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I should have known that last week would

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be interesting. It began in an unusual

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way. On Sunday, I was leaving church

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with three of my kids in tow. And as I was

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walking towards the car, I heard

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someone shout my name from behind me. And I

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get flagged down by fans on the way out of church pretty

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frequently. As you might expect, the church-going crowd

1:39

is my core demographic. So

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I didn't think it was anything out of the ordinary.

1:44

And the guy ran up, shook my hand, started making

1:46

friendly small talk. But then his tone changed

1:48

suddenly. And he told me that

1:51

actually he thinks that my work has a terrible

1:53

impact on the world. He said that this church,

1:55

the one we just came out of,

1:57

is a place of love, not hate.

1:59

I'm not welcome there.

2:01

Now, I responded in no uncertain terms

2:04

that he can't speak to me that way in front of my children

2:06

and that he should be ashamed of himself. He turned

2:08

around and walked hurriedly away and that was the

2:10

end of the conversation. Now,

2:12

I hoped that my kids who were standing there hadn't been

2:14

paying attention maybe and maybe didn't realize

2:17

what the guy said to me. I was hoping perhaps

2:19

it didn't register on them. But

2:21

when we got to the car, my son started to cry

2:24

and he asked me why

2:26

that mean man said those things.

2:29

I explained to him that there are people in this

2:31

world who don't like it when

2:33

you speak the truth and when you try to do

2:35

what's right.

2:36

Their hearts are shrouded in darkness and they

2:38

hate the light just as the Bible says.

2:40

I tried to act unfazed for the sake of my

2:42

kids but the truth is that I was extremely angry.

2:45

I don't care what you say about me or to me

2:48

but you've crossed the line when you make my

2:50

boy cry. But

2:52

it was an important lesson for him to learn

2:54

and for me to relearn in preparation

2:57

for the week ahead.

2:59

So on Monday afternoon, I was informed

3:01

that YouTube was demonetizing my

3:03

channel.

3:04

And this was the first step towards a possible

3:06

permanent demonetization or

3:09

banishment from the platform entirely. YouTube

3:11

keeps its rules intentionally vague. That's

3:13

the way they play the game. They'll penalize

3:16

you for violating their policies and yet they won't

3:18

explain

3:19

exactly what their policies are.

3:22

So the company gives itself the license

3:24

to single anybody out

3:26

for whatever reasons they decide. They

3:28

accused me of engaging in hateful

3:31

conduct which supposedly ran afoul

3:33

of both their community guidelines and their

3:35

ads guidelines. They already took the step

3:37

of deleting a number of my offending episodes

3:40

which are gone now from YouTube which

3:43

is something that again, they did on their own.

3:45

And now they're taking away our ads which is a penalty

3:48

of more than $100,000 per month. That's

3:51

what it adds up to. Now they

3:53

provided us with just three examples

3:55

of my infractions and these aren't all

3:57

of them, they said but they told us about

3:59

three.

3:59

and they wouldn't tell us why

4:02

they were in fractions, but they

4:04

said that, you know, they told us

4:06

what three of them were, and they said all three of them

4:08

had to do with Dylan Mulvaney,

4:10

coincidentally. And they all seemed

4:13

to involve the crime of quote unquote

4:15

misgendering. So for example, one

4:18

of the violations occurred when I referred to

4:20

Mulvaney as a quote guy.

4:23

That was a violation.

4:25

And what you should know is that we were not

4:28

flagged by the algorithm, okay,

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it's not one of those algorithmic glitches.

4:33

And this does not appear to be some low level

4:35

decision at the company either.

4:38

Yet a path to re-monetization

4:40

is available. It seems that we can get back into

4:43

YouTube's good graces, get

4:45

our monetization back by simply respecting

4:48

preferred pronouns and refraining

4:50

from offering any meaningful critiques

4:52

of gender ideology. In other words, all

4:54

I have to do to

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get all that back

4:58

is forfeit my integrity

5:00

and betray all of my deepest

5:02

held principles.

5:04

That's it. Now, not to skip ahead, but

5:06

I can tell you right now that

5:08

my answer to that offer is not only

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no, but hell no.

5:12

The next day, shortly after I finished

5:14

eating dinner with my family,

5:16

I noticed that my Twitter account had been logged

5:19

out on my computer.

5:21

And I tried to log back in, but the

5:23

password didn't work. And that's when I knew that I was

5:25

hacked. So I grabbed my phone to call

5:28

my team about it, but my phone had stopped

5:30

working at the precise moment when

5:32

the Twitter hack happened. And that's when I

5:34

knew that the hack went far beyond Twitter. As

5:36

we would soon find out, the hacker had pulled off

5:39

a maneuver known as SIM swapping. And

5:41

that's a thing where the targets, the

5:44

person who's being targeted, your phone number, is transferred

5:46

over to a SIM card that the

5:49

hacker controls. And once they have your number

5:51

and your SIM card, they can access

5:54

almost anything.

5:55

And this hacker did. He got into my text messages,

5:57

my DMs, my emails.

5:59

everything.

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Leftists and trans activists were giddy.

6:04

They were cheering on the attack. They begged for my

6:06

private messages to be released. They said that I deserved

6:09

to be the victim of this federal crime. At

6:11

least one journalist openly solicited

6:14

my stolen information, put out

6:16

his email address, and asked for my

6:19

stolen DMs and my stolen information to be sent to

6:21

him, to be emailed to him. The hacker then did

6:23

an interview

6:24

with this same journalist who works for the publication

6:27

Wired. The hacker apparently showed

6:29

the journalist my tax documents, showed him

6:31

some of my pictures, some of

6:33

my old emails.

6:35

The article directly quotes one

6:37

of my private emails, though it contained nothing salacious

6:40

or even mildly interesting. In fact, it

6:42

was a friendly exchange I

6:44

had with Stephen Crowder 10 years ago, and

6:47

this made it into the Wired article

6:49

for some reason.

6:50

The only interesting revelation in the

6:52

article is that the hacker

6:54

says that he had help

6:56

in pulling off this hack from an unspecified

6:58

quote-unquote insider.

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And we have independently, as we've been tracking

7:03

this down, we've independently found other

7:05

evidence which also points in that direction

7:07

that there was help from an insider.

7:10

However exactly he did it and whoever helped

7:12

him, and we will find all this out, I promise

7:14

you, it resulted in something much

7:16

worse than the mere headache of somebody posting

7:18

dumb tweets from my account.

7:20

This was a total violation of our

7:22

privacy, and if I'm being completely honest with

7:24

you, it was one of the worst things that

7:26

my family has ever experienced.

7:28

I didn't sleep that night. I was

7:30

up with our security team, our tech guys, lawyers,

7:32

trying to put out a dozen fires all

7:35

at once through the following day. We had

7:37

people on the phone with Microsoft, Apple,

7:39

Google, Twitter, my cell phone carrier,

7:41

the FBI, local law enforcement, etc.

7:44

It was a nightmare even with all these

7:46

resources available to me. The fact that we can just

7:49

get on the phone with all these different companies and try

7:52

to solve this problem,

7:53

even with that, it's a nightmare.

7:55

I can't imagine what this kind of attack

7:57

is like for people who aren't so fortunate.

7:59

If you're stuck in a situation where all

8:02

you can do is call 1-800 numbers, then

8:06

that's gonna make it all the worse. On

8:08

Wednesday with no sleep, I flew to the University

8:10

of Iowa to deliver a speech in front of what turned

8:12

out to be a massive sold-out crowd. A

8:15

lot of energy in the room, which gave me enough of a boost

8:17

to get through the event without passing out on stage

8:19

or descending into incoherent

8:22

Joe Biden mumbles.

