The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 720 - Why Feminists Are Miserable

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Walsh Show, a New York Times writer provoked outrage among feminists when 1.00

00:00:03.780 she published a piece saying that she's happy about being a mother. Those kinds of shocking

00:00:07.900 and outrageous statements simply cannot be tolerated, apparently. We'll discuss also

00:00:11.940 five headlines, including Rand Paul and Dr. Fauci clashing once again. The CDC director

00:00:16.400 warns about the unspecified dangers of summer camp for children, and another famous celebrity

00:00:21.100 comes out against cancel culture. In our daily cancellation today, we'll talk about the media

00:00:25.020 and Hollywood's brave stand against the racism of the Golden Globes. How are the Golden Globes

00:00:30.720 racist? We'll try to figure that out today and much more on The Matt Walsh Show.

00:00:42.380 You are, of course, already on thin ice in this culture if you make your own decisions

00:00:46.420 and live your life according to values that fall outside of the mainstream. Even if you do this

00:00:51.140 quietly in an unobtrusive and unassuming way, it'll still be considered an affront to those

00:00:56.120 who, for whatever reason, are personally offended by your personal choices. But if you, God forbid,

00:01:01.480 openly advocate for those values and express satisfaction with the choices that you've made,

00:01:06.680 then you have really crossed the line, crossed the line at least in the minds of our leftist

00:01:10.420 cultural overlords who have gone to great lengths to tell us what our values should be and what kind

00:01:15.960 of life we should lead, and they do not appreciate having their instructions so blatantly ignored.

00:01:19.860 New York Times opinion writer Elizabeth Brunig discovered this fact over the weekend in the

00:01:25.160 lead-up to Mother's Day after writing a piece on the subject of motherhood that provoked great

00:01:30.060 outrage on the left, especially among feminists. Now, we should note that Brunig is no right-wing

00:01:34.640 radical. She's certainly on the left herself. She's also no fan of mine, for the record. She has a

00:01:39.440 long-standing and rather passionate distaste for me and all of my opinions. This is kind of surprising,

00:01:44.400 as I'm usually beloved by liberal women. In any case, none of that saved Brunig from

00:01:49.680 the blowback for the piece she published with this shocking title. Get ready for it. The title is

00:01:55.660 I Became a Mother at 25 and I'm Not Sorry I Didn't Wait. Provocative stuff. At least provocative for

00:02:03.080 those who believe that women should not say anything about motherhood unless they're saying that they

00:02:07.160 regret being mothers or that they're happy they never became mothers. Like, those are the two things

00:02:11.980 that, as a woman, you're allowed to say publicly about motherhood. The piece, as the title suggests,

00:02:17.980 is simply all about Brunig's decision to become a mother at a comparatively young age and how and

00:02:23.420 why she's happy that she did it. Now, of course, 25 is not really a young age to have a child. Back

00:02:28.260 when your great-grandmother was having babies, 25 would have been considered downright geriatric

00:02:33.100 to start the process. But even today, in some circles, and even today in some circles, 25 is not

00:02:40.760 really young. My wife was around that age when we had our first child or children, twins. But broadly

00:02:46.420 speaking, the average age for marriage and for having children has been rising dramatically in

00:02:50.460 this country for years now. So now, on average, women are waiting until 28 to get married and men

00:02:56.680 until 30. Of course, not everyone gets married before having kids, unfortunately, but this is

00:03:02.860 generally the way things are trending. In the circles that a liberal cosmopolitan woman like Brunig runs in, 1.00

00:03:09.560 the age for marriage and children is going to be probably considerably higher even than that.

