Ep. 1438 - Why Kamala's Campaign Is Spiraling Into Desperation Mode
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, the Kamala campaign is falling apart as they plunge in the polls. This has just made them even more desperate and deceitful, as we've seen this week. Also, Kamala's on the record saying that schools shouldn't have resource officers handling security, but two resource officers just saved dozens of lives. What does she have to say about that? Plus, Will Ferrell has a new pro-trans documentary coming out, and the Hawk Tua girl keeps extending her 15 minutes way beyond the breaking point. Now she has a new podcast on the way. We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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You know, there are a lot of ways that you can tell that a political campaign is in trouble. Of course, you can look at the polls and the various models that aggregate those polls. And right now, the models do not look very good for Kamala Harris. Right now, for example, Nate Silver's model gives Donald Trump a 60% chance of winning with a projected 277 electoral votes.

Who knows whether any of this is especially accurate? It'll all change by next week, most likely, and there's still plenty of time to go. We know that. But the more interesting thing about Silver's projection isn't the specific figures. It's that his data, which aggregates all the polls, shows a very clear trend. Kamala Harris is losing ground quickly, as you can see from the chart. And it's not hard to see why. When you're only capable of giving one interview to a friendly news outlet in more than a month,

And when you manage to bomb even that interview, then people lose confidence in your campaign very quickly. And that's what's happening to Kamala Harris right now. She barely got a bounce from the convention and now she's in free fall. The media built up this elaborate hype train for Kamala, hoping it would carry her on those tracks to November. But the whole thing was so absurdly fake and phony that it couldn't last. It ran out of steam. It went off the tracks, whatever metaphor you might like. And now they're stuck.

With just Kamala Harris, not the idea of Kamala Harris, the idea they constructed, right? But the fact of her as a person, Kamala Harris, the lame, unimpressive, inarticulate, mediocre politician that we all have known, unfortunately, for many years.

At the same time, if you're not a believer in polls or statistical models, there are plenty of other signs that things have taken a very bad turn for Kamala Harris's candidates. And one of them is that the campaign is lying and their lying is becoming more flagrant and shameless by the day. There's clear desperation everywhere you look. So last night, for instance, Kamala's account tweeted an accusation that J.D. Vance had downplayed school shootings as just a fact of life.

So here's what Kamala's handlers posted to her account above video fans advances speech quote, school shootings are not just a fact of life. It doesn't have to be this way. We can take action to protect our children and we will. So she's telling off JD Vance for supposedly saying that school shootings are inevitable and we should get used to them for supposedly saying or implying that school shootings are just a fact of life. No, it's just a fact of life, right? I'm trying to make it seem like that's what he said. That's how he said it.

Predictably, the Associated Press also promoted the lie about what Vance said. They ran this headline, quote,

Eventually, Twitter's community notes feature corrected it, and the AP finally deleted their original post and updated their headline. Now the AP's headline reads very differently. It says, quote, J.D. Vance says he laments that school shootings are a fact of life. So they suggested that Vance was minimizing the fact that a school shooting had occurred, when in fact he was doing the opposite. He wasn't saying they're just a fact of life. He wishes they were not a fact of life. They should not be a fact of life.

Which is something that everybody would agree with, I assume. So as far as lies go, this one was extremely transparent. Anybody could just watch the video to see what J.D. Vance actually said. But the AP and Kamala Harris campaign, they went ahead with the lie anyway, and that tells us that they're desperate. Obviously so. They're in a very bad position, and they know it. Campaigns that are confident and surging in the polls don't need to invent fake quotes that are easy to disprove in about five seconds.

And for that matter, campaigns that aren't collapsing don't have surrogates who go wildly off message all the time. That's what's happening to Kamala's campaign too. People who are supposed to be promoting Kamala are instead sabotaging her message at every opportunity. Here, for example, is Joe Biden just the other day, fresh off of his 97th vacation of his term, talking about

The Inflation Reduction Act. This is the law that Kamala Harris cast the tie-breaking vote on. But instead of arguing that the Inflation Reduction Act reduced inflation, Biden instead admitted that the law, in fact, had nothing to do with inflation. Instead, he said it was a climate bill. Watch. My investments, through my investments, the most significant climate change law ever was

And by the way, it is a $369 billion bill. It's called the, we should have named it what it was, but at any rate. We should have named it what it was. That's a great message. And if you're Kamala, you know, it's not exactly something you want to hear one of your surrogates say on the campaign trail, admitting that the lie, that the legislation was passed under false pretenses.

It's an admission that Kamala Harris deceived the entire country about the one major legislative accomplishment that she claims to have. And once you admit that, there's no reason for anyone to trust you ever again. There's certainly no reason to trust her when she says that she can implement her economic agenda, including taxing unrealized capital gains, without destroying the U.S. economy. And just to underscore the point, another prominent supporter of Kamala, Mark Cuban,

Just went on CNBC to explain that taxing unrealized capital gains would be a disaster. Watch. On this unrealized tax issue, gain issue,

And where we've talked about, you know, those who are taking loans against their their unrealized stock, et cetera, et cetera. And then they say, well, you know, if you start to tax that, we won't be able to make investments in startups. We won't be able to give money over to venture capitalists and private equity folks and other things like that. What's the what's your feedback to that distinction? Because I wonder what is a critique of one then, you know, of one policy and you get rid of that policy. Then then, of course, it moves to the critique of the next version of it.

