The Matt Walsh Show - September 05, 2023

Ep. 1215 - We Have To Stop Letting The Porn Industry Hide Behind 'Free Speech'

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The left is normally very opposed to free speech in this country, but they do make one exception. While attacking free speech everywhere else, suddenly they ve decided that even the most basic regulations in the porn industry are an untenable assault on the First Amendment. Also, BLM has come out of hibernation just in time for the election. We ll take a look at the police shooting that spurred their re-emergence, plus disaster strikes at a drug-fueled sex fest in Nevada, and Fauci is confronted about a new study showing that masks are effectively useless. We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Warshaw Show.

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00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, the left is normally very opposed to free speech in this country,

00:00:04.020 but they do make one exception, pornography. While attacking free speech everywhere else,

00:00:08.300 suddenly they've decided that even the most basic regulations in the porn industry are an

00:00:11.740 untenable assault on the First Amendment. Also, BLM has come out of hibernation just in time for the

00:00:16.540 election. We'll take a look at the police shooting that spurred their re-emergence, plus disaster

00:00:21.320 strikes at a drug-fueled hippie sex fest in Nevada, and Fauci is confronted about a new study

00:00:25.980 showing that masks are effectively useless. Interestingly enough, this confrontation happened 0.77

00:00:30.080 on CNN, of all places. We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:01:49.940 some gold to depend on. Again, text Walsh to 989898. On the afternoon of April 6, 2020, two

00:01:57.540 employees working for MindGeek, which is the company that runs some of the biggest porn sites

00:02:01.960 in the world, including RedTube and PornHub, began exchanging frantic text messages. One of the messages

00:02:07.200 read, quote, yo, sorry, man, can you make sure you're not CCing the manager of the site on the CSAM

00:02:12.500 reports. CSAM, C-S-A-A-M, stands for Child Sexual Abuse Material, and for some reason,

00:02:19.700 this employee wanted his colleague to stop alerting a manager to the presence of this content on MindGeek's

00:02:25.260 porn sites. That request, understandably, shocked the MindGeek employee who received it,

00:02:30.200 and this was the reply that came back. Quote, he doesn't want to know how much CP we've ignored

00:02:34.420 for the past five years? And that message, in case it's not obvious, CP stands for Child Pornography.

00:02:39.620 Now, these texts and many more incriminating documents surfaced last week in an ongoing

00:02:44.500 lawsuit against MindGeek by the alleged victims of child sex trafficking in California. It's one 0.52

00:02:49.840 of several lawsuits filed against MindGeek across the United States and Canada that accused the

00:02:54.140 company of willful and malicious conduct involving minors. According to one of the lawsuits, for

00:02:59.260 example, PornHub took a large cut of the profits from videos of a 12-year-old boy being raped.

00:03:05.500 Now, amid all this litigation, payment processors like Visa and MasterCard have dropped PornHub,

00:03:12.080 though not before a judge ruled that Visa had facilitated the dissemination of child pornography.

00:03:17.320 In other documents that have been unearthed in discovery, MasterCard confronts MindGeek over

00:03:22.040 apparent child pornography on their platform, prompting officials at MindGeek to brainstorm

00:03:27.140 a crisis response to all of this. And at one point, both the CEO and the owner of MindGeek admit

00:03:35.120 that they had only one staff member reviewing videos that are flagged for containing child sex

00:03:40.640 abuse content. At the same time, they acknowledge that there's a backlog of nearly 700,000 potentially

00:03:48.640 illegal videos that hadn't been reviewed at all. And by the way, from what I could find online,

00:03:53.380 it appears that MindGeek has well over 1,000 employees. So of those more than 1,000 employees,

00:04:00.240 they had just one dedicated to removing child rape from their platform. That tells you how much

00:04:06.260 they prioritized the issue, which is basically not at all. In the meantime, as usual, conservative

00:04:11.860 politicians in this country are taking half measures in response to all this. These politicians are

00:04:17.420 currently attempting to keep pornography websites out of the reach of children instead of shutting them

00:04:22.020 down entirely. You know, PornHub is a hub for hundreds of thousands of videos and images of child

00:04:29.020 rape. It should simply be shut down completely. And that's it. But that isn't happening. Instead, we have

00:04:35.580 these efforts to put age restrictions into place on the user end. And to be fair, that is something,

00:04:42.120 at least. You know, even if it clearly doesn't go far enough, it's better than nothing. To that end,

00:04:46.480 Texas, like several other states, recently passed a law requiring that users of PornHub provide proof

00:04:51.940 that they're 18 years or older. Visitors to PornHub and several websites like it have to upload some kind

00:04:57.660 of identification proving their age. The law also requires PornHub to inform users that, quote,

00:05:04.000 pornography increases the demand for prostitution, child exploitation, and child pornography, which is

00:05:09.520 all obviously true. Now, to be clear, the law in Texas would not prohibit any adult from accessing

00:05:16.780 pornography. The law also would not stop any adult from producing pornography. But even this timid attempt

00:05:24.000 to keep children away from some of the most debased sexual content known to man, something that

00:05:28.620 everyone in the country should easily agree on, was too much for MindGeek and PornHub. So they filed

00:05:34.400 a lawsuit to strike down the law. Watch.

00:05:37.180 PornHub and several adult entertainment workers are suing the state of Texas to block its impending age

00:05:44.900 verification law. Under the law, porn sites would be required to display a Texas Health and Human Services

00:05:50.840 warning on their website in 14-point font or larger. They're saying it violates both the Constitution and the

00:05:57.100 Federal Communications Decency Act. The law will take effect on September 1st unless the court blocks it.

00:06:02.900 The law against showing pornographic content to kids, we're told, violates the Communications Decency

00:06:10.760 Act. So any measure preventing a minor from viewing content on a website that hosts child sex abuse

00:06:17.060 content is indecent. That's what they're saying, without a shred of irony. Not that we should be

00:06:22.560 surprised by that total lack of self-awareness. After all, MindGeek is owned by a Canadian private

00:06:27.260 equity group called Ethical Capital Partners. So doublespeak is all the rage among pornographers,

00:06:32.700 as you might expect. And predictably, these same pornographers are also saying that somehow

00:06:37.340 the right to free speech grants all Americans the inalienable right to watch other people have sex. 0.69

00:06:43.660 And what's more, they say, the First Amendment also grants other people the right to have sex

00:06:47.780 in front of strangers. Now, it doesn't take a lot of sleuthing around in arcane legal textbooks to

00:06:53.580 figure out how nonsensical that position is. Pornography, as we all know, is cyber prostitution, 0.85

00:07:00.940 and most states already ban prostitution. But that's all academic. Again, Texas did not ban

00:07:07.420 pornography, and there's no serious effort to ban it anywhere, unfortunately, nor is there a strong

00:07:12.340 support for those kinds of measures on the right. So that just isn't happening. What's the actual

00:07:16.900 argument then? Well, here's another news segment to flesh this out a bit more. This segment features a

00:07:21.980 representative from the porn industry, which runs a front group with an innocuous sounding name

00:07:26.360 called the Free Speech Coalition. And this is the case that they're making against these laws. Watch.

00:07:33.620 Members of the pornography industry are suing the state of Texas over a new law set to take effect

00:07:39.000 September the 1st. That law requires users of adult websites to send their government-issued

00:07:44.620 identification to those websites to verify the user is of age. The Free Speech Coalition,

00:07:50.620 which represents businesses and people in the adult content industry, says the law violates free speech

00:07:56.480 and is too broad. Consumers are very worried about uploading their ID or letting the government

00:08:03.480 know that they're visiting these types of sites, right? People can lose their jobs. They can, you know,

00:08:08.760 harm their marriages. There's all sorts of reasons why people want to keep this information private

00:08:13.440 and requiring that people go on and submit an ID or submit to a background check in order to protect

00:08:19.740 to access legal content is, you know, un-American and unconstitutional. 0.94

00:08:26.280 The lawsuit filed in federal court aims to block the attorney general from enforcing the new law.

00:08:31.520 The AG's office has not commented on the suit.

00:08:35.180 The guy just, he just looks like a representative for the porn industry, doesn't he? But he says people

00:08:39.540 could lose their jobs and harm their marriages if they're caught browsing a website that allegedly hosts

00:08:44.080 child pornography. Imagine that. And so these privacy concerns that they talk about, which by the way,

00:08:51.560 just so you know, if you go to porn sites, if you frequent porn sites, no matter what the law says,

00:08:59.900 even if there's no identification requirement, these websites already know everything about you.

00:09:05.720 That's the way the internet works. Okay. All these companies, they know everything about you

00:09:10.180 already. You are, you are giving up that information just by going to the site. So if you say to yourself,

00:09:15.420 you know, I don't really think that I want to give personal information to these websites. Well,

00:09:20.920 then here's a solution. Don't go to the websites. There's an idea.

00:09:26.160 Now the porn industry says that it's un-American and unconstitutional to require ID to watch porn.

