The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1253 - Historic Monument Is Melted Down And Destroyed In Bizarre Humiliation Ritual

00:00:00.100 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, a beautiful historic monument torn down during the statue toppling frenzy a couple years ago was just melted down and they filmed it in some kind of bizarre humiliation ritual.

00:00:09.600 They told us that these statues would go to museums, but that was never the plan.

00:00:12.980 Also, a professional hockey player is tragically killed during a match.

00:00:15.960 The media says it was an accident, but was it?

00:00:17.900 And we're once again being told that we should forgive those who push lockdowns during COVID.

00:00:22.080 I'll explain why forgiveness isn't really an option.

00:00:24.500 Plus, a trans-identified male films himself trying to get random waiters fired for quote-unquote misgendering him.

00:00:30.960 We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.

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00:01:43.800 For nearly a century, a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee stood in Charlottesville, Virginia.

00:01:49.400 In 1997, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, which meant that at the time, and this again was in the 90s, so not all that long ago, it was considered worthy of preservation for both its historical significance and its artistic value.

00:02:03.700 A little over 20 years later, in the midst of public hysteria over the overdose death of a criminal drug addict in Minneapolis,

00:02:11.300 that 100-year-old work of art, which was supposed to be preserved, was instead torn down.

00:02:16.440 And we were told, move to a museum.

00:02:19.560 Well, last week, the museum, in a symbolic humiliation ritual, melted the statue down and destroyed it.

00:02:26.080 It will now be repurposed as an inclusive arts display.

00:02:29.440 This is how we treat our art and our historic monuments these days.

00:02:34.060 It's especially how we treat historical figures like Robert E. Lee.

00:02:37.180 But it wasn't always this way.

00:02:39.220 Going back now to the early to mid-19th century, for more than three decades during that span,

00:02:45.160 Robert E. Lee served as an officer in the U.S. military.

00:02:47.660 He graduated from West Point, went on to play a key role in the Mexican-American War,

00:02:51.980 which is a war that isn't talked about very much these days, even though it changed the country forever.

00:02:57.100 And at the end of it, Mexico ceded a lot of territory, including California, Utah, Nevada,

00:03:02.980 a lot of what we now call Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado.

00:03:06.060 And Lee's role in that victory earned him a series of major promotions.

00:03:10.400 He was eventually named the superintendent of West Point, which was the military academy he once attended.

00:03:16.600 Just a few years after Lee left that post, the state of Virginia, where Lee was born,

00:03:21.120 seceded from the Union.

00:03:22.480 And at that point, Lee had a decision to make.

00:03:25.480 He could accept a post with the Union Army, leading the Union Army, in fact, which was offered to him by Lincoln.

00:03:32.420 Or he could defend his home state, which, and if he decided to take the other option and to join the Union,

00:03:40.220 then he would be marching against his state, his community, his family, even his own sons.

00:03:47.020 It would mean taking up the sword against his own family.

00:03:49.380 Now, even though Lee was no great fan of either slavery or the idea of secession,

00:03:54.820 he chose to defend his state and his family instead.

00:03:58.540 In the end, he felt a greater loyalty to his state and to his community and to his family than he did to the federal government.

00:04:06.400 And back in those days, that's how a lot of people felt.

00:04:09.840 He resigned from the U.S. military, joined the Confederacy,

00:04:12.560 and won some of the most pivotal battles of the war, often when he was up against very long odds.

00:04:17.240 After the war, Lee became a college professor,

00:04:20.360 and he worked to unify the North and South until his death.

00:04:22.900 He was remembered across political lines for many, many decades,

00:04:26.780 as both an ingenious tactician and a man of principle and faith.

00:04:31.360 Churchill called him one of the best generals in history.

00:04:33.680 Dwight D. Eisenhower, the President of the United States

00:04:35.600 and former commander of Allied forces in Europe during World War II,

00:04:39.080 had this to say about Robert E. Lee.

00:04:41.040 Listen.

00:04:42.280 I think there are a good many of you people here,

00:04:44.480 both photographers and representatives of the press,

00:04:47.880 have been going into my office for the past four and a half years, occasionally.

00:04:52.080 No doubt you've noticed that on the walls there are the prints of four men.

00:04:56.240 Men that I consider in my book are about the four top Americans of the past.

00:05:04.740 They are Franklin, Washington, Lincoln, and Lee.

00:05:09.400 And anybody who ever tries to put me in any other relationship with respect to General Lee is mistaken.

00:05:19.220 Now, a few years later, a dentist wrote to Eisenhower and wrote a letter

00:05:23.160 demanding to know why he had that picture of Robert E. Lee in his office.

00:05:26.660 And this is part of Eisenhower's response.

00:05:28.120 He said, quote,

00:05:28.540 Now, for the next few decades, most Americans agreed with that assessment.

00:05:49.820 In the 90s, we had movies venerating Robert E. Lee, starring Martin Sheen.

00:05:54.200 And nobody lost their minds over it.

00:05:56.400 The Lee statue, and statues like it, stood in town squares all over the country,

00:06:00.040 especially in the South.

00:06:01.760 It wasn't an issue.

00:06:03.180 They weren't vandalized.

00:06:04.480 There were no angry mobs demanding their removal.

00:06:07.640 Most people, including those who certainly cannot be described as Confederate sympathizers,

00:06:11.700 recognized that the Civil War was fought at a different time, in a different era,

00:06:14.940 and there were noblemen on either side.

00:06:19.040 That's how most people viewed it for decades and decades.

00:06:22.680 But somewhere along the line, just the past few years, everything changed.

00:06:26.460 Statues of Robert E. Lee and anyone like him had to come down, we were told.

00:06:30.320 They had to come down right away.

00:06:32.720 Okay, there was no time to talk about it.

00:06:34.680 There was no time to debate.

00:06:36.580 You weren't allowed to debate.

00:06:37.440 In fact, you weren't even allowed to express any of the viewpoints

00:06:42.020 that nearly everyone held for 100 years before that.

00:06:47.380 These statues were not a problem for 100 years.

00:06:50.740 But in the last 100 seconds, they became a problem.

00:06:54.260 And it was our duty to simply watch as they were all toppled and carried away.

00:06:58.680 Now, already, if you're a perceptive and insightful person,

00:07:02.460 you might ask yourself, was this a sign of progress?

00:07:06.140 Like, was this a good sign when we started going around and had angry mobs

00:07:11.400 tearing down all these statues that had been there for a century

00:07:13.720 and nobody complained, and then all of a sudden we had to take them on?

00:07:16.060 Was this a sign that things were heading in a good direction in our country?

00:07:20.520 Were we a better country back when a man like Robert E. Lee was widely respected?

00:07:25.480 Or were we a better country when we decided that we could not have any acknowledgement of him

00:07:29.120 in any public place?

00:07:31.180 Which version of the country was better?

00:07:33.460 Which version of the country had greater racial harmony?

00:07:37.040 Was it the one back in the 90s when Robert E. Lee's statues were being preserved

00:07:41.020 as historic monuments?

00:07:42.960 Or the one in the 2020s?

00:07:45.640 What do you think?

00:07:47.440 Now, to make the contrast even more clear,

00:07:49.500 the media did not elevate voices as articulate as Churchill or Eisenhower

00:07:54.280 to make the case against the Robert E. Lee monuments.

00:07:57.380 Instead, they thrust BLM activists like Zayana Bryant in our faces. 0.54

00:08:03.080 And here was her argument.

00:08:04.780 This is from two years ago, talking about this same monument.

00:08:08.080 Here's what she said.

00:08:09.900 Zayana, I know you've heard this argument before.

00:08:12.640 I'm hoping that you could go ahead and tell critics who feel like removing the statue is whitewashing

00:08:22.640 history and a section of our history that we should be engaging with.

00:08:28.060 And by removing it, we're acting as though it didn't happen or we're trying to erase a section

00:08:35.740 of our history.

00:08:36.680 What do you say to those folks?

00:08:37.780 I would say actually erecting these monuments is whitewashing our history.

00:08:43.360 At the time of emancipation, Charlottesville and the surrounding area was majority Black.

00:08:48.140 And you don't see that narrative by having Confederate monuments standing in the center

00:08:52.420 of parks, towering over whole communities.

00:08:55.560 What you see is you see a romanticized version of the South.

00:08:58.920 You see memorabilia that makes people feel good about the Civil War.

00:09:04.220 But it doesn't tell the story of the South losing.

00:09:08.020 It doesn't tell the story of the Confederacy falling.

00:09:11.660 And so I think that we cannot erase history.

00:09:14.420 We can't edit it.

