Ep. 439 - The Reward For Selling Your Soul
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When a person sells their soul, it never works out for them. We should have learned that by now throughout human history. An actress was bragging this week about having killed her child, bragging that it helped her career in Hollywood. She traded in her baby for a career. But let's see how that actually worked out for her.
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Welcome to the show. Today, we're going to talk about what happens when a person
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sells their soul. It never works out for them. We should have learned that by now
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throughout human history. Certainly, it doesn't work out in the long run, but even in the short
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run, it doesn't work. An actress was bragging this week about having killed her child,
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bragging that it helped her career in Hollywood. She traded in her baby. She traded in her soul
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for a career. But let's see how that actually worked out for her. I think there's a lot to
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learn from it. Also, five headlines, including the supposedly controversial execution of Nathaniel
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Woods last night. He was executed for the killing of three police officers. Now, his supporters say
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that this is wrong. He should have been executed because he didn't pull the trigger. But should
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that actually make a difference? We'll talk about that. And your emails, including one of an email
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about the new Taylor Swift song. I don't know if you've heard this one or seen the video, but it's
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absurdly dumb, even by her standards. And it illustrates, it's a very anti-man song. And it
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illustrates how feminists see men, which is they see us like cartoon villains. So we'll talk about
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that. And, oh yeah, MSNBC. There's a segment on MSNBC. I'm going to be canceling MSNBC today,
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finally. Should have done it long ago. Because they aired what may be
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the dumbest segment ever to make its way onto cable news. And I understand what a statement that
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is. But I think I can back it up. And we'll get to all of that coming up. Now, we spoke yesterday
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about the pro-abortion protesters in D.C. losing their minds over a case that, if decided the right
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way, which is against them, would simply result in abortion clinics having to follow the same
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regulations that any other medical clinic has to follow, having to have admitting privileges at a
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local hospital in case there's a medical emergency, which does happen, happens hundreds of times across
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the country every single year in abortions. Not surprising, given what the abortion procedure
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entails. But that's, we're told we can't have those kinds of regulations. Because as we talked about
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yesterday, pro-abortion people, they don't take their own propaganda seriously. They say abortion is
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health care, yet they don't want the law to regulate it as health care. Now, they want, they're all, they're
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all about all the other regulations for every other medical clinic, but not, not for abortion clinics.
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Abortion, abortion proponents, they want to have their abortion cake and eat it too. They want to present
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child murder as a legitimate medical procedure while reserving the right to go into spasms of, of fury and
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anger if anyone proposes a law that actually treats abortion as a legitimate medical procedure. That's
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because abortion for them is not actually medicinal, despite what they say. It's sacramental. It's
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religious. Senator Gillibrand was, was, she was on, on cable news last week and she tied abortion to
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religious freedom. It's a matter of religious freedom that women should be able to kill their kids.
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Well, she was actually telling the truth. It is religious. You know, no law, no policy,
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no regulation or limitation can get within a thousand miles of this sacred ritual. They're
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going to defend unlimited abortion with the same satanic enthusiasm that the Aztecs defended their
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temples of, of, of human sacrifice. It's the same sort of, same sort of energy that you see.
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All decency and dignity goes out the window because the idol has to be protected at all costs.
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And that's what we've been witnessing in DC this week. Speaking of dignity going out the window,
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I played a few clips yesterday of the rally, including various speakers getting up there and
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screaming about abortion, including the infamous one of Chuck Schumer threatening the conservative
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justices by name to try to intimidate them into deciding the case the way that he wants.
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But there's one clip I didn't play because I hadn't seen it before the show aired.
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And I'm going to play it now because there's an important and I think quite sad, quite tragic
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truth to be found here. Not in what's being said, but I'm going to play it for you. This is the actress,
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Busy Phillips. Here she is speaking or screaming actually about her abortion among, well, other
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things. Sitting in Los Angeles in my beautiful office of my own late night talk show. Soon I would
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be driving my hybrid car to my beautiful home to kiss my two beautiful and healthy children and my husband
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who had taken the year off to parent so I could focus on my career.
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And I have all of this, all of it, because, because, because I was allowed bodily autonomy at 15.
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I will not be shamed into being quiet. We will not be shamed into being quiet. Never again.
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I will never stop talking about my abortion or my periods or my experiences in childbirth,
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my episiotomies, my yeast infections, or my ovulation that lines up with the moon.
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Hmm. Yeah. Um, I, I do, I don't even know where to begin. I do believe that maybe the first time
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in history, that yeast effect infections have gotten applause. You think that's ever happened
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before someone uses a yeast infection as an applause line? She says, she's never going to
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stop talking about her yeast infections, which also that may be the first time in history that
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that sentence has ever been uttered. I'll never stop talking about my yeast infections. And what
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other context would, would anyone have ever said that? Um, now it raises the question of,
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of, uh, many questions are raised, but, but one question is very simple. Why are you not going
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to stop talking about it exactly? What's, what's the reason for that? Why are you talking about it
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to begin with? What do your yeast infections have to do with anything right now? And why would you be
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proud of them? And, and again, what do they have to do with abortion? I mean, whether abortion rights
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are right or not, how does your yeast infection factor into it? That's like, if somebody was up
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giving a speech at a, at a gun rights rally and, and suddenly said, I have the right to bear arms.
