The Matt Walsh Show - August 30, 2019


Ep. 322 - Stop Turning Children Into Mascots


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A hurricane warning from the National Weather Service has been issued for parts of the Florida coast. This is the latest in a series of hurricanes that have been heavily hyped up by the media and social media. I talk about why we need to stop making every hurricane the equivalent of Armageddon.

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00:00:00.000 So this big hurricane is on its way to Florida. This is definitely a boy who cried wolf problem every time now with the hurricanes, because every year, every year without fail, we're told about some monster historic storm that will have a devastating impact and potentially kill hundreds of people.
00:00:20.920 And then, you know, the Drudge Report, if you go to the Drudge Report right now, it's just it's just one story after another. Very dramatic thing, which is what he always does with hurricanes.
00:00:31.300 And then most of the time it comes and goes and it does some damage, but nothing historic occurs. And that's the end of it. And they're saying the same thing right now with this one, potentially.
00:00:41.700 Um, and and who knows, you know, maybe it will be true. I'm not a meteorologist. So if you live in one of the potential areas affected by the hurricane, hurricane, don't listen to what I'm don't make any decisions based on what I'm saying.
00:00:54.720 I mean, in general, in life, don't make decisions based on what I say, but especially with this, because I'm not making any predictions about what will or won't happen.
00:01:03.260 But I'm just saying that we have to stop turning every hurricane into Armageddon because then it makes it impossible to actually distinguish the serious threats from the unserious ones.
00:01:13.960 I remember I lived I lived in a in a in a coastal town. Well, near coastal. I lived very close to a coastal town, a few miles from the coast for for several years in my early 20s.
00:01:27.160 And one of those years, we had a big hyped hurricane headed for us. I don't remember which one, what the name of it was, but I remember this, you know, the hype leading up to it very well.
00:01:38.700 And I especially remember having this emotional conversation with my then girlfriend, now wife, and she was trying to convince me to, you know, we were on the phone.
00:01:49.900 She was trying to convince me to leave, to evacuate and to go stay with her at her mother's house because it was going to be so dangerous.
00:01:56.760 She was afraid I was going to die in the hurricane. And and and I said, you know, I couldn't do that because I had to work.
00:02:04.420 And I mean, my town hadn't technically been evacuated because it was more inland.
00:02:08.800 So, you know, and I had and I had a job and everything. So I was going to stay.
00:02:12.860 And so I told her, I said, no, I must stay, my love. Fear not. Words to that effect.
00:02:18.460 It's not exactly what I said, but something like that. And that night when the hurricane was supposed to hit in the middle of the night.
00:02:23.280 And so I slept, you know, they said on the news, don't you don't want to be near windows.
00:02:28.160 So I slept like behind the couch and in a sleeping bag away from the windows.
00:02:33.240 And I was expecting I had canned goods and I had flashlights and I had whiskey.
00:02:37.240 So I had all the stuff you need to get through the hurricane.
00:02:38.680 And and I was expecting to wake up the next morning and it would be like the movie The Road where you'd have bands of cannibals patrolling the streets and, you know, just just utter devastation. 0.99
00:02:50.480 And I woke up the next morning and all the damage consisted of there were some there was there was there were a lot of leaves that had blown onto my porch, which I had to sweep those away.
00:02:59.540 That was annoying. And there was an especially large twig that had fallen onto the hood of my car.
00:03:04.540 And, you know, actually scratched it a little bit. That was the extent of the damage after all of this hype.
00:03:10.300 My point here is that coverage of hurricanes. I think the coverage is extremely irresponsible all the time now because there's no attempt to be reasonable or to be restrained.
00:03:21.700 And the effect is that everyone treats hurricane coverage now like entertainment and nobody takes it seriously.
00:03:26.960 And that's a dangerous situation because sometimes these hurricanes actually are bad.
00:03:32.560 We know that really bad hurricanes do happen. They don't happen every year.
00:03:35.680 I mean, every year we don't have a historic hurricane, unlike what we're told by the media and by climate change activists, which we'll get to that in a second.
00:03:44.060 We don't have them every year, but sometimes they do happen.
00:03:46.120 It's just that now if you if you live in one of these areas and you're trying to figure out, is this something like that or is this going to be a dud?
00:03:52.740 I mean, to to leave your home and your work and everything behind, that's not it's not sort of an automatic thing.
00:03:58.660 It's like a decision you have to make. And and so I don't I don't I don't envy the people who live in these towns where hurricanes happen,
00:04:05.780 because how do you how how are you supposed to know anymore when every single hurricane is treated this way?
00:04:10.880 So who knows? Maybe this will be one of those situations. I hope not.
00:04:15.380 But we'll find out. There is one aspect of Hurricane Dorian, which concerns me.
00:04:21.880 I'll just mention briefly here. Bloomberg has a report about an added threat of this storm.
00:04:28.100 You see, Miami, which is maybe in line for the for the hurricane, like a lot of cities these days is infested with scooters.
00:04:35.360 People go around on these scooters because they're too lazy to walk and too cheap to take an Uber.
00:04:41.700 So they go around on these scooters everywhere. And so now some officials are worried that the hurricanes are going to sweep up these scooters and turn them into projectiles.
00:04:52.440 And you're going to have, you know, people dying from flying scooters all over the place, which would be like the weirdest Sharknado sequel ever.
00:05:01.800 Maybe there will be sharks on the scooters. That would be that's an idea, actually, for for a movie.
00:05:07.300 Who knows? Anything is possible. All right. Before we go any further.
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00:07:03.980 Okay, so Greta Thunberg or Thunberg. Thunberg. 0.88
00:07:09.000 I, you know, I haven't said anything about this story up until now because I don't care that much.
00:07:16.920 But there is one aspect of it that really grinds my gears, as Peter Griffin might say.
00:07:22.240 Greta is a 16-year-old climate change activist from Sweden who was invited to speak in front of a UN assembly in New York for some reason.
00:07:32.000 I mean, of all the people in the world who maybe could speak on the issue of climate change, they said, let's get this 16-year-old in there.
00:07:41.900 Okay.
