The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 848 - Bestselling Children’s Author Banned From College Campus

00:00:00.000 Today on the best-selling children's author Matt Wall Show, leftists at St. Louis University have

00:00:04.640 gone to extreme lengths to get my talk tonight canceled. I'll still be there tonight, of course,

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00:02:15.100 So I must, first of all, applaud you for listening to the show today, choosing to expose yourself to

00:02:22.580 me and my words and opinions and ideas. Opinions are, you know, dangerous things, you know. They're

00:02:28.140 very dangerous. And I have lots of opinions, as you probably do too, which makes me a very dangerous

00:02:33.480 man. And that's why my talk tonight at St. Louis University has become such a complicated,

00:02:39.560 controversial, hotly debated affair. I was invited on campus, a Catholic campus, I have to remind you

00:02:46.120 again, to, you know, speak words and convey ideas, all of which are words and ideas fully in line with

00:02:53.800 Catholic teaching, by the way. Everything should have followed rather easily and simply from there, 0.98

00:02:59.640 you might think. Or you would think that if you're an especially naive sort of person.

00:03:04.180 That's not how it's gone. So before we get to the latest in this saga, let's back up and just

00:03:08.200 review briefly. I was requested to come to SLU and give a speech on December 1st, which is today.

00:03:15.680 And the event was approved by the administration. But then the leftist groups on campus decided that

00:03:21.120 this cannot be allowed to happen, right? My views, especially the views that babies are people 0.96

00:03:26.900 and that women aren't men, those two views especially, are so out of line, so outrageous,

00:03:32.820 so toxic, they said, that if they are allowed to be uttered on or near the campus, people might

00:03:38.640 literally die. So they started a petition, you probably remember, to have my talk canceled.

00:03:44.360 That petition read in part, let's just review this again.

00:03:48.060 Conservative speakers have visited our campus previously without issue. Political discourse is

00:03:52.060 valuable and arguably necessary, arguably necessary, to our college education. But Matt Walsh is not

00:03:57.580 simply a conservative speaker. He's a threat to women, the LGBTQI plus community, and racial minorities 0.99

00:04:03.560 on campus. His Twitter is one example of his dangerous persona. As you can read from his social

00:04:08.640 media, Matt Walsh holds extremely controversial and harmful opinions. For example, he calls feminism

00:04:13.020 rotten at the core and one of the worst things to ever happen to Western civilization. He responds to his

00:04:17.540 dissenters by calling them stupid and morally deranged. He says, gender theory is by far the 1.00

00:04:22.140 biggest threat in our schools. These extreme statements allow no room for healthy conversation.

00:04:28.600 Instead, they promote dangerous stereotypes. Okay. So they want healthy conversation and their way to

00:04:33.360 have a healthy conversation is to prevent one side of that conversation from saying anything.

00:04:39.120 Dangerous, harmful, a threat. And this would be the theme. The other theme would be total abject

00:04:46.320 cowardice on the part of the leadership at the school, which has, through every step of the process, 0.98

00:04:52.700 reviewed all of its options and steadfastly consistently chosen the wimpiest, most pathetic, 0.98

00:04:58.560 most chicken path possible. And that's why it's responded to the petition. Originally, it responded 0.95

00:05:04.480 not by shutting down the talk directly, but by imposing a number of onerous and pointless and

00:05:10.460 out-of-nowhere COVID restrictions, which would have turned the event into an absurd display while

00:05:17.360 preventing many ticketed audience members from actually attending. Keep in mind that, again,

00:05:22.160 the event was approved. And then it was only after the fact and after the petition that they came back

00:05:28.080 around and said, oh, by the way, we just remembered about COVID. And so we decided that this and that

00:05:33.380 restriction have to be put in place. For example, they told me that I would have to wear a mask while

00:05:37.980 speaking to the audience. And we'd have to check vaccine cards, which wasn't going to happen to

00:05:44.820 get people in. And we'd have to limit attendance, among other requirements that they invented just

00:05:50.140 for my event. But after I started my own petition, my own competing petition to keep my talk on campus

00:05:56.000 and garnered 20,000 signatures in a day, a new solution arose. The church on campus volunteered,

00:06:02.300 volunteered, volunteered to host the talk. And they would host it, they said, without any of the

00:06:09.060 arbitrary restrictions, you know, that were in place if I went somewhere else. So it seemed like

00:06:15.620 everything had worked out. That is until yesterday. On Tuesday afternoon, 300 faculty and staff published

00:06:24.560 a quote, statement of solidarity, demanding that my talk be canceled. So here's a sample of this

00:06:33.440 lengthy missive. And of course, statement of solidarity. It's no, this is not a statement of

00:06:37.660 solidarity with the Catholic speaker who's trying to speak on the Catholics campus. No, it's solidarity

00:06:43.800 with the people who don't want me to show up. So here's what they say in part. Matt Walsh is known

00:06:49.600 for making degrading statements about LGBTQ plus identities, including pathologizing non-cisgendered

00:06:56.460 individuals on multiple occasions. He also has made denigrative remarks that negatively stereotype

00:07:03.100 other marginalized groups, such as on the basis of race. This rhetoric is dangerous, yet part of a

00:07:09.320 pervasive cultural script that condones bigotry to be upheld by the smokescreen of free speech.

00:07:15.580 Free speech is a smokescreen, according to the 300 faculty and staff on this campus. Now this

00:07:24.700 already sounds so on the nose, you know, so much like a parody of woke snowflake-ism that you, I

00:07:33.180 couldn't blame you for thinking that I made that up, but I didn't, I assure you. This is very much

00:07:38.800 real, and it gets worse. They continue. In his upcoming talk at SLU, Matt Walsh plans on discussing

00:07:46.900 the biological ability to carry a pregnancy in order to ostracize transgender women. Let me read 0.98

00:07:53.280 that again. In his upcoming talk at SLU, Matt Walsh plans on discussing the biological ability to carry

00:07:58.880 a pregnancy in order to ostracize transgender women. So if you talk about biological science on campus, 0.54

00:08:06.720 that is a conspiracy to ostracize transgender people, is what they're saying. Young transgender people

00:08:13.740 face physical violence and discrimination. They have a disproportionately higher rate of attempted suicide

00:08:18.800 compared to cisgender folks, and the life expectancy of black transgender women is between 35 and 37 years

00:08:24.120 due to compounded layers of trauma. Bringing a speaker on campus that targets this already vulnerable

00:08:29.880 demographic is insensitive, considering we have already lost two SLU students to suicide since the start

00:08:35.900 of the semester. Additionally, associating childbirth with womanhood is also dangerous for cisgender women

00:08:50.520 who are unable to carry children, have had one or more miscarriages or stillbirths, or do not want

00:08:55.120 to procreate. Childbirth should not determine a person's gender identity, nor should it delegitimize 0.73

00:09:00.020 their womanhood. Doing so can be very triggering and lead to mental distress. Again, this sounds made up. 0.92

00:09:07.280 It's not. Now, much here warrants comment, I think, but let's focus for just a moment on the mention of suicide

00:09:14.660 on campus. This is where you see how these people are not nearly oversensitive. In fact, it was always a mistake

00:09:24.620 to refer to this kind of stuff on college campuses as being sensitive. That's the last thing they are.

00:09:31.960 These people are sociopaths. Sensitive? I mean, being overly sensitive is a problem because you're overly 0.97

00:09:38.240 sensitive, but of all the flaws for a person to have, it's not the worst one. I mean, if you're truly

00:09:44.060 like a sensitive person, truly sensitive person, then that means that you're, you know, maybe overly

00:09:49.140 empathetic, right? And you, you can, you feel for other people. And so that it's, you know, that's the

00:09:55.640 kind of thing that you have to have in moderation. And for some people, it's, they have an, they have

00:09:59.300 immoderate amounts of that, but that's not the worst thing in the world. That's not the case here.

