The Matt Walsh Show - August 19, 2022


Ep. 1005 - Using Racism To Prevent Racism


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In the wake of the recent looters' rampage at a 7-11 in Los Angeles, AOC calls for the police to do more than just tweet about the looters, but to actually catch them in the act of committing a crime.

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00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, the Minneapolis School District instates a policy of laying off white teachers before black teachers.
00:00:06.400 This is supposed to prevent systemic racism, but how do you prevent a thing from happening by doing that very thing?
00:00:12.320 Also, the Democrats double down on their favorite strategy, emotional blackmail.
00:00:16.520 Tragedy strikes CNN and thus the entire nation.
00:00:18.980 Sam Harris says that sometimes you have to subvert democracy in order to save it.
00:00:23.480 Does that make sense?
00:00:24.200 In our daily cancellation, the new Feminist She-Hulk show premieres, and it's about as insufferable as you might expect. 1.00
00:00:30.560 All of that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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00:01:51.200 Early this morning, the Twitter account for the LAPD posted footage of what they describe as a flash mob of looters ransacking a 7-11 in the city.
00:02:01.900 The looters swarming like piranhas or vultures, take your animal of choice there,
00:02:07.120 can be seen stealing candy and bags of chips and cigarettes and other necessary items before they begin ripping the place apart just sort of for the fun of it, it would seem.
00:02:16.900 Now, it may come as a shock to AOC, but the one item left untouched in the store is the bread.
00:02:24.180 The bread aisle is untouched.
00:02:25.720 I didn't see anyone take any loaves of bread.
00:02:28.220 None of the looters appear to be starving.
00:02:30.000 In fact, many of them seem to be very much on the opposite end of the starving spectrum, let's just say.
00:02:37.140 The other thing you don't see in the footage, of course, is any sign of law enforcement.
00:02:42.640 Now, one might point out that the LAPD would be better off showing up to the scene of the crime
00:02:49.360 and carting the criminals away in handcuffs rather than simply tweeting about it after the fact.
00:02:55.060 We have long had a problem in our society with people filming crimes rather than trying to actually stop them.
00:03:03.240 And now even the police have adopted this strategy.
00:03:06.960 Now, of course, from the perspective of the police, they know that the Soros DA will just release anyone they arrest.
00:03:15.740 They also know that if they have to get a little rough with any of the precious innocent children ransacking the convenience store,
00:03:23.400 they'll end up in prison on hate crime charges.
00:03:25.820 You know, if they show up there to make some arrests,
00:03:28.440 and it turns out that some of the people there don't want to be arrested, and so they resist,
00:03:33.740 and then the police, God forbid, have to use physical force to detain the suspects,
00:03:38.980 then it becomes, well, then it's a hate crime.
00:03:42.540 So what are they going to do?
00:03:43.640 Instead, they just post the video.
00:03:45.980 But then the video doesn't matter because the Soros DA won't pursue or prosecute any of these people.
00:03:53.320 They could all be wearing name badges with their addresses and phone numbers on it,
00:03:57.920 and it wouldn't make a difference.
00:04:00.400 They're not going to be held accountable, and worst of all, they know it.
00:04:04.620 That's the recipe for anarchy. 1.00
00:04:06.860 And this is the anarchy that has obviously gripped hold of our cities all across the country.
00:04:11.060 But there are a few other ingredients necessary to create a scene like the one in that footage
00:04:17.180 or in so many similar incidents that we've witnessed, especially in recent years.
00:04:21.580 Another essential ingredient, obviously, is the collapse of the nuclear family. 0.87
00:04:25.760 You know, if there were 100 people pillaging that 7-Eleven, I don't know how many people it was.
00:04:30.600 Let's say it was 100.
00:04:31.700 I'd be surprised if even one out of 100 lived in a house with both a mom and a dad present.
00:04:37.820 It's a general rule that kids with dads at home don't loot convenience stores.
00:04:43.540 Now, there may be occasional exceptions to that.
00:04:45.360 There's a reason why communities with much higher rates of intact families have much lower rates of mass looting and other forms of criminality.
00:04:54.420 In fact, I don't know.
00:04:57.180 We'd have to take a look.
00:04:58.140 But has there ever been mass looting in a community with a fatherless rate below like 50%?
00:05:08.900 If you can even get over the 50% mark with kids at home with mom and dad, are there any examples of mass looting in a community like that?
00:05:19.920 Another ingredient, though, not unrelated to the others, is entitlement.
00:05:25.960 You know, the looters feel not only safe and secure in their actions with the knowledge that they'll not be held accountable,
00:05:32.400 but also importantly, and this is the part that maybe we don't talk about enough,
00:05:35.660 they feel morally entitled to behave as they're behaving.
00:05:41.940 Indeed, they've been explicitly told by activists, by the media, by powerful voices in Congress like AOC,
00:05:50.200 that they have every right to steal and destroy as they see fit.
00:05:54.980 The narrative of systemic racism has allowed people like this to delude themselves into believing that they're oppressed by society,
00:06:02.620 and thus society owes them something, namely society owes them whatever they feel like taking at any given moment.
00:06:09.620 They're victims, and as victims, they're not responsible for their actions.
00:06:12.920 They can do what they want.
00:06:14.520 The leftist racial narrative allows them to believe that systemic racism is the biggest problem in their lives and in their communities,
00:06:22.180 even as they actively work to destroy their lives and their own communities.
00:06:26.480 The narrative self-perpetuates in this way.
00:06:31.440 Like, you know, we're often told about food deserts in urban neighborhoods.
00:06:37.040 That actually is one of the justifications also given for looting.
00:06:40.280 It's a food desert.
00:06:42.020 It's the middle of a city, but it's a desert.
00:06:43.680 There's nowhere to get food.
00:06:45.640 You know, we're told that there's a lack of grocery stores and convenience stores and other amenities.
00:06:50.120 Well, and then we're told that this is due to systemic racism.
00:06:55.860 And yet, the stores that do exist in these neighborhoods are targeted and victimized by the members of the neighborhood.
00:07:03.560 The community violently chases businesses away and then claims that the void is caused by racism.
00:07:11.120 This is the sort of destructive incoherence brought about by the systemic racism narrative.
00:07:16.880 Speaking of which, the systemic racism lie has given rise to another, even more egregious injustice this week.
00:07:24.740 And this is a story that hasn't gotten nearly enough attention.
00:07:29.040 So I'm going to bring it to your attention now if you haven't heard about it yet.
00:07:31.580 The Daily Wire has the story.
00:07:33.500 Reading, quote, it says,
00:07:34.280 A Minneapolis teachers union is stipulating that white teachers be laid off or reassigned before educators of color, quote, unquote,
00:07:43.180 allegedly to remedy the continuing effects of past discrimination by the district.
00:07:48.580 Minneapolis public schools have seen a massive drop off in student enrollment, leading to layoffs of teachers with little seniority,
00:07:55.800 something that is typical within the teaching profession.
00:07:57.900 But the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers is opting for racial standards before seniority to guarantee educators of color protections,
00:08:07.080 according to Alpha News, which reported this on Sunday.
00:08:09.880 Starting with the spring 2023 budget tie-out cycle,
00:08:13.000 if accessing a teacher who is a member of a population underrepresented among licensed teachers in the site,
00:08:19.420 the district shall access the next least senior teacher who is not a member of an underrepresented population, according to the agreement.
00:08:27.900 Excessing refers to the reduction of staff.
