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00:00:13.640 Today on the Matt Wall Show is the public school system has descended into woke insanity. 0.95

00:00:17.400 Students have predictably been getting dumber and dumber, but one state has apparently broken ranks from the woke brigade 0.74

00:00:22.900 and the results are being described as miraculous. We'll talk about it. 0.98

00:00:25.800 Also, another trans mass shooter, this time in Canada, and a viral post by somebody in the AI industry

00:00:30.720 warns that AI is about to destroy millions of jobs and we're not taking it nearly seriously enough.

00:00:36.460 Plus, the New York Times begins to walk back its endorsement of legalized marijuana.

00:00:41.020 We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.

00:00:55.800 When you read enough news about the declining quality of schools in this country, particularly public schools,

00:01:13.800 it's easy for your eyes to sort of glaze over after a while.

00:01:16.440 All the stories sound the same. We spend nearly a trillion dollars on our public school system every year.

00:01:19.920 A trillion dollars. And the results are objectively terrible.

00:01:24.180 Only around one third of 12th graders have English language proficiency, meaning they can barely speak English.

00:01:30.900 Math numbers, as you might imagine, are even worse.

00:01:33.540 Roughly one in 10 public school students experience sexual misconduct at the hands of a school employee.

00:01:38.000 And that's a conservative estimate that's not been updated in two decades before the LGBT movement

00:01:42.980 was spending millions of dollars, billions of dollars, rather, a year with the express goal of sexualizing children.

00:01:47.980 So it's probably a lot worse than that.

00:01:50.360 Meanwhile, a quarter of students are chronically absent, meaning they miss at least 10% of the school year.

00:01:55.540 Violent incidents in schools have increased by around 40% in the last couple of years.

00:01:59.400 And so on and so on and so on.

00:02:00.780 We could easily drone on for the next hour listing all the problems that you're probably already aware of.

00:02:06.880 This is going to be a very different monologue because for the first time in memory,

00:02:09.760 there's actually something to be hopeful about when it comes to the public school system.

00:02:14.060 And if you know anything about this show or my career, you know that I do not say that lightly.

00:02:21.320 There's genuinely a legitimate reason to believe that the education system in the U.S.

00:02:27.300 may not be entirely doomed, at least to the extent that we thought it was.

00:02:32.120 Thanks to a new finding that's somewhat controversial, as we'll discuss in a moment,

00:02:36.960 there is maybe a new path forward for educating American students.

00:02:40.840 And it is a really obvious path, one that we never should have abandoned in the first place.

00:02:46.760 But it's important to talk about nonetheless.

00:02:49.400 And if we continue in this vein, we could one day live in a at least moderately safer,

00:02:56.860 more educated and more literate society.

00:02:59.580 We can reverse the trend of, you know, everything getting crappier all the time.

00:03:05.040 Maybe.

00:03:05.400 But to understand the changes that may soon be coming, we need to start around a decade ago

00:03:10.160 when the left made a deliberate decision to turn our already terrible public schools into

00:03:14.740 indoctrination camps with no standards whatsoever.

00:03:18.140 Amid the cultural revolution of Barack Obama's first term, school districts in the state of

00:03:22.740 California went insane.

00:03:24.420 San Francisco eliminated the algebra requirement for eighth graders.

00:03:28.100 They also stopped failing students.

00:03:29.760 They let students move on to the next grade level when they clearly were not qualified for it.

00:03:35.320 And they turned every subject, even mathematics, into an exercise in racial equity.

00:03:40.420 They taught students that everything, including algebra, was really a social justice issue.

00:03:45.320 And these changes continued for many years afterward.

00:03:48.940 Watch.

00:03:50.020 Some of the state's largest school districts are coming up with a new approach towards grading.

00:03:54.700 Those districts are getting rid of D's and F's, so students won't be able to get anything

00:03:59.360 under a C on their assignments.

00:04:01.140 And if they do fail or miss an assignment, they're going to be given a do-over or an extension.

00:04:06.220 So the idea is to encourage students to learn the material rather than lose their confidence

00:04:10.300 from a low grade.

00:04:11.640 Let's see if my math matches your math.

00:04:13.600 A controversial math curriculum taking root in California, as reformers this month overcame

00:04:19.260 strong opposition from math and science educators.

00:04:22.380 It definitely will not help them learn math better.

00:04:25.380 I've been teaching math for 43 years, and I can say with certainty that this will cause

00:04:32.100 a great deal of confusion and set students back.

00:04:36.220 The new framework urges teachers to focus on historically marginalized people and take

00:04:41.960 a justice-oriented perspective by changing course material with less emphasis on problem solving.

00:04:48.220 More than 1,000 university professors pushed back, calling it a, quote, insult, immoral,

00:04:53.960 and foolish to replace arithmetic with what they say is an endless river of fads that inserts

00:05:00.340 equity, social justice, and environmental care into math class. 0.99

00:05:04.900 360 divided by 24 is...

00:05:07.000 Mathematics should be about numbers and calculating and not about politics, not about political

00:05:13.020 indoctrination, not about turning children into activists.

00:05:16.160 Why is one state so important?

00:05:18.640 As the nation's largest textbook market, publishers tend to follow the California framework.

00:05:24.920 Now, ostensibly the idea behind all these changes and many more changes like these was

00:05:29.140 to help students who were supposedly disadvantaged, particularly racial minorities.

00:05:33.860 Somehow we were told it was a good thing that students would graduate without the ability

00:05:37.400 to read and write.

00:05:38.900 In reality, of course, the goal of these policies was to hide two very inconvenient facts.

00:05:43.560 The first inconvenient fact was that the public schools clearly were not doing their jobs. 0.95

00:05:47.660 They were taking enormous sums of taxpayer money, and students in turn were getting dumber

00:05:51.600 by every objective metric.

00:05:53.320 So to prevent people from noticing this, the objective metrics were simply eliminated.

00:05:58.960 And the second inconvenient fact, which the left also wanted to hide, is that the allegedly

00:06:03.400 disadvantaged students have not been underperforming because of white supremacy.

00:06:08.900 Often they're underperforming because they lack discipline.

00:06:12.620 They were not raised in stable households, and as a result, their behavior is incompatible

00:06:16.520 with a functioning school system.

00:06:18.780 They routinely engage in criminal behavior that disrupts the entire campus.

00:06:23.420 This is difficult to measure with precise statistics because for the most part, public schools don't

00:06:28.480 report many fights and other acts of violence to law enforcement.

00:06:32.000 And that's because if the schools did file those reports, then they'd run the risk of being

00:06:36.060 designated as a persistently dangerous school, which would mean that they would lose their

00:06:40.380 federal funding.

00:06:41.660 So there's a significant incentive for schools to bury the evidence of violence that students

00:06:48.460 are committing.

00:06:49.740 There's basically no incentive for them to tell the truth, and there's a lot of incentive to

00:06:53.580 bury it.

00:06:54.160 And, of course, by the same token, the media doesn't want to cover the violence either because 0.83

00:06:59.220 it would look racist to do so since the perpetrators are almost always black, and very often they're

00:07:04.400 attacking white students in large numbers, which is a common theme, by the way.

00:07:08.960 You have to keep this in mind whenever you see crime statistics.

00:07:11.960 They're much, much worse than the official numbers show, always.

00:07:16.200 You know, black-on-white violence in many cases is not recorded at all.

00:07:20.140 Like, for example, remember the case we talked about yesterday with the black judge who 0.78

00:07:23.400 reduced the sentence of a black rapist by 50%, even though he demonstrated no remorse whatsoever. 0.90

00:07:28.800 In fact, he demonstrated the opposite of remorse. 0.98

00:07:30.960 He said he was glad about what he did, and, you know, he'd happily do it again.

00:07:34.640 Well, it was one of the most extraordinary cases we've ever talked about.

00:07:37.600 She cut his sentence by more than 30 years because he, quote, fell through the cracks.

00:07:43.140 Meanwhile, the rapist mocked the victim repeatedly, mocked her family, said he would do it again.

00:07:49.960 The judge said that she felt sorry for the rapist because he grew up in our 0.95

00:07:52.980 society as an African-American male. 0.86

00:07:55.860 So she gave him a pass because of, you know, white supremacy or whatever.

00:08:00.020 And guess what?

00:08:01.720 We don't know the race of his victim.

00:08:04.660 Her identity is shielded.

00:08:06.560 Not just her identity, but any identifying information about her at all has been withheld.

00:08:12.600 You won't find the victim's race listed in any media reports.

00:08:16.760 Now, if you look around, there are some indications that the victim may have been white.

00:08:20.860 The attack took place in an overwhelmingly white area, for example.

00:08:25.800 Now, is it possible that the judge went easy on the rapist because his victim was white?

00:08:29.640 Is it possible that she saw the attack as a way to strike back against white people like the OJ jury did?

00:08:35.080 Who she considers members of a different tribe?

00:08:38.940 We don't know.

00:08:40.820 Certainly seems possible based on what the judge said in court.

00:08:44.180 But whatever the case, we can be sure of one thing.

00:08:46.320 The crime, if it was black on white, will never be recorded as black on white crime in any statistical database at all.

00:08:55.640 After all, the victim is anonymous.

00:08:57.500 We can't know anything about her.

00:08:59.320 That's how it works.

00:09:01.520 That's true in the criminal justice system, and it's true in public schools as well.

00:09:06.080 Now, for the most part, it requires a mass shooting in order for the media to cover violence that takes place in public schools.

00:09:12.920 And in that case, whatever the shooter's motivation was, and regardless of whether the shooter identified as transgender or not,

00:09:19.740 the media will immediately start talking about gun control and suspending the Second Amendment.

00:09:25.200 But the truth is, you don't really need news reports or police reports to understand what's happening in American public schools,

00:09:30.980 especially the schools that are located in major cities.

00:09:34.160 I mean, you can go to the WorldStar website and look up the massive database of documentary evidence

00:09:40.520 that public schools are basically fight clubs for these disadvantaged minorities that we hear about so often.

00:09:48.560 And we'll put a couple of those videos up on the screen to the extent that we possibly can.

00:09:53.120 You know, it's just one video after another with titles like,

00:09:57.520 Messed Up, Teacher Gets Jumped by Students at High School in Georgia.

00:10:00.480 Now, it's content that we can't show on YouTube in its entirety.

00:10:12.420 Videos depicting acts of violence, particularly acts of violence involving children,

00:10:15.700 are banned from most social media and video sharing platforms.