00:10:04.920 This is not an overabundance of empathy. It's the opposite. And you see it by them using suicide.

00:10:11.820 These are evil, depraved people because two students really did kill themselves on SLU campus.

00:10:19.200 And, and they, as the administration and the staff, they think nothing of exploiting those deaths

00:10:24.080 to score points against me. Even though I, of course, had nothing to do with those suicides,

00:10:32.060 which I shouldn't even have to say. Those tragedies were in no way at all remotely connected

00:10:37.420 to my talk or me in any way. There's also no indication as far as I'm aware that these were

00:10:43.480 trans people as the letter seems to imply. So this is a gratuitous and shameless effort to wield 1.00

00:10:50.120 suicides as a cudgel against me. It's, it's, it's soulless and disgusting. I would say they, 0.99

00:10:58.440 they should feel ashamed, but I doubt they possess the capacity to feel shame anyway.

00:11:02.300 So then it goes on for a long time. And then finally, the letter towards the end says,

00:11:06.140 we want to be clear. Matt Walsh's viewpoints, rhetoric and tactics do not represent the

00:11:10.940 perspective of the undersigned SLU faculty and staff. We denounce any narratives that perpetuate

00:11:16.260 insularity or impugn the dignity of the individual, including their vibrant and intersectional identities.

00:11:22.760 So there it is. If you were worried that these people might've written a whole three paragraphs

00:11:27.320 without using the phrase intersectional identities, fear not, you know, if you're playing the drinking

00:11:32.300 game, you could take a drink now. Um, they fit that in at the very end. And this last bit of

00:11:37.100 pressure from the, uh, faculty and staff apparently was too much for father Dan White, who's the pastor

00:11:43.700 of the church that had offered to host the event, but had invited me to, to, to speak at their church.

00:11:50.280 Yesterday, he sent this email to the event organizers, which was then forwarded to me.

00:11:54.240 Here's his email from father Dan White at, uh, at SLU. I need to meet with you today to discuss the

00:12:01.560 cancellation of our ballroom being used as the venue for Matt Walsh's lecture. I apologize for

00:12:06.220 making this last minute, but over the past two days, I've had the opportunity to view carefully

00:12:09.720 his Facebook page and YouTube page, his content regarding immigration, communities of color,

00:12:15.400 Muslims, and other important topics is not in keeping with who we are as a parish and as part of

00:12:20.060 the Catholic church. It is my fault for not doing my due diligence, diligence in regards to his 0.77

00:12:24.560 background before we booked. I'm sorry for that. And for having to make this decision at this late

00:12:29.360 hour. Sure you are father, you coward. Now I would call him a coward and he is a coward, but I want to 1.00

00:12:36.520 distract from the fact that he is also a God forsaken liar. Uh, it's not true that he just reviewed my 0.98

00:12:43.500 background over the last few days. I think we can really reasonably assume that he knew who I was

00:12:50.060 and where I was coming from when he originally agreed to have me come talk. He didn't take any,

00:12:57.320 he didn't make any new revelations about me or uncover any deep, dark secrets. He simply caved to

00:13:03.420 the mob. And he also lies and defames me when he says that, uh, my comments about communities of

00:13:10.320 color and Muslims, et cetera, are not in keeping with the Catholic church. What? I mean, what Muslims? 1.00

00:13:17.780 When was the last time I even talked about Muslims? Is it when I talked about Ilhan Omar?

00:13:24.420 Is that, is that criticizing Ilhan Omar? I can only assume that's the, that's the only time I can

00:13:29.840 remember like in the last year saying anything about Muslims and it was Ilhan Omar specifically,

00:13:34.760 not Muslims. In fact, the point of my comment was that criticizing Ilhan Omar is not a criticism of 0.66

00:13:40.260 Muslims because she's, she is not a representative of the entire religion. She is herself and she herself 0.67

00:13:45.100 is a vile, depraved person. So what precisely have I said on any of those topics that falls out 0.92

00:13:50.840 of line with the Catholic faith? He can't give an example because it doesn't exist. It just doesn't

00:13:56.340 exist. What have I even said on those topics that's wrong morally or factually? Again, he can't give an

00:14:04.260 example, but he thinks nothing of throwing me to the wolves, lying, you know, and everything in order

00:14:09.200 to cater to the emotional demands of a demented, fearful, bullying mom. Now at the end of all this, 0.99

00:14:17.660 um, I'm still going to give the talk. You know, they put out a petition, they signed a statement,

00:14:22.940 they kicked me out of two venues, put a whole bunch of red tape and all kinds of other things

00:14:28.200 in our way, but I'm still going to be there. We secured a third venue now. And so I'll be there

00:14:33.120 tonight, but still words simply cannot express how pitiful all of this has been. And also quite

00:14:40.660 terrifying because, you know, we, we used to look at all of this kind of thing, the way that college

00:14:46.720 students are coddled and protected from reality and wrapped in swaddling clothes and rock to sleep

00:14:52.100 and shielded from any ideas or opinions that might threaten to shake them out of their stupor. And we,

00:14:57.520 we look, we used to look at all that. We used to say, ah, well, you know, the real world will

00:15:00.900 straighten them out. They're in for a wake up call soon enough, but the wake up call has never

00:15:07.440 really come. I'm afraid to say, instead it was us who needed the wake up call because they didn't

00:15:15.860 have to adjust to the real world. Instead, the world adjusted to them. I think we forgot that this

00:15:21.620 is like an entire generation of people who are coming into society and, um, and they're going to

00:15:28.220 be running things soon enough. And so they, they were able to reshape society in their image as,

00:15:32.760 as each successive generation is able to do. We now live in a society that runs itself according

00:15:39.720 to these same rules that you find on college campuses. The world didn't make them sane. Rather,

00:15:45.800 they made the world crazy or helped. It was a process in fairness that was already underway.

00:15:52.200 And that's all the more reason why we can't bend to this madness. You know, they call me dangerous.

00:16:01.580 Anybody else, if you have opinions they don't like, then you're, you're dangerous. We're all dangerous.

00:16:07.120 Well, I, uh, I embrace that. In fact, I don't, I don't deny it. I don't think any of us should. We,

00:16:14.920 we, yeah, sure. I'm dangerous. We should be dangerous.

00:16:17.100 We should be a danger. We should be a threat to this obviously quite fragile worldview that they

00:16:26.380 have constructed. It's very fragile. It cannot withstand any criticism. I forget about criticism.

00:16:32.200 It can't even, it can't even withstand discussion. So yeah, we should be dangerous to that. And that's

00:16:37.980 why I'll be there tonight. Come hell or high water. Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:17:53.080 about all this SLU stuff is that there is that really let's not lose sight of the fact that

00:17:59.660 they're trying to get a best-selling children's author banned from campus. What kind of world are

00:18:04.480 we living in when a best-selling children's author can't speak on a college campus? That's my

00:18:08.900 question. And I am, and I don't know if you heard, I am in fact a best-selling children's

00:18:13.580 author. My book, Johnny the Walrus, which is on sale right now at johnnythewalrus.com.

00:18:18.520 It did make it with, with your help. I have to, I have to thank you because we, we did get all the

00:18:23.480 way to the number three on Amazon. We got into the top five and to the top three, actually among all

00:18:28.900 books on Amazon, my book about Johnny, the trans walrus, easily the best-selling children's book.

00:18:34.780 And one of the best-selling books in the, in the, in the entire world right now on Amazon.