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Also, I have toe fungus. I have toe fungus and I will never stop talking about my fungus. It is my fungus.
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But, um, this is the mark of a, of a modern feminist that she loves to speak in graphic terms about her
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body and its functions. And she also wants you to know that all of the things she's telling you,
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which you didn't ask to hear about, and certainly don't want to hear about are none of your business.
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while supplies last. Okay. Busy Phillips, uh, says that she's happy that she had her abortion and
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killed her offspring, her child, because it enabled her to have a wonderful career and a talk show.
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But, and, and, you know, and I'm not even trying to insult her here. Not that I could be blamed for
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insulting such a vile, grotesque excuse for a human being, but that's not even my point. That's not my
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point in pointing out that, you know, the talk show she said that she has that made the abortion
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worth it. The talk show has been canceled. It was canceled after one season and her acting career.
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Let's take a look at her IMDB page. Uh, she had, she, you know, let's, let's take a look at the
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things she's had roles in, uh, often bit roles. And I'm going down this, uh, the unbreakable Kimmy
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Schmidt. She appeared in some episodes of that, uh, a show called camping. She had a few, uh,
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voiceover roles in American dad, drunk history, something called grizzly bear losing all sense.
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Um, the new girl cougar town there. I think I recognize that one. Okay. Made in Cleveland.
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These are all just a lot of these, just one episode. It looks like that she appeared in,
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um, don't trust the B word in apartment 23. That was a, it was a show that was on. It looks like
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for one year and she, she was on for one episode. Uh, and I'm just going down. I'm trying to find
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something that would be, uh, how I met your mother. She did an episode of that
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and just a lot of stuff like that. White chicks. She was in the movie white chicks. Okay. There's one.
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I remember that movie cinematic masterpiece. Here's my point. She sold her soul, killed her
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child. And this is what she got out of it. A canceled talk show, a skit on drunk history,
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a voiceover on the reef to high tide. Now, look, of course, even if she had five Academy award wins
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and her filmography was chock full of, of, of, uh, of film classics, it still wouldn't make the
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abortion worth it. Nothing could ever justify killing a child. No earthly reward, no professional
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achievement or accomplishment could vindicate that of course, but it just shows you the tragic
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absurdity of this idea that a woman should sacrifice, literally sacrifice her children and
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her family for a career because busy Phillips did that. And she wants us to believe that it was all
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worth it. Um, and, and her career may be profitable. Maybe she's made some money. I would believe that,
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but nobody's going to remember anything this woman has done in her career. So far, nobody remembers it
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now. And this somehow is considered the noble choice to throw out motherhood for this, for this,
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you know, GK Chesterton, uh, he had a great quote where he talks about in our professional lives. Um,
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not just women, men too. We are the same thing to everyone in that we fill a certain role. We do a
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certain thing. And, uh, in that role and our jobs, when we're clocked in, that's what we are to
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everybody, no matter what you do. Uh, I mean, even if you're the president of the United States,
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well, you're the president of the United States. That's, that's what you are to everybody.
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But as parents, you know, rather than being the same thing to everybody, we are everything to
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someone or to a few people, depending on how many kids you have. And he, and he points out that,
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especially with women, this idea that the latter role where you're everything to someone,
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everything to your children, the idea that that's narrower and more confining and less noble and less
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worthwhile is, is ludicrous. It's a lie. It's one of the worst lies that modern culture tells
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our role as parents. Um, that role much more than our role in our job or busy Phillips role
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and made in Cleveland is a dynamic, versatile, uh, thing. Something that will, will make a lasting
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difference, a lasting impact, something that will leave a legacy. Speaking of legacies. Now that's
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not to say that your job is unimportant. I mean, some jobs are more important than others. Some people,
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some jobs are basically, are basically completely unimportant except for, I mean, even in a completely
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frivolous and unimportant job. Uh, if you have a family that, that actually lends, uh, import to
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that job. It gives it meaning because at least you're there and you're doing this for your family.
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So the meaning comes from that. See, the meaning springs forth from that role as a parent, as a
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husband, as a wife, a mother. If all you have is your job to find meaning in, well, that ultimately
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is going to feel like, and it is going to be in many ways a meaningless life. Um, the fact is that
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whatever you do for a living, probably, you know, you can leave that job and be replaced easily
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and nobody will remember what you did. There may be a few exceptions to this. There are a few people
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across the world who are exceptions to this, but, but almost all of us, whatever we do for a living,
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matter how important we might think it is, you can leave. Eventually you will leave.
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You'll be just replaced by somebody, your company, whoever you work for, they're going to find someone
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to fill in that role and they're going to move forward. And, and, you know, no one's going to
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maybe if you were employee of the month or something, where you got your plaque on the wall. And so
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you'll, and that's all you'll be now is just that picture on the wall. If that, but you get replaced
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and, and it doesn't matter. Now you leave your role as parent, you're not going to be easily
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replaced. In fact, you cannot be replaced at all, not fully. And that loss, you know, you think of
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a father who abandons his children, a father works at a job, leaves the job, who cares? He'll be
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replaced. No one's going to care or remember, uh, leaves his kids though. That's going to leave a
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hole in those kids' lives forever. That they're never going to fully get over.
