The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 617 - The Only Way To End The Lockdowns

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, nearly 20% of America's restaurants have closed permanently

00:00:04.680 because of the lockdowns, and another 10,000 will be added to the list soon, we're told.

00:00:09.740 So the government has intentionally decimated one of our most important industries.

00:00:13.300 How can anyone feel anything less than rage over this? Also, five headlines, including

00:00:17.720 the Democrats setting to work to enact their radical pro-abortion agenda, of course, and

00:00:23.280 an Israeli scientist makes a stunning revelation involving space aliens and something called the

00:00:28.900 Galactic Federation. You're going to want to hear about this if you haven't yet. Big news.

00:00:32.420 Plus, we will cancel an anti-gun mall Santa, and much more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:02:29.340 slash Walsh. And thank you to Acregold for supporting the show. So Time Magazine's latest

00:02:33.980 issue echoes the hyperbole found all over social media by dubbing 2020, quote, the worst year ever.

00:02:41.560 I think most of the people who say this don't mean it literally. I hope anyway, they don't mean it

00:02:46.120 literally. 2020 obviously is not the worst year ever. I mean, any of the years in the late 14th

00:02:51.220 century when the Black Plague was in the process of wiping out half of Europe's population were

00:02:56.840 probably quite a bit worse than this one or say 1862 when over 20,000 people were killed in one day

00:03:03.780 in just one battle of the Civil War. That was Antietam. That year was, I'm guessing, much more

00:03:09.960 challenging than this one. The same goes for 1861, 1863, 1864, or any of the years leading up to and

00:03:15.980 preceding the Civil War. In fact, I bet if you were transported to any year prior to our modern

00:03:22.640 age, anywhere on earth, you would, within hours, be begging for the comfort and tranquility of America

00:03:29.080 circa the year of our Lord 2020. I'm not sure what exactly was happening in, say, 1648 or 1234 or 1705,

00:03:37.940 but I do know that the nights were cold. Survival was hard. People probably didn't smell very good.

00:03:44.600 Your children, not all of them, probably would live to adulthood, and you would probably be dead

00:03:49.520 before 50. So, no. 2020 is not the worst year ever, not even close to it. And it's important to

00:03:55.940 establish that fact because if we lose our sense of perspective, then we will not be able to

00:04:01.400 rationally evaluate our situation and make good and coherent choices. In fact, it is this lack of

00:04:07.680 perspective, this inability to rationally evaluate, that has contributed greatly towards making 2020,

00:04:13.360 if not the worst year ever, at least a bad year, and perhaps the worst in several decades. It's what

00:04:19.740 has scared people into submitting to tyranny from the government. And as far as that goes, I think we

00:04:24.900 can say without melodrama or hyperbole that what the government has done over the past several months

00:04:29.600 has been oppressive, tyrannical, and capricious to an extent unprecedented in our lifetimes, at least.

00:04:36.720 This may not be the worst year literally in history, but some of what has happened we have

00:04:43.540 never seen before. And it is very terrible indeed. On that end, here's the latest, a report from CNN

00:04:49.620 reporting some real and important news for a change. I don't know if their normal editors are on vacation

00:04:54.780 or what to let this slip through, but here's what the article says. It says about 17% of America's

00:04:59.340 restaurants have already permanently closed this year, with thousands more on the brink,

00:05:03.620 according to a new report. The National Restaurant Association is publicly pleading with Congress

00:05:08.300 to pass new stimulus to help the industry that has been damaged by the pandemic. The group said

00:05:13.600 Monday that 10,000 restaurants could close in the next three weeks, in addition to the 110,000 that

00:05:19.260 have already shuttered in 2020. Now, just to stop for a moment here, to really think about this,

00:05:26.240 because you become numb to these numbers after a while. 110,000 restaurants have closed this year,

00:05:32.540 110,000. If I had told you in December of 2019 that in the following year, over 100,000 restaurants

00:05:40.120 would be closed, first of all, you wouldn't believe me. Second, if you did believe me, you would think

