The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 425 - Bad Parenting And 'Transgender' Children

00:00:00.000 Welcome to the show, friends, neighbors, associates. So they're really going to do this.

00:00:05.220 Maybe, it seems like. They're really going to nominate Bernie Sanders, the 78-year-old communist.

00:00:11.260 He won the New Hampshire primary yesterday, of course. There's still time for someone else to

00:00:15.060 take it, but who's going to step up? Warren is dead in the water. Biden is dead in the water,

00:00:20.380 and he's just as old and crazy anyway. Klobuchar had a nice third place finish, 0.98

00:00:24.520 but third place ain't going to do it. Buttigieg, maybe. Now, I have no dog in this fight,

00:00:30.500 and I can't stand either of them. But from where I'm sitting, it shouldn't be much of a debate

00:00:36.920 between Buttigieg and Sanders. If I'm a Democrat, the latter is a decrepit old communist, and the

00:00:45.000 former is at least young and somewhat talented as a politician. Now, I've been saying this with the

00:00:51.420 age thing for a while now. I think this is really enough itself. Put everything else aside for a

00:00:58.760 moment. Put even his communism aside for a moment, if you can. Bernie Sanders is currently 78. He'll be

00:01:07.380 79 come inauguration day. 83 at the end of his first term. If he had two terms, he'd be 87. 87 at the end

00:01:17.160 of his two terms. The average life expectancy is 78 for men in this country. And most of those men 0.94

00:01:25.320 who die at 78 or thereabouts don't have the most high-stress, high-pressure job in the country.

00:01:32.320 Least of all did they take on that job at the very end of their life, which is what Bernie Sanders at

00:01:38.360 nearly 80 years old will have. By the way, your chance of developing dementia at 80 is about 20%,

00:01:45.960 close to 20%. Now, a lot of people thought that Ronald Reagan was too old. And you hear this

00:01:52.040 sometimes as a justification for electing really old people. And we're told, well, they said that

00:01:58.540 about Reagan, and look how that turned out. He was 77 when he left office. Sanders will be 79

00:02:06.240 on his first day in office. Reagan was also diagnosed with Alzheimer's a few years after he

00:02:11.620 left office. He was diagnosed with Alzheimer's when he was the age that Sanders will be at the

00:02:18.580 point of the midterm elections in 2022. Like I said, everything else aside, this alone is enough

00:02:25.960 reason to vote for someone else, someone besides him. It is lunacy to put a man that old into a position 1.00

00:02:34.160 as the most powerful person in the world with the most high stakes job in the world, arguably.

00:02:40.320 There's no justification. There's no possible way to justify it because you couldn't argue that

00:02:44.660 this 80-year-old man with a bad heart, okay, who's already had heart problems, is really the most fit

00:02:50.980 for the job out of all the available options on both sides of the aisle. You couldn't possibly make

00:02:56.240 that argument in a reasonable way. And don't give me the ageism crap, okay? Is it ageism for me to say 0.97

00:03:03.780 that I don't think 19-year-olds should be president? Now, 19-year-olds are not allowed to be 1.00

00:03:07.780 president. Is that ageist? No, because we realize that 19-year-olds, God love them, it's no fault of

00:03:16.500 their own, but they don't, they're not fit for the presidency. They're just, they're not old enough

00:03:22.180 yet. And so we say you got to be 35 to run for president because of the realities of being like 19 or

00:03:30.100 20. Well, there are realities about 80-year-olds too. And one of them is that you aren't physically

00:03:35.740 or mentally suited for one of the most stressful high stakes jobs in the world. How would you feel

00:03:41.300 about an 80-year-old heart surgeon operating on you or an 80-year-old airline captain sitting in

00:03:48.020 the cockpit? And don't tell me that, well, I'd be fine with it if he could do the job. No, you would

00:03:53.740 not be fine with it. You would not be fine with it if you're about to take off or if you're boarding

00:03:59.180 the plane and you get a peek in the cockpit and you see someone like, that looks like Bernie Sanders

00:04:04.760 there. You would not be fine with that. Is that because you're ageist? No, it's because we are

00:04:12.920 mortal humans, sadly. And with that mortality comes certain really unfortunate and not very fun

00:04:20.440 conditions. And one of those conditions is that your mental and physical capacities break down with

00:04:25.220 age. It happens to everybody. It's not ageist to point it out. It just is. I'm sorry. I don't like

00:04:31.740 it either. It's inevitable. It happens to everybody who lives long enough to experience it. And so if

00:04:39.800 you tell me that, well, my grandfather's 85 and he could do the job, he's smart as a tack or he's

00:04:45.440 sharp as a tack, I should say. See, I'm losing my mind too. Well, no offense to your grandfather,

00:04:52.540 but no, at 85, I don't care who he is. He's not fit to be president. It's nothing against him.

