Ep. 770 - Save Your Kids. Get Them Out Of The Public School System
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Summary
As we head into another school year with our kids subjected to mandates and on top of the usual leftist indoctrination they ll experience, we need to ask one question: Is it possible to save the school system or is it time to simply abandon it? Talk about that also: CNN starts firing employees who don t get the flu vaccine, a Gallup poll finds that basically no Hispanic person actually wants to be called Latina. And a journalist fires a so-called "quote-unquote assault rifle" for the first time and his reaction is hilarious. Plus, the medal-winning women s Olympic weightlifters are asked about the male who competed against them and their response tells you everything you need to know.
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, as we head into another school year with our kids subjected to
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mask mandates and on top of the usual leftist indoctrination they'll experience, we need to
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ask one question. Is it possible to save the school system or is it time to simply abandon it?
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Talk about that also. CNN starts firing employees who don't get the vaccine and a Gallup poll finds
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that basically no Hispanic person actually wants to be called latinx. Big shocker there. And a
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journalist fires a so-called quote-unquote assault rifle for the first time and his reaction is
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hilarious. Plus the medal-winning women's Olympic weightlifters are asked about the male who competed
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against them and their response tells you everything you need to know. Although at the same time it tells
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you nothing. And in our daily cancellation we'll have the story of a Hollywood actress who says
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she is expressing her love and devotion for her husband by divorcing him. All of that and more
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insurance, it's nice to get it right. The Clark County School District, one of the largest in the
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country, has just unveiled a new equitable grading policy. It's the kind of policy that I would have
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loved when I was in school, which is about the harshest condemnation imaginable. The new system
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removes non-academic measures as factors in grading. So those measures include attendance,
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participation, responsibility, lateness. None of that matters anymore in terms of the grades.
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Students no longer need to worry that their grade in a class will suffer just because they aren't
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actually going to the class. Attendance was considered a bare minimum requirement when I
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went to school. Now it has become a mere superficial detail. Also, all scores under 50% are abolished.
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A child cannot get less than 50% on an assignment, even if they don't actually do it. Don't do it at
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all and they spot you 50%. The word failing has been removed from the school's vocabulary. Now students
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earning a score, you know, between 50 and 59% will be classified as emergent. Once again, I wish I
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had thought of this as a kid. No, dad, I'm not failing math. I'm emerging. The superintendent of the
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district, Jesus Jara, recently defended the new policy saying that, quote, our kids will graduate
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from this high school ready for the workforce in high paying jobs. Yes, you know, those high paying
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jobs where you don't need to show up or do anything or put in the slightest effort or actually succeed
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in any of the tasks you're assigned. Well, at least we can hope that these students upon entering the
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job market will be fired with similarly gentle language. Listen, I'm not firing you. I'm just saying
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your ass needs to emerge through the exit and never come back. That's all. This is, of course,
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far from the only equitable, quote unquote, grading policy to be unveiled in the last couple of years.
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It's the direction that all school districts will eventually go. All of them. Of course,
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attending class is kind of a moot point anyway, if there is no class to physically attend in the
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first place, though. Indeed, Biden's secretary of education gave a press conference yesterday where
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he was very open to the idea of shutting down in-person learning once again this year. Let's
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listen to that. Is there anything metrics wise or numbers wise, threshold wise that you would look at
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and say, all right, maybe in-person is not the best answer right now, even if the year gets started?
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Or is it in-person no matter what you have the mitigation tools? You know, we know what works.
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And yes, we're looking at the metrics and obviously in close consultation with CDC and
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local health directors, because there are many local factors that contribute to whether or not a
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school should be open. Now, that was just a longer way of saying, yes, we will definitely be shutting
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the schools down at some point, at least partially. That's how I read it. That would be my prediction
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anyway. And it's probably for the best, actually, because as kids across the country are, if they
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go to school, going to be forced to wear masks all day in their classes. Every day, another school
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district instates a mask mandate. Most recently, in fact, our district right here in Nashville has been
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added to the list. All students and staff will be required to wear masks all day everywhere from the
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bus to the classroom. Now, as always with these mask mandates, the one thing that's missing is any sort
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of rational science and common sense based reason for it. Instead, we hear only from the adults that
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it makes them feel better and that it seems like it's necessary to keep the kids safe, though they
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offer absolutely no data to support it at all. Just to illustrate that point, here's a quick news report
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from our local ABC affiliate here in town. And just listen to this, and you tell me, do you hear
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anything like, you know, a data point, a reason? Let's listen and find out.
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I feel a lot better sending my kid into school, and I think, you know, there are a lot of parents
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feeling that same way right now. There were some opposing parents, but I think there were a lot more
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supportive parents, and I was very happy to see that. Right now, my son can't get vaccinated, but he does
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have to go to school, so I want to do everything I can to keep him safe in that context.
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The city is open, citywide, no citywide mandate. There is no data to support any of this right
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now. There is not no state mandate, mask mandate. So why are we doing this to our children?
