The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 643 - Children Made To Suffer So That Adults Can Feel Safe

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, we will talk about the incredible toll the lockdowns have taken on

00:00:04.500 our children, at least as at least one school district is rushing to reopen in response to a

00:00:09.620 surge in childhood suicides. Also, five headlines, including Biden admitting that nothing we do will

00:00:14.800 change the trajectory of the virus. So then why does he want to wear a mask for 100 days if it's

00:00:20.120 not going to change anything? Plus, an MSNBC analyst tries to make a profound point by extensively

00:00:24.920 quoting a Nicki Minaj lyric. And in our daily cancellation, yet another TikTok parent is on

00:00:29.600 the slate to be canceled. That and much more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:02:07.760 10 months has focused on the question of whether they are actually the best way to slow the spread

00:02:12.040 of the virus. That's been the be-all and end-all of the conversation, but this has always

00:02:17.460 overshadowed and obscured the more important question, which is whether slowing the spread

00:02:23.560 of the virus should be the overarching number one priority of our entire society, relegating all

00:02:29.800 other concerns to secondary status. Is stopping people from getting the virus, in fact, so important

00:02:36.380 that any other cost they might have to bear as a result of our measures will be worth it?

00:02:42.080 That is and has always been the real question, and it's not a scientific question. That's the

00:02:48.300 thing. It's more of a philosophical question. It's a question of priority, of importance,

00:02:55.640 of risk versus reward, cost and benefit. See, this transcends statistics. It's not something you can

00:03:02.180 figure out by looking at a spreadsheet. It's not something that a guy like Anthony Fauci

00:03:08.300 will necessarily have anything useful to say about. And that's why the powers that be did not

00:03:15.000 want the issue framed this way. They only wanted us to ever consider the first question, which is,

00:03:21.120 will the lockdowns stop people from getting sick? All other considerations be damned. All other

00:03:27.700 questions are moot, they claimed. And they are, and we're always wrong about that. Which brings us to

00:03:34.340 a rare event. Over the weekend, the New York Times published some actual journalism for a change.

00:03:38.560 The story by Erica Green reports on the decision to get schools in Clark County, Nevada, Las Vegas,

00:03:44.440 opened again as soon as possible. And what's prompted this urgent rush to reopen schools is a

00:03:50.000 surge in suicides among children in the area. Let's read now from the piece a little bit. It says,

00:03:55.460 since schools shut their doors in March, an early warning system that monitors students' mental

00:03:59.520 health episodes has sent more than 3,100 alerts to district officials, raising alarms about

00:04:05.160 suicidal thoughts, possible self-harm, or cries for care. By December, 18 students had taken their

00:04:12.360 own lives. The spate of student suicides in and around Las Vegas has pushed the Clark County district,

00:04:18.420 the nation's fifth largest, toward bringing students back as quickly as possible. This month,

00:04:22.960 the school board gave the green light to phase in the return of some elementary school grades and

00:04:27.340 groups of struggling students, even as greater Las Vegas continues to post huge numbers of

00:04:31.780 coronavirus death cases. Superintendents across the nation are weighing the benefit of in-person

00:04:36.700 education against the cost of public health, watching teachers and staff become sick and in

00:04:41.120 some cases die, but also seeing the psychological and academic toll that school closings are having

00:04:46.420 on children nearly a year in. The risk of student suicides has quietly stirred many district leaders,

00:04:51.420 leading some, like the state superintendent in Arizona, to cite that fear and public pleas to help

00:04:56.500 mitigate the virus's spread. Now, the piece continues by looking at the larger suicide trend, which it

00:05:03.100 admits is hard to quantify because we don't have national data on suicides in the year 2020 yet.

00:05:09.380 Even so, it says, quote, one study from the CDC shows that the percentage of youth emergency room

00:05:16.020 visits that were for mental health reasons had risen during the pandemic. The actual number of those

00:05:20.520 visits fell. The researchers noted that many people were avoiding hospitals that were dealing with the

00:05:25.880 crush of coronavirus patients. And in a compilation of emergency calls in more than 40 states among all

00:05:30.580 age groups showed increased numbers related to mental health. In Clark County, 18 suicides over

00:05:35.560 nine months of closure is double the nine the district had the entire previous year. Six students

00:05:40.940 died by suicide between March 16th and June 30th. Twelve students died by suicide between July 1st and

00:05:46.280 December 31st. One student left a note saying he had nothing to look forward to. The youngest student

00:05:52.720 Dr. Jara has lost to suicide was nine. Okay. Nine years old. So think about that. My oldest kids,

00:06:01.820 the twins are seven, seven and a half, really. Not that far from that age. A child so young committing

00:06:08.000 suicide is it's literally unthinkable. You can't wrap your head around it. And of course, we can't know

00:06:14.280 specifically what drove any of these kids to this point. It would seem safe to assume that many of these

00:06:20.020 children, whether in Clark County or elsewhere, had other things going on in their lives in addition

00:06:24.160 to the lockdowns, which may have contributed, though again, we can't know. But anytime a nine-year-old

00:06:30.000 kills themselves, that should be an occasion for the whole country to stop in its tracks and ask,

00:06:36.320 what the hell is going on? How could there be children so young and yet in such a desperate

00:06:41.840 psychological state? Now, you could point out here that suicide rates among children have been rising

00:06:47.320 across the country before the lockdowns were imposed, before COVID-19 existed, way before.

