Ep. 720 - Why Feminists Are Miserable
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A New York Times writer provoked outrage among feminists when she published a piece saying that she s happy about being a mother. Those kinds of shocking and outrageous statements simply cannot be tolerated, apparently. We ll discuss also 5 headlines including Rand Paul and Dr. Fauci clashing once again, The CDC director warns about the dangers of summer camp for children, and another famous celebrity comes out against cancel culture.
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Today on The Matt Walsh Show, a New York Times writer provoked outrage among feminists when
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she published a piece saying that she's happy about being a mother. Those kinds of shocking
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and outrageous statements simply cannot be tolerated, apparently. We'll discuss also
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five headlines, including Rand Paul and Dr. Fauci clashing once again. The CDC director
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warns about the unspecified dangers of summer camp for children, and another famous celebrity
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comes out against cancel culture. In our daily cancellation today, we'll talk about the media
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and Hollywood's brave stand against the racism of the Golden Globes. How are the Golden Globes
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racist? We'll try to figure that out today and much more on The Matt Walsh Show.
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You are, of course, already on thin ice in this culture if you make your own decisions
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and live your life according to values that fall outside of the mainstream. Even if you do this
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quietly in an unobtrusive and unassuming way, it'll still be considered an affront to those
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who, for whatever reason, are personally offended by your personal choices. But if you, God forbid,
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openly advocate for those values and express satisfaction with the choices that you've made,
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then you have really crossed the line, crossed the line at least in the minds of our leftist
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cultural overlords who have gone to great lengths to tell us what our values should be and what kind
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of life we should lead, and they do not appreciate having their instructions so blatantly ignored.
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New York Times opinion writer Elizabeth Brunig discovered this fact over the weekend in the
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lead-up to Mother's Day after writing a piece on the subject of motherhood that provoked great
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outrage on the left, especially among feminists. Now, we should note that Brunig is no right-wing
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radical. She's certainly on the left herself. She's also no fan of mine, for the record. She has a
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long-standing and rather passionate distaste for me and all of my opinions. This is kind of surprising,
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as I'm usually beloved by liberal women. In any case, none of that saved Brunig from
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the blowback for the piece she published with this shocking title. Get ready for it. The title is
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I Became a Mother at 25 and I'm Not Sorry I Didn't Wait. Provocative stuff. At least provocative for
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those who believe that women should not say anything about motherhood unless they're saying that they
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regret being mothers or that they're happy they never became mothers. Like, those are the two things
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that, as a woman, you're allowed to say publicly about motherhood. The piece, as the title suggests,
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is simply all about Brunig's decision to become a mother at a comparatively young age and how and
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why she's happy that she did it. Now, of course, 25 is not really a young age to have a child. Back
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when your great-grandmother was having babies, 25 would have been considered downright geriatric
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to start the process. But even today, in some circles, and even today in some circles, 25 is not
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really young. My wife was around that age when we had our first child or children, twins. But broadly
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speaking, the average age for marriage and for having children has been rising dramatically in
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this country for years now. So now, on average, women are waiting until 28 to get married and men
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until 30. Of course, not everyone gets married before having kids, unfortunately, but this is
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generally the way things are trending. In the circles that a liberal cosmopolitan woman like Brunig runs in,
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the age for marriage and children is going to be probably considerably higher even than that.
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So again, from a comparative standpoint, 25 is young. As for the article, I have to admit,
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even though she hates my guts, she writes kind of beautifully. Here's one part. She says,
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What I didn't understand, couldn't have at the time, was that deserting yourself for another person
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really is a relief. My days began to unfold according to her schedule, that weird rhythm of
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newborns, and the worries I entertained were better than the ones that came before, more concrete,
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more vital, less tethered to the claustrophobic confines of my own skull. For this member of a
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generation famously beset by anxiety, it was a welcome liberation. Liberation. She's talking about
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the liberation of motherhood, which, of course, is the opposite of what we so often hear, that women
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are liberated by leaving the home, leaving motherhood, liberated even by killing their own
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children. But she's taking the opposite perspective, and it's very well said, and what she says is
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profoundly true. But many on the left didn't feel that way. Feminist writer and miserable cat lady,
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Amanda Marcotte, said that the piece was, quote, naked pandering to the fantasies of pathetic men.
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And further offering her thoughts, she wrote, quote, I would like to thank this headline slash
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byline combo for helping me set a record for the quickest gross pass I've ever uttered in my life.
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Feminist author Jude Ellison Sadie Doyle, who looks exactly as you'd expect a feminist author
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with four names to look, tweeted this, the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing this
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woman it was a tremendous personal achievement to be repeatedly knocked up by an internet troll that
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she met in high school. Another, imagine, imagine saying that in response to a woman writing
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something on Mother's Day about how she's happy to be a mother. What, you think it's an achievement
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to be knocked up? My God, these people are miserable. Another blue check on Twitter, Jackie Shine,
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accused Brunig of claiming that her life decisions are superior to other people's, and another,
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Ora Bogato, somehow found in the piece evidence of, quote, white extinction anxiety.
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And there was plenty more where all this came from, but you get the idea.
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Brunig expressed a point of view that you're not supposed to express, and this was the reaction.
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For an example of the point of view that you are supposed to express, the point of view that you
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are supposed to have as a mother or a parent, here's feminist writer Jill Falopovich, also last
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week, around the same time as the hullabaloo over the Brunig article, she tweeted this,
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I would really love to read more essays and op-eds from women and men, too, who regret having children
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as early as they did, regret having as many as they did, or regret having children at all.
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There's not much about motherhood that remains publicly unexplored, but that does.
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Yes, regret, resentment, misery. That's what Jill Falopovich would like to hear from others.
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Certainly not gratitude, love, happiness, or any other such repulsive emotion.
