The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 276 - Pride Flags Don’t Belong On Embassies

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, is it bigoted that the Trump administration won't allow the pride

00:00:04.320 flag to be flown at American embassies? Well, of course it's not bigoted at all, and I'll explain

00:00:08.860 why today on the show. Also, Hollywood continues its efforts to destroy your children. Talk about 0.54

00:00:13.800 the latest in that war. And a woman on Twitter says that, basically says she wants to be a good

00:00:20.380 wife, and this sends the left into a tizzy. So we'll talk about that also today on the Matt Walsh Show.

00:00:30.000 So apparently, Instagram influencers are flocking to Chernobyl to take half-naked 0.99

00:00:40.500 Instagram selfies. And the producers, because of the show Chernobyl, and so it's a trendy

00:00:47.060 thing now, so you go to the radioactive site and you take off your clothes and you take pictures,

00:00:52.040 the producers of Chernobyl are encouraging everyone to stop doing that, which is very nice of them.

00:00:57.080 But I think that stop taking half-naked selfies at the site of a nuclear meltdown is the kind of

00:01:03.320 advice that you should never give, because the sorts of people who need to hear it are probably

00:01:10.100 the sorts of people who need to learn it the hard way. I mean, that's just me. That might be a little

00:01:13.840 bit cruel, but that's my opinion. But yes, as a general rule, it probably is best, I mean, really,

00:01:22.080 just to stay away from Chernobyl in general. I mean, don't go there naked, yeah, but I wouldn't

00:01:27.240 even go there fully clothed, personally. All right, a bunch of stuff to get to today. We'll start with

00:01:33.680 this from Fox News, reading from the article in Fox News that says, Representative Ilhan Omar

00:01:38.280 has accused the Trump administration of being bigoted. Well, this is new already.

00:01:46.640 Someone accused the Trump administration of being bigoted. Ilhan Omar accused it. I mean,

00:01:51.160 this is, you don't hear this every day, do you? This is a surprise. This time around,

00:01:56.880 they're bigoted because U.S. embassies have had requests to fly the rainbow flag denied.

00:02:03.380 June is Pride Month, promoting visibility for the LGBTQ community, blah, blah, blah. U.S. embassies in

00:02:10.060 Israel, Germany, Brazil, and Latvia made requests to the Trump administration to fly the flag on the

00:02:15.200 official, this is the important part, on the official embassy flagpole in honor of Pride. But those

00:02:23.400 requests have been denied by the State Department. Omar tweeted, this is another blatant example of

00:02:29.440 this administration's bigotry and discrimination against the LGBTQIA plus community.

00:02:37.140 This month, President Trump tweeted about Pride Month, and during Barack Obama's presidency,

00:02:41.760 there was blanket permission issued to fly the Pride flag throughout the month of June,

00:02:47.720 presumably on the official embassy flagpoles. But this time around, that's not the case.

00:02:52.660 Vice President Mike Pence, who has frequently expressed his opposition to gay rights throughout

00:02:56.900 his political career, said he supported the decision not to fly the Pride flag. He said,

00:03:00.960 I'm aware that the State Department indicated that on the flagpole of our American embassies,

00:03:04.360 one flag should fly, and that's the American flag. And I support that. All right. And Omar,

00:03:13.880 of course, is not the only, maybe you've heard about this controversy. Omar is not the only leftist to

00:03:19.960 accuse the Trump administration of bigotry for their policy of not flying the Pride flag on the official

00:03:27.300 embassy flagpoles. And they're all, you know, they're all saying kind of the same thing, blaming

00:03:32.760 it on Pence, as always, claiming that the White House has banned Pride flags at embassies, which is

00:03:38.960 just not true. That's a lie. The Trump administration has not banned Pride flags. Now, personally, I wouldn't

00:03:46.520 mind if they did, because I don't think a Pride flag has any business being anywhere, anywhere in or on

00:03:54.140 an American embassy, because that's not what an American embassy is supposed to be about.

00:03:58.820 But that's actually not what happened here. They didn't ban Pride flags. They just said you can't

00:04:02.920 fly them under the American flag as like a secondary flag on the official flagpole of the embassy.

