The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 254 - Democratic Representative Harasses Pro-Lifers, Provokes Massive Pro-Life Rally

00:00:00.000 Today on the show, a Democratic state representative in Pennsylvania has been

00:00:04.120 harassing and intimidating pro-life protesters outside of Planned Parenthood in Philadelphia.

00:00:08.900 So now, in response to that, hundreds of us are about to show up to that Planned Parenthood

00:00:14.420 to teach this guy a lesson about bullying. I'll have info on the event. Pretty exciting stuff.

00:00:18.940 Also, Cory Booker is calling now for gun confiscation, but I thought Democrats

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00:02:35.740 the show with good news for a change. Well, first, I guess I have to back up and set it up

00:02:43.320 with the bad part. So I already lied. We'll start with the bad part and then we'll transition to the

00:02:48.940 good part. You may remember yesterday on the show, we discussed this guy, Brian Sims, who is a

00:02:55.740 Democratic state representative in Pennsylvania. He is far, far left, identifies himself in his Twitter

00:03:02.260 bio as an LGBTQ activist and also a RuPaul's drag race fanatic, as well as a Little Mermaid

00:03:09.480 enthusiast, which is totally normal for a grown man, right? To be a Little Mermaid enthusiast.

00:03:16.420 Well, Brian, normal Brian, hates pro-lifers. I mean, he really, really hates them. And he enjoys, 0.67

00:03:22.460 therefore, hanging out outside of his local Planned Parenthood there in Philadelphia and harassing

00:03:28.040 peaceful pro-lifers, especially old ladies and children who are, by the way, his constituents.

00:03:34.200 These are the people that he's supposed to be representing. But instead of representing them,

00:03:37.560 he bullies them, you know, not exactly the same thing. So just to refresh your memory, here's the

00:03:43.440 clip I played yesterday on the show. This is him harassing and bullying an elderly woman. And keep 0.94

00:03:49.020 in mind that this video goes on for eight minutes. I'm going to play just a piece of it, but this is

00:03:52.960 eight minutes of this. Watch this. Hi, everyone. Representative Brian Sims here. And I'm once again

00:03:58.780 out in front of Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania. It's not only in my district. It's

00:04:05.180 the most heavily protested Planned Parenthood, I believe, in the country. And today's protester,

00:04:11.160 now, she is an old white lady who's going to try to avoid showing you her face. But the same laws, 1.00

00:04:17.820 luckily, that protect her from being out here also protect me from showing you who she is.

00:04:22.580 And so my hope is, is that you'll donate $100 for every extra hour that this woman is out here

00:04:28.640 telling people what's right for their bodies. So I have a couple questions for you, ma'am. How many

00:04:33.120 children have you clothed today? I'm sorry, I missed your answer. How many children have you

00:04:38.660 clothed today? How about how many children have you put shoes on their feet today? Have you fed any

00:04:45.200 children today? Or have you just stood out in front of a Planned Parenthood shaming people for

00:04:49.320 something that they have a constitutional right to do? Huh? Huh? If you're here about the children,

00:04:54.740 you can pray at home for children. It's probably the same place that you could feed a child. But

00:04:59.340 you're not. Instead, you're out here shaming people for something that they have a constitutional right

00:05:03.640 to do. Who would have thought that an old white lady would be out in front of a Planned Parenthood 1.00

00:05:07.560 telling people what's right for their bodies? Shame on you. Shame on you for hiding your face at the 0.99

00:05:13.280 same time that you're shaming other people. Again, the same laws that protect me protect you. And

00:05:18.660 that's okay. You're allowed to be out here. That doesn't mean that you have a moral right to be out

00:05:23.660 here. Shame on you. What you're doing here is disgusting. This is wrong. You have no business

00:05:28.840 being out here. Hi, everybody. Thank you for being here. Yep. Disgusting. But Brian, he's not a coward

00:05:38.740 who just focuses on the elderly. No, he's a coward who likes to target children also. So 0.99

00:05:45.560 watch this. Hi, everyone. Representative Brian Sims here. And I am outside the Planned Parenthood

00:05:52.480 at southeastern Pennsylvania. Oh, no, they're leaving now. What we've got here is a bunch of

00:05:58.600 protesters, a bunch of pseudo-Christian protesters who've been out here shaming young girls for being

00:06:03.420 here. And so here's the deal. I've got a hundred dollars to anybody who will identify any of these

00:06:07.240 three. So I'm going to donate to Planned Parenthood. I'm going to donate to Planned Parenthood. So

00:06:11.240 look, a bunch of white people standing up in front of a Planned Parenthood shaming people. There's 0.63

00:06:16.220 nothing Christian about what you're doing. Nothing Christian at all about what you're doing. Hi,

00:06:21.080 nothing Christian or loving or godly about what you're doing. So I've got a hundred dollars to 1.00

00:06:25.280 anybody who will identify this. A hundred dollars. See if you got some friends out here. A hundred

00:06:29.920 bucks. It'd be easier if you just give me your name and your address. Rich, Rich, where are you from?

