The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 428 - Narcissism Disguised As Enlightenment

00:00:00.000 Welcome to the show, everybody. I trust you're all excited for the Democratic debate

00:00:03.900 tonight. I know that I am. I actually am excited for it this time, to be honest. This time,

00:00:07.940 anyway, I am. And for one thing, I'm looking forward to the spectacle of a Democratic debate

00:00:13.480 featuring not one, but two billionaires. Two billionaires. Actually, I'm not sure if Steyer

00:00:19.120 made the cut this time around. I hope that he did, because either way, there are two billionaires

00:00:23.640 in the field vying for the Democratic nomination. So you got two billionaires,

00:00:28.500 a bunch of millionaires, a bunch of white people, and that's it, right? Basically,

00:00:34.760 the Democratic field looks exactly like the kind of party that the Democrats accuse the Republicans

00:00:39.520 of being. And that's great. I do expect tonight for just a very brief preview that the phrase

00:00:46.040 buying the election, the accusation of buying the election will be uttered quite a bit.

00:00:51.680 All of the mere millionaires on stage will valiantly stand up against the billionaire or billionaires

00:00:58.300 and accuse them of buying the election. But keep in mind, as the millionaires complain about the

00:01:05.200 billionaire buying the election, that they aren't upset about elections being bought per se. They

00:01:11.360 have no problem with that. It's just they're upset about somebody buying an election

00:01:16.460 with their own money. That's the issue. For Sanders and Warren, of course,

00:01:22.920 their preferred method is to buy the election by bribing voters with other people's money.

00:01:29.820 So they want to use your money to bribe the voters, and that's their issue. Bloomberg,

00:01:34.520 at least, has the decency to bribe folks with his own money. And that's the thing that I think offends

00:01:41.720 the Warrens and the Sanders of the world. So remember that tonight. Nobody has ever attempted to buy an

00:01:48.740 election as brazenly as especially Bernie Sanders is attempting to buy it by promising free everything,

00:01:56.280 basically. It's just that, again, he's using your money to do it. The idea that somebody would use

00:02:02.320 their own money to do anything is very offensive to Bernie Sanders. So I'm sure we'll hear a lot

00:02:06.880 about that tonight. Okay. Enough about the debate for now. I want to talk about narcissism,

00:02:12.440 a not unrelated topic, to be sure. And that's going to be the theme of the show today, or at least of

00:02:20.860 the first couple of things that we talk about. I believe that narcissism is the great plague of

00:02:27.100 modern society. And since our society is so into narcissists and has so constructed itself around

00:02:34.900 narcissism, it has also come up with many names and labels and ways of discussing narcissism

00:02:41.820 to make it seem noble or brave or bold, right? Now, I think it may help to begin with a definition.

00:02:49.020 I don't always trust websites like Psychology Today, but in this case, I think Psychology Today

00:02:53.700 provides a pretty good description of what narcissism is. Here's what the site says.

00:02:58.780 Narcissism is characterized by, it says, a hunger for appreciation or admiration, a sense of specialness,

00:03:04.400 and a desire to be the center of attention, and an expectation of special treatment reflecting

00:03:09.380 perceived higher status. Okay, so that's narcissism. Now, here's a great example of it, in my view.

00:03:16.960 There's this video that's gone viral online. It's a video of somebody, a woman, I think,

00:03:23.880 I could be wrong, performing a bit of poetry about her struggles with trying to get her haircut

00:03:31.040 as a, quote, non-binary person. And this is being hailed as, like I said, noble, brave, bold, beautiful.

00:03:41.400 But really, I could just not imagine a better illustration of narcissism. In fact, it would

00:03:46.200 not be an exaggeration to say that this poem that I'll play for you right now is perhaps the most

00:03:51.520 powerful poem about narcissism that I've ever heard. So, without further ado, here it is. Watch this.

