Ep. 655 - They Aren't Telling Us The Whole Story
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5 people were killed in a riot in the streets of Washington, D.C. on January 6th, 2019. How did that happen? And what was the exact cause of death? Today on the Matt W. W. Show, we'll take a look at what we do know. Plus, our daily conspiracy theory about Cracker Barrel.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, the Senate trial of Donald Trump continues, and we continue to be told
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about the deadly riot in which five people were killed. But is it true that five people were
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killed by the riot? How did that happen? What are the details? We've been told very little about
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that. We'll take a look at what we do know today. Also, five headlines, including Joe Biden's plan
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to raise the minimum wage, which the Congressional Budget Office says would wipe out thousands and
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thousands of jobs. And one of the greatest videos in the history of the internet goes viral.
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Yesterday, we'll play that. Plus, our daily cancellation, where we will discuss the insane
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We've been told time and time again that the riot in D.C. on January 6th was deadly or fatal or lethal
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as it has been variously described by the media. This point is being hammered with extra enthusiasm
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during the Senate impeachment trial of Donald Trump this week. And it's a point that the media has
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embedded into the public consciousness over the course of the last month. Five deaths. You know,
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that's the number we've been given. In fact, all in all, a total of seven deaths have been tied to
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the riot. Four citizens and three police officers. And when I say these deaths have been tied to the
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riot, I mean that the connection has been made by the media and by the political class, by Democrats.
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Not really by any official source. See, the odd thing is that these deaths are only discussed in
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the most general and vague terms, if you haven't noticed. We're told that people died and we're given
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the approximate context of their deaths, but very little is said about how it happened.
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But the how seems rather important, doesn't it? Don't you wonder that when you hear five people
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died in a riot? Isn't your first question, how the heck did that happen? It's important for the
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families who have a right to know exactly how and why their loved ones perished. And it's important
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to the American public, which has a right to know the full truth about an event that's been
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used to justify the indefinite militarization of our Capitol, the impeachment of a former
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president. I think we all have a right to know what happened. It's important most of all because
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the truth simply matters. It matters for its own sake, putting everything else aside. If we're going
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to be told so often and in such dramatic terms that the riot claimed the lives of five people or even
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seven people, then we should be told how exactly that occurred. And if the people making the claim
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don't themselves know how it occurred, then they shouldn't be making the claim at all.
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If they do know and they aren't telling us, then that opens up a whole new realm of problems. So
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based on the available information, let's take a closer look at these deaths and the circumstances
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surrounding them. Out of seven deaths in some way tied back to the riot and out of the three police
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officer deaths, we know that two were tragic suicides in the days and weeks following the chaos.
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Acting Metropolitan Police Chief Robert Conte said that officers Jeffrey Smith and Howard
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Liebengood, quote, took their own lives in the aftermath of that battle. Now, does that mean that
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the trauma of the event pushed them over the edge? Did they leave notes or make statements indicating that
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the riot itself had caused that kind of psychological damage? Or did they have other things going on
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internally or in their personal lives that led to this tragic conclusion? Is there any evidence at
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all that the events of January 6th played any role in their suicides? If anybody knows the answers to
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those questions, they aren't telling us. All that we can say for sure is that two men who were serving in
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the line of duty when a riot broke out later went on to take their own lives. Anybody who connects these
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two facts is making an assumption? And I would say a rather cynical and inappropriate and actually
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outrageous assumption. As for the civilian deaths tied to the riot, we know at least their names.
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Here are their names. Benjamin Phillips, Ashley Babbitt, Roseanne Boyland, and Kevin Greeson.
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It was reported by Chief Conte himself immediately after the riot that three of the victims, Phillips,
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Boyland, and Greeson, died from, quote, separate medical emergencies. Kevin Greeson's family later
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confirmed that he had high blood pressure and died of a heart attack, quote, in the midst of the
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excitement. Even fewer details have been given about Benjamin Phillips' death, but we do know that he
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suffered a stroke at some point on January 6th and then later was taken to a hospital and died in the
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hospital. For Roseanne Boyland, the story is even murkier. It was initially reported by the media
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that Boyland was trampled to death. Now, this would certainly qualify unquestionably as a death
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caused by the riot. Yet a more in-depth examination of her death in the New York Times shows that she
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collapsed while amid a flood of people near the Capitol building. Others in the crowd tried to revive
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her, gave her CPR, but she eventually died anyway. The chief medical examiner of Washington, D.C.,
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as of January 21st, anyway, said that her cause of death is pending. Was she indeed
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trampled to death? Or did she suffer some other medical emergency like the two other fatalities
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I just mentioned? Did she have trouble breathing because of the crush of people? Did she have any
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kind of pre-existing condition? We're left only to speculate. Ashley Babbitt is the clearest case of
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all. She was certainly killed by violence during the riot. No question about that. But she was killed by a
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police officer, not a rioter. She was killed while trying to climb through a broken door
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inside the Capitol building. Babbitt was unarmed and she was shot through the neck and she died
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quickly. That leaves Officer Brian Sickman. Now, in many ways, the circumstances surrounding his death
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are the murkiest of all. Immediately following the riot, the Capitol police issued a statement saying
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that an officer had, quote, passed away due to the injury sustained while on duty.