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Now, I mean, look at me. I write, uh, I write articles, I do podcasts.
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There are a million people who do the same thing. There are a million podcasts out there.
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Nobody's going to remember this segment that I'm doing right now.
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No, by, by the end of, by the time this is over, you probably will forgot it. By, by the end of
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today, you'll probably have forgotten it. No one's going to remember it next week, even tomorrow,
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probably. You know, this show that I'm doing could, could, could disappear. The entire show
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that I'm doing could disappear. And, and some of you would care for 10 minutes. Some of you would
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celebrate. Uh, but even that celebration would, wouldn't last long. And then you just, you move
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on with your lives, right? Because what I am to you is, uh, maybe I'm something to you, hopefully,
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but I could be replaced with somebody else. You'll find whatever role I play in your life as a viewer,
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you'll find someone else to fill that role. Not like that for my kids. Um, so, you know,
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that, that's, that's what really makes a difference. That what's, that's what makes an impact.
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So when we encourage people, especially women, and they're the main one, main ones who are
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encouraged to do this, to subordinate parenthood and for women to subordinate motherhood, uh,
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beneath the almighty career, when we encourage them even to kill, to murder in order to escape
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motherhood so that they can focus on their career, we are encouraging, encouraging them to put the
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more important thing, the more beautiful thing, the more sacred thing below the less important
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and less beautiful thing. And that makes no sense. And you know what else? It also very clearly does
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not lead to joy, does not lead to fulfillment, does not lead to happiness. I said this yesterday,
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you know, look at busy Phillips. They're screaming about her yeast infection. Does she strike you as
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a joyful person? Does she strike you as someone who is fulfilled in her life and happy about what
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she's doing and feels confident about it? No. Because I tell you, if you feel confident about
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your life choices, you don't get on a, behind a microphone on a stage and scream about them,
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trying to justify them. If you feel confident in them.
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Oh, she went looking for that meaning and that joy in, in the career and clearly has not found it.
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Which is, which is shocking. You know, I'm, I'm shocked that she can't find meaning and joy in her
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role as a Karen in white chicks. She actually played a woman named Karen in white chicks.
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That's what it says on IMDb. You know, one other thing here that I was thinking about,
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think about the message that this sends, and this is all very intentional, of course,
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but think about the message that this sends to young, young women who are pregnant.
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When you've got these Hollywood actresses, pro-abortion people, Democrats, people in the media
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in Hollywood saying that if according to busy Phillips, you know, she got all of this, all of
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these wonderful things. She got because emphasizing because, because, because of her abortion.
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So think about the effect that has on a, if there's a young pregnant woman who's watching TV,
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watching the news, and she sees that here's that. And she doesn't need to see it.
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I mean, she's getting that message everywhere. And certainly if she goes to the Planned Parenthood
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clinic, that's the message she's going to get. The only way for you as a woman, a pregnant woman,
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the only way for you to have success in life is to kill your child. You have to reject motherhood.
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You have to reject this profound power that you have to bring new life into the world.
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You have to reject that. Literally throw it in the garbage. If you want to have success in life.
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This, this, this whole part, this whole facet of womanhood, the most spectacular facet of it,
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reject it, throw it out. If you want to have success, you can't have, you can't have both.
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You as a woman, you cannot have both. You got to choose one or the other. Success in life or
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motherhood. That's the message. As I said, completely intentional, trying to scare women
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into getting abortions. And it's not even true, actually. Busy Phillips traded in her child for
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her worthless, stupid career, making horrible movies that nobody cares about or will ever remember.
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But, uh, she didn't even need, she didn't even need to do that. There are plenty of women who have
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kids, are loving mothers, and have also, uh, you know, gone out into the world and, and, and, uh,
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they do other things as well. Maybe it's a job. Maybe it's a, you know, they have, they have,
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they have another vocation as well. Um, and, and so they have that kind of success and they can
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express maybe of, you know, women who are very artistic. I think my wife has great, my wife is
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a very skilled person. She's a skilled mother, but she's got other skills as well that are not directly
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tied to, to motherhood. She's found ways to express those skills, uh, as well as being a great mother.
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So that is possible. It isn't the empowering thing to say to a woman for empowering women.
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Shouldn't we be saying you can, you can do that. You, you can be a great mother. You don't have to
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reject this part of womanhood. And you can also have all that. You can have all of that actually.
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All right. We're going to move on to headlines here, uh, in a moment, but first super Tuesday has
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despite protests from celebrities and media people and Kim Kardashian, et cetera, et cetera,
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Alabama executed Nathaniel Woods last night. His supporters said that he shouldn't have been
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executed because even though he was convicted of killing three police officers, he actually did
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not pull the trigger. Uh, what, what, uh, happened was the three, the police officers were storming the
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crack house where, uh, uh, innocent, uh, old Nathaniel Woods was, was, was, and, uh, they were shot in the
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process. Well, we also know that Nathaniel Woods, it's not just that his actions led to these police
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officers being killed, although that's true also, but he, he also directly, uh, told the gunman to go
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and kill the police officers. And then he did and they're dead. The idea that that makes him less
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culpable is asinine. In my view, it's no different really from a woman who goes to a hitman and says,
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kill my husband. Okay. She's not wielding the murder weapon, but obviously she's just as culpable
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if not more so than the hitman. So, uh, he was, he was executed ultimately. And I would say justice
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was served there. Number two, let's go from a justice served to justice, not served this guy,
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D'Andrean Anderson. Well, let's take a look at what he did last year. Watch this video.
