Ep. 268 - Cowardly Media Ignores Bombshell MLK Story
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A bombshell story about Martin Luther King Jr. that the media is completely ignoring. Does it mean we should start tearing down the MLK monuments? Also, the efforts to normalize pedophilia are full speed ahead in our society, and the latest example of that is truly horrifying.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, there is a bombshell story about Martin Luther King Jr. that the media
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is completely ignoring. We will talk about that story, though. We're not going to ignore it. We're
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going to talk about what it means, what we should do with it, how it affects his legacy. Does it
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mean we got to start tearing down the Martin Luther King Jr. monuments? We'll talk about all
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that. Also, the efforts to normalize pedophilia are full speed ahead in our society, and the latest
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example of that is truly horrifying. I'll share that with you today on the show. Also, finally,
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how many victimhood points do I earn now that I'm a cripple? That is a complicated subject
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for me as a white man. The mathematics can get very complicated, but we will try to sort through
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that and get to the bottom of that today as well on the Matt Wall Show. Okay, well, I have decided
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to do the whole show from now on with my crutches in the shot the whole time, and I figure it will
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make me a more, you know, sympathetic figure. Soften my image a little bit. I'm told that I'm,
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you know, I need to soften it a little bit. So, I mean, you can't send hate mail to a cripple,
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can you? So think about that. Whenever you're sitting down to write your hate mail, think about
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this, okay? Think about the, I'm on crutches, you monster. My leg, ow, my leg, the pain, the pain,
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curse you pain. Need to work on that a little bit. I, I'm usually a better actor than that.
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I'm sorry. I'll just, I'll have to develop it. So the point is, anyway, the point is just feel
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sorry for me because I am a victim. All right. Okay, let's, let's, I want to start with a story
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that is, that is horrific, uh, breathtaking, shocking, certainly newsworthy, I would think,
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yet it has been almost completely ignored, uh, by the American media, liberal and conservative
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media. In fact, the story broke on, um, I think it was Sunday or Monday and here we are on Thursday
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and still, I think most people in America aren't, aren't aware of it, have just simply have not heard
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of it because almost no media outlet will touch it. Um, it's been one of the most, and I know this
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is quite a statement, but I would say it's been one of the most spectacular displays of collective
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cowardice by our media in a long time. And that is saying something I realized. Uh, the story I'm
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referring to is about Martin Luther King Jr., a man who was canonized even before his death and
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certainly after his death has been given the status of something that I think goes beyond even saint
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to probably, uh, God. He's greater than a saint. He is, he's, he's more like an American God of sorts.
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Um, and of course, no, no mortal being can live up to that billing. No human being can be a deity
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or, or should be seen as a deity. Uh, and if reports, if the recent reports about Martin Luther King Jr.
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are true, then that goes, especially for him. Uh, now it's always been known by those who care to
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pay attention that MLK was a womanizer, um, an adulterer. So that, that part really isn't new.