00:03:59.120 I need a haircut. So, option one is the salon. That womanly world of perfumed femininity with which I 1.00

00:04:11.000 feel like I have little affinity. Or option two is the barbers, which isn't much better since this

00:04:19.000 voice and these swells in my chest make me feel like an infiltrator. But barbers or salon when I get to

00:04:27.420 the chair. Before we can even touch on my hair, there's this question which hangs there unuttered

00:04:33.160 and awkward. They made all the more awkward when they say, I know this is awkward. And through the

00:04:40.620 mirror they ask if I'm a boy or a girl. Am I trans? Am I gay? And I don't know what to say.

00:04:48.880 Sometimes I pick my labels to make other people feel okay. But it's never enough to say where I'd like

00:04:54.380 to be trimmed or shaved. They need to know my sex. How else can they charge the appropriate rate?

00:05:01.140 I'm sure you've seen the signs. Gents trim, five quid. Women's trim, nine. It doesn't matter how I 0.94

00:05:05.880 define anyway when the hair on our head's charged by what's between our legs. And as usual, there always

00:05:11.960 seems to be a higher price to pay for those who are female. 1.00

00:05:14.580 You see, what you saw there, that's not a poem about being non-binary, mostly because 0.99

00:05:19.780 there's no such thing as being non-binary. That doesn't exist. That's a poem about, as I said,

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00:07:41.000 video, the poem, and this is the kind of thing that these days we're supposed to approach with

00:07:48.620 hushed reverence and say, shh, everyone, listen, she's talking about her lived experience. This is,

00:07:57.660 this is profound and meaningful when really almost everybody is rolling their eyes, at least

00:08:03.160 internally. Maybe not externally because they think they're not allowed to. They think that's,

00:08:07.900 that's not the right, that's, that's a, that's a terrible and bigoted reaction. It's not,

00:08:11.640 it's the right reaction. Let's talk about why. First of all, this person says that her identity

00:08:18.600 as complex and fascinating and poetic as it is just can't be described by or contained by the

00:08:27.380 labels male or female. It's just, that's, that's, that's not enough. She needs something other than 0.95

00:08:32.640 that. Uh, well, no, she doesn't because nobody is other than that. You're either male or female.

00:08:41.140 Okay. In her case, female, I think. Uh, now you can be a female who prefers short hair and baggy clothes. 1.00

00:08:47.860 That's fine. That has absolutely nothing to do with your status as male or female.

00:08:53.960 If you're a female with a different fashion sense and aesthetic sensibilities from most

00:08:58.580 other females, then you're just a female with different fashion senses and aesthetic sensibilities 1.00

00:09:03.520 from most other females. That's it. It's not complicated. We don't need a whole new category 1.00

00:09:08.140 to describe you. You're still a female, just a female. And that's fine. It really is. Or you're a male. 0.84

00:09:14.620 And that's fine too. Everybody is one or the other. It is indeed a binary system. That's what

00:09:19.700 a binary system is. Where every, where everyone or everything in the system is one thing or another.

00:09:26.760 And that's how it is for members of the human species. It is definitely a binary system. There

00:09:31.160 is no third sex. It doesn't exist. Now there are people of either sex, a small minority who suffer

00:09:37.360 from deformities or abnormalities, but those are deformities and abnormalities within the binary.

00:09:42.500 And the whole way we know that they are deformities or abnormalities is because they are within the

00:09:48.120 binary. But some people have convinced themselves that these so-called traditional labels, these

00:09:55.460 standard categories are just too small, you know, too, too shallow, too boring, too routine

00:10:04.140 to contain them, to contain them and their enormity. They're just so interesting and so deep and so

00:10:11.660 amazing and incredible and different and manifold and nuanced. You heard it in the clip. You know,

00:10:16.860 the rest of the world, almost everyone else, can satisfy themselves with these labels, but not me.

00:10:21.700 No, I'm just different. I'm something else entirely. I'm not like them. I'm not like you. I'm not like

00:10:28.680 anyone. I have, what was, you know, what was that on psychology today? I have a sense of specialness

00:10:34.720 and a desire to be the center of attention. That's what it is. And then she makes this whole long

00:10:40.340 thing out of choosing who is going to cut her hair. You know, even claiming that the barber or

00:10:47.180 stylist will ask her if she's gay or trans, which, first of all, I guarantee that doesn't happen.

