The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 537 - The Problem With Pretending That Beyonce Is An Artistic Genius

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Wall Show, Beyonce just released a new album, and as always, the media tells us

00:00:04.700 that it is a work of staggering artistic genius. And that's all anyone is allowed to say about

00:00:09.840 Beyonce, of course. In reality, though, she's a mediocre pop star. But what does it say about 0.96

00:00:14.780 our culture that these are the artists we elevate and the art that we hail as especially

00:00:20.540 significant and beautiful? We'll talk about that, plus five headlines, including

00:00:24.520 riots continuing in Portland, even though we were assured that riots would end as soon as

00:00:28.980 the feds left, yet they didn't. So what's up with that? In our daily cancellation, I am forced to

00:00:33.680 cancel Tommy Lahren. She has left me no choice. I must do it. And that's all coming up on the show

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00:02:25.240 Okay. Now, if you happen to hear collective shouts of near orgasmic adulation and delight echoing

00:02:35.180 from C to shining C last Friday, it was because Beyonce released a new album and the screams were

00:02:41.220 coming from music critics and others in media who want us to know that Black is King, the new album,

00:02:47.460 is quite possibly the greatest artistic achievement of all time, equaled only by Beyonce's other albums,

00:02:54.040 together comprising a catalog of music so breathtaking and awe-inspiring that Beethoven,

00:03:00.360 if he wasn't deaf and also dead, would be plunged into despair upon realizing that he could never hope 0.98

00:03:05.160 to produce anything as heart-wrenchingly beautiful as what Beyonce can make. This latest offering from

00:03:12.900 Beyonce, released as a visual album on Disney+, their streaming service, as a companion piece to

00:03:19.360 last year's rather abysmal Lion King remake, and also as a traditional album on iTunes, is, according to NPR,

00:03:26.180 a, quote, sumptuous search for divine identity that, quote, resonates deeply. Critics of the New York Times

00:03:32.540 were beside themselves with joy, using words like overwhelming and extravaganza and comparing,

00:03:39.280 I'm not making this up, comparing Beyonce to, quote, the rising sun. The AV Club exclaimed that the pop

00:03:46.160 album inspired by Disney cartoon is an unfettered celebration. Mashable said that Beyonce is, quote,

00:03:52.780 the only artist to exist at her level. She is, in their words, quote, magical. Phrases like,

00:03:59.680 a tribute to her artistry and supreme black art have been wielded by these gobsmacked critics.

00:04:06.660 Everyone seems to agree that Black is King is a masterpiece. Coincidentally, we were also told

00:04:13.120 that her last album was a masterpiece, and the one before that, and the one before that, and all the

00:04:18.780 rest of them, all the way back to her first album in 2003, which was also a masterpiece. The only

00:04:23.420 possible exception was her fifth album, her eponymous fifth album, which was merely, according to one

00:04:28.740 critic, close to a masterpiece. Well, I guess even the queen has her off days, I suppose. 0.88

00:04:35.080 The only thing more effusive than the praise that Beyonce receives for her music is the praise she

00:04:39.580 receives for simply existing. An article in W Magazine written to defend her against charges

00:04:44.900 that she doesn't write her own music insists that the pop star is, quote, an exceptional human being

00:04:49.560 at everything she tries. And by the way, the defense is that she doesn't write her own music,

00:04:54.320 but she is involved, okay? And truly, it takes an exceptional woman to be involved in the song

00:05:01.060 that she is singing. Another article calls Beyonce an irreplaceable force for inspiring change.

00:05:08.300 Elsewhere, she's called, quote, the greatest artist of the decade, and from a more timeless

00:05:12.280 perspective, she has also been routinely called a goddess. The point is clear. Beyonce is an extraordinary

00:05:19.780 artist, an extraordinary woman, an extraordinary human, and everything she does is equally as

00:05:27.140 extraordinary. This is American society's official Beyonce position, and dissent will not be tolerated.

