Ep. 482 - It's Your Job To Pay For Your Own Birth Control
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Today, the Supreme Court will weigh in on whether religious employers should be allowed to decline contraception coverage for their employees, or if they should be forced to provide birth control to their employees. Also, a video of a man being shot in Georgia has provoked very strong reactions, as you might expect.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, the Supreme Court will once again decide whether religious employers
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should be allowed to decline contraception coverage for their employees or if they should
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be forced to provide contraception to their employees. The left is screeching, of course,
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that there's a plot afoot to steal women's birth control. And they're always talking about this,
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but the interesting thing is I've never heard anyone suggest that we should ban birth control
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or get rid of it or steal it or take it away. That's not actually what's at issue here. We'll
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talk about what is at issue. Also, a video of a man being shot in Georgia has provoked
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very strong reactions, as you might expect. So we'll try to sort through the situation and
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get to the truth or the closest approximation of it that we can. And finally, I will pass along some
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helpful, I hope, and practical gift ideas for Mother's Day. So if you're procrastinating and
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don't know what you're going to get your mother yet for or your wife, really your wife, you don't
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know what you're getting your wife yet for Mother's Day, then stick around to the end of the show because
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I got some good suggestions. Okay. So starting with this, yesterday, the Supreme Court
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began to hear arguments relating to birth control coverage. And if you feel like you've heard this
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song and seen this dance before, you have. Ever since the Obama administration attempted to force
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employers to provide free contraception to their employees, the whole issue has been embroiled in
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legal disputes. And the Supreme Court has heard several cases about it over the years.
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This time around, the issue is about an exemption passed by the Trump administration allowing any
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company, or most companies anyway, to decline to cover birth control if they have a religious objection
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to birth control. Obama wanted to only give exemptions to specifically religious organizations.
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And then he defined religious organization in a pretty narrow way. But that was supposedly the
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idea, right? But the Trump administration's point is that, hey, people who run non-religious
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organizations also have religious liberty. You shouldn't have to be in a religious organization
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or running one in order to have your religious liberty respected. But the left says, no, all employers
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should have to provide contraception coverage. It doesn't matter, regardless of how they feel about it,
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regardless of their religious convictions, doesn't matter, because women have a right to birth
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control, and they have a right to have their birth control covered. And now the Supreme Court is weighing
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in, again. Now, as always with this topic, the left has been doing a lot of posturing, engaging in a lot
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of hysterics and strawmanning and everything else. We're living in a handmaid's tale type of stuff,
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right? And there's been a lot of this kind of thing from Kamala Harris, who tweeted,
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once again, this administration is trying to control women's bodies. It's simple. Denying
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birth control coverage will cost women more. And this from Bradley Whitford, five conservative
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male Supreme Court justices are about to decide whether or not all you women out there should
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have access to birth control. And lots of this kind of thing from Ayanna Pressley. Absurd that in 2020,
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during a global public health crisis, we are still fighting before SCOTUS to prevent employers from
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denying access to contraception. Contraception is critical to our health, economic security,
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and bodily autonomy, period. Hashtag hands off my birth control. And a lot of this kind of thing
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from Imani Gandhi, who's a senior legal analyst, apparently. And she says, in all caps, very simply,
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they are coming for your birth control. Okay. So let's break this down a little bit.
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First of all, to this lame, repetitive, boring crap about how men are trying to take away birth
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control, and men on the Supreme Court are deciding this, and men are plotting to control women's bodies
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and everything else. Enough already. Get a new routine. Okay. You're boring me, feminists. You're
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boring me to death. Maybe that's your goal, to bore all the men to death. Guess what? Roe v. Wade
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was decided by men. That was a bunch of men deciding Roe. So unless you're going to call for the
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overturning of Roe v. Wade on the basis that men decided it, and they have no business making these
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decisions about a woman's body, unless you're going to say that, I don't want to hear any whining
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about men getting involved in alleged women's issues. Because it turns out that you're perfectly
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fine with men being involved, as long as they agree with you. What a coincidence. It just so
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happens that, yeah, most men shouldn't get involved in women's issues, but you do make a few exemptions,
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speaking of exemptions, and it just so happens that all the ones you exempt are the ones who agree
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with you. What a coincidence. Also, by the way, if a man is selfish, and he sees women as objects to be
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used, do you think he is likely to be for or against birth control? Think about this, feminists. Use
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your brains if you still have them. Is a selfish, cowardly, controlling, objectifying man likely to
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be opposed to birth control or in favor of it? Yes, I am mansplaining to you right now. And yes, I'm doing
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in a condescending tone. Because if you're going with this line of reasoning, you deserve to be
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condescended to. Okay, if you don't understand this. No, you see, the kind of man that you're
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talking about, he wants to use you for sex. So he loves birth control. He loves abortion.
