The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 165 - The Futility Of Boycotting

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, Tucker Carlson is being boycotted for comments that he made about immigration.

00:00:05.920 Why are people so unwilling to engage with opposing ideas these days?

00:00:09.500 Why do we insist on boycotting instead? We'll discuss that.

00:00:12.460 Also, a federal judge has ruled that cops in schools have no duty to protect innocent kids.

00:00:18.980 Finally, I have to tell you the most underrated perk of marriage, for men anyway.

00:00:23.780 We'll talk about all that today on the Matt Walsh Show.

00:00:25.560 I kept my son up way past his bedtime last night to go and take him to see that new Spider-Man movie.

00:00:35.420 Spider-Man Into the Spider-Verse, I think it's called.

00:00:38.900 And my feelings about superhero movies are well known. I've been clear about that.

00:00:43.140 But my son is five years old, and this was the first that I'm aware of, the first PG-rated Spider-Man film.

00:00:50.320 And I've been waiting for something. I've been waiting for a superhero movie that you could actually bring a five-year-old to.

00:00:56.480 Because I feel like it's a superhero movie. I mean, five-year-old boys, this is what they're into.

00:01:02.260 So I couldn't miss the opportunity to finally bring him.

00:01:05.780 He's a huge, huge Spider-Man fan. He's nuts about Spider-Man.

00:01:09.620 And I have to say that my son, he loved the movie.

00:01:12.920 I actually found it mostly tolerable. It was unique, visually anyway, and it had some entertaining moments.

00:01:20.720 But the thing is, I didn't realize that Spider-Man dies in the first five minutes of the movie.

00:01:28.840 And that's not a spoiler, because it happens right away.

00:01:31.380 And it's the catalyst for the plot, so I don't think I'm spoiling anything.

00:01:34.600 But he does die right away.

00:01:36.660 He falls down, and then he's crushed by Kingpin.

00:01:39.480 They don't really show it, but still.

00:01:42.320 It was traumatizing for my son, because he's a big Spider-Man fan.

00:01:45.520 And he wasn't expecting that.

00:01:46.660 I hadn't prepared him, because I didn't know that was going to happen either.

00:01:49.860 Now, Spider-Man is immediately replaced by a bunch of other Spider-Men from other alternate universes.

00:01:57.180 And also, there's a new Spider-Man in this universe.

00:02:00.020 But still, my son was deeply distressed after witnessing the death of Spider-Man.

00:02:05.840 And I tried to explain to him on the way home,

00:02:08.780 because he was so confused.

00:02:10.400 I tried to explain to him,

00:02:11.500 Oh, no, no, well, yeah, that Spider-Man died.

00:02:13.600 But he was replaced by Spider-Men from alternate universes.

00:02:17.480 Don't you see?

00:02:18.340 Five-year-old, what an alternate universe is?

00:02:21.240 And he didn't.

00:02:23.340 In fact, he was so distressed that on the way home,

00:02:25.560 he said to me,

00:02:26.240 He said,

00:02:26.700 Daddy, I don't think I want to be Spider-Man when I grow up anymore.

00:02:30.220 And it was the saddest moment as a parent, probably.

00:02:37.100 Although, when I asked him why, his reasoning kind of made sense.

00:02:40.700 Because he explained,

00:02:41.680 Well, being Spider-Man is dangerous.

00:02:44.060 Also, you have to get up in the middle of the night to fight bad guys.

00:02:47.640 And he said that he needs to get his sleep.

00:02:49.860 So I couldn't really argue with his reasoning.

00:02:51.720 But just a warning to parents,

00:02:52.960 If you're taking your kids to see that movie,

00:02:55.540 be prepared to have a conversation about death

00:02:58.020 and parallel universes once it's over.

00:03:01.820 All right.

00:03:03.360 Tucker Carlson is once again in the crosshairs.

00:03:06.740 Liberals are pressuring advertisers to boycott Carlson's show

00:03:10.760 because of comments that he made about immigration.

00:03:14.520 So far, IHOP has pulled its ad.

00:03:17.800 Ancestry.com, TD Ameritrade,

00:03:20.180 I think eight or nine others or more have also pulled their ads.

