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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Who exactly are the people responsible for directing air traffic in the sky? We did a deep dive into what these people are posting openly online, and what we found will probably disturb you. This is a new threat that poses a significant danger to every American who travels on a plane in this country, up to and including the President of the United States.

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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. 1.00
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 0.99
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 0.85
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, 0.92
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 0.98
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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00:30:33.260 Fox News.
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
00:30:44.840 Matt Van Epps
00:30:45.960 on Tuesday
00:30:46.660 defeated Democratic rival
00:30:48.100 Afton Bain
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 0.98
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 0.89
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 1.00
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 0.95
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. 1.00
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, 1.00
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 1.00
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 1.00
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, 1.00
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 1.00
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.
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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 0.99
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 0.97
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 0.97
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 0.96
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 0.56
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 0.64
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 0.91
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 0.99
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 0.97
01:11:20.360 Saxon Hengist has assembled 1.00
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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01:12:44.960 2
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01:12:46.460 5
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