The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 292 - The Largest Teachers Union In America Comes Out For Abortion

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, the largest teachers union in America has just come out full throttle for abortion.

00:00:05.460 We'll talk about that. Is it officially time to get out of the public school system and homeschool?

00:00:10.120 Well, I would say yes, but we'll discuss it.

00:00:11.900 Also, the efforts to make kids stop vaping have gotten hilariously corny.

00:00:17.480 We'll talk about the latest example there.

00:00:19.120 And is air conditioning sexist?

00:00:21.340 I can't believe it's necessary to have that conversation, but it is.

00:00:24.600 So we will today on the Matt Walsh Show.

00:00:30.000 We begin today with extremely sad news.

00:00:36.180 I never thought I would have to say this.

00:00:38.800 I never thought it would come to this.

00:00:41.300 But the great Eric Swalwell has ended his campaign for president.

00:00:48.600 Swalwell was our last hope.

00:00:51.380 He was the only light left shining in the dark.

00:00:53.620 He was the lighthouse on stormy shores guiding us home.

00:00:59.260 And now that light is out.

00:01:01.400 And we are floating, drowning in the dark ocean.

00:01:05.760 I remember only a few days ago, my six-year-old son came up to me and we had a very real conversation.

00:01:11.340 He said, Daddy, it feels like there's no hope in the world.

00:01:13.900 It feels like we're all doomed.

00:01:16.000 Like we are just spinning chaotically through the void of space with no reason or purpose or destination in mind.

00:01:22.220 And I looked at him and I said, I said, we do have hope.

00:01:26.080 We have Swalwell.

00:01:28.180 And he looked at me and he said, what is Swalwell?

00:01:30.360 And I said, stop talking back.

00:01:31.540 Go to your room.

00:01:32.900 What am I supposed to say to him now that Swalwell has ended?

00:01:36.540 Am I supposed to say to him, oh, never, never mind.

00:01:38.600 You're right.

00:01:39.600 There is no purpose in life.

00:01:41.180 There is no hope.

00:01:42.020 We are doomed.

00:01:42.640 I, you know, Swalwell left a campaign that excited the nation, a campaign that at its zenith polled at 0.5%.

00:01:53.740 How could you leave something like that?

00:01:56.460 When so many people, literally tens and tens of people wanted this man to be president, yet he still drops out.

00:02:09.820 So I just want to begin, as a matter of respect, with a moment of silence for Eric Swalwell and his campaign and also the future of the nation.

00:02:19.480 A moment of silence, please.

00:02:20.440 Thank you.

00:02:27.580 Okay.

00:02:27.980 You know, the interesting thing is that I think Eric Swalwell's audience, oftentimes when he would give speeches, his audience somehow, I think, sensed.

00:02:39.060 They had a premonition.

00:02:40.500 Maybe his audience was as sort of prophetic as Swalwell himself.

00:02:44.340 They had a premonition that this moment would come because sometimes, as I think very respectfully, beautifully, they would give him moments of silence during his speeches.

00:02:53.660 Like, maybe you remember this moment.

00:02:56.660 But I will always be real with you.

00:02:59.800 I will be bold without the bull.

00:03:06.400 My wife and I, we fight insurance companies. 0.86

00:03:11.280 Bold without the bold.

00:03:13.220 Or bold without the bull.

00:03:15.540 Bold without the bold.

00:03:16.720 I'm not really sure what he said there, but it was very profound.

00:03:18.840 And to hear that moment of silence afterwards, just immense respect for this man who has unfortunately left us all to die.

00:03:28.600 Okay.

00:03:29.140 Well, what we actually are going to begin with today is I want to talk about why, well, I think where this is going to lead is why you should consider homeschooling, which is something I've talked about many times.

00:03:40.720 There are about 80,000 chapters to this particular book about why you should homeschool rather than send your kid to public school.

00:03:46.040 Today, we're going to focus on just one chapter.

00:03:49.040 That is this.

00:03:50.020 The largest teachers union in the country just came out to passionately defend abortion.

00:03:56.920 And we're going to get to that in a moment.

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00:05:34.900 All right, Alexandra DeSanktis over at National Review, and she's one of my favorite writers, by the way.

00:05:41.720 She's really on top of the abortion issue, a great pro-life advocate.

00:05:45.400 She has this story.

00:05:47.040 I'm going to read the first paragraph or two to you.

00:05:49.080 It says, over the weekend, the National Education Association adopted a new business item declaring its support for, quote, the fundamental right to abortion under Roe v. Wade.

00:05:58.680 The NEA is the most influential teachers' union in the United States, with more than 3 million members.

00:06:03.480 It's also the nation's largest labor union of any kind.

00:06:07.780 Here's more from the document.

00:06:09.640 It says,

00:06:39.640 And it goes on there.

00:06:49.660 So there you have it.

00:06:51.560 This is not a shock, of course.

00:06:53.640 We know that the NEA is a rabidly left-wing organization, has been forever.

00:06:58.280 Still, the NEA has affiliates in every state.

00:07:00.900 It has, as was mentioned there, 3 million members.

00:07:03.960 3 million.

00:07:05.080 And these are people that are teaching our children.

00:07:08.420 It's not just that they have a left-wing bias, but that they're comfortable.

00:07:12.300 They feel obliged, even, to be so blatant and so loud and proud about their bias.

00:07:19.560 So think about that for a moment.

00:07:21.840 If this is what the NEA says publicly, what do you think these teachers, and by that I mean the true believers in the organization, the true left-wing believers, and they're not all true believers, all 3 million of them.

00:07:35.740 But what do you think the true believers are saying to your kids when nobody else is around and when they don't have any other adult supervision?

00:07:44.560 What do you think they're doing with your kids psychologically?

00:07:54.580 It should go without saying, but I think it needs to be said anyway.

00:07:57.800 Teachers have immense power.

00:08:00.300 That's one of the reasons why I'm an advocate for homeschooling, because the teachers have such power that it's just, is that power you really, power over your kids, specifically.

00:08:14.480 Is that, are you really going to trust another person with that kind of power?

00:08:20.100 If teachers are given a receptive, attentive mind, then they are going to have immense power over that mind.

00:08:29.680 And here's the problem.

00:08:30.780 If our kids go to school, we need for them to have receptive and attentive minds.

00:08:35.800 If they're not receptive, if they're not attentive, then school's a total waste of time and there's no point in even going.

00:08:41.380 And it is, therefore, a waste of time for many kids.

00:08:44.200 And there are a lot of good teachers who have to deal with the fact that a lot of the kids in there just aren't receptive to anything they're saying,

00:08:49.520 and it's just, it's a difficult situation.

