The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 284 - The Compassionate Answer To The Border Crisis

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, there is a crisis on the southern border, but what can we do about it?

00:00:04.580 Well, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's answer is to go down there for photo ops, 1.00

00:00:09.120 but what's a better answer? What's a compassionate answer to the problem on the border? We'll talk

00:00:14.000 about that today. Also, and this is not a joke, folks, but a liberal film critic says that Toy

00:00:20.840 Story 4 is racist because there are no black toys. Yes, she really said that. We'll talk about that

00:00:27.480 today and other interesting topics on the Matt Wall Show. Okay, so a guy named Ivan Pierre Aguirre

00:00:40.500 posted some photos to Twitter yesterday. These are photos of a trip that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

00:00:47.300 took to the border a year ago, apparently, and we're told that she took the trip to the border

00:00:53.000 not for publicity. In fact, she took a break from campaigning, a break from campaigning to go to

00:00:59.720 the border to protest our immigration system, basically. The photos are so transparently

00:01:06.720 staged and phony that it's almost physically painful to look at them. It's difficult to look

00:01:15.780 because they are so contrived. But let's take a look at them anyway. So here you go. Here are the

00:01:22.100 photos that were posted. You got a lot of retweets and likes, and people were saying that, oh, well,

00:01:27.260 in fact, some people were very touched by these photos. But there are a lot of people, even

00:01:32.580 apparently AOC supporters, who said, come on, I like you, but this is ridiculous. So there's AOC. 0.86

00:01:40.100 You see her standing next to a fence, looking right into the camera, a very sad, disappointed,

00:01:44.760 kind of concerned look on her face. That look right there, you see right now, that is a look that I get

00:01:50.380 for my wife a lot, especially when I make puns. So it's a very familiar look. And then we have her

00:01:57.180 right after she looked into the camera. Now she's covering her face in despair. And then now she's

00:02:04.980 doubled over. Okay, so now she's really going in for the, this is the dramatic moment, the climax.

00:02:12.160 She's utterly overcome by despair. Now she's doubled over, covering her face. This actually looks like,

00:02:18.300 this looks like me when I go to a bar and find out that they only have Miller Lite and Coors on tap.

00:02:23.580 It's a very similar, like, no, why, why, why? Those beers taste like watered down goat urine.

00:02:30.040 So it's a, so I do the same kind of thing. I understand that, actually. Okay, and now here

00:02:34.260 she is again. Now she's regained her composure. But she's still looking quite sad. And now though,

00:02:40.600 angry and disturbed. This is the look that I give when I'm stuck in the car with all three kids,

00:02:45.660 and they started singing songs from the Wiggles. This is the look. Actually, no, that's go back to

00:02:50.600 the, to the one I've heard doubled over. No, that's me. That's actually me when I'm in the car

00:02:54.900 and the kids are singing. So it's difficult to drive. It's a little bit dangerous for me to be

00:03:00.040 doing that while, while driving. Anyway, so there, those are the pictures. I mean, it's, it's

00:03:06.940 just a joke. Now, the crisis down on our border is not a joke. That is a serious problem. We're

00:03:16.080 going to talk about that today. But she is making a joke out of it by using it as a, as a, you know,

00:03:22.600 this is very similar. Remember those stories a couple of weeks ago of the Instagram influencers

00:03:26.820 who were showing up at Chernobyl to take selfies, sometimes half nude selfies. This is very similar

00:03:34.300 to that. This is an essentially a glorified Instagram influencer, um, going to the site of

00:03:40.940 a real human travesty, uh, for, for a photo opportunity. Uh, just disgraceful. Well, as I

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00:05:45.100 and outrage by the left because it's selling furniture to migrant detention centers. Uh,

00:05:50.020 in fact, a bunch of employees of the company, over 500 of them are planning to walk out today

00:05:55.780 in, in protest of it. But, but, uh, wait a second. I thought we were upset

00:06:01.500 that the kids at these centers don't have beds to sleep in. And that is upsetting. I agree because

00:06:07.820 they should have beds, right? So, um, now the centers are getting beds

00:06:12.900 and that's a problem too. You're protesting that they don't have beds and then they get beds and

00:06:19.800 you're protesting also. Um, it, it just, it doesn't make any sense. Over 500 employees signed a letter

00:06:26.860 to the company. The letter says in part, this particular order for over $200,000 worth of bedroom

00:06:32.580 furniture is destined for Carrizo Springs, Texas to a facility that will be outfitted to detain up to

00:06:38.320 3000 migrant children seeking asylum in the United States. So it sounds like this, this detention

00:06:45.980 facility is trying to be prepared. It's, it's, it is outfitting itself. Um, knowing, you know,

00:06:52.240 the people running the facility know that there's going to be an influx of children. So they're trying

00:06:55.980 to prepare and make sure that they've got places for the kids to sleep and stay. That's good.