00:05:34.320 Those few who do dare to commit the unspeakable sin of failing to squeal with delight every time

00:05:38.960 Beyonce does or says anything at all are, we are told, racist. Fellow singer Lana Del Rey was forced

00:05:45.780 to defend herself against racism charges after offering mild criticism of Beyonce a little while

00:05:52.100 ago on Instagram, because according to the worshipful masses, you could not possibly have 0.97

00:05:57.020 any reason to dislike any aspect of Beyonce or her music unless you simply hate all black people in 1.00

00:06:03.860 general. And that is the only explanation, we are told. Or maybe not. Let me offer another potential 0.99

00:06:11.680 reason to be slightly less enthused about Beyonce than the reverent critics already mentioned are.

00:06:17.720 She's not that great. She is not a staggering genius, no matter how often we are instructed to

00:06:22.980 view her that way. For better or worse, her music is rather run-of-the-mill pop fare. It isn't

00:06:29.140 particularly innovative. It certainly isn't insightful. One of the most popular songs on her latest album,

00:06:34.940 a jaw-dropping track and the best on the album, according to Billboard, is called Mood Forever,

00:06:40.340 the number four, Eva, Mood Forever. And the lyrics are about what you'd expect from a song that uses

00:06:45.900 a number in place of a word. Here's Beyonce's opening verse. I'll just give you the lyrics.

00:06:50.000 I'm not going to sing it. Here are the lyrics.

00:06:51.700 I know my enemies prey on me, so pray for me. Tick, tick, wait on it. I'm keeping down my body count.

00:06:57.920 I'm finessing like a trap bounce, a trap bounce, because every day above ground is a blessing.

00:07:03.440 I done leveled up now, view panoramic. None of my fears can't go where I'm headed.

00:07:08.060 Had to cut him loose. Now I'm loose. Break the levy. Yeah, I'm about to flood on him. Flood on a

00:07:14.420 sinner. The rain and thunder gone fall. Go Montumbo. No, no center. You can't dim my light.

00:07:22.040 That song has 14 credited writers. Now, admittedly, it's practically Virgil in comparison to some of her

00:07:29.040 past lyrics. Bow down, b****s. Bow, bow down, b****s. Bow, bow down, b****s. Bow down, b****s. 1.00

00:07:35.520 From the song bow down comes to mind. But it's very hard to see how this rises to the level of 0.99

00:07:41.460 masterpiece. You could argue that her music, especially on this most recent album, is judged

00:07:47.260 as much by the accompanying visuals as by the songs themselves. Fine. But the visuals are fairly

00:07:52.720 standard for modern music videos. There's nothing very special about it. She's a good dancer,

00:07:57.560 certainly. But even as a dancer, she isn't doing anything that other young pop divas can't do. 1.00

00:08:02.080 Michael Jackson was a genius dancer because he redefined the art form and moved in ways that

00:08:08.880 seemed almost physically impossible. He reinvented dancing. Beyonce is not doing that. She isn't doing

00:08:15.180 anything remarkable. She delivers a product that is visually and audibly a perfectly acceptable entry

00:08:20.960 into an already existent genre. Her dancing and singing are pretty good. Her lyrics and the messages

00:08:26.680 they contain generally straddle the line between vapid and repugnant. In other words, she makes pop

00:08:33.120 music. Nothing less. Certainly nothing more. Now, I wish I could say that this attempt to turn the

00:08:40.760 single ladies singer into pop's version of Michelangelo was merely dumb and annoying. It is both of those 1.00

00:08:47.860 things, of course, but it's also more toxic than that. You can judge a culture in many ways by its most

00:08:53.660 celebrated art. And the people within a culture will judge themselves in many ways through the

00:09:00.260 same lens. Our art is the story that we tell about ourselves, to ourselves. It's how we grapple with

00:09:08.220 the problem of existence. It's how we search for deeper truths. There's a reason why art and religion

