The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 586 - Why Christians Can’t Support Biden

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Wall Show, this shouldn't need to be explained, but it does apparently.

00:00:04.440 Today we'll talk about why Christians should not and cannot support Joe Biden. Also,

00:00:09.880 five headlines, including Trump receiving an endorsement from another famous rapper.

00:00:13.900 And in our daily cancellation, in light of recent events involving Jeffrey Toobin,

00:00:19.360 I will be canceling Zoom and all other forms of video calling. All of that coming up. But

00:00:24.260 let's, we begin here. You know, every few days it seems there's another news article, blog post,

00:00:30.660 editorial, making the rounds on Facebook and stuff with a title like, you know, why this

00:00:37.200 evangelical minister is voting for Joe Biden, or I'm an actual pro-life Christian, so I'm voting for

00:00:43.280 Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, or faith leaders back Biden in sign that evangelical support for Trump

00:00:49.360 is waning. The polls still say that Trump is leading as expected with Protestants,

00:00:54.260 though Biden also, as expected, I'm afraid, has majority support among Catholics. Overall,

00:00:59.900 people who qualify, at least according to pollsters, as highly religious, still tend not to vote for

00:01:06.380 Democrats. But the trends are troubling. Support for Joe Biden or any other Democrat candidate among

00:01:13.840 religious people ought to be steady at around zero percent, but it's quite higher than zero and rising. 1.00

00:01:20.740 And that's a problem. Now, I'm not here to claim that a Christian has any obligation to vote for

00:01:27.640 Republicans. That's not the point. The Republican Party is not the official Christian party, and

00:01:32.680 Christians have no obligation to it. I'm also not going to argue that Donald Trump is a man of deep

00:01:37.780 faith or high moral character, because I don't believe he is either of those things. You know,

00:01:44.080 if you happen to listen to Ben Shapiro's show yesterday, I agree with his take on Trump and the

00:01:47.880 reasons to vote for him. That's not going to be my focus, though. Whatever you decide to do on

00:01:53.800 election day, what I can say is that if you're a Christian or an adherent to any other major religion,

00:01:59.640 for that matter, you simply cannot vote for Joe Biden. You can, obviously, in the sense that you

00:02:05.420 have the right to and the physical ability to, but you can't do it justifiably or in a way that is

00:02:10.840 consistent with your professed worldview. And the reason for that is very simple. Let's leave aside

00:02:18.260 any question of personal character. You know, I don't think that Biden is unassailably decent and

00:02:24.440 honest the way he's been branded, but never mind that. It comes down to what sorts of things Biden will

00:02:30.860 do, the policies he supports, the bills he will happily sign. I would say that it's not possible to

00:02:38.620 be a decent man who enacts evil policies. But even if it is, what good is that alleged decency? If a

00:02:43.800 man smiles while he punches you in the face, your nose will be no less broken for it. And in the case

00:02:49.540 of Biden, the consequences are far worse than a broken nose. Like this, 60 million children have

00:02:56.020 already been slaughtered by abortion since Roe v. Wade. The grotesque and ludicrous Supreme Court 0.87

00:03:00.900 decision that Biden supports and has pledged to defend with all his might. As a Christian or simply as a

00:03:06.260 person with a functioning moral compass, there is no way to minimize 60 million murdered babies. We are

00:03:12.100 compelled to see it just as it is. Unthinkable wickedness, a historic atrocity, an injustice of

00:03:20.000 unfathomable proportions. Joe Biden intends to continue this slaughter, indeed to fund it. After opposing

00:03:27.180 tax funding for abortion for many years, Biden recently reversed himself and decided that American

00:03:31.380 citizens should be forced at proverbial or maybe not so proverbial gunpoint to contribute financially 1.00

00:03:37.140 to the extermination of human beings. Biden does not support any restrictions on abortion. Biden

00:03:43.360 believes that mothers have a God-given sacred right to execute their offspring. And he plans to do 0.99

00:03:49.960 everything in his power to protect that right. His running mate, we should note, is even more radically

