The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1090 - Why Young Men Listen To Andrew Tate

00:00:00.100 Today on the Matt Wall Show, we are suffering from a crisis of masculinity in our culture,

00:00:03.800 and it's only getting worse as anyone who tries to speak up for men inevitably gets silenced.

00:00:07.860 We'll talk about all of this and how it relates to the Andrew Tate phenomenon today.

00:00:11.180 Also, the Kevin McCarthy saga enters another day, but does any of this really matter?

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00:01:38.260 Today, I want to begin by talking about the crisis of masculinity in our culture,

00:01:43.020 because that is what we're facing.

00:01:44.500 There is an epidemic of confused, directionless, depressed, broken young men, 1.00

00:01:49.480 and it's incredibly clear to me that this is rooted largely, though not solely,

00:01:53.060 in a scarcity of male role models, specifically a catastrophic lack of present devoted fathers in the home.

00:01:59.560 This crisis is also driven by, while at the same time helping to create,

00:02:03.180 a culture that is deeply hostile to young men,

00:02:05.840 a culture which seems dedicated to demoralizing them and preying on their weaknesses.

00:02:11.200 And this problem is very personal to me because I have two sons with two more to be born sometime in the next couple of weeks,

00:02:17.100 if not a couple of days, which means I will eventually be sending four young men off into this cultural void. 0.82

00:02:24.740 And so I spend much of my day, every day, thinking about how to prepare them for it.

00:02:30.120 That is also the lens through which I view the Andrew Tate phenomenon.

00:02:34.620 Andrew Tate, of course, is the former kickboxer turned social media personality

00:02:38.220 who rose to prominence as a voice of the so-called manosphere,

00:02:41.880 with a message directed primarily at young men.

00:02:44.340 And over time, he amassed a large and devoted following within that group,

00:02:48.100 but not really becoming widely known outside of that demo until Big Tech decided,

00:02:52.760 all at once several months ago, to kick him off of every platform.

00:02:56.900 And they did this ostensibly on charges that Tate expresses outrageous and objectionable views, allegedly,

00:03:03.180 which they decided no one should be allowed to say, and more importantly, no one should be allowed to hear.

00:03:08.020 But not for the first time, however, the effort to erase and unperson someone only had the opposite effect

00:03:14.000 of making them more influential and more famous and better known than they'd ever been before.

00:03:19.580 I could say, in my case, I'm one of, I think, probably millions of people who,

00:03:24.940 before they erased him from everything, I'm not sure I'd ever even heard his name before.

00:03:28.880 So I became acquainted with him because they were trying to suppress him,

00:03:33.780 which was a positive result, in my view, if for no other reason than the fact that the censors

00:03:39.380 and de-platformers deserve to have their efforts backfire in such spectacular fashion.

00:03:44.040 So anytime they try to cancel someone and that person becomes more famous, I'm happy,

00:03:48.840 because they deserve, they, the cancelers and de-platformers deserve to have that result.

00:03:56.040 Now, the most recent update on Tate is that he was arrested last week by Romanian authorities

00:04:00.980 on charges of sex trafficking.

00:04:02.660 He says that this is simply just another attempt by the powers that be to punish and silence him. 0.95

00:04:07.840 Meanwhile, the powers that be say that he raped and sexually exploited multiple women. 0.96

00:04:11.480 That's what he's accused of.

00:04:13.220 Now, as for my opinion on the man, I can say nothing about the criminal charges.

00:04:17.800 I simply have no idea whether he's guilty or not.

00:04:19.700 His accusers will have to prove his guilt in a court of law.

00:04:22.320 Well, when it comes to the less serious matter of his allegedly offensive opinions,

00:04:26.780 I would say that some of his opinions are indeed objectionable, in my view,

00:04:31.260 though certainly not deserving of censorship.

00:04:33.520 While some of his opinions are not only correct, but insightful and important.

00:04:37.880 He's a human being, in other words, not right all the time, not wrong all the time.

00:04:40.940 I tend to concur with Ben Shapiro's take on Andrew Tate, as he expressed in his podcast a few days ago.

00:04:45.140 So, Tate is very often good at identifying some of the problems,

00:04:50.860 especially as they pertain to the situation that men face in the culture.

00:04:53.600 So, for example, here's a video he posted on his Twitter page a few days ago,

00:04:57.000 cut from an earlier interview with Tucker Carlson.

00:05:00.600 And this is an example of the good stuff.

00:05:03.080 Let's listen to that.

00:05:05.140 Tell us what your message is to young men.

00:05:07.640 Yeah, so I think that being a man is very, very difficult.

00:05:10.200 I think that men's issues are largely overlooked.

00:05:13.940 A lot of young men growing up today that feel very disaffected, they feel invisible.

00:05:18.840 The agendas that are being forced down their throats are not agendas they align with,

00:05:23.880 or they feel affinity to, or agendas they want.

00:05:27.320 And I basically just say to men, look, it's a very hard life.

00:05:30.300 You're going to need to get up, work hard, go to the gym.

00:05:33.580 Strong body is a strong mind.

00:05:35.420 You're going to have to reject listening blindly to everything you're told.

00:05:39.400 Reject the slave mind.

00:05:40.940 Think for yourself.

00:05:42.160 Get a strong network of brothers.

00:05:43.860 Work aside them.

00:05:45.140 Don't tolerate low-quality people in your life,

00:05:47.800 which means don't tolerate men who just smoke drugs and play video games.

00:05:51.600 And try and build and create a reality full of high-quality people

00:05:54.660 in which you can resist the programming that The Matrix tries to influence you with,

00:05:59.820 and grow up truly happy.

00:06:02.240 Now, all that is true.

00:06:04.040 It's good that he's saying it.

00:06:05.080 It's also enough on its own to get you deplatformed.

00:06:07.360 And you don't need to say anything more offensive, quote-unquote,

00:06:10.200 than what you just heard in that clip to earn the ire of the left and of our cultural elites.

00:06:15.600 But where Tate goes off the rails is in the remedy that he suggests.

00:06:20.280 Now, some of his prescriptions are reasonable and correct.

00:06:23.160 Go to the gym.

00:06:23.780 Work hard.

00:06:25.120 Build networks.

00:06:26.620 Be around high-quality people.

00:06:27.820 I mean, these are all—I don't disagree on any of those counts.

00:06:31.120 Yet he also brags about sleeping with many different women.

00:06:33.400 He promotes a kind of ostentatious materialism, saying that the best way to be a manly man

00:06:38.240 is to make a lot of money and buy fancy cars and show off your wealth.

00:06:41.860 He says things like this tweet a couple of weeks ago.

00:06:43.900 He tweeted this.

00:06:45.360 Genghis Khan had endless women and 200 children as reward for conquest. 0.88

00:06:49.300 I am the most searched man on the planet.

00:06:50.920 I have conquered Earth.

00:06:52.060 I am the highest status male on the planet.

00:06:54.660 Females do not expect loyalty from me. 1.00

00:06:56.940 They only expect that of lesser men.

00:06:59.340 Now, this is not masculinity, an over-the-top, blustering kind of ego,

00:07:04.600 declaring yourself to be the highest status man on the planet.

00:07:07.440 This is a sign of insecurity, not strength.

00:07:09.540 I mean, anytime you feel the need to announce to the public, especially on social media,

00:07:14.480 how great you are, every single time you are doing that because you are insecure.

00:07:19.260 No secure person ever feels the need to do that.

00:07:22.020 No man comfortable with his status feels the need to brag about his status.

00:07:26.140 Worst of all, Tate suggests that loyalty is a virtue of lesser men,

00:07:31.100 which could not possibly be more wrong.

00:07:35.940 Any man can be disloyal, okay?

00:07:38.420 Anyone can be disloyal.

00:07:39.600 Any man, especially if he has a lot of money,

00:07:41.500 can sleep with a bunch of different women and discard them.

00:07:44.100 In fact, any man with not a lot of money can still do the same 0.80

00:07:47.340 if he's willing to go out and buy the affections of a $2 hooker for a few minutes. 0.99

00:07:51.160 That's not impressive, much less a sign of masculine strength. 0.81

00:07:57.060 Real masculinity and also real joy and contentment in life

00:08:00.560 is found in the man who remains loyal and devoted to his family.

00:08:05.900 This is not only the more difficult path,

00:08:09.140 but it's the more rewarding path by far on both counts.

00:08:14.620 Loyalty and humility are both virtues of the truly masculine man,

00:08:19.580 and yet they are virtues that Andrew Tate explicitly militates against.

00:08:23.840 Like, he's against those things and will say so.

00:08:26.600 So while he gives young men some good and important advice,

00:08:29.800 he still winds up leaving them, ultimately, where they began,

00:08:33.860 which is stranded, alone, confused.

00:08:37.400 But the real question that we should be asking in regards to Andrew Tate

00:08:43.200 isn't whether he's right or wrong about everything he says.

00:08:47.560 Rather, the more important question, the more interesting one to me,

00:08:51.300 is why his message resonates to begin with.

00:08:55.660 This is the thing the left never stops to consider,

00:08:58.120 because every time, and Andrew Tate is certainly not the first and won't be the last,

00:09:01.420 every time a new figure comes along with a message directed at men,

00:09:08.160 our cultural overlords will swoop in immediately 0.98

00:09:12.000 to discredit, destroy, and silence that person.

00:09:15.780 Every single time.

00:09:17.600 These self-appointed gatekeepers have never met a man with a message for men

00:09:22.840 who they didn't find problematic and misogynistic.

00:09:26.560 That's because while Tate may veer off in various wrong directions,

00:09:31.280 as far as his critics on the left are concerned,

00:09:33.900 there is no direction he could take the message

00:09:36.800 that they wouldn't consider dangerous and toxic.

00:09:41.740 Well, there is one.

00:09:43.100 I mean, if he was preaching a gospel of self-loathing to men,

00:09:45.760 if he was telling young men to hate themselves and apologize for being who they are,

00:09:50.480 if he was talking about toxic masculinity,

00:09:53.180 then they would shower him with praise.

00:09:55.200 They'd give him a doctorate.

00:09:56.120 You know, and he'd have a book deal.

00:09:58.140 He'd get glowing interviews on Good Morning America.

00:10:01.420 That is the only thing anyone is allowed to say to men.

00:10:04.980 If you're addressing men specifically, okay, in the public sphere,

00:10:08.920 if you're saying, hey, men, and then you continue to have a message for them,

00:10:13.380 the only acceptable message, as far as our culture is concerned,

00:10:16.800 is shame on you, stop being that way, be more like a woman. 0.98

00:10:21.120 And that's precisely why Andrew Tate and guys like him resonate,

00:10:25.540 and they find such an enthusiastic and devoted following.

00:10:28.000 They are speaking to men in a way that isn't resentful, isn't accusatory, isn't condescending.

00:10:33.840 And they are among the only people on the national stage doing that,

00:10:38.880 so the audience naturally goes to them, to the guy who isn't spitting in their face.

00:10:43.020 It kind of makes sense.

00:10:45.180 And as I said at the beginning, a huge percentage of young men are raised in homes

00:10:48.660 where there is no fatherly role model.

00:10:50.540 Often isn't a father present at all, and in so many other cases,

00:10:55.320 there might be a father physically present in the home,

00:10:57.540 but he's not present emotionally, spiritually, psychologically.

00:11:00.200 He's not present in any other way.

00:11:01.400 He's just there. 0.95

00:11:01.960 He's a lump on a log.

00:11:04.520 So they're not taught how to be men, how to harness their masculinity,

00:11:07.740 how to constructively use all of the energy and aggression that's brimming inside of them.

00:11:13.660 Out in society, they're greeted with accusations and scorn,

00:11:16.740 and they're told that they must suppress their masculinity, feminize themselves.

00:11:22.900 Then a guy like Andrew Tate comes along and says,

00:11:25.260 no, it's good to be a man.

00:11:26.760 It is good to be tough and strong and masculine.

00:11:31.300 They prefer to listen to him,

00:11:33.460 and they are justified in preferring him, considering the alternatives.

00:11:40.220 The correct response to Andrew Tate, then,

00:11:43.520 isn't to silence him and condemn his followers.

00:11:45.860 It is instead to say, yes, he's right.

00:11:49.280 It is indeed good to be a man.

00:11:51.580 And then to follow that with a better and clearer vision of what it means to be a man

00:11:58.120 and how a man should behave, what his roles and duties are,

00:12:01.460 what direction he should go.

00:12:04.160 Because that's what these young men are looking for.

00:12:05.700 They're looking for direction and guidance.

00:12:08.540 If you don't have that to offer, then just step to the side.

00:12:12.080 They're much better off listening to Andrew Tate

00:12:13.860 than to someone who believes that the best version of a man is a woman.

00:12:20.400 What we should be telling young men,

00:12:22.860 what I will and do teach my sons,

00:12:26.000 is that a man has a noble calling to protect and to provide.

00:12:32.640 He is uniquely equipped to fulfill this role

00:12:35.700 and was made by God for that purpose.

00:12:39.100 He is a protector.

00:12:40.200 He is a provider.

00:12:40.960 That's what a man is supposed to be.

00:12:43.040 That is what every man is supposed to be.

00:12:45.360 Every single one.