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Come on, let's go. Let's go. So he's finally been sentenced for that 30 days in jail is what
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he's getting. Now I'm not kidding. When I say, if I'm the judge, I give him a year in state prison
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for that. Uh, it's, it's, it's so gratuitous and gross and it betrays such a disregard for common
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decency and for other people that, yeah, I would throw him in prison for a year. You're spreading
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germs. You're spreading disease. You're spreading it intentionally, uh, to someone you don't even know.
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Like someone's going to buy that ice cream, feed it to their kids and you've slobbered all over it.
00:25:21.220
Just the, the disregard for other people I think is enough to land him in jail.
00:25:26.720
Now that's it. I say a year in jail, if I was a judge in the United States under our current system,
00:25:33.040
of course, under my dictatorial theocratic, uh, regime, it goes without saying that the punishment
00:25:38.180
would be quite harsher and more just than that. Uh, what I would do probably in this circumstance
00:25:43.060
is, and I'd have to look at his prior, uh, his, his, uh, prior convictions. And I'd have to look
00:25:48.820
at his, his criminal history. When I say criminal history, I mean, you know, does he lick his fingers
00:25:53.160
as we talked about is, is he a Michael Bloomberg, those sorts of things. So that's going to factor in.
00:25:57.500
But if this was a one-time deal, um, it would begin, he would have his tongue amputated. Of course,
00:26:03.300
then he'd be strapped to the back of a, of a donkey with a sack over his head
00:26:06.740
and exiled out into the desert with two jugs of water. And what happens from there happens.
00:26:14.460
Number three, the assistant secretary of, uh, for health at, uh, HHS spoke to the media yesterday
00:26:19.240
with some somewhat reassuring information on the coronavirus. And I also enjoyed this because,
00:26:25.520
uh, it proved, proved me right. And a lot of the things I've been saying on the show the last few
00:26:29.040
days, we are still very early in understanding and all the evidence isn't there. So I want to caveat
00:26:35.100
that, but, uh, to set a, uh, some foundation, the typical mortality rate for seasonal flu
00:26:42.020
is about 0.1% or 0.15%. The best estimates now of the overall mortality rate for COVID-19
00:26:54.100
is somewhere between 0.1% and 1%. Okay. That's lower than you heard probably in many reports.
00:27:03.200
Why is this? Number one is because many people don't get sick and don't get tested. So probably
00:27:09.560
for, and this is, uh, reflects the overseas experience. So probably for every case, there
00:27:15.060
are at least two or three cases that are not in the denominator. So I just want to sort
00:27:20.280
of scale that, that it's certainly could be higher than normal flu. It probably is, but
00:27:25.580
it's not, uh, likely in the range of two to 3%. So our best modeling, again, you have a denominator
00:27:32.280
problem. And I want you to understand that, that only the people who are really sick or
00:27:37.760
have symptoms come in and get tested. So based on is, is based on the models we have right
00:27:44.880
now, we estimate the mortality as 0.1 to 1%. It is likely not in the range of two to 3%.
00:27:51.540
Now, of course we still take the virus seriously. Nobody's saying that, but fortunately the fatality
00:27:56.180
rate isn't nearly as bad as what's being reported, which, you know, maybe means they should stop
00:28:02.540
reporting it. Maybe the news should stop saying that the fatality, the mortality rate is two
00:28:08.840
or 3% because it's not just a thought. Number four, reading now from a daily mail exclusive
00:28:14.080
report, it says Bill Clinton claims that his affair with Monica Lewinsky was one of the things,
00:28:18.900
uh, was one of the quote things I did to manage my anxieties. The former president suggests
00:28:24.300
in an explosive documentary seen by Daily Mail TV that he had the fling with the ex-White
00:28:29.380
House intern while he was in office because it helped with his own issues. Bill reveals
00:28:34.100
that, um, at the time he met Lewinsky, the pressure of the job made him feel like a boxer
00:28:39.160
who had done 30 rounds. And he looked at Lewinsky as something that will take your mind off it
00:28:43.880
for a while. He makes the claim in an interview featured in the new documentary series that will
00:28:48.500
air on, air on Hulu about his wife, Hillary Clinton called Hillary, where the former first
00:28:52.840
lady and secretary of state candidly reveals that in the aftermath of the scandal, the couple
00:28:56.860
underwent painful marriage counseling. So there you go. There's, there is the casual,
00:29:04.560
even now at this point, uh, the casual cruelty of Bill Clinton, even now, these many years later,
00:29:14.020
he's, he's literally referring to, to this, to a woman, Monica Lewinsky as a thing.
00:29:19.480
That's one of the things I did. She was one of the things I did to manage anxiety. Just something
00:29:28.140
to take my mind off it. Yes, this is a whole other human being, but who cares? And her life
00:29:34.600
was destroyed by it. I mean, think about if you're Monica Lewinsky, her whole life is defined
00:29:41.540
by this. This is all she talk about being one thing to everybody, the same thing to everybody.
