The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1037 - Protesters Claim That My Speech Threatens Their Very Existence

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, protesters swarmed outside my speech on a college campus last night,

00:00:05.020 screaming that my presence threatens their very existence.

00:00:08.060 I want to talk about that claim today and what they really mean by it.

00:00:10.440 Also, Tucker Carlson interviews Kanye West.

00:00:12.460 Joe Biden releases from prison anyone convicted of simple marijuana possession,

00:00:16.560 which is to say he released no one from prison.

00:00:19.320 The media is perplexed that Republican voters in Georgia aren't abandoning Herschel Walker

00:00:23.440 following the media's smear campaign.

00:00:25.220 In our daily cancellation, we will deal with McDonald's latest promotion,

00:00:28.720 The Adult Happy Meal.

00:00:30.600 All of that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.

00:00:41.700 So yesterday was the second stop in my What is a Woman college tour.

00:00:46.300 This was a week that began 46 years ago, it feels like,

00:00:49.580 with three major medical associations writing to the DOJ and calling for my arrest

00:00:54.460 and the arrest of the other high-profile, quote-unquote, conservatives who criticized them.

00:01:00.240 The day later, Media Matters launches their smear campaign,

00:01:02.820 exposing the long-suppressed fact that I was once 23 years old.

00:01:06.380 And finally, yesterday, I screened the film and spoke at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

00:01:13.380 And protesters swarmed outside the auditorium, doing their best unsuccessfully to disrupt and kind of drown me out.

00:01:21.660 But 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.

00:01:31.400 And I still can't imagine why that would be the case.

00:01:33.660 I'm such a lovable guy.

00:01:34.760 But the protesters last night were vastly outnumbered by supporters, by people who support,

00:01:41.640 when I say supporters, I mean supporter, people who support, you know, objective truth and rationality.

00:01:48.300 We fill the room to its capacity of 350 people, and we had to turn 400 more people away.

00:01:56.420 It wasn't all that long ago that I was giving college speeches to crowds of like 40 or 50.

00:02:00.520 So this has been an interesting change of pace.

00:02:03.780 And as mentioned, protesters were kept outside the auditorium, but were allowed to remain in the hallway for some reason.

00:02:10.240 I'm told they made a few attempts to get inside the room.

00:02:12.720 And when that was not successful, they settled for chanting and sometimes even singing right outside the door.

00:02:20.000 And unfortunately for the rest of us,

00:02:22.680 they chose a song to sing that requires them to hit notes very much outside their vocal range.

00:02:29.580 Listen.

00:02:30.780 Easy go, little high, little low.

00:02:36.020 And when the wind blows, does it really matter to me?

00:02:43.400 I was interested to see that video after the event,

00:03:11.980 because I heard some of that noise while I was giving the speech.

00:03:15.060 And I didn't know that they were attempting to sing.

00:03:17.820 Actually, it sounded to me like somebody was drowning a bag of cats in the hallway.

00:03:22.320 And I was concerned about that.

00:03:24.500 And I'm relieved to find out that no animals were hurt, even if we cannot say the same for our eardrums.

00:03:30.620 When it was time to leave, protesters came around to the exit to, you know, flip me off and cuss me out.

00:03:35.400 And presenting a compelling argument, ultimately unpersuasive though, I think.

00:03:39.540 And as we were getting ready to drive away, they came over to the car to chant some more.

00:03:44.960 Here's what that looked like.

00:03:45.820 You know, maybe they're right.

00:04:13.880 Trans rights are human rights.

00:04:16.560 I didn't believe it the first 600 times it was chanted, but the 601st time really sank in.

00:04:22.960 Almost, anyway.

00:04:24.060 I think I need to hear it maybe another 600 times before I decide.

00:04:27.360 But there's one short clip from last night, a couple of short clips actually,

00:04:31.360 that I think are worth more serious reflection.

00:04:34.020 So going back inside, while my speech was still ongoing, somebody with the school, I think this is somebody with the school,

00:04:41.120 made an attempt to quiet the protesters down.

00:04:44.460 Now, 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

00:04:50.520 with the express intent of disrupting an event.

00:04:53.880 But they were allowed to, anyway, remain there, even though it's actually against the campus rules to be disruptive like that inside the building.

00:05:02.280 Campus decided not to fully enforce their rules.

00:05:04.680 Feeble attempts were made to reason with them.

00:05:07.060 But I want you to listen to this exchange.

00:05:08.620 Here it is.

00:05:08.920 It is still disruptive to the speaker inside and the audience inside.

00:05:13.900 We would protect an event similarly.

00:05:16.080 How does this help?

00:05:17.000 Okay, well, him being here is disruptive to my being as a whole.

00:05:20.100 This is dangerous.

00:05:21.800 It encourages violence.

00:05:24.300 So she says, him being here is disruptive to my being as a whole.

00:05:31.040 And someone else off camera who's crying says that I encourage violence and so I'm dangerous.

00:05:38.920 And they continued with this line.

00:05:40.580 Listen.

00:05:41.800 Well, his documentary is disruptive to the trans community and their being as a whole.

00:05:48.140 And him being here makes a large group of the people on this campus, that makes this campus what it is, feel unsafe.

00:05:55.080 We don't feel protected.

00:05:56.140 We don't feel appreciated.

00:05:57.560 And it's disgusting and disheartening.

00:06:01.320 So that's why we're here and that's why we're going to stand here.

00:06:04.480 I understand.

00:06:05.420 I know here.

00:06:06.060 You would be welcome to stand here and hear the disruption.

00:06:10.720 Right.

00:06:12.880 So there it is again.

00:06:14.420 My presence is disruptive to her being and the being of every trans person. 1.00

00:06:20.380 And it makes a large portion of the student body feel unsafe.

00:06:23.520 Now, I know that we're accustomed to hearing this kind of thing from the left.

00:06:29.300 But the mistake we make is to assume that they're just sort of putting on an act.

