The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1092 - How Prince Harry Became A Broken Shell Of A Man

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Walsh Show, Prince Harry continues to seek privacy by spilling his guts

00:00:04.100 in front of every camera that he can find. He's become a sad, broken, whiny shell of a man,

00:00:08.400 thanks in large part to the awful woman he married. Many lessons to be learned from that

00:00:11.680 we'll discuss today. Also, Kevin McCarthy finally wins the speakership after 15 votes,

00:00:15.740 but not before making a number of extremely important concessions. It was all a win for

00:00:19.300 the so-called far-right Republicans. And a man is wanted for questioning after shooting and

00:00:23.560 killing an armed robber in Texas. The shooting may have been arguably legally questionable,

00:00:27.920 but I'll explain why I would never vote to convict if I was on the jury. In our daily

00:00:31.800 cancellation, the Young Turks claim to have demolished me. We'll watch the video and see 0.99

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00:01:37.780 Well, Prince Harry really wants his privacy. He's searched everywhere for privacy. He's gone

00:01:43.400 and turned over every rock looking for it. He's trekked through the forests and over mountains in

00:01:48.280 pursuit of his privacy. He's looked for privacy in interviews with Oprah and in podcasts and

00:01:53.300 documentaries and in his just released Netflix series. And now he's looking for privacy by

00:01:57.920 publishing an autobiographical book, which will be released this week and which he promoted

00:02:01.800 in a 60 Minutes interview and in an interview on ITV in Britain and in a Good Morning America

00:02:06.980 interview and then in an appearance on The Late Show later this week. He's gone in front of every

00:02:11.740 camera in the world and stepped on every stage and milked every moment under every spotlight he could

00:02:16.680 find, all because he and his wife just want privacy. His upcoming book, A Tell-All Memoir,

00:02:22.300 much like the type often written by those who desire privacy more than anything, apparently goes into

00:02:26.500 great detail about all of his squabbles and beefs and feuds with his family. Harry has become the

00:02:31.640 world's foremost leader in the field of oversharing. And this book is exactly what you'd expect from

00:02:36.720 someone with those kinds of credentials. He not only airs his family's dirty laundry, publicizing and

00:02:41.920 cashing in on all of his petty resentments and familial disputes. He also provides intimate details

00:02:47.400 that even the most ardent Harry and Meghan fans, if such people could possibly exist, would not have

00:02:52.940 ever solicited. For example, he reveals that, this is what he says in his book, that he once suffered

00:02:59.340 frostbite on his genitals. Harry will not even allow his privates to remain private, and yet he just wants

00:03:06.680 privacy. The title of the book, Spare, is a reference to Harry's feelings of being the spare, the outcast

00:03:14.040 in his family. Poor Harry. Poor, poor, put-upon, oppressed, multi-millionaire, world-famous Harry.

00:03:22.660 He is in so much pain, he says, and his wife is also in pain. Pain and suffering is a phrase that has

00:03:28.300 come up in multiple interviews about his book, and before his book, he's talked a lot about it. His pain

00:03:33.700 and suffering, his wife's pain and suffering, complains about it, and accuses his family of

00:03:39.340 being complicit, quote-unquote, in that pain and suffering. The general response to this public

00:03:45.160 vendetta that Harry has against his own family has been to parse through his words, trying to discern

00:03:49.960 what is true, what isn't, what needs more context, etc. Now, personally, I have no idea if Harry is

00:03:56.460 telling the truth or not, and I don't care. Every family has turmoil and drama. Every member of every

00:04:01.660 family has been both wrong and right, both bully and bullied. Families are complicated, and if you're

00:04:09.960 hearing one person's version of a dispute, you can be quite certain that the other people concerned,

00:04:14.940 those being painted as villains, would have a very different take on things if you asked them,

00:04:19.700 and if they were willing to answer. This is why family issues should be kept within the family.

00:04:25.760 You don't have to like every member of your extended family, but there's never a time

00:04:29.580 when it's necessary or good or justified to turn your family drama into a public spectacle.

00:04:36.780 And this, by the way, is a lesson that many people in our society ought to take to heart. Now,

00:04:39.940 most of us aren't in a position where we can complain about our families in a 60-minutes

00:04:43.900 interview. Many people probably would like to do that, but there's just no interest.

00:04:48.240 Yet it is quite common to see people on a smaller scale, and yet the largest scale available to them,

00:04:54.560 airing their dirty laundry and family disputes in public to people around them, on social media

00:04:59.740 especially. They provide one side of a complicated story to an audience that is not involved, that has no

00:05:06.760 business being involved, and that can't do anything with the information you're giving them, or do

00:05:13.080 anything about the problem to help resolve it anyway. Which is why, you know, if you have an issue with your

00:05:19.700 family, you should confront your family and your close friends in person. Tell them how you feel.

00:05:26.900 You might even get angry. You might yell. I mean, these things happen in families. That's normal, but in

00:05:32.540 public, there should be a united front. So you, for instance, might think that your brother is an idiot.

00:05:39.780 You might tell him so to his face. But if someone outside your family calls him an idiot, you should take

00:05:45.620 offense at that and respond accordingly. He's an idiot, but he's your idiot, because you're family.

00:05:51.360 This is one of the many things that Harry gets wrong, but it's not just his family that he feels

00:05:55.140 victimized by. He says it's also the press. The couple have been on a never-ending press tour for

00:06:01.000 the past, like, two years now, doing everything in their power to attract attention from the press,

00:06:06.220 and yet they are oppressed by the same press that they can't stop talking to. During his 60 Minutes

00:06:12.280 interview, he explains that the media is bigoted, bigoted against Meghan. And it's not only actually

00:06:18.380 the media that's bigoted, but listen to this.

00:06:21.800 What Meghan had to go through was similar in some part to what Kate and what Camila went through.

00:06:27.320 Very different circumstances. But then you add in the race element, which was what the press,

00:06:32.660 British press, jumped on straight away. I went into this incredibly naive. I had no idea the British

00:06:38.080 press was so bigoted. Hell, I was probably bigoted before the relationship with Meghan.

00:06:43.680 You think you were bigoted before the relationship with Meghan?

00:06:45.960 I don't know. Put it this way. I didn't see what I now see.

00:06:52.180 You don't know if you're bigoted? How could you not know if you were bigoted or not?

00:06:55.940 Now, this is mostly empty virtue signaling, of course, here. Harry is doing the work,

00:07:01.000 and doing the work means baselessly accusing everyone, including yourself, of bigotry.

00:07:05.740 But that's not to say that he's being entirely insincere. It's clear that the man has been

00:07:11.480 genuinely brainwashed into the religion of wokeism. And in that religion, bigotry is the original sin,

00:07:17.960 but not shared by all people, shared only by members of the white race. It's the original sin 1.00

00:07:24.200 of white people, and people who are not white have no sins at all. It is a hazy, undefinable sort of evil 0.94

00:07:32.900 shared by every member of the white race. Harry doesn't remember any specific occasion of being

00:07:38.020 bigoted. He never harbored any racial animosity towards non-white people. And yet, even though

00:07:44.740 this by definition means that he was not racially bigoted, he still cannot declare himself to have

00:07:50.140 not been bigoted. Because the actual belief of the woke white person is that he himself cannot speak

00:07:59.460 speak to his own racism or lack thereof. He is not an expert in his own thoughts and feelings.

00:08:06.260 It's up to a member of the racial victim class to determine whether he is racist or not from one

00:08:11.640 moment to the next. He cannot speak to his own motivations and intentions, but they can.

00:08:18.660 And now that Harry is married to a member of that racial victim class, she can attest to his 1.00

00:08:25.120 non-bigotry now. But before her, she was not there to absolve him. And that's the way he sees it.

00:08:32.480 And finally, speaking of Meghan, this is maybe the most important or at least most useful point for

00:08:40.120 most of us. Let her be a warning to men everywhere. Because although Harry is no victim, no martyr,

00:08:47.140 much as he wishes to be, he is still a pitiful and pathetic figure, a broken shell of a man.

