The Matt Walsh Show - May 29, 2019


Ep. 267 - Dreaming Of The Day When We Can Stop Talking About The Mueller Report


Episode Stats

Length

46 minutes

Words per Minute

181.68173

Word Count

8,392

Sentence Count

584

Misogynist Sentences

16

Hate Speech Sentences

18


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, we just cannot escape the Mueller report when it comes down to it.
00:00:05.120 And today Mueller came out and he addressed the media. What did we learn from what he said? Not
00:00:09.360 much, but we'll talk about it anyway. Also, I have a couple of things to say about the media's
00:00:13.720 attempts to tie Ben Shapiro to Nazism. I think there's one point about all of that that some
00:00:20.780 people are missing. And so I want to address that today as well. And finally, feminists say that we
00:00:25.480 need to start talking more about periods. Are they right or are they insane? We're thinking
00:00:33.860 that. We'll talk about that today as well on the Matt Wall Show. Well, I'm glad to be back. I hope
00:00:41.920 you all had a wonderful Memorial Day. Mine was not as wonderful, given that I had this little addition
00:00:54.100 to the family. Now I'm gonna be stuck in this chair for the rest of the day because the crutches are
00:01:00.380 over there. I have a sustained, a possibly severe leg injury, which pending MRI results might require
00:01:07.000 surgery and months of rehab. And I did all of this during my friend's bachelor party, which I know,
00:01:14.500 see, that's the thing that's bad about it. It's so cliche, you know, that I would come back from a
00:01:18.120 bachelor party injured. We went to Deep Creek Lake in Maryland for a couple of days for a good friend
00:01:24.320 of mine who's getting married, knowing him for probably 25 years or so. Very excited, very happy
00:01:30.020 for him. And, you know, the weekend went well, but I did, towards the end of the weekend, rupture my
00:01:37.080 Achilles, we think. You know, still got to wait for the MRI results to come back. But the worst thing
00:01:42.280 about it is, well, the worst thing about it is that my foot is swollen like a, like an ugly foot balloon
00:01:48.780 and I can't walk on it. And I've been crawling around the house for the last three days. Um, but
00:01:54.520 the second worst thing about it is that it happened at a bachelor party, but it's, it's, I have no cool
00:02:00.280 bachelor party story about it. It's not like I, you know, I woke up in a drainage ditch with a sombrero
00:02:06.360 on and a scuba diving suit or something, and my leg was broken and I didn't know what happened.
00:02:11.300 Um, it wasn't anything like that. I was playing pickup basketball. That was all it was. And, um,
00:02:15.940 uh, played a pretty good game, uh, caught a couple, you know, uh, got a couple rebounds and made a few
00:02:21.380 points. We only played till 11, so I got like 30% of the points. No big deal. Went up for a rebound
00:02:25.540 towards the end of the game, came down, heard a pop, uh, kind of like, it's like a pop slash crunch
00:02:30.340 sound. It's almost like if you, if you can imagine jumping up and landing on an empty shoe box or
00:02:35.700 something, that's, that's the only thing I can compare it to. And, uh, when I first heard the sound,
00:02:39.740 I thought that was a weird sound. What was that sound? And then I felt excruciating pain and I
00:02:44.160 thought, Oh, that sound was me. I made that sound somehow. And then I fell onto the ground
00:02:47.660 and, uh, fast forward, go to the emergency room, so on and so forth. And, um, anyway, here we are.
00:02:53.860 Um, a lot of people have asked me, Matt, do you recommend tearing the Achilles? Uh, is it a fun
00:03:02.780 experience? Is that something that you would like to do again? And I have to say that honestly,
00:03:06.660 I don't like it that much. It's not, it hasn't been all that fun. Um, surprisingly, I would have
00:03:13.260 to give it a negative Yelp review. Uh, crutches also, I'm not excited about them. I always thought
00:03:19.260 crutches seemed to be honest. When I saw people on crutches, I used to think those look kind of fun
00:03:24.340 and, uh, but they're not actually, it turns out they, they're not fun at all. Although I did get
00:03:29.380 a few days ago, one of those or yesterday, actually I got, uh, went to the medical supply store. I got
00:03:34.740 one of those, um, knee scooters, which is the newest technology for cripples. And, uh, so you can
00:03:41.820 kind of scoot around the house. Now that is pretty fun. So with that, I'll say when I'm on the knee
00:03:46.540 scooter, I honestly feel bad for you people who have your intact Achilles that you don't get to
00:03:51.740 experience a new scooter, you suckers. Uh, so in the end, maybe I win. All right. There's a lot to,
00:03:57.540 a lot to talk about, um, aside from my medical issues. But before we get to that, I want to tell
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00:05:55.800 today. I said, exciting. Maybe that's not the right word. I need to check my thesaurus. Uh,
00:06:01.420 I actually, if I live the rest of my life and never hear the words Mueller or report or those
00:06:08.560 two combined, especially again, I will die a happy man because I'm so tired of the, of
00:06:13.260 the subject. I thought we were past it. In fact, I was ready to do the show today. And
00:06:17.780 then it was announced that, Oh, Mueller's going to speak. And I was like, okay, well, I guess
00:06:20.860 I gotta, we gotta wait, put off the show. I gotta watch this stupid speech and then talk
00:06:25.340 about it. Um, because I just, I don't, I get it right. I think we all get it at this point
00:06:32.080 with the Mueller thing. If you're an intelligent person, if you've been paying attention, if you're
00:06:36.680 willing to absorb the facts and form your opinion based on those facts, if you're that kind of
