The Matt Walsh Show - January 06, 2020


Ep. 398 - Hollywood Gets The Treatment It Deserves


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52 minutes

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163.69804

Word Count

8,590

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648


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Transcript

00:00:00.120 Welcome to the show, everybody. I hope you had a wonderful weekend. I know that mine was okay, a little bit sleep-deprived, really.
00:00:08.300 You know, we have an infant in the house who wakes up like three times a night, as infants are prone to do.
00:00:14.400 But then we also have a three-year-old who has recently decided to get into this lovely phase where he also gets up like three times a night.
00:00:22.680 And then finally will wake up at 4 a.m. and he's ready to start the day at 4 a.m. He doesn't go back to bed after 4 a.m.
00:00:28.840 So it's been, you know, our kids are trying to kill us, basically. They're trying to, this is my distress call to the world.
00:00:37.620 They're trying to kill us because sleep is a human need. You can't survive without it.
00:00:42.840 What they're doing is a violation of the Geneva Convention.
00:00:45.820 I mean, if you were the warden of a prison and you woke your inmates up six times a night, you would be charged with human rights violations.
00:00:53.920 Yet this is what our kids are doing to us.
00:00:56.800 And I tried to explain this to my three-year-old last night at 4 a.m., but he wasn't getting it.
00:01:01.160 He just doesn't give a damn about the Constitution, honestly.
00:01:03.180 He's a total lib.
00:01:05.500 I blame his parents, honestly.
00:01:08.300 Anyway, so Ricky Gervais at the Golden Globes, you know, he actually made a Hollywood awards ceremony watchable for at least seven minutes,
00:01:17.780 which is an enormous achievement. It seems like an impossibility, right?
00:01:22.340 It seems like making an award show watchable, it's like if an IRS agent made an audit enjoyable,
00:01:30.200 or if your dentist made it fun to get a root canal.
00:01:33.220 It just seems like it's not possible.
00:01:34.660 But Gervais pulled it off, mainly by ruthlessly mocking the Hollywood degenerates in attendance.
00:01:40.440 And you've probably seen his opening monologue already, but if you haven't seen it, I'll play for you now.
00:01:47.580 This is probably my favorite part of his opening monologue.
00:01:52.000 We were going to do an in memoriam this year, but when I saw the list of people that had died, it wasn't diverse enough.
00:01:59.360 It just, no.
00:02:01.680 It was mostly white people.
00:02:03.720 And I thought, nah, not on my watch.
00:02:06.380 So, maybe next year.
00:02:09.560 Let's, let's see what happens.
00:02:12.820 No one cares about movies anymore.
00:02:14.680 No one goes to the cinema.
00:02:15.860 No one really watches network TV.
00:02:17.980 Everyone's watching Netflix.
00:02:19.740 This show should just be me coming out going, well done, Netflix, you win.
00:02:24.060 Everything.
00:02:24.660 Good night.
00:02:25.100 But no, no, we've got to drag it out for three hours.
00:02:27.860 You could binge watch the entire first season of Afterlife instead of watching this show.
00:02:32.260 So, that, that's a show about a man who wants to kill himself because his wife dies of cancer.
00:02:38.100 And it's still more fun than this.
00:02:40.080 Okay?
00:02:42.040 Spoiler alert.
00:02:43.220 Season two is on the way.
00:02:44.900 So, in the end, he obviously didn't kill himself.
00:02:47.420 Just like Jeffrey Epstein.
00:02:50.080 Shut up.
00:02:51.180 I know he's your friend, but I don't care.
00:02:53.160 And, by the way, Afterlife, which is his own show that he's plugging there very cleverly, is a really good show.
00:03:03.900 And the funny thing about Gervais is, although he's a great insult comic, he's also really good at making, at mixing sentimentality and humor.
00:03:13.600 So, usually with his shows, he's good at that.
00:03:15.860 But there was very little sentimentality last night, which is good.
00:03:18.440 At least not from Ricky Gervais.
00:03:20.000 Now, I didn't watch it past the monologue, but I hear that Gervais basically disappeared for the rest of the four-hour ceremony and showed up, you know, a couple of other times.
00:03:30.520 One of the times that he popped back in, I think at the very end, he made, I thought, his best joke of the night.
00:03:39.060 And like the other jokes, it was a joke, but also not really a joke at all.
00:03:44.580 Right.
00:03:46.300 Last one.
00:03:47.100 Last one.
00:03:47.580 Come on, guys.
00:03:48.020 Our next presenter starred in Netflix's Bird Box, a movie where people survive by acting like they don't see a thing.
00:03:57.260 Sort of like working for Harvey Weinstein.
00:04:01.080 You did it.
00:04:01.960 I didn't.
00:04:02.660 You did it.
00:04:05.020 Please welcome Sandra Bullock.
00:04:06.700 As you can hear there, the best thing about Gervais's routine was the reaction from the crowd.
00:04:14.960 You could tell that most of the uproarious sort of laughter was coming from the back of the room, from the somewhat normal people who showed up to watch.
00:04:22.520 But the front of the room where the big celebs are sitting, you know, there it's awkward silence and with a few exceptions.
00:04:31.900 They showed DiCaprio laughing a few times, which is nice.
00:04:34.420 But most of the other celebrities grimacing and just straining to get through it.
00:04:42.320 And that's because these people just absolutely cannot laugh at themselves.
00:04:49.220 They are clinically unable.
00:04:52.780 It's a clinical condition.
00:04:54.600 They cannot laugh at themselves.
00:04:55.900 They really do believe that they are our betters and that their purpose in life is to instruct us and guide us and show us the way.
00:05:05.500 And when somebody mocks them for doing that, they could only scowl in response.
00:05:10.360 They have no other response.
