The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 235 -The Hypocrisy Of Mayor Pete

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, Mayor Pete, the trendy Democrat presidential candidate of the week,

00:00:04.900 is accusing evangelical Christians of hypocrisy, but then he claims to be a Christian while

00:00:09.900 supporting late-term abortion. What about his hypocrisy? We'll talk about that. Also, 0.98

00:00:13.260 Cory Booker has introduced a slavery reparations bill. We'll talk about the left's efforts to

00:00:18.520 cure injustice with more injustice. They seem very fond of that sort of strategy.

00:00:23.660 And finally, what about parents who use child leashes? Is that a horrifying practice or is it

00:00:30.540 actually practical and smart? We will discuss that very important issue today as well on the Matt

00:00:36.140 Walsh Show. So tonight I will be speaking at Baylor University, as I'm sure you've heard by now,

00:00:47.000 here in Waco, Texas, as part of the Young America's Foundation campus tour. If you can't make it out,

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00:00:59.620 I have to say flying into Dallas last night was a little rough. It was a very bumpy flight,

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00:01:16.240 give you an idea of how bad my paranoia is, in the middle of the flight, while the turbulence was

00:01:23.900 really bad, I was frantically trying to get connected to Wi-Fi so that I would be able to

00:01:29.200 text my wife goodbye in case the plane started going down. That's where my head was. And then

00:01:35.200 the other thought, this is even more sad, even sadder. The other thought that I had after I thought

00:01:42.560 about my family. My second thought was that if this plane goes down, some of the protesters at

00:01:49.940 Baylor are going to be way too happy about that. And I started thinking of all the snarky tweets they

00:01:55.380 would send about the fact that I died in a plane crash. And so I just started praying to God,

00:02:00.260 like, please, Lord, don't give them that satisfaction. Just please. So essentially,

00:02:05.820 I was praying for the plane not to crash out of spite. That's what it was. And my prayers worked

00:02:13.220 because I'm here today. So, all right, a lot to talk about today. And we'll get into all of that.

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00:04:21.060 that I have avoided discussing on this show, mainly because I don't want to have to deal with

00:04:29.020 pronouncing this person's name. And so this will be the first time that I pronounce it because up until

00:04:37.640 now I've only written it. This is my debut pronunciation. Very exciting stuff. You all get

00:04:44.000 to be here for this. Okay. Pete Budigig. Budig. Budig. Budig. Budig. Budig. Budig. No, I already

00:05:01.080 said that. Budig. Budig. Budig. I think that's it. Budig. Budig. Budig. Sounds like I'm summoning some

00:05:08.520 sort of dark force from the underworld. Budig. Anyway, well, maybe we'll just call him Pete

00:05:14.460 from here on out. He's one of the sort of long shot Democrat candidates, 38-year-old mayor of

00:05:21.940 South Bend, Indiana, getting a lot of attention because of his youth, but also because he does

00:05:27.820 have an impressive and interesting resume. He's a Rhodes Scholar, a combat veteran, clearly a very

00:05:34.240 intelligent person. Well-spoken, formidable candidate, I think. And in a crowd that includes

00:05:39.320 some candidates who are over 300 years old, I think his youth is also a big plus for him. 0.76

00:05:46.040 Mayor Pete is also openly gay. And this is a fact that has come to the foreground in recent days. It's

00:05:53.220 come to the foreground because he has put it in the foreground. A couple of days ago, while giving a

00:05:58.380 speech to a gay rights group, he had this to say. Watch this. People talk about things,

00:06:04.240 like marriage equality, as a moral issue. And it is certainly a moral issue as far as I'm concerned.

00:06:10.740 It's a moral issue because being married to Chaston has made me a better human being, because it has 1.00

00:06:16.320 made me more compassionate, more understanding, more self-aware, and more decent. My marriage to

00:06:24.400 Chaston has made me a better man. And yes, Mr. Vice President, it has moved me closer to God.

00:06:30.000 You may be religious and you may not. But if you are, and you are also queer, 0.94

00:06:36.200 and you have come through the other side of a period of wishing that you weren't,

00:06:42.220 then you know that that message, that this idea that there is something wrong with you,

00:06:46.600 is a message that puts you at war not only with yourself, but with your maker.

00:06:51.420 And speaking only for myself, I can tell you that if me being gay was a choice,

00:06:58.460 it was a choice that was made far, far above my pay grade.

00:07:08.500 And that's the thing I wish the Mike Pence's of the world would understand.

00:07:12.280 That if you've got a problem with who I am, your problem is not with me. Your quarrel, sir,

00:07:17.380 is with my creator. So he's decided for some reason to go after Mike Pence. And this isn't the

00:07:27.320 first time that he's talked about Mike Pence. I mean, he's been talking about Mike Pence a lot

00:07:31.820 over the last few days. Keep in mind that Mayor Pete is a mayor in Indiana. Pence used to be governor

00:07:37.920 of Indiana. So you think, okay, well, maybe Pence mistreated Buttigieg Pete somehow while they were in

00:07:45.980 Indiana. And maybe that's why Pete has something against him. Well, actually, interestingly enough,

00:07:52.520 we do have a clip of Mike Pence talking about Mayor Pete back in 2015 when he was governor and Pete was

00:08:00.260 mayor. And so here's what Pence had to say about him. Well, I hold Mayor Buttigieg in the highest

00:08:08.340 personal regard. And we have a great working relationship. And I see him as a dedicated

00:08:16.100 public servant and a patriot. That unbelievable bigot. I mean, how could he say that? Oh, wait a 0.84