00:03:14.040 So again, from a comparative standpoint, 25 is young. As for the article, I have to admit,

00:03:20.640 even though she hates my guts, she writes kind of beautifully. Here's one part. She says,

00:03:25.000 quote,

00:03:25.120 What I didn't understand, couldn't have at the time, was that deserting yourself for another person

00:03:31.040 really is a relief. My days began to unfold according to her schedule, that weird rhythm of

00:03:36.800 newborns, and the worries I entertained were better than the ones that came before, more concrete,

00:03:41.540 more vital, less tethered to the claustrophobic confines of my own skull. For this member of a

00:03:47.060 generation famously beset by anxiety, it was a welcome liberation. Liberation. She's talking about

00:03:53.980 the liberation of motherhood, which, of course, is the opposite of what we so often hear, that women

00:03:59.260 are liberated by leaving the home, leaving motherhood, liberated even by killing their own 0.63

00:04:04.460 children. But she's taking the opposite perspective, and it's very well said, and what she says is

00:04:10.340 profoundly true. But many on the left didn't feel that way. Feminist writer and miserable cat lady, 1.00

00:04:17.060 Amanda Marcotte, said that the piece was, quote, naked pandering to the fantasies of pathetic men. 0.99

00:04:23.920 And further offering her thoughts, she wrote, quote, I would like to thank this headline slash 0.95

00:04:28.700 byline combo for helping me set a record for the quickest gross pass I've ever uttered in my life.

00:04:35.540 Feminist author Jude Ellison Sadie Doyle, who looks exactly as you'd expect a feminist author 0.99

00:04:40.160 with four names to look, tweeted this, the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing this

00:04:45.180 woman it was a tremendous personal achievement to be repeatedly knocked up by an internet troll that

00:04:49.620 she met in high school. Another, imagine, imagine saying that in response to a woman writing

00:04:55.780 something on Mother's Day about how she's happy to be a mother. What, you think it's an achievement

00:05:00.420 to be knocked up? My God, these people are miserable. Another blue check on Twitter, Jackie Shine, 1.00

00:05:10.840 accused Brunig of claiming that her life decisions are superior to other people's, and another,

00:05:16.500 Ora Bogato, somehow found in the piece evidence of, quote, white extinction anxiety.

00:05:22.840 And there was plenty more where all this came from, but you get the idea.

00:05:27.960 Brunig expressed a point of view that you're not supposed to express, and this was the reaction.

00:05:33.840 For an example of the point of view that you are supposed to express, the point of view that you

00:05:38.320 are supposed to have as a mother or a parent, here's feminist writer Jill Falopovich, also last 0.99

00:05:44.380 week, around the same time as the hullabaloo over the Brunig article, she tweeted this,

00:05:48.320 I would really love to read more essays and op-eds from women and men, too, who regret having children

00:05:54.360 as early as they did, regret having as many as they did, or regret having children at all.

00:05:58.900 There's not much about motherhood that remains publicly unexplored, but that does.

00:06:04.840 Yes, regret, resentment, misery. That's what Jill Falopovich would like to hear from others.

00:06:11.780 Certainly not gratitude, love, happiness, or any other such repulsive emotion.

00:06:18.920 And she wrote a longer piece, by the way, explaining why she tweeted that and how this

00:06:22.460 is a taboo. This is one of the last taboos in our society for mothers to talk about their 0.94

00:06:27.100 regret, and we should deconstruct that taboo, and mothers should be able to talk about this. 0.96

00:06:33.320 Of course, it's actually not a taboo. You hear parents talk about their regrets all the time,

00:06:37.240 far too often. But also, by the way, one of the reasons why you might not hear mothers saying

00:06:46.280 that out loud very often is, first of all, most mothers don't regret having kids. And second,

00:06:50.900 if you do regret it, that's probably the kind of thing you shouldn't say publicly,

00:06:54.520 because your kids are going to read that one day. And maybe you don't want to announce to the

00:06:58.560 whole world, hey, I regret having this human right here. Now, I think there are two general points

00:07:04.420 to be made about the overall issue here. First of all, it is indeed a good idea to start a family

00:07:11.780 while young. That's a good idea. I don't think that Elizabeth Bruning was necessarily pitching this

00:07:19.920 as a strategy for everyone, but she was just talking about her own choices.

