The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 479 - Tough On Fake Crime

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, mayors and governors across the country are getting very tough on

00:00:04.120 quote-unquote criminals who violate social distancing directives, but why aren't they

00:00:09.360 ever this tough on real crime? And five headlines, including President Trump's claim that over two

00:00:14.900 million people would have died without a lockdown. We will analyze that. Is there any truth to that

00:00:20.100 whatsoever? There isn't, by the way, but not to give a spoiler, but we'll talk about that. And

00:00:24.900 Alex Jones announces his plan to eat his neighbors. And in our daily cancellation, I must cancel my

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00:00:36.980 but I have no choice. And I will explain why. All of that coming up. But first, this is very

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00:02:13.140 today. It's May 4th, of course. So as a huge Star Trek fan, I just want to say, you know, happy

00:02:19.040 May 4th. May the 4th be with you, as they say. You know, call me a nerd, but I feel like we're all

00:02:25.840 Gryffindors today, to quote Frodo Baggins. Anyway, just want to mention that. Now, first thing off the

00:02:34.600 top here, because it's starting to annoy me. Maybe it shouldn't, because it doesn't affect

00:02:39.040 me. But when has that ever gotten in the way of something annoying me? I just want to say,

00:02:45.480 you know, you don't need to wear a mask when you're driving in your car. I don't know if

00:02:51.500 you knew that. Or when you're walking down the street, or going for a jog. Unless there's

00:02:58.060 an ordinance in your town requiring that, although even in that case, I would say probably you still

00:03:04.160 shouldn't wear in those circumstances, because it's insane. Now, where I live, there definitely

00:03:09.200 is no ordinance requiring you to wear a mask anywhere but at the store. Yet in the last few

00:03:14.000 days, I've seen people wearing masks in the car, wearing them while they walk down the street. I saw

00:03:20.080 a guy out in his garden working in his yard with a mask on. I saw somebody jogging with a mask on.

00:03:26.840 And I assure you, if you're one of those people, let me just

00:03:30.440 allay any concerns that you might have. This is not necessary. The virus is not going to leap in

00:03:37.760 your car window and attack you. It is not spread that way. If somebody coughs on the sidewalk while

00:03:43.600 you're driving down the road, the chance of you being infected is effectively zero. I mean,

00:03:50.700 I guess it's not literally zero. But then again, the chance of you being abducted by space aliens,

00:03:54.820 or physically assaulted by Bigfoot also is not literally zero. So it's effectively,

00:04:00.840 for all intents and purposes, it's a zero percent chance. And if you're walking down the street,

00:04:06.520 outside, even if you pass by another person, we have no data to suggest that transmission is

00:04:12.780 happening under those conditions. I'm not aware of a single confirmed case anywhere in the world

00:04:18.380 where two people walking past each other outside managed to pass it to each other. So you can just

00:04:26.740 take it easy with that. I'm not saying don't wear a mask. I'm just saying that wearing a mask

00:04:33.540 everywhere all the time is unnecessary. And it's kind of crazy. And I'm seeing it a lot. And I think it

00:04:41.020 contributes to the panic and the fear. It gives people the wrong impression. And you're helping

00:04:51.500 to keep the lockdowns going longer by contributing to the public perception that this virus is some

00:04:57.780 sort of magical super bug that can infect you no matter where you are or what you're doing or how

00:05:03.940 close you are to another person. You know, I read these polls. In fact, I just read one before going

00:05:10.960 on the air. This is from The Guardian. Actually, it's a poll from the UK, but it's similar. A similar

00:05:15.200 situation is here. The headline is fearful Britons remain strongly opposed to lifting coronavirus

00:05:20.760 lockdown. And I read stuff like that. And polls here in the US, like I said, are saying similar things

00:05:27.720 and that most people supposedly want the lockdown to continue. They don't want to leave their homes.

