The Matt Walsh Show - June 04, 2019


Ep. 271 - People Are Shocked And Offended That Christians Are Christians


Episode Stats

Length

43 minutes

Words per Minute

167.19774

Word Count

7,311

Sentence Count

508

Misogynist Sentences

11

Hate Speech Sentences

33


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, people in this country don't seem to understand Christianity,
00:00:05.420 in case you haven't noticed. And that's why today there's outrage, because a pastor prayed
00:00:09.600 for the president, and outrage because a Catholic bishop came out against gay pride parades.
00:00:15.240 Nobody should be shocked by either thing, and nobody would be shocked if they had a basic
00:00:19.340 understanding of Christianity. We'll talk about that. Also, Texas has banned red light cameras.
00:00:24.840 This is cause for celebration, even for a parade, maybe. And I'll explain why,
00:00:29.440 plus I'll answer your emails today on the Matt Wall Show.
00:00:35.320 Okay, welcome to the show, everybody. Good to see you again. This is my last show,
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00:02:24.320 All right, let's begin with something that I think is a problem in this country, which is that
00:02:31.260 people don't understand Christianity. That's a common theme these days, right? And we've got a few
00:02:38.320 examples of that today. We'll start with this. President Trump stopped by a McLean Bible Church
00:02:44.440 in Virginia over the weekend to pray with the congregation in the wake of the terrible shooting
00:02:50.680 that happened in Virginia Beach. A shooting that, by the way, it seems like it just, I don't know,
00:03:00.560 we're at the point now where you have a mass shooting, 11 people are killed, and everyone
00:03:07.000 moves on in like a day. I mean, you think back to Columbine, where it was, I think it was 13 people,
00:03:14.740 I believe, were killed at Columbine. And that was the only thing people talked about for two months.
00:03:20.980 It was the biggest story in the world. And now we're at a point where we just move on in a day from it.
00:03:27.340 And I think that's, that's not a good sign. But President Trump showed up at the church
00:03:33.460 to pray with the congregation. And the pastor, David Platt, while the president was in attendance,
00:03:38.980 offered a short prayer for the president. I thought the prayer was beautiful. It was very well done.
00:03:44.720 Not political at all. Nothing partisan about it. Just a biblically sound prayer for a man in a position
00:03:51.140 of leadership. Here's, I'll play a little bit of the prayer. Here's what the prayer sounded like.
00:03:55.460 So, I want to ask us to bow our heads together now and pray for our president.
00:04:05.360 Oh God, we praise you as the one universal king over all. You are our leader and our Lord,
00:04:15.620 and we worship you. There is one God and one Savior. And it's you. And your name is Jesus. And we exalt you,
00:04:26.260 Jesus. And we know, we need your mercy. We need your grace. We need your help. We need your wisdom in our country.
00:04:37.400 And so we stand right now on behalf of our president. And we pray for your grace and your mercy and your wisdom
00:04:49.620 upon him. God, we pray that he would know how much you love him so much that you sent Jesus to die
00:05:03.740 for his sins, for his sins, our sins. So we pray that he would look to you, that he would trust in you,
00:05:14.000 that he would lean on you, that he would govern and make decisions in ways that are good for justice
00:05:21.800 and good for righteousness and good for equity, every good path.
00:05:29.620 Okay, so that's good stuff, right? Well, apparently not. At least not in the minds of people who were
00:05:34.720 offended by the fact that the pastor prayed for Trump. In fact, people were so hurt by this fact
00:05:40.920 that Platt had to issue a lengthy statement defending his decision to pray for the president.
00:05:46.840 It wasn't an apology. I've seen some news reports about it saying pastor apologizes for praying for Trump.
00:05:52.440 He didn't apologize for it, but he did explain why he did it. And I think that's a bad enough,
00:05:58.800 that's a bad sign right there when a pastor has to explain to his own congregation why he offered a prayer
00:06:06.400 for the president who was in attendance at the church. It's now controversial, apparently, for a Christian
00:06:12.020 pastor to pray for the president. Of course, anyone who has even the faintest understanding of
00:06:16.640 Christianity would not be scandalized by this. Christians pray for everybody. Christians are
00:06:21.200 supposed to pray for everybody. Pray for your friends, your foes, your neighbors, your strangers,
00:06:25.780 victims, criminals, murderers, everyone. I mean, you're supposed to pray for everyone. It's very clear,
