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President and venal houseplant Joe

0:32

Biden this week announced he was running

0:34

for re-election, a declaration that

0:36

sent a shiver of excitement through

0:38

the small section on the lower right side of his

0:41

face that hasn't yet decayed into

0:43

complete immobility. As all

0:45

across this nation, thousands stood and cheered

0:47

for the new baseball pitch clock, which has really been

0:49

a big improvement to the game, though the extra inning

0:51

rules are kind of stupid and what's with those big

0:54

bases like everyone's in kindergarten or something,

0:56

Biden made his announcement in a White House

0:58

storage closet he had wandered into while looking

1:01

for the restroom where he goes to feel safe.

1:03

Addressing a stain on the wall that looks

1:05

sort of like a sea of faces if all the faces

1:07

were the color of mold, Biden said

1:10

he wanted to get re-elected because he believes

1:12

the battle for the soul of America

1:14

is not yet complete.

1:16

He was immediately endorsed by Satan, who

1:18

believes the same thing. In

1:20

a campaign video released so that the president

1:22

wouldn't have to speak long enough to lose his train

1:25

of thought, images were shown of a flag

1:27

being raised and the sun rising over peaceful

1:30

small towns and alabaster cities

1:32

and amber fields of grain so that several citizens

1:34

immediately ran out and voted for Bud Light,

1:37

because it's hard to tell one pandering pseudo-patriotic

1:40

video from another, and if you're going to vote for

1:42

someone who believes in cutting children's penises

1:44

off, at least you ought to get some crappy beer.

1:47

The announcer on the video says, quote,

1:49

As the sun rises, we raise

1:51

the flag, because freedom and

1:54

democracy and rainbows and

1:56

cute little panda bears and other hollow

1:58

words we hope will make you like us.

2:00

But in today's America, rainbows

2:02

are under attack by an extreme, panda-hating

2:05

movement that seeks to ban books with

2:08

pictures of naked men committing sodomy just

2:10

because those books happen to be in an elementary

2:12

school.

2:13

These frowny-faced, scary, MAGA

2:16

hatnecks want to take away the right to tear

2:18

unborn babies limb from limb, a right which

2:20

the Constitution guarantees to

2:23

every woman, even if he's a man and only

2:25

pretending to have a period because living in

2:27

reality is hard and the gas there is so

2:29

damn expensive.

2:30

Joe Biden has made defending these make-believe

2:33

freedoms the goal of his presidency because

2:35

obviously if the goal of his presidency was

2:37

restoring the economy or lowering crime

2:39

or winning wars, he'd be screwed almost

2:42

as badly as the American people. So

2:45

if you care about freedom, vote for

2:47

Joe Biden or the FBI will raid your

2:49

house."

2:51

Biden says he will not repeat his previous campaign

2:54

in which he hid in the cellar to get to the White House

2:56

and this time he will campaign from the White House

2:59

and then hide in the cellar because that's where

3:01

his imaginary friends live. Biden's

3:03

announcement was immediately followed by a speech

3:06

by Vice President Kamala Harris who said,

3:08

quote, I think it's very important

3:10

for us at every moment in time, and certainly

3:12

this one, to see the moment in time in

3:15

which we exist and are present and

3:17

to be able to contextualize it to understand

3:19

where we exist in the history and in the moment

3:22

as it relates not only to the past

3:24

but the future, unquote. Sometimes

3:28

I crack myself up with this nonsense. Oh

3:30

wait, no, Kamala Harris actually said that word

3:32

for word. Sorry, for a second there I

3:34

thought it was a comic genius or stoned or something.

3:37

Anyway,

3:38

in a secret emergency meeting,

3:40

Republicans reacted to the president's announcement

3:42

with fear and desperation saying,

3:45

quote, this is terrible.

3:47

We could actually beat this Google brain sucker

3:49

and be forced to take responsibility for governing.

3:52

President Biden's job approval rating is

3:54

at 41 and that's people, not percentage

3:56

points. Where oh where will

3:58

we ever find a candidate?

3:59

so divisive, chaotic, and

4:02

ill-mannered that he can alienate enough of the

4:04

independent voters so we can somehow manage

4:06

to lose this election.

4:07

We must search high and low for

4:09

the one man in America who could even possibly

4:12

get fewer votes than the nasty, corrupt,

4:15

superannuated Paul who barely knows

4:17

where he is, let alone how to pretend to run

4:19

the country while unseen leftist radicals

4:21

trash its founding principles from within.

4:24

Wherever can he be, that hero who

4:26

will save us from victory? Is he to the west,

4:29

to the east, the north, the south? Help

4:31

us find him, fellow Republicans. You're all really

4:33

hope, unquote.

4:35

Republican leaders say they hope the upcoming

4:37

election will not distract them from their business of

4:40

accomplishing nothing and then ranting angrily

4:42

on Fox News, especially now that Tucker

4:44

Carlson is gone and doing nothing, then

4:46

ranting on Fox News will be like doing nothing

4:49

twice. Trigger warning, I'm Andrew Clavin,

4:51

and this is The Andrew Clavin Show.

4:55

I'm the hunky-dunky, life

4:57

is tickety-boom. The

5:00

birds are ringing, all so singy hunky-ducky-dee.

5:03

Shit shaped, ipsy-topsy, the world

5:05

is a bitty-zing. It's a wonderful

5:07

day, hula-hooray. It

5:10

makes me want to sing,

5:12

hula-hooray. Hooray, hula-hooray.

5:18

So I think

5:21

it's very important, as

5:23

you have heard from so many incredible

5:26

leaders, for us at every

5:29

moment in time, and certainly this one,

5:32

to see the moment in

5:34

time in which we exist and are

5:36

present and to be

5:38

able to contextualize it, to

5:41

understand where we exist in

5:44

the history and in the

5:46

moment as it relates not only to the past

5:48

but the future. I just

5:50

didn't want you to think I was making that up. Here

5:52

we are, laughing our way through the communist takeover

5:54

of America, but before we begin, let's start

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Tucker Carlson was exiled from the Empire of Lies,

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6:23

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comment is from Ethan Severs.

7:10

He said, I was gonna smoke a doobie and listen to Clavin.

7:13

After the first two minutes, I'm cleaning my

7:15

kitchen. He called me out harder than

7:17

that empire in T-ball after my 27 strike.

7:20

I got that letter a lot from that AI satire

7:25

at the beginning of the show. So stop

7:28

doing whatever you're doing. And

7:30

do something else. So I titled today's

7:32

show, Agent Smith Goes to

7:34

Washington, because ever since I heard about Tucker

7:37

getting fired, one scene from

7:39

that movie has been running through

7:40

my head. It's the scene where Agent Smith,

7:42

you remember the evil agent of The Matrix,

7:45

where people are stored and used as batteries,

7:48

and they kind of dream a reality that's not

7:50

a reality. Agent Smith goes to one of

7:52

the escapees, guy named Cipher, and

7:54

gets him to betray his rebel

7:56

comrades in exchange for being

7:58

allowed to take the blue.

7:59

that will return him to the dream world

8:02

of The Matrix, where he gets to live in a fantasy while

8:04

his brain is being used to power the machine.

8:07

And here's a bit of that scene that's been in my head. You

8:09

know, I

8:12

know this steak doesn't exist. I

8:16

know that when I put it in my mouth, The

8:19

Matrix is telling my brain that it is juicy and

8:22

delicious. After nine years,

8:24

you know

8:28

what I realize?

8:40

Ignorance is bliss. Then

8:46

we have a deal. We have a deal.

8:49

It's a great scene because

8:51

it speaks to how do you know

8:53

how deeply seductive a comfortable

8:55

lie is when the truth is messy

8:57

and complicated and gray and difficult to

9:00

deal with and difficult to correct. The

9:02

blue pill is obviously a metaphor for the

9:04

comfortable emotions we get from living with lies.

9:07

And this week, at one of his

9:10

rare press conferences, Joe Biden was

9:12

caught by a photographer holding

9:14

a cheat sheet that told him what question

9:16

he'd be asked by a reporter from the

9:18

LA Times. It includes what

9:20

order to call on reporters and

9:23

pre-submitted

9:23

questions and they're going to ask. And

9:26

Kareem Zhan, identity hire, the White

9:28

House spokeswoman, said, oh,

9:30

we just get some general information, but it's very,

9:33

very specific. The question wasn't

9:35

exactly that question, but it told him what the information

9:37

was. And so this tells us something

9:40

that

9:40

this is The Matrix, right? I mean, this

9:43

is the press pretending to do

9:45

their job, which is to

9:48

get the president to answer

9:50

questions off the cuff. The president pretending to

9:52

do his job, he's just announced that he's running for re-election

9:55

and said, yes, my age is an issue,

9:58

but you can watch how I perform.

9:59

Well, he proved anybody can perform

10:02

if he can read it off the rent answers off a card.

10:04

Here's what an impromptu Questioning

10:06

of Joe Biden looks like this is cut 16

10:09

the last country I've traveled drinking once

10:11

was the last one I was in I I've

10:13

been to 89 met with 89 heads

10:16

of state so far So

10:19

I'm trying to think what was the last where was the last place

10:22

I was it's hard to keep track I

10:26

Was I mean, yeah, you're right, Ireland

10:29

That's where it was How'd

10:32

you know that Because

10:34

he's not a hundred and ten years old

10:36

that he can remember what happened yesterday I

10:39

mean, this is this is the presidency

10:42

were being given. It's very open. It's not like

10:44

they're hiding it from us

10:45

They're simply telling us it will be

10:48

more comfortable

10:49

if you just believe go along with us and

10:51

believe that the press is looking for the truth

10:54

and the president is being a Politician

10:56

and the you know that that kind of a you

10:58

know hostile Give

11:00

and take between press and politician is going to bring

11:02

out the truth if you'll just go along and believe that we

11:04

can all get On with the business of doing what we're

11:06

doing without having to resort to asking

11:09

you about it now

11:10

for conservatives conservatives it's easy

11:13

to see you that the left is creating a matrix

11:15

because We see through all their

11:17

stupid academic theories with which they hide

11:19

what has now become genuinely evil other

11:21

make-believe righteousness They're caring

11:24

and all this stuff and their progressive ideas that

11:26

are as old as Pharaoh and basically

11:29

Boiled down to the powerful people rule

11:31

over everybody else and we know we've seen you

11:33

know the violent Antifa and BLM

11:35

riots that were called mostly

11:38

peaceful and we saw you

11:40

know the the murderous

11:43

You know the the

11:44

murderous Antifa people who were called anti-oh,

11:47

they're anti-fascist So they're like the boys who landed on

11:49

Normandy Beach We know they covered up hunters

11:51

laptop and the Joe Biden's alleged sexual

11:53

assault on Tara Reid They're lying

11:55

about the lack of science behind gender transitioning

11:58

and about how violent and

11:59

the trans movement is and

12:02

about why some black American communities

12:04

remain disappointed. All the stuff they're saying is light and

12:06

it's all being done together. There's no

12:08

point at which a politician

12:11

goes on a news program

12:14

and somebody says, you know,

12:15

is it really racism that's

12:17

keeping blacks in violent

12:19

ghettos when in fact they were getting

12:22

out of them before the great society. There's

12:24

nobody to say that because it's all a sham. It's

12:26

all a sham. And

12:29

we have our lives of our own on the

12:31

right.