00:08:30.980 Teachers of color may be exempted from district-wide layoffs outside of seniority order, the agreement says,
00:08:37.120 adding that the reinstatement of teachers from underrepresented populations will be prioritized over white teachers,
00:08:42.860 according to Alpha News.
00:08:43.780 The racial stipulation was added in part in the name of social justice or to remedy the continuing effects of past discrimination by the district.
00:08:52.160 Past discrimination by the district disproportionately impacted the hiring of underrepresented teachers in the district
00:08:56.100 as compared to the relevant labor market and the community and resulted in a lack of diversity of teachers, the agreement reads.
00:09:02.200 Now, as you might imagine, this policy of firing the white teachers first, which is what it explicitly says. 0.55
00:09:11.300 Well, it doesn't explicitly say that.
00:09:13.180 What it explicitly says is we're going to fire the or lay off or excess members of the overrepresented groups instead of underrepresented,
00:09:22.440 which, of course, means white.
00:09:25.540 Now, this is being criticized, not the least because it's blatantly illegal.
00:09:29.980 I mean, at least technically, in theory, racial discrimination in hiring and firing is illegal.
00:09:41.140 But just like the laws against looting are not enforced, neither are the laws against racial discrimination.
00:09:47.420 And the pushback and also the explicit illegality of the plan have not swayed the school district at all,
00:09:52.840 which defended its racist practices in a statement a few days later.
00:09:56.160 The New York Post reports, quote, the school district released a statement to The Washington Times on Tuesday
00:10:00.520 offering a full-throated defense of the groundbreaking deal with the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers led by President Greta Callahan.
00:10:08.320 The statement says, to remedy the continuing effects of past discrimination,
00:10:11.820 Minneapolis public schools and Minneapolis Federation of Teachers mutually agreed to contract language
00:10:16.680 that aims to support the recruitment and retention of teachers from underrepresented groups
00:10:20.160 as compared to the labor market and the communities served by the school district.
00:10:23.300 So basically, they're just restating what the agreement says.
00:10:27.640 In order to heal the wounds of racial discrimination, they will engage in racial discrimination.
00:10:35.440 This is like, I don't know, trying to heal the effects of rat poison by giving the victim more rat poison.
00:10:43.460 Or, you know what, that's not actually the right analogy. That's wrong.
00:10:45.920 It's more absurd than that.
00:10:48.760 Because this is healing the effects of rat poison by forcing some other guy to take rat poison too.
00:10:57.260 Okay?
00:10:57.720 Someone's been dosed with rat poison, and then the doctor shows up and says,
00:11:01.860 I know what we're going to do about this, and then just grabs some other guy
00:11:04.320 and shoves some rat poison down his throat.
00:11:06.380 See? There you go.
00:11:07.520 Now two people are poisoned.
00:11:08.880 Now that's what you do when you're not interested in healing.
00:11:15.120 Instead, you're interested in vengeance.
00:11:17.380 No matter if the person you're getting your revenge on
00:11:20.140 had anything to do with the alleged crime that was supposedly committed.
00:11:25.940 But this is the point of the systemic racism narrative.
00:11:29.400 It is to cede resentment, hatred, a lust for vengeance.
00:11:38.340 And as we see among the looters, an unearned sense of entitlement as well.
00:11:42.940 That's the whole idea.
00:11:44.220 And it's having the desired effect.
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00:12:54.480 By the way, a little bit of exciting personal news and update.
00:12:59.920 We did, you know, as you know, we have another set of twins on the way.
00:13:04.560 I think I've mentioned that before.
00:13:06.460 And so we were able to find out the gender yesterday.
00:13:09.140 Yes, we are assigning a gender to our twins.
00:13:13.380 We're not going to give them, if you can believe it, just like with our other four kids,
00:13:18.120 we're not giving them a choice in the matter.
00:13:19.760 You know, actually, biology and nature isn't giving them a choice in the matter.
00:13:25.400 So we discovered that the twins are boys, which actually came as a shock.
00:13:32.380 You know, my wife, up until this point, I thought she had, like, magical superpowers 1.00
00:13:37.200 because she can predict the gender of a baby when it's still in utero,
00:13:45.080 and not only for our own babies, but other people.
00:13:47.240 And she's always right until now.
00:13:50.360 And so she was, like, batting 1,000 on predicting these sorts of things.
00:13:55.820 And then for our next set of twins, she said, oh, they're girls for sure. 0.91
00:13:59.980 I know that.
00:14:01.060 Turns out not.
00:14:02.040 So the boys are taking over.
00:14:04.640 The girls are going to be wildly outnumbered in my family. 1.00
00:14:07.180 And, you know, you always get the question of, well, what, you know, which is easier, boys or girls?
00:14:15.360 And I don't know.
00:14:18.440 I think it all balances out in the end.
00:14:20.000 But certainly for the first, you know, 10 to 12 years of life, I think boys present probably more of a challenge.
00:14:31.260 And mainly the challenge is just, like, keeping them alive, keeping them from destroying themselves and everything else in the house.
00:14:37.360 So that's the challenge that awaits us, which I will take on eagerly.
00:14:42.680 All right.
00:14:43.600 I want to start with something that was put together by a group called the American Firebrand PAC.
00:14:48.980 And I don't know anything about this organization, but they compiled this montage, which they posted on social media.
00:14:54.940 And I think it's pretty powerful in that it reveals the Democrats' strategy of emotional blackmail.
00:15:02.440 And this, as we know, is a strategy that has gone into overdrive this week in particular with all of the charges of spastic scholastic terrorism or whatever it's called, incitement to violence, right?
00:15:13.360 I'm being accused of that.
00:15:14.800 Libs of TikTok is being accused of it.
00:15:16.580 Conservatives in general being accused of we're going to kill people.
00:15:20.640 People are going to die because we're merely pointing out what these children's hospitals and, quote, unquote, gender clinics are doing to kids. 0.89
00:15:28.980 By pointing out the reality of what's happening to kids, we are going to end up killing people.
00:15:36.620 And if you feel like you've heard that before, that line from the left, well, if you do this, if you say this, people will die.
00:15:44.780 If you feel like you've heard it before, it's because you have, as this montage of the Democrats' moral blackmail strategy clearly shows.
00:15:52.820 Watch this.
00:15:54.260 People are dying.
00:15:55.680 People will die.
00:15:57.340 Women are going to die, Gail. 1.00
00:15:59.040 Women will die. 1.00
00:16:05.620 If you are also not going to allow trans kids to play sports, children will die. 1.00
00:16:10.600 We've seen that trans kids suffer from extremely high suicide rates.
00:16:14.020 To hear a 10-year-old say that they would rather die than experience male puberty.
00:16:20.040 The most comprehensive study to date on climate change predicts more and more people are going to die from air pollution if changes are not made.
00:16:27.400 People are suffering and dying.
00:16:29.200 People are dying.
00:16:30.660 These policies kill.
00:16:32.520 People will die.
00:16:33.940 People die.
00:16:35.500 How many more people have to die to get some gun control? 0.95
00:16:38.100 Your mistake is killing the children in your state.
00:16:40.660 This decision and this policy will kill people.
00:16:44.380 We are also going to see a lot of South Dakota women die because of this. 1.00
00:16:47.600 It's not an extreme statement to say that women will die.
00:16:50.540 I thought I was going to die.
00:16:52.100 People are dying because of misinformation.
00:16:54.680 How many more Americans have to die?
00:16:56.580 People are dying and will die who don't have to die.
00:17:04.120 This is a death cult.
00:17:09.640 Let's get on with the dying.
00:17:12.940 People will die.