00:12:47.240 And any man who is not that, who is not doing that,

00:12:50.900 will fall into despair. 1.00

00:12:54.340 Because he is useless. 1.00

00:12:56.720 And the worst thing that a man can be or feel is useless. 0.99

00:13:00.040 Nearly every man who has committed suicide,

00:13:04.440 and the suicide rate among young men is increasing.

00:13:07.620 And nearly all of them, it's in part because that's how they felt about themselves. 0.77

00:13:12.140 Useless.

00:13:12.600 There's no point to their life. 0.99

00:13:14.220 Nothing for them to do.

00:13:17.460 So this is what a man is made to be.

00:13:19.240 And most men are meant to find the ultimate fulfillment and expression

00:13:23.960 of that role of protector and provider in the family,

00:13:26.820 as father and husband.

00:13:28.640 Not all men, though.

00:13:29.540 Some men are called to serve in another way.

00:13:32.760 But all are called to serve.

00:13:35.320 All are meant to live their lives in service to something greater than themselves.

00:13:40.120 No man is meant to live aimlessly, wandering from place to place,

00:13:44.120 motivated merely by the drive to satisfy his desires from one moment to the next.

00:13:50.080 No man can find fulfillment in that life,

00:13:52.640 but that is the life many are condemned to

00:13:54.800 because they've never been shown another way.

00:13:59.540 Because the cultural powers that be have decided that we're not allowed to show them another way.

00:14:05.340 Our culture tells men that they're not called to do anything in particular,

00:14:08.840 that their sex should have no bearing on what they do

00:14:11.580 or how they interact with the world.

00:14:14.900 And we call this freedom.

00:14:17.620 But it's the sort of freedom you give to a man in the desert

00:14:20.560 by taking away his compass and his map.

00:14:24.200 You take that all away and you say, 0.90

00:14:25.720 yeah, see, you're free now to wander and go nowhere and die.

00:14:31.460 That's not freedom, that's despair.

00:14:34.280 Which are two things that are very often conflated these days.

00:14:38.880 Is it any mystery that these wandering men would so eagerly follow

00:14:42.880 the first guy who comes along and seems to know where he's going?

00:14:47.320 If his map isn't as reliable as he thinks or claims,

00:14:51.880 well, it's better than no map at all.

00:14:55.580 Because if you're completely lost,

00:14:57.660 you might as well follow whoever claims to know the way.

00:15:00.740 Even if he takes you in circles, you won't be any worse off.

00:15:03.140 And at least you'll have some company for a while.

00:15:08.640 We cannot push away all of the people

00:15:11.600 who are trying to guide these young men

00:15:13.500 only to replace their voices with silence.

00:15:17.600 Because that is simply abandonment.

00:15:19.600 And we have abandoned young men for far too long.

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00:16:29.500 NBC News headline, McCarthy makes concessions

00:16:33.060 heading into third day of House voting for Speaker.

00:16:36.460 Article says, fierce Republican infighting

00:16:38.220 over who should be the next Speaker

00:16:39.520 has paralyzed, paralyzed the House of Representatives,

00:16:42.260 preventing lawmakers from being sworn in,

00:16:44.560 delaying staff hiring, and stalling

00:16:46.560 the GOP's legislative agenda.

00:16:48.760 On Thursday, the House enters its third day

00:16:50.420 of the new Congress without a Speaker

00:16:51.940 under the new House, a new GOP majority.

00:16:54.800 Until Republicans have enough votes for a candidate,

00:16:56.660 all other House business remains at a standstill.

00:16:59.560 During these six Speaker votes this week,

00:17:02.200 20 Conservatives have stuck together

00:17:04.120 to deny GOP leader Kevin McCarthy of California

00:17:06.360 the 218 votes needed to win the Speaker's gavel.

00:17:08.940 Because Republicans won a paper-thin majority

00:17:10.480 in November, nearly all of their 222 members

00:17:12.600 will need to agree on a pick for Speaker.

00:17:15.220 After the chaotic process moves to a seventh ballot

00:17:18.960 when the House reconvenes at noon on Thursday.

00:17:23.480 But while McCarthy allies and foes

00:17:24.860 remain deadlocked on Wednesday,

00:17:25.920 there were some real signs of progress.

00:17:28.480 After the sixth vote failed,

00:17:29.660 McCarthy and his most trusted allies

00:17:31.060 huddled with his most fervent opponents

00:17:32.940 for more than two hours

00:17:33.860 in the first floor Capitol Office of Majority Whip,

00:17:36.840 the first floor Capitol Office of Majority Whip,

00:17:38.340 Tom Emmer.

00:17:39.180 Most emerged from the meeting saying

00:17:40.700 that there was incremental progress.

00:17:42.260 Okay, now, I have the same opinion about this

00:17:46.340 that I had yesterday, which is that,

00:17:50.200 and I'll have the same opinion tomorrow

00:17:51.540 if this continues in the day after,

00:17:53.400 which is that Kevin McCarthy

00:17:54.700 is a milquetoast establishment shill,

00:17:57.700 just an empty sort of nobody, nothing.

00:18:01.200 And you could literally put anything

00:18:04.920 or anyone in his place

00:18:06.640 and you'd have the same results, if not better.

00:18:09.060 Um, and so he deserves to be enduring this humiliation

00:18:12.300 and I hope that they keep it up.

00:18:13.660 I hope this continues for another month.

00:18:15.240 I hope it goes, I hope it goes forever.

00:18:17.860 I do.

00:18:19.060 Not because the story is interesting.

00:18:20.660 It really isn't interesting at all.

00:18:22.840 As I said yesterday,

00:18:23.680 nobody cares about this drama

00:18:24.840 outside of DC and political pundits.

00:18:27.980 You know, no one is, no one is, uh, uh,

00:18:29.900 I mean, you walk up to any average person

00:18:31.500 on the street and you say,

00:18:32.540 hey, what do you think about

00:18:33.340 this Kevin McCarthy saga?

00:18:35.280 They're going to say, uh, Kevin who?

00:18:36.880 What is it?

00:18:37.260 Oh, well, uh, there's this guy, Kevin McCarthy.

00:18:39.660 He wants to be speaker of the house

00:18:40.680 and he's not winning the votes.

00:18:41.920 Isn't that fascinating?

00:18:44.500 It's not fascinating.

00:18:45.700 It really is.

00:18:46.500 I got to say this again to pundits and, uh, DC media.

00:18:50.460 This is not that interesting.

00:18:52.400 Okay.

00:18:52.660 You can keep using work.

00:18:53.840 This is, this has never happened in history.

00:18:57.860 Oh, okay.

00:18:59.720 There are a lot of boring things

00:19:00.960 that haven't happened in history

00:19:01.880 and then they happen and they're still boring.

00:19:04.380 So that's not, that's not why I want it to continue.

00:19:06.800 It's not because I find this so absorbing

00:19:08.960 and fascinating.

00:19:10.860 Uh, I want it to continue because number one,

00:19:14.380 it is a, and most importantly,

00:19:15.680 it is a vote of no confidence in the establishment.

00:19:20.580 That's really what this is.

00:19:22.580 This is a, at least a small select group

00:19:25.260 of Republicans who are saying,

00:19:26.580 we have no confidence in these people

00:19:28.500 and we're not just going to get in line

00:19:31.100 because that's what you do.

00:19:32.040 That's really the whole argument, right?

00:19:33.340 It's Kevin McCarthy, he doesn't have the votes

00:19:35.180 and there's, he does not, he's not,

00:19:37.820 it's not like he's been selected by God

00:19:41.060 to be speaker of the house.

00:19:43.800 This is not something that's written in the stars.

00:19:46.280 All right.

00:19:47.580 He doesn't have the votes.

00:19:50.100 So the whole lot, what, what argument is there

00:19:52.220 for the, the, the Republicans who aren't backing down?

00:19:55.240 What, like, why should they?

00:19:56.940 They don't want him

00:19:58.080 and they're supposed to vote for who they want.

00:20:00.460 They don't want him,

00:20:00.960 so they're not going to vote for him.

00:20:03.420 The only argument against them

00:20:06.340 and in favor of them standing down

00:20:08.040 and getting in line is just that, like,

00:20:09.620 this is the establishment.

00:20:10.640 That's what you're supposed to do.

00:20:12.260 This is just what you're supposed to do.

00:20:14.280 This is what people do in this situation.

00:20:18.560 Well, that's not a good enough argument.

00:20:21.480 And I think that is increasingly becoming not a very,

00:20:24.340 that is not a compelling argument to people anymore.

00:20:27.400 In fact, that argument cuts the other way.

00:20:30.420 Because when normal people hear,

00:20:31.620 well, this is how it's always done in D.C.

00:20:35.220 But without any other context,

00:20:36.720 the normal person hears that and says,

00:20:37.940 well, then, like,

00:20:38.940 we probably should be doing it differently.

00:20:40.600 I don't even know what it is you're talking about.

00:20:42.120 It's probably, it probably is not the way it should be done.

00:20:46.320 The other thing I like about this, too,

00:20:47.540 is that it's,

00:20:48.140 is that it, it, it's grinding

00:20:51.480 the House of Representatives

00:20:52.880 and then to a large extent

00:20:55.340 the legislative branch of the federal government

00:20:56.820 into a standstill,

00:20:58.140 which is what we keep hearing.

00:20:58.920 All this panicking about,

00:21:00.120 we can't do anything.

00:21:00.980 We're not able to,

00:21:02.060 we're not able to do anything.

00:21:03.220 We're, we're, we can't hire staff.

00:21:04.820 And what about the committee assignments

00:21:06.300 and everything?

00:21:08.280 The lawmakers can't even be sworn in.

00:21:11.660 And there's all this frantic panicking over it.

00:21:14.960 And it's the same kind of panicking

00:21:16.820 that you hear every time we're

00:21:18.500 coming up on the precipice

00:21:20.600 of a government shutdown.

00:21:22.060 And it's the same sort,

00:21:23.040 what are we going to do

00:21:23.580 if the government shuts down?

00:21:24.220 But then it happens

00:21:26.080 and you look around

00:21:27.860 and you realize

00:21:28.620 it doesn't matter.

00:21:30.060 Nothing changes.

00:21:32.320 So the House of Representatives

00:21:33.580 has been,

00:21:34.160 has been ground to a standstill.

00:21:35.780 So what?

00:21:36.760 What difference has that made?

00:21:38.340 There's made no difference.

00:21:41.300 And that's what they don't want you to see.

00:21:42.920 They don't want you to notice that.

00:21:43.980 That's the main reason

00:21:44.540 why they're always so paranoid

00:21:45.540 about government shutdowns.

00:21:47.780 It's not because there are services

00:21:49.220 the government's providing

00:21:50.240 that they really feel passionate

00:21:51.380 that they want to continue

00:21:52.180 providing those services.

00:21:53.860 It's more that

00:21:54.580 they don't want you to notice.

00:21:57.160 They don't want you to notice

00:21:58.320 that you don't notice it

00:22:00.000 when the government shuts down,

00:22:01.420 that your life continues as normal.

00:22:05.060 It's the same mentality.

00:22:06.380 It's the same reason 0.50

00:22:07.060 why somebody who's working,

00:22:09.140 you know,

00:22:09.380 if you work in an office or something

00:22:10.980 and you know that your job

00:22:13.120 is redundant and useless 0.97

00:22:14.460 and you know that you don't really 0.96

00:22:15.980 do anything around here,

00:22:17.920 well, you're going to be very afraid

00:22:19.300 to take a vacation

00:22:20.360 because you don't want your bosses

00:22:21.800 to notice that when you leave

00:22:23.360 and you're not even here,

00:22:24.660 nothing changes.

00:22:26.140 You don't want them to notice that.

00:22:27.460 So you're going to be reluctant

00:22:29.520 to take the vacation.

00:22:31.460 It's the same thing

00:22:32.620 happening right now.

00:22:34.720 They don't want us to notice

00:22:35.940 that when it's ground to a standstill,

00:22:37.740 it doesn't matter.

00:22:39.020 Makes no difference.

00:22:40.720 Our lives continue as normal

00:22:42.320 because even when this is all settled,

00:22:45.360 whether it's settled today

00:22:46.200 or tomorrow in a year from now,

00:22:47.820 you know,

00:22:48.720 then it's,

00:22:49.620 well,

00:22:49.960 now the House of Representatives

00:22:50.980 can get down to business.

00:22:51.960 What is that business exactly?

00:22:53.100 What is it that you people do?

00:22:55.380 So you can hurry up

00:22:56.320 and just do nothing?

00:22:58.800 So I think this is all great.

00:23:00.300 All right.

00:23:03.160 Speaking of great,

00:23:03.860 this is a great headline

00:23:04.360 from the College Fix.

00:23:05.720 UW-Madison Liberals

00:23:06.960 Physically Sick and Hurt

00:23:08.740 by Matt Walsh Event.

00:23:12.080 Now,

00:23:12.860 I say this is great,

00:23:14.420 but it's really not.

00:23:14.860 I hate to think

00:23:16.280 that I had this effect on people.

00:23:18.380 I don't,

00:23:19.080 I'm a,

00:23:19.580 you know this about him.

00:23:20.240 I'm a very sensitive person

00:23:21.180 and I want everyone

00:23:23.480 to be happy when they,

00:23:26.360 I can't even say that

00:23:27.040 with a straight face.

