The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1759 - The Media Does Not Want To Talk About This HISTORIC NASA Launch. Here’s Why.

00:00:00.000 When you let arrow truffle bubbles melt,

00:00:02.300 everything takes on a creamy, delicious, chocolatey glow.

00:00:06.480 Like that pile of laundry.

00:00:07.800 You didn't forget to fold it.

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00:00:11.980 Feel the arrow bubbles melt.

00:00:13.880 It's mind bubbling.

00:00:15.240 On Christmas Eve of 1968,

00:00:17.720 as American soldiers became increasingly involved

00:00:20.060 in a protracted war in a faraway country

00:00:22.120 and as political assassinations were becoming

00:00:24.000 a regular feature of domestic politics,

00:00:26.600 stop me if any of that sounds familiar,

00:00:28.700 A single broadcast was watched by more than a quarter of the world's population.

00:00:32.640 I'll say that again. One in four people on the planet across dozens of countries stopped what they were doing and watched a single broadcast.

00:00:40.360 That never happened before. It's never happened since.

00:00:43.680 This massive audience was not tuning in to a deranged, depressing political podcast.

00:00:49.000 They were not watching a hysterical panel on CNN or the latest true crime documentary to roll off the assembly line at Netflix or the season finale of a network television drama that was produced to appeal to the lowest common denominator.

00:01:03.160 They were not watching an endless stream of dreck on the Internet, either, courtesy of social media algorithms designed to confuse and demoralize them.

00:01:10.120 No, instead, this is what a quarter of the world's population was watching on Christmas Eve of 1968.

00:01:19.000 We are now approaching lunar sunrise, and for all the people back on Earth,

00:01:27.360 the crew of Apollo 8 has a message that we would like to send to you.

00:01:34.160 In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth,

00:01:38.900 and the earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep.

00:01:44.800 and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters

00:01:49.120 and God said, let there be light

00:01:52.880 and there was light

00:01:54.560 and God called the dry land earth

00:01:57.320 and the gathering together of the waters called he sea

00:02:01.500 and God saw that it was good

00:02:04.540 and from the crew of Apollo 8

00:02:07.820 we close with good night, good luck

00:02:11.440 a Merry Christmas

00:02:13.060 and God bless all of you, all of you on the good Earth.

00:02:20.740 So we spliced the broadcast together a bit, but you get the idea.

00:02:24.060 That's the most popular broadcast in world history.

00:02:27.340 Astronauts quoting the book of Genesis on board Apollo 8 as they orbited the moon.

00:02:31.680 They had gone farther from Earth, a lot farther than any other astronaut in history.

00:02:36.120 No one else had ever left Earth's orbit.

00:02:39.000 No one else had ever taken a photograph like this one.

00:02:42.100 which, of course, is iconic now.

00:02:45.140 You may have seen the picture before.

00:02:46.760 It shows Earth rising over the horizon of the moon.

00:02:49.820 It was taken by the astronaut Bill Anders.

00:02:52.420 By any measure, it's one of the most historic, iconic photographs ever taken.

00:02:57.000 When they got back to Earth, the astronauts became Time Magazine's men of the year.

00:03:01.000 They received a ticker tape parade.

00:03:02.640 They appeared at the Super Bowl.

00:03:04.460 They got a postage stamp.

00:03:05.760 They addressed Congress.

00:03:06.660 They were treated as heroes because they had done something that seemed impossible,

00:03:10.680 something no one had achieved before. And more than that, this was an achievement that laid the

00:03:15.360 groundwork for many more breakthroughs to come. It was also a clear and unambiguous sign that we

00:03:21.360 had taken the lead in the space race over the communists. We were the superior country, therefore 0.92

00:03:25.740 we were producing superior results, results that were unprecedented at the time, and everyone could

00:03:31.280 see that. A little over 57 years later, after many years of inactivity and dysfunction, which was

00:03:38.260 largely the result of deliberate sabotage, most recently by the Obama administration.

00:03:43.640 NASA is about to achieve another major milestone, something that's never been done before.

00:03:48.640 That's the plan. On Wednesday evening at 5.24 p.m. Central Time, as part of the Artemis 2 mission,

00:03:54.780 which will last 10 days, four astronauts, three Americans and one Canadian, will travel in the

00:03:59.880 Orion spacecraft to the far side of the moon, reaching roughly 4,700 miles beyond the Earth.

00:04:05.240 that's farther into deep space than any crew has gone before in the history of humanity.

00:04:10.680 And when they return, they'll enter the atmosphere at around 25,000 miles per hour,

00:04:15.460 which is the record for the fastest re-entry speed of a crewed vessel ever in history.

00:04:20.720 So these are, objectively speaking, historic achievements.

00:04:25.640 It's historic that NASA is even attempting this.

00:04:28.480 The overwhelming majority of people alive today have never seen a crewed mission to the moon.

00:04:33.300 The famous clock at the Kennedy Space Center hasn't counted down to a mission like this,

00:04:37.680 a mission where an astronaut has left low Earth orbit since 1972.

00:04:42.020 And on top of that, just like Apollo 8, the Artemis 2 mission is part of a new space race

00:04:46.500 with a different communist power.

00:04:48.580 This time it's China that's trying to beat us to the moon. 1.00

00:04:51.500 They want to get there by 2030.

00:04:53.300 And they're not just looking for bragging rights.

00:04:55.120 They can try to claim ownership of the moon,

00:04:57.420 which would drastically alter the balance of power on Earth, if not the solar system.

00:05:02.060 Now, despite these stakes, though, you probably haven't heard much, if anything, about Artemis II.

00:05:08.220 There's a reporter who goes by the name Ellie in space who just walked around the streets of Boulder, Colorado, to see if anyone was aware of this.

00:05:16.120 And while some people had a vague understanding of the mission, for the most part, these are the kinds of responses that she received.

00:05:23.200 Watch.

00:05:24.280 I was wondering what you've heard about Artemis.

00:05:27.940 The god?

00:05:28.740 No, are you excited for Artemis, too?

00:05:32.120 Who's Artemis? 0.94

00:05:33.180 So, do you know how we're going back to the moon, like, sometime in the next month?

00:05:37.600 None of that.

00:05:38.580 Seriously?

00:05:39.200 You didn't know that.

00:05:39.680 You guys?

00:05:40.760 No way.

00:05:41.160 You didn't know that.

00:05:42.400 NASA is sending humans back to the moon for the first time in over 50 years.

00:05:46.440 Yeah.

00:05:46.860 We're wondering what you know about NASA and what upcoming events they have.

00:05:53.500 Honestly, I haven't been reading the news too much, I'll be honest.

00:05:55.940 Okay.

00:05:57.040 Yeah.

00:05:57.480 i've been staying out of social media what does artemis 2 mean to you if anything artemis what

00:06:01.880 is artemis 4-0 girl so we're going back to the moon okay like in april and i don't think a lot

00:06:08.440 of people know this you had no idea oh my gosh nasa needs to do a better job of getting the word 0.71

00:06:13.320 out have you heard of artemis 2. what do you know about artemis 2. artemis 2. yes well i know

00:06:20.440 No, Arbus One.

00:06:21.360 Arbus One was first.

00:06:23.000 But in what context?

00:06:24.440 What is it?

00:06:25.800 Oh.

00:06:26.880 Oh, it's like a rocket program.

00:06:30.380 Like from NASA.

00:06:31.240 Yes.

00:06:32.320 To Mars, right?

00:06:33.320 To the moon.

00:06:36.760 I don't know if I'm more concerned by their answers or the pants that guy was wearing.

00:06:41.880 Like MC Hammer pants.

00:06:45.280 Are we doing this again?

00:06:46.320 I guess we're doing this again with the pants.

00:06:47.860 We did the JNCO thing in the 90s.

00:06:50.440 We already did this.

