The Matt Walsh Show - February 25, 2019


Ep. 205 - Climate Alarmism Has Turned Into A Cult


Episode Stats

Length

49 minutes

Words per Minute

164.32301

Word Count

8,067

Sentence Count

595

Misogynist Sentences

10

Hate Speech Sentences

24


Summary

Today on The Matt Walsh Show, environmentalism has turned into a doomsday cult, and Bill Maher is sneering at small-town Americans in a way that is embarrassing for him and shows how out of touch he is. Also, Michael Jackson s cultish followers have been coming after me insisting that a man who shared his bed with little boys wasn t a pervert.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Walsh Show, environmentalism has turned into a doomsday cult.
00:00:04.700 So we'll talk about the apocalyptic fervor that is now gripping the climate alarmists.
00:00:10.740 Also, a basketball announcer has been suspended for making a completely innocuous comment
00:00:14.980 that disingenuous people have interpreted as racist.
00:00:18.440 We'll talk about that.
00:00:19.200 Bill Maher is sneering at small-town Americans,
00:00:23.280 but he's doing so in a way that is really embarrassing for him
00:00:27.980 and shows how out of touch he is.
00:00:29.220 And finally, Michael Jackson's cultish followers have been coming after me
00:00:34.300 insisting that a man who shared his bed with little boys wasn't actually a pervert.
00:00:38.760 So we'll talk about why they're completely wrong and also perhaps crazy today on The Matt Walsh Show.
00:00:49.520 Well, folks, the Oscars were last night, and it's pretty exciting stuff.
00:00:54.320 It appears that this and that movie won, and people were upset because this happened and that happened.
00:01:02.500 This person wore an outrageous outfit, so on and so forth, yada yada, etc.
00:01:07.900 That's my coverage of the Academy Awards.
00:01:11.980 I couldn't make myself care about this kind of thing if you paid me.
00:01:16.940 And, well, actually, I guess I am paid to care about the news,
00:01:20.160 but I still don't care about this.
00:01:22.440 I just can't manage to do it.
00:01:24.420 All I ever think about when I see that something like the Academy Awards is on,
00:01:29.620 all I ever can think is, what must the space aliens think?
00:01:35.200 The space aliens that I'm sure are somewhere out there on planet Galvatron or whatever,
00:01:40.100 and they're watching our television feed, and they see something like the Academy Awards,
00:01:45.480 and they see, you know, three and a half hours of people congratulating themselves,
00:01:50.500 and then other people sit around in their homes and watch those people congratulate themselves.
00:01:55.720 What must the aliens think?
00:01:58.160 They must be very confused about it as they plot their mission to come and take over the world
00:02:07.660 and enslave mankind, which is an eventuality that I personally welcome.
00:02:12.420 Now, I do have a lot of, I think, more interesting things to talk about today, though,
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00:03:57.720 Now, I don't know where to begin.
00:03:58.920 Let's just start with this.
00:04:00.220 On Friday, a bunch of children with something called the Sunrise Movement, which is apparently
00:04:07.860 an environmentalist group.
00:04:10.240 They went into Senator Feinstein's office, Diane Feinstein.
00:04:14.340 They went into her office in D.C. to harass her for not supporting the insane Green New Deal.
00:04:20.940 Now, Feinstein, who, as I'm sure you know, is no friend to the conservative movement.
00:04:26.760 And I'm not a fan of hers at all, to put it mildly.
00:04:31.280 But she, for the last few days, has been unfairly maligned for allegedly being disrespectful to these poor little children who went to her office to talk to her about the Green New Deal.
00:04:44.440 So, that's the impression that was supposedly given by the two-minute video that I'm about to show you.
00:04:51.300 A video that, of course, what do you know, has been edited to make her look bad because the full video tells a different story.
00:04:58.940 And I'll get to that in a minute.
00:05:00.600 But for now, let's just take a look.
00:05:02.820 Let's take a look at the deceptive video.
00:05:04.780 So, here's the two-minute video that this environmentalist group put out.
00:05:09.800 We're going to go in and share this letter, and we're going to do it all together.
00:05:14.160 Share it in front of Feinstein.
00:05:16.320 We're asking her to vote yes on the Green New Deal.
00:05:20.840 We are trying to ask you to vote yes on the Green New Deal.
00:05:25.580 No, please.
00:05:26.520 Okay, I'll tell you what.
00:05:28.680 We have our own Green New Deal.
00:05:31.280 Some scientists have said that we have 12 years to turn this around.
00:05:36.780 Well, it's not going to get turned around in 10 years.
00:05:39.980 What we can do is put ourselves...
00:05:41.240 Senator, if this doesn't get turned around in 10 years, you're looking at the faces of the people who are going to be living with these consequences.
00:05:47.820 The government is supposed to be for the people and by the people and all for the people.
00:05:51.480 You know what's interesting about this group is I've been doing this for 30 years.
00:05:57.220 I know what I'm doing.
00:05:58.880 You come in here, and you say it has to be my way or the highway.
00:06:04.440 I don't respond to that.
00:06:06.940 I've gotten elected.
00:06:08.620 I just ran.
00:06:10.240 I was elected by almost a million vote plurality.
00:06:15.040 And I know what I'm doing.
00:06:17.660 So, you know, maybe people should listen a little bit.
00:06:21.700 I hear what you're saying, but we're the people who voted you.
00:06:25.000 You're supposed to listen to us.
00:06:26.600 That's your job.
00:06:27.880 I'm 16.
00:06:29.140 I can't vote.
00:06:29.500 Well, you didn't vote for me.
00:06:30.680 I'm going to vote for you.
00:06:31.720 It doesn't matter.
00:06:32.460 We're the ones who are going to be impacted.
00:06:34.800 It doesn't matter.
00:06:35.660 We're going to be the ones who are impacted.
00:06:37.540 I understand that.
00:06:39.200 I have seven grandchildren.
00:06:41.240 I understand it very well.
00:06:43.340 Senator, the cost of not taking this action is far higher than the cost of what the Green New Deal will be.
00:06:48.820 And there is enormous popularity for this bill around the whole country.
00:06:53.600 And we're asking you to be brave and do this for us and for your grandchildren.
00:06:59.380 I'm trying to do the best I can, which was to write a responsible resolution.
00:07:05.240 Any plan that doesn't take full transformative action is not going to be what we need.
00:07:10.580 Well, you know better than I do.
00:07:12.960 So I think one day you should run for the Senate.
00:07:15.900 Great.
00:07:16.300 And then you do it your way.
00:07:17.580 But by that time, by that time, there's going to be a big problem.
00:07:21.760 I just won a big election.
00:07:24.660 Okay.
00:07:25.060 Now, as I said, that, of course, is not the full story because it never is.
00:07:28.040 And here's the thing.
00:07:29.420 At some point, we all have to learn this lesson.
00:07:33.420 And I'm not sure why so many people still struggle to understand that.
00:07:40.080 Listen, when you see a video online that everybody's getting outraged about,
00:07:46.020 and you see the video is a two-minute or 30-second or one-minute clip
00:07:52.380 of some sort of out-of-context discussion or event or altercation,
00:07:59.020 just assume right away, just assume from the very beginning
00:08:03.560 that it's misleading and that there's more to the story.
00:08:06.020 Just in every single time, assume that.
00:08:09.220 So whenever people are getting outraged over a two-minute out-of-context clip
00:08:12.360 that you can tell has been, there have been parts cut out,
00:08:14.600 and there was parts before that and parts after that that you don't see,
00:08:17.440 just assume that there's, just assume it.
