The Matt Walsh Show - January 10, 2020


Ep. 402 - Despicable Bordering On Traitorous


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It's the 100th anniversary of women getting the right to vote, but what does that have to do with women's suffrage? According to left-wing gender theory, there's no such thing as a woman voting anymore.

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00:00:00.000 I just saw this thing in USA Today celebrating the 100th anniversary of a woman's right to vote.
00:00:06.420 It says, when women won the right to vote in 1920, the world changed. 0.74
00:00:12.380 Please join USA Today in commemorating this milestone by nominating outstanding American women who inspire you.
00:00:18.380 You can submit your nominations here, and then there's a link.
00:00:20.720 And I've seen a lot of media articles about the 100th anniversary of a woman's right to vote,
00:00:25.220 and we'll be seeing many more, I'm sure, in the lead up to August, which will be the official 100th anniversary of when the 19th Amendment was ratified.
00:00:36.300 But here's the problem. This is my point.
00:00:38.540 And as we see this more and more, and you know what I'm going to say at this point.
00:00:42.880 If you watch this show, you know what I'm going to say.
00:00:44.660 You know what point I'm about to make here.
00:00:46.280 But I have to say it.
00:00:48.900 Women's right to vote. 0.99
00:00:51.320 What are women? 1.00
00:00:52.780 What does that mean?
00:00:53.780 What do you mean women won the right to vote? 1.00
00:00:56.220 What is that?
00:00:57.980 What do you mean by that?
00:01:00.200 I mean, I know what a woman traditionally means.
00:01:03.840 I know what it means scientifically.
00:01:05.520 But according to left-wing gender theory, there's no such thing as a woman, really. 1.00
00:01:08.920 So how can you celebrate it?
00:01:10.260 In fact, according to left-wing gender theory, women had been voting all along. 0.95
00:01:14.960 Women didn't win the right to vote in 1920. 0.97
00:01:17.680 They had been voting all along because a lot of males are actually women.
00:01:21.320 So, and a lot of men, in fact, were prevented from voting because a lot of women are men.
00:01:28.380 So women's suffrage is not really women's suffrage, mostly because women don't exist as their own distinct category, it turns out.
00:01:35.720 Women's rights, women's rights in general, really are men's rights. 0.98
00:01:40.760 And men's rights are women's rights. 0.92
00:01:42.200 And none of this means anything.
00:01:44.120 This is the implication of left-wing gender theory, I'm afraid to say.
00:01:48.080 And I just, I have to point that out.
00:01:49.880 And I'm going to continue pointing that out as this, as we, as the celebrations continue.
00:01:58.200 It just, it doesn't, it doesn't, it doesn't make sense.
00:02:01.000 The most you could say is that it wasn't that women won the right to vote in 1920. 0.96
00:02:08.860 It was a certain body part did.
00:02:10.900 So those who happen to possess traditionally female reproductive organs won the right to vote. 0.56
00:02:19.840 But those people aren't necessarily women. 1.00
00:02:21.860 They could, they're also men, or they could be any of the other 172 genders.
00:02:26.360 So that's, if we want to be specific, that's what we're really talking about now.
00:02:29.540 All right, well, as you know, switching gears here, for days after Trump ordered the strike
00:02:37.800 on the global mass killer Qasem Soleimani, Democrats in the media have been heaping praise
00:02:43.500 and adulation on the dead terrorists, as we've talked about on this show and chronicled, while
00:02:48.380 fretting that the president had inaugurated World War III.
00:02:51.540 And perhaps fretting is not the right word, maybe hoping might be more apt.
00:02:55.600 And then Iran began launching missiles at our bases in Iraq.
00:03:00.800 And at that point, these same people assured us that the dreaded or perhaps longed for
00:03:04.680 moment had finally arrived.
00:03:06.520 It was World War III.
00:03:08.240 But then that attack claimed no American casualties, caused little damage, and was revealed to be
00:03:14.600 nothing but a symbolic face-saving measure by Iran.
00:03:17.520 And when that happened, we were told by the left that, in fact, in the words of Code Pink,
00:03:23.000 the Iranians were being, quote, the adults in the room, but the benevolent Iranians decided 1.00
00:03:29.940 to spare us the destruction and death that they could have, that they could have rained
00:03:34.580 down upon us.
00:03:35.600 At every step, of course, no credit whatsoever was given to Donald Trump or the American military.
00:03:41.900 They were painted as reckless bumblers at best, to paraphrase Democratic Representative
00:03:47.300 Joyce Beattie, who said it was reckless, or nefarious assassins at worst, according to
00:03:53.640 Democratic Representative Pramila Jayapala, who called Donald Trump an assassin, says it
00:03:59.520 was an assassination.
00:04:00.740 Every step of the way, Democrats in Congress and their mouthpieces in the media were more
00:04:05.020 than willing to propagandize on behalf of the Iranian government if it gave them an opportunity
00:04:10.480 to land a blow against Trump.
00:04:11.900 As always, oppose Trump at all costs is the motto, even if that means openly siding with
00:04:17.420 America's sworn enemies.
00:04:18.920 Now, this whole performance, as we have discussed over the past week, has been disgraceful enough,
00:04:25.580 but it hardly even prepares us for the developments yesterday.
