The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 655 - They Aren't Telling Us The Whole Story

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, the Senate trial of Donald Trump continues, and we continue to be told

00:00:04.420 about the deadly riot in which five people were killed. But is it true that five people were

00:00:10.840 killed by the riot? How did that happen? What are the details? We've been told very little about

00:00:16.560 that. We'll take a look at what we do know today. Also, five headlines, including Joe Biden's plan

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00:02:14.860 We've been told time and time again that the riot in D.C. on January 6th was deadly or fatal or lethal

00:02:21.900 as it has been variously described by the media. This point is being hammered with extra enthusiasm

00:02:28.380 during the Senate impeachment trial of Donald Trump this week. And it's a point that the media has

00:02:32.460 embedded into the public consciousness over the course of the last month. Five deaths. You know,

00:02:36.920 that's the number we've been given. In fact, all in all, a total of seven deaths have been tied to

00:02:41.300 the riot. Four citizens and three police officers. And when I say these deaths have been tied to the

00:02:47.840 riot, I mean that the connection has been made by the media and by the political class, by Democrats.

00:02:55.380 Not really by any official source. See, the odd thing is that these deaths are only discussed in

00:03:02.440 the most general and vague terms, if you haven't noticed. We're told that people died and we're given

00:03:09.520 the approximate context of their deaths, but very little is said about how it happened.

00:03:16.000 But the how seems rather important, doesn't it? Don't you wonder that when you hear five people

00:03:20.880 died in a riot? Isn't your first question, how the heck did that happen? It's important for the

00:03:27.320 families who have a right to know exactly how and why their loved ones perished. And it's important

00:03:31.540 to the American public, which has a right to know the full truth about an event that's been

00:03:35.460 used to justify the indefinite militarization of our Capitol, the impeachment of a former

00:03:40.020 president. I think we all have a right to know what happened. It's important most of all because

00:03:45.720 the truth simply matters. It matters for its own sake, putting everything else aside. If we're going

00:03:52.180 to be told so often and in such dramatic terms that the riot claimed the lives of five people or even

00:03:56.720 seven people, then we should be told how exactly that occurred. And if the people making the claim

00:04:02.360 don't themselves know how it occurred, then they shouldn't be making the claim at all.

00:04:07.460 If they do know and they aren't telling us, then that opens up a whole new realm of problems. So

00:04:12.380 based on the available information, let's take a closer look at these deaths and the circumstances

00:04:18.680 surrounding them. Out of seven deaths in some way tied back to the riot and out of the three police

00:04:24.760 officer deaths, we know that two were tragic suicides in the days and weeks following the chaos.

00:04:30.120 Acting Metropolitan Police Chief Robert Conte said that officers Jeffrey Smith and Howard

00:04:36.860 Liebengood, quote, took their own lives in the aftermath of that battle. Now, does that mean that

00:04:43.320 the trauma of the event pushed them over the edge? Did they leave notes or make statements indicating that

00:04:48.860 the riot itself had caused that kind of psychological damage? Or did they have other things going on

00:04:53.860 internally or in their personal lives that led to this tragic conclusion? Is there any evidence at

00:04:59.840 all that the events of January 6th played any role in their suicides? If anybody knows the answers to

00:05:06.940 those questions, they aren't telling us. All that we can say for sure is that two men who were serving in

00:05:12.760 the line of duty when a riot broke out later went on to take their own lives. Anybody who connects these

00:05:19.460 two facts is making an assumption? And I would say a rather cynical and inappropriate and actually

00:05:25.560 outrageous assumption. As for the civilian deaths tied to the riot, we know at least their names.

00:05:33.880 Here are their names. Benjamin Phillips, Ashley Babbitt, Roseanne Boyland, and Kevin Greeson.

00:05:41.760 It was reported by Chief Conte himself immediately after the riot that three of the victims, Phillips,

00:05:47.560 Boyland, and Greeson, died from, quote, separate medical emergencies. Kevin Greeson's family later

00:05:53.000 confirmed that he had high blood pressure and died of a heart attack, quote, in the midst of the

00:05:57.300 excitement. Even fewer details have been given about Benjamin Phillips' death, but we do know that he

00:06:03.220 suffered a stroke at some point on January 6th and then later was taken to a hospital and died in the

00:06:08.440 hospital. For Roseanne Boyland, the story is even murkier. It was initially reported by the media 1.00

00:06:13.160 that Boyland was trampled to death. Now, this would certainly qualify unquestionably as a death

00:06:17.320 caused by the riot. Yet a more in-depth examination of her death in the New York Times shows that she

00:06:23.260 collapsed while amid a flood of people near the Capitol building. Others in the crowd tried to revive

00:06:28.160 her, gave her CPR, but she eventually died anyway. The chief medical examiner of Washington, D.C.,

00:06:32.560 as of January 21st, anyway, said that her cause of death is pending. Was she indeed

00:06:38.240 trampled to death? Or did she suffer some other medical emergency like the two other fatalities

00:06:43.980 I just mentioned? Did she have trouble breathing because of the crush of people? Did she have any 1.00

00:06:49.060 kind of pre-existing condition? We're left only to speculate. Ashley Babbitt is the clearest case of

00:06:55.480 all. She was certainly killed by violence during the riot. No question about that. But she was killed by a

00:07:03.560 police officer, not a rioter. She was killed while trying to climb through a broken door

00:07:09.240 inside the Capitol building. Babbitt was unarmed and she was shot through the neck and she died

00:07:13.840 quickly. That leaves Officer Brian Sickman. Now, in many ways, the circumstances surrounding his death

00:07:20.800 are the murkiest of all. Immediately following the riot, the Capitol police issued a statement saying

00:07:25.620 that an officer had, quote, passed away due to the injury sustained while on duty.

