The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 435 - The Collapse Of Western Civilization In Two Viral Videos

00:00:00.000 Welcome to the show, where we say better safe than sorry. Better to use the hazmat suit and

00:00:05.260 not need it than to not use it and need it. That's my motto. I say it all the time. I sound

00:00:09.500 like a broken record. Let me just say about the coronavirus, there's a lot of unnecessary panic.

00:00:16.280 You don't need to panic. I want to be very clear about that. The last thing that I would want to

00:00:21.740 do is take part in that panic or drive that panic. I, for one, am really about taking the

00:00:29.440 whole thing in stride. Now, I do believe, though, in basic precautions, but nothing extraordinary,

00:00:37.860 nothing extreme. You wash your hands. You practice good hygiene. You wear a surgical mask 24 hours a

00:00:46.060 day. You kill anybody in your house who has a cold and burn their bodies in the backyard. Really basic 0.99

00:00:51.180 stuff. And frankly, I'm talking about things that you should be doing anyway. So this is nothing out

00:00:56.520 of the ordinary at all. Now, today on the show, we have a lot to cover, both literally and figuratively.

00:01:04.960 We're going to start with the continued collapse of Western civilization, which is not just being

00:01:10.740 brought about by the coronavirus, but by, you know, I mean also in a cultural way. And as far as culture

00:01:15.380 goes, I have two different videos that have gone viral over the past few days that I think evidence

00:01:20.760 are evidence of the cultural collapse of Western civilization. Always a fun topic. We'll talk about that.

00:01:25.920 And we'll go through five headlines, which include, of course, election news, coronavirus news, and one

00:01:31.660 story about California. You know, California really focusing on the important things. In this case,

00:01:36.780 they're passing a law requiring retailers to have gender-neutral space in their toy sections.

00:01:44.600 So very, very important. Also, in our daily cancellation, I'll be canceling a prestigious academic

00:01:50.140 institution. And in our email segment, an emailer has written to me to tell me why I'm wrong about

00:01:56.100 something. Those are always my favorite emails. So we'll listen to that. Okay. So let's get going.

00:02:00.940 And actually, I guess I'm not going to, I'm not going to do the whole show in the mask, mainly

00:02:04.640 because it's making my glasses fog up, which I hadn't, which I hadn't factored in. So I'm risking

00:02:10.540 my life for you people right now. That's what I, that's what I'm, that's, that's the kind of dedication I

00:02:14.300 have to you. By the way, I'm not sure if I mentioned this yet, but stop me if you've heard

00:02:20.300 this one before, but I do have a new book out called Church of Cowards, which is right here

00:02:23.560 behind my hand sanitizer, which I have with me handy at all times. And you know, the feedback on this book

00:02:30.260 has been really encouraging. It's, it's, it's, it's kind of a nerve wracking thing to write a book in

00:02:35.800 general because you're putting yourself out there. It's a very personal sort of thing. And if people

00:02:40.720 don't like it, then it might make you cry. But in this case, the feedback has been great. And I do

00:02:46.200 appreciate that, especially because the book confronts the reader. It is a confrontational

00:02:53.760 book in some ways. And so you're never sure how people are going to react to that. But as I said,

00:02:59.580 the feedback's been great. So please give it a read, Church of Cowards, if you haven't yet.

00:03:02.840 Now onto the collapse of the West. A video was posted to the social media site, TikTok,

00:03:10.720 a few days ago. And that video shows a woman laughing and smiling as she goes in to have

00:03:16.740 her child murdered at Planned Parenthood. It's, it's implied that in the video, it's implied that

00:03:23.380 this is her second abortion. So this is her second go around. But this is pretty infuriating. I'm

00:03:28.660 warning you if you haven't seen it yet, but take a look at this. How do you feel, Ashley?

00:03:40.720 Okay. And yeah, I had to take off the whole suit because it was getting kind of hot. I decided that

00:03:54.160 I'd rather, I'd rather get coronavirus than, than be uncomfortable. That's the decision that I made.

00:03:59.280 Now you saw the video there. The first thing to realize though, with a video like that is that it's,

00:04:04.140 it's not an isolated thing. This is part of a trend on the left. You may recall, shout your abortion, 0.51

00:04:10.160 the shout your abortion campaign a few years ago, which is ongoing. And the goal is to, is to get

00:04:15.260 women to be happy about their abortions, to brag about them, uh, to treat them as, as either 0.97

00:04:20.440 completely frivolous and meaningless, or as an actual joyful act, something to, to be happy about.