00:05:11.960 You can practically hear the why I never.
00:05:15.520 You can practically hear that.
00:05:16.860 It's an unspoken why I never coming from the Hollywood elites in attendance.
00:05:22.500 And all of this, of course, proves his point.
00:05:24.600 You know, if they had all just laughed hysterically at his jokes and thus at themselves, it would have undercut what he's saying.
00:05:34.600 And it would have vindicated them a little bit.
00:05:36.760 But instead, they responded exactly as he and the rest of us expect, thus vindicating everything that he was saying about them.
00:05:43.100 And not just the celebrities in the room.
00:05:45.000 Also, the left-wing media.
00:05:47.540 Gervais was a hit with the average viewer.
00:05:49.940 I think that much is clear from the social media response alone.
00:05:52.440 In fact, Entertainment Weekly did an online poll asking everyone what they thought of Gervais' performance.
00:05:59.780 And the last I checked, it was like 80-20 in favor.
00:06:03.260 Probably not the response that EW was looking for.
00:06:05.420 Meanwhile, Lorraine Ali is a TV critic over at the L.A. Times, and she posted her review of Gervais.
00:06:15.180 And she put it up on Twitter with this caption.
00:06:18.200 It said,
00:06:18.560 The Golden Globes, the mood was already sober thanks to an impeachment, threat of war with Iran, and Australian bushfires.
00:06:25.240 The last thing anyone needed was Ricky Gervais there telling them they sucked.
00:06:29.620 No, Lorraine, that is exactly what we all needed to see.
00:06:34.700 That is precisely what we needed.
00:06:36.840 Reading a bit from her piece now.
00:06:38.120 Actually, I want to read a good portion of it because it's just so delicious in all the ways that she definitely did not intend.
00:06:44.040 So she says,
00:06:44.840 Forget the escapist magic of Hollywood.
00:06:47.540 Nihilism was the name of the game when host Ricky Gervais opened the Golden Globes on Sunday night with a gloom and doom monologue so cynical and made the effervescent Tom Hanks scowl.
00:06:58.140 Nihilism.
00:06:59.200 She calls it nihilism.
00:07:00.860 To attack Hollywood is nihilistic, according to Lorraine Ali.
00:07:06.420 You know, nihilism is when you think that nothing matters, right?
00:07:09.520 It's when you think that life doesn't matter, nothing matters.
00:07:12.040 So in Lorraine Ali's mind, if you think that Hollywood doesn't matter, then that's the same thing as thinking life itself doesn't matter.
00:07:20.240 To attack Hollywood is to attack life itself.
00:07:22.920 It's to attack existence.
00:07:24.720 So if you don't like Hollywood, you're a nihilist, according to Lorraine.
00:07:30.720 The 58-year-old former, going back to the article now, the 58-year-old former Golden Globe winner and five-time host also flippantly reminded the packed room that no one cares about movies anymore.
00:07:40.980 This is supposed to make us, you know, turn on Gervais.
00:07:52.120 We're supposed to go, oh, Meryl Streep shook her head.
00:07:55.000 You're telling me that Meryl Streep didn't like it?
00:07:56.760 Well, then it must have been terrible.
00:07:59.660 Meryl Streep shook her head.
00:08:00.820 The host's acerbic wit was nothing new.
00:08:05.020 He's certainly offended in the past from the awards stage, and the ads for Sunday's telecast played upon the idea that anything could happen, including Gervais being a jerk.
00:08:13.380 His knack for ripping on Hollywood and offending the glitterati is well known among the thin-skinned in the industry.
00:08:18.360 But at the Beverly Hilton, where the three-hour-plus ceremony took place, the mood was already sober, thanks to an impeachment, the threat of war with Iran, and devastating bushfires in Australia.
00:08:28.560 Backing up for a second.
00:08:29.520 Yes, sober, right.
00:08:31.700 That's been the reaction from the left on impeachment.
00:08:34.440 They take it very, they have a very sober-minded, serious approach to it.
00:08:40.200 It's not like they're celebrating it.
00:08:41.740 It's not like they've been jumping, jumping up and down with shouting with joy over it.
00:08:48.200 No, they're very sober, right?
00:08:51.440 She says, the last thing anyone needed was for the smirking master of ceremonies to reprimand them for having hope, or to taunt the room for trying to use their influence to change things for the better.
00:09:03.680 Yes, that's it.
00:09:05.400 The problem is they have hope.
00:09:07.500 Right.
00:09:07.920 That's our issue.
00:09:08.720 Our issue with Hollywood is all the hope we get from it.
00:09:13.300 That's what we think.
00:09:14.040 When we turn on the TV and we see a bunch of drug-addled multimillionaires patting themselves on the back for five and a half hours, we think to ourselves, ugh, these people have too much hope.
00:09:25.420 Turn that off.
00:09:26.220 There's too much hope.
00:09:29.000 That's what I said when I came home.
00:09:30.500 My wife was watching The Gold Gloves.
00:09:31.680 Turn off this hope.
00:09:33.500 You listen, look at all that hope.
00:09:36.340 All these people with their hope.
00:09:38.720 Yes, that's exactly it.
00:09:40.780 Lorraine Ali has her finger on the pulse.
00:09:43.520 You know, she really understands.
00:09:45.540 She understands the common man.
00:09:46.980 She knows what makes us tick.
00:09:50.480 Gervais' disingenuous call for an apolitical evening was also answered by Russell Crowe when he won for actor in a limited series or TV movie for Showtime's Roger Ailes docudrama, The Loudest Room.
00:10:01.880 The actor wrote in a statement, make no mistake, the tragedy unfolding in Australia is climate change based, which the actor wrote in a statement read by an audibly emotional Jennifer Aniston.
00:10:14.620 We need to act based on science, move our global workforce to renewable energy, and respect our planet for the unique and amazing place it is.
