Saints QB Drew Brees is in hot water with the Woke Mob for a controversial video he made for an anti-gay religious cult that believes in conversion therapy and wants kids to bring Bible to school to convert other kids to Christianity.
00:06:12.520There's been a lot of negativity spread about me in the LGBTQ community recently based upon an article that someone wrote with a very negative headline that I think led people to believe that somehow I was aligned with an organization that was anti-LGBTQ and so on and so forth.
00:06:35.680I live by two very simple Christian fundamentals, and that is love the Lord with all your heart, mind, and soul and love your neighbor as yourself.
00:06:44.920No matter your race, your color, your religious preference, your sexual orientation, your political beliefs, it doesn't matter.
00:06:53.600So the fact that these rumors have been spread about me are completely untrue.
00:06:58.120What I did was I filmed a video recently that was encouraging kids to bring their Bibles to school for National Bring Your Bible to School Day, to bring your Bibles to school, to be able to live out your faith with confidence.
00:07:12.380And I even gave one of my favorite Bible verses.
00:07:43.880Drew Brees is it's kind of like we talked about Wal-Mart earlier in the week for Wal-Mart caved to the left wing mob and there was no reason for them to cave because it's Wal-Mart we're talking about.
00:12:05.080Why just, if we know what your real problem is, you don't like Christians, you don't like the Bible, you don't think Bibles belong in school.
00:12:12.360That's really what you're upset about.
00:13:12.080But if you're in that, especially if you're a gay activist, if you're a left-wing gay activist especially, then I'll say this.
00:13:24.360You really don't do yourself any favors with this kind of stuff.
00:13:30.700When you go and attack a guy as being anti-gay, when he didn't even say anything about gay people, when you attack someone as anti-gay simply for their religious views or for promoting the Bible or whatever, then you just come off as vindictive extremists.
00:14:16.740All you're doing now is undermining everything you achieve by coming off like crazy people and finding stupid things to complain about.
00:14:28.100All you're doing, you know, you were in a position, and I'm still talking to feminists here, but where almost everyone was saying, yeah, okay, the feminists were right about that.
00:15:02.860And the general feeling of most people in this country, if you look at any survey, any poll, I mean, if you look at anything, if you just take a, you know, kind of take the general temperature of society on this issue, most people are libertarian now on issues of sexuality.
00:15:38.640But rather than just sitting back and saying, okay, we achieved that.
00:15:47.680Now, when you become vindictive and you go out looking for revenge, because that's, it seems to me, that's what the gay rights movement now has become.
00:16:01.300It's now become, well, you've already, you got all the rights now.
00:16:06.800And in fact, even though the gay rights movement, the quote unquote gay rights movement still exists, these are the same people who will tell us that it's a settled issue.
00:16:17.260Gay, you know, gay marriage, settled issue, which we're not talking about.
00:17:24.980Let's, let's move on to something else.
00:17:27.660Reading from a report in the Daily Wire now.
00:17:32.140This is, it says, Wegmans, Walgreens, and CVS all banned open carry in their stores on Thursday following the same gun policy change from Walmart and Kroger the other day.
00:17:41.560Unlike the other retailers that only called for a ban on open carry, CVS advised all customers except for authorized law enforcement officers to totally refrain from carrying at all, at all in their stores.
00:17:53.520Wegmans posted on Twitter saying, there's nothing more important than the safety of our customers and employees.
00:17:57.660The sight of someone with a gun can be alarming and we don't want anyone to feel that way at Wegmans.
00:18:01.840For this reason, we prefer that customers not openly carry firearms in our stores.
00:18:06.680I mean, frankly, I'm, I'm shocked that this is the first time Wegmans.
00:18:10.480I'm shocked that up until now you could open carry in Wegmans of all places.
00:18:14.920Walgreens tagged anti-gun rights activist Shannon Watts and thanked her for her advocacy on gun control and linked to their statement regarding open carry policy.
00:18:25.960The statement said, we are joining other retailers and asking our customers to no longer openly carry firearms into our stores other than authorized law enforcement officials.