00:18:39.200 And, uh, it sold so well that we actually ran out. We, uh, we sold out of our entire first run,

00:18:45.420 our first stock of books. We sold out in less than a, in less than a day. Um, and, uh, which is why

00:18:52.520 if you go to Amazon right now, or at least the last I checked this morning, you go to Amazon,

00:18:58.320 it'll say, you know, unavailable. That's not because Amazon kicked us off. That still might happen.

00:19:03.480 And I think it probably will, but no, that's because we actually literally ran out of books,

00:19:06.840 but the good news is that you can go to Johnny, the walrus.com and you can, uh, you can reserve

00:19:12.740 a copy and then that will be shipped out to you. And lots of people are doing that. So again,

00:19:16.420 go to Johnny, the walrus.com and we're getting a new shipment in and soon you'll be able to get

00:19:19.760 it on Amazon again. Um, until, until they do ban it. Um, and, uh, we'll, we'll, we'll see now the,

00:19:26.280 the strategy here was normally, you know, this would be the kind of book that you would think

00:19:32.420 Amazon would ban. But if you can, if you can get it all the way to the top of this,

00:19:37.580 and this just shows how inconsistent and arbitrary the rules are, which, of course,

00:19:42.360 which of course is no revelation. We know that, but if we can get it all the way to the top and

00:19:46.040 make it very visible, then it's probably less likely that they'll ban it as much as they want

00:19:49.960 to, because then everybody will notice when they do it and it becomes a big story and it's

00:19:53.760 embarrassing for them. And then also it puts them in a position. If they were to ban it where

00:19:58.700 Amazon would have to explain why they ban this book. And the problem is for them is that the

00:20:04.720 book doesn't actually say anything about transgender specifically. So if they ban a book about a kid

00:20:09.740 pretending to be a walrus and said, well, it's, it's anti-trans. Now they're the ones drawing a

00:20:15.140 connection between walruses and trans people, not me. And so that's the bind that puts them in. 0.59

00:20:20.100 This was all, if this was all part of the plan. Okay. Um, and, uh, and so far it's working well,

00:20:25.440 I don't want to spike the football too soon, but we, we did, we were able to stay on long enough,

00:20:29.680 which was only a day to, to sell out. Um, and that's why, I mean, you look at the books they

00:20:34.900 have banned. There was, um, the Ryan T Anderson's book when Harry became Sally, which is an excellent

00:20:40.820 book, but it's, it's, you know, it's, it's very academic. It's not, it's not at all inflammatory

00:20:47.720 in the least bit, but they banned that because although it's very successful book, it like it wasn't in 0.97

00:20:54.180 the, in the top 10, it had been out for a while, which is another thing that made it so stupid that 0.96

00:20:57.660 they banned it. Like it'd been out for a while. He'd already done the promotion run on it. And 0.95

00:21:01.580 it's just kind of like all books do after you promote it and everything. It's just kind of

00:21:04.380 like, it's sitting there somewhere on Amazon. And then they banned it, hoping that nobody would

00:21:08.600 notice. So that's where they, that's what they, um, you know, they tried to sort of pick off the

00:21:14.020 books that, uh, that they think won't, won't, won't be noticed as much when they do ban it.

00:21:18.500 So again, johnnythewalrus.com and you can get, uh, you can reserve your copy today. Okay.

00:21:24.280 This is from cnn.com. It says a 15 year old boy is in custody after three students died and eight

00:21:29.180 were injured in a shooting Tuesday afternoon at a high school in Oxford, Michigan. The Oxford high

00:21:33.600 school students killed were Tate Meyer, Hannah St. Julian, Madison Baldwin, according to Oakland

00:21:40.340 County Sheriff Michael Bouchard. Eight others were shot. Three are in critical condition with gunshot

00:21:46.260 wounds, including a 14 year old girl was on a ventilator after having surgery. Uh, terrible,

00:21:51.100 uh, story of course, not a lot is, has been released. We haven't been told a lot about the

00:21:58.120 shooter in the case, except that he's 15 year old boy. That's that's I think all we really know right

00:22:03.100 now. Um, his, uh, he was captured alive, which is somewhat rare for these school shootings. And,

00:22:10.540 um, and now he's in custody and apparently according to reports, his parents,

00:22:16.260 have gotten him a lawyer and they've said that he's not talking to anybody. Um, now, of course

00:22:21.300 we will hear after a case like this, we're already hearing about, uh, about guns, you know,

00:22:27.940 how this is all the fault of guns and so on. But Waukesha already demonstrated that taking

00:22:33.000 guns away isn't going to stop this kind of thing. Even if we're not talking about Waukesha

00:22:37.660 because the media is pretending it didn't happen, it did happen. And it's a, it's a very good

00:22:42.000 demonstration of the terrible fact that when someone gets it into their head that they want

00:22:48.580 to kill a bunch of people, there is, as we talked about yesterday, there's really no tool that you

00:22:54.820 can take away from them preemptively that will stop them from, from at least attempting to carry 0.65

00:23:01.440 it out. Um, also one other thing, one other of the, uh, of the very few details we have about

00:23:07.460 the shooter is that apparently he stole his dad's gun, which we would assume was purchased legally.

00:23:13.820 So his dad legally had a gun and then the kid took it and committed this terrible crime.

00:23:19.300 So what that means is that it was already illegal for him to possess the gun.

00:23:24.460 And when he went into the school and did what he did, everything about what he was doing,

00:23:29.580 having the gun in the first place as a 15 year old, uh, bringing it into a school

00:23:34.140 and then obviously shooting innocent people, all of that is, is illegal. And there are many laws

00:23:41.320 against all of that. And then the question becomes, is there an additional law that we could,

00:23:45.340 we could have passed that would have prevented that? Um, I don't think that there's an additional

00:23:49.580 gun law we could have passed. There, there may have been other policies like more security for the

00:23:56.320 schools. That might've been helpful, but taking the gun way, guns away, I don't, I don't think would.

00:24:02.460 But what we should be talking about as always is what drives a person to do this. And for school

00:24:11.120 shooters in particular, it seems often, and I don't know about this case because we have so few details,

00:24:17.100 but very often with school shooters in particular, it seems that they're, that they are not driven by

00:24:24.280 rage or even hate necessarily, but, but even worse by indifference to human life,

00:24:30.340 you know, total indifference. And that's why so often in these cases, you hear from the survivors

00:24:38.560 and they, and they tell you the ones that actually saw the shooter. And you have these haunting images

00:24:41.940 of these shooters who, uh, so often we're told are sort of casual and almost bored looking as they,

00:24:49.180 as they go around killing people. It's kind of rare with these mass shootings that we're told that the,

00:24:53.600 the shooter was enraged, you know, spill flecked kind of screaming and all that kind of thing.

00:24:59.040 That's not, normally that's not the image that we're given. We're given that someone just kind

00:25:02.660 of casually walking around shooting people, totally empty inside, total indifference to human life.

00:25:08.780 And, um, and that is a, that is, I believe that that is an increasing problem in our society.

