The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 746 - What School Doesn't Tell You About Slavery

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, proponents of critical race theory are now claiming that all they want to do is teach kids about the facts of American history, facts like slavery.

00:00:07.780 That's all they want to do. That's all critical race theory is.

00:00:10.460 And they're wrong about that. That's not all the critical race theory is, of course.

00:00:13.280 But I think we should teach about slavery, too, but we should be telling the whole truth. 0.97

00:00:16.660 And today we'll talk about the whole truth of slavery.

00:00:18.700 Also, five headlines.

00:00:19.900 The NSA denies Tucker Carlson's claim that he's being spied on.

00:00:23.280 Or did they really deny it?

00:00:24.440 A man is crowned Miss Nevada, USA, and a woman whose husband is active duty Navy alerts me to a mandatory diversity hike, quote unquote, in honor of Pride Month that her husband was allegedly forced to participate in.

00:00:36.440 In our daily cancellation, a new organization of Gen Z Republicans has a plan for connecting with today's youth.

00:00:42.980 And it's terrible.

00:00:44.040 All of that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:02:05.540 As critical race theory faces ever-mounting criticism, the strategy of its proponents is to start throwing mud in the water.

00:02:12.660 They can't stand by their real beliefs or defend what they're actually doing.

00:02:16.600 So instead, they try to turn the discussion about critical race theory into something else entirely.

00:02:21.300 We've talked about that already, but the efforts are getting more and more desperate.

00:02:25.520 So Henry Rogers, stage name Ibram X. Kendi, went on MSIBC yesterday and claimed that he doesn't believe that white people are inherently racist.

00:02:36.020 Let's listen to that.

00:02:36.640 Do you believe that white Americans are inherently racist?

00:02:41.840 Oh, I do not.

00:02:45.160 And indeed, in How to Be an Anti-Racist, I make the case that we shouldn't believe that anyone is inherently racist or that we should identify anyone as a racist.

00:02:57.360 Whoa. What?

00:02:59.360 We shouldn't identify anyone as a racist?

00:03:01.660 Well, that's news to everyone, including to Henry Rogers himself, who not long ago was saying stuff like this.

00:03:09.260 It is critical for white people, for people in general, to stop denying their racist ideas, to stop denying the ways in which policies have benefited them, to stop denying their racism,

00:03:24.960 and to realize that actually the heartbeat of racism itself is denial, and the sound of that heartbeat is, I'm not racist.

00:03:33.600 Okay, so white people aren't inherently racist, and we shouldn't call people racist, but at the same time, white people need to stop denying that they're racist,

00:03:42.040 and when they deny that they're racist, it only proves that they're racist.

00:03:47.000 This would seem to be a rather confusing set of ideas until you realize that it's not a set of ideas at all.

00:03:53.820 There are no set ideas.

00:03:56.360 The ideas and claims change in order to accommodate the rhetorical needs of the moment.

00:04:00.500 Fortunately for Mr. Rogers, he feels no moral obligation to be honest.

00:04:05.040 He has a moral obligation to be honest, same as anyone else, but he doesn't feel it, being a congenital liar and all.

00:04:11.300 Another strategy is to change the subject and pretend that the argument is about something else entirely.

00:04:17.560 It's to pretend that the people opposed to critical race theory education are really opposed to education in general.

00:04:24.180 So I thought this was a great example of this strategy.

00:04:26.400 This is a video of a teacher offering a response to critical race theory critics, and she kind of demonstrates this approach.

00:04:33.080 Let's listen to that.

00:04:34.240 A response to Republicans, whenever you say we should teach about slavery or the genocide of indigenous people in the classroom, is, oh, well, it happened so long ago.

00:04:43.940 Why do we have to, why do we, why do they need to know?

00:04:45.860 Why does anyone need to know?

00:04:47.580 Okay, why do you learn about the Holocaust?

00:04:49.940 Why do you learn about the Rwandan genocide?

00:04:51.960 Why do you learn about imperialism?

00:04:53.500 Why do you learn about the Enlightenment?

00:04:54.680 Why do you learn about the Soviet Union?

00:04:56.860 Why do you learn about the American Revolution?

00:04:58.300 Why do you learn about the Civil War?

00:05:00.620 Although they were in the past, why do we learn about them?

00:05:04.960 It's, it's almost as though there's a class you take in school where you talk about things that happened in the, in the past.

00:05:15.100 Wait a minute, wait, this is all making too much sense, right?

00:05:20.380 It's too much, no.

00:05:23.440 Gotta say, see-through shirt, interesting choice for the classroom.

00:05:27.540 But look, I don't mean to pick on this one teacher.

00:05:29.980 I do mean to pick on her, actually, but not just her.

00:05:32.200 This is a common enough talking point to warrant a thorough response, I think.

00:05:35.740 The claim is that Republicans, and by that she means anyone who's not firmly and totally on her ideological side on every issue,

00:05:42.080 are opposed to kids being taught about slavery or the, quote, genocide of Native Americans.

00:05:47.840 And that we don't want these things taught because they happened a long time ago, and therefore nobody needs to know.

00:05:52.940 The problem with the argument as she presents it is that literally not one single person has ever made that argument.

00:05:59.500 She's the first one to make it.

00:06:01.920 Nobody, and I really do mean nobody, is suggesting that the fact of American slavery should not be taught.

00:06:09.180 I have not heard anyone say that.

00:06:12.080 And I would defy anyone to provide an example of anyone saying that. 0.99

00:06:17.580 It'd be quite convenient if we would make that argument because it's a very stupid argument and easy to debunk. 0.95

00:06:23.640 But that's not the argument. 0.87

00:06:25.500 So since she brought up the subject, let me now explain.

00:06:29.260 And this is all very tied into the critical race theory discussion, especially as the proponents try to change the subject.

00:06:35.680 So let me explain what our point as it pertains to slavery actually is.

00:06:44.220 And really, there are two points, and they're both rather simple.

00:06:48.180 One, the full story and truth about slavery should be taught.

00:06:54.240 If we're going to tell kids about slavery, and we should, then we need to give them the complete picture.

00:06:59.280 So far from wanting nothing taught about slavery, we actually want more to be taught about it.

00:07:05.840 We want more said.

00:07:07.700 We want more time spent on it.

00:07:10.100 The fact that so many Americans think slavery is a uniquely white sin and that white Americans carry some kind of special guilt for it only shows that the education they're being given about slavery is narrow and incomplete.

00:07:23.640 We want to widen the lens, expand the scope of the discussion.

00:07:27.640 Consider these questions.

00:07:31.600 How many Americans know that slavery was still practiced legally in Africa as recently as 1980?

