The Matt Walsh Show - April 30, 2020


Ep. 477 - From Believe Women To Believe Biden


Episode Stats

Length

42 minutes

Words per Minute

164.96753

Word Count

6,985

Sentence Count

504

Misogynist Sentences

13

Hate Speech Sentences

13


Summary

The Me Too movement has undergone a startling transition. They ve gone from believe women to believe Joe Biden. Talk about shifting the goalposts. And what s this all about? And has it exposed the Me Too Movement as a sham?


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, the Me Too movement has undergone a startling transition. They've
00:00:04.720 gone from believe women to believe Joe Biden. Talk about shifting the goalposts. So what is
00:00:10.160 this all about? And has it exposed the Me Too movement as a sham? Well, of course it has.
00:00:15.220 It should have been obvious to people all along, but we'll talk about that. Also,
00:00:17.980 five headlines, including Ben Shapiro getting himself into trouble with media matters for
00:00:22.160 stating the obvious. That'll always get you into trouble with media matters when you state the
00:00:26.540 obvious. And for our daily cancellation segment today, something a little bit different. I hope
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00:02:23.440 you need and deserve. Okay, so the philosopher Eric Hoffer famously observed that every great cause
00:02:32.180 begins as a movement, becomes a business, and then degenerates into a racket. Now, I'd be tempted to
00:02:38.220 say that recent events mark the Me Too movement's transition into its racket stage, but that would
00:02:44.700 imply, I think erroneously, that it was ever anything but a racket. If the Me Too movement was an actual
00:02:52.020 movement, worried about an actual cause, then it would be rallying to the defense of Tara Reid, the woman
00:02:58.960 who says she was sexually assaulted by Joe Biden. Her story is about as credible and believable as a
00:03:04.960 rape allegation made years after the fact could ever possibly be. Women who come forward after a
00:03:11.960 lengthy interval of time rarely have eyewitnesses to the event or videotape or anything that would make
00:03:17.880 the matter conclusive. In fact, women who come forward after a short period of time or after no time at
00:03:23.360 all rarely are going to have anything like that. And in fairness, they can't be expected to have that
00:03:31.480 sort of evidence given the nature of the crime alleged. Nevertheless, it is important to have
00:03:37.200 evidence though, even if it's not something as direct as that. And Tara Reid has a rather impressive
00:03:44.380 catalog of circumstantial evidence to present. She has several people, friends, family, co-workers,
00:03:50.180 acquaintances, neighbors, who can vouch that she told them about the alleged assault shortly after
00:03:56.840 it allegedly happened. She has tape of a woman who she says is her mother making a cryptic call to
00:04:02.980 the Larry King show talking about a problem her daughter had with a prominent senator. She has a
00:04:08.220 relatively consistent story that she can recount in detail. And then she has Joe Biden's documented
00:04:13.360 history of inappropriately touching women, which we've all seen on video. And she has his conspicuous
00:04:19.060 up to this point refusal to actually deny the allegation. None of this proves anything,
00:04:25.420 but it does add up to a far more compelling case than the one made by Christine Ford, as I've
00:04:29.560 outlined many times. It's also more compelling than a fair number of the Me Too cases in Hollywood
00:04:34.640 and elsewhere. You know, many of those boiled down to he said, she said, without much evidence,
00:04:41.940 circumstantial or otherwise, to present. Tara Reid, by having any evidence at all, easily exceeds the
00:04:48.480 meager standard of evidence that was enough to convict many accused men in the court of public
00:04:54.200 opinion, at least, and even in the court of law in some cases. And yet the primary promoters and
00:04:59.880 cheerleaders of the Me Too movement have nothing to say about Reid, or else what they have to say is
00:05:04.940 openly hostile and dismissive of her and to her. The media, with its courageous, truth-seeking
00:05:12.760 journalists who uncritically reported many salacious rumors about accused men during the height of the
00:05:18.560 Me Too hysteria, have suddenly lost interest in the topic of sexual assault. The New York Times
00:05:24.540 essentially exonerated Biden, claiming that he has no established pattern of sexual misconduct,
00:05:30.960 even though his pattern of misconduct is not only established, but on film for all to see.
00:05:37.120 And perhaps the biggest favor the media has done for Biden is to not ask him about the allegation
00:05:42.540 at all. I think it was the Washington Examiner went back and looked, and I believe it was something