00:04:10.580 If you want to have your Pride flag, you can put it anywhere else. You probably put it on the side of

00:04:15.160 the building if you want to, but you just can't put it on the official embassy

00:04:19.080 flagpoles. Why is that? Because embassies are primarily there to represent America, not to

00:04:30.340 represent homosexuality. That's not the point of an embassy. It's not our practice. It has not been

00:04:40.380 our practice to set up embassies for sexual orientations, right? That'd be a little bit 0.99

00:04:46.060 weird to have like a gay embassy somewhere. I mean, I wouldn't put it, I wouldn't be surprised 1.00

00:04:53.420 if the next democratic administration, whenever that happens to occur, were to adopt a policy like

00:04:59.840 that. But as it stands right now, we have embassies for the country, for the entire country,

00:05:04.640 not just for gay people. And the American flag, here's the thing about the American flag.

00:05:14.440 For any LGBT person who says, I'm being excluded because you're not putting the pride flag up.

00:05:20.320 No, the American flag represents all Americans, including gay Americans. So if you're an American 0.83

00:05:26.620 and you're gay, then you're represented by the flag too, by the American flag. Every American is.

00:05:31.440 Um, you don't need, nor should you get your own flag on the pole at an embassy. You are under the

00:05:41.340 same flag, just like the rest of us. You should be happy with that. But this, I think, seems to be

00:05:48.800 the theme of the week. I think every show I've done this week, this is why I'm ending with this,

00:05:53.240 with this topic, because I think this has been the theme of leftists, whether we're talking about

00:06:00.760 people in the LGBT, you know, LGBT people or feminists or whatever. Leftists claim they want

00:06:06.880 equal treatment, but really what they're advocating for is special treatment. And this is yet another

00:06:14.180 example of that. I think it's a pretty, uh, pretty profound example of that, where you have LGBT 1.00

00:06:23.600 people demanding their own flag on the pole at an, at an embassy under the American flag. I mean, it's,

00:06:33.140 it's absurd that this would, that this conversation even needs to be had. That any embassy would, uh,

00:06:41.280 would, would even request such a thing is completely ridiculous. That's not what the embassy is supposed

00:06:47.080 to be doing. Now we should also mention that the Trump administration, this is a, this is a blank, again,

00:06:56.960 this is equal to, it's a blanket policy. It's not like they say, oh yeah, well, we're not going to put the

00:07:01.960 pride flag there on the, on the pole under the American flag, but, uh, you know, you could put whatever,

00:07:06.560 you could put another random flag up if you want. You know, you could put a flag up, uh, celebrating

00:07:13.080 St. Patrick's day if you want, but you just don't put the pride flag. No, that's not that what the,

00:07:16.600 the policy with the Trump administration, which is a consistent policy, it applies to everybody.

00:07:21.320 Uh, it also pays due respect to the flag. The policy is you don't put anything under,

00:07:25.360 you don't put any additional flag on that boat. That's a poll for the American flag and that's it.

00:07:29.780 Nothing else goes on it. But what the LGBT people are saying is like, yeah, I know that's the policy,

00:07:36.900 but we should be an acceptable. Our flag is different. We're different. We're special. No, you're not.

00:07:43.080 You're not special. You're just like the rest of us. Isn't that what you say you want?

00:07:53.120 Isn't that your claim that you want to be treated just like everybody else?

00:07:58.220 Well, you're getting it. You know, this is what it's like to be just a normal American.

00:08:04.160 We don't get our own special flags. I don't have one.

00:08:06.580 Special treatment, not equal treatment. We should always keep that in mind. Every time you hear a

00:08:14.600 leftist talk about equal treatment, that's not what they mean. The word, the word equal has been

00:08:20.660 substituted for special because what you'll find in pretty much every case is that if they actually

00:08:27.980 get equal treatment, they complain. So this is just another ridiculous controversy. All right. 0.92

00:08:38.800 So there's this new HBO show out that I wanted to mention. The Daily Wire has a report about this

00:08:47.800 show. It says HBO and its constant quest to jettison traditional norms of dignity is presenting a new

00:08:52.540 series aimed at teens that features graphic nudity and a former Disney child star who wants to be

00:08:59.600 taken seriously as an actress. Euphoria is the name of the show, starring Zendaya, who first came to

00:09:07.180 prominence on Disney Channel's show Shake It Up, and it features an actor using a prosthetic penis to 0.87

00:09:12.840 commit a rape, as well as a scene in which roughly 30 young men are shown fully nude. There's a sex scene 0.98

00:09:19.000 between teens involving choking and even a charming scene where an obese man on a webcam masturbates to 0.99

00:09:25.820 a young woman. This is all in the show. Okay. Euphoria creator Sam Levinson, who wrote the series 0.91

