Ep. 327 - Buttigieg Mangles The Bible Again
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Football is America's pastime and it's time to call it what we want it to be, and that's right, football is called football. Today's episode of The Walshcast, featuring John Walsh, features John Walsh's take on the Baltimore Ravens' 59-10 win over the New England Patriots. John also talks about the Democratic Party's continued failure to understand that football is a patriotic pastime.
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All right. Happy Football Monday, everybody. It is the first Monday of the football season,
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so that's pretty exciting. I hope that your team fared well yesterday as you were watching the
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action. My Baltimore Ravens managed to squeak out a 59-10 victory, so that was pretty exciting to
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watch. You know, I do just want to say this as we enter into football season that I think it's
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important to note that it is our patriotic duty as Americans to watch and enjoy football. There
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is no excuse. I don't want to hear this stuff of, oh, I'm not a football fan. That is unacceptable
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in America these days. Football is America's pastime. It is our most sacred tradition. It
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has completely supplanted baseball in those categories. It's not even close anymore.
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I mean, we aren't even the best. America is not even the best at baseball in the world anymore,
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and basketball has also gone international, but football, our football is, well, that just belongs
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to us. It's our thing. So think about it. Football involves large men crashing into each other at
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fast speeds, is unique to us in America, and it stole its name from a lame international version
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and then improved it. So that is, it is quintessentially American, and the most American thing about it is
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that we invented this new sport, and we were like, well, what are we going to call it? And we said,
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we'll call it football. And the rest of the world said, you can't call it football. We already have
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a thing called football. You can't. And we said, no, that's what we're going to call it. I don't
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care. It's just, we're going to take that. We're just going to call it that. And then they said,
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but you don't even really use your feet. I mean, with our football, you're kicking the ball with your
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feet. So for you to call it football doesn't make any sense. And we said, yeah, that's what we're going to
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call it anyway. Doesn't matter. Doesn't matter if it doesn't make sense. Try and stop us. And then we took it and
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we turned it into a billion dollar industry. And then we decided, we said, you know what,
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you know what every football team needs is we need to hire a full-time staff of attractive women
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who just stand on the sideline. Their only job is to cheer on the men. And so we did. And so that's
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a thing too. I mean, how can you, it's, it's, it is, it is some, well, someone who doesn't like
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football, I have to question, I do have to question their patriotism, their loyalty. And, and that's,
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that's all there is to it. All right. So there's a lot to discuss today.
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Um, and we're going to get into, you know, unfortunately we have to start on a Monday by
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talking about some of the, uh, baby killing enthusiasts over on the democratic side, because
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All right. So as I said, let's begin with the baby killing enthusiasts. We've got a few items to
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discuss related to this, um, to this, to these, these, these people first, um, noted abortion lover,
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Pete Buttigieg was on the radio show, the breakfast club a couple of days ago, and he took the
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opportunity to launch into another one of his trademark sermons. And there's, um, this one is,
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is, uh, more disturbing than usual. So let's, let's watch a bit of this.
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So what's the reckoning between the GOP and Christianity?
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Well, GOP has got to deal with the fact that they have come on board with a president that is,
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uh, completely against not just our values, but their own. Right. I mean, if you're, if you're in
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Mike Pence's world where, you know, being Christian has a lot to do with, with, uh, you know, a kind
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of rigid, uh, traditional sexual ethics, like that's not how I come. Uh, stop right there for
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just a minute. Uh, because yet again, he goes in with the Mike Pence thing. I mean, this guy is
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absolutely obsessed with Mike Pence. He must have Mike Pence posters hung up in his bedroom. He
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probably has a Mike Pence cardboard cutout in the middle of his living room. He probably spends his
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time writing poems about Mike Pence in his diary. Every question he's asked, I mean, he can be asked
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a question about, so what's your opinion on, uh, you know, the situation in North Korea? Well, you know,
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the thing about that is Mike Pence, dude, take it easy. I mean, this, if I was Mike Pence, I'd be getting
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a restraining order. I would be seriously concerned at this point. This is not normal for you to be
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that completely focused on Mike Pence of all people. So, um, Buttigieg brings it back to Mike
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Pence, but, uh, let's, let's go. And if we can get past Mike Pence and see what else he has to say.
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I mean, if you're, if you're in Mike Pence's world where, you know, being Christian has a lot to do with,
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with, uh, you know, a kind of rigid, uh, traditional sexual ethics, like that's not how I come of
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Christian, but he does. And yet he thinks that this president, uh, ought to be the moral as well
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as political leader of this country. Okay. Actually stop it right there again, because we haven't even
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gotten to the point yet. We haven't got to the crux of the issue yet, but here is Buttigieg
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mocking Pence for Pence's supposed rigid sexual ethics. And, and where's he getting that from?
