Ep. 1749 - AIRPORT CHAOS: The Real Reason Why Traveling These Days Feels Like A Nightmare

Summary

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The Matt Walsh Show – Ep. 1749

“Why Our Disgusting Airports Are PROOF Of The Country’s Decline”
Date: March 11, 2026
Host: Matt Walsh (The Daily Wire)

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Episode Overview

Matt Walsh takes a critical look at the deterioration of the American air travel experience, arguing that grimy, dysfunctional airports are symbols of a larger managed decline across American society. He links the worsening airport conditions—citing long security lines, fraudulent behaviors, and lack of accountability—to a broader pattern of cultural decay, bureaucratic ineptitude, and what he perceives as misguided or corrupted social policies. Walsh then extends his analysis to nationwide fraud (such as in hospice care), the consequences of immigration, and a discussion on cultural narratives—culminating in commentary on Meghan Markle's failed media ventures.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Media Coverage & Misinformation (00:32–06:10)

• Opening Correction: Walsh corrects a previous statement, clarifying that CNN (rather than CBS News) most egregiously misreported a recent NYC terror attack, mischaracterizing the story to fit a certain narrative.
• Critique of Mainstream Media: He accuses media outlets of deliberately obfuscating facts to prevent “unapproved conclusions,” tying media dishonesty to societal decline.
  • Quote: “Virtually every single mainstream media outlet is trying to do the same thing. The mistake that CNN made in this case was being too obvious about it.” (04:15)

2. Airport Decline as Societal Mirror (06:13–13:14)

• TSA Wait Times & Staffing Problems: Walsh highlights extreme TSA delays at airports in Houston, New Orleans, and Atlanta due to a DHS funding lapse and claims of mass “sick out” fraud among TSA workers.
  • Quote: “TSA agents in these particular airports are committing fraud on the taxpayer... They're going to take a vacation or work a side hustle on false pretenses because they see an opportunity to double dip.” (09:11)
• No Consequences Culture: Blames local management and systemic reluctance to punish misconduct, suggesting a connection to policies meant to avoid disparate impacts on minority employees.
• Historical Comparison: Drawing from Christopher Caldwell’s The Age of Entitlement, Walsh details how air and rail travel are actually slower and less pleasant than 50 years ago—despite technological advances.
  • Quote: “Travel by air and by train has become much slower than it was during the 1960s... It's hard to believe, but it's true.” (11:09)

3. The Changing Culture of Flying (13:14–21:37)

• From Glamour to Degradation: Contrasts the glamorous, pleasant air travel of the 1960s–70s with today’s cramped, hostile, and bare-bones services.
• Cheaper Fares, Worse Experiences: Cites economic tradeoffs, but claims the “lower class” of passengers now makes flights unpleasant for everyone, referencing viral passenger altercations.
  • Memorable Moment: Walsh mocks a Spirit Airlines customer for calling an officer racist when asked to sit down. (14:23–15:14)
    • “This is what the Rosa Parks mythology has become. [...] It's racist to tell any black person to take a seat ever for any reason.” (15:03)
• Wheelchair Fraud—‘Jetway Jesus’: Explores how policies meant to ensure accessibility (self-declared disabilities) are widely abused, especially by non-white passengers, with flight attendants calling the phenomenon “Jetway Jesus.” (18:32)
  • Quote: “When that plane lands, they're going to need 40 wheelchair assistance. Really? Guess what happens? The plane lands. It's a miracle. They can not only walk, they can run off the plane.” (18:40, Peter Greenberg)

4. Regulatory & Corporate Responses (19:19–26:00)

• Legal Inertia: Argues that airlines don’t address fraud for fear of lawsuits and civil rights complaints, referencing an incident where passengers were removed for “odor” and then sued.

  • Quote: “If they try to enforce the rules, they'll get sued into the ground. That’s an inevitable result of civil rights law under the regime of disparate impact.” (20:05)

• Degrading Service Quality: Points to United Airlines’ first-class meal as evidence of declining standards, even for high-paying customers.

• Airport Fees: Critiques increased rideshare fees at LAX, dismissing the claim that such fees won’t affect consumers. (25:06–25:54)

5. Airport Violence and Lower Expectations (26:00–28:09)

• Generalized Chaos: Cites recent examples of fights and assaults on planes (Spirit, Frontier), linking these to the “lowest common denominator” being set by certain demographics and institutions.
• Comparison with Other Countries: Praises high-trust, homogenous societies like Japan for maintaining public order, questioning why the US can’t do the same.
  • “In Japan, taking a phone call on the bus is considered deeply offensive. [...] That's because Japan is a high trust, homogenous society. [...] Meanwhile, in the United States, civil rights laws make those types of policies illegal.” (28:09)

6. Broader Cultural Decline—Fraud & Accountability (33:39–39:57)

• Hospice Fraud in California: Highlights a CBS News investigation into massive Medicaid/Medicare fraud, agreeing with its findings but mocking the “unprofessional” selfie video reporting style.
  • Quote: “...the decline in professional standards. [...] Presenting this intentionally to be less professional... stylistic choice...” (35:45)
• Immigration & Crime: Walsh asserts that much of the fraud is perpetrated by immigrants, referencing DOJ press releases with “foreign” names.
  • Quote: “With one exception, it appears that all the people in the video that we just played are foreigners. [...] We’re importing people from parts of the world where fraud is a way of life. Fraud is part of the culture.” (40:12)
• Link to Third World Culture: Describes his trip to Kenya, argues that countries remain poor because of a “low-trust culture” where fraud is normalized. (42:30)

7. The Stolen Land Debate & Cultural Narratives (46:48–53:04)

• AI, History, and American Guilt: Mocks press outrage at Elon Musk's Grok chatbot for refusing to say America was built on stolen land, promoting Walsh’s “Real History of the American Indian” special.
  • Quote: “You’ve been lied to so much. Lies, myths, exaggerations, Trail of Tears, smallpox blankets—all of that is either made up, or exaggerated, or misrepresented...” (48:20)
• Challenging Historical Myths: Claims Europeans treated Native Americans with greater mercy than they received from rivals, and that non-Western societies “never debated” ideas like human rights.

8. Crime, Shoplifting, and ‘Benefit’ Studies (55:14–59:24)

• Minnesota Lawmaker’s Proposal: Plays a clip of a Democrat suggesting a study on the “benefits of shoplifting.”
  • Quote: “No, shoplifters are not relying on shoplifting. Even if they were, it would matter. It's still illegal. It's against the law, it's a crime. But these are not impoverished people who are shoplifting...” (55:46)
• Modern Crime Motivation: Argues that contemporary crime is driven by indifference and “savagery,” not necessity or deprivation.