00:05:45.560 that I was describing some kind of sudden economic apocalypse, some sort of act of God coming out of

00:05:51.960 the sky, out of the blue to destroy an entire industry in one fell swoop. And you would be wrong

00:05:56.880 in that assumption. This has been an intentional, deliberate, targeted act decision by our elected

00:06:04.020 leaders. Now, a little bit more from CNN. It says, the group released results from a survey of 6,000

00:06:11.100 restaurant operators revealing that 87% of full service restaurants reported an average 36% drop

00:06:16.600 in revenue and 83% expect sales to be even worse over the next three months as the virus continues to

00:06:22.240 lash the United States. Sean Kennedy, executive vice president of the group, said, in short,

00:06:26.620 the restaurant industry simply cannot wait for relief any longer. He advocates for a, quote,

00:06:32.500 true compromise between the competing Democrat and Republican proposals and hopes for a larger

00:06:38.440 stimulus package in 2021 under the incoming Biden administration. CNN Business's dashboard

00:06:42.900 tracking America's recovery shows a steep drop in restaurant reservations, down 70% during the

00:06:47.620 pandemic. They recovered in September, have fallen once again. A bipartisan stimulus proposal could be

00:06:54.300 unveiled this week. It's unclear if the extension of the Paycheck Protection Program, which the group

00:06:58.640 wants, will be included. Now, I said that CNN was reporting real news for a change, but they can't help

00:07:04.580 themselves, of course. As usual, the media reports that even acknowledge the devastation will always

00:07:11.040 blame, lay the blame on the virus. They lay the blame of the economic devastation

00:07:16.520 on the virus. Well, the virus and Donald Trump. Notice it says that the situation with restaurants

00:07:22.600 will get even worse as the virus continues to lash the United States. But it's not the virus doing this.

00:07:29.200 The virus hasn't closed one single restaurant. Our response to the virus has done that.

00:07:35.120 The distinction really matters because it's not as though this was unavoidable. It's not as though

00:07:39.960 a virus had to demolish the restaurant industry and put hundreds of thousands of people just from that

00:07:45.140 industry alone out of work. There were other ways of responding, but we, and by we, I mean they, the

00:07:51.000 politicians, the bureaucrats, chose this way. They did this, not the virus. Economically, anyway, they are

00:07:59.160 the ones lashing the United States, not the virus. And now we're told that the only solution is to rely on

00:08:07.000 the people who caused the problem to begin with. We have to beg them to hammer out a deal and pass a

00:08:13.160 stimulus. That's the solution. Which, yes, they do need to hammer out a deal and pass a stimulus. If

00:08:18.780 they're going to put millions of people out of work and shut down millions of businesses, it's their

00:08:22.720 responsibility to offer some kind of compensation. But this is a band-aid at best, not a solution.

00:08:30.060 It's not what will save the restaurant industry or any other industry from full collapse. It's not what

00:08:34.900 will save our economy or reclaim our country or win back the rights we forfeited. The only way to

00:08:41.020 really reclaim what has been taken is simply to take it back, not to ask for it to be given back,

00:08:48.460 but to take it. Business owners should just open their businesses, no matter what the restrictions

00:08:55.660 and ordinances say, no matter what Gavin Newsom or Andrew Cuomo thinks about it. Flip on the open sign,

00:09:02.860 unlock the door, start doing business again. Churches should open their doors, invite their congregations

00:09:08.800 in, not waiting for permission from the mayor or the sheriff or even their bishop, if we're talking

00:09:13.780 about a Catholic church. People who want to walk down the street without a mask should simply walk

00:09:19.120 down the street without a mask. This is how America became a free country in the first place.

00:09:25.120 If you're waiting for the government to give you permission to be free, you've already lost.

00:09:30.320 The only way is to say, I am free, I'm an American, and this is what I'm going to do. Try and stop me.

