The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 988 - BLM’s Latest Canonization Effort Falls Apart

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, BLM chooses its latest martyr, but things don't work out as

00:00:04.600 they expect when his female victim shows up at the protest to speak out. Also, the CEO of Starbucks

00:00:10.080 shuts down stores in a number of major cities, declaring that America is now unsafe. But is

00:00:14.740 America unsafe, or is it specifically Democrat-controlled cities that are unsafe? And also,

00:00:19.440 Democrats declare that, quote, we're all going to die, direct quote, after their latest global

00:00:24.140 warming bill fails to pass. Plus, Marvel fans call for a trigger warning before the new Thor

00:00:29.460 movie that just came out. And our daily cancellation, the New York Times, has a report

00:00:33.180 about hotness. Not the global warming kind, but the other kind. We'll talk about all that and much

00:00:37.840 more today on the Matt Wall Show. The latest inflation numbers are in, and it's not looking

00:00:51.640 good, to say the least. We've hit a 40-year high at 9.1% thanks to this genius, brilliant administration.

00:00:58.080 Our nation's authorities are now openly admitting to having completely missed the flashing red

00:01:01.860 lights of inflation and this administration's failed economic policy as well. Treasury Secretary

00:01:07.000 Janet Yellen admitted she was wrong about the path inflation would take, saying, quote,

00:01:11.000 there have been unanticipated and large shocks to the economy that have boosted energy and food

00:01:15.700 prices and supply bottlenecks that have affected our economy badly that, at the time, I didn't fully

00:01:19.980 understand. Well, there you have it. Straight from the horse's mouth. I didn't fully understand. I didn't

00:01:23.560 anticipate, she says. Now, I know you're worried about affording basic necessities in the months to

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00:02:15.380 your savings with gold. So we've heard that the good guy with a gun is a mythological figure,

00:02:23.840 a false narrative. Such a person doesn't exist in real life, we're told, or so the gun-grabbing

00:02:29.420 faction claims anyway. In the case of Uvaldi, they're correct. We now know, according to the

00:02:34.280 latest report, which came out just over the weekend, that 400 officers, 400, not a typo apparently,

00:02:39.780 were on the scene while the shooter was executing elementary school children. This is a small army,

00:02:45.380 of heavily armed cops. Not one good guy with a gun among them, though, because they were all

00:02:50.720 worthless, spineless, quaking little cowards. But just because good guys with guns don't exist in 0.98

00:02:57.780 Uvaldi, Texas, apparently, that doesn't mean that they don't exist anywhere else in the country.

00:03:01.740 Like in Indiana, for example. As CNN reports, quote,

00:03:04.280 A shooting rampage that killed three people and injured two others at an Indiana mall ended after

00:03:09.260 an armed witness shot and killed the assailant, police said. Around 6 p.m. local time Sunday,

00:03:14.300 multiple people called 911 to report an active shooter at the Greenwood Park Mall. Greenwood

00:03:18.000 Police Chief Jim Eisen told reporters, investigators believe the unidentified gunman, an adult male,

00:03:24.060 was shot and killed by a lawfully armed 22-year-old man who, quote, observed the shooting in

00:03:28.680 progress. According to Eisen, the Greenwood Police Department has trained for a mass shooting

00:03:34.140 scenario and has performed multiple mall exercises to prepare for active shooter situations, he said.

00:03:39.040 Quote, but I'm going to tell you the real hero of the day is the citizen that was lawfully carrying

00:03:43.120 a firearm in the food court and was able to stop the shooter almost as soon as he began, Eisen said.

00:03:49.860 But this is a CNN article, which means that there's going to be some narrative

00:03:53.520 damage control done also. So immediately after that, we're also told it's rare to have an armed

00:03:59.820 bystander attack an active shooter, according to a data analysis published by the New York Times.

00:04:05.420 There were at least 433 active shooter attacks in the U.S. from 2020-21. According to the data

00:04:11.380 analysis, active shooter attacks were defined as those in which one or more shooters killed or

00:04:16.720 attempted to kill multiple unrelated people in a populated place. Of those 433 active shooter cases,

00:04:22.920 an armed bystander shot the attacker in 22 of the incidents. In 10 of those, the good guy was a

00:04:28.460 security guard or an off-duty police officer, the Times reported. And having more than one armed

00:04:33.740 person at the scene who is not a member of law enforcement can create confusion and carry dire

00:04:38.560 risks, the reporter found. Now, of course, the statistics that are presented here, they're presented

00:04:44.780 in such a way to immediately disqualify dozens or even hundreds of other good guy with a gun scenarios.

00:04:51.780 They're only counting so-called active shooters dispatched by armed bystanders. And then they

00:04:58.180 qualify that and define that in a very arbitrary way. So they aren't counting incidents like the

00:05:04.560 one that occurred just two days ago in St. Louis, where a customer at a gas station shot and killed

00:05:09.940 an armed robber who was in the middle of a violent crime spree. The guy had a knife to the throat of

00:05:15.360 the cashier. That sort of thing happens frequently, but all such events are magically erased

00:05:22.920 through tricks of categorization. And yet, even as CNN presents it, let's just pretend it's only 22.

00:05:32.920 That's 22 mass shooters in the last 22 years who have been taken down by armed bystanders. That likely

00:05:39.620 means hundreds of lives saved. At least once a year, by CNN's estimate, a mass shooting is thwarted

00:05:46.320 by a good guy with a gun. This would seem to be very positive news and reason enough to encourage

00:05:54.360 law-abiding and responsible gun owners to exercise their Second Amendment rights as much as possible.

00:06:00.300 But as we've learned, there can be no positive news if it contradicts the narrative. That's why the

00:06:06.240 reaction to this story on the left has drifted all the way into outright sympathy for the dead mass

00:06:11.540 shooter. One viral tweet from a CBS reporter in Indiana can, I think, summarize this sentiment pretty

00:06:17.800 well. Justin Kohler tweeted, the term Good Samaritan came from a Bible passage of a man from Samaria who

00:06:24.820 stopped on the side of the road to help a man who was injured and ignored. I cannot believe we live in

00:06:30.400 a world where the term can equally apply to someone killing someone. My God. Yes, he killed

00:06:38.160 someone. What a shameful tragedy. Never mind that the someone in this case was a mass murdering

00:06:44.460 psychopath and that the bystander risked his life for the sake of rescuing strangers from the psychopath's

00:06:51.080 bloody rampage. That's not enough to earn the Good Samaritan badge, says Justin, and many on the left

00:06:57.840 have voiced their agreement with that. But this was not the weekend's only example of the left

00:07:05.420 sympathizing with a crazed lunatic gunman. There was another far more egregious case, a case that brings

00:07:12.600 us yet another name to add to the rogues gallery of BLM martyrs. On Friday, ambulance chasing parasite 0.58

00:07:20.960 Ben Chump, or Crump, sorry, a race baiting vulture so totally devoid of integrity that Al Sharpton looks like 0.75

00:07:28.040 Frederick Douglass by comparison, tweeted the following, quote, this is Tekel Sundberg. Minneapolis, the police

00:07:35.760 department killed this smart, loving and artistic 20 year old after an hours long standoff while he was

00:07:42.340 experiencing a mental health crisis. We need answers from MPD as to why Tekel's mental health crisis

00:07:49.020 became a death sentence, exclamation point. He chooses an accompanying photo of a good old Tekel 0.76

00:07:56.260 smiling warmly and innocently. He apparently decided not to post a photo like this one, which you can see

00:08:02.060 where Sundberg can be seen holding a giant bag of weed and pointing two pistols at the camera. Two pistols in

00:08:09.340 one hand, by the way, not good gun safety, just so you know. Credit to Crump, though, for managing to

00:08:14.560 find an image of this guy where he's not waving a firearm around. That couldn't have been easy.

00:08:19.380 Though on second thought, his hands are cut off in the picture Crump chose. They're cropped out of the

00:08:24.480 photo, so we have no idea what he might have been holding actually. But we do know what he was holding

00:08:29.520 on the night when police shot and killed him. He was armed and had been in a standoff, as actually

00:08:36.140 Crump noted, with police for over six hours. So they tried for six hours to coax him out of the

00:08:42.700 apartment building where he had barricaded himself. Finally, a police sniper had a shot and took it,

00:08:49.100 judging that he posed an intolerable danger to other people in the building. And they had reason to make

00:08:54.560 that assumption because Sundberg had been firing indiscriminately into a neighboring apartment where a

00:09:01.460 young mother and her children were present and were cowering in fear, hiding for their lives.

00:09:07.860 This is the loving and artistic man that Crump calls for us to mourn. And BLM activists in the city 0.91

00:09:15.520 were, of course, eager to heed the call. A crowd gathered outside of the scene of the shooting a couple of

00:09:22.240 days later on Saturday to lament the death of the psychotic man who attempted to murder a woman and

00:09:29.960 her children. And also to protest the police who saved the lives of that woman and her children.

