The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 770 - Save Your Kids. Get Them Out Of The Public School System

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, as we head into another school year with our kids subjected to

00:00:04.640 mask mandates and on top of the usual leftist indoctrination they'll experience, we need to

00:00:09.000 ask one question. Is it possible to save the school system or is it time to simply abandon it?

00:00:13.760 Talk about that also. CNN starts firing employees who don't get the vaccine and a Gallup poll finds

00:00:19.500 that basically no Hispanic person actually wants to be called latinx. Big shocker there. And a

00:00:25.000 journalist fires a so-called quote-unquote assault rifle for the first time and his reaction is

00:00:29.960 hilarious. Plus the medal-winning women's Olympic weightlifters are asked about the male who competed

00:00:35.460 against them and their response tells you everything you need to know. Although at the same time it tells

00:00:40.200 you nothing. And in our daily cancellation we'll have the story of a Hollywood actress who says

00:00:44.180 she is expressing her love and devotion for her husband by divorcing him. All of that and more

00:00:49.680 today on the Matt Walsh Show.

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00:02:07.920 insurance, it's nice to get it right. The Clark County School District, one of the largest in the

00:02:13.540 country, has just unveiled a new equitable grading policy. It's the kind of policy that I would have

00:02:18.460 loved when I was in school, which is about the harshest condemnation imaginable. The new system

00:02:23.800 removes non-academic measures as factors in grading. So those measures include attendance,

00:02:29.300 participation, responsibility, lateness. None of that matters anymore in terms of the grades.

00:02:35.320 Students no longer need to worry that their grade in a class will suffer just because they aren't

00:02:40.720 actually going to the class. Attendance was considered a bare minimum requirement when I

00:02:45.700 went to school. Now it has become a mere superficial detail. Also, all scores under 50% are abolished.

00:02:53.040 A child cannot get less than 50% on an assignment, even if they don't actually do it. Don't do it at

00:02:58.620 all and they spot you 50%. The word failing has been removed from the school's vocabulary. Now students

00:03:05.320 earning a score, you know, between 50 and 59% will be classified as emergent. Once again, I wish I

00:03:12.820 had thought of this as a kid. No, dad, I'm not failing math. I'm emerging. The superintendent of the

00:03:19.220 district, Jesus Jara, recently defended the new policy saying that, quote, our kids will graduate

00:03:24.780 from this high school ready for the workforce in high paying jobs. Yes, you know, those high paying

00:03:31.340 jobs where you don't need to show up or do anything or put in the slightest effort or actually succeed

00:03:37.600 in any of the tasks you're assigned. Well, at least we can hope that these students upon entering the

00:03:42.400 job market will be fired with similarly gentle language. Listen, I'm not firing you. I'm just saying

00:03:48.400 your ass needs to emerge through the exit and never come back. That's all. This is, of course, 1.00

00:03:54.600 far from the only equitable, quote unquote, grading policy to be unveiled in the last couple of years.

00:04:00.140 It's the direction that all school districts will eventually go. All of them. Of course,

00:04:06.520 attending class is kind of a moot point anyway, if there is no class to physically attend in the

00:04:10.740 first place, though. Indeed, Biden's secretary of education gave a press conference yesterday where

00:04:14.860 he was very open to the idea of shutting down in-person learning once again this year. Let's

00:04:20.440 listen to that. Is there anything metrics wise or numbers wise, threshold wise that you would look at

00:04:26.320 and say, all right, maybe in-person is not the best answer right now, even if the year gets started?

00:04:31.580 Or is it in-person no matter what you have the mitigation tools? You know, we know what works.

00:04:38.420 And yes, we're looking at the metrics and obviously in close consultation with CDC and

00:04:43.460 local health directors, because there are many local factors that contribute to whether or not a

00:04:47.760 school should be open. Now, that was just a longer way of saying, yes, we will definitely be shutting

00:04:54.060 the schools down at some point, at least partially. That's how I read it. That would be my prediction

00:04:58.340 anyway. And it's probably for the best, actually, because as kids across the country are, if they

00:05:04.440 go to school, going to be forced to wear masks all day in their classes. Every day, another school

00:05:09.500 district instates a mask mandate. Most recently, in fact, our district right here in Nashville has been

00:05:14.580 added to the list. All students and staff will be required to wear masks all day everywhere from the

00:05:19.780 bus to the classroom. Now, as always with these mask mandates, the one thing that's missing is any sort

00:05:26.120 of rational science and common sense based reason for it. Instead, we hear only from the adults that

00:05:34.380 it makes them feel better and that it seems like it's necessary to keep the kids safe, though they

00:05:39.860 offer absolutely no data to support it at all. Just to illustrate that point, here's a quick news report

00:05:46.260 from our local ABC affiliate here in town. And just listen to this, and you tell me, do you hear

00:05:51.240 anything like, you know, a data point, a reason? Let's listen and find out.

