The Matt Walsh Show - October 27, 2021


Ep. 827 - The Disgraceful Political Show Trial Of Kyle Rittenhouse


Episode Stats

Length

52 minutes

Words per Minute

176.24954

Word Count

9,240

Sentence Count

622

Misogynist Sentences

23

Hate Speech Sentences

10


Summary

As the Kyle Rittenhouse case heads to trial next week, we ll talk about the people who should really be standing trial for everything that happened in Kenosha last summer. Also, The Daily Wire breaks major news that could be the nail in the McAuliffe campaign s coffin, and more damning information has come out about the armorer on the set of that Alec Baldwin movie. Was this a diversity hire gone wrong? Plus, an Instagram influencer poses for selfies next to her father s coffin.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, as the Kyle Rittenhouse case heads to trial next week,
00:00:03.880 we'll talk about the people who should really be standing trial for everything that happened
00:00:07.160 in Kenosha last summer. Also, the Daily Wire breaks major news that could be the nail in
00:00:11.220 the McAuliffe campaign's coffin. And more damning information has come out about the
00:00:15.260 armorer on the set of that Alec Baldwin movie. Was this a diversity hire gone wrong? Plus,
00:00:20.460 an Instagram influencer poses for selfies next to her father's coffin. And in our daily
00:00:24.380 cancellation, I'm afraid I must cancel many of you in the audience. I don't want to do it,
00:00:28.840 but I have no choice. All of that and much more today on the Matt Wall Show.
00:00:42.540 As we survey the scorched and barren landscape of America circa 2021, you may arrive at the
00:00:49.720 conclusion that the people running this show have done, you know, less than a stellar job. You may
00:00:55.160 even say that President Biden, though still very early in his tenure, is already making a run for
00:01:00.420 the title of worst president ever. He presents a compelling case for himself. Gas prices are
00:01:05.000 skyrocketing. Grocery store shelves are empty. Our cities are gripped by historic levels of violence
00:01:10.200 and crime. The FBI terrorizes parents at school board meetings. Our military worries about diversity
00:01:15.320 and inclusion. And the State Department celebrates Pronouns Day while China strengthens its empire across the
00:01:20.880 globe. And although Biden promised to assume office and shut down the coronavirus, it has,
00:01:26.660 in fact, killed more people under his watch than it did under Trump. All of this, and we haven't even
00:01:30.940 mentioned the 13 U.S. service members killed in Afghanistan, all of it would seem to add up to,
00:01:36.280 if not the worst first year in presidential history, certainly very close to the top of the list
00:01:41.340 in the conversation for the title. But then again, in the interest of balance and fairness,
00:01:46.980 we must acknowledge Joe Biden's one achievement, and it's a major one. Incredibly, although he is
00:01:52.900 a barely sentient lump of Play-Doh, Biden has still managed somehow to achieve one historic feat.
00:02:00.260 And that is that he solved systemic racism. You might not have noticed, but he did. It's a pretty big
00:02:06.720 deal. I would hope you would agree. Admittedly, you know, I have no direct evidence that Biden
00:02:12.000 solved systemic racism, or even that there was any systemic racism to solve in the first place, but
00:02:17.680 there's a very good circumstantial case that can be made. Consider this. In Trump's tenure,
00:02:23.300 mostly during the election season, coincidentally, every police shooting of a black suspect was the
00:02:29.280 result of racism, which is why it was necessary for BLM to riot continuously for six months.
00:02:34.400 Every shooting was a big deal, you might recall. It was a major topic of conversation.
00:02:38.900 It was all the media focused on for months. And then amazingly, almost miraculously,
00:02:46.040 Joe Biden took office in January of this year. And ever since then, there has not been one BLM riot.
00:02:54.080 Nobody is talking about police shootings anymore. It's not because there haven't been any. The numbers
00:02:59.060 this year are about what they were last year, but apparently it would seem that none of these
00:03:03.200 shootings are racism related. Every shooting under Trump during the campaign was racism. None of them
00:03:09.380 under Biden are racism. Wow. Either that or BLM stopped caring about racism entirely. Either that
00:03:16.720 or the whole police brutality panic was always a political ploy and BLM are a bunch of evil, underhanded,
00:03:22.780 duplicitous, fraudulent, race hustling hacks. You know, those are kind of the option. And on second
00:03:27.120 thought, maybe that third option might be the right one. In any case, memories of those ancient days are
00:03:33.300 now coming back to the surface as the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse is set to commence next week.
00:03:39.720 Rittenhouse is, of course, the young man who shot three attackers, two fatally during the riots in
00:03:44.200 Kenosha in the summer of 2020, back when systemic racism existed. It's relevant to note that those riots
00:03:50.140 were sparked, ostensibly, by the shooting of Jacob Blake by Officer Rustin Shesky. Blake was shot after
00:03:57.580 accosting a woman who he'd previously allegedly raped and then fighting with police while armed
00:04:01.900 with a knife and finally trying to climb into a car that was not his while children were sitting in
00:04:05.900 the back seat. Officer Shesky was cleared by local prosecutors and by Biden's DOJ. The latter was
00:04:14.200 announced just a few weeks ago with little notice paid to it. Did you even hear about that?
00:04:19.000 Even Biden's DOJ couldn't find any charges to hang on Shesky and not for lack of trying.
00:04:27.340 But he was so, you know, his actions were so utterly and unassailably justified and Blake was
00:04:33.660 so clearly the bad guy and the aggressor in the situation that even the people over the DOJ under
00:04:39.060 Biden couldn't find anything to do with this case other than let it quietly go away. Be that as it may,
00:04:45.060 riots broke out or rather continued and Rittenhouse who arrived on the scene to try and help protect
00:04:50.340 property owners from the rampant destruction being visited upon them by the unchecked mob
00:04:55.780 eventually was forced to use his weapon in self-defense. And it was indeed self-defense.
00:05:01.300 Okay. It was not just, in fact, it was not just self-defense, but it was one of the clearest cut
00:05:06.020 cases of self-defense that you will ever see on film. That's not an exaggeration. Video footage
00:05:13.060 proves incontrovertibly that Rittenhouse was being pursued, attacked by violent mobs who had made
00:05:20.460 their intentions clear both by word and deed. Rittenhouse can be seen trying first to flee
00:05:26.100 and only resorting to deadly force when he had no other choice. To say that it was not self-defense is
00:05:32.340 to say that Rittenhouse had a legal obligation to submit himself to the mob, trusting, I guess,
00:05:38.100 that they'll only beat him severely and not go beyond that. In fact, the case against Rittenhouse
00:05:43.620 is so flimsy that the prosecutors themselves, while trying to make the case against him,
00:05:50.160 can't help but accidentally vindicate him. So yesterday in a pretrial hearing, Kenosha County
00:05:55.020 Circuit Court Judge Bruce Schroeder ruled that prosecutors may not refer to the dead rioters as victims.
00:06:01.760 And this has led to a major temper tantrum among leftists online, as you can imagine.
00:06:06.520 But the ruling makes sense. To call them victims is to assume that they were murdered.
00:06:11.340 But murder is what the prosecution must prove, so it can't be assumed ahead of time.
00:06:16.840 Yet the judge will allow, and the left, you know they love this detail even more,
00:06:21.180 the judge will allow the defense to call the dead rioters rioters and looters and arsonists,
00:06:26.580 though only during closing arguments if they present evidence that the labels are accurate,
00:06:30.480 which they are. Here is the prosecution protesting this decision and explaining,
00:06:36.820 you know, why they have a problem with it. But listen to what is actually being said here. Listen.
00:06:43.840 What I'm hearing the defense say is, for example, Mr. Rosenbaum started fires that night.
00:06:51.180 Well, that has nothing to do with the allegation that he chased after Mr. Rittenhouse and tried to
00:06:56.820 physically attack him. Arsonists or alleged arson has nothing to do with an alleged physical assault.
00:07:03.300 There is an argument that Mr. Rosenbaum was shouting racial slurs.
00:07:09.640 That has nothing to do with a physical assault.
