The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 673 - Meghan Markle Is Crowned Queen Victim

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, Meghan Markle seeks to crown herself queen victim. Also, 0.99

00:00:04.880 five headlines, including Pepe Le Pew getting the Me Too treatment. The media freaks out about

00:00:09.480 spring break for a second year in a row, and a medical ethicist, quote unquote,

00:00:13.680 argues that people who do not get vaccinated should not be allowed to participate in society

00:00:17.520 at all. In our daily cancellation, we'll discuss GOP House House Leader Kevin McCarthy

00:00:21.940 making a stand against cancel culture by reading Green Eggs and Ham. Is this a meaningful,

00:00:27.700 symbolic gesture, or just more hollow right-wing virtue signaling?

00:00:31.640 We'll discuss that and much more today on the Matt Wall Show.

00:00:40.820 Well, welcome again to the show. Before we get going today, I wanted to thank you for watching

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00:01:08.000 out, that's how you can help, if you so desire. Now, we begin today with Prince Harry and Meghan

00:01:14.440 Markle. I must confess at the outset that I don't really care at all about the royal family or any of

00:01:19.740 their drama, and I have never been able to understand why anyone does care. The fact that people

00:01:24.260 are so interested is what has become interesting to me. Maybe that's how we all get sucked in. I

00:01:31.520 don't know. It's like walking by and noticing a group of people staring at the ground and watching

00:01:35.820 grass grow, and then you stop and you stare at the people who are staring, fascinated by the fact that

00:01:42.360 they're so fascinated. Then the next group stops and they start staring at you and on and on until a

00:01:47.140 million people are staring aimlessly, not exactly sure what they're looking at or why.

00:01:51.420 Now, I admit that this comparison is probably a little unfair to grass. Grass may be decorative

00:01:57.660 like the royal family, but it's also functional, unlike the royal family. In any event, as you

00:02:03.380 probably heard, two of these functionless, boring people, Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, split off

00:02:09.080 from royal family a year ago in what many said was a heroic and brave decision on their part,

00:02:14.600 came here to America. They said they wanted privacy and space to themselves, and those are certainly

00:02:20.240 respectable things to desire. They could have had both of those things, too, if they really wanted

00:02:25.440 them. They could have retreated to a cabin in the wilderness, dropped out of public eye, lived lives

00:02:31.700 of private solitude and reflection. But the ironic thing is that only interesting and subsubstantive

00:02:39.100 people can live a life like that. To live a life that seems boring like that, you have to be an

00:02:45.080 interesting person. As we've established, those are not the kinds of people we're dealing with here.

00:02:51.100 So Harry and Meghan courageously stepped away from the pomp and circumstance and wealth of celebrity

00:02:56.180 life overseas, only to embrace the pomp and circumstance and wealth of celebrity life in

00:03:01.420 America. They purchased a $15 million mansion in Southern California, signed a multi-million dollar

00:03:07.620 deal with Netflix, and then another one with Spotify. Meghan Markle says that she bought the mansion in

00:03:13.020 California so that she could live authentically and, quote, get back to basics. Sure. Well, you know,

00:03:20.540 you know what they say. One man's basics is another man's obscene wealth. Now, you might say that using

00:03:26.340 the term back to basics in reference to a $15 million mansion shows an incomprehensible level of

00:03:32.960 privilege. And you'd be right, except that we've learned the word privilege in our culture has absolutely

00:03:38.840 nothing to do with privilege, just as victimhood has absolutely nothing to do with actual victimhood.

00:03:45.540 And speaking of victimhood, as part of this effort to live a humble, basic life in their 18,000 square

00:03:51.560 foot mansion with nine bedrooms and 16 bathrooms, what the hell are you going to do with 16 bathrooms?

00:03:56.800 I have no idea. And in pursuit of privacy, the Netflix stars did a major primetime interview with Oprah

00:04:03.220 Winfrey, which aired last night. During this interview, the celebrity couple reclining on

00:04:07.880 their patio that probably costs more than your house, explained in great detail why they are

00:04:13.260 victims, especially Meghan, who chose to leave her life as a Hollywood actress after leaving her

00:04:20.160 husband, her first husband, and then marry a member of the British royal family. This was her decision.

00:04:26.460 Everyone knows the drama and scrutiny that comes with that sort of existence. Even I know it.

00:04:31.440 And I follow this stuff about as little as a person in modern Western society can follow it.

00:04:37.380 I don't even know all their names. Charles, is that the old one or the much older one? I don't know.

00:04:43.920 And she certainly knew this too. Yet she desired fame and wealth enough to jump right into it

00:04:50.080 and then immediately became a victim of the very thing she was pursuing. But it's not her fault,

00:04:55.640 you see. Yes, everyone who's in the public eye on that level gets criticized,

00:04:59.880 but it was different for her. So much worse. For one thing, people were mean to her on the

00:05:06.040 internet. That's very different. None of us know what that's like. And she explained this more to

00:05:11.000 Oprah. Listen.

00:05:12.300 Because this was different, you know. It was different because of the race. 0.96

00:05:16.540 And social media. And social media. Oh, yes.