00:06:37.420 Rich, what makes you think that it's your job to tell women what's right for their bodies? And the

00:06:41.420 truth is, I'm not really asking because I don't care. Shame on you. Guys, Planned Parenthood out here

00:06:47.240 faces attacks daily from people like this, from pseudo-Christians saying that they are here to

00:06:54.160 somehow protect their own version of Christianity. So do me a favor. If you've watched this,

00:07:00.320 please consider giving a hundred dollars to Planned Parenthood. I'm going to do the same.

00:07:04.280 There he's, he's not only harassing and bullying those kids, but he's also trying to dox them.

00:07:10.560 He's trying to basically put a bounty out to get their addresses. Now, why does this man want these

00:07:18.980 kids' addresses? I don't know. I mean, we can only speculate. It's a, it's a, it's a very, um, along

00:07:24.980 with being bullying and despicable, it's a very strange thing. Here's the thing though. I talked

00:07:31.940 about this on the show yesterday and I was heated. I was angry. I still am. When I see peaceful pro-lifers

00:07:38.900 treated that way, it, it, it just, it pisses me off, frankly. And when the peaceful pro-lifers happen

00:07:45.520 to be kids or elderly women who are being targeted, well, that's going to really send me through the

00:07:51.520 roof, but I don't want to be just angry and complain. Uh, nothing wrong with complaining.

00:07:58.300 I do it all the time. It's one of my favorite pastimes. Um, it's, it's, it's what I do for a

00:08:02.180 living, but I don't, I want to do more than that. I don't want to just complain. So yesterday I, you

00:08:07.520 know, I had the thought, I put it out there on Twitter. I said, let's get a huge rally together.

00:08:11.880 Um, and, and actually show up physically to this place, this, this Planned Parenthood in Philly

00:08:17.900 and, um, to this place where, you know, where these people are being harassed and show some,

00:08:23.980 some solidarity with those who are being bullied. And also most importantly, to stand for the babies

00:08:30.060 and also to show Brian Sims that we aren't going to sit back and let you treat elderly women

00:08:36.960 and, and kids that way. Let's give Brian a chance to man up and try pulling those stunts when there's

00:08:45.220 a whole bunch of us out there, including other grown men. That was a suggestion that I made on

00:08:50.360 Twitter and within hours, uh, it, it, it came together. It came into fruition. Now it's, it's

00:08:55.300 really going to happen. Uh, I spoke with Lila Rose over at live action. I talked to Abby Johnson. Um,

00:09:01.620 I heard from a bunch of other pro-life groups, heard from other conservatives in the movement,

00:09:05.580 uh, like Graham Allen. He's, he's, he's, uh, going to be there. So it's, it's happening 11 AM on Friday

00:09:12.440 at the Planned Parenthood in Philadelphia, where these pro-lifers have been harassed. That's 1144

00:09:17.560 Locust street, 1144 Locust street in Philadelphia. Um, I'm going to be there, you know, I, so let's,

00:09:25.980 let's do it. It's, uh, I'm hoping for a big crowd. I'm expecting one. This, this thing has blown up,

00:09:31.500 just in the last few hours. Like I said, it was late last night that I had this thought,

00:09:35.240 put it out there and it's already, uh, you know, people are buying plane tickets to show up to this

00:09:39.960 thing. So if you can come out, I know it's a work day and, uh, and if you can't get off work,

00:09:46.540 then you can't, but it is something worth taking off time for. If you can, if it's possible,

00:09:51.200 then I would ask you to come out, come out and stand for life for the babies and stand against

00:09:57.140 bullying because pro-lifers are treated this way far too often. This is very common.

00:10:02.520 Uh, this happens all the time. I mean, I, I play videos like this on the show a lot. You've seen

00:10:07.580 this kind of stuff on the show and other and elsewhere online, because this is common. 0.98

00:10:13.680 Uh, don't think for a minute that Brian Sims is the only jerk in America who likes to harass 0.97

00:10:19.120 a peaceful, elderly pro-life protesters. I know it's this, especially, you know, that the woman in the 0.99

00:10:25.820 video who, who, by the way, is just courageous and filled with grace and patience far more than,

00:10:31.580 than I have, um, far more of all three of those things, grace, patience, and courage than I have.