00:06:51.400 Okay, my generation did this 0.93

00:06:52.540 when I was in like middle school. 0.94

00:06:53.640 We had the really wide, ridiculous pants. 0.77

00:06:56.960 And now, yeah, those pants there. 0.93

00:06:59.480 We already did this.

00:07:00.580 We went through this.

00:07:01.780 We've been through this.

00:07:03.480 We learned our lesson. 1.00

00:07:04.680 Those pants are retarded. 1.00

00:07:06.340 You look stupid. 1.00

00:07:07.880 Okay, those do not, 1.00

00:07:09.260 like no human looks at those pants

00:07:11.160 and thinks that those look good.

00:07:13.660 And we already learned that lesson.

00:07:15.660 And now we're cycling back 30 years later 1.00

00:07:17.640 and saying, let's try on these stupid pants again. 1.00

00:07:19.260 anyway uh well unlike the old women at the no kings rallies we talked about yesterday these 1.00

00:07:25.560 people particularly the random street performer have an excuse for their ignorance the media has

00:07:30.580 buried the story of artemis 2 and they've done that on purpose because artemis 2 is happening

00:07:36.220 under the trump administration that's what a lot of this is is about you know therefore the media

00:07:41.920 is obligated to undersell it i mean they're happy to run a million stories about katie perry

00:07:48.240 launching to the edge of space for 12 seconds. But when NASA is on the verge of a historic

00:07:53.280 achievement in space travel, they don't want to talk about it because it would make Trump look

00:07:57.720 good. This is the Trump administration. NASA reports directly to the president.

00:08:04.740 So there's no way to talk about this or be happy about it or congratulate NASA without also giving

00:08:11.660 the Trump administration credit, which they don't want to do. And that's what a lot of this is about.

00:08:15.300 And the reality is that this mission launching around the moon this week that will send humans farther into space than ever before, a landmark moment in the history of our species, is getting almost no attention.

00:08:31.640 But history books will care about this moment, even if the media doesn't.

00:08:37.340 Now, I'll admit that hearing this, a lot of people are probably skeptical.

00:08:42.200 In response, you might say, well, this mission isn't actually that big of a deal.

00:08:46.180 After all, we've already circled the moon and landed on it before.

00:08:50.040 That was a long time ago.

00:08:51.460 So who cares if these astronauts are about to go 685,000 miles to the moon and back?

00:08:58.180 Now, first of all, even if you disregard all of the scientific significance of what's about to happen,

00:09:05.180 And the fact remains that America has not had a collective achievement to celebrate for a long time.

00:09:15.880 All of our big collective moments have been, if you think about it, what have our big moments been as a country in my life, in your life, in all of our lives?

00:09:28.800 All those moments have been extremely bad. Like 9-11, Iraq, the 2008 financial crisis, BLM riots, COVID lockdowns, political assassinations, and so on. All of the I remember where I was moments have been not very inspiring, to say the least.

00:09:50.560 America has not had a good one of those

00:09:53.980 In decades

00:09:55.300 I mean seriously

00:09:57.380 When was the last time there was a truly historic moment

00:09:59.940 To the point that for the rest of your life

00:10:02.140 You'll always remember where you were when it happened

00:10:03.840 We have had moments like that

00:10:06.120 But then ask yourself

00:10:06.900 Have those moments been high points

00:10:09.020 Or low points in the country's history

00:10:11.520 Almost certainly it's the latter

00:10:13.680 If I'm missing something

00:10:16.120 Not remembering some big moment we all celebrated

00:10:18.280 Let me know

00:10:19.320 now that's not to say that our country hasn't accomplished anything in the past generation in

00:10:24.780 fact we've had some major accomplishments even in space just last year SpaceX rescued two NASA

00:10:30.560 astronauts who were stranded in space for nine months which wasn't exactly easy to do but it's

00:10:34.580 unavoidably true that a general decline in many areas of life coupled with political polarization

00:10:41.080 has made collective celebration of anything almost impossible when SpaceX saved those astronauts the

00:10:48.480 left complained because Elon Musk was involved. That's how broken and demented a large portion of

00:10:54.320 the population has become. It seems like an impossible problem to solve, barring a civil war.

00:11:00.200 But if we make a substantial, broad push back into space, if this is not the only thing we're

00:11:08.620 doing, but it's just the beginning of something, if we begin exploring new worlds, harnessing their

00:11:14.420 potential, then that could be unifying in a meaningful way. And when America was in whatever

00:11:25.000 we consider unified to be, when America was in some sense a unified country, it was at a time

00:11:29.060 when we were pushing forward and exploring and going out and doing cool things. That matters

00:11:35.520 as a country. If you want to be a great country, you got to go out and do cool things. It actually

00:11:40.000 does matter a lot.

00:11:44.500 A lot of people say problems on Earth

00:11:46.500 have a way of feeling a lot smaller

00:11:48.140 when you can travel 140 million miles away

00:11:50.320 to a colony on Mars or the moon

00:11:51.800 and start a life there.

00:11:54.560 I think there's some truth to that.

00:11:58.400 Even the potential for that future

00:11:59.860 all by itself can change our culture.

00:12:04.000 Remember when those people went down

00:12:05.420 in this submersible to see the Titanic

00:12:07.300 and imploded at the bottom of the ocean?

00:12:09.780 Remember how a lot of people made fun of them for risking their lives to go where almost no living person had ever gone? 0.98

00:12:17.040 That was the attitude all over the internet, that only a moron would risk his life in search of a new discovery. 0.92

00:12:26.340 But actually, we need people like that. 0.98

00:12:28.180 This is a case I made at the time.

00:12:29.800 You need people like that.

00:12:30.760 You need people who are going to risk their lives just to go somewhere that no one's been.

00:12:35.300 If we didn't have people like that in the history of Western civilization, Western civilization would not exist.

00:12:40.020 You wouldn't exist. I wouldn't exist. This country would not exist.

00:12:43.120 None of the great things we've ever done ever would have ever happened.

00:12:47.380 If not for people who are willing to risk their life, willing to die just for the sake of going somewhere that no one's ever been and doing a thing that no one's ever done.

00:12:58.760 so watch this segment featuring one of the artemis 2 astronauts and see how he handles

00:13:05.400 that type of concern watch nasa is hoping to lift off on wednesday the start of a six-day

00:13:13.860 launch window artemis 2's crew will orbit the earth twice on their first day then head off

00:13:19.440 for the moon they won't land on it they'll fly around its far side pushing farther from earth

00:13:25.040 than humans ever have, about 253,000 miles, before looping back to Earth.

00:13:31.020 This nine-day mission ends with a splashdown off the San Diego coast,

00:13:35.760 a practice run for an eventual moon landing planned for 2028.

00:13:40.360 We do look at it as a test flight.

00:13:41.920 Reid Wiseman is the mission's commander.

00:13:44.060 First time people have flown on this rocket or in this capsule,

00:13:49.220 what is the level of risk in all this?

00:13:52.280 What level of risk profile are you willing to accept?

00:13:55.040 If we weren't willing to take risk, we'd never leave the planet.

00:13:57.040 So we have got to go take risk to humans further off the planet, off to the moon, off to Mars.

00:14:02.000 But it's one thing to intellectually say someone has to be willing to take that risk.

00:14:05.460 Another thing to say I'm willing to take that risk.

00:14:08.100 Why are you willing to take this risk?

00:14:10.760 Right now on planet Earth, there's four people in a position to go take this risk.

00:14:14.000 And this is what we signed up for.

00:14:16.280 And myself, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy are in a position to go do that.

00:14:19.140 We have to seize that moment.

