Ep. 535 - George Floyd Bodycam Footage Is Out. We Weren't Told The Full Truth.
Today on the Matt Walsh Show, after two months of being kept from the public, the bodycam footage showing the minutes leading up to George Floyd’s death has been released. Let’s just say that the issue is far more complicated than what the media led us to believe. We will discuss in detail today. Also Five Headlines including a white ESPN host openly gloating over the injury of a black NBA player who stood for the National Anthem. And in our Daily Cancellation, I will try to soothe the fears of a paranoid journalist who thinks pickup trucks were invented to kill pedestrians.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, after two months of being kept from the public, the body cam footage showing the minutes leading up to George Floyd's death has been released.
Let's just say that the issue is far more complicated than what the media led us to believe.
We'll discuss that in detail today.
Also, five headlines, including a white ESPN host openly gloating over the injury of a black NBA player who stood for the national anthem.
And in our daily cancellation, I'm gonna try to soothe the fears of a paranoid journalist
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We'll back up and review a few things.
Two months after footage of George Floyd's death went viral, sparking an epidemic of rioting and violence that killed dozens of people and caused untold damage to countless communities across the country, body cam footage of the incident has finally been made public.
It was published by the Daily Mail.
It was leaked to the outlet and then they published it.
The additional video, it lends crucial context to the fatal encounter between Floyd and Officer Derek Chauvin.
It also gives insight, importantly, into the states of mind of both men.
That's one of the main things you take away from this.
Now, given that this tragic episode and the reaction to it has been the most significant story in the country for two months, and one of the most significant of the past decade, you might think, if you didn't know any better, that the media would treat the new evidence, this new footage, as a rather big story.
You might think it'd be headlines everywhere, be the main thing they're talking about, but so far, the opposite has been the case.
The news media, for the most part, has had a noticeably muted reaction to the footage.
One might even say, suspiciously muted.
Perhaps that's because the story the new footage tells is At the very least, far more complicated than the one the media and activists have been screaming into our ears since May.
That story, with which we are all extremely familiar, of course, is that George Floyd was a compliant, peaceful man who was strangled to death, they said, by a racist, anti-black, sociopathic cop.
Straightforward, we were told.
Quite literally, black and white.
And the only opinion one can really have about it is the kind of opinion that is easily expressed on a protest sign.
That's what we were told.
Now, of course, we've known from the beginning that some of this was, to put it gently, not exactly accurate.
You know, however Floyd was or wasn't acting on the day of his death, it strains credulity to use a word like peaceful to describe a man who once forced his way into a woman's home and robbed her at gunpoint in front of her child.
That's a very difficult thing to call peaceful.
As for the racism claim, well, there was perhaps no evidence to disprove it, but neither was ever any evidence presented to support it.
It's merely assumed that any white police officer who kills a black suspect, no matter the circumstances, is motivated at some level by racism.
Now some of these killings may be motivated by racism, I don't know, but the burden of proof is on those who make the claim.
Yet those who make the claim rarely acknowledge that there is any burden of proof to meet, much less make any honest attempt to meet it.
Also, anyone following the story has known for some time that, in addition to everything else, according to the medical examiner's report, Floyd was not strangled to death and did not die from asphyxiation, as the media had so confidently declared in the immediate aftermath.
It was found that Floyd, who had pre-existing heart conditions, Three illicit drugs in his system, including fentanyl, which is 50 times more potent than morphine and known to cause respiratory distress.
It was found that he died of cardiopulmonary arrest, complicating law enforcement, subdual restraint, and neck compression.
That's what the medical examiner said.
A medical examination performed by an examiner hired by Floyd's family contradicted those findings, claiming that he did, in fact, die of asphyxiation.
So, that was the status of things prior to this week's developments.
We had an out-of-context video, a bunch of assumptions, and not much more.
And those assumptions were considered reason enough to burn our cities.
Now, the new footage doesn't necessarily clarify everything.
In fact, it does the opposite.
It adds complications and nuances to an issue that was once assumed to be utterly and completely straightforward.
It's not.