00:10:53.980 Okay, you're not going to sit down at the barbershop. So you gay? Is that a gay person? Yeah. 0.99

00:10:58.200 Yeah. I've never been asked that personally. I really doubt that she's ever been asked that

00:11:03.920 at the bar because it's totally irrelevant. It's also irrelevant what sex you are. They're 0.97

00:11:08.560 not going to ask you that either. You know, what makes female hair more expensive is not that it's 1.00

00:11:13.580 female, but that generally there's more of it and women want more done to it. And so if you're going 1.00

00:11:21.900 to cut female hair, it takes longer. It requires more skill and talent and training. And so it's more 1.00

00:11:27.320 expensive. But if you're okay with just getting a three on the sides and a little off the top,

00:11:31.600 like the kind of thing that men ask for when they sit down at the barber, then you're going to get

00:11:36.320 the same prices. It's that simple. You see, nobody really gives a damn. That's the thing.

00:11:44.220 This person is imagining a scenario where the whole world is hanging on the edge of its seat,

00:11:53.160 wanting to know what she'll do. What kind of haircut is she going to get? 0.99

00:11:57.320 But nobody gives a damn. That's the thing. Just get over yourself.

00:12:04.460 That's the answer most of the time when you see this stuff. I'm non-binary. No,

00:12:08.260 just get over yourself. Get over yourself. And, you know, get the kind of cut you want

00:12:14.380 and shut up about it. That's it. Nobody cares. This is a realization that we could all benefit from,

00:12:20.040 something that we all need to keep in mind, I think. Even those of us who are not necessarily

00:12:23.860 inclined to write slam poetry about our experiences at the barbershop, we could still bear this in mind

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00:13:27.160 Um, it certainly isn't, uh, doesn't tell us anything great about the nature of humanity,

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00:15:03.920 That's ring.com slash Walsh. By the way, this was pretty good. Elizabeth Warren, uh, she was, 0.95

00:15:11.240 I think talking to a culinary union yesterday, trying her best to pander. And you know,

00:15:16.460 sometimes it goes off the rails when Elizabeth Warren tries to pander because she's trying to 1.00

00:15:21.580 approximate, uh, what normal people say. And, and, and, but it doesn't always work out because

00:15:30.040 she's got a little bit of a robotic Hillary Clinton thing going on with her. And so this is, uh, this 1.00

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00:15:47.160 that's actually what she said. And as a husband, I, you know, it's not very often. I agree with

00:15:52.380 Elizabeth Warren or I have the inclination to shout amen. But, um, as a husband, I do, I have to say

00:15:58.780 amen to that. Yes, ma'am. I, I totally agree. And that is generally my strategy as well. Um,

00:16:04.640 my wife's not a big fan of that being my strategy, but, uh, Hey, I, now I have the endorsement of

00:16:08.860 Elizabeth Warren. Elizabeth Warren said, you want it done. You got to call a woman. That's the, 0.96

00:16:12.460 that's the enlightened thing to do. I just never realized, I guess that Elizabeth Warren is a trad

00:16:16.460 wife. So that's, that's the, that's the headline here. Personally, I really hope she gives a speech 0.98

00:16:23.200 sometime at like a subway restaurant. If you need a sandwich made call a woman, uh, good stuff from 1.00

00:16:31.960 Elizabeth Warren. Okay. So I'm going to, I'm going to, uh, moving on here. I wanted to

00:16:35.920 defend, uh, Jake Paul for a minute, defend him against narcissists because that's the theme today.

00:16:43.320 Of course, uh, Jake Paul, famous YouTuber, the kids tell me, got himself in trouble on Monday

00:16:51.360 because he tweeted about anxiety. And what we know about things like anxiety and depression

00:16:58.380 is that if you're going to wade into these waters and say anything at all about these subjects,

00:17:04.060 it better be something that adheres very strictly to modern Orthodox thinking on these subjects.

00:17:09.920 Because if not, you're going to have a whole bunch of narcissists jumping down your throat,

00:17:14.200 telling you that you aren't qualified to talk about these things, implying that they are somehow

00:17:18.040 never explaining why they are, but, uh, you know, you're not qualified. They are.