00:09:35.060 Now for that logic to make any sense whatsoever, it's very important that you don't live in the 0.81

00:09:39.180 United States or have even a passing familiarity with what life is like in this country. It's

00:09:43.900 important that you don't realize that adult oriented products in every other context are age

00:09:49.680 restricted with IDs required to obtain them. And there's no concern about privacy being violated.

00:09:56.680 Okay. If you go to the gas station to buy tobacco products or alcohol or scratch off tickets,

00:10:01.040 you have to provide an identification and it would be useless to say, well, then my privacy,

00:10:06.940 well, I don't want this person to know this information. Well, then I guess you're not buying

00:10:09.900 the alcohol. Tough luck. In fact, even physical porn, physical porn like DVDs and magazines require

00:10:20.560 identification to purchase. Okay. Anything that you might buy at some skeevy sex shop on the side of the

00:10:26.000 highway requires an ID to purchase. Nobody ever complains about any of this or claims that their

00:10:31.480 first amendment rights are being destroyed because they have to show their license to buy any of these

00:10:36.300 things. And indeed, if that skeevy sex shop looked the other way while hundreds of 10 year olds came in 1.00

00:10:43.180 and browsed around, everyone would agree that the shop should be shut down and the owner's employee should

00:10:48.220 be thrown in prison. And yet with online porn and only online porn, suddenly the imposition of any age

00:10:55.560 requirement, any ID requirement is an untenable attack on free speech. It doesn't apply to any

00:11:01.580 other adult oriented product. Every other adult oriented product in every other context, including

00:11:07.640 online. If you want to gamble online, you have to show ID. So again, in every other context where there is

00:11:15.080 adult oriented products online or offline, everybody agrees that you should have to show ID.

00:11:21.460 It is only with pornography that suddenly it becomes, you're abolishing the first amendment by

00:11:28.620 simply requiring it. It is a ridiculous argument. Can it hold any water whatsoever in court is the 0.96

00:11:38.220 question. Well, remarkably enough, a Reagan appointed federal judge in Texas appears to think that it does.

00:11:43.420 The judge, David A. Ezra, just struck down the Texas law saying that it chills the speech of

00:11:48.820 plaintiffs and adults who wish to access sexual materials. The judge added, quote,

00:11:53.500 the court agrees that the state has a legitimate goal in protecting children from sexually explicit

00:11:56.820 material online. But that goal, however crucial, does not negate this court's burden to ensure that

00:12:01.140 the laws passed in its pursuit comport with established first amendment doctrine. Now, to be clear,

00:12:06.580 this judge's ruling is not the final word. It's already being appealed and it has no weight in the

00:12:11.740 several other states that have already passed similar ID requirements on pornography websites.

00:12:15.760 So it's important not to blow this out of proportion. We've seen, you know, a lot of

00:12:19.420 insane rulings from individual federal judges that are quickly overturned, including judges appointed

00:12:24.160 by Republicans. Just happened in Tennessee when Judge Eli Richardson, the guy who keeps hiring left-wing

00:12:28.540 clerks, tried to strike down the state's ban on child genital mutilation, and he was quickly overturned.

00:12:34.700 At the same time, it's important to read the Pornhub judge's decision carefully,

00:12:38.480 because the truth is that, as insane as his ruling is, the conservative politicians bear some

00:12:43.640 of the blame for it. If these politicians want to make any headway in stopping the depravity and

00:12:49.220 cultural rot that these pornography sites are responsible for, then they have to start crafting 0.95

00:12:53.140 better laws. And this decision makes that clear. There's no way around it. The free speech argument

00:12:59.320 from the judge is blatant nonsense, but he does raise another point that is not so nonsensical.

00:13:05.860 One of the problems that Judge David Ezra identified with the law is that it didn't

00:13:09.620 really accomplish the goal that the legislation said it would. So I'm going to quote a long

00:13:13.900 paragraph from this decision because it's important to highlight the exact reasoning behind the decision

00:13:19.040 if conservatives want to have any hope of getting decisions to go their way in the future. So here's

00:13:23.100 what it says. Quote,

00:13:24.480 The law will do little to prevent children from accessing pornography. Search engines, for example,

00:13:28.480 do not need to implement age verification, even when they're aware that someone is using

00:13:33.460 their service to view pornography. The law, the same is true for blogs posted to Tumblr,

00:13:39.080 including subdomains that only display sexually explicit content. Likewise, Instagram and Facebook

00:13:44.240 pages can show material which is sexually explicit for minors without compelled age verification.

00:13:49.180 In some, the law is severely under-inclusive. It nominally attempts to prevent minors' access to

00:13:53.680 pornography, but contains substantial exemptions, including material most likely to serve as a

00:13:58.820 gateway to pornography use. The judge continues, quote,

00:14:01.840 In addition, social media companies are de facto exempted. This means that certain social media

00:14:06.060 sites, such as Reddit, can maintain entire communities and forums dedicated to posting

00:14:10.660 online pornography with no regulation. In other words, the law in Texas doesn't really stop minors

00:14:16.500 from accessing pornography. It's not much of a roadblock at all because minors could just go on

00:14:21.220 Reddit or use Twitter or use search engines like Bing and watch porn there. So this is a very

00:14:27.300 important distinction. As arbitrary and frustrating as it is, it's a distinction that conservative

00:14:32.740 politicians need to grasp if they want to have any chance of protecting children from the never-ending

00:14:37.780 fountains of filth like Pornhub. Voters in several states, including Virginia, Mississippi, and Utah,

00:14:43.620 have passed age verification laws that apply to porn sites. There's not a lot of dissent on this issue

00:14:49.160 among sane people. And yet conservative politicians have found a way to bungle this issue. They've passed

00:14:55.240 flimsy laws that can't stand up in court. Of course, even if the Texas law had loopholes that

00:15:00.360 will allow children to access pornography, still you would think that a flimsy attempt to protect

00:15:06.200 kids is better than no attempt at all. But the flimsiness of the law provides a pretense for striking 0.94

00:15:12.320 it down entirely, and that's the issue. So the solution is obvious. First, these politicians should

00:15:19.020 come out and say what everyone knows, which is that the left's concerns about free speech are a

00:15:23.300 smokescreen. Sites like Pornhub protest age restrictions because they stand to lose

00:15:28.680 millions if minors aren't granted access to their platforms. They are knowingly profiting off of the

00:15:34.320 sexualization and trauma of children. The average porn user, on the other hand, protests these age

00:15:39.700 restrictions because he doesn't want to be hassled or inconvenienced in his pursuit of masturbatory

00:15:44.440 material. That's the only reason he cares about it. Both groups cry about free speech, but they

00:15:50.180 couldn't give less of a damn about it. Right now in the United States, actual free speech is

00:15:57.040 infringed every day. Pro-life activists are hunted down by the FBI. Right-wingers are jailed for posting

00:16:02.960 memes. And yet suddenly the courts and the left have decided to become free speech absolutists when it

00:16:08.800 comes to porn and sexual depravity. That's the only area where they care about free speech. 0.98

00:16:14.040 To give another recent example, after a lawsuit from the ACLU, a federal judge in Tennessee

00:16:18.780 just blocked a local DA from enforcing the state's law protecting kids from sexually explicit

00:16:24.280 performances at so-called pride events or so-called family-friendly drag shows and all the rest of it.

00:16:32.060 That's banned in Tennessee. There's a law passed that bans it. And all this DA did was send word to

00:16:37.300 organizers of this pride thing, telling them that they cannot involve kids in any of these performances.

00:16:44.140 Which is a reasonable thing to say, especially if you've seen any of the millions of videos of

00:16:48.840 naked adults twerking in front of children from the past few months at these pride parades.

00:16:54.220 But the left pretended that it wasn't reasonable and they shut the DA down. 0.97

00:16:58.580 And this is, among other things, hypocritical. The same people who believe that basic political 0.78

00:17:02.700 speech should be outlawed and prosecuted as hate crimes are suddenly starting to care about free

00:17:06.720 speech the moment the right makes any effort to protect children from degenerate sexual content.

00:17:12.140 But the right can't simply scream hypocrisy and call it a day. That doesn't accomplish anything.

00:17:18.840 Leftists know they're being hypocritical. They know they're using the court system to overturn the 0.81

00:17:23.640 will of the well-adjusted, sane majority. They don't care. The correct response from the right,

00:17:29.580 as the Texas Pornhub case shows, albeit in a roundabout way, is to one-up these degenerates.

00:17:35.660 Stop passing half measures into law. Stop with the flimsy thrown together legislation that doesn't

00:17:42.160 remotely accomplish what you say you want to accomplish. Start instead with a total ban on

00:17:46.840 pornography for children across all platforms. Search engines, websites, social media, everything.

00:17:54.380 And it should be a ban that extends not just to websites, but to the devices that are used to

00:17:59.980 access the website. There should be laws in all 50 states mandating that cell phones used by children

00:18:06.760 have filters and blocks on them that prevent the user from accessing this material.

