The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 763 - Quitting Is Not Courageous

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, the media is falling all over itself to celebrate Simone Biles for quitting.

00:00:06.120 She's the most inspiring and courageous quitter the world has ever seen, they tell us.

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00:02:00.360 From the way that Olympic gymnast Simone Biles is being praised this week,

00:02:04.660 you might think that the decorated superstar put on a heroic display during the team competition in Tokyo yesterday

00:02:11.280 and led her squad to a gold medal.

00:02:13.900 Many prominent politicians like Ayanna Pressley and Cori Bush and many others have made public statements applauding her.

00:02:19.880 The White House press secretary expressed gratitude and support.

00:02:23.140 Said we all should express gratitude and support for Simone Biles.

00:02:26.820 Deadspin gushed over the, what they call, the most impressive move of her career.

00:02:32.080 Former Olympians joined in the group hug.

00:02:35.100 Many athletes came out to support her.

00:02:36.720 Articles have been written extolling her bravery,

00:02:39.580 declaring that her achievements this week have sent a, quote, powerful message to the world.

00:02:45.540 CNN called her performance impactful.

00:02:48.160 The New Yorker described her, quote, radical courage.

00:02:51.920 The New York Times talked about her champion mindset.

00:02:54.640 She's been hailed for her strength and for setting an amazing example of being a great athlete,

00:03:00.580 a great role model, all based on what she did yesterday.

00:03:05.180 Women's advocacy groups have come to her defense, have thanked her for all that she's done.

00:03:10.560 It has been perhaps the most effusive praise that has ever been heaped on a quitter.

00:03:14.300 I mean, that's what Simone Biles did to earn this exuberant applause, after all. 1.00

00:03:18.740 She gave up.

00:03:20.020 After struggling in the qualifying rounds and botching the first event in the women's team finals, 0.99

00:03:24.940 Biles decided to withdraw from the meet.

00:03:27.640 The best gymnast on the squad, the leader, one of the most celebrated U.S. Olympic athletes of all time,

00:03:33.420 chose to abandon her team in the middle of the finals.

00:03:36.440 Her teammates would finish second behind Russia, while Biles went on to receive even more acclaim

00:03:42.680 than a gold medal would have earned her, probably.

00:03:45.840 There was some talk early on suggesting that Biles had been physically injured, but that was not the case.

00:03:51.500 Biles has since explained that she left the competition in order to focus on her mental health

00:03:56.500 and her, quote, mindfulness.

00:03:58.500 She complained that the Olympics haven't been fun this year.

00:04:01.400 She said, quote, this Olympic Games, I wanted it to be for myself when I came in,

00:04:06.800 and I felt like I was still doing it for other people.

00:04:10.160 Returning to this theme later, she said that it's important to put mental health first,

00:04:14.900 because if you don't, then you're not going to enjoy your sport.

00:04:18.780 She complained about the pressure that she's been under.

00:04:21.520 Here's a little more from Biles herself explaining why she quit. 0.94

00:04:25.080 Here she is.

00:04:26.400 And it's been really stressful, this Olympic Games, I think, just as a whole,

00:04:30.260 not having an audience, there are a lot of different variables going into it.

00:04:34.120 It's been a long week, it's been a long Olympic process, it's been a long year.

00:04:40.180 So just a lot of different variables, and I think we're just a little bit too stressed out.

00:04:46.400 But we should be out here having fun, and sometimes that's not the case.

00:04:50.520 I just felt like it would be a little bit better to take a backseat, work on my mindfulness,

00:04:56.380 and I knew that the girls would do an absolutely great job,

00:04:59.560 and I didn't want to risk the team a medal for kind of my screw-ups,

00:05:03.880 because they've worked way too hard for that.

00:05:05.700 So I just decided that those girls need to go in and do the rest of the competition. 1.00

00:05:11.140 Yeah, I say put mental health first, because if you don't, 0.83

00:05:15.740 then you're not going to enjoy your sport, and you're not going to succeed as much as you want to.

00:05:19.760 So it's okay sometimes to even sit out the big competitions to focus on yourself,

00:05:24.040 because it shows how strong of a competitor and person that you really are.

00:05:29.380 Now, the people who wish to make excuses for her have offered all kinds of rationales

00:05:34.080 that Biles herself has not offered.

00:05:37.580 There have been lots of people online talking about, for example, her sexual assault,

00:05:40.860 and speculating that somehow that might have contributed to this.

00:05:44.720 But she has not once cited that as a reason for her decision.

00:05:50.040 And frankly, it seems pretty disgusting to inject that into this discussion

00:05:54.500 in hopes of bailing her out when she has not brought it up.

00:05:59.160 There are others saying that she was essentially mentally incapacitated

00:06:02.520 to the point that she physically couldn't perform the moves.

00:06:06.040 But again, that's not really what she's saying.

00:06:08.860 You can listen to what she's saying.

00:06:10.860 She has talked more broadly about her mental health,

00:06:13.540 mentioned multiple times that she wasn't having fun,

00:06:16.720 and said, again, multiple times that she needed to focus on herself.

00:06:21.580 That's what she said.

00:06:23.100 Those are her words.

00:06:24.580 She explained why she did this.

00:06:27.440 We don't need to theorize about it.

00:06:29.380 She told us.

00:06:31.720 Now, the question is whether those are good reasons.

00:06:34.020 They aren't.

00:06:35.680 Now, on one hand, there's nothing terribly surprising

00:06:37.720 about the reasons that she gave for quitting.

00:06:39.980 People quit things all the time,

00:06:42.440 and they almost always do it because the thing they're quitting

00:06:45.100 is difficult and not very fun,

00:06:47.300 and they're afraid of failing.

00:06:49.860 This is the universal rationale of all quitters everywhere for all time.

00:06:54.660 I have quit things myself for that reason.

00:06:57.040 You have quit things for that reason.

00:06:58.780 Everyone has, with no exceptions.

00:07:00.980 In this case, there's no doubt that the difficult thing was very difficult indeed.

00:07:05.240 The pressure she experiences as a world-famous athlete on a global stage

00:07:09.500 must be quite burdensome on both an emotional and physical level.

00:07:13.840 And that's what makes quitting understandable.

00:07:17.240 The one thing that it cannot be is admirable.

00:07:20.700 Now, if Simone Biles, here's the point, okay?

00:07:24.620 And I want everyone to try to understand this.

00:07:27.380 Because a lot of people don't, apparently.

00:07:29.700 It's a very simple point.

00:07:32.260 If Simone Biles had bailed on her team, as she did,

00:07:37.460 and apologized after the fact,

00:07:40.220 instead of saying, well, I need you to focus on myself,

00:07:43.380 and hey, they can handle it.

00:07:44.320 If she had bailed on her team, apologized after the fact,

00:07:48.260 and the public had reacted in an appropriately sort of bummed out kind of way to the news,

00:07:53.600 then there wouldn't be much else to say on the matter.

00:07:56.880 It's hard to compete in the Olympics.

00:07:58.580 It's hard to live up to high expectations.

00:08:01.000 Lots of people quit things when they're hard.

00:08:03.860 Again, we all have it one time or another.

00:08:06.060 That's why when someone quits, we normally shake our heads and say,

00:08:09.220 well, that's a shame.

00:08:10.520 And then we move on with our lives.

00:08:12.840 Nobody's suggesting that athletes who quit ought to be tarred and feathered in the street.

00:08:16.780 They might do that in China, maybe, but we're not saying that for here.

00:08:21.180 I'm not advocating that we put them in the stockades in the middle of the town square

00:08:24.860 and throw tomatoes at them.

00:08:26.620 That's not the point.

00:08:28.080 It's enough to be disappointed and be done with it.

00:08:30.480 In fact, if that's how this had played out,

00:08:32.560 if she had quit, everyone was disappointed, she apologized,

00:08:35.420 I wouldn't be saying a word about it.

00:08:37.300 I wouldn't care personally.

00:08:38.960 I wouldn't be talking about it.

00:08:41.980 The problem is that now we are exhorted not simply to understand why someone quits,

00:08:48.880 but to actively applaud them for doing it.

00:08:53.040 What makes the Simone Biles story troubling is not that the women's gymnastic team had to settle

00:08:57.440 for a silver medal,

00:08:58.780 but that our cultural powers that be want us to celebrate cowardice.

00:09:04.240 As always, it's not enough to merely tolerate another person's decision

00:09:09.300 or to be compassionate towards their struggles.

00:09:12.300 We are meant now to rise to our feet

00:09:14.700 and joyously cheer what all people through history

00:09:18.500 and most people living in the world today

00:09:19.780 would consider shameful and unfortunate, at least.

00:09:25.440 It's radical courage is the phrase being used to describe this.

00:09:29.720 Not understandable, okay, not something we should sympathize with,

00:09:36.980 but radically courageous to leave your team in the lurch.

00:09:44.180 It's one thing to say, Simone Biles quit, but let's have some empathy.

00:09:48.680 If that was the message, I would say, sure, yeah, sounds good.

00:09:52.120 It is quite another to say, Simone Biles quit, isn't that so brave? 0.99

00:09:59.120 No, it's not.

00:10:01.780 It is the definition of not brave.

00:10:05.700 It may be human, it may be relatable,

00:10:08.060 but it's the opposite of brave.

00:10:11.420 To be brave is to refuse to quit precisely when most people would.

00:10:16.900 That's why we admire people who persevere,

00:10:19.760 because they are rare.

00:10:21.040 However, quitters are a dime a dozen. 0.62

00:10:24.040 Cowardice is in no short supply in our world,

00:10:26.320 and it'll become even more common now that we've rebranded it as courage.

00:10:30.260 If we will grant to cowardice the rewards of courage

00:10:34.900 without any of the effort and sacrifice it requires,

00:10:38.640 why bother with courage at all?

00:10:41.580 The many defenders of Simone Biles have said that she's right,

00:10:44.520 a role model, in fact,

00:10:46.560 for prioritizing her mental health above all else.

00:10:49.480 In the era of the psychological man,

00:10:52.860 when there's nothing more important than the self's opinion of itself,

00:10:56.140 it is perhaps no surprise that we should congratulate a woman

00:10:58.920 for explicitly putting herself before her team and her country.

