The Matt Walsh Show - May 14, 2021


Ep. 722 - Stop Waiting For Permission To Live Your Life


Episode Stats

Length

50 minutes

Words per Minute

178.36398

Word Count

9,038

Sentence Count

610

Misogynist Sentences

15

Hate Speech Sentences

13


Summary

The CDC has given us permission to breathe fresh air again. Some of us have been waiting for this permission. And are grateful that the CDC is allowing them to show their faces in public again? I think it s a rather pitiful and embarrassing picture altogether. Also, in our daily cancellation, we ll discuss the American Idol contestant who was forced off the show for something he posted on the internet when he was 12 years old.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, the CDC has given us permission to breathe fresh air again.
00:00:04.640 Some of us, anyway. Many people have been waiting for this permission and are grateful that the CDC
00:00:08.820 will allow them to show their faces in public again. I think it's a rather pitiful and embarrassing
00:00:13.760 picture altogether. And we'll talk about it today. Also, five headlines, including the hackers who
00:00:17.960 caused a gas shortage across the U.S. win a big ransom for their troubles. AOC calls in extra
00:00:23.100 security because another member of Congress yelled at her. And Disney goes for gold in the woke
00:00:28.220 Olympics with its new cartoon show featuring interracial gay dads. And finally, in our
00:00:33.040 daily cancellation, we'll discuss the American Idol contestant who was forced off the show for
00:00:36.480 something he posted on the internet when he was 12 years old. 12. And he's canceled for that.
00:00:42.200 All of that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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00:01:57.600 How did you hear about us, Pac? So they know that we sent you. This has been a tough week for those
00:02:02.500 of us who have a weak stomach. Mayor Bill de Blasio really tested our intestinal resolve when he unveiled
00:02:09.180 New York's ingenious new plan to incentivize vaccinations in the city. As the mayor explained,
00:02:14.700 while munching like a disgusting cow, anyone who gets vaccinated will be eligible for free French fries
00:02:20.860 and a hamburger from Shake Shack. Or, you know, you could just pay the $6 and buy it yourself.
00:02:26.320 Anyway, here is Bill de Blasio making his pitch with a mouthful of half-chewed food.
00:02:31.320 Free fries when you get vaccinated? I got vaccinated. You're saying I could get this,
00:02:41.780 eat delicious fries? Wait a minute. But there's also a burger element to this?
00:02:50.180 Let me check with Bill Neidhart. Is it too early in the day to eat a burger?
00:02:53.180 I think you're good to go. This could be breakfast? Okay. I want you to look at this
00:02:58.500 and think about, again, some people love hamburgers, some don't. I really want to respect
00:03:04.400 all ways of life. But if this is appealing to you, just think of this when you think of vaccination.
00:03:10.460 Mmm. Vaccination. Mmm. I'm getting a very good feeling
00:03:17.920 about vaccination rate this moment.
00:03:23.720 By the way, what was the guy who he was talking to? What was his name? Bill Meattard?
00:03:27.660 Was that his name? I didn't really hear it. But anyway, that's horrifying. It's a rare talent
00:03:34.520 to make French fries seem unappealing. But de Blasio's pulled it off. Speaking of which,
00:03:39.200 what kind of person picks up a French fry, takes three bites of it, then puts the remainder
00:03:43.100 of the fry back down and moves on to the hamburger? Did you see him do that? Who does that?
00:03:47.920 He didn't even finish the one French fry he was holding. Takes two bites and puts it down,
00:03:52.480 picks up the hamburger, returns to the French fry. The man eats like some sort of
00:03:56.320 Martian body snatcher who's never consumed earthly food before. So no surprise there, I suppose.
00:04:02.640 More to the point, this strategy for pushing vaccinations is incredibly insulting, as well as
00:04:09.000 nauseating. Do they really think that a person hesitated about getting vaccinated for whatever
00:04:12.800 reason is going to be swayed by the promise of a fast food coupon? The assumption is that an
00:04:17.540 unvaccinated person must necessarily have frivolous and stupid reasons for their choice,
00:04:23.020 and therefore a frivolous and stupid incentive might push them in the other direction. The whole
00:04:27.100 thing is demeaning and infantilizing. With that said, we have to admit that some members of the public
00:04:31.920 are quite happy to be demeaned and infantilized. That's one of the many disturbing lessons of the
00:04:36.580 last year. It was in evidence again yesterday when the CDC, around the time that Bill de Blasio was
00:04:43.860 making us all vomit, made the announcement that we've all been waiting for. CDC Director Rochelle
00:04:50.080 Walensky, who just a few days ago was seen testifying to Congress that it's not safe for
00:04:53.760 kids to go to summer camp, she's now decided that vaccinated Americans can take off their mask.
00:04:59.740 Here she is making the announcement.
00:05:03.340 Considering all of these factors, the data on vaccine effectiveness, the science on their ability
00:05:09.240 to protect against circulating variants, and our growing understanding of the low risk of transmission
00:05:15.020 to others, combined with universal access to vaccines for those 12 and older, today CDC is updating our
00:05:23.200 guidance for fully vaccinated people. Anyone who is fully vaccinated can participate in indoor and
00:05:30.420 outdoor activities, large or small, without wearing a mask or physical distancing. If you are fully
00:05:37.700 vaccinated, you can start doing the things that you had stopped doing because of the pandemic. We have
00:05:44.500 all longed for this moment, when we can get back to some sense of normalcy. Based on the continuing
00:05:52.980 downward trajectory of cases, the scientific data on the performance of our vaccines, and our
00:05:59.260 understanding of how the virus spreads, that moment has come for those who are fully vaccinated.
00:06:05.080 The moment has come. I said this is the announcement we've all been waiting for. I should clarify,
00:06:10.260 some have been waiting for this announcement. I haven't been. I've already been going maskless