00:09:35.040 How dare they? The protesters marched and they held their signs and they chanted in support of their

00:09:41.500 new scumbag hero. Everything was going according to plan, as we've seen many times before. 0.99

00:09:46.380 Until a woman named Arabella Foss Yarbrough threw a wrench in their plans. She's the woman whose 0.94

00:09:54.580 apartment Sundberg was firing into. And she, of course, is not at all the first female victim of

00:10:00.820 a BLM martyr. Far from it. Nearly every BLM martyr has had a history of violently abusing women, 0.82

00:10:06.740 which is not a coincidence, by the way. But she is the first, as far as I know, to show up and speak

00:10:13.100 out publicly. She confronted the crowd about what she experienced and about what their martyr,

00:10:20.440 what their hero had done to her and her children. And their response to her speaks volumes. Listen to

00:10:27.140 this. You guys are celebrating his life. It was a terror. I'm sure it was a terror. It's not OK. It's not OK. You're

00:10:34.480 alive. Shut up. You guys need to just let it go. Grief in silence. It's not OK. This is not a George Floyd 1.00

00:10:44.760 situation. George Floyd was unarmed. He was unarmed. You're alive. I'm sorry. It is not OK. My kids have to deal

00:10:55.800 with this to probably have a mental illness now because they almost lost their life. There's bullet holes in my

00:11:02.100 kitchen. Not in you, though. Because he sat in the hallway, watching my move.

00:11:08.520 This family wishes this never happened. I wish it never happened. I don't have a place to call home. I can't sleep that night. She's

00:11:16.720 obviously going through a moment. This is not OK. This is what they want to show on the TV. This is obviously going through a

00:11:23.020 moment. This is not OK. Just go home. Go home. Because none of you guys knocked on that man's door to check his house. Shut up. Shut up. Shut up. You're

00:11:34.940 getting away from me. Get away. You think it's OK to get him. My kids in the car. My kids in the car. My black kid is in the car. Look at what you're doing for your kids. He tried to kill me in front of my kids. He tried to kill me in front of my kids.

00:11:59.420 You're alive, someone in the crowd sarcastically responds.

00:12:08.220 She's obviously going through a moment, says a guy with a plethora of chins. 1.00

00:12:13.300 Someone else is more direct. 0.99

00:12:14.600 Shut up, he said to her. 1.00

00:12:17.240 Shut up. 1.00

00:12:19.300 I mean, this is a woman saying, you know, this guy was shooting into my apartment with my kids and almost killed me. 1.00

00:12:23.540 Shut up. 0.95

00:12:24.340 The crowd of what appears to be mostly middle-aged white people openly scoffs at a young woman who lived through a night of terror as she and her children were forced to dodge bullets in their own home. 0.99

00:12:39.040 A home they can't go back to, she notes, because it's riddled with bullet holes.

00:12:43.560 The crowd of BLM boomers wanted to dismiss and silence the victim of their new hero. 1.00

00:12:49.920 That's what they wanted to do, but they didn't succeed.

00:12:53.580 Because the video went viral, and just like that, soon as that video went viral, the media moved on from the Sundberg story.

00:13:02.260 Just moved on.

00:13:03.300 Like it never happened.

00:13:05.700 All future plans for murals and monuments and statues have all presumably been canceled.

00:13:12.800 Arabella's testimony was such an embarrassment for BLM. 0.64

00:13:16.120 And that scene you just watched, such a humiliation for them that they have no choice but to pretend the whole thing never happened.

00:13:24.480 Riots are called off.

00:13:25.480 Everything's called off.

00:13:26.960 We'll wait for the next one.

00:13:28.680 Okay?

00:13:29.080 We'll wait for a BLM martyr who victimized women, but where the women are not going to say anything publicly.

00:13:36.180 Even Ben Trump, or Crump, hasn't spoken out about it again since Friday.

00:13:41.560 Instead, he's moved on.

00:13:42.420 You know, the latest thing I checked, actually, I checked right before I went on the air to see if he has offered any updates on this story.

00:13:48.720 Of course, I knew that he wasn't going to retract or apologize, obviously.

00:13:51.740 But I wanted to see what he was talking about.

00:13:53.520 Well, he's moved on now to tweeting angrily about two black girls who were allegedly snubbed by a racist Sesame Street character at a parade.

00:14:00.720 That's what he's moved on to.

00:14:02.440 He said, never mind this Sundberg thing.

00:14:04.540 Let's talk about the parade.

00:14:05.560 Let's make that into a thing.

00:14:06.520 And I'll assume he'll ride that horse until, you know, the Sesame Street character speaks out with his side of the story.

00:14:13.360 In the end, it makes you wonder, really, what might have happened had Jacob Blake's rape victim or the victim of George Floyd's home invasion robbery spoken up.

00:14:23.060 Now, one can certainly understand why they didn't.

00:14:25.540 It takes immense courage to speak up when the mob wants you to stay silent.

00:14:29.440 But fortunately, Arabella had that courage and she exposed BLM for what it is and what it's always been.

00:14:39.560 Now, let's get to our five headlines.

00:14:48.260 Well, we start with some familiar, unfortunately, familiar scenes around the country.

00:14:52.700 First, here's Malibu, where a gang of looters carried off about a half a million dollars of items.

00:15:01.140 You can see it here.

00:15:02.140 So they're just, you know, they're running, but they're being relatively casual.

00:15:06.300 Some of them are wearing masks.

00:15:08.080 Others aren't even bothering to.

00:15:09.240 But why bother wearing masks?

00:15:10.260 They're not going to be prosecuted.

00:15:12.480 And they take about half a million items they took from this luxury, you know, boutique store and ran off.

00:15:20.660 And that's in Malibu.

00:15:22.480 And we had another case.

00:15:23.440 This was in San Francisco.

00:15:24.780 It was on the exact same day.

00:15:26.440 And here we have a group of thugs just smashing.

00:15:30.800 Now, they're being very casual about it because this is San Francisco.

00:15:33.400 You don't have to worry about it.

00:15:34.820 Nothing's going to happen to you at all.

00:15:36.420 You take all the time you want, guys.

00:15:38.080 And they smash the windows of this van and are taking everything they can out of it.

00:15:43.320 And then just driving off.

00:15:44.760 Doesn't matter.

00:15:45.780 They're driving.

00:15:46.860 Well, as they drive off, someone runs up and kicks the car.

00:15:49.940 As it's driving away.

00:15:51.260 So that's all we're getting for law enforcement.

00:15:53.920 That's as far as the law enforcement efforts are going to go in San Francisco.

00:15:57.780 The looters, as they're driving away in their vehicle, someone runs up and just kicks the tires.

00:16:01.780 Hey, get out of here. 1.00

00:16:02.660 Don't come back.

00:16:04.380 And then that's not it either.

00:16:05.940 Because the next incident also happened a couple days ago around the same time.

00:16:09.600 This is a restaurant.

00:16:11.300 I'm not sure where this is.

00:16:12.300 But you can see two people just walking behind the counter and carrying off a whole tray of fried chicken.

00:16:24.060 What are they going to do with all that fried chicken?

00:16:25.520 I mean, that's way too much for one person to eat.

00:16:27.380 But, hey, why not?

00:16:28.740 Just take it.

00:16:29.280 And she's got some containers that look like some biscuits in there. 1.00

00:16:32.160 Just walking off with it.

00:16:34.500 Because this is what you can do.

00:16:37.480 And those are just from the last couple of days.

00:16:40.180 As we know, we've seen footage like this from cities across the country every single day.

00:16:45.300 It's bad enough now that major chains are abandoning these places altogether.

00:16:50.380 They're shutting down.

00:16:51.080 We've seen this already.

00:16:51.720 Target, Walgreens, CVS, other chains like that in some of these cities have shut down.

00:16:58.700 Now, Starbucks is the latest.

00:17:00.660 Here's the CNN report.

00:17:01.680 It says, Starbucks is planning to close 16 locations across various cities, citing safety concerns.

00:17:08.780 A spokesperson told CNN Business, quote,

00:17:11.900 After careful consideration, we're closing some stores and locations that have experienced a high volume of challenging incidents.

00:17:17.820 So that's the euphemism we're going with here.

00:17:20.560 These are challenging incidents that make it unsafe to continue to operate.

00:17:26.160 The stores are in Seattle, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., and Portland, Oregon.

00:17:32.400 They'll be closed by the end of July.

00:17:35.480 Just a side note here.

00:17:36.820 I'm stopping to think, what do all of those places have in common?

00:17:41.260 Seattle, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Washington, Portland.

00:17:44.920 Hmm.

00:17:46.460 There might be some common threads, some similarities.

00:17:49.700 You know, when you do the Venn diagram, you might find a lot of some things that fall into that middle bubble there.

00:17:56.940 Continues, in a Monday letter to employees, Debbie Stroud and Denise Nelson, both Senior Vice Presidents of U.S. Operations, discussed safety in Starbucks stores, said employees are seeing firsthand the challenges facing our communities.

00:18:08.520 Personal safety, racism, lack of access to health care, a growing mental health crisis, rising drug use, and more.

00:18:16.060 With stores in thousands of communities across the country, we know these challenges can at times play out within our stores, too.

00:18:23.980 And so they're shutting down the stores.

00:18:25.600 Now, they throw in racism because they've got to put something in there that's PC.

00:18:29.560 I'm surprised they didn't also include climate change.

00:18:32.600 Given where some of these things are happening and they're in some warmer climates, they could have just chalked the whole thing up to said, you know, we've got to get out of town because of climate change.

00:18:39.420 It's getting too much.

00:18:40.680 We've got to move inland, higher ground.

00:18:44.220 Last week, Howard Schultz, who is the CEO of Starbucks, had an internal meeting with his executive team.

00:18:51.820 And the video was released.

00:18:52.880 I don't know if it was leaked or what, but it ended up online.

00:18:55.360 And here's what he said.

