The Matt Walsh Show - December 15, 2025


Ep. 1707 - The Massacre In Australia Is Proof That Diversity Is Not Our Strength


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A massacre by Islamic migrants in Australia proves that diversity is not our strength. A horrendous animated adaptation of George Orwell s Animal Farm subverts and desecrates the original story in all the ways you expect, only worse. And James O Keefe does another sting operation. This one provides us with the funniest sitcom moment of the year, except it s real.

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00:00:30.300 Today on the Matt Wall Show, a massacre by Islamic migrants in Australia proves that diversity is not our strength. 1.00
00:00:36.460 A horrendous animated adaptation of George Orwell's Animal Farm subverts and desecrates the original story
00:00:41.840 in all the ways you expect, only worse.
00:00:44.560 And James O'Keefe does another sting operation.
00:00:46.400 This one provides us with the funniest sitcom moment of the year, except it's real.
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00:02:17.560 In 1955, Robert Menzies, the longest-serving prime minister in the history of Australia,
00:02:23.320 sat for an interview with a radio station about the so-called White Australia Policy.
00:02:28.620 And this was a policy that, as the name implies, prohibited most people of non-European ancestry from entering Australia.
00:02:37.640 The White Australia Policy was not implemented with a law that explicitly banned any particular ethnicity.
00:02:44.160 Australia's parliament couldn't have gotten away with that because the British government,
00:02:47.520 which still held authority over Australia and which ruled over a vast empire of many different ethnicities,
00:02:52.800 probably would have vetoed it.
00:02:53.900 So instead, Australia's parliament implemented the White Australia Policy beginning in 1901
00:02:58.880 with a dictation test that was administered to new arrivals to the country.
00:03:03.840 The test looks something like this, which you can see.
00:03:07.860 Immigration officers would demand that migrants write down one of these passages in their presence
00:03:14.180 after it was read to them in a European language, not necessarily English.
00:03:19.340 And if the migrant couldn't do it, they would not be allowed into the country. 1.00
00:03:22.700 Because the immigration officer could arbitrarily pick a European language for the test,
00:03:28.580 it was an extremely easy test to rig, which, of course, was the whole point.
00:03:33.020 Even if a foreigner was capable of speaking good English, 1.00
00:03:36.140 immigration officers could still give him a test in French or Greek or something.
00:03:41.540 There was a well-known case where the Australian government wanted to turn away a communist named Egon Kish.
00:03:47.060 But because he was fluent in many different European languages,
00:03:49.700 they decided to administer his dictation test in Scottish Gaelic.
00:03:54.020 And, as predicted, he failed.
00:03:56.580 But for the most part, the policy was effective in the sense that it accomplished its goals.
00:04:00.940 Australia remained a mostly white nation without apology. 0.96
00:04:05.500 And when he was asked about the policy in 1955,
00:04:08.040 the Prime Minister, Robert Menzies, forcefully defended it.
00:04:12.340 Here's what he said at the time.
00:04:13.300 Do you believe that the so-called White Australia policy will always be a stumbling block?
00:04:18.900 I don't think it's such a stumbling block as people pretend.
00:04:25.220 But that it's important for us.
00:04:28.000 I haven't the slightest doubt.
00:04:31.300 That we should maintain it the way it is?
00:04:33.140 So long as we possibly can, we ought to aim at having a homogeneous population.
00:04:38.160 I don't want to see reproduced in Australia the kind of problem they have in South Africa, 1.00
00:04:44.280 or in America, or increasingly in Great Britain.
00:04:49.020 I think it's been a very good policy.
00:04:51.980 And it's been of great value to us.
00:04:54.820 And most of the criticism of it that I've ever heard
00:04:59.220 doesn't come from these Oriental countries.
00:05:02.660 It comes from wandering Australians. 1.00
00:05:05.120 For these views, of course, in the past, Sir Robert, you have been described as a racist.
00:05:09.640 Have I?
00:05:10.660 I have read this, yes.
00:05:11.740 Well, if I were not described as a racist, I'd be the only public man who hasn't been.
00:05:17.560 That's one of these jargons, isn't it?
00:05:20.020 One of these mod words you call a man a racist.
00:05:24.860 So this was in the 1950s, and they were already tired of being called racist.
00:05:31.960 So it's quite a piece of footage.
00:05:34.000 What's interesting is that even as he defended the white Australia policy,
00:05:39.920 Menzies effectively gutted it. 0.83
00:05:41.980 Just a couple of years after this interview, the dictation test was abolished while Menzies was still in power. 0.94
00:05:47.220 It was replaced with a system that, in theory, would still allow for the arbitrary exclusion of potential migrants.
00:05:53.380 But in practice, it didn't work out that way.
00:05:55.380 Increasingly, non-Europeans were encouraged to migrate to Australia,
00:05:59.360 particularly if they were so-called high-skilled immigrants.
00:06:02.320 Where have you heard that before?
00:06:05.020 There were strategic reasons for the change.
00:06:06.780 The Cold War was underway, and Australia didn't want to alienate Asian countries in particular
00:06:11.280 or push them into the orbit of the Soviets.
00:06:13.960 There was also a fear of brain drain.
00:06:16.040 So the government of Australia began to compromise on its hardline anti-immigrant stance.
00:06:20.660 They insisted that, in general, they'd preserve Australia's identity, even as they opened the floodgates.
00:06:28.120 Well, that didn't last long.
00:06:29.140 By the end of the 20th century, Australia was rapidly becoming unrecognizable.
00:06:32.780 In 1981, there were roughly 75,000 Muslims in Australia.
00:06:36.760 In 1986, that number had increased to 109,000.
00:06:39.700 Over the next five years, that number grew even further to 147,000.
00:06:43.600 By 1996, there was a similar jump, up to 200,000.
00:06:47.300 And the pace continued to the point that, by 2011, there were 479,000 Muslims in the country.
00:06:54.940 And now, as of the most recent census, more than 815,000 live in Australia.
00:07:01.520 That's an increase of nearly 1,000% from the 1980s.
00:07:06.120 And it's almost certainly a vast undercount of the true figure of Muslims in Australia,
00:07:10.820 since that data is now several years old, and it relies on self-reported numbers from mostly legal migrants.
00:07:17.660 So it could be a severe undercount.
00:07:20.300 What happens to a nation that, within a half century, stops caring about homogeneity
00:07:25.660 and embraces foreigners from Pakistan and Lebanon and Turkey and so on?
00:07:31.980 Well, as Menzies predicted, you get dysfunction.
00:07:35.600 You get South Africa. 0.61
00:07:36.580 You get Dearborn, Michigan or Minneapolis.
00:07:38.860 You get Great Britain.
00:07:41.240 And as we saw yesterday, you get mass shootings targeting innocent men, women, and children
00:07:44.980 because of their faith, which is what took place yesterday, as you've seen, in Sydney.
00:07:51.220 Watch.
00:07:51.660 Now, you've probably seen the videos all over social media.
00:08:07.760 That goes on for several minutes, several more minutes from what you saw there, with no police in sight.
00:08:12.700 It was a few months ago that we explored the sudden rise of machete attacks in Australia,
00:08:19.380 as you may remember, which really seemed to confound officials in Australia.
00:08:23.600 They couldn't figure out why these attacks were so common, given that it was illegal to possess a machete,
00:08:28.720 much less use one to stab a random white guy in a shopping mall.
00:08:32.040 All they were sure about in Australia was that the attacks had absolutely nothing to do with the fact that,
00:08:37.860 in 2024, net foreign migration into Australia amounted to more than half a million foreigners,
00:08:42.900 or the fact that many of these foreigners come from countries, like Nigeria or Bangladesh,
00:08:47.680 where machete attacks are common.
00:08:50.120 If the machete attacks demonstrated anything, the Australians told us,
00:08:53.300 it's that their anti-gun laws were effective.
00:08:55.380 After all, the assailants couldn't access firearms.
00:08:57.660 They were reduced to waving machetes around at their hapless victims instead of handguns,
00:09:02.480 which is supposed to be some kind of improvement, I guess.
00:09:05.720 And therefore, because Australia doesn't have a Second Amendment,
00:09:09.040 lives were supposedly being saved.