00:11:03.260 I had to put myself first.

00:11:05.320 She says that exactly, explicitly.

00:11:10.240 Now we are celebrating athletes who do that.

00:11:12.780 It used to be the exact opposite.

00:11:15.840 That's not why you compete in a team sport.

00:11:18.640 That's not why you go to the Olympics for your country.

00:11:21.240 If you want to focus on yourself, you don't go.

00:11:24.680 You don't join the team.

00:11:27.840 Nobody is walking up to someone sitting on a park bench and saying, 1.00

00:11:33.200 why aren't you in the Olympics right now, you selfish bastard? 0.99

00:11:37.920 No, because it's not a requirement. 1.00

00:11:39.700 But if you are taking on that responsibility,

00:11:43.160 then you're not supposed to put yourself first.

00:11:47.560 That is the duty, the responsibility that you have assumed for yourself.

00:11:54.640 Oh, but mental health, right?

00:11:56.680 You're not allowed to say any of this, no,

00:11:59.260 because the magic phrase, the magic term,

00:12:02.460 the get out of jail free card, mental health has been used.

00:12:06.280 That is now the shield meant to insulate us from all criticism.

00:12:11.460 Oh, you think you can criticize me for a decision I made?

00:12:14.820 Well, you can't because it helped my mental health.

00:12:18.660 The highest virtue now is the pursuit of your own mental well-being.

00:12:23.780 Courage is now the avoidance.

00:12:26.680 Of mental anguish.

00:12:29.140 Which is to say that courage is now the exact opposite

00:12:32.160 of what it has always been and what it actually is still now today.

00:12:38.540 And yet still, you have to wonder

00:12:40.600 how consistently the new moral code would even be applied.

00:12:43.540 Would Tom Brady receive such a worshipful reaction

00:12:46.600 if he left in the third quarter of a playoff game

00:12:48.860 because he wasn't having fun

00:12:50.760 and needed to work on his mindfulness?

00:12:54.340 Can you imagine that?

00:12:56.680 You can't.

00:12:57.660 It's unthinkable because it would never happen.

00:13:00.440 Never has happened.

00:13:02.680 You can't imagine Tom Brady

00:13:04.800 in the third quarter of a playoff game,

00:13:08.360 or really, this is the Super Bowl.

00:13:09.800 This is the Super Bowl for this sport.

00:13:13.540 I mean, more than the Super Bowl

00:13:14.300 because this happens only once every four years

00:13:15.840 as opposed to the Super Bowl, which happens every year.

00:13:17.440 Especially if you're Tom Brady and you've been in like 10 of them.

00:13:19.620 But you can't imagine Tom Brady, third quarter of the Super Bowl,

00:13:25.260 going to his coach and saying,

00:13:27.240 I got to sit out.

00:13:29.220 What do you mean you got to sit?

00:13:30.200 Are you injured?

00:13:30.780 No, no, no.

00:13:31.240 I, you know, I got to get him.

00:13:33.580 I'm not in the right headspace right now

00:13:35.020 and I got to work on myself.

00:13:38.980 Nobody would accept that.

00:13:40.920 Sure, there have been cases of sulking professional athletes

00:13:44.060 leaving the field or the court a few seconds early

00:13:46.320 because they were frustrated and sad during a bad loss.

00:13:49.100 We've seen this move from LeBron James, for example,

00:13:51.640 perhaps the greatest sulker in all of sports.

00:13:55.160 There are usually a few people willing to defend

00:13:57.120 this kind of behavior from male athletes,

00:13:58.680 but they've never been celebrated like a returning war hero

00:14:01.500 the way Simone Biles has been and Naomi Osaka before her.

00:14:06.420 In fact, I was arguing this point with a sports writer

00:14:08.200 on Twitter last night and he, in an attempt to defend Biles,

00:14:12.240 brought up the fact that Scottie Pippen,

00:14:15.280 a former Chicago Bulls player,

00:14:16.840 in the 1994 NBA playoffs,

00:14:19.340 sat out the final seconds of the game

00:14:21.460 because he was mad that he wasn't going to get the ball.

00:14:25.580 See, the guy was saying to me,

00:14:27.720 what he was saying to me is,

00:14:28.500 see, here's an example of a male athlete

00:14:30.780 quitting on his team.

00:14:33.380 Well, yeah, it is.

00:14:35.080 A very different situation.

00:14:37.480 I mean, in this case, he was mad that he wasn't giving it.

00:14:39.520 He wanted the pressure on him

00:14:41.120 and he wasn't getting it and so he was mad and he quit.

00:14:43.800 But he did quit on his team.

00:14:45.620 That's true.

00:14:46.840 But what happened to Scottie Pippen?

00:14:50.300 He was universally reviled for that.

00:14:53.520 Everyone, everywhere, criticized him.

00:14:56.180 To this day, he is criticized and for good reason. 1.00

00:14:59.980 I've never heard anyone call him brave or congratulate him

00:15:03.600 for prioritizing his mental health.

00:15:06.900 This is a privilege reserved only for female athletes at present.

00:15:10.880 That might change, though.

00:15:13.380 Maybe one day we'll celebrate both male and female quitters. 1.00

00:15:16.760 Maybe we're fast approaching a time when the greatest athletes

00:15:19.220 will be those who manage to feel the best about themselves while competing.

00:15:23.680 At that point, we won't need it to perform.

00:15:26.260 You know, they won't need to perform any athletic feats at all.

00:15:29.000 They can just...

00:15:30.100 Every sport will be them sitting in a circle

00:15:33.220 and whispering sweet nothings to themselves.

00:15:37.900 Everyone wins in the end.

00:15:39.880 May not make for much of a spectator sport,

00:15:42.620 but at least we will know that nobody's mental health has been damaged.

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00:18:52.340 Let's go to...

00:18:54.280 We'll start with this.

00:18:55.120 The January 6th committee

00:18:56.180 held its first hearing yesterday.

00:18:57.800 There was, for one thing,

00:18:59.280 lots of crying.

00:19:01.060 All of it fake.

00:19:02.360 And we'll have a little bit more

00:19:03.120 about the crying later on

00:19:04.440 in the daily cancellation

00:19:05.100 because you already know

00:19:06.340 that a bunch of men

00:19:07.860 can't get up there

00:19:08.680 and cry on camera all day

00:19:10.380 without getting canceled on this show.

00:19:11.960 So that has to happen.

00:19:13.020 That was a foregone conclusion.

00:19:14.780 Aside from the crying, though,

00:19:16.480 some Capitol Police officers

00:19:17.940 were brought on stage.

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00:19:21.380 purposefully.

00:19:23.160 Brought on stage

00:19:24.100 to tell their stories.

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00:19:30.620 this, you'll notice,

00:19:32.680 this is pretty unusual,

00:19:34.500 especially from Democrats.

00:19:37.020 These are,

00:19:38.020 these Capitol Police officers,

00:19:39.460 these are the only police officers

00:19:41.140 that the Democrats care about

00:19:42.280 or have ever cared about.

00:19:44.520 The only police officers

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00:19:47.480 Usually, they're going out there

00:19:49.860 and saying that police officers 0.95

00:19:51.360 are deranged, racist, 1.00

00:19:53.120 psychopathic, lunatic serial killers 1.00

00:19:55.680 who are hunting and murdering 1.00

00:19:57.540 innocent black men. 1.00

00:19:59.440 That's how Democrats 0.98

00:20:01.080 spend most of their time.

00:20:02.580 And they're trying to defund

00:20:03.520 police departments

00:20:04.380 and actively make the job

00:20:07.060 less safe for police officers

00:20:08.960 all across the country.

00:20:10.260 Make their job more difficult,

00:20:12.260 less safe.

00:20:13.820 And it's also the Democrats

00:20:14.740 who have made this

00:20:16.640 into a situation

00:20:17.240 where if you're a police officer

00:20:18.400 and you have to

00:20:19.680 use deadly force

00:20:21.840 against a criminal suspect,

00:20:25.320 you know,

00:20:26.060 a violent perp,

00:20:27.980 if you have to,

00:20:28.500 if you are forced

00:20:29.300 by that person

00:20:30.120 to use deadly force,

00:20:31.080 you know

00:20:31.660 that your life is over.

00:20:34.640 Potentially.

00:20:35.840 Your freedom

00:20:36.680 is now on the line

00:20:37.540 because of these

00:20:39.100 very same Democrats

00:20:39.800 who are now

00:20:40.700 putting on this big display

00:20:42.340 of caring about

00:20:43.880 police officers.

00:20:45.640 They back the blue,

00:20:46.780 all right,

00:20:48.240 but in a very specific

00:20:50.260 set of circumstances.

00:20:52.700 They back the blue

00:20:53.880 in the D.C. Capitol

00:20:59.640 when the rioters

00:21:01.060 are right-wingers

00:21:01.820 and that's it.

00:21:05.020 And of course,

00:21:06.060 when,

00:21:06.920 it's not only that,

00:21:08.460 you know,

00:21:08.580 the other factor here

00:21:09.440 is that

00:21:10.100 these police officers

00:21:12.020 are protecting them.

00:21:15.080 Okay, so,

00:21:15.900 yes,

00:21:16.280 police officers

00:21:17.160 who protect,

00:21:18.420 you know,

00:21:18.820 from the perspective

00:21:19.540 of these Democrat politicians.

00:21:20.960 If you're a police officer

00:21:21.960 and you protect me,

00:21:23.460 well, then obviously

00:21:24.280 I support you.

00:21:25.200 You have a very important job.

00:21:26.240 We don't want to defund you.

00:21:27.440 We don't want to take

00:21:28.040 your weapons away.

00:21:30.320 You know,

00:21:30.880 we want more of you,

00:21:32.120 in fact.

00:21:32.980 We'll militarize 0.99

00:21:34.040 the whole damn city 0.99

00:21:34.800 because protecting us, 0.99

00:21:37.080 that is so important.

00:21:40.060 Now,

00:21:40.540 protecting the average

00:21:41.400 peon on the street,

00:21:42.580 the guy who owns

00:21:44.580 the liquor store

00:21:45.380 in downtown Minneapolis

00:21:47.300 or Seattle

00:21:48.020 or wherever,

00:21:48.540 Portland,

00:21:49.680 or Atlanta

00:21:51.700 or Detroit

00:21:52.300 or Baltimore,

00:21:54.380 who cares about that guy?