00:05:46.840 like he's done 19 interviews since these allegations were made public. And in none of those
00:05:54.340 interviews, he asked dozens and dozens and dozens of questions, not one question, to him about these
00:06:02.440 allegations. Now, eventually that's going to change. Maybe it will change today or this week. I mean,
00:06:09.460 eventually he will be forced to address this. Certainly he'd be forced to address it in the general election
00:06:15.020 because Trump's not going to let him get away with not saying anything about it. Trump's going to have
00:06:20.440 Tara Reid at the debates front row. You know he's going to do that. But he'll probably have to address it
00:06:26.140 before then, eventually. Eventually the media will ask him a question. But the damage is done.
00:06:33.760 They have given him a month to figure out what his response is going to be and to game plan behind
00:06:39.140 the scenes. Now, yes, if he has a game plan, he'll likely forget what the game plan was. But still,
00:06:46.260 they've done as much of a favor as they could possibly do for him. And so that's already done.
00:06:51.800 Democrats in Congress, who are all quite convinced by Christine Ford's allegations, despite the utter
00:06:57.060 paucity of evidence and the fact that she couldn't even remember what happened,
00:07:00.420 have come to Biden's defense. Senator Klobuchar says that she knows Biden, thinks he's a great guy.
00:07:06.160 This has been a common theme. He's a great guy. He's a decent guy. Speaker Pelosi says she's
00:07:10.880 satisfied with Biden's denial of the allegation, even though he has not actually denied the allegation.
00:07:17.340 And she's satisfied, though. He hasn't even said anything about it. And she's satisfied with his
00:07:22.560 response. His response is nothing. And she said, that's good enough for me.
00:07:26.400 I mean, basically, it's Biden. Did you did you do this? Here's Biden's response.
00:07:35.300 And then Pelosi says, good enough. That's got paid. Thumbs up. Great.
00:07:40.640 She and she also praised his integrity and authenticity. Here she is talking about Biden
00:07:45.940 last night when she was being interviewed. Here's what she had to say.
00:07:49.660 Well, I have great sympathy for any women who bring forth an allegation. I'm a big,
00:07:56.480 strong supporter of the Me Too movement. I think it's been a great made a great contribution
00:08:01.120 to our country. And and I do support Joe Biden. I'm satisfied with how he has responded. I know him.
00:08:12.160 I was proud to endorse him the other on Monday. Very proud to endorse him. And so I'm satisfied with
00:08:19.600 that. I mean, he hasn't to be clear. He hasn't addressed it. His campaign has addressed it. But
00:08:26.860 he has not directly addressed it. Should he directly publicly address it? You know, it's a matter that
00:08:34.580 he has to deal with. But I am impressed with the people who worked for him at the time saying they
00:08:40.120 ever absolutely never heard one iota of information about this. Nobody ever brought forth a claim or had
00:08:50.360 anybody else tell them about such a claim. But again, we have a an important election at hand,
00:08:58.280 one that is, I think, one most important ones that we've had. We say that every election,
00:09:02.420 but I think this one is the most crucial. And I supported him because he's a person of great
00:09:07.900 values, integrity, authenticity, imagination, and a connection to the American people. He
00:09:16.180 understands the kitchen table issues of America's working families. His father lost his job when he
00:09:22.340 was a boy. He knows what that feels like for a family. Integrity, authenticity, imagination.
00:09:29.580 I don't know what that has to do with anything. He's being accused of rape. And your response is,
00:09:36.120 look, the guy's got a great imagination. What? Speaking of people losing their minds,
00:09:43.640 Nancy Pelosi is definitely in that category. I mean, she is 372 years old. So what do you expect?
00:09:49.620 Then Stacey Abrams, who declared, I believe women during the Kavanaugh hearings,
00:09:53.020 has amended that statement to, I believe Joe Biden. And here's what she had to say to CNN.
00:10:00.700 I believe that women deserve to be heard. And I believe that they need to be listened to.
00:10:06.140 But I also believe that those allegations have to be investigated by credible sources. The New York
00:10:11.880 Times did a deep investigation and they found that the accusation was not credible. I believe Joe Biden.
00:10:18.180 I believe that he is a person who has demonstrated that his love of family, his love of our community
00:10:25.220 has been made perfectly clear through his work as a congressional leader and as an American leader.
00:10:32.360 She's, of course, groveling to him because she wants the vice president job. And if she doesn't get it,
00:10:40.020 you're going to notice how quickly her tune changes. Okay. Joe Biden is going to go from a great guy,
