The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1224 - Russell Brand Hit With Sex Assault Allegations. Is This His Punishment For Questioning The Left’s Narratives？

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Walsh Show, Russell Brand has been hit with a series of sexual assault

00:00:03.540 allegations by the mainstream media. This follows a very noticeable pattern where men are accused

00:00:07.420 of sex abuse as soon as they become a threat to the left's narrative. Is that what we're seeing

00:00:11.480 here? We'll discuss. Also, there's been a lot of discussion about Trump's answers in two different

00:00:15.200 interviews about abortion and the trans issue, respectively. I have a lot to say about it. We'll

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00:02:01.040 Danny Masterson is an actor who most people haven't thought about for a long time, if at all.

00:02:06.120 By all accounts, his career peaked all the way back in 2006 with the conclusion of the sitcom

00:02:10.700 That's 70s Show. But a few years ago, all of a sudden, Masterson's name was everywhere. That's

00:02:16.360 because in March of 2017, the year that the hashtag Me Too movement began in earnest,

00:02:20.680 Masterson was accused of sexual assault by three women. In response, without waiting for a trial,

00:02:26.600 Netflix summarily fired Masterson from his role as a series regular on one of their shows. And three

00:02:32.560 years later, in the summer of 2020, Masterson was formally charged with three rapes in Los Angeles,

00:02:38.440 a jurisdiction that, of course, believes all women. Prosecutors said that one rape occurred in 2001,

00:02:43.680 another in early 2003, and a third in late 2003. Now, right off the bat, the timeline raises some

00:02:50.500 obvious questions. For one thing, how is it possible to prove a rape beyond a reasonable doubt

00:02:55.580 20 years after the fact, in the absence of any physical evidence of violence or drugging?

00:03:01.700 Now, you might think that the accusers must have had airtight stories. But that's not true in this

00:03:06.900 case. In fact, one of the accusers previously told authorities that Masterson had not raped her.

00:03:11.500 She says that she only realized years later that she was raped. She originally thought it was

00:03:16.300 consensual, and then years after the fact, changed her mind. All this explains why late last year,

00:03:22.740 the jury deadlocked. There was a mistrial. According to the foreman on that jury, they were leaning towards

00:03:27.640 acquittal on every count. And he said that the reason for that is that they found the stories from

00:03:33.140 the accusers to be inconsistent, contradictory, and implausible. But then just a couple of weeks later,

00:03:38.900 a couple of weeks ago, I should say, as you might have heard, Masterson was put on trial again.

00:03:45.200 And this time around, the judge changed the rules. The judge allowed testimony that Masterson

00:03:49.460 had drugged his victims, even though there was no physical evidence of that. In the first trial,

00:03:54.540 the prosecution was only allowed to describe the condition of the accusers after they consumed

00:04:01.280 alcoholic beverages that Masterson gave them, describing them as woozy and disoriented.

00:04:05.700 They were not allowed to directly claim that the women were drugged because there was no evidence

00:04:10.460 of that. There was no evidence that their wooziness was the result of anything more than the alcohol

00:04:15.160 they were drinking. But in the second trial, that kind of caution was thrown to the wind. And again,

00:04:21.300 without any actual evidence, Masterson was accused of drugging his alleged victims. And that apparently

00:04:26.320 did the trick. Masterson was convicted after the retrial, and he was sentenced to 30 years in prison.

00:04:32.700 Now, you don't have to like Danny Masterson or know who he is or believe he's innocent to

00:04:38.840 understand the implications of what happened to him. Danny Masterson's case is proof that even in

00:04:43.380 2023, years after the hashtag MeToo hysteria has faded, physical evidence of wrongdoing is not

00:04:50.480 required to convict someone of rape and destroy their life. Neither is timely reporting or even a

00:04:56.260 consistent story from the alleged victims. All you need is a story. Danny Masterson's case demonstrates

00:05:03.620 that. For one thing, that means that our judicial system isn't exactly functioning the way that it

00:05:08.440 should, but you already knew that. What Masterson's case also means, if you think about it from the

00:05:12.860 perspective of the government, is that accusations of rape are trivially easy to use as political

00:05:18.120 weapons. Masterson's own case doesn't appear to be political, but it shows how easy it could be,

00:05:23.580 and has been, to use a rape accusation to achieve a political end. You'd hate to think that false

00:05:30.880 stories about rape could ever be deployed for these kinds of purposes to ruin the lives of 0.98

00:05:35.320 influential voices who challenge the people in power, but increasingly, that's exactly what's

00:05:40.540 happening. A couple of days ago, the influential comedian and commentator Russell Brand uploaded this

00:05:45.920 video explaining that he's now being accused of sexual assault by multiple media outlets. Watch.

00:05:51.640 Hello there, you Awakening Wonders. Now, this isn't the usual type of video we make on this channel

00:05:56.660 where we critique, attack, and undermine the news in all its corruption, because in this story,

00:06:01.560 I am the news. I've received two extremely disturbing letters, or a letter and an email,

00:06:07.920 one from a mainstream media TV company, one from a newspaper listing a litany of extremely egregious 0.96

00:06:16.000 and aggressive attacks, as well as some pretty stupid stuff, like my community festival should be 0.75

00:06:20.660 stopped, that I shouldn't be able to attack mainstream media narratives on this channel. 0.96

00:06:25.380 But amidst this litany of astonishing, rather baroque attacks, are some very serious allegations

00:06:32.580 that I absolutely refute. These allegations pertain to the time when I was working in the

00:06:38.480 mainstream, when I was in the newspapers all the time, when I was in the movies, and as I've written

00:06:42.180 about extensively in my books, I was very, very promiscuous. Now, during that time of promiscuity,

00:06:47.340 the relationships I had were absolutely always consensual. I was always transparent about that

00:06:52.480 then, almost too transparent. And I'm being transparent about it now, as well. And to see

00:06:57.620 that transparency metastasized into something criminal, that I absolutely deny, makes me

00:07:03.820 question, is there another agenda at play?

00:07:06.880 Now, we don't know exactly who these women are who are accusing Brand of sexual misconduct, 1.00

00:07:11.060 but the Daily Wire reports that these incidents supposedly occur between 2006 and 2013. So like the

00:07:15.680 accusations against Masterson, these sexual assaults allegedly occurred at the height of Russell

00:07:20.400 Brand's mainstream fame. And yet, strangely enough, without any explanation, these accusations

00:07:25.660 are only coming up now, many years later. The whole lengthy story with all the allegations is laid out

00:07:31.300 in a Channel 4 documentary and in The Times. And you can read the details for yourself if you pay

00:07:36.860 for a subscription to The Times. That's because they launched a series of allegations against Brand

00:07:41.220 and then immediately put the accusations behind a paywall. It's too early to say right now exactly

00:07:47.180 what's really happening or what really happened all those years ago. We can't prejudge this case,

00:07:51.480 of course. But one thing we can say with certainty is that Russell Brand is a far bigger threat to this

00:07:56.460 nation's power brokers now than he was at the height of his fame, back when he was married to Katy Perry

00:08:01.760 and starring in Hollywood films and living, as he said, a very promiscuous lifestyle. Anybody who watches

00:08:08.260 Russell Brand's videos knows all that? But really, Brand's turn into unorthodox thinking began sort of

00:08:14.720 slowly roughly a decade ago. It was in 2013 that Brand was ejected from the GQ Awards show for noting in

00:08:21.260 his acceptance speech that a sponsor of the show had previously made uniforms for the Nazis. From that point

00:08:27.180 on, Brand became something of a pariah in the entertainment industry. And in recent years, his views have only

00:08:31.800 become more intolerable to those in power. Now, in particular, Russell Brand has heterodox views on the

00:08:39.500 integrity of US elections. He doesn't toe the line on January 6th. And perhaps most consequentially, he's

00:08:46.840 extraordinarily critical of big pharma. He doesn't believe, as the rest of the corporate media does,

00:08:51.800 that you should reflexively trust the pharmaceutical companies and just ingest every drug they give you.

00:08:57.520 And he's made his views on this subject known. Here he was with Bill Maher recently, for example. Watch.

00:09:04.220 Well, yes. Out of respect for you and your show, I've brought some facts. Would you?

00:09:11.280 If you'd like, they're actually... 0.92

00:09:13.240 You just get the f*** out of here. This is not the place.

00:09:16.440 I thought you'd like facts.

00:09:17.480 No, we do. We love facts. I love facts.

00:09:19.780 I wouldn't have mentioned it. I'm English, and you know that politeness is our fundamental religion.

00:09:23.440 But they do pertain to this issue. So may I say something, if they inconvenience you, I'll stop saying them.

00:09:30.860 The pandemic created at least 40 new big pharma billionaires. Pharmaceutical corporations like Moderna and Pfizer

00:09:36.320 made $1,000 of profit every second from the COVID-19 vaccine.

00:09:40.080 More than two-thirds of Congress received campaign funding from pharmaceutical companies in the 2020 election.

00:09:45.820 Pfizer chairman Albert Baller told Time magazine in July 2020 that his company was developing a COVID vaccine

00:09:50.720 for the good of humanity, not for money. And of course, Pfizer made $100 billion in profit in 2022.

00:09:56.860 All right. All right.

00:09:57.640 And may I just mention, finally, and this is also a fact, that you, the American public, funded the development of that.

00:10:04.460 The German public funded the BioNTech vaccine. When it came to the profits, they took the profits.

00:10:10.760 When it came to the funding, you paid for the funding.

00:10:13.320 All I'm querying is this. Yes. Is if you have an economic system in which pharmaceutical companies

00:10:20.040 benefit hugely from medical emergencies, where a military industrial complex benefits from war,

00:10:25.680 where energy companies benefit from energy crises, you are going to generate states of perpetual crisis

00:10:32.140 where the interests of ordinary people separate from the interests of the elite.

