The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1806 - This Celebrity’s God Awful Divorce Announcement Is A Lesson For Us All

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00:00:30.000 Today we're going to talk about what is easily one of the worst videos I've ever seen on the

00:00:34.220 internet, which is saying something, especially after I just saw footage of a guy getting sucked

00:00:38.140 into a jet engine on the airport tarmac, which was pretty rough. Fair warning, I can virtually

00:00:42.980 guarantee this is more unpleasant to watch than the most graphic snuff film you've ever been

00:00:48.040 subjected to. It was uploaded seemingly out of nowhere by the 40-year-old actor named Frankie

00:00:53.220 Munez, who gained fame, of course, as the lead actor in the Fox sitcom Malcolm in the Middle,

00:00:57.700 which aired from 2000 to 2006. After making a few terrible films, he mostly gave up acting

00:01:03.240 and began moonlighting as a race car driver, a career where he's best known for fighting very

00:01:08.300 hard for the 26th place in the NASCAR truck series, while the actual contenders are busy

00:01:13.080 lapping him. But Munez has not completely dropped out of Hollywood. He just starred in the Malcolm

00:01:18.360 in the Middle reboot miniseries on Hulu, which very few people watched or cared about. But they

00:01:24.380 did make sure to include all the obligatory woke updates, such as introducing a non-binary

00:01:30.380 sibling for Malcolm and revealing that his black friend is now in a gay interracial relationship

00:01:36.140 and has an adopted son. So they checked all the boxes, except in a surprising twist, they didn't

00:01:41.080 have Bryan Cranston's character, the father, come out as trans. So I guess they're saving that for 0.93

00:01:46.180 the reboot of the reboot in 2029. In short, Frankie Muniz has had a mediocre career since reaching

00:01:52.560 the zenith of his career at the age of 14. He hasn't received much attention of late and for

00:01:58.800 good reason. He's not relevant anymore. No one cares about anything he's doing. And there's no

00:02:03.560 shame in that. I mean, it's probably been a major lifestyle upgrade in too many ways to list. This

00:02:07.580 is a period in his life where he's supposed to focus on raising his family and counting the

00:02:12.260 many blessings he's enjoyed. And by that, I mean all of the residual checks that are still pouring

00:02:18.040 in. By 40, most child actors end up homeless outside of a Denny's, pants around their ankles,

00:02:23.520 begging every passing stranger for a few dollars so they can get a bus ticket to Milwaukee, which,

00:02:28.760 as we know, is homeless drug addict code for buying crack. Munez was somehow able to avoid

00:02:33.780 that fate. He managed to dodge the curse of childhood fame and start a family that, to all

00:02:38.480 outward appearances, seemed to be healthy and happy. And that's an achievement in its own right.

00:02:43.720 I mean, in terms of accomplishments, a child actor becoming not a crackhead is like a normal

00:02:47.740 person, you know, placing in the top 100 in the Boston Marathon or something. It's not the kind

00:02:52.380 of thing that you will win the presidential medal of freedom for, but it's quite impressive in its

00:02:56.660 own right. Unfortunately, however, Frankie has just undone all of that goodwill in one fell swoop

00:03:02.840 with one of the most agonizingly cringy posts ever to curse the feeds of unsuspecting social 1.00

00:03:10.280 media users. Yesterday, across all of his profiles, he announced that he and his wife

00:03:16.020 we're getting a divorce. And he framed the divorce as something he's happy about,

00:03:20.020 which he obviously isn't, and as a mutual decision, which it obviously wasn't.

00:03:24.860 But before we get into Munez's statement, a statement that reflects a larger cultural trend

00:03:29.820 and agenda, which is the only thing that makes this worth talking about in the first place,

00:03:34.680 here is the video that he uploaded along with his announcement. And in case you can't see it,

00:03:39.400 the caption reads, who says you can't stay best friends with your baby mama?

00:03:43.820 Now, the fact that he's a 40-year-old white man using the term baby mama should make this video less surprising, though no less excruciating to witness. Here it is.