00:06:15.120 everywhere that I can. I've been doing that from the very beginning. I didn't need the CDC's permission,
00:06:19.760 and I don't care whether they give it or not. Still, this announcement raises some questions like,
00:06:25.060 why now? Is it safer to go maskless today than it was yesterday or last week or a month ago?
00:06:29.760 The CDC issued guidance in the form of a handy chart, not but a week or two ago. And in that chart,
00:06:36.480 they called for everyone, everyone vaccinated or not, to wear masks everywhere indoors.
00:06:42.220 Then a short time later, they dramatically changed course, announcing that the vaccinateds can
00:06:46.420 take their masks off inside. Did the science change in the course of 14 days? Does the CDC have
00:06:52.020 scientific data today that it didn't have two weeks ago? These are all rhetorical questions. Of course,
00:06:58.440 I can answer them. No, there is no new scientific data. No, the science did not change. No, there's
00:07:03.260 no science-based reason why the CDC made this announcement today and not earlier. This is part
00:07:08.580 arbitrary, part theater, part politics. All manipulation. And it only underscores why you're
00:07:17.040 better off reading the science for yourself and using your common sense. As always here, the public
00:07:24.140 health officials are belatedly confirming what common sense told us all along. Indeed, they're
00:07:30.120 confirming the common sense determinations that they condemned us for making as recently as like two
00:07:35.380 days ago. Common sense and science all told us from the beginning that there's no good reason
00:07:41.960 to have everyone of all ages wearing masks everywhere, all the time, indoors and outdoors.
00:07:48.860 And yet, if we operated according to that common sense, we were castigated because common sense
00:07:57.100 didn't count unless the CDC said so. That has been the most disgusting thing to witness over the last
00:08:04.180 24 hours since the CDC's announcement. Even more disgusting than Bill de Blasio gnawing on his lunch
00:08:08.960 like a damned warthog. The most disgusting thing has been all of the people tearfully thanking the CDC
00:08:14.860 for giving them the permission to take their masks off. And there's been a lot of that kind of thing
00:08:19.080 on special on cable news, especially here's a CNN host on the verge of tears. So overcome with
00:08:25.920 gratitude for the liberties she has now been granted by our CDC masters. I just want to take a moment
00:08:32.720 to mark this minute because I found myself welling up when, when Dr. Walensky was talking and she said,
00:08:41.080 it's an, we have an exciting announcement and I still find myself welling up even right now because,
00:08:46.080 you know, you and I talked every morning, you know, during the past year about how many more
00:08:53.060 Americans were going to die. You know, what was going to happen? Were we going to make it to the
00:08:56.740 vaccines? Were we all going to survive? What was going to happen? And, you know, 580,000 Americans
00:09:02.700 didn't make it to this day, you know, this day that they say that we can throw these away,
00:09:07.980 that we've all been clinging to. And here we are. I mean, we just didn't know when this day would
00:09:13.680 come, but it feels a little bit like it's over today, doesn't it? You're getting me emotional too,
00:09:22.400 Alison. I mean, gosh, I got goosebumps as you're talking. I mean, I, it's, it's a really important day.
00:09:28.260 The masks we've all been clinging to. I mean, speak for yourself, Alison.
00:09:36.140 They really think this is how out of touch these people are.
00:09:42.200 And they wonder why they have trouble connecting with most Americans.
00:09:48.040 She really thinks that we've all been clinging desperately to our masks.
00:09:52.400 No, I haven't been, you know, I would throw my mask away in celebration or burn it or something,
00:10:00.120 but I don't even know where it is.
00:10:04.220 Um, that's how much I've been clinging to it. But if that wasn't quite sickening enough,
00:10:08.060 Rachel Maddow over on MSNBC says that now with the CDC's permission, she will have to rewire her
00:10:13.840 brain and figure out how to be around other bare faced people without having a panic attack.
00:10:18.920 Let's listen. Everybody had very personal feelings about it. And I realized I did too.
00:10:23.540 And all these questions, part of it is that I feel like I'm going to have to rewire myself
00:10:27.540 so that when I see somebody out in the world, who's not wearing a mask, I don't instantly think
00:10:32.280 you are a threat or you are selfish, or you are a COVID denier and you definitely haven't been
00:10:37.560 vaccinated. I mean, we're going to have to rewire the way that we look at each other.
00:10:42.100 President Biden spoke to that a little bit today, asking for people to,
00:10:45.100 President Biden actually and Dr. Fauci both spoke to that today, asking for people to
00:10:48.340 essentially be patient, be compassionate, give people respect for whatever they decide
00:10:53.840 on this front, because with this changing guidance, we're going to now have changing
00:10:58.020 norms and we got to give each other space to have feelings about that as we go through
00:11:02.820 what's going to be a big change that's going to create a lot of visceral reaction in a lot
00:11:08.620 of us just in our day-to-day lives. Big day, big change.
00:11:11.880 So that was all a really long way of saying, I'm mentally ill. You could really summarize
00:11:17.500 it there, Rachel. Just say, I'm mentally ill, which yes, we know. We know you are. But there's
00:11:23.140 been a lot of this kind of sentiment expressed. People have waited for the CDC to give them
00:11:26.300 permission to breathe fresh air. They literally needed permission to breathe. The reason given
00:11:31.680 for this obsequious, submissive demeanor is that they're following the science. And that's
00:11:37.620 why they're waiting for the CDC, because I'm following the science. Well, the CDC is not
00:11:41.500 the science. The National Institute of Health is not the science. The World Health Organization
00:11:47.200 is not the science. These are institutions comprised of people, and the people are oftentimes
00:11:53.660 self-interested and highly political. Yes, they have science-y sounding words in the names
