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[00:00:00] Let me uh commend you in your tight rope [00:00:02] walking skills. I I don't check into [00:00:04] social media that much, but whenever I [00:00:05] do, I'm like, Matt Walsh is an amazing [00:00:07] man. [laughter] [00:00:08] >> Glad you feel that way anyway. [00:00:10] >> No, I mean I there's a lot The reason I [00:00:13] want to talk to you is there's a lot [00:00:14] that I admire about how you've handled [00:00:16] this just as a man. Um leaving aside our [00:00:21] opinions, which I I don't even know if [00:00:22] they are probably different in some [00:00:24] ways, same in other ways, but it's not [00:00:26] even about that. I you know everybody [00:00:29] involved personally or most of them [00:00:31] involved in all these dramas on the [00:00:33] right and I think the way that you've [00:00:35] handled it is just so so impressive. Um [00:00:38] so thank you for that. But but first [00:00:40] like what is going on? There is a civil [00:00:43] war probably not too strong on the right [00:00:45] within the Trump coalition. What is it? [00:00:48] [music] [00:00:53] >> [music] [00:01:08] >> Yeah, I mean this has been uh it's it's [00:01:11] been a really awful I think I think for [00:01:14] everybody and [00:01:17] a a lot of this drama obviously goes [00:01:19] back [00:01:21] goes back a long way. But I think after [00:01:23] Charlie was killed, it's created this [00:01:26] kind of this vacuum and it's a it's a [00:01:30] leadership vacuum because Charlie was uh [00:01:33] was I think the the best leader we had [00:01:36] on the right. And the the tragic reality [00:01:39] is that a lot of the stuff that that we [00:01:42] said right after he was killed turned [00:01:45] out not to be true. stuff that even I [00:01:47] said like, "Well, you you killed [00:01:49] Charlie, but you made a you made a [00:01:52] million more, right? You killed Char you [00:01:54] killed one Charlie, but now we have a [00:01:55] million more Charlies." [00:01:58] And I think I think we said that because [00:02:00] it it we wanted that to be true. And it [00:02:02] kind of felt for for a brief amount of [00:02:04] time it felt that way because it felt [00:02:05] like everybody was sort of unified and [00:02:08] we were coming together and you going to [00:02:10] the memorial and everybody was there and [00:02:13] uh and it felt like almost this revival [00:02:15] even this religious revival and all [00:02:17] these things but then I think quickly [00:02:20] reality sets in and what we have [00:02:23] realized and what we've seen is that you [00:02:25] kill Charlie [00:02:27] and now Charlie's gone. And when when [00:02:29] you that's the thing when you kill [00:02:31] someone they're they're gone at least in [00:02:32] this life. And so we no we didn't go [00:02:35] from one Charlie to a million Charlies. [00:02:36] We went from one Charlie to zero [00:02:38] Charlies. And that's just that's what [00:02:40] happens with the that's why [00:02:41] assassinations happen. That's why people [00:02:43] do them because it works. [00:02:45] >> Yeah. Because they work. [00:02:47] >> And that's that's been the greatest [00:02:48] tragedy about all this. I mean, aside [00:02:50] from the human tragedy that an actual [00:02:52] human being lost their lost his life and [00:02:56] his wife doesn't have a husband, his [00:02:58] kids don't have a father. I mean, that's [00:03:00] that's the great tragedy, the human [00:03:01] tragedy. But on a on a kind of national [00:03:04] scale, the tragedy is that [00:03:08] the the strategy of assassination has [00:03:12] been proven effective again, as it has [00:03:16] all throughout human history. [00:03:18] And so now this guy who was this I think [00:03:21] to an extent that none of us fully [00:03:23] realized was the glue that was holding [00:03:27] everything together on the right holding [00:03:29] holding this whole crazy coalition [00:03:31] together. It turns out it was like one [00:03:33] guy who was doing this and his [00:03:36] organization which which is is still [00:03:39] around who I have a lot of respect for [00:03:40] TPUSA. [00:03:42] Um and I think they're doing the [00:03:44] absolute best they can in the face of [00:03:45] this. I mean, I have no I can't even [00:03:47] imagine being in the spot that they're [00:03:48] in. [00:03:50] >> But [00:03:51] he was the leader of organization. He [00:03:52] was a leader of the conservative [00:03:54] movement. He was the glue and and now [00:03:56] he's gone and it it kind of feels like [00:03:58] everything's coming undone to be honest [00:03:59] with you. Um [00:04:02] and there's this uh so there's all the [00:04:04] there's all the fighting that go that's [00:04:05] that's going on. And uh for me [00:04:08] personally and and I I don't like to [00:04:12] I I don't get into this because first of [00:04:13] all I don't like talking about myself. I [00:04:15] I like I like to talk about the things I [00:04:16] that I think I talk about my ideas about [00:04:18] things all the time, [00:04:20] >> but I don't like talking about myself. [00:04:22] >> Good. I like people who don't like [00:04:23] talking about themselves. But with that [00:04:24] said, I hope you'll talk about yourself. [00:04:26] >> Well, and also I don't want to uh like [00:04:28] I'm not the victim of any of this at [00:04:30] all. Uh but I can only speak from my own [00:04:33] experiences. And so my experience is [00:04:36] that I'm a consider myself a personal [00:04:40] friend of many of the people on either [00:04:43] side of all of these various disputes, [00:04:46] including a friend of yours. Um, [00:04:50] and so that that's a that's a very [00:04:53] complicated position to be in. [00:04:55] [laughter] [00:04:56] And then what what ends up what ends up [00:04:57] happening is [00:04:58] >> Yes. And there's so there's people on [00:05:00] either side. It's really not even two [00:05:02] sides. It's I don't know how many. It's [00:05:03] a fractured to a million pieces it feels [00:05:05] like. And so you've got the people on [00:05:08] all the different sides of the different [00:05:10] disputes who are shouting at me that [00:05:13] well I need to denounce so and so. I [00:05:15] need to disavow this person. I need to [00:05:18] come out and say you know that I not not [00:05:22] just I just that I disagree because it's [00:05:23] one that we'd have disagreements [00:05:25] but the pressure is beyond it. The [00:05:27] pressure is no, don't just disagree, but [00:05:29] disavow, denounce the condemn. [00:05:33] And [00:05:35] my answer has been, and not everybody [00:05:36] respects it. You don't have to respect [00:05:38] it, [00:05:40] but [00:05:43] my answer is no. I'm not going to do [00:05:45] that. And I'm not going to denounce a [00:05:48] friend. [00:05:50] I'm not ever I'm not ever going to do [00:05:52] it, like ever. Because to me, loyalty is [00:05:57] a principle. Loyalty is a So when when [00:05:59] people say, "Well, you need to stand on [00:06:01] your principles and come out and say [00:06:02] this or that." Well, loyalty is a [00:06:05] principle in my mind, uh, it's one of [00:06:08] the most important principles for any [00:06:10] person, for for a man especially. [00:06:12] And I think that, you know, people, if [00:06:15] you're not if you're not in the middle [00:06:16] of it and you're kind of on the outside, [00:06:18] there are a lot of things that go on [00:06:19] behind the scenes you don't know about. [00:06:23] Um, and so when I say that somebody is a [00:06:25] friend and I feel personal loyalty to [00:06:27] them, that doesn't just mean that, oh, I [00:06:29] kind of like that person. But for me [00:06:31] anyway, what that means is this is [00:06:33] someone who I know personally. [00:06:34] >> Yes. [00:06:35] >> Who I can call on the phone, who I can [00:06:37] share a meal with. I've shared a meal [00:06:38] with. And very often, this is someone [00:06:42] who has had my back and supported me in [00:06:46] ways that you might not see. not not in [00:06:49] like a they've paid me off, [00:06:51] >> but just in a friend way, like I I've [00:06:53] got your back. I'm going to support you. [00:06:55] I'll defend you. Hey, everyone's [00:06:56] attacking you for this or that reason, [00:06:58] and I got your back, right? Um and so [00:07:01] there are a lot of people who've done [00:07:02] that for me. And once you do that for [00:07:06] me, [00:07:08] then I feel like duty bound that I [00:07:11] cannot turn around. I will not turn [00:07:13] around and stab you in the back or [00:07:16] condemn you. like you have my back, I'll [00:07:18] have yours. That's that's that's the [00:07:20] idea. [00:07:20] >> Okay. That's the principle you said. You [00:07:23] said it's more than an idea. It's more [00:07:24] than an emotional response. It's a [00:07:25] principle. And you said it's especially [00:07:27] important for men. And I I just agree [00:07:31] with you so strongly when you say that, [00:07:33] but I haven't taken the time to think [00:07:35] through why it's so important to me. Can [00:07:39] you explain why that's a principle and [00:07:40] why it's especially important for men? [00:07:43] Well, I think it's about I think it's [00:07:44] about in I think it's about integrity. [00:07:48] Um, it's a it's a matter of personal [00:07:52] integrity. It's also a matter of [00:07:55] of of having a spine. I mean, if if if [00:08:00] you denounce someone because especially [00:08:03] again a friend [00:08:05] because you've got a million people [00:08:06] screaming in your face and telling you [00:08:07] to do it, well, how can that possibly be [00:08:10] a principled stand? you're doing it to [00:08:11] get people to stop yelling at you, [00:08:13] right? [00:08:13] >> That's why you're doing it. [00:08:15] >> Um and and actually if even if they're [00:08:17] not your friend, if people are yelling [00:08:18] at if you do anything cuz people are [00:08:19] yelling at you to do it, then that [00:08:20] that's that's the wrong it's the wrong [00:08:22] reason to do something. [00:08:23] >> Yes. [00:08:23] >> It's the wrong reason even to do the [00:08:24] right thing on really. [00:08:26] >> But um with a with a friend, it's it's [00:08:29] the wrong thing. There's also just this [00:08:30] basic principle of um [00:08:34] you know, doing to others as you would [00:08:36] have them do unto you. [00:08:37] >> And there's something uniquely repulsive [00:08:39] about betrayal. [00:08:41] And that's what that is. That's why [00:08:43] Quizling got executed. That's why Judas [00:08:46] is reviled. Betrayal. You know, someone [00:08:49] that you're responsible for or are in a [00:08:52] real relationship with and then you whip [00:08:54] around and undercut the person. That's [00:08:56] worse than like an invading army kind [00:08:59] of. It feels that way to me. [00:09:01] >> And I think I think that's right. That's [00:09:03] something we all kind of instinctively [00:09:04] understand. [00:09:06] Uh which is why everyone has such a low [00:09:08] opinion of traders. [00:09:09] >> Yes. you know, uh, traders are are below [00:09:12] >> exactly [00:09:13] >> dirt in terms of of how we rank them. [00:09:16] >> Now, disagreement on the other hand is [00:09:19] not betrayal. And you can obviously [00:09:21] disagree with someone who's a friend. [00:09:24] Uh, and if you have a friend who demands [00:09:26] that you never disagree with them, well, [00:09:29] that's [snorts] not really a friend. [00:09:30] >> No. [00:09:30] >> And the relationship you have with them [00:09:31] is one of it's not a friend [00:09:33] relationship. [00:09:34] >> It's a master slave relationship. [00:09:35] >> It's master it's a subservient [00:09:36] relationship. [00:09:36] >> Exactly. And um and as men, we should [00:09:39] not be in those kinds of relationships [00:09:40] either. So you could certainly disagree [00:09:42] with someone. Uh and so I'm not talking [00:09:44] about that. And that's important because [00:09:45] even what I'm saying right now, I know [00:09:47] that Twitter's going to have fun with it [00:09:48] and they're and they're going to say, [00:09:49] "Oh, you're saying you can never [00:09:51] disagree with a friend." Of course you [00:09:52] can disagree with a friend. What I I'm [00:09:54] not talking about that. I'm I'm talking [00:09:55] about what I have personally [00:09:57] experienced. Like if I look in my [00:10:00] mentions or email or even people I talk [00:10:03] to [00:10:04] uh of saying denounce, condemn, disavow. [00:10:07] Okay, that that is the that is very [00:10:10] specifically that's what I've heard and [00:10:13] uh that is the thing that I cannot ever [00:10:16] do. And maybe I have a more [00:10:20] extreme view of that than most people. I [00:10:22] mean [00:10:23] >> no you don't. [00:10:24] have the most basic human view. Like [00:10:26] what world are we in? [00:10:27] >> Well, because someone someone asked me [00:10:28] once, they said, we were talking about [00:10:30] this and they said, uh, [00:10:33] >> okay, what if someone you're really [00:10:34] close with uh your brother? What if he [00:10:39] murders someone? What if what if he [00:10:40] becomes an axe murderer? [00:10:43] Well, then you would disavow him and [00:10:45] condemn him, wouldn't you? [00:10:46] >> No, I'd get him a fake passport, [00:10:48] >> right? Well, maybe is my brother. [00:10:50] >> Yeah. I I if my brother was a serial [00:10:53] killer and had 40 bodies in his [00:10:55] basement, I would not get on camera and [00:10:59] disavow or condemn him. I I would not do [00:11:02] it. Now, [00:11:03] >> now, who are you saying this to? Someone [00:11:04] actually asked you that question. [00:11:07] >> Yes. Uh to be clear, it was not my [00:11:09] brother who was trying to make sure I [00:11:10] wouldn't I wouldn't [laughter] say it [00:11:11] wasn't that. 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The point is that [00:12:28] yeah, you're loyal to people, but it's [00:12:30] to a point and there's it could get to a [00:12:31] point where it's so something happens [00:12:32] that's so extreme or they've done [00:12:33] something that's so extremely wrong that [00:12:36] uh it it should it changes your [00:12:37] calculation. And my point is that for me [00:12:40] it doesn't um now that doesn't mean that [00:12:42] so if my brother going back to my [00:12:43] brother being a serial killer which by [00:12:44] the way he's not just to be clear. Um [00:12:47] but if he were I wouldn't defend it. I [00:12:49] wouldn't get on camera and say actually [00:12:50] it's okay to be a serial killer. [00:12:52] >> And in that case I mean you you know I [00:12:55] can understand the temptation to get him [00:12:56] a passport get him out of town but I I [00:12:58] would I would turn him in because I [00:13:00] think that that's justice and also it's [00:13:02] best for him and his soul that he uh [00:13:04] that he faced [00:13:05] >> he faced the consequence. But it [00:13:07] wouldn't be easy to do. But even in the [00:13:08] even in the midst of all that, uh I [00:13:11] would not I would I wouldn't get up in [00:13:12] public and say I condemn and disavow. [00:13:14] It's got the way that I you know what [00:13:17] happens on Twitter or on social media in [00:13:19] general now [00:13:21] when people are when they when they when [00:13:23] when someone does something that upsets [00:13:24] everyone. It's like the old it's like [00:13:27] mid the mid ages where your your head is [00:13:29] in the stocks right in the town square [00:13:31] and everyone's coming back by and [00:13:33] throwing tomatoes at you. Uh, and and I [00:13:36] I've had my head in the stocks many [00:13:37] times with the Twitter mob. I've been in [00:13:39] that spot and probably in in times when [00:13:41] I've deserved it because I've said [00:13:42] something that really is just stupid and [00:13:44] so everyone is just flinging crap at me [00:13:46] and okay, [00:13:47] >> been there. Uh, but my point is that if [00:13:50] it's my friend who's got their head in [00:13:51] the stock, even if they kind of deserve [00:13:54] it because they said something stupid or [00:13:55] they're doing something stupid, [00:13:58] there's no scenario ever where I'm going [00:14:00] to pick up a tomato and throw it at [00:14:04] them. Uh, I'm not going to do that. Now, [00:14:07] I might I might speak to them privately [00:14:09] and say, "Hey, you know what? You kind [00:14:10] of had this coming because like you [00:14:14] know, you need to you need to get you [00:14:15] need to get it together. you need to get [00:14:16] it in line because what you did was [00:14:18] wrong. I'll speak to someone privately [00:14:20] and tell them that and I have done that. [00:14:22] If I disagree with a friend and what [00:14:24] they're doing, I will tell them that. [00:14:26] >> Um, so that's the basic principle. But [00:14:29] again, that's not that is all different [00:14:31] from [00:14:33] uh disagreement and saying I disagree [00:14:35] with [00:14:36] >> of course this is intuitively obvious I [00:14:38] think to normal people. What I'm so [00:14:40] struck by is how this doesn't just [00:14:43] remind me of like medieval Europe. It [00:14:45] reminds me of 2023. [00:14:48] This is why Trump got elected. When we [00:14:51] say woke or, you know, the the crazy [00:14:54] left, this is exactly, at least speaking [00:14:56] for myself, what I'm talking about. [00:14:57] First of all, it's identity politics. [00:14:58] It's censorship. The two things I hate [00:15:00] in our country. But it's the same [00:15:03] impulse to [00:15:06] publicly denounce people, to destroy [00:15:08] people. And and really what you're [00:15:10] saying when you demand that is it's not [00:15:13] just a a breach of loyalty. It's a [00:15:15] transfer of loyalty. You're saying you [00:15:17] need to be lo more loyal to me and my [00:15:20] ideas or the mob than you are to your [00:15:22] own friends. It's like demanding control [00:15:25] of your loyalty. And my view has always [00:15:27] been I'm an adult man. I'll decide who I [00:15:29] like and who I don't. That that's up to [00:15:32] me. You trying to strip me of my [00:15:34] autonomy, of my humanity. Like no [00:15:36] thanks. And that's why I got to the [00:15:39] point where after many years of [00:15:41] disagreeing with the left, I really [00:15:42] hated the left because I find that so [00:15:44] totalitarian [00:15:46] and scary. [00:15:49] I just can't even believe that less than [00:15:51] a year later the right is doing the same [00:15:53] thing. Like what is going on? [00:15:56] >> Yeah. And that and going back to the the [00:15:59] the great tragedy, the many tragedies [00:16:02] that have grown from the the one great [00:16:04] tragedy of Charlie's death. Um, [00:16:07] it is it is that [00:16:11] it is that we have like the left. I [00:16:15] still believe I'm oldfashioned, so call [00:16:16] me oldfashioned, but I I still believe [00:16:19] that the left that leftism leftism as an [00:16:23] ideology is the enemy. Um, it it is it [00:16:27] is it is the it is the problem. It's the [00:16:29] thing that we're fighting against. It's [00:16:30] the thing that I've always fought [00:16:31] against. It's why I'm it's why I'm doing [00:16:33] any of this. This is the only reason I'm [00:16:35] on camera right now. The only reason [00:16:36] that I'm doing any of this, the only [00:16:38] reason I got into this whatever it is [00:16:40] that we're doing, whatever this business [00:16:41] is, this uh this fight, um it's the [00:16:45] reason I'm in it is to oppose leftism. [00:16:48] >> What is how do you define leftism? [00:16:50] >> Well, I I would define it [00:16:55] modern leftism is first of all moral [00:16:58] relativism. It's the idea that I have my [00:17:00] own truth. you know, there is no there [00:17:03] is no truth. There's no there's no [00:17:05] truth. I have my own. Um, and so I think [00:17:09] to me that's that's the core of the [00:17:11] thing. And I think that if you're a [00:17:13] relativist, then you are a leftist. [00:17:15] Doesn't matter what else you believe. [00:17:17] You could be you could be a relativist [00:17:18] and be anti-immigration. You could be [00:17:20] relativist and believe in gun rights. [00:17:22] Uh, now I think most relativists don't [00:17:24] end up there, but even if you did, [00:17:26] you're still a leftist [00:17:27] >> because you reject truth. Um, so that's [00:17:31] what it is at at at it at its core. And [00:17:35] also, uh, leftism, not really also, but [00:17:39] as as an as a extension of that, it's an [00:17:42] outgrowth of that. Uh, [00:17:45] leftism [00:17:48] opposes [00:17:50] civilization and it opposes western [00:17:52] civilization in particular and American [00:17:56] identity most particularly of all. Uh, [00:18:00] it opposes all of the institutions that [00:18:04] our civilization depends on and is is [00:18:06] grounded in like the institution of the [00:18:08] family and the institution of marriage. [00:18:12] Um, it rejects all of that. It rejects [00:18:14] the fundamental truths that we depend [00:18:17] on. It It rejects the fundamental [00:18:19] reality, like