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These are your allies, feminists. The ally men who are out there saying, yeah, give them all the
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birth control and abortions they want. Do you know why they're saying that? Because they want to have
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sex without consequence. These are things that you have to do in order to free him of responsibility.
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And he loves that. So why in God's name would you think that there's some kind of patriarchal
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conspiracy to rid the world of birth control? No, if anything, there's going to be a patriarchal
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conspiracy to put more birth control into the world. If anything, birth control itself is a
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patriarchal conspiracy. If there's any patriarchal conspiracies involved in the birth control issue,
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it's going to be on the pro birth control side, I assure you. Okay. Second point.
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Nobody is coming for your birth control. Nobody's trying to take your birth control away.
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Nobody's trying to ban it. Nobody is trying to reach into your medicine cabinet at home and take it
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from you. Nobody is trying to put you in jail for using it. Nobody. That doesn't exist.
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That's not a position that anybody holds. The question is whether simply an employer should
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be required to provide birth control to you. And there's a difference between saying so-and-so
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shouldn't have to provide such-and-such and saying so-and-so should be allowed to prevent you from
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obtaining such-and-such. You do see the difference, don't you, feminists? It's pretty obvious.
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Do I need to mansplain it more? It's a pretty clear difference. But I know people on the left
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struggle with this difference a lot anyway. They really struggle. You guys really struggle to see
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the difference between, I don't want to have to provide this to you, and I think that you should
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not have this thing. Like, completely different concepts. There are, I can't even list them all.
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There are literally millions of things that exist that I believe I shouldn't have to provide to you
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or pay for or give to you, yet I think you should still have the right to have those things.
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I just don't want to be the one to pay for it. That's all. That's it.
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us box so that they know that I sent you. Third point here about the birth control thing.
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I am getting really tired of hearing about this lack of access thing. The claim that women lack
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access to contraception. You can access contraception anywhere. It practically rains from the sky in this
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country. It all but rains from the sky. Do you need it to actually rain from the sky in order
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to admit that you have access to it? Or I'm starting to think that, you know, with feminists,
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even if birth control was literally raining from the sky, like you could wake up in the morning and
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there's birth control strewn across your lawn like morning dew drops, you would still say that you
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don't have access to it because you have to physically walk out and bend down and pick it up for
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yourself. Until there is someone who will pick it up for you and ferry it into your house and place it in
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your mouth for you, you're going to say I don't have access. If you really are having trouble accessing
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contraception in this country, don't take this the wrong way, then you're too incompetent
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to be having sex anyway. Maybe this is a good litmus test. If you can't figure out how to use
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how to get your hands on contraception, then you are an incompetent and you shouldn't be having sex.
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Because any competent adult knows that if you want birth control, if you want contraception,
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you can find it in some form at Target, at Walmart, at any pharmacy, at any gas station.
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You can get it for free at Planned Parenthood. And if it's that important to you to have it
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covered by your employer, you can always go to any of the countless employers that cover it.
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There is no problem of access. None. You can get it for free. You can get it for cheap.
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You can get it over there. You can get it over there. You can get it anywhere.
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You can get it on a train, in a plane, in a house with a mouse. It's like a Dr. Seuss book all of
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a sudden. Well, no, don't get birth control from a mouse. But I mean, anywhere else you can pretty
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much get it. There is no problem of access. None at all. Any competent adult, if they want
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contraception, they can obtain it easily and cheaply. Once again, if you're struggling with this,
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if you can't figure out how to get your hands on birth control, then don't have sex. And I'm not
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saying that everybody should use birth control. What I'm saying, though, is that it's just a thing
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that anyone should figure out how to get their hands on if they really want it.
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Fourth point. Feminists like to say that their sex lives are none of our business.
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They like to say that their bodies are none of our business. They like to say that their medical
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decisions are none of our business. I agree wholeheartedly on every count. It is none of my
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business. So stop talking about it. Shut up about it if it's none of my business.
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It's a very odd thing to tell someone that something is none of their business and then
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to all hours of the day and then and then and then next all hours of the day you're screaming about it
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in their face. Usually if something is none of other people's business, you keep it to yourself.
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What kind of adult goes around whining about their birth control anyway? How embarrassing.
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That's your affair. It's your business. Your problem. It's not my problem. I'm sorry.
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It's not your employer's problem either. What is this thing? I want to have sex, but I can't get
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birth control. Who who goes around saying that? Well, OK, figure it out. What do you what do you
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want us to facilitate your sex life? Are you serious? It's humiliating. I'm embarrassed for you.