00:09:12.740 have been inextricably tied since the dawn of civilization. Speaking of Michelangelo, the people

00:09:19.260 of the 16th century, in Italy, they could step into the Sistine Chapel, look up in wonder, and feel

00:09:25.880 themselves and their spirits drawn into a beauty that was and still is truly transcendent. This is

00:09:32.800 quite different from the experience modern Americans have when they listen to Beyonce sing

00:09:37.480 Can You Eat My Skittles? It's the Sweetest in the Middle from the song Blow in 2013. Beyonce's music,

00:09:44.340 like most pop music, is diverting and catchy at its very best. At its worst, it's so ugly and stupid 1.00

00:09:51.180 as to induce despair. The point is not that our culture has no great art. That's not my point. 1.00

00:09:57.640 Musicians of the last several decades have given us many authentic masterpieces, and geniuses and

00:10:02.140 other mediums like film and television have produced art that will stand the test of time for sure, but

00:10:06.960 the art we choose to elevate the highest and praise the loudest is the art that will influence us.

00:10:14.340 And especially our children the most, and define us, define our era. So I suppose it's appropriate

00:10:21.600 that Beyonce claims that honor as the defining artist, because ours is an era that is loud and

00:10:27.500 extravagant, but empty at its core, and not as impressive as it appears on the surface, like

00:10:32.540 Beyonce. So if Beyonce is our queen, our empress, then someone has to say, the empress has no clothes. 0.75

00:10:39.120 Literally, much of the time. Let's get to our five headlines.

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00:12:16.780 told that the rioting in Portland was all in response to the presence of federal agents, even though it

00:12:22.100 started before the federal agents got there, it was still because of them somehow. It was their

00:12:25.960 fault. And that as soon as they left, the rioting would go away. That's what we were told. Of course,

00:12:31.980 you know, many problems with that logic from the beginning. You would have to have the IQ of a

00:12:36.760 spatula to have believed it to begin with. But if you do have the IQ of a kitchen utensil, and you

00:12:42.640 actually believed that the rioting would stop because law enforcement left, then this footage will

00:12:48.500 be very shocking to you. Watch. What you can see there, that's that's rioters in Portland after

00:13:08.260 feds had already left trying to burn down a police precinct. So I, I not very peaceful,

00:13:16.140 not very peaceful. Um, that's not, not exactly joining hands around a campfire singing Kumbaya.

00:13:24.440 Now there was a fire, but it wasn't a campfire. So, uh, no, I, I, I think it turns out

00:13:31.000 that when you have a lawless mob of criminals and you do less to enforce the law, you end up with more

00:13:42.400 crime. Crazy, crazy how that works. Really shocking. Number two, we begin, um, or not begin,

00:13:48.080 we, we, we go now to a news story. This is a new story that doesn't really exist. I guess the news

00:13:55.600 here is that there is not any news. Um, and I think in this case, the fact that there is no news is news

00:14:03.100 indeed. I'm starting to confuse myself now. Here's what I'm talking about. You may remember the story

00:14:06.900 from about six weeks ago, a woman by the name of Althea Bernstein in Madison, Wisconsin called the

00:14:12.320 police late at night, claiming that she had just been attacked by a gang of racist white men.

00:14:16.400 And she said that this roving gang of white supremacists, they were all wearing Hawaiian 0.94

00:14:20.060 shirts. They were like frat boys. She said they came to her at a, at a stop light. They sprayed her in 0.56

00:14:26.500 the face with lighter fluid. And then they threw a lighter into her car and set her on fire. Her face

00:14:34.140 was actually on fire is what she said. Now this was huge news when it happened. It was reported

00:14:39.200 everywhere. I heard it all over the place. Megan Markle even reached out to Bernstein to express her

00:14:44.200 condolences. It was a pretty big deal. And sure. I mean, if something like that happens, of course it's a

00:14:52.920 big deal. You got a group of murderous bigots patrolling the streets of an American city, 0.83