00:10:23.880 Others joined the chorus, including Joker winner Joaquin Phoenix, Carol Burnett Award recipient Ellen DeGeneres, and presenter Cate Blanchett.
00:10:30.760 See, the drones over at LA Times just are incapable of understanding this.
00:10:37.520 Nobody cares what Russell Crowe or Cate Blanchett think about politics or the state of the world.
00:10:45.560 And not that they don't have the right to say it, they can say it all they want.
00:10:49.000 It's just that nobody cares.
00:10:51.600 And that was exactly the point that Gervais was making.
00:10:56.460 And then, finally, this is maybe my favorite part.
00:10:59.320 She says, as for spectacle, the most notable moment, aside from a few awards upsets, was the late arrival of Jay-Z and Beyonce.
00:11:07.580 The pair stood back during Cate McKinnon's moving tribute to DeGeneres before taking their seats, but they at least provided a high-voltage moment in a room full of star power.
00:11:18.320 This says it all, okay?
00:11:20.200 To the TV critic in LA, the most notable moment, the most electric moment, was Beyonce and Jay-Z walking into the room.
00:11:30.700 Just them simply walking into the room and taking their seat.
00:11:34.360 That's the water cooler moment in Lorraine Ali's mind.
00:11:40.060 That's the thing where at work the next day, you're at the water cooler.
00:11:43.300 You said, hey, Chuck, did you catch the Globes last night?
00:11:46.840 Man, did you see Beyonce walking into the room?
00:11:50.480 Beyonce and Jay-Z?
00:11:52.200 Man, unbelievable.
00:11:55.040 Unforgettable.
00:11:56.180 I'll be telling my grandparents about that one.
00:11:58.320 Or my grandchildren, sorry.
00:12:00.480 Maybe I'll tell my grandparents, too.
00:12:01.620 That's because Lorraine Ali worships these people.
00:12:06.000 Because she worships people like Beyonce.
00:12:08.580 Literally worships them as gods.
00:12:10.740 And she doesn't understand how anyone else could see it differently.
00:12:14.980 You know, for her, to simply lay eyes on Beyonce is the defining moment.
00:12:23.780 But that's not how the rest of us see it.
00:12:29.300 So Lorraine doesn't get it.
00:12:30.400 Neither does Vox, predictably.
00:12:32.040 In response to Gervais' Globes monologue, they published a piece, Vox did, cataloging all the times that Gervais has made offensive jokes in the past.
00:12:43.000 So this is kind of the same thing that Media Matters does with us at the Daily Wire all the time.
00:12:48.220 Where they come up with these montages and things of defensive things we've said on our show.
00:12:54.720 But it's all of our best stuff.
00:12:57.220 They're very good at pulling out our best stuff.
00:12:59.080 So Vox did the same thing with Gervais.
00:13:00.980 Pulling out some of his funniest material and publishing it in an article.
00:13:05.300 Thinking that we'll all read it and shake our heads in disapproval the way that Meryl Streep would.
00:13:12.680 And the headline of the article,
00:13:14.120 How to tell a Ricky Gervais joke.
00:13:16.120 Offend, defend, repeat.
00:13:18.940 Ricky Gervais says comedians shouldn't pitch down.
00:13:21.500 He's rubbish at taking his own advice.
00:13:24.400 Punching down.
00:13:26.280 I mean, he's up there taking swipes at the most powerful people in media and Hollywood.
00:13:31.620 He's insulting Apple and Amazon.
00:13:33.580 And that's punching down.
00:13:37.460 Which is absurd.
00:13:39.240 But as I said, the main.
00:13:42.880 The main ones who who didn't get it were in the audience.
00:13:48.240 The celebrities in the audience.
00:13:49.900 And nobody proved that point better than Michelle Williams, who is an actress, by the way.
00:13:55.940 And she got up to an acceptance award and proceeded to launch into one of the most deranged
00:14:01.960 and disturbing speeches I've seen in a long time.
00:14:05.080 A speech where she's bragging about her own abortions.
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00:14:12.260 And is using this opportunity to brag about having killed one of her previous children.
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00:15:49.300 So at the end of his monologue, Gervais gave advice to the people who would follow him
00:15:55.780 on stage, advice that almost all of them disregarded.
00:15:59.740 But here's the advice that he gave.
00:16:01.580 It's pretty good advice.
00:16:02.600 Apple roared into the TV game with a morning show, a superb drama.
00:16:07.720 Yeah.
00:16:07.900 A superb drama about the importance of dignity and doing the right thing made by a company
00:16:16.600 that runs sweatshops in China.
00:16:18.680 So, well, you say you're woke, but the companies you work for, I mean, unbelievable.
00:16:22.760 Apple, Amazon, Disney.
00:16:24.840 If ISIS started a streaming service, you'd call your agent, wouldn't you?
00:16:28.620 So, if you do win an award tonight, don't use it as a platform to make a political speech,
00:16:35.200 right?
00:16:35.380 You're in no position to lecture the public about anything.
00:16:38.400 You know nothing about the real world.
00:16:40.380 Most of you spent less time in school than Greta Thunberg.
00:16:43.480 So, if you win, right, come up, accept your little award, thank your agent and your God.
00:16:49.420 But, be that as it may, Michelle Williams, who won for something or other, was not going
00:17:01.900 to give up her chance to deliver a homily.
00:17:04.600 And so, that's exactly what she did.
00:17:07.140 I've tried my very best to live a life of my own making, not just a series of events that
00:17:11.820 happened to me, but one that I could stand back and look at and recognize my handwriting
00:17:16.780 all over, sometimes messy and scrawling, sometimes careful and precise, but one that I had carved
00:17:23.000 with my own hand.
00:17:24.240 And I wouldn't have been able to do this without employing a woman's right to choose.