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If you don't want it to be an issue up for discussion, stop making it an issue up for
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discussion. Figure out your own sex life and leave everybody else out of it, including your employer,
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if he doesn't want to pay for it. Besides, if it's if it's none of anybody's business, what are you
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going to your employer who oftentimes is a man and saying, give me birth control? I demand birth
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control. Yeah, real strong and independent woman who does that.
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Goes crawling and whining and crying to a male employer demanding birth control.
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Fifth, the Trump administration is right. Religious liberty is not solely the province of religious
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organizations. I don't have to be in a religious job or have a religious vocation to have religious
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liberty any more than I need to be in the NRA to have gun rights. Now, you may not agree with people
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who are opposed to birth control. That's fine. But many religions, not just Christianity, many religions
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have problems with contraception because they see it as something that contravenes God's plan. I mean,
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that's that's the basic reason why so many religions are against it. You may not agree. Doesn't matter. You
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don't have to agree. You're allowed to not agree. This is America. But because it's America, if I run a
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business, I can run my business according to my religious convictions. Don't like it.
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Get another job. If you don't want to work for a devout religious person, don't apply for a job with a
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devout religious person. Take some responsibility for your actions.
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Now, just because someone has a religious objection to birth control, it doesn't give them the right to
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come and pry it out of your hands. They can't break into your home in the middle of the night and steal
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all your birth control. But it does give them the right to decide that they don't want to fund it,
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provide it, facilitate it, or be involved with it in any way, shape, or form. And if you really value
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your autonomy and privacy and dignity, you wouldn't want them to be involved in any way,
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shape, or form. All right. I trust that everything I've said here will now settle the matter
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rather than just inflaming feminists even more and making them more pissed off.
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So let's go to, actually, I was going to say we're going to go to five headlines,
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but we're not going to do five headlines today. Instead, I have just one headline that I want to
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talk about at a greater length than I normally do for these news stories. So I'm shelving five
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headlines just for today to talk about this, this being the case of Ahmaud Arbery. This is a case that
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has sparked mass protests and outrage and lots of discussion. Much of the discussion has consisted of
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reflexive and emotional reactions that don't help us get to the truth of the case. And that's usually
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how these things go. Now, I, in fact, am one of the people who offered one of those unhelpful
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emotional reactions, unfortunately, last night on Twitter. Twitter, always a great forum for talking
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about these kinds of things. We'll get to all that in a moment. First, the basics of the case,
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as far as we know, if you're not familiar with it. There is now video that has been released.
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I'm not going to play the video because, I mean, it's not the kind of video everybody wants to see,
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but you can easily go find it online if you want to see it. It shows a man running down the road,
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in the road, and the video is being taken from behind by a guy in another car.
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And then you see the running man, that's Arbery, come up to two guys who are stopped in the road.
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They're in a pickup truck, stopped in the road. And you see Arbery go around the car like he's
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initially trying to get away. And then the camera doesn't capture the first moment of the altercation.
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But at some point, we see that Arbery approaches the man, one of the men with the guns. Now they're
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struggling. There's a struggle that ensues between Arbery and one of the men. And then the second
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guy who's in the pickup truck, standing on it, shoots three times, I think it was, and kills
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Arbery. And he collapses and dies. That's what the video shows. This happened in February.
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The men who did the shooting have not been arrested, haven't been charged. Now there's going to be a
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grand jury, seemingly in response to the outrage. The claim being made by supporters of Arbery is that
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they should have been arrested. This should have happened back in February. The only reason they're
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doing it now is because we noticed. I think there may be some truth to that. This all happened in
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Georgia, by the way. The men with guns are Gregory and Travis McMichael. They're white. Arbery's black.
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The context appears to be that there had been some break-ins recently in the neighborhood. And from
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the way that it's being reported, Gregory and Travis McMichael thought that Arbery looked like
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the potential burglar who had committed other burglaries. There was apparently a series of
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911 calls that were placed about Arbery and his presence in the neighborhood. But apparently none of
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them identified any clear crime that Arbery was committing. So a couple of people called,
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but it wasn't clear what they actually were concerned about that Arbery was doing.
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One was, one mentioned that he had been seen on a construction site and maybe inside a half-built
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home. It's not clear that the McMichaels saw any crime being committed. It's not clear if they saw a
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crime being committed or if they just thought he looked like someone who had committed a crime in the
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neighborhood at some point. They say, the McMichaels say, that they went to chase after Arbery
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and make a citizen's arrest. And they say they pursued him for a while and he was trying to get
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away and then they cut him off on the road, got out with guns. He went after them, attacked.
