The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 885 - The Hilarious Leftist Plot To Infiltrate My Speaking Event

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Wall Show, leftist protesters are planning a major demonstration at my Texas

00:00:04.020 A&M event tomorrow. Fortunately, they wrote down their whole plan, and I have the document,

00:00:08.260 which I will share with you today. It's pretty great. Also, it turns out that some of the people

00:00:11.860 trying to cancel Joe Rogan have said some edgy things themselves in the past. This is what

00:00:16.540 happens when you join the cancel mob. Eventually, it turns around on you. Plus, Toyota puts out an

00:00:20.880 ad hailing Colin Kaepernick and rewriting history at the same time, and Biden's first year in office

00:00:25.480 sees the most police officers killed in the line of duty since 1995. I wonder why that happened.

00:00:31.100 And our daily cancellation, Kanye West and Kim Kardashian are in a public feud over their

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00:02:02.740 and shy podcaster. There's nothing I hate more than attention, especially attention from my ideological

00:02:09.840 adversaries. I find it quite frightening to be confronted by them. Sure, I may have a funny way of

00:02:14.920 showing it sometimes, like at St. Louis University where we went outside to confront a mob of angry

00:02:19.780 protesters to their face or at Loudoun County where we rented a woman's basement just so that we could 0.99

00:02:24.380 go and yell at the local school board. You might see something like that and think that I enjoy this

00:02:28.540 kind of thing or even that I thrive on it. But that's a misinterpretation. I am meek and bashful

00:02:33.980 on the inside. And that's why I was so distressed to hear that LGBT activists are planning a major

00:02:39.600 protest at my event at Texas A&M tomorrow. Now, being such a self-effacing person, I simply I just

00:02:46.200 hate it when the left makes a scene at my events bringing more attention to my message and to me

00:02:51.980 and putting me in the headlines and so on. It's terrible. I wish they wouldn't do it. I beg them

00:02:58.080 to stop, but they just won't listen. And so it was with great horror that I was made aware of the plot

00:03:04.120 they have concocted for tomorrow. Some informants over at YAF sent me internal documents where the

00:03:10.960 protesters have helpfully laid out their plan point by point and even describe ahead of time

00:03:17.000 the disguises they'll be wearing in order to get into the event. Indeed, their plan is to infiltrate

00:03:22.240 the event from the inside, disrupt it, shout me down, and generally cause a big scene. And again,

00:03:29.000 I hate big scenes. It's the thing I hate the most. Don't be fooled by the fact that I go out of my way

00:03:34.900 to put myself in the middle of such scenes, sometimes risking my own physical safety to do so.

00:03:38.980 Still, I hate it. And that's why I'm begging the leftist activists not to carry out this plan.

00:03:45.700 Please do not bring more publicity to my event and to me and to the message that I have. Please,

00:03:52.820 I'm asking for your mercy. Don't do it. Now, referring to the document titled Layout of the

00:03:59.160 Walkout, it begins with step one, which is to reserve a ticket to the event, which are free,

00:04:04.940 by the way, and anyone can get a ticket. They want to claim as many of the tickets for themselves as

00:04:08.980 they can ahead of time in order to prevent people who actually want to listen to the talk from being

00:04:12.760 able to do so. And then it continues, quote unquote, step two, show up at MSC Bethancourt Ballroom on

00:04:19.560 Wednesday, February 9th at 5 p.m., wearing business casual or business formal clothing.

00:04:25.420 Arriving early gives us time to form groups and ensures that our members can reserve as many seats

00:04:29.660 as possible before Walsh's supporters. Business casual allows us to blend in with Walsh's supporters

00:04:35.520 and should be done in addition to dressing cisgender and heterosexual passing. If you're questioned or

00:04:42.200 draw attention due to your voice, appearance, or gender presentation, explain that you're attending the

00:04:47.240 talk to earn credit for a political science or philosophy class. Now, I have to say that I'm

00:04:53.180 glad these people will be dressing appropriately for once, so that's nice. Though I do find it a

00:04:58.080 little bit funny that they think my supporters all walk around in business casual or business formal

00:05:03.080 attire. I don't even dress that way to my own events. I'll be there in a flannel. I'm also quite

00:05:09.640 interested in this plan to dress cisgender or heterosexual passing. I guess that leaves me, I guess that

00:05:16.120 means leave the fishnet and assless chaps at home. All for the best, I suppose. In fact, just because I'm 1.00

00:05:21.660 a generous person, I will actually try to help these activists. I'm going to help you. If you're planning

00:05:29.560 to infiltrate my event and you want to blend in with cisgender and heterosexual passing clothing,

00:05:35.880 all you have to do is wear white t-shirts with I'm a heterosexual in big red letters across the front.

00:05:43.360 That's the best way to blend in. That's how all, that's how we heterosexuals dress. It's just what

00:05:48.940 we do. It's how we identify other members of our tribe. And we oftentimes will go up to someone and

00:05:54.560 say, hey bro, you hetero? And then they'll open up their jacket to show the t-shirt and we'll fist bump 0.56

00:05:59.920 and say, hell yeah, hetero for life. In fact, make sure to do that at the event, exactly that,

00:06:06.440 while you're kind of mingling with the crowd. What you could do is just walk up to people and say,

00:06:11.360 hey fellas, just doing my cisgender hetero thing. What about you? And when everyone hears that,

00:06:16.320 they're going to know that you're one of us. Also, one other quick tip, oftentimes we'll wear

00:06:21.920 clown noses, just a big bright red clown noses. So make sure to wear them as well. And a wig also 0.72

00:06:29.280 wouldn't hurt. Although I suppose the clown wig might be indistinguishable from your usual hairstyle.

00:06:34.220 So just the nose will be fine. Glad I can help. Now back to the document, it says,

00:06:38.700 if you bring a bag or purse, the bag will be searched. If you're bringing a speaker or flag,

00:06:43.660 you must conceal the speaker or flag somewhere on your body. Now pausing here again, and I don't

00:06:51.880 want to use my imagination too much here, but I'm not sure I want to know how these people plan to

00:06:58.320 conceal a speaker or flag on their body. I don't want to know which crevice or orifice will be used

00:07:04.360 for storage in this case. But I guess this is another reason why fishnets and assless chaps are 1.00

00:07:09.660 out of the question. Continuing, it says, step three, find our chanter and members with portable

00:07:15.520 speakers and break into groups of nine. If you're not in the group, find a buddy. We'll have one

00:07:20.680 person leading chants and at least two members with portable speakers to announce the start of

00:07:24.640 the walkout. Each of these people must be in groups of nine so that their groups can be arranged in

00:07:29.540 seats surrounding them for safety like so. And you can see the, uh, the chart they have set up

00:07:34.500 there. They got everything in a color coordinated chart, which looks like they're playing battleship

00:07:38.440 or something. The document also notes that if they can't get 35 protesters to show up, they'll

00:07:43.160 surrender and disband. And it's kind of sad to think of these poor people all showing up in their

00:07:47.800 heterosexual outfits and then doing a head count and finding out that there's only 27. So they just 1.00

00:07:53.640 turn around and walk away awkwardly. If we see a bunch of people in clown noses wandering away

00:07:58.660 dejectedly, we'll know what happened. The document goes on with step four, explaining how they'll

00:08:03.380 coordinate their seating chart. And then a step five, which says, quote, wait for the recording

00:08:07.660 to play, put your mask on, stand up and raise your left fist. After 10 to 20 minutes of Walsh

00:08:13.100 speaking enough time for any overflow crowd outside the room to disperse. So they cannot take our place

00:08:18.160 when we leave a recording of the star manifesto will be played over the speakers. Star stands for

00:08:23.580 street transvestite action revolutionaries and was the group founded by Marsha P. Johnson and

00:08:28.860 Sylvia Rivera to support homeless and incarcerated trans people during the gay liberation movement.

