The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1708 - Violent Migrants Are Invading And Western Leaders Are Surrendering Without A Fight

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, after the Islamist attack in Australia, France has shut down its

00:00:04.360 traditional New Year celebration for fear of violent attacks by Arab migrants. Also,

00:00:08.640 Trump provokes outrage by attacking Rob Reiner moments after he was murdered by his son.

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00:01:35.800 Under normal circumstances, it would be strange for me to begin the show by announcing that the

00:01:41.160 French have surrendered in the face of a serious challenge. Making a big deal out of a French 1.00

00:01:46.060 surrender would be like talking about a Canadian who profusely apologizes, or a Russian who gets 0.90

00:01:51.320 drunk, or a North Korean who loves Dear Leader, or a young black male who gets himself into some 0.62

00:01:57.040 legal trouble. These kinds of things happen every day, and if I devoted any amount of time to

00:02:02.000 cataloging all of the times in which the French have waved the white flag, well, we just wouldn't 0.53

00:02:06.620 have time to discuss anything else. But today, we're going to talk about a French surrender, because

00:02:10.940 this particular retreat has ramifications for the West at large, and in particular for the United

00:02:16.560 States. The French government has just announced that for the first time, they're going to cancel

00:02:22.380 their traditional midnight concert on New Year's Eve along the iconic Champs-Élysées in Paris,

00:02:29.740 which usually draws a crowd of more than a million people. And I even think that I might have

00:02:34.120 pronounced that somewhat correctly, which is the greatest shock of all. So they're still going to

00:02:38.220 have the fireworks at midnight, but they're urging everyone to stay at home instead of attending any

00:02:44.120 parade on the avenue. Why are they canceling the traditional parade, you might ask? Well, here's the New York

00:02:48.700 post with the explanation that you've probably guessed already. Quote, the famed avenue has become

00:02:53.880 a flashpoint of violence lately, with throngs of young, mostly Muslim migrants streaming in 1.00

00:02:58.060 from Paris's infamous suburbs at night looking for trouble, looting luxury stores and brawling with

00:03:03.720 Parisians and police. The Paris police, which pressed the mayor to scrap the concert, cited security

00:03:08.620 concerns such as unpredictable crowd movements without going into details. Even open-air Christmas markets

00:03:14.040 are being treated as high-risk targets by France's interior minister. In an urgent letter to

00:03:18.600 state officials, he warned of a very high terror threat, citing groups like al-Qaeda and ISIS and

00:03:23.360 ordered beefed up police presence at Christmas markets and to restrict vehicle access and mobilize

00:03:28.600 intelligence agencies. Close quote. Now, as it turns out, this report is something of an

00:03:34.280 understatement. I went looking through footage since 2017, and every single year there's been some

00:03:40.500 kind of violent attack or riot, mostly committed by France's non-native population. If it's not an 0.91

00:03:46.280 explicit act of terror, it's usually a riot over some career thug who was shot by a police officer

00:03:50.900 or Moroccans who are really excited about soccer. Each clip I'm about to show is from a separate

00:03:56.340 incident in or around the center of Paris in the vicinity of or directly on Shans-Elyse

00:04:03.040 Boulevard. Watch. We begin with breaking news coming in from Paris. A terror attack in one of the most famous

00:04:11.300 tourist spots in the world. Gunshots ringing out on the Shans-Elyse, usually packed with people. Of course,

00:04:17.060 many of them tourists from all over the world in the United States. It is now a crime scene tonight.

00:04:21.960 The shooter targeting police officers, killing one of them, wounding another before that shooter

00:04:26.520 tried to run from authorities down the Shans-Elyse.

00:04:42.120 It's over there.

00:04:57.440 Oh.

00:05:12.120 now we could show another hour of footage like this been going on for a long time and rather

00:05:35.680 than correct the problem at any point in the last decade or two french and european officials have

00:05:39.840 continued to allow millions of foreigners particularly muslims who despise the west 0.98

00:05:44.000 into their communities after all this time the decision for the french government was always

00:05:49.540 going to come down to one of two options the first option was a trump style crackdown

00:05:54.100 and mass deportations which probably wouldn't even be enough at this point and the second option was

00:06:01.800 surrender and of course they uh as they so often do they've chosen the latter option this is a

00:06:08.000 humiliating collapse that somehow gets even worse when you remember that france and it can be easy

00:06:12.340 to forget this used to be a global empire they had territory in canada the midwest india africa asia

00:06:20.020 the caribbean and and so on they helped us win our independence they the second best navy in the world 0.84

00:06:25.800 for centuries napoleon conquered most of continental europe and now they're so weak they're so cowardly

00:06:32.600 so defeated by foreign invaders that they can't even host a new year's parade they have to cower in 0.98

00:06:38.320 their homes and watch their annual parade on the television because the risk that a muslim 1.00

00:06:43.280 terrorist will run them over or shoot them or blow them up is uh too high now that's not to single out 0.94

00:06:49.460 the french all of the west is experiencing the consequences of mass migration all at once we 0.92

00:06:54.020 spent much of yesterday's show talking about the islamist terrorist attack in australia meanwhile in

00:06:58.500 germany authorities just shut down a plot to drive a vehicle through a christmas market the terror cell

00:07:05.040 consisted of three moroccans an egyptian and a syrian and while it's obviously good news that the attack

00:07:09.680 didn't succeed there are many many more plots like this which are unfolding all the time just today the

00:07:14.360 daily mail reported on a christmas market isis mass terror attack uh plot in poland a spokesman for

00:07:21.400 the polish government said that the aim of the crime was to intimidate many people and support the islamic

00:07:26.260 state this is part and parcel of christmas in the west now in france alone the government says

00:07:33.440 they've intercepted six terror plots in the past year it's only a matter of time before one of them

00:07:37.540 succeeds and they have in the past obviously and the same is true here in the united states even when

00:07:43.200 terror plots are intercepted the authorities don't exactly inspire confidence as you may have heard the

00:07:48.700 doj just announced that it disrupted a series of bombings against targets in orange county and los

00:07:54.120 angeles beginning on new year's eve the perpetrators authorities say are members of the turtle island

00:08:00.480 liberation front or tilf which is apparently a far-left pro-palestine pro-quote indigenous anarchist

00:08:08.880 anti-capitalist organization that no one has heard of before this week so these are not islamists these are 0.70

00:08:17.300 you know communist antifa types they were also going to target ice agents according to the doj and in a

00:08:23.080 dramatic tom clancy style moment they were apprehended by a swat team in the desert as they

00:08:28.520 were assembling their bombs unaware of the presence of an fbi surveillance plane which was watching them

