The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 266 - Speaking In Code

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, NPR issues an Orwellian language guide for discussing abortion.

00:00:05.820 I've got my own language guide, which I think is a little bit more honest and straightforward.

00:00:09.400 I'd like to offer it up to you today.

00:00:12.440 Also, Quentin Tarantino is accused of sexism because the women don't spend enough time talking in his latest film.

00:00:20.140 Jeff Daniels says that democracy is coming to an end if Trump is re-elected.

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00:00:42.300 Welcome to the show. Thanks for being here. Thanks for watching.

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00:02:05.180 Okay, as the Daily Wire reported, I should say, this week, NPR has issued what they're calling a guidance reminder,

00:02:18.260 which is an appropriately Orwellian phrase to describe an Orwellian thing that they're doing.

00:02:27.140 And the guidance reminder, what it is, is it's instructing journalists on which words and phrases they should avoid

00:02:35.040 and which they should employ when reporting on the abortion issue.

00:02:39.860 So NPR, just to give you, I'm not going to go through their whole memo that they released on this,

00:02:46.320 but just to go the highlights here.

00:02:49.740 NPR suggests that reporters avoid writing or saying partial birth abortion.

00:02:58.060 And instead of partial birth abortion, they say that you should use the term intact dilation and extraction.

00:03:04.480 Intact dilation and extraction is the term you should use instead of partial birth abortion. 0.99

00:03:08.760 They say don't use the term abortion clinic. 0.99

00:03:12.320 Instead, medical or health clinic that performs abortion.

00:03:15.980 A little bit of a mouthful, but there you go.

00:03:19.740 It's recommended that you don't refer to abortion doctors.

00:03:24.700 Instead, they say, well, you could talk about someone, a doctor who operates clinics where abortions are performed.

00:03:31.720 Of course, it says don't use unborn baby.

00:03:34.240 That's a big no-no because NPR says it's not a baby until it's born.

00:03:38.620 And before that, it's a fetus.

00:03:39.880 So you use the word fetus.

00:03:41.420 You must not, under any circumstance, refer to pro-lifers.

00:03:44.780 No, no, no.

00:03:45.180 They are abortion rights opponents, not pro-lifers.

00:03:50.300 Journalists are even cautioned against using a phrase like fetal heartbeat,

00:03:55.280 which is a medical phrase, even has fetus in there. 1.00

00:04:01.060 You'd think they'd like that, fetal heartbeat, medical phrase.

00:04:03.980 They say don't use fetal heartbeat.

00:04:05.520 It's got too much baggage.

00:04:06.480 It might make someone think of a fetus as a living person, and we wouldn't want that, right?

00:04:15.760 You don't want to talk about that.

00:04:17.920 The point at every turn here is to utilize language that will make abortion seem as clinical and sanitized as possible

00:04:25.920 while making pro-lifers seem as crazy as possible.

00:04:29.220 That's the idea.

00:04:30.040 Now, while I respect NPR's steadfast commitment to partisanship and distortion and their loyal submission to the abortion lobby, 0.58

00:04:42.320 I tend to think that these code words only make the abortion conversation more confusing,

00:04:48.200 which, of course, is precisely the goal.

00:04:51.000 Obviously, I know that's what they're trying to do.

00:04:53.520 Pro-aborts always want to talk about abortion in a way that will not encourage anyone to actually think about abortion.

00:04:59.660 They don't want you to—they want to put that as a side.

00:05:01.580 Even though you're talking about this issue, they want to make the issue you're discussing a side thing.

00:05:08.600 De-emphasize it as much as they can.

00:05:11.760 As a pro-lifer myself, but more importantly as someone who values honesty and clarity, I take the opposite approach.

00:05:18.000 If we're going to talk about killing babies, we should be straightforward and frank about it.

00:05:21.980 We should use terms and phrases that make it clear what we're talking about.

00:05:26.280 Just like we should be doing that in any conversation.

00:05:28.780 You should be using language that clearly conveys the meaning of what you're trying to say.

00:05:38.620 So I thought I would offer kind of an answer to their guidance reminder with my own guidance reminder of ideas of phrases and terms that we could use in place of some of the more commonly used ones.

00:05:55.720 So let me go through a few of these.

00:05:58.780 Number one, fetus simply means offspring in Latin.

00:06:03.280 If you're going to insist on fetus, you may as well insist on—

00:06:06.700 In Japan, Japanese for infant is akachan, which I knew off the top of my head.

00:06:13.640 I didn't have to look that up.

00:06:14.600 I'm fluent in Japanese, in case you didn't know.

00:06:16.400 That's a lie.

00:06:18.060 So infant in Japanese is akachan.

00:06:20.500 It'd be like if you said, no, no, no, they're not babies.

00:06:23.160 They're akachans. 1.00

00:06:24.060 Okay, it's the same thing.

00:06:27.040 You're just using a different language.

00:06:28.360 In your effort to avoid using the word baby, you're still using the word baby.

00:06:35.280 You're just—it's, as I said, a different language is all.

00:06:39.060 But even the word baby or unborn baby might not be the best choice.

00:06:44.100 And I think maybe people just tune out that phrase now, especially pro-abortion people,

00:06:49.600 which is why—here's my first guidance reminder—I have been advocating, maybe as you've heard

00:06:54.640 before, I have been advocating that we refer to the unborn as undocumented infants.

00:07:00.300 Because, after all, the only difference between an infant in the womb and an infant outside

00:07:04.620 of the womb is that the former lacks a birth certificate.

00:07:08.160 That's really the only difference.

00:07:09.860 So they are literally undocumented infants.

00:07:14.220 Number two, intact dilation and extraction sounds like something that your dentist might do,

00:07:20.060 which obviously is the point.

00:07:23.260 That's how it's supposed to sound.

00:07:24.520 But it's probably not an appropriate term to use to describe a procedure where a fully

00:07:31.200 developed, viable, and living infant child is pulled from the womb feet first until just

00:07:36.420 his head remains in the birth canal, and then he's executed via suction tube to the back

00:07:41.240 of the skull, and his brains are sucked out of his head while he's still alive.

00:07:45.280 Okay, that's what a partial birth abortion is. 1.00

00:07:48.360 That's how it's conducted.

00:07:50.160 That's not me making it up or exaggerating in the slightest.

00:07:52.920 That is literally how they do it.

00:07:56.680 So intact dilation and extraction, no, we need something that communicates the horror of it

00:08:03.620 because it is a horrible thing.

00:08:06.140 Partial birth abortion doesn't quite capture it either, I don't think.

00:08:08.940 So in place of both of those euphemisms, I would suggest cervical infanticide.

00:08:14.920 Partial birth abortion is literally the killing of an infant as it passes through the cervix.

00:08:21.400 So cervical infanticide, that would be my idea. 0.92

00:08:25.200 Number three, reproductive rights is a misnomer. 0.97

00:08:30.000 Nobody is challenging a woman's right to reproduce.

00:08:33.160 Reproduction has nothing to do with this debate at all.

