The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 709 - A Nation Of Paranoid Lunatics Afraid Of Fresh Air

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, the state of Michigan has expanded its mask mandates to

00:00:04.120 include children who are two, three, and four years old. We've become a society of adults

00:00:08.280 who fear breathing fresh air, and we're raising our kids to share in that phobia. So we'll talk

00:00:12.860 about that today. Also, five headlines including a totally predictable crisis as police departments

00:00:17.660 across the country struggle to find new recruits. I wonder why. And Lindsey Graham gets in trouble 1.00

00:00:21.760 for saying that Obama's election proves systemic racism isn't real. But isn't he correct about

00:00:28.420 that? In our daily cancellation, we'll talk about the man who was doxed and then fired from his job

00:00:33.440 for allegedly harassing a dude in a prom dress. But as always with these things, there's a whole

00:00:39.440 lot more to the story, and we'll talk about that and a lot more today on the Matt Wall Show.

00:00:49.920 I think it was sometime in July or August when I first personally noticed the shift. I've been

00:00:56.280 traveling all throughout this past year, living my life basically as normal the entire time. In the

00:01:02.400 first few months of the pandemic, when I went out in public, and especially on planes, I would see

00:01:08.380 people fidgeting constantly with their masks, pulling them down under their nose, taking them

00:01:13.100 off whenever they could. I did the same. I still do the same. Whenever I'm in a situation where I have

00:01:18.680 no choice but to wear one, like on an airplane. But, you know, the tactic, one classic tactic now,

00:01:25.360 for me anyway, is you, they say you could take the mask off to drink a bottle of water. So just have

00:01:30.540 a bottle of water in your hand. And maybe it takes you a lot. Maybe it takes you the entire flight to

00:01:33.680 drink it. Who knows? But sometime in the summer, I noticed that most people had stopped doing this.

00:01:40.800 They'd put the mask on, keep it on without a break. I flew across the country several times,

00:01:46.100 five or six hour flights, and everyone around me kept the mask on over the nose without messing with

00:01:51.380 it for the whole trip. Even keeping it on to eat, as I've complained about. Simply lifting the mask,

00:01:57.560 inserting a pretzel or peanut one at a time. Now, I guess we're supposed to see this as a positive change.

00:02:03.700 But I found it deeply disturbing. It seemed to me that people had gone from wearing the mask

00:02:10.660 begrudgingly to wearing it because they wanted to and liked it and didn't want to be without it.

00:02:17.680 There was a psychological shift in a lot of people and not a good one. Say whatever you want about

00:02:24.360 masks. We shouldn't like them. You shouldn't like wearing a mask. We shouldn't want to cover our faces

00:02:31.760 in public. We shouldn't prefer the mask over fresh air or even recycled air on an airplane.

00:02:39.020 This psychological shift is why masking may never go away in many corners of society, even in

00:02:45.120 situations where they're effectively pointless. For example, vaccinated people are required in most

00:02:50.920 situations still to wear masks, even though the CDC itself says that point that only 0.008 percent,

00:02:58.200 0.008 percent of fully vaccinated people have had breakthrough cases of the virus.

00:03:05.240 That's the CDC's data. Only 1 percent of those of the 0.008 percent have died. So that puts your

00:03:12.920 chance of dying from the virus if you've been vaccinated, according to the CDC's data,

00:03:17.640 at, if my math is right, and a lot of times it isn't, 0.0001 percent.

00:03:24.060 And yet vaccinated people not only have to wear the mask, but many seem perfectly eager and willing

00:03:32.400 to do so. They want to. The mask for them serves no medical purpose. It serves a psychological

00:03:39.240 purpose. It fills an emotional need. And it's a very disordered, deranged, unnatural need. It

00:03:46.020 satiates a fear, a fear of air. There are people in this country, lots of people, who after the

00:03:53.440 sustained psychological terror campaign from the media and health experts, quote unquote,

00:03:58.860 like Fauci, are now afraid of the air. Now, speaking of the air, study after study shows

00:04:05.760 that your chance of getting the virus outside, we read from the latest study on this front yesterday,

00:04:11.800 your chance of getting the virus outside, especially from simply walking past someone briefly,

00:04:15.940 is, from a statistical standpoint, nearly non-existent. It's as close to non-existent

00:04:22.680 as a chance can be. But the fact that it's not entirely non-existent, the fact that there is

00:04:27.800 a chance, however slim, however vanishing, a theoretical chance, is too much for some people to bear.

00:04:35.820 They've been broken. Their minds have been damaged. And nowhere is that more evident than with

00:04:42.560 our approach to children. As the CDC announced guidelines for summer camps calling for children

00:04:47.800 and vaccinated adults to wear masks at all times, including outside, the state of Michigan imposed

00:04:53.920 its own psychotic mandates, or rather added to the psychotic mandates already in place.

00:04:58.960 The state has declared that its mask mandate is being brought in to include two to four-year-olds.

00:05:05.360 So children from the age of two must wear masks now in Michigan, everywhere, in all public places,

00:05:13.920 including outside. Here's a local news report about the policy. Let's watch.

00:05:20.360 Any parent who's ever had a child that age understands how challenging it can be to get them to comply with,

00:05:26.600 well, anything sometimes. For many parents, the notion of getting toddlers to wear face masks

00:05:33.040 for hours on end seem utterly impossible. Well, I spoke with the president of the Michigan

00:05:39.240 chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and he says it is not only possible, but needed.

