The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 234 - I Am A Threat To Your Physical Well-being

00:00:00.040 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, some students and faculty at Baylor are now saying that my presence on campus poses a threat to their physical well-being.

00:00:10.640 What does that even mean? We'll try to figure it out.

00:00:13.240 Also, AOC humiliates herself by adopting a fake accent and Gillette is now promoting and celebrating morbid obesity. 0.99

00:00:21.660 Is that enlightened and progressive or is it dangerous and ridiculous? 0.85

00:00:26.480 We'll get to the bottom of that as well today on the Matt Walsh Show.

00:00:30.000 So I will be flying down to Texas today and then making the drive into Waco in preparation for my speech tomorrow at Baylor.

00:00:42.400 A speech that, as you heard on the show last week, has sparked protests and petitions.

00:00:49.320 And now after 2,000 people signed a petition demanding that my speech be canceled, which thankfully it has not been,

00:00:56.440 now a different group of students and staff and faculty have written a letter about the speech that makes some pretty wild claims about me and about what I plan to say.

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00:02:57.640 Okay, so there was the petition, 2,000 signatures.

00:03:01.500 There have been people pulling down signs at Baylor for my event.

00:03:05.560 The local media called me a theocratic fascist.

00:03:08.540 And all of this, as I think it bears repeating, that all of this is because of a speech that I plan to give about Christian values on a Christian campus.

00:03:20.760 And now 600 students, staff, and faculty have written and hand-delivered a letter to the president of the university saying, now let me pull this up.

00:03:31.520 I'm not going to read the whole thing.

00:03:32.400 It's a pretty long letter detailing my many high crimes and misdemeanors.

00:03:36.840 But in part, this letter, which again was given to the president of the university, says, let's see here.

00:03:44.880 We have learned that Baylor University has approved the student group, Baylor Young Americans for Freedom, as an official student group on campus.

00:03:52.660 As an official student group, Baylor YAF is permitted to apply to host events and speakers in Baylor's facilities and auditoriums and to apply for funding through the Student Government Fund.

00:04:03.800 On April 9th, we understand that Baylor YAF has been approved by the university to host Daily Wire commentator and blogger Matt Walsh,

00:04:10.940 who will give a talk on, quote, the war on reality, why the left has set out to redefine life, gender, and marriage in Baylor's McClinton Auditorium.

00:04:18.440 The flyers for this event, which were also approved by university's Department of Student Activities,

00:04:22.940 contain images that many find inflammatory, associating the LGBTQ community with totalitarian regimes.

00:04:30.800 Mr. Walsh is openly critical of LGBTQ people.

00:04:34.040 He also opposes women ministers and the Me Too movement.

00:04:37.200 And he believes that higher education in the United States is, quote, overrun by feminists and nihilists.

00:04:42.380 I did say that.

00:04:43.460 Mr. Walsh believes that men were put on the earth to have authority over women and that women should never be in a position of authority over men.

00:04:51.960 I did not say that.

00:04:53.560 He has, well, I said part of that, but I'll get to that in a minute.

00:04:56.960 He has stated that women are very often raunchy, aggressive, and sexually assertive.

00:05:01.020 I did say that.

00:05:01.840 And he believes that women athletes have, quote, literally dozens of immutable biological disadvantages in comparison to men.

00:05:07.600 And I said that as well.

00:05:09.740 Perhaps unsurprisingly, Mr. Walsh's university-sanctioned appearance on campus has not gone without criticism, blah, blah, blah.

00:05:16.240 Okay, so here's the good part.

00:05:17.460 It says, although some of the undersigned have expressed concerns about the risks that Mr. Walsh's presence on campus poses for students' emotional, psychological, and physical well-being,

00:05:28.100 the purpose of this letter is not a petition to stop Mr. Walsh from visiting Baylor's campus.

00:05:33.260 Oh, isn't that nice of them?

00:05:34.480 Now, I asked for clarification about how exactly my presence on campus could possibly pose a physical threat to anyone but myself,

00:05:47.340 and no one was able to explain it.

00:05:50.460 That's a pretty serious charge to make about a person, to say that their very presence in a place could pose a threat to the physical well-being of people.

00:06:00.740 I would think that if you say that, if you write it down in your letter, it should mean something, right?

00:06:07.620 You should be able to, if I ask you, oh, what do you mean by that?

00:06:10.300 You should be able to say, oh, well, this is what I mean.

00:06:12.960 Only I was not able to get an answer.

00:06:14.620 Apparently, it doesn't mean anything.

00:06:15.680 It really is ironic, isn't it, that they've got thousands of people protesting me, using inflammatory rhetoric about me, yet I make them feel unsafe?

00:06:27.340 It is really amazing the ability that some people have to make themselves the victims, even as they're ganging up on one guy and shouting at him, they're the victims, right?

00:06:37.480 But it's really impressive.

00:06:40.720 But you notice the underhanded tactics here, because in this particular letter, they said, well, yeah, I mean, look, Mr. Walsh is a terrible guy. 0.96

00:06:53.100 He's a bigot.

00:06:53.740 He poses a threat to the emotional and physical well-being of students.

00:06:57.020 But we're not saying that you should cancel the speech.

00:06:59.120 We're just saying, you know, he's a threat to people.

00:07:01.460 And, oh, by the way, just some people who signed the letter think that he's a threat.

00:07:05.440 But we're not saying that officially.

00:07:07.220 We're just throwing it out there as a, you know, just something to keep in mind.

00:07:11.320 So this is clearly a letter meant to shut down the speech without saying shut down the speech, right?

00:07:18.480 As for the terrible, awful, no good, very bad things they quote me as saying, well, let's see.

00:07:26.380 They say that I'm critical of LGBTQ people.

00:07:29.860 Yes, I have criticized LGBTQ people. 1.00

00:07:33.280 They're just people, aren't they?

00:07:34.600 They're not gods.

00:07:35.260 You can criticize them.

00:07:37.900 I mean, we're allowed to, I've criticized a lot of straight people in my day as well.

00:07:42.940 So the very fact that they listed that as a problem, oh, he's criticized LGBTQ people.

00:07:50.800 Well, of course I have.

00:07:52.300 I've criticized a lot of people, including myself.

00:07:55.000 You're not immune from criticism just because you claim to be a member in that acronym.

00:08:03.100 At least as far as I'm concerned, you're not immune from criticism.