00:25:17.360 School shootings are still fortunately relatively rare, but there are a lot of very empty,

00:25:25.480 totally indifferent people walking around and whether there's guns or not horrible things happen

00:25:31.680 when you have a society full of those kinds of people. All right, next, this is from the New York

00:25:36.340 Times says CNN, uh, star CNN anchor, Chris Cuomo was suspended and indefinitely by the network on

00:25:41.700 Tuesday after new details emerged about his efforts to assist his brother, Andrew Cuomo,

00:25:46.020 the former governor of New York, as he faced a cascade of sexual harassment accusations that led

00:25:50.040 to the governor's resignation. Chris Cuomo had previously apologized for advising Andrew Cuomo's

00:25:53.840 senior political aides, but thousands of pages of evidence released on Monday by the New York

00:25:58.060 attorney general, Letitia James revealed that the anchor's role had been more intimate and involved

00:26:03.740 than previously known. CNN said in a statement on Tuesday, the documents, which we were not privy

00:26:09.500 to before their public release raised serious questions. When Chris admitted to us that he had

00:26:14.260 offered advice to his brother's staff, um, he broke our rules and we acknowledged that publicly,

00:26:19.620 but we also appreciated the unique position he was in and understood his need to put family first

00:26:25.240 and job second. However, these documents point to a greater level involvement in his brother's

00:26:30.180 efforts than we previously knew. As a result, we have suspended Chris indefinitely pending further

00:26:34.720 evaluation. Okay. Well, of course, CNN deserves no credit for this whatsoever. They were, they were

00:26:41.360 backed into a corner and did this because they had to. Also, they're saying they suspended him upon,

00:26:45.860 upon further investigation. That's also what they said about, uh, Jeffrey Toobin after he masturbated 0.97

00:26:53.020 on a zoom call. And then famously he was brought back into the fold. So we'll see if, if, if a similar 0.87

00:27:01.160 thing happens here, if it doesn't, that would be very interesting trying to sort through at a place

00:27:08.020 like CNN, what exactly gets you canned and what doesn't. If, if Jeffrey to, if, if Chris Cuomo was never

00:27:15.320 invited back and his suspension becomes permanent yet, yet Jeffrey Toobin is still there, then that

00:27:23.180 raises a lot of questions. Um, but one thing we know for sure, as I have to unfortunately remind you

00:27:29.700 is that Chris Cuomo will be replaced on air, whether permanently or not. And I suspect it will be

00:27:36.780 permanent. And the reason that I think it's permanent is because they're going to find just like they did

00:27:43.280 New York with his brother, give her to Andrew Cuomo, who's bad enough, bring in Kathy Hockill. 0.99

00:27:48.260 She's even worse, crazier, more far left, more ideological, or at least more willing to be a 1.00

00:27:54.440 puppet for the far left in her state. Um, and they're going to do something like that now with 1.00

00:28:00.020 Chris Cuomo slot on CNN. I mean, the good news is that nobody watches it. You know, nobody watched

00:28:05.280 Chris Cuomo to begin with. Nobody will watch his replacement, but even so they're going to find

00:28:09.820 someone, I guarantee you far more obnoxious. It seems hard to believe, but they will someone far

00:28:16.200 more obnoxious and certainly far more, um, farther to the left than Chris Cuomo was. They're going to

00:28:22.900 get, my prediction is they're going to get their own kind of joy read type person, maybe joy read

00:28:26.860 herself. Maybe who knows, but it'll be somebody like that, that they have to replace, uh, Chris Cuomo.

00:28:33.060 Because as we know, the rule here is that these institutions, as we've reviewed, they, they only

00:28:40.520 ever go to the left. They never go to the right. They are on a sort of conveyor belt that is moving

00:28:45.720 perpetually to the left. And, uh, they never get rid of anybody. They never turn on their own

00:28:51.500 unless there's someone farther to the left waiting in the wings. That's the only time they'll do it.

00:28:56.600 All right. What else we got here? Um, so let me, I'm trying to pull this up. Twitter.

00:29:04.700 Speaking of going further to the left, we know Jack Dorsey stepped down from, um,

00:29:11.600 from his position as CEO of Twitter. And that was another occasion where I had to be the cynical guy

00:29:16.000 and the, the, the person focusing on the, on the dark cloud within the silver lining and, uh, say that,

00:29:21.740 you know, Jack Dorsey was, was probably not great for free speech and all that kind of stuff,

00:29:27.680 but it's going to get worse with him gone. And so within a day, here's the announcement from

00:29:33.880 Twitter safety. They, they published this yesterday on Twitter. It says sharing images is an important

00:29:39.680 part of folks's experience on Twitter. People should have a choice in determining whether or not

00:29:44.800 a photo is shared publicly to that end. We are expanding the scope of our private information policy

00:29:50.160 beginning today. We will not allow the sharing of private media, such as images or videos of private

00:29:56.540 individuals without their consent. Publishing people's private info was also prohibited under

00:30:01.840 the policy as is threatening or incentivizing others to do so. What does this mean? Well,

00:30:07.160 what it means is, uh, project Veritas is, is gone. You know, this is very specifically targeted at

00:30:15.960 Project Veritas. They don't say that, but they might as well. Uh, and also it's not a coincidence

00:30:21.380 that this is happening number one, right after Jack Dorsey leaves, but number two, right after the

00:30:25.680 Rittenhouse trial, which did not go the way that Twitter obviously wanted. And the Rittenhouse trial

00:30:30.560 was a story about independent media. Really the, uh, the, the heroes of that story were the independent

00:30:36.140 journalists who caught all this on film. If those cameras were not there, his Rittenhouse's defense

00:30:41.100 attorney said this on Fox after the trial that, uh, that Kyle is very, very grateful that the cameras

00:30:46.100 were there. Um, and that's, that's one of the ways that, you know, someone's innocent most of the time

00:30:50.760 is if something happens and they're happy that it was caught in camera, it's a pretty good indication

00:30:55.000 that they're innocent. If that was not caught on camera, if those independent journalists with the

00:30:59.600 Daily Caller and other outlets had not been there, then Kyle Rittenhouse is going to jail for the rest

00:31:03.380 of his life because all we would have is the corporate media version of events. We would have a,

00:31:08.980 uh, he said, he said, and as far as that goes, Rittenhouse was outnumbered by Antifa BLM. They

00:31:14.180 were the, they were the primary ones there. So we'd have their story and we would have the

00:31:17.620 corporate media story really would be the BLM story as filtered through as told by the corporate

00:31:23.000 media and we would have nothing else. And then, uh, Rittenhouse is done. So Twitter doesn't want

00:31:28.660 that anymore. And now they've put this policy in place, which means no more of that, no more

00:31:33.220 independent journalists capturing inconvenient things on camera, no more Project Veritas capturing a lot of

00:31:38.640 very inconvenient things inconvenient for the far left narrative on camera. Um, but you read the

00:31:44.220 policy and you think, well, hold on a second. Wouldn't this also apply to a lot of the police

00:31:49.100 videos that we've seen? What about, uh, George Floyd, Derek Chauvin didn't as far, as far as I know,

00:31:55.040 didn't consent for those videos to be out there. So the next time there's a high profile police shooting

00:32:00.560 or somebody dies in police custody and it's caught on camera, um, it's can, can the police say,

00:32:06.540 hey, I didn't consent to this. Well, no, of course not because the rules are vague and the ambiguity

00:32:14.140 is the point. So what they're doing, what Twitter does is they set the rules up and then, you know,

00:32:21.220 they put it in the fine print that it of course will be up to them to decide who has violated these

00:32:26.720 rules and how we define all of these things. Even something like privacy. Is this a private

00:32:34.100 individual? Is this a private thing that's happening? Is it, you know, how do we define

00:32:37.700 that? Well, it'll be up to them. And that's the whole point. So it puts them in a position

00:32:42.540 where they can get rid of project Veritas and they can kick the independent journalists off,

00:32:46.660 uh, the payroll. I mean, off of the, um, they're, they're not on the payroll. The corporate media

00:32:50.840 is more on the payroll. They could kick the independent journalists off the platform. Uh, but then

00:32:55.060 they can, you know, they can use their judgment and their discernment to decide when those rules do

00:32:59.920 not apply. And I think we can guess when that's going to happen. All right. Next, the Jussie

00:33:04.620 Smollett trial is beginning. This is from Fox. It says, Jussie, Jussie Smollett, because we're

00:33:10.260 getting more revelations about what exactly Smollett did and what went into this scam. So here's the

00:33:18.140 latest. Jussie Smollett was allegedly seen on video conducting a dry run of his attack the day before it

00:33:24.000 took place. Further lending credence to the prosecution's claim that he orchestrated the whole

00:33:28.180 thing. During opening arguments on Monday, special prosecutor, Dan Webb told the jury that Smollett

00:33:31.940 was upset that a threatening hate letter that was sent to the studio behind empire wasn't taken

00:33:36.040 seriously enough. And by the way, that hate letter was almost certainly written by Smollett himself.