00:17:14.500 You know, and actually, everything you heard there, I mean, the basic underlying claim is actually true.
00:17:22.200 And I am sorry to have to be the one to always break the news about this, but it is true that, you know, people will die.
00:17:30.840 Everyone will die.
00:17:31.720 That is the consequence of being mortal human beings.
00:17:40.140 Now, are they going to die because of opinions that you've expressed?
00:17:45.080 Are they going to die because of realities that you have pointed out?
00:17:52.720 Well, obviously not.
00:17:55.960 And the irony of this method from the Democrats going around all the times that people will die, people will die.
00:18:03.760 We can't do this because people are going to die.
00:18:06.360 Is it, first of all, from their perspective, since when is that even a bad thing?
00:18:10.540 They don't care if people die.
00:18:11.700 They hate people.
00:18:15.140 Now, as much as we just heard from Beto there calling conservatism or Republicans, you know, accusing us of being in a death cult.
00:18:25.580 Oh, really, we're in a death cult?
00:18:28.780 Which side is it, again, just remind me, that has overseen the systematic slaughter of 60 million human beings in this country?
00:18:38.500 Remind me again which one that is.
00:18:39.800 Remind me again which side it is that actually will say that there are too many people on earth and we need fewer of them.
00:18:49.080 Which side is it that talks about human beings like they're a cancer, a disease on the earth?
00:18:56.680 I mean, which side is actually openly conspiring to limit the number of people who exist?
00:19:04.320 Remind me again.
00:19:09.220 So where's the death cult?
00:19:12.060 No, in order for the people will die thing to mean anything, you know, in order for that to motivate people, you have to actually cherish and value human life.
00:19:23.840 You have to see human life as inherently valuable in some way.
00:19:30.020 And on the left, they don't.
00:19:32.920 And that's not a straw man or me making a caricature of their position.
00:19:36.680 They really don't.
00:19:39.000 And they might not come out and say it very often, but if you press them on it, they will admit it. 0.93
00:19:42.320 Does human life have inherent value?
00:19:47.260 Their answer is obviously no.
00:19:49.020 And because if you believe that it had inherent value, to begin with, you couldn't support the slaughter of 60 million human beings in the womb.
00:20:01.300 But also, in order to see that human life has inherent value, then, you know, you have to believe that there's some greater force, some greater power out there beyond just ourselves and our egos.
00:20:13.820 But if we're all just clumps of tissue walking around, and life has no inherent meaning, then it doesn't even matter if people die.
00:20:28.560 It doesn't matter if they live.
00:20:30.540 So that's how the left looks at it.
00:20:34.320 And yet they still use the people will die line to try to manipulate us.
00:20:40.160 Well, hopefully, you know, anyone listening to this, I don't need to tell you that you shouldn't fall for that.
00:20:50.720 Especially when they're using it to try to prevent you from speaking the truth.
00:20:58.520 All right.
00:21:00.500 I'm sorry we have to talk about this, because, especially on a Friday, you know, I try to keep it a little bit lighter if I can.
00:21:07.980 Probably could have fooled you on that one.
00:21:10.160 But it is a time of great sadness in America.
00:21:12.600 It is a period of mourning and lamentation.
00:21:17.060 It began about a week ago when, and I don't even know if we ever talked about this, and I feel quite ashamed, actually, that I think we may have, I may have inadvertently ignored it.
00:21:26.980 So we got to back up to about a week ago when the news was announced that prominent masturbator Jeffrey Toobin was leaving CNN after 20 years.
00:21:37.820 Now, Toobin, famous, of course, for pulling his tube out, says the decision was mutual to leave CNN.
00:21:44.760 Others are saying that it was about as mutual as his decision to fondle himself in the presence of his colleagues on a Zoom call, which is to say that in both cases, the decision was actually made by one party while the other party recoiled in horror and was traumatized.
00:22:00.780 But whatever the case, I don't know.
00:22:02.500 All we know now is that Jeffrey Toobin is unemployed and many fear we'll be left with too much time on his hands.
00:22:12.200 And who knows what else on his hands.
00:22:17.560 The good news is he no longer has to, you know, put on his pants and go to work.
00:22:22.520 Not that he ever saw the former as a necessary prerequisite for the latter.
00:22:26.760 And I don't say any of this, by the way, to make a joke about the esteemed Jeffrey Toobin or his unfortunate masturbatory adventures.
00:22:37.200 I would never joke about that.
00:22:38.660 You know, frankly, it's kind of low-hanging fruit.
00:22:40.540 Instead, I say all this as a tribute to the man who gave so much of himself to his job.
00:22:49.540 Some would say a bit too much of himself, actually.
00:22:53.180 Either way, may he rest in peace with both hands above the waist.
00:22:57.180 But Toobin's demise is not the only tragedy to befall CNN.
00:23:01.460 So that's what happened last week.
00:23:03.800 Not the only tragedy to happen to CNN and by extension to the entire country,
00:23:08.520 or at least most of our airport terminals.
00:23:11.700 It was announced this week that the man, affectionately known as Mr. Potato Head, I think it's affectionate,
00:23:16.980 Brian Stelter is leaving CNN.
00:23:19.120 This was the news yesterday.
00:23:20.620 First we lost Toobin.
00:23:22.160 Now we're losing Stelter.
00:23:23.740 CNN reports CNN's reliable sources with Brian Stelter is coming to an end.
00:23:28.160 The company announced Thursday that it's ending the media analysis show that has aired in various iterations for 30 years.
00:23:34.420 Its last episode will be this Sunday.
00:23:37.420 As a result, Brian Stelter will leave the company, a CNN spokesperson told CNN Business.
00:23:44.160 So they're pretending that they're not firing him.
00:23:46.580 It's just that the show's going away.
00:23:49.920 You know, of course, Brian Stelter says, well, I could do another show.
00:23:52.140 Oh, no, it's all right.
00:23:54.440 That's okay.
00:23:55.400 You know, we'll let you, you know.
00:23:57.020 Well, that's, it's better if you, if you just go and work for someone else.
00:24:02.380 They say, we appreciate his contributions to the network and wish him well as he embarks on new endeavors.
00:24:08.820 Now, and then Brian Stelter said, well, who cares what he says?
00:24:13.380 You know, it was, it was, it was an interesting choice, first of all.
00:24:17.560 I was kind of interested by the fact that they chose to announce the end of Brian Stelter's show like this.
00:24:22.340 Because, and I'll tell you why it's interesting, because if they hadn't said anything at all, nobody would have ever known.
00:24:29.880 Like, they could have ended the show and not told us, and we would not have known.
00:24:33.620 Stelter is like the guy in office space who, who's the guy in office space who was fired from his job,
00:24:39.560 but remained on the staff for like five years, and nobody ever realized.
00:24:44.120 Milton.
00:24:45.480 Brian Stelter is Milton.
00:24:46.760 He's the Milton of cable news.
00:24:49.820 Something similar could have happened here.
00:24:52.340 Like, they could have just ended the show and then 30 years from now thrown Brian Stelter a big retirement party
00:24:59.040 and congratulated him on three decades of service to the company, and no one would be the wiser.
00:25:07.480 Anyway, now Stelter is unemployed also, looking for new opportunities.
00:25:10.140 And I'm hopeful, honestly, and I know that I've criticized him over the years,
00:25:14.120 and I've criticized him for, you know, just being a, being a propagandist and a pawn who, you know,
00:25:24.140 his, his show was supposed to be a, sort of like a media criticism show.
00:25:28.800 That's the way it was positioned as sort of the ombudsman type role where he's, he's criticizing the media and keeping a watch on the media.