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Why are you accusing Pence of having rigid sexual ethics? Well, is it, I guess it's from the fact
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that Pence doesn't want to go on lunch dates with, with women who aren't his wife. Well,
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whether you consider that rigid or not, and I don't, why is Buttigieg commenting on Pence's
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relationships? I mean, Buttigieg, which again is just weird. It's just weird, Buttigieg. Give it a
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rest. Talk about something else. I mean, next thing you know, Buttigieg is going to be bringing up stuff
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about Mike Pence that he shouldn't even know. Like, well, you know, Mike Pence had waffles for
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breakfast this morning. Um, I know because I was staring in his window with my binoculars,
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but, but, but can you imagine how Buttigieg would react if Mike Pence ever returned the favor and
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were to make comments about Buttigieg's, uh, sexual ethics? What if, what if, what if Pence were to get
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up there and say, you know, uh, Mayor Buttigieg has a, has a, with his libertine sexual ethics,
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Buttigieg would collapse into tears at that. He would be so scandalized. How dare you make
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comments about my personal life, even though I've been talking about you incessantly for the last
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19 months. All right, let's go back to the video. And you got an entire Republican party coming on
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board with this, but I think deep down they know that this isn't right. Meanwhile, you got religious
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traditions that teach us about the importance of lifting up the stranger, uh, the importance of
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lifting up the poor, of healing the sick, um, that, you know, you, I mean, you go through the New
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Testament for sure. And every other, uh, word that comes out of the mouth of Christ is about
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things like helping those in need. And you got a Republican party dedicated to its opposite.
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There will be a reckoning over that. Now, right now they hold everybody in line with this one,
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uh, kind of, uh, piece of doctrine about abortion, right? Which is obviously a tough issue for a lot of
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people to think through morally. Then again, uh, you know, there's a lot of parts of the Bible that
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talk about how life begins with breath. And so even that is something that we can interpret
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differently and, uh, I'm pro-choice. Take up, uh, me too. But I think no matter where you think
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about the kind of cosmic question of how life begins, most Americans can get on the board with
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the idea of, all right, I might draw the line here. You might draw the line there. But the most
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important thing is the person who should be drawing the line is the woman making the decision.
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Absolutely. And I think that if you're a man who's against abortion, you haven't gotten the wrong
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woman pregnant. I mean, wife, I'm just saying, I'm just saying we've had some slip-ups. Um,
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all right. So that, there you go. First of all, the other dude there, not sure who that is,
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but his reason for supporting abortion is that sometimes he quote slips up and quote,
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gets the wrong woman pregnant, the wrong woman. Now, if that's not a sexist comment,
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I mean, if that isn't about the most misogynistic thing I've seen, I've heard in a long time,
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then I don't know what is. He's saying the reason he likes abortion is that sometimes you get the,
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you slip up and get the wrong woman pregnant. But Buttigieg just laughs it off. I half expected
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him to give a fist bump to the guy or something. He has no problem with that. If he really cared
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about women and he had a problem with sexism, he would have spoken up and said, that's, that's not
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appropriate. But no, cause he was still thinking about Mike Pence. He was distracted. Now, in terms
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of the, the theology or lack thereof, um, what Buttigieg says, says here is completely false.
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Of course, nowhere does the Bible affirm this idea that a baby isn't a baby until birth.
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In fact, the Bible says, before you formed me in the womb, you knew me. So this makes it pretty
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clear that God recognizes our humanity, the humanity of all humans from beginning to end.
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And he, and importantly, he has a plan for all humans. Um, and that plan probably does not involve
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being murdered in the womb because if it did, then he never would have created the person to
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begin with. There'd be no, you know, if that's what God wanted and intended, God is not going to
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make a human life intending and wanting and hoping that the mother will kill the child before the child's
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even born. Um, the stuff about the breath in the Bible, this is obviously said in a poetic way,
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the breath of life. God breathes into, uh, human beings, gives them the breath of life.