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And our job is to make sure that we are protecting our students. We cannot teach them if we cannot
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protect them. And so I would like us to continue to follow with the proven mitigation strategies
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that are available to us. Masks will be available on a daily basis for anyone who forgets to bring
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theirs to school. The board will reassess this mask requirement when all metro government-issued
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mask requirements are ended. Well, there was at least, it was an eight to one vote on the school
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board, and you heard from the one sane one. I think her name was Fran Bush, and she was the only one
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who was against it. The rest of it, though, what did you hear? I feel a lot better. You know, I feel
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better. We want to keep the kids safe. Lots of feels and wants here, as usual, but is the mask
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necessary in order to keep kids safe from COVID? A virus which poses very little risk to them to begin
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with. Is it psychologically and physically healthy to have children wearing these pieces of cloth on
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their faces all day? How many of the kids even wear them correctly? How dirty do these things get by
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the end of the day? What effect does that have on their health? Do the health benefits actually outweigh
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the risks? These are all questions. And by the way, what does it do to children emotionally and
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developmentally to deprive them of the basic ability to see each other's faces? What does it do to
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children emotionally and developmentally and psychologically to make them feel like, speaking of
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feels, make them feel like everyone around them is sick? That the air itself is toxic?
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Has anybody wondered about any of that? Is there any data on it? Do they care about the data if it
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does exist? The answer to that question, at least the last question, is no. The point is simply that the
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adults in charge feel better when the kids cover their faces all day, and that's what matters most
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to them. Now, of course, we can protest these kinds of measures, and we should. We can object.
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Just as we can object to the insane equitable grading policies, or to CRT in the schools, or the
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gender theory indoctrination, or any of the other radical left-wing indoctrination that public school
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children endure in every public school in America without exception. We can object. We should object.
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We can protest. We should protest. But we're left still at bottom with a stark reality that when we
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send our kids into the system, we have no actual control over anything that happens. No actual control.
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No hands-on control. The schools own your kids as long as they are in that building, and even when
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they're not in the building. That, anyway, is how the schools see it, and they don't hide the fact.
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And for all intents and purposes, they're right. The system has your child for most of his waking
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hours. The system is in charge of educating him and thus shaping his worldview and instilling him
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with a moral code, things which are inextricably linked to the act of education. That's another
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important point. People that say, well, we need to separate indoctrination and education. I just want my
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kids to be educated. I don't want them to be indoctrinated. That's impossible. The two are
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linked. You cannot have education without indoctrination. Unless you're educating a computer,
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unless you're programming a computer. But when it comes to human-to-human education,
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it always comes packaged with a worldview. Always. No, it's not that I don't want my kid to be
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indoctrinated. I don't want him to be indoctrinated by them. I don't want him to be indoctrinated into
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that. And what happens is that the system eventually will have more influence over your
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kids than you do. Your kid will become what the system makes him. There may be rare exceptions to
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that rule, but they are very rare indeed. All of these things we're witnessing right now,
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from the masking to the indoctrination and everything in between, is the system exercising
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its ownership of the children sent into its care. The mask becomes, in some ways, the most profound
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statement of ownership, almost like branding on cattle. And that probably is the best analogy,
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because that's how kids in the system are treated. They're like farm animals to be conformed into a
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herd, and then herded along in whatever direction it prefers. If your kid goes to public school,
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then, I mean, it's good to get involved as much as possible, and to show up at the school board
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meetings, and to join the PTA and do all that you can do. But this cannot be the ultimate solution to
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the problem of the public school system, because these are band-aid measures. This is you with a bucket
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on the beach, struggling against the tide. You can't stop it. You can only hope to interfere slightly.
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Interfering slightly is better than not at all. But it's not a solution. So what is the solution?
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What's the answer? The answer is the one I always give, but not everybody wants to hear it.
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The solution to the public school system, in the end, is its abandonment,
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and then it's collapse and it's destruction. That's the solution. As long as we are determined
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to outsource our children's formation to the state, as long as we have given it that immense power,
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There is never going to be a time when you can actually trust the state to educate your child.
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Never. It is too much power. It is too much power for any government at any time,
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If we can improve anything at all in the system, it's only by degree.
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You can hope by getting involved to make it slightly less bad.
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But anything more than that will require fundamental and drastic change.
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You don't give us any solutions. We want solutions.
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Well, my answer to that is, number one, there is value in pointing out the problem
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when much of the country doesn't see the problem.
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You know, you got to drag the darkness into the light.
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And in some ways, we haven't been able to get past that as a culture yet.
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I mean, we can't work to fix a problem until everyone sees that it is one.
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And so right now, we're at square one, just getting people to see that the problem exists.
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But the other thing with solutions is that when most people, when they say,
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I don't want to hear all these problems, I want to hear solutions.
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When they say solutions, they mean, okay, give me a five-step plan.
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That's easy to do and will require almost no sacrifice on my part.