00:11:59.140 of the organizations, but that doesn't mean that they're themselves synonymous with science.
00:12:04.120 If you have trouble understanding this point, just think about this. What if I justified
00:12:08.420 a decision made by a court of law by saying, hey, it's the justice system. What do you disagree
00:12:14.420 with justice? I mean, if you disagree with something that the justice system does, you must have
00:12:19.620 a problem with justice. Yes, it's the justice system, as in it's a system that's supposed to enact
00:12:28.500 justice, but the system is made up of people, and those people can be wrong and often are.
00:12:34.120 To act as though the justice system is synonymous with justice itself is, as a concept, is to engage
00:12:42.080 in the most debased form of brainless bootlicking imaginable. It would sound insane for me to make
00:12:48.180 that argument, and it sounds just as insane when it comes to science and the CDC. Of course, all that
00:12:54.680 established, the people who are celebrating today and popping the champagne because their CDC overlords are
00:13:00.780 allowing them to show their face in public again are certainly pitiful and embarrassing and a disgrace
00:13:05.200 to our country, but they're not nearly as bad as the countless others who are jealously clinging to
00:13:09.800 their masks, still refusing to take them off because they've become psychologically and emotionally
00:13:14.480 dependent on them. Altogether, it's clear that the pandemic and the government's response to it
00:13:22.200 and the media's fear-mongering over it have all been simply too much to bear for many Americans who
00:13:28.560 already lacked a moral and intellectual foundation and who had lived distracted and superficial lives
00:13:34.700 and had never even considered the issue of their own mortality until this past year.
00:13:38.940 All of these factors together have ruined many of these people, possibly permanently.
00:13:45.240 They'll never be able to breathe fresh air again without it causing anxiety,
00:13:48.800 or else they become conditioned like Pavlov's dogs to follow the orders and edicts of anyone with
00:13:54.420 health official in their title. Perhaps some will return to normal lives, but they'll be ready to
00:13:59.980 abandon those lives again whenever the next crisis emerges, whether real or imagined.
00:14:06.360 But those of us who have operated by common sense, who kept living our lives, who used our critical
00:14:14.740 thinking capacities and made our own decisions as adults and Americans and didn't wait for anyone's
00:14:21.840 permission to exercise our basic liberties, we at least come out of this with our mind sharp and our
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00:15:55.300 uh, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, you know, she has it pretty rough. Um, there's, you know,
00:16:00.940 she's had many near-death experiences where in fact she wasn't near death at all, but, um,
00:16:06.540 at least in her mind, she's constantly under attack. And here's another such case. Uh,
00:16:13.260 Mediate reports, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has reportedly sought increased
00:16:17.580 security after Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene aggressively confronted her in the Capitol
00:16:22.080 building Wednesday, accusing her of supporting terrorists and Antifa. According to a new report
00:16:27.200 from the Washington Post, Taylor Greene began shouting at Ocasio-Cortez as she left the house
00:16:30.580 chamber. Um, and we have only the report of this. I wish we had a video. That'd be great. That'd be
00:16:35.220 fun to watch, but there's no video as far as I know. So this is, um, the report. It says two Washington
00:16:40.760 Post reporters witnessed Ocasio-Cortez exit the house chamber late Wednesday afternoon ahead of Greene
00:16:45.780 who shouted, Hey Alexandria twice in an effort to get her attention. When Ocasio-Cortez did not stop
00:16:52.200 walking, Greene picked up her pace and began shouting at her and asking why she supports Antifa,
00:16:57.020 a loosely knit group of far left activists and Black Lives Matter, falsely labeling them terrorist
00:17:02.500 groups. This is the Washington Post framing, by the way, with the falsely labeled because in reality
00:17:07.820 that that is a correct label. But Greene also shouted that Ocasio-Cortez was failing to defend her
00:17:13.360 radical socialist beliefs by declining to publicly debate the freshmen from Georgia.
00:17:17.260 Uh, Greene shouted, you don't care about the American people. Why do you support terrorists
00:17:20.440 and Antifa? Ocasio-Cortez did not stop to answer Greene, only turning around once and throwing her
00:17:25.660 hands in the air in an exasperated motion. The two reporters were not close enough to hear what the
00:17:30.100 New York Congresswoman said and her office declined to discuss her specific response. Um, and then in a
00:17:36.460 statement, the Ocasio-Cortez's spokeswoman, Lauren Hitt, said the following,
00:17:40.980 representative Greene tried to begin an argument with Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez. And when
00:17:47.140 representative Ocasio-Cortez tried to walk away, Congresswoman Greene began screaming and called
00:17:51.240 representative Ocasio-Cortez a terrorist sympathizer. We hope leadership and the sergeant at arms will
00:17:56.140 take real steps to make Congress a safe civil place for all members and staff, especially as many
00:18:01.820 offices are discussing reopening. One member has already been forced to relocate her office
00:18:06.480 due to Congresswoman Greene's attacks. Yeah, she's just a, what is she, drop kicking people in the
00:18:12.960 hallway? Doing cartwheels like some kind of ninja? Her attacks. We got to keep everyone safe.
00:18:21.980 Yeah, as I said, another near-death experience here for, um, for poor Alexandria. Somebody was
00:18:28.260 raising their voice in her presence. Oh, oh God, no, no. She nearly died.
00:18:37.320 First of all, everything that Marjorie Taylor Greene reportedly said is true. So let's establish that.
00:18:43.880 And, um, so they raised, she raised her voice a little bit. Get over it, sweetheart. You'll be fine.
00:18:50.540 You got to call in security for that.
00:18:52.540 Why not? It's a good question, actually. Why, why are you supporting these organizations? Why won't