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That's what Buttigieg is referring to. That clearly is not literal. Nobody thinks that God is
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literally leaning down from heaven, like from the clouds and breathing with his mouth into the
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nostrils of a person. And that's how they come to life. Nobody, that is, it's rather beautiful,
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poetic imagery to describe something. That's pretty clear. Now I'll tell you what's not just
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poetic. The incarnation. As Christians, that is, I think, rather obviously something that we take
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literally. And this biblically for a Christian is the coup de grace, uh, uh, for pro-abortion talking
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points. I mean, this, this is it. Jesus Christ was incarnate in the womb. Um, he was, he was
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miraculously conceived in the womb. Now he could have come to earth in, in any way that he
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chose. He could have, he could have, uh, descended from heaven the way that he would, uh, would
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eventually ascend. He could have materialized out of thin air. I mean, there are many different ways
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he could have done it, but he chose to come to earth, um, uh, through the vessel of, of human
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pregnancy. So if you're saying that unborn babies are subhuman, then you are saying that Christ was at
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one time subhuman. That is your Christology to use the, the, the, the theological term. Your,
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your Christology is that Jesus Christ was at one time less than human, but it's a central doctrine
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of our faith that Christ was fully man and fully God. The idea of him being less than man and fully
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God is heretical to say the least. And it just does not comport with Christian theology at all. This is
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something completely separate. Christ elevated all of mankind by becoming man. Thus he elevated fetuses
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too by becoming one. So if abortion wasn't wrong before the incarnation, which it was, it certainly
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is afterwards as all of human life, including from the fetal stage was elevated, sanctified, uh, by,
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by the incarnation. This is, I mean, this is something that when we're having the, the, the,
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the theological argument about abortion among Christians, and oftentimes I hear Christians
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cite verses from the old Testament, the 10 commandments, the, the one that I cited before
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you formed me in the womb, I knew you, Jeremiah. Um, and, and those are all good things to cite. I mean,
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the, the 10 commandments, uh, that shall not kill. That's pretty, pretty solid. And, and obviously
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it applies to abortion. But I think from a Christian perspective, this should be the first thing. I
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don't know why this isn't brought up more often. I think the incarnation, you want to say, you want
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to say, well, there's nothing in the Bible. There's no pro-life statement in the Bible. The incarnation is
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about the most pro-life statement you could, the God could possibly make. And it just makes it so it's,
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it, it, it ends the discussion from a Christian perspective. There's nowhere to go from there.
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Now on this same general subject, let's go over to the AP, which for whatever reason decided to put
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out a big, um, uh, big pro-abortion propaganda video. And this video, which I'll show you now,
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it tells us the sad story of a poor woman who had to go across state lines and spend a lot of money to
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kill her child. And we're supposed to feel very sorry for her. Um, and let's see if it succeeds in
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making her sympathetic. Watch this. What I would learn the hard way is when you first stop taking
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birth control that first couple weeks, that first like few days, you're, you're most fertile. So I
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got pregnant in like early February. I was housing insecure at the time. I like, I had just started
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a job. I didn't have any support. I didn't have any health care. They said that they would be able to
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help me, but I had to get there before I turned 28 weeks. And so I had less than 10 days. Um, and they
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said that my procedure would cost about $10,500. It's not a decision to be made lightly because
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on top of early, I didn't make it lightly. Um, because it was on top of a large, um, emotional,
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like turning point, like decision to make in my life. It was a large financial decision to make.
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Now, if you're listening on, uh, iTunes or on SoundCloud and you couldn't see the video there,
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um, there were some captions that I think were relevant to the,
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to the issue, uh, such as the fact that she was 26 weeks pregnant when she went and got this
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abortion. Actually, she was probably about 27 weeks because she said in the video that she,
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she called the, when she called the abortion clinic in New Mexico, she was less than 10 days from the 28
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week cutoff, which probably means by the time she got the abortion, she was at 27 weeks, but let's
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just call it 26 weeks just for the sake of argument. Uh, 26 at 26 weeks, a child has almost a 90% chance
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of survival. The vast, vast, vast majority of babies that are born at 26 weeks. And that does have,
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it happens all the time. It's, it's a, it is not an uncommon occurrence to have a baby that is
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so premature. 90% of them, nearly 90% survive. At this point, a baby has all of his vital organs.
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He has all of his physical features that we associate with, with being human. He has his
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nervous system. He's a baby. He's just a baby. That's you can go into the, which my own, uh, our,
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our first kids, the twins were premature, not 26 weeks premature. They were born at, uh, 34,
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35 weeks. And so they spent a little bit of time in a NICU, the, um, the infant, the, the natal ICU,
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ICU, uh, unit of the hospital where they send babies who are premature and need, need help breathing.
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So I can remember being up in the NICU unit and seeing babies that were much more premature
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than my babies were. And these are just babies. These are not, this is not a mass of gelatinous,
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amorphous cells lying there. Okay. These are babies. They look in every way like babies. They
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are babies. They need temporary medical treatment and in order to survive. And then most of them
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will go on to live normal lives and they'll have no prolonged medical effects at all. You know,
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they just need help at the beginning to breathe. Now we're told that abortions this late
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don't happen unless there's some kind of catastrophic medical situation. I've heard
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this many times. I'm sure you have too. That, Hey, well, women, they're not, they're not doing
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this willy nilly. They're not going to go and get an abortion in 26 weeks unless, unless, you know,
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they need it for, for the sake of, uh, of survival. If there's a threat to the life of the mother.
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Well, as I've said many times, there, there has never actually been a medically necessary abortion.
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And if there is a catastrophic medical situation that happens at 26 weeks or 28 weeks or 30 weeks,
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which does, which does occur, then at that point, maybe the baby needs to come out of the woman.