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And she wrote a longer piece, by the way, explaining why she tweeted that and how this
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is a taboo. This is one of the last taboos in our society for mothers to talk about their
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regret, and we should deconstruct that taboo, and mothers should be able to talk about this.
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Of course, it's actually not a taboo. You hear parents talk about their regrets all the time,
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far too often. But also, by the way, one of the reasons why you might not hear mothers saying
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that out loud very often is, first of all, most mothers don't regret having kids. And second,
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if you do regret it, that's probably the kind of thing you shouldn't say publicly,
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because your kids are going to read that one day. And maybe you don't want to announce to the
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whole world, hey, I regret having this human right here. Now, I think there are two general points
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to be made about the overall issue here. First of all, it is indeed a good idea to start a family
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while young. That's a good idea. I don't think that Elizabeth Bruning was necessarily pitching this
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as a strategy for everyone, but she was just talking about her own choices.
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I will pitch it, though. I do think it's a, I think it's a, generally speaking, a good idea.
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Again, general statement. It's not going to be true in every single case. There are also many
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examples of people, both women and men, who very much wanted to have a family earlier in life,
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but were unable to, for one reason or another. Nobody's suggesting that you're doomed to a life
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of pointless misery if you have kids at 34, or if you never have them at all. We're simply talking
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about, or at least I'm talking about, general principles. And as a general principle, it is better
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to have a society where young parenthood is the norm rather than the exception. That is better.
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Why? Well, for one, biology. I know we don't care much for biology these days, but it does matter.
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It's a reality. The prime childbearing years for women are between around the age of 20 and up to
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about 34 or 35, give or take a year or two on either end. Once a woman is out of those prime years,
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the chance of miscarriage, of health complications with the mother or child, etc., go way up.
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A woman's body seems to have an opinion about when women should be having kids, and that opinion
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differs from the career-first priorities of modern society. Also, it's good for marriage and family to
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be the foundation of adult life rather than the capstone. See, these days we have this idea,
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that we ought to get married and have kids once we have all of our other affairs in order and all
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of our finances straightened out and we've already bought the house and we've done all that. We've
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established our adult existence, and then we fit a family into that already pre-established mold.
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Now, it sounds maybe intuitively like it makes sense to do things this way, but it can cause major
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problems, especially in a marriage. Because now there's a feeling that you're bringing someone
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into this thing that you've already built without them. You've been an adult for a long time, you've
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lived your whole life without this person, you've done all of this, all of this was, you didn't need
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their help for it, and now you're bringing them into it. The children too, you're bringing into this
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thing that has been long since established before they ever showed up. They become, or they can seem
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like, intruders more so than partners in a journey. Now, in my case, getting married and starting a
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family younger, all that we have now and we've built, we've done together. My wife and I, we walk the
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journey of young adulthood together as a team. Moreover, there's something to be said, I think,
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for having kids when you still have the physical energy to keep up with them. Boys especially need
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a dad who can run around, wrestle, pick them up, toss them in the air, climb into trees to rescue
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them when they've climbed too high and so on. The great thing is that when you have children young,
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you can do all that stuff with them. And you may even be able to do some of that, some of it,
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with your grandchildren. If my kids have kids when I did, I'll be in my mid-50s when grandchildren
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arrive on the scene. If those kids have kids at the same age, then I'll be around to see my
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great-grandchildren. Though I'll probably be as mentally present and cognizant as Joe Biden by
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then, but still, I'll be there. The point is, younger marriage and parenthood means multi-generational
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families. It means kids who get to grow up with parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents.
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So, having kids young pays dividends in the long run. But you have to care about the long run.
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You have to be able to look outside of the immediate. You have to have priorities that go
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beyond comfort and convenience in this present fleeting moment. Because it is certainly true,
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while there's a lot of joy to be found in having a family, it is oftentimes not very comfortable and
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it's certainly not convenient. It is never the most convenient thing. No part of your life will
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become more convenient once you have kids. That's for sure. In fact, very many things that you didn't
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even think about before now become a thing. They become an issue. They become even a source potentially
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of conflict. That's how it is to have kids. But underneath all of that is the joy waiting to be
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found and felt and explored. And that brings us to the second point. You know, that's what makes
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left-wingers and feminists so upset, I think. Because their operating principle, their priority,
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is to maximize surface level pleasure in each moment. As each moment passes, you say to yourself,
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how can I feel the most comfortable and feel the most immediate pleasure in this moment?
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And then you do whatever you need to do for that. The problem is that this strategy has rapidly
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diminishing returns. Whereas the deeper joy of family life can increase with age.
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Let me just talk to someone who just recently became a grandparent and the joy that they experienced
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there. And they'll tell you that it's not that it's better than being a parent, but it's a new
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kind of joy that they had never experienced before. So the joys can increase with age. And also
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that decision to have a family while young reaps new rewards at each stage of life.
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The pleasure of living a life consumed only by your own personal immediate satisfaction
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and material gain tends, on the other hand, to fade over time. And I think this is why feminists
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only get more and more bitter as they age. You look at someone like Amanda Marcotte or Jill
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Fallopovich or any of these feminists that have been on the scene for a long time, and you look at their
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writing, they've just gotten angrier and angrier as they get older. Because they're lonely and miserable
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and they realize that their approach to life has failed them. And they, and it is envy. They look at
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like someone like Elizabeth Brunick made a different decision, is experiencing the joy of that, and it
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makes them envious and hateful. If they can't have joy, then they don't want you to have it either.
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It really is as simple as that for them. Now let's get to our five headlines.