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They killed him. So that's sort of their version of events. The odd thing is that the video shows the
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few seconds leading up to this altercation and it doesn't look like Arbery is fleeing the scene of
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a crime. He appears to be just jogging down the road. Now you'd think if he was running away from
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a crime, he'd probably be trying to evade detection. He wouldn't be running in the middle of the street
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in the middle of the day, but that's what he's doing. The narrative from supporters of Arbery is that
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he was just out for a jog and he hadn't committed any crime at all. And that is being reported by some
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media outlets as fact. I don't think it is established fact, but that's one version of
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events that Arbery was out for a jog. I don't know if that's true or not. The video does seem to lend
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credence to that version of events, but I don't know. He also seems to me to be wearing what you would
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expect a person to wear if they were out for a jog and not what you would expect them to wear
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if they were on a burglary spree. It's also the time of day where you would expect a jog and not
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a burglary spree. But again, who knows? I don't know if Arbery really committed a burglary or not.
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It's important to note though that Arbery is not accused of committing any violent crime so far as
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we know at this point. I've also seen some people on social media who are more inclined to defend
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McMichaels who are saying that Arbery had robbed. He committed a robbery. Well, there's a difference
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between a robbery and a burglary and the difference is important. He's not being accused of being
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involved in any robbery. He's being accused of being involved in a burglary, which is a property
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crime. It's not like he held a gun to somebody and took their wallet. I think that distinction is
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important. And as far as we know right now, there is no claim that he had on that day been witnessed
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by the McMichaels committing a crime against them. We don't know if they witnessed any crime at all or if
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they just had reason to believe that he had. We don't know. It's also important to note on the
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other side of this that the police say there's a video of Arbery committing a burglary right before
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all this ensued. That's what we're being told. We haven't seen that video. Is it the video of him
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on a construction site? Is that what they're calling a burglary? I don't know. We haven't seen it.
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So let me try to offer some thoughts on this. Those are the basics of the case so far as I
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understand this so far. First of all, as I already said, the video is upsetting because a man dies
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and you watch it happen. My initial reaction was an emotional one based on having witnessed that.
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And I said on Twitter, as I said, always a great forum for these discussions,
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that this is a clear cut case of first degree murder and the two shooters should get the death
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penalty. That was my first reaction, which is stupid, obviously. It's angry and emotional.
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It's a stupid thing to say on my part. I usually pride myself on being the rational and logical
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one and not jump into conclusions without evidence. And that's generally how I approach
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these things. I broke my own rule in this case. So I had to go back a couple hours later and amend
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myself a bit because we certainly can't call this clear cut. And the idea that I could just declare
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not only that it's murder, but what degree of murder it is, it's just dumb.
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So there's a lot that isn't known. There's a lot of weirdness with this. The video is, along with
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tragic, very weird for a number of reasons in that it doesn't appear to fully fit either side's version
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of events, as far as I can tell. Though I do think at this point it fits the side of Arbery supporters
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more, it seems to me. So based on what we know right now, it seems like
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the two sort of opposite possibilities are this. One, Arbery was out for a jog.
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The McMichaels thought he fit the description of a burglar, which of course has very strong
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undertones of he's a black guy running in a white neighborhood, right? Has undertones of that.
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We don't know if that's what it was, but those are the undertones that you can't get around and
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there's no point in denying it. And so they went after him. He was out for a jog. They thought he
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looked like he might be a criminal. They went after him. He was innocent. He defended himself because
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he's got guys rolling up on him with guns. What else is he going to do? Are you going to go? I mean,
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if two guys roll up in a pickup truck with guns, are you going to just do whatever they say? Maybe
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you will, but I think other people will be more inclined to fight for your life because you don't
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know what these guys intend. And then he was killed. So that's one possibility, one version of events.
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The other possibility is this. Arbery was in the neighborhood committing crimes.
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So far, there is no suggestion that he had that day committed any violent crimes or crimes against
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persons. He was committing, by this version of events, he was committing a burglary or burglaries.
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The McMichaels witnessed him doing it or had strong reason to believe that he had just done it.
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Maybe we don't know what those reasons are yet. They go after him to make a citizen's arrest.
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He tries to get away. They keep pursuing. They cut him off on the road. They grab their guns. He goes
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after them. They kill him. Those seem to be the two possibilities right now. Maybe there's some
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kind of in-between option between those two, or maybe the truth is something very different from
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any of this. But I think for the truth to be something very different from either of the two
00:25:54.340
options I laid out, that would require there to be a very significant detail that right now we don't
00:26:00.700
know about. And maybe there is, right? I can't say if that detail exists or not. So I'm basing this
00:26:06.460
on what we know. And remember, this happened in February. It's not like it just happened and people
00:26:11.120
are making rush judgments. My point is there's pretty good reason to believe that we know basically
00:26:19.760
most of the story. And that there aren't any more shoes to drop. But maybe there are.
