The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 592 - Your Life Does Not Depend On The President

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, many people in this country seem to think that if the result of the

00:00:03.820 presidential election isn't what they want it to be, it'll be the end of life as they know it.

00:00:08.980 Everything's over. This is why cities have to brace for rioting if Trump wins, because people

00:00:13.000 are way too emotionally invested in presidential politics. So today, I'm going to try to inject a

00:00:19.820 little bit of sanity into this picture if I can. Also, five headlines, including Trump picking up

00:00:24.360 another endorsement from a prominent rapper. Is this an aberration, just a sideshow, or is it a

00:00:29.600 sign that Trump will do better than the polls predict? Also, your daily cancellation and much

00:00:34.640 more on the way. But we begin here. You remember yesterday on the show, I played the sad and

00:00:40.680 disturbing, but we have to admit, kind of hilarious video of a woman crying in her bathtub because of

00:00:46.580 Amy Coney Barrett's confirmation. This has become a noted genre on social media, especially TikTok,

00:00:52.160 where people, usually women, let's be honest, have public meltdowns over political events, 1.00

00:00:58.520 usually events having to do with President Trump and things that Trump has done. This goes all the

00:01:03.080 way back to Trump's election. Let's hope we can say his first election, when we all remember there

00:01:09.180 was panicking and hyperventilating and people on their knees screaming at the sky. They haven't

00:01:14.580 stopped screaming. Four years later, they haven't stopped. And now, of course, we're hearing that if

00:01:19.200 Trump wins again, it'll be the end of all things, the end of America, the establishment of a new

00:01:23.960 dictatorship. If Trump wins the election, it'll be our last election. It's not just crying women 0.75

00:01:29.380 in bathtubs saying this either. A Lincoln Project ad released this week made the same claim. Though

00:01:34.900 I'm pretty sure that the Lincoln Project is run by crying women in bathtubs. Can't be positive, 1.00

00:01:39.800 though. Now, in any case, the hysterics have reached a fever pitch, and they'll go nuclear,

00:01:44.960 we all know, if Trump does pull out the win. Stores in many cities have already started boarding up

00:01:50.560 their windows. The National Guard has been put on standby. This is all being done, we should note,

00:01:56.220 in anticipation of a possible Trump win. Nobody's worried about rioting if Biden wins,

00:02:00.480 unless it's celebratory rioting from Democrats. So that should tell you something right there,

00:02:04.320 I would think. But when I look at all of this, I see the symptom of a particularly modern disease

00:02:11.840 that we, many of us anyway, pin all of our hopes and dreams and fears on the results of political

00:02:19.200 elections, especially national elections, especially presidential elections, leaving us vulnerable to

00:02:24.860 mental collapse if the results don't go our way, which they're guaranteed to not go our way at least

00:02:31.140 some of the time, probably half of the time, if you look at statistical averages over the last 30 years

00:02:35.780 or so. So this is simply irrational. Now, I want to be clear about something because I know I'll be

00:02:41.720 accused of this. I am not saying that the election doesn't matter or that it's not important or that

00:02:48.540 elections don't have consequences, sometimes quite serious consequences. I'm not telling you that

00:02:53.060 you shouldn't vote. None of that is my point. My point is that our emphasis on and focus on

00:03:02.820 national politics, especially presidential politics, is way out of balance, out of focus,

00:03:08.620 out of proportion. My point is that presidential elections matter, but they don't matter as much

00:03:15.700 as many people in this country seem to think. People these days, you know, brace for the results

00:03:21.640 of elections, especially this coming election, like their very lives depend on it. Like they'll

00:03:26.480 cease to exist if it doesn't go their way. Like the country will cease to exist. And that's what's

00:03:31.460 been said about every single presidential election in my lifetime. If so-and-so wins, it'll be the end

00:03:36.180 of America. This is the end. I've heard that every four years for my entire life. And yet here we are.

00:03:46.120 Sure, you could argue that America, in a certain sense, has ceased to exist, has been fundamentally

00:03:52.260 transformed in a way as to be an entirely different thing now than what it was before. I'm sympathetic to

00:03:58.340 that view. But even then, the reason for that transformation or mutation or degradation, however you

00:04:03.980 want to put it, has very little to do with who has been president and a lot more to do with cultural

00:04:09.080 influences that are much closer to home. Case in point, there have been three Republican

00:04:13.260 administrations in my life. Four, if you want to count my first two years under Reagan.

