The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 660 - How The Left Creates A Society Of Self-Loathing Narcissists

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Walsh Show, a school in New York encourages its white students to be white 0.97

00:00:03.800 traitors and white abolitionists. We'll talk about how this is only one of the ways in which 0.91

00:00:09.160 our culture instills self-loathing in people, especially children. And in our five headlines,

00:00:14.200 the media starts to update its reporting on the death of Officer Brian Sicknick.

00:00:19.040 The update is that their original reporting was absolute bunk. Also, Bill Gates tells us plebs 1.00

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00:02:20.380 Well, maybe you've noticed I've made it a habit to base monologues around the reporting of Chris

00:02:25.560 Ruffo, who's the City Journal writer, does a lot of reporting on critical race theory and other things.

00:02:32.960 But the reason why I base a lot of my monologues around him is that he's doing some of the most

00:02:36.740 important reporting in media for my money. Granted, the most important reporting in media is kind of

00:02:43.080 like talking about the cleanest highway rest stop bathrooms in New Jersey, kind of a low bar. But in

00:02:48.480 this case, it really is important. So here's his latest. He says, quote, the principal of Eastside

00:02:54.900 Community School in New York sent white parents this, quote, tool for action, which tells them that

00:03:00.140 they must become white traders and then advocates for full white abolition. This is the new language 0.99

00:03:07.200 of public education. Okay, white abolition, white traders. The Federalist also has an article about 0.73

00:03:13.320 this. They have more information. They say that the graphic also appears to have been produced and

00:03:16.760 dispersed by the Slow Factory Foundation, a progressive climate and race action group in June of last year,

00:03:23.960 shortly after the death of George Floyd, the organization which claims it is devoted to dismantling

00:03:28.720 colonial systems of oppression and promoting systemic change towards regenerative social and

00:03:34.500 environmental systems, also often advocates for equity centered education focused on creating and

00:03:39.780 delivering resources about power structures and historical social context as a key driver of any

00:03:44.740 topic. So this is a group that is now giving material to schools that the schools then is then sending to

00:03:51.920 parents and using in their classrooms, presumably. Continues, some of the group's initiatives include their

00:03:57.160 study hall conference series devoted to using fashion as a medium for social and environmental

00:04:03.140 change. And they're sponsored by many big name donors, including Adidas, Tesla, YouTube, TED, other other things

00:04:11.980 as well. So this is a far left organization. And this is what they're putting out. And now this school is using

00:04:16.880 it. As for the graphic itself, it says, this is what they're telling the parents. There is a regime of

00:04:24.600 whiteness and there are action oriented white identities. People who identify with whiteness are 0.57

00:04:30.700 one of these. It's about time we build an ethnography of whiteness since white people have been the ones 1.00

00:04:37.340 writing about and governing others. All right. If that makes sense, which it doesn't. But then there's

00:04:44.820 kind of the illustration to maybe help us make a little bit more sense of it. We're given sort of a dial

00:04:49.220 which goes from red to green, showing us the different white identities. All of the white 0.99

00:04:56.300 identities are negative. OK, so they're all framed in a negative way. And you wouldn't really want to

00:05:01.380 be any of them. But if you're white, then you have to be one of them, at least according to the people 0.90

00:05:06.260 promoting this stuff. And if you have to be one, then you need to be in the green is what we're being

00:05:11.280 told. So here are the white identities. Let me let me read them to you. Let me pull them up. 0.81

00:05:15.540 The white identities will go from red to green. So from from bad to worse or rather from from worse 1.00

00:05:22.280 to to not as bad, but still bad. OK. Number one, white supremacist clearly marked white society that

00:05:31.880 preserves names and values white superiority. White voyeurism wouldn't challenge a white supremacist 0.95

00:05:39.660 desires non whiteness because it's interesting, pleasurable, seeks to control the consumption and

00:05:45.380 appropriation of non whiteness. Fascination with culture. Example, consuming black culture without 1.00

00:05:53.160 the burden of blackness. OK, so I guess, for example, a white person who listens to rap music 0.97

00:05:59.480 is a white voyeur. All right. White privilege. That's the third identity. May critique supremacy, 0.95

00:06:07.520 but a deep investment in questions of fairness, equality under the normalization of whiteness and

00:06:13.440 the white rule. Sworn goal of diversity. OK, so this is this is actually most white liberals.

00:06:19.320 They're not even in the green yet. They're they're just about according to to this. They are only

00:06:26.560 slightly above white supremacist. These are the white people that are going around talking about

00:06:31.140 diversity and all this kind of stuff. And apparently that is that that's for coming from a place of

00:06:37.160 privilege. Number four, white benefit, sympathetic to a set of issues, but only privately won't speak

00:06:44.880 slash act in solidarity publicly because benefiting through whiteness in public. Then there's white 0.87

00:06:50.860 confessional. This is another white identity. You could be a white confessional if you want. 0.78

00:06:55.900 What that means is that there's some exposure of whiteness taking place, but as a way of being

00:07:00.400 accountable to POC after seeking validation from POC, people of color, white critical take. So

00:07:07.620 now we're getting let's see, let's look at the dial again. All right. White privilege. You're basically 0.63

00:07:13.460 so most liberals, most white liberals are back in the white privilege. They're they're all they're

00:07:17.420 kind of orangish, but they're still sort of in the red. Now we're getting to white critical. Now

00:07:21.600 we're getting into the green. So now we're getting closer to where the the the race hustlers want you to

00:07:27.860 be. White critical. Take on board critiques of whiteness and invest in exposing slash marking the 0.81

00:07:35.280 white regime refuses to be complicit with the regime. Whiteness speaking back to whiteness. 0.56

00:07:40.740 Then seven, white traitor. Now we're really getting there. Actively refuses complicity. Names what's 0.99

00:07:48.020 going on. Intention is to subvert while authority, white authority and tell the truth at whatever costs 0.89

00:07:53.200 need them to dismantle institutions. And then finally, this is where they want everyone to be.

00:07:58.660 If you're white, a white abolitionist. This is number eight. This is where you're firmly in the 0.77

00:08:02.720 green and a white abolitionist is changing institutions, dismantling whiteness and not

00:08:08.140 allowing whiteness to reassert itself. All right. This is, of course, racist in the extreme.