00:08:52.640 But as for the kids who have, in a sense, the right mentality, that of receptiveness and attentiveness,

00:09:01.860 now, you know, for those kids, we need teachers to be extremely responsible and honest and respectful in how they handle those minds,

00:09:12.940 which they have been given for molding.

00:09:16.280 And many teachers, no doubt, are responsible and honest and they have integrity and they're respectful in how they deal with those minds.

00:09:24.880 I had some teachers like that myself growing up.

00:09:27.180 But listen, if all three million members of the NEA were responsible and honest,

00:09:32.180 then there's no way the NEA would be the left-wing extremist organization that it is now.

00:09:36.580 I mean, it may not represent ideologically everybody in the organization, but it does represent a significant chunk of it.

00:09:44.660 If it didn't, then it wouldn't be a left-wing organization.

00:09:48.240 So you have to think about that, that there are, therefore, plenty of actual left-wing radicals in that organization.

00:09:55.920 They're the ones who have this power over your child's mind.

00:10:00.820 And just think of what they can do, what they do, in fact, do with the receptive and attentive minds that they're given for molding.

00:10:08.480 It's a chilling thing to contemplate.

00:10:11.320 And that's why I think we should all at least consider the possibility that maybe we just can't trust.

00:10:17.680 I mean, you may, hopefully, if you send your kid to public school, there are some teachers at your kid's school that you do trust.

00:10:27.240 But there's no way you could trust all of them, especially if it's a large school.

00:10:31.520 You can't even know all of them.

00:10:36.220 Now, of course, you could ask the question, putting all that to the side, why the hell is the NEA chiming in on abortion at all?

00:10:44.360 What do they have to do with this issue?

00:10:45.960 They aren't teaching unborn children.

00:10:48.240 All the children they deal with are already born. 0.82

00:10:50.580 It is disturbing and creepy that they are so in favor of killing their future students.

00:10:55.080 But the fact is that abortion should be irrelevant because they don't have anything to do with it.

00:11:00.600 So why are they making official statements on abortion in the first place?

00:11:04.720 Doctrinal statements about it, really.

00:11:07.380 Well, Alexandra DeSantis, in the article, she points out correctly that this is what intersectionalism, intersectionality, or whatever you call it, is all about on the left.

00:11:15.960 Where no issue is allowed to stand on its own.

00:11:18.420 Everything is related to everything else.

00:11:21.700 And you must constantly prove you're bona fides, constantly present your left-wing resume to prove that you're in line with everything they think about everything.

00:11:30.240 You have to always, the way they put it, is you have to prove you're an ally.

00:11:33.260 You have to be an ally to all of the various different victim groups and all the special interests and everything.

00:11:39.240 And you have to prove that by reciting the doctrines of the left.

00:11:42.440 And that's what the NEA has become.

00:11:47.500 It's just, it's, it's, I don't know.

00:11:51.460 At what point we can complain about, this is one of the things that annoys me.

00:11:56.680 Because we, as conservatives, we spend a lot of time complaining about the state of the culture, the state of society, so on and so forth.

00:12:06.600 I complain about it too.

00:12:10.180 At what point, though, do we say, okay, you know what, enough complaining.

00:12:16.080 I'm going to step up now and just, and do something.

00:12:18.600 I'm just going to, I'm going to, yes, I realize that.

00:12:21.340 I mean, the schools are a mess.

00:12:22.500 You've got this left-wing idea, indoctrination that goes on.

00:12:25.600 At what point do we say, okay, in, in, rather than notice that fact and continue to send my kids into that environment and just whine about it online, at what point am I going to say, I'm going to make a radical change.

00:12:37.960 Even if it's a change that requires an enormous adjustment to my lifestyle, it requires enormous sacrifice.

00:12:44.560 I'm going to make that change because it's, my kids are worth it.

00:12:50.980 At what point do we say that?

00:12:52.400 Now, I know that there are people out there who literally just cannot homeschool.

00:12:58.600 It's just not an option.

00:13:00.520 Public school is the only choice for them.

00:13:02.720 It's the only thing they can do.

00:13:03.860 I know there are people in that situation.

00:13:07.000 Single parents, you know, they have to work. 1.00

00:13:10.680 So what are they going to do?

00:13:11.760 They got to, and if they can't afford private school or if there aren't any good private, and there are plenty of private schools that charge you a lot of money, but in the end are no better than public school.

00:13:18.560 So if you can't, you know, you got to work, can't afford a good private school, or there just aren't any good ones in the area, then what choice do you have?

00:13:26.460 Public school is it, right?

00:13:27.860 And there could be, I'm sure, plenty of homes out there with two parents where just economically, financially, they both have to work, at least right now, in order to survive.

00:13:42.440 So there are people in that situation who have to send their kids into public school, unfortunately.

00:13:47.320 But I think that's how we have to look at it.

00:13:50.140 Where public school is, I'm not saying it's, it can't be an option for anyone or that you're doing something objectively morally wrong by sending your kid to public school.

00:14:00.220 What I'm saying is, I think we have to look at it as last resort.

00:14:05.420 If there is literally no other option, then we do that.

00:14:11.340 But if there is any other option, we take that other option.

00:14:16.040 I think we have to look at it like that.

00:14:18.240 And if we all looked at it like that, then I think there would be, right now, a mass exodus from the public school.

00:14:24.640 Because there are plenty of parents who send their kid into public school system, even though they really do have other options.

00:14:30.900 All right.

00:14:36.440 Okay, this is great.

00:14:38.020 I have to, I can't ignore this.

00:14:41.120 Representative Joyce Beattie is a congresswoman from Ohio. 0.99

00:14:45.340 She's a Democrat, I believe.

00:14:46.720 She's 69 years old.

00:14:48.960 Her name is Joyce Beattie.

00:14:51.180 Okay, so she looks and has the name of and is the age of someone's grandmother, which is great.

00:14:57.560 She's, I'm sure, a wonderful grandmother.

00:14:59.180 But that context is important so that you can appreciate the comedy of what I'm about to show you.

00:15:05.960 You see, Joyce, she wants teens to stop vaping. 1.00

00:15:10.080 She thinks that vaping is bad and she wants people to stop doing it.

00:15:14.820 And so she put out a tweet yesterday.

00:15:17.400 And the tweet is supposed to encourage kids to stop vaping.

00:15:23.460 But I'm not sure if it's going to do that.

00:15:25.220 Yet the tweet is a work of art.

00:15:26.840 Watch, I'll put it up on the screen.

00:15:28.240 Look at this.

00:15:30.640 It says, hey, teens.

00:15:34.480 Which, actually, let's stop for a minute.

