The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1140 - This Is What Happens When A Nation Abandons Its Fundamental Values

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wells Show, a new survey reveals that all of the fundamental values

00:00:03.880 that once defined our civilization and every other civilization are dying away in this

00:00:07.940 country, but this is not an accident.

00:00:09.500 There's been the left's agenda all along.

00:00:11.500 We'll talk about that.

00:00:12.140 Also, trans insurrectionists stormed the Kentucky state capitol, waging an assault on our democracy 0.99

00:00:16.940 and our very way of life.

00:00:18.940 A Democrat lawmaker screams hysterically at a Republican over gun control.

00:00:21.860 Somehow the Democrat thinks he comes off the best in the exchange.

00:00:24.760 The NHL may be pulling back from its gay pride agenda after a small handful of players

00:00:29.260 refuse to go along with it.

00:00:30.760 An important lesson there for all of us.

00:00:32.740 And speaking of important lessons, in our daily cancellation, I'll finally deliver the definitive

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00:01:45.640 I had originally planned to begin this week with a topic that had to be pushed off after

00:01:50.640 the trans terrorist shooting at the Christian school here in Nashville.

00:01:53.580 But now, in light of the events of this week, it takes on, I think, an even more urgency.

00:01:59.320 So on Monday morning, the Wall Street Journal published poll results, which throw into stark

00:02:04.680 relief a certain cultural reality that has been clear to some of us for a long time, but

00:02:09.000 not nearly clear enough to most of us.

00:02:11.180 The publication reports, quote, patriotism, religious faith, having children, and other

00:02:16.200 priorities that help define the national character for generations are receding in importance to

00:02:21.340 Americans, a new Wall Street Journal, NORC poll finds.

00:02:24.900 The survey conducted with NORC at the University of Chicago, a nonpartisan research organization,

00:02:30.220 also finds the country sharply divided by political party over social trends, such as the push for

00:02:35.220 racial diversity in businesses and the use of gender-neutral pronouns.

00:02:38.780 Some 38% of respondents said patriotism was very important to them, and 39% said religion was

00:02:44.820 very important.

00:02:45.500 That was down sharply from when the journal asked the question for the first time in 1998, when

00:02:50.840 70% deemed patriotism to be very important, and 62% said so of religion.

00:02:56.460 The share of Americans who say that having children, involvement in their community, and

00:03:00.080 hard work are very important has also fallen.

00:03:03.420 Tolerance for others, deemed very important by 80% of Americans as recently as four years ago,

00:03:07.560 has fallen to 58% since then.

00:03:10.020 The only priority the journal tested that has grown in importance in the past quarter

00:03:14.180 century is money, which was cited as very important by 43% in the new survey, which was up from

00:03:20.100 31% in 1998.

00:03:23.260 Now, by the way, the fact that people value money is, of course, not in itself a bad thing.

00:03:28.400 I mean, I value money.

00:03:30.080 I value money a lot because it's how I provide for my family.

00:03:33.320 So it is very important.

00:03:35.820 But the problem is that while people value money more than they did in the past, they

00:03:39.940 don't value hard work nearly as much, and they don't value having children.

00:03:44.500 So this tells us that many Americans want money for their own sake, to buy things for themselves,

00:03:50.060 but they don't want to work for it.

00:03:52.240 So it's like the worst of all worlds.

00:03:55.940 You know, it's one thing to be hardworking and greedy.

00:03:59.740 It's not good to be greedy, but if you're hardworking and greedy, you could even achieve

00:04:02.880 great things motivated that way.

00:04:05.480 But to be greedy and lazy at the same time is, again, the worst of all worlds.

00:04:15.360 As expected, the gap in values can be seen not just across decades, but also by comparing

00:04:20.860 generations.

00:04:22.040 The Wall Street Journal, again, reports, quote,

00:04:23.820 Aside from money, all age groups, including seniors, attached far less importance to these

00:04:28.540 priorities and values than when pollsters asked about them in 1998 and in 2019.

00:04:34.060 But younger Americans in particular placed a low importance on these values, many of which

00:04:37.980 were central to the lives of their parents.

00:04:39.620 Some 23% of adults under age 30 said in the new survey that patriotism was very important

00:04:44.320 to them personally, compared with 59% of seniors ages 65 or older.

00:04:48.840 Some 31% of younger respondents said that religion was very important to them, compared with 55%

00:04:54.960 among seniors.

00:04:56.100 Only 23% of adults under age 30 said that having children was very important.

00:05:02.660 And there's a lot more to the results, but those, I think, are the highlights or lowlights,

00:05:06.780 depending on how you look at it.

00:05:07.500 Now, I normally don't lend a lot of credibility or weight to polls and surveys, but these results

00:05:13.520 simply quantify, help us to visualize something that was already well apparent.

00:05:18.840 We are a culture that has increasingly abandoned all of the values and priorities and principles

00:05:29.300 that defined not only past generations of Americans, but all generations of all people

00:05:36.700 who have ever lived anywhere on the planet.

00:05:40.160 These are, for the most part, universal, or what used to be universal, human values that are now

00:05:45.640 fading away, dying out in this country.

00:05:49.480 And here's what we need to understand about all this.

00:05:52.680 First and foremost, this is the agenda.

00:05:55.500 These results have been engineered.

00:05:57.340 It's not the product of happenstance or the inevitable conclusion of the passage of time,

00:06:03.380 as Kamala Harris would say.

00:06:05.140 Human civilization existed for thousands of years, and for thousands of years,

00:06:10.280 all cultures everywhere, though separated by time and location, still all valued.

00:06:18.460 Family, procreation, religion, patriotism, hard work, achievement.

00:06:25.320 These values manifested themselves in different ways, obviously took on different forms,

00:06:29.420 but nearly everyone would have agreed on the most basic fundamentals here.

00:06:33.440 You could have, you know, pick almost any time in the past, in the year 1803 or 1555 or, you know, 300 BC.

00:06:45.300 You could have polled anyone anywhere, even people removed from each other by oceans or generations,

00:06:51.620 and they would have said, yes, of course I value family.

00:06:54.840 Yes, of course I want to have children and continue my bloodline and, you know,

00:06:58.720 pass down wealth and prosperity to my progeny.

00:07:01.640 Yes, of course I love my country, my community, my tribe.

00:07:05.200 Yes, of course I worship my God or my gods.

00:07:08.180 Yes, of course I believe that I should work and, you know, do some kind of work

00:07:11.860 and provide for myself and my family.

00:07:14.900 These are the answers you would have heard anywhere.

00:07:18.520 It is only now here in this culture at this time that people will tell you

00:07:22.840 they fundamentally don't care about any of that.

00:07:26.400 The left's agenda has been precisely this, to eat away at these core essential human values,

00:07:33.240 to destroy the very things that have defined individuals and nations for millennia.

00:07:41.860 These are the things that make a person a person and a people a people.

00:07:46.220 And this is also what the culture war is all about.

00:07:51.400 Okay, it's about, on our side, defending these basic values.

00:07:55.600 When we call ourselves conservatives, this is what we're trying to conserve.

00:08:01.200 So when you hear someone scoff at the culture war, this is what they're scoffing at.

00:08:05.700 They're scoffing at the notion that we should even bother defending the core human values

00:08:13.000 that bind a civilization together and ensure its continued flourishing.

00:08:18.240 When someone dismisses the culture war and says, it's silly, it's unimportant.

00:08:24.080 Tired of all these culture war issues. 0.82

00:08:26.940 Well, they are dismissing as unimportant and as silly the priorities and beliefs

00:08:32.380 that are rooted deepest in the human soul.

00:08:35.700 Who cares about, what, priorities and beliefs rooted deepest in the human soul?