00:10:38.240 But I think I'm guessing one of the reasons why she was able to respond so calmly to those

00:10:45.500 provocations is that, you know, she's an older woman in, in the pro-life movement. Uh, she's probably

00:10:52.140 been doing this a long time. And if she has, that is certainly not the first time she's been treated

00:10:57.260 that way. Uh, I, I am guessing that she's been treated that way many times as any pro-lifer who's

00:11:05.180 been in it for a long time has been. So this is not about when we all go there, um, on Friday,

00:11:12.100 this is not just about Brian Sims. This is about making a statement, but all the, you know, against

00:11:19.760 all of the abuse that's heaped and not just on pro-lifers either, but on, but on people who are

00:11:25.000 exercising their first amendment rights and who suffer abuse and, and ridicule and intimidation

00:11:30.620 because of it. So this is a, this is a, this is a pro first amendment thing. And it's also pro-life.

00:11:39.140 It's both of those things. And, um, I think it's going to be great. I'm just, I'm, I'm thrilled that

00:11:44.940 this, this came together the way that it did. And I think we should do this more often, right?

00:11:50.080 When we see something like this and we're all talking about it online and it's going viral and

00:11:55.040 we're, we're all upset about something. Well, let's do something. Let's actually go places and do

00:12:00.800 things and show up and not just be online. So again, that's a Friday, 11 AM, uh, 1144 Locust Street,

00:12:10.520 the Planned Parenthood in Philadelphia. I hope to see you there. All right. Cory Booker is drowning

00:12:16.620 in the polls and, um, trying to save himself now by out-liberaling his opponents. And he just

00:12:25.080 unveiled a, a massive anti-Second Amendment plan, which I will, uh, allow an article in the New York

00:12:32.460 Times to describe. Hold on a second. Um, so this is what the New York Times says about Booker's plan.

00:12:39.240 It says, aspects of Mr. Booker's 14 part plan are among the most progressive gun control measures

00:12:43.640 suggested by candidates seeking a democratic nomination for president and are likely to

00:12:47.380 face sharp criticism from gun rights advocates like the National Rifle Association. Um, Mr.

00:12:52.320 Booker said in a statement, my plan to address gun violence is simple. We will make it harder for 0.71

00:12:56.060 people who should not have a gun to get one. I am sick and tired of having, of hearing thoughts and

00:13:00.160 prayers for the communities that have been shattered by gun violence. Um, I don't know why you have to

00:13:04.280 make a false choice there between thoughts and prayers and this, but, uh, the most notable piece

00:13:10.580 of Mr. Booker's plan is the proposed gun licensing program, which would enact minimum standards for

00:13:15.800 gun ownership nationwide. Under such a program, a person seeking to buy a gun would need to apply

00:13:21.600 for a license in much the same way that one applies for a passport. Mr. Booker's campaign said

00:13:26.000 the process would involve submitting fingerprints and sitting for an interview and would require

00:13:30.480 applicants to complete a certified gun safety course. Uh, each applicant would also undergo

00:13:35.680 a federal background check before being issued a gun license, which would be valid for up to five

00:13:40.100 years. So you have to go and do this every five years where you're, you're interviewed, you get

00:13:43.440 fingerprints. Um, well, I assume the fingerprints, they would only do the one time. Uh, you, you take

00:13:49.380 a gun safety course. I don't know if you have to do that every five years. Um, other parts of the plan

00:13:55.600 would include banning bump stocks, which enables semi-automatic weapons to fire faster, limiting

00:14:00.340 bulk purchases of firearms, closing loopholes that allow domestic abusers and people on terror watch

00:14:04.980 lists to obtain guns. And, um, the plan calls for the IRS to investigate the NRA's tax exempt status.

00:14:10.940 So we're, we're lumping that into, this is just a goodie bag of, uh, a grab bag of far left

00:14:19.800 initiatives. Booker also said, if you need a license to drive a car, you should need a license to own a

00:14:26.040 gun. And that's kind of how he summarizes his plan here. Now the plan also involves gun confiscation,

00:14:32.920 which is something that Democrats always say they aren't interested in doing. But before we get to

00:14:41.060 that part of it, as for this idea of, um, everyone having to get a federal license to own a gun, there,

00:14:49.780 there are two things. Number one, if you need a license to drive a car, you should need one to own a

00:14:55.780 gun. That is a total non sequitur. Okay. That's the kind of thing that makes sense to you. If you're

00:15:02.580 not really thinking about it, it's similar to the, um, no fly, no buy idea, which it sounds like

00:15:09.000 is included in Booker's plan where, well, if, if you're not allowed to fly on a plane, then you

00:15:15.520 shouldn't be allowed to own a gun as if those two things are somehow connected, which they aren't.