00:07:25.260 I will pitch it, though. I do think it's a, I think it's a, generally speaking, a good idea.

00:07:29.560 Again, general statement. It's not going to be true in every single case. There are also many

00:07:35.720 examples of people, both women and men, who very much wanted to have a family earlier in life,

00:07:40.020 but were unable to, for one reason or another. Nobody's suggesting that you're doomed to a life

00:07:44.860 of pointless misery if you have kids at 34, or if you never have them at all. We're simply talking

00:07:50.140 about, or at least I'm talking about, general principles. And as a general principle, it is better

00:07:54.640 to have a society where young parenthood is the norm rather than the exception. That is better. 0.63

00:08:01.660 Why? Well, for one, biology. I know we don't care much for biology these days, but it does matter.

00:08:08.520 It's a reality. The prime childbearing years for women are between around the age of 20 and up to 1.00

00:08:14.540 about 34 or 35, give or take a year or two on either end. Once a woman is out of those prime years, 0.98

00:08:19.860 the chance of miscarriage, of health complications with the mother or child, etc., go way up.

00:08:28.180 A woman's body seems to have an opinion about when women should be having kids, and that opinion 1.00

00:08:34.760 differs from the career-first priorities of modern society. Also, it's good for marriage and family to

00:08:43.720 be the foundation of adult life rather than the capstone. See, these days we have this idea,

00:08:49.860 that we ought to get married and have kids once we have all of our other affairs in order and all

00:08:54.300 of our finances straightened out and we've already bought the house and we've done all that. We've

00:08:59.320 established our adult existence, and then we fit a family into that already pre-established mold.

00:09:07.400 Now, it sounds maybe intuitively like it makes sense to do things this way, but it can cause major

00:09:13.820 problems, especially in a marriage. Because now there's a feeling that you're bringing someone

00:09:19.900 into this thing that you've already built without them. You've been an adult for a long time, you've

00:09:26.960 lived your whole life without this person, you've done all of this, all of this was, you didn't need

00:09:31.940 their help for it, and now you're bringing them into it. The children too, you're bringing into this

00:09:39.880 thing that has been long since established before they ever showed up. They become, or they can seem

00:09:45.000 like, intruders more so than partners in a journey. Now, in my case, getting married and starting a

00:09:52.420 family younger, all that we have now and we've built, we've done together. My wife and I, we walk the

00:09:59.160 journey of young adulthood together as a team. Moreover, there's something to be said, I think,

00:10:04.960 for having kids when you still have the physical energy to keep up with them. Boys especially need

00:10:10.860 a dad who can run around, wrestle, pick them up, toss them in the air, climb into trees to rescue

00:10:16.380 them when they've climbed too high and so on. The great thing is that when you have children young,

00:10:20.800 you can do all that stuff with them. And you may even be able to do some of that, some of it,

00:10:25.360 with your grandchildren. If my kids have kids when I did, I'll be in my mid-50s when grandchildren

00:10:30.400 arrive on the scene. If those kids have kids at the same age, then I'll be around to see my

00:10:35.060 great-grandchildren. Though I'll probably be as mentally present and cognizant as Joe Biden by

00:10:39.520 then, but still, I'll be there. The point is, younger marriage and parenthood means multi-generational

00:10:45.080 families. It means kids who get to grow up with parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents.

00:10:52.040 So, having kids young pays dividends in the long run. But you have to care about the long run.

00:11:00.620 You have to be able to look outside of the immediate. You have to have priorities that go

00:11:05.960 beyond comfort and convenience in this present fleeting moment. Because it is certainly true,

00:11:12.480 while there's a lot of joy to be found in having a family, it is oftentimes not very comfortable and

00:11:20.020 it's certainly not convenient. It is never the most convenient thing. No part of your life will

00:11:27.940 become more convenient once you have kids. That's for sure. In fact, very many things that you didn't

00:11:34.300 even think about before now become a thing. They become an issue. They become even a source potentially

00:11:41.140 of conflict. That's how it is to have kids. But underneath all of that is the joy waiting to be

00:11:50.200 found and felt and explored. And that brings us to the second point. You know, that's what makes

00:11:55.700 left-wingers and feminists so upset, I think. Because their operating principle, their priority, 1.00

00:12:01.020 is to maximize surface level pleasure in each moment. As each moment passes, you say to yourself,

00:12:09.020 how can I feel the most comfortable and feel the most immediate pleasure in this moment?