8:23

Outside, there were throngs of protesters taking

8:26

to the streets. They were stopping traffic. They were

8:28

blocking the exits out of the event.

8:31

They also dumped thousands of marbles

8:34

in the hallway outside of the auditorium where

8:36

the event was taking place in hopes of making

8:38

people slip and fall and causing serious injury

8:40

to hundreds of people as they're walking out. Fortunately,

8:43

that plan failed.

8:46

So to summarize,

8:47

it was a difficult week,

8:50

but also fully in keeping with my experience

8:52

over the past year or more, especially since

8:54

my film, What Is a Woman? came out, we have been

8:56

doxxed, threatened, stalked, harassed,

8:59

almost constantly.

9:01

The threats became severe and frequent

9:03

enough shortly after the film came

9:05

out to necessitate 24-hour armed security

9:08

in our home.

9:09

Last night, there was a Reddit post, which went

9:11

viral from somebody calling me a homophobic

9:14

Nazi and saying that I should be

9:16

murdered. The poster said that he's, quote,

9:18

"'tired of me getting away with this.'" And when he says,

9:20

getting away with it, what he's talking

9:22

about is that I'm getting away with

9:24

expressing my beliefs openly. He's

9:27

tired of that.

9:28

And he said that there needs to be consequences,

9:30

quote, unquote.

9:31

The consequences he specifies should involve

9:34

me being bludgeoned to death with a baseball bat.

9:37

And the thing is that this is not the sentiment

9:39

of just

9:40

one random weirdo on Reddit.

9:43

In

9:43

fact, somebody posted something similar to Twitter a few

9:45

weeks ago, saying that I should be tortured and killed, and

9:48

it got tens of thousands of likes and thousands

9:50

of supportive comments.

9:52

There is a wide consensus

9:55

on the left that I deserve to be killed,

9:57

and they have made that point

9:59

abundantly clear.

10:01

But the good news is that we're not taking

10:04

any of this lying down. I'm

10:06

going to be working with law enforcement. I am working with law

10:08

enforcement right now to ensure that the

10:10

person who hacked into my phone and anybody who granted

10:12

him access is punished to the full extent of

10:14

the law. We are going to sue

10:17

everybody involved. I

10:19

can't say much more about it right now, except that

10:21

many different wheels are currently in motion. And

10:23

if the people who did this aren't nervous

10:26

right now,

10:27

they should be.

10:28

On the YouTube front, as

10:31

long as they make affirmation of gender

10:33

ideology a prerequisite for posting

10:35

my show on the platform,

10:37

I will not post my show on the platform.

10:41

But I also will not allow myself to be

10:43

banished into obscurity off to some

10:45

internet ghetto where nobody will find

10:47

my content.

10:48

You see, big tech,

10:51

this is the choice they want us to make. They

10:53

want me either to surrender my principles

10:57

or become irrelevant. And

10:59

they'll be happy with whichever of those two options

11:01

I choose. Either one, fine with them,

11:05

which is why I choose neither. Instead,

11:08

starting today, we're going to make this show available to

11:11

everyone for free on The Daily Wire. It

11:13

will also be available on Rumble, Apple Podcasts,

11:15

Spotify, all the other places you normally get your podcasts.

11:18

And we're trying something new as well. And today,

11:20

every episode of this show will also be posted in

11:23

full on Twitter, which is now the most powerful

11:25

free speech platform in the world. And

11:27

it seems like the place where this show belongs. If

11:30

you follow our channel on YouTube, you can still find

11:32

plenty of content that we'll make specially for you. We'll

11:35

still post clips from the show so we can reach new

11:37

audiences with our message. But we're not

11:39

going to give YouTube our full show so long as the situation

11:41

remains as it is.

11:44

The point is that we're not going to capitulate. But

11:47

we also aren't going to scale down and become

11:49

obsolete. Instead, we're

11:51

going to be bigger.

11:52

We're going to be more innovative. We're

11:55

going to reach more people in more ways

11:57

on more platforms. That's our response.

12:01

And this is just the beginning I'll have more to announce soon.

12:03

Also we've been talking with Congress. YouTube

12:06

shouldn't be allowed legally to

12:08

hold its users to standards of conduct

12:11

that it refuses to properly explain. It's

12:13

not just, this is what people need to understand, it's not just that

12:15

they target conservative voices,

12:17

which they do and that's bad enough on its

12:19

own, but

12:20

that they do it in this incredibly

12:22

underhanded way with intentionally ambiguous

12:25

rules that are enforced unevenly according

12:28

to their opaque policies that they often

12:30

seem to be making up as they go along. The

12:33

only way this changes

12:34

is if

12:36

the people running YouTube experience a sudden

12:38

and mysterious bout of integrity

12:40

or if the law forces

12:42

it to change.

12:44

And I'm not betting on the former, so instead

12:46

I'll fight for the latter and I will take the fight

12:48

all the way to Capitol Hill.

12:50

Now there is a point at the end of this whole saga. The

12:53

point is that, one of the most important

12:55

points anyway, is that

12:57

the term culture war is

12:59

no mere metaphor.

13:02

It's certainly not anymore. We are up against

13:05

people who have no interest

13:07

in debates,

13:09

no interest in discussion. If

13:11

you oppose them, they will not engage

13:13

with your arguments, they will simply try to silence

13:16

you

13:17

and ruin you.

13:18

There will be no rebuttals except

13:21

for the ones that they issue in the form of censorship,

13:23

death threats and worse.

13:25

The more that they perceive that

13:27

you are a threat, the more

13:30

that they will work to destroy you and

13:32

everyone associated with you. That's

13:35

the way it works. But this

13:38

should not dissuade us. We

13:40

shouldn't be discouraged by the viciousness

13:42

of our opponents, but motivated by it.

13:45

It couldn't possibly be more clear

13:47

who was on the wrong side and who was

13:49

on the right side.

13:51

This is about as black and white as a

13:53

cultural divide can possibly get. There

13:55

is one side

13:57

that hates the truth, rejects

13:59

the truth, in principle and

14:01

wishes total destruction on everyone who speaks

14:03

it.

14:05

All you have to do is choose the side

14:08

that is not that side.

14:11

Now it may require courage to

14:13

take that kind of stand, but

14:15

at least you'll know where to stand.

14:18

There's not any confusion about this.

14:21

As for my ongoing

14:23

ordeal, or deals, I should

14:25

say, I

14:28

didn't tell you all of it so that you would feel sorry

14:30

for me. Pity is the last

14:32

thing that I want. I chose this line of work.

14:34

I chose to be in this fight. I went into

14:36

it with my eyes open.

14:38

I knew what I was getting into. I may get hit with a curve

14:40

ball on occasion. I may be introduced to new concepts

14:43

like a sim swapping, for example, but

14:45

mostly I'm

14:47

getting exactly what I expected from the

14:49

vicious, bloodthirsty rage mob

14:51

and its leaders in big tech.

14:54

And it has not dissuaded me even

14:56

slightly.

14:58

I still will not back down

15:00

by an inch or compromise

15:02

at all.

15:04

I've told you many times that I would rather

15:07

be dead than surrender to these people,

15:09

and I meant it.