00:17:39.760 To choose when to have my children and with whom.
00:17:44.140 When I felt supported and able to balance our lives, knowing, as all mothers know, that
00:17:49.400 the scales must and will tip towards our children.
00:17:52.680 Now, I know my choices might look different than yours, but thank God, or whomever you pray
00:17:59.020 to, that we live in a country founded on the principle that I am free to live by my faith,
00:18:05.440 and you are free to live by yours.
00:18:08.080 So, women, 18 to 118, when it is time to vote, please do so in your own self-interest.
00:18:15.360 It's what men have been doing for years.
00:18:18.200 Okay, wow.
00:18:29.860 There's just so much to unpack here.
00:18:31.660 First of all, the first thing that jumps out is she's got the audience tearfully applauding
00:18:39.460 self-interest.
00:18:40.580 I mean, they are applauding self-interest.
00:18:44.320 Right after Gervais spent seven minutes at the beginning of the show accusing them of
00:18:48.980 being a bunch of pretentious, high-minded, self-interested phonies, and then Williams gets
00:18:58.200 up and says, yay, self-interest, and everybody applauds.
00:19:02.620 You see the woman in the audience?
00:19:03.660 I don't know who that was.
00:19:05.340 Crying?
00:19:06.800 She's crying tears of joy at the very thought of self-interest.
00:19:12.040 Michelle Williams says, we should be self-interested.
00:19:14.820 And the woman in the audience, oh my God, that's so beautiful.
00:19:17.880 Yes, selfishness.
00:19:19.280 I agree.
00:19:20.300 I agree.
00:19:22.160 By the way, do you think women, especially these women, need you to tell them to vote with
00:19:30.440 self-interest?
00:19:31.840 Everybody votes that way, okay?
00:19:33.680 Women and men.
00:19:35.000 So what is Williams suggesting?
00:19:36.360 Is she saying that up until now, women have, as a group, been these selfless martyrs who
00:19:42.740 don't take their own interests into account when they go to the voting booth?
00:19:48.380 No.
00:19:49.860 Now, although most people do already vote out of self-interest, so that's the last thing
00:19:54.760 you need to tell anybody to do.
00:19:56.120 Um, and certainly those people sitting up front at the Golden Globes are, don't need any guidance
00:20:02.820 or any encouragement to be self-interested.
00:20:05.140 But is that actually what we should be doing?
00:20:09.400 Shouldn't we be voting rather than solely for our own interests?
00:20:12.700 Shouldn't we be voting for what's best for the country?
00:20:16.280 What's best for our community?
00:20:17.380 What's best for our families?
00:20:19.300 What's best for our children?
00:20:21.800 Isn't that the more noble approach here?
00:20:24.920 And, and, and wait a second, sidebar.
00:20:28.440 What is Michelle Williams doing talking about women as if they're some separate, distinct,
00:20:35.680 exclusive group?
00:20:37.380 What is she doing talking about women's bodies?
00:20:39.660 None of that exists anymore, Michelle, remember?
00:20:44.020 This is, keep up with your own ideology here.
00:20:47.360 You're not allowed to say that stuff anymore.
00:20:50.000 That doesn't exist.
00:20:51.940 There is no woman.
00:20:53.860 There is no man.
00:20:55.420 That distinction is meaningless.
00:20:57.440 That's your worldview.
00:20:59.340 It's not mine.
00:21:00.300 That's yours.
00:21:01.100 That's what you think.
00:21:04.100 Now, if we could put that to the side, which we can't, but if we could,
00:21:07.740 uh, then we get to the bit about abortion and what, again, what an incredible illustration
00:21:16.540 and vindication of Gervais's point.
00:21:19.420 You've got this room full of wealthy narcissists wearing outfits that cost more than my car,
00:21:25.800 applauding the murder of children, applauding self-interest and child murder.
00:21:33.180 You've got a multimillionaire celebrity winning an award for doing a good job of
00:21:37.680 pretending to be somebody else, bragging about the time she killed her child and her millionaire
00:21:42.800 friends applauding it.
00:21:44.600 Now, actually, let's go back.
00:21:45.920 I want to go back and, uh, isolate that part.
00:21:48.700 Let's go back and listen just to the part about abortion because there's a few things worth noting.
00:21:53.220 As women and as girls, things can happen to our bodies that are not our choice.
00:21:59.320 I've tried my very best to live a life of my own making and not just a series of events that happened
00:22:05.320 to me, but one that I could stand back and look at and recognize my handwriting all over,
00:22:10.560 sometimes messy and scrawling, sometimes careful and precise, but one that I had carved with my own hand.
00:22:17.300 And I wouldn't have been able to do this without employing a woman's right to choose.
00:22:23.520 To choose when to have my children and with whom, when I felt supported and able to balance our lives,
00:22:41.000 knowing as all mothers know that the scales must and will tip towards our children.
00:22:45.540 Okay. Again, this women's body stuff, what is a woman's body? What is that? That, that,
00:22:54.260 that's not a thing that exists anymore, according to Michelle's own worldview. So I just, okay, fine.
00:23:01.480 We'll just, we'll, we'll, we'll try to put that to the side. She says that, uh, things can happen to
00:23:07.020 a woman's body that they don't choose. She says abortion enables her to decide when to have kids and with
00:23:15.000 whom. Now, unless we're talking about rape, this is all nonsense, except in cases of rape,
00:23:21.760 which accounts for less than 1% of all abortions. So in the 99% of cases, when a woman gets pregnant,
00:23:27.500 she did absolutely choose it. Even if she didn't want to get pregnant, she still chose to do the thing
00:23:35.760 that has billions of times in the past resulted in the conception of a, of a new human life.