00:08:37.080 I will say it again.

00:08:38.480 Reproduction has nothing to do with this debate.

00:08:42.480 It is irrelevant.

00:08:43.360 Scientifically speaking, reproduction occurs at conception.

00:08:49.300 Now, that's a scientific fact.

00:08:51.780 You don't have, we don't have to, now it's also a scientific fact that life begins at conception,

00:08:54.960 but we can even put that to the side.

00:08:56.800 Whenever you think life begins, there's no doubt that reproduction happens at conception.

00:09:02.800 That is the, that is the moment of reproduction.

00:09:07.880 Reproduction.

00:09:09.560 I've been in the hospital for the births of three children, and I don't remember anyone

00:09:14.300 shouting and saying, look, she's reproducing.

00:09:18.000 Nobody says that because that's not when reproduction happens.

00:09:20.660 It doesn't happen as the baby emerges from the birth canal.

00:09:23.120 That's because birth and reproduction are not the same.

00:09:25.120 A woman who avoids conception entirely, either through abstinence or birth control, has failed 0.99

00:09:32.280 to reproduce, and as such has exercised her reproductive rights. 0.99

00:09:37.440 By choosing to reproduce or not reproduce, that is to conceive a child or not, or to engage 0.67

00:09:44.060 in the activity which could result in conception, that's where your reproductive rights come 1.00

00:09:47.780 into play.

00:09:48.420 Once the baby is produced, reproductive rights have nothing to do with it anymore.

00:09:52.760 A woman who gets an abortion is killing a child that's already been produced, which 1.00

00:09:56.240 is why instead of, you know, through abortion, she's not exercising her reproductive rights. 1.00

00:10:00.840 Because she is exercising her parental murder rights. 0.93

00:10:05.920 Because she is the parent of that child, and we are saying that as the parent, she has the

00:10:10.240 right to murder her own child, as long as the child is still located physically in her body,

00:10:15.720 even if he's on the way out of her body. 1.00

00:10:17.320 Still, as long as he's there, we got him on a technicality, we can kill him. 0.99

00:10:21.140 So those are parental murder rights. 0.98

00:10:22.880 I think that's the term we should use instead of reproductive rights. 1.00

00:10:26.620 Abortion doctor, number four, is a problematic term because it includes the word doctor.

00:10:30.840 I agree with NPR that we should discard that terminology, which is confusing and I think

00:10:39.220 has the tendency to obfuscate, though their recommendation for a replacement term is obviously

00:10:46.700 absurd.

00:10:47.140 I would suggest the term medical assassin, that we use that instead.

00:10:51.940 Because this makes it clear that these are professionals ostensibly in the medical industry.

00:10:58.320 Now, they did go to medical school.

00:11:01.060 They are in that industry.

00:11:03.880 No way around that.

00:11:06.020 But they aren't doctors because by definition, doctors treat and cure.

00:11:10.520 I'm sure, in fact, if you were to look up the definition of doctor in Merriam-Webster,

00:11:14.500 you would find something like that about how they treat and cure illness and sickness.

00:11:19.800 That's what they swear to do in the Hippocratic Oath.

00:11:24.020 Abortionists do not treat any diseases.

00:11:26.760 They do not cure anyone of anything.

00:11:30.600 So they're not doctors.

00:11:32.560 They kill. 0.88

00:11:33.520 That's what they do. 0.99

00:11:34.420 They are assassins.

00:11:35.900 When someone is paid to kill another person, that's a hitman or an assassin. 0.59

00:11:45.000 A mercenary.

00:11:45.560 Maybe medical mercenary, I think, is better.

00:11:48.860 Yeah, I think we'll...

00:11:50.040 You know what?

00:11:50.420 I'm going to change my guidance from my...

00:11:52.640 Medical mercenary is the better one there. 0.89

00:11:56.780 So that's what it...

00:11:57.500 Number five, Planned Parenthood.

00:12:00.240 I have a problem with using the phrase Planned Parenthood.

00:12:03.360 It's technically the name of an actual organization.

00:12:05.540 So maybe you could justify using it.

00:12:07.440 But it is so ironic and so divorced from what Planned Parenthood actually does on a daily basis.

00:12:16.500 When you think planning parenthood, you're thinking of planning parenthood.

00:12:20.860 Planning to be a parent.

00:12:22.040 Whereas you go to Planned Parenthood because you don't want to be a parent anymore.

00:12:25.600 And so even just saying Planned Parenthood, it feels like we're complicit in this lie about what Planned Parenthood does.

00:12:35.040 I would...

00:12:35.820 You know, I'm not settled on what we call it instead.

00:12:37.600 Maybe Margaret Sanger's killing field could be a suggestion. 0.95

00:12:43.940 But I'm open to suggestion there.

00:12:45.060 But we do need something other than Planned Parenthood. 0.97

00:12:46.900 Finally, pro-choice is just a completely ridiculous phrase.

00:12:51.420 As it would seem to suggest that pro-choice people are somehow in favor of choices generally.

00:12:59.880 But as I have explained in the past, being pro-choice, saying that you're pro-choice is like saying that you're pro-shooting.

00:13:09.780 Plenty of people are pro-gun.

00:13:12.480 But their opinion about the wisdom of shooting a gun will depend entirely on why the gun is being shot.

00:13:18.380 And in what context and at what target.

00:13:21.420 So everyone...

00:13:22.640 Plenty of people are pro-gun.

00:13:24.180 That's fine.

00:13:25.040 Pro-Second Amendment.

00:13:26.680 Nobody would describe themselves as pro-shooting because that's different.

00:13:30.840 Depends on where you are and what you're doing.

00:13:33.760 There are plenty of times when someone who is pro-gun would be anti-shooting.

00:13:38.820 They say, no, this is not a good time to shoot the gun.

00:13:41.680 Because it's contextual.

00:13:45.300 Choices are the same way.

00:13:46.620 Nobody thinks that every choice is a good choice.

00:13:50.760 No one is in favor of all choices.

00:13:53.200 No one thinks that we should have the right to make literally any choice we want.

00:13:57.560 And if that's not your position, then don't call yourself pro-choice because there are plenty of circumstances where you would be against choice.

00:14:04.340 There are plenty of circumstances where you would say, no, a person shouldn't have that choice in this particular situation.

00:14:09.340 So you're not pro-choice.

00:14:10.180 Stop using the phrase.

00:14:10.900 Doesn't make any sense.

00:14:13.780 When someone says they are pro-choice, what they really mean is that they are pro one particular choice,

00:14:19.620 which specifically in this case involves the direct killing of an innocent human being who also happens to be the child of the person making the choice.

00:14:26.180 So maybe that's the phrase we should use instead of pro-choice.

00:14:31.340 Instead of pro-choice, it's pro one particular choice, which specifically in this case involves the direct killing of an innocent human being

00:14:35.800 who also happens to be the child of the person making the choice.