9. Meghan Markle’s Career Woes (59:24–End)

• Cultural Footnote: Details Markle’s string of failed media ventures (Netflix, Spotify, books) as an example of modern emptiness, and as a case study in “archetypal, shallow millennial failure.”
  • “She trades in the royal life for something far less prestigious and fails to achieve even the less prestigious thing. And now what is she? She's a failed podcaster. She's basically an unemployed Instagram model instead of royalty.” (1:01:47)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On TSA “Sick Outs”:
  “They're committing fraud on the taxpayer... for some unknown reason, which can't possibly have anything to do with systemic corruption or culture or local hiring practices or demographics or anything at all...” (09:11)
• On Demographics & Decline:
  “Turns out that when you usher in a wave of anti-white racism at every level of society, things start to break. And they break in ways that many people don't even realize.” (10:46)
• On American Airlines 'Disparate Impact':
  “Whatever airline you fly, you get passengers like this one... It's extremely difficult, if not impossible, to proactively remove passengers before a flight if those passengers are not white.” (21:02)
• On Comparing Historical Atrocities:
  “When the Indians came and took your land, which they did all the time, ...they'd just kill you. There’s no reservation. You're just going to kill everybody.” (50:23)
• On Modern Crime:
  “It's not desperation. It's not necessity. It's just because... It's, it's, I don't know, it's barbarism. I don't know what else to call it.” (58:07)

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Important Segments & Timestamps

| Segment | Time | |-----------------------------------------|----------| | Media Correction & Critique | 00:32–06:10 | | Airport/TSA Dysfunction Analysis | 06:13–13:14 | | Social/cultural decline through flying | 13:14–21:37 | | Regulatory climate & Air travel decline | 19:19–26:00 | | Airport violence & societal order | 26:00–28:09 | | Fraud in hospice care & demographics | 33:39–39:57 | | Stolen land & historical narratives | 46:48–53:04 | | Shoplifting “benefit” study | 55:14–59:24 | | Meghan Markle’s failed ventures | 59:24–End |

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Tone & Style

• Unapologetically critical, sarcastic, and combative
• Frequent direct attacks on mainstream media, progressive policies, and multiculturalism
• Heavily anecdotal, with overt ideological framing
• Interspersed with mockery, pointed rhetorical questions, and dry humor

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Summary for New Listeners

If you missed the episode, Matt Walsh delivers a monologue lamenting the collapse of American airports as a clear sign of national decay. He ties the dysfunction and “managed decline” of air travel to broader American societal problems: unaccountable bureaucracy, fraud (especially among new immigrants and minority employees), regulatory capture, and a cultural obsession with avoiding “disparate impact.”

Walsh weaves in examples—from TSA “sick outs” to wheelchair fraud, meal downgrades, and airport brawls—arguing that the cause is both a failure of will (lack of consequences) and an increasingly “low-trust” culture. He ventures into historical revisionism on Native American history, ties economic and criminal dysfunction to demographic changes and failed immigration policy, and closes with commentary on the “modern tragedy” of Meghan Markle’s failed quest for influencer fame.

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Transcript

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[Matt Walsh]

Today, Matt will show the air travel experience in this country has declined catastrophically over the years, just as the quality of almost everything else has declined. Why is this happening? How bad is it really? And what can we do about it? We'll talk about that. Also, we know about the fraud in Minneapolis. A new investigative investigation reveals that situation is even worse in California. And Meghan Markle's Netflix deal has been canceled. Her string of failures over the past five years is truly impressive. We'll talk about all that and more today in the Matt Wal. I'll usually open the show with a correction, but today I'm forced to do so. In discussing the media's deliberately misleading coverage of the terror attack in New York City on Saturday, I made an egregious mistake. I described CBS News as perhaps the worst offender out of every media organization that lied to the public about what happened. But as bad as CBS's coverage was, my statement turns out wasn't entirely accurate because the truth is that no single outlet was more committed to lying about the terrorist attack than than actually CNN, which aired the following analysis from CNN's Abby Phillips last night. This is one of those clips that seems like it can't possibly be real, but it is. Watch two Republicans say Muslims don't belong here after an attempted terror attack against New York's Mayor Zoran Mandani. And the House Speaker Mike Johnson says nothing really to condemn those comments. Another special guest is going to be with us at the table. So the bombing was, quote, an attempted terror attack against New York's Mayor Zoran Mamdani, according to CNN's Abby Phillips. Well, there it is. It's completely false, the total inverse of the truth concerning a major news story that took place more than 48 hours earlier. And she delivers it live on air. Now, of course, this false narrative is precisely what every news outlet including CNN has been trying to suggest for the past 48 hours. They've desperately been attempting to confuse the public into believing this lie. They know that two Muslim terrorists tried to murder right wing activist Jake Lang as well as several police officers in the name of ISIS and global jihad. But as we discussed, the media has been reporting the story in a way that suggests that Mamdani was somehow targeted by anti Islam demonstrators because the attack occurred near his official residence. And now we have the CNN anchor coming out and repeating the same lie that CNN has been spreading all day, except she's even more direct about it. So earlier in the day on their official accounts, CNN posted the following text on X as well as their website in the form of an article. And here's what CNN wrote. Quote, two Pennsylvania teenagers crossed in New York City Saturday, Saturday morning for what could have been a normal day, enjoying the city during abnormally warm weather. But in less than an hour, their lives would drastically change as the pair would be arrested for throwing homemade bombs during an anti Muslim protest outside of Mayor Zoran Mandani's home. So notice how the propaganda works. Instead of Muslim terrorists whose parents came here from Afghanistan and Turkey, they are Pennsylvania teenagers who could have been enjoying the city during the nice warm weather. And these Pennsylvania teenagers don't actually do anything. They didn't do anything. Instead, something happens to them. They got arrested, they, their lives changed. It's all very passive. And we're told the incident occurred during an anti Muslim protest, which suggests that the anti Muslim protesters were responsible for the bombing. And that's apparently how Abby Phillips understood the story, or claimed that she did. Now, that CNN article was written by two authors, both of them women. One of them went to UC Berkeley and Columbia Journalism School where the yearly cost of attendance is well over a hundred thousand dollars. She uses they them pronouns and identifies as non binary. The other author is a Spanish speaking Colombian immigrant to the United States who holds an undergraduate journalism degree. And what's important to understand about this propaganda, and why I'm opening with it, is that virtually every single mainstream media outlet is trying to do the same thing. The mistake that CNN made in this case was being too obvious about it. But if you pay enough attention, you'll find that journalists are paid to obscure relevant information to the extent that the information might lead you to draw some unapproved conclusions. If you draw those unapproved conclusions, then your life might actually get better. The quality of life in this country might improve instead of continuing this steady managed decline that we've been on for so many years. Consider what's happening to the air travel, to air travel right now in the United States. If you've been on a plane lately, as I have been many times, you know that, you know that it's as bad as it's ever been. And now in the wake of the DHS shutdown, things are starting to really fall apart. But the media, as always, isn't interested in providing all of the necessary context. So here's a report that just aired on NBC News on this topic and see if you can spot what's missing. Listen, get up, get here early at Houston's Hobby Airport. Those lines have been snaking out the main terminal down to the baggage claim and all the way out to the parking garage. The airport is warning TSA wait times could be three hours or more.

[News Reporter]

We tried to allow a little more than three hours to get here.

