The Matt Walsh Show - September 25, 2020


Ep. 572 - The Craziest And Most Dangerous Conspiracy Theory In America


Episode Stats

Length

33 minutes

Words per Minute

175.9914

Word Count

5,833

Sentence Count

430

Misogynist Sentences

5

Hate Speech Sentences

16


Summary

The QAnon Conspiracy Theory is the most dangerous conspiracy theory in America today, and it s not the one the media is freaking out about. It s the one that s currently fueling riots and anarchy in the streets, including BLM and Antifa. Speaking of that, protesters in LA are using cars now to chase down innocent motorists and attack them, and guess who the cops are arresting? Then, a very special daily cancellation segment dedicated to someone you re not going to want to miss.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, we'll talk about the most dangerous conspiracy theory in America
00:00:04.160 today. And it's not the one the media is freaking out about. It's the conspiracy theory that's
00:00:08.200 currently fueling riots and anarchy in the streets. Also, five headlines, including BLM
00:00:13.300 and Antifa, speaking of that, protesters in LA, protesters in LA. They're using cars now to chase
00:00:19.200 down innocent motorists and attack them. And guess who the cops are arresting? Then a very special
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00:02:01.180 Back then, lesbian wasn't about sexuality. A lesbian was just any woman not laughing at a man.
00:02:06.880 Is the joke here that feminists are hysterical and oversensitive and constantly imagining that
00:02:14.640 they're being persecuted when they're really not? If that's the joke, it's a pretty good joke.
00:02:18.160 But I suspect that's not the joke.
00:02:19.800 Okay, I just feel like I could relate so much to what's being said here. Let's go back and review
00:02:29.340 some of that. He says, I'm going to turnt it up a little more this time. Used to dream about getting
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00:02:55.720 I plead with you. I beseech you. All right. Now, let's get into this. I'm a little fuzzy on some of
00:03:02.800 the details, but as far as I understand it, the QAnon conspiracy theory alleges that Donald Trump is
00:03:08.700 secretly at war with a global ring of satanic pedophiles and some shadowy agent who goes by
00:03:15.000 codename Q is keeping devotees of the theory abreast of new developments through anonymous
00:03:21.660 internet posts. Now, there's about as much solid evidence to support this idea as there is to
00:03:28.320 support the claim made by a lot of the same people as it happens that the Sandy Hook massacre was a
00:03:33.140 hoax, which is to say there is no evidence. As is usually the case with these sorts of things,
00:03:38.700 those advancing the conspiracy theories tend to think that the existence of a certain fact
00:03:43.740 is itself sufficient proof for the whole cinematic storyline they've concocted to explain it.
00:03:51.460 Sandy Hook truthers point out that certain web pages, memorial sites, news articles, etc.,
00:03:56.200 were timestamped supposedly for before the attack occurred. This along with a couple of other random
00:04:01.720 points of data, some true and some not, is supposed to be all the evidence needed that 20 dead children
00:04:08.620 never actually existed or were paid actors or whatever. Now, a more logical explanation, of
00:04:14.060 course, and one that doesn't require a whole frantic succession of additional unproven assertions is
00:04:19.020 that timestamps on the internet are sometimes wrong and there's nothing terribly unusual or bizarre
00:04:23.740 about that. In the case of QAnon, proponents can point to the existence of global sex traffickers like
00:04:29.120 Jeffrey Epstein. And this somehow is supposed to strongly indicate that all the other claims made
00:04:34.720 by some random guy posting on 4chan are reliable. This is how conspiracy theories work. They feed on
00:04:40.380 our credulity and on our very human tendency to make sense of the world by drawing false connections,
00:04:47.720 assuming motivations, and imagining, hoping that reality is as decipherable and organized as it seems
00:04:53.620 in Hollywood films. These theories are baseless and rather embarrassing, but the media wants to make
00:05:01.260 them into something more than that. We're frequently told that Q acolytes are a danger to our democracy,
00:05:07.640 that they may turn violent at any moment. Yet, with extremely rare exception, that simply hasn't
00:05:13.880 happened and there are no signs that it will start happening. QAnon remains a constant threat to
