The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 159 - One Of The Most Disgusting Media Hit Jobs Ever

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, the media has set out to destroy a college athlete for no reason whatsoever.

00:00:06.120 Also, a teacher has been fired for telling the truth, and an alien invasion is imminent.

00:00:10.920 Space alien, not illegal alien.

00:00:13.400 That invasion is happening too, but a space alien invasion is imminent, and there's footage that proves it.

00:00:19.500 We'll talk about all that coming up on the Matt Walsh Show.

00:00:27.000 Merry Christmas, everybody.

00:00:28.280 I don't mind my Christmas sweater.

00:00:30.600 I don't know why you would mind it.

00:00:31.860 It's delightful.

00:00:32.620 See, I've got Spider-Man on there as well.

00:00:34.440 I don't know if you can see that.

00:00:36.620 I won't call it an ugly Christmas sweater, though, because it's actually a beautiful sweater.

00:00:43.060 And that's what I don't like about the whole ugly sweater trend is that I don't think the sweaters are ugly.

00:00:48.400 I think that they're wonderful sweaters, and I would wear them all the time if it was socially acceptable.

00:00:54.120 All right, so Kyler Murray, University of Oklahoma quarterback, won the Heisman Trophy over the weekend, which is a huge accomplishment for the young man.

00:01:05.480 I'd imagine one of the best moments of his life, as it would be for anyone to win the Heisman Trophy.

00:01:12.700 And I guess that's why the media felt that they had to ruin it.

00:01:16.300 They saw that somebody was having a good moment, that they were getting attention for a good reason, and they said, wait a second.

00:01:23.380 We can't allow this.

00:01:25.260 Let's turn it into a negative story.

00:01:29.340 So USA Today, among other outlets, but I believe it started with USA Today, and their reporter, Scott Gleeson, decided to run an article hours after Murray's big achievement,

00:01:43.380 reporting on the homophobic tweets that he sent when he was 14 years old.

00:01:50.340 I don't know what the tweets were.

00:01:53.520 It doesn't matter.

00:01:54.280 I don't care.

00:01:54.840 I didn't look. 0.67

00:01:56.040 They said that the tweets involved him using homophobic language with his friends, so I assume that he jokingly referred to one of his friends as an F word, a slur for gays.

00:02:08.180 I don't know, but who cares?

00:02:10.080 It doesn't matter.

00:02:11.200 He was 14.

00:02:14.120 He was 14.

00:02:14.980 Even if he had said it last week, I still wouldn't care, but he said it when he was 14.

00:02:21.940 Offensive language from a 14-year-old boy does not matter.

00:02:26.360 There is literally nothing that could make it matter.

00:02:29.680 If it's your 14-year-old boy and you're his mother or something, then yeah, I could see why it would matter to you that you would reprimand him and say, don't use that language.

00:02:39.640 But in terms of the news quality or the newsworthiness, it has none.

00:02:46.900 It has zero.

00:02:47.600 In fact, it's less than zero in this case because this is offensive language from a 14-year-old boy six or seven years ago.

00:03:00.180 Now, I want you to look at the way that this is phrased because here's the first paragraph of the USA Today hit piece about Kyler Murray.

00:03:09.440 It says,

00:03:09.560 That's an interesting way of phrasing it, isn't it?

00:03:31.000 It helped to resurface social media's memory of homophobic tweets from six years ago.

00:03:41.080 Helped resurface.

00:03:43.360 So they phrase it almost like the tweets literally resurfaced.

00:03:47.580 Almost like they floated up from the bottom of the ocean and then washed a short...

00:03:53.420 Remember the movie The Mask?

00:03:56.560 The Jim Carrey movie from the 90s?

00:03:58.020 When the magical mask kind of gets jostled loose from its chest down at the bottom of the ocean and it floats to the top and then it washes ashore and for some reason Jim Carrey picks it up and puts it on.

00:04:14.440 That's kind of the way...

00:04:15.780 You almost have something...

00:04:17.580 From the way that's phrased, you have something similar in mind.