00:07:43.060 But she didn't want to fly here because of the carbon emissions from airplanes.
00:07:46.980 So instead, she embarked on a days-long journey across the ocean on a sailing yacht, which sounds like a lot of fun.
00:07:54.660 You know, I would love to do that.
00:07:56.860 I'm a fan of boats and the water, but, you know, I don't really have access to a sailing yacht.
00:08:00.840 I don't know about you.
00:08:02.620 And it was a big public to-do, a lot of hype for the media.
00:08:06.080 Of course, hype, because that's all the media does is hype things. 0.91
00:08:09.200 Hype that was helped by the fact that Greta, you know, makes disparaging comments about Donald Trump here and there. 1.00
00:08:14.620 And so the media loves that.
00:08:17.260 And she finally got here on her yacht.
00:08:20.280 She spoke to reporters yesterday.
00:08:22.680 Let's watch a little bit of that.
00:08:25.720 It's strange.
00:08:26.400 Everyone always asks me about Donald Trump.
00:08:28.920 But, I mean, my message for him is just listen to the science and he obviously doesn't do that.
00:08:38.300 So, I mean, I, as I always say to this question,
00:08:44.340 if no one has been able to convince him about the climate crisis, the urgency, then why should I be able to do that?
00:08:55.280 So, I'm just going to, to now focus on, on spreading awareness and that people in general will start caring and realize how big of a crisis this is.
00:09:10.240 Okay.
00:09:10.700 And then, and then, and then, and then there you have it.
00:09:13.260 So, she'll, she'll deliver some more poignant remarks to the UN, like I said, soon. 1.00
00:09:18.120 Now, Greta, we should mention, because it is, it is relevant, I think, Greta has autism.
00:09:27.820 She's also apparently been in the past diagnosed with OCD, eating disorders, other issues.
00:09:32.880 I mean, she's got a lot of mental health issues. 1.00
00:09:35.460 But she has become another mascot of left-wing activism.
00:09:39.200 She's been put on this public stage, given the spotlight by the media and by her parents, even in spite of all that.
00:09:48.340 And this is, you know, to bring up the mental health issues, that's not to make fun of her or anything like that.
00:09:56.200 Of course not.
00:09:57.200 It's just, it speaks to, again, this problem, I think.
00:10:00.220 It only makes it worse, this, this, this, this thing that we do now, where we push kids into the spotlight, and we make them mouthpieces for our viewpoints.
00:10:13.020 And we really need to stop that, especially when the kid has mental health issues.
00:10:18.680 And again, that's not an attack on her, that's sympathy.
00:10:21.520 And it's just one more reason not to exploit her.
00:10:24.360 Though, even aside from this, aside from mental health issues, even aside from that, the point still stands.
00:10:31.000 The way I see it, there are two problems with turning kids into mascots for political views.
00:10:36.220 Two problems as far as I can see.
00:10:37.620 First of all, they, the kids have to be put into that position by adults.
00:10:45.820 It's not really something they can do on their own.
00:10:47.640 No normal adolescent is going to be able to get this kind of media attention and all the rest of it on their own.
00:10:55.940 They have to be elevated by adults, and that elevation is always done for exploitative reasons.
00:11:02.680 Okay, it's never actually done because, wow, you know, this kid's insights are just so tremendous that we, you know, we have to let the whole world know what this person is.
00:11:13.820 No, it's just, it's manipulative.
00:11:16.960 It's exploitative.
00:11:19.080 You know, adults know that, okay, well, I mean, I could go out and say this stuff, and no one's going to pay attention.
00:11:25.780 But if I put these thoughts and words into the mouth of a child and do that gimmick, well, now people are going to pay attention.
00:11:32.700 So it's exploitative in that way.
00:11:34.380 A kid, an adolescent, can't really fully consent to becoming a public figure.
00:11:40.880 You know, we talk about consent all the time these days, and it's an important issue.
00:11:46.020 Well, where's the consent here?
00:11:47.540 When you're, you know, there's a reason why we say the age of consent is, you know, it varies, but 17, 18, or whatever is age of consent.
00:11:56.960 There's a reason why we say that.
00:11:58.700 And it doesn't just apply sexually.
00:12:00.860 It's just the idea is, as a kid, you don't really have a full concept of the consequences of actions.
00:12:12.240 You can't really, you can't see beyond the nose on your face.
00:12:15.120 You can't really see, you can't quite plan it all out.
00:12:17.840 Like, okay, I'm going to do this, and that's going to lead to this, that, and that.
00:12:20.700 Kids aren't really able to make those calculations, which is why we say that they can't.
00:12:25.160 They can't do things like vote.
00:12:27.400 They can't buy guns.
00:12:28.520 They can't do stuff like that.
00:12:29.480 And that's also a reason why I think we shouldn't put them on the public stage.
00:12:35.800 Because there's a lot that comes with it.
00:12:37.620 Scrutiny, and criticism, and backlash, all that.
00:12:40.440 They're not going to be prepared for it.
00:12:42.620 Yeah, they'll love the attention, but they don't, they don't understand what comes with it.
00:12:47.500 And they're not going to be prepared for it.
00:12:50.080 Second, here's the thing.
00:12:52.660 I'm a 33-year-old adult man.
00:12:56.060 I am 33, right?
00:12:57.480 Or am I 34?
00:12:58.640 No, I'm 33.
00:12:59.480 This is usually where I ask my wife. 1.00
00:13:01.280 You have no idea how often I ask my wife how old I am.
00:13:06.540 Anyway, and oftentimes I'm wrong, I'm afraid to say.
00:13:10.220 So I am probably around 33 years old.
00:13:13.040 I'm an adult man is the point.
00:13:14.200 I've spent my adult life, you know, like many adults.
00:13:17.560 I've learned, and I've thought about things, and I've studied issues.
00:13:20.520 Not to mention I've been living, and I've been gaining experience, and I've been maturing, hopefully, to some extent.
00:13:26.900 Now, granted, there are adults who don't really do any of those things, but many of us have.
00:13:31.300 And those of us who are in that position of being basically mature adults who have learned and thought and studied and so on, those of us in that position, we, well, I can only speak for myself, I suppose.
