The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 474 - If You Believed Christine Ford, You Have To Believe Tara Reade

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Walsh Show, bombshell video surfaces seeming to lend support to the sexual

00:00:05.000 assault allegations against Joe Biden. Of course, the media is not treating it like bombshell video,

00:00:10.200 though. But we'll talk about that. We'll also talk about the allegations in general. And what

00:00:14.620 I really want to do is compare the case against Joe Biden with respect to the sexual assault

00:00:19.580 allegations to the case against Kavanaugh. And the interesting thing, of course, is that lots

00:00:25.360 of people who were convinced that Kavanaugh was guilty are not at all convinced about Joe Biden.

00:00:29.800 Does that make a lot of sense? We'll compare and contrast. Also, five headlines, including a police

00:00:33.860 sting operation to bust a couple of black market underground hairdressers. And in our daily

00:00:42.000 cancellation, we will cancel a CNN correspondent who wrote a letter to his newborn son to inform him

00:00:48.260 that the earth is being destroyed by climate change. So that is his welcome. His sort of birthday present

00:00:54.260 is this letter. But it's actually hilarious, the letter is. So we're going to, well, I'll read that,

00:00:57.840 some of that to you. And that's all coming up. I did want to mention at the top here, though,

00:01:03.000 maybe you've heard the reports suggesting that North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un might be dying or is

00:01:11.720 already dead or is completely alive, you know, it's or somewhere in between. I don't know. And his

00:01:17.820 sister Kim Yo-jong is poised to take over. Now, some on the left have trumpeted North Korea's

00:01:24.760 predetermined decision to unanimously vote for a woman as supreme leader. And they rightly contrast 1.00

00:01:29.920 this move with the United States, which unfortunately has never been under the rule of a

00:01:34.520 female despot, much to Hillary Clinton's chagrin. Seth Abramson, for example, tweeted, 1.00

00:01:41.040 still processing the possibility that North Korea could have its first woman leader before the United

00:01:46.100 States. And you may remember that CNN has been in the Kim Yo-jong fan club for a while now,

00:01:52.380 since the Winter Olympics, when they, when they published an article gushing that the dictator

00:01:57.660 sister was, quote, stealing the show at the Winter Olympics. And here's the thing, their excitement is

00:02:03.340 well justified. North Korea is a shining progressive city on a hill, putting the United States to shame 0.95

00:02:12.000 in so many areas. I think the media is right about this. For one thing, North Korea is far more 1.00

00:02:17.360 welcoming to minorities. I mean, think about this. Asians comprise only 5% of our population,

00:02:25.820 okay? They account for nearly 100% of North Korea's population. That's how dedicated they are

00:02:32.440 to welcoming minorities into the fold. And here's a fact that you won't hear on Fox News. Every single

00:02:37.820 position in the North Korean government is held by a non-white person. Compare that to the current

00:02:43.740 occupant of the White House, who, except for the non-white people he's hired, has never hired a 0.79

00:02:50.240 single non-white person. Now, more importantly, of course, North Korea is a communist utopia, 0.91

00:02:56.840 fulfilling Bernie Sanders' vision. The country has no billionaires at all, except for the ruling family,

00:03:03.520 of course. But other than that, no billionaires, no millionaires, doesn't even have thousandaires.

00:03:09.280 That's how committed they are to income equality. Or, you know, more like lack of income equality.

00:03:18.480 I mean, if nobody has an income, then you have, ipso facto, you have income inequality,

00:03:22.880 or income equality, I should say. Nor does it have, in North Korea, they don't have other gratuitous

00:03:27.100 luxuries, such as food, electricity. And I think the lack of electricity in particular has reduced the

00:03:34.620 country's carbon footprint substantially, positioning them as leaders in the Green Revolution. So I know

00:03:40.140 that's something that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez would have to admire them for. Best of all, North Korea has 0.88

00:03:45.320 eradicated bigotry and discrimination by banning Christianity. I mean, we could only dream of these 0.99

00:03:52.360 kinds of achievements. North Korea is truly everything we should be. And hopefully, everything that we one

00:04:00.440 day will be. And when I look around at America today, especially in the last month, I see that we

00:04:08.100 are well on our way. And at least for me, you know, that fills me with a huge amount of excitement.