00:08:34.880 Once the recording plays, if you aren't already wearing a COVID mask, please put one on so that

00:08:39.300 your face is unrecognizable. Stand up and raise your left fist. What a shocker here. They plan to wear a

00:08:47.220 mask, not because they actually think it will protect them from COVID, but just to conceal their

00:08:52.100 identity while they cause a public disruption. If I didn't know any better, I might think that

00:08:56.760 all of the shoplifters and looters and blue cities across the country are wearing masks for the same

00:09:01.920 reason, which is really a revelation because up until now, I just assumed that they were all very

00:09:06.160 health conscious. Any case, we get finally to step six where the chanting begins and protesters are

00:09:13.020 encouraged to take a screenshot of the chant lyrics so that they don't forget the words. So they're all

00:09:17.960 going to pull out their phones. They're going to have the lyrics there. They're going to start

00:09:20.380 chanting. And I might have to put this up on the chalkboard for them in the room just to make it

00:09:25.100 easier. But the chant goes as follows. First, you have the leader who will say, when trans people are

00:09:31.860 under attack, what do we do? And the crowd responds, stand up, fight back. Then it repeats gay and queer 0.99

00:09:37.740 in place of trans. I'd say I'm a little disappointed in the chant because it doesn't rhyme. Any good chant 1.00

00:09:44.860 should always rhyme. Especially in this case, when a very simple edit would solve the problem.

00:09:51.580 Far be it for me to offer notes to the people who are trying to shout me down at my own event. But

00:09:55.900 why wouldn't the chant be, when trans people are under attack, stand up, fight back.

00:10:02.660 What? You don't need what do we do? Just attack and back. It rhymes. Much better. Pithier has a better

00:10:09.220 flow. It rhymes. Anyway, if all goes according to plan, they will stage this demonstration about

00:10:15.460 10 to 20 minutes into my talk, cause several minutes of disruption, and then walk out.

00:10:19.520 And we'll just resume the event as scheduled. And then because they caused a scene and turned the

00:10:25.080 speaking event into a news event, I will afterwards be forced to do several local and cable news

00:10:31.000 interviews where I talk about the event and also the subject I was there to speak about, thereby

00:10:36.200 amplifying the very message they were trying to shut down. And we certainly wouldn't want that.

00:10:42.600 You know, it almost might seem as though the truth shines brighter, the more you try to suppress it.

00:10:50.260 And you might even think that the better approach for an opponent would be to engage with my message

00:10:56.860 intellectually, actually try to debate my points, which they could do during the Q&A.

00:11:02.500 In fact, not only can they do it during the Q&A, but if you disagree, you get to go to the front

00:11:08.060 of the line. That's how much you are welcome. And you get a microphone or you could say whatever you

00:11:13.900 want. And given that I'm just a drooling, stupid, racist, homophobic, fascist bigot, 1.00

00:11:26.320 it should be really easy to embarrass me. I didn't even go to college. These are all college 1.00

00:11:32.220 students. They have more education than I do, officially anyway. So why wouldn't you take the

00:11:38.340 opportunity to take the microphone and just totally humiliate me, tear me apart? I'll have just 0.91

00:11:46.960 finished speaking for 30 minutes and you could go point by point, boom, boom, boom, and rip it apart.

00:11:52.140 The problem is it's hard to do that if your whole worldview is empty and vacuous and built atop a

00:12:00.800 house of cards that collapses under the slightest intellectual scrutiny. I suppose your only choice

00:12:06.960 then is to chant and scream and run away, plugging your ears. So good luck with that. I'll see you

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00:13:24.680 All right. I'm wearing my heterosexual passing clothing today. You know, that's flannels always,

00:13:31.780 really that's, I think the t-shirt with the, with I'm a heterosexual is the best way to go,

00:13:35.860 but you know, also flannel is always a good, always a good choice as well. This is from the Daily

00:13:41.240 Wire. It says, former Democrat presidential candidate, Andrew Yang on Sunday posted tweets

00:13:45.800 in support of popular podcast host Joe Rogan, but hours later deleted the posts over left-wing

00:13:50.720 backlash and issued a Twitter thread apologizing for hurting people. Um, this has been the story

00:13:57.880 with Joe Rogan is that early on there were, you know, a whole slew of prominent people who, uh,

00:14:05.700 oftentimes people who have been on Joe Rogan's show, as I believe Andrew Yang has,

00:14:09.860 I assume he has, I'm not sure. Um, but prominent people early on came out in support of Joe Rogan.

00:14:16.800 And this was back when he was mainly being accused of spreading misinformation or whatever.

00:14:21.540 And you have people like Andrew Yang and also Dwayne Johnson, The Rock Dwayne Johnson,

00:14:25.380 other prominent people, uh, came out in support of him and said, Hey, you know, we stand for him.

00:14:29.100 Um, um, and then when the, when the N word compilation dropped, all of these little 0.99

00:14:37.200 cowards scurried away, including The Rock is another example of this. Um, but this is what

00:14:43.400 Yang posted. He says, uh, I don't think Joe Rogan is a racist. The man interacts with and works with

00:14:50.000 black people literally all the time. Do I know black friends of Joe's who would, who would swear by

00:14:55.540 him? Yes, I do. He added, that's what he originally said. It says Yang who was, who has appeared on

00:15:01.520 Rogan's podcast. Okay. In the past was met with left-wing anger. Um, notably the Democrat national

00:15:07.400 committee chair, Jamie Harrison replied to Yang, dude, seriously, you're joking, right? Andrew,

00:15:12.060 is that now the new defining line working with folks? Yang quickly deleted the two posts and then

00:15:18.020 issued an apology. So he, uh, I don't know how long these tweets stayed up, but he took a stand.

00:15:25.820 He took a stand for Joe Rogan and, uh, based on, you know, speaking for his character, based on what

00:15:31.760 he knew about, he took a stand for five minutes and that was enough. And then he deleted the tweets

00:15:37.380 and he said, I like to believe the best of people, especially if I've met and spent time with that

00:15:42.360 person. Sometimes it makes me miss something. I think we should have the capacity to forgive people,

00:15:47.160 whether a podcaster or a mayor, if they mess up, maybe it's because I mess up too. Racism is real,

00:15:53.180 deep, corrosive, and even lethal. I know that. I made a mistake in an earlier tweet tonight that

00:15:57.860 downplayed these realities. I deleted the tweet because it was wrongheaded. It also hurt people,

00:16:02.880 which is never my intent. It hurt people. Who did it hurt, Andrew? You sent out a tweet.

