The Matt Walsh Show - February 20, 2019


Ep. 202 - The Left Launches A Posthumous Smear Campaign Against John Wayne


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00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, the left has decided to posthumously condemn John Wayne for racism.
00:00:06.260 But what is the point of this exercise? Why are they constantly digging up these long dead people
00:00:12.400 to shame them for the views that they held a long time ago? Well, we'll talk about that and
00:00:18.880 try to get to the bottom of it. Also, I have here a truly insane story that perfectly illustrates
00:00:25.600 the incompetence of government and also shows us why we don't want these people controlling
00:00:29.980 our health care system. So we'll talk about that today as well on the Matt Wall Show.
00:00:40.680 Just taking a sip for my John Wayne mug.
00:00:46.480 It says here on the back, a man's got to have a code, a creed to live by. And that is very good
00:00:55.560 advice. Good advice from the Duke. And I'm a huge fan. I'm a big, big John Wayne fan. I've seen almost
00:01:02.800 all of his movies. And I love all of them, especially, you know, The Searchers, True Grit,
00:01:08.680 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Quiet Man. I mean, the classics. These are classic films.
00:01:14.360 But the big news is that I'm not allowed to like John Wayne anymore. I probably shouldn't be drinking
00:01:21.840 out of this cup. It's an offensive cup. I should probably be throwing it and smashing it on the
00:01:26.740 ground in anger. And you're not allowed to like him either, in case you didn't know. John Wayne is
00:01:34.820 yet another dead man who has been posthumously excommunicated from polite society. Why? Well,
00:01:42.180 seemingly, seemingly at random. Seemingly is the key word there. I'll go back to this,
00:01:47.600 the seemingly part. But seemingly at random, yesterday, an interview that John Wayne did
00:01:55.480 with Playboy in 1971 went viral. So yes, this is a 50-year-old interview, a famous interview,
00:02:03.880 I might add, an interview that is not exactly secret. It's not like this thing was dug up
00:02:08.900 like it had been buried in the desert, like the Gnostic Gospels or something for 2,000 years.
00:02:13.820 And then it was dug up and found. No, it's been out there. I mean, he did it in Playboy. So
00:02:18.440 people knew about it. But it went viral half a century later, 50 years after it was published and
00:02:26.940 40 years after John Wayne died. And leftists on Twitter were taking screenshots of the various
00:02:35.240 portions of the exchange that John Wayne had with Playboy and posting them online and exclaiming over
00:02:43.520 what a racist and what a sexist John Wayne was. Because he says a bunch of racist, sexist stuff
00:02:49.880 in this interview. And they were so shocked. They said, oh my gosh, what a piece of garbage John Wayne
00:02:55.320 was. And yes, you know what? John Wayne was a racist. He says some legitimately racist things
00:03:03.380 in that interview. There's no question about it. For some reason, yesterday, it was important
00:03:10.480 that everyone acknowledge the racism of this dead Hollywood actor and boldly condemn it. We have
00:03:18.000 to boldly stand up against John Wayne and said, John Wayne, you racist. Condemn the opinions of a man
00:03:27.120 who has been dead since the Carter administration. Now, I said this interview went viral and this
00:03:36.520 anti-John Wayne backlash was seemingly random, but not really random, though. There is a method behind
00:03:45.560 this madness for the left. There is a point to it. This is part of a larger strategy, a larger plan.
00:03:54.140 And the plan is to sort of systematically go back through history, find people who white males today
00:04:01.380 might like or admire from history, might consider to be personal heroes or what have you, and dig up
00:04:08.540 their skeletons, you know, dig up the skeleton or dig out the skeletons in their closet, even as their
00:04:16.120 actual skeletons are decomposing in the grave. That's the plan. And the point behind this is that white
00:04:24.360 males of today are not allowed to look back in history and admire or enjoy the work of other white
00:04:32.800 males. That's the point. You're not allowed to do that. Our heroes must be culturally approved. We can
00:04:41.180 admire women from history. We can admire minorities from history, but not too much, keep in mind, not too
00:04:49.620 visibly, because that would be cultural appropriation. So we, we basically, we're not
00:04:55.600 allowed to have any heroes. We can't really have, um, you can't have white males because they're all bad,
00:05:00.980 but even someone who's not a white male, well, you can't like them too much because if you do,
00:05:07.240 then it's like, you're trying to steal heroes from other, um, uh, racial groups. So that's the,
00:05:16.140 that's the point. And the only way I think to respond to these posthumous smear campaigns is to
00:05:25.720 have utter contempt for them. Um, contempt for the smear campaigns, not for the people who are being
00:05:31.460 smeared. And when the left comes to you saying, aren't you going to condemn this guy who had this
00:05:39.660 bad opinion a long time ago, aren't you going to stand up with us and condemn him? You know what?