00:33:41.780 It would seem so Smollett sent the hate letter to himself and nobody cared and he got upset. And so he

00:33:48.460 said, okay, now we got to take it one step further. And as a result, Webb is hoping to convince the jury

00:33:53.720 that the actor hired brothers, um, Abimbola and, uh, Olabinjo. I don't even know why I, why do I try

00:34:01.900 with names anymore? We'll just call them brothers A and O. So he hired brothers A and O to attack him.

00:34:08.040 One potentially damning piece of evidence teased during Webb's opening argument was that there is

00:34:11.580 surveillance video showing Smollett and the two siblings who, uh, he worked with on empire doing a

00:34:16.840 kind of dry run of the attack in the area the day before it allegedly took place. They are not sending

00:34:21.960 their best with these hate hoaxes. They really are not. Thankfully, you know, so it's always so

00:34:26.340 obvious when they are hoaxes. Um, he was on camera. He, he, I'm trying to wrap my head around this.

00:34:33.800 He knew the security cameras were there and that's why he staged it there. And that's why he hot rather

00:34:40.160 than simply not involving anybody else and just saying it happened to him. That would have been the

00:34:46.200 smarter move, by the way, don't do it on camera. Just like don't involve anybody else.

00:34:52.540 Just, just claim that it happened and nobody will be able to prove that it didn't. Yet when you

00:34:58.340 involve other people and you intentionally do it on camera, now you're providing evidence that can

00:35:03.640 be turned against you. So he knew the cameras were there and yet he still showed up with those

00:35:08.760 brothers the day before to do a dry run of the attack. My God, just for fun, can we play, um, I have

00:35:15.340 the video queued up. This is just for fun. A trip down memory lane. As we get to this trial, let's play

00:35:20.180 the video of Jussie Smollett. This was the, uh, the now infamous interview, uh, right after

00:35:25.020 the supposed attack where he's talking about the trauma that he suffered. And it's, it's

00:35:28.860 always a lot of fun and pretty hilarious. Let's watch that again.

00:35:30.780 Uh, heard, as I was crossing the intersection, I heard, Empire. And I don't answer to Empire.

00:35:39.460 My name ain't Empire. Uh, and I didn't answer. I kept walking. And then I heard, Empire. So

00:35:47.780 I turned around and I said, the did you just say to me? I mean, I see the, uh, attacker, uh, masked. And

00:35:57.300 he said, this MAGA country punches me right in the face. So I punched her that back. And then, um, we 0.87

00:36:06.300 started tussling. You know, it was very icy. And we ended up tussling by the stairs, uh, fighting, fighting,

00:36:13.680 fighting. There was a second person involved who was kicking me in my back. And, uh, then

00:36:21.080 it just stopped. And they ran off. And I saw where they ran. And the phone was in my pocket,

00:36:29.560 but it had fallen out. And it was sitting there. And my manager was still on the phone. So I

00:36:34.460 picked up the phone and I said, Brandon. And he's like, what's going on? And I said, I was

00:36:38.980 just jumped. And I, then I looked down and I see that there's a rope around my neck.

00:36:43.480 So what you see in a video like that, what we have to remember is number one, speaking

00:36:50.320 of sociopaths, like this is a sociopath. It's funny that he's so stupid, but, um, this is 1.00

00:36:55.960 a sociopath. And also it's not just a hoax. I think I was using the word hoax before. I think 1.00

00:37:03.020 we should be careful about that because hoax makes it seem less serious than it is. Hoaxes

00:37:09.840 are bad enough. Um, this was not just a hoax. This was a scam. This was a con. There was

00:37:15.360 a piece, I think, of the Federalists making this point. And, um, and I, I agree with it 0.55

00:37:19.840 that hoax doesn't exactly cover it. This was a, a, a, a con that he had worked out very stupid, 1.00

00:37:28.940 yet very, very intricate. And he was involving other people and he had both a political, ideological 0.99

00:37:34.640 and financial motive behind it. So the people saying, Oh, why are they going through a whole

00:37:39.860 trial with this? These are misdemeanor charges. Uh, no, this is, this is, I think you should

00:37:47.520 go to jail for 10 years for this. You should go to jail for 20 years for this. That's not

00:37:51.980 going to happen. I doubt he's going to serve any jail time at all, but perpetrating a con

00:37:59.820 like this so that you can blackmail your employer into paying you more money. And also you are

00:38:09.000 exploiting intentionally and trying to exacerbate racial divisions, which is yet another reason.

00:38:17.420 If it were me, I'd give him 20 years in jail for this. All right. Um, what else we got here?

00:38:23.380 Let's check in with Jim Cramer on CNBC. Lord knows what happened if he didn't partake. But back then,

00:38:32.400 anyone who refused to get vaccinated would get ratted out immediately because we knew that person could

00:38:37.500 hurt other people. The commonweal was a commonweal. Now we're engaged in a similar struggle with COVID

00:38:43.860 and Eisenhower would be aghast. We have immunocompromised people who are incubators for

00:38:48.680 every variant to come walking around lawfully unvaccinated. That's psychotic. We have companies 0.99

00:38:55.720 that have tried hard to get people vaccinated and now backing down. We have governors who want to be

00:38:59.720 president by grandstanding on a foolish state's right issue, the right to get sick, get other people sick.

00:39:05.060 So it's time to admit that we have to go to war against COVID. Require vaccination universally.

00:39:09.940 Have the military run it. If you don't want to get vaccinated, you better be ready to prove your

00:39:14.700 conscientious objector status in court. And even then you need to help in the war effort by staying

00:39:20.220 home until we finally beat this thing. That's psychotic. He says, uh, first of all,

00:39:25.840 do people actually listen to that? People actually watch that show? You could, you could sit there for

00:39:30.140 an hour listening to that. I can't imagine that. Speaking of psychotic, how exactly does this work?

00:39:36.000 Having the military run the vaccinations. I saw someone suggest, are they, are they, uh,

00:39:40.280 like shooting the needles out of a helicopter? It was loading them into like a sniper rifles. 0.83

00:39:47.020 How does that work? But what we have to understand is that these people, and this should be very

00:39:51.520 obvious by now. Um, these people of course do not care about your freedom at all, at all. Uh,

00:39:58.040 they don't care about you at all. They don't care about your health for, for Jim Cramer over at CNBC.

00:40:02.080 See, this, this is all about him. He's, he's, he is afraid. He is, uh, petrified. He's paralyzed in

00:40:10.000 fear. And so he's willing to, uh, burn the constitution, throw away all of your freedoms

00:40:17.200 for his sake. He doesn't even see you as a human being. I mean, none of these people do.

00:40:22.540 He sees you as, uh, as I think he even used the word incubator. I mean, he, he sees you as an

00:40:28.460 incubator of disease. He sees you as nothing but a sort of like vessel of disease. That's to him.

00:40:34.080 That's what other people are just, especially like normal people, people who he doesn't consider to

00:40:38.160 be on his social stratosphere. And so who cares? Just lie. You know, all, we should all be lined up

00:40:46.860 like dogs and, uh, and given our shots because this is all about keeping, keeping him safe. Of course.

