00:00:30.600All of that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
00:00:41.700So yesterday was the second stop in my What is a Woman college tour.
00:00:46.300This was a week that began 46 years ago, it feels like,
00:00:49.580with three major medical associations writing to the DOJ and calling for my arrest
00:00:54.460and the arrest of the other high-profile, quote-unquote, conservatives who criticized them.
00:01:00.240The day later, Media Matters launches their smear campaign,
00:01:02.820exposing the long-suppressed fact that I was once 23 years old.
00:01:06.380And finally, yesterday, I screened the film and spoke at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
00:01:13.380And protesters swarmed outside the auditorium, doing their best unsuccessfully to disrupt and kind of drown me out.
00:01:21.660But frankly, the events of this week are, they're making me start to suspect that there are some people in this country who really don't like me.
00:01:31.400And I still can't imagine why that would be the case.
00:04:24.060I think I need to hear it maybe another 600 times before I decide.
00:04:27.360But there's one short clip from last night, a couple of short clips actually,
00:04:31.360that I think are worth more serious reflection.
00:04:34.020So going back inside, while my speech was still ongoing, somebody with the school, I think this is somebody with the school,
00:04:41.120made an attempt to quiet the protesters down.
00:04:44.460Now, it would have been easiest to just kick them out of the building as they don't actually have any right to gather inside the building
00:04:50.520with the express intent of disrupting an event.
00:04:53.880But they were allowed to, anyway, remain there, even though it's actually against the campus rules to be disruptive like that inside the building.
00:05:02.280Campus decided not to fully enforce their rules.
00:05:04.680Feeble attempts were made to reason with them.
00:05:07.060But I want you to listen to this exchange.
00:07:28.180Now, I am not threatening her physical existence in the slightest.
00:07:32.320Nobody in the room was threatening her physical existence in the slightest.
00:07:36.180But what she really means is that her conception of her own existence, her perception of herself and of reality, her self-identity, are destabilized, are thrown into disarray when they come within physical proximity of somebody who will not affirm them.
00:07:52.040And this is a terrifying thing for her.
00:07:57.260Okay, here's why I find it terrifying.
00:08:00.660I find it terrifying that we are populating society with people who are this fragile, this helpless and dependent.
00:08:10.000People who cannot function, who are reduced to tears and paralysis if their internal conception of reality is contradicted in the slightest way by anyone, anywhere.
00:08:20.480What is terrifying is not the prospect that these people will get out into the real world and encounter harsh reality and just fall apart.
00:08:34.040For the sake of society, for the sake of society and for their own sake, they need to fall apart.
00:08:39.800They need to be intellectually and emotionally unmade so that a mature and rational person can rise from the rubble.
00:08:47.000This is, in many ways, the process of growing up.
00:08:49.280But no, the terrifying truth is that such a collapse will not happen, most likely.
00:08:56.480They will never encounter the real world because the real world, in our culture at least, has reordered itself to protect and foster the delusions of the most fragile among us.
00:09:08.060This is unsustainable, of course, and what it means is that in order to stop them from collapsing personally, society will have to collapse instead.
00:09:20.400It will collapse because it simply cannot carry the weight of all of these false ideas and false assumptions.
00:09:27.780The burden is too heavy, too cumbersome.
00:09:31.280This is the outcome of raising generations of people who believe that it is the responsibility of every stranger they come across on the street to affirm their own self-understanding.
00:09:48.060You know, they say, this is what I want to believe about myself and about the world, and you must tell me that it is true or else you are a threat to my existence and to my being.
00:10:41.880So you said that your father said when he saw the shirt White Lives Matter, it's great to see a black man stating the obvious.
00:10:50.560So, by which I think you meant that's obviously true.
00:10:54.060Yeah, that's my favorite response because I kept on thinking like, you know, people, they're looking for an explanation and people say, well, as an artist, you don't have to give an explanation.