00:19:00.880 you denounce Antifa? Pretty good question. And Aquesa-Cortez refuses to answer that question. So,
00:19:08.880 hey, what is it that, um, I'm trying to remember, what is it that Maxine Waters was urging people to
00:19:16.600 do? What was the word she used? Oh, yeah. Um, confrontational. Didn't she say that? Get more
00:19:23.380 confrontational. She said that multiple times. I mean, she, she told her supporters to get in
00:19:28.040 people's faces, let them know they're not welcome. So at worst, Representative Greene is merely
00:19:36.180 taking, uh, Maxine Waters' advice and doing as, as the Democrats and other Democrats do have, have
00:19:44.440 encouraged. Of course, I know the, the difference is that, oh, no, no, no, you're not supposed to do
00:19:50.240 that. I was talking to, it's only if you have the correct political views, that's when you're allowed
00:19:55.360 to be confrontational to the point of even like burning down a building. If you want to invade a
00:20:01.540 police station, drive everybody out and burn it to the ground. You can do that. That's like,
00:20:05.280 that's confrontation. That's okay. As long as you have the correct political views.
00:20:08.780 Now, it sounds like Marjorie Taylor Greene just doesn't accept that double standard. And so she
00:20:15.740 was responding that way. And, uh, I don't, man, it's fine. Deal with it. You know, in Congress,
00:20:23.840 they used to be a lot more confrontational than that. They used to hit each other with their,
00:20:27.680 with their canes and pokers from the fireplace. You would have politicians getting into duels
00:20:34.600 and that kind of thing. So this is really not, uh, not too aggressive as compared to that.
00:20:41.460 All right. Next from Yahoo, it says colonial pipeline company paid nearly $5 million to
00:20:46.540 Eastern European hackers on Friday, contradicting reports earlier this week that the company had
00:20:50.980 no intention of paying an extortion fee to help restore the country's largest fuel pipeline.
00:20:55.940 Uh, the company paid the hefty ransom in difficult to trace cryptocurrency within hours after the
00:21:00.700 attack, underscoring the immense pressure faced by the Georgia based operator. Um, and so they paid
00:21:06.900 the, they paid the ransom of 5 million and now supposedly the pipeline's getting back online. And I think
00:21:13.080 they're saying, but it'll take a couple of weeks before things maybe get back to normal. Um, you can't
00:21:19.480 really, you could say that the company here at least refused to negotiate with terrorists because
00:21:28.280 they just give the terrorists everything they wanted. So that that's one way of not, not negotiating,
00:21:32.100 not negotiating could go one way or another. And they chose their way. But, uh, from a business
00:21:36.720 perspective, they're just looking at this, like, listen, we can lose 5 million or we could keep
00:21:42.020 this thing going and lose a lot more than 5 million business decision. We're just going to pay the
00:21:45.600 ransom. So for a business decision, from a business standpoint, you can understand it,
00:21:49.200 but I really think we can't, it can't be emphasized enough just how disturbing it is that we could have
00:21:59.680 these foreign hackers, 6,000, whatever, five, 6,000 miles away, other side of the world sitting in
00:22:09.380 front of their computers. They press a couple of buttons. And next thing you know, we have a gas
00:22:15.720 shortage in the United States. That's what happened. Hackers pressed some buttons and caused
00:22:22.860 a gas shortage across the United States. And that makes you wonder what else can they do?
00:22:30.260 If they can do that pretty easily, then what else, what else can they do? What happens when they
00:22:34.420 attack the power grid? Where are we then? But you know, as we discussed yesterday, the good news
00:22:42.420 is that our intelligence agencies, um, they're, they're not so much focused on that, but they
00:22:47.580 are focused on promoting diversity and tolerance. So, uh, if the hackers ever come to come after the
00:22:52.260 power grid and send us back into the stone age, uh, that'll be unfortunate, but at least when our
00:23:00.780 civilization is destroyed and we're in the stone age, we will be a diverse and tolerant stone age
00:23:05.840 civilization. So at least we'll have that. All right. Speaking of being diverse and tolerant from
00:23:12.520 the daily wire, it says Disney is revamping the proud family, a 20 year old cartoon sitcom
00:23:17.780 about an African American family. And we'll be featuring a cast that includes two interracial
00:23:23.120 gay dads whose adopted daughter is a teenage racial activist. I told you this is the, they're going for
00:23:31.560 gold in the woke Olympics with this show. Actors, Zachary Quinto and Billy Porter, both of whom are
00:23:36.940 gay, will be playing Barry Leibowitz Jenkins and Randall Leibowitz Jenkins, respectively. The two are a
00:23:43.220 couple and mixed race adoptive parents to Maya Leibowitz Jenkins, a 14 year old black activist voiced by
00:23:48.780 Kiki Palmer. Um, the show will be titled the proud family louder and prouder. And apparently this,
00:23:56.780 this show aired, uh, back in whatever, 2005 or from 2001 to 2005. And, uh, I don't know if it had
00:24:03.080 the gay element back then, but they're injecting that in now. We are rapidly approaching the point
00:24:08.660 where there will be more gay parents on children's TV than exist in reality. We might actually already
00:24:14.880 be there. I don't know. Um, and the, the difference, because what you, what you hear to justify a lot of
00:24:23.080 this stuff is that, is that, um, for so long, the, all the parents that you saw on TV and all the
00:24:31.380 couples were all heterosexual and that's not representative of, of, of what's happening in
00:24:36.180 the culture. And so this is just about representing the reality and, and, and, you know, making other,
00:24:41.740 other lifestyles visible and so on and so forth. That's the, that's the justification. That's the
00:24:46.440 argument for it. But there's one, there are, there are a number of significant differences.
00:24:53.080 I'll just point to one that for so long, when you had say, you know, just a cartoon and you had a
00:25:01.420 mom and a dad and a kid in the cartoon or a sitcom or whatever, nobody was trying to make a point.