00:13:45.180 I have really no interest in the viewpoint of a child.
00:13:49.520 I mean, I'm interested in my own kids' ideas and thoughts and everything because they are my kids, and I want them to develop their ideas and all that and share it with me.
00:14:02.340 So I do care about, in that sense, that's all good.
00:14:06.520 My point is, maybe I should put it this way.
00:14:08.580 The political and ideological insights of children don't interest me.
00:14:16.540 I don't go to kids for insight, especially in the politics, the ideology, philosophy, science, you know, those kinds of things.
00:14:24.180 I don't go to kids for that.
00:14:27.280 I'm not going to a 15- or 16-year-old girl to find out about that.
00:14:31.020 I'm just not.
00:14:32.880 Because they don't know anything.
00:14:35.000 You know, they haven't done the work yet, and that's not their fault.
00:14:37.220 They're just not old enough.
00:14:38.800 They can't have done it.
00:14:40.460 They can't have thought about these things for very long because they just haven't lived that long.
00:14:46.040 So that's why I'm not going to a kid to learn about the world.
00:14:49.140 A kid isn't going to teach me things about science and politics and whatever else.
00:14:53.160 And I certainly don't want to hear lectures from kids.
00:14:57.480 So whether it's climate change or guns or whatever, to hear teenagers up there,
00:15:02.100 you adults haven't done anything.
00:15:04.780 Now you're going to listen to me.
00:15:06.180 Oh, shut up. 0.99
00:15:07.000 I mean, you don't know anything.
00:15:10.260 You don't.
00:15:11.080 I mean, and that's, again, it's not a knock on kids.
00:15:13.880 It's just you're, I was the same way when I was 16.
00:15:16.320 And when I was 16, yeah, I thought that I could tell, hey, you listen up to me.
00:15:20.420 Okay.
00:15:20.620 I know what's going on here.
00:15:22.360 Yeah.
00:15:22.620 I thought that too when I was 16.
00:15:24.420 Every 16-year-old does.
00:15:25.760 But, you know, then you grow up and you get some life experience and you figure out that,
00:15:29.400 okay, I was actually ignorant as hell.
00:15:33.740 And that's why, and I feel bad having to make these points about kids.
00:15:42.760 You know, but this is the, it's not my fault.
00:15:45.720 People have put kids in a position where they're up there, you know, lecturing.
00:15:52.420 And so it becomes necessary.
00:15:54.360 This is, you know, so I am now part of the backlash that these kids have to deal with.
00:15:59.140 And I wish they didn't have to deal with it.
00:16:00.760 I wish they weren't put in that position to begin with.
00:16:04.760 But here's what I'm not going to do.
00:16:06.720 And this is why people use kids like human shields, like ideological human shields.
00:16:14.040 Because the idea is, if a kid is up there saying, okay, we need to confiscate guns or
00:16:20.740 we need to carbon tax or Green New Deal or whatever, the kid's saying it, well, then
00:16:26.080 you have to just, at a minimum, you have to remain silent if you don't like it.
00:16:31.000 But really, you have to agree because otherwise you're attacking a child and how dare you.
00:16:35.860 Well, I'm not going to play that game, okay?
00:16:37.540 If you're putting a 16 or 15 or a 12-year-old up there to tell me things that I disagree with,
00:16:42.220 I'm going to say, I think you're wrong.
00:16:44.880 And I'm also going to point out that you don't know what you're talking about.
00:16:47.880 I'm sorry.
00:16:49.440 I'm going to say that.
00:16:50.420 Just because you put this, you put these thoughts into the mouth of a child doesn't mean
00:16:54.200 I have to agree all of a sudden.
00:16:55.360 That game's not going to work.
00:16:58.480 And if the child ends up with hurt feelings or whatever, that's your fault for putting
00:17:04.240 them in that position, okay?
00:17:07.780 I have kids myself.
00:17:11.000 I don't, you know, I get up here myself and I say my own thoughts out of my own mouth.
00:17:19.220 And so if you don't like it, then you could tell me that I'm a horrible, monstrous, evil
00:17:24.900 person.
00:17:25.320 And I hear that all the time, okay?
00:17:26.860 And I can take it.
00:17:28.860 I don't put these thoughts.
00:17:30.520 I don't have my kids get up and speak for me.
00:17:32.780 I don't do that.
00:17:33.480 And if I did, whatever abuse they suffered, it would be my fault.
00:17:40.360 Me.
00:17:40.800 It would be on me for putting them in that position and not just having the guts to stand
00:17:45.320 up and say it myself.
00:17:46.120 Um, you know, I, I have never once in my life heard a political opinion from a child that
00:17:56.640 made me go, oh, wow.
00:17:58.860 I never thought of it like that.
00:18:00.400 Huh?
00:18:01.740 I mean, have you, have you in your entire life?
00:18:04.760 Have you actually heard a political opinion or an opinion on world issues from an adolescent
00:18:11.280 that made you, that actually changed the way you thought about things or informed you of
00:18:16.140 something you weren't aware of?
00:18:18.720 Because if so, then, then either that was an utterly brilliant, genius, savant sort of
00:18:25.420 prodigy of a child, which is unlikely, or you're kind of stupid. 0.76
00:18:32.880 Um, um, yeah.
00:18:34.760 I mean, if, if you're blown away by the, the ideological political insights of a child,
00:18:40.680 it, it, again, it could be that that's a really brilliant shot or you, you, you might
00:18:45.140 just be a sort of stupid person that you, that, that a child can impress you in that
00:18:50.200 way.
00:18:50.680 Um, I, it could go either way.
00:18:53.200 That's the thing.
00:18:53.600 I don't know.
00:18:54.280 There are, there are prodigy children out there.
00:18:57.680 Uh, but most of the ones I, of all the kids that have been turned into political mascots,
00:19:03.000 I can't, I don't think any of them fall into that prodigy cat.
00:19:05.720 I can't think of one that has.
00:19:08.460 And by the way, this is, this is something that, that people do on both sides of the
00:19:11.760 aisle.