00:15:20.840 Um, just because you need a license for one thing doesn't mean you should need a license for some

00:15:29.920 other random thing that you can point out. Why? Well, for one, gun ownership is a constitutional

00:15:36.460 right. Driving a car is not. And that's why the government can be much more restrictive with

00:15:42.480 the latter because it's not a right. It's not a fundamental constitutional right. Whereas, um,

00:15:47.060 owning a gun is also most vehicle owners drive their cars every day. Uh, they put hundreds of

00:15:54.800 thousands of miles on a car. Then they traded in, they, and they buy a new one and they put hundreds

00:15:59.220 of thousands of miles on that car. The average American drives over 13,000 miles a year. So if

00:16:04.340 you add up, um, if you figure they start driving when they're 16, 17, and, uh, and if you look at all

00:16:10.900 their driving, that's probably like 700 or 800,000 miles in a lifetime that they drive. Meanwhile,

00:16:16.560 the average gun owner, um, never uses or rarely uses the gun at all. That's the average gun owner.

00:16:24.900 The average gun owner has the gun in a safe or in a closet or something. And they rarely,

00:16:30.940 if ever, ever pull it out. It's not an everyday item for most people. Now it is an everyday item for

00:16:40.300 some people. And as for the gun owners who, who use the thing much more often and who, um,

00:16:47.960 you know, they, who have a lot of guns and they, they go target shooting or they hunt or whatever.

00:16:53.360 Well, the issue becomes self-regulating for them because they, those people are already,

00:17:00.280 they, they learn about guns. They become experts. They do that on their own. So find me any random

00:17:06.760 person on the street who owns 20 guns and uses them regularly. And I guarantee that person is

00:17:13.240 very knowledgeable and very adept at using firearms safely. There is this, obviously the impression of

00:17:22.540 the gun owner that Democrats want you to have is that these are people who are unhinged and dangerous

00:17:28.160 and so on, but that's just not the case. Uh, I know a lot of people, I'm a gun owner myself,

00:17:33.900 uh, but I know a lot of people who are, who are, you know, gun enthusiasts and they have a lot of

00:17:37.740 guns. Um, and every single one of them, it's, they're extremely knowledgeable. They are, they not

00:17:45.040 only know how to use a gun safely, but they're obsessive about using a gun safely. And if they,

00:17:52.120 if they see a picture online of someone, you know, holding the gun in, you know, improperly or doing

00:17:57.080 something on sale, they're going to freak out. So it's not just that they use guns safely. They are,

00:18:02.540 they are just extremely, um, uh, you know, obsessive about it. And that's the, that's,

00:18:11.300 and that's how it is. So this is a self-regulating thing. This idea that you need a, a, a driver's

00:18:16.180 license type of license, it just becomes redundant. The whole point here is that the point of a driver's

00:18:22.400 license is not to make it so that the government can keep track of you. At least that's not the

00:18:30.140 stated point of the driver's license. Now that might really be the point at the end of the day,

00:18:34.760 but ostensibly the point is that, uh, you need to learn how to drive safely before you actually get

00:18:42.500 behind the wheel so that you don't kill someone. Well, as I said, that's not an issue with guns.

00:18:48.960 Most people never use them anyway. And those who do already know how to use them safely.

00:18:54.360 And it's not an issue. As for those people who use them regularly and aren't interested in safety,

00:19:03.360 let's say like gang members. I mean, think about the kinds of people who might own a lot of guns,

00:19:09.640 use them a lot, yet they don't care about safety and, uh, they are, they use the guns in dangerous

00:19:16.760 ways. Well, that is a category of people exclusively populated by criminals and gang members and drug

00:19:23.500 dealers. Like that's, that's what you're talking about there. And those people, they're not going

00:19:27.800 to bother getting a license. You can pass all the licensing laws you want, but they don't care

00:19:33.000 that everything they do with their life is illegal. They're committing crimes all the time. They don't

00:19:38.540 care about that. And in fact, if you're someone who, you know, you're going to use your gun to commit

00:19:45.580 crimes, uh, because you're a gangbanger, let's say you're not going to go and get a license for it.