00:06:31.540 especially our political leaders. The Bible specifically commands us to pray for our leaders.
00:06:37.260 So this, again, just shows how although America is nominally a Christian nation and most people
00:06:42.400 supposedly are Christian or are at least self-professed Christians, still Christianity is
00:06:48.880 little understood in this country. Let's look at another example, perhaps a more dramatic example.
00:06:54.880 On Saturday, a bishop from Rhode Island, Bishop Thomas Tobin, sent out a tweet that has sparked backlash.
00:07:05.000 And you know, it's bad when it sparks backlash. It's got to be bad because, I mean, there are only
00:07:11.980 a thousand different backlashes that happen every day. So, you know, it's not like people are having
00:07:18.540 bad. It's not like we have backlashes over stupid things, right? We choose our backlashes very carefully.
00:07:23.340 We specifically choose a thousand different ones every day. We're very discerning about it.
00:07:29.120 So, but this is a major, this is a worldwide controversy now, people getting very upset.
00:07:35.100 Here's what the tweet said from Bishop Tobin said, a reminder that Catholics should not support or attend
00:07:40.940 LGBTQ pride month events held in June. They promote a culture and encourage activities that are contrary
00:07:47.780 to Catholic faith and morals. They are especially harmful to children. Okay. Now,
00:07:53.580 you may not agree with that. A lot of people don't, obviously, but how could anyone be shocked?
00:08:05.040 That's what I don't get. See, this is where it shows people don't understand Christianity,
00:08:08.520 that you have all these people that are shocked by the statement, scandalized. They can't believe
00:08:13.700 that anyone would come out and say something, at least of all, a bishop.
00:08:18.100 The Catholic Church has always been opposed to pride parades. Always. Why? At least when I say
00:08:30.320 always, as long as pride parades have been a thing, the Catholic Church has been opposed to it. Why is
00:08:35.080 that? Because according to the Bible, marriage is between a man and a woman, and sex is meant to be
00:08:41.220 kept within marriage. That is the biblical understanding. That's the Catholic understanding.
00:08:46.280 That's the Christian understanding. This is standard Christian teaching. As such, of course, an
00:08:52.880 observant Christian will not be in favor of events that celebrate something which they believe to
00:08:59.420 be sinful. And this is not just about gay people, by the way. You know, I'm guessing that if you asked
00:09:07.460 Bishop Tobin, Bishop Tobin, how he feels about, say, you know, these debauched spring break, you know,
00:09:16.100 events, spring break, which has become a celebration of debauchery among heterosexuals and homosexuals,
00:09:25.180 too, that attend. I'm guessing if you asked him how he felt about that, about, you know, a bunch of
00:09:29.560 college kids going down to, you know, going to the beach somewhere, Cancun or whatever, and engaging in all
00:09:40.520 these kinds of activities, I'm guessing that if you asked him how he felt about it, he would say that he's
00:09:44.540 against it. I'm guessing he would tell you that he doesn't like it, because it's a celebration of and an
00:09:51.880 opportunity to participate in sexually immoral behavior. Not specifically gay behavior, it's also
00:10:01.700 heterosexual behavior. But the point is, from the perspective of the bishop and from any devout
00:10:08.200 Catholic, is that this is behavior that ought to be within, kept within marriage, biblical marriage.
00:10:15.100 I'm guessing you that, I'm guessing that he would also tell you that he's against explicit
00:10:21.440 TV shows, like Game of Thrones, which depict and glorify immoral sexuality. I'm guessing that if you
00:10:29.980 asked him how he feels about a heterosexual couple living together before marriage, he would tell you
00:10:35.540 that he's against it. And if there was some weird kind of event, or a bunch of cohabitating heterosexual
00:10:41.700 couples got together and had a parade to talk about how proud they are of living together before
00:10:47.260 marriage, I'm guessing that Bishop Tobin would be against that. And he would say, no, that shouldn't
00:10:52.660 be happening, and you shouldn't participate if you're a Catholic. The point is that he's being
00:10:57.340 consistent. He's a Catholic bishop, and he's being consistent with Catholic teaching. He is expressing
00:11:03.840 a biblically coherent and consistent point of view, and one that does not simply target homosexuals.
00:11:10.680 It is a view that is centered around an idea of chastity and modesty. Again, you're free
00:11:17.640 to disagree. But what is there to be surprised by? How could you be outraged by it? You already,