00:16:10.840 So the first way that you know that nobody was hurt is that it was a tweet

00:16:13.620 and nobody has ever been injured from a tweet ever. Um, there's never to my knowledge,

00:16:21.220 but anyone who's called 911 and said, I need medical attention. Oh, what happened? What's

00:16:25.160 wrong? Uh, there was a tweet that's never happened, but even if a tweet could somehow manifest itself

00:16:32.120 physically and assault someone and cause physical harm, um, probably a tweet where you're simply

00:16:36.940 saying, Oh, that guy isn't racist. I don't think that would pose any real threat to anybody,

00:16:42.680 but he says it hurt people, which is never my intent. I'm sorry. I'm learning. And I appreciate

00:16:49.360 those who reached out to express their feelings. I like to believe the work I've done these past

00:16:54.260 years had the goal of uplifting everyone, particularly those on the outside looking in

00:16:58.600 for any reason, be it poverty or marginalization or race. I've always wanted to help those with the

00:17:03.800 least. Uh, I've always wanted to help those with the least, the most. Okay. I've always wanted to,

00:17:10.700 I've always most wanted to help those with the least. Okay. Um, I'm going to keep doing all I can

00:17:16.280 for a more equitable, fair and just country. That means for everyone, universal basic income,

00:17:22.200 income, democracy, reform, and unity are how we get there. Well, you can't have a lot of unity

00:17:28.720 Yang. If you're, uh, you know, going to turn on people and throw them under the bus after five

00:17:36.560 minutes of pressure, that's not a great way to build unity. One way you build unity is through

00:17:41.600 loyalty. Not a lot of loyalty there. Also, unfortunately, Yang never promised to do the

00:17:47.580 work. So this doesn't, he's got to reissue the apology because he forgot a couple of the talking

00:17:53.260 points. He hit on most of them talking about, Oh, I'm sorry. People that are hurt and marginalized

00:17:57.520 communities and all that nonsense, but you got to also prompt. I promise to do the work.

00:18:01.980 He forgot to mention that. And he also somehow, this is a big oversight. Uh, he never said anything

00:18:06.520 about lived experiences. He forgot to talk about the lived experiences of all those people who are

00:18:11.880 hurt by the tweet. Um, this is, uh, why I say that cowardice is the great pandemic in our country.

00:18:23.260 The thing, the thing that plagues us most is just an epidemic of total absolute cowardice.

00:18:31.780 And it's an important thing to know also, just, just so you know what you're getting into and you

00:18:36.800 know what to expect is that when the, when the cancel mob comes for you as it will, you know,

00:18:42.400 it's because it comes for everybody eventually. Um, and, uh, you know, it's, it's people that are

00:18:48.240 at the top people who are the most visible, like Joe Rogan, who are the most successful in their

00:18:52.800 fields, who are, their heads are sticking above the rest. The most, they're going to get cut down

00:18:58.580 first, but eventually they get down to everybody. And when it happens, you just have to know

00:19:04.420 that most people are cowards. Most people that you think are your friends are also cowards 0.99

00:19:09.920 and they're all going to scurry away and hide and not say anything in your defense. So it just, 0.82

00:19:14.300 you just have to know that going in. I mean, Joe Rogan is certainly learning that

00:19:19.980 it's an important lesson to learn. You know, you, you, it's, you, you have very few friends.

00:19:28.960 If you think you have 50 friends, you actually have maybe like two and all it takes. And if you

00:19:35.880 think I'm wrong, yeah, I know my friends, they would all stand by me. It just, all it takes is

00:19:41.960 the mob knocking at your door. And then you turn around, you see how many people just ran out the

00:19:47.420 back. I got to go. See ya. Almost everybody, except for a couple. But as these people, you

00:19:56.920 know, join in this effort to cancel, uh, uh, canceled Joe Rogan, you know, information is coming

00:20:03.080 out about some of these cancelers. So this is awesome. The daily wire says best selling author

00:20:06.660 Don Winslow has been participating in a pressure campaign to cancel popular podcast host, Joe Rogan,

00:20:12.420 honing in on Rogan's use of the N word and past podcast episode, where in the host was often

00:20:16.560 quoting others or speaking about the word generally. Um, in fact, it was Winslow's tweet

00:20:22.380 to Dwayne Johnson, AKA the rock that seemed to spark the actor to publicly pull his support

00:20:26.880 for Rogan because, uh, the rock originally came out as another one, as, as mentioned,

00:20:32.920 it came out in support of Joe Rogan. And then Don Winslow sent a tweet to the rocket said, dear the

00:20:38.500 rock, you're a hero to many people and using your platform to defend Joe Rogan, a guy that used

00:20:42.900 and laughed about using the N word dozens of times is a terrible use of your power. Have you

00:20:47.240 actually listened to this man's many racist statements about black people? And then Johnson

00:20:51.560 responded, dear Don Winslow, thank you so much for this. I hear you as well as everyone here,

00:20:55.780 100%. I was not aware of his N word use prior to my comments, but now I've become educated to his 0.99

00:21:01.760 complete narrative. Learning moment for me. Um, but then things took a turn for Winslow over the

00:21:09.100 weekend when detractors looked through some of the author's own books, which are rife with the N

00:21:14.000 word. And then there are people on Twitter going through and pulling out many examples of, uh,

00:21:21.200 this guy using the N word in his books. Is that okay? I mean, all things being equal objectively,

00:21:29.360 if you're an author and you are telling a story and there's a character in the story who uses the N

00:21:37.060 word, maybe you have a racist character or something and he's using the N word, that's,

00:21:40.580 that's, there's nothing wrong with that. Or even you're telling a story set in, in history,

00:21:46.320 set in a time when this word was used more commonly, uh, whatever the case is, it's a story

00:21:50.260 and stories are supposed to reflect life. And this word is part of life. So objectively speaking,

00:21:59.980 that should be fine. But if Joe Rogan can't say it when quoting someone or when, as it, as it

00:22:10.980 mentions, as it says there, when he's talking about the word, if he can't say it there, then,

00:22:16.080 then you can't say it when you're telling a story.

00:22:18.560 And now the cancel mobs coming after him too, because this is what happens.

00:22:28.860 You know, everyone should know this. You join the mob because someone you don't like is being cut

00:22:35.540 down or someone who you're jealous of and you resent because, uh, because you're jealous of

00:22:40.700 their success. And I think actually with Joe Rogan, that's a big part of the story for the media.

00:22:44.920 Uh, because Joe Rogan, by the way, he's not, and never has been some kind of right-wing,

00:22:51.100 uh, ideologue. He's not some far right guy. Most of his views are pretty left. He's kind of like

00:22:57.820 center left. You know, I think you would, that's where you would put them when you, when you take

00:23:01.740 all of his politics into account. So there's no reason really based on his views, why the left and

00:23:07.540 the media should hate him so much, but they do because number one, he's given voice to, he's given

00:23:13.260 platforms to people who are farther on the right. He also has questioned the COVID narrative. And

00:23:20.360 also though, I mean, we know about that. That's, that's obviously a big part of what motivates

00:23:23.420 this, but also he's very, very successful. And he, he draws a larger audience by far exponentially

00:23:31.880 larger audience than CNN does. And they look at that and they're, they're filled with envy.