00:11:48.200How could it ever, ever, under any circumstance, be a bad idea to affirm the value and dignity of human life, of any human life?
00:12:01.000And you can't claim, see, the critics, they can't claim that saying White Lives Matter means that Black Lives don't matter.
00:12:09.680They can't claim that because they're the ones who've claimed before that saying Black Lives Matter doesn't mean that White Lives don't matter.
00:12:18.200I mean, that's one of their criticisms of White Lives Matter, is that it's not necessary to say because when someone says Black Lives Matter, they're not trying to say that White Lives don't.
00:12:28.000Well, if that's the case, then there's no reason not to say White Lives Matter because the same's in the reverse.
00:12:35.600Because you're saying White Lives Matter doesn't mean Black Lives don't.
00:12:39.360I mean, we can probably assume that Candace Owens and Kanye West don't believe that Black Lives Matter, that Black Lives don't matter, given that they're both Black.
00:12:48.000And I would think that they probably find that their own lives are valuable.
00:12:53.620So the only way to understand the criticism is that the critics apparently think that any time you're affirming the value of life, of lives, it should be Black Lives.
00:13:06.880So what they're saying is, you know, why are you saying White Lives Matter when you could be saying Black Lives Matter?
00:13:11.680So if you're going to go out there declaring that lives matter, then if you're doing that, then you're wasting time by saying White Lives.
00:13:21.080You should be saying Black Lives Matter instead.
00:13:23.700Which doesn't make any sense, especially when there's no shortage of people who are out declaring that Black Lives Matter.
00:13:32.040So you'd think it'd be okay every once in a while for someone to say, hey, you know what, by the way, White Lives Matter too.
00:13:38.740Now, what's really underneath all this, as we talked about a few days ago, I mean, the reality is the only reason to oppose someone even saying that is if you disagree with it.
00:13:47.540But the critics aren't going to say that.
00:13:51.560Now, you can get away with a lot of anti-white racism in our culture.
00:13:55.500You can get away with quite a lot of it.
00:13:57.220But we're probably not yet at the point where it'll be socially acceptable to just go out and directly say White Lives don't matter at all.
00:14:08.420They're all a bunch of scumbags and should die.
00:14:20.120They'll come up with reasons why you shouldn't say White Lives Matter, but we all know that the real reason they feel that is that to them it's just not true.
00:14:31.380Speaking of lives mattering, Kanye also explained his pro-life stance, which I thought was interesting.
00:16:07.080Just like they can't explain their criticism of the White Lives Matter t-shirt, they also can't explain that.
00:16:14.420Especially when, as Kanye West points out, if the pro-lifers have their way, if we have our way, if we really had our way and there was no more abortion across the entire country, it all went away.
00:16:29.960And Planned Parenthood was thrown on the historical ash heap, and that was it.
00:16:36.120That would mean that many more black children would be born, and that the black population in America would increase substantially, not just in numbers.
00:16:47.740Now, all populations would increase in numbers, white, black, all populations, if you get rid of abortion, because all races are having abortions.
00:16:55.840But more than that, black population would increase substantially in numbers, but also as a matter of percentage.
00:17:03.300Because right now, you know, the black community accounts for a vastly disproportionate number of abortions.
00:17:14.900And so the gains percentage-wise would be disproportionate as well.
00:17:20.060So that's what, if you're pro-life, that's part of what you're fighting for.
00:17:22.940Meanwhile, on the left, they are fighting to kill more black people and to keep them, you know, to keep their sort of percentages lower.
00:17:38.320But that is the pro-black, anti-racist position, they say, in this upside-down world of ours.
00:17:45.160Since we're on the subject of Black Lives Matter, now's a good time, by the way, to tell you about the premiere of the new Candace Owens documentary, The Greatest Lie Ever Sold, which premieres finally on October 12th.
00:17:55.460And this was going to come out way back in May, you may remember, but Candace decided she wanted to do even more with it, an even deeper dive.
