The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 321 - Jokes Aren't Allowed To Be Funny Anymore

00:00:00.000 Okay, so now we're told that the two cameras outside of Jeffrey Epstein's cell on the night

00:00:06.540 that he killed himself malfunctioned on the very night of his alleged suicide. Reuters is

00:00:11.820 reporting this now. The cameras are being sent to the FBI to investigate. Why did they both

00:00:16.220 malfunction? I'm not sure why they're being investigated. I mean, there's nothing suspicious

00:00:21.520 here at all. This is very, I have been repeatedly informed, repeatedly informed that it's ridiculous

00:00:29.700 and irresponsible to engage in conspiracy theories about this. There's nothing to see here,

00:00:38.020 really. It's just a totally normal thing. There's no reason for any conspiracy theories.

00:00:43.020 Epstein was a global sex trafficker with damning information on very powerful people who was taken

00:00:49.640 off suicide watch and then broke his own neck with a bed sheet while his two prison guards slept and

00:00:53.900 two cameras outside his cell simultaneously malfunctioned. I mean, there's nothing weird

00:00:58.140 about that. Why would you get suspicious? It's, it's, it's, it's all this kind of thing happens

00:01:03.980 every day. All right. If I had a dime for every time this kind of thing has happened, I would have

00:01:11.180 enough money to buy a piece of hard candy in 1950. I mean, what's the other option here? Honestly,

00:01:17.080 what, I mean that it's either all this stuff is a coincidence and he killed himself. Um, so that's

00:01:24.860 the logical option or what, that one of his extraordinarily powerful child rapist friends

00:01:30.760 arranged for his murder in order to cover their tracks. Come on. Does that sound like the kind

00:01:36.680 of thing a child rapist would do? Let's be real about this. You know, he happened to have a lot

00:01:41.880 of friends who, again, very powerful, very wealthy, politically connected. They rape children. Um,

00:01:47.940 and so, but does that mean that they would then do something as horrible as killing Jeffrey? I mean,

00:01:54.740 just think about it for a second. Let's not be absurd about this. Besides killing a witness

00:02:00.560 who might testify against you. Now that never happens that that's except for in Hollywood movies.

00:02:09.520 All right. So yeah, you've seen movies where they do that, but that's, that's Hollywood stuff.

00:02:13.220 That isn't real life. Okay. It's not like they have entire programs like witness protection,

00:02:17.700 um, in place specifically because this sort of thing happens all the time. No, no, no, no,

00:02:22.100 that's, that doesn't exist either. I got news for you. That's, that's all in the movies.

00:02:26.840 It is way, way, way more likely that the jail just happened to coincidentally transfer Epstein's

00:02:32.620 cellmate to a different cell and take him off suicide watch while his guards coincidentally fell

00:02:36.580 asleep and the cameras all coincidentally malfunctioned right as Epstein was breaking his own neck in

00:02:40.440 multiple places with a bed sheet tied to a bunk bed. That's way more likely than that. You know,

00:02:46.900 some powerful friends paid off a couple people and arranged for his murder. I mean, what thing about

00:02:51.140 which requires more? I just, just stop. Okay. Be reasonable. That's all. That's all I'm going to

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00:05:08.240 the conspiracy theories about Jeffrey Epstein, um, I want to, uh, let's, let's, let's begin by talking

00:05:15.060 about this Dave Chappelle thing. As you've probably heard, Dave Chappelle has a new comedy special

00:05:21.480 standup special out on Netflix came out on a Sunday night or Monday, I believe. And it's generated quite

00:05:26.760 a lot of, of outrage from the woke mob, quite a lot. Now they're outraged about everything all the

00:05:32.900 time. They're in a perpetual state of constant outrage, of course. Uh, so it all sort of bleeds

00:05:37.020 together, but this has been even more heightened than usual. And why are they upset? Well, because Dave

00:05:42.420 Chappelle is, um, not attempting to be a progressive comedian, uh, he's just a comedian and he tells

00:05:52.420 jokes and he tells stories and he gives his opinion without any concern for how it will be received or,

00:05:59.040 or whether people will agree. Um, and these days that's enough to make you public enemy a number

00:06:06.500 one. That's a, that's enough to, to, uh, put you in the metaphorical crosshairs. That's all,

00:06:10.720 that's all it takes. And the other thing about Dave Chappelle in this special and in general is

00:06:16.880 that he actually goes after sacred cows, um, in our culture. I think there are a lot of comedians

00:06:24.000 who get credit for being brave and for saying things other people won't say, but then when

00:06:29.300 you actually listen to them, they're saying the same stuff everybody says and what they're in their

00:06:33.480 comedy is very, very safe. Uh, it may ruffle feather feathers, but it's not going to ruffle.

