The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1054 - Rappers Are Dying Left And Right From The Violence They Glorify

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, another rapper was shot and killed this week.

00:00:03.300 More and more of the people making music glorifying violence are falling victim to it themselves.

00:00:07.420 But while the left warns about the dangers of irresponsible speech all the time,

00:00:11.660 they seem to have a blind spot when it comes to the rap industry.

00:00:14.020 I wonder why.

00:00:14.640 Also, I am featured in yet another mainstream media hit piece, this one from NBC News.

00:00:19.160 I'll tell you about some of the dirty tricks they pulled behind the scenes.

00:00:22.040 And Anne Hathaway goes on The View to talk about why abortion is a woman's destiny. 0.99

00:00:27.200 What the hell does that mean?

00:00:28.000 We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:01:51.600 We begin today with Deja Vu.

00:01:54.960 A rapper has been shot and killed.

00:01:58.020 You are, I suspect, not overly shocked by this development.

00:02:01.200 This time it was someone who goes by the stage name Takeoff and was part of a popular rap group called Migos.

00:02:07.360 The Daily Wire has more on the story.

00:02:09.200 Rapper Takeoff was shot and killed in Houston in the early Tuesday morning, according to TMZ.

00:02:13.820 The 28-year-old recording artist was part of the group Migos.

00:02:16.660 Law enforcement sources and several witnesses told TMZ that the fatal incident occurred just after 2.30 a.m.

00:02:22.680 when police were called to 810 Billiards in Bowling, Houston.

00:02:28.020 The sources said Takeoff, whose real name is Kirshnik Kerry Ball, was playing dice with bandmate Quavo when a fight broke out among participants.

00:02:36.300 This led to one person allegedly opening fire and striking Takeoff in or near the head, who was pronounced dead at the scene, to other individuals who were also allegedly injured during the altercation, taken to the hospital, but their conditions unknown.

00:02:46.960 The sources said Quavo was not hurt.

00:02:49.580 So, Takeoff now joins a lengthy list of murdered rappers, and it's a list that seems to be growing with increasing rapidity in recent months.

00:02:59.900 Just this past September, the rapper P&B Rock was shot and killed at a chicken and waffles restaurant in Los Angeles.

00:03:06.580 A couple months before that, in July, a rapper named Jay DeYoungin was shot by multiple gunmen who pulled up in a black truck and opened fire while he was sitting outside of his home in Louisiana.

00:03:16.440 That same month, a rapper named Trouble was killed in a home invasion robbery in Atlanta.

00:03:22.060 Overall, this year alone, at least seven rappers have been murdered.

00:03:26.440 That's at least 15 since 2020.

00:03:29.620 Five a year on average, which is an extraordinary figure when you consider that the murder rate for performers in other genres is effectively zero.

00:03:38.480 I mean, there are more rappers killed in a year than country singers killed in a decade or a century or ever.

00:03:47.600 That's not because there's some kind of racist vendetta against rappers.

00:03:51.320 There isn't any serial killer on the loose targeting hip-hop artists, as far as I know.

00:03:56.220 The difference between rappers and country stars, of course, is that rappers live lifestyles of criminality and violence.

00:04:03.620 They promote criminality and violence.

00:04:06.460 They glorify criminality and violence.

00:04:09.020 And then they fall victim to the very brutality that they encourage.

00:04:12.660 In fact, I pulled up the lyrics to one Migos song, totally at random, because I don't know any of their music.

00:04:18.380 I'm not very familiar with the catalog, so I just looked it up.

00:04:20.660 And the first one that came up was a song called Open It Up.

00:04:24.060 And the very first lines in the song are,

00:04:26.540 Shoot through your car door.

00:04:28.380 That's the first line in the song.

00:04:29.460 Now, we've grown, of course, very accustomed to this sort of content in rap songs.

00:04:53.800 It's not at all shocking or surprising at this point.

00:04:56.240 But still, I mean, really think about what he's saying here.

00:05:01.720 He's bragging about murdering human beings simply because they look at him funny.

00:05:07.880 He is boasting of and thereby promoting murderous savagery. 0.80

00:05:13.980 He's saying that he'll kill you for no reason, and then someone killed him for no reason. 0.94

00:05:20.860 My point is not that this young man deserved to be murdered.

00:05:23.400 I mean, nobody deserves to be killed over a game of dice.

00:05:25.620 It's a tragic, senseless waste of human life and potential.

00:05:30.380 My point is that rap music has helped to create a culture of crime and brutality.

00:05:36.600 And that culture has become so pervasive, so out of control,

00:05:40.300 that even the rappers themselves are falling victim to it every other month now.

00:05:44.640 They're being eaten by the beast they create.

00:05:47.880 They're not operating in a vacuum, of course.

00:05:49.900 I mean, they're merely the front men.

00:05:51.320 They're the salesmen knocking on your door, peddling this filth.

00:05:54.580 But behind them is the entire music industry, which is run by much wealthier people

00:05:59.120 who know exactly what they're doing.

00:06:00.960 They know how poisonous the product is.

00:06:03.260 And they know that many of their salesmen are dying by it.

00:06:06.960 And they don't care. 0.99

00:06:08.840 But as rap music gets more dumb and gets more brutal, more violent, more toxic, 0.99

00:06:14.340 that also becomes more and more mainstreamed and ubiquitous. 0.94

00:06:18.560 In my brief research into Migos, I found a picture of the three members of the band

00:06:23.980 posing on the red carpet at the Nickelodeon's Kids' Choice Awards.

00:06:28.620 Because what could be more appropriate for children than music that explicitly encourages them

00:06:33.360 to commit drive-by shootings?

00:06:35.060 Of course, the apologists will absurdly claim that music lyrics are just words.

00:06:41.800 They don't influence anyone.

00:06:43.900 Go into any city in America and you will see legions of young fatherless kids

00:06:49.860 explicitly acting out the lyrics in the music that they are listening to every second of the day.

00:06:56.860 And yet we're supposed to believe that they're not influenced at all. 1.00

00:07:00.080 It is an outrageously stupid claim. 0.99

00:07:02.380 In reality, human beings are influenced by words and ideas. 1.00

00:07:08.060 We are.

00:07:08.520 I mean, especially when those words and ideas are communicated through music.

00:07:12.960 So it's not that they're influential as long as it's not music.

00:07:16.580 It's the other way around.

00:07:17.460 It's especially influential in music.

00:07:19.780 There's a reason why brands have, most corporate brands have their own little advertising jingles.

00:07:24.840 Because words on their own can have immense power.

00:07:28.360 But when you set them to music, they become embedded in your brain, in your soul.

00:07:34.720 They become a mantra, a slogan to live your life by.

00:07:39.780 To a young fatherless black kid in the city, rap music isn't just music.

00:07:44.860 It's a lifestyle.

00:07:45.980 It's a message about how to live.

00:07:47.400 It's a message about how to conduct yourself, how to be a man.

00:07:50.180 And these are kids who are not getting that message anywhere else.

00:07:53.800 They don't have role models showing them how to be men.

00:07:56.520 Or they get it.

00:07:57.320 They get it from rap music.

00:07:59.200 It is a guide.

00:08:00.280 It is a map pointing the child towards his own destruction.

00:08:05.720 Now, of course, here's the irony here.

00:08:08.360 The left will agree with everything I'm saying about the power of words and ideas, except when it comes to rap music.

00:08:20.200 You know, they will say that if you use biologically correct pronouns to refer to a trans person, that you are then directly causing the trans person to kill himself.

00:08:29.700 If you, say, criticize a hospital for mutilating minors, your words are directly causing violence and bomb threats against the hospital.

00:08:41.800 If you, say, question the election results in 2020, your words directly led to the riot on January 6th.

00:08:50.440 They directly caused a crazy homeless guy to break into Nancy Pelosi's house and assault her husband with a hammer.

00:08:55.500 In all of these contexts, and in any other context where conservatives are saying anything about any subject, words, we're told, have enormous consequence.

00:09:08.400 But when rappers spend decades explicitly glorifying and encouraging street violence, and lots of people who listen to that music commit acts of street violence, sometimes committing them against the rappers themselves,

00:09:22.080 the very people who are just sermonizing about the power of words and ideas will throw their hands up and say,

00:09:28.720 I don't know, I don't see a connection here.

00:09:31.900 I just, I don't see it. I don't know what you guys are talking about.

00:09:36.680 Words have consequences, unless they're said over a bass-heavy beat, in which case they exist in this kind of consequence-free zone, apparently.

00:09:46.300 Yet, we know that that's not the case at all.

00:09:51.680 In fact, in few areas of life, do words have greater consequences, or worse consequences, than in the rap industry.

00:10:03.160 Consequences that even now, the people peddling this stuff can't escape.

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00:11:13.220 The assailant in the Paul Pelosi case has been in custody for a few days, and more information is coming out.

00:11:19.880 The media's job then, of course, is to organize that information in such a way as to support their already pre-decided, predetermined narratives.

00:11:28.620 So here's the Washington Post.

00:11:30.440 It says,

00:12:00.440 They say the papes, evolving beliefs show how today's extremist threat complicates easy left-right categorization, a shift that's confusing to the public, and a bonanza for trolls who exploit the messiness to push disinformation and justify violence.

00:12:20.860 Cynthia Miller-Idris, who heads the Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab at American University, says,

00:12:28.360 You get stuff that just feels contradictory, but when you understand how online exposure to propaganda works, it makes perfect sense.