Well, of course. But OK, so what I told him was if you tax unrealized gains, you're going to kill the stock market. Right. And it's going to be the ultimate employment plan for private equity because companies are not going to go public because

because you can get whipsawed, right? I mean, my own personal experience back from the internet days, right, all of a sudden I was cash poor, but equity rich, right? My net worth was enormous, but the number of dollars in the bank wasn't enormous. And so I'd have, based off of the unrealized gains, I would have had to borrow money and I effectively would have been in hock just to pay my tax bill instead of trying to run my company and a thousand other reasons, right?

Cuban went on to say that he's supposedly spoken with Harris's team and that they now understand that taxing unrealized gains may not be a great idea, but that doesn't explain why they proposed it in the first place. It also doesn't explain why they're still pushing it. Kamala hasn't explained in detail why she still wants a tax on unrealized capital gains. Her team has walked back some of the numbers, but she's still proposing the tax. Why is that exactly? How could she support a tax that even her own supporters recognize would be a disaster? Well, we all know the answer to that question. Kamala Harris doesn't

know anything about economics, ask her one question about unrealized capital gains, and she'll start babbling about equity. I think it's unlikely that she even knows what unrealized capital gains are. She's not going to be able to defend the policy even for a moment. Everyone, even her surrogates, understand this, and now they're comfortable coming out on television and admitting it. So these are not great signs for the Kamala Harris campaign, but maybe the worst sign of all is what took place earlier this week. Kamala received an endorsement from Liz Cheney,

who recently lost her house seat by margin that was almost unparalleled in modern politics. If there was ever an endorsement that qualified as the kiss of death, this is it. Here's the awkwardly filmed cell phone footage of the big moment when this endorsement was made. Watch. - Because we are here in North Carolina, I think it is crucially important for people to recognize

Not only is what I just said about the danger that Trump poses something that should prevent that we have the luxury of writing in candidates' names, particularly in swing states. And as a conservative, as someone who believes in and cares about the Constitution, I have thought deeply about this. And because of the danger that Donald Trump poses, not only am I not voting for Trump, but I will be voting for Kamala Harris.

Liz Cheney goes on and on about how Kamala Harris will save democracy and freedom in the United States. And people in the audience pretend to be excited about this endorsement. But if you go back just a couple of years ago, Liz Cheney had a very different perspective on Kamala Harris. She pointed out that Kamala had explicitly promised to suspend Americans' constitutional rights via executive order. She explained that Kamala Harris wants to spend trillions of dollars on universal health care.

And she concluded that Kamala is a radical and that she's to the left of Bernie Sanders. And she's someone who no one should vote for. That's what she said a couple of years ago, watch. One fell swoop here, he has put somebody on the ticket whose voting record in the Senate is to the left of Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. So I think that the American people are gonna look at the substance of this. They're gonna look at what she stood for in the past. They're gonna look at what she said during the primary election.

And it's very clear she is a radical liberal. She's somebody that has said we ought to spend $32 trillion on Medicare for all. If you look at her record as well in California, she did, in fact, essentially ban gun sales with executive action. And she threatened during the primaries to do the same thing if she's elected.

This is the kind of endorsement you'd probably rather refuse if you had the choice. There's no one on either side of the political spectrum who covets an endorsement from Liz Cheney. But now it's the endorsement that Kamala Harris is stuck with. This is the caliber of endorsement her candidacy is attracting as her surrogates are publicly disavowing her policy positions. As the ship sinks, Kamala Harris is quite literally getting endorsed by the biggest losers in all of politics,

Of course, Kamala has no one to blame for this but herself because she's not appearing for interviews. So that means she has to rely on surrogates to explain what she stands for and why. Kamala herself is nowhere to be found. That's why people are still digging up clips of her speeches from several years ago just to try to figure out what a Kamala administration would look like. That's what we're reduced to when a candidate is incapable of speaking for herself.

Here's one of those clips that's now making the rounds. Every day it's another one from like 2019, 2020 of these clips of Kamala Harris. Again, because she's not saying anything now, so we have to go back to find out what she believes. This one apparently is from 2019. Listen to this.

and will put the Department of Justice of the United States back in the business of justice. We will double the Civil Rights Division and direct law enforcement to counter this extremism. We will hold social media platforms accountable for the hate infiltrating their platforms because they have a responsibility to help fight against this threat to our democracy.

And if you profit off of hate, if you act as a megaphone for misinformation or cyber warfare, if you don't police your platforms, we are going to hold you accountable as a community. As I outlined yesterday, politicians like Kamala demand censorship because without it, their candidacy falls apart.