00:04:13.820 Now for those mercifully listening to the audio podcast, the footage I just played shows Frankie

00:04:24.020 and his wife dancing together in the living room in celebration of their divorce. There's a lengthy

00:04:29.700 caption where he excitedly talks about the divorce, like he's announcing a marriage rather

00:04:34.460 than the dissolution of one, and we'll get to that in a moment. But the video itself is a tragedy,

00:04:40.020 especially given the context although admittedly there's no context where a 40 year old man should

00:04:45.040 be posting videos of himself dancing it's undignified it's unfair to those of us who

00:04:50.460 had the misfortune to be born with eyes frankie like most 40 year old men and i say this as one

00:04:56.360 myself moves with all of the grace and rhythm of like a three-legged deer hobbling away after 0.99

00:05:01.240 getting shot in the ass that's why dancing is meant for people who are younger or at least 1.00

00:05:05.340 blacker. So if you feel the need to dance as a middle-aged man for some ungodly reason, go 1.00

00:05:10.300 somewhere behind a locked door, lower the blinds, draw the shades, turn off the lights, make sure

00:05:15.680 all the other humans and domestic animals have evacuated the premises, and then if you must,

00:05:21.180 dance in private so the rest of us are not forced to witness this ghastly sight. But in this context,

00:05:28.120 which is a cucked, henpecked weakling convulsing offbeat to a bad pop song pretending to be happy

00:05:34.260 that his wife is leaving him, displaying the sincere enthusiasm and wearing the genuine smile 0.67

00:05:39.580 of a North Korean citizen, giving a standing ovation to dear leader because the other option

00:05:44.480 was burial in a mass grave. In this context, it is unbearable to behold. And when I first watched

00:05:51.280 this, probably because I was so overwhelmed with disgust that I turned it off in 3.2 seconds,

00:05:55.240 I didn't even notice that their five-year-old child joins in on the dancing. Frankie invites

00:05:59.740 his son over and plays air guitar with his body, all to celebrate the fact that his son won't be

00:06:05.660 growing up in a stable two-parent household. They apparently sat the child down, explained very

00:06:11.300 somberly that mommy and daddy still love each other, but don't want to be around each other,

00:06:15.840 or live in the same house, or on the same planet. And then as the child was tearfully trying to

00:06:21.180 process the worst trauma of his life, they excitedly declared, hey, we have an idea. Let's

00:06:26.900 have a dance party. I mean, dancing with your wife and child to celebrate the fact that your

00:06:31.500 child will no longer have mommy and daddy in the home is one of the most depraved things a Hollywood

00:06:36.100 actor has ever done, which is obviously a very, very high bar to clear. In a twist nobody saw

00:06:41.220 coming, Frankie Muniz has surged ahead of like Charlie Sheen and Kevin Spacey in the race to be

00:06:46.520 the worst living Hollywood degenerate. So if he can't win a NASCAR race, at least he can win this

00:06:52.240 one, I guess, is the idea. How are we supposed to interpret what happened specifically in Frankie's

00:06:56.580 case. Well, I can't say one way or another because I don't know any of these people or want to.

00:07:00.960 Just looking at that video, though, it's pretty apparent that his wife came up with the idea. I

00:07:05.140 mean, no man would subject himself to something like this voluntarily. And also from a statistical

00:07:09.580 perspective, these sorts of things are normally the wife's idea. And I don't just mean posting

00:07:15.440 dancing videos on the internet, although that too. Depending on what studies you look at,

00:07:19.420 women are responsible for filing something like 70 to 80% of divorces. This has been one of the 1.00

00:07:25.220 most enduring consequences of the feminist movement. Women have been bombarded with 1.00

00:07:29.660 relentless propaganda about how they're independent. They don't need no man. They're 1.00

00:07:35.060 taught that they can murder their children if they're inconvenient. So obviously breaking up

00:07:39.200 a family is no big deal. I mean, if you would dismember your child for your own independence,

00:07:43.840 then dismembering your marriage is like nothing in comparison. And as a result, divorce has become

00:07:49.040 something of a social contagion. Now, the social contagion aspect of divorce is nothing new. What

