The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 369 - Media and Hollywood Rally Behind Convicted Rapist and Murderer

00:00:00.000 A tweet from the AP last night says the Democratic presidential race started with a record six female candidates, but only one is polling in the top tier.

00:00:10.440 Is it sexism or just politics?

00:00:13.200 Now, I would like to answer that for you, AP.

00:00:16.900 That is it's it's sexism. 1.00

00:00:18.500 It is definitely sexism. 0.98

00:00:20.320 Democrat primary voters should be ashamed, ashamed of themselves.

00:00:25.580 Amy Klobuchar, you know, she's out there talking about the sexism. 1.00

00:00:29.920 It's the only reason she isn't getting more traction.

00:00:32.520 It's because Democrat primary voters just hate women, hate them. 1.00

00:00:38.480 Klobuchar, she's one of the great politicians of of our time.

00:00:42.920 She's one of the great politicians in the history of the world. 0.85

00:00:45.860 And yet she's not getting the traction that she should be because because the Democrat primary voters are a bunch of sexist pigs. 1.00

00:00:53.460 And then think about all the women that have dropped out. 1.00

00:00:55.480 You know, Gillibrand, Swalwell, it's it's just totally outrageous.

00:01:01.680 And then what about Elizabeth Warren?

00:01:03.440 OK, you've got she's a dynamic. 0.61

00:01:06.700 Native American woman.

00:01:08.980 Yet, where do the endorsements go?

00:01:11.360 They go to Bernie Sanders, who's a man.

00:01:13.580 OK, AOC, Ilhan Omar, they line up behind Sanders because they hate minority women. 1.00

00:01:20.900 And it really is incredible.

00:01:22.620 So I'm glad that the that the AP is is on top of that and and pointing that out because it's very important.

00:01:29.080 All right. Now, moving on, I want to talk about this Rodney Reed case.

00:01:35.620 Maybe you've maybe you've heard about this.

00:01:38.140 Maybe you haven't.

00:01:39.520 If you haven't.

00:01:40.940 Well, if you have heard about it, then probably what you've heard is one sided.

00:01:46.560 The media, Hollywood politicians, they're all lining up on one side of this issue.

00:01:52.060 And that should be your first clue whenever you see everybody agreeing on something these days that that tells you something is up.

00:02:00.480 So I've seen very few people or outlets trying to lay out all the facts, except for my friend, Amanda Preston Giacomo at Daily Wire.

00:02:09.960 She put up a piece yesterday that gives all the facts.

00:02:13.520 Excellent piece.

00:02:15.380 Brandon Darby at Breitbart, Jack Posobiec at One American News Network.

00:02:19.800 Those are basically the only people in media that I've seen that have even attempted to give both sides or the other side of this of this story.

00:02:30.660 And they deserve credit for that.

00:02:33.700 As I said, when everybody is on one side, you know, when everyone's on one side of something, it's easy to join that side.

00:02:41.040 And if everybody if everyone is kind of 50 50 where you've got half on one side, half on the other, then it's easy to choose a side.

00:02:47.520 But if it's like 98 percent to two, then it takes some guts to go with the two percent or at least to give the two percent a fair hearing.

00:02:57.380 OK, so Rodney Reed is a convicted murderer and rapist found guilty of raping and murdering a woman, a woman named Stacey Stites in 1996.

00:03:08.160 The conviction relied heavily on DNA evidence.

00:03:15.160 And we have to mention here that Reed is black and Stites was white.

00:03:19.100 And the only reason we have to mention that is because Reed's defenders are making that into an issue predictably.

00:03:24.700 So there you go.

00:03:26.420 There's the racial element of it.

00:03:28.080 As I said, Hollywood is lined up behind him.

00:03:31.120 And people are calling it for him to be exonerated or at least spared the death penalty.

00:03:35.680 He's scheduled to be executed for his crime of raping and murdering a woman.

00:03:40.160 He's scheduled to be executed next week.

00:03:42.240 But you've got all these people coming out, Kim Kardashian, Rihanna, people in media coming out and saying, no, he's innocent.

00:03:49.160 It would be a horrible thing to to execute him.

00:03:51.820 So I want to get into the specifics of this case.

00:03:56.920 Many of the specifics that are being ignored by people in media right now.

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00:05:35.840 Okay, so let's get into the specifics of this Rodney Reed case.

00:05:39.840 And this is going to get graphic inevitably, so I apologize for that.

00:05:42.940 Fair warning.

00:05:44.040 Quoting now from Amanda's piece in the Daily Wire, it says,

00:05:46.440 When Reed was convicted, it was determined that Stites was strangled to death by her own belt while on her way to work at a H-E-B grocery store in Bastrop, Texas, in April 1996. 0.72

00:06:00.960 Evidence also determined that Stites, who was also vaginally raped, was anally raped while being strangled to death.