00:04:58.720 It's just, you're 85. You could literally die any minute. Why are we so, why don't we want to

00:05:07.620 admit this? Why do people, we spend so much time in this country denying stuff that everybody knows

00:05:14.080 is true. And so even what I'm saying right now, even people who hate Bernie Sanders, I will get angry

00:05:19.920 emails from some of those people saying, how dare you? This is ageist. How could you say this about

00:05:23.700 old people? You know, everything I'm saying is a hundred percent true. You know what it,

00:05:27.640 because you've met old people. You, you, you, you know what that's like. You understand that we're

00:05:31.500 mortal, right? Everybody knows this. Why are we pretending we don't? But, um, in any case, I,

00:05:41.100 why am I going on about this? If the Dems want to put this guy up for the general,

00:05:44.200 uh, that general election, that's on them. I mean, Donald Trump will be what? 73 or 74 come,

00:05:53.860 come the next inauguration. So if, if the Democrats want to put somebody up that makes Donald Trump

00:06:00.840 look young by comparison at 74 years old, then that's, Hey, that's on them. I'm not going to try

00:06:07.340 to stop them. All right. Um, more to talk about. I'm going to get away from politics, uh, and talk about

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00:07:47.560 DeGeneres show this morning, uh, or should say yesterday morning, Tuesday to promote an upcoming

00:07:55.000 ESPN documentary about his life, which is called D Wade life unexpected. If you're interested in checking

00:08:00.900 it out, a cynical person, which I have been accused of being that, uh, at times, a cynical

00:08:08.220 person might expect that Dwayne Wade was, was using his son's sexual confusion as a marketing

00:08:15.540 ploy for the film. Now I can't speak to his motivations, but whatever they were, he opened

00:08:21.160 the interview on Ellen talking about his 12 year old son, formerly Zion, now Zaya, who recently

00:08:27.280 decided to become a girl. Watch this. We are, we are proud. When I say proud, we are proud parents,

00:08:32.740 um, of a child in the LGBTQ plus community. And we're proud allies as well. Um, and we, we take our

00:08:40.080 roles and our responsibility as parents very seriously. Um, so when I, when our child comes

00:08:45.880 home with a question, when our child comes home with an issue, when our child comes home with anything,

00:08:50.920 it's our job as parents to listen to that, to give them the best information that we can,

00:08:55.260 the best feedback that we can. Um, and that doesn't change because sexuality is now involved

00:08:59.940 in it. So once Zaya, our 12 year old came home, um, and first Zion, everybody, I don't know if

00:09:05.780 everyone knows, originally named Zion, Zion born, um, as a boy came home and said, Hey, uh, so I want

00:09:12.720 to talk to you guys. Um, you know, I think going forward, I'm ready to live my truth and I want to be

00:09:20.460 a reference that she and her, uh, I would love for you guys to call me Zaya.

00:09:26.020 Now that is, that's very instructive. Wade's

00:09:29.860 description of this process and his response to it is instructive and not instructive in the way

00:09:36.300 that Ellen claims, uh, when she introduced him, introduced Wade as an exemplar of unconditional

00:09:43.520 parental love. This is what loving unconditionally means. No, that's, that is not what I mean by

00:09:49.180 instructive. Instructive in that it reveals the confusion and ineptitude of parents who allow

00:09:54.720 radical left-wing gender theory to invade their homes. Dwayne Wade is married to, uh, Gabrielle

00:10:01.260 Union is a Hollywood actress. And so I don't know. I mean, it's, it's, it's, it will never not be

00:10:10.540 weird to see a normal grown man spouting this left-wing gender theory nonsense the way that

00:10:19.420 Dwayne Wade was there. He doesn't even look comfortable doing it. It doesn't look like he

00:10:23.560 really believes it. Is that because his wife, the Hollywood celebrity has, you know, imposed this?

00:10:30.220 I, I, who knows? I don't know. But Wade first explains, uh, correctly that, that, you know,

00:10:36.100 as you heard, when a child comes home with an issue, as he says, it's quote, our job as parents

00:10:41.640 to give them the best information that we can, the best feedback that we can. Okay, great. Now I

00:10:46.580 agree with that. Yes. But then he tells us that his adolescent son came home, sat them down, says,

00:10:53.560 I need to talk to you guys, announces that he's changing his gender and his name. And by Wade's

00:10:59.320 telling, he accepted this self-identification without question. What happened to providing

00:11:04.280 information? He just said, provide information. So what information did you provide to this child?

00:11:09.040 What, what feedback did you give? This would seem like a very good time for a mature adult to give

00:11:15.580 a child information about biology, information about sex, information about the nature of human

00:11:22.480 identity. Okay. These are things that a child doesn't understand. So it'd be good if an adult

00:11:26.020 could tell them it'd be very good time for a mature adult. If only one existed in young Zaya's life

00:11:32.600 to deliver a little helpful feedback. And if not information, and if not feedback, then even a

00:11:39.160 few probative questions would, would probably be enough to clear things up. Perhaps a question like,

00:11:45.360 you say you're a girl, son, what does that mean? Can you tell me what you think a girl is and how you've

00:11:56.180 come to the conclusion that you are one? That's, that's, that's a really reasonable question to ask

00:12:03.900 somebody, anybody who makes this kind of announcement, especially your child. Say, I'm a

00:12:10.020 girl. Okay. What do you mean by that? That's all you're asking. What do you mean by that? How about

00:12:15.720 just that question? Could anyone object to that question? Could anyone possibly object to that

00:12:20.280 follow-up? What do you mean by that? Tell me what you mean. Give me, give me a few more sentences

00:12:25.940 here just to fill in the gaps. I want to, I want to understand what you mean by that.

00:12:31.380 Very supportive answer, right? Very parental, very loving. I'm not saying you attack the child. I'm not

00:12:37.880 saying you say, oh, you know, you disown him or kick him out of the house or ground him. I'm not saying

00:12:43.300 that. It just begins with, let me understand what exactly you're saying and what you're thinking.

