The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1083 - Libs Recoil In Disgust At The Taste Of Their Own Medicine

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, the media panics as a handful of libs on Twitter are briefly

00:00:04.320 suspended. One thing we've learned is that the left really cannot handle even the smallest dose

00:00:08.720 of its own medicine, which is why we should keep serving it to them. Also, the word woman is

00:00:12.680 declared the word of the year. A Christmas-themed all-ages drag show is horrifying and shocking,

00:00:16.960 even by the already horrifying and shocking standards of these kinds of events.

00:00:20.860 Trump unveils his major announcement, and a country star explains why she had no choice

00:00:25.360 but to divorce her husband after five years. Turns out the glitter had worn off. What else

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00:01:47.080 country. All is broken. All is lost. We stagger about, traumatized, terrified with glazed eyes and

00:01:55.620 vacant expressions, sifting through the wreckage. Can we rebuild? But with what? There is only

00:02:03.200 debris, only the pieces of what once was. We still can't comprehend what we've experienced, what we've

00:02:10.020 seen. We can't confront the horrors that we all witnessed last night when the apocalypse came.

00:02:17.080 And a few libs were temporarily suspended on Twitter. Nothing will ever be the same again.

00:02:24.700 Yes, if you haven't heard the news by now, as it was reported in screaming headlines by NBC News,

00:02:29.820 ABC News, CNN, Reuters, the Associated Press, the Huffington Post, USA Today, the New York Times,

00:02:34.440 every other corporate media outlet, a handful of left-leaning journalists had their Twitter

00:02:39.280 accounts suspended last night for a few days. Among the fallen are Vox journalist Aaron Rupar,

00:02:45.380 who's a leftist hack known for generating outrage mobs by disseminating out-of-context videos.

00:02:51.260 Also, CNN reporter Donny O'Sullivan, New York Times reporter Ryan Mack, Washington Post reporter Drew

00:02:56.620 Harwell, The Intercept journalist Michael Lee, and then, of course, blubbering human-sized wart Keith

00:03:02.560 Olbermann was also suspended. The media has, without a hint of irony, decried these suspensions and, again,

00:03:09.740 put them in their, like, the leading headline story on their publications, which were all passed down at

00:03:15.480 about the same time last night, a kind of red wedding of Twitter libs. And they're saying that it's an attack

00:03:20.960 on free speech. It's an assault on freedom. It's, of course, a threat to democracy. There have even been calls

00:03:27.440 for congressional investigations into this. Many elected Democrats have joined the outrage brigade,

00:03:33.280 including Representative Dean Phillips, who called the suspension, quote,

00:03:38.040 antithetical to free speech and a tactic of the most disturbed, deranged, and destructive men in

00:03:44.780 human history. Other Democrats haven't been any less melodramatic. December 15th, yesterday, the day of

00:03:52.100 the Twitter suspensions, is the new January 6th and 9-11 combined, a day that will live in infamy,

00:03:59.360 in the minds, anyway, of the whiniest, most self-obsessed, overgrown babies to ever walk the

00:04:05.020 earth. Now, the reason for the suspensions was not simply that these people are a bunch of blabbering

00:04:12.180 left-wing tools. They did not violate any don't-be-a-blabbering-left-wing-tool policy, which

00:04:17.580 still has not been technically added to the terms of service for Twitter. Instead, as The Daily Wire

00:04:22.920 explains, they violated the rules against doxing. Reading now from The Daily Wire, it says,

00:04:28.060 Twitter CEO Elon Musk suspended multiple high-profile left-wing media figures from the

00:04:32.060 platform Thursday for violating a rule about posting information that revealed the location

00:04:36.820 of his private jet. Mike Solana, editor-in-chief of Pirate Wires, wrote on Twitter,

00:04:41.840 So far, I've been able to confirm about half of the account suspended posted links to the jet

00:04:45.740 tracker thing in violation of the new doxing policy. Unclear just yet about the rest, but I think it's

00:04:51.160 safe to say the rule is for real. Musk responded to Solana's tweet by saying,

00:04:55.560 same doxing rules apply to journalists as to anyone else. They posted my exact real-time

00:05:00.800 location, basically assassination coordinates, an obvious direct violation of Twitter terms of

00:05:05.460 service. Musk continued, criticizing me all day long is totally fine, but doxing my real-time

00:05:10.940 location and endangering my family is not. He later added, Musk clarified that the accounts were not

00:05:15.740 permanently banned, but were instead suspended for seven days. The suspensions came after Musk announced

00:05:21.160 a new policy change Wednesday after an incident happened involving his child. Quote,

00:05:26.080 any account doxing real-time location info of anyone will be suspended as it is a physical

00:05:30.460 safety violation. This includes posting links to sites with real-time location info. Posting locations

00:05:36.160 someone traveled to on a slightly delayed basis isn't a safety problem, so it's okay.

00:05:40.960 Last night, a car carrying Lil X, that's what he calls his child, in LA was followed by crazy stalker

00:05:46.960 thinking it was me, who later blocked my car from moving and climbed onto the hood. Musk continues,

00:05:51.980 legal action is being taken against this person and organizations who supported harm to my family.

00:05:57.300 So, to review, there are rules against doxing. Musk made it clear that posting real-time

00:06:04.740 coordinates that counts as doxing, and these accounts did it anyway, and so they were banned

00:06:11.800 or suspended. From what I've read, also, the exact coordinates and real-time location of his

00:06:18.100 private jet, this is not publicly available information. I mean, it's publicly available

00:06:21.540 because they're posting it in public now, but this is actually private information that various

00:06:26.260 accounts on Twitter had obtained and had been posting and passing around. Despite the fact that

00:06:33.560 there is obviously no news value or any legitimate reason why the public needs to know precisely where

00:06:40.140 Elon Musk is physically located at any given moment. It is very clear they were posting the

00:06:45.980 information to harass and intimidate him, and so they got banned. Personally, my only complaint against

00:06:52.520 the anti-doxing rules on Twitter right now is that they're not strict enough. They should be a whole lot

00:06:56.660 stricter. Posting real-time coordinates may count as doxing. I certainly buy that argument, but it's even

00:07:03.020 worse to post a person's home address, whether they're currently in their home or not. And yet my home

00:07:08.760 address, the addresses of many other conservative commentators get posted all the time, often by

00:07:13.540 accounts who are very explicit that they are posting it in hopes that somebody will come and

00:07:18.860 kill us. I mean, again, there's no other reason to post that, but oftentimes they'll just come out

00:07:23.300 and say it. Someone go kill this person. Here's his house. And yet in many cases, the posts are allowed

00:07:28.580 to remain up. You can report it and be told that that doesn't violate any policy. So hopefully that

00:07:34.580 will change now with this renewed focus on getting rid of doxing on the platform. Because yes, doxing

00:07:39.780 in any form should be banned, period. So all that needs to be said here is that these journalists

00:07:47.360 broke the rules and faced the penalty. Simple as that. They're treating this like a traumatic,

00:07:53.960 earth-shattering event because they've never actually been forced to play by the same rules

00:07:57.900 as everybody else. They've always been given special treatment. They don't know how to cope or what to do

00:08:02.760 when those privileges are revoked. They can spend years advocating for rules that everyone else

00:08:07.760 must follow. But the first time that those standards are applied to them, they literally

00:08:13.060 call for congressional hearings and FBI investigations. The EU has announced that it's

00:08:18.260 considering sanctions on Twitter for these suspensions. Did they ever do that for conservatives

00:08:23.900 who are banned? No, they, you know, the left, they sick the dogs on us and laugh while we get torn to

00:08:31.300 pieces. But then they scream out in shock and horror when those same dogs turn back around and start

00:08:36.820 chasing them. Not only that, but they expect us to step in and pull the dogs off of them. They look over

00:08:47.340 to us demanding that we save them from suffering the fate that they wanted us to suffer instead.