00:06:38.880 It's going to ruffle the right people's feathers. In other words, it's going to ruffle the feathers

00:06:42.420 of people who can't, can't do you any harm. Uh, Chappelle doesn't do that. I mean, he's going after,

00:06:48.220 he spends time in, uh, this comedy special, uh, talking about the, the LGBT camp and he goes into an

00:07:02.580 extended riff on it. Now, progressives will tell you that, well, that's not brave at all. That's,

00:07:08.100 that's, that's punching down. No, it's not. It's, it's really not. That's the kind of thing that

00:07:13.240 ruins people's careers. That, that is the unmentionable that that's, that's the unspeakable

00:07:17.900 stuff. You're not allowed to do that anymore to tell jokes about the LGBT folks. You're, you can tell

00:07:23.180 jokes about anybody else, but not them. I mean, anyone out there, they're the ones you're not allowed to

00:07:28.700 touch anymore. And, uh, and that's the fact, but he does. And so that, that takes courage,

00:07:34.120 whether you agree or not, it doesn't matter. And this is part of what comedy is supposed to be.

00:07:38.360 If you, if you, as a comedian, if you identify an area that where it seems like people aren't

00:07:45.100 allowed to tell jokes or you identify a group that people aren't allowed to joke about, then you joke

00:07:49.840 about it for that reason, simply because you're not allowed to. That's part of what, what, that's part

00:07:56.320 of the service that comedians provide historically. Now I watched the special myself. I'll say that,

00:08:01.700 um, I'll say that the, the special is outrageously inappropriate and offensive. Um, he makes a

00:08:10.140 number of very off limit jokes. The humor is very dark at certain points. He jokes about things that,

00:08:17.100 that, uh, you're not supposed to joke about. Um, it could get very morbid at other points.

00:08:22.600 And it's, it's also hilarious and it's brilliant. And I think that it's the most important comedy

00:08:26.960 special of the last 20 years easily. Um, I think it's, it's, uh, it's historic in some ways,

00:08:33.860 not to overstate it, but, but just that in, in, in being a sort of broad side against PC culture,

00:08:42.500 um, that's what makes it important. And I don't say that because I agree with everything he said.

00:08:50.020 I don't, I disagree, I disagree strongly with some of it, but, but, but who cares? Okay. I don't watch

00:08:57.700 comedy, um, so that I can agree with it. That's not the point. That would be a very boring reason to

00:09:05.040 watch comedy to sit down and, and, you know, watch a comedy routine simply because you want to hear

00:09:13.960 your own opinions spouted back to you. Okay. That that's what cable news shows exist for.

00:09:20.780 Unfortunately, that's not what comedians are supposed to do, but that's apparently why many

00:09:25.740 leftists watch comedy. And that's why they hate Dave Chappelle now. Um, and there've been a lot of

00:09:31.440 long think pieces in left-wing publications about how terrible it is and so on. Let me read just one

00:09:37.160 example. This is a review in vice about, of the Dave Chappelle special. Um, I'm not going to read

00:09:43.420 the whole thing. I'll read a few bits and pieces of this. Uh, and it begins, you can definitely skip

00:09:52.220 Dave Chappelle's new Netflix special sticks and stones. You can, so we're giving, thankfully vice is

00:09:59.120 giving us permission. They're saying you can skip this one. Not just you can, you, you must

00:10:04.660 is this is permission, but also at an instruction. You're not, this you're not allowed to find funny.

00:10:11.640 This is not funny. Um, but, uh, then it's good goes on the comedian doubles doubles down on misogyny

00:10:19.100 and transphobia in both the special and the hidden bonus scenes that follow. Dave Chappelle made a return

00:10:25.000 to Netflix Monday with a new standup special sticks and stones. Fans quickly realize that if you watch

00:10:29.820 until the very end, the special has a secret epilogue called the punchline where Chappelle

00:10:33.720 answers questions from audience members who want, who want to, who went to his separate, uh, Dave

00:10:38.560 Chappelle on Broadway standup show last July. The special takes the comics anti-wokeness stick to a

00:10:44.380 new level. And the whole thing is repetitive and exhausting enough that it's a slog to even make it to

00:10:48.980 the Q and a, um, uh, at one point, his routine, he says, he doesn't believe Michael Jackson molested

00:10:56.760 young children this time, which I disagree strongly with that. But again, that's not why I'm watching

00:11:02.520 a comedy special this time. Those jokes included, um, asking the audience how funny it would be if he

00:11:07.920 was actually a Chinese person stuck inside a black man's body. And that would be kind of funny, which 0.99

00:11:13.060 you guessed it also included a racist impression of a Chinese person. He also find which, which can I

00:11:19.160 stop right there? Um, it's not racist because Chinese is not a race. Uh, he also found time to

00:11:26.460 defend fellow controversial comedians, Kevin Hart and Louis CK, painting them as victims of an

00:11:31.040 overzealous call out culture. Can I just, I just want to stop here again. Uh, to call Kevin Hart,

00:11:36.620 a controversial comedian, Kevin Hart. He's, if, if that's what qualifies as a controversial comedian,

00:11:47.540 then, uh, and, uh, the word contra controversial just has no meaning by the time the Q and a plays

00:11:55.900 at the end of the special Chappelle has already shown his unapologetic approach to courting controversy.