00:07:12.740 There is an allegation that he is telling other people at Ultimate Gas Station to shoot him,
00:07:18.540 which clearly is different than what was going on with Mr. Rittenhouse.
00:07:23.660 He clearly didn't want Mr. Rittenhouse to shoot him, so I don't see that there's any commonality there.
00:07:29.040 So this is bad character evidence, Your Honor. This is an attempt to tell the jury Mr. Rosenbaum's a bad guy
00:07:35.780 and deserved to die. That's really what it is. He was an arsonist. He was a rioter.
00:07:39.960 He was starting fights. He was not starting fights. He was starting problems. He was disorderly.
00:07:44.580 He was loud. He was whatever. Therefore, it was okay for the defendant to kill him.
00:07:51.360 So that's really what's going on here, Your Honor. And that's not at all what 90404 allows.
00:07:56.880 Yeah, well, the prosecutor really laid that out well, didn't he? I mean,
00:08:00.040 one of the quote-unquote victims, Rosenbaum, was an out-of-control violent rioter who did pursue
00:08:05.980 Kyle Rittenhouse, did try to whip up a mob. And by the way, he was also a sex offender charged with
00:08:10.620 molesting a minor. Many of these facts are directly relevant and the rest are indirectly relevant
00:08:15.520 because they established what sort of man this quote-unquote victim was, which lends more credence
00:08:21.020 to Rittenhouse's version of events, though the most credence comes from the video footage,
00:08:25.820 which is, again, already decisive and exculpatory. You'll notice that the mindless hordes calling for
00:08:31.400 Rittenhouse's head, they don't have any interest in talking about the actual events of that night
00:08:35.500 because they know that the events themselves absolve the defendant of any wrongdoing. Instead,
00:08:39.880 they say that Rittenhouse shouldn't have been there in the first place.
00:08:43.480 And they make a big deal about the fact that he crossed state lines.
00:08:45.900 Every post you see from someone on that side of this online about the Rittenhouse, every single
00:08:52.220 one in all capsules, he crossed state lines. He crossed state lines. Well, so what?
00:08:58.460 What they don't mention is that the kid worked in Kenosha. It's not as though he traveled hundreds
00:09:03.760 of miles by plane, train, automobile to get there. Even if he did, I'm not sure I see what the relevance
00:09:08.940 would be. But he worked in the community. He was very much a community member. Earlier,
00:09:14.860 he had been helping clean up graffiti. He was more of a community member and more involved and more
00:09:20.220 concerned about his community than any of those rioters. Hands down. So he belonged there as much
00:09:28.300 as anybody else on the street that night. Though you might say that none of them belong there
00:09:33.720 because none of it should have happened. And on that point, you'd be correct.
00:09:39.680 Kyle Rittenhouse should not have felt the need to patrol the street with a gun.
00:09:44.060 Not because there was no need, but because there should not have been a need.
00:09:48.420 The BLM mobs never should have been allowed to reign terror and destruction for weeks and months on end.
00:09:54.300 In response to a police shooting that was completely justified.
00:10:01.140 The police should have done their jobs. They should have been allowed to do the jobs.
00:10:04.860 Those in charge of establishing and enforcing law and order should have done so.
00:10:09.540 They're the ones to blame for all this ultimately.
00:10:12.340 So if anyone should be on trial in the Kyle Rittenhouse case, it shouldn't be Kyle Rittenhouse.
00:10:16.440 It should be the mayor of Kenosha and the governor of Wisconsin.
00:10:20.060 They ought to be standing there in chains, facing a lifetime in prison for handing their city over to thugs and looters
00:10:25.940 and abandoning their citizens to the violence and chaos that inevitably followed.
00:10:31.600 Rittenhouse went to Kenosha that night to do what they would not do.
00:10:36.080 He was attacked and had to defend himself in the process, making him a victim in this story.
00:10:41.800 And now his victimhood is compounded by this politically motivated show trial.
00:10:46.500 So in the end, you know, you might say that the left is correct.
00:10:48.820 That it will be an outrage if Kyle Rittenhouse just walks away from all this a free man.
00:10:55.240 Because he should walk away a free and rich man after suing for malicious prosecution.
00:11:00.320 That would be true justice in this case.
00:11:04.580 Now let's get to our five headlines.
00:11:05.860 OK, I just want to show this quickly before we get to the headlines right at the top here, because it is pretty outrageous.
00:11:18.700 Biba Adams, who's a reporter, brings this to our attention.
00:11:23.600 Let's pull up the tweet.
00:11:25.240 So she was at Walmart and she here it is.
00:11:28.600 She says, this is a toy tank, like for kids to ride in.
00:11:32.580 Who the F wants to buy kids a tank?
00:11:34.840 Never mind.
00:11:35.320 I know who.
00:11:36.320 And yes, this is Walmart.
00:11:37.540 And then she she censors the word Walmart, which is a vulgarity now, I suppose.
00:11:42.540 So so she it's it's this giant toy tank.
00:11:45.400 That I guess is that the kids can ride in.
00:11:49.680 And I have to say, this is terrible.
00:11:51.160 I am I am stunned.
00:11:53.020 It makes me sick with anger.
00:11:56.540 Because why didn't they have something like this when I was a kid?
00:11:59.420 Why didn't we have toys as cool as this?
00:12:02.540 It drives me crazy.
00:12:03.680 I'm fuming over it.
00:12:05.980 Every time I go to the toy section to get my kids a toy, I'm looking around.
00:12:09.900 I'm getting I'm getting mad because where was all this stuff when I was a kid?
00:12:13.800 Apparently that that thing actually fires a Nerf balls as well.
00:12:17.860 So it's kind of functional, which is awesome.
00:12:20.340 I'll tell you my one objection to toys like this.
00:12:22.760 This is my only one.
00:12:25.080 It's not that it encourages violence or whatever it is.
00:12:29.800 It is as a parent that that's the kind of thing you get for your kid.
00:12:35.180 And it's awesome.
00:12:36.120 And it's amazing.
00:12:37.500 And you would have loved it when you were a kid.
00:12:39.580 And you get it and you give it to them and they're super excited.
00:12:42.680 And they use it once and they love it and they're thrilled and they never use it again.
00:12:48.180 That's that's the way that always goes.
00:12:52.340 How many just every single holiday as a parent, you go through this.
00:12:56.640 In fact, just last year, I got my kids this.
00:12:59.160 It wasn't as cool as the tank, but I got them this really this really neat.
00:13:02.780 And this is how I sold it to him.
00:13:03.940 I said, this is really neat, guys.
00:13:05.460 A really neat remote control car.
00:13:07.460 And I had remote control cars when I was a kid.
00:13:08.960 But this thing was it was like top speeds.
00:13:11.460 It would go like 60 miles an hour.
00:13:12.720 That's probably an exaggeration, but it would go really fast.
00:13:14.720 It could go on any terrain.
00:13:15.900 It could flip over and keep going.
00:13:18.060 It had little lasers and lights.
00:13:19.660 It could play music.
00:13:20.360 It was the coolest thing.
00:13:21.820 And I take them outside.
00:13:23.420 You know, and first I'm playing with remote control first just to make sure it's safe.
00:13:26.340 You know, I said I got to play with it for 10 minutes just to make sure it doesn't explode or anything.
00:13:30.420 I just want to make sure it's safe.
00:13:31.180 And it's the coolest thing ever.
00:13:33.920 And, you know, then my sons are playing with it a little bit.
00:13:36.620 And then they run off to the woods and they come back and they say, Daddy, look what we found.
00:13:43.060 A really pointy stick.
00:13:44.520 And they have a pointy stick.
00:13:45.560 And then that's what they play with.
00:13:46.480 They don't care about the remote control car anymore.
00:13:48.100 So that's my problem with the tank.
00:13:50.320 But other than that, that is, I want to thank Beba Adams for pointing us in that direction.
00:13:57.260 Maybe they make them for adults.
00:13:58.380 I guess that would just be a regular tank.
00:13:59.840 So here's what, let's talk about Virginia and the campaign.
00:14:06.560 We'll start with this.
00:14:07.340 Here's what Terry McAuliffe was doing last night.
00:14:11.200 And I'm going to make you watch this as punishment.
00:14:14.420 It's really punishment for watching my show rather than just listening to it like a normal podcast listener.
00:14:19.500 So here he is with Joe Biden.
00:14:21.040 Let's play this.
00:14:23.520 There he is dancing.
00:14:26.960 Yeah.
00:14:29.840 This is penance that you have to watch that.
