The Michael Knowles Show - August 16, 2024


Ep. 1554 - A Phone App Convinced Him To Be Transgender


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Is America inherently racist? And why does Kamala Harris's running mate Tim Wall make tacos with four different spices? To find out, we have to go back in time to when Tim Wall was a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives.

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00:00:15.400 Republicans are Nazis.
00:00:16.940 You cannot separate yourselves from the bad white people. 1.00
00:00:20.620 Growing up, I never thought much about race.
00:00:22.480 Never really seemed to matter that much.
00:00:24.320 At least not to me.
00:00:25.140 Am I racist?
00:00:26.320 I would really appreciate it if you left.
00:00:27.600 I'm trying to learn.
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00:00:39.920 What you're doing is you're stretching out of your whiteness. 0.71
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00:00:43.660 Is America inherently racist?
00:00:45.240 The word inherent is challenging there.
00:00:47.180 I want to rename the George Washington Monument to the George Floyd Monument.
00:00:50.360 America is racist to its bones.
00:00:52.200 So inherently.
00:00:53.060 Yeah, this country is a piece of...
00:00:56.080 White folks. 0.76
00:00:57.240 White trash. 1.00
00:00:57.740 White supremacy.
00:00:58.340 White woman. 1.00
00:00:59.080 White boy.
00:00:59.600 Is there a black person around here?
00:01:00.900 What's a black person right here? 0.84
00:01:02.220 Does he not exist?
00:01:03.140 They don't say I'm racist.
00:01:04.840 Hi, Robin.
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00:01:06.860 I'm Matt.
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00:01:15.000 It's been 26 days since Kamala Harris became the presumptive Democrat nominee for president and she still has not given an on-camera interview with even a liberal journalist.
00:01:26.020 But she did recently film a conversation with her running mate, Tim Walls.
00:01:30.920 And they tackled the big issues.
00:01:33.400 Like whether or not Tim Walls seasons his food.
00:01:36.720 I think I have white guy tacos and...
00:01:39.280 What does that mean?
00:01:39.960 Like mayonnaise and tuna?
00:01:41.420 What are you doing?
00:01:41.760 Pretty much ground beef and cheese.
00:01:43.940 That's okay.
00:01:44.420 Do you put any flavor in it?
00:01:45.820 No.
00:01:46.500 Oh.
00:01:47.000 Here's the deal.
00:01:47.520 No, they said to be careful and let her know this, that black pepper is the top of the spice level in Minnesota, you know. 0.90
00:01:54.000 I'm the first vice president, I believe, who has ever grown chili peppers.
00:01:58.460 I'm trying to expand my food knowledge.
00:02:01.000 You know, we've got some cantaloupes.
00:02:02.720 You'll be fine.
00:02:03.480 Yeah.
00:02:05.240 Tim, you bland honky.
00:02:07.100 You probably eat a tub of mayo for every meal.
00:02:12.240 That's right, Kamala.
00:02:13.800 For special occasions, I spread it out a piece of Melba toast. 0.74
00:02:17.520 This would be the equivalent of Biden filming a bit in 2020, asking Kamala how often she scarfed down watermelon and fried chicken.
00:02:28.600 Or really, if we were to be precise in Kamala's case, it would be chutney and conch fritters or something like that.
00:02:33.840 If we really wanted to make the race routine as accurate as possible.
00:02:38.560 In any case, the whole thing, this whole conversation is obviously contrived and ridiculous.
00:02:45.700 But that became especially clear after internet sleuths dug up an actual Tim Wall's taco recipe just a couple years ago.
00:02:56.480 The fact that this exists, that they do this bit, and there really should be no way to fact check how Tim Wall's makes his tacos.
00:03:02.480 But we can, because two years ago, he posted his personal taco recipe.
00:03:08.260 I guess it won some award in a newspaper.
00:03:10.400 And this is what he wrote.
00:03:11.360 He said, I don't know, people.
00:03:12.740 I make a pretty mean hot dish.
00:03:14.660 Check out my award-winning recipe for turkey taco tot hot dish here.
00:03:18.600 And then you click on the link, and you discover that Tim Wall's taco dish includes paprika, onion powder, garlic powder, and chili powder.
00:03:28.800 That is four separate spices.
00:03:32.720 Now, this is all extremely stupid.
00:03:36.040 But it is significant.
00:03:38.480 Not only is Kamala lying about her entire political career and Wall's lying about his military service.
00:03:46.440 These people are so reflexively dishonest, they even need to lie about how they cook their tacos.
00:03:56.800 I'm Michael Knowles.
00:03:57.620 This is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:03:58.460 Welcome back to the show.
00:04:19.300 A man has transed himself because he was bored and tried a face swap app. 0.96
00:04:24.760 So we will get to that important news story in a moment first, though.
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00:05:14.540 What else did Kamala Harris and Tim Walls talk about during their extremely serious and urgent conversation?
00:05:23.060 I called you, Tim.
00:05:23.700 I was hoping maybe we wouldn't have to.
00:05:25.020 I called you, Tim.
00:05:26.800 Yes.
00:05:27.340 You didn't answer, Tim.
00:05:28.620 I know.
00:05:29.240 I know.
00:05:29.880 What happened?
00:05:30.720 The most important call of my life, it popped up and we didn't recognize the caller ID.
00:05:36.420 It went to voicemail.
00:05:38.360 Hi, this is Tim.
00:05:39.340 I'm not able to answer your call.
00:05:40.180 There you go.
00:05:43.400 It's been awesome.
00:05:44.600 Thank you.
00:05:46.140 Hey, Tim.
00:05:47.020 It's Kamala.
00:05:47.760 I really want to talk to you.
00:05:50.160 It is an amazing privilege.
00:05:52.280 I'm excited.
00:05:53.180 I just want to be part of the excitement that you're generating.
00:05:55.880 Well, we're doing it together, buddy.
00:05:57.340 It's fun.
00:05:57.500 We're doing it together.
00:05:58.480 Okay, so my takeaway now from the first time we've heard even more than a few words from Kamala on camera since she got the presumptive nomination is how Tim Walls likes his tacos.
00:06:14.580 She disapproves of the apparent lack of spice and she called him and he didn't pick up.
00:06:20.180 Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
00:06:21.840 That's it.
00:06:22.580 It doesn't get any deeper than that.
00:06:25.460 So people are pulling their hair out on the right.
00:06:27.500 You're saying, why is this all we're getting?
00:06:30.200 Why won't she talk to the media? 0.99
00:06:32.380 Why won't she do a serious interview? 1.00
00:06:34.680 Why won't she hold a press conference? 1.00
00:06:38.420 Why would she?