00:07:41.720 If you're in my generation, my generation was walking this earth, or at least crawling on it, at a time when there was still legal slavery in the world, in Africa.

00:07:55.980 How many Americans know that?

00:07:57.640 How many realize that it was practiced legally all across the non-Western world, long after it had been abolished everywhere in the Western world?

00:08:05.900 How many realize that it still goes on unofficially, quote-unquote, in Africa, the Mideast, and Asia?

00:08:13.200 How many even realize that slavery is an ancient institution which predates the formation of the United States by many thousands of years?

00:08:20.140 How many know that by the time white Americans were buying slaves, the practice had already been in place in the Middle East for 8,000 years?

00:08:28.560 How many know that it had been going on for thousands of years in the Americas before the white man showed up?

00:08:34.700 How many know that black Americans and Native Americans both owned black slaves?

00:08:40.200 I think the answer on all counts is very few.

00:08:46.340 Very few people in this country know any of those facts.

00:08:49.200 I believe they should know those facts, which means that I want far more to be taught about slavery.

00:08:55.460 My problem with the slavery education being provided by women like the one in that video is that it doesn't go nearly far enough. 1.00

00:09:02.820 Do any of the facts I just listed minimize the objective evil of American slavery? 0.55

00:09:10.460 No.

00:09:11.420 Do they potentially mitigate the personal moral culpability of the individuals in this country who supported it or practiced it?

00:09:18.540 Yes.

00:09:19.540 Of course.

00:09:20.900 I mean, someone who practiced slavery today, someone who practices slavery today, and again, people do practice it today, 0.96

00:09:26.680 is more morally culpable than someone who practiced it 200 years ago.

00:09:31.300 But the fact that slavery was an accepted institution the world over for thousands and thousands of years everywhere does not, again, make it less objectively evil,

00:09:39.960 but it does call for the actions of the individuals who were involved in it to be judged within their historical context.

00:09:47.440 And yet none of that is really the point.

00:09:51.000 We should teach the full truth about slavery simply because it's the full truth. 0.98

00:09:55.140 When we teach kids about science or technology or mathematics, do we pretend that all of those things were invented by and started with white Americans?

00:10:06.800 Do we tell kids in school that Americans invented democracy or poetry or literature?

00:10:12.480 No, you see, when it comes to the good things, the things of value, we make sure that our children know that other people throughout history and around the world contributed.

00:10:23.600 And yet with slavery, we tend to take all the credits.

00:10:27.360 Funny how that works, isn't it?

00:10:29.300 That's our first point about slavery.

00:10:30.680 The second is that no person living today should be made to feel any guilt at all for atrocities that happened before they were born, slavery included.

00:10:44.200 And this is a really fortunate thing because there's a very good chance that all of us, every person alive today,

00:10:51.560 is descended from slave owners at some point back in their family tree.

00:10:55.720 Now, I know that I'm not descended from white American slave owners.

00:11:00.680 My family got here after that was all done.

00:11:05.700 But some far-removed relative way back there in my lineage probably owned some slaves somewhere at some point.

00:11:13.980 And that's true for you, too.

00:11:15.300 It's true for everyone, black, white, or otherwise.

00:11:18.920 You've also most likely had relatives who murdered, who robbed, who committed other unknown acts of savagery.

00:11:25.720 The world is a brutal place today, and it used to be a whole lot more brutal.

00:11:30.400 Nobody's ancestral line is pure or clean.

00:11:32.980 So we can all be weighed down by guilt for things we didn't do and had no hand in,

00:11:37.540 and which occurred before we even existed, or we can carry on with our lives.

00:11:41.980 I suggest the latter.

00:11:43.120 In fact, I don't think that you should even necessarily be weighed down by guilt for things that you did do.

00:11:49.960 If you did something bad and you feel guilty, as you should, then make amends the best you can.

00:11:58.140 Apologize to the person you wronged.

00:12:00.400 Repent of your sins.

00:12:02.260 Change your ways.

00:12:03.500 Make your act of contrition.

00:12:05.320 But there's nothing to be gained, no virtue to be found in walking around every day utterly obsessed with

00:12:10.860 and possessed by the sins of your past for which you've already repented.

00:12:14.900 And here I refer again to the sins of your past.

00:12:18.620 Even those should not consume you.

00:12:22.280 But the sins of someone else's past?

00:12:25.120 Sins in which you played absolutely no part whatsoever?

00:12:30.400 If you feel guilt about that, then your situation is pathological.

00:12:36.100 And those are my points about slavery.

00:12:39.840 I think I can generally speak for all conservatives, really, on this.

00:12:43.840 This is what we are saying about slavery.

00:12:48.080 Yes, teach about it.

00:12:50.000 But teach the right things.

00:12:52.720 Teach the full picture.

00:12:55.340 And don't cast blame where it doesn't belong.

00:12:58.680 That's it.

00:13:00.000 Pretty simple.

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00:14:22.920 So, you know, I'm still kind of new to city life.

00:14:26.400 We moved from a rural town in Pennsylvania, literally a one-stop sign.

00:14:32.580 We didn't have a stop light.

00:14:33.360 We had a stop sign.

00:14:34.440 And we had like a post office and a bar and a gas station.

00:14:38.440 My point is that I'm still kind of getting accustomed to city life and feeling my way

00:14:44.200 through things a little bit, maybe with some naivete.

00:14:47.580 I don't know.

00:14:48.520 So I made a mistake.

00:14:49.400 I guess it was a mistake last night when I went to a Mexican takeout place.

00:14:59.680 Well, first of all, my wife and kids, and really I can blame this on my wife because

00:15:02.540 she's not here.

00:15:03.480 My wife and kids are gone for the week.

00:15:04.900 And so I'm home alone.

00:15:06.360 And my wife said that she would, she said, oh, I can order you some groceries.

00:15:11.020 And because she doesn't trust me to just go buy them.

00:15:12.920 So she'll order, she'll order them, send them to the house.

00:15:15.560 And then, you know, you can make meals.

00:15:16.840 And I said, do you think I'm going to make meals for myself when I'm home alone?

00:15:21.260 Well, who do you think I am?

00:15:22.440 No, I'm just going to order takeout.

00:15:23.760 That's what I'm going to live on, of course.

00:15:25.400 So I went to this Mexican takeout place and there were bars in the windows and there was,

00:15:31.520 there's no AC.

00:15:32.760 Everybody's sweating up a storm in the whole place.

00:15:35.820 But the tacos were like a buck 50 a piece.

00:15:38.680 So I figured it'd be fine.

00:15:39.980 And then I ate it, a lot of tacos, probably too many.

00:15:43.140 And I just, I lived to pay the price.

00:15:46.120 I'm not going to go into detail.