00:29:48.260
This is who she is that now, of course, she's actually a human being and there's a lot more
00:29:51.880
to her than this. But as far as the public is concerned, you say Monica Lewinsky, this is the
00:29:56.080
only thing that anybody will ever think about. And that's what he did. And even now says, yeah,
00:30:03.780
it's just something I did for just tick my mind off it. You know, could have been this could have been,
00:30:08.000
could have played ping pong. Using a woman and throwing her out. This is, this is how
00:30:15.780
Bill Clinton operates. Not a surprise for someone who's good friends with Jeffrey Epstein.
00:30:23.960
Number five, finally, Rachel Maddow went to interview a, as the kids would say, a very salty
00:30:29.720
Elizabeth Warren. And during the course of the interview, they, of course, mourned the fact
00:30:34.840
that we will not have a woman president. If Hillary Clinton can't win when she gets the
00:30:39.440
nomination and then you can't get the nomination and neither can Kamala Harris and neither can Amy
00:30:45.460
Klobuchar and neither can Kirsten Gillibrand. I mean, I think part of what's going on today is
00:30:50.460
that women around the country are like, okay, honestly, you know, if it's not, if it's not going
00:30:55.440
to be any of them, let's get real. Is it just, is it just that it can't be any woman ever? Are we just
00:31:02.460
going to run, you know, white men in their late seventies against each other, both parties? And
00:31:07.700
that's all we can agree to do. I think there's a, there's a feeling that your campaign ending is,
00:31:13.480
is very specific to you. And it also feels a little bit like a death knell in terms of the
00:31:18.420
prospects of having a woman for president in our lifetimes.
00:31:26.460
I know exactly what you're talking about. I know exactly what you're talking about. This
00:31:33.320
No, I understand that this is very sexist for me to say, but I have to say, and don't take it the
00:31:39.860
wrong way, but I don't give the slightest damn whether we have a woman president or not.
00:31:45.980
And I think probably Maddow is sensing that most people don't care and that, and that upsets her.
00:31:52.440
But why should we care? I care about having a good president. We've had a lot of bad presidents.
00:31:58.340
That's true. Uh, am I saying that a woman could never be a good president? No. So run a good woman
00:32:03.860
for president and I'll vote for her. Not because she's a woman, but if she's the best in the field,
00:32:09.280
in my opinion, I'll vote for her. But, but don't go into this whole, I will never have a woman
00:32:14.600
president. Woe is me thing after, you know, this, this, this time around, we had Elizabeth Warren to
00:32:20.260
choose from Klobuchar, Gillibrand, Kamala Harris, last time Hillary Clinton. Put, put a woman up
00:32:29.420
there who would make a good president. How about that for, for an idea? And people will vote for her.
00:32:37.760
But the simple fact of being a woman, and of course we can, we can get into the fact that
00:32:43.500
these are the same people who say that gender is, is relative and is on a spectrum and it's all fluid.
00:32:47.960
And so there really isn't anything, there isn't anything, there is no such thing as a woman or a
00:32:52.280
man. So that of course makes all of this, all of what they're saying a self-contradictory anyway.
00:32:57.060
Okay. Let's, let's go to your daily cancellation. Uh, I've, I've been waiting, waiting to do this.
00:33:00.840
I can't wait any longer. Uh, I think today on a Friday, it seems like a great opportunity to cancel
00:33:05.680
MSNBC and it, it feels, it feels good to cancel it, not for political reasons or ideological reasons,
00:33:10.740
but just on the basis of sheer unadulterated grade a stupidity. In fact, as I said, this clip from MSNBC
00:33:18.540
that I'm going to play might be the stupidest thing you will ever see on cable news. I know
00:33:25.400
that's a hell of a statement and I know it has so much competition and I know that future cable news
00:33:30.400
segments will try like hell to top the stupidity of this segment. I know legions of talking heads
00:33:35.540
and cable news anchors in the future. We'll see this as a challenge and they're going to say,
00:33:40.260
Oh no, I could be stupider than that. Watch me. But I'm telling you, I don't think they can do it.
00:33:45.000
I don't think anyone can do it. Watch. You see it as a possibility. If he wants to spend a billion
00:33:51.160
bucks beating this guy, he could do it. Absolutely. Um, somebody tweeted recently that, um, actually
00:33:58.580
with the money he spent, he could have given every American a million dollars. I've got it.
00:34:02.200
Let's put it up on the screen. It, when I read it, uh, tonight on social media, it kind of all
00:34:08.340
became clear. Bloomberg spent 500 million on ads, us population 327 million. Uh, don't tell us if
00:34:15.160
you're ahead of us on the math. He could have given each American $1 million and I've had lunch money
00:34:21.440
left over. It's an incredible way of putting it. It's an incredible way of putting it. It's true.
00:34:27.120
It's disturbing. It does, it does suggest, you know, what we're talking about here, which is
00:34:32.120
there, there's too much money in politics. Yeah. This, this reminds me of the time that I won 75
00:34:38.220
bucks on a scratch off. And so I gave my parents and all of my siblings, $16,000 each. The math checks
00:34:44.680
out. Uh, no, actually I'm not sure that it does. Uh, so let's think about this. 327 million people,
00:34:52.440
$500 million. If we give a million dollars to each person, if we were to line everybody up,
00:35:01.260
every, all three, a line, 327 million people long, line them all up, um, and can give each a million.