00:11:27.020 unless you're a total idiot, you know that this is how the Catholic Church, this is what the
00:11:31.060 Catholic Church's teaching is. You must know that by now. So how could you be offended if someone
00:11:37.480 who represents the Catholic Church comes out and says their point of view on the subject?
00:11:46.380 It's so silly. It's just so ridiculous.
00:11:51.000 One other point here. You know, you can't march through the streets literally announcing your
00:11:58.060 sexuality to the world. You can't constantly shove it in front of people's faces. You can't insist
00:12:04.380 that we all look and acknowledge your sexuality and then get offended when someone offers an opinion
00:12:11.000 about it. You brought it up. If you don't want people talking about it, then don't bring it up.
00:12:17.200 If you don't want to know, if you don't want Bishop Tobin's opinion on your sexuality,
00:12:21.760 then why are you marching through the street announcing it?
00:12:24.700 So this is kind of how the conversation goes. The LGB camp, you know, the LGBT camp will say,
00:12:31.680 hey, everyone, look at us. Look at us, everyone. Look, look, look at us. Please look at us. We're
00:12:36.680 marching through the street. Look, look at us. This is what, let us tell you about our sexuality. I know
00:12:42.060 you didn't ask, but we're going to tell you. Look at us. Please, please. We're proud. We're proud.
00:12:47.660 And then someone says, oh, okay, well, here's my opinion about that. How dare you give us your
00:12:52.380 opinion? This is none of your business. Well, if it's none of our business, why are you talking
00:12:58.320 about it? Why are you literally marching in the street announcing it if it's none of our business?
00:13:06.460 See, you can't do that. You can't have it both ways. You can do it. You can march in the street.
00:13:12.020 You're free to do that in America, but you can't have it both ways. Okay. You can't shove this
00:13:18.920 unwanted information in my face and then tell me that I'm, that I'm supposed, how I'm supposed to
00:13:24.860 respond to it. It doesn't work that way because this is America. So America, in America, you have
00:13:31.020 the right to march through the street and tell everybody about your sex life if you want to.
00:13:35.560 I don't know why you want to. I have no interest in doing that, but you can do that, but you don't
00:13:41.300 get to set the rules for the conversation. Okay. You can't bring it up to me and then tell me how I'm
00:13:50.040 supposed to respond. I'll respond however I damn well please. If you don't want to hear my opinion,
00:13:57.240 don't bring it up. Now here, you know, that goes for any topic, literally any topic, any topic you bring
00:14:10.440 up to me, I am well within my rights to offer my opinion on it. I mean, I'm, I'm within my rights
00:14:16.000 to offer my opinion, even if you don't bring it up, but especially if you do, if you don't care about
00:14:22.560 my perspective, then don't tell me about it. There are a lot of things. Um, there are a lot of,
00:14:32.380 uh, details about my life, my personal life that, uh, of which I, I don't care, you know,
00:14:41.640 that, that I don't care what your opinion is about those things. You know, I tend to keep my private
00:14:48.040 life private. And the reason why I keep it private is that the things that are private to me, um,
00:14:57.380 it's just, it's, it's none of your business. And I don't care what your opinion is about it.
00:15:03.380 I don't care what your perspective is about it.
00:15:07.720 You know, things about my family and, you know, how my family works and, and, and, and all of that.
00:15:13.100 I don't care what your opinion is. I don't care what your perspective is. No offense to you,
00:15:17.380 but that's why I don't bring it up. That's why I don't talk about it.
00:15:19.860 Anything about my life that I put out there in the open for general consumption,
00:15:28.820 I must be putting it out there because at some level I do care about your perspective.
00:15:36.740 Now I might hope that you have one particular perspective. You know, I might put it out there
00:15:42.400 because I'm hoping that you'll have an affirming, approving perspective, but I don't get to decide
00:15:48.880 that. That's a risk I take. If I put it out there and, and, and you have a negative perspective,
00:15:52.960 well, that's, you're, that's, that's just the way it goes. Let's take an example. My faith,
00:16:02.340 for example. Okay. Now my faith is a, is a, is a private detail about my life in a sense. You know,
00:16:10.200 it's, it's, it's a, it's a, it's a detail about my personal life, about me, my faith. Yet I do talk
00:16:18.620 about it openly. I do put it out there. Number one, because I feel that as Christians, we're called