00:17:22.660 And, uh, they're going to let you know it. Well, Jake Paul didn't realize this. So he said in a,

00:17:27.240 in a, in a tweet, which I believe has since been deleted, he said, remember, anxiety is created by

00:17:33.660 you. Sometimes you got to let, let life play out and remind yourself to be happy and that the answers

00:17:38.660 will come. Chill your mind out, go for a walk, talk to a friend. That was the tweet. Um, it's been

00:17:47.120 deleted. I don't know if he's apologized yet. Probably will. If he hasn't yet, I imagine.

00:17:51.800 And it provoked thousands of snide, condescending, angry reactions from people basically going,

00:17:58.200 you don't know anything about anxiety the way that I've experienced it. I'm an anxiety expert.

00:18:04.200 Your thoughts are so shallow. You fool. If only you were as deep and interesting and tortured a soul

00:18:09.320 as me, then you'd realize all of your thoughts about anxiety are wrong because they're not like mine.

00:18:14.400 Um, Newsweek has compiled some tweets reacting to the Jake Paul tweet, which, because this is how

00:18:23.900 news is reported these days. I'm not going to read any of them. It doesn't really matter.

00:18:26.760 Um, the, the, the point is that, uh, uh, you know, people are angry that, that he said this about

00:18:33.460 anxiety. But first of all, um, I think it's, it's relevant to point out that he's exactly right.

00:18:42.060 And the point that he's making is unavoidably demonstrably true, no matter what explanation

00:18:50.000 you prefer for anxiety, because no matter what, it is something generated by the brain, right? By the

00:18:56.980 mind. It doesn't mean it's your fault, but it is generated by the self. I mean, what other option

00:19:03.240 would there be? If, if anxiety is not created by you, then who is it created by? The only other option

00:19:10.800 I could think of is some kind of, some kind of spiritual warfare thing where you're blaming it

00:19:14.400 on the devil. Now I believe in spiritual warfare. And even I don't think that, uh, the, the, the

00:19:21.140 brain makes anxiety and your brain is your brain. It's not your neighbor, Jim's brain. It's your

00:19:25.920 brain. It's in your head. And so it is technically true to say that anxiety is created by you.

00:19:31.460 That's not the same thing as blaming you. It's not, it's not an insult either.

00:19:35.260 And yeah, it also doesn't tell the whole story, but that's why the best reaction to a statement

00:19:41.140 like this is either to ignore it if you want, or to add to it, to respond, to have a conversation.

00:19:48.560 Isn't that what everyone always says we should be doing? Have a conversation about mental health

00:19:52.700 in America. And so we were always told to have this conversation, but we can't because all anyone

00:19:58.140 is ever looking to do is compete over who has suffered the most psychologically and who therefore

00:20:02.980 is most suited to issue decrees on the subject. I mean, the last thing we could do is have a

00:20:07.500 conversation about it. And anyone who's got any kind of platform and has made the mistake

00:20:12.660 of just sort of sharing some thoughts on something like depression or anxiety has learned this.

00:20:19.300 No, no, no, no. We can't have a conversation about this. Are you kidding me? This is the last

00:20:22.160 thing we could talk about because people take it very personally. If you don't say exactly what

00:20:28.720 they think you should say, people are very protective of their anxiety and their depression.

00:20:36.840 And if you dare say anything that is not 100% what they want you to say, they are going to lose

00:20:44.300 their minds over it. That's the way it goes. But there is nonetheless a lot of truth to what Jake

00:20:50.980 Paul said. Of course, anxiety is self-generated in whatever way, in some way. That's of course the

00:20:59.580 case. And of course, taking a walk and relaxing can help. Of course it can. It can help anybody,

00:21:05.880 no matter how severe your anxiety is. And I say that as somebody who has a lot of anxiety.

00:21:13.340 Does that give me special permission or special credentials to talk about this? Is this a competition?