00:18:33.400Um, and CVS also with a similar statement.
00:18:38.160So, so we've got Walmart was first saying don't open carry, then Wegmans, Walgreens, CVS, Kroger all in the span of a week.
00:18:48.140I'm going to maybe depart from the standard conservative line on this issue.
00:18:52.560Maybe, uh, because I don't really, maybe, I don't know.
00:18:57.900Maybe my opinion on this is, is actually in the majority.
00:19:00.680I'm not, I'm not actually totally sure, but I will say that.
00:19:04.440Um, well, remember with, with the Walmart announcement, I, I criticized the move back on Monday or Tuesday, whenever it was, because to me, it represented an unnecessary cave to the left.
00:19:15.220Though in that case, Walmart had also said that it's going to stop selling ammunition for semi-autos.
00:19:21.460And, and that was the main thing that from my perspective is worthy of criticism.
00:19:28.100I, I thought, and I still think that it's just an absurd political move.
00:19:32.120It's totally unnecessary to stop, even to stop selling this ammunition, uh, because of, uh, because of a mass shooting.
00:19:39.340But on the issue of open carry in stores, yes, they're all making these changes largely for political reasons from political pressure.
00:19:49.440I'm not crazy about that, but putting that to the side for a moment, uh, putting to the side that the catalyst of these moves, just looking at open carry itself.
00:19:59.480I don't blame stores for not wanting it.
00:20:04.360I don't know if that makes me, uh, you know, that calls into questions, question my, my gun rights bona fides, but I, I don't blame, if a store says we'd prefer if you not visibly traipse around our stores with, with a gun, I just, that to me is, is reasonable.
00:20:22.840I don't see that as an unreasonable request.
00:20:25.360I think in general, it's perfectly rational for a store to not want customers to visibly bring guns into their establishments.
00:20:34.800Uh, I just, I, I don't see any issue with that.
00:20:37.780Open carry in general to me is pretty stupid.
00:20:41.520Um, and I can tell you that I've lived in two different states that, that, that had, that allowed open carry.
00:20:47.120And in those seven or eight years across those two states, I saw maybe five people doing it.
00:20:56.560I can think of four or five occasions where I actually saw someone open carry.
00:20:59.900And the reason I remember it is because it was unusual.
00:21:04.380Even in a state that allows open carry.
00:21:07.440Um, but I can remember those few occasions where I saw someone, you know, with the gun in the holster, on the hip, out in the open, like, like a Clint Eastwood movie or something.
00:21:20.840And in all five cases, it seemed pretty apparent to me that these folks were just showing off that there didn't appear in the context.
00:21:28.700There didn't appear any, to be any reason at all for someone to visibly have a gun out.
00:21:32.800And so I could only conclude that this was just a fashion statement, right?
00:22:06.600Now, those people themselves aren't necessarily dangerous.
00:22:09.600It doesn't mean that they're mass killers.
00:22:12.440But it does mean that they're not the kind of mature, responsible gun owners that they ought to be.
00:22:19.020Now, look, there may be some legitimate reasons to open carry.
00:22:22.660I can't think of what those reasons would be, aside from professional reasons, like you're a police officer or you're in professional security or something.
00:22:31.340Although even there, if you're in security, probably it's going to be more of a concealed carry situation.
00:22:35.180But in any case, I think for the most part, it's a fashion statement.
00:22:39.540Responsible, mature gun owners aren't interested in flashing their guns to people.
00:22:55.180If somebody walks in, okay, if somebody walks into an establishment, they want to do a mass shooting, and they see that you visibly have a gun, well, that means they're just going to kill you first before you have a chance to respond.
00:23:05.640This isn't like the Wild West, where you've got, you know, where you've got the quick draw, and, you know, you can, in .0 seconds, you can pull out the gun.
00:23:15.780They're just going to take you down because you've advertised the fact that you're the threat, and then they're going to proceed to kill everybody else.
00:23:22.420If you're not advertising the gun, well, then that's going to be a different story.
