The Matt Walsh Show - April 28, 2021


Ep. 710 - Our Benevolent Masters Will Now Allow You To Sit On Your Porch


Episode Stats

Length

52 minutes

Words per Minute

178.55663

Word Count

9,330

Sentence Count

642

Misogynist Sentences

12

Hate Speech Sentences

22


Summary

In their benevolence, our lords and masters in the CDC and the White House have given us new COVID guidelines. In their benevenence, they are now allowing us to walk outside and even have picnics without masks if we re vaccinated. So we ll talk about that. Also, 5 headlines including outrage over a bill in Idaho that bans abortion after fetal heartbeat is detected, and also outrage over video of Wayne LaPierre killing an elephant. Plus, Justin Bieber is accused of cultural appropriation for wearing dreadlocks, and we ll deal with the claims that there is systemic racism against Black NFL players.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, our lords and masters in the CDC and the White House have given us new
00:00:04.700 COVID guidelines. In their benevolence, they are now allowing us to walk outside and even have
00:00:09.740 picnics without masks if we're vaccinated. So we'll talk about that. Also, five headlines,
00:00:13.600 including outrage over a bill in Idaho that bans abortion after the fetal heartbeat is detected,
00:00:18.920 and also outrage over a video of Wayne LaPierre, NRA guy, killing an elephant. There seems to be
00:00:25.900 an interesting contrast between these two stories. Plus, Justin Bieber is accused of cultural
00:00:30.560 appropriation for wearing dreadlocks, and in our daily cancellation, we'll deal with the claims
00:00:34.880 that there is systemic racism against black NFL players. All of that and more today on the Matt
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00:01:59.920 If we've learned anything over the past year, it's that our lives are not our own to live.
00:02:05.080 We have freedom, of course, because we're Americans, but it's the freedom to do as we're
00:02:09.640 told. It's the freedom to live exactly as we're instructed to live, to go where we are ordered to
00:02:14.760 go, to wear what we are commanded to wear. Our masters have been generous with these freedoms,
00:02:19.660 you must admit. They've allowed us, for example, to stand six feet away from each other. They've
00:02:25.080 allowed us even to be maskless for several hours each night while sleeping, if we're willing to
00:02:29.300 assume that kind of risk. They've made many concessions like this because they are benevolent
00:02:34.320 and generous. Yesterday, proving that their generosity truly knows no bounds, both the CDC and Joe Biden
00:02:41.320 announced that some of us, under some circumstances, can maybe enjoy a few more liberties soon.
00:02:48.260 So first, the CDC released a new set of guidelines in the form of a handy chart with little pictures.
00:02:54.540 Pictures are important because we are very stupid and we need our masters to take that
00:02:59.500 into account when they're telling us what we can and cannot do. So there's little cartoon
00:03:03.360 pictures of a guy with a mask or not with a mask. According to the chart, both vaccinated
00:03:09.520 and unvaccinated people can walk, run, or bike outdoors without masks, provided they're
00:03:15.540 only with members of their own family, of course. I am overwhelmed with gratitude for this. Although
00:03:22.020 I personally will choose to remove only one of my masks while walking outside. The other five
00:03:26.820 will remain in place because you can never be too careful. Indeed, I cannot in good conscience
00:03:32.280 remove all of my masks until the risk of death has been fully eradicated and mankind has discovered
00:03:38.480 the elixir of immortality. But that's my own choice. And it's a choice that our masters allow me to make.
00:03:44.300 Blessed be their names. By the way, Joy Reid agrees with me. She said on her show yesterday
00:03:48.860 that though she is fully vaccinated, she still wears two masks while jogging. Listen to this.
00:03:56.320 And Dr. Gupta, I am among the fully vaccinated, joined Team Pfizer, and I did go jogging today in
00:04:02.760 the park. And I did, this was the mask that I wore with a doctor's mask under it. And most of the people
00:04:08.320 that I saw that were in the park, the park was packed. I would say like 95% of the people still
00:04:12.920 had masks on. There are people who are getting really upset about that. I won't name them.
00:04:17.880 Should people be freaking out that some people like myself who are vaccinated are still wearing
00:04:22.160 masks outdoors? Should we do that?
00:04:24.760 You know, you might listen to that and surmise that Joy Reid is a demented, paranoid,
00:04:29.480 maniacal freak who should be locked in an insane asylum for her own good.
00:04:33.280 You might surmise that. You might say that. I'm not saying that, but you might say that.
00:04:39.240 Many people are saying that. As for me, I think she's just exercising reasonable caution. Again,
00:04:44.660 it cannot be stressed enough. There is still a risk of death in general as humans. And some of us are
00:04:53.060 simply not willing to live our normal lives until there is no more death of any kind in the world
00:04:57.240 at all. What's wrong with that? Back to the CDC guidelines. Our masters also say that both
00:05:04.320 vaccinated and unvaccinated people are safe to attend small outdoor family gatherings.
00:05:09.860 So you can, for example, sit out on your porch with your own family. You couldn't do that before.
00:05:15.940 Now, if you did that before, you may have inadvertently killed untold numbers of innocent
00:05:19.640 people. The virus may have traveled out of your mouth, you know, floated on the breeze,
00:05:24.480 hitched a ride on a passing car, then walked up to somebody's house, rang the doorbell and murdered
00:05:28.340 everybody inside. This happened many times. You know, the science doesn't lie, but now the science
00:05:34.300 has changed. It is now safe to sit on your porch. The science of porch sitting is quite fluid.
00:05:40.320 We've discovered, but, but the CDC warns it is still unsafe to dine outdoors without a mask.
00:05:46.500 If you're unvaccinated, you must make sure to keep the mask on while you're eating. If you're not
00:05:51.780 vaccinated. Now this seems difficult at first. And that's why I've actually developed the ability
00:05:56.360 to eat with my ears, which is kind of interesting. I will in fact, um, shove the food into my ears
00:06:01.860 and then slowly absorb the nutrients that way. Now there's still some risk involved here. Ear
00:06:06.380 infections could be a major issue. I think I still have last Thursday's mashed potatoes lodged in there
