The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 711 - Daddy Government Wants Your Child

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, President Biden delivers a long, rambling, at times, barely

00:00:04.200 intelligible speech to Congress last night. But if you could stay awake and decipher it,

00:00:07.980 there was plenty to be concerned about, especially the part where Biden unveils his plan for

00:00:11.840 universal preschool. I'll explain why that's a horrible, dystopian idea. Also, five headlines,

00:00:17.380 including the parents who are volunteering their babies for COVID vaccine trials. What sort of

00:00:22.460 parent would do that? And a track runner, an organ, collapses on the track after being forced

00:00:26.540 to run with a mask. Plus, is the no-fly list being politically weaponized by the Biden

00:00:31.560 administration? We'll deal with that. And finally, in our daily cancellation, we'll talk about the

00:00:35.440 outrage over comments made by Steve Harvey, claiming that men and women cannot be platonic

00:00:40.900 friends. Is he wrong or is he exactly 100% correct? All of that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.

00:00:46.960 You know, the problem with State of the Union addresses or speeches to a joint session of

00:00:59.940 Congress, which is the same thing, is that they're always dull and pointless and forgotten by everyone

00:01:05.380 35 minutes after they conclude. They make no difference, they leave no lasting mark, and they

00:01:09.900 achieve nothing. It is an occasion for our political elites to engage in empty, self-congratulatory

00:01:15.140 pageantry, sort of like the Oscars, but for presidents. Not incidentally, they also tend to

00:01:19.200 be as boring as the Oscars and degenerate about the same level of viewer enthusiasm. Enthusiasm which

00:01:24.100 hovers somewhere in between dazed, confused, and catatonic. And of course, that also happens to

00:01:28.840 describe the general demeanor of our president. Credit where it's due, though. Biden's speech did at

00:01:34.680 least manage to up the ante and be even more grotesque and depressing than the average speech of this

00:01:40.220 sort. Last night, Biden delivered his address to a half-empty room of socially distanced, fully

00:01:46.540 vaccinated politicians in masks. It all looked quite creepy and dystopian, like a masquerade ball from hell 0.87

00:01:54.020 or something. Now, if congressional Republicans had any sense or backbone, they would have refused to

00:02:00.060 participate in the farce. Instead, they sat there, masked and obedient, clapping on cue. Now, imagine if

00:02:07.520 Republicans had refused to wear the masks on the reasonable ground that they're all vaccinated and

00:02:13.160 the masks serve, therefore, no effective purpose. Would they have been kicked out of the room? Would

00:02:18.160 they have been arrested? Or would they have been allowed to sit there maskless and free as men and

00:02:23.280 women of dignity? Whatever the case, it would have been a major political win. There would have been 1.00

00:02:29.000 no way to lose politically had the Republicans refused to take part in the masking sham. The only way to

00:02:36.580 lose was to do exactly what the Democrats told them to do. And as always, Republicans surveyed the

00:02:41.540 options and quickly chose the one where they gain nothing, lose everything, and the other side wins.

00:02:46.960 They're nothing if not consistent. Now, the speech itself was lengthy and drawn out, but also moved

00:02:52.080 quickly from one topic to the next in a mostly disjointed fashion. Listening to it was like being

00:02:57.080 stuck in some sort of disorienting time warp. It felt like it was moving quickly, but also not moving at

00:03:02.260 all. Biden kicked things off by claiming that the January 6th riot was the worst attack on our

00:03:07.880 democracy since the Civil War. Now, some might say that 9-11 was at least slightly worse than a crowd

00:03:15.940 of people briefly trespassing in the Capitol. In one case, 3,000 people were slaughtered. In the other,

00:03:22.120 only one person was directly killed in the melee, and that was one of the people in the crowd who was

00:03:26.940 shot dead while unarmed by a still unnamed Capitol Police officer. Indeed, some might say that there

00:03:32.580 have been countless attacks and tragedies between 1865 and 2021 that were far worse in scope, scale,

00:03:39.360 and body count than January 6th. Even the BLM riots before and after that event were worse by all of

00:03:46.040 those measures, and it's not even close. But Biden's speech was based in a reality that is not the one that

00:03:52.400 we all live in. Case in point, he also pledged to cure cancer and promised to devote trillions of dollars

00:03:58.920 to an infinite array of programs and causes. This is just not a serious man. It was not a serious speech,

00:04:05.440 though his agenda or the agenda of his handlers does pose a serious threat. But the most frightening part of

00:04:12.040 Biden's rambling, half-whispered diatribe came at the very beginning when he unveiled his $1.8 trillion

00:04:18.680 American Families Plan, because he's got a plan for you, for your family, which is supposed to

00:04:25.540 guarantee paid leave, free community college, free daycare, free waffles for every man, woman,

00:04:30.880 and child in the country. It also includes an item long on the leftist wish list, which is universal

00:04:37.240 preschool. Listen to this.

00:04:39.580 The great universities in this country have conducted studies over the last 10 years.

00:04:44.300 It shows that adding two years of universal high-quality preschool for every three-year-old

00:04:50.580 and four-year-old, no matter what background they come from, puts them in the position to

00:04:56.120 be able to compete all the way through 12 years and increases exponentially their prospect of

00:05:03.960 graduating and going on beyond graduation. The research shows when a young child goes to

00:05:10.240 school, not daycare, they're far more likely to graduate from high school and go to college

00:05:18.140 or something after high school. When you add two years of free community college on top of that,

00:05:25.820 you begin to change the dynamic.

00:05:28.920 Yes, send your three-year-old to school, not daycare, you irresponsible parents.

00:05:34.100 Now, in fact, as publications from The Atlantic to The Washington Post to The Heritage Foundation have

00:05:38.200 all argued, universal preschool does not live up to the promises that Biden makes for it.

00:05:43.060 In the long run, studies show that it can do more academic harm than good.

00:05:47.160 But the real problem with the universal preschool plan is deeper and more fundamental than that.

00:05:52.640 Biden says that if we get children into the government education system, starting at the age of three,

00:05:58.780 they'll be able to better compete and ultimately their prospects of going to college will improve.

00:06:03.800 Now, this is an idea rooted in a materialistic, utilitarian view of the human person.

00:06:10.840 People are not people so much as cogs to be molded into the correct shape and fit into their appointed

00:06:17.160 place in the machine. The strategy doesn't even really achieve that desired end, but that's almost

00:06:23.760 beside the point. What sort of parent is worried about their three-year-old competing?