12:31

We have our own comfortable emotions

12:34

that we retreat into. We enjoy despair on

12:36

the right because it means we don't have to actually do anything. We

12:38

can just sound kind of tough and realistic. Yeah,

12:40

it's all over. There's no point. No point to just

12:42

steal everything and we have no point in doing it.

12:44

And we have that anger and it's, anger

12:46

is easier than just getting to work and

12:49

doing the long haul. Remember, it took

12:51

them 50 to 60 years to destroy this country.

12:53

It's gonna take at least that long to get it back,

12:55

sitting around being angry doesn't help

12:58

anything. When we open

13:00

our eyes though, when we put all of those emotions,

13:02

those comfortable emotions aside, we

13:05

see that the people on the left and the right

13:09

have allowed themselves to be caught up into a

13:11

matrix fantasy in which they're battling each

13:13

other. We think this is a battle between left

13:15

and right, battle between black and white, battle between

13:18

rich versus poor, young versus old.

13:20

I see this on the left all the time, but I see it

13:22

on the right too, the right saying, you know, oh, it's

13:24

the blacks at all the fault of the blacks. I'm

13:27

sure you've all seen that. Really,

13:30

really, the people, it's the people,

13:32

it's we the people, left and right, Democrats

13:35

and Republicans who agree about a lot of stuff in

13:37

the middle.

13:38

It's us against an increasingly

13:41

large and monolithic elite

13:43

class that talks left and right,

13:45

but is really just a big machine

13:48

producing a fantasy and we're the batteries.

13:51

So

13:52

this week in an interview with the New York Times, a

13:54

former newspaper,

13:55

Anthony Fauci, remember Anthony Fauci, he was asked

13:57

why America had done so badly during

13:59

COVID. Why so many deaths? And his

14:01

answer was, well, something,

14:04

this is true, I'm just reading this off the page,

14:06

something clearly went wrong and I don't know exactly

14:08

what it was. And basically

14:10

he blames us. He blames us for not getting vaccinated.

14:13

It never occurs to him to ask himself why we

14:15

didn't trust him when he told us to get vaccinated, why

14:17

we reacted against lockdowns and social

14:19

pressure and Vax IDs to get into restaurants.

14:22

Why didn't we trust Anthony Fauci? And

14:25

I don't have to tell you, he blames everybody, but

14:27

the guy who ran the show, namely himself, and

14:29

the

14:30

New York Times never probes

14:33

the possibility, never says to him, well, what about

14:36

you? What was it that you did wrong? What did you

14:38

do that made it so people wouldn't listen to you?

14:41

It's always the other guy and the

14:43

press doesn't press him about it.

14:45

Just pause for a minute and think

14:47

about these last 20 years.

14:49

The war on terror was basically a poorly

14:52

run crap show. George Bush's plan was

14:54

overly ambitious and overly ambitious reaction

14:56

to 9-11 and the Democrats

14:59

were absolutely disgraceful in

15:01

the way they supported the war. And then when things

15:03

went bad, they turned and it deserted our military,

15:06

deserted the mission, deserted the president.

15:08

It was really, really ugly stuff. Who

15:10

paid a price for that? Besides our soldiers who got

15:12

killed and blown up, nobody paid a price

15:14

for that. What about the crash in 2008? That

15:17

was caused by Democrat policies led by Barney

15:19

Frank, reckless lending to people they knew

15:22

would not be able to pay it back. And then

15:24

it was made worse by Wall Street who sold

15:27

those reckless mortgages, those investments

15:30

into the greater economy so that when they crashed,

15:32

when people couldn't pay back the mortgage, all of it passed.

15:34

Well, not only did nobody pay for that, a lot

15:36

of those businesses who acted that way were bailed

15:39

out. Barney Frank, who really was

15:41

the culprit, he helped write the law that

15:43

was supposed to correct what happened, it's supposed to prevent

15:45

it from happening again, ha, ha, ha. And

15:48

who else paid a price? Who went to

15:49

prison for the stuff that they did on Wall Street?

15:51

Nobody. Barack Obama, after narcissistic

15:55

mediocrity, lied about who he was

15:57

and played the race card to cover up his failures.

15:59

He drove us apart

16:02

just as we were starting to come together.

16:04

He kept the economy from really bouncing

16:07

back. He leaves office and

16:10

he gets showered with tens of millions

16:12

of dollars to make documentaries that nobody

16:14

even knows exists. They don't just not watch

16:17

them, nobody even knows about them and

16:19

writes books that people buy some

16:21

of them, they buy his wife's books,

16:23

but nobody reads them. The election

16:25

of Donald Trump was an angry cry

16:27

from the people who wanted their freedom back and

16:29

their government back and their rights back. The

16:32

press destroyed itself to destroy

16:34

Trump and the rest of the Democrats

16:37

just covered themselves in absolute shame

16:40

to defend their bureaucratic deep

16:42

state and their freedom strangling programs

16:45

that they didn't

16:47

even pass as laws.

16:49

And they kidded themselves that Trump was worse than

16:51

he was and some of us on our side kidded ourselves

16:54

that Trump was better than he was, that he was more selfless,

16:56

that he was more capable, that he was more focused on our

16:58

interests. It would have taken a great

17:01

man and it would have taken a master politician

17:04

to defeat the forces that came after

17:06

Trump to bring him down. But Trump

17:08

is not either of those things. He's not a great

17:10

man and he's not a master politician. And

17:13

during the pandemic, he got rattled

17:15

and he handed the country over to Fauci

17:17

and it was a fatal mistake and the bastards

17:19

got him. They brought him down dead to rights.

17:23

So now the matrix is working

17:25

smoothly again. Biden is obviously just an

17:28

animatronic

17:30

figure up there. He's a front man for a deep

17:32

state takeover of the free market and

17:34

a free people. And our country is getting poorer,

17:37

it's getting weaker, it's getting stupider, it's getting less

17:39

free. While our enemies in China, Russia,

17:41

Iran, they're getting stronger and coming

17:44

together and they're

17:46

peeling off some of our allies

17:48

because our allies realize we're on the downward

17:50

slope. And this angry,

17:53

corrupted, ugly, demented

17:55

old man is still the front runner for 2024. If

17:58

you don't believe me, you are not.

17:59

paying attention, he is going to be very, very

18:02

tough to beat.

18:04

So my point is that for the last 20 years,

18:07

the powerful and elite in this country

18:09

and throughout the West, Democrat and Republican,

18:12

have failed, and then they failed,

18:14

and then they failed again. And they rewarded

18:16

themselves for failing with bailouts, and Pulitzer

18:18

Prizes, and more power, and big jobs,

18:20

and big book contracts.

18:23

There are only two threats, two things that can stop

18:25

the matrix in this country.

18:28

This

18:29

monolith, this one party

18:31

monolith of failures who just

18:34

believe they should continue to rule because they're

18:36

them, and because they're there, and because they like it, they

18:38

don't want to give up the power and the wealth. Two sources

18:40

of reality, one is our enemies overseas.

18:43

They can make money off China, but eventually China will

18:45

devour them and take away everything they have

18:48

if, if they don't restore the

18:51

freedom and capitalism and the military might

18:53

that made this country the source of the

18:55

power they have. And the second power

18:57

is the voters, and I know that they

18:59

cheat, and I know that they rig things.

19:01

You don't have to write letters to me explaining how badly

19:04

they rigged the last election. You know, my

19:06

doubts are about something entirely different. I know they rigged the

19:08

last election. But,

19:10

but, if they weren't vulnerable, if

19:13

they weren't vulnerable, if they weren't afraid,

19:15

they wouldn't work so hard to silence us.

19:17

If they weren't defeatable, if we couldn't

19:20

get them through the system

19:22

that's in place right now, they wouldn't rig

19:24

the news as much as they do. They wouldn't change

19:26

the election rules as much as they do.

19:29

I am absolutely positive that if we're smart

19:31

and strategic and play the long game,

19:34

we can make America Zion again, in

19:36

Maza, okay, as long as

19:38

we're not like Cypher in the movie, as long as we don't

19:40

make a deal with Agent Smith and go back into those

19:43

comfortable emotions of anger

19:45

and despair and big talk and reckless

19:47

action that accomplishes nothing, okay,

19:50

that hard truth is the power of the people.

19:53

A tough, hilarious, beautiful,

19:55

godly, and moral culture that enchants

19:58

the young is the power of the people.

19:59

The slow work of political reclamation

20:02

is the power of the people. Victory on school

20:04

boards and town halls and state

20:06

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There are no easy things.

22:00

So, in battling the matrix, I

22:03

think there are two big mistakes you can make. One is to

22:05

think that because the other side is wrong,

22:07

you're right. That is not always true.

22:09

It'd be nice if it was always true, but it's not. The other

22:11

mistake you can make is because you are dedicated

22:13

to the truth, and because you're an honest person dedicated

22:16

to the truth, that doesn't mean you always have the truth,

22:18

right? Everyone can be wrong, and sometimes you just

22:20

don't have enough information. Hard as it

22:22

is to believe, this is even true of me, and

22:24

I'm on a mission from God.

22:27

But let's talk honestly about what happened

22:29

to Tucker Carlson, because I think this is

22:31

a really important moment. The fact that Fox News

22:33

fired him is genuinely

22:36

important. He was the best thing they had. He was the most

22:38

important thing they had, with the exception of Bret

22:40

Baier's new show, which is excellent. He

22:42

was the reason people were watching

22:45

Fox News, and I'm not even sure how many people watch

22:47

Bret Baier. He left their ratings

22:49

dropped by two million people. Don't

22:51

believe the charts where they

22:53

compare his Friday show, which is the

22:55

worst rating

22:56

time to weekday

22:59

shows. They lost about two million people. That's 50

23:02

percent, at least, of their audience. And

23:04

just to add to the story, Don Lemon was

23:06

fired, and that cost CNN's

23:08

ratings also dropped by 50 percent

23:11

of their audience. So that's two million and 17 people

23:13

who aren't watching cable TV anymore. And

23:16

obviously, Tucker reached a lot

23:19

more people after his show was over, when

23:21

things were spread through the Internet, right?