00:05:45.800 Our answer should be, our answer should be no. Uh, you know what? I'm not going to get out of my
00:05:51.180 face. I'm not going to play your game. I don't care. John Wayne had racist opinions. You know what?
00:05:57.300 I'm going to watch his movies anyway. I still like him. I'm going to watch, I'm going to go,
00:06:01.180 I'm going to go on a John Wayne movie watching binge this weekend. And I'm going to have my kids
00:06:06.340 watch the movies too. And I'm going to tell them this, this is John Wayne. He was a great actor.
00:06:11.680 You kids should like him too. That's what I'm going to do because I'm not going to play your
00:06:16.920 game. I don't care. I I'm not going to dance to your music when you randomly decide that. Nope,
00:06:24.460 not allowed to like John Wayne anymore. No. Well, I still do. I don't care. Well, how could you like
00:06:30.260 him? He was racist. You're not supposed to, I don't care what your opinion is. Don't you understand
00:06:33.820 that? That's the, I don't care. It doesn't matter to me. Yes. John Wayne was racist. That's true.
00:06:41.280 John Wayne was born in 1907. You utter nincompoops. Do you know who else was racist?
00:06:50.540 Literally everybody born in 1907 or earlier, not every white male, mind you. Okay. But every person
00:06:59.580 in the world with very few exceptions, if any, I mean, I can't even think of what an exception would
00:07:06.640 be. Maybe there are a few, but almost everybody born in the world in 1907 or earlier would be
00:07:18.640 considered racist by our standards today. Here is one thing that I can say for absolute certain
00:07:25.880 anyone born from the beginning of human civilization to about 1950 would have held without question and
00:07:35.040 without exception views and opinions that we would find abhorrent today. Um, whether those, a lot of the
00:07:42.860 time those views are going to be on issues like race and ethnicity and culture, uh, or the views could be
00:07:48.760 on, um, gender or the views could be about homosexuals. Okay. Uh, but everybody born from the beginning of
00:08:00.240 human civilization to approximately 1950 is going to have opinions on some or all of those subjects
00:08:07.960 that we today would find, uh, would find repulsive. So we could give the John Wayne treatment to anyone
00:08:19.280 anyone of either gender of any race of any ethnicity, because you see the idea that all races are equal
00:08:30.200 and that we shouldn't be suspicious of people who don't look like us. Okay. This is the right idea. Uh,
00:08:37.960 this is a good idea. It's a true idea. It's morally correct. It's morally, uh, upstanding.
00:08:44.820 Yes, but it's also a very new idea. And, and you know what else? It's a very Western idea.
00:08:54.840 And I'm going to put a serious emphasis on Western, because if you go to many non-Western countries,
00:09:00.760 even today, you're going to find that many of the inhabitants still do not share our progressive
00:09:08.200 enlightened views on race and probably on gender and almost certainly on sexual orientation.
00:09:15.840 Even today, you're going to find that in many non-Western countries.
00:09:20.940 Do you think you're going to find a lot of racial enlightenment in the Middle East?
00:09:25.480 The answer is no, but if you're going back through history, then you're going to reach a certain point.
00:09:32.660 You know, if you're going back in your time machine, if you're going back with your scolding finger to go
00:09:37.200 scold people back in history, who didn't share your views on race views that again, yes, are correct.
00:09:43.440 And all right. So congratulations to you and to all of us. But if you're going back to scold,
00:09:48.580 you're going to be doing a lot of scolding. You're gonna be spending a lot of time. Uh,
00:09:51.540 I hope you've gassed up your time machine because you've got to go. You've got a lot of,
00:09:55.740 you've got a lot of driving to do or flying or however your time machine travels. Um,
00:10:02.580 you see what the left wants us to do is they want us to look at history through a modern day lens,
00:10:09.240 but very selectively. Okay. So we are meant to hold only certain people, almost always white males
00:10:16.260 to the moral standards of today. Not always white. And I mean, there are sometimes white women will
00:10:21.360 get this treatment to Laura angles. Wilder was one of the other recent, um, people to be posthumously,
00:10:27.340 posthumously, uh, defrocked essentially because she did not have enlightened opinions about,
00:10:34.760 about race apparently. And so the trick is, is, uh, is to convince us that, um, that these people
00:10:42.300 who the left chooses don't deserve the benefit of historical context. Um, and the way that they,
00:10:52.540 it's really important for us to understand the way that this is done. Okay. The way that they do this
00:10:56.920 is by conflating personal moral guilt with objective moral wrong. Now, those are not the same thing.