00:06:07.800 DNA found semen in Reed.

00:06:13.560 Reed, I'm trying to censor a little bit, as much as I can, so you understand what's going on here.

00:06:20.620 The effort to stay Reed's execution is primarily due to Reed advocates and his legal team claiming a proper examination of forensic evidence shows that Stites was killed hours before she and Reed could have crossed paths.

00:06:33.900 Okay, so Reed's legal team says that she died before Reed could have come in contact with her, yet she was covered in his DNA.

00:06:46.620 So, how do you put two and two together there?

00:06:52.540 Oh, but they can come up with an explanation for that.

00:06:55.940 They say that, no, he was actually having a consensual affair with this woman.

00:07:00.560 The only problem is that he originally told detectives that he didn't know her.

00:07:06.160 And it was only after that affair alibi fell through, or it's only after the alibi that he didn't know her fell through.

00:07:13.200 It was only after that story just fell apart and wouldn't work that he then went with, oh, no, actually, we were involved in a consensual affair.

00:07:21.500 Now, how did they have his DNA sample?

00:07:23.920 Well, because a woman named Caroline Rivas, who is mentally disabled, said that she was raped by Reed, and his DNA was found inside her.

00:07:34.160 And from this DNA, they were able to connect him to this rape and several others.

00:07:41.800 Now, this case was appealed to the Supreme Court.

00:07:44.460 The Supreme Court denied the appeal.

00:07:46.780 In fact, 16 different courts have looked at this case and found no reason to doubt the verdict in the original case.

00:07:57.780 So, you've got a jury conviction.

00:08:00.520 You've got failed appeals in 16 courts.

00:08:02.900 You've got, like, 20 different judges that have looked at this thing.

00:08:06.820 But let me read some of what the Texas Assistant Attorney General sent a document to the Supreme Court when this attempted appeal was going on, telling their side of the story.

00:08:20.300 Now, this document, you can go and find online.

00:08:23.460 Just go to Google.

00:08:24.220 You can find the document for yourself and read all the facts of the case, which I have done.

00:08:30.040 So, let me read for you now some of what this Supreme Court document says.

00:08:37.520 It says,

00:08:39.520 Reed was interviewed, and while he admitted that he knew York from high school, he denied raping her.

00:09:04.480 When confronted with a search warrant for biological samples, Reed had an about face.

00:09:09.440 Yeah, I had sex with her. 1.00

00:09:10.580 She wanted it.

00:09:12.040 The case went to trial four years later, and Reed was acquitted.

00:09:16.340 Next was A.W., a 12-year-old girl who was home alone, having fallen asleep on a couch after watching TV.

00:09:23.260 A.W. awoke when someone began pushing her face into the couch and had blindfolded and gagged her. 0.97

00:09:27.740 She was repeatedly hit in the head, called vulgar names, and raped.

00:09:33.180 Goes into a little bit more graphic detail than that, but that's the gist of it.

00:09:37.320 The foreign DNA from A.W.'s rape kit was compared to Reed.

00:09:40.960 Reed was not excluded, and only 1 in 5.5 billion people would have the same foreign DNA profile from A.W.'s rape kit. 1.00

00:09:48.180 In other words, it was a match.

00:09:52.480 Then came Lucy Iper, who Reed had met in high school and whom Reed began to date after her graduation.

00:09:58.080 Iper had two children with Reed.

00:09:59.800 Throughout their relationship, Reed physically abused Iper, including while she was pregnant, and raped her all the time, in quotes, including one time in front of their two children.

00:10:08.320 Afterwards, Reed began dating Caroline Revis, an intellectually disabled woman.

00:10:11.900 Revis' caseworker noticed bruises on Revis' body, and when asked about it, Revis admitted that Reed would hit her if she would not have sex with him. 0.90

00:10:20.040 Later, Revis' caseworker noticed that Revis was walking oddly and sat down gingerly.

00:10:24.860 Revis admitted that Reed had, the prior evening, hit her, called her vulgar names, and raped her.

00:10:30.020 The samples from Revis' rape kit provided the link to Stites' murder.

00:10:35.560 So he was a match on the Revis case.

00:10:37.960 Shortly thereafter, and about six months before Stites' murder, Reed raped Vivian Harbottle underneath a train trestle as she was walking home. 0.98

00:10:48.340 When she pleaded for her life for the sake of her children, Reed laughed at her.

00:10:52.140 The foreign DNA from Harbottle's rape kit was compared to Reed.

00:10:55.120 He could not be excluded, and only one person of $5.5 billion would be expected to have the same foreign DNA profile.

00:10:59.820 Finally, and about six months after Stites' murder, Reed convinced 19-year-old Linda Schluter to give him a ride home at 3.30 a.m.

00:11:09.720 This is important.

00:11:11.900 Reed led her to a remote area and then attacked her.