00:07:00.960 That's what we want, right? Um, it continues. The practice of detaining children and adults

00:07:08.000 on our Southern border has been condemned since its inception, but the, but since the acceleration

00:07:12.460 of the practice in 2018 and the increase in death and injury that has come with that acceleration,

00:07:16.600 we have seen more vocal condemnation of the practice. We, the undersigned are writing to you

00:07:21.120 from a place of concern and anger about the atrocities being committed at our Southern border.

00:07:26.000 They said condemned since its inception. No, it has not been, it has not been condemned since

00:07:30.480 its inception because the left was not condemning it during the Obama administration. And it was

00:07:35.180 happening then also. Now the way they get around it is they try to say, Oh yeah, it was happening

00:07:39.880 during Obama's administration. We didn't talk about it then we didn't care. Um, in fact, not only did

00:07:45.560 we not talk about it, but it wasn't just that the left wasn't talking about the crisis on the border

00:07:51.540 back in the Obama administration is that they were actively denying that there was a crisis.

00:07:59.080 So now they're condemning it. The way they get around it is they say, well, uh, you know, it's,

00:08:04.100 it's, it's, it's, uh, the problem's gotten worse since then. Okay. The problem's gotten worse. You

00:08:08.180 claim. Um, but so you're more concerned now than you were before that, that would justify being more

00:08:15.320 concerned, except that you weren't concerned at all before you went from zero to a hundred.

00:08:19.360 There was no 25 or 50 in between like there should have been, which really makes it seem like this

00:08:25.760 is political partisanship. And the only reason you're pretending to care now is that Trump is

00:08:30.320 president. Um, and they also say that, uh, that, uh, why do they phrase it? The practice of detaining

00:08:37.300 children is condemned. Well, uh, the mere fact that we are detaining people is obviously not a

00:08:47.080 problem and you didn't think it was four years ago and you were right. The, the, the, the simple

00:08:53.060 act of detaining people is, is there, there are scenarios where you need to do that. Um, it's a

00:09:00.640 problem when the conditions at these facilities aren't up to par and sometimes they're not, but

00:09:05.480 that, but that's where getting furniture, getting food and all that. Um, that means that we're

00:09:09.940 improving conditions and that's what we're supposed to want. The hypocrisy on this issue, the partisanship,

00:09:17.320 the lack of real concern, um, is infuriating because there is a real crisis down there, as

00:09:29.580 I said, and that crisis comes with a significant human cost. In fact, there's a photo, um, that

00:09:36.880 has been all over social media for the past day that really shows that cost. I think it shows two

00:09:44.720 immigrants from El Salvador, El Salvador, uh, excuse me, um, uh, father and daughter apparently.

00:09:54.000 And, uh, they're washed up on the shores of the Rio Grande. Both have died, um, lying face down in

00:10:00.440 the water. The young girl, two years old has her arm around her father's neck. It's just a, it's a,

00:10:06.320 it's a devastating gut-wrenching photo that, uh, you can't, I mean, if you're a human being, you

00:10:13.840 can't help, but be moved when you see it. Um, especially as a father myself. Well, even if I

00:10:20.760 wasn't a father, obviously I know I would still know that it's tragic for people to die, especially

00:10:25.080 children. But as a father, I, I see this kind of stuff and inevitably I'm going to think of my own

00:10:31.460 kids and imagine my own kids in that situation. It's unspeakable. I'm not going to show you the

00:10:36.420 photo here because it's extremely upsetting and not everyone wants to see something like that.

00:10:39.960 But if you do want to see it, you can easily find it online. Um, now this photo is being used

00:10:46.760 and we could stop right there. The problem is that the photo is being used. Uh, it shouldn't be used

00:10:55.020 for anything. It's not a political tool. This is real life. This is real death. This is something

00:11:01.000 real that's happening. It's not, it's not a ammunition to be used in an argument or it shouldn't

00:11:07.700 be, but that's how people are treating it. So it's being used to, of course, make the case against

00:11:12.580 Trump's immigration politics, uh, or policies, even though, again, the problem didn't start with

00:11:18.120 Trump. But aside from that, Trump is not responsible for this poor child's death. He didn't,

00:11:23.500 he didn't do that. Um, there are many authorities, many, uh, uh, entities that you could point the

00:11:32.980 finger at. Trump is not one of them. So how do we prevent more of these tragedies? We need to do

00:11:41.960 everything we can to discourage illegal border crossings. Crossing the border illegally is incredibly

00:11:49.900 dangerous, especially for children. Children. You have to deal with the elements, dehydration,

00:11:54.780 starvation, gangs, bandits, wild animals. I mean, everything you can imagine. You're trying to cross

00:12:01.640 a desert, um, to sneak across the borders of a country. It's a very hazardous undertaking.