00:08:06.220 Maybe that's the treatment you get elsewhere in the world, but not from me.

00:08:09.620 And that, as far as I'm concerned, is just equality, right?

00:08:14.180 So they say that I oppose women ministers.

00:08:18.480 Yes, I do.

00:08:19.020 So did St. Paul.

00:08:21.560 So I feel like I'm in good company.

00:08:24.540 At least I should be in good company on a Christian campus.

00:08:27.660 They say that I oppose the Me Too movement.

00:08:31.980 Yes, I absolutely do with pride.

00:08:34.380 They say that I say that colleges are overrun by feminists and nihilists. 1.00

00:08:39.220 Well, yeah.

00:08:40.460 And Exhibit A would be the people who signed this letter.

00:08:43.600 They say that I claimed that men are the head of women

00:08:46.100 and that women should never be in a position of authority over men. 0.96

00:08:50.620 Well, that part I didn't say.

00:08:52.180 I never said that there's no scenario where women should be in the authority over men,

00:08:56.420 that women should never, you know, I clearly did not say that

00:08:59.100 because that would obviously mean that I think that

00:09:01.060 there could never be a woman manager at a job or something. 1.00

00:09:04.920 I did not.

00:09:05.960 I absolutely did not say that.

00:09:07.720 So that's just false.

00:09:10.080 In the church, yeah, I don't, I think that men are supposed to be 1.00

00:09:13.280 leadership positions in the church, which is in the Bible.

00:09:19.220 And they say that I claim that men are the head of women.

00:09:25.520 Well, no, I didn't claim that.

00:09:28.800 The Bible claims that multiple times very clearly.

00:09:32.780 Like in 1 Corinthians, for example, it says,

00:09:35.940 but I want you to realize that the head of every man is Christ

00:09:38.520 and the head of the woman is man and the head of Christ is God.

00:09:41.600 Now, this is a Christian school, isn't it?

00:09:44.500 So I'm just paraphrasing 1 Corinthians.

00:09:48.760 So the fact that I did that means I'm not welcome on a Christian campus.

00:09:54.280 Now, we could talk about what exactly that means.

00:09:56.880 I don't think it means that a woman can never be in a position of authority,

00:10:00.300 and I didn't say that.

00:10:01.900 But I do think it means something,

00:10:04.140 especially as it pertains to the family, the home, the church.

00:10:07.080 And that's just right from the Bible. 0.94

00:10:12.180 They said that I said women can often be raunchy and sexually aggressive. 1.00

00:10:16.720 Well, again, I fail to see what's wrong with my point there.

00:10:19.820 Men can be that way too.

00:10:21.840 But my point in saying that was to point out that men are not the only ones.

00:10:26.780 And that's one of my problems with the Me Too movement,

00:10:28.740 that it paints this very simplistic scenario where men are always the sexual aggressors

00:10:33.680 and women never are. 0.99

00:10:34.600 But the point that I made is that women can be the sexual aggressors 1.00

00:10:37.360 and have been many times.

00:10:38.700 Look at the public school system.

00:10:40.100 Look at teachers in the public school system going after 13-year-old boys.

00:10:44.500 I mean, it happens a lot.

00:10:46.380 Just the facts.

00:10:47.880 And then they said that I said that women athletes have dozens of biological disadvantages 1.00

00:10:52.340 in comparison to men.

00:10:53.940 Yes, again, absolutely true.

00:10:56.480 No question.

00:10:57.340 That's a scientific fact.

00:10:59.240 So do I apologize for saying any of that?

00:11:02.420 No, no, I don't.

00:11:04.320 Not even a little bit.

00:11:06.860 Would I have phrased it differently if I could do it over again?

00:11:09.520 No, I wouldn't have.

00:11:10.480 I would phrase it exactly the same way.

00:11:12.280 If I could, those articles they quoted, if I could write them all over again,

00:11:15.000 I would definitely write them exactly that way.

00:11:18.300 In fact, I think they were very well-written articles, and I'm quite proud of them.

00:11:21.700 So I'm still coming.

00:11:24.700 Anyway, I'll see you there.

00:11:25.560 Well, we don't have a lot of time to spend on this, but I'm sure you've already seen it,

00:11:33.300 and I can't ignore it because it's just so excruciating and uncomfortable and hilarious

00:11:40.120 at the same time.

00:11:41.720 I want to show you, here's AOC, if you haven't seen it yet.

00:11:44.960 But AOC talking to a group of mostly black people a few days ago.

00:11:50.260 Here, watch this.

00:11:51.200 Because this is what organizing looks like.

00:11:54.280 That's right.

00:11:54.940 This is what building power looks like.

00:11:57.980 This is what changing the country looks like.

00:12:01.000 It's when we choose to show up and occupy the room and talk about the things that matter

00:12:06.880 most, talking about our future.

00:12:09.700 You know, Reverend, you bring up a funny anecdote, and I'm proud to be a bartender.

00:12:16.340 Ain't nothing wrong with that.

00:12:19.160 There's nothing wrong with working retail, folding clothes for other people to buy.

00:12:24.860 There is nothing wrong with preparing the food that your neighbors will eat.

00:12:31.000 Oh, goodness.

00:12:33.860 That is, that took me three days to work up the courage to watch, honestly, to watch that

00:12:42.360 whole clip.

00:12:42.920 It took me, it took me three days.

00:12:44.340 The secondhand embarrassment is so intense that I couldn't, I just couldn't do it.

00:12:50.200 I got to the, to the ain't nothing wrong with that line, and I just, I had to turn it off.

00:12:55.320 It was too much.

00:12:56.200 Here's a good rule of thumb.

00:12:57.420 If you never use the word ain't in conversation, which I guarantee AOC does not, but you're

00:13:05.860 thinking that you would like to, you would like to introduce that word into your lexicon.

00:13:09.600 Um, well, don't debut it in front of a group of black people or in front of a group of 1.00

00:13:15.640 Southern white people, because, because then that's going to come across, uh, rightfully 0.92

00:13:19.900 so as pure grade A pandering, which is what that was.

00:13:25.100 And, uh, you know, of course, as far as pandering goes, nothing will ever beat Hillary Clinton 0.98

00:13:30.880 in 2008.

00:13:31.720 Um, so let's take a quick trip down memory lane.

00:13:35.320 I don't feel no ways tired.

00:13:38.480 I come too far from where I started from.

00:13:44.380 Nobody told me that the road would be easy.

