The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 765 - A Three Point Plan To Defeat COVID And Live Forever

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Wall Show, as mask mandates return and talk of lockdowns picks up, it's clear that no amount of COVID risk is acceptable.

00:00:07.900 With that in mind, I have come up with a three-phase plan to eliminate the COVID risk and ensure that all of us can live safely and happily forever.

00:00:16.200 And I will share that with you today.

00:00:17.360 Also, we have our five headlines, including the journalist who had her own proposal to make porn for kids.

00:00:23.520 Yes, really. Plus, Facebook gets ready to unveil glasses that will record everything we do.

00:00:28.860 Sounds fantastic. And a restaurant owner calls Chris Cuomo to task live on air.

00:00:33.240 We'll play the heartwarming clip for you.

00:00:34.820 And our daily cancellation, we'll deal with Chris Hayes from MSNBC, who made an argument for masking while vaccinated that is truly breathtaking in its stupidity.

00:00:43.320 And we'll talk about that and much more today on The Matt Wall Show.

00:00:45.720 This weekend, Washington, D.C. will become the latest locality to reinstate mask mandates for everyone in the city, regardless of vaccination status.

00:01:02.140 This move has been prompted by a rash of COVID deaths in the city.

00:01:06.100 And by rash of deaths, I mean two.

00:01:09.060 A total of two people have died of the virus in D.C. in the past two weeks.

00:01:14.560 Deaths and hospitalizations are down across the country, which is probably why we're hearing a lot.

00:01:18.820 We're hearing so much now about cases, but not so much about the people with those cases and how they're actually faring.

00:01:25.540 We hear about the cases, but then the question of, OK, well, how are those people doing?

00:01:29.880 The answer is almost all of them are doing OK.

00:01:34.740 Many have no symptoms at all or only mild symptoms.

00:01:37.800 And yet, even though vaccinated people are almost certainly not going to develop any serious complications from the virus if they somehow contract it,

00:01:45.340 the mortality rate for the vaccinated is a fraction of a percent.

00:01:48.300 And even though many millions of people have natural immunity from prior infection,

00:01:51.820 and even though a large portion of the unvaccinated slash non-immune are young people and children who have never been under any serious threat from the virus,

00:01:59.200 and even though deaths have dropped precipitously and have not risen precipitously, even as cases rise,

00:02:06.220 Americans all across the country are being told by the CDC to begin wearing masks again.

00:02:10.200 There's talk of a return to lockdowns in some parts of the country or perhaps everywhere.

00:02:14.040 In a press briefing yesterday, the White House was asked about this.

00:02:17.840 Are we going to go back to lockdowns?

00:02:19.360 And they certainly would not rule it out.

00:02:21.760 Let's listen to that.

00:02:23.060 President Biden says that we are not returning to lockdowns, shutdowns and school closures,

00:02:27.980 but he also once said that we didn't have to wear masks anymore once we were vaccinated.

00:02:32.300 So why should Americans trust him now?

00:02:35.360 Well, because we listen to the scientists.

00:02:37.540 We listen to the expert.

00:02:38.780 This is a public health situation.

00:02:40.660 This is not about politics at all.

00:02:42.300 This is about saving lives.

00:02:43.680 And this is what the president is all about.

00:02:45.460 He wants to make sure that we are saving lives.

00:02:48.120 If you look at Peter the last six months, that's what he's done every day.

00:02:52.120 And you see that in the numbers.

00:02:54.640 Now we're at a point where we have to double down and make it very, very clear to people

00:02:59.340 that we can't let the pandemic win.

00:03:03.000 We have to continue to fight.

00:03:04.480 So if you're listening to the science, if scientists come to you at some point down the line

00:03:08.640 and say it is our opinion that there should be shutdowns and there should be school closures,

00:03:13.400 you would do that?

00:03:14.000 Well, we listen to, like I said, we listen to the CDC and the expert and their guidance.

00:03:20.060 Our, you know, the CDC is a body that is very well respected.

00:03:24.740 And we follow, again, we follow their guidance.

00:03:28.680 Very well respected by who exactly?

00:03:30.780 Themselves?

00:03:32.680 But, hey, this is about saving lives.

00:03:36.100 Double down so that the pandemic doesn't win.

00:03:39.280 And the media has gone into full panic mode, which isn't to suggest that it ever left full

00:03:44.560 panic mode.

00:03:45.420 Last night, the term Ebola was trending on social media because of a Washington Post article

00:03:51.040 warning that the Delta variant is more contagious than Ebola.

00:03:55.940 Now, that's no doubt true, but then lots of things are more contagious than Ebola.

00:04:02.580 Ebola is, in fact, very difficult to spread as it requires you to have direct contact with

00:04:07.400 somebody's bodily fluids.

00:04:10.080 You may as well say that the Delta variant is more transmissible than cancer.

00:04:13.580 I mean, that would also be true, technically, but rather misleading.

00:04:17.920 Meanwhile, Don Lemon on CNN ranted wildly about all of the rights that must be immediately revoked

00:04:23.520 from the unvaccinated.

00:04:25.320 You have to have leaders start speaking the truth.

00:04:27.680 You have to have leaders.

00:04:29.080 The data will be more.

00:04:30.360 Yeah, of course, I said that is true.

00:04:31.740 But also, I mean, in addition to, you've got to have people start speaking the truth.

00:04:36.280 You can't have them speaking out of both sides of their mouth saying, yeah, well, I trust

00:04:39.480 the science and I'm doing this.

00:04:40.800 I heard you had Jerome Adams on and he's saying, talking about some right wing conservative

00:04:45.240 propaganda hosts who are saying, oh, yeah, no one really said get vaccine.

00:04:50.020 They said, I believe in the science and it's up to you to get it.

00:04:53.200 We can't have mealy mouth people like that. 1.00

00:04:55.640 You have to be more direct.

00:04:58.580 It's a more concerted effort to say get vaccinated because you're not just killing yourself.

00:05:03.920 You're going to kill other people.

00:05:05.800 That's what you have to start telling people.

00:05:07.680 You've got to start telling people if you don't get vaccinated, you can't come into this

00:05:11.440 office or this place of business.

00:05:13.300 If you don't get vaccinated, you can't come to work.

00:05:15.800 If you don't get vaccinated, you can't come into this gym.

00:05:18.860 If you don't get vaccinated, you can't come into this, get onto this airplane.

00:05:24.400 It has nothing to do with freedom.

00:05:26.740 There's nothing to do with liberty.

00:05:28.300 You don't have the freedom and the liberty to put other people in jeopardy.

00:05:32.460 You don't have the freedom to put other people in jeopardy.

00:05:38.300 That's interesting.

00:05:40.800 And that may seem extreme, what he just said there, but it pales in comparison to other

00:05:45.540 proposals that have been put forward.

00:05:48.380 Ian Millheiser, a reporter for Vox, urged Congress to raise the tax rates on the unvaccinated

00:05:54.200 to 99%.

00:05:55.500 In fairness, he probably thinks the tax rate on everybody else should be like 95%, but 99%.

00:06:01.640 And I suppose this would at least save them from the indignity of being kicked out of

00:06:04.780 restaurants and planes like Don Lemon wants, as they won't have enough money to do any

00:06:08.040 of that in the first place.

00:06:09.580 All in all, it's clear that no amount of COVID risk is tolerable.

00:06:15.000 Daily death rates are down so low that in many major American cities, they can be counted

00:06:19.180 on one hand.

00:06:20.080 And yet that is still too much to bear.

00:06:23.820 100,000 people can die of the flu in a given year.

00:06:26.820 That's 100,000 people.

00:06:28.400 That's 33 9-11s or 66 Titanics or 625 Oklahoma City bombings.

00:06:34.720 And nothing will be done about it.

00:06:36.860 No measures taken.

00:06:38.300 No public health policies put in place at all.

00:06:41.900 No masks.

00:06:43.240 No panic.

00:06:44.020 No, it's not just that with flu, there's less of that.

00:06:48.660 It's that there's none.

00:06:51.140 In fact, we don't even talk about it.

00:06:53.500 You could have 100,000 people die of the flu and you won't even hear about it.

00:06:57.140 You won't know that it's happening.

00:07:00.760 But for COVID, two deaths in a city in two weeks is too many.

00:07:06.560 The threat of COVID must be precisely zero or else we cannot return to our lives.

00:07:13.600 That clearly is the approach that our leaders are taking.

00:07:16.160 With that in mind, I would like to suggest a path forward.

00:07:21.180 If we cannot accept any risk at all, then it's time that we do everything that needs to be done.

00:07:28.620 So this right now, I think this is big news.

00:07:31.500 I am going to save the world right now on this show.

00:07:34.820 You weren't expecting that.

00:07:37.900 I've only saved the world a few times on this show.

00:07:39.960 This is another time.

00:07:41.740 So here's my three-phase plan to achieve our goal of zero COVID risk.

00:07:47.520 Here it is.

00:07:48.520 Phase one.

00:07:50.060 All unvaccinated people are loaded onto barges and set adrift in the sea. 1.00

00:07:54.660 Now, it's important that we respect their rights,

00:07:56.880 which means that they should be allowed to choose which ocean they're exiled into.

00:08:02.080 I will say that.

00:08:03.540 It doesn't really matter that much so long as the ships of the unclean remain a minimum of 55 miles offshore.

00:08:10.140 Anything less and a strong breeze might blow their virus fumes back to the mainland,

00:08:15.120 immediately killing thousands of people.

00:08:17.640 We have no reason to think that such a thing is possible,

00:08:20.060 but there haven't been any studies done to prove that it's not possible.

00:08:24.140 I think.

00:08:24.820 And even if studies have proven that it's not possible,

00:08:27.920 where are the studies proving that those studies are correct?

00:08:31.200 And if those studies have been done,

00:08:32.860 then where are the studies affirming what the studies about the studies have shown us?

00:08:38.920 Phase two.

00:08:40.680 All large gatherings are permanently banned, obviously.

00:08:44.700 Medium-sized gatherings also banned.

00:08:46.760 Small gatherings also banned.

00:08:49.860 All types of gatherings are nothing more than orgies of viral transmission.

00:08:54.580 There is no reason in the age of COVID why we should need to have any form of physical interaction with other human beings.

00:09:01.480 There is no need for such frivolities anyway, especially when we have the Internet.

00:09:05.540 Although, speaking of the Internet, virtual gatherings must be likewise prohibited.

00:09:11.560 We simply don't have enough data to conclusively prove that the virus can't infect you through Zoom.

00:09:16.100 And besides, Zoom carries other risks that are just as severe.

00:09:20.080 Jeffrey Toobin, etc.

00:09:22.260 Phase three.

00:09:23.860 The government constructs artificial cocoons, a la The Matrix,

00:09:27.820 where we can be comfortably and separately stored like packages of ground beef.

00:09:32.220 Now, here's the good news.

00:09:33.180 Our cocoons will be hermetically sealed, of course,

00:09:36.220 which means that we can squeeze thousands of them into one facility without worrying about viral spread.

00:09:43.080 And I think it will bring us great comfort to know that our loved ones have been stripped naked

00:09:48.700 and locked forever inside a dark robotic tomb right near us.

