The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 378 - Climate Protesters Officially Cross The Line

00:00:00.260 Welcome to the short week, everybody. Thanksgiving week, as we get geared up for the holidays,

00:00:04.960 and I know a lot of people only have the three days to work this week, which means that,

00:00:09.640 you know, and your boss will understand this, there's really no reason to do anything at your

00:00:13.440 job because you only got three days, and so you can't start anything. You won't be able to finish

00:00:17.360 it. Better to come back next week and really get down to work, you know what I mean? Which really,

00:00:21.580 every week can sort of work that way if you're good at being lazy because you figure you wake

00:00:26.040 up on a Monday and you say, well, the week just started. I'm getting into the groove of things,

00:00:32.640 so I'm not really going to do anything today. And then on Tuesday, the week's still kind of starting.

00:00:36.360 Then on Wednesday, you wake up and you figure, well, the week's almost over, so I might as well

00:00:39.460 just wait till next week, and that's when I'll really get down to business. But anyway, it's

00:00:44.220 Thanksgiving, of course, the second best holiday on the calendar. And well, maybe that depends

00:00:50.460 because I just saw this article in the Daily Wire. Headline, pretty horrific. Headline is,

00:00:54.540 studies show that few people actually fight with family over politics on Thanksgiving.

00:00:59.800 Few people actually fight with family over politics. Then the article says,

00:01:04.340 studies show that few Americans argue on Thanksgiving. They prefer to practice that 0.97

00:01:08.040 age-old axiom, agree to disagree, as they enjoy another slice of that delicious pecan pie.

00:01:14.120 In reality, very few Americans actually fight about politics on Thanksgiving,

00:01:18.060 notes Abraham Guttman of the Philadelphia Inquirer. A 2017 HuffPost-YouGov survey found that only

00:01:24.180 3% of Americans said that they are very likely, and 8% are somewhat likely to get into a political

00:01:29.380 argument with family members during Thanksgiving dinner. And I read this, and I just think,

00:01:35.860 how utterly boring. My God. I mean, what kind of a boring family do you have that you don't argue

00:01:43.200 about politics and religion on Thanksgiving? I know people always say, well, the two things you

00:01:47.720 don't talk about with family or ever are politics and Thanksgiving and religion. But I've always had

00:01:53.640 a slight variation on that, which is, you know, my axiom is the only two things you talk about are

00:02:00.920 politics and religion and sports, I guess we'll throw in the third thing. Basically, anything that

00:02:06.240 has the potential to turn into a screaming match is worth talking about. And if it doesn't have that

00:02:11.680 potential, I don't, what, what's the point? Um, you know, I don't even understand it. I just can't

00:02:19.260 imagine getting together with family and specifically avoiding the interesting topics. What are you even

00:02:27.140 doing? What do you talk about in that case? Do you just sit there? This, this cranberry sauce tastes

00:02:35.540 like cranberries. Yes, it does. Yes, I also agree. It does. And you go around the table. Yes. What do

00:02:42.940 you think about the cranberry sauce? Well, I think it tastes like cranberries. And then someone kind of

00:02:47.220 a loose cannon comes in. What about the mashed potatoes? Well, I think they taste like potatoes.

00:02:53.080 Yes, me too. Me too. Yes, I agree. Then you have the comic relief. What if green beans were red?

00:03:02.600 Humorous, quite humorous. I, this has become a fake conversation between androids apparently, 1.00

00:03:09.660 but that's, I just can't know. I've been at a, at a dinner table in my life a time or two

00:03:14.700 where all interesting topics, politics and religion were forbidden. And I just wanted to

00:03:21.720 drown myself in the gravy boat. That's what I wanted to do. Just, just start waterboarding myself

00:03:28.060 with gravy, um, to liven things up and to put me out of my misery. Now, if I were to do that at my

00:03:34.460 Thanksgiving table, um, it would just start a three and a half hour debate about the ethics of

00:03:39.320 inherent, enhanced interrogation while I lay there dead on the floor and see, that's what family is

00:03:45.000 all about. Okay. Um, I want to, so, uh, a bunch of things we're going to go through today and we'll

00:03:52.860 start with this as we're a few days from Thanksgiving and talking about football. Uh,

00:03:56.540 we'll begin with Harvard and Yale playing each other this weekend in the classic traditional game.

00:04:01.860 And, uh, and then, and then this happened in Yale, the game is currently in a delay because there is

00:04:07.400 a student protest sit in at midfield on climate policy. This took place at halftime and has delayed

00:04:17.400 the start of the third quarter because students are having a sit in protest at midfield of Harvard

00:04:25.420 Yale. Yes, those are climate protesters. Again, once again, breaking the law, once again, getting in

00:04:31.620 the way, once again, just generally making asses of themselves and nuisances of themselves. Every time 0.95

00:04:37.480 they do something like this, um, they make more and more people crave the destruction of planet earth.