[Matt Walsh]

I've been waiting in line for about two hours now. Got nothing else to do but wait. The same story at MSY in New Orleans and at Hartsfield Jackson Airport in Atlanta. The TSA's funding expired three weeks ago after lawmakers failed to reach an agreement on on ice protocols, triggering a partial Homeland Security shutdown. The White House released a statement blaming Democrats for the shutdown and airport staffing shortages. So TSA wait times are now insanely long at three specific airports. Atlanta, Houston, Hobby and New Orleans. Total breakdown. As you can, as you can see, they're telling passengers to get to the airport several hours early. And the TSA long is so lying that it snakes into the parking garage. Now, the reason that all this is happening, according to NBC News, is that Democrats are refusing to fund dhs. You see, Democrats are upset that two left wing agitators were killed while assaulting and interfering with federal law enforcement officers. So they're not going to pay for TSA anymore. And Republicans aren't willing to compromise at the moment. So therefore you get long delays. But as an explanation for what's happening, again, that's, that's an incomplete analysis and it's incomplete on purpose. You also have to ask yourself this question. Why exactly is the crisis only affecting three airports, all of them located in the American South? The TSA is a national federal agency. None of these officers anywhere in the country are getting paid at the moment. So why isn't every single airport in every city in the US experiencing a similar meltdown? Why aren't lines going to the parking garage in, in, you know, Maine or New Hampshire? Now, if you look a little deeper, you'll discover that TSA agents in the south are calling in sick in response to the funding lapse. That's the reason for these delays. In other words, the TSA agents in these particular airports are committing fraud on the taxpayer. Now, they know that when the DHS is funded, they will receive back pay. So they're not getting paid right now. But they will get paid. But they don't care. They're going to take a vacation or work a side hustle on false pretenses because they see an opportunity to double dip. And for some unknown reason, which can't possibly have anything to do with systemic corruption or culture or local hiring practices or demographics or anything at all, the vast majority of TSA agents who are committing this fraud happen to be located in three major urban centers in the Southern United States. Just a couple weeks ago, we talked about the unprecedented amount of sewage that was flowing into D.C. streets as the local water board celebrated its diversity. Is something similar happening with the TSA in Houston, New Orleans and Atlanta? Whatever the case, we need to know why so many of these TSA agents are concentrated at these particular airports, and why they aren't getting fired or even punished for committing a very flagrant, obvious fraud. But no one at NBC News will ever investigate those questions. And we all know why they're afraid of what they'll discover. Above all, the media's objective is to prevent you from realizing that our cultural decline is a choice. All of the daily indignities that we put up with are in fact optional. And we know that because not too long ago we didn't indulge the laziness and the corruption of the worst among us. In an upcoming episode of Real History, we're going to talk at some length about the book the Age of Entitlement by Christopher Caldwell. And among other things, it describes many of the ways that society has floundered ever since the civil rights era. Turns out that when you usher in a wave of anti white racism at every level of society, things start to break. And they break in ways that many people don't even realize. So here's just a couple of examples from the book. Quote by the 2016 presidential election, the quickest flights from New York TO London took six hours and 40 minutes, almost three quarters of an hour longer than they had taken during the Nixon administration. The train trip from New York to Washington, D.C. a mere two hours and 15 minutes when the Beatles made it on the on their first American tour in 1964, now took half an hour longer on the very fastest Trains. It's hard to believe, but it's true. Travel by air and by train has become much slower than it was during the 1960s. There are more passengers, more delays, the infrastructure has degraded. And meanwhile, airlines decided that flying slower would save on fuel, which is the main reason they stopped making the Concorde. Of course, you could pick many other metrics where we've declined from crime rates to fertility rates to literacy rates and so on. We've talked about a fair number of these indicators of decline. But air travel is worth focusing on because it's a relatively expensive way to travel. It's supposed to be the crown jewel of American transportation. And if air travel has gotten much worse, then it stands to reason that you probably don't want to use the local subway system or take a Greyhound through the Midwest. So what exactly has gone wrong here? Well, to answer that question, you need to recognize that air travel used to look very different compared to how it looks today now. For one thing, the security lines didn't stretch to the parking lot. And being a stewardess was considered a glamorous and desirable job. And passengers weren't packed together like cattle in the smallest possible seats. Let's take a look at this Coke TWA ad from 1967, which gives you some idea. Watch. Finally, New York glamour job. Marianne has made dozens of runs like this, served hundreds of hot meals, greeted thousands of new people. It all demands a lot of charm and works out to a lot of Coke. Being a flight attendant presented, you know, was presented as an exciting and demanding job where she gets to travel the world and meet interesting, well behaved passengers. There are only two seats per aisle. Everyone has tons of room. Passengers are all smiling as they receive hot meals. Tickets were more expensive than they are now, but in return, the experience was ten times more comfortable and civilized. Watch.

[Narrator/Commentator]

Eating and drinking. As costly as flying was, you can't say that passengers didn't get their money's worth. Contemporary flyers consider themselves lucky if they receive a free bag of peanuts and a cup of water to wash it down. That's a far cry from the multi course meals they served in the 60s, complete with fancy silverware and tablecloths. Since iPads and laptops didn't exist back then, people would stay occupied with bottomless glasses of wine, champagne and other alcoholic beverages on the house. Even economy passengers ate and drank like royalty. Despite technically being complimentary, the food and drinks were largely why airfare was so high. As excessive as 60s air travel was, the 70s took things to new heights with the introduction of piano Bars.

[Matt Walsh]

Now, the simple explanation for why domestic air travel is now unrecognizable is that over the past 60 years, air travel has become much cheaper. So customers have made the choice to spend less money in exchange for worse service and a smaller seat and a. And a. A flight that takes longer. Now, today, if you shop around and buy early, you can get a cross country plane ticket for around 300 bucks. In the 1960s, accounting for inflation, you probably would have spent, you know, the equivalent, you know, around $1,000. The equivalent of $1,000 for the same ticket. But the issue isn't simply that customers are paying less for worse service. The main reason air travel is so unpleasant is that the low prices attract passengers like this who lower the quality of air travel for everybody in the terminal. Watch and then give me the explanation. I don't know. And me and my daughter, it's her birthday. My son and my other son right here, we got on the plane with no explanation. Actually, let's get off. I'll talk to. I'll talk to him, see what's going on. All right, See what's going on and bring him the out here, because I'm going to smack. Just have a seat for me. No, I'm not having no seat. That's racist. I'm not having no seat for me.

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[Matt Walsh]

Not having a seat. You can go talk to him. I stand right here. I'm not having a seat. I'm gonna need you back. I need that racist. We not doing that racist today. You not with that racist. You with me. If y' all want to talk, y' all

[Peter Greenberg]

may.

[Independent Investigator]

For what?

[Adam Yamaguchi]

For what?

[Matt Walsh]

For what? Back up, back up, back up. So, yes, you heard that correctly. The guy is thrown off of his Spirit Airlines flight. An officer arrives and finds that he's very agitated, so he tells him to sit down, and in response, the guy tells the officer that he's racist for making that request. This is what the Rosa Parks mythology has become. It's gone from, you know, it was racist to tell Rosa Parks to give up her seat for a white person to. It's racist to tell any black person to take a seat ever for any reason. And then the situation escalates until it's a brawl at the airport. Now, these kinds of seat disputes are extremely common on Spirit Airlines. As it turns out, this is one of the more remarkable ones. A woman claims that she's entitled to a middle seat in the 13th row, and she shows the officers her Spirit Airlines app to confirm her seat assignment. But then the officer notes that the woman is actually showing them a screenshot of the app and possibly manipulated it. And then he informs her that according to her ticket, she needs to move to another seat. And here's how that went. Deputy Soto. I'm grieving is actually how I'm feeling. I'm trying to get to a funeral day. Okay, ma', am, I'm sorry about that, but now I'm sitting in my assigned seat. No, you're supposed to be at 37 e. Ma.

[News Reporter]

No, ma'.

[Peter Greenberg]

Am.