00:04:20.260 As if the tweets were contained in a magical chest at the bottom of the ocean and a whale bumped into it or something and it made it float to the top and then it washed ashore and somebody was walking along the beach and just stumbled across it and said,

00:04:34.820 Oh, what's this?

00:04:35.700 Oh, it looks like offensive tweets from a 14-year-old boy.

00:04:39.740 I must go alert the masses.

00:04:42.780 No, that's not the way this worked.

00:04:46.000 This was not a passive process.

00:04:49.300 Someone had to go looking for the tweets.

00:04:54.900 And how did that someone, whether it was Scott Gleason or whoever else, how did they find the tweets?

00:05:01.180 What method did they use to look for them?

00:05:04.220 Well, they could have combed through six years' worth of tweets to see if they could find anything, but that's probably not how it was done.

00:05:12.300 That would be a little bit inefficient.

00:05:14.080 And in fact, the way that they really did it is in some ways maybe worse.

00:05:20.020 Because what they would have had to do is they would have had to plug in Kyler Murray's name to the Twitter search bar and then also put in the F-word slur for gays.

00:05:32.960 Or they would have had to come up with a few offensive words and just plug it in to see what comes up, to see if Kyler Murray ever, at any point in his life, used those words on Twitter.

00:05:45.060 And they would have done this just because he won the Heisman, and for no other reason.

00:05:53.400 Someone would have had to say, or multiple people in the media would have said,

00:05:57.780 Well, this guy won the Heisman. Let's go see if he ever insulted gays. 0.69

00:06:00.860 Anyways, that is literally the thought process. That's the way it would have worked. 0.60

00:06:05.880 Well, he's in the news for a good reason. Let's go see if we can find a reason to destroy him.

00:06:13.180 And then what do you know? They found it.

00:06:16.520 Mission accomplished. 0.85

00:06:17.440 Now we can destroy him because, because, because why?

00:06:24.980 Because he dared make the news for a positive reason? Because he dared accomplish something?

00:06:31.900 You know, people often complain that the media never reports good news.

00:06:38.420 Well, or they never report the positive news. And it's, if it bleeds, it leads, right?

00:06:45.020 They don't, they don't focus on the good stories.

00:06:47.840 Well, it's actually worse than that. Because what they do is, it's not just that they only report negative stories.

00:06:54.260 It's that they, they will turn every story negative.

00:06:58.660 So, they'll take even a positive story and they'll turn it into a negative.

00:07:05.460 Instead of doing a story about this exceptional young man and his great achievement,

00:07:10.360 they decided to report on the language he used when he was 14.

00:07:13.700 It's not as though, it's not as though there weren't other interesting angles they could have gone.

00:07:18.700 So, it's not like they're saying, well, yeah, he won the Heisman, but I mean, how much can you really say about that?

00:07:23.680 The guy won the Heisman, right? We need more, we need more content.

00:07:26.600 But, okay, if you're looking for more content about Kyler Murray, how about the fact that he just won the Heisman as a college quarterback,

00:07:35.940 but he's already been drafted by, I think, by the, by the, by Oakland, I think, to play professional baseball.

00:07:46.420 So, this is a guy who just, just won the Heisman, but, and he could go play professional football, but he's going to play professional baseball.

00:07:52.880 So, that's how good he is at two different sports.

00:07:54.920 Of course, that's interesting. I didn't even know that myself until I looked him up today.

00:07:58.040 I don't really follow college football that closely.

00:08:00.580 And I looked it up, I said, wow, that's interesting.

00:08:03.120 How about doing a story about that?

00:08:05.740 I mean, this guy could play either one of the sports.

00:08:08.700 That's, to be that talented in two different sports, that's an interesting angle.

00:08:13.200 It's an interesting, positive, uplifting angle.

00:08:17.740 Nobody gets hurt. No one's destroyed.

00:08:19.640 It's just, why not report on that instead?

00:08:22.580 If you're looking for a Kyler Murray content, how about that?

00:08:26.080 What position is he going to play in baseball?

00:08:28.860 How good is he at baseball?