00:09:52.860 Of course, inside our individual pods, all of our necessary nutrients will be provided

00:09:57.700 through our government-issued umbilical cords for entertainment

00:10:01.160 and to stave off the creeping approach of madness.

00:10:03.580 Our brains can be plugged into a computer system, giving us access to an entire virtual world

00:10:08.400 where social distancing and masking will still be observed, of course.

00:10:12.540 Now, I understand that these proposals may seem drastic,

00:10:17.120 even insane.

00:10:19.560 But remember that the goal now is to avoid any and all risk, no matter how small.

00:10:27.200 That is the goal.

00:10:29.180 If the measures I've outlined here manage to save only one life,

00:10:33.100 then they are worth trying.

00:10:35.820 Always remember the great lesson of COVID,

00:10:38.540 that the only way to preserve our lives

00:10:41.640 is to stop living them.

00:10:43.840 And I think it's finally time to get serious about that.

00:10:48.420 We are all in this together.

00:10:51.340 Well, I mean, we'll be in separate pods, but together in our hearts.

00:10:56.080 And that's the most important thing.

00:10:58.600 Now let's get to our five headlines.

00:10:59.900 Well, the July and August heat is upon us,

00:11:09.480 but that does not mean that you should shave your beard.

00:11:13.020 That is no excuse, especially if you live, you know,

00:11:15.300 there's guys up north, you Yankees, shaving your beard.

00:11:18.900 I'm down here in the south.

00:11:20.760 It's 652 degrees.

00:11:22.820 I've still got this coat on my face

00:11:24.460 because there are some things that are more important than comfort.

00:11:27.580 But if you do have the beard, especially during the summer,

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00:12:12.840 All right.

00:12:13.200 I was grateful, by the way, to go.

00:12:17.300 I had a segment with Laura Ingraham on Fox News last night.

00:12:21.480 I don't know if you got a chance to watch it,

00:12:22.540 but if you didn't get a chance, you should go find that segment somewhere

00:12:24.660 and watch it because it was really important.

00:12:26.940 I was brought on to talk about the issue of men crying,

00:12:30.960 which has been a theme on this show this week,

00:12:33.400 something I've dealt with repeatedly.

00:12:35.500 And it's great that I'm always brought...

00:12:38.880 If I'm doing a cable news hit,

00:12:40.520 you know it's going to be the important issues.

00:12:42.480 That's what they bring me on for.

00:12:43.860 Abuela, men crying.

00:12:45.280 Like, that's...

00:12:46.300 There's something really important going on.

00:12:47.920 That's when they say,

00:12:48.460 we need to get Matt Walsh in here to talk about this.

00:12:50.080 And so I did appreciate that.

00:12:52.220 And it was, you know, I thought it was a worthwhile conversation.

00:12:56.700 Just on that note, I, you know,

00:12:58.720 you already know, I've talked about the tweet that I sent out

00:13:01.700 where I said,

00:13:02.140 men shouldn't cry, it's unmanly and undignified.

00:13:04.200 And that's what a lot of what has sparked this reaction from people.

00:13:06.980 And it hasn't stopped yet.

00:13:08.420 It has the outrage mob.

00:13:09.680 They have not usually...

00:13:11.800 Like, I've been through this many times

00:13:13.580 and I've got the mob coming after me on the internet.

00:13:16.140 And the reason I don't get upset about it,

00:13:18.840 like so many people do,

00:13:19.760 well, I'm used to it.

00:13:20.660 It's also funny and who cares what these people think.

00:13:23.580 But I also know

00:13:24.780 that the mob will...

00:13:28.100 Usually about 24 hours.

00:13:30.860 Like, if it really bothers you what they're saying,

00:13:32.820 which it shouldn't,

00:13:33.900 then put your phone down for a day.

00:13:36.100 And you go live your life

00:13:37.300 while all these people are obsessively messaging you,

00:13:40.420 I hate you so much.

00:13:41.580 And you don't...

00:13:42.140 Usually it's 24 hours.

00:13:43.460 This has been...

00:13:44.460 We're going on like three days

00:13:45.360 and they haven't let up.

00:13:47.000 And so many of the responses are just so funny.

00:13:49.680 I cannot recommend highly enough.

00:13:51.560 If you want to entertain yourself,

00:13:53.040 just put something out

00:13:54.600 on your own social media channels

00:13:55.680 about how men shouldn't cry

00:13:57.880 because the responses

00:13:58.820 are unintentionally hysterical.

00:14:01.200 I want to just share one more with you, okay?

00:14:02.840 This was someone last night

00:14:04.280 after my Fox News hit.

00:14:07.000 This is a woman

00:14:08.100 and here's what she said to me.

00:14:11.340 She said,

00:14:13.080 Widow baby can't handle your feelings 1.00

00:14:15.120 so you'll stuff them.

00:14:16.840 As a therapist,

00:14:17.540 I like to encourage people

00:14:18.560 to express their emotions

00:14:19.520 in a healthy way.

00:14:20.700 A man crying in public

00:14:21.660 means he's very sure of himself

00:14:22.920 and comfortable with his feelings.

00:14:24.300 What does that say about you?

00:14:25.880 I love everything about this.

00:14:27.640 Starting with widow baby. 0.97

00:14:30.880 Widow baby can't handle your feelings. 1.00

00:14:32.840 As a therapist,

00:14:33.740 I disagree with that.

00:14:35.380 You're a therapist

00:14:36.400 and that's how you talk

00:14:37.780 to people?

00:14:40.920 I would almost respect that.

00:14:42.600 I've never been to therapy.

00:14:44.340 A lot of people say

00:14:45.280 that I should probably go.

00:14:47.420 But I would really respect,

00:14:49.040 I guess,

00:14:49.660 a therapist

00:14:50.060 where you sit down

00:14:51.120 and you start

00:14:51.820 telling them all your problems

00:14:54.520 and your life story

00:14:55.260 and they go,

00:14:57.040 Oh, widow baby, 0.83

00:14:57.920 are you upset about that?

00:14:59.080 Your childhood trauma?

00:15:00.980 Widow baby,

00:15:01.580 you want some tissues?

00:15:02.420 So I thought

00:15:04.880 that was pretty great.

00:15:06.080 Although,

00:15:07.580 widow baby

00:15:08.200 can't handle the feelings

00:15:09.100 so you stuff them.

00:15:10.180 Are babies renowned

00:15:11.920 for stifling their emotions?

00:15:15.040 Is that what babies

00:15:15.900 are all about?

00:15:17.480 That hasn't been

00:15:17.940 my experience with babies.

00:15:20.080 Babies are very bad

00:15:21.660 at controlling their emotions

00:15:23.080 and cry constantly.

00:15:25.080 My whole point

00:15:26.020 is that men

00:15:26.720 should not be like babies.

00:15:28.380 That is my radical suggestion.

00:15:30.380 Okay.

00:15:32.420 So if you're looking

00:15:32.900 for a therapist,

00:15:35.120 maybe I'll try

00:15:36.940 to put you in touch

00:15:37.520 with this woman here.

00:15:39.320 So here's someone

00:15:40.120 who really does need therapy.

00:15:41.160 This is from the Daily Wire.

00:15:43.240 A British, 0.61

00:15:44.400 reading out,

00:15:45.080 a British fashion journalist

00:15:46.380 faced a storm

00:15:47.960 of outrage Thursday

00:15:48.820 after suggesting

00:15:49.660 that children

00:15:50.240 should be watching

00:15:50.980 entry-level pornography.

00:15:53.860 A contributor to GQ

00:15:55.040 and the Sunday Times

00:15:56.340 Style magazine,

00:15:57.380 she posted a Twitter quote,

00:15:59.180 Someone needs to create,

00:16:00.020 oh, there it is,

00:16:00.560 someone needs to create

00:16:01.320 porn for children.

00:16:03.180 Hear me out.

00:16:04.640 Young teens

00:16:05.160 are already watching porn,

00:16:06.380 but they're finding

00:16:06.800 hardcore aggressive videos

00:16:08.280 that give a terrible

00:16:09.440 view of sex.

00:16:10.720 They need entry-level porn,

00:16:12.680 a softcore site

00:16:13.700 where everyone asks

00:16:14.800 for consent

00:16:15.460 and no one gets choked,

00:16:17.300 et cetera.

00:16:19.140 Now, she put that out there 0.92

00:16:20.560 and then deleted it

00:16:23.280 within, I don't know,

00:16:24.300 within minutes maybe,

00:16:25.720 like an hour or time.

00:16:26.480 She deleted it

00:16:27.340 really quickly,

00:16:29.300 which shows

00:16:32.200 this is the bubble

00:16:34.200 that these people

00:16:35.880 are living in.

00:16:38.160 You know,

00:16:38.380 someone in the media,

00:16:39.400 a fashion journalist,

00:16:41.860 living, I assume,

00:16:42.740 in London or something,

00:16:43.860 and the bubble she's in,

00:16:46.600 the bubble of degeneracy

00:16:48.780 and decadence

00:16:49.600 that she's in,

00:16:51.260 she didn't know

00:16:53.120 that people would react

00:16:54.940 negatively to that.

00:16:57.520 And you know

00:16:58.200 she didn't expect it

00:16:58.920 because she deleted it

00:16:59.680 right away.

00:17:02.260 You know,

00:17:02.720 if somebody says

00:17:03.320 something controversial

00:17:05.380 and then leaves it up there,

00:17:08.940 it still might be

00:17:10.160 grotesque and outrageous

00:17:11.140 and evil and insane 0.64

00:17:12.260 like this,

00:17:13.080 but at least you know

00:17:15.020 that they knew

00:17:16.220 it was going to be

00:17:17.120 controversial

00:17:17.600 and they were prepared

00:17:18.860 for that.

00:17:19.200 They knew what they were

00:17:20.400 getting into.

00:17:21.000 They leave it up there.

00:17:21.760 Hey, it is what it is.

00:17:23.860 They take it down

00:17:24.740 right away

00:17:25.220 and that tells you

00:17:25.980 that they didn't think

00:17:26.880 that this was going

00:17:27.480 to be a problem.

00:17:30.060 She didn't think.

00:17:31.300 The circles that she runs in,

00:17:33.720 she thought that,

00:17:34.320 oh yeah,

00:17:34.560 entry-level porn for kids.

00:17:35.740 What's the big deal?

00:17:37.420 What?

00:17:37.760 Oh, you guys,

00:17:38.480 you guys have a problem

00:17:39.120 with that?

00:17:39.820 I had no idea.

00:17:42.840 And later she kind of

00:17:43.840 backtracked

00:17:44.580 and she was saying,

00:17:45.240 oh, it's all about consent.

00:17:46.400 I didn't mean to

00:17:47.340 insinuate this and that.

00:17:50.160 She also clarified

00:17:51.160 this was supposed

00:17:51.640 to make it better.

00:17:52.660 Oh, by children,

00:17:53.420 I mean just people

00:17:54.660 under 18.

00:17:55.480 So, you know,

00:17:56.060 14, 15, 16.

00:17:57.540 Oh, okay.

00:17:57.960 Well, that makes it

00:17:58.380 a lot better.