00:14:57.680 literally trying to burn women alive in the middle of the street. That that's a big deal. 0.99

00:15:04.080 But then, and this brings us to our update today. Um, then there was nothing. It was six weeks ago

00:15:11.500 and it was a big story for a few days. And then it just disappeared. Madison police said they were

00:15:18.020 investigating the attack. Then the feds got involved. And, um, you know, this is all good

00:15:23.180 because it happened at a, at an intersection in a major city. So there has to be cameras all over

00:15:27.500 the place and witnesses. Surely these flame throwing racists are on tape. Someone else must have seen

00:15:35.700 them also. I mean, it should be pretty easy to track them down. Yet six weeks later, we've heard

00:15:42.660 nothing about this case. Nothing, not a word. Hmm. Hmm. I mean, it really makes you think. In fact,

00:15:52.200 I went to Google and I searched for Althea Bernstein. I searched her name. Story, news stories from the

00:15:58.300 last week. Zero, zero reporting. Not one story on the entire internet was published in the last week

00:16:07.180 about this case. Isn't that pretty strange? I mean, it's almost like this story vanished into thin air

00:16:12.320 and so did the white boys with the lighter fluid and the lighter that somehow could stay lit when

00:16:17.720 they threw it. Now let's just imagine crazy thought, crazy thought, but let's just thought

00:16:25.640 experiment. Let's imagine that possibly the white boys vanished into thin air because, and nobody ever 0.90

00:16:31.800 noticed them except for her. Uh, and they weren't recorded by any camera. As far as we know,

00:16:37.500 let's imagine again, hypothetically that all of that is the case because they don't exist. Pretty

00:16:44.500 easy to vanish when you never existed to begin with. So let's say wild theory, none of this ever

00:16:50.860 happened. It's yet another hate crime hoax. On that theory, the cops would, would of course know that

00:16:57.140 it's BS and they would know right away. I mean, they would know probably from the moment they hear it,

00:17:02.000 but all they'd have to do is look at the surrounding video footage, talk to some people that were in the

00:17:07.680 area and they would know right away. This just, this simply didn't happen. Um, and yet, I mean,

00:17:15.840 again, on this theory, they're just not saying anything about it, hoping we all forget. And the sad

00:17:23.460 thing is that plan seems to actually be working just fine, but it's scary to think that we've arrived at

00:17:29.440 this point where a person can invent a hate crime, file a false police report and just get away with

00:17:36.380 it. No penalty whatsoever because the police are too afraid to tell the public that it was all a load

00:17:41.400 of horse manure. That's a scary thought. Number three, um, you know, I have to throw this in here.

00:17:48.240 Credit where it's due. Uh, I, uh, I am capable of, of, you know, of giving credit sometimes. I mean, I,

00:17:55.840 I, you know, that I've, I criticize Trump sometimes and I especially criticize his tweeting. Uh, but

00:18:02.460 sometimes I have to admit even that he puts out one hell of a great tweet and this is one of those

00:18:07.980 times. So, like I said, credit where it's due. I just want to show you this tweet because I thought

00:18:10.900 it was so good. And I really just, I wanted to give all the credit to Donald Trump on this one.

00:18:15.400 Um, here's the tweet for me. He says, uh, look at the, here's the, here's the quote. He says,

00:18:20.300 um, cities across the nation that are run by Democrats are in shambles. Matt Walsh.

00:18:26.920 Yeah. He seems to be quoting someone there. Someone, someone who was on Tucker last night.

00:18:30.880 He was watching Tucker and he was quoting, uh, I don't know. I'm not, I'm not sure who that guy is

00:18:34.520 really, but brilliant point. Uh, that man, whoever that is, I think we can all agree has

00:18:39.940 the powers of insight that would rival Aristotle. Um, so a great job by Trump putting that, that quote

00:18:47.960 out there. That's all I want. I really like, like I said, this is really about giving Donald

00:18:52.180 Trump credit for a great tweet. Number four, it was just announced that, uh, the live adaptation

00:18:58.140 of Mulan will go straight to Disney's streaming service. And, uh, right when you're done, after

00:19:03.900 you're done watching black is King, you can go and watch Mulan, except it's going to cost you $30.