00:08:38.680 What does that matter?

00:08:41.220 And what happens when those roots are torn out?

00:08:45.080 Is a new tree planted in its place?

00:08:48.180 No, there's nothing else to plant.

00:08:50.800 So all that's left is a hole.

00:08:53.180 And that's all they intend to leave.

00:08:56.620 This is the way it always works.

00:08:59.220 They tear out the thing and they tear it out by the roots and they put nothing.

00:09:04.060 You just have a hole there in the ground.

00:09:08.140 They want to take away everything, everything you love and value and replace it with emptiness.

00:09:15.080 That's why the decline in these values has not been answered with an increase in new values.

00:09:20.600 Now, sure, people might say they value diversity and inclusion and equity or whatever.

00:09:25.880 But first of all, it doesn't take much digging to see that they don't really value any of that.

00:09:31.540 But second, those aren't real values anyway.

00:09:34.860 Those are slogans.

00:09:36.140 Those are things that people put on posters.

00:09:39.480 Those are values for HR seminars, okay?

00:09:43.220 That's what those values are.

00:09:44.620 They are not values for nations.

00:09:46.680 They aren't values for civilizations, for human beings.

00:09:53.040 In the past, people who valued family and children and God, religion, faith, country, hard work, sacrifice,

00:10:00.320 they were driven by those values to achieve extraordinary things, okay?

00:10:06.380 To achieve, like everything that we benefit from today, all the things that we have and the luxuries we take for granted

00:10:14.200 and the rights we take for granted, all of that is given to us by people who value all of the things that we are now discarding.

00:10:22.620 These are the people who discovered new lands and who built nations out of wilderness and invented things and built things

00:10:30.000 and made beautiful art and sailed across seas and figured out how to fly and how to go into space.

00:10:37.140 It requires skill and intelligence to do those things, both of which are also in short supply these days.

00:10:41.940 But you also won't even attempt to do them unless you value something beyond yourself.

00:10:48.720 A man must know how to do something great, but he must first be motivated to even bother trying. 0.98

00:10:59.300 We used to produce people like that.

00:11:02.100 The people who built the civilization that we're now destroying.

00:11:06.160 Because we instilled in them from birth the values that would drive and sustain them in their pursuit of something great.

00:11:14.100 So, what I'm saying is that when we talk about valuing family and procreation, children, God, work, country, faith, sacrifice,

00:11:28.040 these are not just the best values for forming and maintaining a civilization.

00:11:33.360 They are the only ones.

00:11:35.980 That's it.

00:11:37.600 They're the only game in town.

00:11:39.280 There are no alternatives.

00:11:40.580 If you do not value those things, then you are left with nothing.

00:11:47.200 You are left as a person who values nothing.

00:11:51.400 And you are left with a culture that values nothing.

00:11:55.980 You either value those or you value nothing.

00:11:59.420 There are no other options.

00:12:03.460 Now, there are some who would say, well, if you don't value those things, instead you value yourself.

00:12:08.400 It's like a selfish thing.

00:12:10.720 But even that's not exactly true.

00:12:12.340 Because if you value yourself the way you ought to value yourself, you would care about family, country, children, etc.

00:12:21.580 You know, if you value yourself, you're not going to embrace your own extinction, the extinction of your bloodline,

00:12:28.600 and say, I don't need to have children.

00:12:30.440 I don't need any purpose in life.

00:12:32.080 I don't need to, you know, I'll die alone and be forgotten, and I'm okay with that.

00:12:35.420 If you value yourself, you wouldn't be okay with that.

00:12:41.080 So, no, instead our culture cultivates a population which values, you know, with people and individuals who value not even really themselves per se,

00:12:54.640 but more specifically, their own comfort and the satisfaction of their own immediate desires above all else.

00:13:02.920 In Dostoevsky's words, they value the multiplication and rapid satisfaction of desire.

00:13:09.440 That's what the whole culture's about now.

00:13:12.740 That's it.

00:13:14.580 Okay?

00:13:14.920 You ask somebody the meaning of life, and if they're even articulate enough to explain it, that's what it is to them.

00:13:23.240 The rapid satisfaction and multiplication of desire.

00:13:26.960 This is what we have replaced the old values with.

00:13:30.560 A man isn't driven to love his country and his God, to work hard for his family and for his children.

00:13:34.700 Rather, he's called by the culture to focus on, to champion, to celebrate, and to satisfy his desires.

00:13:41.260 The more desires, the better. 0.77

00:13:42.380 The more depraved and degenerate, the better. 0.82

00:13:46.080 These are the new values of the new man.

00:13:50.140 And it's what we're fighting against.

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00:14:54.620 Lots to cover here.

00:14:55.680 We'll start with a report in the AP Associated Press, which is the bias in the reporting here will be very obvious to you.

00:15:05.800 But I'll read it as it's written.

00:15:08.540 Republican lawmakers in Kentucky on Wednesday swept aside the Democratic governor's veto of a bill regulating some of the most personal aspects of life for transgender young people,

00:15:17.360 from banning access to gender-affirming health care to restricting the bathrooms they can use.

00:15:22.000 The votes to override Governor Andy Beshear's veto were lopsided in both legislative chambers,

00:15:26.620 where the GOP wielded supermajorities and came on the next-to-last day of this year's legislative session.

00:15:32.020 The Senate voted 29-8 to override Beshear's veto, a short-term way to the House, completed the override on the veto 76-23.

00:15:38.800 As emotions surged, some people protesting the bill from the House gallery were removed and arrested after their prolonged chanting rang out in the chamber.

00:15:46.660 The protesters, their hands bound, chanted,

00:15:49.180 There's more of us not here, as they waited to be taken away from the Capitol.

00:15:52.100 So that's the language of media bias.

00:15:56.000 But in plain English language, what actually happened is the Republicans in the state legislature tried to pass a bill that's very similar to bills that have been passed in Tennessee and other states,

00:16:07.740 banning the mutilation and castration and sterilization of children,

00:16:11.500 and also stipulating other common-sense things, like if you're a boy, you use the boy's room, your girl, you use the girl's room.

00:16:18.780 Those sorts of things.

00:16:20.840 The Democratic governor vetoed it.

00:16:23.400 He said, no, absolutely not. 0.96

00:16:25.420 He said, you know, we want to continue sterilizing and castrating and butchering children. 0.87

00:16:29.680 That's something that we care deeply about, says the governor. 0.78

00:16:33.500 And, you know, in so many words.

00:16:35.940 And then the Republicans vetoed, you know, overrode his veto.

00:16:41.560 And then these protesters that we hear about are actually, according to the left's own language, according to their standards, again, these are insurrectionists.

00:16:51.940 In left-wing trans insurrectionists, violent left-wing trans insurrectionists who hate democracy, waged an attack on democracy itself.

00:17:04.740 They attacked the very foundations of this country by invading the capital.

00:17:10.200 And we have just, there's a lot of videos of, a lot of footage of the scenes that were carried out from there.

00:17:17.040 But here's just one quick clip.

00:17:19.120 So can we see this guy here, the guy with the horns?

00:17:34.440 Yeah, right there.

00:17:36.000 So a couple things about this.

00:17:37.500 First of all, they were, apparently they were eventually escorted out by police.

00:17:41.200 But the, one thing we know is that, so here we have, here we have, I guess, the trans, the non-binary demon shaman. 0.63

00:17:51.660 This guy ain't going to prison for three years, like the QAnon shaman with the buffalo horns, okay? 0.98

00:17:56.860 He went to prison for, what was it, three years?

00:17:58.880 That's not happened to this guy.

00:18:00.160 That's not happened to any of these people.