00:06:28.920 Competing. Competing against who? My youngest son is four, and I've never once given even a moment's

00:06:35.660 thought to whether I'm currently equipping him with all the tools he needs to compete in the global

00:06:41.180 marketplace. He's a child. His job now is to be a child. My job is to see to his basic needs while

00:06:49.680 attending also to his moral, spiritual, and emotional formation. At no point have I even considered what

00:06:56.680 his college application might look like one day or how his professional resume is coming together.

00:07:02.780 I am concerned with teaching him, yeah, but for children at his age, preschool age we call it now,

00:07:08.420 the best way for them to learn is not by sitting in a classroom, but by playing and exploring.

00:07:15.540 You know, playing for a young child, that's serious business. That's where they do most of their

00:07:20.520 learning and developing. It's ultimately harmful to a child's development to place competitive pressure

00:07:27.160 on them that early. Young children should feel only the mild pressure to, you know, clean up their toys

00:07:34.720 and finish their broccoli. They should be thinking about their future SAT scores, for God's sake.

00:07:41.860 But then again, I'm approaching this, right, from the standpoint of a parent.

00:07:46.760 That is, I love my children, and I want them to be happy, and I want them to grow into good and

00:07:53.660 well-adjusted human beings. That's my desire for them as a parent. The government, for all of its

00:07:58.740 nanny state talk, for all of its talk where it makes itself sound like it's a parent, it doesn't

00:08:06.280 actually love my children or yours and doesn't care about spiritual and emotional and moral growth

00:08:12.280 development or anything else. The government sees your child as property to be owned and used. That's

00:08:20.700 why Joe Biden there says, no, no, no, your three-year-old doesn't belong in daycare. Your three-year-old

00:08:26.280 belongs with us. Give him to me. Now, the government's objective is to ensure that your child becomes the

00:08:34.280 sort of person that it needs him to be and thinks he ought to be. The brainwashing has to start early.

00:08:44.400 Now, that, of course, is not just a matter of fitting them into the global marketplace, but it is about

00:08:48.820 turning, making sure from the government's perspective that your child has the correct, quote-unquote,

00:08:54.880 values and beliefs. And we've got a pretty good idea of what those values and beliefs are. You get

00:09:03.060 them in there at three, you start them on the gender indoctrination, you start them on critical

00:09:07.000 race theory, you get that in very, very early. So early that the child stands no chance of resisting

00:09:15.740 it. Three-year-old has no critical thinking skills almost at all. So whatever you tell them, they'll

00:09:22.200 believe. And the government knows that that objective is better served and can more effectively

00:09:27.660 be fulfilled if the children are sent into its clutches at the youngest possible age.

00:09:32.500 Children once began school in kindergarten, you know, and then we added pre-K and then pre-pre-K

00:09:39.360 and soon pre-pre-pre-K and then, you know, then you get pre-pre-pre-pre-pre-K and it just goes on and

00:09:47.500 on and on. This cannot be best for your child. It's not. What's best for him is to be at home with

00:09:55.900 you, not sent into government buildings almost immediately after birth. But the government is not

00:10:04.520 concerned about what's best for him. They're concerned about how they can use him and how they

00:10:12.240 can best turn him into the sort of person they think he should be. And that is why preschool is

00:10:20.140 canceled. Oh, wait, no, that's, that's a segment at the end of the show. But either way, uh, universal

00:10:26.160 preschool is a terrible idea. Now let's get to our five headlines. You know, I did have to, uh, by the

00:10:37.920 way, mentioned the top of the monologue, uh, specify that, uh, talk about the state of the union

00:10:42.500 addresses, state of the union address, or a joint speech to Congress speech to a joint session of

00:10:48.900 Congress. It's really important to, um, stipulate that because of all the pedantic a-holes out there 1.00

00:10:54.540 in internet land, which is the one thing I think I hate most about the internet and we all do.

00:10:58.600 So like, for example, I, I, I tweeted yesterday, uh, last night, uh, about exactly what I said,

00:11:04.500 that every state of the union address is, is pointless and is forgotten by everyone the next

00:11:08.140 day, which is true. I mean, can you remember anything that a president said in any state of

00:11:13.040 the union address in the past? Uh, I certainly don't. And, but the comments under that tweet,

00:11:19.220 it was just nothing, but one comment after another, this was not a state of the union address. It was an

00:11:23.780 annual message. State of the union will be in January, Matt. This was an address to Congress,

00:11:28.720 just FYI, not a state of the union. Then what, this wasn't a state of the union address. One

00:11:35.420 comment, what state of the union address? This wasn't that LOL. This wasn't a state of the union

00:11:40.760 speech genius. And it's like, no, it is, it is. It's exactly the same thing. It's just a different

00:11:48.080 name. Sometimes presidents in their, and this, this started somewhat recently, the last few presidents,

00:11:52.640 their first state of the union address, uh, they choose to call it something else for political

00:11:59.180 reasons. Mostly. I don't know what exactly those political reasons are probably has a lot to do

00:12:04.480 with, well, I just got here. So usually stay the union address. I'm going to look back on the past

00:12:10.340 year and say what a great job I did, but I just got here. And I don't want to say the last guy did a

00:12:13.480 great job. So this is going to be a slightly different thing politically people. This is how you

00:12:19.620 could tell, uh, is a good IQ test when people, they have nothing of value to add to a conversation.

00:12:29.540 So all they can do is leap in with a pedantic, useless, uh, redundant correction. That's how you

00:12:37.700 could tell everyone that does that their sub 100 IQs. All right. Um, but thank you for, for, to everyone

00:12:45.620 who's felt the need to correct me on that point. Senator Tim Scott gave his rebuttal to Biden's

00:12:51.240 speech last night. It was, it was fine. Uh, mostly it was a decent speech. Tim Scott seems to be a

00:12:59.120 decent guy. Uh, he talked about how America isn't racist, which is, which is a good thing to talk

00:13:05.120 about. And he was attacked for that and called racial slurs by the left, ironically. Um, but that

00:13:10.800 of course also was expected. Let's, uh, let's listen to that part of here. He is explaining how

00:13:15.720 America is not a racist country. Here's Tim Scott. A hundred years ago, kids in classrooms were taught

00:13:22.320 the color of their skin was their most important characteristic. And if they looked a certain way,

00:13:28.980 they were inferior today. Cues are being taught that the color of their skin defines them again.