00:09:40.660 And maybe they will try and stop you. Maybe they won't. If enough people join you, they won't be

00:09:45.680 able to stop you. If people don't join you, then even so, at least you can know that you did the right

00:09:52.360 thing, the American thing. You didn't take the tyranny lying down. You chose, at least, to be free.

00:10:00.320 Now let's get to our five headlines.

00:10:07.840 So a report here from Breitbart as the Democrats get to work on enacting their extreme pro-abortion

00:10:14.020 agenda. It says on Tuesday at 10 a.m., House Democrats, led by Connecticut Representative

00:10:18.620 Rosa DeLauro, will convene a hearing, well, did convene now a hearing, that will ignite their 1.00

00:10:23.600 extreme abortion agenda, including their goal of repealing the Hyde Amendment and forcing American 0.98

00:10:27.640 taxpayers to fund abortions. DeLauro tweeted, the Hyde Amendment is a discriminatory policy and one

00:10:33.080 that is routinely considered every year as a legislative writer, but we are in a moment to

00:10:36.700 reckon with the norm. The hearing of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health,

00:10:40.680 and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies is titled, the impact on women seeking

00:10:45.240 an abortion but are denied because of an inability to pay. DeLauro said, because of Hyde, too many are

00:10:50.540 hostages to their geography. In the coming Congress, the House spending bill will not include it.

00:10:54.460 Then it goes on from there. The Hyde Amendment, again, is, as is referenced there, it prevents

00:11:01.780 the federal government from funding abortions. And now, we already, by the way, fund abortions,

00:11:10.100 effectively speaking, because we fund Planned Parenthood to the tune of $500 billion. Well,

00:11:16.100 maybe we'll get there soon. $500 million a year. And, of course, we're told, oh, that money isn't used

00:11:21.860 to fund abortions. That's separate money. Well, money is fungible. Okay, you pour it into the

00:11:28.240 bucket. I mean, you could pour water into one side of a bucket and then some more water into a

00:11:32.820 different side. It's going to be hard to say which water is which, right? It all kind of mixes

00:11:36.620 together. And it's the same thing with money. So, we already do, but this is something that would

00:11:42.200 allow the government to explicitly fund abortion without even pretending that they're not. And this,

00:11:48.380 of course, we know is the Democrats' agenda. And I can tell you one thing. If the Republicans lose

00:11:53.620 the Senate, I mean, if these con artists down in Georgia that are telling Republicans not to vote,

00:12:00.980 if they get their way and the Republicans lose the Senate, then, I mean, we're looking at, of course,

00:12:10.600 left-wing radicalism across the board, but on the abortion industry in particular,

00:12:13.800 they're coming in with a vengeance on the abortion issue because, you know, they feel like they have

00:12:24.280 to pay us back for the fact that Amy Coney Barrett was confirmed. And this is why it is so

00:12:30.080 infuriating to me that the Republicans had a chance. You know, they had the House,

00:12:38.800 the Senate, and the White House for two years, 2016 to 2018. They had a chance to make real progress.

00:12:48.900 And they didn't do anything, really, effectively in the end.

00:12:54.180 Number two, if you want to be thoroughly sickened, here's a clip of New York Governor Cuomo and virus

00:12:58.820 czar Anthony Fauci flirting. Listen to this.

00:13:01.460 Maybe we enlist you. I'll do it with you. We'll do an ad telling New Yorkers it's safe to take the vaccine

00:13:08.600 to, you know, put us together. We're like the modern-day De Niro and Pacino.

00:13:15.940 You can be whichever you want. You can be either De Niro or Pacino.

00:13:21.980 Fauci and Cuomo. I'll give you a front. Who do you want to be, De Niro or Pacino?

00:13:26.480 No. Which one do you want to be? I love them both. I love them both. I don't want to insult

00:13:30.860 one or the other. If I say one, I don't want to hurt the feelings of the other. Yeah.

00:13:35.780 Who's the politician?