00:05:19.460 spam our Twitter threads and post wacky memes. Other than that, there's no reason to fear them.
00:05:25.780 But there is another popular conspiracy theory that should perhaps cause some anxiety among the sane.
00:05:32.980 One with many more adherents, vastly greater influence, amplified by mainstream voices in media and
00:05:40.160 entertainment, and which has proven to be a real and catastrophic threat to our physical safety, our system of
00:05:45.480 government and the future of our democracy. On an intellectual level, it's no more credible than QAnon or
00:05:51.060 Sandy Hook, and probably quite a bit less credible. Worst of all, this conspiracy theory has the advantage of
00:05:57.220 not being widely and properly considered or labeled a conspiracy theory, which only increases its perceived
00:06:03.860 legitimacy and causes it to grow and spread like mold in a flooded basement. I refer to the theory that
00:06:11.440 agents of white supremacy, within law enforcement and without, are hunting and murdering black people all across the
00:06:18.360 country. That's a conspiracy theory. It is false. After the grand jury decision was announced on Wednesday, a guest on
00:06:26.320 MSNBC ranted against, quote, state-sponsored white supremacy and killing of black people, and claimed that you can't go
00:06:34.540 anywhere if you're black because blacks are being murdered by racist whites with such regularity. Let's listen to that.
00:06:39.640 That is why people are upset. That is why protesters are mad at the media, because they're tired of these discussions being
00:06:49.640 teased out in ways that give justifications for nothing other than state-sponsored white supremacy and killing of black
00:06:56.260 people. It is so infuriating and so maddening. You're not safe anywhere, because I can't go anywhere, Nicole. If I go jogging, I can end up
00:07:04.220 like Ahmaud Arbery. Right. So as proof of this extraordinary claim made, it should be remarked by a black man who
00:07:11.300 says he can't go anywhere and yet is sitting comfortably on national TV launching wild accusations against the
00:07:16.660 very country that protects his right to do so safely. But the guest, Jason Johnson, mentions three unrelated
00:07:23.440 cases over the course of two years. In two of the cases, Atatiana Jefferson and Botham Jean, the cops responsible
00:07:29.720 were indicted. Neither case has any plausible connection to racism at all. He also mentions Ahmaud Arbery, whose killers have
00:07:38.980 likewise been charged. This doesn't come anywhere close to justifying the claim that black people can't go anywhere for fear of being
00:07:46.460 executed by state-sponsored white supremacists. And he is, of course, completely ignoring the statistical reality that blacks are more
00:07:54.940 likely to kill whites than whites are to kill blacks and that blacks are not significantly more likely to be killed
00:07:59.720 during the course of an arrest than are whites. He has done exactly what conspiracy theorists always do, taking a few
00:08:06.720 random facts or events, plucking them out of context, disregarding from the outset all alternative explanations for those
00:08:15.600 facts, making no attempt to view them from a wider perspective, and constructing around them a far-reaching narrative that
00:08:22.380 creates more holes than it fills and requires more explanation than it provides.
00:08:27.800 That's what conspiracy theorists do. Now, Johnson may be making claims that are absurd, dangerous, stupid, and utterly
00:08:34.900 lacking any factual basis whatsoever, but he's not alone going out on that limb. This is the narrative presented by
00:08:43.240 BLM and its mouthpieces. LeBron James says that black people can't leave their homes because they're being hunted.
00:08:48.640 There's no elected Democrat on the national stage who will publicly disagree with any of that, and most have made
00:08:55.280 similar statements. The mainstream liberal media, Hollywood, the Democrat Party, all have joined with the
00:09:00.740 delusional rioter in the street who speaks of a white supremacist conspiracy to exterminate innocent black
00:09:06.960 Americans. None have offered any evidence of this conspiracy. They have only random anecdotes, all of which can be
00:09:15.400 easily accounted for without recourse to imaginary genocides. Now, unlike QAnon, this conspiracy
00:09:22.140 theory has real-world consequences. One wacko was motivated by the Pizzagate conspiracy theory to show
00:09:28.680 up to comet ping-pong pizzeria in D.C. and fire off three shots, hitting no one but damaging a wall and a door
