The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 215 - The Fake Outrage Brigade Comes For Tucker Carlson

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, Tucker Carlson is in trouble for saying bad things and offering

00:00:06.020 bad opinions and telling bad jokes on a radio show a long time ago. Now the left is calling

00:00:11.040 for him to be fired, but I don't think he should be fired. And in fact, I don't even think that he

00:00:16.020 should apologize. And I want to explain why. Also, we will talk about our dangerous obsession with

00:00:22.580 selfies. People are getting hurt and killed because of this. And we'll discuss that. And

00:00:27.660 I got an interesting email asking my opinion about marijuana legalization. So I'll tackle

00:00:32.420 that question as well today on the Matt Walsh Show. You know what? Tucker Carlson is in trouble for

00:00:45.660 saying some bad things. He said some bad things on a radio show a long time ago. But I think that he

00:00:54.660 just has a different experience in the use of words. That's all. He just, that's all it is.

00:01:00.720 That's the excuse that Nancy Pelosi offered for Ilhan Omar on Friday. That was, those were her exact

00:01:06.600 words. She said that, no, you know, Omar isn't anti-Semitic. She just, she has a different

00:01:12.340 experience in the use of words, which is just, that might be my favorite politician-y thing that

00:01:21.160 any politician has ever said. It's certainly the most politician-y thing that any politician has

00:01:25.480 ever said. It's so good that it may, it probably made Bill Clinton jealous. Like Bill Clinton heard

00:01:31.000 that and said, well, why did I think to ever say that? That's a good one. It depends on what the

00:01:34.960 definition of is is. That's pretty good. But no, she just has a different experience of the use of

00:01:41.360 words. That's even better. And that is an excuse that can really get anyone off the hook, can't it?

00:01:46.660 So maybe Carlson can use that. Now I want to talk more about the Carlson thing. And I'm going to

00:01:53.700 explain why I don't care at all what he said. I don't believe he owes anyone an apology. I don't

00:02:02.620 think he should be fired. I don't think he should face any consequences whatsoever. And I want to

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00:04:20.740 the fine folks at Media Matters. I'm not sure if fine is really the word, description I'm looking for.

00:04:26.340 You could put in a different description if you want there. But the folks at Media Matters went and dug up

00:04:32.080 a handful of clips of Tucker Carlson doing call-ins on a shock jock morning show called Bubba the Love

00:04:39.460 Sponge. And I know it's very, it's very shocking to find out that, that maybe there were some

00:04:43.880 inappropriate jokes told on the Bubba the Love Sponge show, you know, in the mid 2000s, but that's

00:04:52.100 the case. So they found clips from 2006, 2011. Some of this stuff goes back, you know, almost 15 years

00:04:57.320 then. And the clips are bad. Okay. Bad jokes, bad opinions, bad think, bad speech. Let me play a

00:05:06.720 little, a little piece of it here. Lexis Stewart. We run into her all the time. She seems like a, 0.99

00:05:11.020 she seems f***ful. Yeah, she is awful. They're very, they're very c***y. She seems extremely. I like 1.00

00:05:16.700 that word. Oh yeah. I just, I stepped over me. She seems what? Now go ahead. She just does seem a

00:05:21.000 little c***y. You said it. I'm just agreeing with you. I don't use that word. Right. I'd love for 0.99

00:05:25.600 Tucker Carlson tonight on MSNBC. A girl that comes across kind of c***y. I love women, but they're 1.00

00:05:31.140 extremely primitive. They're basic. They're not that hard to understand. I feel sorry for 1.00

00:05:35.180 unattractive women. I mean, there's nothing they did, you know? Anybody who answers my trophy wife 1.00

00:05:39.820 is my favorite possession is my hero. I don't care. I'm voting for the guy. Okay. So Carlson uses the

00:05:46.040 C word. He makes crude jokes about women. He makes a joke about a case of a 20 something

00:05:54.360 year old teacher, having sex with a 13 year old boy. Now, of course, everyone is acting, 0.67

00:06:01.340 especially shocked and appalled about that joke, even though approximately 4 billion other people,

00:06:08.920 and I've counted, have made jokes about those situations too. Now this is, you know, the kind

00:06:14.740 of thing that everybody jokes about. And I think that they're all bad jokes. I don't agree with them.

00:06:19.100 You know, if you watch this show, I'm going on about, about the sex abuse problem in the public

00:06:23.000 school all the time. I don't think it's a funny thing, but you know, let's not act surprised here.

