The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 764 - Wear The Mask Forever, You Peasants

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, the mask mandates are returning and you're not allowed to question it.

00:00:04.840 This is how science works now, namely like religious dogma.

00:00:08.460 Also, we have our five headlines, including the Capitol officers continuing their media tour.

00:00:12.820 And a former president of Planned Parenthood says that she was shocked to discover that Planned Parenthood only cares about abortion.

00:00:19.160 What do you know? And gender theory begins to make inroads into medical school, which is a terrifying thought. 1.00

00:00:24.200 And our daily cancellation, I will respond to the outraged masses that have been trying to cancel me over the past two days.

00:00:30.700 It'll be another inspiring reverse cancellation. All of that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.

00:00:43.600 I want to begin today by talking about masks and vaccines.

00:00:49.680 Just a little bit of behind the scenes information here.

00:00:52.100 You should know that our big tech overlords have placed many landmines just under the surface when it comes to the subject.

00:00:59.740 And you step on one and they take you down.

00:01:02.660 You're blown up to smithereens and you're done.

00:01:05.880 They don't want us asking any questions about masks, about vaccines, about anything.

00:01:10.160 Except that they can't come out directly and say, don't ask any questions about any of these subjects.

00:01:15.980 Instead, they have a whole list of statements that you're not allowed to make.

00:01:19.500 Statements that are anti-scientific, they say.

00:01:23.860 Claims that are misinformation, they claim.

00:01:27.080 Can't say any of that.

00:01:28.640 And if you make those statements, they'll simply take your platform away and that'll be the end of it.

00:01:33.300 Now, I know some of you listening are probably saying, well, hey, don't let the man control you, man.

00:01:38.880 Charge out there.

00:01:39.720 Step on those minds to prove a point.

00:01:41.800 Blow yourself up on principle, on purpose.

00:01:44.400 There is something that seems noble about that, I admit, and appealing on an emotional level.

00:01:50.280 Except that that's exactly what they want you to do.

00:01:53.540 Because then you're gone and your voice is gone and they don't have to worry about you anymore.

00:01:58.200 They want the excuse to silence you.

00:02:01.220 So the game, I think, is to speak the truth and question the narrative and never speak untruth ever under any circumstance.

00:02:06.940 Without performing an act of intentional self-immolation at the same time.

00:02:12.600 But the fact that these rules are in place should really tell you something.

00:02:16.980 It tells you that none of this has anything to do with science.

00:02:21.660 Here's how you know that someone or some institution or some social media platform doesn't care about science.

00:02:28.820 If they don't want you to ask questions, that's a dead giveaway.

00:02:34.980 Because science welcomes questions.

00:02:37.660 Scientifically minded people are eager for questions.

00:02:40.880 They want their positions to be challenged.

00:02:44.420 And if that sounds rare, if it sounds rare that you would actually encounter someone who likes it when their positions are challenged,

00:02:50.600 well, it just tells you that scientifically minded people are rare.

00:02:55.020 Science that cannot be challenged is not science.

00:02:58.000 It is dogma.

00:02:59.980 Telling someone that they shouldn't question the science.

00:03:03.520 I mean, it's like a fitness instructor telling someone that they shouldn't physically move.

00:03:09.920 You know, you're at a, you go for a physical fitness training and the first thing they tell you is,

00:03:14.340 oh, no, no, don't move.

00:03:15.160 Just stay right there.

00:03:15.840 Sit down.

00:03:16.260 Sit down.

00:03:16.660 Don't move.

00:03:18.260 There is no physical fitness that doesn't involve movement,

00:03:21.300 just as there's no scientific process that doesn't involve questioning.

00:03:25.740 There is no settled science either.

00:03:29.400 That doesn't exist.

00:03:30.780 Especially because there is no single cosmic scientific authority who can come along and declare it's settled.

00:03:37.460 When people talk about, oh, it's settled science.

00:03:40.000 Who exactly decided that it was?

00:03:42.400 Who determined that?

00:03:43.240 Science constantly evolves, constantly questions itself, constantly learns new things.

00:03:52.980 Science is also transparent.

00:03:54.640 If an institution makes a claim or a mandate or recommendation and they won't tell you why they've made it

00:04:00.660 or show you the data that led to that decision,

00:04:04.160 then that institution is not a scientific institution.

00:04:06.700 And that's why the CDC, for example, is not a scientific institution by this standard.

00:04:12.320 Here's a good example as to why from a report on Fox News this morning.

00:04:15.600 It says, more than a day after issuing new guidance that vaccinated people should wear masks indoors,

00:04:20.700 recommendations that are likely to affect millions of Americans in the form of private and public mask mandates,

00:04:25.520 the Center for Disease Control and Prevention has yet to release the data behind its decision.

00:04:31.200 The lack of clarity on what exactly the agency is basing its decision on comes as states and cities across the country

00:04:36.040 are working to vaccinate more of their citizens,

00:04:37.980 and it's making some local officials reluctant to follow the CDC's advice on nearly universal masking.

00:04:44.560 Quote, this is from New York City Health and Hospitals President and CEO Mitchell Katz.

00:04:49.120 He said, while the CDC issued their guidance yesterday at about 3 p.m.,

00:04:52.680 they have not yet released their scientific reports on the data that underlies the recommendation.

00:04:57.160 He said that in a press conference with Mayor Bill de Blasio.

00:04:59.400 So, this has been, of course, the way that our public health authorities,

00:05:03.740 public health authorities, in quotes, have operated from the very beginning.

00:05:06.740 They tell us what to do, but don't bother to tell us why we should do those things,

00:05:10.460 except in the most vague terms.

00:05:12.860 A question like, what exact data led to this conclusion is rarely answered in a direct and clear way.

00:05:20.720 Instead, we're expected to simply do as we're told,

00:05:23.080 even if what we're told is the opposite of what those same authorities told us five seconds ago.

00:05:27.500 It's like a game of Simon Says, if you remember that game as a kid.

00:05:32.720 The moves that you make in a game of Simon Says are random by design.

00:05:37.300 There's no point to the move itself.

00:05:39.640 The point is obedience.

00:05:41.640 That's the game.

00:05:42.300 And that's certainly the case here, now that mask mandates are returning across the country,

00:05:48.160 even for vaccinated people.

00:05:49.960 They've returned in Congress, too, where the Capitol physician has now declared

00:05:53.640 that everyone in the Capitol must wear masks again, vaccinated or not.

00:05:58.960 House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy questioned this decision.

00:06:01.680 That is, when I say he questioned the decision,

00:06:04.180 he sided with the CDC of five seconds ago rather than the CDC of right now. 0.99

00:06:11.040 And for this, he was called a moron by Nancy Pelosi. 0.96

00:06:13.640 And then he was taken to task by Representative Tim Ryan in a rousing floor speech 0.99

00:06:18.520 defending masking vaccinated people.

00:06:21.660 Here's what Tim Ryan said.

00:06:22.520 Look, the attending physician of the United States Capitol, the top doctor for Congress,

00:06:32.520 asked us to put on masks when we come to a chamber with 435 people.

00:06:39.000 I hate these things.

00:06:41.620 Absolutely.

00:06:42.540 It was terrible having to put this back on.

00:06:45.060 And we do it because the top doctor, for all of us, asked us to.

00:06:53.680 And I may not be from a hotspot.

00:06:59.020 Speaker may not be from a hotspot.

00:07:01.800 Speaker Pelosi may not be from a hotspot.

00:07:04.660 Somebody in this chamber is coming from a hotspot.

00:07:08.920 Somebody represents the hotspots.

00:07:12.080 And they get in a plane and they fly here and they interact with all of us.

00:07:17.760 And then we leave here and we go home to our families.

00:07:22.080 Some take care of their sick parents.

00:07:25.240 Some take care of kids who may have an autoimmune disorder.

00:07:29.960 And I just find it absolutely immature and appalling

00:07:34.420 to somehow diminish it to try to score cheap political points.

00:07:39.920 And that's exactly what we saw a few minutes ago.

00:07:44.620 Appalling.

00:07:45.440 It is appalling to question putting on a mask when you're vaccinated,

00:07:49.440 even though you were just told you don't have to.

00:07:51.460 Now you're told you have to.

00:07:53.340 Appalling.

00:07:54.260 Who could question this?

00:07:55.840 The physician, the attending physician has spoken.

00:08:00.080 We must not question him.

00:08:02.380 We must not apply our own mental powers to the situation

00:08:05.120 and come to any conclusions on our own.

00:08:07.080 But you'll notice what's missing from Tim Ryan's rant.

00:08:09.840 And it's the same thing missing from the CDC's latest declaration.