00:23:27.880 I can say anything

00:23:28.680 with a straight face

00:23:29.140 and I couldn't say that.

00:23:30.260 University of Wisconsin-Madison

00:23:31.340 students,

00:23:31.880 faculty and staff

00:23:32.520 feared a conservative event

00:23:33.660 that criticized gender ideology

00:23:35.300 represented a hate crime

00:23:36.660 against women 1.00

00:23:37.480 and would,

00:23:40.000 hate crime against women.

00:23:41.080 So this is an event,

00:23:43.960 really it's

00:23:44.360 what is a woman college tour 0.95

00:23:45.540 and my whole sort of point

00:23:47.340 is that women exist 1.00

00:23:48.640 and that's a hate crime

00:23:49.920 against women. 0.76

00:23:50.600 To say that women exist 1.00

00:23:52.000 is to commit a hate crime 0.95

00:23:53.460 against them.

00:23:54.760 I'm committing a hate crime 0.89

00:23:55.740 against women 1.00

00:23:56.280 by affirming their existence.

00:23:58.840 Okay.

00:24:00.780 And would promote violence 0.98

00:24:02.160 against LGBT individuals 1.00

00:24:03.320 according to documents

00:24:04.140 obtained by the College Fix.

00:24:06.260 The Fix recently obtained

00:24:07.560 bias incident reports

00:24:08.780 through a public records request

00:24:10.280 for complaints

00:24:10.900 made against the Young Americans

00:24:12.020 for Freedom event

00:24:12.860 featuring Matt Walsh.

00:24:14.500 The event was about transgenderism

00:24:16.100 and shared a name

00:24:17.000 with his What Is a Woman movie.

00:24:18.500 Students, staff, and professors

00:24:19.580 were left angry, hurt,

00:24:21.240 physically sick

00:24:22.200 at the thought of him

00:24:23.320 coming to campus

00:24:24.140 based on complaints

00:24:25.020 primarily filed

00:24:25.820 before the event.

00:24:27.740 The documentary highlights

00:24:29.140 the problems

00:24:29.620 with gender ideology

00:24:30.460 was released by the Daily Wire

00:24:31.520 and the conservative commentator

00:24:32.520 in 2022.

00:24:34.080 The October 24th event

00:24:35.340 sparked protests

00:24:36.480 and Dean of Students

00:24:37.620 Christina Olstad

00:24:38.540 released an official message

00:24:40.280 through Instagram

00:24:41.020 that condemned Walsh

00:24:42.160 as harmful.

00:24:44.700 And anyway,

00:24:45.440 we knew about a lot of this.

00:24:46.720 Let's get to the complaints.

00:24:47.900 Okay, so these are the actual

00:24:48.960 bias incident reports

00:24:50.380 that were filed

00:24:51.200 and the public records request.

00:24:53.680 And so now this is being released.

00:24:56.460 And here's what one student,

00:24:57.620 this is a male student

00:24:58.340 who complained,

00:24:59.880 I feel the movie

00:25:00.520 is better described

00:25:01.340 as a hate crime

00:25:02.320 against women,

00:25:03.340 especially transgender women,

00:25:05.200 in a video form.

00:25:06.560 So let me translate

00:25:07.440 that for a sentence.

00:25:08.860 This is a hate crime

00:25:09.520 against women,

00:25:10.520 especially men,

00:25:12.060 in a video form.

00:25:14.320 This is a hate crime

00:25:14.840 against women,

00:25:15.380 especially those women 0.99

00:25:16.180 who are not women,

00:25:17.500 in particular,

00:25:18.120 is what he's saying.

00:25:19.020 I believe by allowing

00:25:20.100 YAF to host this event,

00:25:21.200 they're not only spreading

00:25:21.960 hatred across campus,

00:25:23.100 I think they're also

00:25:23.700 in violation of a few

00:25:24.780 RSO policies

00:25:25.680 and will create

00:25:26.220 a potentially unsafe

00:25:27.280 environment similar

00:25:28.220 to similar events

00:25:29.560 hosted at other universities.

00:25:31.800 The same student

00:25:32.600 felt physically sick

00:25:33.620 while researching the movie.

00:25:34.600 Upon researching

00:25:35.820 this documentary,

00:25:36.980 I found a wealth

00:25:37.580 of evidence

00:25:37.980 that this has clear themes

00:25:39.260 of transphobia,

00:25:40.180 misogyny,

00:25:40.780 racism,

00:25:41.300 ableism,

00:25:41.880 and ageism.

00:25:46.060 Ableism and ageism,

00:25:46.940 where is that in the film?

00:25:47.780 Okay, I know where

00:25:48.180 the transphobia is.

00:25:50.420 Where did we get

00:25:50.940 to the ageism?

00:25:53.480 I mean,

00:25:53.660 I interviewed

00:25:54.160 an older man,

00:25:55.160 is that ageism?

00:25:55.900 So I talked to Don Sucker,

00:25:57.780 it was a great interview.

00:26:00.720 So I guess just by talking

00:26:01.920 to him,

00:26:02.260 I'm committing ageism,

00:26:02.980 I don't know.

00:26:03.900 It has created

00:26:04.400 a great upset

00:26:05.160 within LGBTQ spaces

00:26:06.500 on campus.

00:26:07.140 Many of us feel unsafe

00:26:08.260 and frustrated

00:26:08.980 that campus is allowing

00:26:10.040 an RSO to put on

00:26:11.440 this event.

00:26:13.880 And then,

00:26:14.600 let's see,

00:26:15.080 other complaints.

00:26:15.680 There was another

00:26:15.940 complaint that said,

00:26:16.540 allowing for such

00:26:17.060 a transphobic speaker

00:26:18.100 to be present on campus

00:26:19.140 with such a large platform

00:26:20.460 shows queer,

00:26:21.780 trans,

00:26:22.120 and non-binary students,

00:26:23.340 staff,

00:26:23.600 and faculty

00:26:24.060 that their experiences

00:26:25.440 are not valid

00:26:26.460 and their persons

00:26:27.720 are not safe.

00:26:30.020 Their persons

00:26:30.980 are not safe.

00:26:32.020 I am angry

00:26:35.700 and hurt

00:26:36.380 that the community

00:26:37.120 I love,

00:26:38.100 which has a home

00:26:39.340 here on the

00:26:40.260 Women and Gender Studies

00:26:41.580 Department floor,

00:26:42.600 was so blatantly

00:26:43.660 attacked.

00:26:44.920 A gender studies

00:26:45.600 professor named

00:26:46.320 Finn Enke

00:26:47.280 also submitted a complaint.

00:26:49.360 The speaker is known

00:26:50.060 not only to target

00:26:50.920 gender and sexual

00:26:51.780 minorities as well

00:26:52.640 as women,

00:26:53.660 the YAF is known

00:26:54.360 to intentionally

00:26:55.180 inflame and draw

00:26:56.260 a response

00:26:56.900 from marginalized

00:26:57.600 and feminist communities. 0.99

00:27:01.520 I don't feel safe

00:27:02.380 anymore,

00:27:02.800 so on and so forth.

00:27:03.460 Okay.

00:27:04.760 You know,

00:27:05.080 all this panicking

00:27:06.120 went on,

00:27:08.920 and every campus

00:27:11.260 that I went through,

00:27:11.800 they're panicking

00:27:12.260 over my presence.

00:27:13.020 But now we can look

00:27:15.020 back and we see

00:27:15.560 in hindsight

00:27:16.060 that I went through

00:27:17.140 that entire college

00:27:18.080 tour,

00:27:18.900 we stopped at,

00:27:20.240 I don't know,

00:27:20.780 seven or eight

00:27:21.360 different campuses,

00:27:22.340 and I only murdered

00:27:24.420 three people

00:27:25.180 the entire time.

00:27:26.460 Okay,

00:27:26.640 that was less,

00:27:28.060 okay,

00:27:28.320 fewer

00:27:28.820 than one person

00:27:31.280 per campus

00:27:32.000 did I murder.

00:27:33.960 And yet,

00:27:34.800 all of this

00:27:35.740 over that,

00:27:36.840 I practically

00:27:38.200 didn't kill anybody

00:27:39.260 except for the three

00:27:40.460 that I did. 0.99

00:27:40.960 killed them, 1.00

00:27:43.580 straight up killed them 1.00

00:27:44.260 by saying my opinions 0.96

00:27:45.700 right into their faces.

00:27:46.960 I just said my opinions

00:27:48.000 and they were in the audience

00:27:50.000 and the opinion

00:27:50.920 went into their ear

00:27:52.160 and they just, 0.70

00:27:52.680 they dropped dead.

00:27:53.760 Only happened three times.

00:27:56.800 In reality,

00:27:57.600 of course,

00:27:57.900 this is,

00:27:59.520 when I see this kind

00:28:01.020 of thing,

00:28:02.740 what I see

00:28:03.920 is,

00:28:05.060 it's not,

00:28:05.960 I think this is

00:28:07.180 always wrongly

00:28:08.620 described by

00:28:09.680 people on the right

00:28:10.620 as well.

00:28:11.140 They're being

00:28:11.380 oversensitive,

00:28:12.260 they're being snowflakes.

00:28:13.760 As I've explained

00:28:14.340 many times,

00:28:14.940 that's not the right term here.

00:28:16.340 We should stop calling

00:28:17.100 this sensitivity.

00:28:18.260 This is not sensitivity.

00:28:19.840 Many of these people 0.98

00:28:20.640 are sociopaths. 0.63

00:28:22.380 Sensitive is the last

00:28:23.600 of their problems,

00:28:25.220 okay?

00:28:25.580 They don't have a problem

00:28:26.260 with being sensitive.

00:28:27.700 A sensitive person

00:28:28.600 is,

00:28:29.420 has,

00:28:29.740 if anything,

00:28:30.460 is like overly empathetic,

00:28:32.220 you know,

00:28:32.820 has an overabundance

00:28:34.100 of empathy.

00:28:34.740 That's what a truly

00:28:35.260 sensitive person is.

00:28:36.500 And of all the flaws

00:28:37.660 you can have,

00:28:38.320 like that's not

00:28:39.040 the worst.

00:28:40.460 It's a pretty good

00:28:41.120 flaw to have,

00:28:41.640 actually,

00:28:42.300 to be a truly

00:28:43.420 sensitive person.

00:28:45.060 This is not a problem

00:28:45.900 that I struggle with,

00:28:47.180 but if you're a truly

00:28:48.240 sensitive person,

00:28:49.620 and I know some people

00:28:50.340 like this,

00:28:51.300 you know,

00:28:51.480 truly sensitive is like,

00:28:52.780 it's like you,

00:28:53.760 yeah,

00:28:54.120 your feelings are easily

00:28:55.280 hurt,

00:28:55.640 but at the same time,

00:28:56.960 you have a lot of empathy

00:28:58.200 and your feelings

00:28:58.920 easily get hurt

00:28:59.660 on behalf of other people

00:29:00.880 because you care a lot

00:29:01.700 about other people.

00:29:03.140 That is not this,

00:29:05.000 okay?

00:29:05.260 These people,

00:29:06.300 that is not their issue.

00:29:08.220 They don't care about

00:29:08.980 other people at all.

00:29:09.580 They only care about

00:29:10.060 themselves.

00:29:10.700 This is their fragile ego

00:29:12.080 that they're concerned about

00:29:13.240 and nothing else.

00:29:15.220 But also,

00:29:16.000 it's a recognition

00:29:16.840 of the frailty

00:29:19.040 and fragility

00:29:19.900 of not only their egos,

00:29:21.480 but of their belief system.

00:29:22.660 That's what this

00:29:23.760 actually is,

00:29:24.740 that they,

00:29:25.500 at some level,

00:29:27.540 whether they want to

00:29:28.400 or not,

00:29:29.180 they recognize

00:29:30.300 that their entire

00:29:33.260 belief system

00:29:34.100 is just a pile of sand

00:29:37.320 and that it can be

00:29:38.860 blown away

00:29:39.620 with the slightest breeze.

00:29:43.920 They recognize

00:29:44.840 that it's,

00:29:45.580 you know,

00:29:45.920 a house of cards,

00:29:46.700 whatever metaphor

00:29:47.680 you want to use here.

00:29:49.480 They recognize that.

00:29:52.720 It cannot withstand

00:29:54.180 the slightest challenge.

00:29:56.680 And so,

00:29:57.460 their only move,

00:29:58.440 well,

00:29:59.940 there'd be two moves.

00:30:00.560 There are two possible responses.

00:30:01.860 When you realize

00:30:02.540 that your worldview,

00:30:03.400 your belief system

00:30:04.140 is utterly

00:30:05.420 frail

00:30:07.380 and weak

00:30:08.200 and cannot withstand

00:30:09.760 any scrutiny at all,

00:30:10.980 there are two possible

00:30:11.900 directions you can go.

00:30:13.320 One

00:30:13.760 is to

00:30:15.140 confront that reality

00:30:16.700 and then say,

00:30:17.460 well,

00:30:17.720 I guess there's a problem

00:30:18.520 with my worldview

00:30:19.280 and I better start

00:30:20.500 to reassess.

00:30:22.180 That's a really scary

00:30:23.120 thing to do

00:30:23.580 and most of these people

00:30:24.180 don't have the courage

00:30:24.760 for that.

