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It's Only Been A Month, But Zohran Mamdani Is Already A Disaster | Ep. 1729

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This is the full, timestamped transcript of "It's Only Been A Month, But Zohran Mamdani Is Already A Disaster | Ep. 1729", an episode of Matt Walsh published February 4, 2026 (1 h 11 min, about 12,168 words). It mentions 7 people, works and ideas, including Mayor Eric Adams, David Dinkins, Shabuzzi, Josh Ter.

What this episode is about

A critical overview of the rapid, controversial leadership in New York City under Zohran Mamdani, highlighting concerns over governance, police reform, and public backlash. It also touches on contested claims about immigrant contributions and media-driven scandals affecting young male public figures.

Key takeaways

  • A month of ’revolutionary’ promises meets reality: free buses, zero costs, and a growing pile of unkept commitments.
  • Politically, the spectacle exposes a tyranny of wishful thinking over governance, where slogans outrun practical policy.
  • Public outrage frames a paradox: voters crave radical change yet cling to tangible services like trash pickup and transit.
  • The Epstein rumor mill derails legitimacy faster than policy details, proving image can eclipse infrastructure in urban leadership.
  • When fantasy politics hits budgetary thresholds, the result isn’t progress—it’s resorting to performance over proven results.

Who speaks in this episode?

What is discussed, and when

  1. – 10:00: David Dinkins, Shabuzzi, Josh Ter
  2. – 20:00: Mayor Eric Adams
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  4. – 40:00: Shabuzzi, Massa
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Notable quotes from "It's Only Been A Month, But Zohran Mamdani Is Already A Disaster | Ep. 1729"

  • Residents who spoke to the Post aren't especially amused by what they're seeing. One man, a native New Yorker named Josh Ter said, quote, It's the most vile thing. I think it's…
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  • Of thousands of jobs. He increased taxes to unsustainable levels. And then Giuliani took over, reversed all of Dinkens policies, and arrested criminals. And the city…
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  • Happy to be a private citizen again. And in December, in his last days in office, Eric Adams felt compelled to speak up about Mandani's plan to stop law enforcement from…
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Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

  • Mayor Eric Adams — Person · Referenced outgoing mayor / foil to current administration · 4 mentions · first at
    Shown in a clip warning against stopping homeless encampment sweeps; used to contrast 'old Democrats' with 'leftists' and to argue policy consequences.
  • David Dinkins — Person · Historical comparator / referenced former mayor · 2 mentions · first at
    Invoked to frame a critique of NYC governance; the municipal building named after him is used as a prop in the segment criticizing the current mayor’s priorities.
  • Shabuzzi — Person · Referenced celebrity / controversy subject · 8 mentions · first at
    Used as an example of intra-left backlash: he gives a pro-immigration acceptance speech and then issues a clarification after criticism from left-leaning commenters.
  • Josh Ter — Person · Quoted local resident / vox populi source · 1 mention · first at
    Cited via a New York Post quote to illustrate resident frustration about trash and sanitation conditions after a snowstorm.

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Full transcript with timestamps

Today the Matt Wall show, New York City is already falling apart and people are dying by the dozens after just one month of Zoron Mdani. How bad are things going to get? Do we even want to find out? Also, why are leftists furious at the singer Shabuzzi for saying that immigrants built the country? And I have some words of advice for young men in the light of another glor influencer scandal. We'll talk about all that and more today in the Matt Wall show.

It's been a little over a month since a Muslim socialist from Uganda named Zoran Mamani became the mayor of the largest city in the United States. And while a month isn't a lot of time in a normal administration, you have to wonder what the city's many democratic socialists think about the progress so far, or lack thereof. After all, Mandani wasn't supposed to be like any other mayor. The whole point was that he'd be a revolutionary. He'd take quick, decisive action to replace the fragility of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism. as we remember the now infamous quote, he would disregard the rule of law, tax all the rich people, make everything cost zero dollars magically. Well, unfortunately for Amdani, it looks like uh locals are getting a little little restless.

They're not not happy with his mother's appearance in the Epstein file. She was mentioned by Epstein's assistant who said that she attended an afterparty for a film at Gelain Maxwell's house. And they're also angry that Mdani hasn't shifted oversight of the police department to a civilian board called CCB, which he promised to do as a way of dismantling the police force and terminating more police officers. So for those reasons, the other day a mob gathered outside of Mob Donny's house already. Watch.

That's right. We know about your mom. Now listen, we went to S. We voted for you. We advocated for you, Lord. We advocated for you. You ain't giving up. Get up in there and lie to

us. Shave shave. Shave. Well, that didn't take long. That's one of the problems with running on a platform to like solve everybody's problems. No problem too big or too small. Make everything free. Well, you get elected and like 90 seconds later, everyone's saying, "Hey, why why does why do things still cost money? Why do I still have problems? What's going on here?" I mean, when you run uh pretending to be a genie in a lamp that can grant unlimited wishes, this is what you get. So, they elected a theater kid supposedly from the middle of nowhere who promised to burn everything down and completely transform New York City. A month later, they realized he's a fraudster who has no idea what he's doing and that his life story is a lot less story book than they had been told.

You see when these people heard Mdani's, you know, Mamani reading the speech writer line about the Mexican abuelas and Yemen bodega owners and Usuzbck nurses and Ethiopian aunties, they were under the impression that Manny had something in common with the working class. And now they're finding out that while the Yemen bodega owners and Trinidadian pimps were earning a living the hard way in the Bronx, M Donniey's mother was getting name dropped by Epstein's publicist. That's got to be that's got to be a tough confusing realization. And it gets worse when you realize that the buses still aren't free. Money hasn't even done that yet. The whole point of his campaign was to enable every hobo and drug dealer and psychotic murderer to hop aboard a bus anytime they wanted.

And yet the buses still cost money. In fact, bus fairs have increased since MDI took office by around 10 cents. Now, the Trump administration says that they're thinking about cutting federal funding to New York if they don't change fairs as part of a new transportation bill. So, all of a sudden, what seemed to be a very simple, straightforward propo proposal is turning out to be a lot more complicated. And from the moment Mandani was elected, that has raised some questions for New Yorkers. Watch.