00:12:10.840 And the best way to protect human life is to discourage people from undertaking it in the first

00:12:15.840 place. There are a lot of ways to do that. For one thing, people, uh, I think the first thing that

00:12:21.420 needs to happen and that this is not something that we can primarily do, but people should be working

00:12:27.800 within the central American countries to improve conditions and punish crime, thus encouraging people

00:12:34.720 to stay. Uh, I mean, rather than having everyone abandoned ship and leave their countries, which I

00:12:44.960 understand the instinct to do that. And as, again, as a father, um, you know, if I had kids and I happen

00:12:51.780 to have the bad luck of being born in one of those countries and living in one of those countries,

00:12:55.760 uh, I'd want to leave too. I think I would, yes, on one hand, if everyone leaves that it makes it

00:13:02.700 difficult to clean up the problems within the countries. Um, but so that's a problem. But if I

00:13:12.860 was a father, I think I would say, you know what, I'm more concerned about taking care of my own

00:13:16.920 children than I am about enacting change generally in the country. My first responsibility is to my

00:13:24.920 kids. Uh, so that's the case. And I understand that, but the fact remains that it's a self

00:13:32.700 perpetuating problem because these, these countries are in terrible shape. Everybody wants

00:13:37.860 to leave, but everyone's leaving. So there's no one there, there's no one sticking around to fix

00:13:43.060 the problems. And so then it just perpetuates itself. Now, when, when Trump famously said back

00:13:48.820 in, uh, back when he launched his campaign, that they're not sending their best, um, which is true

00:13:54.360 in, in some cases, in some cases we are getting criminals and drug dealers and so on. Not, not all of

00:13:59.840 them, of course, but there is some of that and it's a problem. But when he said that leftists

00:14:05.100 were very outraged and they insisted that, uh, no, they are sending their best. They're sending good

00:14:09.980 law-abiding, uh, hardworking people. And I agree that a certain significant portion of these people

00:14:17.840 fall into that category, but you see the problem here. Those people are coming here. If they are good,

00:14:25.540 law-abiding, hardworking, then those are exactly the kinds of people that these countries need

00:14:33.160 in order to clean themselves up. Especially when you've got, now we talk about the kids and the

00:14:40.380 families coming over and because that's what, uh, affects us emotionally the most. But the fact

00:14:48.240 remains, when you look at these caravans of people and everything, many of them are, are single,

00:14:53.480 um, young men. And those people especially are the kinds of people. They're physically healthy,

00:15:03.080 strong, capable, don't have any dependents, young men, people like that. Those especially are the

00:15:09.120 people who need to stay or, or whose countries need them to stay, to stay there and help, um, rebuild it.

00:15:21.280 So, uh, but how do we get people to stay? It's a self-perpetuating problem. People are leaving,

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00:17:11.960 All right. So we're talking about what can be done, uh, to minimize the human cost, uh, the human

00:17:24.340 tragedy crisis on the border. And one of those ways, I think the main way is to get people to,

00:17:31.820 to, to discourage illegal immigration in the first place. And the way that you do that is we shut

00:17:37.000 down the border. Um, we, we enforce our immigration laws. We deport people. Yes. Uh, we stop offering

00:17:46.720 entitlements to illegals. We, in fact, we make it clear that if you come here illegally, you're not 0.99

00:17:51.220 going to get entitlements. We make it clear that if you come here illegally, it's not going to work. 0.99

00:17:56.000 You won't be able to sneak in. Um, yes, we build a wall. We build a physical barrier that's going to

00:18:03.020 make it even more difficult. It's just yet another roadblock in the way we do all of that. That's how

00:18:08.940 we preserve human life. We want people to think that this, this is to try to come here illegally is a

00:18:16.900 dangerous, potentially fatal, um, decision. If we care about human life. And if we're compassionate,

00:18:25.880 if we care about these people, then we want to discourage them from doing that.

00:18:31.360 And this is how we discourage them. Um, but if we insist on keeping the borders open, 0.61

00:18:42.380 on, on just welcoming anyone, not enforcing our immigration laws, saying anyone can come in,

00:18:49.040 then all you're doing is you're encouraging more people like that father, uh, to try to bring their,

00:18:59.060 their children on, on such a dangerous journey and more people are going to die.