00:21:18.760 Am I saying I have more anxiety than you, so you have to listen to me? No. It's not special. All

00:21:26.580 humans have anxiety, and a lot of it. It is an essential aspect of the human condition. It is

00:21:31.940 inseparable from our existence as people. Anxiety comes, I think, at bottom from the fact that we are

00:21:39.460 mortal beings. We are aware of our mortality. We are aware of time. We are aware of the past and the

00:21:48.320 future, and that we are situated always somewhat precariously at the nexus of those two points.

00:21:54.080 Anxiety comes from wanting and not having, from having and fearing that you'll lose what you have,

00:21:59.920 from fears of things you know about and things you don't know about, from disappointment and regret

00:22:04.660 and guilt, and etc., etc., etc. Anxiety comes from a lot of things, and it mixes together into an unholy

00:22:10.620 stew in your mind. That's what anxiety is. Now, before you claim, oh no, that's just regular anxiety.

00:22:18.240 You don't know what it's like to have irregular anxiety. Clinical anxiety like me, you don't know

00:22:22.720 what that's like. Well, how in the hell could you possibly know that your anxiety is more serious or

00:22:29.740 worse or whatever than anybody else's? There's all these assumptions people make. How in the hell

00:22:36.420 could you possibly know that Jake Paul's experience of anxiety is less instructive, less severe, less

00:22:43.460 valuable, or whatever than yours? You know, I'll tell you, you can't. You just can't. I mean, you have no

00:22:50.580 idea what you're talking about because you can't be inside someone else's mind. You have absolutely

00:22:54.360 no idea what's going on inside there. All you can assume is that when it comes to something like

00:23:01.720 anxiety, everyone basically knows where you're coming from because you're a person and so are

00:23:06.720 they. To assume anything else is by definition narcissism. But there are a lot of narcissists

00:23:14.100 who take a weird kind of pride in their real or imagined mental conditions, believing that it makes

00:23:21.560 them special and more interesting and deeper and more troubled than everybody else. And I, you know,

00:23:27.380 I'm really tired of it. I honestly am. Everyone has the right to talk about anxiety. Everyone has

00:23:34.500 experience with it. Your assumption that your experience is different is just that, an assumption

00:23:40.060 and a bad one, a narcissistic one. Depression is the same thing. You know, that's, that's another

00:23:47.980 thing that comes with being human, which isn't to diminish it. Lots of things come with being

00:23:54.200 human that are still nonetheless significant. So this is not reductive.

00:24:01.300 But we have to get to a point where we could just talk about these things and people can share

00:24:07.040 their thoughts and be honest and go out on a limb by simply giving their perspective without everyone

00:24:12.840 else getting ready to, you know, fall down on their fainting couches about it. If the person's

00:24:17.680 perspective on the human condition doesn't exactly align with their own. One of the dumbest and most

00:24:25.280 dangerous things we've done, I think, as a culture, is to medicalize the human condition and then to decree

00:24:37.880 that certain people are the experts, the scientific experts on the subject, the subject of being human.

00:24:46.400 So much so that everyone else has to defer to them, even though we're all human. And there's no reason

00:24:52.900 really to think that these so-called experts are somehow more expertly human than anybody else.

00:24:57.140 So when Paul said this about, when Jake Paul said this about anxiety, and I've gotten this many times

00:25:05.320 myself when I've talked about these sorts of issues, a lot of the responses were, you're not a

00:25:10.380 psychiatrist. Where's your psychiatric degree? Well, first of all, everyone's saying that none of them

00:25:17.420 are psychiatrists either. So yet they feel perfectly suited to pontificate all they want because they

00:25:24.200 believe that their experience is so much more relevant than everyone else's because they're

00:25:28.840 narcissists. But in any case, who says that psychiatrists have some especially true or valuable

00:25:37.180 insight into something as basic and human as anxiety? Now, I'm not saying they have no insight into it.

00:25:44.700 But who's to say that they're experts? Who appointed them experts? I mean, what, so psychiatrists have

00:25:51.500 solved anxiety after thousands of years of human civilization, of people writing and thinking and

00:26:00.160 talking about anxiety. Psychiatrists came along and in 50 years, they solved it. Yep, they're experts.