00:13:36.020 And if they look a certain way, they're an oppressor from colleges to corporations, to our

00:13:41.920 culture, people are making money and gaining power by pretending we haven't made any progress

00:13:47.940 at all by doubling down on the divisions we've worked so hard to heal. You know, this stuff is

00:13:55.420 wrong. Hear me clearly. America is not a racist country. It's backwards to fight discrimination

00:14:05.100 with different types of discrimination. And it's wrong to try to use our painful past to dishonestly

00:14:12.680 shut down debates in the present. Fine. Good. Nope. No problem there. But, um, we as conservatives,

00:14:23.600 we're so desperate, you know, for Republicans who are not milquetoast cowards that we're very,

00:14:30.300 very easy to impress. And so we hear something like that. And everybody, a lot of conservatives

00:14:35.420 yesterday were, uh, on their feet cheering. Yes, finally, someone said it. America is not a racist

00:14:41.700 country. Well, yeah, of course I would hope he would at least say that. That's, that's that bar.

00:14:48.840 The bar is not even off the ground yet in terms of the standard. Are we really at a point now where

00:14:55.480 we're impressed when a, when a Republican simply says America is not a racist country?

00:15:01.960 That's a sad statement. And I get it. It's a statement about the, the, the, the Republican

00:15:06.720 party generally that we're impressed by something like that, but it's not actually impressive.

00:15:11.600 Yeah. I think, I think we need to expect more than that.

00:15:16.320 Uh, and unfortunately a lot of the good stuff was undermined. And the reason why I can't give Tim

00:15:22.180 Scott anything close to an A plus grade, um, is because for one, you know, the, the GOP needs

00:15:28.500 someone out front in the lead who is to my mind, aggressive, fiery, someone who goes on the offense.

00:15:39.400 But most of Scott's speech was defensive and that's not just him as Republicans. Again, in general,

00:15:45.420 it's a defensive speech. Well, you just heard there about America's not racist. True. Good thing to

00:15:52.400 point out, but also a defensive statement. But then worst of all, um, there was this where he starts

00:16:00.500 to talk about the need for police reform. Let's listen. Believe me. I know firsthand our healing

00:16:08.140 is not finished. In 2015, after the shooting of Walter Scott, I wrote a bill to fund body cameras.

00:16:16.220 Last year, after the deaths of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd, I built an even bigger police reform

00:16:22.940 proposal, but my democratic colleagues blocked it. I extended an olive branch. I offered amendments,

00:16:29.380 but Democrats used a filibuster to block the debate from even happening. My friends across the aisle

00:16:36.720 seem to want the issue more than they wanted a solution, but I'm still working. I'm hopeful that

00:16:44.560 this will be different. Yeah. And that's another, uh, thing tried and true from the Republican playbook

00:16:52.380 is to rather than taking issue on a, on a fundamental like principle-based level with what the left is

00:17:03.140 trying to do. Instead, you agree with the fundamental principle. And then you say, oh, no, we, we agree

00:17:10.520 with the left that this, that this or that thing needs to happen, but we're the ones who are better

00:17:15.440 at making that thing happen. So the argument essentially is, um, we're, we are a more effective

00:17:22.340 version of leftists. We're a more, we're leftists too, but we're effective leftists. That's the selling

00:17:29.220 point we get from the Republican party. That's a, that's a selling point we get from supposed

00:17:32.240 conservatives. That's what you just heard there. He's saying, Hey, I want to, I'm, I, I think there

00:17:38.660 needs to be federal police reform to police reform on the federal level. But, uh, we, we're the one

00:17:44.780 we we're trying harder than them to reform the police. No, what we need to hear is here's what we need

00:17:52.160 to hear. The push for police reform is based on a fantasy is based on a falsehood. It is based on a

00:18:01.680 myth. It is based entirely this, this push right now for police reform is based entirely on the idea

00:18:09.240 that there is an epidemic of race-based police brutality. That's what, that's why we're talking

00:18:15.800 about police reform. Everyone knows that. Well, that is false. It's not real. It's made up. It's

00:18:23.500 not a real epidemic. The facts don't line up with that. That's a false narrative. That's what we need

00:18:31.800 to hear. I would love to hear someone like Tim Scott, Tim Scott, any, any Republican given that

00:18:37.560 kind of stage, stand up there and give the statistics, tell people the truth about what's really going on.

00:18:45.800 Talk about the number of police shootings compared to the number of arrests. How many of them are

00:18:51.340 unarmed? The fact that the vast, vast, vast majority of police shootings are, are straightforwardly

00:18:59.180 valid and legitimate because you've got a violent perp trying to murder a police officer, usually,

00:19:06.400 usually shooting at them. And that's, and then they get shot back. That's like the majority of 0.59

00:19:09.980 police shootings. Talk about that. How about defend specifically, you know, some of these specific

00:19:17.820 officers, the officer in the Micaiah Bryant, um, shooting, for example. But that's what the push

00:19:28.900 for police reform is based on. No, we, that's, that's not the problem right now in our cities is

00:19:36.460 not that we have police, uh, precincts and police departments that are unreformed. That's not what we

00:19:44.560 need. We don't need police reform. We don't need criminal justice reform in the way that the Democrats

00:19:51.600 talk about it and the way the Republicans do. What we need are, are better ways to get violent

00:20:00.200 criminals off the street and keep them off. Because as the, that's the kind of reform we need

00:20:07.860 when a criminal justice reform, that's it. Because there are hundreds, thousands of violent criminals

00:20:15.740 walking around our cities right now who are known to the system, have already been through the system,

00:20:21.020 have already been arrested a bunch of times, are known to be violent threats. They filter through,

00:20:26.460 they're put back out into the community. They keep committing crimes. They go back in

00:20:29.800 until finally they do something so heinous that there's no choice, but to put them away for good.

00:20:36.260 That's the kind of reform we need.

00:20:40.700 Enforcing the law, getting dangerous people out of society, better protecting society,

00:20:45.740 society. I'd love to hear that from the Republicans.

00:20:52.680 Instead, we get police reform, which again is a Democrat idea. Democrats are the ones who told

00:20:58.220 us we need police reform. And then Tim Scott and others say, all right, great idea. I'll do a better

00:21:03.160 job than you. All right. Number two, if you want to feel your skin crawl, always a fun sensation.

00:21:10.520 Let me play some clips from an ABC report about parents who've offered their kids up to be lab rats

00:21:15.500 in vaccine trials. So as it stands right now, of course, kids are not eligible for the vaccine,

00:21:23.500 but they've got to, you know, do, do trials on kids. And so there are parents out there

00:21:30.360 willingly offering their kids up and saying, sure, try, try this, uh, inject this substance into my

00:21:36.280 child. We'll, we'll see what happens. Let's watch a little bit of this report.