00:08:12.340 It's the same thing that's always missing with the mask, called this.

00:08:15.340 And that is, again, data.

00:08:18.620 Reasons.

00:08:20.060 And most of all, an answer to this question.

00:08:24.180 How much risk is acceptable?

00:08:27.060 Although these people won't talk about it.

00:08:30.820 The fact is that the data tells us there is a fraction of a fraction of a percent of a chance

00:08:36.780 that a vaccinated person will get seriously sick from the virus.

00:08:39.340 It is unlikely that he will contract it or spread it also.

00:08:43.860 And not just vaccinated people.

00:08:45.160 Studies have been done indicating that those with natural immunity,

00:08:48.740 we don't talk about natural immunity,

00:08:49.700 but those who've previously had COVID, had natural immunity,

00:08:53.400 studies indicate they have lasting protection,

00:08:56.000 maybe even better protection than vaccinated people.

00:08:59.160 Studies indicate.

00:09:02.020 And this is all the case without masks.

00:09:05.800 The risk that COVID poses to people in these groups appears to be very small,

00:09:14.640 just as the risk that it poses to children appears to be very small.

00:09:18.980 So, again, the question.

00:09:21.140 If a very small risk is not tolerable,

00:09:24.620 then how much risk is tolerable?

00:09:28.160 That is a fair question.

00:09:31.220 Fauci, the CDC, the public health experts on TV, the Democrats in Congress,

00:09:34.820 none of these people have ever even attempted to answer it.

00:09:38.280 They haven't engaged with it at all.

00:09:40.420 They won't acknowledge it.

00:09:42.320 But it's not only a fair question.

00:09:44.300 It is the question.

00:09:46.600 The number one question.

00:09:48.120 We cannot have a public health policy without an answer to it.

00:09:52.220 How much risk is tolerable?

00:09:54.580 All public health policy must be crafted around this question.

00:10:00.440 It's the fundamental question.

00:10:03.280 How much risk is tolerable?

00:10:04.920 How much risk is acceptable?

00:10:05.900 Only until you know the answer to that question can you come up with any kind of policy for anything related to public health.

00:10:15.780 We can only assume, though they won't directly say it, that they believe a very small risk is not tolerable.

00:10:25.340 Again, they won't come out and say that, but that is clearly what they're indicating.

00:10:29.140 Even when your risk is in the range of a fraction of a fraction of a percent, it is still not tolerable.

00:10:36.380 What they seem to want, what their goal seems to be, is zero risk.

00:10:41.600 That's an issue because it's not possible to live a zero risk life.

00:10:47.560 If we are pretending that any risk is high risk, that there's no meaningful distinction between something that is almost certain to kill you and something that almost certainly won't, then we can't have a human society.

00:10:58.200 Someone told me today that going around without a mask is like driving without brakes.

00:11:05.280 But driving without brakes is certain to result in serious injury or death.

00:11:11.680 Going around without a mask, vaccinated or not, does not carry anything like that kind of certainty.

00:11:19.260 If we have collapsed this distinction, if all risk is just risk and all of it is unacceptable,

00:11:27.240 well, I'm not taking any risks, we can't take any risks, we can't take risks with our children, we can't take risks with the vulnerable.

00:11:35.200 If that's what we're saying now, it doesn't matter how much, just can't take a risk.

00:11:41.320 Well, then we can't live.

00:11:43.580 We can't have a civilization.

00:11:46.440 We can't.

00:11:48.240 You cannot function that way.

00:11:50.260 It is not possible.

00:11:52.960 Am I saying that civilization collapses if people wear masks?

00:11:56.000 No, not exactly.

00:11:58.120 I'm saying that civilization collapses if people have decided that there is no amount of physical risk which they are willing to endure.

00:12:08.380 It is not possible to function that way.

00:12:12.720 We cannot go on like this.

00:12:15.520 We simply can't.

00:12:19.160 And it is as simple as that, I believe.

00:12:21.620 Now let's get to our five headlines.

00:12:26.000 Now a quick word from Legacy Box.

00:12:31.500 You know, so much of your own identity is tied up in your memories.

00:12:35.460 And as they say, if you want to know who you are, you have to know where you've been and who you've been.

00:12:41.320 But what if you have a bunch of old camcorder tapes and old photographs that have been destroyed?

00:12:45.620 They're in a box somewhere.

00:12:46.520 You're not going to know who you've been.

00:12:47.820 You're not going to know your own identity.

00:12:48.780 Now you'll be doomed to wander the countryside, a ghost, a mere figment, not knowing yourself.

00:12:56.020 That's why you need Legacy Box.

00:12:57.240 Legacy Box is a super simple mail-in service to have all of your videotapes, camcorder tapes, film reels, and pictures digitally preserved on a thumb drive, DVD, or the cloud.

00:13:05.360 Legacy Box is a way for you to easily and affordably digitally preserve your past.

00:13:09.920 The process from start to finish is really easy.

00:13:12.120 You pack and send.

00:13:13.560 Their team digitizes everything by hand.

00:13:15.700 And then they send it back to you and you enjoy it.

00:13:17.380 It's as simple as that.

00:13:18.340 Legacy Box is the world's largest digitizer of home movies and photos and has helped over 850,000 families preserve their past.

00:13:25.540 So do that now.

00:13:26.500 Preserve your past.

00:13:27.620 Figure out who you are today.

00:13:29.120 Get started future-proofing your memories today so you can gather the family and begin the trip down memory lane.

00:13:35.100 Go to LegacyBox.com slash Walsh to get an incredible 40% off your first order.

00:13:40.140 Again, LegacyBox.com slash Walsh and save 40% off while supplies last.

00:13:46.160 All right.

00:13:47.380 So tell me what you think about this.

00:13:48.740 I need your opinion on this before we really get into the headlines here.

00:13:51.120 My wife is, first of all, an excellent homemaker, home designer, decorator. 0.90

00:13:57.100 Incredibly talented in that department.

00:13:59.140 If I was in charge of that, we'd have cardboard boxes as furniture.

00:14:03.700 We'd have maybe our only decorations would be like old beer bottles.

00:14:07.320 But the fancy ones, I mean, you know, because I do have some class.

00:14:12.960 I'm not saying I would just leave beer bottles.

00:14:14.420 I'm saying, you know, you get those beer bottles like a nice IPA and they've got the fancy draw.

00:14:18.860 Them, their fancy drawings on the IPAs.

00:14:21.560 I would probably leave some of those out because they look nice.

00:14:24.540 Anyway, but my wife has more sophisticated tastes than that. 1.00

00:14:27.240 However, she sometimes makes choices that I don't agree with.

00:14:31.560 And so we have some things in our house.

00:14:35.900 I think like every suburban family, we have some of these things up on the wall that are like inspirational slogans, you know?

00:14:44.840 And so one that she really likes that she got somewhere, and it's the slogan is, be fearless in pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.

00:14:54.140 That's the slogan.

00:14:55.860 And my first problem with it is just like, that is so not me.

00:14:59.420 I mean, I do live in this house too, right?

00:15:01.180 This is also partially my house, is it not?

00:15:04.200 And I think anyone comes over and they see that, they're just going to think, he lives here with that thing?

00:15:08.520 But then, you know, we moved and we're getting everything set up in the new house.

00:15:15.340 And so she takes this thing, the inspirational slogan, and she puts it up in the bathroom.

00:15:24.700 And so that's a choice I find confusing.

00:15:28.860 Who needs to be inspired that way in the bathroom? 0.59

00:15:33.220 I have been, this is what comes to mind for me.

00:15:35.920 I have been in the bathroom feeling like my soul is on fire, but that's because I had too much Chipotle.

00:15:43.860 I don't want to go into detail.

00:15:47.260 So that's my issue.

00:15:48.160 But maybe, maybe I'm, maybe the bathroom is a great place for, for inspiration.

00:15:51.640 I don't know.

00:15:51.920 Especially if you're staring in the mirror, doing your morning affirmations.

00:15:55.260 Maybe that's the idea here.

00:15:56.960 All right.

00:15:57.560 So the left-wing Capitol Police officer, Officer Dunn, was on CNN last night.

00:16:02.860 Like the other officers, he's been kind of doing this media tour.

00:16:05.920 All over the place.

00:16:08.200 And, and by the way, we, we know that he's, I'm not saying that he's left-wing simply because he showed up at this theater performance that they're calling the January 6th commission.

00:16:17.760 Although that's a pretty good indication in and of itself.

00:16:19.560 But we also have, we know from his statements on social media, it's very clear what his political leanings are.

00:16:24.180 And he was on CNN last night where he addressed the comparison between January 6th and the BLM riots.