00:04:14.560 And I know the media feels the same way. All right. Now, in other bombshell news from the weekend,

00:04:20.580 a tape surfaced from Larry King in 1993, in which someone believed to be the mother of Joe Biden's

00:04:28.280 sex assault accuser, Tara Reid, calls in and mentions that her daughter had, quote,

00:04:33.520 problems with a prominent senator. Well, first of all, let's just watch the tape.

00:04:38.740 Yes. Hello. I'm wondering what a staffer would do besides go to the press in Washington.

00:04:48.360 My daughter has just left there after working for a prominent senator and could not get through

00:04:53.080 with her problems at all. And the only thing she could have done was go to the press,

00:04:57.480 and she chose not to do it out of respect for him. Or she had a story to tell, but out of respect

00:05:02.640 for the person she worked for, she didn't tell it. That's true. Larry King has looked like an 80-year-old

00:05:07.840 man for 40 years. That's one takeaway. More importantly, though, Tara Reid was asked about

00:05:14.580 this tape, and she said that that is her mother. It sounds like her mother. And that she also said

00:05:20.040 that her mother told her back in 1993 that she had called Larry King. And Tara Reid says she was upset

00:05:26.380 about that at the time, which, of course, you can imagine. I think I would be, too, if I told my

00:05:29.780 mother something like that, and then she turns around and calls a cable news show.

00:05:35.500 But now, going back to what the actual allegations are, if you haven't read about it or heard about

00:05:42.140 it, and if you rely on the mainstream media for your news, then you probably have not heard about

00:05:45.320 it at all. But Reid alleged that in 1993, when she worked for Joe Biden, when he was a senator,

00:05:52.400 she was assaulted by him. He pushed her up against the wall, grabbed her under her skirt, won't go

00:05:58.720 into the graphic details, but you can, you know, that's the gist of it. Assaulted her, and then when

00:06:06.900 it was over, told her, according to Reid, Biden told her that she means nothing to him. And then she was

00:06:14.620 shortly let go from her job after that happened. That's the claim. And this is the latest piece of

00:06:21.040 evidence supporting it. Now, does this prove anything? Obviously not. We don't even know for

00:06:27.380 sure who it is on that tape. I mean, we're told that it's her mother. We don't, we don't know that

00:06:32.540 she doesn't, obviously, she doesn't identify herself that way. We don't know for sure what

00:06:36.300 senator she's referring to, or what problem she's referring to. But it is circumstantial evidence

00:06:44.020 supporting Reid's story. And I want you to imagine, okay, if you hear that tape and you

00:06:51.540 think, ah, that's no big deal. Okay, well, just imagine for a moment. Imagine if during the Kavanaugh

00:06:57.820 hearings, okay, tape surfaced of Christine Ford's mom 30 years ago, calling into a radio show or

00:07:05.460 something, and mentioning cryptically that her, that her daughter had some trouble with boys at a

00:07:11.520 party. Imagine that. Imagine how the media would react to that. The media would, and we both know

00:07:19.600 this, would treat that as total vindication of Christine Ford, total condemnation of Brett Kavanaugh,

00:07:27.220 and it would be the biggest bombshell revelation of the year. We all know that.

00:07:31.120 How do you think the media has reacted to this story? Well, they haven't really reacted much at

00:07:38.020 all. In fact, do you think the media has even asked Joe Biden about any of this on camera directly?

00:07:46.200 No, they haven't. And by this, I don't just mean the Larry King thing. I mean that Biden was accused

00:07:52.100 a month ago publicly of sexual assault. He has been on TV many times in the interim, rambling

00:07:58.140 incoherently. Never once, not once, has anyone in the media even asked him about this directly.

00:08:05.540 They've had him there asking him about a bunch of stuff, most of which we've already heard a million

00:08:12.560 times about the coronavirus and the response and Donald Trump's evil and doing a terrible job,

00:08:18.040 and we've heard all that. Meanwhile, you've got this sexual assault allegation hanging out there

00:08:23.260 completely ignored. They don't even ask him about it. Yes, they have asked his, in order to provide

00:08:29.260 themselves cover, they've asked his campaign about it. They've asked for statements, and the campaign

00:08:34.880 has issued statements. But that's not the same thing at all. Asking Biden himself on camera directly

00:08:42.600 is an entirely different ballgame, and they haven't done that. And why haven't they done it? Because

00:08:47.960 they know that it's Joe Biden we're talking about. And they know he's liable to say anything.

00:08:56.280 They know his denial probably will not seem very convincing, whether he did it or not.

00:09:01.900 So they're helping him out. They're just doing him a solid by not bringing it up.