00:08:16.020 Uh, there's probably no reason to belabor that point. Those who know it's racist don't need it

00:08:21.780 explained to them. Those who don't recognize it as racist immediately are hopeless anyway,

00:08:27.360 or at least they're going to require a much longer explanation and a much longer argument than I can

00:08:31.640 provide here. So instead of talking about the fact that this is absurdly racist, which it obviously

00:08:35.760 is, and that this is a form of, of racism that is widespread, indeed systemic in our culture.

00:08:42.680 Instead of talking about that, I'd like to pull back and take a kind of panoramic view of the

00:08:48.000 situation, if I could, because this is just one way that self-loathing is instilled in the

00:08:55.260 population, especially in children. Yeah, this was, this was given to parents, of course, uh, because

00:09:01.660 this is the message that they're sending to everybody, but only imagine what the kids in school, if the

00:09:06.780 parents are being told this, only imagine what the kids, whenever they end up back in school, are going to

00:09:12.000 be told. Um, and this is only one of the ways, it's not the only way that self-loathing is instilled.

00:09:18.700 And it's, it's, it's not like you escape the self-loathing by being another race, because that, 0.72

00:09:24.440 that, that's not going to happen either. Boys of all races are told that they're toxic, that they're

00:09:30.280 infected with toxic masculinity, that their masculinity is yet another thing that has to be purged and 0.68

00:09:36.220 deconstructed and destroyed. So, uh, think about already now, now imagine a white boy 0.97

00:09:40.980 being subjected to this kind of thing in school. They're, they're just toxic down the line, toxic 0.97

00:09:47.520 whiteness, toxic masculinity, everything about them, they're told has to be deconstructed. They 0.99

00:09:53.380 should hate everything about themselves. And for girls, um, it's, it's the same though. It's not quite

00:09:59.980 as explicit. Now with boys in our culture, they are explicitly told to hate themselves. Girls not

00:10:06.460 quite as explicit, but they're still the same kind of message. A girl who finds quote, traditional

00:10:11.240 femininity appealing, who dreams more of being a mother and a wife than say a business woman 1.00

00:10:15.780 is told to reject that, to hate it. Boys and girls together are taught to be suspicious of their

00:10:21.960 parents, their families, their history. Uh, they're taught to hate their country. They're taught to hate

00:10:26.920 everyone who came before them, all of those ignorant bigots who made them and raised them. 1.00

00:10:33.240 And it's not like the message to non-white people and non-white kids is positive either 0.99

00:10:37.880 because they're taught that they're victims and that they will never not be victims,

00:10:42.440 that they need to be rescued, that they're helpless. There's a lot of self-loathing that comes with that

00:10:48.620 as well. So just think about this. Think about what we're doing. See, we thought that the problem

00:10:56.920 was the opposite, right? This is the way that we've talked about it for so long. We thought that

00:11:00.780 self-love and self-esteem were being overemphasized and they are, but the self-love that kids are

00:11:10.500 conditioned into is very specific and very shallow and weird and backwards. So they're taught to

00:11:17.580 embrace their vices, their sins. They're taught to define themselves by their sexual proclivities.

00:11:24.740 They're taught to reject their biological sex and invent some new kind of gender for themselves.

00:11:31.480 But underneath all of that, underneath all of that, when you get down to the bottom of it all,

00:11:37.260 we are not turning kids into overconfident narcissists, not at all. We may be turning

00:11:44.240 them into narcissists in a certain way because anyone who's focused intensely on themselves and

00:11:50.500 can't see outside of their own interests, can't think about anything other than themselves,

00:11:55.740 that's a narcissist. But just because you're thinking about yourself and you're focused intensely

00:12:00.940 on yourself doesn't mean it's in a positive way. We may be turning kids into narcissists in a certain

00:12:05.880 way, but self-loathing ones, self-loathing narcissists. We live in a culture of self-loathing

00:12:12.840 narcissists. We're raising generations of self-loathing narcissists because that's the message that's

00:12:19.880 being sent at the deepest level, right? Hate yourself. Hate who you really are. Reject it all. 0.97

00:12:28.640 If you're a white boy going to school and totally exposed to modern culture,

00:12:35.820 especially if you don't have a family, if you don't have parents, they're going to insulate

00:12:39.740 you to some extent from that, then forget about it. It's nothing but self-loathing all the way down

00:12:44.280 the line. But it's not just white boys. It's everyone to some extent. Hate who you really are. 0.85

00:12:52.960 Reject it. Be something else. Be someone else. Be who we want you to be. Who we think you should 0.99

00:13:01.880 be. Not who you actually are. And then we wonder. We wonder why our kids are depressed and suicidal.

00:13:11.440 Well, it's no mystery. It really isn't. Let's get to our five headlines.

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00:15:07.660 this is one that I didn't have planned. I didn't have written on my sheet of headlines because

00:15:12.000 I just saw it right before we went on the air. Rush Limbaugh has died at the age of 70 from lung

00:15:19.000 cancer. It feels sudden somehow. Somehow it still feels sudden, even though we knew for months now

00:15:25.040 that he'd been diagnosed and he'd talked about it openly. Still in some way, to me anyway, it feels

00:15:32.120 sudden. And I guess that's the way it goes when you have a man of such consequence, a true legend

00:15:40.360 and pioneer and icon who dies. Someone who is really in every sense irreplaceable when they die

00:15:47.360 and leave behind a hole that cannot really be filled. He was a man of consequence. And no matter

00:15:54.560 how you feel about his politics, you should be able to respect that at least. I know that's not the

00:16:00.560 way it goes now in our culture. You know, we don't admire and respect great men and women,

00:16:06.160 but we should, even if you disagree with them, to be a true original, which he was in a world of

00:16:15.140 copycats. And he spawned a whole generation of copycats. You know, one other thing I want to say

00:16:21.180 here is that obviously you've got these vile ghouls online who are already celebrating his death

00:16:27.420 and dancing on his grave and all of that. And we knew that was going to happen. 0.56

00:16:33.020 But I, what I, what I really wish we wouldn't do as conservatives and especially conservative

00:16:39.160 media is amplify that because, you know, the trolls, the reason that they're doing that is

00:16:44.320 because they want attention. So let's not give them that attention. That's what I would rather do.