00:18:03.140And that's what they've been doing over the past several months, and it was worth the wait, I can tell you.
00:18:07.800Candace is going to expose the sham BLM organization and all the false narratives it has driven and that it has thrived on.
00:18:17.300But you can't watch it unless you are a Daily Wire Plus member.
00:18:46.460It's something that needs to exist, content that needs to be made, but nobody's making it but us.
00:18:53.300And that's why we need you on board as a subscriber, helping us in the fight.
00:18:56.540So there's a reason why when the left is really going hard at a conservative media figure, trying to take them down, it's almost always, you notice, someone here at the Daily Wire.
00:19:10.820I mean, there's always like some conservative trending every week.
00:19:15.060Some conservative in media is like a main character on Twitter every week, but never for good reasons, because they're trying to take us out.
00:19:22.660And it's almost always someone here at the Daily Wire.
00:19:24.560Or, you know, there are a few outside, like Tucker Carlson's another one, obviously.
00:19:29.020But they're very worried about us and about what we're doing, because we're in this fight.
00:20:25.280It says, Pastor Anthony George didn't set out to be a defender of Herschel Walker.
00:20:29.740But as the prominent Baptist minister welcomed Walker into his church this week for a scheduled prayer event with faith leaders, George found himself making the Christian case for supporting a candidate whose Senate campaign has been marred by personal scandal.
00:20:43.700What matters most, he said, is what Walker is promising to do once he's elected.
00:20:47.920And, quote, I think that any Christian who engages in the political process, especially someone who's a pastor, you're always going to be confronted with someone that is either less than ideal or something that flat out contradicts what you believe in.
00:20:58.660He said in an interview, since revelation surfaced that the former football star and self-described pro-life Republican had allegedly paid for an ex-girlfriend's abortion in 2009, evangelical Christian leaders in Georgia have banded together to support Walker, as has the Republican Party in general.
00:21:13.600Walker has staked out a hard line, no exceptions position on abortion.
00:21:18.920Walker's 13-month campaign has been punctuated by blemishes on his record of traditional family values, including allegations of domestic abuse and fathering children out of wedlock.
00:21:27.560Those revelations continued late Wednesday with a report from the Daily Beast alleging that the woman whose abortion he paid for is also the mother of one of his children.
00:21:34.100So far, Christian evangelical leaders have not flagged in their support, saying that he aligns with them on key policy matters.
00:21:43.220So the media is acting perplexed by this, as they always do.
00:21:47.920They put out this hit piece about Herschel Walker claiming he paid for abortion years ago, and this is on the heels of other hit pieces, as they just summarize their claiming domestic abuse and all these terrible things.
00:21:58.620As always, the media expects that this will immediately make the support for this person evaporate.
00:22:08.020But in this case, as has usually been the case in recent years, that hasn't worked out for them.
00:22:15.240And every single time, you know, in politics, there's a candidate, and they're trying to take the candidate out, and they put out a bunch of hit pieces.
00:22:25.260And, I mean, Trump is the classic example of this, but certainly not the only example.
00:29:10.960First, I'm pardoning all prior federal offenses of simple marijuana possession.
00:29:16.080There are thousands of people who were previously convicted of simple possession who may be denied employment, housing, or educational opportunities.
00:29:21.500As a result, my pardon will remove this burden.
00:29:23.760Second, I'm calling on governors to pardon simple state marijuana possession offenses, just as no one should be in a federal prison solely for possessing marijuana.
00:29:30.280No one should be in a local jail or state prison for that reason either.
00:29:34.100Third, we classify marijuana at the same level as heroin and more serious than fentanyl.
00:30:01.600Classic, classic political move of making a big announcement and like you're not doing anything at all.
00:30:06.820I, to this, I, right now, am going to initiate the process of assembling a committee to discuss how we can review in the future this policy and how it might affect and, yeah, okay.