00:12:00.100 His answers put that into even stark review. Um, uh, uh, to talk about transgender people.

00:12:08.580 Chappelle has always been a daredevil comedian willing to take a controversial stance or downplay a

00:12:12.760 serious controversy for laughs, including how dare he? I mean, he's, he's, he's, he's downplaying

00:12:19.600 controversies for laughs. That's not what comedians are supposed to do. You're telling me he's out

00:12:25.460 there trying to get laughs. How dare he? Uh, but now he chooses to blatantly ignore the historic

00:12:33.100 criticism against his style of comedy and new loud and clear criticism from the trans community.

00:12:39.160 His approach comes off like a defiant rejection of change at any cost. And he keeps going down

00:12:44.940 this path, drawing attention to the worst aspect aspects of his important career. The biggest cost

00:12:49.620 will be tarnishing his own legacy. I mean, he's, he's up there ignoring the credit. We have

00:12:55.080 clearly told him that he stopped. He's supposed to stop saying these things, but he keeps saying

00:13:00.880 them. He's ignoring us. I mean, he was criticized by the trans community and he hasn't stopped.

00:13:09.540 This is outrageous. This is what I, these people, uh, leftists, they, they really, I mean,

00:13:19.300 if they, they, they can't wrap their head around, if they tell you to stop saying something or that

00:13:27.860 it is, it's offensive and you keep saying it, they just, they can't even get their head around it.

00:13:32.300 They're, they're like, what? You can't do this. We don't like it. Um, oh, and here's a,

00:13:38.940 here's a good bit from a Buzzfeed article titled Dave Chappelle's new Netflix special is unnecessarily

00:13:44.300 offensive. Um, he says Chappelle still wants it both ways. He is willing to address criticisms of

00:13:53.160 his earlier sets that were more flagrantly lazily anti-trans, but not actually apologize or admit to

00:13:59.800 changing his mind or express any meaningful empathy. In his 2017 special equanimity, he talks

00:14:06.140 about receiving a letter from a white trans fan who received his, who criticized his transphobia

00:14:10.940 using the remark to essentially make more tired anti-trans jokes. And in a surprise epilogue to

00:14:16.260 sticks and stones, he tells another story about Daphne, a trans woman who attended several of his

00:14:20.440 sets in San Francisco. They chatted at the bar and Daphne thanked him for normalizing transgenders.

00:14:25.620 The audience at radio city music hall where Chappelle told a story applauds loudly. It's

00:14:29.580 cringe inducing such a blatantly cynical familiar move out of the old, I have a marginalized friend,

00:14:34.660 so I can make this joke playbook. What is especially frustrating about Chappelle's trans jokes 1.00

00:14:39.400 is how he essentially acts as if black trans people don't exist. And as if black trans women 0.70

00:14:44.640 in particular, aren't more likely to be victims of violence. His truth to power comedy only works

00:14:49.520 if he acts as though trans people and black people are wholly separate entities. It's enough to make you

00:14:54.120 want to tie Chappelle to a chair and force him to binge watch episodes of Pose. Oh man, these people

00:15:03.440 are such self-parodies. That's another reason why I think it's brilliant that Chappelle is able to make

00:15:13.500 funny jokes about them because it's so easy, in some ways, it's so easy to make jokes about them

00:15:20.220 that it's hard because the jokes are so obvious. When you have someone who's making a parody of

00:15:24.020 themselves, how do you make a joke that's going to be funnier than what they're already doing?

00:15:27.820 Um, uh, how do you make an observation aside from just look at that, look at what they're doing?

00:15:34.540 But Chappelle's able to do that. Um, because again, this is comedy. Do you know what comedy is

00:15:41.280 leftist? Do you know what it is? I mean, it's a, it's a sincere question. Do you actually know what

00:15:46.520 it is? Do you understand the point? A lecture about trans inclusiveness, which is what both of these

00:15:54.740 articles seem to want would not be very funny. Now, whether or not we agree with it, it wouldn't

00:16:03.260 be funny. It's just not, it would be like if I got offended that Chappelle wasn't up there, uh,

00:16:12.040 preaching about how Jesus Christ is our Lord and Savior. Now I believe that he is our Lord and Savior,

00:16:16.100 but that's, that's not comedy. That wouldn't be, it wouldn't be a funny thing for him to do. So it just,

00:16:20.940 it wouldn't make any sense, um, in the context. Now, left-wing gender theory, as it happens, 1.00

00:16:30.640 you know, is a ridiculous thing. And so there are many jokes to be made about it.