00:07:54.980 is new or at least increasingly mainstream is the relentless effort to present divorce as something

00:08:02.760 empowering and fulfilling, a thing to be celebrated. I mean, not to get too hung up on this one example

00:08:09.200 of the guy from Malcolm in the Middle, now the star of Malcolm in the Cuck Chair, but the example

00:08:14.060 is illuminating, especially when you read the caption and it kind of, it's a symptom of the

00:08:20.520 larger problem, but here it is. Life update. Following a period of separation that we kept

00:08:24.400 private, Paige and I have decided to move forward with ending our marriage. After 10 beautiful years

00:08:29.300 together, we've grown in ways that made us realize our relationship feels most natural and strong as

00:08:34.260 a deep friendship and as co-parents. We share an incredible son who remains the center of our world

00:08:39.120 and we're both happier, stronger parents because of the love and growth we've shared.

00:08:44.060 I'll read the rest of it in a moment, but already this feels like an email you'd get from HR when

00:08:48.320 you, you know, when they deactivate your key card. We've decided to move forward with ending our

00:08:53.620 marriage. There's not an actual human on the planet who's ever uttered that sentence. I'm

00:08:58.340 confident in saying that. You'll only get a line like that from like Brenda from HR or ChatGPT.

00:09:04.060 If there's one thing AI chatbots are good at, it's putting together grammatically correct

00:09:08.520 sentences that manage to be coherent and yet have no meaning at the exact same time. And also notice

00:09:14.400 the attempt typical of these Hollywood divorce announcements to pretend that divorce is the

00:09:18.200 result of personal growth, when really it is the result usually of two selfish people who never

00:09:24.340 figured out how to stop being selfish. The problem is precisely a lack of growth, or if it was growth,

00:09:31.660 it was growth of the wrong thing. Okay, saying divorce is the result of growth, it's like saying

00:09:36.160 terminal cancer is the result of growth. That's technically and medically true, but the problem

00:09:41.220 is that the wrong thing was growing. And as for being a co-parent, well, and you know, when you

00:09:47.960 hear this from divorced people. Oh, we're going to co-parent. Well, that's the arrangement you

00:09:52.280 already had geniuses. That's, that's called being married. Divorced couples are not co-parents. 1.00

00:09:58.660 They are competing parents. If you are cooperating parents, if you are parents on the same team, 0.99

00:10:05.200 you'd still be married. It's certainly a practical impossibility for any child to remain the center

00:10:11.180 of their world as Frankie claims in this scenario, especially because you get divorced because you

00:10:15.580 want to be the center of your own world, which is one of the reasons why it's so revolting that

00:10:20.040 these people insist on including their child in the messaging about their divorce. And at any rate,

00:10:24.700 the child actually should not be the center of your world anyway. It's another thing you hear

00:10:30.460 in these divorce announcements from celebrities. They always say, well, our child will continue

00:10:34.900 to be the most important thing in our lives. Well, yeah, that's actually not true because

00:10:41.020 you are the most important thing in your life, very clearly. That's how you live.

00:10:44.460 But it's also, that's not even an ideal that you should strive for, actually.

00:10:49.260 The center of your world should not be your child.

00:10:52.200 It should actually be, well, it should be your faith.

00:10:54.160 And your marriage should be the next closest thing to the center.

00:10:58.080 The child orbits around that like a planet around the sun.

00:11:01.680 The child is not himself the sun, with you and your wife as planets orbiting him.

00:11:06.880 Not to torture the cosmic analogy to death, but the thing in the solar system with the most mass

00:11:12.220 is the thing that everything else orbits around.

00:11:14.540 Your child should not, in a metaphorical

00:11:16.720 or, frankly, literal sense, have the most mass.

00:11:20.000 Okay, your marriage is the center.

00:11:21.700 It's the thing with the gravitational pull

00:11:23.440 that your child revolves around.

00:11:25.080 Putting the child at the center of your world

00:11:26.720 is very likely, in fact, almost certain,

00:11:29.520 to result in exactly what's happened here.

00:11:32.200 I mean, it would be like trying to reorganize

00:11:33.820 our solar system with Pluto at the middle of it.