00:04:32.180 Now it appears that Iran accidentally shot down that Ukrainian passenger plane, which is not a
00:04:40.120 surprise, when we found out that a Ukrainian passenger jet crashed, taking off from Tehran
00:04:46.360 on the same night that Iran was sending this barrage of missiles.
00:04:53.140 And Iran, of course, is still claiming it was engine failure.
00:04:57.400 But now we're hearing from sources in the United States that, no, they shot down one of the planes,
00:05:02.680 probably accidentally.
00:05:03.540 But of course, that's what it was.
00:05:06.300 Because, by the way, you know, to have dual engine failure in a passenger jet minutes after takeoff,
00:05:15.100 or at any time during the flight, and for that to crash the plane, that is almost unheard of,
00:05:21.720 not completely unheard of, but it almost never happens.
00:05:24.900 Extremely rare.
00:05:25.620 But, obviously, that wasn't, that clearly wasn't the case here.
00:05:30.780 Now, this is a terrible tragedy, and an additional moral outrage brought about by the Iranian regime's 1.00
00:05:38.640 disregard for human life.
00:05:40.740 At least, that's how people with common sense and a love for America will see it.
00:05:45.800 But Democrats in the media are not burdened by either of those things, a love for America or
00:05:51.100 common sense.
00:05:52.260 So, shockingly, well, it should be shocking anyway, but it's not, they have placed the
00:05:56.860 blame for Iran shooting down a passenger jet on the United States and Donald Trump.
00:06:03.320 Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg declined to condemn Iran for doing this,
00:06:10.220 and instead said that it was a, quote, unnecessary and unwanted military tit-for-tat that caused
00:06:17.360 the downing of the jet.
00:06:18.420 Democratic representative Jackie Spire called the tragedy collateral damage from the actions
00:06:26.060 that have been taken in a provocative way by the president of the United States.
00:06:29.440 Then various members of the media were online yesterday calling it crossfire.
00:06:35.320 It was, the jet was caught in the crossfire.
00:06:37.420 This was, you know, very conspicuous because you had members of the media online, on social
00:06:42.840 media, on Twitter, using this phrase, caught in the crossfire, almost simultaneously, as
00:06:48.820 if a memo went out, which I wouldn't be surprised if it really did.
00:06:52.660 There was an actual memo.
00:06:53.980 They all started saying, oh, the jet was caught in the crossfire.
00:06:57.700 This was in the Canadian media personalities, and there were a number of Canadians who were
00:07:02.040 killed in the plane crash.
00:07:05.220 Canadian media personalities were also putting the blame on Donald Trump.
00:07:10.280 Seth Abramson, as a media guy and just an all-around hack, never willing to lose a who's the biggest
00:07:19.160 hack contest, he pointed the finger at Donald Trump and Sean Hannity.
00:07:24.960 Abramson suggested that the Iranian government may have been spooked by what Sean Hannity was
00:07:31.540 saying on the night of the missile attack and then, in a panic, shot down a plane.
00:07:36.680 Now, how does that work exactly?
00:07:38.040 I don't know.
00:07:40.920 How can we suggest that what a cable news host was saying in America could somehow cause a
00:07:48.120 plane to be shot down?
00:07:49.000 Well, that's what he would do, but that's his theory.
00:07:51.700 This, obviously, is all nonsense.
00:07:53.620 There was no crossfire because the United States wasn't returning fire.
00:07:57.760 There was no crossfire.
00:07:58.700 Trump has expressly declined to participate in a tit-for-tat, as Buttigieg called it.
00:08:07.900 Trump ordered the strike on Soleimani because he was a dangerous terrorist who had killed
00:08:11.700 many Americans and had, just days earlier, staged an assault on our embassy.
00:08:17.040 The justified and lawful killing of a war criminal in a war zone in Iraq on January 3rd clearly
00:08:25.680 cannot cause a plane to be shot down in Iran on January 8th.
00:08:32.880 If Iran is too incompetent or too reckless to launch missiles without running them into passenger 0.98
00:08:38.860 airlines by mistake or on purpose, the fault lies completely and totally with them, obviously.
00:08:45.780 Keep in mind, the missile strike was nothing but a face-saving measure in the first place.
00:08:53.640 So Iran then blew up 176 civilians in an effort to soothe their bruised ego, which is only a 0.55
00:09:03.580 further indictment of them, our enemy, not us.
00:09:07.060 Of course, I shouldn't need to explain this, and I don't.
00:09:15.300 The media understands it.
00:09:18.000 So do the Democrats.
00:09:20.200 But they are both possessed of this pathological need to hate Trump and blame America at all
00:09:26.340 costs under all circumstances.
00:09:28.480 And normally with this kind of stuff, we can shrug it off.
00:09:36.520 But I don't think we can shrug this off because they are providing PR cover to a foreign enemy
00:09:41.060 that has murdered an American, attacked our embassy, and now blown up a commercial aircraft
00:09:46.340 all in the span of a month.
00:09:47.900 And these people, the Democrats in the media, are giving them cover.
00:09:53.260 This is despicable bordering on treasonous.
00:09:59.180 That word treasonous, traitor, has been lobbed by the left at Donald Trump quite a lot.
00:10:04.400 But what do you call it when you've got American politicians, American officials, American media
00:10:09.600 members, who are running to the defense of our enemies, an enemy who has been staging attacks
00:10:22.140 against us over the last month?
00:10:27.220 They are aiding and abetting the enemy.