00:03:55.120 infanticidal than he is. Kamala Harris has been given a 100% perfect score from the pro-abortion group

00:04:01.320 NARAL for a reason, a good reason. And this is all that should need to be said about good old decent 0.99

00:04:08.400 Joe. It's all that a Christian needs to hear. But there's more. Even so, Biden is an enemy of

00:04:13.360 religious liberty, vowing, among other things, to reinstate Obama's policy of forcing nuns to allow,

00:04:18.320 quote, access to contraception. Biden's also said that passing the Orwellian and inaccurately named

00:04:24.980 Equality Act would be one of the first priorities of his presidency. This law would make both sexual 0.98

00:04:30.720 orientation and gender identity into protected categories under the Civil Rights Act, meaning

00:04:35.880 that a man who identifies as a woman would now be the victim of a civil rights abuse should this

00:04:41.140 self-identification not be respected by, say, a women's shelter that he is demanding access to.

00:04:48.100 This is not only an assault on religious liberty, as it forbids the people who run these organizations

00:04:52.180 from operating according to their religious and moral beliefs, but also an assault on science

00:04:56.340 and basic common sense and decency. Speaking of which, Joe Biden very recently endorsed the notion

00:05:04.100 that an eight-year-old boy ought to be able to transition into a girl. Now, whether he really

00:05:09.480 believes this madness or not is another question. The fact remains that he's bought into it, acquiesced to

00:05:15.720 it. The most dangerous and fantastical claims made by the most radical elements of his base,

00:05:23.080 he has acquiesced to, and pledged to govern accordingly. And on the same topic of a dangerous

00:05:29.560 and radical element, Biden is a staunch proponent and supporter of the racist Marxist organization

00:05:35.380 Black Lives Matter, a group that has in its spare time between fomenting race riots and calling for 1.00

00:05:40.020 the defunding of police departments in the most crime-plagued communities in the nation,

00:05:43.640 also publicly pledged to disrupt the nuclear family. You know, this is what Joe Biden supports.

00:05:50.200 These are the things he plans to actually do. Granted, he probably won't send very many mean

00:05:58.180 tweets and his speeches will be less ad-libbed and probably include fewer profanities, though there's

00:06:03.760 no guarantee on that second point. But that's window dressing anyway. What should matter most to us

00:06:09.920 as Christians is that even if he's less bombastic about it, he will help to shape America into a 0.51

00:06:17.380 country that is even more hostile to faith, even more dangerous to children, even more fundamentally 0.92

00:06:23.480 opposed to us and what we believe. He doesn't deserve our support, shouldn't receive it. So do what you

00:06:31.840 like with your vote, but don't use it to undermine yourself and the values that you supposedly hold dear.

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00:08:01.000 All right. It's been announced by the debate commission that Trump and Biden will have their

00:08:04.940 mics muted during the last debate this Thursday night. They're going to be debating, final debate,

00:08:11.000 I believe. And they're going to have their mics muted, not for the entire debate, which actually

00:08:15.780 wouldn't maybe be such a terrible thing. But no, while one is speaking and giving their two-minute

00:08:20.900 spiel, the other one's going to have their mics muted. Now, Trump has protested this decision and said

00:08:28.080 that it's very unfair, quote unquote. And a lot of conservatives are upset about it

00:08:32.380 because they see it as a, you know, something that's being done specifically targeting Trump,

00:08:39.460 which of course it is. And they see it as something that's supposed to hurt Trump,

00:08:44.080 which of course it is. But my point is that although it is targeted at Trump,

00:08:47.940 I don't think it's going to hurt him. I'm actually in favor of this. I think it's going to help Trump.

00:08:50.780 I, my biggest frustration in the last debate was that Trump would not just shut up and let Biden

00:08:57.260 speak and bury himself, metaphorically speaking, with his own words. We know that Biden struggles

00:09:04.200 to string together two minutes worth of coherence, you know, of two minutes worth of coherence in

00:09:13.700 general. We know he struggles to do that, just as I clearly struggle to do it too. So let,

00:09:18.300 let him do it. When you only give him 30 seconds to speak, he's going to sound like

00:09:23.260 he's really with it. Give him the full two minutes. That's good strategy. Um, now if Trump

00:09:28.720 had a certain measure of discipline and self-control, then he could just do that without the mics being 1.00

00:09:33.860 muted, but he, but he doesn't. So that's why it helps to have the mics muted. So I, I think in the

00:09:39.220 end it's going to, it's going to help Trump. Um, although of course in reality, it, it, he's right.