00:16:39.260 And that's why he makes the jokes. And the fact that everyone in society pretends to take it

00:16:45.300 seriously means that those funny things should be pointed out because that's what comedians are

00:16:52.920 supposed to do. That's the job of a comedian to tell jokes. And again, especially if you're,

00:17:01.100 you know, the important comedians are going to tell jokes about things that you're not supposed to joke

00:17:05.220 about. Meanwhile, um, a lot of people are talking about this bit from Chappelle's special,

00:17:12.400 Chappelle's special, Chappelle's special, as I just put it. Uh, so let's, let's, uh, let's take a look

00:17:20.220 at this. I'll be real with you. And I know nobody gives a fuck what I think anyway. Uh, I'm not for

00:17:27.520 abortion. Oh, shut up. I'm not for it, but I'm not against it either. It all depends on who I get

00:17:50.700 pregnant. And ladies, to be fair to us, I also believe if you decide to have the baby,

00:18:01.920 a man should not have to pay.

00:18:09.520 That's fair. If you can kill this motherfucker, I can at least abandon him.

00:18:14.280 Okay. Now his, his, his overall point, and there was, it was a longer bit than that. And I went

00:18:27.300 off time to play the whole thing, but his overall point about abortion, I don't agree with. It's

00:18:33.700 obvious that he's, you know, I, I, I think, I think some conservatives and pro-lifers are overstating

00:18:39.780 the case by saying that, you know, Chappelle's a pro-lifer. And this was a, I don't, it's pretty

00:18:44.960 clear to me that he's not, but he does take the pro-abortion argument to its logical conclusion.

00:18:55.860 And he, and he, he points out a very important, uh, inconsistency in the pro-abortion position,

00:19:05.260 which is that, look, if, and I've, I've made this point myself many times, though I'm not Dave

00:19:13.100 Chappelle, so nobody cares. But, um, if we're saying that a mother has no duty, has no responsibility 0.56

00:19:24.140 to her own child, if that's what we're saying, and that's, that is what the pro-abortion people

00:19:30.460 are saying. And this is one of the reasons why I think on the pro-life side, one of our main

00:19:36.860 arguments should be, it's, it's not even right to life. You know, the baby has a, has a right to

00:19:42.840 exist, although the baby does have a right to exist. But I think in some ways, the more important

00:19:48.140 argument to make is about the responsibility of the mother. So we could talk all day about rights,

00:19:55.520 what are rights, you know, and rights are, can sometimes be more, even more abstract,

00:20:00.320 more difficult to pin down, especially these days. It's become a sort of muddled concept and

00:20:05.740 everything is a right these days. Um, but responsibility, that's different. And the basic

00:20:13.040 concept that we as parents have a special responsibility to our own child, that's a concept

00:20:20.560 that everyone, it's a very clear, everyone understands that nobody disagrees with it actually

00:20:25.900 in principle. Now people want to make exceptions for unborn children, but when it comes to born

00:20:33.260 children, everyone agrees it. Yeah, you have, of course you have a special responsibility to your

00:20:37.340 own child. But if, if we're saying that, you know, you could kill your child because you don't want

00:20:44.340 your child, then that means, of course, you don't, you have no responsibility to that child.

00:20:48.200 The mother doesn't. And if the mother has no responsibility to that child, then neither does 0.93

00:20:53.160 the father. And so if the mother says, you know what, okay, I, I want to keep the kid. She could

00:21:00.660 have, she could have gone either way. It's totally up to her. So that the father not only has no

00:21:06.040 responsibility, but he has no right, no power, no say. He is completely irrelevant. That's what we're

00:21:13.460 always told. That the men need to shut up. They have no say in this. They have nothing to do with

00:21:19.440 it. No uterus, no opinion. Well, if that's true, men have nothing to do with this, nothing to say 0.89

00:21:27.620 about it. Their opinion doesn't matter. They have no rights, no responsibility. If that's true, then,

00:21:32.260 then if, if the woman decides to have the baby, she's on her own, I guess. 0.78

00:21:36.160 You can't all of a sudden say, okay, you know what? Actually, I'm going to keep the baby. So

00:21:41.940 yeah, I don't know. You, you, you need to have a lot to say now. Now this is now, now you're yeah.

00:21:48.580 Now, now this is your concern because I've decided that it is no, no, no, no, no. If you're going to

00:21:55.960 make the argument that, Hey, it's her body. She can make a choice. Okay. But she can't make choices 1.00

00:21:59.880 for the man. Cause that's not, that that's, that's not her body. If you're going to say

00:22:08.780 that men should be legally required to take care of their own children, which I, that's what I 0.91

00:22:18.280 believe. I agree. I think parents should be legally required. Both parents should be legally required

00:22:22.700 to take care of their own kids, unless they're going to put the kid up for adoption. Um, but if

00:22:27.720 we're going to say that, then that means that what you're telling me is that a man has a

00:22:32.860 responsibility to his child, which, which fine. I agree. Good. But if a man has a responsibility

00:22:41.460 to his child, then obviously the mother does too. And if the mother has a responsibility to

00:22:47.520 her child, then at a minimum, that responsibility must mean that she's not allowed to kill him.

00:22:55.420 So as Chappelle puts it, look, if I can't abandon him, then why are you allowed to kill him?

