The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 629 - Kamala Harris： Fraud, Failure, Liar, Inspiration

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, Kamala Harris, perhaps the most inauthentic politician in 0.86

00:00:04.400 America today, and that's saying something, is now inventing anecdotes about her childhood

00:00:08.320 by plagiarizing Martin Luther King Jr., apparently. Also, five headlines, including Antifa thugs

00:00:14.160 harassing Senator Hawley's wife and baby, and a Hollywood actress brags about her gay,

00:00:19.240 gender-fluid 12-year-old. And in our daily cancellation, I will cancel tipping. I'm

00:00:24.480 usually a big tipper, but I think it's gotten out of hand. I have to cancel it, and I'll explain

00:00:27.520 why. All of that and much more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:02:12.360 and use promo code Walsh for 10% off. Well, ever since the announcement that Kamala Harris would 0.85

00:02:18.140 be Joe Biden's vice presidential nominee, there's been a nonstop flow of worshipful articles and

00:02:25.200 essays from the bootlicking media trying to convince us to see this vapid, unimpressive bureaucrat

00:02:31.980 as a civil rights pioneer and a transcendent political leader. Truly, of all the false absurdities

00:02:40.120 that the media has insisted we take seriously in recent years, none have been as false and absurd

00:02:45.360 as this. Now, in the initial tidal wave of fawning Kamala Harris hagiographies, a particularly

00:02:52.900 sickening and yet somehow still hilarious, I think, example was originally lost in the shuffle.

00:02:58.460 This was published back on October 6th, a piece in L titled Kamala Harris is our new vice president

00:03:04.240 elect. And it's finally gone viral this week for all the wrong reasons. Author Ashley C. Ford

00:03:09.940 reporting with the critical objectivity of a 16-year-old girl profiling Harry Styles for her

00:03:16.660 high school newspaper tells us in the subheading that Harris has been fighting for justice and

00:03:22.000 freedom since birth. Since birth. Those are quotes. Now, I have four children myself, and in my experience,

00:03:28.900 infants just lounge around all day, defecate in their pants, cry when they're hungry. I have never seen

00:03:36.200 an infant demonstrate any real interest in justice or freedom. But then again, none of my children are

00:03:41.980 like Kamala Harris. Or so I pray. And the first paragraph of the piece, we're given an example,

00:03:48.100 supposed example, of what Kamala's childhood freedom fighting supposedly looked like. And here's what it

00:03:53.860 says. Quote, Senator Kamala Harris started her life's work young. She laughs from her gut, the way you would 1.00

00:04:00.600 with family, as she remembers being wheeled through an Oakland, California civil rights march in a

00:04:04.800 stroller with no straps with her parents and her uncle. At some point, she fell from the stroller.

00:04:10.580 Few safety regulations existed for children's equipment back then. And the adults caught up in

00:04:15.640 the rapture of the protest just kept on marching. By the time they noticed little Kamala was gone and

00:04:20.340 doubled back, she was understandably upset. Quoting Harris, she says, my mother tells the story about

00:04:26.560 how I'm fussing. And she's like, baby, what do you want? What do you need? And I just looked at her

00:04:31.880 and I said, freedom. Now, I'm told that in the rough draft version of the story, the young Kamala

00:04:38.860 smeared blue finger paint across half her face, shouted, they may take our lives, but they will 0.65

00:04:45.240 never take our freedom. And then galloped into battle on her trusty steed. Now, I'm joking, of course,

00:04:52.200 Kamala Harris would never plagiarize a Mel Gibson movie. She will, however, plagiarize

00:04:56.400 Martin Luther King Jr. As some observant folks on the internet pointed out, this anecdote

00:05:01.420 from Harris sounds strikingly similar to one offered by MLK to Playboy in 1965. Here's

00:05:07.220 what he said. Quote, I never will forget a moment in Birmingham when a white policeman accosted

00:05:13.200 a little Negro girl, seven or eight years old, who was walking in a demonstration with

00:05:17.940 her mother. What do you want? The policeman asked her gruffly. And the little girl looked

00:05:22.240 him straight in the eye and said, feed him. She couldn't even pronounce it, but she

00:05:26.280 knew. It was beautiful. Many times when I have been in sorely trying situations, the

00:05:31.980 memory of that little one comes to mind and has buoyed me. Now, if we can fairly discount

00:05:38.020 the possibility that the little girl in King's story was Kamala Harris herself, it would seem

00:05:43.760 that Harris is cobbling together a fake childhood. And in that same genre, over the holidays, Harris

00:05:49.720 released a video in commemoration of Kwanzaa, claiming that she's been celebrating the holiday

00:05:55.280 her whole life. And recalling a time when, quote, multiple generations, including, quote,

00:06:00.300 the elders, would gather together to engage in these sacred Kwanzaa rituals. Here's that.