00:05:18.900 Right? Different time. Different time.

00:05:20.300 That didn't exist. And so it was like the wild, wild west. It was spread like wildfire plus my being

00:05:26.500 American. It translated in a different way across the pond. So you had a noise level that was very

00:05:34.500 different. But if they can't see that it's different. So you felt bullied on an international

00:05:39.200 level. Look, I think the volume of what was coming in and the interest was greater because of social

00:05:48.640 media, because of the fact that I was not just British. And that, unfortunately, if members of

00:05:57.760 his family say, well, this is what's happened to all of us, or if his, you know, if they can compare

00:06:06.540 what the experience that I went through was similar to what has been shared with us, Kate

00:06:11.760 was called weighty Katie, waiting to marry William. While I imagine that was really hard, and I do,

00:06:18.840 I can't picture what that felt like. This is not the same. And if a member of his family will

00:06:24.880 comfortably say, we've all had to deal with things that are rude, rude and racist are not the same.

00:06:30.560 Ah, yes. The internet. Different time. I don't know why I laughed the first time I saw that.

00:06:34.700 There's something about that line from Oprah that made me laugh the first time I saw it.

00:06:39.820 When Meghan says, well, it's different because of the internet. And Oprah says, ah, yes, the internet.

00:06:44.680 Different time. And meanwhile, you've got Harry sitting there. What kind of man, you know,

00:06:50.980 I'm focusing here on Meghan Markle, but what kind of man brings his wife in front of Oprah for a major 1.00

00:06:59.280 interview to bash your family? What kind of man finds that acceptable? What kind of man goes along

00:07:06.580 with that? No way in hell as a man can you go along with that. Your wife says, you know, I want to do a

00:07:13.640 major interview where I just rip your family to pieces. Your response should be, hell no, that's not 0.96

00:07:20.600 happening. You're not doing that. We're going to have no part of that. That's not how we handle

00:07:26.480 problems with the family. But anyway, Meghan Markle is a victim. She's bullied. She's a victim 1.00

00:07:33.240 of bullying. Many of us would love to be so bullied. Personally, I'd be thrilled to experience this kind

00:07:39.020 of bullying that ends with me sitting in my California mansion with a Netflix deal. I've never

00:07:43.480 had the good fortune of being victimized in that way. And I'm beginning to fear that I may never,

00:07:47.060 I may never have it. But it's different for me, though, because I'm white. Whereas Meghan is only

00:07:52.780 mostly white. And that means that she can claim victimhood on explicitly racial grounds,

00:07:58.380 as she also did with Oprah. Let's listen to that.

00:08:01.920 Concerns and conversations about how dark his skin might be when he's born.

00:08:05.360 What? And who, who is having that conversation? With you?

00:08:17.480 What? So, um, there is a conversation. Hold up. Hold up. There's several conversations. There's a

00:08:33.200 conversation with you. With Harry.

00:08:38.280 About how dark your baby is going to be? Potentially. And what that would mean or look like.

00:08:44.700 Ooh. And you're not going to tell me who had the conversation?

00:08:52.600 I think that would be very damaging to them. Okay.

00:08:55.320 Okay. Well, we'll move on then. People are raving about Oprah's, Oprah's another one. Talk

00:09:03.260 about things I don't understand, why people are so interested. I've never quite understood

00:09:06.700 how Oprah ever became the big thing that she is. You know, it's a fine. That's like the kind of

00:09:15.180 standard entertainment sort of interview that you would expect to see. But I think anyone in media

00:09:20.180 could do that, um, that's, that's her follow-up. So Megan Markle makes this, this incredible claim.

00:09:28.080 Oprah says, what? I just, woo, that's something else. And who said it? Oh, I don't want to say

00:09:34.580 because that'd be damaging to them. Well, okay. Moving on. So she never clarified who made that

00:09:40.020 alleged comment. What this means is that either Megan made it up, distinct possibility, or someone

00:09:46.060 did say it. And she's happy to throw the whole family under the bus as the press wildly speculates 0.93

00:09:51.260 as to the culprit, rather than simply naming the person who said it. Either way, in handling it the

00:09:56.940 way she did, she's not much better morally than the person who made the comment to begin with,

00:10:01.040 even if that person is fictional. And also, either way, Megan, Megan Markle is a fabulously rich and

00:10:07.320 famous person who has gone to great lengths to be both of those things, rich and famous, and who now

00:10:13.300 wants to have her mansion and cry in it too. She gets away with it. The ruse pays off because this

00:10:19.280 is how victimhood works in America. And that's the one interesting, or at least important thing to come

00:10:23.900 out of this whole story and why it's worth talking about. Because victimhood is the primary social

00:10:28.440 currency in our culture today. And Megan Markle seeks to become like the Jeff Bezos of that currency,

00:10:34.160 the Bill Gates of victimhood. She has been making and is going to make a career out of being a victim. 1.00

00:10:39.720 The rules of intersectionality make that possible for her. All the royals and all the people

00:10:45.540 affiliated with them are insufferable, spoiled brats. Harry and Megan are no different. But Megan 1.00

00:10:52.360 is the least white, and so she gets to be the victim. Those are the rules. If she was in a dispute 0.95

00:10:57.880 with someone who was less white than her, or who could lay claim to one of the letters in the LGBT

00:11:02.500 acronym, then she'd be the villain. The details of the dispute don't matter. Actual right and wrong 0.59

00:11:10.520 don't matter. Intersectionality is what matters. And lucky for her, she's publicly dumping on people 1.00

00:11:17.920 who are rich and powerful, obviously, yet further down the intersectionality ladder than herself.