00:10:44.820 decent guy, hardworking guy, so on and so forth to a drooling racist. That's what's going to happen.
00:10:52.220 If she doesn't get the job, he's going to not only be a rapist in her mind, but also a racist.
00:10:58.460 So she'll switch her tact pretty quickly, just like Kamala Harris has, by the way. Remember,
00:11:06.720 Kamala Harris was basically accusing Joe Biden of cozying up with segregationists. And she was in
00:11:12.760 tears about it at a debate. And now Biden's a great guy. Just wonderful. Love him so much.
00:11:20.620 Now, joining the hypocrites parade are 10 supposed pro-woman groups, such as Planned Parenthood
00:11:27.660 and the National Organization for Women and others. Now, these, of course, are not really pro-woman
00:11:34.260 groups, but this is how they tout themselves. And they've all refused to provide a comment on the
00:11:39.980 Biden allegations. The founder of the Me Too movement, Tarana Burke, has also declined to
00:11:46.320 condemn Joe Biden or offer support to his alleged rape victim. In a lengthy and rather circumspect
00:11:53.820 Twitter thread by Tarana Burke, she went on a long thing about it, just actually a really long
00:12:03.160 way of saying that she has no moral courage whatsoever. And then she said that Biden can,
00:12:10.500 quote, demonstrate what it looks like to be both accountable and electable.
00:12:16.780 Translation, yeah, he might be a rapist, but I'm still voting for him.
00:12:21.000 Alyssa Milano helped to popularize the movement and bring it to the forefront of the national
00:12:24.920 conversation. But her first instinct was to leap to the defense of a decent man, Joe Biden.
00:12:30.380 And then she even said, and I thought this was great, talk about courage. She says that she's
00:12:35.740 going to prefer to remain silent about it. I think Joe Biden's a great, you know, a nice guy. I'm just
00:12:40.960 going to remain silent on this one. That was her response. Even the Time's Up legal defense fund
00:12:46.340 established in response to the Me Too movement declined to take Reid's case. Now, all of this adds up
00:12:54.540 to what perceptive people knew all along. The Me Too movement is and has always been a sham.
00:12:59.400 It may have succeeded in bringing down a few bad men like Harvey Weinstein, but that was never the
00:13:05.300 point. That was incidental. The point was to advance the ideological agenda of left-wing feminism.
00:13:16.360 Believe women was very useful to that end, right? If you want to advance left-wing feminism,
00:13:25.680 believe everything women say, men are a bunch of rapists. You know, that's, as far as left-wing
00:13:36.420 feminism goes, most of the time, that's the talking point you want to go with. And that was a very,
00:13:43.600 a very useful talking point. As long as the women who were supposed to be believing are accusing actors,
00:13:50.540 moguls, athletes, Republicans, really anybody in that realm is fine. Even if it's like Harvey Weinstein,
00:13:58.080 who's a liberal Democrat, still, you know, they're fine taking him down because he's not,
00:14:02.020 he's not an elected Democrat. He's an easy villain. And, and so they're fine with that.
00:14:07.580 But as soon as a Democrat is the target, then particularly one who's about to face Donald Trump
00:14:17.480 in a presidential election, the slogans and standards of the Me Too movement are no longer
00:14:22.320 useful. So they are summarily discarded and replaced by this credulous yammering about the
00:14:30.320 unimpeachable decency of a man who has no compunction about grabbing a woman and sniffing her hair,
00:14:35.120 even as the cameras are rolling. This dramatic reversal, of course, doesn't surprise anybody
00:14:40.980 who was alive and conscious during the Clinton years. Democrats back then valiantly defended a
00:14:46.600 slimy creep who was accused of assaulting, raping, and harassing a whole series of women.
00:14:54.720 Two decades before they started shouting about believe all women, they were viciously descending
00:14:59.760 upon and tearing apart any woman who dared speak about the violence and degradation,
00:15:04.780 she allegedly suffered at Bill Clinton's grubby hands. Now they're back to those old tricks
00:15:11.040 again. So they just reverted back to it. This is nothing unprecedented. After a brief period
00:15:17.260 of Democrats and leftists pretending to give a damn about rape victims, they are now backed back to
00:15:24.360 doubting and shaming alleged rape victims. So these are two faced hypocrites. And the Me Too movement was
00:15:33.860 just another political game they played and they've now abandoned it. And good riddance, as far as I'm
00:15:43.080 concerned. Let's move on to headlines. So Media Matters, as mentioned, well, they're huge fans of the
00:15:52.120 Daily Wire. They watch all of our shows. They take notes. Hi, Media Matters. Thanks for being here.