00:09:11.740 First of all, whenever Australians or anyone else tries to make this argument,
00:09:14.920 in every single case, they'll ignore who is committing gun crime in the U.S.
00:09:20.760 and where the gun crime is happening.
00:09:23.180 Because the overwhelming majority of gun violence is committed by racial minorities 0.99
00:09:26.640 in the hood, mostly black people. 0.99
00:09:29.160 I mean, that's a statistical fact. 0.95
00:09:31.780 In other words, the very same Australians who will tell you that a white Australia policy 0.90
00:09:36.220 was hardly racist and that no country should ever implement anything remotely like it ever again,
00:09:40.900 will also turn around and fault the United States for crimes that are overwhelmingly committed 0.96
00:09:45.200 by non-whites. 0.87
00:09:47.540 They're trying to have it both ways.
00:09:48.820 They want America to become a non-white country as quickly as possible, 1.00
00:09:52.940 even though, as we've seen, the inevitable result of that kind of policy in every case
00:09:57.440 is more violence.
00:10:00.240 It's true here.
00:10:01.160 It's true in Canada, the U.K., and it's true in Australia, as we saw on Sunday.
00:10:05.620 Australia's gun laws did not, in fact, prevent mass-murdering Islamists from gunning down Jews on Sunday.
00:10:11.760 The shooter is a father and son named Sajid and Naveed Akram, who's confirmed as a Pakistani national,
00:10:19.180 in case you couldn't tell from the Australian-sounding name,
00:10:22.820 legally possessed six firearms, including bolt-action rifles and what appears to be pump-action shotguns.
00:10:29.860 But the gun laws did prevent the victims from defending themselves in any meaningful way.
00:10:36.420 At one point, a bystander charged in and managed to disarm the shooter,
00:10:42.140 as you've probably seen this incredible footage.
00:10:45.740 But it appeared that he didn't know how to work the bolt-action rifle,
00:10:49.540 or maybe he didn't try to shoot, or he didn't want to shoot.
00:10:53.380 Maybe he was worried about the fact that he's in Australia,
00:10:56.560 and if he kills an actual terrorist, that he's going to go to prison.
00:11:02.000 So, for whatever the reason, he didn't shoot the guy.
00:11:04.460 And so the jihadist simply retreated and grabbed another firearm and kept shooting.
00:11:11.200 Watch.
00:11:13.220 The gentleman who raced into the scene to disarm one of the gunmen,
00:11:18.800 we're just learning some details about him because he has been shot.
00:11:21.940 Now, we are confident in saying that that is him.
00:11:25.440 One of his relatives has just spoken to one of our reporters.
00:11:28.600 We've got an interview coming in.
00:11:29.980 We understand that this gentleman's name is Ahmed Al-Ahmed.
00:11:32.700 He's a 43-year-old married father of two, and he raced in to help.
00:11:40.000 We understand, apparently, he owns a fruit shop in Sutherland.
00:11:43.020 No experience with guns.
00:11:44.000 He was just walking past.
00:11:45.580 We are told that he has two bullets in his arm, but they think he's going to be okay.
00:11:49.900 Now, a couple of things about that.
00:11:57.880 I mean, you heard the guy's name.
00:11:59.420 And so the leftists on social media, in particular, who are big believers that diversity is our strength,
00:12:07.380 are saying that, well, a Muslim saved lives.
00:12:10.860 And I don't think we actually know this guy's Muslim.
00:12:12.900 I mean, it's based on the name.
00:12:13.980 It seems like a safe assumption, although we don't know it for a fact.
00:12:18.620 Now, the problem with saying that is that, well, so what? 0.95
00:12:22.240 We need to import Muslims so they can stop other Muslims from shooting and killing innocent civilians? 1.00
00:12:28.940 Is that the argument? 0.99
00:12:30.000 It's a little bit of a tortured argument.
00:12:32.140 And then the other reality, unfortunately, is that, as we said, I mean, it's a great, it takes a lot of courage to go and tackle a guy who's got a gun.
00:12:42.680 I mean, that's incredible, incredible courage.
00:12:44.400 No question about it.
00:12:46.840 But then the terrorists just left and picked up another gun and started shooting.
00:12:51.620 So that raises a lot of questions, a lot of points.
00:12:54.820 And one of them is that if this man or any other victim had been allowed to legally own handguns in Australia,
00:13:00.880 then this shooting would have been over very quickly.
00:13:06.220 You know, it wouldn't have gone on for 20 minutes.
00:13:10.500 I mean, imagine if the good Samaritan there had been able to sneak up from behind him,
00:13:14.540 and rather than wrestling, having to wrestle a gun, like get into a fight for his life with his bare hands,
00:13:20.260 if he just had his own handgun.
00:13:21.700 Of course, then you also need laws that would allow people to kill terrorists without then, you know,
00:13:29.740 going to prison for the rest of their lives.
00:13:33.000 But that's the thing.
00:13:35.220 You know, there were a thousand people on the beach nearby.
00:13:37.840 One of them, if anyone was allowed to own handguns, would have shot these terrorists or at least forced them to retreat.
00:13:44.200 And that's not an academic or theoretical point.
00:13:46.680 A few years ago, a mass shooter walked into a church in Texas armed with a shotgun.
00:13:51.200 And six seconds after he opened fire, he was shot and killed by armed parishioners.
00:13:55.420 They all swarmed him with their handguns, preventing a mass casualty event.
00:14:00.000 Watch.
00:14:00.760 Video captures the moment a gunman wearing a dark hoodie emerges from a back pew,
00:14:05.840 drawing his gun and firing inside this Texas church during Sunday morning service.
00:14:10.160 The gunshots sparking panic in the pews.
00:14:16.440 Worshippers seen ducking for cover. 0.56
00:14:18.720 One man covering his wife with his own body.
00:14:21.360 Six seconds into the shooting, two members of the church security team returned fire,
00:14:25.940 hitting the gunman, dropping him to the ground.
00:14:28.500 911 calls came shortly before 11 a.m.
00:14:31.160 Active threat, 1900 South Las Vegas Trail.
00:14:36.260 Inside the church, at least five other parishioners pulled out handguns and carefully approached a fallen gunman.
00:14:42.520 One man kicks away his gun and picks it up.
00:14:44.880 It was a sad thing that he had to come into the congregation and hurt people,
00:14:48.100 and it's a sad thing that we had to hurt him.
00:14:49.780 Now, you usually don't hear much about stories like this, even though they happen actually pretty frequently.
00:14:56.020 It's in the left's interest to mock the idea of a good guy with a gun and act like it's a cliche, but it's not.
00:15:02.240 It's just simple logic.
00:15:03.520 Good guys with guns can stop bad guys with guns.
00:15:05.660 I mean, that's not, might be a cliche, but it happens to be true. 0.60
00:15:10.180 You know, what they don't have to do is stare blankly ahead at the people trying to murder them,
00:15:14.600 which is what happened on Sunday.
00:15:16.820 Watch this.
00:15:19.780 Oh my God, get down, get down. 0.98
00:15:22.340 Boys, get down. 0.99
00:15:25.300 Oh my God.
00:15:30.940 Now, unfortunately, it was not just the bystanders who froze when the shooting started.
00:15:35.400 Again, this attack went on for a long time, more than 15 minutes by some estimates.
00:15:40.640 And it took place within walking distance of a police station.
00:15:45.120 And here's the map that you can see.
00:15:47.660 The police station was right there.
00:15:50.920 Now, imagine using one of those safe trade zones or a safe exchange center after seeing
00:15:56.420 something like this.
00:15:57.620 If the police aren't going to respond quickly to a mass shooting next door, what are they
00:16:02.880 going to do if somebody robs you during your Craigslist sale?
00:16:05.780 It's not exactly confidence building.
00:16:09.460 Now, in short, there's no excuse as to why the entire police department wasn't running
00:16:16.020 towards these attackers within seconds.
00:16:19.480 How is this thing not over in 30 seconds, let alone 20 minutes?
00:16:22.820 But they were allowed to just pick people off with impunity.
00:16:28.400 I watched a video that many people see now where the two shooters stood on a bridge, like
00:16:34.640 just firing for five straight minutes, casually, just kind of standing there.
