The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 610 - Why I'm Not Cancelling My Thanksgiving Plans

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, Thanksgiving is tomorrow, and this shouldn't be necessary.

00:00:04.020 It shouldn't come to this, but I will offer my defense of celebrating Thanksgiving and explain

00:00:08.560 why I'll still be gathering with my family for the holidays, and I don't see any problem with

00:00:12.840 it at all. In fact, I think it's the right thing to do. Also, five headlines, including the media

00:00:16.260 going back into fawning mode now that they're anticipating a Democrat in the White House.

00:00:20.500 Also, some employees at Random House apparently broke down in tears when they found out that

00:00:25.800 the publisher was putting out a Jordan Peterson book. Is there ever any acceptable reason to cry

00:00:31.500 at work? We'll talk about that. And in our daily cancellation, I will be canceling one of the most

00:00:36.220 sinister groups in America. That would be cyclists. All of that on the way. Before we get to any of

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00:02:31.000 off. Now, this week, of course, many of our nation's most dangerous fugitives will meet in their localized

00:02:37.700 criminal cells to share in an illicit meal and plot to destroy human civilization. That second part is

00:02:43.560 admittedly speculation. As for the rest, the media, along with various governors across the country

00:02:47.740 and our trusted public health authorities, have made it clear that anyone who gathers with their

00:02:52.380 family for a traditional Thanksgiving dinner this year is engaging in something approaching

00:02:56.980 biological terrorism. So just for a taste of this fear-mongering, here's a compilation put together

00:03:02.340 by Grabian Media. And this is just all the different people in the media explaining how dangerous it is

00:03:08.300 to celebrate Thanksgiving. Listen. This Thanksgiving is going to suck a bit.

00:03:13.340 This is not some existential reality. Cancel your plans if you absolutely do not need to travel

00:03:18.360 somewhere. Travel by car if you must travel. I don't like it to be any number. I like it to be

00:03:24.820 keep it to your immediate household. Eat all of the mashed potatoes by yourself. That's what I'm going

00:03:30.040 to do. Limit the number of people. Do it outside and wear your mask. If you go over to a friend's

00:03:36.240 house, mask up the whole time you're not eating or drinking. If you're a college student,

00:03:40.580 shelter in place for at least seven days once you arrive. Separation should be the norm. Avoiding

00:03:47.280 direct contact, including handshakes and hugs. Speak softer because louder voices shouting,

00:03:52.960 screaming, actually singing spreads the virus. You can't test your way out of or into safety here.

00:03:59.240 You can't test your way into Thanksgiving dinner. I mean, you just can't test your way to that table.

00:04:02.640 You can't test your way into Thanksgiving dinner. Having one person serve all the food so multiple

00:04:08.240 people are not handling the serving utensils. And open the windows if you can or have the air

00:04:12.880 blowing out. Do a lot of FaceTime or Zooming. I'll be there virtually, but not personally.

00:04:18.800 A Zoom Thanksgiving is a lot better than an ICU Christmas. Cancel your plans. Cannot be more clear 0.98

00:04:25.060 here. Invite grandma. This could be her last Thanksgiving. Yeah, if you invite her to a place 0.94

00:04:30.700 where she can get sick and die. People who don't want to miss out on their next family event of 0.50

00:04:34.980 Thanksgiving should watch that segment again, because what you really don't want is your next

00:04:39.720 family event to be a funeral. Yes, as you can hear, warnings have been issued with dramatic

00:04:44.860 flair to keep our Thanksgiving celebrations relegated to our immediate households.

00:04:49.140 Eat all of your mashed potatoes by yourself, as we heard the one MSNBC talking head urge.

00:04:53.980 And what you really don't want is for your next family event to be a funeral,

00:04:58.980 says the other, laying it on especially thick. Now, some states have banned private gatherings of

00:05:04.300 more than 10 people, pretending that every home in America is the same size and has the same capacity.

00:05:09.120 Governor Cuomo, author of one of these bans, says that if you love your family,

00:05:14.560 you'll stay away from them. And here is Governor Cuomo giving us a lecture on the true meaning of love.

00:05:18.880 It's your family. It's your home. It's your table. These are all environments where you feel

00:05:28.380 safe. And that is the beauty of Thanksgiving. I'm at home with my family. I'm in my safe zone.