00:18:56.740 This is kind of instructive.

00:18:58.000 Listen to this.

00:18:58.460 I don't have to spend too much time on what's going on in the country and how America has become unsafe.

00:19:06.400 But you all read the press release the last couple of days about the fact that we are beginning to close stores that are not unprofitable.

00:19:15.640 But we're closing stores as a result of the co-creation sessions that we've had.

00:19:21.460 Almost 60 now, 25 in the SSE and the rest in the field.

00:19:25.560 And we had one yesterday in San Antonio.

00:19:27.100 But in all of those sessions, it has shocked me that one of the primary concerns that our retail partners have is their own personal safety.

00:19:40.120 And then we heard the stories that go along with it about what happens in our bathrooms.

00:19:46.980 The issue of mental illness and the issues of homelessness and the issues of crime.

00:19:52.540 And Starbucks is a window into America.

00:19:54.980 We have stores in every community.

00:19:56.620 And we are facing things in which the stores were not built for.

00:20:00.240 And so we're listening to our people and closing stores.

00:20:04.940 And this is just the beginning.

00:20:06.000 There are going to be many more.

00:20:06.940 Okay, so a couple of things there from what he says.

00:20:12.120 First of all, you know, he says America, America is unsafe.

00:20:17.700 America is unsafe, but you notice he's not leaving.

00:20:20.360 Starbucks is not leaving America.

00:20:21.920 They're just leaving certain places in America.

00:20:24.740 They're leaving Seattle and Portland.

00:20:26.600 And like I said, those places, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C.

00:20:32.760 And he chalks that up to America has become unsafe.

00:20:36.580 It's not.

00:20:37.580 You know, this is not an America problem.

00:20:40.980 America is not an unsafe place.

00:20:43.080 There are certain areas in America which are extremely unsafe.

00:20:47.840 And which I certainly wouldn't be starting any businesses and I wouldn't be moving to them.

00:20:51.180 But that's not America as a whole because non-urban areas that are not run by Democrats have not seen any, in most cases, any sizable or crime spike or any crime spike at all.

00:21:07.620 Where I am right now, you know, where I've spent the last few weeks, it's a small town America, far away from the nearest big city.

00:21:15.500 And people still leave their doors unlocked at night when they go to sleep.

00:21:19.300 Nobody worries about it.

00:21:21.180 People leave their keys in their car.

00:21:23.340 You know, you can go to the local convenience store and the cashier isn't hiding behind bulletproof glass.

00:21:29.620 You know, in fact, I went into the tackle shop nearby a couple days ago and the guy working there had to run in the back for something.

00:21:35.880 He left the cash register unattended for several minutes.

00:21:39.300 Unthinkable in many of these places.

00:21:42.180 And yet that's what happens around here and in many areas in this country.

00:21:47.520 But those, again, are non-urban, not Democrat, not Democrat controlled places that don't have this problem.

00:21:58.320 So why is that?

00:22:02.000 Like, why don't they have the problem here, but they have it in Los Angeles and they have it in Seattle and they have it in Philadelphia, they have it in Washington, D.C.

00:22:08.640 Well, one is weak leadership.

00:22:12.040 Okay, that's not a surprise.

00:22:14.640 A leadership that refuses to actually pursue these criminals and punish them.

00:22:21.440 It's a very strange connection here where if you don't punish certain activity, certain behavior, then you get more of that behavior.

00:22:32.960 If you don't do anything to stop it, you get more of it.

00:22:35.600 And that's true on a small scale with parents of young kids.

00:22:39.720 And that's also true on a societal level as well.

00:22:43.080 If society does not punish violent, intolerable, unacceptable behavior, you get more of it.

00:22:50.100 There's no disincentive.

00:22:54.240 You know, you can't, despite the utopian hopes of some people, you can't just hope on people's, everyone to have a, you know, be good-hearted and good-natured and make their own decision to not behave this way.

00:23:09.900 So when you have leadership that is weak, you end up with more of this.

00:23:15.160 And then also it's a matter of culture.

00:23:18.760 Collapse of the family. 0.77

00:23:21.360 Okay, the still unspeakable reality in these situations, but that is a reality we have to talk about, is that crime is a whole lot worse in predominantly black areas. 1.00

00:23:32.400 It just is. 0.59

00:23:33.060 That's a fact.

00:23:34.560 I mean, that's just an absolute fact that cannot be disputed.

00:23:37.720 Why is that? 0.95

00:23:39.320 Well, because the family in the black community is totally ravaged, destroyed. 1.00

00:23:44.480 And in fact, there are predominantly white areas that have horrible crime problems as well. 0.97

00:23:51.640 If you go to really poor areas in Appalachia, you go to trailer parks that are just drug addiction, meth addiction, just ravage those places too.

00:24:02.320 But what do you find there?

00:24:03.600 You also find that the family hardly exists.

00:24:07.020 You find a lot of single parents, and you find a lot of kids that are raised essentially with no parents at all.

00:24:13.760 There might be a warm body in the home that takes the title of parent but isn't actually doing anything to parent the kids.

00:24:20.600 Because the parent is a drug addict, and that's all they're worried about.

00:24:25.440 So that's the commonality here.

00:24:29.120 And now it gets worse.

00:24:31.600 It spreads across America the more the family collapses.

00:24:34.040 And this is, yes, the family, the state of the family, the state of marriage, childless homes, fatherless homes.

00:24:43.120 That's the worst in the inner city.

00:24:45.240 Now, there you're talking about 80, 90% of kids raised without fathers in the home.

00:24:49.480 But the number is going up, especially fatherless homes, single parent homes.

00:24:52.820 It's going up across the country.

00:24:55.320 And so the more that happens, this is going to become increasingly an American problem.

00:24:59.500 But right now, you find it by far and away predominantly in these communities.

00:25:09.660 Because of leadership, actually, it's not leadership and something else.

00:25:13.940 It's actually just leadership.

00:25:15.240 It's leadership in the city, and then it's also leadership in the home.

00:25:18.280 So when you have a lack of leadership, of political leadership, and you also have a lack of leadership in the home, kids that are raised in homes where there's no one leading them, there's no example set, then you have total, absolute chaos.

00:25:32.920 What else could you expect?

00:25:34.360 All right, let's go next to this.

00:25:40.680 Mediate has this report.

00:25:42.020 It says, more Trump voters living in Republican-controlled states said secession would make things better in their states than those who said it would not.

00:25:50.840 Respondents to a new Yahoo News YouGov poll were asked, do you think your state would be better off or worse off if it left the United States and became an independent country?

00:25:59.280 Among all respondents, more than twice as many said they'd be worse off as those who said things would be better off.

00:26:04.640 Well, 15% things would be about the same, and another 24% responded they were not sure.

00:26:09.300 But Yahoo News West Coast correspondent Andrew Romano broke down the responses to a more granular level and found people in red states who voted for former President Donald Trump were much more amenable to seceding.

00:26:21.560 Quote, red state Donald Trump voters are now more likely to say they'd be personally better off at 33% than worse off at 29% if their state seceded from the U.S. and became an independent country.

00:26:34.480 It's a striking rejection of national unity that dramatizes the growing culture war between Democratic and Republican-controlled states on core issues such as guns, abortion, and democracy itself, et cetera, and so forth.

00:26:46.100 Now, just a note I want to make about that, that the people responding that they think their life would be, we can assume they mean in the immediate better, you know, if there was a national divorce.

00:27:02.820 I think those people are, they are utopianists in their own right, because that's not the case.

00:27:09.460 I mean, history is a pretty good guide here, both American history and the history of the world, that when a country breaks apart, whether it's through a civil war or not, and it's pretty rare that you have the, you know, a country breaking apart peacefully.

00:27:25.720 In fact, I don't think it's ever happened.

00:27:28.140 At least, again, it's very rare.

00:27:29.400 But no matter how it happens, people's lives are not immediately better.

00:27:36.000 In fact, your lives get worse in the immediate.

00:27:38.740 And that would be the case here, too.

00:27:40.720 And there are a whole lot of reasons for that.

00:27:43.080 One is just the simple fact that when you have a seismic change of this kind, it's not going to make things better immediately.

00:27:50.460 This is further destabilization.

00:27:52.420 And there are a lot of problems, too, especially for if you imagine some sort of scenario where things break apart from red states to blue states.

00:28:01.220 And it's hard to even imagine how that would work, because it's not like 1861, where the split was kind of right across the middle.

00:28:09.860 You cut the country in half.

00:28:11.440 That's not the case here.

00:28:12.940 You know, red states and blue states are kind of intermingled.

00:28:15.100 And then you have thoroughly blue areas within red states.

00:28:20.340 How does all that work?

00:28:21.280 Just more indication of why breaking a part of the country would not be peaceful, because things would need to realign in a way that just probably could not be done peacefully.

00:28:32.020 Probably.

00:28:34.160 And then there are problems, too, if you end up in the—however this breaks up, however this ends up getting organized.

00:28:40.320 If you're on the—if you're in the red state portion, a lot of—let's just look at the fact that a lot of the majority of the manufacturing in this country happens in blue states, like California.

00:28:52.700 Not to mention Silicon Valley, you know, all the people that control the internet are all going to be now in a different country that's hostile to your own.

00:29:03.780 So a lot of problems.

00:29:08.680 And yet, you might—you hear me say this, and you might be like, well, haven't you said that you think a national divorce is the way forward?