00:40:52.840 Uh, one of the thing I wanted to show, to show you, uh, this is a tweet that went viral from

00:40:59.940 someone who goes by the name, professor Nalo. So let's read this. It says, my students call me

00:41:07.680 professor Nalo because I prefer not to use Mrs. or Mr. in my classroom. I teach all subjects as a

00:41:14.580 first grade teacher, but my favorite moments are always when my students ask about my queerness.

00:41:19.440 She continues. I was asked recently during a podcast interview, why I don't use Mrs. or Mr.

00:41:25.800 to refer to myself. And I asked her why I needed to. She said, don't you think it'll be hard for

00:41:31.120 children to adjust? But the truth is it has never been children that struggle with adjusting to the

00:41:35.900 complexities of human experience. My students are six to seven years old and they're steeped in the

00:41:41.120 magic of curiosity. My students know about and have met my wife at school. They know I'm queer

00:41:46.280 and the turtles will call anybody out for calling me Mrs. anything. I told them my story once and

00:41:52.380 never needed to say it again. If only adults adjusted as quickly and easily, it may save many

00:41:57.060 of our lives. Uh, and then she continues from there. This is another perfect example of, of what I've

00:42:06.280 said before about this, the non-binary phenomenon. Um, many different words you could use to describe it,

00:42:13.900 but this is just narcissism by another name. This is a kind of like sexualized narcissism.

00:42:19.840 And we see that first and foremost, because she's a first grade teacher calling herself

00:42:25.240 a professor. So that's leaving aside, Mr. and Mrs. and non-binary. She goes by professor 0.76

00:42:33.060 teaching first grade students, which is, which is something that like literally anybody could teach

00:42:39.520 first graders. And you, and if you have first graders yourself, you probably should teach them

00:42:44.480 yourself rather than sending them to professor Nalo so that they could talk about her queerness.

00:42:51.680 This is a, this is narcissism. This is, you always find that when they start talking about why I don't

00:42:57.460 identify with the labels. And you're always going to hear as we do with the Twitter thread there

00:43:02.540 about the complexity. My, my personal inner experience is so complex. I'm such an interesting,

00:43:09.840 fascinating, many layered individual. I mean, you, the rest of you who just, maybe you're fine

00:43:16.520 settling for Mr. and Mrs. He or he or she, but that doesn't work for me. I, I, I, the, the English

00:43:22.980 language itself cannot properly describe me in all of my many complexities because I'm such an

00:43:30.140 interesting and sophisticated person. That's really the point. Somebody totally utterly obsessed

00:43:36.100 with themselves. And then you add in the sexual dynamic of this and, uh, also grooming children

00:43:42.320 at the same time, talking to your kids about your queerness. It should go without saying that's, 0.53

00:43:48.860 that's not why we send, uh, we don't send kids to school to learn about the personal lives of their

00:43:55.980 teachers at all. And when I went to school, I didn't know anything about any of my teachers. I,

00:44:02.340 I, I knew, I didn't, I didn't really even know their first names. It always seemed weird to me

00:44:07.540 that they had first names. And there was always that weird experience where, you know, you have

00:44:12.640 your, like you're out at, uh, at the grocery store and you see your chemistry teacher or something

00:44:17.500 walking down the aisle and civilian clothes. And it seems so weird and out of place because this

00:44:21.600 person doesn't belong, like they should just be in a classroom. That's how you think of them.

00:44:26.340 It's not about their personal experiences. You're there to be taught the academic subjects.

00:44:33.120 Um, so really your students should, should know almost nothing about your personal life,

00:44:38.060 but especially they should know nothing about your sex life. And especially when they're in first grade.

00:44:43.580 So this is not teaching. The word that we would use for this is, uh, grooming, just to be clear.

00:44:48.120 So now let's get to the comment section. All right. This is from Blair says, wow,

00:45:03.640 such sage advice from someone with absolutely no experience. When Lauren Boebert got fed up with

00:45:09.600 how things were going here in Colorado, she did something about it. Throwing her hat in the ring

00:45:13.380 to represent us in an increasingly purple state. Wasn't easy. She's fighting the good fight for us.

00:45:18.400 Sometimes it requires she play the game. When the going gets tough, would you advise stand your

00:45:23.840 ground or retreat to more friendly confines like Tennessee? Okay. Um, so this is someone,

00:45:29.980 not the only comment upset with me for taking Lauren Boebert to task for, uh, apologizing to Ilhan Omar.

00:45:37.820 And you say, play the game. Yeah, I understand playing the game. I fully understand that. And as a

00:45:43.400 politician, you have to play the game. What I'm saying is play it smart. Be smart about how you

00:45:47.900 play the game. Um, have a strategy. Okay. This is not a game of chance. This is not, uh,

00:45:55.040 this is not flipping a coin. This isn't dice. This is, this is, uh, this is, this is chess,

00:45:59.040 right? This is a game of strategy. And so my question with Lauren Boebert is what exactly was the strategy?

00:46:05.880 In fact, there are now more videos coming out because the floodgates are open now with the apology.

00:46:10.520 And so now they're even more, apparently Boebert has been going around at these fundraisers and

00:46:15.960 making jokes about Ilhan Omar, the same joke on the backpack and implying that she's a terrorist.

00:46:20.840 And she's made this joke multiple times. And so now there's more videos coming out and like,

00:46:24.640 is she going to keep apologizing? I mean, she apologized once. So does that mean she has to,

00:46:27.420 she has to keep apologizing. But the point is this, this was not like a spur of the moment

00:46:32.220 thing off the cuff. You know, we all have moments like that. This is a joke that she used

00:46:38.360 multiple times. Like it's in her script. Anyone in public speaking, we all have jokes. We, you know,

00:46:44.880 can kind of start with. And, um, and those are not off the cuff and it certainly isn't for her. So

00:46:50.340 multiple times she's going out and making this joke with apparently no strategy in place for what

00:46:56.440 she would do when eventually people notice that she's made this joke and get upset about it.

00:47:01.600 No strategy. And so you're saying play the game. No, she didn't play the game. She got played 0.99

00:47:06.280 is the problem. And what, what experience do you mean? Political experience. So, um,

00:47:13.020 are you saying that I need to have political experience in order to earn the right to

00:47:16.560 criticize politicians? Is that what you're saying? Blair, do you abide by that? I mean,

00:47:21.820 are you a politician? Have you ever criticized a politician? Have you, have you criticized Brandon

00:47:26.080 up in the, in the oval office? I bet you have. Yeah. You have no experience being a president.

00:47:32.060 So don't, don't, don't, don't, don't play that game. The whole, uh, you don't have, you,

00:47:38.500 you've never been there. I don't have to be there. That's not how it works with politicians.

00:47:43.860 I don't have to earn the right or, uh, Pat, there's no credentialism here. I don't have to

00:47:48.380 flash my credentials in order to, in order to criticize a politician. I pay their salaries.

00:47:53.760 That's why I get to criticize them. And also, by the way, I do have relevant experience more than

00:48:00.080 you do, because the discussion is how to deal with public outrage. That's the discussion.

00:48:06.220 I deal with that all the time. I have a lot of experience that I am very experienced in that

00:48:10.240 field. I should have a PhD in that field. I should have a PhD in the public outrage field. Okay.

00:48:15.460 In fact, I'll just say that I do. I'm a doctor. I'm a doctor of outrage. And, uh, and so, yeah,

00:48:19.840 in fact, I do have outrage. I do have experience and that's why I think I could give my,

00:48:23.640 advice here. All right. Um, Nick says, uh, Matt Walsh, I'm a firm believer in putting family first

00:48:29.880 Matt Walsh, 10 minutes later, makes fun of his poor boomer mother for having a VCR to probably 0.99

00:48:35.240 relive her memories of Matt before he was such a sarcastic bastard. Fair, very fair. That's fair 0.98

00:48:41.020 criticism. Uh, Reed says you're always spot on, but you missed the one on the officer. She may not

00:48:46.640 deserve jail time, but an officer who pulls the trigger on their weapon and doesn't know the

00:48:50.700 difference between a taser and a pistol doesn't need to be anywhere near a badge. And that kind

00:48:55.620 of negligence warrants some kind of punishment. Yeah, I agree. She shouldn't be on the force.