00:06:40.000 That's the question.
00:06:40.860 I'm not offended at all because apparently the strategy is working, or at least it's not hurting her.
00:06:47.880 This is the same reason that Joe Biden didn't want to do a debate and then eventually he did.
00:06:54.420 He didn't want to do a debate when it looked like he could win the race without doing a debate.
00:06:59.140 Then his numbers kept getting worse.
00:07:00.880 So he said he would debate Donald Trump.
00:07:03.260 And that ended up booting him out of the race.
00:07:04.900 But he had to do it because he was losing.
00:07:08.680 Why did President Trump not debate in the Republican primary?
00:07:13.420 Because he didn't need to debate.
00:07:14.500 He said, look, if I start losing, I guess I'll debate.
00:07:16.420 But right now, why would I take the risk?
00:07:19.200 Same thing for Kamala. 1.00
00:07:21.620 Kamala's numbers are moving in the right direction for her.
00:07:25.660 Wrong direction for the country, right direction for her.
00:07:27.980 So why risk it?
00:07:31.020 If she were a Republican, she would have to because the media would be pounding her. 0.99
00:07:34.240 But here, the media are totally propping her up.
00:07:36.800 She can flip the bird to the media.
00:07:38.160 And Time Magazine is still going to give her a glowing cover.
00:07:40.640 This is her moment, reintroducing Kamala's eyes toward the future.
00:07:44.480 So, of course, she's not going to do it until she has to do it.
00:07:48.320 Because her numbers go down or because the media start really hitting her.
00:07:51.840 And the latter is certainly not going to happen.
00:07:53.860 And we'll see if the former happens, too.
00:07:56.520 The only way that her numbers are going to start going down is if the Trump campaign 0.99
00:08:00.440 really starts pounding Kamala Harris.
00:08:03.120 And you're starting to see that.
00:08:04.760 President Trump, laser focused on Kamala's awful record, landed, I think, a pretty solid blow yesterday.
00:08:13.120 She co-sponsored legislation to abolish very popular private health insurance,
00:08:18.000 which 150 Americans rely on, dumping everyone onto inferior socialist government-run healthcare systems 0.95
00:08:26.360 with rationing and deadly wait times while massively raising your taxes.
00:08:32.480 She wants to take away your private health care. 1.00
00:08:34.740 There are many people in this country who spend a lot of money on private health care.
00:08:40.500 It's the best health care in the world, by the way.
00:08:43.700 But they want to do it.
00:08:44.720 They worked hard to make money, and they want to do it.
00:08:47.500 Under her, you're not going to have private health care plans anymore. 1.00
00:08:50.680 And you can be a wealthy person or a middle-income person, and you want to spend on a really good plan,
00:08:56.700 better than a government plan could be, far better.
00:09:00.340 And you're not going to be allowed.
00:09:01.680 You're all going to be thrown into a communist system.
00:09:03.940 It's a communist system.
00:09:05.080 You're going to be thrown into a system where everybody gets health care.
00:09:09.740 You wait for your doctor, like, 10 months, 12 months, 11 months.
00:09:14.200 You've got to see some of these plans, how they work in other countries.
00:09:17.680 It's disgraceful.
00:09:18.580 Okay, so he's using some provocative language.
00:09:23.080 This is a communist-type plan.
00:09:24.920 Now, worth pointing out, Kamala was raised in a communist household.
00:09:28.120 Her father was a Marxist economist.
00:09:30.280 Kamala's plans, such as they are, are the most left-wing plans we've seen at the national level in our lifetimes.
00:09:37.380 As senator, she was to the left of Bernie Sanders.
00:09:39.800 Bernie is an avowed socialist who honeymooned in the Soviet Union.
00:09:42.560 So a lot of times, you know, anytime any Democrat talks about even slightly raising taxes, reflexively, the Republicans say, that person's a communist.
00:09:51.600 In the case of Kamala Harris, it's actually a fairly justified assumption, given her background and given her entire political record.
00:09:59.560 And he's hammering her on her record on issues that matter, abolishing private health care.
00:10:04.380 That's pretty radical.
00:10:08.420 That's the kind of thing that could really turn off, especially senior citizens, especially the middle class, really.
00:10:16.020 I mean, that's what we're focusing on here.
00:10:18.220 President Trump is trying to win back the middle class.
00:10:20.140 He's talking about inflation.
00:10:21.760 He's talking about her terrible record, but specifically as it pertains to upsetting that middle class of Americans.
00:10:32.640 I think this could work.
00:10:35.240 I think that the attacks, it's funny to point out that Kamala seems to lie about her race or not exactly lie about her race, 0.99
00:10:45.240 but just cynically choose racial identities based on whichever election she's trying to win. 0.95
00:10:51.300 And it's, I think, illustrative to point out that Tim Walls lied about his military service because it shows that he's just so dishonest.
00:10:59.520 But the issues that are really going to push people over are, hey, she's going to try to take away your health insurance. 1.00
00:11:06.720 Hey, she's going to give a mass amnesty that's going to fundamentally change your political order. 1.00
00:11:10.700 Hey, these people, if we try to in any way build up a border wall, they're going to build a ladder factory. 0.84
00:11:16.660 If the wall's 20 feet high, they're going to get ladders that are 30 feet high.
00:11:19.900 That's Tim Walls' words.
00:11:21.700 Those are issues that people are going to care about, and Trump is beginning to really focus in on that.
00:11:26.720 There's so much more to say.
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00:12:32.220 Now, speaking of President Trump, I have, I shouldn't laugh because this is so scary and sad for America, but it's a pretty funny headline.
00:12:44.400 One, Secret Service investigating report that an agent left her post at a Trump rally to breastfeed.
00:12:54.280 The Secret Service is, this is from Newsweek, the Secret Service is investigating a report that says an agent left her post at a Trump event to breastfeed.
00:13:03.720 In a statement shared with Newsweek on Thursday, Secret Service's chief of communications, Anthony Guglielmi, said all employees of the U.S. Secret Service are held to the highest standards.
00:13:12.720 While there was no impact to the North Carolina event, the specifics of this incident are being examined.
00:13:17.180 Given this is a personnel matter, we're not in a position to comment further.
00:13:19.900 They're all held to the highest standards.
00:13:21.460 Okay, so the way you know what a standard is, is by knowing what a thing is for, right?
00:13:27.120 The standards for a swimmer are different from the standards for a baseball player, because the swimmer has to, you know, move his arms and legs in a certain way to get from one end to the pool to the other fastest.