00:12:35.060 It's a choose-your-own-adventure type of radicalization.

00:12:37.780 By the time DePay 42 allegedly broke into Pelosi's residence on Friday and attacked 82-year-old Paul with a hammer, his writings were laden with far-right messaging that indicated a dark conspiratorial spiral.

00:12:49.120 His blog posts in October were a mix of bloody images and hateful screeds aimed at a variety of targeted groups, including Jewish, black, and trans people, as well as Democrats.

00:12:57.520 He also shared delusional thoughts about an invisible fairy that sometimes appeared as a bird. 0.98

00:13:03.340 A purported former romantic partner, Oxane Gypsy Tobe, has told reporters that DePay is mentally ill.

00:13:13.620 Well, he's talking about an invisible fairy, so I think that's probably a pretty good indication. 0.99

00:13:18.160 But Washington Post says those details were largely ignored by right-wing figures, including elected Republicans and MAGA stars with millions of followers,

00:13:26.960 who instead reached years back to portray him as a leftist, hemp-bracelet-peddling hippie, perhaps part of a false flag operation to blame the right for the assault.

00:13:36.760 Now, all right, so a couple of things here.

00:13:40.940 Just to be clear with you, Washington Post, we aren't ignoring the details.

00:13:46.400 It's not about ignoring the details.

00:13:49.780 The point and the problem for us and for you, I suppose, is that we don't trust you.

00:13:56.580 So the task is always to discern which details are correct and which are lies, which are out of context, etc.

00:14:07.140 And there's no perfect way to figure it out.

00:14:08.940 I mean, how are we supposed to know?

00:14:09.920 That's the thing.

00:14:11.820 Something like this happens.

00:14:13.680 It's at Nancy Pelosi's house in San Francisco.

00:14:17.100 I have no direct access to information about it.

00:14:19.740 There's no way that I can really investigate it on my own.

00:14:23.600 I'm not going to show up to the crime scene with a notepad and start doing my own investigation.

00:14:29.180 I don't think they'd allow me to do it anyway.

00:14:30.460 So I, along with everybody else, you know, we have to rely on the disseminators of the institutions that have positioned themselves as the official kind of disseminators of information.

00:14:44.560 And that would be like you.

00:14:47.140 But the problem is that you have shown time and time again that you are totally untrustworthy.

00:14:51.980 And so that's the spot we're in.

00:14:55.500 You just, I don't know.

00:14:57.500 I mean, maybe what you're telling us is 100% correct.

00:15:00.300 Maybe it's 80% correct.

00:15:02.360 Maybe it's 50-50.

00:15:04.080 I don't know.

00:15:06.680 And so all of the speculation, what you call conspiracy theories, these are just people who are aware that they can't trust you lying hacks.

00:15:17.720 And so they're trying to make sense of it on their own.

00:15:20.500 What else are they supposed to do?

00:15:22.500 I mean, it's either we ignore these stories completely and just say, I don't care, move on with our lives.

00:15:28.820 That's certainly a valid option, you know.

00:15:32.460 Or we just accept everything you tell us.

00:15:35.240 Well, we know we can't do that.

00:15:36.940 And so the only third option is to, if we don't want to ignore it, we can't accept everything you said.

00:15:41.480 It's just to try to make sense of it, as I said, make sense of it ourselves.

00:15:46.100 And so that's what people are doing.

00:15:47.780 It is all your fault.

00:15:48.900 I mean, it's really 100% your fault.

00:15:50.200 All of the conspiracy, the so-called conspiracy theories online, what you call misinformation, disinformation, it is 100% all your fault.

00:15:59.240 You have yourselves to blame for that.

00:16:02.140 When you put yourself in the position of being the arbiters of information, the arbiters of what is true and what is not, but you don't live up.

00:16:10.840 You don't even come close to living up to that, to the responsibilities of that position, then, you know, it's a free-for-all.

00:16:20.420 Now, all that said, personally, and I said this from the very beginning, I have no problem accepting the basic outline presented by the Washington Post and other mainstream media outlets about this story.

00:16:32.860 The basic outline of a guy breaking into Nancy Pelosi's house, getting into a physical altercation with her husband.

00:16:41.360 I'm from the very beginning.

00:16:42.900 There's nothing about that that seems strange to me.

00:16:45.120 And the reason why it doesn't seem strange to me is that this is San Francisco.

00:16:51.200 And there are, this kind of thing happens in San Francisco all the time.

00:16:56.040 Now, it might not happen to politicians all the time, but it happens all the time. 0.99

00:17:00.960 This is a city overrun by criminality, overrun by violent criminals, overrun by drug-addled, crazy homeless people. 0.91

00:17:09.980 And so I hear this, and I think, yeah, well, that's, well, I mean, she lives in San Francisco. 0.88

00:17:17.380 And the details that we're getting now just only confirm that.

00:17:22.480 So this conversation, was he on the left?

00:17:24.420 Was he on the right? 0.99

00:17:25.360 He was crazy. 1.00

00:17:26.400 This is a crazy person. 1.00

00:17:28.420 This is not, he was radicalized by right-wing rhetoric. 0.74

00:17:31.180 Okay, despite what we're told from the extremism experts that work at these universities and have now just positioned themselves,

00:17:41.120 you know, they position, the media's position itself is the arbiters of information.

00:17:44.520 Then you have people in universities who, they're now the experts on extremism.

00:17:49.460 What made you the expert on that?

00:17:50.920 Like, what do you know about this topic that anyone else doesn't know?

00:17:53.400 Well, because that's what I am.

00:17:54.280 So the experts tell us that, yeah, well, there's a pipeline that takes someone from, this makes perfect sense.

00:18:02.300 Someone goes from a far-left nudist activist in the Green Party to a MAGA extremist.

00:18:13.820 That is a pipeline, goes right from one to another.

00:18:15.900 No, there's not.

00:18:17.300 There's no pipeline there.

00:18:18.640 There, in between those two, you know, spots on the spectrum, it's not even a, can't even call it a spectrum,

00:18:25.160 because there's this vast canyon divide between the two.

00:18:33.660 So this is not radicalization.

00:18:36.600 This is not, you know, he was responding to stuff that Ted Cruz said, or, you know,

00:18:42.160 I think they also tried to blame Jesse Waters on Fox News. 0.99

00:18:45.060 This is just a crazy, drug-crazed, homeless guy, and that's what he is. 0.99

00:18:53.560 Okay, he believes that there are visible fairies all around. 0.99

00:18:57.000 Who radicalized him into that belief?

00:19:00.300 I'll tell you what radicalized him into that belief.

00:19:03.020 Crack cocaine, heroin, something like that. 0.98

00:19:05.620 This is a crazy, violent person doing what lots of crazy, violent people in San Francisco have done.

00:19:16.180 Which is why the real story here, again, as I said from the beginning,

00:19:20.960 is that, you know, in its proper context, this is understood as a local crime story in San Francisco.

00:19:27.300 Not unlike so many others that we hear of every single day.

00:19:33.740 This is a consequence, not of Fox News or conservatives or people being skeptical about the 2020 election results

00:19:43.600 or conservatives tweeting things, not a consequence of that.

00:19:46.500 This is a consequence of local Democratic leadership in San Francisco 0.97

00:19:51.860 that allows violent, crazy, drug-addicted homeless people to just run rampant with no consequence. 0.62

00:20:03.700 And from what I understand, even this guy apparently was a Canadian citizen who's overstayed his visas.

00:20:09.440 He's here illegally. 0.99

00:20:10.800 Should have been deported.

00:20:11.420 Well, we know the Democrat leaders in these cities are not quick to do that either.

00:20:17.660 It's a sanctuary city, San Francisco is. 0.99

00:20:20.360 Sanctuary city, not just for illegals, but for violent, crazy homeless people. 1.00

00:20:28.080 If they were enforcing the law in this city and focused on law and order, this wouldn't happen 0.97

00:20:34.180 because this guy would be in jail or he'd be in a mental institution

00:20:36.200 or he would have been deported up to Canada, let him be their problem.

00:20:41.420 So this is a Democrat politician, Nancy Pelosi, who has helped to facilitate the destruction of law and order, 0.86

00:20:51.860 now falling victim to the anarchy and chaos that she has helped to create through the policies that she supports. 0.97

00:20:58.860 That's the story here.

00:21:00.960 And all the other details about what this guy believed or what he posted on his blog

00:21:05.360 while he was imagining that invisible ferries were flying around, that means nothing. 0.99

00:21:10.100 How about enforce the law in your damn city? 0.99

00:21:14.900 How about that? 1.00

00:21:15.320 How's that for an idea?

00:21:19.580 Republicans cannot be blamed for any crime in San Francisco, okay?

00:21:24.360 That's not on any Republican.

00:21:25.800 That's entirely on the Democrats.

00:21:27.960 You own every part of that.

00:21:30.120 Everything that happens in San Francisco, you own it.

00:21:32.260 That's yours.

00:21:32.760 Speaking of not being able to trust the media, here's another reason why.

00:21:38.860 This is a story from, I want to tell you, here's a story from NBC News by a reporter named Matt Levites.

00:21:45.520 Here's the headline.

00:21:47.480 Far-right figures appear to be testing Twitter's boundaries for anti-LGBTQ speech.

00:21:53.720 Elon Musk, the new owner of Twitter, has built himself as a champion of free speech

00:21:57.600 and vowed to prevent Twitter from becoming a free-for-all hellscape.