00:14:37.640 it's a little bit wordy, but at least it's honest. So that's my guidance reminder. I'll forward that

00:14:47.780 over to NPR. All right. Let's see. Quentin Tarantino has a new movie coming out. Tarantino

00:14:57.280 is obviously a talented filmmaker. I think he's a little bit overrated. His last movie was awful,

00:15:04.100 in my opinion. And, uh, and it's hard to make, uh, his last movie was a Western called hateful

00:15:09.920 eight. It's hard to make a bad Western. At least it's hard to make a Western that I will think is

00:15:15.200 bad. I, uh, I like to think I have relatively discerning tastes when it comes to movies,

00:15:20.440 but with Westerns, I don't, I like, I like almost every Western. Uh, if you just put some dudes on

00:15:28.320 a, on a whore on horses and, and have them shooting bad guys, um, out in the, you know, 0.98

00:15:34.640 in the, in the, in the desert somewhere, um, I'm, I'm all about it. I, I, I like almost all of those 0.99

00:15:42.600 movies and, uh, yeah, they all, they almost always have the same sort of plot and everything. And I

00:15:47.080 think it's great. I could sit for 10 hours and just watch Western after Western. My point is

00:15:51.960 Tarantino makes a Western and somehow he manages to make a, not only a bad one that one that, but one

00:15:57.880 that's unwatchable, even for someone like me, it was way too self-indulgent among other problems.

00:16:04.300 But anyway, he's got this film coming out called once upon a time in Hollywood. And he was at a

00:16:08.680 press conference after the film's debut when a feminist who had been keeping track of the amount 1.00

00:16:14.800 of time that women had been allowed to talk in the movie or had been given lines of dialogue in this

00:16:19.620 movie. Uh, she decided to stand up and take him to task. Watch this. Quentin, you have put Margot Robbie,

00:16:25.220 a very talented actress, um, actor in your film. She was in the Leonardo, with Leonardo in Wolf of

00:16:33.580 Wall Street. I, Tonya, this is a, you know, person with a great deal of acting talent and yet you

00:16:38.980 haven't really given her many lines in the movie. And I wondered, I guess that was a deliberate choice

00:16:44.040 on your part. And I just wanted to know why that was that we don't hear her actually speaking very

00:16:49.960 much. And, uh, Margot, I wanted you to also comment about being in the film in this part.

00:16:54.780 Well, I just reject your hypotheses.

00:17:00.240 I, um, like I said, like I said earlier, I, I, I always look to the character and what the

00:17:06.680 character is supposed to serve to the story. Now, as I said, I'm not a huge Tarantino guy,

00:17:11.800 but this is an unbelievably stupid criticism, uh, especially against Tarantino. Tarantino made a 0.99

00:17:20.060 movie called Jackie Brown, where, which has a female lead character named Jackie Brown. Um,

00:17:27.760 he, he made a two volume action film with a female lead, Uma Thurman, Kill Bill. Uh, some of his most

00:17:34.540 iconic characters have been females. So it's, so there are fewer females in this one. Who cares?

00:17:44.400 Feminists are, you know, I was thinking about this. Feminists really are like my kids, um, 1.00

00:17:51.560 in that they're constantly whining, well, constantly whining in general, but especially constantly doing 0.96

00:17:58.120 this comparison where whining like, but why did you give him more cereal than me?

00:18:04.540 Look at all the cereal you gave him. I want more cereal. Now that's when you've got five-year-old

00:18:10.420 twins, like I do, you, you, you hear a lot of that kind of stuff. And that's why I just, I, I,

00:18:15.260 I have become less and less patient with feminists, um, as a parent, because I already have to deal 1.00

00:18:21.960 with this exactly this kind of whining in my house. I don't want to have to deal with it out in the

00:18:25.200 world too, or when I go online, but it's the same kind of thing. It's this constant comparison. Oh, you gave him

00:18:32.220 more than her. That's not fair. It's not fair. No, that guy had, had 14 minutes of dialogue and she

00:18:40.900 only had 11. This isn't fair. Jeez. You whiny, insufferable. Ah, this is why people hate feminism. 1.00

00:18:53.280 And, and, and I think it's important for feminists to realize, now I'm not saying that we hate you 1.00

00:18:58.820 as a person. I'm saying feminism, the ism. You need to understand that this is why people hate it. 1.00

00:19:05.800 I mean, people really hate feminism and there, there's not a lot of in between. It's either you 1.00

00:19:12.380 are a feminist yourself, uh, or you hate feminism. Almost nobody has an in-between view of it. 1.00

00:19:18.500 And it's just, and it's, that's becoming more and more the case

00:19:22.320 because it seems like your entire goal in life is just to find examples where you can make yourself

00:19:34.680 the victim and then complain about it. And the problem is that all you can ever find in America

00:19:40.980 are frivolous examples, except for the one or two really good examples of women, uh, being, or

00:19:49.360 legitimate examples, I should say, of women being victimized, even systematically victimized, but you

00:19:55.840 don't say anything about those. Where, for instance, women are told to shut up while men invade their 1.00

00:20:02.060 bathrooms, locker rooms, and sports teams. Okay. That is a systematic victimization of women. 1.00

00:20:07.220 Again, there's a, that's a good thing to focus on. Now you got a point there, but you don't say

00:20:11.900 anything about that. Instead, you're focused on this. All right. Um, a couple other, uh, clips here.

00:20:18.960 Michael Avenatti was charged yesterday with defrauding Stormy Daniels. He apparently stole a big chunk of

00:20:24.320 her book advance, hundreds of thousands of dollars. Uh, now the fact that somebody called Stormy Daniels

00:20:30.360 was given hundreds of thousands of dollars in a book advance is a travesty unto itself,

00:20:38.280 but now Avenatti, uh, might be headed to prison for stealing some of it. Avenatti, of course, um,

00:20:44.600 for a number of reasons has become a huge embarrassment to the left, to the Democrat party,

00:20:48.360 and especially to the media. And I think it could be good at this juncture to remember how the media

00:20:56.380 once hailed Avenatti as a savior of the Republic, literally. Now the Washington Free Beacon has gone

00:21:03.260 to the trouble to compile this just to take a walk down memory lane of how the media treated Avenatti

00:21:09.020 up until just a couple of months ago. And, uh, this is, this, this is gold. Watch this.

00:21:13.820 He's Donald Trump's worst nightmare. Michael Avenatti.

00:21:17.160 Joining us once again is Michael Avenatti.

00:21:18.760 Let's bring in Michael Avenatti.

00:21:19.960 Michael Avenatti.

00:21:20.600 Michael Avenatti.

00:21:21.400 Michael Avenatti, thank you very much.

00:21:23.080 He's out there saving the country.

00:21:24.520 Don Meacham says he may be the savior of the Republic.

00:21:26.980 You are something of a folk hero now.

00:21:29.160 I owe Michael Avenatti an apology. I've been saying enough for writing, Michael.

00:21:32.900 I've seen you everywhere. What do you have left to say?

00:21:35.540 I was wrong, brother. You have a lot to say.