00:06:28.960 This is just, it's the same thing that almost everyone says about it. And I do think it's

00:06:33.840 interesting that all of the sudden leftists are so concerned about the sex abuse problem in the

00:06:39.720 public school. Apparently now that Tucker Carlson is caught making a joke about it 10 years ago,

00:06:44.200 now all of a sudden they care. Now it's a very serious issue. Well, I've been trying to call

00:06:49.120 attention to this problem for years and they didn't care. So, so, you know, excuse me if I

00:06:54.640 just kind of roll my eyes at that. Um, so, you know, then there are the Carlson also in talking

00:07:00.780 about the Warren Jeffs situation. He, uh, shares some rather edgy opinions saying, um, among other

00:07:07.940 things that an arranged marriage between a 16 year old and a 27 year old, isn't the same thing as

00:07:12.020 rape. All right. Now, um, of course the left is, is kicked into full gear, uh, demanding that he be

00:07:20.140 fired, demanding that advertisers drop the show, demanding that he apologize. Carlson for his part

00:07:25.700 so far has not apologized. He issued a statement yesterday, and this is what the statement said.

00:07:30.980 He said, uh, media matters caught me saying some, something naughty on a radio show more than a decade

00:07:35.280 ago, rather than express the usual ritual contrition. How about this? I'm on television every weeknight

00:07:41.080 live for an hour. If you want to know what I think you can watch, anyone who disagrees with my views

00:07:46.100 is welcome to come on and explain why. Now, of course, that response has just made, um, the left

00:07:52.960 even more angry. I personally, I love that response from Carlson and I hope he sticks with that

00:07:59.640 tact. I hope he doesn't back down. Uh, I don't care what the guy said on a radio show 15 years ago.

00:08:08.960 I don't, I don't care about his bad jokes and they were bad. No question about that. Uh, if, if,

00:08:17.660 if, if my, uh, child, if it was my son, you know, going around using that kind of language and saying

00:08:23.480 those things, he would be in a lot of trouble. I would certainly be grounded probably for that,

00:08:27.620 but Tucker Carlson is not my son. Uh, he's a grown man made bad jokes long time ago. And, uh, I don't

00:08:36.440 care. I just don't. And I'm not saying this because it's a Fox news host either. I said the same thing

00:08:43.860 with Kevin Hart. Kevin Hart is not a conservative. And I was, I defended Kevin Hart quite a bit. Um,

00:08:50.580 I don't care about jokes that people told years ago. And you know something, neither do you.

00:08:58.000 Nobody does. You don't, I don't, nobody cares. Nobody cares. Nobody is actually offended. Nobody

00:09:05.960 is traumatized. Nobody cried themselves to sleep last night because Tucker Carlson used a bad word

00:09:12.300 on the bubble, the love spun show in 2007. Nobody did because nobody cares, but some people pretend

00:09:20.880 that they care. They pretend that they care. And then we're supposed to pretend that they're

00:09:28.420 pretending. And it, and I'm just, I'm just done with it. And the only reason they pretend is because

00:09:34.240 they hated Tucker Carlson already. In fact, if you go to Twitter right now and you go on the, uh,

00:09:38.740 hashtag fire Tucker Carlson, you go click on that hashtag, you're going to see thousands of people

00:09:44.580 saying words to the effect of, I always hated Tucker. He's always been a bigot. And now we have 0.58

00:09:49.940 proof of it. So what they're admitting is that they wanted him fired before this. So what do we care?

00:09:55.560 If you're saying, well, fire Tucker Carlson, and then you're admitting that you always wanted him

00:10:00.040 fired. Well, then what does your opinion matter? If you're saying you're going to boycott Tucker

00:10:05.040 Carlson, and then in the next breath, you say that, Oh, you've always found him to be a disgusting 0.99

00:10:09.580 bigot. Well, then what is it? What, what is the point of your boycott? That's like, if I said, 0.98

00:10:16.420 that's like, if I said, uh, uh, you know, we need to boycott Taco Bell, I've always hated it.

00:10:22.780 Well, you see that the next part after boycott Taco Bell kind of undermines the boycott of it,

00:10:28.620 because I, my boycott, if I've always hated it, then I'm, my boycott doesn't really do much,

00:10:35.400 does it? So they, they've always hated him. And then they dig up these bad thoughts that he shared

00:10:42.020 and they think they got him. So it's all a game. In fact, I saw someone say exactly that. It was just

00:10:48.440 one, one person on Twitter said, uh, slightly paraphrasing, but said something like, I've always

00:10:53.160 hated him. And now we got him. So it's a game is the point. And, uh, we should choose not to play

00:11:02.960 the game. And look, I'm not going to, to, to claim, or I'm not going to say that we should,

00:11:10.920 that we should never criticize someone for things that they say, but, um, there's gotta be a statute

00:11:18.540 of limitations on this stuff. Right. And, and I don't know exactly what that statute of limitations

00:11:24.320 is, but it's, it's a small window. Like, I don't know, 24 hours, 48 hours. The point is,

00:11:33.080 if somebody says something and you're going to be offended by it, you need to make up your mind

00:11:38.960 quickly. Okay. You can't decide 10 years later that, Oh, you know what? Actually, I was offended by

00:11:45.080 that. Um, you can't go back and say, Oh wait, remember that thing that he said during the Bush

00:11:51.780 administration? Yeah. You know what? Actually, I'm really offended and upset by that. Oh, boo-hoo.