00:09:06.140 Trump's contempt for these people is again proven entirely justified.

00:09:10.680 Now, do I think that Biden is actually guilty? Well, I don't know.

00:09:19.880 Personally, from my perspective, I tend to be skeptical of assault claims made publicly

00:09:26.240 decades after the fact at a politically opportune moment like this. I also think that as far as the

00:09:32.820 court of public opinion goes on these things, when accusations are made so many years later,

00:09:39.480 and there isn't compelling evidence proving them, then we have to assume them untrue. I think that's

00:09:45.660 the right way to go for all intents and purposes. Accusation is made many, many years later. There's

00:09:52.040 no evidence. The timing is suspect. I think in that case, the right thing to do is to assume it's

00:10:02.520 untrue until you're given reason to think otherwise. The other option is to assume the accusation is true,

00:10:09.480 but then we're destroying a man's reputation based on the word of one person coming forward

00:10:13.520 years later. And that isn't fair. That isn't right. Of course, you could say that our approach

00:10:19.100 should be to just sort of take a 50-50 type of view of it and say, well, maybe he did,

00:10:24.580 maybe he didn't. But really, saying that a man is 50-50 a rapist is the same effectively as saying

00:10:30.240 he is a rapist. As far as his reputation goes, it's the same. I mean, you probably wouldn't invite

00:10:36.020 a known rapist to your house for dinner with your kids and your wife, right? Well, would you invite 0.87

00:10:42.040 a man who you think is 50-50 maybe a rapist? Probably not. So that's exactly the point, that

00:10:47.740 as far as reputation goes, it's kind of the same. And that's why I've been consistent, that without

00:10:53.540 very compelling evidence, we should assume innocence in these situations. Is there compelling

00:10:59.280 evidence against Joe Biden? I guess that's up for each person to decide. But the point here

00:11:04.960 is about the double standard. Okay? I've been consistent on these kinds of things. Maybe

00:11:11.180 you've been consistent. But many people in the media and on the left have not been. And so

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00:12:54.660 Okay. So I think the point here is about the double standard. People on the left and the media

00:13:02.420 have a very different approach from the approach that I'm talking about.

00:13:06.960 Their approach has been believe all women, which is an insane standard, an absolutely maniacal way of 1.00

00:13:14.340 looking at these things. It doesn't make any sense at all, but that's their standard. That's what

00:13:18.780 they've said. I don't agree with it, but I'm not them. And of course, they also all believed Christine

00:13:26.300 Ford. They went around saying for months, I believe Christine Ford. You know, they, they,

00:13:30.160 they believed it. They took her at her word. And so the point is, yes, if you value evidence

00:13:36.200 and you believe in the presumption of innocence, then you're going to look at this Biden thing in a

00:13:42.040 certain way and you're going to have a healthy skepticism about it. But if you believed Christine

00:13:47.700 Ford, then that means you don't value evidence and you don't believe in the presumption of

00:13:53.240 innocence of those accused. So as a matter of consistency, you should be approaching the Biden

00:13:58.180 situation the same way, which means you should believe Tara Reid. If you want to be a person of

00:14:03.860 integrity and consistency, then if you believe Christine Ford, you have to believe Tara Reid.

00:14:08.420 Um, the evidence against Biden may not be conclusive, may not even be very good, but it's way,

00:14:17.760 way, way better and way, way, way more compelling than the evidence against Kavanaugh. And that's

00:14:23.420 mainly because there was no evidence against Kavanaugh whatsoever. There is at least some evidence

00:14:30.580 against Joe Biden may not be great evidence, but there's some evidence. So unless you are a dishonest,

00:14:37.760 disgusting, disgraceful, partisan clown hack, if you believed Ford, you have to believe Reid. 1.00

00:14:44.980 There is no intelligent or consistent argument for believing Ford and disbelieving Reid. There's 0.99

00:14:51.680 plenty of consistent arguments for disbelieving both of them. Let's compare these for a moment.

00:14:58.060 Christine Ford claimed that Kavanaugh tried to rape her 30 years ago at a party. She didn't remember the 0.97

00:15:03.020 exact day, month, time, year, didn't remember anything, didn't remember how she got to the party,

00:15:09.180 how she got home. And these details really mattered. Um, especially like the information on how she got

00:15:15.860 home, considering the way she told the story, running out of the house, traumatized, weeping,

00:15:21.000 uh, the, the, the, the party was the house of the, the house she says was miles away from her home.