00:04:28.080 And, and the media in Hollywood are in on the act and they're constantly trying to promote this

00:04:32.940 idea, this version of abortion. Uh, maybe you, you remember that episode of, uh, of the show

00:04:39.040 scandal on ABC a few years ago that showed a woman getting an abortion while silent night played in

00:04:45.380 the background. This was a Christmas episode, I believe. So it was supposed to be this inspirational

00:04:49.600 and heroic moment. And that's how the pro abortion side wants us to see abortion heroic, happy,

00:04:55.720 or as I said, at a minimum, uh, meaningless and frivolous. They'll take that too. That,

00:05:01.660 that also works. Now you'll notice something back 20 years ago, pro aborts used to say that their goal

00:05:09.420 was to make abortions safe, legal, and rare, right? Um, well that's out the window now and has been for 0.84

00:05:16.740 years. Yeah. They want it to be legal still, obviously through all stages of pregnancy. And they want,

00:05:22.400 they say they want it to be safe. Although the idea of the safe abortion is a contradiction in

00:05:26.380 terms because every single abortion kills at least one person, uh, unless it, unless it fails,

00:05:31.960 every successful abortion kills at least one person. And then unless it fails and the baby 0.51

00:05:36.220 survives, but we know of course that in that case, uh, the baby can be put to the side of the room and

00:05:40.720 left to die. And that's what Democrats want to happen, which is why they voted down a bill that 0.57

00:05:44.200 would have stopped that from happening last week. Um, so contradiction in terms of, uh, for safe

00:05:50.320 abortion, but pro aborts will still go around talking about the safe abortion. What they don't

00:05:54.700 talk about is a rare, they don't say they want rare, rare is out the window. You're not allowed

00:05:59.900 to call for rare abortions anymore. Uh, that's a, that's a good way to get evicted, expelled,

00:06:05.100 exiled from the left. If you do that in a similar way, we used to be told that abortion is a sad and

00:06:10.580 somber affair. It's, it's something that they, we used to be told nobody wants to get an abortion.

00:06:17.800 It's, it's a very sad thing. And so we should, we should be sad about it, but it's, it may be

00:06:23.280 necessary. And this is a choice that a woman has to make. That used to be the, the way that abortion 0.99

00:06:30.220 was presented, but now, um, not so much. Now that's been exchanged for champagne and confetti

00:06:39.780 and giggling girls walking into a Planned Parenthood, filming whimsical viral videos about it.

00:06:46.980 The reason for this change is obvious. And even though it's hideously evil, it actually makes

00:06:52.520 a lot of sense in terms of strategy because the pro-abortion side realized that, wait a second,

00:06:57.460 if we admit that abortion is sad and we say that we want it to happen less often,

00:07:03.200 then the obvious question is raised next. Uh, why, you know, why is it sad? Why do you want it to

00:07:11.240 happen less often? What is it about abortion that makes even you as a pro-abortion person say that

00:07:19.060 it's sad and it shouldn't happen very often? Well, the answer is because you're killing a person.

00:07:26.720 If it's not killing a person, if it really is just a clump of cells, a parasitic organism that a woman 1.00

00:07:33.840 is expelling from her body, then there's nothing sad about it. And there's no reason to say we,

00:07:39.700 we should, it should be rare. If anything, it should happen more often. Right. And that's what

00:07:44.440 the pro-abortion side realizes. And so they said, forget all that sad stuff, forget all that rare

00:07:48.840 stuff. Abortion is actually awesome. That's what we're being told now. Now, another point to be made

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00:09:25.740 slash walsh. Okay. Talking about, uh, that vile tech talk video. I've always said that many women 1.00

00:09:33.460 who get abortions are themselves victims. And I think that's an important point because 1.00

00:09:37.000 they are exploited and lied to by the abortion industry. Um, in so many cases, you're talking

00:09:44.140 about young, poor girls who go into these clinics. Um, they don't have any parents at home or the,

00:09:50.960 or, or their parents are pressuring them into getting the abortion. There's no man in the 0.58

00:09:55.180 picture. The father's not in the picture or else he's also pressuring and, uh, they don't know what

00:10:00.960 their options are. Um, there's a lot of confusion and fear and everything. They walk into the,

00:10:06.480 into the clinic many times because they've been told that, you know, Planned Parenthood cares about

00:10:11.960 women. And if, if you're a woman in a, in a, in a difficult situation, go to Planned Parenthood and 0.98

00:10:16.060 they're, and they care about you. They're going to try to help you. And so they walk in thinking that

00:10:19.780 that's what's going to happen. And then Planned Parenthood or the abortion clinic, whatever clinic it is,

00:10:25.200 they descend like vultures and they, they feast on the confusion and fear of this girl

00:10:32.220 to try to convince her to kill her child, knowing that she's going to live a life of regret and guilt

00:10:38.680 because of it, but they don't care because they get the money and that's all they, that's all that 0.99

00:10:42.380 they are really worried about. Uh, so that's why I say in that case, the woman is also a victim.