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And we were told that he, quote, returned to his division office and collapsed. And then he was
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taken to a hospital where he died. The Times and others reported that the officer, soon identified as
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Brian Sicknick, was bludgeoned with a fire extinguisher by someone or multiple people in the
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crowd. And this is the story that stuck, that he was bludgeoned to death. As prominent human rights
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lawyer Kasim Rashid put it on January 8th, he said Sicknick, quote, was beat to death by a fire
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extinguisher to his skull by right-wing terrorists. And that was the narrative. That's been the
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narrative all along. That's what most people think happened. The problem with the narrative is that
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it doesn't appear to be true. Now, little has been officially revealed about Sicknick's cause of
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death, common theme here emerging. And the autopsy results, for whatever reason, have not been made
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available to the public. But in a report that didn't receive much attention or emphasis last week,
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CNN reveals this. And I'm going to quote from their article. It's kind of long, so just bear with me.
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But all this information is important, and I want to give it to you exactly how they put it.
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So they say, quote, investigators are struggling to build a federal murder case regarding fallen
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U.S. Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, vexed by a lack of evidence that could prove someone
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caused his death as he defended the Capitol during last month's insurrection. Authorities have reviewed
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video and photographs that show Sicknick engaging with rioters amid the siege, but have yet to identify
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a moment in which he suffered his fatal injuries. Law enforcement officials familiar with the matter,
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this is what law enforcement officials familiar with the matter said. Continuing.
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To date, little information has been shared publicly about the circumstances of the death of the
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13-year veteran of the police force, including any findings from an autopsy that was conducted by
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DC's medical examiner. Findings from a medical examiner's review have not yet been released, and
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authorities have not made any announcements about the ongoing process. According to one law
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enforcement official, medical examiners did not find signs that the officer sustained any blunt force
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trauma. So investigators believe that early reports that he was fatally struck by a fire extinguisher
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are not true. One possibility being considered by investigators is that Sicknick became ill after
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interacting with a chemical irritant like pepper spray or bear spray that was deployed in the
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crowd. But investigators reviewing video of the officer's time around the Capitol haven't been able to
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confirm that in the tape, which has been recovered so far. The case could also be complicated if Sicknick
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had a pre-existing medical condition. It could not be learned if he did. All right. What this all means
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is that Sicknick's death, while obviously tragic, no matter what caused it, was not necessarily the
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result of any direct action taken by anyone in the crowd. There is to date, according to these reports,
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no evidence at all that Sicknick was murdered. There is no evidence, at least none provided to the
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public, that his death was caused by the riot, even indirectly. All we actually know, all we've been told
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is that Officer Sicknick was at the riot and then he died later. That is the full extent of the
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information officially given to the public. That's it. This officer was there and he died later.
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Now, I'm not joking with you when I tell you that is literally all we've been told. Officially.
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Overall, based on the available evidence, we can say conclusively that one person, not five,
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one, was directly killed by violence in the riot. That's what we can say conclusively.
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One person directly killed by violence in the riot. And that's the person who was killed
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by a Capitol Police officer as she was unarmed. We can say with relative certainty that two others
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died of medical emergencies stemming from underlying health concerns. So that leaves two,
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Sicknick and Boyland, whose deaths are still a relative mystery. Again, a mystery to us in the
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public. Now, presumably the autopsy results could lend quite a bit of clarity, but those results are
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being withheld. I'm no doctor, I admit, but I would guess, and anyone can correct me if I'm wrong,
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but I would guess that an autopsy and medical examination could rather conclusively determine
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whether a person was or was not trampled to death in one case or beat to death in the other.
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It would seem to me that that's the kind of thing that through doing a medical examination and an
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autopsy, you'd be able to tell. Yet if those determinations were made, we're being kept in
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the dark. What this means is that anyone who connects five deaths to the riot is spreading
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misinformation. They're making these connections based on assumption, rumor, and speculation.
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Now, I don't want to engage in my own speculation, so I'm not going to speculate
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about why we are not being told the autopsy results of Officer Brian Sicknick.
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You know, if we are ever told, it seems that it is going to be after the Senate trial of Donald Trump.
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I'm not going to speculate about whether those two things are connected.
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But at a certain point, common sense has to take over on that end anyway.
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But there's a lot we still don't know. And for anyone who says, how dare you even talk about this?
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People died. That's all that matters. It's a tragedy. Yeah, it is a tragedy.
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But the fact that people died is not the only thing that matters. How they died also matters.
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And we deserve to know the truth. Now let's get to our five headlines.
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entitled to stop you. My body, my choice. I, those are my words to her exactly. And she was not, uh,
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she was not convinced. All right. Now, speaking of the Senate impeachment trial from, from the
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daily wire, it says former president Donald Trump is reportedly furious with the way that his
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impeachment defense team performed on day one of his Senate trial. Um, two sources, this is from
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Fox news correspondent, Kevin Cork, two sources of fact, who spent time with the former president
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today, described him as quote, being furious and beyond angry with his impeachment defense team.