00:07:29.840 And we were told that he, quote, returned to his division office and collapsed. And then he was

00:07:35.380 taken to a hospital where he died. The Times and others reported that the officer, soon identified as

00:07:39.860 Brian Sicknick, was bludgeoned with a fire extinguisher by someone or multiple people in the

00:07:44.260 crowd. And this is the story that stuck, that he was bludgeoned to death. As prominent human rights

00:07:49.600 lawyer Kasim Rashid put it on January 8th, he said Sicknick, quote, was beat to death by a fire

00:07:56.140 extinguisher to his skull by right-wing terrorists. And that was the narrative. That's been the

00:08:01.960 narrative all along. That's what most people think happened. The problem with the narrative is that

00:08:06.420 it doesn't appear to be true. Now, little has been officially revealed about Sicknick's cause of

00:08:11.780 death, common theme here emerging. And the autopsy results, for whatever reason, have not been made

00:08:16.960 available to the public. But in a report that didn't receive much attention or emphasis last week,

00:08:22.100 CNN reveals this. And I'm going to quote from their article. It's kind of long, so just bear with me.

00:08:25.420 But all this information is important, and I want to give it to you exactly how they put it.

00:08:30.080 So they say, quote, investigators are struggling to build a federal murder case regarding fallen

00:08:34.520 U.S. Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, vexed by a lack of evidence that could prove someone

00:08:38.240 caused his death as he defended the Capitol during last month's insurrection. Authorities have reviewed

00:08:42.320 video and photographs that show Sicknick engaging with rioters amid the siege, but have yet to identify

00:08:46.380 a moment in which he suffered his fatal injuries. Law enforcement officials familiar with the matter,

00:08:50.380 this is what law enforcement officials familiar with the matter said. Continuing.

00:08:55.260 To date, little information has been shared publicly about the circumstances of the death of the

00:09:00.060 13-year veteran of the police force, including any findings from an autopsy that was conducted by

00:09:04.260 DC's medical examiner. Findings from a medical examiner's review have not yet been released, and

00:09:08.840 authorities have not made any announcements about the ongoing process. According to one law

00:09:13.040 enforcement official, medical examiners did not find signs that the officer sustained any blunt force

00:09:17.520 trauma. So investigators believe that early reports that he was fatally struck by a fire extinguisher

00:09:22.360 are not true. One possibility being considered by investigators is that Sicknick became ill after

00:09:27.620 interacting with a chemical irritant like pepper spray or bear spray that was deployed in the

00:09:31.480 crowd. But investigators reviewing video of the officer's time around the Capitol haven't been able to

00:09:36.320 confirm that in the tape, which has been recovered so far. The case could also be complicated if Sicknick

00:09:42.060 had a pre-existing medical condition. It could not be learned if he did. All right. What this all means

00:09:49.120 is that Sicknick's death, while obviously tragic, no matter what caused it, was not necessarily the

00:09:55.820 result of any direct action taken by anyone in the crowd. There is to date, according to these reports,

00:10:01.520 no evidence at all that Sicknick was murdered. There is no evidence, at least none provided to the

00:10:08.100 public, that his death was caused by the riot, even indirectly. All we actually know, all we've been told

00:10:16.080 is that Officer Sicknick was at the riot and then he died later. That is the full extent of the

00:10:22.640 information officially given to the public. That's it. This officer was there and he died later.

00:10:27.840 Now, I'm not joking with you when I tell you that is literally all we've been told. Officially.

00:10:34.920 Overall, based on the available evidence, we can say conclusively that one person, not five,

00:10:40.800 one, was directly killed by violence in the riot. That's what we can say conclusively.

00:10:48.320 One person directly killed by violence in the riot. And that's the person who was killed

00:10:54.580 by a Capitol Police officer as she was unarmed. We can say with relative certainty that two others

00:11:03.000 died of medical emergencies stemming from underlying health concerns. So that leaves two,

00:11:07.720 Sicknick and Boyland, whose deaths are still a relative mystery. Again, a mystery to us in the

00:11:16.540 public. Now, presumably the autopsy results could lend quite a bit of clarity, but those results are

00:11:22.360 being withheld. I'm no doctor, I admit, but I would guess, and anyone can correct me if I'm wrong,

00:11:27.140 but I would guess that an autopsy and medical examination could rather conclusively determine

00:11:31.560 whether a person was or was not trampled to death in one case or beat to death in the other.

00:11:36.520 It would seem to me that that's the kind of thing that through doing a medical examination and an

00:11:43.400 autopsy, you'd be able to tell. Yet if those determinations were made, we're being kept in

00:11:50.520 the dark. What this means is that anyone who connects five deaths to the riot is spreading

00:11:57.180 misinformation. They're making these connections based on assumption, rumor, and speculation.

00:12:02.500 Now, I don't want to engage in my own speculation, so I'm not going to speculate

00:12:07.940 about why we are not being told the autopsy results of Officer Brian Sicknick.

00:12:16.940 You know, if we are ever told, it seems that it is going to be after the Senate trial of Donald Trump.

00:12:23.100 I'm not going to speculate about whether those two things are connected.

00:12:28.700 But at a certain point, common sense has to take over on that end anyway.

00:12:36.860 But there's a lot we still don't know. And for anyone who says, how dare you even talk about this?

00:12:44.380 People died. That's all that matters. It's a tragedy. Yeah, it is a tragedy.

00:12:48.700 But the fact that people died is not the only thing that matters. How they died also matters.