00:12:50.280 And then we'll try to work through this. This is the kind of question a competent parent would ask

00:12:55.880 about any significant decision or change that a child wants to make in their life. If a child merely

00:13:02.400 wanted to, let's say a child was playing soccer and decided that he wanted to quit soccer and wanted

00:13:09.280 to play lacrosse instead. Okay. Although I think there might be different seasons, but either way,

00:13:15.540 if your son came to you and said that, you would probably follow up with some questions. You

00:13:24.720 probably wouldn't immediately say, okay, let's do it. You would want to know why did he make this

00:13:33.220 change? What led up to that decision? I mean, is this really that he wants to play lacrosse or is he,

00:13:39.480 or is he, you know, does he, does he really actually still want to play soccer, but there are some

00:13:43.180 challenges on the soccer team. Maybe he got into a fight with somebody there or whatever.

00:13:47.000 He's not getting enough play time. And so he's trying to back out and quit and go somewhere.

00:13:51.220 And so, so maybe as a parent, you're going to, depending on, you're going to listen and then

00:13:55.060 you're going to provide some direction. Now with something like soccer or lacrosse, there's either

00:14:00.720 one is fine. There's not like there's one that's objectively better. Well, lacrosse probably is

00:14:05.240 objectively better because soccer isn't a real sport, but still generally speaking, either one's okay.

00:14:10.720 Even so, you're going to want to know as a parent what's going on. The point is to help him sort

00:14:19.660 through his own feelings to ensure that he isn't going to do something he ultimately regrets because

00:14:23.560 kids have no sense of the future. They can't see beyond the nose on their face. They aren't,

00:14:29.040 they aren't thinking about that. They don't even know what they want most of the time.

00:14:33.220 They don't know what they want. So you ask a child a simple question like, what do you want

00:14:40.620 in any given situation? Much of the time they won't be able to answer. They don't know exactly

00:14:46.480 what they want. It is mind boggling that every parent would engage in this line of questioning

00:14:54.940 about a change of sports teams, but some parents won't ask any question about a change of gender.

00:15:02.640 Okay? That's where we are. That there are parents who would take more seriously changing sports teams

00:15:09.880 than they would changing genders. In fact, it's worse than that because Wade, who just a minute prior 0.98

00:15:16.680 had claimed that a parent's job is to give the best information, which he was right about,

00:15:21.880 switch courses and said that after his son became a girl, it was his, Wade's job to go and get

00:15:28.760 information. He went from the leader in the household giving information to the sort of

00:15:34.820 subservient follower taking cues from his 12-year-old. So Wade says that he looked at his son turned

00:15:42.400 daughter and says, you're a leader. It's our opportunity to allow you to be a voice.

00:15:49.920 Except that 12-year-olds are not leaders. I have news for you, Dwayne Wade. Your 12-year-old is not

00:15:56.020 a leader. No 12-year-old is. Do you know why? Because they're 12. Okay? 12-year-olds don't have

00:16:03.720 the capacity to be a leader of anything, except maybe in a very limited capacity, like on a sports

00:16:09.580 team. They could be the captain of the team. Okay? But they don't have the capacity to be leaders of a

00:16:14.120 cultural or social movement. It's not their place to be the voice of the LGBT community or any other 1.00

00:16:21.160 community. Least of all, is it a father's job to be a mouthpiece for his child's supposed voice of

00:16:27.420 leadership in society? This is all completely backwards and disordered and wrong. And underneath

00:16:35.700 all of the madness is a boy who just needs his mom and dad to lend some clarity amid confusion. He's just

00:16:42.560 confused. And instead, his ridiculous, ineffectual parents are more focused on following cultural 1.00

00:16:49.820 trends and being fashionable than helping their child become a well-adjusted human being. 0.98

00:16:54.780 But don't worry, because, you know, Wade and his wife, Gabrielle Union, they knew where to get

00:17:01.960 information, right? About how to parent their, quote, transgender child. His wife reached out to

00:17:08.860 everybody on the cast of Pose. Now, Pose, I looked this up because I'd never heard of the show.

00:17:13.240 It is a queer musical dance series. That's a quote from an article. So not to fear, Zaya,

00:17:19.200 mom and dad are consulting with a queer musical dance series to find out how to parent you.

00:17:26.100 And then, you know, of course, you've got Ellen sitting there nodding, like, this is all great.

00:17:29.800 Now, this makes a lot of sense. The trained seals in the audience clapping.

00:17:33.860 It would be funny if it were not so psychotic and sickening, and if it weren't actual children, 0.93

00:17:41.100 if there weren't actual children being destroyed by this unfettered, raving left-wing lunacy.

00:17:51.960 So it's, it's, but it will never stop being

00:17:57.540 shocking. You know, we can't get to a point where we're used to this sort of thing.

00:18:03.860 Isn't it interesting, by the way? Isn't it? Isn't it?

00:18:09.780 What a coincidence that it seems like the parents who are, who have bought into left-wing gender 0.81

00:18:18.280 theory, they're the ones who so often seem to be the ones giving birth to daughters trapped in boy

00:18:24.760 bodies. Isn't that, isn't that fascinating? What a strange scientific phenomenon.

00:18:29.780 Yeah. You've got all these women, especially in Hollywood, who have already bought into this 1.00

00:18:36.320 craziness. And then they, they happen to be the ones who give birth to the, it just so happens that

00:18:41.640 all of their daughters are trapped in boy bodies. Well, what do you know? That's just a coincidence.