23:24

Now, if he were not powerful,

23:27

if he were not doing an important

23:30

work, the Matrix wouldn't have come after him.

23:32

AOC and Chuck Schumer wouldn't

23:34

have said the stuff they said right before he went down,

23:37

and then AOC came back and said something more

23:39

after he was fired in Cut 11.

23:42

When you look at what Tucker Carlson and

23:44

some of these other folks on Fox do, it is very,

23:48

very clearly incitement

23:50

of violence. Very clearly

23:52

incitement of violence. And that

23:56

is the line that I think we have to

23:58

be willing to contend with.

23:59

We not only have a right to tell

24:02

Rupert Murdoch and Fox what to do, but an obligation.

24:05

Deep platforming works and it

24:07

is important. And there you

24:10

go. So I don't care about Chuck Schumer.

24:12

Chuck Schumer is not a moral entity. It's like calling

24:14

him evil. It's like calling a coyote evil, right? He

24:16

just eats with, you know, he's a political animal. He

24:18

just feeds on whatever is dead. But

24:21

AOC is a dangerous person. She really is.

24:23

I mean, I think she's probably one

24:26

of the most dangerous politicians. She's an ignoramus. She's

24:29

a fascist

24:30

and she has a great rack. And I just think

24:32

that that's a very dangerous combination going

24:34

forward. And just the fact that she said

24:36

these things,

24:39

you know, Jeremy, the

24:41

god king of the daily wire, if AOC said

24:43

that about one of us here, he'd raise our

24:45

salary. Because he would

24:47

know, he would know. If they're going after you,

24:50

if they're going after you, you must

24:52

be worthwhile. You must be valuable. You must be

24:54

doing something. So the fact that

24:56

Fox did not keep Tucker on after

24:59

that kind of attack, they're literally calling for him to be censored

25:02

by government decree, right? Just

25:04

tells you something about Fox News. And I'm not

25:07

talking about the people or the talent on Fox News. Some

25:09

of them are good, some of them are bad. That has nothing

25:11

to do with it. Some of them are worth watching, some of them aren't. I'm

25:13

talking about the corporate power

25:15

behind that entity. It's

25:18

obviously not on a mission.

25:20

It's obviously not doing missional

25:22

work like some of us are here,

25:25

right? So,

25:27

you know, obviously when you look at people,

25:29

you come to trust them or you don't trust them.

25:32

Like I'd like to think that you've seen me, you

25:34

know, sacrifice audience in order to level

25:37

with you, in order to tell you what I really think. So

25:39

I think I've earned your trust. But at the same

25:41

time, I expect you obviously to make

25:43

your, you know, I'm gonna make mistakes. I'm gonna miss

25:45

things. Everybody does this. So I expect you

25:47

to think for yourself. That's the way we work. But

25:50

you should now know that Fox News

25:52

is not entirely on your side. Now,

25:55

I don't know why Tucker was fired.

25:57

I mean, they're just, Tucker says he doesn't

25:59

know.

25:59

Obviously there's a lot of stuff going

26:02

on. If you think you know, you're wrong, right?

26:04

I mean, you may have guessed right, but you do

26:06

not know that we just don't have the information yet. The

26:09

Murdoch Corporation, speaking through

26:11

the Wall Street Journal, says it's because the emails

26:13

that were revealed during the Dominion

26:15

suit showed him insulting

26:18

executives with foul language and

26:20

being nasty to people in power.

26:22

There's been speculation that Murdoch wants to sell

26:24

Fox and doesn't think that the people who

26:27

could afford to buy Fox would buy it with Tucker

26:29

there. There's

26:29

speculation that Murdoch's son, Lachlan,

26:32

and his whole family, they're

26:34

tired of being excluded from New York's

26:36

elite parties, and so they wanna strip.

26:39

You know, that's the matrix, you know, where you wanna

26:41

be part of the in-crowd, so

26:43

they wanna strip the conservatives out of Fox, so

26:46

they'll get invited to parties in New York.

26:49

And that would explain that

26:51

stupid piece they did on

26:53

America's Newsroom about that kid in California

26:55

transitioning. Oh, if you don't like

26:57

that, it's just because it's strange and new, you know,

27:00

that was that kind of thing. That was a horrible, ugly,

27:02

stupid piece, and I

27:04

was embarrassed for them that they did that. So

27:07

that, you know, kind of tells you that maybe something's

27:09

happening over at Fox. You

27:11

know, other things, Vanity Fair said they fired

27:14

him, because of the speech, I'll play a little bit of it, where

27:16

he spoke religiously, and Rupert

27:18

Murdoch doesn't like religion, I don't believe that story at all. And

27:20

then, of course, there are all these totally unsupported

27:23

charges against him. There's one woman who's saying,

27:26

oh, he was a fat boy who created a terrible,

27:29

you know, hostile atmosphere

27:31

for women, but she then admitted that she never

27:33

met him. So, you know, that

27:36

stuff is just, it hits stuff, I don't

27:38

care about that.

27:39

But we know this, we do know this, the

27:41

Matrix hates this guy.

27:45

I mean, this is the thing we have to say in Tucker's

27:47

favor, okay? Whatever criticism I

27:49

make about him, the Matrix hates

27:52

this guy, the people who

27:54

hid Hunter Biden's laptop, the people

27:57

who said Antifa, these thugs

27:59

were.

27:59

dedicated to bringing down America,

28:03

the people who say that police kill

28:05

black people inordinately and

28:07

encourage riots and say riots are good. This

28:10

country started with violence, so we should have violence

28:12

now. Those people hate Tucker

28:14

Carlson. Here is the view reacting

28:17

to news that Tucker had been fired.

28:19

Word has just come down that Fox

28:21

News Media and Tucker Carlson have agreed

28:23

to part ways. We thank you for your service

28:25

to the network and

28:30

host and a prior

28:31

contributor, Wave.

28:34

Can

28:38

I ask the audience if they'll help me do something?

28:43

Come on, folks. Na, na, na, na.

28:46

Na, na, na, na. Hey,

28:49

hey, hey. Goodbye. So

28:53

that's the media reaction. Brian

28:56

Stelter, former

28:58

CNN media analyst, the man who once

29:00

missed a deadline during COVID so he could go to bed

29:02

and have a good cry, proving that a man

29:04

really can transition into a woman.

29:07

He wrote a piece for The New York Times, a former newspaper.

29:10

He said, Fox News, despite having

29:12

a newsroom with reporters and editors, is

29:15

primarily a conservative entertainment

29:17

operation and a Republican Party organ.

29:19

The news doesn't come first or even second

29:21

at Fox, and the reporters there

29:23

know it. Mr. Carlson repeated

29:25

a story of good versus evil, full of conspiratorial

29:28

and xenophobic rhetoric. Every single

29:30

weeknight, his repetition was

29:32

his superpower, indoctrinating his fans

29:35

and inoculating them against the truth.

29:37

Let's just remember for a minute the deep commitment

29:39

to reportage and truth that Ms. Stelter

29:42

and Jake Be Afraid Tapper showed at CNN

29:44

during the last election when there was evidence

29:47

rising that not only that Hunter

29:49

Biden was running an influence-pedaling scheme

29:51

and had been running it for decades,

29:53

but that his father was part of it, here's a brief

29:55

montage of their in-depth reporting

29:57

and dedication to truth cut nine.

30:00

It's true that there's no evidence of any wrongdoing

30:02

by Vice President Biden, or that Hunter

30:04

Biden broke any laws

30:07

at all. What it confirms is that Hunter

30:09

Biden

30:09

is a person of

30:11

integrity. Hunter has done

30:14

nothing wrong. I've never read a memoir like

30:17

this one before. This is Hunter Biden's

30:19

book, Beautiful Things. It's

30:21

breathtaking. There is no evidence of

30:23

any wrongdoing by either Joe or Hunter

30:26

Biden. Thanks,

30:26

CNN. It's breathtaking. That ought

30:29

to be. It's breathtaking. You

30:31

know, at this level, The Matrix doesn't even know

30:33

it's The Matrix. I mean, I suspect Brian Seltzer

30:36

actually thinks he's an honest woman. But

30:38

whatever Tucker's flaws, his work

30:40

was better than that. So here's my take on him professionally.

30:43

Here's my take on Tucker Carlson professionally. I

30:45

met Tucker. I've been on a show a couple times, but I don't know him.

30:48

He repeatedly scooped The

30:50

Matrix media with big, important

30:52

stories, okay, repeatedly. While

30:55

CNN was churning out crap like you just saw,

30:57

Tucker interviewed Tony Bobolinsky, a Hunter

30:59

Biden associate who implicated Joe

31:01

Biden in Hunter Biden's corrupt schemes, and

31:04

everything Bobolinsky said has so far been

31:06

confirmed. Tucker caught the Bank of

31:08

America sharing private information with the

31:11

feds so they could arrest January 6th protesters.

31:14

He got an inside Google email showing them working

31:16

to increase turnout for Hillary Clinton voters in 2016.

31:18

Not only did The Matrix media not

31:21

get these stories, they didn't cover them after Tucker got

31:23

them, right? Now sometimes he was wrong. He

31:26

was wrong about Vladimir Putin. Putin is

31:28

a bad guy. He is our enemy, but

31:31

he boldly went against the tide of war

31:33

on Ukraine, which is an opinion thing because nobody

31:35

knows what the future is, right? So that's an opinion.

31:38

So that was a brave and it's a defensible

31:41

position that I don't entirely agree with. I partly

31:43

agree with it. But whether you agree with him or not,

31:45

he did something that nobody,

31:48

nobody in The Matrix media was going to do. He

31:50

took on Sidney Powell's claims that Dominion

31:52

machines were hacked. He demanded that

31:54

she deliver proof and she couldn't do it. He

31:56

risked embarrassing his own network by

31:58

pointing out that

31:59

destroying our border was an open plan

32:02

to brown America. Now that's what they call him

32:04

a racist for, but he was quoting them. He

32:06

was quoting the Democrats. And that

32:09

just drove me crazy. What a terrible racist

32:11

Tucker Carlson is because he says he's paranoid

32:14

that they're trying to brown America. That's what they said.