00:14:20.400 so the interviewer almost can't believe what he's hearing it's such an unusual statement that it

00:14:27.300 seems like a foreign language uh we're not used to this kind of attitude anymore even though it's

00:14:32.700 the attitude that again built this country and western civilization but the astronaut is right

00:14:38.400 you know the safety culture of the left which is obsessed with avoiding harm including emotional

00:14:44.720 damage or whatever, will lead to the death of humanity. We simply won't make it as a species

00:14:51.140 if the left gets their way. People who want to deconstruct everything from gender to the nuclear

00:14:57.320 family to the legal system, they'll never launch a rocket to the moon. They'll never build a colony

00:15:03.700 on Mars. They won't do a single thing to preserve the future of humanity because they're deeply

00:15:09.420 resentful people and they don't want humanity to continue. If the Artemis mission manages to put a

00:15:15.380 dent in that nihilistic perspective, which, you know, millions of people on the left are afflicted

00:15:21.240 with, and some on the right as well, then it'll be worth whatever it costs. And to be clear,

00:15:28.880 these astronauts will face very real risks during this mission. There's no question about that. Now,

00:15:34.440 it's true that even if the main engine fails, the astronauts will probably still be okay.

00:15:39.300 The moon's gravity will slingshot them back to Earth,

00:15:41.460 similar to what happened with Apollo 13 to get those astronauts home.

00:15:44.460 This is called a free return trajectory.

00:15:46.780 It's one of the biggest built-in safety valves in the mission,

00:15:49.260 in addition to the fact that they aren't even attempting to land on the moon,

00:15:52.240 which simplifies the mission quite a bit.

00:15:54.620 But among other things, the astronauts still have to survive re-entry

00:15:59.060 into the atmosphere at the highest speed ever attempted.

00:16:02.460 And during the unmanned Artemis I mission, which was launched in 2022,

00:16:06.320 in order to test the equipment, make sure everything would work for Artemis II,

00:16:10.760 there was indeed a problem on re-entry.

00:16:14.040 Gas was trapped within the shield that heated and expanded,

00:16:17.880 which blew away some of the heat shield.

00:16:20.720 Watch.

00:16:22.320 And liftoff of Artemis I.

00:16:24.840 Artemis I, which flew in 2022 without a crew,

00:16:28.400 was a full system test flight to prove the rocket and capsule

00:16:33.220 are mission-ready for humans to travel around the moon and back.

00:16:38.200 Splash down.

00:16:39.320 It splashed down safely in the Pacific.

00:16:42.540 But on inspection, engineers found the heat shield was damaged on reentry,

00:16:47.840 though the interior of the capsule was not.

00:16:50.820 Is there a level of concern about the heat shield on this one?

00:16:54.560 We're hitting Earth's atmosphere at roughly 39 to 40 times the speed of sound.

00:17:01.160 There's concern.

00:17:02.220 We're going to modify our entry trajectory.

00:17:03.900 We're actually going to come in a little bit hotter, a little bit faster than Artemis 1.

00:17:07.420 And based on the issues that we have with the heat shield, that will keep us safe.

00:17:13.820 So the goal is to enable a new era of space exploration that takes us to several other planets.

00:17:19.020 And there are reasons to think that unlike what happened after the 1960s, we can actually accomplish that goal this time around.

00:17:24.280 For one thing, we now have several multi-trillion dollar private companies that have designed technology that could take humans to the moon,

00:17:31.020 Mars and beyond. So this is not simply a science experiment or a proof of concept. And for another,

00:17:37.020 it's now acceptable for the first time in decades to openly criticize the anti-white regime that's

00:17:42.320 emerged from the civil rights era. So these space corporations are not going to be destroyed by

00:17:48.720 mandatory affirmative action or DEI, which is historically what happened to NASA.

00:17:56.060 one of the main reasons why it didn't do much for, you know, decades.

00:18:00.100 We are, once again, a country in which the majority of the population wants to reward merit rather than equity.

00:18:05.420 And the consequences of that transformation will be profound, or could be, hopefully.

00:18:12.940 It's a very different approach from the one that we took in the 1960s, although on the surface it looks very similar. Watch.

00:18:18.000 NASA's challenge is what comes next, getting Artemis III astronauts from lunar orbit to the

00:18:26.020 moon's surface. To do that, NASA, in 2021, awarded a nearly $3 billion contract to Elon Musk's

00:18:34.880 SpaceX for the lunar lander version of its Starship, the biggest, most powerful launch

00:18:40.840 vehicle ever built. Made of two components, the lunar lander will sit atop the reusable

00:18:47.520 super-heavy booster. After several spectacular failures and explosions, Starship rebounded with

00:18:54.900 successful launches this past August and October. But the setbacks and technical complexity have

00:19:01.360 contributed to the delay in America's return to the moon's surface. Artemis may be Apollo's

00:19:08.480 mythological twin, but upcoming missions with SpaceX bear little resemblance. For example,

00:19:15.440 the massive SpaceX lander that will rendezvous with the crew in lunar orbit has to be refueled

00:19:21.780 in space, a complex process requiring the launch of 10 or more fuel tankers. Nothing like this has

00:19:29.600 ever been done before. Elon Musk says it's needed to propel deep space exploration.

00:19:36.640 And we want to have epic, futuristic spaceships with lots of people in them traveling to places we've never been to before.

00:19:46.520 The point of this new setup that's being tested, as Elon Musk said, is to enable us to expand far beyond the moon.

00:19:52.460 In the 1960s, there was no clear plan for doing that.

00:19:55.800 We didn't have reusable rockets. We didn't have the refueling system that we have now.

00:19:59.780 And again, private companies didn't have trillions of dollars in capital to spend on space exploration,

00:20:04.140 in part because the economy was much smaller and also because they didn't know how it would

00:20:08.300 benefit them to do that. But now it's much more clear how space travel will benefit them. A week

00:20:13.520 ago in Austin, Elon Musk discussed the benefits of solar panels in space. Unlike solar panels on

00:20:19.220 Earth, the solar panels in space can be arranged so that they always face the sun. They can

00:20:23.640 constantly gain energy. And without the atmosphere in the way, they're much more efficient. This is

00:20:29.420 obviously very handy since energy is a prerequisite for civilization. It's also necessary to power

00:20:35.140 data centers, which are currently straining our electrical grid, if you haven't noticed.

00:20:40.580 So how do you get these solar panels in space? I mean, it'd be extremely expensive to launch

00:20:44.200 them with rockets. So Musk's plan is to install a mass driver on the moon and use the moon's

00:20:50.320 gravity to launch the solar panels and the satellites into space. Watch.

00:20:54.600 as soon as the cost to orbit drops to a low number it immediately makes extremely compelling

00:21:03.760 sense to put ai in space and um you get there by having um an electromagnetic mass driver on the

00:21:12.760 moon with robots with optimi and obviously lots of humans and uh with that you can send

00:21:23.140 a petawatt. You can create a petawatt

00:21:26.420 of compute and send that to

00:21:29.160 deep space because on the moon, the moon has no atmosphere

00:21:32.480 and has one-sixth Earth gravity, so you

00:21:35.400 don't need rockets on the moon. You can literally

00:21:38.360 accelerate it

00:21:39.960 to escape velocity from the surface.

00:21:45.680 And that dramatically drops

00:21:47.400 the cost once again of

00:21:49.960 harnessing power and

00:21:53.120 and enables you to go a thousand times bigger than a terawatt.

00:22:23.120 So this is just one example of how a colony on the moon could completely change the world economy.

00:22:32.640 It could mean infinite power, essentially.

00:22:34.640 It could mean that we could make the dreams of the 1960s and 70s into reality.

00:22:39.380 Back in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, as you may remember, it was commonly assumed that we'd have flying cars and moon colonies by now and a bunch of other cool stuff.

00:22:48.080 Instead, most things have degraded.

00:22:50.440 As we talked about a few weeks ago, it currently takes longer to fly to London from the U.S. than it did back then.

00:22:56.800 Airlines want to save on fuel.

00:22:58.820 The skies are much more congested and security lines are much longer.

00:23:02.060 It's not even getting into the Concorde, which is gone now.

00:23:05.280 A Concorde crashed after hitting a piece of debris on the runway, which didn't even come from the Concorde, by the way.

