The Matt Walsh Show - February 07, 2019


Ep. 193 - ＂The Democrat Party Experiences Cosmic Justice＂


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00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, the Virginia Democrat Party is self-destructing before our eyes.
00:00:05.300 So we'll look at the latest with that whole saga, but let's remember where this all started and why
00:00:10.360 it started, because it seems to me that what we're seeing is an example of cosmic justice.
00:00:15.880 And we'll talk about that. Also, Panera Bread's experiment with socialism was an abysmal failure.
00:00:21.620 No big surprise there. And I'll answer your emails, including an email from a guy
00:00:25.460 who claims that real men don't wear beards. And so we need to spend some time
00:00:30.440 debunking that dangerous and hateful notion. We'll do that today on the Matt Walsh Show.
00:00:43.380 Welcome to the Matt Walsh Show, everybody. Thanks for being here. Thanks for tuning in and listening.
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00:00:54.160 So this situation in Virginia is pretty remarkable. We've got we've got the governor with his blackface
00:01:02.100 photo, the lieutenant governor accused of sexual assault, and now the attorney general who's third
00:01:07.860 in line in the line of succession, Mark Herring, is admitting that he also wore blackface when he
00:01:15.500 when he was when he was a teenager. He dressed as a rapper for Halloween when he was 19 and he wore
00:01:20.820 he wore brown makeup, as he put it. Or as a as one of the one of the newspapers, I don't know one of
00:01:28.160 the one of the great and very honest, I think it was the New York Times. Their headline was that
00:01:33.420 Herring wore dark makeup. And then they had to change it to blackface. They were trying to get around
00:01:39.360 having to say that he wore blackface. So what makes what makes this revelation about Herring so
00:01:47.280 incredible is that Herring had called on Northam to resign only a few days ago. I think it was on
00:01:53.940 Sunday that he was saying Northam should resign for wearing blackface. And what he knew while he was
00:01:59.300 saying that that there was that he had done the same thing and that there's probably a photo of it
00:02:03.160 somewhere, which is which would be the only reason why he's admitting it now is if there's a photo.
00:02:08.300 And actually, we have a fourth Democrat caught up in a scandal as well. Virginia Democratic Congressman
00:02:15.360 Bobby Scott reportedly was told about the sexual assault accusations about Justin Fairbanks. He was told
00:02:23.500 by the accuser herself more than a year ago, but he said nothing and he did nothing.
00:02:31.200 Which you may recall when this when all this information first came out. Well, also about
00:02:39.100 Northam, you know, it's it's it seems clear to me that there's no way this the photo of Northam,
00:02:45.440 there's no way that nobody knew about that. It seems unlikely that the media had never
00:02:50.540 run across that photo before. And and with these accusations about Fairfax, it also seems unlikely that
00:02:58.100 Bobby Scott is the only person who knew beforehand. I think we're going to find out that a lot of
00:03:03.720 people knew about it, but just decided not to say anything. By the way, according to other reports,
00:03:09.580 Justin Fairfax, when discussing these accusations with his aides, said in reference to the to the
00:03:16.120 alleged victim, he said, F that B word. Only he used the actual words now. And I don't know if he said
00:03:25.880 they're not, these are according to people close to him that he said this to, you know, one of them
00:03:30.540 has turned around and told the media, can you imagine if there was a report of Kavanaugh
00:03:35.260 using that language about about Christine Ford? Can you imagine? And as for the accusations,
00:03:44.680 the accuser, Vanessa Tyson, has gone public over the last few days. She's given more details about the
00:03:51.900 alleged attack. And her story hasn't hasn't changed. She remembers everything vividly.
00:03:58.560 She remembers the date, the location, everything else. Now, I'm not you know, I still am not prepared
00:04:04.640 to say that Fairfax is guilty. I'm not saying that. And we could never really say that for sure, unless
00:04:09.420 there are only two human beings on Earth who will really ever know exactly what actually happened in
00:04:16.120 that hotel room. So we can never say for sure. But we can look at these stories. And based on the
00:04:22.140 information available, we can decide if the accusations seem reasonably credible or not.
00:04:30.520 You know, those that's that's about as far as we can really go. We can never disprove or prove it
00:04:34.680 or know for sure. But we can decide this seems credible. This does not seem credible.