00:09:36.600 based on his own experiences with drug addiction, boasted there are going to be parents who are going

00:09:41.200 to be totally effing freaked out. And, uh, and that's what he's bragging about is that parents are

00:09:47.880 going to be disturbed by the show. And, and, uh, I only mentioned this, you know, I hesitate to mention

00:09:55.680 it because of course what you have are these Hollywood producers and, and, uh, these HBO shows that,

00:10:05.620 you know, they can't get your attention with a good story, a good plot line, good acting, a good

00:10:12.240 script. You know, they're not going to get your attention that way. They're just desperately trying

00:10:15.560 to get your attention by all the graphic grotesque, uh, stuff that I just mentioned. And so I hesitate

00:10:23.580 to actually give them the attention that they're seeking because that's what all this is. Just,

00:10:26.820 just attention. Of course there's, there's simply no reason it's gratuitous. There's no reason to have

00:10:32.360 stuff like that in a, in a show or a movie. There's no reason if it doesn't advance the plot.

00:10:39.060 And I'm not saying that every show or movie should avoid the topics like sex and other

00:10:44.840 different. No, you shouldn't have. That's part of life. If you're, if you're telling a story,

00:10:48.420 um, sometimes you're going to include something, but you don't need to show it graphically.

00:10:53.320 There's no read that doesn't advance the story. There's no reason for it.

00:10:58.020 You do that. It's just, it's just attention seeking.

00:11:03.360 And it's very clear. That's what they're doing here. I only mention it because of that one line

00:11:08.100 from the, uh, from the creator of the show saying, well, this is going to, this is going to freak

00:11:12.680 parents out. I mean, if you have any, if there's any, if you have any confusion about what Hollywood's

00:11:19.800 goal is, especially when it comes to your kids

00:11:22.640 or how much respect they have for you as a parent, uh, the answer is they have no respect for you.

00:11:29.440 They've decided what sort of material your child should be exposed to. And they're going to go

00:11:37.980 ahead and expose your child to that. And they don't care if you as a parent are comfortable with

00:11:44.600 this is yet again. And I think in this case, especially because this is a show apparently

00:11:51.540 targeted to teenagers specifically, right? Um, so this is a, a, a show that's very blatant about the fact

00:11:59.700 that it's trying to rip your kid away from you and turn your kid into something else.

00:12:07.420 Something that you don't want your kid to be.

00:12:09.280 Hollywood has a vision for what sorts of people it wants to, um, create in this country.

00:12:20.960 And it's not going to line up with your vision for your kids.

00:12:25.260 So we should never make any mistake about that. And as I have said many times, I think that there is,

00:12:31.560 well, I'll put it this way. It would be very difficult to go too far, in my opinion,

00:12:39.500 in trying to shield your kids from this kind of stuff. I mean, you could go too far, right? I mean,

00:12:47.820 you've locked your kid in a, in a room for the first 18 years. It was like literally have them in a

00:12:51.720 bubble, like bubble boy. That's probably going a little too far.

00:12:54.740 But, um, I think most of us as parents aren't going nearly far enough

00:13:02.780 because your kid at the age of 13 is exposed to this kind of stuff. And, uh, I'm not going to say

00:13:12.160 it's going to ruin his life forever or that the damage is, is, is impossible to undo, but it does

00:13:17.040 do real damage. You know, when, when, when we art, I mean, I has, I, I am loathe to call this art,

00:13:25.600 but it is technically an art form, a television show, a story, right? So art has the, has a very

00:13:32.600 profound impact on us. And anytime we're exposed to any kind of art, whether it's real art or quote

00:13:39.380 unquote art, there's a sort of process of becoming, we, we, we change, we become something else. We're

00:13:45.340 changed by this thing that we're exposed to. We're either lifted up or we're dragged down,

00:13:51.800 but it has a real effect on us. And so when your kids start ingesting stuff like this,

00:13:58.100 it drags them down and it starts to change them and deform them.

00:14:04.860 And so again, it is very difficult to go too far in trying to shield them from that.

00:14:09.900 Uh, for instance, saying, okay, I'm going to drop off the grid and go live in the woods,

00:14:17.240 right? With, with, with no internet, no TV. I think that's not, that's, that's not too far at all.