00:16:41.540 And here's an image of what one of the police officers was doing during that time.
00:16:46.240 If you're wondering where they all were, well, she was hiding behind a vehicle in a tactical
00:16:53.460 sense, of course.
00:16:54.240 This is a very tactical maneuver, you see, to just cower behind a vehicle while the bad
00:16:59.260 guy continues to slaughter innocent civilians at will.
00:17:04.000 And indeed, according to one witness, police officers, some of whom appear to be women,
00:17:07.960 simply did nothing while the attack was unfolding.
00:17:11.660 Listen.
00:17:11.780 Can you tell me what happened?
00:17:14.520 There was two shooters, one on the bridge, one under the bridge, just out to shoot for
00:17:19.360 20 minutes.
00:17:20.100 They shoot, shoot, change, change the magazine and just shoot.
00:17:25.780 Simple as that.
00:17:27.200 20 minutes, there was four policemen there.
00:17:29.460 Nobody gave fire back.
00:17:31.600 Nothing.
00:17:32.140 Like, they froze for, it looked like 20 minutes.
00:17:36.600 And they shoot, the guy changed magazine.
00:17:38.660 I look at him all the time.
00:17:39.600 Now, as Douglas Mackey said, this really is the mass shooting that has everything.
00:17:44.220 You've got the jihadis imported from abroad in the name of multiculturalism. 0.99
00:17:47.680 You've got a nation with one of the most aggressive forms of gun control imaginable that somehow
00:17:51.200 failed to prevent the jihadis from assembling a small arsenal.
00:17:55.160 You've got the DEI police officers who spend most of their time arresting grandmothers for
00:18:00.820 being racist online, ducking for cover as the jihadis indiscriminately open fire in broad
00:18:06.420 daylight for 20 minutes.
00:18:07.340 You couldn't invent a better scenario to expose the complete incompetence of Australia's government
00:18:13.160 and the abject failure of the leftist ideology that's taken hold there and everywhere else
00:18:19.320 across the West.
00:18:21.140 And yet, in the aftermath of the shooting, we all know how the Australian government and
00:18:24.420 probably the Australian people are going to respond.
00:18:27.540 They're not going to fault the police department for doing nothing.
00:18:30.560 They're not going to fault their government for importing Muslims from the third world. 1.00
00:18:34.060 They're not going to address any of the reasons this attack occurred.
00:18:37.820 Instead, they're going to punish the native population.
00:18:40.760 They're going to try to ban all firearms for civilian use, including bolt-action rifles and
00:18:45.180 shotguns.
00:18:46.260 They're going to attempt to completely disarm Australians and eliminate the right to possess 1.00
00:18:50.480 any firearms at all.
00:18:52.880 They're going to say that while they made tremendous strides in reducing gun violence by banning most
00:18:58.340 rifles and handguns, well, now they have to go all the way and ban every other firearm as well.
00:19:03.100 And exhibit A, in their argument, will be this footage.
00:19:20.220 So they're going to play that footage on repeat as evidence that bolt-action rifles can be just
00:19:24.660 as dangerous as those dastardly AR-15s.
00:19:27.720 And of course, that's true.
00:19:29.580 And you know, it's always true.
00:19:31.100 A bolt-action rifle, especially in the hands of an experienced shooter, can easily result
00:19:35.020 in, you know, even more fatalities than an AR-15.
00:19:38.260 The hunting rifle shoots bigger bullets with more power.
00:19:41.580 It might have a slower rate of fire, but not by that much.
00:19:44.920 A lot of Australians probably didn't realize that until today.
00:19:48.240 But now it's pretty obvious.
00:19:50.540 The problem is not simply that once you ban all civilian ownership of firearms, you make
00:19:54.900 it impossible for farmers to protect their livestock and land.
00:19:58.460 The problem is not simply that feral pigs will destroy the crops.
00:20:02.020 Wild dogs will kill the sheep.
00:20:04.260 The problem is not simply that the entire industry of recreational hunting will disappear overnight,
00:20:08.320 along with tens of thousands of jobs.
00:20:10.060 Make no mistake, those are very real and catastrophic outcomes, but they're not the worst part.
00:20:14.540 The real problem is that once you ban all civilian ownership of firearms, the population will become
00:20:20.040 completely defenseless.
00:20:22.320 The government, of course, will retain its firearms, firearms which its law enforcement
00:20:26.200 agents will be too afraid to actually use against the bad guys.
00:20:30.520 And they'll have no problem using those firearms to enforce, you know, the next lockdown or free
00:20:35.200 speech crackdown.
00:20:36.920 The foreign invaders, meanwhile, will keep every firearm they own, which appears to be a large 1.00
00:20:42.380 number given that these two jihadis managed to legally possess six of them.
00:20:47.060 So there's no doubt about that.
00:20:51.240 The only people who will be subjugated, as always, are the law-abiding Australians, who
00:20:57.160 are still pretending that Robert Menzies was wrong back in 1955.
00:21:03.260 And they're entitled to that opinion, of course.
00:21:06.000 They're entitled to believe that borders are racist and that firearms are the root of their
00:21:10.860 problems.
00:21:12.460 Just one more gun ban, it'll fix everything, they tell themselves.
00:21:15.660 That'll be their rallying cry.
00:21:19.380 And it will be the last rallying cry in Australian politics for all time, because once they fully
00:21:25.780 eliminate the right to bear arms, what's left of Australian democracy will die along with
00:21:32.020 it.
00:21:33.220 The lesson for Americans, once again, is to prevent the slippery slope from taking hold in the
00:21:39.580 first place.
00:21:40.060 Once Australia committed to gun confiscation, there was no going back.
00:21:45.020 So-called assault rifle bans and restrictions on handguns are just the beginning.
00:21:49.380 The NRA, as beleaguered as the organization may be, is right about this.
00:21:53.220 Turns out that when someone is determined to kill lots of people, they're going to kill
00:21:57.320 lots of people, whether they use U-Hauls, as in the attack in France in 2016, or bolt-action
00:22:01.680 rifles, as here, or University of Texas, or the Bath School disaster in Michigan, handguns,
00:22:07.160 as in Virginia Tech, or the Charleston Church, pump shotguns, as in the Navy Yard shooting,
00:22:12.660 et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
00:22:13.740 Australia has made the fatal mistake of allowing foreign terrorists into their country while 1.00
00:22:19.780 preventing the populace from defending itself.
00:22:23.240 And they've done this on the theory that rules are sufficient in and of themselves to
00:22:30.580 establish order, but that's not true.
00:22:32.780 Rules are not enough.
00:22:35.200 You also need to ensure that your country is full of people who are willing to follow those
00:22:40.200 rules.
00:22:40.540 And in that very important respect, Australia has clearly failed.
00:22:47.600 And Sunday was a very important reminder of what will happen in this country if we repeat
00:22:52.960 their mistake.
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00:25:27.760 Let's start with some entertainment news, kind of lighten things up a little bit.
00:25:31.520 Although I'm afraid to say this is not positive entertainment news.
00:25:34.960 This is news of the new adaptation of the George Orwell classic Animal Farm, which of course,
00:25:41.940 when it was written in 1945 or 1946 or whatever it was, 1940s, it was meant to be a grim, stark
00:25:51.240 allegory, a warning about communism, as I think everyone knows.
00:25:57.100 And the new Animal Farm is directed by Andy Serkis, the guy who played Gollum in Lord of the Rings.
00:26:04.100 And it's another one of those animated films with a star-studded voice cast.
00:26:10.220 Seth Rogen, for some reason, I don't know why he keeps getting these voice acting roles.
00:26:15.740 His voice is incredibly annoying.
00:26:17.200 Steve Buscemi, Glenn Close, Woody Harrelson, a bunch of big names.
00:26:20.580 None of whom are, you know, have any real talent for voice acting because movie studios don't hire
00:26:27.720 actual voice actors anymore.
00:26:29.260 I mean, they stopped doing that a long time ago.
00:26:30.640 They just hire regular actors because they value the name recognition over the craft,
00:26:35.280 the art itself of voice acting, even though voice acting is an art.
00:26:39.400 But anyway, that's the least of our problems here when it comes to this movie, if we can
00:26:47.280 call it that.
