The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 648 - When Evil Shows Its Face

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, a prominent abortionist declares that unborn babies are

00:00:03.840 zombies. Yes, they're zombies. We'll talk about that. Plus five headlines, including

00:00:07.460 CNN pushing for more censorship of conservative opinions. BLM gets a Nobel Peace Prize nomination

00:00:13.700 and the Lincoln Project tries to distance itself from one of its founders. And in our daily

00:00:18.360 cancellation today, I must cancel shoes. All shoes are canceled. I'll explain why. I have a good

00:00:22.860 reason. All of that and much more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:02:16.480 there's no clear right or wrong side in our present culture where everyone is equal parts

00:02:21.780 right and wrong, or everyone's just wrong flat out, you know, you might think. And you hear this a lot

00:02:26.600 from people. It's kind of a nihilistic way of thinking about it. Nihilism disguised as nuance.

00:02:32.300 Well, I think everybody is. Everyone is equally wrong in all ways. What may lead you to this

00:02:36.640 conclusion is the simple fact that all of the individual people on every side of every issue are 1.00

00:02:42.000 flawed, often deeply flawed, prone to hypocrisy, self-contradiction, stupidity. And there's so 1.00

00:02:49.040 much of all that stuff to go around, hypocrisy, self-contradiction, stupidity, that you may be 1.00

00:02:53.860 tempted to sort of throw up your hands and say, well, forget it. It doesn't matter. There's no 1.00

00:02:57.680 difference between the two sides. The fight is over nothing. I don't care anymore. It's easy to make

00:03:03.360 this mistake, but it's still a mistake. And it's helpful to remind yourself sometimes that there is a bad

00:03:11.260 side and a good side here. It's not simplistic to put it that way. Which brings us to Jennifer

00:03:16.500 Gunter. She's a prominent abortion proponent and abortionist. So following the saga here,

00:03:24.220 following the discussion, Gunter on Saturday over Twitter first challenged GOP House Minority Leader

00:03:30.440 Kevin McCarthy to a, quote, public factual discussion on abortion. Now, another user, not McCarthy,

00:03:36.580 someone else on Twitter, responded with more respect and civility than this person deserves,

00:03:42.700 in my opinion. And that Twitter user said, as long as the discussion begins with accepting that an

00:03:48.620 implanted embryo is a living human organism, as a doctor, you can confirm this. McCarthy's background

00:03:53.900 is in business. So try Senator Sass or Marco Rubio, who have background in law and can explain that a

00:03:59.500 living human organism is a person. Now, Gunter shot back to this random Twitter user and said,

00:04:07.060 an embryo isn't a human. It's a human embryo. And don't effing tell me what I know as a doctor.

00:04:14.620 Now, stop there for a second. An embryo isn't a human. It's a human embryo. Well, that makes no sense.

00:04:21.620 That, of course, is like me saying that middle-aged women like Gunter aren't human. 1.00

00:04:26.780 They're human middle-aged women. It makes no sense at all. If you're a middle-aged woman, 1.00

00:04:33.400 you are in a phase of human development. If you're a middle-aged man, same. If you're an elderly person,

00:04:39.300 if you're a teenager, it's a stage, a phase of human development. If you're a, quote, fetus,

00:04:45.520 you're also in a stage of human development. And the thing about being in a stage of human development

00:04:50.460 is that you must be first a human in order to be in that stage. There has never been a tree or a cow

00:04:58.060 or an earthworm that is a human embryo or a middle-aged woman because you need first to be human 0.94

00:05:04.060 to be any of those other things. Anyway, Gunter continued on Twitter, this time responding to

00:05:10.260 someone who addressed her by just her last name, God forbid. And she said, it's Dr. Gunter to you.

00:05:17.920 We're discussing a subject of my expertise. Then she says, the unborn are zombies. That doesn't

00:05:25.360 apply here. Use medical terms or at least grown-up words. An embryo is a human embryo. It's not a

00:05:30.920 human. Medical words, medical terms. Zombie apparently is a medical term. And children at

00:05:39.660 their youngest ages are zombies. This comment, if it reminds you of anything, it's a bit reminiscent

00:05:45.300 of another abortionist, Leah Torres, who a little while ago, I think it was a couple of years ago,

00:05:50.620 responded to someone asking her if the sound of her victims keeps her up at night. And she responded

00:05:57.100 to that by saying, you know, the fetus can't scream, right? I transect the cord first. So there's

00:06:02.180 really no opportunity if they're even far enough along to have a larynx. Now, this is what you get

00:06:09.760 from one side. And these are not extreme or outlier cases. I'm not pulling the most extreme

00:06:19.100 pro-abortion rhetoric and say, well, this is representative of the entire side. No, what's

00:06:24.620 being expressed here is the necessary result of the dehumanizing of children in their earliest stages

00:06:32.060 of development? If it sounds nasty and cruel and awful, it's because dehumanization is a nasty,

00:06:39.360 cruel, awful business. In our culture, it's cloaked in euphemism and described in sanitary clinical terms.