00:26:03.820 They got it. Listen to them. You know, I would have an easier time deferring to certain philosophers on

00:26:12.300 the issue of anxiety than I would psychiatrists. At least they understand the philosophers do what kind

00:26:17.580 of issue they're dealing with. At least they aren't materialists and minimalists trying to reduce every

00:26:22.820 damn thing to a matter of neurological chemistry. You know, Kierkegaard, I would consider maybe

00:26:31.500 something of an expert on anxiety. But that's only because I've read what he said about it. And it

00:26:36.840 seems to me that he really did have a great insight into it. You know, this is not an appeal to

00:26:43.940 authority. It's just, it's more, I've, I've read what he says. And to me, it seems like it makes

00:26:49.880 sense. Here, by the way, here's, uh, here's, here's Kierkegaard on anxiety. Kierkegaard says

00:26:56.040 anxiety may be compared with dizziness. He whose eyes happen to look down the yawning abyss becomes

00:27:02.200 dizzy. But what is the reason for this? It's just as much in his own eye as in the abyss for suppose he

00:27:09.000 had not look down. Hence, anxiety is the dizziness of freedom, which emerges when the spirit wants to

00:27:14.320 posit the synthesis and freedom looks down into its own possibility, laying hold of its finiteness to

00:27:19.740 support itself. Freedom succumbs to dizziness. Now, I understand about 60% of that, okay? Kierkegaard

00:27:27.040 is a little bit difficult to understand. Um, but what I take from that is that anxiety is the dizziness of

00:27:34.120 freedom. That it's sort of this tension between us being finite beings and yet having seemingly infinite

00:27:45.500 freedom. Now, there's an idea. Maybe it's true. Maybe it isn't. But to me, this seems much closer to the

00:27:54.940 truth than any reductive medicalized rhetoric you get from psychiatrists. But then again, you know, I'm only

00:28:02.060 judging Kierkegaard's thoughts on anxiety based on my own experience with it, which is the only thing

00:28:09.480 that anyone can do, psychiatrists included. I just wish that psychiatrists would admit that much of what

00:28:18.020 they do is actually philosophy. They are making judgments about the human condition. More than that,

00:28:24.240 they are judging not only how a person is and what a person is, but how a person ought to be.

00:28:31.640 And that is a philosophical judgment all the way through. One, we're free to take or leave.

00:28:38.540 But the problem is that we just, we just trust it implicitly.

00:28:42.620 And we don't recognize it as a philosophical judgment.

00:28:45.120 So we've got the psychiatric community making all of these declarations about, well, this is the right 0.99

00:28:52.760 amount of a certain personality trait people are supposed to have. And this is the right amount

00:28:59.500 of something like depression or anxiety. And if it goes beyond this totally arbitrary line that we've

00:29:05.280 drawn and that we couldn't possibly explain why we drew it there, but we did. If it goes beyond that,

00:29:10.120 that's a problem. Now it's a medical condition or something like attention. There's a certain

00:29:15.560 amount of attention that a child is supposed to be able to pay in school. And so here's the line

00:29:24.580 of attention that we've just drawn in the ether, magically in the air. And if they're below that

00:29:29.980 line, then they have a deficit of attention and that's abnormal. And now it's a disease.

00:29:34.900 Says who? Where are you getting this from? According to who exactly?

00:29:40.120 I mean, you've decided that when it comes to ADHD, that kids are supposed to be this certain way and

00:29:50.200 are supposed to have this amount of attention. Who says they're supposed to be that?

00:29:57.120 I mean, you find a kid that is not as able to pay attention. Who's to say he's not supposed to be

00:30:02.120 that way? I'm not saying he is supposed to be that way. I'm just saying, how did you decide he's

00:30:06.580 not? Or you find some people that are more inclined to anxiety than others. And we say,

00:30:12.500 well, no, they're not supposed to be that way. Says who? I mean, maybe you're right. Maybe they're

00:30:16.900 not supposed to. I mean, what are we comparing it to? We've come up with this idea of the sort of

00:30:23.960 normal neurological person that we're all comparing ourselves to, but who is that person?