Excuse me, sir. I have a question. So, I saw on the bus it said uh like and I see the sign. It says fairs acquired. I thought the buses were supposed to be free now cuz like mom Donnie just won.

That's funny. That's a good one. When does that start? That's never going to start.

Never going to happen. All right. Well, I want to say I appreciate what you do, my guy. All right. Have a good one, my guy. Listen, you are the heart and soul, the backbone of uh New York. Stay safe.

Personally, I don't care if you come off a free I got you. W man's Thank you, bro. Have a good one.

I've been doing free buses before, Mandami. I'm the man. Yes, sir. All right. All right, you got to run for the next election. I'll vote for you. Have a good one.

You know, it's almost like the bus driver who has an actual job and familiarity with the mass transit system knows something that the socialists don't. It's almost like he knows that these free buses, if they were ever actually offered, would inevitably transform into rolling crackouses. It can't go any other way. But if you look at the comments on that video, everyone insists that the free buses will indeed arrive. And these will be magic buses, like the magic school bus. They'll be the first mass transit service ever invented in a diverse city that will serve millions of people with no cost and no overcrowding and no overdoses and no random stabbings.

But again, the buses still haven't arrived, which has led to some uncomfortable questions about what exactly Mi is doing. He certainly doesn't seem to be attending to any of his day-to-day duties. More than a week after a major snowstorm, trash is piling up everywhere. Here's just some of the images of what that looks like. As you can see here, it's like the 1970s all over again. There's so much garbage that the Post in one of its better headlines lately, I have to say, is calling New York the city that never sweeps. And the residents who spoke to the Post aren't especially amused by what they're seeing. One man, a native New Yorker named Josh Ter said, quote, "It's the most vile thing. I think it's the worst in New York history." He said, "Gracie Mansion, where Mamani lives, looks clean and trash-free, while the rest of the city is a complete disaster." Another man living on the Upper East Side,

stated that, quote, "It's very dirty. It's a little embarrassing." And a third man stated that the situation was very concerning because recycling hadn't been picked up for um nearly a week. Meanwhile, the snow is piling up and the buses um still aren't running on time. And yet, faced with mobs at the gates and trash piling up in the streets. Mdani has not convened an emergency meeting with his many emotionally unstable advisers, he hasn't explained where the garbage trucks are. Instead, Mdani's latest proposal is to enable New Yorkers to sightsee from the observation deck of a tall municipal building in Manhattan. That is his uh big idea that's going to solve everything. Watch.

I'm here at the top of the David Dinkens Municipal Building. This is one of the most magnificent government buildings in the world. As we begin to celebrate Black History Month, it felt fitting to honor the legacy of our city's first black mayor right here. From up here, you can see everything from Metife Stadium all the way to Bushwick. This building belongs to the people of this city, but for too long, most New Yorkers have been shut out of it. That's coming to an end. We're opening the rooftop of the Dinkens Municipal Building to the public.

Starting this June, the city will offer guided tours of this extraordinary civic landmark. You'll be able to reserve free tickets online and go up in small groups. Everything from the way that video is shot to what he's saying makes it abundantly clear that New Yorkers elected a third rate influencer. He's not going to honor his campaign promises or pick up the trash. But on the bright side, he'll let you stand on the top of this ugly building and look at all the other ugly buildings. And uh so when you go to him and say, "Hey, there's trash in the street and the buses aren't running on time. Can you take care of that?" Uh well, no, but do you want to go, you see that big building? Do you want to go to the top of that building and look out? Do you?

He's like treating New Yorkers like children, you know, like we have a a toddler having a tantrum. You redirect. They're upset about Oh, they want a snack. Ah, we're not doing a snack. Do you want a color? I want a cookie. Well, we're not doing cookies, but here's Do you want a color in his coloring book? That's what Mom Donnie is doing with the the residents of the city. And just for good measure, the building is named after David Dinkens, who oversaw the biggest rise in New York's murder rate in roughly a century. The city said he had nearly 2,000 murders in his final year in office compared to around 350 uh in the last year. As you can see there, you take a look at this chart. The high point of the chart on the far left is when Dave Dinkens was mayor. That's how extraordinarily uniquely incompetent he was. Dinkens would say things like, "If we had a police officer in every other corner, we couldn't stop some of the

random violence that goes on." So he just allowed the the violence to continue, including a lot of ethnic and racial violence. The city lost hundreds of thousands of jobs. He increased taxes to unsustainable levels. And then Giuliani took over, reversed all of Dinkens policies, and arrested criminals. And the city immediately turned around. But in leftist mythology, even though Dinkens was a terrible mayor, he was actually great because he was black. They'll remove Teddy Roosevelt statue because he was white and effective. But the law Dinkens at every opportunity, not despite the fact that he nearly destroyed New York, but because of that fact. And Manny plans to do exactly the same thing. He doesn't care if people die as a result of his policies. His only mission is to dismantle the nerve center of American capitalism, strip it for everything it's worth, and send our money overseas.

And actually, Mandani has already killed people in New York City. He's not doing much in office, but in those rare moments when he chooses to take decisive action, it's resulted in the deaths of actual humans already just one month into his term. So, take a look at this video from last December. It was uploaded by the outgoing mayor, Eric Adams. And if you know anything about Eric Adams, you know that he's pretty checked out as far as ex mayors go. But let's just say he certainly seems very happy to be a private citizen again. And in in December, in his last days in office, Eric Adams felt compelled to speak up about Mandani's plan to stop law enforcement from sweeping up homeless encampments during the winter and forcing the homeless into institutions.

Well, he knew what would happen if Mandani actually followed through. Listen. Earlier today, Mayor Elect Zoran Mandani announced that once he takes office on January 1st, he'll stop sweeping homeless encampments across our city. I won't criticize him on every issue, but when a policy harms New Yorkers, I have to speak up. Showing compassion for those sleeping on the streets is not a sweep. It is humane. Ending this action will create a quality of life nightmare. Just look at cities that allow encampments and you'll see the damage.