00:15:27.960 Someone would have had to pick her up. And would that person remember assuming it was a parent or

00:15:33.520 something? You think they'd remember picking up their daughter when she was traumatized and crying

00:15:37.740 at a party? Maybe we could talk to them, but no, she didn't remember. She didn't remember how she got

00:15:41.240 home, uh, conveniently. And, uh, she told nobody about it. No one corroborated any aspect of the

00:15:48.220 story. No one could even corroborate that the party happened or that Ford and Kavanaugh knew each

00:15:52.240 other. In fact, the only people who came forward, came forward to say they didn't believe her.

00:15:56.700 Her own best friend from high school came, came out and said she doesn't believe her.

00:16:01.240 Also, Kavanaugh has no established history of mistreating women or acting inappropriately to them.

00:16:06.180 The only other similar stories came out at the exact same time.

00:16:09.400 One from Julia Swetnick, who is a crazy person along with, uh, Michael Avenatti alleging that 0.86

00:16:15.740 Kavanaugh was a, was the ringleader of a rape gang, you know, a roving band of gang rapists that 0.99

00:16:21.040 went around to parties, uh, raping girls and everyone in the town knew it yet. They all still 0.99

00:16:25.920 went to these parties. And then, uh, there was a woman who said that Kavanaugh, uh, pulled his pants

00:16:30.220 down at a party drunkenly in, in, uh, in college. Those were the only stories. Go over to Reed and Joe Biden.

00:16:36.780 Reed remembers the incident vividly. She recounts many of the kinds of details that Ford could not

00:16:43.060 remember. She told several people about the incident long before going to the media. And those people

00:16:49.440 have corroborated her. Other members of Biden staff from the nineties say they believe her. Now they

00:16:55.380 don't say that they have evidence or anything, but they just say they believe her. Um, we have this tape

00:16:59.940 of Reed's mother, uh, apparently mentioning that something happened. And then also, and this is

00:17:06.260 important to Biden has a known history of touching women inappropriately. Does that make him a rapist?

00:17:12.700 No, not in and of itself. But when someone has a pattern of behavior of not respect, respecting

00:17:19.100 personal boundaries and treating women like objects, which Tara Reed is, is, is by far not the 1.00

00:17:26.780 only woman to come forward saying that they feel that way around Joe Biden. Got a known history.

00:17:31.660 We've seen it on tape. We don't even need to rely on anybody's word for that. We've seen it ourselves.

00:17:36.420 Uh, and then this accusation comes out. It's, it, it lends it some credibility.

00:17:42.400 So those are all lines of evidence circumstantial, but those are lines of evidence that Christine

00:17:47.940 Ford just didn't have. And once again, you can go back and just kind of imagine if any of

00:17:56.420 these lines of evidence existed for, uh, in the Kavanaugh situation. Imagine what the media and

00:18:04.800 the left would have done with that. They were desperate for anything like this and none of it

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00:19:53.280 heroic police officers in Texas have, uh, thank God saved, uh, save the public from a pair of dangerous

00:20:01.900 black market hairstylists. In fact, officers ran a sting operation on these women who were discovered

00:20:08.620 to be cutting hair in their own homes, which is illegal now, of course. So the cops did a sting

00:20:14.840 operation. They went undercover and I don't mean to laugh because this is serious business.

00:20:19.820 They went undercover and they busted these crooks. Incredible job. I don't know about you,

00:20:24.540 but I feel safer. Uh, I feel just so much safer knowing that these people are off the streets,

00:20:29.660 especially as a parent, it's good to have these fugitives behind bars. Finally. I've always

00:20:35.080 warned my kids like, like every parent, of course, you know, it's, it, you feel like a broken record

00:20:38.740 at times, but, uh, I I've always warned my kids about the threat of rogue hairdressers and manicurists.