00:18:00.020 But if you look even

00:18:00.780 at her,

00:18:01.780 what she was saying

00:18:02.440 after the fact,

00:18:03.040 trying to justify it

00:18:03.860 after she deleted it,

00:18:06.040 there were plenty

00:18:06.900 of people,

00:18:07.880 many of them kind of

00:18:08.780 like in her orbit,

00:18:09.620 you could tell,

00:18:10.460 journalists,

00:18:10.980 media people,

00:18:12.160 defending her 0.97

00:18:13.100 and saying they think

00:18:14.340 it sounds like a good

00:18:14.900 idea also.

00:18:16.720 Or at least they know

00:18:17.920 what she was getting at

00:18:18.780 and, you know,

00:18:19.240 it doesn't offend them.

00:18:20.000 Of course,

00:18:22.860 it is offensive.

00:18:24.040 There are things,

00:18:24.980 the word offensive,

00:18:25.880 you know,

00:18:26.120 is way overused.

00:18:27.200 People are offended

00:18:27.680 by way too many things.

00:18:28.460 There are things

00:18:29.120 that are legitimately

00:18:30.240 offensive.

00:18:31.780 Proposing porn

00:18:32.540 for children,

00:18:33.680 legitimately actually

00:18:34.400 offensive.

00:18:36.180 If you have a soul,

00:18:37.340 if you have any kind

00:18:38.100 of functioning

00:18:38.580 moral compass at all,

00:18:39.980 you're going to find

00:18:40.760 that offensive

00:18:41.280 and outrageous

00:18:41.780 and disgusting. 0.83

00:18:42.300 But I should also

00:18:45.360 note,

00:18:45.740 you know,

00:18:47.960 her proposal here,

00:18:50.040 as outrageous

00:18:50.720 and disgusting

00:18:51.360 and evil

00:18:51.960 and deranged

00:18:53.400 as it is,

00:18:55.040 it's not that far

00:18:57.100 from the view

00:18:58.400 of many people,

00:18:59.560 in fact.

00:19:00.960 It's not that far.

00:19:02.320 because

00:19:05.320 you probably

00:19:08.140 know my opinion

00:19:08.860 on the subject

00:19:10.080 of pornography

00:19:11.040 very much

00:19:11.480 in the anti-camp.

00:19:14.180 And

00:19:14.380 whenever I've

00:19:16.240 talked about this,

00:19:18.180 especially when you get

00:19:18.920 into the risks

00:19:19.600 it poses to children.

00:19:21.620 I mean,

00:19:21.800 I've proposed

00:19:22.460 in the past,

00:19:23.640 I propose

00:19:26.320 banning pornography

00:19:27.840 outright,

00:19:28.660 which I still believe

00:19:29.420 we should do.

00:19:30.360 Of course,

00:19:31.040 most people

00:19:31.660 very upset

00:19:32.720 at that notion.

00:19:33.540 Don't take my

00:19:34.080 pornography from me.

00:19:34.920 It's all I have

00:19:35.380 in my life

00:19:35.740 is the message

00:19:36.440 you get from

00:19:36.840 a lot of people.

00:19:38.320 But even if you

00:19:39.400 back up a little bit

00:19:42.100 and you say,

00:19:42.760 okay,

00:19:44.300 putting banning porn

00:19:45.180 to the side,

00:19:46.300 what about just

00:19:47.000 putting some measures

00:19:48.180 in place

00:19:48.640 to protect children

00:19:49.640 from it?

00:19:50.920 Some really

00:19:52.020 basic measures.

00:19:53.340 Not even anything

00:19:54.360 extreme.

00:19:56.120 I'm in favor

00:19:57.060 of the more

00:19:57.500 extreme measures,

00:19:59.260 but what if we're

00:20:00.260 not talking about that?

00:20:00.820 What if we're talking

00:20:01.140 about something really,

00:20:01.940 some real basic stuff?

00:20:04.460 For example,

00:20:06.680 requiring that

00:20:07.860 pornography sites

00:20:08.580 like Pornhub

00:20:09.540 verify ages

00:20:11.560 before allowing

00:20:13.260 people to

00:20:13.920 enter the site.

00:20:15.660 Yeah,

00:20:15.940 there are ways

00:20:16.320 around that.

00:20:17.020 It's not foolproof,

00:20:18.200 but it's definitely

00:20:19.240 better than nothing.

00:20:21.900 And there are

00:20:22.720 many different ways

00:20:23.780 that websites

00:20:25.000 can verify ages.

00:20:26.220 There are websites

00:20:26.900 now that will

00:20:27.640 actually do this

00:20:28.500 depending on

00:20:29.240 what kind of site

00:20:30.820 it is.

00:20:31.140 You want to do

00:20:31.500 online gambling,

00:20:32.480 for example.

00:20:34.380 You're going to

00:20:34.820 have to verify

00:20:35.360 who you are

00:20:35.820 and verify your age.

00:20:37.520 So there are

00:20:38.140 ways to do it.

00:20:39.700 It's not that

00:20:40.540 onerous.

00:20:42.360 It shouldn't be

00:20:43.120 a big deal.

00:20:44.760 If you're an adult

00:20:45.740 and you want

00:20:48.040 to look at porn,

00:20:48.680 what's the big deal

00:20:49.220 that you have to

00:20:49.540 verify your age?

00:20:50.240 But when I've

00:20:53.240 suggested this

00:20:53.880 or when anyone

00:20:54.300 suggests that

00:20:54.860 people,

00:20:56.120 lots of people

00:20:56.760 are opposed

00:20:57.540 to it.

00:20:59.520 They would

00:21:00.220 rather the

00:21:00.920 pornography

00:21:01.540 be open

00:21:03.060 forever.

00:21:04.140 They would

00:21:04.840 rather it be

00:21:05.620 open and

00:21:06.380 available to

00:21:06.960 everyone,

00:21:08.120 knowing that

00:21:08.920 millions of

00:21:09.660 like nine-year-olds

00:21:10.880 are going to be

00:21:11.420 exposed to the

00:21:12.700 most depraved

00:21:14.000 and disgusting

00:21:14.660 extreme pornography

00:21:15.720 imaginable,

00:21:16.920 knowing that

00:21:17.800 that's going to

00:21:18.360 happen because

00:21:19.240 these measures

00:21:19.940 are not put

00:21:20.380 in place.

00:21:21.760 And there are

00:21:22.520 millions of

00:21:23.220 adults who

00:21:23.720 are okay

00:21:24.320 with that

00:21:24.860 because the

00:21:26.820 alternative is

00:21:27.780 that their own

00:21:28.440 access might be

00:21:29.500 slightly impeded.

00:21:32.740 If you even,

00:21:33.920 for a lot of

00:21:34.420 adults,

00:21:34.900 if you suggest

00:21:36.800 even slightly

00:21:38.080 impeding their

00:21:39.060 access to

00:21:39.620 hardcore pornography,

00:21:41.220 that to them

00:21:42.580 is so offensive

00:21:44.480 that they would

00:21:45.400 rather the

00:21:46.080 alternative of

00:21:47.280 having nine-year-olds

00:21:48.020 exposed to

00:21:48.580 this doing

00:21:49.800 immense and

00:21:50.880 immeasurable

00:21:51.560 psychological damage

00:21:52.640 that will last

00:21:53.160 for their

00:21:53.740 whole lives.

00:21:57.940 So on one

00:21:58.860 hand,

00:21:59.100 you've got this

00:21:59.600 woman saying,

00:22:00.580 let's intentionally

00:22:01.380 expose young

00:22:03.040 children to

00:22:04.080 pornography,

00:22:05.260 but it'll be,

00:22:07.380 you know,

00:22:07.860 it'll be sort

00:22:08.580 of softer

00:22:09.780 pornography.

00:22:10.980 So you've got

00:22:11.660 that, and that's

00:22:12.320 a horrible thing

00:22:12.780 to say.

00:22:13.900 Then you've got,

00:22:14.420 in my experience,

00:22:15.460 a lot of adults

00:22:16.220 who would say,

00:22:17.960 well, let's not

00:22:18.320 intentionally expose

00:22:19.040 them, but at

00:22:19.260 the same time,

00:22:20.320 I don't really

00:22:21.000 care if they

00:22:21.760 are exposed to

00:22:22.520 hardcore porn.

00:22:24.360 I don't want to

00:22:25.200 do anything to

00:22:25.780 stop that from

00:22:26.420 happening.

00:22:28.500 Those two

00:22:29.320 viewpoints, I

00:22:30.360 would put about

00:22:31.620 on the same

00:22:32.200 level in terms

00:22:33.100 of their

00:22:33.500 depravity.

00:22:37.360 And in terms

00:22:38.080 of being utterly

00:22:38.960 and totally

00:22:39.580 indefensible.

00:22:43.080 Any other

00:22:43.800 industry, I

00:22:45.480 mean really,

00:22:46.260 any other

00:22:46.820 industry where

00:22:48.920 a product or

00:22:49.840 service is being

00:22:50.460 provided that

00:22:52.240 is not legal

00:22:53.480 for children to

00:22:54.280 consume, in

00:22:56.220 any other

00:22:56.640 industry, they

00:22:57.600 are required to

00:22:59.420 do something to

00:23:00.820 verify the age.

00:23:04.580 You want to

00:23:05.320 buy liquor.

00:23:06.480 In fact, forget

00:23:07.320 about that.

00:23:08.340 If pornography

00:23:09.720 magazines even

00:23:10.500 still exist and

00:23:12.120 you went to a

00:23:13.000 gas station to

00:23:15.260 buy one, they'd

00:23:17.020 have to verify

00:23:17.460 your age.

00:23:20.360 If a nine-year-old

00:23:21.620 went into a gas

00:23:22.380 station and

00:23:22.800 bought a porn

00:23:23.220 magazine and

00:23:25.200 the cashier just

00:23:26.020 let him buy it,

00:23:29.880 who would

00:23:30.700 defend that and

00:23:32.000 say, well, it's

00:23:32.580 really the parents'

00:23:33.300 fault.

00:23:33.500 Where are the

00:23:33.960 parents?

00:23:34.700 Yeah, where are

00:23:35.280 the parents?

00:23:35.660 But at the same

00:23:36.060 time, how does

00:23:36.900 that justify what

00:23:37.480 the cashier did?

00:23:39.300 Is it okay for the

00:23:40.120 cashier to say,

00:23:40.780 well, your parents

00:23:41.340 aren't here and

00:23:41.960 whatever, sure,

00:23:43.720 I'll take your

00:23:44.160 money.

00:23:46.540 Now, in any

00:23:47.420 other circumstance,

00:23:48.320 we expect basic

00:23:50.060 measures to be put

00:23:50.900 in place except

00:23:52.320 with porn sites.

00:23:53.360 They are the one

00:23:54.140 exception.

00:23:56.360 That doesn't make

00:23:57.140 any sense.

00:23:58.480 So, as

00:24:01.040 horrifying as

00:24:01.880 this viewpoint is,

00:24:02.960 it's really not

00:24:03.620 far from what

00:24:04.920 many people

00:24:05.500 believe and

00:24:06.660 if you're in

00:24:09.280 that camp where

00:24:10.020 you think we

00:24:10.820 should do

00:24:11.260 absolutely

00:24:12.180 nothing from

00:24:14.940 a policy

00:24:16.160 perspective to

00:24:17.480 insulate kids

00:24:18.280 from this, then

00:24:19.320 you're setting the

00:24:20.260 stage for people

00:24:21.000 like this journalist

00:24:22.180 here.