00:04:43.380 So it's, it's really counterproductive in so many ways. Uh, in this case, they delayed the game for

00:04:50.680 over an hour, which is a big problem actually at Yale because the, the, the stadium there doesn't

00:04:55.740 have lights. And so they ended up finishing the game in near darkness with no lights. Uh, the

00:05:01.720 protesters were eventually apparently ushered off the field after an hour. Some who refused to leave

00:05:07.320 were arrested, which is good. They left like 20 or 30 people were arrested. I've been waiting for

00:05:11.820 there to be mass arrests at these things. And finally they do it. But once again, I have to,

00:05:16.760 I have to ask what, why wait an hour? Why let this go on for now? Why aren't, why aren't the police

00:05:23.860 there in, in, in 15 seconds? Why give them an hour to just get it, to just shut the game down?

00:05:30.540 That's what I don't get. Just show up right away and start dragging their butts off the field. 0.94

00:05:35.640 That's all you have to do. If they're blocking traffic, just right away, come and drag them 0.97

00:05:41.500 off. What, why wait, why give it, no, give them an, we'll give them about an hour to do this. Yeah.

00:05:46.540 Why not? Since when is that okay? Especially these days with the, with the focus on security at these

00:05:55.580 kinds of events and you're just letting people camp out on the field for an hour.

00:05:59.840 Now, if it were me, I would have, I would have started the second half because they came out

00:06:06.400 at halftime, stayed for an hour. So if I was in charge, I would have said, just start the game,

00:06:11.780 but start the game. If the cops aren't going to drag them off the field, just start the game

00:06:15.880 with them on the field, kick the ball off and run right through them. And it would have,

00:06:21.400 I would have done, in fact, it would have looked something like this.

00:06:24.740 Armand will probably try to squib it and he does. Ball comes loose and the Bears have to get out of bounds.

00:06:29.640 Rodgers. Rodgers along the sideline, another one. They're still in deep trouble at midfield.

00:06:36.200 They tried to do a couple of, the ball is still loose as they get it to Rodgers. They give it back

00:06:41.040 now to the 30. They're down to the 20. Oh, the band is out on the field. He's going to go into the end zone.

00:06:47.440 He's got it to the end zone. The Bears have won. The Bears have won. Oh my God.

00:06:54.820 The most amazing, sensational, dramatic, heart-rending, exciting, thrilling finish in the history of college football.

00:07:04.540 Now that would be entertainment. If you can imagine that same play and that call, except with climate

00:07:10.280 change protesters getting trampled instead of a, instead of, instead of a marching band.

00:07:14.780 Now that would be entertainment, as I said. But in a way, I guess I'm glad that these climate

00:07:23.140 protesters have taken it to this level. In a way, I'm glad that they're interrupting football games.

00:07:28.120 And I hope they take it down south next. Because there are, you know, it's one thing if you're at

00:07:35.180 Ivy League and you're doing this, but I hope that they take it down south and try it at college games

00:07:41.420 down there. Because this is really the last straw that will officially turn everybody against them.

00:07:49.260 You want to interrupt traffic and make me late for work and get me fired. That's one thing.

00:07:53.900 You start messing with my football and now we've got serious problems. There are some lines,

00:07:58.060 you just don't cross in America. And, and I think this is one of them. And, but this I think is,

00:08:03.200 is the fatal flaw with these climate protesters there. Well, the first fatal flaw is that they're

00:08:08.660 protesting the climate, which there's very little chance of that having any effect. Okay. It's like

00:08:15.860 if there was a, you know, the, you have a drought. And so you go and interrupt a football game to

00:08:21.480 protest the drought, which is basically what they're doing. It's the same idea.

00:08:26.000 And it's probably not, I mean, you're, you're not going to convince the weather to change its mind

00:08:31.760 because they read your signs. But the other problem is that they're ostensibly trying to

00:08:38.280 save humanity in their minds anyway, but they hate humanity. That's the one thing that jumps out at you

00:08:44.420 when you, when you see them doing this stuff, they just have a total contempt for normal people and,

00:08:49.060 and they don't mind getting in our way and screwing things up for us. That's why they're not,

00:08:52.680 they're not doing things to interfere with billionaires and the evil corporations and all

00:08:57.920 of that. They're not impeding on the dreaded rich. They're not doing that. They're shutting

00:09:05.360 down traffic during rush hour. They're stopping trains from, from running. They're delaying football

00:09:11.500 games. These are tactics aimed totally at normal working class people. All, everything they're doing 0.96

00:09:19.580 is aimed square at us. It's like, they think they'll solve climate change by annoying the hell

00:09:26.600 out of middle-class people. Uh, and I'm not sure I see the connection there, but, but that's what this

00:09:31.660 is. And, and, and, and, and, but, but I think that's because this isn't really about solving anything.