00:05:58.580 I feel a lot better sending my kid into school, and I think, you know, there are a lot of parents

00:06:02.980 feeling that same way right now. There were some opposing parents, but I think there were a lot more

00:06:06.780 supportive parents, and I was very happy to see that. Right now, my son can't get vaccinated, but he does

00:06:11.820 have to go to school, so I want to do everything I can to keep him safe in that context.

00:06:15.800 The city is open, citywide, no citywide mandate. There is no data to support any of this right

00:06:23.320 now. There is not no state mandate, mask mandate. So why are we doing this to our children?

00:06:29.920 And our job is to make sure that we are protecting our students. We cannot teach them if we cannot

00:06:36.300 protect them. And so I would like us to continue to follow with the proven mitigation strategies

00:06:42.440 that are available to us. Masks will be available on a daily basis for anyone who forgets to bring

00:06:49.620 theirs to school. The board will reassess this mask requirement when all metro government-issued

00:06:54.400 mask requirements are ended. Well, there was at least, it was an eight to one vote on the school

00:07:00.200 board, and you heard from the one sane one. I think her name was Fran Bush, and she was the only one

00:07:05.120 who was against it. The rest of it, though, what did you hear? I feel a lot better. You know, I feel

00:07:11.720 better. We want to keep the kids safe. Lots of feels and wants here, as usual, but is the mask

00:07:19.480 necessary in order to keep kids safe from COVID? A virus which poses very little risk to them to begin

00:07:25.700 with. Is it psychologically and physically healthy to have children wearing these pieces of cloth on

00:07:31.500 their faces all day? How many of the kids even wear them correctly? How dirty do these things get by

00:07:38.380 the end of the day? What effect does that have on their health? Do the health benefits actually outweigh

00:07:45.680 the risks? These are all questions. And by the way, what does it do to children emotionally and

00:07:52.440 developmentally to deprive them of the basic ability to see each other's faces? What does it do to

00:08:00.460 children emotionally and developmentally and psychologically to make them feel like, speaking of

00:08:06.140 feels, make them feel like everyone around them is sick? That the air itself is toxic?

00:08:15.080 Has anybody wondered about any of that? Is there any data on it? Do they care about the data if it

00:08:20.980 does exist? The answer to that question, at least the last question, is no. The point is simply that the

00:08:27.400 adults in charge feel better when the kids cover their faces all day, and that's what matters most

00:08:31.900 to them. Now, of course, we can protest these kinds of measures, and we should. We can object.

00:08:38.380 Just as we can object to the insane equitable grading policies, or to CRT in the schools, or the

00:08:43.740 gender theory indoctrination, or any of the other radical left-wing indoctrination that public school

00:08:48.820 children endure in every public school in America without exception. We can object. We should object.

00:08:54.020 We can protest. We should protest. But we're left still at bottom with a stark reality that when we

00:09:01.580 send our kids into the system, we have no actual control over anything that happens. No actual control.

00:09:10.960 No hands-on control. The schools own your kids as long as they are in that building, and even when

00:09:18.160 they're not in the building. That, anyway, is how the schools see it, and they don't hide the fact.

00:09:23.800 And for all intents and purposes, they're right. The system has your child for most of his waking

00:09:29.840 hours. The system is in charge of educating him and thus shaping his worldview and instilling him

00:09:35.220 with a moral code, things which are inextricably linked to the act of education. That's another

00:09:40.620 important point. People that say, well, we need to separate indoctrination and education. I just want my

00:09:45.560 kids to be educated. I don't want them to be indoctrinated. That's impossible. The two are

00:09:50.500 linked. You cannot have education without indoctrination. Unless you're educating a computer,

00:09:56.960 unless you're programming a computer. But when it comes to human-to-human education,

00:10:04.240 it always comes packaged with a worldview. Always. No, it's not that I don't want my kid to be

00:10:11.580 indoctrinated. I don't want him to be indoctrinated by them. I don't want him to be indoctrinated into

00:10:19.760 that. And what happens is that the system eventually will have more influence over your