00:24:23.900 Just so you

00:24:24.600 know.

00:24:25.780 All right, let's

00:24:26.380 go now to

00:24:27.200 for this from

00:24:30.700 the sun.

00:24:31.160 It says,

00:24:31.600 Facebook CEO Mark

00:24:32.260 Zuckerberg has

00:24:33.000 announced that

00:24:33.620 its Ray-Ban

00:24:34.720 smart glasses will

00:24:35.860 be the company's

00:24:36.500 next product to

00:24:37.220 launch.

00:24:38.080 Zuckerberg made

00:24:38.640 the comment during

00:24:39.340 Facebook's second

00:24:40.080 quarter earnings

00:24:40.640 call.

00:24:40.980 Facebook has

00:24:41.520 planned to

00:24:42.220 launch its

00:24:42.540 smart glasses as

00:24:43.240 its next product.

00:24:44.340 He said,

00:24:44.680 looking ahead here,

00:24:45.400 the next product

00:24:45.900 release will be

00:24:46.420 the launch of

00:24:47.080 our first smart

00:24:48.180 glasses from

00:24:48.780 Ray-Ban in

00:24:50.220 partnership with

00:24:51.180 Isilor Luxatica,

00:24:53.560 whatever that is.

00:24:54.500 The CEO didn't

00:24:55.320 add much more

00:24:56.240 than that other

00:24:57.380 than saying the

00:24:57.820 glasses will let

00:24:58.580 the wearers do

00:24:59.340 some pretty neat

00:25:00.240 things.

00:25:02.580 What do we know

00:25:03.320 about Facebook

00:25:03.800 smart glasses so

00:25:04.580 far?

00:25:04.780 Facebook has big

00:25:05.380 plans for its

00:25:05.820 smart glasses,

00:25:06.260 but the first pair

00:25:06.860 won't be classified

00:25:07.880 as an augmented

00:25:08.680 reality product.

00:25:11.080 And as far as

00:25:13.800 what exactly

00:25:15.360 they'll do,

00:25:17.200 there's still not

00:25:17.940 a lot.

00:25:18.280 No.

00:25:19.360 But, you know,

00:25:20.660 these are

00:25:21.180 electronic device

00:25:22.940 you're going to

00:25:23.180 wear on your

00:25:23.640 head,

00:25:24.780 potentially giving

00:25:26.820 Facebook the

00:25:27.940 ability to record

00:25:29.320 everything you do

00:25:30.680 and say.

00:25:32.540 And there's a big

00:25:33.480 privacy thing there,

00:25:34.440 but, you know,

00:25:35.840 here's what

00:25:36.760 frustrates me.

00:25:40.460 You ask almost

00:25:41.560 anyone in America

00:25:42.360 whether or not

00:25:44.500 they value their

00:25:45.640 privacy and

00:25:46.340 whether their

00:25:46.800 privacy rights are

00:25:47.660 important to them.

00:25:49.400 All of them

00:25:50.260 will say yes.

00:25:52.420 One of the most

00:25:53.480 important things.

00:25:55.280 In fact,

00:25:56.080 based on our

00:25:56.840 words and the

00:25:59.860 values and our

00:26:00.660 values as we

00:26:01.660 present them,

00:26:04.380 we value

00:26:05.640 privacy more

00:26:06.780 than anyone

00:26:07.400 else ever has

00:26:07.940 in history.

00:26:08.460 We certainly

00:26:08.740 talk about it

00:26:09.480 a lot more.

00:26:12.120 And yet,

00:26:12.800 you know that

00:26:13.240 these Facebook

00:26:13.860 glasses are going

00:26:14.440 to come out

00:26:14.880 and they'll sell

00:26:15.960 like hotcakes.

00:26:16.520 millions of

00:26:20.260 people who

00:26:20.920 otherwise would

00:26:22.060 say,

00:26:22.420 I really,

00:26:23.560 I have a

00:26:24.220 right to

00:26:24.520 privacy,

00:26:24.900 I care so

00:26:25.280 much about

00:26:25.560 my privacy.

00:26:26.920 And then

00:26:27.160 Facebook says,

00:26:27.700 oh, here are

00:26:27.960 some glasses,

00:26:28.480 wear them on

00:26:28.760 your head,

00:26:28.980 we'll record

00:26:29.300 everything you

00:26:29.660 do and say,

00:26:30.160 oh, yes,

00:26:30.800 please.

00:26:33.780 This is

00:26:34.260 always that

00:26:34.840 tension where

00:26:35.580 we say we

00:26:36.320 value our

00:26:36.980 privacy and

00:26:37.860 yet all of

00:26:38.560 us willingly

00:26:40.240 sacrifice so

00:26:41.320 much of it

00:26:41.800 every single

00:26:42.400 day as a

00:26:43.780 matter of

00:26:44.180 course.

00:26:44.540 and many

00:26:46.440 of us going

00:26:46.840 much further

00:26:47.280 than that.

00:26:48.880 Wearing

00:26:49.280 Facebook glasses

00:26:49.900 I think would

00:26:50.300 be a pretty

00:26:51.880 extreme way

00:26:53.240 to sacrifice

00:26:53.680 your own

00:26:53.980 privacy.

00:26:54.680 Okay, I

00:26:54.920 want to play

00:26:55.460 this, I

00:26:55.740 can't forget

00:26:56.080 to play

00:26:56.320 this, a

00:26:56.560 restaurant

00:26:56.860 owner in

00:26:57.240 California

00:26:57.700 is switching

00:26:58.880 things up a

00:26:59.420 little bit.

00:26:59.820 He is

00:27:00.160 allowing only

00:27:01.100 the unvaccinated

00:27:02.180 to eat at

00:27:03.460 his establishment.

00:27:04.620 So he's

00:27:05.160 requiring proof

00:27:06.020 of being

00:27:06.520 unvaccinated.

00:27:08.220 I don't know

00:27:08.780 how exactly

00:27:09.360 you could

00:27:09.780 prove that,

00:27:10.540 but clearly

00:27:12.140 he's trying

00:27:12.640 to just make

00:27:13.160 a point here,

00:27:13.800 he's making

00:27:14.220 a statement

00:27:14.720 about the

00:27:17.020 idea of

00:27:17.440 vaccine

00:27:17.800 passports.

00:27:18.860 Chris Cuomo

00:27:19.320 had him on

00:27:20.520 his show

00:27:21.340 to yell at

00:27:22.380 him, and

00:27:22.880 I think it

00:27:23.300 probably didn't

00:27:23.600 go exactly

00:27:24.080 how Chris

00:27:24.480 Cuomo

00:27:24.720 planned.

00:27:25.720 Let's take

00:27:26.020 a look at

00:27:26.240 that.

00:27:27.100 The whole

00:27:27.520 reason this

00:27:27.960 is happening

00:27:28.440 is because

00:27:28.960 people won't

00:27:29.920 protect themselves,

00:27:30.880 Tony.

00:27:31.180 I mean, what

00:27:31.620 are you

00:27:31.780 thinking?

00:27:33.960 Then why

00:27:34.540 did you leave

00:27:35.000 your house

00:27:35.500 when you

00:27:36.780 had COVID?

00:27:37.440 I mean, you

00:27:37.720 had it, and

00:27:38.480 you left your

00:27:38.900 house.

00:27:39.280 I mean, it's

00:27:39.480 been documented.

00:27:40.460 First of all,

00:27:41.060 it has been

00:27:41.560 documented.

00:27:42.500 My ass, it's

00:27:43.280 been documented.

00:27:44.260 I quarantined.

00:27:45.860 I went out.

00:27:47.320 My wife got 0.78

00:27:47.940 accosted by

00:27:48.660 somebody.

00:27:49.340 I don't know,

00:27:49.680 man.

00:27:49.880 I know you

00:27:50.660 don't know,

00:27:51.120 so I'm trying

00:27:51.560 to help you.

00:27:52.500 The science is

00:27:53.380 clear, Tony.

00:27:54.360 You're trying to

00:27:54.640 help me.

00:27:55.120 I don't want you

00:27:55.740 to get sick the

00:27:56.520 way I was sick.

00:27:57.100 The science is

00:27:57.460 clear.

00:27:58.920 Oh, you care

00:27:59.580 about me all of a

00:28:00.200 sudden, huh?

00:28:00.780 Enough to have

00:28:01.400 you on the show

00:28:01.920 because I don't

00:28:02.480 like people making

00:28:03.760 bad decisions for

00:28:04.620 themselves and

00:28:05.100 their family.

00:28:06.240 I was hoping it

00:28:06.920 was a little bit

00:28:07.380 of a stunt.

00:28:08.340 You have the

00:28:09.020 freedom not to

00:28:09.640 take the vaccine.

00:28:10.220 I just don't know

00:28:10.980 why you think it's

00:28:11.560 a good move.

00:28:12.040 Maybe we should

00:28:14.960 ask your brother

00:28:16.000 about protecting

00:28:16.920 people, right?

00:28:17.840 Look, that's his

00:28:18.520 job, and if he

00:28:19.180 doesn't do it

00:28:19.680 well, people

00:28:20.200 won't vote for him.

00:28:20.900 That's a whole

00:28:21.040 new can of worms.

00:28:22.020 Look, Tony, I

00:28:23.540 don't know if you

00:28:24.120 know me too well.

00:28:24.720 I don't shy away

00:28:25.440 from much.

00:28:25.800 My stand is not

00:28:26.080 a political stand.

00:28:26.760 I'm asking you about

00:28:26.780 you.

00:28:28.880 Yeah, good.

00:28:29.800 I appreciate that,

00:28:30.540 too, because I

00:28:30.880 know you talk a lot.

00:28:31.700 So my stance here

00:28:34.280 is a pro-freedom

00:28:35.000 stand only.

00:28:35.660 It's not political.

00:28:36.260 If you come down

00:28:37.820 here, you're not

00:28:38.200 going to see a

00:28:38.580 Trump flag flying

00:28:39.520 over the roof.

00:28:40.220 You're not going to

00:28:41.320 see campaign signs.

00:28:42.900 You're not going to

00:28:43.220 see campaign slogans

00:28:44.600 or political slogans

00:28:45.500 ever.

00:28:46.380 You're only going to

00:28:47.240 see pro-freedom

00:28:49.300 messages, and that's

00:28:50.180 it.

00:28:51.440 And you're not going

00:28:52.440 to drag me down the

00:28:53.620 hole talking about the

00:28:54.460 science.

00:28:55.060 This is not about

00:28:55.960 whether I'm pro-vaccine

00:28:57.220 or not.

00:28:57.820 I'm pro-freedom,

00:28:59.300 anti-tyranny.

00:29:00.060 And maybe the

00:29:02.440 conversation should

00:29:03.160 really be between

00:29:04.020 me and your

00:29:04.420 brother.

00:29:05.900 That's what I'm

00:29:06.640 thinking.