00:19:02.440 All right. Um, let's, uh, let's talk about this as we have established repeatedly. The left is

00:19:13.940 now beyond parody at this point. Impossible to be, you can't satirize them anymore. It's just

00:19:18.920 impossible to do. Uh, and here's exhibit 45,000, um, in, uh, to, to demonstrate that BBC radio four's,

00:19:27.660 uh, Saturday review show did a segment on toy story four, which just came out last week and

00:19:34.340 which I'm, which I'm looking forward to taking my kids to. Um, but apparently maybe I shouldn't

00:19:40.000 take my kids because it is a racist, sexist movie that also discriminates against disabled people.

00:19:47.260 Apparently that's according to Stella Duffy, who's a film critic, I guess she came on the show to share

00:19:52.260 her thoughts on the film. Um, a film that in case you didn't know is animated. It's an animated

00:19:57.520 children's movie about talking toys. In case you were unaware of what toy story is, that's what it

00:20:03.280 is. And, um, this is what she had to say about it. Listen to this. Hello, my name is Stella Duffy

00:20:09.260 and I didn't like toy story four. Um, I'm the Grinch who hated it. Seriously. It's 2019. What on earth

00:20:17.960 are Disney doing? Having a film that for a start has no leads that are black characters. Yes, 0.95

00:20:25.780 there are black actors here, but we do not. They're yellow and they're green and they're

00:20:29.600 plush. How can they possibly think it's all right now? I mean, yeah, maybe 1995, which was

00:20:37.400 also wrong then as well, actually. But now to be seriously, every single humanoid toy is

00:20:44.280 white. It's just shocking. Then let's talk about the white feminism on display here. Oh, look, 1.00

00:20:50.560 Bo Peep's a feminist. No, she's not. She's still going to fall in love. She's still going to 1.00

00:20:54.460 get all happy. Not spoiling. Still going to get all happily ever after. That's not feminism. 1.00

00:21:00.280 That's a woman kicks off her skirt to reveal bloomers, has a couple of thoughts, does some 0.98

00:21:05.580 high wire acts and it's disablest. Okay. So it's covering every base. Okay. So there you

00:21:13.460 go. It's, it's racist, sexist, disablest, disablest. I thought ableist was the term. So ableist 0.81

00:21:22.600 is when you discriminate against disabled people. So then disablest, I guess, is when

00:21:27.460 you discriminate against non-disabled people. Um, I, well, anyway, she's upset that, uh,

00:21:33.440 there are also no black leads. Okay. But all the leads are toys, which means they're all

00:21:39.600 Chinese, either Chinese or they have no race at all because they're toys. I mean, one of 1.00

00:21:45.460 the lead characters is a toy slink is a, is like a slinky dog. Um, another is a green

00:21:51.000 dinosaur. Another is a, is a pink piggy bank. Um, another is a Mr. Potato head. What, what

00:21:56.960 ethnicity is a Mr. Potato head Irish? I mean, what, that doesn't make any sense. Um, should 1.00

00:22:03.700 the film, what do you want? Do you want the film? So even though we've got all these toys

00:22:07.160 who have no race, no ethnicity, you're saying there should be a black lead in the film. So do

00:22:12.720 you want, uh, should the film feature like a miniature real life black person? Should this 0.97

00:22:17.560 suddenly become honey, I shrunk the kids and, uh, and a black person, the size of a, of a doll 1.00

00:22:23.700 walks on and, and, you know, interacts with the toys, uh, just so we can check off that demographic 0.73

00:22:28.920 box. It's obviously absurd. And this is, this is really mental illness. Um, this, that person you

00:22:36.740 just heard is mentally ill clearly. And I mean that sincerely. I mean, I'm concerned about her. 0.99

00:22:42.720 And she, she has a problem because little Bo Peep falls in love. The characters fall

00:22:49.820 in love. Imagine how bitter and sad and, and lonely you have to be to get ticked off that

00:23:00.180 the characters in an animated children's movie fall in love. But this is, you know what?

00:23:09.620 I, I like to write satire articles. Sometimes I'll write satirical pieces for the daily wire.