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Yes, but there is no reason to kill the baby ahead of time. By that time you have essentially a fully
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formed baby. So no matter what, if there's a medical problem, that baby needs to come out. The woman
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is going to have to deliver the baby. The only question is, are we going to kill the baby before
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it is delivered? And there is no medical reason to kill the baby ahead of time. But in any case,
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that's not even the situation here. There was no catastrophe. She said that she was housing insecure,
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which means what she was living in an apartment or something. And she, uh, she had just started a new
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job. That's it. That's what she tells us. She wasn't going to die. There was no, there was no
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serious medical complication. Pregnancy wasn't going to kill her. It would have just been super
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inconvenient to have a kid at that point. So she killed it. And sure, you know, if you just started
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a new job, um, and, uh, and you have a, a baby that's, that's inconvenient. Yeah. Um, I mean,
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we, my, my wife is pregnant now and she's going to give birth in the next month or so. And, uh,
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anytime you have a new baby on the scene, there are a lot of inconveniences. Yes. It can be a very
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inconvenient thing in a lot of ways to have a newborn baby. You got to stay up at night. It does,
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the baby's not sleeping. Well, you got to take off of work, all these different things. You got
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to go to the doctor a lot, a lot of inconveniences that obviously is not a suitable moral justification
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for murder, obviously, which is why the pro-abortion people, they don't want to talk
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about it in terms of convenience. What they want to talk about are these extreme rare cases, medical
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abnormalities and so on. But here we have an abortion of convenience at 26 weeks when the baby
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had a 90% chance of survival and the AP is taking this story and they're proudly putting it out there
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and they expect us to feel sorry for the woman, not the baby. Just completely deranged.
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Absolutely deranged. But I'm, I'm, I guess the point here is I am grateful, um, to the AP for putting
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this story out there. Their intention obviously is, is for, to promote abortion, but the effect is for
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any normal person with a, with an even half formed conscience, when you see that, you're going to think
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that's, that's terrible. That's just wrong. I mean, she, there, there are so many other options
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available to this woman. She could have had the baby. She could have put the baby up for adoption.
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There are other things she could have done and we should expect her as a society to explore those
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other options. The same way we expect a mother or a father with born children who finds themselves in
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a situation where they can't care for the child anymore. And that happens also. But what do we
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say to those, to those parents? We say we've, we're very sorry you're in that situation, but you need to
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go put the child up for adoption. You need to make sure that you find someone who can care for that
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child. Because what you cannot do is just leave the kid in the living room and split town. And what you
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certainly cannot do is kill them. No matter what situation you're in, no matter how dire your
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situation is, you cannot kill your child. You have a responsibility to that child. And that responsibility
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at the very least requires you to go and make sure that, um, that someone else is going to care for the
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child. If we, if we have no problem saying that and putting that kind of responsibility onto the
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shoulders of parents of born children, there is no reason why we can't put that responsibility
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onto the shoulders of parents of unborn children. It's the same idea, the same principle, and that's
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all. All right. I also wanted to mention this. Um, Roman Polanski, film director and a noted child
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rapist has a new movie out and the new movie just won best director at the Venice film festival.
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Now this to me is noteworthy, especially during a week. And this is why it really caught my eye.
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Um, during a week when certain Hollywood stars have been calling for blacklists of anyone in
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Hollywood who might support Donald Trump, you know, the five or six people in Hollywood who
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support Donald Trump, there's been Debra Messing and other, uh, Hollywood celebrities have been saying
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we need to blacklist them and everything. Well, they're trying to take the moral high ground on Trump
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while they continue to support someone like Roman Polanski, Roman Polanski, who let's recall
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drugged and raped a 13 year old girl. And this is not, um, uh, allegedly or anything like that.