00:16:33.040 And he explained why January 6th was, it was so much worse.

00:16:35.780 Let's listen.

00:16:36.740 First Amendment protests is what this country is about.

00:16:39.180 The First Amendment, the Constitution, like, that's the democracy of it.

00:16:44.500 But once you start attacking people, attacking things, then that's wrong.

00:16:50.320 And that, and you know what?

00:16:51.460 That goes to the riots this summer.

00:16:53.700 They were wrong.

00:16:54.460 If you peacefully protest, then sure.

00:16:56.320 But the riots and the, the violence and the damage this summer, they were wrong.

00:17:02.520 They were wrong.

00:17:03.500 And that's the exact same thing that happened at the Capitol.

00:17:06.460 But their goal was to overthrow democracy, which is a bigger threat to America.

00:17:14.740 To overthrow.

00:17:16.120 So it's worse because they were trying to overthrow democracy.

00:17:20.140 First of all, this, of course, we, we've heard this so many times.

00:17:23.640 They were trying to overthrow democracy.

00:17:26.320 Even, uh, which, which to begin with, assumes that these people going into the Capitol building all, all had a plan and a plot altogether.

00:17:38.520 And there was a, there was a, you know, there was a, a real reason that they were there and they were, they had something they were trying to achieve.

00:17:46.040 But meanwhile, when you look at the footage, you see plenty of people just kind of like milling around.

00:17:51.220 Someone steals a lectern.

00:17:52.960 Someone goes into Nancy Pelosi's office, puts, puts, takes some selfies.

00:17:56.320 That's, that was their plan for overthrowing democracy.

00:18:00.000 See, I'm, I'm very skeptical that that in fact was the plan in the minds of most of the people in the building that day.

00:18:08.340 Just based on what actually happened.

00:18:11.640 But even if that was the plan.

00:18:15.760 Does that mean that there was actually a threat of it really happening?

00:18:21.160 There can be all kinds of wackos that come up with all kinds of plans. 1.00

00:18:24.680 And the plans can be very bad.

00:18:25.780 But to say that, well, this is, this was a serious threat as if it is, because it was a plan, that means that it almost happened.

00:18:36.120 We're going to operate as if this was a, that was a, that was a, that was an outcome that was within the realm of possibility.

00:18:42.000 That's what we're meant to believe here.

00:18:43.460 Which again, assuming that that, that even was a plan, the guy stealing the lectern, he, he did that because he wanted to overthrow democracy.

00:18:53.720 Okay.

00:18:54.680 Well, it's, it's funny though, of course, because no one has been of, of all the people involved in this that have been hunted down and arrested.

00:19:03.460 And all of them have been, um, none of them have been charged with anything like that.

00:19:11.320 No one's been charged with treason or sedition or any of these, all of these words that are, that are thrown out to describe it.

00:19:17.940 None of them been charged with that, which is interesting.

00:19:21.260 Is that because the courts aren't taking it seriously?

00:19:23.540 Don't want to hold these people accountable?

00:19:24.880 Obviously not.

00:19:26.420 They're sending SWAT teams after old grandmas who took pictures, uh, you know, in the, in the lobby. 0.99

00:19:32.420 Yeah.

00:19:33.460 So they're obviously trying to put whatever charges they can on these people, but they can't put treason on them because there's simply no evidence for it at all.

00:19:48.560 So that you could just respond that way to the claim made by officer done there.

00:19:53.020 But it's such an absurd claim.

00:19:54.340 My point is, even if I agreed that they wanted to do that, there was zero chance of it actually happening.

00:20:03.460 There was no, there was no possibility that democracy was going to be overthrown that day.

00:20:10.720 That was not anywhere within the vicinity of something that might have actually happened.

00:20:16.620 Do you think that our system of government, our democracy is so weak and infirm and vulnerable that it could be overthrown that way by a crowd of hooligans trespassing?

00:20:31.560 And taking selfies?

00:20:33.640 Do you think, you think they could, they might've actually pulled it off?

00:20:39.540 So it's just an absurd claim to begin with.

00:20:42.000 And at any rate, if that is an attempt to overthrow democracy, then as we've said a million times, going into a police station in the middle of a major American city and burning it to the ground, what do you call that?

00:20:57.700 If going into the Capitol building is an attack on our system of government, well, then what about burning down a police station?

00:21:09.360 There really is.

00:21:10.260 I mean, he's, he's correct in a way that, that there really is no comparison between the BLM riots and January 6th because the BLM riots were so clearly in every way worse. 0.62

00:21:22.620 And a much greater threat, you know, there's, there's the actual damage that was done during these riots, which again, much worse.

00:21:32.180 We're talking billions of dollars of damage.

00:21:34.180 There's not anything like that kind of damage that was done during the Capitol riots.

00:21:40.980 We're talking dozens of people killed, hundreds of buildings destroyed, businesses destroyed, all that during the BLM riots.

00:21:48.720 And so the immediate physical and financial toll, the toll in both blood and money was much greater.

00:21:59.180 But also what about, what about the broader implications?

00:22:05.000 You know, I'm not going to say that the BLM riots was an attack on democracy.

00:22:09.960 I don't even think that it was, it was much more than that.

00:22:12.020 It's worse than that, actually.

00:22:13.400 It's an attack on the rule of law.

00:22:14.920 And you want to talk about things that we need in order to have a human civilization.

00:22:22.620 There are different forms of government, okay.

00:22:25.960 That, that can, that can work for a civilization clearly, but you cannot have a civilization without rule of law.

00:22:33.620 That you can't do.

00:22:34.520 And this was a fundamental attack on the rule of law.

00:22:40.500 Not just by the rioters, but by very prominent people, people in high positions of power, going all the way up to the guy who's currently in the White House right now, encouraging it, justifying it.

00:22:54.520 Either directly or implicitly saying that the rule of law, it doesn't really apply to these people in this situation because they're very upset.

00:23:03.960 And if you're very upset, then we have to understand and, you know, we got to give them room to destroy, as the mayor of Baltimore famously once said.

00:23:11.860 That is a direct assault on the, on the rule of law.

00:23:13.940 And we're seeing the implications.

00:23:16.340 We're seeing the results of it right now.

00:23:17.920 You know, crime, violent crime, out of control.

00:23:26.220 Much worse than it's been in decades in many of these cities.

00:23:31.720 All right, let's move on to some interesting news about Planned Parenthood.

00:23:36.600 So LifeSite News has this.

00:23:39.160 And you, you hopefully know that Planned Parenthood is the number one abortion conglomerate in America.

00:23:47.920 Number one abortion provider, as they would call themselves.

00:23:51.420 They slaughter over 300,000 children every single year.

00:23:57.240 You know, they are, they have, they have killed millions and millions of people, of human beings, babies.

00:24:07.560 This obviously is their number one priority, is abortion. 0.81

00:24:12.020 That's how they make most of their money.

00:24:13.540 You know, you want to, you, you, you look at where they make their income and it's abortion and tax money. 0.84

00:24:20.740 That's, that's, that's where it all, that's where almost all of it comes from.

00:24:25.900 Um, now, Planned Parenthood in public will say that's not the case.

00:24:31.580 And Planned Parenthood's defenders will often say things like, oh, abortion is only 3% of what they do.

00:24:37.960 I'm sure you've heard that figure before, 3%.

00:24:39.840 It's only 3% of their business, that's all.

00:24:45.200 Trying to make it sound like it's, it's certainly not the main focus.

00:24:49.740 It doesn't even really matter that much.

00:24:52.600 You could take abortion away and would have, it would have almost no impact on the, uh, on the institution at all.

00:24:57.480 Which already is sort of interesting because if it's that, if it's, if it's that small and if it hardly matters, then why does Planned Parenthood defend it as viciously as they do?

00:25:10.740 But we know that the 3% figure is total nonsense.

00:25:13.260 The way that they get to that number, and as always, you know, um, this is how you can lie with a statistic.

00:25:21.480 The way they get to that number is by unbundling, what they would call unbundling their services.

00:25:26.780 And then, and then sort of weighting all of the services the same.

00:25:32.240 So, um, you know, an analogy would be something like maybe a, a, a car dealership.

00:25:39.060 But if they were to sell three cars and then also sell 100 water bottles from their vending machine, then, then, and then they turn around and say, well, selling cars is only 3% of what we do.

00:25:50.680 But really we're a water bottle distributor primarily.

00:25:56.440 But when you, when you look at where they make their money, it's in selling cars, not water bottles.

00:26:01.180 And so there's a bunch of other things that Planned Parenthood does in theory.

00:26:08.480 You can go there, you could get, um, birth control, for example.

00:26:13.160 There are, there are other services they provide.