00:13:48.320 I don't believe he brought me this far to leave me.

00:13:53.240 Someone actually wrote that.

00:13:56.200 I don't feel no ways tired.

00:13:58.640 Okay.

00:13:58.820 Someone wrote that in Clinton's speech for her, for her to read.

00:14:04.060 It was written down.

00:14:04.980 There was a line.

00:14:06.140 Think about that.

00:14:07.100 That was a line written on a piece of paper in the speech.

00:14:10.940 I don't feel no ways tired.

00:14:13.800 Uh, and then, and then Clinton had to go over that and see that line and say, oh yeah, uh,

00:14:18.740 they'll love that.

00:14:19.480 That's, that's a good one.

00:14:20.600 That's real good.

00:14:21.760 My Lord.

00:14:23.240 Uh, but, but here's, I think the bigger question, if we can, if we can look past the, the, the

00:14:30.320 fake accent for a moment, um, she's saying what AOC is saying is, well, there's nothing

00:14:37.440 wrong with driving a bus or working retail or working at a restaurant and so on.

00:14:42.820 And, and I agree.

00:14:44.260 There's nothing wrong with that.

00:14:45.820 But who, first of all, whoever said that there is something wrong with that, who's going around

00:14:51.160 saying there's something wrong with being a bus driver.

00:14:53.860 Bus drivers are bad.

00:14:55.280 You bus drivers should be ashamed of yourselves driving buses.

00:14:59.700 Uh, I don't think anyone is saying that.

00:15:01.980 I've never heard anyone, I've never heard anyone suggest that there's something wrong with

00:15:06.420 driving a bus or working at a restaurant.

00:15:08.340 Um, that is just a giant straw man because I have to imagine, uh, and I could only imagine

00:15:16.440 because it's not clear, um, from what she said, but that she, she, she seems here to

00:15:23.360 be targeting conservatives who encourage people to pursue their goals, climb the ladder and,

00:15:29.480 uh, and find success.

00:15:30.740 That's, that's, I, I, I could only assume that that's, that's the point that she's trying

00:15:34.560 to make.

00:15:35.400 And, um, and that obviously is, is nonsense.

00:15:40.320 It's, it's demeaning to the working class to tell them that driving buses and working

00:15:47.860 retail is their place, right?

00:15:50.840 And their station in life and that they should just be satisfied with it.

00:15:54.660 Now it's fine.

00:15:56.480 If somebody is satisfied with it, um, if somebody is content, you know, doing that and that's

00:16:02.980 what they want to do for, for their, for a living, then great.

00:16:06.740 That's perfectly fine.

00:16:07.780 Perfectly respectable.

00:16:09.080 Awesome.

00:16:10.100 You know, but there's also nothing wrong with wanting to climb the ladder and pursue other

00:16:17.420 opportunities and find, uh, and make more money.

00:16:21.400 And, you know, there's nothing wrong with that either.

00:16:23.100 Either and, and messages like you hear from, from AOC accent aside seem to be very close

00:16:31.540 to saying, this is your place.

00:16:33.880 Be happy with it.

00:16:36.720 You know, um, because it strikes me that AOC probably is not going to, uh, go to some ritzy

00:16:47.940 fundraiser, um, in the rich part of New York or, or, you know, over in Hollywood or something

00:16:53.900 and, and, and give that speech.

00:16:57.540 Certainly not in that accent, but she's not going to give that speech at all. 0.98

00:17:01.940 So it seems rather demeaning to me, even again, if we put aside the accent that that's what 1.00

00:17:10.880 she, that's her message to a group of minorities. 1.00

00:17:13.360 Um, I think the message should be to everybody, you know, whatever you're doing for a living,

00:17:22.220 uh, it's, as long as it's legal and it's, it's, it's, it's great that you're making a living.

00:17:27.300 You're providing for your family.

00:17:28.660 We, the work, there's nothing wrong with doing a working class, blue collar job.

00:17:32.320 We do need people to work in restaurants and drive buses and do all that kind of stuff.

00:17:36.200 Um, there's also nothing wrong with, with pursuing things beyond that.

00:17:41.560 There's not, there's nothing wrong with trying to climb the ladder and make more money.

00:17:44.660 There'll be able to, there's nothing wrong with that either.

00:17:48.020 And it's good to have goals.

00:17:52.860 See, that's the, that's the crucial difference between the message you also, you often hear

00:17:58.400 from the left to the working class and the message you often hear from the right to the

00:18:03.920 working class.

00:18:05.260 Whereas from the left, the message to the working class, most of the time seems to be like,

00:18:10.300 this is what you do.

00:18:11.780 Be happy with it.

00:18:12.640 That's your life.

00:18:13.200 Whereas from the right, the message is, or should be, this is a great thing.

00:18:19.780 Very respectable.

00:18:21.180 Um, if you want to do something else, if you want to climb, you can do that also.

00:18:32.020 All right.

00:18:32.760 Um, speaking of, of, uh, demeaning, pandering type messages, I want to look at, uh, I want

00:18:42.240 to look at this Gillette, you know, the razor company, they've already embarrassed themselves,

00:18:48.160 uh, with that toxic masculinity ad a few months ago.

00:18:52.080 And now Gillette is going back to the self-humiliation.

00:18:55.500 Well, focusing this time on, on women and Gillette wants to trumpet, um, body positivity.

00:19:03.060 So they posted this picture right here.

00:19:05.620 Take a look at this.

00:19:06.700 It says, uh, and then if you, if you're, if you're listening on SoundCloud or something,

00:19:10.520 it's the, the caption says, go out there and slay the day, slay the day, which is fine. 0.98

00:19:18.660 Kind of stupid, but fine. 0.99

00:19:20.340 But then there's a photo of a, of a very morbidly obese woman in a bikini at the beach. 1.00

00:19:28.140 And the message is go out there and slay the day.

00:19:30.260 And then, and then they followed that up with another message about self-acceptance and body

00:19:33.600 positivity and so on and so forth.

00:19:35.900 Now, just to be clear, I don't think that anyone should hate themselves, uh, no matter

00:19:42.560 their physical condition.

00:19:43.720 I don't think it's okay to bully overweight people, uh, or insult them or anything like

00:19:48.620 that.

00:19:49.160 I do feel bad for people who, who are very overweight.

00:19:53.240 Um, but I also don't think that anorexic people, uh, should hate themselves.

00:19:59.960 And I don't think it's okay to bully anorexic people.