00:15:58.440 They're frankly pretty obsessed with us. And I mean, it is flattering, I have to admit, to have such
00:16:05.740 dedicated fans. But usually when they target somebody here, whether it's me or Ben or Michael
00:16:11.480 or Drew or anybody, I don't say anything about it or pay attention to it because it's par for the
00:16:16.040 course. They do it every day. So you can't respond to all of it. But this one I have to say something
00:16:21.940 about. Ben was trending on Twitter yesterday. Lots of outrage. Lots of people upset. After Media Matters
00:16:27.440 pulled a quote from him saying that it is, you know, this, what Ben is saying in this clip that
00:16:38.100 I'm about to play, they're claiming that this is outrageous and offensive and evil and all of that.
00:16:45.200 But, well, here it is. Trying to balance the risks and rewards here is a difficult thing. The easiest
00:16:51.960 thing you can do is say all damages caused are caused by the pandemic. All of the good things that
00:16:57.040 are happening like you being alive, that is caused by me, right? It's sort of the Gretchen Whitmer
00:17:00.660 strategy in Michigan. And that's a very easy thing to say. But in reality, you know, not only are there
00:17:08.340 countervailing issues on the other side, such as the fact that, you know, people are going to lose
00:17:11.920 their jobs and their livelihoods and their dreams and quality of life actually matters. But none of
00:17:15.560 these governors are going to keep things locked down forever. I mean, Andrew Cuomo, when he said,
00:17:18.980 just save one life, five days later, he's saying we're going to open up parts of New York State.
00:17:22.440 Okay, so which is it? I mean, obviously, that means that more people are going to be infected.
00:17:26.680 So you were always going to make this public policy consideration. Nobody just wants to say
00:17:30.780 the obvious truth, which is that we're all making actuarial deductions about what are the costs in
00:17:35.940 terms of how many human lives, how many years of life, because that is an actual issue in actuarial
00:17:42.200 tables, right? If somebody who is 81 dies of COVID-19, that is not the same thing as somebody who is 30
00:17:47.720 dying of COVID-19. I mean, if this were killing children, everyone would be in for lockdown forever.
00:17:51.820 That's the reality, right? If a bunch of five-year-olds were dying of COVID-19 and people
00:17:56.060 were saying, get back to work, I'd be like, nope, I'm not letting my five-year-old die.
00:17:58.900 If grandma dies in a nursing home at age 81, that's tragic and it's terrible. Also,
00:18:02.940 life expectancy in the United States is 80. So that is not the same thing. In moral terms,
00:18:08.420 you want to save every life you can. At the same time, to pretend that it is of the same calculation,
00:18:16.160 the age of the person, no public policy acts like that. Not a single public policy in American
00:18:20.940 life acts like that. Okay. Now here's the thing about that. You agree with what Ben said right
00:18:29.740 there. I agree. Everybody agrees. You might be saying, no, I don't agree. I'm outraged. No,
00:18:38.520 you aren't. You're not outraged. You do agree. Okay. Yes. I'm telling you how you feel.
00:18:46.560 That's what I'm doing. I know. I can read your mind. Yes. You agree with what Ben said there.
00:18:53.940 There is nothing outrageous about it in your mind. You might pretend there is, but you know there
00:18:59.840 isn't. All life is inherently valuable. All pro-lifers, this is our point. This is what we
00:19:05.740 always say. And that nothing has changed. And nothing Ben said there is inconsistent with the idea
00:19:12.940 that all life is inherently valuable. We want to save all the lives that we possibly can. Of course,
00:19:18.800 we cannot save all lives. In fact, ultimately, we cannot save any life. Ultimately, I mean, everybody
00:19:23.500 dies. But in the meantime, we want to do everything we can to preserve life. However, we recognize that
00:19:32.940 not all deaths are equally as tragic. And yes, when someone states an obvious fact like that,
00:19:42.940 it's very easy. It's one of those weird things we do where it's an obvious fact and we all know it.
00:19:50.000 Yet if you say it, it's sort of like forbidden to say. And if you say it, then everyone else who knows
00:19:55.940 it's true can say, oh my gosh, how could you say that? How could you say that thing that I obviously
00:20:02.080 know is true and I totally agree with you? But how could you say that? A five-year-old dying is,
00:20:10.280 and this is, I'm, this is me talking right now. Okay. I'm not going to speak for Ben. I mean,
00:20:16.560 you heard what Ben had to say. So me riffing off of that. Here's, here's, here's, here's the direction
00:20:21.580 I take it. A five-year-old dying is more tragic than an 85-year-old dying. Okay. And obviously,