00:03:25.340 Now, here's what,

00:03:26.880 I'm just going to read for you what Carlson said on his show last week

00:03:29.980 that got all of this rolling.

00:03:34.100 And I'll put it in its context.

00:03:36.800 He said,

00:03:37.600 Our country's economy is becoming more automated and tech-centered by the day.

00:03:41.400 It's obvious that we need more scientists and skilled engineers.

00:03:44.660 But that's not what we're getting.

00:03:46.060 Instead, we're getting waves of people with high school educations or less.

00:03:48.860 Nice people, no one doubts that.

00:03:51.500 But as an economic matter, this is insane.

00:03:54.300 It's indefensible, so nobody even tries to defend it.

00:03:57.200 Instead, our leaders demand that you shut up and accept this.

00:04:00.400 We have a moral obligation to admit the world's poor, they tell us,

00:04:04.580 even if it makes our own country poorer and dirtier and more divided.

00:04:08.820 Now, obviously, it's that last sentence that has been the most contentious.

00:04:18.000 And as far as the comments themselves go,

00:04:20.960 his overall point is not only right but unassailable.

00:04:25.140 That it is simply not economically feasible.

00:04:29.240 It is indeed insane to continue importing unskilled workers by the millions, 0.90

00:04:33.220 especially, as Carlson points out, in an economy, a society where the workforce

00:04:37.560 is more and more in need of people with technical proficiencies and skills.

00:04:43.820 And we're getting the exact opposite.

00:04:45.760 So that is a fine and important and completely practical point to make.

00:04:50.080 And it's a point that more people should be making.

00:04:52.720 But Carlson says that immigration is making our country poorer, dirtier, and more divided.

00:04:58.540 Well, poorer and more divided, that, again, is self-evidently true.

00:05:04.900 It's when you bring in more poor people, you make the country poorer. 1.00

00:05:08.180 And as an economic matter, once again, that's not a smart move.

00:05:12.420 More divided, obviously, it's making us more divided in more ways than one.

00:05:16.780 We're divided amongst ourselves about the issue of immigration,

00:05:20.120 not to mention culturally, when you bring people in with a different culture,

00:05:24.140 a different language, they don't assimilate.

00:05:25.800 You have more divisions there.

00:05:27.420 So that, again, is true.

00:05:28.220 So really, this all boils down to that one word, dirtier.

00:05:33.520 He said he's making the country dirtier.

00:05:36.060 And I do think that that was a gratuitous and unnecessary word to use.

00:05:43.280 You can point out that many immigrants are unskilled in terms of their value to the marketplace. 1.00

00:05:51.240 But to say that our country is dirtier because of them, well, that obviously is unnecessary.

00:05:57.500 It's beside the point.

00:05:58.920 That's not the point.

00:06:01.080 True or not, it's not the point. 0.96

00:06:03.220 And it fits right into the stereotype, anyway, of the bigoted conservative who's going around ranting about dirty foreigners. 0.54

00:06:10.240 It's like, it's like the, it's a stereotype that you're allowing yourself to be tossed in with. 0.95

00:06:18.880 Now, granted, he has been misquoted here in some of the headlines about this, claiming that Carlson called immigrants dirty.

00:06:28.420 He didn't, he didn't actually say that. 0.93

00:06:30.260 He said that they make the country dirtier. 0.91

00:06:31.880 That's not the same thing as saying the immigrants themselves are dirty. 0.99

00:06:34.940 And, um, he has himself pointed out that illegals do leave behind a lot of trash at the border and so forth.

00:06:42.940 Um, so that's a part of a problem, but still there's no reason to say dirtiness is not the point.

00:06:49.040 It has nothing to do with the point that Carlson himself was making.

00:06:52.580 And the point he was making was a good point about the strain on the economy.

00:06:56.540 So he detracted from his own point, which isn't a good idea, especially when the point is so important.

00:07:01.460 Um, the other thing that I wish that prominent conservatives would keep in mind is that when you say stuff like that, when you say anything, right, and you're a prominent conservative with a lot of fans, there's always going to be a group of other conservatives of, you know, your fans who maybe the, and the, the sort, the kinds who maybe don't think for themselves quite as much, who are just going to reflexively defend whatever you say.

