Ep. 321 - Jokes Aren't Allowed To Be Funny Anymore
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Summary
Jeffrey Epstein was a global sex trafficker with damning information on very powerful people. He was taken off suicide watch and then broke his own neck with a bed sheet while his two prison guards slept and two cameras outside his cell simultaneously malfunctioned.
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Okay, so now we're told that the two cameras outside of Jeffrey Epstein's cell on the night
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that he killed himself malfunctioned on the very night of his alleged suicide. Reuters is
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reporting this now. The cameras are being sent to the FBI to investigate. Why did they both
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malfunction? I'm not sure why they're being investigated. I mean, there's nothing suspicious
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here at all. This is very, I have been repeatedly informed, repeatedly informed that it's ridiculous
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and irresponsible to engage in conspiracy theories about this. There's nothing to see here,
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really. It's just a totally normal thing. There's no reason for any conspiracy theories.
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Epstein was a global sex trafficker with damning information on very powerful people who was taken
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off suicide watch and then broke his own neck with a bed sheet while his two prison guards slept and
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two cameras outside his cell simultaneously malfunctioned. I mean, there's nothing weird
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about that. Why would you get suspicious? It's, it's, it's, it's all this kind of thing happens
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every day. All right. If I had a dime for every time this kind of thing has happened, I would have
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enough money to buy a piece of hard candy in 1950. I mean, what's the other option here? Honestly,
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what, I mean that it's either all this stuff is a coincidence and he killed himself. Um, so that's
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the logical option or what, that one of his extraordinarily powerful child rapist friends
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arranged for his murder in order to cover their tracks. Come on. Does that sound like the kind
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of thing a child rapist would do? Let's be real about this. You know, he happened to have a lot
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of friends who, again, very powerful, very wealthy, politically connected. They rape children. Um,
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and so, but does that mean that they would then do something as horrible as killing Jeffrey? I mean,
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just think about it for a second. Let's not be absurd about this. Besides killing a witness
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who might testify against you. Now that never happens that that's except for in Hollywood movies.
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All right. So yeah, you've seen movies where they do that, but that's, that's Hollywood stuff.
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That isn't real life. Okay. It's not like they have entire programs like witness protection,
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um, in place specifically because this sort of thing happens all the time. No, no, no, no,
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that's, that doesn't exist either. I got news for you. That's, that's all in the movies.
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It is way, way, way more likely that the jail just happened to coincidentally transfer Epstein's
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cellmate to a different cell and take him off suicide watch while his guards coincidentally fell
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asleep and the cameras all coincidentally malfunctioned right as Epstein was breaking his own neck in
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multiple places with a bed sheet tied to a bunk bed. That's way more likely than that. You know,
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some powerful friends paid off a couple people and arranged for his murder. I mean, what thing about
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which requires more? I just, just stop. Okay. Be reasonable. That's all. That's all I'm going to
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the conspiracy theories about Jeffrey Epstein, um, I want to, uh, let's, let's, let's begin by talking
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about this Dave Chappelle thing. As you've probably heard, Dave Chappelle has a new comedy special
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standup special out on Netflix came out on a Sunday night or Monday, I believe. And it's generated quite
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a lot of, of outrage from the woke mob, quite a lot. Now they're outraged about everything all the
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time. They're in a perpetual state of constant outrage, of course. Uh, so it all sort of bleeds
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together, but this has been even more heightened than usual. And why are they upset? Well, because Dave
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Chappelle is, um, not attempting to be a progressive comedian, uh, he's just a comedian and he tells
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jokes and he tells stories and he gives his opinion without any concern for how it will be received or,
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or whether people will agree. Um, and these days that's enough to make you public enemy a number
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one. That's a, that's enough to, to, uh, put you in the metaphorical crosshairs. That's all,
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that's all it takes. And the other thing about Dave Chappelle in this special and in general is
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that he actually goes after sacred cows, um, in our culture. I think there are a lot of comedians
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who get credit for being brave and for saying things other people won't say, but then when
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you actually listen to them, they're saying the same stuff everybody says and what they're in their
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comedy is very, very safe. Uh, it may ruffle feather feathers, but it's not going to ruffle.