00:30:25.020 It takes courage.

00:30:26.540 Okay,

00:30:26.880 to be very,

00:30:27.740 very wrong

00:30:28.300 about something

00:30:28.940 and especially

00:30:29.600 about something

00:30:29.960 that is so fundamental

00:30:30.920 and then

00:30:32.360 to realize that

00:30:34.540 and not run from it

00:30:36.020 and to be willing

00:30:37.500 to reassess,

00:30:38.780 that takes

00:30:39.500 moral courage.

00:30:42.900 Okay,

00:30:43.480 it's almost like

00:30:45.840 you,

00:30:46.180 you know,

00:30:46.500 to go to another metaphor

00:30:47.840 mixing around,

00:30:48.680 if this Jenga tower

00:30:50.140 and you notice

00:30:51.060 that there's

00:30:52.360 one brick here

00:30:53.080 that's a little bit

00:30:53.600 precarious

00:30:54.020 and you're willing

00:30:54.560 to pull at it

00:30:55.340 knowing that

00:30:55.880 the entire thing

00:30:56.540 might come

00:30:57.000 tumbling down,

00:30:58.500 that takes courage.

00:30:59.140 These people

00:30:59.340 don't have that courage

00:31:00.040 and so they're not

00:31:00.640 going to go that direction.

00:31:01.340 Instead,

00:31:01.580 they're going to go

00:31:01.800 the direction

00:31:02.180 which is the other

00:31:02.740 possible response

00:31:03.500 when you realize

00:31:04.080 that your worldview

00:31:04.520 is fragile.

00:31:05.220 The other possible response

00:31:06.080 is to try to shut down

00:31:07.460 and silence

00:31:08.580 and if you can't do that,

00:31:10.360 then just scream at 0.76

00:31:11.640 anyone who challenges you 0.79

00:31:13.480 and that,

00:31:13.980 of course,

00:31:14.220 is the option

00:31:19.000 that they choose.

00:31:20.760 Okay,

00:31:21.000 headline,

00:31:21.760 this is a CNN headline

00:31:23.020 about a truly historic

00:31:24.680 glass ceiling

00:31:25.800 shattering moment

00:31:27.620 for the trans community

00:31:30.040 and hopefully

00:31:31.420 this is something

00:31:32.000 that all the people

00:31:32.740 that we just,

00:31:33.300 we heard from

00:31:33.960 that were upset

00:31:34.400 about my event

00:31:35.600 accusing me of transphobia,

00:31:37.100 hopefully this will make

00:31:38.440 them feel a little bit better.

00:31:39.660 I want,

00:31:39.960 you know,

00:31:40.080 something encouraging

00:31:40.620 for them.

00:31:41.120 So,

00:31:42.440 here it is.

00:31:43.500 Headline is,

00:31:44.180 Missouri carries out 0.51

00:31:45.180 first known execution

00:31:46.520 of an openly transgender person

00:31:48.280 for 2003 murder.

00:31:50.800 The headline says,

00:31:51.620 Missouri,

00:31:52.060 or the article says,

00:31:52.780 Missouri carried out

00:31:53.460 the first known U.S. execution

00:31:54.620 of an openly transgender person

00:31:55.760 on Tuesday

00:31:56.100 when Amber McLaughlin,

00:31:58.100 who was convicted

00:31:58.700 of a 2003 murder

00:31:59.740 and unsuccessfully sought

00:32:00.620 clemency from the governor,

00:32:01.920 was put to death 0.99

00:32:02.660 by lethal injection.

00:32:04.240 McLaughlin was pronounced dead

00:32:05.280 at 6.51 p.m.,

00:32:06.580 the Missouri Department of Corrections

00:32:07.660 said in a written statement.

00:32:09.100 Spokesperson did not say

00:32:10.060 if McLaughlin had issued

00:32:11.680 a final statement.

00:32:13.540 McLaughlin's execution,

00:32:14.580 the first in the U.S. this year,

00:32:15.760 is unusual.

00:32:17.020 Executions of women

00:32:17.840 in the United States

00:32:18.660 are already rare.

00:32:20.420 And they remain

00:32:21.480 just as rare as they were

00:32:22.780 before this man

00:32:24.020 was executed.

00:32:26.040 It says,

00:32:26.620 prior to McLaughlin's execution,

00:32:27.840 just 17 had been put to death

00:32:29.060 since 1976

00:32:29.860 when the U.S. Supreme Court

00:32:30.840 reinstated the death penalty

00:32:31.700 after a brief suspension.

00:32:33.580 And so,

00:32:34.100 anyway,

00:32:35.740 this is a transgender person

00:32:37.740 and this is,

00:32:38.400 the headlines are all over the place

00:32:39.560 saying that,

00:32:40.520 and before he was executed,

00:32:42.480 we kept hearing that

00:32:43.440 the state of Missouri

00:32:44.520 is about to execute 0.99

00:32:46.020 a trans person 0.99

00:32:47.400 for the first time.

00:32:49.840 And most of the headlines,

00:32:52.160 especially mainstream publications,

00:32:54.120 they were careful

00:32:55.900 to not go all the way

00:32:57.780 and explicitly state

00:33:00.020 their argument,

00:33:00.840 which is that

00:33:01.460 this person should not

00:33:03.040 have been executed at all 0.95

00:33:03.920 because they're trans. 0.69

00:33:05.200 Like,

00:33:05.560 the trans should have been 1.00

00:33:06.460 a get-out-of-execution-free card. 0.94

00:33:08.680 That was obviously

00:33:10.420 what was implied

00:33:11.400 by all the headlines.

00:33:12.500 All the frantic headlines

00:33:13.700 say,

00:33:14.300 they're about to execute 1.00

00:33:14.940 the first trans person. 1.00

00:33:16.080 Clearly what they're trying

00:33:17.140 to say is that

00:33:17.980 we shouldn't do it

00:33:18.820 because the person is trans.

00:33:20.880 But most of the articles

00:33:22.320 in CNN

00:33:22.800 and New York Times,

00:33:23.560 they didn't come out

00:33:24.280 completely and say that.

00:33:25.560 Clearly that was the implication.

00:33:27.120 But,

00:33:27.500 in any case,

00:33:28.500 this is true inclusion.

00:33:29.900 This is equity in action,

00:33:30.960 folks.

00:33:31.820 So congratulations

00:33:32.620 to Amber for her,

00:33:34.380 his rather,

00:33:35.060 I should say,

00:33:35.900 achievement.

00:33:37.100 Extremely well-deserved.

00:33:38.700 Extremely well-deserved.

00:33:40.580 This was a person who,

00:33:41.920 by the way,

00:33:42.460 this is,

00:33:42.760 you know,

00:33:42.960 when you,

00:33:43.580 anytime you read articles

00:33:44.420 about someone who's executed,

00:33:46.360 rarely, anyway,

00:33:48.880 do they lead off

00:33:50.160 as they should

00:33:51.200 by telling you

00:33:52.380 what this person did.

00:33:53.300 You always have to read through.

00:33:55.320 You read how sad it all is,

00:33:56.580 the person executed.

00:33:57.300 And then, like,

00:33:58.000 15 paragraphs down,

00:34:00.040 you finally get to the,

00:34:01.820 oh, by the way,

00:34:02.700 this is what this 1.00

00:34:03.580 monstrous scumbag 1.00

00:34:05.420 did to deserve 1.00

00:34:06.200 this.

00:34:08.000 And in this case,

00:34:09.540 so-called Amber McLaughlin,

00:34:11.900 and I'm not sure

00:34:12.400 what his real name was.

00:34:13.340 This was a,

00:34:14.740 the transition happened

00:34:16.080 on death row,

00:34:17.240 quote-unquote transition.

00:34:19.000 So,

00:34:19.600 it doesn't say

00:34:20.520 what his real name is here,

00:34:21.320 but so we'll just go

00:34:21.900 with this fake name,

00:34:23.540 Amber.

00:34:25.740 A murdered,

00:34:27.860 brutally murdered,

00:34:29.600 his,

00:34:30.200 I believe it was

00:34:30.460 his ex-girlfriend

00:34:31.220 in 2003.

00:34:32.200 And before that,

00:34:35.480 in the 90s,

00:34:36.400 had been arrested

00:34:37.580 and charged

00:34:38.020 and gone to prison

00:34:38.700 for raping 0.97

00:34:39.620 a 14-year-old girl. 0.99

00:34:40.400 So this is a child 1.00

00:34:41.420 rapist murderer. 1.00

00:34:43.760 And yet, 1.00

00:34:44.420 we're supposed to be

00:34:45.360 upset,

00:34:47.040 somehow,

00:34:47.580 that he is no longer

00:34:49.300 with us.

00:34:51.040 Now,

00:34:51.540 I will say that I,

00:34:52.380 I made this same

00:34:54.960 comment on Twitter

00:34:56.060 about this being a glass

00:34:57.580 ceiling shattering

00:34:58.440 moment.

00:35:00.820 God forbid,

00:35:01.800 I make light

00:35:02.540 of the execution

00:35:03.500 of a monstrous 1.00

00:35:04.740 child raping 1.00

00:35:06.040 scumbag murderer. 1.00

00:35:08.540 And I, 0.99

00:35:09.060 I did that on Twitter

00:35:09.680 and,

00:35:09.980 and some people

00:35:10.480 on the left,

00:35:10.900 trans activists,

00:35:11.440 were very,

00:35:11.780 very upset with me.

00:35:12.600 In fact,

00:35:12.960 there's an account,

00:35:14.400 Reddit Lies

00:35:15.260 is the account

00:35:16.000 and it compiles

00:35:17.160 examples of people

00:35:18.460 saying crazy things

00:35:19.260 on Reddit.

00:35:20.160 And so apparently

00:35:20.580 on one of these forums,

00:35:22.660 the trans activists

00:35:23.680 and leftists 0.99

00:35:24.300 are wishing death on me. 0.97

00:35:25.640 Nothing new about that.

00:35:26.480 I mean, 0.94

00:35:26.600 they wish death on me 0.94

00:35:27.120 every day. 0.99

00:35:27.400 But they're wishing death

00:35:28.300 on me in this case

00:35:29.020 specifically because

00:35:30.200 I was celebrating

00:35:31.380 the execution

00:35:32.760 and making light

00:35:34.360 of the execution

00:35:35.220 of,

00:35:36.360 again, 0.99

00:35:36.660 a child raping, 1.00

00:35:37.860 murdering 1.00

00:35:38.360 piece of garbage. 1.00

00:35:40.220 So here's a couple 1.00

00:35:41.220 comments from this

00:35:42.160 Reddit forum.

00:35:43.580 If Matt Walsh

00:35:44.180 was murdered,

00:35:44.760 it would make my day.

00:35:46.060 At this point,

00:35:46.480 I'm so sick

00:35:46.980 of that repulsive effort

00:35:48.180 that I have no issue 1.00

00:35:49.200 wishing death on him. 0.99

00:35:51.300 Someone else agrees. 0.99

00:35:52.320 I wish someone

00:35:52.800 would just effing

00:35:53.780 redacted this guy

00:35:55.020 already, 1.00

00:35:55.480 murder me. 1.00

00:35:56.560 World would be 1.00

00:35:57.200 a better place.

00:35:59.540 Someone else,

00:36:00.300 dude just needs

00:36:00.820 a good old-fashioned 1.00

00:36:01.560 ass beating. 0.99

00:36:02.560 Bonus points 0.98

00:36:03.060 if he gets beat up 0.99

00:36:03.800 by a trans man. 0.99

00:36:05.240 It would be so effing 0.99

00:36:06.680 dank.

00:36:08.660 Who says dank anymore?

00:36:09.920 Is that really?

00:36:11.460 Is that an expression

00:36:12.220 that the kids are using?

00:36:13.600 No matter how

00:36:14.040 that person identified,

00:36:15.120 they were convicted 0.73

00:36:15.680 murder and rapist,

00:36:16.700 so yeah, 0.99

00:36:17.180 had it coming.

00:36:17.680 Okay,

00:36:17.840 well,

00:36:17.940 this is one person

00:36:18.960 that has,

00:36:19.700 this is one moment

00:36:20.660 of sanity

00:36:21.100 in this Reddit forum.

00:36:22.380 One person pointing out

00:36:23.380 that,

00:36:24.000 okay,

00:36:24.160 yeah,

00:36:24.300 this is a trans person 0.91

00:36:25.080 who murdered 1.00

00:36:27.680 and raped people. 0.99

00:36:30.400 Someone else says, 0.99

00:36:31.260 referring again to me now,

00:36:32.840 I hope all his skin 0.97

00:36:34.000 falls off. 0.97

00:36:34.760 That's creative. 1.00

00:36:36.720 I want to kill him 1.00

00:36:37.860 with an aluminum bat. 1.00

00:36:40.520 And once again,

00:36:40.980 just to remind you,

00:36:41.720 they are talking about

00:36:42.480 me here,

00:36:43.700 not the,

00:36:44.500 not the rapist 0.61

00:36:46.320 and murderer. 0.99

00:36:46.760 that bat

00:36:51.840 should have

00:36:52.140 a rusty nail

00:36:52.980 so that now,

00:36:53.640 and now there's a little,

00:36:54.200 okay,

00:36:54.360 so then,

00:36:54.760 so someone says 0.99

00:36:55.400 that they want to kill me 1.00

00:36:56.060 with an aluminum bat 1.00

00:36:56.660 and then,

00:36:57.480 and then there's

00:36:57.840 this little conversation

00:36:58.540 that's back and forth

00:36:59.440 where they're kind of

00:37:00.340 brainstorming all the

00:37:01.460 different methods

00:37:02.060 that they could use.