00:25:06.860 There wasn't any political point being made by the fact that you had a mom and a dad and a kid.
00:25:12.720 It's just a family. Um, the, the heterosexual, the, the sexual nature of the parents relationship
00:25:21.700 didn't, it wasn't a subject. It didn't come up. It wasn't the point, but now with all of these shows,
00:25:30.860 it is, it is all about making the point. The storyline is secondary. Whatever humor they try
00:25:37.500 to inject into it is secondary. Every plot is secondary because all of that is just providing
00:25:43.800 a forum to make the ideological point that they want to make with us. And that is a pretty big
00:25:51.360 difference. And that's also why all of these shows are terrible because it's not about the story.
00:25:59.580 Once they, they, as far as, as far as they're concerned, there is no story to tell.
00:26:04.060 They've made a show with an interracial gay parents and that's it. That's all, that's all
00:26:11.320 they wanted to do. Every story that they tell within that context is secondary. All right. Next,
00:26:18.320 um, people.com has this says Jeff Bezos is eyeing a new ride, a massive one of a kind super yacht.
00:26:26.700 The Amazon CEO, 57 reportedly plans to purchase a 417 foot long yacht that spans several decks and
00:26:34.180 boasts three enormous mass. It also has a support yacht with a helipad. The vessel known only as
00:26:41.120 project 271 reportedly costs roughly $500 million. So Jeff Bezos is getting a half a billion dollar
00:26:49.180 yacht and it has its own support yacht that comes with it. That's when you really cross
00:26:56.680 the threshold into a obscene wealth, which, which really he crossed that threshold a long time
00:27:02.640 ago. Uh, now of course this, this story came out a few days ago and a lot of people, especially people
00:27:10.080 on the left were upset about this. And we're talking about how disgusting it is that, you know, Jeff
00:27:14.640 Bezos has a, he's getting a $500 million yacht with a support yacht and how dare he. And, you know,
00:27:19.800 that couldn't that money go to the poor? Couldn't that money go to, to, to better causes and so on.
00:27:23.620 Um, I think what often happens in these arguments that the left says that says, well, this is immoral.
00:27:32.200 It's gratuitous. It's obscene. It's, it's greedy. It's all these things. And then you have the right,
00:27:38.240 um, people on the right defending it by saying, yeah, but it's, it's creating jobs. And think about
00:27:43.960 all the people now who are hired to build the yacht and to maintain it. And those are, you know,
00:27:48.940 those are, it's, it's, it's a job creating thing and that's good. Now the thing is, I, I look at
00:27:54.640 this argument and to me, both sides are actually correct. And that doesn't happen very often,
00:28:01.100 but I think both sides are right here. Um, on one hand, yeah, it does create jobs. So it is good
00:28:07.460 in that sense. There's going to be a lot of hundreds of people. If you're getting a $500 million
00:28:11.380 yacht, there are hundreds and hundreds of people involved in making it, maintaining it,
00:28:14.940 all that kind of stuff. Um, and so I'm sure all of them and their families are, are quite grateful
00:28:20.640 for, for Jeff Bezos, his greed, um, and his, his obscene wealth. But it is also true that it is
00:28:31.480 obscene and, um, it is greedy. And there really is no moral justification for that. If you've got that
00:28:42.020 kind of money to spend, you're spending it on a temple to yourself and to your own vanity.
00:28:48.820 And who could deny that? Of course that money would be better, not because the government takes
00:28:53.300 it, but of his own free will and volition, he should choose to take that money and use it. Give
00:28:57.920 it, yes, give it to those who are in need. As Christians, right? We cannot deny that claim at all.
00:29:04.720 We just have to, what would Jesus do? What is, what is, what is Jesus Christ's opinion about,
00:29:09.360 about this? Does he think that when you're, when you got all that money, you should spend it on a
00:29:13.720 yacht for yourself? Um, or should you give it to the poor? What do we think Jesus says about that?
00:29:19.440 I think we know there's no doubt about it. Um, it is, and we have to be able to draw this distinction
00:29:29.060 because that's another thing. A lot of people on the right, I think struggle to draw this distinction
00:29:31.760 where anytime you criticize what rich people spend their money on, people on the right
00:29:38.460 get their antennas up and they, because they think you're making a pitch for socialism and
00:29:43.820 they say, oh, but they have the right to spend it. They might have the right to, but that doesn't
00:29:47.660 make it right to. Okay. There's a difference sometimes between what you have a right to do
00:29:52.940 and what is right to do. And you have the right to do a lot of things that aren't actually right
00:29:58.600 to do. And that's the distinction. With all that said, um, it must also be pointed out
00:30:08.140 that the leftists who are criticizing someone like Jeff Bezos for a $500 million yacht,
00:30:15.300 even though their moral point is correct, um, that it is vanity and it is greed. And, uh, it,
00:30:23.980 of course he should be using that and, and, you know, in, in more productive ways for those who
00:30:29.300 are in need. Uh, it, it, it, it's, it's hard to deny, right? Like you've got Jeff Bezos in his
00:30:34.260 $500 million yacht. Meanwhile, you've got some people living on $12,000 a year and can barely
00:30:39.760 feed their, their kids. Um, but the problem is that on the left, you actually don't have the
00:30:50.140 moral standing to make that argument. You don't have the moral framework for it because by, by your
00:30:59.480 philosophy, by your worldview, Jeff Bezos is living his truth as a billionaire. You know,
00:31:06.580 it's just, he's living his truth. He's enjoying his life. He's enjoying the luxuries of life. He's
00:31:11.920 living each moment, um, trying to maximize his pleasure and his own personal enjoyment in each
00:31:18.640 moment. And for most people on the left, that for them, that's the whole point of life. There is
00:31:23.360 no other point of life beyond that. There also is no objective morality. Morality is subjective.