00:20:45.060 And I've told my kids, you know, what is it that we always say? Um, and I don't know how many times

00:20:50.240 I've said it myself, but if you're walking down the road and a woman approaches you with a bottle of 0.96

00:20:54.560 nail polish or hairspray, you run in the other direction as fast as you can. And you scream,

00:21:00.040 you are not my hairstylist. I don't know you, you are not my hairstylist. Um, so this is just

00:21:05.480 something it's, it's as a parent, it's a threat we worry about and to have the police, um, putting

00:21:12.800 themselves in harm harm's way in dealing with these psychos, I think it's just, it's just great. So, uh,

00:21:19.480 I want to commend them for that. Number two, speaking of arresting dangerous people, some other

00:21:23.780 fugitives from justice were apprehended on a beach in California this weekend, uh, arrested for the

00:21:29.560 crime of sitting in the sand and looking at the ocean. Again, just a huge thank you to law enforcement

00:21:34.760 on that one. We can't have people going around, sitting in sand, looking at water,

00:21:44.880 getting unlicensed, unregulated, uh, prohibited suntans. Can't have that. I mean, think about it.

00:21:55.460 You let people get haircuts. You let them get tans. Next thing you know, people are looking and feeling

00:22:00.600 good and you just can't have that. Not when there's a virus going around. Why can't you have it? I have

00:22:08.040 no idea, but you can't simple as that. Number three. Okay. I'm going to try to switch off

00:22:14.720 sarcasm mode for a second. At least it's hard for me to do, but I'll, I'll try it. Uh, JCPenney,

00:22:19.220 it looks like is getting ready to go bankrupt. And this brings up an important point because I've seen

00:22:27.100 this, this story online and some of the reaction has been, well, this is, this isn't because of

00:22:32.940 coronavirus JCPenney was going under anyway. And that's true. And you could easily point out that

00:22:38.560 JCPenney was in relatively dire straits before all of this. Amazon was killing department stores way

00:22:43.700 before the virus ever existed. But what we're going to see happen, what we're already seeing happening

00:22:49.020 is all of these companies that were on hard times to begin with are going to die. This is the nail in

00:22:54.820 the coffin. This is a nail in the coffin for JCPenney. It's going to be a nail in the coffin for a lot of

00:22:58.420 stores like that. So that's a whole bunch of companies going under at once companies with,

00:23:04.140 shall we say, preexisting conditions are going to die all the same time. You want to talk about,

00:23:09.300 you know, not flattening the curve. Um, whereas before, you know, you have JCPenney goes under,

00:23:15.040 that's a, that's a hit to the economy because it's a bunch of people employed or now, now we're

00:23:19.480 going to lose their jobs. But in the past, the economy can absorb that. What happens when you've got

00:23:25.120 all the JCPenney's of the world going under all at once, along with a bunch of other businesses

00:23:30.080 that were doing okay before this, but couldn't survive a month, two months, three months without

00:23:34.540 revenue. Uh, that's what we're going to face. Number four, speaking of Joe Biden, as we were

00:23:39.100 before, here he is making the case for himself and his campaign. And together we're just getting

00:23:47.280 started. This moment reminds us that the presidency is about true leadership, having the forethought to

00:23:56.640 prepare for the worst, the backbone to lead through chaos, the character to move beyond politics and

00:24:05.060 serve every American, no matter where they live or what they believe. Only one candidate in this

00:24:13.980 election has all three. My husband, our next president of the United States, Joe Biden.

00:24:24.360 Actually, sorry. He's not making the case for himself there because I don't think he can string

00:24:28.180 together that many words coherently at this point, but his wife is speaking for him. So he's

00:24:32.920 standing there awkwardly frowning, actually, uh, openly frowning while his wife is talking about him.

00:24:39.180 What I liked about that though, that was a relatable moment because I think people are

00:24:45.560 getting on Joe Biden's case for this, but I think every man can relate, right? It's like when you're

00:24:49.960 out shopping with your wife, I mean, prior to Corona, you're out shopping with your wife and

00:24:54.200 she runs into somebody she knows. And now you're standing there as the hours and days go by while

00:25:03.000 your wife talks and you have that same expression. You're just waiting for it to be over. And then when

00:25:08.420 it sounds like she's finally wrapping up, that's when the, as for Joe Biden, that's when the smile

00:25:12.040 returns to the face. So I can relate to that at least. Number five, and here's the latest protest

00:25:16.240 people are freaking out about, very worried about this protest that happened in California. Look at

00:25:20.100 the footage. Once again, you've got people outside in the sun, in the heat,

00:25:49.800 there's, there's been no data to suggest that those people are at any kind of significant risk

00:25:56.120 for, for spreading or contracting the virus. So I see no problem at all with, with what they were

00:26:01.520 doing. It's, it's perfectly fine. They're standing up for their rights and they're doing it in a,

00:26:06.740 in a safe and reasonable way. Good for them. Awesome. Okay. I've been looking forward to this.