00:05:46.260 Even though data shows there is only a small amount of COVID spread in schools and daycares,

00:05:53.040 experts believe we need to do everything we can to improve our numbers here. In fact,

00:05:57.360 the CDC has long suggested that people age two and older wear masks. However, some are concerned

00:06:04.720 that teachers and daycare providers will have to spend too much time focused on keeping those masks

00:06:11.240 on those kids' faces and too little time on normal routines. Again, this kind of goes back to if we're

00:06:18.640 modeling good behavior and then talking to them about it, you know, taking away that kind of dogma

00:06:24.520 or stigma of it being bad, then they're more likely to wear it. So put it on their stuffed animal,

00:06:32.460 show, you know, pictures of other kids wearing it. You know, and as they get older, they're obviously

00:06:37.600 going to ask more questions and you can be able to explain, you know, like you're wearing this to,

00:06:42.440 you know, help protect yourself and to help protect others and, you know, kind of doing your part

00:06:48.180 and to kind of get through this pandemic. Put it on their stuffed animal. If you do that

00:06:56.840 as a parent, you are a lunatic. And that guy you just heard from there, that's, I'm not even sure 0.99

00:07:05.760 who that guy is. We're living under a tyranny of guys like that. Dudes like that have been given,

00:07:15.260 have been given incomprehensible power over our lives and over our children. He's worried that

00:07:22.580 there will be a stigma. We don't, we don't want to have a stigma around masks. There should be a

00:07:27.680 stigma. Okay. It is bad. It is bad to put masks on three-year-olds for hours on end or for any length

00:07:35.200 of time. It is bad. It's shameful. It's disgraceful. It's abusive. We know that children are not and have

00:07:42.180 never been at any serious risk to contract or spread COVID. The people supporting and imposing

00:07:47.240 these mandates admit that openly. There is no articulable and reasonable medical case for putting

00:07:54.940 a muzzle on a small child. Whatever minuscule risk it supposedly avoids is far, far outweighed by the

00:08:02.760 cost. And there is a cost, a steep one. First, you don't need to be a doctor to apply common sense to

00:08:10.060 this. Masks are going to restrict airflow. They're over your face. They weren't made to be worn as

00:08:18.220 everyday items by everyone, including children, including during physical exercise and play.

00:08:24.480 And on top of the breathing problem, it's also unhygienic. Kids are dirty. Kids are kind of gross, 0.92

00:08:29.560 frankly. Young kids will wipe their noses with their shirts. They'll pee in their pants. It's a mess. 0.99

00:08:34.880 What kind of condition do you think that mask will be in by the end of the day? That thing that's been

00:08:41.880 attached to their face, that thing they've been breathing through for seven hours. But the brainless 0.99

00:08:48.820 sheep among us will simply shrug their shoulders and say, you know, that there's no way for us to 0.85

00:08:52.820 know if it's unhealthy to have young kids breathing through a dirt and snot encrusted rag all day. 0.89

00:08:58.440 We can't possibly know until someone with public health expert in their title tells us,

00:09:03.640 the sheep will say, as they get back to munching on the grass. But the physical risk, as dire as it

00:09:10.280 is, must be considered secondary, in my mind, to the psychological risk. We know that many adults

00:09:17.120 are now afraid of the air, afraid to walk down the street without a surgical mask. Many adults carry

00:09:23.180 on like they're living downwind of Chernobyl. How do you think our kids feel? Well, not our kids. My own

00:09:30.040 kids, the older ones, understand that masking is a silly thing that they have to do on occasion if

00:09:35.360 we need to bring them into a store or something where it's required. And I've told them this. It's

00:09:40.000 silly. It's dumb. We got to do it just because we got to run into the store real quick. 1.00

00:09:47.420 My youngest, almost two, doesn't think anything about masks and has never worn one and will not wear

00:09:53.320 one. But many other kids in this country, kids whose parents have broken brains, are being raised

00:10:00.860 to share in their parents' fear of the air. We are raising a generation of children to fear walking

00:10:08.240 down the street. Children who think that, you know, they might get sick and die if they play on the

00:10:13.180 monkey bars without a piece of cloth covering their face. It's hard to even predict the long-term

00:10:19.080 effects because no society on earth has ever done anything quite like this. We are running a

00:10:25.880 psychological experiment on our kids and on ourselves. That's what this masking mandate stuff

00:10:33.320 is. And the results of that experiment are already horrifying. And I'm afraid we'll only get worse.

00:10:40.000 Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:12:13.400 one here from The Blaze, it says, following the Defund the Police movement and the Abolish the Police

00:12:18.560 movement, constant negative coverage of law enforcement by the media, anti-police sentiment

00:12:22.520 becoming mainstream, and the threat of riots have contributed to a police shortage across the

00:12:28.020 country. The Philadelphia Police Department currently has 268 vacancies and is expecting

00:12:33.580 even more shortages in the near future. Neighboring New Jersey is facing a recruiting crisis, according

00:12:39.980 to Pat Colligan, president of the New Jersey State Policemen's Benevolent Association. Colligan said that

00:12:46.040 recent notorious police-involved deaths of citizens such as George Floyd, Tamir Rice, and Breonna Taylor

00:12:50.340 have impacted recruiting efforts. Colligan also said the quality has really diminished in the last few

00:12:57.880 years in terms of the police officers. Colonel Patrick Callahan said the state's largest police

00:13:03.460 agency received a historically low number of applications this year. In some years, the New

00:13:08.460 Jersey State Police would usually receive between 15,000 and 20,000. Listen to this. This year,

00:13:13.780 they've received 2,000 qualified applications, from 15 to 20,000 to 2,000. In fact, we have a local

00:13:23.460 news report here from Philadelphia talking about their situation, which is especially dire. Let's

00:13:30.600 listen to that. Local FOP president John McNesby says it's kind of like a perfect storm developing,

00:13:37.680 the eye of the storm revolving around several issues, including a dramatic rise in the number

00:13:42.420 of Philadelphia police officers filing for retirement, a diminishing pool of young people

00:13:47.120 who even want to be a big city cop, and the suspension of new officer training because of

00:13:52.360 the pandemic. Under normal circumstances, there would be dozens of new recruits coming in for