00:25:37.620 But all he ever actually did was defend the media against legitimate criticisms.
00:25:41.920 And so I've criticized him for that.
00:25:45.320 But the truth is that I, I am hopeful that he finds a new job that, um,
00:25:49.600 I'm hopeful that he finds a job that gives him an even bigger audience.
00:25:53.480 Maybe, for example, he could deliver the morning announcements at his local middle school.
00:25:58.180 Um, that'd be kind of a step up.
00:25:59.660 I don't know.
00:26:01.800 And the truth, obviously, is for Brian Stelter that he had, that,
00:26:04.220 the real problem is that, uh, once Trump went away, he had nothing left to talk about.
00:26:11.680 And there are many cases like this.
00:26:13.480 This is, this is the, the crisis that the media has faced for a few years now.
00:26:19.660 That their entire brand and personality centered around Trump and then Trump left.
00:26:26.900 And, um, they've had years to figure something else out and they just haven't been able to do it.
00:26:30.240 Which is why, I mean, never believe anything, anything otherwise.
00:26:35.400 They, they desperately, desperately want Trump to run again and they want him back in the White House.
00:26:45.000 Anyway, so that's the sad news.
00:26:47.000 Brian Stelter and Jeffrey Toobin.
00:26:49.140 All right, I want to play this clip.
00:26:50.240 This is something that was making the rounds yesterday.
00:26:52.100 Uh, Sam Harris was on, um, the Trigonometry podcast,
00:26:58.420 which, by the way, I appeared on that podcast as well a few, uh, days ago.
00:27:02.580 And you can go to their YouTube channel and watch that episode.
00:27:05.440 And after you do that, um, or, or I guess you can do that after you watch this clip.
00:27:09.780 This is, uh, Sam Harris also on the same podcast.
00:27:13.900 Who, you know, was a, to put it mildly is, is a Trump critic.
00:27:19.460 Doesn't like Trump.
00:27:20.460 And he was asked about some of the dirty tricks that were pulled,
00:27:26.460 especially when it comes to the Hunter Biden laptop story that ended up, you know,
00:27:31.720 resulting in, in Biden getting elected as the media and big tech conspired to suppress these stories.
00:27:37.360 Uh, does he have any ethical qualms about that?
00:27:40.020 And, and Sam Harris says, no, let's listen to the clip.
00:27:42.840 So, I mean, Hunter Biden, at that point, Hunter Biden literally could have had,
00:27:47.020 had the corpses of children in his basement.
00:27:50.780 I would not have cared, right?
00:27:52.460 It's like, it's, there's nothing.
00:27:54.180 First of all, it's Hunter Biden, right?
00:27:55.640 It's not, it's like, it's not Joe Biden, but even if Joe, like, even the,
00:28:00.540 whatever scope of Joe Biden's corruption is, like, if you, if we could just go down that rabbit hole endlessly
00:28:06.220 and, and understand that he's getting kickbacks from Hunter Biden's deals in Ukraine or wherever else, right?
00:28:12.380 Or China.
00:28:13.980 It is infinitesimal compared to the corruption we know Trump is involved in.
00:28:21.420 It's like, it's like, it's like a firefly to the sun, right?
00:28:23.940 I mean, like, there's just, it doesn't even, it doesn't even stack up against Trump University, right?
00:28:29.900 Trump University, as a story, is worse than anything that could be in Hunter Biden's laptop,
00:28:35.620 in my view, right?
00:28:37.240 Now, that's not, that doesn't answer the people who say it's still completely unfair
00:28:41.260 to not have looked at the laptop in a timely way and to have shut down the, you know,
00:28:46.960 the New York Post's Twitter account.
00:28:48.880 Like, that, that's a, just a conspiracy, that's a left-wing conspiracy to deny the presidency to-
00:28:54.500 Pause it there for one second.
00:28:58.420 And usually Sam Harris is a pretty clear, I don't, I don't agree with, with much of what he says,
00:29:02.360 but he's usually, seems to me, to be a pretty clear thinker, and not on this.
00:29:08.320 You know, because there, there, there's a lot of contradiction happening here,
00:29:13.400 starting with the fact that, that he says, well, Trump is worse because his crimes are worse,
00:29:19.520 allegedly, right?
00:29:20.480 He claims.
00:29:21.580 He's done a lot worse things.
00:29:23.900 And so that's why we have to do whatever we can to keep him out of office.
00:29:26.300 But then he also says, I wouldn't care what, what Joe Biden did.
00:29:32.340 So Trump is worse because he's done worse things.
00:29:36.360 But even if Biden did worse things, which by the way, you know, killing children and having
00:29:42.220 them in the basement, I understand that this was meant to be hyperbole, but he's, he's,
00:29:45.720 he's making the point, whether it was hyperbole or not, that literally no matter what he did,
00:29:50.820 it, it, it, it, it's, uh, he still would have preferred Biden over Trump.
00:29:56.700 So, I mean, do you think that Trump is actually literally the worst person, like no one could
00:30:01.940 have ever, ever be worse than, than Donald Trump?
00:30:03.660 I guess that's what you believe.
00:30:07.640 So on one hand, he's, he's basing his assessment on, you know, what, what he believes Trump has
00:30:14.740 done versus what Biden has done, what they're both guilty of doing.
00:30:18.800 But then on the other hand, he says, it doesn't really matter what they do.
00:30:21.960 So that doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
00:30:25.080 Also, the other thing that he's missing completely here is that how do we know about corruption
00:30:32.580 from elected officials and powerful people, especially presidents?
00:30:40.320 I mean, how do, how do we know if they're corrupt or not?
00:30:42.520 Do they announce it?
00:30:44.940 Are we relying on them to come out and, and just tell us, yeah, I'm here, here's, here are
00:30:48.700 my examples of corruption, everybody.
00:30:50.060 Here it is.
00:30:52.780 No, no, no.
00:30:53.540 We need people to tell us.
00:30:55.800 And that's traditionally what you need the news media for.
00:30:59.800 Because the average person is not in a position to investigate the corruption of a powerful
00:31:05.800 elected official.
00:31:06.780 So we need someone to do it and tell us.
00:31:09.120 So are you not curious about that?
00:31:14.240 I mean, are you not wondering that, okay, like whatever Trump has done, we know all of
00:31:19.600 it because there is, the media is obsessed with finding everything.
00:31:23.880 He's got, he's got the entire federal government coming after him.
00:31:28.680 So there are no secrets here.
00:31:30.100 All of Trump's sins have been laid to bear.
00:31:35.460 Because there are a lot of very powerful forces that are extremely interested in finding
00:31:40.480 out what those things are and telling us.
00:31:45.280 But Sam, are you not, are you not seeing the issue here?
00:31:49.560 That for Democrat presidents, there aren't any powerful forces even interested in finding
00:31:56.960 out what the corruption might be.
00:32:01.920 So when you say that Trump is more corrupt than Biden, what is that even based on?
00:32:08.300 Now, by the way, it's, it's, it's also not true.
00:32:10.180 Like even, even, even looking at the corruption we know about from Biden, it is worse than Trump.
00:32:15.260 Hands down, far and away.
00:32:16.480 But my point is that, like the corruption we know about, that's a, that's a, that's an important
00:32:24.620 qualifier there.
00:32:27.920 Because the things we know about are only the things that slip through the cracks.
00:32:33.720 All right, let's play the rest of the clip.
00:32:36.020 Trump, absolutely it was, absolutely, right?
00:32:39.380 But I think it was warranted, right?