00:15:38.780 You're already on the wrong foot.

00:15:41.280 If you begin a statement with, hey, teens, then they're already tuning you out. 0.85

00:15:48.240 Okay, they already think you're out of touch and you're a nerd.

00:15:50.200 It's just, if you want to talk to teens, never address them as teens.

00:15:54.360 You should never do that.

00:15:56.120 Hey, teens.

00:15:57.740 All right.

00:15:58.340 It says, hey, teens.

00:15:59.880 Vaping isn't fleek or fire.

00:16:02.060 Fire emoji.

00:16:03.240 That's why the state of Ohio launched My Life, My Quit to show you that you don't need fat clouds to be radical.

00:16:09.560 Oh, 100.

00:16:13.480 Gee willikers. 0.82

00:16:14.580 I mean, that is one groovy tweet.

00:16:16.220 That tweet really makes me want to raise the roof.

00:16:19.360 That is, I mean, Joyce Beattie is da bomb, yo. 1.00

00:16:22.660 Cowabunga.

00:16:23.140 No, actually, that tweet is, it's a youth pastor on steroids.

00:16:31.800 That is, I imagine, that's basically how a youth pastor speaks after downing a whole wine cooler.

00:16:39.400 A whole box of, that's a youth pastor on one box of wine right there.

00:16:45.480 It's incredible.

00:16:47.120 And, you know, it goes back to a point I made a few weeks ago.

00:16:49.920 I guess we give Joyce Beattie some points for trying, or maybe we don't.

00:16:58.620 We are, but it goes back to a point I made.

00:17:03.320 We are just making vaping seem even cooler by trying to stop teens from doing it.

00:17:11.200 Okay, so when you want to stop teens from doing something, you need to be as, you know, as inconspicuous as possible in your aims.

00:17:27.760 Especially if you're trying to make the thing seem less cool.

00:17:35.860 And you have to remember that you, as an adult, are not cool.

00:17:40.420 And so if you just come charging into the room and say, hey, teens, that's not cool.

00:17:45.500 Let's do something cool instead.

00:17:48.520 If you do that, it's not going to work.

00:17:51.000 Whatever the thing is you said is not cool, you just increased its cool points by about 50.

00:17:54.760 You just added 50 cool points to it.

00:17:56.400 You can't do that.

00:17:57.320 Joyce has just made not vaping.

00:18:01.920 She's made not vaping so uncool that now I want to take it up.

00:18:06.580 And I'm an adult.

00:18:07.180 I actually want to vape for the first time because of that tweet.

00:18:09.660 I now have the sudden urge to vape.

00:18:13.260 Now, you know what?

00:18:13.780 If my kids came to me at the age of six and said, hey, daddy, I want to start vaping.

00:18:19.780 I feel like I have to say, well, okay.

00:18:21.520 You know, I understand.

00:18:22.580 Do what you need to do because it's just, I mean, all right.

00:18:26.320 In fact, this tweet is so bad that I might require my kids to vape.

00:18:29.880 It may be a requirement.

00:18:31.560 Kids, did you vape today?

00:18:34.460 Don't go to bed without vaping.

00:18:36.420 Finish your vape before bed.

00:18:37.740 It's just, that's bad.

00:18:43.040 That is bad stuff.

00:18:45.600 All right.

00:18:47.240 I, here's one other thing we'll, discussion I regret we have to have today, but we do.

00:18:54.400 Um, every year as the temperature rises, we have this conversation now.

00:19:00.020 And when I say we, I don't mean me, but, but society.

00:19:04.400 People.

00:19:06.280 Uh, we always have to hear in the summer that air conditioning is sexist.

00:19:12.040 I don't know if you've encountered this yet, but it's a thing now.

00:19:14.840 And every summer you hear it, especially if you're online, uh, air conditioning is a sexist

00:19:19.640 conspiracy against women, apparently, evidently.

00:19:22.260 Uh, and this is one of the new frontiers of feminism. 1.00

00:19:26.000 Feminism, of course, in this country is so privileged, uh, so frivolous, so stupid, so 1.00

00:19:30.520 silly that they are just, it's, it's, it's so desperate to find a, a, a reason to exist 1.00

00:19:36.500 anymore that now they're focused on this, the fight against air conditioning. 0.96

00:19:40.280 Um, a feminist will say that women, you know, tend to be less comfortable in, in cooler 1.00

00:19:44.940 temperatures, which is true.

00:19:45.920 They get colder, easier at yet.

00:19:48.800 And many buildings and offices have AC and they set the AC very low.

00:19:52.320 And this makes women chilly and therefore it is sexist. 1.00

00:19:54.860 That's the argument.

00:19:55.720 I'm not making it up.

00:19:56.540 That really is the argument.

00:19:58.000 The New York times published, um, one of the yearly required think pieces on the subject,

00:20:03.320 uh, with the title of do Americans need air conditioning answer.

00:20:07.760 Yes.

00:20:07.980 A staff writer for the Atlantic, Taylor Lorenz shared it with her own, you know, shared it

00:20:13.820 with her followers and added her own little mini rant to it. 1.00

00:20:17.880 This is what she says. 0.98

00:20:18.920 She says, air conditioning is unhealthy, bad, miserable, and sexist.

00:20:23.000 I can't explain how many times I've gotten sick over the summer because of overzealous AC

00:20:27.500 in offices, hashtag ban AC.

00:20:31.180 Uh, then she continues dying at all the men in my mentions, having a literal meltdown because 1.00

00:20:35.240 I suggested raising office temps a few degrees in the summer, no amount of AC on the planet

00:20:39.700 will help men online chill.

00:20:41.840 And then she continues like by a fan, you're not going to die.

00:20:45.440 LOL.

00:20:46.180 I should be able to wear dresses in the summer and not get hypothermia.

00:20:49.620 Weird that making women slightly more comfortable and productive at work causes so many men to

00:20:53.920 have a mental breakdown.

00:20:55.040 Uh, and then her rant continues there. 0.66

00:20:57.700 I like how she says this was, this was a staff writer at the Atlantic, by the way.

00:21:01.100 I don't know if I mentioned that.

00:21:02.180 Um, this is someone who has a, an actual job writing in, in, in media at a supposedly, you

00:21:09.140 know, prestigious publication, supposedly emphasis on supposedly.

00:21:12.440 I like how she says, uh, you're not going to die, LOL.

00:21:16.520 And then the very next sentence says she's going to get hypothermia if, if she walks into

00:21:21.120 a building in the summer that's set at 68 degrees, she's going to get hypothermia indoors

00:21:25.500 in July.

00:21:26.780 Uh, yet she's mocking men because, uh, they supposedly say they're going to die without AC.