00:10:50.300 I'm not saying she has zero moral culpability for the choice she's making,

00:10:53.620 but she's also a victim. And I think we need to turn our attention to the abortion clinic 0.51

00:10:58.380 as the primary villain here. But in other cases, women who get abortions are simply murderous 1.00

00:11:07.820 psychopaths. And this is one of those cases, either that, or this is a desperate attempt on her part

00:11:15.900 to convince herself that she doesn't need to feel guilty. This is a rationalization, which so much of

00:11:23.040 this shout your abortion stuff. That's exactly what it is. They're not talking to you. You know,

00:11:27.600 the woman's not really talking to you. She's not really trying to convince you. She's trying to 0.86

00:11:31.240 convince herself. Um, so it could be that, but the fact that this is her second abortion,

00:11:38.620 apparently, and the approach she's taking to it makes me think that this is the case. This is a

00:11:43.040 case of a psychopath killing her child and feeling nothing about it. And there are many psychopaths on 0.82

00:11:48.280 the pro abortion side, the abortion doctors, for example, many of them I believe are clinical 0.96

00:11:53.620 psychopaths. I want to show you this. Um, here's a quote unquote, Dr. Joe Nelson on Twitter a few 0.82

00:11:59.580 days ago. He's an abortionist that is a medical serial killer. And, um, here he is responding 0.90

00:12:06.020 to another abortionist who was expressing similar views. And Nelson says, this captures beautifully the

00:12:13.720 reality that I see every day. Abortion is so often an act of selflessness and love of going through a

00:12:19.760 difficult process and braving others and even self judgment in order to help somebody. Uh, even if

00:12:25.860 that somebody is your future self, hashtag abortion is love. These are the words of a psychopath. 0.99

00:12:32.260 Abortion is love. That's, this is someone who doesn't even understand the concept of being selfless 0.88

00:12:39.860 because even putting aside the fact that abortion is evil and killing someone by definition, if you're

00:12:46.840 doing something to help yourself, it is not selfless. Even if it's a good thing, it's not selfless.

00:12:53.160 Eating a healthy diet is a good thing. Is it a selfless act? Of course not. You're doing it for

00:12:56.460 yourself. Now, when you consider that in this case, we're talking about killing somebody, your own 0.92

00:13:02.720 child, um, for your sake in order to have to live a more comfortable life. That is the diametric

00:13:10.280 opposite of selflessness. That is exactly opposed to selflessness. But, uh, this is something that

00:13:18.920 this guy doesn't understand because he's a psychopath and he has to be. I think you have to be a psychopath 1.00

00:13:23.400 to do this for a living. Imagine going to your job every day, going to work, clocking in, you know, 0.98

00:13:30.060 at, at, uh, seven o'clock in the morning and then just setting about on the task of killing children 0.94

00:13:36.240 all day. There's no way to, to not be a psychopath and do that job. You wouldn't be able to survive. 0.96

00:13:44.480 Uh, okay. Now I also wanted to play this for you while we're on the subject, like I said, of videos

00:13:51.740 that illustrate the collapse of Western society. Here's a video, uh, maybe you saw on, on Friday. I wrote a

00:13:57.840 thing about it. It's a video from a drag brunch and a drag brunch is a thing that white liberals go to 0.98

00:14:05.880 where they eat brunch and they watch a man dress like a woman dance badly. Um, and this is something 0.89

00:14:13.780 that, you know, they enjoy going to for some reason, only at this brunch, somebody brought their

00:14:18.540 kid and the kid was, was brought to the front of the, of the festivities, put on a chair and the drag

00:14:25.480 queen dance suggestively for the child. And the whole scene looks exactly like it would at a, at a 0.76

00:14:32.680 bachelor party where you've got the, you know, the, the, the guy, um, sitting there in a, in a chair

00:14:39.400 while the stripper is, is dancing. So it's exact same kind of thing, except in this case, it's a drag 0.88

00:14:45.200 queen and what looks to be maybe a six or seven year old girl. Uh, watch. 0.93

00:14:50.400 Could you be the one to call when I lose control?

00:14:54.400 Revolting, vile, evil, infuriating, all those words and many others come to mind.

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00:16:45.520 I sent you. Okay. So the video of the, um, drag queen dancing for the, for the little girl,

00:16:53.700 first thing, obviously, you know what I'm going to say, this is a child abuse and everybody,

00:16:58.280 all the adults in that room, in that video should be go, should, should be going to prison in a,

00:17:04.120 in a sane and just society. What you would see in that video at the end are a bunch of police

00:17:09.320 officers breaking the door down and cuffing those people and throwing them in the paddy wagon and

00:17:14.540 bringing them to jail. That's what should happen. And if you somehow don't agree or you, or you don't

00:17:21.640 see how this is child abuse, then keep in mind that drag shows are burlesque. It's a, it's burlesque, 1.00

00:17:30.460 except that the only difference is that it's men pretending to be women. Well, let me ask you,

00:17:35.440 do you think it'd be appropriate to bring a six-year-old to a burlesque show in Vegas with

00:17:43.160 women? I mean, would anybody do that? And if someone did do that, would, would anyone else, 1.00

00:17:50.540 you know, defend it? No, we would all agree that, you know, of course, if you're an adult,

