The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 654 - Selfish, Paranoid Cowards

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Wall Show, a mother writes an article for The New York Times confessing that

00:00:03.920 she has intentionally traumatized her young children over COVID, and she doesn't appear

00:00:08.440 to be sorry about it. Also, five headlines, including the start of Trump's impeachment trial,

00:00:12.500 a school system in Maryland hopes to make its students safer by defunding these school resource

00:00:17.400 officers, and the mayor of Tampa pledges to hunt down anyone who celebrated the Super Bowl without

00:00:21.580 a mask. She's going to find them and make them pay. And I'll cancel another TikToker, always fun, 1.00

00:00:26.480 plus I'll read my YouTube comments and much more today on The Matt Wall Show.

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00:02:28.020 A recent article in the New York Times encapsulates in the very first sentence one of the great

00:02:31.980 problems with how our society has chosen to deal with the coronavirus. It's a problem I've

00:02:36.760 talked about a lot on this show, except written by someone who does not seem to see it as a

00:02:41.900 problem. The author, Courtney Zoffnis, writes in the first sentence,

00:02:47.180 quote, I have spent the past 11 months filling my children with fear. With fear. What follows is a

00:02:54.600 long, paranoid diary entry presented for public consumption for whatever reason, all revolving

00:02:59.880 around Courtney Zoffnis' attempts to grapple with her six-year-old son's recent positive coronavirus

00:03:05.960 test result. Now, we should note at the outset that her son is not seriously ill, okay? Very few

00:03:11.080 children his age, thankfully, thank God, have been made seriously ill by the virus. She says that he

00:03:16.540 is asymptomatic, in fact. But this does not calm her fears. Fears for her own safety, not his.

00:03:24.660 She explains that she has hammered the dangers of the coronavirus into both of her children's heads.

00:03:29.300 Her two sons, ages six and nine, know, quote, what the coronavirus is and how it infects and how many

00:03:35.400 people have died and continue to die daily in the United States. So her six- and nine-year-old kids

00:03:40.880 know, they know the number of people dying every day of the virus. She's satisfied that, quote,

00:03:47.880 he gets it, which is why, she proudly reports, he, quote, washes his hands so often that his knuckles

00:03:53.960 have turned red and raw. Yet, he still got sick. Well, not really sick, but COVID positive anyway.

00:04:01.760 Her description of receiving the bad news reads like something, I mean, it really reads like

00:04:06.180 something that a parent of a child with cancer might have written. This is what she says.

00:04:09.920 He doesn't believe me at first. I hardly believe me. It's January 21st, barely 7 a.m. Maybe it's all a

00:04:16.800 dream. My son looks from me to his father, then back again. He had the most reliable tests.

00:04:22.360 His brother, his older brother, cups his hands over his mouth in disbelief.

00:04:27.100 How, my son says, voice wobbly. I don't want to have COVID, he cries. Will I die, he says? Will you?

00:04:36.240 Now, she doesn't tell us how she answered that question, but the correct answer is no, son,

00:04:42.460 you will not die, and neither will I. Everything's going to be fine. You're going to be fine. Everything's

00:04:47.740 okay. Here, here's some ice cream. That's the correct answer to a six-year-old in this situation.

00:04:55.540 Now, that would be the correct answer to give a child, even if he was seriously sick, but he's not.

00:05:02.500 So, comfort and reassurance should be very easily and quickly provided. It just doesn't sound like

00:05:08.960 this poor kid got either of those things from this woman, though. She continues,

00:05:13.080 I had wanted my children to be afraid of this virus so that they'd be protected,

00:05:17.900 so that our family and the community and the world would be too. But I am also preternaturally

00:05:22.980 anxious, somebody who relies on therapy and medication to breathe evenly. My children have

00:05:28.060 seen me distraught over seven-day averages and incautious loved ones and an immoral president

00:05:32.800 who helped accelerate the spread. The size of my son's sob is proportional to the extra-large

00:05:38.080 apprehension I sewed into him for 11 months. How can this be unraveled?

00:05:42.860 Well, it can be unraveled, Courtney, all the efforts that you've made

00:05:47.400 to protect him. It can be unraveled because we are facing a virus, you know, not a horde of Vikings.

00:05:55.300 So, you can't dig a moat and bolt the doors and expect to keep the virus out. Well, I mean,

00:06:00.180 you can, I guess. And as long as you stay in your fortress, the virus probably won't get you. But

00:06:05.460 11 months is a long time to stay locked away. You're going to have to go out into society,

00:06:09.220 into society, and so will your child. And the virus will be there when you emerge,

00:06:14.160 as you have discovered. This is why cultivating fear in your child will do nothing to protect him.

00:06:21.060 Fear just makes more fear. Fear begets fear. That's all it does. He is still just as likely

00:06:26.940 or unlikely to get sick. All you've ensured is that if and when he does get sick, he'll be scared to

00:06:32.900 death. Now, Zofna says that she isolated her sick child after the positive result. She isolated him

00:06:39.920 in the house, had him wear, apparently had him wear a mask inside the house. And she wore one inside

00:06:45.840 the house. Wouldn't go near him for presumably multiple days. She admits that she is not scared

00:06:52.640 for him, but of him. Her concern, again, is for her own safety, not his. She says, quote,

00:06:59.040 quote, but it occurs to me now that we're not actually so worried about him suffering physically

00:07:03.720 or even, heaven forbid, dying. We're worried about the adults he might infect. We are worried about

00:07:08.600 each other. This is the reason they keep their scared, confused little boy locked away, isolated

00:07:13.980 from the rest of the members of the family. They give him an area of the house to himself,

00:07:18.500 a folding table to attend remote school. He's like a prisoner in his home, though it seems, you know,

00:07:24.440 that's not a major change from how he's been forced to live over the past year. The only difference now

00:07:29.440 is that his mother is treating him like a leper, rather than simply treating the rest of humanity

00:07:33.560 like lepers and teaching him to do the same. The article ends on a note that couldn't possibly 0.58

00:07:39.100 ring more hollow. She says, I can't promise that I exuded calm in the moment my youngest reached out

00:07:44.920 to me as much as I wanted to, tried to, but what I could supply without pretense was comfort.