00:21:40.000 Today, kids as young as six months old are taking part in trials for both Moderna and Pfizer's COVID-19

00:21:46.260 vaccines with their parents' consent. Dr. Zina Good enrolled both her sons in Stanford Hospital's

00:21:54.400 Pfizer trial. So we thought participating is a really good way to protect our kids. And so far,

00:22:00.900 because this vaccine has been tested in a lot of teenagers and so many adults, and it was shown

00:22:08.980 very safe. We felt pretty comfortable to participate. Seven-month-old Soren, one of the youngest in the

00:22:15.520 trial, received his first shot last week. Mom says he's doing well. His older brother, three-year-old

00:22:21.460 Ando, also got the shot. Did he experience any side effects from the vaccine? He had a sore arm for

00:22:27.980 like for a day and was a little bit low in energy for like a day, but that's not much. We're not sure

00:22:35.380 it's even side effects. He might've just, you know, been tired that morning. Okay. Well, you know,

00:22:41.880 what, what makes this to me so heinous is that this is, uh, an illness that doesn't affect kids anyway.

00:22:50.600 Now, if this was an illness that affected kids, uh, I, I still probably wouldn't be putting my kids

00:22:57.180 up in line to be, to be first. Uh, but at least you could say, you know, there, there's a, there's

00:23:02.140 a potential advantage to your child that this is an illness that affects kids and you're worried

00:23:05.540 about your kid's health. And so you want to get them the vaccine as quickly as possible. Uh, and,

00:23:09.620 and the risks are low and all of that. So maybe you could make an argument there, but in this case,

00:23:15.380 it's, it's, it's not a, your, your child, these children, a baby are at almost no risk already.

00:23:23.140 So you're introducing a risk for no reason. Um, offering them up to be, to be experimented on,

00:23:33.100 to be lab rats in a vaccine trial for a virus that wouldn't really affect them anyway. Most of the time,

00:23:39.340 here's another parent and I want you to listen to her reasoning. I thought it was pretty telling

00:23:45.120 here. She is. I think it's a three-year-old child explaining why she put her three-year-old up to

00:23:48.700 be, um, experimented on with the vaccine. Here it is. Dr. Angela LaCour's three-year-old daughter

00:23:54.220 is also in the trial. She says she feels strongly that doing this isn't just about keeping her child

00:24:05.000 safe. We were just so lucky that we have a healthy child. Um, and so grateful that she's able to be

00:24:11.240 part of this. But I think knowing that there are so many other parents out there whose children are

00:24:15.660 vulnerable and, and maybe struggling and they're really waiting for the vaccine to become a reality,

00:24:20.700 her being able to be part of this and make that as a reality for other families. And as a mom,

00:24:25.700 I can't imagine what that fear must be like for them. We're just so proud of her outside of

00:24:30.840 a fever, a rash at the injection site. Did they talk to you about any potential side effects?

00:24:37.240 I know that in very extreme and rare circumstances, like they couldn't even give us a rate for this.

00:24:41.680 There's the risk of anaphylaxis. Um, and again, she hasn't had any kind of reaction to other vaccines.

00:24:47.160 So not something I was very concerned about, but it also brought us a lot of comfort that we were

00:24:51.200 doing this across the street from the hospital. Yeah. Uh, so she says, we're grateful that we have a

00:24:59.540 healthy child. And so we're going to offer her up here, um, because of other kids and we're looking

00:25:07.400 out for other kids, but that may seem magnanimous and generous, but the problem is it's, it's your

00:25:14.500 kids. If you were offering yourself up your own body as a, as a, as a, um, you know, a vessel for

00:25:21.200 experimentation with the vaccine, then I could say, okay, very brave of you. I can appreciate that,

00:25:27.000 but it's not you though. It's your child. And they didn't consent to this. They can't have

00:25:32.080 consented. She's only three years old. There's no way she could have consented. You might've told

00:25:37.400 her, Oh honey, we're going to bring you in and give you a shot. And, uh, and then you'll get a 1.00

00:25:40.400 sticker. We'll take out for ice cream. And I'm sure the kid will say, Oh, sounds great. Yeah,

00:25:43.820 let's do it, mommy. But they have no idea what they're doing or what the potential side effects are.

00:25:52.880 Nobody really knows exactly what the side effects are in kids. That's why we're doing trials right now.

00:25:55.980 So they didn't consent, can't consent. And you're offering them up for the sake of other children.

00:26:02.120 That is totally disordered and backwards, upside down, topsy-turvy. Okay. That's not as, as a,

00:26:08.160 as a parent, your first priority is your own child's safety. Always. You never put your own child's

00:26:17.600 safety below, you know, the, the, uh, the welfare of other children. It's good to be concerned

00:26:25.900 about the welfare of all children. But your first concern is the child that God gave to you

00:26:31.420 and to potentially sacrifice that welfare or to put it on the line for the sake of the welfare

00:26:38.960 of someone else's child is completely disordered. Um, speaking of disordered things, number three

00:26:46.780 here, the state of Oregon is revising. Now it's outdoor mask mandate after a runner collapsed on the

00:26:54.600 track from lack of oxygen. So they're running track and they have to wear a face mask. Face masks

00:27:03.080 said again, we're, we're, we're not made to be run while sprint to be, to be worn while sprinting.

00:27:08.220 Um, but, um, here's what led to the, to the revision of these mask mandates in Oregon.

00:27:14.860 Good afternoon. I'm Lee Anderson, a runner from summit high school collapsed during competition.

00:27:20.240 Now the Oregon health authorities updating its mask policy for outdoor sports.

00:27:25.340 Max Goldwasser breaks down the details.

00:27:28.780 Maggie Williams, just seconds away from setting the summit school record in the 800 meter,

00:27:33.480 a moment of glory overshadowed by this moment of concern. Williams finished in two minutes and

00:27:40.940 eight seconds collapsing as she crossed the finish line. I felt like I just wasn't being able to get

00:27:46.560 a full breath and multiple times of that happening, not being able to get enough air. It just, I just

00:27:51.760 felt super dizzy and then eventually passed out. Williams blames her lack of oxygen on the mask

00:27:57.380 she's required to wear during competition. Clearly in the past, this has never happened. And then this

00:28:02.720 race that I was wearing a mask, it did happen, which I don't think is a coincidence. Her coach

00:28:07.380 echoing that belief saying this was not a conditioning issue. It was a mask issue. It was a

00:28:12.720 different response than I've seen for kids that have collapsed to the track just because they were

00:28:16.620 exhausted. She wasn't sure where she was. Yeah. Well, yeah, of course not. We don't, we don't need

00:28:22.320 to be those of us who are, who are sane individuals. We don't need to be convinced that she collapsed

00:28:29.000 because of a lack of oxygen. Obviously she did. She had a piece of cloth over her mouth while she's

00:28:33.820 running at full speed. Um, I ran track in high school, but I don't think you need to run track,

00:28:39.720 have that experience to, to understand how this might work. It's restricting your oxygen flow.