the reality of, well, men [00:18:21] aren't women. Um, and they're kind of I [00:18:24] think a lot of leftists are trying to in [00:18:25] a very really embarrassed kind of way [00:18:27] back back away from that one. Uh, [00:18:29] because we beat them on it. You know, [00:18:31] it's the thing when when we as [00:18:33] conservatives can actually put all this [00:18:35] [ __ ] to the side and focus on [00:18:38] something, we can win. And we beat the [00:18:42] it's not it's not totally dead, but the [00:18:44] trans agenda is on life support and we [00:18:47] defeated it. We took it down. We beat [00:18:49] it. We can do that. And it's a good [00:18:50] thing that we did because that was and [00:18:52] is wicked and evil and it's hurting [00:18:54] people and killing people. [00:18:55] >> Couldn't agree more. Um but they also [00:18:58] they reject the reality of uh of of [00:19:00] human life. The fact that that uh that [00:19:03] that human life is um has inherent worth [00:19:07] and dignity from the moments the moment [00:19:09] of its existence from the moment of its [00:19:12] conception that your life is not the [00:19:14] value of your life is not contingent. [00:19:18] That's that's another fundamental aspect [00:19:19] of leftism. They believe that human life [00:19:22] the value of human life is contingent. [00:19:24] It's contingent for babies on whether or [00:19:27] not their mother wants them. It's [00:19:29] contingent on um how much of an [00:19:33] inconvenience they cause to their [00:19:35] parents. And if it turns out that their [00:19:38] mom doesn't want them and their parents [00:19:39] find them inconvenient, then they their [00:19:40] life has no value. Their life is less [00:19:43] than garbage and can and can be killed [00:19:46] and thrown into a dumpster. And that's [00:19:48] what is still happening in this country. [00:19:50] You know, every single day that's still [00:19:53] happening. Hundreds of thousands every [00:19:55] year, hundreds of thousands of human [00:19:59] children are poisoned, [00:20:03] stabbed in the heart with poison [00:20:04] needles, [00:20:06] dismembered, decapitated, [00:20:09] and thrown into medical waste dumpsters. [00:20:11] They don't even get a burial because [00:20:13] they are treated as less than or [00:20:16] >> they recycled into vaccines. Oh yes, [00:20:19] they are treated as less having less [00:20:22] value than [00:20:25] a dog. They they have less value than [00:20:27] than an animal. I mean there are there [00:20:29] are there are animals who are who are [00:20:34] from conception federally protected like [00:20:37] sea turtles and bald eagles [00:20:40] and human children have less protection [00:20:42] than that. So and I know you know all [00:20:44] this. I'm preaching to the choir. My [00:20:45] point is, [00:20:46] >> but I love it can't be said too much, [00:20:47] >> right? My point is that so that's [00:20:49] happening. [00:20:51] That is to me that's the enemy. That is [00:20:54] what we're opposing. [00:20:56] And [00:20:58] if you're in favor of that, if you're if [00:21:00] you're among the forces that are are [00:21:02] pushing this, the destruction of the [00:21:04] family, the destruction of of human life [00:21:06] in the womb, the rejection of reality, [00:21:09] of objective truth, uh of of national, [00:21:12] of American identity, of Western [00:21:13] civilization. If you're pushing that, [00:21:15] then you're my enemy. You are my enemy. [00:21:17] And I want to destroy your I want to [00:21:20] destroy your ideology. I want to destroy [00:21:22] everything you stand for. That's what I [00:21:25] want to do. And if you're again, but if [00:21:27] you're against them, [00:21:29] and that is to say, you stand for [00:21:31] American identity and for the sanctity [00:21:33] of human life and the family and and [00:21:36] objective truth and reality, [snorts] [00:21:40] uh, the church faith. If you're if [00:21:43] you're on that side, then I then I [00:21:45] consider you to be basically an ally. [00:21:47] And and and we could disagree vehemently [00:21:50] on a lot of other issues. We could [00:21:52] disagree on [00:21:54] we could there could be a lot of [00:21:55] disagreement if we agree that okay we [00:21:57] need to preserve all what as [00:21:58] conservatives what are we conserving [00:21:59] well to me it's easy we're conserving [00:22:01] western civilization we're conserving [00:22:02] American identity we're conserving the [00:22:03] sanctity of human life we're conserving [00:22:05] the family we're conserving marriage [00:22:07] that's what we're conserving and if you [00:22:10] agree with me on that then we're on the [00:22:12] same side as far as I'm concerned now we [00:22:13] might have a lot of disagreements about [00:22:15] how to conserve those things [00:22:17] >> and those those disagreements might be [00:22:20] even brutal and bitter at times. But [00:22:25] is if that is the argument, then we're [00:22:27] all on the same side arguing. If we're [00:22:29] arguing about whether those things [00:22:30] should be conserved, well then if you're [00:22:33] on the other side of that argument, then [00:22:35] we're not on the same side at all. We're [00:22:36] we're on we're in two different [00:22:37] universes. Like I don't even know what [00:22:39] universe you're living in. And the and [00:22:41] the divide, I think, ideologically in [00:22:43] this country is so vast and so deep and [00:22:46] so unbridgegable that it it that we may [00:22:50] as well be living in different [00:22:51] universes. We may as well be aliens from [00:22:53] different galaxies trying to live on a [00:22:55] planet together and it's just not [00:22:56] working out. That's what it feels like. [00:22:58] And so for me, [00:23:00] that's where the fight is. 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[00:24:32] >> Okay, first of all, that's like the [00:24:34] greatest description I've heard in a [00:24:36] long time. The clearest. Um, it was like [00:24:38] music to me hearing that because I [00:24:40] agreed with every single word so [00:24:41] strongly. You didn't mention economics, [00:24:42] I noticed, which is revealing. [00:24:44] >> Um, [00:24:44] >> I didn't. Yeah, [00:24:46] >> I wouldn't. And I know you've got views [00:24:47] on it. I certainly do. But um you [00:24:49] mentioned what underlies the economic [00:24:52] views which is like your view of other [00:24:54] human beings. [00:24:54] >> Yeah. Because I because I don't mean but [00:24:56] no. Yeah. On So So that's I'm glad you [00:24:58] brought that up because that's a really [00:25:00] important point because [00:25:02] >> uh I am when it comes to economics I'm [00:25:05] pretty I hate to use the term I'm pretty [00:25:08] libertarian when it comes to a lot of [00:25:09] economic stuff. I would love to see I [00:25:11] don't think there should be a welfare [00:25:12] state at all. I we should I think we [00:25:13] should abolish food stamps. I think we [00:25:15] should abolish the income tax. Um, I I [00:25:18] think the income tax is is evil. I think [00:25:20] it's terrible. And so that's how I feel [00:25:22] about it. Uh, however, [00:25:26] as far as I'm concerned, you could be a [00:25:27] conservative and have the exact [00:25:29] opposite. You could be a conservative [00:25:30] and say, you know what, I think we [00:25:31] should raise the income tax. I think the [00:25:33] welfare state is great. I think there [00:25:34] should be more of it. I think we should [00:25:35] give food stamps to more people. I think [00:25:36] we should have universal basic income. I [00:25:38] think all these things. You could have [00:25:39] that view as a conservative. Now, I will [00:25:41] vehemently disagree with you. I will [00:25:43] argue with you and I will yell at you [00:25:45] and you'll yell at me and that will be [00:25:46] fine. But if if the reason why you want [00:25:50] that, it comes down to why do you want [00:25:52] that? Why do you think we should have a [00:25:53] welfare state? If your reason is that [00:25:55] well this is the way to support families [00:25:57] and this is the way to make sure that we [00:25:59] can have more families and people can [00:26:00] have kids. [00:26:01] >> Well, I think you're wrong. I think [00:26:02] actually it destroys the family, but you [00:26:05] want the same thing as I do and so we're [00:26:08] on the same side. I just think that [00:26:09] you're I think you're lost. I think [00:26:11] you're trying to find the same [00:26:12] destination, but you're you're off in [00:26:13] the woods somewhere on the path, and I [00:26:14] want to I want to I want to wave to you [00:26:16] and say, "No, come back over here." [00:26:17] >> But you're using the same alphabet. I [00:26:19] mean, you're speaking in the same [00:26:20] tongue, like you you have a common point [00:26:22] of reference cuz you want the same [00:26:24] outcome, [00:26:25] >> which is on the left, the reason why [00:26:27] they want a lot of that stuff, [00:26:29] >> more control [00:26:29] >> is is more control. And because they [00:26:31] actually want to destroy the family, [00:26:32] they they want to make the family [00:26:34] irrelevant. They say, "Well, uh, you [00:26:36] know, if we have a vast welfare state, [00:26:38] everyone's got everyone's getting money, [00:26:40] everyone's on the dole, then you don't [00:26:43] really need the family and you don't [00:26:44] need a father going to work and caring [00:26:45] for his family." And so, and and so [00:26:47] that's what that's what they're trying [00:26:48] to get to. That's their reason for [00:26:50] having that view. [00:26:51] >> But who is they is the question. And as [00:26:54] I heard you explain who you're fighting [00:26:56] against and why, and I nodded along in [00:26:59] agreement, I really was the choir to [00:27:01] your sermon. I thought you're describing [00:27:03] the people who defend the war in Gaza [00:27:05] perfectly. Perfectly. They don't believe [00:27:07] in absolute standards of truth at all. [00:27:10] What what they're committing in Gaza is [00:27:12] exactly what they decry correctly when [00:27:15] it happens to other people. Can't kill [00:27:17] innocents. They didn't do anything [00:27:18] wrong. Not on purpose. You can period. [00:27:20] You're not allowed to do that. But they [00:27:22] defend it fully. So they don't believe [00:27:24] in an absolute standard of behavior at [00:27:26] all. They don't believe in truth. It's [00:27:27] totally [00:27:29] it's dependent upon circumstance. Like [00:27:32] in fact, you even seen people say it out [00:27:34] loud. You know, we we raised an entire [00:27:37] generation correctly to believe that [00:27:40] slaughtering people because of how they [00:27:41] were born is the greatest sin, which it [00:27:43] is. I believe that. And now we're being, [00:27:47] you know, hoisted by our own standards. [00:27:50] And my view is no. Standards are [00:27:51] absolute. It's either true or it's not. [00:27:54] And it's universally applicable or it's [00:27:56] not a real thing. It's just group. It's [00:27:59] identity politics. That's exactly what I [00:28:01] hate. And identity politics is the kind [00:28:04] of political expression of the worldview [00:28:05] that you have just decrieded and and [00:28:08] declared war against. And God bless you [00:28:10] for doing that. But that is in full [00:28:12] flower on the right. And I'm not going I [00:28:14] don't want to dignify people by naming [00:28:16] them, but people I know who call [00:28:17] themselves like MAGA conservatives are [00:28:19] defending the murder of innocents. And [00:28:22] by the way, some of them suggest we just [00:28:23] move the refugees into the United States [00:28:25] because that's good for the country that [00:28:27] they support. But is that good for us? [00:28:30] That's an attack on American identity. [00:28:32] You're also describing, by the way, in a [00:28:34] lot of ways Nicholas Maduro of [00:28:35] Venezuela, who we're all required to [00:28:37] hate, and I'm not supporting him, of [00:28:39] course, but this is like the the most [00:28:41] socially conservative country in Latin [00:28:42] America that has banned abortion, banned [00:28:45] gay marriage, banned gender transitions, [00:28:48] banned usery, banned, you know, loaning [00:28:50] at crazy interest levels because it [00:28:52] destroys people. I don't think he's done [00:28:54] a good job running his country. [00:28:55] Obviously, he hasn't. But to your point [00:28:58] that like we should be open to talking [00:29:02] to people who share our most basic [00:29:03] values. How is he not on that list? Oh, [00:29:06] shut up you communist, but I'm not a [00:29:07] communist. I'm not going to be bullied [00:29:09] by your dumb labels. Not yours, but I'm [00:29:12] anticipating the many attacks. I have [00:29:14] been attacked for saying that. But it's [00:29:15] just it's true. So what's the answer? Do [00:29:18] you see what I'm saying? So I guess I [00:29:20] guess what's blowing my mind is that I [00:29:23] thought I was speaking the same language [00:29:25] as a lot of people that I disagreed with [00:29:26] on on the margins like about you know [00:29:28] what what's the best way to harness [00:29:30] capitalism to help people. I mean these [00:29:32] are real debates and then I realized [00:29:34] with the war in Gaza that like these are [00:29:36] people who don't believe in western [00:29:38] civilization because western [00:29:40] civilization can be boiled down to one [00:29:41] concept and that's the individual. If [00:29:45] something someone does something wrong [00:29:46] we punish that person. and we don't kill [00:29:48] his kids. Why do we do that? Why why is [00:29:50] that our standard? Because we believe [00:29:51] that God created every person as an [00:29:53] individual and every person will stand [00:29:55] before God alone to account for his [00:29:56] life. He's not responsible for what his [00:29:59] children do, what his ancestors did, [00:30:00] what his forebears might do. He's [00:30:03] responsible for himself because we [00:30:04] believe in the individual soul, not the [00:30:06] collective soul. And that's what makes [00:30:08] our civilization unique in the history [00:30:10] of the world. And it derives from [00:30:12] Christianity, from the Christian belief [00:30:14] of the individual soul. and I see all [00:30:16] these people who like clearly don't [00:30:17] believe that. So, how are we on the same [00:30:19] side? [00:30:20] >> Well, I think I mean, so this is where [00:30:22] we uh we can be friends on the same side [00:30:25] and disagree because [00:30:28] uh yeah, I I wouldn't agree with [00:30:30] everything you've just laid out there. I [00:30:32] think that I think now last time we [00:30:35] talked and we talked a little bit about [00:30:36] Israel and my take at the time was I [00:30:40] really don't care, [00:30:41] >> right? [00:30:42] >> I just don't care. I I honestly don't [00:30:44] care. I want that take bad. [00:30:46] >> I don't want to care. I don't want [00:30:48] anything to do with this. [00:30:49] >> And that's and that that's still my [00:30:50] take. That's always been my take. It [00:30:52] upsets people on both This is one [00:30:53] legitimately on both sides of the Israel [00:30:56] issue. People get mad at me for that [00:30:58] because they say that, well, if they're [00:31:00] very pro-Israel, they say, well, you're [00:31:02] being a coward and you need to stand up [00:31:03] and support Israel and talk about how [00:31:05] Israel is our greatest, most important [00:31:07] ally and all this stuff. And but then [00:31:08] the other side very much, it's well, no, [00:31:12] Israel is the great Satan. they're the [00:31:13] most evil country in the world. They're [00:31:15] responsible for everything bad that [00:31:16] happens. [00:31:17] >> And uh which is which is something that [00:31:19] I think some people legitimately really [00:31:20] do believe at some level. [00:31:21] >> A lot of people believe that, [00:31:23] >> right? And uh and so then they say to [00:31:24] me, well uh you need to stand up and and [00:31:27] say, you know, and say that. And again, [00:31:29] my response to that is first of all, [00:31:32] don't tell me what to say. Okay? I I [00:31:35] have my own mind. [00:31:36] >> Amen. [00:31:36] >> So don't tell me what to say. I will say [00:31:38] what I want to say. and and and I can [00:31:41] only speak for my own opinion. This is [00:31:43] my view. And I think and I we'll get [00:31:46] back to it, but not to get sidetracked, [00:31:48] this this is one thing, by the way, [00:31:49] that's making political conversation in [00:31:52] this country impossible is that all [00:31:55] anyone ever does anymore is impugn the [00:31:57] motives [00:31:59] behind the argument that you're making. [00:32:02] So, you make an argument and then [00:32:04] everyone goes, "Well, you're only saying [00:32:06] that because [laughter] [00:32:08] >> and it's like, first of all, even if [00:32:10] it's true that I'm making this argument [00:32:12] for some dishonest reason." Well, is the [00:32:14] argument right or not? Because if it's [00:32:16] if the argument is right, the argument [00:32:17] is still right, even if I'm the worst [00:32:18] guy in the world saying it. [00:32:19] >> But it's also like arguing with a woman. [00:32:20] They tell you what you think. And it's [00:32:22] like, "No, I'm actually telling you [00:32:23] what." [laughter] [00:32:24] >> And and why and and what? [00:32:26] >> Right. And well, here here's why you're [00:32:27] really saying that. Well, for me, [00:32:29] >> the only person who can speak to your [00:32:30] motives is you. Exactly. [00:32:32] >> And so if I ask you, "Well, why are you [00:32:33] saying that?" And you tell me, "I have [00:32:35] no choice but to just accept that cuz I [00:32:36] I'm not in your mind. You're the only [00:32:38] author. You are the only authority of [00:32:40] what is in your mind. You're the only [00:32:41] one on the planet. The only other [00:32:43] authority, the only greater authority is [00:32:44] God. And I can't really ask him. So I [00:32:47] can only go to you on that." And so [00:32:49] >> you're describing my life, but yes, I [00:32:51] agree with you. So, so for me on Israel [00:32:54] when I say I don't care and everyone on [00:32:56] both sides goes, "Well, you're saying [00:32:58] that because [00:32:58] >> No, I'm saying that because that's what [00:33:01] I think. [00:33:02] >> I'm saying and I always have." Which is [00:33:04] why, by the way, you can go through my [00:33:07] catalog. I've been [00:33:09] >> blabbering my opinions publicly for a [00:33:11] while now. And not as, you know, I [00:33:14] haven't been in the business as long as [00:33:15] you, but I've I've been, you know, at [00:33:16] least 10 years on the record. And if you [00:33:19] go through that before I worked at the [00:33:21] Daily Wire, uh, and and while I was [00:33:23] there, when I was independent, I was an [00:33:25] independent blogger just like turnurning [00:33:27] out content and you know, um, and you go [00:33:30] through all that. And here's what you'll [00:33:32] find. [00:33:32] >> You'll find that I almost never ever [00:33:35] talked about Israel. And when I did talk [00:33:36] about it on the rare like once every [00:33:39] five years if it came up, uh, my take [00:33:42] was, I don't really care about this. I [00:33:43] don't care about this country. It's not [00:33:44] my country. Um, you know, if you're if [00:33:48] you're in America, if you're an American [00:33:49] politician, you should put care about [00:33:50] America first. And and that's it. 