The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 613 - Women Are Not Men

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Wall Show, the actress Ellen Page has announced that she's actually an actor

00:00:04.700 named Elliot Page. She came out as a man. Of course, the media has been in a state of rapturous

00:00:10.160 celebration over this, but I have some questions. I think they're fair questions. I'll ask them

00:00:14.680 today. Also, five headlines, including Chuck Schumer endorsing Joe Biden's plan to force

00:00:19.880 women to share the bathroom with men. And Biden's Treasury Secretary nominee explains how she will 0.94

00:00:25.380 use the Treasury to heal racism, heal sexism, and fix climate change. Finally today, breathing

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00:02:08.520 trueunderdog.com or anywhere you get your podcasts. So there was celebration yesterday. Confetti was

00:02:14.560 thrown. Champagne was poured. Tears of joy were wept when the actress Ellen Page revealed that she

00:02:20.920 is a man named Elliot. Yes, apparently it seems Ellen Page, who has been a woman for 33 years of

00:02:26.440 life, is actually a man, she says. And for this urgent news bulletin, as always, we'll go to People

00:02:32.500 Magazine. Here's their report. Elliot Page is living his truth and coming out as transgender.

00:02:38.580 Page, formerly known as Ellen, released a heartfelt statement on Twitter Tuesday, writing in part,

00:02:43.380 quote, I want to share with you that I am trans. My pronouns are he, they, and my name is Elliot.

00:02:49.440 Page added, I feel lucky to be writing this, to be here, to have arrived at this place in my life.

00:02:54.180 The 33-year-old, known for his Oscar-nominated role in the film Juno, goes on to express overwhelming

00:02:59.600 gratitude for those who have supported his journey, adding, quote, I can't begin to express how

00:03:03.980 remarkable it feels to finally love who I am enough to pursue my authentic self. Page also asks

00:03:09.040 fans for patience in the statement, explaining that his joy is fragile and that he is scared of

00:03:13.760 invasiveness, hate, jokes, and violence. He also addresses the discrimination against the trans

00:03:19.060 community, calling it insidious and cruel, resulting in horrific consequences. According to Page's post,

00:03:25.280 in 2020 alone, it has been reported that at least 40 transgender people have been murdered.

00:03:30.820 He adds that the majority of those victims have been Black and Latinx trans women.

00:03:35.120 Page also calls out political leaders who continue to criminalize trans health care

00:03:38.860 and deny individuals their right to exist. He states that those who spew hostility towards

00:03:44.020 the trans community have blood on their hands because 40 percent of trans adults report attempting 0.99

00:03:49.140 suicide. Page goes on to directly address trans people who deal with a, quote,

00:03:53.260 threat of violence every day, saying he sees and loves them and promises that he will do everything

00:03:59.180 he can to change this world for the better. Last year, Page revealed that he married dancer Emma

00:04:04.220 Portner, who reposted this statement on her Instagram Tuesday, writing in the caption that she is proud

00:04:09.000 of Page and calling his existence a gift in and of itself.

00:04:12.800 Okay, everything you heard at the end there was completely false. Actually, it was all completely false,

00:04:16.800 especially the part where she said her authentic self is a man. But the claim that trans people are the

00:04:21.360 victim of a hate crime epidemic has simply no evidence to support it. There is a similar lack

00:04:25.980 of evidence to support the claim that health care for trans people is being criminalized and that

00:04:31.180 trans people are being denied the right to exist. There's only one group of people in this country 0.98

00:04:36.080 who are denied the right to exist, and they're still in the womb. The pro-abortion Page doesn't

00:04:41.160 care about that group, though, of course. She'd rather fight imaginary injustices than real ones.

00:04:45.840 Speaking of imaginary, especially imaginary injustices, you may recall a couple of years ago,

00:04:50.020 Ellen Page on TV with Stephen Colbert, blaming Mike Pence for the hate crime that Jussie Smollett

00:04:57.540 committed against himself. It's worth revisiting that rant, I think, because it raises an

00:05:02.080 interesting question. Listen.

00:05:04.080 I'm, like, really fired up tonight, but...

00:05:06.480 This is how... You have to be fired up.

00:05:08.120 It feels impossible to not feel this way right now with the president and the vice president,

00:05:12.760 Mike Pence, who, like, wishes I couldn't be married. Let's just be clear.

00:05:16.100 The vice president of America wishes I didn't have the love with my wife. He wanted to ban that in 0.96

00:05:23.720 Indiana. He believes in conversion therapy. He has hurt LGBTQ people so badly as the government

00:05:34.240 of Indiana, and I think the thing we need to know, and I hope my show, Gaycation, did this

00:05:38.340 in terms of connecting the dots, in terms of what happened the other day to Jussie. I don't know him

00:05:42.640 personally. I sent all of my love.

00:05:48.320 Connect the dots.

00:05:50.300 This is what happens.

00:05:51.860 If you are in a position of power, and you hate people, and you want to cause suffering to them,

00:05:58.860 you go through the trouble. You spend your career trying to cause suffering.