00:05:34.480 They don't want to get back to any sort of semblance of their normal lives. I read that and my first

00:05:39.480 reaction is to think, no way. There's just no way that after two months of this and the destruction

00:05:46.200 of our economy, the erasure of our liberties, there's no way that people are in the mood for

00:05:51.820 more of it. I can't possibly imagine that, especially in this country, in America. I mean,

00:05:56.400 we're Americans. We like to be free. We like to do what we want to do. That's my first reaction. And I

00:06:02.640 still think the polls are exaggerated or skewed by the way the question is framed. Like if the person

00:06:08.520 conducting the poll is giving the poll taker two options and one is, do you want the lockdown to

00:06:16.600 continue or do you want to do nothing whatsoever to mitigate the virus, then a lot of people are

00:06:22.180 going to choose the former rather than the latter. But of course, that erases the middle option where

00:06:28.340 there's no lockdown, but we're still doing things to mitigate the virus. So you take all that into

00:06:32.380 account. It does seem though that even taking that into consideration, it seems that a large

00:06:39.500 preponderance of people, maybe a majority, I don't know, are still nearly incapacitated by fear

00:06:45.960 and would still rather hide under their beds indefinitely than go back out and start living

00:06:55.400 their lives. And that's why I'm saying if we're ever going to have our lives back and our country

00:07:01.580 back and our economy back and our liberty back and our dignity back, I think it's incumbent on all of

00:07:09.240 us to project a sense of calm and a sense of confidence. I'm not saying that we shouldn't

00:07:16.840 socially distance or that we shouldn't ever wear a mask or we shouldn't take basic precautions.

00:07:22.040 I'm not saying any of those things, but I am saying that we should not be overly fearful and

00:07:27.760 panicked and unreasonably scared or just unreasonable in general. The sorts of people who now refuse to

00:07:39.240 walk to the mailbox without a surgical mask on, that's not what we should be doing. Or in fact,

00:07:46.520 I did see someone walk into their mailbox with a scarf wrapped around their face. I guess it's

00:07:51.520 possible that they were just cold, but then, you know, it's like 60 degrees here. So I doubt it

00:07:55.060 like a scarf rack wrapped around their face, like, like they're, like they're charging into a burning

00:07:59.520 building or something. Just walk into the mailbox. And there's no reason for that.

00:08:06.720 So let's all, let's all just calm down a little bit and, uh, and try to be reasonable.

00:08:14.300 Now, I also wanted to talk about this to start the show. Um, mayor Lori Lightfoot in Chicago has been

00:08:23.480 speaking of, uh, being unreasonable. She's been certainly unreasonable and one of the most, 1.00

00:08:27.520 and, and her, a lack of reason also certainly does affect other people in a very direct way.

00:08:33.740 She's been one of the most tyrannical dictators through this entire thing. Uh, she has just really 1.00

00:08:38.520 enjoyed being, uh, playing the part of Empress of Chicago. And you could tell she's getting a big

00:08:43.860 kick out of it. And on that note, here she is over the weekend, uh, doing more of her tough guy or 0.73

00:08:49.580 tough girl routine. Now I've directed superintendent Brown to order all police districts to give special

00:08:57.240 attention to these parties. And this is how it's going to be. We will shut you down. We will cite

00:09:04.100 you. And if we need to, we will arrest you and we will take you to jail period. There should be

00:09:11.840 nothing unambiguous about that. Don't make us treat you like a criminal, but if you act like a criminal

00:09:19.500 and you violate the law and you refuse to do what is necessary to save lives in the city in the middle

00:09:26.060 of a pandemic, we will take you to jail period. Um, so there you go, not to be pedantic, but, but,

00:09:35.840 but firstly, uh, there should be nothing unambiguous about that means that there should be something

00:09:41.680 ambiguous about it. So what she was saying there is that she wants it to be ambiguous

00:09:44.860 because otherwise, now I think what you meant to say is that there should, that, that this should

00:09:51.360 be unambiguous or there should be nothing ambiguous about it. But anyway, if you're, if you're going for

