Name: What's Really Going on in Minnesota?
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Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'What's Really Going on in Minnesota?' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2026-01-06. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'What's Really Going on in Minnesota?' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2026-01-06. Transcript available.

What do you think about journalism? Before you go, we got to get you out of
here in a little bit.
They just had the, um, they just had this stuff in Minnesota recently where the,
where this young
guy, Nick Shirley, I'm sure you're familiar with him now. And like you were
saying earlier, like
in a week, everybody knows his name. Now he's been YouTube and he's been doing
kind of like,
uh, I would say kind of vigilante journalism for a while, but like he kind of,
he was going to
investigate some of these, um, Somali daycare centers. What were your thoughts
on some of that?
And then what do you think about vigilante journalism? Like, I think this is
just going
to be like gasoline on, on, um, on just like anybody becoming a journalist now.
Yeah. I love that. I mean, I think it's great. And again, that's not to like
vouch for this kid or something. Cause like, I don't know.
Andrew Callahan's been doing it for a long time.
Guys like, no, I think those guys, I think those guys are really important. And
one of the things
that I found so fascinating about this was just that look like there's been,
there's been
reporting on the fraud in Minnesota before this, and there's even been like,
they claim some
indictments and stuff like that. But like, dude, just the fact that this guy is
driving the media
narrative now, and then you see CNN and CBS and them, they got to now respond
to him. Like he's,
it used to be, and I remember that, like when I started paying attention to
this stuff, which has
been like 20 years or something like that now, um, it, the way it worked 20
years ago was that the New York
Times Sunday paper came out every Sunday. And then that dictated what all the
corporate media
outlets were going to talk about for the next seven days. Like this was in the
times. And so it filtered
out. Now it's this guy with a YouTube channel or with a Twitter account and
they can go and kind of
like it, they can expose that. Like there's this scandal and then like by
exposing the scandal,
it also exposes the media and the justice department. And it's like, why is
this kid the
one who's bringing us this information? Right. But I do think going forward,
that's going to kind of be
the new normal. Well, we already had the information, right? I think a lot of
the information was already
there, but it is interesting of how it served to you and how, what you'll like,
why now is it so much?
Uh, did it seem more real? Cause he was right there with the people and you're
hearing the
and all the windows are blacked out at all these places. Um, and then some of
it, like the leering
center that seemed too on the nose to me, like that almost seemed fake. That's
it just seemed crazy
that no one would catch this. I mean like that. Yeah. It did seem a little bit
too much. You're telling me
a parent is dropping their kid off there or even somebody that works there that
is pretending in
there, if they're getting money and they're going to have that, it just seemed,
that seemed like
stage. It seemed almost too on the nose. I know what you mean. I know what you
mean. But what is
interesting is that, you know, Tim Waltz, um, he ran on this as vice president
and he said it at the
vice presidential debates that he was bragging about how they upped the money
that was going to daycare
and that him and Kamala Harris were going to take this program and federalize
it and bring it to
the national level. And it's just, it really is something, you know, I don't
know. I find like,
I think there's so many interesting conversations about all of that, but I
think that, um,
like it does, it kind of ties back into the stuff I was saying about inflating
the currency,
destroying the purchasing power of the dollar. Now everybody, it's so weird to
me when you think
about like, like when I was saying like my grandfather could have his wife not
work and own a
house and we are so much richer than he was. The technological advances between
then and now,
we should be living at such a higher standard of life. And yet almost no young
people can do that
today. Like literally the only people I know who can do that today are like
rich, successful
comedians. Like if you know, like rich people could have their wife not work.
That's the only people
who really do that these days or, or pretty much breaks my heart. It breaks my
heart that both
parents have to work all the time if they don't, if they don't really want to.
Well, so now while the,
while these Democrats are talking about how the more socialism, right? The
government should provide
your childcare, your daycare for you now. It's like, does anyone ask like, do
we want to live in a
society where our kids are raised in daycare? Like, I don't know. I got, I got
little kids and I know
people and I, I, I know when I say this, people get upset sometimes. I don't
mean to be like judgmental
of you personally. Cause I know if you put your kid in daycare, then this seems
like I'm attacking
you or something like that. But like, I just can't imagine people drop their
babies, babies
off at daycare. Dude, I managed a daycare dude when I was like 15 and a half,
bro. Dude, I love you.