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He had many, many affairs with, with many women, probably fathered an illegitimate child, had
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orgies in hotel rooms and that sort of thing. That stuff we knew, uh, at least informed people
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knew about that. And I suppose that those are the kinds of flaws that though they are very serious,
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I mean, these are very serious moral failings. If you, um, are not faithful to your wife,
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uh, are in fact serially unfaithful to your wife, then you have failed as a man in a, in, in,
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one of the most fundamental ways. Uh, you, if you have illegitimate children who you didn't even
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accept as your own children, you failed as a father as well. So you failed as a failing as a
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husband and a father is pretty serious failings. Um, but I think we, we, we generally accept,
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um, those kinds of failings in historical figures and maybe for good reason, because if we start
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requiring that all of our great historical figures also be chased, uh, and, and faithful to their
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spouses, although that's not that high of a bar to get over, if we started applying that bar, um,
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throughout history, I think we would find that we don't have very many people left to honor at all,
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which maybe wouldn't be a bad thing, but, um, but I don't know. There's more to the story though,
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with Martin Luther King Jr. It appears according to a new report, he wasn't just a womanizer. He
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wasn't just an adulterer. He was also a violent abuser, um, and an enthusiastic and approving witness
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of rape, uh, an accomplice in rape, perhaps even a rapist himself, depending on how we define our
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terms. I mean, I think there are a lot of people would say if you're an accomplice in rape, then
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you're a rapist. Um, so let me read now from the daily mail and I'm reading from the daily mail
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because again, the American media won't touch the story with a 10 foot pole. In fact, if you go
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right now to Google and try this, not right now, but after the show, uh, go Google Martin Luther
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King Jr. Click on the news tab on Google and scroll down and look at the, the, the outlets that are,
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uh, that have stories about Martin Luther King right now. Um, you're going to find stories in
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places like business insider, daily mail, Christian post, the independent. You're not going to see a CNN
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or NBC or, or one of those guys. So from the daily mail, um, just reading from the top of the article
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says listening through headsets into the bugged hotel suite next door, the small group of FBI
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agents couldn't quite believe the sordid events that were unfolding. It was January, 1964, and they
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were hearing what sounded like a pastor raping a female member of his congregation while his boss
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looked on laughing and offering advice. The voices of both men were familiar. According to the agents
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sitting in the Willard hotel, Washington DC, the rapist was an assistant to civil rights leader,
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Martin Luther King Jr. And his cohort, uh, or, and his chortling companion was the anti-racism
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icon himself. The man whose I have a dream speech delivered a year earlier continues to expire act,
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inspire activists to this day. Um, it goes on, but King's exalted status could be about to unravel
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for according to a Pulitzer prize-winning biographer of King newly released FBI files reveal
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that the binge drinking preacher had affairs with 40 to 45 women, uh, indulged in hotel room orgies
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and even fathered an illegitimate child. The documents also paint a violent picture of King
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whose lust could soon turn to anger. In May 1965, for example, one agent reported that the civil rights
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leader had gone to the home of one of his female staff and torn her clothes off of her in an apparent
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attempt to attack her. Um, now this biographer, uh, is David Garrow and he is not some crackpot.
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He's a Pulitzer prize-winning biographer of Martin Luther King Jr. He's a respected literary figure
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and that's who this is coming from. Uh, more a little bit later on in the article, it says,
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according to Garrow's research, the FBI planted transmitters and two lamps in the Willard hotel that
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King had booked for himself and his friends in January, 1964. When King arrived, his close friend,
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Logan curse, the pastor of a Baltimore Baptist church invited King and his friends to meet women
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parishioners of his church that he had brought to Washington with him. What followed was a disturbing
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act of sexual violence. The group met in his room and discussed which, which women among the
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parishioners would be suitable for natural or unnatural acts, said an FBI summary. Um, when one
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of the women protested, the Baptist minister immediately and forcibly raped her. It added King looked on
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laughed and offered advice. Uh, the following evening, say the files, King and his friends
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participated in a sex orgy involving 12 people at the hotel, um, included acts of degeneracy and
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depravity, uh, goes on from there. There was one woman who, uh, was, didn't want to participate.
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She tried to shy away from it, but King pressured her and, and told her that it would help her soul
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if she participated in the orgy. Um, some more details like that, uh, details with prostitutes
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and so on. Um, according to his friend, Ralph Abernathy, King spent the last night of his life
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with two lovers followed by an encounter with a third woman whom he knocked sprawling across his
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motel room bed after an argument. Uh, and, uh, there are more sordid details from there, but
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maybe you get the idea. This is a man who, according to, to this report is not only a
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womanizer, but not only an adulterer, but not only the father of an illegitimate child, but more
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importantly, someone who condoned and enjoyed watching rape, uh, which in my opinion does make
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him no different from a rapist. Uh, there's, I don't, I don't see any distinction really between a
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rapist and someone who, uh, cheers on, eggs on, gives advice to a rapist and watches. Well, you're
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a rapist too. And this is really no difference. Um, as someone who abused women, exploited them,
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someone who used his position as a pastor and civil rights leader to prey on women.