00:16:48.320 I'm not going to sit here and read, oh, you're not going to believe what this Twitter user said

00:16:51.840 about Russia. I'm not going to do that because that's what they want. That's what they would want 0.85

00:16:55.700 me to do. It's what they want all of us to do. You know, the other thing about Rush Limbaugh that

00:16:59.860 I, that I, that I've been thinking about even before this news is that he

00:17:04.920 faced his own mortality and his own death with courage and dignity. Another thing you should be

00:17:12.820 able to respect regardless of politics. And he talked about it openly. And he, he wasn't, he wasn't,

00:17:20.020 especially in one of his last shows right before Christmas. And he was, and he was talking about,

00:17:24.100 it was clear that he was, he wasn't trying to delude himself into thinking that, you know,

00:17:28.900 everything's going to be okay. He knew the end was coming. He just don't know exactly when,

00:17:33.260 but he knew it was coming. And he faced that with courage and dignity. And that's, again,

00:17:37.900 not something that you can say about everybody. And I suspect that a lot of the trolls who are

00:17:44.460 dancing on his grave and having a good laugh when their time comes, they will not face it with the

00:17:49.960 same courage and dignity that, uh, that Rush Limbaugh faces on something to think about

00:17:53.900 before you, if you're considering celebrating anybody's death or laughing about it, like it's

00:17:59.120 a joke, you know, we're all mortal. We're all going to join Rush Limbaugh and every other,

00:18:04.320 all the other billions of people who have died sooner rather than later, we'll all join them.

00:18:08.180 We all live short lives. We're mortal. And that's the lot that we have been given as mortal beings.

00:18:13.940 So maybe, maybe, maybe hold off on the laughter a little bit because your, your, your turn is

00:18:19.180 coming. All of us, it is. Uh, but just another thing to admire about Rush Limbaugh that he was

00:18:24.320 able to do that. Um, and he's, uh, again, legend icon. Um, there'll be a lot of time to sort of

00:18:35.640 talk about and parse out and analyze his, his influence, which was immense and in a lot of ways

00:18:40.320 incalculable. But for now, what I'll say is rest in peace to Rush Limbaugh and, uh, prayers,

00:18:45.500 prayers for his family. You know, I have to say I'm a little bit of a hypocrite because I have been 0.64

00:18:50.760 criticizing, you know, the Nashville city government here for, for being completely unprepared for their

00:18:57.600 lack of winter weather preparedness as we go into like day three and I haven't seen a plow touch any

00:19:03.100 road. Um, but we're, we're not much better. You know, I guess I discovered I, we also were not

00:19:10.200 prepared and that's why yesterday I took my kids out to go sledding at the park and, um, we didn't

00:19:15.840 have any sleds. We had no sleds for them. And so we had to take the, uh, lids from, you know, the big

00:19:21.760 plastic storage bins that you put stuff in. So we took the lids from big plastic storage bins and

00:19:27.780 that's what they were sledding on plastic lids down at the park. So that's all we had. We all

00:19:33.080 had for that. We really, and we couldn't get to Walmart to get them new ones. And even if we did,

00:19:36.660 they'd probably all be out anyway. But then we go down to the park and of course, you know,

00:19:41.000 of course a bunch of other kids there and all the kids have the fanciest sleds you've ever seen in

00:19:45.920 your life. A bunch of, so, you know, nobody around here has a shovel or salt for their sidewalk,

00:19:52.540 but they do have $70 sleds. And I had a lot of, I have to say I had, I was experiencing a lot of

00:19:59.140 sled envy and a lot of sled shame at the same time. My kids, not so much. They were, they were

00:20:04.580 having a grand old time on their lids. So that's good. Kids are very simple, which is nice. Uh,

00:20:10.240 okay. Number one, this to me is a pretty big deal. Reading from the national review, a column by Andrew

00:20:15.120 McCarthy. It says a few days ago, the New York times quietly updated its report published over a month

00:20:19.580 earlier, asserting that Capitol police officer, Brian Sicknick had been killed by being struck

00:20:23.940 with a fire extinguisher during the January 6th riot. According to the update, this is the New York

00:20:28.120 times, this is their update. New information has emerged regarding the death of Capitol police

00:20:31.600 officer, Brian Sicknick that questions the initial cause of death provided by officials close to the

00:20:35.760 Capitol police. Um, as I detailed in a column last week, McCarthy says what the times calls new

00:20:41.200 information actually began emerging the same day the paper filed its January 8th report.

00:20:45.160 And then the column goes on to say that there were reports, there were reports as early as January

00:20:50.300 8th. So that is less than two days afterwards saying that Sicknick may have died of a stroke.

00:20:56.600 And as no evidence has emerged for any other theory, the stroke idea seems extremely credible at this

00:21:03.380 point, which means that his death didn't necessarily have any connection to the riot whatsoever.

00:21:10.960 In fact, it seems to me again, because there's, there's no, there's no other evidence for

00:21:15.800 anything. We have the reports initially saying it was a stroke, uh, that hasn't been confirmed yet

00:21:21.080 as far as I'm aware. And we were, we were never told anything officially about the medical exam or

00:21:25.580 the autopsy report. Um, but if he was beat to death, bludgeoned to death at this point, you would

00:21:32.760 expect there to be some kind of evidence for it, some sort of arrest that had been made. And that

00:21:37.300 hasn't happened. So this seems very credible that it was a stroke. Was it a stroke somehow connected

00:21:44.480 to the riot? Did the riot trigger something? Did he, I mean, it's possible. It's also very possible

00:21:50.800 that it's a coincidence that there was a riot and then he happened to suffer this medical emergency

00:21:56.040 after the fact. I mean, you have to, you have to ask yourself, um, during the whole course of the

00:22:01.300 BLM riots over the, over the summer, hundreds of cities, uh, was there, was there ever during all 0.84

00:22:08.160 of that? Did any police officer in, you know, after a riot had occurred, maybe at, at his home or,

00:22:18.340 or back, um, at the station, suffer a medical emergency and die a stroke, a heart attack,

00:22:22.720 something like that. Did that happen? Well, we don't know. I mean, it could have easily happened.

00:22:28.300 The point is it would not have been reported. It wouldn't have made the news, but it easily could

00:22:33.140 have happened. Was there, there was rioting in Portland for months during the whole course of

00:22:40.300 all that rioting in Portland. Did any police officer die of anything? Seems very likely. I don't know.

00:22:46.600 It seems likely, but it wouldn't be reported. That's the difference. And if the media did report it,

00:22:54.940 they certainly wouldn't assume that there's a connection and report it as a connection.