00:10:19.340 And while you can understand why those policies are in place,

00:10:22.080 you also have to acknowledge that as a side effect,

00:10:25.040 the fact remains that it's not easy to see the videos that give you a realistic picture of everyday life

00:10:32.140 in many of our public schools.

00:10:35.260 This is an aspect of American life, a very important aspect,

00:10:38.860 because it's where a lot of our 50 million children are spending their time there,

00:10:42.860 that's mostly shielded from the public.

00:10:45.200 So to recap, in the Obama era and beyond,

00:10:48.980 public schools decided not to report most crimes to law enforcement,

00:10:52.260 not to fail anyone, not to hold back, not to hold anyone back a grade,

00:10:56.820 and not to teach difficult subjects.

00:10:59.800 And there was a media blackout on the violence that was occurring in these schools.

00:11:03.860 The idea was out of sight, out of mind.

00:11:06.800 If the schools were failing, and everyone knew they were,

00:11:10.080 then at least we wouldn't have to think about it very much.

00:11:12.180 We wouldn't have to deal with any uncomfortable statistics.

00:11:17.060 And indeed, this line of thinking quickly spread.

00:11:19.040 Colleges and law schools dropped standardized test scores.

00:11:21.600 They started demanding DEI statements to weed out conservatives,

00:11:24.640 along with any independent thinkers.

00:11:27.280 Schools at every level became expensive, government-funded daycares.

00:11:30.520 Students who actually wanted to learn, in the end, paid the big price.

00:11:34.560 And our country as a whole suffered as a result.

00:11:37.080 We started falling behind countries like China, which actually take education seriously.

00:11:43.480 And every few months, our education deficit grew larger and larger by design.

00:11:47.240 Just last year, San Francisco Public Schools proposed yet another equity policy,

00:11:51.820 which allowed students to pass with a grade of 40%.

00:11:55.720 They could skip homework with no penalty,

00:11:59.540 and retake tests indefinitely until they pass them.

00:12:03.380 And even if they don't pass them, they still get moved on anyway.

00:12:08.180 Other blue states and cities followed with similar policies,

00:12:11.380 and soon enough, their test scores began plummeting.

00:12:14.900 Take Massachusetts, for example,

00:12:16.320 where they used the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System,

00:12:19.360 or MCAS, to measure student achievement.

00:12:23.720 Massachusetts typically performs very well on standardized tests,

00:12:26.740 but lately, things have not been going so well.

00:12:30.320 As the Commonwealth Beacon reported late last year,

00:12:32.320 New MCAS results reveal that the performance of Massachusetts public school students

00:12:37.220 remains far below pre-pandemic levels and shows few signs of improvement.

00:12:41.320 The data follow a national assessment of educational progress scores released earlier this year

00:12:45.960 in which the Commonwealth student scored at a 20-year low.

00:12:49.420 In 2010, Massachusetts jettisoned the nation's best English language arts and math standards,

00:12:54.020 replacing them with national academic standards known as Common Core

00:12:57.600 that dramatically cut the amount of literature students read

00:13:00.460 and slowed their progression to higher mathematics study.

00:13:04.000 Last year, voters eliminated the requirement

00:13:05.760 that students pass the English, math, and science test to graduate from high school.

00:13:09.740 The overall portion of students' meeting expectations fell from half

00:13:12.880 before the pandemic to 42% now.

00:13:16.000 The portion of students who failed rose from 11% to 18%.

00:13:18.600 Only 39% met or exceeded expectations on the just-unveiled 8th-grade civics test.

00:13:25.940 And you'll find similar stories from Maine to New York to California.

00:13:29.940 They dropped the standards, and shortly afterward,

00:13:32.360 the performance of the students plummeted.

00:13:34.680 Again, it all seems inevitable.

00:13:36.880 All the numbers everywhere were dropping year after year.

00:13:39.580 Conservatives would complain about the numbers, but nothing would ever change.

00:13:43.100 Politicians would throw more and more money at the problem

00:13:45.540 and reward the unions and the non-profits with massive new contracts,

00:13:49.660 and everything would get worse.

00:13:52.540 It seemed like a death spiral that we couldn't possibly pull out of.

00:13:56.360 But then something very strange happened in the state of Mississippi.

00:13:59.980 The state's 4th-grade reading scores went from 49th place in the country

00:14:04.080 all the way to 9th place in the span of 10 years.

00:14:08.740 And their 4th-grade math scores, meanwhile, went from 50th, dead last, to 16th.

00:14:15.540 And when you adjust for demographics like poverty and race,

00:14:18.620 as of 2024, Mississippi went to number one.

00:14:22.000 Yes, from 2013 to 2024, regardless of how you measure the data,

00:14:26.220 Mississippi pretty much leapfrogged, like, the entire country.

00:14:30.520 Watch.

00:14:32.660 Thank you.

00:14:33.700 This is being called a Mississippi miracle.

00:14:36.520 The state's schools, once ridiculed over its test scores,

00:14:39.540 now have critics singing a different tune.

00:14:42.300 Mississippi's 4th-graders are ranked first for reading,

00:14:45.180 second for math when adjusted for demographics.

00:14:47.720 That's according to a national assessment.

00:14:50.280 This after the state was ranked 49th a decade ago.

00:14:53.540 49th.

00:14:54.260 Former Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant was involved in this turnaround

00:14:57.240 and analyzed the data in this report.

00:15:00.260 Governor, good to have you on this morning.

00:15:02.160 This comeback in students' reading scores was no accident.

00:15:05.780 This was a Herculean feat.

00:15:07.840 I mean, what or who do you credit this success to?

00:15:12.220 Well, first, to the students.

00:15:14.180 I mean, this was a heavy lift for them.

00:15:15.780 And these are 3rd-graders.

00:15:17.060 Many of them with reading disorders.

00:15:18.860 Many of them living in poverty.

00:15:20.340 So it was the children and their parents.

00:15:23.000 Parents who took this very seriously.

00:15:24.540 Who went home and said,

00:15:25.480 we're going to start language within our home.

00:15:27.380 And we're going to start reading because we've got a benchmark now that we have to meet

00:15:31.020 on that 3rd-grade.

00:15:31.840 Only 33% of Mississippi's children are reading on the 3rd-grade proficiency in 2012.

00:15:40.240 Now, one of Mississippi's main innovations was that at the end of 3rd-grade,

00:15:43.940 they started administering a reading fluency test.

00:15:46.720 And this was a genuine test with actual consequences.

00:15:49.500 If students failed it, they'd be held back and forced to repeat the grade.

00:15:53.100 In a typical year, something like 10% of students failed the test in 2018.

00:15:57.500 By 2022, the number was down to 7%.

00:16:00.800 And if students failed this reading fluency test and were held back,

00:16:04.600 then they wouldn't take the national test that's used to measure Mississippi's progress

00:16:08.700 against other states.

00:16:09.960 They'd have to wait another year.

00:16:12.480 So Mississippi began holding back far more students than most other states.

00:16:15.380 They broke with the established consensus,

00:16:17.000 decided that children should actually learn to read before becoming 4th-graders.

00:16:20.340 Under Mississippi law, students could be held back for a maximum of two years.

00:16:24.940 And along the way, Mississippi enacted other reforms.

00:16:26.920 In particular, Mississippi started teaching students to read using phonics

00:16:31.820 rather than context clues.

00:16:33.720 So to give you an example of how this might work,

00:16:36.780 if you teach a student using context clues,

00:16:38.800 you might show them a photo of a barn and say something like,

00:16:42.520 what building is that cow in? 1.00

00:16:44.220 It starts with the letter B.

00:16:46.320 And what word with a letter B would make sense?

00:16:49.300 In other words, in the context method,

00:16:51.820 teachers would challenge the student with a series of riddles

00:16:54.240 and basically push them to guess the right word.

00:16:57.180 Teachers would also offer suggestions like these

00:16:59.880 when students had trouble reading a word.

00:17:05.020 Quote, look at pictures and skip the word and re-read

00:17:08.300 and try a word that makes sense.

00:17:12.020 It should be obvious what the problem is here.

00:17:14.200 Guessing words and skipping words and looking for clues elsewhere

00:17:17.520 is not a reliable strategy.

00:17:19.080 The context system is basically cheating.

00:17:21.820 You might get the right result, but you're getting it for the wrong reason.

00:17:25.260 In order to actually learn to read,

00:17:27.140 you need to be able to understand the relationship

00:17:29.000 between letters and sounds

00:17:30.820 without relying on some hint that you're able to

00:17:33.900 dig up somewhere.

00:17:36.400 And that's what the phonics system,

00:17:37.700 which Mississippi now uses, is all about.

00:17:39.460 If you're teaching a student using phonics,

00:17:41.540 you tell them to go from left to right

00:17:44.040 and sound out the word barn.

00:17:47.220 They don't need a picture to provide context.

00:17:49.380 They don't need hints.

00:17:50.160 They don't need to skip the word and try to circle back later.

00:17:52.840 They learn a much more generalized, useful method of reading.

00:17:56.260 And if they fail to understand this method

00:17:57.920 and bomb the test, then they get to try again the next year

00:18:00.500 and potentially the year after that.

00:18:03.900 Now, this is a system that is clearly superior.

00:18:05.720 You have to wonder if the context system

00:18:08.460 wasn't an intentional effort to sabotage

00:18:11.460 the reading abilities of young children.

00:18:13.720 That's certainly been the result

00:18:14.780 based on these latest numbers from Mississippi,

00:18:17.280 but not everybody agrees with that assessment.

00:18:20.320 You might have heard in various circles

00:18:21.660 that some observers are doubting

00:18:23.740 that the so-called Mississippi miracle is actually real.

00:18:27.580 In particular, there's a paper from a statistics professor

00:18:30.900 named Howard Wehner,

00:18:32.340 who says that the numbers are highly misleading.

00:18:35.860 And here's what he writes.

00:18:37.060 Here's his argument.

00:18:37.900 Quote, prior to 2013,

00:18:39.580 a higher percentage of third graders

00:18:40.920 moved on to the fourth grade

00:18:42.660 and took the NAEP fourth grade reading test in Mississippi.

00:18:46.520 After 2013, only those students who did well enough

00:18:49.520 in reading moved on to the fourth grade and took the test.

00:18:52.460 It's a fact of arithmetic

00:18:53.660 that the mean score of any data set

00:18:55.460 always increases if you delete some of the lowest scores.