00:08:52.580 He's still rich and famous, but he's no longer respected. And that's the worst thing. The worst

00:08:59.740 thing a man can lose is respect. A man can live and be happy without much money, without many things,

00:09:06.460 but the loss of respect is what truly devastates and in many cases can prove fatal. And Harry has

00:09:12.620 become a man who is no longer respectable in large part because he married a woman who does not respect

00:09:18.280 him. This is the influence that a woman can have over a man. Her feelings about him often become a 0.98

00:09:23.380 sort of self-fulfilling prophecy. I think it was G.K. Chesterton who noted that the positive end of

00:09:30.300 this kind of relationship, explaining how the lesson of Beauty and the Beast is that a man must be loved

00:09:35.560 in order to become lovable. Beauty lifts up the beast, her love helping him to become the man he was

00:09:41.860 meant to be. But a bad woman can have the opposite effect, turning a prince back into a beast. In this 0.98

00:09:47.160 case, a whiny, petulant baby beast, but a beast all the same. My wife has helped me to become a better

00:09:53.400 man because she loves and respects me. And when you love and respect something, you want it to be the

00:09:57.340 best version of itself. But then there are the Meghan Markle's of the world who will break a man

00:10:02.720 instead of building him up, bringing out his worst aspects while smothering all that was good in him.

00:10:07.900 This is the nightmare scenario that has chased many men away from marriage, as we've discussed

00:10:12.620 over the last few days. But the good news is that it's pretty easy to spot the Meghan Markle's.

00:10:19.460 So easy that most of us had the actual Meghan Markle figured out after listening to her speak

00:10:24.000 for like 45 seconds. Either Harry didn't see it because he allowed himself to be blinded by her

00:10:29.380 good looks, or wouldn't be the first man to fall into that trap, or he did see it and decided to move

00:10:35.340 forward anyway, perhaps partially motivated by his simmering resentment for his family.

00:10:40.100 Whatever the case, there's a very basic checklist that a man should refer to when dating a woman,

00:10:45.340 and the woman should have a similar mental checklist in mind when dating the man. The first and biggest 0.91

00:10:49.360 question, and the one that a discerning man should be able to answer rather easily, is,

00:10:55.400 does she respect you? You should be able to figure that out pretty quickly.

00:11:00.240 An important skill for a man to learn is to be able to identify when he's not being respected.

00:11:09.700 Also, does she cheer you on? Does she root for your success and happiness? Or is she more focused

00:11:14.420 on her own? Does she desire for you to have a close relationship with your family? Or does she want

00:11:21.380 to isolate you from everyone you know and love? Does she talk about herself all the time, or does she

00:11:28.000 spend more time asking questions about you? Is she sincere? Is she kind? Or does she only appear

00:11:34.260 to be kind in public, but then you see her rolling her eyes behind the scenes? Does she have empathy?

00:11:39.360 These are the questions to ask yourself when discerning marriage. Now, it's possible that a

00:11:43.140 very gifted phony may be able to deceive you on many or even all of these points, but most phonies are not

00:11:48.760 that gifted. Meghan Markle certainly isn't, which is why I was able to answer all of these questions

00:11:54.860 about her about five minutes after discovering that she existed. Okay, I didn't even know she

00:11:59.180 existed. Five minutes later, I knew everything I needed to know about her. Harry should have been

00:12:05.260 able to answer them, but if he did, he ignored the answers, and now he is paying the price.

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00:13:15.400 Headline from the Daily Wire. Here are the concessions House Speaker Kevin McCarthy gave

00:13:18.780 to Republican holdouts to win their support. Article says after days of negotiations and 15

00:13:23.600 roll call votes, California Representative Kevin McCarthy became House Speaker early Saturday

00:13:27.880 morning after reportedly giving major concessions to a group of Republican holdouts, increasing the

00:13:32.100 influence of some of the chamber's most conservative members. McCarthy's concessions include

00:13:35.940 changes to how the House is run, placing members of the House Freedom Caucus on key committees

00:13:40.260 and the creation of a committee to conduct a major investigation into the FBI, which for my money is the

00:13:46.020 most important concession that they were able to exact or ordain. Florida Representative Matt

00:13:54.380 Gates said, I feel the American people won. I feel the House of Representatives will be a healthier

00:13:57.340 institution. Many of these things have been resisted by Kevin McCarthy as early as Monday. Now we have

00:14:03.000 an exquisite rules package. While some critics accused the holdouts of grandstanding, in the end,

00:14:08.400 McCarthy reportedly gave in to much of the demands of the bloc. According to the Freedom Caucus

00:14:12.860 chairman, Representative Scott Perry, the juice was worth the squeeze. Perry, alongside other members

00:14:16.940 of the opposition, posted lists of concessions they had gained from McCarthy to earn their vote.

00:14:21.780 These included getting a vote on a border security plan, a budget that doesn't allow the debt ceiling

00:14:25.620 to increase, an end to all COVID mandates and funding, a term limit vote, single subject bills,

00:14:31.320 and allowing at least 72 hours given for members to read the bills. Another key provision is allowing

00:14:37.140 for any member to introduce a motion to vacate the chair, meaning that members can demand a vote to

00:14:42.200 remove the speaker from the position if he doesn't live up to his end of the bargain. Another concession

00:14:46.980 that was discussed throughout the week was creating an open amendment process to bills, making it easier

00:14:51.040 for lawmakers to change bills during debate. Members of the Freedom Caucus will also reportedly be placed on

00:14:58.200 the rules committee and the appropriations committee. Committee is crucial to how the House runs and how

00:15:02.720 funding is doled out. The House will vote on the rules package on Monday, setting up another potential

00:15:07.580 fight among Republicans. Texas Representative Tony Gonzalez, a moderate, has already promised to vote

00:15:12.320 against the rules package. Okay, so these are the rules that have been agreed to as proposals, but now

00:15:20.340 they have to actually vote on them and get them passed through that way. Whatever happens when they vote

00:15:25.480 on the rules, this is still an enormous success and a blueprint that should be followed. Because here we

00:15:35.180 have actual conservatives who are extracting concessions from the establishment. They were able to bend the

00:15:47.060 establishment to their will by using the leverage that they had available to them. So they couldn't do

00:15:54.880 everything, right? It was only, what was it, 20 people. And so they didn't have enough, they didn't have

00:16:00.600 the numbers to actually put somebody in place that they wanted. But they had leverage. They had leverage

00:16:07.980 to achieve something and they achieved it. Because even to get, now, what's Kevin McCarthy agreed to,

00:16:16.840 this tells you what kind of guy Kevin McCarthy is. It shouldn't have required this long

00:16:21.860 standoff between the two factions to get these concessions in place. These are all rules and

00:16:28.020 proposals that should have been in place to begin with. Tells you everything you need to know about

00:16:33.500 Kevin McCarthy. In fact, if you weren't up until this point, maybe you're not paying attention to

00:16:37.840 this drama, you don't care that much, I understand that. But maybe you didn't quite understand, you

00:16:41.740 didn't realize, you were looking at this and saying, well, what's the big deal with Kevin McCarthy?

00:16:45.120 Why not just vote for him? Well, this should tell you, this is it. The fact that they had to go

00:16:50.460 through 15 votes to get this guy to agree to the things that I just listed, which are things that

00:16:57.260 every Republican, really every member of the House of Representatives should agree to.

00:17:03.200 things like giving members of the House time to read the bills before they're voted on.

00:17:15.560 That's a concession that Kevin McCarthy agreed to. They had to beat this out of him.

00:17:22.400 Something as simple as, hey, maybe before we vote on the bills, we should read them.