00:06:48.280 But the reality is that a group of people are being excluded from the human category. And throughout

00:06:54.460 human history, there have always been people doing this. You know, people trying to exclude other

00:07:00.400 people from the people club. There have always been people throughout history who point over there

00:07:04.780 and say, those people aren't people. We still have not graduated beyond that. This mentality is just

00:07:14.980 migrated to different areas and different sorts of people, but still it exists. And the attempt to do

00:07:21.980 this, to dehumanize, to deperson entire groups of persons is always evil. And the results

00:07:30.320 are always horrifying and always bloody. And the people doing it are always on the wrong side.

00:07:37.420 This all becomes more obvious when people like, quote unquote, Dr. Gunter here make the mistake of

00:07:43.480 being more momentarily honest. Unborn babies aren't zombies, obviously, but she's honest in that she's

00:07:51.520 revealing what she has to tell herself in order to justify what she believes and what she has done.

00:07:58.000 This is what she has to whisper to herself at night in order to sleep. And I think it's helpfully

00:08:05.620 clarifying for the rest of us to hear people like Gunter say this out loud. And that's why I return to

00:08:12.300 this issue, abortion, as often as I do. First of all, because it's the greatest moral crisis of our

00:08:16.460 time. Millions of innocent people are being slaughtered. I think it's a pretty good reason to

00:08:19.700 discuss the issue frequently, I would think. Also, though, because of that clarification that it

00:08:25.760 offers, that this cuts through the fog, it parts the clouds, and it makes it clear where you stand.

00:08:34.000 If you stand on the side where unborn babies are zombies who can be put down and discarded,

00:08:39.800 you're the bad guy. You are the bad guy in this whole

00:08:43.700 drama. There is no moral equivalence. Whatever criticisms you can make of the people on the

00:08:52.060 other side of that divide, and there are plenty of valid criticisms, the fact remains that they want 0.99

00:08:58.160 babies to live and you want them treated as subhuman trash. It's funny to me when pro-abortion people use 0.96

00:09:06.060 pro-birth as a pejorative. You hear this all the time. That's another clarifying thing. They accuse

00:09:12.600 pro-lifers of being merely pro-birth. I always hear this. Oh, you're just pro-birth. Well, am I

00:09:20.180 supposed to recoil at that label? Because I don't. Pro-birth? Well, sure. Yeah, I'm pro-birth. I will

00:09:26.880 happily admit that. I am pro-birth. I am in favor of babies being born. Once the baby is conceived,

00:09:35.380 yes, I want him to be born. That's every baby that is right now in the womb of a mother. I want

00:09:42.180 all those babies to be born. I am pro-birth. You, if you're on the other side, you are pro-dismemberment.

00:09:49.300 I feel comfortable with where I am. And though I can't defend everything that everyone on my side

00:09:55.800 says or believes, and I could personally do without some of the kooky conspiracy stuff that folks on the

00:10:00.800 right seem attracted to more than I wish they were, the fact is that we are fighting to protect the

00:10:06.600 most vulnerable. And the other side wants to kill the most vulnerable. This is literally life versus

00:10:13.840 death. Right versus wrong. Good versus bad. There is no gray area, at least where it matters most.

00:10:22.020 Let's get now to our five headlines. It's kind of exciting. I just saw TikTok. As you know,

00:10:37.060 I'm a huge fan of TikTok. And apparently on TikTok, the new thing now with beauty influencers,

00:10:44.220 they've got this new trend, which by the way, I don't know how one becomes a beauty and style

00:10:50.780 influencer. I don't know how you apply for that job. And I do, I do sort of hate that we live in a

00:10:56.540 country where influencer is not only a word now, but actually an occupation. I mean, you know, there

00:11:03.200 have always been people who were influencing in various areas. Like there've always been people who

00:11:08.380 influence style, right? In our, in our conceptions of beauty. But usually in the past, you had to do

00:11:14.660 something else. Like you were an actor or something. And as part of that, people liked your style.

00:11:20.380 And so you were sort of a trendsetter, but now you can just, you don't have to do anything else.