00:13:57.580 training every three months. But the most recent class graduated last December, and the next one

00:14:03.040 isn't even expected to begin until next month. You got to remember, too, that once you go into the

00:14:08.260 academy, it takes you about 10 months to finish. So we're not looking at putting any boots on the

00:14:13.960 ground until maybe next spring. Then you throw in the recent changes to the department's residency

00:14:18.800 rules mandating all police trainees live in Philadelphia before they enter the academy. Nobody's

00:14:25.060 going to move to Philadelphia hoping that they get a job. They want to make sure that they secure

00:14:30.380 employment and then move in. Richard Vona, director of the Bucks County Police Training Center, says

00:14:35.320 all of these issues are also inspiring younger officers from the city to seek employment in the

00:14:40.980 suburbs and not just from Philadelphia. Yeah, you think? I mean, the problem, it's twofold that

00:14:50.980 you're going to have a lot fewer, as we're hearing, applicants. And right now, we've only talked about

00:14:56.320 Philly and New Jersey. This is the case everywhere. And the applicants you do have are going to be worse.

00:15:03.920 They're going to have fewer, fewer police. And the ones that you have are going to be worse

00:15:11.040 in terms of, of, of quality and, and their, you know, qualifications and skill level.

00:15:19.860 Because I think a lot of people who would make great police officers that are highly qualified for

00:15:27.100 it, they're going to say to themselves, well, is there somewhere else where I can take these skills,

00:15:32.860 maybe get into private security, something like that? Why would I want to take these skills here?

00:15:41.120 Where even if I do my job correctly, if I, if I follow the book to a T, my life could be destroyed.

00:15:51.060 This is, and you know, Republicans to look at the political end of this.

00:15:55.780 Um, this is a problem that Republicans could be trying to address, could be speaking to,

00:16:02.920 because it's a very, very serious problem. And cities across the country are dealing with the

00:16:09.200 effects of it. And that's only going to get worse because it turns out that, yeah, you, you,

00:16:15.420 despite what the abolish the police idiots have to say. And of course the people, you know, 1.00

00:16:21.300 the, the, the most prominent cheerleaders of that movement, members of the squad and so forth,

00:16:27.020 uh, they're doing, they're all well off. They're doing perfectly fine. They're in safe neighborhoods.

00:16:32.120 They've, they've got security. They've got all that kind of stuff.

00:16:35.820 You know, when they go to their job, they're surrounded by armed men protecting them.

00:16:43.340 But just the average people, your average American living in a city, um,

00:16:47.500 they're going to feel the effects of that because it turns out you need police officers.

00:16:51.480 You do. If you have laws, then you need people to enforce them.

00:16:59.040 And right now, the people who are making the laws are doing everything they can to undermine

00:17:05.980 and attack the people tasked with enforcing the laws that they made. Like, just think about that

00:17:13.460 for a second. It's the legislative branch of the government, people in Congress,

00:17:23.060 Maxine Waters and every, every, all the other Democrats who are, who are the ones leading the

00:17:28.020 charge against the police, but they're also the ones making the laws that the police have to enforce.

00:17:35.380 Um, so that's, you know, that's, that's what's going to happen. You're going to have more and more

00:17:43.920 people say, of course, what's, what's, what's the point? Why, why do I want to get into this

00:17:47.980 line of work? And Republicans, so Republicans, they could be speaking to this, but instead you have

00:17:52.500 Republicans lining up behind, uh, oh yeah, we need police reform. That's what we need. 0.96

00:17:56.360 You know, Republicans talking about ending qualified immunity. This is becoming a popular 0.99

00:18:03.880 talking point, obviously on the left, but even on the right. And so what does that mean? You end

00:18:08.920 qualified immunity. I'll tell you that you get rid of qualified immunity and you're just, we're not

00:18:13.520 going to have any cops. All the cops are leaving because what, what that means is that every, if

00:18:19.400 you're a cop, every person you try to arrest anyone, you have to tackle to the ground in a process of

00:18:26.120 trying to arrest them, they can sue you now. They can sue you personally. Every single person you

00:18:32.480 encounter, try to arrest them. Maybe you, um, you know, you, you put the handcuffs on, it makes them,

00:18:37.300 their wrists a little sore. Now they can sue you. They can sue you personally. So if you want a recipe

00:18:44.040 for having zero cops, that's the way to do it. And of course, idiot Republicans, you know, they, rather 1.00

00:18:52.040 than addressing that issue there, yeah, we need police reform. No, police reform is not what we 1.00

00:18:59.300 need right now. That's not the problem. There's, there's a lot of reform needed in our cities and

00:19:06.780 it's not to the police first and foremost. All right. Um, number two, Tulsi Gabbard posted a video,

00:19:14.900 which I want to play this for you just because she, she says a lot of things in this video that up 0.99

00:19:20.880 until about five years ago would have been totally uncontroversial and cliched. If you had heard this

00:19:26.960 video five years ago, you would, you would just yawn and say, yeah, well, of course, this is what

00:19:31.160 all politicians say, but now this is edgy and controversial. Uh, here she is. Let's listen.

00:19:38.320 My dear friends, my fellow Americans, please, please let us stop the racialization of

00:19:46.420 everyone and everything. It's racialism. We are all children of God and are therefore family

00:19:54.500 in the truest sense, no matter our race or ethnicity. This is Aloha. And this is what our

00:20:02.220 country and the world need for the mainstream propaganda media and politicians. They want us

00:20:08.140 to constantly focus on our skin color and the skin color of others because it helps them politically

00:20:13.880 or financially. Aloha means respect and love for others. It's what enables us to see beyond our skin

00:20:23.160 color and see the soul, the person within. So let's do our best to cultivate this Aloha in our hearts

00:20:32.020 and see and treat others through this prism of love, not through the prism of race and ethnicity.