Worse, leaving people to suffer in the cold isn't just neglectful, it's a disgrace. Throughout the last close to four years, I was adamant about cleaning those encampments because we cannot tolerate a city that turns a blind eye to human suffering. I urge the incoming administration to rethink this and I urge New Yorkers to raise their voices. So, this is a useful distinction um a useful illustration of the distinction between the old Democrats and the leftists who now control the party. Now, the old Democrats were wrong, misguided, and dangerous.

But some of them still retained a semblance of understanding about human nature and cause and effect and basic common sense. And those Democrats are now completely gone. They've been ousted. Eric Adams, of course, was supportive of Trump's immigration policy, which is why Biden's DOJ tried to throw him in prison. You simply can't express any basic fundamental understanding of human nature or common sense and remain a member of the party in good standing. So now there's no one left in the party who understands the truth or will acknowledge the truth about the homeless among many other things. No one in the party understands or will acknowledge that someone doesn't become homeless without being highly dysfunctional as a human being. In order to become homeless, you are extremely dysfunctional, often dangerous person.

Dangerous to yourself and often those around you. In order to be homeless, you have to alienate every person in your life, including your family, which takes a lot of work. Every person who knows you in your life is not helping you anymore. Which might mean could mean that you're just a victim and you happen to be around all the worst people in the world. You have the worst family, the worst. more likely is that this is a dysfunctional, selfish, uh, self-destructive person who has alienated every single person they've ever known.

And that's how they end up on the street. It's just it's just the reality. And now they fail to achieve a basic level of self-sufficiency. These are people who for their safety and for the safety of the general public should not be on the streets and they shouldn't be placed in taxpayer provided apartment buildings or hotels either. They should be jailed or they should be institutionalized. You remove them from the street forcefully and permanently. You say you're not allow this is not allowed. You cannot just turn our streets into an encampment. We are not going to let dysfunctional drug addled crazy people to set up camp wherever they want in the city.

And you know, leftists will say, well, not every homeless person is using drugs or committing crimes or psychotic. It's just, you know, 99.9% of them. But even if that were true, it doesn't matter. In a functioning civilized society, public order matters. The sidewalks are for walking. The parks are for enjoying nature and fresh air. Uh they're for families. Lobbies are where you go when you want to enter a building. And when homeless people stink up all those places and make them dangerous to be in for normal people, they degrade every aspect of civic life. They make everything worse for everybody in every way.

They've also demonstrated they aren't really in charge of their own lives, which is why the government, which exists to protect the rights of its citizens, should assume agency over them. They cannot exercise agency over themselves. They are incapable of it. It's why they're on the street. If you're by definition, if you're sleeping in a tent on the streets or on the sidewalk, uh you are not capable of exercising basic agency over your own life. and so it should be taken from you. But Mani reversed the policy of Eric Adams administration to get these people off the streets dur during the winter.

As the Post reported, quote, "New York's new mayor, Zoron Mdani, has barred the NYPD from closing down the ramshackle camps that have been springing up in the neighborhoods across the five burrows ever since he previewed his policy in December. No matter how many neighborhood residents call 311 to report a new encampment, the NYPD is now powerless to deal with them. And even New York's strongest are barred from cleaning them up. The sanitation department has orders to remove garbage and human waste, but must leave mattresses clothing makeshift cardboard huts, and other items intact.

The direct result of the policy, as Madani announced from the top of the Dinkens building, is that more than a dozen New Yorkers are now dead. They froze to death because Mam Dani didn't want to round them up on the theory that, you know, rounding up homeless people is in inhumane. And so it's more humane to just let them freeze to death, which is a horrific way to die. By the way, here's M Donnie with uh the announcement.

A severe cold front continues to bear down on our city. Today is our 11th consecutive day of below freezing weather and we could very well be in the middle of the longest period of consecutive sub 32°ree weather in our city's entire history. Without temperatures rising above freezing, snow has hardened into blocks of ice. But the greatest danger posed by this sustained cold is to vulnerable New Yorkers who re remain exposed to the elements. As of this morning, 16 of our fellow New Yorkers have passed away outside during this brutal stretch of cold. In 13 of these cases, preliminary findings indicate that hypothermia played a role, and three of these deaths appear to be overdose deaths. We await final results from the medical examiner's office and will inform New Yorkers as we learn more. Each of these lives lost is a tragedy. My heart was at the family of those mourning their loved ones.

Now, the the dead homeless people range in ages from mid-40s to 90 according to the post. Many of them, as you heard, basically froze to death. So, unfortunately, they won't be getting any free tickets to the Dinkens building where they could have observed the trash piles lining the city of New York. Uh, which is a real shame. And actually, it's a lot worse than that. Money is responsible for every single one of these deaths. That is not hyperbole. And he doesn't care in the slightest. He's not going to change his policy.

He's not even going to express regret. That's because Mdani's goal, like the goal of every leftist who pretends to care about the homeless, is not to improve anyone's life, whether they're homeless or not. His goal is to funnel taxpayer money to left-wing NOS's that claim they'll fix homelessness and then do absolutely nothing other than redirect some of that money back to Democrats. Ending homelessness would cut off one of the major funding sources for Democrat activists. So, he wants homelessness to continue. In fact, solving any problem cuts off funding to Democrat activists. So, he doesn't want to solve any problem.

He wants them all to get worse. In fact, he wants these people in the street at all times so that he can justify more spending on fake left-wing nonprofits. And if a if a few if a few hobos die, he genuinely doesn't care. And make no mistake, many many more people will die as a direct result of Mdani's policies. It's true during all communist regimes and it'll be the case in Mamdan's as well. Consider the case of Jabz uh Kakraorti. He's 22 years old. He his family called 911 about a month ago saying he was in emotional distress and when officers responded, Jabz produced a kitchen knife and charged at them. So the officers acting in self-defense, shot the guy, put him in the hospital. Clearly a justified shooting. Body camera makes all of that very clear as we will demonstrate in a second. The family of the attacker has put out a statement saying they are shocked and outraged by the NYPD's

action. Apparently, the officers were just supposed to, you know, let themselves get stabbed to death. You know, if a crazy guy wants to stab you, it is your responsibility as police officer to just die. Let yourself be butchered so that this crazy person can live. That's the that is the uh what they're being told. And for his part, Mdani has decided to use this case to make an argument that in the future, the police shouldn't be dispatched to calls like this at all. He thinks a counselor or a mental health professional from the Department of Community Safety should go to the scene.