00:11:15.240 After a prolonged struggle, Schluter asked Reed what he wanted, and Reed responded that he wants to have sex with her.

00:11:22.720 When Schluter told Reed that you'll have to kill me before you get anything, Reed stated, I guess I'll have to kill you then.

00:11:29.080 And then a car drove by, and Schluter was able to escape.

00:11:33.780 Okay.

00:11:35.420 It goes on.

00:11:36.680 Maybe you get the point.

00:11:38.180 And it's important to note that that last case we talked about there, that happened around the same area and around the same time of day, or of night, rather, that Stites was raped and killed.

00:12:02.660 So this is just an enormous amount of evidence.

00:12:04.920 I mean, this is an enormous amount of DNA evidence and witness testimony.

00:12:10.320 You've got witness testimony and DNA evidence connecting this guy to multiple rapes, including one that happened in the same place and at the same time and in the same manner that Stites was killed.

00:12:24.440 Um, it's actually, it's, it's, it would be hard to have more evidence than this, to have so much DNA evidence.

00:12:36.840 So how do Reed's defenders get around this?

00:12:39.500 Um, well, they, his defenders, which again, include a lot of Hollywood power players, including Kim Kardashian, many prominent politicians, uh, even Republican politicians, Dr. Phil and others.

00:12:52.880 Um, they're all coming to this scumbags defense and based on what, well, they theorize that actually Stacey Stites, his fiancee killed her.

00:13:01.180 And what about his DNA showing up on so many rape victims?

00:13:04.220 Well, they've got, I don't think there is one coherent explanation for that, but I have seen a bunch of conspiracy theories that, that involve, you know, a conspiracy to plant his DNA and all this kind of stuff.

00:13:15.520 Um, why do they think that Stites, his fiancee killed her?

00:13:19.240 Well, because 10 years after her death, he was arrested for raping somebody else.

00:13:23.720 Now, do you get what's happening here?

00:13:27.100 Stites is Stites is fiancee raping someone else.

00:13:32.980 According to Reed's defenders is proof that he raped and killed Stites, but Reed's rape of five or six different women before he got to Stacey Stites doesn't prove anything.

00:13:44.540 So you see the inconsistency there?

00:13:48.080 Oh, and also, uh, they say that the, the, the, the fiancee Fennel confessed to somebody in jail that he had killed his, his, uh, fiancee.

00:13:58.700 How do we know that?

00:13:59.840 Uh, because his, his one of someone in jail said claim that, that Fennel had said this, by the way, his, the, the person in jail who made this claim was in jail for forgery.

00:14:12.520 So this is literally a convicted liar telling this story.

00:14:19.620 And they're pointing to that as a smoking gun.

00:14:22.080 That's smoking gun evidence that Reed is a, that Reed is innocent.

00:14:26.160 In spite of all the physical evidence, in spite of the eyewitnesses and everything, in spite of all that, you've got to convict a guy who's in jail for lying.

00:14:35.000 That's what forgery is.

00:14:36.520 Uh, we're going to take his word and that's going to, that's going to overshadow everything else.

00:14:39.980 I mean, come on, even more insanely, uh, some of Reed's defenders say that his history of raping women has no bearing on this.

00:14:48.480 That that's the other way of dealing with it is to say that, okay, sure.

00:14:51.180 He probably did those other things, including raping a 12 year old child, but, uh, that doesn't mean that he did this.

00:14:58.420 That's, that's, that's got nothing to do with it.

00:15:00.360 It shouldn't even be admissible.

00:15:01.660 Well, that that's ridiculous.

00:15:05.480 Clearly, if this guy has an established pattern of raping women, and then his DNA shows up on a raped and murdered woman who near his house.

00:15:19.420 Yes, that pattern is absolutely relevant.

00:15:22.120 I'd say it's damn near conclusive all by itself.

00:15:27.560 Are you, you've got a serial rapist, a, a dead woman shows up on the side of the road covered in his DNA.

00:15:38.160 He, he claims he never met her after that falls through.

00:15:41.540 He says, Oh no, we had a consensual relationship.

00:15:43.980 You're going to believe that.

00:15:45.480 Are you serious?

00:15:46.620 Are you really that stupid?

00:15:49.900 You're going to, you're going to, that excuse you're going to say, okay, well, the thing is with Reed's defenders, not only are they willing to believe that they just believe it.

00:16:02.840 They, they, they take it as gospel.

00:16:04.800 They say, Oh no, no.

00:16:06.000 He said he didn't do it.

00:16:07.000 I mean, their, their, their defense is basically that he said he didn't do it.

00:16:13.440 That's really the central piece of evidence that they present.

00:16:17.520 Because other than that, they have no evidence.

00:16:20.380 What a convicted liar said in jail and jailhouse informants are notoriously unreliable, especially ones who are in jail for lying and being a fraud.