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He was convicted. He pled guilty actually. Now he was able to, he was able to plead the charges down
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to rather than rape, I think, uh, pled it down to unwanted sexual contact or something like that,
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pled it down to a lesser charge. Uh, but then rather than face the music and, and do whatever time
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he was, he was going to, he was, he was going to be sentenced to, he fled prosecution. He left the
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country and he has been on the lam ever since he is, he is a fugitive. He is a fugitive from justice
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for 40 years now after raping a child. Um, and in spite of that, he has had a successful career in
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Hollywood making movies. Now, apologists for Hollywood are going to point out that, well,
00:24:07.420
this was the Venice film festival, not a Hollywood function. So we can't blame Hollywood for this,
00:24:13.040
but it's all related. It's the film industry besides which Polanski has had no trouble finding
00:24:17.820
top film stars to appear in his movies throughout his career. Uh, people like Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet,
00:24:25.060
uh, Christophe Waltz, John C. Reilly, Ewan McGregor, Adrian Brody, Johnny Depp, Ben Kingsley,
00:24:30.840
Sigourney Weaver. These are not fringe character actors that nobody's heard of. These are top
00:24:37.060
names. And these are people who have appeared in, in, in a film directed by someone who they know
00:24:43.940
is a child rapist, a confirmed child rapist. Um, and Polanski won best director at the Academy
00:24:51.040
Awards 15 years ago. Meryl Streep gave him a standing ovation. Whoopi Goldberg famously defended
00:24:58.640
him saying, well, it wasn't, it wasn't rape rape. She said, whatever that means. Polanski is Hollywood's
00:25:05.260
guy. They love him. Sure. He was kicked out of the, out of the Academy last year because they had
00:25:11.780
to, they had no choice with all the Me Too stuff going on. They, they knew they had to, um, get rid
00:25:18.560
of him and pretend to take some kind of moral stand. But it was all, it was, it was a farce considering the
00:25:23.560
fact that they kicked him out of the Academy in what it was 2018 back in like 06 or 07, they,
00:25:29.900
they gave him best director. Um, and you know, now they want to circle around and say, and say,
00:25:39.540
nevermind, but they still can't help themselves. So he's still getting awards and he's still,
00:25:43.560
he's still getting people to come star in his movies. Um, so that gesture meant, meant nothing
00:25:48.560
from, from the Academy. It was a total classic CYA move and nothing more. Polanski is, as I said,
00:25:55.800
Hollywood's guy. Let's not forget that. And this is an important thing to keep in mind. Um,
00:26:02.860
as, especially as we head into the 2020 election, and we're going to be subjected to all kinds of PSAs
00:26:15.660
and all kinds of lecturing from these people, whether it's about Donald Trump or it's about
00:26:21.780
climate change or it's about guns or whatever, they're trying to take a moral stance. Meanwhile,
00:26:27.920
Roman Polanski is the, the big grotesque, disgusting child raping elephant in the room.
00:26:35.200
And I mean, really just, I don't want to belabor the point, but I really think about this. This,
00:26:48.400
this is not one of those things where, where the, where they're continuing to support Polanski,
00:26:54.240
uh, because they can just claim that he didn't do it. It's not one of those things.
00:26:58.800
Like the, like the people that still support OJ and say, Oh, he didn't, he didn't really do it.
00:27:04.980
Which, which obviously is absurd. He clearly did it. And he's all but admitted it. Um,
00:27:10.360
with Roman Polanski, it, he pled guilty and there's no, no one is saying he didn't do it.
00:27:17.560
The people who still support him in Hollywood. And again, these are big names. These are prominent,
00:27:21.920
big names who still support him. What they must be saying is not, he didn't do it, but yeah,
00:27:27.980
he did it, but it's okay. That's the, now they're not saying that directly. Whoopi Goldberg came as
00:27:34.140
close as anyone's come to saying it directly. He said, it wasn't rape, rape. Um, uh, meanwhile,
00:27:41.400
not only was she a child, but she was, she, he drugged her and raped her. If that's not rape,
00:27:45.780
rape, then what is, if you're telling me that that's not really rape, Whoopi Goldberg, then,
00:27:51.320
then what in the hell possibly could be if that doesn't qualify. But anyway, um,
00:27:57.980
what they must be saying is they don't see a problem with it. They're fine with it with a
00:28:03.020
grown man, drugging a 13 year old child and raping her. And that's not surprising that they feel that
00:28:09.000
way, but it's important to keep in mind. These people are absolute moral degenerates.
00:28:14.140
All right, let's see. Um, we're going to get to emails. Matt wall show at gmail.com. Matt wall show
00:28:23.380
at gmail. Actually, before we get, before we talk about, uh, before I answer some emails, I did,
00:28:27.300
I did have one more issue I wanted to discuss. And, uh, this is kind of, this is kind of,
00:28:33.300
kind of personal and, and, uh, you know, it, it's hard for me to talk about, so I apologize.
00:28:39.560
But last night, uh, last night I had to run to the store for something. And as I often tend to do
00:28:50.600
when I'm, when I'm just making a late night run to the store, I went out in my very stylish,
00:28:56.000
though also comfortable and convenient, um, socks and sandals combo. And I'll show you a picture
00:29:02.780
because I'm not ashamed, right? I'm not ashamed. Here's a picture of, of the, um, of the getup that
00:29:08.140
I wore to the store. Now, sure. It's, it's comfortable. As I said, it's also very fashion
00:29:12.480
forward. It's very bold as you can see. Well, I'm in line checking out and the dude behind the
00:29:19.220
register actually makes fun of me and my footwear to my face. He didn't even wait till I had gone.