00:09:36.320 This is about their general contempt for people and for Western civilization and they, their need for

00:09:43.180 attention. That's what this is really about. Now, before we move on, actually, I have to,

00:09:48.680 I want to give a salute to somebody since we're on this topic. I, I got a Twitter message, a direct

00:09:54.960 message yesterday from somebody last night. Uh, it goes by the name Jay Russell. And this is the message

00:10:01.060 that he sent me. It says, uh, hi, do you have a second to talk? I was a vendor at the Harvard Yale game

00:10:06.780 who lost a lot of revenue because of the protest. I saw a lot of inside info about what happened if you

00:10:11.180 want it. And so I got this, and I get messages like this a lot when there's something in the news

00:10:15.680 and somebody was personally affected by it. And they'll send me a message saying, Hey, I know

00:10:19.120 something about this, or I've got a perspective. And so I send a message back like I do for, for

00:10:24.340 anybody. And I said, uh, can you tell me over message what happened? I'm interested to hear.

00:10:28.520 And then, and then this is what he responded with. Of course. Thank you so much. I was selling

00:10:33.260 food just by the entrance of the Yale stadium, but since the game got delayed, I didn't have

00:10:37.020 enough heat slash gas to sell food the entire time. I'm mad as hell. But I heard some students

00:10:41.980 talking by my stand right before and during the protest. They were saying things like, don't start

00:10:46.940 until we get the okay from Joe and stay there until Joe gives the single signal. So it seems like

00:10:52.800 this guy was pretty central to the whole thing. And then I responded with, do you know who Joe

00:10:58.140 is? And then this guy says, Joe mama. That was it. That was, he was setting me up for that the

00:11:07.360 entire time. And the thing is I clicked on this guy's profile. He made this account, this fake

00:11:12.860 account just so he could message me. And he went through that whole long story just to hit me with

00:11:17.760 the Joe mama at the end. And I, I respect it. I really do salute to that guy. That is, I respect a

00:11:24.980 good troll game and that's, that's pretty good. And I fell right for it. Um, some people are saying

00:11:29.520 that I shouldn't have fallen for it. I, you know, I, where's the red flag on that? Maybe when he starts

00:11:33.020 getting into the Joe thing, but he just, he set me, he lulled me into a feeling of, of, of, of, of

00:11:39.680 confidence and then he hit me with it. So that's good stuff. All right, let's go to, um,

00:11:45.780 wanted to mention this quickly. Rick Perry is getting a lot of grief today on social media

00:11:51.040 and, uh, and by the mass media for something he said on Fox news about Donald Trump. So take a

00:11:58.200 listen. God's used, uh, imperfect people all through history. King David wasn't perfect.

00:12:03.020 Uh, Saul wasn't perfect. Solomon wasn't perfect. Uh, and I actually gave the president, uh, a little

00:12:08.440 one pager on those old Testament Kings about a month ago. And I shared it with him. I said,

00:12:13.660 Mr. President, I know there are people that say, you know, you, you said you were the chosen one.

00:12:17.820 Uh, and, and, and I said, you were, I said, if, if you're a believing Christian, you understand

00:12:25.320 God's plan, uh, for the people who, uh, rule and, and, and, and judge over us on, on this planet in

00:12:35.300 our, in our government. And so people are, people are making fun of this and look, I'm not a, I'm,

00:12:41.440 um, I'm not a fan of the Donald Trump King David comparisons. I'll say that.

00:12:48.220 One, it's, it's tired and played out to Trump is not a King three. There really is no similarity

00:12:55.360 that I can see. I've, I've, I'm very familiar with the biblical texts about King David. I don't

00:13:00.900 really see any similarity at all between him and Donald Trump aside, aside from the adultery thing.

00:13:05.340 But with that said, I want to stick up for Perry here. And, and I, and I think the reaction to this

00:13:10.560 as people are attacking him for saying Trump is the chosen one, the reaction shows again,

00:13:16.260 how the media fails to understand basic Christian theology and Christian thought.

00:13:21.740 And so they're always embarrassing themselves in an effort to embarrass Christians because they 1.00

00:13:26.480 don't understand Christianity, which is a pretty big flaw. If you're a work for the news media and 0.73

00:13:33.720 you don't understand this system of thought, this religion, this philosophy that the majority of

00:13:39.900 people in your, in, in the country, uh, ascribe to. So Perry is not saying despite the King David

00:13:46.500 comparison, Perry is not saying that Trump is a messianic figure or a prophet or, or anything like

00:13:55.660 that. He's simply saying that our leaders are in some sense appointed by God, that it's all in God's

00:14:03.700 will. So whoever's in charge is there according to God's will. That's his point. That's what he's

00:14:08.920 saying. And as he apparently also said, Obama, Obama was appointed by God as well for his time.