The body cameras worn by officers Alex Kang and Thomas Lane, the first two cops on the scene, show a number of things.
They show that Floyd is agitated and uncooperative from the first moment that officers arrive in response to a call from a business owner who accused Floyd of trying to pass off counterfeit bills.
Floyd is in his car when law enforcement first shows up.
One of the officers draws his weapon because Floyd is initially hesitant to show his hands.
They keep telling him to show his hands.
He doesn't.
Gun comes out.
Once Floyd places his hands on his head in full view of the officers, the gun is holstered.
After much coaxing, he's eventually removed from his car, taken to the police cruiser.
Now, Floyd appears to have trouble walking on his way over to the police car, and they ask him several times if he's on something, and he was.
He was on several things.
He shouts, ow, and seems to be in pain, even though he's only being grabbed by his arm.
He's doing a lot of screaming and acting as though he's in pain.
Once at the vehicle, he repeatedly refuses to get inside, saying that he's claustrophobic, though he'd just been sitting in his own car without any apparent difficulty.
On the contrary, he was extremely reluctant to get out of his own vehicle, only to then claim he's too claustrophobic to get back inside one.
At one point, as officers try to convince him to get in the car, Floyd actually says that he'd rather lay on the ground.
He also says several times that he's going to die, that he can't breathe.
All of this before he was on the ground.
And he ends up there on the ground because he either falls or pushes himself out of the other side of the police cruiser as officers struggle to get him inside the vehicle.
From that point, the scene unfolds as we all saw on the initial video two months ago.
Now, you can go online and watch the full body cam footage.
I would recommend doing that so you get the whole context.
Obviously, I can't play all of that footage here, but I will play a clip of the interaction between Floyd and the officers at the police cruiser because I think this is perhaps the most relevant portion.
Hands on top of your head.
Step out of the vehicle and step away from me, all right?
Step out and face away.
Step out and face away.
Please don't shoot me.
Please, man.
I'm not going to shoot you.
Step out and face away.
I'm going to get out of here, man.
Please don't shoot me, man.
I just lost my mom, man.
I was out here on my knees.
Stop resisting.
I'm not.
Yes, you are.
Ouch!
Ouchie, man.
Are you on something right now?
No, I'm not doing nothing.
Let's go.
Yeah, man.
Let's go.
Why y'all doing me like that, Wazowski?
Please, crack it for me and stuff, man.
I am claustrophobic for real, Wazowski.
You got him.
Please, crack it for me.
Yes, I'll crack it.
Please stay with me, man.
I will.
Please stay with me, man.
Thank you.
I'm not that kind of guy, man.
Take a seat.
Yo, I'm gonna die in here.
Take a seat.
I'm gonna die, man.
You need to take a seat right now.
And I just had COVID, man.
I don't want to go back to that.
OK, so I'll roll the window down.
Hey, listen.
Dang, man.
Listen.
I'm not that kind of guy.
I'm not a bad guy, man.
Get in the car.
I'm not a bad guy.
I'm I can't joke!
I can't breathe!
Please!
My wrist!
My wrist, man!
My wrist, man!
Please!
I can't take this, man!
I can't!
I'm gonna lay on the ground!
I'm gonna lay on the ground!
I know I can't breathe!
I want him on the ground.
I know I'm being greedy.
I'm being greedy.
Now, as previously stated, none of this conclusively exonerates the officers
of any and all wrongdoing.
But it does establish a few facts that might mitigate their culpability.
culpability.
Number one, to review the facts, George Floyd was uncooperative, clearly intoxicated, and resisting arrest.
Number two, the officers were remarkably calm and reasonable for most of the interaction.
Number three, George Floyd claimed that he couldn't breathe and was going to die well before he had a knee on his neck.
Number four, the officers never did or said a single thing that any reasonable person could possibly construe as racist.
Now, all those points are important, but let's focus on point three for a moment here.
Floyd said that he was too claustrophobic to get in the police car and that he might die and couldn't breathe, even though he was just sitting in a car.