00:18:12.280 Cell phone companies should be required by law to sell devices that are safe for kids as long as kids

00:18:17.640 are going to be using them. And really, kids shouldn't be using phones at all, but millions do,

00:18:22.940 and so we should have a law that takes that into account. Ironically, that kind of law is more likely

00:18:29.020 to withstand scrutiny from federal judges. It's also more likely to bring about what every responsible

00:18:34.320 adult should want, which is the safeguarding of our kids. You know, our kids didn't choose to be born

00:18:40.760 into a depraved society filled with degenerate filth, but they were. And the least we can do is make even

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00:19:54.000 Well, we're getting into election season now, which means that it's time for two things to

00:19:59.660 make a comeback, and that would be COVID and BLM. And right on cue, you know, we have this

00:20:05.480 resurgence, this supposed resurgence of COVID and the new COVID variant. They're talking about

00:20:10.520 masking again and everything else. And also, BLM is marching in the streets again. The interesting

00:20:14.860 thing, of course, is that BLM basically took a break for the entirety of Biden's tenure up until

00:20:20.900 right now, I guess because racism had been solved. You know, it's a fascinating thing.

00:20:26.820 Democrat gets elected and racism is solved. There's no more racism until now. Racism is back

00:20:32.860 just in time for the election. So here was BLM marching in Columbus, Ohio this weekend. Let's watch.

00:20:39.300 Good. There we go, Black. 0.96

00:21:09.800 Black Lives Matter again.

00:21:11.580 Black Lives Matter.

00:21:12.840 It's good that they're walking in the streets chanting that because, you know, we weren't sure.

00:21:17.920 I wasn't sure.

00:21:18.500 Do black lives still matter? 1.00

00:21:20.460 Because there aren't any, there's no one, you know, if no one is chanting it, then how are we supposed to know?

00:21:24.860 And now they're chanting it again.

00:21:26.240 And we could go, oh, so black lives matter.

00:21:28.000 Well, that's good.

00:21:28.440 Now, the ostensible reason for this demonstration is the police shooting of a woman named Takiyah Young in Columbus, Ohio.

00:21:37.400 And we're told by the BLM and the media, and, you know, this is their approved narrative, that Takiyah Young was executed, that she was shot dead by racist cops nearly for trying to shoplift.

00:21:49.820 And that's all.

00:21:50.360 So she was shoplifting. 1.00

00:21:51.720 The way that they frame it, you're imagining the way what they want you to imagine is that she was shoplifting.

00:21:58.500 And so some cop just walked in and shot her dead, said, you're being executed for the crime of shoplifting.

00:22:03.860 And that's all that happened.

00:22:04.660 Meanwhile, Takiyah was six months pregnant.

00:22:08.300 Her unborn child was also killed, tragically.

00:22:11.000 And the media, actually, it's been interesting, the media has been using the phrase unborn child to describe Takiyah Young's child in the womb.

00:22:21.080 So that they have also just now discovered the humanity of the unborn, at least for as long as this story is in the news.

00:22:28.780 So good news for all the unborn children of the world right now, that for right now, you get to be human beings for the sake of this Takiyah Young story.

00:22:40.320 And once it's out of the news, then, of course, unborn children will go back to being inanimate clumps of worthless matter.

00:22:46.860 But for right now, they are unborn babies somehow.

00:22:51.720 Now, is it true that Takiyah Young was killed for shoplifting?

00:22:57.340 Well, no, of course, that's not true.

00:22:59.120 Of course, that's nonsense.

00:23:00.640 She was killed because what began, what's the reason why she was having an interaction with the police in the first place is because she was allegedly shoplifting.

00:23:11.800 So that's what started this incident.

00:23:15.380 And by the way, another point about that that I think is relevant is that she was allegedly shoplifting alcohol.

00:23:22.640 Okay.

00:23:23.160 She was six months pregnant, allegedly shoplifting alcohol.

00:23:28.480 So that's something to keep in mind.

00:23:30.540 Really for two reasons, because number one, we're told that the reason people go and shoplift is because they're desperate and they're hungry and they're starving and they got to feed their kids.

00:23:40.540 And Takiyah Young is 21 years old, had two other kids as well.

00:23:45.360 So this is what we would normally be told is why she was shoplifting because she's that. 1.00

00:23:49.300 Well, except that she was shoplifting, apparently, according to the reports, alcohol.

00:23:54.020 Is she going to feed that to the kids? 1.00

00:23:55.920 Well, she was going to feed it to her unborn child, apparently, if she was planning on consuming it herself.

00:24:02.140 So that's something to keep in mind.

00:24:04.460 But she stole the alcohol, allegedly, got into her car. 1.00

00:24:11.020 Cops tried to stop her from leaving because she had potentially committed a crime. 1.00

00:24:16.660 And that's what cops are there for. 0.68

00:24:18.180 If you're committing a crime, they're going to come up and stop you.

00:24:20.060 And if you say, I don't want to be stopped, I'm just going to leave, they can't just let you leave because then there's no point in having law enforcement at all.

00:24:30.380 And if there's no point, if we don't have law enforcement, there's no point of having law in the first place.

00:24:35.120 And then we can just have chaos, which, of course, is what many on the left want.

00:24:38.420 But if you want to live in any kind of civilized, functional society, you have law.

00:24:43.800 And law means law enforcement.

00:24:45.820 And enforcing the law means that when the law enforcement shows up, you can't just decline to be, you can't just say, well, you know what, I'd prefer not to be arrested today, officer.

00:24:56.720 Oh, well, if you don't want to be, never mind.

00:24:58.720 Oh, you don't want to be arrested.

00:25:01.720 Okay, well, forget it then.

00:25:03.280 Just go ahead.

00:25:04.740 What did you steal there?

00:25:06.600 I got a couple bottles of whiskey.

00:25:07.580 Well, enjoy.

00:25:08.280 Go enjoy yourself.

00:25:09.940 That's not how it works.

00:25:11.280 So she tried to leave.

00:25:13.180 And she was in her car at this point.

00:25:15.460 She refused to get out of the car. 0.95

00:25:17.940 And instead, she started to drive away.

00:25:20.880 And one of the problems with driving away is, well, number one, you're under arrest because you're trying to steal something, so you can't just leave.

00:25:27.640 But number two, there was a cop standing in front of the car when she started to drive.

00:25:32.380 And so she was driving into a police officer.

00:25:36.120 And that cop then fired a single shot.

00:25:38.720 And Takiyah Young was killed.

00:25:40.080 That's what happened.

00:25:41.380 Now, was the cop in the wrong in this shooting?

00:25:45.240 Well, as far as I can tell, if he violated any protocols, it was that he stepped in front of the car of the suspect.

00:25:51.500 Now, he stepped in front of it before it was moving.

00:25:53.180 He didn't jump in front of a moving vehicle.

00:25:55.300 She was parked.

00:25:57.000 And there was one cop to the side trying to get her out of the car, another cop in front of the car.

00:26:01.620 And she was well aware that the cop was there.

00:26:03.480 She chose to drive into him.

00:26:04.660 Now, you know, I'm not an expert in police procedures.

00:26:09.480 I'm pretty sure it's not proper procedure for an officer to physically step in front of the car of a suspect.

00:26:16.120 Cops aren't supposed to use their own bodies as barricades, as far as I know. 0.98

00:26:20.500 So that was dumb on his part. 0.99

00:26:22.380 No question about it. 0.99

00:26:24.100 However, the fact that he's standing there doesn't give the suspect the right to drive into him.

00:26:29.660 And once she is driving into him, which she was, even if he shouldn't have been standing there, he has every right to use force to protect himself.

00:26:39.220 Because now this is a lethal weapon.

00:26:41.900 A car is a lethal weapon being used against him.

00:26:44.940 And he responds with lethal force and was entirely justified in doing so.

00:26:48.780 So Takiyah Young is not a victim here, except of her own poor choices.

00:26:53.200 And that's the thing that, as always, is missing from this discussion.

00:26:56.480 That if black lives matter, and of course they do, then the people who really need to hear that message are people like Takiyah Young.

00:27:08.660 She did not treat her own life or her unborn child's life like they had any value at all.

00:27:17.740 So she's the one who needs the newsflash. 0.91

00:27:21.300 It's the BLM martyrs themselves that act like black lives don't matter. 0.97

00:27:26.720 They throw their lives away for no reason. 1.00

00:27:29.760 They do suicidally stupid things. 0.99

00:27:33.280 Make these recklessly self-destructive decisions with no upside, with no possible chance of it working out in their favor. 1.00

00:27:41.680 And yet they do it anyway, and they die in the process.

00:27:43.880 Like, you're shoplifting alcohol to begin with, so you're not starving and desperate.

00:27:47.520 You're stealing booze, and you're pregnant. 1.00

00:27:50.140 Already that's a decision that has zero chance of making your life any better at all.