00:23:27.300In a store setting, yeah, there are some customers who are uncomfortable seeing people openly carrying guns.
00:23:46.740You see, but from a business perspective, the fact that you, maybe as a gun rights activist, don't understand why people feel uncomfortable around guns, or you think it's silly,
00:24:02.240So, from a business perspective, okay, you've got a large number of people who reasonably or unreasonably are uncomfortable around guns,
00:24:13.280and then you've got a very small handful of people who would like to visibly bring their guns into the store to show off.
00:24:20.500So, from a business perspective, which of those groups are you going to be more willing to alienate?
00:24:27.500If you have to choose between those groups, if you have to choose between the hundreds of people who aren't really comfortable with open carry versus the, like, two or three idiots who would like to open carry in your store,
00:24:52.620Also, if I'm a business owner, my own comfort level with someone open carry is going to be very situationally based.
00:25:02.980Okay, so if I'm running, let's say, a mom and pop hardware store in Waco, Texas, or somewhere in eastern Kentucky, then, yeah, probably I'm not going to be too worried about someone bringing their guns in.
00:25:17.620It's because it's just a cultural thing, and it probably isn't going to, but even, although even in those places, even in Texas or in Kentucky, most people aren't open carrying.
00:25:29.600But there, in that situation, probably I won't mind.
00:25:32.340But if I'm running a convenience store in Maryland, or like a gas station in Los Angeles, or a liquor store in Philadelphia or something, yeah, I'm going to be uncomfortable with people bringing guns in.
00:25:47.160Now, those states don't have open carry, but you get my point.
00:25:51.160In general, my own comfort level around guns, not as a business owner, but just as a person, my comfort level is also going to be situationally dependent.
00:26:04.720And it depends really entirely on who the gun is attached to and why, right?
00:26:13.200So, the gun rights people who act like they can't understand why anyone would ever be uncomfortable around a gun, that to me is really silly.
00:26:26.420Of course there are situations where you're going to be uncomfortable.
00:26:30.000Now, for me, if I know that the gun owner is mature, reasonable, responsible, puts safety first, and all of that, then I'm not going to have any problem with the gun.
00:26:41.120And, in fact, a person like that carrying a gun, I'm probably going to be more comfortable being around them.
00:26:46.280But if I have reason to believe that the person is immature, irresponsible, flaky, whatever, they think the gun is a toy, you know, then, yeah, I'm going to be uncomfortable, too, around the gun.
00:27:02.080Even as a gun owner, even as a gun rights activist, I'm going to be uncomfortable with that.
00:27:05.180Because I'm going to think to myself, this is a very powerful and potentially dangerous tool that, it seems to me, this person is not equipped to be wielding.
00:27:17.940And the thing is, it seems to me, if someone is wearing a gun as a fashion statement, they're probably more in the latter category.
00:27:47.900One other point here, and I think that this would be obvious, but I actually found as I was talking about this, debating this issue on social media,
00:27:54.420I found some people who really disagreed with me on this, as obvious as it seems to me.
00:28:00.400That whether or not you agree with businesses banning open carry, and these businesses, they're not even banning it.
00:28:06.860They're just saying, will you please not do it?
00:28:09.280Will you please, we would prefer if you don't, will you respect our wishes?
00:28:12.100And I've seen, I've seen, there are some people responding to that by saying, well, I don't care.
00:28:40.000Yeah, you have Second Amendment rights.
00:28:42.840I've, I would basically consider myself an absolutist on Second Amendment rights, just like I am on all the, on all the, you know, on the entire Bill of Rights.
00:28:51.160Um, in that I think you, you have those rights, but that doesn't mean that you can bring a gun wherever you want.
00:29:02.040Because there's also something else that exists and that is very fundamental.
00:29:05.420And I think even more fundamental than gun rights, and that is property rights.
00:29:10.660I am, I am definitely an absolutist on property rights.
00:29:14.600I believe in property rights 100%, and I think that is one of the most fundamental rights we have as human beings.