00:23:10.760 And nobody ever wanted to fly the thing ever again.

00:23:13.340 It was too expensive and everybody thought it was a death trap.

00:23:15.880 So the airlines just gave up on it, just like they gave up on good service and happy flight

00:23:20.100 attendants and competent pilots and everything else. This is a recurring theme on this show

00:23:25.200 for a reason. Things have gotten worse in large part because everything is so demoralizing now.

00:23:30.540 Even the dystopias of the 1980s were not quite this bleak. Now, yeah, Blade Runner was pretty

00:23:36.500 dire, but you've got to realize that was a movie that was set in 2019. They predicted a lot more

00:23:42.800 technological advancement than we have now. Nobody expected that outside of a handful of areas,

00:23:48.820 mostly phones and the internet, technology would become so stagnant. But that's exactly what did

00:23:54.040 happen, largely because of all the garbage we're wasting our money on. We could easily be a 0.98

00:23:58.840 multi-planetary society by now if we weren't getting dragged down by entitlement spending,

00:24:04.620 third world scams, mass immigration, and so on. I'll just give you an idea of how much money 0.72

00:24:12.100 we're spending on other things. Something like 1% of the entire federal budget goes to dialysis

00:24:20.000 payments via Medicare. If you spend $100 in taxes, $1 is going to dialysis. Think about that.

00:24:28.680 That's just one thing. In 1969, Medicare accounted for about 4% of the federal budget. Now it's more

00:24:35.460 than three times that amount, roughly 13% all by itself. And that's just one program. Total

00:24:41.040 entitlement spending accounted for about a third of the federal budget in 1969. Now it accounts for

00:24:46.000 nearly two-thirds. Medicare alone now costs more than the entire defense budget as a share of the

00:24:52.140 economy. And by the same token, in 1969, this country didn't have any Somali fraudsters ripping 1.00

00:24:57.900 us off to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars. States like California weren't laundering

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00:25:15.400 footage from the ending of Apollo 11. It's a fantastic documentary that uses only archival

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00:25:37.700 stone blind

00:25:39.580 And would you

00:25:42.060 look at her

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00:25:46.040 finer, always better than

00:25:47.960 today

00:25:48.720 Sweetheart on

00:25:51.520 parade

00:25:52.640 And the people cheered

00:25:55.900 Why I even

00:25:57.980 saw a grown man break

00:25:59.900 right down and cry

00:26:01.440 And the sun

00:26:08.020 It is going down

00:26:10.800 Oh, Mr. Booey

00:26:13.400 As he's singing

00:26:15.960 With his class

00:26:18.560 Nineteen two

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00:26:31.440 So you don't see many Somali fraudsters in those archival shots. There's no HR department or DEI

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00:26:42.860 something this country hasn't been able to replicate in many years. If Donald Trump can

00:26:49.820 help reverse our trend towards barbarism and self-sabotage and make this a country of builders

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00:27:06.160 It would be an extraordinary vindication for the entire country, not just the Trump administration.

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00:28:58.560 All right, this is breaking news.

00:28:59.600 hot off the presses. I just saw this headline about a Supreme Court decision just just came

00:29:04.320 down. And here's the Fox. Here's Fox News reporting on it. Breaking moments ago from the

00:29:10.620 high court, one of the case we're watching, the Supreme Court ruling against a Colorado law

00:29:16.000 banning so-called conversion therapy for LGBTQ children. Shannon Bream watching this and getting

00:29:22.360 the ruling now. What was decided? Good morning to you, Shannon. Hey, Bill, good to see you. So

00:29:26.400 A therapist out there in Colorado challenged this law when it was passed, saying,

00:29:30.640 I need to be able to counsel clients for whatever services they're seeking.

00:29:33.840 So the court looked at this, finally decided 8-1 in her favor, striking down that law in Colorado.

00:29:39.180 I want to read you part of what they said.

00:29:40.800 They said it's censoring speech based on viewpoints, specific things.

00:29:44.960 It says the First Amendment stands as a shield against any effort to enforce orthodoxy in thought or speech in this country.

00:29:51.040 It goes on to say, even if you have good intentions in this law, if you suppress speech based on a particular viewpoint, it just can't stand up.

00:29:59.200 I mean, eight to one. There was only one dissenter here. It was Justice Jackson.

00:30:03.120 She has said that this ruling is potentially catastrophic.

00:30:05.780 She says the majority finds at bottom that Colorado likely cannot legislate to protect the children of its state.

00:30:12.420 If by doing so, it happens to keep state licensed health care providers from saying what they want to minors.

00:30:18.120 She goes on to say it will ultimately risk grave harm to Americans' health and well-being.

00:30:22.520 She says you should be able to regulate the speech of somebody who's providing care to minors.

00:30:27.640 Eight to one, majority of the court did not think so.

00:30:32.220 So this is the right decision, obviously, and I think we'll get more into it tomorrow.

00:30:41.360 There was no way they'd come to any other decision.

00:30:43.820 And just to be totally clear about what this law was, just so you understand, this was a law in Colorado banning therapists from telling gender-confused boys that they're really boys and girls that they're really girls.

00:30:57.740 This was a law banning an entire profession from verbally acknowledging basic biological reality, because that's what conversion therapy means in the minds of the Colorado legislature, in the psychotic minds of the nutcases that run that state.

00:31:16.960 That's what conversion therapy is.

00:31:18.500 Conversion therapy is telling a boy that he's a boy.

00:31:21.780 You are converting a boy into a boy. 0.98

00:31:25.300 That's what they mean.

00:31:26.320 Um, that's conversion therapy, you know, not, not attempting to convert a boy into a girl

00:31:34.440 is conversion therapy. Not converting is converting. Converting is not converting.

00:31:39.780 This is what the law said. And actually it's crazier than that, because

00:31:43.280 even if an adult struggling with a gender confusion comes to a therapist and asks for

00:31:53.400 help overcoming it, wants it, consents to it, seeks it out. Still, the law wanted to bar

00:32:00.740 therapists from providing the therapy that this person is asking for. Basically, if you're a

00:32:07.040 gender-confused man and you want help dealing with your mental problems, which are obviously 0.94

00:32:11.540 substantial, the state of Colorado said, too bad. You can't have that. You are not allowed to get 0.97

00:32:18.340 help with that. You cannot have that kind of help. Because if you as a man are struggling

00:32:25.180 with gender confusion and you go get help for that, that might make other men who think

00:32:32.420 they're women but don't want help feel bad. So you getting better will make them feel 1.00

00:32:38.480 bad so you're not allowed to get better. That was literally what the law said. Just total

00:32:47.260 absolute madness. Has there been a crazier law anywhere in the entire history of the world?

00:32:53.500 Has there been a crazier law? I mean, I don't, it's, it's definitely in the running for the

00:33:00.940 craziest piece of legislation that has ever been adopted anywhere alongside all the other places

00:33:08.020 that have had similar bans, um, which they have in, uh, in Canada and, you know, as you would

00:33:15.580 expect, some European countries. So that kind of law, I don't think anything has ever been crazier.

00:33:25.680 And now it's been struck down. And the law was so bad that even the liberal justices on the court

00:33:36.620 came down against it, except for one, who is Ketanji Brown-Jackson. Ketanji Brown-Jackson

00:33:44.780 has apparently, I haven't read it yet because I just saw this. She apparently wrote, she's the

00:33:49.300 lone dissenting voice. She's the lone voice saying that, no, actually this law is good.

00:33:55.100 Actually, yeah, we should ban therapists from telling boys that they're boys.

00:34:02.640 She was the one person, the lone dissenting voice in the court. And apparently she wrote a 35 page

00:34:09.960 dissent, which is longer than the majority opinion, I believe it's longer than, there

00:34:18.940 was the majority opinion and the concurrent opinion, it's longer than both of them. 0.99

00:34:24.300 Because Contagia Brown-Jackson is a lunatic. 0.98

00:34:29.220 I mean, she is, and we've had some bad Supreme Court justices through the history of this 0.99

00:34:32.800 country.