00:18:59.820 So in other words, he's saying

00:19:00.740 that Mississippi's fourth grade test scores only went up

00:19:04.000 because the state prevented the low scoring students

00:19:06.960 at the completion of third grade

00:19:08.460 from moving on to the fourth grade

00:19:10.900 and taking the national test.

00:19:12.020 His argument is that students

00:19:13.560 aren't actually becoming better readers.

00:19:15.200 The state is just preventing its bad readers

00:19:17.220 from taking the test.

00:19:19.260 And you find this analysis pretty much everywhere on the left.

00:19:22.940 They're all using this paper to make the case

00:19:24.800 that the Mississippi miracle is actually fake.

00:19:27.020 They have a vested interest in making this claim, of course.

00:19:30.080 If this supposedly miraculous event is real,

00:19:34.360 then the entire philosophy of education,

00:19:37.260 their entire philosophy has collapsed.

00:19:39.380 All of the justification for their racial equity programs 0.97

00:19:42.840 is also gone.

00:19:45.660 But the big problem with their reasoning

00:19:47.580 is that Mississippi is not preventing

00:19:49.440 low performing students from taking the test.

00:19:51.140 Instead, the state is delaying the administration

00:19:53.120 of the test for a small number of students.

00:19:55.400 You know, they aren't being expelled.

00:19:58.500 They aren't being disappeared.

00:20:00.640 Eventually, they'll take the national test

00:20:02.360 and their scores will definitely be reflected

00:20:05.960 in the totals over a 10-year period.

00:20:08.080 And to be clear, you know,

00:20:10.240 the number of students taking the test in fourth grade

00:20:12.020 has remained very high in Mississippi,

00:20:13.720 even with the new policy in place.

00:20:15.720 It's not like they're only letting five kids take the exam.

00:20:18.480 As Steve Saylor pointed out in Mississippi,

00:20:20.880 quote, the response rate for both fourth and eighth graders

00:20:23.240 was above the national average in 2022.

00:20:25.400 So even when they're holding students back,

00:20:27.600 they still have more students taking the test.

00:20:30.360 And here's how the journalist Kelsey Piper 0.97

00:20:31.920 responded to the professor's argument.

00:20:33.920 She has a detailed rebuttal on her substack.

00:20:36.060 Here's the key paragraph, quote,

00:20:37.640 the student that repeats the third grade

00:20:39.040 does not conveniently vanish off the face of the earth.

00:20:41.140 They just take third grade again,

00:20:42.980 and then they move on to fourth grade.

00:20:44.900 The state still tests them.

00:20:46.780 They just do so a year later.

00:20:48.080 Additionally, Mississippi has been gaining ground steadily

00:20:50.500 for two decades, so any explanation for the results

00:20:52.720 needs to explain steady gains, not a one-off jump.

00:20:56.000 For all these reasons, while weaker students

00:20:57.860 having an extra year to learn to read

00:21:00.160 is almost certainly contributing to Mississippi scores,

00:21:02.280 it cannot explain Mississippi's gains since 2003,

00:21:04.920 or even much of Mississippi's gains since 2013.

00:21:08.660 So the big drive by debunking of Mississippi's achievement

00:21:13.860 doesn't really hold up.

00:21:15.940 But the other argument you'll hear from leftists

00:21:17.960 who are enraged by the Mississippi miracle

00:21:20.140 is that by the eighth grade,

00:21:22.280 the state was no longer ranking number one

00:21:24.300 or even number nine.

00:21:25.540 So they're saying that the gains are mostly concentrated

00:21:27.880 at the fourth grade level.

00:21:29.700 And actually, that's true, at least for now.

00:21:32.120 One of the charts we showed earlier

00:21:33.600 actually illustrates that decline.

00:21:35.240 We'll put it back up on the screen so you can see it.

00:21:38.240 As you can see, from 2013 to 2024,

00:21:40.200 grade eight reading in Mississippi

00:21:42.100 went from 50th to 41st,

00:21:44.460 and grade eight math went from 49th to 35th.

00:21:48.740 So these are not quite as earth-shattering

00:21:51.120 as the grade four numbers,

00:21:52.320 but the state is no longer dead last in the eighth grade,

00:21:55.000 which is where they were before.

00:21:57.120 And that's an impressive achievement

00:21:58.160 when you consider the demographics that are involved.

00:22:00.400 As Saylor puts it,

00:22:01.920 quote, Mississippi eighth graders

00:22:03.440 being only four unadjusted points

00:22:05.600 behind the national average for all races is not bad. 0.99

00:22:08.000 By eighth grade, Mississippi's black students' reading score

00:22:10.680 has fallen to the national black average,

00:22:12.780 but that's still better than you'd expect

00:22:14.440 for what's perhaps the poorest

00:22:15.660 and most rural black population in the country.

00:22:19.260 So we still have significant across-the-board improvements

00:22:21.640 in reading and math in Mississippi

00:22:23.720 from fourth grade on up.

00:22:26.100 That's why it's a very good sign

00:22:27.420 that other southern states,

00:22:28.580 which leftists have long dismissed as hopeless,

00:22:30.960 are taking a similar approach as Mississippi,

00:22:33.660 and they're seeing significant improvements as well.

00:22:35.420 Since 2019, Louisiana went from 50th in the nation

00:22:38.060 to 16th in terms of fourth grade reading.

00:22:40.580 Alabama went from 49th to 34th.

00:22:44.760 So this is a clear improvement in public schooling

00:22:47.780 that it can be reproduced.

00:22:50.100 It's the first good news to come out

00:22:51.860 of the public school system in at least a decade.

00:22:55.020 And it didn't really come about

00:22:56.260 because they threw more money at the problem

00:22:58.200 or certainly because of affirmative action

00:23:00.100 or because of racial equity.

00:23:02.360 It came about because the state of Mississippi

00:23:04.400 recognized that everyone, including children,

00:23:08.480 respond to incentives.

00:23:09.700 If you tell students that it doesn't matter

00:23:12.220 whether they pass or fail or learn or don't learn,

00:23:15.440 then fewer students will pass

00:23:17.500 and fewer students will learn.

00:23:20.080 It's amazing how that works.

00:23:22.800 On the other hand, if you attach real consequences

00:23:24.580 to success and failure,

00:23:26.700 and if you stop giving context-based cheats

00:23:29.300 during reading lessons,

00:23:31.440 you actually make the lessons more difficult,

00:23:34.180 but instructive, everything changes.

00:23:37.200 Students, including many black students,

00:23:39.600 are capable of reading at a higher level much earlier.

00:23:43.160 And it's pretty revealing that the moment

00:23:44.760 this massive improvement emerges,

00:23:47.220 the very first thing that a lot of leftists attempt to do

00:23:49.920 is undermine it.

00:23:50.920 They claim it's fake,

00:23:51.780 and they publish papers that misrepresent

00:23:53.880 what's actually happening.

00:23:54.720 It could be more obvious

00:23:57.140 that these people desperately want

00:23:58.960 our education system 0.95

00:24:00.620 to remain dysfunctional and useless. 0.68

00:24:04.040 You won't find anyone 0.95

00:24:05.240 who resents education

00:24:06.480 more than the well-educated.

00:24:08.620 They know that an illiterate country

00:24:10.800 is one that's much easier to control,

00:24:12.840 and by making their state

00:24:15.420 and the entire American South

00:24:16.780 a much more literate place,

00:24:19.560 Mississippi has struck one of the biggest blows

00:24:21.560 against the leftist project

00:24:22.720 in the past decade.

00:24:25.140 And like Louisiana and Alabama,

00:24:27.180 it's time for many more states

00:24:28.400 to follow their lead.

00:24:31.100 Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:25:22.300 Daily Wire reports

00:25:23.320 10 people are dead.

00:25:24.260 At least 25 more were injured

00:25:25.620 after a shooter

00:25:26.380 who was reportedly wearing a dress

00:25:27.960 opened fire

00:25:28.500 at a rural Canadian school

00:25:30.660 on Tuesday.

00:25:31.300 The mass shooting took place

00:25:32.220 at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School

00:25:34.240 in Northeastern British Columbia,

00:25:36.520 serving students in grades 7 through 12,

00:25:39.040 where seven people were killed.

00:25:40.620 The shooter then died

00:25:41.380 from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

00:25:43.800 Investigators said

00:25:44.320 they found two other people

00:25:45.280 dead in a nearby home

00:25:46.360 and believe it was connected

00:25:48.260 to the school attack.

00:25:50.080 So another mass shooting,

00:25:51.640 awful situation.

00:25:53.780 Someone in a dress,

00:25:55.360 we were initially told,

00:25:57.140 committed the shooting.

00:25:59.440 And so does that mean

00:26:02.860 like an actual female school shooter? 1.00

00:26:05.640 That's unusual.

00:26:06.600 It does happen.

00:26:08.040 But immediately,

00:26:09.820 it kind of sends your antenna up

00:26:11.420 because you think,

00:26:12.220 well, that's unusual.

00:26:13.240 So was it a woman

00:26:17.220 or was it

00:26:18.880 what you might

00:26:20.460 more immediately expect,

00:26:24.340 a man in a dress? 0.52

00:26:26.140 Well, here's how

00:26:26.840 police in Canada

00:26:28.380 in the hours after this attack,

00:26:31.500 here's how they described

00:26:32.880 this individual,

00:26:34.940 the shooter.

00:26:35.940 Listen.

00:26:38.100 That includes

00:26:38.920 the deceased gun person.

00:26:40.480 Okay.

00:26:41.120 And then separately,

00:26:41.900 do you know

00:26:42.520 the gun person's

00:26:43.340 relationship to

00:26:44.480 gun person?

00:26:50.000 Have you ever heard

00:26:51.100 that term before?

00:26:52.280 I mean,

00:26:52.780 unfortunately,

00:26:53.120 we have a lot of experience

00:26:54.420 now with these,

00:26:55.300 with,

00:26:55.940 with,

00:26:56.540 you know,

00:26:58.300 media coverage

00:26:59.580 of mass shootings.

00:27:01.120 Gun person? 0.71

00:27:03.220 It sounds like a person

00:27:04.520 who is a gun.

00:27:05.580 Like,

00:27:05.700 that sounds like a,

00:27:06.500 like an anthropomorphic gun

00:27:08.380 came to life 0.94

00:27:09.020 and killed people.

00:27:09.860 Gun person? 0.71

00:27:12.500 Well,

00:27:12.940 why would the police

00:27:13.680 in Canada use that term?