00:21:56.960 Yeah, 0.99

00:21:57.220 burn his place 1.00

00:21:57.900 to the ground. 0.87

00:21:59.560 Who cares?

00:22:00.240 So,

00:22:03.240 very specific

00:22:04.360 set of circumstances.

00:22:05.480 Obviously,

00:22:05.840 we have not seen

00:22:06.560 any of the police officers

00:22:07.520 who dealt with

00:22:09.680 the BLM rioters.

00:22:11.820 And there are so many

00:22:12.660 examples we could pull.

00:22:13.640 I mean,

00:22:13.740 let's just take one example.

00:22:15.500 There was

00:22:15.940 the video

00:22:17.280 and I

00:22:19.660 don't remember which,

00:22:20.800 there are so many cities

00:22:21.920 it all bleeds together.

00:22:24.060 If,

00:22:24.700 you know,

00:22:25.040 you'll pardon the expression.

00:22:26.680 In one of these cities,

00:22:28.040 there was a video

00:22:29.100 of a police officer

00:22:31.560 getting

00:22:32.680 hit over the head 0.95

00:22:35.340 with a brick 0.98

00:22:36.220 by a BLM rioter.

00:22:39.000 In fact,

00:22:39.240 there are multiple videos

00:22:40.080 of that happening

00:22:40.580 in multiple cities.

00:22:41.640 I just have one

00:22:42.540 in particular in mind.

00:22:45.180 Are we going to see him,

00:22:47.020 that police officer,

00:22:47.760 are we going to see him

00:22:48.200 on Capitol Hill?

00:22:50.260 Are we going to see any,

00:22:51.280 are we going to see

00:22:51.840 Adam Schiff

00:22:52.560 crying

00:22:53.560 over the trauma

00:22:55.680 that that man

00:22:56.320 has clearly suffered?

00:22:57.360 Have they checked in on him?

00:22:58.860 Do they care?

00:22:59.760 Are they wondering?

00:23:02.120 Obviously not.

00:23:03.880 They do care about

00:23:04.860 this guy though.

00:23:06.500 Officer Dunn

00:23:07.600 was one of the officers

00:23:09.300 who

00:23:09.700 spoke at the hearing

00:23:11.240 and he made some

00:23:13.340 rather striking claims.

00:23:14.620 Let's listen.

00:23:15.760 One woman in a pink 1.00

00:23:17.140 MAGA shirt yelled,

00:23:19.380 you hear that guys? 0.99

00:23:21.080 This n**** 1.00

00:23:21.500 voted for Joe Biden. 0.99

00:23:23.560 Then the crowd,

00:23:25.360 perhaps around 20 people,

00:23:26.960 joined in screaming,

00:23:29.100 boo, 1.00

00:23:30.060 f***ing n****. 1.00

00:23:32.980 No one 0.99

00:23:34.160 had ever,

00:23:35.720 ever 0.93

00:23:36.340 called me a n**** 0.96

00:23:37.480 while wearing the uniform 0.99

00:23:39.040 of a Capitol Police officer.

00:23:41.920 In the days

00:23:43.240 following the attempted

00:23:44.340 insurrection,

00:23:45.600 other black officers

00:23:46.520 shared with me

00:23:47.300 their own stories

00:23:48.640 of racial abuse

00:23:49.400 on January 6th.

00:23:51.360 One officer told me

00:23:52.700 he had never

00:23:54.020 and in his

00:23:55.380 entire 40 years

00:23:56.760 of life 0.99

00:23:57.260 been called a n**** 0.99

00:23:58.860 to his face 0.99

00:23:59.780 and that streak

00:24:01.180 ended on January 6th.

00:24:04.060 Yet, 0.94

00:24:04.620 another black officer 0.57

00:24:05.600 later told me

00:24:06.480 he had been

00:24:07.340 confronted

00:24:08.140 by insurrectionists

00:24:09.800 in the Capitol

00:24:10.420 who told him,

00:24:12.920 put your gun down

00:24:13.960 and we'll show you 1.00

00:24:14.860 what kind of n**** 1.00

00:24:15.540 you really are. 1.00

00:24:16.480 now,

00:24:20.680 I don't know

00:24:21.620 much of anything

00:24:22.300 about this man,

00:24:23.200 Officer Dunn.

00:24:27.840 I don't mean to

00:24:28.660 besmirch his

00:24:29.580 reputation,

00:24:30.880 but I am not

00:24:32.660 prepared to believe

00:24:33.780 anything that he just said

00:24:35.120 just based on

00:24:36.920 the words themselves.

00:24:39.600 And that,

00:24:40.560 that by the way,

00:24:41.480 is,

00:24:42.080 that's the situation

00:24:43.080 that we're in now

00:24:43.820 because there are,

00:24:47.000 there have been

00:24:47.580 so many

00:24:48.520 false claims

00:24:50.160 of this type

00:24:51.240 that have been made

00:24:52.100 and very often

00:24:54.580 in politically

00:24:55.520 convenient circumstances

00:24:56.740 as this one is.

00:24:58.920 So,

00:25:01.580 if it weren't for that,

00:25:04.340 if these claims

00:25:06.340 were only ever

00:25:06.980 made credibly

00:25:07.620 or most of the time

00:25:08.920 were made credibly

00:25:09.560 and usually confirmed,

00:25:12.520 then,

00:25:12.900 you know,

00:25:13.280 you'd give people

00:25:14.300 the benefit of the doubt.

00:25:15.100 But that's,

00:25:15.520 that's just,

00:25:16.080 most of the time

00:25:17.000 when we hear claims

00:25:17.540 like this,

00:25:17.960 it ends up being

00:25:18.620 not true.

00:25:21.260 So,

00:25:21.720 no matter who you are

00:25:22.420 making the claim,

00:25:23.260 how can I

00:25:24.280 simply believe it?

00:25:27.620 Now,

00:25:28.040 there are a lot

00:25:28.500 of people there.

00:25:29.740 Obviously,

00:25:30.300 there were tons

00:25:31.060 of cameras

00:25:31.820 from,

00:25:33.880 you know,

00:25:34.960 people holding cameras,

00:25:37.740 security cameras.

00:25:39.740 I mean,

00:25:39.900 this is,

00:25:40.260 this is,

00:25:40.740 this is the nation's capital.

00:25:42.760 This is DC.

00:25:44.260 This is the US Capitol building.

00:25:46.600 Cameras everywhere.

00:25:48.500 One would assume.

00:25:50.940 So,

00:25:51.480 has there been

00:25:52.160 any video footage

00:25:53.640 of that

00:25:54.040 that's come out?

00:25:54.580 Have we seen

00:25:54.880 any video footage?

00:25:57.160 And he's not,

00:25:57.680 he's not saying

00:25:58.460 that one person

00:25:59.600 called him the N-word.

00:26:00.540 He's saying that

00:26:01.260 a whole crowd

00:26:02.640 of people

00:26:03.320 were chanting it.

00:26:06.940 Do we have

00:26:07.620 any video footage

00:26:08.600 of that?

00:26:10.520 With all of the cameras

00:26:11.760 all over the place,

00:26:12.480 has that,

00:26:12.960 has that footage

00:26:13.560 come out?

00:26:17.360 This,

00:26:17.960 to me,

00:26:18.360 seems like,

00:26:18.920 it's awfully similar

00:26:20.080 to the original reports

00:26:21.280 from the media

00:26:21.800 claiming that

00:26:23.420 Officer Sicknick

00:26:24.940 was beat to death

00:26:26.380 with a fire extinguisher.

00:26:28.560 And this was reported.

00:26:29.600 People were claiming

00:26:30.320 that this had happened.

00:26:31.340 The media was reporting

00:26:32.600 it as a fact.

00:26:34.320 And I said at the time

00:26:35.540 when the reports

00:26:36.080 first came out,

00:26:37.260 that,

00:26:37.460 hey,

00:26:37.540 well,

00:26:37.700 hang on a second.

00:26:40.200 You're telling me

00:26:40.840 an officer

00:26:41.320 was beat to death

00:26:42.560 in the middle

00:26:43.140 of our nation's capital

00:26:44.480 and there's no video

00:26:45.720 of it?

00:26:47.260 Nothing?

00:26:48.700 Well,

00:26:49.060 it turns out

00:26:49.380 that didn't happen.

00:26:50.140 That was simply

00:26:50.700 a lie.

00:26:51.640 It was made up.

00:26:52.200 It was a media fabrication.

00:26:54.020 Officer Sicknick,

00:26:54.560 we know,

00:26:55.060 did tragically die,

00:26:56.100 but he died

00:26:56.520 of a health crisis

00:27:00.280 that was not directly

00:27:01.380 related to the riots.

00:27:02.080 He was not killed

00:27:02.760 by a rioter,

00:27:03.360 which is why

00:27:03.680 no rioter

00:27:04.240 has been charged

00:27:04.780 with his murder

00:27:05.220 because he wasn't murdered.

00:27:09.020 Now,

00:27:09.700 obviously,

00:27:12.040 calling someone

00:27:12.560 a horrible name

00:27:13.840 is not nearly as bad

00:27:14.840 as beating someone

00:27:15.720 to death, 0.96

00:27:16.160 but even so,

00:27:17.640 you would still expect

00:27:18.520 for this to be caught

00:27:19.400 on camera

00:27:19.860 for there to be

00:27:20.180 some footage of it

00:27:20.880 and we've gotten

00:27:21.400 no footage whatsoever.

00:27:22.300 We've seen no footage

00:27:22.980 of this.

00:27:26.920 So,

00:27:28.360 until

00:27:29.540 footage

00:27:31.620 is made available

00:27:32.620 or we get

00:27:33.040 some kind of evidence,

00:27:33.920 I can't believe that.

00:27:39.340 Speaking of things

00:27:40.340 that I really

00:27:41.560 cannot believe,

00:27:44.500 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

00:27:46.000 was interviewed

00:27:48.580 interviewed for

00:27:49.020 kind of a documentary

00:27:49.920 that CNN

00:27:51.340 was putting together.