00:20:38.300 society. Please let us not allow ourselves to be led down this dark and divisive path of racialism

00:20:47.580 and hate. Where have we fallen to as a society that what you just heard there is controversial?

00:20:55.640 It should be totally cliche. It should require no political courage at all to say that.

00:21:04.920 What's she saying? She's saying, let's all be one happy family. You know, we're all,

00:21:08.820 we're all Americans. Let's try to get along. That's her message.

00:21:13.440 But these days that's, um, that's, that's edgy right there. What you just heard. So is this from

00:21:21.940 Lindsey Graham. He got into some trouble for, for this answer about, he was on a Fox news Sunday,

00:21:26.780 was asked about systemic racism, uh, and kind of impressively when he was, when he was asked

00:21:33.000 whether systemic racism exists, he said, no. And this was the reason he gave.

00:21:37.620 Senator, is there systemic racism in this country, in policing and in other institutions?

00:21:48.220 Uh, no, not in my opinion. We just elected a two term African American president.

00:21:53.120 The vice president is of African American Indian descent. So our systems are not racist.

00:22:00.500 America is not a racist country within every society. You have bad actors.

00:22:04.900 Pretty reasonable answer. There there's, there's a lot of statistical evidence that systemic racism

00:22:12.360 against black people in this country, in modern society is a myth. Um, especially the claim that

00:22:20.060 systemic racism in, in, in, in policing, there's, there's a lot, a lot of statistical evidence,

00:22:23.840 which we've talked about all the time on the show, that that's a myth, but what Lindsey Graham points

00:22:28.740 do perfectly reasonable. If our, if our systems are designed to oppress black people and to keep 0.98

00:22:38.240 them oppressed and keep them poor and so on and so forth, then how is it that a black man managed 0.96

00:22:44.120 to become president twice? He's our, if this is, if this is systemic racism, it's pretty ineffective. 0.51

00:22:52.860 This is the most incompetent systemic racism we've ever seen that a black man managed to get to the top of 0.95

00:23:02.160 the system. He was at the head of the system. Does that in and of itself by itself, uh, prove that systemic 0.97

00:23:12.780 racism against black people in modern America is false? Not really, but it's, it's, it's to prove it. 1.00

00:23:19.360 You can look to all the other statistical evidence, but, um, it's pretty good evidence against that

00:23:27.600 proposition. At least it's something that you would have to, if, if you are maintaining the theory that

00:23:35.460 there is systemic racism against black people, then a black president is something that doesn't

00:23:40.600 really fit into that theory. And so you have to explain it, offer some kind of explanation.

00:23:46.820 How did that happen? If there's systemic racism against black people,

00:23:50.980 but, but, but the, the people on the left, um, who propagate this theory rather than explaining it,

00:24:00.540 what they'll do is they'll simply laugh at you and scoff at you. If you bring this up,

00:24:03.620 it's the same thing with, um, when someone says, Oh, you know, I'm not racist. I have black friends

00:24:12.100 and we're told that that's a really stupid excuse. That doesn't prove anything. That's, 1.00

00:24:18.320 that's so dumb. Well, no, I mean, it is pretty good evidence actually that a person isn't racist. 0.98

00:24:25.060 You would think of somebody who's racist against a particular race,

00:24:27.400 they probably wouldn't have friends in that race. That's at least that's not what you would expect

00:24:32.760 of a racist person. But that's another one where no one ever tries to deal with that. They,

00:24:42.180 they simply laugh at it and, and, and insist that that's a bad excuse. They don't explain why it's

00:24:47.020 a bad excuse. All right. Um, number three, LeVar Burton, who's the dude from reading rainbow,

00:24:54.100 uh, for some reason was being interviewed by the view. I don't know why. Uh, and that's,

00:24:59.000 that's what led to him being asked about cancel culture, especially as it pertains to books like,

00:25:04.920 uh, Dr. Seuss. He's a guy who's read many a Dr. Seuss book to, uh, to children during his reading

00:25:10.660 rainbow days. And here's what he had to say about cancel. He says, it's not cancel culture. It's

00:25:15.740 consequence culture. And it's actually a very wonderful, lovely thing. Here's what he says.

00:25:20.300 I think we need to put things in perspective. Um, in terms of cancel culture, I, I, I,

00:25:26.780 I think it's misnamed. That's a misnomer. I think we have a consequence culture,

00:25:31.640 um, and that consequences are finally encompassing everybody in the society. Whereas, um, they haven't

00:25:39.540 been, uh, ever in this country. So, um, I think, I think that there, there are good signs that are

00:25:46.900 happening in the culture right now. And I think it has everything to do with a new awareness on people

00:25:51.560 who were simply unaware of the real nature of life in this country for people who have been

00:25:57.980 othered since this nation began. Hmm. Consequence culture. Yeah. Because when you think of our

00:26:03.800 culture, right, that's what you think culture where people are held accountable, culture of mature

00:26:11.360 adults who understand there are consequences for their actions. Is that what you think?

00:26:14.720 The problem is precisely that the consequences are not the same for everyone. That's, that's what

00:26:24.360 cancel culture is. That's the point. It is wielded as a political cudgel and it's not the same for

00:26:34.820 everyone. Not everyone is held to the same standard. And it's not enough to simply say, oh, it's a

00:26:43.340 consequence. You do this. People don't like it. There's a consequence. Well, shouldn't we talk

00:26:50.920 about what the consequence is or ought to be? Yeah. If you want to, if you want to say that

00:26:57.800 cancel culture is a consequence, you know, you do something or say something and then the mob comes

00:27:02.700 after you and tries to destroy your life. Uh, you lose your job and everything. We'll talk about a case

00:27:07.380 of this. The most recent case, we'll talk about that in the daily cancellation coming up,

00:27:10.680 but yeah, that's, that's a consequence. Sure. In a certain sense, but is it a proportional

00:27:19.180 consequence? Is it a fair consequence? Because the consequence right now is that if you have,

00:27:27.460 um, an opinion, you know, or, or if you, if you share a perspective that's outside of the mainstream,

00:27:36.460 the consequence can be that your whole life is ruined. Sure. It's like a consequence culture.