00:28:46.660 You're breathing in more of the air that you have just exhaled and less of the fresh air from

00:28:51.540 outside. But as always, we were, we, we've been told all along, don't, don't trust your own common

00:28:58.180 sense instincts. We have to wait for the studies to tell you. And so that's why we've been told all

00:29:04.220 along that no, no, no, no. Masks don't restrict airflow at all. What? I, I don't need to look at a

00:29:10.900 study to know that they do. There is a, there is a, a blockage. There is something over your face.

00:29:16.240 Obviously, if that thing was not over your face, you'd be able to breathe better. Clearly

00:29:22.660 the fact that we've got kids who are almost no risk already outside running on a track,

00:29:34.320 you know, spread out, they're racing and they're wearing masks. This is the kind of thing future

00:29:41.520 generations. We'll look back on this and they will never stop mocking us. We are going to be a

00:29:48.320 laughingstock of history because of this kind of thing and we'll deserve it. All right, next, uh,

00:29:54.140 Nick Fuentes says that he tried to board a plane this week only to discover that he was on the no

00:30:00.220 fly list. And later he published a video of himself talking to a Southwest agent. I think it was Southwest

00:30:05.820 who tells him in the video that he can't fly with them and he needs to talk to TSA about it,

00:30:11.640 which seems to confirm, or at least provide good evidence that he is indeed on some kind of no fly

00:30:16.800 list. And it's not just a matter of one airline saying you can't board for this or that reason.

00:30:21.760 Um, now anyone who, who has listened to this show for a while knows that Nick Fuentes and I

00:30:27.880 have not seen eye to eye to put it mildly, but here's the thing. You don't have to see eye to eye with

00:30:32.960 a person. You don't have to agree with them about everything or anything at all in order to be

00:30:36.720 very, very troubled at the prospect, the possibility that people are being put on a no fly list because

00:30:42.100 of their political viewpoints or ideological viewpoints. I mean, no matter how, it doesn't

00:30:49.040 matter how you feel about those views. Nick Fuentes hasn't been, uh, convicted of any crime. He hasn't

00:30:54.940 been charged with any crime. He was at the Capitol on January 6th, but he says he was never in the

00:31:01.240 building, never entered the building, hasn't been charged with entering it. Now the thing about the

00:31:05.220 no fly list is that, um, you aren't going to know exactly why you're on it. So you could say, well,

00:31:12.800 maybe there's a good reason. Well, so what? We're supposed to just trust the government when they

00:31:18.300 say that, that's the problem. They don't tell you why you're on it. They don't even tell you that

00:31:24.220 you're on it. You have to go and try to fly. Like what happened in this case, you have to try to get

00:31:30.580 on a plane and that's when you find out. And even then they won't tell you everything.

00:31:36.780 So for me, this is kind of easy. Um, I, I don't think, I don't think the no fly list should exist

00:31:44.300 at all. I don't think anyone should be on it. If the government can prove that you're a dangerous

00:31:49.900 criminal, they should convict you, um, of, of, of that crime and, and punish you for it.

00:31:57.160 But if they can't prove it, if they can't even muster enough evidence to charge you with a crime,

00:32:03.520 okay, again, this is a punishment. No fly list is a punishment imposed on people, not only before

00:32:09.420 they've been convicted of a crime, but before they've even been charged with any crime or accused

00:32:15.820 of any crime. The government can still say you're not allowed to fly. We're not going to tell you why

00:32:22.260 we're not going to necessarily give you any process to get off of it. With the no filists, 0.99

00:32:28.680 they can restrict your movement without any burden of proof just by, they can just bypass the bill

00:32:33.300 of rights entirely. That's a problem. And it's a power begging to be abused. It's an abusive power

00:32:38.820 by its own nature. And it, and it, and it can be abused further and wielded as a political weapon,

00:32:45.160 which perhaps now this is exactly what this administration is doing. And it could happen to anybody.

00:32:50.040 If it happened to Nick Fuentes, it could happen to anybody.

00:32:55.560 And if you're on the right, which you also have to keep in mind, um, is that the powers that be

00:33:02.660 Democrats and leftists, they don't draw any distinction between anybody on the right.

00:33:10.660 They've got the category of the right and everyone is the same. They don't draw any distinction between

00:33:15.940 any of them. So anything you see happening to one person in that category can happen to everybody,

00:33:22.840 whether they're being de-platformed, kicked off a social media, put on no fly list,

00:33:28.440 that can happen to everybody. I mean, just think about, think about if there was a,

00:33:35.000 what if there was a no drive list? Think about that. Cause I, one of the excuses I've heard this

00:33:41.460 in, in relation to the Nick Fuentes thing. Um, even, even, uh, even conservatives I've heard say,

00:33:47.400 uh, that, well, flying, flying isn't a right. Yeah. It's not a constitutionally guaranteed right,

00:33:55.220 but that doesn't mean that the government can take it away without any justification at all.

00:34:02.420 Is that what we're saying? If a right is not guaranteed and listed in the bill of rights

00:34:07.040 specifically, then the government can, can take it away for any reason without any justification,

00:34:10.420 without any, uh, uh, accountability, transparency. Is that really the road we want to go down?

00:34:17.780 And as far as going down roads, yeah. Imagine a no drive list. Driving also is not a guaranteed

00:34:22.040 right in the constitution. Um, but what if you got pulled over cause your light, your license plate

00:34:29.680 was flagged and the cop told you, Oh, sorry, you're on a no drive list. You're not allowed to drive.

00:34:33.740 You haven't been convicted. You know, you haven't been convicted of a crime. You haven't been accused

00:34:38.080 of a crime. You weren't drunk driving, nothing like that. You just, you got on a list somehow,

00:34:42.520 maybe because of your political views you've been, you've been deemed a threat for reasons that are

00:34:47.340 unclear. And now they say you can't drive. And not only can you not drive, you can't even be a

00:34:51.800 passenger on the road. We know that there are people who get their licenses taken away, but that's

00:34:58.540 for a reason. There's a reason for it. And you have a process through the court system to rectify

00:35:04.260 it. If a mistake was made, or if you believe you're innocent or whatever, would anyone accept

00:35:09.900 that? A no drive list that functions that way? Then why do we accept it with a no fly list?