00:18:01.800 Even though, again, by their standards, that's what this is.

00:18:04.560 This is an insurrection.

00:18:05.400 This is invading the Capitol building.

00:18:06.840 You have no right to be there and staging this protest.

00:18:09.680 And, but they're not going to be going to prison for that.

00:18:14.500 Maybe they were escorted out by police eventually, but they're not going to be going to prison for it.

00:18:18.180 The other thing, too, that I appreciate, I guess he's dressed up.

00:18:22.160 So he's got this kind of like priestly garb, clown makeup, devil horns. 0.68

00:18:28.200 When you see these videos of these trans activist extremists,

00:18:33.440 one thing is when you watch the video, you can really almost, and I'm sitting so close to this screen,

00:18:38.020 I can smell this video.

00:18:40.060 That's the thing.

00:18:40.500 When you see these people, you can smell them through the screen, and that's kind of disturbing.

00:18:44.820 But what I appreciate about it is that they make it so easy to oppose them, okay?

00:18:51.100 They always make it so apparent and so clear who the bad guys are because they'll literally dress as demons.

00:19:00.260 In case there's any confusion, if you ever become confused about it,

00:19:06.080 and there shouldn't be because they are protesting in favor of castrating and sterilizing children,

00:19:10.580 so that's all you should need to know.

00:19:12.140 But if you ever become a little bit confused and you see, you know, chaos and you're looking at these clips

00:19:16.280 and you're thinking, who's the good guy, who's the bad guy?

00:19:18.080 Well, the people dressed as demons, they're the bad guys, okay?

00:19:20.960 So they are making that very clear to you.

00:19:23.720 And you can't appreciate that much, at least.

00:19:25.740 Speaking of demons in the Capitol, we go to D.C.

00:19:30.580 Representative Jamal Bowman, a Democrat, decided to start screaming like a hysterical woman 1.00

00:19:35.860 at Representative Thomas Massey, who's a Republican.

00:19:39.800 And not only just any Republican, by the way, is Thomas Massey.

00:19:43.080 He's one of the good ones, you know, and there's not a lot,

00:19:46.640 but he's one of the best Republicans in D.C. by far and away.

00:19:50.660 And he got into, this is being described by people on social media and some of the media

00:19:59.340 as a shouting match between Thomas Massey and Jamal Bowman.

00:20:02.780 It is not a shouting match.

00:20:03.980 This is a one-sided match because only one person is shouting, and that is Jamal Bowman.

00:20:09.260 He posted the clip that we're about to play.

00:20:12.040 He posted it on his own Twitter page.

00:20:14.080 He's very proud of himself.

00:20:15.480 He thinks that he comes off looking very good here.

00:20:18.160 Because he was saying things loudly.

00:20:22.080 And we all know that whoever's saying it the loudest is automatically right.

00:20:26.960 So we judge rightness by volume.

00:20:29.680 At least that's what they do on the left.

00:20:31.640 And let's watch the video. 1.00

00:20:33.940 Freaking cowards. 1.00

00:20:35.460 They're gutless. 1.00

00:20:36.540 They're not here.

00:20:37.800 I'm talking about gun violence.

00:20:39.540 You know, there's never been a school shooting in a school that allows teachers to carry.

00:20:45.460 Carry guns?

00:20:46.320 You think more guns lead to more death?

00:20:49.600 More guns lead to more death.

00:20:52.040 Look at the data.

00:20:53.400 You're not looking at any data.

00:20:55.500 You're carrying the water for the gun lobby.

00:20:58.860 Look at the data.

00:21:00.360 More guns lead to more deaths.

00:21:02.820 States that have open carry laws have more deaths.

00:21:07.060 States that have open carry laws have more deaths.

00:21:11.320 There's never been a shooting.

00:21:12.760 Are you listening to what I'm saying?

00:21:14.120 Yeah, calm down.

00:21:14.740 Yeah, that's the thing.

00:21:15.500 Why calm down?

00:21:16.360 Children are dying.

00:21:17.920 Nine-year-old children.

00:21:20.060 The solution is not arming teachers.

00:21:22.180 Have you ever worked in a school?

00:21:23.960 Have you ever worked in a school?

00:21:26.600 Have you ever worked in a school?

00:21:28.020 Have you ever worked in a school?

00:21:30.780 It's a yes or no question.

00:21:32.160 Have you ever worked in a school?

00:21:33.960 You will not answer my question.

00:21:35.540 Don't stop and talk to me.

00:21:37.360 Okay, I'll bring it down a notch.

00:21:39.620 Have you ever worked in a school?

00:21:40.800 I've worked in a school for 20 years.

00:21:45.600 I was a teacher.

00:21:47.080 I was a speaker before you came and interrupted me.

00:21:50.200 I worked in a school for 20 years.

00:21:53.080 I worked in a school for 20 years.

00:21:54.940 I was a teacher.

00:21:56.660 I was a senior counselor.

00:21:58.680 I was a middle school principal.

00:22:00.440 I was in college careers, protecting kids, everything that I can.

00:22:05.160 Kyle, Kyle, he can't even answer a yes or no question.

00:22:08.740 I really appreciate this video.

00:22:18.380 I'm glad that he posted it because it really encapsulates just in less than two minutes there.

00:22:24.480 It really encapsulates the gun debate in this country because you have one side screaming hysterically with nothing to say.

00:22:35.400 Okay, all they have are slogans.

00:22:39.120 That's all they have.

00:22:40.860 And also irrelevant, you know, he spends 30 seconds there trying to, it's a yes or no question.

00:22:45.620 Have you ever worked in a school?

00:22:46.960 Have you worked in a school?

00:22:47.880 Have you?

00:22:48.380 Yes or no question.

00:22:50.340 What the hell does that have to do with anything?

00:22:53.420 You think that's the ultimate gotcha?

00:22:55.020 Why won't you answer the question of whether you worked in a school?

00:22:56.920 No, I didn't.

00:22:57.640 So?

00:22:57.860 Have you ever been a plumber?

00:23:01.360 Like, what does that have to do with anything?

00:23:02.980 All he has are these slogans and slogans, ad hominem, shouting, and, you know, red herrings, irrelevant, irrelevant misnomers.

00:23:19.660 Like, that's it.

00:23:21.000 And you saw it all there in the video.

00:23:22.820 So if we were to walk through some of these.

00:23:26.380 First of all, he says more guns lead to more death.

00:23:28.360 And he keeps repeating it over.

00:23:29.740 While Thomas Massey is trying to, okay, calm down.

00:23:33.580 Calm down, you child.

00:23:35.040 Let's have a conversation like adults. 0.92

00:23:36.860 More guns, more death.

00:23:38.480 It's literally a child.

00:23:39.800 Okay, this is the way a child thinks. 0.93

00:23:41.400 More guns, more death. 0.97

00:23:42.460 You are, you are a child.

00:23:48.000 And the exact context here is that Thomas Massey said, well, if teachers, if you had teachers who were trained and armed, then they're not going to be defenseless.

00:23:59.160 He says, well, that's more death.

00:24:01.300 Walk me through that, Jamal.

00:24:03.620 How does that work exactly?

00:24:05.960 Okay, so what you're saying, what you're saying is that when a bad guy with a gun walks into a gun,

00:24:12.460 into a school building, it is better if the good guys don't, if they are disarmed.

00:24:19.000 It's better.

00:24:20.320 So the bad guy with a gun walks into the school building, shoots her way, in this case, bad woman with a gun, shoots her way into the building. 0.99

00:24:28.360 You would not be in favor of any of the teachers there having guns because you think that if they had guns, there'd be more death?

00:24:34.780 How does that work?