00:13:37.100 And a baseball player needs to move his arms in a way to hit the baseball a really long way, out of the reach of the fielders, maybe even out of the ballpark, and has to run these.
00:13:45.280 There are different skills involved.
00:13:46.320 So, what are the highest standards for a Secret Service agent protecting a former president and current presidential candidate who was nearly assassinated a few weeks ago?
00:13:58.420 I think one of those standards is not having to breastfeed. 0.94
00:14:02.520 Has this country lost its mind?
00:14:04.280 But you can't say that.
00:14:07.760 You're really not supposed to say that.
00:14:11.200 Why is this tolerated?
00:14:13.440 Why are we all laughing, but the Secret Service is keeping a straight face?
00:14:16.680 Because we know that people who breastfeed should not be the brawn in charge of protecting the president. 1.00
00:14:23.880 And why is that?
00:14:27.520 Because women are not physically as strong as men. 0.86
00:14:31.220 Women are physically not as good at combat as men. 0.89
00:14:34.480 Physically, women can't even, they couldn't even get up to Trump's shoulders half the time. 1.00
00:14:40.280 Because women are the gentler sex, they're more nurturing, and sometimes they have to breastfeed their children. 1.00
00:14:45.960 I think breastfeeding your child is great.
00:14:47.900 It's not something I'm ever going to do.
00:14:49.700 Not something I could do even if I wanted to, and I don't want to.
00:14:52.200 But it's something that women are inclined to do, and they can do because of the fact of their biology and their nature. 1.00
00:15:02.380 And that's a really good thing.
00:15:03.960 But you're not supposed to be breastfeeding a baby when bullets could be flying around at a Trump rally.
00:15:10.620 This is one of the arguments against women in combat. 1.00
00:15:13.160 It's not just the physical differences between men and women, but that it's just not appropriate. 0.93
00:15:17.980 It's not good generally, because, you know, God forbid, if daddy dies in combat, you know, it's a horrible thing for a family, really horrible.
00:15:28.840 However, daddy is not the one providing that immediate nurturing care to little helpless babies, you know.
00:15:35.380 So it's tragic, it's awful, it sticks with you your whole life.
00:15:38.280 But the family moves on.
00:15:42.620 In the case of, you know, God forbid, this woman who's breastfeeding her kid, God forbid something happened to her. 1.00
00:15:47.160 The baby doesn't eat.
00:15:48.640 They'll figure something out.
00:15:49.500 You get formula or something.
00:15:50.360 But it's just different.
00:15:52.560 And men and women have different roles.
00:15:54.240 So to my question, why is this tolerated?
00:15:56.580 Why is it tolerated for a secret service agent to go breastfeeding while she's supposed to be working, leave her post at a Trump rally? 0.95
00:16:03.180 It's tolerated because we've said that women can do everything that men can do, and men can do everything that women can do.
00:16:09.440 And we have to pretend, not just as a matter of changing crazy social norms, but also as a matter of law, we have to pretend that men and women are exactly the same.
00:16:19.800 So if a man can be a secret service agent, then a woman has to be able to do exactly the same thing in this. 1.00
00:16:25.940 I'm not even saying a woman can't work for the secret service, but to suggest that a woman would have the same position in the secret service as a man, completely insane.
00:16:34.060 But this gets back to the point I was talking about a couple weeks ago with the women boxers. 1.00
00:16:39.500 Right now, even the right, even the conservatives are saying, well, look, we need to make sure that these men don't have an unfair advantage over women.
00:16:48.540 That's why we got to make sure that only women are punching each other in the face and cracking each other's skulls in the ring. 1.00
00:16:52.900 No, well, how about we take it a little further and say men and women have different roles, and some roles are really not suitable for men, like breastfeeding, for instance.
00:17:00.840 And some roles are really not suitable for women, like taking a bullet for the president. 0.97
00:17:06.080 Maybe men and women really are different.
00:17:07.820 Maybe not only our culture has to reflect that, but maybe our law ought to reflect that too.
00:17:13.620 Very difficult, though, because to do that, you would have to unwind the extremely radically liberal premise that is now part of our law and part of our civil rights law.
00:17:23.900 Which says that men and women are, for all intents and purposes, exactly the same.
00:17:27.860 You'd have to get rid of that premise.
00:17:31.180 And I think the left obviously doesn't want to.
00:17:34.280 And I think there are many people on the right who don't want to either.
00:17:37.640 So, okay, but I'm just warning you, you're going to get more Secret Service agents leaving their posts to go breastfeed. 0.98
00:17:44.180 And you're going to know that that's weird and wrong, and that everything's wrong about that, that that's not where breastfeeding is supposed to take place.
00:17:54.540 And that's not where people who breastfeed are supposed to be and what they're supposed to be doing. 1.00
00:17:58.680 But you're not going to have the political right or the philosophical basis to explain why that is the case.
00:18:09.400 Now, speaking of women in unusual roles, there's a gal. 1.00
00:18:12.680 I've refrained from talking about this phenomenon on the show out of politeness and standards and propriety.
00:18:19.500 But there's this gal who went famous for making a bawdy joke in downtown Nashville on camera that went viral. 1.00
00:18:26.100 And the phrase she used was hawk to it.
00:18:27.540 Don't look it up.
00:18:28.240 You don't, no one, we don't really need to talk about that.
00:18:30.400 The reason I mention it is because this gal is everywhere now. 0.72
00:18:33.720 I actually ran into her at a karate combat fight.
00:18:37.480 I was just walking through this fight when I was the corner man for Smiling Sam Alvey.
00:18:41.000 And I, well, the first people I see, I said, oh, I think that's the girl from that video.
00:18:45.320 And I talked to her.
00:18:46.380 I did.
00:18:46.740 I saw her right there very briefly, but I did meet her.
00:18:50.120 And then I've seen her on all these podcasts.
00:18:52.880 She's going everywhere. 0.84
00:18:53.440 She's getting millions of followers on the internet.
00:18:55.540 And then the other day I look, and she throws out the first pitch at the Mets game.
00:18:59.340 You're a bitch. 1.00
00:19:03.720 And there are a lot of people who are, they're saying, why is this girl famous?
00:19:17.980 Why is she got, now it's an indisputable fact she has gotten very famous.
00:19:22.640 But they're saying, why is she famous?
00:19:24.140 Why are we talking about her?
00:19:25.240 Why, why, why?
00:19:27.100 Stop talking about this girl.
00:19:28.160 I think, look, the fact that she's gotten so famous means she's at least notable.
00:19:33.280 It's worth considering, how is it that in this culture she got so famous?
00:19:36.720 And I actually think it reflects somewhat well on the culture that she got super famous.