00:27:54.880 But then you get stopped by the cops.

00:27:56.220 Okay, well, you're caught.

00:27:58.440 It's done.

00:27:59.540 They got you.

00:28:00.760 That's it.

00:28:01.440 They got you.

00:28:02.360 You're done.

00:28:02.920 It's finished.

00:28:05.800 And here's the thing.

00:28:07.140 They're not even going to put you in prison.

00:28:09.400 Nobody goes to prison anymore for a little thing like stealing.

00:28:12.440 You might get a fine or something.

00:28:13.920 Maybe you have to do some community service at most.

00:28:16.360 So it's a relatively minor, low-stake situation.

00:28:19.440 Now, I think that shoplifting should be dealt with much more severely than it is.

00:28:23.500 I don't think it should be just a slap on the wrist.

00:28:25.960 I think there should be real prison time.

00:28:27.720 But that's not what the situation in our society today.

00:28:32.120 So you can just take your slap on the wrist and move on with your life and live to steal another day.

00:28:38.760 Or you can try to run away, which in the best case scenario will mean that when they do catch you, you're going to have additional charges.

00:28:48.020 And now you really will do prison time, whereas before you wouldn't have.

00:28:51.300 That's the best case.

00:28:55.620 The moment you decide to drive away.

00:28:57.680 Best case is that now you're going to spend more time in prison than you would have otherwise.

00:29:03.220 Worst case scenario is that you get shot.

00:29:05.640 There is no scenario, no scenario where you drive away and things work out better for you because of it.

00:29:16.400 That scenario is not on the menu of options.

00:29:20.300 It doesn't exist.

00:29:22.200 And that's the case for all of the BLM martyrs. 0.89

00:29:24.920 I mean, every single one.

00:29:29.640 They're in a situation where the cops, they're having an interaction with the police officers because of the things that they were doing,

00:29:35.980 because of crimes they were allegedly committing.

00:29:38.180 And rather than just accept the fact that you're committing a crime and now the police are here and that's it,

00:29:48.160 they do everything in their power to make the situation as bad as it can possibly be for them.

00:29:56.520 And then we're supposed to turn around and cry tears like they're the victims.

00:30:04.200 And no one ever says, hey, you know what? 1.00

00:30:06.320 When the cops stop you because you're committing a crime, just don't be suicidally stupid. 1.00

00:30:13.340 That's it. 1.00

00:30:15.480 Value your own life enough to fight it out in court.

00:30:21.380 Okay, if you really were being, if you really are innocent of stealing the alcohol, then fight it out in court.

00:30:29.380 You decide to fight it out in the parking lot and now you're dead.

00:30:31.980 And, you know, all of the people who go around chanting Black Lives Matter, none of them will say this.

00:30:41.060 All of these situations are extremely avoidable.

00:30:44.620 The reason why I am not currently dead right now in a parking lot in Columbus, Ohio,

00:30:52.320 is because number one, I would not steal alcohol to begin with.

00:30:57.380 I'm just not going to do that.

00:30:59.900 And number two, if I was suspected of a crime, I would not try to drive away.

00:31:07.100 Because I would recognize that that is going to make all of my problems so much worse.

00:31:15.760 So is it because I'm a genius or I'm some great saint?

00:31:19.500 No.

00:31:20.380 It's a basic self-preservation.

00:31:22.760 I don't want to make my problems worse.

00:31:24.100 I don't want to make a situation worse for myself.

00:31:25.660 So I'm not going to.

00:31:28.480 Right?

00:31:28.680 But that's why I'm not dead in the parking lot.

00:31:32.700 That's why you're not.

00:31:34.280 It's not because I'm white or you're white.

00:31:36.460 It's got nothing to do with it. 1.00

00:31:39.380 People who make suicidally stupid decisions oftentimes end up dead. 1.00

00:31:45.160 People who don't will live longer. 1.00

00:31:47.640 And that's it.

00:31:49.760 And that should be the message.

00:31:51.600 Just have a little bit of common sense, a little bit of personal responsibility, and

00:31:58.400 value your own life.

00:32:04.240 And the problem is in these communities, this is the thing that plagues these communities.

00:32:10.480 Total lack of common sense, total lack of personal responsibility, and a total lack of valuing

00:32:16.920 your own life and your own freedom.

00:32:19.020 And anyone who actually cares, this is what they would be saying.

00:32:26.240 All right.

00:32:26.760 Well, it had been a couple of years as we move on since the last festival-related disaster.

00:32:32.620 So we're due for another one.

00:32:34.660 And Burning Man has stepped up to the plate to deliver.

00:32:37.540 Burning Man is the festival out in the Nevada desert where a bunch of hippies and tech bros

00:32:41.440 gather together to do drugs and have sex and not shower and smell each other's body odor

00:32:46.740 for four days. 0.99

00:32:47.360 A lot of pagan symbolism and various rituals, and it's all very satanic and bad and gross.

00:32:52.360 But this time, the satanic rituals went awry because it rained, and there was a lot of mud,

00:32:58.480 and people couldn't leave.

00:32:59.580 They couldn't get out because the roads weren't usable.

00:33:02.560 So they were stranded for several days without proper facilities, without bathrooms.

00:33:06.580 The bathrooms were overflowing. 0.91

00:33:07.660 It's all very disgusting.

00:33:08.400 Which meant that the very gross event was even grosser than usual.

00:33:13.460 But this is the internet age, which means that every event has to spawn eight or nine different

00:33:19.280 conspiracy theories because everyone feels like everyone thinks they're living in a movie

00:33:22.620 all the time because they despair of their own lives, and they find their own lives so dull

00:33:28.500 and uninteresting.

00:33:29.220 So they want to pretend that they're living in a movie.

00:33:30.940 And that's what happened this time, as this is all unfolding over the weekend with Burning Man.

00:33:37.100 You have all of these people posting on social media, on Twitter, on TikTok, saying,

00:33:41.360 what's really going on?

00:33:42.540 What's really going on there?

00:33:44.740 There's something going on.

00:33:47.340 So here's just one example.

00:33:48.540 This is a citizen journalist, I suppose, on TikTok, revealing some of the sinister secrets 1.00

00:33:56.460 at Burning Man.

00:33:57.920 Let's watch this.

00:33:59.260 Most of y'all have probably heard that Burning Man was declared a national emergency, but

00:34:03.440 there's some pretty crazy stuff coming out.

00:34:06.380 So it was announced earlier that Burning Man was declared a national emergency because it

00:34:10.680 was flooded.

00:34:11.780 And so they sent in FEMA, which already seemed kind of like a weird reason to send in FEMA

00:34:16.520 and keep anyone from leaving the festival.

00:34:19.500 73,000 people they're keeping locked in there for flooding.

00:34:23.740 Now there's some new terrifying information coming out that there's a virus on the loose

00:34:28.840 in the festival and that people are getting really sick with boils, vomiting, hemorrhaging.

00:34:33.940 To me, this makes way more sense than flooding in terms of what their response was to the

00:34:38.720 situation.

00:34:39.820 This is a text from one of the festival goers, and he said, yo, just figured you should hear

00:34:44.840 from me first.

00:34:45.560 Daryl is crazy sick with something that has him coughing up really coagulated blood.

00:34:50.220 Medic showed up wearing a full suit.

00:34:52.300 No idea where he is now.

00:34:53.720 I would stay inside your camper.

00:34:55.460 And he goes on to say that an outside agency is putting up a fence.

00:35:00.100 This is a different festival goer that said, you're never gonna believe it.

00:35:04.740 They're saying it's Ebola.

00:35:06.760 Freaking Ebola at Burning Man, guys.

00:35:09.240 If this is true, that is insane.

00:35:11.400 I just hope that everyone ends up being okay and that they make it out.

00:35:15.420 It's not true, first of all.

00:35:19.240 So that's my favorite TikTok video, which is a bunch of nonsense.

00:35:22.360 This is true.

00:35:23.760 And there's something going on.

00:35:24.640 Yeah, it's not true.

00:35:27.460 What's going on here?

00:35:28.860 Something.

00:35:30.380 Flooding?

00:35:30.800 You're telling me they couldn't leave because of flooding?

00:35:32.480 That doesn't make it.

00:35:33.160 Why doesn't that make any sense?

00:35:34.200 But it makes perfect sense.

00:35:35.160 It rained.

00:35:35.700 Like, there's flooding.

00:35:36.660 What do you want?

00:35:37.820 It's, it's, uh, that's it.

00:35:39.860 Um, so there's no conspiracy.

00:35:42.480 Here's what happened.

00:35:43.180 It's exactly what I already said.

00:35:44.420 A bunch of hippies and tech bros with no survival skills went to the middle of the desert to have 0.97

00:35:48.480 sex with each other and use drugs. 0.64

00:35:50.260 And they gathered together on a dried up lake bed. 0.98

00:35:53.680 And then it rained.