00:06:03.080 What do you think is going to happen?

00:06:07.160 Kids are going to be abused, and they're going to kill themselves, and people are going to be

00:06:11.780 beaten on the street.

00:06:16.360 I have traveled the world, and I have met the most marginalized people you could meet.

00:06:22.020 I am lucky to have this time and the privilege to say this. 0.89

00:06:25.540 This needs to f***ing stop. 0.90

00:06:31.340 Okay. Leaving aside the rather stupefying fact that Ellen Page was somehow trying to blame the 0.99

00:06:37.240 vice president for the fact that two imaginary men beat up an actor in Chicago while he was walking

00:06:41.440 to Subway at 2 a.m. in sub-zero temperatures, we do have to ask one question. Ellen Page was 1.00

00:06:47.100 referring to her own same-sex lesbian marriage to another woman. Now, with this revelation that

00:06:52.980 she's a man named Elliot, does that mean she was never really a lesbian? Was she a straight white 1.00

00:06:57.920 male this whole time? And if so, does that mean a straight white male was playing all those roles

00:07:03.360 in all those films that should have gone to real women? Does she have to give back all of the awards 1.00

00:07:09.120 she's received for best female lead in a film? Well, maybe all of the awards overstates it a little

00:07:14.140 bit, but she has won a couple of awards, I think, at least. Do those get returned? Or did she just

00:07:20.120 become a man now? If so, how did that happen? And if she did just become a man, doesn't that mean

00:07:25.780 she actually changed her sexual orientation going from gay to straight? Isn't that impossible? 0.71

00:07:30.820 Haven't we been told that's impossible? By the way, mere nanoseconds after Page made the

00:07:35.800 announcement, her Wikipedia pages and IMDB pages had been changed immediately to include the new

00:07:42.180 pronouns. Lightning speed. This change was made. Creepy enough. But to make things weirder,

00:07:47.520 Page's Wikipedia page now, if you go and check it out, identifies her as a gay man married to a woman.

00:07:55.580 Does that make sense? How does it make sense? These are just a few of the questions that those who

00:08:01.580 promote left-wing gender theory, the theory that makes it possible, allegedly, for Ellen Page to 0.98

00:08:06.340 become a man or be a man or to have always been a man while also being a woman, cannot answer.

00:08:11.980 Will not answer. We're meant to simply accept that this woman is a man, 0.99

00:08:16.400 even though nobody who makes the claim, including Ellen herself, can offer any explanation of it.

00:08:23.060 They cannot tell you when she became a man, how she became a man, how any of this is possible,

00:08:28.860 scientifically or logically. In fact, the people making the claim cannot even so much as explain

00:08:35.540 what the claim actually is. Think about that for a moment. Ellen Page says she's a man. Okay.

00:08:41.880 What does she mean by that? With all these people announcing that they're really a gender other 0.93

00:08:48.140 than the one that they were, quote, assigned at birth, the crazy thing is that nobody ever stops

00:08:53.540 to ask the simplest, most basic question. What do you mean? What do you mean? That's a fair question,

00:09:02.080 isn't it? That's not a transphobic question or a question that otherizes anyone or denies anyone

00:09:07.440 the right to exist. It's also not a question that shuts anyone down or shouts them down or censors

00:09:12.140 them. Quite the opposite. This is a question that seeks to understand, that seeks even to

00:09:17.920 take the claim seriously. But I cannot understand you or take you seriously if I don't even know what

00:09:23.720 you mean. So Ellen Page says she's a man. All right. What do you mean, Ellen or Elliot? What do you

00:09:30.360 mean that you're a man? In what sense are you a man? How do you define the word man? What is a man?

00:09:37.720 I'm a man myself, always have been as far as I know. And it's clear that Ellen Page is not exactly

00:09:43.520 like me. I mean, you could look at Ellen Page and look at me and say, well, there's a very clear

00:09:46.820 difference here. There's even a difference of kind, of category, it would seem. There are a number of very

00:09:54.360 significant differences between the two of us, differences that go all the way down to the level

00:09:57.600 of DNA, chromosomes, reproductive capabilities, bone structure, muscle mass, etc. It seems that

00:10:02.920 we're both humans, certainly, but different kinds of humans, different categories of human.

00:10:09.200 Now you say now we're the same kind, the same category. Well, again, then what kind is that?

00:10:14.180 Explain that kind. Define the category. And it does no good to say that the word man is fluid or an

00:10:21.700 artificial construct or that it has no fixed meaning, because if that's the case, then it doesn't

00:10:26.520 mean anything to identify yourself as one. You may as well still call yourself a woman then, 0.62

00:10:31.340 because the words don't mean anything. You can't very well insist that your identity as this

00:10:36.320 particular thing is important and fundamental, and we all have to respect it, and also insist that this

00:10:43.320 particular thing has no meaning and could be anything and is nothing but a social construct.

00:10:48.140 You do see how those two propositions are in direct contradiction, don't you?