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You know, tell me to write a letter to these people.
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There aren't any, all of the serious problems in our culture, out of all of them,
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And so when it comes to the school system, if you really want to know the solution,
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It is to starve it to death by pulling your kids out of it.
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Now we have to decide, do we really want to solve the problem or not?
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You know, I don't know if I have mentioned this yet, but Ben Shapiro has a new book out,
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just came out, called The Authoritarian Moment, and it's on sale right now.
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And there couldn't be a more appropriate time for it, a more necessary book for this time
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than The Authoritarian Moment, because we know we are experiencing the left's totalitarianism,
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So if you want to learn not only about what's happening right now, but the history of it,
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and then most importantly, what we can do about it, you've got to pick up Ben's new book,
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The Authoritarian Moment, on sale now at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or any other major bookseller.
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You know, one of the things with being a parent of young children is it is important to take
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I mean, you're not going to affirm everything they say.
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That's another thing parents need to learn these days.
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Obviously, your kid comes along and says, you know, your four-year-old boy comes along and
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But when they're upset about something, you also don't want to be dismissive.
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So you try to understand them on their level and sympathize.
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You don't want to be dismissive of their feelings.
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And so like this morning, this is, this really happened.
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I was about to leave this morning and I heard a blood curdling scream from upstairs in the
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And I go run upstairs because it sounds, you know, I, as a parent, you become, you become
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discerning of the different screams that you hear from your kids.
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And there's the, uh, just the whiny sort of scream that you'll ignore and not even pay
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But then there's the, I'm hurt, I'm injured scream.
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And that's what, and that's what gets you into gear.
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And so this was a, I thought was a, a hurt, injured scream.
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I thought someone had, you know, fallen off of a bed and hurt, broken their arm or something.
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It's my four-year-old son had let out this scream of agony because, and I don't pretend
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This is just what he told me that, um, he has these Paw Patrol books, right?
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Big Paw Patrol fan, unfortunately, cause I hate that show.
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And he wants to have all of the Paw Patrol books in the world.
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His older brother explained to him, well, you know, you can't have all of them because
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besides they can always print more and you're not going to be able to get all of them.
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So upon learning that he could not have every Paw Patrol book, he let out this, this enormous
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And that's one of those moments as a, as a parent where you, you try to, okay, that's, oh,
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Well, you try as best you can to take that feeling seriously, but it's not always, it's not
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We'll start with this from the post-millennial says Oliver Darcy, who works at CNN has announced
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on Thursday on his Twitter that three CNN employees have been summarily dismissed from
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their jobs for coming to the office unvaccinated.
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Adds in his memo to, uh, CNN staff in the past week, we have been made aware of three
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employees who are coming to the office unvaccinated.
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I think at this point, at least last I checked, we don't actually know who the employees are.
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Well, it was a, it was a senior media reporter.
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So they're firing employees who are not vaccinated.
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So at CNN right now, the, the policy apparently is, I don't know if they have this in writing
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or not exactly, but I don't know if you look at the, at, you go to HR and you get the,
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the employee handbook, if it's going to, if it's going to say this, but, uh, the policy
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is that you can masturbate in front of your coworkers and that is not a termination worthy
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But if you don't get a certain substance injected into your body, then that is, you can't get
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Meanwhile, uh, more COVID news, another Republican governor to be ashamed of Larry Hogan is, he
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spoke out yesterday against the conspiracy theorists who aren't getting vaccinated because
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that's of course, you know, that's the only reason why someone wouldn't get vaccinated is
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And he said that, uh, he threatened to lock down the state again.
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And he said, if I locked down the state, it's your fault.
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Look, I don't care what misinformation or conspiracy theories that you have heard.
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Uh, the plain and simple fact is that these vaccines are working.
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If you're still unsure about the vaccines, uh, here is the important fact for you to consider
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nearly every single person hospitalized or dying with COVID-19 in Maryland right now is
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Uh, those of you who, uh, refuse to get vaccinated at this point are willfully and unnecessarily
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putting yourself and others at risk of hospitalization and death.
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You are the ones, uh, threatening the freedoms of all the rest of us, the freedom not to wear
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masks, to keep our businesses open and to get our kids back in school.
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And tragically, it may be only a matter of time until you do get COVID-19.
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No, to be clear, Larry Hogan, Republican governor of Maryland, he is the one threatening to shut
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down businesses, threatening everyone's freedom.
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It doesn't matter how many people are unvaccinated could be 90% of the country unvaccinated.
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That's not going to, that in and of itself, isn't going to cause a business to shut down.
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No, no business ever has been shut down because people didn't get vaccinated.
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That is a decision that people in power make in response to that fact.
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And it, it, it, it, and obviously unnecessary decision along with other adjectives you could
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use in response to it, you know, all of these, and by the way, Larry Hogan, another, just
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nothing of a Republican and he, he never, you're, you're never going to see that kind of forcefulness
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This is like the first time he's ever put his foot down about anything and it's about vaccines.