00:23:00.080 If a Portland police officer went home and eight hours after he was, uh, on duty dealing with a

00:23:07.960 riot, he, he died of a stroke. The media would not report it as connected to the riots. And we all know

00:23:15.560 that. But what we've seen here, the way that, um, the Democrat party has exploited this man's death

00:23:23.060 and lied about it. Because let's be real about this, this fire extinguisher story, this, this was

00:23:29.580 a lie. It was a fabrication. I don't know who originally fabricated it, but it was a fabrication

00:23:33.580 because it, it just didn't happen. It's not like something similar happened and it was

00:23:40.380 misinterpreted. It doesn't, it's nothing like that happened to officer Brian Sicknick. So, uh, this

00:23:46.380 appears to be a total fabrication, total lie. We don't really know where it originated. I don't think

00:23:50.400 it originated with the New York times. Maybe it did, but we don't know, but what they've done here

00:23:56.340 by exploiting this man's death and lying about it is, is one of the most craven things we've seen

00:24:03.740 from the Democrat party. Uh, and, and, and I realized what a statement that is, but I want to emphasize

00:24:09.840 how despicable this really has been. And it only shows again, why you, you know, I don't know how many

00:24:15.580 times we have to see this before people, before it really sinks in with all of us. You cannot take

00:24:19.700 the mainstream media narrative at face value ever. Okay. You all, anytime there's a report

00:24:27.440 about anything, especially if it's something that has political significance, the Democrat party is

00:24:35.640 using, uh, to, you know, push some sort of agenda of theirs. Anytime that happens, whatever the report

00:24:41.600 is, you have to be skeptical. And there were signs early on, like the way that this was reported

00:24:49.380 from the very beginning, because it is, you know, we're also at a disadvantage. None of us were there.

00:24:55.960 We, if, and if we don't have our own sources and people on the ground telling us, then how are we

00:25:00.160 supposed to know what happened? We have to, you know, where are we supposed to get our information?

00:25:03.580 And that's part of the problem. But there were signs early on to be skeptical of this, the way it was

00:25:09.560 reported. Yeah. The media was saying that maybe there was a fire extinguisher. We were hearing

00:25:13.660 something about maybe he was hit over the head or whatever. But if you looked at the way it was

00:25:17.400 reported, it was framed in kind of, it was framed in an oddly passive sort of way where they were

00:25:25.000 telling us that officer Sicknick was engaging with rioters and then, and then, you know, and suffered an

00:25:31.440 injury and then later died. And it was just kind of, it wasn't exactly being reported that he had been

00:25:38.120 beat to death right there during the riot. There was this little bit of, there was, there was clear

00:25:44.280 uncertainty enough to make you stop and go, wait, what a second? What exactly happened here?

00:25:52.200 Never take the mainstream media narrative at face value. Always be skeptical.

00:25:58.800 You can't go wrong, right? There's no, there's no real disadvantage to just being skeptical.

00:26:03.060 It doesn't mean you automatically disbelieve every single thing you're told by the mainstream media,

00:26:07.680 but always skeptical, especially when there's political significance. Okay. From the Daily

00:26:13.460 Wire, it says in a never before seen 1992 home video, Dylan Farrow, the adopted daughter of Woody Allen

00:26:18.960 and Mia Farrow is heard as a seven-year-old telling her mother that Allen quote touched her private parts,

00:26:25.040 telling her, um, this Allen told her allegedly, do not move. I have to do this. The young girl then

00:26:31.620 poignantly, poignantly tells her mother, I didn't want him to do it, mama. I didn't like it.

00:26:36.260 The video is featured in a new four-part HBO documentary series about the Oscar-winning

00:26:40.120 director titled Allen vs. Farrow that premieres Sunday on HBO. The series will feature recordings

00:26:45.600 that Mia secretly made of her phone conversations with Allen, including one in which she tells him

00:26:50.560 that Dylan is not all right after the alleged incident. Uh, Mia Farrow and Allen, who had been

00:26:55.520 together since 1979, split after she found out that he was having an affair with her adopted

00:26:59.260 daughter, Sunye Previn. At the time, Allen was 55 and Sunye Previn was, uh, 21. And then it goes

00:27:07.200 into, if you want to watch this documentary, it goes into great detail about Woody Allen. I, you know,

00:27:13.740 it's pretty clear to me, like, of course, we got to attach allegedly to all these claims and

00:27:18.900 everything. And, um, regardless though, I mean, this is a guy 55 years old, marries his girlfriend's

00:27:26.780 adopted daughter who's 34 years younger than him. That's enough right there to know this guy is a

00:27:33.800 degenerate, creepy freak already from that. And then you add in these claim, these, uh, the 0.94

00:27:41.640 allegations, I personally find them quite credible given what we know about Woody Allen.

00:27:47.000 But think about all the Hollywood A-listers that have worked with this guy. I mean, almost

00:27:54.020 everyone in Hollywood has. Almost all the big names have at some point worked on a Woody Allen

00:27:58.520 project. And yet these people will still lecture us. And even while the, even, even once Me Too

00:28:06.340 happened and during the Me Too hysteria, Woody Allen was still putting movies out. And a lot of the

00:28:13.540 Me Too champions were still starring in them. Number three, Claudia Conway, um, the daughter 0.55

00:28:20.960 of Kellyanne Conway and George Conway auditioned on American Idol a couple of nights ago. Now American

00:28:26.300 Idol came in for some criticism, um, by people calling this exploitative and gross to bring this

00:28:31.960 girl in as fodder for tabloids to bring attention to the show, exploiting her troubled situation. And I

00:28:38.860 guess, um, the question of whether it's exploitative to have Claudia Conway on American Idol, it certainly 0.98

00:28:47.220 seems exploitative to me, but it really depends on, on whether Claudia Conway is actually a burgeoning 0.65

00:28:53.140 pop star. I mean, if she really is massively talented as a singer, then maybe you can't blame 0.98

00:29:00.880 them for, for bringing her on if she's actually that good. But if she's not, then you have to ask

00:29:08.220 why she made the show at all. And I know that they do bring on some bad singers on purpose so that 0.93

00:29:13.360 everyone can laugh at them. But then you have to ask, why did they pick her? You see, that would seem

00:29:19.720 especially exploitative if she's not a very good singer. Um, and she wants to be an American Idol and 1.00

00:29:25.640 she's only famous because of this deeply troubled, disordered family dysfunction that she's a part

00:29:31.980 of. And you bring her on the show. Well, that's, that's extremely exploitative, isn't it? So that's

00:29:39.100 what it really comes down to for me. Is she a good singer or not? And this is not to make fun of her

00:29:43.700 or anything, but that's, I think that's how you can tell if, uh, if this is blatant exploitation or not.