00:09:34.820 and maybe a desk or something. Four years later, this event is still trotted out as an example of the dangers of
00:09:40.880 far-right conspiracy mongering. Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of people have been motivated by the
00:09:46.480 white supremacists are hunting black people conspiracy theory to torch cop cars, destroy buildings, loot,
00:09:52.400 vandalize, assault, kill. If Pizzagate and QAnon have dangerous implications, then the theory promoted by
00:09:59.600 BLM is downright apocalyptic in its consequences. It is intended to be. Those who propagate it are actively
00:10:06.960 trying to destroy the public's faith in our institutions. One's faith in our institutions
00:10:12.060 will naturally tend to waver if one seriously believes that they're run by genocidal white
00:10:17.180 supremacists. And now the calls for the abolition of police can be heard even from mainstream voices,
00:10:22.480 as well as the radicals and militants who prowl our communities every night, rampaging and pillaging,
00:10:29.420 feeling morally justified all the while because they're only tearing down a system that murders
00:10:34.580 innocent black people in droves. This is the conspiracy theory that burns our cities and tears
00:10:41.520 our country apart and threatens to damage us in ways that I fear cannot be undone.
00:10:50.520 So if you're worried about dangerous conspiracy theories, this is the one you should be focused on
00:10:57.060 debunking. We'll get to our five headlines.
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00:12:48.520 as we've been discussing or swarming, uh, our, our cities across the country again, last night,
00:12:53.400 I could probably stop saying that you can just assume that they're out there every night being
00:12:57.820 scumbags, doing what scumbags do. But this incident in LA is above and beyond much of what
00:13:05.460 we've seen so far. So let's first watch the video and then I'll describe it for those listening on the
00:13:10.980 audio podcast, but watch it right now. Okay. So you have there a driver trying to drive around the
00:13:16.120 rioters who are in the middle of the street. Now, yes, they think we we've seen this all across
00:13:22.080 the country. They think that they have the right to shut down any street they want to, you know,
00:13:27.200 direct traffic. They can do whatever they want. Um, and if you try to, it's not just, it's not if
00:13:33.280 you, if you run them over, if you try to just go around them to go down a street that they don't
00:13:38.680 want you on for whatever reason, then they think now they have every right to, uh, smash your windows,
00:13:44.980 assault you, pull you out of the car, kill you if that's what they decide to do. So in this case,
00:13:49.440 you've got a driver trying to go around the rioters. They swarm his car. He's successfully
00:13:54.500 say escapes. Doesn't, doesn't hit anybody is driving away on an empty street. Okay. It's not
00:14:00.240 like he's plowing through, uh, like a bowling ball going through rioters. No, he's going down an empty
00:14:05.540 street. And then, uh, what do they do? They get into cars and they chase him in vehicles, cut him off,
00:14:12.420 attack the vehicle, and then, uh, and try to pull them out. And finally at the end,
00:14:18.480 we see cops show up and arrest him, the victim. So two points here. The first is that just again,
00:14:27.560 these protesters are monsters. They are evil. They'll, they're soulless dirtbags. Uh, the divide
00:14:34.780 between good guy and bad guy in this situation is so clear. We have rarely seen in America,
00:14:41.860 a political movement that was so thoroughly and obviously evil with no redeeming qualities
00:14:48.900 whatsoever. BLM and Antifa, we're talking about one of the most evil political movements in American
00:14:57.380 history, utterly destructive, violent and hateful, attacking innocent people at random for no good
00:15:06.500 reason. Not that it could be a good reason, but they certainly don't have one. Also pathologically
00:15:10.480 dishonest. They lie about everything. Their whole movement, as we've already discussed is based on
00:15:16.220 total lies and fabrications. So there are a lot like the pro-abortion movement in that way. Um,
00:15:21.840 and there's a lot of crossover there too, I imagine. And the pro-abortion movement is,
00:15:25.300 is one of the, one of the other most evil movements in American history. So that's one point.
00:15:31.620 Second point is that the police, I think should be really careful about alienating the people who are