00:23:38.220 But what you should know is that when you have the mob going after someone because they're

00:23:45.400 envious or whatever the reason is, and you join them, you know, you're, you're with all

00:23:52.760 of these other hyenas, all these other vultures picking at the carcass. Eventually they're going

00:23:59.460 to pick that carcass clean and they're going to look for another target. They're going to look

00:24:02.280 for some more food and they're going to turn around and look at you. And when that happens,

00:24:07.780 you're not going to have anybody defending you because you don't deserve it. All right,

00:24:13.120 moving on. Here's some irony for you. Justin Trudeau, uh, speaking about the truckers who

00:24:17.640 are taking a stand against tyranny. Here's a, here's what Justin Trudeau has to say about

00:24:22.040 them. Individuals are trying to blockade our economy, our democracy and our fellow citizens

00:24:34.920 daily lives. It has to stop. By the way, Justin Trudeau, I don't know if you've seen some of

00:24:42.640 this stuff online. I don't know if there's any truth to it whatsoever. I've done no research

00:24:46.120 into it at all. But, uh, the meme right now is that Justin Trudeau is the love child of Fidel

00:24:53.160 Castro. And, uh, uh, there are a lot of similarities, just ideologically speaking. So you can see

00:24:58.740 that. But if you look at the, the side-by-side comparisons of Justin Trudeau and Fidel Castro,

00:25:04.140 especially Fidel Castro, when he was Justin Trudeau's age and then, and then younger, you

00:25:08.380 know, compare the two when they were both 20, compare them when they were younger. And it

00:25:11.680 is uncanny. I mean, the, the similarity, they are identical. You give Justin Trudeau a long beard

00:25:18.740 and you give him the communist hat and all that kind of stuff and the uniform. He, he not only

00:25:23.640 sounds just like Fidel Castro and all has all the same views, but looks just like him. And this is

00:25:29.620 one of those things that may be misinformation. It may be totally false, but I, I choose to believe

00:25:34.160 it. This is a story that I choose to believe. Um, and anyway, aside from that, yeah, of course the

00:25:39.940 irony here is that he's accusing the Tucker, the, the truckers, the individuals of, um, blockading,

00:25:46.340 you know, preventing people from living their daily lives, uh, blockading the economy, doing

00:25:52.980 all these things, which of course, I don't need to need to say it. That's exactly what he did to his

00:25:59.360 own country. So there might be a little bit more jealousy here where, or basically Trudeau saying,

00:26:04.820 um, Castro jr is saying, no, you're, you're not supposed to do that. I'm supposed to do that.

00:26:12.800 Preventing people from living their daily lives, uh, shutting down the economy.

00:26:17.800 No, that's, that's my job. That's not your job is what Trudeau says Castro jr. All right,

00:26:24.220 moving on. Toyota just, uh, put out a radio ad speaking of communists, hailing Colin Kaepernick.

00:26:31.180 Uh, and this is pretty extraordinary in the, the, the number of falsehoods that they're able to

00:26:38.740 jam in to like a one minute radio ad. Listen to this.

00:26:43.500 Toyota proudly presents in their own words, Colin ran Kaepernick, a two-time Superbowl quarterback

00:26:51.520 and NFL record holder first knelt on one knee during the national anthem in 2016 as a sign of

00:26:58.340 respect to the military and a symbol of protest against police shootings to bring awareness and

00:27:04.360 make people, you know, realize what's really going on in this country. There are a lot of things that

00:27:09.400 are going on that are unjust. People aren't being held accountable for, and that's something that

00:27:14.420 needs to change. That's something that, you know, this country stands for freedom, liberty, justice for

00:27:20.860 all, and it's not happening for all right now. He changed the world and sparked a peaceful form

00:27:26.520 of protest that continues around the world. In their own words, proudly presented by Toyota,

00:27:34.640 Toyota, let's go places.

00:27:38.480 Okay. Uh, where to begin? First of all, Colin Kaepernick was not a two-time Superbowl quarterback.

00:27:47.720 He was in Superbowl one time. So we're starting off right out, right off the bat here with the

00:27:53.180 falsehood where they're, they're spotting him an extra Superbowl. I guess just, this is like an

00:27:58.340 affirmative action thing. And you know, we'll, we'll give him an extra one, even though he wasn't

00:28:01.140 in it. He was in it in spirit. In fact, Colin Kaepernick, his actual career trajectory is that

00:28:05.360 he came into the league and, um, he, he played like a half a season. He was taken over for, I think

00:28:10.860 he was taken over for Alex Smith, if I remember correctly. And, um, and he, he had a, he had a good

00:28:17.140 season. He, he kind of ran out of the gates. He was on fire at a good season and, um, goes to the

00:28:22.960 Superbowl and doesn't have a great game there, but he's, but he's a, it seems to be a pretty good

00:28:27.080 athlete. And after that point, he just, it's, it's a downhill trajectory from there. So he was a

00:28:36.540 shining star that burned out very, very quickly. And, and in fairness to him, certainly not the

00:28:42.100 first one in the history of professional sports or, or in the NFL, it's pretty common. You have these

00:28:46.340 kind of one hit wonders, which is what he was. And by the time he left and decided to go on his,

00:28:52.080 uh, protest, he was, you know, sitting basically a bench rider and having a horrible season and

00:28:57.800 couldn't win any games and all the rest of it. So that's the first problem. Second problem is they

00:29:03.880 claim in the ad that he was taking a knee to honor the troops. What? He, he never even

00:29:14.700 pretended that's what he was doing. So we're protesting the flag and the anthem to honor the

00:29:22.880 troops. But this is what, if you, if you're on the left and you're in the media, your corporation

00:29:32.380 like Toyota, um, you control the narrative, which means that you control history basically,

00:29:40.020 because what is history? You know, history is, is a story that we tell ourselves.

00:29:48.820 That's history. These are things that already happened. And so you can't go see it for yourself

00:29:55.900 anymore. You have to rely on the stories that we hear. And, uh, the, the only interest, we know

00:30:03.600 that history can be rewritten, sort of the story can be rewritten. You, you hope that the story you

00:30:07.960 hear about history, it pretty well reflects what actually happened, but we know that history can

00:30:13.760 be rewritten. And usually the, the, the farther in the past something is, the easier it is to rewrite

00:30:20.620 it. What's interesting these days is we can see how history is rewritten right in front of us.

00:30:26.760 And it doesn't have to be ancient history, very recent history, something that happened yesterday.

00:30:32.680 We will watch as the, the, the historians of yesterday rewrite that story. And that's what

00:30:40.160 they're doing now with Colin Kaepernick. This is one example of that. He's, he was protesting in

00:30:45.520 favor of the troops. All right. Uh, speaking of the NFL, so we know this story, we, we talked

00:30:51.300 yesterday at daily cancellation about Brian Flores. He was the former head coach of the Miami Dolphins.

00:30:57.800 And, uh, he got fired because he was, was not, not achieving what they wanted to him,

00:31:05.020 wanted him to achieve. And as we talked about yesterday, it's very, very easy to get fired

00:31:08.900 as a head coach in the NFL. I think personally that many times owners are too quick to fire coaches

00:31:14.160 coaches because they're so impatient. They want to win right now. And that's how teams like the

00:31:18.380 Dolphins end up cycling through head coaches because no one is having the success and they're

00:31:21.720 not letting anyone, they're not giving anyone a chance to kind of settle into the role and build

00:31:25.740 the organization or rebuild it as the case may be. Um, but that's not something that afflicts only

00:31:32.920 black coaches, white and black coaches can be fired at the drop of a hat. They can even have a

00:31:38.680 winning season and get fired. So Flores gets fired and, um, he could have went right away to another

00:31:46.540 team and probably got a head coaching job at worst. He goes and becomes an offensive coordinator

00:31:50.960 somewhere for a year and then gets back into the head coaching ranks. That's another very common

00:31:54.980 thing these coaches will do. Uh, but instead of doing that, he decided to sue the NFL and several

00:31:59.880 teams claiming that they're racist against him. There's some sort of systemic racism against black

00:32:04.980 coaches, even though he was himself a black coach. And not only that, but he got his head coaching

00:32:10.900 job at the age of 38, which makes him not the youngest NFL head coach in history. I think the

00:32:16.520 youngest was like 32, which is pretty absurd, but, um, he's certainly on the younger end.