00:17:25.920 Single issue bills, meaning like, let's focus on one topic at a time. Stop taking every piece of

00:17:34.880 legislation as an opportunity to piggyback it and put all of your pet projects and all that kind of

00:17:40.420 stuff and earmarks onto it. Investigate the FBI's abuses of power. That should be the most automatic

00:17:51.100 thing of all. And other similar sorts of things. So these are all very common sense.

00:17:57.780 They're not even, you know, if this is what counts as conservative now, well, then that also tells you

00:18:04.100 what you need to know. And this only happened because, again, the supposed far right, the radicals,

00:18:13.920 which some people object to that label. I don't. Like, I'm fine myself being labeled a radical. I

00:18:19.600 don't consider that to be an insult. So if that's what you want to call them, then fine.

00:18:24.780 Whatever you call them, they were able to get these concessions by using the leverage that they had.

00:18:28.920 And this is a success. And it does, it just, the people, the conservatives who were objecting to this

00:18:39.380 all week, it makes you wonder what they were really objecting to.

00:18:45.160 Like, this was the worst case scenario. Okay. There's, there's, you could just hand Kevin McCarthy

00:18:53.640 the speakership and, and get nothing out of him whatsoever. So you can do that. It's hard to see

00:18:59.440 that as a win. Or you could try to get something out of it. You can use the leverage that you have.

00:19:04.780 You have something right through these, these members of the house, they had something that

00:19:07.800 Kevin McCarthy needed, which was their vote so that he could become speaker of the house.

00:19:11.060 So they could just give it to him for nothing or try to get something in exchange for it.

00:19:19.840 Why would you give it to him for nothing?

00:19:23.820 And what's the downside? I never understood what was supposed to be the downside of trying to get

00:19:30.600 something out of this. Yeah. This establishment shell is going to probably end up being speaker of

00:19:35.200 the house regardless, because he has most of the votes. That's probably what's going to end up

00:19:39.220 happening. But if you have a little bit of leverage to get something out of it and it's not, it's not

00:19:44.060 like you're getting something personally for yourself. The American people are getting something out of

00:19:49.260 it. If you have that ability, what's the downside? What's the worst case scenario? You had conservatives,

00:19:56.000 some conservatives panicking all week. This is, this is an embarrassment. This is an embarrassment.

00:20:01.920 This is actually democracy. It's what the democratic process is supposed to be.

00:20:04.680 We, we want them to fight and argue amongst themselves. I wish they fought and argued more

00:20:09.260 than they did. You know, you read the stories of what the, of what Congress was like, like in the,

00:20:17.040 in the early 19th century. And you have members of Congress, like taking, you know, pokers out of 0.88

00:20:23.500 the fire and whack each other over the head with it. I wish that was still happening. Not only because

00:20:27.180 C-SPAN would be a lot more entertaining, but because that, that shows that they're actually

00:20:30.480 fighting, that's what they're supposed to do. This is, this is a, it's deliberation. And sometimes

00:20:36.580 deliberations can get, you know, a little bit heated. And if they turn violent, as far as I'm

00:20:43.460 concerned, no big deal. But then this was not even violence. Okay. This wasn't that they weren't,

00:20:50.080 they weren't, uh, this, this was not a Royal rumble. This was a, this was a debate. This was a,

00:20:55.840 you know, a, uh, process of compromise is what it was. So I never understood it. What,

00:21:04.500 what was the downside? Never understood the downside was supposed to be. Okay. Uh, this

00:21:08.840 is from the Daily Wire. Armed customer shoots Robert dead and returns stolen money in Houston

00:21:13.100 Taqueria. Taqueria. How do you pronounce that? A man shot and killed a robbery suspect. It's a taco

00:21:18.260 shop is what it is. Can we just call it that? It's a taco shop. A man shot and killed a robbery

00:21:22.460 suspect at a, at a, uh, taco shop in Houston on Thursday before returning the stolen money to

00:21:26.800 other patrons. According to authorities, the incident happened around 11 30 PM and was caught

00:21:30.520 on surveillance video, which has been viewed online millions of times. Witnesses told officers that a

00:21:34.560 masked African-American man wearing all black clothing, a black ski mask and black gloves walk

00:21:39.140 into the restaurant pointed what appeared to be a firearm at customers while demanding their money.

00:21:42.820 According to Houston police, while the person was walking around the restaurant, taking money from

00:21:46.240 patrons, one customer sitting in a booth with another person quickly stood up. As soon as the

00:21:50.540 suspect passed by, pulled out a gun as seen in the surveillance video, police said the armed

00:21:55.560 patron shot the suspect multiple times before collecting the stolen money, which he then

00:21:58.600 returned to the others. This individual and other patrons then left the scene, leaving the police

00:22:02.860 to ask the public for help and identifying the shooter as he is wanted for questioning. The Houston

00:22:07.180 police department shared surveillance images of who they believe was the armed customer described as

00:22:11.240 a white or Hispanic man, as well as his 1970 or 1980s model pickup truck with no bed.

00:22:16.140 No charges have been filed, police said in a Friday press release.

00:22:21.720 And Houston police Lieutenant R. Wilkins said the now dead suspect was brandishing a plastic pistol,

00:22:27.880 possibly an Aerosoft or possibly a little BB pistol. No one else in the restaurant was injured,

00:22:32.780 the news report noted. Investigators encouraged the shooter and victims to contact the Houston

00:22:37.440 police department division at, and then there's the phone number. I'm not actually going to give the

00:22:42.560 phone number away because I don't trust the police. I don't, I don't trust that they just, that they

00:22:47.820 just want to talk. He's not in trouble. We just want to talk. And I'm sure eventually they'll find him

00:22:53.860 and they'll have the conversation that they want to have. And I very much hope that he gets a lawyer

00:22:58.040 before that happens. Now, as, as the Daily Wire report notes, this, the video of this incident was

00:23:08.020 on surveillance video that was released. And the police originally, I think it was the police

00:23:12.220 originally who released a version of the surveillance video, but they cut it off right

00:23:16.880 before the shots were fired. And then there was the full unedited clip that made its way onto the

00:23:21.680 internet as it often does, which shows the entire incident. And we're not going to show that to you

00:23:27.060 here, but you can, if you really aren't interested, you can see it for yourself. If you do go

00:23:31.100 and watch the full video, what you'll see is that, uh, yeah, the guy's, he's, he's, he's holding up

00:23:38.480 the place. He has a gun, turns out to not be a real gun. Nobody knows that. Okay. He's, he's intentionally,

00:23:44.460 of course, trying to make everyone believe that it's a real gun. So this is all on him.

00:23:48.240 And, um, as he's kind of walking by this, uh, this good Samaritan, the good Samaritan pulls out a gun,

00:23:56.020 shoots him multiple times. And then the bad guy falls to the ground and the good Samaritan walks

00:24:04.140 over is still shooting him. And then appears, this is what it appears to, this is what appears to

00:24:08.920 happen. It appears that he picks up the bad guy's gun and then shoots him one more time while he's

00:24:15.420 on the ground. That's what appears now. It's pretty grainy, but that's kind of how it appears to

00:24:20.520 happen. So there are many, as this video has been passed around, there are plenty of people online

00:24:28.280 saying that this was not a good shoot. It's a bad shoot. And, uh, he should be charged with a crime

00:24:33.400 for this. And I will say that legally, okay, according to the letter of the law, I'm not a

00:24:38.400 lawyer, but, and all the laws and how they treat these things are different. This is Texas we're

00:24:42.340 talking about. So, but probably it would, it would stand to reason. I would be, um, I'm sympathetic

00:24:50.740 to the argument that legally, according to the letter of the law, he might've gone over the line,

00:24:57.540 not on the first few shots, but on the last one in particular, if it's, if it actually is true that

00:25:02.520 he picked up the guy's gun and then while he's lying there shot him another time, um, certainly

00:25:09.360 you would think at least that last shot may legally be over the line. And that might be a large part

00:25:17.580 of what the Houston police want to talk to him about. But with that said, that's letter of the

