The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 227 - Another Peaceful Pro-Lifer Brutally Assaulted By Pro-Abortion Extremist

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, a brutal assault of a pro-life activist is getting no attention in the media, of course,

00:00:06.180 but I'm going to give it some attention today because it's important.

00:00:09.420 In fact, there is an epidemic of pro-abortion extremists attacking pro-lifers,

00:00:14.240 and I'm going to provide evidence of that today on the show.

00:00:16.660 Also, Vox has come out basically in defense of Cardi B, who admitted to drugging and robbing men.

00:00:22.920 We'll talk about the blatant double standards in that case.

00:00:25.320 Also, the latest on Jussie Smollett and other interesting topics today.

00:00:30.000 On the Matt Wall Show.

00:00:35.840 The FBI is now, it says, reviewing the Jussie Smollett case,

00:00:42.620 specifically reviewing the circumstances that led to the charges against him being dropped.

00:00:48.940 They're not calling it an investigation.

00:00:50.800 They're calling it a review.

00:00:52.200 Meanwhile, Kim Fox, the state's attorney behind all of this, is standing by her decision,

00:00:58.040 though admitting, as I think I played for you yesterday on the show, admitting that she thinks Smollett is guilty

00:01:04.240 and that they could have proved him guilty.

00:01:07.360 So she thinks he's guilty, could have proved him guilty.

00:01:09.280 They let him go anyway.

00:01:10.660 But she says, well, it's perfectly normal for people who are charged with these kinds of crimes to just be let off the hook

00:01:17.520 on the promise of doing community service or whatever.

00:01:20.120 Now, you know what?

00:01:22.380 Here's the thing about that.

00:01:23.420 She could be right, for all I know.

00:01:26.280 Maybe it's true that people who are charged with these kinds of things very often are let off the hook.

00:01:31.200 Or maybe it's not true, because there were actually leaked emails from her office where she,

00:01:38.500 after she made this claim, she sent an email to her staff saying,

00:01:42.000 hey, guys, can you pull up examples of us actually letting people off the hook with community service

00:01:48.220 for filing false police reports?

00:01:50.040 We need examples.

00:01:51.060 So she made that claim, and now she needs to go scramble and find examples. 1.00

00:01:54.800 I don't think she's found one yet.

00:01:55.960 So it's a little bit like when you're in an argument with your wife, and you're mad at her,

00:02:00.760 and you say, well, you always do this.

00:02:03.380 And then she says, oh, yeah, give me one example, one time when I've done this.

00:02:06.720 And then you say, uh, I'll get back to you on that.

00:02:09.220 So that's kind of what's going on with her.

00:02:10.620 But even if it's true that these kinds of deals are often made with people who file false police reports,

00:02:22.540 well, there's a couple of differences, though.

00:02:24.920 Number one, of course, in a normal situation of filing a false police report,

00:02:31.140 it doesn't become a national story.

00:02:34.600 So the difference is that Jussie Smollett not only filed the false police report,

00:02:38.880 but he went in front of the entire country, and he tried to foment more racial division

00:02:45.320 for the sake of his own advancement.

00:02:49.500 And let's not forget that he was willing to let, and he still is willing to let,

00:02:54.500 innocent people take the fall.

00:02:56.600 When he originally found out that they had arrested a couple of suspects,

00:03:00.620 before he knew it was his friends, he said, oh, yeah, it must be them,

00:03:04.200 because he thought it was two just random white dudes.

00:03:06.100 And he was willing to let them, to let them go to jail on hate crime charges.

00:03:10.640 So this is different for that reason.

00:03:12.380 But there's another thing, too.

00:03:14.880 They could have made this exact same deal and said, fine, we'll keep your bond,

00:03:21.980 do a little community service.

00:03:23.220 We won't go through the whole trial, rigmarole.

00:03:26.300 But what they could have and should have done is said, here's the condition.

00:03:32.400 You have to go outside of that courthouse, get in front of the cameras, and admit what you did.

00:03:38.080 If you do that, then we're good.

00:03:40.580 In fact, maybe we even give you your bond back, because it doesn't matter. 0.98

00:03:43.920 Because for someone like him, for a narcissistic liar who's doing this for fame and fortune, 0.93

00:03:49.560 the worst penalty that you could give him is that. 0.92

00:03:52.720 In fact, that would be a lot worse than sending him to jail for a couple of months or whatever

00:03:56.500 and letting him continue to play the victim and pretend that he's innocent.

00:04:01.940 So they could have done that.

00:04:03.460 The real scandal here, the real travesty, is not just that they didn't go through with the trial,

00:04:10.400 it's that they let him walk out of that courtroom and stand on the courthouse steps

00:04:15.800 and play the victim and continue to pretend that he's innocent.

00:04:22.320 That's what the scandal is.

00:04:23.960 That's what makes this so outrageous.

00:04:26.020 Because they could have easily said to him,

00:04:28.580 listen, we've got you on this.