00:15:47.300 But then I thought, is this, is this something you should do?

00:15:49.700 Basically, should you avoid places with bars in the window when it comes to ordering food?

00:15:52.900 I don't know.

00:15:54.540 And the problem might have been that as I was starting to feel the pain and discomfort of

00:15:59.720 my decision, I thought, well, let me settle my stomach a little bit.

00:16:03.000 I went to my fridge and I pulled out the takeout leftover Indian that I had eaten the day before.

00:16:07.780 And I started eating that because I thought maybe that would help.

00:16:11.680 It didn't help at all.

00:16:14.100 It was all information you didn't need, but now you have it.

00:16:17.740 Here's information you do need.

00:16:19.020 You do need, I think.

00:16:20.080 The NSA has been accused by Tucker Carlson of spying on him in order to get the show put

00:16:26.160 off the air.

00:16:26.660 And he said that a whistleblower, we talked about this yesterday, a whistleblower in the

00:16:30.920 NSA reached out to him and told him this was happening and then also repeated back to him

00:16:37.100 some messages that he had sent that there's no way that should be known unless he was being

00:16:44.000 spied on.

00:16:44.520 The NSA has issued a statement regarding these allegations.

00:16:51.760 And let's just, I'll read the statement to you and listen very carefully to each sentence because

00:16:58.400 this is the NSA we're talking about and they don't have some 17 year old intern putting out

00:17:04.640 statements on stuff like this.

00:17:07.460 There's a lot of thought put into each sentence.

00:17:10.620 And so you got to pay attention to what is said and what's not said.

00:17:16.020 So the statement is on June 28th, 2021, Tucker Carlson alleged that the National Security

00:17:22.840 Agency has been monitoring our electronic communications and is planning to leak them in an attempt to

00:17:28.280 take this show off the air.

00:17:30.800 This allegation is untrue.

00:17:33.560 Tucker Carlson has never been an intelligence target of the agency and the NSA has never had

00:17:37.960 any plans to try to take his program off the air.

00:17:41.500 NSA has a foreign intelligence mission.

00:17:43.340 We target foreign powers to generate insights on foreign activities that could harm the United

00:17:47.000 States with limited exceptions, like an emergency.

00:17:51.540 NSA may not target a U.S. citizen without a court order that explicitly authorizes the targeting.

00:17:56.780 Hmm.

00:17:58.280 Now the media has reported this as a full denial and full transparency from the NSA.

00:18:04.800 But I read this and I think, okay, this is a little interesting.

00:18:09.400 Because, because actually there are three claims that Tucker Carlson makes, but he's making

00:18:16.720 a threefold allegation.

00:18:19.440 It's really three separate allegations.

00:18:21.260 It's that his communications are being monitored and that there's a plan to leak them and that

00:18:30.180 this is being done to take him off the air.

00:18:33.460 So the NSA in their statement, they repeat this and then they say, this allegation is untrue.

00:18:38.780 Well, hang on a second, NSA.

00:18:40.520 Which allegation is untrue?

00:18:42.040 Because there are three of them.

00:18:43.380 You denied one.

00:18:44.620 Are you saying the whole thing is untrue or just the last thing you said or what?

00:18:52.720 And again, there's, there's a lot of thought put into this.

00:18:56.300 They could have said, all of this is untrue or these allegations are untrue.

00:19:02.520 Instead, they say this allegation is untrue.

00:19:05.320 And then rather than saying, uh, we have never monitored Tucker Carlson or we have never accessed

00:19:12.860 any private information or any messages or emails or anything.

00:19:16.000 Instead of saying that, which they could have said, they say Tucker Carlson has never been

00:19:20.440 an intelligence target of the agency.

00:19:23.800 Hmm.

00:19:25.820 Was somebody else a target?

00:19:29.200 And Tucker Carlson got wrapped up into that.

00:19:32.420 Was he monitored for some other reason without being an intelligence target?

00:19:39.380 I'm not going to say that their denial fully confirms that the claim is true, but, um, I

00:19:47.540 would say it, it, it, it is more evidence.

00:19:50.320 In fact, that at least some of what is being claimed is true because they could have denied

00:19:58.400 the entire thing in a very clear and direct way.

00:20:02.420 And they didn't.

00:20:05.760 I mean, anytime someone denies, you know, you make a claim and then they rephrase your

00:20:12.320 claim in a different way and deny the rephrased version of it.

00:20:18.900 Yeah.

00:20:19.380 That's always a red flag.

00:20:22.880 Cause Tucker Carlson says, uh, they monitor me.

00:20:24.820 They have my messages.

00:20:25.440 And the NSA says, uh, no, you've never been a target.

00:20:30.320 Well, hold on.

00:20:31.080 I, that's, that's not exactly what I said.

00:20:35.940 All right, let's go.

00:20:37.220 Uh, next year.

00:20:39.200 This is from the New York post.

00:20:40.040 It says a transgender woman, quote unquote, uh, that would be a male has been crowned Miss

00:20:46.260 Nevada, USA for the first time in the pageant's history.

00:20:48.980 Cataluna Enriquez, 27, who only began competing last year in cisgender pageants, was named the

00:20:56.900 winner Sunday in the competition at the South Point Hotel Casino in Las Vegas.

00:21:01.160 Uh, Enriquez said,

00:21:02.160 One thing that's important for me is inclusivity, diversity, and representation.

00:21:06.220 It's something I did not have growing up and is still lacking in today's world.

00:21:09.780 Today, I am a proud transgender woman of color.

00:21:12.640 Personally, I've learned that my differences do not make me less than.

00:21:15.440 It makes me more than.

00:21:19.000 I didn't, I hadn't actually read this story till right now.

00:21:22.500 Uh, I didn't, I didn't, you know, once you see the headline, you kind of get the gist of it.

00:21:27.840 But that is just great.

00:21:29.580 Isn't that?

00:21:30.140 It, my differences don't make me less than, it make me more, more than what?

00:21:34.380 More than who I should ask.

00:21:37.180 Well, we know exactly what it means.

00:21:39.580 And the people who run Miss Nevada, USA apparently agree.

00:21:43.960 I'm, I'm better than, uh, than actual women. 1.00

00:21:50.400 I'm not just, uh, the equal to a woman or the same as, I'm, I'm a, I'm a better version.

00:21:56.360 Because I'm a man.

00:22:02.200 Men are better at everything.

00:22:05.000 Apparently, I mean, they're better, men are better at being women than women. 1.00

00:22:07.940 This, this is the message we keep getting from our culture over and over again.

00:22:12.720 As more and more men win these, uh, various competitions that are meant for women.