00:09:47.920 It is an unfair decision. The fact that it's targeted to him. And also it, this is not really

00:09:52.200 how a debate's supposed to work. I'm talking from a purely political optics sort of standpoint. I think

00:09:58.040 it will help Trump ultimately, but it's all, it all, it does defeat the purpose that the actual real

00:10:04.080 purpose of a debate, which is you're supposed to debate. There's supposed to be a back and forth.

00:10:09.820 That's what a debate is. All this stuff, these things we call debates, none of them are debates.

00:10:15.640 They don't qualify. Think about if you've ever been in a real debate with, which are, if you're a human

00:10:21.720 being, you probably have with, with just another person, like in your living room, this is not how

00:10:26.640 it works. It isn't okay. I'll, I will, I will state my case for two and a half minutes and then you

00:10:31.360 could go and then we'll go back. No, it's, then we'll have 30 seconds for rebuttal. And no, you

00:10:35.920 just, you just go back and forth and you have a conversation. That's what the debate should be,

00:10:39.460 but that's never going to happen. So we make do, I suppose. Uh, number two, speaking of Trump,

00:10:47.200 he has, uh, picked up an unexpected endorsement. Another rapper, another famous rapper, 50 cent

00:10:52.320 has come out in support of Trump. So maybe, so you got Kanye West, 50 cent, maybe they,

00:10:58.280 maybe they'll have a collab next in time for the election. Who knows? Um, 50 sat on Instagram,

00:11:04.560 posted a screenshot of Biden's tax plan, showing that people in his tax bracket will have to pay

00:11:09.760 62% of their income. And he had this caption. He said, what the F, uh, vote for Trump. I'm out.

00:11:18.700 Or first of all, a lot of emojis here. So this is upsetting me right now. This is a, I've already

00:11:24.640 made my point here, but this is a grown, this is, uh, if you're watching this right now on YouTube,

00:11:29.180 the emojis, do they help enhance the point at all? He says, I'm out of New York. The Knicks never win

00:11:37.520 anyway. And he's got a little emoji of a guy running. Yeah, I get it. You know, you've already

00:11:42.500 told me you're leaving. I understand what leaving is. I don't need it. I don't need an illustration.

00:11:46.300 You know what leaving is. Are you sure? Cause I got to, I'll draw you a picture. So no,

00:11:49.720 I don't need that. Anyway, he says, I'm out of New York. The Knicks never win anyway. I don't

00:11:55.140 care. I don't care if Trump doesn't like black people. 62% are you out of your effing mind. 0.98

00:12:03.500 Now, obviously the left is, is having a fit over this, but you know what, leaving aside the emojis

00:12:11.660 and everything, this is a very normal, very adult reason to vote a certain way. People on the left

00:12:19.300 are upset at 50 cent and say, Oh, you're so selfish. You're so selfish that you want to keep 0.91

00:12:23.400 your own income. Well, you say you don't want to work in order to give more than half of your 0.76

00:12:30.560 income to the government so they can squander it. You selfish bastard. No, normal adults 1.00

00:12:37.580 who work for a living, have responsibilities, maybe have family to take care of. We prefer to keep

00:12:46.200 as much of our own money as we can. Not because we're a bunch of Ebeneezer Scrooges. Maybe we are,

00:12:52.460 that's our own business. That doesn't have to be the reason. It's just that this is why we're,

00:12:58.060 I don't go to work every day. Um, I mean, if I had a real job, I wouldn't go to work every day

00:13:04.720 feeling like, okay, I gotta, I gotta do a good job here so that I can, uh, support the system and

00:13:10.360 support the government. No, this is a normal thing. And, and of course the problem is a lot