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that these stories are false, that they were made up by racist FBI agents to smear MLK. And it's true that,
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that, uh, there were plenty of people in law enforcement in those days and the government in
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those days who didn't like Martin Luther King Jr. because they were racist and they didn't like
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his agenda of what was his agenda. His agenda was civil rights, right? Equal rights. So that's,
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that's true. And you have to take that into consideration. But the problem with assuming
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that this is all made up because of racism is, well, there are a few problems. Number one,
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these stories are not all coming from the FBI. King's own friends and acquaintances give us some
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of these details. That bit about him, um, you know, knocking a woman down the night before his
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death in a fit of anger. Well, that's from his friend. That's not from, that's, uh, that's,
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that's, that's, that's not from, from FBI files. The FBI files, unfortunately, match up pretty well
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with the picture that is painted of King by people close to him. So it's, it, it, it fits in.
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So it's not as though you've got these FBI files and then everyone who knew King says,
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no, it's not the man I knew. That's crazy. That's, he never would have done anything like that.
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That's not what's happening here. Second thing is this report comes from, as I said,
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a respected and Pulitzer prize winning biographer of Martin Luther King Jr. Not somebody with a political
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agenda, not a white nationalist, neo-Nazi, something like that. Um, and number three,
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Garrow accessed FBI summaries of the tapes. The tapes themselves have been sealed until 2027. It's
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going to be another eight years before we get to hear these tapes ourselves. Um, but the significance
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of that is if the tapes are fabricated to smear Martin Luther King Jr., then why would they be
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sealed for 60 years? You know, you don't, you don't, if you're going to, if you're going to make
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up fake tapes to smear somebody, you don't file them away for a generation to make sure that nobody
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hears them. That doesn't make any sense. The fact that these things have been on their lock and key
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and have been a state secret for so long, uh, that only lends credibility to them because why,
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why else would we, uh, be locking these tapes up? If the tapes just contain Martin Luther King being a
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great guy, uh, and if there's a lot of great stuff in there about what a, what a wonderful duty was
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behind the scenes, then I think we would have heard these tapes a long time ago, like 50 years ago,
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60 years ago, but that's not the case. So while of course we can't say for sure, uh, we can't say
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that we know for sure just as we can't really know anything for sure about any historical figure. I
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mean, we can, we're only, we're only dealing with degrees of probability whenever we're talking about
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any detail of any historical figure's life because most of us weren't there to see any of it, right?
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But, uh, so that's the case, but it does seem like these stories about King are very credible
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and there is very good reason to believe them. Unfortunately, I don't want to believe them.
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Why would I want to? I don't, I don't think anybody wants to, uh, but, and I wouldn't want to believe,
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I really, it doesn't even matter who he would, he could have just been some random Joe Schmo. I
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wouldn't want to, but I don't want to believe this kind of stuff about anybody, whoever,
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matter who they are, uh, because it's, it's, it's horrible stuff, but there is good reason
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to believe them. Good factual reason. So then what then, you know, what do we do with it?
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Well, I'll tell you what we don't do with it, uh, or what we shouldn't do with it. We shouldn't
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ignore it. We shouldn't bury it. We shouldn't pretend that it never happened. Uh, we shouldn't
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continue along worshiping the man while plugging our ears so that none of these details can interfere
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with our, uh, devotional practices. We shouldn't do that. And we shouldn't do that because it's not
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honest. Uh, it's cowardly. It's wrong. It's just wrong. So do we go the other way? Do we rip down
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his statues? Do we take his name off of schools and streets and all of that? I mean, Martin Luther King's
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name and likeness and his statues and monuments are everywhere. So do we get rid of all that stuff?