00:08:20.460 Don't join the outrage.
00:08:21.700 You could just know right away there is definitely more to this story.
00:08:25.360 Okay, somebody took this part of the exchange,
00:08:28.060 and they left out the rest, and there's a reason for that.
00:08:31.820 So if you look at the whole video, it was like 15 minutes,
00:08:35.760 and if you look at that, you see that Feinstein was actually incredibly patient
00:08:40.720 with these kids, way more patient than I would be.
00:08:42.600 She even offered one of them an internship, which, what do you know,
00:08:47.200 the good folks at the Sunrise Movement decided to cut that part out.
00:08:51.120 I wonder why they cut that out.
00:08:53.340 Because obviously they have an agenda.
00:08:56.340 But here's the thing.
00:08:57.660 Even in that short two-minute video,
00:09:01.940 even if that's all there was to it,
00:09:05.600 I'm still totally on the side of Dianne Feinstein,
00:09:08.800 and I don't get to say that very often, but I am in this case.
00:09:12.460 She was not the one being disrespectful.
00:09:15.500 Those kids were being disrespectful to her.
00:09:17.860 She's the adult in this situation, remember?
00:09:20.620 She's like 85 years old, and these are little kids,
00:09:24.740 teenagers and little kids that have come into her office
00:09:27.620 and are lecturing her and trying to instruct her
00:09:31.460 on what she needs to do.
00:09:32.900 Did you hear that?
00:09:35.360 The one girl in particular was, I couldn't even watch it.
00:09:38.480 The first time I saw that video, I had to look away
00:09:40.100 because I was just cringing.
00:09:42.280 And especially as a parent, I was just,
00:09:45.300 I mean, that one girl in particular was,
00:09:46.920 your job, let me tell you what your job is.
00:09:53.960 Although I did appreciate the part when they said,
00:09:56.060 but we're your voters, you need to listen to us.
00:09:58.480 And she said, well, but you're 16, you're not my voters,
00:10:00.840 you didn't vote for me.
00:10:02.460 Now, you know, I'm old-fashioned,
00:10:06.120 so I still believe in respecting your elders,
00:10:08.600 and that's something that you gotta teach kids.
00:10:10.260 So kids don't talk to adults that way.
00:10:12.580 That's not how I'm raising my kids.
00:10:15.280 You don't go and talk to an adult.
00:10:16.660 It doesn't matter if she's a senator,
00:10:17.940 or if she's a janitor, it doesn't matter who she is.
00:10:20.680 You don't talk to an adult that way.
00:10:22.480 You need to have respect for adults.
00:10:24.440 Now, but I don't blame the kids, really,
00:10:29.480 for their awful and embarrassing behavior.
00:10:32.760 And it was awful and embarrassing.
00:10:35.560 And if those were my children,
00:10:37.060 I would be totally ashamed.
00:10:39.980 I would be ashamed of their behavior.
00:10:41.520 I'd be ashamed of myself.
00:10:42.820 I'd be ashamed of myself, especially.
00:10:45.080 So, you know, I blame the parents for this.
00:10:47.680 When I was a kid,
00:10:48.740 if I ever spoke to an elderly woman like that,
00:10:51.800 I'd be at home right now, grounded,
00:10:55.780 and writing a heartfelt letter of apology,
00:10:59.940 a letter of apology that my dad would be,
00:11:02.200 you know, checking,
00:11:04.280 and then making editorial comments,
00:11:07.000 and making me go back and write it again.
00:11:08.600 Like, that's how I'd be spending my day,
00:11:10.920 is working on this letter of apology
00:11:12.480 to the woman that I had terribly disrespected.
00:11:14.980 But I had competent parents,
00:11:19.600 you know, who actually cared about forming me
00:11:22.560 into a, at least somewhat respectable adult.
00:11:26.480 But these children apparently don't.
00:11:29.220 And when you don't have competent parents
00:11:32.340 guiding you and instructing you on how to behave,
00:11:35.520 especially around your elders,
00:11:37.200 then you can't really be expected
00:11:39.440 to figure it out on your own.
00:11:40.840 Kids don't figure that kind of stuff out.
00:11:42.640 Like, if you don't tell a kid
00:11:44.400 and work with a child to be respectful,
00:11:47.320 they're not going to just figure it out.
00:11:48.660 Then it just becomes Lord of the Flies,
00:11:50.260 and you're going to end up with
00:11:51.380 bratty kids like that.
00:11:54.360 So I blame this on the parents.
00:11:56.660 And I'll tell you something else
00:11:57.760 that I blame on the parents
00:11:58.940 and on the adults around these kids.
00:12:03.100 And this is the thing that really jumped out at me.
00:12:05.040 This is what makes that video so disturbing.
00:12:08.140 More than the utter disrespect of these bratty kids,
00:12:12.620 it's how truly scared they seem to be.
00:12:17.880 I mean, these kids really think the world's going to end.
00:12:21.920 They really do.
00:12:24.700 And they think that because that's what they've been told.
00:12:29.080 Climate alarmism,
00:12:30.820 climate alarmism has become a doomsday cult.
00:12:33.880 It is more than just alarmism now.
00:12:36.140 It is like doomsday Jim Jones territory
00:12:42.340 that we're in now.
00:12:43.480 These maniacs,
00:12:44.480 and when I say maniacs,
00:12:45.480 I'm not talking about the kids.
00:12:46.200 I'm talking about the adults.
00:12:48.380 These maniacs are running around screaming
00:12:50.940 that the world is going to end.
00:12:52.520 That's literally what they're doing.
00:12:54.620 They're saying the world is coming to an end.
00:12:57.660 For example,
00:12:58.780 here's a clip from good old AOC,
00:13:01.760 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
00:13:02.780 Here she is last month
00:13:04.300 saying that the world is coming to an end.
00:13:06.200 And I think that the part of it
00:13:10.560 that is generational
00:13:11.800 is that millennials and people,
00:13:15.800 and you know,
00:13:16.280 Gen Z and all these folks that come after us
00:13:18.620 are looking up
00:13:20.000 and we're like,
00:13:21.240 the world is going to end in 12 years
00:13:23.680 if we don't address climate change.
00:13:25.340 And your biggest issue
00:13:26.720 is
00:13:28.080 your biggest issue
00:13:31.740 is
00:13:32.160 how are we going to pay for it?
00:13:34.540 And like,
00:13:35.600 this is the war.
00:13:36.980 This is our World War II.
00:13:38.700 The world is going to end
00:13:40.400 in 12 years,
00:13:42.200 she says.
00:13:42.640 12 years.
00:13:43.140 She even put a time limit
00:13:45.380 on it.
00:13:46.300 I mean,
00:13:46.500 that's what the doomsday cultists do.
00:13:48.500 That's what the cult leaders do
00:13:49.560 is they give you an exact
00:13:50.860 date
00:13:53.320 when the world's going to end.
00:13:54.380 And that's what she's doing here.
00:13:56.600 These are doomsday prophets
00:13:58.140 predicting the exact date
00:14:00.620 of the end of the world.
00:14:03.040 Where did she get that from?
00:14:04.200 Where did she get 12 years from?
00:14:05.340 Well,
00:14:05.480 she didn't get it from science,
00:14:06.480 I'll tell you that.
00:14:07.040 She just got it from her fevered
00:14:09.260 imagination.
00:14:11.480 And,
00:14:11.820 you know,
00:14:12.780 you and I
00:14:13.540 can listen to this kind of
00:14:15.040 hysterical nonsense
00:14:16.040 and we can sift through it
00:14:19.120 and we can see it for what it is.
00:14:21.420 But kids
00:14:22.420 are not able to do that.
00:14:25.200 Which is why
00:14:26.080 climate alarmism
00:14:27.340 is child abuse.
00:14:30.120 Because it is
00:14:30.840 psychologically traumatizing
00:14:32.520 to kids
00:14:32.960 who don't know any better.
00:14:34.520 You know,
00:14:34.720 when you tell a child
00:14:35.780 that the world is going to end
00:14:37.020 and the ice caps are going to melt,
00:14:38.320 we're all going to drown
00:14:39.200 in a few years,
00:14:40.320 that's abuse.
00:14:41.760 That is psychological abuse.
00:14:43.600 That is traumatizing
00:14:44.700 for a child
00:14:45.200 to be told that.
00:14:46.880 I mean,