00:08:33.220 take a look as i mentioned in my talking points on december 12th a group of individuals again members of

00:08:40.180 this uh this uh anti-government group traveled out to the desert to test their explosive devices they

00:08:47.080 had precursor chemicals there and they were going to um they were going to uh create these these bombs

00:08:55.320 in the desert what they are starting to do is put their chemicals and and wares and the components

00:09:00.520 out on the on the table on the table there this uh footage that you're watching is from our surveillance

00:09:06.520 plane and then what happened after this is um the los angeles fbi swat team along with the fbi's hostage

00:09:14.120 rescue team moved in and arrested all four subjects without without incident now as easy as it would be

00:09:20.360 to celebrate these arrests as an unequivocal win for the fbi an agency that badly needs an unequivocal win

00:09:27.080 there is reason for skepticism here and that's not just because the fbi hasn't raided many many more

00:09:34.040 leftist groups like this by now three months after the assassination of charlie kirk we have not seen the

00:09:40.360 you know nationwide aggressive crackdown on left-wing militants that we needed and were promised

00:09:51.080 but it's not just that first of all the indictment is somewhat reminiscent of the gretchen whitmer

00:09:55.880 kidnapping case from 2020 if you remember that investigation the official narrative was that a

00:09:59.720 bunch of right-wingers hatched a plan to kidnap the governor of michigan and force her to stand trial

00:10:04.840 for treason because of her covet policies but as it turned out reality was much less dramatic the fbi

00:10:11.240 and its informants pushed the plot on a bunch of stoners and broke losers some of whom were acquitted

00:10:17.320 at trial after they successfully argued that they'd been entrapped by the agency there was no date set

00:10:23.640 for the kidnapping there was no real evidence that many of the alleged conspirators ever took it seriously

00:10:29.640 nearly half the people in the kidnapping van were working for the fbi in some capacity

00:10:33.480 one of the lead fbi agents on the case was convicted of beating his wife it was a it was a debacle

00:10:39.800 so with that in mind here's the indictment of the tilf terrorists and this was first reported by ken

00:10:45.880 silva quote in late november 2025 carroll a member of tilf provided a confidential human source or chs

00:10:56.040 an eight-page handwritten document titled operation midnight sun that described a bombing plot

00:11:01.880 the chs is cooperating with law enforcement and is a validated and vetted source the chs has been a

00:11:06.840 reliable source of information since august 2021 the chs is cooperating for financial compensation

00:11:12.280 the chs does not have any criminal history now separately the indictment makes it clear that

00:11:17.960 an undercover fbi employee was present during a meeting of the alleged co-conspirators on december 7th

00:11:24.920 quote on or about the early morning of december 7th 2025 the chs and undercover employee met with

00:11:30.040 the defendants carroll stated she had the plan and handed gaffield four sheets of paper with writing

00:11:36.280 on the front and back of each page with gap which gaffield and the undercover fbi employee read the

00:11:41.720 undercover fbi employee later told law enforcement that the papers contained details instructions

00:11:47.080 detailed instructions on how to construct a black powder pipe bomb

00:11:50.360 okay so to recap the four defendants have been arrested in this case pretty pretty small group

00:11:59.080 so tilf is not exactly al-qaeda and yet this very small group of tilfs managed to give their entire

00:12:05.640 plan in writing to an fbi informant someone who's paid an undisclosed amount of money to build cases

00:12:11.240 like this and as if that wasn't enough the tilfs also managed to invite an fbi employee to their

00:12:16.040 secret hideaway to discuss the attack now to be clear i'm not suggesting that the tilfs are innocent

00:12:23.800 or that the fbi didn't do a great job in arresting these people but given what happened with the

00:12:29.080 whitmer investigation and given how much direct involvement the fbi had with this sleeper cell

00:12:33.880 you know you really can't be sure at this point and things get even worse when you see this tweet

00:12:39.320 from msnbc's ken delanian and in case you're not familiar with ken he is by far the most prolific

00:12:45.320 deep state propagandist in the corporate press he was caught many years ago allowing the cia to vet

00:12:51.320 his stories prior to publication and that should have ended his career but it didn't because the

00:12:56.520 role of the corporate press is simply to repeat what the intelligence agencies say so to that end ken has

00:13:01.640 spent the last decade pushing every fbi hoax under the sun russian gate hunter biden laptop

00:13:08.440 you know and so on and so on everything in between he is put simply one of the most sinister and

00:13:12.680 untrustworthy individuals on the left which is you know genuinely saying something and here's what ken

00:13:18.120 wrote about the fbi's latest bust quote i'm told by people i trust this was a real plot and the fbi put

00:13:24.920 a lot of resources into unraveling it sounds like really good investigative work

00:13:30.920 so file that under things less true for having been said that's an all-timer maybe when you have ken

00:13:37.400 delanian in your corner the guy whose nickname is literally fusion ken because he promoted the fake

00:13:43.080 uh steel dossier to smear donald trump then you have a serious credibility problem the fbi getting

00:13:50.520 praised by ken delanian it's like your broker getting endorsed by you know bernie madoff ken doesn't care

00:13:56.680 about the truth he's never pretended to care about the truth doesn't even really care about partisan

00:14:01.000 politics strictly speaking his only purpose is to advance the interests of the intelligence agencies

00:14:05.400 specifically the unelected members of these agencies that conduct all the day-to-day operations so

00:14:10.840 when ken delanian is declaring that the fbi did some you know really good investigative work we have

00:14:16.280 every reason to infer that the exact opposite might be true and of course we also have our own eyes and

00:14:21.640 ears and we could see for example how the fbi has conducted the investigation into the mass shooting

00:14:26.440 at brown university a school with thousands of cameras none of which are apparently useful now the

00:14:33.400 other day fbi agents from the evidence response team were filmed looking for clues around the

00:14:38.920 campus of brand university by walking around and kicking the snow with their feet which i mean i'm

00:14:46.760 no investigator doesn't seem like the best way to detect evidence but that's what they went with

00:14:53.560 they didn't bring any equipment or anything they're just scoping out the terrain kicking the snow

00:14:59.560 hoping to stumble across a you know a gun it's like when i tell my kids to look around the house because

00:15:06.520 we can't find the remote you know they're just kind of wandering around look under a pillow no it's gone

00:15:12.600 can't find it now just from an optics optics perspective it's an embarrassing display that strongly suggests the

00:15:21.000 fbi has no idea what it's even looking for they certainly don't have seem to have a lot of urgency

00:15:26.840 and that needs to change and not just because one of the murdered students was the vice president of

00:15:32.040 the school's college republicans chapter which obviously suggests a possible political motive

00:15:37.160 this was a mass shooting at a major university one in which according to an article syndicated by yahoo