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All right. So Rand Paul versus Dr. Fauci once again. Another, another hearing, Dr. Fauci was there
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and we, we always get, you know, Rand Paul throughout this entire, throughout the last year, you know,
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he's been one of the few people in Congress, Republicans even, um, who've consistently taken the
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right, taken the right approach here, uh, and have held Dr. Fauci's feet to the fire. And, um, here he is
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again over the issue of, um, the National Institute of Health's funding of the lab in Wuhan where COVID may
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have originated, uh, Fauci says that doesn't, didn't happen. Well, originally he says it didn't
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happen. They kind of backpedals, but here's how that exchange went. Dr. Fauci, do you still support
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funding of the NIH funding of the lab in Wuhan? Senator Paul, with all due respect, you are entire,
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entirely and completely incorrect that the NIH has not ever, and does not now fund gain of function
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research. Dr. Barrett does not doing gain of function research. And if it is, it's according
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to the guidelines and it is being conducted in North Carolina, not in China. You don't think
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inserting a bat virus spike protein that he got from the Wuhan Institute into the SARS virus is gain
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of function. That is not. You would be in the minority because at least 200 scientists have signed
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a statement from the Cambridge Working Group saying that it is gain of function. Well, it is not. And if
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you look at the grant and you look at the progress reports, it is not gain of function, despite the
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fact that people tweet that. So do you still support sending money to the Wuhan Virology Institute?
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We do not send money now to the Wuhan Virology Institute. Do you support sending money? We did
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under your tutelage. We were sending it through EcoHealth. It was a subagency and a subgrant. Do you
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support the money from NIH that was going to the Wuhan Institute? Let me explain to you why
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that was done. The SARS-CoV-1 originated in bats in China. It would have been irresponsible of us
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if we did not investigate the bat viruses. Such a, Dr. Fauci, such an incompetent,
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dishonest little weasel. I'm at the point now, been there for a while actually, of feeling
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physical repulsion and even nausea when I look at him and I hear him. Can you think of a single
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bureaucrat in the history of the American Republic that has done more damage to the country single-handedly?
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This has been one of the most catastrophically damaging, um, bureaucrats, I think, government
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officials that we've ever had in government in this country. And yet people still, there's still a lot
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of people, mostly on the left, who look to Dr. Fauci as this, as this, uh, father figure. He's the,
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he's their cult leader beyond a father figure. He's like, he's a savior figure to them. They love him
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and trust him implicitly. They literally sing songs of praise and worship to him. We've played some of
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them here. You know what it is? It's Stockholm syndrome. I think that's what it is. Like someone
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who's been, we were, he, he was responsible, largely responsible for pushing the lockdowns across the
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country, destroying so many lives. And, but at the same time, he is, is trying to play the role of
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this kind old man on, uh, on TV saying reassuring words, sort of reassuring, reassuring, but at the
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same time, spreading panic, playing both ends of the spectrum. And it, and it's generated this kind
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of Stockholm syndrome thing from a lot of people on the left who now love their, their captor in a
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way. But there he says, uh, well, we didn't fund the gain of function research. That's interesting
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because here's a, here's a medium post from science writer, Nicholas Wade. Here's what he says
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from June, 2014 to May, 2019, Dr. Das, Dasag's, uh, eco health Alliance had a grant from the national
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Institute of allergy and infectious disease, part of the national institutes of health to do gain of
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function research with coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of virology, um, whether or not this,
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this again is Nicholas Wade, science writer in medium, whether or not SARS two is the product
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of that research. It seems questionable policy to farm out high risk research to unsafe foreign labs
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using minimal safety precautions. And if the SARS two virus did indeed escape from the one Institute,
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then, and then the NIH will find itself in terrible position of having funded a disaster experiment
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that led to death of more than 3 million people worldwide, including more than half a million
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of its own citizens. Um, so that's what we get. Doc ran Paul, also Dr. Paul says that there was funding
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here. There's funding, but Dr. Fauci says, no, no, that's that's your, you're completely and totally
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wrong. Don't, don't trust the facts that are right in front of your face. Trust me. I'm Dr. Fauci.
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You can trust me. Meanwhile, the head of the CDC was also, um, questioned in this case questioned
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about the ever-changing CDC guidelines, uh, by this question is back and forth with Susan Collins.
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And here's how that went. I used to have the utmost respect for the guidance from the CDC.
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I always considered the CDC to be the gold standard. I don't anymore. It matters because it undermines
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public confidence in your recommendations, in the recommendations that do make sense,
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in the recommendations that Americans should be following. With regard to the New York Times piece
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this morning, there's a meta-analysis from Journal of Infectious Diseases that was published in
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November, I believe, where the top-line result of all collaborate, all studies that were included in
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the systematic review said less than 10 percent of cases were, um, transmitted outdoors. With regard to
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camp, I have a 16-year-old every day, every year he comes home from camp and he writes the number of
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days until he returns to camp the next year. This year, it got to zero and I told him he wasn't going.
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I want our kids back in camp. We now have 38,000 new infections on average per day. Last May 11th,
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it was 24,000 and we sent a lot of kids home and camps were closed. The camp guidance is intended
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to get our kids to camp and allow them to stay there. Yeah, we did it last May. There's no reason
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to do it then. Well, we had this stupid, pointless policy last May, so, and apparently it didn't do
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anything. It didn't achieve anything. The fact that these people are still using,
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are justifying the continuance of these policies by saying, well, it's what we were doing early on,
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apparently that didn't work, did it? Summer camp was never a problem. It was never an issue. It was
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never going to be a vector for transmission. Neither were schools. We shut schools down in May. Why
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should we open them now? I don't know if you, if you give a damn at all about the kids, if you,
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if you care about facts, if you care about the signs, maybe that's why, maybe that's why you'd let
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them go to summer camp. And I just love it when these people use their own kids and their own
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experience as parents, you know, in a way to give them sort of emotional credibility. And she says,
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well, I've got a kid. My own son wants to go to camp and I can't let him go. All you're proving is
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that you don't give a damn about your own child. That's all. That doesn't, that doesn't help your case
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at all. Because as a CDC director, if you've looked at the data, which I'm going to assume you
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have, then you know that there is no reason, zero reason to keep kids out of summer camp or to have
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them wear masks when they're at summer camp. No reason to do it. There has never been a reason.