00:07:30.120 And they're going to defend it in a far less nuanced and sophisticated way than you originally presented the view.

00:07:37.020 So now we have to endure the spectacle of some conservatives, not a lot, but some conservatives on social media standing up and saying, no, he's right. 0.99

00:07:44.980 Immigrants are dirty. 1.00

00:07:46.160 It's time someone said it. 1.00

00:07:47.600 Yes.

00:07:52.460 It's not the point.

00:07:53.800 This is, this is, that's not the direction we need to go with this. 0.97

00:07:56.300 We don't need to have a conversation about how dirty immigrants make the country. 1.00

00:08:01.200 It's not the point.

00:08:02.360 It completely detracts from the important point that we're trying to make.

00:08:08.180 Um, so I wish he hadn't said that. 0.97

00:08:11.040 However, it is also stupid and gratuitous, uh, and, and unnecessary to organize advertisers, advertiser boycotts over one word that you didn't like. 0.91

00:08:28.820 And that perhaps was poorly chosen. 0.96

00:08:30.640 If you disagree with Tucker Carlson on this issue, if you disagree with his comments, then why can't you simply disagree?

00:08:39.680 Just, just say you disagree.

00:08:41.560 That's all.

00:08:43.400 Use your words.

00:08:44.520 That's what I tell my kids.

00:08:45.820 Use your words.

00:08:46.440 I say it all the time.

00:08:47.340 Speak up and explain.

00:08:48.940 When I, you know, when, when, when, when I hear the twins screaming at each other and I go downstairs and my daughter's screaming at my son, I say, I say, what do you use your word?

00:08:59.940 You don't need to scream.

00:09:00.800 Just use your words.

00:09:02.220 What are you upset about?

00:09:03.300 Use your words.

00:09:04.580 Right.

00:09:05.640 Um, engage, have a debate.

00:09:10.480 Not everything has to be a reason for boycotts.

00:09:12.840 So rather than boycotting, you could just say something like this.

00:09:16.680 You could say, Tucker Carlson was wrong to say what he said because, and, and then fill in the blank, explain why he was wrong.

00:09:26.120 That's how adults handle these kinds of situations, or at least it's how they used to.

00:09:30.200 You're never going to win an argument with a boycott.

00:09:32.820 It will never happen.

00:09:33.520 All the boycott will do is cause the other side to dig in and entrench itself and ignore whatever you're saying.

00:09:40.780 Now, I know someone might point out that, well, these boycotts have nothing to do with winning an argument.

00:09:46.860 That's not the point.

00:09:47.660 The point is just to shut down the opposing view, not to engage with it.

00:09:51.900 And I agree that that is, of course, the point, but it's not even effective in that regard.

00:09:57.360 It's not even effective.

00:09:58.840 Even if you, even if you're the kind of person who would rather shut down the opposing side than engage with it, boycotts still are going to be counterproductive for you.

00:10:08.280 So if you're a proponent of unchecked immigration from the third world, and you want to shut the other side up and not engage with it, rather than actually discuss the issue with them, you aren't going to shut them up by boycotting and trying to silence them.

00:10:22.180 You only embolden, encourage, rile up.

00:10:24.940 That's all you do.

00:10:26.120 So whatever your objective is, boycott culture ultimately will detract from it.

00:10:31.640 I think in the end, whether you like it or not, and a lot of people obviously don't like it, but in the end, you are left with only one truly effective option, and that is to meet out on the battlefield of ideas and to fight the battle intellectually with ideas and arguments and simply to present your case.

00:10:54.340 I think in the end, that's the only choice that any of us actually have.

00:10:59.560 It's the only effective way.

00:11:02.140 So if you think that Tucker Carlson or anyone else is wrong about immigration, you can, you can, you know, kind of vent your frustrations by boycotting and doing all this, trying to get your vengeance on him.

00:11:16.000 Uh, but you're not going to win the argument that way.

00:11:19.320 Even if you succeeded in, in, in, in getting Tucker Carlson fired and getting rid of him, he's just going to be replaced by someone else with the same point of view.