32:16

And all he did was call them out on their

32:19

plan. And of course, you know, weasels

32:21

like Brian Stelter accuse

32:23

him of racism. He

32:26

interviewed left-wingers all the time if they had something

32:28

to say. Tyeebie and Glenn Greenwald were on his

32:30

show when they uncovered the truth about the government

32:32

suppression of speech on Twitter and when they

32:34

defended leakers who exposed abuses

32:37

by the CIA and NSA. Ross Douthat

32:39

did a piece on Knucklehead

32:41

Row at the Times where he said that Tucker wasn't

32:43

always right-wing. He pointed that out. But he

32:46

said he was just always suspicious. But

32:48

Ross doesn't take into account the 20

32:50

years of establishment failures and lies and

32:53

abuses that I was talking about before that

32:55

make suspicion, not paranoia,

32:57

but constant alertness and suspicion a

32:59

perfectly reasonable political position that

33:02

used to be the job of the press being suspicious

33:05

of the powerful. Now it's not,

33:07

it is not. And they do not do that job anymore.

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There are no easing things. Now

34:44

sometimes Tucker's suspicion and also probably

34:46

just the need to fill up,

34:49

have content for five days a week.

34:52

Sometimes that made Tucker get conspiratorial

34:54

and silly in a bad way. He bought into that

34:56

UFO story, which I personally

34:59

suspect was a CIA distraction campaign

35:02

meant to keep our minds off the fact that they were doing

35:04

illegal stuff to silence Americans.

35:07

He had one recent story about the CIA

35:09

killing Kennedy, which was so

35:12

poorly sourced that I thought it was

35:14

just irresponsible. You have to get that story

35:16

to report that story. His take on January 6

35:19

was reactionary in that he reacted

35:21

to the Democrat nonsense, that it was an insurrection,

35:24

which is nonsense. But he made it look like it was a walk

35:26

in the park. Personally, I think

35:28

that January 6 was disgraceful behavior

35:30

by some Trump supporters, that it was goaded on by

35:33

the feds, and then of course blown out of all proportion

35:36

by the Democrats and the people who were in that situation

35:38

have been totally mistreated. The Democrats

35:41

are evil authoritarians, but Trump bears

35:43

a lot of responsibility for January He

35:45

put his ego before the Constitution, and I'm sure Trump has never read

35:47

the Constitution. I think that's something worth considering.

35:51

Anyway, no one gets it right all the time.

35:53

And Tucker didn't get it right all the time. The main point is

35:56

Tucker covered a lot of major stories

35:58

that the Matrix media didn't

36:00

only not cover, they buried them, they hid them,

36:02

they lied about them, they insulted him for

36:05

covering them and he took reasonable but

36:07

outsider positions that absolutely

36:09

no one in the Matrix media dared to take or

36:11

even debate. And that made him relevant, and

36:13

it made him entertaining and it made him sometimes

36:15

important. So the most important thing

36:17

about Tucker, the reason they wanted him gone

36:20

so badly, is that because he kept

36:22

his eyes open.

36:23

He learned, you could watch him learning things. People

36:25

dismiss this when public figures change

36:28

and they learn and they grow and they become,

36:31

they have different opinions. This

36:33

is Tucker, they would say Tucker just morphed into

36:35

whatever he thought the audience wanted him to

36:37

be. He was a bow-tied William

36:39

F. Buckley clone when he thought that would

36:41

work and then he became a Trumpian-style

36:44

firebrand. But no, that's

36:46

not true. Anyone who is good at

36:49

his job

36:50

evolves and changes. So yeah,

36:52

sure, he's looking for audience. We all wanna have an audience,

36:55

but

36:55

you shouldn't think the same thing at 50 that you thought

36:58

at 20. If you do, you're an adolescent fool

37:00

or Bernie Sanders. But I repeat myself,

37:03

everybody wants an audience, but he actually

37:05

kept his eyes open and he changed,

37:07

right? So Tucker

37:09

served his audience, but I think he also went through a real

37:11

awakening. He was on a podcast called

37:14

Bob and Eric Save America and he started to

37:16

talk about things that he felt he got wrong, cut

37:18

three.

37:19

I've spent my whole life in the media. My dad was in the media. That

37:21

is a big part of the revelation

37:24

that's changed my life is the media are

37:26

part of the control apparatus. Like there's no,

37:28

I know, I know. Cause you're younger

37:30

and smarter and you're like, yeah. But

37:33

what if you're me and you spent your whole life in

37:35

that world and to look around

37:38

and all of a sudden, you're like, oh, wow. Not

37:41

only are they part of the problem, but I spent

37:43

most of my life being part of the problem defending

37:45

the Iraq war. Like I actually did that.

37:48

So that's, you know, that is, I think, honest

37:50

stuff. And that's something that does happen to you when

37:53

you're in a business. You know, when I first started to

37:55

make commentary that destroyed

37:58

my Hollywood career,

37:59

for conservatism, I

38:02

was just doing it because I had something to say.

38:04

I wasn't doing it for money. I wasn't getting a lot of money for it.

38:06

I was getting a lot of money from Hollywood that

38:09

I lost to say those things. I thought it was important to say

38:11

it. And I was amazed at how

38:13

often I bumped into people who weren't serious,

38:16

who were basically, it was their career. It was what they were

38:18

doing, what it took to get money, saying what they thought would bring

38:20

in the most audience, and just playing

38:23

the game. I think Tucker woke up to that. He

38:25

made a speech just before he got fired at

38:28

the Heritage Foundation,

38:30

where he started to talk about the landscape

38:33

of the moment right now. You

38:35

know, the fact that this isn't really a political

38:37

moment we're going through. It's not a political landscape.

38:40

It's an uprising of evil.

38:42

This is cut five.

38:43

If you have people who are saying, I have an idea, let's castrate

38:45

the next generation. What's sexually mutilated children?

38:48

I'm sorry, that's not a political debate. What? It's

38:50

nothing to do with politics. What's the outcome we're

38:53

desiring here? An androgynous

38:55

population? Is that really what we are arguing for that?

38:58

No, I don't think anyone could defend

39:01

that as a positive outcome. But

39:03

the weight of the government, and

39:06

a lot of corporate interests are behind that. Well,

39:09

what is that? Well, it's irrational.

39:12

If you say, well, you know, I think

39:15

abortion is always bad, well, I think sometimes

39:17

it's necessary. That's a debate I'm familiar with. But

39:20

if you're telling me that abortion is a positive good, what

39:23

are you saying? Well, you're arguing for child

39:26

sacrifice, obviously. It's

39:28

not about like, oh, a teen

39:30

girl gets pregnant, and what do we do

39:32

about that? And victims of

39:34

rape, I get it. Of

39:37

course I understand that. And I have compassion

39:39

for everyone involved. But when the Treasury Secretary

39:41

stands up and says, you know what you can do to help the economy get an abortion?

39:45

Well, that's like an Aztec principle,

39:47

actually. See, that

39:50

sounds so much like me that it obviously must be true.

39:53

As if I would have said it, it's obviously true. We're

39:55

not in the situation that people

39:57

my age and Tucker's age is younger than me, but still.

40:00

in that cohort, we're

40:02

not in the situation that we've been in most of our

40:04

lives. So yeah, that young guy, what was it, what

40:07

is it called, that podcast called?

40:08

Full Send Podcast, I gave it the wrong name, Full

40:11

Send Podcast. And

40:13

that young guy was going, yeah, yeah, I know all this stuff, but

40:15

yeah, he was born at a different time. He's gonna find

40:17

out stuff that he didn't know later on.

40:19

But these are the things that people our

40:21

age are finding out when we start to say, oh, we're not

40:24

in this time anymore when we're having debates,

40:26

when our facts are up against their facts. We're

40:28

having a time when something really bad is

40:31

happening. You know, again,

40:33

I've said this a million times, you

40:35

can make a debate about abortion that's a compassionate

40:38

debate. You can have

40:38

that debate, we're not in that debate. When you're

40:41

talking about aborting children the day

40:43

before they're born, that's what all the Democrats

40:45

abort, every damn one of them, that's what they support.

40:47

You're talking about infanticide. When you're

40:49

talking about butchering children, you know, you

40:52

can say, oh, some people are transgender. I get that, that's

40:54

an interesting conversation. When you're talking about butchering

40:56

children who do not know what they are, you

40:58

are evil, that's, you're a bad person who's

41:00

doing that. And there is no debate because evil

41:03

people are not prone to arguments. They're

41:05

not gonna give way before arguments. We

41:08

are dealing with an evil that has risen out

41:10

of angry, dysfunctional people in our universities.

41:12

This is where it starts. They are embracing a series

41:15

of theories that has been generated from 19th century Germany

41:19

through today. They've embraced the death of God

41:21

and the infinite mutability of morals. I've talked

41:23

about this and they have, are now

41:26

advocating for evil. You know, in the wonderful

41:28

novel by Dostoevsky, the

41:31

Brothers Karamazov, one of the brothers, the

41:33

atheist brothers named Ivan, and Ivan

41:35

says, this is before Nietzsche ever wrote basically

41:37

the same thing. Ivan says, if we

41:40

don't believe in God and immortality, then not

41:42

only should we abandon Christian morality,

41:44

but our morality should become the exact

41:47

opposite. And he tells why. That's

41:49

what we're looking at now. And that is what I think

41:51

Tucker started to see. And when you see

41:54

that,

41:54

when you see that, it stops being about

41:57

Democrats and Republicans. And it starts being

41:59

about something very.

41:59

much deeper than that. And

42:02

I think that, you know, you then have to contend

42:04

with what is evil, where does, you know, what does that

42:06

come from, how did we get here, how, why

42:09

are we saying these things? And that's one of the things I try

42:11

to talk about on this show

42:13

all the time. Now when you're evil, when

42:15

you're butchering children, when you're aborting

42:17

infants, not, I'm not talking about fetuses,

42:19

I'm talking about full grown infants, when you

42:21

have to, when you're evil, you have to hide it.

42:24

When you're evil, you have to lie to say you're

42:26

not evil, because everybody knows what evil is, it's not

42:28

relative. People are evil, people are evil,

42:31

they know it. When you have to lie to

42:33

hide it, and when you lie, you have to force

42:35

other people to believe the lie, and that's

42:37

where we are right now. Look, Tucker is obviously,

42:40

like all of us, a human being, he makes mistakes,

42:42

he probably does things he shouldn't, we all do. He

42:45

goes down wrong roads, but the people who are attacking

42:47

him are

42:48

the agent Smiths of the Matrix. They're the enemy

42:51

of American freedom, and they're the enemy

42:53

of any kind of recognizable

42:55

morality.