00:29:22.140It's one of the things that, that sets us apart as human beings, is that we can own property.
00:29:27.680Um, and if that right is not respected and protected and enforced, then we can't have freedom.
00:29:36.340Um, and so it's a property rights issue.
00:29:39.980If I own the property, whether it's my business or it's my home, and I say, I don't want guns in here, then you can't bring your guns in.
00:30:37.660And, and, and, and, and, and, and, when, when, when gun rights people take that position, it makes us all seem like unreasonable, perpetually aggrieved clowns who are always looking for a reason to martyr ourselves and, and complain.
00:31:39.020I love my wife and four kids, kids aged seven to 12.
00:31:42.840I've never been soft, but I've noticed that lately I'll start crying pretty easily.
00:31:46.760When I think back to how awesome my kids were when they were young, ages two to five and how I'll never be able to go back and have a conversation with them and hear the goofy things they said.
00:31:54.540And how they said them don't get me wrong.
00:31:56.640I absolutely adore my kids today, but they're becoming young adults now.
00:32:18.260Orbital leakage among men is usually unseemly and inappropriate.
00:32:22.060But and frankly, immoral, I would even say, and unethical and should be illegal.
00:32:28.360But there are extremely limited numbers of circumstances where it is appropriate for a man to cry.
00:32:35.220Although I will stipulate that even in those situations, in the appropriate situations, it can be OK for a man to emit up to five dignified manly tears.
00:32:47.120And and and but but even then do it privately.
00:33:59.900They were just so excited and so much exuberance and joy and innocence.
00:34:05.680And I couldn't help but think to myself, it's going to be really sad because one of these days, you know, they're going to be at that age where we go to the aquarium or something.
00:34:12.660And they're walking around hands in pockets, rolling their eyes.
00:34:25.400But then the thing about being a human being is that I know where I'm at right now as a parent with my kids.
00:34:37.620I know intellectually that eventually I'm going to look back on this and be nostalgic for it.
00:34:43.280And so I do appreciate this phase, but I can't appreciate it fully because I still get there are things about little kids that can be very annoying, of course, and taxing and draining.
00:34:57.320And so I often can be way too focused on those things and find myself thinking, oh, I can't wait till they're older.
00:35:05.540We don't have to deal with this anymore.
00:35:06.500Even though I know that those things are so small in comparison to the kinds of problems that are probably coming down the road as they get older.
00:35:14.620And I also know that once I'm older, I'm going to look back on these moments and I'm going to see it as just pure joy, great across the board.
00:35:24.840And I'm going to think to myself, why did you ever worry about those small little things?
00:35:28.680Oh, so the kid, you know, woke up too early or they whined a little bit.
00:35:31.720Like, why did you ever carry but care about that?
00:35:33.840It's just it's such a small, stupid thing to care about.
00:35:37.420How could you have ever let that overshadow all of the all of the great things?
00:35:43.080And so I know that down the line that realization is coming, yet I still can't fully get myself out of that mentality.
00:35:50.740So it's just part of being a human, I guess.
00:35:55.320This is from Maggie says, Dear Matt, you have a great show.
00:35:57.880And both my husband and I really enjoy your views and agree with many things you say.
00:36:00.380I always believed the moon landing happened until about a year ago and would like to share with you the reasons why I think it is unlikely that we went to the moon.
00:36:09.080Unlike many deniers, my belief is not based on photos at all.
00:36:13.220One, although the moon landing is widely associated with President Kennedy, all six moon landings happened during the presidency of Nixon from 1969 to 1972, who was a liar.
00:36:23.200Two, never has exploration happened without any other country following suit.
00:36:26.660How is it that the U.S. landed on the moon more than 15 years before you were born, yet no other country has succeeded?
00:36:58.460You, the evidence that you provided for the moon landing being fake, none of that is evidence of anything.
00:37:09.320It's not even circumstantial evidence.
00:37:11.320The fact that President Nixon lied about some stuff, as all politicians do, is not even close to being evidence that the moon landing didn't happen.