00:13:38.580 So funny, these guys. A couple of jokers. Having a lot of fun with it. This is what gets me about

00:13:44.600 Cuomo is just how flippant he is. He's been this entire time. He's having a great time. I mean,

00:13:49.940 Andrew Cuomo is having a great time with the coronavirus. He's selling books. He's doing,

00:13:55.740 he's giving his, you know, he's giving speeches. He's doing his press conferences. He's joking

00:14:00.060 around with Anthony Fauci. He's going on doing segments with his brother on CNN. They're making

00:14:05.500 jokes about his big ears with the big prop Q-tip. He's just having a hell of a time

00:14:11.060 while he pretends to be taking it seriously, which of course he isn't.

00:14:17.440 Number three, this is from the New York Post. It says,

00:14:19.400 a mom of three who was cleared of knowingly having sex with a boy who was only 14 now plans

00:14:25.640 to capitalize on her notoriety by peddling images and videos on a raunchy website, according to a 0.99

00:14:30.000 report. Taya Vincent is her name. She says she's thinking of doing an, of starting up an OnlyFans

00:14:37.160 account. Now, Taya Vincent and OnlyFans, a subscription site where people go for pornography,

00:14:44.540 basically. Taya Vincent, 32 years old, admitted to initiating sex with a 14-year-old boy after

00:14:52.320 inviting him and his buddy into her home. This is in the UK. Now, the mom insisted she thought

00:14:59.040 that he was 16, which is the legal age of consent in the UK. She had told the Gloucester Crown Court,

00:15:07.160 I think it's pronounced Gloucester, there was a Gloucester, I don't know, that it was only after

00:15:11.760 they were finished in bed that the youngster panicked and confessed his tender age, but Vincent

00:15:16.220 was ultimately cleared after the court was told how the boy had lied about his age. So, they put

00:15:20.580 the fault on the kid, and now she goes free, and she's thinking of starting an OnlyFans account.

00:15:28.900 And a couple of things here. First of all, as usual with the reporting on these stories,

00:15:34.620 and of course you notice this, whenever it's a woman, particularly if it's an attractive woman,

00:15:40.240 who, quote, has sex with a child, that's how it's reported. It's reported as, well, she had sex with 0.96

00:15:48.000 a 14-year-old. Or even sometimes you'll see the phrase sex romp. I remember seeing that recently. 0.96

00:15:54.380 I think it was actually a Fox News headline. It was a woman had a sex romp with one of her students, 0.99

00:16:01.140 a teacher. No, this is not a sex romp. This is not having sex. This is rape. That's what we call it. 1.00

00:16:08.020 And if she was a man, that's how it would be reported. So, and that's the other thing we see

00:16:12.960 here, of course, is this enduring double standard when it comes to these kinds of issues.

00:16:18.120 That people just, the courts don't take it as seriously. I mean, you reverse the genders here. 1.00

00:16:23.280 Let's say this was a 32-year-old man having sex with a 14-year-old girl. He'd be in prison. 0.63

00:16:29.420 He wouldn't be starting any, you know, he wouldn't be going into porn.

00:16:31.760 And people wouldn't, speaking of being flippant, people wouldn't be as flippant in response to it.

00:16:38.000 This is, even the most supposedly enlightened feminists, they still have this double standard. 1.00

00:16:43.160 No one can explain why. You know, why is it not as big of a deal for a woman to do this to a boy? 0.97

00:16:50.720 I think it's as big of a deal. I don't see any difference.

00:16:53.340 But the reaction from the public is, oh, when the teachers do it, that's why we have the,

00:17:00.920 there is a real epidemic in the public school system of teachers assaulting, sexually assaulting

00:17:09.540 students. But it doesn't get the same kind of attention as, say, the epidemic that we had in

00:17:15.080 the Catholic Church. Part of that, of course, is the media hates the Catholic Church, but loves the

00:17:20.260 public school system. So they're trying to protect it. But also a big part of it is that a lot of

00:17:24.200 the high profile cases of teachers sexually assaulting their students, it's female teachers 0.97

00:17:29.280 doing it. And the public just says, I don't know, not as big of a deal. No one can explain why.