00:22:02.520 So this is a story that he wrote.

00:22:03.440 He tweeted it out, too.

00:22:04.420 And he said, in his tweet, he said that, you know, there are a bunch of conservatives

00:22:08.020 and far-right figures who are tweeting slurs against LGBT people now.

00:22:15.700 So that's the way this is being framed.

00:22:17.820 It's hate speech.

00:22:19.340 We're, you know, engaging in slurs and all that kind of thing.

00:22:23.180 Here's the article.

00:22:23.760 In the few days since Elon Musk closed his deal to buy Twitter, far-right users have started to celebrate

00:22:28.360 what they hope will be the ability to freely use homophobic and transphobic rhetoric

00:22:32.680 and make threats on the social media platform.

00:22:35.980 On Saturday, former UFC fighter Jake Shields, who has over 340,000 Twitter followers,

00:22:40.760 appeared to be testing the boundaries of the company's moderation apparatus

00:22:43.900 by posting a photo of a drag queen smiling at a young drag performer with the caption,

00:22:48.600 this is a groomer.

00:22:50.020 Shields added,

00:22:50.500 I was suspended for this exact tweet a month ago, so we'll see if Twitter is now free.

00:22:54.920 The word grooming has long been associated with mischaracterizing LGBT people, 0.51

00:22:58.580 particularly gay men and transgender women, as child sex abusers. 0.98

00:23:02.280 On Friday, conservative podcaster Matt Walsh, who describes himself as a theocratic fascist, 0.99

00:23:07.400 lauded Musk's acquisition of the company and encouraged his over 1 million followers

00:23:11.400 to start misgendering trans people.

00:23:14.100 We've made huge strides against transgender. 1.00

00:23:16.140 Walsh tweeted,

00:23:16.560 In just a year, we've recovered many years of ground conservatives who have previously surrendered.

00:23:21.840 The liberation of Twitter couldn't have come at a more opportune time.

00:23:24.340 Now we can ramp up our efforts even more.

00:23:27.620 Laws are changing and public opinion is changing.

00:23:29.660 Walsh, who held an anti-trans protest in Nashville, attended by thousands last month,

00:23:33.340 continued,

00:23:34.360 We have done all of this intentionally.

00:23:35.800 It was all part of the plan that we laid out and executed.

00:23:38.000 Okay, so I make it into the article, of course.

00:23:40.780 And now, and I could go on and get, and he gets the libs of TikTok and a couple others.

00:23:45.540 At no point does he actually provide an example of a, quote, far right person using a slur.

00:23:53.720 And at no point do, is it, does he give any example of anyone making threats or encouraging threats?

00:24:01.880 There are no examples of that.

00:24:03.140 That's how the article is set up.

00:24:04.300 There are no actual examples of it.

00:24:06.560 The word groomer is not a slur.

00:24:08.840 It is an accurate description of what these people are doing.

00:24:12.680 It's not a compliment either, but it's, when we're accurately describing your evil behavior,

00:24:18.220 there's no, there's no complimentary way to describe it.

00:24:21.800 I did say that I'm looking forward to going on a misgendering spree on Twitter.

00:24:27.140 I've been saying that all along.

00:24:28.640 But of course, by misgendering, I mean correct gendering.

00:24:32.780 So that's not a slur either.

00:24:35.180 No actual examples, even though that was how it's framed.

00:24:37.160 But here's the point.

00:24:38.800 In the original article, and this apparently has been changed, but the original article says,

00:24:45.820 after the part where they're quoting me, the reporter claims that he reached out to me

00:24:51.140 and I didn't respond to a request for comment.

00:24:54.260 Okay?

00:24:55.320 Well, and that language has been removed.

00:24:58.180 But it was there originally.

00:25:00.060 Well, this reporter, he reached out to me yesterday morning and told me that he's working on an article.

00:25:07.360 He's writing an article about, you know, the anti-LGBT rhetoric.

00:25:12.400 And he'd just love, he'd love to get my take on it because I'm going to be included in the article.

00:25:17.200 And he'd love to get my perspective as well.

00:25:19.320 In fact, he begins his message, hope you're well, exclamation point.

00:25:23.920 But he'd love to get my, he'd love to get my opinion on it, he says.

00:25:27.120 In fact, I can pull it up, I'll tell you exactly what he, I'll tell you exactly what he said.

00:25:33.100 Okay, so he wrote me yesterday, I said, this is yesterday at 8.21 a.m.

00:25:36.380 He says, hi Matt, hope you're well.

00:25:38.720 I'm writing an article for NBC News regarding the uptick in what many would call charged rhetoric over LGBTQ issues.

00:25:45.340 What many would call.

00:25:46.760 That's what he is calling it, but he said, it's what many people are saying.

00:25:51.060 I'm going to be quoting a tweet of yours from the other day.

00:25:54.160 And therefore, I want you to reach out for comment.

00:25:55.980 Let me know if you'd like to expand on your thoughts on this topic.

00:25:59.160 Looking forward to hearing from you.

00:26:01.560 So it was yesterday at 8.21 a.m.

00:26:03.620 And I got this message, and I've been around the block a little bit with these people.

00:26:06.960 I know how it works.

00:26:07.840 So he says he's writing an article.

00:26:09.280 I got the message at, I don't know, I saw it 10 minutes later.

00:26:14.000 And so I went and checked.

00:26:15.180 I went to NBCnews.com.

00:26:16.540 And what do you know, the article's already been posted.

00:26:19.300 And it was already posted long before he sent the request for comment.

00:26:22.440 They posted it at around 5 o'clock in the afternoon the previous day.

00:26:26.700 And then he waits for the afternoon and evening to pass.

00:26:30.280 And then the following day reaches out to me and says that he's writing the article right now and wants to get my comment.

00:26:36.860 And not only that, but in the original version of the article, again, it said that they reached out to me and I didn't respond.

00:26:41.860 But they didn't reach out to me at the time when they published it.

00:26:45.360 They had not reached out to me.

00:26:46.260 They were just anticipating that I wouldn't respond.

00:26:49.280 And so they claimed it as if it had happened.

00:26:52.300 And I saw this and I messaged him back.

00:26:54.400 I said, hi, Matt, I see that you've already published your article.

00:26:56.420 Timestamp seems to indicate it was published the day before you reached out for comment.

00:26:59.480 Is that correct?

00:27:01.340 He says, yes, the original version of the story was published yesterday.

00:27:04.760 We'd appreciate your comment on this topic if you have anything to add.

00:27:07.940 And I did have something to add.

00:27:10.080 And I messaged him back.

00:27:10.920 I said, I think you understand that it's a b**** tactic to publish a story, wait until the initial push of traffic has died down, and then ask for comment from the people you've smeared in the article. 0.97

00:27:19.300 I don't care if you guys are partisan vultures masquerading as journalists.

00:27:22.540 I just preferred if you didn't insult my intelligence by pretending that you want to hear my perspective for an article that you published yesterday.

00:27:29.780 Haven't had a response after that.

00:27:33.400 This is the tactic, of course.

00:27:34.620 They published the article with all the smears and everything, making claims, you made threats, you engaged in slurs and all the rest of it.

00:27:43.660 Then you get the initial push of traffic, get the traffic overnight, you wait until the traffic has died down, and no one's reading the article anymore.

00:27:50.960 Now, it's NBC News, so not that many people are going to read it to begin with.

00:27:54.340 But like 90% of the people who will read it will read it in the first few hours.

00:27:59.640 That's just the way that it works.

00:28:00.820 That's just, that's the nature of the beast when you're in the content creation space on the internet.

00:28:06.200 And they know that.

00:28:07.400 So the following day, it's like no one's reading it anymore.

00:28:09.560 And then we'll update it with your comments.

00:28:13.680 These people are, as I said to him in my response, these people are partisan vultures.

00:28:18.100 And then, and then they have the nerve, as I said, it annoys me, the fact that there are soulless lying hacks.

00:28:28.000 I get that part of it, okay?

00:28:29.420 I accept that.

00:28:31.260 But yeah, it's just insulting my intelligence I don't like.

00:28:36.020 You know, don't insult my intelligence. 1.00

00:28:39.080 You think I'm stupid enough to buy this? 1.00

00:28:41.340 You use a tactic like this and I'm not going to notice? 0.99

00:28:43.460 It's like, it's like I say to my kids sometimes when I, you know, I tell them to go clean their room and then they go up there and they just shove everything right under the bed.

00:28:54.500 And like, and I can, and I can see it poking out from under the bed.

00:28:56.880 And I come up and, and I say the same thing.

00:28:59.000 Don't insult my intelligence, kids.

00:29:00.680 This is, this is, you think I've, you know, I was a kid myself.

00:29:04.740 You want to, you want to get away with not cleaning your room?

00:29:06.440 You're just going to put everything under the bed?

00:29:07.640 Like, I'm not going to notice that?

00:29:09.820 Like, I haven't, like, I didn't do that myself as a kid?

00:29:11.760 Come on.

00:29:12.020 They're going to try to fool me.

00:29:14.240 At least put a little bit, put a little bit more effort into it.

00:29:18.220 Say the same thing to these people in the media.

00:29:21.500 But then on top of it, they have the nerve to be offended when people don't believe them.

00:29:29.480 When they tell us the official version of a story, like with Nancy Pelosi, and we don't immediately accept it.