00:19:09.300 It's going to come out in a few weeks, $30 plus the subscription. You pay for the subscription

00:19:14.040 to Disney plus, and they're going to charge you an extra 30 bucks to see this.

00:19:17.960 And this is all I'm going to say. If you pay $30 to watch a lifeless, pointless, rehashed

00:19:23.760 remake of a Disney cartoon that you've already seen, I don't think it's too much to suggest

00:19:33.520 that you should lose your citizenship rights. And I don't even say that ironically. I would

00:19:38.640 with all sincerity support a policy that stripped you of your constitutional rights, all of them

00:19:43.720 for paying $30 to watch the Mulan remake. Number five, um, just a policy proposal I'm throwing out

00:19:54.480 there. If any, if anyone wants to run with it. Number five, finally, Oprah Winfrey, who we should

00:19:57.880 note is worth $2 billion spoke out this week against the scourge of white privilege. Um,

00:20:04.520 Oprah with her $2 billion is very concerned that white people in trailer parks wearing goodwill 1.00

00:20:10.960 hand-me-downs might be a little bit too privileged. And here's part of her discussion, uh, on that

00:20:15.960 subject. There are white people who are not as powerful as the system of white people, the caste

00:20:22.520 system that's been put in place, but they still, no matter where they are on the wrong or the ladder 0.76

00:20:30.700 of success, they still have their whiteness. I just love how she's having this discussion 0.93

00:20:34.780 about white privilege while sitting in a room that looks like that room from the last matrix film.

00:20:42.220 She she's literally controlling the whole matrix from that room and yet complaining about other 1.00

00:20:47.260 people having privilege. This is weapons grade irony right here. I, I really know what I really like

00:20:54.200 to imagine is her shouting something like white people are too privileged and then walking directly

00:21:00.840 into her 98 room mansion, tossing her $40,000 coat made of the skins of albino seals at her butler, 0.86

00:21:08.720 you know, petting her Siberian tiger. And then just heading to her golden crusted bathtub filled with

00:21:14.580 champagne and caviar and jumping in. Um, that's how I imagined that Oprah Winfrey must live, but yeah, 0.81

00:21:20.460 you know, really, really Rick and Maureen down the street driving their minivan to Home Depot on a

00:21:25.980 Saturday, stopping at Ruby Tuesdays for their, uh, early afternoon special on the way back. Those are

00:21:31.300 the people that are privileged, not Oprah Winfrey, those people. Sure. You know, we make a joke out of

00:21:38.500 it, but this is because it is a joke. You see the farce that this, that this white privilege concept,

00:21:44.780 uh, has become that now even the richest woman in America, uh, one of the richest in the world 1.00

00:21:53.700 is complaining about other people having privilege. It's just fantastic. Okay. Speaking of, uh,

00:22:00.800 fantastic. Now we're going to go to our daily cancellation. Um, and for our daily cancellation

00:22:06.180 today, I'm afraid that I have to cancel Tommy Lahren. Now I used to work with Tommy full disclosure.

00:22:12.260 We were both over at the blaze for a while. Uh, I mean, we were different, we were in different

00:22:16.440 states, so it's not like we, we collaborated closely together, but I went on our show a few

00:22:19.940 times and it was great. Um, and so this, this cancellation is nothing personal, but it must be

00:22:25.360 done because nobody escapes the wrathful gaze of the daily cancellation. You know that by now,

00:22:31.200 even my wife and kids don't nobody, no mortal, even immortals. Okay. They aren't necessarily

00:22:37.340 off the hook either. So Tommy has canceled for a lengthy PSA that she, she published yesterday,

00:22:43.340 a 14 minute minute video criticizing men, talking about why men are terrible and why her own

00:22:49.320 relationship problems are the fault of men. And men are, as she said, trash. Uh, take a listen. 1.00

00:22:56.120 These women range in every body type and every, everything they're all successful. They're all 1.00

00:23:02.700 intelligent. They're all good people. But if all of these women, including myself are having issues, 0.95

00:23:07.880 then I have to think it might not be us. It might be you. It might be men. It might be men.