00:25:23.720 law. With that said, if I'm on the jury and I wish that I could be, I can't cause I don't live in

00:25:29.860 Texas, but, uh, if I'm on the jury, there is no way in hell I vote to convict this guy. There's no way

00:25:35.700 I find him guilty. This is not guilty all the way for me. Uh, not going to happen. And if it was 11

00:25:44.020 to one, it's going to be, it's going to be 12 angry men as well. That's, that's what we would see

00:25:47.720 playing out in real, in real life. No way I vote to send this guy to prison, even if it was over the

00:25:54.380 line legally still, I wouldn't because it's, it is my opinion that, um, first of all, when you decide

00:26:05.240 to grab a gun and commit a crime, a violent crime like this, you start shoving a gun in people's

00:26:09.620 face, trying to take their money from them. You have forfeited your rights far, as far as I'm

00:26:13.700 concerned, that that's, that's the approach that I would take on a jury. You have forfeited your

00:26:18.000 rights. Your rights are out the window. That's what you've decided to do. You have effectively

00:26:22.600 thrown your own life away. You have sent the message that you, that your life is, is, you know,

00:26:27.320 your life doesn't mean anything to you. That was your decision. And also, you know, what you, you are,

00:26:37.580 okay, you're the one with premeditation. So you decided you were going to do this. This guy who's

00:26:42.820 now, this scumbag is now dead. He decided he wanted to do this. He had premeditation. He was thinking

00:26:48.580 this through. He didn't think it through that much, apparently. Okay. He didn't, he didn't think

00:26:51.540 enough about it, but he was thinking about it. So he had, you know, he goes into this

00:26:56.320 somewhat prepared for what he's about to do because he's the one doing it. Everybody else

00:27:00.740 there, they're just trying to enjoy their dinner. They're, they're not expecting this.

00:27:04.900 You're putting them in this position out of nowhere in this life or death situation.

00:27:08.660 And it's not fair to expect them to respond to it exactly correctly. So you can, after the fact,

00:27:15.280 parse through it and sift through it and Monday morning quarterback and say, well, according to the law,

00:27:18.840 yeah, but nobody's sitting there with a, with a book of, with the law book in front of them,

00:27:23.080 you know, flipping through it. What am I allowed to do here? No, you're put in this position.

00:27:28.040 Adrenaline takes over. It's, it's fight or flight. Some people are, a lot of people are flight.

00:27:33.260 This guy's fight. And I think we need more people with the fight instinct and adrenaline takes over.

00:27:38.400 And this is what he does. And so if, if one or two of the shots is over the line, who cares?

00:27:42.840 You know whose fault that is? It's the guy who's laying dead in a bloody puddle on the,

00:27:46.860 on the ground. That's his fault. Maybe you should think about this. See, this is, this is,

00:27:52.220 we need violent criminals to think about this. We need them to be afraid. We need them to fear for

00:27:58.480 their lives before they carry out the crime so that maybe they won't carry it out to begin with.

00:28:06.820 So if other potential violent criminals are seeing that video and saying, wow,

00:28:10.260 man, you know, I walk in and just start robbing people. There might be somebody in there who's,

00:28:17.160 you know, got a gun and he's going to get hopped up on adrenaline and I might, I might throw my whole

00:28:21.840 life away. Like I could go into this taco shop and rob everybody and, and, you know, make off with

00:28:27.460 $43 and some change. I could do that. But then in pursuit of that end, I might end up dead on the

00:28:38.060 floor. I might die on the floor, on the dirty floor of this taco shop in Houston at 11 o'clock

00:28:45.080 at night. That might be the end of my story. We want them to think about that now more than ever,

00:28:51.100 because our cities have been overrun by violent criminals. They're, they've been given essentially

00:28:59.560 free reign to do whatever they want. People live in fear. The government has abandoned the citizens

00:29:05.760 to a large extent. And so really the only way of restoring order, any semblance of order and justice

00:29:13.060 is for citizens to start defending themselves and, and each other.

00:29:17.020 It's either that or just, or, or, or people line up to be victims.

00:29:26.040 And part of the way we've ended up in this situation is that the law extends enormous grace

00:29:31.420 to violent criminals and does everything in its power to let the violent criminal off the hook or

00:29:38.440 to be as lenient as possible. That's what the law does. The court systems do. Okay. They, they do

00:29:42.960 everything in their power to be as lenient as possible to these kinds of violent criminal scumbags.

00:29:47.020 Like the guy that's robbing the taco shop. Well, I think that's what we need to do for the

00:29:51.720 citizens who fight back. Be as lenient as possible. Extend every available grace. 0.72

00:30:00.720 Even to the point of absurdity, because that's what we do in the, in favor of the, of the violent

00:30:04.420 criminals. And that's how our cities have turned all of them into, you know, like Mad Max.

00:30:09.760 No, I would do that. I would do that for the citizens who fight back. I would say, Hey, you

00:30:14.820 know, hopped up on adrenaline. That last shot, the video's kind of grainy. Can't really see what's

00:30:20.960 happening. Who knows? Hey, you know, maybe he picked up the guy's gun. Maybe he thought that

00:30:24.860 the guy had another gun. Maybe he twitched. Maybe the guy's laying there on the ground. He twitched his

00:30:28.180 arm. It looked like he was reaching for another gun. So he had to do what he had to do.

00:30:30.420 Now, do I buy that excuse necessarily? Probably not, but that's the, that is the level of benefit

00:30:38.540 of doubt that I would give in a situation like this and let all the violent criminals know this

00:30:44.420 is the benefit of that we get of all you walk in there, you instigate something like this.

00:30:49.540 All of the benefit of the doubt goes to the citizens who might kill you in response. They

00:30:55.040 get the benefit of that. You get none. We're going to throw the book at you, but for anyone

00:31:00.360 who might shoot you while you're carrying out this crime, we're going to flip through that book

00:31:06.700 looking for any loophole we can find to let them off the hook. All right. This is from the Daily

00:31:13.040 Wire. Players from Raiders and Chiefs pray at midfield following the game in which teams honored

00:31:18.460 DeMar Hamlin. Several players from Las Vegas Raiders and the Kansas City Chiefs prayed on the

00:31:22.580 field Saturday evening at the conclusion of the matchup between the two teams following Buffalo

00:31:26.140 Bills safety DeMar Hamlin's medical emergency during a game earlier this week. Fox reported that

00:31:30.200 players from both teams wore athletic gear that featured statements like love for DeMar and

00:31:34.020 Hamlin strong as a way of showing support prior to kickoff. The report said that the first digit of

00:31:39.340 the 30 yard lines at the Allegiant Stadium were painted blue because that was the Buffalo Bills color.

00:31:46.060 And there were other examples too of the teams praying and that sort of thing. And I bring this

00:31:51.300 up because this is one thing that people have remarked on. And yeah, I noticed it too after the

00:31:57.920 DeMar Hamlin incident last Sunday night that, you know, the, the, the open religiosity that's on

00:32:05.340 display. Uh, very, very often in our culture, there's a mass shooting, a tragedy. And if you so much as

00:32:13.600 talk about prayer, you get attacked. Well, your thoughts and prayers don't do anything. In this case,

00:32:20.400 that wasn't happening. Now it's kind of sad that in our culture, it's okay to talk about prayer and

00:32:27.220 thoughts and prayers when a football player gets injured, but not when like 15 people are dead in

00:32:31.660 mass shooting. But prayer should be applied in all cases is what I'm trying to say. But the, the,

00:32:38.640 the religiosity, the, the, the faith put on display, um, football players on the field praying,

00:32:45.480 talking about their faith. This is maybe came as a surprise to people who are not football fans and

00:32:51.020 have, and, you know, are, are now following this one football related story because of, you know,

00:32:56.180 obviously broke through beyond just football fans. But to those of us who are football fans,

00:33:01.120 this is not a surprise at all because we're fully aware that football players have always been

00:33:07.300 quite religious. In fact, before, you know, you go before the Colin Kaepernick thing,

00:33:14.080 when the NFL earned for itself, you know, from, because of the actions of the actions mainly of

00:33:20.500 corporate office, but also some players on the field, it earned for itself this reputation as

00:33:24.220 being woke. Before that, you may recall people, the complaints would be kind of the opposite.