00:05:36.880 Your safe zone is not a safe zone. Your safe zone is dangerous this year. Please. Love is

00:05:47.320 sometimes doing what's hard. This year, if you love someone, it is smarter and better to stay

00:05:56.620 away. Now, as per usual, Cuomo was not planning on following his own advice. They never do. He had

00:06:02.120 invited his 89-year-old mother to his home for Thanksgiving. Apparently, he doesn't love her,

00:06:07.720 I guess. Doesn't love his own mother, at least according to his own logic. But he reversed course

00:06:11.920 on that and disinvited his mother after the public noticed and pointed out the hypocrisy.

00:06:18.000 Meanwhile, the CDC has issued its own guidelines recommending that everybody wear a mask at

00:06:23.300 Thanksgiving. Presumably, I don't know, I guess you would take the mask off to eat, at least.

00:06:28.220 Though perhaps you could keep it on and attempt to absorb your food through a process of osmosis.

00:06:33.220 The CDC also asks that we keep our music down and talking to a minimum,

00:06:38.080 lecturing the public like chaperones on a middle school field trip. But the advice about keeping

00:06:44.220 the music down around the holidays is pretty good, I think. There's a real concern that if the

00:06:48.340 coronavirus is forced to hear a song like Last Christmas by Wham!, it might decide to infect

00:06:54.520 everyone in the house out of revenge. It's science. It has happened. Yet, in spite of all these rules,

00:07:01.740 laws, prohibitions, pleadings, warnings, a significant portion of Americans are still going about their

00:07:06.980 Thanksgiving business as usual. More than three million people traveled by plane this past weekend

00:07:10.940 in the lead-up to the holiday. Polls show that the media fear-mongering has successfully convinced

00:07:16.360 many to forego or modify their plans, but that millions of others will still be seeing their

00:07:21.320 families. I will be in this latter group. And although I resent the idea that gathering with

00:07:27.000 my own family for a meal should require any defense at all, I will give one anyway. I can't very well

00:07:33.720 let the only psychotic grandma killers will have a normal Thanksgiving this year narrative 0.99

00:07:38.180 be the only one presented. So here is why, in spite of the risk, however mild or severe it might be,

00:07:44.360 I will still be celebrating with my family. Two reasons, really. And they're very simple.

00:07:48.580 This is all it comes down to. Number one, and I want to be so clear about this. I don't care

00:07:55.420 what anyone in the media or the government says or thinks on the subject of Thanksgiving or any other

00:08:02.520 subject, for that matter. The panic porn fails to make an impact with me and so many others because

00:08:08.180 it's being pushed by people who have thoroughly discredited themselves, forfeited their credibility.

00:08:14.900 Lockdown governors and mayors attend birthday parties. They dine maskless at restaurants while

00:08:19.820 condemning or banning the same behavior from citizens. BLM radicals riot in the streets.

00:08:25.020 Democrats dance in celebration after the election. These activities are condoned, even encouraged,

00:08:29.580 by the people now telling us that the only safe way to observe Thanksgiving is to sit alone at our

00:08:34.060 empty table, gorging on a family-sized portion of mashed potatoes. Why should anything these people

00:08:40.720 say matter? Why should we pay it any mind at all? Consider also that Walmarts and Targets and other

00:08:47.720 big box retailers are going to be open for Black Friday shopping the day after Thanksgiving, as they have

00:08:52.820 been open throughout the entire COVID crisis. They never shut down. We are expected to believe that,

00:08:59.580 cramming our carts full of consumer electronics and other junk made in China is a perfectly pandemic-safe 1.00

00:09:05.180 activity. And it's on this basis that the lockdowns have transferred billions of dollars from small

00:09:10.880 businesses to these megacorporations, all of which have reaped enormous profits while smaller firms have

00:09:15.980 been wiped out en masse. And it's interesting to me, by the way, that, you know, the people who are so

00:09:19.920 critical of the evil corporations have said nothing about this historic transfer of wealth from small

00:09:26.560 businesses and middle-class people to big corporations. But what really makes Walmart safe,

00:09:33.560 quote-unquote, is that it's a very rich, powerful, well-connected company. It exerts its influence

00:09:41.500 with those who make the rules in ways that your local shops on Main Street cannot. So, Main Street

00:09:46.320 cannot. So, your local shops on Main Street are destroyed while Walmart, Amazon, and Target, and others

00:09:54.340 feast on their carcasses. This, of course, a process that's been going on for many decades,

00:09:58.580 but the lockdowns have accelerated the process to a staggering and catastrophic degree. And it all

00:10:05.500 underscores the point that, again, the people making the rules cannot be trusted and should not be taken

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00:11:59.020 that America is a land of children who cannot be trusted to act with any semblance of maturity

00:12:04.580 or discernment. And it may be true that a certain, unfortunately, large portion of Americans

00:12:09.340 actually could be described that way. A lot of them work in D.C. as it happens. Quite a few reside

00:12:14.100 in governor's mansions. But I know that I'm not one of them. I know that, though I may not be able

00:12:21.700 to say much else for myself, I am at least an adult with common sense. I have that going for me, at least.