00:24:35.540 But what, the psychopath mass shooter walks in, and then you've got some teachers that have guns,

00:24:41.800 and it leads to more death?

00:24:43.240 Why?

00:24:43.420 Because what, they just randomly start shooting their own students?

00:24:46.420 What are you even saying? 0.93

00:24:48.500 Okay, this, the trans terrorist goes up to the second floor, starts spraying bullets, kills three staff members and three children. 0.91

00:24:59.900 Let's take those staff members for a moment. 0.89

00:25:01.660 They were unarmed, okay, and defenseless.

00:25:07.420 Are you saying, Jamal, that it's actually better that they were unarmed?

00:25:11.980 In that situation, the psychopath is there, teachers are there, the moment before the guns, you know, the bullets start flying.

00:25:22.240 Can we improve the situation and improve the odds of the victims by giving them guns or no?

00:25:30.240 What you're saying is no.

00:25:31.640 It is better for them to be defenseless.

00:25:35.680 This is a psychotic point of view.

00:25:38.620 It's not just factually incorrect and illogical. 0.98

00:25:41.180 It is psychotic.

00:25:42.360 You are saying that it is better in a situation if you are defenseless.

00:25:45.660 Now, you might respond and say, well, the better thing is if the bad person isn't there at all, doesn't have a gun either.

00:25:52.520 Yeah, of course that's better.

00:25:53.560 Of course it's better if they're not there.

00:25:54.980 Of course it's better if the shooting isn't happening in the first place.

00:25:57.260 Of course it's better.

00:25:57.920 Of course we would all prefer if the mass shooter doesn't show up in the first place.

00:26:02.180 But they do show up.

00:26:03.400 And when you're in a situation where they are there, it's better if they weren't.

00:26:06.580 You wish they weren't, but they are.

00:26:08.860 So what do we do now?

00:26:11.680 How do you mitigate the damage that is about to happen?

00:26:15.660 Is it better for the victims to remain defenseless where all they could do is huddle in a corner or fling themselves defenseless at the psychopath with the gun?

00:26:27.360 Or would we like to give them a chance?

00:26:31.380 He says, no, don't give them a chance. 0.70

00:26:34.100 What he's saying is, psychopath with the gun comes into the school. 1.00

00:26:38.160 Your obligation is to simply die. 1.00

00:26:40.240 To simply die until the police show up. 0.89

00:26:43.020 And if the police show up and if they're courageous and skilled and everything like the Nashville Police Department, then six people will die in the meantime.

00:26:53.600 If the police are incompetent and scared, then many more will die.

00:26:56.960 People will die for over an hour, like in Uvalde.

00:27:00.040 But what Jamal Bowman is saying is that that's your responsibility.

00:27:02.740 That's the responsibility of the parents, of the teachers, the staff members, and the students is to simply die.

00:27:07.720 Because he doesn't want them to have the ability to defend themselves.

00:27:12.140 He says 45 states, or no, he doesn't say 40, sorry.

00:27:15.280 He says the states with open carry have more deaths.

00:27:17.500 Well, I've already spoiled the ending here, but do you know how many states have open carry laws?

00:27:25.460 45 out of 50.

00:27:27.600 Nearly every state.

00:27:29.320 Nearly the entire country has open carry laws.

00:27:32.240 So when he says that the states with open carry laws have more deaths, he's saying that that applies to almost everybody.

00:27:37.860 So it's a meaningless statistic.

00:27:40.280 It doesn't mean anything.

00:27:42.420 And what he just wants to skip over entirely is that the vast majority of homicides in this country, okay, the vast majority are not happening at the hands of concealed carry permit holders,

00:28:00.740 or even people who are open carrying, you know, right wing, red state, gun, Second Amendment advocates, open carrying, like, that's, those, these are not the people who are carrying out the vast majority of homicides in this country.

00:28:18.740 They are happening in cities at the hands of thugs and criminals and in these cities with strict gun laws already.

00:28:29.040 The vast majority of cases, they're happening at the hands of people who don't have the legal right to carry those guns in the first place.

00:28:36.000 They've got criminal records already.

00:28:38.140 They, there's, you know, all of that.

00:28:40.380 That's what they're happening.

00:28:43.580 But he doesn't want to talk about that either, of course.

00:28:45.840 He doesn't want to talk about anything.

00:28:46.600 He just wants to scream.

00:28:48.040 He wants to scream and then brag about it. 1.00

00:28:51.620 Absolute clown. 0.99

00:28:55.300 Here's some good news. 0.98

00:28:56.180 In the wake of, this is from Daily Wire.

00:28:59.420 In the wake of several NHL players refusing to wear pride-themed attire, the league is reportedly considering shelving pride night events at its games.

00:29:07.060 Last week, two brothers who are teammates on the NHL's Florida Panthers refused to wear a pride-themed sweater during the team's warm-up skate, citing their religious beliefs.

00:29:15.440 Eric and Mark Stahl joined San Jose Sharks goalie James Reimer and Philadelphia Flyers defenseman Ivan Ravarov, who had also refused to take warm-ups, take part in warm-ups with pride-themed jerseys.

00:29:27.620 This is very good news, and it's a lesson, for once a good lesson, you know, a positive lesson for the rest of us.

00:29:38.560 So the NHL went uber-woke, and they started doing these ridiculous pride night things, and they're just vomiting rainbow colors all over the place and vomiting it all over the fans and everything. 0.92

00:29:54.720 Most of the NHL players were obedient little cowards and went along with it. 0.95

00:30:04.440 It took how many people? 0.92

00:30:06.480 Four?

00:30:08.340 Four NHL players.

00:30:10.080 Four of them.

00:30:11.560 Took a stand and said, it wasn't big, dramatic, or anything like that.

00:30:16.280 They weren't overly confrontational about it.

00:30:18.580 They weren't confrontational at all.

00:30:19.640 All they said is, no, I'm not going to.

00:30:21.120 But taking a stand here was simply saying no.

00:30:23.740 It took four people, four people, to say, no, I'm not doing this.

00:30:29.640 And already the NHL might be abandoning the whole thing.

00:30:33.020 And what that tells us is that it doesn't take much.

00:30:36.000 It just means you have to speak up and you have to say no.

00:30:39.960 And if even, you know, one person has to go first, and if one person does it, the next person feels more safe to do it.

00:30:45.040 And then the next person, the next person, you have the domino effect.

00:30:47.480 And oftentimes it doesn't take much before results happen.

00:30:52.360 And, you know, when we look around the culture and everything and we see so often it seems like we're not getting results and it feels very deflating and hopeless.

00:31:01.580 Well, in many cases, we're not getting the results because we're not even trying.

00:31:05.760 Once you try, you start to see the results.

00:31:08.500 We're seeing this not just in the NHL with Pride Night.

00:31:10.540 I mean, going back to the gender issue, we're seeing real, you know, it felt like this unstoppable march of gender craziness and gender madness, the trans ideology on the march for several years. 0.94

00:31:27.320 It felt like there's no stopping it.

00:31:30.380 But then there was a concerted effort to actually oppose it.

00:31:36.540 And it wasn't like it was even millions of people all organized against it.

00:31:42.060 It's really only a comparative few.

00:31:45.120 But in response to that, we're already seeing results.

00:31:47.260 So it doesn't take much, but you got to, you know, you got to stand up and say no.

00:31:56.380 So lots of credit goes to those NHL players.

00:32:00.360 More good news.

00:32:02.060 In an update on a story we talked about yesterday, this is from the Daily Wire, Jocelyn Berry, press secretary for Democratic Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs,

00:32:08.440 has resigned after posting an inflammatory tweet suggesting, quote, transphobes should be gunned down in the wake of a woman who identified as transgender, killing six people at a Christian school in Nashville.