00:35:10.660
We would run out of money by person number 501. The first 500 people are lucky. So they made out like
00:35:17.400
bandits, everybody else you're out of luck. That's because 327 million times a million is 327
00:35:26.680
trillion. You would need $327 trillion to give everybody a million dollars, which is, uh, shall
00:35:32.740
we say a little bit more than 500 million in reality? I, you know, with the money that he spent
00:35:38.640
500 million bucks, he could have distributed that between 327 million people. That's true,
00:35:43.220
but it would have worked out to what? About a buck 50. I'm no math genius myself. And so this is part
00:35:49.040
of the way that I know that this is so stupid that I, I myself am very, very, very dumb with math.
00:35:55.740
You don't even understand how dumb I am. I don't even want to tell you the kinds of math problems
00:36:01.720
that I will use my calculator for. Okay. I won't even get into it. My son says, dad, what's two plus two?
00:36:10.120
I say, hang on a second. Let me grab my phone. Okay. Um, but even I am shocked by the stupidity
00:36:16.600
of this. If you can shock me with your math stupidity, then that, that should tell you
00:36:21.580
something. So, uh, but no, you, a dollar 50 a person, um, for $500 million. I think Bloomberg
00:36:28.000
could have feasibly brought, bought everybody in America, a box of Tic Tacs and maybe, uh, two
00:36:35.260
gumballs from a gumball machine. Now, granted that would have been a better use of his money
00:36:40.400
than all of these ads for a political campaign that resulted in him winning American Samoa. And
00:36:46.240
that's it probably be better off with the Tic Tacs and gumballs for everybody. But that's,
00:36:50.500
that's all that would have happened. Now, the person who tweeted this originally followed it up
00:36:55.080
and she said, uh, blah, blah, blah, math, blah, blah. That sentiment I relate to blah, blah, blah,
00:37:02.580
math, blah, blah. Uh, that's my argument that I would make to all of my math teachers in high
00:37:08.320
school as I would fail the math tests, blah, blah, blah, math. Who needs it? Uh, anyway, blah,
00:37:15.100
blah, blah, math, blah, blah. People are telling me my numbers are wrong, but the point still stands.
00:37:19.780
He could easily afford to give everyone a million dollars and literally never notice.
00:37:24.460
Well, no, I think he would notice because again, a million dollars to each person would cost him
00:37:28.520
$327 trillion. He's worth 60 billion. So, uh, so if he were to distribute his entire net worth
00:37:36.340
among the entire population of, of, of, uh, of America, um, he, in the end, he would be in the
00:37:42.760
hole about $267 trillion. So he would probably notice that.
00:37:48.520
Um, now if he were to distribute his whole net worth, how much could he give us? This is a little
00:37:55.900
bit better. He could give us all $180. So if he, if he forfeited all of his money, we would all get
00:38:02.820
180 bucks. And that's, that's not bad. You know, that's, that's, uh, you could, you could do some
00:38:08.620
damage at Best Buy with 180 bucks, or you could go to the grocery store. You could buy easily six or
00:38:14.180
seven boxes of brand name cereal with that kind of money. So that would be great. The really
00:38:18.320
amazing thing here is because I'm never surprised by the stupidity of one person. There is no amount,
00:38:24.960
there is no level of stupidity that a person can sink to, or perhaps rise to, um, that would surprise
00:38:32.800
me for an individual person. I understand that the capacity of an individual person to be stupid
00:38:39.520
is infinite, limitless. But when the stupid thing requires the planning and approval
00:38:46.940
of several other people, then that's when it becomes really mind boggling. So think of how many
00:38:53.760
layers of stupid were involved in bringing this glorious moment to air. You had the original stupid
00:39:01.000
tweet. Um, then you had the woman there and, and also Brian Williams stupidly reading that and not
00:39:07.680
seeing the mathematical difficulties. Um, then there had to be a graphics guy who put it up there.
00:39:13.980
So it could go on air, a producer. I mean, easily we're talking about at least five or six other
00:39:20.860
people on top of Brian Williams and the person who tweeted it and the woman there. So easily five or
00:39:26.860
six. So we're talking about a total of like nine or 10 people and none of them, all of them literate
00:39:33.660
adults, all of them college educated, I assume, which only goes to my point about college education,
00:39:39.320
by the way, none of them solve the problem with that. But this does at least clarify one thing.
00:39:44.720
It shows why so many people in this country, uh, think they should be given free everything,
00:39:50.540
free college, free healthcare, free housing, and so on. This is a very clarifying moment.
00:39:55.780
It's because they don't understand how numbers work. If you think that $500 million can make
00:40:01.520
millionaires out of 327 million people, then just imagine what you think the government can do
00:40:07.300
with its $4 trillion budget. Imagine what, so it, it, it, with, now that we understand that mentality,
00:40:15.040
the, the prominence, the rise of socialism in the United States starts to make sense.
00:40:20.540
Okay. Let's go to emails, mattwalshow at gmail.com, mattwalshow at gmail.com.