00:12:17.120 And then you do whatever you need to do for that. The problem is that this strategy has rapidly

00:12:24.200 diminishing returns. Whereas the deeper joy of family life can increase with age.

00:12:30.840 Let me just talk to someone who just recently became a grandparent and the joy that they experienced

00:12:36.300 there. And they'll tell you that it's not that it's better than being a parent, but it's a new

00:12:43.000 kind of joy that they had never experienced before. So the joys can increase with age. And also

00:12:49.500 that decision to have a family while young reaps new rewards at each stage of life.

00:12:57.780 The pleasure of living a life consumed only by your own personal immediate satisfaction

00:13:02.140 and material gain tends, on the other hand, to fade over time. And I think this is why feminists 1.00

00:13:08.700 only get more and more bitter as they age. You look at someone like Amanda Marcotte or Jill

00:13:13.900 Fallopovich or any of these feminists that have been on the scene for a long time, and you look at their 0.99

00:13:17.840 writing, they've just gotten angrier and angrier as they get older. Because they're lonely and miserable 0.94

00:13:23.920 and they realize that their approach to life has failed them. And they, and it is envy. They look at

00:13:33.240 like someone like Elizabeth Brunick made a different decision, is experiencing the joy of that, and it

00:13:39.000 makes them envious and hateful. If they can't have joy, then they don't want you to have it either.

00:13:45.300 It really is as simple as that for them. Now let's get to our five headlines.

00:13:55.660 All right. So Rand Paul versus Dr. Fauci once again. Another, another hearing, Dr. Fauci was there

00:14:08.720 and we, we always get, you know, Rand Paul throughout this entire, throughout the last year, you know,

00:14:14.060 he's been one of the few people in Congress, Republicans even, um, who've consistently taken the

00:14:22.620 right, taken the right approach here, uh, and have held Dr. Fauci's feet to the fire. And, um, here he is

00:14:28.980 again over the issue of, um, the National Institute of Health's funding of the lab in Wuhan where COVID may

00:14:36.660 have originated, uh, Fauci says that doesn't, didn't happen. Well, originally he says it didn't

00:14:40.980 happen. They kind of backpedals, but here's how that exchange went. Dr. Fauci, do you still support

00:14:46.240 funding of the NIH funding of the lab in Wuhan? Senator Paul, with all due respect, you are entire,

00:14:54.660 entirely and completely incorrect that the NIH has not ever, and does not now fund gain of function

00:15:05.040 research. Dr. Barrett does not doing gain of function research. And if it is, it's according

00:15:11.320 to the guidelines and it is being conducted in North Carolina, not in China. You don't think

00:15:16.780 inserting a bat virus spike protein that he got from the Wuhan Institute into the SARS virus is gain 0.88

00:15:22.380 of function. That is not. You would be in the minority because at least 200 scientists have signed

00:15:27.480 a statement from the Cambridge Working Group saying that it is gain of function. Well, it is not. And if

00:15:33.220 you look at the grant and you look at the progress reports, it is not gain of function, despite the

00:15:40.180 fact that people tweet that. So do you still support sending money to the Wuhan Virology Institute?

00:15:46.400 We do not send money now to the Wuhan Virology Institute. Do you support sending money? We did

00:15:51.240 under your tutelage. We were sending it through EcoHealth. It was a subagency and a subgrant. Do you

00:15:57.120 support the money from NIH that was going to the Wuhan Institute? Let me explain to you why

00:16:02.920 that was done. The SARS-CoV-1 originated in bats in China. It would have been irresponsible of us

00:16:14.640 if we did not investigate the bat viruses. Such a, Dr. Fauci, such an incompetent, 0.71

00:16:25.260 dishonest little weasel. I'm at the point now, been there for a while actually, of feeling 0.99

00:16:32.300 physical repulsion and even nausea when I look at him and I hear him. Can you think of a single

00:16:45.160 bureaucrat in the history of the American Republic that has done more damage to the country single-handedly?

