The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 798 - The Mask Cult Grows Even More Barbaric And Cowardly

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, an asthmatic two-year-old is kicked off a plane for not complying with masking regulations,

00:00:05.880 while video shows yet another woman getting followed around the grocery store and harassed by a male member of the masking cult.

00:00:12.280 There's something deeply sick in the soul of America. We'll talk about that today.

00:00:15.380 Also, a mayor in Ohio threatens to arrest the entire school board because of pornographic material distributed to students.

00:00:21.160 And Meghan Markle and Harry are named one of the most influential people in the world, but they still just want privacy most of all.

00:00:26.400 Plus, our daily cancellation and much more today on the Matt Wall Show.

00:00:30.000 We've talked a lot about the Texas law banning abortion, and that law has abortion proponents going insane.

00:00:46.200 And it's all great news. It's great news because it protects babies.

00:00:49.600 Also great news to see these people going insane, I think.

00:00:52.180 But you need to be as prepared as ever to talk about this issue when it comes up in conversation, as it has so many times, I'm sure, for you over the last couple of weeks.

00:01:03.100 It's one of the reasons that I wrote the foreword to the new book, What to Say When, the complete new guide to discussing abortion,

00:01:08.380 which became an Amazon bestseller and number one in its category upon its release two weeks ago.

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00:01:32.560 They hold peaceful vigils outside abortion facilities in 1,000 cities in 64 countries, and they've helped convert the hearts of 221 abortion clinic workers.

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00:01:51.420 We're going to begin today with a couple of incidents that will seem familiar, far too familiar.

00:01:56.700 And their familiarity is precisely the problem.

00:01:58.960 First, we have a young mother named Amanda Pendarvis, who has just boarded an American Airlines flight in Dallas.

00:02:06.340 Pendarvis had her two-year-old asthmatic son with her.

00:02:09.960 Now, because the very young child is a very young child, and because he already has trouble breathing, he was resistant to wearing a face mask.

00:02:17.500 The mother tried to put the mask on him.

00:02:19.360 She also, she says, brought paperwork proving that her son had just received a negative COVID test.

00:02:23.820 But her earnest attempts to comply, the negative COVID test, the simple fact that the child is only two years old and clearly terrified and confused, none of that matters to American Airlines.

00:02:32.900 The flight attendant took to the intercom to accuse the boy of being a non-compliant traveler, and he then had the mother and the son escorted off the plane by security.

00:02:42.420 Shortly before being kicked out, another passenger took a video of Pendarvis and her son showing just how the young boy was reacting to the mask.

00:02:50.260 Let's just watch that for a second.

00:02:53.820 I mean, it's barbaric.

00:03:12.400 You can hear him gasping for breath.

00:03:14.200 If that clip doesn't fill you with ungodly fury, then you have no soul.

00:03:20.780 Here's how bad this is.

00:03:22.040 Even if the child posed a measurable risk to the other passengers, this treatment still could not be justified.

00:03:30.740 I'm no hero myself, but I would certainly rather risk getting COVID than force a baby to wear a muzzle while he screams and gasps for breath.

00:03:40.140 If that's what it takes to avoid COVID, then it's not worth avoiding.

00:03:44.360 If that's what it takes for you to not get COVID, then I'd rather you just get COVID, whoever you are.

00:03:53.680 So when an adult says, well, yeah, but this is in order to keep me healthy.

00:03:56.960 Well, I'd rather you just not be healthy then.

00:03:58.380 I'd rather you get sick. 0.98

00:04:00.140 I would rather you get sick than see that.

00:04:01.940 But the fact is that the child does not pose a measurable risk to anyone.

00:04:09.800 He has a negative COVID test, even if he was positive for COVID.

00:04:13.860 The mother could walk on the plane with a positive COVID test, and his chances of spreading the disease are still very, very low.

00:04:22.420 Meanwhile, everybody on the plane, all of the adults who want to be vaccinated are vaccinated, and they're all wearing masks.

00:04:30.060 I ask you, what is the chance that a COVID-negative two-year-old could spread COVID to a mask-wearing vaccinated adult?

00:04:38.800 It's not a 1% chance.

00:04:40.580 It's not a 0.1% chance.

00:04:42.160 Is it a 0.001?

00:04:43.400 Maybe a 0.00001?

00:04:45.960 Whatever the minuscule, infinitesimal, not even mathematically quantifiable risk, it is not worth doing this to a child to avoid it. 0.99

00:04:55.460 In fact, if you think it's worth doing this to a child to avoid it, then you are scum. 1.00

00:04:59.800 You're a bad person. 1.00

00:05:00.760 I have no respect for you as a human being. 0.98

00:05:02.680 And that's the nicest thing I can say.

00:05:04.780 I'd be fired if I told you what I really think.

00:05:08.280 Now, we should note that American Airlines has mostly confirmed the account given by the mother.

00:05:12.520 They said in a statement,

00:05:42.520 Now, I say that sarcastically, but the troubling fact is that millions of Americans at this point might actually wish to take it that far.

00:05:55.180 Here's one American, for example, who might.

00:05:58.000 We can only imagine how he feels about little babies who don't wear masks.

00:06:02.020 And we still don't know much of the background of this video we're about to play,

00:06:05.460 but the video itself tells us everything that we need to know.

00:06:08.500 This is a man with what appears to be a severe testosterone deficiency, and I'm very worried about him just from a medical standpoint.

00:06:15.820 But he's at Target, as so many men at Target tend to have that problem, harassing a female shopper who is not wearing a mask.

00:06:23.960 You'll note that the man has a mask, also a sticker bragging about his vaccinated status.

00:06:30.220 So he's fully protected and yet terrified of the woman who, if not for him, choosing to stalk and harass her, wouldn't have come anywhere near him.

00:06:38.140 He's so afraid of her, so concerned that she could be a danger to his health, that he's following her around the store yelling at her.

00:06:46.780 Watch this.

00:06:47.240 You're not going to follow me around in the store and point at me to people, so I will video you.

00:06:56.920 So we have a state regulation that...

00:06:58.640 And it's not a law. 1.00

00:06:59.540 You're an idiot. 1.00

00:07:00.420 Oh, oh, so you're going to insult me now. 1.00

00:07:03.020 So my wife is a... 1.00

00:07:03.960 Just leave her alone. 1.00

00:07:04.460 Leave her alone. 1.00

00:07:05.180 Yeah, leave her alone. 1.00

00:07:06.920 Here.

00:07:08.020 Oh, is she?

00:07:08.940 What are you doing?

00:07:09.760 I'm getting you to leave her alone. 0.94

00:07:10.640 This is between the two of us.

00:07:12.780 So what?

00:07:13.480 Leave her alone. 1.00

00:07:14.160 You got your mask on your face.

00:07:15.740 I'm sure you're vaccinated, too.

00:07:17.260 He is.

00:07:17.580 He has a badge that says it.

00:07:19.240 I do.

00:07:19.900 So my wife is a doctor who specializes in infectious disease.

00:07:23.680 So, you know, do you think that she just doesn't know what she's talking about?

00:07:27.020 It's her choice.

00:07:27.760 It's her choice.

00:07:28.560 Just leave her alone. 1.00

00:07:29.060 No, there's a store requirement and a state requirement.

00:07:31.580 It's not her job.

00:07:33.380 You can't harass her.

00:07:35.420 It's all of our job as a community to come together.

00:07:38.280 You're not even talking.