00:06:10.920 somewhere. It also means, um, I have to take my earplugs out providing an opportunity for the virus to
00:06:15.880 sneak in, but it's still certainly safer than taking all of my masks off and eating with my mouth.
00:06:21.780 Like some kind of heathen from there. Uh, the CDC says that of course, if you're going into a crowd
00:06:27.660 of people, even if you're vaccinated, you must wear a mask. Is there any evidence that there's
00:06:33.460 any measurable risk of contracting or spreading the virus in a crowd? If you're vaccinated.
00:06:37.940 Well, no, but our masters don't need to provide evidence. Asking for evidence is anti-science.
00:06:44.800 It's also quite rude, frankly, after all, you know, I mean, think about all they've done for us.
00:06:49.160 And here you are asking for evidence here. You are expecting them to have, you know,
00:06:54.160 reasons for the things they say and the rules they make you ungrateful snide little brat.
00:07:00.940 I would spit on you if the CDC told me it was safe. Needless to say, uh, the rest of the revised
00:07:07.960 CDC guidelines make it clear that indoors, everyone must wear a mask vaccinated or not.
00:07:13.980 And nobody is safe indoors. If you're unvaccinated, you're not safe indoors or outdoors.
00:07:19.860 Your best bet is to find a way to open up a portal to another dimension so that you can
00:07:23.780 reside neither indoors nor outdoors, nor in any physical place at all. It truly disgusts me,
00:07:29.980 you know, honestly, that so many unvaccinated people have not even bothered to open up an
00:07:35.280 interdimensional portal at all. Yet another basic safety precaution that these people cannot be
00:07:41.200 bothered to take. Now, Joe Biden, in response to the new CDC guidelines, gave a speech explaining
00:07:48.040 the rules in more detail. And here's what he said. Earlier today, the CDC made an important
00:07:54.040 announcement. Starting today, if you're fully vaccinated and you're outdoors, you need and
00:08:02.380 you're not in a big crowd. You no longer need to wear a mask. I want to be absolutely clear. If you're
00:08:09.100 in a crowd like a stadium or at a conference or a concert, you still need to wear a mask, even if you're
00:08:18.440 outside. But beginning today, gathering with a group of friends in a park, going for a picnic, as long as you are
00:08:28.260 vaccinated and outdoors, you can do it without a mask. Wow. Yes, the president of the United States
00:08:36.540 has given us permission to go for a picnic, as long as we're vaccinated. As for other activities,
00:08:43.100 we we might want to engage in. He says that maybe we'll be able to do some of that stuff after July 4th.
00:08:50.100 Next week, I'll be laying out the path ahead to continue our fight against COVID-19
00:08:57.920 to get us to July 4th. This is our target date to get life in America closer to normal
00:09:05.280 and began to celebrate our independence from the virus together with our friends and our loved ones
00:09:11.920 as we celebrate Independence Day. Now, you might ask, whatever will be safe to do after July 4th,
00:09:21.780 why isn't it safe to do that stuff now? What's so special about that date? I know what's special
00:09:26.880 about it symbolically, but what's special about it scientifically? Does the virus know that it's
00:09:32.880 July 4th? Is the virus looking to make a grand poetic exit on July 4th? Has Biden talked to the virus
00:09:39.340 and learned of this plan? I wouldn't put it past him. But again, these are questions and you should
00:09:46.380 not be asking questions. Your job is simply to live every aspect of your life in accordance with
00:09:51.920 whatever random rules and policies are put in place by the bureaucrats and politicians who rule over us.
00:09:56.880 Your job is not to ask questions. Your job is not to be skeptical. Your job is not to demand
00:10:01.800 accountability from your leaders. All of those things were fine, even good before COVID.
00:10:06.300 But COVID changed all of that. How did COVID change it? Why did COVID change it? Well,
00:10:13.000 there you go again, asking more questions. It's like you never learn. Just do as you're told.
00:10:19.480 That is how you'll remain alive until you die of something else, which you will.
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00:12:01.220 from the Daily Wire. It says, Idaho's Republican governor signed a bill into law on Tuesday banning
00:12:06.200 abortions after a fetal heartbeat can be detected. Governor Brad Little signed the Fetal Heartbeat
00:12:11.700 Pre-Borne Child Protection Act, which prohibits medical providers from performing abortion
00:12:15.940 procedures after a fetal heartbeat can be detected, which is around four to six weeks of pregnancy.
00:12:21.320 A woman who received an abortion would be allowed to sue the medical provider who performed it.
00:12:28.040 Well, that's interesting. A woman who receives the abortion can sue the medical provider who
00:12:33.140 performed it. I mean, I'm fine with the abortion that's getting sued. Don't get me wrong.
00:12:38.900 But the woman who chose to go through with that, why is she, why does she get to sue?
00:12:46.780 Anyway, the only exceptions to the ban are abortions in case of rape, incest or medical
00:12:51.080 emergencies. And a woman seeking abortion for rape or incest must provide the abortion doctor
00:12:55.460 with a copy of a police report. Little said, quote, Idaho is a state that values the most innocent
00:13:01.720 of all lives, the lives of babies. We should never relent in our effort to protect the lives of the
00:13:06.180 pre-born. Now, obviously, I'm totally in favor of a law like this. I don't, you know, I don't like
00:13:13.360 the exceptions being put in place. But I'm not, I wouldn't oppose the law on that basis. It's
00:13:20.240 certainly a lot better than not having the law at all. And the reason I don't like the exception is
00:13:26.000 because the whole basis, right, for putting the law in place is to protect the rights of the unborn
00:13:36.180 human. What we're saying is it's not okay to kill an innocent, defenseless human being. That actually
00:13:43.660 is the entire case of the pro-life movement. That's it. That's all we're saying. It is never okay to
00:13:50.020 kill an innocent and defenseless human being. Not the same thing as saying it's never okay to kill
00:13:56.440 a human being. There are situations where you could do that. Self-defense being one, obviously.
00:14:01.060 But innocent and defenseless, you can't kill an innocent and defenseless human being.
00:14:06.160 And if that is our case, which it is our case as pro-lifers, I'm not sure what other case we could