00:37:22.560For a number of reasons, not the least of which being, for the moon landing to be faked, it would require not just the president to be a liar, but lots of other people.
00:37:33.540Hundreds, thousands of other people would have to be in on it.
00:37:36.600Not only liars, but capable of coordinating this lie and keeping it a secret for all of these many years.
00:37:44.920You're talking about a conspiracy on an enormous scale.
00:37:52.360So, the ethical issues of President Nixon, that, to me, is completely irrelevant.
00:38:00.440You say, exploration hasn't happened with other countries, you cite the fact that other countries haven't landed on the moon as evidence that it didn't happen.
00:38:10.860No, that's actually evidence that it did happen.
00:38:13.960Okay, because it's, you're right, that this was during the Cold War, it was during the competition between the Americans and the Soviets.
00:38:22.260If the Americans didn't actually land on the moon, then the Soviets would have continued to try to get there, and eventually they would have gotten there so that they could be the first ones to go.
00:38:33.300So, the fact that after the Americans went a few times, countries stopped trying to go, at least stopped trying to land people on the moon, that's just evidence that we actually got there.
00:38:46.460And so, now other countries are saying to themselves, you know, is it worth the enormous cost and the danger to human life to go land on the moon when someone's already done it?
00:39:00.140Because, you know, if you want to go and study the moon, then you can send landers there, and you can send probes and landers, and several other countries have done that, including the Russians.
00:39:12.800But, actually, stepping foot on the moon, for the most part, that was just a statement.
00:39:18.720That was just being able to say we did it.
00:39:23.020And so, once it's been done, it's just, it's not worth it.
00:39:25.920But, if it hadn't been done, then other countries would be going, and some other country by now would have landed, probably the Russians.
00:39:33.680So, again, the fact that they didn't, that's just more evidence that we actually did land on the moon.
00:39:38.740And then NASA's lost all the data to make moon landing possible.
00:40:33.220And also because there isn't a specific particular reason to put people on the moon when we can just send a robot there and we can do all the soil samples and everything else that we've already done.
00:40:47.300Now, the focus is, okay, let's put a man on Mars.
00:40:51.200And so, I think, you know, in the next 10, 15 years, we're going to do that.
00:40:55.520It's just, there's no reason to keep going back and putting people on the moon once it's been done.
00:40:59.840So, I think everything you've cited, none of that amounts to evidence of anything.
00:41:08.460And all of the evidence is in favor of the moon landing.
00:41:15.180All of it is extremely in favor of the moon landing.
00:42:35.360This is from Hayden says, greetings, fearless and bearded leader.
00:42:41.960I am currently a senior at the University of Alabama, and I have a full-blown case of senioritis.
00:42:46.680However, I am taking a class on argumentation, and I have been chosen to build an argument and rebuttal on the topic of athletes getting paid.
00:42:53.760I am personally against athletes getting paid because they're already getting paid by getting their college paid for.
00:42:58.620I think athletes are just being a bunch of brats about wanting to get paid.
00:43:02.720Don't get me wrong, I'm a huge fan of football, but I even think NFL players are getting paid way more than they deserve.
00:43:08.320I mean, they're just playing football, not at all contributing to our society other than the ridiculous political stances.
00:43:12.620All that being said, what is your stance on athletes getting paid, and how would you argue for and against this subject?
00:43:18.680First of all, as far as professional football players and how much they get paid, I disagree that they're paid too much.
00:43:24.480These people are the best in the world at what they do.
00:43:28.760And when you're the best in the world at something, you're going to get paid a lot of money.
00:46:49.960What you're saying is, they deserve all of it, and the kids deserve none of it.
00:46:54.760That, to me, I can't even, I really can't even understand that perspective.
00:47:00.020That, to me, is such a, you know, no offense, Hayden, but it's such a ridiculous perspective.
00:47:05.020When, when, again, when you consider the fact that the money exists, it's there, it's in a giant Scrooge McDuck vault, you know, imagine it.
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