00:06:35.240 That this is all, you know, playing it up for the cameras.

00:06:39.460 I don't believe that they are.

00:06:41.460 I think this is truly what they think.

00:06:43.780 It's what they believe.

00:06:44.400 We know that college students especially believe it because they've been conditioned into this belief system from birth.

00:06:52.860 And so when they say it's disruptive to my being, it puts me at danger and danger, it's a threat.

00:06:57.980 They really believe that.

00:06:59.140 That's what they actually think.

00:07:00.480 That's why they're there.

00:07:01.140 Now, as far as they're concerned, their very being is threatened by my ideas and my presence.

00:07:11.220 And not just my presence and my ideas, but the ideas shared by many of the people in the room.

00:07:16.080 But listen to the phrasing there.

00:07:18.220 Because she's not just saying that her life is threatened.

00:07:22.020 But instead she's saying that her being is threatened.

00:07:25.640 And she's right in a certain sense.

00:07:28.180 Now, I am not threatening her physical existence in the slightest.

00:07:32.320 Nobody in the room was threatening her physical existence in the slightest.

00:07:36.180 But 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.

00:07:52.040 And this is a terrifying thing for her.

00:07:54.280 And for me, too.

00:07:55.980 But for a different reason.

00:07:57.260 Okay, here's why I find it terrifying.

00:08:00.660 I find it terrifying that we are populating society with people who are this fragile, this helpless and dependent. 1.00

00:08:10.000 People 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.

00:08:20.480 What is terrifying is not the prospect that these people will get out into the real world and encounter harsh reality and just fall apart.

00:08:30.640 No, that would be a good thing.

00:08:32.360 I wish that that would happen.

00:08:34.040 For the sake of society, for the sake of society and for their own sake, they need to fall apart.

00:08:39.800 They need to be intellectually and emotionally unmade so that a mature and rational person can rise from the rubble.

00:08:47.000 This is, in many ways, the process of growing up.

00:08:49.280 But no, the terrifying truth is that such a collapse will not happen, most likely.

00:08:56.480 They 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.

00:09:08.060 This is unsustainable, of course, and what it means is that in order to stop them from collapsing personally, society will have to collapse instead.

00:09:20.400 It will collapse because it simply cannot carry the weight of all of these false ideas and false assumptions.

00:09:27.780 The burden is too heavy, too cumbersome.

00:09:31.280 This 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.

00:09:48.060 You 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.

00:09:58.100 That's what you really meant.

00:09:59.140 And that's why they were gathered with their signs in the hallway.

00:10:04.620 That's even why they were singing Bohemian Rhapsody, oddly enough.

00:10:10.400 And that's why we must oppose them, no matter what.

00:10:15.180 Now let's get to our five headlines.

00:10:23.920 Kanye West was interviewed by Tucker Carlson yesterday.

00:10:28.980 It was a wide-ranging, interesting interview, worth watching the whole thing if you haven't seen it.

00:10:33.660 At one point he addresses the controversy over his White Lives Matter shirt that he wore with Candace Owens a few days ago.

00:10:40.300 And let's watch that.

00:10:41.880 So 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. 1.00

00:10:50.560 So, by which I think you meant that's obviously true.

00:10:54.060 Yeah, 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.

00:11:04.740 But as a leader, you do.

00:11:06.440 Yes, I think that's right.

00:11:08.780 So the answer to why I wrote White Lives Matter on a shirt is because they do. 1.00

00:11:16.580 It's the obvious thing.

00:11:19.160 Seems like a simple enough answer.

00:11:20.940 I mean, I don't know.

00:11:21.600 And one, it's not only simple, but it's one that no critic has ever been able to respond to.

00:11:29.640 So we know there are a lot of criticisms of saying White Lives Matter, certainly wearing it on a T-shirt. 0.61

00:11:36.960 But they've never been able to actually explain the criticism or what their problem is with it.

00:11:43.640 If White Lives Matter, why can't we say so? 1.00

00:11:46.980 Why shouldn't we say so?

00:11:48.200 How could it ever, ever, under any circumstance, be a bad idea to affirm the value and dignity of human life, of any human life?

00:12:01.000 And you can't claim, see, the critics, they can't claim that saying White Lives Matter means that Black Lives don't matter.

00:12:09.680 They 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.

00:12:18.200 I 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.

00:12:28.000 Well, if that's the case, then there's no reason not to say White Lives Matter because the same's in the reverse. 0.93

00:12:35.600 Because you're saying White Lives Matter doesn't mean Black Lives don't. 0.96

00:12:39.360 I 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.

00:12:48.000 And I would think that they probably find that their own lives are valuable.

00:12:53.620 So 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.

00:13:06.880 So what they're saying is, you know, why are you saying White Lives Matter when you could be saying Black Lives Matter?

00:13:11.680 So 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. 0.92

00:13:21.080 You should be saying Black Lives Matter instead. 1.00

00:13:23.700 Which doesn't make any sense, especially when there's no shortage of people who are out declaring that Black Lives Matter.

00:13:32.040 So 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. 0.50

00:13:38.740 Now, 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.

00:13:47.540 But the critics aren't going to say that.

00:13:48.880 They're not quite at the point.

00:13:51.560 Now, you can get away with a lot of anti-white racism in our culture.

00:13:55.500 You can get away with quite a lot of it.

00:13:57.220 But 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. 1.00

00:14:08.420 They're all a bunch of scumbags and should die. 1.00

00:14:10.280 You can get pretty close to that. 1.00

00:14:12.900 But the people who feel that way certainly seem to think that they can't go all the way and actually declare that.

00:14:18.360 And so, you know, they won't say.

00:14:20.120 They'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.

00:14:31.380 Speaking of lives mattering, Kanye also explained his pro-life stance, which I thought was interesting.

00:14:37.200 Here's that.

00:14:38.540 You just landed and the lanyard's still on from it and there's a photograph on it.

00:14:43.120 What is that?