00:14:12.300 possibly make. I'm not sure, you know, if that's not the basis for us being opposed to abortion, I don't
00:14:18.200 know what the basis would be. Then it doesn't make sense to have exceptions for rape and incest.
00:14:24.340 For the small minority of cases of abortions that stem from rape and incest, you're talking
00:14:30.940 about less than 1%. But even in those cases, we want to talk about abortions for rapists.
00:14:39.020 You want a death penalty for rapists? I'm all ears. We can have that conversation.
00:14:42.580 But I don't believe in killing the children of rapists as a penalty, whether they're born or
00:14:50.360 unborn. But in any case, generally speaking, this obviously is a major step in the right direction.
00:14:58.520 Now, pro-abortion people are not happy about this, needless to say. But then that brings us to
00:15:07.660 the next story. This is from USA Today. It says, quote, wildlife conservationists are outraged after
00:15:15.040 video released by The New Yorker and The Trace Tuesday shows the head of the National Rifle
00:15:19.480 Association and his wife fatally shooting two endangered elephants in Botswana in 2013.
00:15:25.240 The news outlet said they obtained a copy of the video, which was originally filed or rather filmed
00:15:29.700 for an NRA-sponsored television series, but never aired due to public relation concerns.
00:15:34.120 In the 10-minute video, Wayne LaPierre Jr., executive vice president of the NRA, can be seen shooting
00:15:39.240 and wounding a Savannah elephant. His guides tracked for him in Botswana's Okimbingo Delta. The video
00:15:45.680 shows LaPierre failing to kill the animal with three shots at point-blank range as the animal lies
00:15:51.700 immobile on the ground. And then finally, he has to bring someone else in to kill the animal. Now,
00:15:57.320 this video went viral. It was all over the place on Twitter and social media.
00:16:01.000 People very, very upset about it. You can go to the YouTube video. So I think that The New Yorker
00:16:10.540 has it on their channel. And you can watch it. Look at the comments underneath. It is, people are,
00:16:17.400 to put it mildly, extremely upset about this. And I can't help but notice that a lot of the people
00:16:26.020 upset about a law stopping quote-unquote doctors from killing unborn humans are the same people who
00:16:34.560 are upset about killing an elephant in Africa. A lot of the same, not all the same people.
00:16:40.840 Now, if you are pro-life and you're also against big game hunting or any kind of hunting, I don't care.
00:16:48.500 You can be pro-life and you're a vegetarian. You don't think we should kill any animals.
00:16:51.040 I respect that point of view. As long as you understand the hierarchy here, as long as you don't put
00:16:57.240 people and animals on the same plane, because they're not, as long as you understand that human life
00:17:02.240 is more important than animal life, but you still don't like the idea of killing animals.
00:17:06.520 I totally respect that view. It's not my view.
00:17:11.420 I personally don't care about hunting that much. I also don't,
00:17:14.720 it's not what I would choose to do with my time.
00:17:16.300 If I had a, you know, two weeks of vacation, I'm not going to go halfway across the world to
00:17:21.320 shoot an elephant at point blank range. I don't, I don't quite understand that as a recreational
00:17:26.060 activity. Um, but to be honest, I don't really care that much one way or another. Uh, and if that's
00:17:34.040 your view as a pro-lifer, fine, totally cool. But we know that a great number of animal rights
00:17:41.160 activists, environmentalists, wildlife conservationists, the people that are so upset
00:17:45.420 about this, um, many of them are on the left. And so they get this, they have this visceral reaction
00:17:52.240 of outrage and anger when someone kills an elephant, but they feel nothing about human children in the
00:18:00.300 womb, human beings being ripped apart and discarded as, as waste, just thrown out like they're nothing.
00:18:12.140 So, you know, there, there are many differences between big game hunting or any kind of hunting
00:18:16.820 and abortion. The number one primary difference, of course, is that one is a human life and one is
00:18:21.800 an animal like an elephant. Um, another, another, another difference here is that in abortion,
00:18:28.180 you know, the life has no value whatsoever. It's not, it's not valued at all. We just, we just
00:18:34.440 toss this. Um, I was talking about last week, it, the, the, the unborn child becomes to the
00:18:44.500 abortionist and the abortion clinic becomes medical waste. We literally tossed in a, in a dumpster
00:18:48.820 or harvested for parts like an old, uh, like Buick or something being, being harvested for parts.
00:18:55.220 That's, that's, that's abortion. And the people who can see, this is what I, I can, I can never quite
00:19:02.680 wrap my head around this mentality where you could look at an elephant and see enormous or a rhino or
00:19:12.540 whatever, uh, big game, you know, prey there, there might be, you could look at an animal like that
00:19:20.100 and see enormous value. Yet you could look at a sonogram, for example, and not see any value at
00:19:30.220 all. Nothing. It's not even that, that you're putting them on the same plane. It's that with the
00:19:38.900 unborn child, you see no value. You see garbage, you see a, uh, like a cancerous tumor, you see a clump
00:19:45.640 of cells or whatever phrase you want to use. I can, I cannot understand that, you know, in the,
00:19:56.440 in the, in the unborn child, that's, that's one of the reasons why, you know, this excuse that you
00:20:02.960 hear from pro-abortion people where they say, oh, um, you know, the, the unborn, the, the, the,
00:20:09.300 where the fetus is not a person. It's a, you know, it's a, it's a potential person.
00:20:16.900 And I always say, first of all, that's obviously not true. That's, that's a person. A person is a
00:20:23.520 human being and that is a human being. If it's not a human being, then what is it? What species is
00:20:29.860 it? If it's not of the human species, fetus is not a species. Fetus is a stage of development.
00:20:35.500 Not the same thing. It's like saying, oh, that's not a human. That's not a person. That's a middle
00:20:40.720 aged man. Okay. Middle aged man. That's a stage of development for a, for a human person. Fetus
00:20:46.240 quote unquote is also a stage of development. But even if I were to agree that, okay, it's a
00:20:53.160 quote unquote potential person, even which I don't, but even then I would see this potential person as
00:21:01.360 a thing of enormous, um, incalculable value. I would still see it as more valuable than an elephant