00:15:41.640 news the shooter may have shouted ala akbar during the rampage as you can see that article cites

00:15:47.880 students and other witnesses for that claim which as of now the authorities have not verified

00:15:51.720 and every time they're asked about whether the shooter shot at something and what he may have

00:15:56.920 shouted local officials in providence duck the question to a comical degree watch

00:16:02.920 there's a report the shooter yelled something right before he shot came in could you tell us what that

00:16:08.920 what that was yeah it's a part of the investigation john and wolf yeah the only reason i asked that though

00:16:15.480 is for instance like with the unabomber his brother recognized the writing so is it possible a friend

00:16:23.480 or family member might recognize if the person said something that was significant correct that's why

00:16:30.680 you don't other than the nine millimeter is there anything else inside that auditorium that you can tell us

00:16:37.560 no that's correct listen like i said earlier investigations will bring us to evidence that we

00:16:44.280 need to collect in order to be able to prosecute that with that being said with that being said

00:16:49.880 we're going to continue to collect evidence and if it leads us to something to that nature that's

00:16:54.280 going to be extremely helpful for us to identify somebody will be the first ones to put it out

00:17:00.440 so that's something that's something that we're investigating we took statements and we have to confirm

00:17:04.040 that so we're going to we're going to uh wrap it up here um so it's clear they don't want to answer

00:17:14.360 the question which suggests one of two possibilities either they want to cover for the shooter

00:17:19.080 or they're so incompetent that they need to be fired immediately and it's not just the local

00:17:24.360 authorities who are failing here the fbi is failing too they need to take the lead here and explain what if

00:17:29.240 anything these local officials are covering up the authorities have already completely botched the

00:17:35.320 investigation first they detained a person of interest then released him then state and local

00:17:38.760 officials held a series of press conferences that undermined all confidence in the investigation

00:17:43.960 they brought out a weird fake sign language interpreter then started speaking in spanish

00:17:48.920 for no discernible reason watch we want to see uh the individual that um pulled the trigger on these young

00:17:58.520 kids uh identified apprehended and brought the breastless i can tell you from the state level uh we're

00:18:06.600 continuing to coordinate yes yes yes we really have to ask yourself

00:18:18.840 what exactly did our country fall apart in such a visible and embarrassing fashion

00:18:23.560 what was the moment where everybody in a position of power seemingly at once

00:18:28.120 became incompetent parodies of themselves until this week did anyone seriously think a mass

00:18:35.080 shooter could open fire in the middle of a major university and just walk out and remain

00:18:42.040 nameless and unidentified for several days did anyone think that in the aftermath the fbi's response

00:18:48.520 would amount to walking around like zombies in the snow and overseeing press conferences that feel

00:18:54.280 like sketch comedy routines it's enough to make you wonder if the parents of charlie kirk's assassin

00:19:00.520 hadn't turned him in would the fbi have ever found him starting to look like the answer to that question is no

00:19:07.960 now it's true that we haven't fallen as far as france yet we're not completely powerless and forced to

00:19:15.400 hide in our homes as marauding muslim hordes terrorize our new year's parades but we're not far off 1.00

00:19:22.840 our leaders are willing to hold meaningless press conferences where they tell us they're hot on the 0.63

00:19:26.600 heels of the brown shooter or they tell us ilhan omar is living in this country illegally or where they 0.65

00:19:33.160 tell us that you know antifa is a domestic terrorist organization but then don't do anything about it

00:19:39.800 they'll arrest some tilfs whoever they are and call it a day 1.00

00:19:44.920 there is um no more time for this as we trip over ourselves we are being invaded from within

00:19:51.960 and at the moment the signal we're sending to these invaders is a very familiar one

00:19:56.600 like france germany australia the uk we're advertising our own incompetence to the world

00:20:04.760 we're demonstrating our willingness to be subjugated and destroyed and if somebody in 0.97

00:20:10.680 this administration doesn't send a very different signal and soon then the enemies of civilization are

00:20:18.200 guaranteed to take us up on that offer now let's get to our five headlines

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00:22:12.040 donewithdebt.com that's donewithdebt.com donewithdebt.com okay as you know uh rob reiner and his wife

00:22:20.360 michelle were brutally murdered in their home allegedly by their son and uh now more is coming out about

00:22:26.600 this relationship the relationship the parents had with their adult son nick uh who was an addict a

00:22:34.520 junkie apparently uh fox has this report from addiction struggles to violent outbursts rob and michelle

00:22:40.120 reiner's son nick has said his share of battles throughout the years on monday the third trial

00:22:43.640 was arrested and booked on suspicion of murder and the horrific deaths of his parents

00:22:50.040 um this is not the first time their son has been violent a long-time neighbor said told the new york

00:22:55.160 post i know of another incident a few years back with nick but i won't say more than that

00:22:59.240 rob was always heartbroken that his son couldn't beat his addiction i know they wanted to get him help

00:23:03.880 go to rehab but he wanted to get help while at home he did not want to get treatment at a facility

00:23:09.080 uh he was on heroin cocaine so then it goes into more detail about that

00:23:16.040 so there's um you know in some ways not a lot to say about a case like this other than it's horrible

00:23:20.440 and sad and uh i mean the worst the worst fate imaginable for a person is to be murdered by your 0.82

00:23:30.440 own child it's uh the the the most horrific thing that can happen to a person obviously and of course

00:23:38.520 a lot of people are talking about trump because he attacked reiner in a truth social post and uh

00:23:46.120 which you've probably seen and then he was asked about it the next day this was yesterday and he uh in

00:23:53.080 in typical trump fashion did certainly didn't apologize for it and instead doubled down

00:23:57.240 and uh here's what he said listen mr president a number of republicans have denounced your statement

00:24:04.440 on true social after the murder of rob reiner do you stand by that post well i wasn't a fan of his

00:24:09.720 at all he was a deranged person as far as trump is concerned he said uh he liked he knew it was false

00:24:16.600 in fact it's the exact opposite that i was uh a friend of russia controlled by russia you know

00:24:22.120 it was the russia hooks he was one of the people behind it i think he hurt himself in uh career

00:24:27.720 wise he became like a deranged person trump derangement syndrome so i was not a fan of rob

00:24:34.120 reiner at all in any way shape or form i thought he was very bad for our country yeah as many people on

00:24:41.560 both sides have already pointed out uh trump going after reiner hours after he and his wife were just 1.00

00:24:47.720 butchered was ridiculous low-class gross behavior it's grotesque it's stupid it's wrong it's all 0.99

00:24:56.520 those things um and and that that's not not difficult to to say and this is uh not the kind 0.99