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Well, if we're adopting a single standard, if we're adopting a single consistent standard, then yes,
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uh, then that's exactly what we do. If Thomas Jefferson, if Thomas Jefferson's murals have to
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come down, if Columbus statues have to come down, if Robert E. Lee comes down, if all of these men
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get that treatment, then why should MLK be exempt? There's just no good reason to exempt him.
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There just isn't. Sure. Their, their sins are not the same. Uh, when we're talking about these other
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guys I mentioned, their sins are racial. Uh, they were racists who in some fashion either condoned or
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participated in slavery. MLK wasn't that. Um, he was the opposite of that when it comes to the racial
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issue, but are his sins really better? I mean, what's worse slavery or rape? What's a, so what's
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worse to condone and cheer on slavery or to condone and cheer on the rape? I mean, is that a discussion
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you want to have? Because I don't, do you really want to get into ranking them and having that
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argument? Yeah, well, it's a rape, but it's not as bad as slavery. Uh, I would say that they are both
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hideously evil. Um, I, I don't know if much more of a moral distinction can be drawn between them.
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And, uh, so I think we just leave it at that. They are hideously evil acts.
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And so it can be said of Thomas Jefferson and Martin Luther King Jr. that they both
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condoned and participated in hideously evil acts that involved the, uh, exploitation, dehumanization,
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um, and violent abuse of other human beings. That's what we can say about both of those men.
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And if that's the standard, you know, if, if, if we have the one standard and we're using the
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standard that results in taking down Martin Luther King statues and murals, then yeah,
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MLK's monuments have to come down and his, his names have to come off the schools.
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There is another option. Okay. The other option is that we adopt one standard the other way
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that we keep the MLK monuments and we keep his names on the schools and on the streets.
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And we also keep the Jefferson monuments and we keep the Columbus monuments and we, we keep all of
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the monuments. Um, and we start to develop a mature, intelligent, nuanced view of these men.
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We stop idolizing them because no man should be idolized. We stop worshiping them because no man
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should be worshiped meant MLK included. We don't ignore their flaws because no man should have his
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moral failings ignored. Uh, we, we allow criticism because every man deserves criticisms for the, for
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the evil that he commits, even if he's dead, that doesn't make it any better. Um, if, if, if MLK
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condoned and participated in rapes and orgies and things like that, just because he's dead,
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that doesn't change the evil of those acts and they still deserve to be condemned. But, uh, we also
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recognize the greatness of their achievements. And we recognize that these are all men who did
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things that we could not do and, uh, things that had to be done, things that changed the course of
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history. Uh, we recognize that we honor these men because if they had never existed, the entire
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world would be different, uh, and probably for the worst, you know, uh, and that's why we honor
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them. And if that's the standard that we're, if that's what we're doing now, then yeah, we, then
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this, this information about MLK, it doesn't, it doesn't change anything with respect to his
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monuments and all that stuff, but it also can't change anything with that, with these other
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monuments either. And I think that's the way it's gotta be. You know, when, when, in my opinion,
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um, that third option is the way to go where maybe we just, we start being honest and, uh, and we,
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we develop, as I said, a nuanced view of these historical figures,
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which I think allows us to learn a lot more about history and a lot more from history.
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Um, and it, it just makes the historical pursuit a lot more fruitful when you're not worried anymore.
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And this is, this is one thing that I've realized about because, because, you know, I enjoy reading
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about history. Um, but very often when we pick up a book of history, no matter who it's about or
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whatever historical period it's about, we go into it with preconceived notions. We go into it with
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bias biases. Uh, we go into it with a sort of a narrative in mind that we're trying to support.
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And I think we all do that, uh, very often when it comes to historical subjects,
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what I've found is it's just, it's a lot more fruitful. It's a lot more interesting.
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Uh, it's a lot more worthwhile if you can manage to just put all that to the side
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and actually try to understand what really happened and who these people really were.