00:04:41.800 So with Kavanaugh, again, for that comparison, I felt that the accusations were not credible because
00:04:48.040 of the lack of details. She didn't know the date or location. Her story kept changing. She claimed she
00:04:54.800 had evidence and proof that she never she refused to actually offer up for people to see such as her
00:05:01.840 therapist notes, which is kind of suspicious. And the circumstances under which these accusations
00:05:09.500 came to light were also suspicious. This was a liberal Democrat woman accusing a Republican
00:05:15.060 appointed Supreme Court justice. So that doesn't mean that she was lying. But we do have to factor in
00:05:24.040 that there would be we have to admit an incentive, a political ideological incentive to lie or exaggerate
00:05:31.320 or whatever, or maybe half intentionally misremember or whatever the case. Now, on the other end of the
00:05:37.820 spectrum, I've always thought that the accusations against Bill Clinton, there's an example, perfect
00:05:43.280 example of what, again, although we don't know for sure, this perfect example of what very credible
00:05:50.320 allegations look like. Because in that case, based on the information we have very credible, the accuser
00:05:57.160 Juanita Broderick accused Bill Clinton of raping her back in, I think, the late 70s. She knew the exact
00:06:06.020 date, the exact location of the attack. She was found bloodied and crying moments after this
00:06:15.320 supposed attack occurred. She told people about it back then. And she is or she was anyway, I don't
00:06:22.700 know if she still is a Democrat. So there's no political incentive to make this up. All of the
00:06:27.860 details in that case lined up in her corner, every single one. There was really not there was no there's no
00:06:33.600 detail of that situation of that case that lines up in Clinton's corner to make him look innocent.
00:06:41.660 So with the Fairfax stuff, we have to ask, is it more on the Kavanaugh end of the spectrum or is it
00:06:46.380 more on the Clinton end of the spectrum? And I would say it's sort of in between. It maybe leans a little
00:06:50.940 bit more towards Clinton. Because after all, the accuser not only has all these details, but she has no
00:06:59.660 obvious incentive to lie. She's a Democrat herself. She met Fairfax at the Democratic Convention. So
00:07:05.040 she's not only a Democrat, but she's a apparently is or was a politically involved Democrat. Not to
00:07:12.740 mention, she told people about this a year ago, before this stuff with the governor was happening,
00:07:16.900 before Fairfax was in the news. So why would she make up this story a year ago about a member of her
00:07:22.720 own party? And why would she report it to members of the Virginia congressional delegation if it
00:07:28.980 weren't true? We have to ask, is it more likely that she made this up, this lie about a Democratic
00:07:37.700 politician as a Democrat herself? Or is it more likely that it happened? Well, I don't know.
00:07:44.640 But I think maybe it leans a little bit in that direction. So overall, it's a mess in Virginia.
00:07:51.560 Um, and, and let's remember, this is the important thing. Let's remember where this all started. Okay.
00:07:58.580 And let's not lose sight of this. This all began, this all happened because the Democrats try in that
00:08:05.000 state tried to legalize late term abortion. Kathy Tran and her bill legalizing abortion up to birth.
00:08:12.780 That's why this is happening. If it weren't for that, this would not have happened. If she doesn't
00:08:16.480 push that bill, then she isn't on video defending third trimester abortions. And then, um, Northam
00:08:23.720 isn't asked about it on air. And then he doesn't go off on this whole disgusting thing about killing
00:08:29.500 babies after birth. And then the rest of this stuff doesn't happen. So this is a, um, what we're seeing
00:08:35.600 right now, this is, this is a rare instance of swift and clear and cosmic justice unfolding right in
00:08:45.980 front of us. These people tried to legalize infanticide and now they are self-destructing
00:08:51.940 because of it. Um, this is, so we should, we should appreciate that, you know, what we're seeing
00:08:57.680 because they richly, richly deserve this, not just because of the infanticide support,
00:09:05.160 although that's enough in and of itself, but also because of the hypocrisy and the double standard,
00:09:10.100 because that's the thing with this, all things being equal, as I've been saying,
00:09:14.900 I don't think a person should be forced to resign in disgrace because of an inappropriate costume they
00:09:20.560 wore 30 years ago. You know, but in this case, uh, I think Northam needs to resign anyway, because
00:09:27.640 he supports killing babies after birth. So that's enough reason for him to resign.
00:09:32.720 Um, so I'm happy with that. If he resigns because of that, or if he resigns for another reason,
00:09:37.940 then as far as I'm concerned, that's justice anyway. And, um, so if the blackface thing is
00:09:43.460 what takes him down, then fine. And then Herring, the attorney general, if he had just kept his mouth
00:09:48.740 shut over the weekend, or if he had come out and defended Northam and said, you know, you know what,
00:09:52.360 maybe we should, uh, then it would be one thing, but he came out and called for Northam to
00:09:57.400 resign. So it seems to me, although usually I would say, okay, he wore this costume when he
00:10:04.340 was 19, he was dressing up as a rapper back in whatever the seventies or eighties, uh, you know,
00:10:09.320 who, who cares? Let's move on. But this is the standard that he set. He's the one who apparently
00:10:15.380 thinks this is what he said over the weekend. If you do that, then you should resign. So he should
00:10:18.860 be held to that same standard. Um, so that's all, you know, and it's a little bit of a,
00:10:28.200 it's a little bit of a precarious thing because, you know, I'm afraid what we're going to end up
00:10:34.860 with here is it's, it's going to be basically we're entering into something. It's going to be
00:10:38.840 like the me too movement, except with blackface. And I tell you right now, I, we all know what
00:10:45.280 journalists are doing. There is an army of journalists right now who are scouring yearbooks
00:10:51.800 and, and the internet and they're, you know, probably rifling through garbage cans and trash
00:10:57.320 dumps, searching desperately for blackface photos of Republicans. Uh, that's what they really want.