00:14:47.060 I know when I was a kid,
00:14:48.600 I can remember that
00:14:49.620 the big thing was
00:14:50.480 deforestation.
00:14:52.220 And I was told in school
00:14:53.580 that all the trees
00:14:55.040 are being cut down
00:14:55.920 and soon enough
00:14:56.980 there's not going to be
00:14:57.480 any oxygen left in the world
00:14:58.840 and we're all going to die.
00:15:00.960 And that was terrifying
00:15:02.060 because when you're a kid
00:15:03.400 and you're,
00:15:03.840 now when you're an adult
00:15:04.880 and you have a brain
00:15:05.480 in your head
00:15:05.940 and you hear that,
00:15:07.160 you think,
00:15:07.460 okay,
00:15:07.760 all right,
00:15:08.880 calm down.
00:15:09.380 Like,
00:15:09.700 yeah,
00:15:09.960 I mean,
00:15:10.240 we should try to
00:15:11.540 not cut down
00:15:12.760 all the trees
00:15:13.400 and we should try
00:15:14.320 to plant new trees
00:15:15.240 when we cut down.
00:15:15.940 I mean,
00:15:16.160 yeah,
00:15:16.620 fine,
00:15:17.740 but don't tell me
00:15:19.060 that we're all going to die
00:15:20.220 because the Amazon rainforest
00:15:21.740 is being cut down.
00:15:23.320 Don't tell me that.
00:15:24.060 So as an adult,
00:15:25.080 I can say that,
00:15:25.760 but as a child,
00:15:27.080 I can remember being
00:15:28.040 in third grade
00:15:29.120 sitting in a classroom
00:15:29.960 being told this stuff
00:15:31.020 and it was just
00:15:35.260 absolutely horrifying
00:15:36.880 to hear
00:15:37.300 and it scared me to death.
00:15:40.760 And it's not fair
00:15:41.660 to do that to kids.
00:15:43.060 Even if you think
00:15:43.900 you're doing it
00:15:44.560 for a good cause,
00:15:46.780 it still does not
00:15:48.000 make it okay
00:15:48.560 to lie to children.
00:15:49.720 It was the same
00:15:50.280 kind of thing.
00:15:50.880 I don't want to
00:15:51.240 get off track here,
00:15:52.380 but it was the same
00:15:52.860 kind of thing
00:15:53.380 when I was growing up,
00:15:55.060 the anti-smoking crusade.
00:15:57.840 And so they were really,
00:15:58.880 you know,
00:15:59.040 they're really intent
00:15:59.680 on making sure kids
00:16:00.440 don't smoke cigarettes,
00:16:01.360 which is a good goal
00:16:02.620 because it's good
00:16:04.720 to stop kids
00:16:05.280 from smoking cigarettes.
00:16:06.140 But what they told us,
00:16:07.500 I can remember being told,
00:16:08.600 the impression
00:16:09.260 that I was given
00:16:09.960 as a kid
00:16:10.500 is that
00:16:11.840 if you are even
00:16:13.840 in the same room
00:16:15.300 for a few minutes
00:16:16.440 as someone
00:16:17.640 who's smoking a cigarette,
00:16:18.760 you could get cancer
00:16:19.520 and die.
00:16:20.060 That is the distinct
00:16:21.440 impression I got.
00:16:22.400 Is that,
00:16:23.380 you know,
00:16:24.180 it's like ingesting
00:16:25.080 anthrax
00:16:25.840 or something like that,
00:16:27.000 which of course
00:16:27.680 is completely ridiculous.
00:16:29.520 But I guess
00:16:30.220 what they thought is,
00:16:31.100 well,
00:16:31.200 let's just scare
00:16:32.160 these kids,
00:16:33.080 scare them straight,
00:16:34.000 lie to them,
00:16:34.780 and if in the end
00:16:36.400 they don't end up smoking,
00:16:37.380 then it was worth it.
00:16:39.220 But that is an
00:16:39.920 ends justify the means
00:16:41.480 just wrong way
00:16:44.620 of going about things.
00:16:46.240 And it's the same
00:16:47.160 sort of situation here.
00:16:48.220 It is hysterical nonsense
00:16:54.780 to say that the world
00:16:57.080 is coming to an end
00:16:58.320 or anything like that.
00:16:59.760 These apocalyptic predictions.
00:17:01.540 And I'm not saying
00:17:05.240 that we should,
00:17:06.680 you know,
00:17:08.680 be messing up
00:17:10.300 the environment
00:17:10.860 or dumping chemicals
00:17:11.940 into rivers
00:17:12.680 and throwing trash
00:17:14.340 everywhere.
00:17:16.040 Recycling is fine.
00:17:17.300 I mean,
00:17:17.420 all that stuff is fine.
00:17:18.680 But you can advocate
00:17:20.400 for that
00:17:21.200 without lying
00:17:22.460 and without being hysterical.
00:17:24.040 Speaking of being hysterical,
00:17:27.500 Eric Holthaus
00:17:28.820 is a meteorologist
00:17:30.680 with the
00:17:31.540 for some reason
00:17:32.920 a huge social media following.
00:17:34.440 This guy has like
00:17:35.160 hundreds of thousands
00:17:36.240 of followers on Twitter.
00:17:38.860 And here's what he tweeted
00:17:40.340 over the weekend.
00:17:41.300 He said,
00:17:42.720 preventing the Earth
00:17:44.140 from descending
00:17:44.880 into a lifeless husk
00:17:46.360 of a planet
00:17:46.960 in a geological blink
00:17:48.400 of an eye
00:17:48.940 is technologically possible,
00:17:51.060 experts say,
00:17:52.180 but it will require
00:17:53.660 confiscating unearned wealth
00:17:55.320 from billionaires
00:17:56.100 and ending the pointless wars
00:17:57.520 we've been fighting
00:17:58.540 for generations.
00:18:00.080 Now,
00:18:00.640 this tweet
00:18:01.840 got like
00:18:02.540 7,000
00:18:03.820 likes
00:18:05.020 on Twitter.
00:18:06.700 The Earth
00:18:07.560 is descending
00:18:08.440 into a lifeless husk.
00:18:11.020 And the only way
00:18:12.180 to stop it
00:18:12.920 is to confiscate wealth
00:18:14.280 from billionaires.
00:18:16.260 Now,
00:18:17.020 even if I agreed
00:18:19.560 that the Earth
00:18:20.560 is descending
00:18:21.100 into a lifeless husk,
00:18:22.340 how does taking money
00:18:23.420 from billionaires
00:18:24.040 and giving it
00:18:24.460 to other people,
00:18:25.020 how does that
00:18:25.740 help the environment
00:18:26.480 exactly?
00:18:26.880 How is that?
00:18:28.900 I don't understand
00:18:29.860 what that has to do
00:18:30.740 with the environment.
00:18:32.160 But of course,
00:18:32.840 the bigger point here
00:18:33.540 is that the Earth
00:18:34.400 is not descending
00:18:36.380 into a lifeless husk.
00:18:37.800 Yes,
00:18:38.180 eventually the Earth
00:18:39.200 will be a lifeless husk,
00:18:40.700 but it's not going to be
00:18:41.860 in the blink of an eye,
00:18:43.020 and it's not going to be
00:18:43.980 because you were driving
00:18:45.100 an SUV.
00:18:46.300 That's not going to be
00:18:47.240 the reason.
00:18:48.360 How arrogant
00:18:49.380 do you have to be
00:18:51.720 to believe
00:18:53.400 something like that?
00:18:54.140 So not only
00:18:54.680 is it hysterical,
00:18:55.780 nonsensical,
00:18:56.900 dishonest,
00:18:57.980 but it's also
00:18:58.960 so egotistical.
00:19:01.320 The Earth
00:19:01.960 has been around
00:19:02.580 for 4.5 billion years.
00:19:05.160 It has survived
00:19:06.080 asteroid strikes,
00:19:07.720 super volcanic eruptions,
00:19:09.680 ice ages,
00:19:10.880 countless other
00:19:11.660 cataclysmic events,
00:19:13.320 but you think
00:19:14.140 a couple hundred years
00:19:15.260 of industrialized society
00:19:16.620 will turn it
00:19:17.220 into a lifeless husk?
00:19:19.800 Do you have any idea
00:19:21.620 how resilient
00:19:23.240 the Earth is?
00:19:24.980 Do you have any idea
00:19:26.140 what it would take
00:19:27.440 to make the Earth
00:19:29.120 a lifeless husk?
00:19:31.520 It's going to take
00:19:32.340 a lot more
00:19:32.880 than a smokestack
00:19:33.940 on a factory,
00:19:35.000 I can tell you that.
00:19:36.920 I mean,
00:19:37.280 the asteroid
00:19:37.820 that wiped out
00:19:38.500 the dinosaurs
00:19:39.340 didn't even make
00:19:40.580 the Earth
00:19:41.180 a lifeless husk.
00:19:42.100 It made the Earth
00:19:42.960 inhospitable
00:19:43.960 to many forms of life
00:19:46.200 for a while,
00:19:47.220 but lifeless husk
00:19:49.580 means the Earth
00:19:50.400 is dead.
00:19:50.820 That's what a husk is.
00:19:51.740 It's a corpse.
00:19:52.780 It's just,
00:19:53.280 it's dead.
00:19:53.820 It's done.
00:19:55.380 What he's claiming
00:19:56.380 is that the Earth
00:19:57.200 is going to die
00:19:58.140 and be totally destroyed.
00:20:00.700 You know,
00:20:01.340 destroying the planet,