00:29:07.820 Really, that whole

00:29:08.780 clip, the only

00:29:10.720 thing I wanted to

00:29:11.640 get out of that is

00:29:13.040 where he said, I

00:29:14.720 quarantined, I

00:29:15.900 went out.

00:29:17.180 I quarantined, I

00:29:18.820 went out, but then

00:29:22.080 you're not

00:29:22.360 quarantining.

00:29:22.940 That's going out.

00:29:23.840 The definition of

00:29:24.860 quarantining is not

00:29:25.480 leaving, is not

00:29:26.580 going out.

00:29:27.020 So Chris Cuomo

00:29:29.240 gets called out

00:29:29.860 there, which is

00:29:30.960 good to see.

00:29:32.040 And what the

00:29:32.400 restaurant owner, I

00:29:33.360 think, what was his

00:29:33.780 name?

00:29:33.960 Tony.

00:29:36.500 What he's saying

00:29:37.260 there is, of

00:29:37.880 course, exactly

00:29:38.600 right.

00:29:39.700 And this is the

00:29:40.380 distinction that

00:29:41.540 many people on the

00:29:43.700 pro-vaccine

00:29:44.960 passport side of

00:29:45.860 things, many of

00:29:46.940 the COVID cultists

00:29:47.860 pretend not to

00:29:49.460 understand.

00:29:52.440 If you're against

00:29:53.840 vaccine passports,

00:29:55.280 if you're against

00:29:55.900 Don Lemon's

00:29:57.000 idea of if you

00:29:58.520 don't vaccinate,

00:29:59.320 you're not

00:29:59.560 allowed to eat

00:30:00.880 at any restaurants

00:30:01.720 or fly on any

00:30:02.280 planes or do

00:30:02.620 anything, if

00:30:04.620 you're against

00:30:04.960 those kinds of

00:30:05.840 measures, then

00:30:07.040 that doesn't

00:30:08.060 necessarily mean,

00:30:09.600 I mean, you

00:30:10.140 could also be

00:30:11.880 against the

00:30:12.860 COVID vaccine,

00:30:14.680 but that's an

00:30:15.080 additional viewpoint

00:30:16.040 that you have,

00:30:16.780 that you happen

00:30:17.340 to have.

00:30:18.480 That's not

00:30:19.100 necessary.

00:30:21.660 It's not

00:30:22.300 necessary to have

00:30:22.840 any particular

00:30:23.880 view on vaccines

00:30:24.880 one way or

00:30:25.600 another.

00:30:25.840 to be in

00:30:28.400 favor of

00:30:28.800 people having

00:30:29.240 the right and

00:30:29.740 the liberty to

00:30:30.320 go and live

00:30:31.420 their life and

00:30:32.240 participate in

00:30:33.080 society.

00:30:37.300 The whole way

00:30:38.720 that we approach

00:30:39.260 vaccines, I've

00:30:40.720 always hated, and

00:30:41.660 this goes, this is

00:30:42.480 not new.

00:30:43.280 I mean, this goes

00:30:43.820 back before COVID

00:30:45.320 was ever, before

00:30:46.560 anyone, before

00:30:47.200 COVID-19 was a

00:30:48.280 thing, before it

00:30:49.480 existed.

00:30:49.860 we had already

00:30:54.040 done this with

00:30:54.680 vaccines.

00:30:55.000 We had turned

00:30:55.420 vaccines into an

00:30:56.640 ideological, political

00:30:58.480 thing.

00:31:00.760 And that's another

00:31:01.520 important point,

00:31:02.140 because the way

00:31:02.700 that we talk about

00:31:03.480 the COVID vaccine

00:31:05.380 debate, it's like a

00:31:06.940 lot of people think

00:31:07.740 that this is a new,

00:31:10.020 that for vaccines to

00:31:11.100 be an ideological

00:31:11.900 battlefield, that's a

00:31:14.120 new development.

00:31:14.600 It's not.

00:31:17.980 Way before this, it

00:31:20.520 was, well, you're

00:31:21.740 pro-vaccine or

00:31:22.560 you're anti-vaccine.

00:31:24.660 And the two sides,

00:31:25.740 you know, really

00:31:26.060 don't like each

00:31:26.640 other.

00:31:26.960 And the people who

00:31:27.720 would identify

00:31:28.640 themselves on either

00:31:29.660 side of that

00:31:30.200 spectrum, if they

00:31:32.300 ever talked to you

00:31:32.900 and they didn't

00:31:33.180 know where you

00:31:33.740 landed, they would

00:31:34.820 kind of like demand

00:31:35.800 that you take one

00:31:37.020 side or the other.

00:31:39.740 It never made any

00:31:40.820 sense to me.

00:31:42.840 Anti-vaccine, pro-

00:31:44.180 what do you mean?

00:31:45.700 It depends on the

00:31:47.000 vaccine.

00:31:47.620 It depends on the

00:31:48.220 situation.

00:31:48.920 It depends on who's

00:31:50.580 getting the vaccine

00:31:51.240 and why they're

00:31:51.840 getting it.

00:31:54.520 Am I in favor of

00:31:56.260 every vaccine that's

00:31:57.440 ever been developed?

00:31:59.480 Probably not.

00:32:00.460 Am I in favor of

00:32:01.520 everyone in the

00:32:02.160 world getting every

00:32:02.840 vaccine?

00:32:03.820 No, I probably

00:32:04.820 not.

00:32:06.720 It really depends.

00:32:07.600 It depends.

00:32:09.760 This is a medical

00:32:11.440 treatment.

00:32:13.380 medical decision, at

00:32:17.100 least.

00:32:19.840 And so it's going

00:32:21.060 to be kind of a

00:32:21.640 case-by-case basis.

00:32:24.260 That's been my take

00:32:25.140 on vaccines.

00:32:26.540 I've never been

00:32:27.360 able to plant my

00:32:29.820 flag as pro or

00:32:31.420 anti when it comes

00:32:32.280 to vaccines.

00:32:34.580 Or frankly, to care

00:32:35.820 that much whether you

00:32:36.700 do or don't get

00:32:37.520 them.

00:32:39.340 Whatever the vaccine

00:32:40.160 is.

00:32:42.500 We've also got this,

00:32:43.540 speaking of really

00:32:44.160 important stories, and

00:32:46.640 we've talked about men

00:32:47.320 crying, here's another

00:32:48.100 important story.

00:32:48.660 This one, Fox 5 in

00:32:49.760 D.C., they're tracking

00:32:51.600 down a really important

00:32:53.480 story about, I don't

00:32:56.040 know if you knew this,

00:32:56.780 this is a big crisis

00:32:57.820 level situation.

00:32:59.480 Dog groomers

00:33:00.440 apparently are

00:33:01.680 unlicensed.

00:33:03.340 And Fox 5, they're on

00:33:04.460 top of this.

00:33:04.860 Let's watch.

00:33:05.200 Hey guys, it's Fox 5

00:33:07.520 reporter Sierra Fox.

00:33:08.740 Right now, I am here

00:33:09.780 with Abby and Lucy.

00:33:11.700 They're outside of

00:33:12.620 Happy Grooming, just

00:33:13.700 got beautiful, and

00:33:15.000 they feel good, their

00:33:15.920 tails are wagging.

00:33:17.320 Today, my story is

00:33:18.180 about how pet groomers

00:33:19.280 don't have to have any

00:33:20.700 sort of licensing or

00:33:21.760 regulations.

00:33:22.880 To some pet owners,

00:33:23.800 after hearing that,

00:33:24.620 that's concerning.

00:33:25.480 So I'll have more

00:33:26.180 details for you about

00:33:27.000 this coming up at

00:33:28.260 4, 5, and 6.

00:33:30.380 Bye guys.

00:33:32.380 That is a huge

00:33:33.880 concern.

00:33:35.080 And I didn't realize

00:33:37.260 that.

00:33:37.560 I thought that you

00:33:39.860 would have to go to

00:33:41.800 school for six years,

00:33:43.300 take three years of

00:33:44.100 additional training,

00:33:45.460 go through biannual

00:33:46.520 testing, spend at

00:33:49.260 least $5,000 or $6,000

00:33:50.520 a year in licensing

00:33:51.840 fees in order to cut

00:33:53.700 a dog's hair.

00:33:54.860 That's what I thought.

00:33:56.640 And I found a certain

00:33:57.880 amount of comfort in

00:34:00.360 that belief, thinking

00:34:01.980 that there weren't any

00:34:02.820 unlicensed, unregulated

00:34:04.260 people out there just

00:34:05.520 willy-nilly cutting the

00:34:06.620 hairs of dogs.

00:34:09.100 But Fox 5, they point

00:34:10.380 out, not only are there

00:34:12.580 some unlicensed dog

00:34:15.640 hair cutters, but they

00:34:17.020 all are.

00:34:19.160 We got to get the

00:34:19.860 government involved in

00:34:20.480 this.

00:34:21.740 That is obviously the

00:34:24.200 case.

00:34:25.240 All right, this is

00:34:26.020 something, here's another

00:34:26.800 thing really serious.

00:34:27.540 We're doing all the

00:34:27.940 serious stuff today.

00:34:28.960 It is a Friday after

00:34:29.720 all.

00:34:29.900 You guys know that

00:34:31.500 I'm a huge fan of

00:34:32.720 Lizzo.

00:34:33.540 I'm very protective of

00:34:34.420 her.

00:34:35.120 And so I was

00:34:36.900 naturally pretty upset

00:34:37.720 when some vicious

00:34:39.080 rumors about Lizzo

00:34:39.920 started circulating.

00:34:41.000 And apparently some

00:34:42.160 people online were,

00:34:43.620 and this is not funny

00:34:44.360 at all, they were

00:34:45.600 claiming that Lizzo

00:34:48.560 was stage-dived at a

00:34:52.540 concert and killed

00:34:53.560 someone.

00:34:56.360 Just flattened them,

00:34:57.340 bought like a

00:34:57.720 pancake.

00:34:58.160 That was the claim.

00:34:58.840 It's terrible stuff.

00:35:02.700 It's not funny.

00:35:03.720 It's completely untrue.

00:35:04.900 She didn't kill 0.99

00:35:05.340 anyone.

00:35:06.120 They survived, only a

00:35:07.620 few broken bones.

00:35:08.940 So let's be clear about

00:35:09.720 that.

00:35:09.820 But here's Lizzo

00:35:10.760 addressing this rumor.

00:35:13.820 So I've seen a lot of

00:35:15.120 annoying things about me

00:35:16.160 on the internet, but the

00:35:17.660 thing that bothers me the

00:35:19.420 most is this rumor that I

00:35:21.680 stage-dived at a concert

00:35:23.400 and killed somebody.

00:35:25.160 Like, that rumor, it's a

00:35:27.200 fly, first of all.

00:35:28.260 I've never stage-dived in

00:35:29.720 my life.

00:35:30.540 And, bitch, how, like, 1.00

00:35:33.300 kill somebody?

00:35:34.400 Y'all really gonna put

00:35:35.180 that on my mother

00:35:35.680 f***ing name?

00:35:37.440 Like, I know I'm big, but

00:35:39.120 I'm not that f***ing big.

00:35:41.120 Like, look.

