The effort to shut down my speech at Baylor is ramping up with local news down in Waco now reporting that I am a "theocratic fascist." Also, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez bemoans the price of croissants, and says that the minimum wage should be raised because they are so expensive.
00:00:00.000Today on the Matt Walsh Show, the effort to shut down my speech at Baylor is ramping up with local news down in Waco now reporting that I am a theocratic fascist.
00:00:09.940Is that label fair? I will try to clarify today.
00:00:13.540Also, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez bemoans the price of croissants and says that the minimum wage should be raised because croissants are so expensive.
00:00:21.420I don't understand the connection. We'll try to talk about that.
00:00:23.540And also, who struggles more in the school system, generally speaking, girls or boys?
00:00:27.800I think that's an important question that we should try to answer. And we'll do that today on the Matt Walsh Show.
00:00:37.540As I mentioned yesterday, there's a petition to shut down my speech at Baylor next week.
00:00:42.600April 9th is the day of the speech. The petition has now gathered, I think, 1700 signatures last I saw.
00:00:50.540And now there's a second petition to oppose the petition opposing my speech.
00:00:56.880And that petition also has 1700 signatures. So we've got a war of the petitions right now.
00:01:01.800My only hope is that somebody will now start a petition to support the petition, supporting the petition, opposing the petition.
00:01:08.880And then, of course, just to get things really spicy, I'd like for someone to start a petition opposing the petition, supporting the petition, supporting the petition, opposing the petition.
00:01:17.800And then, you know, we'll just keep it going until the day of the speech. That would be a lot of fun.
00:01:26.420There's some other craziness surrounding the talk that I want to get into, as well as some other topics as well.
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00:03:29.380So, local media down in Waco did a report last night, apparently, about my Baylor speech.
00:03:36.020And there are a few funny things about the report.
00:03:40.060So, I want to play, if it's not too self-indulgent, it is a little bit, but I'm going to play this news report about, well, about me, honestly.
00:03:48.360But there's a couple funny points here.
00:05:51.440My goal is to always speak and act with love and compassion first and foremost, like Christ has taught me to.
00:05:57.600Now, we also reached out to Baylor and this is what we received, quote,
00:06:03.160As an institution of higher education, we are committed to a thoughtful exchange of ideas and an academic environment that supports inquiry, discourse and diversity.
00:06:13.140As a Christian institution, we have an additional responsibility to appreciate differing opinions and backgrounds in a respectful, loving manner that extends grace as Christ did.
00:06:23.200And I also reached out to groups on the Baylor campus who said that Walsh's messages at times target them, and they chose not to speak out on the matter.
00:06:32.780Reporting live in the studio, John Carroll, KWTX News 10.
00:06:36.100First of all, I want to be very clear about this.
00:06:40.480I don't know who that beardless weirdo is in the picture that you saw there, but it's not me.
00:06:48.220Um, that picture has been photoshopped.
00:06:50.860I would never humiliate myself by going around naked face like that.
00:06:55.560Uh, so I just, I, I completely disavow that picture, that beardless picture.
00:07:02.420Second, uh, and this I'm actually serious about the, the ads around campus with the rainbow flag and the, and the hammer and sickle.
00:08:04.380You know, it's a symbol of the LGBT lobby and that lobby, as I've said many times, and I will say again at Baylor, uh, the LGBT lobby is quite possibly the most vicious bullying organization in the country, um, with the tactics that they use.
00:08:25.920There's evidently a lot of hay being made with the fact that I self-identify as a theocratic fascist, which yes, it does say that in my Twitter bio.
00:08:34.760Um, and that fact is not only mentioned in the media report, but there was a, there was an article in Baylor student newspaper written by someone who's been pulling down flyers, uh, for the event and he's defending his behavior.
00:08:48.360And, uh, he says in part in his article in the student newspaper, he says, um, here's one reason I pulled down the flyers.
00:09:03.600I respect the integrity of America's governmental systems, allowing self-described fascists to speak on our campus is not allowing them to exercise their freedom of speech.
00:09:12.740Rather, it is allowing one whose relationship to freedom is already dubious, a platform to potentially undermine the authority of the U S government and constitution.
00:11:10.140Um, all of it is for low IQ people, uh, frankly.
00:11:13.700And in my theocratic fascist dictatorship, all of those condiments will be confiscated, uh, prohibited.
00:11:19.740And anyone who is caught with contraband, um, like say, uh, ranch dressing will face execution and a $50 fine.
00:11:29.860So you see, this is really, this is really my whole thing.
00:11:32.080I just believe that the whole country should be forced by agents of the state to bend to my every whim and to live, speak, and act exactly as I decree on penalty of death.
00:12:51.140So what's, I mean, what's the big deal here?
00:12:53.040And I can only hope that the next media report, um, makes sure to include that I do believe in burning people at the stake for not going to church or for using ranch dressing or for any number of literally hundreds of, of infractions.
00:13:07.500Um, and I can only hope that it's, so, so that's, I just wanted to make that a clarification.
00:14:12.400But didn't AOC tell us that the world is coming to an end in part because of air travel and that she wants to ban air travel because of what it's doing to the planet?