00:09:16.000 In fact, history already happens.

00:09:18.460 So people can Google.

00:09:19.540 People can use textbooks.

00:09:20.680 There are many other resources.

00:09:22.160 There are whole museums that teach people about those legacies and about the history of what

00:09:27.420 happened here.

00:09:28.180 But what I think we're doing with removing these statues is we're no longer offering a

00:09:32.840 platform for white supremacy.

00:09:34.780 And I think that by de-platforming and de-centering those harmful narratives that perpetuate violence

00:09:41.480 and that perpetuate oppression is one of the most powerful things that we can do.

00:09:46.400 My Lord.

00:09:50.900 So, again, ask yourself, are we a better country when people like that, when their arguments

00:09:56.620 are prevailing or when, you know, when we're listening to Dwight D. Eisenhower and Churchill

00:10:01.980 and those guys?

00:10:04.020 She says the monument was supposed to make people feel good about the Civil War.

00:10:08.780 What?

00:10:09.440 Is that what you think monuments are meant to do?

00:10:11.840 Nobody feels good about the Civil War.

00:10:14.060 What do you mean feels good about it?

00:10:15.360 What have you ever heard that opinion expressed?

00:10:18.040 What do you think about the Civil War?

00:10:18.900 Oh, yeah, I feel great about it.

00:10:19.740 I feel really great.

00:10:20.440 I'm happy.

00:10:21.500 I feel good.

00:10:23.180 That doesn't even make any sense.

00:10:25.440 Gay monuments don't exist to make us feel good about the wars that they are remembering.

00:10:33.380 But they do exist to remember because these are events that we should remember.

00:10:40.540 Now, first of all, if Zion O'Brien looks familiar and she does have a distinctive

00:10:45.200 look, we must admit, that's because you've probably seen her before on this show.

00:10:49.340 Bryant is the morbidly obese BLM activist who's officially sponsored by Dove, which is supposedly

00:10:54.280 a brand that promotes personal health and beauty, but obviously doesn't anymore.

00:10:59.080 Bryant became famous for destroying the life of a University of Virginia student with a false

00:11:02.680 accusation of racism.

00:11:04.200 So that's the person that we're consulting on issues like this.

00:11:08.400 But for a second, let's put aside what a horrible person Zion O'Brien is.

00:11:12.360 Let's listen to the argument again that she was making two years ago on behalf of BLM.

00:11:16.520 She's supposedly not objecting to the existence of the statue of Robert E. Lee, at least not

00:11:20.600 explicitly.

00:11:21.140 Instead, she's saying that it doesn't belong in a prominent public place, that it shouldn't

00:11:25.880 stand in the center of parks towering over whole communities.

00:11:28.860 She insists that there are, quote, whole museums that people can go to if they want to see

00:11:33.680 statues like this one.

00:11:35.520 Maybe people can even Google pictures of the statue if they're so inclined.

00:11:40.020 Now, whatever the case, the argument was that BLM isn't trying to erase history or denigrate

00:11:45.200 this nation's heroes or mock white people for honoring one of the most brilliant generals

00:11:49.780 in the history of the country.

00:11:50.760 No, they're not doing any of that.

00:11:52.020 They're just trying to put everything in its proper historical context.

00:11:55.600 The Lee statue doesn't tell the story of the Confederacy failing, she complains, as if

00:12:02.320 the role of a statue is to explain 19th century history in detail.

00:12:08.020 There were a lot of black people in Virginia, she goes on to say, and Lee was not black.

00:12:12.560 Therefore, this statue needs to come down and go to a museum where it belongs.

00:12:17.640 Now, none of that made any sense at the time, unless, of course, the goal was never to move

00:12:23.580 the statue of Robert E. Lee, but instead to destroy it entirely.

00:12:26.580 If that was the intent, then everything just went according to plan.

00:12:29.700 As I said at the top, activists and university faculty members, with the help of local legislators,

00:12:34.060 just melted down the statue of Robert E. Lee in secret in an undisclosed location.

00:12:38.580 After saying for years that they just wanted to move it to a museum, what they forgot to

00:12:43.360 mention is that the museum they move it to is then going to take it and destroy it.

00:12:47.520 Now, they won't even say what state this destruction occurred in, but the leftists who demolished

00:12:54.300 Lee's statue made sure to release a video of it happening.

00:12:58.000 Here it is, watch.

00:12:58.800 Okay, so they not only removed the statue, they not only destroyed it, but they melted

00:13:16.220 it and took a video of it and made sure to publish the video.

00:13:20.140 They gave an inanimate statue of a Civil War general the Terminator treatment.

00:13:24.640 They melted it down and filmed it.

00:13:26.840 Now, why did they do that exactly?

00:13:29.780 It wasn't to make the area safer for anyone.

00:13:32.220 In fact, just a few days ago, black male was murdered by another black male a short distance

00:13:36.100 from where the statue used to be.

00:13:37.740 So it doesn't seem like the area is now suddenly safer.

00:13:41.300 So what's the real purpose of all this?

00:13:43.520 Well, here's one big clue.

00:13:45.180 All those images of the statue being melted down were accompanied by a lot of gloating.

00:13:49.520 The Washington Post, for example, spoke to the executive director of Charlottesville Black

00:13:53.220 History Museum, who said, quote,

00:13:55.000 Well, they can't put Humpty Dumpty back together again.

00:13:58.200 That's according to Andrea Douglas, the museum's executive director, as she watched pieces of

00:14:03.540 oxidized metal descend into the furnace.

00:14:06.160 There will be no tape for that, she says.

00:14:09.260 The Post went on to interview another UVA activist behind this destruction, who said, quote,

00:14:14.440 Jelaine Schmidt, who, this is reading now from the article, Jelaine Schmidt, who directs the

00:14:18.720 memory project at UVA's Karsh Institute of Democracy, said she felt like she was preparing

00:14:22.980 for an execution of sorts.

00:14:25.620 Like if there's a rabid dog in the neighborhood that's been hurting people and it needs to

00:14:29.740 be euthanized, she said.

00:14:31.720 Schmidt also said, quote,

00:14:32.920 We want to transform it into a piece of art that community can be proud of and gather around

00:14:37.220 and not feel excluded or intimidated.

00:14:40.580 Yes, because, of course, when you euthanize a rabid dog, you put it in a furnace and everyone

00:14:45.480 gathers around and celebrates it, they won't be intimidated anymore.

00:14:49.760 Okay, what kind of dog euthanasia has this person been a part of?

00:14:54.180 But it all makes perfect sense, right?

00:14:55.880 Turning the Lee statue into an inclusive art display, it's not a humiliation ritual at

00:15:00.120 all, we're supposed to believe.

00:15:02.080 We're also supposed to believe that the statue was hurting people.

00:15:05.540 Well, how was it hurting people?

00:15:07.100 What was it doing to them?

00:15:09.020 Was it coming alive like night at the museum and assaulting innocent civilians in the middle

00:15:13.280 of the night?

00:15:13.620 What kind of damage was it causing?

00:15:17.240 And why didn't anyone ever notice this damage or mention it for the first eight or nine decades

00:15:23.040 of the statue's existence?

00:15:25.280 Why are people in the 2020s more hurt by Civil War memorials than people who lived closer to

00:15:32.180 the Civil War were?

00:15:34.900 Okay, how did the wounds of the Civil War become fresher over time?

00:15:39.100 How is some 20-something-year-old in the year 2023, how is it that for them, it's like too

00:15:47.940 soon for the Civil War?

00:15:48.940 We can't have Civil War acknowledgment anywhere.

00:15:51.280 It's too soon.

00:15:53.460 And yet it wasn't in the 1930s or 40s or 50s or 60s or 70s or 80s or 90s.

00:15:58.920 None of this makes any sense until you realize that the campaign to tear down Confederate

00:16:04.260 statues was always, from the very beginning, a proxy in the overall war on American history.

00:16:10.140 They just can't be honest about it because they're never honest about anything.

00:16:14.400 And all the deception is necessary in this case because these activists have much bigger

00:16:18.280 plans.

00:16:18.760 They never plan to stop with melting down the Robert E. Lee statue, and they haven't.

00:16:22.200 Indeed, the Lee statue is far from the only statue that's been destroyed, of course, or

00:16:25.600 essentially destroyed in recent years.

00:16:27.420 According to an investigation from the Madrid newspaper El Pais, the city of Richmond maintains

00:16:32.000 a secret open-air graveyard for statues that were toppled in 2020.

00:16:36.320 And these statues are disassembled and thrown into storage.

00:16:39.660 A lot of contractors apparently passed on these disassembly gigs for obvious reasons.