00:21:38.140 I, uh, am just dying to hear what you think.

00:21:41.440 These people all like you.

00:21:42.540 I'm the only person right here Donald Trump fears more than Robert Miller.

00:21:46.740 We think you guys are the tip of the spear that's going to take down Donald Trump. 0.79

00:21:51.220 Michael Avenatti's a beast.

00:21:52.900 Okay, that's true. 0.99

00:21:53.800 And he's a beast. 0.99

00:21:55.040 He's a beast. 0.99

00:21:55.660 I hand it to her and I hand it to Michael Avenatti.

00:21:58.600 But he has a bigger calling here that being a lawyer is minimal compared to what he's doing.

00:22:03.560 No one has talked tougher directly to Donald Trump on TV than Michael Avenatti.

00:22:09.200 And Donald Trump is afraid to mention his name.

00:22:12.440 That's fascinating.

00:22:13.500 Donald Trump is terrified of Michael Avenatti.

00:22:16.540 He gives Trump a run for his money more than anybody else Michael Avenatti.

00:22:19.260 Existential threat to the Trump presidency.

00:22:21.920 The Democrats could learn something for you.

00:22:23.780 You are messing with Trump a lot more than they are.

00:22:26.440 He has no doubt created sheer panic in Donald Trump's very fragile mind.

00:22:32.160 Michael Avenatti is laying down the law as guest co-host.

00:22:36.320 And is he really thinking about running for president?

00:22:39.180 One reason why I'm taking you seriously as a contender is because of your presence on cable news.

00:22:43.900 You look at the field of Democrats right now and Avenatti's the one who stands out.

00:22:47.240 If they decide they value a fighter most, people would be foolish to underestimate Michael Avenatti.

00:22:52.540 I have always said that they need a fighter.

00:22:54.480 Look, I mean, we're going to continue to use the media.

00:22:56.620 I think we've used it with great success. 0.95

00:23:01.020 All of my sexual fantasies involve handcuffs.

00:23:06.520 Yeah, in some ways it's low-hanging fruit to point to examples of the media embarrassing itself.

00:23:14.440 But that is pretty devastating when you see all of that.

00:23:20.060 And then when you consider, well, what is it about Avenatti that the media liked in the first place?

00:23:25.900 Why did they ever latch on to him?

00:23:28.100 And it goes back to their insane, delusional Trump hatred where they just can't see past it.

00:23:38.180 And Avenatti was anti-Trump, and so they figured they simply embraced him for that reason.

00:23:44.060 Speaking of insane, last clip I want to play for you.

00:23:45.980 Speaking of insane, delusional Trump hatred, Jeff Daniels was doing a news interview yesterday.

00:23:55.440 And he is very concerned, to say the least, about what will happen if Trump is re-elected.

00:24:00.300 This is what he says.

00:24:01.720 After the election, I was surprised at some of the people.

00:24:05.180 You know, I said, can you believe this election?

00:24:06.880 They go, yeah, isn't it great?

00:24:08.680 And you're going, whoa, my wife's on Facebook. 1.00

00:24:11.420 And these go, oh, we got another Trumper. 0.98

00:24:12.820 You know, and it's just, you didn't see it coming.

00:24:15.300 Atticus goes through this.

00:24:16.680 I know these people.

00:24:17.960 They're good people.

00:24:19.100 There's, there's, there's, and there are reasons why.

00:24:22.100 And he's an apologist.

00:24:23.300 He's an enabler.

00:24:24.740 And I think there are people in the Midwest, between the coasts, who don't pretend, who don't know anything about, who don't care about this, who don't have time for this, who have to make a decision now.

00:24:34.140 You have to decide whether, like Atticus, you believe that there is still compassion, decency, civility, respect for others, do unto others.

00:24:43.680 Remember that?

00:24:44.400 Do unto others.

00:24:45.420 All that stuff you guys believe in, and you still voted not for Hillary or for Trump.

00:24:50.840 Where are you now?

00:24:51.880 Because the, every, because your kids are looking up at you going, but he lies.

00:24:57.220 And, and I think there are a lot of people in the Midwest who are going, it might be enough for them.

00:25:03.700 We're going to find out if, you know, if the big gamble is to go all the way to November, 2020, which I agree, and lose, it's the end of democracy.

00:25:12.620 It's the end of our democracy if Trump is reelected.

00:25:15.360 Can I, can I say that, and I say this to both sides, I know it's fruitless.

00:25:20.700 I know there's no point because it's going to continue, but I'm going to say it anyway.

00:25:24.100 Can we just stop with every single election, people on both sides saying, if we lose, it's the end of democracy.

00:25:33.540 Every election in my lifetime, there have been people insisting that on both sides.

00:25:37.760 If we lose, it's the end of democracy, the end of democracy.

00:25:39.600 No, this, no, seriously.

00:25:41.180 No, no, no.

00:25:41.620 No, I know I said it 50 times already.

00:25:43.600 This time though, seriously.

00:25:45.540 Hey, seriously, guys, this time, if we lose, it really is the end of democracy.

00:25:50.040 Oh, we lost and it wasn't the end of democracy.

00:25:51.800 Okay.

00:25:52.040 Well, but in this election, no, no.

00:25:53.580 The last time that was different.

00:25:54.980 This one though, this is the end of democracy.

00:25:57.720 If we lose.

00:25:59.280 Okay.

00:25:59.640 It didn't end, but no, no, no.

00:26:00.480 Hold on a second.

00:26:01.020 This time.

00:26:01.840 Really guys, this time it's the end.

00:26:04.140 It is the end of this time.

00:26:05.360 The end.

00:26:06.060 And somehow people continually take this doom saying seriously.

00:26:13.120 I don't get it.

00:26:15.620 No, I will say if Trump wins, it will not be the end of democracy or the end of our country.

00:26:21.360 If Trump loses, it will not be the end of our country.

00:26:25.180 It is there.

00:26:26.520 I think that there will be negative side effects, not even side effects, not side effects.

00:26:34.260 There'll be, there'll be many negative effects, profound negative effects to having Democrats in charge of the White House.

00:26:39.640 And if they seize control of the entire government, you know, um, then I think a lot of bad things can happen.

00:26:46.480 That doesn't mean that the country is coming to an end.

00:26:49.240 It's possible to communicate your opposition to a political party or a political candidate and to talk about the bad things that might happen if this or that person wins without insisting that it's literally the apocalypse.

00:27:03.620 If they win, it is possible to do that.

00:27:06.220 And I think we should strive, strive for that.

00:27:08.680 So, all right, um, let's see.

00:27:11.440 I said I had a bunch of emails I wanted to get through.

00:27:14.620 Before emails, one other, one other thing I wanted to mention, uh, because you see tragedy struck in our home yesterday.

00:27:23.760 Um, the dog ate one of my wife's fancy decorative pillows. 1.00

00:27:30.740 And now I've told you already about my wife's pillow obsession and how she spends $90,000 a year on pillows. 0.83

00:27:40.860 Um, she has a whole fleet of decorative pillows for each new season.