00:04:31.780 You know that we've got you.

00:04:32.620 We've got all the evidence. 0.99

00:04:33.800 If this goes to trial, you're screwed. 0.99

00:04:36.420 And we're going to throw the book at you. 0.99

00:04:38.160 We're going to send you to jail for years.

00:04:39.840 We're going to fine you as much as we possibly can.

00:04:42.420 And we're going to find even more crimes to charge you with unless you walk out there and admit what you did.

00:04:51.700 They could have done that and they didn't.

00:04:53.960 And that's the travesty here.

00:04:55.840 Okay, I want to switch gears here early in the show.

00:04:59.260 I want to play a clip for you.

00:05:00.360 And I want to do it close to the beginning of the show because it's important that you see it.

00:05:05.060 And before I play it, let me read first from a report in LifeSite News.

00:05:12.200 It says,

00:05:13.000 The elderly man tried to stop the theft of the banner by putting the stick holding the banner

00:05:39.420 into the spokes of the bicycle.

00:05:41.140 You'll see this in a second.

00:05:42.860 But this just gives a little bit of a context.

00:05:46.480 And then the perpetrator shoves the man to the ground.

00:05:48.300 So we'll see all of that.

00:05:49.240 But the point is, what you're about to witness here,

00:05:52.280 the context is that this guy stole a pro-life banner, property that didn't belong to him.

00:05:59.120 The elderly man, 85 years old, goes and tries to retrieve his property.

00:06:03.120 And then this is what happens.

00:06:18.720 Old man, stay on the ground. 0.95

00:06:23.060 Stay on the ground, old man. 1.00

00:06:24.580 Unless you want to get hurt.

00:06:25.420 Now, I want you to understand that what you just saw there is not unusual.

00:06:38.140 It is not an exception to the rule.

00:06:43.040 Violent assaults against pro-life demonstrators are quite common.

00:06:48.280 And let's run through.

00:06:49.740 I'm going to play a bunch now.

00:06:50.740 Let's just go down memory lane here, because, as I said, it's very common for pro-abortion

00:06:58.740 extremists to assault pro-life demonstrators, such as, if you remember this one.

00:07:07.460 It's hard to confuse everybody. 0.99

00:07:10.260 But still, it's better to be, you want to kill them with kindness, remember? 0.99

00:07:13.480 That's right. 1.00

00:07:14.480 What?

00:07:16.080 They actually have people filming you the whole time.

00:07:18.620 Cool. 0.99

00:07:18.820 Which is why I say, kill with kindness. 1.00

00:07:19.980 Guess what? 0.99

00:07:21.520 Hey, if somebody gets raped by somebody, and they're like, I'm a 16-year-old, and I can't

00:07:31.020 have this baby, think you should keep it? 0.62

00:07:34.740 It's a baby. 0.99

00:07:36.080 If someone is raped, and she gave birth, and she decided to kill her three-year-old child. 1.00

00:07:40.360 I meant to kick your phone! 1.00

00:07:45.120 Someone call the cops! 0.98

00:07:46.120 I meant to kick your phone! 0.99

00:07:47.460 Do not touch me! 0.97

00:07:48.680 Someone call the cops! 0.96

00:07:50.400 Or how about this?

00:07:51.460 I meant to just take away women's rights, and the right over their own body. 1.00

00:07:59.160 Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, Gabby, Gabby, Gabby, Gabby, thank you, Gabby.

00:08:11.120 And then there's this.

00:08:12.700 You're on video.

00:08:14.420 What's up, bro?

00:08:15.320 What's up? 0.99

00:08:15.720 Hey, get the f*** out of here. 1.00

00:08:18.340 Come on, f***. 1.00

00:08:19.880 Oh! 1.00

00:08:21.360 Oh! 0.60

00:08:21.800 And I could go on for three or four hours playing clips like that because they're all

00:08:30.360 over YouTube.

00:08:31.280 I mean, all you have to do is just go on YouTube and type in pro-life or assaulted, and you'll

00:08:36.560 get hundreds of hits on that.

00:08:41.000 So you get the idea. 0.54

00:08:42.340 The point is that pro-abortion extremists are often violent and unhinged.

00:08:47.800 And this should not be a surprise considering what they support.

00:08:53.560 And even when they're not being violent, they will very often verbally assault pro-lifers.

00:08:59.020 Go stand outside of an abortion clinic sometime, if you don't believe me. 0.95

00:09:03.120 Stand with the people who are holding vigils, trying to counsel women, and see the treatment

00:09:08.260 that they endure from passersby, from clinic staff, from everybody.

00:09:12.500 You may actually be shocked by it, if you believe and listen to the media.

00:09:17.980 I don't know why you would at this point.

00:09:19.300 But if you do, you may be under the impression that protesters, that pro-life protesters are

00:09:23.600 the ones who are standing outside of clinics all the time, shouting, you know, shouting

00:09:29.580 at the women going in and heckling and harassing.