00:22:18.720 Whether it's athletics or, now, beauty pageants, Caitlyn Jenner, woman of the year.

00:22:27.760 The message is, uh, that men are just, men make better women.

00:22:31.860 That's the message.

00:22:34.820 I certainly don't agree with that.

00:22:36.920 That's what we're being told.

00:22:40.560 You know, we, we, we hear so much from feminists about, uh, misogyny. 1.00

00:22:47.040 You know, uh, the patriarchy and so on.

00:22:51.840 And every time they talk about it, whatever direction they're pointing in, it's not there.

00:22:59.080 But here's a, here's a real example of it.

00:23:03.460 I don't know if I would call this the patriarchy, because I'm not exactly sure what that even is.

00:23:07.600 Um, but I would call this misogyny.

00:23:11.740 Yeah, I, I don't know what else to call it.

00:23:13.360 A man standing up on stage and saying he's more than these other women. 0.98

00:23:20.200 Other women. 1.00

00:23:21.020 These women. 1.00

00:23:22.740 I'm not sure what else to call it.

00:23:23.860 That's like the definition of misogyny.

00:23:25.780 A man saying I'm better than women. 0.99

00:23:29.600 Isn't that misogyny? 0.78

00:23:32.800 Uh, staying with the LGBT theme for a moment here. 0.97

00:23:35.580 A woman sent me something through private message that, um, I'm sure the NSA has already seen.

00:23:41.360 So I might as well tell you about it as well.

00:23:43.400 Uh, so her, her husband is active duty Navy.

00:23:46.320 And she sent me this, um, with a couple of pictures here.

00:23:52.680 She said that there, what she said was that there was a diversity hike, quote unquote, in honor of pride month.

00:24:01.000 And, uh, that the message came down from command that this was mandatory.

00:24:05.820 That's what she, she said that it was mandatory. 0.99

00:24:07.840 And there, there were no exceptions.

00:24:10.640 There was no excused absence.

00:24:12.080 You had to show up.

00:24:14.300 And she provided a picture of the flyer.

00:24:18.300 Um, it says, you can see the flyer there.

00:24:22.200 LGBTQ pride month diversity hike.

00:24:24.660 Uh, when the 25th of June, um, uh, attire, pride attire, colorful clothing and why we will support our brothers and sisters whom are a part of the pride community.

00:24:41.860 And then you can see the picture there.

00:24:46.580 If it wasn't bad enough and disturbing enough, you look at the picture, look at that picture.

00:24:50.060 There, there, there, there, you see a rainbow American flag.

00:24:57.900 This was, uh, in, in, in, an official event put on by the military.

00:25:06.960 It might not be in military uniform, but it's an event.

00:25:10.820 And you've got people in the military marching under a rainbow American flag.

00:25:20.060 I mean, I don't know, call me old fashioned or something.

00:25:23.300 I don't think that anyone in our military should ever march under any flag other than the United States flag, the real United States flag, not a, not a, not a gayified version of it. 0.98

00:25:37.820 Now, um, you could see here just based on the photographs, there's plenty of evidence that this thing actually happened.

00:25:45.040 And, um, in fact, you, you can go to the Facebook page where this was advertised and you can see that, yeah, this really happened.

00:25:52.260 As far as the claim that it's mandatory, that's, that's what she told me.

00:25:57.540 I haven't seen any confirmation about that.

00:25:59.560 And given the circumstance and that this is the military, this could have been one of those things where, uh, it's mandatory and it's, you're made to understand that you need to show up, but we can't actually tell you that it's mandatory.

00:26:14.120 It's kind of mandatory being communicated through a wink sort of thing.

00:26:17.820 Um, I'm not sure, but mandatory or not, there's no excuse for this at all, the diversity hike. 0.65

00:26:30.260 While other, while other countries, militaries are, you know, focused on getting stronger, getting more lethal, getting better at killing the enemy.

00:26:39.800 Ours, uh, ours are having diversity hikes in honor of pride month under a rainbow flag.

00:26:49.760 All right.

00:26:50.280 Next here, we have some sad news today reported by the Miami Herald.

00:26:53.760 Uh, it says, quote, the feds have indicted rapper Poo Shiesty over the alleged shooting and robbery of two men outside of a Bay Harbor Islands hotel.

00:27:02.240 The rapper whose real name is Lontrell Williams is now in federal custody and made his first Miami federal court appearance on Tuesday afternoon.

00:27:09.900 The charges discharging a firearm during a violent crime, conspiracy, and robbery under a law regulating commerce.

00:27:16.140 Williams 21 had been charged and freed on bond in Miami, Miami Dade state court over the same incident.

00:27:21.540 But earlier this month, he was put back in jail on a separate charge over the alleged shooting of a security guard at the King of Diamond strip club on Memorial Day.

00:27:29.820 Now, I'm sorry, but I have to say, I can't believe that Poo Shiesty would do this. 1.00

00:27:36.800 Um, this is not the Poo Shiesty that I know. 1.00

00:27:41.600 The Poo Shiesty that I know, okay, is a gentleman. 1.00

00:27:46.280 He's easily the most decent and courteous man to ever bear the name Poo Shiesty.

00:27:53.860 And now you expect me to believe he did something like this?

00:27:56.120 Listen to the details of this crime, okay?

00:28:00.900 One of the crimes.

00:28:01.720 It sounds like there are a bunch of crimes, but it's one of them anyway.

00:28:04.680 It says, according to a criminal complaint, the trio in October arranged to buy some marijuana and high-end athletic sneakers from two men at the Landon Hotel in Bay Harbor Islands.

00:28:13.580 Williams showed up in a rented McLaren exotic car, and then during the deal, Williams and Brown shot the two men, one in the hip, the other in the rear end, according to the complaint.

00:28:29.140 The robbery was captured on video surveillance, according to the criminal complaint.

00:28:33.460 Williams used a Draco subcompact machine gun and never paid either victim for the shoes or marijuana.

00:28:39.460 Well, I would guess not.

00:28:41.820 Generally, when you're shooting someone in order to steal, you don't pay. 1.00

00:28:44.800 But shot the man in the ass over a pair of shoes. 0.99

00:28:49.560 Now, I ask you, does that sound like something Poo Shiesty would do? 1.00

00:28:54.460 You tell me.

00:28:56.340 And keep in mind something else here, too.

00:28:57.600 The internet tells me that Poo Shiesty recently linked up and did a song with a fellow named Spottum Gottum.

00:29:05.820 And I think, do we have a picture of Spottum Gottum?

00:29:07.820 I just thought it was important.

00:29:10.120 There we go.

00:29:11.620 So there's Spottum Gottum.

00:29:14.600 Okay.

