Good news for Bernie Sanders, it turns out, but is that bad news for his campaign? Also, a white woman is being viciously attacked for committing the sin of opening a Chinese food restaurant. And a woman wrote in to Slate wondering why she can t find good men for one night stands.
00:00:15.700And a woman wrote in to Slate wondering why it is that she can't find any good men for one-night stands.
00:00:23.700Now, we'll try to get to the bottom of that mystery today as well on the Matt Walsh Show.
00:00:30.000Well, it was a good time at Baylor last night, great turnout, respectful audience, no outbursts or anything of that sort, a peaceful event.
00:00:43.940That could be because the university, from what I was told, they counter-programmed the event.
00:00:50.480They were holding something called a, I think it was a love dinner or a love feast or something like that,
00:00:56.280which, again, from what I was told, was advertised as an alternative to my speech.
00:01:03.340So I think the idea was to try to siphon people away from what I was doing, but we still packed the house and it was great.
00:01:09.680The only little strange thing was that it was, you know, it's pretty hot down here in Waco, right?
00:01:15.560And so you can imagine if you pack hundreds of people into a little room, it gets even hotter.
00:01:21.940Well, the AC wasn't running during my talk, so we were all just sweating, pouring sweat.
00:01:29.000And then, strangely enough, as soon as the talk ended, the AC kicked on.
00:02:54.540If you write a best-selling book, you can be a millionaire, too.
00:02:58.260That sounds like the title of the book.
00:02:59.640If you write a, you know, if you write a best-selling book, you could be a millionaire, too.
00:03:03.260Well, what a change in messaging that is, right, for Bernie Sanders.
00:03:09.400From ranting about the evil millionaires and billionaires to now saying, you can be a millionaire, too, that's very different.
00:03:24.000That's quite a change from millionaires and billionaires are evil to now he's giving tips.
00:03:30.660He's giving financial tips on how to become one.
00:03:32.940But, of course, the whole point here is that his preferred policies, if his preferred policies were in place, if his socialist policies were in place, if we were a socialist nation, then you could not become a millionaire by writing a best-selling book.
00:03:51.120So this is something that he was able to do because we live in a capitalist country.
00:03:55.540He capitalized on the fact that we are a capitalist nation and seemed to have no problem doing that, yet he still claims to be a socialist.
00:04:06.800So it's just like AOC saying, hey, airplanes, commercial air travels, destroying the country, destroying the world, and we're all going to be dead in 12 years.
00:04:16.660Yet she has no problem getting on planes and jet-setting around the country.
00:04:22.780Now, I don't personally begrudge anyone going on an airplane or becoming a millionaire.
00:04:31.240I think it's great that people are able to do that in this country.
00:04:34.640I think it's great that people are able to become millionaires.
00:04:36.440I think it's great that you're able to become a millionaire not just by writing a book, but by writing a bad book, like the one that Bernie Sanders wrote.
00:04:44.220I think it's amazing that it's that easy.
00:04:48.000Like, you don't even have to be good at anything.
00:05:02.460But he was still able to become a millionaire because of our free market system.
00:05:07.840Uh, I think that's great, you know, as a, as a capitalist myself, but Bernie Sanders is not a capitalist.
00:05:18.040So I would think that this would have to destroy his campaign, right?
00:05:22.640I mean, uh, I don't see how he survives it.
00:05:25.480And it's pretty sad when the fact that you're financially successful is some sort of scandal that, that, that, uh, can, can hurt, harm you politically, but it shouldn't be that way.
00:05:38.000And for most politicians, it wouldn't be, but that's the situation that he set up for himself.
00:05:43.320He's the one who's, um, who's been going around decrying wealth and he's going to have to face the music.
00:05:50.240Someone said to me yesterday, I made this point and someone said, well, uh, you know, how could you criticize Bernie Sanders for, for being a millionaire when, uh, Donald Trump is a billionaire and you're not critical of that.
00:06:01.440Yeah. Yeah. Except that Donald Trump wasn't going around and saying that there's anything wrong with being wealthy, quite the opposite, actually.
00:06:08.620So if you're a capitalist and you're, and you're open and, uh, proud of it, then fine, be as rich as you want.
00:06:15.900But if you're a socialist, you can't go getting rich on us. Can you?