00:26:11.980 Let's, let's get onto it. This is our daily cancellation. I have to cancel this guy,

00:26:15.580 Bill Ware, chief climate correspondent for CNN. So he corresponds about the climate. That's his

00:26:21.100 job, important job. And, but he's canceled, unfortunately, even though I kind of love this,

00:26:28.880 what I'm about to read to you. I kind of love it. It's hilarious, unintentionally hilarious

00:26:33.540 and unintentionally great, but it's still pretty great. So Bill Ware just had a baby. Congratulations

00:26:40.340 on that to Bill. And he wrote a letter to his newborn son published on CNN.com. The letter is

00:26:46.560 called to my son born in the time of coronavirus and climate change. And here's the accompanying photo,

00:26:52.200 which is important context. I think you need to see this photo to understand what we're about to

00:26:56.260 get into here. Okay. So, you know, there's Bill shirtless, his baby snuggled up against his bosom.

00:27:02.380 He's got his eyes closed and is smiling. Um, now the thing about that photo, I don't mean to make

00:27:09.720 too big a deal of it or to get on Bill's case here. In fact, well, I'm going to spend the next 10

00:27:13.600 minutes getting on his case, but still, uh, you know, he's, he's got his eyes closed and he's,

00:27:19.620 you know, and he's smiling with his head tilted back. He's, I guess he's trying to capture the

00:27:24.160 maternal glow coming from radiating from himself. But you think is he had to pose for that photo.

00:27:31.020 He's not actually sleeping there. He's no one sleeps smiling like that.

00:27:36.680 So he had to say, I guess, to his wife, Hey, get a, get a, get a, get a picture of this.

00:27:41.580 I'm going to pretend I'm sleeping and smiling serenely and get a picture. I'm going to put it,

00:27:45.020 I need it for my article. Okay. Let's, uh, let's, so let's go to the article, the letter rather,

00:27:50.980 which I'm sure the child has already read and appreciated. Okay. It says my dearest river

00:27:57.800 against all odds, you were conceived in a lighthouse born during a pandemic and we'll,

00:28:04.520 we'll taste just enough of life as we knew it to resent us when it's gone.

00:28:09.500 Okay. I'm sorry. I got to stop here just for a second. First of all,

00:28:13.560 the fact that the kid's name is river is perfect. It's exactly what you would expect.

00:28:19.420 You know, you were expecting river, maybe Colton or Axel or Jackson or something. You were expecting

00:28:25.100 something in that realm and you got it. So that's great. And then what he says against all odds,

00:28:30.360 you were conceived in a lighthouse. What does that mean? I mean, first of all, why were you

00:28:34.640 having sex in a lighthouse? I assume Bill Ware and his wife are not lighthouse keepers. So what

00:28:39.660 it was just like a tourist thing where you're touring an old lighthouse and then you decided to

00:28:44.780 sneak off somewhere and do the deed. And okay, if you did that, why is it against all odds though?

00:28:50.360 Is there something, are you less likely to conceive in a lighthouse? Is there some sort of

00:28:54.180 scientific reason why you're less likely to conceive in a lighthouse than anywhere else?

00:28:59.040 But I don't understand that sentence against all odds. You are conceived in a lighthouse. Anyway,

00:29:03.160 we have to move on or it's going to take forever. Um, he says, uh, back to the letter. I'm sorry.

00:29:09.900 I'm sorry. We broke your sea and your sky and we shortened the wings of the nightingale.

00:29:15.140 Yeah. I'm, I'm, I'm sure the kid, the kid's going to be super pissed at us when he finds out that

00:29:19.340 the wings of a nightingale are shorter. The first time he, the first time he sees a nightingale,

00:29:24.200 he's gonna say, Hey dad, why are its wings so short? What did you do?

00:29:28.380 I'm sorry that the great barrier reef is no longer great, that we value Amazon more than

00:29:35.640 the Amazon and that the waterfront neighborhood where you burble in my arms could be condemned 0.95

00:29:40.440 by rising seas before you're old enough for a mortgage. The scent of your downy crown makes

00:29:45.960 my heart explode. The curl in your tic-tac-toes fills me with enough love to power New York City.

00:29:53.160 This is, this is a grown man writing this by the way, just to let you know, just to remind you. Okay.