00:06:07.060 Let's watch this.

00:06:08.540 Happy holidays, everyone. I wanted to take a moment to send my warmest wishes to everyone

00:06:13.980 celebrating Kwanzaa. Like so many other holidays, we will be celebrating Kwanzaa a little differently

00:06:20.440 this season in our home. We'll be doing it over Zoom. You know, my sister and I, we grew

00:06:26.680 up celebrating Kwanzaa. Every year, our family and our extended family, we would gather around

00:06:33.000 across multiple generations and we'd tell stories. The kids would sit on the carpet and the elders

00:06:39.340 would sit in chairs and we would light the candles and, of course, afterwards have a beautiful

00:06:44.620 meal. And of course, there was always the discussion of the seven principles. And my favorite, I have

00:06:51.280 to tell you, was always the one about self-determination, kujichagalia. And, you know,

00:06:57.160 essentially it's about, you know, it's about be, be and do. Be the person you want to be and do the

00:07:04.840 things you want to do and do the things that need to be done. It's about not letting anyone write our

00:07:11.460 future for us, but instead going out and writing it for ourselves. And that principle motivates me

00:07:17.800 today as we seek to confront the challenges facing our country and to build a brighter future for all

00:07:24.980 Americans. So to everyone who is celebrating, happy Kwanzaa from our family to yours.

00:07:33.500 Sure. Sure, Camila. Yeah, to everyone who's celebrating, which would be nobody. That was a happy

00:07:39.660 holidays to nobody. Let's recall that Kwanzaa was invented in 1966 by, by the way, by a violent

00:07:46.760 felon who would go on to serve several years in prison for kidnapping and torturing a woman. But 0.93

00:07:50.820 that's neither here nor there, I suppose. While it's perhaps easy to understand why Harris would

00:07:55.460 relate so much to something that's meaningless and fake, just like herself, it's, it's still,

00:08:00.620 it's hard to believe that her whole family, including the elders, so strictly observed a holiday

00:08:06.140 that didn't even exist when she was born. She was born in 1964. This thing didn't, didn't exist until

00:08:11.460 1966. Bear in mind that Harris also claims to have a deep and personal attachment to Christmas and

00:08:17.200 Hanukkah. What a fortunate coincidence that a politician should happen to connect so deeply to

00:08:22.380 every holiday and cultural tradition on the calendar. I just can't wait until May 5th,

00:08:27.540 when we'll no doubt find out about her previously unknown Mexican family heritage.

00:08:31.360 Now, going back to the L profile for a moment, we should note that the freedom story isn't the

00:08:37.920 only fabrication, creating sort of a sense of symmetry. The piece ends with an anecdote nearly

00:08:43.060 as fraudulent and ludicrous as the one it began with. Here's the one that it ends with. It says,

00:08:47.540 quote, she, Camilla Harris, relays a story about the night she became the second black woman in

00:08:52.740 history elected to the U.S. Senate. In every one of my elections, part of our routine is we do a small

00:08:57.920 friends and family dinner before we go to campaign night celebration. She, presumably the elders are

00:09:03.480 at that, the elders are at that celebration too, sitting in their, in their chairs. Anyway, she

00:09:08.400 explains that it was, uh, it was looking like the election was going to be called for Donald Trump.

00:09:12.840 Quote, my godson, Alexander, who was seven years old at the time, came up to me crying and said,

00:09:17.640 Auntie Camilla, they're not going to let that man win, are they? And you know, the baby's in your life.

00:09:23.280 She closes her eyes and swallows. I held him. I mean, it still brings me pain to remember how he felt

00:09:30.740 and what it made me feel, which is that I need to protect this child. I had one way in my mind

00:09:37.960 I thought that evening would go. And then there was this way it turned out. And so by the time I took

00:09:43.540 the stage, I had ripped up my notes and all I had was Alexander in my heart. And I took the podium and I

00:09:50.880 said, I intend to fight. I intend to fight. If there's anything we know about Senator Kamala

00:09:59.380 Harris, it's that when it comes to freedom, she will fight. Now, by the way, I just delivered that

00:10:07.140 line from Kamala Harris, probably more convincingly than she did. And I wasn't convincing at all.

00:10:14.920 Of course, we can assume that the bit about the seven-year-old godson distraught over Trump's

00:10:18.460 election never happened. But the most egregious fabrication is the final line and the whole

00:10:23.420 premise of the article that Kamala Harris is a fighter for freedom. Where's the evidence of that?