00:29:35.320 They pull stunts like this, and then are upset when we don't immediately accept everything they said.

00:29:43.800 All right.

00:29:44.800 All right.

00:29:45.340 Hillary Clinton really might be running in 2024. 1.00

00:29:48.000 I didn't believe it at first.

00:29:49.020 I, you know, I thought, as naive as I am, I thought that, I just, I didn't think that she would go for a third time around.

00:29:54.520 But she's been all over the place recently. 0.98

00:29:56.400 And here she is with Joy Reid expressing her concern for Nancy Pelosi.

00:30:02.200 I want to take this a step further away from the incident, that terrible incident with Paul Pelosi and broaden it out.

00:30:12.880 Because what we have with the rhetoric coming from the Republican candidates from their party right now is so disturbing.

00:30:22.520 I didn't see a big outpouring on the part of elected officials to stand with Nancy Pelosi the way she has stood with Republicans as well as Democrats in times of real terror, like on January the 6th.

00:30:37.780 And so ask yourselves, please, why would you entrust power to people who are either themselves unable to see how terrible it is that someone would be attacked in their home or don't really care because they think it will somehow get them votes that will get them elected?

00:30:59.380 This is a real threat to the heart of our democracy.

00:31:03.020 Threat to, I'm shocked to hear her say that it was a threat to democracy.

00:31:09.620 You know, those words have a lot of power and they resonate a lot because, you know, Democrats, they rarely call anything a threat to democracy.

00:31:17.400 You rarely hear them say, they only say it in every single sentence they speak.

00:31:21.840 Okay, it's only every time they open their mouth, they call something a threat to democracy.

00:31:25.140 And so, given that they bring it up so rarely, when you hear that, it really, it sinks in, doesn't it?

00:31:31.420 You sit up and you listen.

00:31:33.140 Threat to democracy.

00:31:34.560 And the threat to democracy in this case is that she says not enough Republicans are concerned for the well-being of Nancy Pelosi.

00:31:40.520 She was concerned?

00:31:42.340 She was concerned on January 6th.

00:31:44.380 She was concerned about them.

00:31:45.620 She was concerned about, well, she was concerned about Republicans on January 6th.

00:31:49.580 She was concerned about herself, if anything, and not even really herself.

00:31:55.180 She was concerned about how this can be politically exploited.

00:31:59.960 I don't think there's anyone in America happier about January 6th than Nancy Pelosi.

00:32:04.440 I mean, really all the Democrats.

00:32:06.400 They're thrilled.

00:32:07.320 They could not be happier about it.

00:32:09.040 It's the best thing that ever happened to them.

00:32:11.140 They're so happy that it happened.

00:32:13.060 Obviously.

00:32:13.500 Now, has Nancy Pelosi, what about actual violence against Republicans?

00:32:20.720 When Rand Paul was attacked, when Bernie Bro shot up a GOP baseball game, conservatives and Republicans being canvassers and campaigners being assaulted.

00:32:31.720 You know, there's been several different cases of that.

00:32:33.640 One kid was run over by a car.

00:32:36.380 What has Nancy Pelosi said about that?

00:32:39.140 Where has her concern been?

00:32:40.400 I guess she's, thoughts and prayers.

00:32:43.800 She's keeping it to herself.

00:32:44.780 But she's really deeply concerned.

00:32:46.320 Sure.

00:32:46.520 Okay.

00:32:48.380 Joe Biden also, that's the other thing.

00:32:50.080 You know, when Democrats are getting desperate, we know about all the threat to democracy stuff.

00:32:54.440 But the other thing they do, right on cue, as we get close to the election, is they start ranting and raving about the dastardly Republicans that are coming to take away your social security.

00:33:04.900 Let's listen to a little bit of this.

00:33:06.880 Then along came Senator Johnson.

00:33:10.400 From Wisconsin.

00:33:12.580 He says five years is too long to wait.

00:33:15.560 No, it's hard to believe.

00:33:17.360 No, I really mean it.

00:33:18.900 It's hard to believe.

00:33:20.860 He says it takes, that's too long.

00:33:23.800 Every year, every single year, it should be on the chopping block, along with veterans benefits and everything else in the federal budget.

00:33:31.280 If Congress doesn't vote affirmatively, to keep it, it goes away.

00:33:34.900 Gone.

00:33:35.300 You've been paying the social security your whole life.

00:33:39.480 You earned it.

00:33:40.980 Now these guys want to take it away. 0.98

00:33:42.680 Who in the hell do they think they are? 0.70

00:33:44.360 Excuse my language. 0.98

00:33:45.220 Yeah, get them.

00:33:50.940 Just imagine what that would be.

00:33:52.760 Imagine a child care worker in her mid-60s. 0.96

00:33:54.760 Opponents, okay.

00:33:56.680 So you get the idea.

00:33:58.240 You've been paying the social security, they want to take away your social security.

00:34:00.880 No one, no Republican is talking about taking away social security.

00:34:05.240 That does not exist.

00:34:08.200 Okay.

00:34:09.920 That's why we always hear them quoted.

00:34:12.240 It's the interesting thing is that we, anytime you hear a Republican, you hear about a Republican who wants to take away social security, it's always coming from Democrats who are insisting that the Republicans know you.

00:34:20.520 But you don't hear, you don't see the Republicans.

00:34:22.380 You know, you're not going to find very many clips of Republicans in front of a microphone talking about why we need to just get rid of social security altogether.

00:34:32.700 Because none of them are saying that.

00:34:36.380 That just doesn't exist.

00:34:39.340 Republicans and Democrats together both understand that it would be electoral suicide to actually advocate for getting rid of social security.

00:34:49.780 Because for one thing, you would be directly ticking off the demographic of people who are most likely to vote, which would be older people.

00:34:59.840 So they're just not going to do it.

00:35:02.540 Now, I'm not a Republican elected official.

00:35:05.140 And I can say that there are many things that I will say and do say that you can't blame Republicans for because they're not going to say these things.

00:35:13.580 But I am willing to say that I do think we need to get away from social security.

00:35:16.920 I think the whole thing is it's a Ponzi scheme.

00:35:18.740 I don't think it is.

00:35:19.460 It is.

00:35:19.800 It's a Ponzi scheme.

00:35:20.460 It's a scam.

00:35:22.000 And, of course, we know that this whole idea that you're paying into social security and then you're taking out what you paid in.

00:35:28.640 No, the money you paid into it is gone.

00:35:30.160 It's been spent already.

00:35:31.180 It's not like they keep it in some box somewhere in a safe and it's got your name on it.

00:35:35.000 And then when you turn, you know, when you come of age, they just open up the box and they start doling it back out to you.

00:35:41.480 That's not how it works.

00:35:43.560 They already spent the money.

00:35:44.520 It is a scam.

00:35:45.120 And I also know that, you know, 30 years hence, when I'm eligible for social security, it's not going to be available to me because it can't go on.

00:35:53.300 It's doomed for failure eventually.

00:35:55.020 The whole thing is going to implode.

00:35:56.040 So I am paying substantially into a system that I almost certainly will not benefit from.

00:36:04.080 So if politicians in either party had the courage for it, then we would really be having a conversation about how do we get away.

00:36:14.160 You can't pull it away all at once.

00:36:15.640 I'm not saying that.

00:36:16.680 But we've got to figure out a way.

00:36:18.320 The system has failed. 0.96

00:36:20.240 It's ridiculous to begin with.

00:36:22.560 The idea that we want the government to take our money and store it away for us for retirement.

00:36:27.020 No, thank you very much.

00:36:28.000 I'd like to do that myself.

00:36:29.660 I'd like to have that money myself.

00:36:31.520 I'd be better off just keeping it under a mattress than letting you have it.

00:36:36.520 Yeah, saving for retirement is a good idea.

00:36:38.120 I'm not going to entrust that to you.

00:36:39.640 I don't want to entrust my retirement plan to you.

00:36:44.100 I'm not giving a choice, though.

00:36:46.860 So it's a crazy system.

00:36:49.400 It's a failed system.

00:36:50.980 And we should get away from it. 0.51

00:36:52.600 But no one is talking about getting away from it except for me and a few other crazy podcasters.

00:37:00.200 Okay.

00:37:02.300 Speaking of ranting and raving on the campaign trail, I want to play this for you also.

00:37:06.060 It's the actress Jennifer Lewis, who was on the campaign trail in, I don't know where this is.

00:37:13.080 I think it's in Florida.

00:37:14.900 And anyway, there's no way to really set this up.

00:37:18.080 Just listen to what she says.

00:37:20.660 Marco Rubio is alive.

00:37:26.500 He is.

00:37:27.360 Y'all see that debate? 0.99

00:37:28.320 He lied his ass off. 0.97

00:37:36.960 Val Demings will win. 0.99

00:37:42.420 She will win.

00:37:45.280 She will win.

00:37:50.180 So I say to Marco 0.52

00:37:52.380 and all those other weak men

00:37:57.020 before you lie to us,

00:38:08.080 remember Rosa sat on that bus.

00:38:13.580 Before you tell your tale,

00:38:26.100 remember Mandela sat in that jail.

00:38:32.780 None of this.

00:38:33.640 What does this have to do with anything?

00:38:34.680 None of this.

00:38:35.020 Before you do anything,

00:38:37.660 you remember Dr. King.

00:38:44.860 Before you cheat and steal,

00:38:49.680 I dare you to Google Emmett Till.