00:08:54.560 They accuse, if they sick the dogs on us and then the dogs turn back, they accuse us of hypocrisy

00:09:00.740 if we won't save them from the fate that they wanted us to suffer. And the problem is that too often

00:09:08.380 conservatives are willing to do just that. Conservatives are willing to play white knight to the very people

00:09:14.700 who want them silenced and destroyed. And that's the most important point here.

00:09:21.040 Because for a moment, okay, this is the overarching point. It goes beyond Twitter.

00:09:26.600 And for a moment, forget about the fact that the suspensions were perfectly justified according

00:09:30.420 to the rules. So forget about that for a second. I'll tell you right now that even before I found out

00:09:36.300 why they were suspended, I didn't care. I wasn't going to run to their defense regardless of the

00:09:44.480 reason. It could have turned out that they were suspended just because Elon Musk wanted to suspend

00:09:49.340 them and just was annoyed with them and decided to do it. If that had been his reason, I wouldn't

00:09:56.460 have cared. I would not have defended them. I wouldn't have been one of these conservatives,

00:10:00.340 we must stand on principle and run to the defense of Keith Olbermann. Yet that's what many conservatives

00:10:06.840 were doing last night, even still today. You can always count on some on the right to rush to the

00:10:12.820 left's defense when they finally get a dose of their own medicine. No, don't hold them to their own

00:10:17.540 standards. We're better than that. We have to be better than that. Well, if we are better than that,

00:10:24.840 we shouldn't be. Okay. This is war. Get your head in the game.

00:10:32.400 If you're better than that, stop being better than that. Here's what I know. The left laughed and

00:10:40.540 cheered while conservatives were arbitrarily deplatformed for years. Okay. And in many cases,

00:10:47.500 people are getting deplatformed. Like these journalists that work for the Washington Post and

00:10:50.140 New York Times, whatever, they're going to be fine. Okay. They're making money. They're going to keep

00:10:53.860 making money. They're going to be fine. They still have every other platform available to them.

00:10:56.720 They've got everything. Meanwhile, you've got conservatives who, they get deplatformed by

00:11:01.740 everything. It ruins their lives, their livelihood. Everything is taken away from them.

00:11:07.400 And these same people who are now crying about getting suspended for a few days,

00:11:10.400 we're cheering that along. And now they cry when they get deplatformed, even for non-arbitrary reasons.

00:11:16.940 But again, even if it was arbitrary, I would not be speaking up in their defense. Why? It's very simple.

00:11:26.880 Because I believe that you should be held to your own standards. Okay. That's not hypocrisy.

00:11:35.220 So when I am held to the left standards, I complain about it. I object. Because I think that

00:11:42.420 the left's standards are insane and stupid, but they aren't my standards. Okay. I have every right

00:11:49.140 to object. They're trying to impose something on me that they came up with. So of course,

00:11:54.220 I'm going to object to that. However, I do think the left should be held to their standards because

00:12:00.080 it's their standards. I don't want to reap what they sow, but I want them to. That's not hypocrisy.

00:12:08.080 That's fairness. That's justice. You sowed it. You reap it. It's not up to me to be the one reaping what you sow.

00:12:19.440 Now, I'm not calling for leftists to start getting banned from Twitter en masse. I don't want that,

00:12:24.160 mostly because if they're all gone, then there's no one left to troll and it's not fun anymore. But

00:12:27.940 if it did happen, I make my solemn pledge that I will not speak up for them any more than they spoke

00:12:37.640 up for me. And this conservative instinct to rescue the left from getting hit with their own boomerangs

00:12:44.760 needs to die. It needs to stop. Okay. If somebody on that side gets deplatformed after spending years

00:12:54.540 trying to deplatform and destroy you, all you need to say to them is, hey, freedom of speech isn't

00:13:01.540 freedom from consequence, right? Isn't that what you've always said? Anyway, bye. That's all.

00:13:09.820 Is that hypocritical on our part? Does it show that we lack principles? No, it is perfectly consistent,

00:13:16.280 perfectly principled. Make them live and die by the rules they have set. There is nothing more

00:13:25.980 consistent than that. Again, it's called justice. It's called fairness. One other point for the record,

00:13:34.080 and this is important also. My primary objection to the deplatforming of conservatives

00:13:40.560 is not that it violates free speech. That's not my primary objection. Okay. But rather that

00:13:50.940 conservatives were deplatformed and are still deplatformed for saying true and correct things.

00:13:57.600 Okay. We have been banned for saying things like trans women are men and the vaccines don't stop the

00:14:04.980 spread and many other statements just as accurate as those. The reason why it's so Orwellian and

00:14:11.880 oppressive and bad to ban people for saying such things is not simply that people have the right

00:14:17.500 to express themselves, but even more so that the truth should not be suppressed. The left doesn't

00:14:24.840 merely ban free speech. It bans the truth, which is much worse. The same thing I say about college

00:14:32.760 campuses, trying to keep conservatives off of college campuses. I get protested on college

00:14:36.080 campuses when I'm there, you know, the what is a woman tour. Okay. My objection to that is not just

00:14:41.440 we need open dialogue on college campuses. We do need open dialogue, but it's worse than that because

00:14:47.360 I'm not just saying anything. I'm saying things that are objectively correct and true, and that's what

00:14:55.980 they're protesting. And that makes it so much worse. And so when someone on that side is banned or censored

00:15:05.480 or whatever, it is automatically not the same as when someone on the other side is banned because

00:15:12.660 people on our side are banned for saying what is true. And while we can have a conversation about what

00:15:18.800 sort of speech should be prohibited on social media platforms, what I know for sure is that the truth

00:15:23.820 should never be prohibited anywhere. Now, I personally am in favor of allowing all content

00:15:30.440 on social media except for doxing, death threats, and porn. Okay. If it's up to me, those are the rules

00:15:38.120 and they're very simple. Everything is allowed, but you can't dox, you can't issue death threats,

00:15:42.720 and you can't post porn. That would be the rule if it was up to me. I think all opinions outside of

00:15:49.760 those, which those things are not opinions anyway, should be allowed. But my point is that there is

00:15:54.440 no moral equivalence here because the campaign of censorship that conservatives have endured for

00:15:59.280 years has really been a campaign of truth suppression. And that is how we should refer to it.