00:09:32.660 No, that's not what happens.

00:09:34.720 It's the other way around.

00:09:35.800 It's, they stand there praying.

00:09:40.460 That's the way that pro-life demonstrations usually go.

00:09:43.660 Most people are silent and they're simply praying.

00:09:47.540 And at a clinic, most people will be silent except for a sidewalk counselor who will try

00:09:54.020 to approach women who are going into the clinic, approach them not to yell at them or insult

00:09:59.760 them or anything like that, but simply to inform them about the other options they have available.

00:10:05.640 Because the clinic will not do that.

00:10:07.700 The clinic will not tell women that they have other options.

00:10:13.520 And in the midst of that, what will happen is those pro-lifers who are being peaceful

00:10:18.080 and mostly silent will be harassed or assaulted.

00:10:22.320 And it's quite common.

00:10:23.280 One of the weirdest such cases was a couple of years ago when a, what really appears to

00:10:29.480 be a demonically possessed abortion doctor came out to confront a pro-lifer and it was

00:10:35.300 like, it was basically a scene from The Exorcist.

00:10:37.940 Watch this.

00:10:38.960 Friends, I pray, sir, you got to repent, sir.

00:10:42.020 You got to repent, sir, for murdering babies.

00:10:46.560 Why?

00:10:47.340 Because it's a sin before God.

00:10:49.080 Why?

00:10:49.500 Wow. 0.96

00:10:50.440 Stinky breath. 0.83

00:10:51.380 Yeah. 0.99

00:10:51.620 It's pretty, it's pretty evil of you, sir.

00:10:53.540 Yeah, I am.

00:10:54.020 And I hope and pray that you.

00:10:55.400 Yeah.

00:10:56.340 Ha! 0.89

00:10:57.820 Well, that's what you do to babies, huh?

00:10:59.160 Yeah.

00:10:59.740 I love it.

00:11:00.620 You love it, huh?

00:11:01.180 Yeah, I do.

00:11:02.120 Okay.

00:11:02.580 I hope that you come to Christ, sir.

00:11:04.160 Oh, I never go to Christ.

00:11:05.700 I hope that you come to Christ, sir.

00:11:06.860 No, I don't go to Christ.

00:11:08.000 Yeah, you.

00:11:08.540 I don't listen to Christ.

00:11:09.340 You will have a darkened heart, sir.

00:11:10.800 I do have a darkened heart, yeah.

00:11:12.480 You have a darkened heart.

00:11:13.380 I do, I do.

00:11:14.000 Very, very much so.

00:11:14.900 And you will stand before God in judgment day.

00:11:16.640 Yes, I will.

00:11:17.580 Every day.

00:11:18.040 You will stand before God in judgment day.

00:11:19.860 Yes, I will.

00:11:20.540 Every day. 1.00

00:11:21.060 All of the babies that you have killed. 1.00

00:11:21.880 I love it. 1.00

00:11:22.580 I love it.

00:11:23.340 Yeah, keep tearing the babies apart. 1.00

00:11:24.620 Yeah, I will. 0.99

00:11:25.160 Keep tearing the babies apart. 0.99

00:11:25.880 I will. 0.91

00:11:26.740 Dr. Santana. 0.95

00:11:27.600 Keep tearing the babies apart. 0.96

00:11:29.900 Oh, yes.

00:11:30.700 Yes, sir.

00:11:31.180 The babies, their blood streams from the ground.

00:11:33.120 Now, I'm not going to claim, okay, that you can't find examples of pro-life demonstrators

00:11:38.440 acting inappropriately.

00:11:40.880 You certainly can.

00:11:43.060 But there is really no comparison.

00:11:45.380 The violence and harassment almost always comes from the other side.

00:11:51.480 Almost always.

00:11:53.040 And you're not going to see this in the media, but that is the reality.

00:11:56.660 And as I said, it's not surprising because they are defending violence.

00:12:00.360 They are defending the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of innocent children.

00:12:04.820 So, obviously, they're not going to have any problem with stealing a sign or assaulting

00:12:08.880 an 85-year-old man.

00:12:10.340 That's pittance compared to what they're defending.

00:12:13.700 So, that shouldn't surprise us too much.

00:12:17.260 But also, the other thing about this dynamic between pro-lifers and pro-abortion people,

00:12:23.200 when you've got pro-life demonstrators on one side and pro-abortion people on the other,

00:12:29.160 remember that the pro-abortion people are, by definition, inherently selfish.

00:12:38.760 Okay, so it's all about them personally.

00:12:43.360 When they are protesting or demonstrating in favor of abortion,

00:12:47.360 they're doing it because it's something that they want for themselves.

00:12:51.640 They want to have this privilege, we can call it that, I certainly won't call it a right, 0.98

00:12:57.120 to kill babies because it will make their life easier. 0.97

00:13:00.400 And that's why they get emotional. 0.98

00:13:02.340 Okay, so this is not righteous anger on behalf of the oppressed.