00:16:25.540 to do that, that we're not supposed to just keep it private, but I do put it out there. Not because I
00:16:36.340 want you to affirm it or to tell me it's okay to be Christian, but I do want to tell you about it.
00:16:43.780 And I know that when I do that, I open myself up for criticism because I might tell you about my
00:16:50.560 faith and you might not agree with my faith. So you might have criticisms. You might argue against it.
00:16:57.080 I can't, I can't start crying about it when you do that. If I tell you, here's my faith,
00:17:01.300 here's what I believe. And you say, here's what I believe about what you believe. I can't say,
00:17:05.780 well, how dare you? You're offending me. How dare you tell me that? I brought it up.
00:17:14.180 And the thing is for me, when I bring up my faith and you come with your, with your contrary opinions,
00:17:19.800 I'm, I'm excited to have that conversation. I'm more than willing to have that conversation.
00:17:25.600 I would love to have that debate with you. So I just can't conceive of, of, of talking about
00:17:31.700 something, of bringing something up about my life that I don't want to talk about. You're talking
00:17:36.660 about something you don't want to talk about. That doesn't make sense to me. So if, if, if you
00:17:43.360 really think it's, it's none of anyone's business, then just don't, don't bring it up. By the way,
00:17:47.260 one other thing here, Bishop Tobin, in that tweet I just read, he said that pride events harm children,
00:17:54.420 you know, and that's something that is especially offended a lot of people. Well, yeah. I mean,
00:18:00.860 I can't imagine why he would say that, right? It's so offensive. Oh, maybe he said that because of
00:18:05.920 this.
00:18:06.920 You can't help it.
00:18:23.360 Yeah. The headline of that video is, uh, seven-year-old trans child wins LA pride parade
00:18:45.680 with fierce strut in heels. So you've got, you've got a seven-year-old boy strutting,
00:18:55.280 according to this headline in, in high heels and a dress. Um, and, and he's at the, at the head of
00:19:02.420 the, of the pride parade. Yeah. Maybe that's why Bishop Tobin observed that these events can be
00:19:10.540 harmful to children because what you're seeing there, what you just saw in that clip, that is the
00:19:15.600 sexual abuse of a child to put a seven-year-old boy in a dress and high heels and have him strut.
00:19:25.600 That is abusive. It is the, it is the sexualization of a child and it is abusive. And so I would call
00:19:32.940 that sexual abuse of a child. You know what? I would say that if he was a girl, I mean, to have a,
00:19:40.460 why do they even make high heels that a seven-year-old can fit in? If it was a seven-year-old
00:19:47.460 girl strutting in high heels, I would say that's incredibly inappropriate and gross and wrong.
00:19:55.160 The fact that it's a boy makes it even more demented and just deranged. So what kind of
00:20:00.740 message do you think you're sending? If, if you, if you don't want people to think that pride parades
00:20:07.500 are harmful to children, then maybe don't put a seven-year-old boy in a dress and high heels and
00:20:11.460 have him strutting in front of the parade. What the hell do you think people are going to think?
00:20:19.860 Well, it's not about what they think. They're just going to observe that, okay, well, this event
00:20:24.380 in any way is sexualizing a, a seven-year-old boy.
00:20:28.560 But at LA pride parade, the people that put that on, they're the ones who chose to do that.
00:20:38.760 You can't get mad at Bishop Tobin for pointing it out. You can't get mad at me for pointing it out.
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00:22:29.940 continues to be in my mind, the best state in the union. And I continue to be jealous,
00:22:34.600 very jealous of everyone who lives there. Um, because I, I don't live there myself.
00:22:42.220 And I think Texas has everything going for it culturally and legally and so many other aspects,
00:22:49.160 except the weather is just not the weather and the bugs. Those are the one problem. If you could
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00:23:11.520 other States. No big deal. Then I think it'd be the perfect state. But anyway, Texas continues to,
00:23:16.460 uh, continues to impress Greg Abbott, the governor, um, posted this video over the weekend. Watch this.
00:23:24.820 Hi, Governor Greg Abbott here at the Capitol on Saturday signing bills. I'm about to sign this bill
00:23:30.140 that bans red light cameras in Texas is now law. All right. So he's banning red light cameras.
00:23:49.200 And why did he ban red light cameras? Well, because red light cameras are a money-making scam
00:23:54.200 and nothing more. It's that's all they are. There's no, there's no safe public safety angle to it.