00:12:27.640 The whole point of being American and being free is that we're supposed to be treated as,

00:12:32.080 not treated as one collective whole, but rather we're meant to have the liberty to act as individuals.

00:12:37.280 The absolute best thing I can say for the COVID restrictions, to include the Thanksgiving 0.95

00:12:44.380 stuff, is that these are measures meant to restrict the absolute dumbest and least responsible people. 0.99

00:12:52.160 The sort of person who would be stupid enough to wake up with a fever and a bad cough and still have 1.00

00:12:57.700 their 92-year-old grandmother over for dinner. That's the sort of person who really causes the 1.00

00:13:02.680 problem, right? That's what we're really worried about. They are where the danger lies.

00:13:10.360 The idea is to shut everyone down in order to stop that person. But again, this is not how America

00:13:17.780 is supposed to be governed. And I know that I am not that person. I know not to be around people if

00:13:25.380 I'm sick. And that's the case with COVID or not. You got a fever, you're coughing, don't go out.

00:13:30.240 Don't be with your family. You're going to spread a sickness. I know that. You know that. I know to

00:13:36.180 wash my hands. I know to cough into my sleeve, not to cough in someone's face or just out into the

00:13:42.080 open. I know that too. Why should I operate according to rules designed for morons if I am not one myself?

00:13:51.020 By the way, the powers that be basically admitted that this was the strategy. They initially told us 0.98

00:13:56.440 not to wear masks, if you remember. And then they reversed course. And we were told that the initial

00:14:01.000 messaging on masks was just to stop dumb people from hoarding all of them. They were worried that 0.97

00:14:05.440 stupid people would go out and buy all the masks for themselves. So instead of telling us the truth 1.00

00:14:10.880 or what they perceive as the truth, they lied to everyone in order to stop the dumb people. 1.00

00:14:17.520 It's kind of a, you know, bomb the whole village to kill the terrorist hiding inside one of the 0.99

00:14:22.180 Hutt's strategy, which incidentally with Biden in charge, we're sure to have a lot more wars and 0.78

00:14:26.560 bombings. And the media couldn't be more excited about that, by the way, but that's neither here

00:14:30.620 nor there. At any rate, this is all perhaps academic anyway. All that should really need to be said is

00:14:37.480 that this is America. I'm an American. The government has no authority to tell me who can be in my house

00:14:44.000 or whether I can be in someone else's house. I do not respect the authority the government pretends to

00:14:49.860 have on this front. I don't respect it. I don't trust its guidelines. I don't care what it says.

00:14:58.520 It's sad that it's come to this, but that's where we are. So now all that's left is to eat, drink, and

00:15:04.720 have a happy Thanksgiving. And that's what I intend to do. I hope you do as well. Let's get to our five

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00:17:02.800 today. All right. By the way, I brought my sons into work a couple days ago and it just, you know,

00:17:11.120 you put yourself back in the mind of a child and nobody was here. I had to come. I left my computer

00:17:16.540 charger here. So I came into the office just to get it and I brought them with it because they

00:17:20.160 wanted to see where daddy works. And so I brought them in and, um, and, you know, I'm showing them

00:17:25.280 around, showing them the studio. They don't really care about any of that. The only thing they care

00:17:29.900 about is that we walk through the break room and there's a jar of candy and they discover and are

00:17:35.340 just overwhelmed by the, the revelation that there, that there's candy at my work and I can eat

00:17:41.840 as much candy as I want. They, they can, they still are talking about it. They couldn't get enough of

00:17:45.820 that. And it just, um, it makes me, you know, it's the innocence of childhood. And I can remember

00:17:51.640 being a kid and I, I, I, it reminded me as a child, I used to think this, I used to think

00:17:56.860 it's unbelievable. As an adult, you can, you can eat all the candy you want. You can just eat candy

00:18:02.260 all day. And then you get older and as an adult, you discover things like diabetes and, you know,

00:18:08.620 all of that. So that's sort of unfortunate. Okay. Let's move on to this. If you forgot, um,

00:18:13.160 if you forgot what it was like to have the, the media fawning over the president, rather than,

00:18:19.280 rather than telling us that he's the devil all the time, we'd be given a stark reminder in recent

00:18:23.340 days, what that's like. Um, as Joe Biden fills out his cabinet, the media is just beside itself

00:18:30.240 with glee over this. Joe Biden is putting a bunch of mediocre career bureaucrats in charge again.