00:10:26.180 kids than you do. Your kid will become what the system makes him. There may be rare exceptions to

00:10:35.460 that rule, but they are very rare indeed. All of these things we're witnessing right now,

00:10:41.660 from the masking to the indoctrination and everything in between, is the system exercising

00:10:47.280 its ownership of the children sent into its care. The mask becomes, in some ways, the most profound

00:10:53.560 statement of ownership, almost like branding on cattle. And that probably is the best analogy,

00:10:58.820 because that's how kids in the system are treated. They're like farm animals to be conformed into a

00:11:03.520 herd, and then herded along in whatever direction it prefers. If your kid goes to public school,

00:11:10.280 then, I mean, it's good to get involved as much as possible, and to show up at the school board

00:11:13.640 meetings, and to join the PTA and do all that you can do. But this cannot be the ultimate solution to

00:11:18.800 the problem of the public school system, because these are band-aid measures. This is you with a bucket

00:11:24.280 on the beach, struggling against the tide. You can't stop it. You can only hope to interfere slightly.

00:11:30.980 Interfering slightly is better than not at all. But it's not a solution. So what is the solution?

00:11:38.620 What's the answer? The answer is the one I always give, but not everybody wants to hear it.

00:11:43.680 The solution to the public school system, in the end, is its abandonment,

00:11:48.660 and then it's collapse and it's destruction. That's the solution. As long as we are determined

00:11:56.480 to outsource our children's formation to the state, as long as we have given it that immense power,

00:12:04.060 these problems will remain.

00:12:06.280 There is never going to be a time when you can actually trust the state to educate your child.

00:12:17.280 Never. It is too much power. It is too much power for any government at any time,

00:12:26.480 but especially this government at this time.

00:12:28.780 If we can improve anything at all in the system, it's only by degree.

00:12:36.900 You can hope by getting involved to make it slightly less bad.

00:12:43.380 But anything more than that will require fundamental and drastic change.

00:12:47.300 You know, people say to me all the time,

00:12:52.420 well, Matt, you point out all these problems.

00:12:57.100 What are the solutions?

00:12:58.780 You don't give us any solutions. We want solutions.

00:13:02.180 Well, my answer to that is, number one, there is value in pointing out the problem

00:13:06.320 when much of the country doesn't see the problem.

00:13:08.860 So we got to start with that.

00:13:10.400 You know, you got to drag the darkness into the light.

00:13:12.520 You got to start there.

00:13:13.680 And in some ways, we haven't been able to get past that as a culture yet.

00:13:19.680 I mean, we can't work to fix a problem until everyone sees that it is one.

00:13:23.720 And so right now, we're at square one, just getting people to see that the problem exists.

00:13:31.280 But the other thing with solutions is that when most people, when they say,

00:13:34.380 I don't want to hear all these problems, I want to hear solutions.

00:13:37.360 They don't really want solutions, do they?

00:13:39.920 When they say solutions, they mean, okay, give me a five-step plan.

00:13:43.480 That's easy to do and will require almost no sacrifice on my part.

00:13:49.320 That's what I want.

00:13:51.800 You know, tell me to write a letter to these people.

00:13:54.260 Tell me to hold a sign over here.

00:13:55.720 Tell me to do this, to do that.

00:13:57.200 And then the problem will go away.

00:14:01.400 You know, we are way past that.

00:14:03.940 There aren't any, all of the serious problems in our culture, out of all of them,

00:14:08.240 none of them can be simply solved that way.

00:14:10.060 It requires drastic change.

00:14:13.700 And so when it comes to the school system, if you really want to know the solution,

00:14:16.900 it is to abandon it.

00:14:19.660 It is to starve it to death by pulling your kids out of it.

00:14:25.600 But we can't do that.

00:14:27.980 We'd have to drastically change our lifestyle.

00:14:31.000 We'd have to change everything.

00:14:32.260 Yeah, I know.

00:14:33.780 It's not easy.

00:14:35.760 But it's the solution.

00:14:37.400 There isn't another one.

00:14:39.320 It's the only one.

00:14:41.480 Now we have to decide, do we really want to solve the problem or not?

00:14:45.500 Now let's get to our five headlines.

00:14:46.800 You know, I don't know if I have mentioned this yet, but Ben Shapiro has a new book out,

00:14:58.640 just came out, called The Authoritarian Moment, and it's on sale right now.

00:15:02.540 And there couldn't be a more appropriate time for it, a more necessary book for this time

00:15:08.040 than The Authoritarian Moment, because we know we are experiencing the left's totalitarianism,

00:15:13.000 and it's only getting worse.