00:10:30.460 What do you call that?
00:10:33.460 And this further demonstrates why Democrats can never be given control of the government
00:10:37.800 because they don't have the interests of Americans at heart.
00:10:40.560 They don't love our country.
00:10:42.600 And we can't trust them.
00:10:45.620 One other quick thought about this, that, you know, Democrats have been very upset that
00:10:50.240 they're still upset that Trump didn't consult with them before doing the strike against Soleimani.
00:10:57.520 And they want to make sure that in the future, they're consulted.
00:11:01.720 Well, this proves exactly why Trump can't consult them.
00:11:05.840 In a perfect world, I would agree that the president should consult with Congress.
00:11:12.500 There should be that sort of check in place before something like this.
00:11:17.800 But these are not normal circumstances.
00:11:22.040 He can't tell them because they'll sabotage it.
00:11:26.680 It's very clear from this.
00:11:28.280 They don't want him to have a victory.
00:11:30.200 They don't really want America to have a victory.
00:11:32.240 They have no problem taking Iran's side. 0.57
00:11:36.120 Do you think these people are above sabotaging it, leaking it ahead of time to try to, or worse?
00:11:41.440 I mean, who knows what they would do with the information?
00:11:43.340 You just can't trust them.
00:11:45.000 We can't trust them.
00:11:45.920 Trump, of course, can't trust them.
00:11:49.080 That's the situation we're in.
00:11:50.560 I don't say that lightly because it's a horrible thing to think.
00:11:54.900 But the fact is, you've got an entire political party now on the national level, on the federal level, that cannot be trusted.
00:12:05.200 We as Americans can't trust them.
00:12:06.880 So I would hope that in the future, if there's anything like this that comes up again, I would hope that Trump does not consult them.
00:12:18.640 All right.
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00:14:18.020 Well, a report in the Daily Wire says,
00:14:21.340 In the latest development, prosecutors on Thursday told a judge overseeing the trial of Epstein's former cellmate, accused murderer Nicholas Tartaglioni,
00:14:30.360 that surveillance footage of the hallway during Epstein's failed alleged suicide attempt no longer exists because of, quote, technical errors, according to the Associated Press.
00:14:41.560 So, the footage is, uh, it doesn't exist.
00:14:45.580 Technical errors.
00:14:48.780 Perfectly fine.
00:14:49.460 Perfectly normal.
00:14:50.420 Perfectly fine.
00:14:51.780 Nothing to see here.
00:14:53.220 No conspiracy.
00:14:55.400 That's all.
00:14:56.040 Don't be a conspiracy theorist.
00:14:57.840 This is all totally normal stuff.
00:14:59.420 Speaking of, uh, totally normal, here's some video footage that's gone viral online over the last few days, and I want to show this to you.
00:15:08.800 What you're about to see here, pretty upsetting.
00:15:11.040 What you're going to see here is a video of animal rights activists throwing a homeless man to the ground and stealing his dog.
00:15:20.980 They're doing this to, quote, save the dog from the horrors of homelessness, uh, and, and here's how that worked out.
00:15:28.240 Watch this.
00:15:29.420 Now, it turns out that this footage is from a few years ago and, uh, just now going viral for whatever reason.
00:15:51.700 Fortunately, the dog, just to give you the happy ending, the dog was returned to the owner eventually. 0.97
00:15:59.460 And those scumbags were arrested, thank God, though I don't think that they actually spent any time in jail. 0.95
00:16:05.280 But I wanted to show this because, to me, it is, it's a perfect, morbidly perfect, tragically perfect encapsulation of modern culture. 0.99
00:16:17.820 Isn't it?
00:16:19.380 Save the dog, leave the human lying in the street.
00:16:23.060 That's, that's, I, I cannot think of a better, I could, I, if you wanted to, I could think of a better 10-second clip of video that would, that would encapsulate and illustrate modern culture than that.
00:16:36.400 So, she's yanking the dog out of the hand of a homeless man, leaving him lying there and, and going off to save the dog.
00:16:41.580 Now, some people who've defended the animal rights thugs have said that, well, look, the man was not in a position to care for the dog, so this, this was necessary.
00:16:50.560 We had to do it for the dog.
00:16:51.420 Look, okay, but what about the man?
00:16:53.580 What about the actual human?
00:16:55.660 You've taken what is probably the only companion that he has, the only joy he has in life, and you've taken that from him.
00:17:04.020 Somebody online said that the dog was his psychological lifeline, which I thought was a great way of putting it, and you're taking that lifeline away from him.
00:17:14.220 To be homeless, aside from the physical strains of being exposed to the elements, not having food, and all those very necessary things you don't have, aside from that, I think what, the worst thing about it is the dehumanizing effect of feeling alone, feeling like nobody cares, feeling alienated, ostracized,
00:17:42.400 being rejected by society, and not having companionship, and so I think especially for a homeless man, to have a dog, to have that companion is very meaningful.
00:17:56.100 You come and rip, literally rip that away from him.
00:18:00.220 You think about what that would do psychologically and emotionally to a man in that position.
00:18:04.700 Now, if you're concerned about the dog not living in the right conditions, why not find the dog and the man a place to live, if you're that concerned about it?
00:18:17.260 Why not prioritize his welfare?
00:18:20.760 But we live in a culture where animal life is often prioritized over human life, and animals tend to engender more sympathy, more compassion, than humans do.