[Matt Walsh]

You think I would make this up? You think I would hold everybody? It's also right here. That's a screenshot. It's the app View my boarding pass. Why would I make that up? Okay, let me talk to the cab. Hey, sir, I know it's on her app, though. A screenshot. Okay, she opened it up for me. So let. Show me how. Let me see. Just get off the plane. The final chance. Once the handcuffs go on, there's no ma', am. There's no negotiating. Get off the plane or go to jail. I'm not doing anything. One last chance. Off the plane or off the plane? Not going to tell you. Off the plane or off the plane. You choose right now. What do you want to do? What do you want to do? Off the plane. Off the plane and go to jail. He's asking you please stand up and walk off. 5. If you stand up and walk up, you can rebook. 3. 2. If not, you're going to jail. All right, let's go. Stand up. Now, put aside whether or not the woman actually faked a screenshot with her boarding assignment. That would be hilarious. But. But really, the footage is hilarious anyway. I mean, the remarkable thing is that she's going to jail and forcing every passenger to deplane and potentially faked her boarding pass over a middle seat. So either she's really passionate about having one of the worst seats on the plane, or she really wanted to miss the funeral that she claimed she had to get to. Either way, she's obviously irrational and entitled and highly annoying. Now, when pastors like this flood airports every day as they have been, and when the FAA awards massive airport contracts on the basis of racial equity, as they've been doing that, everything gets worse. Now, here's a great example. The so called Jetway Jesus phenomenon. If you haven't heard about it, this is what it is. Watch. Joining me now is News Nation travel editor, Peter Greenberg. Peter, explain to me how the wheelchair scam works, because not everyone using a wheelchair really needs one.

[Peter Greenberg]

Correct. In fact, this goes back to 1986. It's called the Air Carrier Access act. And it was well intentioned basically that anybody can self declare that they have a disability and are capable of then eligible for wheelchair assistance. What does wheelchair assistance mean? You can basically get to the counter first, you can get to the gate first, you go through security first and you board first. The reason why they call them miracle flights, and I've seen this personally on many of my flights, you'll see as many as 30 or 40 people getting wheelchair assistance at the gate and boarding first. Of course the airline knows that when it lands. So when that plane lands, they're going to need 40 wheelchair assistance. Really? Guess what happens? The plane lands. It's a miracle. They can not only walk, they can run off the plane. And in fact, as one flight attendant told me, it's Jetway Jesus working now.

[Matt Walsh]

The federal law was passed as so many laws were passed during a time when America was a high trust society. It didn't occur to Congress or the airlines that passengers en masse would just lie about a disability in order to get a priority access to their seat. But that's exactly what's happening. We've imported tens of millions of people who have no regard for our culture, our way of life or basic rules. And this is the result. Let's take a look at that picture from the Wall Street Journal. The caption reads, there were 25 wheelchair passengers on a recent flight out of Guadalajara's airport. Think about that. 25 wheelchair passengers on one flight. Now unless this is a plane headed for like the Special Olympics, that doesn't check out. That doesn't make sense. Neither does this flight. Watch if your bags are checked, please ensure you remove keys, medication, any spilling the battery, e cigarettes or travel documents and they're brought with you rewarded by group number. Take a moment to look at your boy Clark to be accident. You work with your group number now the re this is obviously fraud. The reason that airlines tolerate this kind of obvious fraud is that if they try to enforce the rules, they'll get sued into the ground. That's an inevitable result of civil rights law under the regime of disparate impact. If you do anything that has a disproportionate effect on non white people, then you've broken the law. And we all know that if airlines crack down on these wheelchair fraudsters, they'd be punishing an awful lot of non white people. And that's just not allowed anymore. American Airlines learned this lesson the hard way. A Couple of years ago, a flight attendant claimed that eight passengers had a foul odor and had to exit the aircraft. And that led to this viral video, massive nationwide outrage, and a lawsuit that American Airlines ended up settling. Watch. We the only ones getting taken off the plane. Look at us. I would never even film something. This is cool, right?

[Ad Host]

Yeah.

[Matt Walsh]

I'm trying to get home. Yeah. What's the issue? What's going on? This ain't no random picture. This ain't no random. So we don't have a right to be on the plane. I paid for the flight just like everybody else, so we don't have a right to be on. So they keep saying this ain't random and I paid for my ticket. None of which is relevant or in dispute. No, it's, it's not random. And yes, you paid for your ticket, but that's irrelevant to the question of whether you smell really bad, so bad that you need to be removed from an airplane. So there's two possibilities here. Either the American Airlines flight attendant is a raging white supremacist and he just fabricated the idea these, these eight passengers were emitting a foul odor, which could mean, you know, anything from poor hygiene to marijuana use, or both. The flight attendant just decided to, you know, go full Nazi one day. On this one occasion, and only on this one occasion, or in the alternative, maybe these people did smell really bad and maybe they happen to be black also. Now, what you need to understand is that our legal system simply does not allow for that second possibility to be true. It's extremely difficult, if not impossible, to proactively remove passengers before a flight if those passengers are not white. And as a result, whatever airline you fly, you get passengers like this one. Now, to be fair, that's another Spirit flight. They, they keep coming up, you know, for reasons that I think everybody is aware of. Here's another flight that we'll put up on the screen. It's a four on one that ends relatively quickly. The bottom line is that whether you're in the terminal or the, the ticket area or on the plane, you're taking your chances on Spirit. That's especially true now that they're bankrupt, which raises the stakes significantly. In general, probably not a good idea to fly a bankrupt airline regardless of the quality of the passengers. But to be clear, this is not simply a Spirit Airlines problem. You can see obvious signs of decline and cost cutting on any major carrier. Here's the first class meal that United Airlines recently served. Its high paying passengers, for example. You can see it right there. It was a five hour flight and they serve the guy a whole tomato and a bunch of cubes of some kind and probably paid something like $400 extra for this. It's legitimately embarrassing. Unless you fly in an international airline or fly private, there's no amount of money you can spend that will provide anywhere near the airline experience that was available to Everybody in the 1960s and 70s. Particularly in cities where the foreign born population has exploded in the past few decades. Cities like Los Angeles, for example. It's also become much harder to simply get to the airport.

[News Reporter]

Watch LA World Airports Commission has approved increasing fees for rideshare pickups and drop offs at lax. Fees for services like Uber, Lyft taxis and even limousines are set to go up from the current $4 to $6 each way. Those could start at the end of April. The fee would then increase to $12 once the lax people mover starts operating, which is expected later this year. Currently, the fees are absorbed by the service companies. Airport officials hope it stays that way.

[Matt Walsh]

LAX has not raised its commercial access fee since 2016. So this takes us into alignment with the market today. It is a fee that is for the commercial provider, so we're hopeful that it's not passed on to drivers or customers.

[News Reporter]

The fee hike is part of an effort to reduce traffic congestion through the arrival and departure areas of the airport.

[Matt Walsh]

Now the fees are going up for the rideshare drivers, but don't worry, that won't be passed along to consumers, which if true would be quite remarkable. I mean, it'd be the first time in the history of economics that a company decided not to pass on regulatory fees to the consumer. Of course it's not true. So at this point, when you go to the airport, the best case scenario you can hope for is that you won't witness a violent assault. And that's becoming more and more difficult to avoid. By the way, this is from Frontier Airlines. Just last summer. Watch. Fight that broke out midair on a Frontier Airlines plane was headed to Miami. A New Jersey man was arrested, charged after attacking another passenger. Victor Kendo is at Miami International Airport with his story. Good morning, Victor. Good morning, George.

[Victor Kendo]

That Frontier Airlines flight headed here to Miami from Philadelphia. According to the police report, the victim says that he was sitting in his seat when that other passenger grabbed him by the neck and attacked him. This morning an alarming scene as a fight breaks out on board a Frontier Airlines flight bound for Miami. While it was still in the air, the plane was about to land when according to police records 21 year old Ishan Sharma was returning to his seat when he allegedly grabbed another passenger by the neck and the two trading blows. Passengers trapped witnessing the chaos.