00:10:52.220 See, I want to understand you. I do. I just need you to explain what you mean in a way that's

00:10:59.740 coherent. Now, it's not that you owe me specifically an explanation, but if you want to be understood,

00:11:06.440 then you have to explain what you're saying. If you don't want to be understood, then what's the

00:11:10.960 point of making the announcement in the first place? You know, I could stand up in front of the

00:11:14.840 whole world and say, everyone, I want you to know I am a who's he, what's it? That's what I am.

00:11:22.500 That's how I identify. If I were to say that, the immediate response from the world would be,

00:11:28.740 you're a what now? What's that? What's a who's he, what's it? What do you mean?

00:11:32.440 I can't very well then respond, well, I don't owe you an explanation. Stay out of my business.

00:11:39.140 I'm the one who brought it up. The world didn't bring it up. I did.

00:11:42.360 The world is just trying to understand what the hell I'm talking about.

00:11:47.720 But of course, when it comes to a woman saying she's a man or a man saying he's a woman,

00:11:53.060 no one ever explain, explains what's that supposed to mean? Nobody ever explains anything related to

00:11:58.340 left-wing gender theory, a theory that, as we've covered on this show, was invented about 70 years 0.85

00:12:02.480 ago by a lunatic child abuser named John Money, who experimented on two young boys and caused them

00:12:07.260 both to kill themselves. He's the guy who came up with most of what the left says about 0.55

00:12:12.220 gender today, including the idea that a person can have a gender that is at odds with their

00:12:16.540 biological sex. He came up with it. This is his idea. We are meant now to simply accept and believe

00:12:23.040 and parrot these ideas, even if they make no sense. And even if the people making the claim

00:12:28.220 cannot themselves make sense of it. Does it matter, though? That's the other question. Should we care?

00:12:36.360 You know, many on the right realize that left-wing gender theory is nonsense. They realize that men

00:12:41.760 are not women and women are not men. They realize that this preferred pronoun stuff is absurd. You

00:12:47.300 know, they realize that you cannot claim your own pronouns for yourself any more than you can claim

00:12:51.000 your own nouns or prepositions or your own adverbs. It doesn't make any sense. Grammar doesn't work

00:12:57.320 that way. Language doesn't work that way. They realize all of this, but they retreat from the battle

00:13:02.680 over these ideas, crawling under their beds to hide while murmuring something about how this is

00:13:07.540 all a sideshow and it doesn't matter. That is the rationalization of a coward. Yes, it matters. 0.97

00:13:14.980 The truth matters. The truth, in fact, is all that matters. It's the only thing that matters.

00:13:21.620 I don't care about anything else but the truth. And I don't care to spend my time defending anything

00:13:27.520 else but the truth. The left's gender ideology is, among many other things, all of them bad, 0.92

00:13:34.880 a direct assault on the truth. They want to deny basic truth, to build a culture that denies it,

00:13:42.820 to force you to deny it. And that matters. It matters a lot. It's also an assault on children,

00:13:50.500 our children, your children. Gender confusion is an epidemic among kids today. Many lives are being

00:13:56.060 destroyed by it. We talked about this last week as well. And we've talked about this many times

00:14:01.060 because it matters. Other conservatives and many other conservatives with platforms pretend it

00:14:05.840 doesn't matter, but it does. The left wants to infuse confusion into your child's mind. They want to

00:14:11.360 rob your child of his understanding of himself. They're trying to take from him what is most basic,

00:14:17.720 most essential, most needed for a happy and healthy life. Does that matter? I can think of very few

00:14:24.540 things that matter more. So yes, we do need to say, it is important to say, that Ellen Page can change

00:14:33.620 her name. Fine. She's Elliot now. That's fair. You can be whatever name you want to be. But she cannot

00:14:39.080 be a man. She's not a man. She will never be one. And I say that not because I'm trying to hurt her

00:14:45.280 feelings or deny her right to exist, but just because it's true and the truth matters. Now let's get to our

00:14:52.920 five headlines. Well, speaking of gender madness, Chuck Schumer was asked yesterday about Joe Biden's

00:15:05.920 plan to let men into the women's restroom. And here's how that conversation went. 1.00

00:15:11.400 Joe Biden said that on his first day of office, he will give transgender students access to sports,

00:15:17.500 bathrooms and locker rooms in accordance with their gender identity in all federally funded schools.

00:15:21.500 Do you think he has the ability to do this? And do you agree with this decision?

00:15:24.960 I agree with the decision and I know he'll check things out thoroughly legally.