00:14:33.020 It's penance for the audience.
00:14:35.080 So play it one more time.
00:14:36.060 Make him watch it again.
00:14:37.680 Look at those moves.
00:14:41.700 He's like your drunk, creepy uncle trying to hula hoop or something.
00:14:47.080 Look, if you can't dance, then don't.
00:14:50.120 All right.
00:14:53.760 Especially not on, this is the kind of arrogance that these people have in the bubble that they've lived in.
00:15:02.820 Because this is not the first time that Terry McAuliffe has done this.
00:15:05.680 He gets on stages and dances all the time.
00:15:07.960 Nobody's ever sat him down and said, listen, Terry, this is awful.
00:15:11.260 You're traumatizing people.
00:15:12.380 Will you stop it?
00:15:13.700 Every time you dance, you drop five points in the polls.
00:15:16.240 Nobody tells him.
00:15:19.080 I think probably bigger news, though, from Terry McAuliffe is this exclusive from The Daily Wire.
00:15:25.480 It says a law firm that employed Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe has made a cottage industry out of aggressively fighting victims of alleged sexual abuse in schools,
00:15:34.280 being paid handsomely to defend school systems that the girls say failed to protect them.
00:15:39.160 In one case, the Hunton-Andrews-Kirth law firm, where McAuliffe served as a senior advisor for 2019 as well recently,
00:15:46.960 is battling a young woman who says that, and this is horrific, says that she was repeatedly raped on her Fairfax County middle school campus
00:15:54.060 as a 12-year-old and that she was slashed with a knife, burned with a lighter, and anally penetrated.
00:16:02.260 The law firm and McAuliffe's campaign refused to comment on whether the law firm still employs McAuliffe by the deadline,
00:16:08.400 but McAuliffe reported income apparently linked to the firm in 2021 after announcing his run for governor of Virginia on December 8, 2020.
00:16:16.320 Later, advertisements from the firm for McAuliffe fundraisers referred to McAuliffe as a former colleague.
00:16:20.660 The girl said she was afraid of having a real name attached to the case because one of her alleged tormentors
00:16:27.080 had threatened to kill her if she came forward.
00:16:29.380 The McAuliffe-linked law firm is seeking to have the case thrown out because it was filed under a pseudonym,
00:16:33.800 even though there's no dispute that the school system knows who she is.
00:16:37.200 In a separate case, and I can't read this, you've got to go to Daily Wire and read the entire story,
00:16:41.140 but I'll read one more example here. It's a long story, it's an important story.
00:16:44.800 A girl alleged that the FCPS administrators were told of an unwanted sexual incident on a band trip
00:16:49.940 a school security officer told her there was no point in seeking criminal charges
00:16:53.440 and the school gave an award to her alleged abuser.
00:16:59.120 Hutton told the court that the school system lost documentation showing its investigation of the allegations
00:17:03.120 in part because it was not using a sexual harassment allegation database
00:17:06.360 that it had promised to use pursuant to a federal settlement in the other girl's case.
00:17:10.520 Okay, so if you're wondering, as I've been telling you about,
00:17:15.320 and again, you can go to dailywire.com and see the entire story there.
00:17:19.340 It's another exclusive story.
00:17:20.840 As we're doing, we're doing more investigative pieces like this,
00:17:26.460 going out and covering the stories that the corporate media will not cover.
00:17:30.660 This is real news, real news stories.
00:17:33.580 And yet another reason why, by the way, you should subscribe and become a member.
00:17:37.540 And if you do that right now, go to dailywire.com slash subscribe and use promo code real news.
00:17:42.160 You can become a member of Daily Wire that way.
00:17:45.680 But if you're wondering, the reason why this story is so important,
00:17:50.480 aside from the fact that Terry McAuliffe is trying to become the governor of Virginia
00:17:54.000 at a time when they have a crisis in the school system with a lack of accountability,
00:17:57.920 and this is someone who wants to become the governor who's partly responsible for that lack of accountability.
00:18:02.860 But the other thing that makes this so important is that,
00:18:05.940 as I've been telling you about the epidemic of sexual abuse in the school system,
00:18:12.620 one of the reasons why we don't hear about it,
00:18:19.020 because of guys like Terry McAuliffe and the people in the law firm
00:18:23.280 and the tricks that the school system plays,
00:18:26.880 not just in Loudoun County,
00:18:29.280 but across the country.
00:18:34.280 You know, I told you about that AP report.
00:18:36.260 This was every once in a while, you know,
00:18:38.680 the corporate media will do some real investigation or report some real news.
00:18:42.720 And so a few years ago, the AP did a report
00:18:45.240 about sexual abuse on public school campuses
00:18:48.740 by students on other students.
00:18:52.320 And then you've got teacher on student sexual abuse,
00:18:55.260 which is a whole other category.
00:18:56.660 And there's thousands of such cases
00:18:58.260 and millions of, literally millions of victims of that.
00:19:01.800 But the AP, when they thought to look into it a few years ago,
00:19:05.580 they found that in, that through the previous few years,
00:19:09.400 there had been something like 17,000 cases.
00:19:13.300 17,000.
00:19:15.760 Just in that few year window
00:19:17.300 and just student on student abuse.
00:19:19.360 This stuff is very common.
00:19:23.960 Very common.
00:19:26.360 But we don't find out about it.
00:19:28.020 And this is one of the reasons.
00:19:30.420 All the different ways of
00:19:32.040 hiding it from the public.
00:19:35.420 It's all about how they categorize these incidents,
00:19:38.200 whether they choose to pursue it
00:19:40.120 and pursue legal action.
00:19:41.740 And then you also have kids
00:19:46.380 who, like the girl in the story,
00:19:48.760 are terrified to come forward.
00:19:52.540 I mean, think about
00:19:53.200 all these Me Too cases we heard about.
00:19:57.820 And the question was,
00:19:59.160 well, how did, you know,
00:20:01.420 how did Weinstein manage to do this
00:20:05.400 for decades
00:20:06.880 without anyone coming,
00:20:09.460 really coming forward
00:20:10.380 and saying anything about it?
00:20:12.400 All of these,
00:20:13.140 all these victims,
00:20:14.240 all these women who fell victim to it.
00:20:16.660 I mean, why did they come forward
00:20:17.660 and say anything?
00:20:18.220 Why did it go on for decades?
00:20:20.660 And the reason that we're given is that,
00:20:22.160 well, they were afraid to do it.
00:20:23.080 They felt intimidated.
00:20:24.800 They were worried about their Hollywood careers
00:20:26.420 and so forth.
00:20:28.900 Well, if that's the case for adults,
00:20:30.420 what about 12 and 13-year-old girls
00:20:34.780 in middle school and high school
00:20:36.780 who fall victim to this?
00:20:39.720 And they've got no one advocating for them,
00:20:44.220 no one on their side.
00:20:46.560 What hope do they have?
00:20:49.360 So this is a major story.
00:20:50.720 This is a major far-reaching story
00:20:52.260 across the country.
00:20:54.140 And here at The Daily Wire,
00:20:55.540 we're going to continue to pursue that
00:20:56.900 and let you know about it.
00:20:58.220 So meanwhile, Terry McAuliffe
00:21:00.580 doesn't care about the students
00:21:01.720 who are raped in Loudoun County schools
00:21:03.720 or in any other schools,
00:21:05.020 but the students themselves certainly care.
00:21:07.240 And that's why hundreds of students
00:21:08.940 across Loudoun County,
00:21:10.560 we have some footage here,
00:21:11.860 staged a walkout yesterday
00:21:13.360 because of Loudoun County's cover-up
00:21:16.280 of rapes of students,
00:21:18.120 multiple rapes of students
00:21:19.080 in the Loudoun County school system.
00:21:20.860 So you can see there,
00:21:22.060 and it wasn't just one school.
00:21:23.080 There were multiple schools
00:21:23.800 where the kids walked out.
00:21:27.040 You see it here.
00:21:28.220 Well, once again,
00:21:30.440 if you go to corporate media
00:21:31.320 for your news coverage,
00:21:32.380 you probably didn't know this happened.
00:21:35.080 So I want you to compare,
00:21:36.760 here we've got hundreds
00:21:37.620 of high school students
00:21:39.720 walking out
00:21:40.940 because of the sexual abuse
00:21:43.020 and rape of their fellow classmates
00:21:45.460 in school during school hours.
00:21:48.220 So compare the media coverage of that,
00:21:50.400 which was nil,
00:21:51.240 there was basically no coverage,
00:21:52.500 to the few dozen weirdos
00:21:57.280 who walked out of Netflix headquarters