00:29:50.700 And so let's, uh, she, she did the audition a couple nights ago and let's, let's take a listen.

00:29:57.040 You sound like a song. My God, this reminds me of when we were young. Let me photograph you in this

00:30:11.920 delight in case it is the last time that we might be exactly like we were before we realized we were

00:30:23.300 scared of getting old. It made us restless. Yes. Yeah. Um, yes, it was exploitation. It was,

00:30:33.160 it was exploitation. And I don't mean this, this, this is not about mocking this girl who I feel bad

00:30:39.780 for. She didn't ask to be a part of this. And, um, well, she may have asked to be a part of it.

00:30:46.140 She has to be a part of, of American Idol. And she has been on social media, bringing attention to

00:30:50.760 herself, but she's a kid, you know, we, the kids don't know any better. Um, what she didn't ask for

00:30:59.640 is to be in this deeply dysfunctional family situation with a mother and father apparently

00:31:04.420 seem to hate each other and are pretty public about it. Um, or at least, at least I would say

00:31:10.840 it's, it seems that the father hates the mother and it's pretty public about that. Um, but in any

00:31:16.540 case, yeah, this is Claudia Conway is not going to be a pop star. I think we could tell from that 1.00

00:31:22.700 she's a better singer. She's a fine singer. She's a better singer than I am. Uh, she's got a better 0.99

00:31:27.520 shot at pop stardom than I do, but even so she's not going to be a pop star and they brought her on 0.51

00:31:32.700 anyway. And so yes, confirmed exploitation. Number four, uh, here's some bad news from Jen

00:31:40.880 Pisaki. Listen, I think one point the Europeans would like to better understand it, what he means

00:31:47.300 with foreign policy for the middle class. Does it mean to uphold Donald Trump's tariffs? Like

00:31:53.160 in the case of aluminum from the UAE is the Biden administration used the same reasoning as the

00:31:59.960 Trump administration? I can assure you that the president, this president does not have

00:32:04.880 is not looking to the last presidency as the model for his foreign policy moving forward. Uh,

00:32:10.240 president Biden has been working in the global arena for decades. Uh, and what he means by foreign

00:32:16.880 policy for the middle class is, uh, ensuring that our team working on economic issues, our team working

00:32:23.060 on national security issues, uh, our teams thinking about how policies impact the American people are

00:32:29.220 talking and that we make decisions and make policies through that prison. Uh, we are certainly reviewing,

00:32:35.240 uh, a range of terrorists that have been put in place by the past administration. I don't have any

00:32:39.260 updates on that for you, but what the president is speaking to is the importance of, uh, contemplating,

00:32:45.800 integrating our domestic and national security teams and the policymaking and the process that,

00:32:51.240 uh, they go through and his view that we are stronger globally if we take care of our house

00:32:57.120 here at home. Uh, so that is part of his objective as well. Well, that is bad news. Trump is not a model

00:33:02.880 for their foreign policy. Why not? Why? I think if he's a model for anything, it's actually foreign

00:33:09.500 policy. But I think there are a lot of aspects of Donald Trump that you wouldn't want to model yourself

00:33:16.760 after or your presidential administration after, but, um, foreign policy. Absolutely. We went through

00:33:24.180 four years without a new war, peace deals in the Middle East. That's pretty damn successful.

00:33:33.140 He, one, one thing I think you can't deny is that he is the most successful foreign policy president

00:33:38.740 that we've had in generations. Um, and it's, it's a sad statement though, right? Because the main thing

00:33:48.200 that makes him such a great foreign policy president and makes him so successful is simply that he didn't

00:33:53.480 start any wars. And so it's unfortunate that the bar is that low that all you have to do as a president

00:33:59.300 is not start a disastrous war that, uh, claims thousands of lives and billions or trillions of

00:34:05.600 dollars. Like that's all you have to do is not start a war, but that's where we are. And, uh, and

00:34:10.000 he, and he did get over that bar. He cleared that bar quite easily. And I think it deserves a lot of

00:34:15.340 credit for that. So yes, I, I would like to see, I would like to see the Trump foreign policy emulated,

00:34:20.620 but we won't. Now we're gonna go back to the more traditional, uh, foreign policy, which means

00:34:26.820 droning random villages overseas, starting wars, trying to spread democracy to people who have no

00:34:34.140 interest in democracy whatsoever. Uh, that's what we're going to get from, from Joe Biden.

00:34:38.700 And also another, another thing from, uh, Jen Psaki, I want to play for you more, more bad news.

00:34:43.420 I'm afraid she was asked by someone on Twitter, how she plans to help small businesses.

00:34:50.000 Does, uh, or, or rather how does Biden plan to help small businesses? Does the administration have

00:34:54.700 a plan in place? What are they going to do for all these small businesses that have been

00:34:57.400 devastated by the lockdowns? And here is her answer.

00:35:00.840 What is president Biden doing for my small business? First and foremost, he nominated a

00:35:05.940 woman to lead the small business administration who formerly worked there. Second thing is he 1.00

00:35:10.740 signed an executive order to make it easier for, uh, minority owned small businesses to get access

00:35:15.900 to the funding, uh, that they need. And third is that, uh, in the American rescue plan, there's

00:35:21.400 currently about $60 billion, uh, to help a range of small, small businesses, uh, get access to additional

00:35:27.500 funds. So did you get that? The first two things, number one and two, first thing he nominated a

00:35:33.700 woman and also he's going to help minority businesses. Great. Well, so what, so you're a 0.97

00:35:39.380 white male business owner. Guess you're out of luck. All business owners are really out of luck when

00:35:44.280 it comes down to it. This is, this is how, because think about it. This was not, um, an off the cuff

00:35:49.760 answer that Jen Psaki gave at a press conference. Uh, this was, this was something that they shot

00:35:55.660 ahead of time and put a little production behind and then released. So they, this, this is how they

00:36:02.400 presented it on purpose, which shows how incredibly out of touch the left is. Democrat politicians are

00:36:09.840 that they actually thought the average small business owner would hear that answer and be happy

00:36:15.340 with it. They, they really thought that the average small business owner who is watching their life's

00:36:22.520 work fall apart in front of them will take solace in the fact that, uh, well, at least a woman was 1.00

00:36:28.520 nominated to lead the small business administration. That's what they think. They, they, they, they don't

00:36:35.780 understand how a normal person's brain operates. That is how it operates in a rational, logical kind of way.