00:26:48.520 Here's a little bit of the trailer watch.
00:26:54.460 Hi, Lucky.
00:26:59.480 What's up?
00:26:59.880 We are going on vacation.
00:27:02.760 I do hope it's somewhere good.
00:27:05.260 What does that say?
00:27:06.380 Laughter house.
00:27:07.620 That sounds awesome.
00:27:08.880 I love to laugh.
00:27:12.220 It's a slaughterhouse.
00:27:14.900 Look at all this deliciousness.
00:27:17.400 They want this.
00:27:18.640 Do you want to be food or do you want freedom?
00:27:22.240 Freedom!
00:27:22.620 Let's fight for it.
00:27:24.320 We're free.
00:27:30.820 Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.
00:27:36.120 Four legs good, two legs bad.
00:27:38.860 No animal shall wear clothes.
00:27:41.620 Hoth.
00:27:42.120 What? 0.99
00:27:42.620 We're show pigs.
00:27:44.040 And all animals are equal. 0.58
00:27:47.080 Animals running a farm?
00:27:55.000 I had to see it for myself.
00:27:56.660 Thank you.
00:27:57.840 Aw, so cute.
00:27:59.320 Activate cute eyes. 0.99
00:28:00.340 I'd rather gouge them out.
00:28:01.700 I want that farm.
00:28:08.460 We should move into the farmhouse.
00:28:10.040 So the humans know...
00:28:10.940 That's enough of that.
00:28:12.420 So I don't think I've ever seen a movie that so thoroughly fails to capture the tone and meaning
00:28:17.860 of the original work that it's based on.
00:28:19.640 I mean, we've seen many attempts at adaptations that have failed spectacularly, but I don't think
00:28:29.560 we've ever seen one that is quite this off, even just tonally.
00:28:33.500 So they've taken this masterpiece of literature, which was supposed to be a warning about communism,
00:28:38.640 and they've turned it into this slapstick, kid-friendly, zootopia type of thing with pop music and fart jokes.
00:28:48.860 And worst of all, and most predictably of all, they've completely removed the core message, the point, about communism.
00:28:57.720 And apparently in this film, they've invented a new villain who is, of course, a rich white capitalist
00:29:04.120 scheming to take over the farm or whatever, which, if you've never read the book, or if it's been a long time,
00:29:11.520 you read it in middle school or something, that villain is not in that book.
00:29:17.000 And it's even worse than it appears in the trailer.
00:29:19.500 The Telegraph has this report on it.
00:29:21.900 It says,
00:29:22.840 In this CGI retelling, Circus, who rose to prominence as Gollum, Lord of the Rings,
00:29:27.400 has said he wanted to make Orwell's work accessible and not overtly political
00:29:31.240 and suitable for a modern audience.
00:29:35.220 He would take a political allegory and make it not political.
00:29:38.820 Okay, so you just want to make a different movie, is what you want to do.
00:29:42.820 So you just want to make a movie about animals on a farm.
00:29:45.920 You can do that.
00:29:47.020 You know what?
00:29:47.660 You can just make a movie.
00:29:48.600 You don't have to call it Animal Farm.
00:29:50.220 There are a million titles that would work. 0.80
00:29:52.020 You just want to make a movie about silly animals on a farm 0.93
00:29:55.040 and a big, evil billionaire person who's trying to take over the farm. 0.93
00:29:59.580 You can make that movie.
00:30:01.660 Just go make that movie. 0.97
00:30:03.580 You don't have to call it Animal Farm.
00:30:07.380 Rather than serving as a critique of totalitarian Soviet Russia,
00:30:10.300 the film shifts its focus towards the dangers of capitalism and corporate corruption.
00:30:16.740 And then Circus has also sought to give the story a more optimistic ending,
00:30:20.300 explaining why at a roundtable discussion in July, he said,
00:30:23.960 We wanted some hope.
00:30:24.840 In the final scenes, Lucky confronts Napoleon, Orwell's Joseph Stalin figure,
00:30:30.860 voiced incongruously by Seth Rogen,
00:30:36.220 before the animals overthrow their pig leaders and plan for a better future.
00:30:41.140 Dear Lord.
00:30:41.940 I mean, you remember one of the greatest final lines in the history of Western literature,
00:30:50.700 where it says,
00:30:51.160 The creatures outside look from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again,
00:30:55.480 but already it was impossible to say which is which.
00:30:57.940 And that's the end of the actual book.
00:31:01.060 Not a hopeful end.
00:31:02.080 It wasn't meant to be.
00:31:03.780 So they've gotten rid of that in favor of some kind of message about unity and friendship or whatever.
00:31:09.060 Um, I mean, this is like doing that, especially to the end of the story.
00:31:17.420 It's like if they re, it's exactly like if they remade The Godfather as a slapstick children's movie.
00:31:25.620 And rather than the iconic end of part one, I mean, part two has an iconic end too,
00:31:29.820 but part one, one of the greatest film endings, maybe the greatest of all time,
00:31:33.820 where we see, you know, from Michael Corleone's wife, wife's perspective,
00:31:37.860 and we see Michael Corleone and, and, and, you know, he gives his hand to a guy,
00:31:42.260 he calls him Godfather, and then they shut the door, you know, and it's just a great ending.
00:31:47.500 And it's like, it's like if they, if they made a remake of that, took that out.
00:31:51.820 And instead at the end, it's like if, if Michael Corleone started dancing to a black eyed peas song,
00:32:00.660 and then his wife joins in and then Michael Corleone does the moonwalk and,
00:32:07.140 and Clemenza sees it and turns to Fredo and says, uh, that just happened.
00:32:13.860 And they start dancing too. It's like that. It's like, that's basically what they did.
00:32:20.360 I hate everything. Even aside from like losing the message of the story,
00:32:23.740 which is the whole reason it exists. It's also just bad in every other way.
00:32:28.600 And that's so much of kids entertainment today. I mean, again, putting aside the message,
00:32:34.360 which usually a lot of times the message is bad, but, um, it's just, it's, it's the animation sucks. 0.78
00:32:41.720 It's dull. It's lifeless, bland, boring, lazy. The humor is the same jokes from every other animated 0.99
00:32:48.000 kids movie that's ever been made. I guarantee there's a scene. I'm going to call this right now.
00:32:52.960 I guarantee there's a scene in this movie. Guarantee it. But I put a thousand dollars on this
00:32:57.020 movie where one of the animals is complaining about Napoleon, the pig, and then Napoleon
00:33:03.900 walks up behind him and the other animal goes, he's right behind me. Isn't he? I guarantee that's
00:33:10.000 that is in the movie. I guarantee it. Haven't read the script. I just know that it's in it.
00:33:16.380 Um, and you know, it's really sad. They've been developing this thing for 14 years,
00:33:20.400 a decade and a half to produce the laziest, most banal, pointless piece of crap we've ever seen 0.99
00:33:27.760 a decade and a half to desecrate George Orwell's grave. 0.99
00:33:34.020 And, uh, and not even subverting it. I mean, not even subverting it in a bold or interesting way,
00:33:41.220 but subverting it with Seth Rogen and bad puns. Horrendous, horrendous all around.
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00:34:39.300 So they're debating a euthanasia bill in the UK. And I just want to show you this moment from the
00:34:46.420 debate. I had to watch this back a couple of times because part of me couldn't believe that it was
00:34:52.140 real, but then the other part of me absolutely can believe that it's real. It is real. Turns out
00:34:58.200 anyway, I just want you to listen to this exchange here. Listen to this.
00:35:02.520 Other states around the world who have, who have had assisted dying for some time, we have 0.62
00:35:06.880 a differences of view in Oregon since 1997. Uh, the, there is a requirement to keep the mother alive
00:35:14.120 as long as possible, particularly when there is a viable fetus in the Netherlands takes a completely
00:35:20.300 different view. Uh, and that is one of fetus side where the fetus has to be terminated, uh, by one 0.97
00:35:29.020 means or another, often by intercardial injection of potassium chloride, um, before the mother can be
00:35:35.500 euthanized, which, which end of the scale does the noble and learned Lord prefer these things? Because
00:35:41.340 we are in a situation where the Royal Colleges are against this whole system. And we are, we will be
00:35:48.460 relying on them to fill in the gaps of this legislation. I think it is incumbent upon us
00:35:53.740 to fill those gaps in for them because they're not keen on this is, and the noble Lord puts it
00:36:03.240 accurately. Some countries have taken one view and other countries have taken another. It's clear
00:36:09.460 from the choice that I am supporting that we take the view that pregnancy should not be a bar to it.