00:32:18.040 We talked about these yesterday. 0.58

00:32:19.400 This is Jocelyn Berry, the spokeswoman for Katie Hobbs, posted this meme, you know, this is what we do with transphobes, and it's an image of a woman holding a gun.

00:32:31.840 Posted that, you know, not five seconds after the shooting when maybe she didn't hear about it.

00:32:36.380 But hours after the shooting on the same day, she definitely knew about it.

00:32:39.580 She posted that anyway.

00:32:42.400 And we talked about it on the show yesterday, and it was up for almost an entire day.

00:32:48.540 Wasn't even deleted.

00:32:50.620 Finally, the backlash started to gain some momentum, and she shut down her account.

00:32:58.320 And then finally, several hours later, after many calls from people on the right saying, you got to fire this woman, this is unacceptable. 0.98

00:33:07.080 And they were calls, by the way, almost entirely from the right.

00:33:09.780 There are a few exceptions, and some notable ones.

00:33:12.500 I saw actually Keith Olbermann was maybe the one guy on the left, and I'll have to say, credit where it's due, it's the one time in my life I'll give any credit at all to Keith Olbermann.

00:33:22.180 But Keith Olbermann tweeted something saying that this is unacceptable, and it's not appropriate, and she should be fired.

00:33:28.100 Now, he did follow that up by admitting that his main concern is that when Democrats do this kind of thing, it only gives ammunition to the right.

00:33:40.240 So that's what he's concerned about.

00:33:41.400 But still, he said that she should resign.

00:33:44.420 But it was mostly 99.9% people on the right calling for this.

00:33:49.260 And then the governor did cave, put out a statement saying, the governor does not condone violence in any form.

00:33:56.060 This administration holds respect at the forefront, mutual respect at the forefront of how we engage with one another.

00:34:02.020 Sure.

00:34:02.220 The post by the press secretary is not reflective of the values of the administration.

00:34:06.220 The governor has received and accepted the resignation of the press secretary.

00:34:10.980 Resignation, quote unquote.

00:34:14.520 What that means is that we successfully got her fired, which is a very good thing.

00:34:20.880 She deserved to be fired. 1.00

00:34:25.360 And this was us holding them to their own standard.

00:34:29.520 That I don't care, you know, the other side can say, oh, now you're engaging in cancel culture.

00:34:35.100 This is cancel culture.

00:34:35.700 Sure, whatever.

00:34:36.480 Call it what you want.

00:34:37.260 I really don't care.

00:34:38.780 Call it what you want.

00:34:40.700 But you have set up the rules.

00:34:43.960 Okay?

00:34:45.140 And now we're going to force you to play by them.

00:34:48.560 And you can whine and complain all you want.

00:34:50.540 It doesn't matter.

00:34:52.720 Very glad that this woman lost her job and her livelihood. 1.00

00:34:55.280 I could not be happier.

00:34:56.840 And I hope that she is unable to get any other job.

00:34:59.300 That's what I hope.

00:35:01.560 All right.

00:35:02.780 I want to play this for you.

00:35:03.460 This is one of the saddest videos that I've seen in some time. 0.92

00:35:10.680 Or I'll say one of the most pathetic videos that I've seen in some time. 0.92

00:35:15.000 Richard Dawkins was interviewed by Piers Morgan. 0.84

00:35:19.120 And this doesn't need a lot of setup.

00:35:21.040 But a subject was broached with Richard Dawkins that Piers Morgan thought.

00:35:25.160 He didn't mean, you could tell he didn't mean this to be a gotcha.

00:35:27.620 He didn't think it would be like a difficult question.

00:35:30.840 But Richard Dawkins was terrified to talk about it.

00:35:35.680 And was not hiding his fear at all.

00:35:38.160 Let's watch this.

00:35:39.740 Big debate about this ISIS bride, Shamima Begin, whether she should be allowed to come back to this country.

00:35:45.680 Do you have a view about that?

00:35:47.400 I'd rather not say.

00:35:49.440 You'd rather not say?

00:35:50.540 I haven't studied it enough.

00:35:52.220 Well, she was married to an ISIS fighter.

00:35:53.880 Yeah, I know.

00:35:54.640 She was a young, but she was 15 when she went out there.

00:35:56.760 Yes.

00:35:56.880 The debate, really, is was she groomed to be part of this terror group in Syria?

00:36:02.500 And as such, should we show mercy and allow her back to this country? 1.00

00:36:05.420 Yes, I'm not going to say about that.

00:36:06.940 Are you worried about, did you get threats because of the positions you've taken on some of these things?

00:36:11.620 When you saw what happened to Salman Rushdie?

00:36:14.320 Didn't send a shutter through?

00:36:17.100 Are you saying, no, you don't want to talk about it?

00:36:18.860 Yes.

00:36:19.880 Right.

00:36:20.580 I mean, that's interesting in itself.

00:36:22.320 Because there are areas which you would prefer not to discuss.

00:36:27.160 Yes.

00:36:30.240 I should have said that before we started.

00:36:32.300 Yeah.

00:36:32.860 No, but listen, I think it's sad that you can't.

00:36:37.080 I don't think anything should be off limits in interviews with people like you.

00:36:39.980 The whole point of the world's smartest thinkers is we ought to be able to have free and open debate.

00:36:44.840 But I don't think we do, because people use murderous retribution against free speech.

00:36:53.160 Wow.

00:36:54.240 That is actually brutal.

00:36:56.680 That's tough to watch.

00:36:58.360 And I'm not someone, maybe it wouldn't surprise you to learn, I'm not someone with a terrible amount of respect for Richard Dawkins.

00:37:05.220 But this is actually why.

00:37:06.380 You know, it's not, obviously, he's outspoken atheist and all that.

00:37:09.720 So I'm going to disagree with him on those grounds.

00:37:12.680 But this is actually why I've never had a whole lot of respect for him, because I just haven't bought.

00:37:19.620 You know, he has this reputation, or had anyway in the past, certainly not anymore, of being a fearless, independent thinker who's going to say what he thinks and all that.

00:37:30.200 And I never bought it.

00:37:31.980 And here you see.

00:37:33.960 Just like, too afraid to even speak words about it.

00:37:38.100 He won't say anything.

00:37:39.940 He's sitting there.

00:37:40.820 I don't think I've seen, I've seen people dodge questions before because they're afraid of the backlash if they say what they really think.

00:37:47.220 So we're quite used to seeing that in interviews.

00:37:49.860 That's like almost every interview on cable news is that.

00:37:53.200 But he won't say anything.

00:37:55.880 He's sitting there shaking his head.

00:37:57.680 Oh, stop, stop.

00:37:58.940 Because he's terrified. 0.87

00:38:03.880 And it's especially pathetic in his case because you're, how old is Richard Dawkins? 0.89

00:38:07.920 He's in his 80s. 0.94

00:38:10.200 You know, he's in his 80s and made a lot of money.

00:38:16.340 What are you afraid of exactly?

00:38:18.580 You should very much be in the phase of your life where you don't care what anyone thinks and you're just going to say exactly what you think all the time.

00:38:28.040 Now, I think that's how we should all operate always.

00:38:31.300 But you've got no excuse when you're wealthy and old to not have that attitude.

00:38:38.860 So, yet another fearless, independent intellectual exposes himself as anything but that.

00:38:47.080 Let's get to the comment section.

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00:39:49.160 Two Sides, One Stone says, no, there's zero reason to give any spotlight to any manifesto of a monster.

00:39:56.280 In fact, one of the last shootings, Ben Shapiro said focusing on the manifesto creates copycats.

00:40:02.800 Now, even he is talking about this manifesto like he's lost his values.