00:25:05.480 of thing that if you're a conservative you you should feel the need to well we got to defend it

00:25:10.440 because it's like we all know no one would do that i mean you wouldn't do it no one would do it

00:25:14.680 um i have seen a few conservatives trying to defend this but these are all conservatives who

00:25:19.880 themselves i know would never say something like this about someone after they were just murdered

00:25:25.000 by their child you know so you know that it's wrong now the problem is that i can't take anyone

00:25:32.120 on the left seriously when they wring their hands over it if you're on the left because these of course

00:25:38.680 are the same people who celebrated are still celebrating charlie kirk's death these are the people with

00:25:44.760 who shamelessly with no embarrassment uh celebrate anytime somebody on the right dies

00:25:51.240 i mean if this had been a republican to die like this if if rob reiner was known as a republican

00:25:57.640 an outspoken republican then we know how it would go i mean we all know how it would go

00:26:03.880 but you notice how with rob reiner a very outspoken leftist um

00:26:08.680 um almost almost everybody on the right almost every conservative responded in a dignified classy

00:26:16.440 way and if you were on x when this no this news broke uh as as i was every post from somebody on the

00:26:24.280 right was along the lines of this is a horrible tragedy rest in peace this is terrible and that

00:26:30.520 was it we're talking about how uh they really appreciated his work um and he was a great

00:26:38.920 artist i mean he had a he had a run of of films from what i guess like into the the 80s into the 90s

00:26:46.520 that have has not been repeated by very many directors and so that's that's what most of the

00:26:51.320 the commentary was about from people on the right there's really only one person on our side who

00:26:57.800 decided to gloat and that was trump now granted that one person happens to be the president of

00:27:03.320 the united states uh so it's not exactly someone it's not exactly a social media troll you can just

00:27:10.200 write off but even so and and most conservatives even trump's biggest fans from what i saw were

00:27:17.000 openly expressing their disappointment in his reaction which um even if you go on truth social

00:27:24.120 where he put this post up originally and you look at a lot of the comments these are like die hard

00:27:28.520 these are these are the diehards of the diehards when it comes to being trump supporters and a lot

00:27:33.480 of them were not agreeing with it so and that's something that you would you would never see from

00:27:38.040 the left so all that is true but here's what i want to talk about with this putting the uh

00:27:46.440 putting all that to the side because it sounds like rob reiner and his wife were essentially

00:27:51.480 being held hostage like emotional blackmail not not literal hostage but they are being held hostage 0.99

00:27:57.480 in the way that a lot of people are through emotional blackmail by their scumbag junkie son 0.97

00:28:03.160 and there are many such cases and they almost always end in tragedy and you're seeing a lot 0.92

00:28:07.400 of these reports now about uh how they wanted to put him in a facility but he didn't want to go to

00:28:12.200 facility he wanted to stay home they let him stay home and i think that mike cernovich on x made an

00:28:17.000 important point he posted uh no one wants to hear it but if your kid is an unrepentant druggie for your

00:28:20.920 own safety and the good of your family you need to let him go his own way druggies are not

00:28:24.440 helpless victims they're calculating manipulators and exploiters and uh he's right that nobody wants

00:28:30.200 to hear that or very few people do but it's true and that's one of the lessons in this story it appears

00:28:36.360 this guy nick was a junkie an addict uh rob and michelle were trying to take care of him trying to

00:28:41.400 keep him in in you know at home if they didn't want him there but they were they allowed that to

00:28:45.720 happen which is understandable he's their son uh there are plenty of parents have been in similar

00:28:50.440 situations and god forbid you're in that situation it's it's there's no easy answer

00:28:56.520 and every part of you wants to be there for your child you don't want to tell your child to

00:28:59.960 you don't want to you know send your son out even even an adult an adult you don't want to send them 0.76

00:29:05.000 out to be homeless on the street you don't want that like who would but sometimes you have no choice

00:29:11.000 and this is what happens and part of the problem and again nobody really wants to talk about this but

00:29:18.360 part of the problem is that we have pathologized addiction to the point where the addict is treated

00:29:25.160 like a victim on the level of a cancer patient you know we say that addiction is a disease and uh

00:29:36.040 and and and that i think that framing that way of looking at it which we've done with all all

00:29:42.360 addictions we talk about them all like they're diseases whether it's a drug addiction or a gambling

00:29:47.320 addiction or so-called sex addiction right someone cheats on their spouse and now oh i'm sick i'm sick

00:29:55.080 i have a disease

00:29:58.520 and uh the problem is that when you start talking about it that way well you know it's a disease

00:30:02.600 okay the cancer is a disease if your son had if your adult son had cancer you wouldn't kick him out

00:30:07.880 of the house so what kind of parent would do that of course you wouldn't

00:30:10.360 if someone you know a loved one has cancer has a disease you're gonna do all you can to help them

00:30:18.280 you'll take them in you'll give them what they need right and um you'll talk you'll yes they'll be

00:30:27.080 they will be a burden in a certain way like so it's it's a it's a burdensome thing in a certain way

00:30:32.360 to take care of someone but it's one that you of course for a loved one you will

00:30:35.880 uh gladly take on you would never consider doing anything but that if somebody has an actual disease

00:30:43.560 so the more that we have as a society internalize this addiction is a disease thing the more that we

00:30:49.160 have felt obligated to cater to junkies and addicts just the absolute dregs of humanity the worst kinds

00:30:56.760 of people give them what they want and make ourselves susceptible and vulnerable to them

00:31:02.840 and we see that on a kind of societal scale with these these druggies that are you know allowed to

00:31:12.440 just take over the street and set up camp and make our communities unlivable because we refuse to treat 0.95

00:31:19.400 this as a crime we refuse to treat these people as just like anti-social dysfunctional dangerous vagrants 0.72

00:31:25.560 which is what they are instead it's no they have a disease they're sick i mean routing them up and 0.73

00:31:31.080 putting them in institution putting them in prison that would be like again that would be like doing

00:31:34.760 that to a cancer patient um and then that's what people do in their own lives with the with the a

00:31:41.160 lot of the addicts they know in their own lives and um and that's a problem because the truth is that

00:31:47.080 drug addicts are often often some of the most deceitful manipulative selfish and ultimately dangerous

00:31:55.720 people you will ever meet you know the they are not the victims of some kind of terminal illness these

00:32:04.040 are people who have decided yes i said decided to dedicate their entire lives every part of their lives

00:32:12.280 to the pursuit of the pleasure they derive from this drug of choice and they will put that

00:32:18.680 that above anything and anyone that's the reality now it's like the cold hard reality

00:32:27.080 they've dedicated their entire life to this it's all they care about and they will put it above