00:15:29.180 Yeah. So this is to get men into the women's restroom is a top priority now for Joe Biden 0.63

00:15:35.520 and guys like Chuck Schumer, they're fully on board with it. Oh yeah. First day in office. This is a,

00:15:41.200 this is a first day priority to make sure we get the dudes into the women's bathroom. Very, 1.00

00:15:45.380 very, very important stuff. Now the question I always ask, um, with, when, when, when this,

00:15:51.060 when this comes up, especially coming from someone like Chuck Schumer and Joe Biden, Chuck Schumer and

00:15:55.120 Joe Biden, both of them decrepit, ancient old men. Okay. These guys are, are in their upper nineties,

00:16:02.180 I believe. And they've been in public life forever. Decades and decades, right? They'd never mentioned this

00:16:09.700 before. So right now for Joe Biden, who's been trying to be president for like 50 years. Um,

00:16:16.540 and now he says first day in office, he's got to get, he's got to get women into men into the women's

00:16:22.460 restroom. Why didn't you ever mention that before as a priority? Decades of public service,

00:16:30.280 if we can call it that never once mentioned it. Someone could fact check me on this and go back.

00:16:36.620 If you can find an example of Chuck Schumer or Joe Biden in, you know, I don't know, 1997 or

00:16:42.760 something, or any time prior to about 2012 saying anything about gender, transgender women in the

00:16:52.460 women's room, then let me know. I've looked, I haven't seen it. As far as I can tell, they never 0.86

00:16:57.900 once mentioned once mentioned it. Now it's a top priority. So the question always is, okay, you're,

00:17:03.000 you're, you're, uh, you're 78 years old. Um, you decided, I don't know, maybe around the age of 70

00:17:09.860 that actually men can be women and that it's okay to have men in the women's restroom. 1.00

00:17:16.380 What changed your mind? I mean, you live 70 years, apparently completely confident that men 0.92

00:17:23.060 have penises and women have vaginas. And, uh, around the age of 70, you changed your mind. That, 1.00

00:17:27.920 that's, that's, that is quite a flip-flop, isn't it? We're always talking about politicians who flip-flop

00:17:34.680 on issues. I can't think of an, I cannot think of a more profound, a, a, a bigger, more shocking flip-flop

00:17:40.820 than this. You flip-flopped on the issue of whether or not men have vaginas essentially. So why? 0.99

00:17:48.440 It's a question the media never asks. How did you decide this? What convinced you? What scientific

00:17:57.040 evidence did you see? Well, we, we all know the answer, of course. These are men without spines.

00:18:03.640 These are men without anything going on. These are men without substance. And so they saw that the winds

00:18:11.140 were shifting that way. And so they, they shifted with it. We know that's the real answer, but I would

00:18:15.500 love it if one day they would have to give some kind of answer. Cause they're not going to say that

00:18:20.660 even though it's true. Number two, Janet Yellen, Joe Biden's treasury secretary pick, uh, has revealed

00:18:27.380 what she plans to do with the position. And here's what she said about that. We risk missing the

00:18:33.600 obligation to address deeper structural problems, inequality, stagnant wages, especially for workers

00:18:42.380 who lack a college education, communities that have seen industry disappear with no good jobs,

00:18:50.260 replacing lost ones, racial disparities in pay, job opportunities, housing, food security,

00:18:58.860 and small business lending to deny wealth building to communities of color, gender disparities that keep 0.86

00:19:08.720 women out of the workforce and keep our economy from running at full force. It's a convergence of 1.00

00:19:16.960 tragedies that is not only economically unsustainable, but one that betrays our commitment to giving every

00:19:25.920 American an equal chance to get ahead. But I know this team will never give up that commitment.

00:19:34.480 As you've said before, Mr. President elect out of our collective pain as a nation,

00:19:42.160 we will find collective purpose to control the pandemic and build our economy back better than

00:19:50.000 before to rebuild our infrastructure and create better jobs to invest in our workforce to advance

00:19:58.860 racial equity and make sure the economic recovery includes everyone to address the climate crisis

00:20:06.540 with American ingenuity and American jobs. Okay, sorry, that was that was too long. I can't even react

00:20:14.680 to that because I couldn't stay awake for it. That's one thing about these bureaucrats, they just speaking 0.99

00:20:20.280 of having no substance, just put your right to sleep. And that's how they get away with doing a lot of the

00:20:24.900 stuff they're doing. What you just heard there was radical. But it was said in such a in such a such

00:20:32.180 an intolerably dry and boring way that you can't stay awake for it to listen to what their actual

00:20:37.760 plans are. And so you just kind of want to wave at them and say, fine, do whatever you want. Just stop

00:20:42.280 talking, please. In reality, though, she's talking about, you know, using the Treasury to fix climate

00:20:49.540 change. How are they going to do that? Of course, it's not possible. But this is this is another

00:20:55.840 thing. This is another another another promise that Joe Biden has made. He's going to stop

00:20:59.420 hurricanes. He's he's going to fix the weather. Can't explain how he's going to do it, but he's

00:21:03.860 going to do it. Going to stop gender disparities, women not in the workforce. By the way, if you want 0.99

00:21:09.880 to know, in most cases, you know, women who are not in the workforce, my wife, for example, not in the

00:21:15.860 workforce. OK, so someone like Janet Yellen and other Democrats will look at that as a problem 0.99

00:21:20.580 and they see that my wife is not in the workforce. They say, well, we got to do something to get to

00:21:24.720 get this woman into the workforce. You know why she's not in the workforce? Because she doesn't 1.00

00:21:29.160 want to be. She could be. It's it's pretty much anyone can get into the workforce if they want to.