00:11:24.260 And that's the way the game works. It really is that simple. But it's important for us to see

00:11:30.600 how victimhood works. Because this is what drives the culture now. This is, as I said,

00:11:38.100 the currency, our culture's currency is victimhood. So she at least is demonstrating that for us.

00:11:45.420 And now I'll go back to not caring about these people again. Let's get now to our five headlines.

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00:13:25.140 By the way, today is, I'd be remiss if I didn't mention, I think today is International Women's

00:13:32.080 Day, I believe. I always have it marked out on my calendar. I don't know why I forgot to

00:13:36.180 mark it down this time. But big, big deal, International Women's Day. And so today is the beginning 0.87

00:13:43.400 of International Women's Week, and it's International Women's Day, which is the beginning of International

00:13:51.020 Women's Week, and which falls in the middle of Women's History Month. So we got all that

00:13:57.600 going on. All of that affirmation for women. And every woman that I personally know doesn't

00:14:07.280 desire any of that affirmation or care about it. But whether you want it or care about it,

00:14:13.180 there it is, you have it. You are affirmed, ladies. All right. Number one, Charles Blow,

00:14:19.240 New York Times columnist, wrote a piece a few days ago defending the cancellation of Dr. Seuss

00:14:24.860 and adding a few more people to cancel to the burn pile. Or not really people, actually. Now we're

00:14:34.500 going to cartoons. We've done Dr. Seuss, canceling Dr. Seuss books. And now, and we've already done

00:14:41.000 the Muppets. Okay, so they're canceled, but they're puppets. So we've gone from there, and now we're

00:14:47.140 going all the way to the cartoon characters. He also called for the cancellation of Speedy

00:14:51.960 Gonzalez and Pepe Le Pew, both of Looney Tunes' fame. Now, it's been an interesting reaction to

00:15:01.240 both of these things, because he mentioned that Speedy Gonzalez is insulting, because it's a

00:15:07.360 Hispanic stereotype. And now there have been a lot of Latino people coming out, including celebrities.

00:15:17.360 Gabriel Iglesias, who's the Hispanic comedian, who's going to be voicing Speedy

00:15:21.780 Gonzalez in the new Space Jam. And he came out, and they said, we love Speedy Gonzalez.

00:15:28.320 Which, why, yeah, why wouldn't, if you're a Hispanic child growing up, especially back when 1.00

00:15:34.760 Looney Tunes was more popular, why wouldn't you love Speedy Gonzalez? He's the hero. He's one of

00:15:41.280 the good guys, right? If I remember my Looney Tunes mythology, if I'm getting it correct,

00:15:47.200 then he's always one of the good guys, Speedy Gonzalez is. So what's the problem exactly?

00:15:55.140 You can say, oh, it's a stereotype. It's a caricature. Well, it's a cartoon. Of course,

00:15:59.880 it's both of those things. Yosemite Sam is a caricature. Elmer Fudd is a caricature.

00:16:07.000 But isn't it also representation? Isn't that what we want? See, the left can never make

00:16:15.300 up its mind. Are we doing, are we getting rid of all of these representations of minority 1.00

00:16:21.900 characters and minority culture? Are we getting rid of all that stuff? Or should we have more 1.00

00:16:25.760 of it? Which is it? It can't really be both. So Speedy Gonzalez would seem to be representation.

00:16:33.020 You would think it'd be the kind of thing that the left would celebrate, but we were told we

00:16:35.600 have to cancel him. And also Pepe Le Pew, who Charles Blow argues, normalizes rape culture.

00:16:46.580 Because as you remember, if you, if you can think back to watching Looney Tunes, Pepe Le Pew, 0.97

00:16:51.200 you know, a rather, a skunk who, you know, has voracious sexual appetites and is always pursuing 0.99

00:17:03.160 in particular, I think it was a black and white cat that he always, that he always confuses with 0.86

00:17:06.840 a skunk. And he's always pursuing this, this female cat. The thing is, he always loses. She

00:17:13.080 always gets away and he's not the good guy. We're not supposed to empathize. The message in Looney

00:17:20.860 Tunes isn't that we should empathize with, uh, with, with Pepe Le Pew. He's absurd. It's ridiculous.

00:17:26.180 The kids watch that and they think it's ridiculous. They laugh at it, which is a good message. 0.97

00:17:32.540 Now the main message, because it's a cartoon, it's Looney Tunes. The main message is this is all

00:17:36.720 silly and ridiculous and don't take it too seriously. But if you are going to take it 0.99

00:17:41.220 seriously, then the real, then if you're looking for a more serious message, then the message you

00:17:46.420 would take is that his behavior is bad. Don't act like that. Which is why I could be wrong,

00:17:53.000 but, uh, in spite of Charles Blow's claims, you know, I don't think it's, it's very often that

00:17:59.100 you hear of sex offenders who cite Pepe Le Pew as one of their primary influences. Could be wrong.