00:16:06.920 So while we laugh righteously at the libs who are banned and we enjoy the spectacle of them

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00:17:18.520 Matt sent you. All right, big news to start with from CNN. Woman is dictionary.com's word of the year,

00:17:25.440 a word so simple and so common, but nonetheless, according to the site, inseparable from the story

00:17:29.960 of 2022. This year's pick is a reflection of the ongoing cultural conversations around gender,

00:17:34.840 identity, and language and how people turn to dictionary to make sense of these complex issues.

00:17:38.920 The online reference site said in Tuesday's announcement, this year, the very matter of

00:17:43.680 the definition of the word woman was at the center of so many consequential moments, discussions,

00:17:47.420 and decisions in our society. John Kelly, dictionary.com senior director of editorial said in a news

00:17:52.260 release, our selection of woman as the word of the year and how the word is defined, who is included

00:17:57.300 in that definition and who the word applies and belongs to highlights how important the work of a

00:18:01.800 dictionary is and how dictionaries can impact people's lives. Now, first of all, it's interesting that woman

00:18:11.440 is the word of the year when, you know, it's what's happened to the word woman this year and years prior is that

00:18:20.460 there's been an attempt to abolish it, get rid of it, get rid of the, of its, of its meaning, which is the same

00:18:26.840 thing as getting rid of the word. But it will not surprise you to learn that neither the announcements

00:18:31.600 from dictionary.com nor this CNN article, nor I imagine any other article that mentions that, you know,

00:18:36.900 this, this thing acknowledges me or the film, what is a woman. But even so, like we know that we are the reason

00:18:47.160 why woman is the word of the year. Okay. Everyone knows that just like what is a woman? Of course,

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00:19:04.540 influential films of the year. And one of the most influential, important documentaries of the

00:19:08.440 century. Um, but it's, uh, it's, they're not going to acknowledge that and that's okay because the

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00:19:27.560 And, you know, in a, in a, in a way, I mean, even though there's this irony in the fact that, uh,

00:19:33.260 it's a word of the year, even though it's like the word that was abolished this year,

00:19:37.400 um, it is, it is, uh, it's a reflection of the, of the importance of, of, uh, of that work.

00:19:44.440 All right. So an independent journalist named Taylor Hanson reports on,

00:19:50.400 and we've seen a lot of these, unfortunately, but this one,

00:19:54.320 this one still somehow shocked me. This is a, an all ages drag show. Another one. This is in

00:20:01.360 Austin, Texas. It's a Christmas themed drag show, a show that's apparently touring through 18

00:20:06.960 different States, 36 different shows this month. Um, and I can't even show you most of the videos

00:20:14.580 and images he posted. I mean, suffice it to say that they are just blatantly sexual,

00:20:21.120 even more so than some of the other footage that we've seen. No mistake. We're talking about barely

00:20:25.960 clothed performers, simulating sex acts on each other on stage, talking graphically about sex.

00:20:32.080 Um, a, a explicitly sexual performance with kids in the audience, kids who are invited because this

00:20:39.960 was advertised as an all ages drag show. So here's actually, we'll play one clip. This is one of the

00:20:45.300 tamer clips. This is one of the clips that we, that I can play. And even this, it has to be bleeped

00:20:50.140 censored and all the rest of it. And remember there are young children in the, in the audience

00:20:54.920 and this deviant scumbag who you're going to see here is actually at one point talking to a young

00:21:01.620 child in the audience. Uh, anyway, here it is. Oh, wow. Oh, I'm feeling moody tonight. I'm so happy

00:21:10.480 to be here. Thank you also for coming out. Oh my God. So many of you. Ooh, I'm so excited. Hello.

00:21:18.020 Oh, you're reaching for my, are you hungry? Oh, I'm happy. Mommy. Trust me, the milk's gone bad.

00:21:26.540 You don't want this milk. I know. I've been on tour. We've been on the tour bus. I've been

00:21:31.340 on refrigerated. Thank you so much for this donation. I'm going to put this to good use.

00:21:36.560 I'm going to buy more breasts. I need more. No, I brought for you some of my best breasts.

00:21:42.300 I brought for you my grandmother's breasts. Yes. Hand it down to me. Generation to generation

00:21:48.000 generation. Oh my God. Hello, Gray. Sexy, beautiful. Nice to see you. I had the best

00:21:53.680 time today with Gray and Weston in the glass coffin. Is anyone going to see the glass coffin?

00:21:59.960 Well, if you haven't, you can go check it out. They asked me, do you want to see the haunted

00:22:03.200 section? I was like, hello. Do I want to see the haunted section? I feel like I am a haunted

00:22:08.620 section. I was like, let's go. No, but I've been having the best time turning around. I've been

00:22:13.860 working so hard. I've actually worked my butthole right off. Look at that. Look at that. It's

00:22:20.440 gone. It's smooth. Don't cry, sir. Don't cry. It's like, oh, my eyes. But it's Christmas

00:22:27.480 day.

00:22:30.280 Okay. So he, yes, he did show off his bare butt to the audience there when he said that. And

00:22:38.400 earlier in the clip was talking to a child saying, are you hungry? In reference to his

00:22:45.320 fake breasts that he was showing off there. I'm at a point now, I'm almost like a single

00:22:52.340 issue voter on this. It's not the only issue, but it's the litmus test. It's a perfect litmus

00:22:57.160 test. And I'm not, I don't want to vote for anyone. We get into 2024. I'm not going to vote

00:23:05.820 for you unless you promise me that like that sort of scene that you're going to be sending

00:23:11.960 federal agents into there to arrest every adult in attendance, every adult in attendance

00:23:18.060 and every adult on stage. Okay. I want, I want, I want law enforcement agents running

00:23:25.080 up onto that stage, tackling that piece of garbage, that scum, dragging him off the stage

00:23:33.420 by his feet while he's in handcuffs. That's what I want. I'll vote for any presidential

00:23:38.340 candidate who promises that. What you need to understand here is that we are dealing with,

00:23:43.700 with pure evil. This is pure evil. The people who are doing this are evil. The people that

00:23:54.280 are, that are attending it and the people who support it. Every single, I know people don't,

00:23:59.600 you don't want to think this way about your fellow Americans, especially if you go online,

00:24:02.580 and you see the number of, of just seemingly normal Americans who will defend this. And

00:24:07.320 you think, I can't believe that there are so many evil people in this country. There

00:24:10.200 are, and they are evil people who we should not want to compromise with, not want to reach

00:24:19.380 an understanding. I don't want to be nice and polite with you. And I'm not going to say,

00:24:25.500 well, we disagree on these issues, but we can still be nice to each other. I don't want

00:24:27.980 to be nice to you. I don't want to be around you. I want nothing to do with you. I don't

00:24:35.280 want to share a country with you. I don't want to share a planet with you. That's how

00:24:39.080 much I despise everything you represent. So with this, this is not compromise. Okay.

00:24:45.920 All we can do with this is crush it, destroy it. That's what you do with evil. And that's

00:24:53.900 what we have to do with this. That should be our objective. Because this is very plainly

00:25:02.300 the mass sexual abuse of kids happening in plain sight. And they're not sorry, and they're

00:25:11.660 not ashamed, and they're not ever going to stop until they're made to stop.