00:07:53.600 Comfort? If this is comfort, Courtney, I'd hate to see what you'd do if you were trying to traumatize

00:07:59.580 the poor kid. Now, as far as we know, speaking in my own family, as I'm reading this and thinking

00:08:08.140 about our own experiences, as far as we know, in my family, COVID has not hit our house yet,

00:08:12.620 unless it did and we were asymptomatic, as most people are when they get it.

00:08:16.500 But as far as we know, it hasn't. But my wife and I have always understood and accepted that

00:08:20.840 if somebody in the house gets sick, we're all probably going to get sick. It's just probably

00:08:24.960 what's going to happen. Sure, you know, if one of the adults gets it, we'll do our best to isolate

00:08:28.860 because we can do that as adults. That's a sacrifice that we can make. I got the flu back last February,

00:08:34.940 really bad case of it. Well, I thought it was the flu. Maybe it wasn't, as it turns out. But anyway,

00:08:39.760 I spent three or four days basically locked in our room, very sick. I didn't want to get the kids

00:08:47.280 sick. And so that's what I did. I'm an adult. I can do that. That's the sacrifice that I can make.

00:08:51.520 A sacrifice my wife had to make as well. She's caring for the kids all that time. But if a child

00:08:57.420 gets it, and this is what my wife and I have understood, if one of the kids gets it, there's

00:09:02.680 no way in hell we're confining them like death row inmates for a week and a half. And I'm not going

00:09:09.320 to refuse to go near my own child. I'm just not going to do that. I would rather get COVID. I would

00:09:14.560 much rather get COVID than treat my children that way. If my son is scared and traumatized,

00:09:20.900 you think he's going to die and he's, and he's being, and he's isolated. And if I would rather go

00:09:25.920 give him comfort personally and just get COVID myself, that's what I would rather do.

00:09:33.200 Protecting our children's psychological wellbeing, providing them comfort and assurance,

00:09:37.620 being there for them emotionally and physically, that matters. I mean, it matters a lot. It's

00:09:43.420 matters so much that it's worth getting sick to do. It matters more than our own physical safety,

00:09:48.840 especially when the threat to our physical safety as parents of young children, which presumably

00:09:55.580 means, you know, if you're a parent of a, of a young child, you're probably under 50 years old,

00:09:59.300 at least, which means the threat to your physical safety from COVID is probably minimal.

00:10:07.620 Or it's certainly not as high as it is for other groups, I will say. This article is an extreme

00:10:14.220 example perhaps, but it represents a trend, a common thread that we've seen present itself

00:10:19.500 throughout the last year. Adults who are so scared for their own safety, so distraught about their

00:10:23.920 own situation that they willingly pull their own children into their paranoia. I mean, it is appalling

00:10:30.320 and weak and selfish and disgraceful. All notions of dignity, of courage and strength have just been

00:10:36.240 abandoned all at once. Now I've, I've, um, I shouldn't say all at once. We've been abandoning

00:10:42.100 those things in this culture for a long time, but this has accelerated the process. I've mentioned,

00:10:46.180 I think once before on this podcast, a long time, a long time ago, a story recounted by Solzhen Easton

00:10:51.580 in the first volume of his Gulag Archipelago, which is a memoir slash history book about the labor camp

00:10:56.720 system in the Soviet Union, a great book that you should read. In fact, it's three books. It's three,

00:11:01.000 three volumes, but he tells the story, I think in the first volume about a guy named Osorgen who was in a

00:11:06.820 prison camp. And on the day his wife was headed to visit him, he found out that it was his turn to

00:11:14.020 be brought before the firing squad and killed, but he wanted to see his wife one last time. And he

00:11:19.580 didn't want her to come to the prison camp only to discover that he'd already died. So, um, he begged

00:11:25.580 the guards to hold off on the execution just so that he could give his wife this last visit. I mean,

00:11:31.180 it was really something he did for her because he's going to be dead. So this is really something he

00:11:34.880 wants his wife to have that, those last moments with him. They agreed to allow him to do this,

00:11:40.540 but the deal was that he couldn't tell her that he was about to die. Couldn't tell her. Violating

00:11:48.660 this rule, you can imagine in the Soviet Union would have put his wife in danger because as the

00:11:53.120 family of a person in prison in Soviet Union, you weren't allowed to know what's going on with them.

00:11:58.600 And if you found out, then now you're a national security risk too. So he agreed and she visited

00:12:05.700 and he spent three days with her morning, noon, and night. Never once hinted, never indicated that

00:12:10.900 he was in his last moments of life. And when the time came for her to leave, said goodbye, she boarded

00:12:16.220 the boat and he got undressed and went off to be shot. Now think about the extreme self-control,

00:12:23.780 the courage, the dignity, the strength, the love for his wife that was required to keep his own

00:12:29.440 upcoming demise to himself and spend time with her without mentioning it. So I think about that story

00:12:37.540 a lot, especially recently. As so many adults, parents, spouses now, cannot even deal with the

00:12:45.900 extremely unlikely chance that maybe they get sick and maybe become one of the unlucky ones and get

00:12:53.040 seriously sick and maybe even die. It's not a likely occurrence, but they can't deal with that.

00:13:02.020 So many adults with no strength, no courage, no dignity who have let this fear overwhelm them to

00:13:09.220 the point that they offload it even on their own young children. I can't imagine doing that to my kids.

00:13:15.460 My kids went like six months and hadn't even heard the word COVID. They didn't even know what it was.

00:13:20.240 And now they're familiar with the word. They've heard it, but they're not overcome with fear.

00:13:27.240 They're not paranoid about it at all. Because I'm not going to put that on them.

00:13:36.220 I just think if these people were in, say, a Sorgans position, they would have collapsed into tears and

00:13:42.200 spilled the beans 15 seconds after their wife arrived. And then she'd be in front of the firing line too. 0.99

00:13:47.240 So this inability to keep things in perspective, this overriding paranoia fueled by selfishness and

00:13:53.480 cowardice, this failure to protect children, protect them mentally and emotionally,

00:13:58.720 this damage that we're doing to the youngest generation because we're scared and feel helpless.