00:10:36.960 Now, that's not something you're supposed to say out loud. It's all true, of course. But you're

00:10:42.500 questioning, you're calling into question some of the most powerful people and institutions in the

00:10:47.980 country. It's hard not to notice that people who say things like this out loud tend to get in a lot

00:10:53.580 of trouble. You might remember what happened to a James O'Keefe's Project Veritas. O'Keefe exposed a

00:10:58.220 high-ranking Pfizer executive admitting, among other things, that his company is conducting secret

00:11:02.700 gain-of-function research on coronaviruses right here in the United States. The Pfizer

00:11:06.860 executive then freaked out when he realized he was on camera. What happened next? The Pfizer

00:11:10.840 executive was not publicly fired. Instead, O'Keefe was publicly fired. Funny how that works out.

00:11:18.160 Is Russell Brand being targeted for the same reasons? Already his agent and several organizations

00:11:22.640 have cut ties with him, so he appears to be on the same trajectory. To be clear, we don't know

00:11:27.260 whether Russell Brand is innocent or guilty, just like we don't know if Danny Masterson is innocent or

00:11:31.420 guilty. But there are obvious reasons to doubt stories that surface several years after the

00:11:36.700 fact, especially when witnesses contradict the narratives. As you just heard, that's what

00:11:41.420 Russell Brand says is happening. One woman just posted a video claiming that British media reached

00:11:46.080 out to her for a documentary on Russell Brand, presumably the Channel 4 documentary. But they

00:11:52.120 didn't use her story because she said that her interactions with Brand were all consensual and

00:11:56.740 positive. Watch.

00:11:58.180 I actually know who this is about. And I have the receipts. I was contacted in June by a journalist

00:12:05.480 regarding a video I made about a certain celebrity and a weekend that we shared together. The video

00:12:12.620 is kind of viral. It's on my page somewhere if you want to go see it. And that certain somebody was,

00:12:18.220 as most of you will be aware, Mr. Brand. They weren't going to use my story because it didn't fit the

00:12:24.560 narrative for their documentary because he wasn't an asshole to me. But here are some of the messages. 0.73

00:12:32.000 Obviously, I will take out the person's name and stuff. We had a phone call. She contacted me for

00:12:38.540 more information and I didn't contact her back because I kind of felt like it would be mean.

00:12:43.920 Anyway, there you go. Put your bets on. It's a documentary about the one and only Mr. Russell Brand.

00:12:50.160 And just a fun fact. Astrology wise, the lunar nodes of destiny have shifted into Aries right on top of

00:12:57.760 his Mars and Moon. Written in the stars, baby. Okay, bye. Okay, well, that's interesting. Not the

00:13:05.340 astrology stuff, but the stuff before that. If you were making a film about sexual assault accusations

00:13:10.440 against a famous person from several years ago, you'd think you'd want to gather all of the relevant

00:13:15.300 evidence and present it. But if you want to create a hit piece, you'd ignore the witnesses that you

00:13:20.100 don't like and present the ones with the most salacious stories possible. And it appears based

00:13:23.600 on that video, that's exactly what's happening. Now, Brand's critics will argue that just because

00:13:28.260 the woman in that video says she wasn't raped, that doesn't mean that other women weren't raped.

00:13:33.080 A rapist isn't going to abuse every woman he comes across, presumably. But the point is that

00:13:37.940 if you're dredging up accusations from years and years ago, and you have no evidence that anything

00:13:42.900 happened, then all you can do is theorize and make assumptions. The best you'll end up with is an

00:13:48.040 educated guess. But it's not possible to make an educated guess without being presented the full

00:13:53.600 picture, the full story of what sort of person the accused was at the time when he allegedly did the

00:13:59.200 things he was accused of doing. If you're a journalist only presenting part of the picture

00:14:05.040 and leaving out the parts that don't lead to your preferred conclusion, then you're not a journalist

00:14:09.740 at all. You are an assassin looking to kill someone's reputation. We've seen this time

00:14:15.620 and time again. The moment somebody becomes a threat to the establishment, the accusations

00:14:19.940 of sexual assault materialize from thin air. It is impossible not to notice this trend. We

00:14:26.060 see it at the Supreme Court with Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh. We saw it with Trump. I mean,

00:14:30.800 he was a billionaire celebrity playboy, but was never accused of sexual assault until he became

00:14:36.660 a threat to the left. Even Tucker Carlson, it's easy to forget, was accused of sexual misconduct

00:14:41.740 at the height of his show's success. Those accusations were absurd on their face and never

00:14:47.340 went anywhere. But that's not how these things usually play out. Whatever you think of Dave Portnoy,

00:14:52.600 the accusations against him follow a similar pattern. Portnoy isn't really political, and I

00:14:57.500 certainly wouldn't call him a conservative, and I don't think he calls himself a conservative. But

00:15:00.400 during COVID, he did something you're not supposed to do. He noticed that the government's

00:15:04.400 lockdowns were destroying small businesses, and that the Fed's so-called pandemic relief fund

00:15:09.060 wasn't covering these businesses' losses, not even close. So Portnoy, through his company,

00:15:13.720 raised millions of dollars for businesses as long as they kept employing their workers

00:15:17.420 throughout the lockdowns, and that got the attention of the government in not a good way.

00:15:22.680 A year later, he was accused of, can you guess, sexual misconduct.

00:15:27.700 The brash founder of website and media company Barstool Sports is firing back today at alarming

00:15:35.360 allegations of sexual misconduct. A report by Business Insider details alleged sexual encounters

00:15:41.180 between Dave Portnoy and two women. One of the alleged victims says she was literally screaming in

00:15:47.280 pain. Portnoy calls the article a hit piece and denies the allegations. NBC News has not independently

00:15:53.360 verified these allegations. NBC News didn't verify the accusations, but of course, they're happy to

00:15:59.000 repeat them. It's a familiar story, and it's the inevitable result of Believe All Women. This is the 0.91

00:16:04.360 legacy of hashtag Me Too. You can either do what you're told, or the most powerful forces in the

00:16:11.040 country will try to destroy you. With respect to Russell Brand, I think we're left with two possibilities,

00:16:17.840 and neither of them are good. One is that Brand is an innocent man being smeared by the mainstream

00:16:24.640 media. I don't know for sure if this is what's happening here or not. Nobody can know. I wasn't

00:16:29.760 there. I just don't know. But that's how the game is played. Just by printing the accusation, you have

00:16:35.740 forever tarnished a man's reputation, whether it's true or not. After all, the most that even his most

00:16:41.140 ardent defenders can say, his most ardent defenders, the most they can say, is that he's probably

00:16:47.360 not a rapist. And this is what makes the media's willingness to print accusations, no matter how

00:16:53.160 credible or incredible they are, so sinister. They know that the accusations will devastate a man's

00:16:58.840 life and reputation, even if there's no evidence to support them, even if they're debunked and refuted,

00:17:04.000 even if positive evidence can be presented proving that the thing didn't happen.

00:17:09.340 Just the very fact the accusation was ever made is already enough to permanently damage someone.

00:17:15.620 But there's another possibility here. The other possibility is that the media's claims are true.

00:17:23.740 In that scenario, Brand is a known serial rapist who victimized multiple women for years during the 0.51

00:17:29.420 height of his fame. That's what the media is saying. It's what they want us to believe. 0.83

00:17:33.960 Okay, that's their narrative. But for the sake of argument, let's go with that for a moment,

00:17:43.160 with that narrative. Well, here's the thing about it. If that's true, it makes the media arguably even

00:17:50.760 worse than if they were inventing these claims out of whole cloth. Because it means that they left

00:17:56.220 Brand alone. They allowed him to continue abusing women for years and years until he said things they

00:18:03.140 disagreed with. Remember, part of this whole story is that this was an open secret. Everyone knew this

00:18:09.920 was happening. That's what the media is saying. Well, if everyone knew it, the media must have known it.

00:18:15.200 And they didn't say anything. They didn't report on it. Until the moment that he became inconvenient to

00:18:22.840 them. Both of those options are horrific in their own way. And in either case, it's clear who the real

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00:19:43.460 today. Okay, a couple of Trump interviews have gotten some attention, which is probably an

00:19:48.580 understatement. First, there's a moment from his interview with Megyn Kelly that was last week,

00:19:53.180 and we talked about the Fauci stuff last week, but there was also this moment. Let's watch.

00:19:57.760 Can a man become a woman? 1.00

00:20:03.320 In my opinion, you have a man, you have a woman. I think part of it is birth. Can the man give

00:20:12.380 birth? No, no, although they'll come up with some. Okay, now before we dissect that, I want to play

00:20:18.100 both clips because I think they're related. So let's play the other one that has people talking as well.

00:20:24.140 Here he is a couple days later on Meet the Press, and this time the subject is abortion, and here's what he says.

00:20:31.840 Mr. President, I want to give voters who are going to be weighing in on this election a very clear sense of where to stand on this.

00:20:39.160 I think they're all going to like me. I think both sides are going to like me.

00:20:41.640 What's going to have to happen is you're going to have to, Kristen, you're asking me a question.

00:20:47.160 What's going to happen is you're going to come up with a number of weeks or months, you're going to come up with a number

00:20:52.540 that's going to make people happy. Because 92% of the Democrats don't want to see abortion after a certain period of time. 0.95

00:21:01.980 If a federal ban landed on your desk, if you were reelected, would you sign it at 15 weeks?

00:21:08.960 Are you talking about a complete ban?

00:21:10.700 A ban at 15 weeks?

00:21:12.240 Well, people are starting to think of 15 weeks. That seems to be a number that people are talking about right now.

00:21:19.320 Would you sign that?

00:21:19.940 I would sit down with both sides, and I'd negotiate something, and we'll end up with peace in that issue for the first time in 52 years.

00:21:29.360 I'm not going to say I would or I wouldn't. I mean, DeSaint is willing to sign a five-week and six-week ban.

00:21:35.380 Would you support that? You think that goes too far?

00:21:36.680 I think what he did is a terrible thing and a terrible mistake.

00:21:40.140 Okay, now, so let's talk about both of these together.