00:29:15.780 What I'm saying is that I think we're going to reach a point where there's no other choice.

00:29:23.280 It's not ideal.

00:29:24.460 Of course it's not ideal.

00:29:25.420 The ideal scenario, the best-case scenario for everybody, is that the people in this country who've lost their minds and are now living in a separate universe,

00:29:36.580 that they come to their senses collectively and rejoin us in reality, where they live a life grounded to some extent in truth and moral decency,

00:29:50.100 and we can all unite there in that place and move forward together as a country.

00:29:54.560 That's the best—that's ideal.

00:29:55.980 That's what I would far and away prefer.

00:29:59.940 It's just that it's—that's probably not going to happen.

00:30:02.200 You want to talk about things that have never happened in history.

00:30:03.960 I don't think anything like that's ever happened.

00:30:06.200 Where you have divisions that are this deep and this wide, and they just kind of, on their own, mend themselves.

00:30:15.580 I don't think that's ever happened.

00:30:17.180 We would pray for that to happen.

00:30:17.980 We would pray for that to happen every day.

00:30:19.020 I just don't think it will.

00:30:19.940 So I think we're going to reach a point where there's simply no way forward.

00:30:25.400 When you have two sides, and even on those sides, they break into smaller sides, and everything is factionalizing,

00:30:33.960 but you still have this rift right down the middle of two sides living in separate universes.

00:30:39.420 For how long can they share a country?

00:30:41.140 I think you're going to reach a point where it simply cannot go on.

00:30:48.300 And what happens from there in the immediate is not good or fun, and it's going to be—it would be very difficult, to say the least.

00:30:58.040 But again, I try to be—to stay in reality.

00:31:04.460 That's where I like to live, and this is the reality.

00:31:07.800 I just think we don't want to romanticize it or have, you know, have hopes that are unfounded.

00:31:17.400 All right, let's move to this.

00:31:19.820 It says—let's see, speaking of living in different universes, pretty good example here.

00:31:25.540 TransgenderNJ.com, it says,

00:31:27.180 A transgender inmate who impregnated two women while incarcerated at Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women

00:31:34.180 has been moved to a new facility, according to the Department of Corrections.

00:31:38.660 Demi Minor, 27, was transferred to Garden State Youth Correctional Facility,

00:31:43.500 a prison for young adult offenders in Burlington County.

00:31:46.860 He said the—this is according to Dan Sparazza, Department of Corrections spokesman—

00:31:51.000 he said the DOC moved Minor to the vulnerable unit at the facility

00:31:54.380 and that she's currently the only—she is currently the only woman prisoner on the site.

00:32:00.640 Sparazza said he could not comment on the DOC's specific housing actions in Minor's case

00:32:04.940 because of policies around privacy.

00:32:07.880 So this is a—I feel like this should be making even bigger headlines than it is.

00:32:13.380 It's actually not making that many headlines because the mainstream media

00:32:16.060 would rather not talk about something like this.

00:32:19.240 But this is big news.

00:32:20.880 I mean, a woman—a woman impregnated two other women?

00:32:25.040 That's never happened before in history.

00:32:29.540 By the way, somehow some video of this—this person, Demi Moore,

00:32:35.240 has his own Twitter account, which I would like to assume he's not running himself.

00:32:39.460 But there are videos of him that have—that get posted somehow.

00:32:44.240 So he has apparently access to a cell phone.

00:32:48.000 Maybe that's part of him living his true identity.

00:32:50.640 He said, you know what?

00:32:51.220 I'm a woman who needs a cell phone.

00:32:52.620 So they say, you know us ladies, we like to gab. 1.00

00:32:54.560 So you've got to give me a cell phone.

00:32:55.340 They gave him a cell phone, and he's been posting videos.

00:32:58.300 And it's not going to surprise you to learn that this guy is making no attempt whatsoever

00:33:04.160 to even appear like a woman.

00:33:06.420 Even if he was making an attempt, it wouldn't make a difference.

00:33:08.220 Doesn't mean he should still be—he should be housed with women. 1.00

00:33:11.040 But that's the farce, okay, that's happening in the prison system right now.

00:33:18.560 That you've got these men who are openly taking advantage of this new situation

00:33:24.880 where they could be transferred to a woman's facility. 1.00

00:33:27.960 And why would a man want to be transferred to a woman's facility? 0.99

00:33:30.280 Well, I don't think I need to explain that.

00:33:31.920 One is that it's a lot safer for any man, trans or not.

00:33:35.880 You know, now there is violence that happens at women's prisons, but you've got to think

00:33:40.980 as a man, you have to be a little bit less concerned about some of the things that can

00:33:43.980 happen to you as a man in a man's facility.

00:33:46.400 So it's a cushier, safer situation.

00:33:48.640 And also, you have, if you're a violent offender, you have access to a whole bunch of women who 0.99

00:33:54.680 are now going to be locked in cages with you.

00:33:56.660 And apparently, this guy took advantage in two cases, and now there are two women pregnant. 0.98

00:34:02.980 On the same note here, CNN—I don't know why I keep reading from CNN today.

00:34:06.720 That's a mistake, but that's where we are.

00:34:10.000 It says,

00:34:10.160 The University of Pennsylvania nominated swimmer Leah Thomas, who's become the face of the

00:34:14.660 debate on transgender women in sports, for the 2022 NCAA Woman of the Year Award.

00:34:21.160 The Ivy League swimmer was nominated as a Division I athlete for swimming and diving.

00:34:25.800 The award is meant to honor the, quote, academic achievements, athletic excellence, community

00:34:31.560 service, and leadership of graduating female college athletes from all three divisions.

00:34:36.420 So, the University of Pennsylvania has heard all of the outrage over Leah Thomas being allowed

00:34:47.040 to compete against women, heard the outrage from outside and also from within, from the 0.99

00:34:53.560 actual real women being forced to compete against this guy, being forced to share a locker 0.61

00:34:58.640 room with him.

00:34:59.780 We heard from one of those swimmers in my film, What is a Woman?, which you can watch by going

00:35:04.560 to whatisawoman.com.

00:35:05.480 So, they've heard all of this, and their response is a big middle finger to everybody, saying,

00:35:10.500 You know what?

00:35:10.720 Oh, you didn't like that?

00:35:11.920 You didn't like that?

00:35:13.520 Well, guess what?

00:35:14.360 Now, we're nominating him for Woman of the Year.

00:35:16.420 How do you like that?

00:35:19.760 Because this, for the umpteenth time, is what the left always does.

00:35:23.000 They always double down.

00:35:26.620 You could be outraged.

00:35:27.640 You could be upset.

00:35:28.460 And their response is going to be, Oh, you didn't like that?

00:35:30.680 Well, now I'm going to do more of the thing you're upset about.

00:35:32.400 Now, is that an argument on our side for giving up, or for surrendering, or for soft-pedaling

00:35:40.440 even more, so as we don't upset them?

00:35:43.280 There are a lot of conservatives who seem to take that approach.

00:35:47.000 No, it's an argument for doing the exact same thing.

00:35:49.320 They double down, we triple down.

00:35:54.360 That's the only way forward.

00:35:56.840 I also wanted to mention this from NBC News.

00:35:59.880 Democrats are sounding dire warnings after Senator Joe Manchin tanked their hopes of acting on climate change.

00:36:07.240 Here's a quote from Chairman John Yermuth, who's the House Budget Committee chairman.

00:36:11.100 He says, we're all going to die, which is actually true. 1.00

00:36:16.040 We are all going to die, in fact.

00:36:18.240 But are we going to die soon from climate change?

00:36:21.280 That I'm skeptical about, but this is what he's saying.

00:36:23.440 We're all going to die.

00:36:25.720 Yermuth's remarks on Friday captured the cocktail of anger, frustration, resentment, and powerlessness

00:36:31.160 that many Democrats felt after Manchin took a one-man wrecking ball to what's left of President Joe Biden's agenda,

00:36:38.380 dealing a heavy blow to their big policy ambitions and further complicating a tough midterm election landscape for the party.

00:36:46.280 And there were many other people quoted, Cori Bush among them, but a lot of Democrats.

00:36:50.840 In fact, there was another report, I think it was also from CNN, but I've read too much CNN stuff,

00:36:55.220 of Democrats and Democrat staffers who were in tears over this, distraught, because, as Yermuth said,

00:37:02.960 we're all going to die now because of Joe Manchin.

00:37:07.860 And we've been, now, the good news is that we were supposed to be dead already.

00:37:13.300 And the apocalypse keeps getting moved back and moved back.

00:37:16.160 We are repeatedly informed that this is our last chance.

00:37:20.580 We have to act right now.

00:37:21.740 If we don't, it's over.

00:37:22.840 And we've been told that over and over and over again over the last 20 years or so.

00:37:28.340 And we managed to survive.

00:37:30.880 But maybe this is it.

00:37:32.520 For this time, it's real.

00:37:34.640 Because of Joe Manchin, we are all going to die.

00:37:37.880 The fate of the world is sealed.

00:37:40.860 Joe Manchin will go down as the man who murdered 7 billion people.

00:37:47.280 CBS certainly seems to think so.

00:37:49.020 Well, here's their report on the climate change crisis and all the people that it's killing,

00:37:54.840 especially in Europe.

00:37:55.660 Listen to this.

00:37:57.120 The same heat wave is already being blamed for extreme temperatures and widespread wildfires

00:38:02.260 across other parts of Europe.