00:16:44.200 But eventually, Democrats in the state landed on a guy named Devin Henry, who is willing to

00:16:49.880 destroy them.

00:16:50.740 Quoting from the investigation, Henry estimates that he has dismantled 24 structures between Richmond

00:16:54.780 and Charlottesville.

00:16:55.800 The latter is home to the University of Virginia and is one of the cities that acknowledged

00:16:58.720 historical pain and chose to melt down and reuse the materials.

00:17:02.720 Now, they've destroyed pretty much every statue remotely associated with the Confederacy.

00:17:06.240 That includes a monument to Stonewall Jackson, who likely was a hero of the Mexican-American

00:17:10.560 War, widely regarded as one of the best military commanders in history.

00:17:15.640 Devin Henry also dismantled a monument to the Confederate General A.P. Hill, who also distinguished

00:17:20.840 himself in the war with Mexico.

00:17:22.180 As El Pais reports, the statue of Hill now has its head, quote, dishonorably stuck in

00:17:27.360 a tire waiting to be wrapped up in white plastic.

00:17:30.720 All this to say, they're not putting any of these statues in museums.

00:17:34.540 The museum gambit was always a lie, something that only the most gullible among us could have

00:17:39.700 ever fallen for.

00:17:40.880 And sadly, there are a lot of gullible people among us.

00:17:43.280 Now, that said, there's maybe one exception.

00:17:45.920 The Jefferson Davis statue, post-BLM riots, was taken down and was displayed in the Valentine

00:17:52.680 Museum in Richmond.

00:17:54.260 And this is how it's presented.

00:17:55.800 You can see the picture here.

00:17:57.500 Toppled, desecrated, and covered in graffiti in the museum.

00:18:03.700 There are many more examples, but you get the point.

00:18:05.700 There was never any intention to memorialize history here.

00:18:08.620 Leftists are doing something to leaders of the Confederacy that they won't even do to

00:18:11.980 Nazis.

00:18:12.920 They're erasing them completely.

00:18:14.300 I mean, you could still walk into the World War II Museum and see Nazi artifacts if you

00:18:18.200 want, posters, flags, weaponry, even Nazi games, board games.

00:18:24.280 But they don't want you seeing any relics of the Confederacy under any circumstance, whether

00:18:28.400 it's in a museum or not.

00:18:29.680 In fact, even if you agree with removing the Lee statue in Charlottesville, which I don't,

00:18:36.620 but even if you do, you must at least acknowledge that it is a historic artifact.

00:18:41.340 It's literally registered as one.

00:18:44.300 All of the controversy over it just makes it more historically significant.

00:18:48.740 So there's no valid reason to destroy it.

00:18:51.660 You are literally destroying history when you destroy it.

00:18:54.680 And the destruction is a gratuitous act that can only be meant to send an ideological and

00:19:01.280 political message.

00:19:03.440 And this goes well beyond the Confederacy.

00:19:05.380 That's why the mob quickly moved from the Confederacy to tearing down statues of pretty much any

00:19:10.120 white person who happened to be born prior to the 20th century.

00:19:13.760 Even Teddy Roosevelt fell victim.

00:19:16.520 What this tells us is that leftists are preoccupied, above all, with erasing the history and traditions

00:19:21.760 of this country.

00:19:22.500 It's about power.

00:19:23.420 It's about dominating and humiliating those that they identify as the enemy.

00:19:27.940 And in large part, they are succeeding.

00:19:30.880 We should remember that we're in this situation now because Republicans across the country,

00:19:34.860 including in Washington, people calling themselves conservatives, that is the people who are supposed

00:19:38.900 to be conserving things like history, let it happen.

00:19:43.440 They were too afraid of being called racist to say anything about it.

00:19:46.740 They were too weak to stand up to this cultural vandalism when it took root.

00:19:50.460 And they're still too weak to stand up for it or to it.

00:19:54.840 If Republicans had any moral fortitude whatsoever, they would respond to the destruction of the

00:19:59.420 Lee statue by painting over every George Floyd mural and tearing down and destroying every 0.96

00:20:05.540 single one of his grotesque, disgusting monuments. 0.99

00:20:08.900 If Robert E. Lee doesn't deserve to be honored, then a violent drug addict who robbed women 0.99

00:20:15.560 and ripped off convenience stores certainly doesn't pass muster.

00:20:20.000 So throw his bus and golden coffins in the furnace as well.

00:20:24.480 But that won't happen, of course, because we've come a very long way since Eisenhower.

00:20:28.700 Unfortunately, we're heading in the wrong direction.

00:20:33.120 And frankly, at this point, it probably won't be long until Eisenhower's memorial is melted

00:20:36.260 down, too, especially after they see that video.

00:20:38.940 They'll turn it into an inclusive art display, another display of inclusivity that excludes 0.82

00:20:43.860 everyone who disagrees with them.

00:20:45.780 That is the left's goal, after all.

00:20:47.040 It's always been their goal.

00:20:48.780 And if we keep electing politicians who are too afraid to say so, then ultimately they will

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00:21:57.740 Adam Johnson, a former NHL forward, has died after his neck was cut by another player's

00:22:02.200 skate during a game Saturday in Sheffield, England.

00:22:06.040 The fatal collision, which Johnson team has called a freak accident, occurred midway through

00:22:10.740 the second period of an elite ice hockey league game between Johnson's Nottingham Panthers

00:22:15.800 and Sheffield Steelers.

00:22:17.660 Video footage appeared to show an opposing player's skate strike Johnson in the neck.

00:22:22.920 A terrifying scene that prompted officials to empty the arena as medical personnel rushed

00:22:29.540 in.

00:22:30.360 Now, we do have Matt Petgrave, by the way, is the player that kicked him.

00:22:36.600 And we do have video of it.

00:22:38.260 And it gets graphic at a certain point, but we'll play at least the first part of it so

00:22:41.700 you can see the kick.

00:22:45.100 There it is right there.

00:22:46.620 Now, we're told this is a freak accident, but I'm not sure if we call that an accident.

00:22:52.040 And he was cut in the throat and he died, you know, basically on the hockey rink.

00:22:57.020 It's a terrible tragedy.

00:22:58.800 And I don't have any major insight on this.

00:23:00.660 I don't watch hockey.

00:23:02.460 I don't play it.

00:23:04.140 Um, so I guess I can't say for sure that people don't generally get kicked in the throat while

00:23:12.440 playing hockey, but I'm pretty sure that they don't.

00:23:16.300 I could say with relative confidence that this is not the kind of thing that usually happens

00:23:22.200 on a, you know, there are collisions and injuries that happen, um, on the, uh, out on

00:23:27.820 the ice.

00:23:28.620 I think that this is the kind of thing that just in a natural course of playing hockey,

00:23:32.300 and I have talked to several people who do play hockey and are familiar with it.

00:23:35.680 And they've all said that that doesn't, those kinds of, that's, that does not look

00:23:39.940 unintentional.

00:23:41.360 So just using some common sense, it certainly is hard to see how a person could, could be

00:23:45.480 accidentally slashed in the throat with an ice skate while they're standing.

00:23:50.660 Now, it's one thing if Johnson had fallen onto the ice first.

00:23:53.780 And when I first heard about this, that somebody was cut in the, in the neck and died, uh, while

00:24:01.680 playing hockey, I figured that they, that they had fallen on the ice and then someone ran

00:24:05.460 into them in there and, and, uh, and injured them that way.

00:24:08.560 And then in that case, yeah, you would call that a freak accident.

00:24:11.640 This does not look so accidental to me, uh, because he's upright and Petgrave flailed his

00:24:16.920 foot up and kicked him. 1.00

00:24:18.040 Um, uh, even though the media has pretty much universally declared it as an accident and

00:24:22.700 they're just saying, well, that's an accident, nothing to see here.

00:24:24.940 I'm not so sure.

00:24:26.520 Um, so for my vantage point, it seems that the death was accidental, but the kick was intentional.

00:24:33.880 He was trying to kick him to impede his movements or knock him down or whatever.

00:24:38.480 I'm, I'm, I think we can assume he didn't expect that it would end with Johnson bleeding

00:24:43.180 to death on the rink, but it did.

00:24:45.480 And he needs to be charged and held accountable.

00:24:48.040 You know, there's, there, there, there can't be, uh, a sports exception for what is at a

00:24:55.240 minimum manslaughter.

00:24:57.580 And it's no different than any comparable situation outside of a sports context.

00:25:01.380 It's like, you know, if you are in traffic and you get mad at somebody and it's a road

00:25:06.540 rage thing.