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You have no data. They never presented. They never bother. Show us the data. Show us the,
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show us the statistics. Show us the facts. Give us the numbers that actually prove why kids can't go
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to summer camp. Kids need to wear masks. Vaccinated people have to wear masks, you know, anywhere. Like
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show us, give us information. Show us a bar graph or something. They never ever do because they have
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none of the facts on their side and they know it. But the CDC director, who is that? Dr. Rochelle
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Walensky. She has a lot of power now, just like Fauci getting a lot of airtime on camera.
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On the news. I mean, you have to understand, uh, it probably wouldn't come as any surprise to you,
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but to be in front of cameras all the time, uh, to have people talking about you in the news,
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to have people hanging on your every word, asking for permission to, you know, send their kid to summer
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camp or something like that. Um, that is the, the power is immense and it can become addicting for
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people. It's kind of hard to let that go. That's what I've been saying all along. Even if
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you're someone of great personal integrity and self-control, it could still be very,
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very difficult when you're given that kind of attention, that kind of power, that kind of
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prestige, all, all of a sudden. Now, yeah, these leeches and parasites have been in government
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forever wasting taxpayer dollars. Uh, but nobody cared. Dr. Fauci's household name now across the
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country. How many people knew the guy's name last January? I mean, nobody did. Nobody cared.
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So they've been kind of, yeah, making a lot of money as parasites, um, on the system,
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but doing it in relative obscurity. And Dr. Fauci is whatever, 70 plus years old. And that's how he's
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lived most of his life. And now all of a sudden over the last year, rockstar status, getting the,
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the attention and the power that they believe they've always been entitled to. That's why they're
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in these positions in the first place. And now they're saying, after all these years, finally,
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Dr. Rochelle Walensky is saying, you know what? Finally, you people, you should be asking me
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permission before you do anything with your kids. I know better than you. I've always known. Now you're
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finally recognizing it. So to have that happen, uh, to, to suddenly be elevated in that way,
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as we have taken all of these, all of these useless bureaucrats and put them in these positions,
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uh, that, that, that's, that's intoxicating again, even for an honest, virtuous person,
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they could be corrupted. But then what, what do you do when the people to begin with are not honest
00:26:18.000
and virtuous at all? What do you do when they're already scumbags? And then you give them that kind
00:26:23.260
of power. They're just, they're not going to let it go. They will never, ever let it go.
00:26:30.940
There will never be a time when Rochelle Walensky gets in front of cameras and said,
00:26:35.440
everything's fine. Go live your lives. She will never, ever say that. Mark my word. She will never
00:26:40.320
say it five years from now. She won't be saying it. All right, moving on. Stacey Abrams, for some
00:26:48.540
reason was, um, interviewed about the economic recovery. I really have no idea. I've never been
00:26:55.800
able to figure out speaking of useless people, uh, Stacey Abrams, what does she do? Why does anyone
00:27:01.640
care about her at all? Um, it's, I mean, it's one thing if she's a failed candidate and she's useless
00:27:09.220
and doesn't do anything, but she's got charisma. And so people like her for that reason, but she doesn't
00:27:14.020
have any charisma. She's just this kind of blah lump on a log figure does nothing has achieved
00:27:20.260
nothing, but, um, the media, they love her anyway, and they always want to get her opinion. So she was
00:27:26.220
being interviewed about the economic recovery, the alleged economic recovery. And she, of course,
00:27:30.240
of course approached it the only way that she can approach the issue, which is by making herself
00:27:35.520
into a victim. Let's listen. The U S economy only added 266,000 jobs last month, which was
00:27:43.280
far less than the more than 1 million that was expected. It was so bad that there were reporters
00:27:47.880
on air that had to double check the number to make sure they had actually read it correctly.
00:27:51.860
Not to mention that the fact that all of the jobs went to men, is this a clear indication that
00:27:57.120
throwing money at this problem isn't working? Actually, I would say a different way. We know this
00:28:02.480
is a complicated challenge, a pandemic that's affected the economy for women in devastating
00:28:08.100
ways. And the notion that recovery would happen overnight is just, it's unfounded. Instead,
00:28:14.160
what we're seeing are the combination of being able to survive the pandemic and start to build
00:28:18.640
towards recovery. And I think that's why the American jobs plan and the American families plan
00:28:23.320
are both so incredibly important because it recognizes that the economy of care, which employs so
00:28:28.640
many women, has got to be seen as an essential part of how we rebuild our economy. And that it
00:28:33.280
is insufficient for us to simply focus on the more traditional masculine areas of the economy,
00:28:39.320
recognizing that we have to have women in every area, but that in particular women have been hardest
00:28:43.800
hit. And therefore we need intentional engagement and intervention to rebuild it back more solidly.
00:28:50.020
Traditional masculine areas of the economy. What even are you babbling about?
00:28:54.300
What are you talking about? Why are you talking? Who are you? These are all questions that I have.
00:29:01.100
By the way, Meghan McCain says that we was, we added 266,000 jobs. She says all of them went to men.