00:13:18.480 of the people on the left, especially the activists and so forth who get upset at those of us who want

00:13:24.940 to keep our own money and who don't want to pay, you know, for example, 62% in taxes, which, which,

00:13:32.620 which you are out of your effing mind to quote 50 cent if you support that. But a lot of people don't

00:13:37.820 understand this. Um, they don't pay anything in taxes because they don't have jobs. The activists

00:13:42.380 who are out on the street every single day, it's pretty clear they don't have jobs. So they just,

00:13:46.620 you know, they, they, they got mommy and daddy taking care of them. Either they're real mommy and

00:13:50.340 daddy or mommy and daddy government taking care of them. So they just don't understand how demoralizing

00:13:55.940 it is. And as I've said before, I don't think anyone, even if you have a job and you pay taxes,

00:14:01.920 even if you pay a lot of taxes, you still don't really understand how bad the taxes are and how

00:14:07.280 demoralizing it really is or should be until you've, until you have physically written checks

00:14:13.480 to the government. If it's all W2 withhold withholding, you don't re you still don't

00:14:19.420 really understand how bad it actually is. So you got to write that check, send it in,

00:14:25.700 watch the money, leave your bank account. Okay. Number three, Disney has added racism warnings to a

00:14:32.160 number of its classic films. Um, Disney explains it this way. This is on their Disney plus streaming

00:14:37.740 service. I believe it says, uh, as part of our ongoing commitment to diversity and inclusion,

00:14:42.020 we are in the process of reviewing our library and adding, add, uh, advisories to content that

00:14:47.160 includes negative depictions or mistreatment of people or cultures. We can't change the past,

00:14:52.000 but we can acknowledge it, learn from it and move forward together to create a tomorrow that today

00:14:56.400 can only hang on a second, learn from it and move forward together to create a tomorrow that today

00:15:06.700 can only dream of. Oh my good Lord. This is Disney we're talking about. So I guess I have to expect

00:15:15.280 stuff like this created tomorrow that today can only dream of that is. All right. Um, I'll just

00:15:26.520 let that go. And then they go on to explain why many of their past films are horrifically racist and

00:15:31.620 offensive. Um, this is what they say about Peter Pan, for example, and my kids love this movie. So I,

00:15:37.480 I read this one with interest because I, my kids love it. Uh, it wasn't my favorite growing up,

00:15:42.940 but my kids, so I've watched it with my kids a bunch of times. Uh, I, I never noticed really

00:15:47.280 anything offensive about it. I never, to me, it just seemed like it's a, it's a story about a kid

00:15:51.540 who flies around and fights a pirate. Uh, but Disney, they'll, they will tell me why I should

00:15:57.080 be offended by their own film. This is what they say. The film portrays native people in a

00:16:01.360 stereotypical manner that reflects neither the diversity of native peoples nor their authentic

00:16:05.360 cultural traditions. It shows them that it shows them speaking in an unintelligible language and 1.00

00:16:10.260 repeatedly refers to them as redskins, an offensive term. Peter and the lost boys engage in dancing,

00:16:15.200 wearing headdresses and other exaggerated tropes, a form of mockery and appropriation of native

00:16:20.060 peoples, culture, and imagery. Well, that's pretty bad. Yeah, it's, it's pretty bad when the magical

00:16:28.520 boy who flies because of pixie dust is culturally appropriating. You know, he should know better if he

00:16:36.960 existed. He should know better than the Aristocats. This is the, uh, warning. It says the cat is

00:16:42.460 depicted as a racist caricature of East Asian peoples with exaggerated stereotypical traits

00:16:47.100 such as slanted eyes and buck teeth. He sings in poorly accented English by a, uh, by a, uh,

00:16:54.200 voiced by a white actor and plays the piano with chopsticks. This portrayal reinforces the perpetual 0.63

00:16:59.980 foreigner stereotype while the film also features lyrics that mock the Chinese language and culture,

00:17:05.040 such as, quote, Shanghai, Hong Kong, egg foo young, fortune cookie, always wrong.