00:08:25.080 second. No, he just said that Pete's a great guy and a patriot. He could not have been more glowing in

00:08:31.300 his appraisal. But the interesting thing about Mayor Pete is that while he's openly gay, very liberal

00:08:40.320 in many respects as well, he talks a lot about faith and is sort of inculcating this image of being a

00:08:49.180 devout Christian. As you saw in that clip, as he's talking about God, his creator and so on. And he not only

00:08:57.120 talks about faith, but he uses it against his opponents. Watch this from Meet the Press a couple

00:09:01.520 of days ago. You said something rather strong about the president that you said it's hard to look at his

00:09:05.940 actions and believe that they are the actions of somebody who believes in God. How do you square

00:09:10.840 that assessment with the fact that the evangelical Christian community is so devoted to his candidacy? 0.93

00:09:15.600 Well, it's something that really frustrates me because the hypocrisy is unbelievable. Here you have 0.93

00:09:20.940 somebody who not only acts in a way that is not consistent with anything that I hear in scripture or in

00:09:26.760 church, where it's about lifting up the least among us and taking care of strangers, which is another

00:09:32.400 word for immigrants, and making sure that you're focusing your effort on the poor, but also personally

00:09:37.180 how you're supposed to conduct yourself. Not chest-thumping, look-at-me-ism, but humbling yourself

00:09:43.280 before others. Foot-washing is one of the central images in the New Testament. And we see the diametric

00:09:50.260 opposite of that in this presidency. I think there was perhaps a cynical process where he decided to,

00:09:55.960 for example, begin to pretend to be pro-life and govern accordingly, which was good enough to bring

00:10:01.380 many evangelicals over to his side. But even on the version of Christianity that you hear from the

00:10:07.080 religious right, which is about sexual ethics, I can't believe that somebody who was caught writing

00:10:11.880 hush money checks to adult film actresses is somebody they should be lifting up as the kind of 1.00

00:10:16.920 person you want to be leading this nation. Now, all things being equal, I agree with some of what he

00:10:22.140 just said right there. It's true that Trump's behavior is often not at all consistent with

00:10:27.140 the gospel or Christian ethics. There's simply no denying that. And it's true that Trump has,

00:10:32.660 as we know, a certain base of obsessive supporters who basically worship him like a god and have

00:10:38.020 humiliated themselves in their faith by actively excusing some of Trump's worst conduct, including

00:10:43.420 paying off porn stars who he had affairs with while his wife was at home with their infant son.

00:10:48.820 And so he's not wrong about some of that. But speaking of unbelievable hypocrisy, 0.97

00:10:57.980 Mayor Pete demonstrates it himself because here he is, or he was just there talking about faith, 0.81

00:11:06.500 bringing faith into it. And he does this a lot, talking about the gospel and Jesus, the creator,

00:11:13.420 everything. But then, then watch what happens. This is interesting. So he's talking about faith

00:11:20.140 everywhere. Watch what happens though, when he's asked about late term abortion.

00:11:25.000 So do you, do you support the late term abortion legislation that was passed in the New York state

00:11:31.440 legislature as well as in Virginia? I don't think we need more restrictions right now. And,

00:11:38.080 you know, what I've learned in Indiana, being at a place where, you know, a lot of my friends,

00:11:44.160 a lot of my supporters even come from a different place than I do, being pro-choice. I just believe

00:11:49.700 that when a woman is in that situation, and when we're talking about some of those situations covered

00:11:54.340 by that law, extremely difficult, painful, often medically serious situations where life or health of

00:12:00.860 the mother is at stake. The involvement of a male government official like me is not helpful.

00:12:07.340 Do states have a right? Should states have a right to ban abortion at 20 weeks?

00:12:12.660 That sounds like a constitutional question. I'm not a legal scholar. What I know

00:12:16.340 is that these questions ought to be resolved by women in consultation with their doctors, 0.99

00:12:21.520 not by the intervention of male politicians putting politically motivated restrictions on women's 0.99

00:12:26.540 health care. Well, wait, wait a minute. What happened to the gospel? What happened to the

00:12:32.920 creator? Pete said that God created him gay. Well, we can talk about that notion, but 0.98

00:12:39.300 he is right, at least, that God created him. That's true. But did not, did God not also create the

00:12:49.120 little babies who are killed by abortion? Do they count for nothing? What about them? It's just,

00:12:55.600 it's, it's very fascinating, isn't it? That, uh, he's, he's talking nonstop about the gospel. As soon

00:13:01.320 as late term abortion comes up, he's got nothing to say about the gospel. Apparently, uh, apparently,

00:13:08.100 you know, he thinks God has, has no opinion on, on that subject. He thinks God has an opinion on,

00:13:13.160 uh, on immigration. Uh, God has an opinion on Donald Trump, but apparently God has no opinion on,

00:13:21.580 on abortion. This is the problem that liberals run into. They feel that they have to defend abortion,

00:13:28.160 all abortion, even late term abortion. But that defense undermines everything else they say,

00:13:34.700 especially on matters of faith and morals. Pete's whole bit about evangelical supporting Trump

00:13:40.880 may have had some kick to it and may have had some real bite, but then it's just blown to

00:13:46.820 smithereens because this guy, when it comes down to it, will at a, at a minimum, tolerate the killing

00:13:52.400 of 32 week old infants in the womb. At a minimum, he'll tolerate it. At a minimum, he'll, he'll put up

00:13:57.360 with it and say, well, I, you know, I, I, that's none of my business. So abortion continues to be

00:14:03.780 an albatross for Democrats. As long as they support it, nothing else they say matters.