00:18:05.260 I haven't really, I haven't looked at this, haven't researched it, but I'm guessing that if I did,

00:18:10.400 you're going to very rarely find a real life rapist or sex offender who says that he got into this,

00:18:15.720 uh, into this life because he watched a lot of Pepe Le Pew cartoons as a child.

00:18:19.880 And by the way, if we're finding a reason for Pepe Le Pew to be offensive,

00:18:27.800 shouldn't it be that he, that he's a, that he's a stereotype of the French?

00:18:34.320 Isn't, if it's a, if he's offensive for any reason, isn't that it? 1.00

00:18:40.020 He's a French rapist skunk. Isn't that offensive to, if it's offensive to anyone, 1.00

00:18:46.620 wouldn't it be offensive to French people? Speedy Gonzalez is a, is a, is a, is a, a hero.

00:18:54.720 You know, he's one of the protagonist characters. Pepe Le Pew is a bad guy, basically,

00:19:01.180 um, a rapist or attempted a skunk and he's French. 0.99

00:19:07.280 But no, see that can't be offensive because French people are white. 0.99

00:19:15.820 Stereotypically they're white. So, so that's, that's okay. We've got to find another reason 1.00

00:19:20.980 for Pepe Le Pew to be offensive and this is it. Um, and it doesn't stop there. So we're, we are now

00:19:26.460 officially, uh, doing a me too with Pepe Le Pew. Pepe Le Pew is getting me too'd a cartoon character.

00:19:33.580 You thought they would stop at people, but no, no, no, no. Now we're going to cartoon characters

00:19:37.440 and the Hollywood reporter, um, has this. It says the controversial Looney Tunes skunk cartoon character

00:19:42.300 Pepe Le Pew was scrubbed from the LeBron James, um, the new LeBron James space jams, space, space

00:19:49.020 jam, space jam two is coming out. We just mentioned, uh, Speedy Gonzalez is good. Still is going to be

00:19:54.220 in space jam two, as far as we know, but Pepe Le Pew has been removed from space jam two. Now they

00:20:01.180 claim that this decision was made a year ago. So not directly in response to this New York times

00:20:06.500 piece. That's what they claim anyway, but one way or another, he's being taken out presumably

00:20:11.380 because he normalizes rape culture and he's offensive and not because he's offensive to

00:20:17.040 French people. Uh, number two, the New York post has this spring break partying could spell the 1.00

00:20:23.280 perfect storm for triggering the spread of new coronavirus variants across the U S according to

00:20:27.980 experts. Dr. Peter Hotez says it's the perfect storm. Hotez said he feared that college kids

00:20:35.520 hitting the party scene in Florida could accelerate the spread of highly contagious UK variant, which

00:20:40.320 is known as B one one seven. He said, quote, you've got the B one one seven variant accelerating in

00:20:46.000 Florida. You've got all these 20 year old kids. None of them are going to have masks. They're all

00:20:50.380 going to be drinking. They're having pretty close intimate contact. And then after all that's done,

00:20:54.300 they're going to go back to their home States and spread the B one one seven variant. This is the, 0.92

00:20:58.580 the New York post story, but there are, you know, dozens of them in the media right now.

00:21:03.560 So we really are going to do the spring break freak out for a second year in a row. We're going

00:21:08.920 to do this all over again. You may recall back last March and April, we did the exact same thing.

00:21:15.280 Spring breakers went down to Florida. We were told that this is a bit, you know, disaster in the making.

00:21:20.660 Uh, it's going to be a bloodbath. So many of these kids are going to end up sick in the hospital.

00:21:24.060 They're going to die and all these things. And that's not actually what happened. If you

00:21:28.620 recall, we, we never got from spring break. We never got the apocalypse. We were promised

00:21:36.200 stemming from spring break. And now, so if, if, if, if they're panicking ended up being sort

00:21:44.260 of a dud the first time last year, well now this year, the virus is receding as we, and we're

00:21:50.920 getting now into the warmer temperatures, millions and millions more people are immune

00:21:56.520 to it, either because they already had the virus, even if they had it with no symptoms

00:21:59.380 or because they got the vaccine. So why would there be more reason to worry this year than

00:22:05.600 there was last year? Well, there isn't of course, but the media can't help itself.

00:22:10.360 Number three from the blaze, it says a democratic New York lawmaker introduced a bill to teach

00:22:14.900 comprehensive sex ed to kindergartners. The sex education will reportedly be outsourced to a

00:22:20.060 left-wing organization that believes, quote, sex ed is a vehicle for social change, including

00:22:24.760 incorporating social and racial justice messaging into their sex ed lessons. New York Senator

00:22:29.860 Samra Brauk, a freshman Democrat from Rochester, introduced a bill to teach comprehensive sexuality

00:22:34.600 education in schools, including children as young as five years old. The bill reads, quote,

00:22:39.620 each public and charter school to provide students in grades kindergarten through 12 with comprehensive

00:22:44.220 sexuality education. Her proposal, the New York Post reported that her proposal would legally link

00:22:52.160 New York schools to the shifting recommendations of the Sexuality Information and Education Council of

00:22:57.760 the United States. This is what's going to determine, you know, what your kids are taught in school when

00:23:04.220 it comes to sex ed. Of course, in reality, there should be no sex ed of any kind for kindergartners.