00:18:31.400 But it's true, when you think about it.
00:18:35.160 Think about how people would react if you're walking down the street, downtown, and you see a homeless dog sitting off on the side of the sidewalk by itself, shivering, hungry, cold.
00:18:52.760 Now, of course, there are plenty of dogs in that situation, but that's my point.
00:18:58.640 Normally, those dogs, when they're found, they get cared for and adopted, because people, when they see a dog suffering, they react viscerally to it.
00:19:09.040 It seems instinctive.
00:19:12.820 Yet, when we see humans lying in the street, we're more able to step over them and ignore them.
00:19:18.980 I think that's the honest reality of it.
00:19:22.760 A lot of people, you're walking down the street, you see a human being lying on the sidewalk, versus you see a golden retriever lying alone on the sidewalk, shivering.
00:19:35.020 For a lot of people, the golden retriever is just going to be more sympathetic.
00:19:38.420 That's going to make you stop and go, oh my gosh, look at this beautiful dog.
00:19:41.980 Now, it's true that with a dog, you can take a dog to an animal shelter, and it's not always, of course, that easy with a human being.
00:19:53.600 There are homeless shelters, but if the human doesn't want to go there, you can't sort of scoop them up and take them the way that you could with a dog.
00:20:01.260 So, it's not always as simple as that, but still, my contention is that people these days in this culture, many people sympathize more with dogs than humans, much of the time.
00:20:12.320 I've been talking about this for a long time.
00:20:14.000 I believe that that's the case.
00:20:15.840 And I know it's the case because people admit it.
00:20:19.340 People are pretty direct about it and unapologetic.
00:20:22.040 People admit, in fact, they're proud, it seems like.
00:20:28.500 You hear people say things like, dogs are better than people.
00:20:31.780 You hear this a lot.
00:20:33.020 People say this all the time.
00:20:35.160 Or my personal favorite, we don't deserve dogs.
00:20:41.420 That sort of thing.
00:20:43.400 We don't deserve dogs.
00:20:45.660 That, to me, is nails on a chalkboard.
00:20:50.280 I cannot stand that.
00:20:52.160 It is so grating to hear people, we don't deserve dogs.
00:20:55.940 What kind of, we don't deserve them.
00:20:59.140 What do you do?
00:21:00.620 Think of all the things you do for your dog.
00:21:03.340 You feed it.
00:21:04.660 You take it outside.
00:21:06.160 You clean up its poop.
00:21:07.160 You do everything for your dog.
00:21:08.980 You wait on your dog, hand and foot.
00:21:13.020 And you're really sitting there saying, I don't deserve you. 1.00
00:21:16.000 You're outside cleaning up your dog's crap. 1.00
00:21:19.180 And you're thinking, I don't deserve this. 0.99
00:21:22.620 Now, I would be thinking that maybe in a different, but in a different way.
00:21:25.940 I don't deserve this.
00:21:29.060 That's maybe how I would think it.
00:21:30.420 But you, it's, oh, I don't do it.
00:21:31.660 This is such a blessing.
00:21:32.960 Such a blessing.
00:21:33.840 I think, oh, my goodness.
00:21:40.320 Much of the time, I would say it's sort of the other way around.
00:21:42.320 I think dogs don't deserve the way that we treat them in the sense that we, they get pampered in a way that no other animal does.
00:21:49.480 So, maybe they don't deserve all that.
00:21:55.060 Now, if you want to talk about we don't deserve, you know, how about, and this is my point.
00:22:00.880 And there's nothing wrong with loving dogs, okay?
00:22:03.280 People get upset.
00:22:04.020 Every time I talk about this, people get upset.
00:22:05.540 I'm simply saying, we should have, things should be proportional.
00:22:13.620 And there is a disproportionate focus and love of dogs at the expense of and prioritized over people.
00:22:23.940 And that's a problem.
00:22:26.160 People do this with their own children.
00:22:28.720 You know, you hear people talk about their dog, people have, some people have dogs and kids and talk about their dog as if it's just a second child or a third child.
00:22:41.280 So, if you want to talk about we don't deserve, I think saying something like, we don't deserve the love of a child.
00:22:47.520 Now, that, yeah, that I can relate to.
00:22:50.080 I've often felt that way about my children.
00:22:52.000 I've, who are, who just, you know, because young children are so loving, so naturally forgiving, they look up to you, they adore you, they want to, they want to be around you.
00:23:03.880 And it's not as though, okay, they're not animals.
00:23:07.120 So, it's not, it's, it's actually not as though they don't recognize your flaws or anything like that.
00:23:14.700 They, in fact, I think with, with children, they do recognize the flaws, but they're, they're naturally forgiving of them.
00:23:21.020 And, and parents, we've experienced this, like, recent example for me, there's so many examples I could point to, but recently, you know, it's at the end of the day, I'm in a, I've had a bad day, I'm in a bad mood, I have a short temper.
00:23:36.040 And, and, you know, and as parents, we, we, that's how we are sometimes, we're just a little bit of a short fuse, not proud of it.
00:23:43.700 And at the end of the day, my kids are in bed, and I'm, you know, I'm, I'm feeling guilty that I've, I've squandered this time with them at the end of the day by just being in a bad mood.
00:23:53.560 So, I go up to see if they're still awake, my daughter's awake, she, she, she's, you know, it's an hour after bedtime, she's been upstairs, she hands me a picture she's been working on.