00:35:55.400 Okay.

00:35:56.120 And the ground didn't absorb the moisture very well because it's the desert.

00:36:00.060 So it's like raining on concrete.

00:36:02.180 Plus they're on a lake bed.

00:36:04.120 Okay.

00:36:04.420 They're on a lake bed.

00:36:05.380 So the water pools and it creates a lot of mud and then you can't drive your vehicles

00:36:09.960 and your hippie RVs and all that on it.

00:36:12.160 And you have to wait for the mud to dry up.

00:36:14.380 And, uh, and that's it.

00:36:15.840 That's, that's all, that's all you need for people getting sick.

00:36:19.000 Yeah, probably 95% of the attendees already had chlamydia before they showed up.

00:36:24.580 So they're all bringing, it's like a potluck of viruses at Burning Man.

00:36:30.620 They're all bringing their own viruses with them to begin with.

00:36:33.520 Okay. 1.00

00:36:34.300 They're all a bunch of disease infested, disgusting people. 1.00

00:36:37.660 And then they come together. 0.99

00:36:39.520 If you pardon the expression and they're there and all the diseases are being spread around.

00:36:45.300 So again, we don't need any kind of, it's a Petri dish of disease.

00:36:49.000 Were there people vomiting?

00:36:51.060 Yeah, probably.

00:36:52.820 Okay.

00:36:53.020 I want to vomit just thinking about Burning Man.

00:36:55.220 I can't actually, actually being there.

00:36:58.400 So there's an important lesson here.

00:37:01.180 And by the way, the latest update is that everyone's going home now.

00:37:03.520 So they, the mud dried up enough and now they're all leaving and they're not, okay. 0.68

00:37:07.940 The government's not there rounding them all up and, and sending them off to FEMA camps,

00:37:12.860 which I, you know, you can make an argument that maybe we should do that anyway.

00:37:20.100 You know, I mean, if we were to round up everybody at, at, at Burning Man and send them to FEMA camps,

00:37:24.660 like, I mean, there's already, as I said, there's a lot of probably contagious disease

00:37:28.940 already there.

00:37:29.800 And so, but anyway, um, that's not happening.

00:37:32.920 So I think an important lesson here, uh, and the first one is don't go to Burning Man.

00:37:38.320 Okay.

00:37:38.760 In general, like don't go out into the wilderness unless you're well-prepared and have survival 0.96

00:37:44.280 skills and certainly don't go out into the wilderness with a bunch of sex crazed druggies. 0.85

00:37:50.260 That's the worst thing you can do. 0.98

00:37:53.360 Um, so that's the first lesson.

00:37:54.800 Um, and the second lesson is that, you know, you shouldn't hatch conspiracy theories unless

00:38:02.220 a conspiracy is needed in order to explain something.

00:38:06.400 And sometimes it is.

00:38:07.880 So sometimes you have something going on and it doesn't make sense and they're telling us

00:38:11.000 something and it doesn't add up.

00:38:12.220 And so, and, and then you need to, you need to introduce speculatively an element of conspiracy,

00:38:18.980 um, in order to make sense of what you're seeing.

00:38:22.200 Um, and that's where, and that's where conspiracy theories can be legitimate.

00:38:25.060 At the very least they can be defensible.

00:38:27.500 Um, but then you have the other kind, which is like what came up with the Burning Man, which

00:38:32.160 we don't need any, you don't need any kind of conspiracy theory to explain this.

00:38:35.640 It's all very simple to understand.

00:38:37.800 It all makes a lot of sense actually.

00:38:41.160 And yet we introduce it anyway, because, you know, we want to make a, we want to make

00:38:47.480 it more interesting.

00:38:47.880 Although look, it would be an interesting film plot, like a, a zombie virus, uh, breakout

00:38:54.340 at Burning Man.

00:38:56.360 Great movie idea.

00:38:57.560 Somebody shouldn't make that movie.

00:38:58.780 I will make that movie and nobody does.

00:39:00.240 That's a great movie idea.

00:39:01.620 Not reality though, unfortunately.

00:39:03.960 Uh, okay.

00:39:05.160 Briefly, one other thing before we, uh, move on this from a daily wire, uh, Dr. Anthony Fauci

00:39:09.980 was asked to respond to a study that raised doubts about face masks being able to curb the

00:39:15.180 spread of COVID, the exchange happened, uh, on CNN over the weekend when host Michael Smirconish

00:39:21.240 brought up the analysis released in January, uh, about masks and their lack of efficacy.

00:39:27.200 Uh, let's watch a little bit of this exchange.

00:39:29.820 I would hope that if in fact we get to the point where the volume of cases as such, and

00:39:36.020 organizations like the CDC recommend, CDC doesn't mandate anything, I mean, recommends that people

00:39:43.900 wear masks, I would hope that they abide by the recommendation and take into account the

00:39:48.980 risk to themselves and to their families.

00:39:51.900 And again, we're not talking about forcing anybody to do anything.

00:39:55.560 Totally understood.

00:39:57.760 There is a perception out there by many, how many, I don't know.

00:40:01.000 Pause one second.

00:40:02.980 Uh, that's, of course, that's nonsense from Fauci.

00:40:06.060 This is what they, this is, this has been the, the, uh, the false narrative the whole time.

00:40:10.760 Well, uh, if, if CDC says something, it's only, it's a record, we're recommending it.

00:40:16.300 It's not a mandate.

00:40:17.320 So all throughout the COVID panic, this is what we always heard.

00:40:20.820 Oh, it's not a mandate.

00:40:21.740 It's just a recommendation, a recommendation.

00:40:23.340 And of course, what he, what he knows and what we all know now, and he still lies about

00:40:28.400 because he has no respect for our intelligence, uh, I think for all a bunch of cattle, a bunch

00:40:32.900 of sheep, and I guess in his defense, uh, many people did in fact act like cattle and

00:40:37.480 sheep during COVID.

00:40:38.380 But anyway, uh, yes, the, the recommendation, this is the process, the COVID, when we're talking

00:40:45.220 about conspiracies, here's one, uh, you have, you have, uh, these, the CDC, these other

00:40:51.600 organizations that make recommendations and then the governmental agencies come along and

00:40:57.300 translate those recommendations into the mandates.

00:41:00.340 That's just, that's how, that's how the sausage is made.

00:41:02.800 And he of course knows that, but, uh, doesn't want to admit that let's keep going.

00:41:06.620 That they don't work and that the data concludes that they didn't work in the first go round.

00:41:12.000 Respond to that on masks.

00:41:15.240 Yeah, well, that's not so.

00:41:17.200 I mean, when you're talking about at the population level, that the data are less strong than knowing

00:41:22.520 that if you look on a situation as an individual protecting themselves or protecting them from

00:41:28.960 spreading it, there's no doubt that masks work.

00:41:32.080 Different studies give different percentages of advantage of wearing it, but there's no doubt that

00:41:38.000 the weight of the studies, and there have been many studies indicate the benefit of wearing masks.

00:41:45.160 I'm going to refer to one of them.

00:41:46.880 You've heard about it before.

00:41:48.080 I heard about it from a number of radio callers.

00:41:50.760 Uh, Brett Stevens in the times talked about Cochran, put that on the screen.

00:41:54.600 The most rigorous and comprehensive analysis of scientific studies conducted on the efficacy

00:41:58.780 of masks for reducing the spread of respiratory illness, including COVID-19, was published last

00:42:04.540 month.

00:42:04.940 Its conclusions, said Tom Jefferson, the Oxford epidemiologist, who is the lead author, were

00:42:09.980 unambiguous.

00:42:11.140 There is just no evidence that they, masks, make any difference, he told the journalist

00:42:16.300 Mayan Demasi.

00:42:17.580 Full stop.

00:42:18.740 But wait, hold on.

00:42:19.820 What about the N95 masks as opposed to the lower quality surgical or cloth masks?

00:42:24.800 Makes no difference.

00:42:26.180 None of it, he said.

00:42:27.100 Well, what about the studies that initially persuaded policymakers to impose mask mandates?

00:42:32.460 They were convinced by non-randomized studies, flawed observational studies.

00:42:37.300 How do we get beyond that finding of that particular review?

00:42:42.560 Yeah, but there are other studies, Michael, that show at an individual level for individual,

00:42:47.860 when you're talking about the effect on the epidemic or the pandemic as a whole, the data

00:42:54.700 are less strong.

00:42:55.660 But when you talk about as an individual basis of someone protecting themselves or protecting

00:43:01.260 themselves from spreading it to others, there's no doubt that there are many studies that show

00:43:06.140 that there is an advantage.

00:43:07.580 When you took it, the broad population level, like the Cochran study, the data are less firm

00:43:13.600 with regard to the effect on the overall.

00:43:15.920 So this is, first of all, there were some people giving CNN some credit.

00:43:22.400 Oh my gosh, CNN.

00:43:23.660 I mean, they're actually challenging masks like that on CNN.