00:04:18.940 There have been two Democrat administrations. If we're focused just on presidential politics,

00:04:24.760 you would think that we'd be in a cultural stalemate, at least, or even that conservatism has been

00:04:29.720 gaining ground, winning. But that's not the case. The culture has marched precipitously to the left,

00:04:36.880 regardless of who happens to be in the White House. And the trend has not been slowed, much less

00:04:42.120 reversed, under Trump. This is part of what makes the leftists panicking about Trump so absurd. Whether

00:04:47.720 he wins or not, if you're on the left, you still have the culture. You have academia, the media,

00:04:52.200 Hollywood, the corporations, everything. You have everything. What are you worried about, exactly?

00:04:57.280 This desperate and overwrought focus on presidential politics is, of course, in part thanks to 24-hour

00:05:05.360 cable news and the internet. People can spend all day following the exploits of the president and

00:05:10.360 other politicians, thinking about them, watching them, listening to them. In ages past, the average

00:05:16.460 person may have gone their whole lives, never seeing or hearing the president or any national

00:05:22.000 politician. The most they could do is read a story in their local newspaper. If the president gave a

00:05:27.060 speech, they'd read the text of it, maybe, with none of the theatrics, none of the cable news

00:05:31.700 punditry attached. If there was a really significant scandal, they'd hear about it days or weeks later,

00:05:37.180 if at all, not five seconds after it surfaced. And they wouldn't live every single day hearing about

00:05:43.620 it, immersed in it. The less significant scandals, they may have never heard about.

00:05:48.380 And they were better for it, I think. So what did the people in these times before TV and the

00:05:55.360 internet do? What did they focus on? Well, I don't know, but I imagine they were focused first on

00:06:00.600 their families, their communities, because that's the only place they could focus. And the great thing,

00:06:06.880 the advantage of that, is that you can actually, on your own, affect immediate, lasting, and important

00:06:12.060 change in your own family and in your own community. That's the thing you have the most

00:06:17.840 control over. That's the area in which problems can most readily be fixed by you. And that's still

00:06:26.000 the case now, even as our attention is elsewhere. We may be more intellectually invested in national

00:06:32.820 politics and more aware of it, but its immediate effect on our lives and our immediate ability to

00:06:37.620 change it is about what it always was. Not non-existent, but also not nearly as great as

00:06:44.080 we assume. And it's still true now that our families, our communities, should be our first

00:06:49.840 priorities. Consider the common dynamic in homes across America of a parent on his phone arguing

00:06:56.420 with strangers on social media about stuff the president is doing, insisting that the president's

00:07:01.300 actions are hurting his family, while his child is right there in the room with him, being

00:07:07.520 neglected. He can help his family and his child much more by putting down the damn phone, 1.00

00:07:12.480 looking at his kid, having a conversation, maybe going out to play catch, or doing anything else. 0.99

00:07:19.380 Instead, he seeks to defend and fight for his family by fighting with a stranger 100 miles away

00:07:23.720 about political events 1,000 miles away. This is a scene that, I'm afraid to say, has something

00:07:29.560 similar to that has played out in my own house many times, more times than I'd like to admit.

00:07:33.060 We all do it. It's a feature of modern life, but not a good feature.

00:07:36.240 And I think the breakdown of the family is propelling the shift even more. It's not just

00:07:40.660 technology. You know, if you don't have a family to care for or be cared by, be cared about by,

00:07:46.460 you look for solace and meaning and purpose and influence elsewhere. Many people find it in

00:07:52.400 politics, elections, government, arguably the worst possible places to find a surrogate family. 0.96

00:07:59.200 So again, I'm not saying that the election doesn't matter, that it isn't important,

00:08:05.260 that you shouldn't vote. I'm not saying any of that. It is important. And as long as you're an

00:08:08.940 informed, intelligent, competent adult, you should vote. If you're not, you shouldn't.

00:08:13.980 Let's keep things in perspective, is all I suggest.