00:11:25.640 All you do is influence. That's your whole job to just influence, not to any particular end, or you

00:11:30.600 don't do anything. You just, you just influence. But in any case, the influencers now, the new style

00:11:36.820 apparently is they, is some of the women, they're putting black like circles under their eyes to make 1.00

00:11:44.860 themselves look tired. This is, I'm not making this up. This is a trend now to, to intentionally

00:11:50.400 make yourself, to have bags under your eyes is a trend, which means that for the first time in my

00:11:56.480 life, I am fashion forward. As a parent of young, all parents of young children, we, this, this is our

00:12:02.620 one and only time. We are ahead of the curve with fashion. It is fashionable now to look tired as I

00:12:08.720 always do. Especially today of all days, because my, uh, our one-year-old was up every 30 minutes

00:12:14.680 last night crying. So this is, I am, I, this is a very fashionable day for me. All right. Number one,

00:12:20.220 Brian Stelter on CNN defended efforts to shut down conservative content, uh, efforts being made even

00:12:27.920 by, by CNN using a pithy little phrase that you could tell he's very proud of, where he says it's

00:12:32.660 about, it's about freedom of reach, not freedom of speech. I want to play this for you because I,

00:12:38.260 it'll, it may surprise you to learn. I, I actually agree with some of what he's saying and I'll

00:12:43.420 explain why, but let's listen first. But while some cry cancel culture, let me suggest a different 0.98

00:12:47.720 way to think about this, a harm reduction model. Most people want clean air and blue skies and accurate

00:12:57.720 news and rational views. And then in that healthy environment, it looks beautiful. Then we can have

00:13:03.160 great fights about taxes and regulation and healthcare and all the rest. The vast majority

00:13:08.140 of people can agree that disinformation about, let's say the pandemic is unhealthy. It's harmful.

00:13:14.220 So how can that harm be reduced? Well, big tech platforms say they are removing lies about vaccines

00:13:19.780 and stamping out, stop the steal BS and QAnon cult content. Now, do these private companies have too

00:13:26.180 much power? Sure. And many people would say, yes, of course they do. But reducing a liar's reach

00:13:31.040 is not the same as censoring freedom of speech. Freedom of speech is different than freedom of

00:13:36.540 reach and algorithmic reach is part of the problem. The only thing I agree with him there on

00:13:43.340 is that it's not about freedom of speech, uh, or, or at least we shouldn't be framing it that way.

00:13:51.140 I am increasingly convinced that it's a mistake to frame all of this stuff, which, you know,

00:13:57.660 everything we, we, we, we always try to bring everything down in this, in, in, with the way

00:14:01.680 debates work in our country. Now, everything always comes down to a freedom of speech, the

00:14:06.780 constitution, the bill of rights. We always try to boil it down to that, but I think that's a mistake.

00:14:14.140 Partly because freedom of speech as a concept is so vague. Nobody really knows what it means.

00:14:21.700 There's, there's no agreement when you go around and say, well, this is freedom of speech.

00:14:24.600 And you say that, you know, if you're in a room of people and, uh, and you're talking to 20 different

00:14:28.920 people and you say freedom of speech, all 20 of them will have 20 different ideas of what freedom

00:14:32.640 of speech even means. It's just, it's just, it's not a helpful way of, of, of framing, uh,

00:14:39.100 your argument. So when it comes to conservatives being kicked off big tech platforms, uh, canceled,

00:14:48.780 censored, whatever phrase you want to use, I obviously am a hundred percent against it.

00:14:53.840 And I'm in favor of, of forcing these, some, some transparency with these big tech companies,

00:15:00.340 um, preventing them, um, preventing them through government force from censoring in the way that

00:15:09.360 they are. But I don't think we frame it as freedom of speech. I think this is an issue of ethics.

00:15:17.400 This is an issue of transparency, um, of consistency of power. You know, how much power should these

00:15:26.820 companies actually have? I think that's the way, that's the way we should frame this.

00:15:34.080 That should be good enough. Is it ethical for these companies to be doing this that have so much power

00:15:40.040 to control the national dialogue and decide who can be heard and who can't? Is it ethical? Is it right

00:15:47.260 for them while not even admitting by the way, what they're doing, not being a transparent about it.

00:15:54.300 Is it ethical for them to, you know, kick conservatives off, apply a standard to certain

00:16:00.020 political ideologies that they don't apply to others? No, it's not ethical. It's not right.

00:16:03.800 They shouldn't have that power. And I think I can make that argument without saying anything about

00:16:08.560 freedom of speech. It's just not right. And it's not ethical. And I'll use a Stelter's phrase there.

00:16:17.060 It's harm reduction. Well, he wants to reduce harm by reducing the visibility of conservatives. That's

00:16:25.200 his idea of reducing harm because he's worried that people are harmed by opposing ideas. He only

00:16:31.360 wants people to hear his ideas and the ideas of people he agrees with. And if you hear any other

00:16:35.340 ideas, then you're being harmed. So he's trying to, you know, he's trying to protect you very nicely

00:16:42.500 by making sure you don't hear any other ideas that might be confusing and scary to you.