00:14:15.620 And for the reasons God had in mind. Now you don't have to agree with this. And if you aren't a

00:14:21.820 Christian, you probably won't, but that is the Christian approach, the Christian philosophy on

00:14:27.780 these things, that this is all in God's will and that, um, God and that leaders are there because

00:14:34.840 they're ordained by God to be there. This is, this is scriptural. It's in the Bible.

00:14:39.040 St. Paul is pretty explicit by this, about this. Now, um, I would agree that among the more fanatical

00:14:48.980 Trump fans, there's been a messianic sort of flavor to their Trump support, but that again is on the 0.61

00:14:56.380 fanatic extremes and it is gross. It's un-American. It's unbiblical. It's pathetic. It's blasphemous. 0.93

00:15:02.600 It's idol worshiping. It's a disgrace to, to see anyone make a Messiah out of a political figure.

00:15:08.440 I I'm totally opposed to that. I hate it. It disgusts me yet. The same was done. And this

00:15:13.900 is the point. The same was done on the fanatic extremes of Obama's support, how quickly that's

00:15:19.120 forgotten. So I think what we're seeing now with Obama and now with Trump is the beginning of a new

00:15:27.960 era, a new trend in American politics of on the extreme ends, turning our political leaders into

00:15:35.100 prophets and Messiahs. Now that's not, I say new, that's not a, it's certainly not a new thing in

00:15:39.800 world history. And it's, I wouldn't even call it a necessarily a totally new thing in American

00:15:44.600 history. There are people that did that with, you know, JFK, but people didn't really do that with

00:15:49.980 Bush. Okay. There was no, there was no Messiah complex with Bush. There weren't people doing that.

00:15:54.800 I don't think people really did that with Clinton. So, um, if you want to call it a resurgence or

00:16:00.540 something, we are seeing that now for people forgetting that these are just bureaucrats.

00:16:06.200 They, they aren't monarchs. Uh, they're really supposed to be our employees. They're supposed to

00:16:11.460 work for us. That's the attitude we're supposed to have about them. And this is why I go on all the

00:16:17.700 time about how I don't think politicians should have fans. I don't think you should be a fan of a

00:16:22.260 politician. You want to be a supporter, fine, but you're, you're a supporter and it's a very

00:16:27.440 conditional support. As long as they're doing things that you think are right, then you support

00:16:33.500 them while they do those things. But if they do things you don't think are right, then you criticize

00:16:36.960 them. And so we should all be fair weather supporters when it comes to politicians.

00:16:43.980 This stuff you hear sometimes about loyalty. No, we don't have loyalty to politicians in this

00:16:48.760 country. We have loyalty to the flag. We have loyalty to the country. We have loyalty to each

00:16:53.160 other, to our families, to our friends. We should not be loyal to politicians. That's a, that's a bad

00:16:59.420 move. And that's not just a phenomenon on the right or on the left. It's on both. And I find it equally

00:17:07.640 disturbing on both ends. And it's interesting that in the media, they've noticed some of this on the

00:17:13.720 fringes of Trump's support. And now they have a problem with it when they were the ones doing it

00:17:19.420 themselves when it was Obama. But again, that's not what Rick Perry's talking about here. That's

00:17:24.680 not how I read it. The Perry clip is not an example of that. He's just talking about what the Bible

00:17:29.640 says about, about our political leaders. The people who say that Trump is going to single-handedly

00:17:37.440 save America, or he is single-handedly saving America. People who fawn over him at rallies like

00:17:43.280 he's, like he's the Beatles and they're teenagers in the 1960s. That would be an example of the

00:17:49.480 messianic stuff for sure. But I don't think that's what I see here. Okay. Let's go back to a theme

00:17:56.560 we've talked about a lot on this show, especially recently, but I need to revisit it again because

00:18:02.280 this story just cannot be ignored. And what I'm going to read to you here, fair warning,

00:18:08.860 is very disturbing, also graphic. So if you just be prepared for that. All right, this is from the

00:18:17.100 Daily Mail. It says, children as young as six are being taught about touching or stimulating their own

00:18:23.500 genitals as part of classes that will become compulsory in hundreds of primary schools. Some

00:18:28.920 parents believe the lessons part of a controversial new sex and relationships teaching program called

00:18:34.400 All About Me are sexualizing their young children. One couple told last night how they are so disturbed

00:18:41.420 they withdrew their sons from lessons at a school where the program is already being taught. All About

00:18:46.420 Me is being rolled out across 241 primaries and could be adopted by other local authorities next year as

00:18:54.480 part of the government's overhaul of relationship and sex education. So this is not in the United

00:19:02.000 States. This is in the UK. Family campaigners and religious groups warn that vague guidelines issued

00:19:06.720 by the Department for Education meant schools could soon be providing sexual material to young children

00:19:11.240 that many parents would consider inappropriate. And then it goes on. I recommend going to the Daily

00:19:17.640 Mail and looking up this article. It says, under a section called Touching Myself, teachers are advised to

00:19:23.400 tell children that lots of people like to tickle or stroke themselves as it might feel nice. They're

00:19:29.660 also instructed to inform youngsters that this may include touching their private parts and that while

00:19:34.780 some people may say this behavior is dirty, it is in fact very normal. However, the youngsters are

00:19:40.340 warned it is not polite to touch themselves in public. Okay, so we get that concession at least. It is an

00:19:45.940 activity that should do be done alone in the bath, shower, or in bed.