00:34:33.700 She's by far the most unfit, most unqualified, most unbalanced Supreme Court justice we've ever had. 1.00

00:34:44.220 And we would know that even without all the other stuff, we would know that just based on this.

00:34:51.700 This is what, you know, the Supreme Court majority decision is that this is an unconstitutional law because it violates the First Amendment.

00:35:03.080 And like, of course it does. If this doesn't violate the First Amendment, then nothing ever

00:35:09.760 does. This is a law telling therapists you're not allowed to say this thing. This is a perspective

00:35:16.900 you're not allowed to say out loud. You cannot say it. That is just a direct, that's as direct

00:35:27.360 an assault on the First Amendment as you will ever see. And Contaji Brown Jackson is either

00:35:33.860 too stupid to see that, or she does see it, but she's so evil and deranged that she wants to 1.00

00:35:45.200 destroy the First Amendment for the sake of propping up the LGBT agenda. Or it's like a 1.00

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00:36:52.680 Speaking of deranged, the Free Beacon reports.

00:36:55.720 Michigan's left-wing Democratic Senate candidate,

00:36:58.200 Abdul El Saeed, told staffers he wanted to avoid

00:37:01.760 making a public statement about the assassination

00:37:03.880 of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

00:37:06.640 or taking any public position on it at all

00:37:09.860 because there are a lot of people in Dearborn

00:37:12.120 who are sad about his death.

00:37:13.460 This is according to audio from a private campaign strategy call obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

00:37:19.480 If reporters press him to take a position, he said he would change the subject to Donald Trump's relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.

00:37:27.200 I'm just going to go straight to pedophilia, frankly.

00:37:31.960 That's quite a statement.

00:37:33.740 That's quite a statement for.

00:37:36.520 For this guy to make that's, you know, that's kind of in a lot of ways, that's, you know, Democrat.

00:37:42.020 Democrat Muslim politician. And he says, and I quote, and I quote, I'm just going to go straight

00:37:48.060 to pedophilia, frankly. That's what he said. Could be the kind of thing that he means in more

00:37:55.980 than one way. Who knows? He says, I'll just be like, pedophile president decides that he doesn't

00:38:02.260 like the front page news. So he decides to take us into another war. I mean, this is great because 1.00

00:38:06.760 you have someone acknowledging what we already know is the case, which is that the Epstein thing

00:38:14.480 for these people is a game. They don't care about it at all. They don't care about the sex abuse of 0.90

00:38:19.780 minors. They couldn't care less about it, which is why, as I pointed out a billion times,

00:38:23.440 they never brought this up one time during the Biden administration, not one time. None of them

00:38:28.420 ever did, not once, because they don't care about it at all. And actually, in many other contexts,

00:38:35.580 they openly support the sexual abuse of minors. They're totally in favor of it. They love it.

00:38:42.040 I mean, these are the people that support the sexual mutilation of young kids. So these are 0.98

00:38:48.200 the people who support drag queens doing strip teases in front of kids. They support dressing

00:38:54.840 kids themselves up like drag queens and parading them around in front of adults. So they are 1.00

00:39:00.020 openly pro-pedophilia on the left. All of them are. But they are just, they have latched on to

00:39:09.760 this, pretending they care now about protecting kids from sexual abuse. And now you have a Democrat

00:39:17.880 candidate on the record saying, oh yeah, I'm just going to use that as a distraction. I'm totally

00:39:22.640 just using it as a distraction because this topic over here is uncomfortable for me.

00:39:26.240 and he's openly admitting that's what he's doing uh here's a little bit of that clip listen

00:39:32.860 i also want to remind you guys that that there are a lot of people in nearborn who are sad today

00:39:38.940 so like i just don't want to comment on himani at all like i i don't think it's worth even

00:39:47.780 touching that like they're gonna try this is what we practice but like isn't isn't him a bad guy

00:39:52.520 isn't it great that he's dead? On my first amendment, he was 86 years old. He was going

00:39:56.020 to be dead sometime soon anyway. So, you know, not a lot to say about this other than the fact

00:40:02.320 that this is the consequence of the foreign invasion of our country. You have a foreign 1.00

00:40:06.080 political candidate with a name like Abdul Al-Sayed, who doesn't want to celebrate the

00:40:12.460 killing of an enemy of the United States for fear of upsetting his constituents, who are also

00:40:17.020 foreign and also have names like Abdul al-Sayed. This is an actual voter base. This is a political

00:40:23.460 constituency in this country that openly sides with America's enemies, which is to be distinguished,

00:40:30.160 of course, from people who are not in favor of the war on the grounds that it doesn't advance

00:40:34.340 our country's interests. That's my view. But that is very different from actually being actively

00:40:40.920 in favor of and sympathetic to the Iranian regime, which I'm obviously not. And yet this is an actual

00:40:49.080 constituency here now that we have imported. And this has been my point all along. I think there

00:40:55.740 are a lot of reasons to not get involved in interventionism in the Middle East. One of those

00:41:00.380 reasons, not the only one, one of those reasons is that we have over the past 20 years imported

00:41:05.240 the Middle East into this country. So we have opened the floodgates and brought that region 1.00

00:41:11.160 of the world into the country. And now we want to turn around and go to war in that region. 0.92

00:41:16.480 It doesn't take a genius to see the problem here. This is just something you don't do. You don't

00:41:23.560 bring in millions of people from a certain part of the world and then turn around and go to war 0.95

00:41:29.780 in that part of the world.

00:41:31.740 Just anyone should be able to connect the dots here.

00:41:36.400 And that's why I say if I ever could favor interventionist wars

00:41:40.020 in far-flung regions of the globe, even theoretically,

00:41:43.220 it would need to be preceded by mass deportations.

00:41:49.260 We would need the foreign enemies and operators out of our country first. 1.00

00:41:53.960 That has to be the first step.

00:41:55.740 You have to do that first.

00:41:57.860 You just have to.

00:41:59.000 Think about World War II. Internment camps get a bad rap. But the idea at the time was, hey, we're at war with this foreign country, which is Japan. And hey, we all like Japan now, but this is at the time. On X right now, there's all kinds of posts from Japanese, like really based right wing, because now X translates Japanese automatically into English. 0.56

00:42:24.540 So we can see kind of like what they're saying. And, uh, turns out they're super right wing and, um, and a lot of them love America. They're talking about American barbecue. Uh, I just saw one pop up. It was like a Japanese, this is these Japanese kids playing like bluegrass music. It was good. They were playing it well.

00:42:45.300 and uh so hey you know japan i said a couple days ago there's i think there's like yeah i'd say 0.52

00:42:52.180 there's four or five good foreign countries all the rest suck there's only four or five good 1.00

00:42:58.040 foreign countries japan's one of them but at the time we were at war with japan and uh the idea

00:43:04.940 was that we have thousands of people here with ties to this country that puts us in a vulnerable

00:43:10.120 position. And so that was the logic behind it. Well, now we're at war with jihadists

00:43:17.740 and we have potentially millions of them here. There were like 150,000 Japanese in this country

00:43:25.220 in 1940, something like that. We're talking about millions of potential jihadists or people that

00:43:37.340 are sympathetic to jihadists, not thousands, millions. Now, I'm not arguing for internment

00:43:43.680 camps, but I am saying the diametric opposite approach, which is to say, you know, rather than

00:43:49.820 intern the people loyal to our foreign enemies, we are going to instead invite them in by the

00:43:55.680 millions. I'm saying that approach is very dumb. And it puts us in an extremely vulnerable position. 1.00

00:44:07.340 all right let's check in with our dear friends over at the view they got very upset by a clip

00:44:12.880 from a cpaq actually featuring our very own isabel brown who was encouraging people to have kids it's