00:22:00.200 because Dave Chappelle
00:22:02.140 told some jokes
00:22:03.100 that made their tummies hurt.
00:22:05.320 Corporate media,
00:22:06.160 three weeks of coverage for that
00:22:07.380 and still ongoing.
00:22:11.800 I mean,
00:22:12.440 at the actual walkout at Netflix,
00:22:14.360 there were far more news cameras
00:22:16.320 than there were people walking out.
00:22:17.880 But these kids,
00:22:21.600 there's some local coverage
00:22:22.980 and then you're hearing about it
00:22:23.940 from conservative media,
00:22:25.060 but that's it.
00:22:28.040 Because this is simply not
00:22:29.320 a conversation that
00:22:30.480 the corporate media wants to have.
00:22:34.100 Okay,
00:22:34.520 what else do we have here?
00:22:35.400 We'll stay on the school board issue
00:22:37.840 for a minute.
00:22:39.260 As we know,
00:22:39.940 it's not just a problem
00:22:40.680 in Loudoun County.
00:22:41.800 Here's a Minnesota school board
00:22:43.960 which has instated new rules
00:22:45.760 to stop those domestic terrorist parents
00:22:48.520 from raining terror
00:22:49.620 at the school board meetings.
00:22:52.100 Here's Jody Sapp.
00:22:53.740 She's a school board member.
00:22:55.920 And here she is explaining
00:22:56.980 the new rules.
00:22:57.620 Listen.
00:22:58.860 I just want to remind everyone
00:23:00.160 this is a business meeting
00:23:01.900 of the school board.
00:23:03.360 It is not a meeting
00:23:04.680 that belongs to the public.
00:23:06.400 Each speaker is asked
00:23:07.680 to state his or her name
00:23:08.960 and address for the record.
00:23:10.600 Failure to do so
00:23:11.380 will result in an individual.
00:23:14.040 This is a meeting of the,
00:23:16.340 this is not a meeting
00:23:17.120 for the public.
00:23:18.560 She says this meeting
00:23:19.560 does not belong to the public.
00:23:22.900 No, Jody.
00:23:25.580 I got news for you.
00:23:27.140 The entire public school system
00:23:28.680 is supposed to belong
00:23:30.460 to the public.
00:23:31.500 It is all public concern.
00:23:33.080 All of it.
00:23:36.180 That's why we call it
00:23:36.920 the public school system.
00:23:40.540 But this is how they feel about it.
00:23:41.720 This is,
00:23:42.420 as parents,
00:23:43.240 this is simply
00:23:43.880 not your business.
00:23:45.880 And if you're going to intrude
00:23:47.000 in our business,
00:23:48.080 which is deciding
00:23:49.720 what your kids
00:23:50.380 are going to be taught
00:23:51.040 and how they're treated
00:23:52.180 and whether they're,
00:23:54.000 and whether their sexual abuse
00:23:56.040 will be reported to police
00:23:56.920 and all that,
00:23:57.540 if you want to intrude
00:23:58.220 in our business,
00:23:58.800 then you got to follow our rules.
00:23:59.920 We're going to make it
00:24:00.280 as hard for you as possible.
00:24:02.120 So here she is
00:24:02.820 explaining the rules.
00:24:03.460 Keep playing.
00:24:04.420 Not being allowed to speak.
00:24:06.460 John, can you give us
00:24:07.280 your name and address, please?
00:24:08.360 My name is John Wickland.
00:24:09.580 I live in Mankato.
00:24:10.640 Could I get your address, please, John?
00:24:12.660 I'd rather not,
00:24:13.760 since you guys have it already.
00:24:15.420 Don't give your address.
00:24:15.980 You can't speak.
00:24:18.660 And I get so much
00:24:19.900 property damage
00:24:21.000 and eggs
00:24:21.660 and everything else
00:24:22.580 from fun people
00:24:24.680 and their friends.
00:24:26.480 John, you need to give
00:24:27.720 your address.
00:24:28.300 I live on 5th Street.
00:24:30.080 Excuse me?
00:24:30.760 I live on 5th Street.
00:24:32.560 House number?
00:24:39.960 You gave us house number.
00:24:41.340 Thank you.
00:24:41.960 All right.
00:24:43.620 So are our kids safe?
00:24:48.620 Effective tonight,
00:24:49.360 the school board
00:24:50.440 will enforce
00:24:51.080 the following guidelines.
00:24:53.160 Open forum participants
00:24:54.520 are prohibited
00:24:55.440 from calling out
00:24:56.440 or addressing
00:24:57.080 any individual school board
00:24:58.820 or school district staff member.
00:25:01.860 If this occurs,
00:25:02.760 open forum will be closed
00:25:04.040 and the individual
00:25:05.280 will not be allowed
00:25:06.080 to participate
00:25:06.700 in future open forums.
00:25:08.880 Crowd noise
00:25:09.680 or any sort of grandstanding
00:25:11.480 during open forum,
00:25:12.680 including applause,
00:25:14.280 talking, hollering,
00:25:15.840 or any outbursts
00:25:16.800 will result in open forum
00:25:18.520 being closed.
00:25:20.760 Further,
00:25:21.780 beginning at the November 1st
00:25:23.280 school board meeting,
00:25:24.620 open forum participation
00:25:25.660 will be limited
00:25:26.520 to those individuals
00:25:27.420 who wish to speak
00:25:28.420 to an item
00:25:29.340 on the board agenda.
00:25:30.980 The board agenda
00:25:31.780 is always made available
00:25:33.160 the Thursday prior
00:25:34.580 to our meetings
00:25:36.460 and they're always
00:25:37.860 on the district website.
00:25:39.040 this evil wench.
00:25:44.120 They all look exactly
00:25:45.100 the same, by the way.
00:25:46.300 All of the little
00:25:47.180 mini, petty,
00:25:49.500 bulbous tyrants
00:25:50.880 that are running
00:25:51.380 our schools,
00:25:51.820 they all look exactly
00:25:52.620 the same.
00:25:53.260 They're like,
00:25:53.800 there's like a uniform
00:25:55.380 for these people
00:25:56.160 and they all,
00:25:57.560 they are so mad
00:25:59.760 that parents are there
00:26:02.600 taking an interest
00:26:03.940 in what they're doing
00:26:04.720 and trying to exert
00:26:08.420 some actual influence
00:26:09.840 over the school system
00:26:11.180 and speaking up
00:26:12.860 for their own kids.
00:26:13.440 They are so angry
00:26:14.540 about it.
00:26:17.220 And that's why
00:26:18.280 this,
00:26:19.860 the response here
00:26:21.180 has to be
00:26:21.960 show up,
00:26:23.020 show up,
00:26:23.700 get louder
00:26:24.180 at the school board meetings,
00:26:25.580 keep showing up,
00:26:27.220 more and more people
00:26:28.440 keep doing exactly
00:26:29.620 what they don't want you
00:26:30.320 to do
00:26:30.640 and don't stop.
00:26:33.520 That's my one fear
00:26:34.820 about this school board,
00:26:38.020 you know,
00:26:38.700 movement right now
00:26:39.680 is that,
00:26:41.040 is that it will,
00:26:41.700 it will just stop
00:26:42.400 and fade away
00:26:42.920 and go away.
00:26:44.180 And we have,
00:26:45.220 let's be honest,
00:26:45.700 we have a history
00:26:46.160 of that on the right.
00:26:47.600 Not just on the right,
00:26:48.400 but in our culture
00:26:49.120 where people generally
00:26:50.520 have the memories
00:26:51.280 of, you know,
00:26:53.060 field mice or something
00:26:54.040 and they,
00:26:56.320 a couple days later,
00:26:57.280 it's like it never happened.
00:26:57.980 You move on
00:26:58.380 to the next thing.
00:26:59.680 Always,
00:27:00.040 always chasing
00:27:00.840 the next shiny object.
00:27:03.320 There are a lot of things
00:27:04.300 for us to focus on
00:27:05.100 in this culture,
00:27:05.560 a lot of battles
00:27:06.100 worth having,
00:27:06.740 but this one
00:27:07.460 has to continue.
00:27:10.160 Because if two months
00:27:11.080 from now
00:27:11.520 we're looking back
00:27:12.620 on this and saying,
00:27:13.220 hey,
00:27:13.360 remember when everyone
00:27:13.960 was showing up
00:27:14.360 to those school board meetings?
00:27:15.140 That was nice.
00:27:16.840 If that's what we're saying
00:27:17.480 two months from now,
00:27:18.040 then none of this
00:27:18.520 will matter.
00:27:22.100 We have to be relentless
00:27:23.180 and consistent.
00:27:25.620 And that's been
00:27:26.320 one of our big downfalls,
00:27:27.820 I think,
00:27:28.060 in the conservative movement.
00:27:30.040 He's a lack
00:27:30.540 of consistency
00:27:31.160 and not being
00:27:32.400 nearly relentless enough.
00:27:35.540 So keep coming,
00:27:36.960 keep getting,
00:27:37.340 keep,
00:27:38.220 get louder and louder.
00:27:42.620 This is the lengths
00:27:43.580 they'll go to,
00:27:44.140 though.
00:27:45.600 They,
00:27:46.120 what Jody there
00:27:47.420 is saying is
00:27:47.940 you have to say
00:27:49.060 your address
00:27:50.020 into the microphone.
00:27:51.940 Like the guy
00:27:52.660 pointed out
00:27:53.280 when he was sitting there,
00:27:54.640 well,
00:27:55.020 you already know
00:27:55.460 the address.
00:27:56.460 You know the address.
00:27:57.780 There's no reason
00:27:58.540 why I have to say it.
00:28:00.320 The only reason
00:28:01.580 why the school board
00:28:02.560 would insist
00:28:03.180 that you say it
00:28:04.020 is to intimidate you.
00:28:06.160 That's the only reason.
00:28:07.320 They are trying
00:28:07.980 to get people hurt
00:28:09.020 and they,
00:28:10.580 they are,
00:28:11.060 they are indirectly