00:15:37.740 on their side. You see videos like that. You know, if you're a police officer, as I'm sure you've
00:15:43.380 noticed, you don't have a lot of friends and, uh, it's probably not a good idea to alienate the few
00:15:48.680 friends you do have, but that's, what's going to happen when we see law-abiding innocent victims
00:15:54.360 getting arrested like that. And there are others. Speaking of alienating the good guys,
00:16:00.320 um, let's, uh, maybe you've seen this video from a couple of days ago. Here's a, a Christian being
00:16:06.700 arrested in, I believe this is in Idaho for gathering to sing, uh, and, and praise and worship. Watch this.
00:16:15.160 Always trust in chariots, and others trust in horses. But we recall our Lord our God,
00:16:26.340 strong past our own resources. Our enemies have fallen low, but we are held and not. So save us,
00:16:38.620 Lord our God in gear, as we in trouble call thee, as we in trouble call thee, as we in trouble call thee.
00:16:48.620 Amen!
00:16:50.620 Amen!
00:16:51.620 This is embarrassing.
00:16:52.620 How you doing, Gabe?
00:16:53.620 I'm doing great.
00:16:54.620 I'm doing great.
00:16:55.620 Yeah, man, I'm doing great.
00:16:56.620 Cover this patrol car here.
00:16:57.620 Back side and the left.
00:16:59.620 Yeah.
00:17:00.620 Didn't see this happen for BLM, Gabe.
00:17:02.620 Uh, it's unbelievable.
00:17:03.620 Isn't that weird?
00:17:04.620 Hey, just get us a little space for you, please.
00:17:06.620 Yeah, that's right.
00:17:07.620 Yeah, just get us a little space.
00:17:08.620 Got it.
00:17:09.620 Got it.
00:17:10.620 Got it.
00:17:11.620 You guys should not be doing this.
00:17:12.620 And doing this kind of crap for the mayor?
00:17:14.620 This is embarrassing.
00:17:15.620 You guys are stronger than this.
00:17:18.620 You shouldn't be doing this.
00:17:20.620 You guys are tough people.
00:17:22.620 This is wrong.
00:17:23.620 Yeah, there was also a video that's been circulating of a woman being tased and arrested and cuffed
00:17:28.620 for sitting without a mask on a, you know, mostly empty bleachers at a football game.
00:17:34.620 This is the kind of thing that's going to alienate the, you know, the people that are on your side.
00:17:38.620 The good guys.
00:17:39.620 Going to alienate them.
00:17:41.620 With this sort of nonsense.
00:17:43.620 Number two.
00:17:44.620 Uh, I love this from Charles Barkley.
00:17:46.620 Listen to this.
00:17:47.620 You know, I hear these fools on TV talking about defund the police and things like that.
00:17:53.620 We need police reform and prison reform and things like that.
00:17:57.620 Because you know who ain't going to defund the cops?
00:18:00.620 White neighborhoods and rich neighborhoods.
00:18:03.620 So that notion they keep saying that.
00:18:06.620 I'm like, wait a minute.
00:18:07.620 We just going to leave.
00:18:08.620 Who are black people supposed to call ghostbusters?
00:18:10.620 When we have crime in our neighborhoods, we need police reform.
00:18:14.620 But like I say, white people, especially rich white people, they're always going to have cops.
00:18:18.620 So we need to stop that defund or embolish the cops crap.
00:18:22.620 Yeah, just basic common sense there.
00:18:24.620 Um, and what does it tell you that at this point when somebody is on TV saying just basic common sense stuff?
00:18:35.620 Well, all he's really saying is, no, of course, we don't want to get rid of the police department.
00:18:39.620 Are you kidding me?
00:18:40.620 And of course, if you're in a neighborhood that's got more crime, then that's all the more reason why you want police officers.
00:18:47.620 Very basic common sense.
00:18:49.620 But what does it say?
00:18:50.620 And I appreciate him saying it.
00:18:52.620 I don't mean to dismiss it or belittle it because it is important to say.
00:18:55.620 But what does it say about our culture that someone just making a basic common sense statement like that is such a relief.
00:19:01.620 And you are so overcome with joy just to hear it.
00:19:04.620 You know, it's like it's like a just a fresh cup of water when you've been wandering in a desert.
00:19:09.620 That's what it feels like.
00:19:10.620 A little cup of water, a little cup of sanity amid the desert of madness.
00:19:15.620 So good job from Charles Barkley there.
00:19:19.620 Number three, a few days ago, speaking of we'll get back into the madness part of it now.
00:19:23.620 A guy who goes by the name Dreadhead Cowboy, an activist in Chicago.
00:19:27.620 He's worked with Mayor Lightfoot over there in Chicago, is well known for that locally.