00:38:53.660 Emmett Till.

00:38:54.120 There it is.

00:38:56.560 Okay.

00:38:56.960 All right.

00:38:59.280 So we can turn it off.

00:39:00.280 Fine.

00:39:01.520 I was waiting for that.

00:39:02.500 You know,

00:39:02.680 you knew Emmett Till was going to get was good.

00:39:04.160 It was going to make its way into it.

00:39:05.920 Just just just to show you how cynical 1.00

00:39:08.740 and ridiculous these people are. 0.99

00:39:12.100 Emmett Till 1.00

00:39:12.720 was killed

00:39:14.980 70 years ago,

00:39:17.820 almost 70 years ago.

00:39:18.920 and yet the Democrats bring him up

00:39:22.100 every day.

00:39:24.260 I mean,

00:39:24.500 he comes up on on the can.

00:39:26.500 Emmett Till

00:39:27.180 comes up as a campaign issue

00:39:30.160 70 years later. 0.98

00:39:34.340 That's how cynical and ridiculous 1.00

00:39:36.100 these people are. 0.99

00:39:39.020 What is Emmett Till?

00:39:41.040 This

00:39:41.640 which occurred 70 years ago.

00:39:44.400 What does it have to do with a

00:39:45.260 with a with a race in Florida?

00:39:48.920 I mean,

00:39:50.640 it also shows you,

00:39:51.480 by the way,

00:39:51.980 that when they want to,

00:39:53.200 you know,

00:39:53.420 they want to absurdly tie Republicans

00:39:56.260 to hate crimes or whatever.

00:39:58.560 And never mind the fact that,

00:39:59.620 you know,

00:39:59.800 back then,

00:40:00.740 of course,

00:40:01.700 the people who were actually lynching 0.93

00:40:03.040 black people were Democrats, 0.96

00:40:04.440 but never mind that for a moment.

00:40:07.240 So they want to find a way

00:40:08.360 to link Republicans to hate crimes.

00:40:10.480 They got to go back to Emmett Till.

00:40:11.760 They got to go back 70 years.

00:40:13.960 Because where else?

00:40:14.680 You know,

00:40:15.440 they're not going to go back

00:40:16.560 to Jussie Smollett.

00:40:18.920 I mean,

00:40:19.380 they did,

00:40:20.140 you know,

00:40:20.400 even they won't bring him up anymore.

00:40:22.960 That's how far back they have to go.

00:40:25.960 And they're willing to do it.

00:40:27.260 Now,

00:40:27.480 they'll use him as an applause line

00:40:29.360 on the campaign trail 70 years later.

00:40:31.120 All right.

00:40:31.360 I also wanted to mention this.

00:40:32.360 This is from Variety

00:40:33.520 before we get to the comment section.

00:40:35.320 It says,

00:40:36.640 at the height of the backlash

00:40:37.460 against J.K. Rowling

00:40:38.620 over her views

00:40:39.300 on the transgender community,

00:40:40.880 Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe

00:40:42.840 published an open letter

00:40:43.940 in which he proclaimed

00:40:44.660 trans women are women. 0.90

00:40:46.220 In a new interview with IndieWire,

00:40:48.480 Radcliffe opened up

00:40:49.340 about why he decided

00:40:50.260 to speak out publicly

00:40:51.340 against the author

00:40:52.180 who essentially gave him

00:40:53.340 his acting career.

00:40:54.800 He said,

00:40:55.320 the reason I felt

00:40:56.560 very, very much

00:40:57.220 as though I needed

00:40:57.760 to say something

00:40:58.420 when I did

00:40:59.320 was because particularly

00:41:00.120 since finishing Potter,

00:41:01.620 I've met so many queer

00:41:02.900 and trans kids

00:41:03.740 and young people

00:41:04.320 who had a huge amount

00:41:04.980 of identification

00:41:05.580 with Potter on that.

00:41:07.320 And so seeing them hurt

00:41:08.480 on that day,

00:41:09.280 I was like,

00:41:10.140 I wanted them to know

00:41:11.320 that not everybody

00:41:11.960 in the franchise

00:41:12.540 felt that way

00:41:13.560 and that was really important.

00:41:16.460 Okay.

00:41:16.780 Now,

00:41:17.180 even aside from the fact

00:41:18.560 that he's totally wrong

00:41:20.860 on the transgender issue,

00:41:22.380 of course,

00:41:22.640 he's completely wrong

00:41:23.320 about that.

00:41:23.860 and he's defending

00:41:25.380 the transing of kids 0.98

00:41:26.620 and he's wrong

00:41:27.160 to do that.

00:41:28.740 He also,

00:41:31.180 just,

00:41:32.760 even putting that aside,

00:41:35.720 you owe it

00:41:36.760 to J.K. Rowling 1.00

00:41:37.860 to keep your stupid, 1.00

00:41:40.040 ungrateful mouth shut. 1.00

00:41:41.080 Actually, 0.99

00:41:41.580 you actually owe that to her.

00:41:46.680 Because she did,

00:41:47.760 in fact,

00:41:48.000 give you your career.

00:41:49.700 Like,

00:41:49.880 you wouldn't exist

00:41:50.740 in the industry at all.

00:41:51.380 Nobody would know

00:41:51.900 your name without her.

00:41:52.620 So she gave you

00:41:54.480 everything that you have.

00:41:57.100 And so you actually

00:41:58.080 owe it to her.

00:41:59.100 You owe some loyalty to her.

00:42:02.380 So see all these

00:42:03.180 Harry Potter actors,

00:42:04.000 and there were a few

00:42:04.660 that didn't speak out

00:42:05.420 against J.K. Rowling.

00:42:07.380 There might have been

00:42:07.820 one or two

00:42:08.220 that actually defended her.

00:42:10.940 And I think one of them

00:42:11.720 died recently

00:42:12.440 and the left was dancing

00:42:13.720 on his grave,

00:42:14.360 obviously.

00:42:14.660 But most of the

00:42:17.600 Harry Potter actors

00:42:18.600 came out against her.

00:42:20.880 Which,

00:42:21.420 again,

00:42:21.940 they're wrong on the facts.

00:42:23.800 They're wrong about the issue.

00:42:26.040 But also,

00:42:26.620 where's the loyalty?

00:42:28.280 How about having some loyalty

00:42:29.360 to a woman

00:42:29.980 who gave you

00:42:30.880 your whole career,

00:42:32.040 everything that you have

00:42:33.580 is because of her?

00:42:34.800 How about a little bit

00:42:35.360 of loyalty for that?

00:42:36.300 Now,

00:42:37.900 that doesn't mean

00:42:38.500 that if someone

00:42:39.100 is your friend

00:42:40.320 or if someone

00:42:41.260 helped you professionally

00:42:42.940 that you can never,

00:42:44.640 under any circumstances,

00:42:46.080 criticize them.

00:42:47.400 I mean,

00:42:47.760 there might be something

00:42:48.420 really horrific

00:42:49.120 they could do

00:42:49.660 where you feel like

00:42:50.180 you need to speak out.

00:42:52.620 But just jumping

00:42:53.820 on a dog pile

00:42:55.000 on someone who,

00:42:57.140 again,

00:42:57.440 gave you everything

00:42:58.000 that you have,

00:42:59.300 on top of you being wrong, 1.00

00:43:01.000 you're also a disloyal rat 1.00

00:43:03.120 along with it. 0.99

00:43:05.220 Which is worth noting.

00:43:07.020 All right,

00:43:07.640 let's get to the comment section.

00:43:09.340 Who makes a Twitter mob

00:43:10.780 fly off the handle

00:43:12.140 with rage?

00:43:15.180 Who's to blame?

00:43:18.020 It's a sweet baby gang.

00:43:22.620 Jessica says,

00:43:23.500 loved the opening.

00:43:24.280 I'm still waiting

00:43:24.760 for apologies

00:43:25.400 from family members

00:43:26.480 who accused me

00:43:27.460 of being a murderer

00:43:28.220 for choosing to be around

00:43:29.260 my parents

00:43:29.900 who weren't even in

00:43:30.740 the more susceptible

00:43:31.420 age range.

00:43:32.600 Pretty sure I'll be

00:43:33.160 waiting forever.

00:43:34.520 Yeah,

00:43:34.640 so many stories like that

00:43:35.540 in families.

00:43:36.000 I mean,

00:43:36.200 this is one of the

00:43:36.740 saddest things

00:43:37.260 is how this COVID

00:43:37.940 stuff just tore

00:43:38.580 families apart

00:43:39.280 because you had

00:43:40.720 some members

00:43:41.620 of the family

00:43:42.120 that decided to be,

00:43:44.120 you know,

00:43:44.260 who became

00:43:44.720 just radically paranoid

00:43:46.940 and were willing

00:43:49.020 to cut off

00:43:49.820 communication

00:43:50.960 and,

00:43:51.540 you know,

00:43:52.080 to cut off

00:43:53.060 seeing their own

00:43:54.480 family for years

00:43:55.340 if necessary

00:43:55.920 because they're so afraid.

00:43:57.460 Now,

00:43:57.620 fortunately,

00:43:57.940 I didn't have to deal

00:43:58.420 with that in my family

00:43:59.660 because we were all,

00:44:01.280 you know,

00:44:01.900 we were getting together

00:44:02.960 at the height

00:44:03.940 of all of this

00:44:04.640 and of course

00:44:05.500 we're not wearing masks

00:44:06.200 or anything like that

00:44:06.960 but I always felt bad

00:44:08.260 for the families

00:44:08.720 that had to deal

00:44:09.100 with that.