00:28:12.300 encouraging mobs
00:28:13.540 to show up
00:28:13.920 to these people's houses.
00:28:15.100 That's what they're doing.
00:28:16.660 There's no other reason
00:28:17.660 why you should have to say it.
00:28:18.580 And did she also say
00:28:23.120 at another point there
00:28:23.860 that no talking
00:28:25.400 is allowed?
00:28:29.460 I'm not exactly sure
00:28:30.420 how you're supposed
00:28:31.040 to voice your opinion
00:28:33.120 if you're not allowed
00:28:33.700 to talk.
00:28:34.140 I don't know,
00:28:34.640 maybe draw pictures.
00:28:36.780 Do a little Pictionary.
00:28:38.200 Sign language,
00:28:38.860 would that be okay?
00:28:41.260 All right.
00:28:41.820 Let's see.
00:28:44.640 This is some more information
00:28:46.880 from the set
00:28:48.320 of the Alec Baldwin movie
00:28:49.340 where that tragic shooting occurred.
00:28:51.600 It says,
00:28:52.140 Hannah Gutierrez-Reed,
00:28:53.600 the 24-year-old armorer
00:28:55.000 who handled weapons
00:28:56.420 on the set
00:28:56.720 of Alec Baldwin's Rust,
00:28:57.860 was the subject
00:28:58.340 of numerous complaints
00:28:59.380 on her previous film
00:29:00.480 just two months earlier
00:29:01.960 after she discharged weapons
00:29:03.120 without warning
00:29:03.700 and infuriated star
00:29:05.080 Nicholas Cage,
00:29:06.300 according to a crew member
00:29:07.120 who told The Wrap.
00:29:08.560 Stu Bromoff,
00:29:10.320 who served as key grip
00:29:12.900 on the Cage Western
00:29:13.980 The Old Way this summer,
00:29:15.260 told The Wrap
00:29:15.720 that Gutierrez upset
00:29:16.800 both Cage and other crew members
00:29:18.100 on Montana production
00:29:19.660 by failing to follow
00:29:20.700 basic gun safety protocols
00:29:21.980 like announcing the arrival
00:29:23.520 and usage of weapons
00:29:24.360 on the set.
00:29:25.780 After firing a gun
00:29:26.820 near the cast and crew
00:29:27.580 for a second time
00:29:28.340 in three days
00:29:29.160 without warning,
00:29:30.860 Cage yelled at her
00:29:31.720 saying,
00:29:32.500 make an announcement
00:29:32.920 you just blew
00:29:33.440 my effing eardrums out
00:29:34.640 before walking off
00:29:35.820 the set in a rage.
00:29:37.760 And then according
00:29:38.120 to other people
00:29:38.580 on the set,
00:29:39.280 they said,
00:29:40.240 this by the way
00:29:40.980 was her first film
00:29:43.060 where she had been
00:29:43.660 the armorer
00:29:44.560 and there were
00:29:45.860 other alleged incidents
00:29:47.120 where she was walking around
00:29:48.560 with guns
00:29:49.640 tucked under her arms,
00:29:52.180 holding guns,
00:29:53.420 got them tucked
00:29:53.780 under her arms.
00:29:55.740 You know,
00:29:55.880 like she's,
00:29:56.480 like they're a bunch of,
00:29:57.460 I don't know,
00:29:57.940 pillows or books
00:29:58.900 or something
00:29:59.300 and she's carrying them around
00:30:00.680 and then the barrels
00:30:02.740 of the guns
00:30:03.360 as she's walking around
00:30:04.180 end up pointing
00:30:04.720 at other people
00:30:05.320 and that's another
00:30:07.000 basic rule of gun safety
00:30:08.040 here is you can't
00:30:09.260 point the barrel
00:30:09.740 at anybody.
00:30:11.520 Now,
00:30:12.400 when you hear about
00:30:14.340 the armor on the set
00:30:16.740 who is supposed to be
00:30:18.800 in charge of gun safety
00:30:19.860 and making sure
00:30:20.500 that these guns
00:30:21.060 are safe
00:30:21.800 and ready to be used
00:30:23.000 in the film,
00:30:24.840 she's 24 years old,
00:30:27.160 no experience,
00:30:29.100 apparently,
00:30:29.860 according to what
00:30:30.320 we're hearing here,
00:30:31.360 incompetent,
00:30:33.920 previous complaints
00:30:35.620 and according,
00:30:38.440 again,
00:30:38.680 according to people
00:30:39.340 on the set,
00:30:40.320 they said that it was
00:30:40.880 recommended by people
00:30:41.640 on the set
00:30:42.600 that she should be let go,
00:30:43.960 she's not qualified
00:30:44.660 for this,
00:30:45.420 but then she ends up
00:30:47.540 working on another film
00:30:48.300 right after that
00:30:48.860 and you start to wonder,
00:30:51.980 like,
00:30:52.180 how did that happen?
00:30:53.340 Why did she get this job?
00:30:56.020 Now,
00:30:56.220 to be clear,
00:30:56.820 I don't think this is
00:30:57.900 primarily her fault.
00:30:58.720 I think that primarily
00:30:59.860 this falls on Alec Baldwin.
00:31:01.520 He's the one
00:31:02.100 who was holding the weapon.
00:31:03.640 He's the one
00:31:04.180 who pulled the trigger
00:31:04.740 and he's the one
00:31:06.380 who apparently
00:31:06.960 failed to check it,
00:31:08.140 which would have
00:31:08.500 just taken a second.
00:31:10.980 Just one second
00:31:12.820 of your time
00:31:13.380 to check the weapon
00:31:14.100 and save somebody's life
00:31:15.740 and he didn't do that
00:31:16.800 so this primarily
00:31:17.580 falls on him.
00:31:18.860 But obviously,
00:31:19.840 as the armorer,
00:31:20.660 this was a major failure
00:31:21.480 on her part.
00:31:22.440 You wonder,
00:31:23.360 how did she get this job?
00:31:25.940 And then I think back
00:31:28.380 to the new diversity rules
00:31:32.520 that were put in place
00:31:33.440 by the Academy Awards.
00:31:35.420 This was last year,
00:31:36.360 remember?
00:31:37.220 They said,
00:31:37.660 if you want to be eligible
00:31:38.580 for an Academy Award
00:31:39.540 and anytime they're making
00:31:41.460 a film in Hollywood,
00:31:42.120 they always want to be eligible
00:31:43.000 for an Academy Award.
00:31:44.140 There's a whole bunch
00:31:45.220 of diversity boxes
00:31:50.120 that you have to check.
00:31:52.040 And among them
00:31:53.020 is this.
00:31:55.040 I'm reading now
00:31:55.440 from the New York Times
00:31:56.100 back when this
00:31:57.140 was first announced.
00:31:59.580 It says,
00:32:00.000 at least one actor
00:32:00.920 from an underrepresented
00:32:01.900 racial or ethnic group
00:32:02.840 must be cast
00:32:03.480 in a significant role.
00:32:05.100 The story must center
00:32:06.300 on women,
00:32:07.040 LGBTQ people,
00:32:08.140 a racial or ethnic group,
00:32:09.260 or the disabled.
00:32:10.580 At least 30%
00:32:11.220 of the cast
00:32:11.640 must be actors
00:32:12.280 from at least two
00:32:13.080 of those four
00:32:13.700 underrepresented categories.
00:32:15.200 Now,
00:32:15.360 this is a category
00:32:18.740 Standard A.
00:32:20.160 And so you have to check
00:32:20.760 one of the boxes
00:32:21.480 from Standard A
00:32:22.580 in order to be eligible
00:32:24.200 for an Academy Award.
00:32:25.580 But then there's also
00:32:26.120 Standard B.
00:32:27.700 And you have to check
00:32:28.240 a box here, too.
00:32:29.220 And it says,
00:32:30.440 two or more department heads,
00:32:31.860 meaning jobs like director,
00:32:32.920 cinematographer,
00:32:33.480 or composer,
00:32:34.220 must be female,
00:32:35.340 LGBTQ, disabled,
00:32:36.880 or part of an underrepresented
00:32:37.820 racial or ethnic group.
00:32:39.160 At least six other crew members
00:32:40.580 must be from
00:32:41.140 an underrepresented group.
00:32:42.800 At least 30%
00:32:43.760 of the film's crew
00:32:44.560 must hail from the four
00:32:45.620 underrepresented groups
00:32:46.520 continually laid out
00:32:47.580 in these guidelines.
00:32:50.900 Hmm.
00:32:52.100 So it makes you wonder,
00:32:53.560 doesn't it?
00:32:54.200 Was this a matter
00:32:57.080 of box checking
00:32:57.980 on the part
00:32:59.900 of the producers
00:33:00.460 of this film, Rust?
00:33:03.980 It could have also
00:33:04.800 been nepotism.
00:33:06.760 Apparently,
00:33:07.320 this woman's father
00:33:08.980 has ties with Hollywood,
00:33:10.360 has been in Hollywood
00:33:10.900 for a long time.
00:33:12.100 Could be both.
00:33:14.860 But this would be
00:33:15.560 an interesting question
00:33:16.360 to explore,
00:33:17.020 wouldn't it?
00:33:18.340 It's just we know
00:33:18.900 the corporate media
00:33:19.400 won't explore it.
00:33:22.400 Was that a factor
00:33:23.980 this is far
00:33:27.320 from a stretch?
00:33:29.200 We know the Academy Award
00:33:30.600 less than a year ago
00:33:32.140 imposed rules,
00:33:34.060 arbitrary rules,
00:33:35.020 saying that
00:33:35.700 you have to have
00:33:36.580 a certain number
00:33:37.080 of females
00:33:37.720 on the crew.
00:33:41.100 And then,
00:33:42.140 shortly after that,
00:33:43.660 an apparently
00:33:44.500 unqualified,
00:33:45.680 incompetent,
00:33:47.000 way too young
00:33:47.740 for the job,
00:33:48.420 female,
00:33:48.760 was hired,
00:33:49.580 and someone is dead.
00:33:50.200 you don't have
00:33:52.340 to stretch very hard
00:33:53.380 to connect
00:33:53.820 those two things,
00:33:54.920 potentially.
00:33:56.760 Of course,
00:33:57.420 I don't really know
00:33:58.220 what went into
00:33:59.620 this decision-making
00:34:00.380 process here.