There are just too many obvious problems with her platform that don't withstand any scrutiny. So she wants to shut down the internet to prevent people from talking about them. Frankly, we're now at the point where Kamala would probably censor her own surrogates if she could. A candidate who isn't capable of speaking for herself is now struggling to contain the people that she's sending out to do her messaging for her. With just a couple of months to go until the election, more than any poll or statistical model,

That's just about the worst imaginable sign for the Kamala campaign. And what that means is very clear based on what we're seeing so far. The lying and the panic are only going to intensify from here. Now let's get to our five headlines. Are you still mooching off your parents' cell phone plan? Or maybe you're the parent of a 30-year-old child who refuses to leave the nest. Either way,

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Okay folks, it's time to talk about a movie you actually need to see in theaters, Reagan. And no, this isn't some left-wing propaganda piece. Dennis Quaid brings President Reagan to life. The jokes, the twinkle in his eye, the cold warrior, he nails it. Now, I'm not usually one for sappy love stories, but Penelope Ann Miller as Nancy Reagan, well, she's fantastic. Their love story is captured beautifully, reminding us of a time when our first couples actually seemed to like each other.

Here's what strikes me about this film, all the parallels to now. The inflation, rising gas prices, Russia, weak leader, assassination attempt. It's like we're living through the 1980s all over again, minus the good music and fashion sense. But

Seeing how Reagan handled these tough situations, well, that's downright inspiring. You might think you know Ronald Reagan, but this movie will make you laugh, maybe even cry if you're the emotional type. I don't cry, but you might react that way. Remember, when we see a movie, we're voting with our wallets. This is our chance to vote Reagan one more time. So grab your family, friends, church group.

Bring your whole neighborhood and go see this movie. Get your tickets now at reaganmovie.com and see Reagan in theaters. Let's make the box office great again with the Reagan movie. We're just talking about the old clips of Kamala that are making the rounds as people are trying to figure out what exactly this woman stands for, who she is, and what her platform is or will be because she doesn't have one right now. So here's another one.

Also making the rounds, NBC15 News reports Vice President Kamala Harris during her 2020 presidential campaign supported writing laws specifically meant for black people, according to video which resurfaced on social media Thursday. Harris in the half hour video dated November 2019 visited a South Carolina barbershop with rapper Uncle Luke. The two spoke with a panel of black voters who shared their thoughts on issues facing the black community while seated in swiveling barbershop chairs.

One participant in the conversation suggested that Harris focused on passing laws with specific emphasis on the black community rather than broader terms like minority. So this again is from 2019. Here's the video, watch. - And we're talking about specifically something that happened to black people here in America. So we have to be specifically targeting to help those people. 'Cause if we put those people in a position, and everybody knows the history. Everybody understands the history of America. - That's right. - America, you did this to these people.

You should write laws for these people. Don't group us in with everybody, cuz everybody didn't happen to everybody. But let's be fair, we planned from behind the eight ball. We waited back 400 years back. We're not asking you to give us nothing. We actually write the law. Those of us who are willing and able to do the work, we'll do the work. That's right. That's what we need. That's right. So you have to write laws for these people, he says. Don't group us in with everybody.

So he's specifically rejecting equality under the law. What you just heard there is just one long argument against the principle of equality under the law. And so that which is flagrantly unconstitutional and illegal. But Kamala Harris is sitting there nodding along. She says yes, repeatedly. Yes, yes.

Let's abolish equality under the law. So she agrees with it. This is what she believes in. This is her actual agenda. She's not gonna say it out loud right now during the election, but this is what her agenda is. And let's think about the logic from this guy, from the guy in the video. I don't know who that guy is. Some activist, I guess, at the barbershop talking to Kamala Harris in 2019. He says that the black community is 400 years behind. They're 400 years behind the eight ball.

he says, presumably because of slavery and so on. But what does that mean? 400 years behind. 400 years behind who? Behind what? Behind in what way? Like a black child born today in the year 2024 in America. How is he starting 400 years behind? I mean, a black child born to the, you know, the

the Bushmen of the Kalahari, you know, some primitive tribe in Africa. Sure, they're 400 years. Actually, that's probably 4,000 years behind. But in what way could someone be 400 years behind in this country? Well, they aren't, of course. That's just total nonsense. Now, they might be born into a

Very difficult situation. There are, of course, children unfortunately born every day with disadvantages, sure.

Not because of the race, but because of the situation they're born into. And in the black community, that will almost entirely be because of the state of the family and the community that they're born into. A black child who's one of the 70 or 80% born to fatherless homes, sure, he's starting out behind. Not 400 years behind, but yeah, there's a real disadvantage there. Now, I realize, of course, that the guy in the video would...

would probably accept that, but then he would tell us that, well, yeah, because that's because of systemic racism. And systemic racism is responsible for the fact that the black family is in total disarray. But that doesn't really make any sense at all because 40 or 50 years ago, the black family was in better shape than it is right now. So if systemic racism and the legacy of Jim Crow and slavery are the reason for

why the black family has fallen apart, how does that make any sense? How could it be that as we get further from those times, the black family falls apart more and more? Shouldn't it be working the other way? Shouldn't you see the farther we get away from that, the better it gets? How could it be getting worse as we get farther away from that, if that is the reason why this is happening? So it doesn't make any sense.