So now Mani is visiting the attacker and his family in the hospital and implying that they're the victims. And he's giving press conferences about his plan to unleash lunatics like this on the general public. We'll play part of that press conference followed by a body camera footage of the shooting. Watch. And as you said, I spoke with the Chuckerorthy family and I visited Chavez in the hospital. And there is no family should have to endure this kind of pain.

HEY, PUT THE PUT THE KNIFE DOWN. PUT THE KNIFE DOWN. PUT THE KNIFE DOWN. PUT THE KNIFE DOWN. MOVE. MOVE. MOVE. MOVE. MOVE. PUT THE KNIFE DOWN. PUT THE KNIFE DOWN. PUT THE KNIFE DOWN. WELL it's the most open and shut, clearcut case imaginable. The officer obviously did what they had to do. Actually, the officers were like they went yet again, the officers were more reluctant to shoot than they needed to be. You can see the officer, if you if you were not watching the video, if you're listening to the the audio podcast, he's being charged at like the guy has a knife, is charging at him, very unambiguous. The officer retreats back into another room, shuts the door to give this guy another chance, and then when the guy opens that door and crosses that barrier and charges again, and this officer is now cornered, he got he's got nowhere else to go, uh, he opens fire.

If you're saying he should not have fired, should not have fired the gun, then what you are saying, it's not an exaggeration. What you are saying is that his responsibility as a police officer was just to be stabbed to death. And that's insane. That's an insane like if that's your position, you are as insane as the guy with the knife and should be taken as seriously as we take that guy. But you know, in the eyes of the left, they just lost a foot soldier. They've lost someone who could have stabbed an innocent woman to death on the train one day. And that really bothers them.

They stay up at night thinking of ways to allow more lunatics like this to go free. That's why none of their policies make sense. At least if you're thinking like a rational person and you look at their policies, you think, "Well, that doesn't make any sense." What do you mean? Why do you want that policy? That's just going to make everything more dangerous and worse. Why would you want to do that? Well, what you don't understand is that when you say it makes everything more dangerous and worse, the left says, "Yeah, right. Good.

They're not trying to keep you safe. Their policy ideas are designed to make your city more dangerous and your life more miserable." But one reporter tried to make sense of the policy anyway. After Marmdani was done speaking, the reporter asked a pretty obvious question. If we're going to send emotional support counselors to visit emotionally disturbed people instead of police, what happens when those emotionally disturbed people try to kill the person that you have sent? How exactly are we going to decide whether or not the police should be dispatched when we don't know whether the emotionally disturbed person poses a lethal threat or not? Well, Mdani had no answer to that question. Watch.

I know that you talk about the fact that the police can respond in these instances if there's a weapon, but in this case, there wasn't a knowledge that there would be a weapon. There was the charges were that he was breaking glass and at the last minute when the cops came in, he pulled a knife out in the kitchen. So, how do you determine when the police can arrive? If the initial call doesn't say he's got a gun, he's got a he's got a knife, what do you do? And then if it turns violent, if a person's there without the ability to stop him, what happens?

So, I think there's there's a few things to say here. One is a lot of this is exactly the focus of the conversations that we're having internally in developing out this Department of Community Safety. Additionally, I want to make clear that a person experiencing a mental health episode does not always have to be served first or exclusively by a police officer. it is important for us to have all of the options available and that's exactly what we're looking at.

So in other words, he has no answer to the question. If you send a community safety advocate and the person pulls a knife and charges at them, what then? Because you know the answer from the left is uh well the real answer is I don't care. I mean, the real answer is, "Okay, well, I guess that person just dies then. I don't give it." That's the real answer. They're not going to say that. So, instead, their answer is always going to be something like, "Well, well, that should just not happen." What happens when the when the social worker shows up and the crazy person pulls a knife? Well, that that shouldn't happen.

Yeah, but it does happen. But it does h but it shouldn't. But it does. This is the disconnect when you're trying to argue with the left about anything. You can't get them into reality. The most they could do is say, "Well, this things should be this way." But they're not, are they? What about in the real world, you morons? What about in the world we actually live in? What about there? What do we do in that world? Well, this is going to be a theme of the Mandani administration and of every socialist administration like him, assuming he actually starts attempting to govern instead of shooting influencer videos with his drones.

We're going to see a lot more of this. They'll continue to advance leftist agenda items that would be very popular in a classroom at NYU or the Soviet Union. Even though these policies have no chance of success in the real world, and even as these agenda items result in human misery and death, they will continue to press on. They'll just vomit out some word salad and continue as if nothing had happened. The death toll will rise week after week. People will get shanked on the free buses. Social workers will get stabbed and shot as they respond to calls that law enforcement should have handled. Tourists will get pushed off the new observation deck on the ugly building in Manhattan. Homeless people will die in large numbers every winter.

And they'll continue to attack New Yorkers, particularly white women. And in the meantime, if Mamani's voters continue to feel buyer's remorse, and if they decide to get too unruly, they're not going to be met with social workers. They'll be crushed by the full power of the state. So, their only option is to retreat to the safety of their $5,000 a month, one-bedroom apartments and scroll blue sky as they wonder why exactly, you know, this guy's mother is in the Epstein files. That is the rather bleak future that awaits New York. It's also the future that awaits the rest of this country. Unless we see New York as the gigantic warning sign that it is. Even Mandani supporters are starting to realize that now.

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Well, I hate to mention the Grammys again, but I I uh can't, you know, I I can't control the news cycle. It is what it is. And this story is pretty funny, so bear with me. I think you'll enjoy this one. So, um, Shabuzzi, which I'm pretty sure is not his Christian name. I'm pretty sure that's not the name that his parents gave him, although you never know. I mean, it you never know. Um, so he he won a Grammy on Sunday night for best country song or best country duet or something. And he gave an acceptance speech that you would think was very safe. A speech that's not really worth remarking on. a speech that you would think the left would warmly embrace.