00:08:16.380 And when people ask me, as they have many times, what will you do if Trump loses? How will you

00:08:23.440 respond? What will you do next? My answer is this. I'll wake up the next morning, eat breakfast,

00:08:32.700 put on my shoes, go about my day. I will not spontaneously combust if the presidential election

00:08:38.760 goes differently than I want it to. I'm not going to break down in tears in the middle of the street.

00:08:43.560 I'm not going to scream at the sky. I'm not going to panic. I may not be happy. I'll probably be

00:08:50.140 angry. But also, I'll be okay. I'll be alive. And so will you. And that's something that's worth

00:09:01.200 keeping in mind, I think. Let's get to our five headlines.

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00:11:04.120 All right. Number one, speaking of politics, let's get into it. In political news, Lil Wayne has

00:11:09.800 pulled a Kanye West and endorsed Trump. Here's the tweet from Lil Wayne. He says,

00:11:14.460 just had a great meeting with real Donald Trump. Besides what he's done so far with criminal reform,

00:11:20.780 the Platinum Plan is going to give the community real ownership. He listened to what we had to say

00:11:26.180 today and assured that he will and can get it done. So I guess that's not technically a full

00:11:34.460 endorsement, but it's just about. And there they are giving the thumbs up in the photo, though.

00:11:41.040 So the political alliance, Trump and Lil Wayne. So Lil Wayne joins, of course, Kanye West. I want

00:11:47.940 to say 50 Cent, but I think 50 Cent rescinded his endorsement. I might be, I could be wrong. I didn't

00:11:52.620 care enough to read the story. But even so, this is a surprising turn of events. Plus the rapper Lil Pump

00:11:58.720 endorsed Trump. So Trump appears to have cornered the market on Lil's. He's got Lil Wayne, Lil Pump.

00:12:05.260 Here's Lil Pump's endorsement, by the way. He shot out sort of an endorsement video that I thought

00:12:08.900 was pretty astute. Listen to this. Hey, all I got to say is Trump 2020, bitch. 1.00

00:12:15.560 I look like paying an extra 33 in tax for Biden, bitch ass nigga. 1.00

00:12:19.980 Sleepy Joe, nigga. Trump 2020, bitch. 1.00

00:12:24.020 Yeah, you know, in so many words, that's basically my own argument for Trump as well. 0.99

00:12:29.300 One of them anyway. I'm a fan of politicians taking less of my money. I kind of like that myself.

00:12:35.840 And what you just heard there, that is more insightful easily than any political analysis

00:12:41.980 you'll hear on CNN. So you see this kind of stuff and maybe it gives you hope a little bit if you're

00:12:49.260 a Trump supporter. Maybe there are a lot of unexpected, so far uncounted Trump votes out there.

00:12:55.560 Who knows? There's going to need to be if Trump has a hope of winning, I think.

00:13:00.560 Um, so I factor all this together and I'd have to say that right now, because I also get people all

00:13:08.260 the time asking me for my prediction, what's going to happen. And factoring all this, looking at the

00:13:14.020 polls, looking at the rally turnout, the endorsements, everything, my official election night prediction

00:13:19.640 is this. I have no damned clue. Not the foggiest. I really have no idea. I could talk myself into 0.93

00:13:28.020 believing that Trump wins narrowly. I could talk myself into believing that Trump loses in a

00:13:32.560 landslide. I could talk myself into a tie. I could talk myself in a lot of different things.

00:13:36.840 So, so really whatever happens, I will, I won't be surprised, but I will be at the same time.

00:13:44.720 That's my prediction. You can take that one to the bank. Number two. Okay. Crafty stuff here from

00:13:49.820 NBC news, a big story. Allegedly the headline, how a fake persona laid the groundwork for a Hunter Biden

00:13:57.160 conspiracy deluge. And then it continues a 64 page document that was later disseminated by close

00:14:02.420 associates of presidential president. Donald Trump appears to be the work of a fake intelligence firm.