00:14:10.640 And some issues are like that. There are some issues that, uh, you know, just, if you get that

00:14:20.360 wrong, it, it, it destroys everything else you say. I mean, imagine if there was a candidate out

00:14:30.520 there, um, defending slavery or maybe not even defending it, but just saying, well, you know, uh,

00:14:38.560 it's, it's none of my business. People have property rights and I'm not going to get involved.

00:14:44.320 They don't need to hear my opinion. Even, even if there was, even if there was a candidate saying

00:14:49.760 that, taking a, uh, a kind of hands-off approach to the, to the question, well, that would obviously

00:14:56.500 destroy his candidacy. And we would all say rightly so that, listen, there's, you know, it doesn't

00:15:02.540 matter what else this guy, it doesn't matter how smart he is. It doesn't matter about his resume.

00:15:06.160 Uh, it doesn't matter about his leadership skills or what, I don't care what this, what else this

00:15:10.780 guy has done. If you get that question wrong, then you're not fit for leadership and, uh, your

00:15:19.340 opinion doesn't matter because whatever else you say, you're obviously operating from a foundation

00:15:27.540 that includes, um, treating human beings as property, as, as, as, you know, livestock. And so

00:15:38.060 if that's part of your fundamental worldview, then whatever grows from there, whatever springs forth

00:15:44.080 from that is, um, is going to be deeply flawed, uh, to say the least. And so slavery is one of those

00:15:53.780 topics. Um, there, there, rape is another one of those topics. If a, if a, if a candidate was out

00:15:59.820 there defending rape, we would say, again, that's a, look, that's a deal breaker and it should be.

00:16:05.800 Well, abortion is in that, is in that category. Holocaust, Holocaust denial. That's another one.

00:16:13.040 If a candidate is out there denying the Holocaust or justifying it, um, again, doesn't matter what

00:16:19.480 else, doesn't matter what else they've done. It makes no doubt if they've cured cancer, if they're a war 0.69

00:16:23.240 hero, none of that matters. If you get that issue wrong, you're not fit. And abortion again is one 0.92

00:16:28.280 of those. This is the genocide of the unborn. If you can't get that right, if you can't figure that 0.83

00:16:33.080 one out, if either you lack the, um, intellectual clarity and, and moral insight to see what's wrong

00:16:43.780 with it, or if you lack the courage to speak out against it, although you know that it's wrong,

00:16:49.020 either way you're unfit. And so Pete, mayor Pete is unfit, just like all the other, just like all the

00:16:57.520 other, uh, Democrats. Okay. Let's take a look at this story from the daily wire, uh, uh, by Paul

00:17:05.240 Bois in an effort to differentiate himself from the pack by moving as far to the left as he can on the

00:17:11.260 political spectrum. Senator Cory Booker has now introduced a bill to the Senate that would study

00:17:16.380 the payment of slavery reparations, according to Fox news. Um, on Monday, the Senator said the bill

00:17:22.520 will study whether or not slavery reparations will help to alleviate past racial injustice in the

00:17:27.960 United States. Uh, Booker said the bill is a way of addressing head on the persistence of racism,

00:17:33.880 white supremacy, and implicit racial bias in our country. It will bring together the best minds to

00:17:39.260 study the issue and propose solutions that will finally begin to write the economic scales of past harms

00:17:45.560 and make sure we are a country where all dignity and humanity is affirmed. Booker added that slavery

00:17:50.920 in this country fueled a subsequent, um, system of white supremacy designed to keep black Americans 0.96

00:17:57.140 from competing economically. Uh, and he goes on from there talking about white supremacy and so on and so

00:18:05.480 forth. Well, let me see if I can help our friend, uh, Spartacus out here. Can we alleviate injustices

00:18:14.120 from a hundred, 150 years ago? Uh, well, really I could just stop the question right there. Can we

00:18:22.320 alleviate injustices from 150 years ago? No, we can't. There's nothing we can do about them. It's

00:18:27.740 150 years in the past. It's, it's over. We can't do anything to write that ship anymore. Um, it's,

00:18:33.960 it's, it's, it's, it happened. It's over now, right? There's, there's nothing we can do to go back

00:18:39.240 and make that. Okay. Slavery was a, it was an outrageous injustice. It will always be that way

00:18:46.140 in the past. And we can't go back and change it. If we could, I wish we could, but we can't,

00:18:51.480 but especially can we alleviate injustices from 150 years ago by taking money from people who had

00:18:57.960 nothing to do with it and giving it to people who never suffered the injustice in question? No,

00:19:03.360 we cannot just as I cannot alleviate the injustice of my grandfather getting carjacked in 1962 by

00:19:11.380 slashing my neighbor's tires. Um, that's going to do nothing for my grandfather whose car was taken

00:19:18.780 and that's all there is to it. And who is, who is dead now. Uh, anyway, I don't know if my grandfather

00:19:24.760 was actually carjacked. This is just an example, but it's not going to do anything for my grandfather.