00:30:22.320I'd also like to note that as a federal and state regulations change, we still need important limitations on trafficking, marketing, and underage sales of marijuana.
00:30:30.480Sending people to jail for possessing marijuana has upended too many lives for conduct that is legal in many states.
00:30:36.720That's before you address the clear racial disparities around prosecution and conviction.
00:30:40.500Today, we begin to right these wrongs.
00:30:50.120Initiating the process of reviewing is nothing.
00:30:53.140But even more than that, pardoning people who are in federal prison for simple marijuana possession, you know, when you do that, do you know how many people are going to actually be free now?
00:31:05.480Now that this pardon has been issued all across the country, how many people this morning are emerging from their jail cells into the sunlight, blurry-eyed, free again?
00:31:58.440I think there have been, at least what the media is telling us, is there have been something like 6,000, maybe 6,500 people charged with simple marijuana possession on the federal level in the last 30 years.
00:33:38.500I also don't think, but decriminalizing and legalizing all across the country, I also don't think that's the solution, as we've talked about recently.
00:33:46.560There was a time when I kind of bought into that argument.
00:33:52.820I mean, we can see how it's worked out.
00:33:56.480Because as Joe Biden observes, the laws have already been changed in many states and many cities where marijuana is either legalized or decriminalized.
00:34:06.780And people can walk around smoking weed until their heart's content.
00:34:57.140Here's a little bit of celebrity gossip.
00:35:00.200Gisele Bundchen and Tom Brady are taking two wildly different routes from Fox News, by the way.
00:35:05.600Wildly different routes when it comes to protecting their peace as they battle marital differences that could ultimately lead to divorce after 13 years of marriage.
00:35:13.760A 42-year-old supermodel was spotted leaving a holistic healer's office in Miami on Friday.
00:35:18.600Her appointment didn't end inside the building, though, as the naturopath reportedly brought a smudge stick and burned sage around Bundchen's vehicle before she drove off.
00:35:31.100I don't even know what any of those words mean.
00:35:41.000Brought a smudge stick and burned sage around her vehicle.
00:35:45.760So she's getting divorced, and, you know, they're giving up on their marriage, and her solution to make everything okay is to burn, to have a naturopath, like a witch doctor, come and circle her vehicle with sage.
00:36:12.260We're going to have a lot of appointments with the holistic healer, and he's going to be burning a lot of sage, and we're going to get through this together, okay?
00:36:43.720Bündchen's alternative lifestyle includes clean living, wellness routines, meditation, eating only homegrown or organic food, and getting divorces.
00:36:52.840While Bündchen cleared her energy, Brady reportedly is tackling his own emotions regarding their fumbling relationship, as a source told people, that the Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback feels very hurt by her amid claims that they both retained divorce attorney.
00:37:05.900It's pretty obvious that he's hurting.
00:37:07.200A source told the publication she's the one steering the divorce.
00:37:10.480She's playing offense, and he's playing defense.
00:37:12.540He wants to protect himself, protect his interests, but he's only starting to go the legal route in his defense from her.
00:37:17.600He just wants to be—he doesn't want this to be ugly.
00:41:10.880And really, I have, it's been, I've been exposed in a certain way as a fraud because, you know, now we see that the Sweet Baby Gang mascot and symbol of me bearded as a baby, you know, with a beard as a baby.
00:41:31.980Now we see that that was not actually technically true.
00:41:37.220Fit Theology says, Matt, after learning of your past escapades, I like you even more.
00:41:46.160Dixie Whiskey says, it warms the old bones seeing that Matt was a proto-troll before it was cool and has honed his craft over a long career.
00:41:56.080Does take some time to grow into the trolling.
00:41:59.080Anyway, there were a lot of comments like this.
00:42:00.820A lot of very supportive messages, which I do really appreciate.
00:42:05.900And it's like we talked about earlier in the show.
00:42:10.060You know, none of this works without support.