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00:11:56.180 off while supplies last. Uh, okay. So mayor lawyer, Lori Lightfoot says that if you violate social

00:12:05.880 distancing, then you're a criminal, a crook, a fugitive from justice, which means of course that

00:12:14.120 she is too. She is all those things, a criminal crook, a fugitive, a danger to her community. 1.00

00:12:20.100 After all, remember this is the woman who got her haircut a couple of weeks ago, even after 0.97

00:12:25.040 forcibly shutting down all of the hair salons and barbershops and everything in the city and legally

00:12:30.160 prohibiting anyone else from getting a haircut. She went out and got a haircut and just, just for fun 1.00

00:12:34.860 to, uh, speaking of remembering things to reminisce, let's go back and recall the excuse she gave

00:12:42.680 after she was caught getting her haircut. Here was her excuse.

00:12:46.560 I'm the public face of the city. I'm on national media and I'm out in the public eye and you know,

00:12:54.060 I'm a, I'm, I'm a person who I take my personal hygiene very seriously. As I said, I felt like I

00:13:00.580 needed to, um, have a haircut. I'm not able to do that myself. And so I got a haircut.

00:13:06.200 So she's in a, she's in the public eye and she takes hygiene seriously. Unlike the average

00:13:11.280 filthy Chicago resident who doesn't care about hygiene, apparently I take hygiene seriously.

00:13:16.140 I don't know about the rest of these other rubes. They don't, so they don't, they don't need to get 1.00

00:13:19.360 their haircut. They don't need to take showers. They're peasants, you know, they're dirty peasants, 0.94

00:13:24.060 but I, I am the mayor and I need to practice good hygiene. Um, because, and you also know the other 0.96

00:13:31.520 thing about mayor Lightfoot is, uh, she of course is renowned for her looks. So, um, she needs of 1.00

00:13:38.460 course to get that haircut as the face of the city and everything. But in any case, she's a, she's a

00:13:43.260 criminal by her own care categorization. She is a criminal. The other point we've seen, of course, 0.99

00:13:51.360 similar rhetoric like this from Emperor de Blasio. Uh, we know about him threatening to round up the

00:13:57.100 Jews, threatening to close churches permanently. If they defy his wishes, Empress Whitmer, uh, barring 0.95

00:14:05.100 people from even buying seeds and that sort of thing. Many other mayors and governors across the

00:14:10.760 country. We've heard this and we've talked about how this is a power trip from them. So a lot of this

00:14:15.800 rhetoric is just them enjoying being absolute Supreme ruler. They're getting a kick out of it.

00:14:20.700 But I think there's another aspect of this that's important to understand. Um, so ask yourself

00:14:27.240 before this, before the coronavirus, when did you ever see Lightfoot or Whitmer or de Blasio

00:14:34.260 especially, or any of the rest of them getting up in front of cameras and taking this kind of hard

00:14:41.000 stance against actual criminals? I mean, Chicago has lost a hell of a lot of people over the years,

00:14:48.520 over recent years, to gang violence, drug related violence, et cetera. Uh, in the long term,

00:14:56.220 that is still going to be a greater threat to residents of Chicago than coronavirus will prove

00:15:04.280 to be. And this is the case for every major American city. They've all got crime and, and, uh,

00:15:10.600 and everything else. Yet these mayors aren't nearly as tough on actual crime, actual deadly crime as

00:15:16.660 they are on people who walk too closely to each other on the sidewalk. So I think a big part of

00:15:23.140 the motivation here is that it gives these weak mayors and governors an excuse to act like they're

00:15:28.560 tough on crime, act like they care about protecting their citizens. They're too afraid to take this kind

00:15:34.780 of stance under normal circumstances because they're afraid of charges of cruelty or brutality or racism

00:15:41.980 or whatever else. But here they can do it and they can get away with it. In fact, I think there's a lot

00:15:47.560 of this kind of posturing going around. So here's another example. Um, I saw this tweet yesterday and,

00:15:55.320 uh, I I've seen, and I'm just using this as an example because I've seen this kind of suggestion.