00:06:20.260So, um, I think this is going to hurt him, but at least Bernie can go home and, uh, console himself by rolling around in a huge,
00:06:31.440pile of money. Okay. Let's take a look at this real quick. Um, our friend, Ilhan Omar was speaking to a Muslim rights group and she, uh, characterized nine 11 in kind of a bizarre way and a troubling way. Watch this care was founded after nine 11 because they recognized that some people did something and that all of us were starting to lose access to our civil liberties.
00:07:01.440Some people did something. That's how she categorizes nine 11. Some people did something. Um, that's pretty incredible. This woman is just so consistently vile. It's almost impressive. And I'll tell you this, if I were a Muslim, I would not be a fan of Ilhan Omar at all, because she seems determined to fulfill every negative Muslim stereotype she possibly can.
00:07:29.520She's constantly, she's constantly, she's constantly complaining about Jews. Now she's downplaying nine 11. I mean, every stereotype she can think of, she tries to affirm this. This is, this is really incredible.
00:07:39.520This is a, this is a, this is, you know, this is not just some cable news pundit or something. This is a sitting member of Congress who says of nine 11, some people did something.
00:07:53.400That is horrifying. That is horrifying. All right. A woman, uh, by the name of Arielle, uh, Haspel, Haspel, Haspel, Haspel, we'll just say Haspel is under fire today. Um, she's under fire because she committed the sin of get, get ready for this because she did something pretty horrifying.
00:08:16.060Um, here's what she did. Um, here's what she did. This woman, uh, she, she opened a Chinese restaurant and the restaurant is called Lucky Lee's.
00:08:27.120And this is a sin because as I'm sure you've guessed it, um, Arielle is white gasp.
00:08:34.060Uh, and she sinned further by endeavoring to make clean and healthy Chinese food. She said in a post online that she, that a lot of American Chinese food is unhealthy, according to her.
00:08:47.500And she said, it makes you feel quote bloated and icky. And so she wanted to, um, make, make food that, that doesn't have that effect.
00:08:55.740Now, as someone who has, uh, you know, myself eaten probably eight or nine tons of Chinese food in my life, or even just in the past, say, two months, um, I can confirm that yes, bloated and icky is, is, is probably a pretty accurate description of how you often feel after indulging in some, um, you know, uh, uh, General Tso's, uh, chicken or Kung Pao from your local Chinese place.
00:09:18.940And that doesn't stop me. Of course, I still eat it, but I, I, I think that this is sort of, uh, undeniable that, that, uh, American Chinese food has that effect.
00:09:27.200I can't speak to, you know, authentic Chinese food in China. I've never had it, but that's the case with American Chinese food.
00:09:33.280Uh, yet it's all, it is, it is very racist apparently for this, uh, person to, to say that.
00:09:38.280And the fact that she's, the fact that she's white, um, in opening this Chinese restaurant in the first place is racist.
00:09:44.340The name of the establishment, Lucky Lee's is racist.
00:09:47.320Um, the fact that she accused other Chinese food of being unhealthy is, is racist. All of that is racist.
00:09:52.860So a bunch of leftists decided to get together and, uh, of course, destroy this woman's business because,
00:09:58.060hey, why not? Let's, let's just try to tear down this woman and her business that she's been working
00:10:02.100for, you know, to, to, to open your own business takes a lot of time and effort and capital. Um,
00:10:08.380I'm sure this is a dream she's had for a long time and she finally gets the place open. She's so excited.
00:10:13.500And, uh, but these people are saying, you know what, let's just, let's just, let's just tear it apart.
00:10:16.560You know, let's just, we'll, we'll just destroy it because, because, uh, Hey, we got nothing better
00:10:20.720to do. Um, ruin her livelihood, you know, uh, because, because we're vile, ridiculous idiots.
00:10:28.120So the backlash seems to have started with, uh, let me see if I can pull up.
00:10:33.240There were a couple of tweets that seem to have started this whole thing. Uh, one from
00:10:38.140Lanya Olmsted who said, uh, who tweeted a picture of, of Ariel and said, wow, wow, wow. This white
00:10:47.000woman pictured just opened a clean Chinese food restaurant in NYC called Lucky Lee's. Not only is
00:10:53.280she using Chinese food stereotypes slash naming, she is shaming traditional Chinese food cooking
00:10:59.180with MSG grease and starch. Um, and then one of the other early tweets came from someone named
00:11:05.560McKenzie says, Oh, I can not with Lucky Lee's this new clean Chinese restaurant that some white
00:11:11.200wellness blogger just opened in New York. Her blog talks about how Chinese food is usually
00:11:15.300doused in brown sauces and makes your eyes puffy lady. What? Uh, and just a lot of, a lot of stuff like
00:11:22.820that. Um, a lot of people who, who simply cannot, they just cannot. Well, you know what? If you
00:11:30.880cannot, then, then leave the woman alone. You don't have to go to the restaurant if you don't like it.