00:35:17.400 And you can't say that, Oh, flying is more dangerous. So it's a different kind of thing.

00:35:20.880 It's not. Driving is a hell of a lot more dangerous and a hell of a lot more people die

00:35:26.040 doing it. So they could do with the planes. They can do it with the cars, do with any vehicle. Why not?

00:35:37.320 All right. Moving on. Finally, let's lighten the mood a little bit here. I don't know if this is

00:35:44.820 going to lighten the mood or just send you plunging finally into the abyss of depression. It'll do one or

00:35:50.460 the other, but, um, you know, I got to play this for you and I'm not even going to go to intro it,

00:35:56.440 but, but here it is from our friends at TikTok. Here it is. Hiya, Pfizer. Hi, Ben. You got any extra

00:36:02.500 shots? Sure, Ben. Sleeves up. I'm a Pfizer girl in a COVID world. I'm the classic MRNA tactic. 95%.

00:36:14.420 There's no argument. Got no contagion with my vaccination. Come on, Pfizer. Let's go,

00:36:21.740 buddy. With a fast gun. Come on, Pfizer. Let's go travel. Only if essential. Oh, we're having so

00:36:29.640 much fun. We'll have to do this again for my second shot. Oh, I love you, Ben.

00:36:34.720 You know that, you know, um, you know, these, uh, super volcanoes that are across the, across the

00:36:44.780 earth and, uh, scientists say that a super volcano could go off anytime and spew so much molten ash

00:36:51.840 into the air, sends us into an eternal night, kills all life on, on the planet. And it sounded

00:36:59.240 kind of good right about now. I got to play one more. I'm sorry. I don't know why I'm doing this,

00:37:04.640 but, uh, here's one more. Let's, let's watch.

00:37:07.540 Censoring me, uh, who was just censoring, giving that.

00:37:11.240 She came in like a stocky bomb. Yeah, she's nothing like that robot bond. Or a huckabee or dancing charm. 1.00

00:37:23.260 She handles questions. Refreshingly. She's our press secretary.

00:37:32.660 This may be hard to believe. We don't spend a lot of time talking about or thinking about

00:37:36.180 President Trump here. Former President Trump, uh, to, to be very clear.

00:37:40.380 Is that the same woman? I think it's, is it the same woman who did both of those things?

00:37:44.660 She's a, she is a terrorist. That is someone, you know what? I amend everything I just said before.

00:37:49.300 There should be a no fly list and she should be the only person on it. 1.00

00:37:54.500 All right. Let's get now to our, uh, and a no posting list. How about that? Forget about no

00:37:58.000 fly list. There should be a no posting list, which, which already is with big tech. I guess

00:38:02.600 I'm not innovating anything new, but she needs to be on it. All right. Um, let's go to reading

00:38:08.580 the YouTube comments. This is from Magnum. He says, you're such a cancer on society, Walsh.

00:38:13.620 Thank you, sir. Uh, another one says, Hey Matt, I'm in high school wrestling. We aren't allowed 0.92

00:38:20.140 to shake hands before or after our match, but we're allowed to wrestle thoughts on this.

00:38:27.980 Uh, so yeah, just for the sake of hygiene and not spreading germs around, you don't want to touch

00:38:34.680 your hands, but then you're going to be draped all over each other in the act of wrestling. 0.97

00:38:38.500 Uh, you know, makes a lot of sense. I have to try with the trust the powers that be that it

00:38:45.620 makes sense. We can't make sense of it because we are, our, our, our puny, puny mortal minds

00:38:50.780 can't quite process it. Um, another comment says, Matt, which of these three options seem the most

00:38:58.420 likely a reconciliation between the right and left B civil war C subjugation of the right by the left.

00:39:04.980 I know you didn't, you didn't, you didn't offer a D subjugation of the left by the right, 0.66

00:39:10.540 because I guess we, we realized that ain't happening. So, uh, between the two, you know,

00:39:15.060 it, it, it definitely, it isn't a, I think we know that. Um, another one says, maybe I'll take my

00:39:22.940 mask off, but I'll be damned if I'm losing my anti-lightning sombrero. Look, you can never be too

00:39:29.920 careful. Frankly, I think anyone who discourages the use of an anti-lightning sombrero is, is, is,

00:39:39.320 is actually murdering people. You know, you are responsible when someone gets hit by lightning.

00:39:46.300 So very good, very good, uh, point there. And let's see, there's one other I want to read. Um,

00:39:53.300 okay. Jillian says, Matt, yesterday you said you'll wear a mask in certain stores and tell your kids

00:39:57.620 it's supposed it's because you have to, I was very surprised to hear that. I just recently decided I

00:40:01.460 won't wear a mask anywhere. This decision was after recent experience where my, they told me my eight

00:40:05.420 month old had to wear a mask to enter. I refuse to give them any leeway. Like you said, it'll never

00:40:09.680 end unless we simply stop obeying these arbitrary mandates. If we continue to comply, they will

00:40:13.820 continue to enforce even more insane rules. Well, yeah, uh, never put a mask on a baby period. It's,

00:40:18.620 it's, it's dangerous. Eight, I don't know who told you to put a mask on an eight, eight month old.

00:40:23.080 They should be in jail because that could kill your eight month old. In fact, um, you don't put

00:40:27.260 things at a child that age, you don't put things over their mouth. That is, you know, you're not

00:40:31.980 even supposed to put a kid in bed with a blanket at that age. So yeah, you don't put a mask on a

00:40:37.920 baby. I'm not going to put a mask on, on little children. Um, I don't, you know, we don't, I never

00:40:44.180 volunteer for masking. We don't wear masks outside. We don't wear masks on the playground. Uh, the only

00:40:48.760 scenario in the past has been my two, the oldest, the seven year olds. If we have to run into a store

00:40:54.640 real quick and they're with me and it's required to have a mask on, then I'll give them the mask. 0.96

00:41:00.180 And I explained to them, we got to just do this stupid thing and we got to run in really quick.

00:41:03.980 Um, but most of the time, you know, we'll go in without the mask. If no one tells us to put on, 0.97

00:41:09.320 we won't. If someone who's not a position of authority in that store tells us, we won't put it

00:41:13.500 on. But if someone who works there says, can you put the mask on? Then we'll do it, uh, just so we can

00:41:18.920 get the stuff and leave. Because the only other option is to get into an argument with this employee

00:41:24.960 who has, who's unfortunately has to enforce this rule. Um, and then what we get kicked out of the

00:41:31.060 grocery store or something like that. And that to me doesn't seem like there's any real point to it.

