

01:11:28.720 the throne and he will have

01:11:31.720 it if we are too busy

01:11:33.600 squabbling amongst ourselves

01:11:34.920 to take up arms against

01:11:36.180 him here is your hope a king

01:11:39.140 will arise to hold all

01:11:40.820 Britain in his hand a high

01:11:43.100 king who will be the wonder

01:11:44.500 of the world you to a future

01:11:50.200 of peace there'll be no peace

01:11:54.680 in these lands till we are all

01:11:56.100 dust men of the island of the

01:11:58.600 mighty you stand together

01:12:01.140 you stand as Britons you stand

01:12:05.980 as one great darkness is

01:12:10.820 falling upon this land these

01:12:14.220 brothers are only hope to stand

01:12:15.560 against it not our only hope

01:12:19.560 the same Merlin slew 70 men with

01:12:23.060 his own hands I could say he

01:12:25.740 slew 500 no man escape rule of

01:12:30.560 such a thing no mortal man

01:12:32.960 guard the main

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The Matt Walsh Show - December 03, 2025

Ep. 1701 - I Did A Deep Dive Into The Air Traffic Control Subreddit And What I Found Is DISTURBING

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