00:11:09.940 Okay. Uh, and this is something that relativists get wrong. Also, there is objective moral wrong,
00:11:16.880 and then there is personal moral guilt. So wrong is wrong. I totally agree with that. Bad is bad.
00:11:25.920 Wrong is wrong. Always and forever. What's wrong today was wrong in 1907. It was wrong in 1807. It was
00:11:32.400 wrong in 1207. It's been wrong since time immemorial. So the racism that was prevalent across the
00:11:39.300 planet until very recently was wrong. Definitely totally wrong. Um, and, but the problem is that the left
00:11:49.640 says, because it was wrong, that means that all of those racist people, well, the white males anyway,
00:11:57.080 were pieces of garbage whose statues should be torn down and their movies should be burned in a giant
00:12:03.060 bonfire and so on. You see, that's the leap they make. They, they start from a premise we can agree
00:12:09.160 with, which is racism is wrong. Fine. Yeah. Racism is wrong today. It was wrong at any other point in
00:12:14.440 history. Yes, I agree. But then they, they do another move and they say, therefore all of these
00:12:21.300 racist people were terrible and do not deserve our admiration and do not deserve to be remembered or
00:12:28.000 honored or, or anything like that. But no, see that, that equation doesn't work. That's a, that's a
00:12:34.100 fallacy. The badness of the individual depends on personal moral guilt, not just on the, on the
00:12:43.020 objective moral wrong of the action or the viewpoint or whatever we're talking about, but on personal
00:12:49.020 moral guilt. Um, so everybody that does a wrong thing or holds a morally wrong view does have some
00:12:58.500 moral guilt for it, no matter when and where they hold that view, but that guilt can be mitigated.
00:13:04.440 It can be severely mitigated in some cases, depending on context. That's where context matters.
00:13:11.360 And the context that everybody in the world lived in from the beginning of human civilization until
00:13:19.080 the middle of the 20th century is one where outsiders were people who looked different,
00:13:24.160 who had a different culture. Um, they were in some sense, inferior and worthy of suspicion.
00:13:30.300 This is the context that almost everybody throughout history lived in. Um, and admit, you know,
00:13:38.820 they lived amid this, this, this context, uh, um, pretty much everywhere in the world that doesn't
00:13:46.020 make it right, but it does mean that it's much, much easier to slip into a wrong view when the wrong
00:13:54.720 view is totally normal and taken for granted and everybody holds it. And that's just the way things
00:14:00.600 are. Um, that's the, that's the, that's, you know, people will generally accept as normal and as right,
00:14:09.780 uh, the, the context that they're born into.
00:14:17.160 Now our situation is different because it's been drilled into our heads from birth that racism is an
00:14:24.540 abomination. We have, we have been told this over and over and over and over again, since we were very
00:14:31.200 small children. So we get no credit. The fact that you're racially enlightened, that doesn't, you get
00:14:37.100 no credit for that. You can't pat yourself on the back or congratulate yourself for that. You didn't
00:14:42.720 choose that view. Okay. It's not like you were born in the, in the 1500s and you came to this
00:14:49.680 conclusion on your own. In that case, I would say you deserve a lot of credit, but you don't deserve
00:14:55.040 any credit for this. You were told this and you accepted it. So, so fine. Good. It's good that you
00:15:01.660 accepted it, but that's all to be not racist in our context. All that means is that you just have
00:15:07.980 to accept what you're told and what everybody else believes. And, uh, and, and, and, you know,
00:15:14.180 it's, it's, it's not only the normal view, but it's, but to hold any other view is, is,
00:15:19.100 is, is roundly condemned and we'll get you rejected from society. And, uh, which is all
00:15:25.940 good and fine. It should be condemned. But the point is to accept that doesn't take any courage
00:15:30.980 on your part. It doesn't take any enlightenment. It doesn't take any intelligence. It's just,
00:15:35.620 it's just normal. You see the test for us these days is, uh, is not whether we're racist because
00:15:45.360 most of us are not racist. And so non-racism is just taken for granted, but in our culture, as,
00:15:53.700 as in any culture, there are other viewpoints. There are other really wrong beliefs and practices
00:16:00.800 that are relatively normal to us. Racism is not one of them, but there are others. There are other
00:16:07.620 forms of discrimination, even that we take for granted. So the test for us is whether we can see
00:16:14.500 those and condemn those is whether we can see outside of our own context to see the,
00:16:23.400 the objective wrong of something that a lot of us just accept. But here's the interesting thing that
00:16:31.520 almost without fail, the people who shame those from the past for their very limited, very stuck in
00:16:39.080 the culture, uh, beliefs, those people today are, are also guilty of themselves, guilty themselves of
00:16:47.360 holding those same kinds of beliefs, not on matters of race, but in other areas. And so the main one
00:16:56.620 that comes to mind is the pro-abortion belief, you know, being pro-abortion today is, uh, is, is,
00:17:05.180 is relatively normal. It's certainly culturally acceptable. And it's just something that a lot of
00:17:14.360 people buy into because that's the situation that they were born. That's the situation they were born
00:17:19.420 into. Now, a hundred years from now, I can pretty much guarantee you that people are going to look
00:17:26.460 back on, on abortion. And if you're an abortion supporter, they're going to look at people like
00:17:31.020 you and they're going to say, what a piece of garbage. How could you have accepted this?