00:13:00.300 And we deserve to know the truth. Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:15:21.800 You know, I don't mean to, to air my marital dirty laundry or anything like that, but I got,

00:15:27.780 you know, a little bit of tense moment with my, my wife last night because I told her my plan

00:15:36.440 and I had, I had the scissors in my hand and I said, my plan is to trim my beard down to make it

00:15:43.700 pointy, like, like a, like a wizard, you know, like a wizard sort of point. And I really, I, I've

00:15:48.820 given this a lot of thought and I thought pointy beard is the way to go. She was very unaccepting of 1.00

00:15:56.200 that idea. And this is one thing, you know, you realize, uh, as a, as a married man, and I get a lot

00:16:02.660 of beard related questions. And this is one thing I'll just tell you before we move on here. Um,

00:16:06.880 one, one tip here is that when you're, you think as a, as a, as a man, when you grow a beard,

00:16:12.680 it's your beard, right? But what you realize is that your beard is not your own and your wife is

00:16:17.480 going to have a lot of opinions about what you can and can't do with your beard. I've had so many

00:16:21.980 beard related plans that have been shot down by my wife, you know, different times, goatee,

00:16:26.500 handlebar mustache, all these things. And, uh, she, she feels entitled with the thing. Women feel 0.95

00:16:33.360 entitled to stop you. My body, my choice. I, those are my words to her exactly. And she was not, uh,

00:16:39.640 she was not convinced. All right. Now, speaking of the Senate impeachment trial from, from the

00:16:44.340 daily wire, it says former president Donald Trump is reportedly furious with the way that his

00:16:48.460 impeachment defense team performed on day one of his Senate trial. Um, two sources, this is from

00:16:53.920 Fox news correspondent, Kevin Cork, two sources of fact, who spent time with the former president

00:16:58.040 today, described him as quote, being furious and beyond angry with his impeachment defense team.

00:17:02.560 He was especially upset with attorney Bruce Castro, um, in his rambling opening argument,

00:17:09.140 the, uh, the former president spending the day watching the trial from inside his private quarters

00:17:13.500 at Mar-a-Lago, no golf with the very same plan for tomorrow. And so he's very upset. Now we have,

00:17:18.540 I think we have some of the, um, this is Bruce Castor, by the way, not Castro. So Bruce

00:17:23.620 Castor, he's, he's the, one of Trump's defense attorneys and his, his performance yesterday

00:17:30.720 anyway, was roundly panned by everyone. It was bipartisan right, left and center. And here's a

00:17:37.220 little bit, I mean, I guess you could decide how compelling you think this is, but here's a little

00:17:40.820 bit of what Bruce Castor said on the floor of the Senate yesterday. This trial is not about

00:17:46.540 trading liberty for security. It's about trading. It's about suggesting that it is a good idea that

00:17:58.720 we give up those liberties that we have so long fought for. Uh, what? And that was, that was much of

00:18:11.640 what he had to say was along those lines. And when I say along those lines, I mean,

00:18:16.700 indecipherable, hard to understand what he was even trying to say. I mean, it appears that Trump's

00:18:22.620 defense team went into this trial with no plan. They had, there's no defense strategy at all.

00:18:28.740 It's not just that like they had a bad defense strategy. They had no strategy. It's just thought

00:18:33.600 they just woke up. It seemed like they woke up that morning and set like me in high school. So often

00:18:39.740 they woke up that morning and they said, Oh crap, we have, is that Senate, is that Senate trial? Is 0.95

00:18:44.640 that today? And so in the car on the way over, they're just frantically putting together opening

00:18:51.540 statement and everything. Um, you know, I know that there's people in the audience who don't want to

00:18:57.620 hear this even now, after all this time, you know, that there are some people who simply have no

00:19:03.300 tolerance for any criticism of Donald Trump whatsoever. But I, I will say that for my money,

00:19:10.360 perhaps the, the, the, the most untrue thing that Donald Trump ever said in his whole life,

00:19:15.700 most false thing that he ever said was when he said that he hires the best people.

00:19:23.740 And we have seen time and time again, that he does not hire the best people.

00:19:27.160 In fact, perhaps his greatest weakness is in personnel and the people that he hires just a 0.98

00:19:34.060 parade of incompetent clowns through his administration. And after oftentimes hiring 0.98

00:19:40.980 the worst people. So it's finding the worst people possible. You tell me there are no lawyers.

00:19:46.600 You're, you're a former president. You're a billionaire. You can, that's the best you can find.

00:19:51.840 And I know there are a lot of lawyers who don't want to touch it with a 10 foot pole,

00:19:54.940 but really you couldn't find anybody with all your money. Hard to believe. Okay. From NBC news,

00:20:01.620 it says raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour proposed a proposal supported by

00:20:06.480 president Joe Biden would result in the loss of 1.4 million jobs, but would bring nearly 1 million

00:20:12.540 people out of poverty over the next four years. The study conducted by the nonpartisan congressional

00:20:17.320 budget office was also found that increasing the minimum wage would raise the cumulative budget

00:20:21.840 deficit from 2021 to 2023 by $54 billion and would drive inflation resulting in higher prices for

00:20:27.960 goods and services. The CBO evaluator proposal that would gradually increase the minimum wage reaching

00:20:32.400 $15 an hour by 2025. Okay. So $15 an hour minimum wage, the stuff about the deficit increasing by $54

00:20:41.700 billion. That's the kind of thing that should disturb us. We should care.