00:37:03.540 You know,

00:37:04.060 it should be a rusty bat. 0.86

00:37:05.100 They should,

00:37:05.320 there should be a nail in it. 0.56

00:37:09.020 And this is in defense

00:37:10.940 once more 1.00

00:37:12.360 of a child raping murderer. 1.00

00:37:15.960 That's what they're 0.99

00:37:16.480 upset about.

00:37:17.280 Okay,

00:37:17.480 one other headline here.

00:37:18.220 It's something else

00:37:18.780 from last week

00:37:19.860 that I wanted to cover

00:37:20.900 and,

00:37:21.520 well,

00:37:21.600 I wasn't here

00:37:22.040 so I couldn't.

00:37:23.320 Mentioning it now though,

00:37:24.300 Fox News headline,

00:37:25.280 Buffalo police arrested

00:37:26.320 10 for looting

00:37:27.940 amid the deadly winter storm.

00:37:29.580 Officials in Buffalo,

00:37:30.240 New York said Wednesday,

00:37:31.400 this was last Wednesday night,

00:37:32.680 that 10 arrests

00:37:33.220 have been made

00:37:33.540 in response to looting

00:37:34.520 following a deadly winter storm

00:37:36.020 that ravaged the region

00:37:37.120 over the Christmas weekend.

00:37:38.540 The Buffalo police department

00:37:39.400 said the arrests

00:37:39.980 were conducted

00:37:40.400 by its newly created

00:37:41.360 anti-looting task force.

00:37:43.500 The group was formed

00:37:44.320 after reports

00:37:45.220 of break-ins

00:37:45.760 to businesses

00:37:46.200 as the storm

00:37:46.920 halted daily life

00:37:47.880 in the city.

00:37:49.660 On Tuesday,

00:37:50.620 Buffalo police commissioner

00:37:51.780 Joseph Gramaglia

00:37:54.020 warned that looting

00:37:55.380 would not be tolerated.

00:37:56.300 This isn't people

00:37:56.800 stealing food

00:37:57.340 and medicine

00:37:57.680 and diapers,

00:37:58.160 he said.

00:37:58.460 They're destroying stores,

00:37:59.460 they're stealing television,

00:38:00.420 couches,

00:38:01.200 whatever else

00:38:01.620 they can get their hands on.

00:38:03.000 They're opportunists,

00:38:04.220 he said at a press conference.

00:38:06.680 So,

00:38:07.760 that was for the major

00:38:09.980 winter storm last week

00:38:11.140 and we got down

00:38:12.860 to negative temperatures

00:38:13.540 here in Nashville,

00:38:14.200 negative two degrees.

00:38:15.260 Other places,

00:38:16.180 the weather was even worse

00:38:17.360 and this led to looting.

00:38:18.920 But don't worry

00:38:19.640 because what we learned

00:38:21.000 from some leftists

00:38:21.680 on TikTok

00:38:22.040 is that the looters

00:38:23.660 had every right

00:38:24.560 to do what they did.

00:38:25.700 They had every right

00:38:26.160 to exploit

00:38:26.760 and take advantage

00:38:27.580 of this situation

00:38:29.720 as they so often do.

00:38:31.480 And here's one

00:38:32.740 TikToker explaining why.

00:38:35.380 So,

00:38:35.900 I live in Buffalo.

00:38:36.980 This is a 33.

00:38:38.100 This is my car

00:38:38.980 that's been buried

00:38:39.740 in all of this snow

00:38:40.900 since last week

00:38:41.720 and this is outside

00:38:42.400 my granny's house.

00:38:43.500 A tree that's been there

00:38:44.620 since my aunt was a child.

00:38:46.080 Safe to say 0.97

00:38:46.640 that it's a f***ing 0.96

00:38:47.280 out there, right? 0.89

00:38:48.720 Here go y'all 0.98

00:38:49.340 f***ing goblins 1.00

00:38:50.160 who don't even live 1.00

00:38:51.140 in the f***ing city. 0.97

00:38:52.080 Which, by the way, 0.98

00:38:52.880 the Q-tip people 0.89

00:38:53.860 are the last ones

00:38:54.860 to ever talk about

00:38:55.880 somebody stealing anything.

00:38:57.740 Y'all wouldn't be

00:38:58.300 in this country

00:38:58.980 had it not been

00:38:59.900 for y'all stealing.

00:39:00.940 So, y'all are more

00:39:02.260 focused on people

00:39:02.940 looting and trying

00:39:03.660 to get necessities

00:39:04.400 and things that they need.

00:39:05.240 And yes, a TV

00:39:05.880 is a f***ing necessity thing 0.76

00:39:07.140 than the people 0.67

00:39:07.780 who are literally

00:39:08.460 freezing to death

00:39:09.580 in their own home.

00:39:10.400 Freezing to death outside

00:39:11.420 because this city

00:39:12.560 did not shut down

00:39:13.560 the way it should've.

00:39:14.480 Byron Brown

00:39:14.960 wanna get on here

00:39:15.560 and talk about

00:39:15.980 we told y'all

00:39:16.780 we knew this was

00:39:17.320 gonna happen

00:39:17.740 but why didn't you

00:39:18.860 close businesses

00:39:19.600 when you should've?

00:39:20.260 Why you got everybody

00:39:21.380 rushing home at noon 0.95

00:39:22.640 when the f***ing 0.93

00:39:24.080 storm is starting 0.90

00:39:25.180 and now people

00:39:25.780 are literally dying

00:39:26.760 in their cars

00:39:27.380 because they can't see.

00:39:28.560 And yeah, 0.65

00:39:28.920 it was that f***ing bad. 0.67

00:39:29.840 I went out

00:39:30.640 like at 8 o'clock

00:39:31.380 in the morning

00:39:31.740 before it started

00:39:32.460 and by the time

00:39:33.400 I got out of Wegmans,

00:39:35.300 right,

00:39:35.500 it was like

00:39:36.040 maybe 9, 30,

00:39:37.400 10 o'clock

00:39:38.040 and it was f***ing bad. 0.89

00:39:40.360 And that was just

00:39:40.940 the beginning

00:39:41.400 of the storm.

00:39:42.080 So, if you don't live

00:39:43.060 in Buffalo,

00:39:43.460 even if you do live

00:39:44.140 in Buffalo,

00:39:44.500 you feel like

00:39:45.100 you're better than

00:39:45.760 because people

00:39:46.340 are out here stealing

00:39:47.120 and you would know.

00:39:48.160 First of all,

00:39:49.060 if you are 0.99

00:39:50.340 a mayo monster, 0.97

00:39:52.260 that is how

00:39:52.740 your ancestors

00:39:53.320 got everything

00:39:54.020 from stealing.

00:39:54.840 People are out here

00:39:55.420 trying to get

00:39:55.820 toilet paper.

00:39:56.580 People are out here

00:39:57.160 trying to get,

00:39:57.700 you know,

00:39:58.240 just small little food

00:39:59.240 from family

00:39:59.820 dollar and y'all 0.86

00:40:00.700 got to f***ing capitalism. 0.96

00:40:02.440 Steal everything 0.99

00:40:03.100 that you need, babe.

00:40:04.120 Because at the end

00:40:04.740 of the day,

00:40:05.100 this city continuously

00:40:05.980 fails us whenever

00:40:06.720 we have any type

00:40:07.580 of emergency.

00:40:08.440 Vibrant.

00:40:09.100 Do better.

00:40:10.640 Okay. 0.57

00:40:12.060 Mayo monster, 1.00

00:40:12.740 she calls white people, 0.99

00:40:13.640 which I take exception to

00:40:14.800 for a number of reasons,

00:40:15.460 not the least of which

00:40:16.080 is that I hate mayo.

00:40:19.000 I was just calling 0.71

00:40:19.600 for the execution 1.00

00:40:20.120 of people that enjoy mayo 0.98

00:40:21.160 the other day.

00:40:22.100 So this is no different

00:40:24.040 from what we hear

00:40:24.720 from the left

00:40:25.540 all the time.

00:40:26.260 Infamously,

00:40:26.780 AOC, you know,

00:40:27.540 of course,

00:40:27.820 said that looters

00:40:28.640 are just out

00:40:29.240 stealing bread

00:40:29.960 to feed their families.

00:40:31.620 And yet,

00:40:32.700 after the looters,

00:40:35.240 as we heard

00:40:35.640 from the police chief,

00:40:36.520 you know,

00:40:36.700 after the looters

00:40:37.420 run through Walmart

00:40:38.800 or Dollar General

00:40:39.940 or whatever it is

00:40:41.160 that they're stealing from,

00:40:42.460 the bread aisle

00:40:43.340 is always conspicuously

00:40:45.480 left untouched.

00:40:46.600 Not only are they

00:40:47.220 not stealing bread,

00:40:48.380 but it's like the one

00:40:49.100 thing they won't steal.

00:40:50.080 The one thing

00:40:50.540 that they won't steal

00:40:51.300 are the necessities.

00:40:52.880 Those are all

00:40:53.980 of the sections

00:40:55.000 of the store

00:40:55.520 that are left untouched.

00:40:58.900 And that's because

00:40:59.780 these are not

00:41:00.280 starving people

00:41:01.200 who are out

00:41:01.960 desperately scrounging

00:41:03.360 for resources.

00:41:04.820 That's not what this is.

00:41:06.760 These are vultures,

00:41:08.000 scavengers, 0.89

00:41:08.920 victimizing their own community,

00:41:11.100 exploiting a crisis

00:41:12.040 to steal from

00:41:12.900 their own neighbors.

00:41:15.580 The businesses

00:41:16.520 that provide necessities

00:41:17.900 to their own communities,

00:41:19.260 they are exploiting

00:41:20.460 and victimizing.

00:41:24.000 And this is also

00:41:24.900 something to keep in mind

00:41:26.120 when you hear about

00:41:27.540 so-called food deserts.

00:41:30.840 What is a food desert?

00:41:32.620 You think a food desert

00:41:33.660 would be like

00:41:34.320 an actual desert

00:41:35.080 is a food desert.

00:41:36.300 It's one of the things

00:41:36.880 that defines a desert.

00:41:38.120 There are not a lot of

00:41:39.180 resources of that kind.

00:41:41.220 That's not what it means

00:41:42.440 when we hear about

00:41:42.940 food deserts.

00:41:44.040 This is an effort

00:41:44.880 on the left,

00:41:46.500 they've come up

00:41:46.860 with this terminology

00:41:47.620 and it's an effort

00:41:49.120 to support the claim

00:41:51.540 that there is still

00:41:52.480 this systemic racism

00:41:53.900 against black people 1.00

00:41:54.680 in the United States. 0.99

00:41:56.360 And they have to get

00:41:57.900 increasingly desperate

00:41:58.740 when they're trying

00:41:59.940 to find and locate

00:42:01.680 this mythical

00:42:02.720 phantom systemic racism.

00:42:05.300 And so they end up

00:42:05.800 talking about things

00:42:06.280 like food deserts.

00:42:07.880 And so a food desert

00:42:08.720 is places,

00:42:10.720 especially in inner city,

00:42:12.180 often in black communities,

00:42:13.200 cities where there are not

00:42:15.000 there are not as many

00:42:16.120 stores and restaurants

00:42:18.300 and grocery stores

00:42:18.900 and that sort of thing

00:42:19.500 as there are other parts

00:42:21.060 of the city.

00:42:22.700 That's a food desert.

00:42:24.800 Although, like,

00:42:26.120 even if there were none at all,

00:42:27.420 if you're living in a city,

00:42:29.280 you're never going to be

00:42:31.400 more than like

00:42:32.440 a five minute Uber ride

00:42:33.580 away from some kind of store.

00:42:36.600 But if there are

00:42:37.400 these food deserts,

00:42:38.300 if there are,

00:42:39.060 you know,

00:42:40.040 grocery stores

00:42:40.660 and restaurants

00:42:41.160 that are shutting down

00:42:42.360 shop in these communities

00:42:43.440 or refusing to open up

00:42:44.700 in the first place,

00:42:45.900 maybe this is part

00:42:47.620 of the reason why.

00:42:49.680 I mean,

00:42:50.000 when you prey upon

00:42:51.360 the businesses

00:42:52.060 in your community

00:42:53.220 and you loot

00:42:55.440 and rob them, 0.65

00:42:56.940 then they're going

00:42:58.960 to go away. 0.66

00:43:00.120 And then other

00:43:01.040 potential business owners

00:43:01.940 are going to look

00:43:02.880 and if you've got someone

00:43:04.080 who wants to open up

00:43:05.100 their own restaurant

00:43:07.160 or their own grocery store

00:43:08.080 and they're trying to,

00:43:08.780 they're thinking of

00:43:09.240 where should I put it?

00:43:10.180 they're going to tend

00:43:12.360 to put it in safer places

00:43:14.060 where they're less likely

00:43:17.320 to be victimized

00:43:18.160 in this way.