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It's going to ruffle the right people's feathers. In other words, it's going to ruffle the feathers
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of people who can't, can't do you any harm. Uh, Chappelle doesn't do that. I mean, he's going after,
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he spends time in, uh, this comedy special, uh, talking about the, the LGBT camp and he goes into an
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extended riff on it. Now, progressives will tell you that, well, that's not brave at all. That's,
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that's, that's punching down. No, it's not. It's, it's really not. That's the kind of thing that
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ruins people's careers. That, that is the unmentionable that that's, that's the unspeakable
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stuff. You're not allowed to do that anymore to tell jokes about the LGBT folks. You're, you can tell
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jokes about anybody else, but not them. I mean, anyone out there, they're the ones you're not allowed to
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touch anymore. And, uh, and that's the fact, but he does. And so that, that takes courage,
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whether you agree or not, it doesn't matter. And this is part of what comedy is supposed to be.
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If you, if you, as a comedian, if you identify an area that where it seems like people aren't
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allowed to tell jokes or you identify a group that people aren't allowed to joke about, then you joke
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about it for that reason, simply because you're not allowed to. That's part of what, what, that's part
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of the service that comedians provide historically. Now I watched the special myself. I'll say that,
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um, I'll say that the, the special is outrageously inappropriate and offensive. Um, he makes a
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number of very off limit jokes. The humor is very dark at certain points. He jokes about things that,
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that, uh, you're not supposed to joke about. Um, it could get very morbid at other points.
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And it's, it's also hilarious and it's brilliant. And I think that it's the most important comedy
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special of the last 20 years easily. Um, I think it's, it's, uh, it's historic in some ways,
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not to overstate it, but, but just that in, in, in being a sort of broad side against PC culture,
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um, that's what makes it important. And I don't say that because I agree with everything he said.
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I don't, I disagree, I disagree strongly with some of it, but, but, but who cares? Okay. I don't watch
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comedy, um, so that I can agree with it. That's not the point. That would be a very boring reason to
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watch comedy to sit down and, and, you know, watch a comedy routine simply because you want to hear
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your own opinions spouted back to you. Okay. That that's what cable news shows exist for.
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Unfortunately, that's not what comedians are supposed to do, but that's apparently why many
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leftists watch comedy. And that's why they hate Dave Chappelle now. Um, and there've been a lot of
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long think pieces in left-wing publications about how terrible it is and so on. Let me read just one
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example. This is a review in vice about, of the Dave Chappelle special. Um, I'm not going to read
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the whole thing. I'll read a few bits and pieces of this. Uh, and it begins, you can definitely skip
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Dave Chappelle's new Netflix special sticks and stones. You can, so we're giving, thankfully vice is
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giving us permission. They're saying you can skip this one. Not just you can, you, you must
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is this is permission, but also at an instruction. You're not, this you're not allowed to find funny.
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This is not funny. Um, but, uh, then it's good goes on the comedian doubles doubles down on misogyny
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and transphobia in both the special and the hidden bonus scenes that follow. Dave Chappelle made a return
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to Netflix Monday with a new standup special sticks and stones. Fans quickly realize that if you watch
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until the very end, the special has a secret epilogue called the punchline where Chappelle
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answers questions from audience members who want, who want to, who went to his separate, uh, Dave
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Chappelle on Broadway standup show last July. The special takes the comics anti-wokeness stick to a
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new level. And the whole thing is repetitive and exhausting enough that it's a slog to even make it to
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the Q and a, um, uh, at one point, his routine, he says, he doesn't believe Michael Jackson molested
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young children this time, which I disagree strongly with that. But again, that's not why I'm watching
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a comedy special this time. Those jokes included, um, asking the audience how funny it would be if he
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was actually a Chinese person stuck inside a black man's body. And that would be kind of funny, which
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you guessed it also included a racist impression of a Chinese person. He also find which, which can I
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stop right there? Um, it's not racist because Chinese is not a race. Uh, he also found time to
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defend fellow controversial comedians, Kevin Hart and Louis CK, painting them as victims of an
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overzealous call out culture. Can I just, I just want to stop here again. Uh, to call Kevin Hart,
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a controversial comedian, Kevin Hart. He's, if, if that's what qualifies as a controversial comedian,
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then, uh, and, uh, the word contra controversial just has no meaning by the time the Q and a plays
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at the end of the special Chappelle has already shown his unapologetic approach to courting controversy.
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His answers put that into even stark review. Um, uh, uh, to talk about transgender people.
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Chappelle has always been a daredevil comedian willing to take a controversial stance or downplay a
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serious controversy for laughs, including how dare he? I mean, he's, he's, he's, he's downplaying
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controversies for laughs. That's not what comedians are supposed to do. You're telling me he's out
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there trying to get laughs. How dare he? Uh, but now he chooses to blatantly ignore the historic
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criticism against his style of comedy and new loud and clear criticism from the trans community.