00:26:28.080
So here's my thing. In option one, they went after an innocent man. They approached him with guns.
00:26:36.960
And you don't pull a gun on someone unless you're willing to use it.
00:26:40.240
And now that innocent man is dead. And they have to pay for that.
00:26:47.880
So that to me is, if that's the case, then it is pretty clear cut. Now, in terms of assessing the
00:26:52.220
degree of murder and everything, well, that's, I'm not going to get into that again. But it's clear
00:26:58.440
that there's a very serious crime has been committed by the shooters. They need to go to jail and answer
00:27:03.240
for that. You can't just kill a guy while he's jogging because you think he looks like he might have
00:27:08.820
committed a crime, right? You can't go fully armed and loaded and chase a guy down who fits a
00:27:13.780
description. A guy who you think might have maybe committed a crime at some point in the past
00:27:19.060
and then try to apprehend him and kill him in the process. That is vigilantism at best. And it's
00:27:25.420
criminal. So if option one is true, then the shooters are fully in the wrong. They killed an
00:27:30.580
innocent man. And now it's just a matter of assessing the degrees and figuring out what their sentence is
00:27:36.200
going to be. What about option two? Well, as it stands right now, it's hard for me to see how they
00:27:44.840
wouldn't be in the wrong, the shooters, I mean, even if option two is correct. Let's say best case for
00:27:52.340
them, based on what we know, best case for them right now is they witnessed a burglary. Once again,
00:28:01.280
a burglary, not a robbery, let's say they witnessed a burglary. Does that give them the right to grab
00:28:10.160
their guns, chase him down, park in the street and wait to ambush him? Even if the ambush wasn't
00:28:19.300
supposed to be deadly, is that the right response? And if you do that as a, as a civilian and someone
00:28:26.600
dies in the process, are you not responsible for that? I believe in giving people a ton of leeway
00:28:34.040
when protecting their own property on their own property. So if you come onto a man's property
00:28:38.720
and he's there, even if you didn't intend him harm, he has every right to assume that you intend him
00:28:46.300
harm and to, and to react accordingly. So it is very rare that I hear of a case. In fact, I can't think
00:28:52.580
of any case off the top of my head where someone killed someone on their own property. And I think
00:28:57.960
that person who shot the gun should go to jail. I can't think of any case. I mean, maybe there's
00:29:02.920
been cases like that, you know, if there could be egregious other details, but, but I think a lot
00:29:10.220
of leeway when it comes to protecting your own property, your own life, your own family, right?
00:29:16.140
So I believe that. I would also say that if they witnessed this man attack someone, abuse someone,
00:29:24.800
someone said to me on Twitter yesterday, well, what if they had seen him, you know,
00:29:28.180
raping a woman or something like that? Would they be right to chase after him? Then I would say, yes,
00:29:33.720
chasing him down could be a form of defending the victim because this is a clearly a physically
00:29:40.480
dangerous man who's now on the run. He was just victimizing someone. And so chasing him down,
00:29:47.560
I think it was a valiant and courageous thing to do. And you are, you know, in a sense,
00:29:52.260
defending the victim, even if it is after the fact, because you don't know if this guy could come back
00:29:56.060
or anything like that. And yeah, you could call the cops, but he could still get away. You know,
00:29:59.500
you can't count on the cops to be there on time. And so you chase after him. But none of that,
00:30:04.900
it seems to apply to this situation. He's not, he's not being accused of committing any violent
00:30:09.460
crime against anybody. I haven't heard that even the McMichaels aren't making that claim.
00:30:13.400
No one's making that claim. At best, from what we know, they might have seen a property crime,
00:30:21.000
a burglary, and then they decided to take the law into their own hands and a man died in the process.
00:30:25.380
I think even then they have to be held accountable for that.
00:30:29.700
Unless there's some huge detail we don't know about, which is possible.
00:30:33.740
Another thing to think about, you know, people are saying,
00:30:37.660
why did Arbery attack the guys with the loaded guns rather than trying to run away?
00:30:43.300
Well, first of all, it seems like he did originally try to run away.
00:30:47.020
Second, put yourself in his shoes for a moment. Even if you did commit a burglary, right?
00:30:52.360
Okay, even so, that doesn't change this. Two guys with guns are chasing you down.
00:30:58.340
They stop their car, they get out, guns in hand. They're telling you to stop,
00:31:02.300
come with them, or at least come to them. They aren't cops. They're just random guys with guns.