00:42:11.760This is the thing about, you know, as we discussed yesterday, any cancellation attempt.
00:42:17.140It's like, here's, there are a couple of conditions that need to be met for a person to be canceled.
00:42:22.040The first is the one we talked about yesterday, which is that the canceled person needs to cooperate, needs to consent to it, needs to play the role that's been assigned to him, crawling on his knees begging for forgiveness, only to not receive it anyway, and just to be kicked in the face and told to go away.
00:42:37.840So that's the first thing that needs to happen for the cancellation.
00:42:41.160And the other thing that needs to happen is that the person needs to be isolated.
00:42:44.680So this is always the game with the cancellation is to isolate the person.
00:42:50.700You know, it's like a predator in the Serengeti, right?
00:42:54.640Like find the sick, weak prey who's isolated from the herd and pounce on them.
00:43:16.140But it's also a lesson for all of us is why we need to support each other when the left comes after us, because if we do, then we're unstoppable.
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00:44:02.400Now let's get to our daily cancellation.
00:44:03.740So one of my least favorite memes is the cartoon of the guy shushing another guy and saying, let people enjoy things.
00:44:18.280The let people enjoy things line is trotted out now on the internet approximately 46 million times a day.
00:44:23.820It's always deployed in reaction to anyone who says something critical about a thing that other people enjoy.
00:44:28.740And I hate the meme because, first, it's lazy and unoriginal, and second, it implies that somehow you're preventing people from enjoying things simply by giving your own opinion about it, which would seem to suggest that an individual's enjoyment of a thing is dependent on the encouragement of other individuals.
00:44:44.620If you need other people to encourage you in order to enjoy something, that would seem to suggest that perhaps there's a problem with whatever it is you're enjoying.
00:44:50.940Third, most importantly, the fact that people are enjoying something does not mean that it should be exempt from criticism.
00:44:59.440All things in existence are enjoyed by somebody.
00:45:03.600Does that mean that nothing at all can ever be criticized?
00:45:09.080Can a serial killer give that response to the judge during trial?
00:45:12.680You've been convicted of 23 counts of murder in the first degree.
00:45:15.620Shh, judge, let people enjoy things, okay?
00:45:18.700The point is, it is valid to scrutinize the things people enjoy.
00:45:22.060In fact, we should especially scrutinize those things because it would seem often redundant to criticize that which nobody enjoys anyway.
00:45:30.400I say all this only to head off at the past, the inevitable response to today's daily cancellation, which focuses on the newly released adult Happy Meal.
00:45:43.220You're never too old for a Happy Meal, or at least that's what McDonald's is banking on.
00:45:47.100The fast food juggernaut at this week announced plans to introduce adult-oriented meals complete with a free toy in an initiative designed to work off of the nostalgia of the restaurant's famous red cardboard boxes.
00:46:00.540The Cactus Plant Flea Market Box is a collaboration between McDonald's and the famous streetwear brand and will roll out to participating stores starting on October 3rd.
00:46:09.260Unlike the smaller menu items included in the classic Happy Meal, the Cactus Plant Flea Market Box will feature either a Big Mac or a 10-piece Chicken McNuggets, as well as a soda and fries.
00:46:17.540Inside the box will be one of four collectible figurines of McDonald's mascots Grimace, the Hamburglar, and Birdie, as well as a cactus buddy.
00:46:27.460We're taking one of the most nostalgic McDonald's experiences and literally repackaging it in a new way that's hyper-relevant for our adult fans.
00:46:35.000McDonald's Chief Marketing Officer Tariq Hassan said in a statement.
00:46:38.120Well, they did just release their first ad for the adult Happy Meal, and here it is.
00:47:08.120Yeah, that's an ad that's supposed to appeal to adults.
00:47:18.360Not even just adults on acid, but sober adults too.
00:47:22.180And it seems to have worked, at least at first.
00:47:23.920Apparently the adult Happy Meals are selling out all across the country.