00:16:32.020 You know, that doesn't count as evidence of anything.

00:16:34.960 And then the fact that Stice's fiance 10 years later went to jail for rape is, is not evidence of anything.

00:16:41.300 Or, or on the other hand, if it is potentially evidence of something, if we're, if we're willing to say that, well, his history of rape or, you know, not, not really history, but after the fact, the fact that he became a rapist.

00:16:52.680 Um, if you're willing, if you're willing, if you're going to say that that's potentially evidence, then that means that all of Reed's stuff is potentially evidence and which outweighs the other is the question.

00:17:02.400 Um, but if, if you're going to pull that move where you say that, yeah, he probably raped a bunch of women, but he didn't do this.

00:17:12.100 Um, which I don't know how you do that given the DNA evidence, but at least be clear that that's what you're doing.

00:17:18.220 At least be clear that you are defending a serial rapist and child sex predator.

00:17:24.440 Be clear about that.

00:17:26.040 I mean, you're defending someone who definitely deserves to die.

00:17:30.300 But your, your point is that he doesn't deserve to die for that.

00:17:33.300 He should die for something else.

00:17:34.280 And okay.

00:17:36.180 I mean, it, you can make that case, but be clear that that's the case you're making.

00:17:43.800 Because what I'm seeing in the media is just the canonization of this guy, making him out to be just a good, innocent man.

00:17:51.760 Who's caught up in this and totally, uh, with not his fault or anything.

00:18:01.180 You know, it's pretty strange.

00:18:03.200 Um, Hollywood is lining up behind Rodney Reed.

00:18:08.560 They also lined up behind Roman Polanski.

00:18:11.720 They ran cover for Harvey Weinstein.

00:18:14.480 Uh, even a guy like Bill Cosby was able to rate women in Hollywood for decades before being held accountable.

00:18:21.180 Epstein too.

00:18:22.060 Epstein hung out in Hollywood.

00:18:23.320 Epstein had a lot of Hollywood friends, attended Hollywood premieres and everything.

00:18:28.480 These, these people, they, they, they seem to really have a nasty habit.

00:18:33.200 Of defending serial rapists and child sex predators.

00:18:36.420 They, it seems to be a pattern.

00:18:40.020 And in this case, think about something else too.

00:18:41.840 The people defending Rodney Reed, and I'm not trying to make this exclusively left versus right thing, because I don't think it is.

00:18:50.080 I think they're left and right on various sides of this issue.

00:18:52.960 But given the fact that you've got media and Hollywood and all those people behind Rodney Reed, these are also the people who supporters of the Me Too movement, right?

00:19:03.480 So you've got a bunch of supporters of the Me Too movement defending a convicted killer and rapist of women.

00:19:12.040 And in doing so, they are accusing multiple women of lying.

00:19:18.660 And they're also slandering, and they're also slandering a dead woman as an adulterer.

00:19:23.940 Talk about victim blaming.

00:19:25.560 This woman was raped and killed, and your excuse is that, well, no, she was actually having a consensual affair.

00:19:37.820 And these are the same, these are the, again, these are the same people with Kavanaugh.

00:19:41.760 Now, a woman comes out with a totally outlandish story, has zero evidence, and they say, if you don't believe her immediately, without any question, then you hate women.

00:19:54.780 In this case, we have evidence against him, and they're saying that, no, if you believe the women this time, then you hate, then you're probably a racist and you hate black people.

00:20:05.620 You see how they play this game?

00:20:06.900 It is so incredibly dishonest and despicable and evil.

00:20:15.720 And let me ask you one other question.

00:20:17.380 If you're defending Rodney Reed on this, and really be honest about this.

00:20:23.440 Let's say you succeeded, and he was, not only was he spared the death penalty, but he was let out of jail.

00:20:29.980 And so now you've got a formerly convicted rapist whose DNA has turned up in five or six different rape cases.

00:20:38.480 Now he's on the street.

00:20:39.800 So congratulations on that.

00:20:41.820 Would you invite him to stay over at your house?

00:20:45.640 Would you let him babysit your children?

00:20:49.000 Would you?

00:20:49.680 I mean, if you would, then you're insane and a horrible parent, but you wouldn't.

00:20:59.580 That's the thing.

00:21:00.960 I mean, if this guy was let out of jail, you wouldn't want to be anywhere near him because you know he's a monster.

00:21:06.620 You know that.

00:21:07.320 Okay, let's move on.

00:21:14.460 I want to play this for you briefly here.

00:21:16.100 Here's a, and this is a challenge.

00:21:17.920 This is a fun challenge.

00:21:19.180 I dare you to watch this video that I'm going to play for you.

00:21:23.320 Try to watch it without cringing.

00:21:25.340 Just see if you can.

00:21:27.740 I think you can.

00:21:29.420 This is a college student asking a question to Tom Steyer during his town hall.