00:19:12.060 I'm not going to sit here and pretend that this is something only the left does.
00:19:15.420 The left does it with, um, with, with gun rights, typically with climate change.
00:19:21.640 Um, but the right does it too, you know, uh, there have been, and there still are kids
00:19:29.040 like high schoolers and middle schoolers and younger who the right has elevated into sort
00:19:36.160 of thought leaders on the right, even now, as we speak and it's, it's, it's ridiculous.
00:19:43.600 It just is.
00:19:47.260 I mean, I, you know, there, there are, there are on the right, there are kids with like
00:19:53.380 massive social media followings and all they do is give their political opinions.
00:19:58.480 And there are adults who follow them because they want to have access to these kids insights
00:20:04.360 every day.
00:20:07.260 And anytime one of these kids comes along, I always go and say, okay, well, maybe this
00:20:11.280 is a prodigy, brilliant, genius child.
00:20:13.900 And then I listen to what they have to say.
00:20:15.120 It's like, okay, no, no, they're not.
00:20:16.420 They're just saying, this is just a kid with just saying things.
00:20:21.360 All right.
00:20:22.020 Um, what else?
00:20:24.660 Well, uh, but, but, oh, then, then the other part of this, uh, Thunberg thing is the fact
00:20:31.560 that she came here on a sailing yacht.
00:20:35.000 And, uh, so now we're being told, Hey, maybe we all should use be using sailing yachts because
00:20:40.260 it's, because it's, it's green friendly or whatever.
00:20:43.680 There was a, I can't remember which outlet, but there was some, there was a headline saying,
00:20:49.100 you know, Greta, Greta Thunberg came here on a sailing yacht.
00:20:52.280 Uh, should, should we all be doing that or something?
00:20:54.600 It's like, yes, let me go grab my sailing yacht for my fleet of yachts.
00:20:58.480 Let me go have my butler, uh, you know, go, go and, and, and, and, well, I don't know
00:21:03.060 who you have on your staff that, that gets your, your yacht for you, but I'm going to go head
00:21:07.440 down to the Marina.
00:21:08.600 Okay.
00:21:09.140 And, uh, and grab my sailing yacht.
00:21:11.040 Uh, I hadn't thought of that.
00:21:12.340 I mean, usually when I have to get somewhere and it's more than eight hours away by drive,
00:21:17.600 by car, I'm going to, I'm going to fly coach, but it's cause I just had never thought to
00:21:23.180 get on my sailing yacht, which I have, which I, which I just have sitting there, you know,
00:21:28.380 collecting barnacles.
00:21:29.380 All right.
00:21:33.140 Um, what else has gone on?
00:21:34.200 Well, on a very different note, here's a clip from pink news talking about the plight
00:21:40.580 of non-binary lesbians. 0.99
00:21:42.680 Cause I know you were wondering, I know you got up this morning thinking what's going on
00:21:47.520 with nine non-binary lesbians.
00:21:49.360 How are they doing?
00:21:51.440 Well, it turns out not very well.
00:21:53.240 Uh, they are in fact, very upset and they're going to tell you about it.
00:21:56.820 Watch this my pronouns are they, them, I am a non-binary lesbian, so I'm total, I identify
00:22:02.020 as non-binary and lesbian, and I prefer the pronouns they, them, as far as I'm concerned,
00:22:07.200 my understanding of my gender and my understanding of my sexuality are very much intertwined and
00:22:12.140 linked, like they are one and the same.
00:22:13.860 So can you be non-binary and lesbian?
00:22:15.840 This is something I often get asked because when you identify as non-binary, you're saying
00:22:20.680 that you're not female.
00:22:21.740 And if you're not female and you're attracted to women, does that make you a lesbian?
00:22:25.260 I think it's sort of disingenuous to claim that you can't be both non-binary and a lesbian
00:22:30.000 because you can definitely have an authentic lesbian experience as a non-binary person. 0.75
00:22:35.260 Because at the end of the day, they are terms, they are linguistic tools used to describe
00:22:39.660 an experience that already exists.
00:22:42.060 So someone telling me that I can't be a non-binary lesbian doesn't mean anything because
00:22:47.100 I already am one.
00:22:48.360 And I'm just using the language that I have available to me to describe that.
00:22:52.020 So my personal experience with the lesbian community since coming out as non-binary has
00:22:56.940 been rather dismal.
00:23:00.520 A lot of lesbians that I've encountered, especially on dates, haven't accepted my identity as something 0.99
00:23:05.580 that they are interested in dating or accepting, to the point where some women have wanted me
00:23:12.780 to use my birth name, which I feel very uncomfortable to use, because they want me to be more of a
00:23:19.480 woman rather than someone who identifies in the middle.
00:23:23.220 So they're almost bullying me out of my own identity, which is quite frustrating.
00:23:28.420 I have had people say that you can't be both non-binary and a lesbian, but I do think that
00:23:33.880 comes from a flawed understanding of what lesbianism as an identity means, both now and historically.
00:23:41.720 So what does lesbianism mean?
00:23:45.340 That's not a question I thought I'd be asking today, but that's the question posed in this video.
00:23:51.440 I did look it up in the old dictionary, just to be sure, because I thought I knew.
00:23:57.920 And so I looked it up, just to be sure.
00:23:59.200 And yeah, sure enough, here's the definition I found.
00:24:02.200 Sexual attraction or sexual activity between women.
00:24:06.540 Between women. 0.97
00:24:07.720 This is the definition of lesbianism. 1.00
00:24:10.060 To be a non-female lesbian is then a contradiction in terms.
00:24:14.960 It is literally like claiming to be a married bachelor.
00:24:17.840 A bachelor, by definition, is an unmarried man.
00:24:21.860 If a man is married, it makes no sense for him to identify as a bachelor.
00:24:25.960 Now, many married men, unfortunately, do, in effect, identify as being unmarried.
00:24:31.560 But that doesn't change the fact that they are married.
00:24:35.680 Just as a vegetarian is, by definition, someone who doesn't eat meat.
00:24:39.020 So to identify as a meat-eating vegetarian makes no sense.