00:33:30.400 People would often complain when you had football players at press conferences, post-game press

00:33:34.780 conferences, thanking God and saying that, you know, God was on their side and all that kind of

00:33:39.880 thing. You'd have people complaining and say, oh, God doesn't care about your, the outcome of your

00:33:43.460 football game. That used to be the complaint, but I never did complain about that because I think

00:33:50.680 it's a, it's a wonderful thing. It's one of the things that I, that I like about football is that

00:33:57.280 it has, in fact, this has come out. We talked about it last week. This is, you know, this, this has come

00:34:02.700 out in the complaints that the left and the media has about football. We, we, we read through that

00:34:06.540 one. I think it was a Washington Post or New York Times article. They're both the same, but complaining

00:34:10.180 that football is religious, it's patriotic, it's macho. And yeah, it is all those things. It's

00:34:15.980 always been those things. Now you have the NFL, you have the corporate NFL is trying to change some

00:34:22.920 of those things, but football as a sport remains, um, you know, among other things that, you know,

00:34:29.700 it, it, it, it has a, it has a very oftentimes because of the, the players, they tend to be

00:34:35.040 religious as a kind of religious flavor to it. Um, all right. Meanwhile, over on another

00:34:42.940 Damar Hamlin thing over on Fox sports, Michael Strahan is still traumatized by the totally benign

00:34:49.340 Skip Bayless tweet we talked about last week, but he's still upset about it. Let's play this.

00:34:52.500 And, and you spoke about humanity and I think, but there were things done here by someone here

00:34:59.980 at this network that were inhumane. And, and we sit here and we talk about how good, and

00:35:04.400 I'm sorry to take it this way, but this, this, this route, but I just, I just felt like sensible

00:35:10.760 people and sensible human beings have a heart and they understand that, that your words and

00:35:16.100 what you say really have an impact not only on that young man's family. And, and, and so all

00:35:21.680 the attention should be on this young man, his recovery for sensible people like us here

00:35:26.880 to say that it didn't affect anybody at this network, nobody at this network minded. That's

00:35:31.000 a lie. Obviously didn't talk to us because it matters to us and it matters to any sensible

00:35:36.540 human being that this young man's life was bigger than any football game. This young man

00:35:40.820 will hopefully be back and forget about football, but just have a life and his family has him.

00:35:46.380 That's the most important thing. And, and I think that was kind of lost a little bit in all of this.

00:35:51.680 Good Lord. Well, for many religious, many football players are religious as we talked

00:35:56.000 about, but then there are others, especially in the, on the sports media side of it, who

00:35:59.700 for them, their religion is a, it's a religion of, of virtue signaling. And that's what you

00:36:04.400 saw there inhumane. I mean, he's talking again about a tweet tweeted by a sports analyst

00:36:10.980 wondering about this scheduling, you know, how the NFL is going to reschedule the game.

00:36:15.080 That's inhumane, inhumane to talk about that. And then the funny thing is that everyone

00:36:19.800 insisted because it was a question after they decided to cancel the game, which nobody objected

00:36:26.500 to that. It made sense to do. But there was a question of like, well, what are you going

00:36:31.320 to do now? How are you going to, how are we going to handle this? Because it's towards

00:36:34.220 the end of the season, playoff implications, like the NFL is a multi-billion dollar business.

00:36:39.700 Like these are things you have to think about. It's not, it's, it's, it's gotta be a conversation

00:36:42.720 at some point, but everyone insisted that we can't talk about it, but do not talk about

00:36:46.300 it. For some reason, we weren't allowed to even talk about it. And then the NFL comes

00:36:49.820 up with their solution to this because they canceled the game. They came up with a solution

00:36:54.280 and they came up with the dumbest solution. This convoluted, like involving coin flips

00:37:00.120 and everything else. And then people are complaining about the solution they came up with. Well, we

00:37:04.400 weren't allowed to talk about the, what the solution would be because of, you know, the virtue

00:37:08.340 signaling happening from the sports commentators. All right. One other thing, this is from Daily

00:37:12.560 Wire. Flying car prototypes are starting to take off. Science fiction is one

00:37:16.260 step closer to reality as several companies debut working prototypes for flying cars.

00:37:21.000 The American startup Aska showed off its A5 model at the 2023 Consumer Electronics Show. The A5 is

00:37:27.180 an electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicle, roughly the size of a standard SUV that is

00:37:31.800 reportedly capable of driving at 70 miles per hour on the road and flying at speeds of up to 150

00:37:35.900 miles per hour. All I want to say about this is that the flying car thing, you know, it's, it's the

00:37:40.960 kind of thing that you think sounds really great and cool when you're a kid before you're able to

00:37:46.920 drive yourself. And then you get a license and you get out on the roads and you realize what a terrible

00:37:51.000 idea this would actually be. Because the vast majority of people can't drive on the ground,

00:37:56.480 let alone driving in the sky. It's amazing that most Americans drive every day for decades and yet

00:38:01.860 never figure out how to do it. I mean, the roads are, are infested with people behind their driving

00:38:07.820 these big chunks of metal, 70 miles per hour, and they're just sitting behind the wheel. They have

00:38:12.340 no idea what they're doing or anything. How can you do something every day and yet not know how to do

00:38:17.460 it? But this is the case. Just yesterday, I was, you know, one example of somebody sitting, sitting

00:38:23.300 at a typical experience, sitting at a stoplight. I'm in the right-hand lane. It's a turn lane,

00:38:28.660 turn only lane. There's one car in front of me. And as always, that car is just sitting there at the

00:38:35.220 red light. He's got all, there are no cars coming the other direction. He's sitting there at the red

00:38:40.280 light, pondering the mysteries of the universe, rather than turning, which you can do, you can turn

00:38:45.660 on red. I mean, are there any states left in the United States of America where you can't turn right

00:38:51.680 on red? Does that exist anywhere? How is it that people still aren't acquainted with this rule?

00:38:58.740 I'm pretty sure every state in the union, if you can turn right on red, unless there's a sign

00:39:04.100 saying otherwise. So this guy isn't turning. I'm beeping at him. He still isn't going. Finally,

00:39:08.780 we get a green. He turns. Then as I'm going up to take my turn to turn, my turn to turn,

00:39:13.340 it's a green now, a car that is not in the turn lane turns right, right in front of me.

00:39:19.020 So cars that are supposed to turn right aren't. Cars that aren't supposed to turn right are.

00:39:25.180 And why did the guy do that? Well, because he was not in the turn only lane. He landed,

00:39:28.160 he realized at the last minute he wasn't in the lane. Well, okay, read the signs and you

00:39:32.040 wouldn't have this problem. Or if you missed it, just go to the next intersection, turn right there,

00:39:36.780 hook up with the path you wanted to take. It's an extra 45 seconds. So you can take the extra 45

00:39:40.760 seconds or risk a car accident. This is a calculation people make. It's like when they're

00:39:47.320 about to miss the exit. So they veer across four lanes of traffic. You could die. Like you might die

00:39:53.360 doing that or just take an extra 45 seconds. Take the exit. That's one, you know, take one exit up

00:39:58.960 and flip around a couple extra minutes. You have people in cars saying, I would rather be dead and

00:40:05.400 possibly kill like 15 other people instead of taking a couple, a couple extra minutes because

00:40:10.160 I missed my exit. Anyway, my point simply is we do not need to give these people planes.

00:40:17.780 That's all I'm trying to say. Let's get to the comment section.