00:38:03.900 You're looking at the pictures.

00:38:04.920 And scientists say this is all part of climate change caused by human activity.

00:38:09.640 Roxana Saberi is tracking Europe's hot weather and the damage it's causing.

00:38:16.020 Wildfires raging across southwest France have scorched around 35,000 acres and forced more

00:38:22.140 than 16,000 people to flee.

00:38:24.540 In Spain, the scene seems similarly apocalyptic.

00:38:30.660 Neighboring Portugal remains on high alert after fires were fanned by drought that's hit at least 96%

00:38:37.020 of the country and a heat wave reaching a record of nearly 117 degrees.

00:38:42.620 Here and in Spain, authorities say more than 1,000 people have died from the recent heat.

00:38:47.860 And now Britain is bracing for its record high of at least 103 degrees on Tuesday.

00:38:54.460 So hot, the UK's National Weather Service has issued its first ever red warning for extreme heat,

00:39:00.500 meaning there's a risk to life.

00:39:02.840 Scientists say heat waves have become more frequent and more intense and last longer.

00:39:08.140 Climate change has everything to do with the extreme weather that we're seeing at the moment,

00:39:11.860 and it's human-induced climate change.

00:39:13.860 It's not a natural variation.

00:39:15.500 You know, as always, such a narrow view of history and giving human beings a really elevated

00:39:25.660 status, you know, because keep in mind, every time we hear,

00:39:32.060 well, it's record-breaking heat, this is the hottest it's ever been in this part of the world,

00:39:36.660 that always comes with a certain qualification, because sometimes when they say record-breaking,

00:39:41.940 sometimes they mean in the last 80 years, sometimes they mean in the last 100 years,

00:39:47.040 sometimes they go back 120.

00:39:48.360 It really depends on when they decide, what record they're looking at,

00:39:52.360 and when they've decided the records begin.

00:39:55.140 But whenever it is, I can tell you that the Earth is, in fact, older than 60 years, older than 80.

00:40:01.480 It's even older than 120.

00:40:03.160 You might find that shocking to find out.

00:40:06.040 In fact, the Earth's been around for billions of years.

00:40:08.080 And so whenever they say, this is the hottest that this part of the world has ever been,

00:40:14.140 you can know for a certainty that that's not the case.

00:40:17.740 Whatever you're experiencing right now, it's not the hottest, it's not the coldest, it's not the worst.

00:40:23.000 The Earth's been around for a long time, a very long time.

00:40:26.240 And the idea that human beings, it's just, it's, I'm sorry, it's absurd on its face.

00:40:32.960 That this planet, which has existed for billions of years,

00:40:38.460 which is, I constantly have to remind people, is a slave, not to our SUVs, but to the sun,

00:40:46.520 okay, that giant, enormous ball of gas at the center of our solar system,

00:40:52.260 which we are orbiting around, okay, which has a gravitational pull that stretches billions of miles out into space,

00:41:02.000 which could, you know, the sun could burp tomorrow and incinerate all life on Earth.

00:41:07.820 All right, just with, the sun could have a little bit of indigestion and incinerate all life on Earth.

00:41:11.620 And that's what's calling the shots, as far as the weather goes, on Earth.

00:41:17.660 But the notion that human beings, it's not even that human beings,

00:41:22.060 since the beginning of human civilization, which really, you know, when did civilization begin?

00:41:28.040 You know, maybe 10,000 years ago.

00:41:30.800 It's not even, they're not even claiming that during that time,

00:41:34.480 we have managed to destroy all life on Earth and destroy the planet.

00:41:37.780 They're saying, just since industrialization, okay, so really, through the whole course of Earth,

00:41:43.780 that's just a small sliver of time.

00:41:46.600 We have destroyed all life on Earth.

00:41:48.400 We have that kind of power, they say.

00:41:51.600 And we also have the power to heal the Earth, and that we can do it through legislation.

00:41:58.520 And think about how, talk about narrow.

00:42:01.260 Okay, legislation that, if it impacts anything, it only impacts what the United States does.

00:42:07.780 Forgetting about the entire rest of the populated Earth.

00:42:13.400 All of Asia, for example.

00:42:16.600 It has countries with billions of people in it.

00:42:20.060 And these are industrialized societies.

00:42:23.700 But they can still do whatever they want to do.

00:42:25.260 But the Democrats in Congress, they have the power to just write legislation that heals the planet and rescues us from doom.

00:42:35.520 And yet, in this case, they were not able to pass the legislation, so we are doomed.

00:42:39.400 For the 100th time, we're doomed.

00:42:41.760 And can I say, if that's the, I am highly skeptical about that claim.

00:42:46.300 Okay, I am very skeptical about it.

00:42:47.800 But if it's true, if Joe Manchin really doomed us all, and at this time it's actually serious, this was our last best chance, it's over now, then okay then.

00:42:58.140 Why worry?

00:42:59.240 We're doomed anyway.

00:43:00.400 Just live your life while you have.

00:43:03.240 Enjoy the warmer temperatures to the extent that you can.

00:43:05.720 Go spend a lot of time at the pool, at the beach.

00:43:07.960 You're going to have a lot more of the beach as it comes, you know, as it comes inland more and more.

00:43:12.700 And just enjoy it, because there's nothing we can do now, according to you.

00:43:18.420 Why worry about the things you can't change?

00:43:21.500 That's my question.

00:43:22.840 One other quick thing.

00:43:23.820 This is from the Daily Wire.

00:43:24.700 It says, fans of the Marvel films are divided about a chemotherapy scene in the new hit film Thor Love and Thunder,

00:43:33.080 with some clamoring for a trigger warning and others deriding the protesters for their squeamishness.

00:43:39.260 Thor Love and Thunder premiered on July 8th.

00:43:42.240 It features a scene in which actress Natalie Portman, who plays Thor's love interest, scientist Jane Foster,

00:43:47.820 undergoes chemotherapy treatment for stage four cancer.

00:43:52.420 One fan wrote on social media,

00:43:54.000 no spoilers, but Thor Love and Thunder should have a trigger warning for graphic depictions of cancer,

00:43:59.160 and the fact that we didn't know going in is atrocious.

00:44:03.880 The fan concluded,

00:44:05.220 cancer is way too common of a trigger,

00:44:07.460 and when they show it that graphically,

00:44:09.120 with that much imagery and dwelling on it,

00:44:10.880 and talking about it that much,

00:44:12.180 you need to be warned, especially for a Marvel movie,

00:44:14.180 which people go to for escapism,

00:44:16.060 and shouldn't have to read the comics.

00:44:19.220 So I guess she got cancer in the comics,

00:44:20.780 and that's why they have, I don't know.

00:44:22.060 And then there were other fans chiming in,

00:44:23.560 saying this is terrible,

00:44:24.920 people have PTSD from it.

00:44:26.720 And, look, this is actually interesting,

00:44:30.020 because on one hand, I, you know what,

00:44:32.140 I sort of agree.

00:44:33.720 I sort of agree with the criticism,

00:44:36.180 that it's gratuitous, in a way, 0.98

00:44:38.260 to put a cancer storyline into the middle of one of these dumb movies, 0.97

00:44:42.500 into the middle of Thor. 0.93

00:44:44.540 You know, it is a little bit actually gratuitous.

00:44:47.840 And the reason is that these aren't real movies.

00:44:50.560 They're just toy commercials and brand awareness campaigns.

00:44:53.440 And in that context, cancer seems like a kind of inappropriate subject matter,

00:44:57.640 and sort of exploitative.

00:44:58.820 Now, I don't think there should be a trigger warning,

00:45:00.860 because I just disagree in principle with trigger warnings.

00:45:03.860 But it is a cheap and kind of easy way to create an emotional moment

00:45:08.040 without doing the work, as the left likes to say.

00:45:11.300 You haven't done the work.

00:45:12.360 So it's lazy.

00:45:13.880 You don't have to write a good script.

00:45:17.680 You don't have to make people emotionally invested in the scene.

00:45:20.280 You don't have to worry about good acting.

00:45:21.300 All you have to do is just have a character with cancer,

00:45:24.080 and that's good enough.

00:45:25.140 It's kind of like using a Nazi as your bad guy, 0.72

00:45:28.240 which I think these Marvel movies also do quite a bit.

00:45:30.760 Because if you do that, it's easy.

00:45:33.840 You don't have to actually convince the audience,

00:45:36.920 through good writing and good acting, to hate the bad guy. 0.91

00:45:40.640 He's a Nazi. 0.98

00:45:41.620 He's got all that baggage with him. 0.94

00:45:43.100 All the work is done.

00:45:44.080 Just slap a Nazi symbol on him, and you're good to go. 0.57

00:45:52.500 So on one hand, I agree. 1.00

00:45:55.120 On the other hand, trigger warnings as a concept are incredibly stupid. 0.98

00:45:59.320 So it just goes to show, though, that Martin Scorsese was correct 0.97

00:46:03.180 when he said that Marvel movies aren't cinema.

00:46:06.440 They're more like theme parks.

00:46:07.960 And in cinema, the audience would never be upset or offended

00:46:13.000 because something happened they didn't expect.

00:46:15.440 That's what you want.

00:46:16.380 If you actually are a film fan and you want to go watch a movie,

00:46:20.140 if you want to partake in the art of cinema and witness it,

00:46:24.420 then you don't want to know every beat ahead of time.

00:46:28.440 You want things to happen that you don't expect.