00:21:35.980 It's not hard to get into the workforce, the sacred, hallowed workforce. It may surprise

00:21:44.200 especially Democrats to learn, especially feminists. Not everybody wants that. My wife doesn't want 1.00

00:21:51.260 to be in the workforce. She wants to be at home with the kids, raising kids. So that's what she's

00:21:55.200 doing. You know, that's that explains a lot of the, quote, gender disparities, whether it's less

00:22:02.220 women in the work, fewer women in the workforce, I should say, or, you know, women in jobs that don't 0.99

00:22:08.520 pay as much. It's because they make different choices. And those choices are great. Those

00:22:14.280 choices are more than fine. They're great, in my opinion. But it's their choice. To call that a

00:22:20.820 problem, I would say, seems rather presumptuous, to say the least. Number three, Barack Obama, in an

00:22:26.560 interview with Stephen Colbert, wants us to imagine, if you can imagine this, a fantasy world where

00:22:32.820 Democrats question the results of an election. Pretty, pretty wild stuff. But here, here he is.

00:22:38.360 Listen. You imagine the Super Bowl and, you know, the game's going on and touchdowns are supposed to

00:22:45.600 be worth six points with the extra points, unless you go for two and field goals are worth three

00:22:50.600 points and you're keeping score the whole time and the refs and so forth. And then at the end of the

00:22:56.080 game, a team's won. And somebody says, no, field goals aren't worth three. Or that wasn't really a

00:23:05.740 touchdown. Well, Hugo Chavez kept blocking the field goal from the grave. We've all been watching. And I guess

00:23:12.660 if you had the other team just refused to acknowledge it and you had half the league say, we're not sure it's

00:23:22.540 true. Um, you'd have a similar controversy, but when that starts happening, the game itself breaks

00:23:29.220 down, right? The, the, and in, in this case, it's not a game. It's our democracy. Our democracy

00:23:35.040 starts falling apart. Imagine if going forward, every single election is treated this way at every

00:23:46.340 level. Imagine if Democrats start acting this way. Uh, is that part of the danger that he's broken

00:23:53.340 the seal on that idea? That is the concern that I think we all have. It's Joe Biden is going to be

00:23:59.340 the next president. Kamala Harris is going to be the next vice president, but, but we don't want to get 0.98

00:24:04.340 into a pattern where we just, uh, uh, are, are willing to throw out what we've agreed to previously,

00:24:13.460 uh, including our constitutional structure, just because we find it politically expedient. 0.95

00:24:19.040 My God, these people are just shameless, just shameless. Oh, imagine if Democrats didn't accept 0.91

00:24:28.080 the results of an election hard to imagine. I mean, they've only done that for every major election

00:24:35.160 in, in recent memory. Other than that, really difficult to imagine. They only spent four years

00:24:42.400 claiming that the, that president, president Trump's election was illegitimate and he's a Russian spy

00:24:47.860 sent here by Putin to destroy the country. They only spent four years claiming that they only tried

00:24:53.820 to impeach him based on that with no evidence. Hillary Clinton has been on TV for four years. 1.00

00:25:03.480 The woman can't get past it and get over it. Um, it saying that Trump is an illegitimate president.

00:25:08.720 Those words. Exactly. Election was stolen. Those words. Exactly. But of course, Barack Obama,

00:25:15.900 and this, this is what you get from the left. Always. They just expect you to, they're, they're just

00:25:21.120 going to wave away reality and say, no, that's not reality. You, you, you, no, we're not. Nope.

00:25:28.100 You can't acknowledge that. Didn't happen. You think it happened, but it didn't. Just like Ellen

00:25:33.260 Page. You thought she was a woman. She's not just, nope. Stop asking questions. Stop asking questions. 0.84

00:25:40.540 All right. This is from USA Today. Um, let's see. My producer sent me this one, uh,

00:25:45.860 about the McRib. How far would you go for a free McRib? Well, first of all, I wouldn't go far at all.

00:25:53.060 I literally would not walk across the room for one. You, you could have a free one just right across

00:25:57.480 this room here and I wouldn't get up. I would get up and walk out of the room. Just, I don't have to

00:26:02.200 be anywhere near something that tastes and smells like stale dog food smothered in barbecue sauce.

00:26:08.760 Not even barbecue sauce. Just, just basically ketchup and vinegar, which is part of a barbecue sauce,

00:26:14.700 but not the whole thing. Um, anyway, McDonald's iconic barbecue sandwich returns to restaurants

00:26:21.640 nationwide beginning Wednesday, but before the McRib's arrival, which McDonald's has dubbed the

00:26:25.820 sauciest moment of the year, the fast food chain is giving away 10,000 free sandwiches to hungry fans

00:26:32.420 with its shave for McRib sweepstakes. Shave for McRib sweepstakes. Um, McDonald's said in news release,

00:26:42.020 beard or no beard, prepare for the McRib with a shave because anyone could participate from your

00:26:47.640 brother to your mother, sister-in-law, or cousin's roommate. Post a picture of your clean, cleanly

00:26:52.680 shaven or baby smooth face on your public Twitter or public Instagram profile using shave for McRib.