00:14:22.240 I think it's actually a great idea. I'm not doing it. Sometimes I think I should, but I think that's

00:14:27.720 a great idea. If you don't want to go that far, then, I mean, there are little things like don't give

00:14:33.840 your kid a phone with the internet. I mean, that's, see, we, we look at a step like that and we see

00:14:41.980 that as, oh, that's extreme. I mean, that's radical. What are you talking about? No, no internet for the

00:14:46.920 kid. Well, how is he going to survive? That's not radical at all. That's, I think when you consider

00:14:53.480 just the filth, the grotesque, disgusting, mind warping filth that is out there and that Hollywood

00:15:04.540 and other forces are trying desperately to get in front of your kid's eyes, when you consider all

00:15:09.280 of that, uh, something as simple as not giving your kid a phone with the internet is a real, that's

00:15:13.700 just a, to me, that's a base level step. All right. Um, one other thing before we get some

00:15:23.940 emails, Twitter user Briley, uh, is her name. She's just a, you know, just a Twitter user. I don't

00:15:30.120 think this is a, you know, it's not some media member or anything, but she, uh, sent out a tweet

00:15:35.000 a couple of days ago and is now getting death threats for it. Of course, a lot of outrage,

00:15:41.900 death threats, everything else, death wishes, you know, I've been there, um, myself and this

00:15:47.700 happened after she sent a completely normal and in my opinion, inoffensive tweet. This is what

00:15:53.440 this, uh, this woman said. She said, call me old fashioned, but I was raised to take care of my 0.99

00:15:58.200 husband, make his plate every night, wash his work clothes for him, make sure he's up for work the next 0.99

00:16:03.120 morning, always have a clean house for him to come home to, et cetera, et cetera. Uh, and that's exactly

00:16:08.160 the wife I will be. Okay. So that was the tweet. And of course it's been retweeted tens of thousands

00:16:14.560 of times. And as I said, all this outrage and people are insulting her and wishing, wishing

00:16:18.580 death, even threatening death on her because of this tweet, which is what's the offensive. Now,

00:16:27.060 of course I know the moment I happened to see that tweet before I even read the reactions,

00:16:32.160 I knew how people would react to it. I'm not naive. I'm not stupid. I know that people will see that

00:16:36.680 as offensive, but, uh, that's just because we live in a very silly, very stupid culture in reality, 0.98

00:16:44.360 objectively speaking, there is nothing offensive about this whatsoever. So she said as a white 0.99

00:16:50.420 wife, she wants to make a plate of, you know, make dinner for her husband, wash his clothes for him, 1.00

00:16:56.180 make sure he's up in the morning, have a clean house. That's, you know what that is? That's,

00:16:59.840 that's normal. That is the normal everyday sort of life of a homemaker. If somebody wants to be a

00:17:07.780 homemaker, that's what you do. You're doing the laundry, you're, you're cooking, cooking food,

00:17:11.400 you're taking care of your family, cleaning the house. It is a perfectly, I think, wonderfully noble

00:17:18.740 vocation. Maybe it's not for everyone. It's not, it's not what every woman wants to do. That's fine. 0.99

00:17:24.320 But, um, there are still women who have that desire and it's perfectly noble and it involves

00:17:31.060 all of these things. There's nothing wrong with that. The only thing that she listed that's maybe

00:17:36.180 arguably a step beyond just normal homemaker kind of responsibility, uh, is where she says,

00:17:43.360 make sure he's up for work in the, in the morning. Okay. Well, you know, I mean, I think a good wife 1.00

00:17:47.800 will do that for her husband. If he's sleeping in and needs to get up for work, she'll help her get up.

00:17:51.700 Right. I mean, that's, isn't that what a wife will do? My wife does it for me. I didn't, 1.00

00:17:55.420 I didn't think it was any big deal, but of course, uh, feminists are reacting to this and saying, 1.00

00:18:03.820 oh, so it's hard to internalize misogyny and everything because number one, what we realize

00:18:08.440 is that feminists are big advocates for choice. They want women to make choices unless they choose 1.00

00:18:17.700 something quote unquote old fashioned like this, unless they choose to be an attentive, uh, you

00:18:23.020 know, sort of conservative homemaker and wife and mother. If that choice is not acceptable,

00:18:28.160 any other choice though, I mean, literally any other choice you want to make with your life.