00:07:39.280 You're going around to harass people.

00:07:40.660 And make sure that people are shame.

00:07:42.360 He was following me.

00:07:43.380 You won't leave me alone.

00:07:44.440 By publicly shaming me?

00:07:48.060 Yeah, you're making a bad decision. 0.98

00:07:50.760 You're a bad American. 0.96

00:07:52.280 I am. 0.99

00:07:52.800 I totally am.

00:07:53.340 And I voted for Trump. 0.98

00:07:54.440 Yeah, you're a bad person. 0.98

00:07:56.100 Me too. 0.98

00:07:57.180 You're a bad person for doing this.

00:08:00.220 Now, I know what you're thinking. 1.00

00:08:02.980 There's no way this pot-bellied dork has a wife. 0.99

00:08:07.980 Yeah, I find that claim suspicious as well. 0.98

00:08:10.360 I also find it suspicious that it's almost always women getting harassed in these kinds of videos. 0.99

00:08:15.540 I'm not one to pull the sexism card.

00:08:17.520 I don't pull it lightly.

00:08:18.440 But it cannot be a coincidence that the effeminate bumpkins in the mask cult always choose to take their helpless nerd rage out on women. 0.56

00:08:27.200 I walk around maskless everywhere and have very rarely been confronted and never in this way.

00:08:34.940 I've been waiting for that.

00:08:36.220 I've got to be honest with you.

00:08:37.660 I've been waiting for it.

00:08:39.780 I wish a guy like this would come up to me.

00:08:44.040 I'm hoping.

00:08:45.800 Like, bring it on. 0.95

00:08:46.820 On the two or three occasions when anyone has chosen to make an issue out of the fact that I'm not wearing a mask, they always back down and slink away like the gutless worms they are as soon as I tell them to piss off and leave me alone. 0.53

00:08:59.820 One wonders whether the men of the mask cult have a certain amount of sexual rage and jealousy, and perhaps they're using this issue as an excuse to vent it.

00:09:08.240 But I'll leave the psychoanalysis to their therapists, and I'm sure they all have therapists.

00:09:13.700 The greater problem, perhaps, speaking of men, is that we never see any men among the bystanders step in.

00:09:23.500 Just once, I wish one of these videos would end with a real man entering the frame to give the harasser two choices. 0.99

00:09:31.300 Shut your mouth and leave. 0.96

00:09:33.820 Or have your mask forcibly removed from your face and shoved up where the sun don't shine. 0.99

00:09:39.140 Metaphorically, I mean.

00:09:40.380 I would never advocate violence.

00:09:42.760 Publicly.

00:09:43.940 As I said at the beginning, neither of these incidents are shocking or unique.

00:09:48.100 We've seen this time and time again all throughout the last year and a half.

00:09:52.080 And it's why I wish we would all spend, and I'm guilty of this too, definitely.

00:09:57.680 But I wish we'd all spend less time complaining about the Fauci's and the Bidens, 1.00

00:10:01.940 and more time talking about the average Americans who have revealed themselves to be paranoid freaks 1.00

00:10:08.500 and cowards and power-hungry narcissists and pathetic, trembling little snitches. 1.00

00:10:14.260 Biden has no power on his own. 1.00

00:10:16.880 No power on his own.

00:10:18.640 He needs the flight attendant on that American Airlines flight.

00:10:24.280 He needs that curly-haired weirdo at Target. 1.00

00:10:28.100 He needs the snitches and the cowards to do their part. 0.99

00:10:31.340 What if every flight attendant in the country said, 0.98

00:10:35.680 no, we are not going to force two-year-olds to wear masks.

00:10:39.580 We're not going to kick toddlers off of our planes.

00:10:41.720 It's not going to happen.

00:10:42.900 None of us are going to do it.

00:10:44.740 What if every business owner said, no, we're not going to force vaccines on our employees.

00:10:48.980 We're not going to force them to inject any substance into their bodies,

00:10:51.820 no matter how we personally feel about whether they should or not.

00:10:56.400 What if every man in the country said, no, we are not going to follow women around the grocery store 1.00

00:11:01.560 and shout at them for not wearing masks.

00:11:04.740 And in fact, we'll step in and defend any woman who is treated that way.

00:11:10.520 Well, then I'll tell you what happens.

00:11:11.740 The whole edifice falls apart.

00:11:15.160 Because all of these policies and regulations, they're all built on a house of cards.

00:11:21.500 And the house of cards is called compliance.

00:11:24.280 They are all built on the assumption that we will all comply, or at least a majority of us.

00:11:34.260 Compliance goes away and none of it works.

00:11:37.900 Every flight attendant says that. 0.98

00:11:39.380 What are they going to do?

00:11:39.940 Shut down the entire airline industry?

00:11:42.320 Ground every plane permanently?

00:11:43.940 They're not going to do that.

00:11:45.400 They're not going to do it.

00:11:49.940 Compliance goes away and none of it works.

00:11:51.320 The good news is that the United States was founded on non-compliance with tyranny.

00:11:59.660 It was founded by men who said, we're not going to go along with this.

00:12:06.160 With tyranny oppression.

00:12:07.360 We would rather die than that.

00:12:11.000 We'll put everything on the line.

00:12:12.440 That's the good news.

00:12:16.420 I mean, that's our heritage nationally.

00:12:21.040 The bad news is that the United States, as it was founded, is gone.

00:12:28.100 And in its place is this old husk. 0.98

00:12:33.160 Populated by fat guys at Target screaming at women for not wearing masks. 0.79

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00:13:59.080 All right, so we'll start with this, you know, that we go from, it was a little depressing.

00:14:05.340 So let's, let's brighten the mood a little bit and go to something that, that's encouraging

00:14:13.060 and maybe can give us a little bit of hope.

00:14:15.460 So reading from the Daily Mail now, it says a mayor in Ohio has threatened the city's entire

00:14:22.720 school board with criminal charges unless they resign over a highly sexual writing, writing

00:14:28.420 prompts that teachers gave to underage students.

00:14:31.300 Hudson Mayor Craig Schubert delivered the harsh ultimatum during a school board meeting on

00:14:37.040 Monday, garnering loud applause from outraged parents who also spoke out on the issue.

00:14:43.540 I'll tell you a little bit about these, about this writing assignment that has been called

00:14:47.340 pornographic and it is.

00:14:48.620 But first let's just, let's hear from, this again is Hudson Mayor Craig Schubert and let's

00:14:56.140 hear him talking to the school board.

00:14:58.200 Listen.

00:14:59.180 Members of the board, my name is Craig Schubert.

00:15:01.240 I'm the mayor of this city.

00:15:02.460 It has come to my attention that your educators are distributing essentially what is child

00:15:11.200 pornography in the classroom.

00:15:14.580 I've spoken to a judge this evening.

00:15:17.520 She's already confirmed that.

00:15:20.160 So I'm going to give you a simple choice.

00:15:23.100 You either choose to resign from this board of education or you will be charged.

00:15:28.240 Thank you.

00:15:28.700 That is, that almost brings a tear to my eye.

00:15:40.660 You know, I think, I think we've, we've added to the list of acceptable reasons for, for

00:15:44.020 men to cry tears of joy in response to that.

00:15:48.060 I'd say Mayor Craig Schubert, I don't know anything else about him.

00:15:52.720 I don't know where he stands on any other issue, but I would vote for him for president

00:15:56.580 tomorrow.