And it's because the so-called legacy of slavery and Jim Crow has nothing to do with it. A black child is born to a family, to a fatherless home, really for the simple reason that you've got usually two adults, the mother and the father, who have chosen to do this. They've chosen to create a child and not to give the child a family, a strong, married, nuclear family.

to be raised by. This is the decision that these people have made, and that's why you end up with that. All right, CNN reports, the 14-year-old Appalachian high school student charged in connection with a shooting that left two students and two teachers dead did not enter a plea during his first appearance in court on Friday. Colt Gray was arraigned in a Barrow County courtroom on four counts of felony murder stemming from a school shooting that's left a small North Georgia community grieving.

Officers escorted the teenager into the courtroom, shackled his long hair, obscuring parts of his face throughout the proceeding. Judge Curry Mingledorf informed Gray of his rights and said the maximum penalty for the charges in his case is life in prison. Gray's father, Colin Gray, 54, is expected to appear in the same courtroom later Friday morning to be arraigned on four counts of involuntary manslaughter, two counts of second-degree murder, and eight counts of cruelty to children.

So the father in the Appalachian high school shooting has been charged also with manslaughter and murder. And I'll wait for more facts to come out to explain why exactly the father was charged in this case. It's perfectly possible that he deserves to be charged. We just have to wait for the facts to come out. Now, we did see in the case of Ethan Crumbly, who killed four students at Oxford High School a few years ago,

that his parents were charged and then convicted and sentenced to years in prison as well. And I said at the time that, and I think I was in the minority, and I'm probably still in the minority on this, but I'm perfectly willing to believe, in fact, I think it's very likely that Ethan Crumbly's parents were really bad parents. And if you were to tell me they were bad people, I think there's a lot of evidence for that.

But I was worried at the time about a precedent being set where parents are automatically charged with a crime when their kids commit one. And I think that's a very, very dangerous precedent. It may be sort of emotionally satisfying to throw the parents in jail when the kid does something heinous. But the precedent here is troubling because because the parents didn't actually commit the crime, you know, and and

charging someone else for a crime that another human being commits, unless there was actual conspiracy going on and they were involved in some way. But if they weren't charging them anyway, it can go to places we don't want to go as a society. Again, they might be bad parents, but they didn't commit the crime. And if we're going down this road, where does it end? And as I said at the time, there are a whole bunch of violent criminals in the inner city

with neglectful, awful parents, right? And there's violence and murder happening all the time there. You take any thug who knocks over a liquor store, shoots the clerk,

in any city in America, right? You could look at his parents and you could easily make the case that if his parents had tried at all to actually raise him and engage in some form of moral formation, that he never would have committed that crime. So you can make the same exact argument. And so why are we putting all those parents in jail? So that's part of the problem here. It seems very...

It seems very arbitrary. Now, we'll see if this case in Georgia is following that precedent, or maybe the facts here are unique, and even without that precedent, you'd still have to charge the father. So we'll see. But it's an interesting pattern that we're seeing emerge here. And there's one other point about the shooting that I wanted to talk about. According to the reporting on this,

This shooter was confronted initially and stopped by two school resource officers. And that's a very important point here. And it's important because there's a movement on the left, and there has been for years now, to get school resource officers out of the schools. One of those people on the left is Kamala Harris. And here she is again. Once again, we're going back to 2019.

2019 is the last time that Kamala Harris was at all honest about her actual political agenda. And so that's why we're constantly going back to 2019. Here she is at 2019 talking about her ideas for school safety. Listen. And then also, again, what we need to do about taking, demilitarizing our schools and taking police officers out of schools.

We need to deal with the reality and speak the truth about the inequities around school discipline. So she wants to get the school resource officers out of the schools. That's what she said in 2019. And if she had gotten her way in the case of the Appalachian High School, it's very likely that many more children and staff would be dead if she had gotten her way. That's because it's totally insane.

I mean, it's completely insane to advocate for taking these officers out of the school. She says demilitarize the schools. Well, these are police officers. They're not military. There's a difference. That's the first thing. So anytime you see a cop somewhere, it's militarized, right? You get pulled over for speeding on the highway. We've militarized the highways now.

No, you idiot. Militarized means the military is there. And yes, I would totally agree. We should not have the military. I don't want the National Guard stationed in every school in America. I would agree that's going a bit too far. I would not be in favor of that, but that's not what's happening. All police officers are supposed to be tasked with keeping their communities safe.

Makes a lot of sense to me that they would be, they wouldn't just, that wouldn't just include keeping children in school safe, but that would be like the first priority is keeping children safe. So the argument against having school resource officers has never made any sense. Unless your goal is actually to get more kids killed. If you want kids to die, then yes, it makes a lot of sense. I mean, that would be the way to do it.

is take the school resource officers out. But if you are not a psychopathic murderous, bloodthirsty scumbag, and you actually want to save children's lives, then obviously you have police officers in the school. And if you can't have enough police officers in the school, then you have armed security guards. That's like the second best option.

And yes, if you have to arm the teachers, you do that too. Whatever needs to be done. Because for the same reason that we have armed officers, we have armed security in banks. We put them there to protect our money in banks. Nobody ever objects to that. When you walk into a bank and you see an armed security guard, nobody says, we've militarized the banks. Now I'm afraid to go to the bank.