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All of these idiots, they still haven't considered because they're so drunk on their own power.
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They, so many different strategies have been attempted to convince people to get a vaccine.
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The two primary strategies, strategies, of course, threatening and blaming.
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While at the same time, fear-mongering by saying even vaccinated people are getting sick.
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Well, if even vaccinated people are getting sick, then how do you know it's the fault of
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the unvaccinated that the sickness is still spreading?
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But those are the strategies, blame and threaten, blame and threaten, blame and threaten.
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And then sometimes they mix in infantilization.
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Let's bring a juvenile out to sing, vax that ass up.
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None of these people have thought of a fourth option, which is speak to people like adults
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And say, you know, I think you should get vaccinated.
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We're not going to force you to inject any substance into your body.
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No matter how I feel about that substance, even if I think it's a great idea, but here's
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And I think this is a choice that you should make in consultation with your doctor and so
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Now, is that going to convince every single unvaccinated person to get vaccinated?
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No, there are some people who simply are not going to do it.
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Of all the unvaccinated people right now, if we were to break them up into pieces, and
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I don't know what the percentage is for each, but there's a certain portion who just are
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I mean, you could threaten to actually put them in prison and maybe we'll get to that
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In fact, I'm sure we will get to that point, at least in some states, and that still won't
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And then you have other people that are kind of in between.
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And then you have people who, you know, are maybe still, aren't completely against it,
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could maybe be convinced, but are also a little bit worried about it.
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And talking to some of these people, I know they exist because I've talked to some of them,
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and, but they also get suspicious when they hear this kind of language, the threatening
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and the blaming, not being forthright, not being honest, that makes them suspicious.
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And for good reason, in general, like when, when, when agents of the state are threatening
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and blaming, there's a reason it's a, it's a good reaction to be skeptical.
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So, as I said, I don't know how large that percentage is.
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The people that are still, you know, could still be convinced kind of on the, on the
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edge of it a little bit, but they're the only ones you can reach.
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And if you, if you, if you do believe that this is all a conspiracy theory and that all
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of the quote unquote anti-vaxxers, people who haven't been vaccinated, even though of all
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the people that haven't been vaccinated, not all of them are anti-vaxxers, a certain
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portion are anti-vax in the, in the, in the, in the sense that they're simply against this
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But a certain portion are, you know, don't have any problem with the vaccine necessarily.
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But if it was true that all of this is, these are all just conspiracy theorists, you are not
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helping to quell the conspiracy theories by doing this, by threatening to take freedoms
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Just as a quick, interesting note, though, certainly not surprising at all.
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Um, Gallup, uh, conducted a poll asking Americans how they kind of, uh, identify themselves in
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terms of ethnicity and race and what, what terms do they prefer to be called?
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And so, uh, for example, they asked, um, uh, black people, do you prefer to be called black
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It's kind of an easy, even split 52, 44 and 4% had no opinion.
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Um, but then they asked, uh, Hispanic respondents, what do you prefer Hispanic, Latino, or Latinx
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or Latinx, I think is how we're supposed to pronounce that.
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At least that's how we pronounce it in English.
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That word L-A-T-I-N-X, that cannot be pronounced in Spanish.
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The question was, if you had to choose, which term do you lean toward Hispanic, Latino, or Latinx?
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And 57% has said Hispanic, 37% said Latino, 5% said Latinx.
00:28:05.720
So I, I, I'm, I'm doubting even the 5%, but that's the most they could get was 5% of Hispanic.
00:28:13.540
Hispanic people actually like this term, which again is consistent with my own experience talking
00:28:20.160
I haven't met one who, who refers to themselves that way or wants to be referred to that way.
00:28:30.900
And I guess we're supposed to see this as a victory for, not for conservatism, but just
00:28:37.480
for sanity, for common sense, for a victory for proper grammar and language.
00:28:44.760
But it's actually not because you see how this term is so unpopular and nobody actually uses
00:29:08.380
So this powerful minority of people, this is yet another thing where they've been able
00:29:19.020
The fact that they've been able to do that with almost no cooperation from the actual group
00:29:25.580
of people they're trying to label, that only speaks to their power.
00:29:28.740
That's actually, if I were to look at this from the pessimistic angle, as I often do, this,
00:29:33.660
this is really a victory for the left because they can point to that and say, you see, nobody
00:29:42.980
And yet you all know the word we have forced you to know this word.
00:29:50.000
It may not, it's not being used by normal people, but it's being used by people in power.
00:29:53.640
It's being used on government documents and so forth.
00:29:56.040
So this is yet another thing that we've just been able to wedge into, um, public discourse
00:30:07.860
against everybody's will, but we have, we have, this is a victory for us.
00:30:16.060
All right, next, um, speaking of victories for the left, now they say that silence speaks
00:30:24.140
The Met, the medal winners, gold, silver, bronze for women's weightlifting, did a press
00:30:30.820
And, um, I want you to watch this entire thing because they were pretty talkative.