00:21:44.220 Obviously, it goes without saying that there's no reason to hesitate on the can-a-man-become-a-woman question.

00:21:51.900 And there shouldn't be any answer other than no.

00:21:55.120 Okay, if you're saying anything other than no,

00:21:58.520 anything, the first words out of your mouth after you hear can-a-man-become-a-woman, no.

00:22:03.380 Then you can elaborate on how crazy that idea is.

00:22:07.740 First word should be no.

00:22:09.320 Anything but an immediate no is a wrong answer and also an embarrassment.

00:22:13.580 And if that doesn't, if you don't see why that is, then just imagine any other basic scientific question getting that kind of answer.

00:22:22.400 So what if, you know, just to show you how ridiculous this is, imagine if Megyn Kelly had for some reason asked,

00:22:29.320 do you believe in gravity? Does gravity exist?

00:22:32.640 And then Trump had said, um, well, listen, in my opinion, you know, there are some who say that human beings can fly.

00:22:41.320 Okay, but I think probably not.

00:22:45.080 What? What kind of answer is that?

00:22:48.480 Why, in my opinion?

00:22:51.520 But first of all, people are focusing on the um part of it.

00:22:54.760 In my opinion?

00:22:56.620 You don't need to qualify something like this by saying, in my, it's not your opinion, okay?

00:23:01.420 Just like it's, it's not, when I say gravity exists, that's not my opinion.

00:23:05.620 So in my opinion, gravity exists.

00:23:07.040 In my opinion, the sun is bigger than the earth.

00:23:10.240 It's not my opinion.

00:23:10.860 That's just a fact.

00:23:11.960 It's not an opinion at all.

00:23:12.940 So that was a weak and convoluted answer where clear and concise is needed and where there's simply no conceivable reason why you would give anything but a clear and concise reason, answer.

00:23:28.600 Keep in mind what I'm always saying about this issue, that on the left, they can't answer these questions.

00:23:34.620 So for them, that's a stumper.

00:23:36.340 This is the beautiful thing about being a conservative, is that basic common sense questions are not stumpers.

00:23:42.060 We don't have to be worried about them.

00:23:44.100 Someone could throw it at us and say, oh, that's easy.

00:23:45.920 Yeah.

00:23:46.320 Two plus two equals four.

00:23:47.180 No problem.

00:23:48.540 It's only on the left where it becomes, oh my gosh, I've got to figure out how to navigate around this.

00:23:54.080 That's the advantage we're supposed to have because we're supposed to stand for basic fundamental truth.

00:23:59.540 We are supposed, when we talk about being conservative, we are conserving basic fundamental truths.

00:24:05.180 Or maybe not conserving the truths themselves because the truths will persist whatever we say about them.

00:24:12.520 We are pursuing our, rather we are conserving our understanding, society's understanding and acceptance of these fundamental truths.

00:24:23.220 So that's, that's an advantage we're supposed to have.

00:24:28.460 But because the left can't answer these kinds of questions, or at least they can't answer in a way that's, that is not humiliating for them.

00:24:38.800 Because if they're asked the question, can a man become a woman, they also, they're probably not going to say yes.

00:24:46.480 Some of them will.

00:24:47.360 But if that was a Democrat politician sitting there, probably not going to say yes, because they know how crazy that sounds.

00:24:51.600 So instead, they're going to start equivocating and they're going to be off in the weeds and they're going to talk about opinions and how everyone has different perspectives and so on and so on and so forth.

00:25:01.260 But when you, as the Republican frontrunner, give an answer that makes it sound like a complicated question, you are, that is just you, that's you surrendering to the left on that issue.

00:25:17.860 Because that's what the left wants.

00:25:20.820 They want this to be a matter of opinion.

00:25:22.960 They want it to be complicated.

00:25:25.280 They want it to be the kind of question that you're nervous to answer.

00:25:29.240 And it shouldn't be.

00:25:31.900 Now, I said that there's no conceivable reason why you would not give a clear and concise answer.

00:25:37.140 But one potential reason, there is one reason why you might not give a clear and concise answer.

00:25:43.200 And that is if you're a Republican frontrunner making the mistake of trying to moderate for the general election.

00:25:49.460 Which brings us to the second clip.

00:25:51.900 Now, and that's the abortion question.

00:25:54.620 Trump's answer there is wrong on multiple levels.

00:25:58.840 It's morally wrong, 1,000%.

00:26:02.200 It's not a terrible thing to protect human children from being slaughtered.

00:26:06.640 That's not terrible.

00:26:07.660 And, you know, the spin from some of Trump's defenders is that, well, Trump was saying that it's a terrible mistake.

00:26:14.260 He was saying that it's a terrible political mistake to sign a five or six week ban on abortion.

00:26:20.740 Now, if that is what he was saying, that would also be wrong.

00:26:24.000 Well, we'll talk about that in a second.

00:26:24.840 That's not a political mistake.

00:26:26.000 But that's not what he said.

00:26:28.580 Okay?

00:26:28.980 We can all listen to what he said.

00:26:30.460 He said what he said.

00:26:31.840 And he said, it's a terrible thing and a terrible mistake.

00:26:35.740 It's a terrible thing and a terrible mistake.

00:26:39.240 That's what he said.

00:26:40.320 He said that the ban, the heartbeat ban, is a terrible thing in and of itself.

00:26:46.140 That is what he said.

00:26:47.320 And worst of all, he said this to a mainstream media news anchor.

00:26:53.440 Okay? 0.98

00:26:53.780 I mean, it wouldn't be good to say that anywhere, but rather than going after her, rather than backing her into a corner, rather than embarrassing her, rather than throwing it back in her face, what, do you think we should kill human beings with heartbeats? 0.99

00:27:08.020 Is that what you think? 0.92

00:27:10.080 Okay, well, of course I support the ban, you know, at six weeks.

00:27:15.040 That's a human being.

00:27:17.320 Do you think it's not a human being?

00:27:19.420 What is it?

00:27:21.700 Okay?

00:27:22.360 What you call a fetus.

00:27:25.000 What is it, if not a human being?

00:27:27.000 Can you tell me that?

00:27:29.140 So that's a direction he could have gone and embarrassed her.

00:27:32.920 She wouldn't have been able to answer that.

00:27:35.340 You know, if he threw the question back at her, she would have said something like, well, I don't know.

00:27:42.680 She would have equivocated.

00:27:43.780 She wouldn't be able to say one way or another.

00:27:45.340 And then you can go back to, oh, so you're not sure if the child is a human being at six weeks, and yet you're sure that we should be able to kill the child, even though you don't even know if it's a human or not.

00:27:57.160 Could have gone that way.

00:27:58.040 Instead, he goes the other way, and he comes out against heartbeat laws.

00:28:02.040 So, again, from a moral perspective, what he's saying is totally wrong.

00:28:09.120 What about the politics of it?

00:28:10.960 You know, between the Megyn Kelly stuff, and that's, I mean, the whole interview, not just the stuff about men becoming women.

00:28:16.680 Between that and Meet the Press, Trump is very clearly and very unsubtly making a move to the middle.

00:28:23.860 He's moderating.

00:28:24.680 And, in fact, his supporters will admit this.

00:28:27.760 This has been the defense of his statements in those interviews.

00:28:30.940 The defense is, very openly, well, he's in a general election now for all intents and purposes.

00:28:36.680 He's looking past the primaries, and he's running against Biden, and so that's why he gets.

00:28:41.560 He's not running against his Republican challengers because they're so far behind.

00:28:45.640 He's running against Biden.

00:28:46.700 He's moderating.

00:28:47.440 It's a general election.

00:28:48.220 He's trying to win.

00:28:48.820 Now, it's true that he should be running, essentially, a general election campaign.

00:28:56.220 You know, he's probably going to be the nominee.

00:28:59.020 That's the most likely thing, obviously.

00:29:01.480 He needs to be running against Biden, and I've been saying that forever, which is why it makes no sense that he spends most of his time attacking DeSantis.

00:29:08.820 I mean, he's attacked DeSantis far more than he's attacked Biden, and there's no question about that.

00:29:14.160 And even in that answer, when he's asked about abortion, he could pivot to Biden's extremism on abortion and say, well, Biden believes in abortion up until birth. 0.98

00:29:30.560 This guy's a lunatic. 0.83

00:29:32.280 Instead, he pivots to DeSantis' what Trump considers extremism on abortion. 0.98

00:29:37.180 Right, even in that move, that can't be defended on moral or political grounds.

00:29:45.680 If you're trying to beat Biden, why wouldn't you bring every, rather than bringing every answer back to attacking DeSantis, bring it back to attacking Biden.

00:29:53.660 Now, I agree.

00:29:59.040 I agree that he should be basically, strategically looking past the primaries and running a general election campaign and going after Biden all the time.

00:30:08.080 He shouldn't even be talking about DeSantis.

00:30:09.600 I'm not saying he needs to go out and sing DeSantis' praises.

00:30:13.060 I mean, DeSantis is an opponent.

00:30:14.980 This is politics.

00:30:16.380 But from a political perspective, the smartest thing would be just to ignore him, to ignore everybody in the primaries and just focus on Biden.

00:30:23.660 So that leaves the question, you know, even if I don't like it, like the moderating of tone, moving to the left, moving to the middle, even if it makes my blood boil to hear a politician go squishy on abortion and go squishy on basic biology, is it a clever strategy politically?

00:30:44.520 Is it more likely to get him elected?

00:30:46.320 Can we make a kind of Machiavellian and justify the mean sort of argument here?

00:30:51.120 Would that argument be accurate at least?

00:30:53.660 Will these tactics win the general election?

00:30:56.820 My answer is emphatically, no, absolutely not.

00:31:00.540 They will not win you the general.

00:31:02.360 This is not a good strategy.

00:31:04.380 And to illustrate my point, okay, I need only ask you one question.

00:31:08.520 Okay, one question.

00:31:09.180 Why don't you consider this?

00:31:09.980 Have you, in your life, ever met a voter who says that they would vote for Trump if only he was slightly more liberal on abortion?