00:06:52.840 A report from PBS in 2019 had these findings that said, between 2000 and 2007, the suicide rate among

00:06:58.940 youth ages 10 to 24 hovered around 6.8 deaths per 100,000 people. Then the rate curved upward,

00:07:06.820 reaching a rate of 10.6 deaths per 100,000 by 2017, a 56% increase in less than two decades.

00:07:13.360 It says by the year 2017, suicide was the second leading cause of death among Americans aged 15 to

00:07:19.960 24. To put that in context, suicide is the 10th leading cause of death among Americans in general,

00:07:24.980 of all ages. So this is clearly a problem that predates the lockdowns, but that only further proves

00:07:31.340 why the lockdowns were a disastrous mistake, especially with respect to schools. Whatever the

00:07:38.280 reasons, and the reasons are various and complex, there was already a crisis of despair and hopelessness

00:07:45.200 among children. They were already vulnerable. And now you lock them in their homes for months on end,

00:07:52.580 rip them out of their routines, take away their friends, take away their social gatherings,

00:07:57.260 instill in them a deep fear over a virus that poses very little risk to them personally,

00:08:02.140 force them to be muzzled when they go out in public, deprive them of the chance to even see

00:08:08.380 the faces of strangers when they're out in public. I mean, how do you think that's going to end?

00:08:14.200 What other result could it possibly have but this? And this is why I say the spreadsheets and the

00:08:20.340 statistics and the bar graphs miss the point. This is why lockdown critics are not denying the

00:08:25.820 science. We're accused of, well, you're denying the science. Our point is that the most important

00:08:30.080 questions don't have anything to do with the science. The science is beside the point.

00:08:37.800 And if you disagree, if that scandalizes you to hear someone say the science is beside the point,

00:08:42.420 okay, well then tell me, scientifically, what is the reduction in cases, the exact number

00:08:48.240 that makes even one childhood suicide worth the cost? If you're telling me this is a scientific

00:08:55.160 question, well then go ahead, Spock, make it scientific. Tell me how. Spell it out for me.

00:09:01.600 Take just the child who said that he, uh, who killed himself before that said that he, he, you know,

00:09:06.940 he missed his friends and he missed how things were before. How many alleged lives saved from the

00:09:13.300 lockdowns make that worth the cost? What is the scientific answer to that question? There isn't one

00:09:20.380 because this is a moral question. As I said, a philosophical one. And my moral and philosophical

00:09:26.940 answer is that there is no reduction in cases, no slowing of the spread that can make one child

00:09:35.060 suicide worth it. That's my answer. What we're doing to our children right now, the damage we are doing,

00:09:44.020 nothing can make that worth it. Nothing. And you could disagree if you want, but save me the crap

00:09:52.460 about I'm following the science. This has not a damn thing to do with the science. It's about priorities. 0.83

00:10:01.020 I believe our priority as a society should always be, always be protecting our children. That should

00:10:10.560 always be our number one priority as a society. Is that what the science says? No, the science

00:10:17.280 doesn't say a damn thing about what our priorities should be as a society. That's what human beings

00:10:22.940 are supposed to say. And that's what makes this all the more disgraceful. You know, we have seen a

00:10:28.660 total inversion of priorities. This virus was never a great threat to children. So we have done all of

00:10:35.760 this to protect ourselves. We have asked or demanded really that our kids, our kids, our kids make the

00:10:44.760 sacrifices, even, even bear the brunt of the sacrifices so that we can be safe. This is exactly

00:10:52.820 the opposite of what we are meant to do. You know, societies can be judged by how they treat their

00:10:59.820 children. I believe that. And we were already failing enormously by that measure. 60 million kids

00:11:05.440 killed since Roe v. Wade. So we were already a failure in that regard. But now after this,

00:11:11.940 I mean, what will future generations say about a people that drove their own kids to suicide in

00:11:18.000 order to protect themselves from a virus? They won't say anything good. We can assume that.

00:11:24.540 The judgment on us by history will be incredibly harsh. And we will deserve all of it.

00:11:33.620 Now let's get to our five headlines.

00:11:40.980 So, you know, they say honesty is the best policy, but sometimes in marriage, you know, I do tend to

00:11:47.480 doubt that a little bit. I have to be honest with you. I'll be honest about that. Sometimes I doubt

00:11:50.980 a little bit. I sometimes doubt the honest, the value of honesty in marriage. And I'll just explain

00:11:56.600 why. Like, for example, yesterday, I got home from traveling. I was traveling over the weekend.

00:12:01.080 I was in Austin. And for a pro-life event, actually, because they do have those in Austin,

00:12:06.280 it turns out. And it was a great event. Anyway, I came home. A few hours, I thought everything was

00:12:10.680 fine. A few, everything looked, you know, everything looked normal and the same to me when I got home

00:12:14.620 as it did when I left, because I only left the day before. And a few hours after I got home, my wife said to me,

00:12:20.980 she said, as we're sitting on the couch,

00:12:23.920 hey, so you didn't say anything about my hair.

00:12:28.540 And I said, and this is where the honesty kicked in.