00:32:22.120 I mean, there are many people, including a lot of white coaches who are in the league

00:32:25.460 for decades and they don't get their first head coaching job until they're in their fifties or sixties.

00:32:31.320 And there are plenty who never get that opportunity.

00:32:34.980 So you're in the league for comparatively few years. And at the age of 38, you get your first

00:32:39.560 head coaching gig. And yet there's systemic racism preventing you because of your skin color

00:32:46.580 from getting head coaching gigs. While there are dozens of white coordinators who have had success

00:32:53.200 and they're in their fifties and sixties and have never had that opportunity.

00:32:57.560 Makes no sense at all. But, um, meanwhile, you know, there, there are a bunch of teams right now

00:33:02.080 looking for head coaches. And, um, one of those teams is the Texans. And I think let's,

00:33:08.400 let's put this up clip two here. Um, they just hired a coach, Lovie Smith. It says, uh, breaking news,

00:33:15.300 the Texans are expected to hire former Buccaneers and Bears head coach Lovie Smith as their own head

00:33:20.320 coach. Now, part of the problem with the, uh, the race hustling that's going on right now is that

00:33:31.060 anytime a black coach gets a job in the NFL, there's always going to be the suspicion that

00:33:39.440 they got the job because the owner didn't want to be accused of being racist by hiring a white guy.

00:33:43.920 Um, this is one of the problems with affirmative action, with the Rooney rule in the NFL that

00:33:49.340 requires teams to interview minority candidates, even if they already know they want to hire somebody

00:33:53.640 else. Um, it's the same criticism that we've made, uh, rightfully so about Joe Biden's approach to the

00:34:01.360 Supreme court opening. You say ahead of time, I'm going to hire a black woman specifically. 1.00

00:34:07.300 Well, eventually when you nominate whoever that's going to be,

00:34:13.200 it's a reasonable for all of us to wonder whether that person actually deserved that appointment on

00:34:20.020 the merits or whether they got that position because of their demographics. And the same thing

00:34:25.380 is happening in the NFL now. And in this case, you know, Lovie Smith, as it happens, uh, he's had

00:34:31.560 head coaching jobs in a league for, uh, through a large part of the last 20 years. He's, um,

00:34:40.320 his overall head coaching record is at, is at about 500. I mean, he's lost about as many games as he's

00:34:45.860 won. He's only won three playoff games in like 15 years of coaching. And, uh, out of all of the

00:34:54.200 candidates available, he's the one you hire. Make somebody ask questions. Is this a diversity hire

00:35:02.180 or in spite of his mediocrity, did you just decide that, you know, we'll give him another chance

00:35:06.700 anyway? Who knows? But then what about Brian Flores himself? Now he says he's going on this

00:35:13.620 campaign. He's suing the NFL because he wants to give opportunities to minority coaches. And that's 0.99

00:35:18.260 what he cares about so much. So is, is he satisfied? I mean, he sees, yeah, he didn't get

00:35:23.140 that job with the, uh, with the Texans, but another black coach did. So you think Brian Flores, at least 0.97

00:35:29.340 as a humanitarian, as an activist cares about racial equality, should he just be thrilled by this?

00:35:37.440 Well, here's a statement from his lawyers. Um, Mr. Flores is happy to hear that the Texans have hired a

00:35:43.720 black head coach, Lovie Smith as Mr. Flores, his goal in bringing his case is to provide real

00:35:48.260 opportunities for black and minority head coaches, uh, to be considered for coaching and executive

00:35:52.340 positions within the NFL. However, we would be remiss not to mention that Flores was one of three

00:35:58.840 finalists for the Texans head coach position. And after a great interview and mutual interest is

00:36:04.140 obvious that the only reason Mr. Flores was not selected was his decision to stand up against

00:36:08.840 racial inequality across the NFL. So their message is, yeah, great. You, uh, you hired a black guy,

00:36:15.300 but it was the wrong one. I forgot to mention, I want you to hire, uh, black head coaches, but 0.93

00:36:22.580 specifically black head coaches that are me. That's what I'm really concerned about here.

00:36:29.640 What a shock. All right. One other note here is from the New York post. It says more cops were killed

00:36:34.340 in the line of duty during president Biden's first year of office than any other year since

00:36:38.320 1995. And a law enforcement group says the driving force is the growing anti-cop sentiment. According

00:36:43.820 to the new report, 73 officers were intentionally killed in the line of duty in 2021, a nearly 59%

00:36:49.760 increase over 2020 where 46 cops were murdered. We believe it's a combination of the George Floyd

00:36:56.500 protests, uh, riots, if you will, a general feeling of a preference for less law enforcement and less

00:37:02.200 prosecution, less policing. This according to Jason Johnson, president of the law enforcement legal

00:37:06.320 defense fund and a 20 year police veteran. So we've got 73 officers who were killed in the line

00:37:11.320 of duty. And, um, by the way, that far, far outpaces the number of, um, unarmed black men who were killed

00:37:17.940 by police. Um, it's X the, this, the number of, of, uh, officers killed exponentially greater than that.

00:37:26.400 And why does it happen? Well, one, we have the general atmosphere of lawlessness that's being

00:37:33.340 encouraged in cities across the country. And you have these Soros funded DAs who are intentionally

00:37:40.500 putting violent and dangerous people back onto the streets and basically daring them to do something

00:37:47.640 like kill a police officer. Because you can commit armed robbery in New York. Now that's a, uh,

00:37:54.980 essentially, essentially a misdemeanor. You can commit armed robbery. You could commit burglary.

00:37:58.720 You can steal from people. You can assault random people. You can, you can do drugs or you can deal

00:38:03.820 drugs rather, you know, all gang activity, all this kind of stuff, steal cars. And the DAs will just

00:38:10.520 filter you back out into the community, no matter how many crimes you commit. And what they say is

00:38:16.540 until you do something so heinous that I, as a Soros funded DA who is fundamentally and philosophically

00:38:26.140 opposed to law and order until even I am forced to put you in prison. As much as I would like to

00:38:31.140 even still keep you out on the street, even after you kill a police officer, even I am forced to put 0.83

00:38:34.720 you in prison. That's what these DAs are saying. And that's a big part of the, uh, big part of the

00:38:43.300 picture here. These police officers go out into the community, um, communities that they're still

00:38:49.380 protecting and serving, even though they're despised by the very communities they're putting

00:38:52.820 themselves on, on their lives on the line for. They find violent, dangerous people,

00:38:59.040 arrest them, ship them off to the court system and say, Hey guys, here you go. Found another one.

00:39:04.980 And the court system says, no, no, thanks. Don't want them. Puts them back on the street. 0.95

00:39:09.280 So that's part of the story. And then the other part of the story,

00:39:11.820 of course, is the narrative promoted by the media and by guys like Joe Biden, 1.00

00:39:18.220 that there are racist cops prowling the street, looking for black people to kill. 0.98

00:39:24.360 So you want to talk about misinformation, like dangerous misinformation that's getting people 0.99

00:39:30.040 killed. That is not just an example of that, but that is the prime number one example.