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And by the way, if [00:35:09] you get a post purchase survey, mention [00:35:11] that you heard about Cozy Earth from [00:35:13] this show. [00:35:14] >> So, so here's the point. It's not [00:35:15] actually about Israel. It's about the [00:35:17] components of the American right, [00:35:19] [snorts] [00:35:20] >> right? [00:35:20] >> Um, who are defending [00:35:23] mass murder, and I mean that murder, [00:35:25] killing people who didn't do anything [00:35:26] wrong, uh, in Gaza. That's it. It's not [00:35:30] Israel. It's what about the parts of [00:35:32] this coalition that as you noted Charlie [00:35:34] really did keep together. [00:35:36] >> Yeah. [00:35:36] >> That are now fracturing. But one of the [00:35:38] reasons they're fracturing is because [00:35:39] they have different views, different [00:35:41] world views. And that is obvious when [00:35:44] you hear how they respond to the murder [00:35:46] of like kids and women in Gaza. So it's [00:35:49] Americans responding to that. Are you [00:35:51] really conservative? How are you not the [00:35:54] leftist that you just described if [00:35:56] you're like, "Well, they're basically [00:35:57] all Hamas, including the kids, that is [00:36:01] collective punishment. That's blood [00:36:03] guilt. That's the opposite of what you [00:36:04] described. How can I be on the same side [00:36:06] as someone with that attitude?" [00:36:08] >> Well, well, here's here's what I would [00:36:09] say. I think that if somebody is making [00:36:12] the argument [00:36:13] that [00:36:15] uh we or Israel can kill pal as many [00:36:19] Palestinians as they want, can kill [00:36:21] children because their lives have no [00:36:24] value uh because they're Palestinian. If [00:36:27] you're making that argument, then that [00:36:28] is a that is a that is a leftist [00:36:31] argument. [00:36:32] >> It's a leftist argument. However, [00:36:34] however, however, I think that there are [00:36:37] plenty of people who would defend and [00:36:40] have defended Israel's actions in Gaza, [00:36:43] uh, and even our involvement, which I [00:36:45] don't agree with us being involved at [00:36:46] all, but people have had that view. [00:36:48] >> Uh, but not on that basis. What what [00:36:51] they would say is, you know, they would [00:36:53] say, "Oh, well, it's not true that we're [00:36:54] that they're killing children. It's not [00:36:56] or or um it's really tragic, but but [00:36:59] it's it's it's uh you know it there's no [00:37:02] other way to fight the war. It's it's [00:37:03] not intentional. It's it's we're [00:37:05] actually targeting the terrorists and [00:37:06] this is uh this is uh these are [00:37:09] casualties that happen like in any war. [00:37:10] It's very bad. You try to minimize them, [00:37:12] but it we don't we don't want that to [00:37:13] happen. Um they could say, you know, [00:37:17] many arguments along those lines. just [00:37:19] it's also arguments that just kind of [00:37:20] reject the premise. Like your premise is [00:37:23] that they're doing mass murder of people [00:37:25] in Gaza. I think that there are [00:37:26] conservatives who would just reject that [00:37:28] premise and say that's not actually [00:37:29] happening. [00:37:30] >> Okay. But if you just I think the [00:37:32] undisputed fact there are tens of [00:37:33] thousands 70,000 we can certainly say [00:37:34] tens of thousands of women and children [00:37:36] killed in Gaza. And so there are really [00:37:38] two arguments you can make. One is that [00:37:40] like that happens in war collateral [00:37:42] damage which is true. It's 100% true [00:37:45] that that always happens in war. It [00:37:46] hasn't happened at this scale in 80 [00:37:48] years, but uh in the West, but it does [00:37:52] happen. And the United States has done a [00:37:54] lot of it. We dropped the atom bombs. [00:37:55] Okay. So, like we're Israel is not the [00:37:58] only country that's done this. [00:38:00] But what [00:38:02] are are you sad about it? Do you think [00:38:05] it's bad? Would you be willing to say, [00:38:06] "Holy [ __ ] I can't believe we killed [00:38:08] 70,000 non-combatants." [00:38:10] That's the acid test. Can you admit that [00:38:13] that's horrible? It's horrible. It's a [00:38:16] moral crime. It was a moral crime. We [00:38:18] dropped the bomb on Hiroshima. And it's [00:38:20] not even a close call in my view. It's [00:38:23] not an endorsement of the Imperial [00:38:24] Japanese government, but it's like [00:38:25] that's just bad. If you can't say that, [00:38:28] then you are endorsing collective [00:38:30] punishment, aren't you? [00:38:32] >> Well, I think it I think it goes back to [00:38:36] what what what argument are you are you [00:38:38] making? So go like using Hroshima for [00:38:40] example and I I'll be honest I've kind [00:38:43] of been on both sides of that. I think [00:38:46] there's interesting arguments on both [00:38:47] sides. Um [00:38:50] I think an unten a morally untenable [00:38:53] argument would be well yeah just kill as [00:38:56] many as you need to. They don't matter. [00:38:58] They were Japanese. They were the enemy. [00:38:59] Just kill them. Like that's morally [00:39:00] untenable obviously. Um, and based on [00:39:04] that argument, well, then we could just [00:39:05] nuke if you get into get into a war, [00:39:07] just like nuke the entire country, kill [00:39:09] everybody, and why not? And that [00:39:11] obviously is um that that is rejecting [00:39:14] the value of human life, which is not [00:39:18] which is an unconsservative view. It's [00:39:19] also just deeply immoral. But the other [00:39:22] the other side of the argument for like [00:39:23] the atom bomb, for example, would say, [00:39:24] well, this was the best way to preserve [00:39:26] human life that that that these were [00:39:28] legitimate military targets. uh and the [00:39:32] way to preserve human life ultimately [00:39:33] was this way. If we had not done it, [00:39:35] then millions more people would have [00:39:36] died. Millions more Japanese would have [00:39:37] died. And that's the argument. Now, like [00:39:39] I said, I I I can see the argument for [00:39:42] that. It now that runs into the charge [00:39:45] of ends justify the means. It doesn't [00:39:48] run into the charge. It's an expression [00:39:49] of ends justify. [00:39:50] >> Well, there's there's all Yeah, there's [00:39:52] there's ends justify. I mean, it's like [00:39:53] the perfect articulation of it's like if [00:39:55] I could save millions by shooting your [00:39:57] children, it's okay to shoot your [00:39:59] children. [00:39:59] >> But I think there's a like there's ends [00:40:01] justify the means. Now we're getting [00:40:02] into philosophical. I'm not a [00:40:04] philosopher. There's justify the means. [00:40:05] There's also kind of the principle of [00:40:06] double effect, which is different. And [00:40:08] double effect is well, so I understand [00:40:10] it. You can do something that you know [00:40:13] will have a negative effect, but your [00:40:16] intentions are good. And and it's it's [00:40:19] you're doing it in order to bring about [00:40:20] a good result. Um, [00:40:23] >> this was the argument that Hitler and [00:40:24] Stalin made. If you take a look at [00:40:26] Stalin's personal correspondence and [00:40:29] diaries, which by the way are available, [00:40:30] it was super interesting. He was an [00:40:32] idealist. Like he really believed he was [00:40:35] ushering in a new era of man. And like [00:40:38] you had to kill a lot of Ukrainians to [00:40:40] do that and Georgians and Russians by [00:40:42] the way, a lot of Christians. You had to [00:40:44] murder a lot of priests to get there. [00:40:45] But by the end, you would have utopia. [00:40:49] Hitler felt that It's like if we only [00:40:50] get the Jews out, everything will be [00:40:52] great. [00:40:53] >> And so, but we are against them because [00:40:56] we don't share that view. We believe in [00:40:58] human life. Like it's not okay to kill [00:41:00] an innocent person. [00:41:00] >> Yeah. I think Yeah, that that argument [00:41:03] Well, it's not Yeah, it's not okay to [00:41:05] intentionally and deliberately kill an [00:41:06] innocent person. Uh I think that, [00:41:12] you know, in war, innocent people do [00:41:14] die. I think that there can there are a [00:41:17] lot of wars that have been unjust. There [00:41:18] are there is such a thing as a just war. [00:41:20] There's such thing as a necessary war. [00:41:22] And if we can agree on that, then then [00:41:23] we have to accept that in any war [00:41:26] innocent people will die. It's terrible [00:41:27] tragedy. [00:41:28] >> Um so now but the argument that I was [00:41:31] just uh playing out for dropping the [00:41:35] atom bomb. It's true like that that can [00:41:37] be terribly abused. My only point is, [00:41:39] and I'm not even taking a position on [00:41:40] that because I honest my my honest view [00:41:43] is like I I kind of feel like I have I I [00:41:46] I have an opinion of it and then I [00:41:47] express it and someone comes and and [00:41:49] they just eviscerate my argument on it [00:41:51] and then I think, well, you might be [00:41:53] right and then I hear. So, like that's [00:41:54] kind of where [00:41:55] >> super tough. I mean, I should just say I [00:41:57] I hope I don't sound self-righteous. [00:41:58] I've my views have changed. If you went [00:42:00] through my corpus of opinions, it would [00:42:02] be a Jackson Pollock painting. It would [00:42:04] just be splashes of everything. So like [00:42:06] my views are evolving in real time. I [00:42:08] but I I've been forced to think about it [00:42:11] because of what's happening in Gaza. [00:42:12] It's like I don't feel like I have a [00:42:14] choice. [00:42:14] >> My only my my point about that is [00:42:18] whatever is the correct view. Let's just [00:42:20] accept for the sake of argument. I let [00:42:22] I'll I'll take your view that dropping [00:42:23] the atom bomb was morally wrong. Um I [00:42:28] still think that somebody could be wrong [00:42:30] about that but for the right reasons. [00:42:33] And so they're still kind of on my side [00:42:35] because the the wrong if if you're [00:42:37] correct in your argument then the the [00:42:39] wrong for the right reasons position is [00:42:42] yeah we we we cherish human life. This [00:42:46] was the best way ultimately to preserve [00:42:48] human life. And again you can say well [00:42:50] that's wrong but someone could have that [00:42:52] view and the reason why they have it is [00:42:55] because they truly believe in the [00:42:57] sanctity of human life and they just [00:42:58] honestly believe that that was the best [00:43:00] way to preserve it. That was my opinion [00:43:02] until recently as a lifelong adamant [00:43:05] prolifer. So I ag I mean I want to give [00:43:08] myself the benefit of the doubt. You [00:43:10] know I'm not for dead kids. [00:43:12] >> I guess what is really brought this to [00:43:14] the four is a guy called Randy Fine [00:43:16] who's a congressman from Florida who you [00:43:18] know I disagree with on a lot. I don't [00:43:21] think I disagree with him on anything [00:43:22] actually. He spent his career in the [00:43:24] gambling business exploiting people and [00:43:26] now he got some kind of clever way to [00:43:29] find a Senate a House seat in Florida. [00:43:31] Everything about it I I disapprove of [00:43:33] and of course I don't like his foreign [00:43:34] policy views but there are a lot of [00:43:36] people like that and I'm not mad at [00:43:37] them. What makes him unusual is that he [00:43:40] said out loud what I think a lot of [00:43:42] people think which is like it's [00:43:44] hilarious to see a picture of a dead [00:43:46] child in Gaza. Somebody tweeted him, I [00:43:48] know you're online, you've seen this, a [00:43:50] picture of a dead baby in Gaza, [00:43:53] and he laughed at it and said, someone [00:43:56] said, "How can you sleep at night?" You [00:43:57] know, getting self-righteous with him, [00:43:58] okay, being high-handed like the [00:44:00] anti-war left is. How can you sleep? [00:44:03] But, okay, so I get it. They're [00:44:05] annoying, but like it is like his [00:44:08] response was, "Very well, thank you. [00:44:09] Thanks for the pick." If that's your gut [00:44:12] reaction to a picture of a dead baby, we [00:44:13] are not on the same side in any way. On [00:44:16] the deepest level, we're not on the same [00:44:17] side. I'm a father. Like, I'm not. How [00:44:19] can I laugh at that? I can't. And that [00:44:22] to me revealed what I think a lot of [00:44:23] people think who I know very well who [00:44:26] call themselves conservatives, which is [00:44:27] just like these are not human beings. [00:44:29] Well, if you've got that attitude, how [00:44:32] can you how can you really care about me [00:44:34] or my country or my children? Like, I [00:44:36] don't think you can. Yeah, I think that [00:44:39] I certainly would agree with you on [00:44:41] that. If you if you think that dead kids [00:44:42] are funny, then we're not we're not just [00:44:44] on not on the same side, but this goes [00:44:46] back to I don't think we're living in [00:44:47] the same universe. [00:44:48] >> You're the leftists that you described. [00:44:50] >> Yeah. Because you fundamentally cannot [00:44:52] value human life if you could ever see [00:44:53] it as funny that a child was [00:44:55] >> I think [00:44:56] >> uh so so for sure. And I think that [00:44:58] there are people that we would call [00:45:01] neocons that are definitely not [00:45:04] conservative by any stretch. My only [00:45:05] point to you is that I think there are [00:45:08] plenty of people who are on the other [00:45:09] side of the of the argument who are [00:45:12] conservative and and they just don't [00:45:14] they don't agree with the premise that [00:45:16] you're laying out. They don't and [00:45:19] they do want to preserve human life. [00:45:21] They think this is the way to do it. Uh [00:45:23] they they could be wrong, but it people [00:45:26] can be wrong about [00:45:26] >> well they haven't thought about it or [00:45:28] the partisan system. I'll speak for [00:45:29] myself. I didn't think about it at all. [00:45:32] And all the people getting mad about [00:45:33] Hiroshima hated America. It was just a [00:45:35] fact. And they wanted to say that all [00:45:37] American military [00:45:40] uh expeditions were immoral because [00:45:42] America was fundamentally immoral. [00:45:43] That's the point they were making. They [00:45:45] wanted us to hate ourselves. They taught [00:45:46] us a history that convinced our kids to [00:45:48] hate themselves and to hate their own [00:45:49] country. [00:45:50] >> And that's all evil. And we're watching [00:45:52] the results of it now. So I was like, [00:45:54] man, there's no way I'm on their side. [00:45:56] Like they hate everything that I love, [00:45:58] including my nation. [00:46:00] So, I just was like, if you're for it, [00:46:02] I'm not for it. And because I'm a child [00:46:06] that way, like I just react against [00:46:07] things. But now I'm feeling like I got [00:46:11] misled into supporting an awful lot of [00:46:13] violence. Like a lot of violence. And [00:46:16] how how is that good? [00:46:18] >> Yeah. I think [00:46:20] >> well, so there's two things. First of [00:46:21] all, there's a maybe there's a whole [00:46:22] other category we should be talking [00:46:24] about because we're talking about oh, [00:46:25] left, right, conservative, liberal. Uh [00:46:28] then you have you also have though [00:46:30] politicians who uh often not always but [00:46:34] often are neither and they don't have [00:46:38] they don't have an ideology [00:46:39] >> for sure [00:46:40] >> and their ideology is control and power [00:46:43] and uh and that's what they care about. [00:46:44] >> What percentage would you say fall into [00:46:46] that category? [00:46:46] >> Um [00:46:49] 95%. [00:46:50] >> It feels that way, doesn't it? [00:46:51] >> I I would I'll amend that. I think it's [00:46:53] it used to be 95% I want control and [00:46:55] power. I think now it's more like, this [00:46:57] is even worse, now it's like 70% want [00:47:01] control and power and then you've got [00:47:02] another 20% [00:47:04] who they're just there because they want [00:47:06] attention like the Jasmine Crockett, [00:47:08] >> right? [00:47:08] >> Uh they're just there because they want [00:47:10] to be influencers. Like Jasmine [00:47:12] Crockett, [00:47:13] >> I'm so grateful for her. She amuses me [00:47:16] every day. [00:47:16] >> But if you were to go to Jasmine [00:47:17] Crockett and say, "Okay, here's two [00:47:19] buttons. Press one button and you're the [00:47:21] president of the United States. press [00:47:22] the other button and you have 50 million [00:47:24] Instagram followers and [laughter] [00:47:26] you're an Instagram. She is p pressing [00:47:28] the Instagram button% [00:47:30] >> but that but it's a it's that's a [00:47:32] different like species of politician [00:47:33] we've never really seen before. No, it's [00:47:35] so true [00:47:35] >> because up to this point [00:47:37] >> every single politician like I can be [00:47:39] president I I'll take that over you know [00:47:41] if it's like I I'll press this button [00:47:43] you can be president but as a [00:47:45] consequence your whole family dies. [00:47:46] They're pressing the button. [00:47:47] >> Oh yeah. a lot of these people and now [00:47:49] it's it's a little bit there's there are [00:47:51] people who who they're politicians [00:47:52] they're not even really hungry for power [00:47:53] they just want attention which I think [00:47:54] in some ways is somehow even worse but [00:47:56] anyway the the the just want power [00:47:58] category I think that does describe a [00:48:01] lot of the people we would call like [00:48:02] neocons Lindsey Graham [00:48:04] >> is for sure in this category you know L [00:48:07] I don't know where it was he gave a [00:48:09] speech recently he was talking about uh [00:48:12] I think it was him bragging about how we [00:48:13] ran out of bombs or something like that [00:48:15] I think I have the right person here [00:48:16] yeah Um and and so it's like, okay, [00:48:20] well, you obviously do not take human [00:48:22] life seriously if you just think it's [00:48:24] it's like you just want to run out of [00:48:25] the bombs. And um and and for someone [00:48:29] like him, this is not someone who's a [00:48:30] conservative at all. He he doesn't but [00:48:32] it's not for someone like him, he [00:48:33] doesn't [00:48:34] >> I don't think that he's um [00:48:38] passionately in favor of like abortion [00:48:41] or destroying the family. He just [00:48:43] doesn't care. [00:48:43] >> It doesn't matter, [00:48:44] >> right? It doesn't doesn't matter to him. [00:48:46] So, um, so I think that's that's the [00:48:48] other category that exists. And [00:48:50] >> that's really that's really smart. [00:48:52] That's really smart. It's like post [00:48:54] ideological. It's even kind of post [00:48:56] power. It's just pure narcissism. [00:48:58] >> Yeah. Although I in in if I could I'm [00:49:01] actually glad you brought up because I [00:49:02] wanted to talk to you about this. uh in [00:49:05] in defense of violence if I if I could [00:49:08] uh I I cuz I've heard you talk about [00:49:11] about this and [00:49:13] >> and my views are by the way changing [00:49:15] even during this conversation like this [00:49:16] is all new to me so I don't [00:49:18] >> so because I I'm actually [00:49:21] I think in some ways we should have a [00:49:23] lot more violence in society. I'm I'm [00:49:25] sort of proviolence [00:49:27] >> in a in a certain context. Um, I think [00:49:31] that violence [00:49:33] can be a necessary tool for justice. [00:49:36] Like I just believe that. Um, now it can [00:49:39] be really misused and it very often is [00:49:43] and I think it very often is these days, [00:49:46] but it is a necessary tool for justice. [00:49:49] And so what I'm really mostly talking [00:49:50] about are [00:49:52] evil people who've committed terrible [00:49:54] crimes against the innocent. And I think [00:49:57] that through a legal means, I'm talking [00:49:59] about, you know, I'm talking about, you [00:50:01] know, [00:50:02] >> extrajudicial lynchings or anything, [00:50:03] >> right? Right. I'm talking about legal [00:50:05] means for those kinds of people, we [00:50:08] should be using violence a lot more [00:50:11] because I think that it's just I just [00:50:12] think that it's justice. I What is [00:50:14] justice? Justice is [00:50:17] uh giving to someone what they're owed. [00:50:19] You know, giving giving to anything what [00:50:22] putting things in their right place [00:50:23] basically, I would say, is is justice. [00:50:26] So giving someone what they're owed is [00:50:28] justice. So if you owe me $5, [00:50:30] it's justice that you give me $5. That's [00:50:32] a matter of justice. And if you give me [00:50:34] $3 and you owe me five, that's an [00:50:35] injustice that has occurred. [00:50:38] Now, if I [00:50:40] slap your wife in front of you, I'm owed [00:50:44] something else. I'm not owed $5, but I [00:50:46] am owed something now. Like there it is [00:50:49] right that I receive something. And that [00:50:51] I would say is a slap, right? It's you [00:50:53] slap my wife, I'll punch you 10 times in [00:50:55] the face. instead. Like that's that is a [00:50:57] just response. That is justice. And uh [00:51:00] and I think what we have these days, you [00:51:02] got a lot of people walking around doing [00:51:04] this, assault, like literally assaulting [00:51:05] women, you know, [00:51:07] >> and [snorts] they don't receive what [00:51:09] they're owed. And what they're owed is [00:51:11] is uh is harsh and I think sometimes [00:51:14] violent [00:51:16] but just punishment. Um and so that's [00:51:19] that's my one kind of caveat. [00:51:21] >> You know, it's hard to disagree with [00:51:22] that. Um, it's I mean, of course, [00:51:26] viscerally I agree with you and all of [00:51:29] this is just aimed at whites obviously [00:51:31] because what you're talking about is a [00:51:32] racial dynamic where non-whites who [00:51:35] commit crimes just aren't punished as [00:51:36] harshly as whites who commit crimes. So, [00:51:38] it's a it's a racial double standard [00:51:40] designed to like destroy the country, [00:51:41] which it's doing. [00:51:43] And and I feel that every person feels [00:51:45] that like the need for justice and [00:51:47] sometimes