00:23:43.900 That was her choice. And with whom? Well, she chose that too. She chose to have sex with a male member
00:23:51.460 of the species. They, they chose to participate in the reproductive act. That's a choice they made.
00:23:58.880 You get rid of abortion. You do not at all impinge on choice, even slightly. You do not
00:24:06.960 interfere with a woman's ability to choose who she has sex with or to choose whether or not to have
00:24:13.120 sex in the first place. Also, I want you to note something else. It's kind of subtle. So maybe you
00:24:19.420 you might've missed this. Um, she says that abortion allows her to choose when to have my children and
00:24:32.200 with whom you notice that notice the phrasing. She says, you know, I could choose when to have my
00:24:38.400 children and with whom. So the phrasing there is interesting when to have my children, my children.
00:24:44.800 So Williams has a daughter right now. Um, and that's, I don't know how old the other, it's a child.
00:24:52.180 Um, and she's also currently pregnant. So she was extolling the virtues of child murder while she was
00:24:57.780 pregnant, which is sick. But the way she phrases it makes it sound like, you know, my children, the two
00:25:05.800 that I have were going to come earlier, but it wasn't the right time. So instead I had them later.
00:25:12.920 I didn't want to have my children earlier. So I had the abortion and then I had my children later.
00:25:21.420 So this makes it sound like you can have an abortion and then postpone parenthood for a time
00:25:29.500 and then become a parent later. As if the child that's been conceived, you can abort that child
00:25:37.000 and then have that same child later. This is the, this is the delusion that abortion clinics sell to
00:25:45.460 women. But of course it's not true. It is a delusion. When you conceive a child, you have a child.
00:25:55.200 If you kill that child, they aren't going to be reconceived and then born some other time in the,
00:26:01.340 in the, in the undetermined future, they they're dead and you're still a parent. You haven't put
00:26:09.600 off parenthood. So when you have an abortion, you're not putting off that child and you're not
00:26:15.400 putting off parenthood. That's still your child and you're still a parent. It's just that now you're
00:26:20.840 the parent of a dead child and that child will stay dead forever. Um, and when you do have a child
00:26:29.860 in the future, that's not going to be the child that you aborted. That child is dead. So now the
00:26:35.320 child that you do have is going to have a dead sister or a dead brother. That's the reality of
00:26:41.420 abortion. It doesn't allow you to choose when to have kids that choice, you know, that by the time the
00:26:49.320 abortion occurs, that's irrelevant. The choice of when to have kids is, is something that needs to
00:26:55.900 happen before conception. Okay. If you put off conception, then you have put off having kids.
00:27:06.080 But when you have the abortion, you already had the kid. It's just that now the child is dead.
00:27:12.320 Um, and that's, you know, uh, uh, the blunt
00:27:19.740 way of putting it, but there's no other way to put it.
00:27:27.820 So Michelle Williams, you know, according to her, she says she's, she had at least one abortion. She,
00:27:32.700 she alludes to there. So she, Michelle Williams has three children, two alive and one dead.
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00:29:16.800 the fastest growing genre in us fiction is the genre where a person makes up a fake story about
00:29:23.640 something bad that happened to them. And of course a convention of this genre is that the person doing
00:29:28.960 the bad thing, the villain in the story is always a Trump supporter, right? And though, although it's
00:29:34.220 not always specified how exactly we know that the villain is a Trump supporter, we just know it
00:29:39.180 intuitively. So, uh, we've got our latest entry into this genre. It's a genre that for shorthand,
00:29:46.100 we could call this genre Smollett. So our latest Smollett is from a woman named Wendy Trong.
00:29:51.200 And she had a tale to tell. And she told it on Twitter yesterday. This is what she said.
00:29:59.600 Uh, she said, my son and I were in Costco recently, sorry, my son and I were in Costco quietly
00:30:06.980 discussing his deployment. And a woman walked up to us and said, what are you crying about?
00:30:12.840 You won't have, you won't have any more kids to bother you when he dies and you'll have his life
00:30:17.380 insurance money. My son had to pull my hands from her neck. F these maggots, maggots as in M-A-G-A-T-S,
00:30:26.240 you know, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, the, the term for, uh, for the reference to Trump supporters. Okay. So
00:30:36.260 she claims that she was at Costco, just talking to her son, minding her own business.
00:30:41.900 And then she starts, I guess, crying about the fact that he's going to deploy.
00:30:47.300 And this woman out of nowhere comes in and says, what are you crying about? He's not going to bother
00:30:52.420 you anymore when he's dead. Uh, and then you'll get his life insurance money. I, I listen, you know,
00:31:00.600 lots of things haven't happened in this world, but very few things haven't happened as emphatically
00:31:09.340 as this didn't happen. I mean, this didn't even come close to happening. I doubt that she was even
00:31:15.400 in a Costco. This is not even in the vicinity of something that could even possibly have happened.
00:31:22.980 Now you have to give her points for being bold though, because she just is not concerned with
00:31:26.820 believability at all. She, she has no concern for that. She's tossing that to the wind. Also doesn't
00:31:33.240 explain, doesn't bother explaining how she knows that the woman is a Trump supporter. Maybe she screamed,
00:31:37.240 this is MAGA country afterwards. She doesn't, she doesn't explain, but, um, this is the claim that
00:31:42.400 she makes. This is this, this, this story in this story, this, this woman, this Trump supporter,
00:31:48.800 this fictional Trump story, this is the least believable villain since like, I don't know, uh,
00:31:53.200 the, the, the guy from power Rangers, Lord Zed, this is, I, it would be more believable to me
00:32:00.380 if she said that the villain from power Rangers showed up and drop kicked her. I would be more likely
00:32:06.220 to believe that than this, but you, you notice something about these fake stories and this is
00:32:13.260 how you always know that they're fake. Um, these fake stories that leftists make up to, to smear
00:32:19.820 Trump supporters. You notice that these people, these leftists just have taken no time and exerted
00:32:27.840 no energy in trying to actually understand the other side. They don't see the other side of the
00:32:35.780 political divide. They don't see them as people, their caricatures, their cartoons
00:32:40.340 because this, this fictional Trump supporter that she made up and her fake story. Um, this is,
00:32:49.080 that is just not how people operate at all. There's nothing believable about that. That,
00:32:55.260 that, that is not a human being. That's a cartoon. And the fact that this is what's significant
00:33:01.540 about it. It's that to Wendy Truong, you know, she thinks that's believable because that's how
00:33:09.220 she sees Trump supporters. She sees them as the kind of people who would go up to you at Costco
00:33:15.220 and, and tell you that it's okay if your son dies because you'll get his life insurance money.