00:21:11.740 or at an absolute minimum, you would see it as equal in value. What I don't understand is no value.
00:21:22.080 And that's why I just can't, I can't respect it. If you're, if you're, if your opposition to hunting
00:21:29.480 comes from your abundance of love for life in general, that I respect.
00:21:39.720 But for a lot of people, it's a, it's not that they value life. It's not, it's not even that they
00:21:44.620 value the elephant's life. It's really all about them, right? They see the elephant and to them,
00:21:51.300 an elephant is majestic and beautiful and, and cute or whatever. And so that's why they say you
00:21:56.840 can't kill that, but they don't personally feel anything when they think about an unborn child.
00:22:03.060 And so they say, well, you can, you can kill that. It doesn't matter.
00:22:07.960 So it really is all about them in the end. And I can't respect that. All right. Number two,
00:22:12.120 the daily caller did a little man on the street segment, interviewing people in Brooklyn center,
00:22:16.420 Minneapolis and people in DC about rioting and looting and how they feel about that.
00:22:21.300 And the contrast is really interesting here. So let's, um, it's kind of the contrast that maybe
00:22:27.560 you're already expecting, but let's watch it. Today, we are North of Minneapolis in Brooklyn
00:22:32.880 center and we're in Washington DC asking people what they think of riots and looting. Let's see
00:22:38.580 what they say. What do you think about rioting? A lot of the looting that happened in Ferguson,
00:22:42.500 just like here is only caused by opportunists. Like change needs to be made. And if it's not getting
00:22:48.560 done in the traditional avenues, then rioting is a good option. I guarantee you nine times out of
00:22:53.280 10, the people that we're looting are not from this area. If rioting is what gets people's attention,
00:22:58.240 then I think that's necessary. When there's something like this goes on the opportunistic
00:23:02.720 people come out and they try to dehumanize this. I mean, I think all violence is bad violence,
00:23:11.040 but in the case when systems aren't responding to any other forms of change,
00:23:14.640 I can understand people getting frustrated to the point that they need to take other avenues.
00:23:18.560 We ain't got to be out here doing the dumb. The one that is doing the dumb is the ones that's,
00:23:22.480 that's taking it to a different toe. I think that there's a lot of systematic
00:23:26.400 oppression within the United States and that looting and rioting is very small in comparison to that.
00:23:33.680 So of course, bigotry of low expectations there, uh, or, or rather bigotry of, of no expectations at
00:23:40.560 all. Uh, we all know that not a lot of commentary is needed. I did appreciate the one, one girl who
00:23:46.320 says she's just wrong. You couldn't be more wrong in a single sentence where she says all violence is
00:23:52.000 bad violence. Uh, but looting and rioting can be okay. That's completely incomprehensible.
00:23:57.920 It's no part of that is accurate. All violence is bad violence. What does that even mean? If you're
00:24:03.840 trying to say that all violence is bad, well then, then how is writing? Okay. Exactly.
00:24:10.320 All violence is bad without exception, except for the exception of rioting and looting.
00:24:15.600 That's the exception you make for your belief that all violence is bad.
00:24:21.200 The exception is stealing from footlocker and burning it to the ground on the way out.
00:24:26.320 No, no, all violence is not bad. Some violence is, is morally, uh, licit like self-defense.
00:24:39.200 But once again, we go back to what we're saying with abortion, when you're, when you're committing
00:24:44.240 violence against innocent people who didn't do anything to you and are not presenting any, any,
00:24:52.080 presenting themselves as a threat to you in any way whatsoever, that's a really good indication
00:24:56.640 that is bad violence. That's what looting and rioting is because it's being done against people
00:25:04.880 who didn't totally innocent. What are the, the guy, the people, the guy who runs the local CVS,
00:25:10.400 what the hell did he do? That's the point. All right. Number three, I wanted to mention this.
00:25:17.680 Um, I talked about the story of Sam Johnson yesterday. He was attacked by the cancel mob based
00:25:21.600 on an out of context video that supposedly shows him quote unquote harassing a guy in a prom dress.
00:25:26.480 Uh, but really the video shows the supposed, the supposed harasser is the one getting harassed
00:25:32.080 in the video. And, um, and you could go back and watch that segment from the daily cancellation
00:25:37.120 yesterday if you didn't see it and we play the video and everything. I'm not going to play it again,
00:25:40.080 but I did that segment before the daily wire published its article on this story with some more
00:25:45.920 of, um, Sam Johnson's own side of the story. So I want to read this. This is from Amanda
00:25:51.280 Press Giacomo here at the daily wire says Nashville resident, Sam Johnson was fired from his position
00:25:56.080 as CEO of healthcare company visual on Monday. His family was doxed online and he has received
00:26:01.120 a deluge of threats, but that quote, enormous volume of hate Johnson told the daily wire is
00:26:06.560 based on a false media inflamed narrative stemming from an out of context, viral video.
00:26:11.600 Um, the, uh, onslaught was sparked by a video of Johnson that recently went viral online,
00:26:15.840 appearing to show him engaging in alleged quote homophobia, though notably not once in the video,
00:26:19.280 does Johnson utter any homophobic slur or use any profanity? Um, the, uh,
00:26:27.520 so, okay. So then it describes the video. We already know about that part.
00:26:31.280 Here's Johnson talking to the daily wire and giving a little bit of context.
00:26:35.920 Uh, and it's similar to what he told Newsweek, but this is what he says.
00:26:39.760 Uh, Johnson says they had been, they speaking of the teens had been at the hotel slash restaurant
00:26:43.920 for an hour causing a scene and being loud and obnoxious. I was perturbed that the management
00:26:48.880 wasn't doing anything to protect the rest of us who are paying customers with our kids present.
00:26:52.880 These teens were only there to take pictures and cause a public scene. There are many lies in
00:26:57.520 the mainstream articles and interviews, including the allegations of homophobic name calling and
00:27:01.440 following him. Um,
00:27:06.160 Johnson said, told the daily wire, he did say that Stevens looked like an idiot, but said nothing