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00:41:39.180 Football Rob says, Matt is the only married man I've ever seen who advocates for marriage.

00:41:45.740 Well, then Rob, you hang around some really low quality men. I don't know what to tell you.

00:41:51.660 And I saw a lot of comments like this as we've been talking about this

00:41:54.240 topic over the last couple of days. And I've seen a lot of comments that are saying,

00:42:00.320 oh, every man I know hates marriage, has a terrible marriage, complains about his marriage.

00:42:03.980 Every man I know. Really? Every man you know? For me, it's almost exactly the opposite.

00:42:11.020 Everyone in my immediate family, parents, all my siblings, except the one who became a nun, 0.88

00:42:15.740 the other four, all of them are in successful and happy marriages. The vast majority of the

00:42:23.080 married people that I know and who are around me are married happily. I didn't say perfectly,

00:42:29.040 but like they're in functional marriages. Here at the Daily Wire, if you watch backstage on a typical

00:42:35.560 show, me, Ben, Michael, Andrew Klavan, Jeremy, all married, all advocates for marriage.

00:42:45.600 Most of us have been married for a decade or more around there. Drew for a lot longer than that. So my

00:42:51.200 point is simply that if you're surrounded by miserable people who hate their lives and their

00:42:56.720 wives and their marriages, if that's everyone you know, then that's a reflection of the people

00:43:02.800 you choose to hang around. And that's actually a big part of the problem, I think. Just choosing to

00:43:08.720 hang around people who are a drag. They're just a drag on you. They're dysfunctional. They live 1.00

00:43:14.440 dysfunctional lives. They love to tell you about it. So we talked about in the opening, you know,

00:43:19.840 complaining about if you've got people around you complaining about their friends, complaining

00:43:23.940 about their marriages, complaining about their wives. My wife and I have disagreements. We've,

00:43:31.380 you know, like in any marriage, you know, there's going to be disagreements. I'm never going to tell

00:43:35.460 any, I don't complain about her to anybody. I know there's this like sitcom stereotype of men 0.82

00:43:42.700 like always doing that. It's the everybody loves Raymond. Men are just going around complaining about

00:43:47.100 the old ball and chain. I don't do that. And I actually don't know that many people who do that

00:43:50.600 because that's not anyone else's business. I don't need to talk to you. I don't need to,

00:43:53.680 it's like in general, I don't need to complain to you about my personal life, about people that I

00:43:57.840 know. Like if I have an issue with my wife, I'll talk to her. I'm not going to talk to you. I don't

00:44:02.720 need, I don't need to vent to you. I don't need to cry on your shoulder. Same for anyone else who's

00:44:08.100 close to me. If I have an issue with them, I talk to them. I don't talk to you. I don't talk to

00:44:11.760 anybody else. That's an in-house issue. It's not for anybody else's ears. So if you have men in your

00:44:18.000 life, if, if not just men in your life, if every man in your life doesn't even respect that basic

00:44:22.920 thing, you know, the sanctity of, of, of, of in the privacy of the family, then you need to find

00:44:28.260 some better quality people. AS says, don't worry, Matt, we're raising our nine boys to act like men

00:44:36.060 and to not apologize for being one. Strong, responsible, and moral men are needed to lead

00:44:40.080 society. For those who've asked, we also have four girls. Wow. That's incredible. You've got me,

00:44:46.660 you know, sometimes I like to think, ah, we've got a big family, six kids on the way. That's

00:44:51.640 impressive. And then I hear from people like you with 13 kids. And I realized that we're just,

00:44:56.120 these are, these are rookie numbers we're putting up. So congratulations to you for that.

00:45:02.720 Mandy Johnson says, it's really tough because all that Matt says about relationships and marriage

00:45:06.960 is true. I got married about 10 years ago. And while he's a strong conservative, he does have

00:45:10.200 other personal demons. It's been a lot more turmoil than happiness overall. I've learned a lot about

00:45:14.840 myself though. And I'm still grateful I got married because I've learned a lot of selflessness,

00:45:18.400 godliness, and patience that I never would have learned being single. Marriage is a huge risk,

00:45:22.720 especially nowadays, spiritually, financially, et cetera. And look, not to, not to discount whatever

00:45:28.140 demons you're referring to. And some personal demons are more serious than others. That's for

00:45:34.240 certain, but everybody does have them. And that's why it's our job in a marriage to

00:45:39.480 lift each other up, you know, and do it in a, in a loving way. Not a, you know, this is, this is one

00:45:46.400 of the keys for, for, and I'm not saying that you're not doing this, I don't know you, but this is one

00:45:51.380 of the most important things for women. If you're, if you're, if there's something, you know, if your 1.00

00:45:55.840 husband has a flaw, which every husband does, just like every wife has a flaw, it's okay to work with him 0.94

00:46:02.680 on that, but you got to do it with respect. And it's, I think this is, this is, this is one thing

00:46:07.540 that, that many women tend to miss because when you, when you lose that respect and it turns into 1.00

00:46:12.920 nagging, that's when it all gets tuned out. And then that makes you frustrated because then you

00:46:18.100 say, well, I'm nagging him about this all the time and he's not changing. Yeah. It's because it's

00:46:21.980 the nagging part. We just don't listen to that. It doesn't matter what it is. You could be so

00:46:27.080 incredibly right about whatever it is you're saying. If that's the tone and approach, we just don't

00:46:31.580 listen. And we don't need to talk about whether that's a fair response or not. It just is the

00:46:36.220 response and it always will be the response. And so you got to change and you, you have to change

00:46:41.660 the way you approach it. Let's see. Finally, Grumpy Head says, I don't know what is wrong with

00:46:48.480 me, but when I heard Matt saying he would find his wife and marry her a hundred times across all

00:46:51.740 universes, I couldn't hold my tears. Damn, those words are shockingly melting me. I came from a broken

00:46:56.780 family. My parents are separated shortly after I was born and now my thirties and married, but trust

00:47:01.140 issues is still an effing curse to me. I had a degree in psychology. I'm applying everything I

00:47:05.440 know, trying to fix myself and trying to do any harm, not do any harm to my current relationship

00:47:09.740 like I did before when I was dumb, young, selfish. B word, I always need to be alarmed and have my

00:47:15.220 self-awareness fully on when I'm feeling anxious. I'm really trying to be a good wife and I love my

00:47:19.740 husband so much. I don't hate my parents at all. I'm happy for them because they did the right thing

00:47:22.940 for themselves. They only find peace with each other indeed. However, the damage from my original

00:47:27.220 family can never fade away in my life. Well, here's the good news is that you, you have self-awareness.

00:47:33.160 So you're aware, you know, if you love your husband, you're struggling, but you love your

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00:48:44.420 cancellation. During one of these daily cancellation segments last week, we discussed

00:48:52.080 the violent nature of football and other contact sports, a violent nature which had come under

00:48:56.660 intense scrutiny by the media after, as we talked about, Bill's defender, Damar Hamlin, nearly died

00:49:00.800 on the field during a Sunday night football matchup with the Cincinnati Bengals. Of course, as far as we

00:49:04.980 know, the Hamlin incident may not have had anything to do with football violence. Still to this point,

00:49:09.580 all we know is that he had a cardiac emergency in the middle of the game. We have not been given any

00:49:13.360 direct evidence that it was actually caused by a collision on the field, though it certainly could

00:49:17.360 have been. Either way, whatever the exact cause, it remains an extremely rare occurrence that anyone

00:49:21.680 has to be, you know, anyone has to be taken off the field by an ambulance and brought immediately to

00:49:26.120 the hospital. That's rare. It doesn't happen very often. This inspired the fact that football is indeed a

00:49:31.300 violent sport, and as I argued during that segment, it should remain a violent sport. Now, it's good to have

00:49:36.740 these kinds of physical, even brutal, full-contact sports if for no other reason than the fact that

00:49:40.800 they serve as relatively healthy, relatively safe, relatively productive outlets for male aggression.