00:16:54.760 This has been one of the most catastrophically damaging, um, bureaucrats, I think, government

00:17:07.500 officials that we've ever had in government in this country. And yet people still, there's still a lot

00:17:13.980 of people, mostly on the left, who look to Dr. Fauci as this, as this, uh, father figure. He's the,

00:17:20.460 he's their cult leader beyond a father figure. He's like, he's a savior figure to them. They love him

00:17:26.440 and trust him implicitly. They literally sing songs of praise and worship to him. We've played some of

00:17:33.120 them here. You know what it is? It's Stockholm syndrome. I think that's what it is. Like someone

00:17:42.360 who's been, we were, he, he was responsible, largely responsible for pushing the lockdowns across the

00:17:49.700 country, destroying so many lives. And, but at the same time, he is, is trying to play the role of

00:17:58.440 this kind old man on, uh, on TV saying reassuring words, sort of reassuring, reassuring, but at the

00:18:05.320 same time, spreading panic, playing both ends of the spectrum. And it, and it's generated this kind

00:18:09.900 of Stockholm syndrome thing from a lot of people on the left who now love their, their captor in a

00:18:17.080 way. But there he says, uh, well, we didn't fund the gain of function research. That's interesting

00:18:21.280 because here's a, here's a medium post from science writer, Nicholas Wade. Here's what he says

00:18:25.620 from June, 2014 to May, 2019, Dr. Das, Dasag's, uh, eco health Alliance had a grant from the national

00:18:35.160 Institute of allergy and infectious disease, part of the national institutes of health to do gain of

00:18:39.840 function research with coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of virology, um, whether or not this,

00:18:47.360 this again is Nicholas Wade, science writer in medium, whether or not SARS two is the product

00:18:52.060 of that research. It seems questionable policy to farm out high risk research to unsafe foreign labs

00:18:57.780 using minimal safety precautions. And if the SARS two virus did indeed escape from the one Institute,

00:19:03.340 then, and then the NIH will find itself in terrible position of having funded a disaster experiment

00:19:08.000 that led to death of more than 3 million people worldwide, including more than half a million

00:19:11.640 of its own citizens. Um, so that's what we get. Doc ran Paul, also Dr. Paul says that there was funding

00:19:20.700 here. There's funding, but Dr. Fauci says, no, no, that's that's your, you're completely and totally

00:19:25.980 wrong. Don't, don't trust the facts that are right in front of your face. Trust me. I'm Dr. Fauci.

00:19:33.860 You can trust me. Meanwhile, the head of the CDC was also, um, questioned in this case questioned

00:19:42.980 about the ever-changing CDC guidelines, uh, by this question is back and forth with Susan Collins.

00:19:48.980 And here's how that went. I used to have the utmost respect for the guidance from the CDC.

00:19:57.520 I always considered the CDC to be the gold standard. I don't anymore. It matters because it undermines

00:20:08.220 public confidence in your recommendations, in the recommendations that do make sense,

00:20:16.300 in the recommendations that Americans should be following. With regard to the New York Times piece

00:20:22.780 this morning, there's a meta-analysis from Journal of Infectious Diseases that was published in

00:20:28.140 November, I believe, where the top-line result of all collaborate, all studies that were included in

00:20:33.620 the systematic review said less than 10 percent of cases were, um, transmitted outdoors. With regard to

00:20:40.580 camp, I have a 16-year-old every day, every year he comes home from camp and he writes the number of

00:20:45.920 days until he returns to camp the next year. This year, it got to zero and I told him he wasn't going.