00:17:13.660 I've never seen Aristocats. I might have to check that out. Uh, Swiss family Robinson. Here's the 0.67

00:17:18.560 disclaimer there. The pirates who antagonize the Robinson family are portrayed as a stereotypical

00:17:23.680 foreign menace. Many appear in quote, yellow face or brown face and are costumed in an exaggerated, 0.99

00:17:29.380 an exaggerated and inaccurate manner with top knot hairstyles, uh, robes and overdone facial makeup

00:17:35.620 and jewelry reinforcing their barbarism and otherness. They speak in an indecipherable language

00:17:40.820 presenting a singular and racist representation of Asian and Middle Eastern peoples. Okay. Well,

00:17:46.620 you know, that one's a really important too, because you have to make sure that, uh, you portray pirates

00:17:51.640 with sensitivity. You gotta be very sensitive to the pirates when you're portraying them. Uh, and they

00:17:57.500 are a sensitive bunch. And so that's essential. Um, what, what does it really say about this? It's

00:18:03.860 obviously ludicrous and embarrassing for Disney, but if, if Disney here, here's really my point. If Disney

00:18:10.440 had the courage of its convictions, it would just get rid of these movies. It would take them out of

00:18:16.600 circulation, destroy them, uh, save our children from being corrupted by the racism and bigotry

00:18:23.400 because most kids who watch Peter Pan anyway, probably can't read the disclaimer. And so now

00:18:29.740 you're relying on parents to read it for them. And I can tell you as, as a parent, I'm not going to read

00:18:36.520 the disclaimer to my kids. I'm sorry. I'm just not going to read it. If they ask me, daddy, what does that

00:18:40.900 say? I'll say, I don't worry about it. Just something stupid. Don't worry. And if I do read it,

00:18:45.620 I'll probably, I won't be able to help myself from laughing while I read it. And that's going

00:18:49.800 to send the wrong message. So my point is don't put the ball in my court as a parent. You should

00:18:54.480 just get rid of the movies. Don't stream them. Don't sell them on DVD or anything. Um, not, uh,

00:19:02.220 merchandise, get rid of all that, but they don't want to do that. Why is that?

00:19:09.900 If you've noticed, they could, they could take that approach. That would really send the best

00:19:14.940 message. And again, if these are really racist, horrible movies, then why are you choosing to,

00:19:20.400 you're choosing to stream them on your own platform while you apologize.

00:19:27.100 I'm so sorry for this. I'm so sorry that I'm showing you this right now as I show it to you.

00:19:31.000 I'm so sorry. Please forgive me while I continue doing this thing right now that I can stop doing.

00:19:37.020 But they don't want to do that because they make a lot of money. Uh, they make, they make a lot of

00:19:40.660 money from, from some of these properties. I don't know how much they make from Aristocats,

00:19:44.100 but they make a lot of money from Peter Pan. I'm sure. Um, especially the, the merchandise and the,

00:19:49.720 the, the, you know, the, the Peter Pan property and brand and all of that. So

00:19:53.320 they want to, they want the money, but they still want the wokeness.

00:19:58.360 So this is just performative fake wokeness, which is all, which is the only kind of wokeness we ever get

00:20:04.040 anymore. Of course. Number four, uh, Rush Limbaugh, Limbaugh on his show on, on Monday had an update

00:20:10.560 on his battle with lung cancer. It wasn't a good update, but I thought, I thought, um, his whole

00:20:18.700 segment on it was pretty powerful. I can't play the whole thing. This is several minutes long, but

00:20:22.260 let me play just part of it. Listen to this. From the moment you get the diagnosis, there's a part of

00:20:28.700 you every day. Okay. That's it. Life's over. You just don't know when, but when you get that

00:20:34.220 diagnosis, I mean, that's so during the period of time after the diagnosis, you do what you can to

00:20:42.920 prolong life. You do what you can to prolong a happy life. You measure a happy life against whatever

00:20:53.520 medication it takes. And at some point do you decide, you know, this medication may be working,

00:20:59.660 but I hate the way I feel every day. This is just, I'm not there yet. I'm just, but, but, but it is