00:31:30.180 They're moral relativists. And so this is right for him. It's what he wants to do. You, you have no
00:31:36.780 basis to criticize it. There's no, there's not a much of a moral difference between a rich guy
00:31:44.000 spending his money to make himself feel good and, and, you know, building temples to his own vanity.
00:31:49.640 Not a lot of difference between that and, um, you know, a glutton who just gorges on food and gets
00:31:55.460 really fat. We're supposed to celebrate something like that. Or a woman who goes and sleeps around
00:32:00.100 and, you know, gets abortions and kills her kids to escape the consequence. We're supposed to
00:32:04.600 celebrate that woman because she's living her truth, living her life as she sees fit,
00:32:09.420 enjoying her life. Who are we to judge? Jeff Bezos belongs in that category
00:32:16.940 with the gluttons and, um, you know, and, and all of that. It's, it's, it's all in the same category.
00:32:28.100 So in order to criticize him, you have to adopt some kind of objective moral framework
00:32:34.660 where you recognize that people have moral responsibilities and moral duties that go
00:32:41.960 beyond their own whims. And that sometimes a person may really want to do something and it
00:32:49.960 may make them feel good to do it, but they shouldn't do it because there's some moral truth
00:32:54.960 that is above and beyond themselves. There is no way to criticize rich people for buying yachts
00:33:02.280 unless you have, unless that is your worldview. Unless that, unless you accept that truth,
00:33:07.900 which the left doesn't. So they have no room to criticize, unfortunately.
00:33:14.700 All right, let's move to, um, reading the, uh, YouTube comments. In fact, actually one more story
00:33:21.300 here. Oh, that's just kind of interesting. This is from DNYUZ.com, whatever that is.
00:33:26.520 Uh, it says, just how many friends can one person have? In a 1993 study, Robin Dunbar,
00:33:32.540 a British anthropologist theorized that humans can have no more than about 150 meaningful
00:33:36.860 relationships, a measure that became known as Dunbar's number. But researchers at Stockholm
00:33:41.380 University published a paper last week calling that number into question, finding that people
00:33:45.620 could have far more friends if they put in the effort. Um, Jonah Lind, an author of the study said,
00:33:51.000 we can learn thousands of digits of pi and we can engage with lots of people. Um, then we will
00:33:56.420 become better at having relationships with lots of people. In his original research, Dr. Dunbar
00:34:00.100 studied monkeys and apes and determined that the size of the neocortex, the part of the brain
00:34:04.300 responsible for conscious thought correlated with the size of groups they lived among. The neocortex
00:34:08.800 in humans is even larger. So he extrapolated that the ideal group size was on average 150. In the new
00:34:13.220 study, Dr. Lin said he and his team used updated data sets and statistical methods and found that the
00:34:18.000 size of the neocortex does not limit the number of connections people can maintain. Dunbar's number,
00:34:22.960 he said, has been criticized for quite a time. Uh, Dr. Lin's team found that no maximum number
00:34:26.980 of friendships could be established with any precision. So the original thought was that you
00:34:31.520 can have no more than 150 friends. And now we're being told that, oh, you can have a lot more than
00:34:35.660 that. Um, I would think that the real number is quite a bit smaller than that. There is no way a human
00:34:42.720 being can maintain 150 meaningful friendships. I can't even remember. And I guess I can only speak
00:34:48.800 from my own experience, but I can't even remember the names of 150 people. I could say right now,
00:34:54.720 I don't think I personally know the name of up to 150 people. If we're not counting like famous people,
00:35:01.880 people in the public eye, but in my own personal life, are there 150 people that I personally know
00:35:08.380 who I, who I could name them all? I'm not even sure that I could. And yeah, you could have
00:35:13.220 meaningful relationships and friendships with 150. No, it's, I what's, what's the real, how many
00:35:18.820 meaningful lasting, cause I think in order to be a friendship, it has to be that meaningful and
00:35:26.040 lasting, um, relationships. Can you have outside of your own family? I'm going to put the number at,
00:35:32.760 I don't know, two, three, maybe, maybe a little bit more than that.
00:35:41.760 This is another thing we've seen in our culture is this cheapening of the idea of, of friends.
00:35:45.900 And I think, um, I think even though this original idea of 150 friends came before the advent of social
00:35:51.620 media, still the advent of social media has pushed this along, uh, because we talk about, you know,
00:35:57.340 your friends on Facebook and the people that you follow on Twitter or Instagram or whatever,
00:36:02.760 and yeah, you could have thousands and thousands of people, but none of them are actually your
00:36:06.200 friends. You don't have any actual connection, no intimate relationship with any of them.
00:36:10.700 Um, and so if you, if you take a very shallow idea of friendship, then sure, the sky's the limit,
00:36:17.080 but a friendship means something. I'm going to say, I'll put it at two. You can have two friends,
00:36:22.660 pick your two and that's it. All right, let's move now to reading the YouTube comments. This is from
00:36:27.000 username ethanol, uh, says, imagine the scene. It's the middle of a war. It's raining bullets.
00:36:32.700 The entire U S army has crawled up in a corner crying, but how the enemy is misgendering them.
00:36:37.220 It's safe to say that we are completely doomed. Um, yeah, well that, that assumes that
00:36:43.720 when whatever superpower comes to invade us and conquer us, that we would actually fight back
00:36:49.380 at all, which I'm not sure that, uh, that that would happen at this point. OJ H says, I'm in the
00:36:56.700 break room at work, listening to coworkers talk about how they disagree with the new order that
00:37:00.560 vaccinated people shouldn't wear masks. They're saying, what about flu season? And I'm afraid
00:37:04.960 to not wear one. No joke. We knew this would happen though. Yeah, we did. Uh, that's, that's a lot of