So, if you if you're not familiar with this fake controversy, listen to this just this quick clip. It's like 30 seconds. And from the the from the mentality of a leftist, what do you think the problem is here? Because it's not going to be immediately obvious. Listen. And again the last thing I want to say immigrants built this country literally uh actually um so this is for them now for all children of immigrants. This is also for those who came to this country in search of better opportunity to be a part of a nation that promised freedom for all and equal opportun opportunity to everyone willing to work for it. Thank you for bringing your culture, your music, your stories and your traditions here. You give America color. I love y'all so much. Thank you.

Okay, so boilerplate, you know, uh, generic liberal PC bumper sticker stuff. I don't even know why he needed to read it. Like, why did you have to write that down? This is the standard spiel. It's always funny when these people are like, "Well, I've written a I've written a speech, you know, let me let me read my speech." And then it's all the most generic nonsense you've ever heard. It's like, you couldn't just say that. You needed to read. Immigrants built this country. Immigrants are great. I love rainbows and unicorns.

I like things that are happy. You You couldn't just say that. You had to You had to write that down and read it. Um and so, you know, that's what you think. You think the left would be happy with that. And you know, as for the right, we don't really care what a what a guy named Shabuzzi has to say, whether you know who he is or not. If if you came to me and told me that someone said something, even if that thing was objectionable, and then I say, "Well, who said that? That's weird. Who said it?" And you said, "Oh, a guy named Shabuzzi."

Then I'm going to say, "Okay, well, whatever. That's a guy like named Shabuzi said that was okay." So, you think that'd be the end of it except that poor Shabuzzi had to issue a statement of clarification, an apology basically for that speech. And not because anybody on the right was upset. He had to apologize and clarify because of outrage on the left. Leftists were mad. Leftists were mad at this. They were they were mad at what you would think is just it's pandering to them. What are you upset about? From Shabuzzi's perspective, he's saying, "What? Isn't this what you guys want me to say? I thought isn't this what we're doing? We're all up here talking about ICE is bad. Immigrants are great." Kind of feel bad for Shabuzzi.

Never thought I would say that. I feel bad for Shabuzzi. But he's saying to himself like, "What do you I bet when he heard from his publicist or whoever that, oh, you know, there's outrage." He's like, "What? From who? Oh, all the liberals on what? You're the one who gave me this thing to read. You said that this is what the liberals wanted me to say." So, here's the here's the the uh statement that he he published or he put up on uh social media. First and foremost, I want to express my deep gratitude to everyone who has supported and celebrated my journey as an artist.

I also want to acknowledge the conversation surrounding my acceptance speech. To be clear, I know and believe that we black people have also built this country. My words were never intended to dismiss that truth. I am both a black man and the son of Nigerian immigrants. And in the overwhelming moment of winning my first Grammy, my focus was on honoring the sacrifices my parents made by coming to this country to give me and my siblings opportunities they never had. At the same time, winning this award on the first day of Black History Month and becoming the first black man to win best country duo is black history. It stands on the foundation laid by generations of black people who fought, sacrificed, and succeeded long before me. This moment belongs to all of us. So that so, so they were mad because he said, "Immigrants built this country and didn't say that black people also built it." That's why he had to clarify. He

should have said immigrants built this country and also black people and he didn't say that. And so and so that's what that's why he had to issue a clarification. And needless to say, judging by the comments, the statement is still not enough to assuage the anguish that he has caused. All of the uh you know, if you read the comments from the um from Black Twitter, it the the pain the pain that has been caused by Shabuzzi not saying black people also built the country. The pain is just it's they'll never get it's it's this is not enough. This is not even close to enough.

So this is the fantasy land. Speaking of these people living in fantasy lands, this is it. You know, in their fantasy land, this country was built by two groups, black people and non-white immigrants. You know, he talks about his well his parents came here from Nigeria. So I want to acknowledge the immigrants who built America like my parents who came from Nigeria. How did your parents help build the country? Hey Shabuzzi, how exactly did your parents from Niger How did any Nigerian immigrant help build the country? Can you explain that?

How'd that happen? So the only people who didn't build it in this bizarro version of American history are white people. The only people who didn't build America are the people who built America. That's the dogma here. That's the fantasy you you're expected to believe. The only people who did not build America are white people. Every other group, Nigerians built America. Somalians built America somehow. But uh but the only people who didn't are white people of European ancestry. Uh and and just to be clear here, and I've been very clear on this many times, but uh the opposite is true. The opposite is true. That this is a country that was predominantly built by white people.

White people of European descent. That is a it's a historical fact. It doesn't matter if you don't like it. It doesn't matter if it hurts your feelings to hear it. It doesn't matter if it makes your tummy hurt. It's just historical reality. There are other countries in the world you can go and in those countries uh you wouldn't give white people any credit. But uh but this country is different. Okay. And well, in fact, you would I mean, a lot of other countries, a lot of the good things in those countries, you you do give white people credit because uh of colonization, which introduced technology that they wouldn't otherwise have. But, you know, that's a separate conversation. The point is this this country is is has its own history. And in this country, uh white people of European descent are predominantly the ones who built it. Now, how can I say that?

Well, because almost all of the pioneers settlers colonists founders inventors, entrepreneurs, and political leaders who made America, formed the country, and turned it into a world power were white. Almost all. Almost all of them. I didn't say all, but almost all. Almost all the soldiers who fought and died in our wars, especially over the first 150 years, were white. I didn't say all, but almost all. Almost all the greatest and most influential Americans in history have been white. I would challenge anyone. This is my challenge to anyone who's going to clip this and call me a white supremacist. Oh no. Be the first time I've heard that one.

Well, here's my challenge to you. You're not allowed to complain about anything that I'm saying unless you're going to unless you're going to meet this challenge, which you should be able to do if you disagree with my point. and that is this. I want you to come up with a list of the 50 greatest Americans and come up with a list of the 50 greatest Americans Americans that isn't majority white. So, can you write down a list of the 50 greatest if if you if I'm wrong that white people predominantly built the country? Well, okay. Then if that's the case, then it would seem to me that if you were to make a list of the of of of the 50 Americans who you can reasonably argue were the greatest and most influential, on that list, at least 26 of them, a majority, should be non-white.