00:33:21.940 Meanwhile, the son is standing right there. That that's how she sees Trump supporters,
00:33:27.320 uh, which, which tells you that either she has never come out of her bubble to actually interact
00:33:35.660 with Trump supporters, or when she does, she's not paying attention at all
00:33:41.100 to who they actually are and how they operate. Because if she did, she would see that these are
00:33:49.620 normal people who she disagrees with, but they're normal people. They're not cartoon villains,
00:33:56.140 as it turns out. All right. Um, so that's maybe a lesson. Uh, if, if, if you don't want to take the
00:34:08.740 time to understand the other side, just as a matter of being a, you know, just for the sake of, of
00:34:14.400 yourself being a decent person, uh, just for the sake of empathy, then maybe at least take that time
00:34:20.440 so that you can make, make up more believable stories when you try to smear them in the future.
00:34:26.140 Think of it as, as research. It's research for the part that you're trying to play in the future.
00:34:34.300 You want to play the part of the victim of a, of an evil Trump supporter. Well,
00:34:38.480 then you really got to take the time, do the research, figure out what makes these people tick.
00:34:46.160 All right. You know, 2020 is going to be a bottomless pit of savagery. As we watch Democrats
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00:35:47.760 Only trust me. You don't want to miss this. All right, let's go to emails. Matt wall show at
00:35:52.360 gmail.com. Matt wall show at gmail.com. Uh, this one is from Danette says warm greetings to you from
00:36:00.540 sunny Chicago. First off, I love your show and I actively watch all of the daily wires content via
00:36:04.600 the new app. And even though I've been a subscriber for a month now, uh, well, this, this, I didn't do
00:36:11.180 this on purpose. This actually works pretty nicely from the, from what I was just talking about in the
00:36:15.560 promo there. So here we have a, uh, someone who's a, who uses the new app. Uh, even though I've been
00:36:21.060 a subscriber for a month now and have yet to receive the legendary Tumblr, wink, wink, nudge,
00:36:25.160 nudge. I'm not bitter about it. Well, I'll make sure you get that to net. I'll look into that.
00:36:28.840 Attached is a picture of my family's favorite dinner. What you, what you have the privilege of
00:36:33.880 gazing upon is a bacon wrapped pork tenderloin on a bed of various vegetables salted with Tony's
00:36:39.880 Creole seasoning, or as I like to call it pig in a pig blanket. It is broiled and served with my
00:36:45.900 homemade smoked cheddar gravy. We are primarily a keto household. So don't worry. This decadence will
00:36:51.360 not kill us. Uh, I hope that my bacon is a keto or keto by the way, which one is it? I'm going with
00:36:58.280 keto. I hope that my bacon cooking method meets your approval as you are particular about your bacon.
00:37:03.660 Okay. So Danette has given us a picture of her bacon, her bacon dish. Let's take a look at this
00:37:11.200 picture that you sent Danette. Here it is. Now I'm going to leave that up on the screen for a minute
00:37:15.680 because we really need to get into this. Danette, you want me to review your bacon.
00:37:21.460 I will do it, but you can't get offended. Now, remember you asked for this.
00:37:26.880 Now, um, the management training course that I took for my assistant manager job at Domino's when I was
00:37:34.300 19 told me that you should always couch criticism with positive feedback as well. So on a positive
00:37:40.760 note, I like the idea behind your dish. I like your energy. I like your hustle. I like your commitment
00:37:47.380 to pork. I like the cheddar gravy idea. All that is good. Very commendable. Unfortunately, the execution
00:37:53.880 is a disaster on the level of the Hindenburg. Now this is supposed to be the finished product,
00:37:59.740 correct? What we're looking at here. So you've already cooked it. If you've already cooked this,
00:38:06.440 then why is there raw bacon draped over the pork? Is the pork tenderloin raw too? Is that just a live
00:38:14.920 pig hanging out under there? I mean, look at this bacon, look at this bacon. There is precisely one
00:38:20.960 piece of bacon that is properly cooked on this entire dish. And you could spot it yourself. It's right there.
00:38:26.140 You see the horizontal strips of bacon at the bottom of the screen, the one in the middle right there.
00:38:31.940 That is the only properly cooked piece of bacon. And how do you know that it's properly cooked? Well,
00:38:37.960 you notice the coloring. You notice the charred edges. You notice the texture. It's got all of the
00:38:43.920 the hallmarks of a properly well cooked piece of bacon. So well done. You did one nicely cooked
00:38:50.460 piece of bacon. The problem is there's like 20 pieces of bacon on that thing. And I would never
00:38:54.780 say that it's a problem to have 20 pieces of bacon. It's only a problem when you don't cook the other
00:38:58.960 19. Now really having that one well cooked piece of bacon only makes the rest of it worse because then
00:39:06.780 you get the, you know, now we can compare it. So compare that to the vertical slice all the way to the
00:39:13.100 far left, um, of the, of the screen or no, the far right, depending on which way you're looking at
00:39:20.040 this. Now notice it's, it's sickly pale white appearance. It looks like it has the stomach flu,
00:39:27.040 pale, sweaty, soggy, just lying there limp. And you serve that to your family. Are you trying to kill
00:39:34.860 them? My God, Danette, this is, if my wife served that to me, we'd be in marriage counseling.