00:15:57.200 If it were up to me, I'd, I didn't make him president of the United States tomorrow, if

00:16:02.180 I could, without knowing anything else about him, because just that alone tells me that

00:16:07.920 he, that puts him, uh, above almost every other Republican at every level of government

00:16:15.820 everywhere in the country, that he is willing to do that, that he's taking this issue that

00:16:22.700 seriously and is going to use all of the power at his disposal to protect kids and to put

00:16:31.580 an end to this degeneracy and filth in the school system.

00:16:34.120 Let's go back to the Daily Mail to see what, um, assignment he's talking about.

00:16:39.880 It says, at issue are the highly inappropriate writing prompts distributed to students in

00:16:45.440 the liberal arts writing class at Hudson High School, including, here are the writing prompts

00:16:50.940 given to kids by adults, uh, write a sex scene you wouldn't show your mom, describe your favorite

00:17:01.660 part of a man's body using only verbs, and write an X-rated Disney scenario.

00:17:09.100 Uh, that, those were some of the writing prompts.

00:17:15.840 Um, it was, and then continuing the article says, it was unclear whether the inappropriate

00:17:19.520 written material given to school children truly violates child pornography laws, as the mayor

00:17:23.500 claimed, but nevertheless, parents in the district were outraged.

00:17:25.840 I think it certainly does.

00:17:28.300 Um, Ohio law does prohibit sending harmful or obscene material to, or sharing it with, a minor,

00:17:35.200 though this statute usually refers to sexting or sending obscene images.

00:17:39.100 Um, the relevant statute exempts obscene material that is presented for bona fide educational

00:17:45.060 purposes, leaving the legal questions around the controversy murky.

00:17:50.500 Uh, yeah, well, they, they, they can sort that out, but he talked to a judge and this is the

00:17:56.520 right way to handle it.

00:17:58.640 This is exactly how we have to handle it.

00:18:00.240 We have to start talking about it in this way.

00:18:04.540 You know, for, for me, it's very simple because we've, we've kind of, we've kind of,

00:18:08.960 we've, we've granted this exemption to teachers and people in the, in the public school system

00:18:14.920 for no good reason.

00:18:19.340 You know, we've kind of waved the wand and say, and we've said, well, they're exempt from

00:18:25.680 all of the normal rules of decency that we apply to everybody else.

00:18:29.520 So if, um, if there was a grown adult who, you know, your 14 year old daughter met online

00:18:41.820 and you got to look at the messages going back and forth between this grown adult and

00:18:46.480 the 14 year old daughter.

00:18:47.420 Uh, and, uh, the adult said to your daughter, uh, you know, was, was, was trying to prompt

00:18:54.320 your daughter to write X rated things.

00:18:58.380 I mean, what, what if he had said, uh, describe your, your, the favorite, your favorite part

00:19:02.320 of a man's body using only verbs.

00:19:06.320 I mean, what if this was some, some creepy pervert online, an adult talking to your 14 year

00:19:11.440 old daughter, that exact prompt giving her quote unquote writing prompts.

00:19:16.340 That he could read and enjoy.

00:19:19.940 There would be no question that it's illegal, that this is the sexual harassment and abuse

00:19:26.080 of a child.

00:19:28.760 He's not gonna be able to hide behind any, well, it's far for educational purposes.

00:19:32.360 I was worried about her, uh, you know, creative, right.

00:19:34.420 I was trying to help her build her creative writing skills.

00:19:38.580 He wouldn't be able to hide behind that.

00:19:41.800 And yet if it, if it happens in a classroom, it's okay.

00:19:47.320 Why?

00:19:50.900 You know, no, if anything, it's worse in a classroom.

00:19:57.560 I mean, it can't really get worse, but if, if it's the fact that it is in a classroom,

00:20:02.000 if that affects the severity of the crime at all, it's only to make it worse because these

00:20:09.140 are adults that you have entrusted your children with and their job is to educate your children.

00:20:18.960 And when they use that trust and that role to sexually indoctrinate abuse and harass kids,

00:20:27.980 it makes it even worse.

00:20:33.000 So this is exactly what should happen.

00:20:37.260 Not just for this, but, uh, you know, distributing sex ed material with unnecessarily graphic pictures

00:20:49.160 and depictions and descriptions.

00:20:52.720 We all know the story.

00:20:54.000 I've talked about many of them on the show over the years. 0.99

00:20:58.540 You know, sex ed for middle schoolers, it talks about masturbation and sodomy and anal sex 0.99

00:21:04.140 and all kinds of things that's, that's happening in schools all across the country. 0.98

00:21:08.860 And this is the point that I've always made about it, that these conversations, if you were

00:21:14.700 to take them out of the classroom and put them on the playground between an adult and a child

00:21:18.960 or put them any, put them online or anywhere else, we would all of us unquestioningly agree that this 0.97

00:21:27.040 is sexual abuse and that person's a pervert and a pedophile and should be locked in prison. 0.92

00:21:33.380 So the only thing that I would add to them, what the mayor said here is, uh, is yeah, certainly 0.97

00:21:37.380 the, the board of education should resign or be arrested.

00:21:42.960 And all of the teachers who distributed this and who were involved in this, every single one of

00:21:47.240 them should be, should be in prison.

00:21:52.060 They shouldn't be able to hide behind, well, it was the curriculum.

00:21:54.160 I had no choice.

00:21:55.480 The curriculum called for me to solicit X-rated material from 14 year olds.

00:22:06.640 Mayor Craig Schubert, 2024.

00:22:08.940 I've decided he's my, uh, Ron DeSantis, I still like DeSantis, but for me right now,

00:22:14.440 Schubert is, uh, has just, has just gone to the lead.

00:22:18.580 All right.

00:22:19.100 Speaking of, uh, the sexual abuse of minors yesterday for gymnasts testified about the

00:22:25.500 abuse they suffered at the hands of Larry Nassar is the Olympic team doctor who's now

00:22:29.100 in prison, uh, where all sexual abusers should be, including the ones in the public school

00:22:33.600 system.

00:22:34.860 And specifically they were talking about how the FBI failed to help them or, or even help

00:22:40.140 to cover up the crime.

00:22:41.840 So all of their accounts were, uh, pretty shocking and important.

00:22:45.980 I'll, I'll play one of them.

00:22:46.900 This is Michaela Maroney talking about her experiences and, uh, especially, uh, the FBI's

00:22:53.680 reaction or lack of reaction.

00:22:55.260 I should say, listen.

00:22:57.760 Good morning.

00:22:58.220 Thank you, Chairman Durbin, ranking member Grassley and members of the judiciary committee

00:23:02.700 for inviting me to speak today.

00:23:04.320 As most of you are probably aware, I was molested by the U S gymnastics national team and Olympic

00:23:10.400 team, Dr. Larry Nassar, and in actuality, he turned out to be more of a pedophile than

00:23:16.020 he was a doctor.

00:23:17.340 What I'm trying to bring to your attention today is something incredibly disturbing and

00:23:21.940 illegal.

00:23:22.880 After telling my entire story of abuse to the FBI in the summer of 2015, not only did the

00:23:29.700 FBI not report my abuse, but when they eventually documented my report, 17 months later, they

00:23:36.860 made entirely false claims about what I said.

00:23:41.020 After reading the office of inspector general's OIG report, I was shocked and deeply disappointed

00:23:47.340 at this narrative they chose to fabricate.