00:18:31.860 If you want to go out and be a prostitute, I mean that they would consider that to be a much more

00:18:36.360 noble vocation than what this woman has just described. And that of course is not an exaggeration. 0.90

00:18:42.840 Um, but in reality, this is just taking care of the family. And I think what you find is, is

00:18:54.120 a lot of people in our society, they just cannot accept that there should be any element of service

00:19:05.780 in a marriage. Um, especially on the part of the wife, the idea that the wife would at all serve 1.00

00:19:14.060 her husband, I think makes is just, is repulsive to modern people. But if that's the attitude you

00:19:23.060 have, I just have to tell you this ahead of time to save you the heartache. And I tell you this,

00:19:29.680 if, if you read that tweet and you're utterly repulsed by it and angered by it, then I tell

00:19:35.940 you right now, don't get married because your marriage is going to be a failure. Your marriage 0.72

00:19:41.940 will fail. Now I'm not saying that you have to agree with everything in this tweet and you have,

00:19:49.340 your marriage has to be exactly like that in order for it to be successful. I'm not saying that.

00:19:52.600 Um, but if you were just completely repulsed by this notion, by the, by the very idea of a woman,

00:20:00.780 you know, making a meal for her husband or doing the laundry, if that, if that whole idea is repulsive

00:20:06.240 to you, it is offensive to you, uh, then yes, you, marriage is not for you. You're going to,

00:20:13.640 your marriage will fail. Absolutely. Because service is part of marriage, serving your spouse.

00:20:20.720 And yes, the husband serves the wife too, but the wife also serves the husband.

00:20:28.780 And if you're not on board with that, if you're not interested in that, then seriously do not get

00:20:34.980 married. You will get divorced. You have to be willing to serve your spouse or it's just not going

00:20:44.840 to work because that's what a marriage is. That's what makes it work. 1.00

00:20:52.640 You have the one spouse picking up the slack for the other in this area. And then the others 0.99

00:20:56.440 picking up the slack in another area. And it's a complimentary nature. That's how marriages work. 1.00

00:21:02.420 There really isn't any other way. There isn't any other functional way to do it.

00:21:05.820 All right. Uh, so I've just a, just a warning there for you. Let's go to emails,

00:21:14.320 mattwallshowatgmail.com, mattwallshowatgmail.com. This, uh, this is from

00:21:20.200 Grace, I believe it says, dear Mr. Walsh, I hope this finds you well and that your ankle isn't playing

00:21:27.680 you, uh, isn't playing you up too much. I'm isn't playing you up too much. Is that a, okay,

00:21:34.180 this is someone from the UK. So that must be a UK expression. I'm writing from the UK and the

00:21:38.400 news is currently full of controversy about a comedian's joke about throwing battery acid

00:21:42.940 over Nigel Farage. Uh, she is a hilarious joke, isn't it? Great, great, great wit there. She's 1.00

00:21:50.220 being investigated by the police and left-wing commentators have been gloriously proclaiming

00:21:54.400 that the right are snowflakes for being offended by the gag. Um, I'm somewhat mixed over this. I think

00:22:00.820 that you should be free to joke about anything, but I know that the reaction would have been

00:22:04.800 different had the target of the joke been a left-wing figure and it feels satisfying to see

00:22:08.720 the left suffering a taste of their own medicine. How can we reconcile this in the future though?

00:22:13.020 It can't just be the case that the right is always hounded out of a job, et cetera,

00:22:16.780 because of comments that are deemed unacceptable, yet the left continues to get away with it.

00:22:21.520 But then it seems to me that the free speech concerns are the same no matter who is speaking

00:22:25.300 and pleasant as it is to see the left suffer. It can't be right to pursue the same strategy.

00:22:29.420 Should the right pursue and censor people to send a message to the left or will it only

00:22:33.800 continue to respond in part? Or is there another better way to deal with, um, to deal with this

00:22:42.220 problem? I'd be very grateful for your advice because the hypocrisy of my feelings have been

00:22:45.780 bothering me greatly. Yeah, Grace, great question. I struggle with this myself. On one hand, I believe

00:22:50.600 in intellectual integrity and consistency. I preach it all the time. So if I advocate for free speech

00:22:56.320 for ourselves, we have to advocate it for others as well, right? If we want free speech for ourselves,

00:23:00.240 we have to want it for others as well. That's called being intellectually consistent. On the

00:23:05.200 other hand, I do perhaps in my weaker moments, um, see the logic in the argument that the left should

00:23:10.800 be hoisted with its own petard and forced to live by its own rules. I do see the attraction to that

00:23:16.680 approach. So the approach that says, okay, forget about principles. Let's just make these people taste