00:39:39.600 That's how bad it is. Now the, the bacon does get progressively better as you go down the tender
00:39:45.880 line, but even the, even the best cooked piece of bacon is not cooked very well at all. So let me
00:39:53.340 ask you this, Danette, when you make meatballs, do you just, you know, take the ground beef and,
00:39:58.960 and, and, and grab a chunk of, of raw ground beef and throw it on the table, throw it in your
00:40:05.700 husband's face. Here's your meatball. Is that what you do? Because that's the equivalent of what
00:40:13.500 you've done here. I can't look at this anymore. I am, I am shocked and appalled. I have to assume
00:40:20.940 that this is some sort of practical joke, but, um, thank you for being a subscriber and, uh, thank you
00:40:28.600 for, for listening as well. Appreciate your support. Um, let's go to Victor says, hi, Matt. I agree with
00:40:36.700 everything you say about gender. Men are men and women are women, but I've always struggled with
00:40:40.820 your insistence that we shouldn't use people's preferred pronouns. You say that calling a man,
00:40:45.320 a she or vice versa is bad grammar and violates the rules of language, but grammar is a social
00:40:50.660 convention and changes with the time. Anyway, I think your argument is weak. Uh, let's see. I think
00:40:56.780 your argument is weak here. Yes. The left is trying to change the rules of language, but the rules of
00:41:00.300 language always change. So what's the big deal? Well, I think you have my argument wrong, Victor.
00:41:05.960 My problem with calling a man, a she is not that it violates the rules of grammar. It's not that it's
00:41:10.820 ungrammatical. It's that it's incomprehensible and also it's false. So, you know, if I say that,
00:41:19.120 um, we should call elephants, elephants and not horses, I'm not making a point about grammar.
00:41:26.780 It's not bad grammar to call an elephant, a horse. That's not, you wouldn't call that bad grammar.
00:41:31.580 That's just a lie or a mistake, um, or a, you know, a mark of confusion. And if we were to codify
00:41:40.380 this new rule or policy where elephants can be called elephants or horses and horses can be horses
00:41:46.900 or elephants, then we have made language unintelligible, not just ungrammatical. We've
00:41:53.020 made it unintelligible. Nobody has any idea what anyone was talking about. Now it's true. It's true
00:41:58.900 that we don't have to call elephants elephants. We could call them anything we want. And every
00:42:05.500 language has its own, its own word for elephant, right? So that's not the point. The actual word
00:42:12.800 that we use for elephant, the word elephant itself is basically arbitrary. We could use any word.
00:42:19.840 I mean, we think about it. A word is a symbol, you know, every word is a symbol and it, because it
00:42:27.100 stands for something. And when you're communicating, you are to somebody else, you are putting into their
00:42:34.140 head, a whole string of symbols where each thing that you say stands for something in the real world,
00:42:40.020 um, or something in your mind that you're trying to convey. And, and so that's what it is. So you
00:42:47.240 could use any symbol to stand for elephant. We use the word elephant. Fine. But the point is you need
00:42:54.220 to have a different symbol for elephant than you do for horse. It doesn't matter what it is, whatever
00:43:00.140 the word is, whatever the sound is, whatever the symbol is, it doesn't matter. It could be literally any
00:43:04.620 word. It just has to be a distinct word. It has to not be the same word that you use for horse or else
00:43:11.840 again, language fails to do the thing that language is supposed to do, which is convey meaning.
00:43:18.840 That's the point. When I'm speaking to you, I am trying to communicate meaning and I want you to
00:43:27.060 understand what I'm saying. Now this point you make about grammar being an arbitrary convention.
00:43:33.900 And so it doesn't, doesn't make any sense to insist on maintaining a convention and resisting the
00:43:39.100 change of a convention. That to me, I understand what you're saying. And I actually, I actually agree
00:43:43.160 with what you're saying. I just think that you're applying it to the wrong thing. So that to me applies
00:43:49.240 to, um, like the, the whole thing about not ending a sentence with a preposition, for instance,
00:43:54.840 grammar Nazis who correct you when you say he knows what I'm talking about rather than he knows about
00:44:02.700 what I'm talking, or there's the person I wanted to talk to rather than there's the person to whom
00:44:09.020 I wanted to talk, or, uh, she's the girl I went to prom with rather than she's the girl with whom I
00:44:14.500 went to prom or that's someone I look up to rather than that's someone up to whom I look, et cetera.
00:44:22.860 Now, here's an example of an entirely arbitrary grammatical convention and something that is subject
00:44:30.080 to change and that has no real objective reason to exist. In truth, it doesn't matter if you end a
00:44:36.340 sentence with a preposition. There's no reason why that should be wrong. We just say that it is, but it
00:44:42.720 doesn't have to be. And so when you say, you know, if you say something like that's the person I went to
00:44:50.440 prom with, you're not conveying an untruth unless provided you actually did go to prom with that
00:44:56.620 person. And, um, you aren't saying anything unintelligible. Everybody knows what you mean.
00:45:03.620 And that's why grammar Nazis are so annoying is because when you say that's the person I went to
00:45:07.620 prom with and the grammar Nazi says, no, it's with whom you went to prom. Okay. You know what I mean?