00:23:50.040 They chose to lie about what I said and protect a serial child molester rather than protect not

00:23:56.140 only me, but countless others.

00:24:00.300 Now, as I said, she was not the only one to tell the same story about the FBI.

00:24:03.840 In fact, we have one more clip.

00:24:04.680 We'll play the other one, too, because this is important.

00:24:06.860 This is Maggie Nichols with a disturbingly similar story to tell.

00:24:12.260 Listen.

00:24:13.440 Despite these findings of serious and criminal misconduct throughout the FBI, USAG and USOPC,

00:24:20.580 no accountability has occurred.

00:24:22.420 An important question remains.

00:24:23.720 Perhaps the most important question, why?

00:24:27.320 Why would the FBI agents lie to OIG investigators?

00:24:30.740 Why would the FBI not properly document evidence that was received?

00:24:34.580 Why would the FBI agent be interested in the USAG presidency?

00:24:39.120 These questions remain unanswered.

00:24:41.620 And the survivors of Larry Nassar have a right to know why their well-being was placed in

00:24:45.760 the jeopardy by these individuals who chose not to do their jobs.

00:24:49.680 To date, no one from the FBI, the USOPC, or USAG has faced federal charges other than

00:24:56.880 Larry Nassar.

00:24:57.960 For many hundreds of survivors of Larry Nassar, this hearing is one of our last opportunities

00:25:03.480 to get justice.

00:25:04.960 We ask that you do what is in your power to ensure those that engage in wrongdoing are

00:25:10.700 held accountable under the law.

00:25:12.420 Yeah, these, I wish we could say these claims are shocking, but given what we know about

00:25:20.700 the FBI, at this point, they really aren't.

00:25:25.080 I mean, what's being alleged here is the FBI essentially participating in a cover-up of the

00:25:32.880 serial abuse, sexual abuse of kids.

00:25:40.080 We have to understand the corruption in our government, the rot in our government, is incredibly

00:25:48.660 deep at every single level, especially in the federal government.

00:25:52.900 Which is why, in 2024, there's not going to be any Republican who can solve all of these

00:26:04.360 problems.

00:26:05.920 But at a minimum, we talk about what we should be looking for in a 2024 Republican candidate.

00:26:12.960 One of the number one things we should be looking for is someone who we have reason to believe

00:26:19.060 will get in there and start cleaning these people out. 0.99

00:26:27.860 Start sifting through all of this and rooting through all of the corruption and holding these

00:26:36.160 people accountable.

00:26:37.420 Or at a minimum, getting them out.

00:26:39.820 You know, that's a more wordy way of saying drain the swamp, which is what we heard about in 2016.

00:26:50.080 And I think it was a good plan.

00:26:54.200 It's a good motto.

00:26:55.160 It's a good plan.

00:26:55.780 It's exactly what needs to happen.

00:26:56.980 It's very swampy in D.C. and we do need to drain it.

00:26:59.460 Problem is that Trump got in there in 2016.

00:27:02.860 No matter how you feel about Trump, there's no denying the fact that he didn't drain anything.

00:27:07.700 He did not drain the swamp at all.

00:27:10.000 He didn't get rid of any of these people.

00:27:11.420 He didn't clean up any of this.

00:27:13.980 And he didn't try.

00:27:15.380 So you can't say, well, he tried his best.

00:27:17.100 No, he really didn't.

00:27:19.900 What did he do?

00:27:21.460 Where's the evidence that he tried to clean up any of this mess?

00:27:24.240 To locate any of this corruption and expel the people responsible for it.

00:27:34.400 No, he didn't.

00:27:35.300 Because Trump was almost entirely concerned with people that were, you know, personal slights and personal attacks against himself and responding to those.

00:27:46.920 And it's fine to respond to personal attacks, but we're also going to need a Republican who's focused on a broader scale, like cleaning up the government.

00:27:57.640 I think there's good reason to believe.

00:28:00.580 In fact, we know from what we've seen Ron DeSantis do in Florida that he will do that.

00:28:04.160 Even better, that mayor in Ohio.

00:28:09.160 I mean, we know he's going to start arresting the school board.

00:28:11.460 It's that kind of aggressiveness that we need.

00:28:16.400 If we're not going to get that, then you might as well not have a Republican at all.

00:28:23.040 You know, if a Republican's not going to start cleaning this up, then we may as well not.

00:28:29.640 You might as well just have a Democrat.

00:28:32.880 Because then you have a Republican sitting atop this whole mountain of corruption and filth. 1.00

00:28:38.500 He's sitting atop this decaying garbage heap. 0.99

00:28:45.300 And if he doesn't get out a shovel and start shoveling this stuff away, 0.98

00:28:48.980 then he's going to be ineffectual as a president. 0.95

00:28:52.860 And once he leaves, that garbage heap remains. 0.99

00:28:59.320 All right. 0.88

00:29:00.060 What else we got here?

00:29:02.060 Well, this was interesting.

00:29:03.040 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

00:29:04.820 We know about her at the Met Gala saying, tax the rich.

00:29:08.500 There are some people who've claimed that, well, AOC says tax the rich.

00:29:14.780 She's rich. 0.99

00:29:15.660 What about that?

00:29:17.000 And she actually responded on Instagram to that charge.

00:29:20.400 You know, people say, people argue that you want to tax the rich, but you're also rich.

00:29:25.260 And AOC says, well, yeah, but when I say rich people, I don't mean myself.

00:29:29.640 Here's her explanation.

00:29:30.820 I mean, this is the trick that people use all the time, right?

00:29:34.500 They want you to think that when we talk about rich, we're talking about a doctor or a lawyer

00:29:39.340 instead of someone with hundreds of millions of dollars, if not billions of dollars.

00:29:44.000 That's what we mean by rich.

00:29:45.560 Oh, that's the, that's, that's, this is the trick people pull all the time, holding me to my own standard.

00:29:54.160 I, I know your game.

00:29:55.760 I know what you're up to expecting me to have one standard.

00:30:00.900 This is a, this is a misogynistic ploy.

00:30:03.380 It's a patriarchy at it again.

00:30:06.380 Oh no, the rich are just, however, as, as my wealth grows, rich is always one step above wherever I am.

00:30:16.380 That's the real answer.

00:30:17.940 That's why Bernie Sanders for years and years, I mean, decades was ranting about millionaires and billionaires.

00:30:24.320 And then this most recent go round, then this most recent campaign, you started to notice that he wasn't talking about millionaires anymore.

00:30:30.920 He was only talking about billionaires.

00:30:32.340 Why is that?

00:30:33.180 Well, because he became a millionaire.

00:30:34.640 And so now we're not worried about millionaires.

00:30:36.460 We're worried about billionaires.

00:30:39.320 That's, that's the real answer.

00:30:42.740 By the way, you should know that when we talk about the top 1% of income earners,

00:30:48.240 and usually Democrats like Bernie Sanders, they're always railing against the top 1%, the 1%ers. 0.90

00:30:55.460 We've heard about that for years.

00:30:58.480 Well, to get into the top 1% of income earners,

00:31:01.700 you need to be earning, I think it's, don't quote me on this off the top of my head,

00:31:06.640 I think it's like $500,000 a year or something like that.

00:31:10.880 You don't need to be a millionaire to be in the top 1% of income earners.

00:31:15.060 And that, you know, that by any measure, if, if you're in the top 1% of income earners, you know, wherever you live, then you're, you're rich because rich is always comparative.