00:08:30.400 What, you know, these are all things we could talk about if you're looking to do a Kyler Murray story.

00:08:35.200 But instead you say, no, let's talk about his tweets from, from seven years ago.

00:08:40.020 So, what is this? What's the point?

00:08:45.260 Why do this? Why do this to people?

00:08:51.200 Part of it is political, of course, as always.

00:08:53.720 There's always a political element.

00:08:55.100 Part of it is about buttressing the left's victim narrative.

00:08:59.420 But, I think it's also just, there's also a lot of simply pure malevolence, pure maliciousness involved.

00:09:10.080 Even putting politics and ideology aside, a lot of it is simply destroying people for the sake of it.

00:09:17.900 Just because, for entertainment.

00:09:21.580 It really is the modern version of the Colosseum.

00:09:24.320 I know that that analogy is maybe overused, but it really is in this case.

00:09:27.440 Because, it's like the Colosseum, except it's less honest.

00:09:30.720 Because, at least back in the old Roman days, you would go to the Colosseum and you would watch two gladiators kill each other.

00:09:38.800 Or you would watch someone get ripped apart by lions.

00:09:42.300 Whatever.

00:09:43.460 Just a nice day out with the family.

00:09:45.420 Nice, wholesome family entertainment.

00:09:48.420 And, that's what you were doing.

00:09:50.260 There was no hiding it.

00:09:52.120 You were going to the Colosseum to watch somebody get ripped apart by lions.

00:09:56.640 So, if it was a date night with your wife and you got a babysitter, you would say,

00:10:00.120 Hey, honey, do you want to, I heard they got a couple new lions.

00:10:04.180 And, they've, you know, that, the guy down at the marketplace that was just arrested for trying to steal an apple from the produce stand.

00:10:12.640 They're going to, he's going to be ripped apart by a lion.

00:10:14.240 Do you want to go watch?

00:10:15.240 You know, let's go, let's go get something to eat and we can go watch the guy get ripped apart.

00:10:19.520 And so, it was, everyone knew that's what they were doing.

00:10:21.920 There was no hiding it.

00:10:22.980 But, now, it's kind of the same thing where people like to watch a person get ripped to shreds in a different sense, have their reputation and their lives ripped to shreds.

00:10:37.900 Um, we still like to watch that, except that we can pretend that that's not what it's about.

00:10:45.240 We can pretend that we, it's, it's not entertainment for us.

00:10:49.340 This is about justice.

00:10:50.740 It's really, it's really a, it's a noble thing.

00:10:53.760 Um, we, we could pretend even that we have some sort of righteous anger at this person because, oh, this is, this is, this is justice.

00:11:03.340 They said something terrible six or seven years ago.

00:11:07.760 So, it's not as honest.

00:11:09.120 That's my problem with it.

00:11:10.020 It's not honest.

00:11:10.520 At least admit.

00:11:12.940 You know, if you're going and you're combing through somebody's tweets to see if they ever used an inappropriate word so you can throw it against them after they've just achieved something,

00:11:23.780 then at least admit that you're doing that because you think it's fun to destroy people.

00:11:29.140 That's all.

00:11:29.660 At least admit it.

00:11:30.720 Have, have, have a certain amount of honesty.

00:11:33.960 Have the courage of your convictions and admit that's what you're doing.

00:11:38.180 Okay.

00:11:38.720 There's another story I wanted to, to mention here briefly, um, from the Daily Wire.

00:11:42.900 It says this week, a Virginia high school teacher was fired because he wouldn't use the preferred pronoun of a female student who claimed she was now a male.

00:11:51.820 The unanimous decision from the five members of the West Point School Board to fire Peter Vlaming, a French teacher at West Point High School, which is roughly 265 students, followed a four-hour hearing.

00:12:02.600 The board only discussed the case for an hour before rendering their decision.

00:12:05.940 Uh, Vlaming had taught at the high school for almost seven years, had taught the student in question in the 2017 school year when the student identified as female.

00:12:14.620 Then over the, the summer of 2018, the girl decided that she was a boy.