00:10:30.140 Harris's actual biography is far less inspiring than the mythology that's currently being constructed

00:10:35.560 around her. In reality, okay, she began her political career through a sexual relationship

00:10:40.260 with an influential and still married politician in California named Willie Brown. Brown, who was

00:10:46.020 corrupt, dogged by FBI investigations throughout his career, appointed Harris to her first state

00:10:51.280 commission while they were still together. From there, she would become district attorney and then

00:10:56.240 attorney general of the state. But her record as attorney general was criticized by many on the left

00:11:00.980 and by the same media that now hails her as the second coming of the civil rights pioneer she

00:11:06.820 plagiarized. Indeed, it's one of the reasons why she garnered almost no support during her run for 0.95

00:11:13.000 president and flunked out of the race before voting began. So despite what we're now being instructed to

00:11:19.920 believe, Kamala Harris is, in reality, a pathological liar, a failed presidential candidate, a mediocre 0.96

00:11:28.800 political talent at best who slept her way to power, achieved little of note as a California 1.00

00:11:34.420 bureaucrat or a United States senator, that was eventually given the VP nod by a man who declared

00:11:39.720 ahead of time that he was making the choice based on race and gender. But other than that, sure,

00:11:47.700 she's an inspiration. Now let's get to our five headlines.

00:11:57.680 So the Georgia runoffs today, by the way, so if you live in Georgia, please go vote. Please go vote

00:12:03.280 Republican. And all I can say to you is, if you've never believed or trusted anything I've ever said,

00:12:09.960 at least believe this, that if you're a Republican in Georgia, the people who have been telling you,

00:12:17.700 who call themselves Republican or conservative, and have been telling you not to vote or insinuating

00:12:22.120 that maybe you shouldn't vote, these are, without exception, carnival-barking grifters who don't care

00:12:29.880 at all about the future of this country and are just in it for attention, or Democrats in disguise.

00:12:35.760 Without exception. I mean, I guess we could possibly leave open the possibility for a third category of

00:12:42.060 just absolute morons. So maybe there are a few of those, but that's basically all you got. The people

00:12:47.800 that are telling you not to vote and to allow the Democrats to take over the Senate, these are

00:12:53.600 grifters, frauds, morons. Or all three. If you yourself are not a grifter, fraud, or moron,

00:13:02.360 then please go vote, because it would be fairly disastrous to have the Democrats controlling the

00:13:09.560 entire government for at least two years. That's not something we can afford, so please vote. All right,

00:13:14.120 number one, Senator Josh Hawley, who will be objecting to election certification tomorrow,

00:13:19.900 was not at his home in D.C. last night, but his wife and baby were at home, and so were a bunch of

00:13:27.560 left-wing scumbags who came to his house to harass them, and here's how that went.

00:13:32.900 We're not going to let people hold our democracy hostage. We're not going to let them infringe on

00:13:37.200 our rights. Every ballot, if we count it, it is over. So when democracy is under attack,

00:13:43.040 what do we do? When democracy is under attack, what do we do? What do we do? We are not going to let

00:13:52.860 these fascist, racist, and ignorant people come into our towns and come into our communities. D.C.

00:13:58.500 has a mass mandate on coronavirus cases as twice as high as they were on March when the

00:14:05.360 pandemic first came out. Nine months later, ten months later, our government...

00:14:11.280 Okay, so you see there, they're at the door, megaphones shouting and screaming in the neighborhood

00:14:21.160 at night, and he's not there. He's in a different state. His wife and child could not travel with

00:14:29.360 him, so his wife and child are there. He's not, and they're shouting. Now, of course, the claim from

00:14:33.920 the left today is, oh, they're being peaceful. They didn't kill anybody this time. It's a very

00:14:41.060 low bar now for these people, but no, this is obviously intimidation. There's only one reason

00:14:50.480 why you go uninvited to somebody's house at night to scream at them. There's only one reason you do

00:14:57.100 that, and that is to intimidate them, especially if their wife and child is there, and they're not

00:15:01.520 even there. So this was an intimidation tactic, the kind of thing we see from the left all the time,

00:15:07.860 the kind of thing that is openly encouraged by leftist Democrats, politicians, and it's one of

00:15:16.560 these days it's going to have a disastrous end. Number two, this is interesting. Cardi B was on

00:15:22.320 Instagram Live doing some kind of broadcast on New Year's Eve and singing along to her song WAP.