00:18:46.140 I mean, it couldn't possibly be, right? That, that, that they are brainwashed themselves,

00:18:50.740 the parents, into this cult of left-wing gender theory. And then so then they're brainwashing their 0.73

00:18:54.420 children. Couldn't possibly be that, could it? I mean, it couldn't possibly be that, that, that

00:18:59.600 Zaya's parents have been foisting this on, on him. That he's, he's grown up in an environment

00:19:08.540 of confusion and hasn't gotten the, the direction and leadership that he needs.

00:19:13.640 I mean, it couldn't possibly be that, that he's growing up in a household where he's told that

00:19:19.940 gender, you know, gender is fluid. You can be whatever you want. Nothing means anything. 1.00

00:19:23.520 The fact that you're a boy biologically means nothing whatsoever. He's told that from birth.

00:19:28.140 Then what do you know at 12, he's saying he's a girl. Couldn't be that. No, no, no, no. The best

00:19:32.920 possible explanation for this is that mystically, supernaturally, in some way, nobody can explain

00:19:40.660 girls are really being born in boy bodies. That's the best explanation, obviously, right? 1.00

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00:21:11.360 Smollett has been, or Jussie Smollett as, uh, as Dave Chappelle has, uh, named him, has been

00:21:22.120 indicted on six counts related to making up a hate crime against himself, which, so it's nice to see

00:21:26.660 that Smollett's attacker has finally been brought to justice. And I figured I'd be the one millionth

00:21:31.560 person to make that joke. Maybe there's a prize or something for being number one million, but this

00:21:35.640 is great. And it will be interesting to me to see how Smollett decides to play this. Now I'm guessing,

00:21:41.920 I don't know, I'm guessing that he'll probably be offered a deal to avoid jail, maybe some community

00:21:47.320 service, but avoid jail if he admits what he did publicly. And that really would be punishment enough

00:21:54.440 in many ways, considering the, the utter public humiliation it would entail. Humiliation that

00:21:59.200 he's already suffered, of course, because almost everyone thinks he's a joke, but now he actually

00:22:03.260 has, has to face that humiliation honestly. And it would probably rule out him ever making a comeback

00:22:08.360 in Hollywood again after he admits it. Or will he maintain his innocence even to the point of doing

00:22:16.980 a few months in jail or a few weeks probably, uh, so that, you know, he can still claim that he's

00:22:24.420 innocent. He does his time and that's it. I wouldn't be surprised to see him take that deal,

00:22:29.240 take the jail. If it were me at this point, I don't know. I think I might take the jail cell

00:22:33.640 because you're committed way too much to the lie. Especially when you consider, I went back today or

00:22:40.060 yesterday after this news broke and I watched that clip of that interview he did shortly after making up

00:22:45.680 the hate crime where he started, where he broke down in tears describing the incident. And

00:22:52.320 now that looked fake as hell then. I mean, you could tell he was acting, overacting because he's

00:23:00.180 not a great actor as it turns out. But the fact that he did that and he was lying, well, if he comes

00:23:07.860 out now and admits that he was, that it was, that it was a lie, he's going, it'll be essentially the

00:23:12.400 same as announcing I'm a sociopath. And, uh, I, I'm thinking he'd probably rather just go to jail

00:23:18.940 than do that. All right. Let me ask you guys about this. And I'm going to, um,

00:23:28.660 go to email in a second, but I wanted to, I wanted to mention this. I want to get your opinion.

00:23:32.520 Actually, my, my son got home from school talking about speaking of parenting. Okay.

00:23:40.200 My son got home from school. This isn't going to a transgender direction. Just so you know, 1.00

00:23:43.860 uh, we do a homeschool co-op. So, uh, two days a week, he goes into basically a normal sort of

00:23:50.800 school environment. And, uh, so, well, I got home yesterday after, after the kids and I go upstairs to

00:23:55.960 my room and I find my, my son there sitting in a corner coloring by himself. And he's a really social,

00:24:02.120 upbeat kid most of the time. So I knew that something was up and I was talking to him and

00:24:06.140 it took him a while, but he finally admitted that a kid was teasing him in school today.

00:24:11.440 The kid was apparently rhyming my son's name, um, in insulting ways, which for a six year old,

00:24:19.300 you know, that amounts to shots fired. Now he told me that this kid was rhyming his first name and his

00:24:24.960 last name. And I was trying to get my son to tell me, well, what were the rhymes? Because, okay,

00:24:29.460 I know my son's first name, there were some rhymes there, but Walsh, what did he come up with for

00:24:33.520 Walsh? I went to school, public school for, for 13 years, you know, K through 12. And, uh, I,

00:24:41.360 no one was ever able to come up with an insulting last, insulting nickname attached to my last name.

00:24:47.140 Now, first name Matt, you know, of course you got fat Matt. Fortunately, I was pretty skinny. So

00:24:50.940 that never really worked out. Um, I don't really have a rat. I am ugly, but I don't have a rat face.

00:24:57.060 So they couldn't do rat Matt. So, you know, I, I kind of escaped it. And then Walsh, 0.93

00:25:01.000 where do you go with Walsh? What rhymes with it? I had one kid in, in sixth grade who tried to get

00:25:07.100 mouthwash going for Matt Walsh. Just didn't catch on. That's, that's a stretch. Didn't work.