00:27:53.200 And this documentary

00:27:54.420 for whatever reason

00:27:55.500 was never released,

00:27:56.460 never saw the light of day.

00:27:57.800 Project Veritas,

00:27:59.060 James O'Keefe's outfit,

00:28:00.380 they got a hold

00:28:00.980 of this thing

00:28:01.520 and they released it.

00:28:04.280 And the whole thing,

00:28:06.020 you know,

00:28:06.220 it is just,

00:28:08.320 you can tell,

00:28:08.960 I guess,

00:28:09.180 why they didn't release it

00:28:10.040 because it is sycophantic

00:28:11.280 to an extreme

00:28:13.000 even for CNN.

00:28:14.140 It is embarrassing.

00:28:17.060 To call it a puff piece

00:28:18.300 for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

00:28:20.160 would way understate

00:28:21.300 the case.

00:28:21.700 It's like something

00:28:25.500 that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's

00:28:27.120 campaign would put together.

00:28:30.080 Only this was CNN

00:28:31.000 that put it together.

00:28:31.540 They decided not to release it.

00:28:32.580 Project Veritas,

00:28:33.140 they got their hands on it.

00:28:33.720 They did release it.

00:28:35.240 And there's one claim

00:28:36.700 that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

00:28:38.080 made during this interview

00:28:39.580 with Dana Bash from CNN

00:28:40.620 that I think is especially notable.

00:28:42.380 Here it is.

00:28:43.520 That attack on the Capitol,

00:28:45.980 you know,

00:28:46.160 white supremacy

00:28:46.860 and patriarchy

00:28:49.040 are very linked

00:28:50.480 in a lot of ways.

00:28:51.920 There's a lot of sexualizing 0.99

00:28:54.120 of that violence.

00:28:57.680 And I didn't think

00:28:59.940 that I was just going

00:29:01.300 to be killed.

00:29:02.800 I thought other things 0.99

00:29:03.640 were going to happen

00:29:04.360 to me as well.

00:29:05.740 So what sounds like

00:29:06.500 what you're telling me

00:29:07.180 right now is that

00:29:08.020 you didn't only think

00:29:09.400 that you were going to die.

00:29:10.320 You thought you were 1.00

00:29:10.820 going to be raped. 1.00

00:29:12.200 Yeah. 1.00

00:29:13.880 Right.

00:29:14.540 Well,

00:29:15.380 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,

00:29:16.740 to remind you,

00:29:18.400 was not in the Capitol

00:29:20.100 building that day.

00:29:21.700 She wasn't in the building

00:29:23.540 where this was happening.

00:29:25.660 She never personally

00:29:27.300 encountered any rioters.

00:29:30.540 Her physical safety

00:29:32.060 was not in jeopardy.

00:29:34.500 It wasn't.

00:29:35.920 She was not in the building.

00:29:37.300 There was a troubling thing

00:29:40.300 happening in a building

00:29:41.560 nearby.

00:29:42.360 Not her own building.

00:29:46.060 And now she said,

00:29:47.140 we already know

00:29:47.780 that she had just

00:29:48.800 this elaborate story

00:29:50.160 of how her life

00:29:52.760 was in jeopardy.

00:29:53.680 She thought she was

00:29:54.220 going to be killed

00:29:54.780 even though there was 0.90

00:29:55.320 nobody in the building

00:29:56.280 coming after her.

00:29:57.580 And then the police officer

00:30:00.400 and these again

00:30:01.940 are the newly reformed

00:30:03.160 back the blue Democrats

00:30:04.260 and yet this one

00:30:05.120 said that the

00:30:05.920 through the police officer

00:30:07.520 who came to help her

00:30:08.740 or from her perspective

00:30:11.080 rescue her 0.92

00:30:11.940 even though her safety

00:30:12.860 was not in jeopardy.

00:30:14.100 Police officer came

00:30:14.680 to help her.

00:30:16.320 She threw that guy 1.00

00:30:17.800 under the bus.

00:30:19.680 She didn't like his attitude.

00:30:21.100 She felt unsafe

00:30:21.980 around him.

00:30:24.540 And that was bad enough.

00:30:25.360 And now she says

00:30:26.020 she's afraid

00:30:26.500 that she was going 0.93

00:30:26.940 to be raped? 1.00

00:30:29.200 This is grotesque. 1.00

00:30:31.100 This is

00:30:31.800 emotional manipulation

00:30:35.920 to an extreme

00:30:39.300 that almost manages

00:30:40.740 to shock you.

00:30:42.040 Maybe it doesn't quite

00:30:43.100 make it to that point

00:30:44.520 because this is

00:30:45.260 AOC we're talking about.

00:30:47.920 The very beginning

00:30:49.000 of her national

00:30:50.120 political career

00:30:50.960 she goes down 0.87

00:30:51.720 to the border

00:30:52.320 and poses

00:30:54.080 for Instagram shots

00:30:55.280 crying in front

00:30:56.040 of an empty

00:30:56.420 parking lot.

00:30:57.800 So that's the kind

00:30:58.600 of person

00:30:58.980 we're dealing

00:30:59.400 with here.

00:31:01.500 But this goes

00:31:02.280 way beyond that.

00:31:03.020 This is monstrous.

00:31:05.740 For her to throw 0.99

00:31:06.740 that out there

00:31:07.540 that is monstrous 0.93

00:31:11.920 from this woman here. 0.99

00:31:18.680 Horrific. 0.86

00:31:19.080 All right.

00:31:20.960 And if you really

00:31:23.680 cared about

00:31:24.740 sexual abuse

00:31:26.080 survivors

00:31:26.780 you wouldn't be

00:31:28.500 throwing something

00:31:30.080 like this out there.

00:31:31.940 Using it

00:31:32.780 so flippantly.

00:31:36.500 Okay.

00:31:37.400 This is from

00:31:37.840 CNBC.

00:31:38.940 Moving on.

00:31:39.460 Says the Centers

00:31:40.020 for Disease Control

00:31:41.120 and Prevention

00:31:41.540 recommended on Tuesday

00:31:42.400 that fully vaccinated

00:31:43.260 people begin wearing

00:31:44.140 masks indoors

00:31:45.180 again in places

00:31:46.260 with high COVID-19

00:31:47.300 transmission rates.

00:31:48.760 The agency is also

00:31:49.340 recommending kids

00:31:50.540 wear masks

00:31:51.080 in school this fall.

00:31:52.360 Federal health

00:31:52.760 officials still

00:31:53.400 believe fully

00:31:53.880 vaccinated individuals

00:31:54.700 represent a very

00:31:55.720 small amount

00:31:56.300 of transmission.

00:31:57.120 Still some

00:31:58.240 vaccinated people

00:31:59.080 could be carrying

00:32:00.260 higher levels

00:32:00.980 of the virus

00:32:01.600 than previously

00:32:02.360 understood

00:32:02.720 and potentially

00:32:03.320 transmitted to

00:32:03.900 others.

00:32:06.800 The updated

00:32:07.740 guidance comes

00:32:08.760 ahead of the

00:32:09.320 fall season

00:32:09.940 when the highly

00:32:10.500 contagious Delta 1.00

00:32:11.120 variant is expected

00:32:11.920 to cause another

00:32:12.600 surge.

00:32:13.000 And this

00:32:16.500 Walensky says

00:32:17.880 well actually we

00:32:18.240 have the clip of

00:32:18.800 Walensky talking

00:32:19.460 about this so I

00:32:19.900 guess we'll just

00:32:20.260 play that.

00:32:20.680 Here's CDC

00:32:21.120 Director Rochelle

00:32:22.600 Walensky talking

00:32:23.320 about why you

00:32:24.960 might need to

00:32:25.380 start wearing a

00:32:25.880 mask again.

00:32:26.360 Here it is.

00:32:27.460 In areas with

00:32:28.820 substantial and

00:32:29.820 high transmission

00:32:30.960 CDC recommends

00:32:32.860 fully vaccinated

00:32:34.180 people wear masks

00:32:35.940 in public

00:32:36.840 indoor settings

00:32:38.140 to help prevent

00:32:39.400 the spread of the

00:32:40.280 Delta variant and

00:32:41.340 protect others.

00:32:42.180 this includes

00:32:44.000 schools.

00:32:45.660 CDC recommends

00:32:46.560 that everyone

00:32:47.320 in K-12 schools

00:32:49.200 wear a mask

00:32:50.420 indoors including

00:32:52.060 teachers, staff, 0.91

00:32:54.020 students, and

00:32:54.920 visitors regardless

00:32:56.160 of vaccination

00:32:57.020 status.

00:32:58.660 Children should 0.99

00:32:59.240 return to full

00:33:00.280 time in-person

00:33:01.480 learning in the

00:33:02.320 fall with proper

00:33:04.020 prevention strategies

00:33:05.320 in place.

00:33:06.720 So this we're

00:33:07.700 talking about not

00:33:08.920 just in schools.

00:33:11.820 Well, that

00:33:12.420 too.

00:33:13.880 That might be the

00:33:14.700 worst part of

00:33:15.220 this.

00:33:16.700 It's being

00:33:17.420 demanded now that

00:33:18.720 kids wear masks

00:33:20.420 in school.

00:33:21.080 So we're not

00:33:21.340 going to be,

00:33:23.040 you know,

00:33:23.400 kids will not

00:33:24.540 get to finally

00:33:25.820 just go to

00:33:26.300 school like

00:33:26.900 normal human

00:33:27.460 beings.

00:33:27.920 They got to

00:33:28.180 wear masks the

00:33:28.780 entire day.

00:33:29.440 mask.

00:33:30.440 Um, but also

00:33:32.200 based on the

00:33:32.800 CDC's guidance,

00:33:33.560 it sounds like

00:33:34.460 what they're

00:33:34.820 saying is that

00:33:36.860 you should be

00:33:37.320 wearing a mask

00:33:37.800 even in your

00:33:38.380 own home.