00:19:51.780 Any more, any more than you would, uh, you know, call up the police and ask them if it's okay,

00:19:59.160 if you go shoot up the, the, you know, do a drive-by shooting, like you're not going to do

00:20:03.200 that. You, you know, that it's illegal and you're doing it anyway. So then you have the only people

00:20:10.540 who are going to obey a licensing law are precisely the people who don't, who we don't need to have 0.97

00:20:16.700 licensed because for them, it's redundant. They're already safe gun owners. And the second

00:20:24.440 point, which is related to this is how exactly, I mean, walk me through the steps here. So step one

00:20:32.380 is federal licensing law. Everyone has to get licensed if you own a gun. And then there's like

00:20:39.320 some sort of in-between step. And then the third step is fewer mass shootings. Well, what is the,

00:20:46.760 what happens in between? I understand your idea here is, you know, you do this and then that's

00:20:52.020 the result, but, but I don't see how you, how you bridge that gap because it seems to me, as I said,

00:20:59.400 the people who know that they want to use guns to commit crimes are not going to bother getting

00:21:03.380 licensed. So that's out. And, uh, anyone who is a, you know, a responsible and safe gun owner,

00:21:12.500 and then let's say they go crazy one day and they decide they want to go shoot up a, uh, you know,

00:21:17.940 a shopping mall or something. Well, the license isn't going to stop them from doing that

00:21:22.340 because the point is at the time when they went to get the license, they didn't have that in mind.

00:21:28.120 They were responsible, uh, you know, law abiding citizens. So there would be no basis upon which

00:21:34.820 to, to, to, to, to, to not give them the license. What's going to stop them after they get the

00:21:42.800 license? What, what about that license would prevent them from having a psychotic breakdown

00:21:49.800 and then going and killing people? That's what I don't see. That's just completely pointless. Uh,

00:21:58.860 but the other aspect of Cory Booker's plan, as I mentioned, is gun confiscation,

00:22:02.940 which the Democrats have always told us they're not interested in that. And they still, even though

00:22:09.860 you have now a Democrat, a presidential candidate proposing gun confiscation, he still won't admit

00:22:15.640 that's what he's doing, even though it's clear that's what he's doing. Watch this.

00:22:18.780 Before you go, just one final question on your gun proposal, since you've just released it this

00:22:23.100 morning. Um, your, your fellow, your competitor, uh, in the 2020 race, uh, Congressman Eric Swalwell

00:22:28.800 has also, like you proposed in a assault weapons ban, but he's proposing a buyback program where

00:22:34.940 Americans who currently have those guns, uh, could sell them essentially to the government. But if

00:22:40.000 they don't within a certain period of time, they would be prosecuted. So subject to be thrown in

00:22:44.580 jail, perhaps. Are you supportive of the same measure? Well, first of all,

00:22:48.240 when I was mayor of the city of Newark, again, I have a record on dealing with gun violence.

00:22:52.560 We, we did a lot of, uh, gun buybacks and even other creative ideas that I think, uh, we should

00:22:57.800 have, uh, uh, when I'm president of the United States. The critical thing is, I think most Americans,

00:23:02.820 uh, agree that these weapons of war, uh, should not be on our streets. But again,

00:23:08.880 would you, would you prosecute people? Do you support the government buying them back? And if not,

00:23:12.980 potentially people could go to jail if they don't want to sell them back? Yes or no?

00:23:16.380 Again, we should have a law that bans these weapons and we should have a reasonable period

00:23:22.020 in which people can turn in these weapons. Uh, right now we have a nation that allows in streets

00:23:28.440 and communities like mine, these weapons that should not exist. Okay. So he, he, he doesn't,

00:23:34.680 he doesn't want the soundbite of him actually saying, yes, we're going to prosecute people

00:23:40.640 who don't voluntarily turn in their guns, but that's what it is. Voluntarily turn in your guns

00:23:46.580 in a buyback program. And, uh, but if you don't voluntarily do it, then we'll put you in prison.

00:23:52.220 That's obviously the implication here because this is a mandatory thing. You have to turn in your

00:23:57.260 assault, your quote unquote assault. I'm using the hand quotes way too much here. Um,

00:24:01.380 you have to turn in your quote unquote assault weapons and, uh, which, you know, we need to

00:24:06.760 figure out what the hell that even is. What, what is an assault weapon? Uh, no one knows what that

00:24:11.820 word even means, what that phrase it means. It doesn't really mean anything, but, um, turn those

00:24:15.780 in and you have a, a grace period upon, you know, in which you can, you can do that. And, but if you

00:24:23.740 don't do it, then there's obviously going to be some kind of penalty. So this is forced gun

00:24:30.320 confiscation being proposed by Cory Booker. Uh, and there's just, there's just no way around that

00:24:37.560 conclusion. It's very clear. All right. Um, finally, before we get to emails,

00:24:44.320 I've got to talk to you about something. Yeah, I've, this is really important that we need to

00:24:50.760 talk about. We need to spend a couple of minutes on this. Yesterday I was, I was out

00:24:55.860 and it was, it was lunchtime and I was thinking, you know, I'm, I'm hungry. I got to get something

00:25:03.340 to eat. So I was thinking I, maybe I'd go to McDonald's or Taco Bell or Arby's, which are all

00:25:10.460 wonderful places, beautiful places that have, uh, just great high quality food. But I thought,

00:25:18.000 you know what? Uh, I want to eat healthy. I'm going to be healthy. Yeah. That's what I'm going to do.