00:19:42.400 And this is why.
00:19:45.160 She got super famous.
00:19:48.200 It doesn't reflect well on the culture why she got famous, but it reflects pretty well
00:19:51.440 on the culture how she has been able to maintain this 15 minutes of fame.
00:19:54.960 And she got super famous for telling a bawdy joke downtown late at night on video. 1.00
00:20:02.400 But every subsequent appearance she's made on every little podcast on at the Mets opening
00:20:09.500 pitch and everything actually seems to suggest that she's relatively wholesome compared to 0.95
00:20:16.820 what you would have expected given that video.
00:20:18.580 Then it even got me thinking about the video that went viral.
00:20:22.320 I think the reason the video went viral is because of the incongruity in the video.
00:20:26.340 The joke she told is obscene and raunchy and bawdy and all the rest.
00:20:32.200 But her demeanor is not.
00:20:35.160 I was trying to think, if this girl were really prurient and seductive, and if she had an OnlyFans
00:20:43.320 account or something, or if she were a porn star, would the video have gone viral? 1.00
00:20:47.720 No, it wouldn't have.
00:20:49.460 There is no shortage of people selling pornography on the internet.
00:20:53.360 And the vast majority of them do not go viral.
00:20:56.320 Statistically, all of them, right?
00:20:58.120 Isn't the median income on OnlyFans is like 100 bucks a month or something?
00:21:02.220 So I don't think that's why.
00:21:04.400 I think she went viral because she doesn't come off as seductive or appealing to a prurient 0.99
00:21:09.620 interest.
00:21:10.100 She comes off as telling a dirty joke, but in a basically just a goofy way.
00:21:15.900 And then afterward, all these people are trying to demand that she do porn or something. 0.88
00:21:19.800 And she said, no, I'm not doing any of that.
00:21:21.260 And she's basically covered up. 0.79
00:21:24.000 She's not wearing sultry clothing or anything.
00:21:26.260 And she's just telling goofy jokes on podcasts and throwing out the ball at the Mets game and
00:21:31.700 doing a goofy little chest bump with her friend who played catcher.
00:21:37.240 And I actually think that's why.
00:21:38.640 It's the incongruity of it.
00:21:39.580 We're so desensitized to porn and obscenity in our culture that you see the video, which
00:21:47.880 has a joke that is in itself obscene, but then all of the context surrounding it is not.
00:21:53.300 And so the thing that makes it interesting is not the obscenity.
00:21:56.200 It's everything else.
00:21:57.620 It's the fact that it's all kind of goofy.
00:22:00.000 And it's bizarre.
00:22:00.820 It is so bizarre that this gal who just told a dirty joke late at night on some, you know,
00:22:06.120 man on the street video is now throwing out the first pitch at a major league baseball game.
00:22:10.720 That's kind of funny.
00:22:11.720 And it can be somewhat delightful only because she isn't selling sex. 1.00
00:22:19.920 The one thing that you would expect her to do, she subverts that expectation and really doesn't touch it at all. 1.00
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00:23:35.780 My favorite comment yesterday is from Emily Mountain 5442, who says,
00:23:41.180 Soon all we'll get is the intro of Michael dancing on a table and the rest will be censored.
00:23:44.880 Yeah, I know.
00:23:46.040 I understand my YouTube episodes have been heavily redacted and all the best content is being mercilessly ripped out of the show, which troubles me greatly.
00:23:58.740 However, the reason for this is that big tech is clamping down, especially in the run-up to the election.
00:24:04.760 So if you want the full show, you got to watch it on X.
00:24:08.060 That'll go up there on the Michael Knowles Show account.
00:24:10.660 You can watch it, obviously, on Daily Wire Plus.
00:24:12.540 You can watch it on Spotify.
00:24:13.760 But for now, the show on the biggest video platform in the world is going to be heavily redacted.
00:24:19.180 All my really saucy stuff is probably going to be taken out.
00:24:22.400 Speaking of segments that are almost certainly going to be cut out of the YouTube show, a man has transed himself because he got bored and tried a face swap app.
00:24:33.760 This, thanks to our friend over at Libs of TikTok.
00:24:38.020 Hi, everyone.
00:24:39.380 Good evening.
00:24:40.360 It's your girl, Zina.
00:24:41.540 So I wanted to do a video about my transition.
00:24:50.220 It started back in October 2021, where I downloaded an app for fun.
00:25:00.380 It's called FaceApp.
00:25:01.440 And I did a gender swap. 0.83
00:25:06.420 And all I did was change two settings, which was change gender and add makeup.
00:25:13.920 And the results were absolutely amazing.
00:25:16.960 And I didn't think much of it.
00:25:20.260 I sent it to a few friends.
00:25:22.840 And they said to me, you know, oh, my God, you should try it.
00:25:26.660 You know, you should transition.
00:25:28.240 You should do it.
00:25:28.880 And I went, oh, yeah, OK, go away.
00:25:31.440 And I just brushed it off.
00:25:35.960 Fast forwarding a few months, I got bored on that Christmas break.
00:25:42.040 So it was December 2021.
00:25:45.000 And I thought, you know what, I'll give it a go.
00:25:50.020 There's another headline.
00:25:53.080 This is a new study that came out.
00:25:55.960 It shows lacking purpose in life could signal cognitive decline.
00:26:01.440 And I'm no scientist.
00:26:04.460 But something tells me that these two stories might be related.
00:26:10.040 Something, I don't know.
00:26:11.660 Yeah, I got a little bit bored.
00:26:14.460 Crikey, that's not a knife.
00:26:15.620 This is a knife.
00:26:16.200 I can't really do a good Australian. 1.00
00:26:18.040 Yeah, I got bored.
00:26:19.120 And then I, so I downloaded this app and it said, look, turn yourself into a chick. 1.00
00:26:23.740 So I clicked it and it looked kind of funny.
00:26:25.380 So anyway, now I'm transitioning.
00:26:28.680 I'm possibly going to inject myself with all sorts of hormones and chop my body up.
00:26:33.080 Lacking purpose could signal cognitive decline.
00:26:35.320 Yeah, huh, interesting.
00:26:36.780 Because by definition, if you are a man and you think you're a woman or you want to make yourself into a woman or something, that is proof positive of some kind of cognitive decline or some kind of cognitive problem.
00:26:52.220 Because you're misperceiving reality.
00:26:55.680 You, I think the precise scientific term is you've completely lost your marbles.
00:27:00.480 And this guy is saying, where that came from was that he was just bored.
00:27:07.540 And boredom is something we really have to guard against.
00:27:10.300 Now, people can't sit still for two seconds.