00:11:35.300Right. Uh, and again, is she wrong about what she's saying? American Chinese food is doused in
00:11:43.360brown sauces. It is. I mean, I don't know if it makes my eyes puffy, but what are we now pretending
00:11:48.740that it's, that it's healthy or something like that? And then from there, a bunch of morons flooded
00:11:53.780her Yelp page, uh, posted negative reviews of her restaurant, even though these people had of course
00:12:00.460never actually been to the restaurant. So they were just lying. Um, and then other websites jumped on
00:12:06.100the dog pile. The site, uh, eater.com, a food site posted an article with a headline claiming in the
00:12:13.480headline that the restaurant is, is drawing quote, swift backlash for quote, racist language
00:12:20.280that it used. That was in the headline. It wasn't, it wasn't, didn't say alleged racist language or
00:12:26.140some people claimed, right? No, just racist language. Well, what racist language? Where's the
00:12:30.820racist language that you're telling me that if you, if you describe Chinese food in a negative way,
00:12:37.860that that's racist, racist to the food, who are you being racist against? Accusing a certain kind
00:12:44.560of fast food of being unhealthy is not racist. Is it racist? If I say that Taco Bell oftentimes
00:12:50.460causes diarrhea? Well, it does. We all know that you have to pretend now that Taco Bell, so it says
00:12:56.740anti-Hispanic. If we, uh, if we don't, uh, you know, if we, if we point out the, um, some of the
00:13:03.720side effects of eating Taco Bell, this is just so excessively stupid. Um, and not just stupid,
00:13:11.780but, but so callous and cruel and capricious, uh, arbitrarily trying to ruin this woman's life
00:13:19.960for no reason. Uh, she didn't do anything wrong. She just opened a restaurant and that's all she did.
00:13:27.660And, uh, by the way, people are complaining that the name Lucky Lee's is racist because Lee is a
00:13:35.020typical Chinese name. Well, the woman's husband, who is also the chef, his name is Lee. So, uh,
00:13:41.560the restaurant, so I guess his parents are racist for calling him Lee. Uh, oh man. Uh,
00:13:48.900this kind of thing, it, it, it, it makes me so angry because you're, you're going after
00:13:57.440some random person. It's not like you're attacking a public figure. Okay. It's not like you're
00:14:03.180for the nine millionth time taking Donald Trump out of context and accusing him of racism. Well,
00:14:08.360he's the president, he can take it, but it's just some, it's just a person who's excited to open a
00:14:15.340change. This wasn't any conspiracy to try to, uh, you know, to try to be racist against Chinese
00:14:23.240people. This was, she just wanted to open a restaurant. That's all. And, and for all the
00:14:29.920talk that we hear from liberals about, Hey, you know, live and let live and let people live their
00:14:34.940own lives. Well, as we've seen time and time again, uh, they certainly will not take their own
00:14:39.700advice on that score. And you know what? There is of course a huge double standard here because
00:14:46.780we all know that if Ariel was herself, let's say an Asian woman opening a pizza restaurant,
00:14:55.600um, and, uh, and the pizza restaurant's name was, uh, was lucky lose or something like that.
00:15:02.120Um, well, nobody would criticize. Would she be getting, would an Asian person who opened a pizza
00:15:10.440restaurant get in trouble for appropriating Italian culture? No, that would never happen.
00:15:15.900What, uh, what's, you know, an Indian person opening a burger joint, get in trouble for,
00:15:20.300you know, appropriating Americana or whatever. No. Opening a barbecue joint. No, that would never,
00:15:28.100ever happen. You would never see that happening. So if you are anything, if you're anything but
00:15:34.260white, you can open any kind of restaurant you want, any kind of food you want. And, uh, people
00:15:39.520will, and in fact, if you're, you know, if you, if you are non-white opening an Italian restaurant,
00:15:43.540people would be thrilled. They would say, Oh, this is great. It's a, you know, diversity and
00:15:48.300everything. But if you're white, no, you're not allowed to, you're not allowed to, uh, open
00:15:53.600restaurants of, uh, you know, typically ethnic food. It's, it's simply absurd. And food is
00:16:02.040one of those things that cultures share and it changes and people have their own take on it and
00:16:08.780everything. All right. I just got to move on from that. Um, but if you, by the way, if you,
00:16:19.600if you happen to be in New York, uh, why don't you go by Lucky Lee's and, uh, and give them your
00:16:25.040support? I hope that this, I hope this woman makes, you know, $10 million this year, just,
00:16:29.680just out of spite for these idiots. All right. Let's check in with Slate. Uh, Slate always has
00:16:35.640intellectually engaging content, of course. And yesterday in Slate's advice column section, um,
00:16:42.360a woman wrote in with an interesting question and I'm going to, let me see if I can pull this up here.