00:25:22.840 I'm going to be healthy for a change and I'm going to really make a healthy choice.

00:25:26.980 And mainly I was thinking that way because I had just come from getting fitted for a tuxedo for my

00:25:30.940 friend's wedding. And, uh, and in the process of getting fitted for the tuxedo, of course,

00:25:35.340 they have to take your waist measurement. And my waist measurement was, let's say a bit more

00:25:40.720 generous than I would have preferred. And also I was shamed because as you know, I'm in the,

00:25:48.660 this kind of busy tuxedo place and the guy's taking the measurements. And for some reason,

00:25:53.880 like he's just taking the measurements so that he can write them down on a piece of paper.

00:25:58.020 But for some reason he announces the measurements out loud, like loud, he practically screams them

00:26:02.360 into a bullhorn. He does the waist measurement and says, Oh, the waist is, and he shouts it to

00:26:06.400 everybody around him for some reason. So I was feeling shamed, depressed, um, obese. And, uh,

00:26:13.620 and so I said, I'll do something healthy. And there was this vegan health food smoothie place,

00:26:18.800 like one of those smoothie and juice places, trendy little places nearby, the type of place that puts

00:26:23.720 kale and carrots into their smoothies. Um, the type of place that makes, that makes the kind of food

00:26:29.620 that zookeepers would give to like baby pandas. And so I said, I'm going to go in there. I went in

00:26:35.320 and I got a smoothie and this is what the smoothie looked like. Look at this. Um, that that's not,

00:26:43.960 I, it's not a joke. I didn't, this, that it was, it's not camera tricks. That's really what they

00:26:48.720 served me. Okay. It looks like, it looks like the jolly green giant went on a tequila bender and

00:26:55.420 then was hung over and puked into a cup. That's, that's what that looks like. It looks like,

00:26:59.600 it looks like regurgitation and it tasted like despair. It was, I, I, when I tasted it, I felt this

00:27:07.800 sudden, uh, sensation of total misery. Like I can't even describe it. I was already depressed

00:27:17.740 about the waistline thing. And then I tasted this thing and I, I, I could barely, I almost cried.

00:27:23.800 I almost wept. That's how bad it was. But this is what vegans eat. And this is why vegans are

00:27:30.380 dangerous people. They are vegans are, are, are essentially drinking the contents of a rabbit's 0.84

00:27:37.600 intestines. And this is what they live. These people are sick. They're psychos. This is, this is,

00:27:45.540 this is a really disturbing. And if this is what eating healthy means, then I have no interest. I,

00:27:50.720 I retire from healthy eating. I, I, I experimented with healthy eating for one meal in my 32 years of

00:27:56.820 life and I'm done with it. Now, in fairness, that smoothie, the name of that smoothie on the menu was

00:28:01.620 called, um, immunization station, immunization, immunization station was the name of the, of the

00:28:08.400 item on the menu. Um, there was a slightly better looking smoothie that at least didn't have carrots in

00:28:15.300 it. But the name of that smoothie on the menu was, um, fab and fruity fab and fruity was the name of

00:28:22.800 the thing. And there, and I, and I wanted that smoothie, but there was just no way I was going to

00:28:28.160 order something that required me to say, yes, I'll have the fab and fruity, please. Thank you.

00:28:32.340 Um, I just, I couldn't do that. I couldn't. And, and I, I run into that a lot at places where the,

00:28:38.820 the, the, the menu item I want has a really embarrassing and humiliating name and I can't

00:28:44.360 bring myself to say it. So I take something I don't want. And so I went with this and it killed

00:28:48.800 me. It really, I died. I died and I came back to life and I wished I was still dead. That's how bad it

00:28:54.800 was. And so I threw them this monstrosity away and I went to Arby's because if this is what it takes to

00:29:00.940 live to 90, then I'll take the French fries and the early exit. Thank you very much. Um, and I will

00:29:07.680 enjoy my abbreviated life, which will be filled with grease and fries and hamburgers, like an American, 0.96