00:19:49.220 Um, in the same lesson, children are given scenarios which they must judge to be okay or not okay.

00:19:58.700 In one, pupils are told that when a girl called Autumn has a bath and is alone, she likes to touch 0.95

00:20:04.180 herself between her legs. It feels nice. At this point, teachers are advised to remind the students 0.96

00:20:09.420 of the rules about self-stimulation. Oh my gosh. Um, like I can't even read any more of this. I

00:20:19.160 just, like I said, Daily Mail, a couple other outlets have picked it up. Now,

00:20:26.100 I'm not going to repeat everything I've said recently in general about the efforts to sexualize our

00:20:33.360 children and normalize pedophilia, which is what this is. In fact, this isn't, this isn't, this is

00:20:39.680 not just the gradual normalization of pedophilia. So I, in fact, I would not call this necessarily

00:20:46.440 the normalization of pedophilia. This is pedophilia. That that's, this isn't like the lead up to it.

00:20:52.320 Okay. Um, we're not on the slippery slope on the way to it. This is, this is it. Any teacher or

00:21:01.460 administrator who teaches a lesson like this is sexually abusing children and is therefore, 0.90

00:21:08.840 in my opinion, guilty of pedophilia. They're pedophiles, perhaps not in a legal sense because 0.97

00:21:15.100 the law is screwed up, but the fact of what they're actually doing can't be avoided. You are, 0.97

00:21:21.080 you are sexually preying upon children. You are grooming them. The fact that you're doing it in 0.99

00:21:26.240 school as, as part of a lesson plan makes no difference. And for any teacher who says, well,

00:21:32.980 I have no choice but to give the lesson plan. Well, that, that gets into this. I was following

00:21:37.840 orders thing that that excuse only gets you so far. And there are times in life when you don't follow

00:21:43.620 orders. And if the orders are go and participate in the sexual abuse of children, then your moral duty is

00:21:50.340 to say, no, and if you lose your job over that fine. So in my opinion, this is just straight up

00:21:57.680 pedophilia, plain and simple. Now this is not happening yet in the United States. This is across

00:22:05.060 the pond, but we know that Europe is just a true, is just a few train cars ahead of us on, on the train

00:22:11.100 to crazy town. It's not even like they're in a whole separate train there. They're, they're on the

00:22:15.000 same train, just a few cars up from us. So wherever they are now, we soon will be. Um, and why will we

00:22:22.420 be there? Because for one thing, this is a natural consequence of our whole approach to sex ed with

00:22:30.160 kids in school. This is why I've always said there should not be sex ed classes at school.

00:22:37.340 We get into the debate about, should there be abstinence education or safe sex education?

00:22:41.580 Neither. How about neither? Okay. We shouldn't do either one of those things. That's the wrong

00:22:48.580 question. It's a false choice. You want to teach kids about anatomy? Fine. Go ahead. You want to

00:22:55.520 teach them in them, the basic biological facts of human reproduction? This is how babies are made,

00:23:02.160 et cetera. Then great. Yeah, of course you're going to teach that. That's science. That's fine.

00:23:06.660 But it shouldn't go beyond that. There's no reason to go beyond that. It's not the school's job to

00:23:14.180 take it beyond that. It's not their business because anything beyond the basic facts of human

00:23:20.820 reproduction, anything outside of that gets into opinions and value systems. It gets into the school's,

00:23:28.100 the teacher's personal and ideological views about human sexuality. And really it might even go,

00:23:37.440 it gets even past that in some of these cases. It sounds like we're getting into their, into their

00:23:41.260 fetishes. But whatever it is, it's their personal perspective as demented and dark and disturbing as

00:23:53.400 that perspective is. Getting into what people should do, what they shouldn't do, what's normal,

00:24:00.180 what isn't. Why in God's name should we accept or allow the schools to give those opinion, those kinds

00:24:07.720 of opinions to our kids, these kinds of opinion-based lectures on sexuality? Who, who, who would have ever

00:24:14.340 thought that this is appropriate? What good argument is there for it? And you might say, well,

00:24:21.240 the schools have to do it because the parents aren't doing it. Well, first of all, this is the

00:24:28.220 problem that yes, what, what, what the, what this curriculum says to kids, it's true that a lot of

00:24:35.760 parents aren't saying that because they shouldn't be. Okay. If you're not a, a, a degenerate deviant

00:24:42.360 predator, you're not going to say that stuff to your child. And you see, that's the issue when you get 0.57

00:24:48.880 into, well, you have to, schools have to do it because the parents aren't doing it. It's your

00:24:53.240 opinion that it should be done at all. So it would be like, if I said, well, you know, there's a

00:24:58.940 problem and, uh, the parents aren't bringing their kids up in the faith. And so teachers need to stand

00:25:05.380 up there and say, Jesus Christ is your Lord and savior. Repent and believe. The left would go insane.