00:27:44.920 And I've told you about how our couch is covered in decorative pillows that you can't, you can't even sit on the couch without being sucked into the pillows and drowned.

00:27:52.820 I mean, we, we have lost, uh, we, we had a house guest a few days ago who drowned in the pillows and unfortunately died.

00:27:59.540 Um, and we can't even find him.

00:28:01.980 He's, he's buried under, under the pillow somewhere.

00:28:04.420 So this is what happens with the pillows.

00:28:06.380 And, uh, uh, but just because we have so many pillows doesn't mean that any one particular pillow is expendable in my wife's mind. 0.97

00:28:16.160 Be clear about that.

00:28:17.180 So yesterday I knew it was bad news when I came downstairs being the only human being at home and I found the dogs, uh, standing triumphantly over a fancy pillow that he had just ripped to shreds.

00:28:28.780 I see these videos online sometimes of dogs doing something bad and then you, and then, and then the video, they look guilty.

00:28:34.180 Right.

00:28:34.480 And that's, what's funny is it's, it looks like they know what they did was wrong.

00:28:37.580 My, I've never seen a look of guilt on my dog's face.

00:28:40.200 There have been many circumstances where he should have guilt for what he's done, but no, he just, he, he looks excited about it.

00:28:47.660 Um, defiant every single time.

00:28:50.080 And, uh, now this, this dog does not know or appreciate just how often I cover for him.

00:28:56.360 If he eats a kid's toy or a kid's stuffed animal, which he does all the time, then what I'll do is I'll throw the thing away.

00:29:03.520 So the kids won't notice because everyone knows about little kids.

00:29:06.040 The thing about little kids is, um, if they can have a toy and then forget about it, um, never play, they could, they could have a toy, forget about it, not play with it for three years.

00:29:16.620 Never see it again.

00:29:17.740 They won't remember.

00:29:19.120 But if, if after three years they stumble across it and it's broken or they see their sibling playing with it, all of a sudden, now that toy is the most important thing in the world to them.

00:29:28.920 So I can avoid that just by, uh, they, the dog destroys something.

00:29:32.980 I throw it away.

00:29:33.960 They never know.

00:29:35.080 The dog's probably eaten half of their toys.

00:29:37.360 Don't tell them they're not aware of it.

00:29:39.220 Nobody knows that.

00:29:39.900 But me, it's a secret.

00:29:40.820 Not anymore.

00:29:41.400 I just throw all the stuff away.

00:29:42.960 Uh, I can't do that with my wife's stuff. 1.00

00:29:44.840 I tried, but I can't because she'll know if she has 53 pillows laid out on the couch and she walks by the couch and there's only 52 on that couch.

00:29:52.700 She's going to stop and say, wait a second. 0.53

00:29:54.240 Why is there only 52 couch pillows on the couch?

00:29:57.420 What have you done with the 53rd pillow?

00:29:59.660 Where's the 53rd pillow?

00:30:01.520 Um, that's the way it goes.

00:30:03.040 So I knew that wouldn't work.

00:30:04.460 So I, I, I did the, the only thing that the only other alternative was, um, for me to run away.

00:30:11.720 And, uh, what I did was I just left the house cause my wife wasn't home yet.

00:30:14.300 I left the house and I just left the dog.

00:30:16.100 I said, this is for you.

00:30:16.960 You got to deal with this buddy.

00:30:18.300 Uh, this is on you.

00:30:19.340 And I left the house.

00:30:20.940 The reason why I did that is, uh, because I'm a coward, but number two, because.

00:30:27.020 This is what happens.

00:30:28.160 And this is really the, the, the serious thing I wanted to discuss.

00:30:31.620 This is what happens with, um, with men in any house where there's a woman, a man and a dog.

00:30:41.300 What ends up happens is it's a mystery.

00:30:43.460 It's mysterious.

00:30:43.940 And I'm hoping maybe a female viewer or listener can explain this to me.

00:30:49.300 What happens is that whatever the dog does, the man gets blamed for it.

00:30:54.640 I don't understand why, but that's the way it works.

00:30:58.560 So I could be upstairs and my wife would storm in and say, you know, the, you know, the 1.00

00:31:02.860 dog, the dog just pooped on the rug. 0.64

00:31:05.580 How could you let this happen?

00:31:07.740 I said, how, how, what me?

00:31:09.660 I didn't do it.

00:31:10.920 That's not, I didn't conspire with the dog and tell him, Hey, you know what?

00:31:14.460 Hey buddy, you know, it would be really funny.

00:31:16.120 Go poop on it. 0.79

00:31:16.840 Go poop on the rug.

00:31:17.740 Yeah.

00:31:17.860 Go do it.

00:31:18.340 Go do it.

00:31:18.680 Poop, poop. 0.93

00:31:19.880 No, I can't.

00:31:20.420 No, I admit that if I could get him to poop on command on the rug, I'd probably have him do

00:31:24.260 it every once in a while just because it's funny, but I can't.

00:31:26.960 So it's not my fault yet.

00:31:28.680 It happens.

00:31:29.360 And this is, I'm not, it's not, I'm not the only household.

00:31:31.620 This is a, this is a thing where men get blamed for what dogs do.

00:31:35.000 I don't understand it.

00:31:36.400 It gets even weirder when you consider that we have a cat also, and the cat is not nearly

00:31:41.820 as annoying or destructive, but sometimes she can be. 1.00

00:31:44.680 And if she does something like vomits on the rug, I don't get blamed for that.

00:31:49.320 So it's not just pets, it's specifically the dog.

00:31:52.980 There is this link somehow where we become avatars of each other.

00:31:57.060 I don't, I don't get it, but that's the way it works.

00:32:00.960 Maybe someone can clear that up for me.

00:32:03.100 All right.

00:32:04.100 I'm taking a few days off, so I'll be back on Wednesday and I wanted to get through as

00:32:09.180 many of these emails as I can before I go.

00:32:12.240 So let's go.

00:32:13.060 This is from Amy says, hi, Matt.

00:32:14.780 I wonder if you could address an issue that came up for me recently.

00:32:17.340 Last month, I was on a business trip out of town.

00:32:19.900 And I found out I was experiencing ectopic pregnancy.

00:32:22.900 The baby had implanted into the fallopian tube instead of the uterus and had already died

00:32:26.680 as a result.

00:32:27.660 I had to have emergency surgery that night to stop the extensive bleeding.

00:32:30.760 I'm grateful to be alive, but devastated to lose my baby after trying to get pregnant for 0.89

00:32:35.360 five years.

00:32:36.140 In the past couple of weeks, I've had a couple people accuse me of having an abortion.

00:32:40.800 I'm Catholic and 100% pro-life.

00:32:42.740 I know this is wrong, but was shocked to hear that that many people think of this as an abortion.

00:32:47.880 Note, my baby was already dead.

00:32:50.400 How could I abort him?

00:32:51.680 Would you address this issue and educate your larger audience?