00:48:59.640 Uh, so we can agree on that. You make a mistake of that kind. We're not going to put you back on

00:49:04.360 the force. And probably this is someone who, uh, never should have been on the force to begin with,

00:49:10.640 but I don't think you put her in jail for a mistake that she made in a life or death situation

00:49:15.760 that was created by the other guy, by Dante Wright. Remember that in the Rittenhouse trial

00:49:20.760 where the prosecutors were trying very hard to prove, and they failed obviously because it wasn't

00:49:27.940 true, but they were trying to prove that Rittenhouse was the one who instigated this violent altercation

00:49:35.080 because they knew that if Rittenhouse instigated it, if he's the one who created this violent

00:49:42.000 altercation, then, um, he is not excused in using violent force. Um, but he did, right? It was,

00:49:51.860 it was, it was Rosenbaum chasing, chasing him down, knowing that Rittenhouse is armed. He,

00:49:57.960 Rosenbaum decides to chase down an armed person and get into a physical altercation with him.

00:50:02.000 Meaning that everything that happens from then on out, that's on Rosenbaum. He chose that.

00:50:05.860 And I would say a very similar thing with Dante Wright. Um, he has a wanted felon could, could

00:50:12.920 have gone peacefully. They tried to take him in peacefully, but they didn't go in their guns

00:50:16.760 a blazing. They tried to just cuff him to bring him to jail because that's their job. He's a wanted

00:50:21.100 felon on an, on a weapons charge, which stems from an armed robbery. What else are they going to do?

00:50:26.280 Let him go. And then he chose to escalate it and turn it into a violent altercation. And by doing that,

00:50:30.320 he took his life into his hands and, um, and then all the rest of it is on him. And so am I,

00:50:34.720 am I quote unquote victim blaming in this case? Yeah, absolutely. Um, if the victim is the one,

00:50:40.300 the one who ends up dead, then yeah, that that's on you. Uh, if you had not done that,

00:50:44.740 then you'd be alive today. Uh, let's see poo on your shoe. Great. So username there says, 0.96

00:50:50.720 I can't wait to read your book to my kids every night at bedtime, whispering long live sweet baby

00:50:55.960 gang. As I tuck my twins into bed. Well, and you know, I don't know if I mentioned this, but, uh,

00:51:00.240 if you want to read this book to your kids, you can get it at Johnny, the walrus.com.

00:51:04.880 And Candace says the story about what Matt's wife did was actually really heartwarming. Those little

00:51:09.740 insights just reveal a playfully loving relationship. I love that. What do you, what,

00:51:14.020 when she locked me in the room with the deadly spiders, was that, that's heartwarming to you

00:51:17.800 or when she fat shamed me, which, which one of those things I don't find it heartwarming.

00:51:23.140 Well, I feel so stupid that I have forgotten to mention this completely up till now, but, uh,

00:51:27.100 I do have a new book out. It's called Johnny, the walrus, and you can get it at Johnny,

00:51:30.360 the walrus.com. It's already sold out. We sold out of the first run in, uh, in one day people,

00:51:36.520 this, what this tells me is two things. It tells me that, um, people are tired of the left-wing

00:51:42.440 brainwashing in the, when it comes to the children's book genre, they're very tired of that. And they're

00:51:47.380 ready for something different and for some sanity and common sense, which you could find in Johnny,

00:51:50.800 the walrus, uh, as well as humor and everything else. Also, maybe it tells you that there is an

00:51:55.900 untapped sort of interest in walruses out in the public that we didn't know about. Um,

00:52:00.740 either way, go to johnnythewalrus.com right now to get your copy of, uh, my literary masterpiece.

00:52:06.620 And, uh, one other thing I want to tell you about, if you haven't already, go check out our

00:52:09.200 new comedy series, Truth Yeller, hosted by comedian and podcaster Adam Carolla over at

00:52:13.440 dailywire.com slash watch. That's dailywire.com slash watch. In each episode of Truth Yeller,

00:52:19.280 Adam invites a celebrity guest to join him for an evening of stand-up comedy, improv,

00:52:23.020 interview all in front of a maskless live audience. The first two episodes are available

00:52:26.880 now with the first episode starring none other than Jay Leno. Adam's most recent episode dropped

00:52:31.260 on Monday titled unacceptable aromas on airplanes and when to pour your beer into your lap. In this

00:52:35.940 episode, Adam gets a little offensive, just a little bit, you know, uh, tells a lot of truth

00:52:40.540 and sets the record straight on no smoking laws. Rob Riggle, the comedian from 21 Jump Street and

00:52:45.240 Step Brothers joins him to do a little bit of stand-up of his own. And the live audience loses it when

00:52:49.360 Adam gets, gets an improv request that he can't refuse. This is a great show.

00:52:53.020 Um, you can watch yourself. These are the kinds of things we're doing at the Daily Wire. No one

00:52:57.020 else is doing anything like this. So go to dailywire.com slash watch and enjoy. Now let's

00:53:01.520 get to our daily cancellation. So there is no question that I use this segment sometimes and

00:53:09.380 I mean the whole show sometimes to complain about unpleasant personal experiences that I have. And

00:53:14.460 I'm not defending that choice. I'm just confessing to it. What I want to talk about today is somewhat

00:53:21.020 in that vein, I admit, but I'd like to extend the conversation beyond my annoyance and identify

00:53:25.260 the larger themes at work here. So, uh, with that in mind, um, today I am canceling the,

00:53:30.220 uh, the TSA, especially I'm canceling one particular TSA agent who I encountered yesterday,

00:53:35.900 though. She is not unlike many other TSA agents that I run across in my travels very frequently.

00:53:41.540 So let's set the scene here. I was in, um, a Nashville, Nashville airport on our way to DC

00:53:45.800 and I was in, in, in the most debasing and humiliating stage of the debasing and humiliating

00:53:52.040 security process, because this is the stage where you stand at the conveyor belt and you hurriedly

00:53:57.140 remove apparently dangerous items of clothing, like your shoes and your belt and your jacket and

00:54:01.060 everything. And to make this process all the less efficient, different airports and different

00:54:06.300 TSA crews have different demands and requirements during this stage. Sometimes you're told to put

00:54:10.940 everything into trays. Sometimes you're supposed to put only some things in trays and the rest

00:54:15.380 directly on the belt. Sometimes they want laptops in a separate tray. Sometimes they don't. Sometimes

00:54:19.580 they tell you to put everything together. If you're wearing a hat, some agents will tell you to take it

00:54:23.580 off. Some will tell you to keep it on. Um, airport security has been unnecessarily farmed out to the

00:54:30.220 federal government, which means that if you didn't know anything about the federal government,

00:54:34.040 you might think that the one advantage to having the federal government do everything at all of

00:54:38.860 these airports is that there would at least be uniformity from place to place. But if you do

00:54:44.360 know something about the federal government, you know that the only thing consistent and uniform about

00:54:47.740 it is that it is incompetent everywhere. And that's certainly the TSA. What this all means is

00:54:52.780 that even, uh, you know, some, a person, someone who travels a lot like myself can still get tripped up

00:54:58.480 from time to time, can still, you know, get some of the steps wrong occasionally, but people who are

00:55:05.000 not seasoned travelers won't necessarily have any idea what they're supposed to do. What item of

00:55:11.740 clothing that's supposed to come off, what is supposed to stay on, what goes in what bin and so