00:18:36.240 And the media is ecstatic about it. And they want us to be excited about these bureaucrats. Uh,

00:18:41.060 the bureaucrats are back. Let's all, let's all throw a party. One, one bizarre talking point.

00:18:47.640 And you know how with the media, they, they all, they'll settle on these talking points

00:18:50.580 suspiciously all at once. And they all start saying the same thing, right? So one thing they've

00:18:55.120 settled on is that, um, Joe Biden's cabinet filled with political hacks will somehow be not political.

00:19:02.840 Listen, when I look at that group up there and let's put John Kerry aside, because as we know,

00:19:07.920 he was the democratic nominee for president once, but they are not political. They are just career

00:19:13.180 people. They have worked together for many years. I remember Jake Sullivan at the, at the side of

00:19:19.400 Hillary Clinton, when she was secretary of state all the time. And as they say, they really do reflect

00:19:27.080 America. They are now being told that it is not going to be political. And Joe Biden is saying,

00:19:32.520 these are people, this is a team who's going to tell me, this team will tell me what I need to know,

00:19:37.940 what not, what I want to know. That is a big change. Yeah. That's obviously nonsense,

00:19:42.600 but this is how they see it because they see Democrats as being objectively right about

00:19:47.400 everything. So there's nothing political about anything they say, whatever they say is just a

00:19:50.820 fact. It's not political. Meanwhile, it gets way more fawning than that. Um, just, just listen to this.

00:19:57.900 To talk about Joe Biden's empathy and humanity, to talk about diplomacy being back, it is all an

00:20:05.020 implicit rebuke of Donald Trump's foreign policy stewardship over the last four years.

00:20:10.860 That's right. And then just saying that they're going to do their job and, um, be good stewards of

00:20:16.360 America's role in this world and, um, focus on American diplomacy that in and of itself, um,

00:20:22.560 being a rebuke of president Trump is, uh, underscores what we've all been living through in the last four

00:20:27.640 years. This is a president who wanted to be more isolationist, who wanted to pull back. Um, what

00:20:32.660 we saw today, I was sitting in that room in Wilmington. Um, I was thinking about the fact

00:20:37.400 that Joe Biden, in some ways, first supporters is fulfilling the promises that he made on the

00:20:42.060 campaign trial. He said he wanted to have a cabinet that looked like America. And there were people

00:20:46.120 there on that stage, of course, talking about all of their different accolades and their experience,

00:20:50.800 but they were also talking about their families who survived the Holocaust and survived coming

00:20:54.980 from Cuba and sling communists who talked about, um, having gumbo diplomacy, cooking food, cooking

00:21:01.620 Southern food as, as the United Nations ambassador was saying. Um, all of those things are what

00:21:06.540 America's about. It's just melting pot. The other thing I'll just say is I was talking to a Democrat

00:21:10.360 who just said, this also felt like the Avengers. It felt like we're being rescued from this craziness

00:21:16.360 that we've all lived through from the last four years. And now here are the superheroes to come

00:21:20.100 and save us all. Superheroes. They're superheroes. Uh, but yes, I'm, I'm sure we can rely on these

00:21:26.100 people to be objective and to tell us the truth and all the stuff we've heard over the last four

00:21:30.840 years about, you know, truth to power and everything like that. Holding those in power accountable.

00:21:37.800 Democracy dies in darkness. We, we need the media truth tellers, you know, all that stuff we heard

00:21:42.700 four years ago, all out the window right away. And now it's the people in charge are superheroes.

00:21:49.140 Right. Um, the, the problem for the media, and I don't think they've, they've fully come to terms

00:21:56.240 with this yet, but the fawning coverage telling us that bureaucrats are superheroes. Um, not only is

00:22:03.580 that disgraceful and dishonest, but the bigger problem for them is that it's boring. You know,

00:22:10.280 nobody wants to sit and listen to you, defend the government and tell us how great they all are.