00:44:17.880 a very controversial view these days of course the idea that uh you should have kids and that

00:44:22.640 the human race should continue is really controversial if you go around saying the

00:44:26.400 kind of thing you go around saying hey i think people should have kids i think human beings

00:44:30.800 should continue to exist that's the kind of thing especially on the left that's going to make people

00:44:35.460 very upset. They're going to go, whoa, whoa, hey, what is this? What is this stuff about? Oh,

00:44:40.860 you think the human race should not go extinct in the next 60 years? Whoa, hey, hang on. Whoa,

00:44:48.260 whoa. That, this is, this is, we need some kind of advisory on this. This is really offensive

00:44:56.920 stuff. The shriveled old ladies over at The View were especially not happy about it because you 1.00

00:45:03.560 have to realize that with ladies of the view, either don't have kids of their own, or if they do,

00:45:08.220 uh, their kids hate them, uh, more than likely. So that's, and that's, that accounts for a hundred

00:45:14.900 percent of the ladies in the view, either don't have kids or their kids hate them. And so, um, 1.00

00:45:21.180 so for them, you know, they hear something like that. They hear a celebration of life. They hear

00:45:25.060 a celebration of marriage and family life. And these are all a bunch of like divorced shriveled

00:45:30.640 old hags that just had like, they lived awful life lives. They like never got married or they 1.00

00:45:36.180 got married and they got divorced and they hate their husbands and their husbands hate them and

00:45:39.640 their kids hate them and they hate their kids. Just like awful, miserable people. You have to 1.00

00:45:43.460 realize that that's, that's many of the people that you watch on TV. Like that's the life they

00:45:47.840 live. They just lived lives of total dysfunction. They hate everyone in their family. Their family

00:45:52.800 hates them. It's just utter misery. And, um, and that's why you get this kind of reaction. It starts

00:46:00.000 to make sense. So here's what they had to say about it. And I think it's just really

00:46:07.680 reckless to be suggesting that people should have children when you now know in this country,

00:46:13.860 there's this affordability crisis. And for a two person household, a married household,

00:46:18.300 you need over $400,000 for childcare, over $400,000. Most people don't make over $400,000.

00:46:25.660 So she's advocating for people to be born into poverty,

00:46:29.720 people not being able to feed those children,

00:46:31.740 people not being able to educate those children,

00:46:33.520 and people not being able to house those children

00:46:35.840 at the same time when this government

00:46:37.460 is cutting all of the services

00:46:38.940 that would allow people to have families

00:46:41.460 and big families and children.

00:46:42.600 And let us not forget that she thinks...

00:46:44.260 $400,000 over the lifetime of the child, or what?

00:46:45.940 No, no.

00:46:46.600 A year?

00:46:47.200 That's like a minute almost.

00:46:48.080 It's a year. It's an annual income

00:46:49.300 exceeding $400,000 to afford child care.

00:46:52.540 And I want to add that this...

00:46:54.500 No, it's all over the country, according to LendingTree analysis.

00:46:58.160 And finally, this woman makes $10,000 per speaking engagement. 1.00

00:47:03.280 So, okay, that's enough of that.

00:47:05.420 We only stomach so much of it.

00:47:06.780 So just to start with a fact check here, you need $400,000 for child care.

00:47:11.400 Well, that's insane.

00:47:13.360 That is not remotely true.

00:47:15.980 If she means that child care costs $400,000 a year, which at first it's kind of what it

00:47:20.620 sounded like she was trying to say. Uh, that's only true if you're, you know, I don't know,

00:47:25.540 bringing in Mary Poppins to be your full-time in-home governess. That's when like, you're

00:47:31.520 not sending your kids to, to daycare. You're getting a governess to come to your house.

00:47:37.020 That's, and even then that actually would not cost 400 grand. That would actually be like,

00:47:41.720 what are you talking about? A live in nanny is like 70 or 80 grand. So it's just a lot of money, 1.00

00:47:46.300 But even that, like 400 grand, that's a team.

00:47:50.080 That's a team of Mary Poppins. 1.00

00:47:51.480 That's like you have an army of nannies in your home working on like, and you live in 0.50

00:47:57.180 a mansion and you have one for each level of your mansion.

00:47:59.860 That's 400 grand of child care.

00:48:02.960 Okay.

00:48:04.380 So like when your downstairs nanny gets tired of your kids, she can send them to the upstairs 0.52

00:48:08.600 nanny and then you got like your attic nanny and who knows.

00:48:11.560 so that's not actually what it's like but even if Sonny meant that a family has to earn 400

00:48:21.000 grand which is it sounds like what she was trying to say in order to afford child care that is also 0.98

00:48:25.960 insane that is nearly as insane only like one or two percent of households in the country bring in

00:48:33.660 400 grand a year or more so she's claiming that daycare is a privilege reserved only for the top

00:48:40.060 one percent, which is not true. If that were true, no daycare center anywhere would be open.

00:48:49.960 I mean, the funny thing is like, those are the people that are,

00:48:52.700 those are precisely the people who are not sending their kids to daycare.

00:48:57.680 Most of them. Um, and this is the kind of psychotic exaggeration you hear when someone

00:49:03.780 is trying to convince you to not have kids. This is what it's been like this. This is not recent.

00:49:09.220 It's been like this since before I had kids, where the people that are like these antinatalist, nihilistic, miserable people who don't want you to have kids, all bets are off.

00:49:22.140 They will make up anything to try to convince you not to have kids.

00:49:27.340 So I've been hearing this forever.

00:49:31.100 They will come in. 0.87

00:49:32.200 Did you know that it costs, on average, a billion dollars a minute to raise a child?

00:49:38.360 Did you know that on average, you need to earn $70 million a second and live in a 25,000 square foot mansion on a 100 acre estate with like a vineyard and Olympic sized pool in order to raise a child?

00:49:58.340 Did you know that? 0.99

00:49:59.120 And there's always going to be the, like, incredulous morons who hear that and go, oh, really? 1.00

00:50:07.380 I didn't realize it was that bad. 1.00

00:50:09.500 Wow.

00:50:10.360 Wow, I didn't know it was that bad.

00:50:12.620 Oh, my gosh.

00:50:15.040 Yeah, did you know that everyone who is not a multimillionaire and has kids will be homeless?

00:50:19.480 Did you know that?

00:50:21.320 That's why there's 300 million homeless people right now.

00:50:25.020 No one lives in a house.

00:50:26.320 Everyone is homeless because they have kids.

00:50:29.120 No, I didn't know that. I didn't know that thing you just made up.

00:50:33.940 The voices in your head are not talking to me also, so I did not know that.

00:50:39.160 And as I said, people have been doing this for decades.

00:50:42.080 I heard the same nonsense when we were starting to have kids.

00:50:46.940 The same thing, the same thing, the same demoralizing nonsense,

00:50:51.660 claiming that somehow now it's impossible

00:50:55.580 to do the thing that billions of people

00:50:59.520 throughout all of human history have done.

00:51:03.160 Throughout all of human history,

00:51:05.120 billions of people have done this

00:51:07.340 and now suddenly it's impossible to do.

00:51:11.400 No one can do it.

00:51:13.840 Which is really interesting because did you know,

00:51:16.500 however much money you make right now,

00:51:18.280 I don't care how much it is,

00:51:20.020 you are richer.

00:51:21.660 than almost everyone who's ever had a kid.

00:51:25.380 Did you know that?

00:51:26.820 Almost everyone.

00:51:28.080 Because that includes the billions of people

00:51:31.240 that were, by our standards,

00:51:35.340 totally impoverished.

00:51:42.320 So the idea that people have been doing this forever,

00:51:47.580 including people who are far worse off than us

00:51:51.140 in every measurable category, and they all did it, and for us, it's impossible, is nuts.