00:14:44.260 It's a photograph of a baby's ultrasound.

00:14:47.720 Why is that?

00:14:48.300 And you designed that?

00:14:49.500 Yes.

00:14:50.120 Why?

00:14:50.760 What does that mean?

00:14:51.920 It just represents life and pro-life.

00:14:55.100 Boy, so you wear it on a badge.

00:14:56.840 What kind of response do you get?

00:14:58.460 And good.

00:14:59.040 Amen.

00:14:59.500 I agree.

00:15:00.020 I don't care about people's responses.

00:15:01.620 I care about the fact that there's more black babies being aborted than born in New York City at this point. 0.78

00:15:08.580 That 50 percent of black death in America is abortion.

00:15:14.360 So I really don't care about people's responses.

00:15:16.780 I perform for an audience of one, and that's God.

00:15:19.000 Amen, as Tucker Carlson said.

00:15:21.680 And that's another point that is really impossible for the left to respond to.

00:15:28.000 So they just sort of ignore it, and they get around it, as they often do, by just declaring the opposite.

00:15:40.220 So they take the opposite position entirely, even though it doesn't make any sense.

00:15:46.300 And instead, they'll say that, no, actually, it's racist.

00:15:51.200 It's anti-black to be pro-life. 0.99

00:15:54.980 Pro-life people are actually racist. 0.95

00:15:56.720 Along with being anti-woman and all the rest of it, let's throw it all in. 1.00

00:16:02.740 And somehow it's homophobic, too, and everything to be pro-life. 0.89

00:16:05.720 But it's also anti-black.

00:16:07.080 Just like they can't explain their criticism of the White Lives Matter t-shirt, they also can't explain that.

00:16:14.420 Especially 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.

00:16:29.960 And Planned Parenthood was thrown on the historical ash heap, and that was it.

00:16:36.120 That would mean that many more black children would be born, and that the black population in America would increase substantially, not just in numbers. 0.51

00:16:47.740 Now, all populations would increase in numbers, white, black, all populations, if you get rid of abortion, because all races are having abortions. 0.95

00:16:55.840 But more than that, black population would increase substantially in numbers, but also as a matter of percentage.

00:17:03.300 Because right now, you know, the black community accounts for a vastly disproportionate number of abortions.

00:17:14.900 And so the gains percentage-wise would be disproportionate as well.

00:17:20.060 So that's what, if you're pro-life, that's part of what you're fighting for. 0.97

00:17:22.940 Meanwhile, on the left, they are fighting to kill more black people and to keep them, you know, to keep their sort of percentages lower. 0.99

00:17:35.640 That's what they're doing. 0.99

00:17:38.320 But that is the pro-black, anti-racist position, they say, in this upside-down world of ours.

00:17:45.160 Since 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.

00:17:55.460 And 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.

00:18:03.140 And that's what they've been doing over the past several months, and it was worth the wait, I can tell you.

00:18:07.800 Candace is going to expose the sham BLM organization and all the false narratives it has driven and that it has thrived on. 0.73

00:18:17.300 But you can't watch it unless you are a Daily Wire Plus member.

00:18:22.320 Look, it's just true.

00:18:24.040 It's a true statement that, and yes, I am biased, but it's also true that nobody is making content like this.

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00:18:41.400 This documentary could not exist on any other platform.

00:18:45.280 It's like, what is a woman? 1.00

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00:20:11.500 All right.

00:20:11.760 Politico has this.

00:20:12.920 This is their headline.

00:20:14.560 And they're very upset.

00:20:15.480 They say Walker's, this is Herschel Walker, Herschel Walker's Christian fans are unfazed by abortion revelations. 0.84

00:20:24.120 And it goes into it.

00:20:25.280 It says, Pastor Anthony George didn't set out to be a defender of Herschel Walker.

00:20:29.740 But 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.

00:20:43.700 What matters most, he said, is what Walker is promising to do once he's elected.

00:20:47.920 And, 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.

00:20:58.660 He 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.

00:21:13.600 Walker has staked out a hard line, no exceptions position on abortion.

00:21:18.920 Walker'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.

00:21:27.560 Those 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.

00:21:34.100 So far, Christian evangelical leaders have not flagged in their support, saying that he aligns with them on key policy matters.

00:21:40.400 All right.

00:21:43.220 So the media is acting perplexed by this, as they always do.

00:21:47.920 They 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.

00:21:58.620 As always, the media expects that this will immediately make the support for this person evaporate.

00:22:08.020 But in this case, as has usually been the case in recent years, that hasn't worked out for them.

00:22:15.240 And 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.

00:22:25.260 And, I mean, Trump is the classic example of this, but certainly not the only example.

00:22:29.000 They put out the hit pieces.

00:22:30.040 They say, look, this person's terrible.

00:22:31.200 Look at these allegations we found.

00:22:32.400 And recently, anyway, the response from conservatives and from people in the base is just to sort of yawn and ignore it.

00:22:43.000 And the media, they can't take it.

00:22:45.080 They're so, it makes them feel helpless and powerless, and they get very frustrated.

00:22:49.840 Because they say, what do you mean?

00:22:51.060 We told you this person's terrible.

00:22:52.280 You're not supposed to, we told you, you're not supposed to support this person.

00:22:55.260 Why would you still be doing it when we told you otherwise?

00:22:59.180 Well, let me see if I can try to explain it for them.

00:23:02.080 So there are two things for this.

00:23:04.340 If I could, and I'm not a voter in Georgia, but if I were to, if I could, if I would dare to speak for them,

00:23:13.540 let me tell you what the thought process probably is.

00:23:16.520 I'm not just speaking for them.

00:23:17.580 I mean, I've listened to the voters in Georgia, and this is what they seem to be saying.

00:23:22.100 So there's two things.

00:23:24.000 Number one, to begin with, there's no reason to believe an allegation just because it came from the media.

00:23:34.240 I mean, it could be true.