00:25:13.780 So I don't know what the, what this kid was doing, but, uh, he, he thought of something.

00:25:18.660 And so I asked my son what the other kid's name was. And I'm not going to say it here because I

00:25:25.080 don't really want to publicly shame a six-year-old, but, uh, it, it, it was a name ripe for rhyming,

00:25:31.980 ripe for it. So I gave my son some ideas for rhymes, for insulting rhymes that he could throw

00:25:39.160 back in that kid's face next time. And we sat for a minute brainstorming. Um, and my son thought

00:25:46.320 that my suggestions were hysterical. I have to say, so I, they did impress a six-year-old. And so,

00:25:52.080 yes, I, I did the, the upshot here is I, I did help my six-year-old son come up with insults to

00:25:58.060 use against a fellow six-year-old at school that did happen. I admit, am I a horrible parent for

00:26:05.440 that? I may be a horrible parent in general, but is it, does it have anything to do with that

00:26:10.660 particular moment? And here's, here's, here's my justification. First of all, I think that name

00:26:17.460 rhyming and self-defense is ethical. And I also think on a more serious note, if I'm going to be

00:26:26.320 really honest and maybe I'm being more honest than I should be, I, I, I actually don't believe in the

00:26:31.960 be the bigger person stuff. That probably won't surprise you actually, but I don't, I don't believe

00:26:39.540 in it. I think that's a whole line that we tell ourselves and our kids. And I think it's a lie.

00:26:46.920 We all know it's a lie. All of us know it. All of us know. Here's why we know it's a lie. We say,

00:26:52.800 be the bigger person, right? It's what, it seems like what most parents say. It's what they say in

00:26:56.160 schools. Kids insulting you, be the bigger person, walk away, tell an adult, bigger person.

00:27:02.160 Well, all of us know, we went to school and we still exist in society, society today. Even as

00:27:09.740 adults, we encounter bullying takes different forms as an adult, but you still sort of deal with it

00:27:15.260 sometimes. Someone who's, who's coming at you in a certain way. We know that 99% of the time

00:27:20.480 when, when you're, when you're being the quote, bigger person responding to an insult by not fighting

00:27:26.720 back, by, by not, by, by not throwing an insult back in that direction. When you're being the

00:27:32.800 bigger person, it's because you're scared and you're being timid. It has nothing to do with

00:27:37.060 being bigger. It's actually the opposite. You're being tiny. You're, you're, you're being the small,

00:27:42.980 tiny thing, shrinking, shrinking away from the, the confrontation. Bigger person is a lie we tell

00:27:51.780 ourselves. And I, I believe we all know that. I think if you looked in your own life at the times

00:27:57.260 when you were being insulted or attacked in some way and you didn't respond, if you're being really

00:28:03.580 honest with yourself, the reason you didn't, you might, bigger, bigger person is what you tell

00:28:08.280 yourself later after the fact. In the moment, you're just scared and you're being non-confrontational

00:28:14.640 and you don't want to get into it. That's the reason. So, um, I think it's important to teach

00:28:22.260 our kids that when someone insults them, throw it back at them. When they come at you, come back at

00:28:28.100 them. Stand your ground. Don't be afraid. Um, we make a mistake. I believe when we tell our kids stuff

00:28:34.060 like, uh, never insult anyone when they insult you. That's a, never, never respond. Okay. It's don't,

00:28:40.760 don't be, don't be small like that. Don't do that. Sticks and stones. Actually, words do hurt,

00:28:46.820 especially for kids. And, and times when you're insulted and torn down times, when someone belittles

00:28:52.000 you to your face and you don't respond, those moments can haunt you for life, even if they

00:28:58.000 happen when you're a kid. And we all know that. And yet we still say this bull crap to kids about

00:29:04.620 this, this, these things we know are not true because we experienced it and we still say it. I don't 0.98

00:29:10.400 know why we do. Now I'm not saying this thing that happened with my son is going to haunt

00:29:14.540 him. I know this is a small thing, right? I know this is, I'm not trying to make a big

00:29:17.920 deal out of it, but it's a small thing, but it's only big in the sense of, I want to instill

00:29:23.880 in him from an early age, an attitude of, uh, I'm not, I'm not looking for trouble. I'm not

00:29:28.980 being a bully, but I'm going to stand up for myself. If you punch me, I'm going to punch 0.99

00:29:34.840 back. If you insult me, I'm going to throw something back at you. That's it. I'm not being 1.00

00:29:39.540 malicious. I'm not trying to hurt your feelings, but it's a fair is fair. That's how you get

00:29:44.520 respect, especially as a boy. I think it's a very good chance. You know, some of my best

00:29:49.540 friendships happened in a, in a situation like that. Some of my best friendships, especially

00:29:54.100 in, in, uh, as a kid began with insults. Somebody insults you, you insult back. And now there's

00:30:02.400 a respect. So that's my thought. And this policy that every school has of, it doesn't matter

00:30:08.700 who started it. That is such BS. It's one of my primary gripes about schools, honestly,

00:30:14.320 where they say it doesn't matter. Get into a fight. Doesn't matter who started it. Of

00:30:17.700 course it matters who started it. We say that he started it is not a good excuse. Of course

00:30:23.920 it's a good excuse. It's a very good excuse. If some kid is minding his own business and

00:30:28.660 another kid comes up and start something and the first kid responds, why in the hell should

00:30:33.720 the first kid get in trouble? How is that not a good excuse? The only other option is