00:26:58.880 Okay. So there, what in the hell is this? First of all, how weird is it? What, why do we just accept

00:27:08.260 this? Speaking of things we should be asking questions about, they're trying to convince

00:27:12.700 people to shave and post it online. Is this some sort of weird fetish from the, the McDonald's

00:27:19.320 marketing? Some, some, some depraved fetishist works for the McDonald's marketing program department. 0.99

00:27:25.140 And he, uh, he suggested this. He said, you know what we should do? We should have people shave and 0.83

00:27:29.540 post it online. That'll be a great, yeah, that'll be a great marketing campaign. People will love it.

00:27:36.480 I mean, I'll love it at least. Uh, but then on top of that, this again is, is, is anti-beard bigotry.

00:27:45.140 Why wouldn't it be the opposite of that? Especially if this is supposed to be barbecue. Now it's,

00:27:49.520 it's fake barbecue. So it's appropriate, I suppose, you have to shave your beard and be a fake man in 1.00

00:27:53.820 order to eat it. But, um, if this is supposed to be real barbecue, real barbecue ribs, if that's what

00:27:59.020 you're going for, then it should be the opposite. It should be grow a beard and we'll give you

00:28:04.040 barbecue as a reward. You can eat this manly meal, that meal now that you have the face of a man

00:28:10.060 rather than the face of an overgrown child. I'm telling you, I've, I've been, I've been telling

00:28:16.260 you this for a long time, that anti-beard bigotry is one of the last acceptable bigotries. And I think

00:28:22.540 the most, uh, the most sinister bigotry in our society today, pretty infuriating. Um, number five,

00:28:31.660 finally, new details is from the daily wire says new details have emerged about the disappearance

00:28:36.040 of a 10 to 12 foot monolith that mysteriously appeared in the Utah wilderness earlier this

00:28:41.120 month. By the way, with this monolith thing, it's, it's weird how we all just decided to call it a

00:28:45.960 monolith instead of like the, the, the pole, the podium, something we all just decided to go with

00:28:54.380 monolith. It does say it makes it sound more epic, I suppose. So I guess that's why we're doing that.

00:28:57.800 Four men removed the monolith and hauled it away in eyewitness claims. Ross Bernards,

00:29:02.780 a 34 year old photographer from Colorado told the newspaper that he went to the site on Friday,

00:29:07.540 hoping to get a glimpse of the monolith. He said he saw, how did he know where the monolith was?

00:29:12.060 Because I thought they weren't telling us the, they were keeping it a secret about where the

00:29:16.380 monolith was for some reason. So this guy says he went, he's a photographer. He said he saw four men

00:29:23.200 push the shiny structure to the ground, break it apart and haul it away in a wheelbarrow.

00:29:28.820 Then he says, as they walked off with the pieces, one of them said, leave no trace.

00:29:35.140 I don't know. I'm doubting this. I personally, I've always wanted to be in a situation where I

00:29:40.860 could say to someone unironically, leave no trace. It sounds a little bit too cinematic for me,

00:29:47.140 but James Newland, who traveled with Bernards to the site, gave more details. He said, it must have

00:29:52.220 been about 10 or 15 minutes at most for them to knock over the monolith and pull it out.

00:29:56.060 We didn't know who they were and we were not going to do anything to stop them. Cowards. 0.99

00:30:01.760 While Bernard snapped no pictures, Newland reportedly grabbed a few cell phone images of the men, 0.83

00:30:06.540 but the cell phone images are grainy. Okay. So this is a professional photographer. He goes all

00:30:11.260 the way to the monolith. He happens to get there at the same moment where, where, where mysterious men

00:30:15.800 are in the middle of the night dragging it away. He doesn't take any pictures, but his friend with a

00:30:21.720 somehow grainy, uh, cell phone camera takes a picture. How do you get a, what does he have a

00:30:30.540 flip phone from 2004? How do you even get grainy pictures on cell phones anymore? Um, and then,

00:30:37.080 um, let's see, there was, there was, uh, uh, another set of hikers who, who, uh, Ricardo Marino and Sierra

00:30:44.940 van meter went to the site on Friday. And what they claim, this is a, one of the guys Marino says,

00:30:51.880 we believe we might be the first people to come to the Utah monolith and have it not be here anymore,

00:30:56.600 unfortunately. But what we do see though, is someone wrote by B word and clearly took a P on

00:31:04.080 where the monolith once stood. I don't know. The mystery deepens. So, okay. So they drag it away.

00:31:11.580 They say, leave no trace. And yet they, they scrawled by on the sand and peed.