00:24:02.260 And she said, she made me this picture, it's a gift for me, because she could tell I was having a bad day, and she wanted to cheer me up.
00:24:08.560 And it was a picture of me and her fishing. And I could tell that she'd been working on it for an hour.
00:24:13.280 Now, that's the kind of thing as a parent that it just destroys you. You're just, you're like, it's, it's this mix of, of, of joy and pride, but also guilt and pain.
00:24:28.260 Because you think, oh my gosh, what, this, I'm so, it's like, on one hand, thank you for this. That's amazing, thank you.
00:24:35.280 On the other hand, now I feel like an even bigger piece of crap. So, I, that's, as a parent, I can relate to that feeling. 0.97
00:24:44.560 When you, when you compare this pure love of a child with the selfishness of adults, right?
00:24:51.640 And the, and, you know, adults can be petty, selfish, malicious, you just don't, you don't see that in young children.
00:24:59.540 But I can't relate to that in, in relation to a dog.
00:25:04.260 You know, I, the idea that a dog could bring that same feeling out of you.
00:25:10.040 Dogs are not capable of loving the way that humans do.
00:25:13.420 Okay, a dog is, yeah, a dog might have some capacity for comforting, some capacity for that sort of thing,
00:25:22.240 which is why I'm saying, stealing that dog from the homeless man was such a horrible thing.
00:25:28.220 Horrible for the person, because I'm focused on the person, the human.
00:25:32.560 Horrible to him.
00:25:35.040 So, dogs do have that capacity, but not nearly to the same extent that human beings do, that children do.
00:25:40.580 And I've had pets, and I've had, and I have kids, and the difference is extremely obvious to me,
00:25:49.180 and if it isn't to you, then I think your mind is kind of warped.
00:25:54.320 I think you have a problem.
00:25:55.420 I don't even mean that as an insult.
00:25:56.760 It's just, it, there is an issue there.
00:26:00.520 By the way, this is not something we can just chalk up to the human condition.
00:26:03.880 It's not like it's natural and instinctive for people to worship dogs this way.
00:26:09.760 Because you go to so many other places in the world, so many other cultures, they don't have this.
00:26:15.320 This is kind of a distinct Western thing, where we have put dogs on this pedestal, and household pets in general.
00:26:23.400 I think in other parts of the world, you'll find they have respect for animals.
00:26:27.400 They believe, just like we do, we should treat animals with dignity, and I believe that too.
00:26:31.080 But they still recognize that animals are animals.
00:26:34.400 They're not people.
00:26:36.700 It's really in Western culture that we've elevated animals above people in so many ways.
00:26:42.200 Well, Western cultures and pagan cultures that literally worship animals.
00:26:47.060 So, you find that continuity there, which is very disturbing.
00:26:51.220 And it's not just about attitudes either, it's about the law.
00:26:56.400 I mean, as we know, every animal in existence has more legal protection, according to our law code, than babies in the womb do. 0.99
00:27:05.760 Because babies in the womb have essentially zero legal protections.
00:27:10.440 Any animal, every dog, has more protection than human beings.
00:27:13.880 So, this is not an exaggeration.
00:27:17.820 It's not only about our attitudes, it's also about how our laws are set up.
00:27:23.800 It is codified into law that animals are worth more, have more worth, more value, more dignity, than babies in the womb.
00:27:35.820 Because babies in the womb, according to the law, have zero worth and zero value.
00:27:42.180 And this obviously is not a coincidence.
00:27:44.400 It's not a coincidence that so many people now have begun to see dogs as being better than or above people.
00:27:53.040 While at the same time, our law has actually codified that.
00:27:56.980 That's not a coincidence.
00:28:00.140 And you see how law can affect people's attitudes and their beliefs and the way they see the world.
00:28:09.200 Politics are downstream of culture, but sometimes it's the other way around.
00:28:13.880 Sometimes it's a little bit of both.
00:28:18.180 So, let's, we can love our dogs, we can love our pets, that's fine.
00:28:25.080 But we should always, and every time, in every circumstance, we should be putting people above animals and their needs.
00:28:32.560 And, you know, what's best for them comes first.
00:28:37.300 So, animals should be subordinated.
00:28:39.840 The needs of animals should be subordinated to the needs of people. 0.99
00:28:43.640 Not the kind of thing that anyone should need to actually argue for or explain, but that's where we are.
00:28:52.120 All right, let's go to emails.
00:28:53.420 MattWallShow at gmail.com.
00:28:54.980 MattWallShow at gmail.com.
00:28:56.540 This is from Redacted.
00:28:58.880 And, dear Supreme Dictator overall, thank you for so accurately pointing out in your supreme wisdom that The Road by Cormac McCarthy is the best novel of the 21st century so far.
00:29:08.480 I wholeheartedly agree, and it's my all-time favorite novel.
00:29:11.220 I first read it as a 16-year-old and thought I liked it because it was a nuclear apocalypse book.
00:29:15.700 I'm reading it again after discovering that my wife is pregnant, and it turns out I love this book because it's about fatherhood.
00:29:20.500 My question is, what are your reasons why it's the best novel of the 21st century?
00:29:24.040 Why do you personally love it?
00:29:25.260 Why did it resonate with so many people as to win a Pulitzer?