00:31:22.280 Have you ever had that conversation from someone who says, I love everything about Trump, or at least I like everything about Trump, except the abortion stuff.

00:31:32.000 I think he's too conservative.

00:31:33.020 Well, we put that aside and I'd vote for him.

00:31:36.240 I've talked to countless people about politics all across the country.

00:31:41.020 I have never heard that opinion from anyone, ever.

00:31:46.360 Okay?

00:31:46.600 I have never met the person who was a leftist on abortion, but who was willing to vote for Donald Trump if only he moderates on that issue.

00:31:57.200 Where is that person?

00:32:00.120 This would most likely be a woman, right? 0.94

00:32:01.680 We're told that this is what you need to do for suburban women, especially, because they care so much about abortion and have so-called abortion rights.

00:32:09.280 And so I'm just trying to imagine the suburban woman who supports everything about Trump except the abortion stuff. 0.79

00:32:18.780 Well, I'll tell you where that person exists.

00:32:20.860 Nowhere.

00:32:21.960 They don't exist.

00:32:24.300 Okay?

00:32:24.780 If you think that there is somewhere out there a significant number of voters who are still gettable for Donald Trump, still willing to vote for him, if only he becomes more openly socially liberal, then I don't know what to tell you.

00:32:39.260 I mean, you're simply delusional.

00:32:42.560 And by the way, this is not some kind of new and innovative approach for Trump.

00:32:49.440 The Republican establishment has been preaching this gospel for decades.

00:32:52.680 This is nothing new.

00:32:53.560 For years and years, they've said that Republicans need to moderate on abortion, need to moderate on the so-called social issues to win national elections.

00:33:02.760 So Trump is simply following conventional Republican wisdom with this approach.

00:33:08.860 And Trump is best when he rejects the conventional Republican establishment wisdom.

00:33:14.360 Here, he's embracing it.

00:33:15.560 Because how has that wisdom worked out?

00:33:19.320 Well, there's a trail of humiliations and defeats stretching back decades to show for it.

00:33:26.740 McCain was moderate on abortion.

00:33:28.560 Romney was moderate on abortion.

00:33:30.160 What about Trump in 2016?

00:33:32.400 Well, whatever he personally believed or believes now, he was not perceived in 2016 at all as a moderate on this issue or really any issue in 2016.

00:33:42.020 He was perceived as a hardliner.

00:33:45.120 And he did indeed take hardline stances on a number of controversial issues.

00:33:50.260 I mean, famously, he even talked publicly.

00:33:53.380 He was asked about it.

00:33:54.020 But he talked publicly about prison sentences for women who get abortions.

00:33:59.560 Now, after the fact, he kind of moderated that stance later that day after the backlash.

00:34:06.060 But, you know, he talked about that.

00:34:09.940 And did it kill his campaign?

00:34:11.200 Obviously not.

00:34:13.660 So what does that tell us?

00:34:16.140 It tells us that, and by the way, you know, it doesn't have anything to do with abortion, but build the wall, lock her up, all this kind of stuff.

00:34:22.660 2016, these were not moderate.

00:34:24.340 Okay, this all, when you've got people chanting, lock her up in the, you know, in the stands at your rallies, nobody's watching that and thinking, well, this is a moderate figure.

00:34:33.520 This is more of a moderate centrist figure.

00:34:36.220 No one's thinking that.

00:34:39.120 And that's not who he was in 2016, and he won.

00:34:43.940 So what does that tell us?

00:34:45.860 It tells us that the only way to beat the Democrats is to present a clear alternative, which means not adjusting your own positions to bring them closer to the Democrat position.

00:34:57.760 It means doing, if anything, the opposite.

00:35:00.720 Present the contrast.

00:35:02.060 And when it comes to abortion, that means clearly and concisely and powerfully and persuasively making the case for life, the defense of life.

00:35:09.040 I'm not saying it's easy.

00:35:10.200 Like, no matter what you do on abortion, there are going to be people, lots of people who are upset, no matter what position you take.

00:35:16.940 Okay, Trump says that I come up with a compromise that makes everyone happy.

00:35:19.520 That's impossible.

00:35:20.340 That doesn't exist.

00:35:20.940 That's not a plan.

00:35:22.060 Just saying, oh, you know what I'll do?

00:35:23.160 You know what I'll do?

00:35:23.800 I'll just come up with an idea that everyone will like.

00:35:25.580 It doesn't exist.

00:35:26.740 You cannot do it on this issue.

00:35:28.940 It's not there.

00:35:29.980 It doesn't matter if you, you could be the most brilliant dealmaker in history.

00:35:34.480 The fact is that among, on the left, what they want is abortion up until birth, period.

00:35:43.480 For any reason, period.

00:35:44.960 That's what they want.

00:35:46.020 They will not be happy with anything but that. 0.97

00:35:48.440 And if you come up with any plan other than that, you are going to be a, this is a handmaid's tale, you're a patriarchal, oppressive dictator, you know, you're killing women, back alley abortions, anything but that, that's how they're going to paint you. 0.96

00:36:03.900 That's just the reality. 0.94

00:36:04.760 And so, you might as well take the correct true position.

00:36:13.840 You're going to upset those people anyway.

00:36:15.220 They're going to be upset anyway.

00:36:17.000 So take the true position and defend it.

00:36:21.240 Like, imagine that.

00:36:22.000 Imagine actually just explaining.

00:36:24.120 Like, explaining.

00:36:25.720 Yes, of course, I, I, I, I think that we should ban, I think we should have banned abortions entirely.

00:36:32.560 And the media is going to go, oh, why would you say that?

00:36:34.760 Just explain it.

00:36:36.080 Just explain.

00:36:36.560 Well, the reason is that, is that these are human beings and I don't think we should, it's ever okay to directly and intentionally kill innocent human life.

00:36:45.360 I just, that's what I believe.

00:36:46.720 That's a really logical, powerful, simple position that you can take.

00:36:55.100 But you got to be willing to explain it.

00:36:57.020 All right.

00:37:00.040 We had a bunch of other headlines and we just spent a lot of time on that.

00:37:02.800 Let me, okay, we got to make some room for this as well.

00:37:07.560 So, ABC News, American XL bully dogs could be banned in the UK by the end of the year.

00:37:13.180 The British Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, said on Friday, there have been a string of attacks involving the canine breed.

00:37:21.460 In a statement, West Midlands Ambulance Service said a male victim had sustained multiple life-threatening injuries and was in critical condition after an attack by a suspected XL bully dog.

00:37:30.560 Now they're being banned.

00:37:31.400 We have the Prime Minister talking about this ban.

00:37:33.680 Let's watch it.

00:37:34.820 The American XL bully dog is a danger to our communities, particularly our children.

00:37:39.800 I share the nation's horror at the recent videos we've all seen.

00:37:44.060 Yesterday, we saw another suspected XL bully dog attack, which has tragically led to a fatality.

00:37:50.260 It's clear this is not about a handful of badly trained dogs.

00:37:53.180 It's a pattern of behaviour and it cannot go on.

00:37:56.400 While owners already have a responsibility to keep their dogs under control,

00:38:00.300 I want to reassure people that we are urgently working on ways to stop these attacks and protect the public.

00:38:06.280 Today, I have tasked ministers to bring together police and experts to firstly define the breed of dog behind these attacks with a view to then outlawing it.

00:38:16.800 It is not currently a breed defined in law, so this vital first step must happen fast.

00:38:22.060 We will then ban the breed under the Dangerous Dogs Act, and new laws will be in place by the end of the year.

00:38:29.340 These dogs are dangerous.

00:38:31.200 I want to reassure the public that we will take all necessary steps to keep people safe.

00:38:36.300 Okay, so it's not every day that the UK gets something right, but they got something right here.

00:38:43.460 And, of course, pit bull terriers are already banned in the UK, and now they're adding this type of dog, this type of pit bull to that ban list.

00:38:56.300 First, obviously the right move.

00:39:00.800 Pit bulls of all types are wildly, disproportionately dangerous.

00:39:07.340 And it really is as simple as that.

00:39:09.900 Now, you can point out, well, pit bulls don't bite.

00:39:13.280 The poodles, look at poodles.

00:39:15.040 Poodles bite more often than pit bulls do, or whatever obfuscation, whatever red herring you want to throw out.

00:39:21.520 Now, but it may be true, and I don't even know if it is true, it may be true that other types of dogs are more likely to bite you, but a poodle is not going to maul you to death.

00:39:35.940 Okay, I don't know how many fatal poodle maulings there have been in history, but there couldn't possibly have been that many.

00:39:41.840 The point with a pit bull is that not only is it bred to be aggressive, not only are they volatile animals, but also they are genetically predisposed not only towards aggression, but when they become aggressive, they are lethal.

00:40:06.400 They are, like, designed to be lethal when they decide to attack.

00:40:13.500 Okay, a golden retriever, golden retrievers don't bite very often, but if you tick off a golden, any dog, if you tick it off, it might bite you.

00:40:23.500 But it's not going to try to eat you alive, okay?

00:40:26.560 It's not going to try to eat your face the way that a pit bull does.

00:40:29.180 And that's why, when you look at a list of fatal dog maulings, you're going to find that pit bulls are responsible for the vast, vast majority of them every single year.

00:40:45.060 There's just no way around it.

00:40:46.860 And, you know, I know every time we talk about this, and it's going to happen again, I'm going to get all these messages from people in comments saying, whoa, so if you support banning pit bulls, that also means that you're anti-Second Amendment.

00:41:02.480 These are the kinds of arguments that pit bull defenders will make, because they'll say that, well, if you support banning pit bulls, then you must also support banning guns.

00:41:10.400 Now, the first thing is, just because you support banning one thing doesn't mean you support banning all things.

00:41:17.100 Like, there are things that we all agree should be banned, right?

00:41:20.260 There are things we all agree should be banned.

00:41:21.840 There are behaviors that we all agree should be banned.