00:30:38.500 to run away and be a tattletale. Is that courageous? Is that really more mature? It's not going to

00:30:48.440 get you any respect. It's just going to make it worse. Another thing people have said to

00:30:55.820 me, I was talking about this online and there were some people saying, well, no, the right

00:31:00.240 thing to do with bullies when they insult you is to play along with it and even throw

00:31:06.900 some additional insults at yourself and that'll disarm them. They'll disarm the bully. They 0.82

00:31:11.540 won't know what to do. No, please don't tell your kids nonsense like that. Don't tell them 0.75

00:31:17.700 that. It's not, that actually does not work. Have you ever seen that work in real life? Not

00:31:23.600 in the movies? I'm talking about real bullies. I'm not talking about bullies like in a Christmas

00:31:28.380 story where you've got the tall, lanky, freckled kid and his little henchman hanging out by

00:31:36.740 the fence stealing lunch money. Hey, you dweebs, get over here. That kind of bully. No, that's 0.96

00:31:42.480 not real life. That's movies from the 80s. I'm talking about in real life. Have you ever

00:31:45.600 seen a real life situation where a kid's being bullied and he gets out of it by insulting

00:31:51.880 himself or being submissive, being, being submissive in a good, good humored kind of way? No, it

00:31:58.060 doesn't work. It just makes it so much worse. Bully would love that for you to play along with it.

00:32:02.240 It'd be hilarious. I actually did. I remember distinctly when I was a kid, I saw another kid

00:32:09.100 try that strategy. I witnessed it and it was a disaster. It, it, it, it was, it did not work out

00:32:16.480 well. It became very awkward for the kid, worse than it was to begin with. And he walked away with

00:32:23.260 his tail between his legs. Uh, there's nothing wrong with, um, telling our kids to, you know,

00:32:31.780 defend themselves and, and demand some respect. You have to demand respect in life or you're not

00:32:36.480 going to get it. And that, that goes for kids too. It can be very damaging for a kid at a young,

00:32:42.920 we could say they're very young now. It doesn't matter, but especially when they're young, if they

00:32:46.880 get into the habit of being submissive and shrinking away from confrontation, it's difficult to ever

00:32:54.260 break that habit. They, that might, that, that'll set in and they might be like that for the rest of

00:32:58.860 their lives. Now, one other thing we talk about being the bigger person. Let me tell you what being

00:33:05.100 a bigger person is like. This would, this would be a bigger person scenario. Let's say there's somebody

00:33:10.920 who's, who is, uh, uh, an MMA fighter. Okay. Is strong and bigger, can fight, could beat the crap

00:33:21.540 out of pretty much anyone, especially people that don't know how to fight. And let's say that some

00:33:24.860 little punk comes up to him at a bar or something and smacks him in the face. And the guy, the MMA

00:33:30.740 fighter decides not, knows he could beat the hell out of this guy, decides not to. That would be the

00:33:36.720 bigger person because that's coming from a place of strength. You know, you could do it. You're

00:33:41.740 definitely not afraid of this guy, but you're, you're being merciful. And you're, what you're

00:33:45.860 saying to the other guys, you know, you're not even worth my time. You're such a little punk. 0.99

00:33:49.560 I could rip you to shreds. I'm not going to, because I am merciful. I'm not going to, 0.99

00:33:53.760 that is being the bigger person. But as I said, 99% of the time when someone is insulted,

00:34:03.140 punched or whatever, and the person who's, who got insulted or got punched doesn't

00:34:07.340 respond 99% of the time, they're not being big. They're being scared. And so when you

00:34:12.240 tell your kid, be the bigger person, don't respond, what you're, no matter what you think 0.65

00:34:16.460 you're saying, what you're really telling them is be scared, be a wimp, run away. That's 0.99

00:34:20.220 what you're actually teaching them. And you know it. And we all know it because you've

00:34:23.400 experienced it. We all have. All right. Let's move on to do some emails. First of all,

00:34:29.880 before we get there, it's been a crazy year so far and the election race hasn't even started

00:34:35.400 yet. Really hasn't started in earnest, especially the general election. It's hard to, it's hard

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00:35:09.960 includes the Q&A discussions with me and Ben Shapiro and Klavan and Knowles, some of the

00:35:15.080 other writers. I mentioned yesterday I'm going to be doing a Q&A on Friday. I'll be doing a

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00:35:37.060 of emails, mattwalshow at gmail.com, mattwalshow at gmail.com. This is from Marcus. Matt says,

00:35:42.880 Matt, you wrote that it would be a tragic farce if America elects a communist 30 years after

00:35:47.680 winning the Cold War. Well, America won World War II and then elected a Nazi in 2016. Isn't 0.68

00:35:53.440 that a tragic farce too? You know, Marcus, I did write that this morning. Your email,

00:36:00.580 I have no idea if you're joking or not. That's where we are right now in our society. I have

00:36:06.800 no clue if that's a joke. I would hope that it is. And given that you're emailing me, I

00:36:12.700 would think that it is. Because if you're in the Trump is a literal Nazi camp, I doubt you'd

00:36:17.080 be listening to my show. Not that this is a show of constant Trump boosterism by any stretch

00:36:21.500 of the imagination, but still. So I don't know. But then again, a lot of people really

00:36:25.800 do feel it. So assuming for a moment that you mean that seriously, let me engage with

00:36:31.140 it. And if you don't, then plenty of other people do. When I say that it will be a tragic