00:40:05.800 Yet again, the focus is on the shooter.

00:40:08.080 No one can recite the victim's names.

00:40:09.760 They don't know about their lives.

00:40:11.340 They don't know about their families.

00:40:12.420 They don't even know what class they were taking when they were gunned down.

00:40:15.000 But we know about the shooter's childhood, even her family, her parents' marriage dating back 30 years to Candace harping.

00:40:21.520 Thanks to Candace harping on this criminal. 1.00

00:40:23.840 Make the shooter disappear.

00:40:24.880 We all know why she attacked a school and it will happen again if DW doesn't enforce its do not name rule with all its hosts. 0.90

00:40:31.720 Other shooters will marvel at the sick person spotlight and more shootings will happen. 0.97

00:40:35.720 Focus on the victims, security in schools, Christian culture, and killing this trans movement that brainwashed, radicalized, and destroyed a woman, turning her into a devil. 0.99

00:40:43.440 Fair points, but a couple of points I'll say in response.

00:40:51.540 First of all, you're making an argument that, just to be clear about what the argument is, and I'm going to assume this is your argument,

00:41:02.040 that the media shouldn't publicize anything in the manifesto or talk about the killer.

00:41:06.540 And I'll address that in a moment.

00:41:10.120 But that is not an argument for the government to withhold this information from the public.

00:41:15.160 So we talk about releasing the manifesto.

00:41:19.580 I would hope you would agree that even if you don't think the media should harp on it, it should still be released because the public has a right to know.

00:41:25.940 A community that was attacked in this way has a right to know who did it and why they did it.

00:41:32.320 It doesn't change anything for those who are mourning.

00:41:34.700 It obviously doesn't give them back what they have lost.

00:41:37.200 But we have a right to know.

00:41:39.320 And more importantly, the government has no right to not tell us.

00:41:44.780 The government has no right to be the only ones who know.

00:41:47.520 Now, as for the media, you may have noticed that I have never really abided by the Daily Wire's policy on not naming shooters.

00:41:55.940 I've often named them in the past, so this is not new for me.

00:41:59.180 I'm on the commentary side, not the news side, so it's been left up to my discretion.

00:42:04.580 There are journalistic standards and rules and everything that apply in any organization to news reporters that don't apply to you if you're commentary.

00:42:14.940 I'm giving my perspective.

00:42:16.300 I'm not pretending to be giving, like, you know, just an objective recitation of the facts.

00:42:23.660 The whole point is for me to tell my perspective.

00:42:26.600 So, it's different kind of standards apply.

00:42:30.240 But even as the policy goes, look, not all situations are the same.

00:42:35.800 And you can have a policy that applies most of the time. 0.96

00:42:39.880 But when you have this kind of, this is why, you know, so-called zero-tolerance policies in general, in almost any context, are foolish. 0.98

00:42:47.560 I mean, they're foolhardy.

00:42:48.740 Because you have to allow for the application of discernment and for the recognition that sometimes situations arise that are different from the other sorts of situations you deal with.

00:43:00.740 So, you have to be willing to acknowledge that and recognize that and respond to it.

00:43:06.860 And sometimes other factors become overriding factors.

00:43:10.820 So, here in this case, there is a truth, a very important truth, that I have known, and some of us have known, and that I have warned about, but that much of the public does not know and should know.

00:43:27.240 And that is the truth, that this movement, this trans-ideology movement, is radicalized, violent, extreme. 0.74

00:43:37.100 This is a real thing.

00:43:39.160 It is a real problem.

00:43:41.480 And they don't want you to know about it.

00:43:43.620 The powers that be don't want you to know about it.

00:43:46.260 It has to be made known.

00:43:51.600 And that is the point of releasing the manifesto.

00:43:55.860 That's what makes it especially important in this case.

00:43:59.700 Because there are certain cultural realities that people actually don't understand, and they need to.

00:44:06.220 I mean, literally, lives are at stake.

00:44:09.120 So, the radicalizing, as much as we hear about radicalization from the media, here's a place where it actually applies.

00:44:15.220 The radicalizing rhetoric of the trans-ideology movement is a real crisis.

00:44:24.060 People need to know that.

00:44:25.860 And this is something that would, I think, make that very clear.

00:44:29.640 So, all the concerns that you mentioned are valid.

00:44:33.340 But I think the value of the plain, unvarnished truth in this case takes precedent over the concerns that you've mentioned.

00:44:47.420 Tado says, Matt seems to be getting harsher and harsher with each episode since people blamed him for being too mean to Dylan Mulvaney.

00:44:54.160 And I must say, I absolutely love it.

00:44:55.440 This harsh course is the only course which will actually accomplish our goals.

00:44:58.980 Am I being more harsh?

00:44:59.780 The way I've always been, I don't think I've changed much in that regard.

00:45:03.040 But maybe I have.

00:45:04.120 Dave says, the manifesto from the mass shooter in New Zealand was released the next day.

00:45:07.560 Well, of course it is.

00:45:08.500 That's why, you know, if, as we've been talking about, if it's, you know, if it's someone that the media will try to claim is right-wing or whatever, white supremacist, then we're going to see that manifesto right away.

00:45:21.960 Which is yet another reason why it should be released.

00:45:23.920 This also goes back to holding to the same standard.

00:45:27.080 You know, we want same standard applied.

00:45:29.180 We can't just accept.

00:45:30.340 Even if there are these double standards, we can't get to a point where we simply accept it.

00:45:36.440 Leanne Christie says, Matt, I think the police department are being kept from releasing the manifesto by politicians.

00:45:42.680 Yeah, there's that.

00:45:43.220 There's probably political pressure.

00:45:44.020 But I also think the FBI.

00:45:44.900 You know, the FBI has gotten involved and they haven't said that they are going to be investigating it as a hate crime, but they have said that they're taking an advisory role or an assistance role.

00:45:54.500 And I'm willing to bet that this is what much of their advice consists of.

00:46:01.240 Finally, John Adams says, a physical object cannot harm people.

00:46:05.720 Only another human being can harm another individual.

00:46:08.860 All right.

00:46:09.180 That's the old, you know, people kill, guns don't kill people, people kill people, which is sort of true. 1.00

00:46:14.060 I mean, people can use guns to kill people, right?

00:46:16.320 And here's the way I look at it.

00:46:17.540 And this is not a great analogy for a few reasons, but it helps to illustrate at least one part of the point.

00:46:22.460 So imagine that you're a parent, you know, and you come into the room one day and you see like your 10-year-old son with a lighter trying to light the cat on fire.

00:46:32.640 Now, which is the more important question?

00:46:36.840 So the kind of scene that, in fact, the parents of a lot of these mass shooters had probably seen in the past, which is like an indication that there's something deeply wrong with your child.

00:46:47.420 And then too often these glaring warning signs are ignored.

00:46:51.940 But you see something like that.

00:46:55.280 What's the more important question?

00:46:57.740 How did he get the lighter?

00:46:59.720 Or why in the hell is he doing this?

00:47:03.000 What is going on inside him that is making him do this?

00:47:06.860 You could take the lighter away, and you should, you know, but you're still left with a child who tries to light animals on fire, which means that there's a very deep problem here.

00:47:15.960 And addressing it simply by trying to control his access to potentially harmful objects is a bad strategy.

00:47:23.900 Because you can't control his access to harmful objects forever, and there are so many objects that can be potentially harmful, which is like almost any object.

00:47:32.200 So you've got to get deeper than that to figure out why would he, you know, most kids, even if they were able to get their hands on a lighter, wouldn't do that.

00:47:41.880 Okay, most kids, if they, there's something specific here going on that needs to be investigated.