00:17:58.520 you want to go to a burlesque show, you're, you're free to do, to do that. That's, that's,

00:18:02.720 that's a, you, you can do that. But, uh, to bring your child is completely crazy now, but okay. Now

00:18:09.620 we, we, we replace those women with men and all of a sudden it's family friendly. Does that make any

00:18:15.300 sense? It's the same thing with child drag Queens. We would all agree. I hope, I assume that to have a, 1.00

00:18:23.960 a seven-year-old recruited by a burlesque troupe would be, uh, exploitation and, and, and, and

00:18:32.140 pedophilic and, and just horrible. Nobody would agree with that. Yet it's okay if it's a boy. 0.62

00:18:40.920 So it would be, we would all agree wrong for a seven-year-old girl to perform burlesque, but a boy 0.99

00:18:46.020 can do it. Makes absolutely no sense. So clearly this is child abuse, but there's another thing I

00:18:52.700 wanted to, I want to focus on in that video. And that, uh, that's the, the men in the background.

00:19:00.020 You saw that whole line of men sitting at tables with big, stupid grins on their face, 1.00

00:19:05.040 watching while this happens. And I really believe that the story of child exploitation in our culture 1.00

00:19:14.460 and the proliferation of child sexual abuse, the normalization of it, the mainstreaming of it

00:19:20.740 is largely a story of men, of fathers and of husbands failing to do their job as men. 0.95

00:19:28.320 These are, these are moral eunuchs. These are emasculated, pathetic, 0.99

00:19:35.380 spineless jellyfish who are just sitting there, not only tolerating, um, this abuse of a child, 1.00

00:19:44.120 but actually cheering it on. Now, if those were real men, and what I mean by real men,

00:19:50.720 men, not just in the biological sense, but also men who, who are interested in and capable of

00:19:56.900 fulfilling their duty as men in the culture, um, then what they would be doing is they'd be

00:20:01.960 grabbing that drag queen by the collar, if he has a collar and, uh, dragging him out of the room 1.00

00:20:09.140 and kicking him out on his ass out of the room and then calling the police. 1.00

00:20:14.040 That would be the appropriate response of a man. Instead, those people just sit there 1.00

00:20:22.880 applauding. You know, if you're, if you're a real man, a real father and a real husband,

00:20:29.280 and your wife comes to you and says, Hey, there's a drag brunch. You know, why don't we go to that and 0.99

00:20:35.440 bring, uh, and bring, uh, and bring Sally with us, bring seven-year-old Sally with us to the drag 1.00

00:20:39.420 brunch. The response from a man should be, um, words to the effect of though, maybe stronger than

00:20:46.360 hell. No. Are you crazy? We're not going. She's not going and you're not going. That's not going

00:20:53.600 to happen. Instead, what these men apparently said is, yeah, well, gee, honey, that sounds great.

00:21:00.340 That sounds like a splendid afternoon. Let's go, let's go to the drag brunch. I mean, even if you're 1.00

00:21:05.620 not bringing a child, taking the child out of it, what kind of man goes to a drag brunch in the first 0.97

00:21:09.860 place? Child or not. And then you throw the child into it and just makes the whole thing even more

00:21:16.000 grotesque. All right. Um, let's, uh, let's move on. I can't dwell on that too much without my,

00:21:21.840 my head actually exploding, which I don't want that to happen on, on camera. Um, so let's move on.

00:21:28.100 Let's go to headlines. Here are five headlines, uh, worth knowing about. Number one, Joe Biden,

00:21:32.360 of course won the democratic primary in South Carolina on Saturday, giving him his first,

00:21:36.600 I think it's his first primary win ever in three presidential contests. So big moment for him.

00:21:41.380 And this will maybe give him some momentum heading into, uh, tomorrow. That's what I'm told anyway,

00:21:45.400 by all the pundits, it's momentum for super Tuesday. It'll come down either to Biden or

00:21:50.000 Bernie, of course, the top two candidates, top two candidates with a combined age of 155. So if you

00:21:55.600 put them together, they add up to somebody who, um, would have been born around the time when Lee

00:22:01.840 surrendered to Grant at Appomattox. That's, that's how old these two people are. This is

00:22:06.080 what the Democrats have come up with. This is the best they can do. Two guys who are unlikely to

00:22:12.200 survive their first terms in office and quite likely to go senile in the process. One in six

00:22:17.760 people over the age of 80 are senile. That's almost 20%. And the life expectancy for a 75 year old man in

00:22:25.680 the U S is 10 years. So he's, he's likely on average to live another 10 years. Um, now, so which

00:22:34.360 means that both of them, um, in their second term, they're, they're, they're in the red zone, so to

00:22:40.680 speak. If they, if they, if they have, but even in their first term, the likelihood based on that

00:22:45.680 average, the likelihood that they die during their first time in office is really substantial. And that's when

00:22:52.080 you factor in that, you know, things like the, the average of, of people who go senile at 80 and, uh,