00:35:41.560 There it is.

00:35:47.580 It is repugnant that these

00:35:52.100 rumors would spread.

00:35:54.420 And I want to be clear that

00:35:55.500 there were no earthquakes

00:35:56.200 caused either.

00:35:57.380 So please don't start

00:35:59.120 joking about that.

00:35:59.940 This was not similar in

00:36:01.140 severity to an asteroid

00:36:01.900 strike.

00:36:02.540 You know, okay?

00:36:04.380 Um, and I'm really just

00:36:06.280 disgusted by those kinds

00:36:07.980 of comments from the

00:36:09.040 internet.

00:36:10.340 Very disappointed in the

00:36:11.640 internet today, frankly.

00:36:13.760 All right.

00:36:14.240 Um, one other thing.

00:36:15.520 Let's see, what else do we

00:36:16.080 got before we get to, uh,

00:36:18.020 reading the YouTube

00:36:18.700 comments?

00:36:20.520 Okay, here's one other.

00:36:21.720 This is, um, Angie Jones,

00:36:23.420 who's an international

00:36:24.920 keynote speaker with a pretty

00:36:26.700 large following.

00:36:27.440 She, uh, tweeted this

00:36:30.140 and this kind of went

00:36:30.940 viral, this, uh, this

00:36:32.120 claim that she made.

00:36:32.980 She says, this weekend, I

00:36:34.840 went on a girl's trip, 10

00:36:36.060 black women flying first 0.98

00:36:37.160 class.

00:36:37.580 People literally could not

00:36:39.000 process how it was

00:36:40.180 possible.

00:36:41.360 Staff tried to send us to

00:36:42.700 regular lines.

00:36:44.440 Passengers made snide

00:36:45.640 remarks.

00:36:46.740 One guy even yelled, are

00:36:48.360 they a higher class of

00:36:49.440 people than I am?

00:36:51.240 Stay mad.

00:36:53.840 And of course, the, a lot

00:36:55.420 of comments, a lot of, uh,

00:36:56.800 yes, Queens and that sort 0.99

00:36:57.980 of thing in the comments.

00:36:59.440 Uh, can we just be totally

00:37:01.540 clear that this didn't

00:37:03.960 happen.

00:37:04.980 That, that did not happen.

00:37:07.700 It's possible that, that

00:37:09.380 she happened to be on a

00:37:10.920 plane flying first class

00:37:12.380 with the one guy in the

00:37:15.260 country who's never heard

00:37:16.420 of first class.

00:37:17.900 And so he sees that and

00:37:19.100 says, what first class,

00:37:20.760 what are they a higher

00:37:21.400 class of, of individuals?

00:37:24.860 It's, it's possible that

00:37:25.900 that happened, but, but

00:37:26.780 really unlikely.

00:37:28.900 And all the rest of it is

00:37:30.280 her simply sort of

00:37:31.540 assuming that everyone

00:37:34.660 is mad that they're in

00:37:36.360 first class.

00:37:36.960 If they were staring at

00:37:38.280 all, it's just because

00:37:39.920 it's unusual to have a

00:37:41.320 group of 10 people all

00:37:42.940 together flying first

00:37:43.920 class.

00:37:45.420 Uh, it had to be a

00:37:46.320 pretty big plane to even

00:37:47.760 fit that many people, uh,

00:37:49.060 a group that, that, that

00:37:50.240 size in, in first class.

00:37:51.560 But, so that's possible.

00:37:55.840 But the rest of it is her

00:37:57.520 assuming that everyone

00:37:59.460 cares.

00:37:59.940 When in reality, nobody

00:38:01.480 cares.

00:38:02.480 No one cares that you're

00:38:03.100 flying first class.

00:38:04.580 You know, it's a big deal

00:38:05.200 for you.

00:38:06.020 You're impressed with

00:38:06.880 your, with yourself for

00:38:07.600 flying first class.

00:38:08.360 That's great.

00:38:09.560 I've flown first class a

00:38:10.660 couple of times.

00:38:11.260 I was impressed with

00:38:11.860 myself too.

00:38:12.440 but no one else cares.

00:38:17.500 This is, this is

00:38:18.580 something for taking the

00:38:19.780 racial element out of

00:38:20.640 it.

00:38:21.460 This is something for

00:38:22.520 narcissists to, to, it's

00:38:24.260 a really important lesson

00:38:25.060 for them to, to learn, uh,

00:38:28.820 for, for all of us to

00:38:29.820 learn.

00:38:30.700 And there's, there's

00:38:31.580 actually a freedom in this

00:38:33.020 when you, when you realize

00:38:34.200 it and you learn it and it

00:38:36.380 really takes hold in your,

00:38:37.520 in your mind.

00:38:37.920 No one really cares what

00:38:42.480 you're doing.

00:38:44.220 Okay.

00:38:45.120 When you walk around in

00:38:46.640 the world in public, if you

00:38:49.080 have this idea that everyone

00:38:50.820 is staring at you, judging

00:38:52.520 you for better or worse,

00:38:54.380 everyone cares.

00:38:56.780 That's your narcissism

00:38:58.300 flaring up.

00:38:58.940 That is the definition of a

00:39:00.180 narcissist.

00:39:01.240 You're imagining that when

00:39:03.440 you walk into an environment,

00:39:04.900 like you get on a plane, you're

00:39:06.680 the main character in that

00:39:08.420 story.

00:39:08.940 And everyone is revolving

00:39:10.520 around you waiting for you

00:39:12.700 to show up.

00:39:14.680 And even if you're imagining

00:39:16.080 that everyone hates you or

00:39:17.840 they're judging you, that is

00:39:19.240 still narcissism and it's

00:39:22.120 delusional because no, they

00:39:24.440 don't hate you.

00:39:25.040 They're not judging you.

00:39:25.940 They aren't thinking about

00:39:27.140 you.

00:39:27.520 They don't care.

00:39:29.480 Everyone on that plane,

00:39:30.720 they're going somewhere.

00:39:32.160 They're coming from somewhere 0.99

00:39:32.900 else.

00:39:33.220 They've got a, they got a

00:39:34.160 million things going on in

00:39:34.980 their own lives.

00:39:35.640 They've got other

00:39:37.840 annoyances.

00:39:38.540 They're annoyed.

00:39:38.960 They have to wear the mask.

00:39:39.820 They're annoyed that they're

00:39:40.400 on the plane.

00:39:41.780 You know, they've got maybe

00:39:42.540 their kids with them.

00:39:43.460 They've got marital problems

00:39:45.540 they're thinking about,

00:39:46.380 problems at their job, issues

00:39:48.300 with their family.

00:39:49.460 That's where their head is.

00:39:52.900 If they thought about you at

00:39:54.200 all, it was for like 10

00:39:56.040 seconds.

00:39:58.500 They might've noticed you for

00:39:59.700 10 seconds and had, and had a

00:40:01.060 thought about you for 10

00:40:02.120 seconds, positive or negative.

00:40:03.340 And then they moved on with

00:40:04.380 their lives and they will

00:40:04.900 never think about you again.

00:40:09.280 Now, when you really realize

00:40:10.520 that it might start to cure

00:40:11.520 your narcissism a little bit,

00:40:13.460 but then it's also freeing

00:40:15.840 because not only can it rid

00:40:18.420 you of your narcissism, it can

00:40:19.460 also rid you of a lot of the

00:40:20.500 anxiety people have when they're

00:40:21.800 out in public, feeling like

00:40:23.140 they're judged all the time.

00:40:26.200 They're not judging you.

00:40:27.340 They don't care.

00:40:28.120 Even if you're in public and

00:40:31.600 something really embarrassing

00:40:32.780 happens to you, even then

00:40:36.220 people point and laugh and then

00:40:39.540 they're going to move on with

00:40:40.060 their lives.

00:40:40.300 They'll probably never think

00:40:40.880 about it again.

00:40:43.840 I guess it depends on how

00:40:44.780 embarrassing it is.

00:40:45.640 You know, it's possible if it's

00:40:46.920 something really bad, then, you

00:40:48.620 know, I don't know if you pee

00:40:49.580 your pants in public or

00:40:50.380 something, probably people will

00:40:52.580 remember that forever and

00:40:53.660 they'll be telling stories about

00:40:54.520 it forever.

00:40:54.880 So that I would recommend

00:40:56.060 against that.

00:40:56.800 But for the most part, no

00:40:57.900 one's thinking about it.

00:40:58.560 No one cares.

00:40:59.480 All right, let's move now to

00:41:00.480 read the YouTube comments.

00:41:03.120 Cool Papa J Magic says it

00:41:05.740 really, it really stinks that

00:41:07.780 the greatest minds of our

00:41:08.800 generation are forced to

00:41:10.360 debate garbage like socialism,

00:41:12.180 masks, slash whether or not

00:41:13.880 gender even exists, etc.

00:41:16.140 You do a great show anyway,

00:41:17.580 Matt.

00:41:17.860 Thanks.

00:41:18.780 I don't know if I qualify as

00:41:20.060 one of the greatest minds of

00:41:20.720 our generation, but I

00:41:23.000 appreciate it.

00:41:23.620 And I do agree that this is

00:41:26.320 it's unfortunate that we're

00:41:27.380 stuck debating these really

00:41:28.440 elementary elementary things.

00:41:30.460 It works out for me.

00:41:31.700 I've been very open and honest

00:41:32.660 about this, that if our

00:41:36.200 society was not going

00:41:37.480 completely insane, I

00:41:39.020 wouldn't have a job because

00:41:41.120 all I really do is point

00:41:43.860 out the obvious.

00:41:45.980 And there's a need for that

00:41:47.420 now.

00:41:47.700 There's a place for that

00:41:48.720 for people to point out the

00:41:49.920 most obvious things in the

00:41:51.580 world.

00:41:51.900 That's all I do.

00:41:54.240 That's my whole gig.

00:41:56.220 If most people were basically

00:41:57.860 sane, then we wouldn't need

00:42:00.520 anyone to point out the

00:42:01.500 obvious.

00:42:02.380 We wouldn't need a Captain

00:42:03.820 Obvious show, which is what

00:42:04.900 this is.

00:42:07.180 But we do.

00:42:07.900 So that's my gig.

00:42:09.780 If we get to a point where

00:42:11.640 people snap out of it and we

00:42:14.620 live in a basically sane

00:42:15.880 society, that'll be great.

00:42:18.040 The one downside for me is

00:42:19.200 that I got to find a new job.

00:42:20.960 I'll take that trade, by

00:42:22.760 the way.

00:42:25.800 Another comment says, wow,

00:42:26.860 Matt, I really feel for you.

00:42:27.900 My wife is very artistic and

00:42:29.680 loves to decorate.

00:42:30.540 But for the most part, we have

00:42:31.360 the same taste and we don't

00:42:32.240 like those inspirational

00:42:33.400 quotes.

00:42:33.780 But I must say, I'm surprised

00:42:35.180 that you so hate it, but

00:42:36.160 haven't done your manly duty

00:42:37.340 and set your wife on the 1.00

00:42:38.340 straight and narrow path.

00:42:39.540 Do you have something to

00:42:40.120 confess?

00:42:40.500 Does she carry more sway in

00:42:41.520 the house than you do?