00:11:37.080 Apocalyptic chaos and destruction

00:11:38.900 are the only possible results.

00:11:40.940 so of course in this case within a few minutes Munez or his PR people apparently realized the

00:11:46.700 footage wasn't playing well so the video was deleted from all of his social media profiles

00:11:50.260 but in its place we get this message along with a family photo featuring his son again with the

00:11:57.660 son is in it as if they're trying to convince the world that their five-year-old child approves of

00:12:02.260 their divorce as if it's remotely possible for a five-year-old to have any conception

00:12:05.580 of what his parents are doing.

00:12:07.640 And there's no need to cite any scientific studies

00:12:10.460 on this point because everyone knows intuitively

00:12:14.160 that divorce destroys the lives of children

00:12:16.400 who have a hardwired need for two parents.

00:12:19.900 Every child is born to two parents biologically.

00:12:23.160 It's always been that way 0.59

00:12:24.080 through the whole history of the world.

00:12:25.800 So obviously it's better. 0.88

00:12:27.920 You need two parents in order to be born. 0.99

00:12:30.700 So obviously the best scenario 0.70

00:12:32.040 is that you are raised by two parents

00:12:34.020 but there is one relevant data point that i'll share anyway just because it's helpful to put

00:12:39.380 the consequences in some context four years ago looking at data from 17 countries researchers in

00:12:43.900 the netherlands writing in the journal demographic research found that when it comes to a child's

00:12:48.900 educational progress quote parental divorce had a larger impact than parental death so i'll say

00:12:55.860 that again when measuring a child's educational attainment how far he progress in school and how

00:12:59.900 well, he does in school. Parental divorce had a larger impact than parental death. And that's

00:13:05.480 just one data point of many. And it's a data point that says in this very measurable way,

00:13:10.820 it's better for a child if his mother dies rather than divorces his father and vice versa.

00:13:18.220 And it's not at all difficult to see why that would be the case. Divorce requires a conscious

00:13:22.440 rejection of the family unit, a deliberate betrayal of the vows. Death usually doesn't

00:13:27.960 imply either of those things. And that's why it breeds a lifelong resentment and confusion. It

00:13:32.840 derails a child's life to such a degree that almost nothing else, not even the death of a

00:13:36.840 parent, can compare. Let's finish up reading this post so we can move on, which is what everyone in

00:13:41.740 the audience at this point is begging me to do. So it says, quote, I'm endlessly grateful to Paige

00:13:46.620 for everything she's done for me and our family. She put her own dreams on hold so I could chase

00:13:50.660 mine. She was always my biggest supporter. That foundation of respect and friendship isn't going

00:13:55.920 anywhere we're excited to keep building muniz racing together and to co-parent our boy the

00:14:00.520 same teamwork and love we've always had we're closing one chapter with gratitude and opening

00:14:05.380 the next with bright futures ahead for us as individuals and especially for our son thank you

00:14:10.140 for the love and support we both choose to not entertain any questions on this matter please

00:14:13.620 respect our family's privacy during this time all right last line couldn't be any better he just

00:14:18.960 posted a dance video across all the social media profiles in which he announces his divorce with

00:14:22.900 his wife and son. And then he posts a message that's longer than the State of the Union address

00:14:28.960 in which his PR firm makes it abundantly clear that his wife wasn't feeling appreciated or

00:14:34.100 whatever. And after all this, we're told that if we're decent people, we'll respect his family's

00:14:38.320 privacy during this time. So they've apparently attended the Harry and Meghan School of Public

00:14:42.800 Relations, where you're taught that the best way to live a private life is to tell the public every

00:14:47.480 detail of your private life, which is unsolicited, and then demand that the public not care about

00:14:51.940 your private life, even though you obviously have done everything in your power to make them care

00:14:55.440 and you actually want them to care a lot. But the key line in that paragraph was this.

00:15:00.780 She put her dreams on hold so I could chase mine. And that tells you everything you need to know.

00:15:07.600 This is the fantasy that leads to many dissolved, millions of dissolved marriages.