00:27:12.860 The minute you're waiting for someone at a restaurant, you're waiting for the bus or something, the minute you have any, I do it too.
00:27:18.500 You have two seconds for you.
00:27:19.420 You're just down there on your phone.
00:27:20.460 You're just refreshing Twitter or Instagram or you're getting the news or you're doing whatever.
00:27:26.540 You have to be stimulated all the time.
00:27:28.900 And when people don't have stimulation, they get kind of bored.
00:27:33.440 And in this case, one suspects that these people are also looking at a lot of other things on the internet beyond Twitter.
00:27:39.700 You get really bored.
00:27:41.460 And then what?
00:27:43.200 And the way to avoid the pitfalls of boredom is to have a purpose, to recognize that you have a purpose, whether you like it or not.
00:27:52.840 There are things that you have to do.
00:27:54.200 You have to fill your time, though, and you have to find ways to be motivated.
00:27:59.100 And ultimately, the only way to do that is to have some sense of your nature, what you are for.
00:28:06.120 And really what that means is believing in God.
00:28:08.660 And so a secular society, an atheistic society, is just going to do a lot of this stuff.
00:28:17.120 And a society that believes in the true God is not.
00:28:20.820 And it's no coincidence that as our society becomes more secular, you're getting a lot more of this weirdness.
00:28:25.980 And a lot of that weirdness comes from rudderlessness.
00:28:29.040 It comes from lacking a sense of purpose.
00:28:31.540 A lot of it, I suspect, comes from boredom because idle hands are the devil's playground.
00:28:35.380 Now, speaking of transitions, how's that for a transition?
00:28:41.100 President Trump is bringing back his once-fired campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, for some sort of role on the campaign.
00:28:48.700 Politico is reporting,
00:28:49.500 As we head into the homestretch of this election, we're continuing to add to our impressive campaign team.
00:28:55.800 Trump co-campaign managers Susie Wiles and Chris Lasavita said in a comment,
00:29:00.060 Corey Lewandowski, Taylor Budowicz, Alex Pfeiffer, Alex Brusiewicz, and Tim Murtaugh are all veterans of prior Trump campaigns.
00:29:08.580 And their unmatched experience will help President Trump prosecute the case against Kamala Harris and Tim Wolves,
00:29:13.540 the most radical ticket in American history.
00:29:17.200 I think this is great.
00:29:19.240 I think this is a really good move.
00:29:20.540 I don't know Corey Lewandowski.
00:29:23.140 I don't know, actually, I don't know most of the people on this list.
00:29:27.340 At least I don't know them very well.
00:29:30.760 And, you know, you could say, well, Lewandowski got fired the first time.
00:29:34.380 Why would you bring him back?
00:29:35.820 Well, look, Trump, especially when his campaigns were really cooking,
00:29:39.820 he would churn through personnel.
00:29:41.420 And then sometimes he'd bring him back.
00:29:42.800 He's fired Steve Bannon.
00:29:43.840 He's brought Steve Bannon back.
00:29:44.760 He's fired Roger Stone.
00:29:45.660 He's brought Roger Stone back.
00:29:46.880 He's Trump.
00:29:47.640 He says, you're fired.
00:29:48.620 That's his catchphrase.
00:29:49.960 And so he's bringing Lewandowski back now.
00:29:51.980 And I think it's a good thing because having worked on a number of campaigns, especially in my youth,
00:29:58.300 in my political experience, the original winning team possesses an expertise that people who come around later don't have.
00:30:08.720 This is what happens, especially if you look at cheaper campaigns.
00:30:14.980 You know, I'm not talking about presidential campaigns, but congressional campaigns, maybe even Senate campaigns, state Senate, that sort of thing.
00:30:22.920 You run with a team.
00:30:24.420 You win.
00:30:25.360 Then you say, okay, now I'm the real deal.
00:30:27.160 Now the donations are really starting to pour in.
00:30:29.280 Okay, now I got to upgrade my team.
00:30:31.040 Now I'm going to get the fancy Washington people.
00:30:33.180 And the fancy Washington people totally ruin it.
00:30:35.800 They totally kill it.
00:30:36.720 And I suspect the same thing happens even at the presidential level.
00:30:43.480 The original team has its finger on the pulse of the base.
00:30:50.620 They've just seen how to build a potent organization based on all those little building blocks, this constituency, and this moment, and this, and this, and this.
00:31:01.780 The fancy consultants who fly in on their private jets afterwards, they don't possess that expertise.
00:31:07.740 So if a campaign is ever in trouble, and I suspect the Trump campaign feels that it is a little bit in trouble with the shakeup from Biden to Kamala, I think the first thing you got to do is go back to those original guys who have their finger on the pulse of the base.
00:31:21.980 And so whether you like Corey Lewandowski, whether you hate Corey Lewandowski, whether you don't know anything about him at all, I just think his role in the Trump universe is the sort of thing that probably could be helpful right now.
00:31:34.120 Now, speaking of big changes, there's a 61-year-old Englishman who is being jailed for asking one question, and that question is, who the F is Allah?
00:31:45.340 This 61-year-old Englishman is being jailed for a year and a half because he was at an anti-migration protest in London.
00:31:53.300 You know, there's mass migration in London.
00:31:55.940 London, you know, you feel like you're on the streets of Karachi half the time.
00:31:58.840 Okay, no offense to our friends from Karachi, but, you know, this is not your grandfather's London, London town.
00:32:05.540 And this has created a number of social problems in the UK.
00:32:09.420 And so there was a protest that says, hey, let's cut it out with the mass migration.
00:32:12.660 In fact, one of the big drivers of Brexit was that they wanted to stop mass migration.
00:32:16.700 Mass migration got worse after Brexit.
00:32:18.700 So there's a protest, a totally justified protest from the perspective of the broad political issue.
00:32:23.980 And this guy asked a question, he was film chatting, who the F is Allah?
00:32:29.380 And he was not accused of engaging in any violent action, anything like that.
00:32:34.200 He's going to go to jail for a year and a half.
00:32:36.000 Now, first of all, that question, albeit said in a little bit of a saucy way, is a fair question if you're an Englishman.
00:32:41.960 Because Islam, historically, is a rather foreign religious concept.
00:32:48.800 So I think it's a fair question.
00:32:50.140 But no, you're not allowed to ask that.
00:32:51.280 If you'd said, what the F is Christianity, if you'd mocked the saints, if you'd mocked our Lord even.
00:32:56.820 Well, if you'd mocked our Lord, you'd probably be asked to be the art director of the Olympics.
00:33:03.020 But you don't mock Allah.