00:15:14.140 It's not getting better.

00:15:14.820 So if you want to learn not only about what's happening right now, but the history of it,

00:15:18.500 and then most importantly, what we can do about it, you've got to pick up Ben's new book,

00:15:21.980 The Authoritarian Moment, on sale now at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or any other major bookseller.

00:15:26.780 All right.

00:15:27.320 You know, one of the things with being a parent of young children is it is important to take

00:15:36.300 their feelings seriously to an extent, right?

00:15:41.800 I mean, you're not going to affirm everything they say.

00:15:44.700 That's another thing parents need to learn these days.

00:15:46.900 Obviously, your kid comes along and says, you know, your four-year-old boy comes along and

00:15:50.860 says, I'm a girl.

00:15:51.540 You don't affirm that.

00:15:52.760 But when they're upset about something, you also don't want to be dismissive.

00:15:55.700 So you try to understand them on their level and sympathize.

00:15:59.700 You don't want to be dismissive of their feelings.

00:16:02.180 And so, but sometimes that can be a challenge.

00:16:05.380 And so like this morning, this is, this really happened.

00:16:08.720 I was about to leave this morning and I heard a blood curdling scream from upstairs in the

00:16:13.920 boys' room.

00:16:14.420 And I go run upstairs because it sounds, you know, I, as a parent, you become, you become

00:16:18.680 discerning of the different screams that you hear from your kids.

00:16:21.340 And there's the, uh, just the whiny sort of scream that you'll ignore and not even pay

00:16:27.520 attention to.

00:16:28.300 But then there's the, I'm hurt, I'm injured scream.

00:16:31.060 And that's what, and that's what gets you into gear.

00:16:34.080 And so this was a, I thought was a, a hurt, injured scream.

00:16:37.720 And so I ran upstairs.

00:16:38.440 I thought someone had, you know, fallen off of a bed and hurt, broken their arm or something.

00:16:44.380 And I go in and nobody's hurt.

00:16:46.740 It's my four-year-old son had let out this scream of agony because, and I don't pretend

00:16:52.420 to understand this.

00:16:53.180 This is just what he told me that, um, he has these Paw Patrol books, right?

00:16:59.140 Big Paw Patrol fan, unfortunately, cause I hate that show.

00:17:02.580 And he wants to have all of the Paw Patrol books in the world.

00:17:07.420 He wants all of them.

00:17:09.260 That's, that was his state.

00:17:10.300 That's what he said to his older brother.

00:17:12.320 His older brother explained to him, well, you know, you can't have all of them because

00:17:15.920 besides they can always print more and you're not going to be able to get all of them.

00:17:19.400 So upon learning that he could not have every Paw Patrol book, he let out this, this enormous

00:17:23.660 scream. 1.00

00:17:24.280 And that's one of those moments as a, as a parent where you, you try to, okay, that's, oh,

00:17:29.600 that's what you're upset about.

00:17:30.480 Well, you try as best you can to take that feeling seriously, but it's not always, it's not

00:17:35.620 always easy to do.

00:17:36.260 Um, all right, let's go.

00:17:38.380 We'll start with this from the post-millennial says Oliver Darcy, who works at CNN has announced

00:17:44.440 on Thursday on his Twitter that three CNN employees have been summarily dismissed from

00:17:50.100 their jobs for coming to the office unvaccinated.

00:17:54.840 Jeff Zucker adds in his memo to Jeff.

00:17:57.500 Did I just say Jeff Zucker?

00:17:59.220 Jeff Zucker.

00:18:01.240 Freudian slip there.

00:18:02.240 Adds in his memo to, uh, CNN staff in the past week, we have been made aware of three

00:18:07.280 employees who are coming to the office unvaccinated.

00:18:10.480 All three have been terminated.

00:18:12.740 Let me be clear.

00:18:14.040 We have a zero tolerance policy on this.

00:18:17.040 Um, and, uh, and that's all we know.

00:18:21.460 I think at this point, at least last I checked, we don't actually know who the employees are.

00:18:27.600 Well, it was a, it was a senior media reporter.

00:18:29.760 Um, and then someone in tech and anyone else.

00:18:34.240 Now the, the interesting thing here is that.

00:18:37.740 So they're firing employees who are not vaccinated.

00:18:43.260 Jeffrey Toobin still has a job.