00:29:16.140 He appears to be nine years old, and it would seem that his barber prefers to use a weed whacker or maybe like a food processor than traditional clippers.

00:29:24.400 But anyway, with friends like these, influences like these, look at Spottum Gottum.

00:29:31.760 This is a man who pays his taxes.

00:29:33.540 This is a man who recycles.

00:29:36.980 With friends and influences like these, would Poo Shiesty resort to criminal behavior? 1.00

00:29:41.440 Come on.

00:29:43.920 Free Poo.

00:29:44.920 That's what I say.

00:29:45.700 That is the banner that I will march under.

00:29:48.720 Free Poo.

00:29:51.080 Okay.

00:29:51.520 Next here, we got a bunch of other things.

00:29:55.740 Actually, a million things to talk about.

00:29:57.400 And the editors probably hate me because I sent them like 40 clips that I wanted to play, and I'll play about two of them.

00:30:04.040 But we also have this.

00:30:05.760 From the Daily Wire, James Corden announced recently that he would change the Spill Your Guts segment on The Late Late Show,

00:30:12.500 which was previously accused of being culturally offensive because some of the disgusting foods it featured were dishes from Asian countries.

00:30:19.700 So this is apparently a segment that I've never seen because I don't watch that show at all.

00:30:26.740 Absolutely no interest.

00:30:28.020 But it's just a segment centered around the comedy is you bring a famous person on, and there's a bunch of disgusting food.

00:30:37.500 And then I guess it's you're asked kind of like a truth or dare situation where you're asked a question.

00:30:41.820 If you don't want to answer the question, you have to eat the disgusting food. 0.56

00:30:44.040 And sometimes the disgusting food that's featured is Asian food. 0.97

00:30:50.280 And this segment had been happening on the show for years, and no one had a problem with it.

00:30:56.000 And then one TikTok influencer noticed it and decreed that it was racist.

00:31:01.620 And that was enough for James Corden to say, oh, you know what?

00:31:04.060 You're right.

00:31:04.420 This thing that I've been doing for years and never occurred to me there was any problem with it.

00:31:08.740 Since you, random person, have told me it's racist, then it must be.

00:31:15.140 So he was on the Howard Stern Show and he was asked about this.

00:31:17.320 He said, we heard about the backlash, and the next time we do that bit, we absolutely won't use any of those foods.

00:31:23.040 Our show is a show about joy and light and love.

00:31:26.360 We don't want to make a show that will upset anybody.

00:31:28.380 We completely understand the backlash, he said.

00:31:33.000 I don't know when we're going to do that bit again.

00:31:35.760 When we do, we absolutely won't use any foods that offend.

00:31:40.620 And he goes on and says, it's not for us to determine why somebody's upset or hurt about something.

00:31:45.140 That's not for us to decide.

00:31:46.540 All we can do is go, all right, we get it.

00:31:49.440 We hear you.

00:31:50.240 We won't do that.

00:31:52.080 No, that's not all you can do.

00:31:53.180 When someone says they're upset, all we can do, the only thing we can do is just say, fine, we'll stop doing whatever upsets you.

00:32:01.460 That's all we can do.

00:32:02.980 No, there's something else you can do.

00:32:04.680 You know what else you can do?

00:32:06.620 You can look them in the eyes and you can say, I don't care that you're upset. 1.00

00:32:11.540 You're being ridiculous. 0.99

00:32:13.980 I'm going to keep doing what I was doing before. 0.99

00:32:17.060 That's also an option.

00:32:18.380 You could do that too.

00:32:19.140 This defensiveness that people get over food, especially with Asian food now, we have to treat it with this reverence.

00:32:32.300 If you say anything negative about Asian food, you can't be racist against food.

00:32:38.280 And yes, different cultures have different food that they like to eat.

00:32:45.920 And probably every culture has something that they eat that other cultures would look at that and say, that's disgusting. 0.92

00:32:51.400 And in the past, we could just, we could laugh about that.

00:32:55.480 That's how you know you've made real progress.

00:32:57.620 When it comes to racial and ethnic relations, it, you know, you've made real progress when you can laugh about things. 1.00

00:33:10.120 It's just like, that's how you know that you're, you're friends with someone.

00:33:13.440 When you can laugh at them and they can laugh at you and nobody gets offended.

00:33:17.220 So it was progressed before.

00:33:22.260 When you could do, when a couple of white people could do a segment where they're eating some food that maybe in Asia is, is traditional and, and is considered a delicacy.

00:33:32.360 But here it's, it's weird and gross.

00:33:35.380 And we can all just laugh about it.

00:33:36.960 But now, no, now there are landmines everywhere and everyone's offended by everything.

00:33:42.540 And that's, and that what, that's supposed to be progress.

00:33:45.240 By the way, no surprise here.

00:33:46.620 As USA Today reports, the TikToker who started the backlash by the name of Kim Sarah isn't happy with Corden's apology.

00:33:55.420 Who would have thought?

00:33:56.660 So Sarah told KCRW, um, according to USA Today, I feel like there's no accountability on his end.

00:34:04.120 I think that the line was really drawn when he decided to mock foods that are used in predominantly Asian cultures.

00:34:10.240 There are ways to go about comedy that don't offend or, and aren't culturally insensitive.

00:34:15.520 Actually, there aren't.

00:34:17.100 There is no way to go about comedy, um, that, that won't offend somebody.

00:34:22.760 Or maybe put it another way.

00:34:25.220 If your first priority in comedy is to not offend anybody, then you're not doing comedy.

00:34:34.120 The, the first priority of the comedy should be to, to be funny.

00:34:39.860 You put anything above that and it's not really comedy.

00:34:42.300 And certainly if you're, if your first priority is defensive or you don't want to offend anyone, then that's not comedy.

00:34:49.360 More from the New York Post on this person's feelings and why this person's feelings matter has not been explained.

00:34:54.660 Um, but apparently she's been all over the media talking about how the harm that was caused to her by this segment that again has been going on for years and didn't bother anybody.

00:35:02.900 Um, but she saw it and it's, it's, it's, it's deeply wounded by it.

00:35:09.760 Um, it's kind of discouraging that he hasn't put out an apology because I really want this all to just end.

00:35:15.680 He doesn't have to apologize to me.

00:35:17.680 He just needs to apologize to the Asian community and recognize the harm that it caused the Asian people. 0.99

00:35:23.120 What harm exactly?

00:35:26.060 Can you explain that, Kim?

00:35:28.060 I want you to go into real detail with this.

00:35:31.260 Explain to me in detail.

00:35:33.380 I want the, the full step-by-step process.

00:35:37.160 Uh, we're starting with James Corden eating a food on camera and laughing about how it's gross.