00:19:29.340 Who's, who's, who's, who's not even alive anymore. And, um, the person that I am punishing for this

00:19:36.400 injustice had nothing to do with it. So I'm teaching him a lesson that didn't need to be

00:19:41.700 taught. As far as I know, he's never, my neighbors never carjacked anyone. Even if I discovered that

00:19:48.000 my neighbor is a descendant of the guy who did the carjacking, even then the slashing of the tires 0.81

00:19:55.660 would just be another injustice added on top of it. We would be adding injustice to injustice and

00:20:01.440 that solves nothing. Maybe you've noticed this about leftist policies. Hopefully you have that,

00:20:07.760 uh, they leftists are always seeking to cure injustice by creating more injustice. Have you

00:20:16.400 noticed that? So you cure the injustices suffered by immigrants by allowing them to break our laws and 1.00

00:20:22.920 undermine our national sovereignty, which is just creates more injustice. You cure the injustice

00:20:28.080 suffered by a raped woman by killing her baby who had nothing to do with it. You cure the injustice 0.97

00:20:34.600 suffered by the poor, by stealing from the rich. Um, you cure the, the, uh, supposed injustices suffered

00:20:44.260 by gay people by taking first amendment rights from Christians. You cure the injustices of racial 0.99

00:20:49.620 discrimination by discriminating against white people in the university system and elsewhere

00:20:53.620 with affirmative action. And, and now you cure, uh, the injustice of slavery by stealing from people

00:20:59.160 who never owned slaves. So everything is a zero sum game with these people. Everything is, um,

00:21:05.700 everything is, that's how everything works.

00:21:07.720 And I think more, maybe it's, it's more so that everything is a kind of a competition.

00:21:17.440 And this is one of the, uh, fundamental flaws with the left's whole idea of human rights,

00:21:25.740 uh, their human rights, their version of human rights, their claims to human rights are always 0.99

00:21:32.300 zero sum. Like in order for this group to have rights, we have to take rights away from this

00:21:39.900 other group. And it always works that way with the left, but the way that you know that something is

00:21:45.660 a real human right is that it doesn't work that way. Uh, if something is a real human right,

00:21:52.920 then you can grant it to a group of people without taking anything from any other group of people

00:22:01.100 or without, or I should say you can, if it's a real human right, you can grant, uh, it to a group

00:22:06.580 of people without depriving any other group of their human rights. Now, if you want to grant human

00:22:14.300 rights to slaves, then you are in a sense taking something from slave owners that they never had a

00:22:19.500 right to in the first place. So you're not depriving them of human rights, but in, in granting rights to

00:22:26.200 slaves, um, the slaves had rights, but you're not taking rights away from anybody else because they

00:22:33.860 never had a right to that, to begin with. They never had a right to own another person to begin

00:22:37.960 with. Um, and that's the way that it works. Uh, uh, religious liberty, freedom of speech.

00:22:46.880 If you, if you give someone the right to go out and speak their mind, live their beliefs,

00:22:50.460 that doesn't take anything away from anyone else. It may mean that other people have to be

00:22:55.720 inconvenienced or by, by listening to ideas they don't like them. They might even have to be offended

00:23:01.060 by listening to ideas they don't like, but they never had any right to not be offended in the first

00:23:05.360 place. But with the left, no, it's, it's a competition. So with them, it's, well, if, if you want

00:23:11.940 to give rights to, to, to women, um, that means that you have to take the right to life from the unborn. 0.95

00:23:18.460 But that's how you know that what we're talking about with women here that will, it's not, it's 0.92

00:23:24.360 not a right at all. Women have human rights. They do not have the right to kill anybody any more than 1.00

00:23:32.060 men do. Um, so that's how you know, all, all of these competing claims to human rights, it gets very

00:23:40.640 confusing. Well, if you ever find a situation where you've got two competing claims and if one,

00:23:46.600 if one group gets their rights, the other group gets, has, has rights deprived of them. That's

00:23:51.740 how you know that something is wrong here. That's how you know that, that we're not actually talking

00:23:55.340 about rights anymore. We're talking about entitlements and privileges and so on. All right.

00:24:00.400 Before we get to emails, I had something else I wanted to mention. Um, very important topic,

00:24:09.800 extremely crucial. I, I have been traveling a lot this month, as I mentioned a lot over the past,

00:24:16.380 like four years really. And so I've been in very many airports and I have noticed this is anecdotal,

00:24:25.920 of course, but I have noticed that, um, there's been a huge uptick in the number of parents who have

00:24:32.860 their toddlers on leashes. This is something I noticed, especially in the last like couple of

00:24:37.980 weeks. It seems every airport now that I go to, um, there are at least a few parents walking their

00:24:44.240 toddlers around leashed. Now, often the leash is connected to the child's backpack, but a leash is a

00:24:50.500 leash. I mean, let's be honest now. I want to say this. I was thinking about it and, um, I have long

00:24:57.220 been anti-leash. I have long been one of those people who looks at the leash wielding parents

00:25:03.680 and shakes my head and says to myself, Oh, that's awful. Oh, that's, that's how terrible,

00:25:08.260 how dehumanizing for that poor child. But I have three kids, uh, five and under now,

00:25:13.840 and I've been in crowded places like airports with all of these kids at once. I have had those moments

00:25:19.600 where, uh, one of them runs off and for about 12 seconds, you, you, you're panicked and you,

00:25:24.180 you think the tragedy has struck. And I will say that I, uh, I get it. Okay. I get the leash thing.

00:25:31.880 I didn't, I didn't used to get it, but I get it now. Now I don't use leashes, uh, because I can't

00:25:39.720 bear the looks that I would get from people like myself. So that's the only reason I don't use them.