00:41:29.120 But then there are behaviors and there are things that we think shouldn't be banned.

00:41:32.640 Imagine that.

00:41:34.300 And so how do you determine what should be banned?

00:41:36.680 Well, you have to look at the individual cases.

00:41:40.400 In the case of a firearm, first of all, in the United States, you have a constitutional right to a firearm.

00:41:46.080 It's a big deal, okay?

00:41:47.820 Second, that's an inanimate object.

00:41:51.340 A gun is not going to get up on its own and shoot someone.

00:41:56.240 There's never been a mass shooting where it was a gun on its own going into a building and shooting people.

00:42:04.340 It's an inanimate object.

00:42:05.840 It's a tool, right, that people use.

00:42:09.120 A dog is not like that.

00:42:10.180 First of all, you don't have a constitutional right to a dog.

00:42:13.280 And second, a dog has a mind of its own.

00:42:16.780 And it can act entirely.

00:42:18.200 I mean, you could be the best owner in the world.

00:42:20.400 And the dog is still a dog and has a mind of its own.

00:42:23.120 It has instincts.

00:42:24.100 It's an animal.

00:42:25.480 And it can just get up on its own and do something.

00:42:29.280 In fact, animals do that all the time.

00:42:30.920 They get up on their own and they do things.

00:42:32.160 And oftentimes there are things that you don't like, you don't want them to do.

00:42:34.340 And they do them anyway.

00:42:35.120 And most of the time, the things that they do that you don't want them to do are relatively minor things.

00:42:39.380 You know, they're chewing on the carpet.

00:42:40.720 They're crapping on the rug.

00:42:41.960 They're doing that kind of thing.

00:42:42.540 But with a pit bull, there's always that possibility that one of the things they do that you don't want them to do is go and maul the neighbor's two-year-old child.

00:42:51.900 And these sorts of things happen.

00:42:52.920 So the comparison, the analogy, we're talking about banning pit bulls.

00:43:01.460 The analogy is not to inanimate objects, because a pit bull is not an inanimate object.

00:43:07.600 The analogy is to other animals.

00:43:10.420 There are many other animals that are banned in most communities and in most countries.

00:43:16.940 There are many other animals that you are, in most areas, not allowed to own.

00:43:23.300 You just can't own them.

00:43:25.640 And the list is very long.

00:43:27.500 I mean, there are many more animals you're not allowed to own domestically than there are that you are allowed to own.

00:43:35.160 So just taking one.

00:43:37.520 You're not allowed to own, in most jurisdictions, to my knowledge, you're not allowed to own a panther.

00:43:44.700 You can't own a panther.

00:43:45.720 And why can't you own a panther?

00:43:50.220 Well, because they are disproportionately likely to become dangerous, not just to you, but to your community, to your neighborhood.

00:43:59.440 And they are animals that, if they do become aggressive, it'll be very easy for them to kill someone.

00:44:07.180 And so you can't bring those animals into a neighborhood.

00:44:10.200 So with thousands of other animals, we have no issue with that.

00:44:17.120 We all understand.

00:44:17.860 Like, yeah, of course you can't bring that animal into a neighborhood.

00:44:19.640 It's just, it's too dangerous.

00:44:22.540 And you know what?

00:44:23.120 If they were to, I think someone said to me on Twitter today, a couple of days ago,

00:44:27.800 well, there were only 30 fatal pit bull maulings last year.

00:44:31.960 And I don't even know if that number is correct, but let's just say that it is.

00:44:35.160 Well, what if they lifted the ban on panther ownership?

00:44:38.800 And then we looked at it and we said, and then after a year, we said,

00:44:42.080 okay, well, panthers have been legal to own for a year and only 30 people have been horrifically

00:44:48.620 mauled to death, which is to say eaten while they're still alive by the panthers.

00:44:54.020 It's a success.

00:44:54.740 Everything's fine.

00:44:56.020 Or would we say 30 people have been mauled to death by this animal?

00:45:01.460 No, of course you can't own them.

00:45:02.640 That's not worth the cost.

00:45:04.880 Like they're always, right?

00:45:07.140 You always have to weigh cost and benefit with anything, especially when it comes to laws.

00:45:12.080 You always have to weigh that.

00:45:14.080 And so before you, you know, many more people die in car accidents than die from pit bulls.

00:45:19.460 The cost of banning cars is that you've shut down society completely.

00:45:24.980 And so most reasonable people realize, well, you can't ban cars.

00:45:28.000 You just can't do it.

00:45:29.980 What's the cost to society if you ban pit bulls?

00:45:32.500 The cost is nothing.

00:45:33.500 It doesn't affect, it only benefits us.

00:45:35.600 There's no serious cost to society if you ban pit bulls anymore than there's a serious cost

00:45:41.480 to society.

00:45:42.080 When we ban all these other animals.

00:45:45.360 So the cost is nothing to ban them to society.

00:45:49.260 The risk of owning them is dozens of people being horrible, dying the most horrific death

00:45:56.160 you can possibly imagine.

00:45:58.480 And so I think that the answer there is pretty clear.

00:46:02.220 Sometimes it's five headlines.

00:46:03.560 Sometimes it's more like two.

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00:46:53.900 Something a little bit different today.

00:46:55.060 Usually we read comments in this segment and messages, comments and messages from people

00:47:00.680 attacking me for things that I said.

00:47:03.120 That's the point of the segment.

00:47:05.280 But this time we have comments and messages from people attacking me for things I didn't

00:47:08.400 say.

00:47:08.640 Not that they're accusing me of saying things I didn't say, but rather they are mad at me

00:47:11.720 for not saying certain things.

00:47:13.920 And we talked earlier in the show about the recent Trump interviews where he said stuff

00:47:18.200 that I didn't like and I explained why I didn't like it.

00:47:20.500 I explained that today, just a few minutes ago, because I'm back at work, because it's

00:47:25.340 Monday.

00:47:26.320 And I did not, however, say anything about these subjects on Twitter over the weekend until

00:47:32.520 Sunday night, you know, when I started doing a show prep, I do a little work on Sunday

00:47:36.160 night.

00:47:36.340 But for most of the weekend, I didn't say anything at all about any subject.

00:47:40.960 I was silent because I'm a married man with six kids and I don't spend my weekends on Twitter.

00:47:46.400 At least I try not to.

00:47:47.900 Actually, just to give you just to give you the full timeline here, you know, I talked

00:47:51.960 about Trump's I talked about Trump's Megyn Kelly interview.

00:47:54.720 I think that was on Thursday.

00:47:55.600 And we talked about the Fauci stuff and I was very critical of how he handled the Fauci

00:48:00.380 stuff.

00:48:00.720 The question about why did you give him a commendation and all that.

00:48:03.460 I didn't mention the trans stuff because I didn't I didn't I hadn't seen that clip.

00:48:06.680 I didn't know about it.

00:48:07.260 I didn't watch the full interview.

00:48:08.500 I saw the clips.

00:48:09.060 I only saw the Fauci clip.

00:48:11.820 I finally saw the trans clip on Friday afternoon, probably.

00:48:15.680 But at that point, I was heading to dinner with my wife.

00:48:18.000 It's it's you know, this is the end of the work week for me going out for a date night.

00:48:22.340 I decided I'll wait till Monday.

00:48:24.220 We could talk about it in greater depth.

00:48:25.680 This is the kind of thing I want to flesh out.

00:48:26.960 I want to talk about.

00:48:27.540 Then over the weekend, as we did on just a few minutes ago, then over the weekend, the

00:48:34.180 Trump meet the press interview came out.

00:48:35.960 It came out on Sunday morning.

00:48:38.020 And I didn't see that at all because at first, because it's Sunday morning, I was at church.

00:48:43.960 Well, I come back online late Sunday afternoon and I find many, many posts and messages from

00:48:49.500 conservatives, from DeSantis supporters, from people claiming to be longtime fans of mine,

00:48:54.200 denouncing me for not having posted about either subject over the weekend.

00:48:59.640 So I was with my family, with my wife and kids over the weekend.

00:49:01.900 But that apparently was not a good enough excuse.

00:49:05.240 According to these, I'm telling you, my mentions were just, it was a little bewildering at first

00:49:10.560 because I logged back on.

00:49:11.400 I saw all these people really angry at me, including people that I know are supposed to be on my side.

00:49:16.700 And I'm thinking, what did I do?

00:49:18.080 I haven't even said anything.

00:49:19.780 And then I realized that was the problem.

00:49:22.020 So I just want to read a couple of these.

00:49:24.200 First one says, Matt has shown himself to be a gutless fraud.

00:49:27.180 If his next tweet is not about this, I'm unfollowing him forever. 0.98

00:49:30.220 I'm done with these unserious clowns. 0.99

00:49:33.240 Theodore says, Matt is right there with Glenn Beck, no balls. 0.99

00:49:35.880 But I'm sure he's got plenty to say about how everyone else should live and espouse his religious 0.99

00:49:39.180 bull****. 0.85

00:49:40.580 Peter says, Matt Walsh has built a massive following commenting on conservative politics, 0.97

00:49:44.480 specifically on transgender issues.

00:49:46.040 He regularly blasts inconsequential GOP politicians for going to the left on this.

00:49:50.180 But when Trump refuses to say men can't become women, silence.

00:49:52.760 Spence Rogers, responding to that tweet, agreed, saying, great point.

00:49:56.880 Why?

00:49:57.180 Because Ben Shapiro is the authorized DeSantis cheerleader over there.

00:50:00.140 Walsh isn't allowed to talk about the primary.

00:50:02.220 Knowles is the Trump slappy.

00:50:03.480 Candace is the Vivek shill.

00:50:05.400 M to the G says, Matt won't speak truth to power because it affects his bottom line.

00:50:09.800 Lots of comments like that.

00:50:11.040 David said, Matt, I'm so disappointed in you.

00:50:13.840 Trump endorses abortion today and it's crickets from you.