00:33:38.980 If you, if you

00:33:42.140 live in an area

00:33:42.920 with, uh, with

00:33:44.000 high rates of,

00:33:45.600 of COVID and

00:33:47.540 you live with

00:33:48.060 people who are

00:33:49.060 not vaccinated,

00:33:50.080 then you should

00:33:51.360 be wearing a

00:33:51.760 mask around people

00:33:52.360 that aren't

00:33:52.600 vaccinated, which

00:33:53.100 presumably would

00:33:54.320 include your own

00:33:54.840 home.

00:33:57.480 That's what the

00:33:58.060 CDC is, is

00:33:58.800 saying, uh, and

00:34:00.360 we're going to

00:34:00.740 start to see we've

00:34:01.420 already, we have

00:34:01.940 already seen, but

00:34:02.740 we'll begin to see

00:34:03.320 even more, um,

00:34:04.680 these mandates

00:34:06.280 being put into

00:34:07.940 effect on, on

00:34:09.140 local and, and

00:34:10.480 state levels.

00:34:12.360 The question is

00:34:13.360 really just whether

00:34:14.260 you will choose to

00:34:16.120 abide by it.

00:34:18.580 Um, and, and

00:34:21.220 if you do, you

00:34:24.340 know, I go back

00:34:26.100 to the, the Sam 0.71

00:34:26.820 Adams quote, if

00:34:28.300 you love wealth

00:34:28.900 better than

00:34:29.280 liberty, the

00:34:29.700 tranquility of

00:34:30.300 servitude better

00:34:31.180 than the animating

00:34:31.860 contest of freedom,

00:34:32.800 go home from us

00:34:33.460 in peace.

00:34:33.840 We ask not your

00:34:35.000 counsel or arms

00:34:35.780 crouched down and 0.97

00:34:37.080 lick the hands 0.98

00:34:37.860 which feed you. 1.00

00:34:40.140 May your chains

00:34:41.060 set lightly upon

00:34:41.920 you and may

00:34:42.600 posterity forget

00:34:43.480 that you are a 0.75

00:34:44.420 countryman.

00:34:45.080 That's, that's

00:34:45.840 where I, that's

00:34:46.420 where I am now

00:34:46.880 with the mask.

00:34:49.280 May your mask

00:34:50.320 set lightly upon

00:34:51.820 you and may

00:34:53.200 posterity forget

00:34:54.000 that you are a 0.75

00:34:54.580 countryman.

00:34:54.880 I don't even want

00:34:55.400 to share a country

00:34:55.940 with you.

00:34:58.180 You're, you're a 1.00

00:34:58.940 disgrace. 1.00

00:35:01.240 If you're still

00:35:02.220 taking these people

00:35:03.560 seriously, after

00:35:04.840 all of this, you're

00:35:07.920 going to do what

00:35:08.360 they tell you to

00:35:09.160 do, contradicting

00:35:12.160 themselves constantly.

00:35:17.060 Let's, let's be

00:35:18.100 clear about

00:35:18.520 something.

00:35:19.340 The data haven't

00:35:21.600 changed here.

00:35:23.260 There's been no

00:35:24.460 scientific breakthrough

00:35:26.640 that's changed our

00:35:28.480 understanding of the

00:35:29.440 virus.

00:35:29.840 Okay, we're

00:35:33.100 seeing an uptick in

00:35:34.060 cases in some

00:35:35.300 parts of the

00:35:35.760 country.

00:35:37.180 These things kind

00:35:38.140 of happening in

00:35:38.760 waves.

00:35:39.480 That's not a

00:35:40.240 surprise.

00:35:40.940 We knew that was

00:35:41.780 going to happen.

00:35:43.740 That's always going

00:35:44.900 to happen because

00:35:45.920 COVID, like the

00:35:47.520 flu, is never

00:35:49.360 going to go away. 0.94

00:35:50.200 It's always going to

00:35:51.060 be around most

00:35:51.740 likely.

00:35:53.060 We are going to

00:35:54.100 have to live with

00:35:55.320 it or refuse to

00:35:57.320 live because of it.

00:35:58.700 That's the choice

00:35:59.780 here.

00:36:03.440 But that part we

00:36:05.040 knew, as far as

00:36:08.820 the risk that it

00:36:09.620 poses to vaccinated

00:36:12.200 people, which is

00:36:13.980 almost non-existent,

00:36:18.160 your chance of

00:36:19.980 getting seriously

00:36:21.280 sick from COVID

00:36:22.040 if you're

00:36:23.160 vaccinated or if

00:36:24.480 you have immunity

00:36:26.160 from prior infection,

00:36:27.580 which, by the way,

00:36:28.060 is another thing.

00:36:28.840 You notice we're

00:36:29.260 not even talking

00:36:29.880 about that.

00:36:31.460 We don't talk

00:36:32.340 about natural

00:36:32.880 immunity.

00:36:33.800 At least the media

00:36:34.680 doesn't.

00:36:35.060 It doesn't come up.

00:36:36.900 The White House,

00:36:37.820 they don't talk

00:36:38.300 about it.

00:36:38.540 The CDC doesn't

00:36:39.260 talk about it.

00:36:41.140 Does that mean that

00:36:41.900 it doesn't exist?

00:36:43.140 No, it does.

00:36:43.780 There have been

00:36:44.060 studies done on

00:36:44.780 this.

00:36:46.140 Natural immunity

00:36:46.780 from COVID is a

00:36:47.600 real thing.

00:36:49.380 And it gives,

00:36:50.040 according to

00:36:50.600 studies, it gives,

00:36:52.980 and this comports

00:36:55.020 with common sense.

00:36:56.020 again, what you

00:36:57.420 would expect.

00:36:58.740 It does give you

00:37:00.500 lasting and

00:37:01.500 significant protection

00:37:03.320 from getting

00:37:05.500 infected again.

00:37:07.620 So we always hear

00:37:09.380 about the number

00:37:10.040 of people who have

00:37:11.000 been vaccinated,

00:37:11.760 which is 100

00:37:12.300 whatever plus 60

00:37:13.620 million, whatever

00:37:14.140 it is.

00:37:16.800 There's also a

00:37:18.020 significant,

00:37:18.720 when it comes to

00:37:19.980 the unvaccinateds,

00:37:21.540 the unclean

00:37:22.420 stay away,

00:37:23.080 the people

00:37:25.680 that I guess

00:37:26.060 should be in

00:37:26.380 leper colonies 1.00

00:37:27.020 now, of that

00:37:28.820 group, a certain

00:37:30.700 not insignificant

00:37:32.480 portion of them

00:37:33.480 also have

00:37:34.720 immunity because

00:37:35.940 they've already

00:37:36.460 had it.

00:37:39.560 So you've got

00:37:40.700 many, many

00:37:42.300 adults already

00:37:42.980 vaccinated.

00:37:44.100 The vast

00:37:45.060 majority of

00:37:45.820 people in the

00:37:46.200 high-risk groups

00:37:46.900 are vaccinated.

00:37:47.660 elderly people,

00:37:50.740 people with

00:37:51.100 comorbidities,

00:37:52.900 obese, you

00:37:53.980 know, these

00:37:54.800 high-risk

00:37:55.200 categories, they

00:37:55.900 got vaccinated

00:37:56.380 early on.

00:37:56.900 So the vast majority

00:37:57.360 of them are

00:37:57.600 vaccinated.

00:37:58.760 Most adults are

00:37:59.660 vaccinated already.

00:38:01.680 Of the people who

00:38:02.320 are not vaccinated,

00:38:03.020 a great number of

00:38:04.140 them have immunity

00:38:05.320 from prior infection.

00:38:06.260 And then of the

00:38:07.820 people who have no

00:38:08.560 prior immunity and

00:38:09.800 are not vaccinated,

00:38:10.820 a great number of

00:38:11.480 them are kids who

00:38:13.380 from the very

00:38:13.840 beginning we've

00:38:14.440 always known are

00:38:16.440 not at any serious

00:38:17.320 risk of the virus and

00:38:18.440 also just young

00:38:19.140 adults in general who

00:38:19.980 also are not at any

00:38:20.820 serious risk.

00:38:22.840 So who are we

00:38:23.840 trying to protect

00:38:24.480 right now?

00:38:25.640 Who are these

00:38:26.920 people who are at

00:38:28.040 serious risk from

00:38:28.900 the virus and

00:38:30.240 don't have any kind

00:38:31.120 of immunity at all,

00:38:32.000 either from

00:38:33.080 vaccination or

00:38:33.700 natural immunity?

00:38:34.780 How many fall into

00:38:35.560 that category?

00:38:36.320 Like 10?

00:38:37.000 I don't know.

00:38:42.120 But these are just

00:38:43.700 normal common sense

00:38:45.560 observations and

00:38:47.800 questions.

00:38:51.000 And if you are not

00:38:52.820 thinking about this

00:38:53.520 stuff right now and

00:38:56.200 you're going to follow

00:38:56.840 these people, right?

00:38:58.100 Rochelle Walensky and

00:39:00.260 these quote unquote

00:39:00.860 public health experts,

00:39:01.960 if you're going to

00:39:02.220 follow them around like

00:39:02.880 a blind dog on a

00:39:04.400 leash,

00:39:04.700 then I don't know

00:39:07.300 what to do for you.

00:39:09.240 I don't know what

00:39:09.820 to say to you.

00:39:12.200 Other than fine.

00:39:13.900 Yeah, go ahead.

00:39:14.720 Be a dog.

00:39:15.460 Be a dog.

00:39:16.180 Get let around on a

00:39:17.080 leash.

00:39:18.520 Let them put the 0.98

00:39:19.220 muzzle on you.

00:39:22.760 Maybe it's a good 0.94

00:39:23.440 thing now.

00:39:24.560 Really separating the

00:39:25.420 wheat from the chaff.

00:39:26.340 Really showing us who

00:39:27.260 is who.

00:39:31.020 To wear the mask now,

00:39:32.480 this is like the

00:39:33.780 scarlet letter.

00:39:35.420 I mean, it is

00:39:36.080 showing us who you

00:39:37.720 are.

00:39:40.620 And how much we

00:39:41.460 should or should not

00:39:42.480 respect you.

00:39:45.020 Okay.

00:39:46.760 Let's see.

00:39:47.360 What else do we got

00:39:47.940 here?

00:39:49.160 Do we have time?