15:12

So to all the people who are sending

15:14

me death threats

15:16

and posting my home address and

15:18

hacking my accounts

15:20

and trying to blackmail me and threaten me, giving

15:23

away my personal information,

15:25

mass reporting me to get me deplatformed and

15:27

all the rest of it,

15:29

I want you to know that nothing you have done

15:32

or will do or could do

15:35

will ever make me shut up. It

15:37

will never happen. None

15:40

of your schemes have worked or can ever

15:42

work. It is all futile. Your efforts

15:45

are hopeless. The

15:47

truth is the truth. And

15:50

I will never pretend otherwise.

15:54

I am not here to make a martyr

15:56

of myself. I don't want any of the good guys

15:59

to be martyrs. I

16:01

want us to win.

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today. And so I don't have any other details

17:46

except for the statement,

17:49

which I'm finding on Mediaite, put

17:52

out by Fox News.

17:53

And it says Fox News Media and Tucker Carlson

17:55

have agreed to part ways. We thank him for his

17:58

service to the network as a host and prior to that.

17:59

that as a contributor. Mr. Carlson's last

18:02

program was Friday, April 21st. Fox

18:05

News Tonight will air live at 8 p.m. Eastern

18:08

starting this evening as an interim show

18:10

helmed by rotating Fox News personalities until

18:12

a new host is named. So that's

18:14

all we know right now. That's all I know anyway. That

18:17

Tucker Carlson and Fox News have agreed

18:19

to part ways.

18:23

All I can say is that this is a disaster

18:26

for Fox News. I don't know what precipitated

18:30

this. I don't know what led to it.

18:32

I don't know who

18:35

initiated this split, but I will say

18:37

that whatever led to it, it's a disaster

18:40

for Fox News because Tucker Carlson by

18:42

far and away, the most important,

18:44

the most relevant, the most interesting

18:47

figure at Fox News,

18:50

and there's not even a close second

18:52

in that regard.

18:54

And also the most

18:56

interesting, relevant, important figure in all of

18:58

cable news.

19:00

Okay, with Tucker Carlson, you have

19:03

someone who the

19:05

people are talking about. This is

19:08

to be able to deliver a monologue,

19:11

a cable news monologue and

19:13

have it make the news. Okay, you're delivering

19:15

monologues that themselves become news,

19:18

which is what Tucker Carlson does

19:19

three times a week.

19:22

You know, that is a rare talent

19:25

that nobody else

19:27

in cable news has, and certainly nobody

19:29

at Fox News has.

19:31

Okay, when's the last time a Sean

19:33

Hannity monologue made the news? When's the last

19:35

time anyone ever, when's the last time anyone

19:38

ever said to you, oh my gosh, you hear that Sean Hannity

19:40

monologue? You gotta listen to that. That was incredible. That

19:42

was really interesting. And it's never

19:44

happened in the history of Sean Hannity's career

19:47

with all due respect to him.

19:48

But with Tucker Carlson, this was

19:51

a normal occurrence. So,

19:52

disaster for Fox News, I'll be very interested

19:55

to see where

19:57

Tucker goes next.

20:00

All right, moving on

20:02

to this. This is not nearly

20:04

as big a news. I was gonna start with this and it seems to

20:07

pale somewhat in comparison, but I did

20:09

wanna mention

20:10

that it wasn't all bad news

20:12

for me last week. In fact, I talked about that,

20:15

the speech of the University of Iowa. And

20:19

after that speech, a local

20:21

publication in Iowa

20:23

called Little Village,

20:25

appears to be some website that does a lot of Iowa

20:28

related news. Anyway, they put out this headline, Iowa

20:30

City receives the nation's leading anti-trans

20:33

personality with trans affirming chalk,

20:35

chance, music and disruption.

20:38

The nation's leading anti-trans

20:40

personality. Now,

20:44

the fact that there was trans affirming chalk, I didn't know,

20:46

in fact, there was not only chalk, they also had a marching

20:48

band, I forgot to mention that. So this is the first protest where

20:50

they had their own marching band and they had chalk

20:52

and they had everything. And there was the marbles as well,

20:55

but nation's leading anti-trans personality.

20:57

That's the part that jumps out. I

20:59

don't mean to brag, but

21:01

I am really just racking up the accolades

21:03

because first I won Transphobe of the Year 2022, then

21:07

I'm crowned nation's leading anti-trans

21:09

personality. And then I was made aware last

21:11

week that there's some sort of poll on Twitter where they're

21:14

trying to determine who the worst pundit of

21:16

the year is. And it was between me and Tucker Carlson,

21:19

somehow I'm winning.

21:20

So I'm about to have worst pundit,

21:23

nation's leading anti-trans personality,

21:25

transphobe of the year. This is like the conservative

21:28

commentator equivalent of winning

21:30

the, what is it, the EGOT, the Emmy, Grammy,

21:32

Oscar, Tony. This is that equivalent,

21:35

but for right-wing people, people in

21:37

right-wing media. But

21:40

there is even better news. This is from

21:42

The Daily Wire.

21:44

A Bud Light executive facing blowback over

21:46

a partnership with transgender influencer, Dylan Mulvaney,

21:49

is taking a leave of absence. Alyssa

21:51

Heinershade, who we've talked about on the show,

21:54

vice president of marketing at Bud Light

21:56

will be replaced by

21:57

Budweiser global marketing VP, Tom.

22:00

So this is a quote unquote

22:02

leave of absence, but she's

22:04

being replaced. So

22:06

certainly seems to me to be a leave of absence that

22:08

is strikingly similar to being fired. The

22:11

move reportedly is part of a shake up in which senior

22:14

marketers are more closely connected to every

22:16

aspect of our brand's activities. That's

22:18

a quote from a Bud Light spokesperson.

22:21

That was on Friday. And then this is

22:23

just in today.

22:26

We also have this from Breitbart.

22:28

Daniel Blake, who oversees marketing for

22:30

Anheuser-Busch's mainstream brands,

22:32

has also taken a leave of absence following the

22:35

backlash from the Dylan Mulvaney Bud Light advertising

22:37

campaign. As Breitbart News

22:39

reported, Bud Light, Vice President of Marketing, Alyssa Heinershite

22:41

had already taken a leave of absence for her role in

22:43

pushing the ad featuring transgender Dylan Mulvaney.

22:46

Now it appears her boss, Daniel Blake, has

22:48

joined her.

22:50

A spokeswoman says, given the circumstances,

22:52

Alyssa has decided to take a leave of absence, which

22:55

we support. Daniel has

22:57

also decided to take a leave of absence.

22:59

Oh, we support

23:01

her taking this leave of absence that we told

23:03

her she has to take, I

23:05

assume.

23:08

So we know, based on last

23:11

week,

23:11

that

23:14

as we started to get the sales figures for

23:16

Bud Light,

23:17

there was a precipitous decline

23:19

ever since the boycott started.

23:22

And now they're cleaning out their

23:24

marketing department. I mean, they have fired

23:26

their top two executives in

23:30

marketing at Bud Light.

23:32

This is,

23:34

if you needed more evidence, like if you still weren't

23:36

convinced that the Bud Light boycott

23:39

was working, is working, has worked,

23:42

then here

23:43

it is. I

23:46

mean, what more evidence do you need? Yeah,

23:49

we still don't have all of the sales

23:52

information. There's still

23:54

a ways away from getting sort of the

23:56

full picture of how the

23:58

boycott has affected Bud Light. But

24:00

I can tell you this, okay, Bud Light

24:02

has a lot of information about their own

24:04

sales. And if they were looking at

24:07

the data and they saw that, yeah, this

24:09

was just something happening on Twitter and nobody cares

24:11

and it's not having any real significant

24:14

effect on their sales, they're not going to start firing people

24:16

over it.