00:15:13.960 I mean, the idea that the wife, though living an incredibly blessed life where she's provided for

00:15:18.700 and cared for and has a family that loves her and is able to do anything she wants to do with

00:15:22.480 her free time, which in her case is considerable, considerable amount of free time. She only has

00:15:26.660 one child and presumably a nanny. But even despite of that, still somehow she's been deprived. Her

00:15:34.240 dreams have been put on hold. As though if not for the marriage, you know, she would have gone

00:15:40.280 off and discovered the key to light speed travel or something. When in fact, she would have just

00:15:45.120 been working in a cubicle and spending her nights binge-watching Netflix slop, which is indeed

00:15:50.600 exactly what will happen now that she's divorced and free to go chase these unspecified and mostly

00:15:56.160 non-existent dreams. We might call this form of psychosis Michelle Obama-itis. Michelle, of course, 1.00

00:16:03.540 has lived a life of wealth and influence despite having no skills or achievements of her own,

00:16:08.020 and now she spends every day, all day, announcing to the world that she's ready to start focusing

00:16:12.660 on herself, which will be a marked change of pace from the first 60 years of her life,

00:16:17.600 which she also spent focusing on herself.

00:16:20.540 And just to drive this point home as if it needed to be, here's how she described in

00:16:24.500 a recent interview what the next chapter of her life will be.

00:16:29.340 Here's the title of the next chapter of her life, according to Michelle Obama.

00:16:32.700 Listen.

00:16:33.780 One word to describe your next chapter.

00:16:35.560 One word.

00:16:37.500 Fun.

00:16:40.380 Me. 1.00

00:16:42.660 that's what you call drop the mic you know what you seem to be grading her higher on her answer

00:16:49.480 so the one word for her next chapter is me she says which may sound almost comically self-centered

00:16:57.020 but we should cut her some slack i guess i mean after all she only knows three words in total

00:17:01.680 and the other two are i and myself still that me answer is arguably a bit offensive i mean

00:17:07.500 some would say it's rather patriarchal and misogynistic for michelle to focus the next

00:17:11.380 chapter on a man. Some would say that. I'm not saying that I would say that because that would

00:17:16.000 be a crass joke, a below the belt hit on Michelle Obama. I don't approve. I'm just saying that some

00:17:20.200 people, some people would make that joke. In any case, although Michelle and Barack are still

00:17:25.240 technically married, I guess, this is all part of the same picture. The elites in our society

00:17:29.880 promote selfishness. They preach it like a gospel. That's why they want us to see divorce as a

00:17:34.180 celebratory occasion. And divorce, of course, has always occurred. To some extent, it always will 0.60

00:17:39.020 occur. We should do everything we can to mitigate it, but it will never be entirely eradicated.

00:17:43.900 But acknowledging that divorce is a reality, an evil reality, but a reality all the same,

00:17:48.440 is very different from actively celebrating it as a positive good. And yet this is what nearly

00:17:53.460 every cultural institution insists that we do. That's why there's a whole sub-genre of articles,

00:17:59.340 think pieces, essays, memoirs, all revolving around the theme that divorce is good and often

00:18:05.200 the key to personal growth and fulfillment and empowerment. There are hundreds, well, hundreds

00:18:09.920 of examples of this kind of thing, but we don't even need to look past the last couple of weeks

00:18:13.000 to find one. I mean, just take any, whatever week or month you're in, just like go check. There's

00:18:17.720 always one of these circulating around. So in June, Emily Ratajkowski became the first, or rather

00:18:24.280 became the most recent female celebrity, the most recent until Frankie Muniz, to publish a long

00:18:30.620 think piece extolling the virtues of her recent divorce. In a piece for The Cut titled Mother

00:18:35.940 Effer, she writes, quote, becoming a single mother changed the way people looked at me exactly as I

00:18:40.760 feared it would, but also allowed me to finally see myself. I wasn't left. I left. I knew then

00:18:46.120 that being able to leave to say no was the only real superpower I gained through divorce. I was

00:18:51.680 brave, really, actually brave. Yes, there's nothing more brave than betraying a vow. Of course, you