00:32:54.640 Hi, Amy.

00:32:55.180 First of all, I'm sorry for your loss and everything that you went through, which is traumatic.

00:33:00.500 And I'm just sorry to hear about that.

00:33:03.860 The people accusing you of having an abortion are not only wrong, but they are horrifically 0.99

00:33:08.800 inappropriate jerks who I hope you will ignore henceforward. 0.99

00:33:13.920 I don't know who these people were. 0.99

00:33:15.960 If you can, I would probably cut those people out of my life saying something like that at

00:33:21.780 a time like that.

00:33:23.180 Not that there's ever an appropriate time, but I can't even wrap my head around it.

00:33:29.320 You know, I don't know.

00:33:30.660 Again, I don't know who those people were.

00:33:31.960 So if there are people close to you, then that's just terrible.

00:33:38.500 Um, so first of all, if you're bleeding internally, then yes, you need to have a surgery because

00:33:46.260 you'll die if you don't.

00:33:48.140 No sane pro-lifer thinks that a woman should just go down with the ship, as it were, and 1.00

00:33:53.700 die for the sake of a pregnancy that cannot possibly go to term.

00:33:57.540 That's crazy.

00:33:58.260 We should treasure, treasure all life, including our own.

00:34:02.760 And a woman should value her own life also. 0.84

00:34:07.840 That's the whole point that we're making as pro-lifers.

00:34:10.140 It's not that a woman's life means nothing.

00:34:12.020 No, all life is, is, is, uh, infinitely valuable, including the woman's life.

00:34:18.980 So we shouldn't throw our lives away for nothing.

00:34:21.560 Choosing to bleed out during an ectopic pregnancy makes no sense.

00:34:25.320 And it would be a suicidal decision in my view.

00:34:27.820 And obviously, I mean, you did nothing wrong at all.

00:34:31.160 Clearly, um, it sounds to me like you had a DNC procedure, which yes, is how they perform

00:34:37.920 abortions in the first trimester trimester.

00:34:39.880 It's also what they do in the case of miscarriages.

00:34:42.960 Um, some miscarriages, if the, the material from the pregnancy, for lack of a better term,

00:34:49.520 is still inside the mother.

00:34:50.920 Or in that case, they'll do a DNC, um, to avoid infections or any other, um, terrible

00:34:57.140 result.

00:34:58.080 It's not an abortion.

00:35:00.260 No one is being killed in this procedure.

00:35:02.800 This is, it's a, in that case, a legitimate medical procedure.

00:35:06.660 Um, so again, those people are wrong. 1.00

00:35:09.560 They're idiots. 1.00

00:35:11.280 They're horribly inappropriate. 1.00

00:35:12.800 And I hope you will ignore them.

00:35:15.380 And I'm sorry, again, for everything you went through.

00:35:20.180 Um, this is from Erica says, thank you for your show.

00:35:24.820 I noticed a few days ago that during your whole show, you were out of focus, but your

00:35:28.740 bookshelf in the back was in focus.

00:35:31.280 Was that some kind of artistic choice?

00:35:34.920 Yeah.

00:35:35.420 Yeah.

00:35:35.600 Let's go with that.

00:35:36.220 It was, uh, it was an artistic choice.

00:35:37.940 I was trying to make a point about how something, I was making some kind of artistic point.

00:35:43.920 I'll let you figure out what the point was. 0.99

00:35:46.240 Um, but the main point is that it's, it was not that I'm a massive, massive idiot. 0.97

00:35:50.940 That was not the reason for that. 0.97

00:35:52.140 It was, it was something else.

00:35:53.760 Um, from Graham says, hi, Matt, what do you have against vegans?

00:35:58.160 Short and sweet question.

00:35:59.720 I wouldn't say I have anything against vegans.

00:36:01.500 Vegans can be vegans if they want.

00:36:03.120 I have no problem with that.

00:36:04.080 I just think number one, arguably it's immoral to not eat steak.

00:36:09.220 Arguably.

00:36:09.860 I think you could make that argument.

00:36:11.400 I'm not saying I make that argument, but you could make the argument.

00:36:14.140 I have had steaks that were so good that I think I had a moral duty to eat them.

00:36:20.140 And, uh, if you're offered a steak that good, I think maybe it's you, you're obligated to

00:36:27.620 say yes, possibly.

00:36:29.120 Okay.

00:36:30.040 Maybe perhaps slightly more convincingly.

00:36:32.700 I just think the vegan ethic is a little incoherent because it seems to me that if, if we are

00:36:38.180 superior to animals, if we have authority over them, if we take precedence over them, which

00:36:43.040 is what I believe, then obviously it is justifiable to consume them.

00:36:48.040 Uh, uh, we shouldn't, we shouldn't kill them for no reason.

00:36:51.060 We shouldn't abuse them, but it can be justified to eat them.

00:36:54.980 All right.

00:36:55.480 But if we're not superior, if we are equal to animals, if we're no better than them, which

00:36:59.980 is what I think many vegans seem to believe, then we can't be expected to act any differently.

00:37:04.600 Right.

00:37:04.980 And we have just as much a right to eat meat as they do.

00:37:07.720 Animals eat meat.

00:37:08.460 Why can't we?

00:37:09.360 If we're just like them and vegans like to say, well, we're animals too.

00:37:12.400 Okay.

00:37:12.640 Well, what do animals do?

00:37:13.800 Look at how animals treat each other.

00:37:15.940 Why, why should we be held to a higher standard?

00:37:17.860 It seems to me that if you're holding us to a higher standard, then you're saying that

00:37:20.860 we're superior.

00:37:21.460 But if we're superior, then I think that goes back around to, we can eat steak.

00:37:25.800 So either way, it leads back to eating steak.

00:37:30.500 Um, this is from Christian says, Oh, great bearded one.

00:37:34.960 I believe I know why everyone was so upset about the ending of game of thrones.

00:37:37.940 And that is that the writers gave the iron throne to the wrong person.

00:37:40.640 Every viewer in their heart of hearts knows that in fact, Matt Walsh has the only just

00:37:44.260 claim to any throne under heaven, fictional or not.

00:37:46.660 And the people are disgusted that these writers had the audacity to deny your basic right. 0.99

00:37:50.320 We all await the day when you rise to power and bring justice upon these foolish writers. 0.89

00:37:54.860 On another note, I know that you have said that you do not find Pascal's wager to be 0.77

00:37:57.860 a convincing argument for faith because anyone convinced to belief by it will almost certainly

00:38:02.540 lack sincerity.

00:38:03.560 However, I believe that this argument would better be suited for abortion.

00:38:06.900 If we're wrong, we have inconvenienced people by our pro-life laws and efforts.

00:38:10.860 But if they are wrong, they have participated in the largest ongoing genocide.

00:38:15.180 I don't think this is our best argument, but it might be effective on someone who remains

00:38:18.680 unconvinced of our position.

00:38:20.240 I'd love to hear what you think and keep up the good work.

00:38:22.920 First of all, you may think you can avoid the executioner by flattering me.