00:20:33.960 of course, that's how you feel. That's how I feel. It's how everybody feels. That's how every 85-year-old
00:20:41.840 feels. Find me an 85-year-old who disagree. You absolutely think that the death of a child
00:20:50.760 is more tragic than the death of an elderly person. That doesn't mean the death of the
00:20:55.420 elderly person is not tragic. It doesn't mean that their life is worthless. It doesn't mean
00:20:59.120 that at all. It doesn't even come close to meaning that. It doesn't imply it.
00:21:05.540 No, it's just to say that the death of a child moves us, stirs us, devastates us in a unique way.
00:21:14.600 If you don't feel that way, you're a soulless robot. Now, clearly, if it's your own grandparent
00:21:23.500 has died, and you were to compare your reaction to that, to your reaction to, you know, reading in
00:21:30.340 a newspaper that a five-year-old died who you don't know, now you're going to be very sad about
00:21:34.440 that newspaper article, but you're going to be more personally affected by this person who you knew
00:21:38.480 dying. But looked at, you know, generally, broadly speaking, the death of the five-year-old is much
00:21:47.240 more tragic. And, I mean, if you would react the same way to me saying my grandma died as me saying
00:21:57.180 my five-year-old child died, then again, you're a soulless robot. But you wouldn't react that way.
00:22:05.060 So, why do people bother pretending they don't understand the point here?
00:22:11.400 Even compare the funeral of an elderly person to that of a young person. Now, me, thank God,
00:22:19.460 I've never had the occasion to attend the funeral of a very young child. That's a kind of tragedy that
00:22:24.860 I've never been close enough to for that. Lots of people have. I have been to the funeral of younger
00:22:33.340 people, though, of a teenager. I've been to the funeral of younger adults. And I can tell you,
00:22:38.840 and I've been to the funeral of elderly people, and I can tell you that the vibe and the mood is
00:22:43.520 much different at a funeral for a younger person than it is for an elderly person. You know, in the
00:22:50.040 latter case, there's a feeling of celebrating the person's life, of remembering a life well-lived
00:22:59.000 and long-lived. There's even oftentimes a sense of relief that this person is no longer suffering.
00:23:07.820 And, of course, there's grief also. There's a lot of sadness. There's a lot of tears. But
00:23:11.660 all that's mixed together. In the former case, though, when it's a younger person, it is, at least
00:23:17.340 in my experience, it is nothing but grief. It is nothing but unthinkable sadness and anger and
00:23:23.820 despair. It's just not the same. It isn't. And you know it. We all know it. I mean, one of the reasons
00:23:31.420 it's not the same is pretty obvious that a young person, going back to the child example especially,
00:23:39.460 a young person, Ben Shapiro mentions five-year-old, a five-year-old hasn't had a chance to live.
00:23:44.240 They've only lived for five years. If someone is 85, they've lived a long, hopefully fruitful life.
00:23:50.620 They're at the end of their lives, no matter what, and it doesn't make the death not tragic. But
00:23:59.920 they've lived a long, fruitful life. And that is why, at the funeral, there can also be, along with
00:24:05.740 the grief, there can also be this uplifting sense of celebration of this wonderful life that the
00:24:12.420 person lived. You can't tell yourself that with a child, when a child dies. It may have been a life
00:24:21.000 well-lived, but it was very shortly lived. It was not a long life. And you get a sense of that they
00:24:25.200 were robbed of something that they should have had. And that's the only point. And that's why,
00:24:32.520 from a policy perspective, as Ben points out, the policy is going to be different. It should be
00:24:39.640 different when it comes to preserving very young life, as opposed to on the other end of the
00:24:45.340 spectrum. Yeah, I can tell you right now, listen, if this disease was uniquely, primarily, almost
00:24:55.780 exclusively targeting children, targeting five and six-year-olds, then my reaction to it would also,
00:25:04.320 the policies that I would support would be very different. In that case, personally, I would say,
00:25:09.360 shut down society. Shut it down. I mean, bring civilization to a grinding halt, if we need
00:25:15.600 to, to protect these children. That's what I would say. I think most people would say that.
00:25:23.940 Because they're children. Because they haven't had a chance to live. And because we, as a society,
00:25:30.500 as adults, we have a unique responsibility to protect children and to preserve their lives.
00:25:37.320 It doesn't mean we have no responsibility to anybody else. But we have a unique responsibility
00:25:41.720 to our children. And if a civilization cannot protect its children, then what good is that