00:16:00.260 And it's, it's not entirely serious. So half serious suggestion, but I've seen this bandied

00:16:05.420 about quite a bit. So let me show you this. Here's the tweet. Um, it's got a thousand likes.

00:16:10.020 It says friend in Bay area law enforcement had a funny idea. No tickets, no arrests for social

00:16:15.940 distance violations. Just put a mark on their driver's license. That means do not treat for COVID

00:16:21.280 if they show up at a hospital little harsh, but it does put hashtag skin in the game. Like I said,

00:16:28.620 I've heard this from a lot of people. Like if you, if you violate social distancing and you get sick

00:16:33.340 from coronavirus, you don't deserve medical treatment or whatever. But this again is the

00:16:37.960 kind of hard line stands you never hear during normal times. After all, if we aren't treating

00:16:44.000 people for coronavirus because they violate social distancing, what about refusing treatment for,

00:16:49.740 uh, people who sleep around when they get STDs or refusing to treat someone with, uh, heart disease

00:16:57.780 if they eat fast food or refusing to treat, uh, an alcoholic for liver damage or a smoker for lung

00:17:04.560 cancer. Not only would that never be suggested, but the same people who will scream at you for

00:17:11.680 going to the park or to the beach during the coronavirus will also scream at you. If you dare

00:17:15.340 suggest that obese people who eat fast food are being self-destructive. So it's a lot of posturing

00:17:20.740 going on. And by the way, I'm not suggesting that, uh, an obese person with heart disease

00:17:26.460 shouldn't be treated because they eat fast food. That's not my approach, but I also wouldn't suggest

00:17:30.660 that about coronavirus. You know, if you, if you go to the park or if you go to the beach and then

00:17:36.240 you get coronavirus, first of all, if somebody goes to the beach and then a week later they're in the

00:17:42.080 hospital for coronavirus, uh, the chance that they got it at the beach is very, very, very small.

00:17:49.000 There are many others. It's more likely that they got it at Walmart or the grocery store when they're

00:17:54.320 grocery shopping, but either way, no matter where they got it, they still deserve to be treated. 0.63

00:17:59.220 Let's go on to headlines. Um, number one, Donald Trump was on Fox news last night. Here he is

00:18:03.900 making an interesting claim. When you look at the other side that, that you're on the other side

00:18:11.980 medically are, do you think that as deaths are going up and cases are going up that we really

00:18:18.200 are on the other side medically and that this is a great success story from the federal government?

00:18:23.260 Well, I can, well, it's too soon to say that really, I guess, because, you know, we're still

00:18:27.360 in the middle of something, but certainly we would have lost a lot more people, Brett, if we would

00:18:31.800 have done, as an example, you call it herd, if we would have done herd. In other words, everything's

00:18:37.260 wonderful. Let's just keep going along herd immunity. We would have lost two and a half million

00:18:41.600 people, I think, or a million and a half or two million people. No, I think we've done it. I

00:18:46.900 think the American people have done a good job. This is a tragic situation. Everybody knows somebody

00:18:52.580 that's been affected. That's a very rare thing. Okay. Now this is nonsense from Trump and whether

00:18:56.900 you, however you feel about Trump, you're a big Trump supporter. Uh, this is still nonsense,

00:19:02.140 total nonsense. And we shouldn't accept this kind of fear, even if you're a Trump supporter,

00:19:06.880 I don't think you should accept this kind of fear mongering nonsense from Trump any more than

00:19:11.740 you accept it from anybody else. In fact, you should accept it less from the guy you support

00:19:16.140 two and a half million without a lockdown. That's crazy. Where is he getting that number? Well,

00:19:20.760 he's getting that number. I think he's partially getting it from his own imagination. He's also

00:19:23.820 partially getting it from models that have been abandoned for weeks. Now, these models were abandoned

00:19:28.700 weeks ago. Uh, if a non lockdown strategy would kill two and a half million people, then Sweden,

00:19:35.300 which has not employed a lockdown strategy should have way more deaths right now than it currently

00:19:40.660 does. And besides for the umpteenth time, the choice was not between locking down or doing nothing.