00:11:03.680 And you know something, they'll probably find some. And so now we're going to have this whole
00:11:08.060 blackface crisis where anyone who's ever worn blackface, it's going to be thrown out there.
00:11:12.160 And then we're going to have this whole thing. And I don't think it should turn out. It should
00:11:16.560 turn into that. I think that would be kind of ridiculous. Obviously wearing black faces is a bad
00:11:21.900 thing. You shouldn't do it. Um, everyone agrees with that. No one's defending it. No one thinks it's
00:11:27.900 okay. Uh, there are many other kinds of inappropriate costumes people could wear. There are many other
00:11:34.380 obnoxious and wrong and, um, despicable things people can do when they're young and have done.
00:11:40.060 And, um, as far as ranking the kind of like bad things people might do when they're in their
00:11:46.040 teenage years or their early twenties, wearing black faces, well, it's certainly not the worst
00:11:51.660 thing. We'll put it that, put it that way. Uh, it's not necessarily at the top of that list,
00:11:55.880 right? So I don't think it should turn into a whole hysteria or crisis, but just, so I'm trying to
00:12:04.280 balance that with the fact that I do think that these Virginia Democrats deserve everything that's
00:12:09.040 coming to them because of the infanticide, but also because of their own double standards.
00:12:15.060 It's Herring is now getting lumped on top of that, but he's getting lumped in with this.
00:12:20.420 That's his fault. He's the one who came out and said, well, he needs to resign over this.
00:12:26.560 Speaking of double standards, um, let's take a look at this. Here is Joy Behar of The View,
00:12:33.580 uh, in 2016. Watch this clip right here.
00:12:37.600 In the New York Times, they had an op-ed piece in praise of naturally curly hair. They say that
00:12:42.440 it's making a comeback.
00:12:44.380 When did you leave? I've always had curly hair. Y'all late.
00:12:46.780 That it's a feminist statement.
00:12:49.260 Huh?
00:12:50.040 What do you mean?
00:12:51.360 No, I'm, I'm, is that you, Joy?
00:12:53.000 Oh, you know, this picture, I was, Joy, is that you, Joy? That is you?
00:12:57.240 Oh, my God, are you black?
00:12:58.820 No, I know.
00:13:00.860 Shut up!
00:13:02.680 Joy, Joy.
00:13:04.100 I was so cute.
00:13:05.460 Joy, how cute I was.
00:13:06.740 Are you my auntie, Joy?
00:13:09.560 That is me.
00:13:12.240 Oh, my word. What, what year is this? Circa what?
00:13:14.020 I was 29.
00:13:15.540 It was a Halloween party. I went as a beautiful African woman.
00:13:18.800 Oh, yes, you ain't black.
00:13:19.940 But that's my hair. That's my hair.
00:13:23.200 You can be, yeah, but it is.
00:13:25.020 So, so, the whole point of that, that curly hair is coming back.
00:13:28.040 Because I thought that was, I thought.
00:13:29.060 That is me.
00:13:29.740 Did you have tanning lotion on, Joy?
00:13:31.440 A little, I had makeup that was a little bit darker than my skin.
00:13:34.660 Uh-huh. Uh-huh.
00:13:35.580 Let's go to fix it.
00:13:36.660 That's my actual hair, though.
00:13:37.860 I love it, though.
00:13:38.960 So, okay, so now we have another Democrat in blackface.
00:13:42.860 It really is, I mean, these people just can't help themselves, can they?
00:13:45.060 It's, it's pretty incredible.
00:13:46.140 Um, so there she is, admitting to wearing blackface.
00:13:53.660 Um, and once again, it's the, it's the double standard.
00:13:58.460 Because taking that in isolation, and you look at that, you see the photo, and you say, okay, whatever.
00:14:03.320 So she wore that costume a long time ago, um, who cares?
00:14:07.760 Except, wasn't Megan, Megan Kelly was fired from her job because she asked a question about, about blackface, hypothetically.
00:14:20.240 But let's, let's remember that.
00:14:21.980 Megan Kelly.
00:14:22.860 Now, so, Ralph Northam wore blackface.
00:14:24.900 He has not resigned yet.