00:27:16.320 Why not gun man 0.97

00:27:17.560 or gun woman? 1.00

00:27:18.280 That's,

00:27:18.620 that's the term

00:27:19.160 we're used to hearing.

00:27:20.600 Well,

00:27:20.880 the answer is that,

00:27:21.820 first of all,

00:27:22.340 Canada continues to be 0.89

00:27:23.400 a joke of a country.

00:27:24.340 It's a country

00:27:25.140 where the police,

00:27:26.000 in the moments

00:27:26.460 after someone

00:27:27.360 slaughters children

00:27:28.560 at a school,

00:27:30.120 they are more concerned

00:27:31.700 with not misgendering

00:27:33.740 the killer.

00:27:35.120 And the reason

00:27:35.660 they're worried about that

00:27:36.500 is that,

00:27:37.540 as you may have

00:27:38.060 already guessed,

00:27:39.300 apparently this was

00:27:40.320 another trans mass shooter. 0.62

00:27:42.760 Andy Ngo is reporting

00:27:43.780 along with Juno News

00:27:44.800 that this was 0.99

00:27:46.700 a trans killer. 0.99

00:27:48.900 Here's the Juno News report. 0.88

00:27:50.180 Juno News,

00:27:50.600 by the way,

00:27:50.880 is a Canadian

00:27:51.780 independent news outlet.

00:27:53.660 And here's what they say.

00:27:55.380 The individual

00:27:56.140 alleged to be the shooter

00:27:57.040 in the deadly attack

00:27:58.020 at Tumblr Ridge,

00:27:58.840 secondary school

00:27:59.360 in British Columbia,

00:28:00.160 has been identified

00:28:01.720 by a close family member

00:28:02.720 as Jesse Strang.

00:28:04.200 Or Strang.

00:28:06.760 S-T-R-A-N-G. 1.00

00:28:09.640 I hope you pronounce that.

00:28:10.540 Strange, maybe.

00:28:12.400 Juno News spoke directly

00:28:13.640 with Russell G. Strang,

00:28:15.160 Jesse Strang's uncle,

00:28:16.260 who confirmed Jesse

00:28:17.040 was transgender

00:28:17.960 and responsible 0.78

00:28:18.640 for the shooting

00:28:19.220 that left 10 people dead,

00:28:20.800 including the suspect.

00:28:22.700 A public YouTube account

00:28:24.040 believed to be owned

00:28:24.740 by Jesse features

00:28:25.580 the transgender flag

00:28:26.800 and uses she, her pronouns.

00:28:29.960 Now, as far as I can tell

00:28:30.760 at this point,

00:28:31.380 as we're filming anyway,

00:28:32.900 no other mainstream

00:28:33.840 news outlet

00:28:34.340 has picked this up

00:28:35.220 or reported it,

00:28:36.980 but, which is not surprising,

00:28:38.760 this does seem to be accurate

00:28:40.780 that this was a trans 0.94

00:28:42.600 killer, 0.94

00:28:44.700 and that is also

00:28:45.680 not remotely surprising.

00:28:48.880 We'll probably get into this

00:28:50.160 in much more detail tomorrow,

00:28:51.420 but for now,

00:28:54.760 we could just reiterate

00:28:56.260 that trans-identified people

00:28:59.640 account for the most 0.83

00:29:01.340 mass shooters per capita

00:29:02.900 out of any group in existence,

00:29:05.640 and it's like not even close,

00:29:07.620 which is exactly

00:29:09.780 what you would expect.

00:29:11.620 It's what I've been warning about

00:29:13.120 for a long time.

00:29:13.900 trans-identified people

00:29:16.880 are already,

00:29:18.680 by definition,

00:29:20.140 like by the,

00:29:20.820 by nature of being trans,

00:29:22.900 even though being trans 0.99

00:29:24.080 is not actually part

00:29:25.100 of anyone's nature,

00:29:26.020 but, but by definition,

00:29:27.600 if you are trans,

00:29:30.240 it means that

00:29:31.200 you're divorced from reality,

00:29:33.800 right?

00:29:34.980 You're, you're,

00:29:35.600 by, by definition,

00:29:36.520 it means you are

00:29:37.980 self-destructive

00:29:39.020 by definition,

00:29:41.820 and it means,

00:29:43.160 by definition,

00:29:43.680 that you are radicalized

00:29:45.280 because trans ideology

00:29:47.220 is, among other things,

00:29:49.260 a radical ideology.

00:29:52.740 So,

00:29:53.580 you've got an entire

00:29:55.020 population of people

00:29:56.060 who are

00:29:58.060 mostly male,

00:30:03.280 or even if that's

00:30:05.400 at least among,

00:30:06.500 among the,

00:30:07.100 among the shooters,

00:30:07.840 they're,

00:30:08.020 they're mostly male,

00:30:09.200 although,

00:30:09.480 although certainly not,

00:30:10.260 not only,

00:30:10.680 because we know what happened

00:30:11.260 at Covenant School.

00:30:12.420 So,

00:30:12.920 even,

00:30:13.060 even putting that aside,

00:30:14.400 you certainly have

00:30:15.140 an entire population

00:30:15.940 of people who are

00:30:16.660 divorced from reality,

00:30:19.340 self-destructive,

00:30:20.440 and radicalized.

00:30:24.980 And then what happens next?

00:30:28.140 And then,

00:30:29.040 you take that population

00:30:30.520 that is already

00:30:31.360 all of those things,

00:30:32.940 and then you tell

00:30:35.280 them that

00:30:36.300 there's a

00:30:39.440 genocidal

00:30:40.080 conspiracy against

00:30:41.280 them.

00:30:42.200 You tell them that

00:30:43.400 anyone who does not

00:30:44.500 respect their pronouns

00:30:46.000 or go along

00:30:48.000 with their

00:30:48.620 fantasies

00:30:49.780 is a threat

00:30:51.600 to them,

00:30:52.480 is an actual

00:30:55.040 threat to their lives.

00:30:58.120 Right?

00:30:58.680 You tell them,

00:30:59.200 you take those people,

00:31:00.660 already delusional,

00:31:03.640 self-destructive,

00:31:04.500 radicalized,

00:31:05.100 and you say to them,

00:31:05.720 hey,

00:31:06.520 you know,

00:31:06.980 you are whatever

00:31:07.760 you say you are,

00:31:09.140 and anyone who

00:31:10.740 tells you otherwise

00:31:11.920 is a threat,

00:31:14.080 a threat to your

00:31:15.340 very life.

00:31:19.060 What happens next?

00:31:22.300 Well,

00:31:22.920 exactly what we're

00:31:23.500 seeing here,

00:31:24.620 and we'll get into that

00:31:25.920 in much more detail

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00:32:19.740 I wanted to also mention

00:32:20.860 this,

00:32:21.220 Fox News reports the

00:32:24.740 New York Times

00:32:25.360 editorial board

00:32:26.160 walked back some of

00:32:27.040 its previous stances

00:32:28.020 on marijuana

00:32:28.820 legalization and the

00:32:30.200 drug's potential for 0.60

00:32:31.060 addiction in a Monday

00:32:32.260 editorial titled,

00:32:33.840 It's Time for America 0.55

00:32:34.760 to Admit that it Has a

00:32:35.820 Marijuana Problem.

00:32:37.860 The editorial board

00:32:38.460 noted that it has long

00:32:39.500 supported marijuana

00:32:40.320 legalization, even

00:32:41.240 published a six-part

00:32:42.160 series comparing the

00:32:43.200 federal ban on

00:32:43.780 marijuana to the

00:32:44.520 prohibition of alcohol,

00:32:46.100 advocating for the

00:32:46.780 ban to be repealed.

00:32:48.960 The Times wrote,

00:32:50.680 Much of what we wrote

00:32:51.780 then holds up, but not

00:32:53.120 all of it does.

00:32:53.880 At the time, supporters

00:32:54.780 of legalization predicted

00:32:55.760 that it would bring

00:32:56.320 few downsides.

00:32:57.420 In our editorials, we

00:32:58.140 described marijuana

00:32:58.880 addiction and

00:32:59.440 dependence as relatively

00:33:00.820 minor problems.

00:33:02.300 Many advocates went

00:33:03.100 further and claimed that

00:33:03.960 marijuana was a

00:33:04.720 harmless drug that

00:33:05.780 might even bring net

00:33:07.140 health benefits.

00:33:08.360 They also said that

00:33:09.060 legalization might not

00:33:10.280 lead to greater use.

00:33:12.640 Despite those prior

00:33:13.300 claims, the Times

00:33:14.520 argued that it is now

00:33:15.540 clear that many of

00:33:16.500 these predictions were

00:33:17.160 wrong and that the

00:33:18.560 legalization of the

00:33:19.340 drug has led to much

00:33:20.500 more use.

00:33:21.100 Each year, nearly 2.8

00:33:24.440 million people in the

00:33:25.200 United States suffer

00:33:25.860 from cabotenoid

00:33:27.220 hypermesis syndrome,

00:33:29.320 which causes severe

00:33:30.500 vomiting and stomach

00:33:31.400 pain.

00:33:32.400 More people have also

00:33:33.060 ended up in hospitals

00:33:33.820 with marijuana-linked

00:33:34.840 paranoia and chronic

00:33:35.740 psychotic disorders.

00:33:37.740 Bystanders have also

00:33:38.760 been hurt, including by

00:33:39.680 people driving under the

00:33:40.720 influence of pot.

00:33:43.860 These are all things that

00:33:44.900 they were arguing.

00:33:45.480 It's a good article.

00:33:49.100 You should read it.

00:33:49.640 I don't say this often,

00:33:50.840 but the New York Times

00:33:52.580 should be commended

00:33:53.300 for this.

00:33:55.400 I don't think they went

00:33:56.220 far enough because

00:33:58.300 they're saying that,

00:33:59.600 well, we're not saying

00:34:00.240 there should be a ban.

00:34:02.420 I think there should be

00:34:03.360 a ban.

00:34:04.720 But they at least admit

00:34:05.860 that they got some

00:34:06.420 things wrong and I can't

00:34:08.660 hold it against them for

00:34:09.700 getting this wrong.

00:34:10.460 I got it wrong, which

00:34:11.920 I've admitted many times.

00:34:12.940 I went through the same

00:34:14.520 I went through it much

00:34:16.660 sooner, but I went

00:34:18.920 through the same

00:34:19.500 awakening process when

00:34:20.880 it comes to this issue.

00:34:22.380 I was in favor for a

00:34:23.820 while.