00:11:57.240 I'm really, really look how offended I am. You see these invisible tears. You can't see them,

00:12:01.260 but they're there. It's too late water onto the bridge. You, you, you had your chance. Okay. The

00:12:08.340 outrage train was going through the station and you missed it by 10 years. It's too late. Now you're

00:12:13.400 going to have to wait for the next one. Now you might argue that, well, uh, well, well,

00:12:18.540 nobody heard it back then. Uh, nobody noticed. Nobody cared back then because he wasn't prominent

00:12:23.100 back then like he is now. Okay, fine. Then it was no harm, no foul. I guess if nobody noticed it back

00:12:30.540 then, uh, then, then it was just, it was, it was a tree falling in the forest and nobody was there to

00:12:36.040 hear the sound. So who cares if nobody noticed it? Who cares? Why does it matter?

00:12:40.520 If anyone is really hurt by his words now, and I don't think anyone is because of sticks and stones

00:12:49.040 and all that, uh, sticks and stones, words will never hurt me. But, but if someone is actually

00:12:54.540 hurt by these opinions and jokes that he shared 10, 15 years ago, it's only because the left went and

00:13:03.240 dug it up and broadcast it so that people would be offended. The left is saying, Hey, here's a great

00:13:11.300 thing to be offended by guys. Check it out. So, uh, I I'm just, I'm done with it. I'm exhausted by it.

00:13:20.080 Um, and it's not going to stop unless we stop playing along. If we continue to allow ourselves to be

00:13:28.780 manipulated and we react with the expected shock and outrage and horror, when smear merchants go,

00:13:36.360 merchants go digging for, for, for this kind of stuff, um, then it's, it's going to keep happening

00:13:43.280 and they'll keep destroying people based on opinions expressed years ago and jokes that were made decades

00:13:50.840 ago. The only way it stops, the only way this stuff stops is if when it happens, we all react by going,

00:14:01.880 okay, don't care. When the smear merchants, you know, have their treasure trove of, of, of offensive

00:14:13.720 comments that they've dug up and they come running into the room and they say, Hey guys, check this out.

00:14:19.520 And we say, nah, you know what? I don't feel like getting up, but, uh, yeah, I'll look at that

00:14:26.200 later. Really cool stuff. Good. Good job. Nice job finding that. I hope you, you know, it was a two

00:14:31.340 weeks well spent. I'm sure combing through every interview Tucker Carlson has ever done. Great job.

00:14:37.820 Really well done. Thumbs up. If that's how we react, then this will stop happening because there'd be no

00:14:46.320 reason to do it. This, the, uh, famous scene in scripture where the adulterous woman about to be 0.79

00:14:58.380 stoned to death. And Jesus says, let he without sin cast the first stone. Um, that line in scripture is,

00:15:06.280 is often, I think, used inappropriately in situations, situations it doesn't apply to

00:15:11.880 that phrase, you know, let he without sin cast the first stone, I think is misapplied often,

00:15:18.800 but this kind of situation is exactly the sort of situation it does apply to. Because if you really

00:15:28.960 have never, ever in your life said anything horrible, um, if you've never told a really bad,

00:15:37.660 offensive joke, if you've never gone off on some tangent, expressing some opinion that you were

00:15:44.340 later embarrassed by, if you've really never done that ever in your life, um, then go ahead and throw

00:15:51.580 a stone at Carlson. Go ahead. But, but realize something that one day they're going to come for

00:15:57.080 you. Okay. If they never do, it's just because you were never important enough and no one ever cared

00:16:03.000 enough. But if, if you ever stick your head up far enough above the crowd and get a little attention

00:16:10.240 and, uh, you know, make some waves, then they're going to go digging to try to destroy you. And

00:16:17.940 they're going to check to see if you're really as clean and pure as you claim. And you definitely

00:16:25.080 aren't because nobody is. And when they discover that you aren't and they find whatever bad thing you

00:16:32.560 said, and they ruin your life, how are you going to object? You can't because you were part of the

00:16:41.860 mob yourself and now they've turned around on you. That's, that's, that's the way this goes.

00:16:49.080 So, and that's why refusing to apologize, I think is really the way to go here. And I would,

00:16:55.840 I would be in favor of doing away with the public apology genre entirely, uh, or, or almost entirely.

00:17:07.320 I think 90% of the time, if not more, the public apology is completely pointless and there's no

00:17:16.280 reason for it. Uh, if you have done something to actually harm someone, whether physically or

00:17:24.100 emotionally or whatever, if you have really caused harm to an actual individual person or

00:17:30.900 individual people, then go and apologize to them. Okay. You don't need to apologize in front

00:17:38.960 of the entire world. We don't need to be witness to your humiliation. We don't need to witness your

00:17:44.800 regret. We don't need the, uh, the ritualistic as Tucker Carlson said, the ritualistic contrition.