00:20:51.960 I want our kids back in camp. We now have 38,000 new infections on average per day. Last May 11th,

00:21:01.880 it was 24,000 and we sent a lot of kids home and camps were closed. The camp guidance is intended

00:21:08.680 to get our kids to camp and allow them to stay there. Yeah, we did it last May. There's no reason

00:21:14.540 to do it then. Well, we had this stupid, pointless policy last May, so, and apparently it didn't do 0.99

00:21:21.820 anything. It didn't achieve anything. The fact that these people are still using, 1.00

00:21:30.540 are justifying the continuance of these policies by saying, well, it's what we were doing early on,

00:21:35.820 apparently that didn't work, did it? Summer camp was never a problem. It was never an issue. It was

00:21:43.740 never going to be a vector for transmission. Neither were schools. We shut schools down in May. Why

00:21:51.180 should we open them now? I don't know if you, if you give a damn at all about the kids, if you,

00:21:59.860 if you care about facts, if you care about the signs, maybe that's why, maybe that's why you'd let

00:22:03.680 them go to summer camp. And I just love it when these people use their own kids and their own

00:22:10.400 experience as parents, you know, in a way to give them sort of emotional credibility. And she says,

00:22:17.180 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

00:22:23.220 that you don't give a damn about your own child. That's all. That doesn't, that doesn't help your case

00:22:27.780 at all. Because as a CDC director, if you've looked at the data, which I'm going to assume you

00:22:35.540 have, then you know that there is no reason, zero reason to keep kids out of summer camp or to have

00:22:43.980 them wear masks when they're at summer camp. No reason to do it. There has never been a reason.

00:22:49.320 You have no data. They never presented. They never bother. Show us the data. Show us the,

00:22:58.740 show us the statistics. Show us the facts. Give us the numbers that actually prove why kids can't go

00:23:06.500 to summer camp. Kids need to wear masks. Vaccinated people have to wear masks, you know, anywhere. Like 0.96

00:23:14.240 show us, give us information. Show us a bar graph or something. They never ever do because they have

00:23:24.440 none of the facts on their side and they know it. But the CDC director, who is that? Dr. Rochelle

00:23:33.360 Walensky. She has a lot of power now, just like Fauci getting a lot of airtime on camera. 1.00

00:23:44.960 On the news. I mean, you have to understand, uh, it probably wouldn't come as any surprise to you,

00:23:49.920 but to be in front of cameras all the time, uh, to have people talking about you in the news,

00:23:57.420 to have people hanging on your every word, asking for permission to, you know, send their kid to summer

00:24:07.400 camp or something like that. Um, that is the, the power is immense and it can become addicting for

00:24:19.940 people. It's kind of hard to let that go. That's what I've been saying all along. Even if

00:24:25.940 you're someone of great personal integrity and self-control, it could still be very,

00:24:33.760 very difficult when you're given that kind of attention, that kind of power, that kind of

00:24:38.360 prestige, all, all of a sudden. Now, yeah, these leeches and parasites have been in government 0.99

00:24:44.880 forever wasting taxpayer dollars. Uh, but nobody cared. Dr. Fauci's household name now across the 1.00

00:24:54.600 country. How many people knew the guy's name last January? I mean, nobody did. Nobody cared.

00:25:01.020 So they've been kind of, yeah, making a lot of money as parasites, um, on the system, 0.93

00:25:09.540 but doing it in relative obscurity. And Dr. Fauci is whatever, 70 plus years old. And that's how he's

00:25:16.580 lived most of his life. And now all of a sudden over the last year, rockstar status, getting the,

00:25:25.500 the attention and the power that they believe they've always been entitled to. That's why they're

00:25:29.180 in these positions in the first place. And now they're saying, after all these years, finally,

00:25:35.320 Dr. Rochelle Walensky is saying, you know what? Finally, you people, you should be asking me

00:25:43.080 permission before you do anything with your kids. I know better than you. I've always known. Now you're

00:25:48.680 finally recognizing it. So to have that happen, uh, to, to suddenly be elevated in that way,