00:11:29.140 So it's just not going to, you're not going to win the argument.

00:11:32.380 If you are a fan of unchecked immigration from the third world, eventually you're really, you're going to have to make your case.

00:11:40.280 And that's actually the point, the ultimate point that Carlson was making there.

00:11:44.680 And it was such a good point.

00:11:46.320 That's why I was so frustrated.

00:11:47.440 They had to throw in the dirtier line, like, uh, because he made the point that in terms of economic, nobody is willing on the, on the other side of this debate, nobody is willing to actually stand up and defend this economically.

00:12:02.360 They don't even try.

00:12:03.820 So instead they look for other things.

00:12:05.620 They want to label you a bigot.

00:12:06.640 They want to do this and that.

00:12:07.540 Uh, because they can't defend it, actually economically, they can't defend it intellectually.

00:12:16.540 And I can't even pronounce the word intellectually.

00:12:18.440 So what does that say about me?

00:12:20.040 Uh, so one way you just, this is what I say to people on the left.

00:12:25.160 Eventually you're going to have, eventually you're really going to have to make an argument here when it comes to immigration and pretty much any other issue.

00:12:32.260 You're, you're going to have to eventually actually make your case.

00:12:35.720 Um, this, this strategy of trying to punish the other side, it isn't going to work forever. 0.84

00:12:43.680 Diminishing, you're getting some diminishing returns on it.

00:12:46.860 And, uh, I think we're at the point now where it just, it just doesn't work at all.

00:12:51.460 Now, I want to get now to a truly infuriating story here.

00:12:55.180 Um, a federal judge has ruled that cops and schools have no duty to protect children during a school shooting or at any other point, I assume.

00:13:06.360 Yes, that is, that's what's happening.

00:13:09.340 Let me read a bit from the Miami Herald.

00:13:10.940 Uh, it says a federal judge has ruled that Broward schools and the sheriff's office were not responsible for protecting students during the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High.

00:13:20.040 That liability, the judge reasoned only works with incarcerated prisoners or others who are involuntary committed, not school children with the ability to take care of themselves, with the ability to take care of themselves as in quotes.

00:13:32.440 According to a motion filed last week by U.S. District Judge Beth Bloom.

00:13:37.080 So, you have to be a, you have to be a criminal in the custody of the police in order to warrant their protection.

00:13:44.140 But if you're just an innocent child, well, then you, you gotta fend for yourself.

00:13:49.340 Um, the Sun Sentinel on Tuesday reported that Bloom dismissed a suit filed by 15 unnamed students who say they suffered psychological trauma from a school shooting that killed 17 and injured another 17 in February.

00:13:59.780 The lawsuit claimed the, um, school district and the Broward Sheriff's Office, along with former school resource officer, Scott Peterson and school campus monitor, Andrew Medina and former BSO captain, Jan Jordan failed through action or inaction to protect the students while at the school.

00:14:16.340 Um, Bloom wrote, the claim arises from the actions of, of the shooter, a third party and not a state actor.

00:14:24.480 Thus, the critical question the court analyzes is whether defendants had a constitutional duty to protect plaintiffs from the actions of Cruz.

00:14:33.380 So, she's saying, well, Cruz, look, Cruz didn't work for the state.

00:14:37.380 What do you want us to do?

00:14:39.360 Um, plaintiffs suggest that the essential nature of a public school's role and control over its students requires that schools provide protection and safety for their students.

00:14:47.900 Yes, that plaintiffs would seem to be correct about that, but not according to Bloom.

00:14:53.300 Bloom says, however, the suggestion that school attendance equates to the level of custody implicating a constitutional obligation to protect has been expressly rejected by the 11th circuit.

00:15:02.940 So, she's saying, yeah, well, students are in the custody of the school, but they're not so much in the custody of the school that the school should actually protect them from being murdered by a school shooter.

00:15:15.960 That, that's what she's, that's her ruling, essentially, to, to rephrase it slightly, slightly.

00:15:23.600 All right, a few things here. 0.90

00:15:25.040 Um, number one, that school resource officer hid outside like a coward.