00:12:20.920 So she went, you know, she left school in the 2017 to 2018 school year and she was a girl.

00:12:28.120 And then she came back and she said, actually, I'm a boy.

00:12:30.440 Um, so this school year, Vlaming addressed the girl by the new name she had chosen.

00:12:39.180 So he, he did use the new name, uh, a name's a name, you know, you can choose any name you want for yourself, but he would not address the girl by her preferred, preferred pronoun because it conflicted with his Christian faith.

00:12:53.920 Uh, the student went and complained and, um, and processes were carried out.

00:13:01.700 And then finally the guy is fired.

00:13:04.180 Um, the school board wrote a statement and it says in part, we do not and cannot tolerate discrimination in any form or actions that create a hostile environment for any member of our school family.

00:13:17.140 Mr. Vlaming was asked repeatedly over several weeks and by multiple administrators to address a student by the pronouns with which this student identifies the issue before us was not one mistaken slip of the tongue tongue.

00:13:28.340 Mr. Vlaming consistently refused to comply going forward.

00:13:31.640 Um, a willful violation of school board policy.

00:13:34.840 While we understand that some do not agree with our decision, we hope that our discussions, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

00:13:39.400 So, all right, only just one thing I want to say about this and that is, this is actually not really about Mr. Vlaming's Christian faith.

00:13:52.500 Uh, that, that is included in this.

00:13:55.560 It's true that as a Christian, there's no way as a Christian that you can use someone's preferred pronoun if it is not the actual pronoun that's attached to them grammatically.

00:14:04.680 Obviously, because a pronoun is not like a name, you don't get to have your own pronoun, um, you don't own the pronoun.

00:14:11.920 It's a pronoun is a matter of grammar.

00:14:14.220 There are certain grammatically correct ways of referring to a person depending on their biological sex.

00:14:21.020 And that's, that's all it is.

00:14:22.060 So this is a matter of biology and grammar pronouns that personal pronouns, those, that is a, that is a convergence of biology and grammar.

00:14:33.360 And so it's got nothing, your own preferences and desires have nothing at all to do with it.

00:14:39.080 That is not part of the convergence.

00:14:40.900 It's just your biology and then grammar.

00:14:43.460 You don't decide your biology.

00:14:45.080 You also don't get to decide grammar.

00:14:46.580 All of these things have already been decided.

00:14:48.640 And so that's what, that's where your personal pronoun comes from.

00:14:51.740 Um, so it's true that if you're a Christian, um, you could not possibly use somebody's preferred pronoun if it's not the real pronoun, because that would be dishonest. 0.64

00:15:07.680 And as Christians, we are, um, forbidden from telling lies, but, uh, it isn't just Christians who, who would say that law, that lying is wrong.

00:15:23.140 This is really simply about honesty.

00:15:25.740 This is about truth and honesty, plain and simple, no matter what your religion is.

00:15:30.940 It doesn't matter if you're Christian, Jewish, Muslim, doesn't matter. 0.73

00:15:33.860 It doesn't matter if you have no religion.

00:15:35.700 If you value truth and honesty, then you should be on Mr. Vlaming's side because that's really, I, I, I, I think it is not a good thing.

00:15:47.880 It's not going to be, it's not going to help us progress on this issue and, uh, and restore sanity to this issue.

00:15:54.040 I should say it won't help us do that.

00:15:56.300 If we turn this into a religious thing, if we turn this into a Christians verse, whatever, religious liberty, that's not what this is.

00:16:04.080 This is not a religious issue.

00:16:05.800 You don't need to be Christian. 1.00

00:16:07.940 You don't need to believe in the Bible to understand that women are women and men are men.

00:16:12.960 And you don't get to have your own pronouns because grammar is grammar and you don't get to decide for yourself.

00:16:17.580 You don't need to be Christian to understand that this, this is a, this is a universal thing.

00:16:21.700 This is just truth and honesty.

00:16:23.600 That's all.

00:16:26.200 And so if you value truth and honesty, which hopefully every Christian does, but also hopefully everyone else in the world would too.