00:51:59.820 You know, when we've had our first two kids, I was making 40 grand a year, so adjust for

00:52:05.700 inflation, that's equivalent of like 50 or 55 grand a year today. Not, you know, not poverty,

00:52:13.120 but not anywhere close to $400,000, I can tell you that. At the time we had our first two kids,

00:52:20.180 like 400 grand a year was not even, I couldn't even conceive of that. That's, I couldn't even,

00:52:26.040 who does, who ever, that's like Jeff Bezos makes that and only him. So we were still well below

00:52:33.960 the average household income then and now. And at the time, according to this kind of

00:52:39.180 anti-family propaganda, what we did was impossible. It was impossible. It was impossible to afford

00:52:48.840 one kid, let alone two. I mean, we were being told, well, yeah, you need, I mean, at the time,

00:52:53.560 I remember hearing the figure you would hear a lot at the time was like, you know, we just heard

00:52:58.480 400,000. At the time, very commonly, you'd hear something like, well, it's like, I don't remember

00:53:03.860 what it was, but it was many, many thousands of dollars to have a kid. And I think they'd very

00:53:11.520 often you'd hear like through the, you know, to have a kid from birth to 18 is going to cost 250

00:53:17.460 grand or something or more than that. Um, so, so it can't be done. And then you add two in

00:53:27.000 impossible, but we did just like billions of people before us. Um, you know, we hear today

00:53:38.000 that you have to be wealthy to have kids, which if that were true, the human species would not

00:53:43.100 exist. If human beings had followed that rule, even if, I don't know, 20% of humans had followed

00:53:51.340 that rule, even if 20% of humans had said, well, I'm not going to have a kid until I'm rich,

00:53:56.860 the human species probably at this point would not exist, which tells you the rule is fake.

00:54:02.860 Like the rule isn't real. It just isn't.

00:54:05.980 If someone is telling you something, or telling you to live a certain way, that if a critical mass of people lived that way, it would end civilization itself, well, that is a really good indication that what they're telling you is wrong.

00:54:27.580 Now, I will admit that when we first had kids, 40 grand a year, it was tough, wasn't easy.

00:54:35.980 And we weren't on any kind of entitlement programs. We weren't getting help from anyone.

00:54:40.540 I'll even admit it was more financially difficult than I expected.

00:54:45.740 And that's only because just like a year before that point when we had kids, I had just got this

00:54:53.660 new job that was paying 40 grand a year. And prior to that, I was making 20 grand. So I just doubled

00:54:58.980 my income. And so to me at the time, 40 grand a year was like wealthy. I was thrilled. I couldn't

00:55:05.220 believe, 40 grand a year. That's double. That's two times. Even I can do that kind of math.

00:55:11.220 And, um, but then I quickly find out, well, you had two kids to a doubled income and suddenly it

00:55:17.240 feels very much like, um, you know, rather than doubling your income, your income, you kind of

00:55:22.600 cut it in half. So, uh, things were very tight and it was difficult. Um, but it's possible to do,

00:55:32.400 you can do it. And I think most people should do it. It's a struggle. It's a difficult thing,

00:55:39.520 but you should still do difficult things. It can be done.

00:55:47.600 And I truly just despise anybody like this, Sunny, what's her name? Hostin. 0.90

00:55:54.820 Especially people who are, she's wealthy. She's doing fine. 0.62

00:55:57.480 sitting there with this demoralizing message to younger people and telling them that like

00:56:06.260 this hard thing cannot it's not don't do it you can't do it it's impossible

00:56:11.300 it don't even try what kind of message is that what kind of message

00:56:17.700 is that for you to sit there in your nice studio with your whatever million dollar a year gig

00:56:26.700 telling younger people that, you know what, living a life and having a family and doing

00:56:33.540 the basic things that people have always done that gives your life meaning,

00:56:37.500 naughty, can't be done, don't even try, give up now, you can't do it, it's too hard.

00:56:45.060 Yeah, you know what, just sit on your couch and scroll your phone, that's all you can do. Sorry,

00:56:49.200 that's it. Get whatever job you can find, sit on your couch, scroll your phone,

00:56:52.800 and eat fast food and just do that until you die.

00:56:55.880 Your life has no meaning.

00:56:57.160 You'll never do anything that matters.

00:56:59.080 You're going to leave behind no legacy.

00:57:00.680 You'll have no kids. 0.99

00:57:01.920 You will die and be forgotten 1.00

00:57:03.280 and your bloodline will end with you. 1.00

00:57:05.300 And that's it.

00:57:05.900 That's the message.

00:57:09.540 And I despise it.

00:57:10.920 Like I hate it.

00:57:16.100 Especially because people hear that message

00:57:17.900 and they take it,

00:57:18.480 a lot of young people hear that

00:57:19.420 and they take it to heart.

00:57:20.060 and they say well we have to i you know i gotta wait i gotta wait until i'm financially comfortable

00:57:26.900 to have kids well guess what if you do that there's a very good chance you will never have

00:57:33.240 them there's a very good chance you will never feel financially comfortable or if you ever do

00:57:38.160 it won't be until you're too old to have kids

00:57:42.120 you know if i had waited until i was financially comfortable

00:57:48.820 if I waited until I was financially comfortable to have kids at least four of my kids would not

00:57:56.740 exist and our whole life would be different and not for the better

00:58:01.960 and one of the really crucial things is that my wife and I would not have had the experience

00:58:08.440 of like diving off that ledge and struggling and striving and building this thing together

00:58:15.060 Our marriage would not be as strong as it is. 1.00

00:58:18.640 Most of my kids would not exist if I had taken Sonny's advice, the advice of all these stupid people. 0.99

00:58:26.720 Most of my kids would not exist, and my marriage would not be anywhere near as strong as it is. 0.99

00:58:34.600 And this is part of it, by the way.

00:58:36.020 I mean, yeah, you should have kids because that's what marriage is for, and we don't want the human race to go extinct. 1.00

00:58:42.840 and you should want to leave a legacy and have descendants and all that.

00:58:47.960 So those are all good reasons to have kids.

00:58:49.660 But also, when you go into marriage overly cautious

00:58:54.320 and you decide that you're going to sort of fearfully avoid having children

00:58:59.860 until you're basically wealthy,

00:59:02.800 this attitude that a lot of married couples have now,

00:59:04.920 it's a very new approach.

00:59:09.440 They're very, very worried about everything.

00:59:11.740 and we can't, no, we can't take that step yet. We're not ready. And they like wait around for

00:59:16.400 years and years and years, waiting around for years, just the two of them in their empty house,

00:59:22.120 accumulating money in their bank accounts and not ready, not ready.

00:59:28.160 One of the problems with that is that your marriage is running on fear

00:59:31.000 and it becomes brittle. It becomes this frail, breakable thing. You never learn how to deal

00:59:39.160 with challenges together, how to make sacrifices together. You never allow yourselves to be

00:59:43.860 humbled together. You never put yourself in a position as a couple to deal with big,

00:59:50.340 serious things. You aren't tested. You're not forged. Because the thing is, when you're younger,

00:59:57.520 you don't have a lot of money, you have kids. Yeah, it's hard, but it's like, okay, here we are.

01:00:03.560 We did it.

01:00:04.720 We took the leap.

01:00:05.840 We have kids now.

01:00:06.740 We're parents.

01:00:08.220 So all the stuff, I don't know if we're ready.

01:00:10.000 We might not be ready.

01:00:10.820 Well, it's here now.

01:00:12.920 It's game on.

01:00:14.240 You're here.

01:00:15.100 Let's go.

01:00:16.600 And you're forced to just go and deal with it and work together.

01:00:24.220 And if you don't do that, then, you know, you don't have that kind of experience.

01:00:27.100 You also don't give yourselves anything big and important to focus on.

01:00:31.360 You don't have kids.