00:14:24.220And rather than being, you know, uh, uh, rather than weeping over all of the carbon emissions, rather than staring out of the big airport windows at all the planes going by and, and weeping uncontrollably at how these carbon emissions are, are killing the planet.
00:14:43.820No, she's in the, she's at the snack bar worried about croissants.
00:14:50.740And every time I bring this up, people act like it's some kind of cheap tactic.
00:14:55.180You know, anytime you bring up the fact that, oh, you've got these environmentalists who are still out there flying on planes and driving in cars and everything.
00:15:01.220And when you bring that up, people act like it's a, it's just a gotcha.
00:15:05.780But no, it's, it's, this is a, this is a real point that if you, if you say that air travel is killing the planet and it should be banned because of it, well, then you can't go on using planes yourself.
00:15:19.140Because if you do that, we are going to suspect that you don't really mean it, that you're not sincere.
00:15:25.340Because if you were sincere, then this, at the very least, using an airplane should be a source of, of, of, of, it should be a moral crisis for you.
00:15:35.600The fact that you're on an airplane taking part in this.
00:15:39.660Uh, I mean, if you ever use an airplane, if you really think that airplanes are killing the planet and you, and you use one, it should be only in extreme circumstances.
00:15:47.980And you should be, as I said, you should really be crying out of guilt the entire time.
00:15:52.240The fact that you're, that you're worried about croissants tells me that, uh, you're not actually that concerned about the planet being killed by airplanes, which, which tells me that you don't really even take yourself seriously.
00:16:03.340And finally, of course, how much do you think those croissants would cost if the people putting them into little baggies and handing them to you, um, had to be paid $15 an hour to do so?
00:16:17.800Assuming this was not a homemade croissant place at the airport, which probably wasn't, uh, I've had many airport croissants in my day because I'm a millennial as well.
00:16:27.680And, uh, I do like croissants, I'll admit.
00:16:31.000Um, and, uh, in, in almost every case, they are not made at the, at the scene.
00:16:36.520And so, so if you think that the person who's just taking it out of the little glass case and putting it into the bag and handing it to you, if that job of doing this, you know, that's all it is to taking it, boom, here, put your card in, you know, and then that's it.
00:16:52.240Um, you know, meanwhile, since we're on the topic of the minimum wage, a bill in Arizona is actually looking to reduce the minimum wage from $11 to $725, um, but only for workers under 22 years of age.
00:17:15.000And the logic there is that the vast majority of workers between the ages of 16 and 22 don't have any dependents, uh, that most of them are living at home.
00:17:24.460And so, you know, some of them do have kids, but for the, the vast majority do not statistically.
00:17:28.660And so if the minimum wage is a little lower, then you could hire more young people, give more people that work experience, but you don't have to pay them as if they have kids to take care of because almost none of them do.
00:17:40.740Um, and that makes a lot of sense to me, um, though I think the minimum wage should be, should be lowered to zero for everyone.
00:17:48.920The minimum wage should be zero because the minimum usefulness for an employee is zero, if not actually in the negative, because an employee could cost you money, uh, without, you know, so, but let's just say for the sake of argument, it's zero.
00:18:06.340Um, what I mean is there are some workers who simply aren't worth $15 an hour or, or 11 or seven or five.
00:18:18.040Um, and I'm thinking, uh, and, and, and I, and when I say that, I don't mean all of the workers who work customer service or behind the cash register.
00:18:27.260My point is I'm not, I don't want to lump them all together.
00:18:30.400When you talk about $15 minimum wage, you are lumping them all together.
00:18:34.520You're saying, you're saying they're all worth exactly the same $15.
00:18:41.120So when I, uh, you know, if I go to Wendy's or something and, and, um, and I see, you know, someone who, who came to work without their shirt, even tucked in, moping around, moving as slow as molasses,
00:18:54.900scowl on the face, making the whole experience miserable for everybody.
00:19:00.880Um, you know, that is someone whose value to the company is simply the fact that they can push a button and that's it because they bring nothing else to the table at all.
00:19:12.740Uh, and there are people like that, you know, that we've all experienced, not exerting themselves, not trying any, they are not trying to do anything, but just, and even pressing the button, they get wrong.
00:19:24.460And they do it as slow as they possibly can, almost like they're trying to make a point that they're not going to rush for you.
00:19:30.160Um, and I think their pay should reflect that.
00:19:36.540Uh, and it should reflect that in part so that the people who go the extra mile and work hard and exert themselves can be paid in a way that reflects that.
00:19:47.500As I've said before, I think the situation should be by the situation behind any fast food counter should be this, that there are people behind that counter making 50 cents an hour.
00:20:04.200And there should be other people behind that counter who are making $30 an hour.
00:20:19.440And I, and I think the pay should reflect it.
00:20:22.360It shouldn't be that everyone who happens to work behind a cash register at a fast food place or at a mall food stand, uh, that, you know, they all get paid exactly the same because they, they're not all, they, they aren't all the same.
00:20:36.320Um, so people like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez who want to, you know, uh, raise the minimum wage, they can pretend to be the compassionate ones who are concerned about, you know, making, making sure people have more money and all that.
00:20:53.800But, but really with the system I'm talking about, the people who really work hard in those jobs could make a lot more money than they do now.