00:44:10.660 Kelly says,

00:44:11.340 my mother died alone

00:44:12.320 in a hospital

00:44:12.840 after being denied

00:44:13.660 any visits

00:44:14.280 at the assisted living

00:44:15.120 facility where she resided.

00:44:16.620 I spoke to her every day

00:44:17.620 but did not get to see her

00:44:18.800 or hug her

00:44:19.460 for over a year.

00:44:20.700 I couldn't even honor

00:44:21.380 her last wish

00:44:22.200 which was holding her hand

00:44:23.300 when she passed.

00:44:24.520 She never met

00:44:25.100 her first great grandchild.

00:44:27.080 I know what she died of.

00:44:28.240 It wasn't COVID.

00:44:29.020 I know that it says

00:44:30.380 as her cause of death

00:44:31.600 that it was COVID

00:44:32.140 but I also know

00:44:32.980 she died of loneliness.

00:44:34.800 They want amnesty.

00:44:36.220 Oh,

00:44:36.640 hell no.

00:44:37.160 That's a horrific story

00:44:39.020 and there are so many like it.

00:44:42.460 And this is one of the reasons

00:44:43.540 why there can't be amnesty

00:44:44.640 or forgiveness

00:44:45.180 because you took something away

00:44:46.760 that cannot be given back.

00:44:51.160 I mean,

00:44:51.420 you have caused harm

00:44:53.140 that cannot be remedied.

00:44:57.340 Jess says,

00:44:59.060 Matt's ability to pick apart

00:45:00.120 the most random irrelevant things

00:45:01.800 such as an almost

00:45:02.520 100 year old Disney story

00:45:04.000 is what makes him

00:45:04.600 totally relatable to us

00:45:05.940 and infuriating to the left.

00:45:08.000 It really is a level of genius

00:45:09.360 not many have reached.

00:45:10.680 Well,

00:45:10.940 okay,

00:45:11.220 I'll accept that.

00:45:12.460 Although I won't accept,

00:45:13.640 I mean,

00:45:13.780 the genius part,

00:45:14.440 I will take that humbly

00:45:15.380 but I will not accept

00:45:16.920 that for example,

00:45:18.220 the fact that Snow White

00:45:19.180 directly promotes

00:45:21.420 felony breaking and entering

00:45:23.260 and kidnapping

00:45:24.340 is irrelevant.

00:45:26.120 I don't see that

00:45:27.120 as an irrelevant fact at all.

00:45:31.720 My Lamberfides says,

00:45:33.780 you have to accept

00:45:34.400 you were wrong,

00:45:35.080 admit you were wrong,

00:45:36.140 feel actual remorse,

00:45:37.400 then apologize,

00:45:38.800 and then forgiveness

00:45:40.080 can start.

00:45:42.120 Yeah,

00:45:42.640 that's true.

00:45:43.220 And, you know,

00:45:43.480 actual reconciliation,

00:45:46.020 okay,

00:45:46.240 so there's forgiveness

00:45:47.280 which is offered

00:45:49.460 by the aggrieved party.

00:45:53.760 But for there to be

00:45:54.520 actual reconciliation

00:45:55.820 in order to move on

00:45:57.340 as that article said yesterday,

00:45:59.220 that's a two-way street.

00:46:01.660 And the other party

00:46:02.720 concerned here

00:46:03.340 is not participating.

00:46:05.640 Mark says,

00:46:06.280 Matt,

00:46:06.500 I'm curious about your opinion

00:46:07.540 of the manosphere

00:46:08.760 and the commentators,

00:46:09.880 thinkers who speak

00:46:10.620 specifically to men

00:46:11.680 and about masculinity.

00:46:12.980 I've heard you mention

00:46:13.600 some figures from that world

00:46:14.600 in passing,

00:46:15.560 but do you have an opinion

00:46:16.520 on them in general?

00:46:18.480 Well,

00:46:19.240 I think it's great

00:46:19.740 that there are people

00:46:20.220 out there thinking about

00:46:21.100 issues that affect men

00:46:22.340 and talking to men

00:46:23.540 and speaking up for men

00:46:24.660 and about men.

00:46:26.220 That's all great.

00:46:27.600 You know,

00:46:27.800 I'm pretty sure that manosphere

00:46:29.140 is a term used by the left,

00:46:30.820 at least I think it is,

00:46:32.640 kind of,

00:46:33.160 I don't know,

00:46:33.840 pejorative to describe

00:46:34.960 anyone in that world.

00:46:36.120 I don't know if people

00:46:37.000 in that space identify

00:46:38.320 with it themselves or not,

00:46:39.300 but either way,

00:46:40.320 yeah,

00:46:41.720 I suppose my general opinion

00:46:42.640 is that it's good

00:46:43.580 that it exists.

00:46:44.860 What I will say,

00:46:45.960 again,

00:46:46.240 speaking generally,

00:46:47.480 is because I know

00:46:49.020 that there are,

00:46:49.400 you know,

00:46:49.580 there are some men

00:46:50.960 out there,

00:46:51.600 figures who,

00:46:52.360 this is what they do.

00:46:53.260 They talk about,

00:46:54.300 they talk especially

00:46:55.920 about issues that affect men.

00:46:57.280 And again,

00:46:57.500 I think it's good.

00:46:59.880 But when it comes to men

00:47:01.100 who speak about masculinity

00:47:02.460 or purport to defend it

00:47:04.140 or model it,

00:47:05.580 I am personally

00:47:06.860 not going to look to you

00:47:08.680 for insight on the subject

00:47:10.220 if you aren't married

00:47:11.980 with kids.

00:47:13.260 I mean,

00:47:13.460 with a few exceptions,

00:47:14.800 I'm just not looking there

00:47:15.980 because as a married man

00:47:17.240 with six kids now,

00:47:18.700 I just haven't found

00:47:20.340 that a single dude

00:47:22.240 has much to say

00:47:23.680 about masculinity

00:47:24.320 that's going to be

00:47:24.780 enlightening or useful

00:47:25.760 to me in my station

00:47:27.160 in life.

00:47:28.220 Because one of the most

00:47:29.200 fundamental expressions

00:47:30.320 of masculinity

00:47:31.080 is,

00:47:32.220 you know,

00:47:32.700 its fulfillment

00:47:33.580 is to get married

00:47:34.620 and have kids.

00:47:36.220 It's something

00:47:36.940 that nearly every man

00:47:38.300 is called to.

00:47:39.120 Not all,

00:47:40.820 but nearly every.

00:47:41.780 And even the men

00:47:42.800 who are not called

00:47:43.820 to marriage

00:47:46.380 and family life

00:47:46.960 are still called

00:47:47.940 to fulfill

00:47:48.660 a father-like role.

00:47:50.300 You know,

00:47:50.500 a role of paternal service

00:47:52.140 in society.

00:47:53.440 And there are other ways

00:47:54.520 to do that,

00:47:55.000 like in religious life,

00:47:55.940 for example.

00:47:56.560 I mean,

00:47:56.820 in Catholic Church,

00:47:57.720 we call priests fathers

00:47:58.860 and we use that term

00:48:00.060 for a reason.

00:48:01.480 So,

00:48:02.480 I personally need to see

00:48:04.620 that you're doing that

00:48:05.420 before I'm going to

00:48:06.180 look to you for wisdom.

00:48:08.320 and if I have

00:48:10.920 one criticism

00:48:11.740 maybe of

00:48:13.100 some of the guys

00:48:15.700 who have taken this on

00:48:16.520 as their vocation

00:48:17.420 is,

00:48:17.960 and this again,

00:48:18.540 this is not true

00:48:19.320 of all of them,

00:48:21.280 but if you're going

00:48:22.920 to talk about masculinity,

00:48:24.780 then I think this has

00:48:25.800 to be a central part

00:48:26.680 of your message

00:48:27.320 is encouraging

00:48:28.540 marriage,

00:48:30.400 family,

00:48:30.900 and fatherhood.

00:48:32.180 And there are plenty

00:48:32.960 of men who talk

00:48:33.660 about these issues

00:48:34.200 and do encourage that,

00:48:35.060 Jordan Peterson

00:48:35.520 being one of them.

00:48:38.860 But then there are

00:48:39.520 others who don't.

00:48:40.160 It's like,

00:48:40.480 they have some

00:48:41.880 interesting things

00:48:42.400 to say about masculinity,

00:48:43.720 but that doesn't,

00:48:44.920 either they just don't

00:48:45.680 factor that in at all,

00:48:46.780 or sometimes they might

00:48:47.940 actively discourage it.

00:48:50.900 Which means that you are,

00:48:52.060 while trying to defend

00:48:52.880 masculinity,

00:48:53.580 you are discouraging

00:48:54.840 its most important

00:48:56.200 expression,

00:48:59.020 which doesn't make

00:49:00.260 any sense to me.

00:49:01.980 Recessions aren't

00:49:02.600 recessions.

00:49:03.400 Inflation is good.

00:49:04.520 Men are women. 0.98

00:49:05.480 If you're more confused

00:49:06.320 than usual lately,

00:49:07.260 it's by design.

00:49:08.180 The left thinks

00:49:08.820 they have a monopoly

00:49:09.560 on the definition

00:49:11.000 of words

00:49:11.700 and can silence you,

00:49:13.080 but they can't.