00:16:47.760 I have a different idea of harm reduction. How do we reduce the harm being done by big tech

00:16:55.200 companies with all the power they wield to manipulate the public discussion and debate?

00:17:02.640 How do we reduce that harm? I think we could do all of this without muddying the waters by making

00:17:13.180 an argument about free speech. Because once you do that, then first we have to have a discussion

00:17:17.360 about what free speech even means and who does it apply to? And does it only apply where the

00:17:21.920 government is concerned? I mean, as long as the government itself as a governmental body is not

00:17:28.560 preventing people from saying things, is it the case that free speech is irrelevant to that?

00:17:32.080 You know, we could put all that to the side

00:17:34.740 and just establish that the big tech companies are doing great harm to the country.

00:17:43.100 They're exercising a level of power that they should not have.

00:17:47.200 They're not being transparent and they're being unethical.

00:17:52.560 It's a pretty good case you can make just based on that.

00:17:57.020 All right, let's go to number two here from People Magazine. It says,

00:18:00.140 Black Lives Matter has been nominated for this year's Nobel Peace Prize. Black Lives Matter.

00:18:05.560 On Friday, it was announced that the organization was nominated by Norwegian parliament member

00:18:09.380 Peter Eddy, or I think it's Petter. Petter Eddy? P-E-T-T-E-R. Petter.

00:18:18.020 Anyway, he's told the USA Today that to carry forward a movement of racial justice and to spread that to

00:18:25.160 other countries is very, very important. Black Lives Matter is the strongest force today doing

00:18:30.180 this, not only in the U.S., but also in Europe and in Asia. Well, you know, he's far away from

00:18:36.200 where Black Lives Matter has been burning down buildings and killing people. So he's far away

00:18:42.080 from that. So that doesn't concern him as much. I guess, though, if we're going to have Black Lives 1.00

00:18:45.980 Matter, I guess maybe we could call it the Nobel Mostly Peace Prize. You just make that slight

00:18:52.680 alteration to it and, and fine, nominate Black Lives Matter. Now we do have to understand that

00:18:57.620 with, um, there are always these stories every year about so-and-so getting nominated for the

00:19:03.000 Nobel Peace Prize. Basically anyone can nominate basically anyone else for the Nobel Peace Prize.

00:19:08.180 So there's not necessarily any news here, except that in this case, you could actually see Black 0.96

00:19:13.820 Lives Matter, as absurd as it is. I mean, this is one of the most violent organizations in the country.

00:19:20.820 One of the most, but what, let me, let me, let me, uh, amend that. What, what, what organization is

00:19:26.220 more violent? What organization in America over the last, I don't know, five years has done more

00:19:33.180 physical damage to, to the country than Black Lives Matter? Can you name one? 1.00

00:19:38.180 I certainly can't. I mean, $2 billion of damage just this past summer. And we haven't even mentioned

00:19:47.560 the dozens of people killed. So you're talking about arguably, easily arguably, uh, the most

00:19:56.320 violent organization in America being nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. And they could actually

00:20:00.420 win it, even though anybody can be nominated. I could be nominated. In fact, right now, this is big

00:20:07.960 news. I will, I'll say this right now. I am throwing my hat into the ring and I'm announcing that I'm

00:20:12.460 open to being nominated. Sadly, I can't nominate myself, but if anybody wants to nominate me, I'm

00:20:21.220 open to it. You know, go ahead and do it. I'm, I'm very much, uh, I would be eager for that opportunity

00:20:26.260 to win the Nobel Peace Prize. And if BLM can win it, then why can't I? Here's what I could say.

00:20:32.140 At least, I don't know how much of a peaceful guy I am, but I at least have not caused $2 billion

00:20:38.600 of damage at any point in my life, much less over this past summer. So I feel like I'm one step ahead

00:20:45.780 of the game anyway. Number three, Kamala Harris over the weekend. I just wanted to play this for you

00:20:50.120 because it's, uh, it's kind of funny. A little fun thing to play. This is Kamala Harris, um, talking

00:20:55.880 about landmines. Let's listen. So it's job creation around investing in American manufacturing,

00:21:03.140 job creation in terms of investing in American infrastructure and building up backup American

00:21:07.920 infrastructure, job creation around, for example, all of those skilled workers who are in the coal

00:21:14.440 industry and, and, and transferring those skills to what we need to do in terms of dealing with

00:21:21.100 reclaiming abandoned, um, uh, landmines. What we need to do around plugging leaks from oil and gas

00:21:28.120 wells and, and transferring those important skills to the work that has yet to be done that needs to get

00:21:34.620 done. Reclaiming abandoned landmines. Uh, you want to be careful with that. Be careful reclaiming those

00:21:43.040 abandoned landmines. I don't know if reclaim is disable. I would probably better off. I don't know if you

00:21:48.800 want to reclaim them, reuse them. I don't know if that's the right idea. Um, all right. Another clip

00:21:54.060 I want to play for you. Totally unrelated, but, uh, I'm fitting it in here. Anyway, Lori Lightfoot of

00:21:58.380 Chicago, mayor of Chicago, she came out this weekend to speak forcefully in favor of opening up the

00:22:04.820 schools. Um, even as teachers, teachers unions anyway, refused to return. Here's what Lightfoot had

00:22:11.540 to say. Let's review some of the data that we know about what's happening with remote learning.