00:21:34.320 Steyer is apparently a guy who's running for president with the Democrats.

00:21:38.080 He's one of the 970 people running for president in 2020.

00:21:41.760 Anyway, here is the very theatrical question that was posed to him.

00:21:45.460 She's a member of Iowa Students Action, which is a progressive advocacy group.

00:21:50.340 Kieran, what's your question for Mr. Steyer?

00:21:52.640 In Iowa, higher education is in crisis.

00:21:56.600 The Iowa Board of Regents hikes tuition year after year,

00:22:00.180 shifting the burden of funding public universities onto students' backs.

00:22:05.640 This model is being repeated at almost every public university system across the country.

00:22:11.500 And it ain't right.

00:22:13.200 How does your vision for free college ensure that states can't take educational rights away from students,

00:22:19.840 especially formerly incarcerated and undocumented students?

00:22:23.980 That's really Power Rangers-level acting right there.

00:22:30.300 That's Nickelodeon circa...

00:22:32.560 That's the midday schedule of Nickelodeon circa 1997, that acting in that town hall.

00:22:40.080 But good stuff there.

00:22:42.020 Nice.

00:22:42.360 She put effort into it and a lot of energy, so you've got to respect that.

00:22:45.620 Okay, let's take a look at this.

00:22:47.080 Do you know who Don Cherry is?

00:22:48.860 Don Cherry is a Canadian hockey commentator.

00:22:50.980 If you're listening maybe in Canada, and I say, do you know who Don Cherry is?

00:22:57.740 That sounds like a crazy question.

00:22:59.000 But in other parts of the world, you know, he's not quite as iconic as he is up there in Canada.

00:23:03.700 Now, he does a segment on TV called Coach's Corner, and in a recent Coach's Corner episode or segment,

00:23:12.080 he encouraged people to wear poppy pins to honor veterans, which is a tradition in Canada.

00:23:19.600 And his remarks, encouraging people to honor veterans, his remarks were apparently so offensive that he was fired.

00:23:31.880 So this, what you're about to hear, is apparently, supposedly very, very offensive.

00:23:38.200 So get ready for this.

00:23:39.420 Listen.

00:23:39.540 You know, I was talking to a veteran.

00:23:41.680 I said, I'm not going to run the poppy thing anymore, because what's the sense?

00:23:44.860 I live in Mississauga.

00:23:45.940 Nobody wears, very few people wear a poppy.

00:23:50.240 Downtown Toronto, forget it, downtown Toronto.

00:23:52.420 Nobody wears a poppy.

00:23:53.860 And I'm not going to win.

00:23:54.520 He says, wait a minute.

00:23:55.800 How about running it for the people that buy them?

00:23:58.640 Now, you go to the small cities, and you know, those, the rows on rows, you people love,

00:24:04.400 you, they come here, whatever it is, you love our way of life, you love our milk and honey,

00:24:09.480 at least you can pay a couple of bucks for poppies or something like that.

00:24:13.760 These guys pay for your way of life that you enjoy in Canada.

00:24:18.000 These guys paid the biggest price.

00:24:21.040 Anyhow, I'm going to run it again for you great people and good Canadians that bought a poppy.

00:24:26.160 I'm still going to run it.

00:24:28.000 Anyhow.

00:24:28.620 I'm looking for it.

00:24:29.200 Yeah, he was fired for that, for that.

00:24:34.960 Now, to his credit, he refused to apologize.

00:24:37.400 So good for him on that.

00:24:38.880 The guy sitting next to him, longtime friend and co-host, guy that sat there and seemed

00:24:44.480 like he had no problem with what Don Cherry was saying, but he threw his friend completely

00:24:48.600 under the bus at the drop of a hat.

00:24:50.540 He apologized, started prattling about diversity and all this stuff.

00:24:54.180 So meanwhile, a bunch of other Canadians have pretended to be offended by these utterly,

00:24:59.060 completely benign statements.

00:25:01.440 Now, you might hear that this was just a last straw and that he'd said a bunch of other

00:25:07.580 offensive stuff.

00:25:08.600 And so he didn't get the benefit of the doubt on this one because he'd caused a lot of other

00:25:13.120 controversies with the things that he'd said.

00:25:14.920 Well, what were the other offensive comments and controversies that he had started?

00:25:19.460 Well, he said a few years ago that women shouldn't be in the male locker room.

00:25:24.280 That was a controversy.

00:25:26.540 I think he made some comments about environmentalists, called them kookaloos or something.

00:25:32.420 I think it was something like that, which is hilarious.

00:25:35.340 And things in that vein, again, a bunch of benign comments.

00:25:41.420 Who cares?