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He was especially upset with attorney Bruce Castro, um, in his rambling opening argument,
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the, uh, the former president spending the day watching the trial from inside his private quarters
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at Mar-a-Lago, no golf with the very same plan for tomorrow. And so he's very upset. Now we have,
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I think we have some of the, um, this is Bruce Castor, by the way, not Castro. So Bruce
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Castor, he's, he's the, one of Trump's defense attorneys and his, his performance yesterday
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anyway, was roundly panned by everyone. It was bipartisan right, left and center. And here's a
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little bit, I mean, I guess you could decide how compelling you think this is, but here's a little
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bit of what Bruce Castor said on the floor of the Senate yesterday. This trial is not about
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trading liberty for security. It's about trading. It's about suggesting that it is a good idea that
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we give up those liberties that we have so long fought for. Uh, what? And that was, that was much of
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what he had to say was along those lines. And when I say along those lines, I mean,
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indecipherable, hard to understand what he was even trying to say. I mean, it appears that Trump's
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defense team went into this trial with no plan. They had, there's no defense strategy at all.
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It's not just that like they had a bad defense strategy. They had no strategy. It's just thought
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they just woke up. It seemed like they woke up that morning and set like me in high school. So often
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they woke up that morning and they said, Oh crap, we have, is that Senate, is that Senate trial? Is
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that today? And so in the car on the way over, they're just frantically putting together opening
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statement and everything. Um, you know, I know that there's people in the audience who don't want to
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hear this even now, after all this time, you know, that there are some people who simply have no
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tolerance for any criticism of Donald Trump whatsoever. But I, I will say that for my money,
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perhaps the, the, the, the most untrue thing that Donald Trump ever said in his whole life,
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most false thing that he ever said was when he said that he hires the best people.
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And we have seen time and time again, that he does not hire the best people.
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In fact, perhaps his greatest weakness is in personnel and the people that he hires just a
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parade of incompetent clowns through his administration. And after oftentimes hiring
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the worst people. So it's finding the worst people possible. You tell me there are no lawyers.
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You're, you're a former president. You're a billionaire. You can, that's the best you can find.
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And I know there are a lot of lawyers who don't want to touch it with a 10 foot pole,
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but really you couldn't find anybody with all your money. Hard to believe. Okay. From NBC news,
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it says raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour proposed a proposal supported by
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president Joe Biden would result in the loss of 1.4 million jobs, but would bring nearly 1 million
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people out of poverty over the next four years. The study conducted by the nonpartisan congressional
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budget office was also found that increasing the minimum wage would raise the cumulative budget
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deficit from 2021 to 2023 by $54 billion and would drive inflation resulting in higher prices for
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goods and services. The CBO evaluator proposal that would gradually increase the minimum wage reaching
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$15 an hour by 2025. Okay. So $15 an hour minimum wage, the stuff about the deficit increasing by $54
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billion. That's the kind of thing that should disturb us. We should care.
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Um, that's an, that's an argument that should be effective is pointing out the increase in
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deficit. But what we've discovered is that really nobody cares about the deficit. Nobody cares about
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spending. Um, it's, we sort of, this is just the truth, both sides of the aisle. We, we take turns
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pretending to care when the other, when the other side's person is in office. I mean, how many
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conservatives over the last four years of Trump said a damn thing about too much spending deficit?
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All that was out the window. It was very little was, was, was said about that. Um, and that's just
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the way it goes. And of course, but on the left, they, there are people that sort of became all of a
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sudden budget hawks under Trump and now it goes the other way. So this is the way it goes. Um, that is
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not going to be, it should probably be an effective line of argument against any plan is by saying how
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it'll increase the deficit, but, um, it's not now the part about losing a million jobs.
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There you go. I mean, that, that's something people do care about, should care about and do.
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And in fact, um, speaking of related news, I think this is from biz journals. It says, uh,
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Kroger is about to test its first store that offers only self-service checkout lanes using enhanced
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capabilities. Downtown Cincinnati based Kroger, the nation's largest operator of traditional
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supermarkets plans to launch the pilot test of the all self checkout store in Dallas on February
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17th. It's converting one of its smaller stores, um, on Cedar Springs road for the, for the pilot.
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Now this is not, they're not directly making a connection here, but I think we can see the
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connection. If you, if you try to force these companies to pay people $15 an hour to do labor
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that just isn't worth that, especially when it's labor that can be replaced with machines,
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then that's, what's going to happen. I don't like it. I think personally, I would much rather have the
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people there having, you know, in, even as an antisocial person myself, I will use the self
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checkout lane just on antisocial grounds. So I'm, I guess I'm part of the problem as far as that goes.