00:19:32.620 And he decided to call attention to the issues by riding a horse down the highway in the middle of traffic.
00:19:40.620 So here's some of that.
00:19:41.620 You can see you can see him riding there.
00:19:43.620 All the cops are trailing.
00:19:44.620 Well, now the Dreadhead Cowboy is very shocked and appalled and victimized because he got arrested for that stunt.
00:19:51.620 Shocker of shockers.
00:19:52.620 Actually, it is kind of a shock that they arrested someone in Chicago for breaking the law.
00:19:56.620 So I appreciate that.
00:19:57.620 But the main charge is animal cruelty.
00:19:59.620 The animal was ridden almost to death, might still be euthanized.
00:20:04.620 It's in critical condition right now.
00:20:05.620 He rode the animal seven miles on the pavement without proper equipment, nearly killed it in the process, all in the name of activism.
00:20:13.620 But here he is.
00:20:15.620 Now, of course, as we know, who's the real victim here?
00:20:20.620 He blocked traffic, rode a horse almost to death.
00:20:22.620 Who's the real victim?
00:20:23.620 Well, it's him.
00:20:24.620 And here he is explaining that and defending his actions in a press conference.
00:20:27.620 Listen.
00:20:28.620 My first time ever, I'm just going to go into, I'm an animal lover period.
00:20:33.620 Like, all my life, I've always been an animal lover.
00:20:36.620 And four years ago, it was my first chance ever being around a horse.
00:20:41.620 And two years later, my first chance owning a horse.
00:20:44.620 And I fell in love with horses since then.
00:20:46.620 And I done owned up to nine horses.
00:20:48.620 And when I say it's a beautiful thing to own a horse, and I couldn't even tell y'all, the people that don't know anything about horses from looking for the outside.
00:20:58.620 Then you would think that what I did was cruelty to animals.
00:21:02.620 But if you go to the racetrack, a hundred times worse, if you go to the circus, worse than what?
00:21:11.620 I'm sorry.
00:21:12.620 Okay.
00:21:13.620 Like, it's way worse than what I do to my horse.
00:21:18.620 And I probably could have did a little bit less, but I had to make a statement.
00:21:24.620 They've done worse at the circus.
00:21:27.620 That's his defense.
00:21:28.620 That may be one of the worst criminal defenses I've ever heard in my life.
00:21:33.620 They've done worse at the circus.
00:21:36.620 Maybe if he gets arrested for murder, he can say, hey, come on.
00:21:39.620 You know, they did worse in the Roman Coliseum.
00:21:42.620 Haven't you seen Gladiator?
00:21:43.620 Come on, guys.
00:21:44.620 Give me a break.
00:21:45.620 We'll see if that works out for him.
00:21:47.620 It is Chicago, so maybe it will.
00:21:49.620 Number four, another one for the get your kids the hell out of the public schools file.
00:21:53.620 Here's a report from the Daily Wire.
00:21:54.620 It says, earlier this summer, the Fairfax County public school system in Virginia paid $20,000
00:22:00.620 to host author Ibram Kendi for a virtual event on anti-racism, the left-wing ideology whose
00:22:07.620 adherents believe it is impossible to not be racist.
00:22:10.620 It's impossible to not be racist, yet they hold seminars on how to not be racist.
00:22:15.620 According to a copy of the contract, a link to which was included by journalist Azra Nomani,
00:22:23.620 the school district paid $20,000 to the Penguin Random House Speakers Bureau for a 45-minute
00:22:29.620 virtual event with Kendi, followed by a 15-minute Q&A session.
00:22:34.620 School released a statement defending it, saying that he's a leading anti-racist voice in America,
00:22:41.620 blah, blah, blah, blah, etc. $20,000 for one hour online.
00:22:46.620 He didn't even have to leave his house.
00:22:48.620 Now, I admit, I am a little salty, as the kids would say.
00:22:52.620 I've done some virtual events during this pandemic, and I've been paid for a few of them.
00:22:59.620 I can tell you that I don't get paid anything close to $20,000 for a virtual event.
00:23:03.620 Actually, it never even occurred to me to ask for that kind of money to sit when you don't have to leave your house.
00:23:10.620 Like, here's really the scale.
00:23:13.620 If I don't even have to put on pants to do the event, then I feel like I can't ask for that kind of money.
00:23:19.620 That's the scale.
00:23:20.620 If I have to put on pants, there's going to be charges and fees that are attached to that.
00:23:27.620 And I'll put that on the invoice of putting on the pants fee.
00:23:31.620 But when you're just Skyping from your house, $20,000, my God.
00:23:34.620 Now, I ask you to consider this, though.
00:23:36.620 Reflect on this.