00:43:27.400 I can't believe it.

00:43:28.220 Well, I don't give them any credit for this.

00:43:29.420 This is three years later.

00:43:31.360 Okay.

00:43:31.660 This exact segment three years ago, I give them some credit for that.

00:43:35.680 If this is like the summer of 2020 or the spring of 2020, and they're holding Fauci's feet to the fire

00:43:44.160 about masking, saying, where's the data on this?

00:43:48.200 How do we know that this works?

00:43:49.720 Where are you getting this from?

00:43:51.240 Okay.

00:43:51.500 But they didn't.

00:43:53.040 And so they waited three years until everyone had already figured it out.

00:43:59.220 And now they come around and say, yeah, you know, that whole masking thing was, there's probably,

00:44:03.540 there was no evidence for it.

00:44:05.320 I don't give them credit for that.

00:44:06.860 No credit at all.

00:44:09.640 In fact, I'd rather you just keep it, if anything, it's less annoying if you just keep up the lie

00:44:16.380 or just drop it and move on, pretend it never happened.

00:44:18.920 But to admit it years later, after you just spent three years, or certainly at least a

00:44:27.840 year and a half to two years of those three years, calling people who question masks, you

00:44:33.100 know, genocidal, grandma-killing psychopaths, you know, to do that, that is what's the most

00:44:41.100 frustrating of all, especially when there's no, there is no accountability.

00:44:45.600 You know, there's no one apologizing.

00:44:47.120 There's no one saying, yeah, you know, we got this one really wrong.

00:44:49.820 And the people that were raising questions about masks, they were very valid questions. 0.96

00:44:55.780 You know, pointing out things like, hey, the COVID virus, it's like we can actually see,

00:45:01.100 well, we can't see it with the naked eye, but you can see it.

00:45:04.100 We know how big the actual virus is itself.

00:45:07.220 Okay, that microscopic, tiny little virus.

00:45:12.880 And then it's just a question of that virus, can that, is that actually blocked by the fibers

00:45:19.120 of the mask or can it just travel right through?

00:45:22.580 So it's actually, it's actually a very simple question.

00:45:24.300 Now there are other contaminants and bacteria and viruses and things that might be bigger.

00:45:32.120 I mean, there's a reason why it makes sense for a surgeon in a hospital is performing surgery

00:45:37.980 to wear the mask because there's all kinds of different things that that could potentially

00:45:42.520 block against.

00:45:43.420 But when it comes to COVID in particular, you got to look at the virus, a little, the little

00:45:47.440 microscopic virus, can that fit through these masks?

00:45:53.360 And according to the studies we're seeing now, it's like, well, yeah, it can.

00:45:56.040 So it's not doing anything.

00:45:59.320 But that's a point people were making years ago.

00:46:03.520 Now Fauci, for one, he can't even bring himself even now to admit that it was all, that it was

00:46:07.900 all bogus.

00:46:08.460 And so instead he has this equivocation that makes no sense at all.

00:46:12.780 Say, well, he works on the individual level, but on the societal level, it's, it's,

00:46:17.440 the data are less strong, which is another way of saying there's no data.

00:46:21.480 It's the, this, the, or the data in fact works against his hypothesis entirely.

00:46:26.340 Why does that make any sense?

00:46:28.320 So it works on the individual level, but not on the, so when one individual wears the

00:46:32.880 mask, it protects them from COVID, but a bunch of people together are not protected.

00:46:37.580 How does that make sense?

00:46:38.460 So, so what do you, what are you saying?

00:46:40.120 So an individual like by himself on a mountainside, there's no one else around wearing a mask probably

00:46:46.800 won't get COVID.

00:46:47.460 Well, yeah, true, but without the mask, he also wouldn't be getting COVID.

00:46:51.760 If you're telling me that when you add everyone together, it doesn't, the data are less strong

00:46:57.360 than it protects against COVID.

00:46:58.320 Well, that's just another way of saying the masks are useless, which even now CNN is saying

00:47:03.640 three years later.

00:47:04.200 All right, now let's move on to a new segment on the show today.

00:47:08.920 Was Walsh wrong?

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00:47:17.760 has lost their minds, making abortion their official sacrament.

00:47:20.940 The pro-life efforts, which are now more important than ever, are booming.

00:47:24.300 You heard that right.

00:47:24.980 Despite the narrative, pro-lifers didn't go away.

00:47:27.000 They've increased in number.

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00:47:57.860 That's 40daysforlife.com.

00:47:59.600 Guys, we've got a new segment, Exciting Times.

00:48:03.440 The old comment section is still alive and well.

00:48:05.940 We're not getting rid of it.

00:48:06.820 That'll be a special extended segment that we do on Fridays now.

00:48:09.780 But the other days of the week we're doing, Was Walsh Wrong?

00:48:14.200 Because, for one thing, who doesn't love a good alliteration?

00:48:17.160 And also, this is a chance to highlight the people who are challenging the things that

00:48:21.460 I said on the show, presenting counter-arguments.

00:48:24.340 And this is where we'll find out if I was wrong.

00:48:26.160 It's a chance to highlight people who actually disagree.

00:48:28.560 So, for this first segment, I'll read comments relating to the cancellation we did on our

00:48:32.800 last show, which at this point was like a week ago.

00:48:35.600 And in the cancellation, we talked about, if you can remember it back to ancient history,

00:48:38.700 we talked about the child-free movement and people who promote childlessness as a superior

00:48:45.120 path to happiness.

00:48:46.600 And I disagree with that idea, to put it mildly.

00:48:51.040 Here are people who disagree with me, though, in the arguments that I made.

00:48:53.460 Okay.

00:48:54.220 First comment says, I think some people are happier with children and some people are

00:48:57.740 happier without children.

00:48:58.820 Just because you're happy with having children does not mean that I would be happy if I had

00:49:03.540 children.

00:49:04.840 Well, it's true that, and I've said this many times, it's true that not every single person

00:49:09.340 on earth is called to have kids.

00:49:13.120 Most people are, okay?

00:49:15.020 Most people are called to have kids.

00:49:17.080 But not everybody is.

00:49:18.760 You know, that's not a blanket statement that can apply to every single person on earth,

00:49:21.920 obviously.

00:49:22.880 And there's going to be a minority of people who are called to a different path in life.

00:49:28.580 And I fully acknowledge that.

00:49:31.520 But here's the point.

00:49:33.340 Now, everybody is called to a life of service.

00:49:39.000 And what I always say is that, in effect, not everyone is called to have children.

00:49:43.400 Most people are.

00:49:44.820 Not everyone's called to have children.

00:49:46.740 But every man is called to fatherhood, and every woman is called to motherhood.

00:49:53.020 It's just that in a minority of cases, that may take on a different form.

00:49:57.920 So just as one example, let's say, and this is something someone raised to me also.

00:50:03.340 They said, well, you know, you think everyone should have kids.

00:50:06.960 Well, what about someone who decides that they want to, you know, go out to a third world

00:50:11.040 country, and they want to be, you know, they want to be a minister to the poor.

00:50:16.960 They want to, you know, live a life like that, a missionary, you know, something like that.

00:50:22.940 You know, and maybe they've decided that if they have kids, it'd be harder for them to

00:50:27.300 fulfill that calling, that vocation.

00:50:30.000 Well, that's a perfect example of what I'm talking about.

00:50:31.700 There are people that are called to a life like that.

00:50:34.460 It's a perfectly, obviously, noble and beautiful vocation, and there's a lot of joy and happiness

00:50:38.700 to be found in it.

00:50:39.700 But it is also, it is a paternal thing.

00:50:43.860 It is also a paternal vocation in its own way.

00:50:48.480 It's just a different kind of form.

00:50:51.400 So everyone is called to that.

00:50:53.120 Here's the point.

00:50:53.820 Nobody is called to a life of self-centeredness.

00:51:02.360 Nobody is called to a life that revolves entirely around their own amusement.

00:51:08.880 And that's one of the biggest issues with the child-free movement and this move away from having

00:51:13.460 children is what it's being replaced with.

00:51:17.300 There are a lot of problems with people not having kids.

00:51:19.440 But one of the biggest issues is what it's being replaced with.

00:51:23.980 And what it's being replaced with, because these are not, you know, when you see these

00:51:26.560 TikTok videos of people saying, oh, I don't have kids, they're not saying, you shouldn't

00:51:31.040 have kids so you have more time to do charity work.

00:51:33.280 Okay, you shouldn't have kids so you have more time to go to Africa and be a missionary.

00:51:36.080 That's not what they're saying.

00:51:37.460 They're saying, don't have kids so you have more time to go on vacations.

00:51:41.360 So you have more time to watch TV.

00:51:42.600 You have more time to scroll on your phone.

00:51:44.720 You have more time to sleep in.

00:51:45.960 No one is called to a life like that.

00:51:50.180 And that's not a life that can make anyone actually happy.