00:25:20.120 By the way, GLAAD tweeted this a couple of days ago. Drag phobia is on the rise. There's

00:25:28.240 clear and present danger against our community and threats. We really haven't seen it at this

00:25:33.060 level in over a decade, if ever. That's quoting a drag queen. People are angry at our community.

00:25:40.180 Well, yeah, you're sexually grooming children in front of everyone. People tend to get mad

00:25:47.040 about that. That's right. I can't believe this. I can't believe it. We can't prance around on

00:25:56.420 stage half naked in front of kids without people getting upset. You know, as I've been saying all

00:26:02.940 along, you could just, here's an idea to the, quote, drag queen community. It's not a real

00:26:10.340 community. The fact that you all have a thing for wearing women's clothes, that doesn't make you a

00:26:15.300 community. It's not a community. But here's an idea. If you don't like the reaction you're getting

00:26:23.480 from the public, maybe just stop doing that. How's that for an idea? Stop doing it.

00:26:30.820 None of this backlash is happening. None of this scrutiny is being directed at you guys if you

00:26:39.740 aren't doing this. Keep the kids out of it, you perverts. Keep them out of it, and there's no problem.

00:26:45.260 Nobody was talking about drag. Drag's existed for a long time. No one was talking about it until you

00:26:53.020 started involving kids, and that's when it became an issue. Have you noticed the connection? Keep the

00:26:59.140 kids out of it, and no one cares. You want to go to your gay clubs or whatever and do your drag,

00:27:06.200 your dumb drag shows with just a bunch of adults? No, I don't want to see it. No one wants to talk

00:27:11.920 about it. Nobody cares. You bring kids into it, and now it's a problem.

00:27:19.720 Stop doing that, and it's not a problem anymore. So, I mean, just think about this.

00:27:26.380 If it's true that they're in fear for their lives, and they're getting all these threats and

00:27:31.660 everything, and most of this is just invented and made up, but even if it's true, and so

00:27:37.280 according to you, you're getting threats and all that because of you're exposing kids

00:27:43.200 to drag, and you're still doing it? So what, like, it's this important to you? You're going

00:27:49.100 to risk your life to expose children to drag? That's how important it is to you?

00:27:57.440 To use the phrase that's always herald like me, this is the hill you're going to die on?

00:28:00.660 Well, that just makes me all the more determined to oppose you.

00:28:10.800 Drag phobia, they say. First of all, it's not phobia. It's drag, I don't know, drag disgust,

00:28:22.440 drag nausea, one of those words. It's not a phobia. You don't scare me. I'm scared on behalf of the

00:28:29.700 kids. I'm scared for the kids that are being exposed to this stuff and the effect it's going

00:28:33.640 to have on them. But no one's afraid of you. You don't scare anybody. A bunch of men in women's

00:28:42.140 clothes dancing around the stage, you think that scares us? They try to have it both ways. I'm

00:28:47.800 still terrified these people are being so mean to us, and they're afraid of us. Well, which is it?

00:28:52.100 But drag phobia, so now that we have the phobia attached to it, that is now confirmation that the

00:29:02.560 metamorphosis is complete. And now drag queen has become its own identity. Okay, this is the final

00:29:10.780 step in inducting, bringing a new identity into the fold, baptizing, christening a new identity.

00:29:19.780 The final step is to give it its own phobia. And as soon as that happens, now drag queens are their

00:29:25.280 own identity. I guarantee you, and I'm not saying this is a joke, in very short order, they're going

00:29:30.380 to add D for drag queen to the LGBT alphabet soup. It's going to be in there. They're going to get their

00:29:35.160 own stripe on the increasingly cluttered pride flag. All that's being added in as its own thing,

00:29:42.000 its own identity. And we knew that was happening too, because you see how even media articles that

00:29:49.220 talk about the drag queens, they always refer to the drag queens, if you notice, with the female

00:29:55.580 pronouns, as if they actually are. I mean, they are men performing as women. And yet, when we talk

00:30:04.600 about them, we're supposed to talk about them as if their characters are real, and they really are

00:30:07.560 women. That's because it's finally changed over now, and drag queen is an identity. And the reason

00:30:14.460 why they're making the shift is that once they call something an identity, then you can't criticize

00:30:19.380 it. Now, if it's just a hobby, if it's just a fetish, if it's just a recreation, if it's just

00:30:25.880 something like this, then you can criticize that all day long. If it's just a profession, you can

00:30:30.920 criticize that. But identities, you can't criticize. And so how do they take something, take a fetish,

00:30:38.440 take something, and make it above criticism? Just say that it's identity. Unfortunately, I don't

00:30:44.620 play along with those rules. I don't care if you call it identity or not. I'm still going to

00:30:48.200 criticize it. All right. This is from Daily Wire. Former President Donald Trump teased a huge

00:30:54.540 announcement this week, but when it turned out to be a limited run of digital trading cards featuring

00:30:59.540 Trump's face on the bodies of superheroes, hilarity ensued on Twitter. The former president teased the

00:31:05.300 news in a video showing himself with lasers coming from his eyes, claiming that America needs a

00:31:08.960 superhero. He then made the official announcement via his platform, Truth Social, declaring the

00:31:13.240 release of a limited series of Trump digital trading cards that were very much like a baseball card,

00:31:18.100 but hopefully much more exciting. Only $99 each for the digital trading cards. Yeah, this was

00:31:23.540 announced two days ago that he had a major announcement. People were talking about what could the

00:31:28.220 announcement be. Some people speculated maybe he's announcing his VP selection, maybe something

00:31:32.660 like that. And I was skeptical that it would be anything actually exciting like that. And it turns

00:31:39.520 out that it was the digital trading card. So Trump is selling NFTs now. So that's what that is.

00:31:44.440 And he did. Now, the full story is that on the same day, a few hours after releasing NFTs,

00:31:49.360 he also announced a serious policy proposal that's quite good. It's his free speech policy proposal to

00:31:55.080 combat big tech censorship. And it's focused largely on, I mean, there are multiple sort of platforms

00:31:59.820 or pillars to this platform, but it's largely focused on prohibiting government agencies from

00:32:05.360 interfering on these platforms. So we're not going to have another Hunter Biden's laptop

00:32:09.040 sort of situation, which is a good idea. And it's something that should be done.

00:32:15.520 And Trump, if he's president again, I really hope that he does it.

00:32:18.620 And there are some Trump fans who are claiming that the major announcement he teased was actually

00:32:23.700 this. And so this is all the false narrative that it wasn't, no, he wasn't talking about the digital

00:32:27.400 trading cards. He was talking about this. Except the problem is that he teased a major announcement,

00:32:31.580 quote unquote, with a picture of him as a superhero. And then the next day unveiled the NFTs,

00:32:38.020 calling it a major announcement and selling images of him as a superhero. So it's just,

00:32:43.700 you can't get around the fact that that's what he was talking about. Or, I mean, either he meant

00:32:48.500 either he meant the NFT thing to be the major announcement or he didn't. And he meant for the

00:32:56.240 policy proposal to be major announcement, but for some damn reason unveiled the NFTs first with the

00:33:01.480 phrase major announcement attached to them. And so it was the clumsiest, most self-defeating policy

00:33:06.940 rollout of all time. I mean, in other words, either he stomped all over his own policy rollout on purpose

00:33:12.340 or by accident. He stole his own thunder purposely or unintentionally. Either way, it's like, it's

00:33:21.920 just the kind of unforced error that you shouldn't be making when you've been in the game this long

00:33:26.580 and have already been president. And it makes me, again, it makes me wonder, like, who is around

00:33:33.760 Trump at this point that has good political instincts and would be able to step in in a

00:33:39.660 situation like this and say, no, hang on a second. Don't, don't, you know, you just announced your

00:33:45.180 campaign. Don't announce a major announcement and then come out with an NFT. Like, don't do that.