00:17:51.500 We don't need that. That's pointless. Nine, nine times out of 10 in the public apology situation,

00:17:58.720 uh, the person is apology, apologizing to a public that hasn't been harmed.

00:18:06.300 If Tucker Carlson owes an apology to anyone, I don't think he does, but if he does, it's not to

00:18:10.860 the public. You and I weren't harmed by this. We don't care. The, the, the people who dug this stuff

00:18:16.500 up, they certainly aren't owed an apology. So who is, I, who cares?

00:18:24.460 The whole thing is, is just, it's theater is what it is. That's all. It's, it's simply theater. It's,

00:18:31.840 it's performance. And the person who issues the public apology is taking part in the performance.

00:18:38.560 And the rest of us, when we read or listen to the apology and we talk to each other about,

00:18:45.760 I don't, I don't know if he was, I don't know if he really meant it. I know. Of course he didn't

00:18:49.060 mean it. He was only, he was just forced to say that because he's groveling and he's trying to

00:18:54.020 rescue his, his, uh, ruined reputation and career and life. That's all. So we all know that.

00:18:58.940 We all know that the public apology is not sincere. It never is.

00:19:06.240 So why do we demand it? It's just, it's completely pointless.

00:19:11.760 I think a lot about the, uh, I've mentioned this comparison before, I think, but the,

00:19:17.620 the play slash movie, the crucible, uh, I see so much similarity between that and our situation today.

00:19:26.520 You know, the Salem witch trials where these people were, uh, forced to,

00:19:32.440 you know, confess and apologize for being witches or, or they'd be hung. And, uh, there's the great

00:19:41.460 scene at the end there where John, they're trying to get John Proctor to, you know, apologize and

00:19:47.260 confess for being a witch. And, uh, he refuses. And he says, is there no good penitence, but it be public,

00:19:53.860 um, saying basically what, why do you need this whole thing? I mean, even if you think that I'm

00:19:59.760 a witch, why, why do you need me? Why do you need all this? What's the point of this? What's the point 0.94

00:20:03.120 of the theater? I'm not going to do it. And then he was, you know, hung. Fortunately, nobody's being

00:20:10.400 hung these days, but, but it's, it is a less violent version of that where you've got to do the

00:20:16.620 whole performance. You've got to apologize. We're going to take your life away. We're going to take

00:20:19.800 your career, your reputation, all that. We simply, we have to be done with it. All right. Um,

00:20:27.200 a couple other things. So I wanted to bring this up, uh, not quite as important, but a woman was 0.50

00:20:34.540 mauled by a Jaguar at a zoo in Arizona over the weekend. And the Jaguar, uh, the Jaguar didn't

00:20:43.760 escape. It wasn't like it got out of the thing and it went and attacked her. No, the woman climbed 0.85

00:20:47.720 over a barrier and went right next to the big cat's cage because of, why do you think she did 1.00

00:20:55.420 that? You already know why, because she wanted to take a selfie, right? And so as she was taking the

00:21:00.120 selfie, the cat reached out his paw and swiped her and caused a really nasty gash on her arm. 1.00

00:21:05.360 Though she's, she's, she recovered in the hospital. I think she's going to be fine. It wasn't life

00:21:08.800 threatening or anything like that. But this brings me to one of my 6 million pet peeves, which is,

00:21:16.600 uh, which is, you know, and I'm not the first one to complain about it, but okay. So you're at the zoo

00:21:23.980 and you see a Jaguar and you say, I want to get a picture of that Jaguar because that's a cool

00:21:30.640 picture. And, you know, I'll put it online so that other people can see this Jaguar. Well, great.

00:21:35.160 You know, I mean, we've all seen Jaguars before. I don't really think you need to put the picture

00:21:39.020 online. I don't think you need the picture because I could always go on Google images

00:21:42.080 and look up a picture of a Jaguar. I could probably find a better picture than whatever

00:21:45.720 one you could take at the zoo, but, uh, but that's fine. You want to take the picture.

00:21:49.460 Fine. Why do you need your face in it though? That's my thing. What this thing we do now where

00:21:55.580 every picture we take, we need our own face in it. You see, if you're, you know, you're,

00:22:00.160 you're out on a hike or something and you're at a, uh, you know, you go up on some, uh, big

00:22:05.980 cliff and there's a nice view and there's the sun setting and there's a lake down there.

00:22:10.600 There are trees and there are birds going by and it's just a beautiful view. Right now.