00:34:24.640 I was in favor of

00:34:25.860 marijuana legalization,

00:34:27.860 even though I don't

00:34:28.820 it doesn't really it

00:34:30.200 doesn't benefit me.

00:34:31.020 I don't smoke pot, but

00:34:32.120 I was in favor of it

00:34:34.020 because of all the

00:34:35.800 all the libertarian

00:34:36.640 arguments that I

00:34:37.340 basically bought into.

00:34:39.300 In particular, the

00:34:40.600 argument that, hey,

00:34:41.520 well, you know,

00:34:42.200 alcohol is already

00:34:44.020 legal and it's so

00:34:45.080 much worse in every

00:34:46.060 way, so why not

00:34:48.100 have, you know,

00:34:49.320 why should marijuana

00:34:50.620 be singled out in this

00:34:51.840 way?

00:34:52.140 So I bought into that

00:34:54.200 argument.

00:34:55.780 But then, like the

00:34:56.760 New York Times

00:34:57.220 editorial board, I was

00:34:58.200 forced to reevaluate

00:34:59.380 when new information

00:35:01.480 came in, which is

00:35:04.340 what we should always

00:35:04.920 do.

00:35:07.260 And to be

00:35:08.000 completely honest,

00:35:09.760 it's like it's not

00:35:10.500 all new information,

00:35:11.380 actually.

00:35:12.980 I mean, there's new

00:35:13.740 information because,

00:35:15.280 well, once you do the

00:35:16.660 thing and you legalize 1.00

00:35:17.760 it, well, now we see

00:35:18.640 what the impact is.

00:35:20.380 We see what effect it

00:35:21.440 actually has on society.

00:35:22.660 It's not in the realm

00:35:23.980 of theory anymore.

00:35:25.620 Now it's, okay, like

00:35:27.900 you support legalization

00:35:29.420 because you say, well,

00:35:30.960 it's not going to have

00:35:32.460 this kind of impact.

00:35:35.000 Right?

00:35:35.600 It will have no real

00:35:38.160 impact or it will be a

00:35:39.080 positive impact.

00:35:39.720 It's not going to have

00:35:40.360 this negative impact.

00:35:42.120 Well, then you do it

00:35:43.200 and now it's, it's

00:35:45.560 happened in enough

00:35:46.300 places for long enough

00:35:47.620 that we can look back

00:35:48.400 and say, okay, well,

00:35:49.320 who was right and who

00:35:50.600 was wrong?

00:35:54.000 And it turns out that

00:35:54.880 the people who all along

00:35:56.080 said it will have a very

00:35:57.240 negative impact were

00:35:58.440 right.

00:35:59.360 And we can see that.

00:36:03.240 But it's also, but, you

00:36:04.640 know, so that's the new

00:36:05.440 information, but there's,

00:36:06.980 there's also been data

00:36:08.640 about the harms of

00:36:09.640 marijuana, um, for,

00:36:11.400 for decades now that, um,

00:36:16.460 was available for anyone

00:36:18.500 who did enough research

00:36:19.400 into it, which a lot of

00:36:21.900 people, including myself

00:36:22.640 did not.

00:36:25.060 So, you know, the New

00:36:26.060 York times talks about a

00:36:26.900 lot of the different

00:36:27.400 dangers associated with

00:36:28.500 pot use.

00:36:29.100 It is addictive.

00:36:29.980 Uh, you do see huge

00:36:32.740 increase increases in

00:36:33.960 people driving under the

00:36:35.200 influence, you know, of

00:36:37.780 course people are getting

00:36:39.060 killed because of that.

00:36:40.840 You have things like, as

00:36:42.460 they mentioned, you know,

00:36:43.640 these, uh, hypermesis,

00:36:45.360 these serious medical

00:36:46.460 conditions that are

00:36:47.460 associated with, with

00:36:48.360 marijuana use.

00:36:50.160 There's also the societal

00:36:51.560 level issues, which we've

00:36:52.980 talked about at length, the

00:36:54.120 implications of having

00:36:55.560 entire cities where like

00:36:56.940 everybody's walking around

00:36:58.020 stoned all the time.

00:36:59.000 very bad for society,

00:37:01.880 basically no upside.

00:37:04.640 And on the addiction

00:37:05.720 side of it, by the way,

00:37:07.440 according to some figures,

00:37:08.780 including data compiled by

00:37:10.580 Yale, uh, 30% of

00:37:12.540 marijuana users are 0.97

00:37:13.980 addicted.

00:37:14.960 And for alcohol, which

00:37:17.780 weed smokers will say is

00:37:20.580 so much worse.

00:37:22.380 Well, the addiction rates

00:37:23.620 are, are lower.

00:37:24.580 It's probably, probably

00:37:25.260 about a third of that.

00:37:26.200 So most estimates say that

00:37:27.560 like eight to 12%,

00:37:28.860 13%, 15% at most of

00:37:32.360 alcohol drinkers are

00:37:33.320 alcoholic, but I want to

00:37:36.420 focus for a moment on

00:37:37.260 something the article

00:37:37.860 mentions kind of briefly,

00:37:38.880 which is, and Brett Cooper

00:37:41.700 posted about this yesterday

00:37:42.720 talking about her family's

00:37:43.680 experience and she was

00:37:45.240 pilloried, torn to shreds

00:37:46.680 by the potheads, even 0.58

00:37:48.740 though she's a hundred

00:37:49.280 percent right.

00:37:50.860 And that is the link

00:37:52.000 between marijuana use and

00:37:53.800 psychosis.

00:37:54.400 And here's the thing about

00:37:56.680 that.

00:37:57.860 And you really need to

00:37:58.800 understand this if you're a

00:37:59.860 pot smoker.

00:38:01.620 The link between marijuana

00:38:02.960 use and psychosis is very,

00:38:05.380 very strong.

00:38:07.740 It is very well

00:38:09.000 documented.

00:38:10.200 This is not like, oh, one

00:38:11.700 study 20 years ago

00:38:13.820 indicated that maybe there's

00:38:16.620 some kind of correlation.

00:38:17.540 It's not that.

00:38:18.940 This is not some obscure

00:38:20.460 theory.

00:38:21.440 This is something that's

00:38:22.360 been demonstrated

00:38:23.200 scientifically many times.

00:38:26.100 I mean, it's real.

00:38:27.000 It just is.

00:38:28.820 So you've got experimental

00:38:30.260 studies over the past 40

00:38:31.800 years from the 90s all the

00:38:33.260 way to today.

00:38:34.680 I found three at least

00:38:36.520 showing that marijuana use

00:38:39.380 can induce paranoia,

00:38:40.460 hallucinations, other

00:38:41.460 psychotic symptoms.

00:38:42.300 You've got longitudinal

00:38:43.580 studies, which mean that

00:38:44.920 these are studies that

00:38:45.840 track data over a long

00:38:47.060 period of time.

00:38:50.000 There's a Danish study, a

00:38:51.680 Swedish study, a study out

00:38:53.040 of Australia, a Canadian

00:38:54.400 study, all separate

00:38:56.520 showing this link.

00:38:58.640 And these are studies, the

00:38:59.680 Swedish study was done, it 0.96

00:39:01.260 was a 15-year period,

00:39:03.460 which included 50,000

00:39:06.160 heavy cannabis users.

00:39:08.700 And it showed a several

00:39:10.300 fold increase in a

00:39:12.240 schizophrenia risk because

00:39:16.660 of marijuana.

00:39:17.920 There's been research

00:39:19.000 looking at genetics,

00:39:20.140 whether some marijuana

00:39:21.380 users are genetically more

00:39:22.880 vulnerable to the psychosis

00:39:24.520 risk.

00:39:25.800 And the answer is yes,

00:39:27.440 some of them are.

00:39:29.320 You've got reviews by the

00:39:30.860 National Institute on Drug

00:39:32.260 Abuse and the CDC

00:39:33.120 concluding that there is

00:39:34.220 consistent evidence linking

00:39:35.540 cannabis use to psychosis.

00:39:38.300 You've got analysis in

00:39:41.540 various European countries

00:39:42.840 showing that, indeed, it's

00:39:45.540 like, well, we've got all

00:39:46.380 these studies showing this

00:39:48.880 link.

00:39:49.420 If all of that is true,

00:39:51.180 then we should be able to

00:39:52.980 look at places that have

00:39:54.560 legalized marijuana and

00:39:57.140 marijuana use has

00:39:59.120 increased.

00:39:59.600 And we should notice that

00:40:01.720 also the rate of psychotic

00:40:03.920 disorders increases as well.

00:40:07.180 And what do you know?

00:40:08.560 That's exactly what we find.

00:40:11.540 So you have studies that are

00:40:13.980 small-scale, studies that are

00:40:15.420 medium-scale, large-scale.

00:40:17.180 You have research focused on

00:40:18.480 small groups in short

00:40:19.560 periods of time, large groups

00:40:20.840 over long periods of time.

00:40:22.200 You have research looking at

00:40:23.600 correlation at the population

00:40:24.980 level, research looking at

00:40:26.360 causation all the way down to

00:40:27.600 the genetic level.

00:40:30.540 You have research with

00:40:31.980 predictive, you know, you have

00:40:33.180 a theory here, right?

00:40:35.300 The theory is that marijuana

00:40:36.400 use can cause psychosis,

00:40:41.720 psychiatric conditions.

00:40:43.560 That's the theory.

00:40:45.300 Well, if it's a valid theory,

00:40:46.840 it should have predictive

00:40:47.720 power, right?

00:40:48.980 That's what a valid, any valid

00:40:50.420 theory has predictive power.

00:40:51.840 It means that, well, here's

00:40:53.120 what I, here's what's

00:40:53.920 happening.

00:40:54.920 And here's my theory.

00:40:56.140 And if my theory is true,

00:40:58.520 then when I look at what's

00:41:00.360 actually going on in the real

00:41:01.260 world, I should see X, Y, Z.

00:41:04.840 And these theories, this theory

00:41:06.660 has predictive power.

00:41:08.840 Because then when you look at

00:41:10.140 what's happening in the real

00:41:10.820 world, you find exactly that.

00:41:13.420 Like these, the theory would

00:41:15.020 predict, if this is true, it

00:41:17.600 predicts that as marijuana use

00:41:20.140 increases in a population,

00:41:22.480 psychotic disorders also increase.

00:41:24.240 And that is exactly what we

00:41:26.220 observe in reality.

00:41:28.860 So this is very thorough.