00:37:11.060 people there. You, you heard Rachel Maddow say, and she's actually right about that, that, uh, that
00:37:16.560 people's brains have been rewired in this way that for a lot of people, it gives them anxiety. Now
00:37:25.120 think about how deeply someone has to have been affected that now to simply see another person's
00:37:34.220 face calls that causes them real anxiety and anger. So Rachel Maddow was saying, she is anxious and
00:37:42.560 afraid and, and angry when she sees another person's bare face and she starts to make all these assumptions
00:37:49.020 about them. She's admitting that, but she doesn't really see a problem with it. It's a huge problem.
00:37:56.800 Um, Christian says, Matt sounded so white reading Tori's tweets, the way he said effed around and found
00:38:04.560 out was hilarious. Well, I don't consider sounding white to be an insult to me. I am white. So
00:38:08.560 whatever. Uh, I'm not sure exactly what you mean. I think I did sound intimidating.
00:38:13.280 Gosh, dang it. You big goofball. You're going to F around and find out, mister. You're telling me
00:38:20.000 that's not intimidating. Come on. Uh, J A says, I hit the like button because I appreciate a man who
00:38:26.680 takes charge and tells me what to do. Tomato Joe says, I wasn't going to like, but then Matt started
00:38:32.060 yelling and I panicked. I may not like it, but it's effective. Yeah. You know what? I started doing
00:38:37.100 this new strategy instead of begging people to hit like demanding it. And I got to say over the last
00:38:43.700 two shows, you can go and check yourself on YouTube if you want. The like ratio is way up. It's like
00:38:49.400 doubled. I think I've cracked the code. You don't ask people to hit like you, you, you, you demand
00:38:57.260 hit like, like now do it. We'll see. We'll see if we can keep this going. Imagine someone coming in
00:39:08.760 just at that moment with no context and how insane I would sound and look. But then again, even with
00:39:13.800 the context, I sound and look insane, uh, just in general, I suppose. And, uh, finally, Chris Schwartz
00:39:20.280 says, Hey Matt, I'm a foot. I'm a youth football coach. I've honestly never seen a kid get, get a,
00:39:24.180 get a concussion. You would be surprised what kind of hits they can take. But in saying that I would
00:39:28.720 also take that as an extremely good coaching opportunity. I've always coached my kids head
00:39:32.740 has to, got to stay up. In fact, a kid lowers his head on my team. He's running laps. I preach that
00:39:37.100 head up all times, proper tackling. If I was coaching them kids, that smaller kid would definitely
00:39:42.640 have been able to tackle him and he would have have the right form. Both of them had their heads up.
00:39:47.660 If not, they both would have been running laps. The problem with youth football is the coaching.
00:39:52.000 Yeah. We played the clip of the, uh, from some sort of youth football league, I think here
00:39:58.060 locally in, in Tennessee, at least of, um, uh, a tackling drill drill among really young
00:40:03.640 kids. And, uh, the coach is filming it and laughing while the one kid who's way outmatched
00:40:08.440 and doesn't have proper form gets blown up head helmet to helmet contact smacks his head
00:40:13.740 on the ground. Uh, you know, brain injury written all over a hit like that. I looked it up after
00:40:19.180 the show and apparently, um, uh, apparently this is from a year ago and I don't know why
00:40:25.780 the clip is making the rounds now, but it's from a year ago. And, uh, I, and, and the coach
00:40:30.980 did get fired after that. So I, I, I am always hesitant to say that people should lose their
00:40:39.120 jobs, but something like that. Yeah. You're, you are amused by possible head trauma to very
00:40:45.560 young children. Uh, yeah, I would say, you don't belong, you don't belong in coaching football.
00:40:49.400 You really don't belong around kids at all. I would say, you know, if there's one thing that
00:40:53.080 authoritarians don't know, it's that they're being authoritarian, perhaps, uh, they see virtue while
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00:42:02.280 experience. So beautiful. It'll bring a, bring a tear to a leftist eye. All right, let's get now to
00:42:07.600 our daily cancellation. So today we consider another case of somebody getting canceled, uh,
00:42:15.180 after things they posted on the internet a long time ago, resurface as always. The term resurface
00:42:20.380 is an intentionally, but dishonestly passive way of phrasing. And it makes it sound like the thing was
00:42:25.000 locked in a chest under the sea and happened to lodge itself loose and, you know, bubble to the
00:42:29.700 surface. Sort of like in the movie, the mask for any aficionados of nineties, Jim Carrey films.
00:42:34.240 In any case, the point is that this is not a passive or accidental process.
00:42:38.420 Actual humans have to go looking for this stuff and then they have to find it and they have to
00:42:42.220 spread it around all for the express purpose of destroying the life of another human.
00:42:46.760 And this time the target was American Idol contestant, Caleb Kennedy. I must admit that I
00:42:52.320 never heard of Caleb Kennedy before. And honestly, I didn't know that American Idol was still on the
00:42:56.780 air. I really, I thought it went off the air years ago, but apparently it is on the air and
00:43:01.060 Caleb Kennedy was on the air until now. The New York post has a story quote, American Idol top
00:43:07.060 five finalist, Caleb Kennedy has left the show after a video surface showing him next to someone
00:43:11.840 wearing what appears to be a Ku Klux Klan hood. The representative for the show confirmed to the
00:43:17.040 post that Kennedy will no longer be moving forward in the competition. The singer 16 posted a statement
00:43:21.480 about his departure on Instagram on Wednesday. He said, quote, Hey y'all, this is going to be a bit
00:43:25.780 of a surprise, but I'm no longer going to be on American Idol. There was a video that surfaced on the
00:43:29.620 internet and it displays actions that were not meant to be taken in that way. I was younger and
00:43:33.980 did not think about the actions, but that's not an excuse. I want to say sorry to all my fans and
00:43:37.740 everyone who I've let down. I'll be taking a little time off social media to better myself, but saying