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His approach comes off like a defiant rejection of change at any cost. And he keeps going down
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this path, drawing attention to the worst aspect aspects of his important career. The biggest cost
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will be tarnishing his own legacy. I mean, he's, he's up there ignoring the credit. We have
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clearly told him that he stopped. He's supposed to stop saying these things, but he keeps saying
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them. He's ignoring us. I mean, he was criticized by the trans community and he hasn't stopped.
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This is outrageous. This is what I, these people, uh, leftists, they, they really, I mean,
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if they, they, they can't wrap their head around, if they tell you to stop saying something or that
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it is, it's offensive and you keep saying it, they just, they can't even get their head around it.
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They're, they're like, what? You can't do this. We don't like it. Um, oh, and here's a,
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here's a good bit from a Buzzfeed article titled Dave Chappelle's new Netflix special is unnecessarily
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offensive. Um, he says Chappelle still wants it both ways. He is willing to address criticisms of
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his earlier sets that were more flagrantly lazily anti-trans, but not actually apologize or admit to
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changing his mind or express any meaningful empathy. In his 2017 special equanimity, he talks
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about receiving a letter from a white trans fan who received his, who criticized his transphobia
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using the remark to essentially make more tired anti-trans jokes. And in a surprise epilogue to
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sticks and stones, he tells another story about Daphne, a trans woman who attended several of his
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sets in San Francisco. They chatted at the bar and Daphne thanked him for normalizing transgenders.
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The audience at radio city music hall where Chappelle told a story applauds loudly. It's
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cringe inducing such a blatantly cynical familiar move out of the old, I have a marginalized friend,
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so I can make this joke playbook. What is especially frustrating about Chappelle's trans jokes
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is how he essentially acts as if black trans people don't exist. And as if black trans women
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in particular, aren't more likely to be victims of violence. His truth to power comedy only works
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if he acts as though trans people and black people are wholly separate entities. It's enough to make you
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want to tie Chappelle to a chair and force him to binge watch episodes of Pose. Oh man, these people
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are such self-parodies. That's another reason why I think it's brilliant that Chappelle is able to make
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funny jokes about them because it's so easy, in some ways, it's so easy to make jokes about them
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that it's hard because the jokes are so obvious. When you have someone who's making a parody of
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themselves, how do you make a joke that's going to be funnier than what they're already doing?
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Um, uh, how do you make an observation aside from just look at that, look at what they're doing?
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But Chappelle's able to do that. Um, because again, this is comedy. Do you know what comedy is
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leftist? Do you know what it is? I mean, it's a, it's a sincere question. Do you actually know what
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it is? Do you understand the point? A lecture about trans inclusiveness, which is what both of these
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articles seem to want would not be very funny. Now, whether or not we agree with it, it wouldn't
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be funny. It's just not, it would be like if I got offended that Chappelle wasn't up there, uh,
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preaching about how Jesus Christ is our Lord and Savior. Now I believe that he is our Lord and Savior,
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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,
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it wouldn't make any sense, um, in the context. Now, left-wing gender theory, as it happens,
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you know, is a ridiculous thing. And so there are many jokes to be made about it.
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And that's why he makes the jokes. And the fact that everyone in society pretends to take it
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seriously means that those funny things should be pointed out because that's what comedians are
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supposed to do. That's the job of a comedian to tell jokes. And again, especially if you're,
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you know, the important comedians are going to tell jokes about things that you're not supposed to joke
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about. Meanwhile, um, a lot of people are talking about this bit from Chappelle's special,
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Chappelle's special, Chappelle's special, as I just put it. Uh, so let's, let's, uh, let's take a look
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at this. I'll be real with you. And I know nobody gives a fuck what I think anyway. Uh, I'm not for
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abortion. Oh, shut up. I'm not for it, but I'm not against it either. It all depends on who I get
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pregnant. And ladies, to be fair to us, I also believe if you decide to have the baby,
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That's fair. If you can kill this motherfucker, I can at least abandon him.
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Okay. Now his, his, his overall point, and there was, it was a longer bit than that. And I went
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off time to play the whole thing, but his overall point about abortion, I don't agree with. It's
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obvious that he's, you know, I, I, I think, I think some conservatives and pro-lifers are overstating
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the case by saying that, you know, Chappelle's a pro-lifer. And this was a, I don't, it's pretty
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clear to me that he's not, but he does take the pro-abortion argument to its logical conclusion.