00:25:47.380 And I suspect that's, that's actually the reason why most parents don't use them. It's not that you

00:25:52.160 really have anything against it. It's just that you can't deal. You know, how you always looked

00:25:57.560 at those kinds of parents and you don't want to get those same looks. And that's why you don't do

00:26:00.820 it. But, uh, I do get it. It's, it's practical. It makes sense. And I mean, if you've never at least

00:26:07.180 considered the option of using a leash, then that tells me that you've never been in charge of

00:26:12.700 keeping track of multiple young children at one time in a busy place, because if you have, then at the

00:26:17.680 very least you've thought about it, you've at the very least had a, had a moment where you thought,

00:26:21.420 okay, yeah, I, I, I, I see it now. There are a lot of things, um, that parents do that non-parents

00:26:32.120 will judge rather harshly. And that's, that's why parents can get defensive sometimes because

00:26:39.700 when they get these judgments from people who aren't even parents,

00:26:43.680 it can be a little, a little annoying. Um, or even some, you know, I've noticed also that

00:26:51.020 as, as parents, especially of young kids, or, or just if you're a parent of children that you still

00:26:57.040 have to look after, you're going to get judged by non-parents and also sometimes older parents who

00:27:03.620 have kids that have long since grown and moved out of the house, who it seems like, um, have forgotten

00:27:09.740 what it was like to actually have young kids, or maybe they don't understand some of the challenges

00:27:14.760 that come with raising kids in the modern world. Um, but I, over time, and I think this is a process

00:27:22.380 that a lot of parents go through, I become much more tolerant than understanding. I'm not tolerant

00:27:28.080 and understanding in many aspects of life, but in this aspect, I, I am increasingly. So when it comes

00:27:34.100 to parenting, another example is I used to hate the idea of, uh, of TVs and cars. I used to think

00:27:42.360 that, you know, we have TVs everywhere. Uh, do you really need a freaking TV in your car for your kids 0.96

00:27:48.620 to watch? I used to be, you know, I'd be behind someone in traffic and I would see through their 0.94

00:27:53.240 car, the, uh, you know, the screen on and some Disney movie playing and the kids, you know, the kids

00:27:57.820 are in there watching the movie. And I used to think, is that really necessary? I mean, do you really

00:28:02.560 need the TV there? But then I actually experienced driving eight or 10 or 11 hours in a car with three

00:28:10.080 kids, five and under. And I experienced that enclosed up close and personal whining and talking

00:28:16.560 and constant question asking, and are we there yet? And I'm hungry and I'm bored and blah, blah, blah.

00:28:23.860 And, um, and so, yeah, I get why you turn a movie on for them now. Why not? It's a tool that you have

00:28:30.500 available to you. It makes everything easier. It's not hurting anyone. So why not do it?

00:28:36.540 I think here's what happens. Everyone has these grand ideas about what kind of parent, uh, they're

00:28:43.340 going to be, what sort of, what sort of rules and policies they'll have in place once they have kids 0.91

00:28:47.720 and then they have kids. And, and pretty quickly they realized that a lot of those ideas are silly 0.71

00:28:54.780 and pointless and they're not worth the trouble. Uh, you had all these notions about, Oh, when I'm a 0.81

00:28:59.820 parent, I'm not going to do that. I'm not going to do this. There's a, there's going to be none of

00:29:03.120 that. And, and then you become a parent and you're like, yeah, you know, it doesn't really matter.

00:29:07.780 Um, so now you don't hopefully abandon, abandon all of your priorities and principles, uh, you know,

00:29:15.100 hopefully, but you kind of boil them down to the essentials. That's what ends up happening.

00:29:19.760 You figure out which lines you feel you and your spouse feel cannot be crossed. And then you

00:29:26.960 compromise on the rest of it. And that's fine. Like for me, I, one of the things that was always

00:29:31.920 important to me and to my wife is I don't like the idea of young kids playing video games.

00:29:36.520 So I said, um, we're not going to get video games for our kids at this age, or probably for a while

00:29:43.120 longer, no matter if all their friends have them, which at this point, um, my, all my son's friends

00:29:48.780 do have video games, but that's not something I want for our family. So, and we've stuck to that

00:29:53.600 and we're not going to do that. It's important to us. It's not important to everybody. Some parents

00:29:58.620 not important to them. They don't see it as a big deal and that's fine. I'm not judging them. It's

00:30:01.920 whatever they want to do. Um, some parents feel strongly about dietary things like, like soda.

00:30:07.480 You know, they won't let their kid go anywhere near soda. Uh, well, we let our kids have soda on

00:30:12.260 occasion. We let them eat junk food on occasion. Uh, it's, I don't really care that much. It's not a big

00:30:16.740 deal. I don't see it as a big deal. Some parents do whatever. That's fine. You figure out what your

00:30:22.360 lines are and then you draw them. And, um, and, and there do, there have to be some lines that are

00:30:29.040 just there and that you don't cross. You've got to have some of those. You can't just erase all of 0.99

00:30:32.960 them. Uh, because then you're going to, you know, then you're going to end up with spoiled bratty 1.00

00:30:37.180 kids who get whatever they want. So you obviously can't do that. But, um, there are going to be a lot

00:30:43.420 of lines that you drew before you actually had kids and you didn't know what it was like. And you

00:30:47.080 didn't, you didn't know what you were doing. And then pretty quickly, you see those as superfluous.