00:27:11.440 homophobic. And he did look like an idiot, by the way, in the prom dress, prom dresses,
00:27:16.000 which are made for women, not men. And so when you wear a prom dress, you're going to look ridiculous.
00:27:21.600 Um, and, and, and the thing is almost everyone will feel that way. It's just that very few will say
00:27:26.560 it out loud. Um, notably as the video shows, Johnson was called names himself, himself by the, uh,
00:27:34.480 by the two teens. He was told to F off and, uh, other expletives. And in terms of him supposedly
00:27:40.320 following the team, here's what he told the daily wire. The door I was headed towards in the video
00:27:46.560 led back to the table. I was sitting at with my family Stevens, who's the guy in the dress,
00:27:51.200 uh, headed in the same direction. All of a sudden, which made it appear I was following him to the
00:27:55.840 uninformed viewer of their social post, which I was not doing. I was simply returning to my family at
00:28:00.880 the restaurant when they escalated the conversation with more foul and vile language and leading
00:28:04.960 statements about what they thought I might be thinking, trying to get me to agree to their
00:28:08.800 words. Um, and so there you go. That's, that's, that's his side of the story. And since, as far
00:28:19.040 as I know, nobody else, and there were a bunch of other people there when this all happened,
00:28:22.240 no one else has come forward and said anything one way or another. So it's kind of a, he said,
00:28:26.160 he said thing. And you could decide who you believe. I personally will say,
00:28:30.320 um, I believe Sam Johnson on this. His, his version of events makes sense. You know,
00:28:38.480 I can see it playing out that way. You got these two teenagers. And by the way, when we say teens,
00:28:43.200 I mean, they are teenagers, but the guy filming was as a college student and the guy in the dress
00:28:47.600 is 18 years old. So these are actually grown adult men. Um, so you've got the two men there.
00:28:54.720 One's wearing a prom dress looking for attention and admits that's why he was wearing it to break
00:29:01.120 the stigma. Okay. So he's trying to make a statement. He's looking for attention.
00:29:04.800 Um, they're being allowed obnoxious, you know, that, that rings true. Anyone who's been around
00:29:09.840 18 and 19 year olds, maybe that might ring true. You know, you can imagine them all in one setting,
00:29:13.920 being allowed obnoxious. An adult goes over, tries talking to them. And now they say, okay,
00:29:19.760 now, now we've got, we we we've reeled in, we've sent our bait out there and we've reeled somebody
00:29:24.560 in. Let's get the camera out and, um, and get the reaction we're hoping for. And that's where the
00:29:30.720 guy filming it, Geitman starts feeding lines to Sam Johnson saying, Oh, you think he looks disgusting?
00:29:36.720 You think he looks gross? Not because Johnson had said that, but because he was suggesting,
00:29:42.080 Oh, here, here are some insults you can say on camera so that I can put it online and claim that
00:29:47.360 you're a homophobe is just so obvious that that's what was happening.
00:29:54.720 Even if we never got this side of the story from Johnson, I would, I would assume that based on my
00:29:59.100 own common sense. And the first common sense thing is again, why does a guy wear something like that
00:30:06.960 to begin with? It's for attention. It's to get a reaction. And he got one after much effort. It seems
00:30:15.260 like he got one, but what I really want to, you know, of course, you're going to have the cancel
00:30:21.980 mob, these, these mindless drones. They see the video. They, uh, even though it's clearly out of
00:30:29.100 context, it picks up in the middle of some kind of encounter. There's something before that that
00:30:34.480 happened, but of the, but the mindless drones online, they don't think about that. They don't
00:30:38.400 care. Uh, they assume they have all the context they need. And so of course they're going to act that
00:30:42.400 way. Then you have people like Kathy Griffin doxing the family. Uh, well, she's, she's a
00:30:48.040 scumbag. And so she's going to act like a scumbag. She's a scumbag who's never contributed anything of
00:30:51.700 value to society whatsoever. And, um, so you expect that of her, not that it makes it okay.
00:30:57.380 For me, the, the, the, the number one villain in this story, even more than the, the men who are
00:31:05.080 provoking this on purpose, it seems, uh, the number one villain is visual, the company that
00:31:14.640 Sam Johnson worked for. And they, they kick him to the curb within hours of this video going viral,
00:31:21.680 claiming that they, we investigated it. Well, how much of investigation could you possibly do
00:31:27.740 in a few hours on a Sunday or whenever it was? No, it's just, um, I mean, this is someone who is
00:31:39.120 your, he's your CEO. I don't know how long you work there, but he was working there. You hadn't
00:31:44.140 fired him before for, for any reason. So presumably he was doing his job. Well, kick him right to the
00:31:49.320 curb. You know, if you're, if, if you work at visual, now this, this tells you something.
00:31:56.320 This is how visual values its people, which is not at all. They're not going to stand by you.
00:32:03.480 You're done. It's not. And it's not just that they fired him, but they publicly condemned him
00:32:08.840 through him to the wolves. This abhorrent behavior, we condemn it.
00:32:16.340 It wasn't even as though they, they, they quietly handled it in a professional private way.
00:32:21.860 Oh, they threw him right to the wolves. Not the only company to do that. But, um, I, I would say
00:32:28.960 if you work for a company and you see them respond to a PR crisis this way, where they, their first
00:32:36.320 reaction is to take their person, the guy, you know, works for them and throw them under the bus.
00:32:41.680 Then, uh, you know, if I worked for visual or a company like that, I'd be looking for employment
00:32:45.940 elsewhere because you could be next. And that tells you they don't value you. They don't care
00:32:51.480 about you. They have no loyalty to you whatsoever. All right. Number four, Joe Rogan was trending
00:32:59.380 yesterday with, um, people calling for him to be fired and, uh, outraged over this from his podcast.
00:33:06.160 Let's listen. People say, do you think it's safe to get vaccinated? I've said, yeah, I think for the
00:33:10.560 most part, it's safe to get vaccinated. I do. I do. But if you're like 21 years old and you say to
00:33:16.440 me, should I get vaccinated? I go, no. Are you healthy? Are you a healthy person? Like, look,
00:33:22.580 don't do anything stupid, but you should take care of yourself. You should, if you're, if you're a