00:33:04.560 You don't mock Islam.
00:33:06.240 How do they get away with this in the UK?
00:33:07.680 The UK does not have a First Amendment.
00:33:10.780 You know, we have a First Amendment.
00:33:11.820 It gives us pretty serious free speech rights.
00:33:15.140 They do have a limited free expression right under the 1998 Human Rights Act.
00:33:20.020 But the UK enforces more speech standards.
00:33:24.160 And okay, that's their culture.
00:33:25.120 They could do that.
00:33:25.580 That's fine.
00:33:26.040 In fact, I think there's something to recommend that.
00:33:28.340 The question is not, why doesn't the UK have free speech, which is how this is going to be framed?
00:33:33.040 The question is, why can't you ask, what is Allah?
00:33:36.660 What is Islam?
00:33:37.300 Why can't you ask that?
00:33:39.560 Why is Islam especially protected? 0.97
00:33:43.020 And Christianity has pretty much no protections. 0.95
00:33:46.820 And especially, why is that the case in the civilization formerly known as Christendom?
00:33:53.100 That's the real question.
00:33:55.360 The debate over why doesn't the UK have a First Amendment, that's a total distraction.
00:33:58.800 Why does Islam get special protections, Christianity gets no protections, not just in the UK, but throughout the West? 0.73
00:34:07.180 Today's the day, folks.
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00:34:12.360 Matt Walsh went undercover as a DEI expert.
00:34:15.200 What he uncovered will shock you.
00:34:16.660 Here is a sneak peek.
00:34:17.940 The white participants in the group feel that there's something in themselves that they have to overcome
00:34:23.740 when all that's being requested of you is that you be.
00:34:29.640 Hello.
00:34:30.520 Hi.
00:34:31.360 How are you?
00:34:33.400 Sorry about that.
00:34:34.280 Oh, no problem.
00:34:36.160 You good?
00:34:37.120 Yeah.
00:34:37.580 Yeah.
00:34:37.880 Remind me of your name again.
00:34:39.540 Uh, uh, Stephen.
00:34:41.600 Stephen?
00:34:42.260 Yeah?
00:34:42.840 Okay.
00:34:43.540 Um, dude, do you want to come up?
00:34:46.780 Come up?
00:34:47.260 Yeah, do you want to come up and share anything?
00:34:51.000 Sure.
00:34:51.420 What do you want me to share?
00:34:52.600 Whatever's on your mind.
00:34:53.460 I just want to know that, like, my physical safety and yours and everybody else's here is okay.
00:34:58.240 Why would your physical safety not be okay?
00:35:00.600 Did I miss something?
00:35:05.440 I don't feel comfortable.
00:35:08.120 What?
00:35:09.080 Can you guys catch me up to speed on what's going on here?
00:35:11.140 You don't need to be caught up.
00:35:12.300 We're going to be silent.
00:35:14.560 Is it because I said I had 17 black friends?
00:35:16.400 It might have been 15.
00:35:18.160 It depends on how you count them.
00:35:22.100 I would really appreciate it if you left so that the people who actually want to be here
00:35:26.100 and deserve to be here can get what they need.
00:35:27.800 I do want to be here.
00:35:28.340 Can you please leave?
00:35:29.800 I would like it if you left.
00:35:31.240 I'm trying to learn.
00:35:32.000 I'm on this journey.
00:35:33.200 Come with me.
00:35:33.860 Well, I didn't consent to be touched.
00:35:38.760 I'm not offering to touch you.
00:35:40.560 I'm offering to walk you out.
00:35:41.860 Will you walk with me and I'll answer your questions?
00:35:43.880 Okay.
00:35:44.480 I'll admit it.
00:35:45.940 I'll admit it.
00:35:46.940 My name's not Steven.
00:35:48.120 Hmm.
00:35:49.500 Maybe you already knew that.
00:35:50.900 My name is Matt Walsh.
00:35:52.300 I just was here on this journey that I'm just starting, but I see that I'm not wanted.
00:36:02.620 If you were on your journey, then you would have told us who you were, your real name,
00:36:06.240 but you didn't.
00:36:07.120 Are you saying I needed a better disguise?
00:36:08.860 Is that what you...
00:36:09.440 I don't know, maybe, but you can figure that out as you walk out the door.
00:36:14.540 Maybe.
00:36:15.140 Yeah, maybe.
00:36:18.180 Thank you so much.
00:36:19.180 I really had the transformative experience myself.
00:36:22.620 And my pronouns are he, him.
00:36:30.760 I did everything I could to fit in.
00:36:37.160 I opened up.
00:36:38.060 I was raw and emotional.
00:36:40.940 I told them about my black friends.
00:36:43.680 It was no use.
00:36:44.900 They rejected me.
00:36:46.240 And they called the police.
00:36:48.280 My mere presence in the room caused them pain.
00:36:52.480 I'll never be accepted if I look like this.
00:36:56.400 If they know that I'm Matt Walsh, I'll always be an outsider.
00:37:00.920 I need to go deeper undercover.
00:37:03.240 A whole new identity.
00:37:05.140 If I want to be an ally, I need to look like one.
00:37:08.060 Like someone who is progressive, tolerant, enlightened.
00:37:12.960 Let me think.
00:37:14.520 Have I ever met anyone like that?
00:37:18.000 Ah, yes.
00:37:19.300 Yes, I have.
00:37:20.140 What is a woman? 1.00
00:37:28.220 Why do you ask that question?
00:37:29.180 Am I racist?
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00:38:04.940 Finally, finally, we've arrived at my favorite time of the week when I get to hear from you in the mailbag.
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00:38:19.420 Michael, my favorite Italian Catholic man in all of America.
00:38:25.360 I hope that you're doing well this Friday.
00:38:28.720 I have a question for you on the recent VP announcement of Tim Walls for the Harris Walls ticket.
00:38:36.880 Obviously, there was some expectation that Shapiro would be the selection.
00:38:41.480 He's from a swing state that's a must-win state.
00:38:44.400 And then, you know, it was announced that Walls would be the pick.
00:38:47.940 He obviously appeals to the more base wing of the Democrat Party.
00:38:53.680 I think that there is an angle here that's not being talked about that I'm curious of what your opinion is.
00:39:01.600 Do you think that there is a chance that the Dems presume Pennsylvania will be won by the same means it was won in 2020?
00:39:10.380 Namely, ballot initiatives, however else you would fill in the blank.
00:39:17.080 Thanks.
00:39:17.940 Cheating.
00:39:19.980 You can say cheating.
00:39:20.760 It's okay.
00:39:21.880 I know we're all afraid of YouTube.