00:22:58.600 life expectancy, you know, this is factoring in for the most part, these are normal older people who

00:23:04.760 are retired for the most part and are just living basically stress-free lives. Now think you've got a,

00:23:12.580 we're talking about a, an old man, an elderly man, who's not only employed full-time, but has one of

00:23:18.680 the most stressful jobs in the world. Is that going to help or hurt his chances of beating the odds and

00:23:27.200 surviving and staving off dementia? Meanwhile, Bernie's got a bad heart. He's already had a heart

00:23:33.640 attack. Biden is visibly confused and flustered. And I don't say that as a joke, but he really is

00:23:39.960 losing it. And this is what we, this is the best we've got. Meanwhile, as, as people have pointed out

00:23:46.580 online, um, uh, this makes, this makes Donald Trump the youngest male in the field at 73 years old.

00:23:56.620 He's the youngest man, which now I'm anticipating a future CNN headline of, you know, something like

00:24:03.220 as, as the youngest male candidate in the field, does Donald Trump have the experience to be president?

00:24:10.480 Something like, you think I'm joking. I am sort of joking, but something like that is going to be

00:24:14.860 that headline. I guarantee from, from one of these outlets, we're going to see something like that.

00:24:19.640 Meanwhile, of course, we mourn the death of a Pete Buttigieg's campaign. He dropped out on Sunday

00:24:23.580 night, realizing that all he could do at this point was siphon votes from, from Biden. Um,

00:24:29.360 and so he figures better to have a comparatively, uh, you know, to have a crazy old, but comparatively 0.87

00:24:36.620 moderate Democrat rather than a crazy old socialist. And that's the calculation he's making. 0.84

00:24:40.660 Here's what I'll say about Buttigieg to his credit. The man was a cheap imitation of Obama.

00:24:47.540 He was a derivative hack, uh, a heretic who bastardized scripture for his own ends, 1.00

00:24:52.720 as well as a moral coward. Maybe I'm confused about what the phrase to his credit means. I don't know. 0.98

00:25:00.360 Number two, the state of California faces a number of crises all at once. Um, drug addiction,

00:25:05.900 homelessness. Now it even has the coronavirus to contend with, but thank God the lawmakers in that

00:25:11.620 state are really focused on the important issues. Uh, because, you know, staving off a pandemic,

00:25:17.180 rescuing people from the throes of drug addiction, dealing with homelessness, these all pale in

00:25:21.720 comparison to the scourge of gender segregated toy stores. And that's what California is trying to 1.00

00:25:27.060 fix. They, they worked out a bill. It's being, it's proposed working its way through the state

00:25:31.360 legislator. Um, that would require, uh, large retail department stores to have gender neutral 0.97

00:25:38.020 space for clothing, toys, any, anything for kids. Um, which means that basically the goal is to make

00:25:46.180 it harder for shoppers to find what they're looking for, because that's all it's going to do.

00:25:50.260 Because no matter what you do, no matter what kind of engineering you try socially,

00:25:54.540 no matter how much you insist. Otherwise girls generally want girly stuff and boys generally want 0.96

00:26:01.240 boy stuff. There's no law, uh, requiring, you know, girls to play with dolls and boys to play

00:26:09.340 with trucks. There's no law. I don't, I don't think society is, is super focused on forcing boys to play

00:26:15.180 with trucks. It's just how it works out. I've seen this play out in my own family and I've had a somewhat

00:26:21.320 unique view as, as, um, someone who, you know, our first kids were, were boy, girl twins. So they

00:26:27.960 were raised in the same home, same environment. They were in the same room. They had access to the

00:26:35.500 same playroom. All the toys were right there. You know, I, we never said to our son, here are the boy

00:26:42.880 toys. You must play with those. You understand me, son? We never said that to our one-year-old son,

00:26:47.820 never said it. We would just let them loose into the playroom, play with whatever toys you want.

00:26:54.460 And what do you know? Nine times out of 10, the boy goes for the truck. He goes for the action

00:26:59.340 figures. He goes for the ball. He goes for that kind of stuff. And the girl goes for the pink frilly 0.99

00:27:03.780 stuff for the dolls, for all that, you know, the kitchen, the toy kitchen set, the, the hairbrush.

00:27:10.500 That's how, that's what they do. We didn't force it on them. We didn't brainwash them into it.

00:27:15.900 They just do that. And so when you, when you, when you, uh, and that's why these items are

00:27:22.580 typically segregated in stores because it's just easier for the shoppers because that's what their

00:27:27.640 kids want anyway. Uh, and now you're just making it more difficult. You look at Target. Target a few

00:27:33.480 years ago made a big deal about, they were going to go gender neutral. They're not going to have a 0.96

00:27:37.100 girl section and a boy section anymore. But yet if you go to Target, they still do have a girl section

00:27:42.380 and a boy section. They just don't label it girl and boy, but they have the girl stuff here and the

00:27:46.680 boy stuff there. And the reason they do that is because that's what the shoppers want, because

00:27:51.200 that's what the kids want, because that's just natural. Number three, according to new data just

00:27:57.360 released, almost half of Americans, 42% are obese. So this is like a ritual. Now every three months,

00:28:03.560 we get a story updating us on the number of fat people. And that number is going up. Now I agree,

00:28:07.820 of course, that there are a lot of fat people walking around out there, uh, or maybe not walking.