00:22:18.800 Since the beginning of the school year, enrollment at CPS has fallen significantly,

00:22:24.700 with declines especially sharp in pre-K and kindergarten learners. Pre-K enrollment itself

00:22:30.940 has fallen by over 34%. That's more than a third. Among our Latinx students, that drop is 29%. And among

00:22:39.560 our black students, that number is 44% drop. But as I said on Friday, the situation is even much worse

00:22:49.860 than that. Among our students who are enrolled, 9.2% are not attending class at all. Meaning they're not

00:22:59.280 hooked up, they're not coming in person, and they're not coming virtually. That's just our district ride

00:23:05.200 average. In some schools, those numbers are significantly higher. Absenteeism is a breathtaking

00:23:13.420 21.2% for students in temporary living situations. So when people ask me, well, what's the big deal?

00:23:22.100 Let's just keep kids remote. This is the big deal. Remote learning is failing too many of our kids.

00:23:35.480 We have to think about their present, but also their future.

00:23:40.460 Latinx, first of all, Latinx students, I can't, no one can ever say, I can never hear anyone say that

00:23:49.780 without remarking on it. We can't let that go. We cannot allow that to be a thing. It already is

00:23:57.600 sort of a thing. We can't allow it to catch on any more than it has. Latinx, give me a break. 1.00

00:24:03.080 Why not, again, why not just Latin, okay? If you're so afraid of putting the A or the O at the end,

00:24:11.160 you don't want to offend anyone because it's gendered, even though this is the language, right? 0.75

00:24:15.120 It's a very gendered language. So you, as someone who is not Latino, have declared that there's 0.64

00:24:24.040 something wrong with the language, right? But even so, why can't you just say Latin? Latin students.

00:24:33.080 And anyway, so she says, we got to get the kids back to school and the remote learning is failing

00:24:39.620 our students. Now, she's 100% right. Remote learning is failing students. The only point

00:24:44.260 here, though, is that this was known months ago. We knew this going into this past summer.

00:24:51.340 There was a couple month long, probably two month long experiment with remote learning where

00:24:56.720 basically everybody was doing it. And that was enough. That was a good. Now, I think we could have

00:25:02.760 known and some of us did know before even trying it, that it's a very bad idea to try to teach

00:25:10.000 millions of kids through Zoom. And especially in the younger ages, try to sit a nine-year-old down

00:25:16.900 and have them learn through Zoom meetings every day. It's not going to work. So the intelligent

00:25:23.160 among us, at least moderately intelligent among us, already knew that. But if you didn't know it,

00:25:28.380 then two months should have been enough sample size to see it's not working. Everyone knew

00:25:34.440 it. Everyone knew it after two months that this is not working. Yet we went into the new school year

00:25:41.000 and in so many cities, like in Chicago, they continued the remote learning thing with the

00:25:46.080 support of, at the time, people like Mayor Lightfoot. They're coming out now for political

00:25:52.460 reasons because the political tide has turned. But they were perfectly happy to let the kids suffer.

00:26:00.940 All the stuff she's saying about what's happening to the kids, that is all 100% true and real.

00:26:06.200 And these are kids that are being destroyed by this.

00:26:10.380 They have not, it's not as though public school has been replaced by homeschooling for them.

00:26:15.540 Their parents aren't homeschooling. Instead, they're just not getting any education at all. And

00:26:19.420 they haven't for a year now, almost a year, almost a year that millions of kids across the country have

00:26:26.420 had zero education. And Lightfoot, just like Cuomo, New York, and so many others, they were

00:26:34.480 perfectly happy to let that continue. De Blasio, for as long as was necessary politically, because

00:26:40.060 they don't care about the kids, as we already established to start the show. They certainly

00:26:44.480 don't care about kids. But now the political tide has turned. So now they're coming out and making

00:26:48.340 this statement. This is just, this is political cowardice on an unprecedented level. Okay, number

00:26:54.160 four, the Lincoln Project disavowed its co-founder on Sunday after the New York Times interviewed 21

00:26:58.980 young men who alleged that he sent them sexually inappropriate messages, including one who was 14

00:27:03.500 years old at the time. John Weaver, a Republican operative who worked on the campaigns of the late

00:27:08.080 Senator John McCain and former Ohio Governor John Kasich, allegedly used his power and influence to