00:23:18.620 And, um, if someone had suggested to me two weeks ago that I write a satirical article complaining

00:23:27.500 that toy story is racist because there are no black leads, I would have said, uh, no,

00:23:32.800 I'm not going to do that because that's, that's obviously too absurd. Like that's, that's too far

00:23:37.400 out there for a satire to work. You want it to be, it has to be, it has to be a little

00:23:42.600 absurd. Like whatever you're satirizing, you're taking that line of thinking that, um, uh, you

00:23:49.740 know, philosophy, and you're just taking it to an sort of absurd extreme to demonstrate

00:23:54.160 the inherent absurdity of that, uh, that line of thinking. But I would have thought, well,

00:23:59.580 that's too extreme. You know, that's, I mean, they wouldn't read it. Come on. Like that's a

00:24:03.340 straw man. They wouldn't really, but no, they, they really are complaining that toy story is racist

00:24:07.280 because there are no black, there are no black toys. By the way, toy story four, um, you might 0.94

00:24:13.640 try to justify this by saying, well, maybe she means that there are no black voice actors, but that

00:24:18.980 isn't true. Um, uh, key and peel are, are, uh, are in, they are voice actors in this movie. They voice

00:24:26.700 two plush, plush dolls. But the problem is that the dolls are not black. The dolls are like blue and

00:24:33.060 pink or something. Just absolutely ridiculous. All right. Um, so one other thing to mention before, 0.90

00:24:43.420 but we get to emails, San Francisco, a city that resembles a large outhouse at this point has

00:24:49.200 decided to really focus on the important issues. It has banned the use and sale of e-cigarettes and

00:24:55.820 vape pens. Now I'm pretty sure that you can essentially legally shoot up heroin in San

00:25:02.820 Francisco. I don't know. I mean, I don't know if that's actually a law in the books. I'm not

00:25:06.280 recommending it. I'm just saying that people do that anyway, and it's no, they don't seem to be

00:25:12.680 arrested for it. Uh, they also, you know, defecate on the sidewalks. So you could do all of that

00:25:18.160 without much fear of legal repercussion, but no, you can't, uh, you can't smoke a e-cigarette or vape.

00:25:25.060 Um, the mayor, this is the reason the mayor gave for the ban. The mayor said, there's so much we

00:25:31.720 don't know about the health impacts of these products, but we do know that e-cigarette companies

00:25:35.700 are targeting our kids and they're advertising and getting them hooked on addictive nicotine

00:25:39.040 products. Okay. So did you catch that? We don't know the health impacts and that's why we're going

00:25:45.560 to ban it. Hey, we don't know much about this better ban it just in case. Yeah. You know, there,

00:25:51.040 there could be a problem with it. We have, we don't know. Uh, so let's, uh, I will just ban it.

00:25:58.440 Ban it and ask questions later. That's, that's the philosophy now of, of the nanny staters. 0.99

00:26:03.680 Listen, um, I don't smoke e-cigarettes. I don't vape. I, I, I, I do tend to think that, uh,

00:26:11.920 vaping, it's not for me. I think vaping looks kind of ridiculous. Um, if you're going to smoke, 0.90

00:26:18.480 I think, you know, smoke like a man, smoke a cigar, that's not a real recommendation kids.

00:26:22.940 I'm going to don't smoke at all. I'm just saying that if you, I mean, if you had to choose,

00:26:26.460 if someone put a gun to your head and said, smoke one of these, I would say, go for the cigar.

00:26:30.640 Um, so, you know, this is not, it's not like I'm trying to defend something that I do because I

00:26:36.120 don't, I don't use these cigarettes, but it's just, when are we going to get it through our heads

00:26:41.480 here? That this kind of nanny state, um, approach does not work. You're only, when you do this,

00:26:53.900 um, you're only making whatever you're banning, you're just making it seem cooler.

00:27:00.500 And maybe at a certain point, we have to just accept the fact that we're not going to ever stop

00:27:06.520 all the teenagers from smoking something. It just, it's the reality. It seems like,

00:27:11.260 I mean, just looking at the human history, uh, at least modern human history, the teenagers,

00:27:16.940 some of them are always, there's going to be something that they're smoking. So yeah,

00:27:20.160 we got them, we got them. So it used to be back in the seventies and eighties that all the

00:27:25.060 teenagers smoke cigarettes. And then we, we embarked on this 20 year campaign to stop people from

00:27:31.320 smoking cigarettes. Um, and that kind of worked. And so then they just graduated to EC

00:27:36.500 cigarettes and vape pens. Like there's always going to be something. And I think at a certain

00:27:40.500 point we have to just realize that and accept it. It doesn't mean we, it doesn't mean we stop

00:27:45.160 discouraging it. It just means we stopped trying to stop it by force of law with regulations and fines

00:27:51.740 and penalties and all that. Because really at the end of the day, that's regulations and fines and

00:28:00.440 penalties and laws. That's not actually what, what, uh, stopped kids from smoking cigarettes.

00:28:08.100 I think the main thing, uh, you know, well, the, the, the main thing was just, was just

00:28:13.760 discouraging it just by pointing out like, yeah, you can do it, but it causes cancer. It's going to

00:28:20.980 make your teeth yellow, so on and so forth. Just hammering on that. Then people chose not to.