00:50:16.360 He cucked himself on the trans issue and you said nothing. 1.00

00:50:18.800 I've been a fan for years, but now I see that you're a turncoat traitor. 0.96

00:50:22.860 Sean says, Matt, why aren't you speaking about these issues, about these Trump issues? 0.94

00:50:27.000 You've been silent all weekend.

00:50:28.040 It's clear that you aren't willing to take a risk for the sake of truth. 1.00

00:50:30.220 You're a coward. 1.00

00:50:30.680 Okay. 1.00

00:50:31.700 So a lot where those came from.

00:50:32.760 Now, I've already given my take on these issues and I've already told you why I was absent

00:50:38.000 from the conversation for a few days.

00:50:39.500 I realized that spending time with your family is not an excused absence.

00:50:42.920 According to the hall monitors, it is what it is.

00:50:45.980 Moving on from those points, I just want to say a couple other things.

00:50:49.740 First, just a general point here.

00:50:52.120 Look, if you don't need 24-hour armed security for your family,

00:51:00.020 if you've never received a letter in the mail making threats against you

00:51:06.040 and providing details about your home and your movements

00:51:10.640 that they could only know if they were watching your house physically,

00:51:15.960 if you've never had people show up outside of your house and take pictures of your house

00:51:19.580 when your kids are playing in the front yard

00:51:21.140 and they come running in and screaming saying,

00:51:23.880 Daddy, there's someone outside,

00:51:25.320 if you've never experienced being doxxed by so many people all at once

00:51:28.900 that you're trending on Twitter because of it,

00:51:31.680 if you've never been hacked and blackmailed and smeared and defamed,

00:51:35.080 if you don't have a file of death threats the size of a novel at this point,

00:51:40.060 then I just don't want to hear your lectures about taking risks.

00:51:46.760 I don't want to hear it.

00:51:49.920 But I am hearing it from a lot of people.

00:51:53.760 Oh, he doesn't have the courage.

00:51:55.180 He's not speaking.

00:51:56.280 What are you doing?

00:51:57.160 What the hell are you doing?

00:51:59.380 Many of these from anonymous accounts talking about political courage

00:52:04.180 when you've got nothing on the line at all.

00:52:09.880 Now, I have always said what I feel needs to be said regardless of the consequences.

00:52:15.500 And to hear lectures on political courage from people who've put absolutely nothing on the line,

00:52:21.600 it's just, it's a bit much.

00:52:24.120 It just is.

00:52:25.040 Second, this attack on me was driven mostly by DeSantis influencers.

00:52:32.760 Whether they were paid influencers or not, I don't know.

00:52:36.200 But either way, they apparently decided that it was a good political strategy

00:52:39.060 to take one of the more prominent conservatives in media, which is me,

00:52:43.300 who's been a DeSantis supporter for years,

00:52:45.660 and cast him as the enemy.

00:52:47.940 What do you guys think this achieves?

00:52:53.400 I'm your enemy now, too?

00:52:55.880 Me?

00:52:56.460 I mean, I've dedicated hours of this show over the years.

00:53:00.140 Hours.

00:53:01.000 Cumulative hours.

00:53:03.160 To defending DeSantis against all manner of attacks, including recently.

00:53:07.640 And now I'm on your list of bad guys?

00:53:09.820 What are you trying to accomplish here?

00:53:13.680 What do you think this accomplishes?

00:53:16.500 Is it working?

00:53:19.380 You know, there's another DeSantis supporter account with a decent following that's been chastising me for weeks,

00:53:24.740 as far as I can tell, for not being pro-DeSantis enough.

00:53:29.980 Yes, you've supported him, but you need to support him more.

00:53:32.920 We need more.

00:53:35.020 Really?

00:53:35.380 So spending hours of my show defending him, talking about him, how I like him, why I support him,

00:53:39.940 that's not enough?

00:53:41.320 That's not good enough.

00:53:44.100 Listen, if I'm not pro-DeSantis enough, if I am your enemy now, too,

00:53:50.260 then who is your friend?

00:53:53.640 Are you just going to drive them all away?

00:53:55.240 Look, this is not about, I don't care, you can say it, it doesn't bother me. 1.00

00:54:01.500 It's just such a monumentally stupid strategy. 0.99

00:54:08.120 Here's the thing, guys. 1.00

00:54:10.720 My show will never, ever be a political ad for a candidate.

00:54:16.700 It has never been, and it will never be.

00:54:19.680 I will never spend the majority of my time promoting a political candidate.

00:54:23.520 In fact, I will spend no time simply promoting a political candidate.

00:54:27.600 I'll talk about them when they come up in the news.

00:54:29.780 I'll defend them when they deserve defending.

00:54:32.480 I'll criticize them when they deserve criticizing.

00:54:35.840 But I'm not a campaign surrogate.

00:54:38.140 I'll never be one.

00:54:40.580 I've had, there have been plenty of times when campaigns have made, you know,

00:54:48.220 made gestures to me, as you can imagine,

00:54:50.220 that they would like to bring me into the fold to be more a part of the team.

00:54:54.420 I always turn that down.

00:54:56.840 And I don't go to the dinners when I get invited.

00:54:59.040 Oh, come to a dinner with this candidate, and we'd just like to talk to you.

00:55:03.360 And I don't begrudge candidates reaching out with that kind of thing.

00:55:05.860 That's part of the job.

00:55:06.680 But I never go to the dinners.

00:55:08.700 I don't do any of that.

00:55:10.880 And the reason is that that's just not,

00:55:13.120 there are people who do that, and that's fine.

00:55:14.420 That's not who I want to be.

00:55:15.920 I want to be an independent voice.

00:55:18.240 I'm not even a political pundit.

00:55:19.760 I don't focus on politics.

00:55:20.980 I focus on culture, which is why we can go through major political stories

00:55:26.100 that I will almost completely ignore in some cases,

00:55:29.320 not because I'm afraid to talk about them.

00:55:32.760 And the political stories are the easy ones.

00:55:35.620 The political stories, no one's ever threatened to kill my whole family

00:55:38.760 because of something I said about a political story.

00:55:41.360 But I don't, oftentimes I'll ignore them completely

00:55:46.060 just because that's not what I focus on in this show.

00:55:47.900 I focus on the culture.

00:55:49.240 That's what I care about.

00:55:50.500 It's what I care about.

00:55:51.200 It's what I think I have insight to provide on.

00:55:53.160 You know, many times also with these political stories,

00:55:56.320 not these particular ones we talked about today,

00:55:58.300 but other stories, they pop up,

00:56:00.640 and I'll look at the commentary that's been made on it,

00:56:03.260 and I'll think, yeah, well, most people have covered it.

00:56:05.140 Like, I don't think I have anything to add on this.

00:56:07.440 And so those are the ones that I'll skip entirely.

00:56:10.040 And then other ones will come up,

00:56:11.200 and I'll see a real cultural connection,

00:56:13.420 like with these Trump things, you know,

00:56:14.900 it has to do with trans and abortion.

00:56:16.320 That really pertains to culture.

00:56:17.980 And so, you know, I'll do 17 minutes on that.

00:56:22.140 But that's the way that I operate.

00:56:24.460 That's the way that I do the show.

00:56:28.000 If you think that my focus should be elsewhere,

00:56:30.360 if you think that I should be a surrogate for a campaign,

00:56:33.880 if you think that I should be a bigger team player or whatever,

00:56:36.960 well, I don't care.

00:56:40.460 But all I can say is just from a, you know,

00:56:43.560 from a strategic standpoint,

00:56:47.100 like driving wedges,

00:56:49.100 even between,

00:56:50.920 driving wedges to wedge out someone

00:56:53.800 who's on your side 0.99

00:56:55.340 could not be a dumber approach. 0.99

00:56:58.580 And there's still time to correct it. 0.97

00:57:05.280 There's not a lot of time,

00:57:06.640 but there's still time.

00:57:08.280 Hi, it's me, Matt Walsh.

00:57:10.340 And I'm introducing myself

00:57:11.360 towards the end of the show that you're watching

00:57:13.520 with my name on it for some reason.

00:57:15.380 The point is that Halloween is almost upon us,

00:57:18.080 and there's nothing scarier than handing out candy

00:57:20.460 from woke corporations that hate your values.

00:57:22.860 Well, maybe second to walking the streets at night

00:57:25.020 in any liberal-run city anyway.

00:57:27.400 Rim shot.

00:57:28.140 That was supposed to be a joke.

00:57:29.640 Back in March,

00:57:30.560 in response to a chocolate ad

00:57:31.900 featuring a man who thinks he's a woman,

00:57:33.640 on Women's Day,

00:57:34.240 we decided to launch Jeremy's Chocolate.

00:57:36.140 And people responded by hundreds of thousands,

00:57:38.620 including me, myself, Matt Walsh.

00:57:40.300 It was a runaway success.

00:57:41.520 So here is your friendly reminder

00:57:42.660 that Halloween is approaching,

00:57:43.860 and it's time to stock up on good, unwoke chocolate.

00:57:46.440 Head over to jeremyschocolate.com

00:57:48.620 and order your chocolate today.

00:57:51.200 So says me, Matt Walsh.

00:57:53.980 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:58:01.880 I don't know where this trend came from,

00:58:03.900 but if you are terminally online,

00:58:05.740 as I am, much to my shame,

00:58:07.360 then, except on the weekends,

00:58:09.280 then you are already well aware of it.

00:58:11.840 At some point over the past week or so,

00:58:13.520 it came to my attention,

00:58:14.440 it came to the attention of many women, rather,

00:58:16.380 on social media,

00:58:17.580 that the men in their lives

00:58:18.700 frequently think about the Roman Empire.

00:58:21.060 This was a shock to women, 1.00

00:58:22.180 most of whom have never had

00:58:23.580 a single unprompted thought

00:58:25.200 about the Roman Empire

00:58:26.540 or, frankly, any ancient empire,

00:58:28.080 much to their shame

00:58:28.980 at any point in their lives.