00:32:41.180 And I'm, and again, it's a coin toss as to whether or not that particular piece.
00:32:44.900 I'm really sorry.
00:32:45.520 I, I was the one that said we should move on, but you've just said something I really
00:32:48.900 struggled with there, which is, you support.
00:32:52.100 The kids in the basement?
00:32:53.240 You, no, no.
00:32:54.180 The kids in the basement.
00:32:55.780 I'm interested in democracy.
00:32:57.580 You're saying you are content with a left-wing conspiracy to prevent somebody being democratically
00:33:04.180 re-elected as president.
00:33:05.700 Well, no, I'm, I'm content.
00:33:06.900 Well, so it's, but the thing is, it's just not left-wing, right?
00:33:09.140 So Liz Cheney is not left-wing, right? 0.99
00:33:11.440 Liz Cheney is doing everything in her power.
00:33:13.520 Conspiracy to prevent somebody being democratically-
00:33:15.900 No, but it's not, no, but there's nothing, conspiracy, it's not, it was a conspiracy out
00:33:19.560 in the open.
00:33:20.140 It does, but it doesn't matter if it was, it doesn't matter what part's conspiracy, what
00:33:23.800 part's out in the open.
00:33:24.760 I mean, I think it's like, if people get together and talk, and talk about what should we do
00:33:29.580 about this phenomenon, you know, if, it's like, if there, if there was an asteroid hurtling
00:33:34.200 toward Earth and, and we got in a room together with all of our friends and had a conversation
00:33:39.860 about what we could do to deflect its course, right?
00:33:43.480 Is that a conspiracy?
00:33:44.300 So Trump was a, an asteroid set to destroy life on Earth.
00:33:54.880 You know, it, it, it, more incoherence here because Trump is allegedly a threat to democracy
00:34:03.060 and that's what makes him so dangerous.
00:34:04.620 And that's why we have to do everything we can to stop him.
00:34:10.400 But yet you're subverting the democratic process to stop him because you think he's a threat
00:34:17.220 to the democratic process.
00:34:18.340 So you're destroying the democratic process to save the democratic process.
00:34:21.920 I think we've heard that kind of thing, but it reminds me of a, who was it?
00:34:23.860 George Bush said, we have to abandon the free markets to save the free markets.
00:34:27.960 I believe was his famous quote, infamous quote.
00:34:29.880 But this is also ends justify the means, which is what you get on the left.
00:34:38.320 It's like, you could do whatever you want as long as you get the result you want.
00:34:45.340 All that matters is the result and anything done in service to that result is automatically
00:34:50.360 okay because of the result.
00:34:52.780 So that's what he's, that is what he is actually struggling to defend here is the ends justify
00:34:58.560 the means mentality.
00:35:00.620 And the reason he's struggling to defend it is because it is a morally incoherent philosophy.
00:35:09.660 All right.
00:35:10.680 Speaking of moral incoherence, so here's a study from Axios and it is, I haven't even looked
00:35:17.960 at these results yet, but I just saw this pop up and I'm reading it now.
00:35:21.480 So this is, they are examining the differences between public and private opinions.
00:35:26.480 And they say self-silencing, people saying what they think others want to hear rather
00:35:32.020 than what they truly feel, is skewing our understanding of how Americans really feel
00:35:36.400 about abortion, COVID-19 precautions, what children are taught in school and other hot
00:35:40.100 button issues, according to a new study.
00:35:42.880 The best predictor of private behavior is private opinion.
00:35:46.000 People's actual views are far more likely than their stated views to drive consumer and
00:35:49.860 social behavior and voting.
00:35:51.160 So this is analyzing public versus private opinion in individuals, which already I'm not
00:36:02.920 sure how you measure that exactly.
00:36:06.040 Because whatever they're, you have to ask them, right?
00:36:08.720 And so whatever they're telling you is, I guess, their public opinion because they're saying
00:36:12.500 it out loud.
00:36:12.920 The private opinion is what they believe in their heads, but there's no way to measure
00:36:20.440 that really, because the moment they say it out loud, that it's no longer the private opinion.
00:36:27.360 So I'm seeing some problems here already, but let's go, let's go ahead.
00:36:30.580 It says, by the numbers, on abortion, the study found that men are much less likely to privately
00:36:35.940 agree with the idea that the choice to have an abortion should be left solely to a woman 0.99
00:36:40.680 and her doctor than would say so publicly, 45% to 60%.
00:36:45.680 Wait, okay.
00:36:47.700 The study, men are less likely to agree with the idea that the choice to have an abortion
00:36:53.700 should be left to a woman and her doctor. 1.00
00:36:57.840 Republicans, meanwhile, were less likely to privately say Roe v. Wade should be overturned
00:37:02.560 than publicly.
00:37:03.920 On education, Americans overall are privately more supportive of parents having more influence
00:37:08.840 over curriculum than proclaim this publicly, 60% to 52%.
00:37:13.180 Americans are less concerned about teachers talking about gender identity or how much
00:37:18.580 public schools focus on racism than they say publicly.
00:37:22.720 Only about half of Americans actually think it's inappropriate for schools to discuss gender
00:37:26.420 identity in kindergarten through third grade compared to the 63% who say so publicly.
00:37:30.400 Okay, right.
00:37:31.120 All right, sorry I wasted your time with this absolute nonsense study.
00:37:37.480 Right, so people are more conservative publicly is what you're trying to tell us on issues of
00:37:44.240 gender identity than they are privately.
00:37:49.460 Obviously, the exact opposite is the case.
00:37:53.760 So what they want us to believe is that there are a whole bunch of Americans running around
00:37:56.620 saying that they don't want to teach kindergartners about gender identity.
00:37:59.620 They say that publicly, but privately they really want it to happen.
00:38:03.820 Right.
00:38:06.460 That's not even close to true.
00:38:08.920 It actually makes no sense whatsoever.
00:38:13.040 Because there's no, the self-regulation happens the other way.
00:38:18.060 People present themselves as more liberal in public than they actually are in private.
00:38:23.620 That's how the self-regulation works.
00:38:25.400 And how do I know that?
00:38:28.020 Well, very simply, because that's where all of the social incentive is.
00:38:32.680 There's no social incentive to pretend to be more conservative than you actually are.
00:38:37.980 Zero.
00:38:40.960 And also, the punishment goes against the conservative view.
00:38:48.380 Because all of our most powerful institutions demand that we have liberal viewpoints on these
00:38:56.640 subjects, especially on subjects like gender.
00:39:01.880 Media, academia, the government, everywhere.
00:39:04.900 Hollywood, big tech.
00:39:07.200 So all of the social pressure falls on trying to make people, you know, be more liberal on these subjects.
00:39:18.900 And yet we're supposed to believe, based on this study, that somehow people, people actually intentionally put themselves in line for social ostracization and punishment
00:39:35.520 by pretending to be more, by adopting more unpopular views, at least unpopular in the minds of our elites.
00:39:42.380 It makes no sense whatsoever.
00:39:46.420 But thanks for doing this study anyway.
00:39:48.560 All right.
00:39:48.860 One other thing I want to mention here.
00:39:51.360 Interesting story.
00:39:53.160 It says,
00:39:53.480 A pastor in Missouri rained down a fiery sermon upon his flock one Sunday this month, scolding parishioners for failing to follow God.
00:40:01.460 The Reverend Carlton Funderburk condemned his congregation, not because they'd sinned too much, or loved God too little, or done too few good deeds out in the world.
00:40:13.800 Instead, Funderburk rebuked the cheap sons and daughters of the Church of the Well in Kansas City for not honoring him by buying him a luxury watch.