42:57

Tucker's latest message, his last

42:59

message that he sent out was a post firing

43:02

message,

43:03

and here's what he said, cut four.

43:05

Both political parties and their donors

43:08

have reached consensus on what benefits

43:10

them, and they actively collude

43:13

to shut down any conversation about it. Suddenly,

43:16

the United States looks very much like a one

43:18

party state. That's a

43:20

depressing realization, but it's not

43:22

permanent. Our current orthodoxies

43:25

won't last, they're brain dead.

43:28

Nobody actually believes them. Hardly

43:30

anyone's life is improved by them. This

43:33

moment is too inherently ridiculous to

43:35

continue, and so it won't. The

43:38

people in charge know this, that's why they're hysterical

43:40

and aggressive, they're afraid, they've

43:43

given up persuasion, they're resorting to force,

43:46

but it won't work. When honest

43:49

people say what's true, calmly

43:51

and without embarrassment, they become

43:53

powerful. At the same time,

43:55

the liars who've been trying to silence them

43:58

shrink, and they become weaker. That's

44:00

the iron law of the universe. True things

44:03

prevail. Now,

44:05

I'm not sure how much I agree with that. I think true things

44:08

sometimes prevail, but their lives can last

44:10

for quite a long time, and we've seen that happen,

44:12

and they can do quite a lot of damage. However, the

44:15

one thing I have to say about that is that doesn't sound to me like a

44:17

man who's thinking for retirement.

44:19

And where Tucker goes next is going to tell us a lot

44:21

about the state of the nation. Real

44:24

talents, top talents, top broadcasting

44:27

talents, is the one thing I know in life, that is a broadcasting

44:29

talent. Top talents like Glenn Beck and Megan

44:31

Kelly left Fox. They

44:34

are two of the top broadcast talents of the day.

44:36

They left Fox, and they established terrific outlets

44:39

where they have large audiences, and they make great money.

44:41

But, but,

44:42

so far, they don't have the cultural power

44:45

they had when they were on Fox. I mean, this

44:47

is just, I'm just being honest about it. They have,

44:50

they're there, they do great work, they

44:52

make good money, they have great audiences,

44:54

but they still don't have the kind of power they

44:57

could marshal when they were on cable

44:59

networks. Now, I think that that situation

45:01

is temporary, and I'll tell you why. I think that Glenn

45:04

Beck is a pioneer. Megan Kelly

45:06

is a pioneer. So saying that they don't have the

45:08

cultural power they used to have is like

45:10

saying, oh, you got on a wagon train, and

45:12

you trekked from New York to California,

45:15

now

45:15

you don't have the influence that you had before, because

45:17

there's nobody in California. Well, people

45:20

come, right? Things change. The cultural

45:22

power is coming to the places where

45:24

Megan and Glenn and us, and now

45:26

Tucker, I'm sure, are going, and that's

45:29

why the power of the B, the

45:31

Matrix, has made sure to co-opt Google.

45:34

That's why the Matrix uses YouTube

45:36

to silence anybody and demonetize us. That's

45:39

why they hate Elon Musk for not playing

45:41

along over Twitter. The cultural power of

45:44

free men and women

45:45

is growing. It is, there's no question about

45:47

this. There wouldn't be so scared. Tucker's

45:50

right about this. They would not be so scared

45:52

if that weren't the case. So look,

45:55

personally, I hope Tucker joins us here. I hope

45:57

he becomes part of the Daily Wire. I

45:59

haven't heard anything. I don't know if that's gonna be true. I

46:01

mean, I think the Daily Wire, Glenn Beck over

46:04

at the Blaze, Megan Kelly, I think we are

46:06

the outposts of Zion. We really are. We're

46:08

not always right. We don't always get all

46:10

the facts, but at least we are trying

46:12

our best to tell you what we see,

46:14

all right? And

46:17

Tucker Carlson, I suspect, is about to become

46:19

one of us.

46:20

He was fired because he saw the bigger truth,

46:23

the big truth of the Matrix. But he's not the

46:25

only one. People will follow him,

46:27

and this movement is going to grow.

46:29

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46:35

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46:52

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46:54

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46:57

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47:00

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47:04

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47:05

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47:08

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47:11

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47:14

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47:17

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47:20

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47:23

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47:25

gcu.edu. That's gcu.edu. So

47:35

now I want to take the red

47:37

pill for a minute and look beyond

47:40

the Matrix. I know the Matrix is an overused comparison,

47:42

but that's what it is. That's what it is. And

47:45

I'll show you why.

47:46

Politically, what is really going

47:48

on besides the kind of big ticket

47:50

issues, the things that we're yelling about? It's

47:53

a hugely important article in the

47:55

Wall Street Journal this week.

47:57

Phil Graham, former chairman on

47:59

the Senate, banking Committee and Pat Toomey,

48:01

who's also on the Senate Banking

48:03

Committee, he was. They

48:06

write these articles from time to time,

48:09

and I read them all the time. And one of the reasons

48:11

this is so important is they have won my trust. Their

48:14

arguments are packed with facts. Their arguments

48:16

are always very—they're conservative, but they're

48:18

not doctrinaire. And their headline this time—and

48:20

usually they're much calmer than this. This headline

48:22

is really dramatic, and the writing is really dramatic.

48:25

They say Biden is transformational and

48:27

not in a good way. His regulatory

48:29

barrage and failed progressive-era policies

48:32

imperil economic exceptionalism

48:34

in the U.S. He

48:36

said, from Wall Street to Silicon Valley, from Permian

48:38

Basin to the Chicago Loop, an iron net

48:41

of regulation has descended across the American

48:43

economy. That's from Churchill's speech on the Iron

48:46

Curtain. Churchill's metaphor conveys

48:48

the magnitude of the onslaught and the peril

48:51

it poses to the American economy and

48:54

our freedom.

48:55

We face not an errant regulator

48:57

or an officious bureaucrat, but a sea

49:00

change in the economy's regulatory

49:02

ecosystem. The executive branch

49:04

and its regulatory agencies are unbound

49:07

by the laws they are supposed to uphold

49:09

and hostile to the industries they

49:12

regulate, undermining the political accountability

49:14

at the heart of our Republican government. This

49:17

is tough talk from people who are usually

49:19

very reserved, very fact-based, and

49:22

very, you know, even conservative in their

49:24

suggestions. Basically, what they're saying

49:26

is that Biden probably illegally

49:28

is using bureaucratic, unelected

49:31

regulatory power to force companies to

49:33

go woke, to look to racial justice

49:35

and environmental stuff. They

49:37

have totally unrealistic regulations that use

49:40

powers that were meant to conserve fossil

49:42

fuels and protect the environment, but they're

49:44

using them to try to end fossil fuels

49:47

by giving companies unachievable standards.

49:50

If you have a retirement account, they're basically

49:53

pushing investors to invest so

49:55

that you lose money on your retirement account,

49:57

but their left-wing goals are supported.

50:00

So essentially they're stealing the money that you

50:02

saved up, that you earned to do the things that

50:04

they wanna do. And you wonder why businesses

50:06

go woke, Anheuser-Busch doing

50:08

that stupid thing. It's because the government

50:10

is leaning on them, breathing down their

50:12

neck with regulations and they're trying to get ahead

50:15

of it and stay safe.

50:16

Biden

50:17

is the perfect front man for this. Here's another

50:20

Wall Street Journal article by Dan Henninger,

50:23

a really good piece. He says, President

50:25

Biden won't negotiate, doesn't do press

50:27

conferences, does only canned events, can't

50:29

maintain focus, has minimal factual

50:32

grasp, and his foreign policy activity

50:34

is totally ceremonial, but almost

50:37

overnight, the party, the Democrat party,

50:39

seemed to embrace the idea of a second

50:41

Biden term. Yes, the close

50:44

midterm results were a triggering event and

50:46

the prospect of a Trump rerun helped,

50:48

but I think the Democrats realized

50:51

they had backed into a system that

50:53

suits them to a T, the non-compost

50:56

presidential model of American politics. What

50:58

he's saying is this dottering, corrupt-eyed,

51:01

zombie, animatronic model

51:03

is standing there taking program

51:05

questions from a make-believe

51:08

press while these regulatory

51:10

things are going on. And voters

51:13

don't want this guy. Biden's ratings are

51:16

down to 30 in the 30s. They're

51:18

lower than anyone since Reagan. And Reagan came

51:21

back because he was doing the right things for the economy.

51:23

But here is what's happening to the voters.

51:26

Here's a piece from The Federalist by Stella

51:28

Morobito. War on normal Americans

51:31

seems to have found its final frontier

51:33

in the conservative small towns and rural communities

51:36

often called red strongholds on

51:38

the political map. Infiltration of red

51:40

America by woke activists in their agendas

51:43

is nearing or has passed the inflection

51:45

point, right? Because people are leaving their

51:48

left-wing places and coming to places like

51:50

Tennessee, but they're bringing their politics

51:52

with them and they're sending activists

51:54

here on purpose, which is why Gavin Newsom

51:56

is making these tours of all these red areas.

51:59

Here's Peachy Kenan. and a wonderful writer, obviously,

52:01

a pseudonym, a wonderful

52:03

writer at American Mind,

52:05

she says,

52:07

he says, do you happen to notice that what should

52:09

have been an obvious moral victory for the right

52:11

a few weeks ago when a transgender

52:14

lunatic in Tennessee

52:16

murdered six Christians became

52:18

instead a civil rights triumph for

52:20

the far left? Instead of seeing headlines

52:22

afterwards like left-wing terror

52:25

targets innocent people for their religious

52:27

beliefs during an apparent left-wing hate crime,

52:29

we got headlines about the racist Tennessee

52:31

Republicans who expelled two black state representatives

52:34

and they ultimately left them back in.

52:37

In Franklin, Tennessee, a beautiful suburb

52:40

of Nashville, they're holding

52:42

a new gay pride parade

52:44

in the wake of this murder of Christian kids

52:46

by this transgender person. Franklin

52:48

is this quiet, this is Peachy Keenan

52:51

writing, Franklin is a quiet, idyllic little

52:53

town just south of where the Covenant

52:55

School shooting took place.

52:57

According to friends who fled California for

53:00

more peaceful lives there, no one wants

53:02

more gay pride. But they said

53:05

we wanna bring our outside town,

53:07

small gay pride celebration into the

53:09

middle of town and the mayor surrendered.