He was screaming that he was in pain, even though officers at that point weren't doing anything that could have caused him any physical harm.
We should also note that he said at one point that his mom had just died, even though she'd been dead for over two years.
Now, the officers would not have known that, you know, when his mom died, obviously, but, or presumably, but, um, the point is that cops, they hear nonsense like this from suspects all day, every day.
Just ask them and they'll tell you.
This can create a kind of boy who cried wolf situation where it's harder to tell when a suspect is actually in distress.
If he's claiming he's in distress the entire time, even when he's not, then how do you know when he really is?
When Floyd was on the ground saying he was going to die, it was no different from what he was saying while he was standing or what he was saying when he was in the car.
These facts may not be exculpatory, but they certainly are relevant.
The narrative, as it was originally presented, does not take into account any of these details.
It demands that we see the event as nothing more or less than a wanton act of random cruelty with nothing precipitating it, no context, and with not even an ounce of blame or responsibility to be shared by Floyd himself.
Now, in reality, Floyd may still be the victim of some degree of negligence, but it seems that the murder charge will be difficult to prove.
The truth just isn't that simple, and it rarely is.
And that's a lesson we would all do well to remember for the future, especially where these police videos are concerned.
One final point I want to make here, because I can't move on without pointing this out.
As I said, the media has not been anxious to talk about the body cam footage.
They have not been anxious.
But the interesting thing is that CNN did report rather extensively on this body cam footage back before anyone in the public had seen it.
They were able to view it weeks ago.
It was being held from release at that point by the courts, but they let the media watch it.
And that enabled CNN to describe it in their own words without anyone contradicting them.
And you can imagine how that went.
The video offers basically context and clues that aren't included in the transcript, mainly the emotion of it and the speed with which this happens.
Remember, these officers responded to a call over a fake bill being used.
Within 36 seconds of them speaking to the store owner, that last words with the store owner, they now had a gun pointed in George Floyd's face saying, let me see your effing hands after initially knocking on the window with a flashlight.
And then throughout that interaction, George Floyd is sobbing throughout as he is pleading with officers, asking what he did, eventually calming down to the point where he seems to be complying and a struggle ensues.
Then it's minutes after that, another struggle trying to get him into a police car.
And this is part of why viewing the video as opposed to just a transcript is so important.
The last words listed in at least a transcript for a former officer, Thomas Lane, lists those words as please, but then As you watch the actual video, you actually see a little bit later, there's another please, and then, man, I can't breathe.
This is actually a very important lesson in media bias, what you just saw there.
And it's the true reality of fake news that we should all understand.
You heard the CNN reporter describing the body cam footage weeks before anyone in the public had seen it.
Was his description a lie?
No, not really.
The effect is, yeah, it was misleading and intentionally so.
But nothing he said was, in itself, factually inaccurate.
Floyd does cry and plead, and there are points in the video when he seems to be complying.
Of course, he's not really complying at any point at all, but he's resisting the whole time.
But he does seem to be complying in individual spots in the video.
That's how it was phrased.
And when you describe it like that, like the reporter does here, it sounds pretty damning for the police.
When you watch it, on the other hand, it feels very different.
And looks very different.
That's because CNN left out many details.
And this is where the fake news almost always comes in.
It's what they leave out.
It's not what they say, it's what they leave out.
They leave out that he's clearly intoxicated.
They leave out that he says he's going to die and that he can't breathe before he was on the ground.
They leave out that the officers themselves were patient and reasonable.
They leave out that Floyd had a mysterious bout of claustrophobia right when they tried to get him in the car.
They leave out that he said that he wanted to lay on the ground.
They leave out nearly every detail that I already mentioned.
Now I'm not going to continue to rehash here.
They leave all of that out.
So they issued a report that was dishonest, misleading, grotesque, reckless, defamatory, and yet, technically accurate.
And that is fake news.
That's how it works.
It's far more insidious than we tend to think and the way that we portray it.
We act like they're out there fabricating outlandish stories all the time, and there has been a little bit of that, but mostly not.