No, you walk in and you say, well, of course there's armed security here. There's money here. People might want to rob a bank. Now, banks, it's actually, it's pretty rare that banks get robbed. It's actually very rare. You don't hear about banks getting robbed all that often anymore, but it can happen. And just even the small likelihood of that happening, we all say, yeah, of course you have armed security. This is where we know that there's a history of people wanting to rob banks. And we value our money.

And so we say, let's have armed security there. When you go to any government building, they have armed security. Nobody has a problem with that. No one objects. Nobody's confused about it. We don't debate it. We say, yeah, I mean, again, it's very unlikely that anybody will go into a government building and try to kill people. But we understand that it could happen. And these are where government workers and politicians are.

And I guess we value them to some extent. And so we say, yeah, there should be armed security. So in all of these contexts, we have no issue with it because we value money. We value politicians, government workers. You go to the Social Security office and there's going to be an armed security guard there. Protecting what? Paperwork? So we value our paperwork. And then we've got these buildings where we keep our children safe.

50 million children go into these buildings every single day. And there's a debate about whether or not we want to protect them. It's insane. It's totally crazy that there's any discussion about it whatsoever. And the argument against it is always, well, but there shouldn't be school shootings. It just shouldn't happen. Yeah, it shouldn't happen. There also shouldn't be people robbing banks, but they do sometimes. And there will always be people doing that sometimes. So shouldn't happen. What the hell does that mean?

What do you do with it? It shouldn't happen, yet it does. This is the point J.D. Vance was making. He says it's a fact of life. And then you have these morons that are, well, how could you say it's a fact of life? I don't know, because it is, you idiots. I wish it wasn't, but it is. Cancer is a fact of life. If I say cancer is a fact of life, is that me supporting cancer? Am I being an apologist for cancer because I point out that people get it and it's bad and we should try to prevent it? These people are just...

They're either total abject, just brain-dead morons, or they want kids to die. Those are the only two reasons why anyone could object to having police officers in the schools, armed security in the schools. There is no smart, honest reason outside of that. There just isn't.

The most consequential debate in our history is set as Trump and Harris face off on Tuesday, September 10th. We're going backstage to bring you a live simulcast of the debate and reactions from the most trusted voices in conservative media. Join me, Ben Shapiro, Michael Knowles, Andrew Klavan, and Jeremy Boring for full coverage and analysis. Watch live on Daily Wire Plus. Finally, let's, all right, I'll play a little bit of this for you. This is a

So Netflix has a trailer for a new documentary starring Will Ferrell. And let me read the caption here. Will Ferrell and his close friend, former head writer at SNL, Harper Steele, embark on a cross-country road trip together after Harper comes out as a trans woman in the documentary film Will and Harper in select theaters in September and on Netflix September 27th. Here's a little bit of this. Hi there. I'm Will Ferrell.

one of the greatest actors in the world a long time ago back when i was at saturday night live i met a guy who was hired as a writer the same week i was hired he wrote a bunch of sketches for me and eventually became the head writer of snl and over the years he became one of my closest friends and then one day i got this email hey will something i need you to know i'll be transitioning to live as a woman i don't doubt that will is

my friend, but I'm not Andrew Steele anymore. It was just, whoa. I love this country so much, I just don't know if it loves me back right now. - Harper, would you want to do a road trip as this new version of yourself and at the same time, figure out what this all means to us? - Do you recognize this guy? This is the Hollywood movie stuff. - No. - No, you don't recognize him? Okay, that's okay. Roll up the window.

Were you a little worried about how to talk to me when I came out to you? Yeah, probably a little nervous. There are no ground rules with friends, I'm telling you. I invite any friend of mine to ask me these questions. I am not afraid to talk about them. Here's a question. Do you think you're a worse driver as a female driver? That's the dumbest. That's so... No, no, that is so... Oh, f*** you. But I am. Woo! Yeah. Oh. Woo!

Oh, yeah. This is my friend Harper. How you doing? Nice to meet you, bro. Hey, not a bro, though. It's a she, but that's okay. Sorry. This is probably around the age where I started to feel just kind of weird. Yeah. Here's my first question. First of all, has any actor in Hollywood fallen off harder than Will Ferrell?

And I was thinking about this yesterday. In fact, I'm doing the promotional tour for Am I Racist, which comes out September 13th. Tickets on sale at amiracist.com. And I'm asked a lot about the state of comedy in film today. And so I've kind of been thinking about this. And you've got guys like Will Ferrell, Seth Rogen, Steve Carell, a lot of other guys in that era.

who were making good comedies in the early 2000s. And then all at once, like all together, really, it seems like they all just stopped at the same time. It's like they all agreed. There was some kind of pact between all of the people that were making funny comedies, you know, from the years 1998 to 2012, approximately. And I guess they all pledged to just never make anything funny or interesting ever again. And nobody has lived up to that pledge more than Will Ferrell.