00:43:21.260 Seems rather obvious,

00:43:22.380 I realize,

00:43:22.860 but, you know,

00:43:23.400 still needs to be pointed out,

00:43:24.460 I guess.

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00:44:30.020 Edward Jones says,

00:44:31.280 Matt,

00:44:31.520 an important thing

00:44:32.060 to remember

00:44:32.460 about most aged

00:44:33.580 18-plus porn consumers

00:44:35.260 is their desire

00:44:36.160 to remain anonymous.

00:44:37.620 They won't be,

00:44:38.360 they won't give

00:44:38.920 identification information

00:44:39.980 to a porn site

00:44:40.760 for fear of it being leaked.

00:44:43.220 Okay?

00:44:44.600 Well then,

00:44:45.020 don't just,

00:44:45.260 just don't look at porn then.

00:44:47.520 That is,

00:44:48.980 look,

00:44:49.480 that's a perfectly

00:44:50.240 valid concern.

00:44:52.260 All right?

00:44:53.640 I wouldn't want to give

00:44:54.980 my driver's license

00:44:56.160 information to Pornhub.

00:44:58.260 Right?

00:44:58.780 And they might claim

00:45:00.120 that they're,

00:45:00.460 well,

00:45:00.700 we promise

00:45:01.340 we're not going

00:45:02.000 to do anything

00:45:02.440 with this data.

00:45:04.300 Right?

00:45:04.780 Well,

00:45:05.060 far be it for me

00:45:06.240 to question

00:45:06.980 the integrity

00:45:07.680 of smut peddlers 0.99

00:45:09.200 and the porn industry,

00:45:10.340 but I'm not sure

00:45:10.860 that I would trust that.

00:45:11.840 So I get that.

00:45:13.140 You know,

00:45:13.460 I'm,

00:45:14.140 when I suggest

00:45:15.360 these age verification

00:45:16.520 and I say that they,

00:45:17.760 I'm not,

00:45:18.700 I'm not saying

00:45:19.280 that it's actually

00:45:20.100 a good idea

00:45:21.140 for you to go

00:45:21.920 and give your,

00:45:22.780 give your credit card

00:45:23.760 information

00:45:24.220 or your,

00:45:24.800 you know,

00:45:26.000 or your driver's license

00:45:26.720 information to Pornhub,

00:45:28.280 but that's,

00:45:29.660 that's your issue.

00:45:30.280 Like that's your,

00:45:31.300 that's your problem.

00:45:32.120 It's,

00:45:32.300 it's because

00:45:33.840 the other potential

00:45:35.520 solution for you

00:45:36.480 is just to not

00:45:37.200 go to the site.

00:45:38.160 And it's not like

00:45:39.280 you have some sort

00:45:40.700 of God-given right

00:45:42.180 to access

00:45:43.360 internet pornography

00:45:44.500 without any barriers

00:45:46.080 at all.

00:45:46.580 That right does not exist.

00:45:48.300 That is not a thing

00:45:49.160 that is not a right.

00:45:50.900 That is a privilege

00:45:52.040 that people have had

00:45:53.740 in this country

00:45:54.260 for a long time

00:45:54.920 and shouldn't have.

00:45:57.080 And so what this really is,

00:45:58.560 it's a balancing,

00:45:59.360 it's a,

00:46:00.140 it's a,

00:46:00.720 what we're doing

00:46:01.800 is we're balancing

00:46:02.500 the right of children

00:46:04.780 to be protected

00:46:05.680 from this

00:46:06.380 versus your right

00:46:08.360 to access pornography

00:46:10.080 as quickly as you want

00:46:11.080 without giving

00:46:11.520 any of your information away.

00:46:12.540 So those are the two

00:46:13.360 competing sort of

00:46:14.360 claims here.

00:46:16.000 And I'm going to say

00:46:16.880 that the right of children

00:46:17.760 to be protected,

00:46:18.480 it wins out

00:46:19.820 every single time

00:46:21.080 without even having

00:46:21.600 to think about it.

00:46:26.100 Cajun King says,

00:46:27.080 as a citizen of the state

00:46:27.980 who is of age,

00:46:28.660 it's still just annoying.

00:46:30.020 I ain't giving my information

00:46:31.080 to a porn site.

00:46:32.400 A lot of comments like this.

00:46:33.340 Once again,

00:46:33.960 good idea.

00:46:34.640 Don't go to the porn site.

00:46:35.540 It's an even better idea.

00:46:37.680 Moose Chuckle says,

00:46:38.580 there was once a time

00:46:39.340 I would be against

00:46:40.080 age verification

00:46:40.720 for internet porn.

00:46:42.420 For me,

00:46:42.760 it wasn't about inconvenience.

00:46:43.900 It was about the shame

00:46:44.680 that I would have

00:46:45.240 putting my info in.

00:46:47.180 That was 20 years ago.

00:46:48.800 Now I'm all for it.

00:46:49.680 I have a kid

00:46:50.200 and it would protect them.

00:46:51.300 Furthermore,

00:46:51.760 maybe a little shame

00:46:52.480 is what we need

00:46:53.120 to help prevent others

00:46:53.980 from falling into watching

00:46:55.520 and being obsessed with porn.

00:46:57.000 And that's what I indicated yesterday

00:46:58.560 that I think

00:46:59.720 the resistance

00:47:01.940 to age verification,

00:47:03.140 these very basic regulations

00:47:05.120 that every other

00:47:07.160 adult-oriented business

00:47:08.240 is expected to abide by,

00:47:10.340 the resistance against it,

00:47:12.020 like intellectually,

00:47:13.120 it makes no sense at all.

00:47:14.480 There are no coherent

00:47:15.680 arguments against it.

00:47:17.440 And I've always said

00:47:18.800 that what it really is

00:47:20.280 is you've got these people

00:47:21.100 that they don't,

00:47:22.120 they want to find 0.99

00:47:23.660 their masturbatory material, 0.99

00:47:24.920 they're masturbatory aids 0.99

00:47:26.180 and they don't want anything, 0.99

00:47:28.160 you know,

00:47:28.940 standing in the way.

00:47:29.880 They don't want to be inconvenienced.

00:47:31.540 They don't want to have to

00:47:32.220 waste 30 seconds.

00:47:33.880 They want to be able to get to it

00:47:34.640 as quickly as possible.

00:47:35.820 And I think that's part of it.

00:47:36.680 But then the other part

00:47:37.700 is what you just said,

00:47:38.940 which is there's the shame too

00:47:40.160 because even having

00:47:42.040 this conversation

00:47:42.840 about how kids need

00:47:43.760 to be protected from it,

00:47:44.560 that is to acknowledge

00:47:45.480 that porn is a toxic, 1.00

00:47:47.820 disgusting thing. 0.99

00:47:48.940 And then having to put

00:47:50.080 your information in.

00:47:51.060 It's like,

00:47:51.520 it's even if they don't

00:47:52.980 steal your information

00:47:53.700 or invade your privacy,

00:47:54.960 it's still just,

00:47:56.100 it feels all the more shameful

00:47:58.340 that you're going through

00:47:59.660 that additional effort

00:48:00.660 to access this stuff.

00:48:03.240 But once again,

00:48:04.160 that's your issue.

00:48:06.640 That does not outweigh

00:48:08.680 the safety concerns

00:48:09.720 for children.

00:48:11.080 And if you feel shame

00:48:12.120 looking at porn, 0.82

00:48:12.860 well, you should. 0.98

00:48:13.380 It's a shameful thing.

00:48:15.340 You're watching other people 0.97

00:48:16.840 have sex. 0.99

00:48:17.660 It's such a shameful, 1.00

00:48:19.820 voyeuristic sort of thing.

00:48:26.280 Let's see.

00:48:27.340 Cameron says,

00:48:28.040 I like this for many reasons.

00:48:29.220 Think of all the people

00:48:29.760 who are too lazy

00:48:30.420 to get IDs before.

00:48:31.760 Voter registration

00:48:32.360 will skyrocket next cycle.

00:48:33.980 Well, that's true.

00:48:34.880 Although voter registration

00:48:36.120 skyrocketing for me

00:48:37.520 is a negative

00:48:37.980 if you are familiar

00:48:38.960 with my opinion

00:48:41.000 on voter turnout,

00:48:41.920 which is that I think

00:48:42.460 it should go down,

00:48:43.120 not up.

00:48:45.400 Kenshin says,

00:48:46.160 government needs to stay

00:48:47.260 out of our lives.

00:48:48.160 It should be up to the parent

00:48:49.280 to monitor what their kids

00:48:50.260 do online,

00:48:50.820 not for the government

00:48:51.460 to punish everyone

00:48:52.160 by requiring ID

00:48:53.060 to watch porn.

00:48:54.600 This will just backfire horribly. 0.97

00:48:56.220 Now we'll be able

00:48:56.720 to look up who's watching

00:48:57.760 and use that

00:48:59.260 as a weapon against them.

00:49:00.360 Imagine a politician

00:49:01.040 getting caught 0.99

00:49:01.660 watching some extra nasty porn 0.78

00:49:03.360 and his opponents 0.99

00:49:04.260 using that to bribe him

00:49:05.420 into passing a bill they want.

00:49:08.040 That's an interesting

00:49:09.220 like plot of a movie

00:49:10.700 that you just made up

00:49:11.560 in your head.

00:49:11.940 I'm not sure that it really

00:49:12.540 qualifies as an argument though.

00:49:14.860 And government

00:49:15.460 stay out of our lives.

00:49:16.860 That's also not an argument.

00:49:18.000 That is not an argument.

00:49:19.940 Okay,

00:49:20.280 that's a slogan.

00:49:22.260 That's something

00:49:22.540 you put on a poster.

00:49:23.940 It's not an argument.

00:49:25.660 And it's not even

00:49:26.320 a good slogan.

00:49:28.300 Because nobody thinks

00:49:29.480 that government

00:49:29.940 should stay out

00:49:30.840 of our lives completely

00:49:31.960 unless you are an advocate

00:49:33.420 of there being no government,

00:49:34.780 unless you are actually

00:49:35.400 an anarchist,

00:49:36.620 which I'm guessing you aren't.

00:49:38.180 And in fact,

00:49:38.760 nobody really is

00:49:39.880 because even the people

00:49:40.580 that claim to be anarchists,

00:49:41.900 I mean,

00:49:42.080 them most of all

00:49:42.840 tend to be the ones

00:49:43.480 that are relying

00:49:43.960 on government services

00:49:44.780 and all the rest of it.

00:49:45.460 So nobody's actually an anarchist.

00:49:46.700 That doesn't exist.

00:49:47.520 Nobody is that.

00:49:49.000 Everyone agrees

00:49:49.680 that there needs

00:49:50.820 to be a government,

00:49:51.520 that government is necessary

00:49:52.700 to some extent.

00:49:54.060 It's just a question of

00:49:55.060 what should they be doing?

00:49:57.740 You know,

00:49:58.000 in what scenarios,

00:49:59.120 in what ways

00:49:59.980 should they be

00:50:01.320 stepping in

00:50:04.700 and interfering

00:50:05.340 in our lives,

00:50:05.900 if you want to put it that way?

00:50:06.700 That's the question.

00:50:07.920 It's not a question of if,

00:50:08.900 it's a question of

00:50:09.680 in what scenario,

00:50:11.920 when,

00:50:12.260 you know,

00:50:12.400 that's,

00:50:12.800 that's the debate.

00:50:15.480 So,

00:50:16.060 of all the things

00:50:17.920 that government should,

00:50:18.760 there are a lot of things

00:50:19.220 government does

00:50:19.800 that it shouldn't do.

00:50:21.020 But when we list the things

00:50:22.140 that the government

00:50:22.580 should do,

00:50:23.900 is protecting children

00:50:26.320 from the multi-billion dollar

00:50:28.620 smut peddling industry,

00:50:30.260 does that make the list

00:50:31.440 of things government

00:50:32.180 should do?

00:50:32.720 And I would say

00:50:33.120 absolutely yes.

00:50:34.280 Snooki G says,

00:50:35.220 the thing about

00:50:35.600 the Damar Hamlin incident

00:50:36.500 is unless you're

00:50:37.300 a family member

00:50:37.840 who is solely focused

00:50:38.680 on his well-being,

00:50:39.700 holding multiple thoughts

00:50:40.660 about the situation

00:50:41.180 seems completely normal.

00:50:42.440 It's like seeing a car accident

00:50:43.620 and after the ambulance

00:50:44.480 carries off the horribly

00:50:45.380 injured person,

00:50:46.560 wondering how the uninjured

00:50:47.520 people are going to get home.

00:50:49.500 This is interesting

00:50:50.220 because I almost made

00:50:51.000 this exact point

00:50:51.840 and I didn't

00:50:52.740 because I had been talking

00:50:53.900 about it for too long already

00:50:54.860 and I didn't want to draw it out.

00:50:55.740 But this is just another way

00:50:57.160 of illustrating the point

00:50:57.900 from yesterday.

00:50:58.460 I 100% agree with you

00:51:00.520 and I think about this

00:51:01.360 all the time.