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And to be willing to, to have your childish notions about these people destroyed and then
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replaced with not an equally childish and simplistic notion on the other side, where they go from,
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uh, gods to demons. No, not that, but replaced with a, a view of these people as human beings,
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as complicated human beings who were capable of incredible acts of, of courage, but also
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incredible acts of evil at the same time, because that's, that's what it means to be human.
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And I'm okay with that. I'm okay with looking at history that way. I'm just, I'm not okay with
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giving Martin Luther King Jr. A pass while not giving anyone else a pass. You just, we can't do
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that. I'm sorry. Uh, I admire what he did for the cause of civil rights as much as anybody else.
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But if the man was an abuser and he condoned rape, then that needs to be discussed. And that is
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something that is part of his legacy, whether we like it or not. And that's got to be talked about
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in the schools. When the subject comes up in history, that stuff needs to be talked about
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because that's part of who he was. Apparently it was a really significant part of who he was.
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All right. Um, let's stay with British media here for a minute. Uh, I was just giving them credit for
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running the MLK story, but, um, now I have to condemn them for, for this.
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It's the start of the summer holidays. And for this age gap couple, a chance to unwind.
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I love camping because, uh, it's peace and quiet. I'm Andy and I'm 47. And I'm Beth and I'm 19.
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Their 28-year age gap may make them look like father and daughter, but they are every bit a married couple.
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Now, my dearly beloved is going to set up the doghouse. When I get told off, I'll have to go and live in the tent for a bit.
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Andy was originally a friend of Beth's mum and, over the years, became close to her children, too.
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We were all, like, one happy family. But, needless to say, I didn't know that Beth was, like,
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getting these thoughts that she wanted me to be a happy man forever sort of thing, you know.
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But once she reached the age of 16, Beth wanted to take their friendship to the next level.
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The age doesn't really bother me. It never has done. I don't see him as an old man or my dad or anything like that.
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I was concerned. What people would think 16, 40, it's a big gap, you know, it's a generation gap sort of thing.
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However, when Andy realised Beth was serious, he decided to give this controversial relationship a go.
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Oh, my days. Right, just leave it. Leave it. Leave it. Leave it.
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I'm getting all aerated with you today. I'm getting all stressed.
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And once they'd fallen in love, Andy became determined to give Beth everything she had ever wanted.
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This is Timmy, and he's two. And this is Conway, and he's one.
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I've always wanted to make a family or to have a family. So, I just thought Andy would be the perfect one to do so.
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That's a show called Age Gap Love on Channel 5.
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As you can see there, they give us the sort of whimsical, heartwarming story of a 45-year-old man who began dating, in quotes, a 16-year-old girl who he'd known since childhood.
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The girl was groomed by a predator, and then she was abused.
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Now, if he, as a 47-year-old, had just met a 19-year-old, like they just met online or something, and then they decided to get together.
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Now, that would be weird in my, the really big age gaps, I do find them weird, really no matter who the people are.
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But it wouldn't be criminal or evil or anything like that.
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A 19-year-old adult woman is free to date 47-year-old men if she wants to.
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What happened here is that, according to that story, he groomed a young girl over the course of her childhood.
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He was a friend of her mother, knew her as a child, and then made his move when she was 16, and he was 44.
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If you don't think that there's a movement to normalize pedophilia in our society, then think again, because that's what this is right here.
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Technically, pedophilia is the abuse by an adult of a child who I think is under, has to be under 12 or something.
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But this is a story of an adult grooming and abusing a child regardless, and as such, it is the normalization of pedophilia.
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Okay, so if there's going to be a process, a movement of normalizing pedophilia, it's not going to start with someone presenting us a story of a 45-year-old man with his 9-year-old child bride and saying,
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It's not going to start that way because that's too far, too fast.
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So, it's the old boiling a frog in the pot type of thing.
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It's always going to start on a lower temperature.
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So, it's always going to start with things that, you know, it starts with something that is where you see it and you go,
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And then, gradually, it gets more and more depraved.