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And he, and he, he points out a very important, uh, inconsistency in the pro-abortion position,
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which is that, look, if, and I've, I've made this point myself many times, though I'm not Dave
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Chappelle, so nobody cares. But, um, if we're saying that a mother has no duty, has no responsibility
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to her own child, if that's what we're saying, and that's, that is what the pro-abortion people
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are saying. And this is one of the reasons why I think on the pro-life side, one of our main
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arguments should be, it's, it's not even right to life. You know, the baby has a, has a right to
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exist, although the baby does have a right to exist. But I think in some ways, the more important
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argument to make is about the responsibility of the mother. So we could talk all day about rights,
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what are rights, you know, and rights are, can sometimes be more, even more abstract,
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more difficult to pin down, especially these days. It's become a sort of muddled concept and
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everything is a right these days. Um, but responsibility, that's different. And the basic
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concept that we as parents have a special responsibility to our own child, that's a concept
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that everyone, it's a very clear, everyone understands that nobody disagrees with it actually
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in principle. Now people want to make exceptions for unborn children, but when it comes to born
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children, everyone agrees it. Yeah, you have, of course you have a special responsibility to your
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own child. But if, if we're saying that, you know, you could kill your child because you don't want
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your child, then that means, of course, you don't, you have no responsibility to that child.
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The mother doesn't. And if the mother has no responsibility to that child, then neither does
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the father. And so if the mother says, you know what, okay, I, I want to keep the kid. She could
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have, she could have gone either way. It's totally up to her. So that the father not only has no
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responsibility, but he has no right, no power, no say. He is completely irrelevant. That's what we're
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always told. That the men need to shut up. They have no say in this. They have nothing to do with
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it. No uterus, no opinion. Well, if that's true, men have nothing to do with this, nothing to say
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about it. Their opinion doesn't matter. They have no rights, no responsibility. If that's true, then,
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then if, if the woman decides to have the baby, she's on her own, I guess.
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You can't all of a sudden say, okay, you know what? Actually, I'm going to keep the baby. So
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yeah, I don't know. You, you, you need to have a lot to say now. Now this is now, now you're yeah.
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Now, now this is your concern because I've decided that it is no, no, no, no, no. If you're going to
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make the argument that, Hey, it's her body. She can make a choice. Okay. But she can't make choices
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for the man. Cause that's not, that that's, that's not her body. If you're going to say
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that men should be legally required to take care of their own children, which I, that's what I
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believe. I agree. I think parents should be legally required. Both parents should be legally required
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to take care of their own kids, unless they're going to put the kid up for adoption. Um, but if
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we're going to say that, then that means that what you're telling me is that a man has a
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responsibility to his child, which, which fine. I agree. Good. But if a man has a responsibility
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to his child, then obviously the mother does too. And if the mother has a responsibility to
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her child, then at a minimum, that responsibility must mean that she's not allowed to kill him.
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So as Chappelle puts it, look, if I can't abandon him, then why are you allowed to kill him?
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All right. Speaking of, um, let's see, do we want to do this?
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Maybe we'll save that. Yeah, we'll save that for, for, we'll save that one for tomorrow because I had
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something else I wanted to talk about. Um, this is a report of the daily wire says earlier this week,
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a video of us national soccer team star, Carly Lloyd, uh, Lloyd kicking a 55 year old 55 yard
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field goal went viral. Her trainer, James, uh, Galanis told Fox sports that one NFL team had
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expressed interest in hiring her. Galanis told Fox reporter, Martin Rogers that she got another call
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from another NFL team. The one that, uh, that called today. I don't want to say who it was,
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was willing to put her on the roster for the next game. That'd be a preseason game.
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Galanis continued, uh, saying anyway, that she thinks that she's, she'd be a great field goal
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kicker. Now Lloyd is saying she's considering the idea. She spoke with Jeff, uh, Skiversky of ABC
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six Philadelphia on Wednesday. And he asked, this has been coming up a lot. How much do you continue
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to think about pursuing an NFL job? Lloyd answered. Yeah, it's been something that's turned into a
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casual day out at the Eagles practice, just hitting some field goals. And then she talks about how
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she's considering, uh, all of these different offers. Um, and, and I don't know if I read that
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part, but this is a, she's a, she's 38 years old, I believe Carly Lloyd. And now she's saying that
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she's considering offer allegedly she's been getting offers from NFL teams. And, um, and now
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we might get our first female field goal kicker. And I've seen, I've seen people online cheering this
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and say, Oh, wouldn't that be great. And we'd have our first female NFL player would be historic and so
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on. I'll just tell you as somebody who watches football avidly. And it's become very apparent to
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me that many of the people chiming in on this topic haven't watched it at all. As someone who
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watches football, I agree that having a female NFL player, even a kicker would be historic.