00:40:23.160 Now, I'll play this clip for you.
00:40:26.700 And I watched this clip, and I, you know, I immediately thought, okay, you always have to keep in mind context.
00:40:31.780 And when you see a clip, and it's 30 seconds or 50 seconds, what happened before and after that?
00:40:36.220 Is there some kind of context here that would make this sound not as horrible as it sounds?
00:40:42.760 Well, apparently not, because this pastor has since apologized for this clip that you're about to watch right now.
00:40:49.400 Here it is.
00:40:50.000 Let's listen.
00:40:50.320 See, that's how I know you're still poor, broke, busted, and disgusted, because of how you've been honoring me.
00:41:01.000 I'm not worth your McDonald's money.
00:41:04.920 I'm not worth your Red Lobster money.
00:41:09.360 I ain't worth your St. John knit.
00:41:11.700 Y'all can't afford it no how.
00:41:14.920 I ain't worth y'all Louis Vuitton.
00:41:17.560 I ain't worth your Prada.
00:41:18.680 I'm not worth your Gucci.
00:41:25.760 Mother, ooh, I'm saying this, and I promise you, D. G. N. is not with respect and want. 0.99
00:41:29.480 I'm saying it because I want you to understand just what God is saying.
00:41:32.540 I even found out that Movado, you can buy a Movado watch in Sam's.
00:41:36.840 Yes, you can.
00:41:38.440 And y'all know I asked for one last year.
00:41:40.840 Here it is the whole way in August.
00:41:42.500 I still ain't got it.
00:41:43.860 Y'all ain't saying nothing.
00:41:44.780 Let me kick down the door and talk to my cheap sons and daughters. 1.00
00:41:49.780 Now, this is obviously widely inappropriate and actually insane.
00:41:54.820 This is, this is, it's like prosperity gospel on steroids, really.
00:42:00.220 I mean, this is, prosperity gospel, unfortunately, is very, very popular.
00:42:05.660 And even if the advocates of it rarely will identify themselves as such.
00:42:15.540 But prosperity gospel is the idea that you deserve to be blessed with actual riches,
00:42:24.400 like physical riches, if you're a holy person, that God will reward you with physical wealth
00:42:34.600 and riches in this world, and that you deserve it.
00:42:39.720 Now, of course, that's pretty much diametrically opposed to what Christ actually says in the
00:42:46.140 gospels, which is why it's not the actual gospel, it's the prosperity gospel.
00:42:49.720 Well, that's kind of what we're hearing here, much more direct than what you're used to hearing.
00:42:56.820 That said, you also see what a, what a, what a advantage it is to have a powerful preacher
00:43:02.680 voice and cadence.
00:43:05.500 Because you could get up there complaining that you're, that you weren't given a watch
00:43:09.140 and people in the congregation are saying, amen, that's right.
00:43:12.700 It's the power of, of being a good public speaker.
00:43:17.820 You can see what, you can see the advantages there.
00:43:21.400 Let's get to the comment section.
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00:44:47.900 Before we get to the comments here, I wanted to, if I could get serious yet again, and I'm
00:44:52.660 sorry I have to keep on doing this, but I have been talking about on this show for the
00:44:58.660 past couple of weeks, you know, while other shows have focused on less important issues.
00:45:05.160 I have been talking quite a bit about the issue related to my giant stuffed walrus, which
00:45:12.000 as you know, was apparently purchased for me as a gift by this company and yet never given
00:45:19.700 to me, no explanation has ever been offered for why my giant stuffed walrus was, was why
00:45:29.000 I was deprived of it and still am deprived of it.
00:45:35.080 And, you know, as we've been talking about this and I, and I, and I can tell you that
00:45:39.740 here at work, I've been, I've been investigating, I can't get anyone else to take the investigation
00:45:44.680 seriously.
00:45:45.900 It's like everyone else here, they're just whistling past the graveyard every day, all
00:45:52.380 wrapped up in whatever they're doing.
00:45:56.520 And no one is taking seriously the fact that there's a giant stuffed walrus somewhere out
00:46:02.680 there that I have not been given, even though it's mine.
00:46:05.080 So in my investigation, I stumbled across this and I, I have to tell you, I was stunned
00:46:10.880 when I saw this.
00:46:12.880 This is a video, this is true, this is a video from Ben Shapiro's Instagram account, which
00:46:20.200 was posted back in June and it's been sitting there.
00:46:24.180 No one ever told me about it.
00:46:26.880 I just want you to see this video, watch.
00:46:35.080 I think the wallstrip is a little bit too far.
00:46:43.600 Get your hands off my walrus, Ben, first of all.
00:46:46.980 That's not yours. 0.61
00:46:47.700 That's mine.
00:46:49.800 So you see, okay, number one, you can see the giants.
00:46:52.060 I told you it's giants.
00:46:53.380 That's the stuffed walrus.
00:46:54.400 So now I'm just trying to figure out what's going on here.
00:46:59.620 That I was not given the stuffed walrus, but you, but we, you were using it for, for an
00:47:05.740 Instagram video for Ben.
00:47:07.160 Does Ben have it?
00:47:10.840 Okay.
00:47:11.400 I don't know.
00:47:12.060 We're going down the rabbit hole here and, uh, and I, and I'm starting to get frankly
00:47:16.920 disturbed by what I'm finding, but I will not relent.
00:47:23.060 All right.
00:47:24.000 Alexandra de Berdeja says, uh, Matt Walsh's mouth.
00:47:33.080 Welcome to the members only segment.
00:47:34.720 My personal favorite part of the show, Matt Walsh's brain.
00:47:37.340 I can't believe DW has me doing this stupid stuff.
00:47:39.800 I want to go home.
00:47:41.240 That's not true.
00:47:43.060 I'm, I'm very excited about doing the members only segment, which we know, which we have
00:47:46.340 added to the end of the show.
00:47:48.040 Uh, because I, everyone knows that, you know, I love nothing more than talking to begin with.
00:47:52.420 And, um, and I've, I am always saying how at the end of the show, after talking for an
00:47:58.440 hour, uh, I want nothing more than to continue talking some more.
00:48:01.740 I like, I'm always saying that.
00:48:02.960 And, and so, you know, being given the opportunity is very exciting for me.
00:48:08.000 That's, that's sincere.
00:48:08.840 Hugh Jarsall says, is it me or did Matt basically confirm it was dominoes he witnessed this poor
00:48:16.760 behavior at?
00:48:17.520 I realized I may be banned for, for this.
00:48:19.560 Um, I can confirm nor deny what pizza place I worked for.
00:48:24.180 Um, I, I just, you know, I, I will say that at least when I was working in, in that industry,
00:48:32.260 there were all kinds of things, you know, that I witnessed behind the scenes that, I mean,
00:48:37.400 most of it having to do with, with food safety and sanitation.
00:48:40.420 Uh, but, uh, it's, it's just, it, it's made me less enthusiastic about eating pizza from
00:48:46.640 those kinds of places.
00:48:48.000 I will say, uh, Samuel Hayes says, Matt's not wrong about the pizza thing.
00:48:52.580 My pal worked for a CC's that swept ingredients up, rinsed them and made a pizza with the floor
00:48:57.580 toppings.
00:48:58.640 Meanwhile, I worked for a local pizza place where the cooks sniffed cocaine off of the
00:49:02.780 same counters that they chopped ingredients on.
00:49:06.280 Um, so you get a little bit of cocaine on the pizza.
00:49:09.160 I don't, I don't know if people will see that as a disincentive or not.