What they do is they take real stories and they whittle them down into the shape and form, getting rid of the details they don't like, whittling them down into the shape and form that they prefer.
And that's exactly what happened here.
Perfect example of it, but there's the full context that we all should know, and now we do.
Let's move on to 5 headlines.
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Some really shocking footage, uh, incredible, horrible footage out of Beirut.
And there's video of this from different angles all over social media right now.
Massive explosion.
I want you to watch this with the sound.
Watch this.
Yeah, from what I'm being told, not what I'm being told, like I have special sources, from what I've read,
they're right now trying to blame that on a fireworks factory explosion or something.
I'm going to go ahead and close the webinar.
I've never seen a fireworks factory explode.
I confess I'm a little skeptical that it would look like that, but also I'm not going to really speculate because I have no idea whatsoever.
But there is the story that everyone will be, of course, following.
Let's go number two.
Donald Trump, for some reason, did an interview with Axios.
Axios.
Axios.
Maybe the O is silent.
I don't know.
A-X-I-O-S.
Something.
I don't know how to pronounce it.
He was on HBO giving an interview, and some clips of that interview have been circling, circulating, and the clips are, well, they're not great.
They're really not great at all.
Let's just watch one of the clips.
John Lewis is lying in state in the U.S.
Capitol.
How do you think history will remember John Lewis?
I don't know.
I really don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know John Lewis.
He chose not to come to my inauguration.
He chose... I don't... I never met John Lewis, actually.
I don't believe.
Do you find him impressive?
I can't say one way or the other.
I find a lot of people impressive.
I find many people not impressive.
But I didn't go.
Did you find his story impressive?
He didn't come to my inauguration.
He didn't come to my State of the Union speeches.
And that's okay.
That's his right.
And again, nobody has done more for black Americans than I have.
I understand.
He should have come.
I think he made a big mistake.
But taking your relationship with him out of it.
Do you find his story impressive, what he's done for this country?
He was a person that devoted a lot of energy and a lot of heart to civil rights, but there were many others also.
There's a petition to rename the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama as the John Lewis Bridge.
Would you support that idea?
I would have no objection to it if they'd like to do it.
Would have no objection to it whatsoever.
And that actually is not at all the worst bit of the interview, but it is the shortest clip I could find.
So that's why I decided to play it.
That's how I make editorial decisions.
It's all about efficiency.
So listen, here's all I'm going to say.
Okay.
Just some unsolicited advice that won't be heated and won't matter.
So I'm just offering it up to the universe.
Okay.
I'm shouting it out into the ether for no reason.
Trump, should take one of two paths here.
Either stop doing media, stop doing interviews, the Biden approach, or do them, but come in prepared with a plan and be on the ball, ready to answer basic questions.
I think either of those approaches will be fine.
I really, I have no preference.
Either one, I take either one.
But doing the interviews and having no plan And just stammering around the questions, evading them in the clunkiest possible way, constantly bringing everything back to your own personal gripes, that is the worst of all worlds.
That is literally the worst possible way to approach this particular facet of campaigning.
And I find it endlessly frustrating.
Anyone like me, who really doesn't want Democrats to win in 2020, should also be frustrated by this, and should be voicing their frustrations.
Because it is it is I think part in part because of all the yes men around Donald Trump and of all of his fans who just will never criticize him.
It's in part because of them that he thinks that he can just wander waltz his way into an interview.
With a talented interviewer, which this guy was, and sit down with no preparation and just wing it and say, yeah, bring it, you know?
And he's gonna come off well.
That's what he thinks about himself.
It's not true.
Most people don't have the talent to do that.
Maybe some people do.
Trump is not one of those some people.
He's not.
He needs to be prepared or he's gonna get chewed up and spit out, which is what happened here.
And also, by the way, you know, I've read some, I've seen some reactions on social media from Trump people, you know, trying to pretend this was like an unfair interview and these were gotcha questions.
No, they weren't.
I mean, I'm quite certain that this reporter hates Donald Trump's guts.
So what?
The questions he asked were actually perfectly fair and reasonable.
They weren't gotcha questions.