00:24:43.980 I mean, you can say the words, yes.
00:24:46.960 You can say those words.
00:24:49.220 And you can demand that we all nod in approval and with understanding, with feigned understanding when you say it.
00:24:57.720 Yeah, but it still doesn't actually really mean anything.
00:25:04.420 It's nonsensical.
00:25:05.680 You can say that your left hand identifies as your right hand.
00:25:10.820 Fine.
00:25:11.220 You can say that.
00:25:12.180 But it's still your left hand.
00:25:14.620 Your left hand, by definition, cannot be your right hand.
00:25:17.980 In fact, you could define left hand as the hand that is not your right hand.
00:25:23.160 I mean, that could be a definition of left hand.
00:25:25.260 For humans, anyway.
00:25:27.680 So none of this means anything.
00:25:31.900 And what we see here, again, on the left, is that the left is waging a war, not just on science.
00:25:43.340 Because we shouldn't understate this.
00:25:45.560 Oftentimes, when I've talked about this, I'll say, oh, the left's waging a war on science.
00:25:49.400 They're waging a war on truth.
00:25:50.840 They're waging a war on morality.
00:25:53.240 And all of that is true.
00:25:56.040 But it's even deeper than that.
00:25:58.560 They're waging a war on logic itself.
00:26:01.500 That's what's at stake here.
00:26:03.780 So more than claiming that you're a non-binary lesbian. 1.00
00:26:06.260 Yeah, it's anti-science.
00:26:08.080 Yeah, it's deranged in many ways.
00:26:11.020 But it's simply illogical.
00:26:14.740 So what the left wants to do is they want to destroy logic.
00:26:17.540 Which is a basic capacity of human consciousness.
00:26:25.920 It's one of the things that makes us human.
00:26:31.520 Arguably, it may be the number one defining facet of human beings, is that we're capable of logical thinking.
00:26:39.720 Which is what sets us apart from every other known creature in the universe.
00:26:46.140 And the left wants to break that down.
00:26:49.000 Because that's what's going on here.
00:26:52.700 All right, one other thing.
00:26:55.880 This is horrific and disgraceful on many levels.
00:26:58.300 There was an incident in Georgia.
00:26:59.640 I believe in Georgia the country.
00:27:01.460 Yeah, Georgia the country.
00:27:02.600 Not the state.
00:27:03.600 Where a woman just randomly stabbed a young boy in the face.
00:27:10.380 With his parents standing there.
00:27:12.600 And then went back and tried to attack the boy's sister.
00:27:16.360 And again, it's the actions of the parents.
00:27:19.840 Or the lack thereof.
00:27:22.000 That to me makes this especially notable.
00:27:24.940 Here's a video of it.
00:27:25.720 It's not graphic.
00:27:27.600 But it is upsetting as you can imagine.
00:27:29.800 But here's the video.
00:27:30.860 Okay, I just, I don't get this.
00:27:32.380 Why is the father just standing there?
00:27:36.240 I cannot comprehend that.
00:27:41.320 And on top of the father.
00:27:42.760 There's the mother standing there. 0.87
00:27:43.960 There's other adults in the street.
00:27:46.320 Who are just watching this happen.
00:27:49.340 But specifically the father.
00:27:52.680 You know, they say there's never any reason to hit a woman.
00:27:55.140 Well, well, there is sometimes.
00:27:57.340 And here's one of those reasons.
00:27:58.900 So there is at least one reason.
00:28:00.540 The father should have put that woman on the ground. 1.00
00:28:04.600 Hard.
00:28:06.320 Disable her. 1.00
00:28:07.140 Take the knife away.
00:28:08.140 Put her on the ground. 1.00
00:28:08.980 Make it hurt for good measure.
00:28:13.360 Instead, he just stands there.
00:28:14.620 He makes one feeble attempt to, you know, go after her.
00:28:17.880 And then runs away.
00:28:19.220 Scampers away when she turns toward him.
00:28:20.700 But, you know, this is pitiful.
00:28:24.400 I don't want to do the thing where we take this one incident and say, oh, what's wrong
00:28:27.860 with men today based on this one?
00:28:29.480 This is just one guy.
00:28:31.180 And I do think that, well, not just one guy.
00:28:33.780 There are other guys there.
00:28:34.480 So this is one incident.
00:28:36.300 I think that if this had happened in certain U.S. states, like Texas, for example, it probably
00:28:42.560 would have gone differently.
00:28:43.500 Um, but not in all U.S. states.
00:28:48.220 But it does feel symptomatic of something.
00:28:51.300 It does seem like 50 or 60 years ago, there's probably nowhere in the world where a woman,
00:28:57.620 you know, an overweight woman could just stroll up to a child with her father, with his father 1.00
00:29:02.020 standing there, stab him in the face and walk away unharmed.
00:29:04.780 It feels like 50 or 60 years ago, that probably couldn't have happened anywhere in the world.
00:29:08.260 Um, no, that's, that's one of those scenarios where, uh, you know, the man needs to step
00:29:21.100 up, even if it is a woman.
00:29:22.420 And, and this, I've, I've, I admit, I, I have been one of those people in the past who
00:29:28.800 have said, oh, there's never any reason to hit a woman, never hit a woman under any
00:29:32.060 circumstances.
00:29:32.500 I've said that myself.
00:29:33.880 It's just, it's just kind of a slogan or a mantra that we say.
00:29:36.960 Um, and the idea in, in principle, what we're trying to communicate, especially if you say
00:29:43.740 it to your son or something, what you're trying to communicate is we're, you know, women as 0.97
00:29:48.080 a, as a, as men, we're supposed to protect women.
00:29:50.420 We're not supposed to use our, our, uh, our aggression and our strength to abuse them.
00:29:56.920 You're trying to teach chivalry.
00:29:58.640 That's the idea.
00:29:59.440 But of course the blanket statement that you can never hit a woman is completely ridiculous.
00:30:04.840 And I realized that at some point, you know, the last time I said it, I had to stop and
00:30:09.900 think like, wait a second, is that never, there's never a scenario where you could hit
00:30:14.100 a woman.