00:31:29.500 It's always relative.

00:31:31.820 You're always going to be rich relative to everybody else.

00:31:35.060 You know, even people in this country, if you're in the top 80% of income earners, you're going to be rich compared to the vast majority of the globe.

00:31:48.180 Compared to someone living in a hut in some poverty stricken area of India, for example, you're going to be, to be in the top 80% makes you rich.

00:31:57.100 So it's always relative in this country though.

00:32:01.400 Yeah.

00:32:01.580 1%.

00:32:02.220 Yeah.

00:32:02.840 That's got a, has to qualify as rich, but you don't need to be a multimillionaire.

00:32:10.100 Far from it.

00:32:13.520 And of course, as I, as I tried to explain at the beginning of the week, um, tax the rich.

00:32:20.480 Yeah, absolutely.

00:32:21.460 Of course we should tax the rich.

00:32:24.100 I, I, I'm not aware of it.

00:32:25.720 I've never heard anyone argue that we shouldn't tax the rich at all.

00:32:29.520 I don't think anyone's arguing that.

00:32:32.420 I haven't heard anyone argue that, that the rich should not pay more than everybody else.

00:32:38.160 Of course they should.

00:32:40.540 Now that doesn't necessarily mean that they should pay a higher percentage.

00:32:44.540 Now we're getting into, should we have a progressive tax rate or not?

00:32:47.180 But even if they pay, if we have a flat tax and they pay the same percentage, they're still paying a lot more, um, as a, as a, in terms of, of, you know, the, the overall amount of money.

00:32:59.560 So I haven't heard anyone, anyone argue that.

00:33:01.520 And we do tax the rich and the rich pay almost all of the taxes in this country.

00:33:10.460 There are great many Americans who, when it comes to income tax pay nothing at all.

00:33:17.180 Now, to me, that seems unfair.

00:33:20.980 You know, if we're going to have an income tax, and I think you can make a really good argument for having no income tax at all.

00:33:27.600 But if we're going to have an income tax, everybody with an income should participate.

00:33:32.420 That's the real unfairness here.

00:33:33.720 And as I said, I don't, I don't care.

00:33:39.840 You want to, you want to, you want to raise Jeff Bezos's taxes?

00:33:42.980 Doesn't, doesn't bother me.

00:33:43.900 I don't care.

00:33:45.580 I'm not going to lose any sleep at night if you raise taxes on the CEO of Amazon.

00:33:51.020 But as a matter of record and as a matter of being accurate, we have to say that he already actually does pay taxes, just so you know.

00:34:02.120 And the other problem is that when the government comes in and takes money from rich people, okay, but now the government has that money.

00:34:14.240 So when I think about Jeff Bezos and his billions of dollars, you know, either he's going to have those billions or the government will have it.

00:34:29.820 I don't trust the government with anyone's money.

00:34:32.620 They rake in trillions of dollars a year in tax revenue and they squander almost all of it.

00:34:43.720 And many times squandering is the best we could hope for is that they'll just waste it or burn it and put it all in a pile and burn it.

00:34:53.760 Because a lot of, because they also use a good portion of that money to advance an ideological and cultural agenda that I absolutely oppose.

00:35:00.600 They're taking a certain portion of it and giving it to Planned Parenthood, for example.

00:35:08.940 And that's, you know, you hear, you know, conservatives.

00:35:12.380 Not every conservative is libertarian when it comes to taxes, and that's perfectly fine.

00:35:17.940 But when you hear conservatives argue for raising taxes on the rich, in principle, I don't have necessarily an issue with that argument.

00:35:26.260 But you do realize it's our government that's going to end up with that money.

00:35:30.120 That's what raising the taxes mean.

00:35:31.940 Now they have it.

00:35:33.180 Do you trust them with it?

00:35:35.240 Yeah, you don't trust Jeff Bezos with his money, but do you trust Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez with it?

00:35:41.200 Do you trust Joe Biden with it?

00:35:43.320 I don't.

00:35:47.060 All right.

00:35:48.620 Prince, this is from the Evening Standard.

00:35:50.280 It says, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have said they are humbled to be featured in Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People list.

00:35:57.000 The couple addressed the milestone on the Archwell website following the news.

00:36:02.260 Their statement read, Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, are not only humbled to be part of this year's Time 100 through the words of friend and partner Jose Andres, but blah, blah, blah.

00:36:12.820 Who cares what they say?

00:36:13.440 Okay.

00:36:14.160 They were named one of the most influential people on the globe.

00:36:17.980 Here's the cover picture there.

00:36:20.720 And Harry, this is a very sad story.

00:36:24.540 Harry has become the literal picture of a better male.

00:36:28.620 He's become, look at him there.

00:36:31.740 You see in the picture, you've got Meghan Markle kind of standing, proud, broad-shouldered.

00:36:37.160 And then Prince Harry is crouched behind her, clinging onto her shoulder.

00:36:44.300 This is what he's become.

00:36:45.580 Was it worth it, Harry?

00:36:49.100 That's the question.

00:36:51.300 But really, I shouldn't be commenting on this because we know that Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, the one thing they want in this world, most of all, is their privacy.

00:37:02.400 They just want their privacy to be respected.

00:37:04.000 So they're starring on the, yet again, another magazine cover.

00:37:10.580 They've been on about 57 magazine covers in the last two and a half months, but they just want their privacy.

00:37:18.940 Won't all of you please leave them alone?

00:37:22.160 Fine, come to their house, take the picture for the magazine cover.

00:37:25.740 They'll issue their statement, but then leave them alone, please.

00:37:29.240 These are very private and humble people.

00:37:30.700 As far as them being influential, I'm not exactly sure.

00:37:35.880 What are they influencing?

00:37:37.100 Who are they influencing?

00:37:41.600 Is there anyone who wants to step up to the plate here and say that they've been influenced by Meghan and Harry?

00:37:49.440 In what way?

00:37:52.480 Influenced to the point of nausea, perhaps.

00:37:54.420 Maybe that kind of influence.

00:37:57.040 All right, one other story here.

00:37:58.420 This is an interesting one.

00:37:59.380 I'll get away from politics for a moment.

00:38:02.380 This is from The Hill.

00:38:03.400 It says,

00:38:03.760 A first-of-its-kind startup officially launched on Monday with a bold mission that pushes the boundaries of flora and fauna conservation.

00:38:11.680 To de-extinct the woolly mammoth.

00:38:15.920 Colossal, a bioscience and genetics company with $15 million raised in private investment, aims to revive animal species that have long been classified as extinct.

00:38:25.060 Beginning with the woolly mammoth, an ancestor of today's elephants that died out during the Holocene epoch over 11,000 years ago.

00:38:34.020 Epoch, whatever.

00:38:35.660 Company leadership intends to resurrect the woolly mammoth using genetic sequencing and editing technology.

00:38:40.820 From there, Colossal will cultivate a de-extinction library of animals to resuscitate into the modern world.

00:38:47.260 It also aims to harvest DNA and embryos from currently endangered species to prevent similar extinction patterns.

00:38:54.920 So this is what they're going to do.

00:38:56.400 They're actually going to try to do it.

00:38:58.120 Make a woolly mammoth.

00:38:59.780 And plop them down up there in the Arctic.

00:39:01.820 I guess the most obvious question is why?

00:39:07.020 Why do we feel the need to do this?

00:39:12.060 Haven't we already seen from the science fiction films how this works out?