00:23:12.080 This is part of the ever-present effort to sexualize children that we see in our culture, 0.92

00:23:18.060 especially in the schools. And I always have to remind people when we get into this conversation

00:23:22.360 about sex ed and all of the depraved and disgusting and perverted things that kids are taught even at

00:23:29.260 young ages in modern sex ed. And this effort to confuse them, we start introducing gender identity

00:23:36.700 at very young ages, telling the little boys, hey, if you like playing with dolls, you might be a girl,

00:23:41.700 that kind of thing. But the response in many cases from conservatives, especially Christian

00:23:47.460 conservatives, when they hear about this kind of stuff is, well, you know, this is why we need

00:23:52.760 abstinence education instead of this kind of sex education. And my response to that is, no, we don't

00:23:59.400 need that either. The antidote to this kind of depraved sex education for kids is not, well, let's form a

00:24:10.640 better version of sex ed. No, it's neither. None of it. That's the answer. Schools shouldn't be doing

00:24:19.540 any of this. You want to teach the biology of human sexuality? Of course, you teach that in biology

00:24:26.800 class. You want to teach about human anatomy and what all the different parts of the body do,

00:24:32.220 including, you know, the sex organs? Well, then at the appropriate age, you teach that in science

00:24:38.180 class. But in terms of a message about sexuality, especially an ethical or moral message, a message

00:24:49.560 about, you know, how to engage in sex and when to do it and all that kind of stuff doesn't belong in the

00:24:56.920 schools. No, I don't want, if I sent my, you know, 12-year-old to middle school, to public middle school,

00:25:04.960 which I wouldn't. But if I did, I don't want their health teacher telling them how to use birth

00:25:11.400 control or condoms. But I also don't want the health teacher to get up there and tell my son

00:25:17.240 about the, you know, the wonders of chastity and abstinence, because I can do that. And that's a

00:25:24.800 really important lesson that I do not trust the schools to impart. That's something that you as a

00:25:33.200 parent need to do. You know, we cannot farm everything out. We can't outsource every aspect

00:25:40.800 of parenting to the schools. And this is a big one. These may be uncomfortable conversations that

00:25:46.600 people, parents don't want to have with their kids, but if you don't, then school's going to do it.

00:25:51.720 And I wouldn't trust the school to do it. So that's the answer. Get all this stuff out of the school.

00:25:56.640 Number four, Arthur Kaplan is a professor of, quote, medical ethics, had some medical ethics

00:26:04.200 advice for us on CNN yesterday. Let's listen to that. Well, remember, vaccine passports or even

00:26:10.200 vaccine requirements do depend on access. It's hard to impose anything unless you are pretty sure that

00:26:16.680 somebody can get a vaccine. So I think it'll be a little while before we see this, let's say,

00:26:21.060 within the U.S. But there are going to be communities and areas of the country where it

00:26:26.360 starts to make sense due to high availability of vaccine to say, you want to come back to work

00:26:31.080 in person? Got to show me a vaccine certificate. You want to go in a bar, a restaurant? Got to show

00:26:36.640 me a vaccine certificate. I think there will be some inequality in the U.S., but hopefully it will wash

00:26:42.960 out quickly as the supplies increase very rapidly. And I think they're going to. It also gives you an

00:26:48.880 incentive to overcome vaccine hesitancy. Some people are not sure still whether they want to

00:26:53.420 do the vaccine. But if you promise them more mobility, more ability to get a job, more ability

00:26:58.540 to get travel, that's a very powerful incentive to actually achieve fuller vaccination.

00:27:05.140 It will never cease to amaze me to see how quickly the bodily autonomy argument has just gone out the

00:27:11.160 window. This has been pretty much the entire argument for abortion.

00:27:15.620 abortion. It's all the left really has when it comes to abortion. And even there, it's not a good 0.51

00:27:21.720 argument. But the personhood argument, you know, they've lost all of that because we it's modern

00:27:29.860 science, very clear. And you really didn't even need modern science to tell you that the being in

00:27:36.120 the womb of a mother is a human child. What else could it be? What other species could it be? Of course, 0.93

00:27:40.920 it's a living. What else would it be? Dead? Inanimate? So they've lost that. It doesn't mean

00:27:47.720 they won't they won't keep trying to make claims, but but it's a losing argument. So they go over to

00:27:52.640 bodily autonomy, autonomy, which is why I'm engaging with the bodily autonomy argument for abortion all 0.59

00:27:57.120 the time. But that argument, in order for that to even begin to work for abortion, you have to take

00:28:06.700 an absolutist view on bodily autonomy where you say, I can do whatever I want with my body because it's