00:25:07.120 And so you aggressively cut them off in a dangerous way and then they swerve and they get into

00:25:12.300 an accident and they die.

00:25:13.640 Well, yeah, you, you, you probably didn't have that last part in mind.

00:25:18.960 Maybe you weren't trying to kill them, but you did intentionally do something dangerous

00:25:23.060 and reckless in a way that was targeted at that specific person who then died because

00:25:27.860 of your actions.

00:25:29.300 And obviously in both cases, you have to be charged.

00:25:33.240 You have to go to jail for that.

00:25:34.420 Um, because someone died and you have to be held accountable.

00:25:38.220 So it's a terrible tragedy, but, uh, uh, it's, it's kind of bizarre to me to see most

00:25:47.160 of the media just immediately declaring, oh, it was an accident.

00:25:50.840 Nothing more than an accident.

00:25:51.680 That's it.

00:25:51.980 All right.

00:25:54.200 Fox News has this report.

00:25:55.760 Real-time host Bill Maher confronted former Democratic New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on

00:25:59.840 the nursing home scandal that plagued his handling of COVID.

00:26:03.240 While sexual harassment allegations led to Cuomo's ousting from office in August, 2021,

00:26:07.300 there was a lingering controversy over his ill-fated policy in March, 2020, ordering nursing homes

00:26:10.960 to accept COVID patients in order to prevent overwhelming New York's hospital system.

00:26:15.460 That led to the deaths of over 4,100 nursing home residents during Friday's overtime segment 0.99

00:26:20.480 on YouTube, Maher read a viewer question, uh, posed to Cuomo asking whether he would have

00:26:25.940 done anything differently during COVID.

00:26:28.500 And Cuomo responded, the short answer is no.

00:26:31.020 First, this is Monday morning quarterbacking by which I could make the New York Jets champion

00:26:34.900 if we're going to do this.

00:26:36.100 When COVID started, it was all of the dis, all the disinformation was amazing.

00:26:40.320 It's coming from China, uh, wet market.

00:26:43.820 Okay.

00:26:44.240 So he's saying there was disinformation was coming from China and they didn't know any better. 0.70

00:26:47.980 Um, and so they did what they could with the information they had available.

00:26:52.860 That's basically his answer.

00:26:53.920 Now, along these same lines, we also heard in the same episode from NYU professor Scott

00:26:58.660 Galloway, who was a big proponent of mandates and lockdowns and all the rest of it.

00:27:03.280 And, uh, here's what he had to say about, uh, the response from people like him to COVID.

00:27:08.980 Watch.

00:27:10.320 Well, I was on the board of my kid's school during COVID.

00:27:12.160 I wanted a harsher lockdown policy.

00:27:14.720 And in retrospect, I was wrong.

00:27:17.060 The, the, the damage to kids of keeping them out of school longer was greater than the risks.

00:27:22.040 But here's the bottom line.

00:27:24.800 Myself are great people to CDC.

00:27:27.340 I'd like to think the governor.

00:27:28.800 We were all operating with imperfect information and we were doing our best.

00:27:33.040 So it's, it's, it's, well, so let's, but let's learn from it.

00:27:41.520 Let's learn from it.

00:27:42.820 Let's learn from it.

00:27:43.740 Let's hold each other accountable, but let's bring a little bit of grace and forgiveness

00:27:47.800 in the show that West Harbor.

00:27:50.040 Yeah.

00:27:51.600 Okay.

00:27:52.080 So we hear again about the need for grace and forgiveness.

00:27:55.000 And, uh, as always this calling for grace and forgiveness coming from people who, uh,

00:28:00.780 would never extend it the other way to their own ideological opponents and never do.

00:28:06.620 Um, and this particular guy, I don't know anything about him.

00:28:11.440 Um, but very often with these people, you know, if, if they say that they should get grace

00:28:18.660 and forgiveness for doing things or, or, or for calling for actions that, I mean, that

00:28:24.580 killed people, right.

00:28:26.860 In the case of, in the case of Cuomo, the case of Cuomo killed, directly killed thousands

00:28:32.260 of elderly people.

00:28:34.720 And, um, the people that were pushing for lockdowns for so long, I mean, that killed people too.

00:28:42.040 And isolating, taking kids and isolating them in this way, the damage,

00:28:48.660 damage that was done to those children is, it's literally immeasurable.

00:28:54.180 You can't measure it.

00:28:55.220 You can't quantify it.

00:28:58.000 Um, because it, it, it, they were damaged at such a deep level.

00:29:03.340 And so for that, they want grace and forgiveness.

00:29:05.720 But a lot of these people, if you were to ask them, you know, what about, um, what kind

00:29:09.560 of grace and forgiveness would you give to someone for, I don't know, quote unquote, misgendering

00:29:14.080 a trans person for that, destroy their lives, get them fired, destroy their lives. 1.00

00:29:18.660 But hey, if you're a governor and you did something that, uh, killed thousands of elderly 0.99

00:29:24.440 people, hey, it's, it's, uh, they, they were doing their best.

00:29:28.920 He tried.

00:29:29.760 That's all that counts.

00:29:31.920 All right.

00:29:33.280 A couple of things about this in general.

00:29:35.440 First of all, if this was May of 2020, okay.

00:29:40.040 If we were in May of 2020 right now, or, or June of 2020 and someone who advocated for

00:29:46.220 lockdowns initially a few months beforehand, that would mean was coming out and changing

00:29:51.640 their mind in May or June or July of 2020 or something like that, a few months later,

00:29:57.300 then in that case, I would say, sure.

00:30:00.680 Okay.

00:30:00.920 Look, you got it wrong at first.

00:30:02.320 Uh, there was a lot we didn't know initially you were scared, whatever.

00:30:07.000 Okay.

00:30:07.460 But it's not May of 2020.

00:30:10.380 It is the last day of October of 2023.

00:30:13.900 And that's significant because a lot of these people who are asking for forgiveness and grace

00:30:18.700 now COVID amnesty or whatever, whatever you want to call it.

00:30:22.180 A lot of these people, maybe all of them were still advocating for lockdowns and mandates

00:30:27.700 in June of 2020.

00:30:29.080 I mean, they were pushing for it in June of 2021.

00:30:32.780 Okay.

00:30:33.660 So the timeframe is important here.

00:30:37.620 These people were pushing this for a year, a year and a half, two years, even longer.

00:30:44.680 You know, I remember I went to that Davidson County school board meeting in, um, that would

00:30:50.960 have been August of 2021, uh, to speak out against their mask mandate.

00:30:56.320 And I was accused of being a homicidal, uh, you know, COVID loving maniac at the time.

00:31:06.900 All those many months later.

00:31:10.220 So that's where I stand on this.

00:31:12.100 No one is saying that everyone had to have everything figured out from the very first moment.

00:31:17.960 I mean, nobody did, but when, when it, it first happened and COVID first made it here to the

00:31:24.420 United States, nobody knew everything about it immediately.

00:31:29.020 And no one is saying that you had to know everything about it immediately.

00:31:32.620 But these people were not just pushing this tyranny in the first moment.

00:31:38.960 They were pushing it in the first moment and then in every other moment after that for

00:31:43.800 years, not just weeks or months, but for years.

00:31:50.020 And it, it, it, they weren't just pushing it.

00:31:53.000 They were shouting down and trying to actively silence the people who were right and who the

00:32:02.140 Scott Galloways of the world now admit were right.

00:32:04.600 Except they don't really admit it, do they?

00:32:08.860 Like they're saying the things that we were saying before, but he's not saying, oh, those

00:32:12.720 other people were right because that's, that's maybe the most important detail in all this.

00:32:17.600 Before I could ever even consider forgiving one of these people or what, before I could ever

00:32:24.900 consider giving a vote for amnesty for someone like this, and I still wouldn't, but before

00:32:29.520 I could even consider it, what I would need to hear from them is not, oh, I didn't know.

00:32:38.000 I didn't know. 0.94

00:32:39.220 I was ignorant. 0.97

00:32:40.160 I didn't know. 0.97

00:32:41.440 No, I don't want to hear you didn't know.

00:32:43.260 I want to hear you didn't listen because that's what actually happened.

00:32:47.920 You didn't listen.

00:32:49.680 Okay.

00:32:49.840 When it comes to, he was talking about shutting down schools.

00:32:52.420 From the very beginning, there were many people who were saying, don't do this.

00:32:58.880 You can't do this.

00:33:00.860 Here's why you can't do it.

00:33:02.300 And giving very intelligent reasons.

00:33:06.960 One of the reasons is that COVID was, was not especially dangerous for children.