00:14:08.320 So that's really all you're supposed to read right there. Fake conspiracy theory, fake story,

00:14:12.880 Hunter Biden, loose associations. That's all you're supposed to do. You read the headline, you move on

00:14:17.760 and you're supposed to think, okay, well, all the Hunter Biden stuff is phony,

00:14:22.100 but wait a second. Let's read the actual article. It says one month before a purported leak of files

00:14:28.740 from Hunter Biden's laptop, a fake intelligence document about him went viral on the right wing

00:14:33.040 internet, asserting an elaborate conspiracy theory involving a president or vice president,

00:14:37.860 Joe Biden's son and business in China. The document, a 64 page composition that was later

00:14:43.440 disseminated by close associates of president Donald Trump appears to be the work of a fake

00:14:47.880 intelligence firm called typhoon investigations, according to researchers and public documents.

00:14:53.300 The author of the document, a self-identified Swiss security analyst named Art Martin Aspin is a

00:14:59.520 fabricated identity, according to analysis by disinformation researchers who also concluded

00:15:04.880 that Aspin's profile picture was created with an artificial intelligence face generator.

00:15:09.160 Okay. So in other words, sifting through all that, this has nothing at all to do with the laptop.

00:15:20.080 This is some other thing that they say it went viral on right wing websites or across right wing social

00:15:27.620 media. I'm on right wing social media. I never saw it. I don't even know what they're talking about.

00:15:32.200 So this is some other thing. No one's ever heard of some document. No one's ever heard of from a month ago

00:15:40.200 that NBC news says is fake for the sake of argument. Let's just trust what they're saying. Okay, fine.

00:15:46.680 It's fake. Who cares? Why is this news? No one even knew about this fake thing. Nobody was talking about

00:15:53.140 this thing. Why are you bringing this up now?

00:15:56.180 Well, obviously the idea here is to muddy the waters to get people to draw these associations

00:16:03.400 between Hunter Biden story and conspiracy theory. They just want those associations there. And so

00:16:09.940 this is just all about getting that headline out there so that it also has the effect of, uh, of

00:16:15.900 discrediting in people's minds, the laptop story, which again, has nothing to do with this thing that

00:16:21.580 NBC news is talking about. So it's a, it's a clever trick, put out an unrelated story as a way

00:16:26.820 of discrediting the real story. Um, so that's, that's all there is, but you know, this, this goes

00:16:35.460 to some of my frustration with the, with the Hunter Biden laptop thing. And I've already shared with you

00:16:40.220 my, my hesitations in general, wondering, you know, if this is going to resonate with the voters,

00:16:45.420 if the voters will really care, I think they should care. It's a big story. It matters. It's a scandal.

00:16:49.600 Okay. So this is not my assessment of what people should think more just, just wondering about what

00:16:54.180 they do think and what they will do. Um, and also I've, I've, I've been worried that in the closing

00:17:01.220 moments of the campaign, this might be the wrong closing argument. Do we want our closing argument

00:17:05.840 about Joe Biden to be about Hunter Biden, even if it is associated with Joe or are there more direct

00:17:12.920 immediate, um, more important arguments about Joe Biden that we ought to be making that are now

00:17:19.480 de-emphasized because of the focus on Hunter Biden. That's a separate thing. But the other problem

00:17:23.680 is this, this slow leak strategy, the people that have the laptop, Rudy Giuliani, whoever else has

00:17:29.960 the laptop or has the information on it, they've been leaking out the stuff slowly over the course

00:17:35.020 of weeks. And even now you still get these teases from people in right-wing media who say they have

00:17:41.640 the information and say, Oh, this is the tip of the iceberg. There's more to come. Dude, we're three

00:17:45.800 days away from the election, four days. What are you still teasing stuff for? If you have it, put it

00:17:51.640 out. I mean, what's already been released is, is damning. But if you're telling us that it gets even

00:17:58.240 worse, well, what are you show it to us now? Now it's time to show the iceberg. My fear is that this

00:18:05.220 whole strategy has been, has been handled horribly. Waiting way too long to bring up the laptop and,

00:18:13.800 and taking way too long to get the information out. Probably if you're going to go this route,

00:18:18.760 they should have dumped all the information from the laptop like two months ago before the first

00:18:23.380 debate, before you already had 80 million, 80 million people have already voted. I think it's

00:18:27.980 up to now. And there's still information about the laptop that they haven't told us yet.