00:30:51.640 And, uh, and so you make practical decisions and compromise and that's okay because parenting is

00:30:56.400 hard enough and you don't need to create more challenges for yourself. You don't need to

00:30:59.840 make it harder than it actually already is. One big thing about parenting is guilt. You always feel

00:31:05.600 guilty. You always feel like you're not doing a good enough job. Like everyone else is, everyone

00:31:10.520 else is squared away with their parenting, but you're not, but that's not true because nobody has it

00:31:15.900 figured out. See, that's the secret you learn after a while is when it comes to parenting, no one knows

00:31:20.280 what the hell they're doing. We're all just, we're all just figuring out as we go along. Nobody

00:31:24.300 knows. I mean, these, these, these kids are, I mean, they're, they're human beings. They've got

00:31:29.360 their own mind. Like they've, they've got their own identity. They're, they, they, they have free

00:31:33.520 will. They can, I mean, you can only control them so much. Um, and so we're all kind of fumbling

00:31:40.060 around in the dark and figuring it out. And, and, and that's all right. Um, and so if you have to use

00:31:47.300 a leash, then you use a leash. That's my point. All right. So that was about what, 27 minutes on

00:31:54.040 child leashes. Good, good stuff. Good content. All right. Let's go to emails. Um, Matt Walsh show at

00:31:59.880 gmail.com, Matt Walsh show at gmail.com. Um, let's see here. So it says, uh, this is from Carl says,

00:32:07.400 Hey Matt, I've listened to you to Ben Shapiro for years and I've heard you on and off. I

00:32:11.660 recently started listening to you regularly. I appreciate that you speak often on Christianity

00:32:16.020 and that you dive deep into subjects. You ask hard questions and don't claim to have all the

00:32:19.820 answers. I've been a Christian for almost 12 years now. And I found that, uh, some of the nastiest 1.00

00:32:24.260 encounters people slash people I have dealt with are Christians. I've been through two church 0.89

00:32:29.560 collapses that ended with people not talking, calling each other demonic friendships, ending,

00:32:34.320 et cetera. Um, you receive a lot of angry email from fellow Christians. Why do you think

00:32:39.420 Christians behave this way on such a frequent basis? Keep up the good work. You got another 1.00

00:32:44.320 new fan, Carl. Um, hi, Carl. Good question. I think that there's, um, there's a lot in Christianity

00:32:54.560 about being hated by the world, uh, being set apart from the world, um, resisting the world

00:33:03.340 and so on. And, and, and all of that is true and important. But if a Christian doesn't have 1.00

00:33:09.900 the right perspective on those injunctions, if they don't have the right heart about them,

00:33:15.260 they may start to think that the world is literally everyone except themselves. Um, that it's just them

00:33:25.020 as the sole right person, the sole, holy, good person, and everybody else is wrong and therefore

00:33:35.680 deserving of their contempt and scorn and ridicule and so on. And, uh, that's a real temptation. I

00:33:41.240 think that can spring from the true words and warnings in scripture about the world. Uh, so I,

00:33:48.320 I think that has something to do with it. You know, of course, I mean, the easy answer is Christians are 1.00

00:33:52.880 people. They're not perfect and they have all the same flaws and foibles as, as other people. And

00:33:58.440 that's true too. But there, there is, as I said, there is something, um, there are things about

00:34:07.700 Christianity that if you don't look at them the right way and approach them the right way, uh, can

00:34:12.940 encourage you to act the way that, that you're talking about. Uh, so that's something we all have

00:34:18.400 to look out for. This is from Joseph says, hi, Matt, a man from, uh, a fan for a man also a fan

00:34:24.480 from Croatia here. Uh, some time ago, I asked a question regarding penal labor. The question was

00:34:29.620 basically about morality of the penal labor. Is it moral and fair for an inmate to be required to do

00:34:36.460 a job in some kind of prison factory? And maybe in which cases it is, or isn't haven't gotten the

00:34:42.460 answer. So I thought I might try again. Love your work. God bless. Uh, thanks Joseph. Sorry,

00:34:48.000 sorry that I missed your email when you first sent it. I think it's, it's not only moral and fair to

00:34:52.260 have inmates work, but probably more moral and, and fair than the system that we have here in the U S

00:34:59.020 anyway, where most inmates just sit around in their cells all day doing nothing. Uh, the idea behind

00:35:05.840 putting them to work is not just cheap labor, but actually giving the inmates something to do,

00:35:10.740 um, a way to contribute. And that has a restorative effect. I think hard work is almost spiritual.

00:35:17.700 In that way, it helps to cleanse you, uh, refocus you. So I think it's, it's, it helps towards the

00:35:25.960 rehabilitation effort. Um, just being locked in a cage all day, like an animal, I think that's way

00:35:34.080 less humane. So yeah, the idea of penal labor, I think is perfectly humane and, and a good idea.

00:35:40.620 There is a hazard though. Um, if you look throughout history where you don't want to have penal labor

00:35:46.940 because of the cheap labor, if cheap labor becomes the point, then all of a sudden it's less penal

00:35:54.520 labor and more like slavery. And there have been many examples of that in history. Think about the

00:36:00.020 Soviets for instance, where cheap labor was so much the point of the gulag system that people would be 0.95

00:36:07.600 sent to prison on bogus charges, just so that they could be enlisted to build railroads or whatever

00:36:12.380 else. So, uh, obviously you don't want that. That's a risk. But if you, if you have a, if,

00:36:17.520 if you could have a system that is just and fair, uh, and, and where the people who are,

00:36:23.160 you know, and do you have a, one of the problems in the Soviet union is that you didn't have a real

00:36:28.540 court system to actually find out if people were guilty or not. Uh, you had people that eventually

00:36:34.180 were forced to admit their guilt through torture and so on. So if you don't have that, if you have

00:36:38.700 a real court system, then I think it could be a, a good thing to have. Um, this is from

00:36:44.180 John says, dear Matt, this is going to be a long email and I apologize today. My dad came up to me

00:36:50.140 saying he wants to take a job in two to three years that would move us from Chicago to Utah.