00:06:44.220 person, then you already get it with this. You, you, you understand the deal. Um, and so we don't
00:06:49.700 need to talk about it anymore. And we didn't need another, another, uh, press conference, which
00:06:55.220 wasn't even really a press conference because he didn't take any questions, but we got one anyway.
00:06:58.320 Um, and according to the media, this was what I kept hearing leading up to the address from
00:07:07.160 Mueller is that this will be the first time that we hear from Mueller since the investigation began.
00:07:12.740 It's gonna be the first time we hear from him. Well, call me crazy, but I seem to remember
00:07:17.220 Mueller releasing a 400 page report like a month ago. And so he spoke pretty substantially through
00:07:25.080 that. I feel like this is not the first time we've heard from him. This is the first time we've
00:07:29.540 heard from him aside from besides the 400 pages worth of stuff that we heard from him. So except
00:07:38.260 for those 400 pages, uh, yeah, this is the first time. And he got up, he basically summarized what
00:07:44.500 was in the report. I'm not going to play any of the clips because it doesn't matter. Um, you can find
00:07:48.820 those anywhere, but I think he was highlighting two things. He was highlighting number one, that the
00:07:54.100 Russians did interfere in our election. Important point. Uh, one that I think we, most of us already
00:08:00.220 knew. And, um, uh, two, he also highlighted that Trump was not exonerated of obstruction. This was
00:08:10.200 not a, he has not been exonerated. Uh, Mueller said that if they had found solid reason to believe
00:08:16.720 that Trump was innocent of the charges of obstruction, then they would have said so. They did not say so.
00:08:22.100 So, you know, you could put two and two together there. He explained that a sitting president
00:08:26.540 cannot be charged with a federal crime anyway, regardless of whether he committed one. And so
00:08:31.920 they weighed that in their decision, uh, their decision not to sort of accuse him of anything.
00:08:37.340 And he also said it would be unfair to, uh, because if you can't charge a president with a crime,
00:08:42.980 that means there can't be a trial. And so if there can't be a trial, then if you just put those
00:08:47.400 accusations out there, there's not going to be any, there can't be a process to figure out if,
00:08:52.800 if it's true or not. And so, um, the accused can't really defend himself in the court of law
00:08:58.020 in that case. So they decided it was unfair. And so that's why they just made the decision they did
00:09:02.040 to not really address one way or another, whether or not they think the president committed
00:09:07.420 obstruction, uh, which, which seems to possibly imply that if president Trump was private citizen
00:09:16.120 Trump, they very likely may have charged him with a crime. So what does all, what does this all mean?
00:09:23.880 Um, I think if we're to summarize, it means that when Democrats say that Trump colluded with the
00:09:29.900 Russians, they're lying because there was no evidence of that. The report didn't say that,
00:09:35.640 uh, you can't just accuse him of that as if you have information that it's true because you don't.
00:09:42.840 Okay. So that's one thing. Uh, but it also means that when Republicans, including Trump himself
00:09:49.780 claim that the report was a total exoneration, which of course, Trump has said many times that
00:09:54.980 also is just a lie. It's not, uh, Mueller is the guy who wrote the report. And he said very clearly,
00:10:01.500 it's not an exoneration, not exonerating him. So that's also a lie. Uh, so people are lying on both
00:10:06.860 sides and, and that's, uh, wonderful as always now putting, putting aside for a minute, one other
00:10:16.140 thing that occurs to me, putting aside Trump and Mueller for a minute, just, it seems crazy to me that
00:10:24.100 we can't, that you can't charge a president with a crime. That to me, uh, is, is, is un-American.
00:10:32.960 No matter who the president is, I don't care who it is. I don't care what their party is,
00:10:37.440 but that's one aspect of this that shouldn't be lost. As I said, putting Trump to the side,
00:10:43.620 just this, the whole idea that in general, you can't charge a president with a crime. Well,
00:10:48.380 what if a president commits a crime? Maybe Trump didn't, but what if a president actually does commit
00:10:53.580 a crime? You're telling me that you can't charge him? He, so the president really is above the law.
00:11:00.800 That to me doesn't make any sense. How is the president any different from a dictator in that
00:11:04.820 case? How is our system really that much different from having a military dictator
00:11:10.060 who is above the law and cannot be held responsible for what he does? It sounds like we've got a similar
00:11:16.620 system. And, um, I think that there's some changes need to be made there. The president in the end is
00:11:24.920 just a man like the rest of us, and he should be subject to the same laws, period.
00:11:32.720 What else is there to say here? I mean, if you, as I said, if you are willing
00:11:37.320 to listen to the facts and form your conclusions based on those facts, then you've already heard
00:11:48.580 everything that you need to hear with this. The problem is that of course, I think there may be
00:11:53.260 four or five people in the entire country who fall into that category. Everybody else, uh,
00:11:58.620 their opinions are going to be formed, not really based on the facts, but based on their partisan
00:12:02.420 loyalties based on how they feel about Trump pro or con and that sort of thing. And that's where
00:12:07.740 they're going to form their opinions. And that's probably the main reason why I find this constant
00:12:13.060 discussion of the Mueller report. So agonizingly, uh, painful because it, it, it doesn't matter.
00:12:21.460 You know, 99% of the people engaged in the conversation, they already formed their opinions