00:16:49.600I'm going to read the, the question, um, that she wrote to Slate. I just think this is, this is
00:16:57.220very, it's a very revealing kind of question. And, uh, and the answer is to, so this is the question
00:17:03.780to Slate. It says, um, I'm a single woman in her early thirties. I'm attractive and have never had
00:17:09.140issues attracting a partner, but after a series of disappointing relationships each around a year,
00:17:13.280I'm just not in the mood to engage emotionally with men right now. The thing is I have a high sex drive
00:17:18.240and I can't fully satisfy myself on my own. The cliche is that this should be an easy problem
00:17:23.420to fix. Plenty of men, uh, want to have sex with a woman with no strings, right? Well,
00:17:28.180here are my limitations. In the past, when I've had hookup buddies, I like them, but it never really
00:17:32.560is just sex. We inevitably get to know each other better. And then, uh, I end up getting entangled
00:17:37.680with him whether I want to or not. I also am not really into sex parties or the poly scene.
00:17:42.380Um, so I'm not really sure how to proceed. I've identified a few bars in my town that are
00:17:48.520good for this sort of thing, but that is hit or miss, uh, for finding an attractive guy. When I
00:17:53.320tell my gay friends about this, they talk about how easy it is to find what they want on Grindr and
00:17:58.480the like. And I'm honestly jealous. Uh, Tinder and similar apps for straight people are full of
00:18:04.300creeps who have no game. And I'm afraid if I'm upfront about what I want, I'll attract even more of that
00:18:09.620type. What's a straight girl who just wants good unattached sex to do? So the, um, this is a
00:18:17.280woman who wants to find a good guy, a non-creep. That's what she's looking for. She wants a non-creep,
00:18:25.500a good guy, decent guy who has game two, whatever that means. Um, but she just, just for sex. So she's
00:18:32.780looking for a good guy who will just use her for sex. And then, and then comes the, the response from
00:18:38.400Slate. Uh, it says it's true. Even when both parties are completely uninterested in anything
00:18:43.700serious or romantic, you can still eventually end up in the bath products aisle together,
00:18:48.700debating whether your connection means anything and having moments of odd, sticky feelings towards
00:18:53.180each other. In your case, it sounds like at least some of the entanglement is coming from your end.
00:18:57.380So put reminders in your phone, make the guys have names like Chris, nothing serious, Johnson, or,
00:19:03.960uh, Joe, this is just sex beady, whatever will underscore the boundaries you've set and need
00:19:10.560to respect for yourself. Uh, in addition to expecting the other guys to adhere to, hopefully
00:19:15.540that'll make it easier to keep a good casual connection going without tipping into what you
00:19:20.360don't want. Uh, and then it goes on from there. Okay. So, uh, uh, a couple of observations here.
00:19:29.140Number one, you know, if you're looking for good guys for, for non creeps, well, the problem here
00:19:40.140is going to be that good guys aren't looking to use women for sex. That that's, it is precisely
00:19:45.980the creeps who you're going to be able to pick up at bars who are, have no emotional attachment and
00:19:52.360not interested in anything like that. Uh, they're just looking for sex and then they're going to be
00:19:56.440gone. So it could be that if you want a good man, um, then maybe you need to be a better person
00:20:05.760yourself. See, this is the advice that I would give if she, if she had asked me, uh, it could be that
00:20:10.020you yourself are not a very good person. Uh, it seems like, and so that's why you attract creeps.
00:20:16.460You see, you're attracting creeps because you're a creep. Have you ever thought about that? You know,
00:20:21.660I know that we, when we talk about people being creeps, we, we almost, we always refer to men that
00:20:26.720way. It's, it's men are the only creeps. Well, there are a lot of men who are creeps, but then
00:20:30.480there are women who are creeps too. And based on that, based on that question, uh, you're a creep.