00:28:14.440 my body. That's the only way that it even and it still doesn't work because the problem is there's

00:28:22.040 someone else's body immediately concerned here with abortion. It's not really at all what you're

00:28:28.540 doing with your body. It's what you're doing to someone else's body. That's the issue. That's the

00:28:35.300 whole debate. Should you be allowed to dismember your child in the womb? Stab them in the heart with a 0.91

00:28:43.880 poison needle. Should you be allowed to do that? But that's whatever your answer is. That is an 1.00

00:28:51.540 answer you are giving in relation to someone else's body, not your own. But even so, in order for this

00:29:01.200 argument to even get started, then you have to take the absolutist view that I can do whatever I

00:29:05.700 want with my body, even to the extent that that, you know, if someone is is reliant on my body, I can 0.99

00:29:11.200 kill them. I can I can actually, you know, violate their own body to the extent of destroying them 0.99

00:29:17.140 because they depend on my body. So that's the absolutist hard line you have to draw in order to

00:29:25.260 get the wheels in motion for that argument. But now we've just tossed all that out the window

00:29:30.800 with masking laws, you know, the idea of vaccine passports. You just heard from this medical

00:29:38.580 ethicist. By the way, I don't know his view on what his medically ethical view is on abortion. I

00:29:45.500 could guess what it is. But for the left, generally, you know, vaccine passports, masking laws.

00:29:56.300 OK, if you want to argue for those things, I'm not in favor of them. But if you want to do that,

00:30:01.360 then you are forfeiting bodily autonomy. Out the window. Because in this case, you are telling

00:30:08.820 someone what they have to do with their own body, not only that they have to wear a certain

00:30:13.740 thing across their face, but now you're telling them they have to inject a substance into their body.

00:30:19.100 You want to make that argument, go ahead. But bodily autonomy is done. You can't go back to that.

00:30:30.900 All right. Number five, also from CNN, it says the risk of death from COVID-19 is about 10 times

00:30:36.020 higher in countries where most of the population is overweight, according to a report released

00:30:40.420 Wednesday by the World Obesity Federation. Researchers found that by the end of 2020,

00:30:45.840 global COVID-19 death rates were more than 10 times higher in countries where more than half

00:30:50.660 the adults are overweight. 10 times higher compared to countries where fewer than half are overweight.

00:30:57.020 The team examined mortality data from Johns Hopkins University and the World Health Organization and

00:31:01.680 found that of 2.5 million COVID-19 deaths reported by the end of February, 2.2 million were in countries

00:31:08.180 where half of the population is overweight. An analysis of data and studies from more than 160 countries,

00:31:12.720 the researchers found that COVID-19 mortality rates increased along with countries' prevalence of

00:31:17.260 obesity. And this is important too. They note that the link persisted even after adjusting for age

00:31:22.240 and national wealth. Now, this is not new information. We already knew this. We knew this back at the very

00:31:34.120 beginning that obese people were especially susceptible. We knew elderly people and obese. And if you're

00:31:41.780 elderly and overweight, then you're really in the danger zone. So we knew that, but this link,

00:31:47.660 it's something that we've known. It's been reported here and there, kind of scattershot.

00:31:53.140 But it hasn't been emphasized the way that it should be. And the reason that it should be is very clear.

00:31:59.420 That, you know, we want to make it clear. If you are an overweight person, especially if you're older,

00:32:02.780 you've got to be extra special careful about this.

00:32:08.160 But the reason why the link has not been emphasized, I think two reasons. One is just

00:32:13.220 general fear-mongering. You know, the media wants everyone to be equally as frightened by the virus.

00:32:20.060 But also political correctness.

00:32:21.660 They, you know, they don't want to be accused of victim blaming if they, if they go and say that,

00:32:27.720 you know, obese people are more likely to die of the virus, which is true. Then it sounds like

00:32:31.840 you're blaming them, you know, for being obese or all these things. So political correctness,

00:32:36.660 hyperdrive, that's why the link is not, is not emphasized. It's the same thing that happened with,

00:32:41.920 you know, the AIDS virus. And even now, we are often told, or it's strongly implied, that, you know,

00:32:52.600 AIDS is an equal opportunity virus. It doesn't discriminate. Whether you're a heterosexual or 0.99

00:32:59.920 homosexual, you're just as likely to get it. That's not true at all. The majority of people who get the

00:33:08.380 virus are homosexual. And then the next biggest chunk would be intravenous drug users. And then 0.99

00:33:15.260 if you, if you, you know, put that big chunk aside, you're left with a very, very small number

00:33:20.520 of cases. And then from there, if you take medical mishaps out of it, you know, blood transfusions or

00:33:27.320 medical equipment that wasn't properly sterilized, you take that out of it and you're, you're left only

00:33:32.160 with heterosexual people who do not use drugs and haven't had any kind of medical mishap.

00:33:40.460 How many of them are getting the AIDS virus as a percentage? Very, very, very vanishingly small

00:33:46.120 percentage. And that has always been known too. But that reality is de-emphasized

00:33:53.260 in order to send the message that everyone, you know, is, uh, is, is equally as susceptible,

00:34:00.400 which also is not true. And there's a real consequence to de-emphasizing the truth here.