00:19:48.540 Trump says, if we had said everything is fine, nobody ever said that we should say everything is

00:19:53.420 fine. I mean, arguably Trump himself was sort of saying that or nearly saying that back in March

00:19:57.440 when he said the virus had infected 15 people and it would go away after that. He did say that.

00:20:03.680 Um, but, uh, most people that's, that's not the point we've been making. The other option is not

00:20:09.320 doing nothing or acting like everything is fine. The other option is to protect vulnerable communities,

00:20:14.020 practice social distancing where needed and possible. Um, and yes, develop herd immunity, which,

00:20:19.280 which is going to have to happen anyway. There is no getting around it. It will have to happen.

00:20:24.180 You cannot avoid it. So the other strategy is avoid economic collapse, protect the vulnerable

00:20:29.740 and get on with doing the thing that we have to do anyway. And that right now we're just delaying

00:20:35.340 that. That's the idea. Two and a half million dead from that. Come on in this. Think about this. Okay.

00:20:45.260 In this country, 20,000 of our deaths so far that we know of are in nursing homes. Um, in some European 0.63

00:20:54.220 countries, according to studies that have been done, half of their deaths are in nursing homes.

00:21:00.800 What does that mean? It means we could have significantly decreased the death rate just by

00:21:06.760 shutting down nursing homes earlier and, and using our resources to protect vulnerable populations.

00:21:11.840 When you add up, I mean, think about this and I don't have the numbers right in front of me,

00:21:17.040 but you can, you can go and Google it. So add up the number of people, uh, killed in nursing homes.

00:21:23.780 And then the number of, of general 75 plus deaths, uh, that are not in nursing homes. I don't even

00:21:30.140 know if you could find that specific number and then also throw in the death rate in New York city.

00:21:35.660 And much of that is in nursing homes, but the non nursing home deaths in New York city.

00:21:39.520 Okay. Okay. You take all that into account. And that is a huge preponderance of the overall deaths

00:21:46.080 in America. Um, which mean, what does that mean? Does it mean that that doesn't, they don't,

00:21:51.980 that doesn't matter? No, of course it matters. The point is we could have protected people 75 plus

00:21:58.160 vast majority of them not working anyway. So, you know, having them not work is, is, is not a problem

00:22:03.640 because they don't work anyway. Um, protect the nursing homes. And, uh, and then, yeah,

00:22:09.260 if you want to do a lockdown in New York city, which has been hit way harder than anywhere else,

00:22:14.460 because for, for a few reasons, uh, because it's got the subway system, which has been a vector for

00:22:21.220 disease. It's got a population density of like 27,000 people per square mile. I mean,

00:22:26.080 there are a lot of unique things in New York city. So you address those specific situations

00:22:32.220 and you have mitigated much of the death just from that.

00:22:38.500 But once, once you take those deaths and you set them aside just for a minute,

00:22:45.460 you're left with really no justification for telling a young and healthy guy in North Carolina

00:22:54.000 or, or Minnesota, um, that, or South or, or Maryland that he can't go to work.

00:23:03.140 There's no justification for it. Essentially, you're telling me he can't go to work because

00:23:07.840 there's a virus that's infecting New York city, people, 75 plus and nursing homes.