that is that expression is [00:51:49] physical. How do you balance that [00:51:51] against like the sermon on the mount [00:51:53] which I happen to have read this morning [00:51:55] um where Jesus is like well the the law [00:51:57] is eye for an eye tooth for a tooth but [00:51:59] I tell you you know turn the other cheek [00:52:01] and you know takes your shirt give him [00:52:04] your cloak [00:52:05] >> I'll tell you because I've thought a lot [00:52:06] about this I mean obvious hope hopefully [00:52:07] all Christians have thought thought [00:52:08] about the sermon on the mount a lot it's [00:52:10] only the most important public address [00:52:12] >> mindblowing when whenever people are [00:52:14] like oh Jesus was a great person great [00:52:17] teacher you read that and you're like [00:52:19] either he was God or this whole thing is [00:52:20] insane because this is not it's not [00:52:23] intuitive wisdom in the sermon on the [00:52:25] mount. Yeah, that that's the CS Lewis [00:52:27] that you know trilemma lun lunatic liar [00:52:30] or lord [00:52:31] >> you know those are the op only options [00:52:33] but um anyway so yeah of course I as all [00:52:35] Christians should I've thought a lot [00:52:36] about this and how do you uh because I [00:52:39] also recognize in myself I'm talking [00:52:40] about how violence can be just just and [00:52:42] I really believe that but I also I have [00:52:44] a a vengeful streak in me I fully [00:52:46] recognize that [00:52:47] >> yeah me too [00:52:48] >> and when I see evil people I act I [00:52:51] actually do sometimes hate them and hate [00:52:54] means like I I don't just want justice [00:52:55] for you. I want you to suffer. Yes. [00:52:57] >> And uh I want you to burn in hell. And [00:53:00] that and as Christians, we should never [00:53:02] want that. We should never we should [00:53:03] never want anyone to be damned. [00:53:06] >> And sometimes I I I find that feeling in [00:53:08] myself. I pray about it. I just have to [00:53:10] be honest that I do feel that way about [00:53:12] really bad people. Um but how do you how [00:53:14] do you square this? I think that so turn [00:53:16] the other cheek. I think it's very [00:53:20] important to notice that Jesus is saying [00:53:23] if someone slaps you, turn the other [00:53:26] cheek. [00:53:27] >> Yeah. [00:53:27] >> What he does not say is if someone slaps [00:53:30] your wife or someone slaps your child or [00:53:32] someone slaps an innocent woman on the [00:53:34] subway, turn the other cheek. Because [00:53:37] turning the other cheek in that [00:53:38] situation is not you being the bigger [00:53:39] man. It's you being a coward. And so I [00:53:43] that's how I square it. And that's how I [00:53:45] can also square Jesus having these kinds [00:53:47] of you know quote unquote anti- you know [00:53:50] violence um statements that they made [00:53:54] with also um famously he goes into the [00:53:59] temple and fashions a whip. I mean [00:54:02] that's what the that's what the [00:54:03] scripture says. It's not even like he [00:54:04] grabbed one. This was a premeditated. [00:54:07] This [laughter] is this was premeditated [00:54:09] first degree like uh and so he fashions [00:54:12] a whip and he starts beating these [00:54:15] people to get them out of the out of out [00:54:16] of the temple. And that is violent. I [00:54:18] mean, think about it's easy to read [00:54:19] these stories and and you just read it [00:54:21] as a story we've heard a million times. [00:54:22] Heard it in Sunday school as a child. It [00:54:24] gets kind of sanitized. Well, imagine [00:54:26] actually seeing this happen. I mean, [00:54:28] imagine actually seeing it in real life [00:54:30] that that you're there and somebody has [00:54:32] a whip and they are throwing down [00:54:35] tables, beating people with whips. I [00:54:37] mean, there's going to be blood. It's [00:54:38] going to be a very brutal scene [00:54:40] >> in the temple of all places [00:54:41] >> in the temple. And yet, this was Jesus [00:54:44] Christ who did it. This was our Lord and [00:54:47] Savior who did this act. And so, it was [00:54:52] and had to be a moral act. And so what [00:54:54] that tells us is that you know violence [00:54:57] is sometimes necessary. Now the the [00:55:00] rejoiner to that is well that was you [00:55:03] know God made flesh who used violence [00:55:06] and that doesn't mean that you can do it [00:55:08] >> right. [00:55:08] >> And um well there's also a theme that [00:55:10] runs throughout the New Testament where [00:55:13] Jesus and his disciple Paul uh draw a [00:55:18] very clean distinction between you as a [00:55:20] Christian and the state. So the state is [00:55:23] held to a different the state operates [00:55:25] on by a different code. [00:55:27] >> Yeah. [00:55:28] >> Right. Render under God with what's [00:55:29] gods. Ren under Caesar with Caesars. [00:55:31] >> I don't know. I I I'm the opposite of a [00:55:34] theologian. I really I really don't know [00:55:36] >> what what happens when the state and [00:55:38] we're experiencing this right now [00:55:40] because I I I think that is kind of the [00:55:41] answer. The state uh the state has [00:55:44] authority from God. Now it doesn't like [00:55:47] that's it's hard sometimes especially [00:55:48] for conservatives to accept that but [00:55:51] that's scriptural. The state has [00:55:52] authority from God. Um, now it can [00:55:57] reject its mandate. It can do things [00:55:59] that are evil obviously and it can do [00:56:02] things that we should reject and in some [00:56:04] cases even rebel against in the most [00:56:06] extreme cases. Um, so we know all that [00:56:08] is true. But um but the state as like an [00:56:12] institution generally speaking has [00:56:14] authority. This is this is God ordained. [00:56:16] This is what God wants. He doesn't want [00:56:17] us all to live as he doesn't want [00:56:19] anarchy, you know, where there's no [00:56:21] there's no one in charge. But um so the [00:56:25] the state has that authority. What [00:56:27] happens when the state refuses to [00:56:29] exercise that authority, [00:56:31] >> right? [00:56:32] >> And uh and what happens when it refuses [00:56:36] to enact justice and it refuses to [00:56:39] protect the innocent? What happens then? [00:56:41] >> Well, you you overthrow the state. [00:56:43] >> Yeah. At at what point at what point [00:56:46] morally [00:56:48] can the average citizen say, "Well, the [00:56:50] state is not doing this and so I have no [00:56:53] choice but to do it." If if I don't do [00:56:55] it, then it won't be done. And I think [00:56:57] we're getting perilously close to a [00:56:58] point where people in mass start saying [00:57:00] that. They start saying, "The state is [00:57:02] not doing this. They are not defending [00:57:04] my family. They are not defending my [00:57:05] community. My community is unlivable. [00:57:08] these these these violent psychopaths [00:57:10] who've been arrested 40 times are [00:57:12] running through the street assaulting [00:57:14] women assaulting children and I cannot [00:57:16] live this way anymore and I won't live [00:57:18] this way and I think we're getting [00:57:19] perilously close to a point where in [00:57:20] mass people start saying that and when [00:57:22] they start [00:57:22] >> perilously or blessedly close [00:57:24] >> well perilously because that's not I [00:57:26] would prefer that's not the best option [00:57:28] the best option is the state does its [00:57:30] job [00:57:31] >> when when when [00:57:33] the other option is ultimately chaos I [00:57:35] mean that's where it leads And um but [00:57:39] that's where we are. I think right now [00:57:41] you have uh like the best version of [00:57:44] that [00:57:45] are people who are have benevolent [00:57:48] intentions and know what they're doing [00:57:51] and are good decent people and they step [00:57:54] up in an extreme situation because [00:57:56] nobody else will and they do the thing [00:57:57] that the state won't do but they don't [00:57:59] go overboard and they don't become you [00:58:01] know Batman. Uh and and so like Daniel [00:58:04] Penny for example, I mean Daniel Penny [00:58:05] is an example of someone who said, [00:58:07] "Okay, I got to step in. I got to do the [00:58:09] right thing. This guy should not be out [00:58:11] here. He should not be allowed on this [00:58:12] subway. There should be some kind of cop [00:58:14] here to arrest him. No one is doing it. [00:58:16] I'm going to step up." And and I'm and [00:58:19] I'm glad that he did. He was right to do [00:58:20] it. And um so that's the that's the best [00:58:24] version. That's the the best version of [00:58:25] of people stepping in where the state [00:58:27] has failed is [00:58:28] >> did he get a Presidential Medal of [00:58:29] Freedom? What happened to Daniel Penny? [00:58:30] Well, that's a that's a very good good [00:58:33] question. Well, he was they tried to [00:58:34] throw him in prison. [00:58:35] >> No, I know it's a rhetorical question, [00:58:37] but it's like if you see heroism like [00:58:39] that and it goes unrewarded, in fact, if [00:58:41] it's punished, then then you have a [00:58:44] total inversion of justice [00:58:47] >> and then and then and [00:58:48] >> so how was the state legitimate at that [00:58:49] point, [00:58:50] >> right? And by design when people like [00:58:51] that become punish or punished as they I [00:58:53] mean they they tried to put him in [00:58:54] prison they thank God we're not [00:58:56] successful but they you know they try to [00:58:59] destroy his life [00:59:01] everybody else looks at that and I think [00:59:04] by design it has this demoralizing [00:59:05] effect because everybody else looks at [00:59:06] that and they say well I don't want that [00:59:08] to happen and and now I think I mean I [00:59:10] don't ride the subway because I I value [00:59:12] my my life but uh if I were on the [00:59:14] subway and I saw something like that [00:59:16] happening I'd be thinking to myself I [00:59:18] hope I would step And but I'd also be [00:59:20] thinking, well, I got a family at home. [00:59:22] I got a wife and if I step in and I go [00:59:25] to prison [00:59:26] and so so now I can't be there for my [00:59:29] wife and children. And so is it right [00:59:31] for me to step up and protect these [00:59:33] strangers if if the consequence is now I [00:59:35] can't protect my own wife and children? [00:59:37] >> That's right. [00:59:37] >> I don't know. And I don't even know what [00:59:38] the right answer is. I don't I can't [00:59:40] even say for sure. If I'm if I'm looking [00:59:41] at that happening and I'm in Daniel [00:59:43] Penny's shoes and I got a wife and [00:59:44] children at home, I think the right [00:59:46] thing is for me to step up and do what [00:59:48] he did, but I'm not even sure if it's [00:59:49] the right thing because because I got a [00:59:51] wife and kids and now I got to call [00:59:53] them. I got to call my wife and say, [00:59:54] "Hey, by the way, I might be going to [00:59:56] prison forever. Um, good luck." You [00:59:59] know, I don't know. It's it's it puts it [01:00:02] it it it creates a lose-lose unwinable [01:00:04] situation. Even now you feel that even [01:00:06] after the last election and clearly [01:00:08] there's a reaction against [01:00:11] the kind of government that we had [01:00:14] you you still would feel like no one in [01:00:17] authority would support you and uh yeah [01:00:21] generally I think the rot well first of [01:00:24] all this is a this is a [01:00:26] I mean when we talk about the state in [01:00:28] general failing to do the basic things [01:00:30] to preserve civilization this is a wide [01:00:33] problem it goes the it's the state [01:00:35] level, it's the local level, cities, [01:00:38] >> and um has all of that been fixed? Like [01:00:41] definitely not. I mean, not even close. [01:00:43] >> Well, so that that was kind of the broad [01:00:45] that was exactly the question I'm asking [01:00:46] and it I don't even know if I have. You [01:00:48] sent out an amazing tweet recently. Oh, [01:00:51] it's right here, December 4th. I want to [01:00:53] read it. It's an empirical fact that [01:00:55] basically everything in our day-to-day [01:00:57] lives has gotten worse over the years. [01:00:59] The quality of everything, food, [01:01:00] clothing, entertainment, air travel, [01:01:02] roads, traffic, infrastructure, housing, [01:01:03] etc. has declined in observable ways. [01:01:06] You're a nice writer, by the way. Thank [01:01:07] you. There's not enough good writing on [01:01:08] Twitter. [01:01:09] >> Oh, great. [01:01:09] >> Even newer inventions, search engines, [01:01:11] social media, smartphones have gone [01:01:13] downhill drastically. This isn't just a [01:01:15] random old man yells at clouds [01:01:17] complaint. [01:01:19] It's true. It's happening. The decline [01:01:21] can be measured. Everyone sees it. [01:01:23] Everyone feels it. Meanwhile, political [01:01:26] pundits and podcast hosts, speaking of [01:01:27] things that are getting worse, focus on [01:01:30] anything and everything except these [01:01:32] practical real life problems that [01:01:34] actually affect our quality of life. So, [01:01:36] I have like eight questions there. And [01:01:38] I'm going to ask you about your core [01:01:40] observation. Is it getting worse? [01:01:41] Clearly, it is. [01:01:43] Why are podcast hosts and pundits [01:01:46] ignoring this physical reality? [01:01:51] >> I I don't know. Oh, I think that [01:01:55] it's a wide group of people. I think [01:01:56] they have different motivations. I I [01:01:58] think for Well, there's the most obvious [01:02:00] answer is that for a lot of these [01:02:02] people, pundits, podcast hosts, cable [01:02:04] news ho, you know, all the media in [01:02:06] general. Um, a lot of them, I think, are [01:02:09] insulated from a lot of this stuff. They [01:02:11] don't they don't live in this world. [01:02:12] >> Yeah, that's right. [01:02:13] >> Um, and things like, so for example, [01:02:17] we talk about things that are getting [01:02:18] worse. One thing, and it seems small, [01:02:21] but it's not. One thing that's really [01:02:24] getting worse is restaurant food. Okay? [01:02:27] Re the food at most restaurants. I'm [01:02:29] talking about like chain restaurants. [01:02:30] You go to Applebees or Chili's or [01:02:31] whatever. You order a pizza from one of [01:02:33] these places, especially one of these [01:02:34] chain places. And the food is worse. And [01:02:37] that's not just again, it's not old man. [01:02:39] I am an old man yelling at clouds, but [01:02:40] it's not what this is. It is act. It's [01:02:42] it is true. It's a real thing that's [01:02:44] happening. And you can trace it. You can [01:02:46] look at okay uh starting in the early [01:02:49] 2000s uh all these places started [01:02:52] getting bought up by private equity [01:02:54] companies. Yeah. [01:02:54] >> And so now they're they're run by people [01:02:57] who don't care about the product or even [01:02:59] know anything about it. So that's [01:03:01] happening. Um also uh it used to be that [01:03:05] you go to these places and it's a bunch [01:03:07] of like teenagers and college kids that [01:03:09] are working there and uh and they're [01:03:11] just working there to make some money to [01:03:12] pay for college or whatever. And that's [01:03:14] happening less now. And now you've got [01:03:17] um adults, you know, very a an [01:03:19] increasing number of like people with [01:03:21] substance abuse problems, people who, [01:03:23] you know, they're in their late 20s and [01:03:25] they're still, you know, they're they're [01:03:27] doing a job that a 16-year-old used to [01:03:29] do because their life isn't working out [01:03:30] exactly as it should. That's it. That's [01:03:32] its own problems. Like, why is that [01:03:33] happening, right? Um, but but the effect [01:03:36] of that is that even a lot of the [01:03:38] people, not not all of them at all, but [01:03:40] a lot of the people in the [01:03:42] establishments that are working there on [01:03:43] the ground don't really care that much [01:03:45] about the product. And you can see why [01:03:47] they don't care. They're getting paid [01:03:48] crap wages. They've got a difficult [01:03:50] life. They're working for people who [01:03:53] don't care about it. Like, so the guy [01:03:55] who runs this, if I'm working at [01:03:57] Applebee's and I'm a waiter and I'm [01:03:59] looking at it like, okay, the guy who [01:04:01] runs this place doesn't know anything [01:04:02] about this. He doesn't care. I'm getting [01:04:05] paid nothing. Uh why do I care? You [01:04:08] know, and so so I don't care. And so [01:04:10] that's happening. And then the quality [01:04:12] of the food. It used to be that most of [01:04:13] these places made their food fresh. Now [01:04:15] no place makes fresh food anymore. They [01:04:17] all buy frozen food. There are a couple [01:04:19] of food distributors. Cisco is one of [01:04:20] them. That the vast majority of the food [01:04:23] that you eat at a Chili's or Applebees [01:04:25] or whatever is distributed. It comes off [01:04:28] the same truck. It's the same frozen [01:04:31] food that comes off of the same truck [01:04:33] and that is served in all these places, [01:04:35] which is why all the food sucks and it [01:04:38] all tastes the same because it's [01:04:39] literally the same. People don't know [01:04:40] that uh even pizza places again [01:04:44] everything's frozen. There's one I [01:04:46] forget the name of it. There's one [01:04:48] cheese distributor that distributes most [01:04:50] of the cheese at all these different [01:04:52] places and that's like the crucial [01:04:54] element of a pizza and it's literally [01:04:56] the same. It's the same thing and but [01:04:59] they're just pretending that it's not. [01:05:00] So my point is that this is a small [01:05:01] thing. [01:05:03] >> By the way, it's not a small thing, [01:05:04] >> right? So it's not [01:05:05] >> what people eat is important. [01:05:06] >> Yes. It's quality of life. It's your [01:05:08] diet. It's what you eat. It's um and [01:05:11] that stuff really matters. Now podcast [01:05:13] hosts and pundits, a lot of them, why [01:05:16] don't they care? Well, there's two [01:05:17] reasons. Number one, they're not eating [01:05:19] at these places. And if you have money, [01:05:22] then you don't have to worry about that [01:05:24] because you can go to expensive places [01:05:26] where the steak costs $85 and it's not [01:05:29] going to hurt you much because you got a [01:05:30] lot of money. And if you have a lot of [01:05:32] money, then you don't notice any of this [01:05:34] because at the really fancy restaurants [01:05:36] where people spend a lot of money, most [01:05:38] of those places are still making fresh [01:05:40] food and the service is a lot better [01:05:43] because they're paying better wages to [01:05:45] their to the to their waiters. Now [01:05:47] you've got older waiters and waitresses, [01:05:48] but they're older who have kind of [01:05:50] climbed up the ladder. They're really [01:05:51] good at this. They get paid better [01:05:53] wages. They care about it. Like you go [01:05:55] into one of these fancy places, and I [01:05:57] like eating at I mean, who doesn't like [01:05:58] eating at these kind of restaurants? The [01:05:59] food is good. But you go into it and one [01:06:01] of the first things you notice before [01:06:03] you even get to the quality of the food [01:06:04] is that everyone, at least at the good [01:06:07] places, everyone that you interact with, [01:06:09] starting at the hostess stand, seems to [01:06:12] be really happy that you're there and [01:06:13] they care that you're having a good [01:06:14] experience. That is not how it works [01:06:17] when when you go to Chili's, you know. [01:06:19] So anyway, the these podcast the these [01:06:23] people that I'm talking about, they're [01:06:25] in those places and so they're not in [01:06:26] the places where the quality is falling [01:06:27] off falling off a cliff. And then also [01:06:31] >> I think that and this is something we [01:06:34] all do and I do it too. [01:06:36] >> You get caught in this. [01:06:39] We're dealing with like national issues [01:06:40] all the time. and we're dealing with [01:06:42] politics and what's happening in [01:06:43] Washington and the president and [01:06:46] geopolitics and what's happening. We're [01:06:47] dealing with these massive big things [01:06:49] all the time if you're a pundit, if you [01:06:51] do commentary. And so you can fall into [01:06:54] this line of thinking that [01:06:58] the things that actually impact [01:07:00] someone's physical everyday life, those [01:07:04] things are just too small to worry [01:07:07] about. Well, politicians wind up at this [01:07:10] exact place [01:07:10] >> and and and and and it's true that [01:07:12] because I run into this when I start [01:07:14] talking about this stuff, I will hear [01:07:15] this criticism from people. They'll say, [01:07:17] "Why are you talking about this?" I