00:32:31.560 anything and anyone they love the drug more than they love anyone

00:32:37.800 and uh so the truth is that addiction is not a disease okay it's not addiction is a pattern of behavior

00:32:48.680 it's not a disease addiction involves choice it involves agency in a way that a real disease does

00:32:54.520 not you don't directly choose to get cancer right i mean cancer can come from lifestyle result it could

00:33:00.600 be partly the result of lifestyle factors um but you don't just choose to have it no one does that

00:33:08.920 people choose to get addicted they do you start doing something that's going to have that that

00:33:13.320 can create an addiction and you keep doing it like you're choosing this you are choosing it

00:33:18.120 and you can't just change your behavior and magically not have cancer anymore

00:33:24.920 but addiction is a choice you choose to start using the substance that you're addicted to you

00:33:29.240 choose to continue using it until it until habits are formed and even when the habit is formed you still

00:33:35.640 choose to use it every time whatever you're addicted to like i don't care if you're addicted to heroin

00:33:43.160 the point is that every time you pick up that needle that is a choice

00:33:47.720 and people say oh it's not a choice no it is

00:33:50.440 it is you you had to physically do like no one forced you to do it it's not it's not it's not

00:33:55.960 that that is you you're a person with a brain and you have chosen to pick it up you did

00:34:00.520 anyone who says otherwise when people say well it's not a choice okay well so that i guess 0.71

00:34:06.840 they're totally screwed they can't do anything about it so you can't say it's not a choice and

00:34:10.840 then say you need to get help you need to go to rehab you know let me help you get you can't say 0.98

00:34:16.360 because you just said it's not sure you said there's nothing they can it's not a choice it

00:34:18.600 means there's nothing they can do if there's anything they can do about this then that means

00:34:21.720 that there's a choice involved so which is it and the other thing is that addicts respond to

00:34:28.520 incentives again um rehab and recovery would not be possible unless that were true

00:34:36.200 and the fact that it responds to incentives means it's not a disease okay whatever you're doing if

00:34:42.200 it responds to incentives it's not a disease diseases don't work like that

00:34:45.880 um like very often the only way to get an addict to stop to change is to cut them out tough love

00:34:54.600 it's not going to always work a lot of times it doesn't but uh many times it's the only thing

00:35:00.040 that will work if anything will work it'll be that well no disease cures itself that way okay

00:35:06.280 like there's no oh someone has diabetes let's give them some tough love

00:35:09.240 then what it doesn't make any sense like diabetes does not respond to incentives it responds to

00:35:16.040 treatment it doesn't respond to an incentive you can't incentivize someone to not have diabetes

00:35:21.080 anymore they have it like here's how i've often put it if you if you know you claim you're acting a

00:35:29.960 certain way because of a disease whether it's an addiction or some other mental disease that you claim

00:35:35.560 you have whatever and this is a widespread problem it's not just addiction people constantly you

00:35:40.280 know we've invented a million diseases that are invisible that no one can see okay mysteriously

00:35:46.040 cannot be detected on a brain scan can't be diagnosed with the blood uh you know you can't draw blood and

00:35:50.920 do a blood test or anything but there's all these diseases and people blame their behaviors on their

00:35:56.040 diseases right this is the um the psychiatric industry that has had this effect turned us all into slaves of

00:36:04.120 our you know desires really believing that we're totally helpless we can't make any choices for

00:36:09.480 ourselves totally infantilized that's the idea it's done on purpose well okay you say that this um

00:36:17.640 behavior whatever it is is uh is a result of disease well what if you're about to engage in that behavior

00:36:27.080 whatever it is say your drug of choice you're about to use the drug take the drug 0.99

00:36:31.800 and then i put a gun to your head and i say i will pull the trigger right now if you do that 1.00

00:36:40.200 i say stop right now or i'm gonna put a bullet in your head 1.00

00:36:43.560 well guess what every quote unquote diseased person person with one of these invisible diseases that 0.99

00:36:49.320 causes them to do things whether it's take a drug or act a certain way every single one of them would

00:36:55.320 stop right they'd put down the they they put it down they say okay i'm not gonna every single one

00:37:01.160 every single one with a gun to their head they would stop now they might not stop forever as soon

00:37:05.800 as you leave and there's no gun to there they're going to be doing it but in that moment they will stop

00:37:12.440 what does that tell you i'm not suggesting that we treat addiction this way by the way i'm only making

00:37:16.920 the point that if you're able to respond to an incentive like that even a very very severe incentive

00:37:23.080 then you have agency you have a choice if me putting a gun to your head would mean that you

00:37:31.080 would act a certain way then you can choose to act that way i mean it's as simple as that and no 0.86

00:37:36.680 disease works that way if you have epilepsy and you're having a seizure and i put a gun to your

00:37:41.640 head and say stop stop having a seizure stop right now you you couldn't i mean you literally couldn't 0.98

00:37:47.560 it is all the incentives in the world i could threaten i could threaten you i put a put a gun to your 0.99

00:37:51.800 head i could say i'll give you 10 billion dollars right now here's the cash 10 billion dollars 0.97

00:37:56.760 if you stop having a seat you still can't because you can't it's a it's a if you have bone cancer i 0.96

00:38:02.520 can't put a gun to your head say stop having bone cancer yet interestingly enough all these other you

00:38:07.800 know quote unquote diseases addictions everything with with with severe incentives um you can get people

00:38:17.000 to change their behavior maybe not permanently but in the moment they can in the moment i'm talking

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00:39:51.160 that fentanyl will be formally classified as a weapon of mass destruction uh here he is announcing that today

00:39:59.160 i'm taking one more step to protect americans from the scourge of deadly fentanyl flooding into our country

00:40:06.520 with this historic executive order i will sign today we're formally classifying fentanyl as a weapon

00:40:12.680 of mass destruction which is what it is no bomb does what this is doing 200 to 300 000 people die every year

00:40:22.440 that we know of so we're formally classifying fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction okay so

00:40:32.920 what does this mean in practice the white house put out a fact sheet laying it out the order directs

00:40:36.280 the attorney general to immediately pursue criminal charges sentencing enhancements and sentencing

00:40:40.360 variances in fentanyl trafficking cases um the order directs secretary of state secretary of treasury to

00:40:46.360 pursue appropriate actions against relevant assets and financial institutions for those involved in or

00:40:50.920 supporting the manufacture distribution and sale of illicit fentanyl and its core precursor chemicals

00:40:56.920 the order directs secretary of war in consultation with the homeland security secretary to update their

00:41:01.160 chemical incident response related directives to include the fentanyl threat there's there's like 20

00:41:07.080 bullet points you can go read the fact sheet for yourself if you want to um i'm in favor of this i think