00:41:35.740 Um, but generally, yeah, I think we have to get to the point. We should certainly all be at the point

00:41:39.860 now where number one, again, wearing a mask outside, putting mask on your kid outside is crazy.

00:41:44.120 You don't do it. Um, we shouldn't be volunteering to wear the mask, but if you're in a private

00:41:50.260 establishment and someone who owns that establishment says you need to wear the mask or don't come in,

00:41:55.800 then, you know, it is their rules. Well, you know, mother's day is right around the corner.

00:42:00.080 If you didn't know that now, you know, I just say, I just saved your butt and I told, I reminded you.

00:42:04.700 And, uh, so you got to start thinking about what are you going to get, uh, your mom for mother's day?

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00:43:23.360 at checkout. Well, another high energy episode of Candace is coming at you this Friday, this week,

00:43:27.620 Candace hosts political commentator and interviewer, Dave Rubin. They got a lot to talk about,

00:43:32.660 including the recall election in California, Caitlyn Jenner jumping into the ring. So

00:43:36.880 that'll be an interesting conversation. Subscribe now and stream Candace live on Fridays at 9 p.m.

00:43:41.060 Eastern, 8 p.m. Central, only on Daily Wire. And remember, if you're not a member, you can get

00:43:45.440 25% off a new membership with code Candace at dailywire.com slash subscribe. Now let's get to

00:43:51.220 our daily cancellation. As we know, people on the internet feel a deep need to constantly be

00:43:58.240 outraged about things. There's a certain amount of outrage, a certain quantity of outrage that's

00:44:01.680 required to satiate this need. As people develop outrage tolerance, though, they'll find that they

00:44:07.780 need more and more outrage to get their fix. Now, this shouldn't be a problem. There's no shortage of

00:44:12.300 outrageous things happening in the world all the time. You can no more run out of outrage than you

00:44:16.920 can run out of sand on the beach. But what happens, the problem is what happens when the people who most

00:44:23.380 need to feel outrage have also, for political reasons, committed themselves to being not outraged

00:44:29.920 about the most outrageous things? What happens when someone deeply needs to be outraged, but their

00:44:34.940 ideology precludes them from being outraged about, for example, the murder of babies and the general

00:44:39.480 mutilation of children? Well, this is like looking for sand and you live right next to a beach,

00:44:45.180 but you need to find sand everywhere but the beach and even sandboxes. Now you've just made what should

00:44:50.500 be the easiest thing incredibly difficult. And that's why in the age of cancel culture, people are

00:44:55.900 forced to go back in time to find things to satiate their outrage desires. They got to go back in a

00:45:04.220 time machine, like back to the future to find something to be pissed off about. Every day, there's

00:45:08.420 another video from years ago that people are randomly upset about for no reason, other than the fact that

00:45:12.900 they need to feel upset about something. And this week, that video, or one of them, that fills the

00:45:18.960 need is this. It's an interview with Steve Harvey from, I don't know, several years ago, I think like 10

00:45:23.780 years ago. And in it, he gives his opinion about whether men and women can be friends, platonic

00:45:28.980 friends. He says no, and people are upset. So let's listen first to the, as they say, resurfaced

00:45:35.800 clip. My friends are men. I don't have female friends. I don't. I'm incapable of that. Why?

00:45:44.100 What do you mean? Well, because, you know, come on. Because you have a wife. Well, I have a wife and I

00:45:49.180 don't, I don't really have female friends because look, okay, let's get rid of this.

00:45:55.380 Okay. I'm going to tell you this. Let's get rid of this right there. That you're an attractive

00:45:59.260 woman. There are some guys somewhere saying, yeah, I'm, we're friends. No, that's not true.

00:46:04.600 He's your friend only because you have made it absolutely clear that nothing else is happening

00:46:11.760 except this friendship we have. We remain your friends in hopes that one day there'll be a crack in

00:46:18.660 the door, a chink in the armor and trust and believe that guy that you think is just your 1.00

00:46:23.460 buddy. He will slide in that crack the moment he gets the opportunity. Cause we're guys.

00:46:29.600 And you think most men think this way?

00:46:31.200 99.9% of us think that way.

00:46:34.960 Very upsetting stuff there. Uh, people are, we're, we're upset about it. Also correct.

00:46:39.980 Of course, it's obviously true that men and women can't really be platonic friends. There

00:46:43.700 are exceptions. Of course, there are exceptions to most general principles. Okay. But it's

00:46:49.280 impossible to talk about anything if we're not able to make reasonable generalizations and we

00:46:54.620 can't, that's why we can't talk about anything because people are always obsessed with the

00:46:57.980 exceptions. That's another one of the pedantic things people do online that annoys me. You're

00:47:02.440 talking about general principles and someone always says, no, I'm aware of an exception. I

00:47:06.360 personally am aware anecdotally of an exception. Let me tell you all about the exception I know

00:47:10.760 about. No, this is a reasonable generalization and it's true. Men and women can't be friends. 1.00

00:47:17.420 That doesn't mean they can't work together. It doesn't mean they can't function around each

00:47:19.860 other. It just means that they can't, they can't be buds. They can't be pals in the same

00:47:24.380 way that men can be pals with each other or women with each other. Now, when talking about

00:47:31.000 this subject, the first thing we have to say is, and don't take this the wrong way, ladies,

00:47:34.080 but, um, your opinion doesn't count. Okay. Your opinion doesn't matter here. Doesn't matter

00:47:39.260 what you say. And I'll tell you why. I know that a lot of you think men and women can be

00:47:45.820 friends, but it takes two to tango. And sadly, men, much of the time have an entirely different

00:47:50.580 dance in mind. As for men who claim that they have many dear friends who are women, some

00:47:56.860 of those guys are gay and the rest are lying. Don't shoot the messenger here. I'm just, this 0.99

00:48:01.840 is just the truth. Now, if you're the sort of person who needs a study to confirm your own

00:48:06.360 common sense, well, luckily we have those. According to an article in the scientific

00:48:10.360 American researchers recently conducted an experiment to find out how males and females

00:48:15.600 in a quote friendship actually felt about each other. So here's how that went reading out says

00:48:19.800 in order to investigate the viability of truly platonic opposite sex friendships, a topic that

00:48:24.960 has been explored more on the silver screen than in science lab researchers brought 88 pairs of

00:48:29.880 undergraduate opposite sex friends into a science lab in order to ensure honest responses.