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But one of the reasons why it would be historic is that it would probably lead to the first ever
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death on an NFL field. I mean, you put a woman on an NFL field as a player and she will literally
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get killed out there. I mean, she will literally die. I, and that's, I'm not, it's not a joke,
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not exaggerating. That really will happen. You put a 38 year old 140 pound soccer playing female
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on an NFL field with a bunch of 300 pound muscle bound men who can run a 40 yard dash and, you know,
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4.5 seconds. Um, uh, if the 300 pounds are probably probably more like 4.7 seconds, 4.8,
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but still the point is they're very fast. You put, you, you combine those things and she,
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her life is in danger. Now, even for those 250, 300 pound men, their lives are in danger. I mean,
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there are even just this, uh, this in the last week or two, there have been two, uh, male football
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players who retiring from the league because their bodies can't handle the abuse anymore.
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These were all-star players, Gronkowski and Andrew Luck. So you put this woman on the field. I mean,
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this is, this is such a terrible idea. I don't think it will actually happen, at least not yet.
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Probably eventually it will. Um, I think eventually the NFL
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is going to give in to its politically correct urges as it has a tendency to do. And it's going
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to pressure one of these teams to put a, to, to, to hire a female kicker. And it's going to be a
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terrible, disastrous idea, um, that I don't want to see happen. And not because I don't want to see
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women playing football because I'm a sexist, although I have no interest in watching women
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play football because they just aren't very good at it. But, uh, that's not the issue. It's,
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I don't want to see a woman get killed on the field. And that is what will happen.
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It is what will happen. Absolutely terrible idea. First of all, a couple of things here. First of
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all, again, not taking anything away from, uh, from what's her name? Carly, Carly Lloyd,
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not taking anything away from her, but just because you can drill a 55 year old, a 55 yard field goal
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in practice, that doesn't mean you can do it in a game at game speed with pads on. That's,
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that's, that's, there's one problem here is that she's not wearing pads when she does this.
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And she also doesn't have a bunch of NFL defensive linemen bearing down on her.
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So just cause you can do it in practice doesn't mean you could do it on, in, in the NFL.
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And aside from that, yeah, I mean, kickers are not taking the same physical abuse that a linebacker
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is going to take, or a running back's going to take, or even a quarterback's going to take.
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But the fact is, if you're a kicker, you're, you're on a, and you're playing a game, you're,
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you're in the middle of the action and you're going to, you're going to absorb some contact.
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If you play long enough, unless injuries knock you out before then, if you play long enough,
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you're going to absorb a lot of contact, even as a kicker. Kickers, um, have to be able to at
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least attempt to make a tackle if they get a blocked kick, or if there's a busted play and on a
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busted play, the kicker can get tackled. If there's a busted play, kickers got to pick up the ball
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and run with it, they can get, they can get laid out. And defensive players love that.
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They love the chance to tackle a kicker. On kickoffs, now, assuming she'd be handling
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kickoff duties too, unless, unless you're going to have a team that has her just doing field goals
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and hires a separate person to do kickoffs, which will be a total waste of a, of a roster spot.
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You got to, you only get 53 men on a game day roster. To give one of those up for an extra kicker
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is just not something that I think any NFL teams are going to want to do. So assuming she's handling
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kickoff duties too, then she's got to run down the field. You have this 140 pound woman running down
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the field on a special teams play full speed as she's got blockers coming right at her again,
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250 pound men. And they're only, these are special teams players. They're their only job. If you're on
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the, if you're on the kick return team and you're not receiving the ball and you're a blocker,
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your job is to pick someone on that field that's coming at them and just lay them out. That's what
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your job is. And these guys love doing it. You're going to put a woman in that environment.
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Just absolute, it's not even funny because of the result, which would be brutal.
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So no, this is, I, again, I, I agree that probably eventually this will happen and it, I mean,
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it might destroy the NFL. There's not a lot that could bring down the NFL behemoth, but a woman
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
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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,
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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
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that people like that can't be trusted. I'm wondering how you'd make the argument that anyone
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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
00:33:58.520
own husband with a married man. And that, that led to the dissolution of the married man's marriage.
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
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make any judgments on it. It's got nothing to do with us as voters. I disagree. I think it,
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it tells us something obviously about a person's character if they're an adulterer.
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And so that is going to have a bearing on what we do with our vote in my view.
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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
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
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
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kind of a sad thing? All right. Um, we'll leave it there. Thanks everybody for watching. Thanks
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