The Matt Walsh Show - March 02, 2020


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


Episode Stats

Length

43 minutes

Words per Minute

180.04901

Word Count

7,787

Sentence Count

522

Misogynist Sentences

22

Hate Speech Sentences

31


Summary

In this episode, we discuss the continued collapse of Western civilization, a video that shows a woman laughing and smiling as she goes in to have her child murdered at Planned Parenthood, and California passing a law that makes it illegal to sell gender neutral toys in stores.


Transcript

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
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,
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
00:09:33.460 who get abortions are themselves victims. And I think that's an important point because
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
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
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
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
00:10:58.380 as the primary villain here. But in other cases, women who get abortions are simply murderous
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
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
00:11:48.280 the pro abortion side, the abortion doctors, for example, many of them I believe are clinical
00:11:53.620 psychopaths. I want to show you this. Um, here's a quote unquote, Dr. Joe Nelson on Twitter a few
00:11:59.580 days ago. He's an abortionist that is a medical serial killer. And, um, here he is responding
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.
00:12:32.260 Abortion is love. That's, this is someone who doesn't even understand the concept of being selfless
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
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
00:13:23.400 to do this for a living. Imagine going to your job every day, going to work, clocking in, you know,
00:13:30.060 at, at, uh, seven o'clock in the morning and then just setting about on the task of killing children
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.
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
00:14:05.880 where they eat brunch and they watch a man dress like a woman dance badly. Um, and this is something
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
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
00:14:45.200 queen and what looks to be maybe a six or seven year old girl. Uh, watch.
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,
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,
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,
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.
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
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,
00:19:05.040 watching while this happens. And I really believe that the story of child exploitation in our culture
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.
00:19:28.320 These are, these are moral eunuchs. These are emasculated, pathetic,
00:19:35.380 spineless jellyfish who are just sitting there, not only tolerating, um, this abuse of a child,
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
00:20:09.140 and kicking him out on his ass out of the room and then calling the police.
00:20:14.040 That would be the appropriate response of a man. Instead, those people just sit there
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
00:20:35.440 bring, uh, and bring, uh, and bring Sally with us, bring seven-year-old Sally with us to the drag
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
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
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
00:24:36.620 moderate Democrat rather than a crazy old socialist. And that's the calculation he's making.
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,
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
00:36:13.300 attracted to people with male genitalia, you're transphobic. Uh, or if you're a gay person attracted
00:36:17.560 to the same genitalia, you're also transphobic. You must have no preferences whatsoever when it comes
00:36:23.820 to sex. If you do, then you're transphobic. Now, in fairness, I say I'm canceling the university.
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
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
00:37:08.540 feminists have gained. But here we, we see now that by this logic, a gay man is actually morally
00:37:15.200 flawed. He's committing a sin by being attracted to other men. That's what this sign is saying.
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
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
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
00:38:16.620 of violence to force somebody to have sex. That's what, that's what rape is. There are other forms
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
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
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
00:39:15.160 sign is an advertisement for rape. It is an apology for rape. It is the promotion, the advocacy of rape.
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?
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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.
00:42:49.640 Check it out on the Michael Knowles show.
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00:43:14.680 Come on.