00:33:26.880 healthy person and you're exercising all the time and you're young and you're eating well,
00:33:30.720 like, I don't think you need to worry about this. Yeah. I tend to agree with you, but there's a lot
00:33:36.080 of jobs that will tell you, you need to have this. Well, that's what's starting to happen.
00:33:40.300 People are worried about them doing it for their children. And we talked about this earlier. There's
00:33:44.260 that, that, that you might have to have your, your children vaccinated. And you know, I can tell you
00:33:48.900 as someone who's both, both my children got the virus, it was nothing. I mean, I hate to say that
00:33:55.000 if someone's children died from this, I'm very sorry that that happened. I'm not, I'm not in any way
00:34:00.180 diminishing that, but I'm saying the personal experience that my children had with COVID was nothing.
00:34:05.060 One of the kids had a headache. The other one didn't feel good for a couple of days. Like maybe,
00:34:09.880 I mean, not feel good. Like, like no, no big deal. No coughing, no, no, no achy, no, like an agony.
00:34:17.440 There was none of that. It was very mild. It was, it was akin to them getting a cold.
00:34:23.240 Okay. People were really upset about that. Nothing he said there was extreme. All of it perfectly
00:34:30.600 sensible. But even in that he feels the need to almost apologize for, and add a lot of qualification
00:34:39.380 to his own experience or his children's own experience with the virus. You know, I, it reminds
00:34:47.380 me of, I saw this morning on Twitter, some, some guy in media was apologizing because he apparently
00:34:52.180 had a few days prior gotten the vaccine, had some side effects, uh, you know, he's feeling sick and
00:34:59.600 he tweeted about that. Uh, and then today he apologized for tweeting it and telling people
00:35:05.480 his own experience because he was, you know, he realized it was irresponsible and it might cause
00:35:09.540 people to not get the vaccine. So we're at, we're at a point now where you're, you're, you're not
00:35:15.120 supposed to even talk about your own experience. If it might encourage people to make choices
00:35:21.400 that the powers that be don't want them to make, but everything Joe Rogan said, they're
00:35:28.500 perfectly sensible. Um, yeah, if you're, if you're a healthy 21 year old, get the vaccine
00:35:34.520 if you want. Yeah, there's, there's, there's no real pressing medical need for it and that's
00:35:43.420 it. Make your own choice. Um, finally, this is from the guardian. It says, Justin Bieber,
00:35:48.300 really important story here, uh, has been accused of cultural appropriation and, uh, being a
00:35:54.320 dilettante dipping his toe in the culture, quote unquote, after changing his hairstyle,
00:35:59.200 the Canadian singer debuted, uh, his new dreadlock style on Sunday on Instagram, then posted a close
00:36:05.520 up on Monday. As in 2016, when he was pictured in cornrows, the images prompted outrage on social
00:36:11.480 media and I don't have to read all the outrage reactions, but, but suffice it to say he had
00:36:16.660 dreadlocks and, uh, there are a lot of people who have opinions about the, about Justin Bieber's
00:36:21.740 hairstyle and who even remember his hairstyle from 2016. And they haven't gotten over that
00:36:27.600 yet. They're traumatized by it. And now he's just adding insult to injury, to injury. He he's
00:36:32.160 having, here he is with it, with it, with another hairstyle that he's not allowed to have because
00:36:35.800 he's white. Now I'll say, and I did see the picture of, uh, Justin Bieber with the dreadlocks.
00:36:42.400 I, I, I really, I basically have no opinion about what hairstyle Justin Bieber chooses to have.
00:36:48.000 Um, if I was forced to have an opinion, I would say it's, it's not my favorite thing.
00:36:53.720 You know, the, the dreadlocks it's, it's, it's not my favorite look.
00:36:57.060 Is it cultural appropriation? No, no, because cultural appropriation doesn't exist.
00:37:05.080 You can't, you can't appropriate a culture. It's not the kind of thing that can be stolen
00:37:08.120 from somebody. Uh, you're not, when you appropriate something, you're, you're taking
00:37:11.900 something away from someone else and depriving them of it. But there's not anyone out there.
00:37:19.200 As far as I know, the fact that Justin Bieber has dreadlocks right now, that that's not preventing
00:37:23.760 anyone else from having them, is it? And also, um, dreadlocks, you know, black people don't own
00:37:33.780 dreadlocks and didn't invent them. Uh, dreadlocks have existed throughout history for throughout
00:37:38.700 human history in many different cultures. Again, not my favorite look in any culture, but, uh, but
00:37:45.880 anyone is, is free to do what they want with their hair. All right, let's, let's move on to reading
00:37:52.760 the comments. This one says, I'm a photographer from Michigan. Last night I was shooting a couple
00:37:57.520 for a pregnancy announcement, right? I was shooting a couple. Okay. With a camera. Hopefully you were
00:38:02.360 shooting the couple with a pregnancy announcement. You were shooting them with a camera. I assume
00:38:06.260 dad is a firefighter and mom is a nurse. We had a 20 minute standoff with some womanly man because
00:38:12.280 their words, not mine, because he refused to walk past us because we weren't wearing masks
00:38:17.780 outside. Both parents couldn't believe how insane this was. Uh, I wish that I could assume you were
00:38:27.560 exaggerating, but I can imagine exactly this scenario. He was afraid to walk past you because
00:38:34.540 you weren't wearing masks. Well, can I say it sounds like you guys handle this exactly the correct way,
00:38:39.780 which is, it sounds like you refuse to put the mask on, which is, which is, which is correct.
00:38:46.260 That's what you need to do. This is totally his problem. Completely your problem. If you don't want
00:38:54.340 to be around other people without a mask on, especially outside, that's your problem, not ours.
00:38:58.740 You got to deal with that. If that means you have to stay locked in your home for, you know, the next
00:39:03.900 couple of years while more and more people go maskless outside, that's, it's your choice, your problem.
00:39:08.900 I don't care. I'm not going to do a single damn thing to accommodate your paranoid delusions.
00:39:15.820 And I'm glad that you guys here in this case didn't well done. Um,
00:39:19.900 let's see. Another comment says my aunt wears a mask to sleep. I asked her why she said,
00:39:28.460 I'm scared of the virus in this way. I feel safer. I, I mentioned wearing a mask to sleep earlier in