00:25:12.760 There would be cries of child abuse. They would say it's unconstitutional. It's oppressive. It's wrong. 0.60

00:25:16.940 There's no place for it in the school. And I couldn't say, well, the parents aren't doing it

00:25:21.760 because the answer would be, well, who says it needs to be done? And besides, it's not for the

00:25:26.000 schools to do. And in fact, I would agree. Now I wouldn't agree that that's abusive or oppressive.

00:25:34.020 It wouldn't be morally debased the way that this sex ed thing is, but it would be wrong. You know,

00:25:42.400 as a Christian, I would say it's, it's not for, it's not a teacher's job. It's not the place.

00:25:46.300 It's not the time for, uh, for them to get up there and preach like that. I think you want to

00:25:54.340 teach the Bible as a matter of history and literature, then I absolutely think that that

00:25:59.180 should be taught in school. It's the most influential piece of writing, uh, ever compiled.

00:26:04.260 And so obviously it should be taught, but in terms of your personal views on religion,

00:26:11.460 no, you're not, you're not passing that on to the kids. It's not your job.

00:26:17.080 Same with this. Um, so if a teacher is not supposed to get up there and preach the gospel

00:26:23.820 of Jesus Christ, then they also shouldn't get up there and preach the gospel of modern sexual 0.94

00:26:29.180 enlightenment. That's not okay either. It's not the teacher's place to share her religious views

00:26:36.060 and it's not her place to share her views on sexuality. And if you're taking that stuff out

00:26:42.000 of it, if you're taking all the opinion-based stuff out, if you're taking all the value-based

00:26:48.080 stuff out, you're taking all that's ideological out and you're, and you're, you're saying the schools

00:26:54.020 have no place there, then you've really, you've dismantled sex ed. There's no place for sex ed

00:26:58.680 anymore, which, which is exactly the point because everything that's left is stuff that you could

00:27:07.560 teach in science class. That's that, those are things that belong in biology and anatomy.

00:27:15.020 And we should do that. I'm not saying that the schools should tell, you know, sixth graders that

00:27:20.800 babies come from storks that drop them on the doorstep. I'm not saying that,

00:27:25.040 but there's a huge, vast chasm that separates. This is how babies are made from let's teach kids 0.99

00:27:37.480 about masturbation and not only teach them about it, but encourage them to do it. 0.74

00:27:42.180 But this is where we're headed. We, we, we really are. Uh, and I've been, look, I've been beating 0.80

00:27:50.700 this drum about the, um, the sexualization of children, the normalization of pedophilia.

00:27:59.620 And I've been talking about this and I'm not the only one, but those of us who have been talking

00:28:05.060 about it, we've been told for years that, uh, you're exaggerating or it's, it's not that bad.

00:28:11.060 You're being dramatic. And look at what's happened. While we've been warning about this,

00:28:16.740 you've got this, you've got the, you know, the drag queen story hours that have come popular. 0.96

00:28:20.260 You've got child drag queens dancing at gay bars. I mean, and, and dozens of other examples like that. 1.00

00:28:29.060 Maybe eventually everybody else will wake up and see that, Oh, you know, actually we're not being

00:28:33.740 dramatic. This is really happening. And if you want to avoid it happening in this country

00:28:41.500 and in our schools, then what that means is, is not, it doesn't mean that we come in and say,

00:28:49.100 let's do abstinence education. No, it means we say, let's not do this stuff in school at all.

00:28:55.660 Because actually we talk about abstinence education. Now I would prefer that obviously over this,

00:29:01.760 but I don't really want the teacher, but if I sent my kid to a public school, which I don't, but

00:29:08.800 if I did, I wouldn't want their teacher, their health teacher, whoever to stand up there and give

00:29:18.020 them a speech about the glories of abstinence. I don't want them doing that. It's, it's not your

00:29:24.240 place. It's none of your business. I just don't want you talking about that at all. I don't want you

00:29:28.920 helping my kid avoid having sex. To me is really weird. It's, it's better intended at least than 0.98

00:29:36.800 this other stuff, but it's still weird and wrong. And it's just not your place. Sorry. And the other

00:29:43.460 thing is I don't trust, no offense if you work in the schools, but I don't trust you to do it. I don't,

00:29:50.020 I don't trust you to do a sufficient job. And because we're getting into, it's a very difficult

00:29:55.660 message to relay and for, to make it effective and to make it resonate. I just don't trust you to do

00:30:01.400 it right. And so what I'm saying is, butt out, get the hell out of it. It's none of your damned

00:30:08.780 business. Just because we send the kids to school to learn ABCs and one, two, threes and to learn, 0.99

00:30:16.180 you know, all the algebra and history and that, that doesn't all of a sudden

00:30:21.780 mean that you have a say in every aspect of my kid's life. Why would it mean that?