00:23:21.580 their own medicine for a change, see how they like it. But that of course is just vengeance. Um,

00:23:28.580 in the end, if we're going to, uh, be governed by our minds rather than by our feelings, our emotions,

00:23:38.040 I think we have to stay true to our principles because if we don't, then what's the point? 0.99

00:23:43.120 So I think we have to say that, yeah, that, that joke is, it's a, it's a stupid joke. It's a bad joke. 1.00

00:23:49.160 It's an offensive joke. It's a witless joke. Um, but it, it's not criminal or it shouldn't be 0.52

00:23:57.520 criminal. And a person should be free to make a joke like that as bad as it is, even though they're

00:24:02.780 on the left and so on and so forth. I think that has to be our position because if it isn't, um,

00:24:11.320 if we take the other approach, then what's the point? If we become the left to beat the left,

00:24:18.700 uh, then hasn't the left already won? Haven't they essentially converted us then to their

00:24:27.200 relativistic worldview? Haven't we become nihilist just like them? And thus the game is lost. I think

00:24:32.540 that's the thing that the conservatives is, ah, you know, throw it, I forget about the principles. 1.00

00:24:36.580 Oh, you're stupid. Throw all that to the side. Uh, this is how the left operates. So how we should 1.00

00:24:41.720 operate. Let's play by their rules. Well, yes, but this fly is like, there's a fly. I don't know if

00:24:47.120 you can see it on camera. I hope you can see the fly on camera. Otherwise I'm just, I've just been

00:24:51.820 doing this the whole show looking like I have, uh, some sort of condition anyway. Um, where was I?

00:24:59.140 Oh yes. If we abandon our principles and just say, okay, let's, let's, uh, you know, let's,

00:25:06.780 let's adopt the left's approach. Well, then we've become them. Then they've won because they've,

00:25:10.840 they've created exactly the kind of culture they wanted to create where everybody has adopted their,

00:25:17.120 philosophy, their, their, their principles, uh, or lack thereof. The whole point here is that we

00:25:25.100 are trying to establish, we're fighting for a culture that is not relativistic, that is not,

00:25:29.540 uh, nihilistic. So if they're, if they are that way and then we become that way, then everybody is,

00:25:37.640 and they've won. They won. So yes, I, I agree with you that we, uh, I think we need to maintain

00:25:45.840 our principles. All right. This is from Jack, um, says, Matt, I used to be a fan until I read

00:25:52.200 your scrambled egg recipe on Twitter this morning. I am horrified. Sour cream in eggs. You sir are a

00:25:59.780 communist. Yeah. This is something we were talking about on, on, on Twitter. Um, I was saying that

00:26:04.320 most, it's a big problem in this country. Most people don't know how to make scrambled eggs.

00:26:09.540 And so if you, if you go to a restaurant, I never ordered scrambled eggs at restaurants anymore,

00:26:13.380 uh, because of this problem. If you go to someone's house, they make you scrambled eggs.

00:26:16.840 What it ends up being is what they're really serving you is sort of burnt egg flakes. Um,

00:26:21.820 not scrambled eggs, which are supposed to be fluffy and delicious and delightful.

00:26:26.100 Most people don't know how to, don't know how to do it. So I, I shared the, the, the correct

00:26:29.980 scrambled eggs recipe, which I will tell you now, this is how you make scrambled eggs. Okay.

00:26:33.840 What you do is you, you, you take, you take, uh, you crack the eggs into your pan. Um, you put

00:26:41.340 butter in with the raw eggs, a generous amount of butter. You whip all the eggs together with the

00:26:48.260 butter. You put the pan on about medium heat, you know, medium, low about there, there about

00:26:55.420 you're scrambling the whole time, right? Uh, a little salt and pepper in there. And then when you're

00:27:02.320 about 20 seconds from being done, you put in a, a nice dollop of sour cream and the sour cream is

00:27:09.220 very important. I'm not even a sour cream fan. I don't really even like sour cream, but you need

00:27:12.960 it in the eggs because that's going to give it that kind of, uh, fluff at the end. That's going 1.00

00:27:17.700 to give it the fluffiness is the sour cream at the end. And that's how you make scrambled eggs.

00:27:21.480 Uh, mistakes people make, you don't mix, you don't mix milk into the eggs. You don't need milk.