00:28:25.580 Um, and also I think when, uh, when it, it, it, it did have an effect when you stopped seeing so

00:28:34.760 much smoking on TV and the celebrities weren't doing it quite as much that it didn't seem as cool

00:28:39.300 to the kids. And so they didn't do it. But what I'm trying to point out here is that the, there's

00:28:43.320 the cool factor is big with kids. And that's the reason why they, why they were all smoking in the

00:28:49.820 eighties because it was just a cool thing to do. The problem is, and trying to make something less

00:28:55.320 cool is difficult. That's a, that's a, when you are an uncool adult and, uh, which we all are uncool

00:29:03.360 as adults, and you notice something that kids are doing that is destructive yet they think is cool.

00:29:10.580 And you're saying to yourself, I want to make that thing uncool. It's really difficult to do because

00:29:14.980 you're uncool. So whatever you say about it, the more you complain about it, you're just making

00:29:19.660 the thing cooler. You see, that's the way the equation works. So it's a difficult trick to

00:29:24.360 pull, pull. I think that it was basically pulled off with cigarettes. It took a long time.

00:29:30.140 But one thing I know for sure is that you're not going to make something less cool by making it

00:29:36.640 illegal. That I'm a hundred percent certain. All right. We're going to talk about, we're going to

00:29:41.580 get to some emails here in a minute. Um, but before we do a quick word about shaving,

00:29:48.640 did you know that the average guy spends 3000 hours of his lifetime shaving, which is an

00:29:55.380 interesting statistic. I don't know where they get it from. I've always thought to myself that

00:29:59.840 this is one thing that I hope that when we die and we're, you know, kind of in that big waiting

00:30:05.180 room in the sky, waiting to go in and talk to the big man and find out which direction we're headed.

00:30:09.600 Right. Um, and we're all just kind of soon as I imagine it being like a big dentist, like

00:30:13.880 waiting room. There's a couple of old magazines. So maybe out of date magazines from 1730 or

00:30:19.380 something. Um, but I, what I hope is that while we're there, maybe they give us a fun little packet

00:30:24.040 that has a bunch of just interesting statistics about our life. Like this is how many hours you

00:30:30.080 spend shaving. Uh, this is how many days you spent sleeping, that kind of thing. This is how many

00:30:35.800 gallons of orange juice you drank in your life. Just random things. So I always hope that,

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00:32:05.160 can go to a Walmart and target and get Harry's there as well. All right. Let's, uh, answer some

00:32:11.720 emails, mattwalshshow at gmail.com, mattwalshshow at gmail.com. This is from, uh, Denise says, hi, Matt.

00:32:20.180 Thank you for the witty sarcasm you add to my life every day. I am wondering if you believe in spanking

00:32:25.460 young children as a form of discipline, do you spank your own children? Well, Denise, that's a tough 1.00

00:32:31.980 question because I'm of two minds when it comes to this. Well, I can tell you what we do. That's not

00:32:37.720 tough. We don't spank. Um, am I against spanking on principle? I suppose I'm not. Uh, the Bible does

00:32:46.880 say spare the rod, spoil the child. And people use that as a justification for spanking, or even people 1.00

00:32:53.840 will use that to make the case that we are morally obliged to spank. But the problem though, is that

00:33:02.440 if you're claiming to take that verse totally literally, then that means that you must hit 0.97

00:33:09.520 your kid with a rod. Uh, do you use an actual rod? Do you take out like a metal rod to spank your kid? 0.99

00:33:18.160 Because if you don't, and probably you don't, hopefully you don't, then you are literally

00:33:24.380 sparing the rod. I mean, in a literal sense, you are defying that particular passage because you are

00:33:30.260 not using a rod to hit your kid. Um, so I, my point is that I think even those of us who spank,

00:33:37.240 I think we all kind of take that passage in a more general way to mean don't, don't spoil your kid.

00:33:44.320 Don't coddle your kid too much. Instill discipline. You know, that's, that's the way that I take it.