00:30:14.380 Of course there is.
00:30:15.740 For instance, if she's stabbing your child in the face, there's an occasion.
00:30:20.660 Definitely you can hit her and you should hard. 0.98
00:30:23.420 Uh, or if she's trying to stab you, you know, if you're protecting yourself or a loved one,
00:30:30.640 if it's an act of self-defense, then yeah, you can absolutely hit a woman. 0.56
00:30:36.020 Definitely.
00:30:37.160 And again, you should actually, not even you can, but you should basically whatever, I
00:30:44.360 mean, really what it comes down to is any most in, in most scenarios where it would be
00:30:49.080 okay to hit a man, it would also be okay to hit a woman because most of the scenarios 0.95
00:30:53.100 where it's okay to hit a man are scenarios of self-defense.
00:30:57.420 Same kind.
00:30:57.980 If a man is trying to stab your child, then you hit the man.
00:31:00.460 It doesn't, the gen, in that scenario, the gender doesn't make any difference. 0.99
00:31:05.100 You're not going to stop and think, well, hold on a second.
00:31:07.480 Uh, but I mean, think, you know, she has, she has female sexual organs. 1.00
00:31:11.000 Therefore, no, you're not going to make that calculation.
00:31:12.860 This is a threat to your child and you are responding to it, period.
00:31:18.440 She doesn't get any special treatment.
00:31:21.620 Um, so in most of the scenarios, I think that's what I, I re, even though I've said this, I
00:31:27.480 realized that no, I, this couldn't be more wrong actually.
00:31:33.300 Um, I mean, if the idea of saying never hit a woman is to treat women with respect, then
00:31:38.180 great, but just say that, right.
00:31:39.620 And it's just, we should treat men with respect too.
00:31:41.760 So it's, there's no, you know, there's nothing special there.
00:31:44.120 I think the only difference is, and I say this because I'm a, I'm an old fashioned person.
00:31:51.120 Probably doesn't surprise you to learn that.
00:31:53.320 And so I, I do think that on a man to man level, sometimes it can be appropriate to use
00:32:02.800 physical force against a man, even if it's not in an act of physical self-defense.
00:32:08.020 I think there could be man to man moments where a man disrespects you, says something
00:32:11.400 to you, you know, and it's just eye to eye.
00:32:14.220 And so you can respond physically.
00:32:16.000 Now it might not be prudent depending on the situation, because depending on the situation,
00:32:20.100 you know, who knows, uh, especially these days, you can go to with the way we react to
00:32:24.540 these kinds of things these days, uh, like in school, you know, you could, kids could get
00:32:29.120 expelled for just one punch in the head.
00:32:31.160 And, uh, it didn't used to be that way.
00:32:32.860 So prudence may change that, but in principle, I think there are occasions where man to man,
00:32:42.640 men can respond that way to each other as men.
00:32:48.000 Um, I would say that responding to a woman physically, 1.00
00:32:52.860 responding to the, to, to a, a verbal assault from a woman physically from a man is, is always
00:33:01.740 wrong.
00:33:03.080 Whereas on a man to man level, it might not always be wrong, but physical, if you're being
00:33:11.000 physically attacked, it doesn't matter the gender of the person.
00:33:13.680 You have every right to defend yourself and responsibility.
00:33:16.900 And if it's your child, certainly, um, that's even more the case.
00:33:20.480 All right, let's move on to emails, mattwalshowatgmail.com, mattwalshowatgmail.com.
00:33:26.380 This is from Kendall says, Hey Matt, I'm a big fan of the show.
00:33:31.080 Although admittedly the Matt Walsh show was the last daily wire podcast I subscribed to.
00:33:35.120 How dare you?
00:33:36.320 To be fair, it is now my favorite.
00:33:37.840 Oh, okay.
00:33:38.260 Well, you're good.
00:33:38.860 You're cool.
00:33:39.660 During your absence, I refreshed my podcast screen regularly, hoping your face would pop
00:33:43.140 up with fresh content.
00:33:44.020 If for no other reason, just to let me know you were alive.
00:33:46.720 I feared the worst.
00:33:47.400 A second torn Achilles, your wife going to labor early, or perhaps you were
00:33:50.460 so fed up with the current political and cultural climate in America that you quit.
00:33:53.660 It was a trying time.
00:33:56.120 Um, I am elated that you are back and talking about Lizzo, Taylor Swift, and all that is
00:34:01.340 wrong with popular music these days.
00:34:02.880 While I agree that the vapid, self-absorbed, and morally corrupt lyrics of today's popular
00:34:06.700 music are mind-numbing and egregious in their lack of substance, there are still real genuine
00:34:10.800 artists putting out quality content and getting noticed for it.
00:34:13.400 You don't strike me as a fan of rap music, but there is a rising artist called NF that is
00:34:18.380 speaking truth and creating introspective, thoughtful music free from butt flashing and
00:34:23.340 self-aggrandizing.
00:34:24.640 Check out the link below to some of his music.
00:34:27.220 Um, yeah, I actually didn't, I, I didn't even click on the link, so I can't play that
00:34:31.940 for you.
00:34:32.200 But, uh, I am familiar with NF.
00:34:34.620 I have, I've heard a couple of his songs.
00:34:37.020 Now, yeah, this is a rapper.
00:34:38.060 This, I believe, is a Christian, technically, uh, you know, a Christian rapper, right?
00:34:42.900 Um, I've heard a few of his songs.
00:34:44.960 The one song, The Search, I guess, probably is his most, most well-known.
00:34:50.340 I think it's a good song.
00:34:51.960 I think, I, he, he, here's what I'll say about him as a Christian artist and what really
00:34:57.260 sets him apart.
00:34:57.920 Um, and before I get there, so I listened to that song.
00:35:03.900 I liked it, heard a few others.
00:35:05.140 I wasn't big on his other songs.
00:35:07.260 They weren't terrible.
00:35:08.260 They just thought, you know, they got a little bit repetitive after a while, in my opinion.
00:35:11.480 But I, I, I do think he's very talented.
00:35:14.520 And that's the thing.