00:33:50.680 You want to have the NFT? I mean, I don't think you should have the NFTs at all. NFTs are a scam,

00:33:54.680 but you want to do that, just, you know, just put them out there. You don't need to.

00:33:59.000 Why is there no one around Trump who can tell him that?

00:34:01.000 Is there anyone left who can or will say it?

00:34:07.740 The other issue here is, is with the policy proposal itself. I mean, it's a good policy. I

00:34:11.500 like it, but the problem politically is that Trump needs to convince the electorate, particularly,

00:34:18.040 you know, in, in a primary, if he, if he does have a serious primary challenge,

00:34:21.980 he needs to convince them that he will actually do these things. And in order to convince us,

00:34:26.680 he also needs to explain why he didn't do them or anything like it the first time around. I mean,

00:34:33.280 the Republicans owned the White House and Congress for two years and there was no serious effort to,

00:34:44.240 to, you know, get a, get a grip on big tech or any of these kinds of issues.

00:34:51.760 I don't put that entirely on Trump. Like I said, Republicans own the White House and Congress,

00:34:56.020 but they didn't do any of this. They didn't do much. I mean, they, they passed the tax cut and

00:35:01.940 that was about it. So this is, this is a hurdle you're going to have to get over. And that's,

00:35:07.680 he's going to be, he's going to be susceptible to that and vulnerable to that, especially in a

00:35:12.400 primary, if he's getting attacked from the right. Now I think best case scenario politically for Trump

00:35:18.220 is that in a primary, there will be some kind of primary challenge. We know that, but best case

00:35:25.000 scenario for him is that in the Republican primary, he only gets attacked from the left,

00:35:28.740 which is basically what happened in 2016. It was, you know, all of his Republican challenges were

00:35:32.820 attacking him from the left or they were attacking him just on style points or saying that he's being

00:35:36.780 too mean, mean tweets and all that. If that's, if that's all he gets, then he'll coast to victory.

00:35:42.540 Um, on the other hand, what has never really happened to him and didn't happen to him in 2016

00:35:47.620 is, is, is it, is an attack from the right of somebody saying, you're not going far enough,

00:35:53.640 or you didn't do enough for, you know, here's what I did to, to advance this kind of conservative

00:35:58.840 policy and you didn't do. That's the kind of thing he never had. And so it remains to be seen how he'll

00:36:03.000 respond to that. All right. This is from the daily wire. It says film director Darren Aronofsky is

00:36:08.800 defending his choice to cast actor Brendan Fraser to play an obese gay man in the Golden Globe

00:36:14.280 nominated drama, The Whale. The movie tells the story of Charlie, a middle-aged man who gains weight

00:36:19.220 following the death of his boyfriend and works on repairing the relationships with his estranged

00:36:22.780 daughter. It received critical acclaim, but one common reaction in the Hollywood community

00:36:26.480 was to question whether Fraser was the best choice for the role, given that he's not actually gay or

00:36:31.120 obese. Aronofsky said he was surprised by the reaction, but still stands behind his decision.

00:36:36.420 He said, the film director said, actors have been using makeup since the beginning of acting.

00:36:40.540 That's one of their tools. And the lengths we went to portray the realism of the makeup

00:36:44.260 has never been done before. One of my first calls after casting Brendan was to my makeup artist.

00:36:49.140 I asked him, can we do something that realistic because it's going to look like a joke. If it's

00:36:53.160 going to look like a joke, then we shouldn't do it. This is the kind of thing I was, you know,

00:36:57.460 I was, I was, when I heard this about this film was coming out and it is getting some,

00:37:01.960 some awards buzz and some, some critical acclaim. And I thought like, are they actually going to be

00:37:08.780 able to get away with this? Now I have no issue with it. And it sounds like an interesting idea.

00:37:16.520 Put, take Brendan Fraser and put him in like in the fat suit and try to pull off an actual dramatic

00:37:24.000 performance. Sounds interesting to me. And I'll probably give it a watch when it, when it's available

00:37:29.640 on streaming, but I was wondering, can, are, can, are, can you get away with this now? Are you

00:37:35.320 allowed to even do this? Because he's not actually morbidly obese. So they put him in the fat suit

00:37:40.540 and then I didn't even realize this until I just read the article, but apparently he's portraying a

00:37:44.420 gay man and he's not gay. So not only do you have the appropriation claim, but then also is it,

00:37:51.920 it's a, is it, is it body shaming? You know, because if you're going to have a dramatic story

00:37:57.540 about a morbidly obese person, a lot of the drama is going to be grounded in the fact that it's not

00:38:04.620 good to be morbidly obese. Like this is something that he's suffering with this.

00:38:10.120 I would think that that's how it's portrayed. It's not, it's not going to be portrayed. Like

00:38:13.160 he's not going to be dancing to Lizzo songs, the whole, the whole film. Okay. He's not going to be

00:38:17.100 giving, I assume he's not going to be giving speeches on body acceptance and fat acceptance and all

00:38:24.520 the rest of it. So can you do that in modern Hollywood? And it turns out, maybe, sort of,

00:38:35.440 but not really. Because the backlash, I guess it took a little bit while for the backlash to

00:38:39.160 generate, but now it's finally here. And of course it's completely ridiculous. I mean, the, the value,

00:38:45.420 if there's any value to acting as an art form, and I think there is, by the way,

00:38:52.340 you know, when it's done well, it is, it is a true art form and, uh, it's, it can be a very powerful

00:38:59.220 art, art form. But I think one of the things, again, when done well, one of the things that makes

00:39:05.380 it so powerful is that it's, uh, it's, it's empathy, you know, acting is, it's almost empathy as an art

00:39:15.120 form because you, you have to inhabit someone else who isn't you and, you know, sort of try to

00:39:21.700 understand their motivations and, and inhabit that character. I don't know. I'm not an actor

00:39:26.660 myself, but that seems like that's kind of the process, which is why for so long, before we got

00:39:31.840 into this obsession with, with, uh, appropriation and representation, all this nonsense, it's usually

00:39:39.320 the critically acclaimed performances are the ones that, where an actor is portraying something

00:39:44.100 that's much further away from who he actually is. That's, that's when you're the most impressed.