00:20:35.400That's just, that's just weird and gross and creepy. So you're getting exactly the kind of guy you
00:20:39.720deserve. Uh, number two, what you find in the question. And then in the answer, um,
00:20:46.900was this is so much effort, right? To get around the, the emotional attachments that you naturally
00:20:59.960feel, um, towards someone who you're in a sexual relationship with. And so the, the answer that
00:21:09.840this person is given is, well, here's some tips on, uh, on how to, you know, get a, get around those
00:21:15.120emotional attachments. Well, did it ever occur to you perhaps that, uh, those natural, that those
00:21:22.880emotional attachments are natural, um, because we're human beings, we're not animals. And you know,
00:21:32.340maybe if you discover that you can't help, but feel some sort of emotional attachment to the people
00:21:39.480that you have sexual relationships with, maybe that would, maybe that should tell you something
00:21:43.440about the nature of a sexual act that, you know, it's, it's not just like shaking somebody's hand.
00:21:49.180It's not just like playing video games with somebody, right? It's more than a recreational
00:21:54.080activity because you could shake someone's hand and feel no, no emotional attachment. You can play
00:21:58.600video games with them. Uh, right. You can sit and you can watch a movie with them and you can do all
00:22:03.060those things and feel no emotional attachment. But with the sexual act, maybe there's something about
00:22:07.940it that's different than that. Maybe it is a naturally, um, intimate and serious personal
00:22:14.460thing. And so maybe that should tell you that the context, um, you know, there is an appropriate
00:22:23.960context for the sexual act. And that context is not just finding someone at a bar for one night.
00:22:32.260I think that could be the source of your problem. And I will say only as a follow-up, um, and I don't
00:22:42.240want to, I don't want to, I'm not, I'm not looking to rub this into the faces of people who are still
00:22:45.480single, but when I read stuff like this, I continue to be so happy that I'm married. I am so, I'm so happy
00:22:53.980that I'm not on the dating scene dealing with stuff like this and people like that. Um, it really is so
00:23:01.400much better being married. Uh, and again, if you want to get married and you're trying to, and you
00:23:06.120haven't been able to yet, I'm not, I'm not trying to make you feel bad because it'll happen. You know,
00:23:10.180you, if, if you're looking for marriage and you're serious about it, you're serious about a
00:23:13.940relationship, eventually it will happen. Um, that's the good news. And it is something to look, it's
00:23:20.380just, it's just so much better than this. It's so much more secure, so much happier, uh, you know,
00:23:25.740as a married person, I have to, whatever the hell she's talking about there, I don't have to worry about
00:23:29.580that. All of these things, you don't have to worry about, you don't have to worry about creeps or
00:23:33.300anything like that because you've got somebody, you're in a secure relationship and, um, you know,
00:23:38.880there are challenges in a marriage, but it's, it is, I'm telling you to so, so, so much better than
00:23:44.580that is so much better. Um, I highly recommend, I couldn't recommend it enough. All right. Um, let's go
00:23:52.220check out some emails, uh, mattwalshow at gmail.com, mattwalshow at gmail.com. This is from
00:23:58.720Simon says, Hey Matt, what are your opinions on ghosts? Do you think they exist? Does having
00:24:04.620people's, uh, do, do, do having people's souls stick around on earth after death and often become
00:24:11.400malicious makes sense. Theologically are what people take for ghosts, just demons from a religious
00:24:16.720standpoint. I've been on both sides of the issue throughout my life. What do you think? Well, Simon,
00:24:20.440uh, no, I don't think, I don't believe in ghosts. Um, it doesn't make sense theologically at all
00:24:25.860that you would have people who die and, uh, just hang around on earth. Um, certainly from a biblical
00:24:32.360standpoint, there's, there's, there's no, no precedent for that. Uh, you die and, and, and you're
00:24:38.320going somewhere, somewhere, but you're not going to be wandering around on earth. I do think that
00:24:42.840sometimes you could have demonic activity that's, um, confused for ghostly activity, however. All right.
00:24:49.740This is from, who is this from? Helen says, Hiya, Matt. I've been reading your work since you were
00:24:55.160a humble alpaca groomer. It's okay. Here, thanks. Um, it's, uh, here, here's my question. Would you
00:25:03.460consider aborted babies to be born? I've always thought of them as being born in the technical
00:25:08.020sense because their bodies leave the bodies of their mothers. Obvious. No. However, it seems like
00:25:13.060I hear both pro-life and pro-choice people talking about aborted babies as though they were never born.