00:18:46.880 So at CNN right now, the, the policy apparently is, I don't know if they have this in writing

00:18:52.360 or not exactly, but I don't know if you look at the, at, you go to HR and you get the,

00:18:56.640 the employee handbook, if it's going to, if it's going to say this, but, uh, the policy

00:19:02.260 is that you can masturbate in front of your coworkers and that is not a termination worthy 0.97

00:19:08.520 offense. 0.99

00:19:09.040 But if you don't get a certain substance injected into your body, then that is, you can't get

00:19:18.280 fired for that.

00:19:19.020 That's the policy over at CNN.

00:19:21.260 Meanwhile, uh, more COVID news, another Republican governor to be ashamed of Larry Hogan is, he

00:19:28.300 spoke out yesterday against the conspiracy theorists who aren't getting vaccinated because

00:19:34.840 that's of course, you know, that's the only reason why someone wouldn't get vaccinated is

00:19:38.160 just because they're a conspiracy theorist.

00:19:40.160 And he said that, uh, he threatened to lock down the state again.

00:19:43.440 And he said, if I locked down the state, it's your fault.

00:19:46.820 You conspiracy theorists.

00:19:48.380 Let's listen to that.

00:19:49.940 Look, I don't care what misinformation or conspiracy theories that you have heard.

00:19:57.240 Uh, the plain and simple fact is that these vaccines are working.

00:20:03.460 If you're still unsure about the vaccines, uh, here is the important fact for you to consider

00:20:12.280 nearly every single person hospitalized or dying with COVID-19 in Maryland right now is

00:20:22.100 unvaccinated.

00:20:22.780 Uh, those of you who, uh, refuse to get vaccinated at this point are willfully and unnecessarily

00:20:31.620 putting yourself and others at risk of hospitalization and death.

00:20:37.360 You are the ones, uh, threatening the freedoms of all the rest of us, the freedom not to wear

00:20:43.660 masks, to keep our businesses open and to get our kids back in school.

00:20:48.220 And tragically, it may be only a matter of time until you do get COVID-19.

00:20:54.580 That's some nice freedom you have there.

00:20:58.420 Be a shame if something happened to it.

00:21:02.220 No, to be clear, Larry Hogan, Republican governor of Maryland, he is the one threatening to shut

00:21:09.820 down businesses, threatening everyone's freedom.

00:21:11.840 That's what he just did there.

00:21:12.820 It doesn't matter.

00:21:15.860 It doesn't matter how many people are unvaccinated could be 90% of the country unvaccinated.

00:21:21.660 That's not going to, that in and of itself, isn't going to cause a business to shut down.

00:21:27.560 No, no business ever has been shut down because people didn't get vaccinated.

00:21:31.980 That is a decision that people in power make in response to that fact.

00:21:40.860 And it, it, it, it, and obviously unnecessary decision along with other adjectives you could

00:21:46.060 use in response to it, you know, all of these, and by the way, Larry Hogan, another, just

00:21:54.020 nothing of a Republican and he, he never, you're, you're never going to see that kind of forcefulness

00:22:03.140 from that guy on any issue.

00:22:06.520 This is like the first time he's ever put his foot down about anything and it's about vaccines. 1.00

00:22:17.680 All of these idiots, they still haven't considered because they're so drunk on their own power. 1.00

00:22:24.020 They haven't considered the other option. 1.00

00:22:27.020 They, so many different strategies have been attempted to convince people to get a vaccine.

00:22:33.020 A lot of it is threatening.

00:22:36.320 The two primary strategies, strategies, of course, threatening and blaming.

00:22:41.280 Point the finger of blame.

00:22:42.620 This is all your fault.

00:22:43.480 You unvaccinated people.

00:22:46.480 While at the same time, fear-mongering by saying even vaccinated people are getting sick.

00:22:51.540 Well, if even vaccinated people are getting sick, then how do you know it's the fault of

00:22:54.980 the unvaccinated that the sickness is still spreading?

00:23:00.180 But those are the strategies, blame and threaten, blame and threaten, blame and threaten.

00:23:04.960 And then sometimes they mix in infantilization.

00:23:09.380 So we throw a little bit of that in too.

00:23:10.700 You know, condescending to people. 0.99

00:23:16.480 Let's bring a juvenile out to sing, vax that ass up. 1.00

00:23:22.420 None of these people have thought of a fourth option, which is speak to people like adults 0.98

00:23:29.180 and with respect.

00:23:30.540 Give them the information that you have.

00:23:35.020 Give them all of the data.

00:23:36.460 Don't hide anything.

00:23:38.920 Be honest.