00:20:02.600 And I feel bad for people who are anorexic and everyone would agree with that.

00:20:09.200 Yet everyone would also agree when it comes to anorexia.

00:20:13.720 That we shouldn't celebrate it.

00:20:15.980 And if this was a photo of a skeletally thin woman with her, with her rib cage prominently

00:20:22.020 on display, um, looking like she hadn't eaten in three weeks and it was go out there and

00:20:28.580 slay the day with her in a bikini, then everyone else, everyone would agree that it's a completely

00:20:33.720 inappropriate and dangerous advertisement.

00:20:37.280 And, uh, the outrage would be palpable from everybody because it would be an ad that

00:20:43.660 encourages and celebrates self-harm.

00:20:48.660 So that's the big glaring thing that's missing from body positivity campaigns.

00:20:53.180 If you noticed is that you, you never see, you'll see morbidly obese people, but you never

00:20:58.900 see anorexic people in the body positivity campaigns.

00:21:01.360 Why is that?

00:21:02.760 Well, because we understand that there's nothing positive about anorexia.

00:21:06.640 It's a, it doesn't mean that if you, if you are anorexic, that you're a bad person or,

00:21:11.920 or anything like that.

00:21:12.960 It's just, it's a condition that the afflicted person needs to find help for and overcome

00:21:18.560 so that they don't die.

00:21:20.900 It, it, it's there, they, they are hurting them.

00:21:23.720 They are hurting themselves.

00:21:24.680 They're killing themselves.

00:21:25.600 Um, it's, it, and if you care about someone and you love them, you're not just going to 0.56

00:21:31.680 applaud the fact that they're anorexic.

00:21:33.380 You're going to encourage them to get help because you care about them.

00:21:37.840 Well, the same is true of morbid obesity.

00:21:40.420 A study that was done a few years ago found that the extremely obese have a life expectancy

00:21:45.760 that on average is almost 15 years shorter than the, the standard life expectancy.

00:21:53.840 15 years.

00:21:55.240 Think about that.

00:21:56.740 And that's an average.

00:21:57.900 So it means that there are a lot of morbidly obese people who die from complications of obesity,

00:22:03.260 you know, 20, 25, 30 years before, um, before the, you know, average, uh, you know, uh,

00:22:12.460 life expectancy for, for most people.

00:22:14.320 Uh, why is that?

00:22:15.860 Because the human frame is, is, is not meant to carry that kind of weight.

00:22:23.820 Your bones can't handle it.

00:22:26.260 Your organs can't handle it.

00:22:28.280 Your, your, your heart, your lungs, an enormous strain is placed on your entire body by this

00:22:34.260 extra weight and your body just can't handle it.

00:22:38.560 Think about what it means to be morbidly obese.

00:22:40.460 It means that you're wearing essentially a 100 pound coat of lard at all times.

00:22:46.280 And that's, I'm not being mean about it.

00:22:47.940 That's not an insult.

00:22:48.840 It's just, that's the reality.

00:22:51.840 And it is absolute madness to put this forward as a healthy, normal, beautiful way to live

00:22:58.840 because it's not, it's deadly.

00:23:01.840 And it will kill you.

00:23:03.260 So that's all, um, it should be possible for us to acknowledge that fact while also acknowledging

00:23:13.120 that people legitimately come in different shapes and sizes and not everyone is capable

00:23:20.200 of being or desires to be, or should desire to be a bodybuilder or a supermodel.

00:23:25.240 Uh, you know, it, it, it, it should be possible for us to acknowledge that it's okay.

00:23:29.740 If you don't have washboard abs, um, it's okay.

00:23:32.860 If you have some fat, in fact, now there are some people that have great abs just naturally,

00:23:37.680 and we're all very envious of those people.

00:23:40.300 Um, but probably most people who you look at, if they've got the, you know, just the, that

00:23:45.560 bodybuilder kind of physique, uh, well, it could be that they are bodybuilders or athletes,

00:23:51.660 which is great.

00:23:54.440 Um, but if you're just a kind of a normal person working a normal job and you also have

00:24:01.140 the physique of a bodybuilder probably means that pretty much your, your entire life outside

00:24:05.820 of your work, you're just at the gym, which, which is excessive.

00:24:08.780 So that's, um, so, but we, most of us would acknowledge that.

00:24:12.860 Right.

00:24:14.100 Uh, and so then we, we move away from portraying women in ads and TVs as supermodels all the

00:24:20.040 time.

00:24:20.380 Uh, now we allow more kind of normal physiques to be seen and, um, and that's good, I think.

00:24:28.200 And I'm totally in favor of that.

00:24:31.520 I also think that what we call overweight, uh, these days can be pretty absurd.

00:24:37.580 Uh, for instance, I looked at one of those BMI calculators online recently, uh, not a very

00:24:43.560 scientific way of doing it, but you know, one of those, uh, find out if you're fat things.

00:24:47.900 And, and so I thought, well, I don't know, maybe, maybe let me find out if I'm fat.

00:24:52.700 And it turns out that I am, uh, according to, I really am.

00:24:55.520 I'm, I'm, uh, I'm a fatty.

00:24:57.060 Um, I think it said, according to this medical chart that I was looking at, uh, with my height

00:25:03.160 of, of six foot, it said that my, my healthy weight range is like, I don't know, like 160

00:25:10.140 to 180 or something like that.

00:25:12.620 Uh, which I haven't been that light since probably high school.

00:25:15.700 I'd have to be, I'd have to be skin and bones.

00:25:18.560 I mean, I can't, as a, as a six foot tall man, uh, to be 160 pounds, you would have to

00:25:25.800 basically be skin and bones. 0.96

00:25:28.220 So that struck me as kind of ridiculous. 0.98

00:25:31.420 And, uh, I think there are probably a lot of women. 1.00

00:25:33.900 I think women have it worse in that regard because there are a lot of women, uh, especially 1.00

00:25:38.380 once they start having kids who are normal, perfectly normal, attractive, good looking

00:25:44.460 women who, but if they look at one of those charts, they're going to be told that they're 1.00

00:25:48.920 fat because they do have some extra fat on them as, as everyone does.

00:25:54.140 We all are supposed to have fat on us, right?

00:25:55.700 So that's, you're supposed to have some fat.