Can you come up with 26 non-white people who you could reasonably argue belong on the list of the 50 greatest and most influential Americans in history? Can you do that? I challenge anyone to do it. Please do it so we can all have a good laugh. Please show us your list. Do it so we can all see like which obviously more influential white people you had to leave off the list. do it so that we can see that like you put Oprah Winfrey on the list but Thomas Edison isn't or something like that. Uh, go ahead. And uh and if you were to expand the list to be the top figures in the history of the Americas, which is really what we're talking about, including colonial and pre-colonial periods in the New World generally, if that's the if if if we're expanding it that far, then I think a list of the top 50 would be exclusively white. I I mean, or very nearly so.

And but you know, anyone can step up to the plate and try to prove me wrong and say, "No, that's you're wrong. You're wrong. Here's a list. Here's 26 people, not white, and you know, are are among the top 50 greatest and most influential Americans. I'd love to see it." And yet, in spite of all this, um, our country now is full of people who think that white people not only weren't the predominant builders of the country, but didn't build it at all. I mean, it's it is uh it's just it's lunacy. It is total lunacy. And this is what we're dealing with. As a happily married man, I have some dating advice. As you're trying to find the right person, you should probably ask them the important questions upfront to rule out any problems in the future.

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comes knocking on her door. Listen, I really pray it doesn't get bad enough, but being a mom in America, I had to stop walking for this. I often think that if it gets to the point of knocking on doors, God, and like to even have these thoughts, it's like I'm literally separating from reality right now. If it comes down to me taking out myself and my kids versus us being taken and harmed by ICE, like, God help me. I did not want to do it. This is not the life I wanted. But that is a very dark thought that I've had.

death would be a easier out than for my children to be taken and harmed by these pedophiles. Okay, so this woman who by my account has approximately 8 billion facial piercings says that I mean she's pierced part of her parts of her face that I didn't even know you could pierce. I guess you could pierce any part of your body I suppose. Uh but she got like random piercings just like on her forehead and her cheek. It's like um but anyway she she says that she will take out herself and her kids i.e. commit a murder suicide if ICE ever comes knocking on her door in spite of the fact that she is pretty clearly and tragically an American citizen. I mean she's pretty clearly this is an American citizen. She's was almost certainly born here and uh for all we know has been here for generations and is a legal citizen sadly as much as I would like to think that she's not.

So ICE would have no reason to ever come for her. There is however now reason for the FBI and local law enforcement and certainly CPS to come which they must. That's I'm not saying that as a joke or as a a bit or something. CPS needs to step in. I mean, these children are in danger. That's that's the first thing. These children are in very real danger. And so, um, if that doesn't get your kids taken away permanently, then I don't know what does. But the other thing we glean from this is that, you know, aside from the fact that, as has been observed so many times, liberalism is a mental disorder. Truly is. These people are deranged. they're unwell. But aside from that, uh the level of ignorance that we're dealing with, not just stupidity, although there's plenty of that, but ignorance, like these people don't know anything.

This is what you have to They actually don't know what ICE is or what it even does. They're out there in the streets protesting and they're making these Tik Tok videos constantly and they're freaking out about it. They don't even know what ICE is. If you were to stop a random protester on the street and ask them, "What are you out here for?" Oh, down with ICE. What What is ICE? It's They They're They're bad. They do bad things. They do bad things. They're I mean, they're genuinely clueless. So much of the outrage over ICE is comprised of people who sincerely have no idea what it even is. They think that it's some random federal agency that comes comes and kidnaps random American citizens for no reason.

They think that ICE is a is the kidnapping agency. ICE stands for like what do they think ICE stands for? What what does she think ICE ICE stands for? Like I don't I can't even I'll capture everyone. Is that what they think ICE stands for? I'll capture everyone. So when someone shows up and says they're with ICE, they're saying they're going to capture everyone. I mean, maybe they think it stands for I'll kidnap everyone, but they think that's that kidnap starts with a C. Who knows? Um, but this is what they I mean these people are are stupid beyond all recognition.

At least that's true of the cattle of the sheep out on the street and making these Tik Tok videos. People driving all this, they know better. You know, they're taking advantage of the ignorance of their foot soldiers. Um, evil forces in society are manipulating these idiots with the most ridiculous lies imaginable. which isn't to excuse the sheep. Not at all. It's just to point out how this works. This is not an excuse. Um it's your responsibility as an American citizen to not be this stupid and ignorant. But uh but this this is how it works.

And this is how unbelievably clueless these morons actually are. Now, the thing that's working in our favor, the thing preventing these people from acting out even more drastically than they already are, the thing frankly that will hopefully save that woman's poor children is that while they're stupid and ignorance and uh you know, while these are people who are credulous, moronic dupes, they're also performative and fake and they're motivated most of all by a desperate need for attention. You know, this woman threatened to annihilate her whole family for the sake of being dramatic on TikTok and getting attention, which is not to say the threats should not be taken seriously. They should. She should permanently lose custody of her children.

But the I I guess we can say silver lining here is that in in most cases these people are they're performative theatrical and you know that's why she really posted that as as demented as it is. She posted it purely for the comments and the clicks and the likes. She's threatening to commit murder suicide against her entire family and she's doing it for attention. So, you know, that's the takeaway. And the last takeaway here is that anybody with that many facial piercings should be assumed incompetent and should lose the right to vote or to participate in society in any other capacity.

And I am so deadly serious when I say that. I'm not proposing that as a joke. I mean, it's never going to happen. But I sincerely believe if you show up to the voting booth looking like that, you should not be allowed to vote and and you should be stripped of you should be disenfranchised. Like you are not a stable person. You just look at you, you're you're instable, you're incompetent, and you're very dumb, and you're self-destructive. You're you're self-destructive. You're harming yourself on purpose and you're wearing it on your face.