00:36:18.460 Pregnancy should not be a bar to euthanasia. He says, and which is easily one of the most repugnant
00:36:28.220 things that's ever been said by anyone ever. I mean, that is a, that's murder suicide, which is probably
00:36:39.780 the darkest crime a person can commit. The amount of hate that it requires to do it.
00:36:48.260 That's like, that's a human being at, at that's hate all the way up to the brim. I mean, that's at capacity.
00:36:53.540 Capacity. I don't think a person, a human being can experience can be more hateful than that.
00:36:58.720 That you're going to take yourself out. And, uh, rather than just doing that, you're going to
00:37:03.300 take someone or a bunch of people out with you, hate and cowardice at its most extreme. Like it's
00:37:10.340 the most extreme manifestation of hate and cowardice together is a murder suicide. So, uh, and that's what
00:37:16.400 they're talking about. So, so now think about what it requires for a person to actually legally endorse
00:37:25.080 murder suicide. I mean, it's one thing to be the person committing this terrible act,
00:37:31.760 right? Which is evil. And as we said, evil and cowardice at its most extreme, but then to be
00:37:38.880 someone who's like looking back sort of coolly and calmly and casually coldly, um, and endorsing it
00:37:47.120 and saying, yeah, I'm okay with that. Yes. I'm in favor of murder suicide in some context. That's
00:37:54.560 what the guy said. And this is what's happening. You know, euthanasia is spreading like a cancer
00:37:59.740 across the Western world. I talked about this, uh, on what was on Tucker's show last week.
00:38:06.140 And we talked about this is a good conversation, by the way, if I do say so myself, so you should
00:38:10.780 go check that out on his page. But we talked about this about euthanasia and, um, it's, it's spreading
00:38:16.440 and the Western world is quite literally killing itself. And this is an issue. I mean, it's one of the
00:38:21.920 biggest issues that we face right now. It's one of the greatest threats. Um, and I mean,
00:38:29.740 euthanasia is a leading cause of death in Canada. We've talked about it on this show quite a
00:38:33.040 bit, but it isn't talked about nearly as much as it should be on the right. And I think that's,
00:38:42.520 and, and, and there's, there's, there's part of the, part of the reason why it's not talked
00:38:48.160 about among like the commentator class is that there's not a lot of interest in it.
00:38:53.960 And I know that because when I've talked about it on the show, there's not, you know, those,
00:38:57.460 those videos don't exactly, uh, take off usually, you know, it's like, you know, it's not going
00:39:03.060 to go viral. Uh, people aren't, aren't too tempted to click on that, which is fine. I think it's
00:39:09.280 worth talking about. So I'm going to talk about it. You choose to listen or not. And, um, I think
00:39:15.060 that's partly because it's so dark and so depressing and people don't want to think about it.
00:39:21.380 And, uh, honestly, another factor, and this shouldn't be a factor, but it is, but another
00:39:29.080 factor is that platforms, pretty much all of them make it really difficult to talk about an issue
00:39:33.620 like this. Like there's a reason why you hear YouTubers using absolutely awful, mind numbing
00:39:41.020 euphemisms like, uh, self delete and, you know, unalive yourself, stuff like that. Things I will,
00:39:47.380 I refuse categorically to ever say, I'll never use those terms except I just did say them, but
00:39:53.500 you know, I'm not going to use them in, in unironically. So it's hard to talk about because
00:39:58.580 it's so dark and depressing. It's also hard to talk about because of the speech restrictions,
00:40:01.740 uh, on talking about things like suicide. And on top of that, and I think that this, this really
00:40:09.740 is it. I think a lot of people, a lot of conservatives still lack the framing. They lack the language
00:40:16.760 the philosophical grounding to actually explain why it's bad. And I think that's why a lot of
00:40:24.560 conservatives avoid, especially again, commentators, pundits, whatever podcasters. Um, a lot of them
00:40:32.620 don't talk about this very much. And this is one of the reasons why is that they can't really explain
00:40:36.700 why it's bad. They know that it is intuitively, intuitively. We all recognize that it's a bad
00:40:43.160 thing, but I think a lot of people, uh, don't have the, they can't, they can't explain it.
00:40:49.600 And, um, why can't they explain it? Well, because euthanasia, it's an individual choice.
00:40:55.660 Allegedly, um, people choose to do it. Allegedly, I say allegedly, because in reality, a lot of these
00:41:02.320 people are not in the right frame of mind. So I think they cannot consent to it actually, but
00:41:06.140 in theory, they're consenting to it. It's this kind of consent based morality, which I think a lot of
00:41:13.780 people in the Western world subscribe to, even if they don't think about it or know it, including
00:41:18.360 conservatives, they subscribe to this consent based morality, which tells them that as long as
00:41:23.340 whatever is happening, as long as everybody involved consented to it, then it's automatically okay.
00:41:28.920 Which is wrong. Okay. Consent is just, that's just step one before we can determine, that's just
00:41:35.840 the, that's, that's, that's ground level, right? If you want to determine whether something is okay,
00:41:43.580 you know, two people or a group of people are engaging in something. Yeah. Well, first we need
00:41:47.740 to know that everybody involved chose to be part of it, that no one's being forced at gunpoint
00:41:51.420 into whatever this thing is, but just because they all chose, it doesn't necessarily mean that it's okay.
00:41:58.920 Because there are other, that's just the first item on the checklist, right? There are other
00:42:02.720 things on the checklist. It's not the only item, but that's what a lot of people subscribe to. And
00:42:09.940 so it, you know, euthanasia, everybody consents again. Allegedly, I'll stop saying that, but you
00:42:17.040 know, it's, I'm put the air quotes, right? Everybody consents. And also it doesn't harm anybody else,
00:42:23.380 supposedly. And, um, now in the case of a pregnant woman getting euthanasia, obviously it does harm
00:42:31.640 someone else, but generally euthanasia kills one person and, uh, and that's a person who is choosing
00:42:38.380 to be killed. And so for that reason, because conservatism is so deeply infected with the
00:42:44.460 libertarian virus, they just aren't able to articulate why it's bad. Even though, again,
00:42:51.800 intuitively we can all look at this and see human beings being systematically euthanized
00:42:57.320 at scale. We can all look at that and say, this is obviously not good. Like this is clearly not a
00:43:05.940 good thing. So let me explain why it's bad. Okay. I'll just lay this out very briefly.
00:43:13.480 There are a few very important reasons, like three, more than three, but let's talk about
00:43:18.920 three. Uh, first of all, it inverts the field of medicine. It's, it turns medicine on its head.
00:43:26.160 It, it destroys medicine, the field, it destroys the field because it turns doctors into killers.
00:43:33.500 It turns death into a treatment. And once you've turned death into treatment, you have destroyed
00:43:39.560 the concept of medicine. Just conceptually you have obliterated it because treatment is the opposite
00:43:47.740 of that. Treatment is supposed to ease human suffering and help people as much as possible
00:43:54.480 to avoid death so that it can be healed and treated. So they don't die. Um, you go to a doctor
00:44:01.580 because you don't want to die and you want to, uh, you know, you want treatment and you want to
00:44:07.020 cure whatever it is. Well, with euthanasia, it is using death as a treatment. And so, uh, life itself
00:44:16.120 becomes essentially the disease that like, what, what do we treat it? What is it? If, if euthanasia
00:44:21.660 is a valid medical procedure, well, any medical procedure treats an illness of some kind. That's
00:44:28.320 why it's medicine. Again, that's, that's what makes it medicine is that it's treating some kind
00:44:32.960 of illness. So when you give somebody a poison pill and kill them, what are you treating? What
00:44:40.080 is the illness that's being treated? Well, the illness is a life itself. That's the illness.
