The Matt Walsh Show - August 19, 2020


Ep. 546 - Boycott Companies That Hate Us


Episode Stats

Length

35 minutes

Words per Minute

182.51555

Word Count

6,543

Sentence Count

423

Misogynist Sentences

6

Hate Speech Sentences

8


Summary

Another company comes out in support of the Marxist "Black Lives Matter" organization, while discriminating against conservatives. It's time for conservatives such as myself to get over our aversion to boycott. Also, the DNC Convention speech by an accused rapist who was photographed receiving a massage from one of Epstein s sex slaves, and in our daily cancellation, I cancel MSNBC anchor Chris Hayes.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, another company comes out in support of the Marxist BLM organization
00:00:04.740 while discriminating against conservatives. It's time for conservatives such as myself
00:00:08.640 to get over our aversion to boycott. So we'll talk about that today. Also five headlines,
00:00:13.640 including the DNC convention speech by an accused rapist who was photographed receiving a massage
00:00:18.980 from one of Epstein's sex slaves. And in our daily cancellation, I'll cancel MSNBC anchor Chris Hayes.
00:00:25.500 And in the process of that cancellation, just for good measure, I'm also going to cancel college.
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00:02:07.480 get into this. There's sort of the eternal question. Why do conservatives tend to always lose
00:02:16.880 culture war battles while leftists tend to win? Now there's more than one answer to that question.
00:02:22.420 It's a multifaceted sort of issue, but one answer, one big answer is certainly this. The left
00:02:27.600 is not afraid to apply pressure. The right oftentimes is. And I'll explain more of what I mean by that,
00:02:36.260 but here's why I'm bringing this up. Here's the story, the setup. WIBW, a local news station in Topeka,
00:02:42.260 Kansas, reports that a recent diversity training seminar at the Goodyear Topeka plant included a
00:02:49.200 slide outlining the company's zero tolerance policy. And the image was posted to social media,
00:02:55.220 apparently by an employee who saw this and didn't like it for good reason. He says the material
00:03:00.740 originates from Goodyear corporate headquarters in Ohio. So listed as, you can see it here,
00:03:06.160 listed as acceptable messages are Black Lives Matter and LGBT pride. The unacceptable column
00:03:13.600 consists of Blue Lives Matter, All Lives Matter, MAGA, and political slogans. Now Goodyear has not
00:03:21.200 specifically addressed the discriminatory slide, but it did issue a statement when it was contacted by the
00:03:28.780 local media. Here's the statement. It says, Goodyear is committed to fostering an inclusive and
00:03:32.680 respectful workplace where all of our associates can do their best in a spirit of teamwork. And part of
00:03:38.660 this commitment, we do allow our associates to express their support on racial injustice and other
00:03:43.760 equity issues, but ask they refrain from workplace expressions, verbal or otherwise, in support of
00:03:49.280 political campaigning for any candidate or political party, as well as other similar forms of advocacy
00:03:54.140 that fall outside the scope of equity issues. Now this is outrageous on a number of levels. First of all,
00:04:00.920 all lives matter is about as non-political as a slogan gets. Political messages are tribalistic,
00:04:09.140 exclusionary by nature. Somebody who affirms that all lives matter is expressly rejecting tribalism and
00:04:16.840 defending the dignity of human life universally. So the statement is not only non-political, but it is in
00:04:22.900 fact anti-political. And it's not as though all lives matter is an unnecessary thing to say. That, of course,
00:04:28.900 is the claim from BLM supporters. They say, well, there's no reason to proclaim all lives matter.
00:04:34.340 And so if you proclaim it, then it can only be as some sort of counter-protest against BLM. Well,
00:04:40.340 even if it is a counter-protest against BLM, so what? There's plenty there to protest. But it's not
00:04:45.720 merely that. We happen to live in a culture where the dignity and value of human life is not universally
00:04:51.980 affirmed. We do kill a million babies a year in the womb, after all. And beyond that, many people are
00:04:57.560 murdered in our communities every day. And if their deaths are not politically useful to the cultural
00:05:02.000 powers that be, their deaths are treated as inconsequential, which is to say their lives are
00:05:07.380 treated as inconsequential, as not mattering. And one of the main culprits in dismissing and ignoring
00:05:13.980 these deaths and these lives is Black Lives Matter. Now, if BLM is political, it's only because