00:19:00.300 know, to make a promise and then not follow through. Brave. Oh, so brave. That takes,

00:19:06.880 oh, that is so brave. On a scale of personal bravery and heroism, divorced single mothers

00:19:11.840 rank somewhere above wildland firefighters and Medal of Honor recipients. And of course, 0.99

00:19:16.620 I say that sarcastically, but divorced single mothers like Emily would hear that and wholeheartedly 0.91

00:19:21.360 agree with it without any irony whatsoever. Also this summer, we had this article in The Guardian

00:19:27.260 entitled Hot Divorcee Summer. Get ready for big hats, hot sex, and don't care energy. 1.00

00:19:34.700 The first few sentences of this monstrosity are all you need to really understand what's going 0.97

00:19:40.440 on here. Quote, sorry, babe, I'm a divorced mom on a buffet of magnesium glycinate, ashwagandha,

00:19:47.640 peptides, and sertraline. Covering a mortgage alone during late stage capitalism,

00:19:52.440 I don't give a F about your opinion anymore, wrote Megan McTavish, an Australian divorce fluencer who went viral a couple of years ago because even after her split, her parents refused to take down her wedding photos.

00:20:05.060 This might be the core of hot divorcee energy, an unvarnished devil may care spirit that seems to have captured the cultural moment this summer.

00:20:14.060 So, of course, you're wondering how this differs from the brat last year's aspirational muse who also emphatically did not care what the world thought.

00:20:23.000 Though, if you're still confused about the difference between that and 2024's Hot Girl Summer,

00:20:26.840 I suggest you go back in time and take last year's module again.

00:20:29.760 Taddy McLeod, a comedian and writer, broke it down for me.

00:20:32.940 Brad was all about looking slightly disheveled, still in yesterday's makeup.

00:20:36.620 You were supposed to look as though you hadn't made an effort.

00:20:39.320 At the heart of divorcee energy is, hell yeah, you've made an effort. 1.00

00:20:43.980 Divorcee is high glam.

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00:24:36.820 Now, all this relentless pro-divorce propaganda has an effect just as intended. We already know that divorce is contagious to a very real extent, which isn't talked about enough, but it's true.

00:24:45.900 as the author Rob Henderson has pointed out, quote, people are 75% more likely to become

00:24:50.140 divorced if a friend is divorced and 33% more likely to divorce if a friend of a friend is

00:24:55.060 divorced. So in other words, divorce is one of those major life decisions that many people

00:24:59.560 outsource in a way, you know, they look to their friends for validation before they do it themselves.

00:25:04.260 It's called decision-making by committee. It's when rather than make a bold decision by yourself,

00:25:08.220 you seek the advice of your friends and the friends of your friends, an advice columnist,

00:25:13.120 to therapists. You're heavily influenced by what other people are doing and how they might judge

00:25:17.320 you or not judge you. And it's obvious which gender is more likely to engage in this kind

00:25:22.180 of decision-making. Women overwhelmingly make decisions by consensus. It's why professional 1.00

00:25:25.800 mediators and legal disputes are mostly women. It's also why nearly all, basically 100% of the 1.00

00:25:31.300 divorce's empowering propaganda comes directly from women or from cuckolded husbands like Frankie

00:25:36.440 Munez at the behest of women. And this is a compounding effect. Women are much more likely 0.52

00:25:41.440 to initiate divorce. Women tend to have more friends. The likelihood then of a woman having 0.93

00:25:46.280 a friend who gets divorced is high and gets higher with age. And once that happens, the domino effect

00:25:52.180 takes hold. Women see those divorces and they feel emboldened to pursue their own divorce. 1.00

00:25:57.620 Add in social media, now the global social network that we're all plugged into, and you can see the 0.58

00:26:01.980 problem. They know they won't be shunned or stigmatized in any way. They'll get the affirmation

00:26:06.740 their cravings, so they go for it. Now, a key part of this strategy is to downplay the ramifications

00:26:12.020 of divorce. Here's another example from a TEDx talk with hundreds of thousands of views. Watch.

00:26:18.020 Thank you, divorce. That's what I said five years ago when the judge issued me my divorce decree.