00:47:26.820McDonald's workers have taken to TikTok, of course, to complain about all of the extra work this promotion is forcing them to do because people are so into it.
00:47:33.700Adults are flocking to the fast food chain to order their very own nostalgic box.
00:47:38.920They're coming in such numbers that, as McDonald's employees report, it's creating chaos and stress for the staff.
00:47:45.660As for the customers, the initial excitement that these grown adults felt over their Happy Meals has apparently given way, though, to disappointment.
00:47:52.820And not disappointment in themselves for being so pathetic and emotionally stunted as to order a damned Happy Meal for themselves in the first place, but disappointment over the toys in the box.
00:48:06.180Yes, this is not a nostalgic Happy Meal for adults.
00:48:15.140This is weird and artistic and appeals to teenagers, wrote one Reddit user after reading about the promotion.
00:48:21.820I was semi-interested as a fan of tacky nostalgic knickknacks, but these don't capture the nostalgia.
00:48:27.900So what's the point? added another Redditor.
00:48:29.800It's true, when most adults think back to their cherished childhood memories of Happy Meals, streetwear fashion doesn't immediately come to mind.
00:48:37.520There were so many directions McDonald's could have gone with the toys that would have felt special.
00:48:41.760Comic book toys, Nickelodeon toys, Ninja Turtle toys.
00:48:45.660These would have turned the millennia nostalgia up to 11, Jeremy Schneider of NJ.com opined, and it's hard not to agree with him.
00:48:53.020To be clear, that is an adult, a grown man, upset that his Happy Meal didn't come with a Ninja Turtle toy.
00:49:05.020What's next? Are you going to put on a Batman costume and go trick-or-treating and then cry to your mommy because you didn't get any fun dip in your plastic orange pumpkin?
00:49:13.080Actually, I don't even want to know the answer to that question.
00:49:17.360The adult Happy Meal is yet another nostalgic brand promotion aimed squarely at millennials, and it works, at least initially, because millennials, my generation, as a group, absolutely refuse to grow the hell up.
00:49:33.400As a generation, we are growing older chronologically.
00:49:36.380We're experiencing all of the inevitable physical changes that come with that.
00:49:53.920But when I became a man, I put away childish things.
00:49:56.880This is a verse that made sense to and resonated with most generations of humans who've lived on earth, but not with ours.
00:50:03.780Because we never put away the childish things.
00:50:05.840We still speak and act and understand as children.
00:50:08.360And the result is that we are the most emotionally stunted generation of overgrown, pathetic babies that have ever lived on the face of the earth.
00:50:18.320Many of us have chosen not to have children of our own, instead electing to be children ourselves perpetually.
00:51:34.220He was a child then and he isn't anymore.
00:51:37.840Even if he doesn't realize it, he has deeper spiritual and intellectual needs and desires today that simply aren't going to be satisfied by the distractions of his youth.
00:51:47.960Also, his nostalgic remembrances are only vaguely rooted in reality.
00:51:54.840Nostalgia is the story you tell yourself about your past, which is not the same thing as the actual past.
00:52:02.660And the most pitiful thing about it all, and the reason why he's never satisfied no matter how much he immerses himself in nostalgia,
00:52:07.880is that all of his nostalgia is tied to brands.
00:52:16.200All that they pine for from childhood are corporate products and content.
00:52:21.820This makes it incredibly lucrative to exploit, but also means that our nostalgic pursuits will always feel empty in the end because they are.
00:53:24.820I wouldn't suggest it as a date night activity with my wife, except to annoy her.
00:53:29.860I'll also watch the sorts of things I watched as a kid with my kids.
00:53:34.760It can be fun to introduce them to the shows and films that I enjoyed when I was, you know, their age.
00:53:39.600It can also be heartbreaking if they find it boring and lame, as happened when I tried to get them to watch the original Space Jam, for example.
00:53:47.880The damned Philistines did not appreciate it at all.