00:17:36.800 What? You thought babies weren't people? They're killing a million babies a year and you were fine
00:17:41.680 with it. What is wrong with you? You see, if you support abortion, you're going to be, that's,
00:17:46.760 that's how history is going to remember you.
00:17:48.340 Um, and in fact, you have a lot less of an excuse than a sort of everyday racist that you came across
00:18:01.180 in 1907 or in any other point, you know, you have a lot less of an excuse
00:18:05.840 because, because today abortion is at least a contentious issue. I mean, there are millions of
00:18:12.520 people who, who have, who do see the truth of it and they're trying to convince you of it. And
00:18:17.860 they're telling you. And so in order for you to continue in your beliefs, you have to block all
00:18:22.360 of that out. But for a long time in history, there was, there was all, basically nobody had a non-racist
00:18:31.260 belief that that was an opinion that nobody held. It just wasn't represented by anyone.
00:18:37.100 I mean, you go back even to the, uh, to the abolitionists
00:18:40.260 in, um, in the mid 19th century. And they were, they were progressive for their time,
00:18:48.860 but they weren't non-racist. You know, I've been, I've been waiting for the day when, um,
00:18:55.100 when liberals discover the, the Lincoln Douglas debates,
00:18:58.060 you know, where Abraham Lincoln famously made some very racist remarks. He was against slavery. So he
00:19:05.640 deserves credit for that, but he was definitely racist. He was a white supremacist. He just didn't
00:19:12.020 think he just, he could see enough to see the rate that, uh, slavery was wrong, but he didn't see
00:19:16.680 anything wrong with racism in and of itself. So even the people who were, who were enlightened for
00:19:24.060 their time back as recently as the mid 19th century were still by our standards, hugely racist.
00:19:31.140 So that just puts it in even more context, puts more of a perspective, something like abortion.
00:19:38.040 On the other hand, has, there's always been millions of people who reject that.
00:19:43.980 So in our culture, it has never been normal to the extent that something like racism was normal
00:19:49.340 everywhere in the world for much of human history, but that's the test.
00:19:55.400 So rather, you know, rather than focusing on John Wayne, maybe, and this is something we can all do
00:20:02.300 rather than going back in history and digging up these people and shouting at their corpses,
00:20:08.060 um, and condemning them, maybe look within yourself and, and do a survey of your own heart,
00:20:17.100 your own soul, your own mind to think about the beliefs that you hold and that you take for granted.
00:20:25.400 And, and, and try to discover if there's, if there, if there are any beliefs that you now hold and
00:20:31.380 take for granted because they're normal, which in fact may be morally atrocious.
00:20:36.600 I think that would be a better use of our time.
00:20:41.460 All right.
00:20:42.220 Um, let's see here.
00:20:44.160 I've got, uh, okay.
00:20:49.920 I've got to get to this story because it's, it's just, it's just crazy.
00:20:54.200 And it's a perfect, it, it's a basically a parable about the incompetence of government,
00:21:00.260 even though it actually happened.
00:21:02.480 And I'm going to have to read directly from, uh, the news article because I don't want to
00:21:06.220 miss any details.
00:21:07.100 It's such a, it's such a crazy story.