00:20:46.800 Um, that's an, that's an argument that should be effective is pointing out the increase in

00:20:53.440 deficit. But what we've discovered is that really nobody cares about the deficit. Nobody cares about

00:20:59.140 spending. Um, it's, we sort of, this is just the truth, both sides of the aisle. We, we take turns

00:21:06.900 pretending to care when the other, when the other side's person is in office. I mean, how many

00:21:12.960 conservatives over the last four years of Trump said a damn thing about too much spending deficit? 0.82

00:21:18.880 All that was out the window. It was very little was, was, was said about that. Um, and that's just 0.93

00:21:23.760 the way it goes. And of course, but on the left, they, there are people that sort of became all of a

00:21:28.220 sudden budget hawks under Trump and now it goes the other way. So this is the way it goes. Um, that is

00:21:32.580 not going to be, it should probably be an effective line of argument against any plan is by saying how

00:21:37.960 it'll increase the deficit, but, um, it's not now the part about losing a million jobs.

00:21:44.500 There you go. I mean, that, that's something people do care about, should care about and do.

00:21:50.060 And in fact, um, speaking of related news, I think this is from biz journals. It says, uh,

00:21:56.680 Kroger is about to test its first store that offers only self-service checkout lanes using enhanced

00:22:02.440 capabilities. Downtown Cincinnati based Kroger, the nation's largest operator of traditional

00:22:06.980 supermarkets plans to launch the pilot test of the all self checkout store in Dallas on February

00:22:12.980 17th. It's converting one of its smaller stores, um, on Cedar Springs road for the, for the pilot.

00:22:19.880 Now this is not, they're not directly making a connection here, but I think we can see the

00:22:24.180 connection. If you, if you try to force these companies to pay people $15 an hour to do labor

00:22:30.500 that just isn't worth that, especially when it's labor that can be replaced with machines,

00:22:38.700 then that's, what's going to happen. I don't like it. I think personally, I would much rather have the

00:22:43.500 people there having, you know, in, even as an antisocial person myself, I will use the self

00:22:48.900 checkout lane just on antisocial grounds. So I'm, I guess I'm part of the problem as far as that goes.

00:22:54.300 I mean, if you give me that option, then I'll take it. But I recognize that in, in reality,

00:22:59.300 it'd probably be best if I didn't have that option. It'd probably be best if there are actual

00:23:03.820 people doing those jobs. So that is better. Um, but you force these companies to pay $15 an hour,

00:23:11.060 and this is what's going to happen. As I've said many times, the, the minimum wage should be

00:23:17.700 zero. You know, that, that's where you start. That that's, that's the minimum or maybe a penny.

00:23:23.700 Like that's, that's the actual minimum of what, of what labor could possibly be worth.

00:23:27.220 And you go up from there. And one thing that gets lost in this discussion

00:23:33.400 is, um, is not only are you wiping out jobs, but if you're forcing the employer to pay everyone

00:23:43.300 $15 an hour, effectively giving a raise, maybe to some people who have not actually earned that

00:23:49.420 and aren't, aren't, aren't doing a job that's worth $15 an hour. And there can be a lot of other

00:23:54.420 employees at that store who could be worth 20 or $25 an hour, very worthy of, of promotion and

00:24:01.000 raises and now won't get it because the government is forcing the employer to give a raise. Even the

00:24:06.260 people who haven't earned it. That to me is also a problem. I mean, we've, we've, we've all

00:24:12.560 had this experience, right? When you go to a fast food place, you go, you're interacting with customer

00:24:17.720 service. We've, we've all gone into a grocery store, to a fast food place. And we've interacted

00:24:24.720 with customer service representative who basically just when you look at them, it's like, they're

00:24:30.560 trying to visibly murder you. You can, you can, you can see visible hatred in their eyes. It's not

00:24:36.040 even just bad customer service. It's, it's, it's hateful customer. They hate you for being there.

00:24:40.280 So we've all experienced that. And then we also experienced customer service people, someone

00:24:46.300 working at a register or working at a fast food, who's just wonderful, delightful. They put a smile

00:24:50.120 on your face. They're absolutely on top of it. The idea that they should be paid exactly the same

00:24:56.400 or that person who hates you just for being there is automatically worth 15 bucks an hour.

00:25:02.580 All they do is show up, make, put in absolutely zero effort whatsoever. And they're automatically

00:25:07.620 worth $50 an hour. No, I would, I would rather free up these companies to pay someone like that,

00:25:14.440 like five bucks an hour. I mean, you're, you're putting in zero effort, zero. The only effort is

00:25:19.580 just to walk in the door. So pay them five. And then that really awesome customer service representative 1.00

00:25:25.420 who's really on top of it and makes you feel good. And, and you know, they're just really,

00:25:29.680 really good. Pay them 30 bucks an hour. That to me seems the most just, the most fair. All right.

00:25:35.080 Number three, Pete Buttigieg, for some reason is, um, secretary of transportation and he wants to

00:25:39.980 bring equity to the roadways. His plan for, for social justice and equity, he wants to bring it

00:25:45.820 to the roadways where it does not belong. And, uh, here he is explaining his plan.

00:25:50.280 What's the biggest way that transportation has been permanently changed by the pandemic?

00:25:54.940 It's too soon to know for sure, but I think it's safe to say that our old patterns of life,

00:25:59.400 uh, the nine to five Monday through Friday commuting patterns are not going to be exactly the same.

00:26:03.980 Yeah. And so how might that change what your staff does? Uh, you know,

00:26:07.280 we think trains, planes, and automobiles, but, uh, uh, what about bike scooters,

00:26:10.700 wheelchairs for that matter? Those are things you plan to pay more attention to.

00:26:13.840 Absolutely. Yeah. Look, roads aren't only for vehicles. We got to make sure that,

00:26:17.760 that pedestrians and individuals and bicyclists and businesses can all coexist on the same roadway.