00:20:02.400 right?
00:20:02.540 That's what we hear
00:20:03.120 from environmentalists.
00:20:04.280 We're destroying
00:20:05.240 the planet.
00:20:07.500 We could not
00:20:08.520 destroy the planet
00:20:09.640 if we tried.
00:20:12.240 The sun
00:20:13.180 can destroy the planet.
00:20:15.520 The sun could burp
00:20:16.560 tomorrow
00:20:17.060 and we would all
00:20:17.900 be incinerated.
00:20:18.560 That's how powerful
00:20:19.540 the sun is.
00:20:20.440 A big enough asteroid
00:20:21.560 could destroy the planet.
00:20:23.160 A collision with another planet
00:20:24.740 could destroy our planet.
00:20:27.740 It takes a cosmic scale event
00:20:30.560 to destroy a planet.
00:20:34.260 That is not something
00:20:35.620 we could do.
00:20:38.840 As I said,
00:20:39.760 even if we tried,
00:20:41.100 we could not do that.
00:20:42.160 And we're not going
00:20:44.980 to do that.
00:20:46.040 Which, again,
00:20:47.040 does not mean
00:20:48.220 that we should just
00:20:49.760 do what we want
00:20:50.740 and, you know,
00:20:52.800 ruin,
00:20:54.620 cut down all the trees
00:20:55.740 that we want
00:20:56.320 and throw trash everywhere.
00:20:59.280 And all that.
00:21:00.220 No one is saying that.
00:21:01.520 But it's possible
00:21:02.720 to advocate
00:21:03.500 for conservation
00:21:04.620 and responsibility
00:21:07.320 and recycling
00:21:08.560 and not being wasteful
00:21:11.060 and all that.
00:21:11.680 It's possible
00:21:12.320 to advocate
00:21:12.900 for those things,
00:21:14.040 for those worthy,
00:21:15.880 worthwhile things
00:21:16.960 without being
00:21:19.180 a chicken little
00:21:19.900 running around
00:21:21.140 screaming that
00:21:21.760 the sky is falling.
00:21:22.580 It's possible to do.
00:21:24.220 And so,
00:21:25.060 that's what I,
00:21:25.780 that's what I would suggest.
00:21:28.000 All right.
00:21:28.780 A basketball player,
00:21:32.240 a,
00:21:32.900 well,
00:21:33.140 I say,
00:21:33.400 a basketball play-by-play
00:21:34.640 announcer,
00:21:35.040 I should say,
00:21:35.920 for the University of Iowa.
00:21:37.640 Gary Dolphin is his name.
00:21:39.320 Has been suspended
00:21:40.500 for the rest of the season
00:21:42.580 and possibly
00:21:43.300 it could be done forever.
00:21:45.660 It could be an indefinite
00:21:47.060 kind of suspension
00:21:47.820 because of a comment
00:21:49.460 that he made
00:21:50.020 at the end of an
00:21:50.720 Iowa versus Maryland game
00:21:51.900 over the weekend.
00:21:52.800 And this allegedly
00:21:54.680 was a racist comment
00:21:56.180 that this guy made,
00:21:58.480 Gary Dolphin.
00:22:00.500 And I'll tell you
00:22:01.240 what the comment was.
00:22:01.860 He was talking,
00:22:02.460 it was during
00:22:02.800 the post-game show.
00:22:05.040 I'm analyzing the game
00:22:06.140 and he was talking
00:22:06.940 about Maryland forward
00:22:08.000 Bruno Fernando
00:22:08.940 and Dolphin
00:22:09.920 in an effort
00:22:12.260 to be complimentary.
00:22:14.160 Dolphin said,
00:22:15.580 12 threes
00:22:16.720 on 22 made baskets.
00:22:17.980 That's some pretty good
00:22:18.600 long range shooting.
00:22:19.660 And then Fernando
00:22:20.580 was King Kong
00:22:21.480 at the end of the game.
00:22:23.820 So,
00:22:24.420 Fernando was King Kong
00:22:25.560 at the end of the game.
00:22:27.760 And now maybe
00:22:28.680 his career is over
00:22:29.560 because of that.
00:22:30.200 because you could
00:22:33.200 interpret that
00:22:34.280 as a racist comment
00:22:36.120 if you wanted to.
00:22:37.700 And the key part
00:22:38.680 of that being
00:22:39.160 if you wanted to.
00:22:42.100 If you were intent
00:22:43.520 on seeing that
00:22:44.600 as racist,
00:22:45.360 then you could
00:22:46.000 certainly see it
00:22:46.560 as racist.
00:22:48.820 Because,
00:22:49.500 but if instead
00:22:52.840 you decided
00:22:54.120 that you wanted
00:22:54.680 to cut the guy
00:22:55.460 even a little bit
00:22:56.920 of slack
00:22:57.440 and have
00:22:58.640 even a little bit
00:22:59.820 of charity
00:23:00.360 just the smallest
00:23:01.320 amount of charity
00:23:02.440 in the way
00:23:03.560 that you interpret
00:23:04.140 that comment
00:23:04.640 you will instead
00:23:05.620 see that this is
00:23:06.480 meant to be
00:23:07.000 a compliment
00:23:07.780 and it of course
00:23:09.200 was not supposed
00:23:09.820 to be racist.
00:23:10.820 He was not referring
00:23:11.560 to the guy's race
00:23:12.660 obviously
00:23:13.320 but he was just
00:23:14.420 saying that the player
00:23:15.380 was tough,
00:23:16.140 unstoppable,
00:23:17.360 strong,
00:23:18.380 dominant.
00:23:20.540 It's like saying
00:23:21.600 that somebody
00:23:22.380 was a monster
00:23:23.260 on the court.
00:23:24.700 Is that racist?
00:23:26.920 Yes,
00:23:28.500 if you go around
00:23:29.120 saying people
00:23:30.500 of this race
00:23:31.140 are monsters,
00:23:32.220 well that's racist.
00:23:33.980 But if somebody
00:23:34.920 is playing a game
00:23:35.880 and you say
00:23:36.280 well that guy
00:23:36.680 was a monster
00:23:37.540 out there,
00:23:38.360 that's not racist.
00:23:40.480 Totally different
00:23:41.280 context.
00:23:42.800 Or if it's like
00:23:43.680 comparing them
00:23:44.220 to the Hulk
00:23:44.820 or Superman
00:23:45.440 or any other
00:23:47.080 mythical creature,
00:23:48.180 that's the point.
00:23:50.640 And this is
00:23:51.780 what just
00:23:52.420 infuriates me
00:23:54.340 to no end.
00:23:54.940 is with this
00:23:56.980 kind of thing.
00:23:59.160 We all know,
00:24:02.180 you know,
00:24:02.420 if you were
00:24:02.740 watching the
00:24:03.400 post-game show
00:24:04.240 and you saw
00:24:04.860 the full clip
00:24:05.520 in context,
00:24:08.160 unless you're
00:24:09.400 crazy,
00:24:11.520 when you saw
00:24:12.740 that,
00:24:13.060 you would know
00:24:14.180 exactly what he
00:24:15.180 meant.
00:24:16.100 There's just
00:24:17.000 no way
00:24:17.820 that a
00:24:18.440 halfway
00:24:18.900 intelligent
00:24:19.640 and honest
00:24:20.920 person
00:24:21.480 could listen
00:24:22.400 to that comment
00:24:23.000 and actually
00:24:23.900 think that he
00:24:24.800 meant to say
00:24:25.460 something racist.
00:24:27.060 There's just
00:24:27.780 no way.
00:24:29.460 There's just
00:24:30.160 no way
00:24:30.740 that Dolphin
00:24:31.380 decided right
00:24:32.420 then and there
00:24:32.940 to end his
00:24:33.720 career by
00:24:34.680 randomly making
00:24:35.620 a racist
00:24:36.060 comment for
00:24:36.660 no reason.
00:24:37.260 It's like,
00:24:37.680 we can pretty
00:24:38.600 much assume
00:24:39.500 with 99.99999%
00:24:42.960 certainty
00:24:43.440 that that was
00:24:44.240 not his
00:24:44.600 intention.
00:24:45.560 But yes,
00:24:46.360 you could
00:24:46.840 interpret it
00:24:47.360 that way
00:24:47.680 if you want.
00:24:48.400 If you
00:24:48.840 just were
00:24:49.680 determined
00:24:50.260 to see
00:24:51.940 the absolute
00:24:52.860 worst in
00:24:53.760 this guy
00:24:54.220 and you
00:24:55.160 wanted to
00:24:55.700 destroy his
00:24:56.280 life,
00:24:56.700 then yeah,
00:24:57.160 you could
00:24:57.380 do that.
00:24:58.900 You could
00:24:59.400 say,
00:24:59.780 yes,
00:25:00.060 you know
00:25:00.180 what,
00:25:00.340 his intention
00:25:00.900 was to
00:25:01.340 sacrifice
00:25:01.840 his whole
00:25:02.360 career,
00:25:03.140 everything he
00:25:03.640 worked for,
00:25:04.620 in order to
00:25:05.280 throw a
00:25:06.320 casual racist
00:25:07.300 jab at a
00:25:08.940 player in the
00:25:09.580 guise of a
00:25:10.020 compliment.
00:25:11.220 If you're
00:25:11.880 intent on
00:25:12.340 destroying this
00:25:12.880 man,
00:25:13.520 that's how
00:25:13.980 you'll
00:25:14.180 interpret it.
00:25:15.120 But why
00:25:16.100 would you
00:25:16.460 be intent
00:25:17.080 on destroying
00:25:18.040 him?
00:25:18.400 Dolphin
00:25:21.240 issued a
00:25:21.660 statement,
00:25:22.260 by the way,
00:25:22.720 apologizing.
00:25:23.400 This was a
00:25:23.800 statement.