00:05:21.720 one side of the political aisle has decided to stake out this position of defining itself by its raw
00:05:29.480 hatred of law enforcement. That doesn't make the message inherently divisive. All decent and sane
00:05:36.180 people, a dwindling demographic to be sure, can agree that the lives of police officers matter. In fact,
00:05:42.060 Goodyear itself once seemed to feel this way. In the past, the company has offered discounts to law
00:05:46.520 enforcement officers, other first responders. Even now, if you go to their website, they brag
00:05:51.260 that they're a recognized leader, quote unquote, in providing tires for police cars. Hopefully,
00:05:56.400 police unions will be calling for those contracts to be pulled. You know, I certainly wouldn't want
00:06:00.420 to buy tires from a company that doesn't think my life matters. That seems like a disaster waiting
00:06:05.740 to happen. Imagine going to a doctor's office that bans you from wearing a shirt that says
00:06:09.460 Patients' Lives Matter. What about Black Lives Matter? Well, if Marxism counts as a political
00:06:16.100 ideology, and it does, last I checked, then BLM is an intensely political organization. It is co-founded
00:06:23.040 by a woman who describes herself and her comrades as trained Marxists who are, quote, super versed
00:06:28.680 on, quote, ideological theories. The What We Believe section of the BLM website is full of these
00:06:34.160 ideological theories, such as the theory that the Western prescribed nuclear family structure should
00:06:38.880 be disrupted and that cisgender privilege should be, quote, dismantled. And BLM has indeed done quite a bit
00:06:45.980 of dismantling over the years. I don't know if they've dismantled cisgender privilege, whatever
00:06:50.880 that is, but they have left entire city blocks in ruins. You got to start somewhere, I guess.
00:06:57.080 Now, Goodyear is certainly not alone. Many of the most powerful corporations in America
00:07:02.240 have endorsed and offered financial support to Black Lives Matter. Of course, it's only by virtue of its
00:07:09.880 name that this avowedly Marxist organization, which has been involved in rioting and looting in cities
00:07:15.520 across the country for years, has managed to gain such widespread mainstream acceptance.
00:07:21.020 If BLM had a more accurate name like Marxist United or something similar, I doubt very much
00:07:27.420 that Pepsi and Goodyear would be lining up behind it. That's how silly our political discourse has
00:07:32.840 become. Simply change the name of BLM. Keep everything else the same, everything. Change the name,
00:07:39.600 and I'm betting there'd be 85% agreement in America that it's a hate group at a minimum,
00:07:44.220 if not a domestic terror group, which is my vote. And there would be none but the most avowedly left
00:07:50.380 wing of companies coming out in its defense. So be all that as it may. Corporations that support
00:07:57.040 Marxist organizations while censoring messages of support for groups like police officers should face a
00:08:05.620 severe penalty from their customer base. Conservatives, myself included, tend to shy away
00:08:11.240 from boycotts. I can tell you that in the past, I have scoffed at them, and I still scoff at boycotts
00:08:19.120 that are frivolous or launched for stupid reasons. And I certainly won't participate in any boycott
00:08:24.540 meant to punish a company for the privately held views of one of its employees, even if it's its CEO or
00:08:31.180 founder, the CEO of Goodyear can have whatever opinion he wants. I don't care if he personally
00:08:35.860 favors the legalization of cannibalism, which would be only slightly more offensive than the policies
00:08:41.200 advocated by BLM. Private companies and private opinions rather are one thing, but when an entire
00:08:47.820 company takes a side on an issue and makes its position explicit, then we have every reason to
00:08:54.800 take notice. And if they make it clear that they have no respect for people like us, that is people who
00:09:00.100 believe all lives matter and police lives matter. And if they side with violent, radical Marxists,
00:09:05.500 well, then we would have to be certifiable masochists to continue supporting them. There's
00:09:10.580 no reason to. Lots of companies sell tires. Not all of them do so while spouting Marxist talking points.
00:09:16.540 So me, you know, I'll take the tires without the Marxism. Thanks. So now is a good time to get over
00:09:21.940 our aversion to applying this kind of pressure. It's an aversion I understand because, as I said,
00:09:28.780 I share it. You know, there is there is something in me constitutionally that recoils at boycotts. I
