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

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 1.00

00:00:25.480 need to start talking more about periods. Are they right or are they insane? We're thinking 0.88

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 1.00

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 0.99

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, 0.94

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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00:05:47.560 and code Walsh for 15% off. All right. Um, well, this is, this is exciting. Robert Mueller spoke

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 1.00

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 1.00

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 0.83

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, 0.99

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 0.96

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, 0.57

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 0.52

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 0.99

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 0.99

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 0.91

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 0.97

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. 1.00

00:22:09.460 So maybe we should all expand our vocabulary a little bit, um, struggle to strive to understand 0.91

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 0.97

00:23:14.940 understand other experiences should not be president. I do. Uh, and you know, where there 0.98

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 0.97

00:23:40.800 will still hate you. Uh, they're bigots and you're not going to escape their bigoted wrath by debasing 0.98

00:23:48.440 yourself. Some, anyone out there who really just hates white men, and there are plenty of people 0.97

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, 0.79

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, 0.98

00:24:29.180 you as a sexist bigot, uh, your opinion means nothing to me whatsoever. Your opinion is worthless. 0.99

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. 0.70

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 0.91

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 0.76

00:25:25.780 white men apologize for being white men like Eric Swalwell does. Uh, so they might take some kind of 0.98

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 1.00

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 0.95

00:27:31.260 get periods. Yes. It's just like so unfair. It's so unfair. You know, if men got periods, 0.96

00:27:40.320 if men got periods, it'd be like celebrated. That's my Busy Phillips impression. Pretty good, 1.00

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 0.78

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 0.98

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 1.00

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, 0.78

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 0.96

00:35:33.320 to everybody around you. So should we break the taboo? No, no, let's keep the taboo in place. 0.96

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, 1.00

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. 0.99

00:36:24.200 So, uh, this again is very stupid. First of all, toilet paper, as we've referenced, is a necessity 0.99

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 1.00

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 0.80

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 1.00

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, 1.00

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 1.00

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 1.00

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 0.93

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, 1.00

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 1.00

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. 1.00

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 0.78

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

00:46:03.720 make a final decision as to how many of these guys we can send to prison where they belong.

00:46:08.200 That's on the Andrew Klavan show plus the mailbag. I'm Andrew Klavan.

The Matt Walsh Show - May 29, 2019

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

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