00:25:24.080 He said,
00:25:24.360 during the
00:25:24.720 broadcast,
00:25:25.240 I used a
00:25:25.580 comparison when
00:25:26.580 trying to
00:25:26.940 describe a
00:25:27.420 talented Maryland
00:25:28.080 basketball player.
00:25:29.240 In no way
00:25:30.120 did I intend
00:25:30.720 to offend or
00:25:31.360 disparage the
00:25:31.920 player.
00:25:32.280 I take full
00:25:32.640 responsibility for
00:25:33.380 my inappropriate
00:25:33.960 word choice.
00:25:34.960 I offer a
00:25:35.440 sincere apology
00:25:36.280 to him and
00:25:36.780 anyone else who
00:25:37.280 was offended.
00:25:38.160 I wish the
00:25:38.520 Iowa Hawkeye
00:25:39.200 players,
00:25:39.720 coaches,
00:25:40.020 and fans all
00:25:40.540 the very best
00:25:41.100 as they head
00:25:41.480 into the final
00:25:41.940 stretch of the
00:25:42.340 season.
00:25:43.000 I will use
00:25:43.500 this as an
00:25:43.900 opportunity to
00:25:44.480 grow as a
00:25:44.940 person and
00:25:45.420 learn more about
00:25:46.180 unconscious
00:25:46.660 bias.
00:25:48.600 He's groveling
00:25:49.540 here because I
00:25:50.660 don't blame him.
00:25:52.100 He wants to
00:25:52.840 get his job
00:25:53.320 back.
00:25:57.300 As much as I
00:26:00.200 would love to
00:26:00.680 see this guy
00:26:01.260 issue a
00:26:01.740 statement and
00:26:02.220 say,
00:26:02.520 you know what,
00:26:03.100 you idiots,
00:26:04.340 you know what I
00:26:05.120 meant, you
00:26:07.080 despicable
00:26:07.960 idiots, that
00:26:08.820 you're going to
00:26:09.700 destroy me for
00:26:10.960 no reason just
00:26:12.220 because, you
00:26:13.080 know, just
00:26:13.440 for fun.
00:26:15.620 You're going to
00:26:16.320 intentionally
00:26:17.500 misconstrue what
00:26:18.560 I said and
00:26:19.440 try to destroy
00:26:20.040 everything I've
00:26:20.540 worked for my
00:26:21.000 whole career.
00:26:21.680 How dare you?
00:26:22.500 You people owe
00:26:23.080 me an apology.
00:26:23.800 Now, if it were
00:26:24.820 me, that's the
00:26:25.720 kind of statement
00:26:26.960 I would probably
00:26:27.660 issue, but,
00:26:29.540 you know, maybe
00:26:30.020 that wouldn't be
00:26:30.460 the most prudent
00:26:30.980 step.
00:26:33.740 But why isn't
00:26:34.620 that enough?
00:26:35.100 So he apologized,
00:26:36.240 he said, look,
00:26:36.740 you know, it's not
00:26:37.500 how I meant it,
00:26:38.180 if you took it
00:26:39.140 that way, I'm
00:26:39.680 sorry, I didn't
00:26:40.680 mean it that way.
00:26:41.820 So why isn't
00:26:42.520 that enough?
00:26:43.500 Why can't people
00:26:44.180 just say, okay,
00:26:44.880 all right, well,
00:26:45.500 you know, fine.
00:26:46.080 Even if somehow
00:26:47.200 you were really
00:26:48.380 offended by that
00:26:49.260 and if in some
00:26:51.360 way you really
00:26:52.380 thought that he
00:26:53.600 meant it in a
00:26:54.200 racist way, well,
00:26:55.460 why can't that
00:26:56.060 be enough?
00:26:57.500 If somebody says
00:26:58.640 something that,
00:27:00.240 you know, most
00:27:01.660 likely could be
00:27:02.340 interpreted in an
00:27:03.320 innocuous way,
00:27:04.100 but there's a
00:27:04.580 possibility that
00:27:05.660 maybe it was
00:27:06.300 racist, then why
00:27:08.180 can't you just
00:27:08.760 say, no,
00:27:09.240 hold on a second,
00:27:09.860 what did you mean
00:27:10.760 by that, what
00:27:11.220 you just said
00:27:11.600 there?
00:27:12.740 I mean, it
00:27:13.480 sounds like maybe
00:27:14.540 you could have
00:27:14.940 meant something
00:27:15.260 racist and then
00:27:16.400 let the person
00:27:17.020 say, oh, no, no,
00:27:17.640 no, no, that's
00:27:17.900 not what I meant.
00:27:18.340 That's not what
00:27:18.620 I meant.
00:27:18.780 Let me tell you
00:27:19.340 what I meant.
00:27:20.300 And once they
00:27:21.120 clarify it, just
00:27:22.380 move on with your
00:27:23.160 life.
00:27:23.500 They've told you
00:27:24.220 what they meant.
00:27:24.880 That's not what
00:27:25.560 they meant.
00:27:26.180 You interpreted
00:27:27.120 it wrong.
00:27:28.940 So what?
00:27:29.540 On some kind of
00:27:30.200 technicality, we're
00:27:31.440 going to say, well,
00:27:32.360 yeah, you didn't
00:27:32.760 mean that, but you,
00:27:33.900 I mean, you said
00:27:34.620 the words King Kong
00:27:35.640 and technically, I
00:27:36.760 mean, technical
00:27:37.360 foul, right?
00:27:38.160 You're done.
00:27:39.240 Your whole life
00:27:39.820 is over.
00:27:41.580 It's just inhumane
00:27:43.480 to treat people
00:27:45.520 this way.
00:27:45.920 I mean, I don't
00:27:46.200 know anything
00:27:46.480 about Gary
00:27:46.960 Dolphin, but,
00:27:49.140 you know, just
00:27:50.800 randomly destroying
00:27:54.980 people that, I
00:27:56.560 mean, Gary
00:27:56.960 Dolphin, he's just
00:27:58.220 an Iowa play-by-play
00:28:00.000 announcer.
00:28:00.480 It's not even
00:28:00.920 like this is some
00:28:01.640 politically
00:28:02.140 significant person.
00:28:03.740 Um, he's simply
00:28:06.660 a guy who calls
00:28:09.160 basketball games
00:28:09.920 and we're saying,
00:28:12.180 all right, yeah,
00:28:12.860 we're going to
00:28:13.260 ruin him.
00:28:15.740 This is what I,
00:28:16.840 you know, I keep
00:28:17.300 saying it over and
00:28:18.900 over and over again,
00:28:19.740 but there's a very
00:28:21.680 simple concept here
00:28:22.940 that I think a lot
00:28:23.880 of people struggle
00:28:25.480 to understand.
00:28:26.260 and that is
00:28:27.320 that you, as
00:28:31.840 the listener,
00:28:33.580 okay, you don't
00:28:35.560 get to decide.
00:28:36.720 When somebody is
00:28:37.660 speaking, as the
00:28:39.720 listener, you don't
00:28:40.700 get to decide what
00:28:42.240 they meant by what
00:28:43.320 they said.
00:28:44.820 You hear it, you
00:28:46.640 interpret it how you
00:28:47.600 interpret it, but
00:28:49.680 only they can speak
00:28:51.360 to their intentions.
00:28:52.300 You, you, um,
00:28:55.060 cannot read their
00:28:56.240 mind.
00:28:56.560 You don't have
00:28:57.000 ESP.
00:28:58.500 Okay, you don't
00:28:59.340 have psychic powers.
00:29:00.480 So, they are the
00:29:01.740 only people, the
00:29:03.720 person who says
00:29:04.680 something is the
00:29:05.660 only person on
00:29:07.140 earth who can
00:29:09.100 really speak to the
00:29:10.540 intention behind
00:29:11.500 those words.
00:29:12.820 And so, if
00:29:14.260 something is said
00:29:15.260 by a speaker that
00:29:17.700 you find offensive,
00:29:19.000 the only thing you
00:29:20.940 can do is ask
00:29:22.280 them what they
00:29:23.280 meant.
00:29:23.800 And when they
00:29:24.420 tell you what
00:29:25.340 they meant, you
00:29:26.900 have no choice as
00:29:28.480 a rational person
00:29:29.640 but just to take
00:29:30.960 that and believe it
00:29:31.960 and move on.
00:29:34.620 That's all.
00:29:38.240 And, and if they
00:29:39.700 say something that
00:29:40.840 you know could be
00:29:41.700 interpreted in an
00:29:42.500 offensive way, um,
00:29:44.660 but you also know
00:29:45.660 they didn't mean it
00:29:46.280 like that, yet you
00:29:47.660 still call for them
00:29:48.620 to be fired anyway,
00:29:49.680 then you're just a
00:29:50.340 scumbag.
00:29:51.000 You're, you're just a
00:29:51.600 horrible person.
00:29:52.980 You're a horrible
00:29:53.940 vindictive person.
00:29:57.240 Um, I mean, you're
00:29:58.460 a sociopath in that
00:29:59.560 case.
00:29:59.840 And it seems like
00:30:00.620 there are a lot of
00:30:01.220 sociopaths in
00:30:02.760 America.
00:30:03.980 All right.
00:30:04.620 Speaking of
00:30:05.140 sociopaths, uh, I
00:30:09.560 have to mention one
00:30:11.440 other thing, and I'm
00:30:12.420 loathe to give this
00:30:13.380 guy any attention, but
00:30:14.340 Bill Maher on his
00:30:16.580 show, um, launched
00:30:18.220 into a lame, absurd,
00:30:20.980 elitist attack on
00:30:22.840 red states.
00:30:23.560 And I want you to
00:30:24.140 watch this.
00:30:24.640 I'm going to give you
00:30:25.580 a clip of it.