00:49:12.960 Um, Bean says it's not illegal to yell fire in a crowded theater.
00:49:18.460 Why are we still at this LMAO?
00:49:21.460 Yeah, the fire crowded theater thing has been used.
00:49:24.180 That was used against me this week.
00:49:26.420 It's incitement by talking about Boston Children's Hospital.
00:49:29.160 And we know that the fire crowded theater thing is a, it's a, it's a stupid cliche.
00:49:33.660 Uh, but, but even more so, you know, one of the reasons why it's especially absurd in
00:49:39.340 this case is that we could, we could talk about the scenarios and the, the legality
00:49:45.960 of crying fire in a crowded theater when there's no fire.
00:49:49.940 But certainly if there actually is a fire, then we could all agree that not only, not only is it
00:49:58.500 okay to yell fire, but, um, if you saw a fire in a theater and didn't tell anybody and maybe just
00:50:04.980 snuck out the door yourself and left everyone to die in the inferno, then, uh, then at the
00:50:10.180 very least that's immoral, if not, uh, illegal.
00:50:14.120 So that's what makes the charge so especially absurd.
00:50:21.300 Because when we talk about the fact that Boston Children's Hospital or any of these other
00:50:24.660 children's hospitals or clinics are castrating and sterilizing kids and we're yelling fire
00:50:31.220 in that sense, well, there actually is a fire.
00:50:34.660 It is really happening.
00:50:35.980 And so what the left is saying is, um, no, even if the theater is on fire and everyone's
00:50:42.680 going to die, don't tell anyone, keep your mouth shut. 0.86
00:50:48.600 Let that, let them enjoy the, you know, the last few minutes of the film before they all
00:50:52.100 burn to death.
00:50:52.960 That's what, that's what the left is saying.
00:50:55.640 Um, and finally, Mike says, Matt, on the tipping conversation, if we paid people a living wage,
00:51:04.040 then it wouldn't be necessary to tip.
00:51:08.300 Well, first of all, it depends.
00:51:09.680 I mean, you know, we, we use this term living wage, like it's supposed to have some kind of
00:51:14.420 objective meaning.
00:51:15.760 What, what do you, what do you mean by living wage?
00:51:18.300 If you mean by living wage, a wage that someone could live off of on their own and support
00:51:24.960 themselves indefinitely, um, well, not every job was meant.
00:51:34.040 For that purpose, right?
00:51:37.220 Like not, not every job is, is meant to be a career for an adult to have and, and, and
00:51:44.520 keep for years on end.
00:51:47.260 And so for example, you know, working a McDonald's drive-thru is, is not meant to be a career where
00:51:57.620 you're supporting yourself and a family off of it.
00:51:59.560 It's, it's, it's really, these are really jobs meant for like kids and high school students
00:52:05.860 and, you know, people working part-time for some extra money.
00:52:12.580 Um, and as far as the tipping part, it just, we, we, we did talk about this in the member
00:52:16.140 segment yesterday.
00:52:16.960 And, uh, and I think I've talked about it before on this show, but all I'm, I'm not
00:52:20.080 anti-tipping.
00:52:20.940 I'm, I've actually always been a believer in tipping and I think I'm a pretty good tipper,
00:52:23.860 but we just need to, we're always being told we need to have national conversations about
00:52:27.840 this and that subject.
00:52:28.780 This is a subject where we actually need a national conversation.
00:52:31.460 And we need to talk about what, what jobs actually deserve and warrant a tip and which
00:52:37.740 don't, because right now it is just totally out of control.
00:52:40.220 Uh, and it's, it's, we can mainly blame it on the stupid little iPad things that people
00:52:45.540 use now instead of cash registers, because they just flip it around and say, oh, would
00:52:50.160 you like to leave a tip?
00:52:52.060 And it's like, no, I don't, not necessarily, no, you hand me a cup of coffee.
00:52:56.080 Why do I want to leave a tip for that?
00:52:57.720 You were running a cash register.
00:52:59.020 I ran a cash register when I was a kid.
00:53:00.720 I never asked for a tip for it.
00:53:04.320 This is an important conversation we should have.
00:53:05.740 Well, the story of my plight has been heard far and wide as I have whined about it incessantly.
00:53:13.280 As you're all aware, the giant walrus that was created and planned as a gift for me is
00:53:17.620 still hidden somewhere within these walls.
00:53:20.300 How can you hide a giant walrus?
00:53:22.320 Well, I don't know.
00:53:23.340 The outcry of support, in addition to the condemnation of those guilty of withholding the gentle
00:53:28.200 semi-aquatic beast is, uh, is welcome and it's also uplifting.
00:53:32.300 And yet the hope I've drawn from my sweet babies pales a comparison.
00:53:35.740 To the devastation of this agonizing, forceful separation.
00:53:40.880 It is literal violence.
00:53:42.960 Some might even say stochastic terrorism against me.
00:53:45.940 That's why this month's patch is the hashtag give Matt his walrus patch.
00:53:51.200 They've made a patch.
00:53:52.380 The very people responsible for the abomination plaguing me while I was ravaged by laryngitis
00:53:57.040 are monetizing my suffering.
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00:54:06.720 I can't believe they're making me do this.
00:54:08.160 I feel like a hostage reading my own captor's demands.
00:54:11.060 Can they do this?
00:54:12.040 Why are they doing this?
00:54:13.840 They actually took the time to write this out.
00:54:15.420 These questions I'm asking, I'm writing right now.
00:54:17.400 Uh, my, my own, my own existential crisis.
00:54:19.580 I'm reading from a teleprompter at this moment.
00:54:22.040 I'm still reading copy right now.
00:54:23.480 This is not stopping.
00:54:25.100 This is cruel.
00:54:25.740 Almost as cruel as not being given my walrus.
00:54:27.900 So go buy the patch.
00:54:29.160 Also, last week was a week like no other.
00:54:31.320 I triumphed over my illness and was able to release the 1,000th episode of the Matt Walsh
00:54:34.900 show.
00:54:35.480 1,000 episodes is a massive milestone in my career, but that's not, that's only just the
00:54:39.680 beginning.
00:54:40.400 If, uh, if you want to see one of the most important things I've ever done in my lifetime,
00:54:43.780 you have to check out my documentary, What is a Woman? 1.00
00:54:46.140 It has more than 5,000 audience ratings on Rotten Tomatoes, even has five brave critics
00:54:51.160 who were willing to review it, and they all gave it a thumbs up.
00:54:54.500 Just, uh, in the month after we released What is a Woman, the Daily Wire gained more members
00:54:58.620 than at any other time in our history.
00:55:01.060 It just goes to show that, uh, if you make something worth watching, unlike most Hollywood
00:55:04.520 films, people will watch it in droves.
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00:55:10.280 That's whatisawoman.com today.
00:55:12.260 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.
00:55:16.140 So earlier in the month, it was announced that Warner Brothers would be shelving their
00:55:22.900 new Batgirl film after having already spent $90 million to produce it.
00:55:27.380 The move was devastating for Batgirl's fan, but it made sense from a financial perspective.
00:55:31.680 The studio realized that the film would be a massive, embarrassing flop and decided that
00:55:35.920 they'd rather just take the tax write-off than cut their losses.
00:55:39.220 Now, of course, if they'd asked me, I could have told them before they even made the movie
00:55:43.580 that a movie called Batgirl would be terrible.
00:55:47.300 I mean, replacing Batman with a 97-pound female, it's like remaking Jaws, except with a dolphin. 0.96
00:55:55.320 And on second thought, that analogy probably makes Batgirl seem more interesting than it
00:55:58.660 really is.