00:35:43.960 And then somewhere down the line here, Asian people are harmed.

00:35:49.060 How does that work?

00:35:52.760 And no, he doesn't need to apologize to the Asian community because the Asian community wasn't offended.

00:35:56.900 Even if they were just because someone's offended doesn't mean you owe them an apology, but it's not the age.

00:36:01.180 It's you.

00:36:01.800 You're the one.

00:36:03.220 Everybody else was fine with it.

00:36:04.360 You're the one who was offended.

00:36:08.300 You know what I also like to know is, uh, I don't know all the foods that they were eating.

00:36:12.140 I know one of them is, I forget the name of it, but, um, there's a, in some cultures they'll eat, it's basically a hard boiled egg, but there's a, like a fertilized fetal duck or chicken inside it that you're eating.

00:36:29.340 Um, I know that that's, that's, I saw on a clip, that's one of the foods that they ate, which apparently I guess in some Asian cultures is traditional.

00:36:35.960 I'm, I'm curious, Kim, Sarah, would, would you eat that or would you think that that's disgusting?

00:36:42.140 All right.

00:36:45.660 Um, a story from a few days ago that I never got a chance to talk about from the blaze.

00:36:50.240 Um, it says, quote, many medical experts have claimed that there are no health drawbacks to wearing face masks, masks for long periods of time.

00:36:58.460 As long as you regularly clean them or use a new covering each time you mask up.

00:37:02.380 But Florida parents who are concerned about children wearing face masks at school discovered recently that face masks actually catch a host of bacteria, many of which are dangerous pathogens.

00:37:13.500 The Gainesville parents sent six recently worn face masks to the University of Florida for laboratory testing.

00:37:19.280 They discovered that the face masks collect numerous bacteria that cause, in many cases, serious illness.

00:37:25.920 Who would have thought?

00:37:27.180 Uh, the 11 dangerous pathogens found on the masks are responsible for illnesses that include pneumonia, tuberculosis, meningitis, sepsis, um, E. coli, diphtheria, Lyme disease, and urinary tract infections.

00:37:41.380 These, again, are the pathogens that are found in these masks that kids are wearing all day.

00:37:51.340 Yet another revelation to come out of the COVID response that most of us knew from the very beginning.

00:37:59.020 Look, you put a face mask on anyone all day when face masks, once again, were never meant to be worn that way.

00:38:07.240 Face masks are supposed to be worn in a clinical setting for limited periods of time.

00:38:13.160 You're not supposed to put on a face mask and just wear it for 12 hours as you go about your daily activities.

00:38:20.500 So you're going to find those kind of pathogens on anyone's face mask, but especially a child.

00:38:27.980 All parents, all reasonable, rational parents know this.

00:38:31.480 You send your, your eight-year-old boy off to school and he's there for six hours and he comes, when he walks back in the door, you know, he, it, it, it looks like he's been rolling around in a, in a literal pig style all day.

00:38:47.020 It looks like he's been working at the barn.

00:38:49.740 His clothes are filthy.

00:38:51.060 His shirt is, you just want to pick, you just want to take his shirt off and throw it away.

00:38:54.000 You don't even want to want to wash it.

00:38:55.020 It looks toxic.

00:38:57.380 Cause kids are dirty. 0.97

00:38:58.400 And now you put a mask over their mouth all day. 0.99

00:39:04.960 Just think about how gross that is.

00:39:08.380 So there are the, the medical and physical risks of doing that and exposing them to those, having them stew in germs all day on their face.

00:39:18.900 You got to weigh that against, against the risk of COVID, which is extremely, extremely small, given that they're kids.

00:39:25.820 All right.

00:39:28.520 Number five.

00:39:29.360 I need to play this for you as well before we move on, because this is important to me, especially now that we have the bicep cam here.

00:39:36.200 The bicep, bicep cam is proof that I'm an advocate of physical fitness.

00:39:41.200 And that means that I'm especially disturbed by the epidemic of poor form in the execution of pushups.

00:39:46.220 Um, and this is a real crisis in our country and has been for a long time, in my opinion.

00:39:51.280 And so I can't let this slide.

00:39:52.720 Senators Tom Cotton and Chuck Grassley were at some sort of Iowa Republican party event.

00:39:58.340 And for unexplained reasons, they both hit the deck and did pushups for the crowd.

00:40:02.280 I don't know why.

00:40:02.880 Now Grassley is like 600 years old.

00:40:04.920 And, and, and, and so maybe he has an excuse, but Cotton, not so much.

00:40:09.320 And I just want you to see these pushups.

00:40:10.740 Let's, let's watch and count how many real pushups are there. 1.00

00:40:14.460 Cause if you're going to do, look, if you're doing pushups on a stage in front of people, you're going to get judged on them.

00:40:19.740 So let's, let's, let's play this video and watch.

00:40:21.720 How many pushups do we see executed? 0.70

00:40:24.560 Uh, let's see here.

00:40:25.640 Go ahead and play it.

00:40:26.480 Zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, still haven't seen a pushup.

00:40:33.920 Zero, zero, zero, zero, these are not pushups.

00:40:41.020 Okay.

00:40:41.440 First of all, you need, actually Chuck Grassley's form is a little bit better.

00:40:45.820 I'd like to see his, I'd like to see his, his, his feet a little bit closer together.

00:40:50.780 But Tom Cotton, look at him bobbing his head up and down.

00:40:53.300 No, this is not, this is not a practice in getting a concussion.

00:40:57.440 You don't, you don't bang your forehead on the ground when you're doing a pushup.

00:41:01.200 You want to keep your neck straight.

00:41:02.620 You're looking slightly up.

00:41:05.180 Now they had their, they had their, uh, their, their, their hands a little bit more than shoulder width apart.

00:41:10.260 That's correct.

00:41:12.020 And especially for a younger guy like Tom Cotton, I want to see you go down and I want to see your, your, your chest hit the deck or at least get six inches from the floor.

00:41:19.780 There are some people who say, as long as you get a 90 degree angle in your arms, that that counts as a pushup.

00:41:25.240 I don't think so.

00:41:27.360 So those are not real pushups.

00:41:29.300 This is a big problem in our society.

00:41:31.620 People who can't do, but I see it at the gym all the time.

00:41:35.480 Zero true pushups were completed just there.

00:41:39.560 But how old Chuck Grassley is?

00:41:40.800 I think he's 87 or something.

00:41:43.020 That is somewhat impressive.

00:41:44.100 I'll give him an excuse.

00:41:45.600 All right.

00:41:45.980 Um, let's go to the YouTube comments.

00:41:50.840 And Red X Penn says, I'm not even a conservative, but boy, do I like watching Matt nowadays.