00:14:04.160 This is all what will define our present moment in history. I wish I could say it'll be defined by our

00:14:12.620 resilience and strength and all of that good American stuff. But the really tough truth is that

00:14:20.140 we're just not that kind of country anymore. Let's get to our five headlines.

00:14:25.920 All right. So there's, you know, this debate about, um, who's the greatest athlete ever in history.

00:14:38.020 Now that's it's people have this debate on online and they're having on ESPN. Who's it's, it's,

00:14:43.380 it's really a silly debate because you're, you know, you're comparing across sports and across generations. 1.00

00:14:49.520 It's, it's really kind of stupid. Was Babe Ruth better than Tom Brady? What? Um, 0.99

00:14:57.200 but I don't know. It's, it's still interesting. And really part of the fun of being a sports fan is to

00:15:02.660 have completely pointless debates like this. If you enjoy having pointless, frivolous debates

00:15:09.280 and you're not a sports fan, you should be. That's one of the reasons that I am. Cause I,

00:15:13.620 that's what I, this is what I love to do. Debate things that don't matter. Uh, it's what I've

00:15:17.360 dedicated my life to in fact. So this has been the debate. And, uh, you know, I, I, I tend to

00:15:23.040 side with the people who say that the best athlete in history or, you know, if we're talking modern

00:15:28.380 history probably would have to be somebody in an individual sport. I mean, Tom Brady, obviously

00:15:32.940 is the best football player of all time. Uh, there's really no debating that, but Michael Phelps,

00:15:38.660 individual sport, all on his own in the water, swimming. He's got 23 gold medals. Second place

00:15:44.320 in history has nine. Okay. He got almost that many in one Olympics. He's got how many total

00:15:51.540 medals does he have? Like 28, 30, something like that. And he's competing against the entire world.

00:15:57.600 And I think, you know, they started counting gold medals like in the 1900 or something going back

00:16:02.720 120 years, 120 years of history, the entire world. And he's got 23 gold medals in second place is nine.

00:16:09.000 I think probably that's the argument for other people are saying somebody like Serena Williams.

00:16:12.880 If you look at the way that she's dominated the field, the only thing about that, the only thing 0.99

00:16:16.880 I'll say about that, I don't mean this in a sexist way, but, um, she can't be the greatest athlete 0.76

00:16:20.960 in history because she's competing against girls. No offense. And remember, if I say no offense,

00:16:25.920 then you're not allowed to be offended by it. But that's also the, I think we know it's like the

00:16:30.040 greatest athlete in history obviously is at least a man that's to begin with. And then you can go from

00:16:35.180 there. I'm sure that'll be an uncontroversial statement. We can all agree. All right. Um,

00:16:39.240 moving on headlines. Number one, Trump's Senate impeachment trial starts today. Um, I'm as

00:16:45.620 uninterested in this impeachment as I was in the last one. And that's pretty much the end of my

00:16:51.600 analysis of it. So instead, I think number one will be this. I want to start with this. Actually,

00:16:55.840 the mayor of Tampa says that she's, she is hunting down and looking for the evildoers who didn't wear a

00:17:04.560 mask while celebrating the Superbowl win. So she's like Liam Neeson and taken and she will find you 0.56

00:17:11.200 and she'll make you pay. But here she is. Let's listen. Everyone knows that simply wearing a mask

00:17:18.260 dramatically reduces the spread of COVID-19. And I'm proud to say that the majority of individuals

00:17:24.840 that I saw, uh, out and about enjoying the festivities associated with the Superbowl were

00:17:31.260 complying. You know, we, we had tens of thousands of people all over the city, downtown out by the

00:17:38.580 stadium, Ybor city, uh, down here in channel side and very, very few incidents. So I'm proud of our

00:17:47.100 community, but, uh, those few bad actors will be identified and the Tampa police department will

00:17:54.280 handle it. There just has to be that level of personal responsibility. You can supply everyone with a

00:17:59.140 mask, advise them of the science behind it and expect that they are going to, to abide by the

00:18:06.820 mask order. Again, you're going to find a few that don't. The majority that I saw were wearing masks.

00:18:13.880 It's going to be really awkward when they arrest Tom Brady, um, because he was not wearing a mask.

00:18:21.120 A lot of people weren't wearing a mask actually, both when they were competing in the game, but also

00:18:25.900 afterwards during the Superbowl, the celebration, the ceremony on the field. So you're going to arrest

00:18:29.900 all them. Something tells me not. Yeah. So they're going to be looking at, at surveillance footage to

00:18:36.680 go and track down the people who weren't wearing a mask. So what we've learned in America is that if

00:18:41.860 you go out with a crowd and burn down a police station, uh, loot, uh, a Walmart, um, you know,

00:18:49.160 assault random pedestrians, set a cop car on fire, throw Molotov cocktails at police officers,

00:18:54.600 throw rocks at, at, uh, through people's windows. If you do that, then they're not going to bother

00:18:59.960 with, you know, to look at the security camera, go find people that takes a lot of work. It's not

00:19:05.200 a big deal anyway. All you did was burn down a police station. Um, but if you go walk down the

00:19:11.380 street without a mask, now you're a danger to the public and we have to go find you. All right.