00:26:26.660 With that decree in hand, I was positive every problem I had was now part of my past,

00:26:35.240 along with my marriage and as I walked out of the courtroom that day I was sure I was walking

00:26:41.840 towards a new life full of happiness I was also sure that that perfect guy that was going to bring

00:26:48.640 me that happiness was waiting for me right around the corner now let's fast forward a couple of

00:26:55.780 months and the reality of being divorced with three little kids was slapping me in the face

00:27:04.860 There were so many incidents that I was so ill-prepared for that were so hard.

00:27:12.880 For instance, this one day, the kids and I had gone swimming all day,

00:27:17.140 and on the way home, they had all fallen asleep in the car.

00:27:20.200 Yay.

00:27:22.380 But then, just as I was about to pull up in front of the house,

00:27:25.880 I remembered we were all out of milk.

00:27:28.980 In the past, I would have called home, asked the hubby to grab some milk,

00:27:32.460 but there was nobody to call.

00:27:34.120 So I thought, all right, kids, we're doing this.

00:27:36.300 Turned the car around, drove to the local Circle K,

00:27:39.740 went to one side of the car, got my son, Nathan.

00:27:42.560 He was three at the time.

00:27:43.800 Out of the car, I'm holding him here.

00:27:45.600 I go to the other side of the car. 0.89

00:27:47.660 I gently shake my girls awake, Bella and Lacey.

00:27:50.180 They were five and six at the time.

00:27:52.240 They're half leaning against me, still half asleep.

00:27:54.980 We walk into Circle K.

00:27:56.820 Thankfully, somebody holds the door open. 0.99

00:27:59.160 I'm just going to cut her off there

00:28:00.400 because she never actually stops talking.

00:28:02.120 That TED Talk is still going on, in fact.

00:28:04.120 Nothing can stop it. She'll continue speaking long after the sun has exploded and all living

00:28:07.740 creatures have died like the dinosaurs. But the point is, she's acting like one of the few

00:28:12.080 consequences of her divorce is that she occasionally has to make an extra trip to the grocery store or 0.99

00:28:15.840 something. Very cynical, but it's also compelling to a lot of people. Certainly her audience at this

00:28:20.100 fake TED Talk enjoyed listening to what she had to say, it would seem. That's probably because

00:28:26.840 everyone else, including the celebrities that these people look up to, they're all saying the

00:28:30.920 same thing. I mean, they all speak about divorce in very clinical, detached terms to downplay the

00:28:35.020 effects. This brings to mind perhaps the most notorious example from several years ago. Many

00:28:39.920 of us remember when Gwyneth Paltrow divorced Chris Martin, an event that would not have registered on

00:28:44.240 most of our radars, except for the incredibly pretentious way that they described it, which

00:28:49.120 has become iconic in all the worst ways. Quote, we hope that as we consciously uncouple and

00:28:54.060 co-parent, we'll be able to continue in the same manner. So it sounds like she's describing a

00:28:59.100 mechanical process, not a divorce between two humans. That's precisely why the corporate media

00:29:03.580 loved it. The BBC wrote a series of articles about the profound philosophy of Gwyneth Paltrow's

00:29:08.240 divorce at the time. Quote, the new formulation comes from an essay on conscious uncoupling

00:29:13.160 written by Paltrow spiritual advisors, Dr. Habib Sadegi and Dr. Sherry Sami. Although it looks like

00:29:19.500 everything is coming apart, it actually is all coming back together, they conclude. The Oxford

00:29:23.660 English Dictionary has a citation of the use of uncoupling to describe the end of relationships

00:29:27.540 from 1942. Divorce lawyer

00:29:29.580 Sarah Thompson of Slater and Gordon

00:29:31.480 says uncoupling reminds her of two

00:29:33.380 railway carriages being separated.

00:29:36.100 The addition of the word conscious

00:29:37.600 is there to tell people it's amicable.

00:29:39.980 She says that she wouldn't be surprised if

00:29:41.420 Paltrow and Martin use collaborative law,

00:29:43.640 both parties sitting down at a table with a

00:29:45.560 lawyer each and going through everything.