00:22:15.080 It's not nearly as fun to hear. And so the, the ratings crash for the, for the media is going to

00:22:20.120 be extraordinary. And I don't think they've, they've fully, um, come to terms with that yet,

00:22:25.120 but that's, that's one of the reasons why I mentioned before, you know, they're excited about

00:22:29.240 bringing some of these war hawks and, and, and people back in to the, um, back onto the scene,

00:22:34.240 you know, what they say about, Oh, we're going to be, uh, we're going to be involved in the world

00:22:38.120 again. And what Joe Biden said a few weeks ago about he's going to let the rest of the world

00:22:43.300 know that America is back. You know, what they really mean, not so thinly veiled is we're going

00:22:48.900 to be starting wars again. And the media is excited about that, you know, cause that'll get the ratings

00:22:54.920 up again. Donald Trump is great for the ratings. If Donald Trump is gone, next best thing, have some

00:22:59.700 wars. And that's what the media wants. Okay. This is from the daily wire. It says penguin random house,

00:23:04.360 Canada has contracted with psychology professor Jordan Peterson to release his forthcoming book

00:23:10.360 beyond order, 12 more rules for life on March 20, uh, 2021. But the, um, the development has

00:23:18.880 reportedly also upset some staffers at the publishing house. According to vice news, which

00:23:23.920 spoke to four employees at penguin random house, Canada, the publishing house held a town hall style

00:23:29.180 meeting where staff members aired their grievances about Peterson in the upcoming book.

00:23:33.420 Some even cried about it. They were crying about Jordan Peterson at work. One employee told vice that

00:23:41.460 people were crying in their meeting in the meeting about how Jordan Peterson has affected their lives

00:23:46.060 and noted that one person at the meeting also claimed that their father had been radicalized

00:23:50.800 by the self-help professor. Um, the employee said the company since June has been doing all these

00:23:56.560 anti-racist and allyship things. And then publishing Peterson's book completely goes against this.

00:24:02.700 It just makes all of their previous efforts seem completely performative. Uh, in an interview with

00:24:08.620 vice, another employee called Peterson called Peterson, an icon of white supremacy. And as such

00:24:13.780 suggested that the content of his book doesn't matter. Um, okay. A couple of things here.

00:24:21.160 First of all, you know, I'm not an expert in the publishing business, but I do know that the vast

00:24:28.420 majority of books that a publisher like random house puts out don't make any money. They make all

00:24:34.720 their money from a few books that are put out every year. A book like Jordan, Jordan, Jordan

00:24:39.860 penis's books is going to sell, you know, a billion copies or whatever. They make all their money from

00:24:44.600 this. And so in other words, if these idiots actually succeeded and stopping their publishing 1.00

00:24:51.620 house from publishing Jordan Peterson, a lot of them are going to lose their jobs because that's how 0.99

00:24:56.640 they're getting paid this year is from that Jordan Peterson book and a couple of other books.

00:25:02.100 Of course, they don't realize that because they don't even understand their own business because 1.00

00:25:05.460 they're morons. Um, but, but the other thing, the main thing of course is, is, um, 1.00

00:25:10.080 this is just a good, a good tip for all employers. I think, um, if you have someone crying at work,

00:25:19.960 I think in this could be a delicate situation, best way to handle it is to, you know, take them by the

00:25:28.200 shoulder, lead them into your, to your office. If you're the employer, if you're their boss and sit

00:25:32.760 them down, you know, hand them a tissue and just, and I would just, and I would just look at them

00:25:39.240 with very kind eyes and say, get the hell out of here. You embarrassing baby, you're fired. 0.98

00:25:49.000 And then the next step, the next really important step is, um, especially if they're crying about

00:25:52.480 Jordan Peterson, make sure to gather all of the other employees, you know, while that person gets

00:25:57.980 their box of stuff together, have all the other employees stand and just, and as they're walking

00:26:01.820 out point and laugh as they walk out in tears, that's the appropriate response to somebody crying

00:26:07.800 at work completely unacceptable in general to cry at work over something like this, especially so.