00:29:06.280
Really? 100%? 266? 266,000 jobs out of 266,000, all of it, not one woman earned a job in that,
00:29:15.820
in that timeframe? Is that, I mean, I don't have the information right in front of me. I kind of doubt
00:29:20.180
that. Um, but yes, the problem, this is really about, uh, women. We got to make this a problem
00:29:28.520
of women and somehow we, we throw sexism into it and all of that and playing the same victim card
00:29:34.600
as always. This is, this is actually similar to what the GOP tweeted yesterday. We talked about
00:29:40.720
the, the, the GOP. They were, um, they were, they were, they were hitting Joe Biden for not doing
00:29:47.240
enough to get mothers back to work. Got all these women that came out of the workforce. We got to
00:29:52.540
get them back in there, get that name tag back on them, have them a punch in a clock because that's
00:29:57.580
what we need women doing. What I would say to Stacey Abrams, Meghan McCain, and the GOP, everybody is,
00:30:04.520
uh, yes, a lot of people lost jobs. That's a bad thing. A lot of women lost jobs. It's a bad,
00:30:10.860
people lose jobs, bad thing, especially when the GOP job is taken away from you by, uh, tyrants
00:30:15.060
and government makes it even worse. And, um, but can we also consider the possibility that
00:30:22.980
some of the women who left the workforce and are, and, you know, decided to stay home with their kids
00:30:31.540
over the last year? Um, if, if we're not regaining those, those female jobs, could, could it be if
00:30:39.980
we're not regaining them as quickly as you thought we would, or would like for that to happen? Could
00:30:44.480
it be that there are some women who have reassessed their priorities and now they want to stay home with
00:30:51.760
their kids? Can we leave open a possibility of personal choice here? In fact, I know that that is
00:31:00.560
happening of all of the, the women who lost jobs and then the number that haven't, that, that have not
00:31:07.740
regained a job. I don't know how many of them have decided, have reassessed their priorities and decided
00:31:12.880
that they want to embrace this new lifestyle of staying home with their kids and so on, being a
00:31:17.200
homemaker and stay at home wife, uh, stay at home mom. I'm not sure how many of them, but I do know that
00:31:22.320
that exists. I've talked to women. I've, I've gotten emails, plenty of women, not people who decided
00:31:29.080
many times during the lockdown for the first time that they're going to become homeschool parents
00:31:34.940
because they had to, they didn't have a choice because all the schools shut down because the
00:31:39.520
teachers, uh, of course decided to prioritize their own safety over, over, um, the children and
00:31:44.740
their education. But even though their safety was really never at risk in any significant way.
00:31:49.620
And there are a lot of people who started homeschooling because they had to, and I'm sure
00:31:53.620
many of them will, as soon as they can send those kids back into school buildings.
00:31:56.640
But a certain portion, I think a not small portion are now saying, you know what? This
00:32:02.500
is good. Uh, I, I, it's tough to be a homeschool parent, but it's worth it. My kids are thriving.
00:32:09.940
I want to continue this. I think that explains a certain not small portion of the women who remain
00:32:20.020
unemployed. And I would consider that a positive development actually. If now there are more
00:32:30.760
families homeschooling by choice, more mothers that want to stay home and take care of their
00:32:36.460
kids' education and their children, rather than farming that out to the school system or daycare
00:32:40.640
center by choice, I'd consider both of those to be positive developments. We should celebrate that.
00:32:45.820
All right. Uh, from the New York post, it says Donald Glover. He's a well-known, of course, actor,
00:32:55.260
rapper. Uh, he tweeted over the weekend and this has gotten a lot of reaction and, and a lot of
00:33:01.360
people are upset about it for whatever reason. He tweeted, quote, um, saw people on here having a
00:33:07.940
discussion about how tired they were of reviewing boring stuff, TV and film. We're getting boring
00:33:14.300
stuff and not even experimental mistakes because people are afraid of getting canceled. So they
00:33:19.260
feel like they can only experiment with aesthetic. Um, also because some of them know they're not
00:33:24.580
that good. And then it goes on with the reaction to that. And of course, people on the left, they
00:33:30.140
don't like it when they don't like it when you acknowledge cancel culture and when someone that
00:33:35.400
they thought is on their side and really any famous celebrity they assume is on their side. And
00:33:39.160
most of them are, uh, when they come out and start talking about cancel culture, it feels like a
00:33:42.800
betrayal. And so that's the reaction that Donald Glover has gotten, but, but he's, he's exactly
00:33:48.220
right. People are, you know, artists are afraid to experiment, afraid to try new things.
00:33:56.260
And that's, that's true. That goes beyond art though. I think one consequence of cancel culture
00:34:03.080
is that everything is boring. Uh, our discussion about issues, the debate on Twitter and on social
00:34:12.600
media, it's, it's getting more and more boring. It's not as fun as it used to be. And a big reason
00:34:20.560
for that is that people are, yeah, they're afraid of saying something that they know is going to upset
00:34:25.280
people obviously because of cancel culture, but people are also afraid of experimenting. Yeah.
00:34:31.460
Artists are afraid to experiment artistically, but I think people are, people are afraid to experiment
00:34:37.060
with ideas, which is something that we should encourage. We should encourage it, especially
00:34:43.460
in an educational environment in particular in, uh, in, in the, you know, so-called higher education
00:34:50.420
and academia, we should encourage people to kind of, you have an idea, you're thinking through
00:34:58.040
something, you haven't thought it all the way through. You're not exactly sure, you know, if you
00:35:03.840
believe this or not, but it seems like an interesting thought on this or that subject.
00:35:07.700
And so you say it out loud and you kind of start a conversation and, and ideally through that
00:35:13.260
conversation, maybe you'll, you know, your ideas start to firm up a little bit more and maybe
00:35:18.820
ultimately you decide, Oh, you know what? Actually, I'm not sure I really believe that. Or maybe I'm
00:35:22.040
wrong about that. Or you'll say, yeah, you know, and the more I talk about this, the more we talk
00:35:25.640
about it, the more I realize I'm right about what I said. That's the kind of thing that should be
00:35:31.060
encouraged. It also makes conversation a lot more interesting, but you certainly get almost
00:35:38.160
none of that in the school system and in academia. That is very much frowned on, frowned upon. And
00:35:43.780
you don't get it out in society either. You don't get it much of it, much of it on social media.