00:39:54.040 You're not impressed with the fact that an actor is portraying something very similar to what they

00:39:57.840 already are. There might be a certain skill involved in that, but when you can put an actor in a role

00:40:02.660 that's the total opposite of, of them and they pull it off, then that's the whole art. That's what the,

00:40:09.320 that's what the art is. And it's a good thing because it's, it's empathy to put Brendan Fraser

00:40:15.980 in a fat suit and have him really pull off that performance and, uh, turn him into a protagonist

00:40:21.420 that you kind of feel for and root for. Um, that shows that he has empathy, that he's understanding

00:40:26.780 people who struggle with obesity. So it should be something that we celebrate, but oftentimes it's

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00:41:48.380 Jessica Hartsell says yesterday, I listened to a handful of your old episodes from three or four

00:41:52.540 years ago. And one of those episodes, you discuss capital punishment and claim to waffle on the

00:41:56.280 subject, not firmly on one side or the other. Today's episode, bring back public execution.

00:42:00.860 LOL. I agree with today's view. Yeah, I've, uh, I've been pretty open about that, that I've,

00:42:05.840 I've kind of been on both sides of the issue. And for a while I waffled on and I wasn't exactly sure.

00:42:12.660 Um, but in recent years, I've come much more firmly down on the side of, um, of being in favor of

00:42:20.500 capital punishment and, and, uh, you know, advocating for public execution, by the way,

00:42:27.760 I don't think that that's, I've always felt that if you're going to have it, like if you're going to

00:42:33.260 have it, there's an argument for it, then, uh, there's also an argument for having public executions

00:42:38.320 because part of the value of having that, it's not the only thing, but, uh, it is, there's the

00:42:43.440 deterrence element and that will help with the deterrence. And I think it also is, it's, it's

00:42:51.300 justice. I actually think that, you know, if you're going to do this and you're going to, you're

00:42:57.300 going to pass down the ultimate penalty, which is to take someone's life, which I am in favor of

00:43:03.120 for crimes that warrant it, because I think there are crimes where there just is no other

00:43:08.360 way of addressing it. There's, there's no other response that makes any sense. Um, but if you're

00:43:15.400 going to do it, then I do think it should be in public. I think, uh, the idea of kind of the state

00:43:20.860 just taking someone to a back room somewhere at the prison, and maybe there are a few witnesses there,

00:43:26.360 but no one really sees it and just dispatching of them. Um, I think that's a lot worse than doing

00:43:31.340 it in public and letting people see that this is what's happening. Here's what's happening to this

00:43:35.220 person and here's why it's happening. Now we got nothing to hide. You know, we're, we're also not

00:43:41.780 going to hide from the fact. We're not going to try to execute somebody in a way that kind of

00:43:45.420 sanitizes it or medicalizes it. We've got to inject poison to make it look like they're just getting a,

00:43:51.340 you know, they're just going to the doctor and getting a shot. Uh, no, we are, we are killing

00:43:55.660 them. This is what's happening. It is a violent act and we are in fact killing someone and we're going

00:44:00.140 to do it in a way that does not hide from that fact because that's what it is. So, all right.

00:44:05.740 Scott says, Matt, your wife might actually be a bigger troll than you. Step up your troll game,

00:44:10.080 man. Erica says, Matt's face while being handed a teddy bear scarf and subsequently serenaded by

00:44:15.900 an Elvis impersonator wins the internet today. Kara says, Elvis serenading Matt was the best thing

00:44:22.920 I've seen on the daily wire. We need a sequel. Walsh's wife is the ultimate. I do believe that

00:44:28.900 was a moment when Matt was second guessing, taking the walrus home. Ruth says, Matt, be honest.

00:44:33.660 The Elvis moment was staged. Kim, Matt, what happened to the Elvis clip? You took it out?

00:44:39.580 Wanted to show my husband so disappointed. Okay. So to address the Elvis in the room,

00:44:43.880 um, it was not staged, not at all. I would never be involved in staging such a thing.

00:44:48.960 You guys know me. I like, if they'd asked me, I would have said, no, I don't want any part of that.

00:44:54.060 So this was entirely my wife's idea and doing, she dreamt this up in her twisted little head.

00:44:58.280 And it was a plan perfectly calibrated to annoy me from every possible angle.

00:45:04.620 And as far as that goes, it was, I mean, I have to admit it was brilliant. I didn't want to say

00:45:08.940 that to her. I didn't want to give her the satisfaction. And when I saw her later that

00:45:12.780 night and she was like, she was so proud of herself. I wasn't going to give her that credit,

00:45:16.460 but you know, don't tell her I said this, but it was, it was, uh, it was a work of evil genius.

00:45:21.460 And, uh, I have begrudging respect for it. Emphasis on begrudging. Now the plan did have

00:45:25.960 one flaw though. She was so focused on whether she should troll me with an Elvis impersonator.

00:45:30.680 She never stopped to think about whether she could legally, according to copyright policy. So

00:45:36.620 sadly, she didn't obtain the necessary clearances to have those songs performed. And so it had to

00:45:42.660 be taken down. So otherwise the YouTube would take the whole show down and we get sued or whatever.

00:45:46.180 So it wasn't, that was not my call. I promise you that it wasn't my doing. I love my wife.

00:45:51.120 I know how proud she was of this rightfully. So I would have left it up, but it was out of my hands

00:45:58.540 as for a revenge. I, I sort of got some last night, but I pulled my punch a little bit because

00:46:05.800 my wife was texting me while I was still at work. And, uh, she had suddenly become concerned

00:46:09.660 that the producers may have gotten in trouble for this whole stunt. Like she thought of that after

00:46:14.700 the fact. And so she was texting me about it. You know, is everything okay? Nobody's in trouble.

00:46:19.040 Are they? And at first I was going to respond by saying, what do you mean? Everything's fine.

00:46:23.420 No one cares. But then I thought about it. And so I texted back and I said, I don't know. Um,

00:46:29.160 Sean just got called into Jeremy's office. I don't know what's going on. I don't know.

00:46:33.280 And she started freaking out and she was like, what? Oh no. And, uh, I didn't respond for a while.

00:46:37.840 Let it just kind of linger. And then a few minutes later, I text again. And I said, yeah,

00:46:42.840 he just walked to his car. I think he was in tears. Yeah. He didn't say anything to me.

00:46:46.460 I don't know what's going on. And then she called me up and she was panicking and she felt very

00:46:49.980 guilty. And that's when I, I could have gone for the, I could have gone all the way there and really

00:46:56.080 sold it. But that's when I pulled back because I'm, I'm a man of mercy ultimately. So I admitted that I

00:47:02.620 was just making that up. So that means that the revenge, that there still has to be revenge.

00:47:07.500 That didn't count. That was only, that was only half. That was a half measure.

00:47:10.360 So to be continued, um, crocodile Grundy says, I told people back in the late 1990s when political

00:47:21.140 correctness and hate speech laws were becoming common, that those things would be the death

00:47:25.000 of free speech. I was told that I was a conspiracy theorist. Well, here we are. I guess we need to

00:47:30.200 start calling everything they say about us hate speech. It's no different than what we're saying

00:47:34.740 about them. Right. And you can't, there's, there's no version of free speech that can exist

00:47:42.300 while you still have policies and laws against hate speech. Like if, if free speech means anything,

00:47:50.280 if the first amendment means anything, it exists specifically to defend the kind of speech that

00:47:56.120 would be labeled hate speech. That's what you need free speech for is to defend. I'm not the first

00:48:01.200 person to point this out. As I've been pointed out so many times, this, this, it exists to defend the

00:48:05.620 sort of speech that people don't like and makes people angry. You don't, you don't need free speech

00:48:10.320 policies or a first amendment or anything to defend speech that everyone agrees with. That's that you're

00:48:15.920 always going to be fine in any kind of society saying things that are acceptable and mainstream.