00:29:26.000
Like any other self-respecting person just to my face, he makes fun of me. So I go home and I tell
00:29:31.520
my wife about it, hoping that someone I'll have someone to, to, to, you know, comfort me in my,
00:29:36.920
in my time of, of this very trying time. And instead she makes fun of me too. And then she
00:29:42.520
actually grabs her phone and quickly takes a picture of my feet and text it to her sister so
00:29:47.180
they can make fun of me together. Now, of course I'm feeling, I'm feeling attacked and unsafe in my
00:29:53.360
own home. Here I am trying to live my truth, trying to stand in my truth, trying to wear my
00:29:59.160
truth. And this is how I'm treated. So then I post this picture on Twitter last night thinking that,
00:30:04.860
okay, now I'm going to find emotional support because that's what Twitter is known for is,
00:30:08.540
you know, emotional support. But instead there's just more mockery and shame and bullying and ridicule
00:30:13.980
heaped on me and my, and my socks and sandals. So I want to say this.
00:30:17.400
Um, first of all, the anti socks and sandals bigotry in this country needs to end. Our
00:30:25.920
forefathers came to this country because they wanted to be able to wear whatever foot attire
00:30:31.140
they chose. And if they could see, if George Washington could see the way that people with
00:30:37.520
socks and sandals are treated now, he would be rolling over in his grave. Second, let it be known
00:30:42.300
that I am an icon in the fashion world. I don't talk about it very often. I don't brag about it,
00:30:48.160
try to make a big deal about it, but people come up to me all the time, all the time. And they say
00:30:52.080
to me, Matt, I want to thank you for your bold and beautiful fashion choices. You have changed my
00:30:56.740
life. I mean, look at me right now. I'm wearing a, you know, a black, some black pullover with some
00:31:00.860
weird green vomity colored t-shirt. I mean, this is, this is fashion folks. Third thing is for those
00:31:08.800
who say, Oh, why would you wear socks and sandals? Because if you're wearing socks, then just put on
00:31:13.500
shoes. And if you're wearing sandals, what are the, what's the point of the sock? Well, I'll explain
00:31:16.540
to you. First of all, there are two really good reasons to wear socks and nails. Um, if, if, if you
00:31:21.320
already have socks on and you want to leave the house and you need some kind of other footwear to
00:31:27.940
put on and you have sandals right next to the door, but your shoes are all the way upstairs, that's a
00:31:33.580
good reason. And second, if your socks are awesome and you want to show them off, then that's another
00:31:40.500
good reason. Though I shouldn't have to justify myself. And, uh, I really am tired of the way that
00:31:47.540
socks and sandals are treated. Okay. I just wanted to get that off my chest. Um, now we'll go to emails,
00:31:57.160
Matt wall show at gmail.com, Matt wall show at gmail.com. This is from Matt says, uh, or from
00:32:04.260
Chuck, sorry, says Matt, you sound like a communist when you say college athletes should get paid in a
00:32:09.460
free market economy. Those players are agreeing to sell their label labor for free tuition, a college
00:32:15.080
degree, and the fame of playing the game. If they're good enough. Yeah. I got a lot of emails
00:32:20.560
like this. We talked about paying players last week on the show, I think on Friday. And, um, I feel
00:32:25.380
pretty strongly that, that, um, college athletes, at least in the, the major schools and the major
00:32:32.160
sports, the sports that rake in billions of dollars, like for example, college football,
00:32:37.560
it's the main thing we're talking about here, um, that they should get a cut of those profits.
00:32:43.540
Now, Chuck says that that makes me a communist. Well, what I'm talking about is people being paid a
00:32:49.980
fair market value, um, for, for the labor that they provide. How is that communist? That is free
00:32:59.040
market. The, the, the college system is a corrupt rigged system. It is a really a rigged system
00:33:07.460
where the players come in and they are exploited in every possible avenue through ticket sales and
00:33:15.040
merchandise and TV deals and everything else. And it is set up so that all of that money
00:33:21.560
is going to go into the pockets of the coaches and the administrators and other people who are not
00:33:27.060
playing. These, these head coaches, these major schools, they are paid multiple millions of dollars
00:33:35.240
a year for coaching football. Where does that money come from? It's it, the money comes from the
00:33:43.040
people that are going to the games to watch people that are buying the merchandise and everything
00:33:45.700
else. That's where the money's coming from. How is it communist for me to say that everybody
00:33:51.600
involved in earning that money should see a piece of it? It's the opposite of communist. In fact,
00:33:58.900
this system right here, this is like a communist system where it's set up so that the people,
00:34:04.120
the sort of administrative roles at the top, they're going to see all the money. And then the peons at
00:34:08.680
the bottom are, they got to be satisfied with, you know, free lunch. So no. And to say free tuition,
00:34:18.560
a college degree. Okay, great. At most, what's that worth? Let's say at most, you get the $200,000
00:34:26.280
at the upper end, about $50,000 a year compared to a coach who's making 5 million a year.