00:45:12.240 You understand what I'm saying. Don't you? What's the point of the correction? This is, this is a
00:45:18.580 successful human communication. I told you that's the person I went to prom with. You understand what
00:45:24.420 that means. There's no reason to correct me. Um, in fact, often the avoid, the, the attempt to avoid
00:45:32.560 the dangling preposition makes the sentence less comprehensible instead of more like that's the person
00:45:39.440 up to whom I look technically grammatically correct, but also it's clunky and weird. And it
00:45:45.720 takes you a second to even understand what I'm talking about. It makes better. So it makes more
00:45:49.860 sense. And it's better to just say, that's the person I look up to the whole point of grammatical
00:45:56.020 convention is to help language be comprehensible. If a convention cuts against that goal, it's probably
00:46:03.440 time to change it. You know, that's, um, for me as a, as a, as a writer, I don't, honestly, I'm not
00:46:13.180 overly worried about all the technical rules of grammar. I'm worried about just getting my point
00:46:18.460 across. That's all I want to do. I want you to understand what I'm saying. And, uh, so yeah, I'll end
00:46:26.100 a sentence in preposition for, for me. And I, and I think this is what most people do. This is what most
00:46:30.060 people do. It's, it's kind of a feeling it's you, you, you, and we all have this with language. We
00:46:33.880 have a feel for it. And so you look at a sentence and you might not be able to break it down grammatically
00:46:39.720 and identify all the parts of speech and everything, but you look at a sentence and you sort of know if
00:46:44.960 it feels right or not. Does it look like the right kind of sentence or not? And there could be times
00:46:51.440 when a technically grammatically correct sentence feels wrong. I mean, I do this sometimes when I'm
00:46:56.360 writing where I put a sentence down on the, on the, on the paper, well, not on the paper, but on the
00:47:00.700 screen. And I look at it and it's grammatically correct, but it just feels wrong. It looks weird.
00:47:05.260 It's clunky. It's kind of, it throws off the rhythm. And so I'll correct it to a, to a grammatically
00:47:11.120 incorrect version of it just because it looks better. And I think it does a better job of getting my point
00:47:18.360 across. You know, the preposition thing, that's I think that goes back to the 18th century. It was
00:47:27.180 really just a guy in the 18th century came up with this rule that you can't end a sentence in a
00:47:32.860 preposition. He just came up with it. And ever since then, everyone says, okay, well, I guess we won't do
00:47:38.100 that anymore. But to, to, to insist that 21st century English speakers adhere to 18th century
00:47:45.920 grammatical convention is silly and pointless. Why not insist on 16th century grammatical convention?
00:47:51.960 Why not insist that we use words like thine and thou and sayeth?
00:47:58.420 Obviously, if somebody spoke that way today, we would look at them like they're crazy or like
00:48:03.620 they're joking around, even though it's grammatically correct. Technically, I mean,
00:48:10.580 technically a word like sayeth or thine, it's probably technically better grammar than what
00:48:18.560 we say today instead, but who cares? Um, here's the other thing about changes in grammatical
00:48:26.760 convention. An authentic change happens on its own organically. So it's not like somebody decided in
00:48:35.560 1983 that now we're going to start saying went to prom with rather than with whom I went to prom.
00:48:41.380 It just shifted. The language evolved as languages always do and everywhere do, and will always do
00:48:47.620 in the future. Languages always change, always evolve. That's net. And that fact is never going
00:48:52.020 to change with this pronoun stuff. On the other hand, it's very different. Okay. So when you've got
00:48:58.640 language naturally evolving, I think that's basically fine. Um, uh, as long as meaning is
00:49:09.300 maintained. Now, what you see online these days of people replacing written language altogether with
00:49:17.420 emojis and stuff, where now we're at the point where people can't even verbally or with writing
00:49:23.000 communicate their emotions without putting a smiley face down. Now we're, we're, we're back to using
00:49:28.160 hieroglyphics. I'm not a fan of that because that's a D a devolution. That's a degrading of
00:49:33.680 language where language becomes less precise. It's, it's less able to, you know, it's, it's not as rich
00:49:41.180 anymore. You're not able to communicate your, your emotions and, and, and your thoughts as well.
00:49:47.680 So that I think is a problem, but all of that is different from the pronoun stuff. And I'll tell you
00:49:52.200 why, because with the pronoun stuff, we have a small group, a small politically motivated group
00:49:57.100 trying to impose a change. They're not observing a change. They're not defending a change that's
00:50:04.400 already happened. They're insisting on the change. Okay. And they're not doing like what I'm doing
00:50:12.900 with prep, with the preposition thing with prepositions. I'm saying this change has already
00:50:17.120 happened. The convention has already shifted. It's fine. There's really no problem with it.
00:50:22.740 So who cares? With the pronouns, that's totally different. You've got this small politically
00:50:31.180 motivated group who are saying this must change. It hasn't changed. People still say he, she, all
00:50:38.480 that. The small politically motivated group is saying, no, no, no, we must change this. And not
00:50:45.120 because they want to make language more intelligible. Rather, they want to make it less intelligible.
00:50:52.740 Their stated goal is to prevent the hearer from fully comprehending what the speaker is saying so
00:50:59.640 that when a pronoun is used, um, they don't want the hearer to, to really know whether it's referring
00:51:05.680 to a biological male or female. They're trying to cut, they're trying to obscure rather than elucidate
00:51:13.180 or illuminate. And so that's, that's the difference. I bet you didn't think we were going to end with a
00:51:21.300 20 minute spiel on grammar, but, uh, here we are. That just happened, folks. We can't go back now.
00:51:27.680 And I think we'll leave it there. Thanks everybody for watching. Thanks for listening.
00:51:30.200 Hope you get some good sleep tonight. I know that I will not. Godspeed.
00:52:00.200 If you prefer facts over feelings, aren't offended by the brutal truth, and you can still laugh at the
00:52:22.320 insanity filling our national news cycle, well, tune in to the Ben Shapiro show. We'll get a whole lot of
00:52:26.960 that and much more. See you there.