00:22:14.980 I personally think you don't need to take a picture of that at all. You really don't need

00:22:18.580 a picture because again, everybody online, we've all seen nice views before and we could

00:22:23.080 find one if we wanted to through Google image search. That's probably better than the one

00:22:27.880 that you could take. So I would say, uh, forget about the picture completely. Just experience

00:22:33.800 it. You don't need to file it away in here and in here. I mean, absorb it into your self

00:22:41.760 as an experience. You don't need the picture, but if you're going to take the picture, why

00:22:46.840 do you need your ugly mug in ruining the picture? That's what I don't understand. Every single

00:22:52.580 picture now is taken like this. No, turn it around and take the picture this way. Just take

00:22:57.740 the picture. We know what your face looks like. We don't need, it's not that interesting.

00:23:01.920 I'm sorry, but in it ruins every picture it's in. So we don't need it. And this is what

00:23:09.160 happens. I mean, there was, there was someone who was taking a selfie, I think at the Grand

00:23:13.740 Canyon or something or something relatively recently and fell off. I mean, people are dying

00:23:18.040 over this selfie obsession. And, uh, it's all because of this narcissistic need we have

00:23:23.860 to put ourselves into everything. And I don't see, but I, you know, I was on a, the one cruise

00:23:33.700 that I've ever been on, um, with my wife on our honeymoon. And, uh, and I, I, I remember

00:23:41.040 this, especially it just seared into my mind, um, when we were on the way back, uh, one

00:23:48.760 night and, uh, there was a, it was an especially beautiful sunset over the ocean. And so everybody

00:23:56.000 was on the deck, uh, looking at the sunset, except I say, well, I say everyone was looking

00:24:03.560 at the sunset. I was looking at the sunset. Everybody else had their back turned to the

00:24:07.700 sunset so that they could get a picture of the sunset with their own face, ruining it

00:24:13.260 and everything about that. Just we, no one needs a picture of a sunset. We've all seen

00:24:18.580 sunsets, experience it. And if you really feel the need to take, just take the picture.

00:24:23.940 Why do you think your face is going to improve the sun? It's not going to. All right. Um,

00:24:32.740 this was kind of funny though. Uh, let's, uh, something a little bit, a little bit lighter.

00:24:36.880 Alyssa Milano, uh, got herself into trouble with her, with her leftist compatriots 1.00

00:24:41.300 over the weekend when she tweeted, this is what she tweeted. She was responding to somebody and I

00:24:47.920 don't know. I didn't see the whole exchange. It doesn't really matter, but this is what she

00:24:51.140 tweeted. She said, um, I'm trans. I'm a person of color. I'm an immigrant. I'm a lesbian, a lesbian.

00:24:58.760 I'm a gay man. I'm the disabled. I'm everything. And so are you. Don't be afraid of what you don't

00:25:04.860 know or understand. No one wants to hurt you. We are all just looking for our happily ever after.

00:25:11.620 I'm trans. I'm a person of color. I'm an immigrant. I'm a chair. I'm a table. I'm Wilford Brimley.

00:25:17.320 I'm the color blue. And she's everything, right? She is everything. Now, of course,

00:25:21.560 I saw that, that tweet and I said, Oh, she's going to get it for this. I hurt. She, she wrote that to

00:25:28.120 try to appeal to the left, but you can't do that anymore. She had, how did she not know that she

00:25:34.360 was going to get a lot of backlash for that? And sure enough, she did from, from all of, as I said,

00:25:40.640 her leftist friends who, who said, well, I, I, we appreciate you're trying to be an ally, but that,

00:25:45.900 but you don't appropriate people or claim identities that don't belong to you as a way to relate to us.

00:25:51.500 And so she was being scolded, scolded left and right for that. Um, but it's kind of interesting

00:25:56.760 because this sort of thing, this is exactly the kind of, uh, faux spiritual pantheistic new agey

00:26:09.360 gibberish that even as recently as 10 years ago, um, probably would have been applauded by,

00:26:18.380 by everyone on the lab. That's, this is exactly the kind of thing that 10 or 15 years ago,

00:26:22.720 um, people would have loved and they would have ate it up. But, but now identity politics have

00:26:28.980 gotten to a point where, um, you can't even do the faux spiritual pantheistic gibberish anymore,

00:26:35.660 which is really a shame because I kind of preferred that. I, I preferred that version of liberalism,

00:26:41.920 uh, over what we have now, because at least that version was kind of funny, right? But this new thing is,

00:26:47.720 uh, not nearly as charming in my mind. Uh, speaking of identity politics, I want to move

00:26:57.540 on to emails. You can always email the show at mattwallshowatgmail.com, mattwallshowatgmail.com.

00:27:03.480 This is from Jasmine says, uh, Matt, gosh, I was so thankful for the clarification you gave in

00:27:09.600 the victimization flow chart. My sister and I have often wondered in a survival survivor style show

00:27:14.680 starring all victimized classes who would win. This explains so much. We obviously knew that white 0.99

00:27:20.600 men are the first voted off the Island, but the subsequent steps were enlightening question though.