00:25:56.700 as we have taken all of these, all of these useless bureaucrats and put them in these positions,

00:26:02.760 uh, that, that, that's, that's intoxicating again, even for an honest, virtuous person, 0.98

00:26:11.160 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 1.00

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, 0.75

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 1.00

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 1.00

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 1.00

00:27:14.020 have any charisma. She's just this kind of blah lump on a log figure does nothing has achieved 1.00

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 1.00

00:28:33.280 is insufficient for us to simply focus on the more traditional masculine areas of the economy, 0.98

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, 0.90

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 1.00

00:29:28.520 of women and somehow we, we throw sexism into it and all of that and playing the same victim card 0.99

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 1.00

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, 0.89

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, 1.00

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 0.72

00:30:31.540 over the last year? Um, if, if we're not regaining those, those female jobs, could, could it be if 1.00

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 1.00

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 1.00

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 0.99

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 0.59

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 0.99

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. 1.00

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 0.94

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 0.99

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 0.98

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, 1.00

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, 0.80

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, 0.98

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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00:44:14.640 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 0.54

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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 authoritarian moment. And in it, you'll find some solid tips for fighting back against the

00:45:49.500 left's weaponization of everything we do and consume from the colleges we attend to the shoes

00:45:54.300 we wear on our feet and everything in between. So if you want to preserve your individual rights and

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00:46:07.400 go to Amazon, get that book pre-ordered now. Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

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 0.96

00:46:40.980 of self-congratulation by a drunken gaggle of narcissists and drug addicts. Um, it's not as 0.70

00:46:46.140 though all those involved in this display finally said to themselves, you know what, this is dumb 0.94

00:46:49.940 and decided to go shut it down. No, rather what threatens the Golden Globes is a lack of diversity. 0.61

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

00:48:48.640 inclusion. I'm going to be disappointed.

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

00:49:03.400 are actually notable in my mind. And more came in slamming the group for its shortfalls,

00:49:09.640 reiterating that a cosmetic fix isn't enough. Last week when HFPA revealed a draft plan for reform,

00:49:16.420 which included a focus, a specific focus on recruiting black members, Times Up dismissed

00:49:22.020 its contents as window dressing platitudes. Yes, this is important. The group of random

00:49:29.200 whoever's deciding which crappy movies were the best in the past calendar year needs to include 0.99

00:49:33.920 some black people. Diversity and inclusion and representation is the name of the game. Of course, 0.95

00:49:38.840 the people who advocate representation never seem to consider what representation actually means or

00:49:43.560 looks like from a statistical perspective. The fact is that only 13% of the population is black.

00:49:47.780 That's a very small number, which means you're going to find a very small number of black people

00:49:51.360 in many fields and areas of life. It's not racism. It's just a numbers game.

00:49:56.680 Even if there are zero black people in a given area, that's still pretty statistically consistent 1.00

00:50:02.220 as 13% of the population obviously isn't going to translate into exactly 13% in every area and field.

00:50:08.120 You have to allow for things like personal choice. The point is that when you hear that there are no

00:50:12.920 black members of HFPA, that isn't surprising. It's a small population pool. It also, again,

00:50:18.940 doesn't matter because the HFPA doesn't matter. A lot of people listening to this right now probably

00:50:23.160 didn't know the HFPA even existed until they heard me say it in this segment. But the real target of

00:50:29.220 my cancellation today isn't the Golden Globes, which is already on the cancellation chopping block

00:50:33.300 without my help. It's all of the shameless opportunistic frauds in media and Hollywood just now

00:50:39.140 pretending to care about this issue. It cannot be a coincidence that NBC is boycotting the Golden

00:50:46.400 Globes over diversity concerns immediately after the Golden Globes pulled the worst ratings in history.