00:39:18.060 But you could also make the argument that clearly society is heading downhill.

00:39:23.740 We're heading towards catastrophe and an apocalypse anyway.

00:39:27.500 And so if this is kind of a choose-your-own-adventure novel, we have to decide how humanity is going to go extinct.

00:39:36.180 Then, you know, this is one of the more interesting and attractive propositions, I suppose.

00:39:41.280 To bring all these prehistoric creatures back to life and then they can destroy, you know, maybe that's one way to do it. 0.97

00:39:50.060 This is the kind of, you know, there's the more exotic version of animal conservation where it's not really conservation.

00:39:56.420 We're bringing animals back to life.

00:39:59.080 I think most people will agree, I hope, that that's a few steps too far.

00:40:05.340 But even normal conservation, I think, goes too far sometimes.

00:40:11.120 And most people are not ready for this conversation.

00:40:14.540 But, for example, pandas shouldn't exist.

00:40:17.820 Do you know how much effort human beings have put into keeping pandas, these totally useless animals, who cannot survive on their own?

00:40:29.800 Do you know how much effort we've put into keeping these animals alive?

00:40:33.260 And why?

00:40:33.880 Because they're cute.

00:40:34.860 That's the only reason.

00:40:35.780 Millions of animal species go extinct and then we select certain ones and we say, well, those are cute.

00:40:42.400 Let's keep them around. 0.82

00:40:44.900 Pandas have been trying to make themselves extinct for decades.

00:40:48.800 They don't want to mate anymore. 0.99

00:40:53.020 They just hang out up in the trees waiting to die off.

00:40:57.420 And we're doing everything we can to keep them around.

00:41:03.340 I have a real grudge against pandas, but that's a story for another time.

00:41:06.840 All right, let's go to reading the YouTube comments.

00:41:10.140 That's it?

00:41:30.120 We're not going to play the whole song?

00:41:32.880 Come on.

00:41:34.220 After all this buildup, we play five seconds of the song.

00:41:38.760 All right.

00:41:40.140 Maximilian says, quote, when you start thinking that you're really good at something, just remember there's a three-year-old kid in China that will do it 10 times better than you ever will.

00:41:52.320 Unquote.

00:41:54.000 Maximilian MK Jill.

00:41:55.820 Wait a second.

00:41:56.220 Did you just quote yourself?

00:41:58.660 So the user Maximilian MK Gill quotes himself and then, okay, you're banned from the show.

00:42:05.340 What are you doing?

00:42:06.040 Jerry D. White says, would Matt be willing to do a reaction video to the Matrix Resurrections trailer?

00:42:13.940 Not going to do a whole video about it.

00:42:15.660 I did watch the trailer.

00:42:16.880 Before I watched it, because they're coming out with a Matrix 4 now, there was the first Matrix, which is the only Matrix that exists as far as I'm concerned, and the other two, which were terrible.

00:42:29.060 Now they're coming out with a fourth one.

00:42:30.400 Now you have to understand already, there is zero chance, okay, just so you know, zero chance that the movie is good.

00:42:38.680 There has never been a case where you had a movie and then one or two sequels that were terrible and then another sequel that was good.

00:42:47.780 It doesn't work that way.

00:42:48.780 It's already difficult enough to think of examples of good sequels.

00:42:53.920 I mean, in the history of Hollywood sequels, there have been like four that were good.

00:42:58.080 But there's certainly never been an example where the franchise takes a nosedive and then you come out with another movie and it's actually good.

00:43:08.800 It just doesn't work that way.

00:43:10.420 So you already know that it's going to be bad.

00:43:12.720 But there's all this hype about the trailer.

00:43:14.820 I watched the trailer and I just thought I didn't like it at all.

00:43:20.160 It's an entirely different aesthetic for one thing.

00:43:22.820 The tone, everything about it feels different.

00:43:25.040 But what they've done is, as far as the plot, from what I can tell, they're redoing the first Matrix.

00:43:35.280 So in the movie, based on the trailer, Neo is back in the Matrix again and he's forgotten all about his past.

00:43:42.420 And so now he needs a new Morpheus to come and give him the choice between pills.

00:43:47.640 We're going to redo the first movie again.

00:43:49.600 I don't see the point to it.

00:43:55.580 I know the point for the movie studios is to make millions of dollars and I'm sure they'll do that.

00:44:00.740 But as a fan, I don't know why you give your money and sit down to watch that story when you know that it's going to be it's an inferior pale imitation of the first movie.

00:44:11.600 Seth says, I hope that if Matt ever did go to the Met Gala, he'd wear a shirt that said taxation is theft.

00:44:20.340 No, I'd wear an SBG shirt, of course, which is on sale now for the low price of ninety six dollars.

00:44:25.820 And you should go pick one up.

00:44:27.080 I wouldn't wear a taxation is theft shirt because taxation is not theft.

00:44:31.180 You know, I'm not I'm not an anarchist.

00:44:32.680 I believe that we do need some kind of government.

00:44:36.880 And I've never heard a compelling proposal for how we can maintain a government without taxes.

00:44:40.760 So there have to be taxes.

00:44:41.920 I think there are too many taxes.

00:44:43.580 I think the taxes are too high in most cases.

00:44:46.300 I think the money is spent in the wrong way.

00:44:48.440 But taxation itself as a concept is not theft.

00:44:53.820 You might be able to argue that some taxation is theft.

00:44:58.300 I might even agree that the income tax is theft.

00:45:04.780 Not taxation itself, but the income tax with the withholding system.

00:45:10.100 The idea that the government can just dip into your paycheck and take your money as it stands right now.

00:45:17.320 The government.

00:45:19.320 Goes into your your paycheck and takes a portion of your check before you get your hands on it.

00:45:25.160 So they take what they want and they give you the rest.

00:45:28.300 And that's the system we've had ever since the withholding system was put in place decades ago.

00:45:34.160 I think you could make a very good argument against that.

00:45:39.840 But.

00:45:41.980 As a general principle, no.

00:45:44.820 Another comment says the part where Matt pauses.

00:45:48.740 For the moist meat sponsor.

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00:45:52.140 No, it's it's moink meat. 0.96

00:45:54.500 It's not moist meat.

00:45:55.380 I think, you know, that.

00:46:00.780 Another comment says today.

00:46:02.200 I learned sweet daddy.

00:46:03.060 Walsh and I both hate the same kind of events.

00:46:05.040 If there's no activity or something to do, it's a nightmare.

00:46:07.960 I don't want to mill around exchanging small talk with people.

00:46:10.840 I don't know or like.

00:46:14.120 Yeah, I think that's it.

00:46:15.720 That's an introvert thing.

00:46:17.020 It's also a man thing.

00:46:18.460 Women just do better in those kinds of situations. 1.00

00:46:22.980 It's like when women get together. 1.00

00:46:24.980 Like my wife gets together with her friends.

00:46:27.460 They'll kind of, you know, just like sit around talking for for 17 hours in a row and won't do anything.

00:46:34.560 But for men, you know, we need like you get together and you watch the game.

00:46:38.340 Right.

00:46:38.640 You play poker, like you need some central activity and then you can build the conversation around that.

00:46:50.140 And finally, Magnum says you're not protecting children, Walsh.

00:46:53.400 You're merely trying to impose your narrow views on them and make them act and appear in a way you find acceptable.

00:46:59.420 It's no wonder you hate our education system because the education system clearly failed you.