00:18:33.800 It's just two months ago, they should have put everything out. It gives time for people to sift

00:18:40.060 through it. It gives time for it to kind of, for this narrative to take hold, for people to start

00:18:45.020 second guessing. You know, if you, if you want to start getting, if you want people to start thinking

00:18:50.420 of Joe Biden as a corrupt and untrustworthy politician, and I believe that he is, but that's

00:18:57.560 not how most people see him. So if you want that, and this is a guy that's been in the public light for

00:19:01.020 50 years. So if you want to change the way most people see him, you need to do it in more than

00:19:06.840 two weeks. You need, you need months to do that. Anyway. So, but part of the problem is this slow

00:19:13.160 leak approach also gives time, uh, for the other side to include the media to do things like this,

00:19:19.980 to come up with a strategy of, of, you know, combating it. And you're giving them time as,

00:19:25.180 as more information comes out, you give them time. It's, it's sort of easier for them to ignore it

00:19:29.180 or to do things like this, to distract from it. Uh, I think that would have been harder to do if

00:19:33.420 everything came out all at once in one big avalanche, like two, two months ago, let's say.

00:19:38.180 Okay. Number three, uh, second day of Kim Kardashian news in the headlines, much to my shame.

00:19:45.280 She says for my birthday, Kanye got me the most thoughtful gift of a lifetime, a special surprise

00:19:50.280 from heaven, a hologram of my dad. It's so lifelike. We watched it over and over filled with emotion.

00:19:56.520 And, uh, it is actually a hologram of her deceased father. Here's the hologram.

00:20:03.680 You're 40 and all grown up. You look beautiful. Just like when you were a little girl,

00:20:08.520 I watch over you and your sisters and brother and the kids every day. Sometimes I drop hints that I'm

00:20:16.400 around. Like when you hear someone make a big pee-fee or when you make a big pee-fee.

00:20:22.280 Remember when I would drive you to school in my tiny Mercedes every day and we would listen

00:20:28.360 to this song together.

00:20:29.360 I love you.

00:20:33.360 I am so proud of the woman that you've become, Kimberly, and all that you've accomplished,

00:21:00.360 all of your hard work and all the businesses you have built are incredible. But most impressive

00:21:06.460 is your commitment to become a lawyer and carry on my legacy.

00:21:10.760 Okay. So that's, that's weird. Um, I think get a little creepy, but it gets worse. Listen to this

00:21:16.780 part.

00:21:17.600 You married the most, most, most, most, most genius man in the whole world. Kanye West.

00:21:25.320 Yes. Kanye West really made a hologram of his wife's dead father and had the hologram call him,

00:21:33.140 Kanye, the most genius man in the world. There's got to be a word other than narcissism for that.

00:21:38.760 This is several steps above. Normal narcissists are looking at that and thinking, wow,

00:21:44.000 they are, they are highly impressed. This is like turbo narcissism, narcissism squared,

00:21:49.560 narcissism, the deluxe package. This is just amazing. And also pretty creepy in my mind. I,

00:21:57.320 I, I would just say to anyone close to me, if there's any, you know, multimillionaires close to

00:22:03.180 me that are thinking of, uh, getting me a birthday gift or a Christmas gift, please. I don't want any

00:22:09.280 holograms of any dead relatives. I, I, I never want that. Let me just say that now publicly.

00:22:14.420 Number four, Andrew Cuomo was on the view yesterday and let's see how that went.

00:22:20.020 Governor, few people, uh, haven't a better understanding of how to manage the pandemic

00:22:24.860 than you do. Wait, okay. Stop, stop it there. I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm sorry. What?

00:22:31.140 He's, this is like telling the dude from fire festival that few people have a better understanding

00:22:35.980 of event planning than he does. This is now though on, if you look at it another way,

00:22:41.860 it kind of makes sense because you could say that you need to have a firm understanding of

00:22:46.300 how to do the right thing. If you want to succeed in doing the exact opposite of the right thing,

00:22:51.020 you could argue it takes a lot of planning and execution, literally and figuratively to do as

00:22:56.700 poorly as Cuomo has done. So maybe that's what she meant. I don't know. Let's, let's go with that

00:23:02.840 though. Number five, finally, this video that I'll play now, uh, almost got itself on the daily

00:23:07.660 cancellation. It was very close. It was a near tie. Almost got there. This is from the media outlet.