00:23:05.280 All right. Speaking of, um, let's see, do we want to do this?

00:23:12.120 Maybe we'll save that. Yeah, we'll save that for, for, we'll save that one for tomorrow because I had

00:23:18.320 something else I wanted to talk about. Um, this is a report of the daily wire says earlier this week,

00:23:28.620 a video of us national soccer team star, Carly Lloyd, uh, Lloyd kicking a 55 year old 55 yard

00:23:35.780 field goal went viral. Her trainer, James, uh, Galanis told Fox sports that one NFL team had

00:23:41.740 expressed interest in hiring her. Galanis told Fox reporter, Martin Rogers that she got another call

00:23:47.060 from another NFL team. The one that, uh, that called today. I don't want to say who it was,

00:23:52.140 was willing to put her on the roster for the next game. That'd be a preseason game.

00:23:56.960 Galanis continued, uh, saying anyway, that she thinks that she's, she'd be a great field goal

00:24:02.420 kicker. Now Lloyd is saying she's considering the idea. She spoke with Jeff, uh, Skiversky of ABC

00:24:08.500 six Philadelphia on Wednesday. And he asked, this has been coming up a lot. How much do you continue

00:24:13.680 to think about pursuing an NFL job? Lloyd answered. Yeah, it's been something that's turned into a

00:24:18.560 casual day out at the Eagles practice, just hitting some field goals. And then she talks about how

00:24:22.560 she's considering, uh, all of these different offers. Um, and, and I don't know if I read that

00:24:31.020 part, but this is a, she's a, she's 38 years old, I believe Carly Lloyd. And now she's saying that

00:24:38.540 she's considering offer allegedly she's been getting offers from NFL teams. And, um, and now

00:24:44.220 we might get our first female field goal kicker. And I've seen, I've seen people online cheering this 1.00

00:24:51.220 and say, Oh, wouldn't that be great. And we'd have our first female NFL player would be historic and so 0.98

00:24:56.700 on. I'll just tell you as somebody who watches football avidly. And it's become very apparent to

00:25:06.440 me that many of the people chiming in on this topic haven't watched it at all. As someone who

00:25:12.420 watches football, I agree that having a female NFL player, even a kicker would be historic. 1.00

00:25:20.720 But one of the reasons why it would be historic is that it would probably lead to the first ever

00:25:26.420 death on an NFL field. I mean, you put a woman on an NFL field as a player and she will literally 1.00

00:25:35.700 get killed out there. I mean, she will literally die. I, and that's, I'm not, it's not a joke,

00:25:41.760 not exaggerating. That really will happen. You put a 38 year old 140 pound soccer playing female 1.00

00:25:51.320 on an NFL field with a bunch of 300 pound muscle bound men who can run a 40 yard dash and, you know,

00:25:59.720 4.5 seconds. Um, uh, if the 300 pounds are probably probably more like 4.7 seconds, 4.8,

00:26:06.460 but still the point is they're very fast. You put, you, you combine those things and she,

00:26:10.900 her life is in danger. Now, even for those 250, 300 pound men, their lives are in danger. I mean,

00:26:17.440 there are even just this, uh, this in the last week or two, there have been two, uh, male football

00:26:26.340 players who retiring from the league because their bodies can't handle the abuse anymore.

00:26:31.600 These were all-star players, Gronkowski and Andrew Luck. So you put this woman on the field. I mean, 1.00

00:26:39.020 this is, this is such a terrible idea. I don't think it will actually happen, at least not yet.

00:26:46.080 Probably eventually it will. Um, I think eventually the NFL

00:26:52.140 is going to give in to its politically correct urges as it has a tendency to do. And it's going

00:26:58.580 to pressure one of these teams to put a, to, to, to hire a female kicker. And it's going to be a 1.00

00:27:05.520 terrible, disastrous idea, um, that I don't want to see happen. And not because I don't want to see

00:27:12.740 women playing football because I'm a sexist, although I have no interest in watching women 1.00

00:27:16.780 play football because they just aren't very good at it. But, uh, that's not the issue. It's,

00:27:20.980 I don't want to see a woman get killed on the field. And that is what will happen. 0.65

00:27:23.940 It is what will happen. Absolutely terrible idea. First of all, a couple of things here. First of

00:27:27.960 all, again, not taking anything away from, uh, from what's her name? Carly, Carly Lloyd,

00:27:33.260 not taking anything away from her, but just because you can drill a 55 year old, a 55 yard field goal

00:27:39.760 in practice, that doesn't mean you can do it in a game at game speed with pads on. That's,

00:27:48.780 that's, that's, there's one problem here is that she's not wearing pads when she does this. 1.00

00:27:52.240 And she also doesn't have a bunch of NFL defensive linemen bearing down on her. 1.00

00:27:58.180 So just cause you can do it in practice doesn't mean you could do it on, in, in the NFL.

00:28:04.880 And aside from that, yeah, I mean, kickers are not taking the same physical abuse that a linebacker

00:28:10.980 is going to take, or a running back's going to take, or even a quarterback's going to take.