00:23:39.840 Be upfront.

00:23:40.480 Be forthright.

00:23:42.740 And say, you know, I think you should get vaccinated.

00:23:46.100 Here's my case.

00:23:47.640 This is a decision that you're going to make.

00:23:49.400 We're not going to force you to make it.

00:23:51.160 We're not going to force you to inject any substance into your body.

00:23:54.060 No matter how I feel about that substance, even if I think it's a great idea, but here's

00:23:59.160 the information.

00:24:00.160 And I think this is a choice that you should make in consultation with your doctor and so

00:24:06.340 on and so forth.

00:24:08.140 How about that for a message?

00:24:09.560 You ever tried that?

00:24:12.760 Now, is that going to convince every single unvaccinated person to get vaccinated?

00:24:18.100 No, there are some people who simply are not going to do it.

00:24:20.740 Of all the unvaccinated people right now, if we were to break them up into pieces, and 1.00

00:24:25.100 I don't know what the percentage is for each, but there's a certain portion who just are

00:24:29.620 not going to do it, no matter what you say.

00:24:32.440 I mean, you could threaten to actually put them in prison and maybe we'll get to that

00:24:35.380 point.

00:24:36.300 In fact, I'm sure we will get to that point, at least in some states, and that still won't

00:24:40.220 convince them.

00:24:42.600 And then you have other people that are kind of in between.

00:24:44.300 And then you have people who, you know, are maybe still, aren't completely against it,

00:24:51.580 could maybe be convinced, but are also a little bit worried about it.

00:25:00.720 And talking to some of these people, I know they exist because I've talked to some of them,

00:25:03.780 and, but they also get suspicious when they hear this kind of language, the threatening

00:25:14.140 and the blaming, not being forthright, not being honest, that makes them suspicious.

00:25:24.480 And for good reason, in general, like when, when, when agents of the state are threatening

00:25:28.580 and blaming, there's a reason it's a, it's a good reaction to be skeptical.

00:25:33.780 That's a good instinct to have.

00:25:37.480 So, as I said, I don't know how large that percentage is.

00:25:39.960 The people that are still, you know, could still be convinced kind of on the, on the

00:25:43.740 edge of it a little bit, but they're the only ones you can reach.

00:25:48.380 And this is not going to do it just isn't.

00:25:52.180 And if you, if you, if you do believe that this is all a conspiracy theory and that all

00:25:56.800 of the quote unquote anti-vaxxers, people who haven't been vaccinated, even though of all

00:26:03.060 the people that haven't been vaccinated, not all of them are anti-vaxxers, a certain

00:26:07.860 portion are anti-vax in the, in the, in the, in the sense that they're simply against this

00:26:13.480 vaccine period, maybe against all vaccines.

00:26:16.060 That's a certain portion.

00:26:19.100 But a certain portion are, you know, don't have any problem with the vaccine necessarily.

00:26:23.320 They just don't think they need it.

00:26:24.440 But if it was true that all of this is, these are all just conspiracy theorists, you are not

00:26:34.200 helping to quell the conspiracy theories by doing this, by threatening to take freedoms

00:26:40.460 away.

00:26:44.240 All right, let's go here to a Gallup poll.

00:26:47.040 Just as a quick, interesting note, though, certainly not surprising at all.

00:26:51.000 Um, Gallup, uh, conducted a poll asking Americans how they kind of, uh, identify themselves in

00:27:00.460 terms of ethnicity and race and what, what terms do they prefer to be called?

00:27:05.740 And so, uh, for example, they asked, um, uh, black people, do you prefer to be called black

00:27:14.360 or African-American?

00:27:15.080 It's kind of an easy, even split 52, 44 and 4% had no opinion.

00:27:19.780 Um, but then they asked, uh, Hispanic respondents, what do you prefer Hispanic, Latino, or Latinx

00:27:27.500 or Latinx, I think is how we're supposed to pronounce that.

00:27:31.500 At least that's how we pronounce it in English.

00:27:34.540 That word L-A-T-I-N-X, that cannot be pronounced in Spanish.

00:27:39.400 The word just doesn't exist.

00:27:40.600 You can't pronounce it.

00:27:43.600 Um, and here's what they found.

00:27:45.680 The question was, if you had to choose, which term do you lean toward Hispanic, Latino, or Latinx?

00:27:53.940 And 57% has said Hispanic, 37% said Latino, 5% said Latinx.

00:28:02.280 Only 5%.

00:28:03.200 And even that seems a little bit high.