00:49:46.560 One of the great services that sports like football provide for society is that they give young,

00:49:50.760 aggressive men and boys a way to harness and channel all of that energy. This is one of the

00:49:57.280 central reasons why sports exist to begin with. The violence is not the whole point, but it is part of

00:50:02.980 the point, and it's an important part. Take it away, and these young men will find other outlets

00:50:07.560 for their aggression. Outlets which, you will discover, are not nearly so safe or controlled

00:50:12.480 as football. That was my basic point. And it was a point that proved to be very upsetting to people

00:50:17.640 on the internet, especially after our marketing team at Media Matters posted another of their carefully

00:50:22.320 cropped clips of my monologue to Twitter. The full monologue, which fleshes out my point in rather

00:50:27.200 precise detail, went on for, I think, 12 or 13 minutes. But Jason Campbell at Media Matters posted the

00:50:32.960 75 seconds, which he felt was the most likely to make the Pitchfork mob upset, especially when

00:50:38.860 isolated from the full context. And it seems that he made the right choice because his clip garnered

00:50:43.700 nearly 10 million views on Twitter and provoked lots of angry reactions. Before we continue, I think

00:50:49.580 it would be fair for me to go back and we'll show the part of that monologue that he posted,

00:50:55.540 and then we'll talk about it. Here he is. Let's consider football itself as a sport.

00:51:00.080 Despite any rule changes or updates to the equipment, it is still a fundamentally violent

00:51:06.980 sport. That's true. And that's what it always will be. Is that a bad thing? No, it's not. In fact,

00:51:16.420 it is a good and healthy thing. It is good that football is violent. It should stay violent. It is

00:51:22.920 good to have violent sports. Okay? We should have violent sports. If anything, we should have more 1.00

00:51:29.900 of them. Because a violent sport like football is, among other things, a relatively safe, relatively

00:51:36.540 safe, and relatively productive outlet for male energy and aggression. Okay? There's a reason why

00:51:45.220 many of the media articles being written and freaking out about football are being written by women. 0.88

00:51:48.960 Because football is not, no matter what the NFL is trying to do, football is not for women. 1.00

00:51:54.000 There might be some women who get into it, but it's not really for women. It's not for you. 0.99

00:51:57.560 You don't understand it. You're not meant to understand it. This is actually a man's thing.

00:52:04.140 This is why violent games have existed in every society going back to primitive times. They are

00:52:08.640 a means of channeling and harnessing male aggression. Okay, so I did say that football is a man's sport,

00:52:16.560 which, you know, why did I say that? How could I possibly justify such a statement? Well, because

00:52:22.440 football was invented by men and has been played almost exclusively by men, and the vast majority

00:52:27.060 of its fans are men and have always been men and will always be men. That's why I said that. Does

00:52:32.400 that mean that no woman has ever watched football or been a fan or been involved professionally at some

00:52:37.200 level? No. It just means that football was made by men and mostly for men. This is a statistical

00:52:43.820 and historical reality. It isn't really up for debate. Okay? If it interferes with your girl

00:52:48.740 power fantasies, that's your problem, not mine. I don't really care. And apparently it did interfere

00:52:53.920 with lots of people's fantasies, which is why there were many tweets explaining why my statements were

00:52:58.360 terrible and wrong and hurtful and sexist and so on. This continued until the scholars over at the

00:53:04.340 Young Turks got wind of the controversy and decided to devote a lengthy segment responding to and supposedly

00:53:10.320 debunking my claims. The title of this segment on YouTube declares that, quote,

00:53:15.440 TYT demolishes right-wing alpha male Matt Walsh for his most recent sexist rant.

00:53:21.560 Now, this is nothing new. I've been demolished by many a left-wing YouTuber over the years,

00:53:25.480 demolished at least according to the titles they put on their videos. But as we've seen many times in

00:53:29.660 the past, these demolitions usually end up being rather anticlimactic, if I must say. Rarely do they

00:53:36.260 live up to their own hype. Perhaps though, this Young Turks video will be different. Perhaps my

00:53:40.960 demolition will finally come to fruition. Let's watch and find out. That is the infamous fascist

00:53:48.980 misogynist and other bad-ist Matt Walsh, insisting that football is only for men. And we are about to

00:53:58.180 prove him completely wrong. Who could have seen that take coming? Cenk did, called it perfectly

00:54:06.840 just yesterday, right here on TYT. Check out this clip.

00:54:11.680 So now it looks like the right wing is trying to frame it like, I remember when people were real men

00:54:17.160 and they just didn't mind people getting killed on the field. Now the limbs want to make this soft

00:54:22.700 so there isn't as many deaths on the field. Thank God you're wearing a slightly different

00:54:31.400 colored shirt. Otherwise, people could have thought you did that live, but.

00:54:35.080 Yeah, no, I knew they were gonna eventually celebrate the guy, the fact that the guy almost

00:54:40.740 died, right? And like, it's supposed to be a violent sport, man, yeah. And chicks wouldn't understand 1.00

00:54:45.820 nothing about it, huh? My favorite thing about this dude is that his dumb guy voice is indistinguishable

00:54:52.040 from his regular voice. He's doing an impression of an idiot and yet sounds just like himself.

00:54:57.140 And speaking of sounding like an idiot, he misses the point entirely, of course. If there is a right

00:55:01.340 wing take on the Damar Hamlin injury, it's that it's not an injury. Cenk, is that how you pronounce?

00:55:07.160 I honestly don't know how to pronounce his name, is trying to straw man us, but he's hilariously using

00:55:11.920 the wrong straw man. If there was a conservative position on this topic, which there isn't, okay,

00:55:16.960 because it's not a political issue. But if there was, it would be that Hamlin collapsed for reasons

00:55:20.700 wholly unrelated to football. The predominant view among conservative pundits on the internet from

00:55:24.240 what I've seen is that I'm much more plugged into that world than he is, is that this may have had

00:55:29.120 something to do with the vaccine. Whether that's wrong or right, like that's when it comes to the

00:55:33.140 Damar Hamlin thing, that's the thing that most conservatives were talking about. Very few are

00:55:38.040 using this as an occasion to defend violent sports. I am, but I'm not the official spokesman for

00:55:43.440 conservative pundits. And none of us are, as he says, celebrating the fact that the guy almost died.

00:55:48.300 That's not happening anywhere. So we were promised a demolition. And instead, so far,

00:55:53.280 we've gotten a series of completely arbitrary and irrelevant straw men that bear not even a

00:55:57.600 passing resemblance to any argument that anyone has ever actually made. Not a great start, but let's

00:56:03.380 continue. This video had two parts, right? So there were really three parts. One is not so bad. He's

00:56:11.060 saying, look, it's a societally acceptable way of releasing some of the violent urges that people

00:56:19.300 of society and men in particular have. That's not that wrong, right? But when they celebrate,

00:56:24.780 the second part is celebrating like, violence is a good thing. Yeah, it's great.

00:56:29.780 No, but wait, it doesn't have to be this violent. We talked about it a little bit yesterday. I'll just

00:56:33.760 tell you real quick. Between 1900 and 1905, 45 different people died on the football fields

00:56:39.620 because it used to be even more violent. They would literally kill each other on the field.

00:56:44.620 And guess what happened? The government stepped in. It was Teddy Roosevelt when he was president and said,

00:56:49.940 I'm not gonna let you kill each other on the field like this. This is insane.

00:56:53.260 You have to make it less violent. And you know what happened after that? It became way more popular

00:56:59.500 popular because people didn't wanna go see a sport and have people murder each other on the field.

00:57:04.140 And so it doesn't mean it's gonna be less popular. It doesn't mean it's gonna be

00:57:07.940 less of a sport or anything along those lines if you don't celebrate people like Damar Hamlin

00:57:15.280 almost dying on the field. Okay, I get it. So this is, I see what's happening here. This is the exact

00:57:22.200 opposite of a demolition. Actually, he agrees with my argument, but is trying to find a way to disagree

00:57:27.140 with it? He concedes my point about football being a healthy outlet for male aggression.