00:23:15.180 Now I've often talked about the pussification of America and how men are no longer men. I talked to 0.95

00:23:20.920 my mom about this a lot and she says, well, maybe it's just the guys in Texas. Maybe it's just the guys

00:23:25.300 in Los Angeles. It is not just the guys in Los Angeles, Nashville, Dallas, and it's not,

00:23:29.080 they're not any better in the Midwest. They, quite frankly, I think they're trash all over this 0.99

00:23:32.640 country and the age range of about 20 to, I think about 55, maybe even 60. A lot of men are trash. 1.00

00:23:39.640 A lot of men don't know how to treat women. A lot of men don't know how to really, quite frankly, 1.00

00:23:44.980 pull their heads out of the sand and pay attention. So I am going to help you.

00:23:48.800 Tommy also said, reading now from Amanda Presta-Giacomo's Daily Wire article about it,

00:23:53.360 she also said, I'm not a feminist, so please don't take this as a feminist rant.

00:23:57.300 Laren interjected after imploring men to follow up with plans instead of merely texting women.

00:24:01.720 I love men. I think men are great. I think men have failed themselves and they failed us.

00:24:06.660 And I'm trying to help you out because I love men. I think they're great. They're just failures.

00:24:11.300 That's all. They're great, but they're failures. That's all I'm trying to tell you. They're great

00:24:16.420 failures. They're great at failing. Anyway, she says, and I'm just trying to help you out because I

00:24:21.760 think there are a lot of really great guys out there who need a little help. And I don't think there

00:24:25.820 are a lot of women that are stepping up and saying these things. This isn't patronizing at all, 1.00

00:24:29.920 is it? I think you're fantastic. I just think you need a little help. That's all. You need help from

00:24:33.980 me, a 27-year-old blonde woman. So continuing, she says, so I'm going to go ahead and say them

00:24:42.180 because they need to be said. I am really so sick of my friends having to deal with trash men. I'm 0.98

00:24:47.040 tired of dealing with trash men. The pundit also told men to value value and not, quote, mix in people 0.98

00:24:54.240 like me and my friends who have something going on with your other girls that have nothing going on.

00:24:59.500 Don't mix us in with the 1.00

00:25:01.020 Tatianas. Is that a, is that a, what is that? T-H-O-T-I-N-A-S. Is that a thing the kids are 1.00

00:25:10.940 saying now? I don't know what that means. Don't mix us in with the Tatianas. Anyway, and then she 1.00

00:25:20.220 goes on from there. Okay. Now it goes without saying that if a man were to ever make a video

00:25:29.380 claiming that most women between the ages of 20 and 60 are trash, it would be roundly condemned 1.00

00:25:36.040 as insanely sexist. And he would be written off as a bitter, lonely, virginal incel. That's what 1.00

00:25:42.240 would happen. We all know that. Women have a better chance of getting away with something like this. 1.00

00:25:47.620 Now, at least the consequences aren't as severe. Tommy is sustaining quite a bit of criticism for

00:25:52.440 this and rightly so, but it's not the same as it would be if her name was, you know, Thomas or her

00:25:59.020 name was spelled T-O-O-M-M-Y instead of with an I. It'd be a totally different ballgame. We all know

00:26:04.220 that. Now, yes, it's true that men have issues in this culture. It's true that, that, that men,

00:26:10.580 many men are not living up to their calling as men, are not fulfilling their masculine duties. It's true

00:26:16.560 that, that some men are soft and pathetic and rather wimpy. It's true that some men would rather 0.99

00:26:22.220 lay around the house all day playing video games than actually go out and live a real active assertive

00:26:26.680 life. All of that is true. And you could argue that all Tommy was doing was pointing these things

00:26:31.800 out, but there are two problems. Number one, first problem is this. We get it. Okay. We really do.