00:24:00.800 It is just about making money. It's public. It's a money-making operation. They profit off of traffic
00:24:06.400 infractions, but do not prevent them. And there have been a lot of studies on that have shown this.
00:24:11.060 There's an article on motorist.org. You can go to that website and check it out, which cites a bunch
00:24:15.900 of studies, uh, too many to list, but like I said, you can go and look at it yourself. All of these studies
00:24:20.960 showing that red light cameras actually increase accidents and certainly don't decrease or prevent
00:24:26.960 them. And it's not hard to see why that would be the case because people end up, end up speeding
00:24:32.720 faster through the intersection. If they know there's a red light camera, because they don't
00:24:36.960 want to be caught by it. That's what ends up happening. Um, I know I've done this myself where
00:24:41.780 I, you know, I've had times where I'm coming up to an intersection and, um, and it goes yellow
00:24:49.400 right at that, you know, there's that, there's that window about, I don't know, 10 or 10 feet
00:24:55.580 or so where it's an awkward window where if the, if the light goes yellow in that moment,
00:25:00.420 you're either going to have to slam on your brakes or speed up to try to get through the
00:25:05.900 intersection. And then you have to kind of choose which ones. And sometimes it could be safer to
00:25:09.780 speed up depending on how close the car is behind you. So, um, uh, now if, if I know that
00:25:18.540 there's a red light camera at that intersection, I'm probably more likely to speed up and try to
00:25:22.400 go through it because I know that if I try to stop for it, but I end up over the line a little
00:25:26.780 bit, I could get ticketed. And so I think that's one of the reasons why these things just create
00:25:32.420 more accidents and maybe that's the wrong choice, but the point remains one way or another that red
00:25:37.060 light cameras don't make anyone safer. They just don't. And the stats speak for themselves.
00:25:42.760 So why have them? What's the point? If you've got all of these studies that have been done over
00:25:47.620 the years and they, so many of them demonstrate seemingly conclusively that red light cameras
00:25:55.360 don't prevent accidents or prevent these traffic infractions, why keep doing them? Because it
00:26:00.420 allows the state to profit from law breaking, which creates a conflict of interest because now the
00:26:06.500 state actually wants people to run the light because they make money from it. You know, these states
00:26:13.360 become dependent on speeding tickets and red light tickets. They fund things with these tickets. So
00:26:21.860 they need you to keep on doing it so they can make money from it. In fact, there have been cities that
00:26:27.620 have actually shortened the yellow light time. This has happened in many cities where they put the red light
00:26:35.660 cameras in and then what do you know magically all of a sudden the yellow lights are shorter and why do
00:26:43.120 they do that? Because they want you to run it. Now it's very clear that longer yellow lights are safer
00:26:49.960 because they give more people more time to prepare to stop or to go through the intersection if they're
00:26:55.660 close enough. You shorten the yellow light time and you're more likely to catch people in the middle of
00:27:00.100 the intersection on a red light. They do that anyway, even though it's dangerous because it means
00:27:05.700 they make more money and they want people to run it. It's the same thing with speeding. Have you ever
00:27:11.520 been, you know, where I live, there are a lot of roads like this. It's very frustrating, but have you
00:27:14.720 ever been on one of those roads? Usually it's a back road, country road type of thing where the speed
00:27:20.380 limit changes randomly back and forth from 50 to 35, back to 50 to 45 to 30, 25, 20, 50. You know,
00:27:28.540 you're going, uh, and the speed limit changes five times in a span of 10 miles. And why is that?
00:27:36.020 Because they want you to speed. And what you're going to find is that so often, you know, when the
00:27:41.240 speed limit goes from 50 to 35 and then back up to 50 and 35 again, at one of those changes, there's
00:27:49.240 going to be a cop a lot of times hidden out there, just waiting, waiting for you to waiting to catch you,
00:27:54.700 right? So they can make some money. Um, it's, it's, uh, the thing that's terrible about is all
00:28:04.000 of this traffic enforcement stuff, which is not really enforcement, but again, it's just making
00:28:10.160 money. But it has, I think, fundamentally changed the nature and purpose of law enforcement because