00:13:06.400 No, this is the anger of a selfish, deluded person who feels like their own convenience

00:13:14.300 is going to be intruded upon.

00:13:18.000 And for the men who act this way, they want abortion to be legal so that they can use women 0.84

00:13:22.760 as objects, and they never have to worry about the responsibilities that may come from that.

00:13:29.060 On the other hand, and this, you know, I think I said this around the time of the March for Life,

00:13:33.860 this is what makes something like the March for Life such a beautiful and inspiring event,

00:13:39.340 is that pro-lifers, whether you agree with them or not,

00:13:44.600 what you cannot deny is that these are selfless people.

00:13:50.360 They're not doing it for themselves.

00:13:52.620 You don't go and stand outside of an abortion clinic for your own sake.

00:13:58.580 You don't gain anything from that.

00:14:00.620 You don't go to the March for Life and take a bus and go all the way there in January when

00:14:06.120 it's freezing cold and stand outside in the cold for four hours for yourself.

00:14:10.260 You know, there's nothing that you gain from that.

00:14:12.540 The people who are involved in the pro-life cause, contrary to the ones who are pro-abortion,

00:14:18.980 the ones who are pro-life, they are in it to protect

00:14:23.620 those who cannot protect themselves.

00:14:28.960 They are focused outwardly to the other, to the person who cannot speak for themselves.

00:14:35.640 Whereas for pro-abortion people, it's all about me, me, me.

00:14:39.120 That is the crucial difference between the two.

00:14:42.180 And that explains, I think, their different, shall we say, strategies in getting their message across.

00:14:48.620 All right, I want to, for a moment, revisit this story about Cardi B.

00:14:59.480 You may remember from yesterday, she's the famous female rapper who admitted in an Instagram

00:15:04.400 video that she used to drug and rob men. 1.00

00:15:07.760 She'd lure them back to her hotel after a night of stripping. 0.98

00:15:11.440 She would have them come back to, this is what she admitted to, have them come back to the hotel 0.98

00:15:14.700 and she would drug and rob them. 1.00

00:15:16.420 And she've said all this in a video that she posted online for some reason a couple of years ago.

00:15:21.980 And yesterday, she posted a barely coherent statement defending herself, explaining that

00:15:27.060 she had no choice but to drug and rob men. 1.00

00:15:29.980 And we all need to stop criticizing her because she's living her truth and she's being herself

00:15:34.500 and she's being honest and this is what she needed to do.

00:15:39.840 A couple of follow-up points about this. 1.00

00:15:41.440 The incomparable idiots over at Vox are perfectly willing to buy this excuse. 0.97

00:15:50.060 An article on Vox that was posted, published, I think last night, explains that Cardi B will 1.00

00:15:57.120 not be hurt by this scandal and really she shouldn't be.

00:15:59.860 And the article says this.

00:16:03.240 For one thing,

00:16:05.320 and the author of the article is trying to draw a distinction between Cardi B and someone like Bill Cosby or R. Kelly.

00:16:11.680 She says,

00:16:12.040 For one thing, there's the difference in degree between what Cardi says she did and what Cosby and Kelly's accusers say they did.

00:16:19.620 Cosby and Kelly have been accused of repeatedly over a period of decades using the power they accumulated as celebrities to drug and rape women in Cosby's case

00:16:27.320 and to rape and abuse women and young girls in Kelly's case. 0.77

00:16:30.100 Cardi says that she drugged and robbed men before she became rich and powerful celebrity in order to survive. 1.00

00:16:36.420 Cosby and Kelly have been accused of repeated violent and sadistic abuses of power over decades.

00:16:41.380 Cosby and Kelly have admitted to a crime of survival.

00:16:45.660 A crime of survival.

00:16:47.460 No, a crime of survival is when you're literally starving to death and so you steal a loaf of bread from the supermarket so you don't die.

00:16:58.800 That's a crime of survival.

00:17:01.280 Cardi B was a stripper and she made plenty of cash in that profession. 1.00

00:17:06.380 So what are we saying?

00:17:07.400 She would have starved to death had she not had this side gig of drugging and robbing men. 1.00

00:17:16.180 By the way, I did look this up because I figured that somewhere she probably has bragged about how much money she actually made as a stripper. 1.00

00:17:25.340 And sure enough, I found this in Yahoo News from just a couple of months ago.

00:17:29.740 It says the Grammy-nominated artist started dancing at 18 and while she admits her first time was embarrassing,

00:17:34.360 the checks helped her get over that feeling quickly.

00:17:37.340 She says, I was seeing money that I feel like I would have never seen ever.

00:17:41.500 At first, I started off making $200 or $300, sometimes not making money at all because you've got to pay your house fee and my house fees were very expensive.

00:17:50.420 But after I got good, there were nights where I would leave with $2,000 or $3,000.

00:17:57.420 When I was 21, I had $20,000 saved up.

00:18:00.940 When I was 22, I already had $35,000 saved up in singles.