00:26:40.240 We all know this stuff about men. We've heard it a million times. Men are lectured constantly

00:26:46.220 everywhere by everyone. Always men are lectured at in school, at work, in, in their homes, on TV,

00:26:56.080 at church. You'll notice speaking of church, um, and I'm, I'm, I'm certainly not the first person to

00:27:01.320 have noticed this, that mother's day sermons at church are usually about how wonderful and amazing

00:27:07.060 and underappreciated mothers are. While father's day sermons at churches are often focused on how

00:27:13.000 men need to step up and do a better job. Okay. And that's the dynamic in the culture that we get.

00:27:19.320 So we get it. We've heard it. That doesn't mean we never need to hear it again or that it never

00:27:25.040 needs to be said again, but it does mean that if all you have to offer is the same old tired lecture

00:27:30.340 without any, without any, you know, additional insight, um, with, with, with, with nothing unique

00:27:36.780 to, to add into it, then they just don't bother. Save your breath, save your energy. Because once again,

00:27:43.440 we've heard it. We know we get it. I promise you. Number two, women are not innocent in this. 1.00

00:27:53.380 They are, they aren't even more innocent than men. It's more than just, oh, women have faults too. 1.00

00:27:59.340 No, it's women are just as bad. They're just as guilty. They're just as culpable. 1.00

00:28:05.040 Okay. You want gender equality, right? Well, here it is. Enjoy.

00:28:10.720 Gender equality means that if there's a problem in, you know, in relations between men and women,

00:28:16.140 you don't get to just assume that it's all a man's fault. Because when you do that,

00:28:20.940 what you're essentially saying is that, you know, this is all entirely up to the men,

00:28:25.300 to the man. I mean, he has the lead and, uh, and, you know, he's in charge. And so if things go

00:28:31.060 sideways, it's going to be his fault. That's the only way, the only way you could put all the blame

00:28:36.600 on men is by saying that men are totally in charge and should be. And so that whenever things don't

00:28:42.980 work out, it's going to be their fault. But something tells me that that's not Tommy's perspective.

00:28:47.240 Um, something tells me that Tommy is not someone who would say that women should always be submitting

00:28:54.780 to the leadership of men. Could be wrong, but I'm guessing that's not her position. And if it's not

00:29:00.220 your position, then you don't get to put all the blame on men or even most of the blame on men or

00:29:04.620 even 51% of the blame on men. It is 50-50 because guess what? I know you want to talk about anecdotal

00:29:11.460 evidence here. I know plenty of great guys who've had trouble finding, um, women, uh, trouble finding

00:29:18.460 women who are not, to use Tommy's phrase, trash. And do you know why they've had trouble? Well, 1.00

00:29:24.740 because in some cases they don't make a lot of money or, you know, they've got, you know, they're

00:29:29.700 employed. They, they, they have good jobs. They just, they don't make tons of money or, you know,

00:29:34.820 maybe they don't necessarily look like Calvin Klein models, but they're good men, hardworking men,

00:29:39.640 loyal, intelligent, all of that. Sometimes I know men like this. I think we all do.

00:29:45.340 They've had trouble finding a woman because in their experience, women will find superficial and 1.00

00:29:50.400 materialistic reasons to turn away men who definitely are not in any way trash. So this

00:29:56.200 is a knife that cuts both ways. And here's the thing. If you're having trouble finding a match for

00:30:01.840 you, and if you find that everyone you come across is trash and that there's a fatal flaw with every 0.98

00:30:09.560 member of the opposite sex that you've ever encountered, then yes, it could be that you 0.99

00:30:14.200 have horrible luck. It could be, woe is you. You're a victim. Uh, this is all everybody else's