00:35:15.520 As a Christian artist, here's what I like about him.
00:35:18.860 Even if I'm not, even if I'm not crazy about all of his songs, what I like about him is,
00:35:23.860 number one, he's got real talent.
00:35:25.100 Not just talent for a Christian artist, but real, actual talent.
00:35:31.480 He's got a relevant sound.
00:35:33.980 Okay, so it doesn't sound like you're listening to something from 1993.
00:35:38.180 It doesn't sound like you're listening to something that would, would, would be most at
00:35:42.460 home at a, you know, Christian youth conference.
00:35:45.300 It just sounds relevant.
00:35:47.280 Current, you know, with it, all that.
00:35:50.200 And, but here's the main thing that I like about this guy that, and I, and I wish
00:35:54.960 more Christian artists would do.
00:35:56.460 I've been, I've been preaching this for years.
00:35:59.660 He's making music from what I, and I'm not an expert on it, but it seems like he, not
00:36:05.640 all of his songs are about Jesus.
00:36:07.280 In fact, it seems like most of them aren't, right?
00:36:10.760 Many of them aren't.
00:36:12.080 He's talking about other things.
00:36:14.040 Just because he's a Christian making music, and he wants to make music that is edifying
00:36:21.520 and good and wholesome and, and, and, you know, not, not as you say, butt flashing and
00:36:26.700 self-aggrandizing.
00:36:28.460 That doesn't mean that literally every song has to explicitly be about Jesus.
00:36:33.140 And every single chorus has to be praise Jesus, praise your name.
00:36:36.780 You're wonderful.
00:36:37.780 And nothing wrong with songs like that.
00:36:39.260 But you, you can talk about other stuff.
00:36:41.820 There, there's so much in life to talk about.
00:36:44.800 There are so many things.
00:36:46.420 And as Christians, we experience other things.
00:36:50.100 I mean, in your own life, is, is that, is that the only thing you ever talk about is the
00:36:54.060 Bible and Jesus? 0.92
00:36:55.200 You talk about, you, you experience other things.
00:36:57.840 And so Christian artists should talk about those other things too.
00:37:02.500 Why make a song about love, about, about, you know, about heartbreak, about loss, about,
00:37:08.360 uh, this, this one song, the search, I think is kind of about his mental, uh, health, uh,
00:37:14.360 struggles.
00:37:15.980 That's a real thing.
00:37:17.080 Talk about it.
00:37:18.220 You don't have to throw in a praise Jesus just to, just to cover the bases.
00:37:21.880 And Jesus is okay with that.
00:37:23.400 He's not going to be offended.
00:37:24.460 He can deal with it.
00:37:25.520 He's, he's fine with it.
00:37:26.800 There's nothing in the Bible saying that every single conversation you ever have must center
00:37:31.180 explicitly and directly around me.
00:37:32.960 It's not in there.
00:37:35.040 Jesus is, is not an egomaniac, uh, in, in that respect.
00:37:39.060 Or in any other respect.
00:37:40.540 So that's what I really like about it.
00:37:42.080 And I, and I just, again, I, Christian artists that you, this used to be, I mean, uh, you go
00:37:50.440 back through the ages and you think about great Christian artists, not just musical artists,
00:37:55.960 but novelists, painters, sculptors.
00:37:59.380 Yeah.
00:37:59.820 A lot of their stuff was, was heavily religious, but not all of it.
00:38:03.100 They, they, they told stories and they dealt with real things in life and they did it in
00:38:13.280 a way that would point you back to the truth and to goodness and to light, but it didn't
00:38:21.280 have to be so explicit all the time.
00:38:25.200 Um, so yeah, good stuff there from Dan, uh, says, Matt, I staunchly disagree with you.
00:38:31.220 You should be advocating for this woman to get on the field, talking about the female, uh, 1.00
00:38:35.080 field goal kicker.
00:38:36.420 Then she can prove herself that she does not belong there.
00:38:39.180 It may result in her getting seriously injured, but if she's signing up for an NFL team, that's
00:38:42.400 what she's signing up for.
00:38:43.340 Why not let, let these people have what they want and then deal with the real consequences
00:38:46.900 of it.
00:38:47.760 Yeah.
00:38:48.560 I look, I understand that attitude, but I just, I don't want to see a woman get killed
00:38:52.840 in an NFL field.
00:38:53.660 I don't want to see it.
00:38:54.620 Uh, I don't want it to happen.
00:38:55.780 I don't want to see it.
00:38:57.280 If it did happen, my first reaction isn't going to be, see, I told you so.
00:39:02.300 Uh, it would be a terrible thing.
00:39:04.200 I just, so yeah, I think at a certain point, uh, with in, in some ways, feminists have to 1.00
00:39:11.400 be sort of hoisted on their own petard and, and made to realize the flaws in there.
00:39:16.160 But I don't want to see people get hurt.
00:39:19.240 And if you put a woman on, on the field with NFL players, she will get very, very hurt.
00:39:24.920 And, uh, I would prefer, I'd prefer if they could learn their lesson before that point.
00:39:30.800 And so with that doesn't need to happen.
00:39:34.360 Um, from Rachel says, Oh, Matt, superior of the beard, uh, superior of the bearded race
00:39:39.200 and redeemer of Catholics against the shame of Michael Knowles.
00:39:41.500 If I'm forced to sit right beside someone on the crowded bus and at one stop, almost everyone
00:39:47.720 unloads, is it more awkward to move or to stay there when they are, uh, when there are many
00:39:53.300 open seats, not besides someone?
00:39:55.840 Many thanks, Rachel.
00:39:56.900 Uh, Rachel, I, I cannot be more emphatic about this.
00:40:00.780 You should absolutely move.
00:40:03.780 Definitely move.
00:40:05.960 A hundred percent move.
00:40:08.400 Um, look at it this way.
00:40:10.940 If the person you're sitting next to is a normal person, a normal, well-adjusted person, they
00:40:17.420 want you to move because they want, they, they could use the personal space and they're not
00:40:21.860 going to be offended by it.
00:40:22.760 If they're the kind of person who would be offended by you moving, then that's a weirdo
00:40:28.460 and that's someone you don't want to sit next to anyway.