00:41:15.240 i mean i'm certainly in favor of doing everything possible to get this poison off the streets

00:41:18.600 i think um categorizing it as a weapon of mass destruction feels a little bit gimmicky

00:41:26.840 to be honest if it actually has some kind of practical benefit

00:41:32.280 then okay i guess i'm for it i mean you can you you can make an argument that it qualifies for the

00:41:40.040 reason that trump said it is a chemical that kills tens of thousands of people so yeah in a sense

00:41:48.120 you could call it that but is this just a gimmick or is it is there a reason for is there like a strategic benefit

00:41:59.000 to saying this is a weapon of mass destruction and that's always the question

00:42:03.400 will this have any practical real life implications now to me

00:42:11.080 uh they categorized antifa as a domestic terrorist organization it feels a lot like that

00:42:15.880 and then nothing happened

00:42:19.160 right and then the the inaction in that case is worse because it's bad enough to not crack down on

00:42:24.360 antifa but if you call them a domestic terrorist cell and then still don't crack down on them

00:42:29.800 if you still don't have mass arrests all across the country of anybody who's ever been involved

00:42:34.840 in any antifa activities at all

00:42:39.000 then what do you do why'd you call them domestic terrorists

00:42:42.440 like you call them domestic terrorists that means that we what we should have seen is all across the

00:42:46.360 country every single person who is involved or has ever been involved in any capacity with any antifa

00:42:55.720 related activities should be under arrest all of them so like thousands of people should be under arrest

00:43:04.440 and we haven't seen that

00:43:07.400 okay so we're not actually treating them like domestic terrorists

00:43:12.200 and the same is true of this if you're saying it's a weapon of mass destruction well

00:43:17.560 now sure you're blowing up the drug boats so that is consistent

00:43:20.760 that's consistent treating it like a weapon and you're blowing up the drug boats that's a consistent

00:43:25.480 that is a that's what you would do if people were trying to uh smuggle weapons of mass destruction

00:43:30.920 in sure but it's got to go a lot farther than that okay because now like the drug dealers

00:43:40.760 are not just drug they're selling weapons of mass destruction

00:43:43.320 what would you do if there was someone on the corner

00:43:49.800 selling a weapon of mass destruction

00:43:54.280 okay what if they were selling a nuclear bomb

00:43:58.280 what what would you do what would happen to that person

00:44:04.760 well if the same thing doesn't happen to the drug dealers who are selling fentanyl then you're

00:44:08.360 not really treating it like a weapon of mass destruction and so there's why'd you call it that

00:44:11.800 so again it should be mass arrests severe severe severe penalties

00:44:20.760 life imprisonment death penalty which is what you would do with a terrorist who's trying to sell 0.94

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00:45:44.280 merriam-webster's 2025 word of the year creepy zany and demonstrably fake content is often called slop

00:45:52.200 the words proliferation online in part thanks to the widespread availability of generative artificial

00:45:56.360 intelligence landed at the title of merriam-webster's 2025 word of the year such an illustrative word

00:46:03.720 said greg barlow merriam-webster's president in an exclusive exclusive interview with the associated

00:46:08.840 press ahead of monday's announcement um announcement so what do they do like a press conference

00:46:14.840 this this word of the year thing is like obviously a cringe this is a gimmick is a cringe marketing gimmick

00:46:20.440 now why does the dictionary need a marketing gimmick i don't know that's a separate question

00:46:26.920 but i will say though that for once they kind of nailed it so this is the one time i've seen this

00:46:31.320 dumb the word of the year is and um this is the one time where i say yeah you can't yep that's it 0.80

00:46:37.880 i agree number one it's a real word a lot of times the word of the year is not even a real word it's a 0.94

00:46:42.840 real word and it is a word that is um has become very relevant over the course of the year so it is the

00:46:49.000 word of the year slop is not only the word of the year it's our uh it is our future the future of

00:46:54.200 our civilization is slop just an endless stream of slop ingested mindlessly by slack-jawed glossy-eyed

00:47:01.960 drones who have no goals in life no capacity for joy no internal monologue no thoughts or feelings of

00:47:09.080 any kind just sitting there consuming consuming whatever images pop up on the screen

00:47:19.400 with no discernment whatever whatever pops up consuming it passively i was thinking about this

00:47:25.320 the other day that um one of the most prophetic dystopian novels of the past century is um one

00:47:33.960 that doesn't get talked about in that context as often as you know we hear about we hear about orwell

00:47:39.160 all the time orwellian and we know what um we know what they're doing with animal farm they're in

00:47:45.800 fact ironically they're treating animal farm in a very orwellian way with this uh cartoon adaptation

00:47:51.160 we talked about but what one novel it doesn't get talked about nearly as often in that context is

00:47:56.360 uh infinite jest the david foster wallace uh novel that came out in the mid 90s it's like a thousand

00:48:02.040 pages long non-linear if you've ever read it or attempted to read it you know it's like a thousand

00:48:08.360 pages long it the story it there's no it doesn't follow a linear path so it's just every paragraph

00:48:14.600 or every chapter jumps from one place to another uh footnotes all over the place

00:48:21.800 and uh by the end if you actually get through it you won't be entirely sure what the story was even

00:48:25.800 about to get to the end and say like what was that about exactly uh but i liked it and i think that

00:48:31.240 david foster wells was an absurdly gifted writer and anyway in that book there's this piece of uh

00:48:37.000 content called the entertainment and it's in the book it's a film that uh when people watch it

00:48:44.680 they become totally mesmerized they become unable to take their eyes off it they're just

00:48:49.560 they become like these passive zombies that will lose their will to live they they no longer have any

00:48:56.520 will to live because they're just sitting there cat in a catatonic state unresponsive

00:49:02.440 watching this piece of content the the entertainment and this was written in like 1996 or something so

00:49:09.240 in the book the entertainment is on vhs i think it's a it's a film that you pop into the vcr or whatever

00:49:16.280 so he didn't get the technology right he didn't predict that part but um otherwise that's exactly

00:49:22.040 where we are now except the entertainment is not a film it's um it's an endless scroll of slop of content

00:49:29.400 it's actually worse it's worse than what david foster wallace was prophesying in his book because

00:49:37.800 that was at least a film and the idea in that in the book is that the film was so great so beautiful

00:49:46.120 so mesmerizing so incredible that it once you watch it you could take your eyes off it

00:49:52.760 and what we have now is a lot worse than that because it's not the entertainment it's the content

00:49:58.840 and people sit there staring at it not really mes not mesmerized by it not uh captivated by its beauty

00:50:08.040 or anything like that but numbed by the sheer pointlessness and inanity of what they're watching