00:09:37.260 kind of I kind of recoil at marching in the street with signs also, though I've done it a number of
00:09:43.320 times, in fact. But there is, I believe, still something in the conservative mindset that militates
00:09:49.320 against this sort of activism. And I don't think it's a need to be polite because I don't have any
00:09:54.540 need to be polite at all. I think it might be our fundamental practicality. You know, we aren't as
00:10:00.480 into holding signs because it doesn't feel practical or useful. We don't like boycotting because,
00:10:04.300 frankly, if a company has something I want and they have the best price and they have and, you know,
00:10:09.540 they're nearby, then I just want to go buy it. And when I'm in the car and maybe I'm with my family
00:10:13.320 and the kids are crying and I need whatever product, I don't feel like thinking about these
00:10:17.920 kinds of issues or trying to be socially conscious or political in my buying decisions.
00:10:21.960 I've got more pressing concerns in that moment. I'm in real life mode. And so I think that's where
00:10:27.980 the aversion comes from. If I'm if I'm psychoanalyzing myself and other conservatives,
00:10:32.040 it's from practicality. But it's an aversion we need to overcome because, you know, besides boycotting
00:10:38.820 is a rather practical thing to do. All we are doing is listening to a company tell us its position
00:10:44.780 and taking it seriously, believing what it says and responding accordingly. Goodyear apparently
00:10:49.380 doesn't want my business. Who am I to force it upon them? Many companies don't want my business
00:10:54.640 or your business or the business of so many millions of us, and we should stop giving it to
00:10:59.240 them out of basic self-respect and even respect for them and their wishes. And that's why Goodyear
00:11:05.680 won't see another dime from me, which is not an idle threat, by the way. This isn't one of those
00:11:10.120 boycotts where you're boycotting a company you've never patronized anyway. Like when leftists boycott
00:11:16.080 a hardware store or a gun shop. I've patronized Goodyear many times, but no more. And I think
00:11:22.680 this should be the approach across the board from here on out. No more propping up companies that hate
00:11:28.720 us. Those days have to be over. And you know, when we talk about the practicality thing, because I was
00:11:34.300 thinking about it this morning, trying to figure out like, what is it about? Why have I in the past been
00:11:40.120 so anti-boycott? And I do think it's, it's, it's the practical thing. And you see this difference
00:11:45.600 between conservatives and, and like I said, I know I'm psychoanalyzing here, but you see this
00:11:50.700 difference between conservatives and, and leftists. Conservatives tend to be very practical minded,
00:11:56.420 very common sense. I mean, you think about the typical sort of suburban middle-aged Republican dad,
00:12:04.100 you know, that's, that's like one of your quintessential conservative types, right? And that's going to be
00:12:08.580 someone who, and you know, that's sort of me. I don't know if I'm middle-aged yet, but that's
00:12:15.520 someone who, who, you know, it's, it just, just isn't that interested in, in, in, in activism,
00:12:21.240 isn't going to show up and hold a sign. That's the kind of person, you know, your dad is driving down
00:12:26.320 the road and just like, you need something, you pull in. And if you try, if you're a kid and you try
00:12:31.800 to show, no, no, we can't shop there, dad. It's because of their position. Oh, shut up. We got to go in
00:12:35.820 here and buy this. And that's kind of how we think. Now, leftists, on the other hand, are not as plagued
00:12:43.500 by practicality and common sense. They don't have to worry about that. Now, that handicaps them in their
00:12:48.820 day-to-day life, but it makes them much more effective activists. And so I think this has to be the balance
00:12:56.360 that we have to strike. Not that we give up common sense, but that we start being willing to do things
00:13:03.220 that are a little bit impractical, because that's what's going to be necessary in order to engage in
00:13:09.940 this culture fight. All right, let's go to our five headlines. Another night of the DNC last night,
00:13:22.320 God help us. I didn't watch it again because I don't hate myself. Well, I do hate myself, but not enough
00:13:28.380 to expose myself to such tortures intentionally. The highlight of the night, though, had to be
00:13:33.420 accused rapist Bill Clinton giving his speech, which was so laden with irony that, you know,
00:13:40.060 it may cause an overdose. So here's Bill, for example, giving a lecture on how to behave in the