00:21:08.520 This is from, uh, I'm reading now from AZ central and this is what it says for nearly
00:21:14.380 two decades at the grand Canyon, tourists, employees, and children on tour passes, uh,
00:21:20.300 tours and children on tours passed by three paint buckets stored in the national parks museum
00:21:26.640 collection building, unaware that they were being exposed to radiation.
00:21:30.840 Although federal officials learned last year that the five gallon containers were brimming
00:21:35.820 with uranium or then removed the radioactive specimens.
00:21:40.560 The park safety director alleges nothing was done to warn park workers on the public or the
00:21:46.500 public that they might have been exposed to unsafe levels of radiation in a rogue email
00:21:51.720 sent to all park service employees on February 4th, Elston Stevenson,
00:21:56.500 the safety health and wellness manager described the alleged coverup as a quote, top management
00:22:01.260 failure and warned of possible health consequences.
00:22:05.340 Um, he says, if you were in the museum collections building between the year 2000 and June 18th,
00:22:11.740 2018, you were exposed to uranium by OSHA's definition.
00:22:16.300 The rate, the radiation readings at first blush exceed the nuclear, uh, regulatory commission
00:22:21.940 safe limits, identifying who was exposed and your exposure level gets tricky.
00:22:26.080 And as our next important task, um, according to Stevenson, the uranium specimens have been
00:22:32.880 in a basement at park headquarters for decades and were moved to museum to the museum building
00:22:38.140 when it opened around 2000, uh, one of the buckets was so full that its lid would not close.
00:22:45.320 Stevenson said the containers were stored next to a taxidermy exhibit where children on tours
00:22:50.960 sometimes stopped for presentations sitting next to uranium for 30 minutes or more by his calculation.
00:22:58.680 Those children could have received radiation dosages in excess of federal safety standards
00:23:03.060 within three seconds and could have suffered dangerous exposure in less than half a minute.
00:23:08.340 And yet they were sitting next to it for 30 minutes or more.
00:23:11.760 Uh, and the story goes on, goes on from there.
00:23:15.560 So the national park service, um, was storing buckets of uranium in a museum next to an exhibit
00:23:25.440 where children would stop and sit and nobody moved the buckets for decades.
00:23:32.280 This is, uh, I mean, it's, if you don't know anything about the way government works, it it's,
00:23:40.880 it's inconceivable.
00:23:42.720 You just can't wrap your head around it, but this just shows how incompetent and ineffectual
00:23:49.000 a bureaucracy is that all someone need to do needed to do was move these buckets, get rid of buckets
00:23:56.300 and something as simple as getting rid of buckets, literal buckets of uranium, something like that
00:24:02.660 wasn't done for 20 years and keep something in mind that there are people who want the government
00:24:09.960 to have complete control over our healthcare system.
00:24:13.200 They want this government that couldn't figure out how to move buckets of uranium away from a
00:24:18.840 children's exhibit.
00:24:19.860 They want these people to control our healthcare system.
00:24:22.660 Uh, so just keep that in mind, by the way,
00:24:26.080 something else that was trending on, on social media yesterday, along with John Wayne, actually
00:24:31.120 someone else was trending along with John Wayne and that is Malia Obama.
00:24:36.260 Um, Malia Obama, of course is Barack and Michelle's daughter.
00:24:40.840 And I just want to mention this to you in case you see stories about this.
00:24:45.120 Um, why was she trending?
00:24:47.840 Well, because allegedly conservatives were outraged that Malia Obama was drinking alcohol.
00:24:54.520 There was a picture.
00:24:56.560 Apparently some paparazzi person took pictures of Malia Obama, who was on a beach with her
00:25:02.940 friends somewhere drinking wine.
00:25:05.700 And she's not 21 yet.
00:25:07.300 Apparently I think she's, I think she's 20, which of course, who cares?
00:25:12.480 The fact that this woman who is not a public figure, not a politician, uh, just a private
00:25:17.760 citizen out on a beach, enjoying herself.
00:25:20.820 Uh, the fact that she was drinking under age is of no concern to anyone does not matter is
00:25:26.940 not relevant is not worthy of notice at all.
00:25:30.060 But if you were on social media yesterday, you know, you would have seen a lot of, a lot
00:25:37.440 of liberals making this point and saying, well, we would just, just leave her alone.
00:25:41.580 She's a private citizen.
00:25:42.440 Just having a drink.
00:25:43.260 What does it matter?
00:25:45.580 And yeah, that's, that's true.
00:25:47.900 But why were they making this point?
00:25:49.880 I mean, who, who were they arguing against?
00:25:52.700 Who actually disagrees?
00:25:54.500 What, why is this even a subject of conversation in the first place?