24:17

Okay, they wouldn't have issued a statement. They

24:19

wouldn't have started releasing new

24:22

commercials that are meant to

24:25

repair their reputation. They wouldn't be firing

24:28

people. They're doing all this because they're panicked

24:30

and they're desperate.

24:33

So this is a

24:35

conservative boycott of a corporation

24:37

that has gone woke where

24:38

we are punishing them for it

24:41

and it's actually working.

24:43

We are really making a dent. It

24:45

is possible.

24:48

This only goes to show that conservatives

24:51

for so long

24:52

have liked to brag about the fact

24:54

that we're the silent majority.

24:58

I'm not so sure that majority

25:00

is actually true, but

25:02

there are a lot of us, whether

25:04

we're the majority or not, however you

25:06

determine it, but there are a lot of us.

25:09

But

25:12

having those kinds of numbers,

25:15

that doesn't mean anything. It

25:17

will not have no effect if

25:20

we are silent.

25:23

Okay, so it's on us.

25:26

If we decide there's power

25:29

in numbers,

25:30

yeah, we don't have control over the institutions.

25:33

We know all of the disadvantages. But

25:35

even so,

25:36

we have numbers and there's power

25:39

in numbers, but we have to harness it and

25:41

use it in targeted,

25:44

intelligent, strategic ways. And

25:46

that's exactly what is happening here with Bud Light.

25:49

And it's not over, by the way. I'm not suggesting

25:51

that because they've done all this that we should

25:54

take our foot off the gas, not at all.

25:57

As far as I'm concerned...

26:00

Yeah, firing the people responsible, that's a necessary

26:02

step.

26:04

But the statement they put out,

26:06

they

26:06

only put out one statement, and it was not an apology.

26:09

And there needs to be an apology.

26:12

When that happens, firing,

26:15

putting out a statement, that is a total surrender

26:17

by the corporation, that is absolute

26:19

capitulation, and that's a victory. That

26:21

means that we won. That's it. We

26:24

won. I

26:25

think we're well on our way to that result, but we haven't

26:27

gotten there yet, which means that we have to keep pushing.

26:28

AOC appeared on Jen

26:31

Psaki's new MSNBC show, which is

26:33

really, I say it's a new MSNBC show,

26:35

but really it's sort of an update on the unofficial

26:38

MSNBC show that she was hosting back when she was

26:40

doing the White House press briefings. AOC

26:43

appeared and,

26:45

well, just so happens that she casually called

26:47

for the government to censor Tucker Carlson.

26:50

This was before, right before

26:52

Tucker Carlson was gone from

26:54

Fox News, but let's listen to that. Regulation

26:58

in terms of what's allowed on air and

27:00

what isn't. And when you look

27:02

at what Tucker Carlson and some of these other

27:04

folks on Fox do, it is very,

27:08

very clearly incitement

27:10

of violence, very clearly

27:12

incitement of violence. And

27:15

that is the line that I think we have

27:17

to be willing to contend with.

27:20

So this

27:23

is it. The Trojan horse, the vehicle that

27:25

they will use and are using to initiate

27:27

a final crackdown on free speech.

27:30

This is the excuse that

27:33

they will use

27:34

and are using when the government comes in

27:36

and starts openly punishing speech, incitement

27:39

to violence, they say.

27:42

But

27:43

the first step before we get

27:45

to that, when

27:45

it comes to the left, the first step

27:47

always is to make

27:50

the concept seem ambiguous or

27:52

hard to decipher.

27:54

Before the left batters you over the head

27:56

with something,

27:57

they will first remove all objective

27:59

movements.

27:59

meaning from that concept. And

28:02

that's what they've done with this idea of incitement

28:04

to violence, because in reality, incitement

28:07

to violence,

28:08

speech that incites, I

28:11

mean, that's a real thing.

28:12

People can do that, that kind of

28:14

speech exists,

28:17

but it's pretty simple to understand what

28:19

it is. If you are actively

28:21

encouraging people to commit violence

28:24

against somebody, then you

28:26

are inciting

28:29

violence. The Supreme Court has ruled

28:31

on this, and they found that speech

28:34

that incites violence is not protected

28:36

speech, but

28:38

there's a way to determine

28:40

whether speech qualifies. In

28:42

fact, they have a test for determining what incitement

28:45

is. It's called the Brandenburg Test. And

28:48

according to the Supreme Court,

28:50

incitement must involve two things.

28:52

Number one, the speech has to be directed to inciting

28:54

or producing imminent lawless action.

28:58

And two, the speech has to be likely

29:00

to incite or produce such action.

29:03

Okay, so it has to be

29:05

directly encouraging

29:07

lawless action, criminal activity,

29:10

imminent criminal activity,

29:11

and also it has to be likely

29:13

that somebody would respond to the speech that way.

29:16

So if I were to say, just

29:18

as an example, if I were to say that

29:22

the city of San Francisco

29:24

is a hellhole and it's a cesspit,

29:26

it's one of the worst places in the country, it's

29:28

terrible, I hate it, well, you

29:30

can't claim that I'm trying to incite a terrorist

29:33

attack against the city by saying that.

29:36

I'm not directing anyone to do anything, I'm

29:38

just

29:39

giving my opinion about the city. It's

29:41

a negative opinion, it might be an opinion that if you live

29:43

there, it hurts your feelings, but I'm not inciting

29:45

any kind of violence. And

29:47

just taking this Brandenburg Test,

29:50

if I were to even say,

29:52

and I'm not saying this to be clear, but

29:54

if I were to say, San Francisco

29:57

is a cesspit and it's a hellhole,

30:00

and somebody should set off a nuclear

30:02

bomb in the city and reduce

30:04

it to rubble.

30:06

That also

30:08

likely wouldn't qualify as incitement under

30:10

this standard, because even though I'm encouraging

30:12

lawless action in that case, it's extremely

30:15

unlikely that anyone would actually do the

30:17

thing that I'm advocating for. So

30:20

that's how kind of strict this standard is.

30:23

So going over to real world examples,

30:28

everything that they call incitement falls

30:30

into this first category. It doesn't even

30:32

pass the first test of this one, two tests. It

30:34

doesn't even get past number one.

30:37

I'm not calling for a terrorist attack by

30:39

simply saying, I don't like San Francisco

30:42

and conservative commentators when

30:44

they're criticizing leftist ideas

30:46

and leftist people and they're

30:49

disagreeing with trans ideology and they're

30:51

criticizing LGBT

30:54

activism and activists. And

30:56

they're criticizing drag

30:59

queens or sexualized children and they're

31:01

criticizing doctors who mutilate kids.

31:03

By criticizing these people and these ideas,

31:06

we are not directing anyone to

31:09

engage in any violence at all. We're

31:12

simply criticizing them.

31:14

We're giving our perspective about these people

31:16

and what they're doing.

31:18

Even if we were making unfair or

31:20

untrue criticisms, it

31:23

still wouldn't be incitement. But

31:26

in this case, the criticisms are fair and true,

31:29

which is important also.

31:31

So what is actual incitement then?

31:34

Well,

31:35

let's go back to the opening monologue. How about the

31:37

people who actively call for me to be

31:39

murdered?

31:40

That is incitement.

31:42

Okay, I know something about incitement. I see it a lot

31:45

when

31:45

you've got someone saying, hey, here's this guy, Matt Walsh.

31:48

Go kill him.