00:25:42.200 Meanwhile, as this guy is getting fired for simply encouraging people to remember and respect

00:25:52.680 veterans and to have some appreciation, especially if you come into a country, if you're an immigrant,

00:26:03.220 you're coming to the country, what he's saying is you should be especially grateful that this

00:26:07.800 country has opened its doors to you and that other people have fought to create this environment

00:26:13.780 that you can come into and be a part of and everything.

00:26:17.900 There's absolutely nothing wrong with that whatsoever.

00:26:21.440 But while people are angry at him for saying this, meanwhile, the prime minister of Canada

00:26:28.140 wore blackface and faced no repercussions whatsoever.

00:26:34.000 Voters had no problem with him.

00:26:37.800 So if you're just, if you're a TV commentator in Canada and you advocate that people respect

00:26:44.460 and remember veterans, that's offensive.

00:26:47.300 Yet you could be the prime minister of Canada and wear blackface and that's fine. 0.99

00:26:55.100 If that makes sense to you, maybe you'll just have to explain it to me because I can't quite

00:26:59.700 make heads or tails of it.

00:27:02.820 All right, let's go to emails.

00:27:04.140 MattWalshshow at gmail.com.

00:27:05.740 MattWalshshow at gmail.com.

00:27:07.800 This is from Ryan says, you recently talked about how the school system favors girls over

00:27:13.560 guys.

00:27:14.080 And I thought you were simply wrong.

00:27:16.020 You then started to name some, some ways in which the system favors women. 1.00

00:27:20.040 And it's all happening in my school.

00:27:22.020 I'm a sophomore in high school.

00:27:23.540 And this con and this conversation is very prevalent.

00:27:26.500 The most obvious example is gym class, which they have affectionately renamed to lifetime

00:27:32.120 sports.

00:27:33.000 Wait, really?

00:27:35.680 That's, is that what gym class is now?

00:27:39.060 Lifetime sports.

00:27:40.900 Are you kidding me?

00:27:42.420 Is that real?

00:27:43.380 I mean, I don't doubt it.

00:27:47.880 Lifetime sports.

00:27:49.000 You even had to feminize the name of gym.

00:27:53.760 Why can't it just be gym class?

00:27:55.260 What was wrong with gym class?

00:27:57.520 Lifetime sports.

00:27:59.200 What does that even mean?

00:28:03.500 Anyway, name change aside, the curriculum has drastic changes as well.

00:28:07.540 They've abolished the mile run.

00:28:09.360 There's no more 20 minute runs, no football, no dodgeball.

00:28:12.980 And you guessed it.

00:28:13.880 Gym now has 50 question, multiple choice and short answer quizzes at the end, at the end

00:28:17.900 of every unit about four per trimester trimester just to make things better.

00:28:22.780 They have implemented a scantron exam with 100 questions.

00:28:26.700 That is basically the determining factor of your grade.

00:28:29.940 I really hate this as it is gym class known for physical activity, but I don't make the rules.

00:28:35.160 Yeah, that's and well, Ryan, that was exactly what I'm talking about, that the education

00:28:44.640 system is basically tailored to and set up for girls, because the thing about boys is

00:28:52.660 they have more physical energy.

00:28:55.440 They're they're they're not as capable of sitting down and sitting still for long stretches

00:29:01.760 of time.

00:29:02.340 Um, they're not as good at memorizing things.

00:29:07.280 Women are better at that. 1.00

00:29:09.840 So boys, especially younger boys, but really males in general, um, in at any level of school,

00:29:18.560 they need to be active.

00:29:20.940 They need to be up more.

00:29:22.320 They need to be learning in a more hands on way.

00:29:24.480 And the only point of gym class or lifetime sports, the only point of it is just to give

00:29:32.360 the kids a chance to get out that aggression and get out that energy.

00:29:37.000 That's really the only function of gym class.

00:29:39.880 And as far as that goes, it serves a, an important function.

00:29:43.580 As long as it's doing that, I don't think it's a waste of time at all.

00:29:48.280 There are some people who say, well, gym class is a waste of time.

00:29:50.560 You don't need, I don't think it's a waste of time.

00:29:52.260 I think if you're going to have these kids in school from eight o'clock to three o'clock

00:29:56.200 or, you know, seven 30 to two 30 or whatever it is for all that, that stretch of time,

00:30:00.300 um, you need to give them that chance to get out that energy.

00:30:05.700 Um, they can't just be sitting at a desk that whole time, but now you're taking that out

00:30:11.460 of it and you're putting, and you're, you're putting desks into gym class now and taking

00:30:17.420 out all the physically challenging things that involve aggression and strength and endurance,

00:30:23.620 taking all that out.

00:30:24.340 So you've got kind of the last bastion in school that was sort of more tailored to boys.

00:30:33.580 And now they're taking that away because in school, the boys aren't allowed to have anything,

00:30:38.960 everything.

00:30:39.940 It's if, if, if you've got energy and you like to move around and you're more of a hands-on

00:30:45.020 learner in the modern education system, there is just nothing for you.