00:55:59.760 Although we'll never know for sure, as the studio executives have taken the Batgirl film
00:56:03.800 and thrown it into a volcano, ensuring that nobody ever sees it and it never falls into the wrong
00:56:08.760 hands. But the untimely demise of Batgirl has created a void now. The public is clamoring for
00:56:14.900 a new feminist superhero to step in and carry the mantle. Well, really, nobody is clamoring for a 1.00
00:56:21.600 feminist superhero. Literally nobody on earth. That's the whole reason why Batgirl ended up in 1.00
00:56:25.500 the volcano to begin with. Be that as it may, Hollywood is ready to deliver what nobody actually
00:56:31.320 asked for or wanted. And this week, Marvel's new series, She-Hulk, debuted on Disney+. Even before
00:56:38.540 the show premiered, the cast had already started using the Batgirl tragedy as a means of morally
00:56:43.800 blackmailing both the studio and the public into supporting their project. The headline on Yahoo News
00:56:49.860 reads, After Batgirl cancellation, She-Hulk cast and creators stressed the importance of studios
00:56:56.120 supporting female-led superhero projects. Translation, you all better pretend to actually 0.99
00:57:03.380 like this bull**** we produced or you're all sexist. The message is made clear in the article. It says
00:57:08.340 Marvel boss Kevin Feige was among the first to reach out to Batgirl directors Adil L. Arby and
00:57:15.040 Balil Falah, who also worked on Ms. Marvel, to express his support after the cancellation news. Likewise,
00:57:20.140 the team behind She-Hulk shared their sympathy. Quote, It is so hard to imagine the disappointment that
00:57:24.520 those filmmakers must be feeling because these projects take years, says She-Hulk director and
00:57:28.800 executive producer Kat Koiro. I've been working on this for years and the idea of it never seeing
00:57:33.480 the light of day is, well, it must be crushing. She-Hulk has long been regarded as one of the most
00:57:37.760 powerful feminist icons found in the pages of comic books, making the arrival of attorney at law 1.00
00:57:42.820 all the more impactful at this particular moment in time. Koiro says, It's exciting because just her
00:57:49.640 very existence is a feminist. She's large. She's in charge. She controls her own narrative. The MCU 0.99
00:57:55.480 has for a very long time been very male heavy. There hasn't been a lot of female representation.
00:58:00.880 So it's nice to finally start making some progress in that area. Now, I do agree that large
00:58:07.060 is quite often an apt description of feminist. I'm not sure about the rest of it, though. In any case,
00:58:13.280 the black male worked and She-Hulk, despite being just as humiliatingly terrible as Batgirl would have 0.97
00:58:19.140 been, was allowed to debut and be seen by literally dozens of people. One particular clip from the
00:58:25.280 show's premiere has been making the rounds online, though, helped by the IMDb Twitter account, which
00:58:30.660 tweeted the video with the caption, Ahem, say it louder for the people in the back. The clip shows
00:58:36.300 She-Hulk lecturing regular Hulk about how difficult her life is. Because, of course, the whole reason
00:58:42.320 audiences flock to superhero shows is to hear their favorite superheroes complain and feel sorry for them
00:58:49.120 themselves. Here's the clip.
00:58:50.860 Here's the thing, Bruce. I'm great at controlling my anger. I do it all the time. When I'm catcalled in
00:58:59.080 the street, when incompetent men explain my own area of expertise to me, I do it pretty much every
00:59:06.060 day. Because if I don't, I will get called emotional or difficult or might just literally get murdered.
00:59:13.540 So I'm an expert at controlling my anger because I do it infinitely more than you.
00:59:20.960 As we can see, self-pity is She-Hulk's superpower. Her high-pitched whining is enough to make any 1.00
00:59:27.180 supervillain flee out of just sheer annoyance. Of course, the experiences she describes in that
00:59:33.640 monologue, which was apparently curated from a Twitter thread written by a Jezebel blogger,
00:59:37.740 are all, at worst, mild annoyances. I mean, if those experiences are the worst hardships in your
00:59:44.660 life, then you have led an exceedingly privileged existence. In trying to explain why her life is so
00:59:51.400 much harder than Bruce's, She-Hulk can only mention the trauma of receiving unwanted compliments
00:59:56.540 and of having her credentials questioned. And she then says that she can't complain about these
01:00:02.480 experiences because if she does, she'll be insulted or murdered. The interesting thing about this claim
01:00:08.960 is that it's not only delusional and insane, but also self-negating. She clearly has no problem
01:00:14.060 complaining and is quite eager to do so. And far from being killed for it, she's instead hailed as a
01:00:18.820 hero. This is a common theme with the feminists. They claim that they're not able to talk about their 1.00
01:00:23.940 troubles when, in fact, that's the only thing they ever talk about. And anytime one of them does talk
01:00:30.720 about it, the others say, yeah, finally someone said it. What do you mean finally someone said it?
01:00:35.260 This is all, we've heard this a billion times. But simply exaggerating your own sufferings is one
01:00:41.940 thing. You know, we can all tend to fall into that trap sometimes. The real problem with She-Hulk's
01:00:46.020 approach here and with the approach of feminists in general is the assumption that no man could ever 0.88
01:00:51.320 suffer or does ever suffer like women suffer. She-Hulk declares her struggles to be infinitely more 1.00
01:00:57.500 numerous and severe than Bruce's or any other man's. Now, we could maybe ignore the claim if it was just
01:01:02.940 coming from a character called She-Hulk, but the problem is that this is the attitude that our society
01:01:06.440 seeks to foster in girls. That's why they put it in the monologue to begin with. In truth, there is
01:01:12.720 nothing to be gained by comparing two groups against each other and trying to determine who has a harder
01:01:16.880 time of it. But if that is the game we're playing, most of the statistical evidence would seem to
01:01:22.800 suggest that in modern America, women generally have the better deal. That's why girls are more 1.00
01:01:28.520 likely to graduate high school, less likely to be suspended or expelled. Women are less likely to
01:01:32.640 commit suicide, to become drug addicts, to become hopeless, to homeless, to less likely to suffer from
01:01:38.300 workplace injuries. Women are less likely to be the victims of violent crime. They're less likely to
01:01:43.320 be blown to pieces on the battlefield. But sure, I guess the homeless, drug-addicted, suicidal,
01:01:49.360 war-injured veteran on the street probably doesn't get catcalled very often. So he's got nothing on
01:01:55.300 She-Hulk. Now, nobody is suggesting that women have no challenges or obstacles to overcome, but the 0.92
01:02:00.720 idea that they have more obstacles than men or more serious ones is just not borne out by the facts.
01:02:06.320 I'm sorry. And besides, as already noted, the comparisons are absurd and pointless. The only thing
01:02:11.620 worse than being self-pitying is to be competitive in your self-pity. It's bad enough to walk around
01:02:17.160 dwelling on your misfortunes. It's even worse to insist that you win the prize for the most
01:02:21.800 misfortunate person in the world. And it's especially ridiculous to make this claim when
01:02:27.260 you are a young, attractive woman in the modern Western world, because our modern society is
01:02:32.800 essentially tailor-made to facilitate the happiness and success of that category of people.
01:02:38.360 This has probably been a more serious analysis of a She-Hulk monologue than was necessary,
01:02:45.000 but someone has to mansplain these things to her, and I was more than happy to step up to the plate.
01:02:51.140 And someone must especially say to She-Hulk that you, ma'am, are canceled. And that'll do it for us 1.00
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