00:41:55.760 His takes are fire.

00:41:57.800 Well, not a conservative, but I honestly, I'm not.

00:42:01.120 Well, I guess I don't want to discourage you, but when I hear that from people, sometimes, sometimes I'll hear like leftists tell me that they watch the show.

00:42:07.560 And I think, I don't even know how you can stomach it, but I'm glad you do.

00:42:14.680 Andrew Schnick says, Matt Walsh, please mention that June is National Dairy Month.

00:42:19.220 I will not mention that.

00:42:20.240 I refuse.

00:42:22.800 Cody says, Matt, going to be in Nashville in a couple of weeks.

00:42:25.320 Want to hang out?

00:42:26.020 I'll bring the bass boat.

00:42:27.240 Keep up the good work. 0.97

00:42:28.200 If you can show me how to actually catch fish in this damn state, I, yes, we can hang out. 0.98

00:42:33.460 Um, another comment says, what has conservatism conserved exactly? 0.99

00:42:39.140 Yeah, that's the question I get all the time.

00:42:40.420 What is conservatism conserved?

00:42:41.940 The one thing I would say is gun rights.

00:42:45.220 I will give, uh, reluctantly, I'll give the Republican Party and conservatism in general some credit for that.

00:42:55.300 The left has not made anywhere near the kind of progress they've tried to make, um, in terms of infringing on gun rights.

00:43:01.200 Doesn't, doesn't mean they're not trying, they're going to keep trying, but you look at, uh, at the success they've had in every other area, especially the areas they've really focused on.

00:43:11.040 Usually when they home in on something and say, we're going to win this issue, they win it.

00:43:15.040 And they've been doing that with gun rights and they have not had that kind of success.

00:43:17.560 So that's the one thing I'll say that in tax cuts, I guess.

00:43:22.480 Um, and, uh, finally, do you think people feel the way that woman does the woman who complained about the man in the locker room in the video we play yesterday?

00:43:30.540 But just keep quiet to avoid being canceled.

00:43:33.260 Well, yeah, I, I know that people feel that way.

00:43:36.140 That was the whole point yesterday.

00:43:38.220 There are still a lot of sane, normal people in this country.

00:43:42.580 I would guess that sane, normal people still outnumber the insane people.

00:43:48.240 Our numbers are dwindling, but we still, I believe, are in the majority.

00:43:51.300 But most, uh, are too afraid to be sane publicly.

00:43:57.460 And then that's how we end up with these kinds of situations.

00:44:00.260 Well, if you need a good dose of uncensored history, then I've got the perfect documentary for you.

00:44:05.320 I've been telling you about this.

00:44:06.160 It's called Created Equal.

00:44:07.560 And it tells the story of Clarence Thomas, the second ever black American Supreme Court justice to be confirmed to the highest court in the land.

00:44:13.880 Although he doesn't exactly get the credit for that from the mainstream media.

00:44:17.640 Thomas grew up in the segregated South and built an esteemed career against all odds.

00:44:21.900 He then found himself in a highly contentious confirmation battle that almost tore apart his family and ruined his reputation.

00:44:27.160 It's an absolutely riveting documentary.

00:44:29.380 And it's only available to Daily Wire members.

00:44:31.360 So if you want more stories that diverge from the accepted political narrative, you've got to go to dailywire.com slash subscribe to get 20% off your new membership with code justice.

00:44:41.780 And speaking of those kinds of stories, you know, once upon a time, brave men stood up against tyrannical governments and fought for the country that we know and love.

00:44:49.880 And too often those stories fade into the past to make way for the culture war obsessed dialogue of today.

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00:45:39.360 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:45:44.840 So today we must cancel a group called Gen Z Grow Our Platform.

00:45:49.100 They're an organization of alleged Republican grassroots activists in Generation Z, and their mission is to, as the name suggests, grow the platform and forge a new and young and exciting and fresh path for the GOP.

00:46:02.080 But one thing you notice about the plans to forge a new and exciting and fresh new path for the GOP is that the new and exciting and fresh new path always tends to look and sound an awful lot like the old path.

00:46:12.520 Every couple of years, someone comes along with a big idea for how to help the Republican Party get with the times and connect with the youth.

00:46:19.860 And invariably, the big idea is for it to basically continue doing what it's been doing all along.

00:46:25.500 So the group put out an ad yesterday, which got some attention online.

00:46:28.920 Let's take a look at that.

00:46:31.060 We are Generation Z.

00:46:32.880 We are Generation Z.

00:46:32.920 We are Generation Z.

00:46:36.920 We are the most creative and eager generation.

00:46:46.280 Despite all of the memes and contrary to popular belief, we are not automatically Democrats.

00:46:52.120 Sometimes they just feel like they're the only option.

00:46:55.240 Equality, education, the environment, and entrepreneurship.

00:46:58.620 The four E's that are key to preserving the GOP in the long run.

00:47:03.200 We're the most diverse generation in American history.

00:47:06.160 Above all, we are the generation ready to lead our country to a brighter future in the 21st century.

00:47:12.740 Let me introduce you to some of my friends.

00:47:14.740 We're going to show you how we're going to do this on the conservative side of the aisle.

00:47:18.500 You know, we talk a lot about equality, but conservatives need to be engaged.

00:47:22.060 This means promoting an equality of opportunity for all voices.

00:47:25.280 No more litmus tests.

00:47:26.560 Give people the freedom and security to live their own lives.

00:47:28.940 As an immigrant from Cote d'Ivoire, I have benefited from world-class education right here in America.

00:47:34.580 It will help me achieve my dreams and eventually attain my citizenship.

00:47:39.020 But my story is the exception, not the rule.

00:47:42.060 We need to pursue education reforms that lift up all students right here in the United States.

00:47:48.240 I grew up in the rural Midwest.

00:47:51.080 I saw firsthand the importance of a natural environment.

00:47:53.780 Not only does it matter to the livelihood of millions of American farmers,

00:47:58.040 but it's also God's creation in which we have a moral obligation to protect.

00:48:03.260 Gen Z is independent.

00:48:04.840 We think freely.

00:48:06.240 But in order to fulfill our full potential, we need the tools and climate to pursue our passions,

00:48:12.440 fulfill our dreams, and enact positive change.

00:48:15.220 If we want to preserve the freedom and security that we love while winning the ideological battle

00:48:20.640 against the left, we must grow Gen Z's platform on the right.

00:48:26.780 Can we at least get some, like, stylish and cool young people if we're going to do this?

00:48:33.220 Can't even get that.

00:48:34.740 Well, this is pretty wild stuff.

00:48:36.020 So apparently what they're saying is that the Republican Party should talk about things like

00:48:41.320 equality and opportunity and respecting the environment.