00:13:46.020 Oval Office. Donald Trump says we're leading the world. Well, we are the only major industrial economy
00:13:52.440 to have its unemployment rate tripled. At a time like this, the Oval Office should be a command
00:13:59.200 center. Instead, it's a storm center. There's only chaos. Just one thing never changes. His determination
00:14:06.740 to deny responsibility and shift the blame. The buck never stops there. Now you have to decide whether to
00:14:16.360 renew his contract or hire someone else. If you want a president who defines the job as spending hours a
00:14:21.940 day watching TV and zapping people on social media, he's your man. They really might as well have
00:14:27.980 Michael Moore come give a lecture on nutrition and fitness. I mean, they might as well have Elizabeth
00:14:35.160 Warren speak at the Native American caucus meeting. Oh, wait, no, they actually did that too. Yeah,
00:14:42.280 they're, yes, they are trying to give us an irony overdose. I think that's the dastardly plot here.
00:14:47.400 Now, as for Slick Willie, we should remember that Clinton didn't just take advantage of a young
00:14:53.260 intern while he was president and lie about it and perjure himself. And he wasn't just accused of
00:14:58.760 sexual harassment multiple times by multiple women. He was also accused of rape. Violent, forcible
00:15:05.800 rape. Credibly accused. A lot of even the critical coverage of Bill's DNC speech makes no mention of
00:15:14.400 the rape accusation. For example, a piece in the Daily Beast eloquently titled Why the F is Creepy
00:15:20.120 Bill Clinton Speaking at the Democrat Convention doesn't, so they cut right to the chase of the
00:15:24.660 title. I like that, but it doesn't make any reference to the rape charge. It excoriates the DNC for having
00:15:29.740 Bill Clinton because he's a dinosaur. He represents the past. He's antiquated and so on. And yes, he was
00:15:36.260 inappropriate with some women, but even the critics of Clinton can't, on the left anyway, can't bring
00:15:41.860 themselves to admit that he was credibly accused of pushing a woman down on a hotel bed and forcibly
00:15:48.300 violating her. The other thing not mentioned is Bill's many, many trips to and fro with global
00:15:55.500 pedophile and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Speaking of which, new photos emerged yesterday. You can take
00:16:01.280 a look at that. There's Creepy Bill, as we're calling him now, getting a massage from one of Epstein's
00:16:08.640 sex trafficking victims. And unless you are naive to the point of being essentially catatonic,
00:16:14.420 you should know that there is nothing innocent about going on a trip with your pedophile buddy
00:16:18.640 and getting a massage from one of his sex slaves. In fact, we have heard from Epstein's victims that
00:16:27.480 these massages were part of the grooming ritual. So this is certainly nothing innocent here. And this
00:16:33.580 is big news, what you're seeing right here. A former president being massaged by a sex trafficked
00:16:39.780 girl in the company of an international pedophile. But you wouldn't know it from the media coverage,
00:16:46.760 which is, uh, which has been almost non-existent. Number two, it's like Groundhog Day at this point,
00:16:52.920 reporting this every day, but I'm not going to ignore it. BLM rioters in Portland again last night,
00:16:58.320 um, as we go into our, what is it? Third month of this. And they attacked a police station,
00:17:03.380 set it on fire. Here's the footage of that.
00:17:05.320 We've really reached a point where left-wing demonstrators setting a police station on fire
00:17:31.660 is like par for the course. Oh, they set another police station on fire. Well, what are you going
00:17:37.320 to do? There was a time when this would have been treated as a very big deal. And it is a big deal
00:17:43.960 and should still be treated as such. And this is why, speaking of conservatives being ineffective,
00:17:52.300 uh, the argument that you hear from a lot of conservatives is that, well, we shouldn't really
00:17:56.860 do anything and Trump shouldn't do anything, uh, because we, you know, this, these are leftist
00:18:02.060 cities and just let them destroy themselves. And, you know, that's how we stick it to the left is by
00:18:06.580 letting them destroy themselves. Uh, I think there are a lot of problems with that mentality,
00:18:11.020 starting with the fact that not everybody in one of these cities is there are just normal,
00:18:17.940 decent people living in these cities that are being victimized here. They're not all a bunch of
00:18:21.900 crazy. Yeah. If it was a city entirely comprised of violent, lunatic left-wing activists, then I
00:18:27.160 would say, yeah, just let them, you know, it's, it's Lord of the flies and just let them do what