00:25:17.700For example, pro-choicers are, uh, often accuse us of being merely pro-birth and pro-lifers often
00:25:23.320lament that these babies are never born, et cetera. Uh, could you please offer some clarification on
00:25:28.660these semantics? I'm curious to hear your thoughts because I believe the language we use in regard to
00:25:32.820this topic is incredibly important, especially when our offspring are so tiny that people seem to
00:25:37.280have no trouble convincing themselves, um, that they do not exist. Well, uh, no, I don't think we can
00:25:43.960say that they're born. Uh, I think born implies that the child is alive. Um, so I don't think born
00:25:53.320is true, but I agree that the language is important and I agree that oftentimes pro-abortion people will
00:26:01.740want to talk about these babies, uh, like they never existed at all. Right. And that's one of the,
00:26:08.740one of the lies that the abortion clinic tells pregnant, pregnant mothers that, well, you could
00:26:13.880just get rid of this pregnancy and, uh, be a, be a mother some other time in the future. Now's not a
00:26:18.980good time to be a mother. You don't have to be a mother. Now, uh, you could be a mother in the future.
00:26:23.260Well, no, um, because a woman who gets an abortion, well, a woman who is pregnant is a mother. The moment
00:26:30.560you become pregnant, you're a mother. So she's a mother. Now there's no, there's no putting that genie
00:26:34.240back in the bottle. And if she gets an abortion, she's not going to go back to being just a, a
00:26:42.300childless woman. She will now be the, the mother of a dead child. So in that sense, you're right. I
00:26:49.440think, um, in, in, in a certain sense, there is a kind of birth that occurs really upon conception
00:26:56.680where upon conception, um, you, you have three lives that are created. You have the, the life of
00:27:05.800the child, but then you have the mother who kind of turns in, transforms now, um, into a, in, in,
00:27:12.820you, you have a, from a woman into a mother. So, um, and then you have the, the man who, who goes from
00:27:19.140being a man to a father. And that's a, that's a very real transformation that happens, uh, upon
00:27:25.660conception in that moment. And if you get an abortion, the, the, the terrible, tragic fact is
00:27:35.000that no, you're, you're not, you, you can't, you're not reversing the clock. You're not undoing
00:27:41.900anything. You're now the, the parents of a dead child. And, um, that of course is not the message
00:27:51.160that they're going to hear from the abortion clinics. All right. This is from James says, hi,
00:27:54.860Matt. Uh, my wife and I have three kids, ages three, two, and three months old. We also have
00:27:59.960a dog. The kids love to go on walks around our neighborhood, but with the newborn, it requires
00:28:03.740one of us to push a stroller and hold a toddler's hand while the other holds the dog's leash with the
00:28:08.200other hand. And this would be very dangerous and nearly impossible without kid leashes. Uh,
00:28:13.440ours are more like handcuffs than leashes though. One padded cuff goes on the patient, the parent,
00:28:18.560the patient, the parent's wrist, the other on the child's separated by three feet of plastic coated,
00:28:23.920coiled steel wire. We don't drag our kids behind us on the leashes. They're more of a backup for when
00:28:29.860they let go of your hand or try to make a run for the street. Uh, I've got some strange looks with
00:28:35.120them, but I think it gives my toddlers a sense of independence and adventure that they wouldn't
00:28:38.800have otherwise if they were strapped into a double stroller. Stroller, love the show. Uh, yeah, you know,
00:28:43.520this is why we talked about child leashes briefly on the show yesterday and I don't use them myself.
00:28:48.160I admit that as a, as a non-parent, I used to be very judgmental of the, of the people who use
00:28:53.400child leashes, but now that I have kids, I understand it. Um, makes sense. It's a practical
00:29:00.460thing. And you're right. I mean, if, if there's nothing wrong with strapping a kid into a stroller
00:29:04.600and carting them around, uh, then what's wrong with, you know, having them tethered that way? I don't,
00:29:10.400I don't really see much of a difference, honestly. Um, let's see. This is from Grayson says,
00:29:17.800I listened to your episode recently on body positivity. And I think that one of the biggest
00:29:21.680things wrong with the movement is that they do not think all bodies should be positive.
00:29:26.420I'm a college kid who's in love with fitness. And I've said that I'm so body positive. I don't let
00:29:31.380myself get unhealthy and overweight. And I got excoriated in a college class for body shaming.