00:39:51.600 Okay.

00:39:51.960 I wanted to mention

00:39:52.560 this.

00:39:53.660 This is from CNN.

00:39:56.000 Ashton Kutcher and

00:39:57.080 Mila Kunis appeared on

00:39:58.560 an episode of Dax

00:39:59.520 Shepard's armchair

00:40:00.520 expert podcast and the

00:40:02.360 talk turned to

00:40:02.980 bathing.

00:40:04.120 After Shepard told

00:40:05.100 co-host Monica Padman

00:40:06.440 that using soap every

00:40:07.840 day rids the body of

00:40:08.700 natural oils,

00:40:09.660 Kutcher and Kunis

00:40:10.300 agreed, saying they

00:40:11.340 only wash vitals

00:40:12.340 every day.

00:40:12.860 So they don't

00:40:15.960 bathe and they don't

00:40:16.460 bathe their kids.

00:40:19.040 Okay.

00:40:19.400 Wait a second.

00:40:19.740 I'm trying to figure

00:40:20.180 out why I read this

00:40:21.140 story to you.

00:40:21.700 I was trying to

00:40:22.040 figure out one of the

00:40:22.900 things I wanted to

00:40:23.340 tell you about before

00:40:25.320 I move on to reading

00:40:26.240 the comments and

00:40:26.800 daily cancellation, I

00:40:27.560 decided to go with

00:40:28.220 this Mila Kunis and

00:40:30.040 Ashton Kutcher's poor

00:40:30.780 hygiene.

00:40:32.000 Why did I do that?

00:40:32.880 I don't know.

00:40:33.680 Why was CNN

00:40:34.780 reporting it?

00:40:36.720 Why is any of this

00:40:37.480 happening?

00:40:38.340 Who am I?

00:40:39.040 Who are you?

00:40:39.520 Where am I?

00:40:40.240 I don't have nobody

00:40:41.260 will ever know.

00:40:41.700 I don't have the

00:40:41.980 answer to any of those

00:40:42.420 questions.

00:40:42.860 I will say, since

00:40:43.820 we're on the subject,

00:40:44.720 on the topic of

00:40:45.380 bathing, I believe in

00:40:47.460 bathing.

00:40:48.880 I put me in the

00:40:49.560 pro-bathing camp.

00:40:51.440 But I do think that

00:40:52.540 the soap industry is

00:40:57.140 scamming us.

00:40:57.820 I think there's kind

00:40:58.540 of a conspiracy, and

00:40:59.320 I've always thought

00:40:59.800 this.

00:41:01.640 Big soap, okay?

00:41:03.220 There's kind of a

00:41:03.840 conspiracy there, and

00:41:04.820 they have convinced

00:41:05.700 us, especially women,

00:41:07.440 to buy like 15

00:41:09.140 different versions of

00:41:10.440 soap.

00:41:11.200 You know, the

00:41:11.500 average American

00:41:12.100 bathroom now.

00:41:13.060 The average American

00:41:13.660 bathroom has in and

00:41:14.680 of itself 15

00:41:15.580 different versions of

00:41:16.240 soap, and then you've

00:41:16.720 got different soaps in

00:41:17.840 the kitchen, different

00:41:18.460 soaps for everything.

00:41:21.060 My theory, which I have

00:41:23.820 not tested in a

00:41:25.280 laboratory setting, is

00:41:26.780 that really all soap is

00:41:28.440 the same, and you only

00:41:29.700 need one kind for all

00:41:30.760 applications.

00:41:32.920 It's soap is soap.

00:41:33.820 Am I suggesting that you

00:41:40.380 should potentially bathe

00:41:42.960 with dishwashing liquid and

00:41:44.260 use that for everything?

00:41:45.100 Yeah.

00:41:46.880 Again, not a tested

00:41:48.120 assertion, but that's my

00:41:50.300 theory.

00:41:51.280 Okay, moving on to

00:41:52.180 reading the YouTube

00:41:52.600 comments.

00:41:53.560 This is from Chris.

00:41:54.480 He says, does your poison

00:41:56.060 position to the drug

00:41:57.280 argument also apply to

00:41:58.600 alcohol?

00:41:59.040 In my opinion, it

00:42:01.160 should.

00:42:04.120 Also, have you spilled

00:42:05.120 out all of your

00:42:05.760 Blantons yet?

00:42:07.960 Okay, we were talking

00:42:08.720 about drugs yesterday and

00:42:09.980 the legalization of

00:42:11.500 drugs.

00:42:13.560 Someone said, well, we

00:42:14.920 should have the right to

00:42:15.540 ingest whatever we want,

00:42:17.380 and my point was, yeah,

00:42:19.060 you can ingest whatever

00:42:20.280 you want.

00:42:20.940 Whether you have the

00:42:21.380 legal right or not, you

00:42:22.200 can.

00:42:22.560 Nobody can stop you from

00:42:23.780 ingesting anything.

00:42:24.660 You can.

00:42:25.100 As I said, you could get

00:42:26.400 a bottle of gasoline and

00:42:27.600 drink it.

00:42:27.920 I don't recommend it, but

00:42:28.620 you could.

00:42:29.060 No one can really stop

00:42:29.740 you from doing it.

00:42:31.000 The question is, yeah,

00:42:32.960 you can ingest any

00:42:34.120 poison you want, but

00:42:35.640 should people have the

00:42:36.420 right to sell you any

00:42:37.800 poison that they want to

00:42:38.800 sell you?

00:42:39.200 And my answer to that is

00:42:40.400 no.

00:42:41.580 They shouldn't.

00:42:42.700 And how do you decide,

00:42:43.980 you know, what should be

00:42:44.980 legal, what shouldn't,

00:42:46.180 what should be, what you

00:42:47.360 should be allowed to sell,

00:42:48.300 what you shouldn't be

00:42:48.760 allowed to sell?

00:42:50.300 Well, I would say we

00:42:51.360 could start with this, and

00:42:52.300 I know that it can get a

00:42:53.600 little more complicated.

00:42:54.360 complicated as we get

00:42:55.440 into the kind of gray

00:42:56.240 areas, but certainly, to

00:42:59.060 begin with, if something

00:43:01.200 is simply poison, and it

00:43:03.720 can do nothing but harm 1.00

00:43:05.300 you and kill you, then 1.00

00:43:07.980 that is not something that 1.00

00:43:08.820 should be legal to sell.

00:43:11.280 And a lot of drugs, a lot

00:43:13.500 of the currently illegal

00:43:14.600 drugs fall into that

00:43:15.360 category.

00:43:15.660 Not all of them.

00:43:18.220 As I said, there is a

00:43:19.140 gray area that we can

00:43:19.880 talk about marijuana.

00:43:20.640 There's a gray area

00:43:21.160 there.

00:43:21.320 Now, I did get a lot of

00:43:24.220 comments saying, what

00:43:25.060 about alcohol?

00:43:26.700 Well, no, alcohol is not

00:43:27.740 poison.

00:43:28.540 It's not.

00:43:30.300 Taken in a moderate dose,

00:43:31.980 it can have, in fact,

00:43:33.020 positive physical effects.

00:43:37.900 Certainly, it can be, and

00:43:39.700 there have been many

00:43:40.420 studies.

00:43:40.800 In fact, there was a

00:43:41.280 recent study that I just

00:43:42.220 had.

00:43:42.520 Now I've lost sight of it,

00:43:43.680 but Yahoo News was

00:43:44.720 reporting.

00:43:45.660 Maybe I can find it.

00:43:47.500 Okay, their headline,

00:43:48.360 light to moderate drinking

00:43:49.460 tied to lower risk of

00:43:50.780 heart attack and death

00:43:52.240 in patients with heart

00:43:53.060 disease.

00:43:53.360 So we've seen a lot of

00:43:54.100 studies like this.

00:43:55.000 Every once in a while,

00:43:55.520 you'll see a study on the

00:43:56.220 other side saying, no,

00:43:56.960 no, no, no, actually,

00:43:57.840 it doesn't help.

00:43:58.800 But that's a live

00:44:00.300 question anyway.

00:44:01.000 I think at least

00:44:01.960 reasonably we can say,

00:44:03.160 at a minimum, that

00:44:05.040 drinking in moderation

00:44:05.940 for most people is not

00:44:08.020 going to hurt you. 0.56

00:44:09.400 And there's a very good

00:44:10.160 chance that, in fact,

00:44:10.640 it could help you.

00:44:12.400 So that's why alcohol

00:44:13.800 is different.

00:44:14.600 It is not poison.

00:44:16.440 It can become poisonous

00:44:18.820 if you choose to way

00:44:20.920 overdo it.

00:44:21.540 But then again, any

00:44:22.440 substance can potentially

00:44:24.060 become poisonous if you

00:44:26.240 overdo it.

00:44:26.820 Water.

00:44:27.240 You could die from

00:44:27.860 drinking too much water.

00:44:28.660 Water poisoning is a

00:44:29.660 thing.

00:44:30.780 Nobody would say that it

00:44:31.720 should be illegal to sell

00:44:32.440 bottled water.

00:44:34.240 So I don't think alcohol

00:44:35.420 falls into that category.

00:44:37.040 Something like crack

00:44:37.820 cocaine, for example,

00:44:39.220 does.

00:44:39.660 I mean, that can do,

00:44:41.020 there is no moderate level

00:44:42.600 of crack cocaine usage.

00:44:43.860 There is no level at

00:44:45.880 which it won't really

00:44:46.700 hurt you or potentially

00:44:47.740 could help you physically.

00:44:49.000 It is simply poison

00:44:50.540 straight up and it

00:44:52.020 shouldn't be legal to

00:44:53.640 sell.

00:44:56.360 Another comment says,

00:44:57.420 the fishing tackle

00:44:58.080 comment was brilliant.

00:44:59.200 I organized my baking

00:45:00.300 ingredients yesterday.

00:45:01.660 Good job, though I say

00:45:03.140 so myself.

00:45:03.960 There is a certain joy in

00:45:05.220 organizing items that

00:45:06.600 you like to use.

00:45:08.680 And that is a joy that

00:45:10.140 can only be experienced

00:45:11.100 once you're old and

00:45:12.040 boring.