00:12:31.200 Okay, this is where I was going to be honest. And I said, what about your hair?

00:12:35.240 And she said, I dyed it.

00:12:38.620 And I said, oh.

00:12:40.880 And she said, you know, it's brown now. It was blonde before.

00:12:43.900 And then I said, it was blonde before? 0.94

00:12:49.320 And then I realized I should stop saying things in that moment. But here's my point.

00:12:53.060 I was honest for the whole conversation. I was completely honest.

00:12:56.680 Now, do you really want to tell me that was the best policy?

00:12:58.620 I don't think it was.

00:13:00.480 And then actually, in my defense, I actually went, because I never know when to drop it.

00:13:04.760 So a little bit later on, I went back to try to prove my point.

00:13:08.340 I pulled up her profile picture from Twitter, which is from before she allegedly dyed her hair.

00:13:14.120 And I showed it to her and I said, no, your hair was brown before. It looks the same.

00:13:17.940 I was trying to mansplain her own hair color to her. 1.00

00:13:20.200 I was bringing facts and evidence and destroying her with it.

00:13:24.660 But it didn't matter. She said I was colorblind.

00:13:26.180 I don't know. Maybe I am. Anyway, so keep that in mind.

00:13:28.860 Just a little marriage tip. Let's go here.

00:13:31.060 Number one, President Biden last week had an interesting, well, interesting admission, I guess we could say.

00:13:39.280 And here it is. Let's listen.

00:13:41.360 If we fail to act, there will be a wave of evictions and foreclosures in the coming months as this pandemic rages on.

00:13:49.300 Because there's nothing we can do to change the trajectory of the pandemic in the next several months.

00:13:53.600 There's nothing we can do to change the trajectory of the pandemic in the next several months.

00:13:59.560 That's what he just said.

00:14:03.160 Obviously, if we had if we got a media interested in the actual news, this would be like headline news everywhere.

00:14:07.260 This is a stunning thing for him to say, considering what his new administration is in the process of doing.

00:14:15.680 Like, for example, a 100 day mask mandate.

00:14:20.060 Everyone wear the mask for 100 days, even though people have already been wearing the mask for 100 days, more than that.

00:14:26.580 So why are we doing that?

00:14:28.060 And as far as I know, this question has not been asked by anybody in the media, but it's like, OK, well, if we can't change the trajectory.

00:14:36.520 Which, by the way, I'm not necessarily I'm not saying I disagree with that, actually.

00:14:39.700 But if we can't change the trajectory.

00:14:42.460 Then why are we wearing the mask?

00:14:44.460 What is the point of it exactly if it's not to change the trajectory?

00:14:46.840 I thought that was the entire point.

00:14:49.040 It's not the point.

00:14:49.760 Then what are we doing it for?

00:14:50.560 Meanwhile, a local reporter in California.

00:14:56.140 Medarios Babb is her name.

00:14:58.340 She has this.

00:14:59.080 This is what she reports on Twitter.

00:15:00.900 She says, I've obtained an email from the California Restaurant Association that says Gavin Newsom will be lifting the stay at home order for all regions across the state tomorrow.

00:15:11.660 And she continues, I'm not sure if this means the region will fall back into the tier system, but no matter what, it would mean less restrictions.

00:15:18.340 The CRA says it was informed of the lift today by Newsom's administration, but the formal announcement won't be until tomorrow.

00:15:23.600 So the formal announcement will come today or has already come.

00:15:25.780 I don't know.

00:15:27.020 But this is just another strange coincidence, isn't it?

00:15:33.240 Like as soon as Biden gets into office, he says, well, there's nothing we can do to change the trajectory of the virus.

00:15:37.060 Didn't say that before.

00:15:39.520 And now you have California.

00:15:40.660 They're lifting those stay at home restrictions, opening up the restaurants.

00:15:43.540 And we've seen this really strange coincidence in in states and regions across the country.

00:15:51.680 And the thing that makes it even more coincidental, I know this is all because I don't want to get into conspiracy theorists, theories, right?

00:15:56.920 I'll be if you connect too many dots, you're automatically a conspiracy theorist.

00:16:01.120 You don't want to be that.

00:16:02.480 But so I'll just say it's a it's a weird coincidence that not only do we have these areas opening up as soon as Biden is inaugurated president.

00:16:13.080 The other strange thing is that all the areas doing this are run by Democrats.

00:16:18.100 Hmm.

00:16:19.180 But who could possibly draw conclusions?

00:16:21.840 No, don't be a conspiracy theorist.

00:16:23.280 Don't do that.

00:16:24.200 It's just it's a coincidence.

00:16:25.180 You know, coincidental things happen.

00:16:26.540 So that's all it is.

00:16:29.400 Number two from The Daily Wire, it says in the past week, the Montana House Judiciary Committee passed a bill which would create the Save Women's Sports Act, an act that would bar biological boys from teams or in sports designated for women or girls.

00:16:42.460 By passing the bill, the committee set up a floor hearing in the Montana House.

00:16:45.800 The sponsor of House Bill 112 told the Montana Free Press that he wanted to protect the 1972 Title IX permitting biological boys to compete against biological girls would be just wrong, he said.

00:16:55.440 And so they're passing this bill.

00:16:56.660 The reason I'm reading the story is that.