00:36:37.020 farce some 30 years after the Cold War to elect a communist, if that's if we elect Bernie

00:36:42.560 Sanders, that's because it would be. It's the kind of thing that historians, I mean, think

00:36:47.480 about that. You've got this decades long struggle with communism. America wins. A few decades

00:36:53.480 later, elects a communist to run their country. That's the kind of thing historians for centuries

00:36:59.020 to come will be looking at and researching and trying to understand. Books will be written

00:37:05.760 about it. Entire libraries on that subject. I don't think we even understand how significant

00:37:10.800 of a title shift that would be in the history of human civilization, really. And when I call

00:37:22.420 Sanders a communist, it's because he is. I don't mean it in a general pejorative kind of way. I mean,

00:37:28.920 he really is a communist. He might not use that word to describe himself. He does use socialist.

00:37:34.020 He may not say communism, but that's his ideology. And he's been very open about it, even recently,

00:37:41.380 but especially in the past, talking about how most major industries should be controlled by the

00:37:47.720 government. Okay, communism. It's what it is. Now, when you call Trump a Nazi, this is a theme I always

00:37:57.380 talk about, right? Words have meaning. The word Nazi means something. And so you just sound stupid.

00:38:04.180 Everyone sounds stupid when they call Trump a Nazi. Nazi is not a stand-in for bad guy. Nazis were bad 1.00

00:38:12.220 guys, but what made them Nazis was not simply that they were bad guys. It's that they had a particular

00:38:19.660 ideology and a certain agenda. And so Nazis, actual Nazis, would be people that were members of the 0.60

00:38:27.920 National Socialist Party in Nazi Germany. Or, if you want to say, people today who are openly

00:38:34.540 sympathetic to their ideology and their agenda and who are supporting it and trying to enact it.

00:38:40.240 Whatever you want to say about Trump, you could say Trump is the worst president in history. You could

00:38:43.580 say he's the worst person in history. You could say that he's worse than Hitler. That still doesn't 0.92

00:38:48.340 make him a Nazi. It's simply an incorrect label. He's also not a dictator. As much as you might not

00:38:57.240 like him, not a dictator. Because those words mean something. And he's not that. So maybe expand your

00:39:07.900 vocabulary and find another word to use to express your view that Trump is a horrible guy. You could 0.98

00:39:14.660 just say, horrible guy. We all know what you mean. But when you say Nazi, you automatically lose the

00:39:20.300 argument because you're factually wrong. We'll go to Nathan. It says, from Nathan, I'm a big fan and

00:39:27.300 watch your show every day. Halfway through your show yesterday, you talked about how many people,

00:39:31.140 including Christians, have an impulse to say that we're living in the end times and that the apocalypse

00:39:35.480 is upon us. I agree, of course, that climate change activists are pretty crazy and out of line with 0.83

00:39:39.900 their claims about doomsday. However, as Christians, isn't it healthy for us to do as Jesus said in that

00:39:47.080 we should be watching and waiting, expecting his return? I'll admit many Christians go overboard with 1.00

00:39:51.660 this, but nonetheless, shouldn't we as Christians be looking for signs of the times, especially in

00:39:56.700 regards to Bible prophecy? I would love to hear your perspective on this and eschatology in general.

00:40:02.160 Keep up the good work. Well, I think Jesus told us to be morally vigilant in the sense of not allowing

00:40:10.920 ourselves to fall into sin and complacency. But the point there, the point that Jesus made is that

00:40:14.960 the Son of Man will come like a thief in the night. You're not going to expect it. You're not going to

00:40:17.880 know it. You won't see it coming. It will just happen. And that's how death will also happen for all

00:40:22.700 of us, whether or not we're around to see the end of the world. Either way, our end will come

00:40:28.220 unexpected. As far as looking for signs of the end of the world, I think that's exactly what we're not

00:40:34.960 supposed to be doing. No man will know the day or hour. An adulterous generation looks for a sign. I mean,

00:40:40.880 Christians have been looking for signs of the end times and believing they found those signs for 2,000 1.00

00:40:46.220 years. From the very first, Paul addresses it in his letters that were written in the year 40, between 40

00:40:52.620 and 60. So right away, people were looking for the end and thought that they were at the end.

00:40:58.220 And there have been confident predictions of the apocalypse ever since. Christian history is 1.00

00:41:03.480 littered with them. And they've all failed to pan out, in spite of the fact that previous generations

00:41:08.100 have had many better reasons to think they were living in the end times. Think of the generation

00:41:12.620 that lived through two world wars in the span of just a few decades. Or of the various epidemics that

00:41:18.340 have wiped out millions across the globe. Or think of earlier times when more localized destruction

00:41:23.060 and mayhem may as well have been global because nobody knew what was going on outside of their own

00:41:28.320 sphere. Think of the 16th century when Europeans were landing in the new world and there was this

00:41:33.640 clash of civilizations. And they probably felt that this, that they were at the end of history,

00:41:39.540 basically. That the final piece of the puzzle was filled in. You could hardly blame them for

00:41:44.700 thinking that. But here we are, you know, 500 years later, world's still going strong. Maybe not

00:41:52.240 strong, but it's going. So at a certain point, shouldn't we catch on? A certain point, maybe after

00:41:58.780 2,000 years, we might say, okay, maybe we'll just stop with this and live our lives. And, you know,

00:42:06.960 it happens when it happens. Besides, have you actually read the prophetic books of the Bible?