If a question like, You know, what do you think of John Lewis?
If that's a gotcha question for you, then, again, you're too incompetent to be doing interviews at all.
That's a really easy question to answer.
Oh, he's a civil rights icon, a real hero.
Sorry to see you.
Sorry.
I was very sad at his passing.
That's it.
That's all you have to say.
And then when they come back with, oh, but you guys were at odds.
He didn't come to your inauguration.
I mean, it seems like, oh, that's fine.
That's fine.
He has every right to do that, but that doesn't change the fact that he was a heroic man and I have great respect for him and his family.
There you go.
That's all you have to say.
And the thing is, before you try to say, well, Trump didn't want to pander.
He's going to shoot from the hip and he's not pandering.
Not true.
He got around to saying that.
Right?
But it's just before he got there, he stammered around for a minute and a half and kept saying over and over again, like a sixth grader with his feelings hurt, he didn't come to my inauguration.
Just cut that crap out and get right to the answer.
Or don't do the interviews.
Be like Biden, hide in the basement.
All right.
Let's go to number three.
Jonathan Isaac of the Orlando Magic was the first player to stand for the anthem before a game.
And, you know, this is literally taking a heroic stand here.
You have to think about what that involves.
He's the first guy in the entire NBA to include coaches and everybody actually standing to show his respect for the flag.
And then Isaac, shortly after, blew out his ACL and was, of course, done for the year.
The left, wonderful people that they are, have been gloating about this, including an ESPN host, Dan Levitard, who posted a poll online asking whether the injury was funny.
And now, Levitard has apologized and claimed that he wasn't claiming it was funny, he was just asking whether other people think it was funny.
Sure.
So, Levitard, to be clear, is white, and Isaac is black.
So this is a white man laughing over a black man's injury because the black man doesn't agree with his politics.
That's what's happening there.
But the thing I really wanted to home in on here is the line of questioning that Isaac endured after the first game where he stood for the anthem and didn't wear the Black Lives Matter t-shirt.
Listen to this.
This is the question he was asked at a post-game press conference.
So you didn't kneel during the anthem, but you also didn't wear a Black Lives Matter shirt.
Do you believe that Black Lives Matter?
Absolutely.
I believe that Black Lives Matter.
A lot went into my decision, and part of it is, first off, is my thought that kneeling or wearing a Black Lives Matter t-shirt don't go hand-in-hand with supporting Black Lives.
And so I felt like, just me personally, and what it is that I believe in,
standing on a stance that I do believe that Black Lives Matter,
but I just felt like it was a decision that I had to make, and I didn't feel like putting that shirt on
and kneeling, one hand in hand with supporting Black Lives, or that it made me support Black Lives or not.
I believe that for myself, my life has been supported through the gospel of Jesus
Christ and that everyone is made in the image of God
and that we all worship God's glory.
Do you believe that black lives matter?
This is a black man you're talking to.
That would be a dumb enough question if it was a white... It would be exceedingly dumb to ask a white athlete that if he stood for the National Anthem.
Does standing for the National Anthem mean that you hate black people and think their lives don't matter?
Exceedingly dumb to ask a white person.
You're asking a black guy.
So you're asking him, so are you standing for the national anthem because you think your own life doesn't matter?
What?
Talk about a non-sequitur.
Are you really asking me that, you moron?
I mean, this will be my response.
Of course, this player is much nicer and more gracious than me, Jonathan Isaac, so he He answers the question without indicating how incredibly stupid it is.
Good for him there.
Very patient man.
But just... They actually asked a black man whether he thinks black lives matter.
All right, number four.
Here's Governor Cuomo lobbying a rather large, significant accusation at Donald Trump.
This was a colossal blunder how COVID was handled by this federal government.
Colossal blunder.
Shame on all of you.
Six months.
Lives lost.
Hit the reset button.
Yes.
But the way the medical experts are talking about it, it won't work.
It won't work unless you hit the reset button and you start with the truth.
Because if the American people are continued lying to, the confusion and the chaos and the denial will continue.
Hit the reset button.