00:28:16.660 we've turned police officers into tax collectors and into bill collectors, revenue generators,
00:28:21.580 uh, or not even generators, but, but appropriators. And so we have them camped out on the side of the
00:28:27.840 road, waiting for an opportunity to collect rather than out actually fighting crime and looking for
00:28:32.980 real dangerous crime that they can stop. Um, and then the red light camera thing just takes
00:28:39.040 that mentality to the next level where it says, okay, well, why do we even need the police officer?
00:28:44.560 And so it cut out, cuts out the middleman. And instead, if you run the red light, it snaps a picture,
00:28:50.180 sends you a bill to your house, uh, says, Oh, you, you ran a red light. So you owe the state $75.
00:28:55.240 But why though? What even is the correlation? Why should a minor traffic infraction mean that
00:29:00.760 the state gets money? I don't even see the correlation there. It doesn't make sense.
00:29:07.120 And the whole picture just solidifies the impression that people have that the state is
00:29:15.180 this opportunistic money grubbing entity that's hiding around every corner, waiting for you to
00:29:21.640 trip up so that they can reach into your wallet and take some of your money. And that is not the
00:29:26.100 relationship that a citizen should have with his government in a free country. That that's just not
00:29:32.260 it. Uh, so I'm a big fan of getting rid of the red light cameras. They really are. And you know,
00:29:40.180 I was talking about this a few days ago. It's shocking to me that there are actual, there are
00:29:44.700 actually people, regular citizens who are in favor of red light cameras. Uh, you know, it makes me think
00:29:53.520 of that quote from the, the, the, uh, you know, uh, uh, uh, uh, bow down and, and, and lick the chains
00:30:02.020 that bind you or something like I'm, I'm mangling the quote. Um, but that's, that's what people have
00:30:07.940 come, have fallen in love with their chains. I guess that they, they actually are in favor of
00:30:13.480 red light. Again, the red light cameras, they're not there to make you safer. They are just there
00:30:18.780 to make money off you. That's the only reason that they're there. The state puts them in there
00:30:23.360 because they want you to break the law so they can make money off of you doing it. How could you
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00:32:08.720 Let's check some emails. This is from Norm says Walsh, the bearded. I think I found a perfect word
00:32:14.260 to describe anyone who is attracted to anything, all sexual. You're welcome. He asked, please don't
00:32:21.140 execute me when you gain power in the foreseeable future. Um, well, Norm, you think, you know, I can't
00:32:27.000 make that promise on the last point on the first one. Yeah, I think it's pretty good. All sexual.
00:32:31.400 You know, we talked about yesterday that we've got, um, a set, we got a word for it. We have
00:32:35.720 asexual. So those are people who aren't attracted to anything. And then there's, what was a gray
00:32:40.460 sexual are people who are just attracted to some things, which is pretty much everybody. And then I
00:32:45.240 said, well, what about someone who's attracted to every, who's sexually attracted to literally
00:32:49.260 everything in existence? Now, I don't think that such a person exists, but that hasn't stopped us
00:32:55.840 from creating labels in the, in the past. I mean, just because a person doesn't exist doesn't mean
00:33:00.000 we can't have a label for it. So I think we need a label for that just to complete the spectrum
00:33:03.860 and, uh, all sexual. I could go with that. Yeah, we'll do that. All sexual. All right. Um,
00:33:13.400 from Megan says, Hey Matt, just wanted to get your opinion on the ethics behind bodies. The,
00:33:18.120 the exhibition, this is a hugely popular exhibit that's been around since 2007. These exhibits display
00:33:24.160 human corpses that have been preserved and solidified through plastination and outer layers
00:33:29.300 are peeled back to reveal their organs or joints or muscles and the corpses. Uh, some of the corpses
00:33:34.240 are posed to show movement as if they are dancing, playing sports or doing yoga and others give a
00:33:39.840 visual, uh, for various disease states. Copying this right off their website. This is their reasoning
00:33:45.640 for using real bodies says unlike models that idealize the body through the eyes of an artist,
00:33:50.780 the specimens in the exhibition display the body and its parts as they really exist.
00:33:55.360 Idealized models have been used for many years to teach anatomy. However, models do not allow for
00:33:59.640 any variation in structure or pathologies, which is key in learning how lifestyle and disease actually