00:30:34.320
You know, they were at a press conference and they're asked questions and they had plenty
00:30:37.320
to say until the questions turned to a certain subject.
00:30:45.940
Uh, you went to the United States earlier this year and you trained side-by-side with Sarah
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What was that experience like, uh, then and now when you are competing on the same Olympic
00:30:58.280
Um, I was really honored to be invited out to the States to train with the guys and especially
00:31:05.660
Um, and it was just really, you know, inspiring to push each other and, um, to get each other
00:31:10.680
And, you know, I'm absolutely thrilled that I managed to share a podium with her because
00:31:16.480
It was a historic night here, uh, with Laurel Hubbard competing as the first openly transgender
00:31:24.560
And I was wondering, you know, what you felt about that and what you felt that that took place
00:31:45.460
Of course, if they thought it was great, if they thought it was just great to have a man,
00:31:50.660
uh, competing against them in a, in, in, in a women's, in a women's sports, then they
00:31:55.880
would, they would say so because that's what the media wants to hear.
00:32:00.260
So if they loved it, then they would say, Oh, I think it's great.
00:32:07.260
I, you know, I love to see the destruction of my sport.
00:32:12.080
If that's how they felt, they would have said it.
00:32:15.660
Um, so it's, it's pretty clear, no surprise that they're not in favor.
00:32:21.200
Um, I, I think we can pretty reasonably assume that almost every,
00:32:29.520
female athlete in the country at every level feels this way, whether they say it out loud
00:32:36.460
or not, but most of them are not going to say it out loud.
00:32:40.840
And, you know, and I can understand, I can, I can understand the silence.
00:32:43.960
I can, I understand what motivates that because they don't want to get involved in this issue.
00:32:55.020
They, they, they, they don't want the story to be about this.
00:32:57.560
And that's what it would, what it would turn into.
00:32:59.520
Then there's going to be the immense blowback and everything else.
00:33:02.340
And there's going to be consequences to their career and, and, and so on and so forth.
00:33:07.160
Any, any sponsorship, I don't know what kind of sponsorships of female weightlifter could
00:33:11.200
potentially get, but I'm sure there are some, and those are going to go away if they start
00:33:21.020
But at the same time, it's like we talked about at the top, you know, people want solutions,
00:33:30.020
And so most of the time, when you hear someone say, what's the solution?
00:33:40.000
When most, when in most cases, there is not an easy solution, especially when we're talking
00:33:48.840
about our culture, fixing problems that are deeply embedded in the culture, there's not
00:33:58.820
That at a certain point, people need to have some courage.
00:34:07.300
I understand again, the instinct to not want to get involved.
00:34:14.800
I mean, these female athletes, they didn't sign up for this.
00:34:20.060
You know, they don't want to get tossed into the middle of this drama over this guy.
00:34:31.820
You know, people working their normal jobs, uh, encounter a lot of this kind of thing.
00:34:38.980
They don't want to speak up because they could lose their job.
00:34:42.440
You got to provide for your family, all these things.
00:34:45.680
So I get all of that, but, but, um, at a certain point, some courage is required.
00:34:54.900
And if we're not going to have any courage at all, if we're not willing to make any sacrifices
00:35:04.880
You may as well, I mean, flee into the woods, flee into the wilderness, go live in a desert
00:35:10.460
Get out while you can go find a, go find a deserted Island somewhere.
00:35:19.580
Because there is no hope in this culture at all.
00:35:24.620
It is nothing but darkness and despair that lays before us.
00:35:35.320
And that means just normal people who don't want to get involved in these kinds of things
00:35:43.320
And get involved just means speak up, say, I've had enough of this.
00:35:49.560
Think about that woman at the, the, we spa in Los Angeles, just a normal woman.
00:35:55.960
I'm sure she doesn't wake up every day saying, Oh, I want to get involved in trans issues today.
00:36:01.340
But she was in the, in the locker room and she saw a naked man walk in there, you know,
00:36:07.540
displaying his penis to all the women and children.
00:36:20.020
That's what women need to do in locker rooms when the men come in.
00:36:24.100
And when they intrude in sports, that's what men need to do also.
00:36:33.760
What about, what, you know, there was a woman speaking out at, at we spa.
00:36:38.940
What about all the, there weren't any other, you know,
00:36:41.500
the husbands were not in the locker room when that guy walked in, but many of the women
00:36:50.780
And I'm sure those women came home and told their husbands what happened.
00:36:55.060
Why aren't the husbands beating down the door and saying, what are you doing?
00:36:59.360
I'm subjecting my wife and my children to this.
00:37:09.360
If we're to have any hope in this culture of solving any of these problems and reclaiming
00:37:14.980
it at all, then it's going to require us all to have some courage and speak up and not be
00:37:19.420
silent, understanding that there are going to be consequences and we will suffer those
00:37:24.460
consequences and the consequences might be severe for us.