00:39:23.780 Are we allowed to say that?
00:39:24.880 But no, yeah, of course they cheated.
00:39:26.220 They violated the state constitution in 2020 to rig the election by the widespread mail-ins.
00:39:32.000 And this is a really good point.
00:39:33.880 It hadn't occurred to me in precisely those terms.
00:39:36.100 That's a really incisive point.
00:39:37.340 I already reported on the show, and it's getting absolutely no play.
00:39:42.860 It's being completely ignored by people who should be paying attention to it, and it's being suppressed by the establishment media.
00:39:49.500 That Pennsylvania, we now know, is rigging the election because a couple listeners to this show wrote in because they received a mail-in ballot application with most of their information already filled out.
00:40:03.460 So you get the application.
00:40:05.500 That alone disadvantages the Democrats.
00:40:08.460 But then if your information, things like your address, is filled out, then someone who wants to request a mail-in ballot who maybe isn't that person doesn't even need to do the guesswork.
00:40:22.500 Forget about it.
00:40:23.220 He doesn't need to prove he is who he says he is.
00:40:25.620 He doesn't even need to figure out all the personal information.
00:40:28.360 It's already there.
00:40:28.900 So that's just one little piece of evidence.
00:40:31.600 But it's a piece of evidence that, yes, the Democrats are confident that they'll be able to rig the rules such that Pennsylvania won't really be in play.
00:40:39.180 Plus, there's the Philadelphia Democrat machine, which is pretty good at churning votes.
00:40:42.940 So that's a good point.
00:40:45.200 Also, they couldn't pick Shapiro because the Dem base hates the Jews right now.
00:40:49.320 But, yeah, maybe Kamala thought, forget about it.
00:40:51.760 Shapiro doesn't add that much because we're going to figure out how to get Pennsylvania one way or the other.
00:40:56.680 Let's focus in on other parts of the coalition that we need to shore up.
00:41:00.600 Next question.
00:41:02.240 Hey, Michael.
00:41:02.900 My question is about raising your kids to be Christian the other six days of the week.
00:41:07.500 I grew up a Sunday Christian.
00:41:09.200 I lived a very sinful adolescent life.
00:41:11.880 But as a father of two children, I want to bring the teachings of Jesus home the other six days of the week.
00:41:18.440 So what advice, tips do you have to offer?
00:41:23.040 What do you plan on doing with your children?
00:41:25.040 What are you doing now?
00:41:26.100 I have a three- and two-year-old.
00:41:27.620 So any advice is welcome.
00:41:30.000 Thank you so much.
00:41:30.680 Love what you do.
00:41:31.600 Thank you.
00:41:32.100 Great question.
00:41:33.220 And you're so right.
00:41:34.240 You've got to do it pretty regularly.
00:41:36.580 Basically, all the time.
00:41:38.840 You should be kind of praying all the time, actually, in one way or the other.
00:41:43.500 And because we're incarnate creatures in time and space, you've got to do it.
00:41:47.200 You've got to do it with your body.
00:41:48.280 And you've got to involve your whole family in.
00:41:49.840 So how do you do it?
00:41:51.100 Well, one thing I would recommend is, very simple, grace before meals.
00:41:55.320 That's really easy.
00:41:56.960 You can do that and there.
00:41:58.080 Now you've got your kids praying three times a day.
00:42:00.420 And maybe you've got them praying before snack, too.
00:42:02.200 So that's okay.
00:42:02.920 Four or five times a day.
00:42:04.220 Very simple.
00:42:04.880 So then you might add some icons to your home, some religious imagery, some statues, some
00:42:12.820 maybe.
00:42:13.300 I just got a little holy water font that I just put up on my wall.
00:42:16.480 Just a nice little one.
00:42:17.420 Bless yourself with a little holy water.
00:42:18.880 That's nice.
00:42:19.100 Little sacramentals are good.
00:42:20.920 The rosary, depending on how old your kids are, maybe you do a family rosary.
00:42:24.880 That's great.
00:42:27.420 You know, the home is supposed to be a domestic church.
00:42:31.660 That's one way of understanding what the home is.
00:42:35.400 So, you know, you already recognize that you've got to spread the religion out through time.
00:42:41.820 It's not just a thing you do on Sunday.
00:42:43.440 Forget about the rest of the week.
00:42:44.400 Do it again next Sunday.
00:42:45.420 You have to spread it out through time.
00:42:47.220 Well, one way to help you do that is to spread it out through space.
00:42:50.080 If your home is full of religious imagery, crucifixes, icons, icons of different moments from the gospel, you know, statues of saints, maybe Our Lady, maybe Our Lord, all of a sudden, wow, you're kind of just moving in the faith all the time.
00:43:09.860 Next question.
00:43:10.380 Hey, Michael, it's EJ Colmill.
00:43:13.060 Recently, you said that the law was a teacher and that a majority of people are inclined to follow the law.
00:43:18.200 Now, perhaps I misunderstand what you were trying to say, but it sounds as if you're saying that a change in the law leads to or precedes a change in the culture.
00:43:27.400 I disagree.
00:43:28.620 When looking through history, I failed to find a single incident where a change in the law preceded a change in the culture.
00:43:34.520 The legal change always followed a cultural movement that was started years before on the ground level.
00:43:40.700 For example, the counterculture movement that led to serious legal changes in the 60s and 70s started shortly after World War II ended in the 40s and 50s.
00:43:49.800 Moreover, the cultural view of marriage changed long before marriage laws were changed and far before gay marriage was mandated by the Supreme Court.
00:43:57.200 If the law were truly a teacher or had the power to change the culture independently, however, then I don't see how it would be possible to have changes to the law, cultural movements that cut against the law, or even the age-old practice of civil disobedience.
00:44:11.320 Thanks.
00:44:12.160 Okay.
00:44:13.540 Good topics to bring up.
00:44:16.040 Your chief objection is, and I think the strongest argument you're making is, Michael, if the politics, if the law precedes changes in culture,
00:44:25.820 then how could the law ever change?
00:44:28.480 But you could make the same objection in the other direction.
00:44:31.480 It's a, hold on, if the culture precedes changes in the political order, then how does the culture ever change?
00:44:39.220 And the real answer, which I think you're getting at, or at least you're half getting at, is, and it's the point that I made on my show, is that the two are not so neatly separated.
00:44:49.340 So you say there's no instance of a cultural change following a legal change.
00:44:54.900 But that's not true.
00:44:55.860 The example I used on the show last week is the destruction of the black family after the Great Society, which happens to be a point that conservatives have been prattling on about for decades.
00:45:05.480 Lyndon Johnson institutes the Great Society.