00:30:32.900 All right. Let's move on to emails. MattWalshow at gmail.com. MattWalshow at gmail.com.

00:30:39.080 This is from Unnie says, Hey Matt, I am Unnie. And then gives me a pronunciation guide to pronounce

00:30:45.980 that right, which I appreciate by the way, a regular watcher of your show. I want to thank

00:30:50.240 you for dedicating several valuable minutes of your podcast regularly to defend the innocence and

00:30:54.100 safety of our children, be it James Younger, drag queen book reading sessions and public libraries

00:30:58.560 or the issue of permitting biological boys into the female changing rooms in school. Thank you for

00:31:02.600 fighting what really matters to people like me. Far too many conservative podcasts focus on the bigger

00:31:07.080 issues all the time, like elections, impeachment and Medicare for all. I sometimes feel that the

00:31:10.940 focus on the big issues takes attention away from the issues that affect us most. I'm not a father.

00:31:15.240 I'm not married, but I hope to experience the joy of being a father one day. Having people like you

00:31:18.420 defend our children gladdens my heart and makes me look forward to being a father one day. I hope to be

00:31:23.060 half as good at it as you are. Well, thank you. First of all, I think there are many people you could

00:31:31.200 look to for examples on how to be a great father. I wouldn't necessarily look to me. I'm still

00:31:34.700 still figuring that out for myself in many ways, but thanks for saying that. And I appreciate it.

00:31:41.320 I do hear, and I'll tell you why I appreciate it because I do hear complaints from people sometimes

00:31:46.800 that I don't talk enough about politics. I don't talk about impeachment, really these, as you say,

00:31:52.520 bigger, broader issues. And I don't because first of all, I figure you're hearing enough about that

00:31:59.520 everywhere else. You can go literally anywhere to hear analysis on that. And some of the analysis is very

00:32:05.700 good, but you've probably heard it already by the time you get to me. And also for me, those just aren't

00:32:12.020 the issues that I find to be the most important or the most interesting. And I don't think they're the

00:32:18.000 most relevant to your life. I don't think most people, when you wake up in the morning, I don't think

00:32:24.400 you're worrying about impeachment. I don't think your first thought is about the president or Nancy

00:32:30.200 Pelosi or a politician. I hope it isn't, right? Probably if you're a parent, for instance, one of

00:32:36.880 your first thoughts is about your kids. And one of the worries that you have when you wake up in the

00:32:41.280 morning and when you go to bed is about the culture that your kids are inheriting and stuff like that.

00:32:46.140 So that's what I find to be the most important. And you say that impeachment and everything, those are

00:32:50.260 the bigger issues. I know what you mean by that. But I think, just to clarify for everybody else,

00:32:55.860 and I don't want to speak for you, but I think what you mean is bigger in the sense of broader.

00:33:02.080 Those are the broader issues. And they are. But I don't think they're bigger, and it sounds like you

00:33:09.760 would agree, they're not bigger in terms of importance. And so in a way, I think that I do try to

00:33:17.140 focus on the bigger issues in terms of the ones that are more important and more relevant to our

00:33:22.780 lives. Okay, this is from Eric. Says, greetings, oh, great one. I humbly approach you and I'm seeking

00:33:29.400 justice in this cruel world. I have been wronged. I hope that under your rule, the world will be a

00:33:33.360 better, more just place. I am writing to see if there will be a law against such atrocities under

00:33:37.340 your great rule. I regret to inform you that after pumping gas at a local gas station, I returned to my car

00:33:42.620 like nothing had happened. Upon entering my car, I noticed a distinct smell. I came to realize

00:33:46.600 that my hand had been coated in someone's cologne from previous pumping. I find this absolutely

00:33:51.280 unacceptable and wonder what a punishment could be for such a horrible act. I'm not sure if this

00:33:55.460 is a larger problem across America or just a local one as I live on Long Island.

00:34:01.540 So someone lathered themselves with cologne so thick that it rubbed off on a gas pump and you could

00:34:08.720 smell that over the gasoline? There's no reason to punish that person, I'll just say. They've

00:34:16.500 already probably suffocated from their own fumes or suffered brain damage, which will maybe explain

00:34:22.660 a lot over up there on Long Island. I don't know. So this is one of those self-punishing infractions,

00:34:27.640 I would say, but I'm sorry you had to go through that.