00:30:27.280 Uh, and it's really
00:30:28.260 interesting because
00:30:29.840 you're going to feel
00:30:30.740 like you unearthed some
00:30:32.400 kind of elitist time
00:30:33.600 capsule from 1994.
00:30:35.440 So here is, um, here
00:30:37.780 is Bill Maher and his
00:30:38.720 show, uh, mocking
00:30:39.700 red staters.
00:30:40.500 The blue parts of
00:30:41.980 America are having a
00:30:43.420 big prosperity party
00:30:44.600 while that big sea of
00:30:45.820 red feels like their
00:30:47.540 invitation got lost in
00:30:48.880 the mail.
00:30:49.580 And they still use the
00:30:50.880 mail.
00:30:53.940 They turn on the TV
00:30:55.380 and all the shows take
00:30:56.920 place in a few hip cities.
00:30:58.720 There's no real
00:30:59.380 housewives of Toledo or
00:31:01.200 CSI Lubbock.
00:31:04.200 There are no red carpets
00:31:13.960 in Wyoming and no one
00:31:15.280 ever asks you, who are
00:31:16.440 you wearing?
00:31:17.820 Because the answer is
00:31:18.980 always, Target.
00:31:23.340 There are two Americas
00:31:25.420 and it seems like one is
00:31:27.460 where all the cool jobs
00:31:28.840 are, where people drive
00:31:30.500 Teslas and eat artisanal
00:31:32.480 ice cream, we have
00:31:34.440 orchestras and theater
00:31:35.860 districts and world-class
00:31:37.340 shopping.
00:31:38.340 We have chef Wolfgang
00:31:39.500 Puck.
00:31:40.280 They have chef Boyardee.
00:31:44.900 Yeah.
00:31:46.160 Our roofs have solar
00:31:47.480 panels.
00:31:48.420 Theirs have last year's
00:31:49.360 Christmas lights.
00:31:51.800 We've got legal bud.
00:31:53.860 They've got bud.
00:31:54.940 Okay, now the worst part
00:32:03.560 of that video, of course,
00:32:04.560 is the cackling audience
00:32:06.100 to all these lame jokes.
00:32:09.460 They're like, hee, hee,
00:32:10.120 hee, hee, hee.
00:32:11.040 They're just so happy
00:32:12.780 that they can pretend
00:32:15.260 to be sophisticated by
00:32:16.460 laughing at those red
00:32:18.220 state plebes, you know?
00:32:20.200 Except, ironically, if they,
00:32:23.420 the audience or Bill Maher
00:32:24.840 himself, if they actually
00:32:25.840 knew anything about food
00:32:27.660 culture or the craft beer
00:32:29.420 scene or any of the things
00:32:31.220 that he mentioned, they
00:32:32.660 would know that those
00:32:33.440 insults stopped being
00:32:34.460 relevant like 25 years ago.
00:32:36.840 I mean, chef Wolfgang Puck,
00:32:39.140 that's your example of some
00:32:40.660 kind of, you know, some
00:32:43.800 sort of really trendy, fancy
00:32:48.060 chef that we can't even
00:32:49.700 conceal.
00:32:50.280 Chef Wolfgang Puck.
00:32:51.260 You can go to Concourse E
00:32:54.480 in the Charlotte airport
00:32:55.680 right across from the
00:32:56.600 Cinnabon and get a stale
00:32:58.240 ham sandwich from a
00:32:59.440 Wolfgang Puck restaurant.
00:33:00.860 It is not, there's nothing
00:33:03.140 impressive about it
00:33:04.060 whatsoever.
00:33:05.120 Like, you go, you just
00:33:06.420 walk through an airport,
00:33:07.260 you grab a ham sandwich
00:33:08.040 from Wolfgang Puck and get
00:33:09.320 a, you know, bottle of
00:33:10.160 water from the convenience
00:33:10.900 store.
00:33:11.400 It's like, that's, and
00:33:12.860 that's who you choose?
00:33:13.740 Um, it's, uh, and actually
00:33:18.180 some of the best food
00:33:19.460 states in America are red
00:33:21.400 states, Texas, Louisiana,
00:33:23.560 Tennessee, Wisconsin, and
00:33:25.960 beer.
00:33:26.540 I mean, he said, well, you
00:33:27.280 know, red states, all they
00:33:28.100 do is drink Budweiser.
00:33:29.680 Um, North Carolina, Missouri,
00:33:32.580 Texas, Indiana, Montana.
00:33:34.780 These are all great, great,
00:33:36.920 uh, great states for beer.
00:33:38.200 In fact, the last time I
00:33:40.560 was at a bar that only had
00:33:43.240 Budweiser and Miller on
00:33:44.700 tap was in Pennsylvania.
00:33:46.540 And that is not a red
00:33:48.080 state and target.
00:33:50.280 I mean, you think target is
00:33:52.080 a red state thing.
00:33:53.260 There are plenty of
00:33:54.240 targets and red states, but
00:33:55.440 I live on the East coast.
00:33:56.680 I live in blue territory and
00:33:58.380 there's a target every 14
00:33:59.520 blocks.
00:34:00.640 Okay.
00:34:01.140 Target, if anything, it's
00:34:02.240 more of a blue state thing.
00:34:03.300 So, um, Mar is a snob who's
00:34:07.060 been cryogenically
00:34:07.960 frozen in time since the
00:34:09.400 early nineties.
00:34:10.560 And now he's coming with,
00:34:11.920 um, you know, Budweiser and
00:34:14.860 Wolfgang Puck references.
00:34:16.220 It's really embarrassing.
00:34:17.360 Actually.
00:34:17.840 I'm actually embarrassed.
00:34:18.920 I almost feel bad for him.
00:34:21.460 Um, because that was such a
00:34:23.720 lame, just such a lame bit.
00:34:26.620 I mean, anytime you see a
00:34:27.620 comedian dying on stage, you
00:34:29.520 can't help, but feel for them
00:34:30.860 a little bit because it's so
00:34:32.080 humiliating, but I will say
00:34:34.440 this, uh, to Bill Maher that
00:34:37.440 you should.
00:34:37.880 And I say this as, as
00:34:38.900 someone who, uh, you know,
00:34:39.900 as a conservative, you should
00:34:41.220 definitely keep that up.
00:34:42.480 I would even recommend doing a
00:34:45.720 segment like that every single
00:34:47.480 week on your show, uh, until
00:34:49.260 2020, because if you want to
00:34:52.500 ensure that Donald Trump gets
00:34:54.340 reelected, then, then keep on,
00:34:56.460 keep, keep up with that.
00:34:57.980 Keep heaping scorn and disdain on,
00:35:03.020 um, the vast majority of the
00:35:05.800 country geographically, keep on
00:35:08.260 doing that because yeah, that's
00:35:11.700 how you're going to make sure that
00:35:14.320 Donald Trump gets, gets reelected.
00:35:17.380 This is, this, it's not a good
00:35:21.780 strategy for the left to alienate a
00:35:26.620 majority of the country and to make
00:35:29.240 everyone who doesn't live in a, in a
00:35:30.980 city feel like they're, or to try to
00:35:32.660 make them feel like a bunch of, like
00:35:34.640 a bunch of stupid bumpkins.
00:35:38.520 All you're going to accomplish is
00:35:40.860 making sure that your ideas and your
00:35:43.000 politicians, uh, are, are, you know,
00:35:46.020 never see power again.
00:35:51.140 And by the way, I don't, you know, I
00:35:52.880 just, I think this whole back and
00:35:54.320 forth about, oh, the cities versus
00:35:57.880 small towns and where is real
00:36:00.740 America, you know, real America's in
00:36:02.620 the cities or real America's in the,
00:36:04.300 in, in the Midwest.
00:36:05.420 Yeah.
00:36:05.680 I think the whole thing is stupid on
00:36:07.080 both sides personally.
00:36:08.220 I mean, real America is everywhere in
00:36:10.620 America.
00:36:11.560 Uh, America is a diverse place.
00:36:13.420 And I think it's, I've, I've spent
00:36:16.580 plenty of time in cities.
00:36:17.660 I spent, spent, spent plenty of time
00:36:19.520 in, in small towns and everything.
00:36:22.160 You know, personally, I'm not a big
00:36:23.820 fan of the cities.
00:36:24.500 I prefer the small town.
00:36:25.580 I prefer having space and trees and
00:36:27.400 things like that.
00:36:28.380 A little bit of wildlife.
00:36:29.320 You know, I, I, I prefer that.
00:36:31.560 But, um, I also think it's dumb.
00:36:34.040 And sometimes you hear this from
00:36:35.280 people in the, you know, small people
00:36:36.800 in the small towns will, will act like
00:36:38.940 everybody in the city.
00:36:40.020 They're all a bunch of elitists.
00:36:41.200 That's not real America.
00:36:42.340 No, that's not true either.
00:36:44.160 Uh, you still, the whole thing is
00:36:45.500 stupid.
00:36:45.920 It doesn't really matter where you
00:36:47.480 live.
00:36:47.980 You, no matter where you live, you can
00:36:49.540 be a real American and, and, and,
00:36:51.580 you know, and, and a patriot.
00:36:54.300 Um, so indulging on that on either