00:19:15.800 Number two, the Montgomery County Parent Teacher Association in Maryland is pushing a resolution

00:19:20.020 that would defund all student resource officers from public schools. According to a copy, copy of

00:19:25.500 the resolution obtained by the Daily Wire, the Parent Teacher Association is calling on the

00:19:29.780 Montgomery Public County Public School District to discontinue placing police officers on every high

00:19:34.480 school campus. The PTA also calls for the district to reallocate the money spent on student resource

00:19:39.880 officers to mental health services and quote, restorative justice practices. And then they go on to

00:19:46.840 talk about, um, the, uh, of course the student resource officers engage in bias and discrimination

00:19:51.800 against minority students and students with disabilities. In a separate letter to elementary

00:19:56.740 school parents, PTA president, Alison Kozma claimed that student resource officers were also biased against

00:20:03.660 LGBTQ students. I mean, no examples or proof is given, but well, of course, you know, it's something that

00:20:11.100 we think is bad. And so if they're bad, then they must also be biased against LGBT people. We don't need

00:20:16.780 an example of an example of it. They just are. Comes with the territory of being bad. Now, the thing

00:20:23.380 is, if, if they weren't so set on turning everything into a racial and bigotry situation, there are valid

00:20:33.580 concerns you could raise about having police officers in the school. There are valid concerns. Um, one of the

00:20:41.260 concerns is that when a police officer gets involved, it becomes a legal matter. And that's where you find,

00:20:50.440 you know, there have been, we've seen the videos of like eight year old kids, um, elementary, at least

00:20:56.600 elementary school age, at least just being disruptive in school. And then they get carted away. There are at

00:21:01.660 least been a few cases that is getting carted away in, uh, handcuffs and arrested. I mean, and this is what

00:21:06.820 happens when you get the police involved. This is what the police do. And that is a concern. I mean,

00:21:12.680 I'm not a fan of that. I think the schools need security. Every single school, you think about all

00:21:18.480 the public school system, that's a government building. You know, you might not like thinking

00:21:24.020 of it that way. If you send your kid into that, into the school, you might not, you might not like

00:21:27.980 to think of it like you're, you're sending your children into a government building for seven hours a

00:21:31.840 day, but you are. And most other government buildings have, have security. You go to the

00:21:38.820 social security office, there's going to be an armed guard sitting there to what protect papers. 0.97

00:21:46.600 You know, I would think if it's a government building that has documents that are important

00:21:51.620 or people that are important like Capitol Hill, or if it has money or anything like that,

00:21:58.820 then there's going to be armed security. Well, here's a government building with,

00:22:01.900 with our children inside it. And I think our children are more important than all of the

00:22:07.060 previously listed entities. Um, in fact, I, you know, I think it's more important to protect our

00:22:13.640 kids than even politicians. I think we should protect them both, but, but I think as a society,

00:22:18.520 our number one priority period should be protecting kids. That's our number one. And then everybody

00:22:23.440 else comes after me, you, everyone, politician. So yes, we should have, we should have security in

00:22:29.120 these schools. Um, but having police officers involved in the normal kind of rule breaking and,

00:22:35.180 and, and rough housing that you find in schools, I think there's a, there, there is an issue with

00:22:39.180 that. Then again, you could argue, well, yeah, but this is, this is a government building. And, uh,

00:22:44.220 if you don't want the government to handle it like the government does,

00:22:47.300 then maybe you shouldn't send your kid into your school. So there's a discussion to be had there,

00:22:50.440 but we can't really have that discussion because it all has to come down to race and bigotry and

00:22:57.560 discrimination. So the actual point as always is missed by a million miles. Um, let's see.

00:23:08.520 Also from the daily wire, a Wisconsin middle school placed a small group of teachers on leave after

00:23:13.360 they purchased and distributed a lesson plan that asked 11 year olds how they would punish slaves.

00:23:18.940 On the first, uh, first day of black history month, a sixth grader, sixth graders at Patrick

00:23:24.160 Marsh middle school were asked how they would punish a disobedient slave during an online assignment.

00:23:29.080 According to a screenshot of the, of the classwork obtained obtained by Newsweek, students were asked

00:23:33.020 to describe how they would punish a slave that said, you are not my master. Here's how the scenario

00:23:39.140 reads. A slave stands before you. This slave has disrespected his master by telling him you are not my

00:23:45.160 master. How will you punish this slave? The assignment provides a box for students to detail

00:23:50.880 their answers. Now the, the context here, and we know that context, like we learned yesterday,

00:23:57.300 context doesn't matter at all anymore. Um, which means that you just cannot come to fair judgments

00:24:02.520 about anything if context doesn't matter. But if you are one of those crazy bigoted people who 0.97

00:24:08.480 thinks the context still does matter, well, here's the context. Um, they were talking about ancient 0.92

00:24:14.100 Mesopotamian laws and they were describing what the rules were, the unjust rules for slaves.

00:24:23.140 And that's, that was the point. It wasn't like encouraging students to go take slaves and abuse

00:24:28.420 them. It was, it was simply describing what slavery was going back in history, the ways that it was

00:24:35.440 unjust. That you would, you would think that it's, we want our kids to learn that. That's something

00:24:42.560 the kids should learn. But for all the claims that what the, you know, the left says, well,

00:24:49.560 we're, this is not, we're, we're, we're not attacking history. We're not trying to get rid of

00:24:52.960 history. All we're saying is take the monuments down, put them in a museum. This is not an attack

00:24:56.780 on history. No, it is. It is an attack on history. There are entire swaths of not just American

00:25:04.020 history, but world history. They simply don't want kids to learn anymore. All right. Number

00:25:09.340 four, representative, representative Maxine Waters, who famously told her supporters to 0.99

00:25:12.900 find Trump administration officials and form a crowd and confront them is now defending

00:25:19.340 herself saying that she actually has, has not contributed to political violence. Even though

00:25:23.440 she said that she hasn't contributed to political violence and this is how she defends it. Uh, let's

00:25:27.600 listen. Already you have members of your cabinet, uh, that have been booed out of restaurants,

00:25:34.600 who have protesters taking up at their house, who sang no peace, no sleep, no peace, no sleep.

00:25:46.060 And guess what? We're going to win this battle because while you try and quote the Bible, Jeff

00:25:52.260 Sessions and others, you really don't know the Bible. God is on our side. On the side of the

00:26:01.580 children, on the side of what's right, on the side of what's honorable, on the side of understanding

00:26:09.160 that if we can't protect the children, we can't protect anybody. And so let's stay the course.

00:26:16.220 Let's make sure we show up wherever we have to show up. And if you see anybody from that cabinet

00:26:23.700 in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a

00:26:31.620 crowd and you push back on them and you tell them they're not welcome anymore, anywhere.