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I mean, if you give me that option, then I'll take it. But I recognize that in, in reality,
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it'd probably be best if I didn't have that option. It'd probably be best if there are actual
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people doing those jobs. So that is better. Um, but you force these companies to pay $15 an hour,
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and this is what's going to happen. As I've said many times, the, the minimum wage should be
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zero. You know, that, that's where you start. That that's, that's the minimum or maybe a penny.
00:23:23.700
Like that's, that's the actual minimum of what, of what labor could possibly be worth.
00:23:27.220
And you go up from there. And one thing that gets lost in this discussion
00:23:33.400
is, um, is not only are you wiping out jobs, but if you're forcing the employer to pay everyone
00:23:43.300
$15 an hour, effectively giving a raise, maybe to some people who have not actually earned that
00:23:49.420
and aren't, aren't, aren't doing a job that's worth $15 an hour. And there can be a lot of other
00:23:54.420
employees at that store who could be worth 20 or $25 an hour, very worthy of, of promotion and
00:24:01.000
raises and now won't get it because the government is forcing the employer to give a raise. Even the
00:24:06.260
people who haven't earned it. That to me is also a problem. I mean, we've, we've, we've all
00:24:12.560
had this experience, right? When you go to a fast food place, you go, you're interacting with customer
00:24:17.720
service. We've, we've all gone into a grocery store, to a fast food place. And we've interacted
00:24:24.720
with customer service representative who basically just when you look at them, it's like, they're
00:24:30.560
trying to visibly murder you. You can, you can, you can see visible hatred in their eyes. It's not
00:24:36.040
even just bad customer service. It's, it's, it's hateful customer. They hate you for being there.
00:24:40.280
So we've all experienced that. And then we also experienced customer service people, someone
00:24:46.300
working at a register or working at a fast food, who's just wonderful, delightful. They put a smile
00:24:50.120
on your face. They're absolutely on top of it. The idea that they should be paid exactly the same
00:24:56.400
or that person who hates you just for being there is automatically worth 15 bucks an hour.
00:25:02.580
All they do is show up, make, put in absolutely zero effort whatsoever. And they're automatically
00:25:07.620
worth $50 an hour. No, I would, I would rather free up these companies to pay someone like that,
00:25:14.440
like five bucks an hour. I mean, you're, you're putting in zero effort, zero. The only effort is
00:25:19.580
just to walk in the door. So pay them five. And then that really awesome customer service representative
00:25:25.420
who's really on top of it and makes you feel good. And, and you know, they're just really,
00:25:29.680
really good. Pay them 30 bucks an hour. That to me seems the most just, the most fair. All right.
00:25:35.080
Number three, Pete Buttigieg, for some reason is, um, secretary of transportation and he wants to
00:25:39.980
bring equity to the roadways. His plan for, for social justice and equity, he wants to bring it
00:25:45.820
to the roadways where it does not belong. And, uh, here he is explaining his plan.
00:25:50.280
What's the biggest way that transportation has been permanently changed by the pandemic?
00:25:54.940
It's too soon to know for sure, but I think it's safe to say that our old patterns of life,
00:25:59.400
uh, the nine to five Monday through Friday commuting patterns are not going to be exactly the same.
00:26:03.980
Yeah. And so how might that change what your staff does? Uh, you know,
00:26:07.280
we think trains, planes, and automobiles, but, uh, uh, what about bike scooters,
00:26:10.700
wheelchairs for that matter? Those are things you plan to pay more attention to.
00:26:13.840
Absolutely. Yeah. Look, roads aren't only for vehicles. We got to make sure that,
00:26:17.760
that pedestrians and individuals and bicyclists and businesses can all coexist on the same roadway.
00:26:23.940
Yeah. What about, what about scooters and bikes? What about pogo sticks? What about
00:26:27.900
unicycles? You know, what about big wheel, uh, bikes? What about those? Yeah, we'll put them all
00:26:36.380
on the roadways, wheelchairs, wheelchairs on the roadway. Now, if you, if, if what you mean is a
00:26:41.540
wheelchair crossing the street and the crosswalk, then sure. Yeah. Okay. But if you're talking about
00:26:46.580
what I, when you say share the road, it makes it sound like you're talking about people in
00:26:51.620
motorized wheelchairs actually just driving down the street, which I have seen. And in fact,
00:26:58.080
I've seen it in Nashville more than once. It's extremely dangerous for the person in that
00:27:03.040
wheelchair that should not be encouraged. Now I'm not going to go into my whole rant again. I did a
00:27:07.980
whole daily cancellation on it weeks ago. And I think it's one of the most important segments I've
00:27:11.600
ever done on the show, uh, about, about cyclists specifically on the roadway. Now, my stance is very
00:27:17.940
clear. The, the, the road, modern roads, modern paved roads are, are actually built for vehicles
00:27:24.500
and vehicles are what belong on those roads. Not people in bikes, holding up traffic, getting
00:27:30.480
themselves and other people killed. Certainly not wheelchairs, not, not even, but see, we have,
00:27:36.260
we have something called a sidewalk. Okay. And I think sidewalks are great inventions.