00:12:27.260 before there was any investigation, before there was any report, before anything, their opinions
00:12:31.160 have already been formed and not based on any evidence or facts or anything.
00:12:37.660 And that's how most of our conversations go about most subjects in this country.
00:12:42.840 That most of the people engaging the conversation, they have, they have, they have formed those
00:12:46.940 opinions based on something other than facts. And that's why the conversations don't go anywhere.
00:12:53.720 And so I'm going to move on from this one. Um, so I'm a few days late on this, but I wanted to
00:12:58.080 mention one thing about it because I think there's an element, um, to the Ben Shapiro, uh, Nazi story
00:13:06.280 that, that is being missed. So as you probably heard, an anti-Semite neo-Nazi in Indiana was
00:13:13.220 sentenced, uh, to, I think it was three years in prison a couple of days ago for vandalizing a
00:13:18.800 synagogue, um, in a hate crime. And he, he spray painted, uh, I believe he spray painted a swastika
00:13:24.960 and other Nazi symbols on a, on a synagogue. Um, and he's going to prison for good reason for,
00:13:30.580 for three years. Now, Buzzfeed in the Washington Post, they both tried to tie the crime to Ben Shapiro,
00:13:37.260 who is of course an Orthodox Jew. Um, they both reported that the Nazi synagogue vandalizer
00:13:44.660 was radicalized by, among other people, Ben Shapiro. Now this of course turns out to be
00:13:49.920 totally wrong. Uh, it turns out that the guy himself, the Nazi never mentioned anything about
00:13:54.900 Ben Shapiro. Instead, his lawyer in, in one document throw, threw Shapiro's name into it,
00:14:01.900 claiming that his wife, that the Nazi's wife read Shapiro or something. And this is obviously just a
00:14:08.540 weird attempt by the lawyer to deflect blame, which makes sense for the lawyer to do. That's,
00:14:14.680 that's the job of a defense lawyer. That's why you hire one to deflect blame from yourself.
00:14:19.200 And so that's what the defense lawyer is doing. But for the media to take this claim
00:14:24.240 and run with it uncritically is just, I mean, words cannot describe it. There is simply no way
00:14:34.500 that an anti-Semite Nazi would be a fan of an Orthodox Jew and outspoken defender of Israel.
00:14:41.840 There is, there is no way. Um, period. It's, it's a crazy claim. And a lot of people have pointed
00:14:49.380 that out, of course. The only thing that I'd like to add to this discussion is just one brief thought.
00:14:56.420 Um, we may think that it seems crazy when the left tries to tie Ben Shapiro to Nazism, um,
00:15:04.560 or, or, you know, any other non-Nazi, or they try to say, oh, this person's a Nazi,
00:15:08.700 but it's only crazy when you actually understand Nazism. And when you use words like Nazi and
00:15:16.600 Nazism in an accurate and rational way. Now, if that's the, the angle that you're approaching this
00:15:22.000 from, then yeah, there's no way that you could bridge that gap between Nazism and an Orthodox Jew
00:15:27.780 and try to claim that there's some sort of relationship there. Um, but, but that's not
00:15:34.480 how the left operates. That's what we need to understand. When they use the word Nazi or Nazism,
00:15:41.900 they don't mean it the way that a person who strives for accuracy in their language might mean it.
00:15:49.020 So keep in mind that the left has turned Nazism into a broad category, which encompasses, well,
00:15:56.960 it encompasses actual Nazism. So they will call an actual Nazi, a Nazi, but then it also includes
00:16:03.520 literally any view or perspective that they find objectionable. So they have, they've, they've
00:16:09.220 brought in this category into oblivion, um, to take it, you know, it's started by meaning a specific,
00:16:16.760 you know, a Nazi is a Nazi, someone who's historically either affiliated with the Nazi
00:16:21.760 party or someone who now is an outspoken, um, sympathizer of the Nazi party's agenda. That's
00:16:29.780 what a Nazi is. But on the left, it's gone from meaning that to meaning, uh, well, a Nazi has become
00:16:41.740 just sort of shorthand for a guy with opinions that I find abhorrent.
00:16:48.460 That's what a Nazi is now, at least in a lot of people's minds. So in that sense, sure, uh, Ben
00:16:55.420 Shapiro can inspire Nazis. He can be a Nazi. You can be a Nazi. I can be a Nazi. Half of the country
00:17:01.840 are Nazis. The president is a Nazi. Um, because that's what Nazi means to, to, to a lot, to a lot
00:17:09.100 of people. When they say it, they just mean, well, these are all people who have opinions that I
00:17:13.420 disagree with. I find their opinions terrible. I also find the opinions of Nazis to be terrible.
00:17:19.200 And so they both have terrible opinions. And so they're the same. Um, that's the equation. And so
00:17:24.900 that's how you end up with, um, in the, again, in the minds of a, of a leftist, you, you end up with a,
00:17:30.420 you know, according to them, there are probably 150 million Nazis living in this country. Uh, and it's
00:17:35.720 very easy to get lumped in there. Now in reality, of course, there are thankfully only a very,
00:17:43.920 very small number of actual neo-Nazis in the country. Uh, they are a fringe group, a very
00:17:49.780 small group, a dangerous group as we've seen, but, but fringe and small. Um, but if you think
00:17:58.920 of someone as Nazi just means, well, this is someone I disagree with, all of a sudden they're
00:18:06.220 not so fringe anymore. How do we, how do we end up in this place where, uh, the word Nazi has become
00:18:14.780 this catch-all phrase where people who have nothing to do at all with historical Nazism and do not
00:18:23.140 sympathize at all with any of its agenda can, can somehow get lumped into that, in that category,
00:18:29.900 put under that umbrella. How do we end up this way? Uh, well, I think it's through two things,