00:14:25.620 He still has his job.
00:14:26.860 Um, the Attorney General still has his job as of right now, even though he wore blackface.
00:14:30.800 Joy Behar wore blackface, has her job.
00:14:34.440 Uh, Megan Kelly asked a question about blackface.
00:14:37.920 She said, remember, she said on her show, well, what if somebody, you know, wore blackface, and they, they meant it in a, you know, in a, in a, to pay tribute to, uh, uh, I think it's the example she gave, hypothetically, is what if somebody went out for Halloween dressed as Diana Ross, and they wore, you know, they darkened their skin.
00:14:55.400 Um, but they meant it as a tribute.
00:14:57.900 It was not mocking.
00:14:59.340 And so it was a hypothetical question she was raising.
00:15:03.280 And she lost her job over that.
00:15:07.560 Meanwhile, you have these liberal Democrats who actually wore blackface, and, uh, they all still have their jobs.
00:15:14.860 That double standard is a little bit hard to, to stomach.
00:15:20.280 Speaking of double standards, we should mention this as well.
00:15:22.580 Um, double standards and hypocrisy and blackface, in effect.
00:15:26.500 Elizabeth Warren, it turns out, claimed that, uh, she was Native American.
00:15:31.680 She claimed she was, well, we know that she's been claiming she was Native American.
00:15:34.040 Um, but she also put it down on a 1986 registration card for the Texas State Bar.
00:15:41.680 Um, so, now this becomes more serious.
00:15:47.460 This isn't just some claim that she's been making, you know, verbally as a politician, um, trying to play the identity politics game.
00:15:57.300 No, she's been putting it down on documentation.
00:15:59.260 She claimed on this registration card for the Texas State Bar that she was Native American.
00:16:05.080 Now she's again trying to explain herself.
00:16:07.520 And here she is answering questions about this, um, latest revelation.
00:16:12.480 Here it is.
00:16:13.540 I am not a tribal citizen.
00:16:16.560 Uh, I had a good conversation last week with Chief Baker, who is chief of the Cherokee tribes.
00:16:25.540 And I told Chief Baker, uh, that I am sorry that I extended confusion about tribal citizenship and tribal sovereignty and for harm caused.
00:16:39.960 I am also sorry for not being more mindful of this, uh, decades ago.
00:16:46.120 Tribes and only tribes determine tribal citizenship.
00:16:50.580 I had a good conversation with Chief Baker.
00:16:53.480 He was very gracious and, uh, we continue to talk about issues and continue to work on issues that matter deeply to Indian country, uh, and, uh, continue to work on things that we both care a lot about.
00:17:10.380 Nothing about my background ever had anything to do with any job I got in any place.
00:17:17.600 It's been fully documented and there's no evidence.
00:17:21.740 This was about 30 years ago and, um, uh, I am not a tribal citizen, uh, tribes and only tribes determine citizenship.
00:17:33.380 Uh, when I was growing up, uh, in Oklahoma, I learned about my family the same way most people do.
00:17:40.380 My brothers and I learned from our mom and our dad and our brothers and our sisters, and those were our family's stories.
00:17:48.280 Uh, but that said, there really is an important distinction of tribal citizenship.
00:17:54.860 I am not a member of a tribe and I have apologized for not being more sensitive to that distinction.
00:18:04.320 It's an important distinction.
00:18:06.760 Okay.
00:18:07.280 So, you know, your campaign for president is, is, is not going well when you have to make statements like, I am not a tribal citizen.
00:18:14.780 When you have to clarify that repeatedly in the same interview and say that you're not a tribal citizen, um, that, you know, it's not a good sign.
00:18:22.540 So, once again, with this though, all things being equal, I would almost be tempted to say, well, okay, you know, maybe she was, she was told by her parents that she's Native American and she believed them, um, you know, and she, she put it down on, on, on this documentation.
00:18:40.360 Maybe she wasn't trying to commit any kind of fraud.
00:18:42.940 It was really just a mistake or she, she didn't know.
00:18:46.700 So, um, maybe I'd be tempted to have some leniency and to be understanding, but the problem is that Elizabeth Warren is a promoter of, spreader of, disciple of identity politics.
00:19:02.660 And if anyone else, any Republican had done this, she would eat them alive.
00:19:08.880 And we all know that.
00:19:10.760 Cultural appropriation is a cardinal sin on the left.
00:19:13.920 And Warren would happily destroy anyone else's life over it.
00:19:21.280 So now she's being hoisted on her own petard, as they say.
00:19:26.240 And are we supposed to swoop in and say, no, no, no.
00:19:29.740 Don't let her take that dose of her own medicine.
00:19:32.700 Don't let her standards, don't, you know, let's not force her to live up to her own standards.
00:19:37.420 No, I'm not going to say that.