00:17:37.820 I would say regardless of gender, if you're an adult sexually preying upon a child, you're a scumbag 1.00

00:17:43.360 equally, man or woman. That is my controversial take on that. Number four, here are two mostly 1.00

00:17:50.000 unrelated headlines. I'm just going to read the headlines to you, see if you can pick up on

00:17:54.000 sort of the game they're playing here. First, this is from the AP. It says, coronavirus pandemic

00:17:58.360 has led to an unprecedented surge of children and teens and psychiatric crisis that's straining an

00:18:04.260 already stretched hospital system. So we see here again, the same thing that CNN did with the

00:18:10.740 economic crisis and restaurants being shut down, saying the coronavirus pandemic has caused this

00:18:16.660 unprecedented surge. No, it's not the coronavirus pandemic doing that. It's that we're taking

00:18:22.400 these kids. I'll tell you what it's doing. We're taking these kids. We're locking them in their

00:18:26.280 homes. They're not going to school. They're not seeing their friends. You know, they can't even

00:18:30.020 go to a playground for some reason. Even now you go to a, I saw a playground recently. It was,

00:18:35.580 it was, it was, there was caution tape wrapped around it. Is there any indication,

00:18:42.080 any evidence that playgrounds are vectors of transmission? I don't think so. So we're not

00:18:47.020 letting them get outside the house. We're locking them in. And, um, and also we're scaring the hell

00:18:52.120 out of them, making them wear masks everywhere. I mean, they don't, they don't understand what's

00:18:58.760 happening, especially the younger kids. That's why you have a psychiatric crisis. Again, it's the

00:19:04.920 response. It's not the virus itself. And then here's one, here's a good one from the Hill. This is a

00:19:09.360 headline from the Hill. It says mostly white crowd gathers outside of home of black Ohio,

00:19:15.900 Ohio council woman to protest public health order, mostly white crowd. So we've heard of the mostly 1.00

00:19:22.420 peaceful crowd. Now here's the mostly white crowd. And so these were anti-lockdown protesters who were

00:19:29.740 protesting someone who was pushing a lockdown. And, but, but here's what the media does because

00:19:34.680 I'll tell you what they would, they would love it. If these anti-lockdown protesters would be

00:19:41.060 violent, they would love that. And they're really disappointed that none of these, these protests

00:19:46.560 never turn violent because these are mostly conservatives and conservatives don't engage

00:19:51.600 in political violence. That's a left-wing thing. It's not a conservative thing. So because they're not

00:19:57.020 getting the violence they want, instead they said, well, we'll just go to plan B here. Smear him as

00:20:00.840 racist. Call it a mostly white crowd. Point out the racial dynamic. Of course, they don't go anywhere 0.97

00:20:08.280 with it. They don't, they don't, they don't then say, you know, explicitly accuse these people of

00:20:13.380 being racist because they don't have to. It's the old dog whistle that we're always told about.

00:20:19.680 Number five, finally, this is huge news. I'm glad we could finally get to this.

00:20:24.360 Listen to this report. This is also from the New York post. If you haven't heard this,

00:20:27.240 I feel like this really matters. I don't know. It says space aliens have reached an agreement with

00:20:33.780 the U S government to stay mum on the experiments they conduct on earth, as well as their secret

00:20:39.220 base on Mars until mankind is ready to accept them. This according to the former head of Israel's

00:20:45.540 space program, which he, uh, he claimed in an interview with the Jerusalem post or rather the

00:20:51.420 Jewish press, I should say the Jewish press, uh, goes on to unspool the tangled web, which claims 0.95

00:20:56.840 the involvement of president Trump and interplanetary diplomacy. Uh, it says Trump was on the verge of

00:21:04.360 revealing the aliens existence, but the aliens in the galactic federation are saying, wait, let people

00:21:10.140 calm down first. Um, he said, uh, they don't want to start mass hysteria. They want to first make us