00:44:46.560 Once life has been turned into the illness, then medicine has been, uh, the field of medicine has
00:44:52.840 been destroyed. Uh, so that's one thing. Second thing is that it opens a door that can't be shut.
00:44:58.580 This is the slippery slope that, you know, that's, that's what it is. And that's why conservatives
00:45:05.320 who had, who were pressured enough, um, saw this years and years ago. And when euthanasia was, was,
00:45:14.580 was, uh, for the most part restricted to people who are terminally ill, who are going to be dead
00:45:19.860 anyway, very soon. That's how it always starts is with, you know, it's like you start with the old
00:45:25.020 boiling the frog thing. Temperature starts, uh, warm and gets hotter and hotter and hotter. So
00:45:30.500 originally that's what it was. And, uh, yet you had some conservatives who said,
00:45:35.820 well, yeah, it's, this is where it's starting, but it's not going to, once you have done this,
00:45:43.340 once you've opened this door or once to keep the frog analogy going, once you've turned the stove on,
00:45:48.480 it's not going to be turned back off. That's not how these things work.
00:45:51.660 And then, and then third, but, and here's really the big one. I mean, this is really the reason.
00:45:58.980 And, um, this is the kind of argument that conservatives need to be able to make, 0.71
00:46:04.020 or you are basically useless as a conservative mouthpiece. If you can't make this argument,
00:46:12.640 which is that your life is not your own. You don't have a right to end your own life.
00:46:20.420 Because your life is not yours. Your life does not belong to you. It is not a, it is not an object
00:46:30.060 that you own. And I think this is the case that so many people are unable or unwilling to make,
00:46:38.120 which makes them very ineffective generally as advocates for anything. You have to be able to
00:46:45.360 make this case. Your life is not your own. Your life is not yours. You are not some sort of atomized
00:46:52.340 individual entity that popped into existence out of the ether spontaneously. That's not what happened.
00:46:59.360 You were created by God. Your life belongs to God. Your life belongs to a force and authority,
00:47:04.840 a power far greater, infinitely greater than yourself. You know, it's kind of like on a,
00:47:13.020 on a much smaller scale and much lower stakes. Uh, it's, this is a concept that a lot of the
00:47:19.540 parents teach their kids. Um, like, you know, I've, uh, this is a speech I've given to my kids about
00:47:28.280 their bedrooms. I gave it to my daughter, this speech the other day, again, because the room was
00:47:34.860 a big mess. As always, I said, go clean it. Starts complaining. Oh, it's my room. Why can't I just
00:47:40.180 keep it how I want? Well, the answer is, well, no, no. Oh, you think it's your room? No, it's not your
00:47:47.780 room. Now you see, this is my room. This is my room. This room is my room. The closet over there,
00:47:54.520 that's my closet. And the dresser, that's my dresser. And the side table next to the bed,
00:47:58.680 it's actually mine. The bed, mine. The floor, mine. You see this little throw rug over here?
00:48:03.540 That's, that's also mine. You see all that stuff over there, all the stuff you haven't cleaned that,
00:48:07.960 you know, you, you just threw into a corner rather than cleaning it. All that stuff there is mine.
00:48:12.440 That is all mine. This whole thing is mine. The house is mine. Every square inch of this house is
00:48:16.780 mine. It's not yours. No, because you didn't buy it. You're not ultimately responsible for it.
00:48:22.500 Okay. That's me. So this is actually mine. I let you because I'm generous. I allow you
00:48:30.720 to stay in this room and use it, but it's not yours. And, uh, this is the same thing that God
00:48:41.120 says to us because we're all petulant children, uh, to God. And we all, we all say we all become much
00:48:49.220 like the whiny child in many contexts where we say, this is my, my, it's my life. It's mine.
00:48:55.120 And God says, uh, no, it's not yours. It's not yours. I give it to you. I lend it to you. I allow
00:49:01.120 you to have this amazing blessing called life, but it's not yours to just do what you want with.
00:49:09.260 This is a thing that comes with conditions,
00:49:10.800 right? I say to my kids, this is a, this is a room I've given you to stay in with, with conditions.
00:49:18.160 One of the conditions is keep it clean.
00:49:22.620 And you better follow that condition or you're not going to have this anymore.
00:49:26.460 That's it. You don't have to like it. You're also not the authority here. I am right.
00:49:31.200 Well, God says to us, you're not the authority here. I am. I give you this with conditions.
00:49:35.660 So that's the argument, you know, and by the way, your life also belongs, uh, to, uh, in a, in a less
00:49:47.700 kind of absolute sense, but it also, but still in a real sense, it belongs to your family and your
00:49:53.040 children and, you know, your spouse, your friends, even to your community, your country, you know, not,
00:49:59.380 not in the sense of, of you being owned like a slave or something like an object. That's not what I
00:50:03.780 mean. I mean that your existence comes with obligations to the people around you. And it's
00:50:09.280 not just yours. It's not this thing that you're like possessing. Um, that's, that's not what it is.
00:50:18.680 And, uh, and that's a point just about life that in, in that, that, that becomes the foundation
00:50:26.000 really for all of the arguments we make as conservatives. Anyway, it all, it all starts with that.
00:50:33.780 All of that is just a really much more wordy way of saying that you're not God.
00:50:40.060 You know, you, you, as a person, you are not God. Um, it's like the, what the priest says in,
00:50:47.520 in Rudy that I've learned two things. One is that there is a God and two is that I'm not him.
00:50:54.600 And that's, that's it. It's kind of in a lot of ways, the foundation of conservatism.
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00:51:49.520 Kentucky state representative, Sarah Stalker, which as far as I know is actually her last name.
00:51:56.400 Stalker spell, just like the crime stalking. And here's what Stalker has to say. Listen,
00:52:03.540 I'm going to be honest. I don't feel good about being white every day for a lot of reasons,
00:52:09.560 because it's a point of privilege that I get to move through the world in a way that so many of my
00:52:15.380 other colleagues and friends and family members of the community don't get the privilege to do.
00:52:21.140 And I'm just a female, but just a woman, just a white woman. If I was a white man, I would be 0.99
00:52:28.520 functioning from a point of even greater privilege. I think we're missing an opportunity when kids
00:52:35.100 have a moment to reflect about how the color of their skin does and does not allow them to move
00:52:46.260 through the world. It's running, running to them and trying to stifle that and trying to say,
00:52:53.140 you shouldn't feel bad. So we don't want to, we don't want to ever expose you to something that
00:52:57.220 is going to make you have to pause and have maybe some internal feelings. It's a missed opportunity
00:53:02.620 for some really good dialogue.
00:53:04.320 So can I just say, first of all, I really don't understand this liberal thing where they use the
00:53:12.820 phrase, I'm sure I've complained about this before, but they, this phrase move through the world,
00:53:18.480 move through spaces. I have no theory as to why every liberal midwit woman speaks this way, but they 1.00
00:53:27.200 all do. Every liberal female between the ages of like 20 and 75 uses this phrase all the time. 1.00
00:53:34.580 They're incapable of expressing their view on any subject without making some kind of statement about
00:53:41.940 how they move through the world, move through spaces or how other people do it. I don't get it.
00:53:48.720 Like, I really don't. Where does this verbal tick come from?
00:53:55.780 Like they, they, they, they can't even, they couldn't make an order at McDonald's
00:54:00.360 at the drive-thru without this jargon.
00:54:05.280 Yeah. You know, I think as a, as a woman and a member of a marginalized community, I move through the world.
00:54:12.900 I move through the world needing to eat sometimes.
00:54:15.420 And as I'm moving through these spaces, as I'm moving through the world in this body and I'm
00:54:23.040 moving through spaces and I'm occupying these spaces and I'm moving through them, I really feel
00:54:29.280 like I need a fish fillet. I don't get it. Um, but that aside, she says that she doesn't feel good
00:54:36.740 about being white every day, which is a sentiment that, uh, that she means, you know, by the way,
00:54:43.140 that's one thing I learned from making our, our last moving on my racist is that, uh, these white 0.78
00:54:48.840 guilt, these white guilt ridden white women absolutely are sincere, which I wasn't sure about. 1.00
00:54:56.920 So that became, that came as a kind of news to me. I wasn't really sure about that. Is this all
00:55:01.720 performance? Is this nothing but virtue signaling? That's the easiest way to explain it. Um, but what
00:55:08.220 I found is that, no, it seems like they really mean it. Like they're plagued by this guilt.