53:12

He bent the knee to the trans activists

53:14

and broke the tie on the city council and

53:16

let this massive gay pride celebration

53:19

come to Franklin. And a friend in Franklin wrote

53:21

to Peachy Keenan and said, what isn't being

53:23

reported is that businesses and companies

53:26

spoke out against the parade.

53:27

There's been a small gay festival

53:29

outside town the last two years, it was not

53:31

well attended and very small, this is an outside

53:34

activist push. And the local governments

53:37

cave in because they don't know what's

53:39

hit them. Also sometimes what hits them

53:41

is the federal government, the Department of Justice

53:44

is suing Tennessee to reverse that

53:46

ban on trans treatment for minors

53:48

that Matt Walsh helped get past here

53:50

in Tennessee. Now the DOJ is

53:54

suing Tennessee to reverse that.

53:56

These are powerful forces coming to local

53:58

places. What are Republicans

54:01

doing about it? Let's talk about Disney, right? Disney

54:03

has now filed a lawsuit against Ron DeSantis,

54:05

who is taking away their special privileges

54:09

that they had where basically they were running their own

54:11

little city on their own. So now they're saying

54:13

this is DeSantis's relentless campaign to

54:16

weaponize government power against Disney

54:18

in retaliation for expressing a political viewpoint

54:21

unpopular with certain state officials. This

54:23

is Disney's idea that you should be able to

54:25

put pornography and perverted

54:28

sexual stuff into schools and they don't want

54:30

DeSantis to stop it. Now, I'm in

54:32

a long running argument with my friend Jenna Ellis

54:35

over this, the constitutional attorney. She

54:37

thinks it's unconstitutional. My

54:39

feeling now, I see it differently. I think this is

54:41

like Boston Tea Party time. This reverence

54:44

for private business has to go away. Walt

54:47

Disney was a Christian company that won the

54:49

trust of parents and the love of children

54:52

and is now using that trust and that love to

54:54

groom them for sexual perversion. Remember

54:56

the Chris Rufo tape where we saw what they were doing

54:59

is cut 10. We saw what people at

55:00

Disney were working on. Our leadership

55:03

over there has been so welcoming to

55:06

like my like not at all secret

55:08

gay agenda. I don't have to be afraid to like,

55:11

let's have these two characters kiss. Let's in

55:13

the background. Like I was just wherever

55:15

I could just basically adding queerness

55:18

to like,

55:19

if you see anything queer, the show will

55:21

grab them. But like, I just was like, no

55:23

one would stop me and no one was trying to stop

55:25

me.

55:26

That to me is just like winning the favor

55:28

of a child so you can rape him basically. I mean,

55:30

that's what it's like. It is like they use this

55:32

company that used to be one thing. It's not

55:35

the Disney company. I mean, personally, I

55:37

love Jen Ellis and I know she's acting on principle

55:39

and I respect what she's saying. I'm

55:41

ready to crucify Mickey Mouse and eat Pluto.

55:44

I mean, that's basically where I'm at at this point

55:46

because this is not Mickey Mouse. This is not the Disney

55:48

corporation. It's just like Yale isn't Yale

55:50

and the New York Times isn't the New York Times. It's that

55:52

guy, Edgar the Bug from Men

55:54

in Black. They remember the aliens

55:57

steal his skin and dress up as a person. That's

55:59

what this is. companies pretending to be

56:02

using the respect that

56:04

was built up by the people who came before them to

56:06

do ugly things, to spread this

56:09

godless, violent revolution that

56:11

they have come up with. And that's why

56:13

it doesn't matter who they seem to be. It only

56:15

matters what they're selling. So Jenna

56:18

is making an honest criticism, and maybe she'll turn

56:20

out to be right in court. I don't know. I

56:22

respect her. But what about Donald Trump?

56:25

Donald Trump's reaction to this is what? DeSantis,

56:28

he's got to call people names, has been absolutely

56:30

destroyed by Disney. He's gloating about it. His

56:33

original PR plan fizzled, so now he's

56:35

going back with a new one in order to save face. Disney's

56:38

next move will be the announcement that no

56:40

more money will be invested in Florida because of the

56:42

government. They could even announce a slow

56:45

withdrawal or sale of certain properties

56:47

or the whole thing. Watch, that could be a

56:49

killer. Trump posted this on social

56:52

platform, and he said, in the meantime,

56:54

this is all so unnecessary, it's a political

56:57

stunt. And Nikki Haley, also running

56:59

for president, she joined in, has cut six.

57:01

You know, as governor, I took a double digit

57:03

unemployment state and I turned it into an economic

57:05

powerhouse. Businesses were my partners

57:08

because if you take care of your businesses, you take care

57:10

of your economy, your economy takes

57:12

care of the people and everyone wins. And

57:15

so that's the way we dealt with it. We are,

57:17

South Carolina was a very anti-woke

57:20

state. It still is. And if

57:22

Disney would like to move their hundreds of thousands

57:24

of jobs to South Carolina and bring the billions

57:26

of dollars with them, I'll let them know. I'll be happy

57:28

to meet them in South Carolina and introduce

57:31

them to the governor and the legislature that would that

57:33

would welcome it. You know, I'm sorry,

57:35

but obviously Nikki Haley,

57:38

she tweeted something where she said we

57:40

in South Carolina are not woke,

57:42

but we're not sanctimonious about it either. The use of

57:44

that word that Trump is

57:46

using against DeSantis is

57:49

a clue that she wants to be Trump's

57:51

vice president candidate. She's not running to win. She

57:54

doesn't need to be his vice presidential candidate. Well,

57:56

no, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. This

57:58

is important. It is important.

57:59

that they're eating away at the family structure. It

58:02

is important, you know, I truly

58:04

do not care what people do behind closed doors. I

58:06

do not care how they wanna live, but this is

58:08

an attack by powerful, powerful

58:10

forces, government working in collusion

58:14

with corporations to destroy

58:16

the American family. To destroy the family, this

58:18

is pure Marxist, the pure

58:21

Marxist idea. The Marxist idea is this,

58:23

we used to be herds. That

58:25

used to be the unit of governance,

58:28

of human governance, we were a herd. Capitalism

58:31

broke us off into the family, and

58:33

so in order to destroy the family, we have to take

58:35

the wife out of there. We have to tell her she's oppressed.

58:38

We have to get her out and put her in the workforce, and

58:40

then everybody's children becomes everybody's

58:42

children. There are no moms and dads. We just all

58:45

take care of the children together. And then that

58:47

break against socialism, that

58:49

thing that is defending capitalism and freedom,

58:52

the family will be destroyed.

58:55

This is not, you know, this is written down. I'm

58:57

not making this up, you know? And so this

59:00

is what this whole thing is about, and if Disney becomes

59:02

part of that, then the hell with Disney, and all

59:04

of the companies that do it, and if Trump joins in with it,

59:07

then the hell with Trump. This is what we're fighting

59:09

for. We're not fighting for these politicians.

59:11

They can come and go. We're fighting for a principle.

59:13

We're fighting for a system that has worked great.

59:16

They can always be reformed. It can

59:17

always be made more just. It can always be made better. But

59:20

listen, you wanna know the bottom line.

59:23

Here's Joe Biden telling you the bottom line.

59:25

It's cut seven. There's

59:26

no such thing as someone else's

59:28

child. No such thing

59:31

as someone else's child. Our

59:33

nation's children are all our children. Yeah,

59:36

I'll bet they are. That's not Biden

59:38

talking. That's the matrix, and

59:41

we can't become part of it.

59:46

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of several critically acclaimed best-selling books,

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including The Diversity Delusion and

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The New York Times Bestseller of the War on Cops. She's

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got a new book out called When Race

1:04:37

Trumps Merit, How the Pursuit of

1:04:39

Equity Sacrifices Excellence

1:04:41

Destroys Beauty

1:04:42

and Threatens Lives. Heather, always

1:04:44

great to see you. How are you doing? Thank

1:04:46

you for such a great introduction, Andrew.

1:04:48

I greatly appreciate it. Well, I mean it. This

1:04:51

is, you know, this is something, I've been reading the book,

1:04:53

I haven't finished it yet, but I've just been starting

1:04:56

it. It's a heartbreaking

1:04:58

book in a lot of ways. I mean, you bring your

1:05:00

usual great journalism

1:05:02

to it, but the stuff that you're talking about is

1:05:05

really difficult to face. Let's

1:05:07

just begin. You say this has its roots in

1:05:09

the past, but really got started with the

1:05:11

George Floyd riots. What exactly are

1:05:13

we talking about when we say when race trumps merit?

1:05:16

We're talking about the idea

1:05:19

that if we look around and we see an institution

1:05:21

that does not have exact racial

1:05:24

proportionality based on the national

1:05:26

population. So for instance, if

1:05:28

you look at Google and it doesn't have 13%

1:05:30

black engineers working there or

1:05:34

black computer scientists, which

1:05:37

is 13% is what the national population is. Therefore

1:05:40

we have concluded it is per se racist

1:05:43

and it must lower its standards

1:05:45

in order to create

1:05:48

the requisite diversity. Or

1:05:50

if you look at a medical

1:05:53

school and you see that it doesn't have 13% black

1:05:55

faculty or

1:05:58

an Alzheimer's research. and it doesn't

1:06:01

have 13% black

1:06:03

neurologists working there. The federal

1:06:05

government,

1:06:07

the medical school, whether it's Harvard Medical

1:06:09

School or Duke Medical School will conclude,

1:06:11

the lab is racist, we, the medical

1:06:14

school are racist, we have to lower

1:06:16

our standards of admissions, we have to

1:06:18

lower our standards of hiring in

1:06:20

order to engineer racial

1:06:22

proportionality. On the criminal

1:06:24

side, if viewers are

1:06:26

sort of scratching their heads of what the hell

1:06:28

has been going on with

1:06:30

criminal law enforcement for the last two years, why

1:06:33

are these crazy prosecutors not

1:06:36

prosecuting

1:06:37

theft, shoplifting, turnstile

1:06:39

jumping, trespass, disorderly conduct,

1:06:42

resisting arrest, which is the most appalling

1:06:44

of all? Why are police chiefs

1:06:46

often telling their officers, don't

1:06:48

make car stops, don't arrest

1:06:51

for quality

1:06:52

of life in fractions

1:06:54

like

1:06:55

public camping?

1:06:56

All of this is the same issue.

1:06:59

It's driven by, in this case,

1:07:01

the over-representation of blacks

1:07:03

in prison and the disparate

1:07:06

impact

1:07:07

that the enforcement of the criminal law

1:07:09

inevitably has on black criminals.