00:49:14.840 And if you simply

00:49:15.440 push back,

00:49:16.240 the house of cards

00:49:16.960 collapse.

00:49:17.620 Just look at my film,

00:49:18.820 What is a Woman? 1.00

00:49:19.540 It caused a rift

00:49:20.660 in the space-time continuum

00:49:22.220 just because I asked

00:49:23.560 a question.

00:49:24.320 You know,

00:49:24.540 the month it came out,

00:49:25.400 the Daily Wire

00:49:25.840 had more members sign up

00:49:27.260 than at any other time

00:49:28.080 in its history.

00:49:28.860 More than 5,000

00:49:29.940 audience ratings

00:49:30.980 on Rotten Tomatoes later,

00:49:32.080 and the film

00:49:32.620 still has people talking,

00:49:34.580 which is great,

00:49:35.180 because the more

00:49:35.740 we bring these conversations

00:49:36.640 out into the open

00:49:37.360 and the more

00:49:37.760 we confront the madness,

00:49:39.180 the sooner it will

00:49:39.900 hopefully end.

00:49:40.800 If you haven't seen it yet,

00:49:41.500 go to dailywire.com

00:49:42.380 slash walsh

00:49:42.960 to become a member

00:49:43.660 and watch the film today.

00:49:46.200 Now let's get to

00:49:46.840 our daily cancellation.

00:49:47.660 I'm very excited

00:49:52.860 about this daily cancellation.

00:49:54.060 I finally get a chance

00:49:55.220 to cancel Anne Hathaway.

00:49:57.520 I've held a grudge

00:49:58.440 against this woman 0.62

00:49:59.100 ever since my wife,

00:50:00.900 early in our marriage,

00:50:01.900 forced me to go

00:50:02.480 to the theater with her

00:50:03.600 and with her mom

00:50:05.280 and her sister 0.79

00:50:05.800 to watch Les Miserables.

00:50:07.840 It was the worst experience

00:50:09.280 of my life.

00:50:10.580 Every actor in the film

00:50:11.700 was deeply

00:50:12.340 and painfully annoying.

00:50:14.400 None of them

00:50:14.960 would stop singing at all.

00:50:16.560 They sang the entire time

00:50:17.880 from start to finish.

00:50:19.160 Yet even amidst all of that,

00:50:20.540 Anne Hathaway managed to be 0.95

00:50:21.960 irritating and insufferable

00:50:24.000 on a level that even

00:50:24.840 Russell Crowe's blubbering

00:50:26.380 off-key performance

00:50:27.280 couldn't reach.

00:50:28.320 A couple of years later,

00:50:29.240 I went with much higher hopes

00:50:30.560 to go see Interstellar.

00:50:32.380 And there was Anne Hathaway

00:50:33.280 again helping to ruin

00:50:34.460 the film

00:50:35.020 with her cringy 1.00

00:50:35.980 saccharine speeches

00:50:36.980 about the transcendent

00:50:38.220 power of love.

00:50:39.960 I wanted to see a movie

00:50:40.820 about deep space exploration.

00:50:42.100 I was hoping there'd be aliens.

00:50:44.140 Instead, I got no aliens,

00:50:45.340 only a little bit

00:50:45.880 of space exploration

00:50:46.680 in exchange

00:50:47.260 for a lot of scenes

00:50:48.280 of Anne Hathaway

00:50:49.180 and Jessica Chastain

00:50:50.420 sulking and whining

00:50:51.540 and giving corny sermons.

00:50:54.420 The only thing

00:50:55.240 that would have made it worse

00:50:55.800 is if they started singing,

00:50:56.860 which thankfully they didn't.

00:50:58.260 All that to say,

00:50:59.980 this cancellation

00:51:00.900 is a long time coming.

00:51:02.820 Hathaway's appearance

00:51:03.440 this week on The View

00:51:04.460 has, I think,

00:51:05.440 finally provided me

00:51:06.420 the opportunity

00:51:07.640 that I've been waiting for.

00:51:09.840 Let's watch.

00:51:10.340 You know,

00:51:11.940 the devil is proud

00:51:12.740 of didn't turn 16

00:51:14.140 this summer.

00:51:14.820 The time flies, boy.

00:51:16.320 So you wrote this

00:51:17.200 on Instagram.

00:51:18.160 Quote,

00:51:18.340 I am struck by the fact

00:51:19.500 that the young female

00:51:20.320 characters in this movie

00:51:21.380 built their lives

00:51:22.460 and careers in a country

00:51:23.500 that honored their right

00:51:24.560 to have choice

00:51:25.260 over their own

00:51:25.940 reproductive health.

00:51:27.400 See you in the fight.

00:51:28.620 So why did you write that?

00:51:30.460 Why was it important

00:51:31.160 to you to write

00:51:32.840 something like that?

00:51:34.140 Because we're in the fight.

00:51:35.660 We're in the fight every day.

00:51:37.000 We're in the fight

00:51:37.520 every minute.

00:51:38.120 And you mentioned

00:51:38.800 the devil is proud

00:51:39.460 of turning sweet six

00:51:40.320 and some 16-year-old's

00:51:42.180 life has been

00:51:42.760 irrevocably changed

00:51:44.220 because of the current

00:51:45.760 overturning of Roe v. Wade.

00:51:47.860 And in this character,

00:51:48.680 I played a young woman

00:51:49.560 who was starting out

00:51:50.640 her career.

00:51:52.120 And when you are

00:51:53.060 a young woman

00:51:53.500 starting out your career,

00:51:54.440 your reproductive destiny

00:51:55.660 matters a great deal.

00:51:56.940 Of course.

00:51:57.460 And I just...

00:51:59.320 It had just happened

00:52:02.320 and I think about it

00:52:04.420 all the time.

00:52:04.900 I think we all think

00:52:05.500 about it all the time

00:52:06.340 and what its implications

00:52:09.360 are and what it means

00:52:11.400 to live in a country

00:52:12.500 that puts us

00:52:15.120 in this position.

00:52:16.620 Again.

00:52:17.780 Again.

00:52:18.420 Again.

00:52:18.740 Yeah.

00:52:18.940 And so if I were

00:52:22.000 to play that role

00:52:22.940 nowadays,

00:52:23.420 I couldn't take that

00:52:25.080 for granted.

00:52:25.620 I couldn't take that

00:52:26.320 freedom for granted,

00:52:27.780 the freedom of choice.

00:52:28.540 And by the way,

00:52:28.920 I'm not...

00:52:29.540 This is not a moral

00:52:30.580 conversation about abortion.

00:52:32.900 Right.

00:52:33.160 This is a practical

00:52:33.940 conversation about

00:52:35.220 women's rights. 0.96

00:52:36.100 And by the way,

00:52:37.000 human rights,

00:52:37.640 because women's rights 0.99

00:52:38.260 are human rights.

00:52:39.640 And the freedom

00:52:40.500 that we all need

00:52:41.340 to be able to choose

00:52:43.400 and build our lives

00:52:44.220 and have access

00:52:45.100 to excellent health care.

00:52:47.500 See, this is exactly

00:52:48.180 what she did

00:52:48.700 in Interstellar,

00:52:49.940 just babbling incoherently.

00:52:51.240 Of course,

00:52:52.080 if you listen to any leftist

00:52:53.220 when they talk about abortion

00:52:54.120 or really any other subject

00:52:55.820 at all,

00:52:56.640 all that any of them do

00:52:57.700 is babble incoherently.

00:53:00.080 So let's try

00:53:01.520 to sift through this.

00:53:02.800 She says that

00:53:03.540 it grieves her

00:53:04.900 to consider

00:53:05.480 that the young female

00:53:06.740 characters in

00:53:07.600 Devil Wears Prada

00:53:08.460 would not be able

00:53:09.660 to have abortions

00:53:10.440 if the film was set

00:53:11.300 in the current day.

00:53:12.100 It is, to begin with,

00:53:13.060 extremely strange

00:53:14.400 to worry about

00:53:15.140 the availability of abortion

00:53:16.580 for fictional characters.

00:53:18.820 Now, I've never seen

00:53:20.100 The Devil Wears Prada,

00:53:20.880 but I'm pretty sure

00:53:21.720 that the film

00:53:22.300 is largely set in New York.

00:53:24.660 Women in New York

00:53:25.240 can still get abortions

00:53:26.480 unless they don't exist

00:53:28.020 because they're fictional,

00:53:29.180 which is a logistical problem

00:53:30.200 that will prevent them

00:53:31.120 from doing a lot of things,

00:53:31.940 including getting abortions. 1.00

00:53:33.360 Also, again,

00:53:33.940 not having seen it,

00:53:34.740 my impression

00:53:35.560 is that the movie

00:53:36.220 has a rather dim view

00:53:37.780 of selfish,

00:53:38.820 career-obsessed people.

00:53:41.240 That's like

00:53:41.800 The Devil Wears Prada.

00:53:43.380 That's part of the moral

00:53:44.640 of the story,

00:53:45.660 from what I understand,

00:53:46.660 is that there's more to life

00:53:48.040 than professional ambition.

00:53:49.800 Yet Hathaway's takeaway

00:53:50.840 is that women need to be able 1.00

00:53:52.680 to kill their children 1.00

00:53:53.500 so they can focus more 1.00

00:53:54.480 on career advancement.

00:53:55.840 There seems to be

00:53:56.560 a little bit of a disconnect here.