00:34:29.500 Dear Glorious Leader, this is from Simon. With all the rules you've talked about chili on your show,

00:34:37.240 with all the times you've talked about chili on your show, I don't think you've ever given a ruling

00:34:40.240 on whether chili dogs are appropriate, which seems like a big oversight. As a theocratic chili

00:34:44.820 authority, how do you feel about them? How does cheese play in? This is one of those questions that

00:34:49.800 haunts me, frankly, and I did avoid it. I got a few emails about it and I decided to finally just answer

00:34:55.480 it. On the one hand, I enjoy chili dogs. On the other hand, can you make the case that putting

00:35:00.580 chili on a hot dog is an act of desecration? I think you could. Is it not blasphemous to treat

00:35:06.220 chili like a mere condiment? So I settle on a compromise, Simon. I say that, I look at it like 0.98

00:35:13.700 this. If you're going to dump a $90, if you're going to put red wine in your pasta sauce, you're not

00:35:21.420 going to put a $90 bottle of wine in the pasta sauce, right? You're going to put a $7 bottle of

00:35:25.220 red wine you picked up at the bottom rack at the liquor store into the red wine, into the pasta sauce.

00:35:34.460 And you aren't, under my regime, this will be a matter of law, but you're not going to take a

00:35:39.680 high-quality bourbon like Woodford Double Oaked or Blanton's or Baker's or even Four Roses Single

00:35:46.680 Barrel and put Coke in it, put soda. You're not going to do that. You're going to drink it neat.

00:35:50.700 You're going to drink it with ice. Those are the two appropriate ways to drink it.

00:35:54.040 And so I think it's the same thing with chili and hot dogs. If it's real chili, if it's good chili,

00:36:01.320 and you put it on a hot dog, then that, of course, would be treasonous and you would be 0.71

00:36:09.160 deserving of and, in fact, will receive death for that. But if we're talking about canned chili or

00:36:15.320 some abomination like that, or let's say, in fact, you're at someone's house and they serve

00:36:20.760 you chili and they put the chili down in front of you and you look at it and you see black beans

00:36:25.520 and you see corn and you see way too much tomatoes in there. So it's like this tomato-based corn and

00:36:32.860 bean soup that they're trying to pretend is chili. In that case, then what you would say to that person

00:36:39.160 is please bring me a hot dog because what you've given me here is a bowl of a condiment. This is

00:36:45.220 not a meal. So give me a hot dog so I can have a real meal. Do that or get the hell out of my house, 0.55

00:36:52.220 even though it's not your house, it's theirs. But you can kick them out of their own house for that

00:36:55.700 and then burn it to the ground. And I think that that would not be an overreaction at all.

00:37:01.620 Finally, from Emily says, hi, Matt, I agree with you on the trans bathroom issue, but what about

00:37:07.500 someone who has completely transitioned? What about a male who transitions to a woman and gets 0.92

00:37:10.660 the surgery and everything and is living full-time as a female? Don't you think it's reasonable to 1.00

00:37:14.860 allow them into the women's facility? In their case, at least wouldn't it be kind of cruel to force 1.00

00:37:19.360 them into the men's room? Yeah, the way that I look at this, two points, first of all, if somebody

00:37:25.740 does that to their body, that is their choice in many ways. And so I don't think we need to

00:37:33.200 reorganize society to accommodate that. Probably a better choice would be to not do that to yourself.

00:37:41.360 But it's also kind of irrelevant because if someone does go the whole nine yards with the

00:37:48.460 sex transition thing and they're living, as you say, quote, full-time as a woman and they look the 0.69

00:37:55.340 part and everything, then it's not an issue because nobody could tell the difference, right?

00:37:59.860 So if you're really living that way and pulling it off, then no one can tell the difference and we

00:38:05.080 don't need to change the rules because there's no issue. So I understand what you're saying and I've

00:38:10.040 got a lot of emails, people asking about this, well, what about? But that is exactly where you don't

00:38:17.060 really have an issue because nobody would know. It's only an issue when everyone can tell, that's

00:38:27.040 when it becomes an issue. And that's when you have just dudes who are, they got all the parts of dudes

00:38:34.660 and they look like dudes and everything. And they're just waltzing into the women's room.

00:38:40.500 So when we start changing laws and policies, it is specifically for those dudes because this

00:38:48.920 other category you're talking about, I guess for them, they're not really having much of a problem

00:38:53.300 because nobody knows. Now, what do I personally think? What's my personal view? My personal view is

00:39:02.480 if you're a male, you use the men's room no matter what you look like. And if you've gotten surgery,

00:39:08.700 you're still a man, so you still belong in the men's room. You're a woman, surgery or not, 1.00

00:39:13.500 you still belong in the women's room. But my point is, in terms of practically speaking, 0.99

00:39:17.380 in terms of everyday practice, I guess that wouldn't really come up because nobody would know.

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The Matt Walsh Show - November 25, 2019

Ep. 378 - Climate Protesters Officially Cross The Line

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