00:33:49.140 Um, I don't take it as we are somehow committing a sin if we don't spank our kids. Um, 0.70

00:33:55.680 I'll just tell you my, my thing with it. I could never quite bring myself

00:34:00.920 to see violence as a parenting technique. And I know that calling it violence is,

00:34:09.840 is going to upset people who spank their kids. Uh, it seems extreme. Maybe it is an extreme way 1.00

00:34:15.720 of putting it. I mean, it is, but it is, you're physically hitting someone, right? Um, so that

00:34:22.880 are there, I don't know. I mean, it is violence, technically speaking now spanking, if it's really

00:34:30.420 spanking and not beating, um, spanking is, and this is where maybe you say, well, it's not really

00:34:35.140 violence because it's not about inflicting physical pain. Uh, now there may be a little bit of

00:34:39.280 physical pain, but that's not the point. The point isn't look, if you're just grabbing your kid

00:34:43.540 because you're ticked off and you're just looking to let out your aggression. And so you start spanking 1.00

00:34:49.520 him. Well, then that's physical abuse. You're abusing your kid. You're a physical abuser in that 0.93

00:34:53.980 case. Um, in fact, I would go so far as to say, just if you spank your kid angry, you are physically 0.71

00:35:01.660 abusing. That is you're hitting your kid because you're, you're pissed off. That's what that is.

00:35:06.840 And that is definitely wrong. But what about a scenario where you're not angry? You're calmed

00:35:14.740 down. Um, you're not doing this because you're trying to make your kid hurt, but it's just,

00:35:20.860 it is a form of discipline and you approach it yourself in a disciplined way, in a sort of

00:35:25.420 business-like way. Like, look, this is the penalty. So I'm going to spank you. Um, I'll give you a hug 0.53

00:35:31.180 afterwards because I love you, but this is the penalty. Um, I think if we talk about the non-abusive

00:35:38.100 spanking, that's what it has to be. Unfortunately though, just from talking to people, it seems like

00:35:44.660 a lot of parents, that's not really what spanking is for them. They may say that it is, but really 0.74

00:35:51.000 it's, they're ticked off. And that again is abusive. Um, so, you know, but, but let's,

00:35:59.260 let's talk about the spanking where it's, you're, you're approaching it from a disciplined

00:36:03.040 point, uh, perspective and, and it's, it's not just anger. Well, no, I don't think that the parents

00:36:10.940 that spank that way are abusing their kids. Um, but I still just choose not to do it. 1.00

00:36:16.880 And I think because I could never, for me, it always seemed like if I spank and I get the kids

00:36:24.600 to behave based on that, then, then basically the, the implied threat is do what I want or I'll hit

00:36:31.700 you. And again, I know that's not what parents are literally saying to their kids. At least I hope

00:36:36.720 they're not. Um, that's not the intention, but I personally couldn't get past seeing it that way.

00:36:42.140 And one thing that I've learned as a parent is if something just doesn't feel right to you,

00:36:48.120 if it, if it doesn't, if it doesn't feel right for your family, um, for your situation,

00:36:54.240 then listen to your gut, follow your instincts. I think if you follow your gut,

00:36:59.800 um, if you follow your instincts, you'll be right about 98% of the time as a parent,

00:37:06.480 it seems to me. So I'm, um, uh, I'm not sitting in judgment of parents who do use corporal punishment.

00:37:16.480 My parents did not that much, but they used it. I'm not traumatized by it. I don't feel like I was

00:37:20.860 abused. I, you know, I survived. I'm fine. Um, but still, it just didn't seem right to me. So it,

00:37:26.900 it, I don't do it. Uh, I have my reasons for not doing it, which I've tried to sort of in a babbling

00:37:32.380 way explain. Um, but I think I do believe that there is a, an appropriate way of going about it.

00:37:40.360 And parents who do that have my blessing, not that they need it.

00:37:46.540 All right. From Rebecca says, hi, Matt, do you believe in ghosts? Just curious if it's a belief

00:37:52.180 that clashes with our Christian faith. Yeah, I think it does clash with our Christian faith. Now, 0.77

00:37:56.380 if by ghosts, you mean demonic spirits, then yeah, I believe in that. That doesn't clash.

00:37:59.980 But if you mean the souls of dead people who are just sort of wandering around on earth randomly,

00:38:05.260 um, then I think it does present a contradiction or at least a problem theologically because

00:38:10.220 you're, you die and, uh, you stand before God and, and then it's decided which direction you're

00:38:19.800 going to head. Um, it's hard for me to see how God would allow some souls to just walk around on

00:38:25.480 earth, scaring people. Like what's the point of God, does God really do that? Because there could

00:38:30.740 be, there can't be any ghosts who are here by accident. That has to be through God's will. So

00:38:36.040 does God really send a soul back to earth, back to some old creepy house to walk around and scare

00:38:44.000 children. Um, you know, if I was God, then maybe I would do that just for fun, but I'm not God. And

00:38:54.640 I think that God is not nearly as petty as I am. Thankfully. Uh, this is from Johnny says,

00:39:04.440 hello, Mr. Lord Walsh. Well, you don't have to call me that. Lord Walsh is fine. This is a very upfront,

00:39:10.280 but difficult for me question. It's something that I've been struggling with for a while.