did [01:07:19] a I did a whole video on my on my [01:07:21] channel few weeks ago. [01:07:25] I did like a 30 minute monologue on why [01:07:28] does restaurant food suck. And um there [01:07:31] are two interesting things that happened [01:07:32] after I talked about this issue. One is [01:07:34] that I did get a lot of criticism from [01:07:36] people saying everything's happening in [01:07:37] the world. You're talking about [01:07:38] Applebees. Like why are you talking [01:07:40] about this? You know, it's like how out [01:07:43] of touch are you? When really it's the [01:07:44] opposite. It's like no, this is this is [01:07:46] the stuff that's happening in people's [01:07:47] lives. But so that I got that criticism, [01:07:49] but then what I also noticed is that [01:07:52] a lot of people watched that video. It [01:07:54] was like one of the more um successful [01:07:58] in terms of traffic videos that I've [01:07:59] done in a while. [01:08:02] And [01:08:03] uh and it was just about food at [01:08:05] Applebee's. [01:08:07] And why is that? It's because again this [01:08:09] is like this this is your life. This is [01:08:12] what's happening in your actual life and [01:08:15] it it matters. It touches you and and it [01:08:18] touches your family. [01:08:19] >> Yes. And this is one thing I notice [01:08:22] about um a lot of people in the world [01:08:26] that I have always lived in is they [01:08:28] either spend time and this is true for [01:08:29] me. I'll admit it. They either spend [01:08:32] time in very rich places or in very [01:08:36] rural like low-income places, but [01:08:39] there's no time spent in the middle, [01:08:42] which is where the overwhelming majority [01:08:43] of Americans live. So, it's like only [01:08:45] rich people, only poor people, but no [01:08:48] middle class people. So, they have a [01:08:49] sense of like, you know, a lot of rich [01:08:52] people have summer houses. So, they sort [01:08:53] of get the, you know, if you're on [01:08:54] Nucket, right, and you go there in the [01:08:56] winter and everyone's on drugs, you're [01:08:58] like, "Oh, wow." You know, fentanyl is a [01:09:00] huge problem in our country, but there's [01:09:02] no Applebees. There's no Applebees in [01:09:04] Cambridge, Mass. There's no Applebees in [01:09:05] Nucket. There's no Do you see what I'm [01:09:07] saying? You just you do get a very And I [01:09:11] am so guilty of this. In fact, so guilty [01:09:14] that I really go out of my way to like [01:09:16] understand, you know, but there's no [01:09:19] sense of like normaly. [01:09:21] >> Yeah. It's also in the same way that [01:09:23] like the richest people, Bill Gates for [01:09:25] example, are totally focused on curing [01:09:27] Africa and in Congo. I mean, curing [01:09:30] malaria, polio, [01:09:34] they're obsessed with the problems of [01:09:35] the poorest [01:09:37] while living the lives of the richest, [01:09:39] but like the bulk of the population is [01:09:40] invisible to them. [01:09:41] >> Yeah, I think that's right. I I was [01:09:43] having a conversation with someone [01:09:44] recently who's in the business and um I [01:09:47] don't know I mentioned in passing [01:09:50] I remember why I just mentioned in [01:09:51] passing I just been at I just was coming [01:09:53] I just had been to Walmart. I was pick I [01:09:55] was buying something whatever I went to [01:09:56] Walmart and uh this person was [01:10:02] shocked that I'd gone to Walmart and [01:10:04] they said I I haven't been in a Walmart [01:10:05] in 20 years [01:10:06] >> because there are no whites in Walmart. [01:10:08] That's the other thing. They're like [01:10:09] there you drive into like middle America [01:10:11] there are no where I don't know what [01:10:12] happened to all the whites but are we [01:10:14] allowed to say that? I just noticed it [01:10:15] like where all the there's no whites at [01:10:17] like a rest area on the highway anymore. [01:10:20] >> Yeah. [01:10:20] >> And in Walmart I go to buy uh sporting [01:10:23] clays. It's my only my only shopping [01:10:25] trip of the year usually. [01:10:26] >> And it's like where all the white [01:10:28] people? [01:10:29] >> Well, that's that's part of the thing. [01:10:30] It's it's I mean it's a small it's a [01:10:32] small thing but it's it's just it's uh [01:10:34] emblematic of the problem. It's like, [01:10:36] >> well, there's just been total [01:10:37] demographic changes. [01:10:38] >> But but if as a commentator, [01:10:41] if you have never been in a Walmart or, [01:10:44] you know, it's like, well, then that's [01:10:47] America. I mean, that's that's the [01:10:48] that's middle America. [01:10:49] >> Oh, I totally agree. [01:10:50] >> So, it's just there's there's a basic uh [01:10:53] I'm not saying you got to go and walk [01:10:55] around a Walmart like a safari trip just [01:10:57] to understand America. I'm just saying [01:10:58] that that uh it's just like that's yeah, [01:11:00] that's what's going on in America is at [01:11:02] a place like that. And if you're just [01:11:04] never there at all, to your point about [01:11:07] either you're out in the sticks or [01:11:08] you're in the really wealthy areas, then [01:11:10] you're you're not really in touch with [01:11:12] what's actually happening in America. [01:11:14] And one of those things is Yeah. when [01:11:15] you go you you do notice this when you [01:11:16] go to the places where everybody goes. [01:11:19] Walmart is one of those places. The DMV [01:11:21] is one of those places like a place [01:11:22] where everybody has to go. [01:11:24] >> Yeah. [01:11:25] >> Um unless they're very very very rich, [01:11:28] >> right? [01:11:28] >> Um or very very very poor. When you go [01:11:30] to those places, you do notice you start [01:11:32] noticing things. And one of those things [01:11:33] is like, yeah, it's like it looks a lot [01:11:36] different now. It it's it's um it's [01:11:39] yeah, not not nearly as many white [01:11:40] people as there used to be. You start [01:11:41] noticing those kinds of things. [01:11:42] >> Like, yeah, like it, you know, I've [01:11:45] never been a bigot. It's prohibited by [01:11:48] my religion, but I also think there's [01:11:51] overwhelming pressure not to notice [01:11:53] obvious things. And I try to keep [01:11:55] myself, you know, alert just to notice [01:11:58] what my eyes tell me. And uh that's the [01:12:01] biggest change. That's an incredibly [01:12:03] fast change. Incredibly fast change. [01:12:07] Not is not an accidental change. It was [01:12:08] an intentional change to reduce the [01:12:10] white population in the United States. [01:12:12] And I've kind of never seen anybody more [01:12:14] passively accept it. And I [01:12:18] wonder like are we getting a point where [01:12:20] we can say that and notice it? And why [01:12:21] is that good exactly? [01:12:24] Well, for for every other [01:12:27] it's it's funny because certainly for [01:12:30] every other race on the planet, if we [01:12:33] were to look and see that in their [01:12:35] native countries, [01:12:37] um they are dwindling and disappearing. [01:12:41] Everyone, it would be nothing [01:12:42] controversial about saying, well, this [01:12:44] is bad. No one would say, well, why is [01:12:46] it bad? You know, if if [01:12:48] >> I'm not even saying it's bad. I'm just [01:12:49] saying it's so profound and abrupt. [01:12:52] Well, and I I I will say I think it's [01:12:54] bad. [01:12:54] >> Yeah. [01:12:55] >> Uh I think if you go to Nigeria, if I [01:12:57] were to go to Nigeria and notice that [01:12:59] like all the Nigerians are disappearing. [01:13:01] >> Yeah. [01:13:01] >> I would say, well, what's going on here? [01:13:02] I mean, like [01:13:03] >> everyone's Chinese all of a sudden, [01:13:04] >> right? That's like that's bad. And and [01:13:07] if I said that, no one I don't think [01:13:08] anyone would even ask, well, why is it [01:13:09] bad? What do you mean why is it bad? [01:13:11] It's Nigeria. Like there should be [01:13:12] Nigerians in Nigeria. Um and it's bad if [01:13:15] some other group comes and and takes it [01:13:16] over. And I think for any other race or [01:13:18] demographic on the planet, you can say [01:13:19] that. uh for white people, we're the one [01:13:22] race, the one demographic where it's not [01:13:25] even just that you can't notice that [01:13:26] this replacement is happening. It's that [01:13:28] in fact, we're at the point now where [01:13:30] you should notice it and celebrate it. [01:13:31] It should be seen as a good thing. [01:13:33] >> Isn't that evil? Isn't anyone who tells [01:13:35] me that I'm not allowed to notice or [01:13:36] scolds me for noticing, isn't that [01:13:38] person my enemy? Isn't that I mean, how [01:13:40] could you justify that? What does that [01:13:41] say about your motives? [01:13:43] >> Yeah, I think I think so. And also, it's [01:13:45] I said it's every other demographic on [01:13:47] the planet. [01:13:49] um any other species on the like if I [01:13:53] [laughter] [01:13:53] you know it's so true. [01:13:54] >> Yeah. If [01:13:55] >> where are all the condors? [01:13:56] >> Right. Exactly. If I if we look we get [01:13:58] these panics all the time. Oh, all the [01:14:00] um Amazonian horned owls are [01:14:03] disappearing or whatever. [01:14:04] >> And they're going away. We have to [01:14:07] preserve them. No one even stops and [01:14:08] asks like why do we need Amazonian horn? [01:14:10] Like we've got a million other owls. [01:14:11] Well, owls. Why do we [laughter] need [01:14:12] these owls? [01:14:14] >> And it's just seen as like well they're [01:14:15] a species that existed. they should [01:14:17] continue to exist. And so for every [01:14:20] other demographic and species of living [01:14:23] being, [01:14:25] we can all agree that if those people [01:14:27] disappear that it's bad and white people [01:14:30] only one that we can't say that. And [01:14:32] part of the reason for that, I think, is [01:14:34] well, there's a lot of anti-white [01:14:36] sentiment. [01:14:38] But also, [01:14:41] uh, so I I use the example of Nigeria. [01:14:43] Everyone recognizes that Nigerians or [01:14:46] black are the native inhabitants of [01:14:49] Nigeria. And so if the native [01:14:51] inhabitants go away, we see that as a [01:14:54] bad thing. The the Amazonian horned owl [01:14:57] is a native inhabitant of the I don't [01:14:59] think that exists. I'm just Yeah, [01:15:00] whatever. But they're a native [01:15:01] inhabitant of the Amazon and so they [01:15:03] should be there. with white people. It's [01:15:05] this really interesting thing [01:15:08] where what we're told is that white [01:15:10] people are not native anywhere. We are [01:15:14] not indigenous to anywhere. Which is [01:15:17] why, and I'm not like making this up, [01:15:19] there's nowhere in the world you can go [01:15:22] where the people who are officially [01:15:24] recognized as the indigenous habitants [01:15:26] are white. Nowhere. White people do not [01:15:28] >> How is that not genocidal intent? [01:15:31] >> Well, that's my point. So it's like, [01:15:33] okay, so we're not indigenous to [01:15:34] anywhere. So where are we supposed to [01:15:35] be? Because the other part is [01:15:37] >> we're supposed to be dead [01:15:39] >> apparently. [01:15:39] >> Yeah. [01:15:40] >> Because we're told that, okay, the here [01:15:42] the indigenous habitants and the the [01:15:46] what's implied every time we talk about [01:15:47] indigenous people or just outright said [01:15:49] is that well they this land is really [01:15:51] theirs and so you shouldn't be here. And [01:15:54] so what we're saying to white people [01:15:55] everywhere is that you shouldn't be [01:15:57] here. Well, where should we be? Do you [01:15:58] want us to go to Mars? I mean, are we [01:16:00] going to like are we going to Jupiter? [01:16:02] Where are we supposed to be? Or do we [01:16:03] are are you just going to throw us into [01:16:04] the ocean? And I think the answer is [01:16:07] that we really shouldn't be anywhere. [01:16:09] Which is why we should not be [01:16:12] embarrassed or afraid to say that the [01:16:16] native [01:16:18] like Native Americans [01:16:21] are white people of European descent. [01:16:25] That is true. The people that we call [01:16:27] Native Americans now are not Native [01:16:30] Americans. And the reason they're not [01:16:31] Native Americans is because they did not [01:16:35] form a country called America. They are [01:16:38] not native. America is a country. It's [01:16:40] not just a a place. It's not just a plot [01:16:42] of land. It is a country. And before [01:16:46] America was formed as a nation, this [01:16:49] place was not America because America [01:16:51] didn't exist. America existed when it [01:16:53] was formed. And so if someone can trace [01:16:57] their lineage back to the Comanche on [01:17:00] the Great Plains, [01:17:02] um well that that doesn't make you a you [01:17:06] weren't native to America. You're a [01:17:08] native native to Comancheria. You're [01:17:10] you're native to to to this. You're not [01:17:13] native to the country of America. The [01:17:15] people who are native to the nation of [01:17:17] America, the people who formed this [01:17:19] nation were by and large almost [01:17:22] exclusively [01:17:23] white people of European descent. Um [01:17:26] they are the natives of this country. [01:17:28] They are the ones who formed this [01:17:29] country. That doesn't mean that other [01:17:30] people aren't allowed to live here. It [01:17:32] just means that they're the natives. And [01:17:35] again, anywhere else on the in the [01:17:37] world, there's nothing controversial [01:17:38] about pointing that out. And we're the [01:17:40] only place where we're not allowed to [01:17:41] say that. But I I I've been on this uh [01:17:44] I've been preaching this for a while [01:17:45] now. I think we should we need and not [01:17:47] just as a gimmick. Like I really believe [01:17:48] we should reclaim the title of Native [01:17:51] American and not not to not to denigrate [01:17:55] the people that we call natives who I [01:17:58] think that they're [01:18:00] it's really interesting to read about [01:18:01] their cultures and their history. [01:18:02] >> Oh, they're amazing people but not [01:18:04] native to here. [01:18:04] >> They're not native to America. And they [01:18:06] also were, by the way, they're also not [01:18:08] native in the strictest sense to this [01:18:11] hemisphere. Like they didn't sprout out [01:18:14] of the ground. They came here at some [01:18:16] point in the past [01:18:16] >> from Asia. [01:18:17] >> From Asia. They fought brutally with [01:18:20] each other over the land. All of the the [01:18:23] so-called natives that were here and had [01:18:25] claimed land when Europeans first [01:18:27] started showing up in the late 1400s, [01:18:29] early 1500s, all of those people had [01:18:32] were on that land because they brutally [01:18:35] killed who who'd been on it before, [01:18:37] right? [01:18:37] >> And they raped their women and took [01:18:39] their children as slaves. [01:18:40] >> One wave of conquest supplanted the [01:18:42] next. [01:18:42] >> Exactly. And and and and the law of [01:18:44] conquest is what determined [01:18:46] >> No, it's it's of course it's factually [01:18:48] true. And by the way, it's been [01:18:50] suppressed for many decades by [01:18:53] anthropologists and archaeologists, by [01:18:54] the official policy of the US [01:18:55] government, but cracking the human [01:18:57] genome made it impossible to deny [01:18:59] >> uh the origin of the of the American [01:19:01] Indians, which was Asia. [01:19:03] >> It's fine. I mean, I really like the [01:19:05] Native Americans. Uh personally, yeah, [01:19:07] I'm not against them at all. I feel so [01:19:09] bad for them. Uh but you're absolutely [01:19:12] 100% right. I just find it so [01:19:15] interesting the coordinated effort to to [01:19:18] exterminate white people um which is of [01:19:21] in full flower now but it's so [01:19:24] you know it's 1945 is when it started [01:19:27] and but it was every part of our society [01:19:29] I remember at Fox News in the most [01:19:31] gentle way trying to say you know maybe [01:19:33] all lives do matter or we shouldn't [01:19:35] attack whites because they're white man [01:19:37] that was like the worst argument I ever [01:19:38] got in with a with a senior executive at [01:19:42] the at the network like that's racist. [01:19:45] No, it's actually an argument against [01:19:46] racism. It's like everybody on all sides [01:19:50] was so brainwashed and just accepting [01:19:52] this. [01:19:53] And then of course it happened. And so I [01:19:56] wonder does it ever let up? Didn't let [01:19:59] up in Zimbabwe or South Africa. You like [01:20:02] take the power, kill a bunch of whites, [01:20:04] suppress them, and then like 30 years [01:20:07] later you're still blaming them for [01:20:08] everything. Will that happen here when [01:20:10] this becomes majority non-white? [01:20:13] I I all indications are that it will [01:20:16] continue. I mean, [01:20:17] >> so how do you respond to it? What's the [01:20:19] right way to respond? You don't want [01:20:20] some kind of race war. I don't want to [01:20:22] wake up every day thinking about my [01:20:23] whiteness. I'm not interested in my [01:20:24] whiteness. Just being honest. I don't [01:20:26] like thinking in those terms. Sorry, [01:20:28] call me a boomer, which I'm not. But I'm [01:20:30] I just don't want to I want to see [01:20:32] people as people. But how do you respond [01:20:35] to that? Because you can't allow that. [01:20:37] You can't allow people to attack your [01:20:38] kids because of their skin color. What [01:20:41] the [ __ ] [01:20:42] >> Right. Exactly. I I think you respond to [01:20:44] it [01:20:46] and I think there has been some progress [01:20:47] actually in this regard. Probably [01:20:49] significant amount of [01:20:50] >> you've been a big part of that by the [01:20:51] way on the right. So, thank you. [01:20:52] >> Well, I I mean I think a lot I think I [01:20:54] think this is one of the things like I [01:20:57] said before there are some victories the [01:20:58] conservatives have had. [01:20:59] >> Yeah. [01:21:00] >> Uh I know some some of the more [01:21:02] doomer-minded conservatives say what do [01:21:04] we conserve? We haven't conserved [01:21:05] anything. Well, I'm not saying it's been [01:21:07] a it's been a you know, I'm not saying [01:21:10] it's been we've been batting a thousand, [01:21:11] but I think we have succeeded. [01:21:13] >> I think they're referring I Well, maybe [01:21:16] this is what I think, but I do think [01:21:17] they're mostly referring to conservative [01:21:18] institutions. [01:21:20] >> Yeah. Which which [01:21:21] >> the Republican Congress or some [01:21:23] Republican think tank like those clearly [01:21:26] haven't achieved a lot. [01:21:27] >> Yeah, I would agree with that. But so so [01:21:29] one uh so one one success that I think [01:21:32] that you're starting to see recently is [01:21:33] that the [01:21:35] the left used to get a lot of mileage [01:21:37] out of uh obviously not engaging with [01:21:39] arguments but just labeling them. They [01:21:41] would just label the argument. And so [01:21:42] they would say their way of engaging [01:21:43] with argument is say well uh argument is [01:21:46] not wrong or right. I don't care about [01:21:47] that. The the argument is an isor or [01:21:49] ism. The argument is racist. The [01:21:51] argument is is is you know whatever [01:21:53] bigoted islamophobic whatever um [01:21:55] anti-semitic. So that they used to they [01:21:58] used to get a lot of mileage out of [01:21:59] that. And I think what's happening now [01:22:00] is that people are people are saying, [01:22:02] "Well, I don't care about the labels." [01:22:03] Like, you can say whatever label you [01:22:05] want. It just doesn't it doesn't mean [01:22:06] anything to me. And the reason it [01:22:08] doesn't mean anything to me is it's not [01:22:10] my fault. It's your fault. [01:22:12] >> When you when you decided that [01:22:14] everything fits under that label, the [01:22:15] label doesn't mean anything anymore. [01:22:17] >> Exactly. [01:22:17] >> Uh and I think that's made people more [01:22:19] more fearless. There there was a time I [01:22:21] mean, look, you go back look go back to [01:22:22] 2000, not 2000. Well, certainly 2000, [01:22:24] but even going back to 2020, [01:22:27] um, in the the throws of the Floyd [01:22:30] hysteria. And [01:22:33] for a lot of people, being called racist [01:22:35] was it's like the worst thing in the [01:22:38] world. They were terrified of it. [01:22:39] >> Oh, yeah. [01:22:40] >> Being called racist was it it for a lot [01:22:41] of people that was worse than being [01:22:42] called like a child molester. I mean, [01:22:44] they they they would rather be called [01:22:46] anything but racist. And there's all [01:22:48] this fear and I think the the race [01:22:50] hustlers got a a lot of mileage out of [01:22:52] that fear. I think that fear is starting [01:22:55] to