00:30:32.080 You see, who are we comparing ourselves to?

00:30:40.000 I have too much anxiety. Well, maybe you do, but too much as opposed to what?

00:30:47.060 Where's the line? Where's the level?

00:30:51.460 Where is the perfect brain that we're matching our brains up against and saying, oh, no, our chemistry

00:30:56.120 doesn't quite mix with that. And so, you know, no, no, we need to, we need to fiddle with these

00:31:00.560 chemicals and these chemicals to make it the perfect brain. It's just basic questions that

00:31:07.720 nobody seems to ask. And we just say, we just, we just, we have, we have handed the human condition

00:31:12.160 over to the psychiatric industry and said, yep, yep. It's their thing. They own it. We'll just

00:31:18.080 listen to whatever they say. Maybe not. Maybe we shouldn't do that. Maybe there's more to it than that.

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00:32:39.480 Belgium did a study and they are now claiming that insect butter tastes like real butter and nobody can

00:32:47.900 tell the difference. They fed, and this is real, I promise. They fed people cake made from the fat of

00:32:54.460 black soldier fly larvae. And, uh, they said that nobody could tell that it was from little baby

00:33:01.800 flies. And so it's all good. Let's just get our butter from flies now. Why not? Now, let me say this.

00:33:08.240 First of all, I've put my money where my mouth is on this very show and I have eaten insects on the

00:33:14.860 show. And I can tell you that don't buy into the hype of all the stuff you're hearing about,

00:33:20.080 I know insects taste, insects taste exactly as you would expect insects to taste.

00:33:27.160 If you were blindfolded and someone gave you an insect and you would know that it's an insect,

00:33:31.260 not just based on the texture either, but it just, whatever you think, if you think, well,

00:33:34.940 what do insects taste like? Just imagine it. It tastes like that. Exactly what you're thinking.

00:33:38.760 That's what it tastes like. Um, second general point here. We really need to stop calling non-dairy

00:33:47.900 things butter and milk and cream. Okay. If it's not made with actual dairy, then it's not butter.

00:33:57.060 It's not milk. It's not cream. So forget about insects for a minute. There is no such thing as

00:34:02.320 almond milk. There's no such thing as coconut milk. Those are all lies. That is false advertising.

00:34:08.760 Um, just because it's white and it comes in a carton doesn't make it milk, nor does it taste

00:34:16.780 like milk. And in my whole life, you know, every time, and I usually fall for it. That's why I get

00:34:23.020 at a certain point, I start taking it personally because every time someone says, Oh no, no, you,

00:34:27.560 Hey, you got to try this. You gotta, you have to try X. It tastes just like Y, whatever it is,

00:34:33.100 every time I try it. And it doesn't taste at all. Like why it's, and that's the case for, um,

00:34:39.680 all the non-dairy fake milk doesn't taste like milk. Turkey bacon doesn't taste like real bacon.

00:34:46.880 Veggie burgers don't taste at all. Like real burgers. Insect cake doesn't taste like real cake.

00:34:51.740 I assume all of these imposters offend me on a moral level, as well as a, as a culinary one.

00:34:57.780 Um, so my message is have the courage to be what you are and to embrace it. Okay. If you're a jug of

00:35:08.080 coconut drippings, which is what coconut milk really is, then, then that's what you should call

00:35:13.540 yourself. If you're a pack of flavorless turkey strips, call yourself that not bacon. If you're

00:35:20.680 insect goop, then call yourself insect goop, not butter. Let's all have the courage to be who we are.

00:35:26.460 This is literally the speech that I give every time I go to the grocery store.

00:35:31.460 I stand in the milk aisle and I give this pep talk to the coconut milk.

00:35:37.300 It's at the point now where they just call the police every time I walk in the door. It's a,

00:35:40.240 it's a whole thing. Anyway, that's my inspirational message for the day.

00:35:43.640 Hope you guys have a great day. Enjoy the debate tonight. We'll talk about it tomorrow. Godspeed.

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The Matt Walsh Show - February 19, 2020

Ep. 428 - Narcissism Disguised As Enlightenment

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