00:58:30.540 And so Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok

00:58:31.840 soon became flooded with videos of women

00:58:33.620 asking their husbands and boyfriends

00:58:35.440 whether they think about this subject

00:58:37.060 and how often.

00:58:38.660 Here's just a quick compilation

00:58:39.640 of a few of these

00:58:41.240 fascinating conversations.

00:58:43.120 The Roman Empire.

00:58:47.480 How often do I think about it?

00:58:48.840 Yeah.

00:58:51.860 It's technically like every day.

00:58:54.140 Do you think about the Roman Empire ever?

00:58:58.220 Yeah, I guess.

00:58:59.280 Sometimes.

00:59:00.140 How often?

00:59:02.680 I don't know.

00:59:05.980 Once a week.

00:59:06.820 How do you not think about

00:59:08.840 the Roman Empire?

00:59:10.520 Basically.

00:59:11.540 How many times,

00:59:13.060 like a week,

00:59:14.680 or just how many times in general,

00:59:16.780 do you think about the Roman Empire?

00:59:22.120 What about the Roman Empire?

00:59:23.440 Just anything about it.

00:59:26.300 Probably not a lot.

00:59:28.200 Why?

00:59:28.940 Not a lot?

00:59:30.320 When was the last time

00:59:31.040 you thought about it?

00:59:32.360 Maybe a week or two ago?

00:59:33.560 The Roman Empire

00:59:37.480 was a very big part in history.

00:59:39.420 So how often

00:59:40.380 do you think about it?

00:59:42.440 Not a lot.

00:59:43.580 How often?

00:59:45.540 Once every month?

00:59:47.060 Maybe three or four times a month.

00:59:49.500 You think about the Roman Empire

00:59:50.880 once a week?

00:59:51.520 It has a lot of big, like,

00:59:54.160 stories and lessons,

00:59:55.260 like, within the Roman Empire

00:59:56.260 of what to do

00:59:56.840 and what not to do.

00:59:57.620 So, yeah.

00:59:58.640 So you think about

00:59:59.320 the Roman Empire once a week?

01:00:00.520 Sometimes, yeah.

01:00:02.140 How often do you think

01:00:03.180 about the Roman Empire?

01:00:06.140 This dance.

01:00:08.400 I don't know.

01:00:09.000 Every couple days.

01:00:10.900 So this has, uh,

01:00:12.940 piqued the interest

01:00:13.580 of the media as well.

01:00:14.700 The Daily Mail,

01:00:15.500 People,

01:00:16.020 Business Insider,

01:00:16.720 Wire,

01:00:17.180 The New York Times,

01:00:17.860 Time Magazine,

01:00:18.360 Rolling Stone,

01:00:19.200 Mashable, among others,

01:00:20.100 have all run lengthy articles

01:00:21.360 about this phenomenon,

01:00:22.360 each attempting to offer

01:00:23.280 some sort of explanation

01:00:24.660 for why men think

01:00:25.660 about the Roman Empire

01:00:26.420 and women not only 0.89

01:00:27.740 don't think about it,

01:00:28.560 but are shocked to learn

01:00:29.360 that anyone thinks

01:00:30.080 about it at all.

01:00:30.840 Now, before I offer

01:00:32.600 my own analysis,

01:00:33.480 I should answer

01:00:34.040 the question for myself.

01:00:35.000 I don't think about

01:00:35.800 the Roman Empire

01:00:36.360 quite as often

01:00:37.220 as many of these other men.

01:00:39.180 The Roman Empire

01:00:39.740 probably crosses my mind

01:00:41.040 a few times a month,

01:00:42.500 but no more than that.

01:00:43.560 And that's because

01:00:44.080 the historical epoch

01:00:45.460 that I devote

01:00:46.140 most of my mental energy to

01:00:47.980 is the American Old West.

01:00:49.540 So I think about

01:00:50.100 the Old West

01:00:50.700 multiple times a day,

01:00:52.120 easily.

01:00:52.940 There are other

01:00:53.360 historical periods

01:00:54.120 and episodes

01:00:54.500 that I reflect on frequently.

01:00:55.760 I think about Magellan's

01:00:56.760 circumnavigation of the globe

01:00:58.100 at least once a week,

01:00:59.960 probably more.

01:01:01.100 The Age of Discovery

01:01:01.880 in general

01:01:02.440 is a subject

01:01:02.920 of daily meditation.

01:01:04.120 Loyal listeners of this show

01:01:05.020 also know that I have

01:01:05.800 a strange obsession

01:01:06.480 with 19th and early

01:01:07.740 20th century polar exploration.

01:01:09.420 That's a period of history

01:01:10.500 that I easily think about

01:01:11.480 every day.

01:01:12.480 I think the point is that

01:01:13.340 men all have certain

01:01:15.060 historical episodes

01:01:16.200 that they tend to mull over.

01:01:18.540 The Roman Empire

01:01:19.180 makes it into

01:01:19.800 all of our rotations,

01:01:21.000 but its frequency

01:01:21.600 can vary depending on

01:01:22.740 how much psychological

01:01:23.620 real estate

01:01:24.280 we give to other

01:01:25.560 time periods.

01:01:26.140 Now, let me solve

01:01:28.820 the mystery

01:01:29.360 for the confused

01:01:30.280 women of the world.

01:01:31.920 Why do men 0.65

01:01:32.620 think about these things?

01:01:33.900 Well, the shortest

01:01:34.500 and simplest answer

01:01:35.440 is that we think

01:01:36.240 about stuff like this

01:01:37.180 because it's interesting

01:01:38.400 to think about.

01:01:39.000 I mean, what else

01:01:39.620 is there to think about?

01:01:41.100 Sure, there are plenty

01:01:42.020 of other things

01:01:42.380 to think about.

01:01:42.780 On a daily basis,

01:01:43.640 I also think about

01:01:44.260 outer space

01:01:45.060 and the deep sea

01:01:45.720 and the Amazon rainforest.

01:01:47.060 I think about

01:01:47.440 what I would do.

01:01:49.040 I think all guys

01:01:49.620 think about it.

01:01:49.980 What would I do

01:01:50.500 if a bunch of bad guys 1.00

01:01:51.560 with guns came to kill me?

01:01:53.160 Really, like in any scenario,

01:01:54.500 in any physical environment

01:01:55.460 I walk into,

01:01:56.520 you think about that.

01:01:57.860 You run through

01:01:58.320 the various scenarios,

01:01:59.480 one where you have

01:02:00.040 a gun yourself,

01:02:01.320 one where you're unarmed,

01:02:02.580 one where you're armed

01:02:03.240 only with nunchucks

01:02:04.200 or a hammer

01:02:04.680 or a chainsaw

01:02:05.300 or something.

01:02:06.580 Think about that.

01:02:07.460 I think about my own death.

01:02:09.020 I think about what's for dinner.

01:02:10.720 The point is that

01:02:11.200 there's a lot of time

01:02:12.200 in the day

01:02:12.500 to think about

01:02:12.980 a lot of things

01:02:13.620 and I read somewhere

01:02:14.780 that the human brain

01:02:16.500 processes 70,000 thoughts

01:02:18.920 in a day

01:02:19.380 and that seems

01:02:19.900 completely made up to me.

01:02:21.060 I don't know

01:02:21.300 how anyone could come up

01:02:22.260 with an exact number

01:02:23.060 of thoughts

01:02:23.660 that the average person thinks

01:02:25.440 I'm not even sure

01:02:26.640 how you precisely

01:02:27.420 differentiate

01:02:28.080 one thought

01:02:29.520 from the next

01:02:30.560 but I'm sure

01:02:31.820 that we all

01:02:32.420 well, some of us anyway

01:02:33.760 do plenty of thinking

01:02:36.120 and we think about

01:02:36.780 many things.

01:02:37.340 Why wouldn't we carve out

01:02:38.700 some time

01:02:39.600 to think about

01:02:40.820 ancient Rome?

01:02:41.880 Like I said,

01:02:42.320 it's interesting.

01:02:42.960 That's really the only

01:02:43.740 prerequisite

01:02:44.780 for determining

01:02:45.460 whether something

01:02:46.100 is worth thinking about

01:02:46.940 as far as men are concerned.

01:02:48.660 There's more to it

01:02:49.440 than that though.

01:02:49.940 In the Roman Empire

01:02:50.760 we see much to admire.

01:02:52.340 This was a civilization

01:02:53.020 that helped to build

01:02:54.080 the world

01:02:54.500 as we know it today.

01:02:55.340 They invented

01:02:55.720 or helped to innovate

01:02:56.620 everything from aqueducts

01:02:58.960 to complex systems

01:03:00.580 of roads

01:03:01.140 to concrete.

01:03:02.700 They built enormous

01:03:03.720 beautiful structures

01:03:04.820 like the Colosseum

01:03:05.820 and the Pantheon

01:03:06.480 which still stand

01:03:07.760 to this day.

01:03:09.260 Like any great

01:03:09.840 ancient civilization

01:03:10.560 their priorities

01:03:11.360 extended beyond

01:03:12.480 the moment

01:03:13.580 that they're living in.

01:03:15.220 Unlike us,

01:03:16.080 they actually remembered

01:03:17.260 things that happened

01:03:18.240 more than 30 minutes ago

01:03:19.500 and they thought about

01:03:20.840 the future

01:03:21.820 beyond 30 minutes

01:03:23.020 from now.

01:03:24.480 They cared about legacy.

01:03:26.180 They wanted to build

01:03:27.080 a civilization

01:03:27.580 that would last

01:03:28.360 for a thousand years

01:03:29.240 and they did.

01:03:30.820 So it's the longevity,

01:03:32.180 the permanence,

01:03:33.000 the legacy

01:03:33.500 that we admire

01:03:34.420 and that we look to

01:03:35.660 with a certain longing,

01:03:38.020 pangs of sadness

01:03:39.100 upon the realization

01:03:40.040 that our own civilization

01:03:41.220 is so feckless

01:03:42.120 and limp 0.55

01:03:42.620 and shallow

01:03:43.900 and superficial

01:03:44.640 and distracted

01:03:45.480 by comparison.