00:26:39.980 Okay. So that's what she said a couple of years ago. And I don't know. Well, in fact, I do know

00:26:46.020 that sounds like you're encouraging violence. You're telling them to, this is not just Trump

00:26:50.780 supporters, but administration officials are being encouraged or she's encouraged the crowd to find

00:26:57.040 them, form a crowd, form a crowd and let them know they're not welcome. What? When an angry group of

00:27:06.560 people forms a crowd to communicate to a person that they're not welcome, how is that opinion conveyed

00:27:15.000 normally? It is always through violence or at least through the threat of violence, through the

00:27:21.580 explicit or implicit threat of violence. So that's what she said. But then she was asked about this

00:27:26.140 yesterday. And here's the defense that she offered.

00:27:29.720 Can you say that you have not glorified or encouraged violence against Republicans?

00:27:35.920 Absolutely. I can say it. As a matter of fact, if you look at the words that I use,

00:27:40.300 the strongest thing I said was tell them they're not welcome. Talk to them. Tell them they're not

00:27:45.200 welcome. I didn't say go and fight. I didn't say anybody was going to have any violence. And so

00:27:51.380 they can't make that stick. So it's as simple as that, really, when you're, I guess when you're a

00:27:55.700 Democrat, all you have to do is you can say something. And this is the great thing about

00:27:58.760 having the media on your side. You can say something and then your defense is, I didn't say that.

00:28:02.620 Well, but you did. We have it on. No, I didn't say it. Didn't say it. Jedi mind trick. Didn't say

00:28:09.580 it. And then the media moves on. The most they'll do is press you one time. Well, but I think you

00:28:14.540 said it because we, no, I didn't. All right. Well, if you say so, it's got to be nice. All right.

00:28:20.080 Number five, finally, a big legal controversy. A woman named Tessica Brown, not Jessica, Tessica, 1.00

00:28:26.080 is thinking about suing the manufacturers of Gorilla Glue after spraying the glue in her hair

00:28:32.440 because she didn't have hairspray, I guess. And so she sprayed the glue. In fact, here she is

00:28:38.400 explaining. I'm not going to explain for her. I don't know how this happened, but here is Tessica

00:28:42.160 Brown explaining why she sprayed glue in her hair. Listen. Hey, y'all. For those of y'all that knew me

00:28:49.320 no, my hair has been like this for about a month now. It's not by choice. No, it's not by choice.

00:28:58.280 When I do my hair, I like to, you know, finish it off with a little got to be glue spray,

00:29:02.200 you know, just to keep it in place. Well, I didn't have any more got to be glue spray. So I use this

00:29:07.880 Gorilla Glue Spray. Bad, bad, bad idea.

00:29:15.000 Y'all, look, my hair, it don't move. You hear what I'm telling you? It don't move. I've washed my

00:29:23.960 hair 15 times and it don't move. Stiff wear, woo, my hair. So I'm going to tell y'all like this. If you

00:29:36.280 ever, ever run out of got to be glue spray, don't ever, ever use this.

00:29:42.600 That's good advice. I'm glad she mentioned that because I cannot tell you how many times I have

00:29:49.560 been tempted by the siren song of Gorilla Glue Spray. I mean, we've all been in situations like

00:29:57.720 this. In fact, recently I was in the shower and I didn't have a washcloth. So I yelled to my wife, 0.89

00:30:03.480 said, can you give me a washcloth? And she said, oh, we don't have any washcloths. They're all in the,

00:30:07.560 they're all, they're all dirty, but I do have this belt sander. And I said, sure, I'll, I guess

00:30:13.440 I'll use that instead. And it was a mistake. It's very unpleasant to bathe yourself with a belt sander

00:30:18.980 in the shower. Um, so you know, we, we all make mistakes sometimes in life and this is the mistake

00:30:25.440 that she made. Now she, uh, she, TMZ reports on this story says our sources say Tessica, I just like

00:30:33.800 the sources. They have sources on the story of the woman who sprayed glue in her hair. Uh,

00:30:39.160 they've got undercover sources. Our sources say Tessica spent 22 hours in the ER and the staff

00:30:45.300 was dumbfounded. We're told healthcare workers put, uh, you know, did everything they could

00:30:50.200 to get the stuff off her head. But the, what they tried to do, it burned her scalp. It only made the

00:30:55.340 glue gooey before hardening back up. Tessica were told was instructed to keep trying the potential

00:31:00.740 remedy back home, but rubbing alcohol still hasn't provided a cure. Our sources say that

00:31:06.540 Tessica's, uh, now has hired an attorney and you saw this part coming. She is now weighing her legal

00:31:12.500 options against gorilla glue. Uh, and here's the thing. So she's going to sue gorilla glue 0.97

00:31:19.080 because she sprayed it in her hair. And it does say right on the bottle, this is glue. That's what this

00:31:28.800 is. Okay. There's, there's nothing on the bottle that indicates this is for hair. If it's said on

00:31:34.880 the bottle, put this in your hair, like some kind of practical joke by the gorilla glue people, then I

00:31:38.860 would say, yeah, definitely sue. I mean, even, I don't know if, if, if, if, um, if you bought it at

00:31:46.020 Walmart or something and they put it in the wrong section, they put it in the hairspray aisle.

00:31:50.500 Maybe you have a case against Walmart, but I don't think that's the case here.

00:31:53.840 So you think to yourself, there's, there's no way she could win this lawsuit, but she, 0.89

00:32:00.560 if she doesn't win it, this woman is going to make millions of dollars. Mark my words right now. 1.00

00:32:07.040 She is coming out of this thing with minimum six figures, but I'm thinking millions from this 0.93

00:32:12.520 because apparently the, um, there is a disclaimer on the back of the, uh, the, the, the can of glue,

00:32:21.480 but the disclaimer says do not use on eyes, skin, or clothing. That's what it says.