00:27:26.100 What happens when someone holds two victimized class cards, Jussie Smollett, for example,

00:27:30.780 black and homosexual and the special card of Hollywood. How did he not automatically win the 0.95

00:27:35.180 whole game? We've often wondered in the season finale between a Muslim woman and a black lesbian who wins

00:27:40.140 any who super thankful for you and your efforts, pray for you and your family often keep up the good

00:27:44.880 work. I'm sure it gets discouraging often. Uh, hi, Jasmine. If, if you, if you missed the show,

00:27:49.560 anyone who missed the show on Friday, I went over the left's victimization flow chart. And in fact,

00:27:56.080 uh, it's, this is nice because a listener by the name of Billy Park was kind enough to convert my

00:28:02.000 victimization flow chart into a graphic, into a handy graphic for, so we can all kind of see it

00:28:07.340 illustrated. So, uh, I'll put it up on the screen. Take a look at this. If you're watching on YouTube

00:28:12.280 right now, you can see it. Um, so as you can see, the victimization flows down, right? Each group can

00:28:20.620 only be victimized by the groups above it. So white men are at the very top victimized by no one.

00:28:27.120 And, uh, you can see there, the victimhood scale on the side, which, which measures victim points.

00:28:32.240 So white men have no victim points actually have negative victim points while non-white 0.82

00:28:37.120 transgenders have the most. Uh, so you see it there. And hopefully this answers your question, 1.00

00:28:41.340 Jasmine, because as you can see, um, non-white gay men do measure a solid 60 or 70 on the victimhood 0.99

00:28:49.320 scale, but they are not, um, they're not the most, they're not the victimiest victims at all. Uh,

00:28:57.420 there are, there are three or four steps above them. And remember, this is victim. This is the most

00:29:02.060 important thing to remember for identity politics, um, is that victimization always flows down.

00:29:08.420 It is, as I said on Friday, it's like a waterfall. And so you can never reverse the flow. White men 1.00

00:29:14.240 are at the top, all of that is really the source of all victimization. And it flows down from there, 0.90

00:29:19.820 but other groups can be guilty of victimizing as well, but they can only victimize down, right?

00:29:26.720 So your victimization goes down. Your source of victimhood comes from above, right? So that's,

00:29:34.380 that's the way that it works. All right. Um, this is from Lisa says, Hey Matt, in your, uh, Friday,

00:29:44.860 in your episode on Friday, you mentioned God is love in regards to a certain topic, but it got me

00:29:49.660 thinking a common mantra in society is love is love. But I thought God is love. Does this mean our

00:29:56.640 society is essentially saying love is God? I believe I already know the answer, but thought

00:30:01.920 this was interesting and would love your take. Uh, thanks Lisa. Uh, hi Lisa. I think that's an

00:30:07.240 excellent insight. We have flipped it on its head. Haven't we? We go from God is love to love is love

00:30:15.320 to love is God. And there is a big difference between God is love and love is love. Um,

00:30:25.220 this is not like a two equals two type of thing. So God is love. Yes, but love is not God. And if love

00:30:32.000 is God, then what we really mean to say is that our experience of love, our feeling, um, our personal

00:30:40.320 subjective feeling of what we call love is God is final is ultimate. It is the guiding principle

00:30:46.940 upon which we base everything. So really it goes like this. Um, God is love. Okay. If that's not the

00:30:57.020 case, then love is love. No, love is God. No, I am God. That's kind of, that's the Genesis, right?

00:31:04.040 If love is God, then I, as the experiencer of love, the one, the one that's conjuring it,

00:31:09.940 that's making it, then I am God. And, um, and this is one of the reasons, by the way, why,

00:31:17.440 why, why I think the phrase God is love can be confusing, even though I use that phrase myself,

00:31:22.080 apparently, I don't remember using it, but I guess I did. And it's true that, that God is love,

00:31:26.760 but I think it gets confusing. Um, and it may just be better and easier and clearer to say,

00:31:33.580 um, rather than saying God is love, just say God is love's source. Um, or even more simply,

00:31:40.800 God is loving. God is perfectly loving. Doesn't mean exactly the same thing, but it gets the idea

00:31:47.420 across, uh, because right. When you say God is love, then it sounds like you could flip that around

00:31:52.180 and love is God. Um, let's see. This is from Courtney. It's ladies night. If you can't tell on the Matt

00:32:00.160 wall show, uh, all of these emails are from women. So if anyone ever accuses me of me, me of being

00:32:06.700 sexist again, I can always say I'm not sexist. I answer emails from women. So it says, uh, from 0.85

00:32:13.560 Courtney says, hi, Matt. I know. I, I think I know your opinion on recreational marijuana,

00:32:17.420 but what is your opinion on medical marijuana? Should it be legalized? Well, Courtney, if you know