00:36:57.040 side is just, is foolish, I think.
00:36:59.960 All right.
00:37:01.160 Let's get to a few of your emails.
00:37:02.880 MattWallShow at gmail.com.
00:37:04.520 MattWallShow at gmail.com.
00:37:06.380 Uh, if you want to email with your
00:37:07.840 questions, concerns, comments, hate mail.
00:37:10.320 This is from Michael.
00:37:11.620 He says, hi, Matt, I'm a long time
00:37:13.500 listener.
00:37:14.980 Always enjoy your insights.
00:37:16.180 On today's show, you talked about how
00:37:18.140 you enjoy smoking cigars.
00:37:20.280 I have many friends who also enjoy
00:37:22.200 cigars.
00:37:22.640 However, as a faithful Catholic, I've
00:37:24.100 always believed that smoking cigars, or
00:37:26.440 cigarettes for that matter, is akin to
00:37:27.900 desecrating the temple of the Holy
00:37:28.980 Spirit.
00:37:29.840 As smoking is very unhealthy, especially
00:37:31.460 cigars, I'd love to hear you take on
00:37:32.920 this.
00:37:33.100 God bless.
00:37:34.060 Uh, hi, Michael.
00:37:34.980 Well, I think that's a, uh, a perfectly
00:37:37.860 valid perspective.
00:37:38.820 And if you decide to avoid alcohol or,
00:37:41.180 uh, you know, tobacco, uh, I, that's,
00:37:44.640 that's great.
00:37:45.300 You know, um, it's fine with me.
00:37:49.340 I don't personally consider it to be a
00:37:52.220 desecration of the temple, um, within
00:37:54.440 moderation.
00:37:54.940 I mean, of course, it's possible to
00:37:56.540 abuse any substance.
00:37:59.740 Now, addiction to a substance is never
00:38:03.120 good.
00:38:03.800 So somebody who smokes three packs of
00:38:05.580 cigarettes a day, yeah, that's something
00:38:07.160 that they need to obviously try to stop
00:38:08.760 because it's killing them.
00:38:10.780 But tobacco, even nicotine, it's not like
00:38:13.460 heroin.
00:38:13.900 It's not like you do it one time and
00:38:15.840 you're an addict.
00:38:17.040 Um, I've been smoking cigars casually for
00:38:19.640 a long time.
00:38:20.500 I'm not addicted.
00:38:21.180 I can go five months and not smoke one,
00:38:22.940 especially in the winter.
00:38:23.600 I tend not to cause it's cold out.
00:38:25.080 I don't feel like sitting out there
00:38:25.900 takes a while to smoke a cigar.
00:38:27.360 So, you know, it's just a casual thing
00:38:28.700 for me.
00:38:29.720 Um, is it a desecration of the temple to
00:38:32.980 smoke casually?
00:38:33.640 No, I don't, you know, I don't see how
00:38:35.060 that's any more of a desecration than
00:38:36.640 someone who has a sweet tooth or someone
00:38:39.100 who is, um, you know, a little bit too
00:38:40.800 sedentary or somebody who eats too much
00:38:42.800 red meat or something.
00:38:44.600 If it's possible to eat too much red meat,
00:38:46.460 which I don't think it is.
00:38:47.780 Um, although I'm not a doctor.
00:38:50.000 So I think we're allowed to enjoy life.
00:38:52.020 And, uh, and I do think that, look,
00:38:55.000 tobacco was not invented by the devil.
00:38:57.700 Um, that was God's doing.
00:39:00.160 And I don't think the first people who
00:39:02.000 figured out how to brew beer were
00:39:04.180 possessed by Satan.
00:39:05.020 Uh, no, they were using hops and other
00:39:08.120 things that God gave us.
00:39:10.320 Is it crazy to think that maybe God has
00:39:13.140 given us these things to enjoy them?
00:39:16.060 Maybe God isn't quite the Puritan that
00:39:18.020 we sometimes make him out to be.
00:39:20.820 Again, he did invent tobacco.
00:39:22.640 After all, he did make grapes that can
00:39:24.640 be turned into wine.
00:39:26.180 Uh, so aside from the fact that Jesus
00:39:28.040 is drinking wine in the, by in, in, in
00:39:29.880 the gospels all the time, God also
00:39:31.960 invented the grape, which is this very
00:39:33.780 complex fruit that it just so happens,
00:39:37.340 uh, you can turn into this delicious,
00:39:40.760 uh, beverage.
00:39:42.020 Now, I know that this logic only goes so
00:39:45.360 far, uh, psychedelic mushroom, mushrooms
00:39:48.120 exist in nature too, right?
00:39:49.780 Does that make it okay to take shrooms?
00:39:51.880 Uh, poison frogs exist in nature, but
00:39:54.500 does that make, does that mean we should
00:39:55.800 go around licking them for a buzz?
00:39:57.780 Opium exists in nature.
00:39:59.240 Does that make it okay to shoot up
00:40:00.900 heroin?
00:40:02.140 I think the difference here is
00:40:03.660 moderation.
00:40:05.200 Um, it's not possible to do heroin in
00:40:08.960 moderation.
00:40:09.440 There's no such thing as a casual, social
00:40:11.840 heroin user.
00:40:13.260 One time could kill you, uh, and it will
00:40:15.920 certainly hook you, and you can't do
00:40:18.700 heroin without getting high.
00:40:20.760 Um, so that's why, obviously, heroin is
00:40:24.520 just bad.
00:40:27.840 Alcohol isn't like that.
00:40:29.640 You will not become an alcoholic from a
00:40:31.900 glass of beer.
00:40:32.860 A glass of beer won't kill you.
00:40:34.360 It won't make you drunk.
00:40:35.740 It's perfectly possible to enjoy it within
00:40:38.220 reason and in a totally healthy way.
00:40:40.120 I know there are plenty of people who
00:40:41.140 struggle with that, and if they do, then
00:40:42.620 they got to stay away from it.
00:40:43.740 But there are also many millions of
00:40:45.940 people, probably billions throughout
00:40:47.240 history, who have managed to drink it
00:40:49.700 casually, socially, not have a problem.
00:40:51.760 So why shouldn't they?
00:40:53.720 Um, tobacco also, not going to kill you
00:40:56.780 with one cigar.
00:40:57.580 It won't make you high.
00:40:58.480 It won't hook you.
00:40:59.940 Uh, you know, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not
00:41:02.020 recommending it like, hey, hey, kids, go out
00:41:04.240 and have tobacco.
00:41:04.760 That's not what I'm saying.
00:41:05.340 But moderation is perfectly possible.
00:41:08.260 So that's where I stand.
00:41:09.800 If God gave us something that can be
00:41:11.840 enjoyed in moderation without losing our
00:41:14.280 senses, without possibly killing us from
00:41:16.380 one dose, um, and that thing is enjoyable,
00:41:20.380 relaxing, um, helping maybe to, uh, to
00:41:25.220 facilitate social interaction or whatever,
00:41:27.300 then why not?
00:41:27.900 I mean, isn't that a pretty good indication
00:41:30.620 that that's why God put it there to begin
00:41:32.060 with if it falls into that category?
00:41:34.700 I know there are people who say, well, you
00:41:36.000 know, you shouldn't need alcohol to relax
00:41:37.460 you or you shouldn't need to, you know,
00:41:39.280 have a, have some booze in order to have
00:41:41.380 a good time at a wedding or something like
00:41:42.860 that.
00:41:43.520 Well, I mean, yeah, you shouldn't need it.
00:41:45.280 It's not a, it's not a need per se, but
00:41:47.120 it does help.
00:41:47.880 And so what?
00:41:49.120 What's wrong with being relaxed by a
00:41:51.480 substance?
00:41:51.920 Who, who said that there's something wrong
00:41:53.320 with that?
00:41:54.880 Is it wrong to take Tylenol when you have a
00:41:56.820 headache?
00:41:57.200 I mean, where do you draw the line and
00:41:59.060 why?
00:41:59.400 It just seems like a really arbitrary line
00:42:01.460 to draw.
00:42:01.920 I can say that some of the most edifying
00:42:05.620 and enjoyable conversations that I've
00:42:08.240 had, especially with, with other men is
00:42:11.500 when we're all sitting around having a
00:42:12.700 cigar and drinking some whiskey.
00:42:14.840 And that, and I find that to be, especially
00:42:18.040 if it's a, you know, during the summer,
00:42:19.800 you're sitting around outside, you got a
00:42:20.980 fire pit going, you got cigars, you got,
00:42:23.440 you know, bourbon or whatever.
00:42:25.580 And, you know, you just have really
00:42:26.840 interesting edifying conversations, just
00:42:28.760 an enjoyable time.
00:42:29.440 No one's getting drunk.
00:42:30.600 It's just, you're sitting there having a