00:25:47.920 civilization? In fact, this is what I say about our civilization, even apart from the coronavirus,
00:25:53.700 because of abortion. You know, we kill our children directly.
00:25:56.040 So let's all just stop. Let's stop the games. I mean, let's at least get to a point where a person
00:26:06.280 can state the obvious without everybody breaking down in tears and with this bad faith garbage.
00:26:13.180 Number two, The Hill reports, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday ordered that all New York
00:26:21.420 City subway cars be cleaned every night by Metropolitan Transportation Authority workers to
00:26:26.300 ensure the safety of essential personnel during the coronavirus pandemic. Cuomo said any essential
00:26:30.940 worker who shows up and gets on a train should know that the train was disinfected the night before.
00:26:34.440 Of course, you read that and your first reaction is, yeah. I would kind of like to know that even if
00:26:43.000 there was no virus out there, or at least there's always viruses out there, but even if there was no
00:26:47.600 pandemic happening right now, I'd sort of like to think that the place was cleaned anyway. Cleaning the
00:26:53.900 subways is a good idea in general. You should probably be doing that every day, regardless of whether
00:26:58.220 there's a global pandemic or not. And this really goes to show that we could have mitigated the disease
00:27:04.020 just by doing a lot of pretty normal stuff, like cleaning, washing hands, not coughing on each
00:27:09.380 other. There was a lot of normal stuff we could have done that doesn't involve shutting down society.
00:27:16.160 This kind of reminds me of, you know, when you're in the bathroom, you go to a bathroom at a
00:27:21.880 restaurant or some public establishment, especially a food establishment, and there's a sign in the
00:27:29.040 bathroom, not just because of coronavirus, but, you know, you always see these signs saying,
00:27:32.700 all employees must wash their hands before returning to work. And I guess that's supposed
00:27:37.560 to be reassuring to us as the customer, but it always makes me think that the employees who work
00:27:44.520 here need a reminder to wash their hands. Otherwise they wouldn't. That's what it always makes me think.
00:27:49.840 It makes me, it makes me a lot less comfortable. It's supposed to make me comfortable as a customer,
00:27:52.660 but I think I would prefer to believe that the people working and handling my food wash their hands
00:27:58.520 just reflexively and don't need to be reminded by a sign, but who knows? Number three, U.S.
00:28:03.220 marriage rates have dropped to their lowest level on record. And this isn't just because getting
00:28:08.360 married is banned right now. Although that's, that's also going to affect the record, but this
00:28:12.040 actually goes back to 2018. The Daily Caller reports the marriage rate fell 6% in 2018 with 6.5
00:28:17.960 unions formed for every 1,000 people, according to the National Center for Health Statistics report.
00:28:22.760 Millennials are in peak marriage years, according to Sally Curtin, a statistician.
00:28:30.420 They're in peak marriage years, they're 20s and 30s, and it's still dropping. This is historic.
00:28:35.660 Many couples are opting for cohabitation instead of marriage. According to the NCH's 2018 report,
00:28:41.360 17% of women and 15% of men, actually 16%, about age 18 to 44, were cohabitating.
00:28:47.700 Now, for a while, the catastrophic social indicator that we were worried about was the
00:28:55.500 divorce rate. But the divorce rate has been dropping in recent years. The new alarming indicator,
00:29:00.680 and even more alarming in my opinion, is the lack of marriage at all. So, you know, it's actually the
00:29:08.920 replacement of marriage. It's not just that people aren't getting married, it's that we're replacing it
00:29:13.360 with something else. We're replacing it with temporary cohabitation arrangements.
00:29:20.260 So, the drop in divorce rate is fool's gold. You sometimes hear people citing this
00:29:24.440 as a good thing, a positive thing. Oh, divorce rate's going down. It's fool's gold. It's not an
00:29:29.440 improvement, actually. It's actually the next stage in the illness. This is not the illness going away
00:29:34.700 or going into remission. This is the next stage. And it's an inevitable stage. It's not hard to see why
00:29:41.300 this is happening. For one thing, it's millennials, basically, who are giving up on marriage.
00:29:49.720 And we have to remember that millennials grew up, we grew up as millennials, with parents who got
00:29:54.960 divorced at the drop of a hat. Okay, the divorce rate when we were kids for our parents' generation
00:30:00.960 was astronomical. And that's back when you used to hear that 50% of marriages end in divorce,
00:30:06.720 which I think was always a misleading statistic. I'm not sure if that was ever actually totally