00:21:16.700 sane and understanding. And so it's, it's a really interesting part. You can go to the Jewish press

00:21:21.060 and read that. I would recommend reading the whole report. It's actually very extensive and they go

00:21:24.520 into great detail from this guy. Uh, what's his name? I didn't even give you his name. It's important

00:21:29.020 to know. Uh, Haim Ished. I mean, this is a former high ranking guy. I mean, the scientist saying

00:21:37.920 there's a galactic federation. Aliens have been to earth. They're here right now. Donald Trump knows

00:21:44.560 about it. Hasn't taught, was wanted to tell us. Apparently Donald Trump is in, in communication

00:21:49.760 with the galactic federation. I don't know if there's a special room down in the white house

00:21:53.560 where he, you know, there's a big, uh, uh, TV screen and he can, and he can have like a zoom

00:21:58.960 calls with the galactic federation somewhere out in the, in the galaxy. Uh, but he was going to tell

00:22:04.080 us in the galactic federation said, no, no, no, they're not ready. Don't tell them. I'll tell you

00:22:08.580 what, um, I choose to believe this. There's no reason to believe it. It's pretty clear. This guy

00:22:17.860 just is going insane, but I choose to believe it and assimilate it into my worldview. And because of

00:22:25.080 that, my life just got like 35% more interesting. And also I got 35% crazier, but I think that's a

00:22:32.100 trade worth making as somebody pointed out on Twitter. Uh, I think the least believable part

00:22:37.160 of this, I mean, there are a few parts of it that may be strain quadruly a little bit.

00:22:41.500 The least believable part by far is that Donald Trump knows about aliens and hasn't told us was

00:22:48.500 able to keep his mouth, his mouth shut about it. That's the part. I mean, I'm almost, you can almost

00:22:53.800 buy all of it. Even the galactic federation part until you get to that and you say, nah, there's no way

00:22:58.440 Trump to his credit. Trump, if he knew about aliens, you know, he would tell us.

00:23:04.260 And that is also for me, maybe the most disappointing thing about Trump's presidency

00:23:07.660 is that it basically confirms that the government doesn't know about aliens because Trump would have

00:23:13.460 told us for sure. He would have at least hinted at it very strongly as he would say. Um, and, uh,

00:23:21.580 also another side note, this does sound a little bit like Scientology, doesn't it? Galactic

00:23:27.920 Federation. Isn't that a Scientology thing? So Tom Cruise, John Travolta, they were right all along.

00:23:34.400 All right, before we get to our daily cancellation, one other thing, kind of a bonus story here. Um,

00:23:38.360 you know, I'm a, I'm a critic of Hollywood. I tend to hate most of the movies and shows that it

00:23:42.680 produces, but I have to say this new trailer, which just came out, I'm very hyped about this.

00:23:48.060 I think this has the makings potentially of a true cinematic classic, uh, in my view, and, uh,

00:23:53.920 one that will stand the test of time, I'm sure. And it gives us all something to look forward to.

00:23:57.460 Here's the trailer. Watch this.

00:23:58.800 What the hell are you doing? A Lifetime Original Mini Movie. You don't answer my proposal,

00:24:05.860 and now you're not answering my call. I think I'm falling for the new chef.

00:24:11.900 Jessica is falling for Harlan. The cook? Leave Jessica alone and skip town. 1.00

00:24:17.960 He has a secret recipe that's going to change the world. Harlan claims to have some secret recipe.

00:24:22.100 A secret recipe? Spare me. We all have our secrets.

00:24:25.600 If you marry my daughter, I promise there'll be more long weekends in your future.

00:24:32.300 Mom, I have to tell you something. We have a problem.

00:24:35.860 Secrets out, chicken man. I'll take care of this.

00:24:39.160 You're ruining everything! Just kill him already! 1.00

00:24:42.740 Who the hell are you? 1.00

00:24:43.960 Harlan Sanders, the new chef. 0.99

00:24:45.800 Mario Lopez is Colonel Sanders in a recipe for seduction.