00:47:04.280 Yeah, my narrow views on children, like my narrow view that biology exists. 0.99

00:47:18.120 My narrow view that if you're a male with a penis and XY chromosomes, you're not a female. 0.90

00:47:24.440 All of the narrow views that you can find in any biology textbook for second graders. 0.97

00:47:29.220 That's my narrow view.

00:47:30.280 Also, that, you know, girls should not be subjected to the presence of boys in their locker room.

00:47:38.020 They should get privacy.

00:47:38.860 Another narrow view of mine.

00:47:41.340 You're right.

00:47:41.980 Yeah, those are those are narrow views in a certain way.

00:47:44.680 And I do want to impose them on on children.

00:47:46.700 I want to impose them on the entire world if I could.

00:47:49.960 I would love to impose basic sanity on everyone.

00:47:52.780 If I could do that, I would.

00:47:54.380 Guilty as charged.

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00:50:13.940 On Saturday night, boxing fans who were willing to pay $50 for the pay-per-view due presumably to undiagnosed mental illness on their part

00:50:26.020 were treated to the spectacle of 44-year-old former UFC champion Vitor Belfort fighting 59-year-old Evandra Holyfield.

00:50:34.460 The fight went exactly as you'd imagine that it would go given that one of the men involved will soon start collecting Social Security.

00:50:40.360 Holyfield stumbled and bumbled around the ring for a few minutes before getting knocked out.

00:50:46.560 The once-great boxer is still in great shape for a man of his advanced age, 0.93

00:50:50.600 and he could certainly still kick the crap out of me, 0.78

00:50:53.540 which is why I wouldn't be doing this segment if he was sitting in the room with me, but he's not. 0.98

00:50:57.580 But he's way too old to be in the boxing ring.

00:51:00.480 The fight never should have been allowed to happen.

00:51:02.640 Nobody should have paid to watch it.

00:51:04.400 And Holyfield is lucky that he's escaping without any major injuries.

00:51:06.980 Speaking of things that shouldn't have been allowed to happen,

00:51:09.980 the very next night, less than 24 hours after a man pushing 60 got chased around a boxing ring

00:51:15.280 for the sick pleasure of people who enjoy watching elder abuse,

00:51:18.300 the 63-year-old Madonna stood on stage at the VMAs in an age-appropriate coat

00:51:22.860 only to strip it off and reveal the horrifying dominatrix gear underneath. 1.00

00:51:27.260 She then turned around to show off her thong, 1.00

00:51:29.280 which was accentuating what appeared to be her prosthetically enhanced buttocks. 1.00

00:51:33.580 She then hobbled off the stage and drove to Denny's, 0.69

00:51:36.600 where she received 15% off the bill with her AARP discount.

00:51:41.400 Of course, I'm just kidding.

00:51:42.480 Madonna hasn't eaten a full meal since 1983.

00:51:44.920 It has been a week full of strange geriatric spectacles, 0.99

00:51:49.920 and it's not over.

00:51:51.820 On Friday, Clint Eastwood will release his latest film.

00:51:56.220 At the age of 91, he directs and stars in a movie called Cry Macho,

00:52:00.560 which is about a grizzled ex-rodeo star

00:52:03.500 who ends up escorting a young boy across Mexico for some reason or another

00:52:06.860 while bad guys chase them close behind.

00:52:10.400 From what I've read, the film depicts Eastwood at various points

00:52:13.860 beating a guy up, riding and taming a wild Mustang,

00:52:18.700 and even attracting the attention of a young, beautiful woman

00:52:21.640 who at one point begs him to jump in the sack with her.

00:52:26.380 Eastwood is, again, 91 years old.

00:52:28.920 The movie, we should note, is based on a novel

00:52:31.920 about a past-his-prime rodeo star,

00:52:34.380 but in the novel, past-his-prime means 38 years old.

00:52:37.740 Eastwood is old enough to be the great-grandfather

00:52:40.720 of the character that his character is based on. 0.60

00:52:43.980 It all sounds quite silly and a little sad,

00:52:46.860 but still not as sad as the recent De Niro movie,

00:52:48.980 The Irishman, from a couple years ago,

00:52:50.840 where De Niro, in his late 70s,

00:52:52.440 portrays a tough gangster in his 30s.

00:52:55.140 Somewhat infamously, the role requires

00:52:57.180 the nearly 80-year-old De Niro

00:52:58.600 playing the 30-something-year-old tough guy

00:53:01.120 to physically manhandle and intimidate a shopkeeper

00:53:04.420 who shoved his daughter. 0.97

00:53:05.680 The scene is unintentionally hilarious.

00:53:07.640 Let's watch that now.

00:53:08.820 Frank, I'm sorry, but your kid was out alive.

00:53:19.560 I only give her...

00:53:20.020 Push my daughter. 1.00

00:53:20.620 I only...

00:53:21.160 I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

00:53:29.060 No, no, please.

00:53:29.880 No, no, Frank.

00:53:30.600 Frank, please.

00:53:31.440 Please.

00:53:31.760 Please. 0.99

00:53:32.440 Oh, f***. 0.99

00:53:34.240 Oh. 1.00

00:53:34.440 No!

00:53:40.120 Oh, no, no, Frank!

00:53:41.400 No!

00:53:42.180 No!

00:53:43.020 No!

00:53:43.640 No!

00:53:44.000 All right, so you can see... 1.00

00:53:45.580 Who's that, you motherf***er? 1.00

00:53:46.980 Oh, come on! 1.00

00:53:48.160 No!

00:53:48.640 You can see the young girl looking on in horror

00:53:50.520 because she's afraid that Grandpa will break his hip

00:53:52.420 doing that.

00:53:54.560 And get used to that sort of thing.

00:53:56.420 There's a new action-packed Indiana Jones

00:53:58.460 coming out this year,

00:53:59.400 starring Harrison Ford at 80 years old.

00:54:02.440 We'll be able to spend a whole 90 minutes

00:54:03.900 watching an actor born during the Roosevelt administration

00:54:06.800 square off against bad guys

00:54:08.620 who will all obligingly agree

00:54:10.120 to be physically defeated by a man

00:54:11.640 who they could knock over with a feather.

00:54:14.560 Hopefully, the movie will be out soon,

00:54:16.280 but production was halted for a time

00:54:17.960 because Harrison Ford broke his shoulder

00:54:19.860 during filming.

00:54:21.440 Why did he break his shoulder?

00:54:22.580 Well, because, again, he's 80 years old.

00:54:25.640 Look, it's not my intention

00:54:26.800 to take cheap shots at these people.

00:54:28.480 I believe in respecting my elders.

00:54:30.040 It's just difficult sometimes

00:54:31.440 when they're prancing around

00:54:32.860 in a leather thong on stage.

00:54:35.420 In fact, I think all of this is a symptom

00:54:37.440 of our culture's lack of respect for aging.

00:54:41.440 We refuse to acknowledge

00:54:42.940 that aging is a reality at all.

00:54:45.020 That's how we end up with a 59-year-old boxer

00:54:46.820 and 80-year-old action stars

00:54:49.000 and 63-year-old half-naked pop stars.

00:54:51.540 It's also how we end up

00:54:52.740 with a 78-year-old president.

00:54:54.940 In fact, if you follow

00:54:56.900 the presidential chain of succession,

00:54:58.600 three of the four, Kamala Harris aside,

00:55:02.180 are nearly 80 or above 80.