00:19:39.840 You should have to live up to the standards you set.
00:19:43.920 Um, all right.
00:19:46.880 So there's a, it's just a big mess for the, for the Democrat party.
00:19:50.580 Um, and, you know, one other thing, going back to the Virginia thing, I meant to say this before, but as we see the Virginia Democrat party self-destructing over, um, you know, and how it all began with their push for late term abortion.
00:20:08.280 Um, and then we think about the State of the Union address, yes, uh, you know, two nights ago, uh, President Trump talking about late term abortion and it was a big applause line.
00:20:19.920 And this just goes to show something that I've been saying for years.
00:20:25.000 I've been saying this forever, which is that abortion is a winning issue for Republicans.
00:20:30.500 If they just had the gumption to make the case, it is a winning issue.
00:20:37.160 Especially when you talk about later term abortion after 20 weeks, that kind of thing, that is a winning issue for, for Republicans, but they just have to have the guts to talk about it and bring it up.
00:20:47.500 And, you know, if you look at the surveys and the polls, you might find that, you know, maybe it looks like it's split or maybe there are a slight majority of Americans who consider themselves pro-choice or whatever.
00:21:01.040 But you also have to keep in mind that a lot of those people, they've never had the pro-life case articulated to them.
00:21:08.180 They don't know what it is.
00:21:09.140 They really don't know anything about abortion.
00:21:10.660 They're completely ignorant.
00:21:11.600 So if you just make the case and you explain, this is what abortion is, this is what the Democrats want to do, here's what's happening, I think that's a winning issue.
00:21:22.580 And maybe Republicans are finally starting to learn that, I hope.
00:21:26.160 All right, according to, let's, I want to look at a story in the Daily Wire reported by Paul Blois.
00:21:32.520 It says, according to Eater, after nine years of being in business, Panera Bread's socialist pay-what-you-want restaurant, Panera Cares,
00:21:40.280 will officially be closing shop on February 15th due to the business model's unsustainability.
00:21:47.640 While Panera Cares billed itself as a non-profit restaurant designed to feed low-income people, the business model was anything but.
00:21:54.000 Rather than create a charitable organization that distributes food to needy families or a discount outlet or even a $1 menu like fast food restaurants,
00:22:01.360 Panera tried to create a socialist system in which meals were offered at a suggested donation price.
00:22:07.120 So basically, you could go into this Panera Cares restaurant and you could just pay whatever you want.
00:22:16.800 You could pay more, you know, or you could pay nothing.
00:22:20.940 And it's sort of like an honor system set up.
00:22:27.260 And now it's going out of business.
00:22:28.840 So on one hand, you look at that and you think, well, it was a noble effort.
00:22:34.000 Nice try.
00:22:35.200 You want to give Panera some credit for giving it a shot.
00:22:38.820 But I think this also shows, you know, when you try to take a kind of socialist mentality and apply it to,
00:22:48.100 and this is, you know, a very isolated, controlled environment.
00:22:51.840 It's just one Panera Bread location, right?
00:22:53.960 Or maybe there were a few of them.
00:22:54.900 I don't know.
00:22:55.860 But if that system could work, you think it would work in that very kind of small, contained environment.
00:23:03.580 And if it doesn't work there, how in the world would it work across an entire country of 300 plus million people?
00:23:10.340 Well, it won't.
00:23:12.560 And part of this is you have to have, and this is something that people on the left lack.
00:23:17.120 They don't have this.
00:23:17.820 But you need to have an understanding of human nature.
00:23:19.960 And if you understand, it's not about being cynical.
00:23:23.000 It's just about understanding how people are.
00:23:25.060 And if you have an understanding of human nature, you're going to realize, well, that a system like that doesn't work.
00:23:29.400 You can't have a restaurant where people pay whatever they want because most people, if you give them a choice, they're going to pay nothing.
00:23:34.500 If you get most people, a lot of people anyway, if you give them the option of taking a free ride, they're going to take the free ride.
00:23:41.860 That's just human nature.
00:23:43.400 It's not about hating people or thinking the worst of people.
00:23:45.920 It's just about understanding how people work.
00:23:50.000 So that's that.
00:23:53.460 One other thing, before I get to a couple of emails, I want you to watch this report.
00:24:01.560 This was on CBS this morning, a report about climate change.
00:24:04.860 Pretty typical kind of fear-mongering over climate change that you see.
00:24:08.840 But I want you to watch this and look for some obvious flaws in the reporting.
00:24:15.020 OK, now watch this.
00:24:17.220 New figures from two government agencies show 2018 was the Earth's fourth warmest year on record.
00:24:25.040 NOAA, the government's weather agencies, says global temperatures were 1.4 degrees higher than the average in the 20th century.