00:35:48.400
You don't get much of people just saying, Hey, I'm throwing this idea out there. I'm not even
00:35:52.260
sure how much I feel about it, but it's an interesting thought that I had. Cause isn't that a normal
00:35:57.280
thing that we all have, you know, sometimes you're thinking about something and an interesting
00:36:00.180
thought pops into your head and you think to yourself, Hmm, I'm not actually sure. Is it,
00:36:04.400
you know, I don't know if that's right exactly, but it seems, it seems like an interesting perspective
00:36:08.360
on this issue. And I assume I have those thoughts all the time. I assume most people do,
00:36:14.800
but then you're afraid to say, most people are afraid to say it because they know, um,
00:36:20.320
if they don't have it exactly figured out and fully formed and they're ready to launch
00:36:25.040
an aggressive defense, they're going to get eaten alive.
00:36:31.700
And the consequences, one of the consequences is that everything is just kind of boring.
00:36:37.300
People stick to, you know, on every issue, there are sort of assigned opinions that you're
00:36:44.380
supposed to have, whether you're on the right or the left. And you know that if you're on the right,
00:36:49.640
even if you, even if you articulate one of your assigned opinions, um, there's still going to
00:36:55.220
be a blowback in many cases, but still you want to, most people, they stick within that kind of
00:37:01.140
pre-approved framework. And I think even conservatives will say, okay, well, here's the issue,
00:37:07.720
gun rights, gender, whatever it is. Um, these are kind of the opinions that, that, that most people
00:37:13.400
on this side seem to be expressing. And so if I express that, that point of view, I know what kind
00:37:19.200
of blowback I'll get, it's already calculated. It's already, it's already baked into the cake,
00:37:22.700
but you're afraid to go beyond that and to say, oh, you know what? Add another thing. Here's another
00:37:29.600
thought that I had really is a trad. It's a, it's, it's a tragedy. Um, cause it makes not only
00:37:37.920
everything dull, but it makes people into dull thinkers. All right. What else do we have here? Um,
00:37:45.100
okay. One other thing I wanted to show you, this is very important.
00:37:50.040
This is from the account breaking 911 on Twitter. They have this, it's a, it's a, they say it's a
00:37:56.780
new 25 foot tall statue unveiled in New York city, Rockefeller center. And you can see it here. We
00:38:02.460
have it up on the screen. So this is a statue to honor African culture. And here, here it is.
00:38:07.660
Here's the statue. It's this giant, large headed monstrosity in Rockefeller center.
00:38:19.540
The, the ugliest statue I've ever seen in my life. And then we have other angles. Some of the other
00:38:25.240
angles on this statue are, okay, there's another angle. Look at that thing. It's absurd. It's like a
00:38:29.940
cartoon and it's to honor African culture. I don't even know what African culture is. Exactly. Africa
00:38:39.580
is a continent. There are many, many different cultures. It's kind of like talking about Asian
00:38:44.980
culture, which people do talk about Asian culture, but there's a big difference between, you know,
00:38:49.760
India and China. So even that doesn't make a lot of sense. Someone said that that the statue,
00:38:57.500
it looks like the face you make when your alarm goes off at 5 AM, which, which I can kind of see.
00:39:03.200
I kind of think it looks like a self-portrait that a three-year-old might draw
00:39:06.620
a three-year-old with gigantism anyway, but mostly it looks like, you know what it looks like? It looks
00:39:14.260
like crap. It looks like crap. That's just, that's a terrible sculpture. Well done to all involved.
00:39:22.280
All right, let's move on to reading the YouTube comments.
00:39:23.860
Evan says, setting aside the fact that gratitude is a virtue, it's just a lot easier to be happy
00:39:30.220
in life when you're grateful. That's absolutely true. And yesterday we draw the contrast between
00:39:36.180
Tim Tebow and Colin Kaepernick as Tebow is maybe getting back into the league at a different
00:39:40.560
position. Colin Kaepernick is still out of the league. A lot of reasons for that. I went through
00:39:43.620
it yesterday, but, uh, but people also like Tim Tebow a lot more. He's easy to root for.
00:39:48.200
And, uh, and because he's got gratitude, he's got humility and he seems like a happy person.
00:39:54.360
Whereas Colin Kaepernick is just miserable and spoiled and complaining all the time and very,
00:40:01.420
very ungrateful for the many blessings in his life. Um, Alexis says, does anyone click the thumbs
00:40:07.580
up button before watching the video? Because you know, you'll agree with it and like it based on
00:40:11.960
our love for Walsh. Well, I would certainly hope that everyone does that. Uh, and those who don't
00:40:18.480
obviously are banned from the show. If you're waiting to hear what I have to say and to see
00:40:23.100
how good the show is before you hit the like button, you know, I'm not a, I'm not a monkey
00:40:28.100
dancing for me, for your amusement. Okay. I don't have to prove anything to you. Hit the damn like
00:40:33.900
button right now. And thanks for watching. Um, Tim says, I've always been amused by the phrase
00:40:41.640
sleep like a baby. What I remember and all I ever hear about caring for infants is that you don't
00:40:46.260
get much sleep. If sleeping like a baby is such a desirable thing, why are the parents complaining
00:40:49.620
so much? Yeah, I've never understood that phrase either. That's the babies do sleep a lot. They,
00:40:54.940
they sleep like 20 hours a day, but, uh, almost none of that is at night, unfortunately. And it comes in
00:41:00.900
fits. They'll sleep for 30 minutes. They're up screaming and then they go down for two hours
00:41:04.780
and they're up some more. Yeah. So I guess when someone sleeps like a baby, they mean the
00:41:09.840
quant, they mean the quantity, the amount of sleeping, but in terms of the, the way that
00:41:14.180
you get that sleep, uh, no, I wouldn't, I wouldn't recommend it. Um, Scott says day 66 of begging
00:41:22.740
Matt to play the banjo for us. We'll get to day 100 and then we'll talk. All right. Um,
00:41:29.140
and, uh, finally, okay. I wanted to get this. Jade says, Hey Matt, what's your take on stay
00:41:35.700
at home dads? My soon to be wife will be making a lot more money than me. And I would like one
00:41:39.700
of us at home when it comes time to have children, I'm okay with being a stay at home dad someday.