00:15:29.960 And now you may recall this is a song that prompted criticism from people like myself,

00:15:34.960 people like Ben Shapiro, and we were mocked and made fun of. We're used to it. I mean,

00:15:42.300 I could speak for myself. I think probably Ben is too. So it didn't really hurt my feelings,

00:15:46.320 but we were attacked for criticizing this song WAP and saying that it's degrading to women. 0.92

00:15:52.520 And in fact, part of our argument is it's not the kind of song you'd want your daughter to listen to

00:15:57.060 or to hear, right? And we were told that this is ridiculous. It's empowering. It's a wonderful

00:16:02.940 song. Well, apparently Cardi B agrees with us. She's the person who made the song. She agrees

00:16:09.640 with us because here she is singing along to the song and then her daughter walks in and watch what

00:16:15.920 happens then. Watch. Okay. So she's singing to the song. The daughter walks in. She quickly turns it 0.97

00:16:28.300 off and says, no, no, no, no. And now she's ushering the child. It looks like her daughter's

00:16:32.420 about, I don't know, probably her daughter's about five years old or something, four or five years old.

00:16:35.960 You could easily say, well, it's different because it's a, it's a child. Of course, this is a, and this,

00:16:39.700 this has been the justification given by Cardi B. She was, she, she, this, this was, she was criticized

00:16:45.480 for this and people were pointing out, seems like a kind of a contradiction on your part because you

00:16:52.620 don't want your own daughter to hear the song. And she says, oh, I make songs for adults. These are

00:16:56.960 adult songs, which first of all, can I, can I just point out how sad it is that the word adult has now

00:17:05.600 become associated with this kind of toxic sewage? It should be, if you're making something for adults,

00:17:11.960 it should be that it's intelligent and substantive and it would go over the heads of the children.

00:17:17.800 That's why it's not for children, right? It's like Russian literature is not for children

00:17:23.080 because it's for adults because it's, the kids wouldn't understand it. It's too intelligent for

00:17:28.060 them. But now when we say, oh, it's for adults, we mean it's actually, it's actually even dumber than

00:17:34.460 the kinds of things that we would let our kids watch. But anyway, is the issue just her age?

00:17:41.340 So you say, no, I just don't want my daughter to listen to it right now. Okay. Well then I would

00:17:45.460 ask you Cardi B or anyone else, if you don't want your daughter listening to that song at the age of

00:17:50.360 six or seven, I agree. I don't want my seven-year-old daughter listening to that. But my question is,

00:17:54.640 at what age do you want your, your daughter to listen to that? You don't want her to listen to it at

00:18:00.060 seven. Do you want her listening to the song at 12? Do you? Do you want her listening at 16?

00:18:08.440 Do you want her listening when she's 30? Now when she's 30, you can't stop her from listening,

00:18:13.880 but do you want her to? Is that, is that the kind of thing? Is this the kind of material? Is this the

00:18:19.740 kind of message that you would ever actually want your daughter to be exposed to?

00:18:25.180 I'm not saying, you don't have to point out, well, we can't, we can't, we can't protect our

00:18:30.820 kids from this forever. Eventually. I understand that. But is there ever a time you take a song

00:18:35.800 like this? Will there ever be a time in your daughter's life when you actually would really

00:18:41.820 actively want her to be exposed to it? I think unless you're an abusive parent or an absolute

00:18:48.480 creep, the answer is no. Of course you would never actually want your daughter listening to that,

00:18:52.500 whether you could stop her or not. And that's the point. That's our whole criticism.

00:19:01.520 If there's something being put out into the world that no parent would ever actually want their child

00:19:08.500 at any age to be exposed to, that should tell you something about that material.

00:19:13.560 Just something to think about. Number three, here's a creepy PSA from the government in Canada.

00:19:23.700 So we'll just play this and then talk about it. Check it out.

00:19:28.100 Every time you wear a mask, remember, it's so one day we can all go back to doing this

00:19:33.460 and this. Every time you wash your hands, remember that eventually it'll all be worth it for them

00:19:40.040 and them. Every time you hang out here, remember that at some point we'll all be able to get

00:19:46.400 together here, here and here. Protect yourself and others from COVID-19. A message from the

00:19:54.840 government of Canada.

00:19:57.360 Every time I see PSAs like this, I always think, well, I've been doing that kind of stuff the whole

00:20:02.360 time. So not so much the, well, some of that there, dancing. I haven't really been doing that

00:20:07.280 and we can't go to sporting events, but getting together with people, getting together with

00:20:13.860 friends, going to restaurants, I'm doing that right now. So I think you can actually still do

00:20:21.700 that even when there is a virus out there. It's not the virus that's stopping us from doing that.

00:20:27.920 It's the government stopping us from doing that. So the government is saying, we're stopping you

00:20:33.000 from doing this, but obey us on this piece over here and do as you're told. And then we'll let

00:20:38.960 you start doing this again. That's the part they leave out. It's, we will let you do this once you

00:20:46.380 do that. Number four, from the Daily Wire, it says, actress and abortion activist, Busy Phillips

00:20:51.600 has revealed that her 12-year-old child is gay and uses they, them pronouns. Speaking on episode of

00:20:58.820 her podcast, Busy Phillips is doing her best. That's the name of the podcast.