00:18:34.160 mainly one is the cheapening, the cheapening of language, which is something that I've talked
00:18:39.560 about a lot. Uh, plenty of people have talked about it where it's not just the word Nazi. It's,
00:18:44.520 there are many words now, um, that have the definition of those words has been expanded
00:18:51.820 to the point of meaninglessness. And we could list a hundred words like that. How about a word like
00:18:58.180 human or a term like human rights, uh, is one. And there, there are so many, um, where people,
00:19:06.260 there's a sort of lack of literacy, uh, even among people who technically can read, but they don't,
00:19:13.140 they don't sit down and read books. They read memes and tweets and that sort of thing and text
00:19:17.100 messages. And so their, their, their vocabulary has shrunk down, um, considerably. And they only
00:19:24.080 have a few words to use to describe an emotion or to, or to, uh, convey their opposition to a point
00:19:32.820 of view. There are only a few words they have at their disposal. And one of those words, if they
00:19:39.020 want to convey their opposition, one of the words is, Oh, Nazi, they only, they have that word and
00:19:43.820 like three others. And so those are the only ones they have to choose from. So we have these, this,
00:19:48.660 uh, shrinking of, of vocabulary, cheapening of language, and that's what leads to it. And then
00:19:54.040 also an ignorance of history. Uh, we all know the word Nazi. We all, I think, well, I was going to say,
00:20:03.120 we all know the basic facts of World War II, but that, that actually probably isn't true. Uh, but
00:20:08.180 we all know that World War II happened. We know that the Nazis were involved in it. That's probably
00:20:11.860 the extent of a lot of people's knowledge. And that's the problem that although we use this word
00:20:16.100 all the time, and we refer back to this historical event all the time, how many people have actually
00:20:21.460 sat down to say, okay, let me understand what actually happened in World War II. What happened
00:20:27.620 with the Nazis? Who, who were they? What were they doing? How did they come? Where did they come
00:20:32.920 from? How could this possibly have happened? Now, these are very important questions and they're so
00:20:39.760 important that hundreds and hundreds of books have been written about them. And it's really worth your
00:20:46.280 time to go and read some of those books. A book that I've, uh, I think I've got it on the shelf back
00:20:50.720 there that I've recommended before is, uh, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. Now, when it comes to a book
00:20:56.540 that helps you to understand, uh, where Nazism came from and how it was able to take over, uh, uh,
00:21:05.580 Germany and, and, and then threaten to take over Europe from there, uh, there probably is no better
00:21:11.580 book to understand that than The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. I mean, it's a, it's a horrifying
00:21:16.460 and depressing story, of course. So it's not a fun read, but it's an important one. So my suggestion is
00:21:22.900 if you're going to go and run around and, and, and use this word Nazi all the time and just
00:21:28.700 throw it out willy nilly, like it doesn't mean anything, maybe it might be worth your time to
00:21:34.600 actually sit down and understand what that word means and who these people were. Because I think
00:21:41.900 if you do that, you're, you know, if you sit down and read a book like The Rise and Fall of the Third
00:21:46.920 Reich, you, you would not be able to read that book, put it down and then go out and so flippantly
00:21:53.300 use this word and, and just accuse anyone of being a Nazi, accuse Ben Shapiro of being a Nazi. You
00:21:58.660 wouldn't be able to do it because you now would have a certain, a certain amount of wisdom and
00:22:02.940 understanding. Um, and there's just no way that you would do something that's stupid.
00:22:09.460 So maybe we should all expand our vocabulary a little bit, um, struggle to strive to understand
00:22:17.260 history, understand the words and terms we use and the events that we refer to. Uh, and, and I think
00:22:23.300 we would all benefit from that. All right. Um, okay. But by the way, do you know who Eric Saul Swalwell is?
00:22:32.040 It's okay if you don't, because nobody does. He's, he's running for president and he's polling at,
00:22:36.660 I think, I think he's polling at 0% last time I saw, but he's attempting to see if he can
00:22:42.540 basically grovel his way into the White House. Hasn't panned out so far, but, uh, it's kind of,
00:22:49.960 it's, it's hilarious though. I'm glad he's in the race because he's trying to grovel his way in,
00:22:53.880 doesn't work. And so he just picks, he just turns up the groveling even more and more,
00:22:58.320 making it more and more intense, hoping, hoping that, uh, that somehow it will, it will flip the switch
00:23:04.200 eventually. It's pretty funny to watch. Um, here's the latest example. Look at this.
00:23:08.940 Why should another white guy be president? Well, a white guy who doesn't see other identities or
00:23:14.940 understand other experiences should not be president. I do. Uh, and you know, where there
00:23:20.560 would be gaps in my knowledge or my experience, I will pass the mic to people, uh, you know, who do
00:23:26.200 have that experience. Now, here's the thing about going around parading your white guilt.
00:23:33.840 It's not going to achieve what you hope it will achieve because the people who hate white people
00:23:40.800 will still hate you. Uh, they're bigots and you're not going to escape their bigoted wrath by debasing
00:23:48.440 yourself. Some, anyone out there who really just hates white men, and there are plenty of people
00:23:54.120 like that. You're not going to apologize them, apologize your way into their good graces. Now,