00:45:12.320 It is for kids.

00:45:14.100 Kids are horrified to

00:45:15.260 think that they'll get to

00:45:16.440 a point when they would

00:45:18.040 actually enjoy organizing

00:45:20.620 fishing tackle or baking

00:45:22.520 ingredients or a sock

00:45:24.420 drawer, but it will happen

00:45:25.600 to you.

00:45:26.140 It will. 1.00

00:45:28.300 Unless you die before that. 0.97

00:45:29.920 That's the only thing 0.97

00:45:30.540 that'll save you.

00:45:34.040 And let's see.

00:45:39.040 Bob says, nice, Matt.

00:45:40.320 Matt, you're saying that

00:45:40.940 turtles, the turtles family

00:45:42.740 didn't care about him

00:45:43.920 because he's disabled.

00:45:45.560 I'm glad I'm banned from

00:45:46.600 watching.

00:45:47.280 No, the turtles family, my

00:45:48.360 kids, the disabled turtle

00:45:49.660 that they rescued, they

00:45:50.800 abandoned him. 0.97

00:45:51.660 OK, they're the deadbeats.

00:45:53.040 We rescued that turtle from

00:45:54.520 an abusive situation or else

00:45:56.180 we kidnapped him when his

00:45:57.480 parents were just a few

00:45:58.220 feet away and we didn't

00:45:59.640 notice.

00:46:00.160 That's also possible.

00:46:01.320 But who really knows?

00:46:03.720 And finally, Joppa says,

00:46:05.020 I'm uncomfortable calling

00:46:05.960 Matt sweet daddy Walsh,

00:46:07.380 probably because I'm old

00:46:08.360 enough to be Matt's daddy.

00:46:10.820 Well, Joppa, please do not

00:46:12.620 deadname me.

00:46:14.520 My name is sweet daddy Walsh.

00:46:16.680 That's how I identify.

00:46:18.040 And I expect you to

00:46:19.400 respect that.

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00:47:51.380 I don't know why you

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00:48:11.520 I like how they didn't

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00:48:16.600 like a zoo animal.

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00:48:28.440 Now let's get to our

00:48:29.240 daily cancellation.

00:48:31.520 As previously noted,

00:48:34.340 yesterday was a big day

00:48:35.680 for performatively

00:48:36.500 emotional displays by

00:48:37.760 henpecked men. 0.57

00:48:39.020 During the January 6th

00:48:40.060 hearing, one man after

00:48:41.320 another took turns

00:48:42.100 bawling his eyes out,

00:48:43.620 weeping openly and

00:48:44.480 without shame.

00:48:45.780 The most grotesque and

00:48:46.760 nauseating spectacles came

00:48:47.900 as always from the

00:48:48.540 politicians.

00:48:49.360 Here is Representative

00:48:50.040 Adam Schiff getting

00:48:51.200 choked up for unclear

00:48:53.040 reasons.

00:48:54.140 We deem elections

00:48:55.220 illegitimate merely

00:48:56.020 because they didn't go

00:48:56.820 our way rather than

00:48:57.760 trying to do better the

00:48:58.620 next time.

00:48:59.500 God help us.

00:49:00.240 And if we're so

00:49:02.700 driven by bigotry and

00:49:03.860 hate that we attack our

00:49:04.780 fellow citizens as

00:49:05.680 traitors, if they're born

00:49:08.340 in another country or 0.99

00:49:09.380 they don't look like us.

00:49:17.520 And God help us.

00:49:23.880 But I have faith

00:49:27.340 because of folks like you.

00:49:33.580 And Adam, I didn't expect

00:49:35.220 this would be quite so

00:49:35.940 emotional either, but it

00:49:37.140 must be an Adam thing

00:49:38.120 today.

00:49:40.660 But I'm so grateful to

00:49:42.280 all of you.

00:49:43.020 And with that, Mr.

00:49:43.580 Chairman, I yield back.

00:49:45.760 He's got to work on his

00:49:46.660 acting a little bit.

00:49:47.600 I appreciate the timing.

00:49:48.680 See, he timed his

00:49:49.380 emotional breakdown for

00:49:50.760 when he mentioned

00:49:51.560 bigotry.

00:49:53.440 Now, that's when he's

00:49:53.980 we have to be nicer to

00:49:56.300 people who don't

00:49:57.780 look like us.

00:49:59.900 The bigotry is

00:50:00.620 so upsetting to me.

00:50:04.620 So he

00:50:05.360 he he timed it well,

00:50:07.020 but I

00:50:07.560 the acting

00:50:08.620 needs a little bit of

00:50:09.760 work.

00:50:10.180 He wasn't the only

00:50:11.000 Adam to carry on this

00:50:12.120 way.

00:50:12.340 Adam Kinzinger, a

00:50:13.560 Republican, sobbed even

00:50:14.720 louder.

00:50:15.180 It was an inspiring

00:50:16.280 moment of

00:50:17.660 bipartisan

00:50:18.340 emasculation.

00:50:19.920 Let's watch that.

00:50:20.580 Thank you, Mr.

00:50:22.220 Chairman, and

00:50:23.160 thank you to my

00:50:23.920 colleagues on the

00:50:24.540 committee.

00:50:25.640 Thank you to our

00:50:26.400 witnesses.

00:50:27.540 I never expected

00:50:28.640 a day to be

00:50:29.520 quite as emotional

00:50:31.180 for me as it has

00:50:32.120 been.

00:50:33.020 I've talked to

00:50:33.940 a number of you

00:50:35.040 and gotten to

00:50:35.720 know you.

00:50:37.320 I think it's

00:50:38.060 important to tell

00:50:38.780 you right now,

00:50:39.520 though.

00:50:40.920 You guys may

00:50:41.980 like individually

00:50:42.840 feel a little

00:50:43.860 broken.

00:50:45.300 You guys all talk

00:50:46.320 about the effects

00:50:47.020 you have to deal

00:50:47.680 with.

00:50:48.060 And, you

00:50:49.160 know, you

00:50:49.360 talk about the

00:50:50.020 impact of that

00:50:50.780 day.

00:50:52.760 But you guys

00:50:53.580 won.

00:50:56.000 You guys

00:50:56.620 held.

00:50:59.360 You know,

00:51:00.020 democracies are

00:51:01.840 not defined by

00:51:03.840 our bad days.

00:51:06.640 We're defined by

00:51:07.600 how we come back

00:51:08.240 from bad days.

00:51:10.600 How we take

00:51:11.340 accountability for

00:51:12.320 that.

00:51:12.580 And for all

00:51:14.920 the overheated

00:51:15.980 rhetoric surrounding

00:51:16.960 this committee,

00:51:18.420 our mission is

00:51:19.680 very simple.

00:51:21.300 Let's define the

00:51:22.280 truth, and it's

00:51:23.680 to ensure

00:51:24.080 accountability.

00:51:27.380 Sorry, I'm

00:51:27.940 getting a little

00:51:28.220 emotional, too.

00:51:31.740 A little misty-eyed.

00:51:33.340 Now, it goes

00:51:33.820 without saying that

00:51:34.600 neither of these

00:51:35.300 men have shed any

00:51:36.060 tears, as we

00:51:36.500 discussed earlier,

00:51:37.160 for any of the

00:51:37.680 victims of any of

00:51:38.400 the horrific BLM

00:51:39.200 riots last year.

00:51:40.280 Police officers were

00:51:41.060 bashed over the

00:51:41.640 head with bricks, 0.86

00:51:42.240 beat, attacked, 0.89

00:51:43.240 berated.

00:51:44.020 This is all on

00:51:44.560 video.

00:51:45.660 Their precincts

00:51:46.140 were burned to

00:51:46.520 the ground.

00:51:46.800 A retired police

00:51:47.380 officer was

00:51:47.760 murdered in cold

00:51:48.460 blood and left

00:51:49.000 for dead in the

00:51:49.480 street.

00:51:50.020 Neither of the

00:51:50.900 crying Adams have

00:51:52.120 ever shed any

00:51:53.100 tears for those

00:51:54.780 officers.

00:51:55.140 By the way, that

00:51:55.660 should be a band

00:51:56.480 name, the crying

00:51:57.080 Adams.

00:51:58.560 That's because their

00:51:59.320 tears are fake and

00:52:00.060 manipulative.

00:52:00.700 Fake and manipulative

00:52:01.300 tears from anyone

00:52:02.380 are disgraceful, but

00:52:03.640 from a man, even 0.96

00:52:04.680 more so.

00:52:06.160 Even leaving aside

00:52:07.020 the rank dishonesty

00:52:07.980 here, this is also

00:52:09.800 part of a larger

00:52:10.440 problem.

00:52:10.880 a symptom of an

00:52:13.120 endemic disease.

00:52:14.660 The fact that

00:52:15.360 grown men will now

00:52:16.400 cry to get what

00:52:17.420 they want, like my

00:52:18.640 eight-year-old

00:52:19.140 daughter, only shows

00:52:21.440 again that masculinity

00:52:22.340 is in a dire state in

00:52:23.520 this culture.

00:52:24.840 There was a time when

00:52:26.480 that sort of display

00:52:27.440 would have been

00:52:27.960 considered embarrassing

00:52:29.140 and weak, but now

00:52:31.420 we're meant to take a

00:52:32.020 man seriously when he

00:52:33.000 cries in front of us,

00:52:33.900 even more seriously,

00:52:35.020 if anything.

00:52:35.360 I think this is wrong,

00:52:37.800 to put it mildly, and

00:52:39.020 I've said so many

00:52:39.560 times, I reiterated this

00:52:40.680 point on Twitter

00:52:41.180 yesterday, this is what

00:52:42.360 I wrote, simply I

00:52:43.160 said, men should not 1.00

00:52:44.700 cry in public, it is

00:52:45.640 unmanly and

00:52:46.260 dishonorable.

00:52:47.020 Rare exceptions can be

00:52:47.980 made to this rule, but

00:52:49.360 we make far too many

00:52:50.300 exceptions.

00:52:51.500 And the exceptions are

00:52:52.080 pretty obvious.

00:52:52.780 A loved one dies, your

00:52:53.880 child is born, your

00:52:54.840 bride is walking down 1.00

00:52:55.760 the aisle at your

00:52:56.440 wedding.