00:26:17.280 And they may even provide those services, like something like giving away free birth control, easy enough to do.

00:26:22.100 That's a really easy service to provide.

00:26:23.580 They may provide those services more often than they perform abortions, but abortion is the central piece of their business. 0.63

00:26:35.000 And of all the services they provide, that's where they make the lion's share of their income.

00:26:39.280 Okay.

00:26:39.700 That's the reality.

00:26:41.440 But, um, many people are confused on this point, including the former president of Planned Parenthood herself.

00:26:47.080 So here's what LifeSite News reports.

00:26:49.640 They say, in her memoir, published on July 27th, Dr. Leanna Nguyen details her time spent as president of the nation's largest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood.

00:26:58.320 Nguyen offers readers an insider's view of the organization's obsession with abortion in Lifeline, A Doctor's Journey in the Fight for Public Health.

00:27:06.540 Among other things, she says that she was told to say abortion in every media interview.

00:27:10.760 Someone also warned her that if we don't talk about abortion openly, loudly, and proudly as a positive moral good, then we're further stigmatizing it.

00:27:20.160 Nguyen served as president for eight short months before Planned Parenthood suddenly ended her employment during a secret meeting in 2019. 0.98

00:27:26.720 At the time, she said that she left because of philosophical differences.

00:27:30.700 Now she's written this sort of this expose talking about what really happened behind the scenes.

00:27:35.920 It says, as she reveals in her book, Nguyen faced opposition from Planned Parenthood from the very beginning because of how she handled abortion.

00:27:45.560 Quote, one of the main points I wanted to get across was that health care shouldn't be political.

00:27:49.500 She remembered from when she prepared for her first media appearance as president on ABC's The View.

00:27:55.160 I had come to this job as a doctor and my charge was patients' lives.

00:27:59.260 Her message was met with applause and cheering from the show's audience, she said, but not from Planned Parenthood.

00:28:03.360 She said, less than an hour after the messages started coming, some of which threw her off guard.

00:28:08.180 First, a board member texted her saying, next time, make sure you talk about abortion. 1.00

00:28:12.480 Then someone else said, then two people on the national staff informed her that back in the office, there was a lot of worried chatter.

00:28:19.720 Did I leave out abortion on purpose, they wondered, Nguyen said.

00:28:22.460 Was this a signal that I didn't want to defend access to abortion?

00:28:26.520 One of them also advised her to, next time, just say the word.

00:28:29.880 The unnamed person added, you need to talk about abortion at every media interview. 0.95

00:28:35.120 You're the president of Planned Parenthood.

00:28:36.260 People expect that from you.

00:28:38.700 This cause went to reevaluate Planned Parenthood.

00:28:41.040 And she says, until that moment, I thought the overriding reason Planned Parenthood was equated with abortion instead of its other health care services was the anti-choice opposition.

00:28:49.500 I was taken aback to see that it wasn't just the anti-choice side that wanted to brand Planned Parenthood with abortion.

00:28:57.040 This is really kind of amazing.

00:28:59.540 You've got a woman who was the president of Planned Parenthood only for eight months, but she's a medical, she's a doctor, medical professional, grown adult, obviously familiar with these issues, becomes the president of Planned Parenthood.

00:29:21.020 And she was shocked to discover that Planned Parenthood cares only about abortion.

00:29:26.640 This is what she talks about in the book.

00:29:28.100 Anytime she was in front of the media, all they wanted her to do was talk about abortion. 1.00

00:29:35.240 This came as a surprise to her.

00:29:38.680 Now, I have never stepped foot inside of a Planned Parenthood and never would.

00:29:43.720 And I could have told you that.

00:29:47.300 Clearly, this is what they do.

00:29:49.400 This is where they make their money.

00:29:51.280 This is what they care about.

00:29:54.920 It just shows you how thoroughly people have been deluded.

00:30:00.580 And how successful Planned Parenthood has been.

00:30:02.880 And, you know, let's not give them too much credit.

00:30:05.780 It's easy to be successful with this when you have the entire media on your side, when the entire media is a propaganda organ for you.

00:30:13.720 Then it's easy to be successful in deluding the public into thinking that you're primarily a healthcare clinic and, you know, you do abortions on the side here and there.

00:30:27.820 Yes, you will viciously defend abortion at every step.

00:30:34.660 You will not allow any criticism about it or any questions about it.

00:30:38.420 But it's not that big of a deal.

00:30:41.840 This is how deluded people are.

00:30:43.720 Um, and they have to be, you know, the Planned Parenthood needs people to be deluded in this way.

00:30:52.900 Because if you actually began to see Planned Parenthood for what it is, and you really stopped to think about this, this is a company that has made billions of dollars from killing people.

00:31:06.720 And they kill 300,000 humans every year.

00:31:16.220 Um, when you, when you stop and think about that, you know, it's, it's kind of hard to just drive by them on your way to work and see them in some shopping mall.

00:31:24.020 And say, oh, it's Planned Parenthood, just like any other business.

00:31:26.960 Um, all right.

00:31:31.920 Let's see, what else we got here?

00:31:33.420 Uh, from, maybe we'll save this for tomorrow, or maybe not.

00:31:38.600 Barry Weiss on her substack has a report written by Katie Herzog that's, uh, it's really a must read.

00:31:44.640 And it's about the infiltration of gender theory into medical school. 1.00

00:31:50.080 Um, so here's, uh, here's a little bit of it.

00:31:54.800 So it says, during a recent, uh, endocrinology course at a top medical school in the University of California system,

00:32:00.740 a professor stopped mid-lecture to apologize for something he'd said at the beginning of the class.

00:32:04.740 Uh, quote, I don't want you to think that I'm in any way trying to imply anything.

00:32:09.720 And if you can summon some generosity to forgive me, I would really appreciate it.

00:32:13.340 The physician says in a recording provided by a student in the class who will call Lauren.

00:32:18.820 Again, I'm very sorry for that.

00:32:20.480 It was, uh, it was certainly not my intention to offend anyone.

00:32:23.320 The worst thing that I could do as a human being is be offensive.

00:32:27.340 His offense, using the term pregnant woman.

00:32:32.340 Okay, this is in medical school.

00:32:34.740 And we're going to go right past the statement, the worst thing I can do as a human being is be offensive.

00:32:41.500 How, how revealing is that?

00:32:44.360 Someone who believes that the worst thing you can do, it's not murder, it's not rape.

00:32:49.140 The worst thing, it's not, it's not, uh, pedophilia.

00:32:52.640 No, the worst thing is to offend someone with your words.

00:32:56.720 And he really believes that.

00:33:00.320 Uh, quote, I said, when a woman is pregnant, 0.96

00:33:03.080 which implies that only women can get pregnant, 1.00

00:33:05.300 and I most sincerely apologize to all of you.

00:33:09.260 It wasn't the first time that Lauren had heard an instructor apologize for using language that,

00:33:13.040 to most Americans, would seem utterly inoffensive.

00:33:15.500 Words like male and female.

00:33:18.160 Why would medical school professors apologize for referring to a patient's biological sex?

00:33:21.840 Because, Lauren explains, in the context of her medical school,

00:33:25.820 acknowledging biological sex can be considered transphobic.

00:33:29.980 When sex is acknowledged by our instructors,

00:33:32.020 it's sometimes portrayed as a social construct, not a biological reality.

00:33:36.220 Uh, in a lecture on transgender health,

00:33:40.080 an instructor declared,

00:33:41.560 biological sex, sexual orientation, and gender are all constructs.

00:33:45.880 These are all constructs that we have created.

00:33:49.520 I can't read, it's worth going, uh,

00:33:51.780 to Barry Weiss's Substack, finding that, and reading the whole report.

00:33:54.280 It is, this is bone-chilling stuff.

00:33:56.340 Not surprising.

00:33:57.380 We knew it was going to get to this.

00:33:58.580 Gender theory had made its inroads into grade school, 1.00

00:34:03.240 um, you know, into undergraduate courses,

00:34:07.580 and it was only a matter of time before it would fully intrude into medical school.

00:34:15.460 Of course, the problem, it's a pretty significant one,

00:34:18.080 is that you cannot do medicine if you don't recognize biological reality.

00:34:23.540 That is the foundation of medicine,

00:34:25.700 medicine is human biology and understanding human biology.

00:34:30.240 You cannot be a doctor who doesn't understand human biology

00:34:33.140 because this is what you're working with.

00:34:35.580 This is what you're trying to treat.

00:34:38.660 So if you don't understand it or are not going to allow yourself to acknowledge it,

00:34:44.740 then medicine ceases to exist.

00:34:50.140 We also know that this was,

00:34:51.700 this was inevitable.