00:27:42.400
And, um, it sounds like maybe that's what Buttigieg is reaching for here. He's thinking about
00:27:47.060
inventing sidewalks again. Sidewalks are fantastic. Yeah. Put all, all, all, all the things he just
00:27:53.140
mentioned, scooters, bikes, wheelchairs, pedestrians, put them all on sidewalks. Cars go on the road.
00:27:59.180
I think that's a great system. It really has worked pretty well, hasn't it? I don't, I don't think we
00:28:03.680
need to reinvent the wheel here, so to speak. Cars on the road, everyone else on the sidewalk.
00:28:08.740
Great. No problem. You want to build more sidewalks? Go ahead and do that.
00:28:12.940
Um, number four, mask shaming is a favorite pastime of, of some people in America, as we've noticed.
00:28:21.940
And those are people who are, you know, cowards and proud of it.
00:28:26.700
And, uh, here's the latest incident. Here's a, here's a man, I think is one of the worst we've
00:28:31.680
seen because it's a man harassing and filming a woman and her elderly mother at a store, uh, for not
00:28:37.060
wearing a mask. And here's how that went. Say cheese, you're in Costco, not wearing
00:28:42.560
your mask, refusing to wear your mask. And here's her mother.
00:28:47.560
Can you call your manager? Can you call her your manager?
00:29:06.260
Okay. So there we go. I mean, we've seen this play out many times. The guy sees these
00:29:23.100
two women, one of whom again is an elderly woman in a, speaking of, you know, she's in
00:29:26.780
a motorized scooter, speaking of which, and you look at her there in that, in that video,
00:29:31.520
see that, that is a, uh, a vehicle that does not belong in the roadway. And it's, it's
00:29:36.640
not in this case. That's very good. That's, that's one that belongs in a store or in a
00:29:39.200
sidewalk. Um, but here's an elderly woman and her daughter who's, who's older as well.
00:29:46.540
And he's afraid because she's not wearing a mask. And so his response is to put her on
00:29:52.320
film, go, go right up in her face and get her on, get her on camera, pull out his phone
00:29:56.400
and start tattletaling, start snitching, calling for a manager.
00:30:01.520
Once again, if you're that afraid that this person is going to spread a disease,
00:30:06.260
then maybe just keep on walking, just keep moving your ass and go to a different part
00:30:11.780
of the store. If I will never understand this, if I was afraid that someone had a deadly disease
00:30:17.460
and they were going to spread it to me, the last thing I would do is take out my camera
00:30:21.320
to document and get right up in their face. Say, Hey, you're endangering people's lives
00:30:26.200
right up in their face. No, I wouldn't do that. Never have cowards been so eager to advertise
00:30:34.000
their own cowardice. This guy is more afraid than that elderly woman. The elderly woman,
00:30:41.680
you know, she's, she is in the most vulnerable category and she's not that concerned. He's
00:30:48.820
more afraid than she is. And he's, he's happy to advertise that to the whole world.
00:30:53.820
Pathetic. All right. Um, here's something that's not so pathetic. I have to play this for you because
00:30:58.720
honestly, I believe it's one of the internet's greatest gifts to mankind. You've probably
00:31:02.220
already seen it. If you spend any time on the internet, then you probably couldn't escape
00:31:05.820
yesterday without seeing this. Um, but I, we're going to play it again anyway. And, uh, and, uh,
00:31:12.980
cause I think it's in the running for maybe the funniest internet video of all time.
00:31:16.020
And unfortunately, if you're listening to the audio podcast, um, and you haven't seen this video,
00:31:20.620
you're not going to be able to fully appreciate it. You have to see the visual. So I apologize for
00:31:24.780
that, but you can always come to YouTube and check out this segment at least because you need,
00:31:28.120
you need to see this. You need to see to appreciate all of the, the subtlety of the humor. You have to
00:31:33.420
actually see it. But, um, here we have a hearing with a few lawyers and a judge. I don't know what the
00:31:41.260
hearing was about. Doesn't matter. And apparently some of the backstory here is that one of the
00:31:47.140
lawyers in this hearing with the judges, the zoom, you know, that we do everything on zoom now. So
00:31:50.420
it's a zoom hearing and he was using his secretary's computer. And the secretary has a young daughter
00:31:56.300
who had previously been on zoom and was using a certain filter. And this filter had not been taken
00:32:02.180
off. And so then this is what happened. Dr. Ponton, I believe you have a filter turned on in the video
00:32:10.940
settings. Uh, you might want to, uh, uh, we're trying to, can you hear me judge? I can hear you. I think
00:32:20.760
it's a filter. It is. And I don't know how to remove it. I've got my assistant here. She's trying to,
00:32:27.100
but, uh, I'm prepared to go forward with it. That's I'm here live. That's not, I'm not a cat.
00:32:38.300
I can, I can see that. I'm not, I'm here live. I'm not a cat. Everything. What, this is why I say
00:32:46.140
you have to see it. Okay. Because the, the facial expressions of the cat are what really sell this.