00:32:24.040 my opinion on the legalization of recreational weed, then that makes one of us because I don't really

00:32:28.800 know where I stand on that. It depends on the week really, or the day, um, or depends on which

00:32:34.640 argument I've just read because I I'm easily slave swayed back and forth on this. I, I am a flip

00:32:39.980 flopper on this issue, which if I could just say one thing about that, you know, we, we criticize

00:32:44.860 people who are flip floppers all the time and often for good reason, because especially for politicians,

00:32:50.640 what, what flip flop really means is that they change their opinion to suit the situation or to suit

00:32:57.120 the crowd or whatever. So it's really just another way of saying that they are, um, hypocritical and 0.98

00:33:03.820 opportunistic, but there's also some amount of flip flopping as human beings. That's pretty natural, 0.72

00:33:11.080 isn't it? And I fully admit there are some issues where I kind of vacillate between different positions

00:33:16.500 and I'm very susceptible to, to a good argument from either side. And so I'll hear an argument and

00:33:22.120 I'll say, yeah, you know, I think you're right about that. And then someone make it, someone will

00:33:25.240 make an opposite argument and I'll say, yeah, you know what, maybe you're right about that.

00:33:28.680 Um, because there are issues that I just, I don't care that much about. So I don't spend a lot of

00:33:33.360 time researching them. And, um, I simply can't make up my mind. I think that's normal. I mean,

00:33:39.820 it's normal to, for people to be like that. It's not like we, we set all of our opinions on every

00:33:44.860 topic and they're set in stone and they'll never change. It's just, that's what they are. At least

00:33:49.400 if we're critical thinkers, that's not the way it should be. So, um, yeah, so medical recreational

00:33:55.860 marijuana, you know, there are arguments on both sides. I don't know. Medical marijuana though,

00:33:59.900 is something that I'm much more firm on that. I'm not very susceptible. I absolutely,

00:34:04.840 definitely support, uh, medical marijuana. And I think that the arguments against,

00:34:12.820 I don't even know what the arguments could be. I do know, I've heard the arguments, but

00:34:18.020 it's just to, to oppose it is, is simply not just wrong, but inhumane and cruel and stupid. 1.00

00:34:28.040 Um, if somebody has stage four cancer and marijuana dulls the pain, then great. What kind of person 1.00

00:34:36.660 would argue against that? I mean, how could anyone go to someone who's dying of stage four cancer and

00:34:43.620 say, yeah, the marijuana dulls, the pain, it makes your life at least somewhat bearable. Uh, but I,

00:34:51.140 I per, it makes me uncomfortable if you're using marijuana, so you shouldn't be able to do it.

00:34:56.840 I, I, there's just, it's, it's crazy. Um, when it comes to painkillers,

00:35:01.760 marijuana is definitely a hundred times safer than, than many other forms of painkillers. You take, uh,

00:35:11.400 Oxycontin for instance, um, people are prescribed Oxycontin after a back injury or something.

00:35:18.720 And then next thing you know, they're heroin addicts and it really does work that way.

00:35:22.740 And this is why we have, everyone's wondering, why do we have all these normal middle-class

00:35:27.200 soccer moms now who are becoming drug addicts? Uh, and the answer is because of these prescription, 1.00

00:35:32.600 prescription pills. It's because we're, we're prescribing heroin to them basically.

00:35:37.100 And so, yeah, I think medical marijuana is preferable to that. Absolutely.

00:35:43.640 This is from Megan. I thought this was an interesting one. She says, Hey Matt, I was

00:35:49.440 wondering what you thought about fathers participating in dangerous activities,

00:35:53.900 especially ones with high rates of serious injury. According to statistics quoted here from the

00:35:58.860 national highway traffic safety administration, there are between 88,000 and 100,000 injuries and

00:36:04.420 5,000 fatalities per year for motorcycle crashes. As an EMT, I have personally cared for motorcycle

00:36:10.140 crash patients. And those who do survive are often left with devastating traumatic brain injuries

00:36:14.420 that leave them severely disabled. Saddest of all, these patients are usually young men between 18

00:36:19.540 and 45. And many of these men have children. I understand that the soul of a man craves adventure.

00:36:26.280 I have heard from many of my male friends, how alive and free they feel on a motorcycle.