00:25:58.240 And sometimes if you, uh, certainly if you listen to the way doctors talk about it sometimes,

00:26:03.480 or if you see one of those charts, it would seem as if you're being told you're not supposed

00:26:07.460 to have any fat on you whatsoever, which would be, uh, deadly.

00:26:11.960 So we can all acknowledge that no problem, but that doesn't mean that we have to then

00:26:19.720 declare that it's great and awesome and wonderful for a person to be 150 pounds overweight.

00:26:27.400 So it's possible for us to say, Hey, you know, if you're 15 pounds overweight, uh, no

00:26:32.520 big deal, you know, you're fine.

00:26:33.780 Um, but just because we say that it doesn't mean that, well, if you add an extra zero at

00:26:40.420 the end of that, that it's also fine.

00:26:44.160 I don't know why, what it is in the society where we seem incapable of drawing these, these

00:26:49.040 distinctions and dealing with these kind of obvious nuances where everything it's, it's

00:26:54.300 sort of all or nothing.

00:26:55.200 So we say either we have to, uh, fat shame everybody and, and say that, you know, you,

00:27:03.120 you, you, you have to have a, a body, a BMI of, of two or, or you're, uh, you're, you know, 0.82

00:27:10.000 you're fat. 0.72

00:27:10.760 So that's, that's one option. 0.92

00:27:13.020 Or we have to celebrate people who are, you know, five foot five and 350 pounds.

00:27:19.060 It's like, no, there's, there's a lot of room in between there.

00:27:22.100 I think that we need to settle somewhere in between and certainly if you are 350 pounds

00:27:28.300 and five foot, whatever, uh, that is a, a, a deadly situation, a very unhealthy situation.

00:27:38.700 And so when we encourage it and we applaud it, um, we are not helping the people in that

00:27:46.040 position.

00:27:47.180 Doesn't seem, doesn't seem like the, the, the kindest or most generous things thing to

00:27:55.180 me.

00:27:55.380 Uh, there's a reason why, I mean, when was the last time you saw an 85 year old morbidly 0.95

00:28:01.640 obese person?

00:28:02.960 It seems like you never see those kinds of people.

00:28:07.480 Um, and the reason is that most likely they're going to die before that.

00:28:12.980 So maybe think about that next time you're considering applauding morbid obesity, because

00:28:22.540 what you're applauding for that person is their own early death.

00:28:28.220 All right, let's go to emails, uh, mattwalshowatgmail.com, mattwalshowatgmail.com.

00:28:34.000 Um, let's see here, um, hi Matt, uh, this is from Ethan says, hi Matt, I want to tell

00:28:42.860 you, I really enjoy your podcast and the thought provoking subjects you cover.

00:28:45.980 It's unlike anything else on the daily wire or, or anywhere.

00:28:48.220 I'm sorry for the flack you take for trying to get people to think independently and critically.

00:28:52.680 I think you do a great job.

00:28:54.060 Now to my question on your show on Friday, you said that a knowledge of Christian doctrine,

00:28:58.720 Christ divinity, the virgin birth, et cetera, is not innate, but must be taught.

00:29:03.240 I agree with that take.

00:29:05.240 I also agree that it's ridiculous to try to convince unbelievers of a certain subject by 0.54

00:29:10.040 using the Bible.

00:29:11.360 But then you also said that knowledge of God of a creator of some kind is also innate.

00:29:16.680 Um, I know, I know most Christians think this, but I'm not sure if I agree. 1.00

00:29:22.800 If knowledge of God is innate, if everyone knows it deep down, why do atheists exist? 0.88

00:29:27.740 And why are there so many different religions?

00:29:30.080 I'm not sure I follow your logic on this.

00:29:31.960 Can you explain further?

00:29:33.240 Um, yeah, uh, interesting question.

00:29:36.960 Thanks for asking it.

00:29:38.920 So when we talk about the innate knowledge of God, we mean that, as you said, everybody

00:29:43.480 naturally by their nature, um, at some level knows that some sort of higher power, higher

00:29:50.460 force exists.

00:29:52.400 Uh, clearly they cannot know innately automatically about the particulars of Christian doctrine,

00:29:58.680 but they can know, but they can know, and they do know, uh, they do sense the basic truth

00:30:04.640 that God or gods exists.

00:30:06.840 So that, that's the idea here.

00:30:08.780 Now, I admit that there are some challenges to that viewpoint.

00:30:14.400 It does raise questions, questions that Christians, I think, often make no attempt to deal with 1.00

00:30:20.980 or grapple with, um, which is maybe a constant theme on this show is, is I like to try and

00:30:26.980 deal with hard questions that it seems to me, um, we in the church often avoid or ignore.

00:30:32.580 So on this idea of an innate knowledge of God, um, here's, here's the challenge to that idea

00:30:39.180 as far as I see it.

00:30:40.280 And then I'll talk about how I deal with that challenge.

00:30:43.300 Um, the basic challenge is this.

00:30:47.160 We, we, we each as individuals have only ever experienced the world through our own minds.

00:30:55.960 We have never experienced even one second of existence in anyone else's mind.

00:31:01.600 That is a huge limitation.

00:31:04.060 Think about that limitation.

00:31:05.300 I don't think we think about it enough, really.

00:31:07.920 What it means that you've got seven billion, whatever, six and a half billion people on the

00:31:14.100 planet right now, and all of them are living their own lives.

00:31:18.020 They've got their own stories.

00:31:19.300 They're experiencing life through their own minds and all you've only ever experienced

00:31:23.720 it through this one little prism in your one little corner of, of the world.

00:31:28.380 That's a limitation.

00:31:30.160 And it means that everything we assume or declare, um, we do so mostly by extrapolating from our

00:31:39.080 own personal experience.

00:31:40.500 But I am just one of the 10 billion people who have existed on earth at some point in history.

00:31:46.160 How can I possibly know what, what, what the experience of reality is like for anyone else?

00:31:53.320 Just because something seems obvious or innate to me, how, how could I know that it's innate to

00:31:58.320 anybody else?

00:32:00.020 Um, there are some say, there are some who say that I can't know, that nobody can know.

00:32:03.740 No one can really know anything.

00:32:04.880 Uh, we can basically know nothing because we're so limited and constrained by our ego, by our,

00:32:10.400 you know, by our, uh, inability to, um, experience anything, uh, uh, through anyone else's lens.

00:32:19.580 Now I don't go that far, obviously, uh, but it's not a crazy thought.

00:32:23.520 I mean, it is true again, that I only know what the world is like through my eyes.