00:29:29.460 As always, thank you for your wit, your curmudgeonly charm, and your willingness to talk about matters people actually care about, like abortion and family values, rather than the same old boring political prattle.
00:29:40.560 Yeah, I think that—where were we even talking about this?
00:29:45.320 Oh, yeah, so I put up—I asked—I posed the question on Twitter a couple days ago.
00:29:49.480 What do you think is the best novel of the 21st century so far?
00:29:53.160 I'd be interested to hear your responses to that.
00:29:55.480 Part of the reason I asked the question, actually, sort of selfishly, self-interestedly, I was looking for suggestions of recent novels because part of the thing is, yeah, I think The Road is my favorite novel that I've read that was written in the 21st century.
00:30:10.520 I also haven't read that many novels that were written in the 21st century.
00:30:13.800 I've read a lot of books in the 21st century, but many of—most of them, at least the fiction, were written before, many of them centuries before.
00:30:21.960 So I am interested in reading more recent work, recent fiction novels.
00:30:28.440 Of the ones I have read, though, The Road was my favorite, and for the reasons that—for the reason that redacted, that you mentioned, because of this story of fatherhood and this bond of this father between the father and the son,
00:30:47.940 I have an interesting relationship with this book because I first picked it up maybe six, seven years ago at a bookstore, and I hated it.
00:30:58.860 I read maybe 15 pages of 15, 20 pages.
00:31:01.320 I sat there and read it, and I thought it was terrible.
00:31:05.140 I was—it's not just I didn't like it.
00:31:07.520 I thought it was really, really bad.
00:31:08.960 And I put it down, and then a couple years ago, for some reason, I was motivated to pick it up again, and my reaction could not have been any different.
00:31:21.860 It was a total 180 in terms of my perception of the book, and I found it to be really powerful and moving.
00:31:28.520 I think I read the whole thing, maybe not in one night, but in two nights.
00:31:30.920 I just—I blew through it, and I think a lot of it was a big difference.
00:31:38.040 Seven years ago, I didn't have any kids.
00:31:40.640 Two years ago, I had three and two sons, and so, of course, you start—once your place in life changes, I think the way that you interact with and respond to works of fiction and art can obviously change dramatically, and that was the case here.
00:31:54.160 I tell you, I liked that the story revolves around this father desperately trying to protect his son at all costs, but what I liked about it is he wasn't just trying to protect his son's physical body.
00:32:10.940 He wasn't just trying to keep him physically safe, although that was a big part of it, obviously, living in a post-apocalyptic wasteland with cannibals, with cannibal gangs roaming the countryside.
00:32:20.080 So a lot of it is physical safety, but a big theme in the book, they always talk about the fire, keeping the fire alive, where the man and the boy who aren't given names, the characters aren't given names in the book, but this is something they say to each other about keeping the fire alive within them.
00:32:39.080 What is the fire?
00:32:39.840 It's the fire of goodness.
00:32:41.040 And so the father is also very concerned in this bleak, seemingly hopeless environment where people have been reduced to animals, literally eating each other.
00:32:52.840 One of his main concerns is not only keeping his son alive, but protecting his goodness and his dignity.
00:33:00.060 And I found that to be—I mean, you couldn't find a theme for a book that would resonate more with me than that.
00:33:06.480 And so—and I also thought it was just really well, well-written.
00:33:10.560 Cormac McCarthy's style of writing is not for everybody.
00:33:13.980 It takes some getting used to.
00:33:15.080 I think when I first picked it up six, seven years ago, that was part of what jarred me.
00:33:20.380 It was the first McCarthy book I'd read or tried to read, and I found the style hard to—hard to stomach.
00:33:29.820 But now I kind of appreciate it.
00:33:33.000 Okay, this is from Saul, or Sol.
00:33:37.600 I'm not sure how to pronounce that.
00:33:38.820 It says, Matt, absolutely love your show.
00:33:40.940 Thanks for what you do.
00:33:42.140 You've often talked on your show about proofs of God's existence.
00:33:46.100 I find these segments fascinating, but recently I've been beginning to think that the best and most important proof of God's existence is the inner experience we all have of him.
00:33:54.260 Knowledge of God is innate.
00:33:55.660 Do you think that's something that should be used more in an apologetic context?
00:33:59.980 No, I don't.
00:34:03.560 I don't.
00:34:04.360 Maybe that'll surprise you for me to say that.
00:34:06.300 But I don't think it's a good apologetic argument at all, actually.
00:34:11.280 I've seen really smart people use this argument.
00:34:14.340 William Lane Craig uses it in his debates.
00:34:17.520 He offers, like, six or seven proofs of God's existence, and this is the last one that he always goes to.
00:34:24.840 And it's okay, because his others are really solid.
00:34:28.100 But I always cringe a little bit when he gets to the inner experience, the inner testimony of the Holy Spirit as a proof of God to an atheist.
00:34:37.240 I think it's not effective.
00:34:40.400 And I'll give you three reasons why.
00:34:42.320 Number one, in order to use this, again, we're talking about, this is how you're talking about apologetics, not as a devotional thing.
00:34:50.260 So apologetic is defending the faith to someone outside of the faith.
00:34:54.820 Not just offending it, but most of the time trying to convince them to be open to your arguments and to, you know, the worldview that you're presenting.
00:35:06.980 And so that's what we're talking about.