00:36:54.880 Uh, that sounds great as a conservative on paper, but my parents are divorced and I've been anxiously

00:37:01.400 waiting for the opportunity to be with my mom more as I don't see her, uh, as often. I would

00:37:06.460 be able to finish my high school career and all, but I would be shaken up a little going out, uh,

00:37:10.900 due to this. It's always been a dream of mine to also live in Chicago, like my parents, but it's

00:37:15.260 grown a little hard due to the blueness of the state. I know Utah is a fairly religious state too,

00:37:19.980 which would be a plus, but I just don't know how I would see my mom or what career I'd go into.

00:37:25.840 Uh, I want to go into broadcast communications. If you could help me out even a little,

00:37:29.800 that'd be greatly appreciated. Well, it sounds like a tough situation, John. Um, so I'm sorry

00:37:34.140 you're going through that, but listen, here's the good news. Eventually you'll be 18, right?

00:37:39.100 And, uh, you'll be 18 and you'll be out of high school and then you can live wherever you want.

00:37:44.820 Uh, so, you know, go with the program now. If your dad's the main one who's in charge of you,

00:37:49.760 then you go with him, but it's only temporary. And if ultimately you decide that you want to live in

00:37:57.040 Chicago, you could always move back to Chicago or you can move wherever you want. That's the,

00:38:01.820 nothing is permanent at a year age or really at any age. Um, you can always change it if you want.

00:38:07.920 And, uh, that's, that's something, maybe you've heard me preaching this before. That's something

00:38:11.720 that I think young people, uh, who, who, you know, are adults and, uh, emancipated in that way.

00:38:19.760 But, but that's something that I think young people forget. I mean, you can, once you're 18,

00:38:25.780 you can go live wherever you want and the whole world is open to you. And so I would say, I mean,

00:38:30.720 take advantage of that. Thanks for the email. Uh, this is from Paul says, rank these top nineties

00:38:36.720 TV shows, NYPD blue, Ally McBeal, Frazier, Seinfeld friends. Well, I hate to say it, Paul, but I,

00:38:44.280 and I'm going to lose a lot of cred as a nineties kid here, but I've only seen one of those shows,

00:38:50.460 uh, Seinfeld. I've never seen a single episode of any of that. I've never seen a single episode

00:38:55.740 of friends ever. Um, I have, I have seen every Seinfeld episode, probably multiple times.

00:39:02.360 So, uh, you know, I would have to just put Seinfeld at the top and by default, uh, I hate to say,

00:39:08.500 look when I, in the nineties, I was, um, I was born in 86. So most of the nineties for me was,

00:39:16.180 was Nickelodeon. So, you know, if you really, you got to give me Nickelodeon shows to rank,

00:39:20.480 and then I could do that for you. Um, this is from Travis says, hi, Matt. I enjoyed your review

00:39:26.140 of the nineties bands yesterday. Can you please rank these 90 comedy movies? Keep up the good work,

00:39:30.680 Matt. Love the show. All right. The movies are Clerks, Dumb and Dumber, Tommy Boy, Office Space,

00:39:35.580 The Big Lebowski. Okay. Well, this is good. I have seen these. All right. I can do this.

00:39:39.960 Uh, this is a tough one. It's actually really tough. I was thinking about this.

00:39:43.540 I spent hours thinking about this when I saw this email. Um, all right. So I'll go five to one,

00:39:49.700 one being best, obviously. Uh, number fives will be Clerks. I know Clerks is a quintessential

00:39:54.800 nineties movie. It doesn't really hold up. I don't know if you've tried to watch Clerks recently.

00:39:58.280 It's, it's pretty unwatchable now. So I'll put that at number five. Uh, number four would be Tommy Boy.

00:40:03.240 Look, I love Chris, Chris Farley. Everybody does, but, and it's a funny movie. It's just,

00:40:08.000 it's not, it, it, it, it's funny just because Chris Farley is being Chris Farley. It's not,

00:40:13.040 it's not an especially clever movie aside from that. Um, number three would, I guess I put The

00:40:19.740 Big Lebowski. I mean, The Big Lebowski is a great cult movie, uh, iconic movie, but I don't even know

00:40:29.040 if I'd call it a comedy. I mean, it is a comedy, but it's not, it's not like a laugh out loud,

00:40:32.360 funny all the way through. Uh, it's just, it's kind of, it, it, it kind of defies all genres.

00:40:37.300 So for this, these purposes, I put it at number three. Um, number two, uh, I would put Office

00:40:42.840 Space. This was a close one. The Office Space is a classic and that's, that's one you can watch

00:40:47.400 that, that you can watch that whenever that's on TV, you just watch it. You always laugh.

00:40:52.420 Um, I would put number one, Dumb and Dumber. I just think it, it, of course it's an incredibly

00:40:57.960 stupid movie. It's called Dumb and Dumber, but, uh, the comedy holds up. I've probably seen Dumb and 1.00

00:41:02.920 Dumber 30 times and, or more. And I still think it's funny. Office Space and Dumber Dumber. You,

00:41:07.960 you can really switch those around because they both are funny every time you watch them. But,

00:41:13.720 uh, I would put Dumb and Dumber at number one. All right, let's do one more. Um,

00:41:18.600 okay. We'll do a, we'll do a good theological one here. This is from Victor says, hi, Matt. My name is

00:41:23.800 Victor. I was posed an interesting question when talking with a coworker today about intelligent

00:41:29.560 design and he being an atheist asked me, where did God come from? Who made God? He stated that

00:41:35.480 he has never heard a good answer for this. Therefore cannot believe in God. Listening to your podcast