00:47:51.220 Now, I said this is a bad analogy because, for one, the government is not a parent, and two, a child has no right to a lighter in the first place and shouldn't have one anyway, as opposed to American adults who don't have criminal records, who do have a right to own guns.

00:48:03.140 So it doesn't work from those angles. My point is just to illustrate how we skip over these deeper questions.

00:48:10.560 And, you know, and that's why I said to start with, when it comes to, in response to this shooting and all the other ones, the question is, is why would, why did this person do this?

00:48:24.100 Like, all these people, as the left warns us about all the time, millions of people in this country own guns, that's true.

00:48:31.880 Okay, but that only undermines their point, because you've got millions of gun owners, millions of guns in circulation, and almost none of them are doing that, or would ever do that.

00:48:44.600 Okay, I have guns, it would, there's 0% chance that I would ever go on a killing spree.

00:48:50.020 So, why did this person do that?

00:48:54.160 And for most people, having them owning a gun, a gun in their hands, is not a danger to anyone.

00:48:59.520 In fact, it could be helpful to other people.

00:49:02.340 It mitigates danger. 0.99

00:49:04.980 But for this small collection of evil scumbags, they become a danger. 0.99

00:49:10.780 Why is that? 0.99

00:49:12.100 And those are the questions we need to be focusing on.

00:49:15.140 We know the left tends to reject concepts such as common sense, science, tradition, God.

00:49:20.700 Ignoring the fundamentals of Western civilization may be tempting for those who lack exposure to them, but it ultimately results in ignorance.

00:49:27.760 There are absolutes, you know, in the world, including truth and beauty.

00:49:31.600 Keith Geddes, the songwriter responsible for one of the most glorious modern-day hymns, and he discusses this idea in Jordan Peterson's Logos in Literacy.

00:49:39.120 Check it out.

00:49:39.520 I was very much struck by how the translation of the biblical writings jump-started the development of literacy across the entire world.

00:49:50.480 Illiteracy was the norm.

00:49:52.380 The pastor's home was the first school, and every morning it would begin with singing.

00:49:58.060 The Christian faith is a singing religion.

00:50:01.140 Probably 80% of scripture memorization today exists only because of what is sung.

00:50:05.040 This is amazing.

00:50:07.000 Here we have a Gutenberg Bible, a Bible printed on the press of Johann Gutenberg.

00:50:13.220 Science and religion are opposing forces in the world, but historically that has not been the case.

00:50:20.840 Now the book is available to everyone.

00:50:22.900 From Shakespeare to modern education and medicine and science to civilization itself.

00:50:31.280 It is the most influential book in all of history, and hopefully people can walk away with at least a sense of that.

00:50:42.040 Here's where I would normally tell you that Logos in Literacy is only for Daily Wire Plus members, but we're making it available for free for everyone at dailywireplus.com.

00:50:49.380 It's only for a limited time, though, so you've got to watch Logos in Literacy today at dailywireplus.com.

00:50:54.580 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:50:55.920 Our daily cancellation today begins with a report in the New York Post about a major and important controversy.

00:51:06.020 Quote,

00:51:06.440 An angry traveler has shared their frustrations over a woman who had the audacity, quote-unquote, to request a seat swap so she could sit next to her kid.

00:51:14.360 In a resurfaced Reddit post now going viral, the flummoxed flyer said that it was, quote,

00:51:19.180 Not my problem they didn't book together when asked to switch seats.

00:51:22.440 The unidentified traveler was on a trans-Pacific flight from Japan sitting in a window seat while the toddler was in the middle seat.

00:51:29.020 The tot's mom was in the row directly behind them, also seated in the middle. 0.97

00:51:31.960 She asked me, quoting now, and just me, to switch with her so she could have my window seat next to her daughter and I'd have to take her middle seat a row back. 0.99

00:51:40.920 The user wrote,

00:51:41.580 Hell to the F no.

00:51:43.320 The peeved passenger continued in the post,

00:51:45.260 Worse as we were surrounded by others from her tour group that she could have asked for a three-way trade instead or the tour operator.

00:51:50.680 The audacity to just ask me and expect an inferior trade on my side.

00:51:56.840 Now, many of the comments on Reddit and on social media, as this critically important story has been shared far and wide,

00:52:04.160 have come down against the man in the window seat or the, I don't know if it's man,

00:52:07.480 the person in the window seat claiming that it was his responsibility to forfeit the seat that he likely paid extra money for

00:52:13.360 and accept a much less comfortable arrangement for a flight across the Pacific Ocean,

00:52:17.460 all because some stranger he doesn't know failed to plan ahead.

00:52:21.160 So as always, the internet jury has ruled incorrectly on this case.

00:52:27.160 There are rules for seat trading on airlines, rules that this woman defied. 0.97

00:52:32.740 In fact, there are many rules governing airline travel, rules that many people constantly flout.

00:52:38.740 These are not rules made or enforced by the airlines themselves.

00:52:42.060 They have their own rules, but these are rules that exist at a deeper level, rules that are written on the human heart.

00:52:48.620 I'm not speaking about the laws of man, but rather natural laws, laws that we should all understand innately as human beings with rational souls.

00:52:56.120 And if you don't understand these laws, then I will explain them to you right now.

00:53:00.480 Okay, we have in the past touched on many different aspects of air travel,

00:53:03.160 but it's become apparent to me that I need to provide one resource with all of the rules laid out in a clear and accessible format.

00:53:12.120 And that's what we're going to do today.

00:53:13.900 So this is the definitive list of rules, of laws for air travel.

00:53:18.200 We'll deal with the question of seat swapping when we get there,

00:53:22.060 but the rules begin well before you step foot on the plane.

00:53:25.140 Now, in the interest of time, I'm only going to be able to cover the rules that govern the time when you wake up in the morning on the day of your flight

00:53:30.420 to the moment when you sit in your seat on the plane.

00:53:33.640 So this is the beginning of the definitive list, but it will not be the entire list.

00:53:37.420 Okay, so let's proceed.

00:53:39.300 Rule number one, you dress like a civilized, well-groomed adult.

00:53:43.900 If you're not that kind of adult, then you need to pretend that you are.

00:53:48.480 Nobody stumbles accidentally onto a plane.

00:53:50.920 You have to book tickets.

00:53:52.000 You have to pack.

00:53:52.820 You have to engage in some kind of planning ahead of time.

00:53:55.000 So there's no excuse to not be completely dressed and showered and presentable when you get on the plane.

00:54:01.600 Now, if I knocked on your door in the middle of the night, well, you'd probably call the cops,

00:54:07.080 but let's say that you answered the door.

00:54:09.140 You'd be in your pajamas, maybe wearing slippers, hair messy, matted, teeth not brushed, blurry eyed,

00:54:15.140 you know, unshowered, confused.

00:54:17.200 And I could not complain about having to look at you in that disheveled and disgusting state 0.52

00:54:21.740 because I knocked on your door in the middle of the night.

00:54:23.480 But when I see you at the airport or on a plane, I did not knock on your door in the middle of the night.

00:54:28.700 We are meeting out in public in a place we both paid money to be and planned ahead of time to be.

00:54:34.860 So I should not have to be exposed to your middle of the night look.

00:54:38.740 I should not have to see you in your pajamas wearing slippers and a bathrobe.

00:54:43.580 This is an airport.

00:54:45.280 It's not your bedroom. 0.78

00:54:46.940 So put on some clothes, you sloppy freak.

00:54:49.520 That's rule number one.

00:54:50.960 Rule number two.

00:54:51.540 On that note, there will be no sleeping in the terminal.

00:54:55.480 I was at the airport a couple of weeks ago sitting at the gate.

00:54:58.340 By far, not the first time this has happened.