00:18:04.480 So, she couldn't survive on $3,000 a night. 0.98

00:18:11.480 Well, then how am I still alive?

00:18:13.980 How are you still breathing if $3,000 a night isn't enough to get you by and so you have to drug and rob people?

00:18:20.920 Very few people on earth make more than $3,000 a day. 0.96

00:18:25.300 So, we should all be dead, according to Cardi B and Vox.

00:18:30.280 But Cardi B, she just couldn't make it work, you know, with her budget.

00:18:32.820 She had no choice.

00:18:34.480 Instead of pretending to buy that excuse, as some people are, why don't you just come out and say, she's a woman and her victims were men, so it's okay.

00:18:51.040 Because that's what you really mean.

00:18:52.980 That's obviously what you actually mean.

00:18:55.080 So, why don't you come out and say it?

00:18:56.820 We all know that's what you're saying.

00:18:58.420 The people that are defending Cardi B, it's because she's a woman. 0.98

00:19:01.180 And so, admit it.

00:19:02.480 No, the real difference between Cardi B and Bill Cosby and R. Kelly is that she's a woman and they're men.

00:19:13.000 I forgot to mention, another video of Cardi B surfaced. 0.88

00:19:16.180 This one of her bragging about getting guys drunk and then tricking them into sleeping with transsexuals. 1.00

00:19:22.480 Why would she do that? 1.00

00:19:26.920 I don't know.

00:19:27.500 There's not a lot of context to it, but that's what she says.

00:19:31.020 And, I mean, we know there are double standards with the way that women are sometimes treated with these things. 0.96

00:19:37.720 But this is beyond the pale. 0.98

00:19:39.320 I mean, this woman is a vile crook who should be in prison. 1.00

00:19:43.620 She's confessing to one violent crime after another. 0.99

00:19:48.580 This woman should have 60 years in prison by now. 1.00

00:19:53.460 But there's one other thing I wanted to say about this as I was thinking about it.

00:19:59.180 Cardi B's excuse is that she not only was doing what she had to do to survive, but also that she's living her truth, right?

00:20:08.400 She's being real, she's being honest, she's being herself, whatever.

00:20:15.660 And I'm kind of glad she went in that direction with her excuse for this behavior because it helps to expose just how vacuous and absurd the whole, hey, I'm just being me thing really is. 0.97

00:20:29.380 People have used it very often, especially these days, as an excuse to behave like pigs.

00:20:37.080 And this is just one of the more extreme examples where people say, hey, I'm being me. 0.94

00:20:41.700 This is my truth.

00:20:42.720 I'm being real.

00:20:45.140 Well, okay then. 0.99

00:20:46.460 But if this is you and you're being real, then that just means that you're a horrible person.

00:20:53.240 The fact that you're being yourself and being real is not an excuse to be horrible.

00:20:57.840 If your self is horrible, then you need to change yourself because that's bad. 0.99

00:21:03.380 So it reminds me of that, you know, that stupid slogan that you see sometimes floating around online in memes and so forth that goes like, 1.00

00:21:11.560 if you can't handle me at my worst, then you don't deserve me at my best. 0.97

00:21:15.440 That's a similar kind of attitude that people have where a person takes ownership, takes prideful ownership of their worst behavior and says, basically, everyone has to deal with it because this is just me being me and I'm being myself. 0.95

00:21:32.540 But no, you see, if I can't handle you at your worst, that's because you're a bad person and you're miserable to be around. 0.61

00:21:43.040 And that's why no one likes you. 0.98

00:21:45.380 It's not because they're haters or they're jealous or they're trying to stifle you. 0.98

00:21:49.580 No, it's simply because you're an abysmal, insufferable, excruciating human being.

00:21:56.660 That's what it is. 0.92

00:21:58.440 And I shouldn't have to tolerate your awfulness as some sort of price of admission so that I can experience your best.

00:22:05.620 Because I got to tell you something, your best isn't that great either.

00:22:08.420 But this is the the attitude that we encourage in kids these days, especially.

00:22:17.060 We say, be who you are.

00:22:18.940 And if people don't like it, it's their fault.

00:22:21.820 It's their problem.

00:22:23.740 No, it's it's probably your fault.

00:22:26.360 If you find that everyone around you always turns out to be a hater and you're constantly in conflict with everyone and everyone is out to get you all the time.

00:22:37.300 And you can't maintain friendships or relations with relationships with anyone.

00:22:41.200 Then look at the common denominator.

00:22:43.500 It's time for an epiphany where you go, oh, wait, every everyone around me hates me because I'm terrible.

00:22:49.600 That's why.

00:22:50.380 OK.

00:22:51.860 You know what a lot of this is?

00:22:53.340 It's it's it's shamelessness.

00:22:57.960 Disguised as honesty.

00:23:00.700 People think it's OK these days to be terrible if they're honest about it and if they're being real.

00:23:06.280 And so they can simply admit.