00:34:04.360 manifests inside the human body. Um, says I am less bothered by the idea of people in the U S
00:34:10.300 following strict, strict, legal, and profusely documented means of donating their body after
00:34:15.960 they die to be used solely by medical professional schools to be studied and then return to families
00:34:20.180 for final burial. However, I think that this crosses the line as these exhibits are profiting
00:34:25.940 immensely from displaying of the corpses of others in the name of education. Um, another big issue is
00:34:31.520 that according to their website, they're using bodies from China that were unclaimed and therefore
00:34:35.520 automatically donated to medical school per Chinese law. Hi Megan. Yeah, it's, it's a,
00:34:41.660 that's a great topic. I, in, in my younger and less discerning days, I did attend one of those
00:34:47.160 exhibits. Um, there was one in Philadelphia, I believe it was, and I think it was 18 or 19.
00:34:51.980 And I went to one of them. It was, it was bizarre and weird and gross. Um, and just something I wish I
00:34:59.320 hadn't been a part of. I do think it's morally problematic to put dead bodies on display, like,
00:35:05.620 like, like art show exhibits. Um, I think we need to uphold the dignity of the human person
00:35:11.900 before, before death and after death, dead bodies should be treated with respect. Organ donation is
00:35:17.940 one thing, um, to give your body up to another person, you know, so that they can continue living.
00:35:23.500 I think it's a beautiful thing, but to give your body as a freak show exhibit for tourists to walk
00:35:29.360 around and gawk at, I, I, I just, I don't see that as noble or, or dignified or, uh, or anything like
00:35:37.080 that. So now you could claim as, as they do apparently that the, that the exhibit is educational
00:35:43.040 and I guess it is sort of, but whatever educating they do, they could do it just as easily with,
00:35:49.760 with, uh, without actual dead bodies. They could come up with anatomical models that are not idealized,
00:35:58.160 that are more realistic if they really want to. Um, and I, I do think it's different if you,
00:36:04.220 of course, donating an organ is one thing and also donating a body being donated to a medical school.
00:36:10.240 I would agree with you. That's different as well, but people who go to a museum exhibit are not at
00:36:16.120 medical school and they're not necessarily future doctors. Okay. They don't need an exact,
00:36:20.700 uh, rendering of what a dead body looks like for whatever you're trying to accomplish with the
00:36:27.740 exhibit. For the most part, as I said, I went to one of them. I know that people are there. It's,
00:36:32.860 it's, it's, it's, it's, uh, isn't, these are tourists, like I said, that, that come here. It's not
00:36:37.340 this, people aren't there with lab coats and, and clipboards taking notes and everything like that.
00:36:43.880 That's not, it's people go there to gawk at the exhibit. That's the primary function. And so I think,
00:36:50.060 um, displaying a dead body for that purpose is, uh, is grotesque. All right. Um,
00:36:59.900 this is from Mark says, I have stumbled upon this question while debating pro-abortionists.
00:37:06.720 Why is it wrong and illegal for my wife to, to, um, drink or do a lot of hard drugs while pregnant?
00:37:14.680 According to them, it is her body and she could do whatever she wants with it. So
00:37:18.680 why can't she do those hard drugs is, uh, addicting her children to drugs and alcohol
00:37:24.020 worse than actually killing them. I never had a pro-choice or make a cohesive argument to this
00:37:28.480 question or any question regarding abortion. Actually, they all think it's wrong, but they
00:37:32.580 don't know why. Uh, yeah, Mark. Well, that's just one of dozens of areas where the pro-choice,
00:37:38.820 the pro-choice in quotes, pro-abortion position is incoherent because you're, you, you will very
00:37:47.080 rarely stumble across a pro-abortion person who would be totally cool with a pregnant woman,
00:37:53.420 you know, doing cocaine and, uh, and chugging six beers, right? You're going to very rarely come
00:37:59.960 across someone like that. Yet, according to them, it's her body. She can do it. Not only is it her
00:38:05.700 body, but the child doesn't exist yet. That thing in the womb is not a child, not a person, not a human.
00:38:13.040 So who cares? Obviously there's an inconsistency there, but don't expect to hear a coherent
00:38:19.640 argument dealing with that because there isn't one. Um, this is from David says, Matt, as someone
00:38:29.520 with a degree in applied mathematics, I'd like to help clarify an issue. You, you briefly mentioned
00:38:33.700 last week when it comes to quantifying victimhood status, the following rules apply. Everyone starts