00:57:31.600 That was essentially my entire point. So if he will admit that I'm right, or in his words,

00:57:36.280 not that wrong, then there's not much else to talk about. But he keeps talking anyway,

00:57:40.200 even after having long since run out of anything relevant to say, as is his custom. He observes that

00:57:45.580 football used to be a lot more violent than it is today. If that sounds familiar, it's probably

00:57:51.180 because I made the exact same point in the very monologue he's attempting to rebut.

00:57:58.000 That's what I said. It's the left-wing media that tried to turn Damar Hamlin into a conversation

00:58:03.560 about football's increasing violence. Remember a White House reporter asked the president about,

00:58:09.060 you know, is football becoming too dangerous? As I said in that segment, football is actually becoming

00:58:15.200 much less dangerous. If there was a time to have a national dialogue about the violence in football,

00:58:20.860 it was 50 years ago or 100 years ago. Today, it's about as non-violent as it can possibly be

00:58:27.000 while still remaining something resembling the sport as it was originally designed. The Hamlin

00:58:31.340 injury, if it was a football injury, was the result of a routine football play that was by no

00:58:35.720 means especially violent or brutal. There would be no way to take that play out of the game without

00:58:40.460 turning it into two-hand touch or flag football, which is why, once again, it makes no sense to use

00:58:45.000 Damar Hamlin as a jumping-off point for a discussion about the violence of the sport. It has nothing to do

00:58:49.340 with the violence of the sport. It was a basic, normal tackle. That's all it was. It was a not

00:58:56.880 especially violent play in a sport that has become less and less violent with each passing year.

00:59:01.680 That was my point, a point that Cenk restates while pretending to rebut.

00:59:07.320 But now it's time for the woman on the panel to chime in, and she's the one. Okay, this is where

00:59:12.120 they're setting her up, okay? They're teeing her off. But this is where the real demolition

00:59:17.560 is gonna happen. She is gonna set me straight. Let's listen. Okay, so the crux of his argument is

00:59:24.380 women shouldn't have a say because men are the ones that have violent urges, and you chicks don't get 1.00

00:59:30.800 it. You chicks don't get the violent urges that we have that we need to get out, which I almost can 1.00

00:59:37.080 see. I'm a cis woman and I am raising, apparently so far as I know, a cis baby. I've been raising a

00:59:45.000 cis son for two years. And there are, yeah, I totally get that there are male things that

00:59:51.480 are ingrained in him. I would actually almost accept that argument from this tool shed if I knew that he

01:00:01.300 had no opinions on abortion, female reproductive rights, the price of tampons, maternity leave.

01:00:12.520 If he shut his stupid bearded pie hole about any of those things that he literally as a man does not 0.90

01:00:20.320 understand about being a woman, then I might accept his argument. But I know this bearded douche nozzle

01:00:30.320 has so much to say about women that he knows nothing about. So for him to turn around and be

01:00:36.420 like, women, I don't even want to hear from you because you guys just don't. Shut up. Shut your 1.00

01:00:40.960 stupid, dumb pie hole, you dime store Justin Theroux.

01:00:49.140 Lady, listen, if you want to be included in the football conversation, you're not helping your case

01:00:53.360 here. You're so emotional, you can barely see straight. Calm down, cupcake. Take a breath.

01:00:58.280 You're being hysterical. Can you imagine trying to watch a game and this woman comes running in? 1.00

01:01:04.500 You're trying to watch the game. Let me tell you about my cis baby. My God, shut up. Now, as to 1.00

01:01:10.940 your points, if anything in that rambling, stuttering pile of words can be described as a point, I would

01:01:15.900 say this. First of all, I do not now have, nor have I ever had, an opinion about the price of tampons.

01:01:23.000 I don't even know how much they cost. I couldn't tell you. Is it, is it $3 a tampon? I don't know.

01:01:29.760 30 cents. I do have an opinion about abortion and other reproductive, quote unquote, reproductive

01:01:35.460 issues, because as a man, I am 50% involved in reproduction. It is as much my issue as it is yours.

01:01:43.320 I was also once an unborn baby. So if you want reproduction to be a woman's issue, you need to 1.00

01:01:49.980 figure out a way to reproduce entirely without the involvement of a male member of the species.

01:01:54.840 Until you do that, this is our issue as much as it is yours. So you got to deal with that.

01:02:02.000 Actually, let me clarify that. You have to figure out a way to reproduce without a male member of the 1.00

01:02:05.840 species, and also to reproduce yourself. Because if you're reproducing and making another person,

01:02:12.320 then already it's not just your issue, because there's another person involved.

01:02:16.900 So no matter what, in reproduction, there are other people involved. It's not just you.

01:02:22.360 Second, to clarify, I don't disregard your opinion about football. I don't. I disregard your opinion

01:02:29.420 about everything, including football. Not because you're a woman, but because you use the phrase 0.93

01:02:35.560 cis baby. That automatically, I want you to understand this, that automatically invalidates

01:02:41.220 everything you will ever say about anything ever. Not that on this topic, you actually have much to

01:02:48.300 say in the first place. You've yet to approach anything that might be called an argument, but still.

01:02:54.260 Everything is out the window now, because you talked about your cis baby. 1.00

01:02:58.100 But anyway, we'll listen for another minute to give you one last chance to put together some

01:03:03.520 kind of argument. Let's go. He's just saying women, what, are not intelligent enough to understand

01:03:11.120 football? What do you mean they can't understand it? It's not that complicated.

01:03:15.920 There's literally posted rules. You can Google the rules of football, and anyone with a basic level

01:03:22.960 of intelligence cannot, there's literally a list of rules, and go, okay, I understand.

01:03:27.300 You read the rules, you watch one game, and go, I get it. I get it. It's not magic. It's not magic.

01:03:34.060 It's not like, are men not allowed to watch gymnastics, or baking? This is the most sexist,

01:03:44.600 going-both-ways sexist argument from the dumbest douche nozzle.

01:03:50.740 Okay, this is what tells me that not only are you unable to understand football, but apparently

01:03:55.780 you also don't understand English. I didn't say that women can't comprehend the rules of football. 1.00

01:04:01.240 I mean, you probably can't, which is why you're sitting there Googling it. What I said quite clearly

01:04:06.560 from the context is that women generally don't understand, don't relate to, the desire to watch, 1.00

01:04:12.520 much less participate in violence as entertainment. Males understand violence as entertainment in a

01:04:19.980 way that women don't, just like my wife understands the appeal of Gilmore Girl reruns in a way that I 0.97

01:04:24.720 don't. The urge to seek outlets for that sort of physical aggression is something that males experience

01:04:30.640 and relate to much more than females. There are exceptions, but the exceptions are exceptions.

01:04:36.660 That's why we call them exceptions. Is that clear enough for you, or are you still confused?

01:04:42.280 Do I need to speak slower? In conclusion, the Young Turk squad here has spent 10 minutes trying to

01:04:48.140 find a reason to disagree with my point, but sadly, they never found one. All we've really learned

01:04:53.780 here is that they have trouble comprehending simple English sentences, and we've also learned that the

01:04:57.960 woman at the table has a baby who we should all be praying for. And we've learned that all three of

01:05:03.560 them at the table are today canceled. That'll do it for this portion of the show. As we move over to the

01:05:07.920 Members Block, you can become a member and watch the Members Block by using code Walsh at checkout for

01:05:12.620 two months free on all annual plans. Hope to see you over there. If not, talk to you tomorrow. Godspeed.

01:05:17.620 Good, Godspeed.

01:05:22.320 Thank you.

01:05:23.440 Good night.

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The Matt Walsh Show - January 09, 2023

Ep. 1092 - How Prince Harry Became A Broken Shell Of A Man

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