00:51:01.880 It's like,

00:51:02.700 you know,

00:51:04.340 anytime there's a tragic event,

00:51:05.700 you always have,

00:51:06.560 we don't have to review

00:51:07.360 everything we talked about yesterday,

00:51:08.280 but you have the outrage mob

00:51:09.860 and they're out there,

00:51:11.020 they've got these booby traps

00:51:11.940 set up

00:51:12.420 and they're looking

00:51:13.860 for anyone to step on it

00:51:14.940 so that they can then,

00:51:15.960 you know,

00:51:16.380 pounce on them

00:51:16.980 and virtue signal.

00:51:18.240 And so many of these rules

00:51:19.260 are kind of structured

00:51:19.960 around this idea

00:51:20.820 that when the tragedy happens,

00:51:23.620 you're not allowed

00:51:25.240 to like talk about anything else

00:51:27.160 for an arbitrary period of time.

00:51:29.300 You're not allowed

00:51:29.820 to have any other concerns

00:51:31.160 related to that tragic event

00:51:32.720 other than just simply saying

00:51:34.720 how tragic it is.

00:51:35.880 And that's the rules

00:51:37.220 they set up

00:51:38.200 and yet

00:51:39.620 we know that that's just not,

00:51:41.900 like nobody operates that way.

00:51:43.560 We know that in the face

00:51:44.980 of tragedy

00:51:45.560 and horrific events,

00:51:46.820 we very often have other concerns,

00:51:49.440 including logistical concerns.

00:51:50.800 So Skip Bayless,

00:51:51.960 a couple days ago,

00:51:52.960 mentioning the issue

00:51:54.680 of how are they going

00:51:55.540 to reschedule the game.

00:51:56.640 It's a logistical concern.

00:51:57.920 It's not more important

00:51:58.720 than the person's life,

00:51:59.660 but it's a logistical concern.

00:52:00.840 It's not,

00:52:01.140 it's a normal thing

00:52:02.560 to think about.

00:52:03.620 I wondered the same thing.

00:52:04.780 Everyone else wondered it.

00:52:05.620 And before you get

00:52:07.300 on your high horse about that,

00:52:09.120 just think about all the times,

00:52:11.420 as you point out, Snooki G,

00:52:13.360 think about all the times

00:52:14.140 that you have been stuck

00:52:14.980 in traffic

00:52:15.500 because of a horrific accident.

00:52:18.080 And for all you know,

00:52:19.460 someone is dead.

00:52:20.720 And if they're not dead,

00:52:21.460 they're at least terribly injured

00:52:22.920 and their life

00:52:24.000 has been irrevocably changed.

00:52:25.320 And you're sitting in traffic

00:52:26.560 and you're very sad about that.

00:52:28.380 But you're also looking

00:52:29.280 at your clock

00:52:29.840 because you're worried

00:52:30.980 that you're going to be

00:52:31.300 late to your appointment.

00:52:32.040 You're going to be late

00:52:32.400 to work.

00:52:32.760 You're going to be late

00:52:33.280 to getting home.

00:52:34.040 You're going to be late

00:52:34.540 to making it out

00:52:35.680 to Applebee's.

00:52:37.060 Who has done that before?

00:52:38.600 Every single human

00:52:39.960 who has ever been in traffic

00:52:40.840 has had that situation,

00:52:42.040 has had that experience

00:52:43.000 where a terrible thing

00:52:44.400 has happened.

00:52:45.540 You're sad about that.

00:52:48.240 But you're also,

00:52:49.480 you have other thoughts as well.

00:52:50.920 And you're even concerned

00:52:51.940 about the logistics as well.

00:52:54.160 So we've all been through that.

00:52:56.400 Yet there's this game of,

00:52:58.080 even though it's a thought

00:52:58.680 we've all had,

00:53:00.000 someone makes a mistake

00:53:01.240 of expressing that thought out loud

00:53:02.480 and then we all pretend

00:53:03.120 to be offended by this thing

00:53:04.440 that we all know

00:53:05.240 we've thought ourselves.

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00:53:57.160 One thing we've all learned

00:54:02.820 is that there is nothing worse

00:54:04.580 than a national dialogue.

00:54:06.360 Very often after a tragedy

00:54:07.660 or scandal of some kind,

00:54:08.800 we're told by the media

00:54:09.660 that it's time

00:54:10.400 for a national dialogue.

00:54:11.660 Sometimes the dialogue

00:54:12.300 is about gun violence

00:54:13.400 or hate

00:54:13.980 or homophobia

00:54:15.120 or sexism

00:54:15.880 or mental health.

00:54:16.900 And it's always the media

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00:54:19.460 and the media

00:54:20.120 that proceeds

00:54:20.600 to have the dialogue,

00:54:21.700 a dialogue that always

00:54:22.500 turns out to be

00:54:23.120 more of a monologue.

00:54:24.480 The media talks

00:54:25.180 about the subject

00:54:25.780 that we're all supposed

00:54:26.420 to listen.

00:54:27.340 That's how the dialogues

00:54:28.080 are always meant to go.

00:54:29.480 So this week,

00:54:30.120 we, and by we,

00:54:31.000 I mean they,

00:54:31.860 the media,

00:54:32.740 have been having

00:54:33.540 another dialogue

00:54:34.820 and this one

00:54:35.540 is about violence

00:54:36.600 in football

00:54:37.160 in light of the

00:54:37.700 DeMar Hamlin incident.

00:54:39.020 Yesterday,

00:54:39.440 reporters even tried

00:54:40.160 to get the President

00:54:40.780 of the United States

00:54:41.620 to chime in

00:54:42.760 on this subject

00:54:43.560 of violence in football,

00:54:44.940 but they were rebuffed

00:54:46.120 due to the fact

00:54:46.800 that the President

00:54:47.280 of the United States

00:54:48.060 is, well,

00:54:48.800 a vegetable.

00:54:49.980 Listen.

00:54:51.480 Do you think the NFL

00:54:52.360 is getting too dangerous?

00:54:54.500 No.

00:54:55.060 Look,

00:54:55.780 the idea

00:54:58.480 that you're

00:54:59.520 going to have

00:55:00.200 you got

00:55:04.460 guys that are

00:55:06.460 6'8",

00:55:08.080 340 pounds,

00:55:11.420 running

00:55:11.880 4'8",

00:55:13.960 40.

00:55:15.340 I mean,

00:55:16.000 you know,

00:55:17.700 you hit somebody

00:55:19.500 with that kind of

00:55:20.920 forward.

00:55:21.140 Now,

00:55:21.240 that's not what

00:55:21.740 happened here,

00:55:22.280 but I just think

00:55:24.000 it's,

00:55:24.540 I don't know

00:55:25.820 how you avoid it.

00:55:27.560 Ah,

00:55:28.060 well,

00:55:28.280 he has a point.

00:55:29.240 It's impossible

00:55:29.660 to say what

00:55:30.220 his point is,

00:55:30.840 but I'm sure

00:55:31.360 he has one.

00:55:32.460 Over on The View,

00:55:33.420 the football expert

00:55:34.380 sitting around the table

00:55:35.340 had a slightly,

00:55:36.200 only slightly,

00:55:37.020 more coherent

00:55:38.580 conversation about

00:55:39.820 the topic, 1.00

00:55:40.280 but still very stupid. 1.00

00:55:42.100 Here it is. 1.00

00:55:43.440 Right?

00:55:43.820 I mean,

00:55:44.060 my kid played football.

00:55:45.160 He was recruited

00:55:45.720 for college,

00:55:46.360 and he got a terrible

00:55:47.660 hamstring injury

00:55:48.640 getting hit,

00:55:50.480 and I saw him

00:55:51.700 collapse to the ground.

00:55:53.440 Thank you.

00:55:53.760 And he went through

00:55:55.800 physical therapy

00:55:56.380 for six months,

00:55:57.240 and he realized

00:55:58.480 at that point,

00:55:59.380 uh-oh,

00:56:00.280 I could,

00:56:00.900 that could happen

00:56:01.380 to my brain.

00:56:02.240 And so he quit.

00:56:04.040 Oh, he did?

00:56:04.580 He did.

00:56:05.020 He quit.

00:56:05.740 And it was a very hard

00:56:07.080 thing for him

00:56:07.860 because he loved doing it.

00:56:10.480 But I don't think

00:56:12.000 it's going to turn

00:56:12.520 people away from the sport

00:56:13.520 because, I mean,

00:56:14.120 I went to Notre Dame,

00:56:14.900 it's like faith,

00:56:15.680 family, football.

00:56:17.220 It's a big deal,

00:56:18.500 and it's a $105 billion

00:56:20.220 industry.

00:56:21.480 Only 45% of Americans

00:56:23.700 think that tackle football

00:56:25.400 is appropriate. 0.97

00:56:27.460 Heterosexual men 0.93

00:56:28.440 voted the most support

00:56:29.920 for kids doing football,

00:56:32.240 and conservatives

00:56:33.680 were more likely

00:56:34.620 to support youth

00:56:35.540 tackle football.

00:56:36.680 Just saying.

00:56:37.740 Just saying. 0.98

00:56:39.300 Heterosexual men 0.93

00:56:40.060 enjoy football, 0.93

00:56:40.760 so it must be bad.

00:56:42.220 With a take like that,

00:56:43.280 Joy Behar may have

00:56:45.540 just earned herself

00:56:46.360 a show on ESPN, actually.

00:56:48.500 Meanwhile,

00:56:48.900 the news media

00:56:49.500 has contributed

00:56:50.120 to the national dialogue

00:56:51.300 with headlines like these.

00:56:52.840 Fans grapple

00:56:54.520 with football's

00:56:55.260 violent pull

00:56:56.120 after Hamlin collapse.

00:56:57.940 And we're all complicit

00:56:59.240 in the NFL's

00:57:00.340 violent spectacle.

00:57:01.880 And then,

00:57:02.620 the terrifying collapse

00:57:03.700 of DeMar Hamlin

00:57:04.500 and the everyday

00:57:05.300 violence of football.

00:57:07.160 But the first place

00:57:08.060 prize for insufferability

00:57:09.660 has to go to

00:57:10.400 the Washington Post article,

00:57:11.660 which is titled,

00:57:12.760 After the Hoopla,

00:57:13.860 All That's Left

00:57:14.700 Is the NFL's Violence.

00:57:16.500 This is written by

00:57:17.220 a woman named

00:57:17.960 Robin Givon,

00:57:19.140 who has likely

00:57:19.880 never actually seen

00:57:20.960 a football game

00:57:21.980 and couldn't discern

00:57:22.780 a first down

00:57:23.500 from a field goal.

00:57:24.820 But the piece begins

00:57:25.640 with this paragraph.

00:57:27.640 From a distance,

00:57:28.460 from outside the circle

00:57:29.320 of fans and aficionados,

00:57:30.960 professional football

00:57:31.540 is both confounding

00:57:32.640 and enraging.

00:57:34.100 It's America's

00:57:34.720 most popular sport

00:57:35.640 and it's also deliberately,

00:57:36.980 unspeakably violent.

00:57:38.960 It's a particular

00:57:39.720 kind of violence

00:57:40.640 that's less about

00:57:41.480 accidental collisions,

00:57:42.900 adrenaline-fueled fistfights,

00:57:44.300 or even a singular

00:57:45.120 articulated blow. 0.92

00:57:46.820 Football violence

00:57:47.520 is wrapped up

00:57:48.260 in machismo,

00:57:49.620 militarism,

00:57:50.440 swagger,

00:57:50.960 and patriotism.

00:57:52.080 It isn't a sport

00:57:52.860 that thrives

00:57:53.500 despite the violence,

00:57:55.280 but because of it.

00:57:57.040 Now, she's exactly right 0.55

00:57:58.240 about the last couple

00:57:58.960 of sentences there

00:57:59.580 and that's precisely

00:58:00.520 what makes football

00:58:01.860 so great.

00:58:03.280 She goes on

00:58:04.020 for many other paragraphs,

00:58:05.840 continuing to criticize football

00:58:07.140 in terms that just make it sound

00:58:08.740 all the more appealing

00:58:09.900 to many of us,

00:58:11.200 especially many of us men.

00:58:12.880 She says,

00:58:13.340 football is a particularly

00:58:14.260 American sport,

00:58:15.340 although it certainly

00:58:15.860 has fans in other countries,

00:58:16.940 notably in Germany,

00:58:17.600 Britain, and Canada,

00:58:18.980 but the NFL doesn't have

00:58:20.020 the sort of international rosters

00:58:21.220 that one finds

00:58:22.120 among the nation's

00:58:23.500 baseball and basketball teams.

00:58:25.240 There is no

00:58:25.760 American football World Cup.

00:58:27.700 Football is America's violence.

00:58:30.200 In football,

00:58:30.760 the players wear their helmets

00:58:33.040 and pads

00:58:33.480 to provide them some protection,

00:58:34.560 but all that gear

00:58:35.220 is also a recognition

00:58:36.440 that the game is,

00:58:37.460 in fact,

00:58:37.820 predicated on men

00:58:39.020 injuring other men.

00:58:40.660 They give each other

00:58:41.280 a bruising.

00:58:41.880 They put a hurt on each other.

00:58:43.020 They go to war.

00:58:44.460 Americans love their football.

00:58:46.060 They're loyal

00:58:46.460 to their favorite teams.