It's called the truth.
It's called the plain truth.
The American people are smart.
If the president actually tells them the truth and says, I made a mistake, he's not going to be telling them anything they don't know.
Every American knows he made a mistake.
Every American knows this was the worst government blunder in modern history.
Worst governmental blunder in modern history.
Now, you know where I'm going with this.
I don't even think I need to say it, but this is the guy Who made the decision to force nursing homes to take in COVID patients, directly resulting, and along with other Democrat governors, directly resulting, directly causing the deaths of thousands of elderly people.
Forced them to take them in, thousands of elderly people die, and he's accusing Donald Trump of the worst blunder in modern history?
All of the blunders that he's accusing Donald Trump of are things that Trump said.
And granted, some of that stuff was very stupid.
Like when he said that 15 people have COVID and it's gonna go away after this and it's gonna magically disappear.
He said that a few times, very stupid thing to say.
Those are words though, okay?
This is policy.
The blunder that Cuomo made was a policy that killed thousands of people.
So I think Cuomo's being a little modest here.
He's being a little too humble and he's He's trying to say to Trump, oh no, Trump can have the top spot for worst blunder.
Not me, I'll give it to Trump.
No, no, no.
No, Cuomo.
I find your humility admirable, but I think actually you get to take that top spot for worst governmental blunder in modern history.
Number five.
Finally, it's maybe a stretch to put this in the headline section, but I'm not sure where else to put it, so here we are.
A tweet from the WNBA account on Twitter.
It says, have you been keeping up with the 2020 season?
Test your knowledge every Monday to see if you're the biggest WNBA fan.
Then there's a link to the trivia.
I thought it could be fun if we actually went ahead and tried to take this quiz together.
I just thought, you know, to test our WNBA knowledge.
Because I figure that WNBA trivia is the hardest test you could ever take.
Getting all this right would be like the moment in Good Will Hunting where Matt Damon solves
the math equation nobody else could get.
It seems almost impossible.
There's probably two or three people on earth who could ace a WNBA trivia quiz.
And so we're going to try and see how this goes.
All right.
say follow along.
Last weekend, I don't know how many questions there are, hopefully it's not that many because
this bit will really get old after about two minutes.
Last weekend, Chennedy Carter, maybe it's Kennedy, C-H-E-N-N-N-N-E-D-Y, Chennedy, Kennedy?
It better not be pronounced Kennedy.
You name your kid Kennedy and spell it with a CH?
I don't know.
I don't know how it's pronounced.
I mean, I'm a big fan.
Don't get me wrong.
Been following Chennedy Carter for years.
Made her rookie debut for... Oh, well, she's a rookie, so I didn't... I guess... I've been following her for weeks.
Feels like... It feels like I've known her forever.
Last weekend, Chennedy Carter made her rookie debut for which team?
Chicago Sky, Washington Mystics, Atlanta Dream, Dallas Wings, Connecticut Sun.
Why do all the team names sound like Crayola colors?
Chicago Sky, Atlanta Dream, Connecticut Sun.
Okay, I'm going to say Chicago Sky.
Nope.
She was selected by the Atlanta Dream.
All right.
Which team finished the first week of the season with a 3-1 record?
All of the above, Minnesota Lynx, Seattle Storm, Washington Mystics, or Chicago Sky?
First of all, the all of the above option is at the top.
There's nothing above it.
All of the above goes at the bottom.
It's like the WNBA.
They can't even do a trivia quiz right.
No offense.
But usually when you're doing a quiz and there's an all-of-the-above, I say from experience as a student who took many quizzes without ever really knowing the answers to anything because I never studied or did my homework, usually when there's an all-of-the-above option and there isn't one in every question, you go with all-of-the-above.
So, I'll say all-of-the-above.
Correct!
Okay, that's one.
Which rookie dropped 33 points in her second game?
If any of these players, you know, when you follow her career, even go back to high school, and you follow, you know, considering the position she plays on the court of point guard, I just think that Lauren Cox is... Oh, nope.
It's not.
It's Sabrina Ionscu.