00:40:24.600
Um, this is from Patrick says, good evening, Matt. First of all, I need to share my appreciation for
00:40:31.300
you, uh, who you are and what you do as a Catholic conservative living in Massachusetts. I sometimes
00:40:35.780
feel as if I'm surrounded by madness. Kafka-esque doesn't begin to describe the sensation. So thank
00:40:41.400
you for being one of the few sources of sanity and what can otherwise seem to be an insane world.
00:40:45.740
With that important feature out of the way, would you mind explaining what motivated your decision to
00:40:49.420
get a tattoo? I've always amused about getting a symbol of my faith as a tattoo,
00:40:52.960
and I've heard some pros and cons, but as a fellow Catholic, I'm curious what brought you to decision
00:40:57.580
to one, get a tattoo, two, choose the Cairo as opposed to a cross or other religious symbol,
00:41:02.280
and three, put it on your forearm. Thank you for your time and for doing incredible work. Have
00:41:06.400
yourself a great evening. Uh, well, as far as a tattoo goes, uh, you know, I, I like the idea of
00:41:11.660
having a, just a symbol of my faith that would, would be, uh, out and on display for, for everybody
00:41:17.520
proudly. Um, it's also given rise to many opportunities for conversations with, with,
00:41:24.920
with people, uh, non-Christians oftentimes when I'm out somewhere and they'll say, what's that
00:41:28.640
tattoo about? And I'll explain it. So that gives an opening to talk about my faith. Uh, so I've,
00:41:33.680
I've, I've enjoyed having it for that reason. The Cairo, I just, I, I, I like the, uh, how ancient
00:41:42.120
the symbol is. This is the, this is the symbol that was prominent before even, uh, the, the crucifix
00:41:48.220
was, was a prominent Christian symbol. And so I liked the history of it. And, uh, as far as on my
00:41:54.340
arm, uh, I, I think when I was, when I was getting that tattoo, tattoo and choosing that location,
00:42:01.520
one verse that was in my mind was, uh, the verse in the song of Solomon that says, set me as a seal on
00:42:08.980
your, uh, on your heart as a seal on your arm for stern as death is love. Paraphrasing, I might've
00:42:14.920
botched that, uh, first a little bit, but now obviously I know that that verse is not referring
00:42:19.920
to a tattoo, but still I saw, uh, uh, I saw it as a, as a symbol of that. Now for the first thing you
00:42:27.920
said about knowing that you're not alone when you're surrounded by madness. Well, that's the thing
00:42:33.600
is that really we aren't alone. And there, there are as sane people also as Christians, we're not
00:42:41.800
the only ones. There are a lot of us out there. And, uh, and, and so it's, it's both encouraging
00:42:48.000
and discouraging for me. I was talking about this with someone yesterday. I was doing an interview
00:42:51.140
for church of cowards, my new book, which is in stores now. And I was talking about this, how it's
00:42:56.180
sort of encouraging and discouraging when I go out and I talk to people and I discover all these many
00:43:01.480
people who feel the same way that I do on, on, on all these, all these issues, uh, or I get emails
00:43:06.980
from people. So that's the encouraging part is knowing that I'm not alone, which is the feeling
00:43:10.800
that you have. Right. But then also it's a little bit discouraging because I think, well, if there's
00:43:16.420
so many of us that are sane and rational and have a, have a clear moral sense about so many of these
00:43:25.880
issues, then why are things the way they are in the culture? We talk about the silent majority and
00:43:34.240
we, we say that proudly. We say that conservatives are the silent majority. Well, it's, it's nice to
00:43:41.800
know in one hand that if we are the silent majority, that there's a majority, but why are we silent?
00:43:48.740
It just makes it all the more pitiful. And that goes to church of cowards. That's why I wrote the book
00:43:53.280
that we're cowards. That we're the majority, but we've allowed this to happen.
00:44:00.000
I talk, the things I talk about all the time with the drag Queens and the, and the, the gender stuff.
00:44:05.060
I, I absolutely believe, I know that the majority of people are not on board with this yet it's
00:44:11.200
happening. And why is that? Why are we letting this happen when we have the numbers on our side? And I
00:44:17.200
don't want to hear anything about the elites, they have all the power. No, if we were to rise up
00:44:21.360
and speak out and actually use our numbers to our advantage, this stuff would not be happening.
00:44:29.820
A drag queen story hour happening in a town where 90% of the people think it's crazy.
00:44:37.400
Well, if that 90% would speak up and maybe get out of their houses and off their butts and even show
00:44:42.340
up to the library to let their voices be heard and to make it clear how they feel, it wouldn't happen.
00:44:46.860
I feel the same way when I, when I get emails, if I'm talking about some controversial subject
00:44:56.140
and I take a position, I'm getting a lot of backlash and I'll get all these private messages
00:45:02.620
and emails from people saying, Hey, I agree with you. I agree with what you're saying about it. I just
00:45:06.380
want to let you know, thumbs up, keep it going. And I think, thank you for the encouragement.