00:36:45.340 And the rational, logical conclusion is that I don't give a damn if you get what, what gender 0.70

00:36:50.860 is leading, what administration or what agency in government, what do I care about that?

00:36:56.880 These policies have destroyed my life and my business. That's what I care about.

00:37:01.320 It doesn't make it any better because there are more women in the administration now. 1.00

00:37:06.600 They do not understand that. They don't understand it. They don't have, they don't have brains that work

00:37:11.780 that they don't have normally functioning brains. And that's the problem. Number five from the Hill.

00:37:17.840 It says Bill Gates recently said that he believes rich nations would help the global fight against

00:37:22.040 climate change by consuming only plant-based meat products instead of beef. In a recent interview

00:37:27.400 with technology review, Gates discussed his new book, how to avoid a climate disaster and emphasize

00:37:32.540 the benefits rich nations could produce by moving to 100% synthetic beef. He says, I do think all rich

00:37:39.580 countries should move to 100% synthetic beef. You can get used to taste difference. And the claim

00:37:44.260 is they're going to make it taste even better over time. Yeah. No, thanks, Bill. I don't think,

00:37:50.140 I don't think I'll be doing that. I don't think I'll ever be doing that. I'm going to stick with the

00:37:52.600 regular beef. And also I don't, I, I don't really give a damn about your opinion about anything.

00:37:59.880 We're hearing, we're hearing a lot from Bill Gates these last few months. Why should, but no one ever

00:38:07.260 stops to explain why we should actually care what he thinks about anything. I understand that he's

00:38:13.120 rich and he was successful with his business. Good for him. But why should I care what he thinks about

00:38:18.300 what I eat? Why should I care what he thinks about the virus mitigation strategies? Why should I care

00:38:25.120 what he thinks about the climate? That's the part that's always left out when Bill Gates is brought

00:38:30.940 in for an interview or Bill Gates sits down for a written interview or they write another article

00:38:35.080 about what Bill Gates thinks. Nobody ever stops and says, oh, by the way, here's why you should care

00:38:40.280 what this guy says. Until they explain it, I'm going to continue not caring. Unless they can give me

00:38:46.940 some really good reason why I should. And I, you know, as far as Bill Gates' own diet, I have no idea he

00:38:53.860 might be a vegetarian himself, but I would not be surprised at all if that guy's eating, you know,

00:38:58.180 six hamburgers a day while telling the rest of us that we're going to have to move to the plant-based

00:39:02.120 stuff. And, you know, we'll get used to the taste. You'll get used to the taste. I won't. I'm not

00:39:07.120 worried about that because I'm Bill Gates, but you, you know, you'll figure it out. What do you need

00:39:11.120 good taste for? Why do you need good food? You don't need that. Just another basic joy, basic pleasure in

00:39:19.700 life that you don't need. I mean, I'll have all the joys and pleasures for myself, but you don't need

00:39:24.960 it. That's the attitude. Shut up, Bill. Shut up. That's my, that would be my response. Let's go to

00:39:32.960 reading the comments now. Some of the comments under the show on YouTube from yesterday. And if you want

00:39:38.320 me to read your comment, all you have to do is, uh, is leave one. And that's, that's a good, that's a

00:39:42.660 good, at least, at least put you in the running. You can't win if you don't play, as they say.

00:39:46.400 This is from Walt G. He says, a little thought experiment. An alien civilization has the

00:39:50.220 technology to detect life on earth, the ability to travel light years using incredibly advanced

00:39:54.720 technology. They overcome all of these obstacles that we still can't fathom. They achieve these

00:39:59.400 things, get here and crash. Yeah, I do. I do think about that when we hear about the, you know,

00:40:06.500 documents, uh, outlining all of the UFO material that the Pentagon has tested. And again, of course,

00:40:15.640 UFO doesn't, when the, when the Pentagon talks about UFO, or, uh, I guess now the word they use

00:40:22.240 is UAP, unidentified aerial phenomenon. Uh, they're not saying that it's a space alien. They're,

00:40:27.740 they're simply saying they can't identify. They don't know what it is. And we talked about yesterday,

00:40:31.640 the, uh, hundreds of, of pages of documents that they released freedom of information act request,

00:40:37.880 um, talking about the unidentified flying objects they recovered and tested.

00:40:44.520 And apparently, allegedly, some of this stuff has material that, uh, functions in a way that is

00:40:51.160 unknown to, uh, to mankind as far as we know. Metal that can be bent, uh, you know, is basically

00:40:57.160 indestructible, but it can be bent in all these different shapes. And then, and then we'll snap

00:41:00.880 back into its original shape, that kind of thing. And yeah, I love these stories. I do find them

00:41:06.400 very interesting. I do think we should at least entertain the idea that, that maybe they are

00:41:11.920 extraterrestrial in origin. But then I also think, man, all of these super advanced civilizations

00:41:18.140 coming here and then they crash. That's, there's something about that. There seems to be a little

00:41:24.040 bit of a disconnect. I don't know. Aaron Peacock says, grown men that take baths also sit down

00:41:30.240 when they pee. I agree. Aaron. Um, I absolutely agree. I'm very anti Beth. Matthew, uh, mill scale

00:41:37.760 says, Matt, I am single right now. And I can tell you that it's awful trying to find someone. I thought

00:41:42.340 being able to go to college would be my chance to meet someone, but instead I get to spend my time

00:41:46.200 behind a computer screen. Yeah. I don't, I don't envy you for that at all. Um, and I feel, I do,

00:41:52.160 I feel terrible for, for people that are in this situation, especially, you know, maybe like you,

00:41:56.420 you're supposed to have your first year at college, looking forward to meeting people.

00:42:00.240 And now you're just sitting behind a computer screen. Um, but it kind of, it, it, it kind of

00:42:07.800 relates back to the meat thing from Bill Gates where he says, yeah, yeah. Hamburgers and meat tastes

00:42:15.620 good. It's a little joy that, that, that, uh, that you have in your life, but you don't need that.

00:42:19.900 We could take that. We can take another little joy away from you. And the people that have engineered

00:42:25.380 the lockdowns and pushed them and keep them in place, they have the same attitude about

00:42:29.840 little, little joys, little human things, like going out and meeting people.