[Matt Walsh]

The man sitting behind was making comments to the man in front, like negative comments the whole flight. And the man in front went to the bathroom and when he came back, that's when things started to escalate. Western airlines will see violence and decay like this and they'll conclude that their problem is white people. That's not an exaggeration. That's what they truly believe. This was the scene at Gatwick Airport during a recent Black History Month. For example. They celebrate over the PA system that no white people will be flying the plane or serving the drinks. Watch History Month. TUI today has an all black flight crew and an all black cabin crew. Give yourselves a big kid.

[Narrator/Commentator]

Now.

[Matt Walsh]

You know, in Japan, taking a phone call on the bus is considered deeply offensive. You're supposed to get off the bus and everybody complies with that. That's because Japan is a high trust, homogenous society. It's the kind of country that doesn't have 30 people pretending to need a wheelchair before every flight. Now meanwhile, in the United States, civil rights laws make those types of policies illegal. To their credit, United Airlines is going to try anyway. They just enacted a new policy where they kick you off the plane if you're listening to music without headphones. Obviously it's sad that this even needs to be a policy. It tells you something about where we are that they even need to clarify this. But it does appear that as of now, United is enforcing the rule. But you have to wonder how long until United gets sued for racial discrimination, which is going to happen. What if they kick a bunch of black people off a plane for failing to comply with this rule? Now, we all know that's coming because we all know there are racial disparities in the people who tend to use their phone on speaker or listen to music without headphones. You know, it's, there are racial disparities in that statistic, as we all have observed and we all know. And so we all know what will happen next. There'll be a settlement. United ends its policy and air travel once again gets worse for everybody. That's the trend we've been on ever since the 1960s. We are a wealthier nation, but the lowest common denominator is dragging down everything for everybody, starting with air travel. And if air travel has gotten this bad, then we know trains and buses and light rails and subways are much worse. As Caldwell points out, over the past 60 years, we've lost our ability to go to the moon. We've lost our ability to make supersonic passenger jets at scale. We've lost the high trust society that we once had, which is why we can't trust the media to tell the truth about Islamic terrorist attacks, why we can't trust the TSA to show up to work, why we can't trust passengers not to steal wheelchairs and so on. At the same time, this decline, as stark as it is, can be reversed the moment consequences are introduced. The moment TSA officers are fired for pretending to be sick, for example, you will see a dramatic improvement in day to day life in this country. It's been the mission of the civil rights movement to avoid these punishments and they've been very successful at doing so. Before the decline of our country and our transit system gets any worse, and before another Spirit Airlines brawl goes viral, those consequences for everyone, regardless of race, need to make a comeback. Now let's get to our five headlines. Right now, all across America, terrified and confused women are being funneled into abortion clinics and sold a lie. 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All right, after Nick Shirley's extremely successful investigation into the infamous leering centers in Minneapolis, some news outlets have now taken an interest in fraud stories. So CBS News has now stepped up to bat with an investigation into hospice fraud in California. They just published a big article and a video. Here's some of the article Medicare is federally administered and hospices must be certified for reimbursements. But the state issues the licenses for hospices to operate. Three years ago, a California state auditor sounded the alarm. The Los Angeles county had seen a 1500% increase in hospice companies since 2010, more than six times the national average relative to its elderly population. Auditors estimate that LA county hospices over billed Medicare by $105 million in a single year. The report called out notable red flags, key warning signs of fraud. The state says it proceeded to investigate and revoke the licenses of 280 hospices. But since then, the problem has continued to fester. CBS News examined the business and financial records of every hospice currently operating in LA County. Indications of fraud have not stopped. In fact, they've grown. CBS News analysis revealed that over 700 of the roughly 1800 hospices in LA county trigger multiple red flags for fraud as defi defined by the state. So that's the fraud that appears to be happening. As to how these frauds work, you know, as to how these people pull off. How do you defraud commit a fraud like this if you're a hospice center or a fake hospice center? Well, a CBS News journalist doing some actual journalism explains how that works. Here, watch.

[Adam Yamaguchi]

The government thinks this woman is dying in hospice care, but she just humiliated me, schooled me on the pickleball court. She's definitely not dying. She is a victim, though, of hospice fraud. So hospice fraud costs taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars every year here in California is ground zero. So basically, people steal Medicare numbers, they enroll them in hospices, and then bill for tens, sometimes hundreds of thousands of dollars. A lot of these companies are just fronts. So over 700 of the roughly 1800 hospices in LA county trigger multiple red flags for possible fraud. So we went door to door, and what we found was empty office spaces, piled up mail, and not a single healthcare worker in sight. There's even a stretch in LA with 500 registered hospice companies within just three miles of each other. In fact, there's even a single building with 89 registered hospice companies. We wanted to get some answers. Okay, so my name is Adam Yamaguchi and I'm with CBS News, and we're doing a story about hospice. And we're just trying to understand how and why there's so many hospice agencies in like, a small cluster in LA County. Would love to speak with you. I'm sorry, you have no comment. Okay. Medicare hospice fraud can happen in a few different ways. Shell companies can buy stolen Medicare numbers on the Dark Web and then bill the government for services that they don't ever actually provide. Sometimes recruiters will go out into the community and look for seniors and say, hey, we can offer you a bunch of free groceries, housekeeping, free. Depends. Just give me your Medicare number and I'll see what you're eligible for. And then, boom, they're off and running. They can charge tens of thousands of dollars and in some cases, hundreds of thousands of dollars on that one Medicare number.

[Matt Walsh]

Okay, so, interesting, important investigation. I don't mean to nitpick, but I don't really understand why a CBS News investigation piece is being presented in a selfie video from a guy in a T shirt who's, like, sweating from having just played pickleball. And he's dropping cuss words that have to be bleeped out. Like, I. It's not the point. I just. I just hate the. It kind of. It kind of dovetails. What we were just talking about, that the decline in professional standards. Just like, there's no professionalism anymore. Presenting this intentionally to be less professional. This is like a stylistic choice. We're going to make this intentionally a lot less professional looking because, you know, that's what the kids are into these days. And I just really hate it. I mean, put on a suit and put on a tie and be a journalist to be a news anchor. Tell us the information. Anyway, that's not the point. The point is the amount of fraud that's clearly going on, and we're only looking at the tip of the iceberg. The fraud's all over the place. We know about Minneapolis, and what's happening in Minneapolis, as we've talked about, is a nationwide problem. Also, as Katie Miller just tweeted, it's not just Somali Daycare's direct Medicaid payments to autism therapy providers nationwide surged from 660 million in 2019 to 2.2 billion in 2023. There is mass unprecedented fraud taking place across our country, which is true. Conservative estimates would say that the amount of Medicare and Medicaid fraud alone every year is like 70 or 80 billion dollars nationwide. That's not including insurance fraud outside of those programs. If you. If you look at everything together, you're looking at, you know, at least $100 billion, at least annually in fraud, but probably much more than that, because obviously, that's the thing about fraud. There's no way to know exactly how much of it is happening because it's fraud. So. But we do know that we're paying hundreds of billions of dollars, hundreds of Billions of dollars is. Is being stolen through fraud. We do know that. And the problem is that there still isn't any serious nationwide effort to crack down on this. I mean, not with any real urgency or severity. There's a. There's an independent journalist, I think. I think he's independent, named Christian Hartsock, who just published, on the same day or the same week, just published his own investigation into hospice fraud in California. And let's see that here

[Independent Investigator]

printed sign, closed for lunch. We will return shortly. It seems to be a pretty permanent looking. It's not just a sticky note. It does not seem like a temporary tag you just put on a door to say out to lunch. It says out to lunch. Okay, well, I take it that they are still out to lunch. Maybe they're all out to lunch together. Great. Life hospice. Okay.