00:41:30.600 And there is a lot of data

00:41:32.320 here.

00:41:34.520 And perhaps most importantly,

00:41:36.280 all of this data comports with

00:41:37.840 common sense.

00:41:39.700 So it's not like you're being

00:41:41.100 asked to accept something that

00:41:43.580 makes no intuitive sense based on

00:41:46.660 studies.

00:41:49.400 No, it makes sense.

00:41:50.300 Of course, a mind-altering

00:41:51.620 substance, if used constantly,

00:41:53.560 every day, will have a deleterious

00:41:56.660 effect on your mind.

00:41:58.420 Of course it will.

00:41:59.580 Of course it's harmful to your

00:42:01.000 mind to take a mind-altering

00:42:02.480 substance every day.

00:42:05.000 That's exactly what, with common

00:42:06.700 sense, you would expect that.

00:42:08.760 And then, what do you know?

00:42:09.940 It's what you find.

00:42:12.760 So, it's all right there.

00:42:17.720 And here's the thing.

00:42:22.120 I'll tell you the one thing on top

00:42:25.400 of all this that makes weed so

00:42:27.740 dangerous is that, and this I think

00:42:31.480 also explains the high rate of

00:42:33.560 addiction when you compare to things

00:42:35.860 like alcohol.

00:42:36.360 Well, with alcohol, you know, everybody

00:42:43.300 admits, everyone acknowledges with

00:42:46.020 alcohol that it can be a dangerous

00:42:47.980 substance and it can hurt you.

00:42:50.260 Everyone admits that.

00:42:51.620 You will not find anyone who will claim

00:42:54.500 otherwise.

00:42:55.940 I defy you to find a single person who

00:42:59.500 will claim that there are no serious

00:43:02.560 risks with alcohol.

00:43:04.400 Now, you will find alcoholics who are

00:43:06.480 in denial about their own consumption.

00:43:10.440 They're in denial about their own

00:43:11.780 habits.

00:43:13.600 They'll say that, you know, I don't

00:43:15.120 have a problem.

00:43:16.200 So, they're in denial about that, but

00:43:18.180 they won't deny that, well, yeah,

00:43:20.580 like alcoholism exists.

00:43:22.760 Yeah, other people have a problem with

00:43:24.220 it.

00:43:25.320 Yeah, it can hurt you if you drink too

00:43:27.080 much, but I don't drink too much.

00:43:28.720 So, that's a level of denial, but it's

00:43:30.920 different from the denial you find

00:43:32.560 with potheads, with weed smokers.

00:43:36.420 Because for them, they are also

00:43:38.320 personally in denial about their own

00:43:40.140 consumption.

00:43:40.920 I don't have a problem.

00:43:42.100 Yeah, I smoke every day.

00:43:43.480 Yeah, I'm high every single day, but I

00:43:46.240 don't have a problem.

00:43:47.060 There's that denial, but also there is

00:43:48.820 a blanket denial among advocates of

00:43:52.860 marijuana that marijuana has any

00:43:56.060 negative effects.

00:43:57.200 I mean, marijuana users have this like

00:44:03.420 superstitious, almost religious faith in 0.83

00:44:08.500 the substance.

00:44:11.300 They think it's the one mind-altering

00:44:13.400 drug in existence that you can take as

00:44:16.160 much as you want and it will not harm you

00:44:18.500 at all.

00:44:19.680 It will have no health impact at all.

00:44:26.080 Unless it's a positive impact, maybe.

00:44:30.520 So, that's the kind of denial you have with

00:44:32.100 marijuana and I think that that makes it

00:44:33.800 even more dangerous.

00:44:36.960 Because then you have a lot of people that

00:44:38.800 think like, yeah, I can get high every day

00:44:40.700 all day and it will not hurt me.

00:44:42.680 They really do believe that.

00:44:45.200 Nobody believes that you can drink all

00:44:47.020 day every day and not be hurt by it.

00:44:49.180 There are people who have that habit and

00:44:51.420 it's really bad, but no one really

00:44:53.440 believes that you can just do that and

00:44:55.680 you'll be fine.

00:44:57.580 With marijuana, I think like millions of

00:44:59.720 people believe that.

00:45:00.600 They really believe it.

00:45:04.600 Look at the comments under this video.

00:45:06.080 You're going to see some of them.

00:45:08.800 And I think that contributes to the

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00:46:17.780 You know, I'm not going to get into

00:46:20.000 another 45-minute anti-AI speech right

00:46:22.900 now, I promise.

00:46:23.920 I'll have plenty more speeches like

00:46:25.640 that in the future, don't get me wrong.

00:46:27.260 Just not today.

00:46:28.680 I do just want to tell you about this,

00:46:30.700 I think, a very important and sobering,

00:46:33.700 frankly terrifying article post by a guy

00:46:36.760 named Matt Schumer, which is going viral

00:46:39.100 right now for good reason.

00:46:41.300 Matt works in the AI industry, and the

00:46:44.520 article is titled, Something Big is

00:46:46.480 Happening.

00:46:47.920 And basically he argues that we are with,

00:46:51.240 and I've had this feeling for a while, I

00:46:52.820 haven't quite been able to put it into

00:46:54.320 words.

00:46:55.360 So what he argues with AI is that we are,

00:46:58.600 with AI, we are basically in February of

00:47:02.380 2020, right?

00:47:04.880 February 2020, you first started to hear

00:47:06.740 reports about, unless you were really

00:47:10.040 clued in and you really followed global

00:47:11.700 events, if you were a normal person,

00:47:16.080 February is when you really first started

00:47:18.160 to hear reports about some weird virus in

00:47:20.500 China.

00:47:21.980 And, but if you were a normal person, what

00:47:24.880 you didn't understand at that time was

00:47:28.120 that our entire lives were about to be

00:47:30.100 changed abruptly, severely, and really

00:47:33.800 irreversibly.

00:47:35.060 Like something was about to happen that

00:47:38.140 was going to change everything permanently.

00:47:41.920 And then it did, right?

00:47:44.220 And his point is that that's where we are

00:47:46.560 right now with AI.

00:47:48.580 Like it's February, 2026, but really it's

00:47:50.900 February, 2020.

00:47:52.560 And the pandemic is AI.

00:47:56.100 Uh, and, uh, you know, March and then

00:47:58.820 April, 15 days to slow the spread.

00:48:00.720 Like that's, that's coming.

00:48:03.280 AI is about to change everything.

00:48:05.780 All of our lives will be irrevocably

00:48:07.840 changed.

00:48:08.520 And, uh, in many cases for the worse,

00:48:10.980 millions and millions of jobs are going

00:48:13.600 away and soon, not like in 10 years, but

00:48:17.720 it's already happening.

00:48:19.360 That that's the case he's making.

00:48:20.780 Like this is already happening and it's,

00:48:24.320 it's going to, it's only going to happen

00:48:27.940 more at a more rapid rate.

00:48:32.780 Now, Matt Schumer argues that although AI

00:48:34.980 is going to totally like basically

00:48:37.400 dismantle human civilization as we know it,

00:48:39.720 that's my, my words, not his, that's

00:48:43.000 what he's kind of arguing.

00:48:44.680 Ultimately, he thinks that it could work

00:48:46.620 out for the best.

00:48:48.660 Uh, so I don't think that, so he, he's

00:48:50.960 not nearly as pessimistic as I am.

00:48:52.600 And he kind of like goes, he goes

00:48:53.900 through this whole thing, quite

00:48:55.380 terrifying.

00:48:55.940 It's like a horror.

00:48:56.860 It's just a, it's a horror story about,

00:48:59.460 about it's a nightmare scenario that he

00:49:01.280 says is upon us. 0.52

00:49:02.800 And there's, there's no getting out of

00:49:04.100 it now.

00:49:05.200 And then by the end he tries to say,

00:49:06.760 yeah, but cheer up guys.

00:49:07.780 It's not so bad.

00:49:10.060 That's the one part of the article that

00:49:11.460 I found not compelling, unfortunately.

00:49:15.460 But even he will say that in the short

00:49:16.900 and medium term, uh, AI is coming for

00:49:21.380 millions of jobs just to start with.

00:49:24.380 And eventually probably every job

00:49:26.880 one way or another, like no one is

00:49:30.560 truly safe.

00:49:31.060 You think you're safe, you're not.

00:49:34.100 And you know, you know where I stand

00:49:35.460 on this.

00:49:35.760 I do believe that AI is a civilization

00:49:38.260 level threat, probably unlike anything

00:49:41.260 we've ever seen before.

00:49:42.680 I truly believe that.

00:49:43.940 Um, five years from now, if everything

00:49:48.240 is fine and AI is basically where it is

00:49:51.180 now.

00:49:51.520 And it's like, it meant for many people

00:49:54.660 just a novelty.

00:49:55.760 If that's the case five years from now,

00:49:57.480 then you can take all of the, all of my

00:49:59.620 chicken little sky is falling stuff.

00:50:01.500 You can take it, you can repost it.

00:50:03.100 You can make fun of me.

00:50:05.360 Uh, that's fine.

00:50:06.320 Um, but I don't think I'm going to be

00:50:08.740 wrong on this one.

00:50:11.400 Uh, I think that the sky really is

00:50:13.140 falling with the AI.

00:50:14.260 I just do.

00:50:16.460 And, um, and the thing that I hope I'm

00:50:21.100 wrong, like this is one of those things.

00:50:22.460 I'd be very happy to be wrong.

00:50:24.260 I pray that I'm wrong.

00:50:25.780 Um, and when I, and sometimes there are

00:50:29.900 people that have reposted this article

00:50:31.900 and made the counter argument saying

00:50:33.960 that, well, this is hysterical.

00:50:35.280 This is nonsense.

00:50:36.400 AI is, is not going to do all this.

00:50:38.360 It can't do it.

00:50:39.260 There's a limit.

00:50:40.060 There's a cap with what AI can achieve.

00:50:42.040 And I hope they're right.

00:50:43.760 Like I take some, I read those counter

00:50:45.980 arguments and I want to believe it.

00:50:49.180 Um, but I'm, I'm not persuaded.

00:50:52.760 And I'll tell you that the thing that,

00:50:56.700 so this is what I was thinking about.

00:50:58.380 The thing that is most startling and

00:51:00.860 most, uh, shocking and most frankly

00:51:03.680 terrifying to me about AI as a layman,

00:51:09.220 as someone who admittedly, I don't

00:51:10.960 understand how the stuff works, but it

00:51:15.700 is the ability of AI to understand.