00:39:38.080 Misinformation that's getting people killed is the claim that there is an epidemic of racist 0.99

00:39:43.100 cops, murdering black people. And this is the result for many people in the U S concerned about 0.96

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00:40:50.320 Do you know their name? They're the sweet baby gang.

00:40:57.560 All right. You can go to dailywire.com slash sweet baby comments, right? Is that the, I forgot the

00:41:03.880 URL all of a sudden. Um, and you can leave your video comment. We'll start with clip nine here.

00:41:10.740 Hi, Matt. In a recent video, you explained that you don't believe in ghosts because basically you

00:41:15.000 don't see why God would keep the souls of dead people behind on earth to haunt stores in people's

00:41:19.280 homes. But I thought Catholics believe in purgatory and isn't purgatory one of the main 0.93

00:41:24.120 justifications given for the existence of ghosts. I've heard that Catholics have had sightings of

00:41:29.980 what they believe to be souls of people in purgatory, uh, that basically appear as ghosts.

00:41:36.680 Uh, so do you believe in purgatory? And if so, doesn't that at least give some plausibility to the

00:41:43.380 idea of ghosts? Yeah, I do believe in purgatory, but there's, there's no, um, version of purgatory

00:41:49.400 that I've ever heard where it's a place on earth where the souls in purgatory just kind of hang out

00:41:57.060 in especially if for some reason, congregate in creepy looking buildings and do random things like

00:42:03.060 slam doors shut and make a silverware fly across the, the kitchen. Right. Um, now I, I certainly

00:42:10.840 believe that people have had visions of, uh, of, of souls in the afterlife. I think they've had visions

00:42:18.360 of souls in heaven and hell and purgatory, but those are not spirits that are physically located

00:42:25.460 on earth and walk sort of kind of walking around and interacting with people and, uh, trying to

00:42:32.340 scare people. That's, that's, that's of course one, one of the big questions about, about ghosts. If

00:42:37.240 they, if they exist, it's like, what, what are they doing exactly? Is that they're just entertaining

00:42:41.280 themselves by trying to freak people out when they stay in a, you know, spooky hotels or an old,

00:42:48.060 uh, old homes? So yeah, I just, I, I, that, that's my primary problem with the idea of ghosts. As I

00:42:56.040 explained in the video where I was, um, debunking the pro ghost propaganda from one Andrew Clavin,

00:43:03.180 yeah, my, my main problem is a theological problem. And I don't see any sort of theological,

00:43:09.680 uh, justification for this idea that God would keep undead people on earth to sort of just walk

00:43:17.400 around and freak people out. Um, now demons are another story, but ghosts is a different subject.

00:43:23.520 And then also there's the kind of practical criticism that if these ghosts are out there

00:43:30.240 and they're so common and people see them all the time, then just like Bigfoot, why have we not yet

00:43:35.440 been given any solid video evidence of anything like that? I've never seen. All right, let's go to

00:43:43.080 number 10. All right, Mr. Walsh. So I have four small children and whenever we come to the store,

00:43:50.000 I seek out shopping carts like that. I park right by them so that I don't have to go far with these

00:43:58.800 little children. And then I don't feel bad leaving it wherever I got it from. So come on,

00:44:07.440 can I get away with not bringing this thing all the way back to, I don't even know where

00:44:15.120 if I got, if I put it back right where I got it from.

00:44:23.240 SPG for life. Okay. First of all, I see, I see the game you're playing here by keeping the camera

00:44:29.740 trained on the cute kid. So you think that's going to get you sympathy points, but it won't. Can we go

00:44:33.700 back to this? First of all, I like how the video comment section has really just become a discussion

00:44:37.020 of shopping carts every single day. But can we, okay, just play this video again. We don't need

00:44:42.300 the audio. I just, cause she said, where do I return it? Can we just, just play the video?

00:44:46.440 Let me see. Where do you return it? Okay. Well, I just spotted one cart corral, which is like 20

00:44:52.160 feet from you. And then how close is she to the actual entrance to the, right there. I can see right

00:44:57.340 there. How, how far, wait, you're at Walmart. How far are you from the entrance of the store?

00:45:03.640 I can, you're maybe like 20 cars away. How long will it take you, ma'am, to traverse that great

00:45:12.480 distance to leave your car at the front of the store? It would take you less than a minute easily.

00:45:20.540 Now that adorable child of yours, he doesn't appear to be very heavy. So here's a strategy.

00:45:25.560 You, you cart your child over to the front of the store, you leave your cart. And then you're saying

00:45:33.240 to yourself, what about my kid? Am I leaving him at Walmart? No, you're picking your kid up and holding

00:45:38.840 him as I'm sure you've done in the past and bringing him back to your car. You could even try this, put the

00:45:46.800 kid in the car, shut the doors, lock them, then return your cart and come back. And I know you're

00:45:53.880 going to say, Oh, isn't it dangerous to leave my kid in the car? What do you think's going to happen?

00:45:58.220 Bring the keys with you, lock the door. You're going to be gone for 10 seconds. You're within

00:46:02.540 sight of the car in that timeframe. What do you think's going to happen? Exactly.

00:46:09.840 You think there's like a kidnapper who's just waiting. It was like a crouch behind the Toyota,

00:46:14.920 you know, three cars away. And as soon as you turn to get a dash into the car and try to steal

00:46:19.120 your whole car full of kids in the whole history of, of parking lots, how many times has that

00:46:25.000 happened? That a car full of kids has been kidnapped in a parking lot because the mother

00:46:29.540 was returning a shopping cart. Like there's millions of, of potential opportunities. How

00:46:35.240 many times has it happened? I ask you, how dare you? How dare you? All right. Uh, let's move

00:46:42.840 to some of these written comments. So no, you do not get an exception. And you are of course

00:46:46.260 banned from the show. Um, let's see. Uh, John Williams says, I have to admit that my wife 0.97

00:46:55.120 and I are addicted to 1883. I just really enjoy Taylor Sheridan's body of work, including

00:47:01.500 Yellowstone. Well, I don't know how far you are into the show, but I, I look that's what,

00:47:06.720 that's the tragedy of 1883 is that for the first three episodes, uh, it was, it was actually

00:47:13.560 really good. And I was very excited about it. And I kept, and I kept saying to my wife, like

00:47:19.300 finally, they made a show like this. I've been waiting for just a straightforward Western

00:47:23.640 series, a la, uh, Lonesome Dove and classic Western. And it was that until it went and fell

00:47:33.900 off the woke cliff. I hate to say, um, Justin says, I ordered a bunch of the DW Valentine

00:47:41.560 card day cards to send to my liberal family members. Uh, very good, very good usage of

00:47:46.800 those, uh, DW Valentine's. I'm not, I'm not sure how else you would use them, but that's

00:47:50.860 one way to do it. And the lonely dragon says, we need a, should I exist shirt for baboons? 0.95

00:47:59.360 Yeah. I, I, that's one thing I discovered in my third world adventure, as I said yesterday,

00:48:03.240 is that baboons, and this is well known in these countries, that baboons are absolute jerks. 0.99

00:48:07.180 And, you know, whereas the, the panda is useless and there's no reason for it to exist. I think 0.99

00:48:13.100 with baboons, they like they're, they are actively a drain on society. So I think with, with pandas,

00:48:19.840 we should just let them slip off, slip from the earth and fade into extinction as they so desperately

00:48:27.860 want to, which is why they've stopped mating. We have to coax them into mating, make like candlelight 1.00

00:48:33.240 dinners and play Marvin Gaye for them in the jungle. So they'll start mating. Um, with pandas,

00:48:38.220 just let them, just let them die off with baboons. You can make an argument for actively hunting them 1.00

00:48:42.860 down and committing a sort of baboon genocide. Uh, and if you think that sounds harsh, we'll go to 1.00

00:48:48.000 a country where these things are. They are vicious. I'm telling you. If you haven't marked your calendar

00:48:52.360 for this Thursday yet, you should. It's not only the world premiere of the Daily Wire's first original

00:48:55.860 film shut in, but we will also be releasing the first teaser of our next film during the stream

00:49:00.080 called Terror on the Prairie, which is a Western starring Gina Carano. We could be more excited

00:49:04.380 to be making good on our promise of bringing you real entertainment. And we seriously hope that

00:49:07.940 you tune in. Shut In is a tale of redemption and an intense, suspenseful thriller that delivers

00:49:12.100 riveting action without missing a beat. Check out the trailer here.