00:28:14.040 But the fact is, if you're a kicker, you're, you're on a, and you're playing a game, you're,

00:28:18.500 you're in the middle of the action and you're going to, you're going to absorb some contact.

00:28:22.640 If you play long enough, unless injuries knock you out before then, if you play long enough,

00:28:27.080 you're going to absorb a lot of contact, even as a kicker. Kickers, um, have to be able to at

00:28:33.800 least attempt to make a tackle if they get a blocked kick, or if there's a busted play and on a

00:28:37.900 busted play, the kicker can get tackled. If there's a busted play, kickers got to pick up the ball

00:28:43.920 and run with it, they can get, they can get laid out. And defensive players love that.

00:28:49.700 They love the chance to tackle a kicker. On kickoffs, now, assuming she'd be handling 1.00

00:28:54.820 kickoff duties too, unless, unless you're going to have a team that has her just doing field goals 1.00

00:28:58.720 and hires a separate person to do kickoffs, which will be a total waste of a, of a roster spot.

00:29:03.120 You got to, you only get 53 men on a game day roster. To give one of those up for an extra kicker

00:29:08.340 is just not something that I think any NFL teams are going to want to do. So assuming she's handling

00:29:13.780 kickoff duties too, then she's got to run down the field. You have this 140 pound woman running down 1.00

00:29:21.780 the field on a special teams play full speed as she's got blockers coming right at her again, 1.00

00:29:29.020 250 pound men. And they're only, these are special teams players. They're their only job. If you're on

00:29:35.340 the, if you're on the kick return team and you're not receiving the ball and you're a blocker,

00:29:40.680 your job is to pick someone on that field that's coming at them and just lay them out. That's what

00:29:45.360 your job is. And these guys love doing it. You're going to put a woman in that environment. 1.00

00:29:52.120 Just absolute, it's not even funny because of the result, which would be brutal.

00:29:58.080 So no, this is, I, again, I, I agree that probably eventually this will happen and it, I mean,

00:30:09.660 it might destroy the NFL. There's not a lot that could bring down the NFL behemoth, but a woman 1.00

00:30:16.400 getting killed on the field might do it. So for Carly Lloyd's sake, I hope that, uh, this, this doesn't

00:30:26.460 pan out. All right. Let's go to emails. Matt Walsh show at gmail.com. Matt Walsh show at gmail.com is

00:30:35.500 from James says, dear Matt. I've, uh, I'm a recent follower of you and other daily wire wireers,

00:30:41.140 if you will. No, please. If you won't wireers, it's a difficult word to say. I've thoroughly

00:30:48.220 enjoyed hearing your various takes on modern day issues so far. I co-run, I co-run an ask blog on

00:30:55.420 Tumblr where I pretend to be video game characters answering letters from real life fans. I don't

00:31:02.580 know what that means. I, James, I don't know what I just read. I co-run. Okay. I understand that co-run.

00:31:10.280 So you're running with someone else and ask blog. What is an ask blog? I guess it's a blog where people

00:31:16.920 ask questions where I pretend to be video game characters answering letters from real life. I'm

00:31:24.540 sorry. I know this wasn't the point of your email. I'm just trying to figure out what's going on

00:31:27.620 here. All right. Um, uh, recently I've reached over 12,000 followers. Wow. I happen to be a right

00:31:33.760 leaning Christian. So this next part shouldn't be too surprising. Since I started, I've been accused

00:31:37.520 of racism, ableism, transphobia, a few other things, all of which I plead not guilty to. The worst

00:31:42.720 that can honestly be said about me is that I've occasionally been insensitive. To be fair, that's all too

00:31:47.820 easy to do nowadays. What video game characters do you pretend to be like Mario, Donkey Kong?

00:31:56.200 That's how up-to-date my video game knowledge is. When I hear video games, I still think, you know,

00:32:00.600 Super Mario World, Donkey Kong, Sonic. Since I'm sure you can relate to false and exaggerated

00:32:07.500 accusations like these, I'd like to ask what you think is the best strategy for finding a balance

00:32:12.020 between boldness and sensitivity. In other words, what's the best way to be inclusive without being

00:32:16.720 afraid of accidentally offending someone? Thanks a bunch and God bless. James, I'll make this very

00:32:22.620 short, which is out of character for me. In these times, when trying to strike the balance between

00:32:31.040 boldness and sensitivity, err on the side of boldness. That's all. This is from Thomas. It says,

00:32:39.900 Hey Matt, glad you got a vacation in. As an avid angler myself, I was curious when you said you went

00:32:45.400 fishing on a lake, what species were you targeting and how did you do? I'm partial to inshore saltwater

00:32:50.500 fishing myself, but I do like to fish wherever they're biting. So I have been known to land pike

00:32:55.460 and largemouth every once in a while. Glad to have you back. I was fishing for largemouth mostly, Tom.