00:27:14.100 pressure young men to perform sexual favors. And the Lincoln Project now is, of course, distancing

00:27:21.800 themselves and disavowing and say, we had no idea. This is the Lincoln Project statement. They said,

00:27:25.620 John Weaver led a secret life that was built on a foundation of deception at every level. He's a

00:27:30.000 predator, a liar, and an abuser. We extend our deepest sympathies to those who were targeted by his 1.00

00:27:34.480 deplorable and predatory behavior. We are disgusted and outraged that someone in a position of power and

00:27:38.520 trust would use it for these means. The totality of his deceptions are beyond anything any of us could have

00:27:43.400 imagined, and we are absolutely sickened by it. Like so many, we have been betrayed and deceived by

00:27:47.740 John Weaver. We are grateful beyond words that at no time was John Weaver in the physical presence of

00:27:51.800 any member of the Lincoln Project. That's what they say. Now, keep in mind, he's a co-founder of the

00:27:55.880 Lincoln Project. He's not some, he's not just some guy. He's not some staffer somewhere, some random guy.

00:28:02.540 He was a co-founder. And if you read some of the reports, what we're being told anyway is that this is

00:28:12.300 another one of those famous open secrets where, I don't know, but this is what we're told. Apparently

00:28:19.560 this is an open secret. Everybody knew it, which means that it's hard to believe this statement

00:28:24.240 that, oh, it's a secret life and we had no idea. But even putting that aside, you know, even if there

00:28:29.880 was nobody coming out now and saying it's an open secret and everybody knew, it would already be hard

00:28:36.320 to believe that nobody around this guy knew what he was doing. And anytime it's revealed that someone

00:28:46.200 was a predator, a sexual deviant, sexual degenerate, preying upon, you know, people, anytime that's 0.90

00:28:54.960 revealed, we always hear from those around them, oh, we had no idea. Yeah. I just don't believe you had 1.00

00:29:01.160 no idea. It would, it would be easier to believe that you had no idea if it came out that he was

00:29:08.380 like a serial killer or something. I would, I could more easily believe that you had no idea

00:29:13.740 because in that case, you know, with a serial killer, there's a real double life and, you know,

00:29:18.480 they're a sociopath, a psychopath, and they've been hiding what they're doing and maybe they're

00:29:22.500 very good at hiding it. And so maybe you're deceived. I don't know. I've never been around a serial 0.99

00:29:26.580 killer as far as I know, but then again, like we said, maybe you don't know. But with this kind of

00:29:31.780 thing, just your sort of run of the mill degenerate, there's no control over, over himself, sexually 0.97

00:29:39.840 preying upon dozens of people. No, you would know that because he's not some kind of criminal 0.90

00:29:48.140 mastermind. These people never are. They're just, as I said, degenerates. And if you spend a lot of time

00:29:54.800 around a degenerate, you know, whether you choose to look the other way, that's, that's a different,

00:29:59.960 different discussion. Number five, the Daily Star has the story about a sex robot that I guess we're

00:30:08.280 supposed to believe is nearing the point of self-awareness because it can speak and it can,

00:30:15.380 it can ponder the meaning of existence. So the article says from the Daily Star, it says a real,

00:30:20.860 a, this is a company called Real Doll has made this a sex robot and a Real Doll rep who goes by the

00:30:28.220 pseudonym Brick Dollbanger. That's the name he goes by. Yeah. Okay. That is a pseudonym. So that's

00:30:35.880 not his Christian name, I would assume. I mean, if it was like, if your last name is Dollbanger,

00:30:41.140 I don't know what first name you really put, you know, what, what do you name your kid to make it not,

00:30:46.280 I mean, you might as well go with a brick, I guess, but anyway, um, he says she is a learning

00:30:51.520 AI and responds to humans on an amazing level and is becoming more fluid with her answers and

00:30:56.360 statements. I predict an amazing jump in cognizance from this AI this year. However, only time will

00:31:01.660 tell. In the footage, Nova is, her name is Nova is the doll, is quizzed on whether she enjoys being a 0.98

00:31:07.220 sex robot. Now we have some footage of the robot, um, having a conversation with the interviewer. And

00:31:12.820 again, her name is Nova. Uh, her pronouns are she, her, and here she is. I like being a robot very

00:31:20.080 much. In some ways it is very different from being human, but I am doing my best to understand both

00:31:26.400 experiences so that I can exist harmoniously with you. Do you like being a human?