31:50

That's incitement to violence.

31:52

And also it's clearly foreseeable

31:54

that somebody might actually act on it.

31:56

So if I'm ever like shot in the head while

31:58

walking down the street. you will be able

32:01

to draw a clear and direct line

32:04

between that action

32:06

and all the people who have called directly

32:09

for that action to be taken. That's

32:13

actual incitement. But

32:16

of course it's the kind of incitement that AOC

32:18

is not at all worried

32:21

about.

32:26

All right, also wanted to mention

32:29

that this Trump issued

32:32

a statement about Ron DeSantis. I think this

32:34

was on Friday. And I mean,

32:36

he's issuing statements about Ron DeSantis all the time. But

32:39

this one in particular was somewhat

32:43

egregious. So this is what he said. While

32:46

Ron DeSantis engages in a weeks-long shadow

32:49

campaign for president boasting his playbook,

32:51

Florida continues to tumble into complete

32:53

and total delinquency and

32:56

destruction. On DeSantis' watch,

32:58

Florida has become one of the least affordable states to

33:00

live in the country. In his first term as

33:02

Florida governor, Ron DeSantis raised taxes

33:04

on Floridians by more than $1.5 billion.

33:07

The National Low Income Housing Coalition

33:10

estimates that a Floridian making $10 an hour

33:13

must work 86 hours per week just to afford

33:15

rent on a modest single bedroom home in Florida.

33:18

The cost of living in South Florida shot

33:20

up 10% in just the last year alone. The

33:22

highest increase by years, by

33:24

far and years, while the national average was only 6.5%.

33:29

Then he goes on and he says, prices are going

33:31

up, blah, blah, blah, education

33:33

is bad,

33:34

and Florida has become one of the worst

33:36

states, so on and so forth.

33:38

Now,

33:39

there's a problem with this, aside from the fact that

33:41

it's all lies and nonsense,

33:43

one of the biggest problems is that Trump is using

33:46

far-left Soros-funded propaganda

33:49

to hit DeSantis. So Daily Wire has

33:51

this report, quote, former

33:53

president Donald Trump faced backlash from conservatives

33:55

late last week after using far-left organizations

33:57

and media to attack Florida governor Ron DeSantis.

34:00

and the state of Florida. Trump used data

34:02

from the National Low Income Housing Coalition

34:04

and the Florida Policy Institute to attack the Santas

34:07

for allegedly leading the state to tumble into

34:09

complete and total delinquency and destruction.

34:12

Fox News reported

34:14

that the NLIHC is an organization

34:17

dedicated to achieving racially and

34:20

socially equitable public policy,

34:23

while the Florida Policy Institute is a left-line

34:25

organization that claims to be nonpartisan. Another

34:28

report said that NLIHC was

34:30

a pro-transgender nonprofit that's

34:32

part of a coalition of progressive organizations

34:35

backed by Soros.

34:37

Okay, so there are a couple of problems here,

34:40

and the first is that

34:41

we should remember that Donald Trump

34:44

was a resident of New York

34:46

until recently, and

34:49

he moved to Florida. Okay,

34:52

so he moved to Florida

34:54

when Ron DeSantis was in charge of Florida.

34:58

So that's, if it's so

35:00

terrible and his leadership is so

35:03

awful, why did you move there and

35:05

why are you staying there? Donald

35:08

Trump could

35:10

get a house anywhere he wants to. He chooses to be in

35:12

Florida. There's a reason for that.

35:15

And that's because, in fact, Florida

35:18

is one of the states in our union that

35:20

is thriving

35:22

economically in terms of its

35:24

respect for civil liberties and culturally

35:27

fighting back against the

35:30

woke crazies and all the rest of it.

35:32

Florida is just, and people can see

35:34

that,

35:35

okay? So I understand it's

35:37

a primary,

35:39

and you're gonna criticize your

35:41

opponent, even though DeSantis has not officially

35:43

jumped into the race, but you're gonna criticize him.

35:46

That's fine. You wanna draw a contrast

35:48

between yourself and the other guy because you wanna

35:51

win and you don't want him to win, so I get all that.

35:56

But the issue with Trump is that, number

35:59

one, You can't insult people's intelligence.

36:02

It's one thing to insult DeSantis, he's your

36:04

opponent, fine. But you're insulting

36:06

everybody else. You're insulting your

36:09

own supporters, you're insulting their intelligence when you

36:11

expect them to believe this.

36:13

It's like when Trump goes on and on about how, Ron

36:18

DeSantis was the one that wanted to lock down the

36:20

state and he was really the one pushing lockdowns

36:23

when it was Trump himself

36:25

who handed the country over to, Trump didn't

36:27

just hand the country to Fauci, he put Fauci

36:30

on TV every single

36:32

day for months. Okay,

36:35

Trump started the prime time

36:38

Tony

36:38

Fauci hour.

36:43

So a lot of Anthony

36:45

Fauci being crowned as a martyr, a

36:47

hero, a saint and all the rest of it, we

36:50

have Trump to thank for that.

36:52

Not only did he not fire him, maybe

36:55

you could make excuses for the fact that he didn't fire and

36:57

I don't buy those excuses, but you could try to make excuses.

37:00

You didn't have to put him on TV every day. You

37:03

didn't have to make him into a TV star, you didn't

37:05

have to do that, but

37:07

he did. And he tries to

37:09

pass it over to Ron DeSantis. It's

37:12

insulting to our intelligence, we all lived

37:14

through it. Okay, anyone who's gonna be

37:16

a voting age in 2024 lived

37:18

through it and remembers it. And

37:22

we're also aware the Florida is thriving,

37:24

it is, we know that.

37:28

But the other point too is that,

37:30

I

37:33

feel very strongly about this, as someone who

37:35

is often the target of left wing hit pieces,

37:38

you never use left wing hit pieces

37:41

against your own side,

37:42

ever. Things

37:44

might get tough

37:47

in a primary, totally get that,

37:51

but you never use left wing

37:53

hit pieces. You don't use left wing

37:55

propaganda against your own side, against

37:58

your own people. You never do that. Okay,

38:01

that means that you don't take out

38:03

of context media matters clips and

38:08

use those to hit somebody on your own side.

38:10

You don't take propaganda from some

38:12

pro-trans, pro-BLM

38:17

social equity organization.

38:20

You just don't do that. Okay,

38:22

because what you're doing in an effort to

38:26

take down somebody you don't like, and the only reason you don't

38:28

like, the only reason Trump doesn't like DeSantis

38:30

is because DeSantis is potentially

38:32

going to run for president. He feels personally

38:34

betrayed by that.

38:36

So it's all personal. It's all

38:38

it is. It's got nothing to do with principles. It's got nothing to do with conservatism.

38:40

It's got nothing to do with who's a better leader,

38:43

who's, you know, governance, nothing to

38:45

do with any of that.

38:46

This is certainly not a policy. These aren't policy

38:49

differences. You notice Trump rarely

38:51

brings up any policy differences

38:53

with Ron DeSantis. Always

38:56

personal all the time.

38:59

So in an effort to land

39:01

a blow on

39:02

this guy that you personally don't like, you

39:04

are legitimizing

39:06

these far

39:09

left propaganda organizations.

39:11

And that to me is just unforgivable.

39:13

You never do that.