00:33:14.900 And that is one of the things we knew about COVID basically from the beginning.

00:33:18.920 There are other things we didn't know from the beginning.

00:33:20.340 We, one thing, one of the facts that we knew from the beginning and that, and that, you

00:33:24.720 know, was a fact that was established almost immediately and remained a fact the entire

00:33:30.040 time is that this is not especially dangerous for kids.

00:33:33.740 That the flu is more dangerous for kids than COVID.

00:33:37.380 We knew that right away.

00:33:40.360 Scott Galloway says he didn't know.

00:33:42.000 How did, well, he didn't know.

00:33:43.460 How did you not know when everyone else did?

00:33:45.300 Now, we knew, like we as in the universal, we, this was a known fact that was out there

00:33:53.100 in the world.

00:33:54.160 It was a knowable fact, but you didn't listen to the people who were trying to tell you.

00:34:00.100 Not only did you not listen, but you went out of your way to shut them down.

00:34:06.060 And so that's what I would need to hear first.

00:34:09.500 But I don't think we've heard that yet, have we?

00:34:12.500 We've heard for the calls for forgiveness and grace, but the people that are calling

00:34:16.220 for this, they never say, hey, listen, I didn't listen to you guys.

00:34:20.160 I should have listened.

00:34:21.780 Okay.

00:34:21.960 I should have been more humble.

00:34:23.220 I didn't listen to, in fact, not only did I not listen, but I tried to shut you down.

00:34:27.160 I tried to get you de-platformed.

00:34:28.420 And I was wrong for doing that, and I'm sorry, and I'm not going to make that mistake again.

00:34:34.900 And in the future, when the other side is telling me things that I don't want to hear,

00:34:40.220 I will at least listen to them and let them speak.

00:34:45.160 I don't think we've heard that from a single one of these people, have we?

00:34:48.740 We haven't heard anything even close to that.

00:34:52.140 Instead, all we hear is, well, nobody knew.

00:34:53.800 No one could have known.

00:34:54.500 Nobody could have known these things that millions of people were actually saying from

00:35:00.300 the start.

00:35:03.420 So this is, you know, you can't really have, even if we wanted to talk about forgiveness,

00:35:10.260 even if we were interested in forgiveness, you can't actually have forgiveness without

00:35:15.240 any, without accountability.

00:35:18.120 It's because what are we forgiving exactly?

00:35:20.880 You haven't actually repented of anything.

00:35:22.600 And there's not any accountability.

00:35:25.820 They're not holding this business accountable.

00:35:26.860 So they're pretending that they are, but they actually aren't.

00:35:31.960 And the reason why someone like this is never going to come out and say, hey, I should have

00:35:37.080 known, but I didn't listen to you guys.

00:35:38.640 He's not going to say that because then he knows that going forward on any other topic,

00:35:45.060 he's not going to be able to call for us all to be silenced on some other issue because

00:35:50.880 he'll already have admitted that, you know, there are times when instinctively he disagrees

00:35:57.020 with what we're saying, but then he turns out to be wrong.

00:35:58.740 He doesn't want to admit that.

00:36:02.060 You know, they can take their COVID amnesty and shove it as far as I'm concerned.

00:36:06.160 All right, quick political news from CNBC.

00:36:10.940 Former Vice President Mike Pence on Saturday dropped his bid for the Republican presidential

00:36:15.040 nomination, ending his campaign for the White House after struggling to raise money and

00:36:19.220 gain traction in the polls.

00:36:21.140 Pence said at the Republican Jewish Coalition's annual gathering in Las Vegas,

00:36:24.720 It's become clear to me this is not my time.

00:36:27.480 So after much prayer and deliberation, I have decided to suspend my campaign for president

00:36:31.640 effective today.

00:36:33.280 Pence went on to tell the friendly audience, we always knew this would be an uphill battle,

00:36:36.140 but I have no regrets.

00:36:37.640 The audience apparently reacted with audible surprise to the announcement and gave him multiple

00:36:41.800 standing ovations.

00:36:43.740 If there's anything, it is somewhat, obviously it's not a surprise that his campaign was a

00:36:48.200 failure.

00:36:48.980 It's maybe somewhat surprising that he's dropped out so early.

00:36:52.440 Because for a lot of these guys who have no shot of winning, you just sort of assume,

00:36:58.080 right, those of us who are normal, we look at these, some of these people and we look

00:37:03.020 at this crowded GOP field and all these people that are in it that they're not going to,

00:37:07.580 there's no chance, you know, Asa Hutchinson is still in the race, I believe.

00:37:11.580 Nobody, nobody's sure.

00:37:12.400 Nobody knows, doesn't even exist in reality.

00:37:14.700 No one is quite sure, but he's still in the race.

00:37:17.060 And you look at someone like that and you think, well, they must be up to, they must have

00:37:21.140 something else in mind.

00:37:22.460 There must be some other reason why they're running.

00:37:24.740 They're trying to get a cabinet position.

00:37:26.800 They want to sell a book, something like that.

00:37:30.700 And in some cases that's, that's probably true.

00:37:33.520 But for someone like Mike Pence, actually not.

00:37:35.960 He didn't, it appears he didn't have an ulterior motive.

00:37:38.780 He wasn't doing this to get in the cabinet.

00:37:40.320 That was never going to happen to begin with.

00:37:41.400 Um, and probably he'll try to sell a book, but that wasn't really what it was about.

00:37:45.160 He actually thought he could win.

00:37:46.860 That's actually, that's the only thing surprising about it.

00:37:48.920 Maybe when you see him drop out so early, you realize, oh, okay.

00:37:52.660 He really thought he might win.

00:37:55.400 And then the polls, and then he could only get 0.01% of the polls.

00:37:59.040 And then he eventually decided to drop out because he can't win.

00:38:01.220 So the only surprising thing is if someone like this thought he could win, but then what

00:38:06.960 you have to realize is that most of these people, like, it's not good if people are running

00:38:12.540 for president with an ulterior motive and it's all just a game and really they just want

00:38:16.420 a cabinet position.

00:38:17.100 I don't like that.

00:38:19.120 But that at least is probably preferable to the alternative, which is that these people

00:38:25.440 are delusional.

00:38:26.360 And then you realize that this is what, these are the kinds of people that are attracted

00:38:31.780 to this.

00:38:33.140 These are the kinds of people that often run from, like, you have to be, to start with,

00:38:38.360 almost delusionally narcissistic to think that you even should be president to begin with.

00:38:45.860 And so it attracts a lot of people like that who are, who are deluded by their own narcissism.

00:38:51.020 And apparently that applies to Mike Pence.

00:38:53.060 But at least he listened to the, to the wake up call eventually.

00:38:57.840 Now he's out of the race.

00:38:58.740 Okay.

00:39:00.240 One thing we talk about on the show sometimes are national anthem performances.

00:39:04.440 And you know, I take this very seriously as we all should, because it's the national anthem.

00:39:07.800 It's our, it is our anthem as a country.

00:39:09.460 We should treat it with respect.

00:39:11.640 And so often it is mangled and botched.

00:39:17.480 And so I, I am worried about this.

00:39:20.180 Fox has the report, rapper Flavor Flav drew mixed reactions from NBA fans after he sang

00:39:25.820 the national anthem ahead of Sunday night's game between the Milwaukee Bucks and the Atlanta Hawks.

00:39:31.220 The six-time Grammy Award nominated artist, he's been nominated for six Grammys, sported

00:39:36.860 a green Bucks jersey over a white sweatshirt and a matching white hat.

00:39:40.080 Who cares?

00:39:40.340 So Flava Flav performed, this is the guy that they enlisted to perform the national anthem.

00:39:47.260 And so you're expecting like a, who is it?

00:39:49.620 It's like a, you're expecting like a Roseanne performance of the, that infamous performance

00:39:53.060 of the national anthem back in the nineties.

00:39:56.940 Sounds really bad.

00:39:58.040 I haven't even listened to it yet.

00:39:59.660 Let's listen to some of this.

00:40:01.160 Love me.

00:40:05.180 We hailed at the twilight's last gleaming.

00:40:16.980 Who grows strife and bright stars through the perilous fight for the ramparts we watched.

00:40:43.980 You know, I gotta say, it's not as bad as I thought it would be.

00:40:51.860 Let's hear the, let's hear this part.

00:41:01.740 It's not good.

00:41:03.340 Okay.

00:41:06.260 I'm a little, I'm, I'm a little surprised.

00:41:08.160 It's not good.

00:41:09.040 Don't get me wrong.

00:41:09.620 I'm not saying it's good.