00:24:01.580 I don't even know why you'd want to. I have, if there's anyone out there who hates white men,
00:24:06.180 I have, and they don't like me, I'm fine with that. I have no, I don't, I don't care if they don't
00:24:10.020 like me. I have no interest in being liked by them. I don't want to be their friend. I don't,
00:24:14.620 I, it's, it's, if you're like that, I just, I don't want to be around you. I'm perfectly fine
00:24:18.260 with you hating me. Um, I'm going to make no attempt whatsoever to make you feel better about
00:24:24.140 me because I don't care. Your opinion, as you, in this case, as someone who hates white men,
00:24:29.180 you as a sexist bigot, uh, your opinion means nothing to me whatsoever. Your opinion is worthless.
00:24:37.480 It's, it is, it is, it is the most worthless thing in the world, honestly. And so I don't care.
00:24:44.620 But if for some reason you do care, you should just realize that, uh, debasing yourself in front
00:24:50.320 of them isn't going to work. And then everyone else who doesn't hate white people, the people
00:24:55.640 who are not sexist bigots, uh, they're, they're, they're, they will look at you and cringe. They're
00:25:01.540 going to be embarrassed for you. So you impress no one. There is honestly no category of people
00:25:08.840 who are going to be impressed by this kind of thing. Now the sexist bigots, um, they might take
00:25:18.560 some kind of, and maybe this is where the confusion comes from. The sexist bigots, they do demand that
00:25:25.780 white men apologize for being white men like Eric Swalwell does. Uh, so they might take some kind of
00:25:32.020 smug satisfaction in seeing you do that. So that's true, but they're still going to hate you at the end
00:25:39.580 of it. That, that part won't change. So you have made them happy because that they, they, they, you've
00:25:46.640 humiliated yourself and they enjoyed watching it. Um, because they're, because they're bigots, but
00:25:53.280 the fact that they're bigots isn't going to change. That's the point. So it's just not going to work.
00:25:58.860 And, uh, it certainly won't win you the presidency. I'm afraid as much as I would enjoy having, uh,
00:26:04.120 an Eric Swalwell, uh, presidency. All right. Speaking of cringe, and this one, this is pretty,
00:26:13.080 this is pretty cringe. I'm warning you. CBS has a documentary out right now called period.
00:26:20.540 I think the documentary is just called period. Uh, but then the, uh, or maybe it's period half the
00:26:27.380 population has one, but no one talks about it. That's apparently the full title of it. It's like
00:26:31.440 the subtitle period. Half the population has one, but no one talks about it. And it's a documentary
00:26:36.080 that, uh, talks about periods and how periods shouldn't be a taboo subject. And we need to
00:26:41.560 talk about it. And, um, there needs to be less unfairness because it's unfair that women get periods
00:26:47.100 and men don't. And, um, and well, here's a brief clip from that, from that documentary. Um,
00:26:52.960 this is, uh, featuring a woman named Busy Phillips, who is famous, I think somehow,
00:26:58.460 for some reason, watch this. Something that happens to half of the population once a month
00:27:05.040 shouldn't be a taboo subject. I think, I mean, to be totally honest, and I'm sure I'm not the first
00:27:10.400 person to say this, but like if men had their periods, it would be like celebrated, you know,
00:27:15.560 it would be like a holiday. They would get the week off of work and probably the week before,
00:27:20.820 and then like the four days after their period ends so that they could recover. I, it would just
00:27:25.440 be a different, it would just be a different experience. But men do not get periods. Women
00:27:31.260 get periods. Yes. It's just like so unfair. It's so unfair. You know, if men got periods,
00:27:40.320 if men got periods, it'd be like celebrated. That's my Busy Phillips impression. Pretty good,
00:27:45.780 huh? I'm still workshopping it. I'm working on a little bit. Um, so there you go. We need to,
00:27:50.820 we need to, oh my gosh, her voice is just, can you, I mean, they should take her down to Guantanamo
00:27:56.840 and have her interrogate suspected terrorists because I would not be able to, if I had any kind
00:28:05.300 of secret and she came in with that voice, I'd break in five minutes. I would just tell you
00:28:11.540 everything. I don't care. I'd tell you what, you know, whatever it is. I'll, I'll give up. I'll just,
00:28:15.300 yeah. Um, I'll betray any secret just to get out of that in five minutes. Uh, okay. So we need to
00:28:21.840 talk about periods more. We need to celebrate them. Um, I've also been told many times, including,
00:28:27.720 including yesterday, as I was arguing about this on Twitter, I was told that it's not fair that
00:28:32.180 products for periods, uh, cost money and are taxed. And that shouldn't be the case. Uh, tampons should
00:28:38.540 be untaxed and possibly even free because if there were any men, if there were any men only products,
00:28:45.500 uh, they would be untaxed. I was told they'd be tax free if men had men only products, but there are
00:28:52.500 no men only products apparently, uh, because only women have unique sanitation needs. So it's unfair.
00:28:58.540 And that's the claim. Let me see if I can unpack this a little bit. Um,
00:29:03.880 I can't believe that we need to talk about this, but, but fine, I'm game. Let's, let's talk about
00:29:09.220 it. Number one, do we actually need to talk about periods? Now I, I say this as a man and I understand
00:29:20.280 that. Although, and I'm like, I'm just leaving aside the fact that you just heard in the clip
00:29:25.700 there. Well, men don't get periods. Women do. No. How many times do I have to say it to leftists?
00:29:31.560 You're not allowed to say things like that anymore. You can't. I forbid it. You're not