00:39:13.820 And I think it's something that might've ruined my past relationship of three years.

00:39:17.680 What is love? Is there an objective definition? Can scripture back it up? Well, if you want an

00:39:24.820 answer to that question, I think share, listen to that share song. What is love? She really provides

00:39:28.840 the answer. If I had to elaborate on that answer, I would say, uh, I would second secondarily, I would

00:39:34.720 quote after share Thomas Aquinas, who said that love, uh, to love is to will the good of the other.

00:39:41.760 And I think that's the best definition that anyone has ever come up with. And I think that if you read

00:39:46.180 scripture, uh, you're going to find that that's the, that's the definition offered, not a direct,

00:39:52.000 not directly, but all throughout scripture, you know, and that's one as, as I, as I, as I sometimes say

00:39:57.740 about quoting from the Bible or using the Bible. Um, we can't always look for one sentence, which

00:40:05.940 just sort of parrots, whatever point we're trying to make. I think that, um, I think we have to,

00:40:13.060 we have to look at the totality of scripture. We have to look at the whole sort of story that's

00:40:17.060 being told and we have to take a more comprehensive view of it. And so with a question like, what is

00:40:22.500 love? I think you're going to find that this answer, love is to will the good of the other.

00:40:27.620 That is all throughout the Bible. That's the answer that you get. That's how love is portrayed.

00:40:35.000 Um, and what that means is, I mean, it's pretty straightforward. It means that if you love someone,

00:40:41.180 then you want what is best for them. And you not only want it, but as Aquinas says to will it,

00:40:49.580 meaning you're going to do what you can to help bring about what is best for them.

00:40:55.020 Now, in order for your, for you to have a properly ordered and healthy and, um, good love,

00:41:04.940 then you have to have a correct understanding of what is best for someone. I think there are people

00:41:10.720 who have an incorrect understanding of what is best. So they love people, but in, but they have a

00:41:16.440 incomplete, a sort of misdirected love, uh, because they don't understand what's actually best for the

00:41:23.040 human person. The ultimate goal of the human person is to go to heaven. So ultimately, if you

00:41:28.040 love someone, that means you want them to go to heaven, uh, and you're going to do whatever you can

00:41:32.920 in your own way to help them in that quest. That's what it means to love someone. Now we can get into

00:41:39.760 the Greek and start breaking down the different, are we talking about agape love? Are we talking about

00:41:45.200 arrows? So, you know, what, what kinds of love are we talking about? There's the charitable love.

00:41:50.400 There's the erotic romantic love, uh, brotherly love. You know, the Greeks had different words for

00:41:55.660 love, which is good because we only have the one and they can get confusing sometimes, but the common

00:42:01.400 thread that ties together all of those forms of love is that you are willing the good of the other.

00:42:07.820 As a follow-up to that, I think the sad reality is that

00:42:17.640 there are a lot of people out there who don't love anyone because I think there are a lot of people

00:42:25.760 who really don't will the good of anyone but themselves. They really don't, at the end of the day,

00:42:32.280 I think there are a lot of people who really don't care that much. Um, if anyone else,

00:42:37.400 you know, uh, is, is, ends up going to heaven or, or gets, or, or, you know, gets, gets the good

00:42:47.180 things in life. I think there are a lot of people who just don't care about that. They're focused on

00:42:50.640 themselves. And so they might will the good for you insofar as it will help them. So in a, you know,

00:42:59.880 if you're, if you're a selfish person in a marriage, you may sometimes act in a way that

00:43:06.080 looks loving. It has the appearance of love, but really what you're doing is you're just trying to

00:43:12.500 make the other person happy because it's easier for you if they're happy. So you're trying to sort

00:43:16.440 of satiate them because it's going to be easier for you, or you're doing them a favor. You're doing

00:43:20.680 a good thing for them because you want them to do you a favor or because you just want credit for it

00:43:26.200 or because you want to emotionally blackmail them later. And you can say, you remember when I did

00:43:30.420 that thing for you and now you're doing this to me? How dare you? Um, so there's a lot of that

00:43:34.500 that goes on marriages. I think there are a lot of marriages where really there is no love

00:43:37.380 because neither spouse is really willing the good of the other for the sake of the other.

00:43:43.620 Maybe that's the addendum we should add to that to will the good of the other for the sake of the

00:43:48.080 other, not for your own. Um, so that is, uh, I think love. Thank you for the question though. And

00:43:55.320 thanks for watching everybody. Thanks for listening. Godspeed.

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The Matt Walsh Show - June 26, 2019

Ep. 284 - The Compassionate Answer To The Border Crisis

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