00:27:44.100 Maybe call it disproportionate consequence, culture, unjust consequence, culture,

00:27:48.960 unequally unevenly applied consequence, culture. I'll go with any of those.

00:27:57.500 And as I said, we've got a great example of this, um, coming up in, in just a minute,

00:28:02.000 we get to the daily cancellation. All right, here's a story out of Oklahoma city. Really

00:28:07.240 important story. So we're going to play this for you about a, a fugitive who, um, has finally been

00:28:12.000 found after years on the lamb, really harrowing stuff here. Let's watch. First thing she told me

00:28:18.320 was felony embezzlement. So I thought I was going to have a heart attack. It was a moment of disbelief

00:28:23.680 for Karen McBride as she was talking to the Cleveland County district attorney's office this week,

00:28:28.680 where she learned she was a wanted felon for never returning Sabrina, the teenage witch on VHS 21 years

00:28:37.260 ago, a movie she says she never even rented. No, actually I had lived with a young man. This was

00:28:45.940 over 20 years ago. He had two kids, daughters that were eight, 10, 11 years old. And I'm thinking he

00:28:53.760 went and got it and didn't take it back or something. I don't know. I have never watched

00:28:58.940 that show in my entire life. Just not my cup of tea. Online documents show McBride was charged

00:29:05.060 with embezzlement in March of 2000, but never knew about the charges until recently when trying to

00:29:11.040 change her name on her license after getting married. They told me that I had a issue in Oklahoma

00:29:17.580 and this was the reference number for me to call this number. And I did. Meanwhile, I'm a wanted felon

00:29:24.360 for a VHS tape. Documents show the movie was rented at movie place in Norman, Oklahoma. We've since

00:29:31.500 learned that business closed in 2008. So there you see, uh, first of all, what kind of video rental

00:29:37.920 place? Why is that? It says Sabrina, the teenage witch it's written. It's like handwritten. It looks

00:29:43.840 like this was, it was someone recorded it. It was back in the day. The kids don't know that,

00:29:47.960 but back in the day we didn't have, uh, you know, you didn't have Netflix on demand DVR. If you wanted

00:29:55.300 to, if you wanted to watch a show again, you had to get out a VHS tape and record it, get all the

00:30:00.180 commercials and everything. It looks like someone recorded it and then, and then, uh, just off their

00:30:05.720 TV hand and then, and then wrote on the tapes to bring the teenage witch. And then they rented it at

00:30:11.000 a, at a video rental place. But now that place is out of business. Whose fault is that? Think about

00:30:18.480 it. You're stealing all these movies. You could think of this as a, you might claim this is a

00:30:25.380 victimless crime. And that's why apparently, um, this felons, the charges against this felon have

00:30:31.300 been dropped, which I think is unjust. Remember this is consequence culture. There's consequences to

00:30:35.920 this, but before you think this is a victimless crime, I can remember, you know, 1995, 96 when I

00:30:45.300 was a kid going to the video rental place, I wanted to rent, um, mortal combat. There were no copies in

00:30:53.460 stock. I came back every day to get a copy of mortal combat, but people weren't bringing them back.

00:31:01.380 And so by the time I finally watched mortal combat, all my friends had seen it. They spoiled all the

00:31:05.440 good parts. So this is not a victimless crime in my opinion. Consequences. All right, let's move to

00:31:12.580 reading the, uh, the YouTube comments. Um, William Baker says, Matt, I'm on a family vacation and

00:31:18.620 convinced my family to watch you this week. Please don't embarrass me. Well, it's probably too late for

00:31:22.700 that William, but also can I, I would never tell anyone not to watch the show, but you're on a, you're

00:31:27.700 on a vacation. We talk about some pretty heavy stuff here. This isn't, this is not how I wouldn't be

00:31:34.200 spending a vacation watching me talk about these kinds of issues. Far be it for me to tell you not

00:31:41.160 to. Um, Jared says, I thought you were joking about the, my octopus teacher documentary, but that

00:31:49.460 actually sounds interesting. It is interesting. It's not everyone's cup of tea. It's, I mean,

00:31:52.660 it's a documentary about a guy who formed a bond with an octopus. So if that sounds interesting to

00:31:57.600 you, then it's, uh, then go ahead and go ahead and check it out. It's also, I think, Kurt Eichenwald's,

00:32:05.660 um, favorite documentary. If you get that joke, you get it. If you don't, I'm not explaining it.

00:32:10.840 Uh, the real Bridget says, look at Matt, it's white dad summer and I'm here for it. 1.00

00:32:15.040 White dad summer. So I was actually trying to explain to, I was trying to explain white dad 0.70

00:32:19.440 summer and white boy summer to my wife yesterday because she was asking me, she'd been seeing these

00:32:23.520 hashtags. She's not as with it as I am. And I'm not very with it either, but she was asking me what

00:32:29.040 are these hashtags about white boy summer? And I was trying to explain it. And really the whole point

00:32:33.180 is that it doesn't, it doesn't mean anything. It has no point. And that's the point. Um, Alejandro

00:32:41.700 says, Hey Matt, how long do you think a self-described crow magnet like you would last in a show like

00:32:47.220 alone? Sounds like you wouldn't mind just fishing all day long. I love the show alone. Uh,

00:32:52.460 it's probably our favorite show to watch my wife and I, I think I would do pretty good. 1.00

00:32:55.720 I mean, that's the show where they, they send these, it's like, it's real survivor where they

00:32:58.960 send people out by themselves in the wilderness. They, they film themselves. There's no camera crew

00:33:03.580 and, uh, it's just however long you could survive. Whoever survives the longest wins.