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But the whole trick here among the normalizers is when they start with that first thing where you're like,
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They start with that and if they can kind of get you to say,
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And they kind of work on you there and if they can get you to say,
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And they work on you there and try to get you to say,
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And then, just you gradually go down the slope.
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That story you saw there, it's not at the beginning of the slope.
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I'd say we're about midway to full-on pedophilia is okay type of thing.
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I'd say we're about midway to that point in our society.
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The drag queen story hours, these child drag queens that you see,
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It's much closer to the full-on normalization of pedophilia.
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So you should feel sorry for me because I'm crippled.
00:28:05.960
But here's the question that I've been wondering.
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And you can always email me to let me know what you think.
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how many victim points do I actually acquire for being crippled?
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So the way I figure the math is kind of like this.
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Being white means that I'm at negative 25 victimhood points.
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So I'm in about a 75 point hole just to begin with
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Yet you would point out that my disability is probably temporary.
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So that detracts 10, meaning I'm only at plus 15 against minus 75, right?
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or if I get surgery and something goes wrong with the surgery,
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there is a possibility that I might not ever walk normally again.
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Now, that would be, I think, worth 25 on top of the plus 15.
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So I'm at plus 40 against negative 75, which works out to about negative 35, right?
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But wait, I'm also part negative Native American.
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I am part Native American on my mom's side, I think, maybe.
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But it's, I mean, there's a great, there's a possibility that I'm part Native American.
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even though the Irish are among the most persecuted people on the planet.
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Historically, they're also white, so it doesn't count for much.
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I mean, that's got to be worth another plus five.
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I mean, it's got to be five victim points there, right?
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plus 45 against minus 75, which equals negative 30.
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I am closer to victimhood status than most of you straight white devils.
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And so you need to acknowledge that and have some deference for that.
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I know you have lived and visited various places on the East Coast.
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Our young family of six is headed out that way later this summer for the first time.
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We love learning about the areas we visit and doing things that aren't typically touristy types of activities,
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That being said, we also have four kids ages ranging from 3 to 12 years old.
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We don't want to bore them to death in museums all day.
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Do you have any recommendations of places to visit in the D.C., Maryland, Delaware, Virginia Beach region that would be good for kids of various ages?
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Also, any family-friendly restaurants, cool ice cream shops, anything else unique or interesting to see?
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It's like hundreds of miles, so I would need to know more specifically where you're going to be.
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Like, you need to give me your exact street address so that I can answer that and publish it everywhere.
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No, I just, if I knew more specifically where you're going to be, I could probably help you out more.
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I will say, if you're going to be on the Eastern Shore, Ocean City is kind of the spot there.
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Now, that's very touristy, but that's, in terms of Eastern Shore, you want to go to the beach.
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If you're looking for a less touristy Eastern Shore beach spot than maybe Bethany Beach, a little bit further up north.
00:32:13.440
If you're looking for something more historical in the Virginia area, then you could always check out Mount Vernon or Monticello, speaking of Thomas Jefferson.
00:32:21.280
Listen, there are, now, if this is your first time on the East Coast, and if you like history, then I think you've got to check out at least a couple of the Civil War battlefields.
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Because, you know, the Eastern Theater of the Civil War, if you're going to be in Virginia, then I think you've got to go, the Virginia, Maryland area, you've got to go check out some of those.
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But, again, it depends on where specifically you're going to be.
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If you're a little bit further west, then maybe Antietam.
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I went there with my wife last year, and that was a great stop.
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Of course, up further north into Pennsylvania, you could go to Gettysburg.
00:32:59.480
If you are further west and you want scenic views and nature and everything, I would go, the Shenandoah Valley is beautiful, the Leray Caverns.
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Annapolis is a nice little city of Maryland, the capital of Maryland, a nice historical city.
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If you are in D.C., then definitely take your kids to the Bible Museum.
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I know you said no museums, but check out the Bible Museum.