00:21:32.660 Well, well, here's the thing, a few, a few things here.

00:21:34.620 Number one, um, no, the fact is you're not going to die from 68 degrees in a, in a indoors

00:21:40.820 in the summer.

00:21:41.920 Uh, you're not going to get hypothermia.

00:21:43.180 You're not going to die.

00:21:44.080 You're not going to get sick.

00:21:45.620 It makes you so like air conditioning doesn't make you sick.

00:21:49.440 Okay.

00:21:50.180 Eight.

00:21:50.620 Now, on the other hand, you say, oh, you're not going to die.

00:21:53.100 Yes, you will.

00:21:54.200 People die from the heat all the time.

00:21:55.820 You nincompoop.

00:21:56.620 What are you talking about?

00:21:57.040 I mean, just imagine how privileged you have to be as a, as a, as a first worlder to sit 0.76

00:22:03.200 there and say, you're not going to die from the heat.

00:22:05.680 Meanwhile, literally thousands of people are dying from the heat every single year across the

00:22:10.440 world, including in this country.

00:22:12.080 You will definitely die.

00:22:13.800 You can die from heat.

00:22:16.320 Um, AC really does save lives, save lives.

00:22:19.580 That's not an exaggeration.

00:22:21.420 If you're an, if you are anti AC, I mean, just think about, especially in very hot areas,

00:22:30.140 somebody is outside, they they're on the verge of heat exhaustion, um, too much exposure to

00:22:36.320 the heat.

00:22:36.620 And then they go inside and it's air conditioned and they cool down.

00:22:39.620 I mean, that I, I, I am sure that in fact, many lives have been saved because they were

00:22:46.040 on the verge of heat exhaustion and then we're able to get into a cooler temperature.

00:22:50.080 If you don't have any AC in the world, then there's not going to really be any cooler

00:22:54.420 temperatures.

00:22:55.020 Everything's going to be pretty hot.

00:22:56.080 And so it's going to be harder to recover from or stave off, uh, heat exhaustion.

00:23:02.160 But if you are anti AC, I have to assume that either you're just totally full of it and you're 0.94

00:23:08.940 a hypocrite and you claim to be anti AC while you use AC all the time in actuality, which 0.88

00:23:14.100 I'm sure is probably the case with Taylor here, or, uh, maybe you live in like Maine or something, 0.99

00:23:19.680 or, you know, uh, because I guarantee you that no human being South of say new England,

00:23:25.720 um, could possibly really be against air conditioning.

00:23:29.760 It's just, it's, it's not possible.

00:23:31.580 And if you go down to Texas or Arizona, um, this is just, this is someone who's never been

00:23:38.660 South at all.

00:23:39.340 I mean, there's no way you could go South, Texas, Arizona, you go anywhere in South and

00:23:42.900 still have this opinion.

00:23:45.280 Um, the idea of living without AC down there is just utterly absurd.

00:23:49.080 Of course, people did it for thousands of years and people still do it today, but you

00:23:53.360 know what?

00:23:53.660 People live without running water.

00:23:55.020 People live without plumbing.

00:23:56.160 People live without proper hygiene.

00:23:58.040 Okay.

00:23:58.340 People live without washing their hands or bathing for months on end.

00:24:01.180 I mean, that also, people live with malnutrition.

00:24:03.720 People live without a clean water.

00:24:05.440 People live in a lot of different ways, but that's, you know, fortunately in modern civilization,

00:24:09.900 we have improved on some of these areas greatly and we have made for better living conditions,

00:24:16.720 healthier living conditions, more comfortable living conditions, living conditions that

00:24:20.380 will preserve, preserve your life and your health.

00:24:23.140 AC is one of those modern inventions that is just absolutely positive, absolutely good.

00:24:29.320 And there's no drawback.

00:24:30.280 It's just, look, I'm all about criticizing modern society and, um, and, and, uh, criticizing

00:24:36.860 certain modern innovations and inventions.

00:24:39.960 I mean, you want to talk about the internet, for example, if you want to make an argument that

00:24:42.920 the internet has really been a net negative for mankind and we'd be better off without

00:24:46.600 it, then I would probably have to agree with you, even though I make my living on the internet.

00:24:52.080 But AC is one of those things that, no, that's just, that is a net positive all the way.

00:24:56.780 There's really nothing bad about it, um, other than what it costs you to run it.

00:25:01.080 And, uh, and that's all there is to it now as for, because I really want to address this

00:25:05.700 also, okay, what I've said so far, if you're a sane person, you agree, let's move on to

00:25:12.540 the more contentious element of this debate as for the temperature at the office.

00:25:18.680 Okay.

00:25:20.580 Um, here's the deal ladies. 1.00

00:25:22.960 And I'm going to man, I'm, I'm mansplaining now a hundred percent.

00:25:26.120 This is, this is a mansplaining moment because I feel like as a man, I, you know, I think there

00:25:31.820 are some women Taylor being one of them, but not just Taylor who maybe don't understand 0.99

00:25:36.960 why men like to turn the AC down, especially in an office environment.

00:25:42.000 And I'll tell you why.

00:25:44.540 And it goes like this.

00:25:46.400 You can always put on a sweater.

00:25:49.280 Okay.

00:25:50.080 You can put on a layer and you'll be, you could bring a blanket to work.

00:25:53.360 I mean, you can do anything or, or just, just put on a sweater or don't, you know, Taylor

00:25:57.700 said, I like to wear a dress to work.

00:25:59.520 Well, it's great that you like to wear that.

00:26:00.880 But if you're not comfortable in it, maybe wear something else.

00:26:04.740 Okay.

00:26:05.340 You, you, you can't dress like you're going to the beach and then whine that the temperature

00:26:11.360 indoors isn't set to reflect beach conditions.

00:26:15.420 I think nine times out of 10, when you have a woman's house, too cold in here, you look 1.00

00:26:19.320 at what they're wearing.

00:26:19.900 It's like, okay, we'll put on a little bit more clothing and then you won't be as cold.

00:26:23.140 It's like, it's not rocket science here.

00:26:25.780 Um, hot people, this is, this is the way it works.

00:26:28.100 Cold people can put on layers.

00:26:34.180 Hot people can only take off so many layers before they go to jail. 1.00

00:26:39.580 So that's, that's why, that's why in the summer with the AC, the hottest person gets priority

00:26:46.480 because they can't do much with their hotness. 1.00

00:26:51.040 Whereas you, you really have, it's unlimited.

00:26:53.660 I mean, you could put on as many layers as you want, but probably if the AC is set at

00:26:58.100 67, God forbid, um, and you're really cold, one layer is all it's going to take and you'll

00:27:04.040 be fine.