00:42:36.680 They say, you don't really need that. You can survive in your house until you can't anymore.

00:42:42.440 But until then you can survive, you'll have all the food. Food doesn't even need to taste good.

00:42:48.500 See the elites, as far as they're concerned, if they simply keep you alive, then they've done

00:42:56.420 their job. As long as you're still alive, then you have nothing to complain about.

00:43:01.640 While they again, enjoy all of the pleasures and everything that life has to offer.

00:43:07.140 They also have not been staying home. These people, Bill Gates has been flying all over the place,

00:43:11.100 doing interviews. You know, they get, they get, they, they're, they're still going to work.

00:43:17.380 They're having press conferences. In fact, they're more active than they've ever been,

00:43:21.920 but you don't need that. Uh, little things like companionship. Who needs that?

00:43:29.980 Well, in fact, everyone does. People need that. Human beings need companionship. That is,

00:43:34.180 that is an actual human need. Dano says, Hey Matt, you canceling your own fans slash followers

00:43:40.720 gives me anxiety. Please don't cancel me losing Trump and losing my ability to watch your show

00:43:44.780 will destroy my life. Well, Dano, you know, when you beg to be canceled, that's only a recipe for

00:43:52.180 getting canceled and banned from the show. So you're gone, but thanks anyway for listening and

00:43:59.980 commenting for your final time. I'm not big on new year's resolutions because I think that if there's

00:44:05.360 something that you actually intend to do, then you're not going to save it for some moment.

00:44:10.660 Uh, well, I'm going to start doing it on the new year. No, if you want to do something,

00:44:13.700 if you want to improve your life, you can start right now. And so we don't need to call this a

00:44:17.000 new year's resolution. How about a right now resolution? One of them is, uh, to, to learn,

00:44:21.080 to, to grow your, um, your knowledge, to become a more well-rounded person. This is a process we should

00:44:27.120 always be, um, be, you know, involved in because learning is not something that you simply do at

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00:47:03.680 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:47:09.360 It's really impossible to remember all of the fake and frivolous controversies that the internet has

00:47:14.280 given us. That's part of the fake and frivolous package, I suppose. They're also forgettable. But

00:47:18.640 one such controversy has stood out and will be remembered, at least by me. That's the controversy

00:47:24.520 surrounding the man who is known now as Bean Dad. Now, some background, John Roderick is a musician

00:47:30.900 podcast host who became infamous on Twitter last month after he tweeted out a thread detailing his

00:47:36.640 daughter's experience with a can opener. Now in a long, very unnecessarily long story, he explained that

00:47:42.980 his daughter wanted to open a can of beans, but rather than do it for her, he, he had, he had her

00:47:48.420 figure it out for herself as a kind of teaching opportunity. And he says it took her hours, hours

00:47:54.240 trying to open the can before she finally did it. And he posted this as sort of a congratulations to

00:47:59.860 himself for being a good dad. But the world and Twitter didn't see it that way. The thread went viral.

00:48:07.580 People were outraged. They accused him of abuse, psychological abuse, emotional abuse, physical abuse,

00:48:12.700 they said that he was starving his daughter. They said that he's a horrible person, et cetera, 0.87

00:48:16.140 and so forth. Then they started digging up his old tweets, of course. And next thing you know,

00:48:20.320 he's not only a bad father, abusive, but racist too. So he's racist and abusive. 1.00

00:48:25.860 All of this stuff happened. And eventually he apologized and deactivated his account,

00:48:30.360 but it was too late. Meanwhile, back in realityville, it's obvious that the story was an

00:48:36.100 exaggeration. The girl was not working on a can of beans for hours. Give me a break. 1.00

00:48:40.980 And even if she was, it's not abuse. Presumably she's not malnourished. He is feeding her. He never

00:48:48.940 said that her continued access to food was predicated on her ability to get the can open. He didn't say

00:48:53.960 that. So even if he was being a jerk about the can, whatever. Calling that abuse is insane. 0.99

00:49:00.460 And look, I have never been in a situation where my kids were trying to open a can for six hours. So

00:49:10.160 I've never done that. But all of us as parents, we have moments where our kids ask us to do something

00:49:16.280 and we could do it for them. It would be very easy for us to do, but for whatever reason,

00:49:22.100 we just don't feel like doing it. And so we say, no, look, you've figured that out for yourself. I'm not

00:49:26.300 doing it. So all parents have moments like that. And it's good to have moments like that. It's good

00:49:31.840 for the, for the kid to have to figure something out. Um, six hours opening a can is a little bit

00:49:38.400 excessive, but even so. So there was no abuse here. Uh, and being dad's real crime, if he committed

00:49:46.200 one was in being a tool who tries to, you know, brag about his own excellent parenting on the internet

00:49:51.880 or what he thinks is excellent parenting. And if, if that's the crime, then that's the one he

00:49:56.480 committed, but that doesn't make him a child abuser. Right. Or, or so I thought an update on

00:50:01.340 this story from reason written by Lenore Skenazy. It says Roderick recently divulged a new wrinkle in

00:50:06.140 the story, which makes it clear that it was not just an online kerfuffle for his afternoon of bean

00:50:10.620 withholding. Roderick actually earned a visit from the child protective services in Roderick on the line,

00:50:15.980 his weekly podcast with Merlin man. Roderick said a dozen people reported me to CPS and they were

00:50:20.340 obligated to come interview my family and interrogate my daughter. Thankfully the CPS visit

00:50:25.120 went well. They were wonderful said Roderick and they were just doing their jobs. Apparently one

00:50:30.920 investigator, uh, told Roderick's daughter for about an hour or rather, um, spoke to Roderick's daughter

00:50:35.860 for about an hour privately asking questions like, what do you like about your dad? And what do you not

00:50:41.200 like about your dad? Roderick's daughter told him about this afterward. Turns out she doesn't like

00:50:45.820 the fact that he gets tired of playing Legos faster than he does, than she does. Okay. So

00:50:51.020 that's, that's a report from reason child protective services because he made his daughter open a can of

00:50:56.640 beans on her own. This is the kind of thing that keeps parents up at night, right? This, this right

00:51:02.160 here, not because we've had, we have similar family drama involving cans of beans and not because we're

00:51:06.960 abusive, but because CPS can be summoned to our homes very easily. And for the most trivial of

00:51:13.340 reasons, and once they show up, your parental rights are on the line. Of course they're not

00:51:19.380 suspended now. So CPS does not have the right to enter your home without permission or to speak to

00:51:24.260 your child without permission. And that's something that parents, I think a lot of parents don't realize

00:51:28.480 and, um, CPS, I think counts on parents not realizing that. And they show up and knock on the

00:51:34.220 door and they say, can we come in? Can we talk to your kid? And parents, because they are scared and,

00:51:40.480 and, and, and they feel like their backs against the wall. Now they'll say, sure, come in. And

00:51:44.040 you don't have to do that. And it's a mistake to let CPS in, in that situation. Because think about

00:51:50.820 it there, according to, um, John Roderick, they're sitting down there talking to her, his daughter for

00:51:55.340 an hour saying things like, what do you, these are fishing leading kinds of questions.