00:49:30.080 Jessica. I can smell the weakness from here. Lady! 1.00

00:49:58.660 Rob! Rob owes me money.

00:50:09.860 Rob! Let me out, please!

00:50:15.460 What good is this to me now?

00:50:24.660 I'm scared.

00:50:33.860 Now you must pay.

00:50:39.860 Your daughter, she's very pretty.

00:50:43.860 Well, the film premieres this Thursday, February 10th at 9 p.m. Eastern, 8 p.m. Central over at Daily Wire YouTube.

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00:51:18.660 The premiere of Shut In starts at 9 p.m. Eastern on the same channel, so make sure to tune in before then.

00:51:23.860 Now let's get to our Daily Cancellation.

00:51:25.000 Today, for our Daily Cancellation, we must take a closer look at something that may appear to be nothing but celebrity gossip on the surface.

00:51:34.480 Kanye West and Kim Kardashian are going through a divorce, which is a development that surprises only because it took seven whole years of marriage before it happened.

00:51:43.140 I have no opinion on the divorce itself, except that you better enjoy getting divorced if you marry a Kardashian to begin with.

00:51:49.260 The issue of relevance today, though, is the public feud between Kanye and Kim pertaining to their eight-year-old daughter North's social media use.

00:51:58.840 Now, we'll leave aside the unfortunate fact that these two decided to make their daughter, to name their daughter Northwest.

00:52:06.160 At least they named her based on compass directions and not latitude and longitude coordinates.

00:52:10.840 Northwest sounds better as a name than like 34 degrees north, 118 degrees west. 0.87

00:52:16.900 But still, Northwest is kind of a silly name.

00:52:18.560 In any case, the eight-year-old recently appeared on TikTok with her own account, and she was posting videos.

00:52:24.120 Kanye did not approve, and he said so publicly.

00:52:26.900 And this prompted Kim to defend herself by going to TMZ, and the outlet reports, quote,

00:52:31.260 Sources close to the former couple tell TMZ North does not have her own TikTok account, nor does she have the app on her own phone any longer.

00:52:37.680 Instead, we're told North can only access TikTok through a joint account on Kim's phone and only uses it in her mother's presence.

00:52:44.180 Not just that, but our sources say the comments for North and Kim's account are fully disabled.

00:52:48.560 We've even spoken to sources at TikTok who tell us North and Kim's account passes the company's terms and conditions for minors.

00:52:55.320 Now, here's why Kanye might be in a tiff over this.

00:52:58.640 According to another source in the know, we know there was, in fact, an incident recently where North did go live on TikTok from her own phone.

00:53:05.440 But our sources say Kim disciplined her over that and made the changes then.

00:53:09.800 Really important reporting from TMZ.

00:53:12.700 So what we can take from this is that not only does the eight-year-old have a TikTok account, but she has her own phone with Internet access as well at eight years old.

00:53:23.780 Now, I'm not a fan of marital disputes being aired publicly like this, especially when they have children that are directly involved.

00:53:31.420 Then again, Kim Kardashian and Kanye West have never really known how to speak to each other or to anyone except through TMZ.

00:53:37.260 So there's no surprise there.

00:53:38.720 But putting the method of communication aside, does Kanye have a point?

00:53:42.600 Is his eight-year-old daughter too young for social media?

00:53:45.540 The answer, of course, is yes, obviously, without a question, without any doubt whatsoever.

00:53:53.500 Your young children should not be anywhere near social media.

00:53:57.520 They shouldn't have phones at all.

00:53:59.860 Now, older children shouldn't really be on social media either, but the situation is even more dire the younger the child is.

00:54:05.920 Also, it's much easier to control what a younger child does.

00:54:10.640 An older child has more independence.

00:54:12.400 She can drive.

00:54:13.340 You know, she may have her own means of income. 1.00

00:54:16.000 So your ability to control her is not entirely erased, but you have to rely more on influence than control as the child grows older.

00:54:23.600 And that's kind of the process of parenting, right?

00:54:25.940 Is that when your child is very, very young, you are physically controlling them a lot of the times.

00:54:31.880 If you want them to go somewhere, you pick them up and bring them there.

00:54:35.680 So you're exercising physical control.

00:54:37.960 But as the child grows older, that physical control, you start to rely less on that and more on influence.

00:54:44.280 You're trying to influence your child in a certain direction.

00:54:48.420 What about an eight years old?

00:54:50.340 Well, she can't go anywhere unless you take her there. 0.99

00:54:53.780 She can't own anything unless you buy it.

00:54:55.820 Unless you're a fully negligent parent, you should know generally where she is all the time and what she's doing, even if you're not with her every second of the day.

00:55:05.680 If your eight-year-old has a phone and the internet and social media, it's because you have not only allowed her to do so, but you have funded and facilitated it.

00:55:15.000 You have to pay for it.

00:55:16.420 That is, you have funded and facilitated the damage that is being done to her.

00:55:22.220 All that damage, you are paying for it to happen.

00:55:26.180 This is very simple, really.

00:55:28.280 All we need to do is make a chart, right?

00:55:31.040 And this is a good way to clarify a lot of things in life.

00:55:33.860 Make a chart.

00:55:34.960 On one side, you can list the negatives of social media use for eight-year-olds.

00:55:39.380 And on the other side, list the positives.

00:55:41.840 So let's begin with the positives.

00:55:43.040 What is good about having your eight-year-old daughter on social media?

00:55:47.840 What are the objective benefits?

00:55:50.400 Well, this is an easy list to fill out because there's nothing on it.

00:55:54.360 The closest thing to a benefit that parents will cite for their young child's social media use is that all her friends are doing it.

00:56:00.840 Well, I don't want her to be left out.

00:56:03.060 This is exactly the opposite of the sort of advice my parents gave me as a child when they constantly warn me that you should not do things just because your friends are doing them.

00:56:12.000 If your friends are jumping off a bridge, would you do it too?

00:56:15.200 Was the classic rejoinder.

00:56:17.220 And of course, the answer to that was, yeah, I totally would and did jump off of bridges and other elevated structures, sometimes into water, sometimes into bushes or piles of leaves.

00:56:26.040 I did it because it looked fun or because it seemed funny at the time to hurt or maim myself intentionally.

00:56:31.680 Because I was, you know, that's what boys do.

00:56:33.760 But social media is a different kind of bridge entirely.