00:29:14.800 like a human, not a vegan. All right. Um, let's get to some emails, mattwalshowatgmail.com,

00:29:22.240 mattwalshowatgmail.com. This is from, um, Caitlin says, greetings, a wise and bearded Supreme

00:29:28.160 leader leader of the multiverse, uh, of the, Oh yeah, the, I'm the leader of the, not just the

00:29:33.380 universe, the multiverse. Very good. Good point. Thank you for the insights and advice that you

00:29:38.180 share in your podcast. It's often one of the highlights of my day. I wanted to ask you if

00:29:41.300 you get nervous or ever, or ever got nervous before doing a podcast or a speaking event.

00:29:46.800 I used to be a very confident public speaker. However, I have recently started to feel nervousness

00:29:50.880 at the beginning of my speeches and presentations. I settled back down after a few minutes, but I do not

00:29:55.240 know how to handle myself. When my voice shakes, it gets quiet. What do you do if, when you get

00:29:59.720 nervous? And I generally don't get nervous, um, before I definitely don't get nervous before something

00:30:04.860 like a podcast, which is just me talking to myself. Basically I, most of the time I even forget that

00:30:09.580 anyone else is going to listen to this. Um, it's for speeches. No, I don't get nervous before speech.

00:30:15.420 The only thing I get nervous about before a speech is the turnout. I want to, I, I want there to be a

00:30:21.640 good turnout. If there's a good turnout, then I'm not, then I'm good to go. I'm not going to be

00:30:25.720 nervous. Um, I'm a lot more uncomfortable making small talk individually with people than giving

00:30:31.680 speeches. I would rather give a speech to a thousand people than make small talk with one

00:30:35.960 person. That's, that's just how I'm wired. Um, and by the way, most people speak publicly. Most public

00:30:42.560 speakers are, are that way. Um, as for ways to cure nervousness, well, don't imagine the audience

00:30:49.540 naked. I don't know where that nugget of wisdom came from. You know, people say, imagine the

00:30:55.660 audience naked. It'll cure stage fright. Uh, it, it, that definitely does not. It's, it's just,

00:31:00.120 it'll, it'll, it's disturbing and it's confusing. Uh, and so I would not try that tactic. What I would

00:31:06.740 say for any kind of social anxiety is this, keep in mind, uh, how little everyone actually cares about

00:31:16.700 you and, and your performance. I don't mean that as a, as an insult. It's the same for me. It's the

00:31:22.480 same for everybody. Um, it may sound discouraging, but it really isn't. It's actually liberating

00:31:27.620 because when you're sitting there and you're going, Oh no, are people are, are people judging

00:31:31.920 me? Are they enjoying what I'm saying? Are they, are, what are they thinking about me? Well, just realize

00:31:37.460 that they're probably not thinking about you at all. Um, and even if you're up there giving a speech

00:31:43.480 and you bomb and you can just give a terrible speech, the worst speech anyone has ever heard, 0.59

00:31:49.360 uh, within five minutes of that speech ending, everyone will have already moved on with their

00:31:55.300 life and they won't be thinking about it. And they probably will never think about it again

00:31:59.480 within five minutes. They're, they're back to thinking about, Oh, I, what are we going to get

00:32:03.480 to eat? Oh, I got to, you know, we're having car problems. I got to take this car to the shop.

00:32:07.640 Uh, you know, whatever. I mean, just they're thinking about a million other things in their own

00:32:12.960 life. They're not thinking about your speech. I've had a few speeches that didn't go over well.

00:32:19.320 Um, and well, I've had, I've had many speeches that didn't go over well, but, but in many cases,

00:32:25.940 the speech didn't go over well, but I still feel like it was a great speech. And so I don't care

00:32:29.780 about that. I have had speeches that didn't go over well. And when I look back, I think, well,

00:32:35.260 that wasn't a great speech. I wish I had written it differently or I'd wish I had made this or that

00:32:39.060 change. And sometimes I think back on them and I, and I think, man, I wish I had, you know,

00:32:43.480 I started thinking about changes I wish I had made, but then I realized that literally no one

00:32:48.780 else in the universe is thinking about that speech or the mistakes that I made. No one else.

00:32:53.900 I am the only part of all the beings in the universe. I am the only one who is thinking about

00:33:01.280 that. No one, everyone else has moved. Most people never knew about it. And the few that did

00:33:06.060 have moved on long ago and they don't even remember it. Um, so relax is what I'm saying.