00:15:32.940 While children were being gunned down. 0.78

00:15:35.280 Um, if a police officer stationed at a school has no duty to protect the children of the school, what the hell is he doing there?

00:15:46.900 If he doesn't have a duty to protect them, why is he there?

00:15:50.120 What function does he serve?

00:15:51.640 Why is he being paid?

00:15:53.000 Is he just decoration?

00:15:54.660 Is he like decor?

00:15:55.980 Is he furniture?

00:15:57.020 What is he doing there?

00:15:57.900 If he doesn't have a duty to, to protect these kids, then, then what's the point?

00:16:03.820 To say that police have no duty to protect innocent kids is just perverse.

00:16:09.000 The people in Broward County were paying that cop's salary, so he damn well had a duty to them.

00:16:15.500 You can't take money from the public under, under the guise of protecting and serving the public,

00:16:20.600 and then claim you have no duty to protect and serve them.

00:16:23.760 It's madness.

00:16:24.520 Now, I understand it's true that courts have ruled several times in the past in a similar way,

00:16:30.380 finding that cops have no legal duty to protect civilians.

00:16:34.340 Um, so this is not the first ruling, you know, in this vein.

00:16:39.960 And I find all of those rulings insane for the reasons stated above, that you are being paid by the public to protect them.

00:16:51.080 That's why you're being paid.

00:16:53.580 Um, but we could even put those other cases to the side for a minute.

00:16:59.760 We could say, well, they're extenuating circumstances, so on and so forth.

00:17:03.920 The, what we're dealing with here is even, is, is different or it should be different because Peterson was not just any cop.

00:17:12.220 Okay.

00:17:12.540 He was stationed at the school.

00:17:15.020 He was a school resource officer.

00:17:16.960 His whole job was to be at that school to ensure the safety of the kids who go to the school.

00:17:23.740 So if you want to tell me that Peterson had no obligation to other people in the community,

00:17:28.520 to like someone driving by or someone in a building next door, um, well, I would say that that's still crazy because he's a cop.

00:17:35.340 But, but that's even different from telling me that he has, he doesn't even have an obligation to the kids in the school he was being paid to protect.

00:17:44.840 What?

00:17:46.360 It just makes no sense.

00:17:48.700 Um, as far as the schools go, attendance is mandatory at a public school.

00:17:57.340 Uh, if you can't afford private school and you aren't homeschooling,

00:18:02.660 you are legally required to send your kids to public school.

00:18:06.280 You could go to jail if you don't send your kids to school.

00:18:10.460 If your kids are, are absent from school, unexplained absences for too many times or for too long,

00:18:18.440 you could be put in jail for that.

00:18:21.300 So the schools stand there and they say, give us your kids.

00:18:24.600 You have to, you must, you have no choice.

00:18:27.540 And now they claim they have no duty at all to protect our kids while they have them in their custody.

00:18:32.120 After insisting under force of law and penalty of imprisonment that we should put them in their custody.

00:18:39.040 That again is just madness.

00:18:42.280 The whole reason why I support putting armed guards in every public school in America.

00:18:47.020 Although now I'm, I don't even know if there's a point because if the armed guards don't have any duty to do their job,

00:18:51.640 then what's the point.

00:18:52.340 But the whole reason why I have previously endorsed that proposal is that attendance in the school is compelled.

00:19:04.260 The state forces you to send your kids there.

00:19:07.040 And if they're going to force you to do that, they absolutely must provide a safe environment.

00:19:12.180 You can't legally compel me to hand my kids over to you if you're not going to recognize your duty to protect them.

00:19:20.220 Well, you can, I guess, apparently.

00:19:22.500 But that's not how it should be.

00:19:26.600 Duty and obligation.

00:19:29.320 These are not supposed to be a one-way street in America.

00:19:32.960 It's not supposed to be that I, as a civilian, have a duty to obey police and have a duty to send my kids to school,

00:19:44.120 yet the police and the school have no duty to me whatsoever or to my children.

00:19:48.340 That's not, that's how things work in a dictatorship, okay?

00:19:51.400 That's how things work in countries that are undemocratic and are not free.

00:19:56.440 That's not how it's supposed to work in a free republic.