00:21:03.000 Um, she said that her child, Bertie came out as gay. Uh, she said, quote, for those of you who are

00:21:08.820 my friends listening at home, this is the first year hearing that Bertie is gay and out. Bertie told

00:21:13.460 us at 10 years old and we immediately, uh, we immediately knew we knew that Bertie knew. So let's

00:21:19.880 go to a clip from the podcast. Now here, here she has Busy Phillips recounting a conversation with her

00:21:25.220 12-year-old daughter who she saddled with the name Bertie, which was really just the first of many

00:21:30.800 abuses, it turns out. Listen to this. Bird said, um, I said, you know, Bert, I've been doing a bad job

00:21:37.260 with the pronouns because Bertie said that they would like their pronouns to be they, them.

00:21:45.800 And I haven't been doing it. And I said, because like, I have this, um, public persona and I want

00:21:55.880 Bertie to be in control of their own narrative and not have to answer to anybody outside of our

00:22:06.660 friends and family if they don't want to. And then Bird was like, I don't give a f***.

00:22:13.800 Like, I would, I, you can talk about that I'm gay and out. You can talk about my pronouns. I,

00:22:23.680 that would be cool with me. That's great. So I said, okay, I'm just, I'll, I can talk about it on the

00:22:32.660 podcast. And Bertie was like, and Bertie was like, yeah, talk about it on podcast, mom. I'm like, okay.

00:22:43.460 Throw my phone on the ground. Sorry. Anyway. So, um, yeah, it's been wild. So Bertie, my out kid

00:22:53.720 prefers, they, them, I f*** up sometimes, but we're, I'm trying my best.

00:23:06.020 I wish this was similar to the Kamala Harris situation. And I could say that this is an

00:23:11.280 invented conversation that she had with her 12 year old, her 12 year old daughter. Um,

00:23:16.800 but I don't think it is. I think that unfortunately that conversation really happened

00:23:20.400 where her 12 year old daughter was telling her pronouns. And then when busy Phillips asked whether

00:23:26.420 she could reveal this on the podcast, the shot, the 12 year old daughter responded, I don't give an F.

00:23:33.680 I think that's, that's a real conversation because that's the kind of mother that busy Phillips is. 1.00

00:23:38.600 Now it shouldn't surprise us as, as was noted, she's an abortion activist and, uh, she's bragged in

00:23:44.020 the past about getting abortions. So this, this is how she sees her children.

00:23:50.400 And she sees her children as unfortunately many parents, especially in the left do in a dehumanized

00:23:56.020 way. You know, she sees her child as either trash that can be discarded, like the one that she killed 0.99

00:24:01.900 or as political prop, uh, or even not a political, just a prop, something to, to be shown around.

00:24:11.100 Um, an accessory, maybe there's a better word for it. And that's what she's doing here.

00:24:16.620 Kind of like locking her daughter in to this identity by announcing it publicly.

00:24:24.860 There's, there's, there's no good reason. There's no good loving parenting sort of reason

00:24:30.660 to take your child's confusion and they're working through it and, and you just broadcast it to the

00:24:37.800 entire world. That's not going to help you. I mean, even, even for a moment, just putting aside

00:24:43.360 everything else and, and, um, pretending that it could be legitimate for a 12 year old to identify

00:24:50.600 as they, them, or it could be legitimate for anyone to identify as they, them, which of course it isn't

00:24:54.620 because it doesn't mean anything. But putting that aside, just there's no reason to tell the world

00:25:01.120 about it. There's no reason to publicize it. She's 12 years old for God's sake.

00:25:06.000 How will it benefit her for the whole world to know about this? And busy Phillip says, well, I asked

00:25:15.780 her, I asked her and she said, she doesn't give an F. So I did it. Yeah. Once again, this is the

00:25:22.660 theme we see so often, especially with, with, uh, with, with parents who have children who are gender

00:25:29.060 confused. So often what we see are the parents looking to the children for guidance. The parents

00:25:37.040 saying to the kids, you show me the way you, you, you, you tell me what I'm supposed to do here.

00:25:43.320 I'll let you take the lead. No, no, that's not what you say to your 12 year old. You,

00:25:49.680 that's not what you say to your 12 year old. Your 12 year old needs you to be the adult. Your 12 year

00:25:57.060 old needs you to be the rational one. Your 12 year old needs you to be the one who can see beyond

00:26:03.580 the nose on your face, who can think in the longterm. Kids can't do that. That's the point.