00:26:15.260 Now I did say this on Twitter yesterday and I was, I was informed by some women that, um, you know, 1.00

00:26:21.960 to have a rule of no crying at work is unfair to women because, you know, women have to cry every 1.00

00:26:26.340 once in a while at work, it happens. And I understand that. So I think what the rules should

00:26:30.760 be, and I'm going to talk to HR here at daily wire about this, but, um, because of course they care

00:26:35.820 about what I think the rules should be. So I think what the rules should be is men, you can never cry

00:26:40.540 at work, period. You cry at work, you're done and you're banned. You're, you're fired and you're

00:26:44.580 banished from, from all jobs in the future. But for women, uh, you can cry once per fiscal quarter. 1.00

00:26:50.940 And so what I would say is plan ahead, uh, just make it, make it count. If you feel like you want

00:26:57.680 to have additional cries, you can apply for a waiver ahead of time with HR and, uh, it'll take

00:27:03.300 three to five business days to process. And when that comes through, you can have your, your cry.

00:27:07.960 So I think those are what the, those are what the rules should be. All right. Um, article from CNN here,

00:27:14.340 I guess, looking on the bright side, the headline is COVID might mean fewer family political fights

00:27:20.860 over Thanksgiving. And I'm not even going to bother to read this because it doesn't matter,

00:27:26.920 but this is the, you see this every single year and a little bit of a different twist on it this

00:27:32.160 year. But usually you get these articles every year about how to survive Thanksgiving with your

00:27:36.860 conservative uncle, how to, how to, how to navigate political fights at, uh, at the, how to avoid

00:27:42.200 political arguments at Thanksgiving, all these kinds of articles. And now we're supposed to say,

00:27:46.060 Oh, well, it's good. We're not having Thanksgiving because then we don't have the political arguments.

00:27:49.180 I don't under, I don't get it. Like this is the whole fun of Thanksgiving, isn't it? Am I crazy?

00:27:55.100 Or is, is, is everybody else? I always find myself asking that for me, this is the whole fun of it.

00:28:00.260 You get your family together and you know, you eat something, you eat a meal and you argue about

00:28:05.120 politics or theology or like anything, but you got to have some kind of debate, some kind of argument.

00:28:10.360 How boring would your family have to be if you don't have any political arguments?

00:28:19.340 And this is where people, people say, well, the things you never talk about religion and politics,

00:28:24.360 that's all I talk about. What the hell else would you talk about?

00:28:30.720 Sports? I guess we could throw that in. So yeah, sure. You talk other than that,

00:28:33.900 what else is there to talk about? I'm just, I'm so grateful. I'm not in the same family as a,

00:28:39.500 as so many of these people that have this attitude. Number four. So Eric Garcetti,

00:28:44.160 mayor of Los Angeles, far left wacko. And, um, he's another mayor who's completely bought in,

00:28:51.360 of course, to the leftist racial narrative. He's bent over backwards for BLM and rioters, 0.89

00:28:57.160 letting them do whatever they want. Um, like all other Democrat mayors, of course,

00:29:01.760 let's, so he's done all that and he's been mayor for, I don't know, I think five or six years or

00:29:07.060 something. Let's check in with BLM to see how they're thanking him for his efforts. How,

00:29:13.880 how's, how's it going over with them? How are they thanking him? Uh, let's, uh, let's listen.

00:29:17.780 Here it is.

00:29:20.220 I want to be real clear. What he's attempting to do for his entire reign as mayor is silence black 0.93

00:29:37.280 voices. Get him. We will not let our voices be silent. Get him. We will not let our voices be 0.96

00:29:43.800 silent. He wants us to be silent as he continues to feed a police department that is one of the

00:29:50.960 most murderous in the entire nation. Well, that answers the question. No surprise there. And

00:29:57.700 you probably picked up from context clues, but the bleeped out word they were, they were saying,

00:30:01.780 F Eric Garcetti chart, chanting it into a bullhorn. Um, I, I think what they, those are BLM 1.00

00:30:08.480 protesters, uh, protesting again. And they were trying to ensure, I believe that Eric Garcetti

00:30:13.580 is not appointed to any positions in, um, Joe Biden's white house because, because Eric Garcetti's

00:30:22.200 racist. He's an ally of white supremacists. This far left wacko mayor of Los Angeles is, is now an, 0.98

00:30:31.240 is basically a Nazi himself. Once again, we see that there's, there's no satisfying the left. 0.69

00:30:38.400 You cannot satisfy no matter what you do, you can't satisfy them. And you could, you could say

00:30:44.940 that there's, you know, you have sort of some of that on both sides where you've got the ideological

00:30:48.640 purists who are, who are, who are never happy and are always going to be critical of you. Um,