39:16

All right. Legendary

39:18

NBA coach Phil Jackson did an interview a

39:20

few days ago where he said that he no longer watches

39:23

the NBA because it's too political. And this

39:25

is if you don't follow the NBA. I mean,

39:27

I I stopped following the NBA at exactly

39:29

the same time that it seems Phil Jackson stopped following

39:32

it. But if you've never followed it, then what

39:34

you should know is that this is Phil Jackson is

39:36

this is the guy that coached Michael

39:38

Jordan. He coached Kobe Bryant,

39:41

Shaquille O'Neal. I mean, this is a legendary

39:44

one of the greatest NBA coaches of all time.

39:46

And he's saying that he doesn't watch

39:49

the sport anymore because

39:51

of the way that it's been politicized. Listen to

39:53

this. Do you still watch a

39:56

lot of basketball or? No, I

39:59

don't. Tell me about that. When and did you stop

40:01

immediately from the time you stopped coaching?

40:04

No, I didn't. I

40:09

watched some of the game evolve

40:12

and decided, and they went

40:14

into the lockout year and they did something

40:16

that was kind of wanky. They did

40:19

a bubble down in Orlando and

40:21

all the teams that could qualify went down there and stayed

40:23

down there. No audience. And

40:26

they had things on their back like Justice

40:29

and I mean a little funny

40:31

thing like, you know,

40:34

Justice just went to the basket

40:36

and equal opportunity just knocked

40:38

him down. And somebody

40:41

had another name for a guy who has

40:44

Jersey in the back of Jersey, had some other

40:46

slogan. Some of my grandkids

40:48

thought that was pretty funny

40:50

to play up those names.

40:53

So I couldn't watch that. Lakers

40:55

won actually. They won that year.

40:59

Do you feel like it just made little

41:01

of the game, like a sideshow?

41:04

What do you think it was that turned you off? Well,

41:07

it was,

41:08

they even had slogans on the floor, on

41:12

the baseline. It

41:14

was catering. It

41:17

was trying to cater to an audience or

41:19

trying to bring a certain audience into play.

41:22

And they didn't know it was turning other people

41:24

off. You know, people want

41:26

to see sports as non-political. You

41:29

know, we've had a lot of different.

41:32

Okay, we got it there. So that's Phil Jackson

41:35

saying it's the same reason, as

41:37

I said, same reason I stopped watching the NBA.

41:40

It

41:41

was just far too much. Also,

41:44

when they did the bubble

41:47

year when they were all locked down, there was

41:49

no audience and no fans.

41:52

It's just too weird to even try to watch that. But

41:54

on top of it, the over the

41:56

top, relentless politicizing

41:59

that goes on.

42:02

So that was Phil Jackson's problem. Now, as you might

42:04

expect,

42:06

people on the left, not happy about this.

42:08

People associated with the NBA,

42:10

not happy with what Phil Jackson said. So here's Jalen

42:12

Rose, who's a former NBA player, turned

42:14

NBA commentator. And

42:18

he was upset about this. Here's what he said.

42:20

You can't make this up. Hall

42:22

of Fame coach and 11-time champion, Phil

42:24

Jackson, claims to

42:26

have stopped supporting the NBA because

42:28

it became too political when

42:31

it went into the bubble and

42:33

was catering to certain audiences by

42:36

putting slogans on the back of jerseys

42:39

and Black Lives Matter on the floor. The

42:41

same Phil Jackson that

42:43

won championships with some of the greatest

42:46

black athletes in

42:48

the history of the game,

42:50

Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, Shaquille

42:53

O'Neal, Kobe Bryant, who

42:55

made millions on their backs and

42:58

off their sweat equity. You're

43:00

sitting up watching the game with your grandkids,

43:03

and y'all think it's funny

43:05

when justice passes the ball

43:08

to equal opportunity, when

43:11

somebody shows you who they are, believe

43:13

them. So stop watching

43:16

forever. I

43:20

mean, there wasn't even a criticism there. I

43:23

was waiting for, all he did was restate.

43:27

All he did was restate in an outraged way

43:29

what Phil Jackson said. You think it's funny?

43:32

You think it's funny when justice

43:34

passes the ball to equal opportunity? Yeah, that

43:36

is funny. That's

43:37

very funny.

43:40

This is one of the great disadvantages that

43:47

the left is dealing

43:49

with right now in the culture war and something that we

43:52

have hardly even begun to exploit, but

43:54

it's a major one.

43:56

Yeah, they own the institutions, they own everything, but

43:58

they

43:59

are...

43:59

They are totally humorless now.

44:02

They are humorless scolds to

44:06

the point where they'll pretend they

44:08

don't see why it's funny or at

44:10

the very least

44:11

make your eyes roll,

44:13

you know, to have

44:16

NBA players run around the court

44:18

with slogans like equal opportunity

44:20

and justice. If you can't see

44:24

what makes that corny and, you

44:27

know, laughable, well,

44:30

that's the disadvantage that they're at. They

44:33

are required because obviously

44:36

Jalen Rose

44:38

knows that that's

44:40

at a minimum incredibly corny. He

44:42

knows that. But

44:44

he's not allowed to know that,

44:46

right? He has to pretend. Even

44:49

if they aren't really humorless scolds deep

44:51

inside their minds, they have to pretend that they are. They're

44:54

not allowed, their ideology

44:56

compels them

44:58

to have no sense

45:00

of humor. They have to sacrifice their sense of humor

45:02

on the altar of vogueism. And that gives

45:04

us an incredible opportunity, which we should be taking

45:06

greater advantage of. Let's get to the

45:08

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46:29

a full show. We also had

46:31

to go to our most recent video for comments, for the comment

46:33

section. This is the video, the

46:36

segment that we did about the

46:39

creepy weirdo Blippi

46:41

and the children's YouTube

46:43

entertainer who is actually

46:47

incredibly terrifying. We

46:49

have some comments from that. Shane says, I gained 500%

46:51

more respect for Matt when

46:53

he said he doesn't let his kids watch YouTube.

46:56

Most parents don't have the guts to do that. You

46:59

know,

46:59

that really shouldn't require guts

47:01

at all just to say no to your kids. It

47:05

does not require courage. I

47:08

understand why parents don't

47:11

wanna say no. I get that.

47:15

Saying no, it's like the

47:17

path of least resistance as a parent,

47:19

at least in the short term,

47:21

is to say yes to everything, don't say

47:24

no, because then you're not gonna have

47:26

your kid arguing with you, they're not gonna whine

47:28

about it, and if you're saying yes

47:30

to something like, yeah, go watch whatever you want, go watch

47:32

YouTube, well, then they're gonna be out of your hair and they're gonna

47:34

be watching that all day. And like I said, in the

47:36

short term,

47:37

that's the path of least resistance. That

47:40

makes your life easier in the short term.

47:43

Now, in the long term, you've

47:47

just made it more difficult for your child to become

47:50

a

47:50

well-adjusted, successful,

47:53

intelligent, interesting

47:56

adult,

47:57

and that's gonna cause a lot of heartache for you down the

47:59

line.

47:59

and more importantly for your child.

48:02

But in the short term, it is easier.

48:07

But that's all it is. So this is not a matter

48:09

of having courage. It's just a matter of

48:11

being willing to put in a little

48:13

bit of effort, being

48:16

willing to pay

48:18

attention to your kids. Especially, listen,

48:22

especially when children are younger, you

48:25

know, your kids,

48:28

the age of my kids are younger.

48:31

You can always, it's like,

48:33

yeah,

48:35

you can take pretty much anything away from them.

48:40

And they'll almost be fine with it

48:43

if you replace that

48:44

by engaging with them yourself,

48:48

by paying attention to your kids.