00:31:19.840 I don't think these guys quite understand what leave no trace means. So the mystery, uh, continues,

00:31:25.300 but I, of course I will, I will continue in my theory that obviously this in some way involves,

00:31:30.340 involves aliens. I'm sure before we get to our daily cancellation today, you know, one of the

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00:33:32.280 Dailywire.com slash subscribe. Uh, but I am not having a good time with this part of it. The, uh,

00:33:39.340 Daily Wire Christmas ornaments that I am again, forced to tell you about. What I would ask is,

00:33:44.340 listen, if you guys care about me at all, um, just buy these damn things. And, uh, once they're 0.99

00:33:51.660 all bought, I won't have to tell you to talk about it anymore. And I won't have to endure this

00:33:55.560 humiliation. Um, all the Daily Wire hosts plus God King Jeremy Boring as Santa's adorable elves made

00:34:03.360 out of painted metal. You can, you can get those, those ornaments there. I can't, you know, the,

00:34:08.440 the ornament of me, the, it does capture my essence. I have to admit at least that much,

00:34:14.480 but I still, I still object. I object on moral grounds to this yet. I'm promoting it anyway

00:34:23.460 because they're paying me to. So text Christmas to eight, three, four, zero, zero to get your tree

00:34:29.620 decorated with these, uh, wonderful ornaments. They're going fast. So get yours now, please.

00:34:35.320 Dear God, I beg you. Let's get now to our daily cancellation.

00:34:42.060 So today we're going to cancel breathing. To be clear, I'm not canceling breathing myself.

00:34:46.860 I kind of like breathing personally. Most of the time I actually enjoy breathing unless I'm in a

00:34:51.960 rest stop bathroom or someplace similar like a Burger King. But USA Today in an op-ed has canceled

00:34:59.380 breathing. No more breathing. It's not allowed. The article written by Michael Stern and which I'm

00:35:03.520 pretty sure is not parody has this headline. COVID has turned breathing into a deadly event

00:35:09.900 and all of us into potential serial killers. Now at a different time and place, that headline would

00:35:16.760 be the kind of thing you might hear if you work with paranoid schizophrenics in a psych ward of a

00:35:21.620 hospital. But now it's the subject of an editorial in a major American publication and it gets worse.

00:35:27.040 So listen to this as we read the article says, as coronavirus burns an exponential path of

00:35:32.760 destruction across the American terrain, an insidious blanket of shadow damage is quietly

00:35:38.620 unfurling in its name. It's not just the death and scarred lungs. COVID-19 has turned every man,

00:35:44.420 woman, and child into a potential serial killer. Let's, let's just try to look past the abysmal

00:35:50.800 writing here. I mean, an insidious blanket of shadow damage. That sounds like a lyric from a

00:35:58.040 dashboard confessional song in 2002. Or maybe shadow damage could be the title track of an album by a band

00:36:04.040 called the Insidious Blankets. Anyway, the real issue is that you have just been accused of being

00:36:10.500 a serial killer for breathing. Every time you walk down the street breathing, you're joining the likes

00:36:15.420 of John Wayne Gacy and Ted Bundy. And, you know, by the way, John Wayne Gacy and Ted Bundy also,

00:36:21.620 they would also breathe, I'm told. Even Hitler could breathe. And now you're breathing. Coincidence? 0.82

00:36:30.480 I think not. Let's keep reading. It says, so far I've been fortunate, but not a day goes by that I

00:36:36.260 don't wonder whether my streak of good luck is about to end because the person in front of me in the

00:36:40.760 grocery line is wearing a mask below his nose, expelling a cloud of radioactive COVID dust that

00:36:46.020 I cannot escape, short of dropping $50 on the conveyor belt and trying to outrun the security

00:36:50.420 guard. So another side note here, are we going to get a fact check on this? Is Twitter going to flag

00:36:57.260 this? Is Facebook going to put on, put one of their third party fact checkers on the case? Radioactive

00:37:02.500 COVID dust? That might actually be another good band name. But aside from that, is there any science to

00:37:09.460 this claim? That there's such a thing as COVID dust and that it's radioactive? For that matter,

00:37:15.500 is there any science to the claim that the breath from a person's nostrils could carry enough viral

00:37:20.560 load to infect you if you're standing behind them for three minutes at the grocery store?

00:37:24.600 Where's the science on that? Well, it doesn't matter. You know, we know that by now. The science

00:37:29.580 doesn't matter as long as what you're saying about COVID is scary. If you're saying scary stuff

00:37:35.500 that, you know, that, that, that, that, that, that terrifies people, it doesn't matter if it's

00:37:41.060 factual or if there's any evidence. If you're saying stuff that makes COVID seem a little less

00:37:45.180 scary, then you better come armed with volumes of studies, research, medical charts, everything.