00:30:52.720 but that's not real on the right. You know, it is possible. I mean, I'm, I'm kind of one of those

00:30:58.820 ideological purists and yeah, I do hate most politicians even on our own side, but at the

00:31:05.640 same time, it is possible on the right to, you know, if a public figure, a, uh, uh, politician,

00:31:12.060 a president, a mayor, whatever, um, you know, could basically do the right thing. And we can

00:31:17.660 basically be satisfied with that. Maybe not completely satisfied, but we could say, all right,

00:31:23.080 you know, you're on the right path here on the left though. No, there's nothing you can do. It

00:31:28.880 does not matter. They will never, ever be happy. But of course, guys like Eric Carcetti will continue

00:31:36.220 trying. Um, finally reading from Gizmodo, um, we had to, before I guess the year wraps up, we had to

00:31:43.880 have another potential alien, alien related news. And so here we have this and you can look at it if

00:31:50.720 you're watching on the video right now. Uh, officers from the Utah department of public safety

00:31:55.300 discovered a shiny metallic monolith in rural Utah's red rock country on November 18th while

00:32:02.400 surveying bighorn sheep by helicopter. The monolith has drawn comparisons to the, uh, black monolith

00:32:08.940 in Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film, 2001 a space odyssey. And the helicopter crew said there's no obvious

00:32:13.920 indication of who may have placed the object there. The Utah agency published photos and videos to

00:32:19.300 his website showing the team's investigation of the strange looking object. The monolith appears

00:32:23.660 to have three sides and measures roughly 10 to 12 feet high. According to the, uh, the people who

00:32:28.480 found it, the crew did not note, uh, or did note that it's firmly planted in the ground and didn't

00:32:35.180 appear to have been dropped from above. Um, so the article goes on from there. You can, you can look at

00:32:42.580 the footage of it. They were, yeah, these, they were going, they were surveying, they were, um, in,

00:32:48.840 in helicopters and they happened to spot this thing out in the middle. They're not telling us where it

00:32:55.640 is because they don't want sightseers. It's out like way out in the wilderness and they don't want

00:32:59.980 people going to try to find it and dying, dying of starvation on the way. Um, but it's somewhere out

00:33:05.240 in the wilderness. And this thing is there 10, 12 feet high, this big metallic structure. I saw this on,

00:33:11.200 I don't know if this is true or not, but I did see on Twitter. So I'm going to report

00:33:14.680 potentially fake news. Um, there are some pictures going around on, on social media claiming,

00:33:20.100 you know, people have been reviewing satellite data and stuff going back over the years.

00:33:24.700 And the claim is that this thing has been there for like five or six years and nobody knows how it

00:33:31.280 got there. And this is the first time someone noticed it. Kind of interesting. Uh, to me though,

00:33:37.520 if we're going to come up with theories, it clearly looks to me to be an alien port-a-potty.

00:33:45.560 You know, the aliens brought it here cause it's a long trip. Makes sense. You got to have somewhere

00:33:49.640 to do your business. Um, and then they came and they set up their port-a-potty. They went out for

00:33:53.780 a hike or something around the desert, checking things out, came back and found the earthlings

00:33:59.280 climbing all over their outhouse. And they just sort of looked at each other and slowly backed away,

00:34:05.160 got on their spaceships and left. That's my, that's my scientific theory based on the data,

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00:37:04.620 deal, so take advantage of that now. So today we're going to cancel this man, Ryan Dorsey, and all his

00:37:11.120 kind, all his ilk. He's a Baltimore City council mayor, uh, member, I should say, and I don't mean that

00:37:17.020 kind. That's not the kind I'm referring to. Um, though, sure, we can cancel the Baltimore city

00:37:21.780 council, I guess. Why not? They really haven't been doing much good recently. And by recently,

00:37:25.880 I mean for the past, I don't know, five decades or so, but that's not the point today. The point

00:37:30.720 is this tweet from Dorsey. Um, and there's a picture there of a FedEx truck and a bike lane in

00:37:35.280 the city. And it says, quote, Hey FedEx, I told your driver here to get out of the bike lane. He was

00:37:40.380 obstructing, which I happen to be biking in. His response was get a car. Now, needless to say, this

00:37:47.220 FedEx driver is awesome. Ryan Dorsey, on the other hand, is the lamest dork this side of Justin 0.98

00:37:53.540 Trudeau. Not only is he riding a bike and bitching at a delivery guy, but after the delivery guy 1.00