00:56:37.280 And once you jump off of it, you fall eternally into a bottomless pit that eats your soul a little bit at a time.

00:56:43.640 The point is that kids may think something is worthwhile because their friends are doing it.

00:56:48.480 Because kids are immersed completely in peer culture.

00:56:51.460 All they can see is what their friends are doing.

00:56:53.760 What matters most to them in the world is acceptance from their peers.

00:56:57.680 It's the only thing that matters to them for a lot of these kids.

00:56:59.560 It matters so much that these kids these days will potentially kill themselves if that approval and acceptance is withheld.

00:57:06.320 That's how desperately they depend on it.

00:57:09.440 And this is exactly why adults need to be adults.

00:57:13.020 They need to rescue their children from this immersion. 0.58

00:57:17.820 They need to see clearly where their children cannot.

00:57:22.200 An adult who encourages or allows social media use on the basis that all their friends are doing it

00:57:27.220 is an adult who thinks no clearer than the child he's supposed to be in charge of.

00:57:32.740 Aside from the peer pressure defense, all the other positives of social media use are really arguments for mitigated negatives.

00:57:39.160 And there's a whole lot of this.

00:57:41.080 Where you have parents arguing for something and making arguments as if they're listing positives,

00:57:46.600 but actually they're listing mitigated negatives.

00:57:48.500 So when Kim Kardashian, for example, says that she's monitoring her daughter's internet activity,

00:57:54.080 she's not presenting an item for the positive column.

00:57:57.280 All she's doing is arguing that the bad isn't quite as bad as her husband claims.

00:58:01.880 Yeah, it's bad, but I'm monitoring it.

00:58:05.380 Okay, but that's not a good.

00:58:08.100 Even if I agree that you can mitigate the bad when it comes to social media use,

00:58:12.460 and in fact I think that most of the time you can't,

00:58:14.800 but even if I agree that you could, it's still not good.

00:58:19.800 It's still objectively better for them just not to be on it at all.

00:58:24.980 You can mitigate the risk of driving drunk at 100 miles an hour down the road by wearing a seatbelt.

00:58:33.140 I mean, if you're going to do it, it's better to do it with a seatbelt than without.

00:58:37.260 But that's not an argument that says that driving 100 miles down the road drunk is good.

00:58:46.540 Right?

00:58:47.080 The objectively better, of course, would be to not do that at all.

00:58:51.140 So what about the bad?

00:58:52.240 What goes in the negative column?

00:58:54.420 Well, we know that social media use rewires our brains in an almost literal way.

00:58:58.740 Many studies have been done on this subject,

00:59:00.480 and there's quite a lot of confirmation for, for example, the World Psychiatric Association's findings

00:59:06.520 that social media causes our brains to experience effects

00:59:09.600 similar to the sort of cognitive decline that comes with age.

00:59:13.520 Right?

00:59:13.940 It turns us all into a bunch of Joe Bidens.

00:59:16.480 Now, imagine how that works in the developing brain of a child.

00:59:20.180 When social media causes cognitive decline and this is happening to a brain that is still developing.

00:59:29.280 And imagine how much worse it gets when social media use begins practically at infancy

00:59:34.160 and lasts through a lifetime.

00:59:38.740 You know, when a child's brain, for a lot of us, people in my generation,

00:59:42.940 we were kids and we had a real childhood and our brains formed, you know,

00:59:49.340 despite maybe some of the brain damage from jumping off of high structures and that sort of thing.

00:59:55.200 And then the internet came along and messed us up.

00:59:59.340 But at least we had a real childhood first where we did things like go outside and play around.

01:00:04.160 We played tag and dodgeball.

01:00:05.540 We went and ran around in the woods and we got our jeans dirty and holes in the jeans and stuff like that.

01:00:10.980 And we did all of that.

01:00:12.720 And then the internet came along and robbed us of the rest of our lives and screwed up our brains.

01:00:19.020 And that's bad.

01:00:20.640 But imagine when a child's brain forms around the internet because they are immersed in it from birth practically.

01:00:28.920 We also know that children are highly susceptible, easily influenced.

01:00:32.860 On social media, they're encountering a mechanism designed by multi-billion dollar companies

01:00:38.200 with the express purpose of influencing them, of making them addicted.

01:00:43.580 Letting your kid use social media, it's like letting them loose in a casino to play on the slot machines.

01:00:47.840 Slot machines are expertly designed to put the user into a sort of trance

01:00:51.940 where they lose their free will and continue playing even while they bankrupt themselves and soil their pants.

01:00:58.600 If you've ever been to a casino, by the way, it's always a little bit like scandalous at first.

01:01:01.980 If you've never been to a casino before and everything you learn about casinos, you learn from Martin Scorsese movies or something like that or James Bond.

01:01:10.720 And then you go to a casino for the first time and you see that it's this immensely depressing environment

01:01:15.820 where it's just a bunch of mostly people who are over the age of 75 sitting there with their oxygen tanks

01:01:21.880 just staring at the slot machine, barely awake like zombies.

01:01:27.080 They keep pressing this button. They sit there for hours.

01:01:30.120 Well, the slot machine is designed to have that effect.

01:01:33.660 A lot of money went into doing that to people.

01:01:38.360 Social media is meant to induce a similar trance, except it doesn't end when you leave the casino.

01:01:44.520 And also, you know, it's not 75-year-olds using it. It's kids.

01:01:47.700 Add this to all the sexually charged imagery, the violent imagery and all that,

01:01:52.740 that they're going to be exposed to relentlessly, hour by hour, day by day on social media.

01:01:58.020 And what you end up with is a picture where social media can do nothing but harm them.

01:02:05.060 That's the only thing it can do.

01:02:07.360 It's not going to help them.

01:02:09.520 It's not going to make them a better person.

01:02:12.620 Okay, there's no scenario where you keep your kid from using social media

01:02:16.880 and then they turn 18 years old and you say to yourself,

01:02:20.540 oh man, I wish they had spent more time on Instagram.

01:02:24.800 Okay, no parent is going to look back

01:02:26.760 at their experience as a parent with their child

01:02:30.220 and their childhood and say to themselves,

01:02:33.700 you know, I wish I'd introduced TikTok earlier.

01:02:37.220 No parent is going to say that.

01:02:38.380 A lot of parents are going to say and are saying right now,

01:02:42.980 man, my kid is a zombie.

01:02:46.180 I barely even recognize him. 0.94

01:02:48.700 He is totally addicted to this stuff.

01:02:50.920 He has no interest outside of it.

01:02:53.000 His life completely revolves around this screen.

01:02:56.180 He is being consumed by it.

01:02:58.780 I wish I'd kept him away from it.

01:03:02.260 Because it can only harm them.

01:03:03.840 The question is simply, how much will it harm them?

01:03:07.160 And the answer is a lot.

01:03:09.240 And that's why today, I must say that in this dispute,

01:03:12.700 Kim Kardashian is getting canceled.

01:03:16.560 And we'll leave it there for today.

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01:04:05.780 Lainey, where have you been?

01:04:10.480 Jessica.

01:04:12.300 I can smell the weakness from you.

01:04:19.000 No, stop! 0.98

01:04:21.400 Let me out, please!

01:04:26.520 Don't you touch my kids! 0.97

01:04:29.440 Your daughter, she's very pretty.

01:04:31.900 I'm scared.

01:04:37.360 I'm scared.

The Matt Walsh Show - February 08, 2022

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