00:36:31.100 And that in itself is a good thing. However, is it morally okay for fathers to risk death or serious

00:36:37.780 injury unnecessarily? Doesn't a father have an obligation to do everything in his power

00:36:42.220 to protect his life and his health when his spouse and children depend on him? What are your thoughts on

00:36:48.000 this? The question goes beyond riding a motorcycle, but also statistically proven dangerous activities

00:36:52.860 like MMA, boxing, budget jumping, et cetera. God bless you and your family. Hi, Megan. I think it's a

00:36:59.420 very intriguing question and you've hit on something important here because there's this balance that

00:37:05.160 you need. On one hand, a man does crave adventure and danger, like you said, and it would be a bad

00:37:10.860 thing for a wife or when he's younger, a mother to completely stifle that out of fear. You can't try

00:37:18.740 to nag that out of a man because if you do that, all you'll succeed in is getting him to suppress it for 0.98

00:37:25.220 a time until eventually he finds an outlet that may ultimately be a whole lot worse than what it would

00:37:32.080 have been before that. So that's not a, that's not a, it's not in itself a bad desire and instinct

00:37:39.640 in men. It's a good thing. On the other hand, it's true that a married man has a responsibility to his 1.00

00:37:47.520 family. Um, so for him to go and risk his life unnecessarily recreationally in a reckless way.

00:37:55.680 Well, I think that that is probably selfish because he's basically saying that his desire

00:38:01.080 for adventure and excitement completely supersedes his children's need for a father and his wife's

00:38:08.040 need for a husband. Um, and of course it's different if we're talking about a profession,

00:38:13.120 right? Like there are some professions, police officer, firefighter, uh, where those are dangerous

00:38:18.840 jobs. But in that case, it's, it's his job, it's his duty. And also he's providing something for his

00:38:28.600 family and doing it and not just money, but also the example of heroism and selflessness and courage

00:38:34.360 is a great, is something he's giving to his, his family as well. So we're not talking about that.

00:38:40.020 We're talking about recreational things, I assume. Um, yeah. Where do you draw the line there? Uh,

00:38:46.660 is it immoral to ride a motorcycle? I, I would say, no, I don't know a lot about motorcycles,

00:38:51.760 but it strikes me that motorcycles can be operated safely, right? Um, or relatively safely.

00:38:59.140 I'm guessing you would know more than me as an EMT, but I'm guessing that many of the bad

00:39:03.900 motorcycle accidents that you see probably involve people on motorcycles doing very reckless things

00:39:11.160 aside from just riding the motorcycle in the first place. Like when you see these guys on

00:39:15.040 motorcycles going 90 miles an hour, riding down the middle of the highway in between lanes. Well,

00:39:19.600 that's just, I mean, that's, that's verging on suicidal, uh, to do something like that.

00:39:24.300 And I think that's part of what makes motorcycles dangerous is that they encourage you to behave

00:39:29.880 recklessly like that because you can do things like ride in between lanes and weave in and out

00:39:34.000 of traffic and stuff like that. But if you don't do that and you you're being responsible, then I

00:39:38.380 think, you know, I, I, I don't see it as inherently reckless simply to get on a motorcycle. Uh, but I,

00:39:47.840 you know, I, I think that there are other recreational activities that you would, that maybe would be

00:39:51.200 ruled out like, I don't know, base jumping or something where you jump off a cliff with a parachute,

00:39:55.840 stuff like that. You know, I, I think, yeah. Uh, so there is a balance there. I don't know exactly where

00:39:59.520 it is, but I do think it's something that, um, that you need to think about, uh, that, that men

00:40:05.320 need to think about. And the last thing I'll say is, um, this, this is part of what a father is

00:40:15.200 supposed to, this is a very important aspect, uh, of what the father does for his children,

00:40:21.540 including especially his son, which I think isn't talked about enough, but this is why boys need fathers

00:40:29.340 to show them how to take risks safely, uh, and in ways that are not reckless because boys are going

00:40:38.160 to have that urge to go out and be rowdy and rough house and, you know, find adventure. And so they

00:40:44.420 need their dads there to show them how to do that and, you know, take them out to climb the tree and

00:40:49.000 to do these things that are a little bit dangerous, but in a safe way. And so that they have that safe,

00:40:53.680 um, responsible outlet for that. And that's something that, that fathers, you know, do for

00:40:59.540 their, for their kids and not just physical risks either, because this is about risk taking and

00:41:04.480 teaching kids how to take risks, um, responsibly, but there are, there are other kinds of risks

00:41:12.120 that I think kids need to be taught how to take. Um, intellectual risks, you know, emotional risks,

00:41:20.000 even going out on a limb and voicing your opinion, taking a stand. Those are risks as well. And, uh,

00:41:28.760 I think that also is an example that fathers should provide for their children. All right. Uh,

00:41:35.600 but thanks for the email. Thanks for the emails, everyone. Um, Matt Walsh show at gmail.com. If

00:41:40.280 anyone else wants to send in and we'll leave it there. Thanks for watching. Godspeed.

00:41:58.680 Today on the Ben Shapiro show media matters goes after Tucker Carlson and Alexander Ocasio-Cortez

00:42:04.540 embraces socialism full scale. That's today on the Ben Shapiro show.

The Matt Walsh Show - March 11, 2019

Ep. 215 - The Fake Outrage Brigade Comes For Tucker Carlson

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