00:37:51.740 Back to the article, it says, um, it's bad enough that we have to fear contracting a deadly virus from

00:37:57.480 a stranger at TJ Maxx who reaches for the same decorative throw pillow. What's worse is the brutal

00:38:02.360 reality that the people we love and trust most in this world bring us the same risk? More risk

00:38:07.980 because these are the people with whom we have regular and close contact. Any sustained encounter

00:38:12.620 with those we love, kisses, hugs, laughs, conversations could bring fever, blood clots, fluid filled lungs,

00:38:19.520 and death. Okay. Sidebar again. First of all, what kind of man is shopping for decorative throw pillows

00:38:27.780 at TJ Maxx. This is, see that I don't have to worry about getting COVID while I shop for decorative

00:38:34.260 throw pillows because I would never do that. I've always said that the decorative throw pillow

00:38:39.500 industry would completely collapse if all women on earth were raptured, you know, into the sky. 1.00

00:38:45.460 That industry is done along with the decorative soap industry, the wrapping paper industry, because

00:38:51.820 man, we would just put everything in paper bags. But apparently this guy is breaking ranks and he's

00:38:56.080 doing his part to keep the decorative throw pillow industry going. But more importantly,

00:39:02.280 no, you don't have to fear contracting a virus because you reached for a pillow.

00:39:06.520 You can fear it if you want to. You don't have to. And you shouldn't. There are many more worthwhile

00:39:13.020 things to fear. Back to the article. It goes on for a while, but this is how he wraps it up. He says,

00:39:18.560 and so as the world eagerly awaits a vaccine that promises to be rolled out over the next six months,

00:39:23.940 the wrath of the coronavirus will not end with inoculation. The way we look at our own survival,

00:39:29.560 the dangers faced by those we love will be stamped with COVID's dirty fingerprint for years to come.

00:39:36.680 Yeah. Speak for yourself. I can tell you right now, I didn't learn anything about my own mortality or

00:39:43.240 about the dangers faced by those I love from this. I already knew that I was mortal. I knew that the world

00:39:49.740 is full of dangers. None of that is news to me. But as we recently discussed, for those who have

00:39:55.940 lived their whole lives without ever confronting or acknowledging their own mortality, this has,

00:40:00.760 I suppose, indeed been a wake-up call. And many of them, as we see exhibited here, are not handling

00:40:05.520 it well at all. And that's what this is really about. The author of this delusional, paranoid piece

00:40:11.760 of psychotic fear-mongering, either had pre-existing mental illnesses that are now being aggravated during

00:40:17.700 the COVID crisis, or he had lived such a psychologically sheltered life beforehand that

00:40:23.260 the existence of a threat, any threat, however comparatively mild, is intolerable for him.

00:40:28.840 He can't process it. He can't deal with it. Yes, it's true, technically, that someone could

00:40:34.880 indirectly kill you by breathing too close to you. It's possible that you could indirectly kill

00:40:40.000 someone by breathing too close to them. It's also possible that a rock could fly out of the sky,

00:40:44.940 crack open your skull. It's possible that you might get a brain-eating amoeba by jumping into

00:40:49.340 a lake or even taking a shower. Did you know that? Did you know you could get a brain-eating amoeba

00:40:53.640 from taking a shower? I think. Don't quote me on that. It's at least possible. I mean, it's a logical

00:41:00.580 possibility. It's possible that the pain in your side is a symptom of stage four cancer and you'll be

00:41:05.780 dead in a week. It's possible that somebody will break into your house tonight and chop off your 0.92

00:41:09.900 head while you sleep. Look, a lot of things are possible. Are any of them likely? Not really. Some 0.99

00:41:16.980 are more likely than others. But the chances in all these cases are far less than 50%. Far, far, far

00:41:23.460 less. And so the job of an adult human who wants to function in society and have any chance of being

00:41:30.300 successful and well-adjusted and happy is to keep all of the terrible possibilities in proper

00:41:35.760 perspective and to accept that, yes, one day a terrible thing will happen to you. A fatal thing,

00:41:41.640 in fact. One day a fatal and terrible thing will happen to everyone you know and love. Your spouse,

00:41:47.260 your children, everyone. You do have to accept that. You can't function if you don't. That doesn't mean

00:41:54.720 we should be apathetic or that we should accept or embrace unreasonable risk. It just means that you

00:42:00.000 confront and acknowledge your mortality, humanity's mortality, and go about your life, taking precautions

00:42:05.760 but never to the point that it causes you to forfeit all of the things that make living life

00:42:09.900 worthwhile in the first place. And so on second thought, breathing is not canceled.

00:42:17.360 This paranoid, cowardly, insane panic porn is canceled. Everybody else is free to go and even

00:42:24.460 to breathe for now until the next cancellation at least. And we'll leave it there. Thanks for watching,

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00:43:12.940 Hey, everyone. It's Andrew Klavan, host of The Andrew Klavan Show. Joe Biden's new cabinet is

00:43:18.100 incredibly diverse. There are women who believe in big government and blacks who believe in big

00:43:23.100 government and immigrants who believe in big government. So anyone who doesn't like big 0.99

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The Matt Walsh Show - December 02, 2020

Ep. 613 - Women Are Not Men

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