00:34:53.160 This, uh, we were always going to get to this point, you know,

00:34:58.000 once we allowed this artificial bifurcation of sex and gender, 0.95

00:35:06.000 gender up until the 1950s and 1960s,

00:35:12.240 nobody talked about human beings having a gender.

00:35:15.540 There was no need for the term.

00:35:16.760 There still is no need for it.

00:35:18.700 We don't need to talk about that. 0.72

00:35:20.620 You have a sex and that's what you have. 0.91

00:35:22.040 There's no need for it to go any further than that.

00:35:26.880 And we have the words masculinity and femininity to talk about the way that, 0.84

00:35:31.780 uh, that, that men and women typically act and the way that they interact with the world.

00:35:35.580 So we already have those terms.

00:35:36.680 And if you had a man who acts in a more feminine way, 0.89

00:35:42.820 then you could just say that you don't need to talk about, well, his gender,

00:35:46.220 he's, his sex is male, 0.50

00:35:47.540 but his gender is female because he acts in a feminine way.

00:35:50.880 Adding this extra label into it only confuses matters by intentionally.

00:35:54.640 But the gender theory proponents,

00:35:58.020 the gender theory cultists really for decades after introducing,

00:36:02.380 after taking gender from the realm of, 0.56

00:36:04.320 of,

00:36:04.560 of language,

00:36:05.260 which is where it had been before words had gender.

00:36:09.620 Okay.

00:36:10.060 Obviously you can't talk about a word having a biological sex,

00:36:12.320 but a word can have gender,

00:36:13.800 gendered language,

00:36:14.920 which is now offensive.

00:36:17.320 So he took that out of the realm of language,

00:36:20.200 started applying it to people.

00:36:21.480 And for decades we were told that's two different things.

00:36:26.260 You have your biological sex and you have your gender.

00:36:31.260 Lots of people went along with that.

00:36:33.560 That became a kind of this,

00:36:34.920 this mainstream understanding that people had,

00:36:37.040 even though it really didn't make any sense.

00:36:39.820 And now what we're watching over the last couple of years,

00:36:42.260 and it is a very significant development.

00:36:45.000 And it was also entirely inevitable.

00:36:47.140 It was always going to go this way.

00:36:48.680 We're watching that distinction once again,

00:36:50.860 collapse.

00:36:54.580 Now it's just,

00:36:55.560 it's the same thing.

00:36:56.700 Sex and gender once again, 1.00

00:36:57.740 are the same thing.

00:37:00.960 Except that now,

00:37:02.960 really when we talk about the distinction being collapsed,

00:37:05.020 we've just erased biological sex.

00:37:07.120 And now there is only gender. 0.83

00:37:08.820 And you can use sex to refer to gender,

00:37:11.360 but that's all that really is that all there is,

00:37:12.980 is the human construct.

00:37:17.120 Something to keep in mind,

00:37:18.180 you know,

00:37:18.660 going forward,

00:37:19.620 when you go to the doctor might want to do a quick quiz before deciding who

00:37:23.580 your primary care physician is going to be.

00:37:26.340 This might be an important thing to do.

00:37:30.140 You know,

00:37:30.560 they'll,

00:37:31.060 they'll do a checkup with you.

00:37:32.380 They'll do a kind of a preliminary physical.

00:37:34.400 Well,

00:37:34.720 you might want to do a preliminary checkup with them and ask them a few

00:37:38.480 questions like,

00:37:39.280 Hey,

00:37:39.540 Hey doc,

00:37:40.060 by the way,

00:37:40.480 can a,

00:37:40.880 can a man get pregnant? 0.98

00:37:42.900 If they say yes to that,

00:37:44.060 they say anything,

00:37:44.800 but no,

00:37:45.500 go find another doctor.

00:37:48.280 All right.

00:37:48.900 Finally,

00:37:49.180 before we get to reading the comments,

00:37:50.420 as we've been talking about,

00:37:51.880 you know,

00:37:52.360 how cowardice is being repackaged as courage,

00:37:54.700 here's another great example.

00:37:55.640 Also from this week,

00:37:56.580 as you know,

00:37:57.520 the Cleveland Indians got,

00:37:58.940 got rid of their name because it's offensive,

00:38:01.480 even though it's very much not offensive at all.

00:38:03.600 And now,

00:38:04.600 now they put out a PSA or a promo video voiced by Tom Hanks,

00:38:09.560 trying to sell this change,

00:38:12.020 trying to sell their new image as the Cleveland guardians.

00:38:15.300 And really it's,

00:38:16.320 it's heroic and inspiring how they've given up on the name that they had for a

00:38:20.220 century.

00:38:20.680 Let's listen to that.

00:38:21.540 And now it's time to unite as one family,

00:38:26.080 one community to build the next era for this team and this city to keep

00:38:31.640 watch and guard what makes this game the greatest to come together and

00:38:36.240 welcome all who want to join us.

00:38:38.620 We are loyal and proud and resilient.

00:38:41.880 We protect what we've earned and always defend it together.

00:38:46.400 We stand with all who understand what it means to be born and built from the

00:38:50.700 land.

00:38:51.540 Because this is the city we love and the game we believe in.

00:38:56.360 And together we are all Cleveland guardians.

00:39:03.200 We are,

00:39:04.240 we are loyal,

00:39:06.200 proud.

00:39:07.780 Uh,

00:39:08.340 we defend ourselves.

00:39:09.360 We defend who we are.

00:39:10.900 No,

00:39:11.160 that's,

00:39:11.360 that's the exact opposite of what you did.

00:39:13.480 You,

00:39:14.120 you apologized for who you were and you changed because people were mad.

00:39:18.800 And it just admit that it's kind of,

00:39:25.700 it's the same thing with Simone Biles trying to repackage cowardice, 0.99

00:39:30.600 giving up,

00:39:31.920 caving as some side of some sort of inspiring and,

00:39:36.180 you know,

00:39:36.640 courageous act.

00:39:37.600 Don't,

00:39:37.840 don't,

00:39:37.980 don't give me that.

00:39:40.380 You can just say,

00:39:41.140 we all,

00:39:41.420 we all know what you did.

00:39:43.840 People were mad.

00:39:46.100 And,

00:39:46.460 uh,

00:39:46.560 you don't want people to be mad at you.

00:39:47.600 So you changed the name,

00:39:48.640 even though,

00:39:48.940 even though there's nothing wrong with it.

00:39:50.980 That's it.

00:39:52.260 I'm not going to say I would,

00:39:53.460 I respect that move,

00:39:55.040 but I'd at least respect the honesty.

00:39:57.860 All right,

00:39:58.260 let's move now to reading the YouTube comments.

00:40:01.120 This is from a user also named Matt said Matt's entire demeanor.

00:40:04.660 Even his voice changes when he starts yelling.

00:40:07.200 If he was my dad,

00:40:08.300 I'd be terrified of him because I would just assume there's a different person

00:40:11.820 who isn't my father that comes out when he's mad.

00:40:15.500 But doesn't everyone's voice and demeanor change when they yell?

00:40:18.740 Isn't that a pretty common thing for yelling?

00:40:20.820 How would you yell if your voice didn't change at all?

00:40:23.380 Not quite sure.

00:40:24.420 I understand that.

00:40:25.780 Uh, 0.99

00:40:26.060 Mike says been a self-absorbed coward all my life. 0.99

00:40:29.040 Finally, 0.99

00:40:29.440 it's cool.

00:40:30.480 Well,

00:40:31.080 congratulations.

00:40:32.740 And you joke.

00:40:33.780 Well,

00:40:33.880 maybe you're joking.

00:40:34.500 I don't know if you are or not,

00:40:35.240 but that is actually what's happening here.

00:40:38.700 It's a very self-serving thing.

00:40:41.280 Uh,

00:40:41.640 we talked about this on the backstage last night that the people who are

00:40:46.380 defending Simone Biles and,

00:40:48.780 um,

00:40:49.160 not just saying,

00:40:51.260 Oh,

00:40:51.360 we should be understanding of her quitting,

00:40:53.300 but saying it's actually courageous because she's protecting her mental

00:40:57.280 health and she's living her truth and all this stuff.

00:41:00.440 She's looking out for herself,

00:41:01.880 putting herself before her team in her country.

00:41:04.120 the people who are doing that is a very,

00:41:06.980 there's a very self-serving reason for it because if now it is,

00:41:11.620 if it's courageous for Simone Biles to quit when it's hard to put her mental

00:41:18.060 wellbeing above everybody else,

00:41:19.940 and that means it's courageous when I do it too.

00:41:22.820 And I can do that because that's very easy.