00:42:14.180 Revelation, Daniel, they're very abstract, heavily metaphorical, which means you could easily find

00:42:22.060 references in them to modern times. But every generation in history has been able to do that.

00:42:28.340 Every generation has been able to find references to their modern times, to their contemporary times,

00:42:32.480 in these books, because the meaning is so much buried under this difficult-to-decipher imagery,

00:42:39.060 and nobody knows exactly what it means.

00:42:43.980 There is a strand of Christianity that really holds Revelation, you know, as this central,

00:42:58.160 crucial text, which I'm not saying it isn't a crucial text, but in the sense that they

00:43:01.460 believe they can decipher it, and that we should try to do that.

00:43:08.340 I don't look at Revelation that way, and I think clearly 2,000 years of history proves that it's

00:43:13.620 not that. I don't know exactly what it is or what it means. Nobody does. So I think Revelation is

00:43:22.080 interesting. I think it's, the imagery is sometimes beautiful, sometimes terrifying, sometimes

00:43:29.760 bewildering, sometimes confusing, but sometimes bizarre, right? So it's interesting to read, but

00:43:39.040 that's kind of as far as we can go with it. Beyond that, if you're telling me you understand

00:43:45.820 everything it says, then I'm going to have to think, you know, you're a charlatan. Not you 0.89

00:43:50.180 specifically. No, you're not. But people who say that are charlatans. All right. So,

00:43:59.760 let's see. One last one from David says, let me preface this by saying that I think the left's

00:44:06.100 gender ideology is extremely radical and that men and women are different. I keep seeing you ask the

00:44:11.040 left for a coherent definition of what it means for a boy to feel like a girl, quote unquote,

00:44:14.860 and to define the word woman, et cetera. But let me ask you, I agree with you that men and women are

00:44:18.820 different. So can you please explain why it is not possible for a boy to feel like a girl? The way I see it,

00:44:22.960 there are two options. Either men and women are not different, in which case a boy feeling like

00:44:26.800 a girl makes no sense, or men and women are different, in which case a boy may in fact feel

00:44:33.280 like a girl, whatever that may mean. Thanks. Love the show. Well, David, I think that since boys and

00:44:41.300 girls are different, that is precisely why the statement he feels like a girl has no meaning.

00:44:46.800 What is a girl feeling? What do you mean that someone feels like a girl? Well, the only thing 0.99

00:44:54.020 that that can mean, well, it can mean one of two things. One, it can mean simply that he has certain

00:45:00.140 traditionally feminine inclinations or proclivities or character traits, but a boy who has feminine

00:45:05.640 traits is just a boy with feminine traits. It doesn't mean he actually is a girl. And the left must agree 0.76

00:45:12.980 with that, that it doesn't mean he's a girl, because they're the ones who say that our ideas of

00:45:17.860 masculinity and femininity are artificial and socially constructed. So you can't say that someone's

00:45:24.220 traditionally feminine proclivities mean anything at all. In fact, the word feminine, according to the

00:45:31.420 people that espouse gender theory, the word feminine has no actual meaning itself. It's totally decided by

00:45:37.780 society. So you can't really tie it to that. Um, and, uh, if we now say that men with feminine 0.99

00:45:47.680 traits are women, then we are saying that women must by definition be feminine. We're not allowing 1.00

00:45:54.900 women to be anything other than feminine because we're saying that to be feminine is to be a woman, 1.00

00:45:59.160 which means to be a woman is to be feminine. But the left doesn't want to say that. So this whole

00:46:03.700 line of argument is gone. What's next? Well, uh, what else could a woman feeling mean? It, it, it must 0.99

00:46:10.940 then mean woman feelings are feelings that women have very simple. That must be the definition of 0.91

00:46:20.660 a woman feeling or feeling like a woman. What does feeling like a woman means? It means that you're a 0.90

00:46:26.740 woman feeling to feel like a woman is to be a woman who feels, but by definition, men cannot have women

00:46:36.840 feelings because they're not women. The very fact that they're men having the feeling is proof enough

00:46:41.720 that these are not women feelings. And at any rate, the man would have no way of knowing it was a woman

00:46:48.060 feeling because he hasn't been a woman in order to compare the feelings. So how could he possibly know

00:46:53.320 that that's how women feel? He couldn't. So it becomes circular. How do we know that he's a woman? 0.92

00:47:00.780 Because he has woman feelings. How do we know that woman feelings? Because he's a woman. You see, it's 0.53

00:47:05.780 circular. And this isn't a valid way of, of thinking. It's, it's, it's inherently illogical. It's illegitimate.

00:47:11.400 And that's the issue with it. All right. But thanks for the, uh, the email. And I, I appreciate,

00:47:19.260 you know, when conservative listeners email me as, as they often do, trying to do the left a favor by

00:47:27.080 making some kind of sense out of their gender theory. And so I get so many of these emails

00:47:31.000 from conservatives saying, you know, I think this is nonsense, but maybe what they mean is this.

00:47:36.600 It's like, you're trying to do them a favor, but I think we have to accept that. No, this is really

00:47:40.940 totally crazy and incoherent. And there's no way to make sense of it. It contradicts itself and you,

00:47:46.320 you can't do it, but I think it's a noble attempt anyway. And thank you for that.

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The Matt Walsh Show - February 12, 2020

Ep. 425 - Bad Parenting And 'Transgender' Children

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