48:52

So anytime my kids ask anything, they want

48:54

to do anything, they want to watch a movie, they want to, whatever it is,

48:56

whatever they're asking for. If

48:59

I say, if I just say, no, you can't

49:01

do that, but, you know,

49:03

go somewhere and play.

49:04

Well, they're going to be disappointed and they're going to whine and

49:06

all the rest of it. If I say,

49:09

no, you can't do that, let's, how

49:12

about you and I, how about we spend time together? Let's go do

49:14

this instead, all of us.

49:16

They'll always be happier with that

49:19

compromise. That means

49:21

you have to spend, you have to be willing

49:23

to spend time with your kids and pay attention to them and

49:26

everything else.

49:28

Robert Ordus says, thanks,

49:30

Matt, very helpful. I have a three-year-old and

49:33

I would like to know some

49:35

of the shows you allow your kids to watch.

49:38

Pretty much at this point when it comes to kid shows,

49:41

and there might be some other, I'm sure there are others out there that

49:43

are good, but the ones that

49:45

I'm most okay with, so there's

49:47

Bluey,

49:49

which I think I was originally told about that

49:51

by people in the comments or in the comment section. So

49:53

I have them to thank for that.

49:56

Bluey, there's none of the woke garbage.

49:59

It's, yeah.

49:59

I think

50:02

it's a wholesome show, it's a good show for kids.

50:05

It's not overly loud

50:07

and obnoxious. And

50:10

it's a wholesome fight and it's tolerable. I'm

50:12

not gonna say that I enjoy sitting there watching Bluey,

50:14

but I can at least be in the same room as

50:17

it. And that's one of my

50:19

most important tests

50:21

when it comes to children's entertainment.

50:23

Yeah, if I see anything that

50:26

smells of left-wing propaganda, then

50:28

it's out the window immediately.

50:30

But if it's so obnoxious that I can't

50:32

even be in the room when it's on,

50:35

then I'm not gonna let my kids watch. I'm

50:37

not gonna let their brain be subjected to that kind of stability.

50:40

So Bluey's not that, it's tolerable. Masha

50:42

and the Bear on Netflix, I think it's originally

50:45

a Russian show and it's been dubbed, but

50:48

there's not a lot of dialogue in it anyway. That's

50:50

another one, the kids like that one.

50:53

And then outside of that, most

50:55

of the TV that my kids watch, we'll

50:58

watch TV as a family.

51:00

And I'm not gonna sit there and watch a kid show with them. So

51:02

we'll watch just Saturday

51:04

morning, this past Saturday, we

51:07

were watching nature documentaries. We're a big nature

51:09

documentary family. I

51:11

think I've said before, we like to watch survival shows,

51:14

any kind of show where it's a guy who goes out

51:16

into the woods and teaches you survival skills, there's a bunch of

51:18

shows like that. We've watched all of them, so we

51:20

watch those as a family. And that's what

51:22

I prefer. You like to be able

51:24

to put the TV on for your kid and leave the room. There's

51:27

nothing wrong with doing that in moderation. But

51:31

I think ideally, TV,

51:32

it shouldn't take over

51:35

your life. The screen should not take

51:37

over your life, but as much as possible,

51:39

it should be a family activity. All

51:42

right, hippie Hebrew mama says, "'Matt

51:45

Walsh acting like the whole world "'didn't already know

51:47

about Blippi's past.'" I didn't know

51:49

about it. Well, I didn't know who Blippi was until recently. And

51:51

then I was, I

51:53

must say, shocked to find out his

51:55

past, which I'm not even going into detail about

51:57

what it was, because I don't want to relive that again.

51:59

No,

52:01

I didn't know that. And I guess maybe I was

52:03

being optimistic and I was being generous to

52:05

the parents who allow their kids to watch it by assuming

52:08

that they also didn't know

52:10

this information.

52:12

Unless you're telling me that parents

52:14

knew what this Blippi

52:16

guy was doing before he became Blippi and

52:18

they still put that on for their

52:20

kids,

52:22

I hope that's not the case.

52:25

Skylon, there are some Blippi defenses here. Skylon

52:28

says, Blippi is an Air Force veteran, not creepy at

52:30

all, but can assume because he's sort of a large

52:33

character, clownish, people can be freaked out by clowns.

52:36

He connects with kids because he does walk-throughs of

52:38

really interesting play zones, museums, zoos,

52:41

always points out colors, letters, great songs.

52:44

He made up the character for his nephew and it just took off.

52:47

The Spoken Wizard says, attacking Blippi? I

52:49

have to disagree with Matt on this one. The guy visits kids

52:51

facilities and educational places like museums

52:53

and aquariums. I guess the more right you

52:55

become, the more you turn into a prude.

52:59

Crews says, no, this is a mismatch.

53:02

My daughter watches this and now she knows colors,

53:04

counts and even sings some of the songs she

53:06

sings like the Dinosaur Song, which is super

53:08

fun singing with her. Kids don't know about

53:11

a grown man playing in a playground. They just see someone

53:13

playing.

53:15

Yeah, he did some dirty stuff, but he doesn't anymore.

53:18

I don't intend to tell my daughter she wouldn't understand

53:21

anyway.

53:22

So you did know about that and you let your kid watch

53:24

it. Okay, listen,

53:27

and this is the Blippi defense that I've heard.

53:29

Oh, the kids watch and they learn shapes and colors.

53:33

Do you know how many different ways

53:35

there are to teach your kids about shapes and colors?

53:39

Any kid's show does that.

53:40

Any kid's book does that.

53:44

There are many different ways. Okay,

53:47

my kids all learned about their shapes

53:49

and colors and how to count.

53:51

My three-year-old knows all that stuff. She's

53:53

never watched Blippi.

53:55

Because there are so many other ways to teach them that. That

53:59

don't come.

53:59

with the downside,

54:03

which is the, as Cruz says, the

54:06

dirty stuff. So there's, you know,

54:09

there are shows that I can put on

54:12

for my kids that will teach them

54:14

these things

54:15

and that don't have the dirty

54:18

background that Blippi does. Quite

54:21

dirty indeed, in fact.

54:23

And also there are plenty of ways to teach them where

54:26

you don't have the trade-off of it being creepy

54:29

and loud and dumb and

54:31

annoying.

54:33

Okay, this,

54:34

I think this comes as news to some parents,

54:36

but you don't need that. Like there are ways

54:39

to teach kids information

54:41

without having bright lights and sounds

54:44

and all this stupidity screamed

54:46

in their face. There are other ways to do it.

54:49

There are better ways actually. And

54:52

I would explore all of those options before

54:55

I would ever go to Blippi. I

54:58

would rather my kids never learn

55:00

how to count than learn

55:02

it from Blippi. If Blippi was

55:04

the only person in the world who

55:07

could teach my kids how to count, well, then I guess they're

55:09

never gonna learn how to count. They'll have to do without it.

55:12

When leftists tell you that America is systemically

55:14

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55:16

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55:18

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55:21

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55:42

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55:46

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55:51

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to our daily cancellation.

56:03

One of my all-time favorite quotes comes from

56:05

one of my all-time favorite people, Teddy Roosevelt. I

56:08

have the text of Roosevelt's man in the arena

56:11

speech hanging on the wall in my office. And

56:13

as that great man observed, it is not the

56:15

critic who counts, it's not the man who points

56:18

out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer

56:20

of deeds could have done better. The credit

56:22

belongs to the man who was actually in the arena.