00:29:35.800People need to understand that health is a definite range and the vast majority of people are
00:29:39.920sedentary and fat, uh, harsh, but true probably. However, true body positivity is not accepting
00:29:47.400gluttony and eating themselves to an early grave, but rather taking care of yourself by eating well
00:29:51.280and exercising regularly. On another note, the BMI calculator is a very poor way to judge body
00:29:56.240fatness, uh, in, in athletes, young adults, and the elderly, because muscles are denser than fat.
00:30:02.320And someone like you who has more muscle than average is seen as overweight in the scale. When in
00:30:07.620reality, you're perfectly healthy. I am a six foot male at about 180 pounds. And my BMI is still
00:30:13.200registered as overweight. That's because my body fat percentage is about 11%, which means I carry lots
00:30:17.580of muscle mass with little fat mass there by skewing the scale. Um, well, yeah, and I, of course I agree
00:30:23.800that, that, uh, that it's not body shaming to encourage people to be healthy and to eat healthy.
00:30:30.940Uh, that of course is absurd. I do think it's also true and we need to acknowledge that, um, there are
00:30:38.520different body types and there are some people who just from birth are kind of destined to, to struggle
00:30:47.140more with, with, with, you know, their weight, um, who are going to have a much harder time getting
00:30:53.900into shape. And certainly you're gonna have a much harder time because of their body type of their body
00:30:58.280shape going to have a harder time looking like they're in shape. Um, and I also recognize that
00:31:03.600for me, like I, I've always had a very high metabolism and, uh, and so I can't take credit
00:31:11.260for the fact that I'm not, if I had maybe a normal metabolism, I may very well be obese right now
00:31:17.660because I don't have a very healthy diet and I basically eat whatever I want. And, um, so I can't,
00:31:23.860you know, I have to, I have to recognize that it's a little bit, some of us have advantages in that
00:31:27.140area that are not, that are just biological. And we didn't, we didn't, uh, we didn't do anything to
00:31:32.740earn them. It's just, that's just how it is. Um, and there are also people who, you know, are going
00:31:38.640to struggle all the more because of, of, of maybe they're of injury. And so they're not able to
00:31:43.640exercise as much. And then also women, once they start having babies, um, that is, is going to be an
00:31:49.560extra challenge. And, um, so all of these things, all these things need to be acknowledged and we can't
00:31:56.060expect everyone to be a bodybuilder. I'm not a bodybuilder, right? We can't expect that of
00:31:59.580everyone. Not everyone's supposed to be a bodybuilder or a, or a, you know, a fitness guru
00:32:05.660or a runway model. All of that is true. However, you know, we could acknowledge that without
00:32:14.700concluding that it's perfectly fine and acceptable and beautiful and wonderful to be morbidly obese.
00:32:22.120So as you point out, there is a, there's a, there's a, there's a spectrum, there's a scale
00:32:26.680of what is, you know, considered healthy and normal. And maybe it's a, it's a wider scale than
00:32:33.800people thought for a long time, but definitely morbid obesity is not in, you know, is, is way on
00:32:41.240the unhealthy end of that spectrum. And so we should be able to say that, um, without being accused of
00:32:49.340body shaming. All right. Finally, this is from Heidi says, uh, Hey Matt, I have a scenario for
00:32:54.720you. And it's one that really happened. My sister-in-law's sister is a social worker at a
00:32:58.080high school. She was working with a girl who found out she was pregnant a few months down the road.
00:33:03.600This girl also found out that she had brain cancer. Doctors told her that she needed to undergo chemo
00:33:08.580and radiation to kill the cancerous tumor. But in doing that, it would also kill her baby.
00:33:13.080Her parents were very religious decided not to give their daughter the chemo.
00:33:16.460Their daughter eventually passed away a few months down the road. The baby survived.
00:33:20.880Uh, when I heard this story, I struggled with it. I struggled with it because I'm pro-life,
00:33:24.220but I was trying to put myself in the shoes of those parents. And I can't imagine denying my
00:33:28.680daughter cancer treatment, knowing that if she didn't get it, it would kill her. Uh, I should
00:33:33.140note that at the time when the daughter would have had to start the treatment, she was too early in her
00:33:36.740pregnancy to deliver. I'd love to hear your thoughts on this. Well, that's a, just a terrible
00:33:42.480case across the board. Um, but as I've really terrible case. Um, but as I've said before,
00:33:52.780you know, these are the sorts of cases that pro-abortion people will often use to prove
00:34:00.560supposedly that sometimes abortion is medically necessary, but that is not the case. Uh, these
00:34:06.480sorts of cases, as horrible as they are, are irrelevant to the abortion discussion. Because
00:34:13.100if a woman, uh, is pregnant and finds out that she has an aggressive form of cancer and needs to get
00:34:19.800chemo, uh, it would not be abortion for her to get the, get the chemotherapy. Even if it's known that
00:34:27.520the baby's probably going to die, that is not abortion. Abortion is the direct, intentional,
00:34:32.920purposeful killing of the unborn child where you take an action for the sake of killing the child.