00:23:13.660 That doesn't make sense. And the other thing is if we, if we had focused on that,

00:23:19.860 not just on that, I'm not saying we, we, we do nothing where everyone else is concerned. I mean,

00:23:23.780 we, we still have social distancing. I think in some circumstances you should be wearing a mask,

00:23:27.520 even if it wasn't required. Um, so we do stuff like that, good hygiene, washing your hands and

00:23:33.360 everything else. But if we had focused most of our resources on protecting the

00:23:37.780 vulnerable, shutting down nursing homes, rather than expending resources on trying to enforce

00:23:43.780 a house arrest on, on hundreds of millions of Americans, if we had done that, we could have

00:23:48.700 saved many of those lives that we didn't. Number two, and now Asia, after exporting the coronavirus 1.00

00:23:55.140 has decided to give the world another gift, uh, the giant murder hornet, the Asian murder hornet, 0.96

00:24:01.440 it's called actually the, the Asian giant hornet, I guess, which, whichever you call it,

00:24:05.360 calling it Asian is obviously racist, but I didn't come up with a name. You know, this is,

00:24:08.880 this isn't on me reading from CNN. Um, for the first time, the Asian giant hornet, that's,

00:24:15.420 that's pretty racist from CNN, CNN. They're one of the ones telling us, do not call it the Chinese

00:24:21.600 virus. And now they're calling this the Asian hornet. That's, I don't know, anti-Asian bigotry

00:24:28.560 going on here for the first time. Uh, Asian giant hornets have been spotted in the United States,

00:24:32.580 specifically in Washington state. Scientists say beekeepers have reported piles of dead

00:24:36.280 bees with their heads ripped off an alarming sight in a country with a rapidly declining

00:24:41.420 bee population and more than two inches long. They're the world's largest hornet with a sting 0.99

00:24:45.400 that can kill humans if stung multiple times. According to experts, Susan Kobe, a bee breeder

00:24:50.480 at the Washington state says they're like something out of a monster cartoon. Um, and, uh, with this

00:24:57.820 huge yellow, orange face. Okay. Just, can I just say Asia relax? Okay. We're good. We don't need any 1.00

00:25:07.740 more deadly plagues for now. So you've supplied us with two this year. It's only May. So maybe just

00:25:15.420 take a break, give us a break, start thinking of what you want to do in 2021. I know you'll have a gift

00:25:21.880 for us then, but for right now, if you could just lay off, please. Um, now I thought the good news

00:25:29.160 for me as a beekeeper is that I have a beekeeping suit that will keep me safe. And now all I have to

00:25:34.480 do is wear my surgical mask and my beekeeper suit wherever I go. And I'm protected from both

00:25:39.200 plagues. But then I read this in the same article as Washington state agricultural officials

00:25:43.740 are asking beekeepers and residents to report any sightings of the giant hornets,

00:25:47.000 but don't get too close. It's sting can penetrate a regular beekeeper suit. Perfect. And state

00:25:53.240 scientists had to order special reinforced suits. Okay. Then I got to go get one of those. Um,

00:25:59.400 entomologist Chris Looney says, don't try to take them out yourself. If you see them,

00:26:03.180 I mean, if you see a giant murder hornet and you're inclined to try to take it out,

00:26:08.400 go to do some hand in hand, hand, uh, combat. Don't, don't try it. If you get into them, um,

00:26:13.800 run away, then call us. It is really important for us to know of every sighting. If we're going

00:26:18.300 to have any hope of eradication. All right. Um, number three, Lisa Bloom is a lawyer and a big 0.99

00:26:24.660 me too proponent. She was really involved in trying to get, uh, Trump accusers to come forward.

00:26:31.400 And of course she was out against Kavanaugh and everything else. And now she has finally chimed in

00:26:35.860 on the Joe Biden situation. Here's what she had to say. She said, I believe you, Tara Reid,

00:26:40.420 you have people who remember you, uh, told them about this decades ago. We know he is quote,

00:26:45.960 handsy. You're not asking for money. You've obviously struggled mightily with this.

00:26:51.440 I still have to fight Trump. So I will support Joe, but I believe you and I am sorry.