00:39:33.720 the show as a, like a joke. She actually wears a mask to sleep.
00:39:45.260 That's why I've been saying people's brains are broken.
00:39:49.600 This is, that's in, that's insane behavior.
00:39:53.160 And there's no way that could be healthy to restrict your breathing like that every night
00:39:59.640 while you're sleeping. Oh my Lord. That that's, that's scary stuff. That's actually scary and sad.
00:40:06.520 It's a little funny, but it's also scary and sad. Um, Cecilia says, I hold all parents responsible
00:40:11.620 for this mask insanity. I pulled my kids out of public school. The minute this lunacy was enacted
00:40:16.180 last year, I refused to torture my children at the behest of an insane society. No, no, no. I don't care
00:40:22.600 what sacrifice one has to make to keep their kids home. Do it. It's your, it's your kids for goodness
00:40:26.940 sakes. Yeah. That's the, especially with children, you know, you know, how do we really make this end?
00:40:32.840 It's you refuse to comply with it. You refuse to go along with it, especially where your kids are
00:40:37.080 concerned. Um, and another says, Matt, you missed the critical phrase. Mr. Hornick, president of the
00:40:44.320 Michigan chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics said, quote, and as they get older, they obviously
00:40:49.860 are going to start asking questions. This means he never sees an end to wearing a mask. Yeah. I did
00:40:54.100 think about that. We played the, the news report out of Michigan of, um, their mask mandate now for
00:41:00.480 two to four year olds. And the president of the, uh, uh, Michigan chapter of the, of the American
00:41:06.440 Academy of Pediatrics was talking about, you know, how do you get kids to wear a mask? And he did use
00:41:11.540 the phrase. He said, uh, well, you, you put, make sure they wear the mask. And as they get older,
00:41:16.340 they're going to have more questions and you can answer those questions as they get older.
00:41:21.900 So how many years do you think our kids are going to spend in these masks?
00:41:27.920 Um, and finally, I got a lot of comments like this says, Matt, you think the news crew went out
00:41:34.400 and found the same VHS that was rented and not returned. You sir are canceled. And we talked about
00:41:39.040 the story of the woman who, um, in Oklahoma city, who was, who got a felony charge years ago because
00:41:45.680 she didn't return a Sabrina, the teenage witch VHS tape. And they showed footage of a VHS tape with
00:41:52.920 Sabrina, the teenage witch written on it, like handwritten. And I pointed out that what kind
00:41:57.440 of rental place sells a tape with handwriting on it. And many people said, well, that obviously wasn't
00:42:02.800 the actual tape. I understand that, but you know what? That's fake news. If you're going to show
00:42:09.020 footage of the tape, I want to see the actual tape. All right. These are the standards that I hold
00:42:13.620 are pressed to make sure you join us tonight for a special episode of backstage. We'll, we'll finally
00:42:18.960 be watching Biden's first congressional speech live. I don't know why it says finally here.
00:42:23.760 Like it's something I've been looking forward to. I've just been, I've been waiting for his first
00:42:27.400 congressional speech. The moment has arrived. Thank God. Uh, we'll also be giving our analysis in
00:42:34.200 real time. Biden has kept us waiting, uh, for so long for this speech that we all, everywhere I go,
00:42:41.120 people are asking me, when's Biden going to give that speech? I just, I can't wait to watch it.
00:42:44.800 Um, so you know that we're, we're ready to watch it and give our analysis. It streams tonight at
00:42:49.460 8 30 PM Eastern, 7 30 central on dailywire.com and on our YouTube channel dailywire. So make sure
00:42:55.760 you're there for that. All right. Another high energy episode of Candace is also coming to you
00:42:59.200 this Friday. This week, Candace hosts political commentator and interviewer, Dave Rubin. We'll have a
00:43:04.040 lot to discuss, um, including the recall election of governor Gavin Newsom in California and his new
00:43:10.680 opponent, Caitlyn Jenner, as we've talked about on this show, be interested to see what they have
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00:43:24.800 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.
00:43:29.520 You know, if there's one place in modern America where success is entirely determined or has been
00:43:34.120 entirely determined by merit and skill, it's in professional sports. Of course, there are always
00:43:37.900 going to be controversies about this or that player getting the starting job while this or that
00:43:41.260 supposedly better player is on the bench. But overall, speaking in broad strokes, the people
00:43:45.480 playing sports at the highest level are there because they're simply the best of the best.
00:43:50.100 And in many cases, uh, these are not people who come from privilege and wealth. You know,
00:43:55.200 it doesn't or didn't matter what your socioeconomic background was. The people playing at the highest
00:44:00.560 level were there because they were very, very talented and had worked obsessively hard.
00:44:04.840 That's one of the things I always liked about sports. You can watch sports and see people who
00:44:10.200 are extremely good at what they do competing against one another, according to the rules that
00:44:15.240 are the same for everyone and may the best man or best team win. It's not a perfect system. The
00:44:20.700 rules certainly aren't perfect and most definitely aren't enforced in a perfect way, but, but still
00:44:25.040 generally it works and it's fun to watch. And all of this of course means that the left has to try
00:44:31.620 and ruin it. So over on ESPN sports commentator, Max Kellerman yesterday expressed concern. His
00:44:39.140 antenna has been raised. He says about the possibility that the top three quarterbacks
00:44:43.620 selected in tomorrow's NFL draft might all be white guys. That's a big problem to have too many white
00:44:50.260 guys drafted in a row. Kellerman thinks, and he's not alone. Uh, but here he is explaining.
00:44:55.360 Well, a lot, a lot of football people really like Mac Jones, the more they look at him. Um,
00:44:59.620 and so like, I like you, Stephen, I'll defer to their wisdom, but I will say this. I think what,
00:45:05.280 what rubs people the wrong way, maybe like you, Stephen, I know it's on my radar is that sometimes
00:45:10.920 quarterbacks rise, sometimes they fall. But what I've noticed in recent years, after decades of
00:45:16.880 artificial barriers, but in being put in place for black quarterbacks, that visa V white quarterbacks,