00:16:59.460 You know, this is exactly what states have to do.

00:17:03.380 You know, it's what been one of my themes of the last week is let's let's let's let's localize our focus.

00:17:10.580 As we have sometimes neglected to do as conservatives.

00:17:14.800 And this is one area here.

00:17:16.220 Now, I also wanted to as we're talking about because we know the executive order from Biden is we as we're talking about.

00:17:22.980 Putting boys into girl sports or into girl locker rooms just to demonstrate.

00:17:28.480 Just the demonstration.

00:17:29.520 You probably don't need a demonstration, but I'll give it to you anyway, because it's good to have it's good to have the numbers just in front of you.

00:17:34.500 So to demonstrate why it's insane to allow males to compete against girls in sports and why you need bills like the one they're passing in Montana.

00:17:43.460 Let's go to.

00:17:45.720 Kind of a famous example of boys competing against girls.

00:17:48.580 That's in Connecticut where you had Andrea Yearwood and Terry Miller.

00:17:53.940 Those are both males.

00:17:54.980 And I think now they've graduated.

00:17:56.920 But for a couple of years, you know, they both guys and they but they they identified as as girls and they started running against girls in track and field.

00:18:05.820 OK, so here are the results from the 2019 Connecticut State Championships.

00:18:12.160 OK, for for the girls.

00:18:13.900 This is the 55 meter dash.

00:18:18.960 Terry Miller and Andrea Yearwood.

00:18:21.020 For the state championships, they both came in first and second again in the girls meet.

00:18:26.940 They came in first and second.

00:18:29.140 As boys.

00:18:31.100 Terry Miller was was first.

00:18:32.600 He had a six point nine five.

00:18:34.780 That was his time.

00:18:36.560 Andrea Yearwood had seven point zero one.

00:18:40.120 And then third, quote unquote, third place, which is Chelsea Mitchell, who really was first place because she's the she is the she was the best sprint best the best female sprinter in the state. 0.99

00:18:50.640 In high school, it was Chelsea Mitchell, but she came in third place and she had a seven point two three, which is significantly behind a six point nine five in a sprint. 0.59

00:18:59.520 You know, that's might as well be an eternity.

00:19:01.260 OK, now keep those times in mind.

00:19:04.460 You go over to the same year, 2019, the men's varsity 55 meter dash.

00:19:10.680 Now, this is the field that Miller and Yearwood should have been competing against.

00:19:14.480 And Miller came in in first place against the girls at six point nine five. 1.00

00:19:20.640 First place for the men's was six point five one.

00:19:25.440 Seventh place was six point six three.

00:19:28.820 So this is a guy who wouldn't even place.

00:19:31.360 He wouldn't even make it on the track.

00:19:33.240 He probably wouldn't even qualified for the finals against the men with his times.

00:19:38.220 But against the girls, he dominates.

00:19:41.900 This is a mediocre at best male athlete, male runner who against females dominates.

00:19:48.980 But if you look at the other, it's even more pronounced like the 300 meter dash.

00:19:53.760 Terry Miller had a 40 point one three enough to beat.

00:19:58.400 Second place was an actual girl. 0.59

00:20:00.080 One second behind again.

00:20:01.100 One second in a dash is a lot.

00:20:02.900 Um, but against men, the number one time was 35 point 11 12th was 37 point six five.

00:20:10.600 Again, wouldn't have even made it on the track with those times.

00:20:14.500 So you just, you cannot look at that and deny the biological.

00:20:19.800 First of all, the biological difference between, between men and women.

00:20:22.320 And also the fact that just the simple fact of being a guy affords you enormous inherent

00:20:29.900 advantages that are very, very difficult for a woman to overcome, that a mediocre male athlete 0.99

00:20:37.300 or even a bad male athlete could just waltz into a women's sport and take over casually 0.98

00:20:44.540 without even having to work that hard.

00:20:47.200 All right.

00:20:47.780 Number three, the New York times, um, had this.

00:20:51.140 I just thought this was a great headline.

00:20:53.760 President Biden is perhaps the most religiously observant commander in chief in half a century.

00:20:58.720 A different, more liberal Christianity grounds his life and his policies, right?

00:21:05.920 Which, you know, I think it's similar.

00:21:07.620 It's, it's, it would be like a headline that said Arby's is perhaps the healthiest restaurant

00:21:12.600 in America.

00:21:13.420 A different, more liberal view of nutrition grounds their recipes and menu.

00:21:18.280 So when you start phrasing things like that, it does, you know, makes you feel better about 0.92

00:21:21.760 eating at fast food anyway, but this is obviously ridiculous. 0.76

00:21:24.800 And we're just, no, here's what I'll give you. 0.89

00:21:27.640 Now, leaving aside the fact that as we talked about last week, Joe Biden's version of Catholicism

00:21:33.220 is not Catholicism at all.

00:21:34.940 Um, he does not belong to Catholicism.

00:21:36.320 He belongs to the, the religion of self really.

00:21:40.680 But even putting that aside for a minute, yeah, he does go to church and all that.

00:21:44.080 So at most you could make an argument that he's the most religiously observant president

00:21:50.340 of the last three we had only because Obama and, uh, and, and, and Donald Trump were probably

00:21:57.080 the least religious presence we ever had.