00:27:25.780 You use butter, not milk. Uh, you don't put butter into the pan ahead of time and then wait for it to

00:27:30.660 heat up and then throw the eggs in because then you're going to overcook your eggs. They're going

00:27:34.240 to get burned. If you do it that way. Um, if you start to smell burnt eggs at any point in the,

00:27:40.780 in the process of making the scrambled eggs, it's finished. It's done. You've ruined it.

00:27:44.460 You've ruined breakfast. You've ruined the eggs. You've ruined the day. Basically you're a failure.

00:27:51.260 Throw the eggs out. Start over again. The moment you smell that burning smell, it's finished. 0.99

00:27:55.960 It's, you can't recover from that. Okay. Uh, that's how you make scrambled eggs. In case you're

00:28:00.900 wondering this flies. All right. Um, this is from Roger says, hi, Matt. I'm a huge fan and getting

00:28:15.040 to meet you someday is a tops on my bucket list. I think you need to get better items on your bucket

00:28:19.980 list. Trust me. It's not that thrilling to meet me in the meantime, an email will suffice. I'm a police

00:28:24.920 officer that finds myself listening to your shows often while on duty. It has helped me pass many

00:28:29.260 long shifts. My dilemma is in regards to newly found faith in Jesus Christ. I was a vehement

00:28:34.740 atheist up until a few years ago when a suicide attempt led to me accepting the Lord and last

00:28:39.340 ditch effort to salvage what I felt was a wasted life. Since then, my life has taken a complete

00:28:43.640 U-turn. I found meaning in both my personal life as well as my career. And I've striven, striving

00:28:50.100 to be the best Christian I could be. In doing so, I've found myself prioritizing both the lives of

00:28:56.580 the born and the unborn as someone who was once a strong pro-choice believer. I now realize the

00:29:01.660 modern day atrocities of abortion or selfless efforts have really helped me lately. Uh, that

00:29:06.360 leads to me to the dilemma in question. The church I've found myself attending is very soft when it

00:29:12.080 comes to the lives of the unborn. I had a long discussion with one of the leaders of the church who

00:29:15.940 essentially told me that he believes there are scriptural reasons to believe that human life does

00:29:19.660 not begin until outside of the womb. It's completely false. The notion that the geographical location

00:29:25.080 of an eight-month fetus, which would have survived prematurely, seems antithetical of the scriptures

00:29:29.540 I've read. Uh, I've also spoken with other fellow members of the church who have expressed gratitude

00:29:34.240 that the church doesn't speak out against abortion. What is your recommendation for a single Christian 1.00

00:29:38.880 who is still finding his way in his own faith? Do you think I'm overstepping my boundaries if I

00:29:42.480 schedule a meeting with the pastor to express my concern? While it seems many churches are becoming

00:29:46.700 more progressive, do you think churches should make the abortion, should make abortion, uh, the abortion

00:29:51.720 issue a priority from the pulpit? Another one of my friends who was in the, was the first to invite

00:29:56.100 me to the church when I was an atheist, told me to, for tax-exempt purposes, it's a good thing 0.90

00:30:00.460 that it stays away from the pulpit. Um, thanks for all you've done in my life over the past year alone

00:30:07.440 in molding some of my strongest viewpoints. Even though I'm only in my early twenties, I feel like

00:30:12.180 people like you have helped pioneer my faith both today and in the future ahead. God bless.

00:30:18.860 Well, Roger, thanks for the, for that email. Thanks for sharing your story. Thank you for

00:30:22.320 having the courage to turn your life around, uh, to make a change. Thank you for not giving up on

00:30:26.860 life and on, uh, yourself. Uh, thank you for all that. As to your question, you are not at all

00:30:35.240 overstepping by advocating for the unborn at your church. I think you should absolutely keep doing 1.00

00:30:40.080 that. Absolutely continue down that road. I would also, as a cautionary note, say that, um,

00:30:46.820 after you talk to the pastor, if you find that the church is just steadfastly, uh,

00:30:54.380 well, certainly if it's, if it's, if it is, if you find that it is a pro-abortion church

00:31:00.520 or a church that is absolutely determined to be neutral on the subject, then I would say maybe

00:31:08.220 consider finding a new church. Um, and I know that's kind of easy for me to say, this is the

00:31:13.680 church that, that you, that your friend brought you into. It's the only church, you know, or have

00:31:18.060 known. Um, but you know, there are, there are bad churches out there. Not, not all churches are

00:31:26.700 made equal. And, um, if this is a church where the leadership believes that it's okay to kill