00:30:11.080 true. But back in the 80s and 90s, especially, the divorce rate was very, very high.
00:30:18.300 So, parents were getting divorced left and right. My parents didn't. But generally speaking,
00:30:22.160 this is what was happening. Baby boomers loved divorce. They couldn't get enough of it.
00:30:27.760 Millennials, their children, watched this, experienced it,
00:30:31.120 felt the devastation of having their parents divorced as kids and have since decided that
00:30:36.960 the whole thing is not worth the trouble. You know, it's not just that you have to think about
00:30:40.780 about the context and the situation that some millennials were in. You know, their parents
00:30:48.400 got divorced, depending on and this also is a little bit geographic dependent, depending on where
00:30:52.160 you lived in the country. But for a lot of people, your parents got divorced. And almost all of
00:30:58.640 your friends' parents were divorced. So, almost everybody you know had divorced parents. It's
00:31:04.820 not hard to see that those kids would grow up and become adults who say, I'm not doing that.
00:31:10.680 Because that is the impression of marriage that they got. And this is why baby boomers need to be,
00:31:18.680 in my opinion, taking a lot more responsibility than they currently take for the state of society.
00:31:22.360 I mean, this is the culture and society that they formed and are handing off to us.
00:31:29.320 And a lot of what millennials are doing, it is in response to what they experienced as kids.
00:31:34.380 That's not an excuse. I think cohabitating rather than getting married is a bad idea
00:31:38.560 for many reasons. And so, it's not an excuse, but you can kind of see where someone's coming from.
00:31:43.860 If, to them, as a kid, marriage was nothing but a source of emotional heartache and betrayal
00:31:53.960 and abandonment. That's what they're associating with marriage.
00:32:00.040 All right. So, I've gotten into trouble, going on to number four here. I've gotten into trouble for
00:32:03.960 criticizing these stupid dancing nurse TikTok videos. I talked about that last week. And a lot
00:32:10.540 of people were very upset at me for criticizing the hallowed, sacred nurses and their dancing,
00:32:17.080 their sacred tradition now of dancing. You mustn't criticize it. Well, I wonder, can I at least
00:32:23.700 criticize this?
00:32:24.620 Yeah, I don't know. Is that, can we all agree that one's a little, little inappropriate?
00:32:44.300 Nurses dancing down the hallways of a hospital with a pretend corpse.
00:32:48.160 It's, I mean, it's, oh, it's not even funny, but it's like, it's a laugh or cry situation. That's
00:32:57.020 so much of what, and, and we're told that the hospitals are being overwhelmed. We have, we had
00:33:01.940 to shut down society to, so we don't overwhelm the hospitals. And now nurses are spending their
00:33:06.360 time shooting increasingly, uh, increasingly ridiculous and outrageous and offensive dancing
00:33:17.220 videos. Number five. And the memo went out from governor Newsom yesterday in California that all
00:33:22.800 state parks and beaches are going to close beginning on Friday. And the reason they're doing this is
00:33:28.060 because of all those naughty people in California who were going to the beaches. And now they're
00:33:33.000 saying, you're gonna go to the beach. We're going to shut it down. So they, they haven't learned
00:33:36.720 anything. When I say they, when I say they haven't learned, I'm not talking about the people going to
00:33:39.980 the beaches. I'm talking about the governors and politicians and political leaders. They haven't
00:33:45.360 learned that these kinds of message methods are counterproductive. They don't work. And they're
00:33:54.160 also completely useless and stupid because being on a beach, that's a great place to be is a very
00:33:59.980 healthy place to be. There is, there is probably not a lot of transmission going on, but of the virus
00:34:06.260 at beaches, by the way, on, on that note, I was last time I made this point while I'm making this
00:34:14.360 point every day. It seems like about the being outside and going to the beach is a great, great
00:34:17.900 place. Um, someone I've heard this objection a few times, but somebody emailed me and said that,
00:34:25.120 well, no, going to the beach is bad because remember those spring breakers in Florida who
00:34:32.700 everybody's making a big deal about back in early April, you know, they were at the beach
00:34:37.680 and then they came home and the news said that some of them got the coronavirus.
00:34:42.980 So clearly that's why you can't go to the beach.
00:34:48.160 And I, I hear that kind of argument. And I think this is another one of those. Do you,
00:34:52.980 do you really believe what you're saying right now? The spring breakers who spread or contracted
00:34:59.880 the coronavirus, you think they did it just suntanning at the beach? What do you think they're