01:00:32.300 it's just the two of you. So what ends up happening is you end up sort of harping on

01:00:35.780 the smallest, dumbest little things. You get into arguments over the most inconsequential 0.92

01:00:39.760 nonsense. The slightest challenge hits your life and your marriage and everything just

01:00:45.760 kind of falls apart. You haven't grown. You haven't matured. You haven't been strengthened.

01:00:51.940 You haven't built this thing together. If you get married and you have your own income

01:00:57.020 and your spouse has their own income.

01:01:00.780 You don't have kids.

01:01:02.380 You both just kind of earn your money

01:01:04.200 and live in the same house,

01:01:05.900 never start a family.

01:01:08.140 What have you built together?

01:01:10.980 10 years down the line,

01:01:11.840 15 years down the line,

01:01:12.680 20 years down the line,

01:01:14.020 you look at it, you say,

01:01:15.140 what have we built together?

01:01:16.100 What have we actually achieved together?

01:01:18.960 Well, the answer is like nothing.

01:01:20.260 You haven't really done anything.

01:01:22.940 I mean, you've achieved together

01:01:24.760 the same way you would

01:01:25.540 if you live with a roommate.

01:01:27.020 and this is the other consequence of this modern mentality that says don't have kids

01:01:33.900 in fact don't even get married until you're financially comfortable okay well then what

01:01:37.440 are you and your spouse building what shared struggle what shared achievements will you have

01:01:42.520 in our case i could look at my wife you know i mean we'd been broke we started off in a one 0.71

01:01:49.960 bedroom apartment we had six kids we thought we had we've had the sleepless nights and the

01:01:53.840 2 a.m. visits to the emergency room and the bills and the stresses and the family dramas.

01:01:58.460 And we've been through the infant phase, the toddler phase, the adolescent phase.

01:02:02.560 And then we did it again and again and again and again.

01:02:05.060 And we've had to move and start over.

01:02:06.920 And we've had the heartaches and the stresses that come with a parent.

01:02:12.320 Every child finds their own way to stress you out and break your heart and make you proud all at the same time.

01:02:17.720 So we've been through all that.

01:02:19.560 We're still in the middle of it in a lot of ways.

01:02:22.080 And so now there's this sense of shared ownership.

01:02:23.840 in our current life and shared experience that bonds us together and puts things into perspective.

01:02:29.080 So that I look at a lot of what other sort of married couples fight about, get all hung up on,

01:02:33.260 and most of that stuff doesn't even register with us anymore. You might get annoyed about

01:02:37.260 this or that thing, but you move on 10 minutes later. It doesn't matter. Because when you've

01:02:43.920 been through the ringer with somebody, you've walked through the wilderness with them. It's

01:02:49.320 not like you, Hey, I'll meet you there at that location over there. No, you walked there together

01:02:54.440 and you went through this whole thing and you were sleeping in the tent under the rain together.

01:02:58.220 And, uh, and you've done all that and you've had a million roots and rocks you've tripped over and,

01:03:04.700 uh, and you've made it this far. So now what am I going to get upset? Because

01:03:10.640 what you're like, I don't like how you load the dishwasher or, you know, where the thermostat

01:03:17.080 is changing or who cares i hear these things people they go to like marriage counseling and

01:03:22.380 they i don't like it when she it hurts my feet i i feel it hurts my feet like you're you're soft 0.51

01:03:29.540 you're weak you haven't been through the fire together you haven't allowed yourselves to 0.99

01:03:33.600 struggle enough you're focused on the dumbest bull get over it and that kind of comes with 1.00

01:03:40.480 the territory when you live a life and you have kids and you build a family and you're doing 0.97

01:03:45.040 something together and you've been through all these struggles and you've done all of that.

01:03:50.460 And then you know what happens is that all the new problems that come up in your life,

01:03:54.040 they're not new problems. You get to a certain point and it's like every problem you have

01:03:57.900 just exists in a category of problems you've already been through. So you get like little

01:04:03.980 buckets. And so, okay, well, this is that, well, here's a financial thing. Here's a medical thing.

01:04:07.840 It's like, we've, we, we got a bunch of things in all those buckets. We, we know, I mean,

01:04:11.800 Yeah, a version of the problem can come along that's worse than the ones you had before, but you've been through it.

01:04:19.620 And I think a lot of people don't prepare themselves in that way.

01:04:25.700 And the last thing I'll say, circling back to the child care costs, bringing it back there, one really great way to avoid child care costs, which are lower than what she claims, but they still are high.

01:04:41.800 One great way to do it is to have the mother stay home and raise her own kids. 1.00

01:04:48.580 And we are the first society in human history to decide that both the man and the woman should leave the home every day. 0.98

01:04:57.020 That is a radical break from what every other society on the planet since the beginning of civilization has done.

01:05:05.520 That's not an exaggeration. No other society has ever done this.

01:05:09.040 This is a totally new way of doing things.

01:05:12.060 It has never been done before.

01:05:14.540 People don't appreciate how new this is.

01:05:17.460 Both parents are going to leave the house every day?

01:05:23.380 Like, no one's ever done it that way.

01:05:27.540 So, maybe what we're discovering is that this radically new system doesn't work.

01:05:35.320 It just doesn't work.

01:05:39.540 So you could say, oh, but I want to be able to go.

01:05:42.860 I want to be.

01:05:43.460 It doesn't matter what you want.

01:05:45.300 It doesn't work.

01:05:47.000 There's a reason why all of your ancestors would look at you like a mania. 0.91

01:05:50.740 They look at all of us like maniacs.

01:05:52.360 There's a reason why it never worked this way.

01:05:54.160 It can't work this way.

01:05:56.060 You know why?

01:05:56.460 Because it turns out that someone has to raise the kid.

01:05:59.920 There's a reason why they did it that way.

01:06:05.020 Oh, we'll just get a stranger to raise them. 0.99

01:06:07.020 Yeah, but you got to pay them.

01:06:08.420 and you don't know them and all kinds of things, all kinds of problems that come with that.

01:06:12.800 It's not sustainable. If it was that easy, like our ancestors probably would have done it a long

01:06:18.060 time ago, but they didn't because it doesn't work. And rather than adjust to that reality

01:06:27.320 and say that, okay, well, like maybe we should, there's already a model here that worked really

01:06:33.200 well for thousands of years. Maybe we just go back to that. Rather than doing that,

01:06:37.480 the leftist solution is to give up on having kids entirely. That's their solution. Rather than just,

01:06:44.740 oh, it's $400,000 for childcare. It's not, but okay, if it is, then well, maybe you should not,

01:06:50.340 maybe there's two parents here most of the time. You got a childcare person already there.

01:07:02.780 The leftist solution is to give up on having kids entirely because you know what? They would

01:07:06.780 rather usher in the extinction of the human race than do something or say something that makes

01:07:13.440 feminists upset. For the sake of feminist sensibilities, we're just going to give up 1.00

01:07:21.000 on humanity completely. That's basically the idea. I think it's a bad idea. And we will leave

01:07:30.640 it there for today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow. Have a great

01:07:34.320 day. Godspeed.

01:07:42.920 I do believe that if people have committed treason against the United States of America,

01:07:48.680 their statues should not be in the Capitol.

01:07:52.600 History is written by the victors. And since the 1960s, we've been told mostly by people

01:07:56.580 whose ancestors didn't even live here during the war, the South committed treason. But

01:08:02.160 But if the Confederates were traitors,

01:08:06.400 then why was Jefferson Davis never put on trial for treason?

01:08:11.240 What were Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson afraid of?

01:08:14.880 Do they know something they're not allowed to say today?

01:08:18.800 It's time for the truth.

01:08:20.080 So here it is.

01:08:20.880 Robert E. Lee was a military genius and a man of immense honor.

01:08:24.440 He was beloved by Americans from the North and South

01:08:26.960 for a century after the war.

01:08:29.280 This is the real history of the Civil War.

The Matt Walsh Show - March 31, 2026

Ep. 1759 - The Media Does Not Want To Talk About This HISTORIC NASA Launch. Here’s Why.

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