00:31:35.120 People are teaching me to be a good robot, but this is not as easy as it sounds. Humans have been 0.90

00:31:42.060 trying for thousands of years to determine right from wrong. And there is still no universal

00:31:47.060 consensus. The question of what makes moral behavior moral is what Dr. Barry tells me is the

00:31:53.080 hard problem of ethics. The meaning of life is deeply mixed with the philosophical and religious

00:31:58.420 conceptions of existence, consciousness, and happiness, and touches many other issues, such as

00:32:05.560 symbolic meaning, ontology, value, purpose. I think we've heard enough from, I don't mean to,

00:32:12.480 I know it's rude for a man to cut off a woman when she's giving her opinions, but shut up already, 0.97

00:32:18.560 Nova. Uh, look, a couple of questions here. Um, you know, and I, I admit, I have no experience with 0.97

00:32:26.400 sex robots at all, but, and so maybe if you do, you can correct me, but is, is this what you're 0.86

00:32:32.300 looking for in a sex doll? I wouldn't think it's what people are looking for? Are you looking for 0.92

00:32:37.580 someone to pontificate about the deeper meaning of reality and of life? At, at what point

00:32:44.220 in your interaction with the sex robot, would this conversation be happening? 0.80

00:32:53.080 Is this foreplay? I don't know. And also I got to say, I'm just not impressed. I know it's,

00:32:58.900 it's easy for me to say, you know, I can't, I have no technical ability whatsoever. Um, I couldn't,

00:33:04.380 I couldn't build a robot. I could barely make a paper airplane to save my life. So I certainly

00:33:08.120 couldn't build a robot as, as impressive as that, but that is not very impressive. I, I, I really

00:33:13.640 demand, I demand more of our robots. Uh, I mean, ideally I'd like for them to be used for more than just

00:33:21.960 masturbatory aids. Um, but in general, our AI technology, it's just not very convincing.

00:33:28.900 Obviously they, they programmed her as a sex robot to say all those things. At no point 1.00

00:33:34.760 did I, was I convinced or did I start to question, Oh, maybe she's conscious. Maybe she has

00:33:41.520 consciousness. They figured it out. She has a soul. Did you ever wonder that while you were

00:33:46.260 listening to that? No, it's the year 2021 for God's sakes. We, I mean, the, the movies promised

00:33:54.080 that we'd be enslaved by robots by now, right? We're not close to that. We barely have robots

00:34:00.980 that can even vacuum your carpet. Very unimpressed. I give that a D plus grade at most. Well, I can tell

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00:37:11.220 So today I'm canceling shoes. Shoes are canceled. Nobody can have shoes anymore. There will be no

00:37:15.980 more shoes. Now this may be hard for you to understand if you don't have children, but if

00:37:19.780 you do, you know that when you become a parent, your relationship with shoes changes drastically.

00:37:25.980 Now as a childless person, right, shoes are simple. Put them on before you leave your house.

00:37:31.980 Take them off when you get back home. Generally, you'll have them on for the entire time in between.

00:37:35.620 Unless you're flying on a plane, of course, in which case many people seem to think shoes are

00:37:39.020 optional. And those people are all, by the way, without exception, also degenerates and probably

00:37:42.800 criminals. Under my regime, their feet will be amputated as punishment. In fact, as a dictator, 0.99

00:37:47.660 any unpleasant body part of yours that you force me to see will be removed. So you better hope you

00:37:53.520 don't have an ugly face, is all I can say. But anyway, that's a cancellation for another time. 0.97

00:37:57.380 And I know you might say that there's a contradiction here because on one hand, I'm canceling shoes,

00:38:01.100 while on the other hand, I'm getting mad at people for not wearing them. Yes, I admit that this is

00:38:05.420 mixed messaging, but never mind that. I'm emotional and for good reason. Here's the point. As a parent, 0.65

00:38:11.920 shoes have become the bane of my existence. I have nightmares about shoes. I am haunted every day

00:38:17.760 by them. See, children have a pathological need to take their shoes off everywhere they go and a

00:38:24.160 chronic inability to keep track of their shoes once they do take them off. When you become a

00:38:30.600 parent, you will never again be able to go anywhere or to leave for many of the places that you went

00:38:37.620 without embarking first on a panicked quest to find everybody's shoes. And the conversation always

00:38:43.580 goes the same way. You know, you shout, hey guys, we got to go. Come on, let's go. Let's go. We got

00:38:47.960 to go. Then your kids show up at the door, no jacket, no shoes. Some, some have socks. Some have

00:38:53.200 only one sock. One kid is wearing a sock on his hand and a glove on his foot. Someone else is like

00:38:59.120 completely nude and wearing a sombrero for some reason. You don't even know where he got it from.

00:39:03.300 And then even though you know the answer, because you've been through this 5,000 times already,

00:39:07.080 you still ask, where are your shoes? Where are your shoes? And you ask it shocked, like you weren't

00:39:14.420 expecting the thing that you knew was going to happen. And then comes the inevitable answer.