00:55:13.680 It's a mental illness, really more of a spiritual illness. And I thought a lot of, a lot about this
00:55:18.560 when we were making the movie. And, uh, when I was in these places, when I, when I was moving
00:55:23.540 through spaces, when I was moving through spaces, making the film and I was really moving and I was
00:55:29.660 occupying this body, this whiteness. And I was moving through spaces with my whiteness. Um, but
00:55:36.260 anyway, when I was with these types of women, every indication, as I said, was that they really 0.99
00:55:41.860 believe it. Like they, this is what they, this is, they really feel this way. They're tormented
00:55:48.660 by their guilt for being white. And I've tried really to understand it because to me, it's so,
00:55:55.480 if you're a normal person, it's so foreign to you, it's so alien. Like if you're a normal
00:56:01.900 person, the amount of time that you've spent feeling guilty about your race is, is zero
00:56:08.140 seconds of your entire life. Cumulatively. Have you ever spent feeling even remotely? You
00:56:12.380 wouldn't even know how to generate those feelings if you wanted to. So where does it come from?
00:56:19.380 And the only theory that I've been able to develop for this kind of thing is that, um,
00:56:25.480 is that it's, it's not a grift, it's not performance. It's not a virtue signal.
00:56:32.060 Now there is some, I mean, certainly there are plenty of grifters in the kind of anti-white 0.94
00:56:36.120 race hustling world for sure. But the Sarah stalkers of the world are sincere. And the only 0.67
00:56:44.740 way that I can understand that is that leftism is a religion and it, uh, is very specifically a
00:56:52.140 religion that apes and subverts Christianity. It's a religion that takes the cross of Christ 1.00
00:56:56.660 and flips it upside down because liberals are incapable of making anything for themselves.
00:57:00.720 They're incapable of building, fundamentally incapable of building anything, coming up with
00:57:05.420 their own ideas at all. So instead they steal and plagiarize and subvert. And all of the leftists,
00:57:10.720 you know, leftism is a religion. There are a lot of kind of sub religions that branch off from it
00:57:15.560 and, um, LGBT and trans and all that kind of stuff. And all of it is kind of like models itself
00:57:22.340 after Christianity, but, but as a, as a mockery of Christianity, because that's all they're capable 0.77
00:57:26.600 of doing is just mocking things is aping and mocking and imitating. Uh, they cannot make anything
00:57:32.420 on their own. So that's what they've done here. And, and so this white guilt stuff, it's like, uh,
00:57:38.680 this is their, their doctrine of original sin. You know, this is except that in this case,
00:57:44.080 because it's a, it's a mockery, it's an inversion instead of original sin being universal among all 0.93
00:57:49.480 humans, it is specific to white people. You know, we are stained by original sin, uh, the original sin 1.00
00:57:57.020 of whiteness. And that is the original. It's not even that the original sin is slavery or something 0.85
00:58:01.720 is the original sin is whiteness itself. The original sin is just being white. And, um, you know, 0.95
00:58:08.560 that idea resonates with white liberal women quite a bit. I think if I, if I were to go even deeper in 1.00
00:58:14.280 my psychoanalysis of them, uh, I think it's because they feel a lot of guilt. They have a lot of guilt
00:58:19.400 in their hearts. Everyone has guilt in, in their hearts to some extent, extent, because none of us
00:58:23.900 are perfect. We do bad things. You feel some guilt about that. Everyone feels that. Uh, now, if you're
00:58:31.020 a Christian, there's something that you can do with that guilt. You have a way of understanding it.
00:58:34.340 Uh, you can confess, you can be forgiven. But if you're, you know, secularist, uh, anti-Christian
00:58:43.880 liberal, you have really nothing to do with it. You have no way of understanding it except in this
00:58:48.340 kind of racial framework. And I also, I also think that these liberal women, they, uh, they have a lot 1.00
00:58:54.580 of guilt. They have like a lot of, a lot of actual guilt in their hearts because their religion,
00:58:58.940 leftism encourages them to do evil, terrible things. I mean, you know, so many of these women, 1.00
00:59:06.400 a huge number of them. I mean, we'll never know how many, I think it'd be, if we, if we knew we
00:59:09.580 would be, it's probably better. We don't know, but a huge number of these women have killed their 1.00
00:59:13.300 children, huge number of them. And, uh, so let's start with that. I mean, they're, they're walking
00:59:20.500 around with that, an immense amount of guilt, but they can't face that that is what's causing the guilt.
00:59:27.440 So instead they, they feel the guilt. They have all these terrible things they've done. I mean,
00:59:31.460 the most unspeakable things liberal women have done, uh, are responsible for some of the most 1.00
00:59:37.380 unspeakable evils the world has ever seen. And, um, and they, so they carry this around, but they
00:59:44.100 can't, they don't know, they, they can't connect those dots. Their religion forbids them from doing
00:59:49.740 so. And so they look for some other, well, why am I feeling this way? You know, why am I feeling
00:59:56.100 this way? Oh, it's because I'm white. It also allows you to kind of offload the guilt. Cause
01:00:01.720 now it's not really about anything you've done. Yeah. Okay. You've like aborted three
01:00:05.980 of your kids or something. And that's something that you've done. So I'm not going to face that
01:00:09.720 instead. Oh, I feel guilty cause I'm white. And it will, it's not, you know, it's not anything
01:00:13.120 I, it's not my fault. I didn't do it. Um, so it allows you to kind of offload it, make
01:00:18.960 it about something else. It kind of depersonalizes the guilt. And I think that that's a lot of what's
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01:01:46.400 target. All right. Finally, I just want to play this. James O'Keefe put out another investigation
01:01:54.860 and I want to show you the part at the end. This clip has gone viral, I think for good reason.
01:02:00.620 And it's one of the funniest, sneaking in at the buzzer here, one of the funniest clips of the
01:02:06.500 year. This is where James, I'm not even sure who he's, who the, the, the target of this sting
01:02:12.220 operation is. Maybe it'll come up on the screen, but this is where he reveals his true identity to
01:02:16.580 this person and let's just watch how that plays out. Yeah. Um, well, the thing is, is that, um, I
01:02:28.940 actually am James O'Keefe. Yeah. No, I'm not. I'm not James O'Keefe. I am really. Yes. And you, you
01:02:41.860 don't know that. It's just, it's great. Everything about it. Uh, perfect, like a perfect sitcom, perfect
01:03:05.720 sitcom moment, except real. So if you're listening to the audio only, you missed out because, uh,
01:03:11.420 James O'Keefe is at dinner with this guy, you know, the classic, like O'Keefe, uh, set up here.
01:03:18.140 And I think this, the guy's name is Jonathan Franklin. He's a professor or something. I think
01:03:21.900 that's what the, I think the name, that's the name that came up. So let's just call him Jonathan.
01:03:26.620 And, uh, so this guy, so Jonathan has expressed apparently worry about being caught up in an O'Keefe
01:03:33.380 sting. And meanwhile, James is sitting there. The only disguise he has on is a pair of glasses,
01:03:40.040 not, not even a wig, nothing. He's just sitting there. Hasn't changed his voice. He's not,
01:03:45.180 he's not putting on some kind of fake accent. Um, you know, not, not wearing a COVID mask,
01:03:50.600 like just sitting there with all these guys that wear a pair of glasses on. And the other
01:03:55.860 guy doesn't recognize him. It's like the Superman Clark Kent thing. The other guy doesn't recognize,
01:04:00.820 it pulls his glasses off. And only then does the other guy start to connect it. And then he gets
01:04:07.560 up and tries to run away and falls as he's running away. It's a little late for that. I'll never
01:04:11.660 understand when they run away like that. Like you're already on camera. You had a whole conversation.