00:41:44.540
And she says she'd be okay working full time. Just want your thoughts. Um, and as I read that
00:41:52.680
comment on now, I'm actually thinking maybe I shouldn't have read it because there's not a
00:41:56.200
lot I can say here that won't get me in trouble. All I will say is that first of all, well, first
00:42:01.760
of all, every family has its own system that works for them. So you got to, you got to figure out a
00:42:05.520
system that works for you. I'm a big believer in that. It's not a cookie cutter thing. Um, but at
00:42:10.920
the same time, uh, just two notes. Okay. On the stay at home dad thing. Number one, it's especially
00:42:18.320
at the youngest ages, like newborn phase, the child really needs that maternal presence and needs
00:42:25.320
it in fact a lot more than the child needs the dad there. That isn't to say that a newborn doesn't
00:42:31.460
need a dad or that children don't. Obviously they do. And I'm always preaching that, but young babies
00:42:37.320
really, really need a mom and mom can provide things, not just breast milk, but that too,
00:42:42.420
but other things, maternal love and soothing and comfort in a, in a way that a man can't, a man can,
00:42:50.340
but it's not going to be quite the same. So the idea of having the man home rather than the woman,
00:42:55.080
uh, seems like it could be kind of, what's the word backwards. That's probably the wrong word I
00:43:04.060
should have chosen, but media matters. We'll have fun with that one. Um, but no, that is what I mean.
00:43:08.840
Actually, I think if, if you have to choose between one or the other, it makes sense for that reason to
00:43:13.580
have the woman, uh, especially home with the baby at, at, at the very young ages. And also number two,
00:43:18.420
what you could run into is your wife says, sure, stay home. That's great.
00:43:26.380
But then finds, and I've heard of many cases like this. Um, but then she finds over time
00:43:31.400
that she has, she struggles to have respect for a man who isn't bringing home the bacon.
00:43:38.720
I'm not saying that's right or that she should feel that way, but I am saying that many women,
00:43:44.420
you know, they want their man to be out there earning a living and so on, contributing to the
00:43:48.200
family in that way, even if they initially say otherwise. Um, and so there could be conflict
00:43:53.900
that can arise from that. So those are my two, those are my two warnings. That's all. But at
00:43:58.420
the end of the day, you make your own choice for your family. Now a word from all form, you know,
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00:44:10.380
you want the sofa to be a lot of times. I know in my family, we've had a debate. My wife and I,
00:44:14.640
uh, is, is when we're getting furniture, what's more important? Does it look nice or is it the
00:44:19.920
comfort that, that matters most? I'm, I'm firmly in the comfort. I don't care what it looks like.
00:44:22.800
I just want it to be comfortable. My wife is on the other side of it. Um, but with all form
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00:45:27.600
the country feeling extra authoritarian lately, you're not alone. And no, it's not because I've
00:45:32.720
finally come to power myself as the theocratic dictator. That's the good kind of authoritarianism
00:45:37.060
right now. We've got the bad kind we're experiencing. Um, the country certainly is feeling less and less
00:45:42.120
free. In fact, Ben Shapiro wrote an entire book about that very subject. The book is called the
00:45:45.760
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00:45:49.500
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00:46:14.080
I hope you're sitting down for this news. It's not, it is now appearing increasingly likely that
00:46:18.000
we will be deprived of the Golden Globe awards next year. It may not air at all. Now this needless
00:46:24.080
to say is shocking. I for one cannot imagine what life will be like without an award ceremony that
00:46:28.920
I've never watched. Well, come to think of it, life will probably be exactly as it was before with
00:46:33.120
no change at all. But even so, this is startling stuff. The reason that the Golden Globes has fallen
00:46:37.000
into such jeopardy is not that it's an utterly pointless, excruciating, dull and indulgent display
00:46:40.980
of self-congratulation by a drunken gaggle of narcissists and drug addicts. Um, it's not as
00:46:46.140
though all those involved in this display finally said to themselves, you know what, this is dumb
00:46:49.940
and decided to go shut it down. No, rather what threatens the Golden Globes is a lack of diversity.
00:46:55.300
The New York Post explains, quote, the Golden Globes was on the verge of collapse Monday after stars
00:46:59.440
turned on the event and NBC dropped the telecast for 2022. NBC abruptly pulled the plug on airing the
00:47:05.040
awards next year, citing the need for meaningful reform by the embattled Hollywood Foreign Press
00:47:09.460
Association. Um, we quote, we continue to believe that HFPA is committed to meaningful reform.
00:47:16.040
However, change of this magnitude takes time and work and we feel strongly that HFPA needs time to
00:47:20.040
do it right. The network said in a statement Monday, according to the Hollywood Reporter,
00:47:23.440
reporter as such, NBC will not air the 2022 Golden Globes. Assuming the organization executes on its
00:47:29.200
plan, we are hopeful we will be in a position to air the show in January, 2023. Meanwhile,
00:47:34.080
the organization responded to the cancellation with a statement pledging to implement changes quickly,
00:47:37.860
even with a broadcast platform up in the air, quote, regardless of the next air date of the
00:47:42.620
Golden Globes, implementing transformational changes as quickly and as thoughtfully as possible
00:47:46.180
remains the top priority. We invite our partners in the industry to the table to work with us on
00:47:50.840
the systemic reform that is long overdue, both in our organization, as well as within the industry
00:47:55.860
at large. Okay. So the Hollywood Foreign Press Association needs reform, but what kind of reform do
00:48:01.980
they need? After all, their only job is to get together and just decide what movies they
00:48:06.500
personally liked. How do you reform an organization with that kind of meaningless and subjective purpose
00:48:14.780
and why bother reforming it? Well, here are the details on the how and the why. Back to the article
00:48:21.860
says the HFPA has faced heavy scrutiny for months over alleged diversity and ethical failings within its
00:48:27.860
membership, most notably a lack of black members within the 37 or rather the 87 member organization
00:48:32.540
made up of international journalists based in Los Angeles. After a bombshell LA Times report in
00:48:37.280
February detailed the group's lack of inclusion. Bombshell. It has a lack of inclusion.