00:38:40.220 from a, from a base of zero. You can be a victim and oppressor, neither or both, but you can't be
00:38:45.920 negative in either category. Each claim to victimhood comes with a, with both a base point value and a
00:38:52.060 multiplication factor. For example, being black grants you a hundred victim points, but also gives
00:38:57.220 you a multiplier of 1.5. So if your only claim to victimhood is being black, you have 150 total victim
00:39:03.740 points. Multiplication factors are compounding. To continue the example, being female is worth 150
00:39:09.740 points and carries a multiplier of 1.75. So a black female has 250 base points times 1.5 for being black
00:39:16.420 times 1.75 for being female for a total of 656.25 victim points. Using these rules and criteria you
00:39:23.940 mentioned last week, we can make the following evaluation. Temporary physical disability is worth 50
00:39:30.400 points and carries a multiplier of 1. Potential for surgical complications is unfortunately worth
00:39:35.700 no points, but carries a multiplier of 1. One being an undetermined, uh, being an undetermined part
00:39:42.540 Native American carries 75 points. Oh, that's pretty good. With a multiplier of 1.25. Being part Irish is
00:39:49.160 worth 25 points and carries a multiplier of 1. So I'm doing pretty well here. Being part Australian carries
00:39:54.060 no points in a multiplier of 1. In other words, no effect. Unfortunately, being straight, white, male,
00:39:58.520 and Christian are all worth 0 points. And I'm afraid each carries a multiplier of 0.1. So your total is
00:40:05.980 50 plus 75 plus 25 times 1 times 1.1 times 1.25 times 1 times 1 times 0.01 times 0.01 times 0.01 times 0.01
00:40:16.180 equals 0.020625 victim points. When compared with the theoretical maximum score of 50,000 points for a
00:40:24.920 physically and mentally handicapped, uh, uh, uh, gay, transgender, black Muslim female making 30 cents
00:40:31.040 on the dollar doing the same work as a man, you can see that your score pales in comparison. Of
00:40:35.560 course, the major problem with the calculation of victimhood is that point values are arbitrary and
00:40:39.720 subject to change based on current events, democratic talking points, which college, which college
00:40:44.200 campus you're currently on, et cetera. But I hope this helps clarify things to the extent that any
00:40:48.420 leftist idea can be clarified. Um, yeah. Okay. That was way too much math for me. So you've confused
00:40:59.340 me there, but what I zeroed in on here is that you say that I have 0.020625 victim points. So
00:41:06.200 what you're saying is that I am a victim. So you're saying I'm a victim is what you're saying. That's all
00:41:12.340 I really wanted to establish. And I would also now, I think that your calculation is for the most part
00:41:18.580 pretty solid. You did make a few mistakes here. For instance, you said that, um, uh, that being black
00:41:25.820 grants you a hundred victim points, being a female grants you 150 points. Well, you're wrong. I would
00:41:29.880 switch that around. Whereas being a racial minority is worth more victim points certainly than being a
00:41:36.320 female. Um, because if you're a white, straight, heterosexual female, uh, you are, you know,
00:41:45.620 you are a victim and you're certainly higher on the totem pole than a white male, but you're,
00:41:51.660 you can only, the white males right below you. Right. So, um, you're, there's only one,
00:41:57.540 you are one level up as a white heterosexual, um, female. So that's how it goes. You know,
00:42:05.140 you have white males, um, then white females, and then you start, and then you get into the
00:42:10.440 racial minorities. And, but of course I would agree with you. And I think it's important how
00:42:14.520 you factored in that. Now, if you are a female racial minority, then that's going to be worth
00:42:20.880 extra. And you're going to rank above a male racial minority. So that's the way it goes. Remember,
00:42:27.540 basically females are always above males in each kind of subcategory until you get to the very top
00:42:36.280 where you have quote unquote, transgender women who are at the very top, who are the most victimized,
00:42:41.620 but of course they are not female, they're male. So, um, anyway, very interesting discussion. And,
00:42:47.920 um, I think that someone needs to do a paper on this and put it in a science scientific journal of
00:42:53.760 some kind, uh, just to really quantify all the victim points and everything. So I appreciate that,
00:42:59.020 David, and we will leave it there. I will talk to you, um, next week. Hopefully by then I will
00:43:05.280 have an intact Achilles and, um, have a great week, great weekend. Godspeed.
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