00:52:01.040 What do you not like about your dad? I mean, who knows what kind of thing a kid will say

00:52:07.600 in response to that? Kids are imaginative, kids that they don't really understand what

00:52:14.520 the consequences are. They don't really know what's going on. A kid could be, you know, you

00:52:19.740 could, CPS could come in at a moment when the child is angry at the parent, not because they're

00:52:23.940 being abused, but because kids get angry about, you know, not being allowed to watch TV when

00:52:27.460 they want to or something. And who knows what they'll say. So the minute you say, sure, sit

00:52:32.840 down and talk to my kid for an hour, that could go anywhere. I mean, that could be the last time

00:52:38.420 you see your kid for a long time, depending on how that goes. Um, but even if you don't let the

00:52:44.900 CPS in, they can, they can go and they're not going to leave you alone after that. They can go get

00:52:49.580 a court order. They can continue harassing if they choose. Once CPS is in your life, it can be very

00:52:56.100 difficult to get them out. And just the simple fact that they showed up at your door carries a

00:53:02.000 stigma that may never go away. Even if again, you're totally innocent. As the article in Reason

00:53:07.740 lays out, the system is broken. Anyone can report abuse. They can do it anonymously. They can do it

00:53:14.440 as many times as they want. And all reports are investigated, no matter how obviously frivolous

00:53:18.760 they are. Um, this was, um, this was a report based on a publicly available internet post.

00:53:26.260 Okay. The people calling CPS on Bean Dad, they were doing it based on a tweet. There is no good

00:53:32.520 reason for the government to respond to that at all. If we allow just a little bit of judgment and

00:53:39.460 discretion, then CPS could have looked at the report, looked at the tweet in question and said,

00:53:47.020 nevermind, this is absurd. Oh, that's what you're calling about that. But no, we're not going to,

00:53:53.220 we're not going to go knock on the guy's door, but instead everything these days, especially in

00:53:57.720 government operates according to the zero tolerance policy, the zero tolerance sort of philosophy. And

00:54:03.800 what that means is that all situations will be treated exactly the same. No discernment,

00:54:09.140 no discretion, no human judgment will enter the equation at all. We are, we are to act as robots.

00:54:15.220 Um, according to the programming, the reason article references a report in the New York daily news,

00:54:21.060 that's a very relevant here. It says quote, over the past 40 years, more and more people have been

00:54:25.260 calling the child abuse hotlines, not because there's so much child abuse going on, but because

00:54:29.560 they've been conditioned to report almost anything, a kid with a scrape, a kid walking the dog,

00:54:33.800 as possible abuse or neglect better safe than sorry, but how safe, how sorry, according to one

00:54:39.520 estimate, more than half of all African-American children, 53% will be visited by child protective

00:54:44.580 services at some point in their childhood that compared to 37% of all children, which is already

00:54:49.320 outrageous. A 37% of all children sounds enormously high. Um, I, I, I almost have to doubt that it could

00:54:59.040 pot 37%. Maybe that is as bad as it's gotten all told. It says 7.8 million kids get reported to

00:55:06.800 child protective services each year. And that is literally 7 million kids too many. The mind bogglingly

00:55:11.620 vast majority of calls turn out to be, to not be cases of abuse and neglect at all. While tragically

00:55:17.020 child abuse and neglect deaths do occur. These cases represent two out of every 100,000 hotline calls,

00:55:24.340 two out of 100,000. Um, and as the number of calls has gone up in the last few, two decades,

00:55:31.340 the number of deaths has not gone down. That's right. Abuse deaths increased possibly because

00:55:36.740 caseworkers are stretched so thin. The important thing to remember here is that all of these millions

00:55:43.380 of frivolous child abuse reports and investigations are not victimless. It's not like nobody is hurt

00:55:49.580 by just checking on the claim, right? Better safe than sorry. No, that's, that's not always

00:55:57.760 the case, but it's a frivolous child abuse, uh, claim or, or report. And then this innocent parent

00:56:07.480 ends up in the crosshairs of CPS and their parental rights are on the line and they're, they could

00:56:14.660 possibly lose their parental rights and lose their children, even though they didn't do anything wrong.

00:56:19.220 That is not better safe than sorry. Lots of families are hurt, destroyed, ripped apart.

00:56:26.460 Once the parents become officially suspected child abusers, uh, that's what happens.

00:56:32.540 The system is indeed broken. Fixing it will be complicated work, but one thing that's needed

00:56:38.520 in order to fix it is a return to situational judgment, discretion, not treating everything

00:56:45.360 the same as everything else. Not all child abuse reports are made or are created equal. They're

00:56:51.720 not all the same. Okay. A kid goes to school and he's got, you know, and he's got very suspicious

00:57:00.560 looking bruises or he looks to be malnourished or something like that. That, you know, that's

00:57:05.480 clearly you, you, you call CPS for that. But someone since writes a tweet about their kid

00:57:12.100 opening a can of beans or you see an eight year old that was allowed to go down to the

00:57:17.220 playground, you know, a hundred yards from the house by himself, walk the dog down the

00:57:22.520 street. He's got a scrape on his knee. No, those are not the same. So this is one thing.

00:57:29.640 Situational judgment, discretion, um, letting human beings discern and make judgments based

00:57:38.140 on, based on that. Not all child abuse reports are created equal. The Bean Dad case shows that

00:57:45.200 as so many other cases show that as well. And that's why the people who reported Bean Dad

00:57:49.640 are officially canceled. And that's going to do it for us today. Thanks for watching everybody.

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The Matt Walsh Show - February 17, 2021

Ep. 660 - How The Left Creates A Society Of Self-Loathing Narcissists

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