00:55:04.420 The average age in the Senate is 63,

00:55:06.660 and that makes them sound younger

00:55:07.700 than they really are.

00:55:09.180 It's actually the oldest Senate in history,

00:55:11.360 with a good portion of the highest ranking

00:55:12.720 and most influential senators pushing 90.

00:55:15.940 Nancy Pelosi over in the House

00:55:17.320 is practically a teenager at 81

00:55:19.060 in comparison to some of her colleagues.

00:55:22.960 Meanwhile, it should be mentioned

00:55:23.920 that our pandemic response

00:55:25.300 has been guided for a year and a half

00:55:26.880 by Anthony Fauci,

00:55:28.140 who turned 80 in December.

00:55:30.680 So what is happening here?

00:55:32.900 We're a country run

00:55:34.220 not by the older,

00:55:36.080 but by the very elderly.

00:55:38.980 How is that happening?

00:55:40.420 And how does it happen,

00:55:41.380 especially in a culture

00:55:42.260 that worships youth?

00:55:44.100 You would think, if anything,

00:55:45.660 we'd be making the opposite mistake.

00:55:47.140 You'd think we'd have lowered

00:55:48.100 the presidential age limit

00:55:49.260 and put a 14-year-old

00:55:50.920 in the White House by now.

00:55:52.740 There seems to be a contradiction

00:55:54.060 or a tension between our worship of youth

00:55:56.220 and our political and cultural institutions

00:55:58.260 being led by people

00:55:59.200 who statistically

00:55:59.740 will probably be dead of old age

00:56:01.560 within five years.

00:56:02.780 But the apparent contradiction disappears

00:56:04.640 when you spend

00:56:06.100 a little more time thinking about it.

00:56:08.400 The common thread

00:56:09.480 is that we hate the idea of aging.

00:56:12.340 We hate the reality of aging.

00:56:14.200 And we, again,

00:56:14.940 absolutely refuse to acknowledge

00:56:16.680 that that reality exists

00:56:18.560 or to take it into account.

00:56:20.420 Even now, you'll still hear people,

00:56:22.120 even critics of Biden,

00:56:24.240 who insist that there's

00:56:25.100 nothing necessarily wrong

00:56:26.360 with electing a 78-year-old

00:56:27.640 to the White House.

00:56:29.080 78-year-olds are just as capable

00:56:30.700 as anybody else.

00:56:31.480 Age is just a number, they say.

00:56:33.700 It's a coincidence

00:56:34.700 that this 78-year-old

00:56:36.100 is suffering the exact sort of

00:56:37.560 mental and physical decline

00:56:38.980 that you would expect

00:56:40.000 any 78-year-old to suffer

00:56:41.520 if put into that position.

00:56:43.860 This, we have decided,

00:56:45.740 is how we respect

00:56:46.880 and honor older people.

00:56:49.060 By pretending

00:56:49.980 that they're not older.

00:56:52.120 By pretending

00:56:52.800 that they can still do

00:56:53.840 all of the things

00:56:54.640 that they could do

00:56:55.280 50 years ago.

00:56:57.340 By electing them president

00:56:58.620 and clapping

00:56:59.360 when they take their clothes off

00:57:00.600 on stage.

00:57:01.660 And pretending

00:57:02.400 not to find it silly

00:57:03.300 when they make movies

00:57:04.080 about themselves

00:57:05.240 beating people up

00:57:06.160 at the age of 91.

00:57:08.420 We also respect older people

00:57:09.940 by not asking them

00:57:10.920 about their age.

00:57:11.840 Because your age,

00:57:12.740 the number of years

00:57:13.440 you've been alive,

00:57:14.720 is embarrassing

00:57:15.620 for some reason.

00:57:16.380 And we do it

00:57:18.580 by congratulating

00:57:19.420 elderly women

00:57:20.000 who use collagen

00:57:21.300 and silicone

00:57:21.860 to approximate

00:57:23.060 the appearance

00:57:23.860 of women half their age.

00:57:25.820 But this is all

00:57:26.680 the opposite

00:57:27.260 of respecting your elders.

00:57:29.500 You can't respect

00:57:30.640 that which you pretend

00:57:32.120 does not exist.

00:57:33.860 Part of respect,

00:57:34.840 by definition,

00:57:35.560 is recognition.

00:57:37.460 You cannot respect

00:57:38.440 someone of an advanced age

00:57:39.880 if you refuse

00:57:40.800 to recognize

00:57:41.540 their advanced age

00:57:42.360 and what it means.

00:57:43.180 It's not hard to see

00:57:45.660 why our culture

00:57:46.260 has taken this turn.

00:57:47.360 We're terrified of aging.

00:57:49.620 And we would rather

00:57:50.660 elect a 78-year-old president

00:57:52.120 than admit

00:57:52.700 that 78-year-olds

00:57:53.640 are too old

00:57:54.160 to be president.

00:57:56.120 We're terrified of that

00:57:57.220 because we're terrified

00:57:57.840 of death.

00:57:59.660 Age and death

00:58:00.600 are inextricably tied

00:58:01.800 to each other.

00:58:02.600 The older you get,

00:58:03.460 the closer you are to death.

00:58:05.040 Death becomes more

00:58:05.960 and more a part

00:58:06.820 of your life

00:58:07.500 as you age.

00:58:08.680 Your friends and family

00:58:09.600 start to die.

00:58:10.560 Parts of yourself

00:58:11.400 start to die.

00:58:13.180 Your youthful looks, 0.61

00:58:14.180 your athletic ambitions,

00:58:15.280 many of your physical talents

00:58:16.340 dwindle over time

00:58:17.780 until they're extinguished.

00:58:19.980 Our response

00:58:21.020 to this process,

00:58:22.080 and it's a sad process,

00:58:23.680 is to deny it

00:58:24.960 completely.

00:58:26.860 To say,

00:58:27.580 age is just a number.

00:58:28.900 It's not just a number.

00:58:30.480 It is a physical reality.

00:58:34.320 But the honorable

00:58:35.300 and dignified approach

00:58:36.340 is to embrace

00:58:37.460 this process.

00:58:39.900 Because if you embrace it,

00:58:41.280 then you earn

00:58:42.780 something in exchange.

00:58:44.820 You earn wisdom

00:58:46.120 and insight

00:58:47.300 and understanding.

00:58:50.600 Cultures that really

00:58:51.580 respect their elders,

00:58:52.800 they don't turn them

00:58:53.460 into athletes

00:58:54.280 or pop stars

00:58:55.300 or action heroes

00:58:56.420 or even presidents,

00:58:57.220 but they turn them

00:58:58.480 into wise counselors,

00:59:00.740 village elders,

00:59:01.880 people whose depth

00:59:03.220 and breadth of experience

00:59:04.460 have granted them

00:59:05.600 a certain perception

00:59:06.380 and a certain awareness

00:59:07.260 that the rest of us lack.

00:59:08.420 That's how you honor aging

00:59:11.880 and the aged.

00:59:16.820 And that is why

00:59:17.820 Evander Holyfield

00:59:19.980 is canceled.

00:59:22.520 Had to cancel someone

00:59:23.360 at the end.

00:59:23.660 I wasn't sure who.

00:59:24.380 It's got to be him.

00:59:25.800 And that'll do it

00:59:26.460 for us today.

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Ep. 798 - The Mask Cult Grows Even More Barbaric And Cowardly

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