00:46:30.100 That's why you're there.

00:46:31.180 That's part of the magic of cinema.

00:46:32.700 But superhero fans, that's not what they're in it for.

00:46:37.340 They want the same thing over and over again, very much like children.

00:46:42.040 They just want the same thing over and over again.

00:46:45.100 They don't want anything surprising, anything different.

00:46:47.500 They just want a theme park ride where you see the track ahead of time

00:46:50.800 and you've been on it before, and you know where all the dips and dives

00:46:54.760 and everything are going to be.

00:46:56.260 So I guess in that way, it's like an actual theme park ride.

00:46:59.400 And if they tried to, you know, if you were on a theme park ride,

00:47:02.640 if there was a cancer theme park ride, we would all agree that's highly inappropriate.

00:47:08.540 So in a way, I can actually see where they're coming from.

00:47:13.740 This was my attempt to sympathize with Marvel fans while at the same time insulting them,

00:47:18.720 which is the only way I can do it.

00:47:20.440 Let's get now to the comment section.

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00:48:51.340 Okay, first comment says,

00:48:53.360 My daughter was born without a uterus,

00:48:56.040 and even then it proves she's a woman because she has to have medical interventions because of it. 1.00

00:49:00.680 Men don't need medical intervention if they don't have a uterus. 1.00

00:49:04.020 Yes, that's a very good point, and it's a point I made before.

00:49:07.100 This is what we call the exception that proves the rule in that, you know,

00:49:12.540 to the people who say,

00:49:13.580 Well, you can't define a woman as someone with a uterus or someone who can get pregnant 0.98

00:49:16.260 because there are women who can't get pregnant or don't have uteruses. 1.00

00:49:18.780 Well, this is an exception that proves the rule because if a woman, you know, is not able, 1.00

00:49:23.460 is of childbearing age and is not able to get pregnant,

00:49:27.620 then you know that something's wrong.

00:49:29.920 Like, you could go to the doctor as a woman and say, 0.99

00:49:32.780 This is the issue. I can't get pregnant. 0.58

00:49:33.860 And the doctor's going to know something is wrong here.

00:49:36.060 Okay? And it might not be that you don't have a uterus.

00:49:38.580 It could be dozens of different things, hundreds of different things,

00:49:41.320 but they know that something is going wrong.

00:49:43.900 And most of the time, if they run some tests and they take a look,

00:49:48.000 they can find out what it is.

00:49:49.380 Like, sure enough, you're coming to me as a woman. 0.92

00:49:51.920 You say you can't get pregnant. 0.99

00:49:53.120 Well, we know that women should be able to get pregnant 1.00

00:49:56.720 because that is one of the defining features of a woman. 1.00

00:49:59.540 The fact that you are not able to means that something is wrong.

00:50:01.660 Let's take a look.

00:50:02.220 Sure enough, here it is.

00:50:04.180 So here's the problem.

00:50:05.200 It could be a hormonal problem.

00:50:06.300 It could be a problem with, you know,

00:50:08.600 it could be a problem with the reproductive organs. 1.00

00:50:11.100 It could be anything.

00:50:13.300 Whereas for a man, right, if you go to the doctor and say, 0.83

00:50:17.380 I'm not able to get pregnant,

00:50:19.300 well, that is not an indication that anything is wrong at all.

00:50:22.020 They could run all the tests in the world

00:50:23.160 and they could find that everything is in perfectly working order

00:50:25.800 because men are not supposed to be able to get pregnant 0.97

00:50:28.640 and no man ever has.

00:50:29.700 So, good point there.

00:50:32.040 Thanks for bringing that up.

00:50:33.660 Future Imperfect says,

00:50:35.040 got to disagree there, Matt.

00:50:36.380 Cultural appropriation is levied in other races.

00:50:39.520 Awkwafina, an actress, is accused of speaking in black scent

00:50:43.120 like a black person, in parentheses.

00:50:47.300 Clarifying what that means, I guess. 0.98

00:50:48.320 On a related note, a black person that doesn't speak

00:50:51.700 like a typical black person is accused of acting white, 0.95

00:50:54.640 being an Oreo, quote unquote, 0.91

00:50:56.140 or any other myriad descriptor to suggest

00:50:58.640 that they're appropriating white culture.

00:51:00.960 Well, okay.

00:51:02.720 Your point about the Asian actress,

00:51:04.360 and we have heard,

00:51:05.160 there's been a few examples of this.

00:51:07.180 Asian actresses,

00:51:08.300 maybe it's happened also to Latino,

00:51:12.120 Hispanic, Latinx rather, sorry, 1.00

00:51:14.860 actors and actresses

00:51:16.180 where they've been accused of appropriating.

00:51:19.080 I think this is,

00:51:20.260 maybe we should narrow it down a little bit

00:51:21.760 and say this is a charge

00:51:22.980 mostly leveled at white people,

00:51:27.520 occasionally non-white people, 0.60

00:51:28.500 but never leveled at black people.

00:51:30.580 You know, a black person is never accused

00:51:31.880 of cultural appropriation.

00:51:32.920 Now, the example you give of,

00:51:34.300 well, a black person is accused of acting white.

00:51:36.460 No, it's not,

00:51:37.320 the accusation is not that you're appropriating

00:51:39.280 from white people.

00:51:40.200 It's supposed to be an insult. 0.97

00:51:41.400 Like, it's bad.

00:51:43.060 It's an insult.

00:51:44.700 You're not insulting white people. 0.98

00:51:46.440 No, it's an insult against black people 0.99

00:51:48.840 to stoop to acting like a white person. 0.89

00:51:50.840 So it's a very different kind of criticism.

00:51:55.760 Let's see.

00:51:56.360 King Crimson says,

00:51:58.040 hearing Matt say big booty

00:51:59.540 is a memory for the ages.

00:52:02.660 Well, these are the kind of historic moments

00:52:05.280 that you get sometimes on the Matt Wall Show

00:52:07.760 when you least expect them.

00:52:11.060 Skilled Mayor says,

00:52:12.640 how ironic that Matt is talking about

00:52:14.740 an adult wearing a diaper

00:52:15.980 when we all know as the leader of the SBG,

00:52:19.140 he too wears only a diaper

00:52:20.680 Well, to be clear about this,

00:52:23.000 as we did talk on Friday

00:52:25.080 about the adult baby diaper loving community

00:52:28.200 as they describe themselves,

00:52:30.640 the Sweet Baby Gang has no affiliation

00:52:33.620 with such a community.

00:52:34.600 And I'll explain to you why.

00:52:36.320 The Sweet Baby Gang logo

00:52:37.300 is an image of me as an actual infant

00:52:40.780 when I was born.

00:52:41.980 Now, it might be a drawing,

00:52:43.320 but it is an accurate artistic rendition

00:52:46.940 of what I look like at birth.

00:52:49.040 I was born fully bearded and with glasses.

00:52:53.680 So, important clarification there.

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00:53:51.980 And now let's get to

00:53:52.640 our daily cancellation.

00:53:58.560 Well, the New York Times

00:54:00.200 used to be considered

00:54:01.860 the paper of record,

00:54:03.840 and it still is.

00:54:05.680 Only now it's a record

00:54:06.720 of our cultural decay.

00:54:08.700 The Times may no longer,

00:54:09.940 you know,

00:54:10.120 have the same level

00:54:10.940 of prestige or credibility

00:54:12.360 or any level of prestige

00:54:13.580 or credibility at all.

00:54:15.080 But as an unwitting

00:54:15.920 chronicle of decadence,

00:54:17.380 it still has some sort

00:54:18.420 of relevance, arguably.

00:54:19.740 Case in point,

00:54:21.260 the article written by

00:54:22.180 Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist

00:54:23.480 Dania Isawi.

00:54:25.780 Isawi.

00:54:27.320 Isawi.

00:54:27.940 Let's call her.

00:54:28.500 I think I'll go with that.

00:54:29.240 Yeah, that sounds right.

00:54:30.500 Dania Isawi.

00:54:31.860 Anyway, the article's titled,

00:54:33.500 Can't Talk,

00:54:34.320 I'm Busy Being Hot.

00:54:35.900 A social media movement

00:54:37.060 inspired by the rapper

00:54:38.320 Megan Thee Stallion

00:54:39.940 strikes back

00:54:41.120 at the gatekeepers

00:54:42.100 of beauty.

00:54:43.680 Now, you, of course,

00:54:44.580 are already expecting

00:54:45.580 that this is going to be

00:54:46.900 pretty bad,

00:54:47.500 given that it's in

00:54:48.120 the New York Times

00:54:48.860 and it's about hotness

00:54:50.020 and it mentions

00:54:50.740 Megan Thee Stallion,

00:54:52.100 but I assure you,

00:54:54.220 it's so much worse

00:54:55.160 than you anticipate.

00:54:56.340 It begins.

00:54:59.540 Edwina Esteem

00:55:00.800 was wearing a heavy,

00:55:02.180 shapeless graduation gown.

00:55:03.880 It was the color of charcoal

00:55:06.020 and it reached all the way

00:55:07.220 down to her ankles,

00:55:08.060 and yet she had never felt hotter.

00:55:10.740 As she crossed the stage

00:55:11.960 to accept her diploma,

00:55:13.240 she heard the cheers

00:55:14.140 from friends and family members.

00:55:15.700 She was graduating

00:55:16.380 from law school

00:55:17.080 and that, to her,

00:55:18.840 was extremely hot.