00:26:10.260 Psychologically, they don't, they don't have the capacity yet for things like long-term planning.

00:26:15.980 They can't do that at 12. They can't even, they can't do it at 16. They certainly can't do it at

00:26:20.560 seven or eight or whatever other age now where kids are just quote unquote deciding they want to

00:26:26.280 transition. They can't do, they, they don't have the psychological neurological capacity for it.

00:26:32.360 You do, or you're supposed to as an adult. So you're supposed to be the one who says,

00:26:37.120 listen, no, I'm not going to put this out there for the whole world. We're going to keep this

00:26:40.360 between us private. And also, you know, you're obviously confused. You're working through some

00:26:45.600 things. Let me help you out. We'll take you to counseling. Let's try to, let's try to figure out

00:26:50.700 what's really going on here. You're, you're a girl. It's wonderful that you're a girl, but you

00:26:56.660 don't want to identify as a girl. There's obviously something happening here. So let's figure it out. 0.93

00:27:03.040 You take the child to counseling, you help them. If your child comes to you and says, I'm they, them,

00:27:09.160 that is your child saying, I am confused. I don't understand. I don't know who I am.

00:27:19.260 And I don't know who I am because you, the parent have failed. It's your job to help me figure out

00:27:26.440 who I am, to help me figure out if I'm a girl, what it means to be a girl in the world. You're the

00:27:33.720 mother. That's what you're supposed to be doing. That's what your child is really saying to you.

00:27:39.160 Only if they're not saying exactly that audibly because they don't have the capacity to say it.

00:27:44.940 They don't understand their own feelings.

00:27:49.800 This kind of thing will never fail to just infuriate me, especially as a parent. I don't

00:27:56.360 think you need to be a parent to be disgusted and infuriated by this kind of madness, but as a parent,

00:28:01.380 I just, I have kids myself and the idea of me turning to them for guidance or the idea that they

00:28:13.160 would make some mostly incoherent declaration about their own identity and I would just take

00:28:20.360 it seriously and assume that it's, that it's meaningful and just go with it.

00:28:28.380 It's mind boggling to me. They're kids.

00:28:33.620 I'm the adult. That's the way the relationship is supposed to work.

00:28:39.580 All right, let's go. Speaking of mind boggling, but in a different way, in a better way, in a good

00:28:43.720 way, uh, there's a book coming out, which I will be sure to purchase, uh, titled extraterrestrial,

00:28:49.040 the first sign of intelligent life beyond earth. And it's authored by a Harvard professor who says

00:28:54.340 that alien life has been confirmed. He says that we, we know it's, it's real. It's been confirmed.

00:28:59.960 We've already seen the evidence and he makes a persuasive case. In my mind, it's persuasive,

00:29:04.200 though. Admittedly, I'm mostly persuaded because I really want, I'm persuaded by every UFO claim,

00:29:10.820 basically because I want it to be true. And so I'm letting my emotions guide me, uh, which is

00:29:14.940 exactly what adults aren't supposed to do. But in this case, I think I'll make an exception for

00:29:17.800 myself. Anyway, here's the, uh, the report from Fox five in New York. Listen, this is the very first

00:29:24.100 object that we have detected, uh, from outside the solar system that entered the solar system and

00:29:30.820 passed near the earth. Harvard university astronomy department chair, Avi Loeb also serves as director

00:29:35.920 of the Institute for theory and computation, the founding director of the black hole initiative and the

00:29:40.660 chairs of both the breakthrough star shot advisory committee and the national academy's board of

00:29:45.220 physics and astronomy. Next week, a paper he coauthored appears in the astrophysical journal

00:29:49.540 letters providing one, he would say the first scientific explanation for a mysterious something

00:29:54.540 now named a muamua that passed by earth on its journey from another solar system a year ago.

00:29:59.820 It happened to be very weird, weird first because of its shape, either very long or very flat based

00:30:06.060 upon the sunlight reflected from it. But most peculiarly, a muamua appeared to accelerate.

00:30:11.580 We see such an additional force in comments, and that's due to the evaporation of ice on the surface

00:30:18.460 of the comment. But a muamua displayed no commentary tail or change in its rotation, leaving the source

00:30:23.740 of the push and the identity of the object, not only a mystery, but one without seemingly any credible

00:30:29.020 explanations until Loeb's paper, which hypothesizes sunlight provided the extra push. And for that to be

00:30:35.500 effective, the object needs to be very thin, less than a millimeter in thickness, sort of like a

00:30:42.540 sail that is being pushed by the light from the sun. What Loeb is suggesting is that some other living

00:30:48.940 being not from this solar system created that light sail, which we earthlings also aspire to build,

00:30:54.060 and a muamua represents not a piece of space rock, but a highly technologically advanced probe

00:30:59.340 from some alien civilization. I haven't seen any other compelling possibility at the moment.