00:33:08.140 I would do okay with the psychological element of being isolated and alone. It's the survival

00:33:13.900 skill part of it where I think I might be lacking. Um, Stuart says, I'd love to try a Matt Walsh

00:33:21.520 Big Mac or should we call it a Big Matt? Well, you know, without context, Stuart,

00:33:26.960 this comment seems strange on a number of levels, but I understand what you're saying. And by the

00:33:32.260 way, if I, if I did make my own version of a Big Mac, the first change I'd make is to, um, use beef

00:33:38.420 patties. Well, that are, that are beef first of all. And then, um, that are also thicker than a piece

00:33:45.720 of construction paper. That's the, that's the, that's the first change of many that I would make

00:33:49.620 personally to the Big Mac.

00:33:51.520 Well, make sure to join us tomorrow for a special episode of Backstage. We'll be watching Biden's

00:33:55.720 first congressional speech. I cannot tell you how excited I am to sit and watch it. And we'll be

00:34:02.060 giving our analysis in real time. As Nancy Pelosi said, he's expected to share his vision for

00:34:06.320 addressing the challenges of this historic moment. So, you know, you don't want to miss it. Uh,

00:34:11.940 and by it, I mean our commentary, I don't expect the speech to be very entertaining, but we'll try to,

00:34:16.180 we'll try to, we'll try to make up for it as best as we can. It streams tomorrow at 8 30 PM Eastern,

00:34:20.860 7 30, uh, central on dailywire.com and on our YouTube channel at, uh, for the daily wire. So

00:34:26.660 make sure that you tune in for that. Also another high energy episode of Candace is coming

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00:34:35.480 where they've obviously got a lot to discuss, including the recall election of California

00:34:39.380 governor, Gavin Newsom and his new opponent, Caitlyn Jenner. So you can subscribe now and stream

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00:34:55.940 with code Candace. Now let's get to our daily cancellation. Let's follow along with this story.

00:35:03.420 Um, a man named Sam Johnson, who happens to live here in Nashville has become the latest victim of a

00:35:10.460 cancel culture mob that according to the left doesn't exist. We just heard from LeVar Burton

00:35:15.940 doesn't exist. It's consequence culture, but cancel culture certainly seems real to the people whose

00:35:20.840 lives are destroyed by it. People like Sam Johnson. Now Johnson is the CEO of a company called

00:35:25.840 visual, uh, was the CEO. I should say, as the media tells it, he became the subject of national

00:35:31.540 outrage and backlash and was fired from his job and had his life summarily ripped apart because he was

00:35:36.340 caught on camera, allegedly engaged in the quote, homophobic harassment of two gay teenagers, one of

00:35:42.380 whom was wearing a prom dress. Now in the story, the only one we've been told, the one that everyone

00:35:47.500 of course automatically assumes is totally true and not in need of any additional context at all.

00:35:52.600 In that story, Johnson is the bad guy, the only bad guy. And given that he's homophobic, 0.55

00:35:58.240 quote unquote, there is no consequence too harsh for him. The video of this supposed harassment went viral

00:36:05.540 yesterday. Um, Johnson's name was trending nationwide. The left was calling for his head

00:36:11.860 accounts with millions of followers, put Johnson's name and personal information out there. Here's a

00:36:17.300 tweet from Kathy Griffin, for example, this is what she tweeted with a, with a, uh, with the video of,

00:36:22.700 of, uh, of the incident. She says, if this is Sam Johnson in Nashville, Tennessee, the CEO of visual

00:36:29.240 healthcare tech growth strategist married to, and then she gives his wife's name, which I won't give,

00:36:34.740 where they may reside in. And then she gives the town where he lives, which I won't give.

00:36:39.180 It seems like he's dying to be online famous. So no problem there. Just a celebrity with 2 million

00:36:46.420 followers publishing a guy's name, his wife's name, and his town of residence, all because she's mad

00:36:52.860 about a video of a dispute between him and two other people, none of whom she knows personally.

00:36:58.300 Of course, many headlines in major news publications followed, uh, many of them matter of factly stating

00:37:04.880 that Johnson homophobically harassed a teen boy. It didn't take very long with this kind of pressure

00:37:10.260 for his company visual to publicly condemn him and announced that he'd been fired. I mean,

00:37:15.280 they didn't even wait a day. It just, it took a couple hours and, uh, they were done. Of course,

00:37:20.820 they claimed that they investigated the situation only took them, you know, a few minutes to do it,

00:37:25.400 but they investigated. Okay. Well, uh, we'll play the infamous video, but before we do that,

00:37:32.160 I want you to hear how this incident was framed by the guy who did the filming.

00:37:39.020 Jacob Geitman is his name. He recorded the altercation. It was his boyfriend who was wearing

00:37:44.340 the prom dress. So here's Geitman on TikTok giving his version of events. And I want to play this first

00:37:50.200 because, uh, if you haven't seen the, the, the video of the incident itself, you, when you hear

00:37:56.320 it being described, a certain image will be in your head, a certain expectation. And then when we play

00:38:03.100 the actual video, I want you to see whether it lives up to your expectation. So here is Geitman,

00:38:08.480 um, in two short videos on TikTok, giving his side of the story. Here it is.

00:38:13.460 So TikTok has now removed the video of my boyfriend being harassed on our prom night two times for

00:38:17.260 harassment and bullying, but I'm still going to give you guys a story time. And I'm going to have

00:38:19.860 my friend Brie post the main video on her TikTok account, which I'll comment below if you guys want

00:38:23.320 to go and watch it. This is a long story, probably going to have to make multiple parts, but I'm in

00:38:26.980 college. My boyfriend's a senior in high school, and he decided that he wanted to wear a dress for

00:38:30.480 his senior prom to kind of break the stigma around men wearing dresses. He looked gorgeous.