00:23:38.620 Is a country oppressing black people when a black man can get $20,000 to talk about how oppressed he is?
00:23:48.620 What do you think?
00:23:50.620 Think about historical examples.
00:23:52.620 Think about, you know, other oppressive countries, Nazi Germany.
00:23:56.620 The left often compares the two.
00:23:59.620 Could people who were oppressed in Nazi Germany make thousands of dollars talking about that oppression?
00:24:06.620 I don't think so.
00:24:08.620 It almost seems like if you can get paid a lot, if you can make a lot of money in a certain country going around talking about how bad the country is to you and how you're oppressed,
00:24:18.620 pretty good indication you're not oppressed at all.
00:24:20.620 In fact, the country is very kind to you.
00:24:22.620 And again, you're doing very well in the country.
00:24:25.620 I don't know.
00:24:27.620 Maybe I'm crazy.
00:24:28.620 Number five.
00:24:29.620 Finally, important PSA for you black licorice fans out there.
00:24:32.620 A Massachusetts man died last year from eating an excessive amount of black licorice.
00:24:37.620 Doctors said on Wednesday, the unusual case was reported in the New England Journal of Medicine detailing how the man consumed a bag and a half of the candy.
00:24:47.620 This is from the New York Post, by the way, I'm reading a bag and a half of the candy every day for two weeks prior to his death.
00:24:52.620 Licorice contains certain acids and things which can deplete potassium levels and contribute to heart rhythm problems, according to doctors.
00:25:01.620 So he collapsed inside a fast food restaurant, died the next day.
00:25:04.620 Very sad, of course.
00:25:06.620 I will say, though, that I recently discovered that black licorice is good.
00:25:11.620 And a lot of people are biased against black licorice.
00:25:15.620 I think that the bias is mostly because people and this is a big problem with food in general.
00:25:20.620 You have your first experience with black licorice when you're in childhood, right?
00:25:25.620 And when your palate is unrefined and you hate anything that isn't sickly sweet.
00:25:31.620 Think about when you're a kid.
00:25:33.620 You could eat like pixie sticks.
00:25:35.620 In fact, I don't even know if they sell these anymore.
00:25:37.620 Probably with all the public health people out there, they can't.
00:25:40.620 But when I was a kid, they used to sell these massive like garden hose sized pixie sticks just full of sugar.
00:25:49.620 And so you would just take the garden hose of sugar and spray it directly in your mouth.
00:25:55.620 And I enjoyed that.
00:25:57.620 Now, now I couldn't do that without vomiting.
00:25:59.620 That's because as your kid, your palate isn't quite developed and you can't you can't deal with more nuanced, complex flavors.
00:26:06.620 And so you try black licorice you don't like, a Brussels sprouts, another one, olives, liver.
00:26:11.620 You got to go back around as an adult and discover that these things are actually good.
00:26:16.620 Although apparently they can kill you within two weeks.
00:26:20.620 So that's the downside.
00:26:22.620 All right.
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00:27:17.620 Today for our Daily Cancellation, something special here, a little different.
00:27:21.620 You know, normally here I cancel someone.
00:27:23.620 That's why I call it the Daily Cancellation.
00:27:25.620 But today what I really like to do is flip it around.
00:27:28.620 And rather than canceling, I'm going to defend someone from cancellation.
00:27:33.620 This is more of an anti cancellation today.
00:27:35.620 I think it's important sometimes to come out to the defense of those who are unjustly accused, unjustly canceled.
00:27:42.620 And frankly, it's the right thing to do. Simple as that.
00:27:45.620 I believe in doing the right thing.
00:27:47.620 So today, the person I'd like to defend from cancellation is someone who is, for my money, one of our greatest living Americans.
00:27:55.620 A man of virtue and generosity who is unfairly maligned and does not deserve any of the negative treatment this person receives.
00:28:04.620 And I refer, of course, to myself.
00:28:07.620 I am the one who is being unjustly canceled.
00:28:10.620 And worst of all, it's my wife trying to do it to me.
00:28:13.620 Honestly, I can't believe that my own spouse would try to cancel me in public.
00:28:17.620 That is something I would never do to her.
00:28:19.620 But again, this is how it usually goes in my life.
00:28:22.620 I find that I am so often the victim while everyone else so often is wrong.
00:28:25.620 It's the burden I carry.