00:55:00.200 There's a man five feet from me laid out on the ground, curled up in the fetal position.

00:55:04.520 This is a grown man.

00:55:05.900 Jacket pulled over him like a blanket fast asleep.

00:55:08.680 Now, once again, this is an airport.

00:55:10.320 It's not your bedroom.

00:55:11.220 It's also not a refugee camp.

00:55:12.700 So forget about the fact that by sleeping on the ground at the airport, you are displaying an extremely unreasonable amount of faith in the airport's janitorial staff.

00:55:22.520 The truth is that that patch of floor you're lying on was probably last clean during, like, the first Bush administration.

00:55:29.200 Not to mention you're displaying an even more unreasonable amount of faith in other people.

00:55:34.780 Do you actually trust other humans enough to become voluntarily unconscious amid a huge crowd of them?

00:55:40.780 Well, you shouldn't, but that's not even the point.

00:55:43.940 The point is that I don't want to have to look at you like that.

00:55:46.740 It's undignified.

00:55:48.060 It's embarrassing.

00:55:49.780 Okay?

00:55:50.140 You can take a nap when you get to the hotel.

00:55:52.160 The airport is a place for being awake and tired and miserable like the rest of us.

00:55:57.780 Rule number three.

00:55:59.620 So you got into the airport.

00:56:01.240 You're awake like everybody else, like a civilized adult.

00:56:04.380 Now we're boarding the plane.

00:56:06.000 When boarding the plane, remember that you are on stoplight time.

00:56:09.500 Okay?

00:56:09.660 What do I mean by that?

00:56:10.440 Well, when you're sitting at a stoplight and the light turns green and then a second passes

00:56:15.060 and you still haven't moved, the cars behind you will start blaring their horns and screaming curses at you

00:56:20.980 and throwing eggs and tomatoes at your windshield, and they will be morally justified in doing so.

00:56:25.860 That's because at a stoplight, each second counts as 10 minutes.

00:56:29.800 If you wait two seconds to move, then you've actually been sitting there for 20 minutes.

00:56:33.540 Three seconds, it's been a half hour.

00:56:35.680 And now it's both morally and, from what I understand, legally acceptable for the cars behind you to ram into you,

00:56:40.240 and force you through the intersection.

00:56:42.780 Now, when boarding a plane, time works exactly the same way.

00:56:45.800 It's not normal time.

00:56:47.040 You have to understand that.

00:56:48.280 You have less than one second, therefore, to stow your bags and get in your seat.

00:56:53.260 Okay?

00:56:53.440 You're getting on the plane.

00:56:54.800 Keep it moving.

00:56:55.520 Stow the bag.

00:56:56.040 Get in your seat.

00:56:56.240 You have less than a second to do it.

00:56:58.080 If you bring a bag on board that doesn't fit in the overhead storage, and now we have to wait not only seconds,

00:57:03.100 but even minutes, minutes, while the situation is resolved, you have, in effect, delayed us by years.

00:57:10.460 We are years behind schedule because of you.

00:57:13.380 And we hate you for it.

00:57:15.260 One other note about boarding a plane.

00:57:16.480 If you're running late for your flight and will now be boarding after everybody else has already taken their seats,

00:57:24.540 you're not going to like this, but this is the rule.

00:57:27.480 The rule dictates that you don't board at all.

00:57:30.000 Your trip is canceled.

00:57:30.980 You're not flying.

00:57:32.500 Because, first of all, you've held us all up, and now you have to pay the price for it.

00:57:35.680 But also, second, the other people in your row now assume that you aren't coming,

00:57:40.660 and they have experienced the joyful elation at the thought that they'll have extra space on their flight.

00:57:45.280 It is deeply painful to believe that the person next to you isn't showing up,

00:57:48.920 only to see them appear out of nowhere five seconds before the door's shut,

00:57:52.860 sweaty, exhausted, like out of breath, happy that they made the flight,

00:57:57.380 totally unconcerned by the trauma that's been being inflicted on you

00:58:01.560 now that you realize that this sweaty person is going to be sitting next to you.

00:58:06.460 So, if you're running that late, you don't get to board.

00:58:08.840 Rule number four.

00:58:10.780 To deal with the issue we began with, if you have a problem with your seat,

00:58:13.580 you need to trade with somebody else on the flight, you may only propose a lateral trade.

00:58:18.140 Window seat for window seat, aisle for an aisle.

00:58:20.100 Because I'm generous, I'll even allow you to propose a window for aisle or aisle for window trade.

00:58:24.220 But what you cannot ever do under any circumstance is try to trade your middle seat for someone else's end seat.

00:58:29.800 Too big a favor to ask of someone you don't know.

00:58:31.560 It's like going up to some stranger in a parking garage

00:58:33.560 and asking them to take your 2011 Toyota Corolla with a broken air conditioning

00:58:37.620 and 150,000 miles on it in exchange for their luxury sedan.

00:58:42.300 Well, I guess no seat on a modern airline is tantamount to a luxury sedan. 0.62

00:58:45.200 So, it's more like asking you to exchange your beat-up, disgusting Toyota Corolla

00:58:48.560 for a slightly less beat-up and disgusting Toyota Corolla. 0.94

00:58:51.940 Either way, it's a laughable proposition and it's inappropriate to even request.

00:58:57.280 Rule number five, finally for now.

00:58:58.740 Once you're sitting in your seat, here are all the things you may not do.

00:59:03.460 You may not lean back your chair.

00:59:04.680 Seats are equipped with this function, but not because you're supposed to actually use it.

00:59:07.800 The recline option on the seat is just there as a test to see who is a sociopath.

00:59:12.500 If you hit the button, you fail the test.

00:59:14.760 You may not eat any food that gives off a strong smell or makes any kind of sound.

00:59:19.140 So, this rule basically rules out all food except for white, plain white bread is all

00:59:24.900 you're allowed to eat on the plane, if you're sitting next to me anyway.

00:59:28.600 You may not speak to the person next to you unless you're spoken to, but they also are

00:59:32.120 following the same rule, which means that nobody's speaking at all.

00:59:34.300 If you're in the middle seat, as I've explained in the past, you have no privileges and no human

00:59:39.660 rights.

00:59:40.040 You are worse than a second-class citizen. 0.98

00:59:41.920 You don't exist.

00:59:43.500 This means that you don't have permission to use either of your armrests.

00:59:46.160 Your superiors on the end get both of their armrests.

00:59:50.100 You get nothing.

00:59:51.500 You're also not allowed to inconvenience the aisle seat by getting up to use the bathroom.

00:59:54.740 You must sit there, legs together, arms folded, head bowed down in silence for the duration

01:00:01.620 of the flight.

01:00:02.940 Now, if you're sitting in the window seat, you need to use the bathroom.

01:00:05.120 You may impose this inconvenience on the aisle seat, but only once per six hours of the flight.

01:00:09.160 So, if your flight is less than six hours, you're not permitted access to the bathroom at all.

01:00:12.260 Now, this is, as I said, only a partial list of rules, enough to get you on the plane and seated.

01:00:19.420 As for how to conduct yourself during the flight, how to get off the flight, well, we'll have to

01:00:24.400 cover those rules at a different time.

01:00:25.500 What I would recommend is that nobody take any flights at all until I've had a chance to cover

01:00:30.080 the entire list of rules.

01:00:31.500 For now, though, anyone who has ever violated rules one through five is, of course, banned from flying

01:00:37.820 from here on, out, and also, obviously, today, canceled.

01:00:42.400 And that'll do it for this portion of the show.

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01:00:52.180 Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - March 30, 2023

Ep. 1140 - This Is What Happens When A Nation Abandons Its Fundamental Values

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