00:48:20.180 It's the things that people don't like that make people angry that you need that for.

00:48:24.060 And finally, Kelsey says, Matt, does the SBG know that you admitted to crying recently?

00:48:28.720 Why isn't this big news? Matt Walsh cried. He's a crier. He cried like a baby.

00:48:33.020 Okay. More disinformation here. I did not admit to crying. This was during all access last night.

00:48:38.400 A lot, a lot, it was a weird day yesterday. A lot of weird things happened. And I mentioned how

00:48:43.240 recently the weekend before we had, we took the kids to a restaurant for dinner and we got sushi as

00:48:48.320 an appetizer because my kids like sushi for some reason. And my son dared me to eat a whole giant

00:48:53.160 tablespoon of wasabi all at once. And so I did because I was dared. And then my eyes started to

00:48:59.360 water, which is a normal physiological reaction to something like that. And I, my eyes were watering.

00:49:04.740 And then my daughter pointed at me and said, wow, look, daddy is crying. I've never seen daddy cry

00:49:10.440 before. And she was thrilled to see this. No, my eyes are watering. Okay. This isn't, it's not the same.

00:49:16.780 There's a distinction. Okay. Find distinction between eyes watering and crying. This is not you seeing me

00:49:21.520 cry for the first time. You will eventually see that. Um, everyone can tell a story about the,

00:49:25.960 the, the one time they saw their dad cry. It's a big moment in your life. Maybe it's when I walk

00:49:31.300 you down the aisle years from now, maybe that'll be the time, but it's not this. You are not going to

00:49:36.400 tell my grandchildren that this was the time when you saw, you know, grandpa cry for the first time.

00:49:43.560 It was because of wasabi just for the record. This year is a big one for me. My documentary,

00:49:49.200 what is a woman exposed the effects of corrosive gender ideology. Our rally to end child mutilation

00:49:54.120 is leading to very real actions on the part of Tennessee legislators. All of this was accomplished

00:49:59.620 despite the wicked forces that are trying to silence me and all of us. And all of this was

00:50:03.540 accomplished largely in part because of those of you who joined the fight. And I thank you for it.

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00:50:37.280 get to our daily cancellation. For our daily cancellation today, we must cancel a woman named Kelsey

00:50:45.460 Ballerini, who I'm told is a country star. I know nothing about her music, but I do know

00:50:50.340 everything I need to know about her personally based on a conversation she recently had during

00:50:55.060 an episode of a podcast called Tell Me About It with Jade Iovine. Now, as reported by the Daily Wire,

00:51:01.020 Ballerini spent some time during the interview explaining her reasons for divorcing her husband,

00:51:07.440 singer Morgan Evans. And they just got divorced after five years of marriage. Now the brief clip of this

00:51:13.160 exchange, which we will play for you now, could be an extremely valuable tool, especially for young

00:51:19.080 couples. In fact, young people in dating relationships, they ask me all the time how

00:51:24.440 they can know if they've selected the right partner for marriage. That's the big question.

00:51:28.500 Well, here's one way. This is a good litmus test. Sit your girlfriend down or your boyfriend down,

00:51:33.840 play the following clip for them, and then ask if they agree with the attitudes and perspectives

00:51:39.080 they hear in it. And if the answer is anything but, oh, hell no, are you kidding me? Run. Don't

00:51:46.420 walk. Run in the other direction and never look back. So with that setup, here it is.

00:51:52.800 Is this person right for me? Like, am I good with this being forever? Am I good with him never doing

00:51:56.880 the dishes ever in my life, you know, for the rest of my life or whatever those stupid things are?

00:52:01.260 How did you know that it wasn't relationship anxiety or negative intrusive voices in your head and

00:52:06.960 that it was actually like your heart speaking? That's a good question. I'm really like intuitive

00:52:14.760 and in tune with myself and like my gut and my heart. And I think for a while, you're right. It

00:52:22.700 was kind of like, okay, this is just a new phase of a relationship because relationships go through

00:52:26.960 seasons, right? And like, it's not always going to be rainbows and butterflies. Like that's just not it.

00:52:32.420 And I, and I think for a long time, I, I was like, oh, this is just the glitter wears off. That's what

00:52:41.260 happens, you know? And then you just, you get into a phase where you just, you wait for, you wait for

00:52:46.120 it to come back. And then, you know, and then sometimes it doesn't. But at the end of the day,

00:52:52.060 it is such a disservice and a dishonoring of yourself. If you know something is not right and you stay.

00:52:59.740 But your life is so loud, you know, you have so much going on all the time.

00:53:06.080 I think when people hear about couples counseling, then they hear about a couple getting divorced.

00:53:10.320 They're like, oh, it didn't work. But oftentimes that is actually couples counseling working,

00:53:15.940 you know, but like, because you realize that like, this was, this isn't the relationship for both of

00:53:20.940 you. And I think what's so hard is having to break your own heart and someone else's in the

00:53:27.760 process of saving yourself. So hard. Okay. So the glitter wore off after five years. And then

00:53:36.020 Kelsey, patient woman that she is, waited around for a phase to see if the glitter returned. But to

00:53:42.360 her horror, it never did. She must've spent hours, maybe even days, potentially a week waiting to see

00:53:49.920 if the magical marriage glitter would fall from the sky. But it didn't. And she doesn't want to be

00:53:54.620 in a non glittery marriage. Who would? Indeed, she says that it would be dishonoring and a disservice

00:54:00.440 to herself. If she were to honor her marriage vows and remain loyal to the man that she pledged

00:54:05.760 her undying love and devotion to. But who cares about things like vows and oaths and everything

00:54:09.960 else? I mean, think about the glitter. That's what matters. So she got up and left. Of course,

00:54:15.480 the other woman in the exchange, Jade, fully understands and agrees with this approach to the marriage

00:54:19.800 sacrament. In fact, she adds that this is one of the great benefits of marriage counseling is that

00:54:24.240 so often, as she explains, it can help you to understand that you need to leave your spouse.

00:54:29.620 After all, if you aren't happy, then what else is there to do? You just have to leave.

00:54:34.800 Do one more glitter check before you head out the door. Stop for a moment. Look around.

00:54:38.540 Do you see any glitter? No. Well, then that's it. Time to go. Like I said, play that clip for the

00:54:43.700 person you're dating. If they roll their eyes and scoff and say something like,

00:54:48.440 who are these dumb bimbos? You know you found yourself a keeper. But if they listen intently

00:54:53.200 and nod their heads and say, wow, yeah, glitter in the marriage, they make some good points.

00:54:58.740 Promptly get up, inform the person the relationship is over, and just leave. No need for a long

00:55:04.240 emotional conversation. Simply end it now before this person ruins your life, because they will.