00:50:15.160 and uh it's the slop he called it the entertainment it should have been called the slop

00:50:23.240 and that's where we are now and no one and we are no one is impervious to it we're all susceptible to it

00:50:33.480 now i talk about this all the time but i get caught up especially not like you go you're on x i mean

00:50:38.280 every social media platform is like this now but you see a video like this happened to me this

00:50:44.920 morning actually uh happens all the time i see a video that i actually want to watch like a really

00:50:49.800 short i forget what it was but it was something for the show it's like a piece of content okay i

00:50:53.480 need let me watch that and then you watch it and it's 35 seconds long okay but then immediately the

00:50:59.480 next video plays right because they just want to they want to keep your eyes on it and it doesn't

00:51:04.920 matter what it's about and the next video that plays has nothing to do with the thing you just watched

00:51:09.560 the only reason it's being served to you by the algorithm is simply because it's something that

00:51:13.560 they think you'll keep watching and it doesn't matter why you watch it it's it's it's doesn't

00:51:20.200 like whatever whatever incentivizes you to watch it is fine as far as the algorithm is concerned

00:51:24.600 and you could watch it because you're entertained by it you could watch because you're grotesque

00:51:27.640 you're you're grossed out you could watch it because you're horrified you could watch it because it

00:51:31.320 makes you angry you could watch it because it's very sad you could watch it because it's heartwarming

00:51:35.560 doesn't matter all the algorithm care about cares about is that you just whatever the slope is just

00:51:39.960 whatever it is that gets you to watch it is fine. And so, you know, the next video and then the

00:51:46.820 next one, and then you look down, it's like 42 minutes later, 42 minutes. I don't know. You don't

00:51:52.360 even remember. It's like, it is very, it's like this. It's like the entertainment in Infinite

00:51:56.540 Jest. You were basically in a catatonic state. You don't even realize how much time went by.

00:52:03.240 And by the end of it, you snap out of it and you're like, why that was, what did I get out

00:52:07.960 of that? Nothing. It wasn't even entertaining. I didn't, I didn't watch. There was one video I

00:52:12.000 wanted to watch. It was 35 seconds long, 42 minutes later. This thing just cannibalizes you. It

00:52:18.240 cannibalizes your attention. And that is the, uh, the slot. That's our future. And that is the thing

00:52:27.540 that we, this is why I preach it all the time, that we as parents should be the most concerned

00:52:33.080 about protecting our kids from. It's not, we talk so much as conservatives about, uh, well,

00:52:38.960 we don't want our kids to be, we want to keep them away from the woke stuff. We want to keep

00:52:43.120 them away from the objectionable content. We want to keep them away from the filth and the

00:52:47.640 pornography and all the rest of it. And obviously we do want to protect our kids from that. That's

00:52:52.100 very important, but just as bad is just the, is what we're, that's only part of the problem,

00:53:02.700 I guess is what I'm saying. What we're trying to protect our kids from becoming is this empty

00:53:09.560 vessel and a vassal, empty vessel and vassal sitting there staring at the screen, no hopes,

00:53:16.280 no dreams, no desires, no passions at all, ingesting slop. Even if 95% of the slop is on its

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00:55:00.300 very important report from the New York Post. Headline, what is the PSL scale? Incels create

00:55:06.460 looks maxing rating system from subhumans to ultra rare Terra chads. So I was just a crying slop. Let's do a

00:55:15.740 little bit of it. So this is how Gen Z, this is the system they've devised for rating everybody's looks.

00:55:21.620 It was very important. My producer sent me this. I'm glad they did because this is the kind of information

00:55:26.060 that I need and that the audience needs if you're not aware. So Gen Z pickup artists have devised a 0.92

00:55:34.360 superficial online rubric for judging people's looks, grading them on a scale from subhuman,

00:55:39.820 hideously ugly, to terra chad, unattainable aesthetic perfection. According to this hierarchical system,

00:55:46.480 Angelina Jolie, Margot Robbie, and Australian model Jordan Barrett rank among the most attractive

00:55:52.140 people on earth. So how does this thing work? Let's see. I'm looking at it. Okay, they're scored on a

00:56:00.060 scale from one to eight. At the bottom of the cosmetic cast system with a score of 0.25 to 1.5

00:56:06.440 are the subhumans who are deemed exceptionally unattractive and often exhibit deformities. 1.00

00:56:14.640 Most humans fall in the normie category per the scale, which divides this designation into three

00:56:20.240 tiers. The first, low tier normie, 1.5 to 3, constitutes an ordinary level of unattractiveness,

00:56:25.840 includes such celebrities as singer Ed Sheeran and rapper Jay-Z and actress and comedian Sondra

00:56:32.980 Bernard. I don't know who that is. This culminates in the high tier version, 4.5 to 5.5, defined as

00:56:39.040 appealing and good-looking. This would be Justin Bieber, Zendaya are in this tier. And then in the

00:56:46.440 top 1% are the stunning Chad Lights and Stacey Lights, 5.5 to 6. And then all the way to the top are

00:56:54.660 the Giga Chad and Giga Stacey, only a handful of which are found globally. These are the basically

00:57:01.200 people of like godlike beauty. Okay, first of all, no offense to Jay-Z, but he's normie? Is he like,

00:57:09.460 he's got to be in the subhuman category, right? I mean, in terms of looks, I'm saying according to 0.84

00:57:13.800 scale, according to look scale, which I didn't invent. I'm just looking at it objectively. So I

00:57:20.400 think that he's got to be in the elephant man camp. He's under the circus tent. No offense to him 1.00

00:57:25.580 intended. I don't mean any, when I say subhuman, I mean it in a non-offensive way. Um, then we got

00:57:33.000 all the other levels, all the way up to beings of, uh, uh, you know, as I said, godlike beauty,

00:57:37.420 the Giga Chads. Now, where would I put myself? You know, you look at this tier.

00:57:42.940 Low tier normie is what? 1.5 to 3. Can I give myself a 3.5? Can I, can I just a half point above

00:57:52.440 low tier normie? I think probably. I'm not fat. That's my saving grace. Does my relative lack of

00:57:59.720 body fat help me escape the low tier normie? Does it help me escape the gravity of the low tier normie

00:58:06.120 vortex? Or maybe I'm like a 2.9, just like barely on the edge, scratching and clawing my way,

00:58:14.080 hanging on the, on the edge of the, of the cliff with all the hideous trolls down below,

00:58:18.820 trying to pull me down. But here's the, here's the thing, two, two quick things about this

00:58:23.160 that I find somewhat interesting. And the first is that we've gone from body positivity.