00:50:53.660 I mean, this is much like Colin Kaepernick deciding that he cares about social justice

00:50:57.220 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

00:51:08.860 or desirable. So it's the old, you know, giving up broccoli for Lent tactic. A strategy as old as

00:51:15.560 time. Various celebrities have gotten the memo Tom Cruise is returning his Golden Globes. He was

00:51:20.900 courageously inspired to take this stand precisely when taking this stand would cost him nothing and

00:51:25.540 earn only applause. Also, returning the actual physical trophies doesn't achieve much. I mean,

00:51:30.560 he still won the award. So what is that? I guess he won't be able to sell the trophies at a pawn shop

00:51:35.660 now. But something tells me that he's not that hard up for cash. I don't know. Meanwhile, Scarlett

00:51:40.660 Johansson and Mark Ruffalo have come out swinging against the HFPA. Johansson condemned them for many

00:51:46.540 things, including their association with Harvey Weinstein. Very brave and bold stuff for Scarlett

00:51:51.440 Johansson here. I mean, Weinstein was known to be an abuser in Hollywood for decades. And Johansson waited

00:51:57.820 until he was safely behind bars, half dead, and a national pariah before she spoke out against him.

00:52:04.840 This is what heroes are made of, folks. Speaking of heroes, Mark Ruffalo says that he's ashamed

00:52:10.420 of the Golden Globes that he has won. Quote,

00:52:13.680 Now is the time to step up and right the wrongs of the past. Honestly, as a recent winner of the Golden Globe,

00:52:19.480 of a Golden Globe, I cannot feel proud or happy about being a recipient of this award.

00:52:24.440 Really? He can't feel happy or proud? Well, that's definitely not how it seemed three months ago when

00:52:31.000 he won his latest award. Let's go back and watch that moment again.

00:52:36.100 I love you guys.

00:52:39.280 Oh, gosh, okay. First of all, this group of actors, these are my peers. These are the people I admire

00:52:46.640 and love and look up to. So I'm so honored to be here with you guys. Thank you, Hollywood Foreign Press.

00:52:54.020 Thank you, HBO. Thank you, our production team. Thank my family who lets me go off and bring these crazy

00:53:02.200 people home and they have to live with all these years. Thank you, guys.

00:53:07.940 I don't know. He certainly seems both happy and proud there. He can barely contain himself.

00:53:14.660 He's almost speechless.

00:53:17.460 He even specifically thanks the racist Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

00:53:21.860 This was just past February. That's three months ago.

00:53:24.760 Did he not care about diversity and inclusion in February? What changed?

00:53:28.760 Well, I know what changed. The tide changed.

00:53:30.560 That's why Netflix and Amazon also both denounced the HFPA.

00:53:33.100 I'm sure that has nothing to do with these actors taking this line, by the way.

00:53:36.560 They've all happened to denounce the HFPA at exactly the time when two of the most powerful

00:53:42.840 corporations in the movie business did the same. You're crazy when these coincidences line up this

00:53:48.180 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

00:54:05.300 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

00:54:14.960 don't really believe what they're saying or care about the issue at all. It's a game. It's a show.

00:54:20.240 It's a charade. It's all hollow. It's all virtue signaling. Only what they're signaling is not a virtue at all.

00:54:26.040 But they're signaling at the end of the day their own emptiness and cowardice.

00:54:31.280 And that is why the Hollywood Foreign Press Association is canceled, but so is NBC.

00:54:35.900 So is Mark Ruffalo. So is Scarlett Johansson. So is Netflix. So is Amazon.

00:54:41.160 Did I miss anyone? I probably did. All canceled for now and forever. And we'll leave it there for today.

00:54:48.220 Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Have a great day. Godspeed.

00:55:18.220 Today on the Ben Shapiro Show, Hamas continues to fire hundreds of rockets into civilian centers in Israel.

00:55:45.280 Also, inflation numbers come out and they are frightening. And the Biden administration continues to lie about COVID statistics.

00:55:50.460 That's on the Ben Shapiro Show today. Give it a listen.

The Matt Walsh Show - May 12, 2021

Ep. 720 - Why Feminists Are Miserable

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