You scored 33 points.
Well, good for her.
Okay, which player is leading the league in points per game after Week 1?
Ariel Atkins, Aja Wilson, Bria Hartley, Kelsey Mitchell, Dewana Bonner.
I gotta say that I know for a fact it is Ariel Atkins.
She is a scoring machine.
She can even jump up and touch the net.
Pretty impressive.
And nope, it was Dawana Bonner, currently leads the league.
Alright, so I got 1 out of 4.
That's the end of the quiz.
1 out of 4.
This puts me easily in the top 5% of all WNBA fans that I could get 1 out of 4 right.
So I gotta give myself a lot of credit for that.
That was a lot of fun.
Hopefully we all learned something about the WNBA today.
You didn't think you would Learn WNBA trivia, but you did.
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We have Up to bat here, so to speak, Ryan Cooper.
He's a correspondent for the publication The Week, and he was reacting to an article in the Wall Street Journal, an article that complains that pickup trucks are too big these days.
Because someone decided to write an entire article around the kind of banal observation you make when you've been in a car for seven hours with somebody and there's nothing left to talk about, so you're just driving along and you turn to them and say, these pickup trucks are really big.
You notice that?
Really big these days.
Yeah.
Yeah, they are.
Yeah.
They're really big.
In fact, all kinds of cars are big these days.
Yeah.
Riveting conversation, as always, in the cars.
But Ryan's observation, though, is not quite that banal.
In fact, it's actually pretty fascinating.
This is what he says.
Sales of mega pickups, which have basically been deliberately designed to intimidate and kill pedestrians, are booming.
It's one thing to say that they're too big.
It's another thing to say they're deliberately designed to kill pedestrians.
Now, uh, well, no, sorry.
He didn't say deliberately.
He said basically deliberately designed.
And can I just say for the record, as we're doing this, in fact, I'm going to cancel the word basically too, because The word basically is not, as it is so often used, an escape hatch allowing you to make wildly inaccurate claims, okay?
People throw the word basically into a sentence thinking that they can then veer off into fantasy land and basically is this magical incantation that makes their fantasy into a reality.
So this happens all the time, especially in arguments.
I mean, we've all, it's very common these days where you say something like, well, I think that we spend too much on entitlements, entitlement programs in this country.
And the person responds, oh, oh, so you're basically saying that we should round up all the poor people and throw them into the sea, isn't it?
That's basically what you're saying.
No, that's not what I'm basically saying at all.
In fact, that's what I'm basically saying is what I said, because it's a pretty basic concept.
So I said what I said, and that's really all that I said.
As for the claim that Ryan is making here, I hope I don't have to spend too much time debunking it.
I don't know if I need to present sources and evidence to debunk the claim that pickup trucks are designed with the intention of killing pedestrians.
I guess he imagines a scenario where people go to the dealership Like the Ford dealership and say, yeah, I'm looking for a pickup truck with a good towing capacity, a long bed.
Oh, and the ability to pulverize five old ladies at a time while they're crossing the street.
You have anything for that?
Oh, right this way, sir.
Yeah, we have a section just for that right over here.
That's what he imagines.
Let me put his mind to rest.
Ryan, don't worry.
I myself have lived in many small towns and rural type areas.
I've been around quite a lot of pickup trucks.
I don't drive one myself.
As I said before, I drive a Suburban because I have four kids as well.
But I've been around them quite a bit and I can tell you that they are not designed to kill you.
So you can calm down, city boy.
No one's going to run you over while you're sitting at your cafe eating French pancakes or whatever the hell you're doing.
Pickup trucks are not designed for that.
They're designed, very simply, to carry machine guns.
Really big machine guns.
And that's how pickup drivers kill pedestrians.
With machine guns.
It's a much quicker death.
Less painful.
So, just stop being so paranoid.
And stop complaining, also.
Alright?
And you're cancelled.
Um...
There we go.
Hopefully, I thought we could end on a positive note there. Just a word of
encouragement for our friend, Ryan.
Alright, we'll leave it there. Thanks for watching, everybody.
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