00:34:01.620 It would require
00:34:02.400 people in the media
00:34:03.540 with connections here
00:34:04.460 to follow this trail,
00:34:07.600 follow the breadcrumbs,
00:34:09.040 and they're not
00:34:09.360 going to do it.
00:34:10.280 But it's definitely
00:34:11.100 a question worth asking.
00:34:12.500 And whether
00:34:16.640 these two issues
00:34:17.300 are tied
00:34:17.720 in this case
00:34:18.320 or not,
00:34:19.480 it still underscores
00:34:21.460 how absurd
00:34:22.200 rules like these are.
00:34:25.680 Because
00:34:26.160 whatever the reason is
00:34:28.280 for this woman
00:34:29.780 to get the job
00:34:30.300 that she got,
00:34:31.780 it's pretty clear
00:34:32.600 she wasn't qualified
00:34:33.340 for it.
00:34:35.340 And it's also clear
00:34:36.520 that the only thing
00:34:37.660 that should matter
00:34:38.300 when someone
00:34:40.420 is applying for a job
00:34:41.140 is whether or not
00:34:41.760 they are qualified for it,
00:34:43.060 whether they can
00:34:43.760 do the job.
00:34:45.200 What they look like,
00:34:46.340 their demographics,
00:34:47.840 whether they belong
00:34:49.080 to an underrepresented group.
00:34:52.100 I'm not exactly sure
00:34:53.180 how you can call women
00:34:53.980 an underrepresented group
00:34:55.060 when they're,
00:34:55.560 you know,
00:34:55.760 more than half
00:34:56.240 of the world population.
00:34:59.540 But none of that
00:35:00.380 should matter at all
00:35:01.700 or should factor.
00:35:02.900 Okay,
00:35:03.320 this is from
00:35:03.660 the New York Post.
00:35:04.200 It says,
00:35:04.420 a fitness model
00:35:05.180 has been slammed online
00:35:06.560 after she shared
00:35:07.280 a series of photos
00:35:08.380 posing in front
00:35:09.400 of her father's coffin.
00:35:10.420 described by commentators
00:35:12.860 as sick,
00:35:13.940 vile,
00:35:14.200 and disgusting.
00:35:15.140 Jane Rivera
00:35:15.720 from Miami,
00:35:16.940 Florida is a TikTok star
00:35:18.060 who's gained popularity
00:35:19.200 through her fashion travel
00:35:20.240 in swimwear posts.
00:35:22.340 Last week,
00:35:22.680 she took to Instagram
00:35:23.460 revealing her father,
00:35:24.560 a veteran,
00:35:24.920 had passed away.
00:35:26.760 And then,
00:35:27.800 here she is
00:35:28.340 in the pictures.
00:35:28.920 We can see her
00:35:29.520 posing
00:35:32.020 in one picture there.
00:35:34.140 So,
00:35:34.360 she's right in front
00:35:35.080 of her dad's coffin.
00:35:35.980 In one picture,
00:35:36.500 she's actually,
00:35:37.400 I guess,
00:35:37.700 showing off her butt
00:35:38.480 right in front
00:35:39.340 of her dead father.
00:35:42.300 And there were
00:35:42.880 multiple pictures.
00:35:43.640 But now,
00:35:44.200 because of the reaction,
00:35:45.540 she's taken down
00:35:46.080 her Instagram page.
00:35:49.040 How out of touch
00:35:50.080 and what a bubble
00:35:50.720 these influencers live in.
00:35:53.380 Where she posed
00:35:54.320 for these selfies
00:35:55.400 in front of her dead father
00:35:57.300 and put them online
00:35:58.280 and was not expecting
00:35:59.200 anybody would be upset
00:36:00.040 about it.
00:36:00.960 People were upset
00:36:01.520 she took down
00:36:02.020 her whole page.
00:36:05.920 You know,
00:36:06.120 you see this kind of thing
00:36:06.980 and we see this a lot.
00:36:11.620 Influencers
00:36:11.940 or wannabe influencers
00:36:13.380 reacting to tragic situations
00:36:16.640 by, you know,
00:36:17.160 they want to get the selfie.
00:36:18.260 They want to,
00:36:18.660 they want to,
00:36:19.540 they want to mine it
00:36:20.480 for clicks and likes
00:36:21.400 and all of that.
00:36:24.000 And we,
00:36:24.560 we see this
00:36:25.220 and it's easy enough
00:36:25.900 to say,
00:36:26.360 oh,
00:36:26.560 it's just silly,
00:36:27.380 superficial,
00:36:27.980 stupid people,
00:36:28.640 which of course
00:36:29.180 that's part of it.
00:36:32.080 But there's a real,
00:36:33.260 I mean,
00:36:33.440 there's,
00:36:33.780 there's something
00:36:34.280 happening psychologically
00:36:35.600 to people
00:36:36.300 and young people
00:36:38.260 especially
00:36:38.720 who grow up online
00:36:39.920 and they become
00:36:41.080 so dependent
00:36:41.860 on affirmation
00:36:43.720 online
00:36:44.420 that they really
00:36:46.560 become sociopaths.
00:36:47.720 This is,
00:36:47.980 this is sociopathic
00:36:49.260 behavior
00:36:49.660 to respond
00:36:51.340 to your father's
00:36:52.260 death that way.
00:36:53.920 I mean,
00:36:54.420 for that to even be
00:36:55.120 something that enters
00:36:55.780 your mind,
00:36:56.760 but here's my father
00:36:57.500 laying in a coffin,
00:36:58.320 he's dead.
00:37:00.980 Let me get a quick sell.
00:37:02.080 This will be great
00:37:02.660 for Instagram.
00:37:03.240 There's a real
00:37:05.760 mental sickness
00:37:06.680 that is present
00:37:12.560 in a lot of people's
00:37:13.380 minds,
00:37:13.720 I think,
00:37:14.300 and that's pretty clear.
00:37:15.400 All right,
00:37:15.640 let's get now
00:37:16.120 to reading the comments.
00:37:16.960 Matthew St. Peter says,
00:37:34.340 I take comfort
00:37:34.900 in knowing
00:37:35.240 that Matt Walsh
00:37:35.820 would never put
00:37:36.300 the life of a dog
00:37:37.220 above the life
00:37:37.760 of a human,
00:37:38.940 especially after
00:37:39.540 his dog
00:37:40.020 ate his remote.
00:37:41.080 Yeah,
00:37:41.220 you know,
00:37:41.360 if I was going
00:37:41.640 to put any
00:37:42.140 animal life
00:37:42.940 over human life,
00:37:43.580 it wouldn't be dogs.
00:37:44.540 I think that's,
00:37:45.400 that's the thing.
00:37:45.820 I probably wouldn't
00:37:46.260 do it for any
00:37:46.660 animal life,
00:37:47.180 but dogs would not,
00:37:49.020 wouldn't make the cut.
00:37:50.120 Derek Wood says,
00:37:50.920 I'm out,
00:37:51.280 I'm outraged
00:37:51.900 about the cruelty
00:37:52.440 to the unborn
00:37:53.100 and to the cruelty
00:37:54.240 of man's best friend.
00:37:56.360 Both can be true
00:37:57.280 and both should be
00:37:57.840 investigated,
00:37:58.560 charged,
00:37:59.040 and led to the jail
00:38:00.460 time of all those
00:38:01.180 involved.
00:38:02.720 Jason Trimble says,
00:38:04.200 Jesus specifically
00:38:04.880 commands us to love
00:38:05.720 our neighbor as ourself,
00:38:07.040 who is our neighbor,
00:38:08.460 our family,
00:38:09.120 friends,
00:38:09.420 and those who interact,
00:38:10.260 we interact with in life,
00:38:11.220 even our enemies,
00:38:11.940 not our dogs.
00:38:14.060 Ozzie says,
00:38:14.660 I unfortunately went
00:38:15.360 through an alphabet
00:38:15.920 squad phase.
00:38:16.920 I was thinking about
00:38:17.420 becoming trans
00:38:18.180 and almost came out
00:38:19.240 to my parents,
00:38:19.920 but then I discovered
00:38:21.160 your channel
00:38:21.740 and helped me realize
00:38:22.560 how lost I was.
00:38:24.040 Thank you so much
00:38:24.560 for speaking the truth.
00:38:25.260 Well,
00:38:25.600 thanks for telling me
00:38:26.880 that, Ozzie,
00:38:27.320 and that does actually
00:38:29.240 make me feel like
00:38:31.900 there might be
00:38:32.640 a small bit of difference
00:38:33.640 being made here,
00:38:34.860 and I'm glad that you
00:38:35.660 were able to see
00:38:36.400 the light on that.
00:38:37.180 And it's interesting
00:38:39.320 that you say that,
00:38:40.100 though,
00:38:40.320 because we're told
00:38:42.340 that that never happens.
00:38:43.560 I mean,
00:38:43.720 you said that you were
00:38:44.900 feeling a little bit confused
00:38:46.720 and you were thinking
00:38:47.600 about becoming trans,
00:38:49.340 and we're told
00:38:51.400 that that's not
00:38:52.480 how it works, right?
00:38:53.320 Anyone who identifies
00:38:54.780 as trans
00:38:55.380 is because they've known it
00:38:56.840 ever since they were
00:38:57.500 a young child.
00:38:58.360 It's deeply ingrained
00:38:59.280 within them.
00:39:00.260 How many times
00:39:00.700 have you heard someone say,
00:39:01.800 oh, it's not like anyone
00:39:02.500 would wake up one day
00:39:03.360 and just decide
00:39:03.900 to be trans?
00:39:06.520 But as you attest to,
00:39:07.700 that is sort of
00:39:08.580 what happens, actually.
00:39:09.420 Pesky says,
00:39:13.880 Mr. Walsh,
00:39:14.420 I humbly point out
00:39:15.180 that I am indeed
00:39:15.960 the young man
00:39:16.600 who confronted Ben Shapiro
00:39:17.760 in the name of
00:39:18.200 the Sweet Baby Gang.
00:39:18.980 I am deeply honored
00:39:19.840 to have served you
00:39:20.700 and our fellow Sweet Babies
00:39:22.340 in our quest
00:39:22.880 for world domination.
00:39:24.360 And I will continue
00:39:24.880 to carry the SBG torch
00:39:26.440 via my own YouTube channel.
00:39:28.900 Our voices will
00:39:29.820 not be silenced.
00:39:32.080 So you put the little plug
00:39:33.160 for your YouTube channel.