00:32:27.560 Um, there are some Christians who don't take this problem into account at all.

00:32:33.620 I probably have, haven't really thought about it much.

00:32:36.240 So they go around saying that, uh, knowledge of, of Christian doctrine is innate.

00:32:41.080 This is what, this, this, this is the, this is what I've been hearing from, from Christians 1.00

00:32:45.520 over the last, um, few days as we've been talking about this, that there are Christians who really

00:32:50.780 think that belief in the validity of the Bible is innate. 0.93

00:32:55.300 And that of course is just, is just silly kind of arrogance.

00:33:01.160 Most of the people who have ever existed on earth have not believed in the Bible.

00:33:06.060 So to claim that it's somehow innate, that we all know deep down that the Bible is true

00:33:12.920 is just not borne out by any evidence at all.

00:33:15.760 In fact, even within Christianity, there is no agreement on pretty much any verse.

00:33:21.160 We can't agree on, on what any verse in the Bible means.

00:33:24.120 There's been, there's been disputes and arguments over all of it.

00:33:27.580 Um, but these people who say this, what they really mean is not just that belief in the Bible

00:33:31.860 is innate, but that their particular interpretation is innate.

00:33:35.400 They are so wise, so holy, so in touch with God that they have tapped into this innate recognition

00:33:41.620 while almost everyone else who has ever lived has missed it. 0.96

00:33:45.760 Which again is just silly arrogance.

00:33:49.000 So that is not innate, but I would say that the evidence suggests that knowledge of God

00:33:54.700 is innate and that we can come to that conclusion without just assuming that our own experience

00:34:00.560 of the world is everyone else's experience.

00:34:02.540 Because if that's what you're doing, that is invalid.

00:34:04.800 That is illegitimate.

00:34:05.900 That's a, that is a, that's fallacious.

00:34:07.260 You can't do that.

00:34:08.020 Um, but we can observe things outside of ourselves and come to conclusions that way.

00:34:16.960 And so I come to that conclusion because almost everyone in the world, every civilization has,

00:34:25.120 um, come up independently with its, with it, with a concept of God.

00:34:30.940 When the Europeans came here, think about this, when the Europeans came here to the Americas 0.99

00:34:35.200 in the 15th and 16th centuries, they encountered civilizations that were completely alien to them,

00:34:41.080 completely disconnected.

00:34:42.560 Um, yet they also discovered intensely religious civilizations.

00:34:46.900 So what are the chances of that?

00:34:49.060 What, what are the chances?

00:34:49.880 If knowledge of God is not innate, what are the chances that these civilizations separated

00:34:56.100 by 3,000 miles of ocean, uh, never in contact with each other at all, exercising no influence

00:35:04.220 over each other, would each come up with that idea independently, randomly?

00:35:10.360 What are the chances of that?

00:35:12.580 So we don't need to read people's minds to see this.

00:35:15.440 We can just look at human history and all civilizations have turned towards this unseen power, which

00:35:21.860 I think is very strong evidence, both that the power exists and that knowledge of it is

00:35:28.660 innate.

00:35:29.000 So that's my, that's how I would deal with that.

00:35:31.380 Uh, let's see here from Scott says, Matt, as a fellow bass angler, I'm hoping you'll consider

00:35:37.600 doing a daily segment on your show about bass fishing.

00:35:40.500 The folks would love it.

00:35:41.760 Trust me.

00:35:42.520 Think about it.

00:35:43.500 P.S.

00:35:43.960 Follow up.

00:35:44.460 What's your go-to lore when you can't get a bite on anything else?

00:35:48.500 Another follow-up.

00:35:49.240 Do you have an all-time favorite fishing lake?

00:35:52.020 Uh, Scott, I would love to do, um, a segment every day on bass fishing, but I think that

00:35:56.600 I have to take into account what sort of content other people actually want to hear.

00:36:00.560 And as a general rule, I don't take that into account at all, which maybe you've noticed.

00:36:04.300 So I'll just babble on about whatever I find interesting.

00:36:07.440 Um, but I, you know, I, I do have to keep that aspect in the back of my mind.

00:36:11.920 I feel like if I did 20 minutes on bass fishing every day, that wouldn't be good.

00:36:15.520 Um, but since you brought it up, uh, as to my go-to lore, uh, you know, well, I mean, I guess

00:36:23.680 I don't have anything too creative.

00:36:24.780 It's just a plastic warm Texas rig, uh, never fails.

00:36:28.340 Well, it does fail plenty for me, but it's, it's a, I think it's a pretty, pretty, uh, probably

00:36:33.360 my, my highest batting average comes on that.

00:36:35.680 Also, I like to throw a frog, uh, if, if nothing else is hitting favorite fishing spot.

00:36:41.400 I definitely do have a favorite fishing spot.

00:36:43.080 I can't tell you about it, unfortunately, because I don't want anyone to steal my fish.

00:36:48.620 And also because my in-laws live right at this particular spot, they live right on the

00:36:52.440 lake and I don't want people to go and start harassing them when they find out that I'm,

00:36:57.580 you know, that they're related to me by law, but it's great.

00:37:00.680 It's, it's in new England.

00:37:01.580 I can tell you that.

00:37:02.160 And it's just, it's, it's a small lake with humongous bass and, uh, it's a lot of fun.

00:37:08.100 All right.

00:37:08.700 Um, let's see from Lee that says, Matt, I'm not going to insult you or call you a heretic.

00:37:15.200 Thank you for that.

00:37:16.180 But I will say that you seem very fond of entertaining ideas that are not directly and explicitly

00:37:21.820 from the Bible.

00:37:23.080 I'm not saying that all such ideas are automatically wrong, but you also don't know if they're

00:37:28.160 right.

00:37:28.860 Why not just stick with the Bible? 0.98

00:37:30.680 Uh, the Bible is God's infallible word.

00:37:34.060 Everything we need is in there.

00:37:35.540 You are treading on dangerous ground.

00:37:37.200 That's why people get so upset with you.

00:37:38.680 They aren't attacking you.

00:37:39.900 They are warning you not to go over a cliff.

00:37:42.400 Well, Lee, I think, um, I think some of these people definitely are attacking me.

00:37:47.140 I mean, I'm not, you know, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not crying about it, but when someone 0.90

00:37:51.180 sends you an all caps email calling you a heretic and saying you're going to burn in hell 0.98

00:37:54.180 because you're a fake Christian, I, you know, I think that's an attack, right? 1.00

00:37:58.040 We can agree on that, but what you just said is not an attack. 0.85

00:38:02.100 So I'd appreciate that.