00:23:35.640 So the claim that Herschel Walker paid for an abortion could be true. 0.98

00:23:39.660 I mean, I don't know.

00:23:40.820 I don't know the guy.

00:23:41.900 I know very little about him, actually, other than he's a,

00:23:44.260 I know about his athletic career and a little bit about his political policy positions,

00:23:48.900 but I certainly don't know him personally, don't know a lot about his background and biography.

00:23:54.680 So, I mean, it could be true.

00:23:57.320 It could also not be true.

00:23:58.540 And the possibility that this is a fabrication or something, that this is a fabricated media hit piece,

00:24:08.920 like you can never take that off the table.

00:24:10.680 You can never discount that possibility.

00:24:14.240 And so that's the first problem you have.

00:24:15.600 If you're in the media and you're wondering why it's not resonating,

00:24:18.540 that's the first reason, is that people hear that and, you know, maybe someone tells them,

00:24:23.940 oh, did you hear this claim about Herschel Walker?

00:24:26.020 And then they go, well, how do we know that?

00:24:28.120 Oh, it was out on, you know, CNN said it.

00:24:32.400 And then the other person's got to say, oh, CNN said it?

00:24:34.320 Well, okay, I don't care.

00:24:37.820 Now, you might not like that if you're in media, but this, you've done this to yourself.

00:24:41.400 There are consequences for your actions.

00:24:42.740 And when you've proven yourself to be dishonest time and time again,

00:24:47.580 when you've proven yourselves to be political vultures,

00:24:53.180 obviously hyper-partisan, this is how people respond to you.

00:24:58.580 That's the first thing.

00:25:00.680 And then there's also the second thing, which is that even if it's true,

00:25:07.000 let's just, let's say for a second that it's true that he paid for an abortion.

00:25:10.740 Terrible, terrible thing.

00:25:13.780 Awful.

00:25:15.160 An awful moral crime.

00:25:18.800 And should be like an actual crime.

00:25:23.940 Although at the time when this allegedly happened, it wasn't.

00:25:27.620 So no question about it.

00:25:30.060 But in Georgia, you're left with, the voters are left with two choices.

00:25:33.720 They've got Herschel Walker, who supports pro-life policies.

00:25:37.740 And they've got Warnock, who openly supports rabidly pro-abortion policies.

00:25:45.860 I mean, he believes in abortion up until the moment of birth.

00:25:48.820 Maybe even after, who knows.

00:25:51.100 So those are the two options. 0.95

00:25:54.100 And voters in Georgia aren't stupid. 0.94

00:25:56.160 They understand that those are the options. 0.81

00:25:57.800 And so on one hand, you have someone who supports pro-life policies.

00:26:04.160 And all indications are that he would support, especially if he's voted into office on that platform,

00:26:09.940 he's not going to suddenly change and say, yep, just kidding, gotcha.

00:26:12.860 I'm actually pro-abortion. 0.76

00:26:14.000 He's not going to do that.

00:26:15.680 He's going to continue to support those policies.

00:26:18.000 And that is going to save lives. 0.97

00:26:19.540 While on the other hand, you have someone who has professed that he wants to kill more babies. 0.98

00:26:25.140 That's his intention. 0.98

00:26:30.160 Those are your two choices.

00:26:34.300 It just, it's not even a choice.

00:26:36.900 There's not even really anything to think about.

00:26:39.200 I mean, even if it were true that Herschel Walker not only paid for an abortion, a terrible sin,

00:26:44.560 let's just say that even right now in his head, he's still pro-abortion.

00:26:50.260 Again, I don't know that to be true at all.

00:26:51.900 But let's say it is.

00:26:53.620 This is all a put-on.

00:26:54.940 He's faking it.

00:26:57.820 Well, even so, you elect him as someone who supports pro-life policies.

00:27:03.160 That's what he'll do in office.

00:27:05.540 And the effect, no matter what he feels inside his head,

00:27:07.900 no matter what he's done in his past,

00:27:09.680 the effect going forward in the future is that it's going to protect babies.

00:27:16.440 He might be protecting them while in his head, he might be doing it begrudgingly. 0.93

00:27:19.800 He might in his head be wishing that more babies were being killed.

00:27:23.060 I mean, but in reality, the actual effect in the real world is that this is going to protect babies. 0.99

00:27:32.320 Whereas this other guy over here is openly saying, let's kill him. 1.00

00:27:35.640 I want to kill him more. 1.00

00:27:39.680 So that's it. 1.00

00:27:40.500 That's the choices.

00:27:42.700 So if you're a Christian, if you're a pro-life voter in Georgia,

00:27:45.980 you're looking at these two choices,

00:27:49.020 you're obviously not going to say, well, I don't, you know,

00:27:52.040 Herschel Walker, he might have paid for an abortion. 0.99

00:27:54.140 So I'm not going to vote for him because I'm opposed to abortion.

00:27:57.180 Instead, I'm going to vote for the openly pro-abortion guy.

00:27:59.900 That doesn't make any sense.

00:28:01.720 But you're also probably not going to say, well, this guy's openly pro-abortion.

00:28:06.940 The other guy may have paid for an abortion, which is a terrible thing.

00:28:09.020 And I'm very anti-abortion.

00:28:10.860 So I'm just going to stay home.

00:28:12.900 And the effect is that the openly pro-abortion guy will win.

00:28:17.140 You're also not going to do that.

00:28:22.080 Because you want to do the thing that's going to help advance pro-life policies and the pro-life cause politically.

00:28:28.300 All right.

00:28:30.320 Joe Biden tweeted this, if I could pull it up, as we head into the midterms.

00:28:37.640 You know, look, Joe Biden, it's not a good situation for the Democrats. 0.96

00:28:43.320 Everything that they touch turns to, everything that Joe Biden touches in particular, turns to garbage. 0.98

00:28:48.320 So it's very much, he's like the anti-Midus. 0.96

00:28:51.660 It's like the opposite of the Midas touch.