Because the truth, like the guy used to be legitimately funny. I'm not gonna be one of these people that sees that he's a woke and lame now and says that guy was never funny. He always sucked. No, I mean, Anchorman is a classic. It might be, I don't know how well it holds up really. It might be one of those you had to be there sort of things. I can watch it now if I'm at a hotel or something and it's on TV, I can put it on and watch it and still laugh.

But it's hard for me because I but I saw it when I was like the right age when that came out. And and I don't know if you were not around when that movie came out and you watch it now. I think it might you might just find it to be only stupid and not funny. I'm not sure. But in my mind, it's a classic. You think about his roles in movies like Old School and.

Uh, very funny stepbrothers, really funny for about an hour. It overstays its welcome. I think that movie does, uh, starts to drag as the joke is worn out. Cause the whole joke is, and this is what Will Ferrell used to do. He'd make a movie where there's one joke and the joke is this guy's a dumb overgrown man child. And that's it. That's the entire joke. And you know, and it's funny to see that play out in various scenes, but it's like, once you get past the 60 minute Mark, all right. Yeah. Okay. Um,

But still, overall, a good comedy. What has Will Ferrell done since then? You know, and now it's fascinating. I mean, there really is, if you look at it in the history of cinema, I'm not sure we've seen anything quite like this because it's almost like 2013 was the cutoff.

2013 was the last time that Hollywood demonstrated any ability to make a funny comedy. And it just stopped dead in its tracks right there at that year. And that was it. And 10 years went by and they just did not produce a single funny comedy. It's amazing. And now we have this. And the basic plot is that Will Ferrell's friend comes out as a quote unquote trans woman, quote unquote, big quotes around that.

And then they embark on a road trip, a journey of self-discovery, traveling across the country and learning about, I guess, why left-wing gender ideology is a great thing. So it's kind of like the anti-what-is-a-woman in many ways. I like to think that our film was an inspiration for this one. I don't know if it was or not, but it's the similar concept, except that

In What is a Woman, by the end of it, we get to the truth and we get to clarity. And this is the opposite trajectory. By the end of it, he's even more confused than he was when he started. That's the idea. And the premise, obviously, is ridiculous. The idea that you need to go on some kind of adventure to understand what's happening with your friend. You have a male friend who says he's going to wear women's clothes now and

has decided to take a different name. And Will Ferrell has to go across the country. I have to understand what's, what's happened. Who are you now? Who is this person? No, it's the same person. It's literally, it's just the same person that what he didn't, there's not a lot. It's not very confusing, actually. There's not a lot to discover. You don't need to go all the way like to California. You don't need to go drive across the entire country to figure this out.

You should be able to figure out what's happening during a trip to Rite Aid, you know, 10 minutes down the street. And by the time you get there, you should have pretty well have this one figured out that this is a male. This is a male who was a male. And then it turns out still is. End of movie. That's a much shorter movie, I guess. Not the message that they want to send.

You know, when I partnered with Young Americans Foundation to bring my film "What is a Woman?" to schools across the country, there were rampant protests, which you might have seen.

Well, now I'm partnering with YAF again to bring advanced screenings of Am I Racist to theaters near college campuses around the country. You can watch Am I Racist before it's officially released by going to yaf.org slash air. That's yaf.org slash A-I-R. YAF specializes in bringing leading conservative voices to campuses across the country. I love working with them and can't wait for you to see the film. That's yaf.org slash A-I-R to get connected today.

In exactly one week, my movie Am I Racist is going to hit theaters nationwide. This is more than a comedy. It's a full-on takedown of the left's ridiculous DEI nonsense. I have another clip to show you, to show you just how insane this movie gets. Take a look. I used to be a white woman, an unsuccessful one, for many decades, and it was a miserable experience. And really, the hatred of yourselves and each other is like the most, the not seeing your power, the being afraid. Like, all you do is talk about each other, talk about

- Oh my God, I'm so fat! - That's all they do. That's all they do. I'm telling you. These white women? - But it's, it's, that's it. It's I'm so fat, I'm so stupid, I'm blah, blah, blah. - Sorry. - Your kids are watching you. And they're watching you talking about each other, you know, raging against the machine or being silent or whatever the hell it is that you're doing or not doing. And they know that you're not doing for them. - That's so important. That is so important what you just said. It's really important.

That's all. You may have to add you to our team. Oh, I would love to take a seat and join you. No, you're not allowed to. Oh, OK. Definitely not allowed. OK. I do have my-- I have my DEI certification that I got. So not saying I'm an expert, but I'm also not a novice. So, OK. White people are starved for these conversations. We are. We're so starving. Yeah. We are so starving for this. Anyone else want to say anything?

I'll just say one thing. I'm so glad we can have these conversations and I'll be done. But I'm just so glad that we could all get together to have these conversations. That's all I wanted to say. Thank you. Is he an actor? Are you an actor? Oh, no. Can you let us-- we're trying to listen and trying to have this conversation. OK. You know, we're all acting all the time in our lives. And I think that that's part of the problem, you know? That it's like we're all trying to play a part rather than just being real and having these uncomfortable conversations.