00:26:23.940 Yeah. What about, what about scooters and bikes? What about pogo sticks? What about

00:26:27.900 unicycles? You know, what about big wheel, uh, bikes? What about those? Yeah, we'll put them all

00:26:36.380 on the roadways, wheelchairs, wheelchairs on the roadway. Now, if you, if, if what you mean is a

00:26:41.540 wheelchair crossing the street and the crosswalk, then sure. Yeah. Okay. But if you're talking about

00:26:46.580 what I, when you say share the road, it makes it sound like you're talking about people in

00:26:51.620 motorized wheelchairs actually just driving down the street, which I have seen. And in fact,

00:26:58.080 I've seen it in Nashville more than once. It's extremely dangerous for the person in that

00:27:03.040 wheelchair that should not be encouraged. Now I'm not going to go into my whole rant again. I did a

00:27:07.980 whole daily cancellation on it weeks ago. And I think it's one of the most important segments I've

00:27:11.600 ever done on the show, uh, about, about cyclists specifically on the roadway. Now, my stance is very

00:27:17.940 clear. The, the, the road, modern roads, modern paved roads are, are actually built for vehicles

00:27:24.500 and vehicles are what belong on those roads. Not people in bikes, holding up traffic, getting

00:27:30.480 themselves and other people killed. Certainly not wheelchairs, not, not even, but see, we have,

00:27:36.260 we have something called a sidewalk. Okay. And I think sidewalks are great inventions.

00:27:42.400 And, um, it sounds like maybe that's what Buttigieg is reaching for here. He's thinking about

00:27:47.060 inventing sidewalks again. Sidewalks are fantastic. Yeah. Put all, all, all, all the things he just

00:27:53.140 mentioned, scooters, bikes, wheelchairs, pedestrians, put them all on sidewalks. Cars go on the road.

00:27:59.180 I think that's a great system. It really has worked pretty well, hasn't it? I don't, I don't think we

00:28:03.680 need to reinvent the wheel here, so to speak. Cars on the road, everyone else on the sidewalk.

00:28:08.740 Great. No problem. You want to build more sidewalks? Go ahead and do that. 0.98

00:28:12.940 Um, number four, mask shaming is a favorite pastime of, of some people in America, as we've noticed. 0.96

00:28:21.940 And those are people who are, you know, cowards and proud of it.

00:28:26.700 And, uh, here's the latest incident. Here's a, here's a man, I think is one of the worst we've 0.97

00:28:31.680 seen because it's a man harassing and filming a woman and her elderly mother at a store, uh, for not

00:28:37.060 wearing a mask. And here's how that went. Say cheese, you're in Costco, not wearing

00:28:42.560 your mask, refusing to wear your mask. And here's her mother.

00:28:47.560 Can you call your manager? Can you call her your manager?

00:29:06.260 Okay. So there we go. I mean, we've seen this play out many times. The guy sees these

00:29:23.100 two women, one of whom again is an elderly woman in a, speaking of, you know, she's in 0.79

00:29:26.780 a motorized scooter, speaking of which, and you look at her there in that, in that video, 0.99

00:29:31.520 see that, that is a, uh, a vehicle that does not belong in the roadway. And it's, it's

00:29:36.640 not in this case. That's very good. That's, that's one that belongs in a store or in a

00:29:39.200 sidewalk. Um, but here's an elderly woman and her daughter who's, who's older as well.

00:29:46.540 And he's afraid because she's not wearing a mask. And so his response is to put her on

00:29:52.320 film, go, go right up in her face and get her on, get her on camera, pull out his phone

00:29:56.400 and start tattletaling, start snitching, calling for a manager. 0.99

00:30:01.520 Once again, if you're that afraid that this person is going to spread a disease, 0.99

00:30:06.260 then maybe just keep on walking, just keep moving your ass and go to a different part 0.99

00:30:11.780 of the store. If I will never understand this, if I was afraid that someone had a deadly disease 0.99

00:30:17.460 and they were going to spread it to me, the last thing I would do is take out my camera

00:30:21.320 to document and get right up in their face. Say, Hey, you're endangering people's lives

00:30:26.200 right up in their face. No, I wouldn't do that. Never have cowards been so eager to advertise

00:30:34.000 their own cowardice. This guy is more afraid than that elderly woman. The elderly woman, 0.99

00:30:41.680 you know, she's, she is in the most vulnerable category and she's not that concerned. He's

00:30:48.820 more afraid than she is. And he's, he's happy to advertise that to the whole world.

00:30:53.820 Pathetic. All right. Um, here's something that's not so pathetic. I have to play this for you because 1.00

00:30:58.720 honestly, I believe it's one of the internet's greatest gifts to mankind. You've probably

00:31:02.220 already seen it. If you spend any time on the internet, then you probably couldn't escape

00:31:05.820 yesterday without seeing this. Um, but I, we're going to play it again anyway. And, uh, and, uh,

00:31:12.980 cause I think it's in the running for maybe the funniest internet video of all time.