00:34:33.380
And not only that, but in order to play, they're not able to actually focus on their education.
00:34:43.040
The colleges might say, oh yeah, we want to do the education first. That's not how they feel.
00:34:47.700
That's not what they really want. To me, it's a very simple question. Okay. Very simple.
00:34:55.300
That these college programs, the major college programs earn billions of dollars collectively
00:35:04.720
from, from these, from these players. The question is, should only the people not playing
00:35:15.040
get a piece of that money? Or should the people playing also get a piece?
00:35:21.740
I cannot understand the argument for, no, no, I feel strongly that only the, that the administrators
00:35:29.120
and coaches should be millionaires and, and the, and the, the kids should be satisfied because they
00:35:33.080
get a free education. Like who, who, what kind of position is that? It's so bizarre to me. I don't
00:35:37.400
even understand it. Why do you feel so strongly that, um, you know, the, the head coach should get
00:35:42.740
$5 million and the pay, the player should be paid nothing. Why, why? If you think you're protecting
00:35:47.940
the integrity of amateur sports, it's not amateur when you've got people, when, when there, when
00:35:53.040
there's billions of dollars being made, it's not amateur. It is professional sports. When you can
00:35:59.300
get paid $5 million a year or $9 million a year as one head coach in college football is being paid
00:36:04.840
right now in order to coach it, then that's not amateur anymore. That is professional.
00:36:09.360
Uh, so I, I, I, I just really don't get it at the very least. I hope you would, you would agree
00:36:18.580
at the very least that these kids should be able to, if go out on their own and profit from their
00:36:26.900
own name, because the way it's set up right now is that, yeah, these kids get free housing and free
00:36:32.360
lunch. Meanwhile, the coaches are making millions a year. And not only that, the players aren't
00:36:38.940
allowed to go out and sell, say their own Jersey or get paid for a sponsorship or for a TV
00:36:45.420
appearance. They're not allowed to, they get in trouble. If a, if a player is caught and this has
00:36:51.040
happened, players are caught, you know, God forbid selling their own merchandise based on their own
00:36:57.060
name. And they get in trouble for that. And we're supposed to be outraged at them for trying to profit
00:37:02.400
off of their own name and not at the system. That's that, that, that stipulates that the only people
00:37:07.520
who are allowed to get filthy rich off of this are the, are the, the, the, the, the coaches and
00:37:12.100
administrators who are exploiting these kids for money. I mean, that to me is crazy. At the very
00:37:16.580
least, I hope you would agree that these, if, if someone is a top college quarterback and they're a
00:37:22.280
great player and therefore their jerseys are worth money and therefore there are companies that want
00:37:28.300
to have sponsorship deals with them and therefore they can get paid for TV, they should be able to go
00:37:32.360
out and do that. And if you're telling me that you think they shouldn't be able to, then please
00:37:37.760
don't give me any of this nonsense about how you're, this is free market capitalism. This is the
00:37:43.360
interference in free market capital. This is the, the, the NCAA saying, no, we, you're not, you're not
00:37:48.960
allowed to engage in the free market. We're not allowing you to do that. You are not allowed to go
00:37:54.940
make money. We're going to make millions. You are not allowed to make any. Again, that, that I, I,
00:38:04.180
psychologically, I, I cannot understand what would lead someone to support. I can understand why the
00:38:10.340
NCAA likes that system. They're getting all the money. They're getting rich. But, uh, for someone
00:38:15.100
who's not even involved either way, like what, why? All right. Um, this is from Jonathan says, Hey, Matt, love
00:38:23.900
the show. What are your expectations on the Raven season this year? And are you as high on Lamar
00:38:27.580
Jackson as a lot of Baltimore fans seem to be? I'm originally from Buffalo, which means I have to
00:38:31.100
be a bills fan. And I'm hoping to hoping passing on Lamar for Josh Allen wasn't a mistake. Well,
00:38:35.640
after that performance, yes, I mean, Lamar had a perfect passer rating through for 300 plus yards,
00:38:40.960
five touchdowns. Uh, and he made some really good throws. Now people could say, well, that was Miami
00:38:45.020
dolphins. They're tanking this year. And that's all true, but they're still a professional football team.
00:38:49.340
Um, and they still have a pretty good secondary. And, uh, look, I don't, I, you know,
00:38:53.240
I don't care how bad the team is. If you can go out and play like that, then that's a good sign.
00:38:56.880
And in fact, this is, this, this is what good, good teams are supposed to absolutely trounce bad
00:39:02.400
teams. And so winning, uh, you know, what was it? 49, 59, 59 to zero to 10, 59 to 10. That's,
00:39:11.180
that's, that's a sign that you're a really good team. And you're also a good player. If you can
00:39:16.800
perform that way against any competition, I don't care if it is the Miami dolphins.