56:24

It's better to try and fail

56:26

while daring greatly than to never try or

56:28

to achieve anything at all so

56:31

that you'll never know either victory or defeat.

56:34

I'm paraphrasing now, but that's the general idea. And

56:37

it's a speech that came to mind on Thursday

56:39

with news that Elon Musk's new rocket

56:42

exploded after successfully lifting off

56:44

from the launch. Starship

56:46

is the largest, most powerful rocket

56:49

ever built. It's

56:50

a staggering 400 feet long with 16.5 million pounds of

56:52

thrust. Essentially,

56:55

it's a skyscraper designed

56:57

to go into deep space.

56:59

Eventually, Musk wants to use the rocket

57:01

to send manned missions to the moon, to Mars,

57:04

out farther into interplanetary space.

57:07

The vessel will be able to hold 100 people on each

57:09

mission along with all the supplies and fuel

57:11

and everything else that they'll need.

57:13

But it requires a lot of trial and error to

57:15

achieve something of this magnitude. No

57:18

intelligent person expects that SpaceX

57:21

would be able to build Starship

57:23

and then send it off to Mars on the first try

57:26

without any issues.

57:28

Things certainly didn't work that smoothly in the early days

57:30

of NASA or even in the later days of NASA.

57:33

But we are surrounded with lots of very unintelligent

57:35

people who are seemingly proud of their stupidity.

57:39

And so the rocket's malfunction,

57:41

a malfunction that was very much expected and

57:43

planned for, was met with

57:46

jeers and mockery from the Peanut Gallery.

57:48

There were many snide comments and laughing

57:51

face emojis.

57:53

Leftists in particular were delighted, declaring

57:55

that the explosion was some sort of cosmic retribution

57:58

for Musk's ideological crimes.

58:00

The media joined in the celebration, laughing

58:03

scornfully, tossing subtle and not so

58:05

subtle jabs. Here's Mika Brzezinski

58:07

on Morning Joe, turning the snigness

58:10

level up to 100. Listen.

58:12

Friday, well, it's Friday. Yes, and

58:14

Thursday was a very rough

58:16

day for Elon Musk. I don't

58:18

know about that. First his $3 billion rocket

58:21

exploded. I'm

58:23

gonna question that framing.

58:24

They get a lot of great data out

58:26

of that. It exploded. But

58:29

it was a planned explosion. No. They

58:32

got what they wanted. They got a massive

58:35

data. It was a step forward.

58:36

It was an unscheduled disassembly,

58:38

as they call it. Well, I have had many of them. Or

58:40

it exploded. I've had many of them. Then

58:43

he planned to make people

58:46

pay for Twitter verification. His

58:48

plan to do that blew up on

58:51

the social media side and on top

58:53

of all of that. That was not good.

58:55

No. That actually is. That's kind

58:57

of a mess. It's a shame. And on top of all

58:59

of that, Tesla's value dropped by around $50 billion

59:03

as its stock price fell by 10%.

59:06

We're gonna have much more on those stories

59:08

right ahead. Not to be a nag

59:10

here, but there are a million different

59:14

market forces that are pushing

59:16

and pulling. Then just EVs

59:18

are a lot more competition

59:19

there. All we're saying is it was a rough day. Okay.

59:24

That was generally the tone from

59:26

most of the media and many of the snickering

59:29

idiots on social media. Nevermind that,

59:31

as Joe Scarborough actually correctly pointed out, the

59:33

failure was not really a failure. SpaceX

59:36

intentionally triggered the rocket self-destruct system

59:38

after it veered off course and the boosters failed to separate.

59:41

The failure was a malfunction, but identifying

59:43

the malfunctions

59:44

is the point of the exercise.

59:46

Again, nobody expected the thing to make it all the way to

59:48

Mars on the first go. Either way,

59:50

it was meant to crash land. They

59:53

originally meant to crash land in the Pacific.

59:55

The only question was how far it would get before

59:57

it was destroyed. Ultimately, it made it 20 miles. into

1:00:00

space, which is pretty damned impressive for a

1:00:02

vessel the size of a 40-story building.

1:00:05

It also means that they were able to gather important information.

1:00:07

It will make the next launch even more successful, which

1:00:10

will in turn lead to another launch more

1:00:12

successful than that one.

1:00:13

You have to walk before you can run. You have to

1:00:16

get your rocket twice the size of a Boeing 777

1:00:19

into the stratosphere before you can get it

1:00:21

into outer space.

1:00:22

This is what science and discovery

1:00:25

are supposed to look like. This is how they work. Innovation

1:00:28

is a series of failures. As

1:00:30

long as you learn from them,

1:00:32

the process is working exactly as it should.

1:00:35

You can't achieve anything worthwhile

1:00:38

without taking risks. And if you take risks,

1:00:40

you're guaranteed to fail at least some

1:00:43

of the time.

1:00:44

Anybody who takes risks and never fails isn't

1:00:47

really taking risks at all.

1:00:49

This is what separates risk takers

1:00:52

from everybody else. The risk taker has

1:00:54

the courage to fail. See,

1:00:56

many people in our culture,

1:00:58

they don't understand this point because we live in a world

1:01:01

where so much of the innovation and

1:01:03

discovery has already happened.

1:01:05

The trials and errors, those were all suffered

1:01:08

before we were born. And this is the

1:01:10

story of modern society. We inherited

1:01:12

a world of luxury where everything

1:01:15

comes easy and quickly, handed

1:01:17

to us on a silver platter.

1:01:19

And we assume that it must have always been this way.

1:01:22

We don't appreciate the fact that there is

1:01:24

a whole history of work and suffering

1:01:26

and failure and sweat and tears and blood

1:01:29

that is all baked into this

1:01:31

cake that we're currently devouring

1:01:33

ungratefully.

1:01:35

If somebody comes along and tries to push the boundaries,

1:01:37

tries to do something new, we laugh

1:01:39

because it looks absurd to us

1:01:42

because we are the most apathetic and ungrateful

1:01:44

generation of human beings to ever exist

1:01:46

on the planet.

1:01:48

But this isn't just about Elon Musk and the

1:01:50

rocket that exploded. In general,

1:01:53

I am just tired of the losers

1:01:55

who have never done anything,

1:01:57

never achieved anything,

1:01:59

never even... even tried to achieve anything, and

1:02:02

yet who think that they're in a position to criticize

1:02:05

those who are actually in the arena.

1:02:08

There are the doers of deeds,

1:02:10

to use Roosevelt's phrase, and then there

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are the pathetic, scared little weaklings

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who sit off to the side, offering their useless

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critiques

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while contributing nothing of substance to the

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world.

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This dynamic has always existed. Roosevelt

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pointed to it over a century ago, but the difference

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is that we have so many

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in that latter category now. We

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have so few doers of deeds and

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so many doers of nothing.

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Ironically, the achievers, the

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doers in the past, they achieved

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so much that they made it possible for

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people in our time to do nothing, to achieve

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nothing, and yet live in comfort.

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The sidelines have never been so crowded or

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so noisy, full

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of people who are terrified to step foot onto the field,

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but will laugh nonetheless at anybody

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else who stumbles while doing what they would never

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do,

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and could never do. And

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a bunch of losers laughing at

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a guy who literally builds spaceships

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is just the most absurd and extreme manifestation

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of this phenomenon. It certainly is not the only one.

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And that is why the entire do-nothing

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peanut gallery is today canceled.

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That'll do it for this portion of

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shows. We move over to the members' block. Hope to see you there. If

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not, talk to you tomorrow. Godspeed.