00:23:12.780 Now this, which puts out horrible, cringy stuff all the time, but this may be worse than anything

00:23:18.260 else they've put out. The title is most Americans got smaller tax refunds in 2019. Thanks to Donald

00:23:24.720 Trump. Listen to this.

00:23:26.900 My refund was about half of what it normally is. We were really banking on the refund. I called my

00:23:37.240 husband immediately crying. So I went back in and I checked everything and then I started to cry this

00:23:48.640 year. I just don't have a refund. My refund was about half of what it normally is. It used to be

00:24:03.340 like 4,000 and then I got 2,000 this year. But this year, instead of getting back the $5,000

00:24:20.160 Wright was expecting and that she and her husband got last year, the Houston mom found they actually

00:24:24.980 owed the government money. With the birth of new daughter Olivia just three weeks ago, Wright says

00:24:30.480 her family was counting on a tax refund to cover the cost of her unpaid maternity leave. 0.99

00:24:35.420 We were really banking on the refund because we, you know, we live paycheck to paycheck. We can't

00:24:40.840 in a sense save as of right now. With three kids in college, the Edney family is now scrambling.

00:24:47.080 Last year, they got a $10,000 refund, but because of high property taxes this year, they owe $10,000.

00:24:54.400 Okay, stop. Stop it again. Make it stop. Just make it stop. I mean, it actually says in the video

00:24:59.920 on the screen, it explains, it admits that in most cases, people didn't get a refund because

00:25:05.240 they paid less in taxes and had more money in their paychecks. Yet we're still getting this

00:25:11.480 tearful, sorrowful, complaining video. So why do they get less in the refunds? Because refunds

00:25:21.300 aren't bonus checks. That's not what they are. My God. If you got a lower refund, that's a good

00:25:28.880 thing. It means you paid less in taxes. It means you kept more of your own money. A refund is just

00:25:36.640 the government returning the money it took from you as a no interest loan. It's better to not give

00:25:43.760 a no interest loan. If you could choose between giving a no interest loan or not giving a no

00:25:47.920 interest loan, financially, there is no benefit whatsoever to the no interest loan. Loaning the

00:25:56.040 government money and receiving it back with no interest, there's no benefit to you. It is better

00:25:59.880 to keep your own money 100%. You could invest that money in a million different ways or spend it,

00:26:07.280 waste it, whatever you're going to do. I mean, that's what most people do with their tax refunds

00:26:09.520 anyway. They just waste it on crap. But you could do that with your paycheck. I mean, there's no 1.00

00:26:16.980 advantage really, no financial advantage. Now, look, I understand the psychological advantage,

00:26:22.940 the psychological boon of getting a check in the mail certainly feels a lot better than mailing

00:26:27.580 one. A refund sort of feels like it's equivalent to finding money in the couch cushions, right?

00:26:35.240 It feels like free money, but it's not. Okay? And intentionally trying to make it so that you get a

00:26:43.960 refund is like purposefully stashing wads of cash in the couch for the thrill of finding it later.

00:26:49.660 It's one thing to go, oh, cool, five bucks. Didn't realize I had this when you pull it out

00:26:55.080 of the couch cushions. That's fine. But taking $5 and putting it under the cushion as an investment

00:27:00.880 strategy is psychotic. And that's what people do with withholding. They withhold more because

00:27:08.440 they want the refund. Just put it in a savings account. I mean, you'll get interest. That was not

00:27:14.640 a lot of interest, but it's more than you'll get from the government. Have you ever heard of a

00:27:18.300 bank account? I hate this when people all the time, they actually tell me that they withhold

00:27:22.260 more so that they get a refund. Have you ever heard of a bank? That's what they're for.

00:27:30.020 Stop giving the government money for no reason.

00:27:34.480 This is why we need, I'm not going to go off on my withholding thing again, but this is why we need

00:27:41.340 to, this is why we need to abolish withholding. The whole withholding system. It'll never be abolished

00:27:46.320 because it's so convenient for the guy. I mean, it's, it's made people happy about paying

00:27:50.280 taxes. Tax day has turned into a happy day for a lot of people, which it shouldn't be.