00:33:01.980 A few pickerls, you know, were there. So I caught a few of those, but mostly largemouth. I'd say I went,

00:33:06.680 you know, did pretty well. Largest I caught was, I didn't have my scale with me. So I'm going to say

00:33:12.960 my largest was seven pounds, but it was probably more like four. And then I caught a bunch of two

00:33:18.540 pounders. So nothing huge, but I didn't hit any home runs, but I was, I was getting a lot of solid

00:33:23.860 singles and doubles, I guess for the week. So it was a lot of fun. Uh, this is from Philip says,

00:33:28.800 hi Matt. I just listened to episode three 20 with what you're saying about affairs of politicians and

00:33:34.160 that people like that can't be trusted. I'm wondering how you'd make the argument that anyone

00:33:38.120 who agrees with what you're saying could ever vote for Trump or basically any other high level

00:33:42.100 politician. Love your show. Keep up the good work. Well, Philip. Yeah. We talked about this

00:33:47.020 yesterday in regards the thing that brought it up anyway, it was Ilhan Omar. This, the allegations

00:33:52.120 made in court documents that she, um, is a homewrecker essentially that she cheated on her 1.00

00:33:58.520 own husband with a married man. And that, that led to the dissolution of the married man's marriage. 0.98

00:34:03.800 And, um, and I guess maybe allegedly her own marriage as well. And I said that, you know,

00:34:09.960 we're told, well, this is personal and it's not any of our business. And we, we, we, we can't

00:34:16.480 make any judgments on it. It's got nothing to do with us as voters. I disagree. I think it,

00:34:22.020 it tells us something obviously about a person's character if they're an adulterer.

00:34:28.900 And so that is going to have a bearing on what we do with our vote in my view.

00:34:38.360 Now, Trump definitely is not exempt from this. Okay. I'm not going to be a craven little wimpy

00:34:47.380 coward and pretend that, you know, when I'm talking about this, that Trump, you know, pretend I forgot

00:34:53.480 about Trump's issues. I didn't forget about them. Um, and I would not call Trump a trustworthy or

00:35:00.280 loyal person by any stretch of the imagination. And anyone who would use those words to describe him

00:35:05.440 is just a mindless sycophant who you can't even take seriously. I mean, the guy clearly is not

00:35:11.480 trustworthy or loyal at all, at all to anyone. Um, especially his, his, uh, his own family members.

00:35:20.680 Um, you know, he's cheated on all of his spouses, all three of them repeatedly, including when they

00:35:29.320 were pregnant. Okay. His wife is pregnant. He's out cheating on him. I mean, this is, that speaks to

00:35:34.300 his character. It just does. However, if you, if you survey the options and you decide that even taking

00:35:43.540 his considerable negative character traits into account, he's still the best option of the bad

00:35:49.720 options that I think it's perfectly valid to vote for him. Um, but yes, again, you can tell a lot

00:35:56.580 about a person, uh, by how they treat their spouses. You can't, it's not going to tell you

00:36:02.260 everything about them, but it tells you a lot about them. This is supposed to be the most important

00:36:10.620 person in your life. And the person to whom you have made the most important promise you will ever

00:36:18.180 make to anyone. I mean, you have looked them in the eye in front of witnesses and promised to be

00:36:26.220 loyal and faithful to them. And if you're willing to break that promise and break it repeatedly with

00:36:32.420 multiple people, as Trump has done as Clinton did, then yes, that tells you a lot. That tells us a lot

00:36:38.540 about you. A lot. But, um, you still have to take into consideration the diabolical evil of his

00:36:47.980 opponents. And that's why I didn't say, I never said that if a politician cheats on his wife

00:36:52.620 or on her husband, we can never vote for them. I wouldn't say that. And there certainly are many

00:37:00.420 examples in history of men who were unfaithful and were terrible husbands and terrible fathers,

00:37:08.400 yet were good leaders. There are, I don't even need to go into examples because immediately 10

00:37:13.780 examples pop into your head. So there, we know that that happens in history. But the point is

00:37:19.740 that those examples you can think of, they were good leaders in spite of how they treated their family.

00:37:27.480 So they had these enormous character flaws, enormous. I mean, if you fail as a husband and

00:37:35.440 a father, then you have failed in a profound way. This is not a small detail, right? But

00:37:44.240 for the, for the people in history who have been great leaders, even though they were terrible family

00:37:50.820 men, it is, again, it's in spite of that. All that tells us is that these were great people in the

00:37:58.740 sense that they just had their, their other positive qualities were so tremendous, so significant,

00:38:07.360 so overarching that it was able to compensate even for these, uh, enormous character flaws,

00:38:14.660 character defects. So what we have to ask are, so, so with, with any given politician, you know,

00:38:21.960 you have to take all this into account. You have to say, yes, uh, this is a, this is an incredible

00:38:26.000 character flaw, but do there are other positive aspects somehow over override it as far as voters

00:38:32.760 are concerned? Um, and then you have to look at their opponents and you take all that in

00:38:37.620 consideration and you make your decision. But my point is simply that the affairs and all that,

00:38:44.140 that you do, that is one of the things you take into consideration. It's not the only thing,

00:38:48.760 but it is, it is something at least, no matter what letter is next to the person's name.