00:26:57.660 So Lisa Bloom, the, uh, victim's advocate is saying, this is what she's saying. 0.99

00:27:03.840 Uh, I believe you were raped, but I still support your rapist. I mean, that is a, that's a hell of 0.99

00:27:11.460 a position to take, but the thing is that is a, as despicable and deranged and morally debased as

00:27:20.740 that position is, it is far more respectable from then, than what most, most leftists and me too

00:27:27.140 people are doing. Cause at least it's honest. Okay. It has the benefit of being honest. What she's

00:27:32.120 saying is I believe you. I think it happened, but it's more advantageous for me politically to

00:27:37.060 support your rapist. So, uh, I'm going to support him. That's what she's saying. Like I said, morally 0.99

00:27:43.440 deranged, but honest. Um, and so that puts it above all the other leftists who are just wholesale

00:27:51.940 abandoning all the me too talking points they've been using for years now and, uh, and attacking

00:27:57.120 Terry and trying to tear down her credibility and everything else. So Lisa Bloom is getting a lot

00:28:02.280 of grief for this and I understand why deservedly. So, but, uh, like I said, she's being honest at

00:28:06.800 least. So give her some credit for that, I guess. Reading now from the daily wire, um, or no, I'm

00:28:13.300 sorry, the daily mail. I can't believe I would confuse those two. The daily wire, the daily mail

00:28:17.360 are not similar at all. Anyway, this is a daily mail says hundreds of people have been exposed for,

00:28:21.480 for reporting people who have flouted social distancing rules. And some are now scared. They could

00:28:26.600 receive a backlash. The names and addresses of approximately 900 people in Missouri were

00:28:31.380 released as part of a media request under the sunshine law, which allows for the release of

00:28:35.500 information submitted to a public agency. St. Louis County had urged the community to share details

00:28:40.840 of anyone not following guidelines in response to the coronavirus pandemic and noted in the terms

00:28:45.200 of conditions that information may be shared publicly. However, some people may not have read the

00:28:49.800 small print and submitted the tips via online and now their information's out there. Oh, I mean,

00:28:55.200 I just feel terrible for them. Don't you really, really horrible. Sorry about your luck there.

00:28:59.940 I just really terrible tragedy. You tried to snitch on your neighbors and thought you're being,

00:29:04.840 you're doing it privately. And now, and now the, uh, the sunshine law has snitched on you.

00:29:09.480 You're being snitched on for snitching. Just that's no, no, that's a, that's not justice at all.

00:29:15.760 Is it? That's just a terrible, terrible thing. That's all I'll say about that. Uh, five.

00:29:21.420 And finally, Alex Jones last week had some interesting thoughts to share. Uh, listen to this.

00:29:27.160 I'll admit it. I will eat my neighbors. I'm not letting my kids die. I'm just going to be honest.

00:29:34.580 My superpower is being honest. I've extrapolated this out and I won't have to for a few years

00:29:39.780 since I got food and stuff, but I'm literally looking at my neighbors now and going, I'm ready 0.97

00:29:44.100 to hang them up and gut them and skin them and chop them up. And you know what? I'm ready. 0.97

00:29:47.480 My daughters aren't starving to death. I'll eat my neighbors. See, my superpower is being honest.

00:29:53.160 I'll eat your ass. I will. I'm combat model, optimum self-sufficiency, probably the leader. 1.00

00:30:01.460 The point is, is have you thought about that yet? Because I'm somebody that thought I could fix this

00:30:06.980 and I'm starting to think about having to eat my neighbors. You think I like sizing up my neighbor,

00:30:13.780 how I'm going to haul him up by a chain and chop his ass up. I'll do it. My children aren't going hungry. 1.00

00:30:21.220 I will eat your ass. And that's why I want the globalists to know I will eat your ass first. 1.00

00:30:28.820 Honestly, I can't judge Alex Jones because that's exactly what I sound like when it's been two hours 1.00

00:30:34.460 since my last snack. I can't count how many times I've said exactly this. I just feel a little bad

00:30:40.620 for Alex Jones's neighbors. You know, you know, they were frantically on Zillow over the weekend

00:30:46.140 looking for new living arrangements. Then again, you know, I thought that, but then I thought,

00:30:50.440 well, given that they live next to Alex Jones, they were probably prepared for this contingency.