00:45:12.880
Why are you whispering it to me behind the bushes? Okay. Why are you, why are you saying,
00:45:18.220
come here, come here, let me tell you something. I agree. And it's like, I'm in the middle of a,
00:45:24.940
of a pitchfork mob and they're bearing down and then there's someone hiding behind,
00:45:28.900
hiding behind a, hiding in an alley over there. And they, they, they motioned me over. Hey,
00:45:32.260
I agree with you. Keep it up champ. And then they run off. It's like, well, thank you. But it may be
00:45:38.360
publicly, if you were to say that, that'd be kind of nice. I understand people have jobs and
00:45:43.960
things. Unlike me, I don't have a job. So that's something you have to, to have to factor in as
00:45:48.140
well. But, but still, um, yes, I guess my point is Patrick, that we're not alone, that there are a
00:45:53.840
lot of us out there, which is encouragement, but it's also our shame that we have allowed the culture
00:46:00.160
to become what it is. Despite the fact that most of us know it's wrong. Let's go to, um,
00:46:09.440
Cuba, Cuba. I'm not sure what's with a K K U B A. So, uh, most eminent and sublime Matt,
00:46:15.120
my humble personage bows before your grandeur. Have you heard of the song, the man by Taylor Swift?
00:46:19.560
If not, you should watch it on YouTube. The song is so good at portraying what a man is and does
00:46:23.580
that I figured that you might find some inspiration. And personally, I've been playing this song on repeat
00:46:28.440
because it speaks the truth of how a man acts. In many ways, uh, I fall short of the standard
00:46:33.980
outlined by Swift. She makes an excellent point when she states that, uh, I'm sick of running as
00:46:40.280
fast as I can, wondering if I'd get there quicker. If I was a man to that, I say, yes, yes, you would be,
00:46:45.680
you would, because men are built physically faster, built physically to run faster. What a wonderful
00:46:50.000
insight. Okay. Let me, yeah, I thought I played this song on the air. I'm sorry if I didn't,
00:46:55.420
because it's such a wonderful song. Let me play a quick clip of this. It's a,
00:46:58.440
new, new music video from Taylor Swift, a song called the man where she dresses up as a man
00:47:04.060
and is talking about trying to show all the, all the, all the terrible things that men are able
00:47:09.060
to do. So watch this. You can tell the song itself is just a terrible song, which is what we've come
00:47:13.600
to expect of Taylor Swift, especially in recent years. But she dressed up as a man. We see her on
00:47:19.720
a subway, of course, doing the man spread with her, with her legs wide open. Yeah, that's a man.
00:47:25.020
All right. That's, that's how men act. All men. Right. And by the way, as I've tried to explain
00:47:32.180
in the past, I don't want to get into graphic detail. Okay. I'm not going to give a whole
00:47:37.460
anatomy lesson here, but for feminists that don't understand why men don't sit the same way that
00:47:42.200
women sit, it's because we do have different body parts, which makes it so that we are going to sit a
00:47:48.560
bit differently from you. But anyway, so Taylor Swift's got the man spread and she's got her arm
00:47:52.800
around as a man. He's quote unquote, got his, his arm around a person next to him. And she's smoking
00:48:01.640
a cigar on the subway and then ashing out into a woman's purse next to her. And then she comes out
00:48:10.280
and she pees in the middle of the subway station, which that does happen, but usually it's the homeless
00:48:14.600
people doing that. Yeah. That's what he said. I mean, we see that all the time on subway, right?
00:48:18.600
The guy, a man smoking a cigar on the train, tapping the ashes into a woman's purse. Totally
00:48:24.900
normal. Yeah. But, but this is how feminists see men. This is a, as, as, as cartoon, we were cartoons
00:48:30.900
to them. And that's why they're so bitter about men because they don't understand a single damn
00:48:36.820
thing about men. Now, how do you think that, do you think a male artist could make a video like that
00:48:45.200
about women? All of the annoying things women do. You think a man can get away with that?
00:48:52.420
Well, the first problem is that the, that the song would be way too long. The song will be six
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and a half hours long and nobody's going to listen to that. So that'd be the first problem, but nobody
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would, he couldn't get away with it. Only women can do that. Finally, this is from Sarah. Uh, this,
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telling me this is, this is the why I'm wrong email of the day. Um, not the most important issue in
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the world, but you know, you got to keep me. And this is what I say, but I, I encourage the emails
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telling me why I'm wrong and it doesn't have to be just, you got to keep me honest. So if I make
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any mistake at all in your mind, let me know. And that's what Sarah's doing here. It says,
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dear Matt, you are wrong about the fairy godmother in the Cinderella reboot. This character will not be
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called the thing as you postulated. Indeed, they've already determined the name of this genderless being
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fab G the actor slated for the genderless role. Billy Porter claimed quote, it hit me when I saw
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on the set last week, how profound it is that I am playing the fairy godmother. Yes. Profound,
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deeply profound. They call it the fab G magic has no gender. This is a classic fairy tale for a new
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generation. I think that the new generation is really ready. The kids are ready. It's the grownups
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that are slowing stuff down. Sarah continues. I'm sure this was an honest error on your part,
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but please be sure to tread a bit more lightly on such serious topics going forward. Fab G. Okay.
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You got me on that one. I was wrong. It doesn't happen often. And that does give me an idea for
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when my kids get older and they have kids of their own. I don't want to be called grandpa. I want to
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be called fab G. Because when you see me, it's the first thing you think, right? It's fabulous.
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You look up fabulous in the dictionary, you're going to see my face. And we'll leave it there.
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