00:22:00.760 Is he more religious than George Bush? 0.89

00:22:04.120 George Bush was condemned repeatedly by the left for being like a theocratic fascist like 0.93

00:22:09.540 me. 0.73

00:22:09.820 There's no possible way he's more religious than George Bush.

00:22:15.520 But of course we know during the Bush era, being religious was a bad thing. 0.71

00:22:19.120 It was a bad, scary thing.

00:22:21.180 Now that Biden's in office, all of a sudden it's okay again.

00:22:23.480 It's cool to be religious again.

00:22:25.620 That's big news.

00:22:27.640 Only don't get too excited because you have to be the right kind of religious,

00:22:31.280 which is in the end, we find out not really religious at all.

00:22:34.920 Okay.

00:22:35.040 Number four, um, this MSNBC clip I want to play for you.

00:22:37.800 Well, I, I don't know.

00:22:38.620 Maybe there shouldn't be any setup.

00:22:39.640 You just have to hear it for yourself.

00:22:40.660 Let's listen.

00:22:41.680 And this time Trump is out of office.

00:22:43.900 So the entire case is not about removing him, but whether to convict and disqualify him

00:22:51.060 from holding any office like the presidency forever.

00:22:55.220 This is huge and has never actually happened before.

00:22:58.860 The United States Senate deciding something that can shape history, sanction Trump and ensure

00:23:03.380 he never has power again and do so on that basis that you see right there for life.

00:23:09.900 There's no more significant amount of time than for life.

00:23:13.800 That's why Nicki Minaj famously saying for life, for life.

00:23:17.500 And if the work is vindicated, best believe when it's done, it will be syndicated for life, for life.

00:23:25.020 And just as Nicki declared herself in this very moment, a king, the question here is if the speaker

00:23:30.400 will ultimately slay Goliath with a constitutional sling.

00:23:36.460 That, well, I mean, what can I say?

00:23:38.280 That's a great Minaj quote.

00:23:39.800 And personally, I mean, don't we all quote that all the time?

00:23:44.720 Classic, classic.

00:23:45.660 Personally, though, the one that I find myself quoting often is from her great song.

00:23:49.820 And you even know what I'm going to say.

00:23:51.680 Barbie Tings, which is one of the great songs.

00:23:54.860 And you know how it goes.

00:23:55.840 But I always find myself saying this in just situations throughout life.

00:23:59.520 She says, I love this so much because of how deeply it resonates with me in my life.

00:24:03.140 She says, it's time to make hits and it's time to diss.

00:24:07.500 How you still dissing?

00:24:09.320 Still can't find some hits. 0.95

00:24:11.840 Was it worth it, dummy?

00:24:13.700 I ain't mind a bit.

00:24:16.200 Still on that show getting no chips.

00:24:19.160 Time to dip.

00:24:22.240 I, I, I, I, I, I.

00:24:24.460 I'm still fly.

00:24:26.340 Just bag the white guy.

00:24:27.780 Richie, light guy.

00:24:28.620 And I still eat Thai.

00:24:30.080 Want the Nicki cheat code?

00:24:31.120 Come on.

00:24:32.060 Nice try.

00:24:33.140 Let's be real. 0.98

00:24:34.280 All you b****s want to look like me. 1.00

00:24:36.240 So that, you know, for me, so the guy on MSNBC, you know, we, we just, we all have different Minaj lyrics that we, we love to quote. 0.91

00:24:43.160 It's, it's, there's nothing weird about that at all.

00:24:46.060 I mean, this guy, he wanted to make a point about the fact that for life is a long time.

00:24:51.620 And he wanted a quote about, I don't know, life being long.

00:24:56.320 First thing he thought was Nicki Minaj.

00:24:59.380 Who, who among us, who among us wouldn't have done the same in that exact same situation?

00:25:03.960 All right.

00:25:04.780 Number five.

00:25:05.680 Finally, this, this video has gone viral.

00:25:08.280 It's a very important video.

00:25:10.360 Almost as important as Nicki Minaj.

00:25:11.800 And I want to play this for you.

00:25:14.600 Because, you know, I, I don't like it.

00:25:17.000 I know I do a lot of canceling myself on this show and I'll be canceling someone coming up in just a moment, but also based on a viral video.

00:25:23.400 But, you know, I, I don't believe in, in unfair cancellations.

00:25:26.800 And I think there's an unfair cancellation happening here.

00:25:28.900 This is a woman. 0.86

00:25:29.900 I don't know who it is.

00:25:30.560 I don't know the context.

00:25:31.280 Okay.

00:25:31.520 But it's a woman giving her recipe for how to class up a bowl of SpaghettiOs. 1.00

00:25:37.200 And she kind of makes this SpaghettiO pie. 1.00

00:25:39.520 This is, people are, she is getting, let's, let's, let's just take a look at this video.

00:25:44.640 She is getting demolished for this. 1.00

00:25:46.540 So she's got the SpaghettiOs in a pie crust.

00:25:49.480 And then she takes, she takes some bread and butters it down real nice.

00:25:54.060 Puts a whole lot of butter on the bread.

00:25:56.600 This is her recipe.

00:25:57.580 I think this is what she does for her kids.

00:25:59.440 And then she takes garlic powder.