00:18:31.620 they're going to do. But, uh, or maybe I would say that actually, I probably even then wouldn't,
00:18:36.340 but it's certainly not in this case because there are actual victims in these cases. And then the
00:18:41.560 second point is, um, even aside from that, we are letting the criminals do what they want.
00:18:50.580 I don't understand how that's supposed to be some sort of punishment. I don't know how that's
00:18:54.940 supposed to be us winning by letting them do, letting them commit crimes, letting them with
00:19:00.860 impunity do whatever they want. No, that is letting the criminals win. We are, we are letting them win
00:19:08.120 by letting them do what they want. And I don't think we should, it only emboldens them and it only
00:19:14.740 guarantees more of this in the future. I think it's a terrible strategy. It's not really a strategy at
00:19:18.540 all. It's a non-strategy. It's just, it's just doing nothing. Number three, reading from the
00:19:22.960 daily wire says Massachusetts officials are reportedly calling the police and the state's
00:19:27.060 department of children and families on parents whose children fail to show up for their school
00:19:31.480 districts, zoom school. Uh, those are the classes that are live streamed. The Boston globe reports
00:19:37.060 that Massachusetts school officials have reported dozens of families to state social workers for
00:19:41.560 possible neglect because of issues related to their children's participation in remote learning
00:19:46.400 classes during the pandemic shutdown in the spring. In most cases, the outlet notes, the referrals were
00:19:50.980 made solely because the students failed to log into class repeatedly. Most of the parents reported
00:19:55.160 were mothers and several did not have any previous involvement with social services. So now they have
00:19:58.840 that on their record. Um, and of course you can, you can totally see why a parent wouldn't bother
00:20:05.540 having their kid log into the zoom class because you know, I, if, if, if we're doing this, I can just
00:20:11.320 teach them myself, right? There's no reason for, I'm not going to have my kid sit in a computer,
00:20:15.580 sit in front of a computer all day to learn. This is not the right way. I'll just do it myself.
00:20:19.300 I think a lot of parents were saying that, and now they get visits from social services.
00:20:23.640 And this of course goes back to what we discussed last week, that the school system
00:20:26.720 thinks it owns your child, that your children belong to it. So even when they shut down
00:20:33.580 and don't let your child come to school, they still want to keep tabs. They still are owed in their
00:20:40.680 minds, your child's attention and allegiance and obedience. And they will literally try to throw
00:20:46.400 you in jail if you don't comply. I really think a day will come when people look back
00:20:52.500 on this kind of thing, look back on the modern public school system in general, and just shake
00:20:58.020 their heads in horror and disbelief thinking like, how did parents ever subject their children to that
00:21:04.320 intentionally? That's what they'll ask. And it'll be a good question. And the thing is,
00:21:09.140 I don't have a good answer even now, though I'm living through it. Number four, Fox News reports
00:21:15.420 important story here. Very important. It says, a bride recently posted online about how her mother
00:21:21.760 gave a vicious speech at her wedding last year, which led the groomsmen to ask her mother to leave
00:21:26.660 the reception. In the post on Reddit's Am I the A-hole forum, the bride, a user of the forum,
00:21:34.300 explained that she didn't really feel comfortable allowing her mom to speak at her wedding because of
00:21:38.060 their strained relationship. She says, quote, I ultimately let her, hoping she would deliver the
00:21:42.400 same fluff about gaining a son that she did at my sister's wedding. According to the Reddit post,
00:21:47.280 the mom insulted the bride's appearance, her, quote, crappy apartment, and her gross medical issues.
00:21:53.000 This is during the speech at the reception. She said each time she paused to let a joke land,
00:21:59.500 there was silence. My husband and wedding party stared at me frozen, waiting for my cue on how to
00:22:04.640 react. They stayed seated in until her bit about how I am damaged goods, referring to a time when I
00:22:10.360 was 19. I had a bad date and the guy harassed me for over a year. It seriously impacted my mental
00:22:15.480 health and I dropped out of college. It's painful to think or talk about. Then it goes on to say that
00:22:19.240 the mom was asked to leave the wedding and she's very offended by that. Now there's a strained