[Matt Walsh]

Hmm.

[Independent Investigator]

Is it a whole lunch outing amongst healthcare competitors? Hi.

[Matt Walsh]

No, this not hospice.

[Dave Pinto]

I don't.

[Independent Investigator]

This is not hospice. Okay, well, what. What kind of health do you provide here?

[Matt Walsh]

I'm sorry, you can't come.

[Independent Investigator]

But it says nine to five. Hello? It's open. So let's go on. I'm documenting this for my. My grandma because I'm trying to enroll her in healthcare. Oh, I'm not soliciting. I'm trying. I'm so convenient. Every possible healthcare need you could possibly need, all in one building on one floor. Hi, could you help me with something? I'm trying so hard to get her some health care and no one will talk to me in this building. In one of the buildings was an auto body repair shop. Now, I'd never seen an auto body repair shop on the second floor of an office building. So I decided to knock on the door and see what they thought of the dozens of hospice offices surrounding theirs. But when I started asking guy questions, it escalated pretty quickly.

[Matt Walsh]

Why are you taking pictures? Why are you asking some questions?

[Independent Investigator]

Because I'm curious what's going on. There's so many. There's so many health care offices here and hospice offices.

[Matt Walsh]

Did you see any healthcare offices? Yes.

[Independent Investigator]

Yeah, I see dozens.

[Matt Walsh]

Have I done anything? No, no, no. Hold on. Here we are.

[Adam Yamaguchi]

911 for the city of Los Angeles.

[Matt Walsh]

I don't know who you are.

[Independent Investigator]

You're calling. So. So you're calling. You're calling the police.

[Matt Walsh]

He is.

[Independent Investigator]

So I.

[Matt Walsh]

Okay, so he calls the cops. And, you know, we don't know if. If the people in these videos are guilty of fraud or not, but this guy was looking into the same thing as the CBS reporter. And, and, yeah, the one thing about hospice is that you could have a hospice. You know, in many cases it's in home hospice care. And so in a vacuum, in and of itself, there's nothing unusual necessarily, I would think about having a hospice office in an office building and then the care providers go into the home if it's an in home hospice care situation. But to have all of these, to have this sudden explosion of hospice care in this one area and to have buildings where you've got dozens of hospice offices and then you go and try to talk to them and they're all out to lunch at the same time. Like it's. So we all get an idea of what's going on here. And the other thing you notice in that video. And look, I hate to be that guy. I hate that I have to be the one to bring this up. I don't really hate it. I don't care. But with one exception, it appears that all the people in the video that we just played are foreigners. And if you go and you just Google for cases of hospice fraud in California and actual arrests have been made, not many, but they've, you know, they've done some symbolic arrests over the last couple of years so they can pretend that they're, that they're, you know, actually doing something about this problem. But if you go as I did, you just like Google for press releases and click on the first couple you see. You see stuff like this. So this is the DOJ press release. This is. Last year, four California residents were sentenced to prison for their roles in defrauding Medicare for nearly $16 million through Sham Hospice companies and laundering the fraudulent proceeds. Yesterday, Juan Carlos Esparza of Valley Village was sentenced to 57 months in prison. Susanna Harut Yunyan of Winnetka was sentenced to 15 months. Karpis Srapian of Winnetka was sentenced 57 months. Mihran Panasian was sentenced to 57 months. And then Petros Fikanzian of Granada Hills was sentenced to 12 years in prison. So those, those are the people that were arrested. Just good old fashioned American names. Good old fashioned, you know, good old fashioned. You got your Bob Smith, your Mike, Whatever Johnson, and then you've got Juan Carlos Esparza. And then California Attorney General last month put out this press release. On January 30, 2026, filed felony charges in Monterey county against Nympha Molina, Louise Artavi Artavaya, Mark Samanthe, Shomere Banerjee, Danny Ludovico Flor Mara and Christine Nugyudiem. Might be a couple of Americans in there, I don't know. But the point is, the second that I heard this story and just randomly googled the names of some recent arrests, I expected that it would just be a bunch of foreign names. And what do you know? What do you know? It seems that's the case, and that's the part of this story that the corporate media is not going to acknowledge or investigate. Fraud is really bad in this country. It's obviously getting worse. And it's getting worse in large part not exclusively, but in large part because we're importing people from all over the world, especially the Third world. And it's not that Americans don't commit fraud. Of course Americans are capable of committing fraud. They're capable of committing any crime that anyone else commits. But we're bringing in people from parts of the world where fraud is a way of life. Fraud is part of the culture. And that's the case anywhere in the Third World. This is the way it works in any Third World country, anywhere on the globe. People will try to rip you off and steal from you just as kind of a matter of course. I'll never forget being in Kenya, driving out to the bush to visit the Maasai tribe. And first of all, on the way out of town, we were warned to keep your windows up as you're driving because the security team was very clear. Keep your windows up. Because you have the windows down, you have mobs of people will just casually come in and they'll reach in and try to steal whatever they can. Get your phone, whatever they can. And. And then we stop at a little roadside shop where they sell souvenirs and trinkets and stuff like that. And. And you have to haggle with these guys who will look you dead in the eye and try to rip you off to an absurd degree. I mean, like, you want to buy a mug and they. And they want you to pay 90American dollars for it, right? You want to get a mug and a souvenir lighter and they're like, that's $157. Just insane stuff like that. And this happens everywhere. It's how everybody operates everywhere in the Third World. It's just the way it goes. It's a way of life. Theft and stealing and fraud is a way of life. Which, by the way, it's easy to conclude. Well, you know, they're behaving that way because they're in the Third World and they're poor, but it's more accurate to say that they're they're in the third world and they're poor because they behave that way. That's the chicken and egg situation. They have a low trust culture. They have a culture of theft and fraud and it means that they will never advance, they'll never prosper. And then we import them here and what do you end up with? You end up with fraud on a massive scale. My show is proud to be supported by Grand Canyon University, an affordable, private, nonprofit Christian university based in beautiful Phoenix, Arizona. At gcu, academically rigorous industri industry driven programs are built to provide you with practical skills and career readiness. They believe education shouldn't be a privilege, but an affordable path forward. 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[Matt Walsh]