00:39:20.660
This is from Andrew says, there's a lot of controversy around the idea of open versus
00:39:24.980
concealed carry. It's a huge point of debate within the gun community, um, gun owner community.
00:39:29.080
My issue with it, isn't the idea of banning open carry, but rather with the banning concealed carry
00:39:33.220
and States that effectively force you to open carry. The big reason to open carry is comfort,
00:39:38.520
especially with a larger gun. The second biggest advantage is ease of access. If an older person,
00:39:44.200
if it's an older person carrying this way, the former wouldn't surprise me as much.
00:39:47.560
Even in my mid thirties, my hands are not what they were in the twenties and my twenties. And I
00:39:51.820
can't imagine what a person in their fifties and sixties would go through there. The other,
00:39:55.480
uh, perspective of open carry is the amount of restrictiveness in laws around concealed carry.
00:40:00.260
It varies greatly from state to state, but if you, um, accidentally flash a bit of metal or print
00:40:06.260
excessively, it could be considered brandishing. There's plenty of people CCing out there.
00:40:11.380
Concealed carry. You can make, uh, you can make more than a couple of them, but you have to be
00:40:16.720
paying attention. That said, I wouldn't be surprised if you could carry a three 57 around and not get a
00:40:22.020
lot of notice in States where it was legal. If only because no one can pry their eyes away from
00:40:25.620
their phones, not really in disagreement one way or another. I find myself on the fence and believe
00:40:29.840
in the ideas of tact and circumstance. When open carry is in play, the exception being legality as
00:40:34.120
mentioned above, I think a vast, vast proportion of the carry community would respect their wishes
00:40:38.660
and probably vote with their dollars. Yeah. Um, those are good points. Uh, and, uh, I guess I
00:40:46.920
hadn't really addressed, we talked about open carry last week and I said, I, I don't really see the
00:40:51.640
point of it. And in all my years, I almost never see people open carry, even in States where it's
00:40:57.240
legal. I've lived in States where it's legal. I've lived in States where, um, you know, I've lived in
00:41:03.400
States where they have concealed carry and open carry. I've lived in States where they only have open
00:41:06.140
carry. I, I, I just, I rarely ever see it. Uh, it's just a very small minority of people who seem
00:41:11.880
to be, to want to open carry. And I said last week, I can't, I generally can't see why someone
00:41:19.400
would, unless they're just trying to sort of show off that they have a gun and they're wearing it as
00:41:23.040
a fashion statement. Now, Andrew brings up some points of, of reasons why someone might open carry
00:41:29.580
for legitimate reasons. And so I take that point. I guess there are some legitimate reasons there,
00:41:34.560
but we also can't deny that, you know, it's true that most gun owners are responsible. As I said last
00:41:42.780
week, most gun owners are responsible, mature and all of that. They treat the gun. They respect
00:41:47.260
the firearm as they, they see it as a tool. They understand that it, it, it can be dangerous if
00:41:52.820
misused. And so they have a proper respect for it. And that's most gun owners. That's not every gun
00:41:58.500
owner though. And there, there are some people, and I think this is also a problem. It's a minority,
00:42:03.420
but there are some people in the gun owning community who, who just are way too impressed
00:42:09.180
with their guns. And, and they, they, they do see it as a fashion. They think they're cool for
00:42:13.420
having, that's why they take the whole thing. I mean, this is a sort of a separate issue,
00:42:16.640
not a big deal, but the people who take pictures of themselves, you know, like, like, um,
00:42:22.780
you know, the people, if you go on Facebook and all, all of their pictures are them with their
00:42:27.620
guns and everything, I, you know, that to me sometimes can come across like you're treating
00:42:34.220
it like a bit of a toy. Now, if you have one or two pictures of you with a gun, I'm not saying
00:42:38.260
there's no problem with that. I'm just saying there are some people who are constantly taking
00:42:42.380
pictures of themselves, posing with the guns, like they're James Bond or something that makes
00:42:46.520
me uncomfortable. And when I see the, the open carry, it kind of sometimes seems to be in that
00:42:52.160
vein of people who are too impressed with it. Um, and the reason why it's so noticeable is that
00:43:00.600
it is very different from the attitude and the approach that the vast majority of gun owners
00:43:04.340
have. So that's my issue. But all of that aside, even if there are legitimate reasons to open carry,
00:43:12.700
and I take your point that there can be, uh, the point still remains. The main point we talked about
00:43:17.220
last week is that if that, I think it's perfectly reasonable for individual stores and establishments
00:43:22.800
and companies to say, okay, maybe you could do it out there. We don't want you to do it in here.
00:43:27.600
I think it's reasonable for them to say, and we as gun owners have to respect that. Uh, and we should
00:43:34.060
respect it. All right. So we will leave it there. Thanks everybody for watching. Godspeed.
00:43:41.060
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