00:41:40.920 about addressing issues on a scientific or factual basis with non-believers. What's your thought on

00:41:45.240 this? Thanks in advance. Okay, Victor. Well, your friend's, um, question is not stupid. It's not a

00:41:55.320 stupid question. Um, sometimes Christians can treat this objection like it, like it is stupid. Um, 1.00

00:42:03.000 but it's perfectly legitimate. Uh, if, if we are insisting that God made the universe because

00:42:11.560 everything has to have a beginning and nothing could begin without a cause, then it is absolutely

00:42:17.000 legitimate and logical for someone to say, well, what about God? And if you don't, because that is

00:42:23.720 the argument, that's one of the most compelling arguments for God is for the existence of God is

00:42:28.200 that, is that, well, everything has to have a beginning. The universe began, uh, a thing cannot

00:42:34.600 make itself begin because in order for a thing to do anything, it has to first exist. So that's why a

00:42:41.240 thing cannot will itself into existence. That's a logical contradiction has to have a beginning.

00:42:45.960 So, so God, uh, so you need some sort of creative force. That's an argument for God. But if you're

00:42:51.960 going to say something like everything has to have a beginning and, and you also believe that God exists,

00:42:58.360 then he must be included in everything. He's part of that, isn't he? Um, especially if you believe

00:43:03.720 that God is omnipresent. So then he's really part of everything. Uh, he is, uh, you know, um,

00:43:09.720 in everything. Well, you want to be careful with that. You don't want to sound like you're a pantheist,

00:43:13.800 but you get the point. So that's a, that's a logical response. And too often I hear theists

00:43:21.000 respond to that by saying, come on. Well, yeah, obviously God's an exception. You don't want to

00:43:26.980 sound like you're special pleading. Um, so how do we respond to that? Well, we respond to it this way.

00:43:36.320 Uh, God, uh, God by the Christian understanding, um, by the, you know, really the monotheistic,

00:43:44.280 uh, understanding, the Abrahamic religion, understanding, really God is the, is the ground

00:43:52.240 of all being, right? He is, he is, he is not seen. Uh, we don't think of God the way the pagans do,

00:44:00.360 um, or did, uh, maybe still do. If there are pagans out there, we don't see God, despite how

00:44:06.340 the atheists portray our belief, we don't see God as a man in the clouds, um, holding a, you know,

00:44:12.760 staff with a white beard, sitting on a throne kind of thing. Um, such a, that kind of God would

00:44:19.080 absolutely need a beginning. He would need his own God to have created him, but that's not how we see

00:44:24.680 God. That's not this sort of sophisticated, um, idea of God in Christianity. We see God as the,

00:44:34.940 as the, the ground of all being, the foundation upon which all of reality exists. He is a non-contingent

00:44:44.240 being in that all things that exist that we see around us are all contingent on other things for

00:44:52.700 their existence. Uh, they, they, they contingent, they needed something else to have created them,

00:44:58.680 to have spawned them. Uh, they rely on something else for their existence. So all things are

00:45:03.600 contingent things, but God is not. And it seems a logical conclusion that we cannot possibly live in

00:45:11.660 a universe filled only with contingent things. If everything is contingent, if everything is

00:45:17.680 dependent on something else for its existence, then eventually you're going to get to the end of

00:45:22.680 that chain. And then what, what, what's at the end of it, what's there, you're going to get to that

00:45:27.720 sort of last link on the chain of a contingent thing. But then if it's contingent, then what's,

00:45:35.280 what is it a contingent upon? You're at the end of the chain, right? So that means that at bottom,

00:45:42.740 you have to get to something that just is, it just is, it just, it, it, it, it just exists.

00:45:49.940 It is existence. And that thing that is, must have the ability to create what else there is.

00:46:00.540 Um, that must be the non-contingent contingency. And that being must be timeless because time has a

00:46:11.720 beginning, um, and is therefore contingent. It must be spaceless because space has a beginning.

00:46:18.260 And, uh, so, and it must be creative because it created all these other things. So it must be a

00:46:25.440 timeless, spaceless, creative, non-contingent being. And that's what we mean by God. Um,

00:46:36.100 hope that made sense, but that's basically how you respond to that objection. And, and I would just

00:46:41.800 stress again, um, you know, respond to it in a, in a thoughtful way, not, not a dismissive way.

00:46:49.980 Um, because it's, uh, yeah, this idea of a non-contingent beings and all these guys. I mean,

00:46:56.720 it's not like this is, these are difficult concepts. And so if someone has never encountered

00:47:01.820 them or doesn't understand them, then that doesn't make them stupid. Um, doesn't make their 0.83

00:47:06.120 questions stupid. It just means that, you know, it's something that needs to be explained. 0.93

00:47:09.000 So, all right. Thanks for watching everybody. Thanks for listening. Uh, hopefully I'll see

00:47:12.780 you out at Baylor, Baylor tonight. If you're, if you're in town and if not, I will talk to you

00:47:17.840 tomorrow. Godspeed.

00:47:19.280 Hey everybody. It's Andrew Klavan, host of the Andrew Klavan show. Trump says there's an

00:47:36.440 emergency at the border and the media Democrat complex spends hour after hour saying he's wrong.

00:47:41.680 And if he's not wrong, he's to blame. And if he's not to blame, look, there's a crying baby.

00:47:45.980 We'll talk about it on the Andrew Klavan show. I'm Andrew Klavan.

The Matt Walsh Show - April 09, 2019

Ep. 235 -The Hypocrisy Of Mayor Pete

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