00:42:31.780 good time.
00:42:32.900 Why not?
00:42:34.540 All right.
00:42:35.440 This is from Ben.
00:42:36.880 He says, hello.
00:42:37.900 Why do you want to uphold the sentiment
00:42:39.920 that you're innocent until proven guilty,
00:42:42.400 but are selective about who that applies
00:42:44.960 to?
00:42:45.520 Even if you're proven to be innocent,
00:42:47.240 why does Michael Jackson get excluded
00:42:49.060 from that principle?
00:42:50.360 Especially when all the facts stand
00:42:51.860 behind him, that his accusers are lying
00:42:54.300 and accusing specifically for money.
00:42:56.680 All right.
00:42:58.040 Let me explain this one because I've
00:42:59.280 been getting emails like this from,
00:43:01.200 from the same small group of people
00:43:02.640 for the last like three weeks.
00:43:05.600 And that's because like a month ago
00:43:07.860 on Twitter, I briefly mentioned the fact
00:43:10.040 that Michael Jackson was a creepy
00:43:11.960 pervert.
00:43:12.880 And I mentioned this in reaction to,
00:43:15.220 to news about the Michael Jackson
00:43:16.820 documentary, um, documenting all of
00:43:19.580 his creepy perviness, which debuted, uh,
00:43:22.040 on the film festival circuit.
00:43:23.280 And I think we'll be airing on HBO.
00:43:24.760 I believe this week, although his
00:43:25.980 family has been suing to try to stop
00:43:27.420 the documentary from, from, from being
00:43:29.400 aired, but I think unsuccessfully.
00:43:31.440 So anyway, ever since then, after a
00:43:33.300 couple of tweets about it, I've had
00:43:35.420 MJ's cultish fanatical followers
00:43:37.740 harassing me.
00:43:39.700 And, and so let me just say, Ben,
00:43:42.920 first of all, with all due respect,
00:43:45.340 you do realize how weird it is, right?
00:43:50.380 To send someone multiple emails
00:43:52.420 defending the honor of a dead
00:43:53.980 celebrity who accused multiple, who
00:43:55.560 was accused multiple times of
00:43:56.960 pedophilia.
00:43:57.620 And the only reason you like him is
00:43:59.380 because he was a good dancer.
00:44:00.680 I mean, you realize that that's weird
00:44:03.720 to spend your time that way.
00:44:06.660 It's just, it's weird, man.
00:44:08.220 It is to be completely obsessed with
00:44:12.100 some dead celebrity because he was a
00:44:14.100 good dancer.
00:44:15.040 And for that reason, you assume that
00:44:16.420 there's no way he could have done
00:44:17.540 these things.
00:44:19.160 Here's the fact of the matter.
00:44:20.460 You take these accusations, everything
00:44:22.100 about Michael Jackson, and you apply
00:44:24.900 that to someone who can't sing and
00:44:26.300 dance, you, Ben, would not be
00:44:28.160 defending him.
00:44:28.740 And you know it.
00:44:29.660 If this was just some random guy you
00:44:31.340 heard about, all of these things
00:44:33.200 about him, you would not be rushing
00:44:35.820 to, to, to defend his honor.
00:44:37.620 You're only doing that because he's a
00:44:38.900 good singer and a good dancer.
00:44:40.980 That is weird.
00:44:42.420 It just is, Ben.
00:44:44.600 Here's what I'll say about Michael
00:44:45.700 Jackson, and I do plan to watch the
00:44:47.200 documentary, which is damning from
00:44:49.220 what I've heard.
00:44:50.740 But Jackson was not proven innocent.
00:44:52.980 The fact that he paid off his accusers
00:44:54.660 to silence them does not prove his
00:44:56.120 innocence.
00:44:56.500 If anything, it indicates the
00:44:57.860 opposite.
00:44:59.180 And you know what?
00:44:59.920 I think the accusations, especially how
00:45:01.720 consistent they were between the
00:45:03.240 multiple accusers, I think they were
00:45:04.960 very credible, very believable.
00:45:06.480 But I don't even need to get into
00:45:07.900 that, Ben.
00:45:08.420 Jackson admitted sharing his bed with
00:45:13.320 little boys.
00:45:14.700 Okay?
00:45:15.120 He invited little strange boys, not
00:45:17.260 even related to him, over to his
00:45:20.620 house for sleepovers, and he shared his
00:45:23.120 bed with them.
00:45:24.820 That's all I need to know.
00:45:26.140 I don't need to know anything else.
00:45:27.440 That's it.
00:45:28.420 I don't need any more information.
00:45:30.080 There is a 0.0% chance that a man who
00:45:34.320 invites a young boy to his house to
00:45:35.880 sleep in his bed is not a pedophile.
00:45:38.180 There is a 0.0% chance.
00:45:40.320 I will, in every single case, if you
00:45:42.300 know of any men in your neighborhood
00:45:43.500 that invite little boys to his house,
00:45:45.600 you know, over to sleep in bed, I
00:45:48.220 guarantee you that person is a
00:45:50.160 pedophile.
00:45:51.340 100%.
00:45:51.780 Call the police.
00:45:52.760 Okay, Ben?
00:45:54.560 There is no, and then it just, so
00:45:56.560 it just so happens, also, coincidentally,
00:45:59.860 that this guy who admits to inviting
00:46:03.280 little boys over to his house for
00:46:04.580 sleepover parties, it just so happens
00:46:07.440 that he's also multiply accused of
00:46:09.040 being a pedophile.
00:46:10.640 You think that's a coincidence?
00:46:12.800 Are you insane, Ben?
00:46:14.620 Are you crazy?
00:46:17.160 Just because you like the way he
00:46:18.620 dances, you're going to pretend that
00:46:20.280 you don't see the connection?
00:46:22.560 A guy invites little boys over, sleeps
00:46:24.120 in his bed.
00:46:25.440 Oh, and what do you know?
00:46:26.760 He's accused of being a pedophile.
00:46:27.960 You say, well, no, there's no way.
00:46:28.880 No way.
00:46:29.400 No way.
00:46:29.980 Not a guy who can dance like that.
00:46:31.580 No way.
00:46:34.440 And don't give me, I know Michael
00:46:36.100 Jackson's defenders, they'll say, well,
00:46:37.720 no, he was just a child at heart.
00:46:39.120 He was so sweet and innocent.
00:46:40.500 He says, look at him.
00:46:41.240 He's such a sweet and innocent guy,
00:46:42.440 and that's why he's a child.
00:46:43.180 I hope you don't have kids with an attitude
00:46:49.360 like that.
00:46:51.400 I mean, would you let your child,
00:46:54.240 would you let your child go sleep
00:46:57.560 in a grown man's bed
00:46:59.440 on the basis that the man is just a child
00:47:03.680 at heart and he's so innocent?
00:47:06.000 Michael Jackson had turned his house
00:47:08.100 into a, you know, Neverland
00:47:10.220 with a, you know, carnival rides
00:47:14.340 and everything.
00:47:15.420 You think it was because he was innocent
00:47:17.620 at heart?
00:47:19.980 I mean, seriously.
00:47:22.700 You don't need to be a genius
00:47:24.900 to figure this out.
00:47:27.420 He had all this stuff to lure children over.
00:47:29.860 Oh, what do you know?
00:47:30.580 He's sleeping in their bed.
00:47:31.560 Oh, what do you know?
00:47:32.300 He's accused of being a pedophile.
00:47:33.660 That's because he was a pedophile.
00:47:35.680 Definitely.
00:47:36.080 I mean, there is zero doubt in my mind.
00:47:39.940 And honestly, you Michael Jackson defenders
00:47:43.720 should be absolutely ashamed of yourself.
00:47:48.000 I mean, it's so embarrassing
00:47:49.380 and humiliating for you.
00:47:51.820 And as I said, if you have kids,
00:47:54.000 I certainly hope,
00:47:58.240 if you have kids,
00:48:01.420 I hope that you're much more cautious
00:48:03.060 with them
00:48:04.440 than you appear to be
00:48:09.220 when you defend Michael Jackson.
00:48:12.100 So, that's all.
00:48:14.240 All right.
00:48:16.820 We'll leave it there.
00:48:17.740 Thanks for watching, everybody.
00:48:18.700 Thanks for listening.
00:48:20.200 Godspeed.
00:48:20.660 Today on The Ben Shapiro Show,
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00:48:31.340 Dianne Feinstein destroys small children.
00:48:33.460 And the Oscars won't stop the politics.
00:48:35.220 That's today on The Ben Shapiro Show.
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00:48:37.860 Good day.
00:48:41.720 Godspeed.
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