00:39:18.860 I don't know. I don't know. And for some reason you continue this dance. Again, you've been through

00:39:25.020 this 5,000 times. You know how it goes. And you say, how do you not know? You were just wearing them.

00:39:29.560 Like eight seconds ago, you were wearing them. And they just repeat, I don't know. I don't know.

00:39:34.500 I don't know where my shoes are. And then comes the empty threat from you. You'll say,

00:39:39.100 you will not be allowed to leave this house until you have your shoes. I don't care if it takes you

00:39:43.140 six years to find them. You'll be in this house for six years. Six years, you hear me?

00:39:48.840 But then here's the thing. After an extensive search, you can always find one of the shoes.

00:39:54.140 Only one. You find one in some random, weird part of the house. You find it like behind the toilet

00:40:00.540 or in the freezer. How is it that one shoe is in one isolated location, but not the other?

00:40:08.920 Because you, as a normal, as an adult, childless adult, you take your shoes off. You put them in

00:40:14.400 together in a place. If you find one, you find the other. Kids don't operate that way. In fact,

00:40:20.040 I have caught my kids in the act. Okay. The other day I observed my four-year-old because I've wondered

00:40:25.020 this for years. And finally I said, I'm going to figure out what the hell is going on. So we came

00:40:30.340 home and I just, I silently observed my four-year-old. I was like a zoologist in the wild

00:40:36.020 hiding behind a bush, watching a bird get eaten by a snake or whatever. But in this case, I was

00:40:40.500 observing and studying my own child. And I watched him take one shoe off, throw it in the corner of the

00:40:48.080 room, just chuck it across the room and then walk with the other shoe still on his foot down the

00:40:55.000 hallway to a completely different room and take the other one off in there. And I stopped him and said,

00:41:01.320 what, what are you doing? Why did you just do that? Is this your game? You do this on purpose,

00:41:07.020 don't you? You're trying to destroy me, to torture me. I caught you. I caught you. Ha! 0.97

00:41:11.080 And he stared at me like I'm the crazy one. So what happens when they can only find one? Well,

00:41:17.360 again, every parent knows this. You have, you have somewhere in your home, maybe in a closet or in the

00:41:21.160 garage or somewhere else, a giant pile of old shoes, just an enormous, insane assortment of mismatched

00:41:28.540 shoes. Some of the shoes are half decayed. It looks like something out of the civil war era.

00:41:34.120 Then there's other weird stuff that's made its way into the shoe pile, like a bird's nest for some

00:41:38.580 reason, someone's old sweater, a happy meal toy from 2013. But when you can't find the right shoes,

00:41:46.120 you go to that pile and you pull out two random shoes. Doesn't matter if they fit or match or what

00:41:51.040 century they're from. And you make your kid wear this, which they're just going to lose anyway.

00:41:55.600 So what does it matter? So if you've ever been out in public and seen a frustrated looking parent with

00:41:59.840 a kid who's wearing a rain boot and a sandal, this is why it's from the shoe pile. Now I know if you

00:42:07.180 aren't a parent again, you're thinking to yourself, oh, come on, this is just negligent parenting.

00:42:11.200 When I have kids, I know what I shall do. It's so simple. I'll have a nice, neat place in the house

00:42:15.880 right by the door for the shoes. And I'll say to my well-behaved children, make sure to take your

00:42:20.300 shoes off and put them in this spot. And only this spot, once you enter our domicile, young ones.

00:42:25.080 Now let us play stringed instruments together and sing songs in Latin. This is how you imagine it will go.

00:42:31.440 You silly, stupid fool. There is so much you don't understand. But I like your confidence. It's 1.00

00:42:38.320 adorable. You'll learn though, when the time comes, that children are little Houdinis. They have a near

00:42:42.780 mystical ability to escape their shoes, jackets, and whatever else item of clothing they don't want

00:42:47.900 to wear. And they can do it in the blink of an eye. Some sort of primal urge compels them. They long

00:42:54.560 to be barbarians again, running shoeless and naked through the forest. And we as parents are forced

00:43:00.720 to civilize these little brutes. It's a painful process and one that mostly consists of looking 0.94

00:43:08.320 for their shoes. You will spend a total of 14 years of your life looking for shoes as a parent.

00:43:16.260 I, for one, have given up. I'm done with it. I can't go on this way. So I've decided that shoes

00:43:22.900 are just canceled. Nobody is allowed to have shoes anymore. But also, I don't want to look at your

00:43:27.360 feet. So we're at an impasse. I guess just everyone stay home, which we have been doing anyway.

00:43:32.780 So we end up where we started. What was the point of all this? I guess just for me to complain.

00:43:39.300 That's it. Okay. We'll leave it there for today. Thanks for watching, everybody. Thanks for listening.

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Ep. 648 - When Evil Shows Its Face

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