00:24:32.900 NASA scientists say the rising temperature trend is driven by increased greenhouse gas emissions from humans.
00:24:40.720 The past five years were the five warmest ever recorded.
00:24:44.200 NOAA researchers say 14 weather and climate disasters last year cost the U.S. more than $1 billion each.
00:24:51.740 Hurricanes Michael and Florence caused about $49 billion in combined damage.
00:24:56.900 Western wildfires cost $24 billion.
00:24:59.380 All right, so did you get that?
00:25:03.760 Every time you hear warmest year on record, so you're meant to be impressed by that.
00:25:09.140 Oh, it's the warmest year on record.
00:25:11.340 Warmest year.
00:25:12.580 Warmest year ever.
00:25:14.880 And that's kind of what you're meant to take.
00:25:16.680 Well, it's the warmest year ever that the Earth has ever seen.
00:25:20.960 In fact, sometimes you'll see it reported with exactly that language.
00:25:24.600 Warmest year ever.
00:25:26.460 Now, the problem is that our records only go back to the 1880s.
00:25:31.680 Okay?
00:25:32.100 The Earth is 4.5 billion years old.
00:25:35.400 Our records go back to the 1880s.
00:25:37.560 So the sample size is so minuscule and so tiny in comparison to the age of the Earth that it's just meaningless.
00:25:44.400 You can't possibly extrapolate anything from it.
00:25:46.960 Think about 130 years, however many years versus 4.5 billion years.
00:25:58.420 It's just how could you possibly take anything from that?
00:26:05.260 You need a much, much, much larger sample size before you could justify some sort of, you know, arguing that there's some sort of crisis going on.
00:26:16.020 The other problem, and this is more of a general thing, but the next time somebody frets over temperatures rising, all you have to do is just ask them this and see if they have an answer for it.
00:26:28.080 Ask them, what do you think the temperature is supposed to do?
00:26:34.160 Okay, so you're worried that the temperatures are going up, supposedly.
00:26:39.020 Well, okay, what do you think the global temperatures are?
00:26:44.000 Do you think they're just going to stay exactly the same forever?
00:26:47.900 Do you expect to see global temperatures not move an inch or a degree over the course of a century?
00:26:55.160 Is that what you expect?
00:26:57.780 Or should they always go down?
00:26:59.300 Well, if they go down, then you're going to tell us about an ice age.
00:27:01.480 And I'm old enough to remember when they were fretting about an ice age.
00:27:05.920 And now it's, you know, and then it was global warming, and now it's just climate change in general.
00:27:09.640 You see how they've changed it.
00:27:10.960 So now it's just, if the climate changes at all, one direction or another, we're told that that is apocalyptic.
00:27:17.120 Well, what do you expect the climate to do?
00:27:19.080 Of course it's going to change from year to year, century to century.
00:27:22.660 It always has.
00:27:23.400 That's why I'm saying you need the larger sample size.
00:27:25.360 Look at 4.5 billion years of Earth history, not just since the 1880s,
00:27:29.820 and you're going to find that the temperatures are going up and down drastically all over the place.
00:27:34.020 That's just what temperatures do.
00:27:35.340 That's what climate does.
00:27:37.020 So in order to justify this apocalyptic attitude,
00:27:45.620 you're going to have to tell us what do you think the temperatures are supposed to do.
00:27:52.060 And if you tell me that you think they're supposed to stay static forever,
00:27:56.680 then I'm going to tell you that you just, I don't think you understand how climate works.
00:28:02.480 All right.
00:28:04.440 Let's look at a couple of emails.
00:28:06.900 MattWalshshow at gmail.com.
00:28:08.440 MattWalshshow at gmail.com.
00:28:09.520 You can, if you have any comments, questions, concerns, and I try to answer a few at the end of every show.
00:28:16.000 So this is from Jerry.
00:28:17.000 He says,
00:28:17.240 Hi, Matt.
00:28:17.820 I heard that you're not a fan of the KJV.
00:28:20.740 I've always thought that the KJV was the best translation available.
00:28:23.820 What is your problem with it, and what translation do you prefer?
00:28:26.420 Hi, Jerry.
00:28:27.020 Yes, the King James Version.
00:28:28.220 We were talking about this on Twitter yesterday, which I assume is why you're bringing it up.
00:28:31.260 But in case you didn't know, there is a group of Christians, rather vocal Christians,
00:28:38.000 who feel that the KJV, the King James Bible, is the best translation, the only good translation available.
00:28:43.480 There are KJV-only Christians, is how they're referred to.
00:28:48.380 And most of them will say that, well, it's the best English translation available.
00:28:54.000 There are some KJV-onlyists who will actually tell you it's the best translation, period, that exists.
00:29:01.800 Even better than, like, even better than the original Greek.