00:26:00.700 Well, they claimed that conservatives, uh, as I said, were outraged about Malia Obama drinking.
00:26:07.420 And so they were defending her against conservative outrage.
00:26:11.040 But so I saw this, uh, trending and I, and I kind of looked into it and I said, who really
00:26:16.000 conservatives were mad about who, what kind of idiot on the conservative side was making
00:26:21.440 a big deal out of this.
00:26:22.480 I got to find these idiots.
00:26:23.680 And so I looked and I checked and I couldn't find any, I could not find one single conservative
00:26:28.940 expressing any outrage at all, or any concern to any degree about Malia Obama drinking wine.
00:26:36.820 So there were a lot of people outraged about outrage that as far as I could tell didn't
00:26:43.500 exist.
00:26:44.700 So what's going on with this?
00:26:46.020 Well, this is a familiar tactic.
00:26:47.700 Um, and we've seen it before.
00:26:49.920 You may remember a few years ago, the, uh, when the media reported about a backlash against
00:26:55.220 Starbucks because their cups weren't Christmassy enough.
00:26:58.140 You remember that from a few years ago.
00:27:00.060 Uh, you probably remember much more recently when that video of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez dancing
00:27:05.520 on a roof in college went viral.
00:27:07.680 Um, and the media told us again, that there was backlash and conservatives were outraged
00:27:13.300 about the fact that she was dancing on a roof.
00:27:14.940 Um, and now we have this Malia Obama thing.
00:27:18.540 What does all this have in common?
00:27:20.240 Well, what it has in common is that actually almost no conservatives really cared about any
00:27:24.980 of this.
00:27:25.280 The Starbucks cup thing.
00:27:26.520 I remember there were like two or three, uh, conservatives of relative sort of prominence
00:27:32.880 online who, um, who, who were upset about the Starbucks cups.
00:27:36.860 And that was those two or three people, those two or three silly people were taken and extrapolated
00:27:43.580 by the left into this whole conservative backlash.
00:27:45.960 Same thing with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez dancing.
00:27:49.360 There were maybe a couple, like a small handful of conservatives on Twitter or whatever, who
00:27:56.020 were, um, making fun of her because she danced on a roof almost, but everybody else didn't
00:28:02.660 care.
00:28:03.200 All the rest of us were like, who cares?
00:28:05.140 Fine.
00:28:05.380 It's a fight.
00:28:05.780 Who cares about this?
00:28:07.300 But they took that and they turned it into, they took those two or three people and they
00:28:11.140 turned it into a conservatives are outraged.
00:28:13.500 But the really impressive thing with this Malia Obama thing is that, uh, you know, at least
00:28:20.560 with Starbucks and with the dancing video, there were legitimately a couple of conservatives
00:28:26.200 who were concerned about that.
00:28:28.000 And so they could take that as sort of the, the, the nucleus and then just expand it.
00:28:34.220 But with Malia Obama, I don't think there was anybody.
00:28:36.720 I think that they just invented this whole cloth.
00:28:40.240 They invented this out of whole cloth.
00:28:41.740 They just, they just made this outrage appear out of thin air based on absolutely nothing.
00:28:49.360 It is a, it's a clever strategy though, because the whole point is to make us all make conservatives
00:28:54.000 look, uh, totally ridiculous and silly for being concerned about something like this.
00:28:59.260 When in fact, none of us were.
00:29:01.260 All right.
00:29:02.000 Um, I want to get to some of your emails.
00:29:04.580 You can email the show, mattwallshow at, uh, gmail.com, mattwallshow at gmail.com with your
00:29:10.120 comments, questions, concerns, hate mail, a couple.
00:29:13.740 I want to get through quickly.
00:29:16.980 This is from a beardsman is how he signs his email.
00:29:20.940 He says, watching the show.
00:29:22.220 I've noted that you are a professional looking corporate beard.
00:29:25.620 Corporate beards are neat and all, but I was wondering why did you choose that instead
00:29:29.240 of perhaps going to terminal length or even just longer than it is?
00:29:32.240 This isn't to shame you for trimming, but it is, but it isn't a terminal beard, how God
00:29:37.080 made you, especially a follically gifted, as follically gifted as you are.
00:29:40.920 I don't understand why you would limit yourself.
00:29:43.080 I guess the real question is why should we cut our beards if we shouldn't shave them on
00:29:47.500 a somewhat related note?
00:29:48.540 How many ways have you worn a beard and how long would you say you've been bearded?