01:03:47.200 The Roman Empire

01:03:48.060 was also a time

01:03:48.880 like in any ancient civilization

01:03:50.020 where what we would call

01:03:51.540 traditional masculinity

01:03:52.800 reigned supreme.

01:03:53.860 Men were men 0.99

01:03:54.440 and were rewarded

01:03:55.240 and celebrated

01:03:55.840 for being men.

01:03:57.700 These are the things

01:03:58.320 we think about

01:03:58.840 when we think about

01:03:59.380 the Roman Empire.

01:04:00.180 The Roman Empire

01:04:00.660 is also a warning.

01:04:01.580 It's a cautionary tale

01:04:02.500 that we are certainly

01:04:03.480 not heeding

01:04:04.240 in our age.

01:04:06.080 After all,

01:04:06.780 the Roman Empire

01:04:08.000 is no longer with us

01:04:09.060 because it eventually fell.

01:04:10.280 It collapsed.

01:04:11.840 And given that

01:04:12.260 we are very much

01:04:12.960 seeming to be living

01:04:13.900 through our own

01:04:14.680 civilizational collapse,

01:04:15.800 we like to go back

01:04:16.560 and read about

01:04:17.180 and think about

01:04:17.700 other civilizations

01:04:18.500 that experience

01:04:19.620 the same

01:04:20.160 so that we know

01:04:20.860 what to expect

01:04:21.620 and so that

01:04:22.100 by some miracle

01:04:22.900 we might be able

01:04:23.980 to stave off

01:04:24.700 the inevitable.

01:04:25.340 So it's both

01:04:26.440 the parallels

01:04:27.060 with our time

01:04:28.020 and the differences

01:04:29.260 that we find fascinating.

01:04:31.860 It's just unfortunate

01:04:32.540 that we share

01:04:33.240 all of the bad features

01:04:34.380 of ancient Rome

01:04:35.600 and few of the good ones.

01:04:38.000 I think the bigger question

01:04:39.380 and the more interesting one

01:04:40.340 is though

01:04:40.600 why women 1.00

01:04:42.300 are surprised

01:04:43.320 to learn

01:04:44.000 that men

01:04:45.260 think about

01:04:45.840 these kinds of things.

01:04:46.740 Now the answer is

01:04:48.400 I believe

01:04:48.920 partly

01:04:49.860 that a woman 0.98

01:04:50.660 will very often

01:04:51.420 ask the man

01:04:52.420 in her life

01:04:53.000 what are you thinking

01:04:54.160 and the man

01:04:55.440 will almost

01:04:55.900 never reply

01:04:56.900 by saying

01:04:57.560 the Roman Empire

01:04:58.540 or any other

01:04:59.380 historical subject.

01:05:00.140 In fact,

01:05:00.640 the man will often say

01:05:01.660 quote

01:05:02.180 nothing

01:05:02.820 which has led

01:05:04.380 many women

01:05:04.860 to the understandable

01:05:05.880 but still mistaken

01:05:06.740 conclusion

01:05:07.200 that men

01:05:08.060 often sit around

01:05:09.080 thinking about

01:05:09.640 literally nothing

01:05:10.540 at all.

01:05:11.620 What they don't

01:05:12.000 understand is that

01:05:12.600 when we say

01:05:13.200 nothing

01:05:13.700 what we really mean

01:05:15.420 is nothing

01:05:16.680 relevant to you

01:05:17.680 or nothing

01:05:18.740 we feel like

01:05:19.220 talking about

01:05:19.840 at the moment.

01:05:21.180 We aren't going to say

01:05:22.060 oh I'm thinking

01:05:22.480 about the Roman Empire

01:05:23.180 because we know

01:05:23.940 that will lead

01:05:24.660 to a whole list

01:05:25.200 of additional questions

01:05:26.200 that will take us

01:05:26.840 totally away

01:05:27.580 from the train

01:05:28.100 of thought

01:05:28.480 that we're on.

01:05:29.780 So real world

01:05:30.580 example of this.

01:05:33.100 A few days ago

01:05:33.920 I was sitting

01:05:34.680 and staring blankly

01:05:35.480 into space

01:05:35.960 as one tends to do

01:05:37.260 and my wife asked me

01:05:38.320 what are you thinking about?

01:05:39.980 And the real answer

01:05:40.960 is that I was thinking

01:05:42.200 about where I would

01:05:42.980 rank Christopher Nolan

01:05:44.040 in a list of the

01:05:44.880 top 20 film directors

01:05:45.880 of all time

01:05:46.480 which is a thought

01:05:47.400 that came to mind

01:05:48.120 when I thought about

01:05:48.900 his film Interstellar

01:05:50.260 which is overrated

01:05:51.560 in my opinion

01:05:52.180 and Interstellar

01:05:53.100 came to mind

01:05:53.600 because before that

01:05:54.540 I was thinking about

01:05:55.240 what might actually happen

01:05:56.420 if I fell into a black hole

01:05:58.020 and I didn't want

01:05:59.120 to explain all of that

01:06:00.140 so instead I said

01:06:01.360 nothing.

01:06:03.240 Now women might consider 1.00

01:06:04.180 that kind of answer

01:06:04.940 dishonest

01:06:05.620 but from a man's perspective

01:06:06.720 we don't see

01:06:07.880 how we can be expected

01:06:08.920 to simply reveal

01:06:09.920 the contents of our mind

01:06:11.560 upon request

01:06:12.600 and we also can't say

01:06:14.580 you know

01:06:15.440 the real honest answer

01:06:16.540 would be I guess

01:06:17.020 well I don't want

01:06:18.160 to tell you

01:06:18.580 what I'm thinking

01:06:19.080 because if we say that

01:06:21.020 then the woman's

01:06:21.780 going to either assume

01:06:23.040 that we're planning

01:06:23.680 some kind of big surprise

01:06:24.840 or we're concealing

01:06:27.420 some dark secret

01:06:28.360 like we're planning

01:06:29.680 a birthday

01:06:30.220 a surprise birthday

01:06:31.020 or we're having an affair

01:06:32.280 those are the two things

01:06:33.220 she's going to assume

01:06:33.760 and neither of those

01:06:35.040 assumptions will do us

01:06:35.980 or our relationship

01:06:36.700 any good

01:06:37.160 so that's where

01:06:38.800 this comes from

01:06:39.280 but there's another reason

01:06:40.200 why women are surprised 1.00

01:06:41.280 by this Roman Empire thing

01:06:42.700 and this is the most

01:06:43.840 important part

01:06:44.460 a woman's mind 0.98

01:06:46.740 simply works differently

01:06:48.220 from a man's mind

01:06:48.960 a man tends to think 0.93

01:06:50.620 more abstractly

01:06:52.040 about things that are

01:06:53.280 beyond his immediate

01:06:54.240 experiences and environment

01:06:55.700 a woman 0.57

01:06:56.860 and her thoughts

01:06:58.440 are more situated

01:06:59.400 in her daily life

01:07:00.460 her relationships

01:07:01.080 her home

01:07:01.740 her emotions

01:07:02.700 the emotions of people

01:07:04.240 closest to her

01:07:05.000 for example

01:07:06.000 my wife spends more time

01:07:07.560 in a day

01:07:08.080 thinking about furniture

01:07:09.840 than I have

01:07:11.420 cumulatively

01:07:12.100 in my entire life

01:07:13.500 so like furniture

01:07:15.780 is the Roman Empire

01:07:17.340 to women basically 0.82

01:07:18.180 and neither of these

01:07:20.420 ways of thinking

01:07:20.980 are wrong obviously

01:07:21.800 they're just different

01:07:22.540 and they're different

01:07:24.160 in important ways

01:07:25.160 ways that also happen

01:07:26.180 to complement one another

01:07:27.380 you know

01:07:28.400 it's almost as though

01:07:29.020 men and women

01:07:29.620 were designed

01:07:30.940 to pair up

01:07:31.900 and go through life together

01:07:33.120 imagine that

01:07:33.840 the man with his

01:07:35.160 sort of larger

01:07:35.860 abstract meditations

01:07:37.940 the woman with her 0.93

01:07:39.220 more grounded

01:07:39.940 and immediate

01:07:40.620 and often

01:07:41.940 emotion based

01:07:43.300 concerns

01:07:43.940 together the two

01:07:45.340 have all the bases

01:07:45.980 covered

01:07:46.320 after all

01:07:47.600 it's important

01:07:48.100 to have somebody

01:07:48.660 in the family

01:07:49.140 who's worried

01:07:49.660 about the decline

01:07:50.360 of empires

01:07:50.960 and the fate

01:07:51.960 of human civilization

01:07:52.640 it's also important

01:07:53.400 to have someone

01:07:53.780 who's worried

01:07:54.380 about the fact

01:07:54.780 that the baby

01:07:55.780 needs a new onesie

01:07:56.580 so different ways

01:07:58.440 of thinking

01:07:58.860 for two different sexes

01:08:00.280 yet more evidence

01:08:01.900 in the end

01:08:02.480 that the sexes

01:08:03.680 do in fact exist

01:08:04.800 and that they are

01:08:05.680 in fact definable

01:08:06.900 and different

01:08:07.520 in ways that even

01:08:09.140 transcend the physical

01:08:10.020 which is why

01:08:11.760 ultimately

01:08:12.200 it's once again

01:08:12.960 the people who deny

01:08:13.920 the reality of the sexes 1.00

01:08:15.820 and the differences

01:08:17.020 between them

01:08:17.700 who are today

01:08:18.840 cancelled

01:08:19.700 that'll do it

01:08:21.420 for the show today

01:08:22.140 thanks for watching

01:08:22.860 thanks for listening

01:08:23.680 have a great day

01:08:24.720 godspeed

01:08:32.480 thank you

The Matt Walsh Show - September 18, 2023

Ep. 1224 - Russell Brand Hit With Sex Assault Allegations. Is This His Punishment For Questioning The Left’s Narratives？

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