00:42:42.620 Are you saying she doesn't

00:42:43.440 listen to her sweet daddy

00:42:44.720 Walsh's desires and home

00:42:46.120 decorating?

00:42:46.520 Um, my wife does not call

00:42:50.340 me sweet daddy Walsh.

00:42:51.080 Let me be very clear about

00:42:52.040 that.

00:42:53.440 That would be even a bridge

00:42:54.400 too far.

00:42:55.680 No, it's somehow much less

00:42:56.860 creepy for a whole bunch of

00:42:57.700 strangers to call me that.

00:43:00.240 No, I entirely defer to my

00:43:02.640 wife on all decor and

00:43:04.160 decorating things.

00:43:06.000 Um, I, I don't care about

00:43:09.280 that.

00:43:09.680 I might, well, I might

00:43:10.680 formulate an opinion about

00:43:11.860 some of it.

00:43:13.400 I don't care enough about

00:43:14.680 that opinion to have an

00:43:15.480 argument about it.

00:43:17.700 And I also realize, and

00:43:19.260 this is a, it's a big part

00:43:20.240 I think of, of making a

00:43:21.300 marriage work, right?

00:43:22.040 Is, is realizing what your

00:43:23.640 strengths and weaknesses

00:43:24.260 are.

00:43:26.540 You got to know that.

00:43:28.880 Because then you know where

00:43:30.340 to defer to the other and,

00:43:32.340 and, and how to lean on

00:43:33.460 them.

00:43:33.740 When it comes to any kind

00:43:37.100 of decorating related

00:43:38.260 thing, I have no idea.

00:43:44.040 You know, you, you, you

00:43:45.420 put me in a, in an empty

00:43:46.380 room, give me furniture,

00:43:48.660 give me decorations, and

00:43:50.420 they can be the highest

00:43:51.260 quality furniture and

00:43:52.240 decorations on earth.

00:43:54.020 I would have no clue how to

00:43:55.760 assemble it in a way that's

00:43:58.380 visually appealing.

00:44:00.600 My wife, uh, is very

00:44:03.100 talented at that.

00:44:03.740 So let's see, um, Matt,

00:44:07.660 your words are so

00:44:08.220 inspirational and powerful

00:44:09.040 than why hasn't your wife 1.00

00:44:10.100 plastered them all over

00:44:11.340 your bathroom?

00:44:12.060 Now that is a good point.

00:44:13.240 See, there, there is a

00:44:14.120 decorating idea that, that

00:44:16.180 I, that I do find

00:44:17.120 especially appealing.

00:44:18.820 Should be quotes from me

00:44:20.000 all over that.

00:44:20.660 That wouldn't be

00:44:21.020 narcissistic at all.

00:44:22.780 Um, and, uh, half Irish

00:44:27.080 says, I'd like to hear what

00:44:28.140 you expect would happen to

00:44:29.360 those 300,000 unwanted

00:44:31.100 babies if they were born

00:44:32.620 of the 300,000, uh, babies

00:44:35.820 that Planned Parenthood

00:44:37.280 kills every year.

00:44:38.060 And those are only the

00:44:39.020 babies that Planned

00:44:39.680 Parenthood kills.

00:44:41.460 Um, they're just one of

00:44:42.980 the, you know, abortion

00:44:44.360 conglomerates.

00:44:46.540 The one, one, one, one

00:44:48.300 set of abortion clinics

00:44:49.240 of Planned Parenthood.

00:44:50.200 Uh, but you know, you've

00:44:51.100 got 800, 900,000, a

00:44:52.380 million babies that are

00:44:53.060 killed every year, all

00:44:53.820 told.

00:44:54.220 So, but the 300,000,

00:44:55.600 what happens to them if

00:44:56.460 they're not killed in

00:44:57.000 abortion? 0.89

00:44:58.320 Uh, well, the answer is

00:44:59.660 I don't know exactly.

00:45:01.520 Hopefully, they find a

00:45:03.020 loving home.

00:45:04.340 Uh, I, I think many of

00:45:06.260 these mothers who make 1.00

00:45:08.240 the decision to get an

00:45:09.000 abortion, if they had not 0.93

00:45:10.360 made that decision, and I

00:45:12.360 know this because you

00:45:13.060 could talk to mothers who

00:45:14.140 considered getting an

00:45:15.960 abortion and were going to,

00:45:17.280 but decided not to, talk

00:45:19.120 to them and see, see how

00:45:20.100 they feel about it a year

00:45:21.460 later, two years later,

00:45:22.200 five years later, almost

00:45:24.680 none of them will tell

00:45:25.700 you that they wish they

00:45:26.520 had gone through with the

00:45:27.140 abortion.

00:45:28.860 In fact, I have never

00:45:29.960 personally heard that from

00:45:31.140 any woman.

00:45:33.220 And I've talked to plenty

00:45:34.300 who, who had, uh,

00:45:35.520 considered abortion.

00:45:38.080 So, what, what, what does

00:45:39.340 that mean?

00:45:39.560 It means that of those

00:45:40.280 300,000, a great many of

00:45:41.760 them will find loving

00:45:43.640 homes in their own home,

00:45:45.200 in their, in, with, with

00:45:46.120 their biological, at least

00:45:47.100 their biological mother,

00:45:47.880 hopefully their biological

00:45:48.540 father too.

00:45:50.780 Of the ones that do not,

00:45:52.200 hopefully a great number

00:45:53.440 of them, um, are

00:45:55.140 adopted.

00:45:57.560 And although it is, it

00:45:59.140 is difficult, it is

00:46:00.100 tragically difficult for a

00:46:01.940 seven or eight or nine

00:46:02.860 year old child to find a

00:46:04.800 home willing to adopt

00:46:05.880 him.

00:46:06.720 And that's a terrible and

00:46:07.740 tragic thing.

00:46:08.600 The good thing is it is

00:46:09.800 not difficult at all to

00:46:11.260 find homes that will adopt

00:46:12.260 babies.

00:46:13.080 There's a very long

00:46:14.120 waiting list of loving

00:46:15.240 and capable families that

00:46:16.280 want desperately to adopt

00:46:17.420 babies.

00:46:18.520 And so, you know, I think

00:46:20.480 that's the answer for the

00:46:21.280 rest of those, of those

00:46:22.240 quote unquote, unwanted

00:46:23.720 children.

00:46:24.380 They would end up getting

00:46:24.940 adopted.

00:46:27.700 And you know what?

00:46:28.480 Even if the worst happens,

00:46:30.500 these children end up on the

00:46:33.400 street.

00:46:34.420 They end up in abusive

00:46:35.520 homes, horrible situations

00:46:37.420 that you wouldn't wish on

00:46:38.120 any kid.

00:46:39.660 Am I going to say that I

00:46:40.860 think it'd be better if they

00:46:41.580 were dead?

00:46:45.180 Is that what you're saying?

00:46:46.040 I guess it is.

00:46:46.540 What about children that are

00:46:48.860 in abusive situations or

00:46:50.220 horrible situations right

00:46:51.300 now?

00:46:51.700 Should we just go kill

00:46:52.360 them?

00:46:54.740 What about adults that are

00:46:56.060 on the street homeless,

00:46:57.280 living miserable lives of

00:46:58.840 despair and emptiness and

00:47:00.280 suffering?

00:47:02.120 With no hope in sight,

00:47:03.540 should we just go kill

00:47:04.360 them?

00:47:05.120 Better to be dead?

00:47:06.220 Because that's what you're

00:47:06.800 saying.

00:47:08.840 If you're unwanted,

00:47:10.700 better off dead.

00:47:13.500 I absolutely reject that.

00:47:15.320 I think it is better to

00:47:16.320 live.

00:47:18.620 Definitely.

00:47:20.780 And certainly,

00:47:21.700 it is not up to us to

00:47:23.900 decide if someone else's

00:47:26.020 life is worth living.

00:47:28.200 As we have discussed,

00:47:29.260 the CDC is now recommending

00:47:30.840 that vaccinated individuals

00:47:32.360 wear masks indoors and

00:47:34.440 outdoors, in fact.

00:47:35.920 And, you know, they haven't

00:47:37.180 quite gotten to the point of

00:47:38.180 suggesting that we all go

00:47:39.680 into the matrix pods.

00:47:40.960 But now that I've put that

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00:49:06.600 Today for our daily

00:49:11.700 cancellation, we finally have an

00:49:12.820 opportunity to cancel MSNBC host

00:49:14.660 Chris Hayes.

00:49:15.520 He has, of course, said many

00:49:16.440 things that are warrant

00:49:17.160 cancellation, but his stupidity is 0.93

00:49:19.400 often overshadowed by many of his

00:49:20.960 fellow cable news hosts and media

00:49:22.400 personalities.

00:49:23.800 Hayes rarely gets the idiot credit

00:49:25.820 that he deserves, and today I aim to

00:49:27.360 change that.

00:49:28.640 Yesterday, Hayes took to Twitter to

00:49:30.420 defend the idea that vaccinated

00:49:32.180 people should wear masks using an

00:49:35.040 analogy that many of his followers

00:49:36.580 seem to think was quite brilliant.

00:49:38.240 He tweeted, quote, you're telling

00:49:40.520 me I have to buckle my seatbelt even

00:49:42.320 though I have airbags?

00:49:43.500 Either the airbags work or the

00:49:44.760 seatbelt works, but it can't be

00:49:45.980 both.

00:49:47.660 This, by the way, had over 60,000

00:49:49.320 likes, nearly 10,000 retweets last I

00:49:51.560 checked.

00:49:52.140 Like I said, his followers found it to

00:49:53.320 be a deeply compelling argument.

00:49:55.260 The only problem with the argument is

00:49:57.800 that it is profoundly stupid.

00:50:00.000 As is so often the case with the

00:50:01.480 COVID cult, the arguments they make

00:50:03.520 actually undermine the very point

00:50:05.540 they are trying to defend.

00:50:06.880 In fact, the analogy he makes here

00:50:08.560 so brilliantly proves the opposite of

00:50:11.580 the point that he's trying to prove

00:50:12.920 that I wish I had thought of it

00:50:14.220 myself.

00:50:15.140 So let's break it down, shall we?

00:50:18.900 Obviously, Hayes is drawing a

00:50:20.380 comparison between vehicle safety

00:50:22.900 measures and COVID prevention

00:50:24.900 measures.

00:50:25.680 In this analogy, the airbags are the

00:50:27.800 vaccine and the seatbelts are the

00:50:29.400 masks.

00:50:29.720 I'm actually going to do him a favor

00:50:31.740 and flip that around to make it

00:50:33.080 slightly more intelligible and

00:50:34.680 slightly less dumb.

00:50:36.620 Seatbelts are, after all, the most 1.00

00:50:37.900 important and effective line of

00:50:39.140 defense in a car accident, not the

00:50:40.880 airbags.

00:50:42.000 I'm assuming that Chris Hayes would

00:50:43.340 say that vaccines are the most

00:50:44.740 important and effective line of

00:50:45.820 defense against the virus.

00:50:47.340 If he's saying that the vaccine is

00:50:48.460 but an additional measure to add on

00:50:50.380 to masking rather than the other

00:50:52.760 way around, then we have a whole new

00:50:54.980 list of issues to deal with.