00:51:19.380 Apparently it's the ability of AI to

00:51:21.960 apparently understand or to do something

00:51:26.560 that closely resembles understanding.

00:51:32.320 Uh, that is what is truly shocking to

00:51:35.300 me.

00:51:36.240 And maybe someone who knows this stuff

00:51:38.080 better than I can could respond and

00:51:40.700 say, well, that's just cause that's just

00:51:42.740 cause you don't understand it.

00:51:43.720 Maybe so, maybe so, but I don't think

00:51:48.220 we've ever seen anything like this before.

00:51:49.660 I mean, it really is the closest, it

00:51:52.400 certainly is already the closest thing

00:51:54.220 to non-human consciousness we've ever

00:51:56.300 seen in the history of the human

00:51:57.420 species.

00:51:58.200 I'm not saying that I think AI is

00:52:00.060 conscious.

00:52:00.460 I don't, but it's the closest we've ever

00:52:04.400 seen to something like that.

00:52:07.240 And now maybe you might say, yeah, it's

00:52:09.220 close, but it's still a million light

00:52:10.600 years away.

00:52:11.960 Maybe.

00:52:12.400 But that is the, that's what I've noted

00:52:16.820 as I've, um, as someone who's an AI, not a

00:52:21.560 fan, I've experimented with it a little

00:52:24.620 bit.

00:52:26.800 And, and, and, and, and, and that's the

00:52:30.720 thing that I've, I've noticed is it's, it's

00:52:32.480 ability to understand, at least from my

00:52:33.960 perspective, seems to have, seems to have

00:52:37.640 improved rapidly just even over the last few

00:52:40.160 months.

00:52:42.320 And so I've done two, two, two just

00:52:44.580 personal experiments that a lot of other

00:52:46.100 people have done.

00:52:46.520 You can do this.

00:52:47.920 Um, just testing its ability to understand

00:52:50.640 things.

00:52:52.260 So one thing you can do with AI right now

00:52:54.220 is you can feed it a contract and it will

00:53:00.080 spit out in 30 seconds, a lawyerly analysis

00:53:04.460 of the contract.

00:53:06.220 And I've tested this with, I actually went

00:53:08.020 back and found like an old book deal

00:53:09.780 contract I had from years ago.

00:53:12.300 And, uh, I gave it to the AI and I said,

00:53:14.480 can you, you know, here's the contract.

00:53:16.060 What do you think?

00:53:17.740 And it came back with an analysis that

00:53:21.540 lined up with what my actual human lawyer

00:53:23.880 said to me years ago when we went through

00:53:25.680 this.

00:53:26.240 And not only that, but it picked up on

00:53:27.860 things that my human lawyer did not pick

00:53:29.580 up on.

00:53:30.480 It was now maybe I had a bad lawyer.

00:53:32.380 It was better than the human at interpreting 0.98

00:53:36.040 and understanding the contract.

00:53:38.660 And that, you know, maybe that you could,

00:53:40.100 you could just imagine.

00:53:40.720 You could say, well, yeah, it's a lead.

00:53:41.740 It's all about legal language.

00:53:43.120 Okay.

00:53:43.420 Maybe you can build the other thing that

00:53:45.880 AI can do.

00:53:46.680 And I've experimented with this.

00:53:48.940 You take, uh, so I have a, a script that

00:53:51.960 I'm, I've been developing and, uh, I'm not

00:53:56.300 going to get into the details because I

00:53:57.240 actually want to make it one of these

00:53:58.280 days, but been developing the script.

00:54:00.900 So I experimented with this, a feed the

00:54:03.440 AI, the script, a film script and say,

00:54:06.920 well, okay, give me, well, actually I

00:54:08.380 tried two things.

00:54:09.000 So one thing I said, okay, here's an

00:54:11.860 idea I have for a movie.

00:54:13.540 I gave the, all the ideas.

00:54:15.960 I said, can you generate, like write a

00:54:19.440 script for me, write a couple of scenes

00:54:20.880 for, based on this idea.

00:54:23.020 And it did that.

00:54:23.960 And it was terrible as I expected.

00:54:25.640 And I was relieved.

00:54:27.120 It was like, it was awful.

00:54:28.040 This is terrible.

00:54:30.240 And then I said, well, here's, I fed it

00:54:31.600 the entire script, like a hundred pages

00:54:33.000 and said, give feedback on the script.

00:54:36.600 And in like 30 seconds, maybe a minute,

00:54:41.840 it read through the entire script and spit

00:54:45.700 out this lengthy analysis, which not just

00:54:51.640 analysis of the structure and form of the

00:54:54.340 script, but even the themes, the

00:54:57.880 subtext, the like individual character

00:55:01.440 beats.

00:55:03.640 And you read this back and you're like

00:55:05.360 this, that looks an awful lot like

00:55:09.140 understanding.

00:55:10.200 It looks an awful lot like a thing that

00:55:12.720 was able to understand what you just

00:55:14.780 gave it.

00:55:15.280 Because it's not just picking up on legal

00:55:18.680 language, it's picking up on theme and

00:55:21.580 subtext, like picking up on things that

00:55:23.620 you didn't, cause that you didn't actually

00:55:25.180 write in the script, but like you, cause

00:55:27.080 that's what a subtext is.

00:55:30.440 And, you know, then it gives a feedback and

00:55:33.140 it gives suggestions.

00:55:33.800 And most of the suggestions are not good.

00:55:35.620 It's like, I'm not going to just in

00:55:36.920 principle, I would never actually adopt any

00:55:38.560 of those suggestions.

00:55:39.700 I just wanted to see what it was able to

00:55:41.100 do.

00:55:42.520 Also probably a bad idea to give AI

00:55:45.040 intellectual property.

00:55:46.380 Cause there's other thing, how does that

00:55:47.400 work?

00:55:48.140 It's like, now it just has that.

00:55:49.680 Can it, does that, so then when someone

00:55:51.500 else uses the AI and, uh, and says, can you

00:55:54.880 write me a script?

00:55:55.520 Can it like crib from, I don't know, how does

00:55:57.340 that work?

00:55:58.200 Probably not a good idea, but whatever.

00:55:59.620 I did it.

00:56:01.840 And what it was able to do in return was

00:56:03.660 again, something that resembles

00:56:05.000 understanding.

00:56:05.700 And, uh, how, I don't know.

00:56:12.160 That's the thing.

00:56:12.760 And, and, you know, the people who are

00:56:14.020 more, have a more, uh, relaxed view of

00:56:16.820 AI will say, well, it's not really

00:56:18.080 understanding things.

00:56:20.240 It's just like interpreting its pattern

00:56:22.400 recognition.

00:56:23.420 It's cross-referencing this with the other

00:56:26.180 things that it's, that it has in its

00:56:27.900 system.

00:56:28.880 Well, it's like, but isn't that what

00:56:29.920 understanding is?

00:56:31.620 I mean, well, how do we define human

00:56:33.480 understanding?

00:56:33.880 Isn't human understanding, pattern

00:56:35.400 recognition, cross-referencing memory?

00:56:39.040 Like, isn't that what it means for us to

00:56:40.760 understand things?

00:56:43.300 And if a piece of technology can get to a

00:56:45.760 point where it's doing something that

00:56:50.140 looks almost identical to understanding,

00:56:52.580 then how, then doesn't the distinction

00:56:54.540 between actual understanding and resembling

00:56:58.220 understanding start to collapse so that

00:57:01.360 it's basically an irrelevant distinction?

00:57:02.840 I don't know.

00:57:06.460 So, um, that's what concerns me about it.

00:57:10.520 And this is not, this is not me saying, oh,

00:57:12.320 AI is going to become conscious and take

00:57:13.780 over the world and enslave us all. 0.98

00:57:15.700 I mean, who knows?

00:57:16.280 Maybe, uh, that's not what I'm talking

00:57:18.580 about.

00:57:18.680 I'm not talking about a Terminator scenario.

00:57:21.320 I do think it takes over the world, but

00:57:22.880 it takes over the world because it just

00:57:24.000 takes over all the things that humans do.

00:57:26.280 It just, it just becomes better at doing

00:57:28.160 everything a person can do.

00:57:29.900 And so there's nothing left for people to

00:57:31.840 do.

00:57:33.920 That's the, that to me, that's the Armageddon

00:57:36.440 scenario that I'm worried about.

00:57:38.340 Not Terminator.

00:57:39.380 It's just like now we're human beings with

00:57:42.160 nothing to do.

00:57:43.900 And there are no jobs that we need to do

00:57:46.180 anymore.

00:57:47.160 How does that work?

00:57:48.120 Can you have a human society that way?

00:57:52.020 How do you transition into society that

00:57:53.900 way, like that, without everything collapsing?

00:57:57.040 How do you transition into that society

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00:59:50.780 All right, finally, we have another American athlete,

00:59:54.840 Olympic athlete, Richard Ronan,

00:59:58.740 speaking out against his own country.

01:00:01.000 Watch.

01:00:04.280 First of all, I'd like to say I'm proud to be here

01:00:06.520 to represent Team USA and to represent our country.

01:00:13.940 But we'd be remiss if we didn't at least mention

01:00:16.320 what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time

01:00:18.400 it's been for everybody.

01:00:22.060 This stuff is happening right around where we live.

01:00:25.400 And I am a lawyer, as you know, and we do the,

01:00:35.100 we have a constitution and it allows us to freedom of the press

01:00:40.040 and freedom of speech, protects us from unreasonable searches

01:00:45.540 and seizures, and makes it that we have to, you know,

01:00:51.720 have probable cause to be pulled over.

01:00:55.300 And what's happening in Minnesota is wrong.

01:00:58.540 There's no shades of gray.

01:01:01.100 It's clear.

01:01:02.040 And I really love what's been happening there now

01:01:10.180 with people coming out, showing the love, the compassion,

01:01:17.360 integrity, and respect for others that they don't know

01:01:20.980 and helping them out.

01:01:23.160 And we love Minnesota for that.

01:01:25.040 Okay, so articulate as always, these people are so articulate.

01:01:31.600 What's been happening in Minnesota is bad.

01:01:33.960 What's been happening?

01:01:35.700 I don't like what's been happening.

01:01:37.420 I believe in the constitution.

01:01:39.700 Yeah, what has been happening, Rich?

01:01:41.340 What are you talking about?

01:01:43.460 I mean, what specifically is bad?

01:01:45.300 What specifically defies the constitution

01:01:47.120 in your legal opinion?