00:19:59.540 Look, it's not supposed to be a one-way street.

00:20:02.320 You can't tell me that I have a duty to police.

00:20:04.480 I have a duty to law enforcement.

00:20:05.980 They have no duty to me.

00:20:08.940 I have a, I am obligated to send my kids to school, but they have no obligations to me at all.

00:20:18.820 It's crazy.

00:20:21.580 But it all underscores a point that I think is a really important point.

00:20:29.540 Um, if no, nobody has an obligation to protect you, apparently, uh, even the ones who ostensibly are being paid, uh, being paid to protect and serve, or even the people, even the people who demand that you hand their kids over to them, they don't even have a duty to protect your kids, apparently.

00:20:50.200 Um, so this is why the second amendment is important, uh, because you really are, you're on your own when it comes down, when it comes down to it, uh, you're on your own.

00:21:02.440 When push comes to shove, you can't rely on anybody else and you got to be able to protect yourself and protect your family.

00:21:10.600 Now, obviously the second amendment, when it comes to public school, that's, that's not going to be much help because you can't follow your own kid around in school with a gun and you can't send your kids to school with a gun.

00:21:20.660 So, unfortunately, when it comes to the public school, the second amendment is basically irrelevant.

00:21:28.380 Um, but beyond that, in your everyday life and at your home, I think the point is, is being made extremely clear here that you need to have the ability to protect yourself.

00:21:42.820 If you cannot rely on the government to do it, even though people who are not a fan of guns, people who are not supporters of gun rights, what they tell you is, well, you know, that's, you don't need a gun.

00:21:57.460 Just call the police.

00:21:59.900 Okay, well, you can call the police and hopefully the police will come, but the police have no, apparently no obligation to show up.

00:22:05.460 They have no obligation to do anything for you.

00:22:07.200 So you've got to have that ability yourself.

00:22:10.100 If, if that was not already clear to you, it should be now.

00:22:18.460 One last thing, um, as we gear up for Christmas and I'm wearing my, as you can see, my, um, beautiful Christmas sweater, make Christmas great again, great again.

00:22:28.720 Although Christmas was always great.

00:22:30.080 Of course, I want to, I feel it's worth saying something as we are just a few days before Christmas.

00:22:36.420 And I was thinking about this this week, that there are a lot of underrated perks of marriage, um, benefits that aren't discussed very often.

00:22:49.440 And I think that some of these underrated benefits and perks of marriage, the reason why they aren't discussed is because they're kind of one sided in favor of either the wife or the husband.

00:23:00.560 So nobody wants to talk about them because it might alert the other side to the iniquity here.

00:23:06.460 But, um, I have to mention it anyway, because just because it's so wonderful.

00:23:10.040 All right.

00:23:11.500 Here's the thing, man.

00:23:13.460 If you get married, you will never have to go Christmas shopping again.

00:23:18.480 It's great.

00:23:19.620 Okay.

00:23:20.120 It is.

00:23:20.600 The holidays are wonderful because I can remember.

00:23:23.880 I remember when I lived alone as a bachelor for five years and Christmas time rolled around and my family wasn't as big back then.

00:23:31.040 I didn't have as many in-laws.

00:23:32.160 I didn't have as many nieces and nephews.

00:23:33.760 Now I'm up to like, I think we have like 18 nieces and nephews.

00:23:36.500 Now I've lost count, although I don't need to keep track anymore.

00:23:39.500 That's the point.

00:23:40.200 But, um, back then I didn't have as big of a, I still had a big family though.

00:23:46.400 And it was up to me as a single individual to buy Christmas presents for everyone in the family.

00:23:52.020 And so I was like that stereotypical man running around the mall 30 minutes before closing on Christmas Eve, trying to do all my Christmas shopping right then and there.

00:23:59.400 Um, I had no idea what I was doing.

00:24:01.060 I didn't know what to get anyone.

00:24:02.860 Uh, I, I didn't know what anyone wanted.

00:24:05.040 I was clueless and then I got married and now my wife does all the Christmas shopping. 1.00

00:24:12.960 Um, all I have to do is get her.

00:24:15.400 I just have to take care of her.