And that's what I'm always trying to tell people, especially, you know, white women. No offense, but... No, but see, like, you're a white dude. There's power positions, and, uh, you know, it's... Pointing... Pointing... White people pointing fingers at each other is not helpful. You know, I've been on this journey for so long, and just to see you guys at the table having this conversation has been really enlightening for me. Anyway, got the DEI certification, and I'm just on the journey. All right. You ladies have a great night.

Decolonize yourself. Do your own white supremacy dismantling. And then you can start to bring in other people. Can I just say one last thing? Can I just propose a toast? I mean, just raise a glass if you're racist. And that's the thing. Cheers. Oh, I'm not racist. Let me drink my glass. Well, all the rest of it. Too racist.

They gonna say you racist. Am I racist? In theaters September 13th. Rated PG-13. Buy tickets now. Theaters are selling out fast and new venues are being added daily to meet the demand. So, if you want to see firsthand just how far off the deep end the woke mob has gone and you want to have a laugh while you're at it, well go to amiracist.com and get your showtimes and tickets now. Now let's get to our daily cancellation. You know, there was a time not too long ago when the phrase 15 minutes of fame meant something and it was, you know,

pretty close to actually 15 minutes, people recognized that just because someone did something to attract attention, we didn't necessarily have to keep giving them attention for months and even years after the fact. Attracting attention was not considered an end in and of itself. And so if you were famous for any sustained period of time, it generally meant, for most of human history, honestly, that you had some identifiable talent. It meant you had a skill that most people don't possess.

And that was kind of the bare minimum. But that's changed now. And fame is now unquestionably cheaper and more meaningless than it's ever been in the history of the world. It takes nothing to become famous now. It doesn't mean anything. And there's no greater evidence of this unfortunate fact than the ongoing prominence of Hayley Wells, a 21-year-old woman who, of course, became famous back in June for creating the Hak Tua meme.

That's the most benign way I can describe her rise to fame. In another era, making a vulgar sex joke during some man on the street style interview would maybe buy you a day or two of attention at most. Jay Leno would put you on his show and the crowd would laugh politely and applaud and then everyone would move on. But in 2024, making a crude sex joke in a man on the street interview would

Gets you millions of social media followers, all kinds of endorsement deals, a lot of merchandise, hundreds of media appearances. And of course, inevitably now, we all knew this was coming, a podcast. Watch. Y'all really thought I was done? I'm just getting started, baby.

I'm Haley Welch. A little while ago, my life took a complete left turn and it changed forever. And along the way, I realized that everybody's entitled to their own opinion. Well, now it's my time to talk. Check out my podcast every week, Talk Toa, where I'm sitting down with the coolest guests and having actual conversations with them. I mean, Talk Toa is a pretty good name for the podcast, I have to admit. I hate that I have to admit that.

It's clever. Can I say something else too? The guy who interviewed her when she made the Hak Tua comment, why isn't he famous? Who is that guy? I can't even picture what he looks like. I don't know his name. He's really the one who got scammed in this whole deal. He managed to create and produce one of the most, unfortunately, one of the most viral pieces of content of the year.

that made its way into the kind of cultural zeitgeist. And he gets nothing out of it. No one even knows that guy. I mean, if I was him, I'd be pretty bitter about that. Anyway, to be as fair as possible to this whole idea, it's clear what they're going for. They're leaning into the idea that, well, she shouldn't be famous, but she is. That's why she started a company called 16 Minutes to sell her merchandise, which is obviously a play on the idea of 15 Minutes of Fame. So there's a whole Kardashian angle to the marketing here.

Where Haley is famous for being famous and we should all loosen up a little bit and enjoy it, I guess, is the idea. What's left unanswered in that teaser, though, is what exactly would this podcast be about? I mean, what do you have? Like, she says that she's going to talk to the coolest people and give her own opinion in actual conversations as opposed to what? Fake conversations? What do you mean? Oh, yeah.

Oh, this podcast, you got to listen to this podcast. Have you heard the talk to a podcast? Oh, you haven't? You got to hear this one. This one's different. She's having actual conversations. No, no, no, actual, not fake. No, they're not pretending to have it. They're actually having a conversation. It might not be an interesting conversation, but it's a conversation. It's happening. So she's not more specific than that. Is it going to be a podcast where they just make sex jokes the whole time? Is she going to talk about jet skis and mountain biking and all the exciting stuff she's doing in the trailer there?

What's the content going to be exactly? Who knows? Now, if you saw Hayley Welsh's interview with Bill Maher from a couple of weeks ago, you probably know what, because by the way, yeah, she was interviewed by Bill Maher because she said haktu on camera. And so that means that now she needs to be interviewed by Bill Maher.

But, you know, if you watch that, you probably know what this podcast isn't going to be about. It's not going to be about knowing things or having any insight into anything that's happening of any significance. We can be pretty sure that from this moment alone, although there's a lot of moments like this to choose from, but watch this. When the boys in America were going off to World War I, did they teach you in school when World War I was? I'm sure they did, but I probably took a nap in that class. Do you have any idea? Let's see. I'm going to say...

As in the 19? 1914 to 1918 was World War I. World War II was the 1940s, the first half of the 19th. You weren't born yet. I was not. But it's important that you know these basic markers in history. I know I'm the grumpy old man here, but I can't even laugh at it. You're an adult. I think she's a college student, right? She went to college, probably. I don't know.