00:52:57.460 In the latter two

00:52:58.340 cases, a dignified

00:52:59.780 tear or two may be

00:53:01.040 acceptable, but please

00:53:02.000 don't turn the faucet

00:53:02.820 on.

00:53:03.620 There's no reason to

00:53:04.540 go overboard, don't

00:53:05.760 try to prove a point.

00:53:08.680 Other exceptions can be

00:53:09.780 imagined, we've talked

00:53:10.920 about some of them

00:53:11.500 before, perhaps for

00:53:12.300 example, you're saying

00:53:13.320 goodbye to your family

00:53:14.360 before embarking on a

00:53:15.400 three-year voyage to

00:53:16.300 Mars.

00:53:17.440 Maybe you're watching

00:53:18.300 the end of the movie

00:53:18.960 Rudy.

00:53:20.380 Aside from those rare

00:53:21.480 occurrences, the point

00:53:23.820 is that men should 0.98

00:53:25.500 comport themselves with a

00:53:26.800 certain level of

00:53:27.420 stoicism and dignity,

00:53:28.880 learning to control

00:53:29.880 their emotions and

00:53:31.240 projecting an image of

00:53:32.180 strength.

00:53:33.080 Of someone who is

00:53:34.080 composed and in

00:53:35.280 control.

00:53:36.860 Yeah, it's possible to

00:53:37.680 go overboard in that

00:53:39.220 direction, becoming an

00:53:40.820 emotionless robot,

00:53:42.060 entirely unaffected by

00:53:43.160 suffering, your own or

00:53:44.080 anyone else's.

00:53:45.460 But there aren't very

00:53:46.400 many men in our

00:53:47.400 society who are at any

00:53:48.540 risk of falling into

00:53:49.480 that trap.

00:53:51.400 The problem in most

00:53:52.880 cases lies way at the

00:53:54.420 other end of the

00:53:55.040 spectrum.

00:53:56.700 Men today are

00:53:57.240 encouraged to put their

00:53:58.120 emotions on display at

00:53:59.620 all times, to be

00:54:00.480 vulnerable, to be soft

00:54:02.480 feminine and gentle.

00:54:04.900 Men are encouraged to

00:54:06.000 be women, in other 0.99

00:54:06.960 words.

00:54:08.140 In fact, some of the

00:54:09.380 responses to my tweet

00:54:10.260 were pretty enlightening.

00:54:11.860 Lots of people, of

00:54:13.140 course, were scoffing at

00:54:14.440 the opinion that I

00:54:15.160 expressed, even though

00:54:15.840 it's an opinion shared

00:54:17.060 by most people in the

00:54:18.160 world, whether they'll

00:54:19.520 say it out loud or not.

00:54:21.300 Most women naturally 1.00

00:54:22.840 want a man who will

00:54:24.700 comfort them when they

00:54:26.340 cry. 0.75

00:54:27.240 They don't want to be

00:54:28.260 doing most of the

00:54:29.340 comforting.

00:54:30.840 I'm not a woman myself,

00:54:32.080 so I will allow the

00:54:34.100 ladies to correct me on 1.00

00:54:35.160 this point, but I can't

00:54:37.100 imagine that most single

00:54:38.420 women are searching for 1.00

00:54:39.600 the kind of man who will

00:54:41.520 break down in tears at the

00:54:42.820 slightest disappointment

00:54:43.620 or setback.

00:54:45.860 Few women, I'm guessing, 1.00

00:54:47.880 dream of the sort of man

00:54:49.060 who will come home from

00:54:49.840 work, tears dripping down

00:54:51.720 his cheeks, sobbing and

00:54:53.640 saying, I just had a really

00:54:54.980 bad day.

00:54:56.440 Hank at the office was

00:54:57.540 super rude.

00:54:58.920 I am so frustrated.

00:55:01.640 I would also theorize that

00:55:02.880 the typical woman wouldn't 1.00

00:55:04.440 marry a man at all if she 0.95

00:55:06.380 knew that he'd be the

00:55:07.140 type to shake her awake in

00:55:09.020 the middle of the night,

00:55:09.780 teary-eyed and trembling

00:55:10.780 and saying, I just heard a

00:55:12.100 noise outside.

00:55:12.780 Can you go out and check?

00:55:13.960 I'm so scared.

00:55:16.740 Few women want men who are 1.00

00:55:18.540 like this.

00:55:19.880 Few boys want to grow into

00:55:21.440 men like this.

00:55:23.180 And yet our culture produces

00:55:24.800 men like this.

00:55:27.660 This may not be something

00:55:28.740 that the average person

00:55:29.740 desires, but it is the

00:55:30.820 agenda all the same.

00:55:32.840 An agenda shared by, for

00:55:33.860 example, a woman named

00:55:34.680 Rachel Barabeau.

00:55:36.340 She's not any great

00:55:37.300 cultural force by any

00:55:38.280 means, but she is a former 1.00

00:55:39.620 sportscaster turned, it

00:55:40.760 seems, into some kind of

00:55:41.520 motivational speaker for

00:55:42.680 students and young men.

00:55:44.360 I know of her existence

00:55:45.380 because she tweeted at me 1.00

00:55:46.460 in response to my thoughts

00:55:47.380 about men crying and she 0.99

00:55:48.380 said, two words, shut up. 0.99

00:55:52.000 Yep, I've got my sassy 1.00

00:55:53.260 pants on today.

00:55:54.120 We are changing the

00:55:55.660 narrative on what

00:55:56.260 masculinity means, despite

00:55:57.880 what this guy says.

00:56:00.620 Now, again, this is not any

00:56:01.920 kind of a person of any

00:56:03.780 great importance, but there

00:56:05.540 is something so apt about

00:56:06.900 this.

00:56:08.340 Here is a woman who likely 1.00

00:56:10.480 doesn't represent the views

00:56:12.180 of most women, we should 0.99

00:56:13.280 know, but a woman all the 1.00

00:56:15.380 same telling me, a man, to 0.75

00:56:18.460 shut up on the subject of

00:56:20.060 masculinity and to defer to 0.98

00:56:21.800 her expertise.

00:56:24.200 She, not only a woman, but

00:56:26.460 a person who uses the

00:56:27.380 phrase sassy pants, has 1.00

00:56:29.480 decided that she should be

00:56:31.000 in charge of changing the

00:56:32.440 narrative on masculinity.

00:56:34.560 As for me, a man, a husband,

00:56:37.360 a father of four, I have to

00:56:39.200 pipe down and allow her to 1.00

00:56:40.680 dictate terms.

00:56:43.380 Sadly, many men have decided

00:56:45.180 to obey these kinds of

00:56:46.560 demands from these kinds of

00:56:47.660 women. 0.81

00:56:48.760 Our culture has indeed allowed

00:56:50.320 women to take the lead, even 1.00

00:56:51.560 to the extent of defining

00:56:52.700 masculinity.

00:56:54.700 We see this in our schools,

00:56:56.120 in our churches, in

00:56:58.240 Hollywood, in media.

00:57:00.500 We live in an increasingly

00:57:01.820 feminine world, though

00:57:03.480 ironically, men are once

00:57:04.520 again reasserting their

00:57:05.420 dominance by identifying

00:57:07.100 as women and bringing 0.73

00:57:08.260 everything full circle.

00:57:09.240 It is a confused situation,

00:57:10.720 to say the least.

00:57:12.240 Now, into this confusion as

00:57:13.580 a way of clearing the fog a

00:57:14.680 little bit, I'd like to

00:57:15.440 offer a clarifying image of

00:57:17.240 what masculinity is actually

00:57:18.680 supposed to be, and how it

00:57:20.300 is supposed to act in the

00:57:21.380 world.

00:57:21.820 This is a story I've mentioned

00:57:22.760 a couple of times on the

00:57:23.700 show, but it's worth

00:57:24.280 mentioning again in this

00:57:26.820 situation.

00:57:28.340 It comes from Solzhenistin's

00:57:29.780 Gulag Archipelago, his

00:57:31.280 magnum opus about the

00:57:32.360 Soviet labor camp system.

00:57:34.120 In one of the volumes, volume

00:57:35.440 one, I believe, he recounts

00:57:37.660 the story of a man who had

00:57:39.000 been arrested on trumped up

00:57:40.180 charges and shipped off to

00:57:41.340 prison, and when he was at

00:57:42.940 prison, he was sentenced to

00:57:44.020 death.

00:57:45.220 But by the time the sentence

00:57:46.380 had been handed down, his

00:57:47.420 wife was already on a boat 1.00

00:57:48.660 on the way to visit him, and

00:57:50.780 so he begged the guards to

00:57:52.000 delay his execution for a

00:57:53.260 few days so that he could

00:57:54.040 see his wife one last time.

00:57:55.560 They agreed on the

00:57:57.040 condition that he doesn't

00:57:58.840 tell her about his

00:57:59.740 impending execution, and he

00:58:02.140 didn't.

00:58:02.800 He was with her for three

00:58:03.740 days, never mentioned it,

00:58:06.020 never hinted at it, and

00:58:08.220 once she left, he was taken

00:58:10.100 immediately before the

00:58:10.960 firing squad and shot.

00:58:12.760 Now, that is stoicism and

00:58:15.220 manliness beyond the

00:58:16.660 capacity of most mere

00:58:17.880 mortals, but it points us

00:58:20.540 in the direction that we

00:58:22.300 should be striving towards.

00:58:24.400 We are meant, as men, to

00:58:26.600 carry our burdens with

00:58:27.880 dignity, and not to expect

00:58:30.080 everyone else, least of all

00:58:32.060 the women in our lives, to

00:58:33.420 lighten our loads by always

00:58:35.020 sharing in them.

00:58:37.780 That, at least, is one way to

00:58:39.400 be a man.

00:58:39.740 The other is Adam Schiff,

00:58:43.460 weeping like a schoolgirl, 0.63

00:58:46.060 using his tears to manipulate

00:58:47.620 and exploit.

00:58:49.180 You could choose that option

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The Matt Walsh Show - July 28, 2021

Ep. 763 - Quitting Is Not Courageous

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