00:16:33.680 If you value truth and honesty, then you, you would have to be on Mr. Vlaming's side and you, you couldn't possibly use someone's preferred pronoun if it's not the correct pronoun.

00:16:46.380 Because you are then participating in a lie.

00:16:50.120 You are telling a lie.

00:16:51.700 Unless you don't know it's, that it's not true.

00:16:54.980 But if you know it's not true, and if you know that this girl is a girl and you refer to the girl as a him, that is a lie.

00:17:03.940 A lie is a willful deception.

00:17:06.760 It is when you willfully tell, it's when you willfully intentionally say something that is not true.

00:17:13.040 She is not a him.

00:17:16.660 So if you call her a him, then you have said something that is not true.

00:17:21.600 You have told a lie.

00:17:23.220 And that's all.

00:17:24.120 It's not that the school board was trying to make Mr. Vlaming betray his Christian beliefs, although they were trying to do that as well.

00:17:35.580 But even before that, they were trying to force him to tell a lie.

00:17:39.960 They said that if he wants to keep his job, he has to tell a lie.

00:17:44.400 And he got fired simply because he wouldn't tell a lie.

00:17:48.440 That's what's going on here.

00:17:49.860 All right.

00:17:53.520 One other story.

00:17:55.660 I have to mention this one.

00:17:57.680 In the live feed from the International Space Station, you could see a blue and white object.

00:18:04.940 This was last week.

00:18:06.320 The International Space Station has a live feed where you can go and check it out and see what's going on with the Earth at any given time.

00:18:12.160 Well, last week, if you were watching the live feed, you would have seen a blue and white object appear in space and then hover over the Earth.

00:18:23.980 And then as soon as it appeared, the feed went down.

00:18:28.480 Okay.

00:18:29.920 Now, obviously, people are going to start with the conspiracy theories when you see that.

00:18:36.460 But as usual with these kinds of stories, because I read that story, and like you, I was super excited.

00:18:41.900 So then I went and I watched the footage, and it's always a letdown.

00:18:45.580 I mean, every single time you hear about, oh, it was a mysterious object that was seen in space, and then you go and look at it, and you say, well, that looks like just a smudge or something on the lens of the thing.

00:18:55.080 Or it looks like light refracting from somewhere or whatever.

00:18:59.140 It doesn't really look like an object.

00:19:02.420 So I went and looked at the feed, and I don't know what the thing is, but it doesn't even look like an object.

00:19:06.980 It's obviously some sort of illusion.

00:19:11.900 Although it is suspicious that the feed went down as soon as the thing appeared.

00:19:14.880 So who knows?

00:19:15.360 Maybe it was aliens, but probably not.

00:19:18.280 But every time you see one of these, you know, it brings up the conversation of, well, do you believe that aliens exist?

00:19:24.580 Is there intelligent life out there?

00:19:26.800 And I find that question to be almost absurd, because the answer is so obvious.

00:19:34.420 Let's just think about this.

00:19:40.240 There are, we believe, about 100 billion galaxies in the observable universe.

00:19:48.120 So 100 billion galaxies in just the little sliver of space that we can see.

00:19:54.940 And who knows how much space there is outside of that?

00:19:58.140 100 billion galaxies.

00:20:00.000 Now, our galaxy, the Milky Way, has about 100 to 200 billion stars.

00:20:07.660 And most stars have planets around them, so there are probably a couple of trillion planets in just our galaxy.

00:20:14.540 And if there are, you know, let's say a trillion or so planets in every galaxy, then that means it's like one or two trillion times 100 billion.

00:20:25.240 And whatever that number is, two trillion times 100 billion, whatever that number is, that's how many planets probably exist in the universe.

00:20:32.980 So even if the odds of an intelligent, you know, of an intelligent civilization, an intelligent alien civilization, even if the odds are, let's say, 100 billion to one, or even a trillion to one, that would still mean that there are billions or at least millions of planets in the universe with intelligent civilizations.

00:20:58.920 Which means when you look at the numbers, it's not even like an interesting question.

00:21:05.180 Of course, there's intelligent life out there.