00:21:05.540 part and parcel of this. It's, it's, it's tough to realize that the days where I do not think I'm under

00:21:17.400 a death sentence are over. Now we all are is the point. We all know that we're going to die at some

00:21:25.560 point, but when you have a terminal disease diagnosis that has a timeframe to it, then that

00:21:33.740 puts a different, a different psychological and even physical awareness to it. We are all under a

00:21:43.480 death sentence. He says, and that's, that's true. That's a profound truth. One that I think most of

00:21:48.620 us simply refuse to accept. Um, certainly we don't want to think about it. We don't want to face the

00:21:53.080 implications, but Rush Limbaugh here is staring into the abyss, facing down his own mortality, his own

00:21:59.460 death and doing it with courage and dignity. And you know, the leftist critics of his, uh, excitedly

00:22:05.780 preparing to dance on his grave, reveling in his suffering. And I'm sure you've seen, if you go online and

00:22:11.400 you really want to see this sort of thing, you can go find it. I don't know why you'd want to see it,

00:22:14.240 but you can. Um, but all the ones doing that, we know that most of them will not have the strength

00:22:20.620 to confront their death, um, their impending death, the way that Rush is confronting his. 1.00

00:22:26.120 And that's what makes it so stupid, by the way, so stupid to delight in another person's death 1.00

00:22:31.500 or eventual death. I mean, obviously what the people are doing with Rush Limbaugh is also evil and 1.00

00:22:37.600 vile and disgusting and grotesque from a moral standpoint, but I'm talking even aside from the 0.99

00:22:44.180 morality of it, it's stupid because what do you think? You're going to live forever? You don't 1.00

00:22:48.660 think this is going to happen to you? You will also be dead very soon, relatively speaking. 0.95

00:22:55.540 You're, you're, what you're doing when you delight in someone else's death and suffering, 0.89

00:23:00.080 you are essentially pointing and laughing at someone while they walk down a road that you

00:23:08.400 are also walking on. Or maybe, maybe a better analogy, you're on the same train as them heading

00:23:16.040 over the same cliff and laughing as their train car goes over the edge. Well, you're in a train car

00:23:24.460 just a few cars back. Your time is coming in mere moments, relatively speaking. You're going where

00:23:33.080 they're going. You're under the same sentence, as he points out. So it's, but I, but I think it is,

00:23:41.500 it is in recognition of that. That's one of the reasons why people react this way to the death,

00:23:47.100 sometimes to death, and especially to death, the deaths of people they don't like.

00:23:49.900 Uh, it's a defense mechanism. It's a way of sort of convincing themselves or pretending that this

00:23:55.600 is never going to happen to them. That death is somehow this sort of like absurd, abstract,

00:24:00.780 far off thing, and something that only happens to people they don't like.

00:24:04.680 But that's not true. And they'll get a wake up call. Um, but anyway, a lot of dignity and courage

00:24:09.520 from Rush Limbaugh. So God bless, God bless him. Um, number five, finally,

00:24:15.220 we talked about dignity. Let's go to the other end of the spectrum. Uh, headline in the Wall Street

00:24:21.980 Journal says men's nail polish is taking off. Why now? Uh, and then the, the, the subheading says

00:24:30.620 influenced by celebrities like Bad Bunny, Harry Styles, and Aesop Rocky. I only know who one of

00:24:36.880 those people are. Harry Styles is, uh, who's, what's he from? He's a singer, right? I sort of know him.

00:24:44.900 I don't know. Bad Bunny. There's a male celebrity who goes by Bad Bunny. Um, anyway,

00:24:53.500 it says young guys nationwide are turning to nail polish and companies are meeting the demand

00:24:58.160 with muted male shades. Now I can't read the article because it's behind the paywall and I'm

00:25:03.120 not going to pay for this kind of content, but, uh, I don't really need to read it. I can simply

00:25:08.160 answer the question being posed in the, in the headline. And by saying, uh, it's, it's not

00:25:12.980 happening. You're asking why it's happening out. It's not, it's not taking off. This is what we call

00:25:18.120 an attempt at a self-fulfilling prophecy. And the media does this all the time, all the time,

00:25:22.100 especially when it comes to masculinity and those sorts of things. They're always finding

00:25:26.880 these absurd effeminate styles that like two guys are wearing. And they put out these headlines and

00:25:33.600 saying men everywhere are doing this. Look, men everywhere are wearing lipstick and yoga pants.