00:30:49.480 They, they want nothing to do with you.

00:30:51.760 And, uh, and well, well, there is something for you.

00:30:54.140 I'm sorry, actually, uh, there's drugs rather than having gym class or something.

00:30:58.740 Instead.

00:30:59.120 Now they'll say, they'll say, well, we'll just, we'll just, we'll just shove some chemicals

00:31:02.360 down your throat. 0.90

00:31:03.320 That'll calm you down.

00:31:06.840 Really is horrific.

00:31:09.300 This is from Jonathan said, hi, Matt, I saw you talking about how we should take away foreign 1.00

00:31:13.900 aid from every country.

00:31:15.160 Is that really your position?

00:31:16.500 How do you justify it?

00:31:17.380 Yeah, I was, we were talking about this on online.

00:31:19.240 Um, yeah, that is my, that is my position.

00:31:22.360 I don't, I don't think that there should be, uh, I, I, I don't think that our government

00:31:27.100 should be taking money out of the pockets of American citizens and handing it to foreign 0.99

00:31:33.620 governments.

00:31:34.680 I don't think that should ever happen.

00:31:37.320 That, that to me strikes me as, as immoral, irresponsible, unconstitutional.

00:31:42.720 And I don't, it's hard for me to see how that doesn't violate, um, or how that isn't an

00:31:50.500 example of taxation without representation because, okay, you're taking money from me.

00:31:56.880 You're handing it to a foreign government.

00:31:58.600 That foreign government doesn't represent me.

00:32:00.300 I don't know what they're going to do with the money.

00:32:03.980 I have no influence over them.

00:32:06.920 So isn't that taxation without representation?

00:32:11.180 I just don't, I just don't think it's right.

00:32:13.160 You know, I, I'm, I'm crazy enough to think that the money that you earn is really your money.

00:32:19.640 And we have to have some form of taxation to keep the government going.

00:32:25.640 It's that might be a necessary evil, although it's way, way beyond what it needs to be.

00:32:31.540 As we talked about last week, the government already takes in almost $4 trillion a year

00:32:36.340 in taxes.

00:32:36.940 And anyone who thinks that that is necessary is crazy.

00:32:40.860 But I, I still think that your money is your money.

00:32:44.360 We, we deal with this necessary evil of taxation because we have to, but it's still your money.

00:32:54.200 So the, the foreign aid, what they're doing is they're taking money out of your pocket and

00:32:59.040 out of your bank account, and they're handing it to foreign governments.

00:33:02.360 I see that as, as just simply wrong.

00:33:06.560 Um, let's see here.

00:33:09.380 This is from Kayla says, hi, Matt, I've been listening to your show for about six months

00:33:12.740 now and absolutely love it.

00:33:13.720 Your humor is hilarious.

00:33:14.740 And I love all the deep topics as well.

00:33:16.820 I'm a work from home mom.

00:33:17.960 So listening to the podcast is a breath of adult conversation during the long toddler

00:33:21.860 chasing days.

00:33:23.780 Speaking of toddlers, my husband and I have two little boys, three in one.

00:33:27.340 And even though my pregnancies are terrible because of a hyper emesis, hyper emesis, that's

00:33:33.300 how you pronounce it, right?

00:33:34.060 Hyper emesis. 0.98

00:33:35.720 Anyway, I'm getting baby fever.

00:33:37.320 I've always wanted a bigger family and it's my, been my dream to homeschool.

00:33:40.280 My kiddos make food from scratch, live on a cozy farm, et cetera.

00:33:43.720 I also run my own business, which is awesome because it allows me to, uh, to be home with

00:33:47.480 my babies and also bring in that side income. 1.00

00:33:50.140 Um, well, I've had a suspicion for a while now that my in-laws were very involved in our

00:33:53.520 lives and our kids' lives, which is awesome.

00:33:55.240 What they really look down on is the idea of us growing our family.

00:33:58.280 They've both made comments before like, well, this person or that person could have as many

00:34:01.680 kids as they want because they both have good jobs and both make good money.

00:34:05.020 Or they'll say two kids is plenty.

00:34:07.560 And last night, my father-in-law straight out asked my husband, so you're not getting

00:34:10.420 pregnant, right? 0.94

00:34:11.840 Uh, well, probably your, your husband probably isn't getting pregnant. 0.83

00:34:14.220 So he could, he could have said yes to that.

00:34:15.880 Although these days you never know.

00:34:17.360 I know I've let it slip a few times that I have baby fever, but it's never been more

00:34:20.860 in depth than that.

00:34:21.780 Here's the thing.

00:34:22.280 I know we aren't rich and we were very young, 25 and 26.

00:34:25.360 We have a small house, et cetera, et cetera.

00:34:26.960 So yes, I know there's nothing wrong with waiting.