00:43:41.820 that I know this has hurt and disappointed a lot of people and made less people lose respect for me.
00:43:45.680 I'm so sorry. I pray that I can one day regain your trust in who I am and have your respect.
00:43:50.040 Thank you for supporting me. Now, um, Kennedy, Kennedy's mother has come out and clarified that the video
00:43:55.760 doesn't depict a Klan hood. Kennedy is with a friend who's wearing a costume inspired by a movie
00:44:02.300 they've both seen. There was a movie called the strangers pray at night. And sure enough, you can go
00:44:07.380 look it up. You'll find if you do that the main bad guy wears a white hood and not a Klan hood, just a
00:44:14.520 white scary hood. And it also came out at around the time that the video was taken. So the story seems to
00:44:21.640 line up. Speaking of which, Caleb Kennedy is currently 16 years old. That movie came out
00:44:28.840 four years ago. The video was taken then when he was 12, 12 years old. He had to leave the show
00:44:37.440 because of a video from when he was 12. Think about that for a moment. If there's going to be
00:44:43.200 any controversy stemming from that video, it should really be that his mom shouldn't have let him watch
00:44:48.000 a rated R slasher film at the age of 12. But aside from that, there's nothing here. In fact,
00:44:53.980 let's pretend for a moment that Caleb really was sitting next to a friend who really was joking
00:44:58.760 around and pretending to wear a Klan hood. He wasn't, but what if he was? So they were 12. I repeat
00:45:04.600 again, 12 years old. It is the height of both absurdity and cruelty to hold someone responsible
00:45:10.120 for a joke they made at the age of 12. Insult to injury in this case is that very clearly the joke
00:45:16.240 had nothing to do with the KKK. Caleb Kennedy had not a thing to apologize for. He hasn't
00:45:22.180 disappointed anyone, let anyone down. He hasn't hurt anyone's feelings. And if he has hurt anyone's
00:45:29.020 feelings, screw them. Who cares? Their feelings are irrelevant. I'm glad their feelings are. I hope
00:45:36.280 their feelings are more hurt. It is everyone else who owes him an apology.
00:45:44.420 You know, for doing this to a kid, for putting him in this position.
00:45:51.060 And normally my policy, as you know, is to not defend any canceled person who apologizes.
00:45:56.980 But I make an exception here because even now the kid is only 16.
00:46:01.780 I can no more hold him responsible for mishandling a PR crisis at 16 than I can for a supposedly,
00:46:07.560 but not really offensive joke. He made it 12. There are things that we should hold kids accountable
00:46:14.160 for. Things like, for example, carjacking and murdering someone as those two teen girls in DC
00:46:18.600 did, though the court system in that case is just giving them a slap on the wrist. Yet a sane society
00:46:23.800 would not hold kids accountable at all, in any serious or public way at least, for jokes they make
00:46:30.300 or opinions they express. We, however, are not a sane society. Or maybe that's letting us off the
00:46:37.360 hook. Because I oftentimes, as a kind of verbal shorthand, will call things crazy or insane.
00:46:43.640 I feel like this is the most common words you hear on this show. But really, oftentimes the things that
00:46:50.260 I'm calling crazy or insane are neither of those things in reality. Much of this is considered
00:46:57.120 an intentional cruelty. For many in the cancel mob, they get a thrill out of tearing somebody down
00:47:04.820 and watching them crash and burn. Even a kid. There are many in this country who are failures in their
00:47:10.820 own lives. And they're lonely and they're miserable. And they've achieved nothing of note. They have no
00:47:15.600 talents. They have no skills. They have no ambitions. They have no plans for the future.
00:47:20.260 They do nothing with their life. They sit around watching TV and on the internet. That's all they do.
00:47:24.580 Staring at screens. They live pointless, empty, despairing, awful lives of their own making.
00:47:31.420 They feel powerless and forgotten and nearly non-existent because they're losers. And the
00:47:36.000 world doesn't pay attention to them and shouldn't pay attention to them because they have nothing
00:47:39.660 interesting to say or anything valuable to offer. And so for these miserable, wretched, nothing,
00:47:45.600 things, the only way that they can feel an approximation of joy is to destroy someone
00:47:51.940 else's joy. The only way they can feel power is to cut someone else down. A kid on American Idol,
00:47:59.580 top five, living his dream, achieving remarkable things at the age of 16, hasn't hurt anybody.
00:48:07.260 And these people hate him for it and were eager for any chance to cut him down to size.
00:48:12.840 Nothing personal, really. When the cancel mob comes for you, it's not because of you.
00:48:18.200 It's because of them. You're a blade of grass that poked its head a little too far above the rest.
00:48:22.900 And these other withered little blades down in the dirt want to make themselves feel taller by
00:48:28.440 bringing you down closer to them. That's what drives much of the cancel culture. Envy, misery,
00:48:33.980 resentment. A tale as old as time. But there's also plenty of cowardice driving it, too.
00:48:39.380 Institutions have to bend to the whims of these losers. American Idol could have easily stuck by
00:48:45.880 their guy, told the mob to get lost and say, hey, listen, shut up. He was a kid. Just stop.
00:48:51.840 But that would require some tiny semblance of moral courage. And that's too much to ask for.
00:48:58.680 And completing the picture, there's also ideology and politics feeding into it.
00:49:01.960 Caleb Kennedy is a white male. Anytime a white male can be painted as a racist, it's considered a win
00:49:08.340 by the left. Whether the white male actually is racist is, of course, irrelevant. So all of these
00:49:14.040 factors converge and together they create the unholy concoction that we know as cancel culture.
00:49:19.740 And for that reason, perhaps somewhat ironically, all of those involved in this are certainly
00:49:26.880 canceled. And we will leave it there for the day and the week. I hope you have a great weekend.
00:49:32.020 I'll talk to you on Monday. Godspeed.
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