00:41:27.120 You know,

00:41:27.640 to say that,

00:41:28.380 uh,

00:41:28.600 it's courageous for an Olympic athlete to not cave under the pressure,

00:41:35.560 but to,

00:41:36.160 to,

00:41:36.460 to,

00:41:36.740 to,

00:41:36.760 to,

00:41:37.060 uh,

00:41:37.340 keep trying in spite of it and to persevere and push forward.

00:41:45.420 If I say that that's courageous and admirable and it is,

00:41:48.080 well,

00:41:49.380 that is something that I can't do.

00:41:52.040 And so I'm admiring someone for something that,

00:41:54.320 that,

00:41:54.540 uh,

00:41:54.720 I'm not an Olympic athlete.

00:41:55.700 I can't be one.

00:41:57.180 I can never pull that off.

00:41:58.260 So I'm admiring someone for doing something that I can't do and admiring

00:42:02.400 someone for doing something you can't do.

00:42:03.700 There's,

00:42:03.920 there has to be a certain element of humility in that,

00:42:05.860 but admiring someone for doing something that you do all the time,

00:42:11.800 there's no humility.

00:42:13.940 It's very self-serving.

00:42:15.100 And,

00:42:15.420 uh,

00:42:15.560 I think that that's what a lot of this is about.

00:42:19.200 Um,

00:42:19.780 Michael says,

00:42:20.460 Matt,

00:42:20.700 you should,

00:42:21.180 have a series where you respond to other conservatives calling you out.

00:42:24.720 It would be very entertaining.

00:42:25.820 For example,

00:42:26.280 the amazing Lucas,

00:42:27.480 who is hardly amazing,

00:42:28.720 recently posted a video about the Olympic subject,

00:42:30.680 calling you out by name.

00:42:32.280 I have no idea who that is.

00:42:35.320 The amazing Lucas is what he actually calls himself.

00:42:37.260 Is he a magician?

00:42:40.060 Um,

00:42:41.840 Garf says,

00:42:42.560 I want to call my boss and tell him that I'm going to be radically courageous.

00:42:47.320 Well,

00:42:48.340 you can now.

00:42:49.220 And he has to respect you,

00:42:50.600 you're living your truth.

00:42:52.060 Um,

00:42:52.500 the conservative midwife says, 0.91

00:42:53.940 no one had called them.

00:42:55.360 Speaking of the,

00:42:55.980 uh,

00:42:56.160 officer done,

00:42:56.820 the officer who said that he was called the N word by the capital,

00:43:00.220 by the capital writers said,

00:43:02.620 no one had called them the N word in their whole careers.

00:43:04.940 Not even after 45 years,

00:43:07.000 yet suddenly that,

00:43:07.980 that specific day,

00:43:09.180 multiple people did it several times.

00:43:11.860 He had an entire crowd of people.

00:43:14.320 And I noticed that too.

00:43:15.580 And his,

00:43:16.000 the claims that he made before Congress,

00:43:17.960 he said he went his whole career as a,

00:43:21.680 as a black police officer had never been,

00:43:23.700 been called the N word before,

00:43:24.860 which is great.

00:43:25.440 And then you have whole crowds of people doing it.

00:43:30.200 And none of it's on video.

00:43:33.000 Hmm.

00:43:34.580 And,

00:43:35.020 uh,

00:43:35.560 Robert says,

00:43:36.480 Matt,

00:43:36.760 in the 22 years of our marriage,

00:43:38.340 my wife has caught me crying just once.

00:43:40.980 It was the ending of Oh Yeller.

00:43:42.840 I'm there.

00:43:47.060 There are movies.

00:43:47.900 I said,

00:43:48.180 Rudy yesterday,

00:43:48.840 the end of Rudy,

00:43:49.460 when he goes out there,

00:43:51.180 he's finally living his dreams.

00:43:52.880 He's he's,

00:43:53.480 he has persevered through everything and he,

00:43:55.780 and he makes it out there and he makes a tackle.

00:43:58.200 You know,

00:43:58.720 it's a,

00:43:58.980 it's a meaningless game.

00:43:59.960 It doesn't matter,

00:44:00.520 but it,

00:44:00.940 but it means so much to him.

00:44:02.360 You can cry for that,

00:44:03.660 that,

00:44:03.920 that I think a few dignified manly tears.

00:44:07.140 There are a couple other movies that I would throw into that too.

00:44:10.420 Not Oh Yeller though.

00:44:12.840 Like a dog.

00:44:14.660 I can't,

00:44:15.420 I can't give you a pass on that.

00:44:17.660 And Joshua says,

00:44:18.880 Matt's comments on what it means to truly be a man.

00:44:21.280 We're so beautiful that it made me cry.

00:44:23.520 Well,

00:44:23.660 there you go.

00:44:24.320 There is another exception that certainly I think we can all agree is an

00:44:29.140 exception.

00:44:30.120 If you were moved to,

00:44:31.140 and I will say this.

00:44:32.080 In fact,

00:44:32.300 it's important for me to say this right now.

00:44:35.100 If you're a man listening to this show and you're moved to tears of,

00:44:40.880 of,

00:44:41.240 of joy and inspiration,

00:44:42.660 by anything that I say,

00:44:43.820 that is perfectly okay.

00:44:47.160 I know that my words are that powerful and I would never judge you for it. 0.93

00:44:53.300 You absolute pansy. 0.99

00:44:55.420 You may have heard us mention a time or two that Ben Shapiro's new book,

00:44:59.440 the authoritarian moment has finally hit shelves.

00:45:01.660 And it's time to read up on some truth.

00:45:03.520 Ben's book couldn't have been written at a time more important in our country's

00:45:07.120 history.

00:45:07.380 As the left increases their iron grip on our institutions,

00:45:10.920 entertainment,

00:45:11.620 media,

00:45:11.980 education,

00:45:12.460 everything else.

00:45:12.900 Our country becomes further divided and more susceptible to authoritarian

00:45:15.700 control.

00:45:16.120 For example,

00:45:16.940 the CDC's guidance on masks and vaccines,

00:45:18.980 as we have talked about,

00:45:20.460 it's just another example of the authoritarianism that we're witnessing today.

00:45:23.860 The authoritarian moment is all about all of that.

00:45:26.200 It gives you all the tools you need,

00:45:27.700 not only to understand what's happening,

00:45:29.080 but to respond to it as well.

00:45:30.400 And it's now available at Amazon,

00:45:32.020 Barnes and Noble,

00:45:32.420 or any other major bookseller.

00:45:33.700 So you can get your copy today.

00:45:35.180 You can also pick up an autographed copy for just 30 bucks at dailywire.com slash Ben,

00:45:39.000 and leave a five-star review to help amplify conservative voices.

00:45:44.060 Speaking of conservative voices,

00:45:46.360 it seems we can't go a day without fresh,

00:45:48.600 terrible news about how our authoritarian overlords are attempting to squeeze Americans

00:45:52.220 of every last bit of our freedom,

00:45:54.460 which is why I think it's important that I actually provide some good news for you right now.

00:45:58.700 If you've ever thought that it'd be cool to travel on the Daily Wire's dime to the Nashville studios

00:46:04.480 to smoke a cigar with the hosts,

00:46:05.900 then you just might be in luck.

00:46:08.320 Because if you're not a member yet,

00:46:09.700 this is your chance.

00:46:10.480 Head to dailywire.com slash subscribe and use code backstage

00:46:13.140 to get 25% off your new membership

00:46:14.600 and be automatically entered to win two tickets to lounge with the Daily Wire Legends.

00:46:19.700 Oh, we've been promoted.

00:46:21.060 We're Daily Wire Legends now backstage.

00:46:23.120 And that's not all.

00:46:23.960 You get to take home signed copies of Michael and Ben's newest books.

00:46:29.660 And Matt's book.

00:46:31.580 No, it's not on here.

00:46:32.200 Okay, you don't get my book.

00:46:33.400 It doesn't count.

00:46:34.400 If none of that entices you,

00:46:35.640 just remember,

00:46:36.360 you, unlike most people,

00:46:37.620 will get to meet me as well.

00:46:40.160 But you won't get my book.

00:46:41.780 So head to dailywire.com slash subscribe with code backstage

00:46:44.560 to get 25% off your membership

00:46:45.800 and a chance to win the ultimate backstage experience.

00:46:48.860 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:46:54.140 Today we'll be canceling the internet rage mob

00:46:56.520 that has been coming after me for the past two days.

00:46:59.060 The rage mob has, once again,

00:47:00.200 really taught me a lesson by causing my name to trend nationally on Twitter.

00:47:05.580 I have to say, as a media personality and podcast host,

00:47:08.660 there is nothing worse than nationwide attention.