00:58:47.760 Fans admire football players'

00:58:48.980 athleticism,

00:58:49.600 their impressively complex tactics,

00:58:51.220 and the competitive spirit

00:58:52.420 of a Super Bowl.

00:58:53.800 But in the last decade,

00:58:54.800 much of the romanticism

00:58:55.720 that once surrounded football

00:58:56.620 has disintegrated

00:58:57.360 to more clearly reveal

00:58:58.400 the racism

00:58:59.280 in the corporate offices,

00:59:00.380 the sexism within the culture,

00:59:01.820 and the enduring

00:59:02.460 physical pain of the game.

00:59:04.280 All that's left

00:59:05.060 is the violence.

00:59:06.420 And Americans settle 0.79

00:59:07.200 into their seats for that.

00:59:08.660 They tailgate

00:59:09.320 in anticipation

00:59:09.820 of their volatile pastime.

00:59:12.520 This orchestrated pummeling

00:59:14.140 of another team,

00:59:15.120 the walloping

00:59:15.660 of another person.

00:59:17.100 The winner's victory

00:59:17.880 is a violent one.

00:59:20.620 So, to review,

00:59:22.260 football is violent,

00:59:23.980 macho,

00:59:24.540 militaristic,

00:59:26.500 brutal,

00:59:27.220 patriotic,

00:59:28.080 and uniquely American.

00:59:29.260 This is supposed to be

00:59:31.100 an argument against football,

00:59:32.600 but it ends up being

00:59:33.380 a better advertisement

00:59:34.620 for football

00:59:35.660 than anything the NFL

00:59:36.960 would come up with

00:59:37.840 these days.

00:59:38.880 Hey, that is a better

00:59:39.760 NFL advertisement

00:59:40.840 than any NFL advertisement

00:59:42.600 I have seen in 10 years.

00:59:44.640 And that's the funny thing here,

00:59:45.960 is that the media

00:59:46.660 is discovering

00:59:47.620 football's violence

00:59:48.960 at precisely the moment

00:59:50.520 that the NFL

00:59:51.120 is doing everything it can

00:59:52.080 to neuter

00:59:52.660 and feminize the sport

00:59:53.840 and make it less violent.

00:59:55.600 Professional football,

00:59:56.280 in fact,

00:59:56.520 has never been less violent

00:59:58.080 than it is right now.

00:59:59.940 And yet,

01:00:00.260 now is the time

01:00:01.000 when reporters are asking

01:00:01.880 the president

01:00:02.480 whether football is

01:00:03.320 becoming too dangerous.

01:00:06.200 Now,

01:00:06.700 whatever else you might say

01:00:07.860 about the sport,

01:00:08.500 there is no doubt

01:00:09.100 that it is actually

01:00:09.640 becoming every year

01:00:10.620 significantly less dangerous,

01:00:12.960 for better or worse.

01:00:13.960 But even with all

01:00:16.180 the additional focus

01:00:17.020 on safety

01:00:17.520 and the new rules

01:00:19.540 introduced every year

01:00:20.340 to make the sport

01:00:20.960 less physical

01:00:21.580 and less brutal,

01:00:23.400 still it remains

01:00:24.940 a sport,

01:00:25.780 a contact sport.

01:00:27.600 And so injuries

01:00:28.200 are possible.

01:00:29.620 Serious injuries

01:00:30.220 are also possible.

01:00:31.260 Fatal injuries

01:00:31.940 are extremely unlikely

01:00:33.240 and incredibly rare,

01:00:34.380 but still possible.

01:00:36.020 Anybody with a brain

01:00:37.000 knew this already.

01:00:38.460 Every player knows this.

01:00:40.280 We have all

01:00:41.020 always been aware

01:00:42.320 of the possibility,

01:00:43.200 which is why

01:00:43.680 it doesn't make sense

01:00:44.520 to engage in some sort

01:00:45.360 of fundamental reassessment

01:00:46.680 of the sport

01:00:47.360 when the possible thing

01:00:48.920 which we all knew

01:00:49.800 was possible happens.

01:00:51.400 DeMar Hamlin

01:00:52.020 is a tragic occurrence.

01:00:53.740 It's not new information,

01:00:55.360 though.

01:00:56.640 It's the sort of thing

01:00:58.000 that everyone knows

01:00:58.940 can happen.

01:01:00.660 And so when it does happen,

01:01:01.940 it just doesn't make any sense

01:01:02.780 to say,

01:01:03.020 well, we've got to reassess

01:01:03.700 all of this.

01:01:04.520 It's like if there's

01:01:05.840 a terrible car accident

01:01:06.820 and somebody dies

01:01:07.740 in the car accident.

01:01:08.180 DeMar Hamlin,

01:01:09.100 thank God,

01:01:10.580 didn't die

01:01:11.680 and has survived

01:01:13.160 so far.

01:01:13.900 But if there's

01:01:14.460 a terrible car accident

01:01:15.440 and you're sad

01:01:17.060 about the car accident,

01:01:17.980 it doesn't make any sense

01:01:18.620 to say,

01:01:18.900 well, now we have

01:01:19.340 to reassess

01:01:19.900 and rethink everything

01:01:21.620 about the highway system.

01:01:22.980 Well, it's like,

01:01:23.320 we always knew.

01:01:24.220 Why would this?

01:01:24.920 You always knew

01:01:25.500 that there were accidents.

01:01:27.220 So why is this

01:01:28.320 causing you

01:01:28.740 to think differently

01:01:29.280 about it?

01:01:31.520 But putting that aside

01:01:32.480 for a moment

01:01:32.880 and even putting

01:01:34.440 the NFL aside,

01:01:35.640 let's consider football

01:01:36.820 itself as a sport.

01:01:38.020 despite any rule changes

01:01:41.220 or updates

01:01:41.980 to the equipment,

01:01:42.900 it is still

01:01:43.520 a fundamentally

01:01:44.340 violent sport.

01:01:45.360 That's true.

01:01:46.660 And that's what

01:01:47.760 it always will be.

01:01:49.680 Is that a bad thing?

01:01:51.520 No, it's not.

01:01:53.440 In fact,

01:01:54.380 it is a good

01:01:55.400 and healthy thing.

01:01:56.400 It is good

01:01:57.380 that football

01:01:58.160 is violent.

01:01:59.100 It should stay violent.

01:02:00.560 It is good

01:02:01.280 to have violent sports.

01:02:03.160 We should have

01:02:05.680 violent sports.

01:02:06.720 If anything,

01:02:07.180 we should have

01:02:07.520 more of them

01:02:08.140 because a violent

01:02:09.240 sport like football

01:02:10.260 is, among other things,

01:02:12.500 a relatively safe,

01:02:13.940 relatively safe

01:02:15.060 and relatively

01:02:16.560 productive outlet

01:02:17.800 for male energy 0.91

01:02:19.840 and aggression.

01:02:22.360 There's a reason

01:02:22.880 why many of the

01:02:23.660 media articles

01:02:24.160 being written

01:02:24.640 and freaking out

01:02:25.360 about football

01:02:25.780 are being written

01:02:26.380 by women

01:02:26.900 because football

01:02:28.040 is not,

01:02:28.660 no matter what the NFL

01:02:29.240 is trying to do,

01:02:30.060 football is not

01:02:30.740 for women.

01:02:31.940 There might be

01:02:32.160 some women 1.00

01:02:32.500 who get into it,

01:02:33.280 but it's not really

01:02:33.860 for women.

01:02:34.440 It's not for you.

01:02:35.580 You don't understand it.

01:02:36.540 You're not meant

01:02:37.060 to understand it.

01:02:38.440 This is actually

01:02:39.080 a man's thing.

01:02:42.340 This is why

01:02:42.840 violent games

01:02:43.560 have existed

01:02:44.060 in every society

01:02:44.800 going back

01:02:45.400 to primitive times.

01:02:46.300 They are a means

01:02:47.280 of channeling

01:02:48.120 and harnessing

01:02:48.940 male aggression.

01:02:51.160 Part of the reason

01:02:51.780 any boy or young man

01:02:52.960 starts playing football

01:02:53.940 is that he enjoys

01:02:55.080 the contact,

01:02:56.020 the violence,

01:02:56.820 the opportunity

01:02:57.480 to hit someone.

01:02:59.100 Yes,

01:02:59.340 that is one of the things

01:03:00.180 that is going to drive

01:03:00.920 a boy to play football

01:03:01.900 to begin with

01:03:02.200 is that he wants 0.70

01:03:02.980 to hit someone. 0.95

01:03:04.580 Boys enjoy violence. 1.00

01:03:05.900 They do.

01:03:06.360 That might make

01:03:06.760 your tummy hurt

01:03:07.240 to think about.

01:03:08.420 You might put your

01:03:09.080 hand on your forehead

01:03:10.480 and faint over the thought

01:03:11.980 that boys enjoy violence.

01:03:13.520 It doesn't change

01:03:14.380 the fact

01:03:14.880 that they do.

01:03:16.300 Boys naturally 0.99

01:03:17.060 enjoy violence.

01:03:18.060 My sons

01:03:18.620 are constantly

01:03:19.400 wrestling

01:03:20.080 and beating the hell 0.84

01:03:21.020 out of each other

01:03:21.600 for fun.

01:03:22.640 My daughters

01:03:23.320 never do that

01:03:24.600 with each other.

01:03:25.860 My boys do it

01:03:26.660 all the time.

01:03:28.480 They love

01:03:29.080 when I join in

01:03:29.900 and wrestle with them

01:03:30.780 as well,

01:03:31.280 which I often do.

01:03:32.380 It's what guys do.

01:03:33.500 It's how we're wired.

01:03:34.920 In football

01:03:35.420 or in any number

01:03:36.240 of similar sports,

01:03:37.080 a boy learns

01:03:37.840 to channel that energy

01:03:39.160 according to the rules

01:03:40.240 and the playbook

01:03:41.060 and in service

01:03:41.600 to a greater good,

01:03:42.560 which is the team.

01:03:43.620 Now,

01:03:43.840 they're not out fighting

01:03:44.540 for their country.

01:03:45.320 They aren't actually

01:03:45.920 warriors on a battlefield.

01:03:47.440 There isn't much

01:03:47.980 really at stake.

01:03:48.880 It's just a game,

01:03:49.620 sure,

01:03:49.800 but the focus

01:03:50.360 on the team

01:03:51.200 working towards

01:03:52.200 a common goal,

01:03:53.200 utilizing that violent

01:03:54.440 energy in a disciplined

01:03:55.640 and targeted way

01:03:56.440 between the whistles,

01:03:57.520 between the sidelines,

01:03:58.340 this is all very good.

01:04:00.720 We need to have

01:04:01.540 outlets like this.

01:04:02.980 We need to have ways

01:04:03.800 for young men

01:04:04.460 to harness and use

01:04:05.880 that brutal,

01:04:06.880 masculine,

01:04:07.620 violent energy

01:04:08.320 that scares

01:04:09.160 Washington Post columnists

01:04:10.760 and Joy Behar.

01:04:12.840 The problem,

01:04:13.860 though,

01:04:13.980 is that we are steadily

01:04:14.720 removing all such outlets

01:04:16.500 from society.

01:04:17.400 We're giving boys

01:04:17.980 fewer and fewer opportunities

01:04:19.420 to be rambunctious

01:04:20.660 and violent

01:04:21.360 in controlled

01:04:22.340 and productive environments.

01:04:24.500 Instead,

01:04:24.860 we attempt to suppress

01:04:25.700 those tendencies entirely

01:04:26.680 and feminize them, 0.75

01:04:27.820 but it doesn't work.

01:04:28.560 It never will.

01:04:30.160 And we again and again

01:04:31.100 react with horror

01:04:32.040 when the male aggression

01:04:33.280 we've been trying

01:04:33.900 to suppress

01:04:34.460 and which has few

01:04:36.120 healthy outlets

01:04:36.720 for expression anymore

01:04:37.740 spills out

01:04:39.020 in far more dangerous

01:04:40.320 and destructive

01:04:41.040 and chaotic ways

01:04:42.180 on street corners,

01:04:43.820 in classrooms,

01:04:44.740 et cetera.

01:04:46.340 Here's the fact

01:04:47.140 of the matter.

01:04:48.520 You will never

01:04:49.640 have a society

01:04:50.640 without violent men.

01:04:51.980 It cannot exist.

01:04:53.000 It never will.

01:04:54.320 The only question

01:04:55.300 is whether men

01:04:56.580 will be given

01:04:57.160 constructive avenues

01:04:58.560 for channeling

01:04:59.520 and using that aggression

01:05:00.740 or not.

01:05:02.680 If you choose not,

01:05:04.480 there will be a price to pay.

01:05:06.720 We are already paying it.

01:05:09.680 And that is why

01:05:10.400 the people trying

01:05:11.060 to cancel football

01:05:11.920 are instead

01:05:13.480 themselves today

01:05:14.540 canceled.

01:05:15.780 That'll do it

01:05:16.400 for this portion

01:05:17.120 of the show

01:05:17.560 as we move over

01:05:18.040 to the members block

01:05:18.880 and you can become a member

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01:05:23.620 Hope to see you over there.

01:05:24.300 If not, talk to you tomorrow.

01:05:25.840 Godspeed.

01:05:26.240 Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - January 05, 2023

Ep. 1090 - Why Young Men Listen To Andrew Tate

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