00:27:56.480 But that's the dastardly strategy behind the withholding system. All right, we're going to

00:28:01.900 get to our daily cancellation in just a second. But first, um, I, I did want to mention one other

00:28:06.500 thing, not a news item technically, but just something inspiring and beautiful to share.

00:28:09.880 There's been a lot of negativity. So I wanted to share this with, this is something that I haven't

00:28:13.160 had a chance to mention yet, but it's from our trip to Nashville, uh, over the weekend. And we,

00:28:19.040 uh, we stopped at a hotel as I've, as I've mentioned when I was canceling pets early,

00:28:23.640 earlier in the week, canceling my cat and everyone else's cat. Anyway, the next morning

00:28:28.340 on the way out of the hotel, I was saying to my wife that we should go to a Cracker Barrel for

00:28:34.780 breakfast. And my wife, for some reason, somehow was against going to Cracker Barrel. She was anti 1.00

00:28:40.380 Cracker Barrel. She was engaging in all kinds of fake news propaganda, uh, in her attempts to defame 1.00

00:28:46.720 and slander Cracker Barrel. And then, and I'm not making this up, this is not Photoshop. Just as

00:28:52.240 we're walking out and talking about this, I look up and here's the picture here, an actual rainbow,

00:28:59.800 a double rainbow actually, uh, over the Cracker Barrel sign. Look at that. Amazing. This,

00:29:07.440 this really happened. This is a sign from God, angels lighting the path. Hallelujah. He has risen.

00:29:13.580 Amen. How could you look at that image and, and, and tell me there is no God? You can't.

00:29:20.000 And yes, we did stay at a hotel right next door to a Cracker Barrel because we're a high class family,

00:29:24.340 you understand. And it's also true that Virginia has five Cracker Barrels at every highway exit. So

00:29:30.280 any rainbow is bound to hit one, you could say, but even so, um, I still just enjoy the beauty of it.

00:29:36.540 That is providence. Um, that is also God supporting my side of the argument, I think.

00:29:44.300 And by the way, we still didn't end up going to Cracker Barrel, of course. All right. Um,

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00:29:53.980 to invest your money is investing it in withholding money from your paycheck. Here's a good investment

00:29:58.560 strategy, gold. Okay. There's, there's a place you could really, here's something you could do with

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00:31:23.500 I mean our daily cancellation, not our five headlines. I'm canceled too, because I don't

00:31:26.780 even know what segment I'm doing right now. But today for our daily cancellation, I'll be

00:31:29.860 canceling the gentleman in this video that I'm about to play for you. Not just him, also anyone

00:31:34.000 with his attitude, his toxic approach to life. So this is someone called Jeffrey Marsh. He is a

00:31:39.140 non-binary quote unquote. He says, uh, that's, that's what he is. And he has a little bit of

00:31:43.640 scolding. He wants to send your way because you aren't scolded enough. Of course he's figured

00:31:47.660 that it's been five and a half minutes since the last LGBT scolding session. And so it's time for 0.98

00:31:52.500 another one. And here it is. Oh, I'm aware that because I'm non-binary, I'm confusing to

00:31:59.860 you, but you're going to have to respect me. You think that getting it comes before respecting

00:32:10.020 me, but it's the other way around. You need to see my humanity. You must respect me and talk

00:32:17.900 to me like a human being. And then maybe later you'll get it. But that's the least important

00:32:23.760 part. Okay. First of all, uh, no, you're not, you're not confusing to me. I mean, you're wearing

00:32:29.960 earrings and makeup. I understand the concept. I can't much relate to the fashion choices, but

00:32:35.520 you're not like blowing my mind by putting on women's clothes. This is one of the things that 0.99

00:32:40.860 always gets me. People these days think they've invented some new edgy, unheard of, unquantifiable

00:32:47.160 category of existence when they're not doing anything new. I understand I'm so confusing to

00:32:53.360 you. You have no idea what's going on. I've opened up your mind to new possibilities. No, not really.