00:29:35.960 allowed to say it. You can't, you, that's not what you believe. Remember? That is not your own
00:29:41.500 belief system. How many times do I have to remind you of your own belief system? That's not what you
00:29:46.920 believe. No, you think that men can have periods. Remember? Remember that whole thing? You can't just
00:29:51.760 put that to the side. You can't do that. Uh, no, you, you, you can't. Um, or unfortunately you can.
00:30:00.920 Now, if, if, if we're up to me that you wouldn't be able to, uh, if I, if I could impose, you know
00:30:06.740 what? Yeah. If I could impose intellectual consistency by law, if I could force it by law,
00:30:12.620 if I could punish, if I could legally punish intellectual inconsistency, I would, if I could
00:30:18.260 put people in jail for it, I would. That's how much I hate it. That's how much I hate it. When people,
00:30:24.340 when they say one thing here and then they make another argument that completely contradicts
00:30:28.380 that argument, yet they try to keep that argument intact. They try to keep both and just switch back
00:30:33.380 and forth. No, you're not allowed to. You don't think that busy Phillips.
00:30:40.480 You like, don't think that. Okay. That's not actually like your point of view. All right.
00:30:47.140 Okay. Actually men can get periods. Just if maybe I need to express it in language, you'll
00:30:53.840 understand. Uh, so, but I'm going to, I'm going to try to put that to the side as much
00:30:58.160 as the intellectual consistency enrages me with a deep fiery anger. I am going to try
00:31:06.860 to suppress it. We'll put that to the side. Okay. Um, so we need to talk about periods. All
00:31:15.280 right. What do you need to say about it? What, what do you need to tell us exactly about your bodily
00:31:24.240 functions? I mean, what is, what do you think the conversation will consist of? What does it need
00:31:32.420 to consist of? How much discussion do we need to have? Because I feel like we do actually talk about
00:31:39.080 it a lot. Now, CBS does a documentary. No one talks about periods. Well, first of all, even if
00:31:45.800 nobody did talk about them, great, who cares? But what do you, but people do talk about them. I mean,
00:31:49.620 you just made a documentary about them. There's, there aren't a lot of documentaries about other
00:31:53.700 bodily functions. Where is the flatulence documentary? Flatulence. Everyone has it. No one talks about it.
00:32:01.400 Um, no. So if people do talk about it, it seems to me people talk about it a lot. Now, ladies,
00:32:07.200 you can correct me, but is, is it not the case that this is actually something that women talk
00:32:12.280 about? Am I just imagining things? Um, now generally speaking though, and maybe this is what you're
00:32:21.000 kind of picking up on. It is not considered polite or decent or normal to go around in public talking
00:32:28.120 about your bodily functions, any bodily function. It doesn't matter what the function is, especially
00:32:33.240 any bodily function that involves any bodily fluid excreting from any part of your body. I'm not
00:32:39.160 trying to be graphic here, but, but I mean, if I have to explain these basic rules of social decorum,
00:32:46.320 then I will. If, if, if anything is happening, if there is any kind of fluid, um, exiting your body in
00:32:55.220 any form whatsoever, then that's not something you need to have a discussion about. Okay. I'll make
00:33:02.920 an exception. If you just got shot and there is blood pouring out of your stomach. Okay. Then yes,
00:33:10.340 you probably should talk about that to somebody like for instance, 9-1-1 and then the doctor. So
00:33:15.040 that is something that needs to be discussed. But for the most part, uh, it's, it's not something you
00:33:21.480 need to go around talking to other people about, you know, if you're, if you pass by someone in the
00:33:25.960 supermarket, you don't need to stop them and say, can I tell you about my bodily fluids? You don't
00:33:31.300 need to. There's no reason. Because here's the thing, the person that you, that's passing by you in
00:33:35.900 the supermarket, they, I can guarantee you 100% of the time they don't need to hear about it. They
00:33:41.920 don't want to, uh, it, they definitely weren't wondering when they were, they weren't passing by you
00:33:48.280 and thinking, I wonder what's going on with that person's bodily fluids. I hope they'll tell me
00:33:51.500 about it. They, they weren't thinking that I guarantee you, they weren't thinking, you know
00:33:55.640 what they were thinking? They were thinking, oh, where's the spaghetti aisle? They must've moved
00:33:58.820 the spaghetti. You know, that's what they're thinking. Something like that. Not about you,
00:34:02.780 especially not about your fluids. So that's the first thing. Um, there are many fluids that come
00:34:08.680 out of many areas of the body. And generally we don't throw a parade to celebrate it. Like nobody
00:34:14.360 goes, uh, nobody goes, Hey, I'm sweating under my armpit. Hey everybody, look, sweat, throw a
00:34:19.180 parade, call the press, call the president. Say hooray, hooray for me. No one does that. No one
00:34:26.040 does it because that would be gross and weird. And, and you know, there's a reason why we tend to think
00:34:33.520 of bodily fluids as gross. Um, there's actually a good reason. Now I know you say, well, we should break
00:34:40.840 the taboo. It's normal. Everyone does it. Yeah. But it's, it's, it's actually still gross and it's
00:34:46.140 important. It's important that we think it's gross because any kind of bodily fluid carries germs and
00:34:54.920 diseases. And so that's why we have developed this strong desire to clean them and to keep them away
00:35:03.120 from other people and to be sanitary and to sort of isolate those things from other people because
00:35:11.180 it's, it's, it's, that's just basic sanitation. It's basic survival. Um, defecation is something