00:38:03.440 You, you say it's best not to entertain ideas outside of the Bible.

00:38:08.120 Well, I have to believe, um, you don't mean exactly what you just said there because you

00:38:14.140 can't really mean that you think we should never have ideas of any kind that aren't written

00:38:21.420 down in the Bible because that rules out like 90% of the ideas that you probably have on

00:38:25.860 a daily basis.

00:38:27.040 Um, and it rules out, I don't know, uh, things like the idea behind the polio vaccine and

00:38:31.960 air travel and antibacterial soap.

00:38:34.480 Uh, there are a lot of very good ideas that people have had that, um, are not explicitly

00:38:40.620 outlined in the Bible, but, um, I'm going to be fair and I don't want to straw man you.

00:38:46.980 So I'm going to be fair and assume that you meant theological ideas.

00:38:51.720 In fact, I got an email a few days ago, accusing me of promoting theological concepts was the

00:38:57.200 phrase they use from outside the Bible.

00:38:59.320 So I'm going to assume that you meant something similar to that.

00:39:02.560 And as far as that goes, yes, I do entertain ideas as, uh, as you say, theological ideas

00:39:08.200 that are, uh, that are not explicitly outlined in the Bible.

00:39:12.140 And that's perfectly okay.

00:39:14.100 Just because something isn't explicitly outlined in the Bible doesn't mean that it isn't biblical.

00:39:18.460 And I'm going to give you, okay, let me give you like the number one front and center

00:39:23.440 example of this.

00:39:25.000 Okay.

00:39:25.440 Let me, let me give you a, a theological idea that as a Christian, you probably accept.

00:39:32.560 Um, but that is definitely not explicitly and directly defined in the Bible, the Trinity.

00:39:40.200 Okay.

00:39:41.960 If you believe that we can only have ideas, theological ideas that as you say, are directly

00:39:48.560 and explicitly explained in the Bible, then you have absolutely ruled out the Trinity.

00:39:54.480 You can't believe in the Trinity at that point.

00:39:56.160 You have to, you have to deny it.

00:39:58.200 The word Trinity is nowhere in the Bible.

00:40:00.620 Um, the concept of the Trinity, as we understand it today is nowhere explained in anything like

00:40:08.520 explicit terms.

00:40:09.540 Um, the only candidate for an explicit mention of the Trinity in the Bible is in, as I mentioned

00:40:16.260 this before, the first epistle of John, which in the KJV, um, does have a pretty direct illustration

00:40:22.460 of the Trinity, but it's perfect.

00:40:23.840 It's, it's, it's pretty roundly recognized by almost everyone today that that verse in

00:40:29.020 first John is an interpolation.

00:40:30.700 It was added in later.

00:40:31.880 Um, the earliest manuscripts of John don't contain it.

00:40:34.480 So somebody added that in.

00:40:35.960 Um, and that's why most Bibles don't contain it.

00:40:38.340 So take that out.

00:40:40.140 Um, and as most Bibles have at this point, and you are left inferring the Trinity from

00:40:47.340 indirect and inexplicit references to it.

00:40:51.480 Does that mean that the Trinity is not biblical?

00:40:54.220 No, it doesn't mean that at all, but it does mean that you have to take a deeper look at

00:40:58.640 the text.

00:40:59.040 You can't always be satisfied with the play it safe approach and just stick with the things

00:41:03.860 that are explicitly described.

00:41:05.040 Um, the Trinity is biblical because there are a lot of verses consistent with it.

00:41:10.380 And that seemed to point to it, like in Matthew 28, uh, you know, go therefore and make disciples

00:41:14.680 of all nations, baptizing them and then the father and the son and the Holy spirit.

00:41:18.520 But there are a lot of verses like that.

00:41:20.680 And the, the baptism, uh, where, uh, you have Jesus and then God, the father says, this is

00:41:27.560 my beloved son.

00:41:28.300 And then the Holy spirit descends like a dove.

00:41:30.460 So you've got all the persons of the Trinity there.

00:41:33.520 But if you read, um, that story of the baptism on your own, or if you read that verse from

00:41:39.940 Matthew 28 on your own, without knowing anything about the Trinity, would you assume on your

00:41:48.100 own from those verses that the father and the son and the Holy spirit are a unity of three

00:41:53.220 persons sharing the same essence, the same nature and of the same substance?

00:41:56.680 I mean, would, would, would ideas like consubstantial, uh, spring to mind, um, from those verses?

00:42:06.180 If, if you hadn't already been introduced to that concept, well, if it would, uh, if you on

00:42:14.440 your own could have come up with that just by reading the plain language of the text, then

00:42:19.840 you are smarter than about 300 years worth of Christians because it wasn't until the fourth 1.00

00:42:24.160 century that the Trinity was made official doctrine.

00:42:27.460 And before that there was a debate and there were different ideas, you know, adoptionism,

00:42:31.620 docetism, Arianism, and so on.

00:42:33.900 And, um, I believe again, that the Trinity is biblical, but it's not biblical in the sense

00:42:38.300 of being directly, completely, explicitly explained in the Bible.

00:42:42.500 So things can be biblical without being directly, completely, explicitly explained in the Bible.

00:42:48.260 That's my point.

00:42:50.560 The Trinity as an idea came about, well, I believe it came about ultimately through the

00:42:56.240 guidance of the Holy Spirit, but in earthly terms, you know, if you were, um, watching

00:43:01.760 it play out back in the, in the early centuries of the church, what you would see, uh, would

00:43:07.840 be people developing this idea because they're trying to make sense of what they read in the

00:43:16.180 text. So that is a perfectly proper thing for us to do as Christians.