00:37:29.420
We might lose, you know, uh, we might use, we might lose standing in our community.
00:37:35.300
We might, we might have our friends and family turn against us.
00:37:40.180
It probably will happen for a lot of us, but we have to be willing to endure that or there's
00:37:49.360
And here's a story in a Vermont newspaper called seven days, and it's written by a guy who
00:37:54.360
had his first experience with what he calls an assault rifle at a, which is not a real
00:37:59.100
thing, but that's the term that these people use.
00:38:03.420
He has first experience with one of these things.
00:38:08.960
He says, while the pistol was manageable, even comfortable to hold and fire, the rifle was
00:38:14.980
Everything about it, its weight, tactical scope, and, uh, overall lethality was downright
00:38:21.760
The fact that the first magazine refused to click into place didn't help either, further
00:38:31.400
And after loading it, I sent the target out to 15 yards.
00:38:34.200
When ready, I lined up the target in the crosshairs, pulled the stock onto my shoulder, squeezed
00:38:41.260
He actually wrote ba-boom with four exclamation points.
00:38:44.360
It is difficult to describe the impact, physical and personal, of that first shot.
00:38:49.540
It felt like a meteor had struck the earth in front of me.
00:38:55.280
The recoil rippling through my arms and my shoulder with astounding power.
00:39:01.640
Being that close to an explosion of such magnitude, controlled and focused, rattled me.
00:39:07.540
I composed myself and continued to fire round after concussive round.
00:39:10.480
The puffs of acrid gunpowder smoke carried downrange by a powerful ventilation system.
00:39:16.440
My accuracy gradually improved until it became easier to hit the target.
00:39:25.340
The power of that weapon or the fact that I could have taken one home that day.
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No shame whatsoever for so many men these days.
00:39:43.580
You know, it's one thing as a man to be afraid of loud noises and to be afraid of a rifle that you're firing.
00:39:53.640
I understand if the rifle's pointed at you, you're going to be afraid of it.
00:40:01.260
Like, it's probably not going to explode and kill you.
00:40:02.880
It's one thing to be afraid of that, but to tell everyone, to be so open about it, and then to write an article advertising the fact, that's a different beast altogether.
00:40:25.480
Ken says, Matt's commentary on the whole Cori Bush thing is kind of dumb.
00:40:29.100
What she says and did regarding police and security, it's not hypocrisy.
00:40:35.340
She never said she wanted to defund security or police for herself or doesn't believe that she has the right to personal protection.
00:40:44.700
Also, did Matt just use the term Karen, a racist slur referring to white females, developed and used by the left as a racist insult against white people?
00:40:52.660
So now we have Matt Walsh using the left's language to attack and disparage his own race of people.
00:41:01.980
Well, Ken, you, I want to be nice about this and want to be gentle about it, but you appear to be hallucinating.
00:41:13.400
So you might want to listen to the commentary before calling it stupid because I specifically said at the end, when it comes to Cori Bush, that the hypocrisy is the point because it's all about hierarchy.
00:41:25.080
It's all about her statement that she's better than the rest of us.
00:41:31.860
And as far as using the word Karen as a slur against white females, I didn't do that.
00:41:42.260
I've done whole segments on how I consider that a racial slur.
00:41:51.840
Lou Lou Well says, no way Matt is talking about Chris Chan.
00:41:58.440
It's stuff like this that convinces me we're in a simulation.
00:42:02.540
I mean, apparently, I had no idea who Chris Chan was at all, but I'm to understand now, based on the comments, that he's apparently a well-known person in some corners of the internet.
00:42:20.380
There's like a 60-part documentary or something about this guy.
00:42:26.580
This was my first experience with Chris Chan, and I would have to say I hope to never have another one.
00:42:35.480
Matt, another comment says, Matt, as I roll into the weekend, I'm looking for a good playlist.
00:42:39.000
Other than Pooh Shiesty, Cardi B, and BTS, what are you rocking in your CD player right now?
00:42:45.260
Well, of course, you know, those guys also, Spot'em Got'em, DaBaby, Lil Baby, Bad Baby, Sweet Baby, all the babies, Tekashi69, and Celine Dion, another one of my favorites.
00:42:58.880
Another comment says, Matt, I can think of one solitary example of a Democrat saying they regret a law that they helped pass.
00:43:07.660
But other than that, yeah, no, they never admit they were wrong or say they regret a law they passed or signed on to.
00:43:22.420
Probably there have been some Democrats, I'm sure, who have expressed regret in their support of the Defense of Marriage Act.
00:43:31.680
Because there was a time, remember, not all that long ago, when almost every Democrat, and certainly every mainstream Democrat, was opposed to gay marriage.
00:43:42.440
And it will always, it always kind of trips you out to think about how recently that was.
00:43:48.440
Going back to 2008, almost every mainstream Democrat on the national stage, to include Barack Obama, was a defender of traditional marriage.
00:43:58.980
And so I'm sure some of them have expressed some regret about that.