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Uh let's see. All right. So, I wasn't sure if I would comment on this and and normally it's the kind of thing that I I don't comment on, but I do feel compelled to say a few things. Uh, so over on X right now, we there's a new episode of a right-wing influencer soap opera happening. There's a new episode of Days of Our Lives that, you know, right-wing influencer edition. And I'm not going to get into all the embarrassing details. You can go find out about it yourself. It's all over the place. Just that just a brief overview so you understand what is precipitating what I'm about to say. As the story goes, allegedly, uh, Elijah Schaefer, who's a conservative podcaster and commentator, influencer guy, is now headed for a divorce. And it was revealed that allegedly he had an affair with a woman named Sarah Stark, who's a conservative influencer, sort of recent, new to the scene, kind of recent, and was herself

in a relationship with a man that she eventually married, but before she married and but was in a relationship with a guy, this trrist was going on. And I don't know what's true or what isn't. I can't confirm anything. Obviously, there are text messages and audio recordings which were posted by Milo Yiannopoulos. I don't know how he got him. Uh, and there are stories of alcohol and drugs on the part of Schaefer. Other lurid details, uh, affairs happening at CPAC. Um, which part of the story you hear often with these soap operas of like conservative conferences turning into drugfueled orgies and and all that. So, all that stuff is out there. It's all It's all going viral. I'm not revealing anything that isn't plastered everywhere already. And I have nothing to say about the specifics because I I don't know anything. I don't know these people.

I've met Elijah a few times. I think we did I think we did Tim Pool's show together one or two times. Sarah Stock I've mentioned on the show once or twice. Uh she did she was in that clip of the um the surrounded episode where I think she she did a good job and um but never met her and I don't know her. Apparently, she worked with Elijah or for him. Uh, he was her boss at in this his conservative media company called The Rift. It's all very sad. Feel bad for the family as I feel bad about the whole thing. I take no pleasure in any of it. I can't imagine how anybody would. Certainly not here to gloat or gossip. Pray for everybody involved. You know, I I I hope all the damaged lives can be repaired. I just feel compelled to say a few things in the way of advice or or words of caution.

And really, it's just this because anytime I see a married man whose life comes crumbling down because he was off having affairs and partying and doing all that kind of stuff, which let's be honest, is pretty common. I mean, it's pretty common in general. It's pretty common in the business in my business. There's a lot of that going on and a lot of it does happen at conservative conferences like CPAC and all those kinds of events. That's why I that's why I don't have a lot of friends in this business. I have I have a small group of people that I would consider friends who I know and work with and trust. I have a larger group of acquaintances who I you know it's what sometimes call friends in a sense but uh I work with but I don't I don't or I've worked with friendly with I don't really hang out with though. As for everyone else I don't you know I don't know I don't know these people.

I don't talk to them. I don't go to the events. Uh if I do go it's just to give a speech and leave. Never go to the after parties. I've been to CPAC a couple of times. I mean, we were there last year. We did a we did a podcast from the stage. Not going to like an afterparty. No. On the rare occasion that I do go to any kind of like conservative function, uh, usually because I'm speaking or something, if there's a party or a cocktail hour or whatever, uh, and I and I always want to avoid those, but sometimes, especially if I'm speaking, they'll go they'll say, "Well, we got this cocktail hour hour ahead of time. Would you want to go to that?" And my answer is, could I can you just stab me to death instead?

Can you just stab me? I How about that? You want me to go to your cocktail hour? How about instead you just stab me in the face to death? Can we do that instead? That's my counter. But sometimes you got to go. It's all part of the thing. So, and I prefer to bring my wife uh to those kinds of things. Anyway, all that to say, these kinds of scandals are not uncommon in society generally and in the media business especially. So, here's what I want to say to the to the men out there, and this applies to women, too. You know, there there was there was a woman involved in this story allegedly, and but I'm a man, and so I want to talk to the men. As a man, if you want to be happy, which who doesn't?

As far as I can tell, there are three things that you should have if you want to be happy. And it's really only three things. So, it's actually pretty pretty simple. That's the good news. First of all, you need to have a faith. You know, a man cannot be happy without having some sense of ultimate purpose in his life. What's it all for? What does it all mean? The answer can't be nothing. There's no happiness in that. Second, you need a family, a wife and children who you love and who love you. And third, you need a profession. You need you need a vocation that is important to you. And I say important to you because that's what I mean. It's, you know, it it it you don't need other people to think that it's important. Everyone has different jobs, different vocs, and you might do something for a living that other people look at and they don't think it's that important or they don't see why you care

about it that much. Doesn't matter. You have to think that what you go out and do every day matters. It doesn't really matter if other people find it important. You have to find it important. If you don't do anything right, if you aren't pursuing any goal, if you have no vocation, if you have no profession as a man, that is a recipe for misery. That's just pure misery. And if you do something every day that you don't think matters, that doesn't even matter to you, that isn't even important to you, uh then that is also misery. Either one of those things is misery.

So if you have a faith, if you have a family, if you have a job, you know, a vocation that matters to you, then you have everything. Like you you have all of the ingredients for a happy life. All of the ingredients you could ever need. You don't need any other ingredients. You don't need to look around and say, "I need to add to this. I need more." No, you don't. Stop looking. You won. You got it. Now, the goal is to grow in each of those categories. So, it's not over. But you have the loving family, you have faith, and you have a profession. You have a job you care about. You have a vocation. Well, now grow. You grow in faith. You grow in your love and devotion to your family. you grow in your career, in your profession, whatever it is. And that's all you need for a happy life.

And then don't it up. Like, sorry to be crass, but your your goal as a man should be to have those things. Faith, family, a job that matters to you. And if you have all that, don't it up. Cuz so often I see men who have all that, they have it all. Like really, you have it all. And and they squander it. And women do this too. You know, don't get me plenty of cases where women have a happy, loving family, a loving spouse who's loyal to them, and they go and they ruin it. They ruin it for nothing. Like for nothing at all.