00:32:29.300 Never said anything about hair. And this is the mistake that companies make. Like they,

00:32:33.840 they assumed that even someone dumb enough to spray it in their eyes wouldn't be so dumb as 1.00

00:32:39.740 to spray it in their hair. And so they didn't mention that part of it. Or they assumed that 0.99

00:32:44.680 everyone is smart enough to kind of connect the dots. Like they thought, well, there's only so many

00:32:49.720 levels of dumb you can be right. You know, most people are smart enough that they'll see that 0.97

00:32:54.040 bottle and just, they're not, they know what it is and it's glue. They're not going to spray it on

00:32:56.840 any part of their body. But then they figured, well, if you're, you know, okay, if you're so dumb 1.00

00:33:00.720 that you'd even be tempted to spray it and then, and then you flip it around, you read the back of 0.99

00:33:04.720 the bottle and we say, don't put it on skin. Don't put it on eyes. Don't put it on clothing.

00:33:10.440 Well, you'll get the, you'll get the point at that, you know, at that juncture. You'll, you'll

00:33:15.080 understand. Nobody could be so dumb that even then they still would spray it, but no, there's 0.98

00:33:22.060 always someone dumb enough. That's one thing we've learned about society. And so, yeah, I would expect 1.00

00:33:27.860 a lot of discomfort, but she's going to get the last laugh here. She's going to have that hard, 1.00

00:33:34.980 crusty hair for the rest of her life. She'll never be able to change her hairstyle, but she'll be rich. 0.77

00:33:40.440 All right, let's go. Let's move on now to our newest and most exciting segment, which is

00:33:46.100 reading the YouTube comments. And this is the segment where I, well, read some of the comments

00:33:52.300 under on, on YouTube from the previous show. So Sinistar says, Matt, did you forget to include

00:33:58.180 the read the comment section? I really enjoyed that edition. I did forget, but mind your own

00:34:04.740 business. All right. Paraconsistent Jojo says this whole episode was, and then there's a fire emoji.

00:34:12.040 And I thank you for that, but you know, my rules about emojis, they're not allowed. So you are banned

00:34:17.320 from listening to the show from this day forward. Unfortunately, I have to enforce the rules.

00:34:23.420 Gary Teague says, who has the best beard, Matt Walsh or Steven Crowder? Vote now on the Daily Wire or

00:34:28.720 Louder with Crowder. We have nothing else to do. Well, I, you know, look, I, I, I'm not one to puff

00:34:36.440 myself up, but I think I can say that I have the best beard in conservative media period. Can't I say

00:34:42.460 that? Who, who else is really even in the running? I've had this beard for a long time. Okay. I've been

00:34:48.160 working on this for a long time. I put a lot of my heart and soul and energy into this. And so I'm

00:34:52.300 going to claim that title for myself. I think I deserve that much at least. Um, Nick S says now

00:34:58.920 he's reacting to my claim yesterday. You know, there's this, this, uh, the reboot of the equalizer

00:35:03.700 with queen Latifah as the new action hero. And she's a 50 year old woman. And I made the point

00:35:08.020 that it's just sort of hard to take a 50 year old woman seriously in a, in, in this, what is supposed

00:35:12.220 to be a gritty, intimidating action hero type of role. And Nick S has a good point. He says, Hey,

00:35:17.580 now, Matthew, have we forgotten about kill bill? The bride was piss in your boots, effing scary. 1.00

00:35:23.500 I think most of us were perfectly willing to dispense with reality while watching that flick. 0.93

00:35:27.780 It really depends on how it's done, why it's done and what message the film is meant to send out.

00:35:32.660 Yeah. So that, that might be one of the only examples that I can think there'd be a couple

00:35:37.460 others, but there's, that's one example of very few where someone made, uh, Quentin Tarantino in this

00:35:44.240 case made basically a female action hero who was actually kind of like intimidating. You wouldn't 1.00

00:35:50.420 want to mess with her, but it's, it's really hard to do because you, you have to get the tone exactly

00:35:57.140 right. Quentin Tarantino can do it. And so in that, in that really specific, particular kind of Quentin

00:36:05.100 Tarantino cinematic universe, you can do that. But if you're not Quentin Tarantino, what we discovered

00:36:11.760 it is, it's hard to pull off. And what ends up happening most of the time is that if you're a

00:36:17.920 filmmaker, you're making the show and you're going for the gritty, intimidating thing, it just ends up 0.83

00:36:22.080 being sort of silly. Um, finally, Elena says, I find it interesting and also very telling about our

00:36:29.580 society that cancel culture is basically the exact opposite of confession in the Catholic church.

00:36:34.320 The sacrament of confession requires one to, out of their own free will and real contrition,

00:36:37.860 privately confess their sins to a priest. Then God, who is one truly wrong by our sins forgives,

00:36:43.600 and we go on to do private penance. Our society, however, will perceive an action as, as wrong and

00:36:48.420 use public humiliation to force an apology out of the person, whether they are truly sorry or not.

00:36:53.580 The apology is never accepted and forgiveness is never offered. The person is only forced into a

00:36:58.140 public penance that usually involves a ruined reputation and the loss of opportunities that, um,

00:37:03.640 would have otherwise, they would have otherwise deserved. It's honestly sick. Bring back Christian 1.00

00:37:07.440 forgiveness. Yeah, that's the whole problem with the entire spectacle. We talked about yesterday

00:37:11.380 of the, of the public apology, that there's no real contrition because the person who's giving the

00:37:15.860 public apology isn't actually sorry. And oftentimes they shouldn't be sorry because what they are being

00:37:20.560 canceled for, um, at least in one of the cases, the, you know, the New York times editor, he used a

00:37:26.340 certain word in a certain context, referring to the word. He wasn't using it in a, in a, in a racist

00:37:30.880 context. Um, and he offered the public apology anyway. So whatever the case is, when you're being

00:37:37.680 forced into giving an apology publicly, almost certainly you are not giving it because you're

00:37:43.880 actually sorry. You're giving it because you're trying to salvage your reputation futile. It's

00:37:47.900 not going to work. So there's no real contrition. There's no opportunity for forgiveness because the