00:34:40.860That's abortion. Now doing something to save the mother that you know, will, will probably have
00:34:47.700the effect, unfortunately, tragically of killing the baby. That is not abortion. That's the principle
00:34:53.060of double effect. And it's a, it could be a perfectly ethical thing to do. Um, where you are doing
00:34:59.260something, you're doing a good thing with good intentions, even though it may have also a, a very
00:35:06.680terrible negative side effect. And again, that, that can be a perfectly ethical action. So it is
00:35:13.360not the case that pro-lifers say, at least I certainly wouldn't say that a woman who has, finds
00:35:19.720out she has cancer while she's pregnant is, is required to just die of cancer and not get it treated.
00:35:24.520I don't think that at all. And, um, you know, it's, it's impossible to know what you would do
00:35:31.480in these situations until you're in them. But I can tell you personally, if that was my wife,
00:35:37.220um, I would be urging her strongly to get the chemo. And if that was my child, that was my daughter,
00:35:44.840uh, you better believe she's getting the chemo. Um, does that mean that I'm not pro-life? Does that
00:35:50.840mean that I'm denying the, the, the personhood of the child? No, not at all. This is just a, a very,
00:35:57.480this really is just a difficult choice that you have to make in order to save somebody's life.
00:36:03.320And it does not involve denying the personhood of the child at all. It's a, it's a tragedy more in
00:36:08.360the fact that the child may not survive the treatment. So the way that people talk about
00:36:13.480abortion, they say, Oh, it's a difficult choice you have to make. Usually. No, it's not. This is,
00:36:17.020this is with abortion. You're directly killing an innocent child. And, uh, no, that's not just,
00:36:21.500that's not a difficult choice. That's just the wrong choice. This kind of situation that you're
00:36:25.600talking about here, this really is a difficult choice where abortion has nothing to do with.
00:36:30.040It doesn't factor in. Uh, so, you know, this is kind of similar to, um, these hypotheticals that
00:36:37.520I've talked about before, uh, that, you know, somebody will say, well, uh, what if you're in a
00:36:42.260building and it's on fire and, uh, there's a, there's a two-year-old child there and, but then
00:36:48.100there's also a bunch of frozen embryos and you can only save one. I mean, who are you going to save?
00:36:53.480Are you going to save the, the, the embryos or are you going to save the child? And of course,
00:36:58.400everybody would, would, would save the two-year-old child, right? Um, and so that's supposed to prove
00:37:03.680that we don't really consider those embryos to be human, but not, that's not the case at all.
00:37:07.960You're just in a situation where you have to make that kind of horrible choice. It's like if,
00:37:13.380if it was my wife, uh, in the, in the burning building and some other woman who I, who's,
00:37:19.040who's not my wife, I would save my wife in a heartbeat. Does that mean I'm denying the personhood
00:37:24.080of the other woman? Does that know? Does that mean that I want her to die? No. Does that mean I'm
00:37:27.440killing the other woman? No. It just means that I'm in a situation where I can only save one. And so I
00:37:32.700have to make that choice. And the fact that the other one dies is not my fault. I didn't
00:37:37.880kill them. It's not me. I didn't do it. It's, it's, it's not murder, right? That's what abortion
00:37:41.480is murder. So we could go all day with these kinds of hypotheticals. You got, you have, you have two
00:37:45.000people hanging off a cliff. You've got your child and someone else's job. You can only save one. Who
00:37:50.080are you going to say? Well, you're going to save your child, right? Um, so those are the hypotheticals.
00:37:56.640This is a more real world situation. And look, I can't judge. I don't know the situation. Um,
00:38:02.920I don't know the particulars of it. So I'm not going to make any judgments or anything like that.
00:38:06.780I'm just saying, based on what you've told me, um, if it were me, uh, my, my daughter's getting
00:38:12.500the chemo for sure there. And, uh, I wouldn't have to compromise my pro-life beliefs at all in,
00:38:21.100uh, in, in making that choice. All right. We'll leave it there. Um, thanks for watching everybody.