00:38:33.900 Everybody loved it. Nobody had a problem with it, right? We went to this hotel close to where we

00:38:37.700 lived and we got a lot of good photos. We were there for about an hour. And right as we were about to

00:38:41.220 leave, we were standing outside in this little middle area with a bunch of buildings surrounding us.

00:38:45.000 This man comes up, stands about an inch behind my boyfriend, and he's like, what are you wearing?

00:38:48.860 And he's like, a dress, why? And he's like, well, why are you wearing that? You shouldn't be wearing

00:38:52.440 that. He's like, uh, because I can and I want to, and I really don't give a f*** what you think. 0.98

00:38:55.500 So this man starts going on and on, throwing insults at him. You look disgusting. You look 1.00

00:38:59.600 ridiculous. You look like an idiot. Men shouldn't be wearing this. All of this homophobic banter. 1.00

00:39:03.840 So I grabbed my phone to start to record because I knew I wanted to record this s*** from the get-go. 0.96

00:39:06.900 So I grabbed my phone, started to record. He slaps my phone out of my hand. It goes flying over on the 0.85

00:39:10.520 concrete. Part two coming right now. Part two. It was getting hot in my car, so I decided to come inside.

00:39:15.320 So he hits my phone out of my hand. It goes flying on the concrete. I go to grab it to start

00:39:18.700 recording him again, and he tries to swing at me again, which you can see in the original video

00:39:22.400 when the camera goes out for a second. You can see him swinging. He tries to hit my phone out of my

00:39:27.200 hand again, but he misses, and he hits my boyfriend in the back. So that's when all of the moms that 1.00

00:39:31.260 were there, they're getting really involved out. They're like, you need to calm down. Like, this is

00:39:34.660 absolutely ridiculous. You were out of your mind. And at this point, the hotel staff had gotten word 1.00

00:39:38.680 from inside about what was going on. So two other ladies come out, and they're like, okay, guys, what's going on out here?

00:39:42.540 He pretends like he has absolutely no clue what's going on. He's standing there. He's like, I've just

00:39:46.980 been standing here the whole time. I don't know what's going on. I didn't try to talk to them. I

00:39:50.740 didn't hit him. I didn't try to smack his phone out of his hand. I'm like, dude, I have a minute-long

00:39:54.480 video of you harassing us. You can't just blatantly deny it like that. The staff was really great about

00:39:59.680 everything. They sent him back to the bar because he was pretty obviously drunk just because they were

00:40:03.740 calling the police, and they didn't want him to freak out any more than he already was. And as we were

00:40:07.220 leaving, they told us that they were kicking him out and calling the police. So. Okay. Now,

00:40:13.620 based on that, you have a certain expectation for the video of the incident. You're expecting

00:40:18.860 a drunken, a pretty obviously drunken, that's what we're told, probably screaming psychopath, 0.99

00:40:27.720 yelling homophobic slurs. That's how the altercation has been described, both by Geitman there in the

00:40:33.360 video and by the media and by the cancel mob on Twitter. But that's not quite what you see when

00:40:39.420 you watch it for yourself. So here is what happened, as documented. Here it is.

00:40:45.240 I told you that I wouldn't wear this thing off. Okay? Okay.

00:40:49.340 Is that right? 0.52

00:40:50.020 Think he looks gross? Looks disgusting? 0.98

00:40:53.120 Yeah?

00:40:55.160 Yeah.

00:40:55.700 You look like-

00:40:56.620 I look like what?

00:40:57.700 What is- 1.00

00:40:59.140 You look like an idiot. 1.00

00:41:01.440 Get the fuck away from me. 1.00

00:41:02.880 What does he look like? 1.00

00:41:03.520 Please stop.

00:41:04.040 Oh, do not let me-

00:41:06.520 No, sir. No, sir. I can f***ing towards you all I want.

00:41:09.420 Get the f*** away. 1.00

00:41:10.120 Keep talking. 0.99

00:41:11.060 Please, please. 1.00

00:41:12.680 Look like a moron. 1.00

00:41:13.860 Get away. 1.00

00:41:14.460 Come on.

00:41:15.020 Please, come on.

00:41:16.000 Please.

00:41:16.200 Stop, stop, stop.

00:41:18.120 Please.

00:41:18.680 It's just a problem.

00:41:19.220 This is a special night.

00:41:20.020 It's kids. It's a bunch of kids.

00:41:21.320 Come on, dude.

00:41:21.840 Just don't let one thing bother.

00:41:23.440 Just please.

00:41:24.180 Just stop.

00:41:25.660 Stop.

00:41:27.020 I'm sorry. I'm gorgeous.

00:41:28.560 Stop.

00:41:29.420 Are you?

00:41:30.180 Yes.

00:41:30.580 Yep.

00:41:30.960 Just gorgeous.

00:41:31.960 Stop.

00:41:32.420 Are you okay?

00:41:33.400 I'm great.

00:41:33.760 Okay.

00:41:34.320 Let's go.

00:41:34.960 Just go and have fun.

00:41:36.020 He's the one that's following us.

00:41:37.080 We moved.

00:41:37.640 Like, we moved from another day to over here.

00:41:40.280 Seriously.

00:41:40.960 Come on, dude.

00:41:41.600 We don't want any problems tonight.

00:41:42.780 Is it really worth it?

00:41:44.580 Okay.

00:41:45.660 So, there you go.

00:41:46.980 Now, a few issues here.

00:41:49.600 First of all, this video, as always, picks up in the middle of a confrontation between these people.

00:41:55.880 There's quite clearly something that preceded it.

00:41:58.380 The guy filming says that Sam Johnson instigated.

00:42:01.500 Sam Johnson, for his part, gave a statement to Newsweek.