00:44:04.240
So once again, it's like the few good things they do that, of course, they're going to regret.
00:44:10.000
And finally, here's a message on Twitter that I happen to see and want to respond to.
00:44:15.860
I would love to hear your take on married couples having separate finances.
00:44:19.180
This seems to be pretty common nowadays, and I personally think it's ridiculous.
00:44:23.280
This kind of dovetails into what we're going to talk about in the daily cancellation.
00:44:29.600
Yeah, separate finances doesn't make any sense to me when you're married.
00:44:36.740
If you don't want to share everything with your spouse, if you don't even want to share your money with your spouse, then probably just you shouldn't be getting married in the first place.
00:44:55.100
When you start separating money and saying, this is my money, that's your money, nothing good comes from that in a marriage.
00:45:03.100
Unless we're talking about just, okay, we each have a weekly allowance of just kind of spending cash that we can use to buy coffee and that kind of thing.
00:45:14.640
But to say, here's my account, here's your account, nothing good ever comes of that.
00:45:18.900
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So today for our daily cancellation, we're going to cancel Kate Bosworth.
00:46:57.940
You may remember Kate Bosworth as the actress who played in that movie Almost Famous, but you're incorrect.
00:47:05.640
Then you might say, oh, yeah, wasn't she in all those underworld movies?
00:47:08.620
And again, no, you're thinking of Kate Beckinsale in that case.
00:47:11.180
She's also not the one who was married to Tom Cruise for 10 minutes.
00:47:15.560
In the early 2000s, there was a veritable explosion of Kate's, and they were always starring in the third most popular movie at the box office at any given time.
00:47:23.420
Of all the Kate's, of course, only Kate Winslet remains a popular actress today,
00:47:27.040
recalling the movie that launched Kate Winslet's career.
00:47:30.300
You might say that she is still alive and clinging to the driftwood while the other Kates sink into the dark, icy depths of obscurity.
00:47:37.720
All that to say, Kate Bosworth is an actress, though I don't remember what movies she starred in.
00:47:42.380
And frankly, I've been discussing the cinematic history of women named Kate for too long now,
00:47:46.460
especially because it has nothing to do with the point.
00:47:47.900
So the point is that, as I am informed by the headlines, Kate Bosworth and her husband of eight years are getting divorced.
00:47:55.420
Now, this news would be of no interest to me or to anyone, if not for the manner in which it was announced.
00:48:02.040
Now, it's common for celebrities these days, and even non-celebrities, to get divorced and then attempt to dress up their marital failures as something beautiful and profound and even romantic.
00:48:12.540
The most infamous example is Gwyneth Paltrow, who, when announcing her divorce to the guy from Coldplay,
00:48:19.520
said that they were not getting divorced, but rather embarking on a conscious uncoupling.
00:48:25.420
Now, if you're wondering what a conscious uncoupling is and how it differs from a typical divorce,
00:48:30.020
Paltrow's website has an article written by two New Age fruitcakes with doctor in their names explaining it.
00:48:36.360
For our purposes, conscious uncoupling is the ability to understand that every irritation and argument within a relationship was a signal to look inside ourselves and identify a negative internal object that needed healing.
00:48:48.100
If we can remain conscious of this during our uncoupling, we will understand it's now we relate to ourselves internally as we go through an experience that's the real issue, not what's actually happening.
00:48:58.100
From this perspective, there are no bad guys, just two people, each playing teacher and student, respectively.
00:49:03.740
When we understand that both are actually partners in each other's spiritual progress, animosity dissolves much quicker and a new paradigm for conscious uncoupling emerges, replacing the traditional contentious divorce.
00:49:14.400
Well, that clears that up, but Kate Bosworth has upped the ante in a post on Instagram, which has been reprinted many times in the media and has been shared by people who insist that it is just the most wonderful and beautiful thing you'll ever read.
00:49:29.440
Bosworth announced the severing of her marriage vows in a way that is it's worth quoting, I think, at some length.
00:49:48.400
The onset signals a wide-open expanse of possibility.
00:49:52.920
Split a burger with someone when you're falling in love and you can die happily knowing that this is your last meal.
00:50:00.460
Now, I love my wife, but she has to order her own damn burgers, for God's sake, okay?
00:50:06.260
Anyway, buy a bottle of whiskey and share shots.
00:50:11.200
Play that perfect song on the jukebox and dance with someone you've known your whole life, though you met just minutes ago.
00:50:19.400
To lose what you have because you got what you wanted.
00:50:22.940
To be attached to the expectation of the outcome.
00:50:27.080
What if we chose not to fear, but instead to love?
00:50:31.600
If that most delicate and vulnerable last flicker to the flame became another type of furnace entirely?
00:50:38.100
Perhaps this will sound strange to some, romantic to others.
00:50:43.760
Our hearts are full, as we've never been so enamored and deeply grateful for one another as we do in this decision to separate.