00:31:16.020 And unfortunately, if you're listening to the audio podcast, um, and you haven't seen this video,

00:31:20.620 you're not going to be able to fully appreciate it. You have to see the visual. So I apologize for

00:31:24.780 that, but you can always come to YouTube and check out this segment at least because you need,

00:31:28.120 you need to see this. You need to see to appreciate all of the, the subtlety of the humor. You have to

00:31:33.420 actually see it. But, um, here we have a hearing with a few lawyers and a judge. I don't know what the

00:31:41.260 hearing was about. Doesn't matter. And apparently some of the backstory here is that one of the

00:31:47.140 lawyers in this hearing with the judges, the zoom, you know, that we do everything on zoom now. So

00:31:50.420 it's a zoom hearing and he was using his secretary's computer. And the secretary has a young daughter

00:31:56.300 who had previously been on zoom and was using a certain filter. And this filter had not been taken

00:32:02.180 off. And so then this is what happened. Dr. Ponton, I believe you have a filter turned on in the video

00:32:10.940 settings. Uh, you might want to, uh, uh, we're trying to, can you hear me judge? I can hear you. I think

00:32:20.760 it's a filter. It is. And I don't know how to remove it. I've got my assistant here. She's trying to, 0.97

00:32:27.100 but, uh, I'm prepared to go forward with it. That's I'm here live. That's not, I'm not a cat.

00:32:38.300 I can, I can see that. I'm not, I'm here live. I'm not a cat. Everything. What, this is why I say

00:32:46.140 you have to see it. Okay. Because the, the facial expressions of the cat are what really sell this.

00:32:51.940 There's one moment in particular when he, he first realizes that he's a cat and he kind of

00:32:57.180 looks down and he's got this shocked, confused expression. The cat has a shocked, confused

00:33:01.360 expression. The cat just, just nails the feeling. I didn't know that the filters were this advanced

00:33:06.920 because there's this, there's this, oh crap, I'm a cat moment. And, and look, I've never seen that

00:33:14.240 look, especially on a cat. It's like this cat's having an existential crisis. And that in particular,

00:33:20.800 when he, when he lets out this kind of like groan, um, that's the part that really sells.

00:33:25.660 And then the whole thing where he has to clarify that he's not a cat, which I have to say, as many

00:33:30.680 people on the internet said yesterday, you know, uh, that's what a cat would say. If, if, if you have,

00:33:37.700 if you find yourself in a situation where you have to actually say out loud, I'm not a cat.

00:33:42.980 That might, that means you might actually be a cat. So who knows? We don't know what actually

00:33:47.880 happened. There's a lot we don't know in this situation too, but, um, that's, that's great.

00:33:53.660 Now, um, the other hilarious, uh, video that, that, that has graced the internet this week,

00:34:00.760 which we played yesterday was the, um, gorilla glue girl as she has come to be known. Uh, that 1.00

00:34:06.860 is Tessica Brown. You remember, she's the, the woman who sprayed industrial glue in her hair 0.99

00:34:12.860 because she ran out of hairspray. And so she just figured, well, you know, this is an adhesive

00:34:18.400 kind of substance. Might as well just put it in my hair. And so she did that. And, um, and then her 1.00

00:34:23.460 hair ended up, uh, just being crusted into place for a whole month as, as you might expect, ended up

00:34:29.180 going to the ER. They couldn't do anything about it. Now she's thinking about filing a lawsuit against 1.00

00:34:33.940 gorilla glue. And like I told you yesterday, and I, I hate to be the bearer of bad news. She will,

00:34:39.780 well, if she doesn't win the lawsuit, it will probably, they'll probably settle with her and 1.00

00:34:44.980 she's going to make a lot of money. She shouldn't, but that's the way things go now. Because all she's

00:34:51.140 going to need to prove is that, uh, there, there was, there was nothing on the bottle specifically

00:34:56.500 clarifying not to use it in your, in your hair. And there wasn't all the bottle said was don't

00:35:02.060 spray it on your skin and your eyes or on your clothes. Didn't say anything about hair. You would

00:35:05.980 think you would need to say that, but, um, but apparently you do now. This woman, Tessica Brown

00:35:12.860 has actually gotten a lot of sympathy online. There's been a lot of sympathy for this woman.

00:35:18.180 And she has a GoFundMe of course. And that GoFundMe is up to $17,000, almost 18,000.

00:35:25.640 We're talking to $18,000. People are donating to a woman because she put glue in her hair.

00:35:30.260 And you read some of these comments, like here's some of the comments on the GoFundMe page for the

00:35:34.840 Gorilla Glue girl. Um, so it says, believe in God. You're in my prayers. And I pray the doctors

00:35:42.480 can clear this all for you with complete healing now. And in the future, be encouraged to know that

00:35:47.300 all things are possible with God. All things are possible with God. He can get the glue out of your

00:35:53.480 hair. All things are possible. That's true. God could get the glue out of your hair. I kind of think

00:35:58.160 God's going to make you, but this is one where God's going to say, you know, you're on your own

00:36:02.760 on this one. Um, and, uh, someone else says praying that it all turns out well. Um, someone

00:36:08.920 else says, I pray that she'll be okay. Someone else says, I know the road ahead is not going to be

00:36:15.200 easy, but hang in there and just ignore the negativity. I hope you find healing on the inside

00:36:19.380 as well as on the outside. Um, and there was another comment that I really liked. Oh, we all

00:36:28.040 make mistakes. You're still smart, beautiful, strong, and courageous. I appreciate, I, I guess

00:36:34.560 I have to appreciate how generous these people are being, but first of all, yeah, we all make

00:36:40.400 mistakes. We don't all make that mistake. In fact, nobody in history, as far as we know,

00:36:44.100 has ever made that mistake, but her, she's totally alone. She is, she is in a, in an arena all by

00:36:49.820 herself here. She's in a league of her own and not in a good way. Are you really praying?

00:36:58.040 Are, people went home last night and they got on their knees and they prayed for the

00:37:03.460 woman who had glue in her hair. Now, again, all things are possible with God. Um, God is

00:37:10.020 omnipotent and omniscient. He can, he can hear all prayers. He can respond to all prayers.