I would never drop my babies off with you at 15 and a half. Are you crazy? When
I was 15, I might've
been 16, but dude, I remember one time I'd stayed out really late. My buddy and
I were, had been
actually stealing boat radios to put a radio into my car. And we're like, Oh
dude, nobody's monitoring
these boat radios like at the marina. Let's go there, get some radios out of
the air. But there's
some different, there's like a, some of the wiring is different or whatever.
Anyway, fucking nightmare.
So we just got to work and I was like, well dude, I'm just going to lay in my
car for a little while
because we'd all, we'd been drinking a decent amount. And so I was like, I'm
just going to lay
in my car for a little while. And then, um, I'll wake up whenever the sun pops
up and then I'll,
um, manage the daycare or whatever. And then, so dude, bro, I fucking, I guess
the sun, like it wasn't
that hot or whatever. I parked like where like the tree, like I was in the
shade of a tree too much.
And I, one of the, um, the owners or whatever came over and knocked on windows
like at eight and I was
supposed to be there at six 30. It was like 8am. And dude, it was like, my car
just smelled like
vodka and had all these fucking radios all over. My hands were cut up from like
getting the radios
out. And, um, anyway, nightmare. But yeah, bottom line, dude, I ran, dude, we,
you probably shouldn't
send your kids to that daycare. Yeah. But I'm just saying there, anybody can do
a daycare.
Right. And we, dude, we watched Terminator. I remember with them kids and them
kids were
little. Yeah. They shouldn't have been watching it. You know? Yeah. That I
appreciate your honesty
there, but it is like a thing where it shouldn't have been. I still feel bad.
Sometimes I still
wake up and I'm like, fuck, they shouldn't have been watching it. Well, cause
there's one scene
where you see like three tits in it or whatever, or total recall, total recall.
That's I remember
that. That's the three to recall. And there's a scene where the three tits are
on there and
there's all these kids looking at it. I'm like, dude, y'all shouldn't be
watching this. That
wasn't, and we were, we were watching it. That was a problem. I, sometimes I
forgot that
I wasn't, I felt like I was in the class or whatever. Well, I will say a lot of
the reason
I think why, uh, you know, these people who are like the big government
progressives and
stuff like that. And the whole kind of like neoliberal culture in America,
which is always
kind of like for years been demonizing, you know, straight white men and demonizing
patriarchal
families and all of this. There's a reason why, um, like big central
governments don't like
the family structure and religion and community and all of those things. Cause
they're all a hedge
against their power and the system, right? Like this inflating the currency
that leads to all the
things we were talking about. Right. But that is actually very good for the
political class.
It's very like inflation in general is very good. If you hold debt, if you're a
big debtor,
inflation is your friend because you pay off the debt. Like if you, if you want,
if you want to buy
something, but the money's worth a lot less, well, now your hamburger used to
cost five bucks. Now it
costs 15 bucks. That sucks for you if you're the person who wants to buy it.
But if you owe a
thousand dollars and now you're selling hamburger, you owe less than you did
before. So like if you
have debt, inflation is your friend. And also in the old debt, well in the old,
it's not a bad thing to
have in an inflationary environment, but in the old system, like in the old
order, right? My grandfather
would work at the factory all day long. My grandmother would work, you know,
taking care of
the kids and managing the house and cooking and cleaning and all that stuff all
day long.
But only one of those incomes was taxable, right? My grandfather's was taxable,
but you can't tax my
housewife grandmother. But if she goes into the workforce, now there's two taxable
incomes.
Then you hire a daycare worker. That's a third taxable income. And so there's
just way more revenue
going to the federal government when the government's raising your kids rather
than your
mother. Yeah. But it's not really so good for the babies. No. Like it's better
for the babies if their
mom and dad are the ones raising them or their grandmother or their aunt or
someone who's just
inherently always going to love them more than some worker at a daycare. Well,
that's why when a kid's
mom comes to pick them up from a daycare, as opposed to your babysitter coming
and pick you up or
something, there's just a different feeling about it. Even watching it, there's
a different feeling
about it. Um, yeah, you know, and then you, it's also, it's like, if you get
someone else to work,
then you need another car. Now they need another car to get to work. Right. And
so then you have
gas lobbyists and auto lobbyists that are going to push for those things. You
need those things.
That's right. Um, I don't know. But then also it's like, dude, I feel so bad
sometimes cause I get
stuck in these circles of just being like, like a Debbie downer sometimes, you
know? And I don't think
that that's, that's not good.
Yeah.