00:31:04.700 I'm sold completely. But again, only because I want to be. The more critical side of my brain,

00:31:11.820 though, says that this is the kind of thing that makes people sometimes skeptical of scientists,

00:31:18.700 because what do we really have here? What we actually have is a tiny, from our perspective,

00:31:26.620 as far as we could see, this tiny infinitesimal blur on a screen. You know, some small object is

00:31:35.500 out there, millions of miles away in space. And that's all we know. That's all we've got. And so

00:31:41.580 this Harvard professor has constructed this whole narrative around, he's wrote an entire science

00:31:48.700 fiction novel, basically, around that little blur on the screen. And he's just, he's proposing it as

00:31:54.780 fact. Like, this is what happened. It's a light sail from an extinct alien civilization.

00:32:01.260 And, but I mean, I want to hear the whole story. I don't know if I really, but you know,

00:32:04.700 it's, I like the story. I want to hear the story, whether it's true or not. But it is,

00:32:11.820 it is, it is fascinating stuff. Who knows? It could be. So you can't prove that it's not a light

00:32:17.500 sail from a, from a extinct alien civilization. And that's enough for me personally. You know, 0.98

00:32:23.100 these days, lots of people are animal lovers, pet owners, pet people. I'm not so much myself,

00:32:29.580 but my wife is, and we have a cat at home. And that's why I know from my wife's perspective,

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00:33:31.740 that's PetSmart.com. Let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:33:36.060 Now, today we're going to be canceling tipping. I am at this moment calling for a complete and

00:33:44.780 total shutdown of tipping until we figure out what the hell is going on, to paraphrase Donald

00:33:49.820 Trump. Now, to be clear, I don't consider myself to be a cheap person. Growing up, my dad would always

00:33:55.260 tip 20 to 25% as a baseline starting point at restaurants. I have inherited this custom and will

00:34:00.940 also generally tip 20 to 25%, sometimes more actually, partly as an act of generosity and

00:34:07.660 partly as an apology because I have four young kids. And as a consequence, we leave our tables

00:34:12.300 looking like a pack of wild dogs has just been dining there, except the dogs at least would

00:34:16.540 eat all their chicken nuggets, which is more than I can say for my daughter. But in any case,

00:34:19.820 the point is, I have always tipped well, I think. And I've tipped the pizza delivery guy well also,

00:34:26.540 and the cab or the Uber driver. And of course, if I'm staying at a fancy hotel, then I know I'm

00:34:32.220 supposed to tip basically everyone who happens to glance at me. At fancy hotels, employees will invent

00:34:37.740 weird and unnecessary things to do for you just so they can get a tip. Somebody will like come to your

00:34:43.500 room at eight 30 in the morning and spoon feed you granola and clip your toenails. You're supposed

00:34:48.540 to tip them $5. And I've always gone along with that. I have prided myself as a tipper.

00:34:54.460 But recently I have reached my limits because the problem is that now everybody expects a tip.

00:35:01.020 Whereas before you were only supposed to give a tip and in certain limited and specialized

00:35:05.260 circumstances. Now, every person who rings up a purchase at a cash register or pours you a cup of

00:35:11.500 coffee wants to be tipped for their trouble. The solicitation for tips can come in only these

00:35:19.420 mildly invasive ways, like there's a tip jar left out on the counter, or sometimes in slightly more

00:35:24.380 obnoxious forms, like when you're handed a receipt or told to confirm your purchase on an iPad. That's

00:35:28.860 a big one now. They flip the iPad around and you're supposed to click through. How much gratuity do you

00:35:35.260 want to leave? But sometimes, and I've had this experience more than once, especially recently,

00:35:39.420 the person ringing up the purchase will actually ask you outright whether you would like to add

00:35:44.540 a gratuity. Like asking you verbally, applying social pressure and attempting to make you look

00:35:50.140 like a jerk to the other customers in line if you say no. Now, fortunately, in my case,

00:35:55.020 I'm used to being a jerk in public, so I have no problem responding with,

00:35:58.620 no, I don't want to add a gratuity. Or the more passive aggressive, no, but thanks for asking.

00:36:03.180 Many kinder and gentler people than myself, however, are guilted into tipping a dollar or

00:36:08.860 more on a coffee that's already twice as expensive as it should be. The situation is entirely untenable.

00:36:15.980 The average cost of living in America has increased by upwards of 65% in the last two years because of

00:36:21.180 excessive tipping. Don't fact check me on that figure. It's emotionally correct, if not factually

00:36:25.820 correct. So I have to put tipping on probation, banning it across the board temporarily until

00:36:32.700 sanity can be restored to the proceedings. And here's some sanity. Just because you work in customer

00:36:38.140 service doesn't mean you automatically deserve a tip. You are getting paid a wage after all.