All right, here's a funny headline. This is from Futurism. It says Elon Musk boasts that Grok says America isn't built on stolen land, which it obviously is, the article says. According to Elon Musk, Xai's Grok chatbot has a bona fide has a new bonafide blatantly lying about the history of America. On Wednesday, the Senti billionaire culture warrior boasted that the 420 version of his AI is officially based. Why? Because it won't equivocate when it's asked if the US Is built on stolen land. Instead, it gives an emphatic no as its answer, while other weak sauce models, in Musk's words, at least give a more nuanced response. Grok says in a screenshotted conversation shared by its creator, no, the United States is not simply on stolen land. That framing is a modern rhetorical slogan that oversimplifies thousands of years of human history Layered claims to territory, legal doctrines, treaties, warfare, migration and demographic collapse. The article continues. The reality, of course, is that it's hard to argue that the ruthless killing, enslavement and displacement of Native Americans by European settlers doesn't amount to their land being stolen. This pattern of behavior continued well after the colonies graduated into a full blown nation. The Trail of Tears, a wounded Knee, plus countless other massacres, not to mention centuries of brutal residential schools. However complicated it may be, the answer to whether the US was built on stolen can't be boiled down to a simple no. So it's hard to argue. Futurism says that America wasn't built on stone land. Actually, it's not hard to argue at all. It's very easy to argue. It's very easy to argue that it wasn't built on Stoneland, because it wasn't. And we argue that point precisely in my new special on the real history of the American Indian that's available right now on Daily Wire. You can go watch it, need to subscribe to see it. And we go into great detail addressing all of the common myths and misperceptions about the American Indians and how exactly their land became our land. You know, you've been lied to so much. Lies, myths, exaggerations, Trail of Tears, smallpox, blankets, all of that, all of that is either made up or exaggerated or misrepresented or taken out of context. What you'll actually learn if you watch our special, which I would highly recommend you do, is that actually American America treated the Indians for the most part, in a very decent and merciful way. Now, there were exceptions, atrocities were committed to, on both sides, but for the most part, the overall overarching story that you're not going to learn in the media, you're not going to learn in school these days. But the, the, the overall story is that of the American Indian is that they were treated certainly with much more mercy than they would have ever treated anyone that they conquered. And I mean, think about the Indian reservations. Like seeing Indians, like sending Indians to reservations is now seen as some great moral crime, right? But let me ask you this. When the Indians came and took your land, which they did all the time, they did it to each other, they did it to the white man. Do you think they were going to shepherd you over to a reservation somewhere? I mean, everyone talks about the Trail of Tears and there are so many lies about the Trail of Tears. Were the Indians going to do that? Were they going to say, hey, you know what, we set up another place for you? Yeah, we are going to. We're taking this, we're conquering it. But. But we're going to. We set up a whole other place, and we're going to get you over there. Would they ever do that? Of course not. They would just kill you. That's it. Like, there's no reservation. You're just going to kill everybody. They come in, they take your land, they kill everybody. That's just the way it was. They kill you, maybe torture you, they. They maybe kidnap your children, kidnap your wife, maybe kill them, too. But, like, that's what it's going to be. We're taking your land, we're going to kill everybody or, and, or torture or enslave them. And that's just all it is. Do you think there was any conversation at all among the Indians about the need to treat those they conquer more gently? You think there was any debate about it among any Indian tribe in the entire hemisphere over the course of thousands of years? No, it wasn't even discussed. It didn't even occur to them. In fact, when you understand the real history of civilization and what sort of barbarism used to be commonplace and who clung on to those barbaric practices the longest, you start to be again, very impressed by the comparative lack of brutality among Europeans and later Americans. I mean, there were debates in Spain in the 1500s about the Indians in the Americas and whether they were fully rational humans who should have human rights. There was a famous debate, I think, in 1550 in Spain, and, and, and now you could say, if you're a moron, oh, well, it shouldn't have been up for debate. Of course the Indians were humans. Well, that's easy to say now, but the fact is that 500 years ago, the Spanish were way, way, way ahead of their time by even discussing something like that. I mean, the fact that. That there was actually an argument about this. Yes. There were some Spanish who said, yeah, they're not fully human. We can enslave them. And in that way, the Spanish were just like every other group of people on the entire planet. Everywhere you went, because that. That was. That was the general view across the entire globe, was that the outsiders are not like us. They're not. You know, we're people. They're not. And we can take their stuff and kill them. And that's the way it is. That was the generally accepted view across the entire world for thousands of years. And Certainly in the 1500s, that was the case in Spain. They were having a debate about it. And do you think the Indian Tribes were debating whether outsiders were rational humans with human rights. The concept of human rights didn't exist. To the Indians, the concept didn't exist. It was not a thing. It didn't come up among Indian tribes. There was nothing even analogous to what we consider human rights conceptually. They didn't have the concept. And this, and this also would have been true if you went to, you know, Africa or Asia, anywhere outside the Western world, basically.

[Dave Pinto]

So.

[Matt Walsh]

And that's out outside of Europe in the 1500s, nobody was discussing this. There was no debate about it. Nobody was advocating for anything like universal human rights. It was. That was only Europeans doing that. And that's the real story which we get into in our Real History special. And speaking of which, here's a clip. Watch. Rather than committing genocide against the Indians, the US Federal government and the taxpayers who supported it did something radically different. It offered them land. This must have been shocking to a Comanche or Sioux chief. When they won wars, as we've repeatedly demonstrated, they tortured and executed the losers. Villages were pillaged and burned. The women were enslaved and depending on the tribe, raped. Enemy warriors were eaten. But when the US finally won the Indian wars, the treatment was quite different. The Comanche, which was one of the last tribes to go to the reservation, ended up with millions of acres of prime cattle land. So that's, that's just a clip articulating some of the points I was just making and. But the entire episode is worth watching, which you could do if you go to dailywire.com right now. Life insurance shouldn't be on the back burner. It should be a top priority. Cross it off the list with our sponsor, policygenius. Policygenius is an online marketplace, not an insurance company. So you can compare quotes from top insurers side by side and actually see what you're getting without pressure from a salesman. Their license team works for you, answers your questions, handles the paperwork, and helps you lock in the right policy for your family and your budget. Protect the life that you have built. With Policygenius, you can see if you can find 20 year life insurance policies starting at just $276 a year for a million dollars in coverage. Head to policyunits.comwalsh to compare life insurance quotes from top companies and see how much you can save. That's policygenius.com Walsh all right, post Millennial Reports. A Democrats Minnesota state lawmaker has called for a study to see if there is a benefit of shoplifting and retail theft. He was discussing the topic in a committee meeting on Thursday, Democratic State Representative Dave Pinto posed this question and I think we have the clip. Let's watch it.

[Dave Pinto]

Several of us are on the public Safety committee. And yesterday there was a presentation of a group seeking to change how we address organized retail theft. And it had not occurred to me to ask. It probably would have been good to make sure that they would study sort of the benefit of shoplifting and of retail theft, because perhaps people are relying on that and sort of using that. Maybe it's, you know, assisting them in some way. I mean, these folks were describing people violating the law, but I suppose it could be useful to look into that. But ultimately it's a policy question, right? We do want to make sure when we have a law in place, we're, we're enforcing it.

[Matt Walsh]