00:55:21.060 That was a three-year process,

00:55:22.880 said Ms. Esteem,

00:55:24.460 Estime, probably,

00:55:26.120 26,

00:55:26.680 who earned her degree

00:55:27.520 this spring

00:55:28.080 from the Shepard Broad's

00:55:30.380 College of Law

00:55:31.420 at Nova Southeastern University

00:55:34.000 in Davie.

00:55:34.740 There are so many words in here

00:55:35.980 that I'm not able to pronounce.

00:55:36.720 Three years of waking up

00:55:38.280 and not feeling hot

00:55:39.320 for me to get to that one day

00:55:41.080 where I'm like,

00:55:41.860 wow, this is hot.

00:55:43.320 This is what's hot for me

00:55:44.380 right now, she added.

00:55:45.840 She is one of many

00:55:46.600 who are expanding

00:55:47.200 the definition of hotness,

00:55:48.420 taking it beyond

00:55:49.140 its former association

00:55:50.400 with old notions

00:55:51.360 of attractiveness.

00:55:52.820 These days,

00:55:53.420 being hot no longer

00:55:54.380 pertains only

00:55:55.020 to your physical appearance,

00:55:56.220 but includes how you move

00:55:57.760 through the world

00:55:58.360 and how you see yourself.

00:56:00.380 Now, if you're thinking,

00:56:01.900 did this Pulitzer Prize-winning

00:56:04.160 journalist really just go

00:56:06.040 around interviewing

00:56:06.840 random people

00:56:07.780 about times

00:56:08.480 when they felt hot

00:56:09.480 and then wrote an article

00:56:10.820 about it for the New York Times

00:56:12.380 and the New York Times

00:56:13.220 actually published it?

00:56:14.720 The answer is no.

00:56:15.440 She didn't just go around 1.00

00:56:16.120 interviewing them.

00:56:16.840 She also watched their

00:56:17.620 Instagram and TikTok videos.

00:56:19.640 This was a full

00:56:20.560 journalistic investigation,

00:56:22.320 I assure you.

00:56:23.180 No stone was left unturned

00:56:24.760 to find all of the hot people.

00:56:27.140 Continuing,

00:56:28.000 many of those pushing

00:56:29.120 for a broader understanding

00:56:30.160 of the term

00:56:30.560 are also pushing back

00:56:31.520 against the idea

00:56:32.180 that you need to wait

00:56:33.040 for confirmation

00:56:33.760 from someone else

00:56:34.520 before feeling justified

00:56:35.560 in calling yourself hot.

00:56:37.180 To them,

00:56:37.680 hotness is a self-declaration

00:56:39.240 and that's that.

00:56:40.380 Hotness is no longer

00:56:41.320 just in the eye

00:56:42.020 of the beholder.

00:56:43.240 It's a mood.

00:56:44.420 It's a vibe.

00:56:45.340 Emily Sundberg,

00:56:46.420 a 28-year-old editor

00:56:47.820 and filmmaker in Brooklyn,

00:56:49.020 was eating spaghetti

00:56:49.840 when she had a realization

00:56:50.980 she was being hot. 0.98

00:56:53.200 There was nothing glamorous

00:56:54.160 about it.

00:56:54.760 It was just a solo

00:56:55.580 weeknight dinner

00:56:56.260 at the kitchen counter

00:56:56.920 and Miss Sundberg

00:56:57.960 was wearing workout clothes

00:56:59.160 and glasses.

00:56:59.900 But she felt moved

00:57:00.720 to make a video of herself

00:57:01.680 as she twirled

00:57:02.500 the pasta strands

00:57:03.220 into a fork

00:57:03.800 and succeeded

00:57:04.700 in getting most of them

00:57:05.580 all the way into her mouth.

00:57:06.900 As she chewed

00:57:07.600 with Kanye West's jail

00:57:08.860 blaring in the background,

00:57:10.360 she stared into the lens

00:57:11.500 with a blank expression.

00:57:12.760 Miss Sundberg then posted 1.00

00:57:13.760 the seven-second video

00:57:14.660 to Instagram Stories.

00:57:16.500 Quote,

00:57:17.060 You don't have to ask

00:57:17.780 for permission

00:57:18.220 to be hot online,

00:57:19.460 Miss Sundberg said.

00:57:20.520 You can take up space

00:57:21.560 and perform

00:57:22.060 and create your own

00:57:22.980 power dynamics

00:57:23.700 between yourself

00:57:24.520 and your audience.

00:57:25.940 I think being hot online

00:57:27.160 is sort of pure

00:57:28.460 and debatably

00:57:29.260 what social media

00:57:30.500 was originally for.

00:57:32.420 That's why it was invented.

00:57:34.320 To be hot online.

00:57:35.740 It's true.

00:57:36.700 I had a similar realization

00:57:37.840 last night

00:57:38.460 when I was standing

00:57:39.180 at the fridge

00:57:40.220 at 11.30 p.m.

00:57:42.580 opening the container

00:57:43.500 with my daughter's

00:57:44.320 leftover chicken tenders,

00:57:45.460 which we'd order for her

00:57:46.220 at the restaurant

00:57:46.720 earlier in the evening,

00:57:47.560 but she hadn't touched.

00:57:48.840 And then I was eating them cold

00:57:50.320 along with her side 0.88

00:57:51.120 of mac and cheese,

00:57:51.800 which I also ate cold

00:57:52.680 and without a fork.

00:57:54.000 And as I was consuming

00:57:54.960 all the leftovers

00:57:55.780 that my wife specifically said

00:57:57.020 she wanted to save

00:57:57.700 for lunch the following day,

00:57:58.980 which I also agreed

00:57:59.820 should be saved for lunch

00:58:00.720 even as I knew

00:58:01.340 in my head

00:58:01.800 that I would almost

00:58:02.700 certainly be eating

00:58:03.300 all of them

00:58:03.820 in a gluttonous

00:58:04.460 and shameful

00:58:04.960 late night binge.

00:58:06.980 I too in that moment

00:58:08.080 came to the realization

00:58:09.020 that I was being hot.

00:58:10.740 But then I realized

00:58:11.540 that I was actually

00:58:12.040 just feeling heartburn.

00:58:13.380 That's how you get

00:58:13.940 it confused sometimes.

00:58:14.860 And so I took some tums

00:58:15.740 and went to bed.

00:58:16.960 I only wish that

00:58:17.660 the New York Times

00:58:18.440 had called me

00:58:19.460 so that I could tell them

00:58:20.500 about this experience.

00:58:21.460 I would have loved

00:58:21.900 to share it with them.

00:58:23.340 Now, you may think

00:58:24.240 there's no reason

00:58:24.820 to continue reading

00:58:25.700 from this Times article

00:58:26.800 and you're right.

00:58:28.580 But we will anyway.

00:58:29.800 So here's more.

00:58:31.220 Quote,

00:58:31.680 A phenomenon started

00:58:32.740 by the TikTok influencer

00:58:34.100 Mia Lind

00:58:34.860 encourages young women

00:58:36.080 to go on four-mile walks

00:58:37.880 while remaining focused

00:58:39.420 on self-affirming thoughts

00:58:40.840 in three areas.

00:58:42.260 What they're grateful for,

00:58:43.480 their goals in life,

00:58:44.420 and how they plan

00:58:44.960 to accomplish them

00:58:45.620 and how hot they are.

00:58:47.900 Miss Lind says,

00:58:49.180 You may not think

00:58:50.140 of any boys

00:58:50.880 or any boy drama,

00:58:51.920 she said in a video

00:58:52.700 that laid out

00:58:53.680 the ground rules.

00:58:54.700 In an interview,

00:58:55.260 she said that she wanted

00:58:56.200 to un-gatekeep

00:58:57.700 the feeling of being hot

00:58:59.240 with her hot girl walk, 0.59

00:59:00.900 taking it away

00:59:02.060 from male gaze arbiters

00:59:03.800 who treat daily life

00:59:05.320 like some kind

00:59:05.960 of beauty pageant.

00:59:07.500 Being hot is really accessible,

00:59:09.020 more accessible

00:59:09.600 than previously thought,

00:59:10.600 said Miss Lind,

00:59:11.160 who created

00:59:11.620 Megan Thee Stallion

00:59:13.060 as an inspiration

00:59:14.800 for the walk.

00:59:16.100 I think there's

00:59:16.580 a really big reclamation

00:59:18.020 of the term hot.

00:59:20.000 The hot girl walk 0.76

00:59:20.760 has maintained

00:59:21.200 its popularity

00:59:21.880 since Miss Lind

00:59:22.640 posted her explanation video,

00:59:24.220 which has accrued

00:59:24.720 nearly three months

00:59:25.240 million videos

00:59:25.880 more than a year ago.

00:59:27.340 The hashtag

00:59:28.180 hot girl walk

00:59:29.080 has racked up

00:59:30.120 more than 280 million views.

00:59:32.380 Now, like you,

00:59:33.400 I wish I could go back

00:59:35.820 in time

00:59:36.340 and throw myself

00:59:37.780 off of a bridge

00:59:38.880 before I'm ever forced

00:59:40.120 to hear the phrase

00:59:41.180 un-gatekeep

00:59:42.920 the feeling

00:59:43.560 of being hot.

00:59:45.180 But it's too late now.

00:59:46.660 We've been exposed.