00:29:06.780 But for the most part, they'll say, well, it's the best English translation.
00:29:09.980 And everyone has their own preferences when it comes to Bible translations, and that's fine.
00:29:13.500 But to insist that the KJV is the best, even the best English translation, is absurd, I think.
00:29:21.540 It's not that I hate the KJV.
00:29:23.280 I just, I don't have any grudge against it.
00:29:25.600 But the fact is that this translation is one of the only translations in English that has something called the Johannine Kama.
00:29:35.300 The Johannine Kama is an interpolation, which is in addition to the Bible.
00:29:40.040 Something that was not in the original text, and that was added into it later, sometimes centuries later.
00:29:47.280 So it's not biblical in that case.
00:29:51.240 So the Johannine Kama is in 1 John 5, 7 through 8.
00:29:56.480 And in the KJV, it says,
00:29:58.680 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost, and these three are one.
00:30:07.360 Now, that obviously is a clear reference to the Trinity.
00:30:10.720 Which is a true doctrine.
00:30:13.260 The problem is that it's not an authentic verse.
00:30:16.200 That verse does not appear in the earliest manuscripts.
00:30:19.780 And so pretty much any New Testament scholar, textual critic that you read or listen to will tell you that that's an interpolation.
00:30:29.740 It was added into the text later by some scribe, some translator, who maybe was troubled by the fact that there isn't a verse like this in the Bible that clearly, explicitly lays out the Trinity.
00:30:41.320 Now, there are plenty of places where the Trinity is implied, but there isn't one verse that lays it out exactly like that.
00:30:48.720 And so there was some scribe who said, well, it should be in there, so we'll put it in.
00:30:52.320 Which, you can't do that.
00:30:53.540 You can't do that to the Bible.
00:30:55.060 You can't just decide on your own that it should be in there, and so I'm going to add it in.
00:30:59.320 So that's a problem.
00:31:00.060 I think the KGB also has the long ending of Mark.
00:31:03.320 Mark 16, 9 through 20 is most likely a later edition, according to most scholars.
00:31:08.020 The earliest manuscripts end, Mark's Gospel ends with 16, 8, where it says the women ran from the tomb and told no one.
00:31:15.900 That's the end of Mark's Gospel.
00:31:18.980 And then, according to most scholars, it seems as though, if you look at the early manuscripts, it seems as though somebody added in this ending.
00:31:25.040 Which, again, you can't do that, shouldn't do that, shouldn't be in there.
00:31:29.700 So the fact that that's in the KJV, I think, really debunks the notion that it's the most accurate translation.
00:31:37.580 And then also stylistically.
00:31:39.300 You know, I just, I think the KJV style is great when you're reading a lot of the Old Testament stuff, a lot of the prophetic books, the Psalms.
00:31:49.720 Okay, so that kind of poetic style, I think, is great, very beautiful in that context.
00:31:55.040 But it is totally out of place in the Gospels and the Epistles, because Jesus and the Apostles, these were plain-spoken men.
00:32:01.900 They weren't using flowery language that nobody could understand.
00:32:06.160 They were just speaking in the equivalent of regular modern English.
00:32:10.620 Obviously, they weren't speaking in modern English, but the equivalent of it.
00:32:12.940 Just regular, plain-spoken.
00:32:15.320 And so, when you add this flowery stuff into the Gospels, and you put it into Jesus' mouth, and you put it into Paul,
00:32:21.160 I think you just lose so much.
00:32:22.860 That's just not how these men communicated, because they were talking to average people, and they wanted to be understood.
00:32:33.860 All right, from Mike, he says,
00:32:36.200 Your beard is awful. Real men are clean-shaven. Deal with it.
00:32:41.320 Mike, that is nonsense, of course.
00:32:43.080 But I would expect nothing else from a clean-shaven man.
00:32:47.880 Saying that real men don't have beards is like saying real lions don't have manes.
00:32:53.960 Or like saying real lumberjacks don't wear flannel.
00:32:57.740 It just doesn't make any sense.
00:32:59.360 But if you really want to get into this, fine.
00:33:01.120 Okay, let's do a comparison.
00:33:02.580 Okay, let's do a scientific comparison.
00:33:04.760 Let's make a list of bearded men, and compare it to a list of non-bearded men, and then we'll decide who comes out on top.
00:33:14.380 Okay, so this is just a scientific thing.
00:33:16.640 All right?
00:33:17.340 So, and I'm going to just be pulling names randomly of bearded men.
00:33:20.560 Just totally random.
00:33:21.460 Jesus, Socrates, Leonardo da Vinci, Grizzly Adams, all of the best Civil War generals, Grant Lee, Jackson Sherman, Paul Bunyan, Gandalf, Lincoln.
00:33:37.440 All right?
00:33:38.020 Now, again, just a random list of unbearded men.