00:50:50.660
Together, over the last ten years, Michael and I have chosen love every time.
00:50:54.060
We hold hands as tightly today as we entangled fingers on our wedding day.
00:50:58.680
Our eyes look more deeply into one another with more courage now.
00:51:02.980
In the process of letting go, we have come to acknowledge that our love will never end.
00:51:13.100
Songs will be exchanged to communicate only what songs can do.
00:51:16.200
We laugh as we plan for our next movie together and are excited to share our latest collaborations.
00:51:21.900
We believe the most epic love stories are those which transcend expectation.
00:51:26.540
Our greatest honor has been to experience love like this and to continue to marvel at the beauty of love's evolution.
00:51:33.120
What happens when we reach the end of something and realize we're just at the beginning?
00:51:44.880
Although I think I did her some favors in my performance of that Instagram post, I think.
00:51:51.260
I think I made it sound way better than it was.
00:51:53.940
But just to summarize, according to Kate Bosworth,
00:51:56.300
the most epic love story, the truest love story,
00:51:58.700
is one where you break your promises, abandon each other,
00:52:01.240
and run off to have sex with other people instead.
00:52:03.260
That's a love story in the same way that the Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a medical drama.
00:52:10.140
You know, carving people to pieces is the opposite of medicine.
00:52:13.040
Breaking up your marriage is the opposite of love.
00:52:16.400
In a marriage, love is the choice you make every day to maintain that bond
00:52:22.280
and to remain loyal to the person that you pledged your life to.
00:52:30.300
And that is your choice, no matter how you feel while you're doing it.
00:52:35.900
If you feel warm and fuzzy about someone while you're in the process of betraying them,
00:52:43.800
You know, Judas may have still harbored warm feelings for Jesus at some level
00:52:47.420
when he took the 30 pieces of silver, but he still took the 30 pieces of silver.
00:52:52.400
And by the way, betraying your spouse doesn't become any less traitorous
00:52:57.840
I think here's the point that's largely lost in modern times,
00:53:02.260
that it's what leads to the dissolution of so many marriages.
00:53:04.840
It's also what leads to hilariously smug, pompous, and narcissistic divorce announcements
00:53:23.320
just think about another virtue, closely related and one that Kate Bosworth also humbly
00:53:35.700
Because in fact, courage is the most courageous when it's performed in spite of feelings.
00:53:41.540
If somebody acts bravely and doesn't feel scared when they're doing it,
00:53:48.460
Because anyone can do something if they're not afraid to do it.
00:53:53.500
Even if someone is doing something that would make you afraid if you were doing it,
00:53:58.420
it's not really courageous for them if they're not afraid.
00:54:03.480
What's courageous is when someone acts bravely while feeling scared.
00:54:08.320
Okay, that's when courage really becomes evident.
00:54:11.920
Courage is the act of doing something good or noble or worthwhile in spite of fear.
00:54:17.520
If you act lovingly towards someone because you feel enamored with them,
00:54:22.140
I mean, it's nice to feel those feelings, but anyone can do that.
00:54:27.700
Real love is to act that way towards someone no matter how you feel.
00:54:32.140
Even when you're angry or upset or tired or your relationship is strained
00:54:39.020
If you choose to love only when your feelings align with that choice,
00:54:42.560
then all of your expressions of love towards the other
00:54:44.880
are really just expressions of love towards yourself.
00:54:47.000
You're choosing to love when it makes you feel good
00:54:50.400
and then you're making other choices when those other choices make you feel good.
00:54:59.500
Your spouse is just a stand-in for your own ego.
00:55:03.460
They're kind of like a brick wall and you're just over there
00:55:08.780
The love is a tennis ball that you bounce off of them
00:55:21.360
I commit to you in exchange for the good feelings that you give me.
00:55:24.840
If those feelings go away, then you're useless and the arrangement is over.
00:55:29.820
This is how lots of people approach marriage these days,
00:55:32.220
although they may not be as absurdly pretentious about it,
00:55:36.280
Now, I'm not saying that feelings don't matter in a marriage
00:55:38.560
or that you shouldn't feel warmly about your spouse
00:55:41.420
or that if they make you feel bad, it's totally okay
00:55:44.780
and you should simply adore it forever and never try to change it.
00:55:51.240
Feelings are part of the bargain in any human arrangement
00:55:55.920
What I'm saying is that love is not itself a feeling
00:55:59.280
and that feelings cannot serve as the foundational basis of a marriage.
00:56:05.100
Your union has to be rooted in something deeper
00:56:10.400
To be rooted in feelings is to not be rooted at all.
00:56:14.520
Your marriage is then just a light and flimsy little pathetic thing
00:56:17.780
laying on the surface, waiting for a mild breeze to blow it away.
00:56:25.220
And at that point, your marriage, like Kate Bosworth's, will be canceled.
00:56:30.100
And today, I have to say, unfortunately, so is she.
00:56:35.060
So we'll leave it there for today and for the week.
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