00:29:52.640 Uh, I I've never been, I've never heard this term terminal beard before, but I like it and
00:30:00.960 I'm going to use it a terminal beard.
00:30:03.140 Well, I've been bearded and I haven't been clean shaven and probably, uh, 15 years to answer
00:30:07.220 your, your, your last question, but I'll tell you, here's the thing for me, the beardsman
00:30:13.440 is that one of the great advantages in my mind to having a beard is the, is the, is that it
00:30:21.860 doesn't require a lot of upkeep.
00:30:24.020 Um, it's it laziness, basically.
00:30:27.140 That's part of the reason that I have a beard and not just late.
00:30:30.300 Well, you know what?
00:30:30.660 I won't even say laziness.
00:30:31.520 It's about time management, because if you want to stay clean shaven, it means you're
00:30:36.640 shaving every day and there's all this effort that goes into it.
00:30:40.060 And, um, and you know, I think studies have shown that clean shaven men, by the time they
00:30:46.840 die, they will have wasted cumulatively.
00:30:49.520 They will have wasted two and a half years of their life shaving, which is a statistic
00:30:55.120 that I basically made up, but maybe it's true.
00:30:59.500 Um, and it's just a total waste of time.
00:31:02.700 You know, that time would be better spent doing other things.
00:31:06.060 But the problem is when you grow the beard really long, if you get it too long, then
00:31:11.360 you end up almost you're, you're back at the beginning.
00:31:14.000 And now it requires a lot of upkeep.
00:31:16.480 Like if you want to grow your beard long and not look like Tom Hanks from Castaway, then
00:31:21.060 it requires, you know, you've got to, you've got to do a lot of trimming and it requires
00:31:24.860 other things to make it actually look like a good beard and not like you're, you know,
00:31:28.800 some kind of, um, some kind of vagrant or whatever.
00:31:32.160 So my strategy is I'll just have the beard and I don't do anything with it.
00:31:36.020 I let it grow.
00:31:36.660 And then, uh, every once in a while, I'll just trim it back to about this length and
00:31:39.680 I'll let it grow again.
00:31:40.920 And that's the way that that's just a, a, it's just the way to maximize, um, or to be
00:31:46.200 as efficient as possible.
00:31:47.340 I guess that's, that's why I have it like this.
00:31:49.660 This is from Jeremy.
00:31:50.420 It says, Hey Matt, if leftists believe so strongly in a victim hierarchy, wouldn't they
00:31:55.560 have to put the unborn at the top?
00:31:57.080 It's completely absurd to grant a special victim status to gays, transgenders, minorities,
00:32:01.820 and women while simultaneously promoting the active genocide of children up until and after
00:32:07.340 birth.
00:32:07.800 If they truly cared about victims, um, ending abortion should be their top priority.
00:32:13.760 Well, Jeremy, I totally agree, of course, but you see the, the, the difference is that
00:32:20.900 although unborns, the unborn children, um, are victims in our culture and they are a group
00:32:31.420 of people who, who, uh, cannot fend for themselves and need to be defended.
00:32:35.520 The problem from the left's perspective is that, you know, an unborn child represents a sacrifice,
00:32:44.120 a personal sacrifice that you have to make to care for and love this child.
00:32:52.760 And part of the point of leftism is that you shouldn't, you shouldn't have to make sacrifices
00:32:58.540 that your life is all about you.
00:33:00.880 It's all about your own enjoyment, your own pleasure.
00:33:04.860 Um, you know, using your own money for yourself.
00:33:09.360 That's the point of life as far as they're concerned.
00:33:11.380 And unborn children interfere with that, which is why they have to be discarded.
00:33:20.260 But, you know, as far as they're like defending gays and minorities and women, well, sure.
00:33:25.000 I mean, that's because that, that doesn't interfere with them at all.
00:33:28.860 So that's easy, but an unborn child is, is something different.
00:33:35.460 All right.
00:33:35.920 Finally, this is, this is from Brianna.
00:33:37.620 She says, Hey Matt, recently a parenting counselor came to speak to some moms at my
00:33:41.100 church and it became obvious pretty quickly that she was an advocate for positive parenting.
00:33:45.340 She said, we should never give timeouts or punishments of any kind.
00:33:50.060 And that we should only be, uh, talking through the situation while acknowledging the child's
00:33:55.020 feelings.
00:33:55.600 She also had science and research to back up her parenting views, citing some sources,
00:34:00.160 although I admittedly haven't looked through them yet.
00:34:02.660 What is your view on positive parenting?