00:28:54.180 And he's looking for something popular, something easy as we go into the midterms.

00:28:58.620 And this is what he finds.

00:29:00.560 He tweeted, as I've said before, no one should be in jail just for using or possessing marijuana.

00:29:06.280 Today, I'm taking steps to end our failed approach.

00:29:09.560 Allow me to lay them out.

00:29:10.960 First, I'm pardoning all prior federal offenses of simple marijuana possession.

00:29:16.080 There are thousands of people who were previously convicted of simple possession who may be denied employment, housing, or educational opportunities.

00:29:21.500 As a result, my pardon will remove this burden.

00:29:23.760 Second, 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.

00:29:30.280 No one should be in a local jail or state prison for that reason either.

00:29:34.100 Third, we classify marijuana at the same level as heroin and more serious than fentanyl.

00:29:37.680 It makes no sense.

00:29:38.320 I'm asking Secretary Becerra and the Attorney General to initiate the process of reviewing how marijuana is scheduled under federal law.

00:29:46.360 Well, that's a pretty firm step right there.

00:29:49.260 That's a productive step.

00:29:50.760 I am asking these two other bureaucrats to initiate the process of reviewing how marijuana is scheduled under federal law.

00:29:59.700 I just, I love that.

00:30:01.600 Classic, classic political move of making a big announcement and like you're not doing anything at all.

00:30:06.820 I, 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.

00:30:22.320 I'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.

00:30:30.480 Sending people to jail for possessing marijuana has upended too many lives for conduct that is legal in many states.

00:30:36.720 That's before you address the clear racial disparities around prosecution and conviction.

00:30:40.500 Today, we begin to right these wrongs.

00:30:42.160 Well, no.

00:30:43.780 Today, you begin to do nothing at all.

00:30:46.020 So, just more of the same.

00:30:48.120 That's a big nothing.

00:30:50.120 Initiating the process of reviewing is nothing.

00:30:53.140 But 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?

00:31:05.480 Now 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?

00:31:17.860 How many?

00:31:18.660 I can tell you what the answer is.

00:31:20.020 Zero.

00:31:20.880 None.

00:31:22.080 None.

00:31:22.680 No people.

00:31:23.700 There are currently, before the pardon and now, no one, no people in federal prison for simple marijuana possession.

00:31:33.900 None.

00:31:34.520 Zero.

00:31:35.040 None at all.

00:31:36.800 That's just, it's not a thing, okay?

00:31:41.240 The proponents of criminal justice reform have tried to pretend that this is a thing, and it's not.

00:31:48.020 Sending people to federal prison because they were caught with, like, a little bit of weed in their pocket.

00:31:55.280 It's just not happening.

00:31:57.060 Period.

00:31:58.440 I 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.

00:32:12.600 And those are just charges.

00:32:13.980 How many of them actually went to, spent time in federal prison?

00:32:20.700 Almost none of them.

00:32:23.340 And those are also charges.

00:32:24.820 How do those charges come about?

00:32:26.240 Well, you have to figure a certain portion of them.

00:32:29.320 It was, the charges that they originally had were pleaded down.

00:32:32.700 And also, another point.

00:32:39.400 Simple marijuana possession is a misdemeanor anyway.

00:32:43.120 And having a misdemeanor is not going to stop anyone from getting a house.

00:32:49.660 Who is being prevented from owning a house because of a misdemeanor?

00:32:53.480 It's probably not going to stop you from getting a job.

00:32:55.160 It's not going to stop you from doing anything.

00:32:56.200 It's a misdemeanor.

00:32:57.420 That's the whole point.

00:32:58.120 That's why we have that category in the criminal justice system. 0.94

00:33:02.140 It's going to have very little impact on your life.

00:33:04.900 So, it was only ever a slap on the wrist for simple marijuana possession.

00:33:08.340 That's all it ever was.

00:33:09.720 And that's all it will be now.

00:33:11.140 So, this does nothing at all.

00:33:13.780 What's the real point?

00:33:14.640 Well, the real point is obviously about virtue signaling.

00:33:18.420 And what is the virtue being signaled in this case?

00:33:22.180 The virtue being signaled is the virtue of being soft on crime?

00:33:24.900 And I'm not saying that I think that people should be going to federal prison for simple marijuana possession.

00:33:32.440 I don't think that, but it's not happening.

00:33:34.640 So, it's not an issue.

00:33:38.500 I 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.

00:33:46.560 There was a time when I kind of bought into that argument.

00:33:49.000 But I can look around.

00:33:52.820 I mean, we can see how it's worked out.

00:33:56.480 Because as Joe Biden observes, the laws have already been changed in many states and many cities where marijuana is either legalized or decriminalized.

00:34:06.780 And people can walk around smoking weed until their heart's content.

00:34:10.520 And has it helped anything?

00:34:13.900 No, the drug abuse problem in our cities is only getting worse over time, not better.

00:34:19.000 So, that's all that this is.

00:34:21.880 It's just a big nothing.

00:34:23.680 And yet, I see there's even some people kind of on the right, or at least people who are not full-on leftists.

00:34:28.620 I mean, Elon Musk was one that responded to this.

00:34:31.300 He didn't say a lot.

00:34:32.020 He just responded with a thumbs-up emoji.

00:34:33.640 So, it wasn't like a huge celebration.

00:34:36.040 But there are plenty of people who are not leftists who respond to this.

00:34:40.480 This is the right move.

00:34:42.020 I support this.

00:34:45.820 Doing something just for show that has no other effect.

00:34:49.000 That's not something that we should line up to applaud.

00:34:53.780 All right.

00:34:54.820 What else we got?

00:34:56.860 All right.

00:34:57.140 Here's a little bit of celebrity gossip.

00:35:00.200 Gisele Bundchen and Tom Brady are taking two wildly different routes from Fox News, by the way.

00:35:05.600 Wildly 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.