00:39:33.940 I respect that hustle.
00:39:36.020 And I would want all,
00:39:37.680 everyone in the Sweet Baby Gang
00:39:38.760 to do the same
00:39:39.800 when given the opportunity.
00:39:41.360 And I appreciate your service.
00:39:43.700 And I would encourage
00:39:44.780 at any YAF event
00:39:47.140 with other Daily Wire
00:39:48.520 personalities,
00:39:51.640 don't be afraid
00:39:53.100 to show up
00:39:53.760 with your Sweet Baby Gang
00:39:56.700 flag flying high.
00:39:58.200 They all love it.
00:39:59.500 Trust me.
00:40:00.900 They won't tell you,
00:40:01.980 but they do
00:40:02.440 deep down in their hearts.
00:40:04.800 Ian says,
00:40:05.780 here we go again
00:40:06.500 on this channel.
00:40:07.060 Well, you know,
00:40:08.060 I'm getting sick and tired
00:40:08.940 of getting back slapped
00:40:10.000 by conservatives
00:40:10.840 because of my love of animals
00:40:12.300 and how much I decry
00:40:13.200 the abominations done to them.
00:40:15.140 If that's how Matt
00:40:16.020 and Michael feel,
00:40:16.800 then I don't need to be
00:40:17.580 this kind of conservative either.
00:40:18.940 As a Catholic,
00:40:19.540 I hold to be
00:40:20.040 both to be in the same regard,
00:40:23.160 dogs and humans,
00:40:23.920 if not the same value.
00:40:25.600 Pulling my support
00:40:26.480 from the DW
00:40:27.060 now that I've heard
00:40:28.500 Matt's take,
00:40:30.020 mistreatment,
00:40:30.880 some dogs were mistreated,
00:40:31.780 that's a gross understatement
00:40:32.900 if ever I heard one,
00:40:33.720 and the disdain
00:40:35.160 from the DW hosts
00:40:36.100 over this and the outcries
00:40:37.180 while they fall back
00:40:38.140 on their pro-life arguments
00:40:38.980 are revolting.
00:40:40.640 I am pro-life all the way
00:40:42.180 and I feel horror
00:40:42.920 in equal measure.
00:40:45.840 B-Rob says,
00:40:47.000 I'd say I value babies
00:40:48.120 over puppies,
00:40:48.780 but I definitely value
00:40:49.680 dogs over adult people.
00:40:51.720 Dr. Lecter says,
00:40:52.900 Matt,
00:40:53.160 as a self-proclaimed animal lover,
00:40:54.820 I would have to slightly disagree
00:40:55.760 with your thoughts
00:40:56.320 about people versus dogs.
00:40:57.720 My only argument
00:40:58.240 is that in my past
00:40:59.140 chosen profession,
00:41:00.060 all I've seen
00:41:00.500 is brutality,
00:41:01.220 violence,
00:41:01.460 and aggression
00:41:01.920 inflicted on people
00:41:02.900 by other people.
00:41:04.020 Mostly the violence
00:41:04.640 I've seen is on weaker people
00:41:05.740 being preyed upon
00:41:06.640 by bullies
00:41:07.160 and aggressive thugs.
00:41:08.380 Would you have an issue
00:41:08.960 with using death row inmates
00:41:10.180 and or child rapists
00:41:11.100 as the guinea pigs?
00:41:12.240 After all,
00:41:12.920 we're trying to develop
00:41:13.660 things for humans.
00:41:15.240 Let's use the ones
00:41:16.100 that have no desire
00:41:16.660 to be in civilized society.
00:41:18.160 We're going to respond
00:41:18.620 to all this in a second.
00:41:19.320 Hold on.
00:41:20.740 Lateralist says,
00:41:21.400 every life matters.
00:41:22.320 It's not always
00:41:22.880 about us humans.
00:41:24.380 Nancy says,
00:41:24.980 I value dogs
00:41:25.760 and people equally.
00:41:27.400 Another comment says,
00:41:28.100 it's a lot easier
00:41:28.800 to hate humans
00:41:29.540 than it is to hate dogs.
00:41:30.600 Liking animals
00:41:31.200 isn't the problem.
00:41:32.100 People being less likable
00:41:33.200 than animals
00:41:33.840 is the problem.
00:41:35.240 Richard says,
00:41:35.880 you're very wrong
00:41:36.420 about this, Matt.
00:41:36.920 You really don't get it.
00:41:37.740 Very disappointed in you
00:41:38.600 that you failed
00:41:39.360 to capture this moment.
00:41:40.640 Torturing dogs
00:41:41.360 is evil.
00:41:43.080 PM says,
00:41:43.960 dogs are better
00:41:44.640 than most people.
00:41:45.340 I have no problem
00:41:45.840 valuing them more.
00:41:46.800 Jared says,
00:41:47.900 puppies are better
00:41:48.580 than humans.
00:41:49.180 Just saying.
00:41:51.200 Good morning toast
00:41:52.180 says,
00:41:52.900 no,
00:41:53.140 it's not a sickness.
00:41:54.120 Dogs are nicer
00:41:54.680 than people.
00:41:55.160 Simple as that.
00:41:56.380 And Don says,
00:41:57.020 I so value
00:41:57.820 the life of dogs
00:41:58.780 over most people
00:41:59.620 because people
00:42:00.200 are inherently evil.
00:42:02.480 Dogs are trained
00:42:03.140 to be violent,
00:42:03.640 which falls back
00:42:04.260 on a whole people
00:42:05.320 who train the dogs.
00:42:06.280 So that's why people
00:42:06.880 suck and dogs rule.
00:42:08.000 Okay.
00:42:09.240 A lot of comments
00:42:10.220 in that vein
00:42:10.940 telling me that I'm wrong
00:42:12.240 for daring to suggest
00:42:14.960 that people
00:42:16.300 have more value
00:42:17.120 than dogs.
00:42:18.020 And I'm going to respond
00:42:18.860 to all of those comments
00:42:20.160 in the Daily Cancellation,
00:42:21.340 which will be
00:42:21.760 right after this.
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00:44:00.880 Now let's get to
00:44:01.340 our daily cancellation.
00:44:01.980 Today we're going to cancel
00:44:07.300 the people who wrote
00:44:08.540 those comments
00:44:09.060 that I just read
00:44:09.660 and many others
00:44:10.560 in the audience
00:44:11.120 who wrote similar comments
00:44:12.320 or sent messages
00:44:12.900 in the same vein.
00:44:14.300 Unfortunately,
00:44:14.780 you're all canceled today.
00:44:16.420 Your time has come.
00:44:17.460 So just take your medicine.
00:44:19.120 Don't complain about it.
00:44:20.800 Now if you missed
00:44:21.260 the show yesterday,
00:44:22.080 you're canceled for that also
00:44:23.240 for missing the show,
00:44:23.920 of course,
00:44:24.120 but let's back up
00:44:24.740 for a moment.
00:44:25.540 Yesterday we discussed
00:44:26.340 the backlash
00:44:26.880 that Anthony Fauci
00:44:28.120 is facing
00:44:28.600 after it was reported
00:44:29.400 that the NIAID
00:44:31.100 under Fauci's leadership
00:44:32.640 funded a study
00:44:33.440 in which beagle puppies
00:44:34.480 were drugged,
00:44:35.220 infected with parasites,
00:44:36.460 and sometimes had
00:44:37.160 their vocal cords cut
00:44:38.120 to prevent them from barking.
00:44:39.380 This was all done
00:44:40.140 ostensibly to help develop
00:44:41.720 medicine and medical treatments
00:44:42.960 for humans.
00:44:44.280 Now there's nothing wrong
00:44:45.300 in principle
00:44:45.880 with experimenting
00:44:46.700 on animals
00:44:47.300 in order to develop
00:44:47.940 treatments for people,
00:44:49.100 but this particular experiment
00:44:51.460 seems to be gratuitous,
00:44:52.780 not to mention
00:44:53.260 from what I've read,
00:44:54.200 mostly useless
00:44:54.960 since beagles
00:44:55.580 don't make good analogs
00:44:56.920 for humans
00:44:57.380 in a laboratory setting.
00:44:59.420 But that's not
00:45:01.040 the only controversial
00:45:02.240 quote-unquote study
00:45:03.220 that Fauci has been linked to.
00:45:04.600 His organization
00:45:05.120 has also funded
00:45:05.860 an experiment
00:45:06.460 where aborted babies
00:45:08.020 were chopped into pieces
00:45:09.080 and their parts
00:45:09.700 were grafted onto mice.
00:45:11.680 Now as I pointed out,
00:45:13.400 the outrage
00:45:13.960 over the experiments
00:45:14.720 on puppies
00:45:15.220 has been significantly greater
00:45:16.820 than the outrage
00:45:17.540 over the experiments
00:45:18.220 on human children.
00:45:19.680 I argue that this discrepancy
00:45:21.160 is a symptom
00:45:21.600 of our culture's
00:45:22.660 pseudo-pagan animal worship.
00:45:25.040 We tend to value
00:45:25.960 animal life,
00:45:26.660 especially dog life,
00:45:27.500 over human life,
00:45:28.160 and that's a bad thing.
00:45:30.400 It's not that dogs
00:45:31.400 have no value.
00:45:32.680 It's just that human life
00:45:33.860 has infinitely greater value.
00:45:36.000 That was the argument
00:45:36.880 I presented
00:45:37.400 and as you just heard,
00:45:38.500 it has not been greeted
00:45:39.440 with wide approval
00:45:40.240 or acclaim.
00:45:41.080 There are lots of people,
00:45:41.940 even on the right,
00:45:42.940 who will openly profess
00:45:44.040 that they value dogs
00:45:45.360 over their fellow human beings.
00:45:47.300 Now I find this point of view
00:45:48.460 totally perverse
00:45:49.360 and though I shouldn't have
00:45:51.320 to explain why,
00:45:52.240 apparently I do.
00:45:53.360 So let me try to lay out
00:45:54.380 the case now.
00:45:54.980 A few points to take
00:45:56.340 into consideration.
00:45:58.540 First of all,
00:46:00.440 if human life
00:46:01.260 does not have special,
00:46:02.540 unique, inherent value,
00:46:03.980 then there is no point
00:46:05.660 to any of the arguments
00:46:06.920 we have