00:24:16.780 I got to get her gifts, right?

00:24:18.540 Uh, but she does everything else and she's great at it and she likes, she likes shopping. 1.00

00:24:25.520 She, she's a, she's like some kind of Christmas shopping guru. 0.91

00:24:29.180 She, she buys meaningfully, she buys meaningful gifts, creative gifts.

00:24:35.560 She gets people things that they want without even looking at a list. 0.62

00:24:40.100 She just kind of like knows what they want and she buys it for them. 1.00

00:24:43.740 I don't understand it, but that's what she does.

00:24:46.300 She'll even be, she'll be out at a store or something, um, in, in June and she'll see something and she'll say, oh, that'd be a great Christmas gift for so-and-so.

00:24:55.300 And then she'll buy it right there on the spot in June.

00:24:58.780 It's, it's incredible.

00:25:00.360 And then by the time it's December 1st, she's done all the Christmas shopping.

00:25:04.820 And then there's also the added excitement as a man on Christmas when people are opening their gifts and I get to find out what I got everybody.

00:25:12.900 Um, and then when they come up to me and they say, oh, thank you.

00:25:16.920 I always say something like, I'll say, uh, I'll say, oh, you're welcome.

00:25:19.680 You know, I, I, I'm glad you like that one.

00:25:21.260 I, I thought, I thought it was your taste.

00:25:23.400 So that's why, you know, I'm glad you like it.

00:25:26.380 Now, I think they know the truth.

00:25:27.640 I think everyone in my family knows that my wife does all the shopping, um, because the gifts are way too thoughtful to have come from me.

00:25:33.640 But still, I'm telling you guys, Christmas is, if you want to, if you want to make Christmas great again, um, get married and Christmas is a breeze.

00:25:44.740 You don't have to worry about Christmas shopping at all.

00:25:47.480 I do contribute some, so I don't want you to think I'm some kind of lazy oaf and I don't contribute.

00:25:51.800 Um, we usually get bottles of bourbon for various men in the family for Christmas.

00:25:55.680 And so my wife will send me out to go buy the bourbon.

00:26:00.640 Um, and it's a, it's a, it's a huge sacrifice that I have to make, honestly.

00:26:05.480 Um, you know, it takes me, I mean, it takes me upwards of 15 minutes to go to the liquor store and buy bourbon for a few of the men in the family.

00:26:16.580 Uh, it's a, but it's a cross that I bear and I try to have the right heart about it because it's, uh, it's the holidays.

00:26:22.520 So get married.

00:26:25.040 Right. That's, that's the moral of the story.

00:26:27.680 I'm, I think there are better reasons.

00:26:29.380 I, you know, don't only get married for that reason, but it's at least a, it's a, I don't know.

00:26:34.140 I think it's a top 20 reason at least.

00:26:37.700 All right.

00:26:38.480 I'll talk to you guys tomorrow.

00:26:40.580 Godspeed.

00:26:50.540 I'm Michael Knowles with the Michael Knowles show.

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00:27:06.720 Now,eldon, let's chat about 10 years.

00:27:12.980 I think we're going to have to finish up.

00:27:15.100 Good morning.

00:27:18.400 I'm like, oh, my, can you see those guys?

00:27:19.380 I think the answer is, oh, my God.

00:27:20.280 I think the answer is, oh, my God.

00:27:20.820 Say are gonna largo, and I think, oh.

00:27:21.060 Or are gonna》

00:27:21.840 And right now.

00:27:22.780 This is the balance of life.

00:27:23.100 We're gonna have to cycle, because we actually work for a dog, but to be careful.

00:27:23.340 I don't even know.

00:27:24.180 You know, I think how to do it.

00:27:24.900 I see.

00:27:25.000 And right now, Father, they're actually working here.

00:27:27.040 I know.

00:27:27.360 I'll try to open it.

00:27:28.260 I'm gonna hear if we've got interaction.

00:27:29.180 Star of the three times.

00:27:30.140 clan, I'm gonna go.

00:27:31.140 I'm gonna go.

The Matt Walsh Show - December 19, 2018

Ep. 165 - The Futility Of Boycotting

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