00:35:09.060 Now, if we're talking about it in a devotional context, there should be a difference between, like, I've read a lot of apologetic books.
00:35:16.560 I've read a lot of devotional books.
00:35:18.640 Devotional books are for Christians.
00:35:20.540 They're by Christians and for Christians.
00:35:22.120 And it's all about strengthening your faith.
00:35:23.660 Apologetics, that's not what apologetics are supposed to be.
00:35:30.180 It does have the effect of strength in your faith, but that's not the primary goal of it.
00:35:34.580 The primary goal is to defend the faith from challenges from the outside.
00:35:39.880 Okay, so in that context, as apologetic, I don't like it because, number one, you would need to prove, okay, to use this in an argument, in a debate,
00:35:49.140 you would need to prove that your inner conviction of God's existence is actually innate and not merely the product of the fact that you were raised to believe this or that you were raised in a culture where lots of people believe it and thus condition that way.
00:36:05.000 Now, this is going to be easier maybe for you to do if you were raised an atheist and then converted to Christianity, then maybe you could talk about how you had this innate knowledge your whole life and finally grew to accept it.
00:36:23.480 So maybe I'll make an exception in that case, although it still doesn't work for the reasons I'll get to in a second.
00:36:31.000 But if you were raised a Christian in a Christian household, born into a Christian household, told from the earliest age that there is a God, 0.69
00:36:43.280 and now you're saying that the knowledge is innate, well, you see how that's going to be difficult to prove because your challenger, your interlocutor, can simply say, well, what do you mean?
00:36:54.600 How do you know? You've been told this literally since you emerged from the womb, and that's why you believe it. 1.00
00:37:01.000 I mean, how can you distinguish between something you believe because you've always been told it and something you believe because it's just in your head apart from what you've been told?
00:37:11.900 It's very hard to do, and it's impossible to prove.
00:37:16.280 Okay, that's the first problem.
00:37:17.820 Number two, there's the problem of the plurality of religion, and this is when someone brings up the innate knowledge of God in an argument.
00:37:25.640 This is always going to be the atheist. 0.96
00:37:26.700 From my experience, this is the atheist's first move, or at least second move, where they're going to say, they're going to bring up the plurality of religion and point out that there are 7 billion people on earth, and most of them are not Christian.
00:37:39.540 Most of them claim that their innate knowledge points to something else entirely.
00:37:43.620 So how do you know that your innate knowledge is correct instead of theirs?
00:37:50.440 I mean, how do we know that their innate knowledge is correct?
00:37:52.660 A Muslim who says that he has an innate knowledge of Allah and Muhammad, well, how do you know that maybe he's right and you're wrong? 1.00
00:38:00.920 Right, that's the point that's going to be made.
00:38:04.600 Number three, if you're saying that knowledge of God is universally innate, and you're talking to an atheist who says he has no such innate knowledge,
00:38:14.680 then you're in the position of trying to tell the atheist what he himself is thinking and putting yourself as the higher authority on that subject.
00:38:24.440 And that's a disaster, for a debate, that's disastrous.
00:38:29.800 When you get into debating what the other person is thinking, you already lose, because you have zero evidence for what they're thinking, and they have 100% of the evidence.
00:38:41.740 They are in that room, you know, if there's two of you debating, there is one person, physically present in that room, who is a 100% authority on what they are thinking, and that is that person.
00:38:52.940 You are a 100% authority on that subject.
00:38:57.840 And I've seen this.
00:38:58.840 This is one of my problems with presuppositional apologetics.
00:39:03.600 I've seen this in debates, where somebody tries to go the presuppositional route, and they end up having this argument, where the atheist says, well, you know, I don't have this innate knowledge, and the presuppositionalist says, oh, yes, you do.
00:39:20.880 Well, you do, though.
00:39:21.560 Well, I'm telling you what you think.
00:39:23.620 You're not going to win.
00:39:24.920 You cannot win that argument.
00:39:27.780 It may be convincing to you.
00:39:29.580 It may make you feel better, but it's not going to be convincing to the atheist, and anyone else who witnesses the argument is going to be very put off by your style of argumentation.
00:39:39.680 And they're going to think, oh, these people got nothing.
00:39:41.780 So, what you're left arguing is that it's an innate knowledge that you also coincidentally had instilled in you from birth, and that for whatever reason leads people to different conclusions about spirituality, and that the atheist you're speaking to really knows, really has this innate knowledge, even if he doesn't know that he has it.
00:40:02.440 So, it's not a strong argument from the outside.
00:40:10.740 Now, am I saying that knowledge of God is not innate?
00:40:16.280 No, I'm not saying that.
00:40:17.340 But you asked me about using it apologetically in an argument with an atheist, and I'm telling you how it will come across if you try to do that.
00:40:27.460 And so, what I'm, and I think we need to do this as Christians, we don't do it enough, I think, where we take a step back and look at this objectively, and look at it, you know, try to imagine how somebody will see these arguments if they don't share our belief system.
00:40:52.320 So, to be an effective debater or to present effective arguments, you have to be able to do that.
00:41:00.700 So, in my view, the evidentiary arguments are much stronger.
00:41:04.100 Arguments that point to, or point out, point to the objective facts in the world, facts that, as a starting point, you can both agree on, starting with the existence of the world itself.
00:41:17.840 So, fine-tuning, first cause, those things.
00:41:23.340 So, your starting point there is the world exists.