dissipate. [01:22:56] >> And yet I still haven't seen many [01:22:59] people, especially people who spend a [01:23:01] lot of time claiming bias against them. [01:23:04] Coming out and making unequivocal [01:23:06] statements against anti-white hate. Like [01:23:08] that's the one category. I haven't seen [01:23:10] a lot of people say that. Like no, [01:23:12] hating whites is every bit as hating [01:23:14] blacks or hating Jews or hating Asians [01:23:16] or whatever. hating a group is immoral. [01:23:18] I have seen very few people say that and [01:23:21] Barry Weiss is not big on that. Why? [01:23:23] Like why why can't we just say that it's [01:23:25] all the same. It's all species of the [01:23:27] same evil. Like that that's my opinion. [01:23:29] I think that's the Christian view. [01:23:31] Someone correct me if if I'm wrong, but [01:23:33] it's certainly my opinion and it makes a [01:23:36] it's a coherent argument, but I never [01:23:38] see anybody say that. Well, I think I [01:23:40] think it's a lot of that is programming [01:23:42] that's been going on for a long time to [01:23:44] to [01:23:46] the the the way a lot of people are [01:23:47] programmed is that to speak specifically [01:23:52] in defense of white people as a group [01:23:56] um to say anything positive about white [01:23:58] people as a group is just automatically [01:24:01] racist. And I think that this and it's [01:24:03] it's obviously bonkers, [01:24:06] >> right? It's so it's absurd, but it's [01:24:08] ingrained deeply. I mean, this goes back [01:24:10] to I can remember this kind of [01:24:13] conditioning in public school in the [01:24:14] '90s. I went to public school. I can I [01:24:17] can, you know, we talk about wokeness [01:24:18] like it just started in 2015. It didn't. [01:24:21] And maybe it was worse in 2015 than it [01:24:23] was in 1993. I can remember it in 1993. [01:24:26] And I can remember being in school and [01:24:28] the only time that if we ever talked [01:24:32] about like our [01:24:36] ancestors or the people who founded this [01:24:38] country or anything like that, it was it [01:24:41] was either in an expressly negative way. [01:24:43] Let's talk about all the ter terrible [01:24:45] things they did or if we are going to [01:24:46] acknowledge anything good they did, we [01:24:48] have to couch it by first saying, [01:24:51] well, here's a lot of bad things they [01:24:52] did. They also did this but also the [01:24:54] bad. And so that's been going on for [01:24:56] such a long time. [01:24:57] >> These were in retrospect, these were the [01:24:59] first moves. These were the shock troops [01:25:01] of a total takeover and change in the [01:25:04] country. Like this was preparation for [01:25:06] what we got under Biden where it's just [01:25:08] like let's just [01:25:09] >> totally transform the demographics of [01:25:12] the country in four years [01:25:13] >> and then no one will will feel free to [01:25:15] say anything about it because racism, [01:25:18] >> right? [01:25:18] >> I mean, it feels that way to me. I don't [01:25:20] know if it was a strategy or [01:25:21] intentional, but it was certainly a [01:25:23] coordinated effort, maybe unconsciously, [01:25:25] but like it wasn't an accident and it [01:25:27] happened in every white majority country [01:25:30] and that's why there won't be any white [01:25:32] majority countries really soon. And so [01:25:35] like what was that? I I kind of wish I [01:25:38] wasn't white in saying this because it's [01:25:41] like it's not self it's first of all [01:25:42] it's curiosity. Like what the hell? You [01:25:44] almost never see anything happen [01:25:46] globally [01:25:48] that's that similar in countries that [01:25:51] aren't that similar. Like the United [01:25:53] States is not that similar to the UK or [01:25:57] Canada or New Zealand, Australia, but [01:25:59] exactly the same thing happened in all [01:26:01] of those places. [01:26:02] >> Much much worse in a lot of those [01:26:03] places. M [01:26:04] >> Austral Yeah. Oh, if you visit those [01:26:06] places, it'll just break your heart [01:26:08] because there's the people are broken. [01:26:10] But [01:26:11] >> in in Canada, they they are [01:26:12] >> well, Canada is not even a country. [01:26:14] >> It's not even a country. And they they [01:26:15] are they are overwhelmed with guilt. [01:26:18] They they are so [01:26:19] >> they're murdering the government is [01:26:20] murdering tens of thousands of its [01:26:22] citizens every year. They're almost all [01:26:24] white. And now they're going to be doing [01:26:26] it to kids. And by the way, under the [01:26:28] maids program, they're harvesting the [01:26:30] organs. They're harvesting the organs [01:26:33] from the Canadians they kill. So it's [01:26:36] like the darkest thing. That's like I [01:26:38] would feel much freer and safer living [01:26:41] in China than Canada. I can't believe [01:26:43] I'm saying that. I actually love Canada. [01:26:45] But that's happening and no one's saying [01:26:46] a word about it. [01:26:48] >> Yeah. It's well that that in particular [01:26:49] is one of those things that it's so dark [01:26:52] and so depraved that when you talk about [01:26:54] it, I think a lot of people, especially [01:26:55] in America, they think you you're making [01:26:57] it up or you're exaggerating. I [01:26:58] >> I almost don't talk about it very often [01:27:01] because I don't think anyone believes [01:27:03] it. But I live right near Canada and I [01:27:06] know and I I'm like the only American [01:27:08] who really sincerely loves Canada cuz [01:27:09] it's just so beautiful. Not the only, [01:27:11] but not many people care about Canada. I [01:27:13] do. So I know a lot of Canadians and [01:27:15] that's absolutely you'll look it up on [01:27:17] the inner tubes. It's there. [01:27:19] >> It's it's becoming one of the leading [01:27:20] causes of death and and [01:27:22] >> it is one of the leading causes of death [01:27:24] >> is is assisted suicide. I mean, just [01:27:26] >> the government killing you and not [01:27:27] because you have ALS, but because you [01:27:30] can't pay your rent and then extending [01:27:32] it to children and then harvesting the [01:27:33] organs and the blood. [01:27:36] I mean, I I feel like they're a way [01:27:38] bigger threat to the United States than [01:27:40] Venezuela. I would be open to an [01:27:43] argument in favor of invading and [01:27:45] occupying Canada on human rights [01:27:47] grounds. I'm not joking even a tiny bit. [01:27:49] I think it's one of the darkest [01:27:50] countries in the world and it's such a [01:27:52] great country with such great people. I [01:27:54] don't know how we can allow this to [01:27:55] happen without at least saying something [01:27:57] about I'm not actually arguing for [01:27:58] military action, but like maybe [01:28:01] threatening it. The they're way worse [01:28:03] than Maduro. Way worse than Maduro. Way [01:28:07] worse. So like but I'm sure I'll be like [01:28:09] scolded for how can you say that because [01:28:12] it's true. [01:28:13] >> Yeah. Well, the the the maid program [01:28:15] alone is one of the most evil things [01:28:17] happening in the world. Period. [01:28:19] >> Murdering your citizens and harvesting [01:28:20] their organs on a greater scale than [01:28:22] China does. really and it's right there. [01:28:25] >> I think one of the things that's [01:28:26] happening, why are people ignoring this [01:28:28] in America? Well, one thing it's it's [01:28:30] people it's like not your country, so [01:28:31] you think it doesn't affect you. I think [01:28:33] it does affect us because also also like [01:28:36] when you look at Canada and Europe and [01:28:37] these that we're on the same kind of [01:28:39] crazy train, they're just a few train [01:28:41] cars up and so and so we that's why you [01:28:43] got to pay attention to where they are [01:28:44] because we're going to be there. So [01:28:46] that's that's one thing. [01:28:46] >> Yes. Thank you. But I think that also [01:28:49] for cons for for some conservatives in [01:28:51] this country uh there's some [01:28:53] embarrassment about this because [01:28:56] >> they I think there are plenty of [01:28:57] conservatives who've been [01:29:00] at least indifferent to to the issue of [01:29:02] euthanasia and have even kind of I've [01:29:04] had many arguments with so-called [01:29:05] conservatives actually over the years [01:29:07] not as much now because you see what's [01:29:08] happening with maid but over the years [01:29:10] with with saying that well you know [01:29:12] because they they get hung up on this [01:29:13] well it's a personal choice and and they [01:29:15] just think as conservatives you just you [01:29:17] you cannot oppose a personal choice. You [01:29:20] just you can't do it. Um and uh and it's [01:29:24] it's it's it's kind of the libertarian [01:29:26] instinct gone way haywire in my mind. [01:29:29] >> And and so they're but now you can see [01:29:32] now those of us who have always been [01:29:34] against [01:29:35] >> so a desperate person has free will. Is [01:29:37] that what they're saying? [01:29:38] >> And that's the problem. [01:29:39] >> These are children. They don't know what [01:29:40] they're talking about. And also and also [01:29:44] so those of us those of us who are [01:29:45] opposed to it [01:29:47] >> we have been saying for years like this [01:29:49] is where it's going to go. Okay. Yeah. [01:29:51] Right now they are. And the other [01:29:53] argument for Ethan Asia was well these [01:29:55] are people who are in terrible pain and [01:29:58] they're at death store. They've only got [01:30:00] days or at most weeks to live anyway. [01:30:02] They're in horrible pain. You have no [01:30:04] idea what it's like. And so they should [01:30:06] be able to they should be able to have a [01:30:09] way out. and and uh and like from an [01:30:12] emotional level like I I get what you're [01:30:14] saying. I totally disagree with it. I [01:30:15] get what you're saying. Our argument was [01:30:18] well there's a few arguments but the big [01:30:20] one was okay that's what we're do. It's [01:30:22] already evil to do that even with [01:30:23] someone who's terminally ill. They're [01:30:25] doing that now though. It will not stop [01:30:27] there because it never stops there. And [01:30:30] once you give the state and the medical [01:30:32] establishment the authority to kill, [01:30:36] they will not stop. It it it always [01:30:38] starts with the most justifiable version [01:30:40] of it that they can muster, which is [01:30:43] still totally unjustifiable in my view, [01:30:45] but they always starts with the most [01:30:46] justifiable version. And then next it's [01:30:48] like, okay, yeah, but yeah, we should [01:30:50] include people who maybe they're not [01:30:52] terminally ill, but they're chronically [01:30:53] ill and they're a lot of pain. And okay, [01:30:55] now we've included them. Well, what [01:30:56] about what about mental illnesses? Well, [01:30:58] what about this person over there? He's [01:30:59] homeless. Yeah, he's not terminally ill, [01:31:01] but his life is has no meaning and he's [01:31:03] terrible. He lives on the street. And [01:31:04] then and then you know step step and [01:31:07] eventually you're killing kids too. [01:31:09] We've seen this. We've seen this. And by [01:31:10] the way, I grew I'm older than you. [01:31:12] >> And so they were still teaching this in [01:31:14] schools when I was a kid, but the the [01:31:16] the Nazi experiment began with [01:31:18] euthanasia famously. And it wasn't just [01:31:21] on a small scale. It was like hundreds [01:31:24] of thousands of people killed. And it [01:31:26] began well down syndrome. Like how could [01:31:28] your life be worth living? And then it [01:31:29] wound up with Dietrich Bonhaofer and the [01:31:30] Warsaw Ghetto. Like this was a very [01:31:34] clear much written about continuum that [01:31:37] began with murdering the weakest and [01:31:39] then again you know uh it ended where it [01:31:43] famously ended which was with mass [01:31:44] murder. But Hitler was famous for his [01:31:47] euthanasia program. [01:31:50] He was also famous for like rounding [01:31:52] people up and moving them to new places [01:31:54] like is now openly being discussed in [01:31:56] Gaza. It's like the whole thing is so [01:31:57] bonkers and it just tells you that human [01:32:00] evil is not specific to any group or [01:32:02] time or place. It resides in every [01:32:04] person. Every person is capable of this [01:32:05] kind of behavior, justifying this kind [01:32:07] of behavior and we should all be on [01:32:08] guard against it. But like [01:32:11] Hitler was very famous for youth in [01:32:14] Asia. Did you even learn that in school? [01:32:16] >> No, certainly not. [laughter] [01:32:18] >> So funny things change. I was in first [01:32:20] grade in 1975 [01:32:23] and that was like a feature of it. You [01:32:27] know, he was bad because he killed [01:32:29] people on the basis of like their DNA. [01:32:31] That's not allowed. [01:32:33] And he killed the weakest. Not allowed. [01:32:36] And I guess they stopped teaching that. [01:32:38] And and the other thing is when you give [01:32:41] when you give the medical establishment [01:32:43] when you accept the idea that death is a [01:32:47] treatment [01:32:48] >> Yeah. Um, you have opened the darkest [01:32:52] door imaginable. [01:32:53] >> Yes. [01:32:54] >> And this is what's so frustrating is [01:32:56] that what what is often what are often [01:32:59] decrieded as slippery slope arguments. [01:33:01] People talk about, oh, it's a fallacy. [01:33:02] Slippery slope. First of all, slippery [01:33:04] slope is not a fallacy. [01:33:06] That's not it's not a facious way of [01:33:07] making an argument. All we're trying to [01:33:09] show you is that, okay, here's a door [01:33:13] you've opened. Okay, you've made an [01:33:16] argument to justify something. And what [01:33:19] I'm trying to tell you is that I can [01:33:20] take that argument intact and use it to [01:33:24] justify this thing over here that we [01:33:26] both agree is horrific. And so if I can [01:33:29] do that, what that tells me is that what [01:33:31] it should tell you is that either your [01:33:33] argument is bad or the thing you're [01:33:35] arguing for is bad or both. And that's [01:33:38] that's what the slipper slope thing is. [01:33:39] And and and that was the point with [01:33:40] euthanasia. Once you [01:33:43] allow [01:33:45] the the medical establishment [01:33:47] to to use death, murder as a form of [01:33:51] medical treatment, you've completely [01:33:54] flipped it on its head because the whole [01:33:56] point of medicine is to heal and treat. [01:33:59] And so, so to avoid death and pain. Like [01:34:02] that's the point of it. And now you've [01:34:04] flipped it upside down and you've said [01:34:06] that death is the treatment. And so now [01:34:08] you've just destroyed the whole thing. [01:34:10] you've destroyed it. And uh [01:34:13] >> but this happened I think that almost [01:34:15] all obstitricians are required to commit [01:34:17] abortion during their training. [01:34:19] >> Yeah. Well, that's right. [01:34:20] >> So then you wind up with an entire [01:34:22] medical core that's evil. [01:34:25] >> Yeah. [01:34:26] >> Like there are a lot of evil doctors, [01:34:28] not just a few, but a lot [01:34:31] >> evil and or I mean I guess this is the [01:34:33] same thing, but h they they have to be [01:34:37] very indifferent to human life, which is [01:34:38] evil. Uh so but did you realize I did I [01:34:42] certainly didn't realize really was the [01:34:45] COVID vac [01:34:47] the intentional lack of co letting [01:34:49] people die rather than treating their [01:34:51] symptoms which happened extensively [01:34:53] across the United States. That's when I [01:34:55] was like these people aren't just wrong [01:34:58] they're like the worst people in the [01:35:00] physicians are the worst people in the [01:35:02] country. And for all the nurses, sweet [01:35:05] nurses, I love nurses, sorry. Um, who [01:35:08] like stood up and like this is wrong. [01:35:10] Almost no doctors did. A few, a few, [01:35:12] Mary Tally Bowden and people like that, [01:35:14] but like not a lot. And I was just like, [01:35:19] our doctors are evil. Not just mistaken, [01:35:21] they're bad. Do you do you feel that? [01:35:24] >> I I think a lot of them are. I mean, [01:35:26] certain obviously not all of them, [01:35:27] >> but not all of them. Right. [01:35:29] >> Yeah. But but [01:35:30] >> but like not 5%. [01:35:32] >> Right. Exactly. [01:35:33] >> We're like 70%. Well, and how about also [01:35:36] there's abortion youth in Asia, CO, [01:35:37] Uganda. But then also something that I [01:35:41] don't think we should just drop and move [01:35:43] on from because speaking of justice, [01:35:45] there has not been justice for this, [01:35:48] which is that um for years we had the [01:35:51] entire medical establishment unanimously [01:35:54] almost telling us that uh the best thing [01:35:58] to do with a a young boy who's a little [01:36:00] bit confused about his identity is to [01:36:02] castrate him. And they were doing that. [01:36:05] They were doing that to thousands of [01:36:06] kids. They were chopping the breasts [01:36:08] off. They're still doing it in some [01:36:09] places. Uh but it was certainly [01:36:11] happening at scale for a long time. [01:36:13] They're chopping the breasts off of [01:36:14] 15-year-old girls. And um it to your [01:36:17] point, it was not just like a few [01:36:19] doctors. It was a lot of doctors that [01:36:21] were involved in it. A lot more doctors [01:36:24] supported it and a lot of other doctors [01:36:26] who maybe didn't like it, but they they [01:36:28] didn't say a word. They did not speak up [01:36:30] against it. This is this is some of the [01:36:32] most insane, barbaric Frankenstein [01:36:35] [ __ ] that the world has ever seen. [01:36:39] Completely unjustifiable. No one can [01:36:41] argue in defense of it. It's the one of [01:36:43] the craziest things that's ever happened [01:36:46] in the history of the planet. [01:36:47] >> It's hard to hear this even cuz you're [01:36:49] cuz you're right. [01:36:50] >> Right. and and it was it just went on [01:36:53] and the the the way that the the [01:36:55] advocates for this the way that they [01:36:58] argued in favor of it because obviously [01:36:59] they couldn't make any substantive [01:37:01] argument for castrating kids what they [01:37:03] would always say is well look at all [01:37:04] these medical establishments every [01:37:06] single one of them is in favor of it and [01:37:08] they were right they all were all of [01:37:10] them [01:37:10] >> what's so crazy is that um you know [01:37:12] female genital mutilation which is you [01:37:16] know universal in a few countries I [01:37:17] think Somalia is one of them but um was [01:37:21] very frowned upon by by feminists and [01:37:24] also by me as a lover of women and it [01:37:26] was a feature of debate on cable news [01:37:28] shows like my most of my life as a cable [01:37:31] news debater FGM you know we do a [01:37:34] segment on FGM or whatever can you [01:37:35] believe they're doing this and like [01:37:37] nobody would defend it you know we'd [01:37:39] look far and wide who will defend female [01:37:42] genital a clinerectomy like who would [01:37:45] defend that and you know our bookers [01:37:48] tried really hard But there weren't [01:37:49] many. All of a sudden, no one mentioned [01:37:51] it again. And that's because they [01:37:53] started doing it. [01:37:55] >> Mhm. [01:37:56] >> And it's just a reminder that you don't [01:37:57] have to be Somali or a Nazi or any any [01:38:00] specific group to participate in evil. [01:38:03] Like this is a human problem. And the [01:38:06] second they stop talking about how what [01:38:09] other people did is bad, it's probably a [01:38:11] tip that they're going to start doing it [01:38:13] themselves, right? [01:38:14] >> And it's it's also a lesson that it's [01:38:16] very easy. [01:38:18] I mean, look, nobody wants to admit it [01:38:19] now, but [01:38:22] at the height of the trans madness, and [01:38:23] I I don't mean to talk about it totally [01:38:24] in the past tense, like it's over. It's [01:38:26] not, [01:38:27] but we are past the height of it. [01:38:29] >> It feels that [01:38:30] >> um thank god, but at the height of it, [01:38:34] no one wants to admit it now, but [01:38:37] uh almost everyone on the left supported [01:38:39] it, vocally so. And most people on the [01:38:43] right did, you know, told themselves or [01:38:46] insisted that it's not worth saying [01:38:48] anything about. It's not that big of a [01:38:49] deal. [01:38:50] >> Totally right. That's exactly right. [01:38:51] >> This is a this is a cultural war [01:38:53] sideshow. [01:38:55] >> Um and so what that tells us is that [01:38:58] it's actually very easy for people to [01:39:00] convince themselves to go along with the [01:39:02] worst evils [01:39:05] that are even conceivable. [01:39:07] >> No, that's totally right. people. It [01:39:08] It's very easy to convince yourself [01:39:10] >> partisanship is not a good guide to [01:39:12] that. I can as you just said yourself [01:39:15] there a lot of people that are on our [01:39:17] side like h I don't want to deal with [01:39:19] that. [01:39:20] >> Yeah. It's it's it's well because what [01:39:22] you have are I mean usually this is not [01:39:24] how it always works out but [01:39:27] um you've got the really evil thing [01:39:30] being promoted facilitated by the left [01:39:34] whether it's abortion or euthanasia [01:39:36] whatever else and then you've got [01:39:38] cowardice on the right um [01:39:41] refusing to speak up against it uh until [01:39:44] it's very safe to do so you know and [01:39:46] then and then then everybody does and [01:39:48] that's why it's also been on the trans [01:39:50] issue It's been interesting over the [01:39:51] last like year, year and a half to have [01:39:55] uh people coming out of the woodwork [01:39:57] like very very boldly saying, you know, [01:39:59] men uh men shouldn't be in women's [01:40:02] sports like yeah, [01:40:05] thanks for that. Like I could have we [01:40:06] could have used that six years ago. [01:40:08] >> Well, because this was one of those [01:40:09] issues was you and a few other people [01:40:11] just changed it. It wasn't Congress. It [01:40:12] was you made your movie um and you [01:40:15] wouldn't stop talking about it. And [01:40:17] there were a few others but they were [01:40:18] all in the commentariat. They were all [01:40:20] like in the pundit class. It was not [01:40:22] there was no like US senator who led the [01:40:25] charge against this. Some followed in [01:40:27] the end but it came from outside the [01:40:28] system I guess is what I'm saying [01:40:30] >> right. [01:40:31] So that kind of shows [01:40:36] among other things that the commentary [01:40:38] which is insufferable. I even as I say [01:40:41] this part of it does matter matters [01:40:44] actually the opinions you see on all [01:40:46] these podcasts like they over time do [01:40:48] change things clearly. [01:40:51] So to circle back to where we began, [01:40:55] how is this current [01:40:59] conflict, the intraright conflict [01:41:03] resolved? [01:41:06] [sighs and gasps] [01:41:08] I don't I don't know. I don't I I if I [01:41:11] knew how [01:41:13] to do it, I would do it. Mhm. [01:41:16] >> Um, if I if I knew how to solve it, if I [01:41:18] knew how to bridge the divide and get [01:41:20] everyone on the same side again, [01:41:22] >> I would do it. I've tried in my own way. [01:41:25] >> I know. [01:41:26] >> I have not been successful. I have [01:41:28] tried. [01:41:28] >> You're You're like the the last person [01:41:31] with a foot in each world. It's [01:41:32] interesting [01:41:33] >> and I and I I value that like this. This [01:41:36] is for me. This is what people have to [01:41:38] understand. I I try not to take it [01:41:40] personally. the insults that I mean when [01:41:42] you're in this world you get insulted [01:41:43] all the time and you have to [01:41:46] >> uh you have to you have to have thick [01:41:48] skin. There are certain attacks against [01:41:50] me that I should not admit this, but I [01:41:52] will that do [01:41:55] bother me. Like [laughter] they they do [01:41:57] they do [01:41:58] >> like what? Okay, you opened it. You [01:41:59] opened the door. So, [01:42:01] >> well, charges of well, when people say [01:42:03] things that just aren't true, [01:42:04] >> like and it happens all the time and [01:42:06] it's it's the one thing I should be the [01:42:07] most used to, I guess, that I am, [01:42:09] >> but it just pisses me off really. Like, [01:42:11] it it does because I [01:42:13] >> I'm the opposite. It's only the true [01:42:14] attacks that upset me. [01:42:16] >> I [laughter] [01:42:17] I don't know. Yeah, it it it shouldn't. [01:42:19] But when people are I see someone, you [01:42:21] know, make a claim, especially if it's [01:42:23] someone, it doesn't have to be, but [01:42:24] especially if it's someone who I kind of [01:42:25] know and [01:42:26] >> it's not, but saying something that says [01:42:28] like it's not true. You're ascribing [01:42:30] motives to me that it's just it's so [01:42:32] it's just the exact opposite of what is [01:42:34] actually true. [01:42:36] >> And you're not even asking me. You're [01:42:37] not reaching out. You're not giving me a [01:42:39] chance to speak for myself. [01:42:40] >> Who did that to you? [01:42:41] >> And I I Here's the thing. I talked about [01:42:44] loyalty before. I'm I'm so uh devoted to [01:42:48] it that I I have people I consider [01:42:51] friends who have been attacking me [01:42:53] publicly [01:42:54] and I still don't want to attack them. [01:42:57] >> Welcome to my world. [01:42:58] >> I I still don't want to be [01:42:59] >> Do you feel like there's a connection [01:43:00] between the degree to which you've [01:43:01] helped someone and the vehements of the [01:43:03] attack? [01:43:05] >> I've noticed that in just in my life I'm [01:43:07] not whining and I agree with you. It's I [01:43:09] hate whin being attacked. I'm being [01:43:11] threatened. Someone shot at my house. [01:43:12] Like I'm never going to say that. Okay. [01:43:15] Though it's true, but I have noticed [01:43:17] that a lot of people I've helped are [01:43:19] like on the front lines of attacking me [01:43:21] or calling me names they know aren't [01:43:23] aren't true. Nazi. And I feel like [01:43:27] there's a connection. It's not random. [01:43:29] It's like if you've helped someone, [01:43:31] maybe they resent you for it. [01:43:33] >> I I don't [01:43:34] >> down. [01:43:34] >> Yeah, there there might be some of that. [01:43:36] I mean, there's there's a [01:43:38] >> there's a lot of thing. First of all, [01:43:39] everybody's very emotional. Like, and I [01:43:42] try to keep that in mind, too. people I [01:43:44] try not to do the thing that pisses me [01:43:45] off so much people do it to me which is [01:43:47] ascribing motives and say well you're [01:43:48] really doing this because of this [01:43:50] >> and and I I think sometimes people do a [01:43:52] lot of people do have ulterior motives [01:43:54] clearly [01:43:55] >> and people are scheming and they're [01:43:56] playing games and also by the way we [01:43:58] live in a space like this is a business [01:44:01] and uh and people do this for a living [01:44:04] and so there's also just competitiveness [01:44:06] that's right [01:44:07] >> and that happens but then at the same [01:44:08] time people also get just pissed off and [01:44:11] they get emotional That's definitely [01:44:13] true [01:44:13] >> and there's and that's happening on all. [01:44:14] So I recognize that like some of the so [01:44:16] that's why some of the the some of the [01:44:18] people that go after me publicly and [01:44:19] people I consider friends and I'm like [01:44:21] yeah you have my phone number you can [01:44:22] call me and you're not and I try to like [01:44:25] I do my maybe it's for my own sanity. I [01:44:27] I try to be as charitable as possible [01:44:29] and think like well they're just they're [01:44:31] wrong but they're really angry and [01:44:33] they've got this whole story about me [01:44:35] that's not correct but that that's [01:44:38] what's happening. They're just pissed [01:44:39] off and I've been pissed off before and [01:44:40] said things I regret. So, I I think I [01:44:42] think a lot of that's happened to go [01:44:43] back to the question of what to do about [01:44:46] it. [01:44:48] Well, I guess I guess I don't know why [01:44:49] I'm going back to it because I don't [01:44:50] have the answer. But, [01:44:51] >> [laughter] [01:44:51] >> uh I I think [01:44:54] the only thing that can be done is for [01:44:57] all of us, if you're on the right, [01:45:01] to go back to some of the basics that we [01:45:03] talked about at the beginning of the [01:45:04] conversation, like what is it that we [01:45:06] want? [01:45:07] >> Exactly. [01:45:07] >> What is it that we actually want? [01:45:09] >> What's the real catechism here? What [01:45:10] does it mean to be on the right? [01:45:12] >> Exactly. What What are we It's the [01:45:14] classic question about conservatives. [01:45:15] What are you trying to conserve? It's a [01:45:16] good question. You should be able to [01:45:17] answer that. You should be able to [01:45:18] answer that. What are you trying to [01:45:19] conserve? And everybody needs to ask [01:45:21] themselves that and come up with an [01:45:22] answer. Come up write your list. Write [01:45:24] it out if you have to. Whatever. Come up [01:45:26] with your list. [01:45:27] >> I'm going to do this. This is my This is [01:45:28] my calling right here. [01:45:30] >> And And everyone should have their list. [01:45:33] And then we should compare notes. And if [01:45:35] our lists match up, like we want the [01:45:37] same things. We're trying to conserve [01:45:38] and preserve the same things, then the [01:45:41] only way forward is is with that is for [01:45:43] us to realize that like let's let's [01:45:46] reorient towards that. Make make that [01:45:49] the goal and and remember that even when [01:45:52] we disagree, we're going to have [01:45:53] disagreements, but we're only [01:45:55] disagreeing about how to do this thing [01:45:57] that we both want done. And and uh and I [01:46:02] think that's the way forward. Now, on [01:46:03] the other hand, [01:46:04] maybe you start looking at your list and [01:46:06] you and you realize that I actually [01:46:08] don't even want the same things as these [01:46:09] as these people. Okay. Well, then we're [01:46:11] not on the same side. And that's very [01:46:12] clarifying, too. I think that there are [01:46:13] people [01:46:14] >> you feel I that's happening in my mind. [01:46:16] I'm like I we don't have anything in [01:46:18] common. Actually, I thought we did, but [01:46:20] we don't. Um, is that happening to you? [01:46:24] >> I [01:46:26] there's certainly some of that. I I I [01:46:27] think that there are definitely people [01:46:29] who just want don't don't don't want the [01:46:31] same things at all. they don't have the [01:46:32] same fundamental goals. I think that's [01:46:33] certainly happening and that's part [01:46:35] that's part of the clarifying. That's [01:46:36] part of the uh [01:46:37] >> Is that bad or good? [01:46:39] >> Well, clarity is good. [01:46:41] >> Yeah, [01:46:41] >> I think I think we need clarity. Um [01:46:45] but for me, like I said, I the only [01:46:47] person and I believe this wholly. I try [01:46:50] to live by it. The only person who can [01:46:52] speak to your intentions is you. The [01:46:53] only person who can tell anyone what's [01:46:55] in your mind is you. And so if someone [01:46:57] says to me, [01:46:58] >> that's why I try to interview people. [01:46:59] [laughter] [01:46:59] >> Right. So, exactly. [01:47:01] >> You're allowed to speak for yourself. [01:47:03] >> And so, I I've given my list of what it [01:47:06] is that I want to conserve and and [01:47:08] preserve. [01:47:10] >> Uh, [01:47:10] >> can you just can you in an abbreviated [01:47:12] form just run through it really quick [01:47:13] one more time because I think [01:47:15] >> I agreed with it. [01:47:16] >> Abbreviated is always in trouble for me. [01:47:18] >> Well, no, you don't have to abbreviate, [01:47:19] but you just say it again. Like what are [01:47:21] the thing you're saying? There's left, [01:47:23] right, what even I don't even know what [01:47:24] that means anymore, but like people who [01:47:27] share your values believe what [01:47:31] >> they believe in objective truth. [01:47:34] >> Yep. [01:47:34] >> Okay. They they they believe in truth. [01:47:37] Uh number one, that there that there is [01:47:40] a that there is a truth. [01:47:41] >> Okay. I'm going to write this down. [01:47:43] >> And hold on. Hold on now. [01:47:45] >> Okay. Objective truth. [01:47:47] >> Yeah. Objective truth. whether or not [01:47:50] there Can I just add one caveat? I'm not [01:47:53] always convinced I know what the [01:47:54] objective truth is. I've certainly been [01:47:56] wrong, but I know it exists. [01:47:58] >> Right. Exactly. And and that's and [01:48:00] that's exactly the point. We can [01:48:01] disagree about what the truth is. We're [01:48:03] going to have those disagreements, [01:48:04] >> right? [01:48:04] >> But but we have to be able to agree that [01:48:06] there is a truth, [01:48:07] >> right, [01:48:07] >> to begin with. And when you're talking [01:48:08] to someone who's a moral relativist, [01:48:10] they're on the left, you can't even [01:48:11] agree on that. So there's no [01:48:12] conversation to be had. We cannot even [01:48:14] have a conversation. That's and that is [01:48:15] the that's the problem. That's our [01:48:17] problem in our culture. Um and even and [01:48:19] even above the truth, the reason why [01:48:21] there's an objective truth is that there [01:48:23] is a that there is God that God that [01:48:26] there is a a a God. There is God and um [01:48:31] and he has designed the universe and [01:48:36] everything and everybody in it. Um [01:48:40] and that's the the source that's the [01:48:42] wellspring of truth, you know, that [01:48:44] that's why there is a truth because God [01:48:45] designed it a certain way. And so it is [01:48:47] like that's the the the fundamental [01:48:49] barebones truth is that God has designed [01:48:51] it this way that this is that this is [01:48:53] God's universe and that is the truth. So [01:48:57] um so I think I think [01:48:59] >> that's number one. [01:49:00] >> Yeah that's number one. [01:49:02] >> And then what are we trying [01:49:03] >> everything flows from that right? [01:49:04] >> Everything flows from that. What are we [01:49:06] try but in America as American [01:49:10] >> conservatives [01:49:11] >> what are we trying to conserve? We're [01:49:14] trying to conserve American identity, [01:49:17] our national identity. We're trying to [01:49:19] conserve the institution [01:49:22] of the family [01:49:25] uh which is the the foundation [01:49:28] of the country and of of civilization. [01:49:32] We're trying to conserve the institution [01:49:33] of the marriage which is the foundation [01:49:35] of the family. So this is the foundation [01:49:37] of the foundation [01:49:39] >> which is the foundation of American [01:49:41] identity, [01:49:42] >> right? [01:49:43] And [01:49:44] we're trying to conserve all those [01:49:46] things. And then and then at a broader [01:49:49] level, we're trying to conserve western [01:49:50] civilization itself, [01:49:52] >> which grows from. So if if you were to [01:49:56] sum it up, you could say objective truth [01:49:58] derived from a belief that this is all [01:50:01] created. We are not the creators. [01:50:03] >> Exactly. [01:50:04] and [01:50:07] the the family the family unit husband [01:50:09] wife children which is the basis of all [01:50:12] human civilization. [01:50:14] So objective truth family. [01:50:17] >> Yeah. I I think I think that's [01:50:19] >> if I were writing this on my hand for [01:50:20] the test. Okay. [01:50:22] >> Yeah. [01:50:22] >> Probably in here so the teacher couldn't [01:50:24] see it. It would just be objective truth [01:50:25] family. [01:50:26] >> Yeah. And I would also put national [01:50:28] identity for if we're talking about [01:50:30] American conservatives which is what [01:50:31] we're talking about. But then the [01:50:32] question becomes like what's that? [01:50:35] >> Yeah. Well, that's a and and [01:50:38] that's also a debate in a sense. I think [01:50:41] there are some basic things but but uh [01:50:43] but again that's like okay as long as we [01:50:46] agree [01:50:46] >> that we need one [01:50:47] >> that we need that we yeah we cannot so [01:50:51] uh we have a culture right we need to [01:50:54] have a culture and multiculturalism [01:50:56] cannot be the cult that's not a culture [01:50:57] that's [01:50:58] >> there has to be a unifying [01:51:00] set of beliefs or customs [01:51:03] that keep the country from breaking [01:51:05] apart otherwise it will break apart [01:51:07] >> so and that's the point so the things [01:51:08] there if He [01:51:11] if someone looks at that like that's I'm [01:51:13] speaking for myself and not just myself [01:51:14] I think a lot but but that's that's my [01:51:17] northstar [01:51:18] and if you look at that and you say well [01:51:20] I want the same things like I I I so I'm [01:51:22] fighting for it. Um then you are on my [01:51:26] side period like we we are on the same [01:51:29] side and and we'll have a lot of [01:51:30] arguments again about how to do that how [01:51:34] to achieve that. We have a lot of [01:51:36] arguments about it and those could be [01:51:38] like fruitful arguments. Those don't [01:51:39] those don't have to be angry, nasty, [01:51:41] personal arguments. They could just be [01:51:43] discussions uh you know as as as as [01:51:46] adults and we'll do that but we're on [01:51:48] the same side. However, [01:51:50] if you look at that and you say I don't [01:51:53] you know well I don't need I don't [01:51:54] believe in any of that. Like I don't I [01:51:57] don't believe in God. I don't like [01:51:58] truth. Who you know we all have our own [01:51:59] truth. The family I think the family is [01:52:01] like you know marriage doesn't matter. [01:52:03] We don't need the family. if you're and [01:52:05] a lot of people feel that way. So fine, [01:52:07] you're allowed to feel that way. We're [01:52:09] not on the same side at all. No matter [01:52:12] what else you believe. I I and and then [01:52:14] I might agree with you on then you might [01:52:16] go on and from there and say, "Yeah, but [01:52:18] I really think that gun rights are [01:52:19] important and I think we need to [01:52:20] restrict immigration and I want to [01:52:23] abolish the income tax or whatever." I'd [01:52:25] agree with you on those points, but [01:52:26] we're not fundamentally on the same [01:52:28] side. [01:52:28] >> It's so smart. I I don't want to blow [01:52:30] anyone's mind, but I you know travel a [01:52:32] lot, talk to people for a living. You [01:52:34] would be amazed by the people I know who [01:52:37] agree with you vehemently on and [01:52:39] sincerely on those two points and [01:52:41] they're not all on the on the right [01:52:45] at all, which is kind of interesting. [01:52:47] So, it does feel like this is a there's [01:52:50] like a true realignment happening now. I [01:52:52] just know in my own life the people who [01:52:55] reach out to me in some cases are people [01:52:58] you would expect. In some cases they're [01:52:59] not at all people you would expect. And [01:53:01] they're just they're hearing the same [01:53:02] music and they're motivated by the same [01:53:04] impulses. And that is one a belief that [01:53:08] we are living in a world we didn't [01:53:10] create. These rules aren't ours. It's [01:53:13] it's basically the the nature argument [01:53:15] like you you can't ignore nature because [01:53:17] you're not in charge of it. You cannot [01:53:18] ignore natural law because you didn't [01:53:20] make it because God made it. A and B, in [01:53:24] the end, your only true protection is [01:53:26] your family and your deepest connection [01:53:28] is to your family and that needs to be [01:53:31] protected above all, which I think is a [01:53:34] variety of what you were just saying. [01:53:36] The people who reached out to me who who [01:53:38] believe that, man, it's it would blow [01:53:42] your mind. So I guess what I would say [01:53:44] is it feels like a lot of our politics [01:53:46] is artificial. It's inorganic. It was [01:53:49] these divisions in some cases are, you [01:53:51] know, are real. In some cases they were [01:53:53] created in order to [01:53:56] get us to not see that we have a lot in [01:53:58] common with other people. Does that make [01:54:01] sense? [01:54:02] >> I think so. Look, and if someone [01:54:04] the words left and right are labels that [01:54:07] we put on on things. [01:54:09] >> Well, people have always said that, but [01:54:10] I never really believed it. [01:54:11] that's [ __ ] But [01:54:13] >> it's just a it's a way of categorizing [01:54:15] and organizing things so we can speak [01:54:17] about them coherently. [01:54:19] >> Um [01:54:21] but sometimes the labels that we you've [01:54:23] you know we have to we have to [01:54:27] uh shift it over. There might be people [01:54:29] who so but like anyone who you've talked [01:54:32] to who we would say is on the left who [01:54:34] agrees with all that well then I would [01:54:37] say they're not on the left. [01:54:38] >> Well I agree. you know, they they might [01:54:40] they might they might even think they [01:54:42] still are, but they're not. Um, and so [01:54:46] they're uh they're they're over on this [01:54:47] side and uh you can kind of call it [01:54:50] whatever you want. I'm saying right [01:54:52] conservative. [01:54:53] We could come up with any team name we [01:54:55] want. [01:54:56] >> I guess what I'm saying is your side is [01:54:58] bigger than you think it