00:43:24.900 That's what I'm trying to say. Do you know what else is not explicitly outlined in the

00:43:29.820 Bible? Um, how about what books should be in the Bible or that the Bible is the, the,

00:43:36.940 the infallible word of God. Nowhere in the Bible does the Bible say that all of the books

00:43:42.900 in the Bible are the word of God. Now there are individual books that make that claim,

00:43:48.060 but those individual books don't mention the other books. Nowhere in the Bible does it say

00:43:54.200 explicitly that the gospel of Luke or first John or the letter to the Corinthians should

00:43:59.980 be in the Bible. Doesn't say that anywhere. It's just there. So if you can only believe

00:44:05.860 what is explicitly outlined in the Bible, then ironically, you can't even believe in the

00:44:09.580 Bible because the Bible itself doesn't say that. Um, and the Bible, as I'm sure, you know,

00:44:16.040 it's not like Jesus ascended into heaven and he just tossed down the Bible and say, Hey,

00:44:19.740 by the way, before I go, here you go, catch. And he tossed the Bible completely, fully complete. 0.54

00:44:24.120 Um, and there it was, no, it was written over century. Well, if you, if you include, uh,

00:44:30.100 if you include the old Testament, the Bible was written over the course of many centuries

00:44:33.360 and, uh, it was compiled, uh, over the course of a, of a, of a period of time. And there was a

00:44:40.340 debate about which books should be in the Bible that there's still debates today. Catholics and

00:44:44.540 Protestants don't agree about some of the books in the Bible. So again, I think your idea of playing

00:44:50.480 it safe actually kind of destroys everything. Um, and, uh, and I mean, we could go on personal

00:44:59.840 relationship with Jesus. That phrase isn't in the Bible. Nowhere does it say anything about having

00:45:04.340 a personal relationship with Jesus. It doesn't say it's not in there. Phrase is not in there.

00:45:08.520 I mean, there are so many phrases and concepts that, that, that we Christians use and talk about

00:45:14.540 and believe in and, uh, that are not explicitly outlined in the Bible. They are inferred from the

00:45:22.780 text in the Bible, sometimes inferred correctly, like the Trinity. And then sometimes people infer things

00:45:28.480 incorrectly come up with, with bad notions. Um, so it seems that God does want us to use our heads

00:45:35.640 to work through these ideas and talk about them and debate them and try to figure them out.

00:45:43.700 That's how the Bible came together in the first place. That's where many of our doctrines came from.

00:45:49.560 And it's a good and healthy and edifying thing.

00:45:52.740 Uh, so I appreciate what you said there, uh, Lee, but my point is, I guess that if all Christians 0.89

00:46:00.680 throughout history had shared your attitude, then I mean, we wouldn't have, I don't know what

00:46:07.000 Christianity would be today, but, uh, it wouldn't look anything like what it looks like. 0.96

00:46:12.400 All right. Um, let's see. I'll do one more.

00:46:15.020 I got to wrap this up. Let's see. Um, I got to find, there was a good,

00:46:21.160 another theological one. I've done a lot of those.

00:46:26.560 Uh, maybe we'll save that for later. We'll save that for tomorrow.

00:46:29.340 Okay. How about this from, uh, from FK says, uh, hi, Matt. Absolutely love the show. I have a very

00:46:34.500 crucial question. I need you to rank these nineties bands, matchbox 20 counting crows,

00:46:41.300 third eye blind, savage garden. That is a great question. And I love all nineties nostalgia

00:46:48.380 questions. I love, I don't get nearly enough of them. And so I appreciate that. Uh, okay. So

00:46:53.000 as to your question, and I did give this some thought, first of all, savage garden does not

00:46:57.780 belong in that list at all. So I, I, I am sorry. I gotta, they gotta toss them out because they had

00:47:02.000 what? Like one hit. They're not, they're not in that. That's a, they're like a one hit wonder

00:47:06.320 band. Right. Um, so I'm going to take out savage garden and I'm going to

00:47:11.180 throw in the Google dolls. So I'll put them into that category and then we'll rank them.

00:47:16.220 So, um, I'll go four to one, starting at four and then going for, so from, from worst to best,

00:47:22.380 uh, number four, I would put third eye blind. Uh, they had a lot of hits in the nineties.

00:47:27.880 I did like them in the nineties, like every person did, but I find their music kind of unbearable

00:47:33.440 today. If it comes on the radio or something, if I hear it, it doesn't have a lot of staying power.

00:47:37.380 So I got to put them at number four, then I'll go goo goo dolls. Uh, again, plenty of hits,

00:47:41.780 a few songs that, you know, if, if you're walking through staples or something, it comes on the

00:47:45.820 intercom, you're going to, you're going to say, Oh, wow, it's a goo goo dolls. I remember this song.

00:47:49.740 Uh, the goo goo dolls also a great, they are a great, uh, dentist waiting room band. I always enjoy

00:47:58.040 when, when that, when one of their songs comes on at the, at the dentist's office. So I'll put them

00:48:02.120 at number three, then I'll, I'll number two, I'll put matchbox 20 and I'm putting them this high

00:48:08.080 mainly because I was in traffic the other day and someone was, was blasting really loud. The song

00:48:13.780 unwell, remember that song? And I respected, first of all, they were blasting nineties songs

00:48:18.500 proudly, um, at the intersection. And I also enjoyed taking a trip down memory lane, listening

00:48:25.300 to that song coming from the other person's car. And I think matchbox 20 came out with several

00:48:30.300 really solid pop rock songs. And they were basically the Kings of VH one back in the nineties.

00:48:37.460 Basically every other song on VH one was a matchbox 20 song for a good, probably five or seven years.

00:48:43.940 And then top of the list, I'm going to put counting crows. All of their songs were nonsensical. Uh,

00:48:50.360 none of the lyrics to their songs make any sense whatsoever, but they were very good. I think

00:48:55.560 at capturing the mood of the nineties, you know, they not, not through words, but just the combination

00:49:01.960 of nonsensical words and the music, it, it, it captured a mood. Um, and so I liked it and, and

00:49:09.800 man, I mean, come on, Mr. Jones, all I'm saying is that if Mr. Jones comes on the radio, you don't

00:49:17.100 change it. Nobody, nobody changes it. When Mr. Jones comes on, um, everyone goes, I remember that

00:49:22.340 song, turn this up. And that to me is the real measure of a nineties song. If whenever you hear

00:49:28.960 it, you just, you can't help, but sing along. I try not to sing along because my singing voice

00:49:35.020 causes, um, projectile vomiting to take place, uh, among those around me. But I, I have the urge

00:49:43.220 anyway that I have to suppress whenever that song comes on. So, uh, that's how I would rank it.

00:49:48.380 But thank you so much for that, for that question. And I will leave it there. Uh, Godspeed.

00:50:06.780 Today on the Ben Shapiro show, president Trump dumps his head of Homeland security.

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The Matt Walsh Show - April 08, 2019

Ep. 234 - I Am A Threat To Your Physical Well-being

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