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I mean, look, yeah, if you've never been to the museums in D.C., they are great museums.
00:33:31.200
And Baltimore has, for my money, and I say this as I'm a big aquarium fan.
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I love aquariums, and I've been to many aquariums in my day.
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Baltimore has the best aquarium, certainly in the country.
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And I don't think I'm the only one with that opinion.
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So I would go there if you're around that spot.
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And if you're in Delaware, there is a nice ice cream spot in Lewis, a town called Lewis, Delaware.
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There's a dairy farm that does its own ice cream.
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But that's kind of far from D.C., so it all depends on where you're going to be.
00:34:09.100
Hey, Matt, you recently talked about how the word Nazi now means anyone who has a political opinion I disagree with.
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I think this development is a symptom of a broader problem.
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I see this in our society's excessive swearing, as well as the desire to live a life of highlights on social media.
00:34:26.940
Everything is either zero or 100 with no levels in between.
00:34:31.760
Do you see something similar, or am I overgeneralizing?
00:34:34.920
I love the show, and I pray that you don't become discouraged with the hateful messages you receive.
00:34:41.640
And I think that this kind of plays into what we talked about during the show about historical figures and how we need to develop more nuanced views of these historical figures.
00:34:53.040
I think we need to develop more nuanced views in general about everything.
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And that would certainly make our discussions, our conversations, much more worthwhile and fruitful.
00:35:04.260
Because right now, it's just hard to talk about anything.
00:35:07.480
Because everybody is exactly what you're talking about.
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And that's the case, even though, at the same time, everyone likes to say all the time how, well, it's not black and white.
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But then, and we like to try to find gray areas in places where there actually isn't any gray area.
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But then, when it comes to most conversations, no, people don't want gray areas.
00:35:46.200
Which is especially frustrating, I can tell you, for me as a writer, when I try to write a piece, and I'm dealing with a controversial subject, and I write a thousand words about it, trying in great detail to explain my perspective.
00:36:04.400
What they want is, give me the one sentence summary of your point of view.
00:36:10.440
And, but it's just, not every point of view can be summarized in a sentence.
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Sometimes, you know, it takes more than one sentence sometimes.
00:36:20.980
A lot of it goes down to intellectual laziness.
00:36:27.560
Says, you mentioned your recent injury on your show, so I just wish to let you know I'll be praying for a speedy recovery for you.
00:36:32.560
I will admit, however, that I'm disappointed that the story to go with it wasn't very cool.
00:36:48.740
I always imagine that when eventually I ended up in an emergency room for my own issue, it would be for a really awesome reason.
00:37:00.960
You know, I always imagine, like, my first time in an emergency room, it would be because I was fighting off armed invaders, maybe with a sword or something.
00:37:13.400
I mean, I always thought it would be something like that.
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But, instead, it was just a pickup basketball game.
00:37:24.480
Each episode is a sigh of relief from this crazy world.
00:37:26.720
That said, I wanted to get your opinion on the Hitchens razor.
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That which can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
00:37:35.680
The reason that I bring this up is because I have found it is a very powerful tool to combating the left due to so many of their claims being completely baseless.
00:37:43.120
Specifically, I've utilized it in combating the pro-choice argument since the Alabama ban.
00:37:48.440
The no uterus, no opinion has been kicked into high gear.
00:37:53.400
We have agreed that it is not acceptable to kill an innocent human being.
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So, implicit in your argument for abortion is the premise that the unborn fetus is not a life.
00:38:04.400
To prove your assertion, to put it on me, is to shift the burden of proof, which is a logical fallacy.
00:38:09.000
So far, I am most commonly attacked for finding God or upholding the patriarchy.
00:38:13.880
To which I reply, first I come for women's abortions rights.
00:38:23.940
I really want to know any flaws in this argument and if there is any way I can improve it.