00:37:54.260 people you're apologizing to, they don't care about the apology. They're not even going to listen to it

00:37:57.820 or take it into consideration. Um, so there's, it's just nothing. There's, there's nothing

00:38:03.220 happening there other than this, this pageant, this charade, which in the end serves the interests

00:38:11.140 of, of power for the cancel culture mob. So they can claim you as a trophy. And that's all that is

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00:41:15.100 cancellation. Now today for our daily cancellation, I'm afraid that we must go once again and plunge

00:41:23.900 the depraved depths of the cyber sewage dump known as TikTok. I've been accused of leaning too heavily

00:41:30.760 on TikTok for my cancellations, but first of all, again, mind your own business. Second of all,

00:41:36.140 there's, there's just a lot of intentionally, unintentionally, not intentionally, but unintentionally

00:41:39.860 hilarious stuff there. And third, this is the app that the kids are using and being influenced by.

00:41:45.100 So at a certain point we have to stop with this really kind of foolish thing of acting like the

00:41:50.600 content that our kids, not my kids, but a lot of people's kids spend hours a day ingesting is somehow

00:41:55.320 frivolous and unimportant. It may be stupid. It may be embarrassing, but it's not frivolous because, 1.00

00:42:01.660 because it's what's helping to shape the next generation for better or worse. And in this case,

00:42:07.020 worse. With that said, we have to cancel a guy named Ryan McCartan or Ryan McCarron, one of the

00:42:15.720 two. Anyway, he has a huge following on TikTok and apparently is an actor or something. And there's

00:42:21.100 one video in particular that puts him in line to be canceled today, but going through his catalog,

00:42:26.260 as I did, it seems that many TikTok users come to him for advice and wisdom,

00:42:31.260 and he's eager to offer it. So as an example of that, here's a, here's a recent video

00:42:36.080 where he gives his mind blowing, totally unique perspective on the abortion debate.

00:42:41.720 You're not going to believe this. Listen.

00:42:43.680 So there are three parts of this conversation to me, the science of abortion, the history of abortion,

00:42:47.220 and the debate about abortion. I want to talk about the debate right now, but let me know if you want

00:42:50.100 to hear the other stuff. The debate about abortion is, are you pro-choice or pro-life? And that just

00:42:54.660 sets up a false dichotomy because the opposite of pro-life is anti-life. No one is anti-life. And we

00:42:59.160 aren't actually talking about life. We're talking about birth. So then the debate would be pro-birth

00:43:02.420 or anti-birth. And that doesn't make any sense either. So you go back to our original terms,

00:43:06.140 choice. I think that's what the debate is about. Are you pro-choice or are you anti-choice? And the

00:43:11.260 thing that just really bothers me about this argument, A, is that liberals have succumbed to

00:43:15.580 this idea of arguing with a pro-life stance when we're not talking about life, we're talking about

00:43:20.020 choice. But also the conservative thinking in America is all about limiting government to not step in on

00:43:25.920 our individual liberties to make our own choices about our lives. So I don't understand why liberals

00:43:30.160 and conservatives aren't actually on the same page about this. The government should not make

00:43:33.800 any choices about what we do with our individual liberties regarding our own bodies, no matter who

00:43:38.620 we are, what we look like, or what our bodies do. Wow. Wow. Just incredible. So, so, so he, he wants

00:43:47.940 to, let me see if I got this correctly. He wants to reframe the debate as pro-choice or anti-choice.

00:43:57.080 I have never heard that before. I mean, this, this has completely altered the way I view this issue.

00:44:01.520 I have simply never heard someone make the anti-choice point before. It's, it's amazing. 1.00

00:44:06.940 I mean, no one's ever said this. That's why this guy's so proud of himself when he makes this point.

00:44:10.780 You know, I've been thinking about this and I think this is about choice. Huh? This man is a

00:44:17.140 philosopher for the ages. If Socrates came across this guy, Socrates would poison himself again,

00:44:23.480 just because he's so depressed that he'll never be as smart and insightful as Ryan McCartan or

00:44:28.160 McCarron. All that said, um, yes, actually the issue is about life. The fundamental question is

00:44:33.480 whether the baby in the womb is a human life and whether as a human life, it has the same moral worth

00:44:37.840 and is therefore entitled to the same legal protections as a born person. Now I say, yes,

00:44:43.160 if Ryan McCartan says no, he should explain why his answer is no, but people on the anti-life side

00:44:50.280 rarely want to defend that part of their argument. Now, as for the government, not telling us what

00:44:56.080 to do with our bodies. Well, okay then. So I assume you're an avid anti-masker in that case.

00:45:02.200 That's the government telling you what to do with your, with your body. Oh, but that's different.

00:45:05.180 You say it's different because if you don't wear a mask, you could harm somebody else.

00:45:08.900 Ah, okay. So, so you can do what you want with your body up to the point where you're potentially

00:45:16.020 inflicting harm on another person. Hmm. Well, the unborn human who is poisoned, dismembered, or

00:45:23.620 decapitated through the course of the abortion, I mean, would you say that qualifies as harm?

00:45:29.860 Oh, but that's different. You say, because the unborn human doesn't count. Well, what do you know?

00:45:34.380 We're right back to a debate about life and its definition, which is exactly what you said.

00:45:38.940 The debate is not about, but it turns out that is what the debate is always about. It can't be about

00:45:43.880 anything else. So that's Ryan McCartan on abortion. Now let's hear what he has to say about racism.

00:45:51.420 I am the oppressor. I am racist. Oh my God. He just said he's racist. It shouldn't be this hard. You

00:45:56.640 guys, if you live in America, went to school, participate in the socioeconomic structures,

00:46:01.800 participate in any sort of system, education, business, entertainment, what have you. And you

00:46:06.780 are white. You are indoctrinated. You are oppressive. And yes, you are racist. It is something that we 0.98

00:46:11.720 have learned either consciously or subconsciously, all of us as white Americans. And what we have to

00:46:16.360 do is unlearn that. I'm trying to do the work. Part of doing the work is pushing against dangerous

00:46:22.300 narratives that are counterintuitive to that unlearning, like white people are also oppressed by

00:46:27.920 racism. We're not. We are the oppressors. That's the point. You should be doing the unlearning too.