00:37:14.040 So, you know, you can't like overtax God, but at the same time, so many things to pray

00:37:19.780 about in the world. And you made time to pray about the woman with glue in her hair and to

00:37:23.700 give her money. What would really make me angry? So I'm not even going to look, you look at her

00:37:28.600 $18,000 on GoFundMe for glue in her hair. Compare that to like people with cancer who have GoFundMes 0.94

00:37:36.600 or people, people whose kids have cancer. I bet you're going to find a lot of GoFundMes

00:37:41.460 for, for cancer stricken children that have not raised $18,000 on GoFundMe.

00:37:47.580 Um, so let's get our, uh, priorities straight would be my suggestion. Okay. Now moving on to

00:37:54.040 the newest, uh, segment and the greatest, which we call reading the YouTube comments where I,

00:38:00.020 in fact, read the YouTube comments. Here are a few comments left on the show yesterday.

00:38:03.280 KS Hutter says, Matt, give us a list of a few people who, who you think could actually be

00:38:08.560 president in 2024. I personally wish Ron Paul would run again, but he's way too old now.

00:38:13.960 Yeah. I would say he's, what is he like 97 now? I'd say he's probably too old.

00:38:16.860 Um, Ron DeSantis is the guy that I've been mentioning. Uh, and, and I, I think others

00:38:22.240 are going to, I think there are other potential candidates that, that, that maybe you could

00:38:26.800 mention right now. I think that four years is a long time and other people, hopefully it's

00:38:31.340 enough time to find other candidates and draft them and find, find talented people. Um, you

00:38:38.360 know, the, the, the, the mainstream Republican party on a national level, if we look at Republicans 0.97

00:38:43.380 in Congress, there, there may be a lot of incompetent clowns there, but on the right, 0.95

00:38:50.500 generally plenty of very talented, incompetent people. So if I had to cast a vote right now 0.97

00:38:57.680 for 2024, it would be for Ron DeSantis. But I think there are many other, um, potential candidates

00:39:04.360 as well. The only thing is if Trump runs again in 2024 as a 78 year old man, and we have

00:39:12.600 to do all this all over again, then I really don't think he's going to win, but he, I don't

00:39:19.160 think he'd win the general. He would win the primary for sure. And he would suck up all the

00:39:22.340 oxygen and all of this up and coming talent is really talented guys like, like Ron DeSantis

00:39:27.060 would be, would suffocate from the lack of oxygen. Um, which is why I really think we

00:39:33.680 need to start moving forward and thinking about who, you know, who's going to be the

00:39:37.460 next generation. All right. Um, Matthew says, Matt, I love your new segment appropriately

00:39:46.580 named reading the YouTube comments, but I think it'd be better if you read comments from

00:39:49.940 the daily wire website, it would add a layer of exclusivity. If you read comments from your

00:39:53.760 live stream chat or the comments on your articles on the DW website, this way only those who

00:39:58.220 are behind the paywall can participate and would entice the YouTube freeloaders to get

00:40:01.600 a membership. Matthew, how about you try to, you stop trying to micromanage me. Stop telling

00:40:05.600 me what to do. How about that? You're banned from listening to the show. Done. Get out.

00:40:11.500 Uh, but thanks for the comment anyway. Um, Diana Vega says, I just want to thank Matt for

00:40:18.480 being one of the main voices to steer me away from the left last year. I may not agree with

00:40:21.900 everything he says, but his dry and sarcastic demeanor and logic are what the world needs

00:40:25.100 right now. Well, thank you, Diana. And this really, and I mean that sincerely, you know,

00:40:30.520 being able to, because some, I can say whatever I want, present whatever arguments I want,

00:40:36.980 but if, but you have to be willing to think critically, to listen to the arguments,

00:40:42.040 think critically about them. Um, you have to be willing to adjust your entire worldview.

00:40:47.540 You have to be willing to consider the possibility that you've been wrong about a lot of things for

00:40:52.860 a long time. And most people in this country today are simply not willing to do that.

00:40:58.480 It takes a lot of intellectual courage. So I'll give you credit for that. Um, and

00:41:02.780 cow a fungus really, I'm, I'm just reading this because I love the username. Cow a fungus says,

00:41:06.900 in case you didn't notice it's time for secession. There simply aren't any other choices. Now I've,

00:41:11.800 I've said many times, I think the idea of a national divorce is, um, is good. I would be, 0.55

00:41:17.340 I would be in favor of a, of a, of a, I, I, I think it's, I can't think of a, of another solution

00:41:22.900 anyway. Um, I don't see us all coming together and unifying magically as much as it'd be nice

00:41:28.500 if we would, I don't see that actually happening, but I also haven't seen a plan for secession that

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00:43:56.200 You know, there are only a few corporate chains whose honor and dignity I will defend to my dying

00:44:00.680 breath. Bass, Bass Pro Shops is one. Arby's is another. And rounding out the trio is that realm

00:44:05.940 of culinary delight known as Cracker Barrel. Um, I, I maintain that you simply will not find a better

00:44:10.860 meatloaf dish with three sides for under $12 anywhere in the world. I dare you to try. Maybe,

00:44:15.880 maybe a low bar, but still also across the entire American Southeast, there are like 46 Cracker

00:44:21.920 Barrels per square mile. Um, it's become such a part of the landscape that you either develop an

00:44:26.460 affection for it, or you become deeply depressed. And I have chosen affection in this case. And so

00:44:32.120 it may be partly because of this deep affection that I take personally, the recent efforts by

00:44:36.820 some on the left to turn Cracker Barrel racist. This is one of the weirder trends among progressive

00:44:42.020 race hustlers. They notice a lot of white people congregating in buildings, um, in these Cracker 0.96