00:55:17.720 forth. And this means that the TSA agents have to explain it to the passenger. Now, this is no doubt

00:55:23.700 a tedious and thankless job, but it's quite literally the job they signed up for. It may be

00:55:28.680 boring, but it's not difficult. All they have to do is stand there and clear up any bin or clothing

00:55:34.700 related confusions that may arise. That's all they have to do. And yet we find so often, not all the

00:55:41.300 time, but often that these government workers who applied for this job, signed up for this job,

00:55:46.800 chose to do this job are still put out about the fact that they have to do the job they're getting

00:55:51.380 paid to do. They're impatient with confused travelers who are understandably sometimes

00:55:57.240 flustered by the fact that we're all being treated like suspected criminals just because we want to

00:56:01.800 board a plane. The TSA agents are often irritated and annoyed and sometimes far beyond that. And

00:56:08.640 yesterday I encountered one who was in the latter group. So as I stood at the conveyor belt,

00:56:12.840 shoeless and beltless, the older woman in front of me, elderly woman, she was moving a little bit 1.00

00:56:17.560 slower, which is fine. Fine with me anyway, not with the agent. Apparently the old woman hadn't

00:56:22.780 removed her jacket fast enough. So the agent started screaming directly in the older woman's 1.00

00:56:28.160 face. I mean, screaming directly in her face. Okay. So take off your outer garment, take off your

00:56:33.740 outer garment, screaming at her to take off her clothes. I'll think weird about that. And I would

00:56:39.020 have thought that her demeanor and approach was a little aggressive, even if she was like performing 1.00

00:56:44.060 cavity searches on new inmates at a maximum security prison. But she wasn't dealing with inmates. She's

00:56:50.760 dealing with an old woman who simply wants to go through security and go about her day and get on a 1.00

00:56:54.340 plane. That's it. So the lady eventually got her jacket off and walked through. I didn't really want 0.92

00:56:59.240 to get into an argument with a TSA agent, but my desire to not get involved in an argument with TSA

00:57:04.240 agent kind of is overridden by my total contempt for overbearing, power tripping government

00:57:10.880 employees. So I said to the TSA agent, as I was walking through, I said, Oh, having a bad day,

00:57:16.700 huh? And she said, gruffly busy day, busy day. And I said, so does that mean that you don't have

00:57:22.580 to treat people with respect because you're busy? And she acted like she didn't hear what I said.

00:57:26.800 So I said it again. And at this point, she somewhat hilariously, she took her badge off and

00:57:31.760 she waved it in my face. And she says, you want to wear this? The truth is the last thing I would want

00:57:37.120 to do is wear that badge. You get paid $11 an hour to scream at old ladies for not taking their 1.00

00:57:41.240 clothes off fast enough. But I told her, no, you know, I don't want to wear the badge, but the

00:57:46.060 badge doesn't give her a pass. She should still treat people like human beings. I think really

00:57:50.360 reasonable. She muttered something that I couldn't hear. And I just kept walking through. Now, as I

00:57:54.520 said, she's far from the first TSA agent to behave this way, though she was perhaps a bit more

00:57:59.980 egregious than most. And this is what makes the whole TSA experience. So grading and soul crushing

00:58:05.180 and dehumanizing. First of all, none of these people should be there. Okay. There is no reason

00:58:11.480 for the TSA to exist. It came into being in response to 9-11. And those who were born after

00:58:19.160 9-11 especially might not realize just how, and so you've lived in a world with TSA your

00:58:23.460 whole life. You might not realize how totally unnecessary all of this is and gratuitous it

00:58:28.060 is. Because 9-11 was not really a failure of airport security. The security failure happened

00:58:35.620 farther up the chain. It was a failure of intelligence, a failure of the FBI and the CIA

00:58:39.800 and other agencies that should have found out about this plot and stopped it, but didn't.

00:58:44.180 It's not like the 9-11 hijackers made it on board with guns and bombs. They took over the planes with

00:58:50.380 box cutters. But guess what? Box cutters were legal on planes at the time. The FAA allowed blades of

00:58:57.200 four inches or less on planes before 9-11. I know it sounds hard to believe, given that if you've

00:59:02.340 lived in this world where you can't even bring nail clippers on planes, but before 9-11, you could

00:59:06.880 bring a knife on a plane. It was legal. But wherever the failures happened, it's certain that it was the

00:59:13.560 government that failed. And yet the answer to the government's failure is more power for the

00:59:17.360 government, which failed. Now, as a consequence of that failure, we all must go through this

00:59:22.380 embarrassing security theater every time we want to fly. So much of our lives, of course, have become

00:59:27.880 theater, especially in the COVID world. Government officials have become like priests instructing us

00:59:32.440 to perform this or that ritual whose practical utility is dubious at best. The other thing that

00:59:38.500 we find in these kinds of experiences is that the old adage about the corrupting influence of power is

00:59:43.380 true and that it doesn't really have to be all that much power to corrupt somebody. The woman standing by

00:59:49.380 the conveyor belt waving her badge around had power that did not extend beyond the spot where she was

00:59:55.080 standing. So you are in her grip for about 20 seconds as you stand by the x-ray machine taking

01:00:01.200 your shoes off. And she is going to milk that 20 seconds for everything it's worth. Even the tiniest 1.00

01:00:07.440 bit of power granted to a person for the shortest amount of time in the most limited capacity can still

01:00:12.700 go directly to their heads. So how do you end up with, you know, historically someone like Hitler or 0.70

01:00:18.200 Stalin? Well, that's easy to understand. If some human beings can become ruthless tyrants because

01:00:24.020 you gave them the power to make strangers take their shoes off at the airport, imagine what that

01:00:29.480 same person might do with an army at their disposal. Tyrants come in all shapes and sizes and you can

01:00:36.580 find them anywhere, I think is the point. One other point that I've been thinking about as, you know,

01:00:41.980 at the airports. Not to beat a dead horse, but it has struck me that these sorts of testy exchanges

01:00:48.080 at airport security have, in my anecdotal experience, gotten worse in the last year or two.

01:00:54.340 And you might theorize many different reasons for that, but I can't help but wonder whether

01:00:58.120 the masks contribute to it. For one thing, they make it more difficult for people to understand each

01:01:03.260 other. And so now there's more screaming almost by necessity. And it's also more frustrating. You can't

01:01:08.480 understand what the hell anybody's saying, but also they turn us all into these faceless automatons.

01:01:14.560 They lend a certain anonymity to personal interactions. I wonder if this makes it easier

01:01:20.880 for people to treat each other as if they're not human beings. I wonder if that lady, the TSA agent

01:01:25.640 at the airport, screaming directly in the face of an old woman, would she have done that if she could 1.00

01:01:30.560 see the woman's face? Maybe. I would also think it's harder to treat people like that when you can see 0.99

01:01:35.840 their entire face. It's easier to treat them like they're not human beings when you can't,

01:01:41.100 because human beings have faces. The masked hordes that you encounter at airports do not.

01:01:45.960 TSA agents work all day in airports, interacting with, shouting at, a steady stream of faceless

01:01:51.960 strangers. And that has to have a psychological effect after a while, which is not to let the TSA

01:01:57.320 agent off the hook, not in the least, which is why she is canceled today. And also, of course,

01:02:02.200 the entire TSA is canceled as well. And we will leave it there. I'll mention again,

01:02:07.840 johnnythewalrus.com to get the book written by a bestselling children's author. You can go there

01:02:12.680 again, johnnythewalrus.com. And I will also see you tonight at SLU, and I'll talk to you tomorrow.

01:02:18.940 Godspeed.

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The Matt Walsh Show - December 01, 2021

Ep. 848 - Bestselling Children’s Author Banned From College Campus

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