So this is obviously crazy, but it brings up an important point, which is that no, shoplifters are not relying on shoplifting. Even if they were, it would matter. It's still illegal. It's against the law, it's a crime. But these are not impoverished people who are shoplifting and stealing in order to survive. That doesn't exist in America, like at all. Okay, it doesn't exist in America. Plenty of people are stealing shoplifting, and plenty of people are poor by our standards today. But there is nobody who is stealing and shoplifting in order to survive. Like, they have to do it because other. Their only way to survive. That does not exist in this country. You know, a crime of necessity, like, that does not exist in this country, hasn't existed in like 100 years. It's just not a thing. And so why do people shoplift? Well, they do it just for the sake of it. They do it because they think they can get away with it. And this is what drives criminal behavior in our country in the modern age. Not desperation, not necessity, but indifference. Indifference to the law. Just the kind of like we've been talking about importing people from other parts of the world in particular, who. This is just what they do. If I were to go up to the guy in Kenya who's trying to rip me off for the mug, it's, and say, like, why are you trying to rip me off? Why are you doing this? What's, what's your reason? I don't think he would say, well, I, I'm desperate and I'm starving and I need it. You know, he wouldn't give that answer. There wouldn't be an answer. It's just like, well, why wouldn't I? It's like the question is so self evident that there's no answer. Why wouldn't I try to rip you off? Of course I'm going to do that. And so there's a lot of that happening in this country now. It's just kind of an indifference. It's a instinct to commit crime. If you can get away with it, why is there so much violence in the inner city? Why do they kill and steal and everything else? Is a desperation? Is it necessity? No, it's just because, you know, we talk about this all the time with the homeless population. You give them money, they. They spend it on drugs. You give them a place to stay, they trash it. You try to help them, they reject it. This is what drives the chaos and crime. It's just a kind of indifference, a savagery. I think I mentioned before that my. My car was stolen in downtown Nashville a few years ago, and it was found the next morning smashed into a lamppost. Like, they didn't even try to take it and sell it. They didn't try to sell it for parts or anything like that. They just rode it around, smoke, smoke, smoke pot. You could. That was quite evident. And then they drove it into a lamppost and fled the scene. And that was it. Steal a car, drive it around, crash it, leave. That's it. Now you see all these stories we talk about, stories of, you know, a guy with 50 arrests who finally goes and stabs somebody to death, light somebody on fire or whatever. Why are they doing that? How do you get 50 arrests? How do you. How do you get a rap sheet that long? How does it even happen? It's not desperation. It's not necessity. It's. It's not for any benefit at all. It's not even like greed, really. It's just, it's just total indifference. It's like, it's. It's. I don't know, it's barbarism. I don't know what else to call it. You know, the problem is that normal, law abiding, functional humans look at the crime problem and they try to understand it from their perspective as a normal, functioning person. Like, we, as normal, functioning people, we know that we only do things if we think there's some positive reason to do them. Now, we might do the wrong thing sometimes, but if we do the wrong thing, it's because we have rationally decided that there's a benefit in doing the wrong thing. And so we're going to do the wrong thing. Like, but there's always, there's. There's always a. There's always a reason behind Anything we do, we can articulate what that reason is. It might not be a great reason. It might not be a morally justified reason in some cases, but we can articulate what the reason is. And the reason is always going to be, well, we think we will benefit in some way from this, or somebody we love will benefit. And so we think about somebody stealing, and we think to ourselves, okay, well, if they're stealing, it must be because they're hoping to gain something. They must need something, and they're taking what they need because. Because that's the only thing that could ever convince us as rational, normal, functioning people to steal. So I'm looking at that and say, well, what. The only thing could ever drive me to do that is if I really like. If I just. It's like, well, I. I could maybe see myself doing that if I was starving if I had no other choice. And so then a lot of people who are. Who are normal, functioning people, but are also naive, they'll look at that and they'll project their own kind of rational thought process on to this person over here who's not really engaged in rational thought. And so that's what you end up with. Like that. That is. And it makes it a lot harder to deal with when you realize that if you've got rampant crime in the inner city, when you've got the kind of crime that, as we've talked about, makes. Makes the. Makes it so that you can't use public transportation, you can't go on the subway, why is that crime being committed? It. There is no rational reason. It's just because that's what they want to do. That's it. And so there. And so what that means is, like, it's not. Well, it's a socioeconomic thing only. And so we can. These are people that need things, and if we give them what they need, then they'll stop killing us and stealing from us. Nope. Actually, no, it doesn't matter. The guy with 50 arrests who's out on the subway platform looking to. Looking for someone to push in front of a train, you could give him $10 million. You could give him $50 million. You could say, here you go, your life is go. Go buy a mansion and have everything you want and everything you could ever want in your life. Here's $50 million. He'd be out on the subway platform tomorrow doing the exact same thing. And that's just the reality of it. Okay, kind of a sad story to end with today. Unfortunately, it's been a bit of a Downer. But it's been reported that Meghan Markle's deal with Netflix has been canceled. She will no longer be producing content for Netflix. So I'm gonna have to find something else to do with my time. I don't know what I'm gonna have. I previously have been very, very much preoccupied with Meghan Markle content. I know we all have, and so I don't know what I'm gonna do. I've been binging the hell out of Meghan Markle Netflix content and so I don't know. We all gotta find something else to do with our time. Daily Mail reports Netflix was not happy with Meghan Markle, Meghan Markle's as ever brand before their split, the Duchess of Sussex's jam and flower sprinkles business just didn't fit and their customers showed no appetite for it. Netflix source told the Daily Mail that there has been some consternation over claims Megan felt they had been too cautious with her as ever brand. And anyway, who cares? But so the partnership with her lifestyle brand is over. Her Netflix show is over. Her, I guess she had some movie, potentially some movie deals with Netflix that's not going forward. And this is after her Spotify deal ended last year or whenever that was. Spotify gave her like $20 million for a podcast and nobody listened to it and they canceled it. So that's over. That's just a partial list of her failures. Her Netflix show, which is now canceled, was never even ranked in the top 300 on the platform. There was an animated show she was supposed to do that was canceled. She had a children's book that tanked. She has a media company that has signed all these big million dollar deals but then produced almost nothing. And all those deals have been canceled. So it's just an extraordinary list of failures. It really is. And I take no pleasure in it. I mean, I take a little pleasure in it, but I don't really care that much one way or another. I just look at it from the outside as this kind of fascinating case study. It's a modern tragedy in some ways. Meghan Markle is this tragic modern figure, the archetypal, shallow millennial woman. She walked away from being actual royalty. She walked away from being royalty because that felt too stodgy and too old fashioned for her and didn't let her express herself enough or whatever. And she traded that in for being an influencer. Then, as I've said about young members of Congress in particular, what is it that motivates many of them it's not actually a lust for power. That's an old. That's the old way of looking at these people. It. For many of them, it's actually they. They want nothing more than to be influencers. Like, that's their great ambition in life. They. If they could trade in their political position for a top 10 podcast and, you know, 10 million Instagram followers, they would do it in a heartbeat because that's what they actually want. And. And so this. It's the same thing here. She didn't want prestige or power or actual influence. She just wanted to be an influencer. She wanted to be famous and get a lot of likes on social media. Wanted to express herself. Turns out she has nothing to express. She said, I can't be a realtor. I gotta express myself. And so then all these media companies lined up and said, all right, here's millions of dollars. Go express yourself. We can't wait to hear it. Here it is. Here's a huge. Here's a multiple huge platforms. Go ahead. Here you go. Stage is yours, Megan. Let's hear what you got. And she just stood up on the stage and said, hmm. She had nothing to say. So she trades in the royal life for something far less prestigious and fails to achieve even the less prestigious thing. And now what is she? She's a failed podcaster. She's. She's basically an unemployed Instagram model instead of a. Instead of royalty. It's amazing. It is an amazing. So that's the great irony of all this, is that. Is that, you know, what we're learning is that Megan Markle is this intensely uninteresting person, this probably the least interesting person who's ever lived. And yet through that, her story has become kind of interesting because of that. Like, in spite of her, the story is in some ways interesting, but still not that interesting. So we'll just stop talking about it. And that will do it for the show today and this week. Actually, I'll be off tomorrow, but it'll be back on Monday, so have a great weekend. Talk to you on Monday. Godspeed. What do Snow White, Cinderella, and Smallpox Blankets have in common? They're all fairy tales. For decades, you've been told that you live on stolen land. We are right now on stolen land. That the Indians were peaceful Native Americans. We massacred them. Your ancestors committed genocide. And guess what? None of it is true. The Native Americans were some of the most savage fighters ever known to man. Raiding, scalping, torturing, even eating enemies. It was better to lose a battle to the U.S. army or to get wiped out by a rival tribe. And why did the story completely change in the 1960s? 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