00:41:10.440 It's like, it is a D minus performance of the national anthem, but it's,

00:41:13.980 it's not as bad as I thought.

00:41:15.440 And he is actually trying to sing it.

00:41:18.200 It's probably better than I would do, which is the lowest possible bar that you could imagine.

00:41:28.380 And I guess it's surprising.

00:41:30.000 He's actually attempting to sing it.

00:41:31.200 So he's attempting to, to, to do the song, do justice to the song and sing it.

00:41:35.580 And it's not a good performance.

00:41:36.780 It's not as bad as I thought.

00:41:38.220 I don't know.

00:41:38.660 I don't know what to say.

00:41:39.380 That's, it's not as bad as I thought.

00:41:40.780 I thought it'd be a lot worse than that.

00:41:41.760 It's actually better than, although it's a D minus performance of the national anthem,

00:41:47.880 I would rank it ahead of many of the performances from actual gifted singers.

00:41:55.560 Like, you know, so, so that of the famous people, if we can call Flava Flav still famous,

00:42:02.460 that have performed the national anthem, he probably, it's a D minus performance,

00:42:05.880 but he's probably, you know, he's, he's, he's, he's probably in the top 20.

00:42:12.580 Because again, of how low the bar is.

00:42:15.780 And usually when you get someone's performing the national anthem and they get some celebrity,

00:42:19.760 uh, cameo to perform, they're trying to show off their voice too much.

00:42:23.760 And they're trying to do too much with it.

00:42:25.740 And this is what, especially the actual talented singers, this is the, this is the, the, the pitfall

00:42:32.120 for them is that they're trying to show, they're trying to showcase their own voices.

00:42:37.460 And that's not what the national anthem is for.

00:42:39.900 He has a terrible voice.

00:42:41.200 So instead he just went very workmanlike performance of the national anthem, which is what it should be.

00:42:45.800 And so it ends up being a bad performance, but still better, but still ranks like in the upper echelon.

00:42:56.640 Very interesting.

00:42:58.960 Um, okay.

00:43:00.500 Another quick, I've had this story for several days sitting here and I just want to mention it now.

00:43:04.860 Uh, New York times report says a few days after Beck Lawrence was profiled in a business newsletter

00:43:11.280 about the tarot card readings they offered at their shop in Hanover, Pennsylvania.

00:43:15.800 The police chief dropped by for a visit, but it was not to have his fortune told.

00:43:19.900 Instead, Chief Chad E. Martin informed Mix Lawrence, MX.Lawrence, at, at their witchcraft

00:43:28.660 theme store, the Serpent's Key Shop and Sanctuary on October 5th, that any complaints about the

00:43:34.000 readings would lead to an investigation citing an archaic state law that makes it illegal

00:43:38.740 to predict the future for money.

00:43:41.580 Mix Lawrence, who uses they, them pronouns, said in a telephone interview on Friday,

00:43:46.260 he informed me basically that he is not here to arrest me or press charges.

00:43:49.160 However, if he ever gets a report from anyone, he will be back on my doorstep.

00:43:54.080 Mix Lawrence, who moved to Hanover in 2019 and opened the shop in January, offers a menu

00:43:59.900 of tarot card readings, which cost $10 to $100 either in person or over Zoom.

00:44:04.620 Signs are posted saying the services are for entertainment purposes only.

00:44:07.500 Candles, soaps, and other handmade merchandise are also sold there.

00:44:11.640 So that, it's actually a long report in the New York Times, they're very troubled by this,

00:44:15.760 that there is a law in, in Pennsylvania, at least, that makes it illegal to, you know,

00:44:23.620 if you're a fortune teller, tarot cards.

00:44:25.840 I'm not sure if psychics would fall into this, but I'm assuming they probably would,

00:44:31.340 that technically it's illegal if somebody files a complaint, which I hope they do.

00:44:36.880 I hope they do, because I think this is a great law.

00:44:38.500 Now, first of all, the fact that she identifies as mix, you know, because this is someone who

00:44:44.180 identifies as non-binary, and so they can't, she can't go by miss, she has to go by mix. 0.94

00:44:49.860 Now, what does it mean to identify as a mix and MX?

00:44:53.980 Like, how do you, so she's decided that miss doesn't work for her, she doesn't identify as it, 1.00

00:45:01.040 but mix MX really speaks to her, that, that, that speaks to her inner identity in a certain way.

00:45:06.120 How is that the case?

00:45:07.100 Like, how do you discover that you're really a mix deep inside?

00:45:11.220 Uh, they don't explain that.

00:45:12.400 In fact, the New York Times just drops that MX thing into it, and doesn't even,

00:45:18.400 this is where we're at now, they don't even bother to explain it.

00:45:21.060 At least when they first started doing this, referring to, quote unquote, non-binary people as MX.

00:45:28.740 Um, initially, if you saw it in something like a New York Times article, they would explain it,

00:45:33.800 and they would say, oh, mix Lawrence identifies as mix because of this.

00:45:38.220 Now they just accept, they expect you to just accept it, which we shouldn't.

00:45:43.340 As for the law, I think it's a great law, and it makes a lot of sense, um,

00:45:46.860 because here's the thing about psychics and tarot card readers and so on.

00:45:53.200 There are really two options for them.

00:45:56.360 Either they're scam artists or they're not, and if they're not, then it's demonic.

00:46:03.040 So either it's a scam, which is the case almost always,

00:46:07.080 they're scamming people for money, and that should be legal.

00:46:09.600 Or if you really do have those powers, then these are not, uh, these are not godly powers

00:46:16.760 that were granted to you so that you could sell them as a party trick.

00:46:21.160 This is a demonic power that you have, apparently.

00:46:23.780 So either you're, what is it? 0.99

00:46:25.440 You're either possessed by a devil or you're, uh, or you're a scam artist. 0.99

00:46:29.240 Take your pick. 1.00

00:46:30.360 Either one.

00:46:31.880 You belong in jail.

00:46:33.100 That's where it lands.

00:46:35.120 Let's get to Was Walsh Wrong.

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00:47:43.080 Okay, happy Halloween, everyone, by the way.

00:47:45.740 I actually forgot that it was Halloween until I saw someone here walking around dressed up like Winnie the Pooh,

00:47:51.940 which is a thing that just happened a few moments ago.

00:47:56.280 And what I'll say to everyone here at The Daily Wire who is dressing a cotton,

00:48:02.220 I don't know how many people are wearing the costumes today,

00:48:04.740 but they know they're lucky that I'm not in charge and that everyone in charge doesn't listen to me.

00:48:13.140 They're lucky on both counts because it's cause for immediate termination.

00:48:16.800 I've said this before, I think that if I owned a company or if I was a manager,

00:48:22.460 what I would do is I would say to my employees, sure, you can dress up for Halloween.

00:48:27.780 We're not going to have a Halloween party because we're adults and this is a place of employment.

00:48:33.000 But yeah, if you want to wear a costume on Halloween as an adult to work, go ahead.

00:48:39.940 And then anyone who does, I would just fire.

00:48:43.120 So let them make their choice and then fire them for the choice they made.

00:48:49.080 That's what I would do.

00:48:50.560 So Halloween is for children, folks.

00:48:53.220 In fact, even my own children are starting to grow out of it because the older ones anyway.

00:48:59.660 Like we took our kids to Boo at the Zoo a few days ago here in Nashville,

00:49:04.300 which is a great event if you, you know, a little plug for them.

00:49:07.600 It's like it's their Halloween thing they do at the zoo.

00:49:10.140 All the kids come and they're dressed up and they get candy.

00:49:12.100 And we're walking around and our 10-year-old twins were like not that into it.

00:49:18.220 And my wife is distraught about it because she's saying the whole time,

00:49:21.540 you know, why aren't the twins having fun?

00:49:22.820 What's going on?

00:49:24.000 They're growing up too fast.

00:49:25.240 Well, I said, they're 10.

00:49:26.540 That's what's wrong.

00:49:28.020 And this is how you know you're getting to the age.

00:49:30.440 This is always a controversy every year.

00:49:32.060 At what age are you too old to go trick-or-treating?

00:49:35.600 And I think the age fluctuates a little bit.

00:49:38.620 I don't know if there's one simple cutoff, but when it gets to the point where the only

00:49:45.100 reason it's like when it gets to the point where the kids attitude to trick-or-treating,

00:49:50.380 it's like they're hitting the coal mines and it's just all they're doing.

00:49:53.220 They're not even really having fun.

00:49:54.300 They're just, they're just in it for the candy and nothing else.