is. [01:54:59] >> Yeah. I for for the during the when [01:55:03] we're talking about the trans issue and [01:55:05] I've sort of talked about the teams, [01:55:06] what I've come to what I've come to call [01:55:09] the side that's against all the trans [01:55:11] madness is team sanity, you know. [01:55:13] >> Yeah. Um it's just we're for sanity like [01:55:16] on this issue or sane people and [01:55:20] f fully acknowledging that on that issue [01:55:23] there were people who uh I don't agree [01:55:26] with unlike anything else but are sane [01:55:29] on this I can think of some of them I [01:55:32] used to have this woman on oh I really [01:55:35] liked her I don't think she ever liked [01:55:37] me at all I can't remember her name she [01:55:39] was a radical lesbian feminist and every [01:55:43] she always come into the studio on the [01:55:44] trans issue years ago and she was like I [01:55:48] could I could hear her thinking I can't [01:55:50] believe I'm in the same room [laughter] [01:55:51] as this monster but we were so aligned [01:55:54] on it and I always wondered like why did [01:55:58] she care so I mean she we must have been [01:56:00] more aligned than either of us realized [01:56:01] if she cared that much about it right [01:56:05] >> uh [01:56:05] >> you must have dealt with a million [01:56:06] people like this [01:56:07] >> yeah yeah and this is a conversation I [01:56:09] would have sometimes with the because I [01:56:11] it's very strange bedfellows I would [01:56:12] find myself aligned on that issue with [01:56:15] some feminists like left far-left [01:56:17] feminists, [01:56:17] >> but the the radical ones. [01:56:20] >> Yeah. Um, but the the point I would try [01:56:23] to make to them, I think mostly [01:56:25] unsuccessfully, is that okay, if you if [01:56:28] we agree on this, then I I I think like [01:56:31] if you can see the truth on this, then I [01:56:33] think we should agree on a lot more. You [01:56:35] know, I I think [01:56:35] >> Well, that's my instinct, too, [01:56:37] >> right? Um, [01:56:38] >> what would they say? [01:56:40] Well, for me, I I'm not the guy to make [01:56:42] an argument to feminist. They're not [01:56:43] [laughter] going to listen to me. There [01:56:45] might be someone who can um be kind of [01:56:48] the [01:56:48] >> I think you could convert a few Matt [01:56:50] Walsh. [01:56:50] >> I I I don't know. It's my my track [01:56:53] record would say otherwise, but uh but [01:56:57] the point is that like the argument I [01:57:00] would make to them is that actually I [01:57:02] know you call yourself a feminist. The [01:57:04] reason why we have this problem is [01:57:05] because of feminism. uh feminism is the [01:57:08] actually the root of this problem. [01:57:10] >> And so if you agree with me on this then [01:57:12] I think really you are critiquing [01:57:14] feminism so you're not a feminist [01:57:18] get it together come over here and that [01:57:20] they didn't find that that was that was [01:57:21] mansplaining you know they weren't [01:57:22] >> that was definitely they they weren't [01:57:24] like ready to run to the patriarchy [01:57:26] after that. No, no, [01:57:27] >> that's a shame. So, here's my last [01:57:30] question. [01:57:31] And again, it begins where we began, [01:57:34] which is the fact that you're like at [01:57:36] the center of all of this. I really do [01:57:37] think you're the last person on the [01:57:40] right, you know, the official, you know, [01:57:41] well-known official podcaster, right, [01:57:44] who has, you know, a foot in two camps. [01:57:47] And so, it's just the pressure on you. [01:57:49] I've just noticed it, uh, has been [01:57:51] almost unbelievable. and you've bore up [01:57:54] under it so impressively. But how do you [01:57:58] keep yourself from becoming a hater [01:58:01] when you're under just relentless [01:58:04] assault? And not just your views, but [01:58:05] your motives, your character, when [01:58:07] people you really like who are your [01:58:09] friends are denouncing you. And most [01:58:10] people live an entire lifetime without [01:58:12] that experience. It's an unusual [01:58:14] experience and it can drive some like [01:58:17] totally crazy like they become foaming [01:58:19] at the mouth haters. How have you [01:58:20] avoided that? [01:58:23] Uh maybe the honest answer is I have not [01:58:25] avoided it. Well, [laughter] [01:58:28] but I but I but I but I think that uh I [01:58:30] mean look the the real the correct [01:58:33] answer is prayer. I mean you know you [01:58:35] have to have a rich prayer life. [01:58:37] >> Yes. [01:58:38] >> And um [01:58:40] I I I do have a prayer life. I don't [01:58:41] think it's as rich as it should be. I [01:58:43] think and I think that uh uh I think [01:58:46] like a lot of people you kind of go [01:58:47] through waves. I go through waves and [01:58:48] and and then I I go through and here's [01:58:50] what happens with me and I think it's [01:58:51] probably relatable is that [01:58:55] when you're really frustrated and [01:58:57] stressed out and things are not really [01:58:58] working out how you want them to. Um [01:59:03] your kind of prayer life can dry up too [01:59:04] and it start because that starts feeling [01:59:06] everything just starts feeling kind of [01:59:07] dry. Everything starts feeling like [01:59:10] >> nothing's working. No one's listening. [01:59:11] You feel frustrated. no one in your life [01:59:14] is like hearing what you're saying and [01:59:15] you start to feel like God is not [01:59:16] hearing you either [01:59:18] >> and it's just this kind of frustration [01:59:19] and then and then it snowballs, you [01:59:21] know, and then it becomes a it's a [01:59:23] self-fulfilling prophecy because now [01:59:25] your everything's feeling everything [01:59:27] feels kind of dried up and frustrated [01:59:29] >> and so that's what happens with your [01:59:30] prayer life [01:59:31] >> and then everything gets worse because [01:59:33] of that. Um and so those are the the [01:59:36] moments where you have to be very [01:59:37] intentional and say I'm really annoyed [01:59:40] and frustrated. I don't feel like [01:59:41] praying. saying, "I don't even know if [01:59:42] God's listening. He's always listening." [01:59:44] But in a frustrated moment, you feel [01:59:46] like he's not. Um, and that's when you [01:59:48] have to realize that and then reorient [01:59:51] yourself and become, you know, and for [01:59:53] me when I have those moments, I've I've [01:59:55] found that just being more structured. [01:59:57] Like sometimes you have to like anything [01:59:58] in life that that is good, you have to [02:00:00] kind of force yourself to do it. [02:00:02] Sometimes you have to get into a habit. [02:00:03] >> What's your structure if if you don't [02:00:05] mind? [02:00:06] >> Well, I think there's you set up a a [02:00:08] time for prayer in the morning. like you [02:00:10] said, just times. This is my this is my [02:00:13] time when I'm going to pray, you know. [02:00:15] >> Yes. [02:00:16] >> And hopefully it's multiple times a day. [02:00:19] Um but and when you have a really rich [02:00:22] prayer life [02:00:24] and you're you're in a good flow, it's [02:00:26] like you're you're in a constant prayer. [02:00:28] It's like a it's a constant it's a [02:00:30] constant state of going to God even if [02:00:33] you're not on your knees. [02:00:34] >> Rejoice in everything. Never stop [02:00:35] praying. [02:00:36] >> Yeah. Yeah. And I I think that, you [02:00:38] know, things like your your physical [02:00:40] posture when you're when you're praying, [02:00:41] that that can matter. And especially if [02:00:43] you're if you're going through a if [02:00:45] you're going through a dry spell in your [02:00:46] prayer life, I think like actually [02:00:48] kneeling, being on your knees, [02:00:52] >> um does matter. And you can pray without [02:00:54] being on your knees, but it can kind of [02:00:56] help to orient you in the right way. And [02:01:00] it's kind of your your body telling your [02:01:02] mind something which is that you are [02:01:04] submitting yourself like you're on your [02:01:06] knees. [02:01:07] >> You are submitting yourself to a power [02:01:08] that is greater than you. That's why [02:01:10] you're doing this. And uh so you're [02:01:12] reminding yourself that there is someone [02:01:14] greater than you who you are appealing [02:01:16] to. Um and so I think stuff like that [02:01:19] can can help also. [02:01:22] >> How much time do you spend on X? [02:01:24] >> Too much. [02:01:26] >> Meaning [02:01:27] >> like way too much. I I don't know [02:01:29] >> what effect does that have. [02:01:31] >> Uh not not good. I mean it's also hard [02:01:35] for me because it's my job and not like [02:01:38] my job requ. [02:01:43] But part of the job is to be clued in [02:01:46] and I'm also creating content every day. [02:01:47] I do a show five days a four days a week [02:01:49] now. Um [02:01:52] and so this is where the conversation's [02:01:53] happening. This is where all the con all [02:01:55] the sort of content is. All the things I [02:01:56] want to talk about. [02:01:57] >> Yeah. Um, I also use it as kind of a, [02:02:01] you know, it's it's like I'll I'll start [02:02:03] a conversation on X and and then I'll [02:02:04] talk about it on the show and it's just [02:02:06] kind of this feeds off of each other [02:02:07] thing. [02:02:09] Um, but the problem and all that is good [02:02:12] and I'm glad that it's there for that [02:02:14] reason, but the problem is this stuff [02:02:17] sucks you in. Like it just sucks you in. [02:02:20] And um [02:02:22] >> cuz I bet I'm just guessing you're not [02:02:24] into say pornography or cocaine or [02:02:26] >> Not at all. Right. [02:02:28] >> I knew that. [02:02:29] >> 0%. [02:02:30] >> So, like for a man like you, you're not, [02:02:33] you know, you don't you're not ruled by [02:02:35] your addictions, but do you feel like ex [02:02:38] >> Well, it's weird. Here's the weird thing [02:02:39] for me. [02:02:41] It [02:02:43] the the amount of time I spend on it [02:02:45] sometimes would would seem like an [02:02:46] addict. However, when I go on vacation [02:02:50] and I say, "I'm I'm leaving. I'm not [02:02:51] going to be doing a show. I'm I'm I'm [02:02:53] out of the I'm going to be out of I'm [02:02:54] not paying attention to anything." and I [02:02:56] go on [snorts] vacation. [02:02:58] I put the phone down. I have zero desire [02:03:02] to pick it up. I I I I don't even find [02:03:04] myself like, "Ah, I got to find out [02:03:05] what's happening." I put it down. I'm on [02:03:07] vacation. I have no desire. In fact, [02:03:09] it's the opposite. When I come back, I [02:03:11] have to force myself to like get into [02:03:14] this again. And it's it's almost it's [02:03:16] ridiculous. I'm like forcing myself to [02:03:17] tweak because I got to get in the flow [02:03:19] to to do the job. And um so that tells [02:03:23] me it's not really an addiction. [02:03:24] something even worse, I guess, because [02:03:28] when I have the chance to walk away from [02:03:29] it, I so eagerly do. It's like my soul [02:03:31] telling me like you got this this is [02:03:33] what I actually long for is not this. [02:03:36] >> I think that's a really good sign. [02:03:38] >> I I think it's a good sign. Um [02:03:40] >> do you feel like when you Well, I'll [02:03:42] tell you how I feel when I go on it [02:03:44] because I know so many of the people who [02:03:45] are tweeting their opinions, it's like [02:03:47] seeing all of your acquaintances naked. [02:03:51] I feel like people reveal so much about [02:03:53] themselves and it's like, "Wow, you [02:03:55] don't look great naked." I mean, I never [02:03:57] really thought about you naked, but now [02:03:58] that I can see it, you should put some [02:03:59] clothes back on. That's the feeling I [02:04:01] have every time I go on there. [02:04:03] >> That is a that's that's an interesting [02:04:05] way of putting it. And I think that's [02:04:07] true. I mean, that's it used to be, [02:04:10] right? If you were like a prominent [02:04:12] person in some field, [02:04:15] uh, if you ever gave your opinions [02:04:18] publicly, depending on the field, you [02:04:20] might never give your opinion publicly, [02:04:22] but if you ever did, it was like in a [02:04:24] structured, it was a very intentional [02:04:26] kind of way. And [02:04:28] >> I try and stick to that if [02:04:29] >> and and now and now we have it used to [02:04:31] be like it's hard for people for kids [02:04:33] these days to realize this [02:04:35] >> but it used to be that we would have all [02:04:36] these like famous people and celebrities [02:04:39] >> and most of them we never knew what they [02:04:41] thought about anything. We had no clue [02:04:43] what they thought. We didn't even know [02:04:44] what their personalities were. [02:04:47] >> We only saw them because they were [02:04:48] throwing a football or because they were [02:04:50] acting in a thing or whatever. [02:04:52] And now yeah we just know everyone's [02:04:55] opinion up to date on every Who ever [02:04:57] thought that? I mean, if you told me 10 [02:05:00] years ago that like all the people in [02:05:02] charge were thoroughly benal and [02:05:04] conventional at best, like they had [02:05:06] nothing interesting to say. They never [02:05:08] thought about anything ever. Like [02:05:10] Hillary Clinton had not a single thought [02:05:11] in her head. And that some guy called [02:05:14] Orin McIntyre, whoever that is, would [02:05:16] turn out to be, you know, or you or like [02:05:19] all these people who 10 years ago were [02:05:21] not they're very far from what we might [02:05:24] think of as a public intellectual. All [02:05:25] of a sudden they're purely through the [02:05:28] force of their ideas and the clarity of [02:05:29] their expression were kind of defining [02:05:31] the terms like that is a huge change. [02:05:34] It's totally disempowered [02:05:37] the puba class and it's given rise to [02:05:40] this like genuinely interesting bubbling [02:05:45] conversation like at best. Do you feel [02:05:47] that? [02:05:48] >> Yeah, I do. Which is why I mean we talk [02:05:49] about social media, talk about X and [02:05:53] uh I don't want to talk as though I [02:05:57] think it's a it's a overall like nothing [02:06:00] but a negative because I do think it [02:06:01] allows [02:06:02] >> Oh, totally. No, no, it's a mixed [02:06:03] blessing for sure. [02:06:04] >> Yeah. So, and that and that is true. [02:06:06] like it allows and it it obviously has [02:06:08] created a situation where the [02:06:11] institutions [02:06:12] that used to control the conversation [02:06:14] completely [02:06:16] now now don't control it at all. And [02:06:19] >> they're like they've shown that they're [02:06:21] just not impressive. That like in the [02:06:23] true and fabled marketplace of ideas, [02:06:27] they're like a rumage sale actually. And [02:06:31] >> yeah, they have nothing to say. [02:06:32] >> No, BUT LIKE WHO WOULD BUY THAT CRAP? [02:06:33] It's just not once we see it in its [02:06:35] entirety, once the mystique has been [02:06:37] stripped away, they have nothing to [02:06:40] offer. Like they're just totally [02:06:43] pedestrian. And then these R I mean, do [02:06:45] you ever see random Twitter accounts? [02:06:47] You have no idea who this is. It's not [02:06:49] someone who's anyone's ever heard of [02:06:51] making a point that's so profound that [02:06:53] like you can't get it out of your head. [02:06:54] Does that ever happen to you? [02:06:55] >> Oh, definitely. I was just thinking I [02:06:57] saw I don't remember who the guy was, [02:06:58] but yeah, I read it I read a tweet a [02:07:00] couple days ago and it was this lengthy [02:07:01] like really well-written analysis of [02:07:04] something. I can't even remember, but [02:07:07] it's like a random Twitter. I don't know [02:07:08] [laughter] who that guy is. [02:07:09] >> Like what? [02:07:10] >> And uh in a way it's kind of sad cuz I [02:07:13] read that I'm like, well, I don't know. [02:07:14] This guy's a philosopher. He should be [02:07:16] in a different age. [02:07:17] >> No, but affirmative action has kept them [02:07:18] all out. So this is what this is where [02:07:20] they went. So you're like, well, you [02:07:22] know, we don't have a meritocracy [02:07:23] anymore and the smartest, most [02:07:24] impressive people literally can't get [02:07:26] jobs or grants or into college. So like, [02:07:28] what are they doing? And they're sitting [02:07:30] [laughter] at home tweeting. [02:07:32] >> Yeah. Tweeting these like morsels of [02:07:34] incredible wisdom in some cases. [02:07:36] >> But you know, truly [02:07:37] >> Yeah. And and the and but this is, as [02:07:39] you said, mixed blessing. The problem is [02:07:41] that in between the morsels of great [02:07:43] wisdom, you've got nothing but just slop [02:07:46] and [02:07:47] >> and all this, right? And so the best [02:07:49] thing we can do is [02:07:52] things like keep keep your prayer life [02:07:54] alive and um control. You have to have [02:07:58] self-control in and in in how you [02:08:00] interact with this. One of the worst [02:08:02] things [02:08:03] and I everyone does this. I do it. I [02:08:07] think it's the worst habit that almost [02:08:10] everyone has now. [02:08:11] >> I'm sure I do it too then if it's a bad [02:08:12] habit. Uh the first thing you do when [02:08:16] you wake up in the morning is check your [02:08:18] phone. [02:08:19] >> I don't do that. [02:08:19] >> Well, then you're you're in better shape [02:08:22] than I am and mo and a lot of people. [02:08:24] >> Never. [02:08:25] >> And that's [02:08:25] >> that is like the wor I used to that's [02:08:28] like having blueberry pancakes for [02:08:29] breakfast, which was a habit that was [02:08:31] very hard for me to break. But once I [02:08:34] did it, I realized that framed my whole [02:08:37] day in the wrong the wrong way. Have you [02:08:39] ever started the day with blueberry [02:08:40] pancakes? [02:08:41] >> I have. You can't get past it. [02:08:44] Everything in your day is defined by [02:08:47] blueberry pancakes. [02:08:48] >> Why? Because you're longing for the [02:08:50] >> Yeah. You're hungry all day. You feel [02:08:52] shitty. You're lethargic. Like, just [02:08:54] don't eat till noon and everything is [02:08:56] better. But I grew up in a blueberry [02:08:58] pancake world. Like 100%. Blueberry [02:09:00] pancakes and a and a cigarette. And [02:09:02] that's not a good way to start the day. [02:09:05] And I feel like social media are even [02:09:07] worse than that. [02:09:07] >> Just do the cigarette. Don't do the [02:09:08] pancakes. That is I I can't say this on [02:09:12] on that is still a great way to start [02:09:14] the day. I don't care what anybody says. [02:09:16] It's just a fact. [02:09:17] >> Yeah. I But I [02:09:18] >> But whatever. Sorry. Totally kidding. [02:09:20] >> The the uh Yeah. Starting the day by [02:09:23] looking at your phone is so horrifically [02:09:26] bad. I do it all the time. [02:09:29] >> Actually, [02:09:30] >> I do. I I shouldn't. [02:09:32] >> That's like the one thing you can't just [02:09:34] don't do that. That's easy. Just like [02:09:36] cuz you use it as your alarm, right? [02:09:38] >> Yeah. my phone. Yeah, [02:09:39] >> of course everybody does. I do too. [02:09:41] >> We don't allow phone usage in the [02:09:43] bedroom except for the alarm. That's [02:09:44] like ironclad rule. Just get up, get a [02:09:47] cup of coffee, get your face in a Bible [02:09:50] or just stare out the window, kiss your [02:09:52] dogs, anything but that. [02:09:54] >> I I totally agree. I ju just in fact [02:09:57] just this morning I woke up, [02:10:01] first thing I did is I checked my phone [02:10:03] and I went on X the f and it was just in [02:10:05] my feed. They just have it. Like the [02:10:07] first thing I read, I just opened my [02:10:08] eyes 10 30 seconds ago. The first thing [02:10:10] I read was like in my feed something [02:10:12] popped up and it was like Matt Walsh is [02:10:14] a coward and then whatever. [laughter] [02:10:17] I'm starting my day with that. Like the [02:10:19] first thing that enters my eyeball. [02:10:21] >> What are you doing? [laughter] [02:10:23] >> I don't know. And then I put my phone [02:10:25] down. I'm like, why did I do that? Why [02:10:26] >> the hotel room though, right? [02:10:28] >> The hotel room. Yeah. [02:10:28] >> Because there's no chick there. That [02:10:30] that's that's why it's so important to [02:10:31] be married. That that is Yeah, that's [02:10:34] true. Also, [02:10:35] >> right? [02:10:36] >> Well, you and there's no kids like [02:10:38] >> totally. [02:10:39] >> Yeah. [02:10:41] >> Matt Walsh, um some of us, probably not [02:10:44] a huge group, but some of us, just [02:10:45] kidding, really appreciate what you're [02:10:47] doing and your uh clear thinking and [02:10:50] your self-control [02:10:53] um and especially your summation of what [02:10:55] actually matters. So, thank you very [02:10:57] much. Appreciate it. Thank you. 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