00:46:07.640 or any of the issues
00:46:08.500 we care about
00:46:09.220 or the things we fight for.
00:46:11.480 There's no point
00:46:12.240 to life at all, in fact,
00:46:13.860 at least not much of a point.
00:46:15.500 The whole basis
00:46:16.360 for the doctrine
00:46:17.000 of human rights,
00:46:17.720 for example,
00:46:18.560 is that human beings
00:46:19.580 have inherent worth
00:46:20.500 and value
00:46:21.020 above that of a beast
00:46:22.360 or a bug.
00:46:23.440 There's a reason
00:46:23.920 why we would say
00:46:24.480 that it's an infringement
00:46:25.240 on a child's rights
00:46:26.440 if you feed them
00:46:28.420 out of a dog bowl
00:46:29.200 on the floor
00:46:29.760 and lock them in a crate
00:46:31.080 and make them go
00:46:32.400 to the bathroom
00:46:32.920 out in the yard.
00:46:34.480 Yet we wouldn't say
00:46:35.600 that it's an infringement
00:46:36.220 on a dog's rights
00:46:37.040 to do that.
00:46:38.120 The reason is that
00:46:39.000 children are human
00:46:39.980 and as humans
00:46:41.440 they have unique dignity
00:46:42.860 which carries with it
00:46:44.380 rights and liberties.
00:46:46.320 If you don't believe that,
00:46:47.620 then again,
00:46:48.180 there's no basis
00:46:48.940 for your conservatism
00:46:50.260 or even your liberalism
00:46:51.760 or any ideology
00:46:52.760 except absolute
00:46:53.560 suicidal nihilism.
00:46:56.140 Second,
00:46:57.180 the good thing
00:46:58.540 is that even though
00:46:59.240 people say
00:46:59.840 they think dogs
00:47:00.500 have equal value
00:47:01.240 or more value,
00:47:02.600 most of those people
00:47:03.320 don't really believe it.
00:47:04.920 Going back to the kid
00:47:05.760 in the crate situation,
00:47:06.800 I'm guessing that
00:47:07.480 every single person
00:47:08.420 who left an angry comment
00:47:09.600 on my show yesterday
00:47:10.480 would react with
00:47:11.640 utter shock and horror
00:47:12.980 at a child being treated
00:47:14.060 like a dog,
00:47:14.880 but they would not react
00:47:16.500 that way to a dog
00:47:17.420 being treated like a dog.
00:47:19.440 Further,
00:47:19.980 I'm betting that
00:47:20.540 all of them,
00:47:21.220 if they were driving along
00:47:22.500 and saw a dead dog
00:47:24.080 on the side of the road,
00:47:25.560 they'd feel sad about it,
00:47:26.660 yeah.
00:47:27.400 But if they saw
00:47:28.100 a dead human,
00:47:29.460 they'd react
00:47:30.020 quite a bit stronger to it.
00:47:32.280 And further,
00:47:33.000 I'm betting,
00:47:33.500 I'm hoping,
00:47:34.640 that if a woman
00:47:36.140 and a dog
00:47:36.920 were trapped
00:47:37.380 in a burning building
00:47:38.240 and they could only save one,
00:47:40.760 all of them
00:47:41.420 would save the woman.
00:47:43.580 I'm betting and hoping
00:47:44.660 that none of them
00:47:45.320 would say,
00:47:45.860 sorry lady,
00:47:46.640 I gotta take this dog out
00:47:47.720 and leave her
00:47:48.640 to burn to death.
00:47:49.460 So these examples
00:47:51.760 only show that
00:47:52.380 people think
00:47:53.060 they value dogs
00:47:53.880 and people the same,
00:47:54.920 but they're confused.
00:47:57.400 And it's good
00:47:58.220 that they're confused
00:47:58.800 because if they actually
00:47:59.760 did value them the same,
00:48:02.180 they'd be full on psychopaths.
00:48:04.480 It might be said
00:48:05.040 that the definition
00:48:05.820 of a psychopath,
00:48:06.860 I mean the literal definition
00:48:07.880 could be
00:48:08.900 a person who treats
00:48:10.000 other people like dogs.
00:48:12.260 But I don't think
00:48:13.260 that most of
00:48:13.860 this dog worship
00:48:14.800 is born from
00:48:15.500 psychopathity necessarily.
00:48:17.140 I think it's born
00:48:17.760 partly from moral degradation,
00:48:19.000 yes,
00:48:19.500 but also largely
00:48:20.300 from confusion.
00:48:22.480 Third,
00:48:23.200 part of the source
00:48:23.920 of that confusion
00:48:24.620 is this half-baked idea
00:48:27.100 that many people have
00:48:27.840 as expressed
00:48:28.280 in some of those comments
00:48:29.040 that dogs are somehow
00:48:30.740 morally superior
00:48:31.720 to humans
00:48:32.320 because humans
00:48:32.940 do a lot of terrible things
00:48:34.260 while dogs
00:48:35.100 never do terrible things.
00:48:36.720 Only that's
00:48:37.520 not true of course.
00:48:38.680 I mean dogs
00:48:39.240 maul children,
00:48:40.600 they kill people.
00:48:42.520 Further down
00:48:43.240 the scale of atrocities,
00:48:44.340 they chew your couch
00:48:45.220 and pillows
00:48:45.800 and shoes.
00:48:47.460 The difference
00:48:48.140 is that you don't
00:48:48.780 hold dogs
00:48:49.420 morally responsible
00:48:50.440 for that.
00:48:51.640 You would never say
00:48:52.280 that a dog
00:48:52.720 who does something bad,
00:48:53.780 even as bad as
00:48:54.460 killing a child,
00:48:55.940 has committed evil.
00:48:57.500 And why?
00:48:58.100 Because you recognize
00:48:58.920 that dogs are incapable
00:49:00.000 of making moral choices.
00:49:01.760 They're not assessing
00:49:02.680 a variety of options
00:49:03.700 and choosing one
00:49:04.520 based on which
00:49:05.160 is the most ethical
00:49:06.220 or moral.
00:49:08.520 And that's correct.
00:49:09.960 That's how they get off
00:49:10.920 the hook
00:49:11.240 when they do bad things.
00:49:12.180 That's why
00:49:12.600 you get to always
00:49:13.820 blame the owner
00:49:14.600 when a pit bull
00:49:15.380 sends someone
00:49:15.940 to the hospital.
00:49:16.600 You always say
00:49:16.900 there's no bad dogs,
00:49:18.600 there's only bad owners.
00:49:20.480 Fine.
00:49:21.800 But if you're letting
00:49:22.600 dogs off the hook
00:49:23.520 for bad actions
00:49:24.580 because they can't
00:49:26.020 make moral choices,
00:49:27.900 then you can't
00:49:28.360 very well give them
00:49:29.020 credit for good actions.
00:49:30.740 You can't ascribe
00:49:31.760 traits like courage
00:49:32.680 and selflessness
00:49:33.320 to dogs
00:49:33.840 if you're not
00:49:34.420 also going to
00:49:35.280 ascribe traits
00:49:35.960 like evil,
00:49:37.060 selfishness,
00:49:37.740 cowardice to them
00:49:38.500 in equal measure.
00:49:40.880 Dogs act on instinct.
00:49:42.140 They act on training.
00:49:45.040 They're not moral beings.
00:49:47.440 So yes,
00:49:47.920 humans do terrible stuff
00:49:49.240 that dogs don't do.
00:49:51.240 Humans also do
00:49:51.920 incredible,
00:49:52.660 courageous,
00:49:53.260 beautiful,
00:49:53.800 selfless,
00:49:54.580 loving things
00:49:55.340 that dogs don't do.
00:49:57.160 Humans are complex,
00:49:58.440 conscious,
00:49:59.220 moral creatures.
00:50:00.460 Dogs are not.
00:50:02.860 Fourth,
00:50:03.500 but this is really
00:50:03.960 what it comes down to.
00:50:05.620 Humans are complex,
00:50:06.700 like I just said,
00:50:07.200 complicated,
00:50:07.720 difficult.
00:50:08.000 This is why
00:50:11.120 we often prefer pets.
00:50:12.420 Pets are easy.
00:50:13.220 They're not complicated.
00:50:14.140 They don't ask much of you.
00:50:15.860 They have needs,
00:50:16.920 but their needs are simple.
00:50:18.540 Their lives revolve
00:50:19.600 around us.
00:50:20.940 They give us
00:50:21.640 what we need emotionally
00:50:22.740 without asking
00:50:23.440 for anything in return.
00:50:24.640 This isn't because
00:50:25.320 of any moral virtue
00:50:26.280 on their part.
00:50:26.820 It's just because
00:50:27.260 they're animals.
00:50:28.800 Ice cream can give you
00:50:29.900 what you want
00:50:30.340 without asking anything
00:50:31.120 in return too.
00:50:32.100 So can a tree
00:50:32.720 if it's hot out
00:50:33.320 and you want shade.
00:50:35.040 But it would be
00:50:35.440 bizarre to say,
00:50:37.220 I value this tree
00:50:38.380 more than the human race
00:50:39.580 because it provides
00:50:40.840 better shade than people.
00:50:43.020 Trees do what trees do.
00:50:45.000 Dogs do what dogs do.
00:50:46.540 It's good to be grateful
00:50:47.640 for both
00:50:48.220 and to value
00:50:49.680 the things they do
00:50:50.520 and what they give you,
00:50:51.700 but to value them
00:50:52.480 above people
00:50:53.420 or on the level
00:50:54.500 with people
00:50:54.960 is deeply confused.
00:50:58.840 And again,
00:50:59.620 I'm being generous
00:51:00.580 by calling it confused.
00:51:02.300 The other option
00:51:03.220 is that it's
00:51:03.680 totally morally depraved
00:51:04.960 and a sign
00:51:05.400 that you're a burgeoning
00:51:06.140 serial killer.
00:51:08.120 But whichever is the case,
00:51:10.200 either way,
00:51:11.600 you're still today,
00:51:12.440 I have to say,
00:51:13.000 unfortunately,
00:51:14.560 canceled.
00:51:15.800 You and your dog.
00:51:17.660 He's getting lumped in
00:51:18.440 with this also.
00:51:19.760 And that'll do it
00:51:20.660 for us today.
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