00:34:09.980 Because with, with AIDS, you know, if you're, if you're a homosexual engaging in this kind of 0.98

00:34:14.460 sexual activity, there are extra risks that come with it. You want people to know that.

00:34:18.520 And when it comes to coronavirus, if you're obese and you're also older,

00:34:24.000 there's a reason for you to be even more concerned than everyone else.

00:34:27.600 That's not to single anybody out or victim blame. It's to keep people safe.

00:34:31.580 And also to simply tell people the truth. And the truth still matters. I think,

00:34:36.500 even if the media would disagree, let's get now to our, uh, reading the YouTube comment section.

00:34:42.740 We've got a couple here pertaining to the show yet, uh, on Friday, Sebastian says,

00:34:46.860 I'm 15. And even I don't think 16 year olds should vote. I have to say, I saw a lot of comments,

00:34:51.980 uh, just like this kids that are 15, 16, 17 saying, yeah, look, um, I'm in it right now.

00:34:58.820 Don't let me vote, which I appreciate. I appreciate the, the honesty there.

00:35:03.340 OJH says, I looked up Mick Elligott's pool, Dr. Seuss book and read it online. There's a mention of

00:35:08.980 Eskimo fish with little fur coats. Unfortunately, I am now a racist bigot as a result of reading it.

00:35:13.980 So we're going to talk more about that in a moment. Um, but yes, if you actually go now,

00:35:19.520 it's, it's hard to do this now because these books have been erased. But if you have a copy of one of

00:35:24.940 the band, Dr. Seuss books and you go pick them up, you know, several of these books, you're going to

00:35:30.700 have a hard time figuring out what was offensive about them. And Mick Elligott's pool is certainly one

00:35:36.520 of them. As far as I can tell, and I had the same thing. I had to go back and read it. I found it.

00:35:42.400 I found it online anyway, or I could, something I could, you know, the text online that I could

00:35:46.100 read. Um, as far as I could tell what was offensive about that book and why it's on the

00:35:53.080 band list is, uh, is because it says the word Eskimo. We'll talk more about that in just a second

00:35:57.920 though. Doflamingo Don Quixote. Great username says, Matt, could you give us a breakdown of what

00:36:04.480 makeup products you use? I'm aspiring to be TikTok famous, but I need to not look like a corpse.

00:36:10.780 Thank you. That look, I admitted, you know, that I wear makeup on camera. Anyone on camera does.

00:36:16.860 I admitted that that's as far as I go, but we're not at the point now where I'm giving makeup

00:36:21.060 tutorials. I also have no idea. I sit down in the makeup chair and, uh, I, you know, it's like,

00:36:26.460 don't ask, don't tell, just do what you have to do. We're going to pretend this isn't happening.

00:36:32.260 So I don't know what they put on my face. They put something on there.

00:36:34.480 Um, and finally, not important says, does anyone else salute Matt when he says Godspeed to end the

00:36:42.760 show? Well, I assumed everyone was doing that. I, I would demand that kind of reverence and respect.

00:36:49.820 In fact, and obviously if you are not saluting me at the end of the show, then you are banned.

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00:38:39.200 slash subscribe. Now let's get to our daily cancellation. So today we're going to cancel

00:38:45.660 Republican congressman and house minority leader, Kevin McCarthy. McCarthy is canceled today for

00:38:49.980 engaging in what I would call right-wing virtue signaling. Right-wing virtue signaling is a special

00:38:55.420 subgenre of virtue signaling popular among Republican politicians, wherein the signaler jumps into a

00:39:02.340 culture war issue in the hollowest, most superficial and corniest way possible in order to signal to other

00:39:08.260 conservatives that he's down with the cause, even though he isn't really doing anything to help the

00:39:12.800 cause at all. Now, perhaps the greatest possible example of this is what Kevin McCarthy did a few

00:39:17.900 days ago when he filmed himself reading the Dr. Seuss book, Green Eggs and Ham. Let's check this out.

00:39:24.720 Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss. I am Sam. I am Sam. Sam, I am.

00:39:34.340 That's Sam, I am. That's Sam, I am. I do not like that Sam, I am. Do you like green eggs and ham?

00:39:46.720 I do not like them, Sam, I am. I do not like green eggs and ham. Would you like them here or there?

00:39:54.420 I would not like them here or there. I would not like them anywhere. I do not like green eggs and

00:40:02.240 ham. I do not like them, Sam I am. Now, leaving aside the fact that his reading voice for

00:40:09.780 children's books needs a little work, reading children's books is all about, and I've done a

00:40:13.820 lot of it in the last seven years, it's all about rhythm and cadence. There's a certain poetry to

00:40:18.300 it, especially with a Seuss book. And all of that is lost in McCarthy's rendition. And it can be

00:40:23.200 canceled just based on that alone. I'm very picky about the reading of children's books,

00:40:27.660 but nevermind. The real point is that this is the cringiest and most pointless display we've seen

00:40:32.780 from an elected Republican in a long time. Why is he reading green eggs and ham? That isn't one of

00:40:37.320 the banned Dr. Seuss books. Nobody has taken issue with green eggs and ham. It doesn't require any

00:40:42.320 courage or boldness to read that book. It's totally irrelevant. It's a signal, not to the left.