00:28:27.620 Now, my wife last week put me on blast, as the kids say, or did say in 2003 anyway.
00:28:33.620 This is what she tweeted.
00:28:36.620 She says,
00:28:37.620 Hypothetically, what would you do if your spouse forgot your anniversary?
00:28:41.620 Clearly a hypothetical situation that would never happen, right, Matt Walsh?
00:28:45.620 Yes, if you can believe it, she is insinuating, accusing me of forgetting our anniversary.
00:28:52.620 This is a libelous charge.
00:28:54.620 And she also has her facts completely wrong.
00:28:57.620 She says, I forgot the anniversary, even though our anniversary hasn't happened yet.
00:29:01.620 It doesn't happen until late October.
00:29:03.620 Or maybe November.
00:29:05.620 Definitely sometime in there.
00:29:06.620 Anyway, the point is, I cannot have forgotten that which has not occurred.
00:29:11.620 The reason she accuses me of this is simply that I may have hypothetically, allegedly, scheduled
00:29:16.620 something for the same day as our anniversary, something work-related which I may not be able
00:29:21.620 to cancel or change at this point.
00:29:23.620 I may have done that because I may not have realized at the time of the scheduling that
00:29:26.620 it was our anniversary.
00:29:28.620 I may have mentioned in passing to my wife, I may have said, oh, hey, I got this thing
00:29:33.620 coming up.
00:29:34.620 And she may have said, you know that's our anniversary, right?
00:29:37.620 And I may have responded, oh, s***.
00:29:41.620 But does this count as forgetting an anniversary?
00:29:44.620 Well, only in the sense that anyone in the world can be accused of forgetting anything.
00:29:48.620 Now, here's the argument I presented to my wife.
00:29:50.620 I came with facts and logic.
00:29:52.620 She simply couldn't handle it.
00:29:54.620 But here are the facts.
00:29:56.620 Merriam-Webster defines forget as, quote, to lose the remembrance of, to cease remembering
00:30:02.620 or noticing.
00:30:03.620 Dictionary.com adds this, to fail to think of, take no note of.
00:30:08.620 Okay, so you're forgetting something if you're ceasing to notice, failing to think of, failing
00:30:13.620 to take note of.
00:30:14.620 Well, in that sense, as I explained to my wife with devastating logic, in that sense, everyone
00:30:19.620 forgets all future events.
00:30:21.620 Because unless you're presently thinking of a certain future event at every moment of
00:30:26.620 every day, you're guilty of forgetting it.
00:30:28.620 For example, did you wake up this morning thinking about your own birthday three years
00:30:32.620 from now?
00:30:33.620 Well then, you forgot your own birthday in that moment.
00:30:36.620 Are you, at this present moment, thinking about Thanksgiving coming up?
00:30:40.620 Well, you are now because I mentioned it, but before that, you forgot it.
00:30:44.620 So you see, I forgot the anniversary, a future event, only in the same sense that all people
00:30:50.620 forget everything.
00:30:51.620 And indeed, the same sense that she herself forgets everything, including the very anniversary
00:30:56.620 that she's accusing me of forgetting.
00:30:58.620 I laid out this case to her, and she cut me off and said, and I quote, Matt, stop.
00:31:04.620 But that is not an argument.
00:31:05.620 That's an attempt at censorship, an assault on free speech.
00:31:09.620 The fact remains that my argument is reasonable and fact-based.
00:31:12.620 And I haven't even gotten into the fact yet that time is relative, and we base anniversaries
00:31:16.620 on the Earth's orbit of the sun, which is arbitrary in any case.
00:31:19.620 If we lived on Pluto, we'd still be 239 years away from our first anniversary.
00:31:24.620 Our first anniversary, we'd have no anniversaries if we lived on Pluto.
00:31:28.620 Think about that.
00:31:29.620 So in conclusion, I am not canceled.
00:31:32.620 I am an innocent man falsely accused.
00:31:35.620 I will not fall silent in the face of these attacks, and my wife, I trust, will come in
00:31:38.620 time to appreciate both the sound logic of my position and the inspiring bravery required
00:31:43.620 to defend it.
00:31:44.620 You might even say that through this example I'm providing, I am providing an anniversary
00:31:49.620 gift in a certain way.
00:31:52.620 Yes, that's good.
00:31:57.620 I think that works.
00:32:00.620 So, I am not canceled today.
00:32:03.620 And that's going to do it for us today, and this week.
00:32:08.620 I hope you have a great weekend.
00:32:11.620 Mine might be a little dicey, to be honest with you, but that's all right.
00:32:16.620 Godspeed.
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