00:25:38.780 How did this style take off? No, it didn't. You just want it to, you freaks. That's the difference.

00:25:48.280 Um, okay. Another seamless transition, because speaking of freaks, we'll talk about, um, 0.59

00:25:54.040 something related to that just a second in a daily cancellation. But before we do,

00:25:57.720 you know, as with everything in 2020, there's been a lot of drama with the presidential debates.

00:26:01.520 We already talked about that, but we're ready for the next and final debate this Thursday.

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00:26:38.120 code debate when you sign up today. Okay. Time for our daily cancellation for our daily cancellation

00:26:43.940 today, sort of a sequel to yesterday's cancellation, which I destroyed phone calls with facts and logic.

00:26:49.460 I explained on the show on Monday that nobody's allowed to talk on the phone anymore. Phone calls

00:26:53.600 are officially canceled and I gave my reasons, which I won't rehash here. But in response to that

00:26:58.600 segment, there were a number of people who suggested that perhaps video calling of some kind,

00:27:02.660 Skype, FaceTime, zoom, et cetera, would be a way around this cancellation. Yes, phone calls are

00:27:07.880 canceled, but when you can see the other person's face, it isn't technically a phone call. So shouldn't

00:27:13.620 it be exempt? The answer is no. And also stop trying to play fast and loose with the rules.

00:27:19.200 You are expected to obey both the letters of my commands, uh, when it comes to the cancellations,

00:27:24.600 but also the spirit of the law, as well as any arbitrary exceptions or addendums I might come up with.

00:27:31.720 Um, and as if in a concerted effort to prove my point or, or perhaps as an, as an indication that

00:27:37.200 my cancellations also have the power of prophecy, a news story broke shortly after my show yesterday,

00:27:42.640 demonstrating the dangers of all forms of phone or internet related audible communication,

00:27:48.680 and also demonstrating why video chat cannot be an exception. And for that, we turn to New Yorker

00:27:56.060 writer and CNN contributor, Jeffrey Toobin, who has been suspended by the New Yorker after, um, 0.88

00:28:01.280 reportedly exposing his genitals during a zoom call with coworkers. And, um, actually it's reported,

00:28:07.120 I'm afraid to say he was, uh, well, engaging with himself, uh, in an intimate fashion.

00:28:13.100 Um, if you catch my drift right there on, on zoom. Now, um, many questions present themselves here.

00:28:21.140 So, you know, just as Toobin apparently presented himself, uh, questions such as what and, but why?

00:28:31.160 And seriously, bro, perhaps the details of the case as reported by vice will satisfy some of these

00:28:37.200 inquiries. Justice Toobin was, well, nevermind, uh, vice reports to people who were on the call

00:28:42.980 told vice separately that the call was an election simulation featuring many of the New Yorker's

00:28:47.820 biggest stars. Jane Meyer was playing establishment Republicans. Evan Osnos was Joe Biden. Jelani

00:28:53.460 Cobb was establishment Democrats. Masha Gessen played Donald Trump. Andrew Marantz was the far right.

00:29:00.320 Sue Halpern was left-wing Democrats. Dexter Filkins was the military and was the military. And

00:29:07.040 Jeffrey Toobin playing the courts. Dexter Filkins was the military. Well, uh, now let me step this

00:29:13.440 aside to say that actually I have no clue what the hell any of that means. They were, they were

00:29:17.600 play-acting the election on zoom. Why? Is this what New Yorker staff does for fun? It wouldn't

00:29:24.520 surprise me, I suppose, though Toobin would seem to have taken the role play in an unexpectedly

00:29:28.560 sexual direction. Uh, vice has more says both people who spoke on the condition of anonymity in order

00:29:34.580 to speak freely noted that it was unclear how much each person saw, but both said that they saw Toobin

00:29:39.940 pleasuring himself. Uh, the sources said that when the groups returned from their breakout rooms,

00:29:46.860 Toobin lowered the camera. The people on the call said they could see Toobin

00:29:50.980 compromised. Toobin then left the call. Moments later, he called back in, seemingly unaware of what

00:29:57.520 his colleagues had been able to see. And the simulation continued. The simulation continued.