00:47:12.900 That's why I begged the outraged masses to stop giving me traffic.

00:47:16.940 I pleaded with them.

00:47:17.620 I said, no, no, please don't.

00:47:19.600 Please don't make me into one of the top subjects of conversation on social media.

00:47:22.720 That is the last thing I want.

00:47:24.040 Please, please stop talking about me.

00:47:27.420 But they didn't listen.

00:47:29.360 And so tragically,

00:47:30.120 I was forced to gain many new podcasts and newsletter subscribers

00:47:33.840 and Twitter followers.

00:47:35.680 By the way, you can subscribe to my newsletter,

00:47:37.500 mattwalshreport.com.

00:47:39.260 My enemies have completely owned and destroyed me

00:47:41.960 by giving me publicity.

00:47:45.680 It's not the first time that they've done that,

00:47:47.840 and I fear that it may not be the last.

00:47:49.920 The source of the outrage has been, so far as I could tell,

00:47:52.520 my tweets on two of the subjects we discussed on this show yesterday.

00:47:55.340 One of those subjects is, of course, Simone Biles.

00:47:57.800 Many thousands of people have eagerly informed me 0.99

00:47:59.920 that I am a horrendous monster, a bigot, a racist, a sexist, 1.00

00:48:02.720 an ugly loser, an idiot, among other things, 1.00

00:48:05.020 for failing to applaud Biles for her courage in quitting on her team 1.00

00:48:08.280 and her country.

00:48:09.380 One person after another, including lots of people in media,

00:48:11.580 Hollywood, the sports world, and so on, 1.00

00:48:13.200 lined up to let me know how wrong and stupid I am. 1.00

00:48:16.320 And most of them especially took issue with a comparison 0.99

00:48:18.700 that I drew to Michael Jordan,

00:48:20.120 where I pointed out that Jordan would never have quit

00:48:24.800 in the middle of a game in the playoffs

00:48:26.720 in order to protect his emotional and mental well-being.

00:48:29.460 He never would have done that.

00:48:31.860 Famously, he was horribly sick with the flu,

00:48:35.520 and he still went out and played.

00:48:36.400 Now, I've been told many times over 0.98

00:48:40.620 that this is a stupid analogy because Michael Jordan did quit. 0.99

00:48:45.200 He left the game in his prime and played baseball 0.99

00:48:47.400 and then went back to basketball.

00:48:49.460 Aha! You see? It's the same thing.

00:48:51.160 How much of a moron can I be? 1.00

00:48:53.120 I have been dunked on. They got me. 1.00

00:48:55.100 How will I recover?

00:48:56.380 What can I possibly say in response to that?

00:48:59.940 Well, there is one thing I could say.

00:49:01.220 I could point out that Michael Jordan didn't leave the game of basketball

00:49:05.480 during a game of basketball.

00:49:08.840 That's not what we mean when we say he left the game.

00:49:12.860 Jordan, in fact, waited until the offseason,

00:49:15.560 and that's when he retired.

00:49:17.600 The offseason is not the same as during the season,

00:49:21.440 much less during a game.

00:49:23.500 Offseason as opposed to in-season.

00:49:27.100 You see the difference?

00:49:29.240 Outrage mob, do you?

00:49:31.040 I'm speaking slowly and using small words

00:49:34.580 because I want to help you.

00:49:37.900 Off versus in.

00:49:41.740 Does that distinction register at all?

00:49:44.320 You see, I'm not claiming

00:49:46.020 that no athlete should ever retire from a sport.

00:49:50.040 I'm not over here castigating Terry Bradshaw

00:49:52.860 because he isn't still playing quarterback for the Steelers

00:49:54.900 at the age of 72.

00:49:56.800 I am aware that athletes at a certain point

00:49:59.600 will stop being athletes.

00:50:01.320 It's just like, you might notice,

00:50:02.940 I am not currently playing checkers,

00:50:05.240 though I have played checkers in the past.

00:50:07.320 I have played checkers,

00:50:09.360 and then I have stopped playing checkers,

00:50:11.660 but I stop playing it after the game is over.

00:50:15.980 I stop playing after the game is over.

00:50:18.320 And that means you can't call me a quitter.

00:50:21.240 If I stop playing during the game,

00:50:23.060 then I am a quitter.

00:50:25.420 Athletes who decide to stop playing

00:50:26.860 in the middle of a competition

00:50:28.020 are quitters by definition.

00:50:29.880 Athletes who stop playing after a competition

00:50:31.940 are retired.

00:50:34.240 I'm not sure how to explain this

00:50:35.740 if you're still confused.

00:50:37.180 Perhaps maybe draw pictures.

00:50:39.060 I could make my point

00:50:40.160 through some sort of interpretive dance.

00:50:43.700 I just don't know how to make this

00:50:44.960 any clearer or simpler.

00:50:47.120 Hopefully that'll be enough.

00:50:48.320 But the outrage directed towards me

00:50:50.320 over my Simone Biles opinions

00:50:51.680 has paled in comparison

00:50:52.960 to the fury that has greeted my position

00:50:55.120 on the subject of men crying.

00:50:58.320 As I mentioned yesterday,

00:50:59.620 I tweeted that men should not cry in public

00:51:01.320 because it's dishonorable and unmanly.

00:51:03.640 Though I allow for certain exceptions,

00:51:05.300 which I have outlined in further detail in the past.

00:51:08.300 Perhaps I should publish an official list,

00:51:10.440 you know, with an index and a glossary

00:51:12.020 and a bibliography and everything,

00:51:13.260 so that any man, if he's considering crying,

00:51:14.880 can quickly consult the rule book

00:51:16.160 and find out if his upcoming sobbing fit

00:51:18.640 meets the requirements.

00:51:20.240 You know, is this going to be sanctioned crying or not?

00:51:23.900 But that's a project for another day.

00:51:25.500 For now, I can tell you that people have been

00:51:27.120 very, very, very upset about this.

00:51:31.200 Ironically, thousands of men have cried publicly

00:51:34.000 over the fact that I said

00:51:35.160 they shouldn't cry publicly.

00:51:37.520 There have also been some unexpected voices

00:51:39.460 chiming in to castigate me,

00:51:40.980 including one of the guys from Blink-182,

00:51:43.200 which was funny.

00:51:44.980 And speaking of funny,

00:51:45.900 there have been lots of responses like this

00:51:47.640 from a guy named Andy Ostroy,

00:51:49.760 who described himself as a filmmaker

00:51:51.080 and a proud Democrat.

00:51:52.220 He said,

00:51:53.080 I cry, I cry often,

00:51:55.560 and I'm more man than you'll ever be.

00:51:58.660 Now, it's not often that you hear someone

00:52:00.460 unironically use the phrase,

00:52:02.380 I'm more man than you'll ever be.

00:52:04.220 And you certainly don't hear it said

00:52:05.820 right after the words,

00:52:07.200 I cry often.

00:52:09.180 But these are the kinds of landmarks,

00:52:10.820 like landmark occasions

00:52:11.680 that Twitter has made possible,

00:52:13.260 and we should be grateful for that.

00:52:14.800 I should note that some of these crying men

00:52:16.420 have made physical threats,

00:52:18.440 including a guy named Ronnie Ficaro,

00:52:21.340 some kind of musician.

00:52:23.300 And he said,

00:52:24.220 quote, 0.93

00:52:24.940 I don't know who the F you are, 0.71

00:52:26.440 but I don't like you at all. 1.00

00:52:27.560 Actually, I'd love to punch you 1.00

00:52:28.740 in your stupid little face 1.00

00:52:29.840 and make you cry, 1.00

00:52:30.900 you little b***h boy. 1.00

00:52:32.100 Toxic waste of space. 1.00

00:52:34.220 Immediately after writing that,

00:52:35.500 Ronnie deleted the tweet

00:52:37.400 and blocked me. 1.00

00:52:39.040 I'm going to punch you! 1.00

00:52:40.920 Runs away crying. 1.00

00:52:43.020 Now, I have to say,

00:52:43.640 I have never felt less threatened

00:52:45.080 by physical threats.

00:52:47.660 Look, it's easy to mock

00:52:50.020 and make fun of these people

00:52:51.140 and to point at them

00:52:53.700 and say,

00:52:54.160 ha ha, you're crying.

00:52:56.780 And frankly, it's a lot of fun.

00:52:59.180 And we should do that.

00:53:01.180 But what I'd really like to respond to

00:53:02.880 are the accusations

00:53:03.800 leveled repeatedly at me

00:53:04.940 over the past day or two.

00:53:06.160 that I only say things like this,

00:53:09.440 like it's dishonorable

00:53:10.740 for men to cry in public 0.99

00:53:11.900 because I'm trying to shock

00:53:13.600 and offend.