00:46:33.780 Do the work. I love this guy's dance moves, the choreography while he makes his point. I don't know

00:46:38.620 what all the, you can't see it if you listen to audio podcasts, but he's got a certain move that he

00:46:41.720 does. He's like, it's like, it's like watching NSYNC or something in the nineties. It's all the,

00:46:46.940 all the choreography. But first of all, if I live my whole life and never again hear the phrase,

00:46:53.900 do the work from somebody who does not appear to have ever done any kind of work at all in their

00:46:59.460 lives, I will die a happy man. Second, I'm not going to spend a lot of time debunking this notion

00:47:04.620 that only white people are racist because only they have systemic power, yada, yada, et cetera.

00:47:09.500 I've addressed that many times. And as I've explained, it is built on numerous false assertions,

00:47:13.660 starting with the idea that power has anything necessarily to do with racism. And also the idea

00:47:17.800 that only white people have systemic power. We can look around right now and see every major

00:47:22.420 corporation bending over backwards to affirm the most radical tenants of BLM orthodoxy. We can see

00:47:27.220 that the same is true of politicians and bureaucrats and almost everybody who wields serious power in

00:47:31.500 this country. We can also see that the only form of explicit racial to systemic bias that's allowed

00:47:38.060 in this country is the kind that cuts against white people like affirmative action. All of that is clear.

00:47:43.740 So this from Ryan McCartan and those like him is nothing but a doctrinal statement. It's not based on

00:47:50.060 any kind of evidence or logic except an internal logic within the critical race theory cult.

00:47:55.320 And even there internally, there isn't much logic to it. Just remember, anytime somebody says

00:48:00.420 only white people can be racist, all you have to do is respond with one question. This is what I would 0.54

00:48:04.800 respond. Says who? Only white people can be racist. Okay. Says who? Who says that? You do,

00:48:15.380 but where are you getting that from? Why should I accept your definition of racism? I understand that

00:48:21.160 that's your claim. That's your belief, but why should I give a damn? Why should I believe it?

00:48:27.400 And I guess if you want to follow up with another question, you could also ask this.

00:48:31.640 Did racism exist a thousand years ago? Two thousand years ago? Three thousand years? Did it exist in

00:48:38.320 ancient times? Did racism exist back when people were slaughtering and enslaving outsiders just as a

00:48:44.220 matter of course? Because if racism is inherent to white people because of their systemic power, 0.53

00:48:50.820 then it must mean that racism didn't exist before white people as we know them now existed or before

00:48:55.660 they had this kind of power. I mean, you go back through history and you find that the most powerful

00:49:01.460 empires back in ancient times were in places like Egypt and Mesopotamia. Was there no racism then?

00:49:09.000 Was it an anti-racist utopia which just so happened to subsist on slavery and conquest?

00:49:15.140 So that's a question you could ask. But what I want to focus on is something else at a deeper level is

00:49:20.820 the guilt. You know, I've long suspected that one of the things that makes this all white people are 1.00

00:49:26.240 racist idea appealing is the way that it explains and channels guilt. Now, for non-white people,

00:49:32.560 the appeal is pretty straightforward. They're absolved of racism permanently and they're positioned as the

00:49:37.180 automatic good guy in any dispute with a white person. That's a hell of a deal if you can get it.

00:49:41.960 But for white people, part of the appeal, I think, is religious in nature.

00:49:47.340 What is it that will oftentimes, you think about it, what will oftentimes get a person to go to church

00:49:52.060 after a long time away? They're feeling burdened by their sin, feeling guilty. They're looking for

00:49:58.780 absolution, for something to, they want something to do with this guilt that they're carrying around.

00:50:04.280 But with theistic religion receding, and with many of the remaining churches too afraid to talk about

00:50:11.520 guilt and sin anyway, things like critical race theory step into the gap. Jesus says,

00:50:16.760 come to me, all who are burdened, and I will give you rest. Well, those who are burdened and not going

00:50:22.400 to Jesus have to go somewhere else. CRT, critical race theory, is a substitute for some people. Only,

00:50:27.360 it's not going to offer rest or absolution. Instead, it just offers more guilt, but at least

00:50:31.400 it explains and clarifies the guilt or claims to. It puts everything in racial terms and gives

00:50:38.100 confused and desperate people a framework for understanding themselves and their own internal

00:50:44.540 struggles. The framework is wrong and evil, but hey, at least it's a framework. To paraphrase

00:50:52.740 the big Lebowski. All that said, the other possible explanation, so I mean, all that,

00:51:00.740 maybe that's why, if I want to go to a real deep, like, psychological and philosophical level,

00:51:05.200 maybe that's why someone like Ryan McCartan is so eager to call himself racist. Maybe. The other

00:51:11.660 possible explanation for why Ryan McCartan says he's racist is that he's actually racist. I mean,

00:51:17.380 that is what he's saying. Maybe we should just take him seriously. Maybe when a white person gets up

00:51:21.720 and says, I'm racist, we should just say, oh, okay, well, sorry to hear about that.

00:51:27.560 And then when he says, yeah, but all of you are too, we say, no, not me. I don't know, man. Speak

00:51:32.440 for yourself. You already said it. You've made your claim. I'm not joining you. I'm not giving you any

00:51:39.060 cover here. So I hate to hear about that. I'm sorry. Shouldn't be racist. That sucks, man. I,

00:51:46.780 you know, thanks for telling us. Just because you are doesn't mean that I am, Ryan. Speak for

00:51:54.720 yourself. And maybe in the end, maybe, maybe that is the one needed response to the critical race

00:52:01.320 theory cultists. Speak for yourself. Also, you're canceled. So those two things. That's going to do

00:52:11.060 it for us today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Have a great day. Godspeed.

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The Matt Walsh Show - February 09, 2021

Ep. 654 - Selfish, Paranoid Cowards

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