01:01:49.480 Can you explain?

01:01:51.120 Like arresting and deporting people

01:01:52.680 who are not legally authorized to be in the country,

01:01:54.540 is that the bad thing that's happening?

01:01:56.560 Is that against the constitution?

01:01:59.920 Is that your legal analysis as a lawyer?

01:02:03.920 It's total nonsense, of course. 0.61

01:02:05.320 And again, even if it were not nonsense,

01:02:07.080 even if he had legitimate complaints, which he doesn't,

01:02:09.320 this still would not be the forum for them.

01:02:11.660 This is not the place.

01:02:13.720 Okay, you don't go to a foreign country on a global stage 0.96

01:02:16.120 and start attacking your own country.

01:02:17.720 You don't do that.

01:02:19.580 And you especially don't do that if your sport,

01:02:21.900 your sport is curling.

01:02:24.540 Because this guy, he's a curler.

01:02:27.820 That's his sport.

01:02:29.820 So if you're wondering why,

01:02:31.520 like how this Olympic athlete is a pudgy 50-year-old man,

01:02:35.680 well, it's because he does curling,

01:02:37.800 which is not a sport

01:02:39.460 and should not be in the Olympics.

01:02:42.180 Like, can we just get real about this?

01:02:44.120 I don't mean to throw the baby out with the bathwater.

01:02:45.940 I'm not saying that all of the curlers

01:02:47.300 are anti-American communists.

01:02:49.040 This guy is, but maybe not all of them are.

01:02:51.740 Some of them might be patriots.

01:02:55.040 But this is not, like, this is not a sport, guys.

01:02:58.540 And I'm not even saying

01:02:59.340 it's not necessarily entertaining to watch.

01:03:01.200 Like, of all the Olympic events,

01:03:03.300 I think a lot of them are quite boring.

01:03:05.840 You know, you could make the argument

01:03:06.900 that this is not the least entertaining of the bunch.

01:03:10.360 But I mean, look, I think we have this clip.

01:03:14.280 So this is the clip, I think, from yesterday,

01:03:17.620 the gold-winning curler.

01:03:21.000 I thought it was whoever won the gold

01:03:23.800 in the women's curling,

01:03:25.240 but this is actually a mixed-gender event,

01:03:29.100 which tells you something.

01:03:30.320 Okay, if at the Olympic level,

01:03:32.940 men and women can compete together,

01:03:35.160 that is not a sport.

01:03:36.680 But here was the winning shot,

01:03:40.300 the winning curl.

01:03:41.220 I don't know what you call it,

01:03:42.080 but go ahead.

01:03:44.000 Isabella Vrana has been nearly flawless

01:03:46.240 in this Olympic final.

01:03:48.300 97% shooting.

01:03:50.600 If she delivers again,

01:03:52.480 the Swedes are golden.

01:03:55.220 And it'll do the trick.

01:04:06.220 The brother-sister combo from Sweden

01:04:08.980 grabbing gold over the United States.

01:04:13.220 6-5 the final

01:04:14.740 as Sweden celebrates mixed...

01:04:18.160 I don't understand what I'm watching.

01:04:21.780 Like, the puck or whatever you call it,

01:04:24.320 the big rock, the big stone.

01:04:26.440 Didn't even land in the target,

01:04:28.100 so how do you win?

01:04:30.080 I don't know.

01:04:31.100 I don't know why the woman 1.00

01:04:32.120 was screaming like that.

01:04:33.880 Pushes the puck down the rank

01:04:35.720 and then starts screaming 0.99

01:04:37.440 like a schizophrenic hobo. 0.79

01:04:39.620 And you got the guy with the broom.

01:04:41.760 And they're not doing anything.

01:04:43.220 Let's just be real about this, okay?

01:04:45.500 Like, the guy with the broom

01:04:46.580 and curling,

01:04:48.600 he's pushing the broom ahead of the puck.

01:04:51.880 That's not doing anything.

01:04:52.980 Don't claim that that person's doing something.

01:04:56.100 That's like when you're cleaning

01:04:57.940 and you give your two-year-old

01:04:59.340 a toy vacuum

01:05:00.180 so he can feel like he's doing something.

01:05:03.380 Right?

01:05:03.820 It's like when you're a kid

01:05:05.240 and your dad's out mowing the lawn

01:05:06.560 and you have your little plastic

01:05:08.300 Fisher-Price lawnmower.

01:05:11.160 Oh, isn't he cute?

01:05:11.980 He thinks he's doing something.

01:05:14.600 And I don't want to hear anyone tell me,

01:05:15.900 oh, no, Matt,

01:05:16.540 you know, you don't understand curling.

01:05:17.960 The broom guy is really important. 0.76

01:05:19.620 Yeah, whatever, nerd.

01:05:20.560 Uh, I don't understand.

01:05:23.640 I shouldn't have to understand it.

01:05:24.940 That's a game that you play with your friends

01:05:26.840 after you've each had several beers.

01:05:30.120 That's a bar game, okay?

01:05:31.700 That's not an Olympic sport.

01:05:33.120 You might as well make it an Olympic sport.

01:05:34.560 What is that game with the, um...

01:05:37.080 I never know what it's called,

01:05:37.960 but I'm really good at it.

01:05:39.040 With the,

01:05:39.460 where it's got the,

01:05:40.040 the metal circle

01:05:42.200 and then it's on a string

01:05:43.520 and you flick it onto a hook.

01:05:45.800 You know what I'm talking about?

01:05:46.400 Every brewery in the world

01:05:47.840 has one of these.

01:05:49.260 I'm great at it, by the way.

01:05:51.900 I'm like an expert at that game.

01:05:53.920 One of the only things I'm good at,

01:05:55.380 one of my only skills,

01:05:56.320 and I have three skills

01:05:57.160 and that's one of them.

01:05:58.660 You might as well make that

01:05:59.720 an Olympic sport.

01:06:03.040 And here's a general rule, okay?

01:06:05.120 If your sport, quote unquote,

01:06:07.160 here's a few things

01:06:08.440 that make your sport not a sport.

01:06:10.740 Number one, if your sport,

01:06:12.880 if the only way to know who won

01:06:14.760 is by a judge,

01:06:16.620 this doesn't apply to curling,

01:06:17.740 I realize,

01:06:18.180 but if the only way to know

01:06:19.780 who won the event

01:06:21.600 is by going to a judge,

01:06:23.500 then it's not a sport.

01:06:26.620 So that takes figure skating out.

01:06:28.360 Figure skating is not a sport.

01:06:29.580 It's an art form.

01:06:31.400 It's a physically demanding art form.

01:06:33.680 I'll give it that.

01:06:34.460 It's not a sport.

01:06:36.460 Okay, now you can have judges,

01:06:37.480 like in boxing has a judge,

01:06:38.480 but there's also a way

01:06:39.280 that you can win without a judge.

01:06:40.560 Just knock somebody out.

01:06:41.540 Pretty straightforward.

01:06:44.620 So that, not a sport.

01:06:48.400 At least curling passes that test.

01:06:50.820 But if your sport can be played

01:06:53.400 at the highest level

01:06:54.760 by middle-aged men with beer bellies,

01:06:58.160 then it's not a sport

01:06:59.460 and it doesn't belong in the Olympics.

01:07:02.160 That's the rule.

01:07:03.000 That should be the rule.

01:07:03.700 If I was the head of the Olympic committee,

01:07:04.900 that would be the rule.

01:07:05.520 Like, if I, as a 39-year-old man,

01:07:09.540 if I am not too old

01:07:11.200 to take up your sport today

01:07:13.020 and play it competitively,

01:07:14.600 then it's not a sport.

01:07:17.200 And it should not be in the Olympics.

01:07:19.120 That should be the rule.

01:07:21.780 Especially now.

01:07:22.760 Especially if, after all that, 1.00

01:07:25.040 like we put up with your dumb little game 0.99

01:07:26.920 that you want to play at the Olympics 1.00

01:07:28.940 and you get to have a gold medal

01:07:30.660 for playing your bar game.

01:07:33.920 We put up with that for years.

01:07:36.400 And everyone applauds you politely.

01:07:40.320 Like, you go out in public

01:07:41.340 and you say,

01:07:41.740 oh, I'm an Olympic gold medalist.

01:07:42.880 Everyone's like, really?

01:07:44.040 Wow, that's impressive.

01:07:45.040 What do you do?

01:07:45.500 Oh, I'm a curler.

01:07:46.960 And everyone goes,

01:07:47.820 oh, yeah.

01:07:50.060 Oh, no, really cool, man.

01:07:51.560 Awesome.

01:07:52.880 We put up with that for years

01:07:54.100 and then you come out 0.98

01:07:55.240 and you stab us in the back 0.82

01:07:57.280 on the world stage on top of it.

01:07:58.900 Let's just be done with it.

01:08:00.060 That's my point.

01:08:02.020 And we will leave it there for today.

01:08:03.300 Thanks for watching.

01:08:03.860 Thanks for listening.

01:08:04.640 Talk to you tomorrow.

01:08:05.260 Have a great day.

01:08:11.980 They told you America invented slavery.

01:08:15.540 They told you the Indians were peaceful.

01:08:18.940 They told you colonialism was evil

01:08:20.980 and that Joseph McCarthy was a bad guy.

01:08:24.260 And guess what?

01:08:25.240 They lied.

01:08:26.980 For half a century,

01:08:27.780 generations of American schoolchildren

01:08:29.260 have been taught to hate our history,

01:08:31.380 hate our country,

01:08:32.660 and hate themselves.

01:08:34.120 It's time to set the record straight.

01:08:36.080 And since no one else is going to do it,

01:08:38.400 I will.

01:08:39.660 Who sold us the slaves?

01:08:41.080 What were India and Africa like

01:08:42.860 before Europeans arrived?

01:08:44.320 What caused white flight?

01:08:46.460 Some of the most well-known stories

01:08:47.680 from American history

01:08:48.340 are designed to demoralize you.

01:08:50.440 The Trail of Tears,

01:08:51.520 the Smallpox Blanketsmith,

01:08:53.140 the Red Scare.

01:08:54.340 It's all baseless.

01:08:55.860 It's time for a lesson

01:08:56.780 on what they're not teaching

01:08:58.320 in public schools,

01:08:59.500 on the real history of slavery,

01:09:01.320 of colonialism,

01:09:02.640 of the Indians,

01:09:03.760 of America,

01:09:04.780 and the world.

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