00:30:56.200 They probably had like a go bag packed, ready to make a run for it. They knew this day was coming

00:31:01.920 and it came. So that's Alex Jones for you. Before we go any further, I got to tell you about this.

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00:32:45.960 Let me explain what happened. So a few days ago, I took the kids out for a walk in the park,

00:32:49.720 and we're still allowed to do that here. Magnanimously, our governor has, through his great

00:32:54.360 benevolence, has allowed us to walk outside for limited periods, okay, and for only approved

00:32:58.680 reasons. But we were on the approved list, so we were out. And my son, at one point, he walked too

00:33:06.040 close to a tree, and a tree branch scratched his neck, and he was bleeding a little bit.

00:33:12.520 So I sensed an opportunity, and I had a brilliant idea. I told him, when we get home, I didn't think

00:33:19.220 this would actually work. But I said, when we get home, I told him he should tell mommy that he got

00:33:24.700 attacked and bitten by a squirrel. And that's what the scratch came from. And I told him, if he sells

00:33:31.600 it, and his sister was there, she was also going to help. She was going to back up the story. I said,

00:33:37.320 if he really sells it, he might be able to fool mommy, and that will be funny. So we get home,

00:33:42.020 the kids run in ahead of me, and they're super excited to lie to their mother at the behest of

00:33:45.700 their father, because I'm just a great parent, and this is the kind of thing I tell my kids to do.

00:33:50.580 And so anyway, they go up, and I knew the plan worked, because before I could even walk upstairs,

00:33:56.460 all I heard coming from upstairs was, what? A squirrel? You might have rabies. And then I walk

00:34:03.040 up, and my wife is freaking out, and she's saying that we need to call the doctor immediately. And my

00:34:09.480 kids actually sold it better than I did, because seeing this reaction, it worked way better than I

00:34:14.620 thought it would. And I only made it about 15 seconds before I started laughing, and the jig

00:34:19.080 was up. I gave up the whole thing. My wife was not amused at all, but the reason my son is canceled

00:34:27.860 is that even though it was a brilliant performance on his part, but the problem is that he also started

00:34:34.700 freaking out. I thought at first he was acting, and I was really impressed. I thought, we got to get

00:34:39.780 this kid. I'm never in favor of child actors, but I thought, this kid has a gift, because he

00:34:44.400 started freaking out and crying that he might have rabies. And so I thought he was acting and really

00:34:49.360 selling it. But then I realized that, no, because my wife said you might have rabies, he thought that

00:34:57.640 he might have rabies now. And even though we made up the story about the squirrel, as he well knew.

00:35:05.160 So he was scratched by a tree branch. We came up with this story, and then he fooled himself with

00:35:13.180 the story and started crying, because he thought he'd have to go to the doctors for rabies. So then

00:35:17.260 my wife was able to flip it around on me and say, look, oh great, look what you've done. Look to our

00:35:21.520 poor child, you've made him cry. And I tried to explain, the plan was to upset her, not to upset our

00:35:26.900 child, but that didn't make it any better. It's not my fault. The kid tried to prank his mom and

00:35:33.960 instead pranked himself in the process. So for falling for his own prank and getting me in

00:35:39.520 trouble, my son is canceled. Like I said, not something any father wants to do, but he leaves

00:35:45.840 me no choice. And I by no means accept any responsibility for any of this, even though I

00:35:52.320 did tell my kids to go lie to their mom and try to scare her into thinking that her son was bitten

00:35:57.040 by a rabid squirrel. It was good stuff. My daughter, though, I got to say, she was very

00:36:05.360 impressive. She kept a straight face the entire time. They're only six years old, twins. And

00:36:10.720 at first I was impressed, and then I was very afraid, because I thought she's six years old

00:36:15.780 and she's this good at lying. We're in trouble down the line. But anyway, might as well get

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The Matt Walsh Show - May 04, 2020

Ep. 479 - Tough On Fake Crime

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