00:21:07.200 It is pretty much a mathematic certainty that there is intelligent life out there when you think about the vastness of outer space.

00:21:16.760 And no matter how you look at it, whether you're looking at this from a supernatural perspective or a natural perspective, because if you don't believe in God, well, then you've got this, you've got 100 billion galaxies, life arises randomly.

00:21:29.660 Even if it's extremely rare that life arises, when you look at the numbers that we're dealing with, even a very rare occurrence has almost certainly occurred billions of times.

00:21:43.340 But if you believe in God, and you're going to say that there is not intelligent life in the universe, then what you're saying is that God created a universe with 100 billion galaxies and trillions of planets, and then put nothing on those other planets except ours, which seems absurd.

00:22:07.900 Why do they exist? Why do all these galaxies exist? Do they exist just to look pretty in the sky?

00:22:13.840 That seems like, that's a lot of effort to go through, to create entire galaxies so that we could see pretty things when we look in telescopes.

00:22:22.800 It's hard for me to believe that that's the only reason the galaxies exist.

00:22:26.320 But, so we know that intelligent life exists in the universe.

00:22:29.240 It's, it's, it's, I think we'd call it a certainty.

00:22:34.700 But we also know that the closest solar system to our own is about four light years away, which is, I think, about 20 or 25 trillion miles.

00:22:46.000 We don't have anywhere close to the technology to go those distances.

00:22:51.540 The Andromeda galaxy, which is our next door neighbor in terms of, in galactic terms, that is 3 million light years away.

00:22:59.300 If a light, if a light year is 5 trillion miles, then that's 3 million times 5 trillion miles.

00:23:04.880 So, what does all this tell us?

00:23:06.940 It tells us that there is almost certainly intelligent life in the universe, and we know that because of the size of the universe.

00:23:16.280 But it also tells us that we will almost certainly never find it, ever, because of the distances.

00:23:22.720 So, it is a humongous universe with tons of stuff in it, but everything is so far apart that we will almost certainly never come in contact with the life.

00:23:34.660 It's just, it's out there, but we will never come in contact with it.

00:23:39.440 Kind of sad and depressing, but I think that's simply the reality.

00:23:43.940 All right.

00:23:47.560 One other thing.

00:23:50.020 I don't know why I was thinking about this, but before we wrap up, I have to tell you one thing that annoys me.

00:23:57.740 And I know it's surprising to hear that I'm annoyed by something, but hear me out.

00:24:04.660 Something you see online a lot, and I just saw this yesterday, so that's probably why I'm thinking about it.

00:24:11.520 But something you'll see online a lot, especially on Twitter and Facebook, is this thing where people will post pictures of their dogs allegedly doing something cute.

00:24:23.440 And then they'll have a caption that says something like, we don't deserve dogs, or what did we ever do to deserve dogs?

00:24:32.080 Have you seen that?

00:24:32.680 You know what I'm talking about?

00:24:34.900 It's become kind of an internet meme almost.

00:24:37.260 We don't deserve dogs.

00:24:39.740 Now, in general, I always feel nauseated by this groveling that people do to their pets.

00:24:47.380 Oh, we aren't worthy of you, dog.

00:24:50.740 Oh, great dog, we aren't worthy.

00:24:53.440 We don't deserve you, dog.

00:24:55.320 Oh, great dog.

00:24:56.780 It's kind of sad, because we should have more pride as a species.

00:25:01.780 But more than that, I have a dog, okay?

00:25:06.920 I feed my dog.

00:25:08.980 I walk my dog.

00:25:11.120 I clean up my dog's poop.

00:25:13.360 I buy him toys.

00:25:14.900 I take him to the vet.

00:25:16.480 He sleeps all day and never lifts a finger or a paw to help with anything around the house.

00:25:22.040 He doesn't do anything.

00:25:24.100 He does not help at all with anything.

00:25:27.640 So if anyone is failing to pull their weight in our relationship, it isn't me.

00:25:33.720 I mean, if anyone doesn't deserve anyone else, isn't it more true to say that dogs don't deserve us?