00:35:20.380 everyone does. Totally normal. It's also disgusting. And, uh, and there's a reason again, why we think
00:35:27.260 it's disgusting because if you didn't think that yours was disgusting, then you become a biohazard
00:35:33.320 to everybody around you. So should we break the taboo? No, no, let's keep the taboo in place.
00:35:39.680 That's a very good taboo that the taboo around, uh, you know, bowel movements. It's a great taboo.
00:35:45.980 I I'm a huge fan of that taboo because it means that if you've got to do that, you're going to go to a
00:35:50.240 private place, call it a bathroom, special little place picked out where you can go and you can take care
00:35:55.340 of that. Don't need to tell anybody. Don't need to announce it. Just go do it. Take care of it.
00:35:59.340 Wash your hands. Boom. Good. Taboo. Great. Um, just the second thing though, uh, because this,
00:36:07.980 this is, you, you've probably heard this before about how, well, uh, you know, women, women's, um,
00:36:13.320 sanitary products should be tax-free, uh, because a kind of a common idea now because it's a, it's a
00:36:19.420 necessity and it's unique to them and why should they be penalized and so on and so forth.
00:36:24.200 So, uh, this again is very stupid. First of all, toilet paper, as we've referenced, is a necessity
00:36:32.340 also, yet it's not free. Um, and it is taxed. Deodorant, I would think is a necessity for most
00:36:40.160 people and it is not free either and it's taxed. There is literally an entire industry. There is a
00:36:45.820 whole industry that produces these bathroom products and none of it is free. So why should
00:36:52.960 women's products be excluded from that? So, no, you're not asking for equality. Once again,
00:36:58.500 you're asking for special treatment. You want something everyone else doesn't get and men don't
00:37:04.560 have their own men, you know, men's products. Really? There is a whole aisle in any drug store
00:37:10.360 consisting of men's toiletry products. Okay. There's a, there's a whole aisle of it. None of it is
00:37:15.800 free. We, I got news for you. We can't just walk down that aisle and just grab whatever,
00:37:20.180 uh, old spice, just throw it in, walk out, not pay for it. It doesn't work that way. We got to pay
00:37:24.820 for it. It's taxed. That's the way it goes. Um, and by the way, men do have their own unique
00:37:31.400 hygiene and, and, and, uh, sanitation needs. For instance, we grow, as you can see thick beards
00:37:39.160 on our faces. Now, almost no woman does. Some women do grow some facial hair, but almost no woman
00:37:46.080 without the aid of drugs would grow this. I know there are a few exceptions out there, but you
00:37:53.000 know, back in the day, they used to be in circuses. Um, but almost no woman does. This is a pretty,
00:37:59.680 this is pretty unique to men, right? This whole situation right here. And, uh, here's the thing.
00:38:05.320 I'm a big beard supporter. Uh, as you know, I believe in beards. I think beards are great,
00:38:10.080 but I also know that I can't just let it go and, and do nothing for, for a month. Um, it's not like
00:38:18.280 with women where, you know, women like to brag that they'll go like a month in the winter and
00:38:21.940 not shave their legs because they can wear pants or a long skirt. Uh, we can't do that with the
00:38:27.080 hair on our face. This is unique to us. We have a unique situation. And, um, it's, it's the case for
00:38:32.380 pretty, pretty much any man with few exceptions that if, if, if pretty much any man were to go one or two
00:38:39.620 months without doing anything, any form of shaving or trimming on the face, uh, they would
00:38:45.520 look like Tom Hanks from Castaway and they would be unemployable. They would be outcasts in society.
00:38:53.760 Uh, they would look unkempt and, and, and bad and they'd be judged for it. So what do we need to do?
00:39:00.560 Uh, that means we need to, many of us every day, we got to trim the beard. You got to shave different,
00:39:06.640 you know, I would grow a whole like neck beard if I didn't shave this part right here. Uh, so,
00:39:11.380 and that's something we have to do every day. You know, it's, it's, it is basically a need that we
00:39:16.240 have in order to remain civilized members of society and to remain employable and all of these
00:39:22.780 other, other things. Uh, women don't have that need. Men do. Yet shaving products are extremely
00:39:31.060 expensive. Uh, if you've never had to buy male shaving products, they are expensive.
00:39:35.540 And, uh, and they give you, you, you, you get like a razor, then they give you one
00:39:41.360 extra blade and then the blade goes dull in about 32 seconds. And then you got to go out and buy a
00:39:47.820 whole pack of, of new blades and the new blades costs, you know, $170 a piece. I'm exaggerating
00:39:53.060 slightly, but it is expensive is the point. And, uh, we have to do it. It's not free. It's tax. We got
00:39:58.020 to do it. And that's just, that's just the way it is. It's, it's, am I going to say it's unfair?
00:40:03.220 Like when I'm shaving in the, in the morning, am I weeping? This is so unfair. Women don't have,
00:40:09.800 my wife doesn't have to do this. This is so unfair. No, I'm glad my wife doesn't have to do
00:40:16.320 this every morning. That would make me pretty upset. Okay. If I came in one morning and I saw
00:40:21.000 my wife with shaving cream all over her face, you know, doing this, that would make me cry.
00:40:25.620 That part, I would cry over that. Um, the fact that I'm the only one who shaves good for me.
00:40:30.200 I'm fine with that. That's just biology. It's not unfair. It's not inequality. No one's being
00:40:35.660 victimized. It's just, it's, it's just the hand you were dealt by, by, by, it is just the biological
00:40:43.980 hand you were dealt and all you can do is deal with it. All right. Uh,