00:24:50.940 Wow.

00:24:52.340 Premieres at noon, of course.

00:24:55.200 Lifetime. Premiering in the middle of the week at noon.

00:24:58.080 So if you don't have a job, that gives you something to look forward to.

00:25:02.120 I think this is great.

00:25:04.440 Kind of an origin story for Colonel Sanders.

00:25:07.380 I'd like to see the origin story of Arby next.

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00:25:14.200 So, I mean, a lot of crap coming out of Hollywood. 0.98

00:25:16.660 But that's something that we can look forward to anyway. 0.94

00:25:19.300 Before we get to the daily cancellation, if you're scrambling right now and not sure what,

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00:28:53.820 Now, let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:28:55.680 Today, I'm canceling Santa Claus.

00:29:01.860 At least one iteration of Santa Claus.

00:29:03.940 I'm hoping, hoping that this Santa is not the real Santa.

00:29:06.740 The one I'm canceling, an imposter, we might assume, was at a mall somewhere in the country

00:29:11.840 when he appeared to dash a young boy's Christmas dreams to tragic effect.

00:29:17.080 Listen.

00:29:17.280 What do you want for Christmas?

00:29:21.480 You can use them.

00:29:23.140 You have what?

00:29:23.880 I don't know.

00:29:25.180 I don't know.

00:29:26.960 No, I don't.

00:29:27.900 No, no guns.

00:29:29.320 Nerf guns.

00:29:30.400 No, not even a Nerf gun.

00:29:33.580 No, if your dad wants to get it for you, that's fine, but I can't bring it to you.

00:29:38.440 But what else would you like?

00:29:40.260 Lots of other toys.

00:29:41.540 There's Legos.

00:29:42.800 There's bicycles.

00:29:44.340 There's cars and trucks.

00:29:45.560 What do you think?

00:29:51.100 What do you think?

00:29:55.320 It's okay.

00:29:56.280 You weren't dead?

00:30:03.760 So, the boy wants a Nerf gun for Christmas.

00:30:09.620 What boy doesn't want a Nerf gun for Christmas?

00:30:12.160 And Santa says, no, can't bring you guns.

00:30:14.520 Even Nerf guns.

00:30:16.200 From the way he phrases it, it does make you wonder whether this guy actually thinks he really is Santa.

00:30:22.020 He starts talking to the boy about what he can bring, trying to give other options.

00:30:26.340 He doesn't seem to realize that, in fact, he's not Santa.

00:30:29.920 The real Santa has no anti-gun bias, as evidenced by the fact that I got toy guns for Christmas every year as a child.

00:30:35.360 Also, the real Santa is 1,700 years old.

00:30:38.460 You'd think he's far too old at this point to have gone woke on us, you know, already.

00:30:44.020 Now, this Santa then is just a guy in a red suit.

00:30:47.400 And his job is to listen to the child's request, answer in a vague affirmative, oh, I'll talk to my elves about that or whatever, and then take a picture.

00:30:57.720 That's his entire job.

00:30:59.380 It's his job just to do that.

00:31:01.420 His job is not to deliver lectures or start telling the kid what he can and can't have for Christmas.

00:31:05.980 The parents waiting in line aren't paying all that money for a Christmas present consult with a guy in a red suit.

00:31:12.720 They're paying for smiles and Christmas cheers and a picture, a picture that is already weird enough this year because Santa has to sit six feet away, as you saw in the video clip there.

00:31:22.420 So that in the picture, you know, you have the kid in the foreground and then some random fat dude hovering in the background, smiling weirdly.

00:31:29.440 Trust me, we've already done this with our kids at my wife's insistence.

00:31:33.020 The picture comes out as bizarre and unnerving as it sounds.

00:31:35.980 And everyone has to wear masks, at least the Santa one we did.

00:31:39.540 Santa's wearing masks, the kids have to wear masks.

00:31:41.620 So everybody's masked, you can't see anyone smile.