00:30:19.440 fault and not your own. That's possible. You could keep, keep getting stuck with duds through no fault

00:30:24.080 of your own. You could keep reaching your hand into the barrel of apples and taking out a rotten one

00:30:28.260 by accident. Maybe. Sure. But it's quite possible. And I would say even likely, and in fact, quite

00:30:35.420 probable that the problem is at least partially you. It's, it's, it's quite likely that some of

00:30:43.000 those men who you dismissed as trash actually aren't trash, but you toss them aside as trash 0.94

00:30:50.280 because they failed to meet your expectations in some relatively unimportant area. You might even say 0.97

00:30:57.400 you toss them aside as trash for trashy reasons. It's quite possible that many of the, of the trash 0.99

00:31:04.920 men actually are trash, but there's something about you and your personality that attracts those kinds 1.00

00:31:11.620 of people. Those are all possibilities too. And so if I was in this spot and which I'm not, 1.00

00:31:19.360 and believe me, here's, here's the other, here's the other stipulation I'll make is that anyone who's

00:31:23.620 single man or woman in, in this culture, God be with you. Uh, I, I, I have nothing but sympathy for 1.00

00:31:30.800 you. And I thank God every day that I'm not. Okay. I couldn't be happier to be married. So, um,

00:31:37.300 but even so, if, if, if I was in that spot and I found that, uh, you know, I'm looking for a woman, 0.87

00:31:44.640 but every woman I meet is, is horrible and selfish and materialistic and a bimbo and all this stuff, 1.00

00:31:53.080 then I'm going to start to think to myself, you know, I, I, I, I think there's going to be a moment 0.95

00:31:57.840 where I, where I really stop and I think, Hmm, what am I doing wrong here? Maybe everyone else is

00:32:06.960 doing something wrong. It's possible, but then it's weird because I look around and I see that

00:32:13.660 there are plenty of people who managed to find other good people and they have good relationships

00:32:18.220 that does exist. There are plenty of married people in this country, even young married people who have

00:32:24.020 good marriages that does exist. It's, it's not, it's, it's not a myth. It's not an urban legend.

00:32:29.980 It exists. I'm telling you, I can tell you from an experience that exists. So I think I would look

00:32:36.760 at that and I would say, Hmm, okay. So it is possible to find a good person. Plenty of other

00:32:43.780 people have done it and yet I can't. Why is that? I could be a victim of the universe. Yeah, that's true.

00:32:54.400 The universe is picking on me. I don't know. Maybe, geez, maybe there's something about me that

00:33:00.600 just attracts these types. Am I, am I attractive to horrible people? Or, or, or do I, am I someone

00:33:13.520 who doesn't even, can't even identify a good virtuous person because I'm so lacking in virtue myself.

00:33:20.080 And so I have possibly thrown out a lot of virtuous people because I didn't recognize them for the

00:33:25.580 virtues they had. I mean, so these, these are all, these are, these are, this is a self-analysis that

00:33:29.880 I would undergo. And I guess that would be my, here's my PSA that I'm going to throw out there

00:33:35.040 to not just women, men and women. You know, if you're having problems in this regard, rather than

00:33:40.840 blaming everybody else and giving tips and advice to other people, by the way, I always love it when,

00:33:47.380 when people who have not had a successful relationship give relationship advice.

00:33:55.080 Okay. That's like, if you're training someone on a, on a, how to fly, but every plane that you've ever

00:34:03.640 piloted has crashed. It's like, if I'm a rookie pilot looking for some advice, I'm probably not going to

00:34:10.800 go to you. But in any case, um, rather than going and giving advice and all of that and blaming

00:34:17.860 everyone, maybe do a little bit of a self-analysis and, uh, the speech and lecture you want to give,

00:34:24.320 maybe go into your bathroom and give that lecture into the mirror, because I think that's probably

00:34:30.440 the number one person that needs to hear it. And, uh, for that reason, Tommy Lahren is canceled.

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