00:50:56.040 But again, I'm going to be generous and

00:50:57.420 make his argument better so that I

00:50:59.540 can have more fun debunking it.

00:51:00.980 Now, according to the CDC and the

00:51:04.280 Insurance Institute for Highway

00:51:06.400 Safety, seatbelts alone reduce your

00:51:10.020 risk of death in a car accident by

00:51:11.900 about 45 to 50 percent.

00:51:14.160 Airbags alone reduce your risk by

00:51:16.360 34 percent.

00:51:17.320 Together, the combination reduces risk

00:51:19.080 of death by around 60 percent.

00:51:22.300 But here's the point.

00:51:23.980 Seatbelts only reduce your risk of

00:51:26.360 death by 45 to 50 percent.

00:51:28.060 It is their relative

00:51:29.640 ineffectiveness, which

00:51:31.920 necessitates that another measure

00:51:33.620 be put in place as well, even

00:51:35.580 though that measure is also

00:51:37.060 relatively ineffective.

00:51:39.160 Together, they're a whole lot better

00:51:40.520 than nothing.

00:51:41.680 But if you get into a head-on

00:51:42.980 collision, especially on the highway,

00:51:44.540 there's still a very good chance that

00:51:46.440 you will die or at least be 0.86

00:51:48.220 seriously injured.

00:51:50.080 That's how relatively

00:51:51.300 ineffective these measures are.

00:51:53.900 Let's bring this over to the

00:51:55.100 vaccines.

00:51:56.460 Remember, the airbag is needed because

00:51:59.340 the seatbelt by itself is relatively

00:52:01.480 ineffective.

00:52:02.640 That's the whole reason we have the

00:52:04.880 airbag.

00:52:06.000 If seatbelts reduce your risk of death

00:52:08.260 by, say, 99 percent and your risk of

00:52:10.960 serious injury by a margin nearly as

00:52:12.840 large, then there wouldn't be any need

00:52:14.620 for airbags.

00:52:15.840 In fact, you really shouldn't have airbags

00:52:19.140 in that case because the airbags

00:52:20.660 themselves can cause injuries like

00:52:22.200 broken noses and concussions.

00:52:23.860 If the seatbelts were 99 percent

00:52:25.060 effective at preventing death, the

00:52:26.720 airbag would likely do more harm than 0.99

00:52:28.720 good.

00:52:30.080 So how does this relate to vaccines?

00:52:33.640 Is Chris Hayes saying that the

00:52:35.120 vaccines are relatively ineffective?

00:52:37.420 Is this an anti-vax argument from

00:52:39.540 Chris Hayes?

00:52:40.160 Is this vaccine misinformation?

00:52:42.900 Perhaps we should report him to

00:52:43.900 Twitter, get him deplatformed before

00:52:45.220 his anti-vax extremism gets people

00:52:47.140 killed.

00:52:47.500 I mean, that must be what he's saying

00:52:50.720 if he's relating them to seatbelts or

00:52:52.780 airbags.

00:52:53.540 After all, in 2019, 53 percent of vehicle

00:52:56.360 occupants who died in car wrecks were

00:52:58.080 wearing seatbelts.

00:52:59.860 Does Hayes think that over half of the

00:53:01.860 people who die from COVID are vaccinated?

00:53:04.480 The point matters because the necessity

00:53:06.540 for additional safety measures depends

00:53:09.560 entirely on the effectiveness of the

00:53:11.580 primary measure.

00:53:13.260 If you're saying that the other measures

00:53:14.980 are needed, you're making a statement

00:53:17.120 about the ineffectiveness of the

00:53:19.080 primary measure.

00:53:21.380 But if you acknowledge that the

00:53:23.280 primary measure is extremely effective

00:53:25.080 at preventing very bad outcomes, and

00:53:27.120 yet you still advocate for additional

00:53:28.800 measures anyway, and for those measures

00:53:30.180 to be mandated and enforced by the

00:53:31.700 government, then you've opened up a

00:53:33.760 door that cannot be closed.

00:53:35.920 You have erased a line and won't be

00:53:38.360 able to justify redrawing it anywhere

00:53:40.140 else.

00:53:40.520 You've advocated for something without

00:53:43.580 any limiting principle to contain it.

00:53:47.080 If the vaccines are highly effective at

00:53:48.940 preventing death and hospitalization, if

00:53:50.540 the protection they afford you is way

00:53:52.240 into the 90th percentile, 97, 98, 99 or

00:53:54.560 more, and yet you still want more to be

00:53:58.380 done, then why just that?

00:54:02.680 Why a vaccine and a mask?

00:54:04.600 Why not a vaccine and two masks or three

00:54:06.220 masks?

00:54:06.720 Why not mandate full hazmat suits for

00:54:08.820 everybody when they leave their house?

00:54:10.980 Now, we may not have enough hazmat

00:54:12.780 suits to go around right now, but I'm

00:54:14.360 sure we could solve that problem.

00:54:15.880 So seriously, why not the hazmat suit?

00:54:18.560 If we could manage to produce enough, if

00:54:20.500 we could, why not mandate them?

00:54:23.400 In addition to vaccines, they would

00:54:26.240 reduce the spread considerably more than

00:54:27.760 just a mask.

00:54:28.500 It's not harming anyone to wear them.

00:54:30.820 It isn't going to hurt you physically.

00:54:32.840 It's a small sacrifice.

00:54:33.960 It's just a thing you're wearing.

00:54:35.220 That's all.

00:54:36.680 So why not?

00:54:38.600 I want an answer to that question.

00:54:40.520 But you don't want to give an answer to

00:54:42.620 that question because the answer is

00:54:44.160 something like, OK, take it easy.

00:54:45.980 That's ridiculous.

00:54:46.820 It's way overboard.

00:54:49.040 Yeah, you're right.

00:54:50.760 And it's also way overboard to expect

00:54:52.400 immune people with an infinitesimal risk

00:54:55.360 of serious infection to walk around all

00:54:57.340 day, every day in face masks.

00:54:59.380 That is also ridiculous and overboard.

00:55:03.520 If your answer is, well, just do it anyway.

00:55:05.580 Better safe than sorry.

00:55:06.680 Then we're back to having no way to explain

00:55:08.600 why we shouldn't just go with full hazmat

00:55:10.320 suits.

00:55:12.460 This is what's lost in our discussion of

00:55:14.120 COVID.

00:55:14.400 It's what's been lost from the beginning.

00:55:16.340 That is any notion of proportionality and

00:55:18.920 probability and perspective.

00:55:20.440 The three Ps have been thrown out the window. 0.90

00:55:23.140 In fact, let's go back to the car for a moment.

00:55:28.900 1.3 million people die in car accidents

00:55:31.360 every year worldwide.

00:55:33.160 In the U.S. alone, an additional four and a half

00:55:35.280 million people are injured, often severely.

00:55:37.300 Around 600 children under the age of 13

00:55:39.440 are killed in car crashes every year in this

00:55:41.800 country.

00:55:42.280 And that is significantly more than die of

00:55:44.460 COVID in that age group.

00:55:47.340 Seatbelts and airbags together only reduce

00:55:49.440 the risk of death by 60%.

00:55:51.240 So why hasn't Chris Hayes called for additional

00:55:54.620 mandated safety measures there?

00:55:56.740 Why don't we require everyone in the car to

00:55:58.640 wear racing helmets, for example?

00:56:01.120 Again, putting the logistical issues to the

00:56:03.220 side because they can be solved.

00:56:04.720 I mean, we could require all car manufacturers

00:56:06.460 to provide racing helmets with their cars like

00:56:08.940 they provide spare tires.

00:56:10.760 Does that seem onerous?

00:56:12.020 Sure, but literally millions of people are

00:56:14.260 dying, hundreds of very young children.

00:56:16.340 If we're supposed to believe that it's not

00:56:19.320 safe for an immune person to walk through a

00:56:21.460 grocery store without a mask, then how can we

00:56:24.660 possibly consider it safe to drive to that

00:56:27.280 grocery store with only a seatbelt and an airbag

00:56:29.440 to protect you?

00:56:30.960 At this point, is the immune person more likely

00:56:34.220 to die in the car on the way to the store or from a

00:56:37.180 virus he picks up while he's inside it?

00:56:41.040 Does anybody want to claim it's the latter?

00:56:43.860 Do you really think that's how the probabilities

00:56:45.320 shake out here?

00:56:47.320 In fact, why are we allowing people to drive at

00:56:49.960 all?

00:56:51.340 You're speeding down the road at 60 or 70 miles

00:56:53.360 an hour or more in a large metal bucket.

00:56:56.080 One wrong move, one second of distraction by you

00:56:59.500 or someone else in another car can end your life and

00:57:02.180 the lives of all your passengers.

00:57:03.600 Your entire family can die in an instant.

00:57:07.120 And it's happened many times.

00:57:09.280 It's a dangerous activity, an activity that

00:57:11.480 carries with it a not insignificant risk of

00:57:13.360 death or bodily harm.

00:57:14.180 It's hard to see how it's safer to do that than it is

00:57:19.820 for an immune person to walk through a crowd without a

00:57:22.160 mask.

00:57:23.740 And yet we do it every day without thinking about it,

00:57:26.880 without worrying about it.

00:57:28.040 We know a million people will die every year from this.

00:57:32.660 We know that we might die from this.

00:57:35.060 We know that when we put our children in the car, they might die.

00:57:38.340 Every time you strap your child into the car, you know, he might die from this activity that

00:57:44.040 you were doing right now and you might kill him. 0.87

00:57:46.160 You might be the one to do it accidentally.

00:57:48.740 But we do it anyway.

00:57:50.480 We don't even hesitate.

00:57:52.440 We do it much of the time when it's not remotely necessary.

00:57:55.960 Going places we don't, strictly speaking, need to go.

00:57:58.660 Nobody ever stops and weighs the risk of driving against the necessity of going to

00:58:02.260 the place they're about to go to.

00:58:03.720 Nobody does that.

00:58:05.840 They just get in and drive.

00:58:07.840 And a million of them die every year, year after year after year after year.

00:58:13.420 Yes, COVID is not the same as a car accident.

00:58:15.680 But then again, I'm not the one who made this analogy.

00:58:18.440 While we're on the subject, though, since Chris Hayes brought it up,

00:58:21.580 it does demonstrate how we calculate our risk from COVID in a way that is completely different

00:58:27.160 from how we calculate it anywhere else in life, even when faced with greater threats.

00:58:33.940 There are many things out there that are more likely to kill us,

00:58:37.340 and yet we worry less about them and do almost nothing to prevent them.

00:58:42.400 That makes no sense.

00:58:44.040 It is irrational.

00:58:45.640 It is fear-based.

00:58:47.060 And fear-based decisions are almost always irrational.

00:58:49.220 Well, as Chris Hayes has proved, though he didn't mean to.

00:58:53.940 And for that, he is canceled.

00:58:56.800 And we'll end it there for the day and the week.

00:58:59.000 Have a great weekend, everybody.

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The Matt Walsh Show - July 30, 2021

Ep. 765 - A Three Point Plan To Defeat COVID And Live Forever

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