00:33:41.600 Cory Booker, Jim Acosta, Pol Pot, Matt Damon.
00:33:46.880 All right, so I rest my case.
00:33:49.140 Let's see.
00:33:53.260 From John, he says, Matt, I listened to an interview you did with Matt Fradd.
00:33:57.080 If I remember correctly, Fradd said that you do not believe pornography can be addictive.
00:34:00.620 This struck me as odd as I follow your show and writing closely.
00:34:03.460 If this really is your take on pornography, can you please shed some light?
00:34:06.100 Thanks and love the show.
00:34:08.800 That's true, John.
00:34:09.560 I don't think addictive is the right word.
00:34:12.640 I think this is a mistake we make.
00:34:15.620 Compulsion is a better word, I think.
00:34:17.280 It breeds compulsion.
00:34:19.140 I think the word addiction is way overused in our culture, just like the word disease is way overused.
00:34:26.680 And the problem is when you use words like addiction and disease in the wrong context, number one, it has the effect of diminishing the severity of actual addiction and actual disease.
00:34:39.860 And also, when you say someone has an addiction when they don't really, you're taking some of the onus off of them and some of the power away from them.
00:34:48.440 And when you say they have a disease and they don't really have a disease, then again, you're taking away the choice and the free will and the power that they actually have.
00:34:54.820 So, we need a way to distinguish, I think, compulsive behavior from something like heroin addiction.
00:35:02.520 When you use the word addiction, now keep that in mind.
00:35:04.300 With heroin addiction, there is an actual chemical dependence that arises where if you're addicted to heroin, you actually need it.
00:35:13.660 In that, if you just go cold turkey without the help of doctors and you're not in a facility and it's not being monitored and you just decide, I'm going to stop using heroin one day, you could die.
00:35:22.820 Because your body, your physiology revolts against you.
00:35:26.320 It needs the chemicals from the heroin.
00:35:29.460 So, that's why you need to be weaned off of it in a controlled kind of way.
00:35:33.460 It's not like that with pornography.
00:35:34.760 I mean, you could stop watching pornography and it's not going to kill you.
00:35:38.100 Nobody's ever died from pornography withdrawal.
00:35:43.500 In fact, there is no physical withdrawal that happens where you're, you know, you'd be sick in bed for days because you're not looking at pornography.
00:35:51.880 And so, which isn't, yes, it is a real compulsive thing.
00:35:56.020 But it's the same thing.
00:35:57.080 This is in the category with just like watching TV.
00:36:00.840 There are people who watch eight, nine, ten hours of TV a day, even if it's not pornographic television, they have a compulsion.
00:36:07.920 And it's a real compulsion.
00:36:09.120 It can be hard to get past.
00:36:10.520 It's very destructive.
00:36:11.460 I'm not diminishing any of that.
00:36:13.300 But to compare it to heroin addiction or to put it in that same category or camp, I think, is a big mistake.
00:36:21.880 So finally, last one real quick from someone who doesn't give a name.
00:36:26.280 He says, Matt, I'm looking for bourbon recommendations.
00:36:28.820 I hear you're the expert.
00:36:29.760 What are your favorites?
00:36:30.680 Well, I'm not an expert, but I can tell you my favorites.
00:36:32.620 My go-to at a kind of mid-price range is Four Roses Single Barrel.
00:36:40.400 It'll be about $40.
00:36:41.340 You can go pick that up.
00:36:42.180 Of course, Woodford Reserve is another one in that range.
00:36:44.360 Very good.
00:36:44.920 Classic.
00:36:45.760 Knob Creek is a little bit less expensive.
00:36:47.460 Very good.
00:36:48.140 Eagle Rare is a little bit more expensive.
00:36:50.600 Excellent bourbon.
00:36:51.600 Noah's Mill and Blanton's in that same range as well.
00:36:54.800 Willits, if you're looking at a step up, you know, in the $60 area, you could go to Willits.
00:37:00.940 Basil Hayden is a great, I think, sort of entry-level bourbon.
00:37:05.540 Not because of the price, about $40, but it's a very smooth, unobtrusive bourbon, which I don't like as much as I used to.
00:37:14.620 But if you're not a big bourbon drinker, I would recommend that.
00:37:16.820 And if you're just looking for something cheap in the $20 to $30 range, if you're looking for the plastic twist-top sort of class of bourbons, then I would say Bullet.
00:37:31.220 You can't go wrong with Bullet bourbon.
00:37:32.580 So there's my recommendations.
00:37:34.760 Don't go buy all of those at once, though.
00:37:36.320 Just start.
00:37:38.100 Speaking of addictions, I would just start with one at a time.
00:37:40.800 All right.
00:37:41.060 We'll leave it there.
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00:37:42.520 Thanks for listening.
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