00:45:08.460 The black family collapses because, as Daniel Patrick Moynihan and so many other politicians and cultural observers have pointed out,
00:45:15.820 the law created all sorts of incentives for the black family to split up and all sorts of disincentives to get married in the first place.
00:45:24.540 So that would be one example of culture following a legal change.
00:45:28.280 But there were many, many others.
00:45:30.860 The number of babies aborted in America per year exploded after Roe v. Wade.
00:45:37.460 After Roe v. Wade changed the law and said that abortion was to be permitted, we got many, many more abortions.
00:45:45.680 Now, the point that you're making that is right is that there was a movement before Roe v. Wade to make abortion easier.
00:45:55.760 That's true.
00:45:56.500 Now, that was a movement of a relatively small number of extremely dedicated left-wing activists.
00:46:03.160 But that after they succeeded at changing the law, that's when you saw the big cultural shift.
00:46:10.260 You even mention marriage.
00:46:12.760 Now, first of all, gay marriage or whatever has been much more normalized and become much more prevalent after the Supreme Court changed the law.
00:46:22.940 It was scarcely legally recognized before that, and when it came up for ballot initiatives, even in liberal California, it failed like Prop 8.
00:46:29.740 So the law changed people's perspectives on marriage.
00:46:32.900 But even in as much as there was a movement before Obergefell changed the definition of marriage for gay marriage, so-called,
00:46:41.820 don't forget that wasn't the first big change to marriage.
00:46:44.440 You might say that the mainstreaming of no-fault divorce would be the first major step in radically changing the definition of marriage because marriage had been understood to be a union between a man and a woman for the purpose of generating and educating children and for the mutual support of the spouses, a union that was indissoluble for most of history.
00:47:05.820 And then the liberalized divorce laws cut at the heart of that. 0.99
00:47:11.880 And so then all of a sudden, if we could really radically redefine marriage, if marriage wasn't based on some objective moral standard, wasn't a far leap to change its meaning to say that sexual difference doesn't even matter.
00:47:23.660 So there's obviously an interplay between culture and politics, which is not neatly separated.
00:47:29.740 But there are many, many instances in history in which the law has shaped the culture by creating incentives and disincentives.
00:47:37.000 In fact, I think that aspect of culture-making is far more pronounced than the libertarian, more politically demure version of saying that you can't legislate morality or something like that.
00:47:50.220 Next question.
00:47:51.740 Hi, Michael.
00:47:52.640 I'm coming to you after listening to President Trump's remarks with the press at Mar-a-Lago on Thursday afternoon.
00:48:00.200 And I've noticed in the weeks that have passed, Trump has given press conferences, and in both of them, the one with the black journalists and this one, he mentioned that in comparison to the riots, the BLM riots and the Hamas riot in front of Union Station, nobody died on January 6th.
00:48:22.640 And I know it's a minor point, but Ashley Babbitt died on January 6th.
00:48:27.240 And I'm wondering why is he stepping away entirely from that, where the truth is even worse, that not only did those police officers not die on that day, but the only person that died that day was a pro-Trump protester.
00:48:42.480 Thank you.
00:48:43.480 Really good point, and I think you're totally right.
00:48:46.960 And I don't think it's merely tangential to the story that Ashley Babbitt died.
00:48:53.520 I don't think it's a minor point.
00:48:54.440 I think it's a significant point.
00:48:55.900 However, I suspect the reason why President Trump is portraying it in this way is because it's simpler to understand.
00:49:04.580 Because if President Trump said, look, during the BLM riots, all these people died, and during the January 6th riot, only one person died, and she was actually on our side, and she was actually killed by a trigger-happy cop, I agree. 0.97
00:49:16.980 It makes the narrative around January 6th, the Democrats' false narrative, seem even more outrageous.
00:49:24.960 However, it's a subtler point.
00:49:27.520 You have to say, then the left could say, yeah, there was political violence in both cases, but, you know, we really don't like the January 6th one because it was an attack on our sacred temple of democracy.
00:49:37.620 And then you would say, no, but it was actually one of our guys who was killed.
00:49:40.700 And it was actually this woman, and she was killed by a cop, and why was she killed by a cop?
00:49:43.760 Because she went into this area she wasn't supposed to be, but they really shouldn't have shot her there because there wasn't really much of a threat.
00:49:50.220 And, you know, you have to explain yourself so much that, as Ronald Reagan said, when you're explaining, you're losing in a political campaign.
00:50:00.120 And so I suspect Trump just thinks it's simpler to say, BLM, a lot of people died.
00:50:05.800 January 6th, nobody died, which is true, and nobody died on the other side, meaning the pro-Trump people didn't kill anybody.
00:50:13.900 But you're right, it's not technically true because one of the pro-Trump people died.
00:50:18.400 The real story is even worse, but if it can't be communicated easily, politically, it's probably not worth it.
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00:50:43.300 Republicans or Nazis, you cannot separate yourselves from the bad white people. 0.90
00:50:47.820 Growing up, I never thought much about race.
00:50:50.120 Never really seemed to matter that much, at least not to me.
00:50:52.800 Am I racist?
00:50:53.960 I would really appreciate it if you love.
00:50:55.360 I'm trying to learn.
00:50:55.960 I'm on this journey.
00:50:57.240 I'm going to sort this out.
00:50:58.520 I need to go deeper undercover.
00:51:01.580 They don't say I'm racist.
00:51:03.000 Joining us now is Matt, certified DEI expert.
00:51:06.460 Here's my certifications.
00:51:07.600 And what you're doing is you're stretching out of your whiteness.
00:51:10.320 This is more for you than this for you.
00:51:11.320 Is America inherently racist?
00:51:12.800 The word inherent is challenging there.
00:51:14.840 I want to rename the George Washington Monument to the George Floyd Monument.
00:51:17.980 America is racist to its bones.
00:51:19.860 So inherently.
00:51:20.720 Yeah.
00:51:21.140 This country is a piece of...
00:51:22.400 White. 0.81
00:51:24.380 Folks.
00:51:24.860 Trash.
00:51:25.360 White supremacy.
00:51:26.160 White woman. 1.00
00:51:26.720 White boy.
00:51:27.260 Is there a black person around here?
00:51:28.540 What's a black person right here? 0.84
00:51:29.880 Does he not exist?
00:51:30.780 They don't say I'm racist.
00:51:32.640 Hi, Robin.
00:51:33.220 Hi.
00:51:33.560 What's your name?
00:51:34.500 I'm Matt.
00:51:34.940 I just had to ask who you are because you have to be careful.
00:51:37.700 Never be too careful.
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