00:25:39.940 What do you mean we don't deserve dogs?

00:25:41.820 What else could we possibly do for these animals to deserve them?

00:25:45.360 We do everything for them.

00:25:47.140 So if anyone doesn't deserve anyone, isn't it the other way around?

00:25:51.840 Dogs are the most privileged animals in the whole animal kingdom.

00:25:55.400 They get treated like royalty.

00:25:57.420 We spend literally billions of dollars on them.

00:26:01.280 The other day, I walked outside of my house, and I saw a raccoon eating out of my garbage can.

00:26:09.420 And that's what life is like for wild animals.

00:26:11.860 Life is short and cold and miserable, and they eat garbage, and then they die.

00:26:17.560 And when they die, they are consumed by scavengers or bugs. 0.56

00:26:22.020 That's what it is.

00:26:23.200 That's what it is for a wild animal. 0.96

00:26:25.000 Now, my dog eats garbage, too, but that's just because he's a glutton.

00:26:27.640 It's not because we don't feed him. 0.64

00:26:30.420 Dogs have it so much.

00:26:31.540 They have it better than any other animal.

00:26:33.320 Dogs are so lucky that they were domesticated and that we have this affection for them.

00:26:40.020 They are so lucky.

00:26:41.680 They're the luckiest animals on earth.

00:26:45.420 So I'm just saying, dogs have it much better than any other animal.

00:26:50.840 To say we don't deserve them makes no sense.

00:26:56.180 To say we don't deserve to have these pampered creatures lying on our sofas, that doesn't make any sense. 0.99

00:27:01.960 So listen, this is my message to my fellow humans.

00:27:04.240 I'm not saying you should hate your dog.

00:27:06.800 I'm not saying you shouldn't have.

00:27:07.480 I have a dog, too.

00:27:08.480 Okay?

00:27:08.700 I like my dog.

00:27:09.460 But this is about self-respect as a species.

00:27:13.680 Okay?

00:27:13.980 We need more self-respect as a species.

00:27:16.580 So here's what I want you to do.

00:27:19.000 When you go home tonight, I want you to walk into your home.

00:27:22.800 Go right up to your dog and say, listen, Rex, you don't deserve me.

00:27:27.840 I'm the king of this house.

00:27:29.420 And only by my generosity do you survive.

00:27:33.280 You should be thanking me. 0.95

00:27:36.460 And then take him outside and clean up his poop with a plastic bag like a slave. 1.00

00:27:42.760 But all through that process, remember who you are.

00:27:46.940 Never forget.

00:27:47.840 You are the master.

00:27:49.540 You are the human being.

00:27:51.640 And we need to reclaim pride in that.

00:27:54.580 It's okay to have pets, but we have gone way overboard with our pets.

00:27:59.960 They're so much better than us.

00:28:01.880 Look at these animals.

00:28:02.780 We are nothing compared to them.

00:28:04.900 Oh, my gosh.

00:28:05.920 Do you think these animals are saying that about themselves?

00:28:08.340 No, they have pride in themselves.

00:28:10.460 Your dog is saying, I'm a dog.

00:28:11.860 I'm great.

00:28:13.980 So you should say the same because we own the planet.

00:28:17.420 Okay?

00:28:17.740 I mean, we won the species lottery.

00:28:21.300 We achieved the most.

00:28:23.900 Self-respect.

00:28:24.960 All right.

00:28:25.880 That was my very weird pep talk for the day.

00:28:28.760 And I'll talk to you tomorrow.

00:28:30.520 Godspeed.

00:28:30.960 Coming up on The Ben Shapiro Show, the left celebrates as federal prosecutors look at inciting President Trump.

00:28:43.240 President Trump swivels and clocks James Comey.

00:28:45.380 And White House Chief of Staff John Kelly is out.

00:28:47.440 All of that coming up on The Ben Shapiro Show.

00:28:49.120 All of that coming up on The Ben Shapiro Show.

The Matt Walsh Show - December 10, 2018

Ep. 159 - One Of The Most Disgusting Media Hit Jobs Ever

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