00:51:53.380 A life of total, a life that centers around yourself and your own amusement cannot make

00:51:58.740 you happy.

00:51:59.240 It cannot fulfill you at the deepest levels of your being.

00:52:03.000 And that's the point.

00:52:05.280 Another comment says, dear Matt, people are individuals.

00:52:07.500 There's a tremendous variety of human personalities.

00:52:10.060 Don't assume that what's been right for you is right for everyone.

00:52:12.980 Some people simply don't have parenting skills.

00:52:14.760 They know that and they accept it without regrets.

00:52:17.240 They follow other life trajectories that are enriching and fulfilling for them.

00:52:20.660 It's presumptuous to insist that only your way is right because it's been delightful and

00:52:24.560 fulfilling for you.

00:52:25.800 In a long life, I've met happy, contented people and also very frustrated, discontented people.

00:52:29.540 I've seen no evidence of any correlation with whether or not they've produced offspring.

00:52:33.380 A lot of this, just what I just said, can apply to a lot of your comment here.

00:52:40.280 But I would note that you say that there are people who don't have parenting skills.

00:52:46.320 Well, very few people have tangible, noticeable parenting skills before they have kids.

00:52:55.640 When you're not a parent, you probably don't have a lot of parenting skills.

00:52:58.320 Before I was a parent, I think back to when I was 23 years old and I didn't have kids and

00:53:03.620 kids at the time didn't even seem to be on the horizon for me, what parenting skills did

00:53:08.660 I have then?

00:53:09.360 None.

00:53:10.420 Zero.

00:53:11.220 Zero parenting skills.

00:53:13.360 And if anyone had looked at me then, they would not have said, oh, there's a guy with a

00:53:17.180 lot of parenting skills.

00:53:18.120 Because here's the thing, it's very difficult to develop skills without doing the thing.

00:53:26.420 So you can read about it, you can talk about it, you can hear other people talk about it,

00:53:32.320 people can give you advice, they can give you pointers, and all that is fine.

00:53:36.360 But to really develop the skills, you have to do it.

00:53:38.800 This is true when you're working a job.

00:53:43.340 Everyone knows that any job you've ever worked, 95% of it, there might be training that goes

00:53:49.760 into it ahead of time, maybe you go to school and you major in something that ostensibly

00:53:54.080 relates to your job, but 95% of the skills are going to be learned on the job.

00:53:59.780 And that's just the way it is.

00:54:01.860 So people who don't have kids saying, well, I'm not going to have kids because I don't

00:54:05.020 have parenting skills.

00:54:06.880 Well, by that logic, you're never going to do anything.

00:54:08.780 You'll just never ever do anything of substance in your life because you won't have the skills

00:54:14.160 to do the thing until you start doing it.

00:54:17.200 And you got to learn a lot of it on the job.

00:54:18.960 That's just the way it goes.

00:54:20.400 It certainly goes that way for parenting.

00:54:23.420 Final comment says, this shouldn't even be an issue.

00:54:25.660 If you want children, have them. 0.99

00:54:26.680 If you don't want them, don't.

00:54:28.060 Matt is such a bully to people who live their lives differently from the way he does.

00:54:32.760 Here's what would make me a bully.

00:54:33.840 If I went up to some random person, say there's a random woman sitting at a cafe somewhere,

00:54:39.600 and I went up to her and I said, do you have kids?

00:54:42.280 Huh?

00:54:42.560 No? 1.00

00:54:43.440 You're a loser. 1.00

00:54:44.740 Go have kids immediately. 1.00

00:54:46.400 If I did that, I'd be a bully. 0.99

00:54:47.740 And I'd also be insane.

00:54:50.200 But I'm not doing that.

00:54:52.020 When people go to the internet and speak publicly about their life choices, and they promote

00:54:57.820 those life choices as a path to happiness, well, then you have submitted that to the

00:55:04.360 public.

00:55:05.320 You have said, hey, public, here's something I want to tell you about.

00:55:09.440 And members of the public, of which I am one, will then respond to that.

00:55:13.520 And they'll give their own views.

00:55:15.200 And they might disagree.

00:55:16.160 They might disagree strongly.

00:55:18.420 And they might say, I think that's a terrible, I think what you're saying is a terrible.

00:55:21.420 And here's why.

00:55:22.800 That's not called, that's not bullying.

00:55:24.240 Okay, that's called just having a conversation.

00:55:27.640 That's how that works.

00:55:30.200 So good.

00:55:31.880 Was Walsh wrong?

00:55:32.940 Turns out for the very first segment that I wasn't.

00:55:35.400 But we'll try again tomorrow.

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00:58:07.400 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:58:08.700 Today, our daily cancellation brings us around full circle.

00:58:18.060 We began the show talking about the efforts to place age restrictions on pornography,

00:58:22.200 efforts that have been furiously protested and denounced by smut peddlers and smut consumers alike,

00:58:28.400 both groups having placed their own satisfaction far above our basic responsibility as human beings

00:58:33.000 to protect children.

00:58:34.620 And we end the show now on a related topic.

00:58:36.680 Now, I make no secret of the fact that, as I mentioned in the opening,

00:58:40.700 that I oppose pornography across the board as a general principle.

00:58:43.940 Yes, I want to see age restrictions put in place, but if I had my way,

00:58:47.280 the entire industry would be dismantled, torn apart, set on fire, and burned to ash

00:58:52.100 while we all gather together and dance around its smoldering corpse.

00:58:56.180 If I could do this by banning pornography entirely, then I would.

00:58:59.540 As I said earlier, porn is nothing but cyber prostitution and can be prohibited under the same pretense

00:59:03.800 and for the same reason that prostitution is prohibited already in most parts of the country.

00:59:08.220 But a general porn ban is not going to happen anytime soon, much to my chagrin,

00:59:12.300 which means that we can only chip away at this demonic behemoth piece by piece

00:59:16.600 by individual people deciding to liberate themselves from its clutches.

00:59:21.280 If we're going to land a blow, it will have to be landed by porn consumers

00:59:25.500 deciding to respect themselves and value their own souls enough to do something else with their time

00:59:30.980 and stop watching porn.

00:59:32.780 It's at this point that I'm often told that, well, it's not that simple.

00:59:38.220 Porn users can't just stop.

00:59:39.720 It's an addiction, just like being hooked on drugs.

00:59:42.240 Literally no difference at all.

00:59:43.980 That's what I'm always assured.

00:59:45.600 I heard a lot of this same rationalizing on Twitter this weekend when the subject came up,

00:59:48.920 and one commentator said, quote,

00:59:51.640 do you think it's easy for those who are hooked on porn to just simply stop watching porn?

00:59:55.660 Think again.

00:59:56.480 It's an addiction, maybe worse than alcohol and drugs.

00:59:59.280 Another agreed and said, Matt, I think you're amazing,

01:00:01.240 but you must not have experience with a loved one's addiction.

01:00:04.440 You're right that an addict can just stop if you incentivize them to do so,

01:00:07.900 but it's rarely that easy.

01:00:09.300 It's so much more complicated than that.

01:00:11.400 Another chimed in, quote,

01:00:12.600 the dopamine release from porn is worse than most drugs.

01:00:15.180 You can't just stop.

01:00:16.240 There are ramifications.

01:00:17.100 Addictions, many more where those came from, you get the idea.

01:00:20.700 These are the kinds of things you'll hear anytime this topic is discussed.

01:00:24.360 So is it true that porn is an addiction?

01:00:27.180 Is porn addiction a real disorder?

01:00:29.860 Now, typically critics of the porn industry will say that porn addiction is real

01:00:33.300 because addiction has a negative connotation,

01:00:35.760 and they recognize that porn is a negative thing,

01:00:37.600 so they want to talk about porn addiction.

01:00:39.620 Defenders of the porn industry will deny that porn addiction is real

01:00:42.220 because addiction has a negative connotation,

01:00:44.240 and they refuse to recognize that porn is a negative thing.

01:00:47.100 So I find myself on a lonely island because I am certainly not a porn defender,

01:00:52.300 though on the addiction issue,

01:00:54.240 I think that they, the porn defenders, have arrived at the correct conclusion,

01:00:58.740 even if their motives are totally deranged.

01:01:01.320 Meanwhile, the porn critics have the best intentions,

01:01:03.700 but when it comes to this issue, they're not only wrong,

01:01:07.040 but they are inadvertently making the problem worse.

01:01:09.400 So what is addiction?

01:01:12.480 The important point about addiction, as it's understood today,

01:01:15.380 is that it is considered a disease.

01:01:17.600 The American Psychiatric Association calls addiction,

01:01:19.980 quote, a complex but treatable disease that affects brain function and behavior.

01:01:24.760 The NIH calls it a disease that is, quote,

01:01:26.900 a lot like other diseases, like heart disease.

01:01:29.260 It goes on to explain that addiction is a brain disorder.

01:01:32.400 The Mayo Clinic also calls it a disease.