00:26:01.780 And she's just, she's tons of garlic powder all over the bread. 1.00

00:26:06.880 Now, this is the one part here that I, that maybe is a little bit hard to stomach.

00:26:10.340 She actually smashes the bread down with her arms and her hands. 1.00

00:26:13.800 She's, she's, she's never heard of a rolling pin, I guess.

00:26:16.780 Maybe she doesn't have one.

00:26:17.660 So she uses her hands. 1.00

00:26:19.780 Doesn't look, her hands, her arms don't look too hairy. 1.00

00:26:21.960 So, so maybe that's not so bad.

00:26:24.940 And then she, she cuts all the crust off.

00:26:27.880 And now she's got the, she's got the smashed down garlic bread. 1.00

00:26:31.440 And then she puts some mozzarella cheese on the SpaghettiOs in the pie crust.

00:26:36.160 A whole bunch of mozzarella.

00:26:36.720 And that's the expensive mozzarella cheese too.

00:26:39.080 So she's not, you know, no, no, no, uh, spare no expense here.

00:26:43.040 Or she's, she's using like an $8 bag of cheese. 0.99

00:26:46.740 Puts more garlic on the, uh, SpaghettiOs.

00:26:50.220 And then she's going to put the bread.

00:26:52.140 Oh, then she puts milk in.

00:26:53.400 Okay.

00:26:54.860 She puts milk in the SpaghettiOs.

00:26:57.960 And now she's going to put, and she mixes it together.

00:27:01.620 Oh, and then she puts more SpaghettiOs on top of it. 0.72

00:27:03.480 And then she puts the bread on top of the SpaghettiOs, the garlic bread, and bakes it.

00:27:10.940 And I think there's a follow-up video where she actually cuts the, the pie and then like

00:27:13.760 serves it like a pie.

00:27:15.460 With some pie.

00:27:16.880 And here's my thing.

00:27:17.700 Okay.

00:27:18.360 This is all I'm going to say.

00:27:19.220 Um, people are saying this looks like a, just a big bowl of vomit.

00:27:24.920 And it's, it's the most, it's the most horrific video they've ever seen on the internet.

00:27:27.700 And there's been a lot of disturbing videos on the internet.

00:27:29.440 So that's saying something.

00:27:30.880 I just want to say you, we both know that actually looks kind of good.

00:27:38.220 First of all, there's not much you can do with SpaghettiOs.

00:27:40.660 So can you think of a better way to class up some SpaghettiOs?

00:27:44.500 SpaghettiOs already are basically inedible.

00:27:46.300 So can you think of a better way to make SpaghettiOs edible?

00:27:49.160 This is the most noble attempt anyone has ever made to make SpaghettiOs edible.

00:27:55.580 And also basically, look, we know if you add garlic powder and cheese to pretty much anything,

00:27:59.960 it'll be okay.

00:28:02.000 Put some bread, add some more carbs to it.

00:28:04.280 Makes it a little better too.

00:28:07.060 I'll tell you one thing.

00:28:07.780 My kids would destroy that.

00:28:09.280 My kids would love that.

00:28:10.320 And I would, uh, you know, I would eat it too.

00:28:11.940 I think we all would.

00:28:13.140 Let's stop pretending.

00:28:14.360 Okay.

00:28:16.300 Let's stop pretending to have fancier tastes than we really do.

00:28:19.840 The SpaghettiO garlic pie.

00:28:22.460 I will defend it.

00:28:23.340 I will say for that, not canceled.

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00:31:01.460 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:31:03.260 Today for our daily cancellation, we have another parent on TikTok to cancel.

00:31:12.020 I've selected this one as a representative of a larger problem.

00:31:14.760 It's not that she individually is deserving of cancellation.

00:31:17.280 I mean, she is, and richly so, but the issue is the greater cultural phenomenon on display, which we will discuss.

00:31:24.560 This is from a woman who goes by the handle catmightbefunny.

00:31:28.100 And she is funny, I can report, though, perhaps not in the way she intended.

00:31:31.380 And along with the video is a caption that reads, this level of vulnerability is not comfy for me.

00:31:37.860 Hashtag parenting.

00:31:39.060 Hashtag moms of TikTok.

00:31:40.780 Hashtag parents of TikTok.

00:31:42.320 Hashtag LGBTQ.

00:31:44.080 Hashtag mental health.

00:31:46.720 Yes, we're at the point where people put hashtag mental health to accompany videos of their own mental breakdowns.

00:31:52.540 So let's, let's check this out.

00:31:54.460 I've just been yelling in my car for 30 minutes because parenting is hard.

00:32:03.920 It's hard.

00:32:05.460 Because they're little mirrors. 0.91

00:32:11.280 If, if I want my son to be a better person or to grow up and just be a good f***ing human. 0.75

00:32:21.260 I have to be a good person. 0.86

00:32:29.340 He mimics everything I do.

00:32:32.260 He mirrors everything. 0.96

00:32:35.020 So if I have a f***ing bad attitude, he's going to have a f***ing bad attitude. 0.99

00:32:38.480 Dude, if I say f***ing, of course he's going to say f***ing. 0.98

00:32:49.680 I have to change me to change him. 0.99

00:32:53.960 There you go.

00:32:54.560 You know, I was just waiting.

00:32:57.540 Much like you probably.