00:58:29.240 That was the thing for many years. And, and I guess that was ultimately kind of the millennial

00:58:37.100 thing for millennials. It was all about body positivity. You're beautiful at any size and 0.67

00:58:42.380 everyone's beautiful and all that stuff. And we've gone from that to now labeling ugly people as

00:58:48.700 subhuman. So wild swings in one direction and then the other. And I have to say between those two 0.83

00:58:55.200 extremes, cause it was a millennial body positivity, right? To like this Gen Z on a scale. Everything

00:59:02.760 is, is, um, everyone is categorized according to their looks and judged accordingly. And I have to say

00:59:10.740 this extreme is healthier, relatively speaking. Still not great, but better to put an overemphasis on

00:59:20.860 physical beauty than to pretend that it doesn't exist in my opinion. Cause that's more natural.

00:59:26.220 That's at least more natural. Judging people harshly because of their looks, thinking less

00:59:30.860 of people who are ugly. It's not good. We shouldn't do that, but it's more natural. That's a, it's a

00:59:35.320 natural human instinct. This thing of pretending everyone is beautiful and we can't even distinguish

00:59:41.000 between someone, a woman who's a supermodel and a woman who's 450 pounds. Like they look exactly

00:59:46.880 the same to us. That's not natural. That's not human. So at least this is a little bit more in

00:59:52.400 keeping with human nature. But the second thing is there is a secret. There's a kind of like one

00:59:57.600 weird trick to get to a point where you don't have to obsessively worry about your looks.

01:00:04.180 And the trick, the one weird trick is to get married, get married. And none of this stuff matters.

01:00:10.400 Now, true. In order to get married, you might have to worry about your looks to some extent. 1.00

01:00:14.260 That's true. But the goal, the point is that the goal that you should have a goal in mind,

01:00:19.060 an objective. What's the point of this? Well, the point should be to make yourself desirable,

01:00:24.400 whether you're a woman or a man, so that you can get married. And then once you're married,

01:00:31.200 it doesn't matter at all. Now, I'm not saying you should get married and get fat, let yourself go.

01:00:35.880 You shouldn't do that. You shouldn't get married and become a fat, hideous slob. That's not fair to 1.00

01:00:40.480 your spouse. You should stay in shape. You should try to be healthy for your spouse's sake, for your

01:00:46.080 own, for your own, the sake of your own health. What I'm saying is that once you're married, you

01:00:50.280 don't have to worry about being attractive to everybody of the opposite sex. You found one 0.98

01:00:55.300 person, even if it's just one person, you only need to be appealing to one person ultimately.

01:00:59.860 And you found that person. And so you're good.

01:01:06.300 Don't, don't decay. You know, don't, don't completely let yourself go, but you found that

01:01:10.740 person. And I can't tell you how freeing that is. It's one of the most underrated aspects of marriage.

01:01:16.120 How freeing, how freeing marriage is. Everyone talks about marriage, like it's slavery or something,

01:01:20.660 especially people who aren't married. They talk about it that way. And some people who are married or

01:01:24.520 have been married have talked about it that way too. But I think it's the opposite of that. I think,

01:01:30.620 I think there's a lot of freedom in it. Marriage is very freeing in many ways. And this is one of

01:01:36.520 them is that you're no longer held hostage by the need to be desirable to anyone else.

01:01:44.720 You don't need that. It doesn't matter. And it makes you impervious in a lot of ways

01:01:49.120 to the judgments of other people. Like my job is on the internet. So I get, of course I get

01:01:54.220 nasty comments all the time. People make fun of my looks and all this kind of stuff.

01:01:58.060 And it's great because I don't care at all. I'm not going to say that there's nothing someone

01:02:03.320 can say to me that, that, that, you know, I'm not going to say that I'm totally impervious to

01:02:06.900 any sorts of criticism at all. No one is impervious in that way. We're human beings.

01:02:11.040 But this is a vein of criticism that has no effect. Because someone can say, you're ugly. 0.99

01:02:18.540 And it's like, okay, so it's the equivalent of somebody coming to you and saying, oh, 0.96

01:02:25.260 you're really slow in a 40 yard dash, or saying that you're not good at tennis.

01:02:30.800 Okay. So you're making fun of me for lacking something. I don't need something totally irrelevant

01:02:34.920 to my life. That doesn't hurt. That's not, that's not where, you know, everyone has their

01:02:40.760 vulnerabilities. That's not one of them once you're married. And, uh, so that's the beauty of it.

01:02:49.020 But of course you got to get a spouse first. So, uh, yeah, looks max should be looks maxing if

01:02:53.840 you're, if you're single, but this is the end point. This is what we're missing a lot

01:02:58.040 in the, in the dating world in general, is people having a clear idea of what the point is,

01:03:03.880 why you're doing this. And, uh, this is the goal that you should have in mind.

01:03:11.040 And, uh, that's my, that's my motivational speech for the day. And we'll leave it there.

01:03:16.300 Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow. Have a great day.

01:03:28.220 All of this is an illusion, an echo of a voice that has died.

01:03:32.140 They say that Merlin is mad.

01:03:50.380 They say he was a king in Dovid, the son of a princess of lost Atlantis. They say the future

01:04:03.100 and the past are known to him. That the fire and the wind tell him their secrets. That the magic of the

01:04:11.280 hill folk and Druids come forth at his easy command. They say he slew hundreds, hundreds. Do you hear that the world burned 0.99

01:04:23.200 and trembled at his wrath?

01:04:24.700 The Merlin died long before you and I were born.

01:04:32.320 Merlin Emrys has returned to the land of the living.

01:04:39.920 Vortigin is gone. Rome is gone. The Saxon is here. 0.99

01:04:45.120 Saxon Hengist has assembled the greatest war host ever seen in the Island of the Mighty. And before the 0.99

01:04:51.360 summer is through, he means to take the throne. And he will have it. If we are too busy squabbling amongst

01:04:59.120 ourselves to take up arms against him, here is your hope. A king will arise to hold all Britain in his hand.

01:05:06.560 A high king. He will be the wonder of the world. You. To a future of peace. There'll be no peace in

01:05:19.520 these lands till we are all dust. Men of the Island of the Mighty, you stand together. You stand as

01:05:28.720 one.

01:05:30.720 Great darkness is falling upon this land.

01:05:38.720 These brothers are our only hope to stand against it.

01:05:42.720 Not our only hope.

01:05:44.720 They say Merlin slew seventy men with his own hands.

01:05:48.720 And Gathay, he slew five hundred.

01:05:51.720 No man is capable of such a thing.

01:05:55.720 They're a mortal man.

The Matt Walsh Show - December 16, 2025

Ep. 1708 - Violent Migrants Are Invading And Western Leaders Are Surrendering Without A Fight

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