1:07:12

The thing that my book tries to do, Drew,

1:07:14

is provide an alternative explanation to

1:07:17

racism for why we have those

1:07:19

racial disparities.

1:07:21

Before we get to that, I wanna talk about

1:07:23

that, but before we get to that, this

1:07:25

is such a bad idea. Obviously, I

1:07:27

mean, let's just start, we've mentioned the medical

1:07:29

profession. I want a surgeon

1:07:31

who is the best possible surgeon, I don't

1:07:34

care if he's Scandinavian

1:07:36

or Zulu, I want the guy who can

1:07:38

do the job best. So this is such a bad idea.

1:07:41

It obviously is gonna lower the quality of the

1:07:44

schools that practice it. How did

1:07:46

we get to this point? How did we get to the point

1:07:48

where somebody thought that this would work?

1:07:51

I don't know if they're thinking about whether it works. They

1:07:53

don't think it works in terms of meritocracy

1:07:56

and success, they think it works simply

1:07:58

as a way of.

1:07:59

engineering and imposing

1:08:02

racial quotas on everything. I think the

1:08:04

reason we got here, Drew, is America,

1:08:07

white Americans in particular, are very guilty

1:08:10

about our racial past. And I

1:08:13

freely admit that that racial past

1:08:15

was appalling. It was gratuitously

1:08:18

nasty for decades, way after

1:08:21

we got rid of slavery.

1:08:23

The South was behaving like a bunch

1:08:25

of absolute psychotic neurotics

1:08:27

towards blacks. And at this

1:08:29

point,

1:08:31

we are not that country, Drew. I

1:08:33

can both say we were white

1:08:35

supremacists to apartheid country, and today,

1:08:38

we have done 180 degree turn.

1:08:40

The reality today is black

1:08:42

privilege, and that can get you fired if you say that

1:08:44

on a college campus, fortunately, neither of us

1:08:46

is there. So we hope we can keep our jobs.

1:08:50

White privilege is not the reality. I don't

1:08:52

know a single black high school

1:08:54

senior applying to a selective

1:08:56

college that puts his

1:08:58

race down as white,

1:09:00

because he knows that being black will give him an enormous

1:09:03

advantage. Whites are terrified

1:09:06

that the skills gap, despite

1:09:08

decades of trying, after the

1:09:11

height of the civil rights era in the 1960s, we

1:09:14

spent trillions of dollars on redistribution

1:09:16

programs, on de

1:09:19

facto reparations, on

1:09:22

social outreach, on

1:09:25

doing affirmative action up the gazoo, and

1:09:28

still there is a standard deviation

1:09:31

in virtually every objective test

1:09:33

of academic skills. The

1:09:36

whites are terrified that that will

1:09:38

never close, and so they

1:09:40

are out there saying, proleptically,

1:09:43

the only allowable explanation is racism.

1:09:46

They're terrified of looking at black culture,

1:09:49

and they're certainly never gonna look at

1:09:51

the whole very vexed issue of heritability,

1:09:53

but they won't even look at the pathological

1:09:56

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1:09:59

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going to lower standards in medical schools

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and medical practice, how it's obviously

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lowered standards in policing. It's

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been a disaster in terms of repealing

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the great advances we

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made for 20 years in lowering

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crime but one of the

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subtitles of your book The title

1:12:00

of the book is when race trumps merit,

1:12:03

how the pursuit of equity, sacrifice, sacrifices

1:12:05

excellence, destroys beauty, and threatens lives. How

1:12:08

does it destroy beauty?

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The elites have turned on the extraordinary

1:12:14

legacy of Western art, whether

1:12:16

it's music,

1:12:17

museums, art, you know, visual

1:12:20

arts, theater, dance, it

1:12:22

is all coming down. It is all

1:12:24

being accused on a completely

1:12:27

specious basis of fomenting

1:12:30

white supremacy. So if

1:12:32

you love classical music as I do, and I

1:12:34

know for a lot of people it's a very alien

1:12:37

idiom, but I can just assure

1:12:39

you that it is one of the most sublime

1:12:41

expressions of the human

1:12:43

spirit once your ears get acclimated

1:12:46

to what is by now sadly a very strange

1:12:49

and foreign idiom.

1:12:50

The idea

1:12:52

is that because the vast majority

1:12:55

of European musicians

1:12:57

writing in this

1:12:59

tradition of notated music

1:13:01

were white because they were Europeans, therefore

1:13:04

the only reason anybody thinks that

1:13:06

Bach and Mozart and Haydn and Schubert

1:13:09

and Beethoven are great is because they were dead

1:13:11

white males and their power

1:13:14

is due to white supremacy. This is

1:13:16

a preposterous idea, but you have since

1:13:18

the George Floyd racial psychotic

1:13:21

breakdown, you have the very

1:13:24

leaders of arts organizations,

1:13:26

whether it's an opera company, a

1:13:28

symphony orchestra, or an art museum,

1:13:31

betraying their most profound

1:13:33

obligation, which is to

1:13:36

celebrate their traditions, pass

1:13:38

them on, and teach young people why they

1:13:41

should be down on their knees in gratitude for

1:13:44

these works. And instead they're saying,

1:13:46

oh, we're no longer an opera company,

1:13:48

we're an anti-racist institution, we're

1:13:51

no longer an art museum, we're an anti-racist

1:13:54

museum. Let me show you the various

1:13:56

ways that the last 5,000 years

1:13:58

of Western art

1:13:59

are racist. You

1:14:02

know, what's terrible about that is you

1:14:04

have guys like Wagner, who actually was

1:14:06

a racist, one of the greatest writers

1:14:08

of opera who ever lived. It

1:14:11

just doesn't account for anything. You know, I mean, talent

1:14:13

is talent and talent is blind.

1:14:15

So let's talk about this. I mean, you are one

1:14:17

of the few people who actually

1:14:20

speaks with not

1:14:22

just with frankness, but without bias about

1:14:24

some of the causes of this.

1:14:27

What is another way of approaching this

1:14:29

problem where blacks don't seem to be

1:14:32

able to move up? I mean,

1:14:34

everybody has faced prejudice in this country.

1:14:37

Obviously the blacks are special in the sense that they

1:14:40

faced this slavery in that long Jim

1:14:42

Crow period. But you know, Jews have been

1:14:45

put upon, the Irish have been put upon. Everybody

1:14:47

else sort of gets past it. Why can't

1:14:49

blacks get past this?

1:14:51

Boy, that's such a difficult

1:14:53

question, Andrew. You

1:14:55

know, I'm going to put my neck out here

1:14:57

and say I look at this inner city culture

1:15:01

and it is absolutely

1:15:02

counterproductive. It is destined.

1:15:05

There's no way you can look at this and think that

1:15:08

there's any possibility of closing

1:15:10

the skills gap. You have the hip hop

1:15:12

culture that celebrates violence,

1:15:15

cop killing, misogyny, drug

1:15:17

taking, theft, bling.

1:15:20

You have what I mentioned before,

1:15:22

the anti-acting white syndrome,

1:15:25

which says that if you're a black kid and you're

1:15:27

actually taking your

1:15:29

textbooks home to study

1:15:31

and you're not going and running the streets, you're

1:15:33

acting white.

1:15:34

Then you have an enabling elite

1:15:37

that has lost confidence

1:15:39

in the bourgeois values. I was

1:15:41

just today walking through Times

1:15:44

Square in New York City and going

1:15:46

past a strip joint. I remember the halcyon

1:15:48

days of the 1990s when

1:15:51

Giuliani, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani,

1:15:53

transformed the city by saying, I'm

1:15:55

not going to apologize for

1:15:58

bourgeois values like Neatness. getting

1:16:01

porn out of Times Square, not

1:16:03

having people colonize the sidewalks, expecting

1:16:06

law and order, you jump the turnstiles,

1:16:09

you're getting arrested, and we've lost

1:16:11

confidence in that. And we're not enforcing public

1:16:14

order, and the elites have said, well,

1:16:16

maybe we'll still kind of try to live

1:16:19

by traditional norms when it comes to our

1:16:21

own child rearing. But we're sure not going

1:16:23

to tell anybody, especially blacks,

1:16:25

who now have a 71 percent out

1:16:27

of wedlock birth rate, which is cataclysmic.

1:16:29

It

1:16:32

is impossible to civilize

1:16:35

young males with 71

1:16:36

percent of black children

1:16:39

being born

1:16:40

in a fatherless home.

1:16:42

We have lost the confidence

1:16:44

to say children need their mothers

1:16:46

and fathers, and there's many reasons for that. There's

1:16:49

feminism, and there is also

1:16:51

gay rights. Let's be honest.

1:16:54

If you say that children need their biological

1:16:56

mothers and fathers, you will not only be

1:16:58

accused of dissing the strong women

1:17:01

who say they can do it all and be single

1:17:03

mothers just fine, you're also dissing

1:17:05

the lesbian couple, and everybody's

1:17:07

terrified to do that.

1:17:09

One of the things that is so appalling

1:17:12

about this is that blacks actually were

1:17:14

making more progress in terms

1:17:16

of relative progress to where they were, rising

1:17:19

into the middle class faster before

1:17:21

the 1960s.

1:17:21

I mean, basically after

1:17:24

Jim Crow and the Civil Rights Act, but before the Great

1:17:26

Society,

1:17:28

so much of the money being pumped into the

1:17:30

government is coming from these programs

1:17:33

that are basically have broken the back

1:17:35

of black culture. Is there any

1:17:37

way, you know, how do you get people to

1:17:40

unclaw their hands from that money and

1:17:43

say, you know, this is actually hurting people?

1:17:45

Well, Drew, I get asked all

1:17:48

the time, what can we do? And I

1:17:50

have to say, I've sort

1:17:52

of lost patience with that concept.

1:17:55

You could say, well, as a form

1:17:57

of reparations, we as whites, it's still

1:17:59

our reparations. responsibility. But

1:18:02

frankly, even if as a moral issue

1:18:04

you thought that were the case, and I'm not sure

1:18:07

I do, there's not a whole lot more

1:18:09

that so-called we can do. It's up

1:18:12

to the black culture right now to heal itself.

1:18:15

We, you know, you can throw all the money

1:18:17

you want at these failing inner city schools. The

1:18:20

child learns to read by actually

1:18:22

putting in the effort. There's no social

1:18:24

worker that can do that for him. There's

1:18:27

no parent that can substitute

1:18:29

and say, I'm going to actually monitor

1:18:32

my child's homework. Is he going to school?