00:44:47.600 Barrel buildings, disappearing inside for hours at a time, reemerging with a fatter stomach and carrying

00:44:53.040 a scented candle and a bag of hard candy from the gift shop. And they figure that something sinister

00:44:57.420 must be happening inside something racist. And that's why a few months ago, Cracker Barrel,

00:45:03.840 you may remember made headlines because there was a quote noose hanging from the ceiling in one of

00:45:09.240 their restaurants. And this sparked outrage until it was discovered that the noose was actually not

00:45:13.380 a noose, but the cord of an antique soldering iron. But no worries, said the media, you know,

00:45:18.520 they, they simply changed their headlines and reported that a quote, here's CNN's phrasing a quote,

00:45:22.360 noose like cord was found in a Cracker Barrel. Yes. If you can't get away with calling it a noose,

00:45:28.420 just call it noose like. And the great thing is that literally any rope string or cord can be called

00:45:35.680 noose like. Now, if you thought that would be the most desperate attempt to racist-ify Cracker Barrel,

00:45:43.280 um, you were wrong. Yesterday, the chain was trending again, this time due to a meme posted by some

00:45:49.660 random Twitter account, which makes the following claim. This is the claim. Cracker was a slang term

00:45:58.240 for whip. That's why blacks called whites crackers from the crack of the whip. A Cracker Barrel is a barrel 0.99

00:46:04.620 that held the whips for sale at the country store. You see the whip going from the R to the K in the logo?

00:46:10.420 Racism in your face. Now, this claim that Cracker Barrel was named after barrels of whips sold at the

00:46:18.280 country store for plantation owners to use on their slaves. This claim was amplified and repeated and

00:46:23.320 immediately, unquestioningly accepted by thousands of people. Sophia Nelson, who's a self-described,

00:46:28.380 self-described award-winning journalist, retweeted this claim with the caption,

00:46:33.220 heavy sigh. I really like Cracker Barrel, but now that I see this and I get it,

00:46:37.960 I sadly no longer can eat there. And she passed this along to her 74,000 followers. And this is

00:46:44.880 what award-winning journalists do now. They see a meme, accept it absolutely and on face value,

00:46:51.300 and then promptly spread it as a fact to the public. The backlash was so intense that eventually

00:46:57.140 Cracker Barrel actually had to issue a statement addressing it and denying the racist

00:47:03.000 origins of their name. Now, an intelligent person, of which there is a dwindling supply in this

00:47:09.640 country, upon hearing this claim about barrels of whips might immediately suspect that something

00:47:14.460 isn't right. First of all, why would you sell whips in a barrel of all things? Wouldn't they get

00:47:20.000 tangled? Isn't that the most impractical way to sell whips? You could go to Lowe's or Home Depot and

00:47:26.700 find all kinds of ropes and cords for sale, noose-like items, CNN would say. And what you'll find

00:47:32.900 is that they're all hanging or placed neatly on shelves. If you walk into a Lowe's and say,

00:47:38.740 excuse me, can you point me to your barrel of ropes? They're going to look at you like you're 0.95

00:47:43.000 insane. The other problem with the claim is that it's completely made up. Maybe that's the main

00:47:49.520 problem with it, is that it's just completely, totally made up. This is a thing that somebody

00:47:53.420 on the internet simply invented out of whole cloth and posted. There is zero truth to it.

00:47:59.780 As it turns out, and shockingly, even Snopes did a fact check on this, the term cracker barrel comes

00:48:07.160 from literal barrels of crackers that used to be sold at country stores. Now, a barrel of crackers

00:48:14.160 seems itself sort of impractical and unsanitary. But, you know, this was a different time. People back in

00:48:19.860 those days thought nothing of sticking their hand into a huge barrel and pulling out a wad of

00:48:24.680 crackers. And then they buy the handful of crackers for a nickel or whatever it was. And that's where

00:48:30.900 the name comes from. The cracker barrel origin story that went viral yesterday was essentially a

00:48:36.340 conspiracy theory. And this is what we have to understand. This is a conspiracy theory. And this

00:48:40.940 is how left-wing conspiracy theories often work. We know about the conspiracy theories on the right,

00:48:45.760 QAnon, Sandy Hook trutherism, and so on. We hear plenty about those. 0.85

00:48:49.860 But the left has its own. They just look a little different and are built on different

00:48:56.800 background assumptions. The most basic background assumption for the left-wing conspiracy theory

00:49:01.400 is that everything is racist. Every institution is racist. And racism, that is bigotry by white

00:49:06.820 people against non-white people specifically, is embedded into everything in our culture.

00:49:11.900 See, conspiracy theories are all about finding patterns where they don't exist. Or finding patterns

00:49:18.720 where they do exist and then inventing extravagant and fantastical explanations for those patterns.

00:49:23.880 This happens on both sides of the aisle. It is very far from an exclusively right-wing phenomenon.

00:49:30.740 Claiming that the cracker barrel logo is a racist dog whistle from a store with mysterious nooses 0.96

00:49:36.660 hanging in its gift shop is a conspiracy theory every bit as ridiculous and invented as the claim 0.98

00:49:42.140 that a pizza shop in D.C. is the staging ground for a child sex trafficking ring. 0.96

00:49:46.980 The only difference, again, is the background assumption that goes into it.

00:49:51.600 And so, cracker barrel is not canceled. It will never be canceled on my watch.

00:49:56.740 As long as it keeps serving that delicious meatloaf.

00:49:59.540 But, the conspiracy theorists smearing its good name are absolutely canceled.

00:50:05.380 And that's going to do it for us today.

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The Matt Walsh Show - February 10, 2021

Ep. 655 - They Aren't Telling Us The Whole Story

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