00:32:51.940
There's one moment in particular when he, he first realizes that he's a cat and he kind of
00:32:57.180
looks down and he's got this shocked, confused expression. The cat has a shocked, confused
00:33:01.360
expression. The cat just, just nails the feeling. I didn't know that the filters were this advanced
00:33:06.920
because there's this, there's this, oh crap, I'm a cat moment. And, and look, I've never seen that
00:33:14.240
look, especially on a cat. It's like this cat's having an existential crisis. And that in particular,
00:33:20.800
when he, when he lets out this kind of like groan, um, that's the part that really sells.
00:33:25.660
And then the whole thing where he has to clarify that he's not a cat, which I have to say, as many
00:33:30.680
people on the internet said yesterday, you know, uh, that's what a cat would say. If, if, if you have,
00:33:37.700
if you find yourself in a situation where you have to actually say out loud, I'm not a cat.
00:33:42.980
That might, that means you might actually be a cat. So who knows? We don't know what actually
00:33:47.880
happened. There's a lot we don't know in this situation too, but, um, that's, that's great.
00:33:53.660
Now, um, the other hilarious, uh, video that, that, that has graced the internet this week,
00:34:00.760
which we played yesterday was the, um, gorilla glue girl as she has come to be known. Uh, that
00:34:06.860
is Tessica Brown. You remember, she's the, the woman who sprayed industrial glue in her hair
00:34:12.860
because she ran out of hairspray. And so she just figured, well, you know, this is an adhesive
00:34:18.400
kind of substance. Might as well just put it in my hair. And so she did that. And, um, and then her
00:34:23.460
hair ended up, uh, just being crusted into place for a whole month as, as you might expect, ended up
00:34:29.180
going to the ER. They couldn't do anything about it. Now she's thinking about filing a lawsuit against
00:34:33.940
gorilla glue. And like I told you yesterday, and I, I hate to be the bearer of bad news. She will,
00:34:39.780
well, if she doesn't win the lawsuit, it will probably, they'll probably settle with her and
00:34:44.980
she's going to make a lot of money. She shouldn't, but that's the way things go now. Because all she's
00:34:51.140
going to need to prove is that, uh, there, there was, there was nothing on the bottle specifically
00:34:56.500
clarifying not to use it in your, in your hair. And there wasn't all the bottle said was don't
00:35:02.060
spray it on your skin and your eyes or on your clothes. Didn't say anything about hair. You would
00:35:05.980
think you would need to say that, but, um, but apparently you do now. This woman, Tessica Brown
00:35:12.860
has actually gotten a lot of sympathy online. There's been a lot of sympathy for this woman.
00:35:18.180
And she has a GoFundMe of course. And that GoFundMe is up to $17,000, almost 18,000.
00:35:25.640
We're talking to $18,000. People are donating to a woman because she put glue in her hair.
00:35:30.260
And you read some of these comments, like here's some of the comments on the GoFundMe page for the
00:35:34.840
Gorilla Glue girl. Um, so it says, believe in God. You're in my prayers. And I pray the doctors
00:35:42.480
can clear this all for you with complete healing now. And in the future, be encouraged to know that
00:35:47.300
all things are possible with God. All things are possible with God. He can get the glue out of your
00:35:53.480
hair. All things are possible. That's true. God could get the glue out of your hair. I kind of think
00:35:58.160
God's going to make you, but this is one where God's going to say, you know, you're on your own
00:36:02.760
on this one. Um, and, uh, someone else says praying that it all turns out well. Um, someone
00:36:08.920
else says, I pray that she'll be okay. Someone else says, I know the road ahead is not going to be
00:36:15.200
easy, but hang in there and just ignore the negativity. I hope you find healing on the inside
00:36:19.380
as well as on the outside. Um, and there was another comment that I really liked. Oh, we all
00:36:28.040
make mistakes. You're still smart, beautiful, strong, and courageous. I appreciate, I, I guess
00:36:34.560
I have to appreciate how generous these people are being, but first of all, yeah, we all make
00:36:40.400
mistakes. We don't all make that mistake. In fact, nobody in history, as far as we know,
00:36:44.100
has ever made that mistake, but her, she's totally alone. She is, she is in a, in an arena all by
00:36:49.820
herself here. She's in a league of her own and not in a good way. Are you really praying?
00:36:58.040
Are, people went home last night and they got on their knees and they prayed for the
00:37:03.460
woman who had glue in her hair. Now, again, all things are possible with God. Um, God is
00:37:10.020
omnipotent and omniscient. He can, he can hear all prayers. He can respond to all prayers.
00:37:14.040
So, you know, you can't like overtax God, but at the same time, so many things to pray
00:37:19.780
about in the world. And you made time to pray about the woman with glue in her hair and to
00:37:23.700
give her money. What would really make me angry? So I'm not even going to look, you look at her
00:37:28.600
$18,000 on GoFundMe for glue in her hair. Compare that to like people with cancer who have GoFundMes
00:37:36.600
or people, people whose kids have cancer. I bet you're going to find a lot of GoFundMes
00:37:41.460
for, for cancer stricken children that have not raised $18,000 on GoFundMe.