00:42:04.080 Saying that he initially went over to ask the teens to quiet down because they were being loud, obnoxious, and vulgar.

00:42:09.480 And so, this wasn't initially about the dress. 0.73

00:42:11.760 It had nothing to do with them being gay. 0.95

00:42:13.620 He was going over because they were being obnoxious. 0.92

00:42:15.380 And he was talking to them about that.

00:42:16.840 I don't know what really happened.

00:42:17.800 I wasn't there.

00:42:18.320 But neither was anyone else currently calling for Sam Johnson's head on a platter, which they got.

00:42:23.260 They got exactly what they wanted, as always.

00:42:24.760 What I do know is that in that video, the only person screaming and cursing is the guy in the dress.

00:42:31.860 I also know that the guy filming is prompting Sam Johnson, literally suggesting insults for him to say.

00:42:40.060 Did you notice that? 0.95

00:42:40.860 Do you think he's disgusting? 0.98

00:42:42.060 Do you think he's gross? 0.99

00:42:43.960 That was his words.

00:42:45.380 The guy filming said it.

00:42:48.400 That seems like odd behavior for an innocent person who's supposedly being harassed.

00:42:53.660 I mean, I don't know about you, but I've never...

00:42:55.960 I can't remember the last time I was harassed, but if I ever was, I wouldn't suggest insults for my harasser to say to me.

00:43:06.440 I also know that Sam Johnson does not appear drunk, as was claimed.

00:43:10.700 He's standing there, hands in his pocket, smiling coyly.

00:43:13.820 This is not the demeanor and tone that you'd expect based on how Jacob Geidman described his behavior.

00:43:20.600 Remember, what he described it, you were expecting a drunken, shouting guy shouting insults.

00:43:25.960 In fact, the person being harassed in that video seems to me Sam Johnson's the guy being harassed.

00:43:31.520 Geidman is following him around, camera in his face, while the other guy screams and curses.

00:43:36.720 And homophobic?

00:43:38.920 The man does not say even one anti-gay thing in that video. 0.99

00:43:43.700 Why is it homophobic to say that a dude in a dress looks ridiculous? 0.98

00:43:47.620 Tell me exactly. 0.97

00:43:49.020 I want someone to explain to me exactly how that's homophobic. 0.98

00:43:53.240 I mean, he does look ridiculous after all. 0.99

00:43:55.040 Well, yes, you look, men in prom dresses look ridiculous. 0.99

00:44:00.260 It is objectively absurd for a guy to wear a prom dress. 0.99

00:44:03.900 The dress literally was made for girls. 0.96

00:44:07.520 That's why it's made for girl body parts. 1.00

00:44:11.240 You're not a girl. 1.00

00:44:12.440 You're wearing something that doesn't fit you, wasn't made for you, and looks silly. 0.99

00:44:16.180 None of that's homophobic. 0.97

00:44:17.560 You can disagree.

00:44:18.280 It's a disagreement over style.

00:44:21.540 To call it homophobic is to claim that all gay people wear prom dresses, or like men who wear prom dresses.

00:44:28.860 Which, to me, seems like a rather degrading and insulting assumption.

00:44:33.180 Indeed, we're told by the boyfriend of the dude in the dress that he wore it not because he liked how it looked,

00:44:39.060 but because he was trying to make a statement.

00:44:42.620 And when you're making a statement, you're calling attention to yourself.

00:44:47.760 He was looking to break the stigma.

00:44:50.740 Well, if you wear something to make a statement and call attention to yourself,

00:44:55.580 you can't very well complain when you get exactly the attention you were hoping for.

00:45:00.000 You know, when the waiter brings out that giant heaping portion of attention you ordered,

00:45:04.780 you can't get offended and send it back to the kitchen.

00:45:08.480 So we have to ask ourselves, 0.94

00:45:10.500 were these two guys the victim of unprovoked harassment from a drunken homophobic bigot?

00:45:16.380 Or were they fishing for a reaction, literally trying to prompt a reaction,

00:45:22.000 even verbally prompting one,

00:45:23.740 and then ready to film it and ruin the life of whoever takes the bait?

00:45:26.860 Which version of events seems most reasonable and plausible to you?

00:45:32.100 Or was it something in between?

00:45:34.860 Whatever the case, what I can say is this.

00:45:38.360 This little petty exchange between a guy named Sam Johnson and a guy named Jacob Geitman

00:45:43.080 and a guy in a dress is not national news.

00:45:46.820 Nothing that happened here, whatever provoked it, whoever's at fault,

00:45:51.220 whatever the context, deserves to be in the headlines.

00:45:54.280 Even pretending that Johnson was fully to blame,

00:45:58.020 let's just pretend that for a moment.

00:46:00.580 Pretend that he was the sole bad guy in the situation.

00:46:02.960 Let's pretend that everything happened exactly as it was described.

00:46:07.800 Does he deserve to have his life destroyed over that?

00:46:11.360 Does that warrant outrage from millions nationwide?

00:46:15.420 Does his wife deserve to be named and shamed publicly? 1.00

00:46:18.960 Does his family deserve to be doxed and harassed?

00:46:21.600 I mean, the answer from rational and decent people is no, obviously not.

00:46:30.660 But the soulless, mindless, bloodthirsty hordes who make up the cancel mob

00:46:34.780 don't really have an answer.

00:46:36.960 They don't think these things through.

00:46:39.280 They have the brainpower and discernment of starving vultures.

00:46:43.740 They simply swoop down upon any carcass put before them to be consumed.

00:46:47.600 And yesterday, Sam Johnson was that carcass.

00:46:53.620 And for that, they, not Sam Johnson, are today canceled.

00:47:00.360 And we'll leave it there.

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The Matt Walsh Show - April 27, 2021

Ep. 709 - A Nation Of Paranoid Lunatics Afraid Of Fresh Air

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