00:23:08.600 And that's what Cardi B is doing.

00:23:10.960 She's like, yeah, I drugged and robbed, man, but I'm I'm being real about it.

00:23:14.180 I'm being honest with you.

00:23:15.320 No, that's not that's not really honesty.

00:23:17.460 That's shamelessness.

00:23:18.440 And there's a difference.

00:23:22.020 Now, honesty is when you admit to being terrible and doing awful things.

00:23:28.420 And you're remorseful about it and ashamed.

00:23:33.940 OK, well, that is really brave and bold honesty.

00:23:37.460 I'll give you that.

00:23:38.100 But if you're taking these terrible things about yourself and you're parading them in front of the world and saying, hey, everyone, look at me.

00:23:45.000 Um, that is shamelessness.

00:23:49.960 And as I said, there's a difference and it's not good.

00:23:53.960 All right, let's.

00:23:58.300 Well, I had OK, I got I can't I can't move on to the inbox before I play.

00:24:01.720 I played a lot of clips, but I got to play this one, too, because this one I found on Twitter and.

00:24:06.960 Um, it's maybe the most relatable thing you've ever seen.

00:24:12.860 Watch this.

00:24:14.320 Good morning, TPS students.

00:24:15.840 It is testing week and it's time to slay all day.

00:24:19.360 Yeet.

00:24:20.080 Stay woke, be on fleek and get that Gucci breakfast.

00:24:23.780 Goals.

00:24:24.520 Say bye, Felicia, to that testing stress.

00:24:26.980 Weather's going to be turnt, right, Chris?

00:24:28.700 Yes.

00:24:29.820 Toledo weather going to be the lit during testing week.

00:24:33.540 A hundo P chance of success. 0.96

00:24:35.620 You've got this, kids.

00:24:37.380 Steve, how about that traffic?

00:24:38.800 Are we looking at OKR?

00:24:40.420 Better than OKR?

00:24:42.480 We're talking turnt.

00:24:44.120 FOMO won't be an issue.

00:24:45.840 No traffic problems around any TPS schools to keep you from taking those tests.

00:24:52.260 That really does.

00:24:53.680 As a Christian, I can say that really reminds me of every single youth pastor I've ever met in my life.

00:24:59.680 It's basically exactly like that.

00:25:01.960 And we wonder why we can't get young kids to go to church.

00:25:06.240 All right, let's go to the inbox.

00:25:07.260 You can email the show, mattwalshow at gmail.com, mattwalshow at gmail.com.

00:25:12.100 This is from Brandon.

00:25:13.180 Says, hey, Matt, love your show.

00:25:14.480 I started listening to your podcast about a month ago, and now I actually enjoy my hour-long commute to work every morning.

00:25:20.580 I notice you've mentioned a few times now that beans don't belong in chili.

00:25:24.120 I don't think I've ever had chili without beans, as I feel it would be empty without it.

00:25:27.780 Have I been wrong my whole life?

00:25:29.260 Anyway, I appreciate what you do.

00:25:30.740 Godspeed.

00:25:32.540 Yes, Brandon, you have been, I regret to inform you, wrong your whole life.

00:25:38.500 The International Chili Society has officially defined what a chili is.

00:25:45.340 And frankly, it's a sign of our crumbling education system that you, Brandon, have apparently never read the bylaws of the International Chili Society.

00:25:53.900 But let me read for you commandment number one on their rule sheet about what constitutes a chili.

00:26:01.120 It says, true chili is defined by the International Chili Society as any kind of meat or combination of meats cooked with chili peppers, various other spices, and other ingredients, with the exception of items such as beans or spaghetti, which are strictly forbidden.

00:26:15.940 Why are they forbidden?

00:26:16.780 Because they are meaningless filler.

00:26:19.660 Beans and chili is like when people put walnuts in brownies.

00:26:23.120 It's not like it's bad, necessarily, but there's no point to it.

00:26:28.080 You're distracting from the main event.

00:26:30.260 If I'm eating a brownie, it's because I want the chocolate.

00:26:33.340 So why are you putting these little gaps of non-chocolate into my brownie?

00:26:38.200 What is the point of this?

00:26:39.720 In fact, if I'm at someone's house and they serve me brownies with walnuts, I will say exactly this to them.

00:26:44.520 And I'll throw it in their face, which is, I think, the only reasonable response.

00:26:49.640 And it's the same thing with chili.

00:26:50.700 The main event is the meat and everything that is not meat or that does not accentuate the meat like the spices do is pointless.

00:27:00.280 Why is it there?

00:27:00.920 All right, from Mark, it says, talking about the, this is referring to the New York Times article we mentioned on the show yesterday that was attempting unsuccessfully to disprove God.

00:27:15.860 It says, when the professor made the argument regarding the problem of evil, he said natural evils are wrong.

00:27:22.520 While you made a good argument regarding that men are the cause because our sin wrecked the world, there's another argument that's missing.