00:22:22.680 relationship with the daughter, even more strained, as you can imagine. All right, just two quick points
00:22:27.780 here. The reason I bring this up, this story, and first of all, the first one is I have been to
00:22:35.280 plenty of weddings and I have never witnessed a moment like this. And so I'm pretty jealous. I've
00:22:39.980 never seen anything this entertaining. Also, this is an opportunity for me really to go over what I
00:22:45.060 believe the rules should be for wedding receptions. Because the way we go about wedding receptions is
00:22:51.800 all wrong. Wedding receptions are exhausting and excruciating for everybody involved. They're
00:23:00.240 really not a lot of fun and it doesn't have to be this way. Now this one sounds like it was pretty
00:23:04.780 entertaining, but usually they aren't. But they would be if everybody followed my rules. So let
00:23:10.620 me tell you what the rules are. And of course, when I take over and my reign begins as theocratic
00:23:15.320 dictator, these rules will be codified into law and punishable by death or a $50 fine.
00:23:21.800 Or both. Number one, if you aren't going to have booze at your wedding, you should be legally
00:23:27.720 barred from getting married. Dry wedding receptions are a violation of the Eighth Amendment's ban on
00:23:35.140 cruel and unusual punishment. I almost said they're a violation of the Ten Commandments, which I would
00:23:40.240 say they even are that too somehow. Especially a dry wedding where, I don't know if you've ever been
00:23:45.500 to one of these, a dry wedding, no alcohol, but they still have music and dancing. Now, if you're
00:23:51.240 going to go Puritan, then go full Puritan, have no alcohol, no dancing. We'll get in and out in 15
00:23:56.420 minutes. And if we're doing that, then okay, fine. I'll allow that. But you want to have a four and a
00:24:01.400 half hour reception with music and dancing, but no alcohol? Like you think you're going to get us onto
00:24:07.280 the floor for the cha-cha slide and we have had no beer ahead of time? Not going to happen.
00:24:11.780 Number two, wedding reception food is usually a letdown. There are some exceptions to this.
00:24:17.120 I went to my friend's wedding last year. He's Indian, so he had Indian food like curry and stuff
00:24:21.900 like that. It was very, very good. So there are some exceptions, but usually the food is bad. So
00:24:27.020 just what I would say, no food, people pack a lunch, a ham sandwich. Really, it's about the booze anyway.
00:24:32.300 Third thing, finally, more to the point of this story, all speeches should be banned at wedding
00:24:35.940 receptions. Giving an effective speech is actually a highly difficult skill to master and 99.9% of people in
00:24:42.580 the world do not have the skill. That's why most speeches you hear at weddings, at fundraising
00:24:47.460 banquets, at other types of events are horrendous because they aren't being delivered by trained
00:24:52.300 professionals. They're being delivered by amateurs who have no idea what they're doing. So that's
00:24:56.480 what I would say. Either have no speeches at all. I mean, how egotistical is it anyway to carve out time
00:25:02.400 in your wedding reception for people to get up and say nice things about you? So you're planning it and
00:25:07.780 you're saying, okay, so at this point here in the schedule, we'll have 47 people take turns saying nice
00:25:12.680 things about us into a microphone. Yeah, that's a good idea. Absolute narcissism. So no speeches or you can
00:25:19.580 hire a trained professional to give one speech, just one. And on that note, I am available a rate of $95 a
00:25:27.240 word. Not a bad, considering how much you spend at weddings. Really, that's a pretty good bargain.
00:25:32.560 All right. So those are the rules. Five, finally, we have one more headline. These aren't really
00:25:41.000 headlines, but just go with it. Lena Dunham, of course, one of the great minds and great talents
00:25:45.840 of our time, has given us another offering, another thing to think about. And I just want to play that
00:25:51.860 for you. Here it is. Yeah, I'm sorry. I just, I saw that. I felt like I had to deal with it
00:26:14.800 psychologically because I was exposed to it. And so then I exposed you to it also really misery loves
00:26:20.680 company. I had to do it. And I just, why, why? Maybe this isn't the lead here. I don't know.
00:26:29.900 But why is she wearing a bathing suit that says sex on it? Like that's about the, when it comes to
00:26:38.840 being a provocateur, that's about on the level of when you're in middle school and you type numbers
00:26:44.160 into your calculator and turn it upside down. So it says boobs, you know, it's like on that level.