00:35:06.280 doing down there? Boogie boarding the whole time? Yeah. I'm not surprised that some diseases were
00:35:12.000 shared at spring break. And not just the coronavirus. I'm sure there were some other
00:35:15.800 ones too, but that's because there's a lot of very close quarters, intimate contact at spring break.
00:35:22.180 And I don't want to scandalize you. So I'm not going to say anything more, but, um, I'm willing
00:35:27.260 to bet that that is how it's got nothing to do with the beach. The spring breakers could have been
00:35:32.220 in North Dakota. Okay. And it would have been the same, not because they're at the beach,
00:35:36.760 but because of what they're doing usually sometimes on the beach, but, but oftentimes later on at a
00:35:41.320 hotel. Okay. That's all I'm going to say. All right. We're going to go on to your daily
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00:37:22.180 the daily cancellation, but I actually want to do something a little bit different today,
00:37:25.040 more positive, uh, cause there's a lot of negativity out there and I don't know about you,
00:37:30.320 but I, I, it's, I feel it's fairly suffocating, uh, and overwhelming at times. So I'm going to cancel
00:37:37.460 the daily cancellation just for today because I need to tell you about something else. And this is
00:37:43.080 completely serious. And I, I, I'm sorry to get all serious at the end of the show, but
00:37:48.700 you're going to want to hear this. Um, sorry, I'm getting a little choked up. Just, just,
00:37:56.420 just thinking about it. Uh, Hillary Burton is an actress. I think she was on one tree Hill,
00:38:03.980 which is a show I think, or was anyway, she posted to Instagram this week
00:38:11.700 that she is not dying her hair in solidarity with healthcare workers.
00:38:18.700 I know it's just, you can't wrap your head around that kind of courage,
00:38:25.420 but these are the sacrifices that some people are making. And I think it's important for us to
00:38:32.100 realize that and to honor it. So let me read this Instagram post. Here it is. It says the silver
00:38:40.540 lining is literally growing out of my skull for all of our frontline and essential workers who are too
00:38:45.860 busy to fuss with things like hair color. I grow mine out in solidarity with you.
00:38:52.460 When I see it, I'm reminded of all you're doing to keep us safe. I'm reminded that you deserve to
00:38:59.000 be taken care of. I'm reminded that any spare time I have shouldn't be spent on vanity, but rather on
00:39:05.960 helping our heroes, I can make five masks in the time it would take me to dye my hair. It's a small,
00:39:12.760 silly symbol, gray hair, who cares, right? But I hope the nurse or the vet or the store clerk who is
00:39:18.760 feeling tired and overwhelmed knows that it's a visible thing I can show and that it says,
00:39:24.380 I'm with you. Hashtag stay home. Wow. How can I add to that? I can't.
00:39:39.260 I can only imagine the inspiration that a healthcare worker must feel when going on Instagram and seeing
00:39:50.240 Hilary Burton's gray hair. And not just healthcare workers, but anyone who is suffering, anyone who's
00:39:57.320 sacrificing. To be able to look and see this actress with a gray streak of hair, with a gray streak of
00:40:07.720 hair, just, all I can say is that it's the most courageous and awe-inspiring thing that I've ever
00:40:14.240 seen in my life. I look at this and I think, frankly, the men who stormed the beaches of Normandy
00:40:19.580 were pansies in comparison to this. What Neil Armstrong achieved walking on the moon is but dust
00:40:27.240 in comparison to Hilary Burton posting on Instagram about her hair. So thank you, Hilary. Thank you
00:40:36.560 for everything. And I think I'll leave it there. It'll give us something to think about.
00:40:44.320 And I want you to think, just as I am, what could you be doing
00:40:49.300 to send a message and to stand in solidarity like Hilary Burton? We'll leave it there. Thanks,
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00:41:40.520 The FBI destroyed former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn's life for political purposes,
00:41:45.840 according to new documents that have been released years after the fact. And for some reason,
00:41:50.500 the mainstream media that colluded with the bureaucrats to trash the general don't want to run the story.
00:41:55.380 Yahoo News spreads lies straight to the president's face, which is unwise when you're dealing with
00:42:01.240 Donald Trump. And even that story about the poor, confused lady who was convinced by Trump to feed
00:42:06.460 her husband fish tank cleaner to stop the coronavirus turns out to be a little bit shady. Who could have
00:42:11.540 guessed? All of which brings up an important political reality. All news is fake. Some of it's true,
00:42:17.160 true, but all of it's fake. Check it out on The Michael Knowles Show.