00:31:43.980 Santa's just sort of vaguely in the distance, back there, and everyone's just standing there, masked.

00:31:50.140 It's the creepiest, weirdest thing.

00:31:52.940 But speaking of the parents, you have to wonder why none of them stepped up to put this man in his place.

00:32:00.240 Why didn't any of them go over and tell him to know his role and shut his mouth?

00:32:04.380 To quote a man who has also recently been canceled on this show.

00:32:07.640 Well, it goes back to what we discussed yesterday during this segment.

00:32:10.620 People stand by meekly and just film everything or take pictures, becoming passive observers in situations where they should be active participants.

00:32:19.000 A mall Santa is being a bully to a young child. 0.99

00:32:21.780 There are not many times in life when you can yell at Santa and not be the jerk in the situation. 0.98

00:32:27.840 But this was one such occasion, and all of the adults in the vicinity apparently squandered it. 0.99

00:32:32.780 Somehow.

00:32:34.420 So they're canceled too.

00:32:35.680 As for the mall Santa, he sadly is not alone in apparently thinking that there's something wrong or troubling about boys playing with toy guns.

00:32:44.080 This is a common hang-up that people have, and increasingly so in our confused and anti-male society.

00:32:50.300 It goes along with the general hang-up about boys being aggressive, rough, violent.

00:32:54.960 Everywhere a boy turns, he's met by forces wishing to domesticate and feminize him.

00:32:58.840 Now, on the list of those threats, a mall Santa doesn't quite make the top ten, but it's a sad statement that the efforts are so pervasive at this point as to encompass even mall Santas.

00:33:09.800 Here's the reality.

00:33:11.020 Boys have a natural aggression, a natural tendency towards violence.

00:33:15.620 This is good.

00:33:16.500 It's who they are.

00:33:17.680 It's who they were made to be.

00:33:19.400 Now, you can't let those tendencies develop entirely on their own.

00:33:22.640 All children must learn to be civilized, but you also can't suppress them or treat them as symptomatic of some kind of disease.

00:33:28.840 The goal is to harness a boy's innate aggressiveness.

00:33:32.360 Part of that process, an important part, maybe even the most important part for a kid, is through play.

00:33:38.720 The boy pretends to be a superhero.

00:33:40.440 He pretends to be a soldier, a police officer, a cowboy.

00:33:42.920 Toy guns will often be involved in these kinds of games.

00:33:45.620 He's learning that violence can be good, which is true.

00:33:48.080 It can, but it has to be violence and service of good to protect and defend, heroic violence.

00:33:53.700 Sports also play a crucial role here.

00:33:56.880 Now, on the other end, if a kid gets caught up in, you know, movies, shows, games that are overly gory and nihilistic and not appropriate for his age,

00:34:03.700 and is too exposed to that and fascinated by it, then he's going to start to learn the wrong things about violence,

00:34:08.760 have the wrong relationship with violence, and that can have a very detrimental effect on his growth.

00:34:14.040 And that's why the goal is always to embrace who the child is, help him to harness his innate tendencies,

00:34:19.660 and to guide him in the right direction, which means, yes, let him play with Nerf guns.

00:34:24.900 Now, perhaps I've delivered a more serious analysis of the Mall Santa video than was necessary.

00:34:30.520 But even so, the point remains.

00:34:33.300 It is good for boys to have Nerf guns, and even better nowadays, because it means they're going to be on their feet,

00:34:39.260 moving around, physically playing, rather than sitting on a couch and moving only their thumbs.

00:34:43.220 So, for that reason, the Mall Santa is canceled, and really all Mall Santas are canceled this year,

00:34:50.120 because a socially distanced Santa is just not the same, it turns out.

00:34:53.760 All of the adults in that video are canceled.

00:34:56.720 The only one not canceled is the child, who I hope still gets his Nerf gun in the end.

00:35:02.800 That's going to do it for us today.

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The Matt Walsh Show - December 08, 2020

Ep. 617 - The Only Way To End The Lockdowns

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