What are you getting out of this? You go and have an affair or something. It's like it's dest like it's guaranteed misery is guaranteed. You're ruining your life. You're going to regret this forever. You're not going to be happy. You are ruining everything. Why? So, it's I'm not putting it all on men, but I'm just I'm talking about men right now. And I think I can more credibly like give the ingredients for a happy life for men because I am one. But here's the thing. If you're a man and you have a family and because all that seems obvious enough, although it can't be said enough, if you're a man and you have a family and you have a job, but you crave more excitement, you know, you want more action, you want more excitement, you want more of a challenge, you want more to do, that's fine. That's good. Yeah, you should feel that. I feel that. So go and find that excitement, find that risktaking in your pursuits, in your

profession, in your vocation, whatever that looks like. Don't be reckless. Don't be stupid, especially if you have a family, if you have kids. But, you know, men do crave excitement. And what I'm saying is that you should harness that energy into your pursuits. So, I'm not saying that you get married and have kids and all that and you become this like domesticated unic who who has no other goals and ambitions and and and and has no desire to like get out there in the world and do something. I'm not saying that at all. You don't want to become that.

But you harness that. Like every man needs a mountain to climb. We all we all need that. So, I'm not saying that a man should have his family and his job and then just be content to coast and glide for the rest of his days. No, you need a mountain. You need a challenge. So find that in your profession, find that in your career, maybe a hobby too, you know, or something like that. Like that that can also be an outlet for that kind of masculine drive to challenge yourself, to find excitement. And um you know, for me, I do what I do every day. It's important to me. Other people sometimes will look at what I do.

You just talk for a living. It it's frivolous. And that's fine. I think it's important. I care about it. And uh but the thing that really excites me in my specific like career path is making movies. So over the past five years, I've discovered for myself a new challenge, something that I find very exciting, very difficult, extremely rewarding. And that's where I harness most of my sort of risk-taking, excitement seeking energy into that. And and for you it will, you know, it's be something different, whatever it is. But here's the crucial point. As a grown man, you should not be seeking excitement in your personal life, in your social life.

You shouldn't be seeking it at parties or bars. Um, you shouldn't be seeking it in the company of other women. Most of all, as a grown man, your personal life should be one of peace and contentment. and quiet. I mean, as quiet as it can be. I got six kids at home, you know, but but spiritually spiritually quiet. Uh if you want to mix things up, you know, you're feeling bored, take on a new project, pursue a new goal, like try to achieve something. You don't want an exciting personal life full of drama and challenge. You don't want that. Like you want a personal life that is peaceful and quiet and stable and reliable and you know what you're going to get with people you know and people you love and people you trust.

And so some men, this is what I see, they take the wrong path and they end up in the reverse scenario. This is the worst possible world that you could be in. And these are men whose professional lives often are dull and unfulfilling. They're not really pursuing anything meaningful. They're not doing anything that they care about. But their personal lives are full of drama and intrigue and dysfunction. And when you talk to them, they always have a new problem. They always have a new obstacle. But not the good kind of problem, right? Not the problem that someone who's doing something exciting, doing something important, doing something meaningful, like they run into problems in pursuit of that goal. That's one kind of problem to have. But these are people who have personal problems, relationship problems.

These are men with tension and suspense in their personal lives because they have secrets that they're always working to keep hidden and lies that they're trying to keep straight, right? Lots of excitement, lots of suspense, and the wrong kind. What you want is a home that is properly ordered, that is peaceful and loving, that you can come back to after a day spent pursuing whatever your goals are. And and that's what you want. I know for me, like the picture of happiness, life at its peak for me is when I spend the day working on something very difficult and challenging but important to me where the stakes are high, success is not certain. you know, it could it could it might not work out, but I and then I go home and I and I and I'm home with my wife and my kids. I listen to my children tell me about their day and all the things that happened that are objectively less important than what I have been doing,

but I listen and I care and now my mind is focused on something smaller, something closer to home. And uh and they rarely ask me about my day. I find a lot of comfort in that. I find a lot of comfort in I could go I could be dealing with stuff and I got a lot of things going on and all these sorts of things and then I come home it's like what's going on with you guys and they'll unload all their stories and uh very rarely do they say what what's going on with you dad and I'm it to me that is happiness because I'm home now and and that and that's what that's what matters is that I'm home and uh that's all a man can ask for.

So if you don't have that, go find it. Go pursue it. Don't be satisfied until you get it. This is every man's birthright. I mean, this is what this is what every man should have and you should pursue it. But once you have it, keep it. Once you have it, keep it. Guard it with your life. Go out and, you know, sometimes take risks professionally. Maybe make some smart gamles on occasion that if they don't pay off may set you back. Again, you got to be smart about it, especially if you have kids. But, uh, you should be doing that kind of thing, taking gamles, taking risks.

I I believe in that. Never take any risks in your personal life. That's where you don't want to be risky. Never take any risks. Never go in any situation. Put yourself in any situation where it's like, uh, this could get weird, right? That's the thing is like, I'm go to the afterparty with her. I'm going to hang out with this woman who I know from that's risk. That's weird. That's you're putting stuff on the line that should never be on the line because that thing you have, your loving family, that is the one thing that you never put on the line.

You could put all your chips on the table, never put those on the table. That's for you. Never put yourself in a position to lose that ever. Ever. So, that's the uh that's kind of the fundamental mistake I see being made very often and it's always sad to see. That's my that's my sermon. We'll just end it there for today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow. Have a great day. Godspeed.

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Who speaks in "It's Only Been A Month, But Zohran Mamdani Is Already A Disaster | Ep. 1729"?

Zoran Mamdani (Guest), Eric Adams (Guest), Josh Ter (Guest), Matt Walsh (Host), Zoran Mdani (Guest), Shabuzzi (Guest), Elijah Schaefer (Guest), Sarah Stark (Guest).

What is "It's Only Been A Month, But Zohran Mamdani Is Already A Disaster | Ep. 1729" about?

A critical overview of the rapid, controversial leadership in New York City under Zohran Mamdani, highlighting concerns over governance, police reform, and public backlash. It also touches on contested claims about immigrant contributions and media-driven scandals affecting young male public figures.

What is mentioned in this Matt Walsh episode?

7 people, works and ideas are mentioned, including Mayor Eric Adams, David Dinkins, Shabuzzi, Josh Ter. Each one on this page links to its own page with every episode that mentions it.

How long is "It's Only Been A Month, But Zohran Mamdani Is Already A Disaster | Ep. 1729"?

The episode runs 1 h 11 min; the transcript is about 12,168 words in 103 timestamped sections.

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