00:31:09.440
Do you go with them? Do you stop? Do you listen? Do you have some kind of obligation to listen to
00:31:14.600
them? You might well think, look, these guys are going to kill me. I can't run because I can't
00:31:20.980
outrun a bullet. My only choice is to fight. It's a classic fight or flight scenario. And not everybody
00:31:28.980
is a fighter in that situation, but some people are. And I would say that, generally speaking,
00:31:34.340
fighting is the smarter choice. This is the problem with civilians doing this kind of stuff.
00:31:39.880
Now, if those were cops, then we could say two things. Number one, you have an obligation to stop
00:31:44.440
if they tell you to stop. That obligation may not be absolute. There could be situations where
00:31:49.000
even in that, you know, where you don't have to stop. But most of the time, you know,
00:31:53.420
a cop tells you to stop, you stop, and you listen. Number two, if you stop for a cop,
00:31:57.980
you can be reasonably certain they aren't going to kill you. Again, neither of those apply when
00:32:04.880
it's two random dudes in a pickup with guns telling you to stop. You have no obligation to listen to
00:32:11.360
them, to do what they say. As far as you know, they plan to kill you. And what if you did commit
00:32:20.080
a burglary? Does that mean that you just have to give yourself up to be killed? It's like, well,
00:32:24.040
they got me. I mean, if you're going to kill me, go ahead. I wouldn't do that.
00:32:30.440
In fact, I would go so far as to say if two random guys with guns pull up in a pickup truck,
00:32:34.360
the absolute last thing you should do is stop for them, listen to them, go with them. You should
00:32:40.240
fight them or run. You never go with a random guy with a gun when he tells you to. Never.
00:32:50.080
I mean, you got all these people now defending the shooters on the basis that, well, you should
00:32:55.800
have listened to them. What? So now you're saying that anyone who grabs a gun and points it at you,
00:33:00.720
you have an, not just that it's the smart thing to listen, but you have an obligation to listen?
00:33:06.880
No. No. Now, if they were cops, I would say the absolute last thing you should do is try to fight
00:33:14.100
the cops or flee them. But these were not cops. And that really, really matters. That's why we
00:33:22.440
don't do armed vigilantism in this country, in a civilized society, especially when the alleged
00:33:27.620
supposed crime burglary doesn't warrant that kind of reaction. I mean, I could even like, you know,
00:33:38.660
you know what, if this was a situation where a guy was committing some heinous crime against the
00:33:44.640
person, you caught him raping or abusing a child or something, and you hear about these kinds of
00:33:49.440
cases, and then the guy tries to run away and you chase him down and kill him. I would say in that
00:33:54.800
situation, you know, I would be in favor of, you could plead like temporary insanity. You were blind
00:34:00.480
with rage. And I would be in favor of letting somebody off on that basis. Not that we pass a law
00:34:06.960
saying it's legal to kill any one of you, but just in that situation, even I could see it because
00:34:12.860
you're so emotionally enraged by what you saw and that you lose control of your faculties. And given
00:34:20.140
the fact that the crime is so heinous, the blame for your reaction will fall on the person who committed
00:34:29.160
the heinous crime causing that reaction. So I could, but for a burglary, no.
00:34:36.960
Sorry. Uh, no, you don't chase down suspected burglars as a civilian and kill them.
00:34:45.860
So, um, that's where I am on this right now. Open to new information, but based on what we know,
00:34:50.380
that's where I am. Last thing. Okay. Uh, I said, this is going to be a lengthy discussion of this
00:34:54.600
on the racial angle. You know, obviously there's obviously that that's going to be a part of this
00:35:04.080
story. And there are, there are people that are being very irresponsible and trying to basically
00:35:10.220
stoke race rides. I mean, LeBron James came out last night and said something like, you know, uh,
00:35:16.740
every time a black man leaves his house, he's hunted down. Just completely reckless, irresponsible,
00:35:23.700
dangerous rhetoric, insane, absurd, totally divorced from reality. Right. And so there's been a,
00:35:30.240
there's been a lot of that. I mean, there, there are, there are irresponsible and bad people out there
00:35:34.040
who, uh, are interested in taking advantage of these kinds of situations to try to sow unrest.