00:35:13.760 A 42-year-old supermodel was spotted leaving a holistic healer's office in Miami on Friday.

00:35:18.600 Her 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.

00:35:31.100 I don't even know what any of those words mean.

00:35:33.780 Well, sage I know, but a naturopath.

00:35:36.820 What the hell is that?

00:35:41.000 Brought a smudge stick and burned sage around her vehicle. 0.82

00:35:45.760 So 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. 0.96

00:36:03.000 That's going to make it okay.

00:36:03.860 It's going to make it okay for the kids, right?

00:36:05.960 The kids, don't worry.

00:36:07.360 Dad and I are getting divorced.

00:36:09.260 We're breaking the family apart.

00:36:10.960 But don't worry.

00:36:12.260 We'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?

00:36:21.420 It continues.

00:36:22.220 Burning sage is a centuries-old ritual from indigenous people that has been known for spiritually cleansing a person or space. 0.94

00:36:28.040 Well, no, it hasn't been known for that.

00:36:29.160 I mean, it maybe has been claimed that it's done that, but it just literally does nothing at all.

00:36:34.960 It's like pardoning people for simple marijuana possession.

00:36:39.460 It's just symbolic, if anything.

00:36:43.720 Bündchen's alternative lifestyle includes clean living, wellness routines, meditation, eating only homegrown or organic food, and getting divorces.

00:36:52.020 I added the second one on.

00:36:52.840 While 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.

00:37:05.900 It's pretty obvious that he's hurting.

00:37:07.200 A source told the publication she's the one steering the divorce.

00:37:10.480 She's playing offense, and he's playing defense.

00:37:12.540 He wants to protect himself, protect his interests, but he's only starting to go the legal route in his defense from her.

00:37:17.600 He just wants to be—he doesn't want this to be ugly.

00:37:20.680 He doesn't want to fight.

00:37:21.620 If the divorce is happening, he wants it to go as smoothly as possible.

00:37:24.040 Well, you know, a non-ugly divorce, first of all, is a myth.

00:37:28.040 It's actually impossible.

00:37:30.260 There are gradations are what I'm looking for.

00:37:34.340 Degradation also is an appropriate word, but there are gradations of ugliness when it comes to divorce. 0.98

00:37:40.880 Some are uglier than others, but they're all ugly. 0.94

00:37:42.580 It's an ugly thing. 0.99

00:37:44.000 It's an ugly thing.

00:37:44.760 You're dissolving a marriage.

00:37:45.600 There's no beautiful way to do it.

00:37:48.240 There's no really peaceful or holistically healing way to do it.

00:37:54.780 And it's a sad story.

00:37:56.180 It's always very sad when I read stories like this, not because they're celebrities.

00:37:59.340 You know, it doesn't matter, but because they've been married for a long time and they have kids.

00:38:03.260 And so anytime I read a story, I hear about something like this, I find it very sad.

00:38:08.680 And I would hope—I don't know anything about their situation other than what you read in the news.

00:38:13.080 But I would hope that Tom Brady's fighting for his marriage, you know, fighting for his family.

00:38:20.340 And this is—in a certain way, it's kind of a tale as old as time, at least based on the reports about this.

00:38:26.260 Tale as old as time when it comes to divorce.

00:38:27.900 But also what led to it, what caused the rift, reportedly, was that Giselle was—didn't want Tom Brady to keep playing football.

00:38:40.560 And he did.

00:38:41.880 She wanted to, like, focus on her—she wanted to be the focus on her and her career.

00:38:45.580 And he keeps going with his career.

00:38:47.440 And that's what led to the rift.

00:38:49.300 So you see, once again, it is—it's kind of the difference in the sexes.

00:38:53.800 Yet another difference we're supposed to pretend doesn't exist.

00:38:57.960 Giselle wants Brady to be home with his family.

00:39:00.880 But from his point of view, he's supporting his family by working.

00:39:04.180 And they don't need the money, of course.

00:39:06.080 Like, they could retire and live 50 lifetimes on the money that he already has.

00:39:11.500 And I'm sure that point was probably made to him by his wife.

00:39:13.840 But even so, you know, that's just the way he sees it.

00:39:17.680 He probably also imagines that he could be a better role model to his kids by working than by sitting at home.

00:39:23.480 And at some level, these are excuses because he really wants to play football.

00:39:26.360 But at another level, there's plenty of truth to it.

00:39:29.600 So the wife says, you need to be home more. 0.57

00:39:31.660 You have a family.

00:39:32.500 And the husband says, I know I have a family.

00:39:33.980 That's why I'm out working.

00:39:34.960 And neither is wrong exactly.

00:39:36.740 But their perspective and priorities don't match up.

00:39:39.040 And unfortunately, in this case, though.

00:39:40.560 So there are, you know, every married couple has disagreements like this in this vein.

00:39:48.980 But in this case, it's led to an ultimate calamity and catastrophe.

00:39:53.420 Because it seems like they're both too focused on themselves.

00:39:56.980 Which is what always leads to divorce in the end. 0.99

00:40:00.600 Is a focus on the self rather than on the vow and on the marriage.

00:40:05.240 All right, let's get to the comment section.

00:40:06.880 Barry Sanchez says, I hope you played great music back in your shock jock days. 0.96

00:40:25.180 What a freaking joke these people are. 0.85

00:40:26.880 Don't worry, Matt. 0.98

00:40:27.840 We have your back.

00:40:28.580 Well, we didn't play great music.

00:40:29.480 Like, I unfortunately would tell you.

00:40:30.680 This is, you know, early 2000s.

00:40:34.520 The early 2000s rock scene was not great.

00:40:40.280 It's kind of like a new rock.

00:40:41.620 I don't know what the genre is exactly.

00:40:43.860 And so it's like Papa Roach type stuff is what it was.

00:40:49.220 It wasn't my favorite.

00:40:50.380 I'll admit to you.

00:40:52.320 And we played Pearl Jam.