00:27:04.880 Okay.

00:27:05.240 If you need six layers because it's 67 or 68 degrees, then you really do have a medical

00:27:09.400 you need to go to the doctor.

00:27:10.660 There's something wrong.

00:27:11.340 Um, so that's all there is to another thing to keep in mind, men, uh, at, especially in

00:27:20.920 an office environment are often required to wear suits.

00:27:24.860 Um, and if not suits, they, they have to wear long pants and oftentimes they have to wear

00:27:30.080 long sleeves and they might have to wear a tie.

00:27:31.700 I mean, it's pretty common in an office environment.

00:27:33.780 Uh, you know, business attire for a man is long sleeves and long pants at a minimum.

00:27:39.600 And, uh, oftentimes also a suit depending on where, especially if you're in a place like

00:27:42.900 DC is where a lot of these complaints come from is these, these privileged, uh, whiny

00:27:48.880 women in DC is out so cold in here. 1.00

00:27:52.100 Um, yeah, but if you go to DC where it can get really hot in the summer and you look around

00:27:57.040 all the men are wearing suits and they're not wearing suits because they want to, they're

00:28:00.260 wearing suits because they have to, if it's 105 degrees in DC, you're going to see men 1.00

00:28:05.740 walking around in jackets that they have to wear.

00:28:09.600 It is a requirement.

00:28:12.000 So yet again, they are, you know, depending on the office policy, they have to dress that

00:28:17.680 they can't dress down any more than they already are.

00:28:21.000 Whereas you as a woman, you can, I mean, see, this is one area. 0.99

00:28:25.440 I know that we have this competition by, Oh, you know, who, who has it worse as a gender 1.00

00:28:28.940 women have to deal with, um, menstruation and child labor. 1.00

00:28:32.680 That's true.

00:28:33.640 Okay.

00:28:33.880 You do have that on us.

00:28:35.140 And, and, and that is one difficulty that you have that I do not envy.

00:28:41.060 And, um, I, you know, I'm, I'm very happy that as a man, I don't menstruate.

00:28:44.360 Although, you know, we're told that maybe it's possible that I could as a man, because who

00:28:47.880 knows, gender is a construct anyway. 1.00

00:28:49.660 But as it stands right now, you know, I have, I cannot get pregnant.

00:28:53.800 I don't menstruate.

00:28:54.760 Um, I, I admit I'm happy about that and, uh, I'm glad that I don't.

00:28:59.220 I'm sorry that you are the one that has to carry that burden, but you got to give us,

00:29:05.040 I mean, this is one area where you do have it easier.

00:29:07.280 And that is when it comes to formal attire or business attire.

00:29:10.460 I mean, you have so many options for what you can wear and you can change.

00:29:14.640 Here's the main thing.

00:29:16.000 Depending on the season, you can adjust your outfit to the season.

00:29:20.200 Do you realize men can't do that?

00:29:22.220 We're not allowed. 0.96

00:29:22.900 It doesn't matter if it's, if it's five degrees or 500, we have to wear the same damn thing.

00:29:28.940 So if we want to turn the AC down a little bit, then just, why not just be cool about

00:29:37.340 it, pun intended, and, and, and bring a sweater to work, leave it at your desk.

00:29:43.320 Okay.

00:29:44.580 Uh, or, or where warm, it just, there are so many things you can do about it.

00:29:50.860 There's not a lot we can do.

00:29:53.340 And, uh, that's all.

00:29:55.220 Okay.

00:29:56.000 That's it.

00:29:57.040 All right.

00:29:57.880 Um, and don't say, well, you could always bring a fan.

00:30:00.160 Yeah.

00:30:00.420 Well, you know what a fan just, all that does is if it's hot inside, the fan just shoots

00:30:06.860 hot air at you faster.

00:30:08.440 It doesn't actually help.

00:30:10.120 So the AC, the thing about the AC is actually, it actually creates cooler air, which, which

00:30:14.960 again, when it's summertime, that's normal people want it to be cooler inside when it's

00:30:20.720 95 degrees outside.

00:30:23.780 All right.

00:30:24.480 Very important issue.

00:30:25.380 I'm glad that I was able to spend, uh, 45 minutes on it.

00:30:28.360 Approximately.

00:30:29.520 All right.

00:30:30.280 Um, uh, the, the emails I'm going to get from that conversation.

00:30:34.720 Oh my gosh.

00:30:35.380 All right.

00:30:37.120 This is from Lizette, uh, Matt wall show at gmail.com Matt wall show at gmail.com.

00:30:43.680 Um, this is from Lizette says, hi, Matt, in response to the anxiety issue brought up in

00:30:48.840 Tuesday's episode, I don't think the line about when it becomes a disorder is that arbitrary

00:30:53.220 anxiety becomes a disorder when it affects your daily life and your ability to function

00:30:57.500 and do basic, uh, tasks.

00:31:00.240 Naturally all humans have anxiety, but they also have, have healthy coping mechanisms that

00:31:04.380 allow them to continue about their day.

00:31:06.240 For example, many people get anxiety about job interviews, but if you just don't show

00:31:11.560 up for any interview or never even apply because of that anxiety, then that's a disorder, right?

00:31:16.620 Anyway, that's just my thought.

00:31:17.980 Love your show.

00:31:18.740 Uh, yeah, we talked yesterday about anxiety disorder.

00:31:20.800 Someone emailed and asked about it.

00:31:22.920 And I said my, I think with, with the so-called anxiety disorder, like with many mental disorders,

00:31:28.060 um, it, I think that we may be dealing with a category error by calling these things mental

00:31:35.680 disorders because they are a part of the normal human condition.

00:31:39.160 And it just seems so arbitrary where we draw the line and say, yeah, okay, well this amount

00:31:43.000 of anxiety is, is normal.

00:31:44.700 But then if you have this amount, it's not normal.

00:31:46.740 Therefore it's a disorder who decides where that line is drawn.

00:31:49.400 How do you quantify it?

00:31:50.460 I mean, where are we getting any of this from?

00:31:52.000 And it just seems totally arbitrary.

00:31:54.660 Now, uh, Liz Lizette says, well, no, if it, if it negatively affects your daily life, that's

00:32:00.500 where you drop the line, draw the line.

00:32:01.900 And yeah, I got other emails from people saying the same thing.

00:32:04.600 It's the same thing I hear about ADHD.

00:32:06.540 Now I've said before, it, I don't think ADHD exists.

00:32:10.440 And what I mean by that is what is, what does ADHD stand for?

00:32:14.980 Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

00:32:17.440 Okay.