00:48:34.160 The researchers not only followed standard protocols regarding anonymity and confidentiality,

00:48:39.420 but also required both friends to agree verbally and in front of each other to refrain from

00:48:43.340 discussing the study even after they had left the testing facility. These friendships, friendship

00:48:47.800 pairs were then separated and each member of each pair was asked a series of questions relating

00:48:52.540 to his or her romantic feelings or lack thereof toward the friend with whom they were taking

00:48:56.400 the study. The results suggest large gender differences and how men and women experience

00:49:02.380 opposite sex friendships. Men were much more attracted to their female friends than vice versa.

00:49:08.180 Men were also more likely than women to think that their opposite sex friends were attracted to

00:49:12.180 them, a clearly misguided belief. In fact, men's estimates of how attractive they were to their

00:49:17.460 female friends had virtually nothing to do with how these women actually felt and almost everything to do 1.00

00:49:22.320 with how the men themselves felt. Basically males assumed that any romantic attraction they

00:49:26.740 experienced was mutual and were blind to the actual level of romantic interest felt by their female

00:49:31.560 friends. Women, too, were blind to the mindsets of their opposite sex friends. Because females 1.00

00:49:36.920 generally were not attracted to their male friends, they assumed that this lack of attraction was

00:49:40.400 mutual. As a result, men consistently overestimated the level of attraction felt by their female

00:49:44.940 friends and women consistently underestimated the level of attraction felt by their male friends.

00:49:49.820 What a shock. And by that, I mean not a shock at all. Common sense wins again. This is so thoroughly

00:49:56.680 confirmed by common sense and the nearly universal experience of all mankind that it isn't interesting

00:50:01.940 to talk about whether or not it's true. It simply is. What is more interesting to talk about is why

00:50:07.140 it's true. And the reason for that is also a matter of common sense, though perhaps not so common anymore.

00:50:13.240 It's this. Men and women are different. Men and women, no matter what they might say for political and

00:50:18.520 ideological purposes, all basically know that they're different. They see each other as different

00:50:22.940 and they see each other differently. You know, heterosexual men are perfectly capable of bonding with

00:50:30.000 women, but their desire is to bond in a different sort of way. And I don't just mean sexually. A man's 0.67

00:50:35.180 attraction to women is hopefully not merely sexual. His desire for companionship with a woman has a

00:50:40.980 prominent sexual element, of course, but there's more to it than that. Yet it all tends towards

00:50:47.040 eros, towards romantic love. One of the problems I think we have in society is that we only have one

00:50:52.880 word for love rather than in other languages like Greek, where they have multiple words for different

00:50:57.160 kinds of love. A man's affection for a woman is going to be different in kind from the feeling that

00:51:03.220 he has about his male friends. He's going to want something different out of the relationship.

00:51:07.520 That's not his fault. It's just not a flaw or a weakness. It's perfectly natural. He's a man,

00:51:11.480 and as a man, he relates to women in a certain way. Now notice something. Women who think they 1.00

00:51:18.080 have male friends will often say that they're, you know, what they'll say is, I'm just one of the

00:51:22.520 guys. And they'll brag about how they can throw down beers and spit and cuss with the best of them,

00:51:26.260 right? Most of the time, that's a lot of silly nonsense. But even if it's true, you see how a woman 1.00

00:51:32.060 who wants to be just friends with a guy will have to try to imitate the relationship between two men.

00:51:38.460 She'll have to try to blend in with the guys. She'll have to try and fit herself into the category 0.99

00:51:44.180 of a male-male friendship, you know, basically become a man by default for the purposes of the

00:51:50.300 friendship. Why is that? Well, it's because there is no authentic category of a close male-female

00:51:56.580 heterosexual platonic friendship. That category doesn't really exist. The ones that work, if they work at

00:52:03.140 all, work because the woman is basically pretending to be a guy and is seen as a guy by the other guys. 1.00

00:52:10.900 But usually from the guy's perspective, if they want to hang out with guys, they'd rather the guys

00:52:15.340 be actual guys. So if a guy is letting a woman into that fold, if he is putting up with that charade, 0.92

00:52:21.480 it is usually for a reason. And it's not the reason that the woman has in mind. 0.99

00:52:26.420 Now, the male-female friendships that really work are the ones that are mediated and contained and

00:52:32.840 centered around some other larger thing. Men and women can get along at work, even be friends in

00:52:38.200 the context of work. Married couples can be friends with other married couples. In these contexts,

00:52:43.860 the friendship can function and remain just a friendship, but they can't be close friends

00:52:48.600 just with each other without that mediation and context. Married couples can be friends,

00:52:54.980 but if the husband from one couple starts hanging out alone with the wife from the other couple,

00:53:01.500 problems arise. As a wife, if your husband is out late having some beers with his guy friend,

00:53:08.500 you might be annoyed that he's out late, but it's not going to be a crisis in your marriage.

00:53:12.380 If you find out that he's out late having some drinks with a female friend,

00:53:16.060 quote unquote, there are going to be sirens blaring and red flags waving all over the place.

00:53:20.340 In fact, even if he didn't have any kind of physical or sexual contact with that woman at

00:53:26.800 all, you're probably already going to feel cheated on because he should not be having that kind of

00:53:34.120 intimate companionship with a woman who is not you. Guys have a need for female companionship, 0.89

00:53:41.040 but it's a different kind of companionship. And so his need for female companionship is supposed to

00:53:47.000 be filled by you. He shouldn't need more close female companionship. If he does, that's a major 0.98

00:53:54.040 problem. And almost every wife on the planet sees it that way. Even if for whatever reason, 1.00

00:54:01.320 they would disagree with Steve Harvey on the point he made. There's no need to talk about whether things

00:54:06.300 should be this way. Things just simply are this way. Men and women are different. They relate to each

00:54:09.480 other differently. They bond differently. And that's fine. You know, the reality only becomes

00:54:15.920 a problem. This is a general lesson for everybody in all things. Reality only really becomes a problem

00:54:24.460 when you are set on denying it. And that's especially the case with things with human nature.

00:54:31.020 And we are set on denying so much about human nature. And that's why everything is falling apart.

00:54:37.020 And all of these things that should work basically fine don't work anymore.

00:54:41.360 Because we're set on denying what is obviously true right in front of our face.

00:54:47.800 And that is why I don't need to cancel male-female friendships because they don't really exist. 1.00

00:54:52.880 Instead, I'm just going to cancel the people upset about Steve Harvey, especially because that was

00:54:57.120 something from 10 years ago. Anyway, so let's keep, when we're looking for outrage, can we at least

00:55:01.740 keep it within the last, I don't know, there should be a 30-day cutoff. Can we agree to that?

00:55:05.080 All right. We'll leave it there for today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Have a great

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