00:38:28.900 And you're right.

00:38:29.940 So well done.

00:38:31.720 As for Pascal's wager related to abortion, I think that's an excellent point, actually. 1.00

00:38:36.340 Uh, yeah, when it comes to faith itself, I don't think Pascal's wager is a good argument

00:38:43.000 and I don't think it will get you there.

00:38:45.600 But I do think that that sort of approach does make sense in other contexts.

00:38:51.680 Um, so it's kind of like, okay, so I, so, so even if we don't know whether the being in

00:38:56.280 the womb is a person or not, even though we do know, but let's say we don't, doesn't

00:39:00.920 it make sense to treat it like it is, um, if pro-lifers are wrong, then as you said,

00:39:06.020 we've, we have, we have, what have we done if we're wrong?

00:39:08.100 We have accidentally treated a non-person with more respect than it was due. 0.55

00:39:12.860 Okay.

00:39:13.320 That's, we've accidentally given too much respect to this entity.

00:39:18.660 Um, but if pro-abortion people are wrong, then we have murdered 60 million people, which

00:39:26.140 is the more horrifying possibility.

00:39:27.800 So yeah, if you're on the fence, it seems like when you err on the side of not killing

00:39:33.040 people, yeah, I've made a similar argument about the idea, uh, that the unborn child is

00:39:39.260 a potential person.

00:39:41.320 There are some people who say it's not a person, it's a potential person.

00:39:44.820 And my point is similar that, okay, let's say that it is a potential person.

00:39:49.860 Let's say it's not a person, it's a potential person.

00:39:52.660 Again, we, that's not the case.

00:39:54.620 It is a person, but for the sake of argument.

00:39:57.800 Um, but then why does it follow, how does it follow that we can then kill the potential

00:40:05.220 person?

00:40:05.820 Would you not treat, why wouldn't you treat a potential person as an extraordinarily valuable

00:40:12.580 thing?

00:40:12.820 It's a potential person, for goodness sakes.

00:40:16.400 Think about that.

00:40:17.420 Uh, the analogy I've used, which doesn't work completely, but it almost works, um, doesn't

00:40:26.400 match up completely.

00:40:27.100 A little bit of a crude analogy, but the analogy I've used is a lottery ticket.

00:40:30.260 Imagine that you had a $50 million winning lottery ticket.

00:40:32.960 You're on your way to cash it at the lottery office and, uh, you've got it in your hand

00:40:38.640 waving it around.

00:40:39.700 Not a smart move, but let's say you do.

00:40:41.360 The thing you have in your hand is just the potential for $50 million.

00:40:44.760 It is not itself literally physically $50 million.

00:40:47.780 It is the potential of $50 million.

00:40:49.120 In a literal sense, all it is, is a receipt.

00:40:52.960 But if I ran up and stole that receipt from you and destroyed it, you would react as though

00:40:58.860 I had just destroyed $50 million.

00:41:01.040 And I could not make you feel any better by saying, no, no, no, it wasn't $50 million.

00:41:04.720 It was just the potential of $50 million.

00:41:06.760 It was just a thing that was about to become $50 million, but it was not yet a $50 million

00:41:11.820 itself.

00:41:13.200 Well, in that situation, you would see no distinction.

00:41:15.420 Your response would be, yeah, okay, but it's basically the same.

00:41:21.300 It's not exactly the same, but it's for all intents and purposes, you just destroyed $50

00:41:25.560 million.

00:41:26.240 I, I was about to have $50 million.

00:41:28.740 Now I don't because of you.

00:41:30.340 That's the point.

00:41:32.220 This potential person was about to be a person.

00:41:35.420 Now it's not going to be because we killed it.

00:41:37.680 So it's, they, even if I accept that argument, it still doesn't get you to yes, 0.98

00:41:45.320 let's kill it.

00:41:47.340 Um, this is from Travis says, Matt, I agree with you that the age limit to buy tobacco 0.99

00:41:53.180 or to drink legally should not be raised.

00:41:55.060 However, I do disagree with you on the idea that grown adults no longer view drinking as

00:41:59.120 cool.

00:42:00.100 From my experience, many adults in today's society are simply older versions of their

00:42:03.780 younger selves.

00:42:04.960 Their social media posts are filled with pictures of their current drink.

00:42:07.900 Their conversations are routinely centered around how they wish they currently had a drink.

00:42:11.340 Many of their weekend plans are also heavily centered around drinking excessively.

00:42:14.480 Perhaps I have this perception because I'm someone who doesn't drink alcohol.

00:42:17.780 So therefore finds the emphasis on alcohol by today's society to be misplaced.

00:42:21.240 But I tend to think the infatuation with alcohol continues into adulthood and is not

00:42:25.040 experienced slowly or solely by young or underage drinkers.

00:42:29.340 Um, my perception doesn't apply to all adults who consume alcohol.

00:42:34.540 You yourself are an example of this.

00:42:35.900 However, I believe too many adults look to alcohol as an escape from the responsibilities

00:42:39.180 of their life.

00:42:39.920 Yeah, I think you're definitely correct.

00:42:42.000 Lots of people have an unhealthy relationship with lots of different kinds of substances,

00:42:47.680 substances, alcohol included.

00:42:50.000 But my point, I guess, is that 16 year olds drink.

00:42:53.940 If a 16 year old is going to drink, he is going to do it almost entirely because it's cool

00:43:01.760 and he wants to fit in.

00:43:02.980 And that's almost definitely going to be the reason with our current situation in society

00:43:09.800 and the laws being how they are.

00:43:11.640 If he's going to drink, that's going to be the reason, right?

00:43:15.180 Uh, he is, he doesn't enjoy the taste.

00:43:18.280 Um, it's not like about relaxing with a drink at the, at the, at the end of a hard day.

00:43:23.320 You know, that's not what it is.

00:43:24.760 It's just, he wants to, it's cool and he wants to do it.

00:43:28.000 And part of the reason why it's so cool in the 16 year old's mind is because it's forbidden.

00:43:34.560 With adults, I think there are a lot of unhealthy reasons to drink and plenty of adults exhibit

00:43:39.240 those reasons or drink for those reasons.

00:43:41.340 You're right.

00:43:42.220 I don't think there are very many grown adults.

00:43:44.640 And yeah, I think that's a, when we talk about grown adults, that's almost an age we

00:43:47.340 have to, we have to raise.

00:43:48.900 When we say grown adults, we should be talking about 18 plus, but really I'm talking about like

00:43:52.900 25 plus, if even that young.

00:43:55.920 Um, and people like that, I think there are a few of them that do it because it's cool

00:44:00.220 and they want to brag about it.

00:44:01.480 Uh, because as a grown man, I mean, if you go around bragging, 16 year olds will brag,

00:44:06.340 they'll talk about, oh man, I had a beer last night.

00:44:08.580 Let me tell you about the beers I had. 0.99

00:44:11.060 Uh, grown adults aren't going to do that as much because you would just seem like a loser 0.98

00:44:14.840 for doing it.