00:40:49.960 let's see. We have a bunch of emails. Um,
00:40:56.120 don't have time for a lot of them, but okay, we'll do this one. This is a good question from Joe says,
00:41:02.240 uh, or Matt wall show at gmail.com is the email address. Matt wall show at gmail.com.
00:41:07.080 This is from Joe says, hello, Matt. I wanted to ask you two questions about very polarizing topics.
00:41:11.940 One, what are your top five favorite Western movies? I'm a huge fan of Westerns to what are
00:41:18.100 your favorite root beers? I'm just starting to get into trying different root beers. I'm looking
00:41:21.860 for suggestions. Uh, great questions, Joe. Okay. Favorite Westerns. I'm not going to put them in
00:41:26.980 order. I'll just give you my, you know, five, my five that I like the most, uh, five favorite.
00:41:34.140 All right. So the searchers Shane open range hostels. I'll put that as a new one. I'll put
00:41:44.100 that in there. Um, good, the bad and the ugly. Is that five or six already? And then I would also
00:41:50.580 put the assassination of Jesse James by the coward, Robert Ford. Um, which is, uh, not a standard
00:41:56.140 Western came out, you know, relatively recently came back in like 2006 or 2007. And, um, I thought
00:42:02.400 that was a very, with, uh, Casey Affleck and, and, uh, Brad Pitt as Jesse James. And that was a very
00:42:07.420 good movie too. Beautiful movie. Cinematography is just incredible in that movie. So that would be,
00:42:13.380 I think that's six that I named and surprisingly three of my six were made in the last or made in
00:42:19.720 this century, which is interesting. And then if I could include miniseries as well, I would say
00:42:25.840 lonesome dove, which my favorite Western story, uh, in any medium would be lonesome dove. So that
00:42:35.520 would be, it's not, not technically a movie, but I'd put that in number one. As far as root beers,
00:42:40.260 I'm no expert on the subject, but certainly as for mass produced root beers that you can get at the
00:42:44.400 grocery store, the IBC root beers in the glass bottles are clearly superior to any other offering
00:42:52.840 that you're going to find. And so I think that's obviously the answer there. Um,
00:42:56.920 and, uh, this is from Tim says, Matt, I've always been fascinated by other people's jobs.
00:43:04.680 I've always wondered what they do at work. A few questions for you. Okay. I'll try to,
00:43:10.620 I'll answer these as I read them because it's a bunch of questions. How many emails do you get?
00:43:15.840 Uh, it's hard to say. I say hundreds a week. I don't know exactly how many, I don't count.
00:43:19.420 Uh, do you read them all yourself or does someone read them for you and curate them?
00:43:23.540 Uh, curate them. I read the emails myself, but definitely not all of them. I'd say probably
00:43:27.160 read about 15% of them. Do you, uh, do you get, do you get a few to choose from and then pick the
00:43:31.760 ones that you want to answer? Well, again, I, I choose myself. I decide which ones to open based
00:43:37.820 on how interesting the subject line is. And then I decide from there. Um, how do you decide which to
00:43:43.040 pick? Well, if it's, so which to pick to answer on the show? Well, if it's a question I
00:43:49.300 haven't gotten before, then I'll, I'll almost definitely address it on the show. Um, regardless
00:43:55.220 of what the question is, even if it's not, it doesn't matter if it's just a question I haven't
00:43:58.540 had, um, like this one, if it's an interesting perspective on something, even if it's not a
00:44:04.120 question, like you don't have to email me a question. This isn't a question and answer
00:44:07.400 session necessarily. You could just have an opinion about something that we talked about
00:44:11.380 and, uh, I'll read that if it's a, if it's interesting and well-written. Um, and, uh,
00:44:17.860 and if it's funny, I'll read it. And, or if it's really vicious hate mail, most of the time I'll read
00:44:22.900 that stuff. Um, because I appreciate the effort and that's basically my front formula. And he says,
00:44:28.380 how far in advance do you prepare to answer an email? Uh, honestly, as you can probably tell,
00:44:32.780 not very far in advance at all. Like not, I don't prepare at all. Actually, I just, I put down the
00:44:37.620 emails I want to answer and I have them here on my computer and then I just answer. I read them
00:44:41.720 over once before I start the show, but I don't usually put a lot of effort into it, which is not
00:44:47.440 meant to be a, you know, it's, it's, it's just cause I'm lazy. It's the only reason. Um, how big is
00:44:53.180 your staff? Well, my staff consists of zero people. So that's how big it is. Uh, do they work at your
00:44:59.340 house? Well, I guess they don't because they don't exist. So this is my, this is my staff right here.
00:45:04.100 You can say, this is me. I am my, my staff. All right. Um, actually my staff now, I guess is the,
00:45:10.680 are the crutches that are on the ground there. Okay. I guess we'll leave it there. Uh, I had a
00:45:15.020 bunch of other interesting questions, including a question about this, this Martin Luther King stuff,
00:45:18.860 which, um, is pretty horrific, but I will leave that. We'll talk because that needs more time to
00:45:25.780 address. And I will leave that for tomorrow as well as the other emails. Um, thank you all for
00:45:30.860 watching. Godspeed. Hey everybody. It's Andrew Klavan, host of the Andrew Klavan show. Robert
00:45:49.140 Mueller has made a statement and James Comey has written an op-ed for the Washington Post and both
00:45:53.980 former FBI guys have made it clear. They don't like Donald Trump and they think their investigations
00:45:58.840 were peachy keen. And I think we should listen very carefully to what they have to say before we
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00:46:08.200 That's on the Andrew Klavan show plus the mailbag. I'm Andrew Klavan.