00:26:49.220 This is someone who wants to be provocative, but has run out of tricks. There are no more tricks
00:26:54.940 in her bag. She reached into her bag, came up empty and said, oh, I know I'll, I'll, I'll wear a
00:26:59.780 bathing suit that says sex on it. Super edgy stuff. So there's Lena Dunham. That's what she's up to.
00:27:04.360 If you were wondering, and we're going to get to our daily cancellation, but first, um, you know,
00:27:08.840 we've been telling you about our all access membership tier, most exclusive membership tier of
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00:27:21.040 August 20th, I am so excited to be doing this. I cannot tell you how absolutely ecstatic I am,
00:27:26.700 um, that we will be doing a very special live stream, uh, watch party covering the democratic
00:27:32.800 national conventions, biggest speakers hosted by none other than me. Okay. We're going to watch this
00:27:38.480 thing. I am, I am so thrilled to be doing it. I, I hope that you join in. Um, I am not at all
00:27:44.560 planning to have wifi difficulties that night so that I can't do it. I, I'm certainly would not
00:27:50.340 plan for something like that at all. I'm hoping that that doesn't happen and that this thing
00:27:54.800 can go forward. I cannot wait. Um, dailywire.com slash Walsh 20% off all access with coupon code
00:28:02.440 access. Again, that's dailywire.com slash Walsh for our daily cancellation today. I'll be canceling
00:28:06.720 MSNBC host, Chris Hayes. And this, I believe is Chris's first appearance on the daily cancellation,
00:28:11.300 but not for lack of trying. And, uh, you know, when I tell you what precipitated this,
00:28:17.160 uh, the reason for the cancellation may be other than what you think. So there have been
00:28:21.200 these boat parades popping up over the last several weeks, Trump boat parades. These are,
00:28:26.880 I guess, Trump supporters who own boats and who get together and do a parade to express their
00:28:30.900 support for Trump. I don't personally really understand the point of that, uh, goes back to
00:28:36.260 the whole practicality thing, but whatever, Hey, you know, it's an excuse to take the boat out anyway.
00:28:39.740 And if you can put some lines out and do some, do a little trolling while you're at it,
00:28:43.200 uh, maybe trolling in more, more ways than one than even better. Now, Chris was going back and
00:28:48.820 forth with Washington post reporter, Dave Weigel on Twitter, talking about this boat parade phenomenon.
00:28:53.660 And one thing you should understand is that anytime Trump supporters, whether by land, air, or sea
00:28:58.700 come out in public, people like Chris Hayes and Dave Weigel will leer at them and want to analyze
00:29:04.760 and study them like they're a baboon troop or something. And this time, uh, they were talking
00:29:10.920 about it and debating, and they both agreed that as Hayes put it, white men without four-year degree
00:29:17.260 and disposable income enough to buy a boat are genuinely the Trump base. That's his analysis.
00:29:23.840 My issue here with Hayes and the reason for his cancellation is not that he's being condescending
00:29:28.980 to Trump supporters. That's not even worth remarking on anymore. I mean, yes, of course he is.
00:29:33.440 That's just, that comes with the territory. It's that his method of condescension just reveals how
00:29:39.000 silly and one track minded he is. Now he obviously means this as an insult, white men without degrees,
00:29:44.600 but who can buy boats are Trump's base. That's an insult. But what he's really saying is that
00:29:48.980 Trump's base consists of people smart, creative, and ambitious enough to forego the college path
00:29:53.980 and yet still achieve enough, achieve enough financial success to buy a boat. So to people like
00:29:59.140 Chris, having a degree is a status symbol, right? Having even more pieces of paper, your master's,
00:30:05.240 your PhD, whatever gives you even more status. And that's all it is to him. That's all it is to
00:30:09.560 people like him. That's why they get so upset and offended when people skip college and don't end up
00:30:15.400 in trailer parks, working the graveyard shift, stocking shelves at Walmart, like they're supposed to,
00:30:20.980 uh, in Chris's mind. That's what it's supposed to, that's what's supposed to happen. And nothing
00:30:24.540 against people who live in trailer parks and work the graveyard shift at Walmart. My point is that
00:30:28.380 Chris Hayes and other elitist snobs have a very specific idea of what your life course is supposed
00:30:33.920 to be. If you don't go to college, the main thing is you're not supposed to be financially successful