00:40:53.540 Like, Pearl Jam was, at that point, you know, still older.

00:40:56.500 It's like more 90s.

00:40:57.520 We played Pearl Jam probably five times an hour.

00:41:01.300 Chris O'Neill says, Matt used to record himself and publish it to the world beardless.

00:41:04.960 There is nothing that you can do to humiliate this man.

00:41:08.320 Very good point.

00:41:09.460 It doesn't get much worse than that.

00:41:10.880 And 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.

00:41:31.980 Now we see that that was not actually technically true.

00:41:36.140 That has been revealed.

00:41:37.220 Fit Theology says, Matt, after learning of your past escapades, I like you even more.

00:41:46.160 Dixie 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.

00:41:55.280 Takes some time.

00:41:56.080 Does take some time to grow into the trolling.

00:41:59.080 Anyway, there were a lot of comments like this.

00:42:00.820 A lot of very supportive messages, which I do really appreciate.

00:42:05.900 And it's like we talked about earlier in the show.

00:42:10.060 You know, none of this works without support.

00:42:11.760 This is the thing about, you know, as we discussed yesterday, any cancellation attempt.

00:42:17.140 It's like, here's, there are a couple of conditions that need to be met for a person to be canceled.

00:42:22.040 The 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.

00:42:37.840 So that's the first thing that needs to happen for the cancellation.

00:42:41.160 And the other thing that needs to happen is that the person needs to be isolated.

00:42:44.680 So this is always the game with the cancellation is to isolate the person.

00:42:50.700 You know, it's like a predator in the Serengeti, right?

00:42:54.640 Like find the sick, weak prey who's isolated from the herd and pounce on them.

00:43:01.040 And so that is always the game.

00:43:03.400 It's to make sure that you isolate this person, they have no support, and then you can take them out.

00:43:09.900 That's why if you have support, then you can't be canceled, which I know that I have.

00:43:14.980 So I do appreciate that.

00:43:16.140 But 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.

00:43:26.960 There's my inspirational message.

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00:44:02.400 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:44:03.740 So one of my least favorite memes is the cartoon of the guy shushing another guy and saying, let people enjoy things.

00:44:18.280 The let people enjoy things line is trotted out now on the internet approximately 46 million times a day.

00:44:23.820 It's always deployed in reaction to anyone who says something critical about a thing that other people enjoy.

00:44:28.740 And 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.

00:44:44.620 If 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.

00:44:50.940 Third, most importantly, the fact that people are enjoying something does not mean that it should be exempt from criticism.

00:44:59.440 All things in existence are enjoyed by somebody.

00:45:03.600 Does that mean that nothing at all can ever be criticized? 0.97

00:45:06.700 Serial killers enjoy murdering people.

00:45:09.080 Can a serial killer give that response to the judge during trial?

00:45:12.680 You've been convicted of 23 counts of murder in the first degree.

00:45:15.620 Shh, judge, let people enjoy things, okay?

00:45:18.700 The point is, it is valid to scrutinize the things people enjoy.

00:45:22.060 In fact, we should especially scrutinize those things because it would seem often redundant to criticize that which nobody enjoys anyway.

00:45:30.400 I 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.

00:45:41.440 So, CNBC reports, quote,

00:45:43.220 You're never too old for a Happy Meal, or at least that's what McDonald's is banking on.

00:45:47.100 The 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.

00:46:00.540 The 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.

00:46:09.260 Unlike 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.

00:46:17.540 Inside the box will be one of four collectible figurines of McDonald's mascots Grimace, the Hamburglar, and Birdie, as well as a cactus buddy.

00:46:27.200 Quote,

00:46:27.460 We'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.

00:46:35.000 McDonald's Chief Marketing Officer Tariq Hassan said in a statement.

00:46:38.120 Well, they did just release their first ad for the adult Happy Meal, and here it is.

00:47:08.120 Yeah, that's an ad that's supposed to appeal to adults.

00:47:18.360 Not even just adults on acid, but sober adults too.

00:47:22.180 And it seems to have worked, at least at first.

00:47:23.920 Apparently the adult Happy Meals are selling out all across the country.

00:47:26.820 McDonald'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.

00:47:33.700 Adults are flocking to the fast food chain to order their very own nostalgic box.

00:47:38.920 They're coming in such numbers that, as McDonald's employees report, it's creating chaos and stress for the staff.

00:47:45.660 As for the customers, the initial excitement that these grown adults felt over their Happy Meals has apparently given way, though, to disappointment. 0.93

00:47:52.820 And 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. 0.88

00:48:04.720 So Eat This reports, quote, 0.99

00:48:06.180 Yes, this is not a nostalgic Happy Meal for adults.

00:48:15.140 This is weird and artistic and appeals to teenagers, wrote one Reddit user after reading about the promotion.

00:48:21.820 I was semi-interested as a fan of tacky nostalgic knickknacks, but these don't capture the nostalgia.

00:48:27.900 So what's the point? added another Redditor.

00:48:29.800 It's true, when most adults think back to their cherished childhood memories of Happy Meals, streetwear fashion doesn't immediately come to mind.

00:48:36.800 Quote,

00:48:37.520 There were so many directions McDonald's could have gone with the toys that would have felt special.

00:48:41.760 Comic book toys, Nickelodeon toys, Ninja Turtle toys.

00:48:45.660 These would have turned the millennia nostalgia up to 11, Jeremy Schneider of NJ.com opined, and it's hard not to agree with him.

00:48:53.020 To be clear, that is an adult, a grown man, upset that his Happy Meal didn't come with a Ninja Turtle toy.

00:49:05.020 What'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?

00:49:13.080 Actually, I don't even want to know the answer to that question.

00:49:16.440 And see, this is the problem.

00:49:17.360 The 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.

00:49:33.400 As a generation, we are growing older chronologically.

00:49:36.380 We're experiencing all of the inevitable physical changes that come with that.

00:49:39.180 We're getting fatter and slower.