00:27:28.160 Another answer is that since men are sinful, any suffering they experience is just. 0.52

00:27:34.840 We don't deserve life, pleasure, comfort, or anything good that God has given us.

00:27:38.260 That all comes from his grace.

00:27:40.000 The question should be, why do bad things happen to people?

00:27:43.140 The real question is, since man is so evil, why does anything good happen to people at all?

00:27:47.760 Well, the answer to that is God's grace.

00:27:49.940 Also, you mentioned that God's omniscience and his omnipotence are contradictory.

00:27:53.220 Contradictory, well, I mentioned, I don't think they're contradictory.

00:27:57.840 I'm saying that that is a, that's a more compelling atheist argument, but I explained how it's not actually true.

00:28:05.680 You gave the, God exists in a B theory of time.

00:28:09.940 While that argument works, for those that don't subscribe to the B theory of time,

00:28:13.620 another answer is that there is no logical reason for these two to contradict.

00:28:16.480 Just because I know what I would do in a certain situation doesn't mean I lack in power to do those things.

00:28:21.900 For example, I know that I'm going to eat the bag of chips in front of me.

00:28:24.560 Does my knowledge of that take away from my power or ability to do those things?

00:28:28.060 Absolutely not.

00:28:28.780 It doesn't really make sense.

00:28:30.520 Mark, I, you know, your, your answer to the problem of evil, I,

00:28:34.480 I don't think that's going to be a successful answer

00:28:38.500 when you're talking to someone who's secular, atheist, agnostic.

00:28:45.520 Because what you're trying to argue is that,

00:28:48.980 well, I mean, just take any horrible thing you can think of,

00:28:53.900 and then you're saying, well, that person deserved that thing.

00:28:56.880 So, I mean, fill in the blank.

00:28:58.860 Think of the most horrible thing that could have happened to a person, a child.

00:29:03.140 And then you're saying, well, yeah, but they deserved it really because they're sinful.

00:29:06.260 Well, I don't think that's, I don't think that's a successful answer.

00:29:13.200 And I certainly don't think it's going to be a convincing answer to an atheist.

00:29:17.760 I think if they hear that, they're going to just run away screaming and saying, 0.99

00:29:21.500 you're crazy. 1.00

00:29:22.100 That's insane. 1.00

00:29:23.640 Yeah, you try to tell me a child, a child with brain cancer is, well, he deserves it.

00:29:28.800 No, that's not.

00:29:30.640 No, child does not deserve cancer.

00:29:32.860 I will say that unequivocally.

00:29:36.260 Um, but theologically speaking, as I said, you know, when we're trying to answer the question

00:29:42.980 of these so-called natural evils, natural suffering, as opposed to the kinds of suffering

00:29:47.620 that we can explain through free will, which is a little bit easier to explain, um, somebody

00:29:52.900 victimizes another person.

00:29:54.280 Well, that happened because that bad person chose to do it, right?

00:29:58.700 Natural evils is a little bit more difficult.

00:30:00.320 We can't explain that without getting into some theology.

00:30:02.860 There is obviously no way around that.

00:30:04.660 And so the theology there is that man fell out of harmony with nature and with himself

00:30:10.700 through sin.

00:30:12.520 Um, and so I think that's our, that's our answer.

00:30:15.080 We can kind of leave it there from Jeff.

00:30:17.760 It says, Matt, who would win in a fight?

00:30:19.260 The Ninja Turtles or Power Rangers?

00:30:20.680 I guess I would give it to the Power Rangers because they can make that Megazord thing, right?

00:30:24.040 And, you know, just stomp on the Ninja Turtles. 0.76

00:30:25.960 But great question.

00:30:26.600 Thank you for that.

00:30:27.040 Uh, from Timothy says, hi, Matt, love the show.

00:30:29.620 I've heard you briefly mention the issue of the order of the Gospels before.

00:30:33.740 Could you explain that?

00:30:35.020 Which Gospel was written first and how do we know?

00:30:37.060 And when will the, when were the Gospels all written?

00:30:39.820 Um, yeah, I think we've talked about this before.

00:30:42.780 I, uh, we don't know exactly when the Gospels were written or, or in what order, but this

00:30:48.020 is something biblical scholars have been studying and debating for a long time.

00:30:52.900 Um, different theories have emerged.

00:30:57.780 And, uh, as you can imagine, there are, you know, atheists and secular scholars are going

00:31:03.620 to have slightly different answers from Christian scholars.

00:31:06.700 So just a quick overview based on my reading.

00:31:08.900 Everyone agrees that John was written last.

00:31:10.840 Even if you go back to the church fathers, they all, so there's basically universal agreement

00:31:14.980 throughout history on that point.

00:31:16.380 So we can be pretty sure about that.

00:31:18.400 Um, the most prominent theory today is that Mark was written first.

00:31:22.520 And there are a few reasons, um, a few reasons to think that, but the primary reason is that

00:31:29.020 almost all of Mark, uh, the text of Mark, almost all of it is contained in Matthew and then

00:31:37.140 to a lesser extent, Luke.