00:32:58.960 You're wearing eyeliner and earrings. Hair metal bands were doing that in the eighties. So you're not

00:33:05.080 breaking new ground here. It reminds me of when I was in high school. And the thing then,

00:33:09.100 if you wanted to shock and confuse people was to be a goth, right? Back in the late nineties,

00:33:15.640 early two thousands, wear black lipstick, fishnet stockings. And these kids would walk around like,

00:33:20.700 look at me. I'm shocking and unique. No, you're not. You just look like a hot topic cashier. You're,

00:33:26.120 you're not, you're not throwing me for a loop here. You're going to have to try harder than that

00:33:29.940 if you want to shock me. So that's the first thing. Uh, but not really my point. He also says

00:33:34.240 repeatedly, you're going to have to respect me. You must respect me. Respect me.

00:33:39.100 This is a very common attitude. People walking around demanding respect, claiming that they're

00:33:43.640 owed respect, that the world must respect them. No, that's not how it works. In fact,

00:33:50.600 I don't have to respect you. I am under no obligation to respect you. And I don't respect

00:33:56.660 you, frankly, until you give me a reason to. And the reason can't be that you're instructing me to.

00:34:02.440 I need an actual reason. The dictionary defines respect as, quote, a feeling of deep admiration

00:34:08.960 for someone or something elicited by their abilities, qualities, or achievements.

00:34:13.700 So you think I have to have a feeling of deep admiration for you? I have to have that? I must?

00:34:20.100 You think that's some sort of essential requirement of existence that we all have to admire you?

00:34:24.800 No, you egomaniac. That's not how this goes. This is a concept that, as I say, many people in our

00:34:30.880 culture struggle to understand. A great portion of the problems in our country today stem from this

00:34:35.140 fundamental confusion, the idea that whatever we do, however we act, whoever we are, the world owes us

00:34:41.760 respect. No, it doesn't. There is a difference between demanding respect and commanding respect.

00:34:49.100 To demand respect is to shout impotently into the void. It is to try and conjure respect by the

00:34:54.860 sheer force of your own desire for it. But you can't. You can't make people respect you by berating

00:35:00.660 and scolding them. You can make them roll their eyes and walk away because you're annoying them

00:35:04.460 to death. So if that's what you mean by respect, then fine. But if you want admiration, if you want

00:35:08.640 a deep recognition of your abilities and achievements, you're going to have to earn it. You're going to

00:35:13.840 have to command it. Respect is commanded not by verbal declaration, but by a person's behavior,

00:35:19.980 their poise, their dignity. Nobody who demands respect commands respect because if they commanded

00:35:27.160 it, they wouldn't have to demand it. The moment someone says, respect me, you know this is someone

00:35:33.260 you shouldn't respect because they have to say it. Respect is a little bit like belief in that, you know,

00:35:39.700 you can't run up to me, make an absurd claim without evidence and insist that I believe it.

00:35:45.840 I literally can't believe it. It's not just that I don't want to or I have chosen not to. I can't.

00:35:52.140 I don't choose to believe or not believe something. Nobody says to themselves, I think I'll choose to

00:35:57.560 believe this. Okay, there it is. I believe it. No, belief is a natural consequence, something that

00:36:02.700 happens on its own or doesn't happen. Respect is the same way. If I find you to be a ridiculous or

00:36:08.280 unimpressive or unremarkable or pitiful or character deficient person, I can't respect you. 0.99

00:36:14.140 I literally can't. Even if I wanted to, I couldn't. Respect rises naturally out of a recognition of

00:36:21.860 someone's respectable qualities. If you don't have those qualities, or at least if you have not

00:36:26.380 provided evidence of them to me, then that respect cannot come. You might as well demand that like a 0.81

00:36:34.320 tree starts sprouting Skittles or something. You're expecting fruits from seeds you have not

00:36:39.940 planted. So what I would say to our friend Jeffrey Marsh and to everyone else is that if you want the

00:36:45.860 world to respect you, give it a reason to. A reason aside from the mere fact that you want it to,

00:36:52.480 because that's not a reason. And so everyone who demands respect, rather than earning it,

00:36:59.520 is canceled. With all due respect. Which is to say, none at all. That's it for today and for the week.

00:37:10.060 Have a great weekend, everybody. Big week next week. Godspeed.

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The Matt Walsh Show - October 30, 2020

Ep. 592 - Your Life Does Not Depend On The President

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