00:59:48.240 All we can do now

00:59:49.100 is find a way

00:59:50.500 to move forward

00:59:51.100 and maybe try

00:59:52.400 to make some sense

00:59:53.320 of all of this

00:59:53.880 if we can.

00:59:54.420 So here's how

00:59:55.460 I make sense of it.

00:59:56.820 First, one of the hallmarks

00:59:58.100 of a decadent society,

00:59:59.420 and this is explained

01:00:00.240 quite eloquently

01:00:01.180 in the book,

01:00:01.920 The Decadent Society,

01:00:02.760 which you should read

01:00:03.360 if you haven't,

01:00:04.480 is that it repeats itself.

01:00:06.560 It runs out of

01:00:07.840 new ideas

01:00:09.240 and just starts

01:00:10.460 recycling

01:00:11.280 old ideas

01:00:12.960 over and over again.

01:00:14.120 And we find this,

01:00:14.860 of course,

01:00:15.060 in Hollywood

01:00:15.460 and pop culture,

01:00:16.400 but we also find it

01:00:17.100 in articles like this.

01:00:18.200 Here we have

01:00:18.660 the stunning

01:00:19.400 and revolutionary idea

01:00:20.680 that the definition

01:00:21.880 of beauty

01:00:22.460 should be expanded

01:00:23.420 and that confidence

01:00:24.880 and self-affirmation

01:00:25.880 are important.

01:00:27.060 Truly,

01:00:27.420 this is the first time

01:00:28.460 the world has ever

01:00:29.440 encountered such notions.

01:00:31.540 The first time

01:00:32.360 since the last time,

01:00:33.320 anyway,

01:00:33.560 and the last time

01:00:34.160 was 15 seconds

01:00:34.920 before this article

01:00:35.600 was published

01:00:36.060 and 15 seconds

01:00:37.200 before that

01:00:37.840 and every 15 seconds

01:00:38.700 for the past 30 years

01:00:39.600 at least.

01:00:40.920 I mean,

01:00:41.160 this is the same message

01:00:42.160 we've heard on repeat

01:00:43.340 for decades,

01:00:44.820 randomly presented

01:00:45.800 as something different

01:00:46.760 and unique

01:00:47.340 all of a sudden.

01:00:48.880 And because it's

01:00:49.320 a Times article

01:00:49.980 in the year 2022,

01:00:51.500 the issue,

01:00:51.980 of course,

01:00:52.220 has also been

01:00:52.760 arbitrarily racialized

01:00:54.180 because we're told

01:00:54.780 at the end of the piece,

01:00:55.600 quote,

01:00:56.280 Rachel Elizabeth Weissler,

01:00:57.660 a researcher

01:00:58.300 at the University of Oregon

01:00:59.120 specializing in linguistics

01:01:00.780 and black studies

01:01:01.520 said that many words

01:01:02.580 and phrases

01:01:03.060 that become common

01:01:04.080 in online discourse,

01:01:05.220 including hot,

01:01:06.220 on fleek,

01:01:06.880 and kiki, 0.98

01:01:07.860 are rooted in BIPOC 0.98

01:01:09.100 and queer communities.

01:01:10.340 Over time,

01:01:10.780 they become co-opted

01:01:11.720 and come to be seen

01:01:12.460 as elements of TikTok speak,

01:01:14.460 she said,

01:01:14.920 a phenomenon she referred to

01:01:16.060 as semantic bleaching.

01:01:18.020 She credited

01:01:18.880 Megan Thee Stallion

01:01:19.960 as a source

01:01:20.840 of the memes

01:01:21.440 promoting self-affirming

01:01:22.520 messages for young women

01:01:23.480 and girls

01:01:24.420 citing her 2020 song,

01:01:26.080 Body.

01:01:26.880 Quote,

01:01:27.160 we saw Meg come out 1.00

01:01:28.440 with Body

01:01:29.040 during quarantine.

01:01:30.460 It's going to be,

01:01:31.020 and she said,

01:01:31.620 it's going to be

01:01:31.980 a hot girl summer.

01:01:33.000 We're going to be happy.

01:01:33.820 We're going to be

01:01:34.180 confident women.

01:01:35.540 A lot of our language change

01:01:36.860 comes from women. 1.00

01:01:37.960 It comes from black people 0.99

01:01:39.000 and also from people of color.

01:01:41.360 So the word hot,

01:01:42.480 by the way,

01:01:42.740 has been used in English

01:01:43.660 to denote physical attractiveness

01:01:45.680 for at least like 100 years.

01:01:48.020 Paris Hilton

01:01:48.920 made it her catchphrase

01:01:49.980 20 years ago.

01:01:51.460 And yet,

01:01:51.800 Megan Thee Stallion

01:01:52.700 as a representative

01:01:54.320 of BIPOC

01:01:55.860 and queer communities,

01:01:56.980 quote unquote,

01:01:57.680 gets credit

01:01:58.300 as a source

01:01:59.220 for the concept

01:02:00.280 because of a song

01:02:01.080 she made

01:02:01.560 two years ago.

01:02:04.260 As the author

01:02:05.220 of the approximately

01:02:06.020 90 millionth pop song

01:02:07.720 about hotness,

01:02:08.760 she is somehow

01:02:09.300 now a pioneer.

01:02:10.520 She invented it.

01:02:12.100 Now,

01:02:12.600 in my opinion,

01:02:13.600 not to get into

01:02:14.440 too much semantics here,

01:02:15.700 if anyone

01:02:17.000 should get credit

01:02:17.500 as a pop pioneer

01:02:18.560 because of self-affirming

01:02:19.840 odes to hotness,

01:02:21.040 it should be

01:02:21.440 the revolutionary musicians

01:02:22.700 known as

01:02:23.100 Right Said Fred

01:02:24.020 who 30 years ago

01:02:25.580 produced the playful

01:02:26.560 yet poetic anthem

01:02:27.600 I'm Too Sexy.

01:02:28.920 And the world

01:02:29.400 has really never been

01:02:30.280 the same since,

01:02:30.920 in my opinion.

01:02:32.260 And yet,

01:02:32.560 the thing you notice

01:02:33.620 about all this

01:02:34.300 self-affirmation

01:02:36.240 and supposed confidence,

01:02:38.360 as always,

01:02:39.980 is just how

01:02:40.640 unconvincing it is.

01:02:42.560 All of these people

01:02:43.580 on social media

01:02:44.460 declare their hotness

01:02:46.520 to the world,

01:02:47.680 but the salient fact

01:02:49.340 is that they're

01:02:49.880 declaring it

01:02:50.580 to the world,

01:02:51.280 right?

01:02:51.660 They feel the need

01:02:53.020 to declare it.

01:02:53.920 If you were really secure

01:02:55.280 and really confident

01:02:56.340 in and about yourself

01:02:57.620 and your body,

01:02:58.700 you wouldn't feel compelled

01:02:59.700 to announce it

01:03:00.520 on social media.

01:03:02.100 Young women

01:03:02.520 don't post selfies

01:03:03.460 on Instagram

01:03:03.980 or videos on TikTok

01:03:04.860 because they feel beautiful.

01:03:06.680 They do it because

01:03:07.600 they want to feel beautiful

01:03:08.880 and they're depending

01:03:09.660 on the world

01:03:10.320 to tell them

01:03:11.280 that they're beautiful.

01:03:13.080 This is not

01:03:13.740 self-affirmation,

01:03:15.000 but affirmation

01:03:15.800 through likes

01:03:16.440 and comments

01:03:17.000 and shares,

01:03:17.820 which is the opposite

01:03:18.800 of self-affirmation.

01:03:20.320 It's the same reason 0.50

01:03:21.020 they listen to

01:03:21.540 unintelligible pop songs 1.00

01:03:22.860 by semi-literate idiots 1.00

01:03:24.340 like Megan Thee Stallion. 1.00

01:03:27.000 They want to be put

01:03:28.060 into this kind of

01:03:28.680 trance-like state

01:03:29.920 where they can believe

01:03:30.960 themselves to be cool

01:03:32.120 and attractive

01:03:32.740 for three minutes

01:03:33.420 at a time.

01:03:34.100 And that's the primary

01:03:34.860 function of modern pop music,

01:03:36.200 by the way,

01:03:36.660 to provide mantras

01:03:37.820 for desperately

01:03:38.680 insecure people.

01:03:40.320 And there are a lot

01:03:41.440 of desperately

01:03:42.020 insecure people

01:03:42.840 describing themselves

01:03:44.080 in ways

01:03:44.800 that they want

01:03:45.880 to be seen.

01:03:47.320 Right?

01:03:47.480 This is how they want

01:03:48.140 to be seen

01:03:48.580 and need to be seen

01:03:49.720 because despite

01:03:51.240 their pretensions,

01:03:52.320 they depend

01:03:53.380 on the world's affirmation

01:03:54.800 and spend their

01:03:56.300 entire lives

01:03:57.020 seeking it.

01:03:59.300 And that is why

01:04:00.380 finally,

01:04:01.000 I guess,

01:04:02.200 the New York Times,

01:04:04.260 for I'm told

01:04:04.800 the third time,

01:04:05.960 is canceled.

01:04:07.000 They still haven't

01:04:07.620 gotten the message,

01:04:08.280 so we're going to

01:04:08.620 keep trying.

01:04:09.000 That's going to do

01:04:10.120 it for us today.

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Ep. 988 - BLM’s Latest Canonization Effort Falls Apart

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