00:40:48.260 This is not a signal to the left saying, I will oppose you. I'm not afraid of you.

00:40:51.640 That's a good signal to send. But the left doesn't give a damn if you read green eggs and ham.

00:40:57.800 No, this is a signal to the right. And the signal is supposed to be, I'm on your side. Look at me.

00:41:02.360 I've joined this latest culture war kerfuffle. Aren't I such a brave boy? But the real message

00:41:07.780 he sends is, I am afraid to say anything interesting or valuable about this situation. So instead,

00:41:12.980 I'm going to read from this children's book that nobody cares about. What he could have done,

00:41:17.600 what would have required some guts, not much, but a little, and would have also had some value is if

00:41:22.780 he had read one of the banned Dr. Seuss books. And the point of doing that would be first to just

00:41:28.760 defy the woke mob for the sake of defying it. And second, to demonstrate how political correctness

00:41:34.760 and wokeness have gone way overboard and driven everyone insane. He could have read, for example,

00:41:39.100 as mentioned earlier, McElligott's pool, which is an actual banned Dr. Seuss book. And the only reason

00:41:45.220 it's banned, so far as I can tell, is that it uses the word Eskimo. That's it. That's really it.

00:41:52.180 But Eskimo is not a slur. It's not a pejorative. We don't have to bleep it out when I'm saying it

00:41:57.120 right now. Eskimo, you can say that. It's not offensive. Now, it may not be the popular term to

00:42:03.020 use these days, but it's not a slur. And the idea that it's so offensive that it needs to be taken

00:42:09.260 off of eBay and Amazon and taken out of publication by its publisher because it said Eskimo is simply 0.84

00:42:15.540 ludicrous. Now, it would have been interesting if McCarthy had read that book in order to make that

00:42:20.440 point. But then he would have had to say the word Eskimo, and that would be a little too edgy for his

00:42:25.760 taste. I don't want to say that. I don't want to say the E word. Or he could have read one of the

00:42:32.040 titles with offensive imagery and showed the imagery on camera. Now, that would have been

00:42:37.300 interesting. And he could have made the point that people 80 years ago, you know, didn't have

00:42:41.840 the same sensibilities that we do today. We can't hold them to a modern standard or view their work

00:42:46.820 through an entirely modern lens. He could have done that. And that would have been worthwhile and bold

00:42:51.100 and interesting. But instead, he read Green Eggs and Ham, a book that is not in dispute and that nobody

00:42:57.560 is talking about. Yet reading it is the safe, easy, uncontroversial way of dipping your toe into the

00:43:04.340 culture war battle of the moment. And that's all we get from elected Republicans. A bunch of toes

00:43:09.780 dipping barely below the surface. And unfortunately, people fall for this stuff. He tweeted that out and

00:43:14.920 it got like 40,000 or more, I think, likes and a bunch of retweets on Twitter. You know, for what

00:43:23.400 reason? I know that among Republican voters, they might say, well, you know, at least he's doing

00:43:28.820 something. It's better than nothing. No, it's not better than nothing. This is nothing.

00:43:34.280 And there's going to be a lot of this sort of thing from here on out. Remember, the Republicans

00:43:39.080 had total control of the government for two years. They had the White House and the Senate for four

00:43:43.800 years. During that time, they did basically nothing. They passed a few tax cuts, plenty of cable news

00:43:50.460 hits. But they didn't advance the conservative agenda in any significant way. They didn't even

00:43:55.380 try to advance it. In fact, they complain now about, you know, big tech censorship. Well,

00:44:01.520 why didn't you do something about it when you had the power to do it?

00:44:06.260 The same question could be posed about every subject the Republicans whine about today.

00:44:10.680 They could have passed actual laws, set policy, but they preferred, as they always prefer,

00:44:15.860 to bide their time until they're out of power so they can get back to writing big rhetorical

00:44:20.320 checks that they'll never have to cash. That's their specialty. Always has been. Stand on the

00:44:25.660 sideline and talk a big game. But the moment their number gets called and they're out on the field in

00:44:30.020 the starting lineup, all they do is fall to the turf and curl up in the fetal position,

00:44:34.480 yelling, please don't hurt me. Then when they're back on the sideline, they're immediately back to,

00:44:39.280 you know, talking smack. Man, I wish they put me in there. I'd run somebody over, I tell you.

00:44:43.620 The same old song and dance over and over again. I'm not impressed with it. Not fooled by it. I hope

00:44:51.460 you aren't either. And that is why Kevin McCarthy is canceled. Green Eggs and Ham is not canceled.

00:44:59.120 It's a great book. And if, you know, if the mob ever does come for Green Eggs and Ham, I will be

00:45:04.880 there to fight to the death on its behalf. But right now, that is not the subject that we're talking

00:45:10.200 about. So again, Kevin McCarthy is canceled. And we'll leave it there today. Thanks for

00:45:14.680 watching. Thanks for listening. Have a great day. Godspeed.

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