00:53:14.180 Someone actually called me

00:53:15.180 a shock tweeter,

00:53:16.700 which incidentally

00:53:17.700 is how I describe myself

00:53:18.720 on my resume.

00:53:20.080 Shock tweeter.

00:53:21.860 Is that true, though?

00:53:23.020 Do I say these sorts of things

00:53:24.120 merely to cause shock

00:53:25.420 and outrage and offense?

00:53:28.280 The answer is yes.

00:53:30.240 At least partly.

00:53:31.980 The first reason that I say

00:53:33.260 what I say is that it's true

00:53:34.340 and it's always worth

00:53:35.400 saying true things.

00:53:37.000 But I am aware

00:53:37.920 that a statement like the one

00:53:39.760 I made about crying in public

00:53:40.840 will provoke a reaction.

00:53:42.300 I know that.

00:53:43.420 I say it anyway,

00:53:44.740 not in spite of the reaction

00:53:46.320 it will cause,

00:53:47.120 but yes,

00:53:47.620 partly because of that reaction.

00:53:49.680 The point is not simply

00:53:50.700 to selfishly profit

00:53:52.160 off of the outrage mob's anger,

00:53:54.200 though that is one perk

00:53:55.360 that I quite enjoy.

00:53:56.600 The greater point

00:53:57.620 is that most of the things

00:53:58.960 I say,

00:53:59.400 including the idea

00:54:00.260 that men should usually 0.94

00:54:01.900 refrain from crying

00:54:02.900 in public.

00:54:04.320 That's all that is

00:54:05.320 really being said here.

00:54:06.720 Usually,

00:54:07.320 men should try

00:54:08.200 not to cry in public.

00:54:10.440 That's it.

00:54:12.120 These are completely

00:54:13.240 common sense,

00:54:14.980 completely unobjectionable

00:54:16.700 things.

00:54:17.620 The kinds of things

00:54:18.420 that if I had said

00:54:19.560 at any other point

00:54:20.380 in history,

00:54:20.880 in front of almost

00:54:21.460 any other audience,

00:54:22.700 anywhere,

00:54:23.660 people would have yawned

00:54:24.700 and said,

00:54:25.180 well, yeah,

00:54:25.800 what's your point?

00:54:26.380 It would have seemed

00:54:28.560 utterly obvious

00:54:29.480 to almost everyone

00:54:30.620 who has ever lived.

00:54:32.440 And yet now,

00:54:33.040 we're supposed to believe

00:54:33.780 that these obvious

00:54:34.740 common sense statements

00:54:35.820 are not only wrong,

00:54:37.540 but absurd,

00:54:38.620 outrageous,

00:54:39.460 insane.

00:54:40.200 I have actually been accused

00:54:41.560 of insanity,

00:54:42.940 literal insanity,

00:54:44.520 for saying that men

00:54:45.360 shouldn't go around

00:54:45.980 crying all the time.

00:54:48.120 We can think of many

00:54:49.160 other common sense statements

00:54:50.300 that provoke this kind

00:54:51.180 of reaction.

00:54:51.660 A statement like,

00:54:52.240 for example,

00:54:52.840 men can't get pregnant. 1.00

00:54:54.300 That will even shock

00:54:55.080 people in medical school now.

00:54:57.120 Or women are weaker 1.00

00:54:58.920 than men.

00:55:00.560 Plenty of other examples

00:55:01.700 come to mind.

00:55:02.780 It's not simply

00:55:03.740 that the mob

00:55:04.460 will disagree

00:55:05.160 with these claims now.

00:55:07.080 It's that they will

00:55:07.980 treat the claims

00:55:08.900 as outright lunacy.

00:55:11.200 They will react

00:55:12.260 to a man speaking

00:55:13.160 common sense

00:55:13.740 as if he is a 1.00

00:55:14.420 raving maniac. 0.98

00:55:16.860 And this tactic

00:55:18.120 is extremely effective.

00:55:19.760 Because after a while,

00:55:21.040 if you're not careful,

00:55:22.920 you're going to be

00:55:23.580 browbeat into thinking,

00:55:24.960 well,

00:55:25.160 if everyone thinks

00:55:26.000 that the idea

00:55:26.680 is that offensive,

00:55:27.660 I must be wrong.

00:55:30.340 But you're not wrong.

00:55:32.240 You have not only

00:55:33.600 rationality and logic

00:55:34.880 on your side

00:55:35.500 and common sense,

00:55:36.480 but the near universal

00:55:37.820 consensus

00:55:38.420 of all mankind

00:55:39.640 until about 12 seconds ago.

00:55:42.660 Only now,

00:55:44.180 you know,

00:55:44.800 is it that you're

00:55:46.460 not supposed to say

00:55:47.000 those things anymore.

00:55:49.040 And that's exactly

00:55:50.180 why I say them.

00:55:50.980 the more that people

00:55:53.700 scream and cry 0.80

00:55:55.760 in the face of

00:55:56.440 normal,

00:55:57.020 inoffensive statements,

00:55:58.000 the more I will say them.

00:56:00.980 The more we should

00:56:01.940 all say them.

00:56:03.860 Simply out of principle.

00:56:06.640 And because it's true.

00:56:07.900 And because it's funny

00:56:11.180 to see you so mad.

00:56:14.480 So,

00:56:14.960 to the outraged mob

00:56:15.760 today,

00:56:16.340 I must say,

00:56:17.720 you are canceled.

00:56:19.200 And please stop crying.

00:56:20.720 You're embarrassing me.

00:56:22.840 That'll do it for today.

00:56:24.040 Thanks for watching.

00:56:24.780 Thanks for listening.

00:56:26.100 Have a great day.

00:56:26.960 Godspeed.

00:56:27.300 Well,

00:56:27.920 if you enjoyed this episode,

00:56:33.840 don't forget to subscribe.

00:56:34.980 And if you want to help

00:56:35.680 spread the word,

00:56:36.400 please give us a five-star review.

00:56:38.280 Also,

00:56:38.580 tell your friends

00:56:39.080 to subscribe as well.

00:56:40.380 We're available on Apple Podcasts,

00:56:41.980 Spotify,

00:56:42.600 wherever you listen to podcasts.

00:56:43.940 We're there.

00:56:44.420 Also,

00:56:44.700 be sure to check out

00:56:45.420 the other Daily Wire podcasts,

00:56:46.640 including the Ben Shapiro show,

00:56:48.060 Michael Knowles show,

00:56:49.000 the Andrew Klavan show.

00:56:50.080 Thanks for listening.

00:56:51.420 The Matt Walsh show

00:56:52.060 is produced by Sean Hampton,

00:56:53.920 executive producer,

00:56:54.740 Jeremy Boring.

00:56:55.880 Our supervising producer

00:56:56.980 is Matt Walsh.

00:56:57.280 Our technical director

00:56:59.380 is Austin Stevens.

00:57:00.920 Production manager,

00:57:01.700 Pavel Vodosky.

00:57:03.120 The show is edited

00:57:03.760 by Sasha Tolmachov.

00:57:05.520 Our audio is mixed

00:57:06.320 by Mike Coromina.

00:57:07.860 Hair and makeup

00:57:08.260 is done by Nika Geneva.

00:57:09.800 And our production coordinator

00:57:10.840 is McKenna Waters.

00:57:12.400 The Matt Walsh show

00:57:12.940 is a Daily Wire production,

00:57:13.960 copyright Daily Wire 2021.

00:57:16.240 John Vickley here,

00:57:17.640 editor-in-chief of Daily Wire.

00:57:19.180 Wake up every morning

00:57:20.040 with our new show,

00:57:21.280 Morning Wire.

00:57:22.080 On today's show,

00:57:23.100 the Biden administration

00:57:23.840 moves to impose

00:57:24.900 federal vaccine mandates,

00:57:26.380 Canadian church

00:57:27.280 searches are targeted

00:57:27.940 by arsonists,

00:57:29.180 and the Supreme Court agrees

00:57:30.360 to hear a case

00:57:31.120 that could impact Roe v. Wade.

00:57:33.200 Join us and get the facts

00:57:34.560 first on the news

00:57:35.540 you need to know

00:57:36.320 with our show,

00:57:37.280 Morning Wire.

00:57:37.740 and what

00:57:45.120 you need to know

00:57:46.840 you

00:57:47.120 and

00:57:47.640 you

00:57:48.020 you

00:57:48.740 and

00:57:49.960 sing

The Matt Walsh Show - July 29, 2021

Ep. 764 - Wear The Mask Forever, You Peasants

Episode Stats

Summary

Transcript