00:31:39.780 So it's clear and sometimes verbatim, you've got these verbatim passages between the three

00:31:45.320 Gospels.

00:31:45.700 That's why they're called the synoptics.

00:31:46.980 So it's clear that somebody went first and used the others as a source.

00:31:51.700 We know that it wouldn't really make sense if Matthew went first and then Mark came along

00:31:56.720 and made a gospel out of Matthew because Mark is so much shorter than Matthew and Mark leaves

00:32:02.760 out some really important things like the virgin birth, which isn't in Mark.

00:32:06.140 So it wouldn't make sense if Mark was second and he made a gospel based on Matthew.

00:32:11.560 And all he did then was, was just, he, he, he took some of it and cut out some really important

00:32:16.700 parts and then made his own gospel out of it.

00:32:19.340 In that case, Mark would just be an abridgment of Matthew.

00:32:22.180 And there's almost no reason for it to be in the Bible in that case.

00:32:24.960 Um, but if it came first, well, then it's sort of the, one of the original source documents

00:32:31.060 and Matthew and Luke used it and then added details, fleshed it out based on their own

00:32:37.440 sources and for Matthew, his own eyewitness experience.

00:32:40.520 So that to me, um, makes, uh, makes a lot of sense.

00:32:44.480 It just makes a lot more sense than the idea that Mark wrote some sort of abridgment of,

00:32:50.500 uh, of Matthew.

00:32:51.180 As for when they were written, um, well, secular scholars will push all the gospels after the

00:32:58.220 year 70 AD, because that's when the temple in Jerusalem was destroyed, which is mentioned

00:33:02.060 in the gospels.

00:33:02.820 And so they'll say, well, it must, obviously these things were written after that happened

00:33:06.500 because they mentioned it.

00:33:07.420 Whereas Christians will say, well, no, it was a prophecy. 0.99

00:33:09.580 So it happened before.

00:33:11.340 So I think we, you know, they were written, at least John, all of the gospels except for John

00:33:15.220 were written before 70, but not too much before 70 because, um, Paul was writing up

00:33:21.100 until the mid sixties thereabout.

00:33:23.440 And in his letters, he never mentions the gospels explicitly, uh, the written gospels,

00:33:28.800 uh, doesn't cite them, rarely mentions any of the stories they contain.

00:33:34.040 And it seems inconceivable to me that if the gospels existed, when Paul was writing that

00:33:40.200 he would not have frequently cited them just like modern day missionaries.

00:33:43.940 You know, they're not going to go around and never mentioned the gospels.

00:33:46.800 They're going to mention them frequently.

00:33:47.940 Right?

00:33:48.800 So Paul doesn't mention them at all.

00:33:50.280 I think it's because they didn't exist yet.

00:33:51.820 They hadn't been written.

00:33:52.700 And so, um, Matthew was probably written, uh, sometime in the mid sixties, then Luke

00:33:58.880 and then, uh, uh, or, you know, Mark, Matthew, Luke, and then, and then John.

00:34:03.200 All right.

00:34:03.660 Finally, this says, uh, this is from Matt says, Matt loved the show because I agree with

00:34:07.620 just about everything you say, but mostly because you have the best first name ever.

00:34:10.940 Likewise.

00:34:11.880 Um, there was a lot of talk about the new movie about abortion unplanned being rated R by

00:34:16.860 the MPAA because it shows abortion related content because the movie is rated R a person

00:34:22.160 under the age of 17 needs to have a parent or adult accompany them in order to watch a

00:34:26.680 movie about abortion.

00:34:27.820 But in the height of all ironies, pro-abortion activists in many states are pushing to remove

00:34:33.160 parental consent laws relative to abortion, claiming that many teens should be able to decide

00:34:37.940 for themselves whether to slaughter their unborn baby. 0.61

00:34:40.340 Thus, the left apparently believes that although a girl under the age of 17 is too young to

00:34:44.740 be able to watch a movie about abortion, that same girl is apparently mature enough to actually 1.00

00:34:49.540 have an abortion without her parents' knowledge or consent.

00:34:53.160 That begs the question, is the reason why unplanned is rated R because the content is too mature

00:34:58.000 for teen audiences or because the left wants to keep the movie's message away from as many

00:35:02.860 teens as possible?

00:35:04.260 The question answers itself.

00:35:06.040 Yes, it does answer itself.

00:35:10.640 But thank you for bringing that point up because it is, as you say, completely absurd.

00:35:15.980 We'll leave it there.

00:35:16.840 Thanks for watching.

00:35:17.440 Thanks for listening, everybody.

00:35:18.680 Godspeed.

00:35:19.160 I'm Michael Knowles, host of The Michael Knowles Show.

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The Matt Walsh Show - March 28, 2019

Ep. 227 - Another Peaceful Pro-Lifer Brutally Assaulted By Pro-Abortion Extremist

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