1:18:34

The black truancy rate is astronomical

1:18:37

in California. It's at least four times higher

1:18:39

than whites. You better believe it's a lot higher than

1:18:41

Asians.

1:18:43

And so if you're not in school, you

1:18:45

can't learn. If you're not taking your textbooks

1:18:48

home, you can't do your homework. I have

1:18:50

observed inner city classrooms and

1:18:52

they are absolute frightening

1:18:54

zones of insubordination

1:18:57

and chaos. And of course, the other disparate

1:18:59

impact concept, you

1:19:01

know, the book is about the fallacy of disparate

1:19:03

impact is that if teachers discipline

1:19:07

the insubordinate unruly students

1:19:09

as they deserve to

1:19:11

be, and it turns out that the

1:19:14

disproportionately those are black students,

1:19:16

then we can't discipline the students because discipline

1:19:19

has a disparate impact on blacks. And

1:19:21

we're all supposed to believe that there's no behavioral

1:19:24

differences. Well, when you have black

1:19:26

teenagers between the ages of 14

1:19:29

and 17

1:19:30

committing gun homicide at 10

1:19:32

times the rate

1:19:34

of white and Hispanic teenagers between

1:19:36

the ages of 14 and 17, the idea that that

1:19:40

population is going to go to school

1:19:43

and be

1:19:43

immaculately attentive to their teacher

1:19:46

and, you know, you know, doing

1:19:48

their homework and not disrupting their fellow

1:19:50

students is ridiculous. The same lack

1:19:53

of socialization, the same lack of

1:19:55

parental involvement

1:19:57

that leads to that gun homicide

1:19:59

rate is also creating

1:20:01

these chaotic inner city classrooms.

1:20:04

So

1:20:05

we can do our charter schools,

1:20:07

we can do our vouchers, we can try to

1:20:09

re-embrace a belief

1:20:12

in bourgeois values, but at some point,

1:20:14

the race hustle, which is what's going

1:20:17

on, we are all embracing a

1:20:19

fiction

1:20:20

of ubiquitous white supremacy. That

1:20:23

race hustle has to stop by the

1:20:25

hustlers themselves. Wow,

1:20:26

now this is a big step toward this

1:20:28

book. When Race Trumps Merit, how

1:20:31

the pursuit of equity sacrifices excellence,

1:20:33

destroys beauty and threatens lives by the great

1:20:35

Heather McDonald. And I'm just thrilled to

1:20:37

say, I didn't even know this, that this is being published

1:20:40

by us. This is a Daily Wire book. I'm

1:20:43

honored to have you on the team, Heather. It is always

1:20:45

great to see you, and I look forward

1:20:47

to finishing the book. It's really good.

1:20:50

Thanks, Andrew. Well, I chose Daily Wire in order to have

1:20:52

you as a colleague, so it's mutual. Thank

1:20:54

you. I appreciate that. Thanks a lot. It's

1:20:56

great to see you. Thank you so much. All

1:20:59

right, that dark bulldozer

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of terror that you feel coming towards

1:21:04

you is the clavenless week approaching if

1:21:06

you're not a member.

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If you're not a member, this is the last segment

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before that disaster befalls you. So

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I can't even fathom at this point why you wouldn't

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be a member. It's like, I mean, where

1:21:18

else would you go? However, before we

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leave you, just to show you our goodwill and

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our generosity and just the nice,

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the incredible niceness of this company, we

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will solve all your problems with the mailbag.

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Woo! It's

1:21:34

so good. It's gotta be a big misunderstanding.

1:21:37

Yeah! All

1:21:40

right, the first question

1:21:42

is from Anonymous. This

1:21:45

might seem like a dumb mailbag question. There

1:21:48

are no dumb questions. Oh, yes, there are. There's some really

1:21:51

stupid questions, but that's not one.

1:21:53

But as someone who loves your show, books, and all

1:21:55

your work, I would love to know what has brought you

1:21:58

the most joy so far in your life.

1:21:59

I want to live my life to

1:22:02

the fullest and would like any wisdom

1:22:04

on what true happiness looks like from someone

1:22:06

who has lived more life than I and whom

1:22:08

I look up to.

1:22:10

I'm thrilled that you asked this question because I

1:22:12

actually know the answer to this question. And my

1:22:14

answer is 100% correct, is guaranteed 100% correct.

1:22:18

First of all, when talking about joy and happiness, those are two different

1:22:20

things, at least the way I use them. Happiness

1:22:23

is a momentary thing. It is something that happens sometimes

1:22:26

when you win the lottery or book sells, you

1:22:29

get a promotion at work, whatever it is, you'll

1:22:32

be happy, then you won't be. It

1:22:34

will come and it will go. And even if it improves

1:22:36

your entire life, the happiness

1:22:38

will not last. Happiness will come

1:22:40

and go. Joy is a

1:22:42

consistent

1:22:44

vitality, a gusto for life,

1:22:47

even in times of trouble, even in times of

1:22:49

grief. That is something very

1:22:51

much deeper, very much bigger. And I will

1:22:53

tell you this, and you can literally

1:22:56

take this to the bank, it is absolutely true.

1:22:58

All joy comes from

1:23:00

love. There is no joy that

1:23:03

is not directly derived from love. And

1:23:05

the things that you love, the quality

1:23:08

of the things that you love determines how much

1:23:10

joy they will give you. If

1:23:12

you want joy, love, as

1:23:14

my wife always says, shower the people you love with love.

1:23:17

Shower everything you love

1:23:19

with love. So you

1:23:21

can guess from that

1:23:23

what brings you the me or anybody

1:23:25

the most joy. It's going to be the thing

1:23:27

that you love that is biggest. So the first

1:23:30

thing is going to be God, because God

1:23:32

obviously is the biggest thing. And when

1:23:34

you love God, when you love creation,

1:23:37

when you love creation,

1:23:39

this darkness that comes, passes over

1:23:41

the land from time to time, this twisting

1:23:44

of human minds and human hearts that

1:23:46

you see again and again throughout history,

1:23:49

you can get through it with joy. It's amazing.

1:23:52

Obviously terrible things can happen, and you're not

1:23:54

going to be happy if those terrible things happen, but you

1:23:56

can face life with gusto if you love God

1:23:58

and love creation.

1:23:59

The next. thing under God are people. If you love

1:24:01

the people in your life, you're gonna get joy from

1:24:03

the people. My wife, my

1:24:06

son and daughter, my grandchildren,

1:24:09

my son and daughter's partners in life,

1:24:12

these are the people that I love, and

1:24:14

many of my friends. I love a lot of, there are a lot of people

1:24:17

I love, but that's the joy, that's

1:24:19

the next amount of joy. I love my work, I

1:24:22

adore my work. I love doing this, I love

1:24:24

writing books. It is something that

1:24:26

is very, very deep in my nature

1:24:28

and I love it.

1:24:29

And then I love little things. I like watching football.

1:24:32

I love watching football. I love doing

1:24:35

puzzles, you know, but if I did those little

1:24:37

things more than they deserve,

1:24:39

I would be ruining them, right? So if I like word

1:24:42

puzzles, so I'll do a word puzzle from

1:24:44

time to time and that'll give me joy.

1:24:46

I get tremendous joy from doing it. I don't do

1:24:49

too much of it because then the joy would

1:24:51

run out, because it's just a little thing. It's not a big thing

1:24:53

like God or a human being or the work

1:24:55

of your hands. The trick here, the

1:24:58

trick here is that when you love something,

1:25:00

you have to live into the love. You

1:25:02

can't just do it and forget. You can't just

1:25:05

sit with your wife. You've gotta love your wife. You can't

1:25:07

just sit with your kids. You have to love them in the moment

1:25:09

that you're with them. You have to shower your work

1:25:11

with love. You have to shower God with love. And

1:25:14

the joy will come, you'll see, you'll see. I mean, everything,

1:25:17

everything that you enjoy and you shouldn't have any

1:25:19

disdain for the little things. The mistake

1:25:21

that people make, I get this from gamers

1:25:23

a lot, is that they think, well, gaming

1:25:26

gives me joy and then they do it for six hours.

1:25:28

No, gaming should give you about a half hour of joy.

1:25:31

After that, you should be doing something else. It's not a big

1:25:33

thing. It's a small thing, right? The arts give

1:25:35

me joy, another thing that gives me joy. But

1:25:38

it's gonna be the same thing for everybody.

1:25:40

The thing that you love will give you joy

1:25:42

and the thing that is best that you love will

1:25:44

give you the most joy. That answer will be the

1:25:47

same for everybody. There's no secret to it. There's no secret

1:25:49

to it. You just do it. You just make sure

1:25:51

you do the love, even when it's annoying, even

1:25:54

when it's work

1:25:56

that you have to put in. If you do

1:25:59

it, you will get the joy.

1:25:59

From Ollie, after finishing a couple

1:26:02

of your stories, I feel an emptiness that only comes

1:26:04

after completing a truly amazing

1:26:06

work of fiction. Now that I've rediscovered

1:26:08

my love of reading, I wanna keep going

1:26:11

more than anything, but I'm not sure what to read from here. Many

1:26:13

of the books that I've collected over the years are written from

1:26:15

modern audiences, are twisted by loose morals

1:26:18

and secular teachings. I'd appreciate any

1:26:20

book or author recommendations that you can offer

1:26:22

for me, and others who enjoy gripping,

1:26:24

faith-based, and morally correct works of

1:26:26

fiction. I'm a huge fan of C.S. Lewis and

1:26:28

his writings in case that helps you think of some similar

1:26:31

stories. God bless you and the entire

1:26:33

Daily War crew. Well, thank you for that. You

1:26:35

know,

1:26:36

one thing you might really try, try it, this

1:26:39

might not work, but you know,

1:26:41

before this time when things

1:26:43

did get ugly and did get dirty

1:26:46

and so forth,

1:26:48

there was great, there were great

1:26:50

books written.

1:26:51

I mean, have you read Oliver Twist? Have you read Dickens?

1:26:54

I mean, Dickens is a wonderful, wonderful writer. I

1:26:56

know their books are long. There are like 800 book,

1:26:58

page books, but who's counting, you

1:27:01

know? Like you just read 25 pages a day, whatever you read

1:27:03

a day, you'll find them. Read Anna Karenina

1:27:05

by Tolstoy. I mean, it's a wonderfully

1:27:07

entertaining book. I hesitate

1:27:09

to recommend War and Peace because it's like 1200 pages

1:27:12

long, and some of it is theory, and the theory

1:27:14

you can kind of skim through, but the story

1:27:16

is great, and it's filled with a

1:27:18

moral.