00:49:57.160 Unless all of the real, all the kind of like joy and all that of Halloween's kind of gone

00:50:01.780 and all they care about is just going house to house and get as much candy as they possibly

00:50:05.220 can.

00:50:06.140 I get it.

00:50:06.960 I understand it.

00:50:07.640 But at that point, that's when, it's like when they take that kind of really practical

00:50:14.980 approach to Halloween, which is where my older kids are now, where they're already kind of

00:50:19.740 mapping it out.

00:50:20.380 They have a strategy.

00:50:21.400 How can we get as much candy as possible?

00:50:22.920 Again, totally understand, but that's when you're getting to the age where it's probably,

00:50:27.780 you're probably a little too old for trick-or-treating, in my opinion.

00:50:34.420 Okay.

00:50:34.860 We led the show on Friday with a discussion about the link between psychiatric medicines

00:50:38.980 and mass shootings.

00:50:40.040 And so a lot of people think I was wrong about that.

00:50:42.480 No big surprise.

00:50:43.740 Sky Gunn says, you're making a false correlation here.

00:50:46.860 That's like suggesting the people that drink whiskey and Coke, rum and Coke and Coke and vodka

00:50:51.040 and get drunk or getting drunk on Coke because Coke is the common denominator.

00:50:58.280 I'm not even sure what point you're trying to make here, but I will say that the drugs

00:51:04.740 are mind-altering substances.

00:51:07.920 In your argument, you're comparing the psychiatric drugs to the Coca-Cola, I assume, except the

00:51:19.180 psychiatric drugs, I mean, they're more comparable to Coke back when they used to put cocaine in it

00:51:24.220 because the psychiatric drugs are mind-altering substances.

00:51:28.500 That's not my opinion.

00:51:29.700 They're designed to be.

00:51:30.540 And so it's just a fact that a lot of the people who go out and commit mass shootings

00:51:37.820 are on mind-altering substances.

00:51:41.320 And it's worth asking the question about whether that mind-altering substance had something to do with it.

00:51:49.080 And if their mind was not altered in that way, would they have committed the crime?

00:51:52.660 I talk about the cultural factors all the time.

00:52:15.240 In any kind of mass shooting, you're also going to find very often broken homes.

00:52:20.260 You're going to find that the father was not present.

00:52:23.600 Either physically not present or was there, but wasn't doing much to raise their own kids.

00:52:29.360 Many mass shooters are products of divorce.

00:52:32.000 Talked about that many times.

00:52:33.980 But that only emphasizes my point, I think.

00:52:39.320 That, okay, you have someone, you have a kid, let's just, a hypothetical scenario that we've seen play out

00:52:44.240 many times in the past.

00:52:45.220 You have a kid who is very troubled and is becoming aggressive and hostile and violent and lashing out.

00:52:56.140 And then the kid goes in and gets put on a high dose of psychiatric medicine.

00:53:01.980 Except that, and then in some of those cases, the kid then goes on to commit a school shooting.

00:53:07.140 Well, to your point about the cultural factors and the family factors,

00:53:12.080 you can look and see what's going on in their lives many times,

00:53:15.540 and you can figure out why they were lashing out and getting aggressive and violent.

00:53:21.280 And a lot of times it has to do with a broken home, a divorce, all these kinds of things.

00:53:28.660 So the psychiatric medicine assumes that the person has some kind of mental sickness.

00:53:34.660 And I don't know how we can assume a mental sickness if we can look at what's going on in their life

00:53:39.900 and easily identify major factors that, major environmental type factors that are playing into this.

00:53:49.640 And so we should be addressing those factors rather than trying to do the band-aid approach

00:53:54.100 of putting them on a bunch of drugs to kind of numb them

00:53:57.440 so that they're no longer as affected by this thing that's happening in their life.

00:54:02.180 Debbie says,

00:54:04.680 The elephant in the room is a lack of God with a heavy dose of violent video games,

00:54:09.900 time on the dark web, not practicing one's faith.

00:54:13.080 Drugs have to be monitored.

00:54:14.960 I have two kids on controlled meds, but that's only part of the treatment.

00:54:19.320 Cards issues started long before the voices.

00:54:23.660 I don't think that when it comes to this that we should be narrowing it down to any one thing,

00:54:29.380 which is what which is why you'll find with me when it comes to mass shootings.

00:54:33.500 I've talked about every issue.

00:54:35.220 I've talked about psychiatric medicines, the lack, you know, the kind of spiritual hopelessness and despair

00:54:41.660 that's rife in our culture, broken homes, all these things, how they factor in.

00:54:47.140 And all of that should be part of the conversation.

00:54:50.000 But from what I've noticed, most of the things that you mentioned, Debbie, people do talk about.

00:54:54.840 The one thing that we tend to skip over are the drugs themselves.

00:55:01.280 And we have to stop doing that because, as we talked about on Friday,

00:55:06.840 the drug companies themselves admit that the drugs that they're putting these people on

00:55:13.460 can cause them to become aggressive, to become suicidal.

00:55:18.620 You know, which is really, I don't know, we're sort of numb to it in many ways.

00:55:24.860 But really think about that.

00:55:26.400 You're giving a drug to someone that, according to the drug maker,

00:55:31.380 could put thoughts in their head that they wouldn't otherwise have.

00:55:38.480 You're giving them a substance that can cause them to think things that they wouldn't have otherwise thought.

00:55:44.100 I'm not saying we should, that there's never a place for those kinds of drugs.

00:55:50.360 But right now, the place for those kinds of drugs is basically, you know,

00:55:55.580 as soon as someone shows up at the psychiatrist's office and says,

00:55:58.620 I'm struggling with this or that, immediately the pen comes out and the prescription is written.

00:56:04.060 And that's the issue.

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00:56:35.180 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:56:42.900 Today for our daily cancellation, we have a classic.

00:56:45.500 This is a new viral video, but it belongs to a trusty genre.

00:56:49.860 Here we have a trans-identified male who apparently enjoys going out to restaurants alone

00:56:54.240 so that he can film the waitstaff, quote unquote, misgendering him.

00:56:58.620 He dangles himself out as bait, waits for some unsuspecting service worker to accurately

00:57:04.780 identify him as man, captures it on video, and then posts it for likes and supportive

00:57:09.280 comments.

00:57:09.800 And sadly, he gets a lot of both.

00:57:12.360 Here is his latest compilation.

00:57:14.360 Watch.

00:57:15.100 It looks like he's having a nice fist.

00:57:19.120 She, she, she, her.

00:57:19.880 Yeah.

00:57:20.760 It's okay.

00:57:21.400 It's all good.

00:57:21.940 But it was not all good.

00:57:23.800 Okay, let's pause it just for a moment to clarify something.

00:57:28.560 The waiter in that first clip appears to be speaking directly into the camera and describing

00:57:33.440 the dish that was just served to the trans-identified dude.

00:57:37.080 And so these are the lengths that the dude is going to, all in an effort to bait people into,

00:57:42.780 quote unquote, misgendering him.

00:57:44.600 Because, so we can assume that like he asked the waiter to address whoever his audience is

00:57:51.060 on the phone and describe the dish.

00:57:53.680 And he knew that the waiter would likely use third-person pronouns when talking about

00:57:58.760 the dish that he had just given to the guy.

00:58:01.220 The waiter's just trying to do his job while this guy springs elaborate traps just so he

00:58:05.900 can get off on being faux-persecuted.

00:58:09.480 Let's continue.

00:58:11.120 Hi.

00:58:11.940 I use she, her pronouns.

00:58:13.320 I'm not sir.

00:58:14.020 Oh, so sorry.

00:58:14.700 Yeah, like, it's like a knife in the heart.

00:58:17.340 Sir.

00:58:17.420 I also, I did specifically ask ahead of time not to be called sir.

00:58:22.020 Yeah, I'm just going to go.

00:58:26.760 Okay.

00:58:27.300 Okay.

00:58:27.720 The sweet water starts at, okay.

00:58:29.680 Not, not.

00:58:30.420 I mean, I'm so sorry.

00:58:31.580 I apologize.

00:58:32.820 You're just always like a knife.

00:58:34.420 It always hurts.

00:58:35.620 Every single time.

00:58:36.860 I was wondering if there's a manager I could talk to about something that happened.

00:58:39.920 Yeah, I was called sir.

00:58:41.840 Oh, okay. 0.90

00:58:42.320 It just really sucks every time it happens.

00:58:44.660 Sorry about that.

00:58:45.680 I don't need to be called ma'am.

00:58:47.280 I just need to not be called sir, you know?

00:58:49.540 Thank you.

00:58:51.520 Did you call me sir?

00:58:53.440 I just want to tell you that the person who gave me this called me sir.