00:37:47.580
Um, so let's get our, uh, priorities straight would be my suggestion. Okay. Now moving on to
00:37:54.040
the newest, uh, segment and the greatest, which we call reading the YouTube comments where I,
00:38:00.020
in fact, read the YouTube comments. Here are a few comments left on the show yesterday.
00:38:03.280
KS Hutter says, Matt, give us a list of a few people who, who you think could actually be
00:38:08.560
president in 2024. I personally wish Ron Paul would run again, but he's way too old now.
00:38:13.960
Yeah. I would say he's, what is he like 97 now? I'd say he's probably too old.
00:38:16.860
Um, Ron DeSantis is the guy that I've been mentioning. Uh, and, and I, I think others
00:38:22.240
are going to, I think there are other potential candidates that, that, that maybe you could
00:38:26.800
mention right now. I think that four years is a long time and other people, hopefully it's
00:38:31.340
enough time to find other candidates and draft them and find, find talented people. Um, you
00:38:38.360
know, the, the, the, the mainstream Republican party on a national level, if we look at Republicans
00:38:43.380
in Congress, there, there may be a lot of incompetent clowns there, but on the right,
00:38:50.500
generally plenty of very talented, incompetent people. So if I had to cast a vote right now
00:38:57.680
for 2024, it would be for Ron DeSantis. But I think there are many other, um, potential candidates
00:39:04.360
as well. The only thing is if Trump runs again in 2024 as a 78 year old man, and we have
00:39:12.600
to do all this all over again, then I really don't think he's going to win, but he, I don't
00:39:19.160
think he'd win the general. He would win the primary for sure. And he would suck up all the
00:39:22.340
oxygen and all of this up and coming talent is really talented guys like, like Ron DeSantis
00:39:27.060
would be, would suffocate from the lack of oxygen. Um, which is why I really think we
00:39:33.680
need to start moving forward and thinking about who, you know, who's going to be the
00:39:37.460
next generation. All right. Um, Matthew says, Matt, I love your new segment appropriately
00:39:46.580
named reading the YouTube comments, but I think it'd be better if you read comments from
00:39:49.940
the daily wire website, it would add a layer of exclusivity. If you read comments from your
00:39:53.760
live stream chat or the comments on your articles on the DW website, this way only those who
00:39:58.220
are behind the paywall can participate and would entice the YouTube freeloaders to get
00:40:01.600
a membership. Matthew, how about you try to, you stop trying to micromanage me. Stop telling
00:40:05.600
me what to do. How about that? You're banned from listening to the show. Done. Get out.
00:40:11.500
Uh, but thanks for the comment anyway. Um, Diana Vega says, I just want to thank Matt for
00:40:18.480
being one of the main voices to steer me away from the left last year. I may not agree with
00:40:21.900
everything he says, but his dry and sarcastic demeanor and logic are what the world needs
00:40:25.100
right now. Well, thank you, Diana. And this really, and I mean that sincerely, you know,
00:40:30.520
being able to, because some, I can say whatever I want, present whatever arguments I want,
00:40:36.980
but if, but you have to be willing to think critically, to listen to the arguments,
00:40:42.040
think critically about them. Um, you have to be willing to adjust your entire worldview.
00:40:47.540
You have to be willing to consider the possibility that you've been wrong about a lot of things for
00:40:52.860
a long time. And most people in this country today are simply not willing to do that.
00:40:58.480
It takes a lot of intellectual courage. So I'll give you credit for that. Um, and
00:41:02.780
cow a fungus really, I'm, I'm just reading this because I love the username. Cow a fungus says,
00:41:06.900
in case you didn't notice it's time for secession. There simply aren't any other choices. Now I've,
00:41:11.800
I've said many times, I think the idea of a national divorce is, um, is good. I would be,
00:41:17.340
I would be in favor of a, of a, of a, I, I, I think it's, I can't think of a, of another solution
00:41:22.900
anyway. Um, I don't see us all coming together and unifying magically as much as it'd be nice
00:41:28.500
if we would, I don't see that actually happening, but I also haven't seen a plan for secession that
00:41:33.480
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00:41:44.940
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You know, there are only a few corporate chains whose honor and dignity I will defend to my dying
00:44:00.680
breath. Bass, Bass Pro Shops is one. Arby's is another. And rounding out the trio is that realm
00:44:05.940
of culinary delight known as Cracker Barrel. Um, I, I maintain that you simply will not find a better
00:44:10.860
meatloaf dish with three sides for under $12 anywhere in the world. I dare you to try. Maybe,
00:44:15.880
maybe a low bar, but still also across the entire American Southeast, there are like 46 Cracker
00:44:21.920
Barrels per square mile. Um, it's become such a part of the landscape that you either develop an
00:44:26.460
affection for it, or you become deeply depressed. And I have chosen affection in this case. And so
00:44:32.120
it may be partly because of this deep affection that I take personally, the recent efforts by
00:44:36.820
some on the left to turn Cracker Barrel racist. This is one of the weirder trends among progressive
00:44:42.020
race hustlers. They notice a lot of white people congregating in buildings, um, in these Cracker
00:44:47.600
Barrel buildings, disappearing inside for hours at a time, reemerging with a fatter stomach and carrying
00:44:53.040
a scented candle and a bag of hard candy from the gift shop. And they figure that something sinister
00:44:57.420
must be happening inside something racist. And that's why a few months ago, Cracker Barrel,
00:45:03.840
you may remember made headlines because there was a quote noose hanging from the ceiling in one of
00:45:09.240
their restaurants. And this sparked outrage until it was discovered that the noose was actually not
00:45:13.380
a noose, but the cord of an antique soldering iron. But no worries, said the media, you know,
00:45:18.520
they, they simply changed their headlines and reported that a quote, here's CNN's phrasing a quote,
00:45:22.360
noose like cord was found in a Cracker Barrel. Yes. If you can't get away with calling it a noose,
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just call it noose like. And the great thing is that literally any rope string or cord can be called