00:32:58.500 I was waiting for the camera to pan back and her kid is sitting in the backseat.

00:33:02.020 Apparently he's not.

00:33:04.600 So that's good.

00:33:05.040 Although it does raise the question.

00:33:06.200 Who's watching your kid while she yells in her car for 30 minutes? 1.00

00:33:09.040 I'm not going to jump to conclusions.

00:33:10.220 I just, maybe she hires a babysitter for such occasions.

00:33:13.700 It's possible she calls up the sitter like, Hey, um, can you come over for an hour or so?

00:33:18.220 Yeah, I just had this psychotic break.

00:33:19.660 I had to go do.

00:33:20.820 Uh, it's on a calendar scheduled.

00:33:22.400 So, okay.

00:33:22.980 See you when you get here.

00:33:25.200 I don't know.

00:33:25.760 I don't know how it works.

00:33:26.400 Exactly.

00:33:26.820 More to the point.

00:33:28.560 What we really have to consider are two things, right?

00:33:30.740 Like context and content.

00:33:33.320 And I mean, this is what, this is what I factor in anytime I'm deciding on a cancellation.

00:33:36.440 This is, this is the pro this is, I'm bringing you into my process right now.

00:33:39.820 And in this case, it's the context, not the content that gets her canceled.

00:33:44.140 So on that end, the context here is that she is filming and posting the video of herself

00:33:49.280 crying and screaming about how hard it is to be a parent.

00:33:52.900 And this has become a very common genre of internet videos.

00:33:55.560 In fact, you know, if internet videos were distributed old school at like a blockbuster

00:34:00.880 video and you had to go into the store to browse and rent the video you want, the genre

00:34:06.200 of women crying in their cars would take up like five entire rows. 0.90

00:34:11.520 It would be like what it used to be at blockbuster.

00:34:13.700 When you go in the, uh, the, uh, the action and adventure section, which is the best section.

00:34:17.420 That was almost half the store.

00:34:18.680 And that, but now it would be women crying in their cars, but why would you do this? 1.00

00:34:23.900 If you're having a desperate personal moment where a crushing existential realization has

00:34:30.140 come rushing in and you are reduced to screams and tears because of it happens to the best

00:34:34.640 of us, but why would you want to film it and turn it into a spectacle for strangers like

00:34:40.560 myself to gawk at and laugh at?

00:34:44.060 Why would you even think to do that?

00:34:45.800 The answer is that you do it because you lack the capacity for a true inner life.

00:34:51.860 It's a little bit too simple to say, oh, they want attention.

00:34:53.960 I mean, they do want attention, but I think the problem is deeper than that because in

00:34:57.620 the modern age, many people have outsourced their inner life, their internal dialogue

00:35:03.400 to the internet.

00:35:05.320 I'm convinced this is why we spend so much time on the internet in the first place.

00:35:09.000 It's why when you're in the checkout line or waiting for an oil change or an elevator

00:35:12.200 or anywhere else, everyone around you is just on their phone the whole time, never looking

00:35:17.340 up, not at all present in the moment.

00:35:21.540 They can't stand to have a moment of stillness, a moment of inactivity, a moment of silence

00:35:25.620 because then they start to think, think their own thoughts for a change, and that becomes

00:35:29.600 too much to bear.

00:35:30.420 So they retreat to cyberspace again to escape themselves, to escape their own minds.

00:35:34.780 So this woman is in the midst of what could have been, had she not involved the entire

00:35:37.820 world in it, a really profound and painful and important episode in her life.

00:35:41.740 It's a confrontation with harsh realities, an occasion to feel, to really feel guilt and

00:35:47.540 accountability and shame and determination.

00:35:49.780 All of these emotions that are heavy to bear, but could also be invigorating and motivating

00:35:53.980 and clarifying, could have been a very human moment.

00:35:58.360 And she was in it, experiencing it, but she pulled back, retreated, and decided to use it

00:36:03.160 as content instead, decided to reduce it to spectacle.

00:36:08.400 And once it's a spectacle, it immediately loses the meaning it could have had and the

00:36:13.580 impact it could have had for you and on you.

00:36:17.980 There's something quite beautiful and human about having a moment of great emotional impact,

00:36:24.300 an awakening of sorts.

00:36:26.940 And then I think that the kids would call it a red pill.

00:36:29.340 And then, and then not telling a single soul about it, just keeping it within, letting

00:36:38.200 it seep deep into yourself, letting it be.

00:36:41.420 You don't tell anybody.

00:36:42.600 It's just for you forever.

00:36:45.360 Nobody else.

00:36:47.000 We should have many such moments as humans.

00:36:49.980 Did you know that?

00:36:50.940 We don't realize this anymore.

00:36:52.340 There should be many thoughts that we think and never tell anyone.

00:36:57.180 Many emotions we feel and never announce to anyone.

00:37:02.860 But now nothing is private.

00:37:05.140 Nothing is sacred.

00:37:06.100 Nothing is personal.

00:37:06.940 Nothing is left for the individual to hold within and ponder.

00:37:10.100 All is just spewed out into the public as empty distraction for strangers who don't really

00:37:14.840 care anyway.

00:37:16.720 What could have been an occasion for growth has instead become an occasion to attract attention

00:37:20.580 and not even meaningful attention, but the cheapest and most pointless kind of it.