00:32:17.680 Now people, I think people who exhibit those characteristics that we label ADHD, those people

00:32:25.180 do exist.

00:32:26.220 That personality type does exist.

00:32:29.000 I am one of those personality types and I, and I know that I exist.

00:32:32.740 So that's how I know that that exists.

00:32:35.980 My point though, is that it's not a disorder.

00:32:38.420 It is a type.

00:32:39.540 It is just a type of person and, and, and it's okay to be that type.

00:32:44.200 It may be, it may be harder in some environments and may be inconvenient at school, but that

00:32:48.540 doesn't mean that it's a disorder.

00:32:50.140 I think the disorder label, that's what I'm taking issue with.

00:32:54.040 Um, and I think that that label is subjective.

00:32:57.680 That's that, you want to talk about social constructs?

00:33:00.040 Well, ADHD is a social construct.

00:33:02.500 We have decided in our society that those types of people are just not easy to have around.

00:33:08.880 They cause problems.

00:33:09.880 Therefore it's a disorder.

00:33:11.340 That's the way that that goes.

00:33:13.360 And I think it's, um, a similar thing with, you know, anxiety and depression, some of

00:33:19.380 these other issues.

00:33:20.920 Now, the problem is you say, okay, well, if it affects your life.

00:33:24.520 Okay.

00:33:25.020 But of course it, you know, we agree that everybody has anxiety, right?

00:33:30.780 And anxiety is always going to have some kind of negative effect on your life.

00:33:35.340 I, there can be scenarios where I guess anxiety is good.

00:33:38.720 Like if you have anxiety about doing something dangerous and then you don't do the dangerous

00:33:42.200 thing, that was good.

00:33:43.480 But for the most part, we all have anxieties, um, about things that, you know, anxieties

00:33:51.280 that cause us to do things or not do things, um, you know, that, that have a negative impact

00:33:58.140 on our life.

00:33:59.500 Okay.

00:33:59.900 We all, we, so that's, that's all of it.

00:34:02.180 Just like with ADHD, it's out.

00:34:04.120 Well, if you get distracted, it has a negative effect on you and you're like, well, yeah,

00:34:08.180 of course it has.

00:34:09.440 We're all negatively impacted by, we all have struggle paying attention.

00:34:13.020 Sometimes we all have times where we're, we have trouble sitting still and that always

00:34:17.060 is going to have a negative impact on our life.

00:34:18.780 So my point is you can't get around the fact that there is going to be an arbitrary line

00:34:25.900 somewhere, but because the line is arbitrary, you don't know where it is.

00:34:30.320 It could be anywhere.

00:34:32.280 So we all have anxiety.

00:34:33.900 You agree with that.

00:34:36.220 Even though you didn't say it, I assume you agree that we all have anxiety and we have all

00:34:40.120 been negatively impacted in our life by anxiety.

00:34:42.520 I think that's the case for everybody.

00:34:43.720 You're not going to find a single person on the planet who that doesn't, who doesn't fit 0.98

00:34:46.980 under that umbrella.

00:34:48.860 So then what we're saying is, okay, yeah, um, everybody has anxiety.

00:34:51.680 Everyone's negatively impacted by it, but if you're negatively impacted this much, it's

00:34:56.980 fine.

00:34:57.360 But if you're negatively impacted that much, it's not fine.

00:35:00.020 So there is somewhere, there's like a, there is a somewhere, there's a line somewhere where,

00:35:04.740 okay, if you're negatively impacted up to that line, it's not a disorder.

00:35:07.720 But if you cross over that invisible arbitrary line that someone just placed there and could

00:35:11.920 place anywhere, but they chose to put it there.

00:35:14.340 Um, then all of a sudden it's a disorder.

00:35:16.040 It just, it doesn't, it, it really doesn't make sense.

00:35:20.380 And this is not, we can say all the time, oh no, it's a real disease.

00:35:23.840 This is not how diseases are diagnosed.

00:35:27.720 Okay.

00:35:28.080 If you have cancer, if you have diabetes, um, if you have any, you know, any, any real physical

00:35:35.540 disease, the doctor isn't going to look and say, oh, well, how is it affecting your life?

00:35:40.540 Um, or, you know, how, how much of it do you have?

00:35:43.260 It's like, that doesn't, if you have any amount of cancer, it's a problem.

00:35:47.340 Now, depending on how much cancer you have, how bad it is, it might determine how they

00:35:51.160 treat it, but it's, there is no healthy amount of cancer.

00:35:54.700 If you have diabetes, um, it doesn't really matter if it affects how much it affects your

00:36:00.600 life.

00:36:00.940 It probably will affect your life tremendously, but the doctor isn't going to get into, well,

00:36:05.400 how much does it affect your life?

00:36:06.520 Oh, okay.

00:36:06.960 Well then you don't really have it.

00:36:08.740 If you have it, you have it.

00:36:10.660 It's only with mental disorders where we get into this thing of, well, does it affect your

00:36:13.860 life this much?

00:36:14.560 Does it affect it that much?

00:36:15.800 Where is it?

00:36:16.320 Where's the equation?

00:36:17.200 And it's just, I think that is an indication that we are dealing with something other than

00:36:26.420 a physical disease.

00:36:27.720 It is not the same thing.

00:36:29.300 It just isn't, it is a different sort of thing.

00:36:33.460 That doesn't mean that I'm trivializing it.

00:36:38.080 It doesn't mean that it isn't real.

00:36:40.300 It doesn't mean that it isn't, uh, it isn't serious.

00:36:43.500 It doesn't mean that it, uh, that it doesn't affect your life.

00:36:46.800 I'm not saying any of that.

00:36:48.180 I'm just saying it's, we are dealing with a different category of thing.

00:36:55.860 It's just not a disease.

00:36:57.820 It's something else.

00:37:01.580 And I don't know why people get so, and I'm not saying you did, Lizette, but people tend

00:37:06.300 to get very bent out of shape about this topic.

00:37:08.780 And if you question whether this or that supposed mental disorder is really a disease, uh, people

00:37:13.780 get very upset.

00:37:14.820 And I don't know why, like I'm not.

00:37:19.000 Yes.

00:37:19.360 If I was sitting here trivializing and say, oh, you're fine.

00:37:21.680 Get over it.

00:37:22.260 Okay. 1.00

00:37:22.560 I, you should be upset about that because that's, that is dismissive and stupid. 0.98

00:37:25.960 And I'm not saying that if I'm just trying to figure out what category it actually belongs 0.99

00:37:30.780 to, that's not, what's the big deal there.

00:37:32.680 It's kind of like, it's a different thing.

00:37:34.320 Uh, not as serious, but when we have this argument about, um, and we've talked about

00:37:39.400 on the show before about, you know, is, uh, is this or that activity really a sport?