01:01:34.300 As for the nature of this disease, the NHS on its website says this, quote,

01:01:38.900 addiction is defined as not having control over doing, taking, or using something

01:01:43.200 to the point where it could be harmful to you.

01:01:46.280 So addiction, then, is a disease that takes away your ability to control your own actions.

01:01:53.200 It is a dependency, a disorder.

01:01:55.140 Now, I think talking about any addiction this way can be potentially dangerous

01:02:00.440 as you're entirely removing free will from the equation.

01:02:04.240 But when it comes to something like heroin addiction, you can see where it might apply.

01:02:09.680 Heroin takes over an addict's brain to such an extent

01:02:12.620 that if they simply just stop taking it one day, they might actually die.

01:02:16.680 I mean, they literally can't stop.

01:02:19.100 Not all at once, anyway.

01:02:20.740 Their body depends on it.

01:02:23.220 Porn is not like this.

01:02:25.140 If you lose your internet connection for three days and you can't watch porn,

01:02:28.160 you're not going to go into withdrawal.

01:02:29.780 You're not going to break out into hives.

01:02:31.900 You won't collapse on the ground in convulsions.

01:02:35.620 You're not going to have a high fever and seizures.

01:02:39.300 You aren't going to have a heart attack and die.

01:02:41.080 You'll be fine.

01:02:42.280 You can go without it.

01:02:43.580 You might be a little bored, a little bit restless, but you will be fine.

01:02:47.340 You're not physically dependent on it.

01:02:49.600 In fact, you could stop watching porn today without much trouble if I incentivized you enough, right?

01:02:58.720 If you were incentivized enough, you could.

01:03:00.940 So if I were, just to take an absurd hypothetical,

01:03:03.160 if I were to offer you a million dollars not to watch porn for a week, you could do it.

01:03:10.980 Anyone could.

01:03:12.420 Now, a million dollars might be enough to help you break a heroin or alcohol addiction,

01:03:16.820 but probably not.

01:03:18.220 And besides, you'd still suffer the potentially fatal ramifications of going cold turkey off of those substances,

01:03:23.640 even if there was a million dollars on the table.

01:03:25.360 In other words, a fat check could not instantly release you of a true substance addiction,

01:03:30.940 but it could release you of your porn addiction.

01:03:34.920 In that, like, you would be, you would, with a million dollars on the table,

01:03:38.120 you would stop watching porn easily without any struggle because the incentives are that high.

01:03:44.580 What that means is that these addictions are not the same because one is an addiction and one is not.

01:03:51.560 The other is a choice.

01:03:53.020 It's an impulse.

01:03:53.800 It's a temptation. 0.94

01:03:55.360 You might very much enjoy watching porn. 0.53

01:03:58.120 It might give you a dopamine hit.

01:04:00.120 Everything you enjoy gives you a dopamine hit.

01:04:02.540 That doesn't make it an addiction, though.

01:04:04.620 Unless, of course, we've decided that literally everything is an addiction,

01:04:07.480 which means that nothing is an addiction.

01:04:09.640 See, that's the thing here.

01:04:10.340 It's possible to define the term addiction broadly enough that you can include pornography.

01:04:16.780 Somebody sent me an article from a site called Medical News Today that defines porn addiction this way.

01:04:21.160 Quote,

01:04:21.400 So, porn addiction refers to an emotional dependence on pornography that interferes with daily life relationships and the ability to function.

01:04:28.160 So, sure, if that's how we define the term, then porn addiction is a real phenomenon.

01:04:32.720 But then, you know, an emotional dependence that interferes with daily life describes literally anything that you enjoy doing too much.

01:04:40.140 And in our modern age of materialism and overindulgence, that means we all have 50 different addictions, which means, again, that the term is effectively meaningless and functionally useless.

01:04:51.860 We're using the same term to describe the meth addict lying on a cardboard box out on the street and the woman who spends too much on Amazon packages or the man scrolling porn up. 0.64

01:05:05.580 The latter two cases are obviously not in the same ballpark as the first.

01:05:11.400 The only thing we achieve by calling everything an addiction, by using clinical terminology to describe all sin, all temptation, all vice, is that we let everybody off the hook.

01:05:23.760 We've removed choice.

01:05:25.240 We have obliterated free will.

01:05:26.840 Nobody has any control over anything they're doing, which, as we recall, is the definition that the NHS provides for addiction.

01:05:35.480 When everything is an addiction, we all become pre-programmed robots, right, victims of our own behavior.

01:05:41.060 Our bad choices are like cancerous tumors.

01:05:43.300 They are an affliction, a disease, something we cannot control and therefore cannot be blamed for.

01:05:49.760 That's exactly how the ashamed porn user has been conditioned to see his situation.

01:05:55.020 He can't control it, he can't stop, so he doesn't.

01:05:59.340 This is how everybody has been conditioned to view all of their personal flaws and sins and vices. 0.96

01:06:05.900 And so we have become a society of pathetic weaklings swept along helplessly by the current. 0.96

01:06:12.920 Doing things, making choices, while telling ourselves that we have no control over the things that we are willfully doing right now. 0.77

01:06:21.480 This is why we need to bring back a concept called simple but not easy.

01:06:28.760 Remember what that one commenter said.

01:06:30.300 He said, do you think it's easy for those who are hooked to porn to just simply stop watching porn?

01:06:35.920 The answer is no and also yes.

01:06:39.820 I do think, I don't think it's easy.

01:06:42.580 I don't think it's easy.

01:06:44.180 But I do think it's simple.

01:06:46.760 Hard things are not always complicated.

01:06:49.380 Oftentimes they're very simple and straightforward.

01:06:50.840 Running 10 miles is extremely simple.

01:06:54.300 It's a very simple thing to do.

01:06:56.260 It's also very hard.

01:06:58.440 And when it comes to pornography, the task is as simple as it can get.

01:07:02.160 Just stop watching it.

01:07:03.920 It's not making your life better.

01:07:05.620 It's harming you psychologically, spiritually, emotionally. 0.94

01:07:09.800 You're sitting there and watching someone else have sex on camera.

01:07:12.920 Someone who's almost certainly on drugs was probably abused as a child. 0.91

01:07:16.500 May very well have been trafficked.

01:07:18.620 Could actually be a child.

01:07:20.100 This is a desperate, self-loathing person whose dehumanization and objectification and despair you are consuming.

01:07:28.680 Now, you don't feel good about that, and you shouldn't.

01:07:32.900 If you could go back and reclaim all of the many hours you've wasted on porn and retroactively dedicate it to something productive and beautiful instead, you would.

01:07:44.600 You would like to stop watching it. 0.98

01:07:46.160 You'd like to be free of it because porn is dirty and disgusting and unmanly and undignified and embarrassing and shameful. 0.99

01:07:53.560 And you realize all that intuitively. 0.98

01:07:56.420 You want to be done with it, which brings us to the good news.

01:07:59.400 You can be done with it.

01:08:00.880 You can stop watching it.

01:08:01.860 You can decide not to watch it and then not watch it, and that's it.

01:08:04.320 You don't need any drug or any treatment plan or any special facility.

01:08:09.100 You can just not watch it.

01:08:11.440 And that's all.

01:08:12.320 Now, this may sound like the least helpful advice of all time, but in many cases, it's the only kind of advice that means anything.

01:08:21.200 If you want to do something positive with your life, the best advice, really only advice anyone can give you, is to simply go and do that thing.

01:08:31.700 You can sit around saying, I really wish I would do this.

01:08:33.960 Then just do it.

01:08:35.380 That's it.

01:08:36.280 That's the only thing the world can tell you.

01:08:38.260 Oh, you want to do that?

01:08:39.020 Well, then go ahead and do it.

01:08:39.860 But I can't.

01:08:41.700 Well, yes, you can.

01:08:42.720 But I can't.

01:08:43.260 Oh, okay.

01:08:43.780 Well, then just sit there saying you can't.

01:08:45.880 What do you want us to tell you?

01:08:47.980 And if you want to stop doing something negative, again, the best advice and only advice anyone can give you is to simply stop doing that thing.

01:08:57.320 I'm doing this, but I don't want to do it.

01:08:58.800 Well, then don't.

01:09:00.080 But it's hard.

01:09:00.720 Okay.

01:09:01.040 Well, then it's hard.

01:09:01.780 So just, it's a difficult thing.

01:09:04.520 That's it.

01:09:05.480 Endure the difficulty.

01:09:08.080 That's it.

01:09:09.860 And that's advice that you can follow with porn because it's not an addiction.

01:09:14.020 It's a lot of other things.

01:09:16.060 None of them good.

01:09:17.300 But it's not an addiction.

01:09:19.500 And that is why porn addiction, as a concept, is today canceled.

01:09:25.980 That'll do it for the show today.

01:09:27.360 Thanks for watching.

01:09:28.080 Thanks for listening.

01:09:29.080 Talk to you tomorrow.

01:09:30.120 Have a great day.

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