00:38:29.000
Yeah, I think the Christopher Hitchens, the Hitchens razor is interesting
00:38:31.680
because, obviously, that's something he formulated mainly as an attack on theists.
00:38:36.400
And what he's claiming is that, well, you are proposing the existence of God without evidence
00:38:43.540
Now, I disagree with Hitchens razor in that case because I think that there is evidence for God.
00:38:50.660
But I agree, in general, in principle, with the principle, that if someone does propose something
00:38:56.840
without evidence, then, yeah, it can be dismissed without evidence.
00:38:59.660
Because if you are making an assertion, any assertion, if you're coming to the table proposing
00:39:05.060
something for people to believe as true, whatever it is, then you have to be able to give people
00:39:12.500
And the reason can't just be that you said it because that's not a reason.
00:39:15.940
The fact that it was said is not, in itself, a reason to believe it.
00:39:20.540
If you can't produce that reason or explain what it is, then, yeah, everyone at the table
00:39:27.340
And they're perfectly within their rights to do that.
00:39:29.220
And it's rational to do it because you haven't given them any reason to believe it.
00:39:34.720
And so, can that be applied to the abortion argument?
00:39:38.920
Because I would say that the people claiming that the unborn child is not a person, is not
00:39:45.660
a human, have produced no evidence to support that assertion.
00:39:54.600
We have a lot of evidence to bring to bear to prove that it is.
00:39:59.860
Open up any biology textbook about the stages of human development.
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And what you're going to find is that the fetal stage is a stage of human development
00:40:11.960
So, they have no evidence, which means that, right, their argument can't be taken seriously.
00:40:20.480
Says, the first time you mentioned becoming a beekeeper, I couldn't help think about how
00:40:23.120
dangerous it is to have a beehive around three small children.
00:40:25.620
I'm sure you've carefully weighed the risks and made sure the hive is in a safe and secure
00:40:29.480
But as a parent, does it ever cross your mind that something can go seriously wrong that ends
00:40:34.720
How do the logistics of this beehive setup work that ensure your family's safety?
00:40:42.280
Also, who will tend to the beekeeping duties now that you're on crutches?
00:40:46.740
Yeah, Mike, beehives are very safe, actually, because honeybees, as opposed to, say, wasps
00:40:57.020
They're not going to go after you and attack you.
00:41:01.220
They're not really interested in what you're doing.
00:41:04.280
They're just interested in tending to the hive.
00:41:10.080
And some of the bees will come out to check, see what's going on.
00:41:13.380
But most of the bees will just continue on their business.
00:41:18.040
I don't recommend opening up a beehive if you don't have a bee suit.
00:41:28.620
They've come out when I've and stood at a safe distance when I've opened up the hive
00:41:36.320
And so, you know, you just, you teach the kids.
00:41:40.440
It's like the chemicals that are under your sink.
00:41:46.280
And, you know, you just have to acknowledge his power in this situation.
00:41:50.100
As far as who will tend to the hive now that I'm on crutches, that's a good question.
00:41:54.420
I'm thinking that my six-year-old son is ready to take the dive.
00:42:07.700
If a president committed a crime, the proper procedure would be to impeach him,
00:42:14.360
It's just a different process and one that I agree with.
00:42:17.020
Imagine that Trump could be charged with a crime.
00:42:19.220
There's no doubt the Democrats would be charging him with jaywalking, littering,
00:42:22.080
disturbing the peace, anything they could just to make him spend his whole term in court
00:42:28.660
It's just a different process meant to curtail frivolous prosecution.
00:42:31.880
You don't have to be guilty to be charged with anything.
00:42:34.100
Thank you for agreeing with me in advance and have a nice day.
00:42:37.160
Mike, I, yeah, I said yesterday I think that presidents should be able to be charged with a crime.
00:43:01.340
I hope you're proud of yourself, though, for humiliating me, a cripple, a man on crutches.
00:43:11.380
And you would dare humiliate me like this in front of my entire audience.
00:43:21.160
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