00:48:44.440
If you tell me bombshell and then you tell me that the that the revelation is that there's a lack of
00:48:51.420
Anyway, it says the Times Up organization was joined by Hollywood notables, including Shonda
00:48:58.120
Rimes, Kerry Washington, Judd Apatow, Alyssa Milano, Amy Schumer. I think like none of them
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are actually notable in my mind. And more came in slamming the group for its shortfalls,
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reiterating that a cosmetic fix isn't enough. Last week when HFPA revealed a draft plan for reform,
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which included a focus, a specific focus on recruiting black members, Times Up dismissed
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its contents as window dressing platitudes. Yes, this is important. The group of random
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whoever's deciding which crappy movies were the best in the past calendar year needs to include
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some black people. Diversity and inclusion and representation is the name of the game. Of course,
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the people who advocate representation never seem to consider what representation actually means or
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looks like from a statistical perspective. The fact is that only 13% of the population is black.
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That's a very small number, which means you're going to find a very small number of black people
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in many fields and areas of life. It's not racism. It's just a numbers game.
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Even if there are zero black people in a given area, that's still pretty statistically consistent
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as 13% of the population obviously isn't going to translate into exactly 13% in every area and field.
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You have to allow for things like personal choice. The point is that when you hear that there are no
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black members of HFPA, that isn't surprising. It's a small population pool. It also, again,
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doesn't matter because the HFPA doesn't matter. A lot of people listening to this right now probably
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didn't know the HFPA even existed until they heard me say it in this segment. But the real target of
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my cancellation today isn't the Golden Globes, which is already on the cancellation chopping block
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without my help. It's all of the shameless opportunistic frauds in media and Hollywood just now
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pretending to care about this issue. It cannot be a coincidence that NBC is boycotting the Golden
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Globes over diversity concerns immediately after the Golden Globes pulled the worst ratings in history.
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I mean, this is much like Colin Kaepernick deciding that he cares about social justice
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directly after he got benched in a losing season for the 49ers. It's always amazing how people are
00:51:03.200
willing to sacrifice things once those things that they're sacrificing have proven less profitable
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or desirable. So it's the old, you know, giving up broccoli for Lent tactic. A strategy as old as
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time. Various celebrities have gotten the memo Tom Cruise is returning his Golden Globes. He was
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courageously inspired to take this stand precisely when taking this stand would cost him nothing and
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earn only applause. Also, returning the actual physical trophies doesn't achieve much. I mean,
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he still won the award. So what is that? I guess he won't be able to sell the trophies at a pawn shop
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now. But something tells me that he's not that hard up for cash. I don't know. Meanwhile, Scarlett
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Johansson and Mark Ruffalo have come out swinging against the HFPA. Johansson condemned them for many
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things, including their association with Harvey Weinstein. Very brave and bold stuff for Scarlett
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Johansson here. I mean, Weinstein was known to be an abuser in Hollywood for decades. And Johansson waited
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until he was safely behind bars, half dead, and a national pariah before she spoke out against him.
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This is what heroes are made of, folks. Speaking of heroes, Mark Ruffalo says that he's ashamed
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Now is the time to step up and right the wrongs of the past. Honestly, as a recent winner of the Golden Globe,
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of a Golden Globe, I cannot feel proud or happy about being a recipient of this award.
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Really? He can't feel happy or proud? Well, that's definitely not how it seemed three months ago when
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he won his latest award. Let's go back and watch that moment again.
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Oh, gosh, okay. First of all, this group of actors, these are my peers. These are the people I admire
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and love and look up to. So I'm so honored to be here with you guys. Thank you, Hollywood Foreign Press.
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Thank you, HBO. Thank you, our production team. Thank my family who lets me go off and bring these crazy
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people home and they have to live with all these years. Thank you, guys.
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I don't know. He certainly seems both happy and proud there. He can barely contain himself.
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He even specifically thanks the racist Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
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This was just past February. That's three months ago.
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Did he not care about diversity and inclusion in February? What changed?
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That's why Netflix and Amazon also both denounced the HFPA.
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I'm sure that has nothing to do with these actors taking this line, by the way.
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They've all happened to denounce the HFPA at exactly the time when two of the most powerful
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corporations in the movie business did the same. You're crazy when these coincidences line up this
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way. This is what makes it especially frustrating to argue over these kinds of issues. Because I can
00:53:54.500
sit here all day and explain why diversity is not a virtue, why it doesn't make logical or moral sense
00:53:59.920
to make racial inclusion your primary operating principle, why the whole notion of representation
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being advanced right now is off-base and nonsensical, etc. I can explain all of that and I can argue my
00:54:10.020
case and I can make my point. But I'll be talking to a brick wall because the people I'm arguing against
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don't really believe what they're saying or care about the issue at all. It's a game. It's a show.
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It's a charade. It's all hollow. It's all virtue signaling. Only what they're signaling is not a virtue at all.
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But they're signaling at the end of the day their own emptiness and cowardice.
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And that is why the Hollywood Foreign Press Association is canceled, but so is NBC.
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So is Mark Ruffalo. So is Scarlett Johansson. So is Netflix. So is Amazon.
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Did I miss anyone? I probably did. All canceled for now and forever. And we'll leave it there for today.
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Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Have a great day. Godspeed.
00:55:18.220
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