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

00:28:19.200 to people who are Hispanic.

00:28:20.160 I haven't met one who, who refers to themselves that way or wants to be referred to that way.

00:28:25.880 And you see these kinds of poll results.

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

00:28:54.640 it.

00:28:55.720 And that's what the polls confirm.

00:28:58.360 Nobody wants to use it.

00:29:00.480 It's nonsensical.

00:29:01.600 It doesn't even mean anything.

00:29:04.380 Uh, and yet we all know the term, don't we?

00:29:07.400 We all know it.

00:29:08.380 So this powerful minority of people, this is yet another thing where they've been able

00:29:14.960 to inject this into the public consciousness.

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

00:29:40.580 even uses this word or wants to use it.

00:29:42.980 And yet you all know the word we have forced you to know this word.

00:29:47.940 And it's, and it actually is being used.

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.

00:30:13.760 They would, they would probably say.

00:30:16.060 All right, next, um, speaking of victories for the left, now they say that silence speaks

00:30:21.760 louder than words.

00:30:22.720 Well, I think that's the case here.

00:30:24.140 The Met, the medal winners, gold, silver, bronze for women's weightlifting, did a press

00:30:29.000 conference a couple of days ago.

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.

00:30:40.700 And then they all kind of clammed up.

00:30:42.840 Let's watch this.

00:30:44.700 This is for Emily.

00:30:45.940 Uh, you went to the United States earlier this year and you trained side-by-side with Sarah

00:30:49.660 in Utah.

00:30:50.240 What was that experience like, uh, then and now when you are competing on the same Olympic

00:30:55.100 stage?

00:30:56.920 Um, yeah, it was fantastic.

00:30:58.280 Um, I was really honored to be invited out to the States to train with the guys and especially

00:31:02.020 Sarah, you know, we, we get on really well.

00:31:04.020 Um, we're very like-minded people.

00:31:05.660 Um, and it was just really, you know, inspiring to push each other and, um, to get each other

00:31:09.820 ready for these Olympics.

00:31:10.680 And, you know, I'm absolutely thrilled that I managed to share a podium with her because

00:31:14.040 she's, uh, she's a real sweetheart.

00:31:16.480 It was a historic night here, uh, with Laurel Hubbard competing as the first openly transgender

00:31:21.500 in a, uh, in a, uh, individual event.

00:31:24.560 And I was wondering, you know, what you felt about that and what you felt that that took place

00:31:28.420 in, in your sport.

00:31:29.520 No, thank you.

00:31:40.920 No, thank you.

00:31:41.840 Don't want to talk about it.

00:31:42.960 Nothing to say.

00:31:45.460 Of course, if they thought it was great, if they thought it was just great to have a man, 0.53

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.

00:32:02.860 Yeah.

00:32:03.060 We should have more men.

00:32:04.580 Fantastic.

00:32:06.560 I love it.

00:32:07.260 I, you know, I love to see the destruction of my sport.

00:32:09.540 I think it's the greatest thing ever.

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.

00:32:51.500 They don't want to talk about this.

00:32:53.340 They just won the medals, right?

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 1.00

00:33:11.200 potentially get, but I'm sure there are some, and those are going to go away if they start

00:33:14.680 speaking out against this.

00:33:15.620 Um, so I, I, I get that.

00:33:18.280 I really do.

00:33:21.020 But at the same time, it's like we talked about at the top, you know, people want solutions,

00:33:25.720 but they want the easy ones.

00:33:27.580 They don't want to make serious sacrifices.

00:33:30.020 And so most of the time, when you hear someone say, what's the solution?

00:33:32.980 Oh, I only want to hear solutions.

00:33:36.020 The word they're leaving out is easy.

00:33:38.520 What's the easy 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

00:33:53.900 an easy solution.

00:33:55.080 And that's the case here too.

00:33:58.820 That at a certain point, people need to have some courage.

00:34:05.140 I understand why people don't have courage.

00:34:07.300 I understand again, the instinct to not want to get involved.

00:34:12.080 And I'm very sympathetic to that.

00:34:14.800 I mean, these female athletes, they didn't sign up for this. 1.00

00:34:20.060 You know, they don't want to get tossed into the middle of this drama over this guy.

00:34:25.840 Okay.

00:34:26.680 I get that.

00:34:29.620 It's like anybody else.

00:34:31.820 You know, people working their normal jobs, uh, encounter a lot of this kind of thing.

00:34:37.300 And they're supposed to just put up with it.