00:28:12.180 Maybe that's part of the problem. But I do also think that this, this, uh, epidemic of obesity

00:28:20.760 might be slightly exaggerated. And I only say that because if you, if you go look at a chart online

00:28:27.140 of what they consider overweight and obese to be, depending on height, you're going to find that they,

00:28:34.020 you know, they don't give you a lot of room, so to speak, pun intended. They don't,

00:28:36.740 they don't give you, there's, there's, there's not a lot of room in the healthy range. It's a very

00:28:41.180 strict, very small range that's healthy. And then, and then beyond that, you're overweight. So for

00:28:45.660 example, for me, uh, I'm about six foot one and well, you know, I'm like six and a half. I call myself

00:28:52.320 six one. And I, I, I was just looking at one of these charts. The claim is that the optimal weight

00:29:00.600 for me is 140 pounds to 180 pounds, 140 pounds for a six foot one inch man is considered optimal

00:29:10.960 according to doctors. Now I haven't been 140 pounds since like 10th grade. If I was 140 pounds,

00:29:19.680 I would be skin and bones. I would look like Skeletor. I would look like a Tom Hanks and

00:29:22.900 Castaway after three years on the Island that I can't even imagine being that there's no way that's

00:29:29.260 healthy. And, you know, I, I tend to be of the belief that a man should have a little bit of

00:29:32.940 meat on the bones. He's supposed to be protector and provider. If I'm just this, this, this skeletal

00:29:38.860 figure wandering around the house, you know, I stub my toe and break my entire foot kind of thing.

00:29:45.440 I'm not going to be a lot of use to my family. So, um, you know, that's what they consider.

00:29:50.600 According to that range, I'm actually, I'm overweight. I might be obese. I don't feel overweight.

00:29:56.580 I don't think I necessarily look overweight, but that's what they say. So I, I keep that in mind

00:30:02.320 when they talk about the obese, uh, obesity epidemic. I think I'm, I guess I'm getting

00:30:07.220 lumped in with that. Who knows? Maybe I deserve it. I do enjoy Cinnabon. I admit number four. And

00:30:14.820 the list of countries who have been hit by the coronavirus is now at 60, 60 countries have been

00:30:18.880 reported, have reported cases, uh, as Belarus, Lithuanian, New Zealand, Nigeria, Azerbaijan,

00:30:24.220 uh, the Netherlands all joined in the fray in the past 48 hours or so. Meanwhile, the total cases

00:30:29.840 in the U S has risen to above 70. I do think we should keep something in mind, even though I was

00:30:35.640 wearing a hazmat suit to start the show. A couple of things. First of all, most of the deaths are older

00:30:41.900 people who are already in poor health with, with compromised immune systems. Um, so, you know,

00:30:50.200 in other words, these are not young, healthy people who are dying of this illness. The people

00:30:57.340 that's especially at risk of dying from coronavirus are the same people who are at risk from dying

00:31:01.840 from the flu and many other illnesses. For most people who've had it, the experience is like having

00:31:07.460 a bad cold. You have a fever, you have a cough. In fact, the Washington Post over the weekend ran an

00:31:12.460 op-ed from someone who has the coronavirus and is now quarantined, has been quarantined for many days.

00:31:19.880 And, uh, he said, it's not that bad. He just, you know, he's had a fever, he's had a cough. He's,

00:31:23.660 you know, uh, the, the biggest challenge is just being bored, being, uh, quarantined all this time.

00:31:28.980 So, um, that's, that's an important factor. And that's not to say that it, that it isn't so bad for

00:31:36.000 everybody. It's just that if you're relatively young and healthy, it probably wouldn't be so bad

00:31:42.160 for you. The death rate, according to the information that I saw, the death rate is 10

00:31:46.500 times higher among the elderly. So that just gives you an idea. Also something else to remember.

00:31:51.900 Second thing, the death rate, the mortality rate of two or 3%, that's based on recorded cases.

00:32:00.200 And the thing about recorded cases is that for one thing, most of them are in China where the

00:32:04.740 healthcare system is in shambles. That's going to inflate the mortality rate. Also more to the

00:32:09.540 point, there are almost certainly, it is reasonable to assume thousands and thousands and thousands of

00:32:16.020 people who've, who've had the coronavirus, especially before it was all over the headlines,

00:32:20.520 you know, had symptoms of a cough and a fever, never went to the doctor or did go to the doctor

00:32:25.300 and weren't tested for the coronavirus because it didn't seem like a serious illness and recovered

00:32:30.120 and are outliving their lives. And they don't count as an official case. The point is, if we actually

00:32:37.260 knew the exact number of everyone who's had the coronavirus, and then we were to compare that to

00:32:43.600 the number of people who've died from it, I think the mortality rate would be much, much lower.