And you're not sure about the century when World War I happened? Now, plenty of moments like that. You can watch the whole thing if you're so inclined to for some reason. But apparently she can guess when World War I took place within about 100 years. She barely had the century down. So needless to say, this will not be a history podcast. And I don't... I'm not going to belabor the point, but how do you...

How do you manage to make it to the age of 21 without having absorbed the basic information about the century when the world wars occurred? Even if you're not paying attention in school, it seems like just by accident you would at some point encounter that and it would seep into your brain somewhere.

So this leads us to a problem is how do you make a podcast when the host doesn't know anything at all about anything? Well, according to Yahoo, after much consideration, a genre for this podcast has been identified. Here's the headline, quote, talk to a girl. Hayley Welsh will give relationship pointers in new podcast. Talk to her.

Yahoo goes on to report that, quote, TalkTua is a part of the Better Banner, the media company founded by Jake Paul. It will be a weekly podcast showcasing a mix of different personalities and interviews. So this is now a very well-funded relationship podcast where the TalkTua girl will be talking to guests about how to fix their problems with their boyfriends or spouses or whatever. It's launching in a few days. Now, admittedly, as of right now, it's not clear if this is just some elaborate prank. It's possible that

Callers are going to ask Hayley Welsh what they should do in their relationship and she's just going to respond with the same two-word catchphrase that made her famous over and over again. And the crowd will go wild because that joke just can't possibly ever get old, apparently. But maybe there's going to be more to the podcast than that. Maybe Hayley will seriously try to assess other people's relationships, try to offer them advice, as Yahoo reported. And if that's the case, it's actually even more ridiculous.

There is no universe in which a 21-year-old girl should be offering relationship advice to anyone for the simple reason that she doesn't have meaningful experience in adult relationships. As you know, because I've complained about this many times in the past, this is a problem that is not specific to Hayley Welsh. There has been a proliferation of people on social media and in podcasts giving relationship advice, despite the fact that they have no wisdom on the topic to impart at all. They have had no success in that area at all.

And yet they're giving advice. So this is my opportunity to get back on my familiar soapbox once again to remind you that you should not listen to relationship advice or insight from anyone who does not have demonstrable success in the area of romantic relationships. This should be controversial. You know, if I told you not to listen to car maintenance advice from somebody who can't even change their own tire, you would immediately agree. Same principle applies here.

Almost all of these relationship podcasts are worthless, worse than worthless, because they're run by people whose only experience with relationships is failing at them and who have not learned anything from the failures because they keep failing. And so it's not like they can give you advice based on they can't tell you the things they learned the hard way because they haven't learned anything. Success in a romantic relationship means meeting someone, dating, getting engaged, getting married, and then staying married.

Um, nobody is qualified to dispense advice on romance or relationships unless they have completed all of those steps. And even then, like 80% of the people who have completed all of those steps still probably don't have much to say of any value on the topic. That's just the reality. But certainly we can say that everybody who has yet to complete the steps has nothing of value to say on the topic at all because they couldn't possibly. Um,

Now, I don't blame Haley for not being married yet. She's only 21. But that's the point. 21-year-olds have almost no experience being adults in the world. It's unlikely they have much wisdom to offer. I certainly didn't at that age. I doubt that Haley does.

The only notable thing that she's done is make a sex joke. But, you know, for now, her handlers are pretending that the sex joke is evidence that she's an interesting and brilliant person. In promoting this new podcast, Better Media says that, quote, Haley Welsh is a bona fide superstar and her charisma, unique perspective and innate connection with her audience makes her the perfect fit for our platform. Talk to will bring a fresh and dynamic voice to our content lineup. And we can't wait for our audience and brand sponsors to connect with Haley in an authentic way that embodies the ethos of

of better media as a whole. The ethos. So they're falling back on the corporate PR speak because they know there's no substance to any of this. The point of promoting this person is not to help anyone through their marital problems or give them guidance on finding a spouse or anything else. The point of promoting her is to turn her 15 minutes of fame into a lot of money. And if that means giving a lot of very bad advice to a young, impressionable audience, then that's what they'll do. And they'll do it as shamelessly as possible.

And that is why I'm afraid to say Hayley Welsh, the Hawk to a Girl, and everyone promoting her podcast and anyone involved in it and anyone who listens to it and just everybody, they're all today canceled. That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Have a great day. Talk to you on Monday. Godspeed.

Republicans or Nazis, you cannot separate yourselves from the bad white people. Growing up, I never thought much about race. It never really seemed to matter that much, at least not to me. Am I racist? I would really appreciate it if you left. I'm trying to learn. I'm on this journey. I'm going to sort this out. I need to go deeper undercover.

Joining us now is Matt, certified DEI expert. Here's my certification. What you're doing is you're stretching out of your whiteness. This is more for you than this for you. Is America inherently racist? The word inherent is challenging there. I'm going to rename the George Washington Monument to the George Floyd Monument. America is racist to its bones. So inherently. Yeah, this country is a piece of shit.

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