00:30:40.340 and you're certainly not supposed to make more money than they do. But when you defy those expectations
00:30:46.660 and, uh, you know, you really misbehave and you go off script and you ad lib and, um,
00:30:53.000 and you skip college and after years of hard work, you end up even more successful than some
00:30:57.800 of the elitist snobs themselves. Well, they don't like that. And so they'll try to insult you
00:31:03.420 on the basis that you don't have the mere piece of paper. And that's why the piece of paper itself
00:31:08.260 becomes the status symbol, not the success it's supposed to afford you. The success you can get
00:31:13.820 without the paper. They know that. So they'll still try to go, yeah, well, you're making good
00:31:18.060 money. You own a boat, you're living the dream, but you don't have this. And they wave in your
00:31:22.060 face the frame degree that costs them 30 years of debt and a damaged liver liver to obtain.
00:31:27.340 Um, and that's why I'm canceling Chris Hayes, but really, as you may have already gathered,
00:31:35.700 I bring up Chris Hayes mostly as an excuse to launch into my rant about college in general.
00:31:40.760 I'll take any opportunity presented to me, uh, no matter how much I have to stretch to get from A to B.
00:31:45.800 So leaving Chris Hayes aside for a moment, let me say again, and probably for the 10 billionth time,
00:31:52.060 going to college should not be the automatic and perfunctory path. It should not be the default.
00:32:02.020 College is not necessary for obtaining success in life. It isn't even necessary for obtaining your
00:32:06.960 own boat as we've covered. College is and ought to be seen as a very specific course of action taken
00:32:12.640 for specific and expressible reasons. Reasons like, I want to be a doctor or I want to get into
00:32:19.660 engineering. Okay. Those are great reasons to go to college. Though, even in those cases,
00:32:24.340 I don't see any particular reason why a kid just out of high school has to jump right into it.
00:32:29.320 Why not take a few years off, work a job or two, make some money, get some life experience. I can't
00:32:33.420 fathom the downside of that. Oh, I'll fall behind of it. Fall behind who? Who are you racing?
00:32:38.680 And why? But most people don't go to college with any particular job or career in mind.
00:32:44.900 They just go because that's what you do, they're told. That's what everyone does.
00:32:49.840 And by that's what everyone does, we mean that this has been the standard operating procedure for,
00:32:55.120 compared to the history of human civilization, about five and a half seconds.
00:32:58.300 But we've decided that the way stuff has worked for five and a half seconds is the only way it can
00:33:03.080 ever work again. We're wrong. And even as we shuffle our kids in these institutions,
00:33:10.060 blackmailing them, coercing them, pushing them, forcing them into college, we complain that it's
00:33:14.940 expensive. Now, the institutions are overrun with leftist brainwashers, which they are.
00:33:20.560 We say in one breath, junior, you must go to college or you're going to fail at life.
00:33:25.800 And in the next, we say, oh God, colleges are terrible and expensive and they're turning kids
00:33:29.520 into brainwashed zombies. It doesn't make a lot of sense. And even leaving aside the ideological
00:33:36.920 issues, how much sense does it make for a kid to go to college just so he can figure out if he needs
00:33:44.300 to go to college? We tell them, even if they don't know what they want to do with their lives,
00:33:49.560 to go ahead and take out the six-figure loan as some sort of ticket to a really expensive
00:33:54.800 voyage of self-discovery. Spend the money to find out if you really needed to spend the money.
00:34:02.060 It's like charging someone for chemo before you even get the biopsy results back. It doesn't,
00:34:06.080 it just, in any other context, we would consider it reckless and ridiculous. A much more reasonable,
00:34:13.140 less expensive, less risky, less fraught path is to graduate high school, go into the workforce,
00:34:17.600 have some life experience, figure yourself out, figure out what you want to do, what your skills are,
00:34:22.560 your passions, your goals. And then if it becomes apparent that a college education is a necessary
00:34:27.780 piece of your puzzle, go and get the education. This is a lot better than trying to cram the piece
00:34:34.800 into place before you even know if it belongs to your puzzle or not.
00:34:41.060 So there's my college rant. And anyway, Chris Hayes is canceled. And college is canceled too. We
00:34:46.140 canceled both. Two birds, one stone. That'll do it for today. Thanks for watching, everybody. Thanks
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