00:32:47.900 people who are dying. Now you might say, well, maybe there are people who've died from it and

00:32:53.160 don't count as, as recorded cases. Yeah, there probably are some, but if you're dying from an

00:32:58.920 illness, if you're that ill, you're much more likely to go to the doctor and they're much more

00:33:05.560 likely to run all kinds of tests to find out what's wrong with you. So there's a much greater

00:33:11.060 likelihood that those people in that category, the people that are going to end up as unfortunately in

00:33:16.560 the, in the, in the death statistic, they're much more likely to go to the doctor. The ones who

00:33:21.400 are not going to end up in that statistic are much less likely to go. And so you see how that affects

00:33:25.440 it. Um, the number that I saw is, uh, is researchers now are saying, taking all this into account,

00:33:33.820 they're saying that maybe the death rate is around 1%. Maybe, but even that is highly speculative

00:33:40.680 and we don't have enough of a sample size yet to know. So I'm just, and I don't know either. So I don't

00:33:46.000 know that there are thousands of cases that are unreported. It just seems logical to assume that

00:33:50.440 when you consider what the symptoms are. Now, um, five, finally, uh, you know, the entire country

00:33:59.120 is caught up in a fiery debate. It's a debate that, uh, is, uh, is, is deeply philosophical,

00:34:03.580 but also it seems quite personal to a lot of people. And it stems from this question that somebody

00:34:08.300 posted online. Take a look at this. It says, is the jar, the Kool-Aid man or the liquid?

00:34:14.000 So when, when, when we think of the Kool-Aid man, what is he, what is his essence? Is he a jar

00:34:23.040 that happens to have Kool-Aid in it? Or is he Kool-Aid that rides around in a jar? And you may

00:34:29.100 think that the answer is obvious at first, but stop to think about this for a second, because

00:34:32.620 we call him the Kool-Aid man, not the jar man. But then again, he has a mouth, eyes, nose. Could,

00:34:38.000 could, could liquid have any of those things? So this is quite the metaphysical dilemma.

00:34:42.020 Let me tell you how I sort through this. And I've, I've, I've thought about this a lot. I might

00:34:45.540 write my, write my next book about it. Um, when I think of the Kool-Aid man, I'm not focused on

00:34:51.400 Kool-Aid. I'm focused on man. He's a man, we're told. What is a man? What is a man's essence?

00:34:58.060 Well, we are a harmony. We are a unity of body and soul. And, you know, am I my soul or am I my body?

00:35:05.760 That's the question. Well, the answer is on both. I am my body. I am my soul. The fundamental reality

00:35:11.340 of the Kool-Aid man, um, is that, you know, he is a jar and he is also liquid. Can the liquid live on

00:35:23.100 without the jar? That's a different question entirely. It brings us into a debate about the

00:35:27.780 afterlife and whether beverages are included in the divine promise of salvation. I tend to think

00:35:32.960 that conscious beverages probably are, but you know, that's a different discussion for a different

00:35:37.060 day. Um, but this is where I, that's how I sort through the Kool-Aid question. All right. Now,

00:35:42.320 uh, moving on finally to our daily cancellation today on the chopping block, the university of

00:35:48.960 Liverpool, a Twitter account called Liverpool resistors posted this picture a few days ago.

00:35:54.640 And, uh, what we see here, someone on the campus has allegedly posted this sign with a rainbow flag

00:36:01.860 that says genital preferences are transphobic. What they're saying is that if you're a straight

00:36:08.660 man who's attracted to people with female genitalia, then you're transphobic. Or you're a straight woman 1.00

00:36:13.300 attracted to people with male genitalia, you're transphobic. Uh, or if you're a gay person attracted 1.00

00:36:17.560 to the same genitalia, you're also transphobic. You must have no preferences whatsoever when it comes 0.99

00:36:23.820 to sex. If you do, then you're transphobic. Now, in fairness, I say I'm canceling the university. 0.66

00:36:28.400 I don't think the university put this sign up. I don't think they had anything to do with it,

00:36:32.180 but I'm still canceling the university because they're part of the problem culturally in helping 1.00

00:36:37.260 to create a society where this kind of madness, um, proliferates. Now, I don't think I have to

00:36:44.660 explain why it is not in fact transphobic to be attracted to a particular sex, to have a sexual

00:36:51.600 orientation. And I don't think I have to mention that this kind of thinking, the thinking displayed in

00:36:56.280 this poster shows how trans ideology is cannibalizing the other constituencies of, of the left.