00:33:14.200 It doesn't, it doesn't really matter that much. Uh, you know, and, and with a speech, here's the

00:33:19.680 thing. Uh, most speeches that people give are just unremarkable and kind of boring. That's the vast

00:33:27.420 majority of speeches that have been delivered in the history of speech giving have been unremarkable

00:33:32.120 and boring. And, you know, it's just what speeches are most of the time. And so people just forget

00:33:37.780 about them and then that's all, it doesn't matter. It's not humiliating for you. It's just, you know,

00:33:42.060 it's just most people think, Oh, okay. It was a speech. You gave a speech, whatever, you know,

00:33:45.600 kind of boring, but fine. Um, if, if you really, the only time you can really make an impression on

00:33:54.340 someone so that they'll remember it is if you deliver a great speech. Now you could make an

00:33:58.840 impression by delivering a great speech. And so if you do that, great, but bombing, when you're

00:34:05.100 giving a speech, mostly just means it was kind of boring and unremarkable and people are going to

00:34:09.560 forget about that. So I guess what I'm saying is you're kind of playing with house money. You got

00:34:12.740 nothing to lose. Either, either you'll, you won't give a good speech and people will forget about it.

00:34:16.940 Fine, whatever. Or you give a great speech and people remember it. And they do remember that.

00:34:21.580 Uh, and it does have some impact on them and that's good too. So, you know, you don't,

00:34:26.760 you don't have a lot to use. The only, the only thing to worry about in public speaking

00:34:31.560 is that you like pee your pants or something while you get like, if something like that,

00:34:36.760 now that your life is basically over in that case, let's be honest. People will remember that

00:34:41.320 for as long as they live and talk about it. Um, so just don't do that and, uh, or vomit or something.

00:34:49.160 No bodily fluids should make an appearance. Uh, aside from that, you're fine. All right. Um,

00:34:55.720 let's go to, we'll do one more. Uh, this is from don't have a name says, hi Matt. I'd like to ask

00:35:04.760 a question about different styles of music offered in church. I prefer singing traditional hymns as

00:35:08.420 I think their language more appropriately expresses theological concepts. Other people, however,

00:35:12.440 argue that choice of music and church is purely a personal preference and whatever style gets people

00:35:17.140 in the door and singing along is acceptable. Do you have a stance on this issue or any feeling

00:35:21.140 towards music in general, uh, in church generally? Yeah, I've talked about this before. I do have a

00:35:25.360 stance on the issue. I think that, um, uh, I, I, I think that the traditional hymns, it's not just

00:35:33.220 that they're traditional. It's that in most cases, 95% of the time, the traditional hymn is just better.

00:35:41.260 Like it, it just, it expresses, uh, not, not only the theological concepts, but the, uh, emotion,

00:35:50.020 the feeling of, of worship and a being before the divine, it expresses that in a much more eloquent,

00:35:56.740 meaningful, relatable, affecting way. Uh, and so that's why I say stick with traditional hymns is

00:36:04.260 because they are simply better almost always. There may be a few, very few exceptions of hymns that

00:36:11.580 were written in the last 20 years that are just as good, if not better than traditional hymns.

00:36:15.520 I can't, I can't think of any, I don't think there have been any that are better. I, I, I, but I, I'll

00:36:21.300 allow, I'll allow for the fact that I haven't heard all of them. So maybe there's a good one out there

00:36:24.980 somewhere, but most of the time they simply aren't as good. And, um, so why? So then the question is

00:36:33.200 if the, if the traditional hymn is clearly better, um, why would you sing the new one instead?

00:36:43.040 And the answer is you sing the new one because it's new and you think, well, chronological snobbery

00:36:50.280 is what C.S. Lewis called it. It must be better because it's, even though it's not better, the

00:36:53.960 fact that it's new kind of makes it better. And so let's do the new one and people will, you know,

00:36:58.320 we can get the young people will like it more because it's new. Everyone will like it more,

00:37:01.740 will be more relevant, will be more hip, will attract more people because it's new. And that's just

00:37:06.260 not the case. These timeless hymns are timeless for a reason. They, everyone loves them. They,

00:37:12.900 they, they relate to young people, old people, doesn't matter who. Uh, so I say stick with those.

00:37:19.000 Thanks for the question though. And, uh, thanks everybody for watching and listening. Godspeed.

00:37:23.840 I'm Michael Knowles, host of the Michael Knowles show. President Trump ratchets up trade talks with

00:37:41.820 China. We will examine the case for tariffs and we'll see how that turns out. Then Pete Buttigieg

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The Matt Walsh Show - May 07, 2019

Ep. 254 - Democratic Representative Harasses Pro-Lifers, Provokes Massive Pro-Life Rally

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