The Matt Walsh Show - March 11, 2019


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


Episode Stats

Length

42 minutes

Words per Minute

171.52487

Word Count

7,226

Sentence Count

506

Misogynist Sentences

10

Hate Speech Sentences

15


Summary


Transcript

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
00:02:07.120 explain all that to you. But first I'm going to tell you about the Freedom Project Academy. Now,
00:02:13.200 you know that I'm always on this show whining about the public school system, but rightfully,
00:02:21.740 righteously whining, righteous whining. That's going to be the name of my memoirs one day.
00:02:28.180 But I complain about the public school system. And what people, people will always ask me,
00:02:32.060 they'll say, well, what's the alternative? What's a better plan? And I say, well, I don't give better
00:02:37.880 plans. I just, I just complain about the plan that everyone is doing. And then, but I don't,
00:02:41.520 I don't, I'm not the solutions guy. I'm just the criticism guy. But this time I have a solution
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00:02:51.860 reading and writing and arithmetic and all these things, they're being replaced by social justice
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00:03:04.160 required. So that kids become like, basically like mother birds vomiting out information that was just
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00:04:12.660 freedomforschool.com, freedomforschool.com, freedomforschool.com. Okay. Now, Tucker Carlson,
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,
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
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
00:05:25.600 Tucker Carlson tonight on MSNBC. A girl that comes across kind of c***y. I love women, but they're
00:05:31.140 extremely primitive. They're basic. They're not that hard to understand. I feel sorry for
00:05:35.180 unattractive women. I mean, there's nothing they did, you know? Anybody who answers my trophy wife
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,
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
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
00:10:09.580 bigot. Well, then what is it? What, what is the point of your boycott? That's like, if I said,
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
00:28:37.120 transgenders have the most. Uh, so you see it there. And hopefully this answers your question,
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
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
00:29:14.240 are at the top, all of that is really the source of all victimization. And it flows down from there,
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
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
00:33:03.820 opportunistic, but there's also some amount of flip flopping as human beings. That's pretty natural,
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.
00:34:28.040 Um, if somebody has stage four cancer and marijuana dulls the pain, then great. What kind of person
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,
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
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
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.
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