00:29:48.020 It's often described as the nicest way to get

00:29:49.520 divorced. When, as in the 0.81

00:29:51.460 Paltrow-Martin case, there are

00:29:52.940 children involved, it's a good idea to use age-appropriate

00:29:55.560 language, says Denise Knowles.

00:29:57.540 the counselor relate. That's almost too on the nose how they directly compare divorce to two 0.61

00:30:02.600 railway carriages being separated. It's hard to think of a more dehumanizing comparison. It's

00:30:07.020 also not accurate, you know, because in marriage, two become one. That's sort of the whole point.

00:30:13.800 So a divorce is not separating train cars, but rather taking one train car with passengers

00:30:20.020 inside and ripping it in half. Or better yet, divorce is derailing the entire train only for

00:30:26.820 the conductors to stand amid the smoking wreckage and mangled bodies and declare the scene is

00:30:31.860 actually quite life-affirming. And then Frankie Muniz shows up and starts dancing over top the

00:30:36.840 corpses. I mean, that's basically what's going on if we want to use railway analogies.

00:30:40.580 If there's any upside to the trends that we're seeing, it's that divorce rates have been

00:30:44.220 declining for some time now. Marriages are more likely to last at the moment as compared to the

00:30:49.860 turn of the century. And that's a welcome and surprising development given the way social

00:30:53.840 media creates social contagions in the way that every powerful institution and many powerful

00:30:57.840 people have tried desperately at every turn to promote and encourage divorce. At the same time,

00:31:03.680 while divorce becomes less popular, so does marriage itself. As Forbes reports, quote,

00:31:09.340 both the marriage and divorce rates have declined over time. In 2000, a total of 944,000 divorces

00:31:15.060 and annulments occurred. The crude divorce rate was four per 1,000 population during that year.

00:31:20.480 By 2022, it had fallen to 2.4 per 1,000 with just 673,989 people divorcing that year.

00:31:27.000 The marriage rate has declined too, dropping from 8.2 per 1,000 in 2002, 6.2 per 1,000 in 2021.

00:31:36.080 So while the declining divorce rate suggests that the constant pro-divorce propaganda has failed,

00:31:42.380 the declining marriage rate suggests that the propaganda has actually succeeded

00:31:45.720 even beyond the wildest dreams of the propagandists.

00:31:48.840 I mean, after all, the only thing more empowering than dissolving a marriage is never having one to dissolve to begin with.

00:31:55.800 And there's a reason that the cultural powers that be want to create a society like that.

00:32:00.060 They want weak families and abandoned children because weak families and abandoned children are infinitely easier to indoctrinate and control.

00:32:09.080 You know, the same kind of people who would post memes to celebrate a political assassination will make a dance video to celebrate a divorce.

00:32:15.500 It's the same idea. Celebrating destruction. And it festers when we lose our ability or our will

00:32:22.920 to identify evil when we see it. And tearing a family apart is evil. No amount of dancing will

00:32:28.300 change that. We all know it. In spite of the dancing and the divorce celebrations. In fact,

00:32:34.980 the celebrations only serve to underline the evil. They reveal precisely the truth that they're meant

00:32:41.020 to cover up. You don't go out of your way to convince the world you're happy with your decisions

00:32:45.660 if you actually are happy with them. Frankie Munez and Emily Radischkowski and all the rest

00:32:52.040 of them protest too much. They are miserable and inviting every married couple to dissolve their

00:32:58.160 marriage and join them in their misery. And that is one invitation that should be easy to decline. 0.69

00:33:06.100 that will do it for the show today and actually for the next two weeks i'll be going on vacation

00:33:12.600 for a couple weeks as is my tradition at this part of july first part of july be back in a

00:33:17.460 couple weeks uh we'll have a lot of new content for you in the meantime though so stay tuned for

00:33:21.780 that and talk to you on the other side godspeed 0.99

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The Matt Walsh Show - July 02, 2026

Ep. 1806 - This Celebrity’s God Awful Divorce Announcement Is A Lesson For Us All

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