00:37:45.240 And, um, I've, I've said that, uh, you know, figure skating is not a sport and people say,

00:37:51.580 oh, how dare you?

00:37:52.460 I mean, how dare you insult figure skating?

00:37:55.440 Like I'm insulting it.

00:37:56.560 I think it's an art form.

00:37:57.800 I think it's beautiful.

00:37:58.640 I think it takes a lot of skill and talent.

00:38:00.560 I think it's something I could never do.

00:38:01.900 Um, I think it's, you know, it's not my cup of tea.

00:38:04.720 I don't really sit and watch it, but, but I, I think it's an incredible talent.

00:38:08.200 I have a lot of respect for people that are good at it.

00:38:10.380 So on and so forth.

00:38:11.560 I'm just saying, it's not a sport.

00:38:13.380 It's a, it's a different thing.

00:38:15.040 It's not a, it's not a less important thing.

00:38:16.920 It's not a, it's not a worse thing.

00:38:19.680 It's just a different thing.

00:38:21.400 It's an art form.

00:38:22.280 In fact, art forms are, you know, arguably art is a, is a, is a more elevated thing than a

00:38:26.860 sport, arguably.

00:38:28.760 Uh, so that's the conversation here.

00:38:30.940 Um, when we talk about people that have the ADHD personality, when we talk about people

00:38:37.440 that struggle with anxiety, which by the way, the first, I, I qualify both with both of those.

00:38:41.960 Okay.

00:38:42.460 Uh, we talk about people that struggle with depression and so on.

00:38:46.080 Um, what is it?

00:38:48.000 What's actually going on?

00:38:50.060 I think it is something deeper than mere chemical reaction.

00:38:56.020 I think it is something more to the core of a person.

00:38:59.640 Uh, and so really I, I, rather than trivializing it, I'm doing the opposite.

00:39:05.580 I'm saying, no, it's actually more serious than that.

00:39:07.960 It's, it's more than that.

00:39:10.200 Now with ADHD, I would say that, you know, in fact, this is who a person is.

00:39:14.460 This is, this is how they are.

00:39:15.800 This is how they operate.

00:39:16.660 This is how they think.

00:39:18.060 There's nothing wrong with that.

00:39:19.280 In fact, there are advantages to it.

00:39:20.740 And so we need to figure out how to harness that personality and get those people into,

00:39:26.100 uh, you know, a lifestyle, into a line of work where, where it, where it helps to be

00:39:31.980 that way.

00:39:32.900 That's what I've been able to do.

00:39:34.960 We need to encourage people to do that.

00:39:37.380 When it comes to something like a depression and anxiety, I do think it's just my opinion.

00:39:43.260 Um, you know, I think there are a lot of people out there who are diagnosed with anxiety, who

00:39:48.660 really, they just have a normal amount of anxiety.

00:39:50.840 I mean, whatever normal means.

00:39:51.940 I know I just said it's arbitrary, but, but really they just, I think there are a lot of

00:39:55.040 people that just, you know, I do think there are people who want essentially to have a mental

00:40:03.340 disorder.

00:40:04.640 Um, maybe because it provides an excuse for them.

00:40:07.900 Um, uh, you know, maybe in a sense it's become almost trendy where people go around talking,

00:40:12.920 oh, I have anxiety.

00:40:13.580 People almost brag about it these days.

00:40:16.160 And so I think there are a lot of people in that category.

00:40:18.860 I don't know how many, just, I think there are a lot, but then I think there are other

00:40:23.220 people who really do.

00:40:25.320 And again, it's, we're, we're, we're talking in court.

00:40:28.160 We're talking in quantifying terms here.

00:40:30.280 So it's, it's difficult to do, but whatever this means, there are people who have a lot more

00:40:36.940 anxiety than the average person.

00:40:40.400 People who do struggle, um, to live a normal life and to go out in public and do normal

00:40:47.760 things because of their anxiety.

00:40:49.760 Those people do exist also, not denying that.

00:40:53.800 Just like there are people with depression.

00:40:55.520 You know, I think there are a lot of people diagnosed with depression who actually are

00:40:57.880 just kind of sad and oftentimes for really obvious reasons, like something bad happened

00:41:02.840 in their life.

00:41:03.340 They're sad because of it.

00:41:04.160 They get diagnosed as depressed, which, which actually causes them to never address the

00:41:08.860 real source of it.

00:41:09.720 I think there are people like that, but then there are also people who it's much deeper

00:41:12.200 than that, much more serious.

00:41:13.980 Um, the people in that category, I still think when we think in terms of diseases, we may be

00:41:20.520 failing to get to the heart and the core of the problem.

00:41:26.120 I actually think it's probably deeper than that.

00:41:28.680 It's not just about chemicals.

00:41:32.680 I mean, think about it when, when you, when you have severe anxiety or when you're very

00:41:37.080 depressed, there are things going on in your mind, right?

00:41:41.780 I mean, really, when you, when you talk about your anxiety, you're describing thoughts that

00:41:46.320 you're having.

00:41:46.800 And so are those thoughts really just chemicals or is there something else?

00:41:53.680 I mean, is it, is it totally illusory?

00:41:55.480 It's just chemicals or, or misfirings like a computer.

00:41:59.240 I think sometimes when you talk to a severely depressed person and they start talking about

00:42:09.240 life and I've had this experience, they start talking about life.

00:42:13.320 They start talking about, um, uh, you know, their, their, their thought processes.

00:42:19.340 A lot of what they say is true in a sense.

00:42:23.680 So my point is they're not hallucinating.

00:42:25.660 It's not like they're, you know, it's not, they're not crazy when they talk about some

00:42:33.060 of the inherent sort of misery you find in life and some of the meaninglessness of this

00:42:37.100 and that and, and, and the struggle to find meaning.

00:42:39.540 I mean, there's a lot of truth there.

00:42:42.300 So I think one of the problems when we, when we reduce it to chemicals, we're, ah, they just

00:42:45.760 have a disease.

00:42:46.300 It's chemicals.

00:42:47.000 We are totally dismissing all of their thoughts and saying, oh, none of that's real.

00:42:50.620 It's all, just forget about all that.

00:42:51.680 Um, I think there's a lot of reality to it, but we have to figure out how to sort through

00:42:58.400 it, how to harness it, how to, you know, how to, how to, how to put it in proper perspective,

00:43:02.300 all of those things.

00:43:03.500 So it's a deeper issue.

00:43:04.220 That's my point.

00:43:05.120 Last thing I'll say, um, on this topic that I think there are a lot of people on medicine

00:43:14.740 for this stuff who shouldn't be on medicine, but maybe if you, if you say to me and people

00:43:21.740 have said this to me about ADHD.