00:58:58.920 What?

00:58:59.640 Called me sir.

00:59:00.740 Oh.

00:59:02.900 Yeah.

00:59:03.820 It's just like, it kind of just hurts a lot to get called sir.

00:59:08.380 Oh, sorry about that.

00:59:09.640 Very good.

00:59:10.560 Thank you so much.

00:59:11.520 No.

00:59:11.860 Oh, I'm, yeah.

00:59:13.460 Thank you.

00:59:14.400 I'm not a sir.

00:59:15.320 Nothing like a good misgendering.

00:59:19.060 It does.

00:59:19.440 It is a knife in the gut when I get called sir.

00:59:22.620 I feel like I need to tell him.

00:59:25.220 I need to tell him that that hurt.

00:59:27.720 It hurts more, though, and it's not intentional because it means, like, this is sir to him.

00:59:33.700 I know you didn't mean it, but I'm not a sir.

00:59:35.540 I'm so sorry.

00:59:36.260 It's okay.

00:59:36.720 I know you didn't mean it.

00:59:37.600 It's just, you know, it hurts.

00:59:39.260 I know when people clock me, it's fine, but, like, it does kind of hurt.

00:59:43.000 Thank you.

00:59:44.620 I'm not sir.

00:59:45.360 Oh, sorry.

00:59:48.080 Not sir.

00:59:52.700 Not sir.

00:59:53.340 The guy who dropped the food off, he called me sir twice in a row.

00:59:58.300 Okay.

00:59:58.720 I'll let him know that.

01:00:01.160 Thank you.

01:00:02.000 I appreciate that.

01:00:02.580 Now, the thing that makes this video interesting and somewhat challenging is trying to decide

01:00:10.560 what is the most reprehensible and disgusting thing about this man.

01:00:16.560 Is it that he goes around trying to get random waiters fired for being polite? 0.99

01:00:21.100 Is it that he dresses in crop tops that expose his flabby, disgusting stomach? 0.68

01:00:25.400 Is it that he wears matching outfits with his dog that he also brings into restaurants with him?

01:00:33.060 In a baby stroller? 1.00

01:00:35.540 Is it just his general aura as an entitled, narcissistic, callous, manipulative jackass? 1.00

01:00:41.000 Whichever you choose, the point is that this man couldn't be more viscerally unlikable if he tried. 0.99

01:00:46.960 And he is trying.

01:00:48.900 But we should be thankful for the service he's providing here.

01:00:51.360 Because if there's anyone in America who still somehow was not clued in yet, maybe this will do the trick.

01:00:58.340 Maybe this will finally prove the point that I have been trying to make all along,

01:01:01.360 which is that trans ideology is not primarily a product of innocent confusion.

01:01:06.360 Okay, a seven-year-old boy who identifies as a girl is confused because he's been made confused.

01:01:11.860 Same for an adolescent girl who identifies as a boy. 0.51

01:01:13.960 But a grown man like this, this kind of guy who represents the vast majority of trans activists, by the way, he is not really confused.

01:01:25.060 It's doubtful that he actually thinks he's a woman.

01:01:27.480 He likes to present himself as a woman, which is not the same, present himself badly as a woman, but that's how he presents himself. 0.77

01:01:33.820 But that's not the same thing as thinking that he is one.

01:01:37.420 But whether legitimately confused or not, he is a fetishist, and wearing women's clothing is really a secondary aspect of his fetish.

01:01:45.700 The primary thrill for him is manipulating and controlling people.

01:01:50.580 He wants to make the world bend to his winds.

01:01:53.420 He enjoys wielding his emotions like a sledgehammer smacking anyone over the head who happens to briefly interact with him.

01:01:58.800 He claims that it's a dagger in the heart when he is misgendered, quote-unquote.

01:02:04.460 And yet he goes out of his way to film these moments and to put people in a situation where they might do the thing he claims he doesn't want them to do.

01:02:12.160 And that's because his emotions are as fake and contrived as his womanhood. 0.99

01:02:15.880 It is all performance.

01:02:17.500 There is nothing authentic about any of this. 1.00

01:02:20.540 He is a fraud and a bully. 0.99

01:02:22.780 And yet he's been empowered, not just by the left, but even by many on the right, 0.99

01:02:26.220 who for so many years refused to be honest about and to guys like this.

01:02:32.160 You know, the correct response to this man, if he tries to lecture you for accurately gendering him,

01:02:38.560 is to say something like this.

01:02:41.940 Oh, sorry, you're right.

01:02:44.120 I shouldn't call you sir.

01:02:45.900 Sir is a word denoting respect and dignity.

01:02:48.780 But you have none of the latter, and I have none of the former for you.

01:02:52.160 Instead of sir, I'd be happy to call you dude or fella or chief.

01:02:56.760 Take your pick.

01:02:57.980 But what I won't call you is anything that denotes womanhood because you are not a woman, champ. 1.00

01:03:02.880 You aren't even a convincing imitation. 0.99

01:03:04.500 You're just a narcissist. 0.98

01:03:05.920 And narcissist is not a gender, chief. 0.99

01:03:08.560 It's a personality defect. 0.94

01:03:10.820 So I will continue to call you whatever the hell I want to call you, 0.89

01:03:13.500 and there's not a damn thing you can do about it.

01:03:15.340 I'm not sorry if it offends you, and I care about your feelings about as much as you care about anyone else's,

01:03:21.540 which is not at all.

01:03:24.300 You got that, big guy?

01:03:27.820 Now, that is both the most accurate and most moral way to respond to somebody like this,

01:03:32.740 except that, you know, if the waiter at the restaurant says that or anything close to it,

01:03:37.300 he'll be fired and publicly shamed.

01:03:38.840 And it would be heroic and good if he said it anyway and sacrificed himself or at least his job for the sake of truth and justice,

01:03:45.740 but that's not a choice that most people will make, and that's understandable.

01:03:49.380 And bullies like the guy in the video, they know that,

01:03:52.500 and so they specifically pick on people whose lives they think they can destroy. 0.75

01:03:57.200 It's what manipulative narcissists do. 0.99

01:03:59.440 It's their MO.

01:04:00.760 It's why we've seen a lot of videos like this,

01:04:03.080 and it's almost always, have you noticed, in a customer service setting.

01:04:06.780 Because these are people that they feel they have control over.

01:04:11.800 They don't usually go up to random people on the street.

01:04:14.320 They don't come up to me.

01:04:16.260 I wish they would.

01:04:17.900 I'm just waiting for me to get one of these TikTok videos.

01:04:20.060 Oh, excuse me, you called me, you called me, sir.

01:04:22.720 Oh, did I?

01:04:24.040 I'm waiting for that moment.

01:04:24.920 It never happens.

01:04:26.480 Because they're picking on people they think they can control.

01:04:28.880 Which is why it's all the more important for those of us who are not as vulnerable as the waiter to speak up.

01:04:34.720 And it's not enough to just meekly raise your trembling hand off at a distance and say,

01:04:39.720 well, geez, I'm not trying to hurt anyone, and sorry if this offends you,

01:04:43.220 but I guess I just, I feel like maybe it's okay sometimes if some people don't agree that men are women.

01:04:50.220 Please don't be mad.

01:04:51.640 That kind of soft and scared approach doesn't work in general.

01:04:55.540 It especially doesn't work when you're up against ruthless sociopaths

01:04:59.060 who will happily take someone's job for noticing that a man is a man.

01:05:03.960 The only effective strategy is to be blunt and direct and utterly dismissive of their fake performative feelings.

01:05:11.520 It's the only way.

01:05:12.880 It's always been the only way.

01:05:15.280 And maybe now the country is starting to figure that out.

01:05:17.840 We can hope anyway.

01:05:18.580 But in the meantime, this guy and his matching dog outfits are today canceled.

01:05:27.140 That'll do it for the show today.

01:05:28.380 Thanks for watching.

01:05:28.980 Thanks for listening.

01:05:29.880 Have a great day.

01:05:31.000 Godspeed.

01:05:34.440 Good.

01:05:36.000 And on a positive note.

01:05:37.060 Good night.

01:05:40.960 Good night.

01:05:49.660 Who can you do?

01:05:50.800 And on a positive note.

01:05:51.800 Good night.

01:05:54.500 Good night.

01:05:54.940 Good night.

01:05:55.060 Good night.

01:06:05.420 Good night.

01:06:05.980 Good night.

01:06:06.500 Good night.

The Matt Walsh Show - October 31, 2023

Ep. 1253 - Historic Monument Is Melted Down And Destroyed In Bizarre Humiliation Ritual

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