00:49:40.520 Our hair is thinning.

00:49:41.380 We're developing chronic back pain, etc.

00:49:43.060 But emotionally and psychologically, we cling to the past, to our youth, to the things of childhood.

00:49:49.160 1 Corinthians says,

00:49:50.340 When I was a child, I spoke as a child.

00:49:51.800 I understood as a child.

00:49:52.720 I thought as a child.

00:49:53.920 But when I became a man, I put away childish things.

00:49:56.880 This is a verse that made sense to and resonated with most generations of humans who've lived on earth, but not with ours.

00:50:03.780 Because we never put away the childish things.

00:50:05.840 We still speak and act and understand as children. 0.98

00:50:08.360 And 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. 0.96

00:50:18.320 Many of us have chosen not to have children of our own, instead electing to be children ourselves perpetually. 0.97

00:50:24.420 Ordering Happy Meals.

00:50:26.160 Watching cartoons.

00:50:27.600 Obsessed with superheroes and comic books.

00:50:29.720 Listening to music made for teenagers.

00:50:32.280 Our tastes have not matured in the slightest because we have not matured in the slightest.

00:50:36.840 And, of course, I use the word we here only in a general sort of generational sense.

00:50:41.580 There are maybe five or six of us who are exceptions to the rule.

00:50:46.300 Now, two other points to consider.

00:50:48.580 First, millennials are obsessed with nostalgia.

00:50:51.540 You know, they eat anything up that reminds them of their childhoods.

00:50:54.160 That's why any rebooted Nickelodeon show or film franchise from the 90s will attract intense interest from millennials.

00:51:01.020 All of these Disney live-action remakes seem to target millennials even more than current-day children.

00:51:06.840 Though the nostalgic millennial inevitably leaves these trips down memory lane feeling disappointed and unfulfilled.

00:51:13.900 He sobs forlornly over his Happy Meal because it's not as delightful as he remembered it being in his childhood.

00:51:19.440 He writes a scathing review of the latest Disney film because it didn't live up to his childhood memories.

00:51:24.020 He sits in his beanbag chair drinking his Sunny D watching the Rugrats reboot.

00:51:29.280 Yet he feels that it's somehow just not the same.

00:51:32.760 And he's right.

00:51:34.220 He was a child then and he isn't anymore.

00:51:37.840 Even 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.

00:51:47.960 Also, his nostalgic remembrances are only vaguely rooted in reality.

00:51:54.840 Nostalgia is the story you tell yourself about your past, which is not the same thing as the actual past.

00:52:02.660 And the most pitiful thing about it all, and the reason why he's never satisfied no matter how much he immerses himself in nostalgia,

00:52:07.880 is that all of his nostalgia is tied to brands.

00:52:13.820 Millennials have a branded nostalgia.

00:52:16.200 All that they pine for from childhood are corporate products and content.

00:52:21.820 This makes it incredibly lucrative to exploit, but also means that our nostalgic pursuits will always feel empty in the end because they are.

00:52:29.420 Here's the second and final point.

00:52:30.800 There is a truly wholesome, joyful, fulfilling way to relive aspects of your childhood, and that is by having children yourself.

00:52:44.400 I enjoy watching my children experience the sorts of things that I experience in childhood.

00:52:49.440 It can be very fun to go back and rediscover the joys of childhood by experiencing them with your child.

00:52:56.260 So, for example, I actually have fun playing hide-and-seek or The Floor is Lava with my kids.

00:53:04.460 That's a lot of fun.

00:53:05.440 Last time I played that, I was like 10, and then my kids came of age.

00:53:10.320 They got to Floor is Lava age, and we could play with the kids.

00:53:13.840 It's fun.

00:53:14.880 I'm very competitive in both games, and I can become quite invested in them.

00:53:18.540 But they're fun for me because my kids are having fun.

00:53:21.380 It's something I can do with them.

00:53:23.340 I wouldn't play it by myself.

00:53:24.820 I wouldn't suggest it as a date night activity with my wife, except to annoy her.

00:53:29.860 I'll also watch the sorts of things I watched as a kid with my kids.

00:53:34.760 It can be fun to introduce them to the shows and films that I enjoyed when I was, you know, their age.

00:53:39.600 It 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. 0.96

00:53:47.880 The damned Philistines did not appreciate it at all. 1.00

00:53:50.740 They were bored out of their minds. 0.99

00:53:51.800 I will also have the sorts of conversations with my kids that I used to have when I was a kid.

00:53:57.440 So my son will say to me, hey, Daddy, would you rather eat poop or get bit by a snake?

00:54:04.360 And, of course, I'll want to know, like, what sort of snake are we talking about and how much poop?

00:54:07.780 I mean, if it's non-venomous, I'll probably take the snake.

00:54:10.380 Like, if it's a diamondback we're talking about, well, I guess I'm going with the poop. 1.00

00:54:15.020 And we continue with the discussion for several minutes.

00:54:17.880 Point being, there's a proper way to experience aspects of your own childhood again,

00:54:23.920 and a way that will not only live up to your memories, but will often exceed them.

00:54:29.200 Like, I feel like I can actually have more fun with some of these things now than I did as a kid because I'm with my own kids.

00:54:36.040 And I'll even eat Happy Meals.

00:54:39.640 I will eat Happy Meals as an adult.

00:54:42.680 But I eat them when I order them for my kids and I steal half of the meal before handing the box back to them in the car.

00:54:52.320 Like a civilized and mature adult.

00:54:55.000 Okay, that's the correct strategy.

00:54:56.280 That is why, ultimately, the adult Happy Meal is today canceled.

00:55:03.480 And that will do it for us today as we move over to the members' block.

00:55:07.120 Hope to see you there.

00:55:08.240 If not, talk to you on Monday.

00:55:09.440 Godspeed.

00:55:09.800 Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - October 07, 2022

Ep. 1037 - Protesters Claim That My Speech Threatens Their Very Existence

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