00:43:23.060 Now, I think we shouldn't be putting kids on that on medicine for ADHD at all, but we

00:43:26.160 should be putting kids on it. 1.00

00:43:27.280 We don't know what it's doing to their brain.

00:43:28.640 It's not fair to them, but there are adults who say, listen, uh, you know, you say it's

00:43:33.180 not a disease.

00:43:33.880 Maybe it's not.

00:43:35.120 All I know is that for me, I take the ADHD medicine.

00:43:38.100 It helps me at work.

00:43:39.280 It, I, I enjoy life more.

00:43:41.180 Um, I just, I, I like my life more when I'm able to take this stuff.

00:43:46.180 And so that's why I take it.

00:43:47.980 You know what?

00:43:49.080 I, I think maybe that could be a perfectly reasonable reason to take something.

00:43:53.720 My point is maybe it doesn't necessarily have to actually be medicine for a real disease,

00:43:57.740 but it, maybe it's just, it helps you and you like, uh, how it, you know, how it sort

00:44:07.100 of sorts through your thoughts.

00:44:08.180 And so you take it, uh, so that, no, I think that that approach could be abused and, and

00:44:15.880 you know, so it's, it's, we shouldn't always just take anything because it makes us feel

00:44:19.460 good, but that could be a perfectly reasonable justification for taking something for ADHD

00:44:27.200 or, or anxiety, uh, where even you say, well, maybe it's not a disease, but look, it, it

00:44:31.160 helps me.

00:44:32.380 Okay.

00:44:33.160 Not that it matters if I give my blessing or not, but, uh, I do think that that could

00:44:37.080 be a fine reason.

00:44:40.340 All right.

00:44:41.060 Um, this is from Luke says, hi, Matt Luke here.

00:44:44.460 I hope you're doing pretty much great.

00:44:45.660 I have a question for you.

00:44:46.960 I hope you're doing pretty much great.

00:44:49.440 Okay.

00:44:50.320 And I need to start out with a story of an unforgettable morning of mine recently.

00:44:54.100 My wife and I woke up very early to a bunch of loud chaos in my boys' room.

00:44:57.960 My boys, Troy and Ellie were two and four.

00:45:00.320 I was about to grab my shotgun, but it sounded like it was just them together.

00:45:03.260 And they were just having a lot of fun, too much fun.

00:45:06.040 After stepping out of our bedroom and had confused days, I noticed that the front door

00:45:08.860 was wide open and our rabbits were released outside of their pens and running around that.

00:45:12.640 I walked towards my boys' room and suddenly noticed at the corner of my eye on the table,

00:45:16.500 something was moving.

00:45:17.180 All of our fish from our fish tank were lying on the dining room table, still flopping around,

00:45:20.920 gasping for water.

00:45:21.960 I then proceeded towards my boys' bedroom, thinking that I was simply in some abstract nightmare

00:45:26.900 and was curious as to where this dream would end up.

00:45:29.720 I opened the boys' door.

00:45:31.420 They had opened their window, and my older son went outside and literally threw all nine of our chickens

00:45:36.160 from the pen into their bedroom and shut the window, and they were chasing them around in circles,

00:45:40.120 laughing hysterically, trying to catch them.

00:45:42.080 Feathers were everywhere, and I mean everywhere, along with a mess from all nine chickens.

00:45:45.580 There were two eggs on the ground, too.

00:45:48.300 They froze, looking at me as if they would not live to see breakfast.

00:45:51.960 I just stared and thought for a minute about everything that had just happened and told

00:45:55.160 them to bring the chickens out, and I went to my bedroom.

00:45:57.140 I just had to laugh without them seeing.

00:45:59.040 It was all I could do.

00:46:00.260 They later told me that they simply wanted to set all the animals free to play, so they

00:46:04.180 did just that.

00:46:05.600 So, that leads to my question, and that is, do you believe correctly that pineapple belongs

00:46:10.000 on pizza?

00:46:12.680 Thank you, Luke, for that question and that setup, which I think was very necessary for me

00:46:17.400 to understand the full context of your question about the pineapple and the pizza.

00:46:21.960 And, um, the answer to your question is that, of course, the, no, uh, fruit does not belong

00:46:27.640 on pizza, period, uh, ever.

00:46:32.900 That's all.

00:46:33.960 And I know you might say, oh, well, uh, well, tomato is technically a fruit.

00:46:37.520 No, it isn't.

00:46:38.100 Okay, I don't care what the scientists say.

00:46:41.400 Tomato has been adopted into the vegetable family.

00:46:44.280 It is a vegetable.

00:46:45.820 Vegetables and fruits, these are social constructs anyway.

00:46:49.360 And, uh, and no, you absolutely do not put pineapple on pizza.

00:46:52.680 There is, it's, it's not that I can't eat pizza with pineapple.

00:46:56.340 I mean, I can eat pizza with anything.

00:46:57.840 I can eat anything, period.

00:46:59.700 And if you, if you give me a pizza, I'll eat it.

00:47:01.660 I don't care what you put on it, but, um, it, it won't improve the situation.

00:47:07.840 Like I'm never going to have a slice of pineapple pizza and say to myself, oh, I'm really glad

00:47:11.600 they put pineapple on this.

00:47:13.520 I'm never going to say, oh, I can't think of anything better that could have possibly

00:47:16.440 put on this thing than pineapple. 0.99

00:47:18.220 There are literally dozens of better options.

00:47:21.000 You went with the worst possible option. 0.75

00:47:23.600 Again, I will still stuff my fat face and eat five of them, but I'm not going to like it. 0.78

00:47:28.700 All right.

00:47:30.340 That's it, uh, for the show today.

00:47:31.840 Thanks everybody for watching.

00:47:33.640 Godspeed.

00:47:47.260 Hey everyone.

00:47:48.080 It's Andrew Klavan, host of the Andrew Klavan show. 0.98

00:47:50.680 Abuse children.

00:47:51.620 They only become news when the left can use them for political purposes.

00:47:54.940 If they can attack Trump's attempts to secure the border or give the Catholic church a bad

00:47:59.460 name or take out a Republican candidate who did something wrong.

00:48:03.140 But when it comes to the persistent organized sexual abuse of underage girls and boys, the

00:48:08.600 story always dies.

00:48:10.880 Let's keep an eye on this Epstein case and see where it goes on the Andrew Klavan show.

00:48:15.640 I'm Andrew Klavan.

The Matt Walsh Show - July 10, 2019

Ep. 292 - The Largest Teachers Union In America Comes Out For Abortion

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