00:41:27.660 Here are some basic facts we know about it, some just physical facts, and that's your starting point.
00:41:37.520 And now you're in the realm of arguing over objective facts, external facts.
00:41:42.300 You're not trying to argue over what's going on inside that other person's head.
00:41:45.340 So, I think now you're on strong footing.
00:41:49.920 Then you get into the origin of life, the origin of consciousness.
00:41:54.840 I have come to see as one of the, if not the strongest, argument for God.
00:42:01.500 Even more so than the origin of the universe.
00:42:03.720 I think the origin of consciousness is an even stronger proof.
00:42:06.940 And I think all of these are going to give you a much, much stronger foothold in a debate with an atheist than getting into your personal, internal experience.
00:42:18.940 Which has, which has a lot of evidentiary value for you and for me personally.
00:42:28.560 My own, you know, internal experience has a lot of evidentiary value for me.
00:42:34.700 But it has zero evidentiary value for anyone else.
00:42:38.260 And I have to acknowledge that and realize that and proceed accordingly.
00:42:46.180 Okay, this is from Tony.
00:42:47.160 He says, hello, great one.
00:42:48.120 I'm probably late to the party, but have you seen that Justin Trudeau has a beard?
00:42:52.060 I'm in shock.
00:42:53.360 How could a man who had Melania and Ivanka Trump staring intently at his beautiful baby face grow a beard?
00:42:59.100 I'm dumbstruck.
00:43:00.460 Maybe he did it as a way to just make his face appear a bit darker.
00:43:04.260 We all know he has a weird fetish for that kind of thing.
00:43:06.740 So does this make you like him more or less?
00:43:09.980 Now that he's a beard bro, do you feel a kindred spirit with the Canadian prime minister?
00:43:14.780 I'd love to hear your thoughts on the biggest story of the week.
00:43:18.000 Well, Tony, I'm a firm believer in celebrating all beards, all facial hair.
00:43:26.000 And when it comes to facial hair, I believe in tolerance, inclusivity.
00:43:31.920 And I invite and welcome anyone into the beard club.
00:43:36.740 Okay, I'm not going to get into you're not a real true beardsman.
00:43:41.900 Okay, I don't get into that.
00:43:43.060 A lot of beardsmen, they do.
00:43:45.240 And by the way, that's what we call ourselves, according to me.
00:43:48.460 A lot of beardsmen, that's what they'll get into that.
00:43:51.180 They'll get into, oh, no, he's not real.
00:43:52.300 He's not part of the community.
00:43:53.580 I don't believe in that.
00:43:54.420 I think if you grow the beard, you're in the community.
00:43:59.060 And now we do have that bond.
00:44:01.060 We do have that brotherhood.
00:44:02.920 Doesn't mean I agree with everything.
00:44:04.460 I don't have to agree with everything you say and everything you do.
00:44:08.500 But, and the Halloween costumes you wear, in Justin Trudeau's case.
00:44:12.520 But he's in the community now.
00:44:16.380 And I will defend his beard to the death if I have to.
00:44:22.880 Speaking of beards, another beard-related question from Don.
00:44:26.700 Says, Matt, what kind of dye do you use for your beard?
00:44:31.260 Okay, I wanted to answer this.
00:44:32.380 Because we're talking about beard discrimination.
00:44:34.040 And so I get this email.
00:44:35.540 You have no idea how often I get this from people.
00:44:37.380 Asking me if I dye my beard.
00:44:38.660 And I want to say right now.
00:44:40.100 This is a vicious rumor that's been circulating.
00:44:43.620 Despite my attempts to debunk it.
00:44:45.580 I do not dye my beard.
00:44:47.840 Never have.
00:44:48.740 Never would.
00:44:50.380 In fact, it pains me when people bring this up.
00:44:53.500 Because I'm actually, I am developing a little bit of gray in my beard.
00:44:56.660 A little bit of dignified gray.
00:44:57.780 I've been waiting since I was like 17 to grow some gray in my beard.
00:45:02.280 Okay?
00:45:03.400 I've been an old soul my whole life.
00:45:05.460 May not surprise you to learn.
00:45:06.420 And so now that I'm finally getting a little bit of gray, I'm excited about that.
00:45:10.620 And now I've got all these people.
00:45:11.540 Apparently, I guess it doesn't come through on camera.
00:45:13.240 You can't see it.
00:45:14.900 If anything, I would dye my beard to put gray into it.
00:45:20.260 That's what I would do.
00:45:22.920 Dyeing your beard is crazy.
00:45:26.920 Now, that is offensive, I think, to the bearded community. 0.99
00:45:30.060 Because you should accept and love your beard.
00:45:32.320 Whatever color it comes in.
00:45:33.580 And if you're getting gray in the beard, that's, why, why try to hide from that?
00:45:41.220 Now you could just start, you know, you could start developing that Civil War general kind of look.
00:45:45.100 Who doesn't want that? 0.53
00:45:47.580 So no, I don't dye my beard and never would.
00:45:50.040 How dare, how dare all of you?
00:45:55.480 Let's see.
00:45:55.960 I guess we'll leave it there.
00:45:58.880 No better topic to leave it on than beards.
00:46:02.340 And I hope you guys have a great weekend.
00:46:04.800 Enjoy football.
00:46:06.120 Go Ravens. 0.95
00:46:07.440 Godspeed.
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