00:44:16.580 It would, it would defeat the purpose.

00:44:18.120 Um, and so I think that's the dynamic that we want to try to address.

00:44:27.280 Um, we want teenagers to learn healthy and responsible drinking habits.

00:44:35.720 We, and we want, we want to, we want to reduce the peer pressure.

00:44:41.220 And I think we also want to reduce kind of the cool factor a little bit.

00:44:46.660 And I think you can accomplish all of those things, not completely, but you could help

00:44:50.640 to accomplish all those things by lowering the drinking age, letting people do it younger,

00:44:56.200 learn from adults.

00:44:57.160 If they start to see it, um, as, as I've been talking about this, I've heard from people

00:45:01.100 in other countries, as I mentioned before, where, you know, you go to Italy or whatever,

00:45:06.380 and it's not uncommon that you'll have a family dinner, you're sitting down for dinner, you

00:45:11.500 have a glass of wine and you have a 14 year olds that are just having a little bit of

00:45:15.420 wine with dinner.

00:45:16.040 It's a normal thing, not a big deal.

00:45:19.700 And, um, so I think someone like that, they're going to be less likely to see it as this,

00:45:24.060 Ooh, it's this cool, mysterious, forbidden thing because for them, it's just normal.

00:45:29.860 And, uh, so I think that's where we want to get as a society, but instead we're headed

00:45:33.560 in the opposite direction.

00:45:34.940 All right.

00:45:35.660 Um,

00:45:36.380 this is from Jake says majestically bearded dictator.

00:45:41.420 I've heard the argument among Christian conservatives that perhaps we should take the libertarian view

00:45:45.360 of marriage.

00:45:46.480 While my instinct, uh, was initially to say that we should work toward keeping marriage

00:45:50.600 legally defined the same way it is biblically defined.

00:45:52.840 I'm starting to think that's not an option anymore.

00:45:55.060 So it seems the argument is growing to abolish marriage in the legal world altogether.

00:45:59.280 Ben Shapiro essentially made this argument a couple of weeks ago.

00:46:01.760 What are your thoughts on this?

00:46:03.120 Is this too much of a compromise for Christians or is this the right thing? 0.98

00:46:06.120 Is this the right way to go?

00:46:07.560 What are some implications I might not be thinking of?

00:46:09.700 I'm slowly becoming convinced it's the best way to go because then at least government doesn't

00:46:13.080 have the say in what makes, uh, what it thinks marriage is.

00:46:16.680 So it can't demand that marriage is between a person and any other person thing or things.

00:46:21.340 At the same time, I'm afraid it would encourage further sexual immorality if people take advantage

00:46:25.820 of the abolition of legal marriage.

00:46:29.180 Um, yeah, I'm not the, the particular argument that you're talking about, Ben, that Ben proposed.

00:46:34.720 I don't, I'm not sure what it was, so I can't speak to that.

00:46:38.660 But from my perspective, I think marriage is the foundation of human civilization.

00:46:46.040 It, it, it is what it is.

00:46:48.200 It serves a certain purpose.

00:46:49.640 It has a certain function.

00:46:51.260 It is essentially procreative.

00:46:54.200 It is the fountain from which the family springs.

00:46:57.300 I don't think we can ever give up on it or on the definition of it or on defending it.

00:47:05.580 We give up on marriage.

00:47:06.880 We give up on civilization.

00:47:08.600 That's how I see it.

00:47:10.840 All right, we'll do one more.

00:47:12.120 This is from, I don't think I got the name here.

00:47:16.680 Uh, I was wondering what your personal chili recipe was because my wife's or my high school

00:47:21.160 orchestra's picnic is this weekend.

00:47:23.340 And seeing as how you seem to be a, to be a master at all things chili, I thought I might

00:47:27.740 learn something from the master himself and wow everyone there.

00:47:32.900 Well, I can't give you my recipe because it's a state secret, but a few tips, basic tips.

00:47:41.780 If you're doing chili, use no beans or minimal beans.

00:47:47.200 And I can't believe I'm even going to say this, but I think if you are making chili for a mass

00:47:52.900 audience, especially for chili novices, for the kinds of people who will be disturbed

00:47:58.880 by the lack of beans in the chili because they don't understand what real, real chili

00:48:02.320 is and will be so distracted by it that they can't even enjoy this masterful creation that

00:48:07.860 you have given to them out of the kindness of your heart, then in that case, throw a few

00:48:11.760 beans into the pot just so they'll shut up.

00:48:13.880 But, um, so minimal beans, uh, number two, the only things you should use to make the

00:48:20.340 base or, or broth, um, for your chili, if you, if you need liquid, if you need to add

00:48:26.040 liquid to the chili, there are only two things you should ever use, uh, beer and beef broth.

00:48:31.200 Those are the only two, never water, never tomato juice, tomatoes.

00:48:37.380 I cannot stress this enough.

00:48:39.160 There is no reason for tomatoes to make an appearance in your chili.

00:48:42.920 It is not a tomato soup.

00:48:45.340 It's not about tomatoes.

00:48:47.920 Uh, number three, season, season, season, just tons of seasoning.

00:48:52.200 Uh, people, there's an epidemic in this country of people under seasoning their food, whatever,

00:48:58.100 just put the amount of seasoning that you think is appropriate and then do three times that.

00:49:03.500 Uh, and then finally, I, last tip I would say is remember that beef is the star of the show.

00:49:11.080 Okay.

00:49:11.580 Again, it's not about tomatoes.

00:49:12.740 It's not about beans.

00:49:14.280 Um, it's not about peppers and onions.

00:49:16.400 And I think that nothing wrong with putting peppers and onions in the chili, but this is

00:49:20.400 about the beef and everything should be in service to the beef.

00:49:25.040 Uh, everything should bring the, the, the mind and the heart and the soul back to the beef

00:49:31.060 while enjoying it.

00:49:33.500 So always remember that, uh, we will end on that inspirational note.

00:49:39.580 Thanks everybody for watching.

00:49:40.700 Thanks for listening.

00:49:42.040 I'll talk to you next week.

00:49:43.340 Godspeed.

00:49:43.640 Godspeed.

00:49:56.720 Hey everybody.

00:49:57.660 I'm Andrew Klavan, host of the Andrew Klavan show.

00:49:59.900 You know, some people are saying that the last season of American democracy is not as good

00:50:04.160 as some of the others.

00:50:04.900 When the show opened, we had characters like Thomas Jefferson and George Washington expounding

00:50:09.540 brilliant ideas and living lives of admirable courage and virtue.

00:50:13.420 Now we have a bunch of clowns doing reality TV and yet things are going well. 0.80

00:50:17.980 It's kind of a mystery. 0.94

00:50:19.000 We'll talk about it on the Andrew Klavan show.

00:50:20.660 I'm Andrew Klavan.

00:50:21.940 I'm Andrew Klavan.

The Matt Walsh Show - May 23, 2019

Ep. 266 - Speaking In Code

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