00:34:04.260 And do you think it works?
00:34:05.440 Brianna, I'm not really familiar with that phrase, but, uh, if positive parenting is what you
00:34:09.500 described, namely no punishments of any kind, no discipline, then I think it's madness.
00:34:15.440 And I really don't care what research she brings to the table.
00:34:18.460 I mean, you have to keep in mind here that parenting is a very complex kind of thing.
00:34:23.180 Um, that is to parent well, to parent successfully is, is complex and dynamic.
00:34:29.180 And it's not possible to really measure in a study.
00:34:32.060 So the primary job of a parent is to, is to instill virtue in a child.
00:34:37.920 So these studies about parenting, how do they measure virtue, um, in order to determine
00:34:44.900 what kind of parenting is best?
00:34:46.780 What is the virtue memory measuring tool where they could say this type of parenting instills
00:34:53.180 12.5% more virtue than this other kind?
00:34:56.840 Um, it's obviously absurd, uh, the problem with all these parenting studies and the research
00:35:03.740 and the parenting strategies and the parenting books and everything else is that it treats
00:35:07.680 parenting like a science when it's really not, it's, it's more of an art, but it's bigger
00:35:12.820 than that.
00:35:13.240 Even it's a relation, it's a human relationship, right?
00:35:16.300 And human relationships cannot be condensed down in this way.
00:35:20.080 They can't be poked and prodded in a laboratory.
00:35:23.340 Um, so the studies don't mean anything.
00:35:25.840 I don't care about them.
00:35:27.040 The idea of parenting without punishment is, is crazy.
00:35:30.500 Um, for two reasons, number one, children need limits.
00:35:37.000 Uh, they need boundaries.
00:35:38.820 This is one of the, one of the primary things that a child needs child needs to be told.
00:35:45.060 No, uh, this is about giving direction.
00:35:49.420 Um, this is, this is one of the main things that a child looks to a parent for.
00:35:56.940 And so if the parent says, well, I'm not going to give you that.
00:35:59.500 I'm only going to affirm.
00:36:01.560 I'm going to be a positive.
00:36:02.880 I'm only going to say yes.
00:36:05.540 Um, well, then you are depriving your child of, of a need of a necessity and something else
00:36:14.640 to keep in mind.
00:36:15.800 Secondly, is that, yeah, you may have a positive parenting style, but the world does not.
00:36:25.220 So the real world is not going to be positive all the time.
00:36:29.660 When your child goes out into the world and gets a job, um, his boss is not probably not
00:36:37.540 going to have a positive management style where he only tells his employees.
00:36:41.840 Yes.
00:36:42.400 And only affirms them positively and only says nice things.
00:36:46.000 Uh, nobody in the world is going to have that, uh, strategy, you know, nobody else will.
00:36:54.980 That's not the way the world operates.
00:36:58.540 So if you raise your child in an environment where they're only ever affirmed ever, and they're
00:37:04.320 only told positive things and they're never told no, and they're never punished and they
00:37:08.260 never face consequences and they never, um, face discipline, then you are preparing them
00:37:14.160 for a world that doesn't exist.
00:37:17.820 You may as well, instead of teaching them how to drive a car, you may as well teach them
00:37:22.920 how to ride a unicorn, uh, because it's the same exact thing.
00:37:26.480 You are giving them a, you, you are, you are preparing them for something that doesn't exist.
00:37:32.700 That's one of the reasons why a child needs to be taught about boundaries and needs to
00:37:40.740 be given discipline and needs to be told no, because he's going to live the rest of his
00:37:47.620 life in a world that tells him no, and a world that has boundaries and a world where there
00:37:53.380 is consequences and where there are punishments, sometimes very severe ones, if you, uh, if
00:37:58.440 you screw up, so this, uh, I wouldn't be, I wouldn't be listening to this woman and her
00:38:08.960 parenting strategies.
00:38:10.220 And I would also be suspicious of this church.
00:38:12.800 If, uh, this is the kind of parenting lesson that the church endorses, because I'll tell you
00:38:20.340 something else.
00:38:20.740 This also certainly is not biblical parenting.
00:38:25.020 Spare the rod, spoil the child, right?
00:38:26.720 That's what the, that's what the Bible says.
00:38:27.980 All right.
00:38:28.500 Um, we'll leave it there.
00:38:29.320 Thanks for watching everybody.
00:38:30.120 Thanks for listening.
00:38:30.820 Godspeed.
00:38:44.420 I'm Michael Knowles, host of the Michael Knowles show.
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