00:36:44.940 Customers are already paying for the good or service you're providing. Here's the way I look at it.

00:36:50.300 Tipping should only come into play if three conditions are met. Number one, it's a low-paying

00:36:55.660 service job. Two, it's a service that I could not or would not want to perform myself. And three,

00:37:03.580 my experience as a customer can be greatly enhanced by your excellent performance or greatly diminished

00:37:10.300 by your poor performance. So those are the three conditions. This is why we should and always have

00:37:15.180 tipped waiters. Waiter has a low-paying job. And, you know, the fact that the customer is at a sit-down

00:37:22.220 restaurant means they don't want to cook and serve themselves. And the quality of the customer's

00:37:25.920 experience at the restaurant is highly dependent on the quality of the waiter's service. A bad waiter

00:37:30.620 means a bad time. A good waiter means a good time. Barbers and pizza delivery guys also meet all three

00:37:35.820 conditions. But what about a cashier ringing up my items at a grocery store? Often they ask for a tip now,

00:37:41.900 too. But they shouldn't receive one because, yes, condition one, low-paying job is met. But conditions

00:37:47.260 two and three are not. I would gladly use the self-checkout if it's an option. So it's not a

00:37:52.920 service I couldn't or wouldn't do myself. And though there are people who somehow find ways to be very

00:37:56.960 bad at running cash registers, there really isn't any way to be excellent at it. So my experience as a

00:38:02.780 customer will be about the same with an excellent cashier as it is with a mediocre one. The barista

00:38:09.020 pouring my coffee also should not be tipped because she fails to meet all three conditions. Again,

00:38:14.780 condition one is met, okay, low-paying job. But I could, without much trouble, pour my own coffee if

00:38:21.240 given the option. In fact, at some places, they'll just hand you the empty cup and have you fill it

00:38:25.520 yourself, yet even then they want a tip. The simple act of picking up an empty cup and doing this, like

00:38:31.600 just that. This is it. This is what earns you a tip now. Here you go. That'll be three extra dollars.

00:38:42.540 Like you get a financial bonus for doing that. This system with the three conditions I've outlined

00:38:49.580 also explains why we don't tip, say, airline pilots. You know, in their case, conditions two and three are

00:38:55.160 met. I can't fly the plane myself. And my experience as a customer would be quite unpleasant if the pilot

00:39:01.440 isn't good at his job. But condition one is not met. Airline pilots are paid handsomely and for good

00:39:05.680 reason. Now, the only category that throws my system for a loop are the endangered species known as

00:39:12.280 bathroom attendants. It used to be a lot more common than they are today, but you still find them

00:39:16.700 sometimes standing by the sinks at like a bar or restaurant handing out towels and mints. I've always

00:39:24.620 tipped them, even though I could quite easily grab my own towel and I'm really not interested in mints that

00:39:29.300 have been saturating in the fumes of strange farts all day. But I tipped mainly out of pity because

00:39:35.040 they have to stand there in the bathroom experiencing the sounds and smells of human waste

00:39:38.880 plopping ominously into toilets or near toilets at any rate. An exception was made for bathroom

00:39:46.240 attendants, but now everybody wants the bathroom attendant exception. Now everybody expects a tip.

00:39:52.220 Even random people online will post their Venmo or GoFundMe soliciting funds for no reason

00:39:58.620 after having provided you absolutely no service of any kind whatsoever. They just say, hey, by the way,

00:40:04.120 if you want to give me some money, here it is. It's not even tipping anymore. This is panhandling.

00:40:10.740 And we have to pull back from it while we still can. Before it gets so out of hand that you'll be

00:40:15.120 bankrupted just by running errands for three hours on a Saturday afternoon. So tipping is canceled.

00:40:20.540 At least for now. And if you enjoyed what I had to say here, you can always send me a few bucks

00:40:27.020 through PayPal or Venmo if you want, if you want to give me a tip. But otherwise, tipping is

00:40:32.420 canceled. And that's going to do it for us today. Thanks for watching, everybody. Thanks for listening.

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00:41:57.600 So it's new.

00:41:58.720 It's a bit terminated, correct?

00:42:01.260 You're not going to be the same thing.

00:42:02.660 Hope you've been done byron.

00:42:03.740 I'm going to die.

00:42:04.880 Mom prepared for you with this make-a golf season.

The Matt Walsh Show - January 05, 2021

Ep. 629 - Kamala Harris： Fraud, Failure, Liar, Inspiration

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