00:53:58.120 She also speaks

00:53:58.620 about reproductive destiny,

00:54:00.640 which, of course,

00:54:01.060 is exactly the sort of 0.99

00:54:02.120 asinine, hackneyed phrase 1.00

00:54:03.780 you would expect 0.85

00:54:04.760 Anne Hathaway to use 0.97

00:54:05.800 when discussing abortion.

00:54:08.960 It's not the sort of wording

00:54:10.220 that I would ever choose,

00:54:11.900 but since she brought it up,

00:54:14.420 let us ask this question.

00:54:17.200 Reproductive destiny. 0.99

00:54:18.000 Okay, well,

00:54:18.620 once a woman

00:54:19.300 has conceived a child,

00:54:21.660 what is her

00:54:22.900 reproductive destiny? 0.92

00:54:24.700 The word destiny

00:54:25.620 implies a force

00:54:26.880 outside of the individual,

00:54:28.340 a message,

00:54:29.000 a mission

00:54:29.540 from beyond ourselves.

00:54:31.260 So what is this force?

00:54:32.840 Call it nature,

00:54:33.520 call it the universe,

00:54:34.320 call it, as I do, God.

00:54:36.120 What is this force

00:54:36.860 trying to say to the woman?

00:54:38.880 What is her destiny

00:54:39.740 now that she has conceived 0.84

00:54:40.700 the child in her womb?

00:54:42.260 Is it her destiny

00:54:42.980 to partake in the joy

00:54:44.700 and beauty

00:54:45.220 and fulfillment

00:54:45.840 of motherhood?

00:54:47.380 Or is it her destiny

00:54:48.520 to pay some abortionist 1.00

00:54:50.520 to kill her baby 1.00

00:54:51.340 and throw his body 1.00

00:54:52.000 into a medical waste dumpster? 0.93

00:54:53.980 I would say the former.

00:54:56.140 Indeed,

00:54:56.460 how could it be

00:54:57.060 anyone's reproductive destiny 0.98

00:54:58.600 to reject

00:54:59.960 their reproductive capacity

00:55:01.760 and violently destroy 0.50

00:55:03.340 the human life

00:55:03.980 that they have reproduced?

00:55:05.920 To call such a choice

00:55:06.700 reproductive destiny

00:55:07.700 seems bizarre,

00:55:09.440 to say the least.

00:55:11.000 Hathaway also claims

00:55:11.680 that she's not interested

00:55:12.480 in having a moral conversation

00:55:13.900 about abortion,

00:55:14.980 but rather

00:55:15.320 a practical conversation

00:55:16.980 about women's rights.

00:55:19.580 Well,

00:55:19.820 except that

00:55:20.240 a conversation about rights

00:55:22.220 is automatically

00:55:23.220 a conversation

00:55:24.040 about morality.

00:55:25.180 You cannot extract

00:55:26.620 the concept

00:55:27.400 of morality

00:55:28.240 from the concept

00:55:29.520 of human rights.

00:55:31.280 A practical conversation,

00:55:32.740 a real practical conversation,

00:55:34.700 is one that is not concerned

00:55:36.020 with theories

00:55:36.560 or ideas at all.

00:55:38.880 But human rights

00:55:40.320 are a theory.

00:55:41.860 They are an idea.

00:55:43.720 They're a moral idea.

00:55:44.740 That isn't to say

00:55:45.220 they don't exist,

00:55:47.140 but rather that they exist

00:55:48.380 in the moral realm.

00:55:50.340 They don't exist physically,

00:55:51.760 practically,

00:55:52.360 like a chair

00:55:53.000 or a rock

00:55:53.620 or the ocean exists.

00:55:54.540 So to say

00:55:55.540 that you don't want

00:55:56.080 to talk about morality,

00:55:57.600 you just want to talk

00:55:58.240 about human rights,

00:55:59.080 that is to speak gibberish.

00:56:01.200 Human rights

00:56:01.760 are a moral concept.

00:56:03.360 The minute you bring them up,

00:56:04.900 you have entered

00:56:05.500 into the moral realm.

00:56:08.120 But that's not where

00:56:09.040 Anne Hathaway wants to be 1.00

00:56:10.220 because she knows

00:56:11.240 that she can't actually

00:56:12.140 defend abortion 0.69

00:56:13.020 on moral grounds.

00:56:14.440 None of these people can.

00:56:16.240 And that's the issue.

00:56:17.700 But she had more to say, 0.99

00:56:18.840 and it only gets dumber 0.99

00:56:19.520 from here, 0.99

00:56:19.920 so let's continue.

00:56:20.480 Another thing,

00:56:21.920 and just without going

00:56:22.880 into too many details,

00:56:24.080 my own personal experience

00:56:25.600 with abortion,

00:56:26.460 and I don't think

00:56:26.920 we talk about this enough,

00:56:28.380 abortion can be 1.00

00:56:29.160 another word for mercy.

00:56:30.940 We don't know.

00:56:32.060 We don't know.

00:56:32.700 It's not a world

00:56:33.440 in which we know

00:56:34.380 that no two pregnancies

00:56:35.460 are alike,

00:56:36.000 and it follows

00:56:36.520 that no two lives 0.80

00:56:37.520 are alike,

00:56:37.900 that follows that

00:56:38.540 no two conceptions

00:56:39.940 are alike.

00:56:41.260 So how can we have

00:56:42.660 a law?

00:56:43.400 How can we have

00:56:44.020 a point of view

00:56:45.280 on this that says

00:56:46.440 we must treat

00:56:47.140 everything the same?

00:56:48.080 And where I come at it from

00:56:49.340 is when you allow

00:56:50.680 for choice,

00:56:51.720 you allow for flexibility,

00:56:53.260 which is what we need

00:56:54.760 in order to be human.

00:56:57.500 So that anyway,

00:56:58.040 I just wanted to

00:56:58.640 include that part.

00:57:01.000 Especially for that.

00:57:02.260 It's not set in stone.

00:57:03.740 Just because you get pregnant 1.00

00:57:04.680 doesn't mean you get

00:57:05.360 to keep that baby.

00:57:06.500 Yeah, it's a health decision.

00:57:08.000 And it can be.

00:57:09.660 It really can be.

00:57:10.520 It's a personal decision.

00:57:12.200 Abortion is another word 0.89

00:57:13.340 for mercy, she says.

00:57:14.600 But mercy for whom?

00:57:16.520 Mercy for the child

00:57:17.520 who's being killed?

00:57:18.260 That's not mercy.

00:57:18.880 See, the child has

00:57:19.400 an entire life ahead of him.

00:57:20.900 Or he should.

00:57:22.280 You're taking that away.

00:57:23.300 You're deciding for him

00:57:24.720 that his life

00:57:25.180 is not worth living.

00:57:25.960 You're erasing

00:57:26.700 all of his potential.

00:57:28.160 All that could have been.

00:57:30.540 And you're not giving him

00:57:31.420 a choice in the matter.

00:57:32.880 There's no mercy in that.

00:57:34.200 It's the opposite of mercy

00:57:35.160 because it's the opposite

00:57:35.900 of empathy.

00:57:37.100 And you can't have mercy

00:57:37.940 without empathy.

00:57:39.320 Or do you mean

00:57:40.160 that it's merciful

00:57:40.740 to the woman?

00:57:42.020 Are you saying 0.80

00:57:42.500 that killing a child

00:57:43.480 is an act of mercy

00:57:44.400 to the child's mother?

00:57:46.960 Well, no.

00:57:47.380 Mercy to the mother

00:57:48.480 is to help her,

00:57:49.400 to give her the resources

00:57:50.360 she needs.

00:57:51.360 Mercy is what

00:57:52.020 pregnancy centers provide.

00:57:53.880 Mercy is their ministry.

00:57:55.280 It's what they do.

00:57:56.500 Abortion clinics,

00:57:57.100 on the other hand,

00:57:57.660 are vultures.

00:57:59.000 They prey on fear and misery.

00:58:01.200 They cash in on it.

00:58:02.040 They feed off of it.

00:58:02.700 They profit off of it.

00:58:04.660 They sell guilt.

00:58:05.760 They sell regret.

00:58:06.620 They sell loneliness

00:58:07.340 while taking away

00:58:09.340 the love and joy

00:58:11.160 of motherhood.

00:58:12.460 That's not mercy.

00:58:13.440 It's mercenary.

00:58:15.480 So, whichever way

00:58:16.720 Hathaway meant it,

00:58:17.680 she's wrong.

00:58:19.040 Though I'm not sure

00:58:19.780 she knows how she meant it

00:58:20.880 because she's just babbling,

00:58:22.400 which is what most defenses

00:58:23.700 of abortion boil down to. 0.65

00:58:25.960 Incoherent babble.

00:58:28.100 And that is why

00:58:29.000 Anne Hathaway

00:58:29.820 is today,

00:58:31.080 finally,

00:58:31.960 after all these years,

00:58:33.300 canceled.

00:58:34.240 That'll do it

00:58:34.740 for this portion of the show

00:58:35.980 as we move over

00:58:36.440 to the members block.

00:58:37.400 Hope to see you there.

00:58:38.180 If not,

00:58:38.620 talk to you tomorrow.

00:58:39.120 Godspeed.

00:58:43.280 Godspeed.

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The Matt Walsh Show - November 02, 2022

Ep. 1054 - Rappers Are Dying Left And Right From The Violence They Glorify

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