00:30:03.300 They just charged right along as if they hadn't just seen Jeffrey Toobin's tube. You have to respect

00:30:09.220 that in a certain way. Um, but the truth is you can kind of see Jeffrey Toobin's point. I mean,

00:30:15.460 you can literally see it, but that's not, that's not what I'm trying to say. Toobin says that he didn't

00:30:19.620 know the camera was on, which is an explanation that leaves quite a lot to still be explained. Even so,

00:30:27.520 that if not for video calling, none of this would have happened or it probably would have happened,

00:30:33.160 but nobody would have seen it. This brings to mind the old riddle. If Jeffrey Toobin touches

00:30:37.520 himself in the forest and no one is there to see it, did it really happen? Answer? Yes, but no

00:30:43.460 psychological damage was caused to any unwilling spectators. And that's really what we're trying to

00:30:47.780 prevent here. Look, let's get away from Jeffrey Toobin for a moment, uh, mercifully. The fact is that

00:30:54.700 video calling and video conferencing itself presents all kinds of potential pitfalls,

00:31:00.840 even if they're less pornographic in nature. It could put you in a difficult spot when someone

00:31:05.340 insists randomly on speaking to you in a, in a, in a virtual face-to-face setting.

00:31:10.020 Inevitably, if you're at home, you haven't combed your hair, you haven't showered since last Tuesday.

00:31:14.720 Now, all of a sudden you have to put minimal effort into your appearance when the whole point

00:31:18.480 of being home is that you don't have to do that. It's an intrusion, an imposition. But most of all,

00:31:24.940 a la Jeffrey Toobin, it forces me to see you and whatever you might be doing. The person who

00:31:30.880 initiates the video call format is a narcissist who's basically saying, hey, wouldn't it be really

00:31:36.300 great right now if you could see my face? The answer is no, it wouldn't. And in a professional

00:31:42.100 setting in particular, I can say that nothing has ever been achieved on a Zoom conference that

00:31:47.260 couldn't have been achieved in 15 minutes through a group email. One last point here, and this is

00:31:53.000 important. This is perhaps the most significant problem with especially FaceTime and Skype.

00:31:57.060 People have decided apparently that because it's a video call, it's okay to do it in public.

00:32:02.380 Now, most people know that you shouldn't sit in a coffee shop and speak to another person on

00:32:07.080 speakerphone. Some people still do that, sociopaths. But for some reason, if the speaker has a video 0.98

00:32:13.440 component, suddenly it's assumed the rules have changed. They haven't. I shouldn't have

00:32:17.980 to hear your discussion with another human being if that human being is not physically in the room

00:32:23.360 with you, especially if they aren't wearing pants. And that's why, see, if you think I would just

00:32:31.920 cancel Jeffrey Toobin, I'm not. Well, him too. Although I don't think I need to cancel him. It's a bit

00:32:37.480 redundant at this point. Really, I'm canceling Zoom and video calling, all of that. And this just

00:32:43.560 brings us back to where we were yesterday. What are we left with? No phone calling, no video

00:32:47.880 calling, no video conferencing. Fine. You got a text message, you got email, and you also have good

00:32:53.640 old-fashioned snail mail. Okay? If the New Yorker staff, if they had conducted their election

00:33:01.600 simulation through some sort of PayPal system, or rather a PenPal system, sending letters back and

00:33:08.200 forth across enemy lines, then certainly this wouldn't have happened. And that's why all of

00:33:16.540 that is canceled. All right. We'll leave it there. Thanks for watching, everybody. Thanks for listening.

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