01:04:17.760 Where are you going? Why are you running? You can't run from this. Now, if it were me and I don't want
01:04:23.600 to give any, uh, tips to, uh, cause I want James O'Keefe to continue doing his great work, but
01:04:28.420 you know, well, first of all, okay. A few things at this point, if you're in DC or I don't know if
01:04:37.720 this is in DC or not, but if you're in any of these major like metropolitan cities and you're
01:04:43.480 on a date with someone, well, first of all, if he looks exactly like James O'Keefe, like he probably
01:04:49.420 is, but even, but you know, if it's one of the things, if James O'Keefe has called in one of his,
01:04:54.320 uh, female undercover reports, you're on a date with someone you've never seen them before. You don't 1.00
01:04:58.260 know who they are. And they're asking all kinds of really probing questions about what you do for
01:05:03.200 work. At this point, you should just assume that you're, that there's a camera somewhere. You
01:05:09.320 should just assume that the other thing, cause you should also understand that most people are
01:05:16.320 for someone to be asking a lot of questions about you. Almost no one is like that in real life
01:05:23.880 because people are much more self-centered than that. Like no one's actually interested,
01:05:29.120 interested in you. You're sitting there at dinner. This is the first person probably in
01:05:33.620 your entire life. Who's actually like really interested in what you do. That should tell
01:05:38.200 you something. But if somehow you still get caught, you know, if it were me and I got O'Keefe'd,
01:05:45.920 which I wouldn't, cause I wouldn't be going on a date with a man in the first place.
01:05:49.520 Um, or with anyone except my wife, but I'm just saying my move would be after the reveal,
01:05:57.160 he goes, well, I'm James O'Keefe. I would say, you gotta think on your feet, but I would
01:06:04.300 immediately say, yeah, I know. I know you're James O'Keefe. I've actually been doing a sting
01:06:08.920 operation on you this whole time. Okay. You thought you were stinging me. I was stinging
01:06:13.520 you. No, I only said that stuff cause I wanted you to say stuff that was embarrassing for
01:06:18.200 you. So you didn't get me. I got you. I'm not fired. I quit. No, it was that kind of
01:06:24.480 move. I'm not saying it's worth a shot. I'm not saying, I mean, it's, it's, it's a desperation
01:06:28.300 move. It's a Hail Mary, but that's better than running away. I mean, you're running away. You
01:06:33.020 can't, you are, they already have the footage and that all you're doing is, is confirming
01:06:37.920 your guilt. You're confirming that everything you said was true and you're ashamed of it.
01:06:42.320 Just play it out. Act like you've been here before. Or you could just say, yeah, I know
01:06:49.660 you're James O'Keefe. I thought, you know, it's fine. I got nothing to hide. I thought
01:06:52.780 that we were just having a nice dinner. What's the problem anyway? But everyone sees that clip
01:06:59.680 and they wonder how the guy was fooled by the least elaborate disguise of all time. And, uh,
01:07:04.740 not to bring it back to, am I racist again? But I can speak to this a little bit because,
01:07:08.640 uh, we did the same thing with am I racist? And, um, and I get the same questions all
01:07:13.620 the time. People watch that movie and just like they watch this clip, I saw some comments
01:07:19.160 to that clip, like this has got to be staged. There's like, there's no way. I mean, the
01:07:22.420 guy would have known, he knows what James O'Keefe is. All he had was glasses on. Like
01:07:25.460 he must've known. And I get those comments sometimes like this movie has to be staged.
01:07:29.500 I mean, they must've known it was you. It's not staged. It's all real. And, uh, all I did
01:07:34.420 was put on a wig and we got into places with people who knew who I was and yet didn't recognize
01:07:40.600 me. How is that possible? Well, I'll, let me give you the scientific answer. And it's
01:07:48.100 this, you want to know how, let me just answer this question. Cause I get a question all the
01:07:51.320 time and I'll answer for James O'Keefe too. I know it gets, gets, gets asked this even
01:07:55.320 more often than I do. Let me tell you why. Here's, here's how it works. A lot of people
01:08:01.860 are stupid. Okay. That's, that's it. How can they be fooled just by glasses or just by a 1.00
01:08:10.040 wig? Well, a lot of people are stupid. Okay. Like you, you might think, you know, that people 1.00
01:08:17.680 are stupid, but they are so much stupider than you realize. Not everyone. There's a lot 1.00
01:08:22.800 of smart people out there. A lot of people smarter than me. That's not a high bar to
01:08:26.860 get over at all, but there is a great mass of dumbness. And this is the key point. A 0.98
01:08:34.500 lot of the dumbest people are those who've risen to positions of authority and influence 0.99
01:08:39.680 like the kinds of people that James O'Keefe is going to go after, or that might appear 0.99
01:08:43.800 in one of my movies, which makes the job of investigative journalists, or in my case, you
01:08:48.800 know, comedic documentary filmmakers easier than it's ever been. Uh, which is why I always
01:08:56.660 wondered, there's not more people doing this. Not that I want more people to do it, but,
01:08:59.580 um, it it's, it's incredibly easy. These people are very dumb and not just dumb, but vain and 1.00
01:09:07.980 narcissistic. Okay. Which means you can easily manipulate them. You know, that's how we got 1.00
01:09:13.840 Robin DiAngelo and everyone else in the movie. Uh, because we had faith that first of all,
01:09:18.700 they're stupid. And second of all, all you really got to do is compliment them and you'll 1.00
01:09:24.660 win their trust. It really is that easy. So you could have someone who's like, this is
01:09:29.580 a little weird. I don't know what's going on. I don't know. Who are you? What are you doing
01:09:32.420 here? Oh, don't worry about it. By the way, I just want to tell you, I really appreciate
01:09:37.120 your work. I think you're, I think you're great. And they'll say, Oh, well, thank you
01:09:42.260 so much. Let me tell you some more about myself. It's all it takes. And now consider the consequences
01:09:50.860 of having dumb, easily manipulated people in positions of power. Consider that, that this, 0.99
01:09:58.700 these are the people who are running so many of our institutions, very dumb, very easily 1.00
01:10:06.960 manipulated, um, very susceptible to flattery, extremely vain and shallow. And these are the 1.00
01:10:15.900 people who are running so many of our institutions and, uh, consider, consider all the consequences
01:10:22.620 of that. A lot of bad consequences, good consequences though. We get funny videos. So that's something.
01:10:28.700 That's something at least that'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks
01:10:33.060 for listening. Talk to you tomorrow. Have a great day. Godspeed.
01:10:45.780 Oh, this is an illusion, an echo of a voice that has died. And soon that echo will cease.
01:10:58.700 They say that Merlin is mad. They say he was a king in Dovid, the son of a princess of lost
01:11:17.700 Atlantis. They say the future and the past are known to him. That the fire and the wind tell
01:11:26.020 him their secrets. That the magic of the hillfolk and druids come forth at his easy command.
01:11:34.160 They say he slew hundreds. Hundreds do you hear? That the world burned and trembled at his wrath.
01:11:42.520 The Merlin died long before you and I were born. Merlin Emrys has returned to the land of the living.
01:11:57.340 Fortigan is gone. Rome is gone. The Saxon is here. 0.98
01:12:02.740 The Saxon Hengist has assembled the greatest war host ever seen in the Island of the Mighty. 0.98
01:12:08.220 And before the summer is through, he means to take the throne. And he will have it.
01:12:14.760 If we are too busy squabbling amongst ourselves to take up arms against him, here is your hope.
01:12:21.160 A king will arise to hold all Britain in his hand. A high king. He will be the wonder of the world.
01:12:27.500 You. To a future of peace.
01:12:35.880 There will be no peace in these lands till we are all dust.
01:12:39.660 Men of the Island of the Mighty, you stand together.
01:12:44.820 You stand as Britons.
01:12:47.980 You stand as one.
01:12:49.460 Get down! 0.98
01:12:49.880 Great darkness is falling upon this land.
01:12:56.040 These brothers are our only hope to stand against it.
01:13:00.380 Not our only hope.
01:13:03.260 They say Merlin slew 70 men with his own hands.
01:13:07.460 And Gathay, he slew 500.
01:13:11.500 No man is capable of such a thing.
01:13:14.520 No mortal man.
01:13:15.380 No reason for...
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01:13:29.980 I have not doubted.
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01:13:34.400 It's always.
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01:13:43.580 No doubt.
01:13:44.320 No doubt.
01:13:44.660 No doubt.