00:37:25.940 And that's why she's canceled.

00:37:27.500 And that's why all women crying in their cars and filming it are canceled. 1.00

00:37:31.480 And it's why all of us on the internet are canceled for being a part of this problem to

00:37:34.760 one extent or the other.

00:37:36.420 All that said, I do also have to acknowledge that the content was actually correct. 0.97

00:37:40.640 One of the hardest realizations for a parent is that you're really being pretty ridiculous 0.90

00:37:48.140 when you get angry at your kids.

00:37:51.780 I mean, you have to realize at a certain point as a parent, you almost never have any legitimate

00:37:56.980 reason to be angry at your kids.

00:37:58.960 It's hard to justify anger at your child when you consider three facts about them.

00:38:03.100 One, they have significant neurological limitations, nothing you or they can do about that.

00:38:08.100 Number two, they are acting exactly as you did at their age.

00:38:12.060 And number three, this is the hardest of all, and this is what she's dealing with.

00:38:14.880 They're acting as you do now, too.

00:38:18.660 So if you're impatient and prone to shouting, your kid will be the same.

00:38:22.580 If you're disorganized and messy, your kid will be the same.

00:38:25.280 If you use bad language, as she mentioned, your kid will do the same.

00:38:28.800 You really have no right to be mad at them for doing and behaving exactly as you do.

00:38:33.200 If anything, they should be mad at you for setting such a bad example.

00:38:36.860 And then for having the gall to expect more of your child than you expect of yourself,

00:38:41.500 because that's the truth.

00:38:43.080 If you are, again, let's say, to use an example that hits very close to home for me,

00:38:47.780 an impatient person, and then you get mad at your kid for being impatient,

00:38:52.860 then you are quite literally expecting your, whatever, nine-year-old to be a better person than you.

00:38:59.120 And when you think about it like that, it, well, it makes you feel even worse.

00:39:04.440 And that's when the parenting guilt spiral begins, and you start falling down it,

00:39:08.360 and you start thinking to yourself, my God, I'm a failure.

00:39:10.400 I'm not cut out for this.

00:39:11.180 I'm a horrible person.

00:39:11.860 And you start crying in your car, which again, all that's fine.

00:39:15.240 Just don't film it.

00:39:16.280 The good news is, I guess if we can call it that,

00:39:21.600 is that every parent is guilty of getting mad at their kids for doing stuff that they themselves did and still do.

00:39:29.580 Because while your child has limitations by virtue of being a child,

00:39:33.660 you also have limitations by virtue of being human.

00:39:36.260 That doesn't excuse your failures as a parent,

00:39:38.200 but it does mean that you might as well skip over the self-pity and guilt trip

00:39:41.620 and just get back to trying to be a better person, a better example, a better parent than you have been.

00:39:46.240 Because we're all trying to scratch and crawl our way through this, mostly blind.

00:39:50.400 We're all kind of making it up as we go along.

00:39:53.540 That's another realization you have as a parent.

00:39:54.880 You start thinking back to your own parents when you were your kid's age and you realize,

00:39:59.700 oh, they had no idea what the hell they were doing either.

00:40:02.940 That's why there are a billion parenting books on the market.

00:40:06.500 And they all sell a million copies each because all parents,

00:40:10.320 if they have any self-awareness or intelligence, 0.95

00:40:12.160 will reach a point where they say, holy crap, I have no idea what I'm doing.

00:40:15.880 And that's when they run out looking for the how-to manual.

00:40:18.820 Like someone give me, someone tell me how to do this.

00:40:21.620 But we're wasting our money when we buy those books

00:40:23.900 because the real parenting how-to, the real guide, is what we already know.

00:40:29.340 It's just we have trouble implementing it because it's hard.

00:40:31.920 Basically, just be a better person, be more patient, be more kind, have more discipline.

00:40:36.740 Set a better example.

00:40:38.140 That's really it.

00:40:39.000 Like, that's it, right?

00:40:41.040 And at that point comes yet another epiphany, which is this.

00:40:46.620 Wait, no.

00:40:48.000 I do know how to be a better parent.

00:40:50.380 Parenting is simple.

00:40:51.120 The problem is that I want to be a parent and raise good kids, well-behaved kids,

00:40:57.140 well-adjusted kids, without making the prerequisite changes to myself and my own behavior and lifestyle.

00:41:04.380 That's where all of my problems are coming from as a parent.

00:41:08.380 That just doesn't work.

00:41:10.300 You've got to make the changes to yourself.

00:41:11.540 It sounds like the woman in the video was arriving at this conclusion.

00:41:16.080 And she should be commended for that.

00:41:17.960 I mean that sincerely.

00:41:20.680 But she's still canceled because she filmed it.

00:41:23.860 And there's just no excuse for that.

00:41:27.000 And on that note, a little bit of a bittersweet.

00:41:30.780 Commended, yet still canceled.

00:41:32.400 That can happen.

00:41:33.620 Happens sometimes.

00:41:35.360 We'll leave it there for today.

00:41:36.700 Thanks for watching, everybody.

00:41:37.500 Thanks for listening.

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The Matt Walsh Show - January 25, 2021

Ep. 643 - Children Made To Suffer So That Adults Can Feel Safe

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