00:38:56.700 This is from Lindsay says, hi, Matt, you talked about kids napping yesterday on your show. I've always

00:39:01.680 wondered why kids hate to nap so much. I love it as an adult, though. I rarely get the opportunity.

00:39:05.900 Yeah. I, uh, I think this is one of a bunch of areas, Lindsay, where, where kids have the right

00:39:12.640 idea. Um, really, even though I agree with you, I think kids have the right idea. I think they

00:39:20.020 probably have a better attitude about it, even though it's annoying and I can't relate to kids

00:39:26.000 not wanting to nap. Like my, my two year old, my two and a half year old, he loses his mind every

00:39:31.820 time. It's time for a nap every day when it's nap time. He just loses. We go up to him, you know,

00:39:37.560 you tell him, okay, buddy, time for a nap. And he reacts like a man who's just been sentenced to death.

00:39:43.740 It's like a man in a courtroom has been sent to death row. He just, he literally falls to the

00:39:49.900 ground on his knees and throws up his hands like, no, no. Uh, that's what he does. Please. No,

00:39:57.320 don't make me. No. Uh, and I've tried to explain to him like, buddy, we are bringing you to a cool

00:40:07.400 dark room where quiet room, where you can relax for as long as you want in peace and quiet.

00:40:16.140 Nobody will disturb you. In fact, extraordinary efforts are going to be made behind the scenes

00:40:21.940 to make sure that nobody disturbs you. My wife, when it comes to, you know, keeping people away 0.86

00:40:28.360 from the napping baby and keeping people quiet, she's like a, she's like a ninja. If you walk by

00:40:33.640 a room where a kid is napping and you even cough, my, my, my wife will like rappel down from the 0.95

00:40:41.760 rafters out of nowhere. It's like, baby's sleeping. So that's what is going to happen. I'm trying to

00:40:48.620 explain this to him. This is what's going to happen just to make sure that you get peace and

00:40:53.840 quiet. Do you know what I would do for that? You can relax as long as you want without being

00:41:01.160 disturbed. Do you realize how long it's been since I could relax for as long as I wanted without being

00:41:08.260 disturbed? I'll tell you how long it's been. Okay. We started having kids seven years ago. It's been

00:41:13.280 seven years. That's how long it's been, but he doesn't get it. And here's my point. Maybe he's

00:41:23.600 right not to get it. I mean, can you imagine, can you really, can you imagine loving being awake so

00:41:31.220 much, loving life so much that you treat sleep like it's death itself? I mean, can you imagine just

00:41:39.540 being so enthralled by existence that you never want to close your eyes even for a second

00:41:47.080 that you break down into tears and are traumatized by the thought of just having to lay in your bed

00:41:52.860 for a couple of hours that you're, you're that excited about everything and you just want to be

00:41:58.680 awake all the time. Can you imagine having that attitude as an adult? I can't because as an adult,

00:42:04.500 it's exactly the opposite. You spend the whole day just longing to go to sleep again. You wake up,

00:42:10.200 what's the, I mean, you wake up in the morning. What's the first thing you think? Because I can't

00:42:16.180 wait to go to bed again. It's the first thing you think. But my kids, they wake up and they're just

00:42:22.500 like, like a rocket ship. They just, they wake up and half a second later, they're running around the

00:42:28.800 house. They wake up and I mean, they're practicing. My son, okay. My, my oldest son, he wakes up

00:42:36.420 singing. I mean, he wakes up and he starts singing within, within, within seconds. He's running

00:42:45.060 around, running around the house, singing at 6am. That's how happy he is to be awake.

00:42:54.360 I, I, I envy that. I really do. Uh, it is so completely foreign to me now at this point in

00:43:04.800 my life is exactly the opposite of my attitude. Singing in the morning is just something I can't

00:43:13.160 even conceive of. Um, but that's, that's kids. So yeah, I think, uh, and, and, and that's,

00:43:21.260 that's one of the hard things about being a parent is that there are so many things with kids where

00:43:28.320 they sort of have the right attitude really, but you have to break them of it anyway. You feel like

00:43:35.880 so my kids hate going to sleep. They love being awake, but I, you know, they got to go to sleep.

00:43:40.940 They got to take naps. They got to sleep at night. And so I have to break them of that.

00:43:45.280 I basically have to stop loving life so much. I mean, you can love it, but not this much.

00:43:49.280 Just love it a little bit less. All right. Just, just a tiny bit less. Can you

00:43:52.240 kind of a sad thing? All right. Um, we'll leave it there. Thanks everybody for watching. Thanks

00:43:57.720 for listening. Godspeed.

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The Matt Walsh Show - August 29, 2019

Ep. 321 - Jokes Aren't Allowed To Be Funny Anymore

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