00:35:41.720
We've seen that before in the past. And I'm very afraid of that happening here. Um, but so, you know,
00:35:48.680
just because I'm saying it looks to me right now, this is an unjust shooting and these people should
00:35:51.880
be held accountable. It doesn't mean go out and have a riot about it. And it also doesn't mean that
00:35:56.100
they were hunting down a black man out of some racial, uh, motivated by racial hatred. Maybe they
00:36:02.360
were, but we don't know that. What I will say is if it's, if option number two is correct, that they did
00:36:06.900
witness a crime, then I think that that doesn't necessarily justify what they did, but it
00:36:11.600
does pretty much remove the racial angle because then they're reacting to what they saw happen,
00:36:16.060
not to the skin color of the person who did it. And in order to, in order to prove a racial angle
00:36:21.480
there, you would have to prove that these guys in the past have seen white people committing crimes
00:36:25.280
and didn't chase them down, but only chase down black people when they see black people commit
00:36:28.640
crimes. And if that evidence exists, then present it. But I doubt that evidence does exist. So if,
00:36:32.900
if he did commit a crime, I think it takes the racial angle out. If he was an innocent man,
00:36:36.880
just going for a jog and, uh, they thought he fit the description of a burglar, then I think it's
00:36:43.840
hard at that point to avoid, um, the racial component of it. And it would seem like they
00:36:48.600
profiled him and he died in the process. And so, but you know, that's, so that's why between option
00:36:54.900
one and two, it does make a significant difference, which one it is, but I'm not sure that either option
00:36:59.760
would justify the shooting. Uh, okay. Now for your daily cancellation. And, uh, but before we do that,
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See you there. Okay. Now for your daily cancellation, and we'll do this quickly. I'm
00:38:03.000
canceling every media outlet, media person, and person in general who had any opinion about or cared
00:38:10.700
at all about or was upset about for any reason, the fact that Adele lost weight. So to back up here for
00:38:18.700
a second, Adele, the singer, obviously, apparently took a picture recently on Instagram and she was,
00:38:24.000
she was skinny. She had lost weight. Okay. Good for her. I mean, I think good for her.
00:38:30.360
Who cares at the end of the day, really? Uh, or even at the beginning of the day or
00:38:34.740
don't matter what time of day, who cares the weight or lack thereof of celebrities is just
00:38:40.580
not important, even a little bit. But this event of Adele losing weight provoked a lot of reaction
00:38:47.200
from people. And many articles were written, many articles, many entire, there are people who sat
00:38:53.220
down and wrote, wrote whole articles about Adele losing weight. Here are some of the headlines
00:38:57.260
inside Adele's weight loss experts sound off on her new look. What expert experts on what Adele looks
00:39:05.680
like? Adele appearance experts. Is that a, a major now in some colleges? I wouldn't be surprised.
00:39:15.320
The frenzy over Adele's weight loss has forced me to confront my own issue with body image.
00:39:21.040
Another headline. Let's not be amazed that multimillionaire Adele can lose weight.
00:39:26.380
Another one. Why the photo of a new slimmer Adele makes women feel like me feel uncomfortable.
00:39:31.540
Another one. Adele's new birthday photo thanking frontline workers sparks debate on body image.
00:39:39.040
And then CNN says, Adele lost weight. Are we allowed to praise that?
00:39:45.720
The controversy here is that by praising Adele for losing weight, could we be implicitly fat shaming?
00:39:52.280
Could we be insinuating that it's, it's, it's better to be skinny than fat? Could we be suggesting that
00:39:58.340
fat is not preferred, not ideal? And the answer to all those questions, of course, is yes.
00:40:07.220
We are suggesting that. As well, we should. Excess fat is bad. It's unhealthy. It can kill you.
00:40:16.020
It's better not to have it. Adele is a healthier person now than she was before when she had the
00:40:22.100
extra weight. That's it. Now, it doesn't mean you're a bad person if you're fat. It doesn't mean you're
00:40:26.540
worth less. It doesn't mean you have no value. Um, it doesn't mean that, uh, you're a better person
00:40:32.740
when you lose weight. It just means that it's better to lose weight. It's better not to be fat
00:40:38.120
than to be fat because you'll be healthier and you'll live longer and your internal organs will
00:40:43.540
fare better in the long run. And so will your skeletal structure and everything else about you.
00:40:48.140
Your body will be very happy that you're not fat anymore. And that's all. That's it. It's not
00:40:53.000
complicated, but this really is my problem with the whole fat acceptance thing. It's not just that,
00:40:58.200
that, that fat acceptance tells people to accept and celebrate unhealthy things about themselves.
00:41:03.660
That's a problem too. Don't get me wrong. But even more than that, it encourages people to be
00:41:08.260
self-obsessed, to see everything through the lens of their own ego, which is something we all do anyway.
00:41:13.780
We don't need more help with that. So a celebrity loses weight and their first thought is,
00:41:20.360
how does this affect me? Adele lost a, a famous singer in England lost weight. How does this
00:41:30.040
affect me? That's what I want to know. Answer. It doesn't at all. Not everything is about you.
00:41:37.880
You ridiculous narcissist. You're canceled. All of you canceled. Finally, since I've already gone
00:41:47.280
wildly off track and abandoned my normal show format, let's keep the chaos going and, um, throw
00:41:52.780
out the email segment for today. And for this, uh, cause I want to do a special segment about Mother's
00:41:59.340
Day with Mother's Day, fast approaching. Uh, I wanted to take a moment and I feel like I don't do this
00:42:05.840
enough, but I really wanted to give just some practical advice, uh, that might be helpful to you.