00:31:35.480 babies, then I think it's a bad church. Um, it's a great step you made in going to church. Don't get 0.77

00:31:42.720 me wrong, but for your faith to progress and mature and to, you know, and to continue to grow as, as we

00:31:50.320 all need our faith to our, our, our, you know, in our own lives for our faith to grow, it's possible

00:31:55.400 in that case, you need to find another church. But I think talking to the pastor is a good, a good

00:31:59.140 step. Um, and just see how that conversation goes. I think it's a great, great idea. I do think that

00:32:05.160 defending the unborn should be a priority of every church. This is the number one issue that we face

00:32:09.040 in our culture. It's the number one cultural injustice and churches, all churches should be

00:32:13.220 engaged in the fight. They should not take a back seat. I don't think any church has the right.

00:32:17.640 I don't think any church has the moral right to take a back seat or to try to be neutral.

00:32:22.300 That's my opinion. This is from John says, Matt, I have heard many Christians say, if there's

00:32:29.380 something you desire, speak it into existence. Whenever I hear this said, I feel like it portrays

00:32:33.480 God as a genie who will grant every wish. If we, if we just believe enough, I understand how this can

00:32:39.620 be an exercise of faith, but I think Christians view faith as a trade. If we have faith, we'll get 0.99

00:32:44.220 something in return. I was diagnosed with kidney disease two years ago when I was just 20. I had faith

00:32:49.080 that God would cure me, but I also had faith that there was a purpose for this obstacle and that God

00:32:52.680 would give me strength to get through it. Instead of speaking my will into existence, I think we

00:32:56.840 should speak God's will. What are your thoughts on this? Also, did Adam and Eve have belly buttons?

00:33:03.480 Well, on that last question, I'm going to say yes, just because the idea of people without belly

00:33:07.120 buttons freaks me out. As for speaking things into existence, I agree. We don't have that ability.

00:33:12.020 Um, we are not God. God spoke the world into existence. God speaks things into existence. We

00:33:16.940 don't do that. Our positive thoughts will not of themselves cause good things to happen. It doesn't

00:33:22.000 work that way. And I really, I really hate that cliche about, oh, you know, go keep a positive

00:33:26.280 attitude. And you know, if you, if you, if you, if you think it will happen, it will happen, all that

00:33:30.760 kind of stuff. Um, it's so many problems with it. Let's just start with the, I mean, think about all the

00:33:40.240 horrible things that happen in this world. Think about the worst kinds of things. Think about a

00:33:44.820 parent whose child is dying of cancer. There are many parents in the world who are in that position

00:33:49.880 right now. Are we going to tell them to just think positive and speak it into existence, speak a cure

00:33:56.760 into existence? We're going to tell them that positive thoughts will, will change everything and,

00:34:01.520 you know, just, just, just have a good attitude. It's absurd and it's grotesque. Um, the fact is in this

00:34:08.620 life, horrible, horrible, horrible things can and do happen regardless of how positive you are,

00:34:16.040 regardless of your optimistic attitude, uh, regardless of anything. It's just the reality

00:34:21.680 and platitudes and cliches are not going to change that. And they don't help when someone is in that

00:34:28.900 position. You know, I think sometimes we have to start by just when someone is in a horrible position

00:34:36.520 or dealing with something that is horrible, we have to start by acknowledging like, yes, this is

00:34:41.040 unspeakably awful. Um, and, and, and there might not be anything you can do to change it,

00:34:50.020 which is one of the things that makes it so unspeakably awful.

00:34:54.360 But that doesn't mean that it's hopeless. I think that once we accept that reality, once we accept

00:35:01.420 that we are helpless in a position, in a, in a situation, once we accept that horrible things

00:35:06.700 can and do happen and will happen to us personally at some point, you know, at some point in your life,

00:35:12.880 a really horrible thing is going to happen to you. Um, probably more than once, a really horrible

00:35:19.240 thing will happen. Once we start by acknowledging that, then we can begin to rely on God rather than

00:35:26.920 on our own mindset and, um, submit ourselves to his will rather than trying to somehow change

00:35:39.380 the unchangeable through our own will. So that's a long way of saying I agree with everything that

00:35:46.620 you said in your email. Thank you for that. And thanks everybody for watching and listening.

00:35:49.980 Uh, have a great weekend. Godspeed.

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The Matt Walsh Show - June 14, 2019

Ep. 276 - Pride Flags Don’t Belong On Embassies

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