00:40:31.940 So either you're sitting next to a weirdo, in which case move, or you're sitting next
00:40:35.080 to a normal person, in which case move, because you're not going to offend them.
00:40:37.480 So either way, move, give yourself space.
00:40:39.960 I mean, I, I, I, I think that we're all on the same page with, with, with this, right?
00:40:44.160 At least in America.
00:40:45.100 I mean, this is America in America.
00:40:47.500 We value our personal space.
00:40:49.300 We don't want to be too close to anyone.
00:40:50.640 It, we, we like having our space in America.
00:40:53.840 Now in other countries, they have different ideas about personal space.
00:40:56.500 That's just one of the many reasons why I'm glad I don't live in any other country.
00:40:59.620 In this country, always err on the side of giving someone personal space.
00:41:04.460 If you're asking yourself, should I give them space or not?
00:41:07.440 Give them space.
00:41:08.640 Just like if you're asking yourself, should I make awkward small talk right now, or just
00:41:12.380 stay, or, or just shut up and, and, and let them sit there in silence.
00:41:15.900 Just shut up and let their, let them be in silence.
00:41:18.320 Always err on that side.
00:41:19.700 In my opinion, always err on the antisocial side in every scenario.
00:41:26.640 At least that's what I would prefer for you to do as an antisocial person myself.
00:41:30.340 I was on a plane recently and, um, a few months ago, and it was, uh, you know, I was sitting
00:41:36.800 on the, the window seat.
00:41:38.080 Someone was sitting in the middle seat and then the door shut.
00:41:42.640 Nobody shows up to sit in the aisle seat.
00:41:46.140 And this is where the person in the middle seat moves over so that we all have more space.
00:41:51.860 But this guy, I sat there assuming he would move.
00:41:58.460 And as the minutes went on and progressed, I began to panic in my head thinking, this guy
00:42:03.080 is not moving.
00:42:04.140 He's actually going to sit.
00:42:05.680 There's a three hour flight.
00:42:07.160 This guy's going to sit in the middle seat next to me when he doesn't need to.
00:42:11.280 And there's a seat there.
00:42:12.960 Now it's awkward for me to have to say, Hey buddy, can you get your butt up and move?
00:42:18.600 You weirdo.
00:42:20.120 It's awkward for me to have to say that.
00:42:22.260 Um, but at eventually, as we, you know, started the making our way down the tarmac and I realized
00:42:27.540 like this guy's just going to sit here.
00:42:29.360 And then it started to freak me out.
00:42:30.840 I started thinking, do I need to get an air marshal?
00:42:32.300 I mean, why is this guy, what is he doing?
00:42:34.780 Why does he want to be so close to me?
00:42:37.540 So then eventually I had to say, I tried to be as, as diplomatic as I could be, but I tried
00:42:42.240 to say, Hey, you know, you got that seat next to you.
00:42:44.340 Did you want to, you know, did you want to just, you know, go that way over there, not
00:42:50.920 next to me.
00:42:52.120 And, uh, and he did move, but he gave me kind of, it was a kind of a pause and he looked
00:42:55.780 over as if he hadn't noticed the seat was empty, which I don't believe.
00:42:59.160 And then he looked at me and he said, Oh, okay.
00:43:01.060 And he gave me kind of a, I, I detected a, a thing where he kind of looked as a, it was
00:43:05.640 a very brief sort of eye roll.
00:43:08.500 Um, but that was a disturbing, that was just a disturbing and traumatizing event.
00:43:13.020 So anyway, definitely move.
00:43:14.940 Finally, uh, let's see.
00:43:16.340 We've got a couple here.
00:43:17.800 Um, okay.
00:43:19.700 This is one is, this is another one on social etiquette from Leo says, hi, Matt.
00:43:22.980 Am I wrong to be pissed off at people who use FaceTime in public?
00:43:25.980 No, Leo, you are not.
00:43:27.740 This is another thing.
00:43:28.880 I mean, this, I could do a whole, I could do 45 minutes on this.
00:43:32.220 Maybe I'll do a whole show on this because this has become, uh, in my, maybe it's just
00:43:37.560 my imagination, but it seems like over the last few months, it's gotten so much worse.
00:43:41.200 Every time I go to a coffee shop now, um, or I sit down at a, you know, I travel a lot.
00:43:46.620 So I, I do a lot of eating alone and sitting places alone, which I enjoy again as an antisocial
00:43:51.360 person.
00:43:51.700 Um, so maybe I notice it more.
00:43:54.520 I don't know, but whether you're at a bar or you're sitting in a coffee shop, people are
00:43:58.500 just sitting there like they've got their phone propped up and they're in, you know, there's
00:44:02.400 someone on FaceTime.
00:44:03.220 They just have their pal with them sitting at the table, talking to the person that is
00:44:08.060 not okay.
00:44:10.040 If you, if you really need to talk to someone who isn't physically with you, then you get
00:44:16.140 on the phone and you talk to them.
00:44:17.700 We don't need to hear the other side of the conversation.
00:44:20.020 And before you say, well, what's the difference?
00:44:22.260 What if I had the person sitting physically there with me?
00:44:25.020 What's the difference?
00:44:25.820 There's a big difference.
00:44:26.520 First of all, the guy's louder.
00:44:28.060 It's just a different tone.
00:44:29.260 It's more obnoxious than it would be if he was sitting next to you.
00:44:32.180 And also again, I mean, do you really need that?
00:44:36.220 Whoever that person is, do you really need to see them while you're talking to them?
00:44:41.860 If you need to see them that badly, then go and get in a car and find them and talk
00:44:46.160 to them.
00:44:46.460 No, using FaceTime in public is absolutely, and it goes without saying, when I am dictator
00:44:54.760 of the world, there will be immediate executions.
00:44:59.840 You won't be arrested.
00:45:01.580 There won't be anything.
00:45:02.400 It's just, you're done.
00:45:04.520 That's all.
00:45:07.540 I'll make it quick, depending on what kind of mood I'm in.
00:45:11.040 We'll leave it there.
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