00:42:10.780
So we talk a lot about issues and ideas and everything. And oftentimes I feel like it's not
00:42:17.020
practical enough. And people say to me sometimes, what are the practical solutions, Matt? I mean,
00:42:21.280
you're all about complaining, which is true. It's my favorite thing to do. Give me some practical
00:42:26.160
steps, some practical things I can do. Okay, well, here you go. So for any guys out there, um, I'm going
00:42:31.020
to pass along five suggestions for Mother's Day gifts for your wife specifically. And these gifts
00:42:36.720
might, might work for your mom as well, but I'm really focusing on what you give to your wife, because
00:42:40.880
even though we're in the middle of a pandemic, you are not off the hook. All right. You definitely are
00:42:47.180
not. You've got to do something and you have to make it good too, because your wife is under a lot
00:42:51.420
of stress. So let's talk about these. Here are my four Mother's Day gift ideas. Number one, this is a
00:43:00.020
classic, kind of a cliche, uh, but there's a little bit of a twist to it. So first suggestion is a
00:43:06.580
mop. Now you're thinking, yeah, mop's a great gift, but I gave my wife a broom for Christmas.
00:43:14.660
Isn't this redundant? Well, no, first of all, because it's important to have the complete set
00:43:18.820
and your wife's going to be excited about that. She's going to call all her friends and say,
00:43:24.360
I finally got it. I got the full cleaning set like I always wanted, but also here's the twist.
00:43:30.800
You're going to give her a little card and inside the card, you're going to have suggestions for
00:43:35.160
areas of the house that really need to be mopped the most. And what she'll love, because it means
00:43:40.920
you're paying attention, is if you put the date of the last time that area of the house was mopped.
00:43:49.200
Uh, and so it puts a little urgency on it, but it also shows that you are paying attention
00:43:54.440
to the chores she does in the house and the chores she neglects. She will like that.
00:43:59.200
Number two, this one's pretty fun. Uh, it gives her, this is pretty creative, but get her a pair
00:44:06.840
of pants. That's intentionally three sizes too small. And on the inside of the waistband,
00:44:12.720
write a little romantic note that says you'll get there. Uh, number three. Now, if you're looking
00:44:20.020
for something that's maybe a bit more spiritual, I know there are a lot of, you know, devout Christians
00:44:24.220
who watch this show as, as I am as well. So here's a good one for you. Um, you can get your wife,
00:44:30.080
you know, those pictures people like to have in their homes now of like famous quotes and things
00:44:33.780
like that. So you could do that, but this one, it's going to be a framed picture of Ephesians 5.22.
00:44:41.000
Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands as you do the Lord. Of course, famous quote. Um,
00:44:47.620
important thing though, is don't include the rest of that passage that talks about all the stuff a
00:44:53.120
husband is supposed to do, because that's not really the point, is it? This is about her. It's
00:44:57.940
mother's day. It's not about you for finally, um, maybe so far the ideas haven't been quite
00:45:05.200
sentimental enough and you're looking for something that's very personal to you, very intimate, even
00:45:11.580
something that shows how much you love her, something that shows, um, you know, just how much
00:45:16.980
you care and that you really put some thought into it. So here's an idea. What you want to do is,
00:45:21.560
is, is, is think about a piece of jewelry. Think about a piece of jewelry that you bought for an
00:45:26.800
ex-girlfriend when you guys were dating and then go and get that same jewelry for your wife
00:45:32.040
explaining while you give it to her, tell her that this is the same jewelry that you bought for an
00:45:39.660
ex-girlfriend years ago. So the idea is it's kind of a symbolic passing of the torch from the
00:45:46.740
girlfriend to the wife. Even if you've been married for 10 years, it's not too late for the passing of
00:45:51.760
the torch. And then your wife will appreciate it even more if you kind of reminisce, um, with her
00:45:57.480
and tell her a few stories about the women you've dated and the fun things you did. Wives always love
00:46:02.220
to hear about that stuff, especially on special occasions. So those are my four Mother's Day gift
00:46:08.740
ideas. I'm not going to be using any of these ideas myself, uh, but only because I don't want to
00:46:14.740
take the ideas from any of you and I don't want to steal your thunder. So I'll be doing something
00:46:18.580
else, probably something along the lines of flowers, you know, boring, patronizing, insulting.
00:46:25.200
So don't do that. Take these ideas and you will not regret it. Trust me. And we'll leave it there.
00:46:31.780
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00:46:35.180
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