00:38:00.040 verbally backhands him, he posts his own humiliation on social media, thinking he'll get sympathy from

00:38:05.720 the public rather than the relentless mockery and scorn he deserves. Quick tip here, even for people

00:38:10.940 who aren't lame dorks, when the internet has to choose between sympathy or scorn, it will always 0.92

00:38:17.560 choose scorn. Always. So keep that in mind or learn it the hard way as Ryan Dorsey has. But this behavior 0.97

00:38:27.060 is what I would expect from Dorsey, given that he is a cyclist. Cyclists, and I mean those who ride

00:38:32.980 bikes on the street, and you know, streets, those things where cars go, those kinds of cyclists are 0.61

00:38:40.760 a cursed breed. They are among the worst people on earth. The absolute dregs of humanity. No offense 1.00

00:38:48.680 intended. Every time I'm driving down a busy street and traffic is backed up for miles because everyone

00:38:56.160 has to navigate around some weirdo on a bike. I am perplexed anew. How is this even legal? I think to

00:39:04.280 myself, why are we allowing people to ride their bikes on roads where cars are supposed to go? Now I

00:39:11.180 get that you want to exercise. That's fine. But why are you exercising in the damned street during rush

00:39:17.880 hour? I like to exercise too. I'm not going to set up a bench press on the freeway. I'm not going to take 0.99

00:39:24.440 an ab roller down to the nearest intersection. Hey, give me a minute. I got three more sets. All

00:39:28.500 right. Hold on. Why won't I do that? Because I'm not a lunatic and I care about other people.

00:39:36.640 Sort of. At least I'm not going to go out of my way to make their commute longer and more stressful

00:39:41.580 than it already is. I'm not going to do that. Cyclists do that. Now what gets me about the bike

00:39:45.840 riders is their sense of entitlement. It's not just that they have the audacity to play with their toy in

00:39:51.320 the street. It's that they get angry at you for being there. They act like you are inconveniencing

00:39:57.160 them. They act like you just jumped on the same elliptical that they were using at the gym.

00:40:02.680 But the street is not your elliptical. It's a street. If you want an elliptical, go use an

00:40:08.960 elliptical. And if you want to play with your bike, go to a park or a bike trail in the woods. Or maybe

00:40:15.560 daddy can take you down to the tennis courts near the playground so you can ride your big wheel

00:40:19.460 around. Maybe that. Or better yet, ditch the bike and be an adult. Find a hobby that isn't as likely

00:40:26.260 to make you a victim of vehicular manslaughter. Just a thought. Now I know I'll be told that some

00:40:31.980 people use bikes as transportation, not as toys or exercise equipment. Fine. But the street is for a 0.99

00:40:38.360 certain type of transportation. Vehicle transportation. If you can use your bike as transportation on the

00:40:46.060 street, then why can't I use a pogo stick? Why can't I pogo down to work? Maybe the city will

00:40:52.560 build, maybe the city can build me a pogo lane just for me. You know, why can't I take this office

00:40:58.800 chair right here? It's got wheels. I just roll it down the highway. Why can't I go out to 10th Avenue

00:41:05.000 and do cartwheels for five blocks? I'm just, it's just transportation. Hey, this is how I get to work.

00:41:11.480 All right. I cartwheel to work. We all have our methods. Why not? Because again, that would be

00:41:18.120 insane. And the road isn't made for it. The road in fact is made so that 5,000 pounds hunk, 5,000

00:41:25.280 pound hunks of metal can fly down them at high speeds. That's what it's there for. It's not made

00:41:30.440 so that middle-aged vegetarians and spandex shorts can burn off some calories on the way to work. 0.91

00:41:35.240 Commuting is not a time for burning calories anyway. That's the other annoying thing. The rest of us are

00:41:40.720 jamming donuts into our fat faces while we sit in traffic and stew in our own body fat and misery

00:41:46.880 and you're riding by all brisk and healthy and happy. It's irritating, especially around Thanksgiving

00:41:53.920 and it's grotesque and it's dangerous and it's an inconvenience to me. So cyclists are canceled.

00:42:03.540 Take an Uber next time. No more bikes. They're not allowed. That's it. And on that note,

00:42:11.300 hope you all have a happy Thanksgiving with your families and I'll talk to you next week. Have a

00:42:16.920 great day. Godspeed.

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The Matt Walsh Show - November 25, 2020

Ep. 610 - Why I'm Not Cancelling My Thanksgiving Plans

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