00:37:03.340 We already know what it's doing to feminism, how, how trans ideology is destroying everything that 1.00

00:37:08.540 feminists have gained. But here we, we see now that by this logic, a gay man is actually morally 0.97

00:37:15.200 flawed. He's committing a sin by being attracted to other men. That's what this sign is saying. 0.77

00:37:21.280 Because by this logic, what, what the trans ideology is, is, is claiming is that a gay man must also be

00:37:28.340 attracted to women or else he's committed a, a moral evil of some kind. So the very tiny trans minority 1.00

00:37:37.200 is just running roughshod over the rest of the left, destroying everything they've worked for.

00:37:42.420 But I don't need to explain any of that. Here's what I do want to mention. According to the Me Too 0.68

00:37:49.360 movement, to extort sex out of somebody through emotional manipulation or guilt is rape. That's

00:37:59.120 what the Me Too movement says. Now, I don't think it's rape necessarily. You know, it's wrong. It's evil.

00:38:05.200 It's perverse to do it. It's degrading and exploitative and many other things. But I'm crazy

00:38:11.420 enough to think that, that rape is a particular thing. Rape is the use of violence or the threat 0.64

00:38:16.620 of violence to force somebody to have sex. That's what, that's what rape is. There are other forms 0.79

00:38:23.740 of immoral sex, other forms of sex that do not honor or respect the dignity of, of, of the human

00:38:30.100 person. You know, there are many other forms that aren't necessarily rape. Rape is a particular thing

00:38:35.420 and that's what rape is in my view. But we're not talking about my view. I'm saying, according to the

00:38:41.460 Me Too movement and the sort of mainstream perspective on these things now, it is rape. It is actual rape 0.97

00:38:48.660 to use emotional manipulation to get sex out of somebody. Well, what do you call it when you tell

00:38:57.460 someone they're transphobic for not being attracted to you? When someone doesn't want to have sex with

00:39:03.180 you and you scream at them and call them a bigot and tell them the only way to prove they're not a 1.00

00:39:07.360 bigot is to have sex with you. Well, what is that? According to the new rules, that's rape. So this 1.00

00:39:15.160 sign is an advertisement for rape. It is an apology for rape. It is the promotion, the advocacy of rape. 0.90

00:39:21.900 That's what that sign is. And that's why the University of Liverpool is canceled.

00:39:27.580 All right. We're going to wrap things up here. But first, I wanted to mention one thing.

00:39:35.400 We ran out of time for the, for the email segment. I'm, I'm changing the way that I do the email

00:39:39.960 segment a little bit. Some people have asked, asked me about it. Why, why am I not doing it as much?

00:39:44.920 Well, I've decided I want to, want to change it a little bit. Here's what I like about the, well,

00:39:48.460 look, if you, if you want to send feedback about the show, get in touch with me for any reason,

00:39:55.340 especially send me compliments. I'm always a big fan of that. So mattwalshowatgmail.com,

00:39:59.320 you can still do that. But as far as the show goes, what I want that segment to be is, um,

00:40:06.960 a time for, to, to focus on arguments against what I have said on the show.

00:40:13.820 So we might even call the segment, you know, why I'm wrong. Maybe, maybe I'll call it that.

00:40:19.920 And I'm going to reserve it for one or two, maybe just one, if it's a really good argument,

00:40:24.700 um, email from someone who's arguing against something that I've said on the show or in one

00:40:30.840 of the articles I've written. So I'm, so, you know, it's, I don't want this show to just be an echo

00:40:34.720 chamber where I pontificate unopposed as fun as that is. I don't want it to just be that.

00:40:40.140 So when you watch any show, if I make an argument you disagree with, email me and, uh, and then

00:40:46.560 maybe I'll read it on the show. I'm not going to give you the last word, I'll admit, because I am

00:40:50.040 going to respond. So you won't get the last word, but you will get a word at least. And before we

00:40:55.240 wrap up, um, and that's again, the email is mattwalshowatgmail.com. Before we wrap up, you know,

00:41:01.840 we want to hear from you about this. Tell us who do you think will win the democratic nomination?

00:41:06.660 And speaking of, of, you know, us not being the only ones pontificating, this gives you a chance

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00:41:31.560 Bernie, Bloomberg, Warren to, um, 8, 3, 4, 0, 0. And the results will be analyzed on daily

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00:42:24.500 After a week showing in Nevada and a total flop in South Carolina,

00:42:28.020 smarmy radical and alleged rat Pete Buttigieg is dropping out of the presidential race,

00:42:33.300 vindicating president Trump's prophecy that Alfred E. Newman cannot be president of the United States.

00:42:38.760 We will examine who bought off mayor Pete. Then Bloomberg finally makes it to a ballot. As we

00:42:43.820 look forward to super Tuesday, a drag queen twerks for a toddler and president Trump kills it at CPAC. 0.74

00:42:49.640 Check it out on the Michael Knowles show.

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The Matt Walsh Show - March 02, 2020

Ep. 435 - The Collapse Of Western Civilization In Two Viral Videos

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