00:45:22.980 black quarterbacks in the draft tend to fall pre-draft their evaluations. And sometimes it's right.
00:45:29.000 Like Daniel Jones looks like he's going to be better than Dwayne Haskins. And sometimes it's
00:45:33.240 wrong. Like Mitch Trubisky is not as good as Deshaun Watson or certainly not Patrick Mahomes.
00:45:38.760 Right. But I say Watson, cause he seemed to be the guy falling and Trubisky, the guy rising and
00:45:43.620 Mahomes maybe didn't do either. But the point is the correlation that can be made is that your status
00:45:50.660 falls vis-a-vis white quarterbacks. And so that's why my antenna are up when I notice one,
00:45:56.180 two and three this year, white guy, white guy, white guy. Right. But that may be correct.
00:46:01.060 Yes. Well, you can't blame Max Kellerman. He has some unfortunate deficiencies vis-a-vis IQ points.
00:46:06.580 And now he's worried that there's racism against black quarterbacks. As I said, he's not alone.
00:46:10.420 There's a lengthy article on the website, the undefeated claiming that there is quote covert
00:46:14.620 racism in the NFL, which makes it so that whiteness is favored reading from the article. It says
00:46:19.980 in the case of the lead up to this week's NFL draft, covert forms of racism in the evaluation
00:46:25.000 process tend to favor whiteness. Make no mistake, Fields, one of the NFL quarterback prospects,
00:46:32.640 will be one of the first five quarterbacks taken in the draft. But the fact that he started the
00:46:36.920 college season as the consensus number two quarterback prospect before inexplicably dropping
00:46:40.600 as low as the fifth quarterback at times in some mock drafts behind two white players with lesser
00:46:45.480 pedigrees is an indictment of the antiquated system as it pertains to black quarterbacks.
00:46:51.520 And this idea that the NFL somehow systematically, systemically racist against black people extends
00:46:56.980 beyond the playing field. We've heard for years that there's a racist conspiracy to keep black
00:47:01.560 people from being head coaches. The league is so concerned about this that they've adopted a plan
00:47:06.260 to reward teams with draft picks if they develop minority coaches who go on to become head coaches or
00:47:12.180 GMs. It's only a matter of time before similar incentives are given to teams to draft black
00:47:16.580 quarterbacks or black players in other positions. The plan is to take this last bastion of sanity where
00:47:22.840 merit and skill have reigned supreme and completely destroy it by forcing it to submit to the left's
00:47:28.880 rules of identity politics. As we've learned, the left cannot allow anything to exist on its own terms
00:47:35.700 and by its own rules. Now, certainly if they can invent systemic racism in professional sports,
00:47:41.900 they can do it anywhere. If they can find the white privilege phantom in modern professional sports,
00:47:49.380 they can find it anywhere. So consider this, 70% of NFL players are black or rather are people of color
00:47:58.900 to use the politically correct phrase. Black people only make up 13% of the population. So that 13% supplies
00:48:06.720 nearly three quarters of the world's millionaire professional football players. And yet somehow the league
00:48:12.300 is still racist against that same group. And it gets better. Focusing specifically on quarterbacks, the
00:48:19.420 position where white people are supposedly favored. Four of the top five highest paid quarterbacks in the league
00:48:26.180 are black. Four of the top five. And soon it'll be five of the top five once Lamar Jackson gets his
00:48:33.100 payday and has passed his rookie deal. So looking over to the other positions, we find that along with
00:48:38.060 quarterback, the highest paid wide receiver, highest paid offensive guard, highest paid defensive tackle,
00:48:44.260 highest paid linebacker, highest paid cornerback, and highest paid safety are all black. And usually the
00:48:50.480 highest paid running back is black too, but every once in a while, you know, you get a white guy like
00:48:54.620 Christian McCaffrey who bucks that trend, but generally that's the way that would go. And we
00:48:58.880 could go further. The most high profile, flashiest, and highest paid positions on the field are
00:49:06.700 quarterback, wide receiver, cornerback, and probably these days pass rusher. So outside linebacker and
00:49:12.960 defensive end. As established, the highest paid quarterbacks are black. Nearly every wide receiver
00:49:19.100 in the league is black. Nearly every cornerback in the league is black. And pass rusher is a pretty
00:49:25.180 good racial mix. So systemic racism against black people in the NFL? If this is systemic racism,
00:49:33.440 then what would it need to look like in order to not be systemic racism? Do we need to simply evict
00:49:40.320 every white person from the league? Should we make them all water boys? Should Aaron Rodgers be on the
00:49:45.540 sideline collecting sweaty towels and Gatorade cups? What do the race hustlers need to see?
00:49:52.840 What would make Max Kellerman's antenna go back down? The irony is that is that the people pretending
00:50:00.080 to stand up for minority athletes, and we can hardly call them minority athletes as they are the majority
00:50:04.920 in their chosen field, but people pretending to come to their aid are actually only cheapening and
00:50:10.900 degrading their achievements. The more artificial pressure that's put on teams to elevate black
00:50:16.160 players and coaches, the more that those players and coaches are robbed of their achievements by
00:50:21.060 casting the achievement as the result of a policy rather than their own skill and hard work.
00:50:27.240 This is already happening with black coaches. Any black man hired as a head coach may well have
00:50:31.920 gotten the job because he was the best man for it. Or it could be because of the enormous
00:50:36.780 professional and social pressure put on teams with head coaching vacancies to hire a minority
00:50:41.680 candidate. It's impossible to know now. Affirmative action, as always, hurts the people it's trying
00:50:48.220 to hurt. So at least it succeeds in that. But it also hurts the people it's trying to help.
00:50:54.160 And it does it all in an effort to solve a problem that doesn't exist. And that's why Max Kellerman at
00:51:00.760 ESPN, along with all the other race baiters at that network, which is like all of them,
00:51:04.700 and in sports media, all of them today are canceled. And that'll do it for us today.
00:51:13.100 Leave it there. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Have a great day. Godspeed.
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