00:29:57.100 Instead, the milk in your bottle was warmed by dirty ancient fuels. And as a result, you will learn 0.72

00:30:05.700 to walk on a planet that has never been this hot for humans. We are just now wrestling with the

00:30:11.500 implications of this, but as your pop, the most poignant evidence was seeing your mother give you

00:30:17.320 your first kiss through a P100 mask that smelled faintly of smoke. I'm sorry, my boy, but we were warned.

00:30:24.660 See, for decades, scientists told us that if we weren't careful, humans would unleash an invisible

00:30:30.500 enemy out of the jungle and into our lungs. But that was a story few wanted to believe. Actually,

00:30:35.140 it was out of a lab and into our lungs, but anyway. So we kept cutting down jungles and prairies and

00:30:39.840 mangroves in the last few places where the wild things are to pave and plow, develop and devour

00:30:46.420 everything inside. And as you get older, this will be hard to understand, but we were under the spell

00:30:51.460 of Genesis 128 to take dominion over every living thing. We had a strange urge to carve straight

00:30:57.800 lines out of nature's curves, and we're under the spell of a uniquely human force called profit motive.

00:31:03.740 When we finally realized that the worried scientists were right, people got scared and went searching

00:31:08.340 for potions and protections. They emptied store shelves even faster than the jungles, and all the

00:31:13.000 invisible enemy masks were gone just in time for your birth. Your mom and I were so scared that I was

00:31:19.920 about to swallow hard and pay a faceless, soulless internet profiteer $600 for a 50 cent N95 when I

00:31:27.180 remembered the mask I used to protect my lungs from a fiery place called California. It might have

00:31:32.840 saved your mom from the virus, so I will keep it next to my hurricane waiters, malaria pills, 0.99

00:31:38.400 and the bulletproof vest with the patch that reads press. Climate corresponding is a risky business,

00:31:45.440 by the way, so he needs a bulletproof vest. Bullets are flying all over the place, you know,

00:31:48.700 when he's reporting on the weather, I'm sure. Okay, so then it goes on. It's a very long letter.

00:31:56.860 It goes on from there. It starts to get pretty dark, and if we do nothing, it will mean the end

00:32:13.920 of predictable growing seasons, flight schedules and supply chains, resource wars, and tens of

00:32:19.060 millions of climate refugees changing everything we know about borders, neighbors, and strangers. 1.00

00:32:23.700 In either scenario, we'll bring about both the absolute best and worst in human nature. Hero

00:32:28.720 first responders, innovators, and leaders, as well as mendacious grifters, conspiracy theorists, and

00:32:34.080 tyrants. Then he goes through a bunch of other horrible stuff, mentions Greta Thunberg at a certain

00:32:38.700 point. Then we get finally to the end, and it says, the lighthouse keeper is vigilant and dependable

00:32:43.160 with a reverence for nature's power and a commitment to saving lives. This is your destiny,

00:32:48.640 my beautiful river. The great thing about stories is that they are always under revision. Now go,

00:32:56.440 write a happy ending. Okay, a couple things here. First of all, obviously linking climate change to the

00:33:06.040 virus is gratuitous nonsense, especially when the evidence is pointing to this being constructed or

00:33:13.160 this being a virus, constructed probably isn't the right word, built out of Legos or something. No,

00:33:20.020 it's a virus that came out of a Chinese lab. And also plagues and diseases have ravaged mankind since 1.00

00:33:27.420 the beginning. So there is no reason at all to think that any of this has anything to do with the SUV

00:33:31.680 you're driving. Second, if you ever as a man find yourself writing a phrase like the curl of your

00:33:38.480 tic-tac-toes, you need to stop immediately and reassess everything about your life. 0.50

00:33:46.940 And third, this all strikes me as maybe a bit much to foist on a child as soon as they're born.

00:33:54.060 You know, saying, hey, kid, welcome to the world. By the way, the rainforests are dying. The earth is

00:33:57.840 ravaged. We're all going to drown. And it might've been better if you were never born.

00:34:01.360 Anywho, great to have you with us. Just relax, Bill. All right, that's all I'm saying. Turn it down

00:34:07.320 a few notches. Your kid was just born. What kind of person looks at their newborn and immediately

00:34:13.800 starts thinking about polar bears dying of heat stroke? So take it easy. Okay, that's it. You're

00:34:19.780 canceled for your own good. So take some time, just relax, and everything will be okay.

00:34:26.580 Congratulations, though. Congratulations, you're canceled. And I think we'll leave it

00:34:32.280 there for now. Have a great day, everybody. Godspeed.

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