00:34:28.700 I just feel like they think something is wrong with me that I would want more than two kids.

00:34:32.580 But I also feel weighted down by their opinion since we rent our house from them and they're

00:34:36.380 very involved in our boys' lives.

00:34:37.540 Is something wrong with this desire to grow our family?

00:34:39.680 Even though we aren't rich, we don't have a big house.

00:34:41.900 I guess when I picture my life, I see a big family sitting around an old table, eating

00:34:45.600 dinner together.

00:34:46.320 It's loud, chaotic, and full of joy.

00:34:48.140 But I get the overwhelming sense that if we choose to have a third child, they would think

00:34:51.320 that we are so irresponsible and stupid.

00:34:53.280 Um, yeah, well, this is, I can't speak for your, for your in-laws, of course, but, and I would

00:35:00.400 hope that they wouldn't look at you that way, although I can't say, the fact is, a lot of

00:35:05.320 people in society do.

00:35:07.240 Um, there, there are a lot of people who have a very utilitarian, materialistic view of things.

00:35:17.200 And so, you know, they, the way they look at it is, okay, you have one kid, you have two

00:35:22.120 kids, fine.

00:35:22.780 And, but why would you need to have more than that?

00:35:26.000 As if it's an, as if, as if it's an issue of need, and that's not what it is at all.

00:35:33.300 It's just a matter of people have vastly different ways.

00:35:37.180 They're just a totally different priority system.

00:35:39.900 Um, and if you're not as focused, if you don't care as much about the material side of

00:35:45.320 things, and if having a, you know, a huge house and being able to go on really nice vacations

00:35:51.200 and stuff like that, if that isn't as important to you, then you're going to say, well, I want

00:35:57.100 to have a bigger family.

00:35:58.420 And of course, I'm going to say there's nothing wrong with that.

00:36:00.580 I have four kids, which four kids, which really is not a big family or shouldn't be considered

00:36:08.620 a big family.

00:36:09.800 But these days it is when most people are having the average of what?

00:36:13.380 1.3 kids, whatever the average is now, but yeah, we, we've gotten the same kinds of comments

00:36:19.040 from people with our fourth kid, the same sorts of looks and that sort of thing.

00:36:23.540 Most people aren't going to come out and be aggressive about it.

00:36:25.980 Maybe family members feel more entitled to be aggressive, although they're, they shouldn't

00:36:29.600 feel entitled.

00:36:30.240 It's still rude and wrong, but most people won't be that explicit about it.

00:36:35.340 It's just little snide comments here and there that they'll make.

00:36:38.080 Um, and what I would say is just ignore them.

00:36:40.740 Who cares?

00:36:41.740 Really?

00:36:42.240 Who cares?

00:36:43.380 Who cares what anyone else thinks?

00:36:45.880 Who cares what your in-laws think?

00:36:49.000 First of all, it's a, it's a, it's just a rule of life that in-laws, you'll always be

00:36:54.200 judged by in-laws.

00:36:55.120 Isn't that just a classic?

00:36:56.260 Everyone goes through that.

00:36:57.380 So I'm not trying to downplay it, but really who cares what they think makes absolutely no

00:37:02.720 difference.

00:37:03.100 And, uh, if you decided that you're not going to have as many kids as you want to have, and

00:37:12.120 you're not going to have that large family with the big old table where you're sitting

00:37:15.060 around having dinner and, uh, it's loud and everything.

00:37:18.280 And that's what you want.

00:37:19.220 So if you decided not to have that and not to fulfill that dream of yours, because you

00:37:27.460 didn't want to be judged by your in-laws, I can guarantee you that 30 years from now,

00:37:32.940 you will absolutely regret that.

00:37:35.480 You know, 30 years from now, when you have made that drastic change to your life and

00:37:42.520 decided not to pursue what you wanted to pursue just because of comments from your in-laws,

00:37:50.120 30 years from now, you're not going to feel like that was the right choice.

00:37:52.960 Whereas on the other hand, if you decide to, okay, I'm going to keep having kids because

00:37:58.340 I want kids.

00:37:59.000 And that's what I want for my life.

00:38:01.080 And your in-laws make their stupid comments 30 years from now, you're, you're, you're,

00:38:05.720 you're not going to look back and say, oh, well, I wish I never had these kids.

00:38:09.640 So I wouldn't have gotten those comments from my in-laws.

00:38:12.100 No, it's not going to mean anything to you.

00:38:14.580 And in fact, forget about 30 years.

00:38:16.020 I mean, it won't, once you have the child, it's not going to mean anything to you.

00:38:20.800 This is, this is your child.

00:38:22.240 Who cares what anyone says?

00:38:27.240 But thank you for the question.

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The Matt Walsh Show - November 12, 2019

Ep. 369 - Media and Hollywood Rally Behind Convicted Rapist and Murderer

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