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noose like. Now, if you thought that would be the most desperate attempt to racist-ify Cracker Barrel,
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um, you were wrong. Yesterday, the chain was trending again, this time due to a meme posted by some
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random Twitter account, which makes the following claim. This is the claim. Cracker was a slang term
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for whip. That's why blacks called whites crackers from the crack of the whip. A Cracker Barrel is a barrel
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that held the whips for sale at the country store. You see the whip going from the R to the K in the logo?
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Racism in your face. Now, this claim that Cracker Barrel was named after barrels of whips sold at the
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country store for plantation owners to use on their slaves. This claim was amplified and repeated and
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immediately, unquestioningly accepted by thousands of people. Sophia Nelson, who's a self-described,
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self-described award-winning journalist, retweeted this claim with the caption,
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heavy sigh. I really like Cracker Barrel, but now that I see this and I get it,
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I sadly no longer can eat there. And she passed this along to her 74,000 followers. And this is
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what award-winning journalists do now. They see a meme, accept it absolutely and on face value,
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and then promptly spread it as a fact to the public. The backlash was so intense that eventually
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Cracker Barrel actually had to issue a statement addressing it and denying the racist
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origins of their name. Now, an intelligent person, of which there is a dwindling supply in this
00:47:09.640
country, upon hearing this claim about barrels of whips might immediately suspect that something
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isn't right. First of all, why would you sell whips in a barrel of all things? Wouldn't they get
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tangled? Isn't that the most impractical way to sell whips? You could go to Lowe's or Home Depot and
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find all kinds of ropes and cords for sale, noose-like items, CNN would say. And what you'll find
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is that they're all hanging or placed neatly on shelves. If you walk into a Lowe's and say,
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excuse me, can you point me to your barrel of ropes? They're going to look at you like you're
00:47:43.000
insane. The other problem with the claim is that it's completely made up. Maybe that's the main
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problem with it, is that it's just completely, totally made up. This is a thing that somebody
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on the internet simply invented out of whole cloth and posted. There is zero truth to it.
00:47:59.780
As it turns out, and shockingly, even Snopes did a fact check on this, the term cracker barrel comes
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from literal barrels of crackers that used to be sold at country stores. Now, a barrel of crackers
00:48:14.160
seems itself sort of impractical and unsanitary. But, you know, this was a different time. People back in
00:48:19.860
those days thought nothing of sticking their hand into a huge barrel and pulling out a wad of
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crackers. And then they buy the handful of crackers for a nickel or whatever it was. And that's where
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the name comes from. The cracker barrel origin story that went viral yesterday was essentially a
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conspiracy theory. And this is what we have to understand. This is a conspiracy theory. And this
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is how left-wing conspiracy theories often work. We know about the conspiracy theories on the right,
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QAnon, Sandy Hook trutherism, and so on. We hear plenty about those.
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But the left has its own. They just look a little different and are built on different
00:48:56.800
background assumptions. The most basic background assumption for the left-wing conspiracy theory
00:49:01.400
is that everything is racist. Every institution is racist. And racism, that is bigotry by white
00:49:06.820
people against non-white people specifically, is embedded into everything in our culture.
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See, conspiracy theories are all about finding patterns where they don't exist. Or finding patterns
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where they do exist and then inventing extravagant and fantastical explanations for those patterns.
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This happens on both sides of the aisle. It is very far from an exclusively right-wing phenomenon.
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Claiming that the cracker barrel logo is a racist dog whistle from a store with mysterious nooses
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hanging in its gift shop is a conspiracy theory every bit as ridiculous and invented as the claim
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that a pizza shop in D.C. is the staging ground for a child sex trafficking ring.
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The only difference, again, is the background assumption that goes into it.
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And so, cracker barrel is not canceled. It will never be canceled on my watch.
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As long as it keeps serving that delicious meatloaf.
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But, the conspiracy theorists smearing its good name are absolutely canceled.
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