00:55:10.800 Now, here's the issue with the marital insights offered by Kelsey and Jade. Well, there are many

00:55:17.260 issues, but it's a Friday. I don't want to be here all day. So let's boil it down to just a few.

00:55:21.780 What we heard in that clip is the very common and very wrong, passive view of marriage and romance.

00:55:27.620 It's the idea that your relationship with your spouse is fueled by some sort of mysterious

00:55:32.920 emotional force, which is often incorrectly called love, and that as soon as your marriage runs out of

00:55:39.060 this mystical fuel, all you can do is abandon it on the side of the road and hitch a ride with the

00:55:43.840 next car that happens to drive by. This view is popular in our society because it removes all

00:55:48.900 responsibility and all blame from the individual. Marriage is presented as a passive endeavor.

00:55:56.720 It's something that's established, something that's, and then destroyed by forces outside of

00:56:02.360 our control. Love is something that you fall into, right? Like a puddle, and then out of. And there's

00:56:09.780 not much you can really do to cause the one or prevent the other. We chalk it up to irreconcilable

00:56:14.960 differences. It's all just stuff that happens. Oops, I'm married. Oops, I'm having an affair. Oops,

00:56:19.560 I'm divorced. Oops, I'm married again. Oops, I'm divorced again. Oops, I'm lonely and isolated and

00:56:24.700 everyone I've ever known resents me. Oops, silly me. I'm so clumsy. But here's the reality. These were

00:56:30.680 choices every step of the way. And the state which you find yourself in, falling in and out of,

00:56:38.180 this is not love. Because real love is an act of will. It's a decision. It's a conscious activity.

00:56:43.660 It's something that you do. It's something that you live. Okay, love is chosen. And if it's protected

00:56:51.440 and nurtured, it grows. Love is sacrifice. Love is effort. Love is everything St. Paul describes in

00:56:56.280 1 Corinthians. Love is dying to yourself. Love is many things, and none of them happen by accident.

00:57:02.860 But most of all, it's a thing you do. It is an activity. So if you stop loving your spouse after

00:57:07.960 five years, it's because you chose to stop. And most likely, you never started. The fundamental

00:57:14.200 confusion is that people think that emotional infatuation that they feel for someone that they

00:57:21.740 first met is love. That's what they think. They might even describe this as falling in love or love

00:57:27.560 at first sight. But infatuation is not love. Infatuation actually has almost nothing to do with

00:57:35.300 love. You can be infatuated with somebody and not love them. Okay? A stalker can be infatuated with

00:57:40.800 somebody and then kill them. Okay? I'm not saying that the infatuation phase is bad. I'm simply saying

00:57:46.300 that it's a phase. It happens at the very beginning. It's the fuel that's supposed, there's a reason for

00:57:52.460 it. It has a function. And the infatuation phase, it's supposed to help launch the rocket and get it

00:57:58.360 off the ground. But it's not going to sustain you for the whole journey or even for any significant

00:58:03.340 part of it. Because infatuation has to give way to love, which isn't to say that love is less exciting

00:58:10.260 or less intense or less thrilling. Quite the opposite, in fact. Infatuation is fleeting. It's thin. It's

00:58:16.220 hormonal. Love is much realer. It's much deeper. It's much more meaningful. I love my wife today

00:58:23.140 in spite of the Elvis incident after 11 years of marriage in a way that I could never have loved

00:58:29.060 her when I first met her. I didn't know her when we first met. Only thing I knew when we first met

00:58:33.660 is that she's hot and she has a fun personality, which was more than enough to be infatuated with.

00:58:39.000 Okay? It doesn't take much to be infatuated. That's, and that's really, especially if you're

00:58:42.660 a guy, that's like all it takes. You don't even need the personality part. It's just, just the first

00:58:46.180 part is really all you need. But that's not love. So Kelsey, when she talks about the glitter,

00:58:51.420 what she's really describing is the infatuation phase. But it's all she ever had with her husband,

00:58:57.460 and once it died, rather than work towards a truly loving and self-sacrificial marriage,

00:59:02.300 she just bailed. Many such cases. Of course, the other problem with this approach, aside from the

00:59:08.000 fundamental misunderstanding about the nature and meaning of love, is that it's entirely

00:59:10.940 self-centered. If your own immediate and uninterrupted happiness is the focal point of

00:59:15.840 your marriage, it will fail. And there's nothing unique about that. Literally any endeavor,

00:59:21.420 will fail if your immediate and uninterrupted happiness is the focal point. You will never

00:59:27.300 be able to do anything worthwhile in life or achieve anything of note ever if you insist that

00:59:34.380 the whole point of the enterprise is for you to simply be happy. Okay? If the only thing you care

00:59:40.320 about is your own happiness, you will never do anything worthwhile in your life. You will be a

00:59:43.740 failure. You'll be a miserable failure for your entire life. You will live a pathetic,

00:59:47.500 meaningless life, and you will die, and nobody will even remember that you existed if you live

00:59:53.240 entirely pursuing your own happiness and nothing else. Now, the irony is that Kelsey

00:59:59.220 is apparently a successful musician, which means that she understands this point. She has certainly

01:00:05.700 had to wade through many unhappy moments in order to have a success in her music career. Nobody can achieve

01:00:12.160 anything notable in any career if their own happiness is their sole motivation and goal.

01:00:16.880 I don't know anything about her music. I don't know if it's any good or not, but I mean, I suspect

01:00:19.880 it's probably not, but either way, you can't become a very successful musician without working really

01:00:26.820 hard. It's just impossible. So if we can see why that would be the case in a career, why is it so

01:00:34.080 difficult to see how it would apply to other areas of your life? That's not to say that happiness is

01:00:38.040 irrelevant or unimportant in a marriage. It's just to say that marriage doesn't exist simply to make

01:00:45.140 you happy. That's not the primary function of a marriage. It's not the primary function of your

01:00:50.600 spouse. It's not your spouse's job to make you happy every second of the day. It's not anyone's job

01:00:57.700 to do that. There is no one on this earth who exists, scratch that, there is no one who exists

01:01:06.320 in the entire universe and whose only job is to make you happy. That doesn't, that's, that doesn't

01:01:13.000 exist anywhere. It's not anyone's job to do that. And so it's not fair to put that burden on your

01:01:19.220 spouse, especially since the sort of people who expect others to make them happy all the time are

01:01:23.420 also the sorts of people who are never happy, which means that you have given your spouse a literally

01:01:28.800 impossible job that you will then blame them for failing to accomplish.

01:01:35.680 All of that is wrong. And if it was just Kelsey Ballerini who had these misconceptions about

01:01:41.260 marriage, it wouldn't even be worth addressing. But tragically, these misconceptions are shared by

01:01:44.880 many in our culture, and it's why so many marriages fail, and so many others never even begin.

01:01:50.280 And that's why it's still worth saying today, unfortunately, Kelsey Ballerini is canceled.

01:01:58.300 And that'll do it for this portion of the show is move over to the members block. Hope to see

01:02:01.000 you there. If not, talk to you on Monday. Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - December 16, 2022

Ep. 1083 - Libs Recoil In Disgust At The Taste Of Their Own Medicine

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