00:48:45.420 Truly, no one has ever devised such a revolutionary plan as this.

00:48:49.220 I mean, these kids are trailblazers.

00:48:51.300 It's not as though literally every politician constantly yammers about all of those things already.

00:48:57.240 So bringing things back to reality, it's true, of course, that education is an important issue.

00:49:01.300 But a phrase like, we need to pursue education reforms that lift up all students, is meaningless.

00:49:09.100 The word reform is meaningless.

00:49:11.840 Every politician wants to reform everything, but nothing ever happens.

00:49:16.240 Apparently, reform involves standing in front of a thing that you want to reform and just shouting

00:49:20.520 the word reform at it.

00:49:22.800 And with education especially, we are way past the point where mere reform can solve the problem anyway.

00:49:29.300 This is like suggesting that somebody with stage four skin cancer simply needs to wear more sunscreen.

00:49:36.740 That advice would have been helpful a long time ago, but now far more drastic measures are needed.

00:49:42.300 What the Republican Party needs to be talking about is how to extricate American families

00:49:46.920 from their dependence on the government school system.

00:49:50.480 That is the problem now.

00:49:52.540 That's the kind of reform we need.

00:49:54.520 It's a societal reform at the deepest level, and it will require massive lifestyle changes

00:49:59.300 for millions of people.

00:50:00.240 So it is difficult, but it's necessary.

00:50:03.740 And it's also a truly revolutionary and bold message and an exciting message.

00:50:09.440 Because we're talking about transforming society.

00:50:12.700 It's a message that says, no, don't reform the government education system.

00:50:18.600 Dismantle it.

00:50:19.300 Tear it to the ground. 0.94

00:50:20.500 Gather up the pieces and throw them into the sea. 0.84

00:50:23.400 And let no one ever speak its name again.

00:50:25.700 That should be our educational message.

00:50:28.340 What are the other E's?

00:50:30.000 The environment.

00:50:32.200 Well, the problem there is that nobody cares about that.

00:50:34.780 I'm here to tell you right now, nobody cares about the environment.

00:50:41.420 Okay?

00:50:42.620 Few people will admit it, but nobody really cares.

00:50:47.060 I don't really care.

00:50:48.800 I don't think about it at all.

00:50:51.540 Even the people who pretend to care don't really.

00:50:55.020 People generally understand that you shouldn't litter.

00:50:57.640 You shouldn't engage in the wanton destruction of nature for no reason.

00:51:01.300 But nobody's making significant and dramatic changes to their lives in order to save the

00:51:05.780 environment or whatever.

00:51:06.960 Nobody's doing that.

00:51:08.260 Or will do that.

00:51:10.060 And that's okay because the environment will be okay.

00:51:13.000 The planet is a pretty resilient thing.

00:51:15.040 It's been around for over 4 billion years.

00:51:17.220 It's survived asteroids and super volcano eruptions and many other calamities.

00:51:22.000 It'll be fine.

00:51:23.400 This isn't something we need to spend time talking about.

00:51:26.420 And anyway, like I said, nobody actually cares.

00:51:29.320 What about equality?

00:51:32.600 Well, here's another thing that conservatives don't need to talk about.

00:51:35.820 What is equality anyway?

00:51:36.960 What kind of equality do we want?

00:51:39.140 Is equality some sort of universal good?

00:51:41.420 No.

00:51:42.340 It's not a universal good and it's not universally attainable.

00:51:45.800 The only kind of equality that we need to worry about is equality under the law.

00:51:51.500 There shouldn't be any laws which target or disenfranchise people based on race, sex, etc.

00:51:55.720 The good news is that there are no such laws targeting racial minorities or any other approved

00:52:00.960 victim group with the exception of Asians.

00:52:02.720 The bad news is that there are laws like affirmative action which intentionally disadvantage white

00:52:07.660 people and Asians.

00:52:08.780 And we should be talking about that, but not by turning it into a broad stroke discussion

00:52:13.200 about equality.

00:52:14.560 And then there's entrepreneurship.

00:52:18.300 Entrepreneurship.

00:52:19.200 Sure, entrepreneurship is good.

00:52:21.540 We want more of that.

00:52:22.840 And we want to protect small business owners and all of that, yada yada.

00:52:25.800 But are any of these issues the sorts of issues that really drive people at the deepest level?

00:52:33.920 Are these the things that stir men's souls?

00:52:37.160 Are people lying awake at night, tossing and turning, worried about these kinds of things?

00:52:41.520 Are people sitting at their kitchen tables right now, you know, furrowing their brows,

00:52:46.680 rubbing their temples, fretting about whether we have the right environmental policies in place?

00:52:52.780 No.

00:52:54.180 Is anyone going to see that ad that I just played and feel fired up and ready to charge into battle,

00:52:59.040 eager to fight for the soul of our nation?

00:53:00.880 No.

00:53:02.800 We live in a country where life, sanity, reason, virtue, science, truth are all under attack.

00:53:15.520 At the most fundamental level.

00:53:18.400 Our nation itself, our sovereignty hangs in the balance.

00:53:21.380 The most powerful forces in our culture, from government to academia to media to corporate

00:53:25.280 America, are all conspiring in this assault. 0.63

00:53:28.260 And that is what worries people.

00:53:30.080 That's what keeps people awake at night, young and old and in between.

00:53:32.940 I know because they tell me all the time.

00:53:36.720 These are not academic issues either.

00:53:38.660 These are real and tangible.

00:53:40.100 And these are things that Republican leaders and lawmakers could be doing something to stop.

00:53:46.260 They could be addressing it.

00:53:47.760 We could have laws in place around all of these issues.

00:53:54.140 But we're not doing anything.

00:53:56.160 And that's what the conservative movement of the future should be focused on.

00:54:00.620 If it's not focused on that, then might as well put up the white flag and surrender.

00:54:03.940 And that's what this ad is really proposing in so many words.

00:54:08.000 What it's really saying is there's a lot of words to really just say, give up.

00:54:14.160 And that's why the ad and those responsible for it are, as tradition dictates, canceled.

00:54:21.160 And we'll leave it there for today.

00:54:23.720 Thanks for watching.

00:54:24.320 Thanks for listening.

00:54:25.420 Have a great day.

00:54:26.460 Godspeed.

00:54:51.160 Today on the Ben Shapiro Show, according to ESPN, a woman is a he, a she, and also a them. 0.97

00:55:21.360 We'll talk about it today on the Ben Shapiro Show.

00:55:22.900 Give it a listen.

00:55:23.280 Give it a listen.

The Matt Walsh Show - June 30, 2021

Ep. 746 - What School Doesn't Tell You About Slavery

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