00:34:38.980 They don't want to speak up because they could lose their job.

00:34:40.780 And you got to, you know, you need your 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

00:34:59.420 at all, then there is no hope.

00:35:04.420 Okay.

00:35:04.880 You may as well, I mean, flee into the woods, flee into the wilderness, go live in a desert

00:35:09.080 and a cave or something.

00:35:10.460 Get out while you can go find a, go find a deserted Island somewhere.

00:35:15.700 I don't know.

00:35:17.320 Maybe go down to Antarctica, go 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.

00:35:27.940 If we have ruled out simple courage.

00:35:35.320 And that means just normal people who don't want to get involved in these kinds of things

00:35:41.360 are going to have to get involved.

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. 0.99

00:35:55.540 Okay.

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, 0.99

00:36:07.540 displaying his penis to all the women and children. 0.99

00:36:10.020 And she said, no, absolutely not. 1.00

00:36:11.740 And she just reacted with some courage.

00:36:20.020 That's what women need to do in locker rooms when the men come in. 1.00

00:36:24.100 And when they intrude in sports, that's what men need to do also.

00:36:32.080 You know, what about all the men?

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 0.84

00:36:47.380 in that locker room have husbands. 1.00

00:36:50.780 And I'm sure those women came home and told their husbands what happened. 0.95

00:36:55.060 Why aren't the husbands beating down the door and saying, what are you doing? 0.98

00:36:59.360 I'm subjecting my wife and my children to this.

00:37:04.640 So some basic courage is needed to begin with.

00:37:07.840 That's like step one.

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.

00:37:27.540 We might lose money.

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.

00:37:39.180 I mean, all that might happen.

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

00:37:43.140 no hope.

00:37:44.580 All right.

00:37:45.140 What else do we got?

00:37:45.780 Okay.

00:37:46.020 Let's go.

00:37:46.580 Let's lighten the mood a little bit here.

00:37:48.040 This is just a lot of fun.

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.

00:38:02.140 So he was at a gun range.

00:38:03.420 He has first experience with one of these things.

00:38:06.620 And, uh, here's what he says.

00:38:08.960 He says, while the pistol was manageable, even comfortable to hold and fire, the rifle was

00:38:13.760 a different beast altogether.

00:38:14.980 Everything about it, its weight, tactical scope, and, uh, overall lethality was downright

00:38:20.700 intimidating.

00:38:21.760 The fact that the first magazine refused to click into place didn't help either, further

00:38:26.100 unnerving me.

00:38:27.040 What if I just broke a $3,500 rifle?

00:38:29.520 A fresh magazine worked just fine though.

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

00:38:39.280 the trigger and ba-boom.

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.

00:38:52.300 A deep shockwave coursed through my body.

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.

00:39:19.980 It was exhilarating.

00:39:21.360 But I never got comfortable firing it.

00:39:23.680 I'm not sure what scared me more.

00:39:25.340 The power of that weapon or the fact that I could have taken one home that day.

00:39:28.940 And here he is just talking about a rifle.

00:39:35.900 That was his experience with a rifle.

00:39:39.440 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.

00:39:58.000 But you're the one holding it.

00:39:59.240 You're pointing it at a target.

00:40:00.420 Okay?

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.

00:40:18.220 All right.

00:40:20.140 Let's see.

00:40:20.700 Let's move on to reading the YouTube comments.

00:40:24.980 Let's see. 0.99

00:40:25.480 Ken says, Matt's commentary on the whole Cori Bush thing is kind of dumb. 0.97

00:40:29.100 What she says and did regarding police and security, it's not hypocrisy. 0.84

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.

00:40:41.180 Therefore, it's not hypocrisy.

00:40:42.220 It's hierarchy.

00:40:43.080 Pretty important distinction to make.

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.

00:40:57.540 Fantastic things are going great.

00:40:59.300 Keep up the great job, Matt.

00:41:01.760 Okay.

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. 0.98

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. 0.99

00:41:25.080 It's all about her statement that she's better than the rest of us. 0.99

00:41:27.860 That was the whole point of the monologue.

00:41:30.480 That's the point it was leading to.

00:41:31.860 And as far as using the word Karen as a slur against white females, I didn't do that. 0.94

00:41:38.600 I think you're hearing things.

00:41:40.040 I said many times on the show.

00:41:41.520 I've said many times.

00:41:42.260 I've done whole segments on how I consider that a racial slur.

00:41:45.960 And so, no, I'm not going to use it myself.

00:41:48.580 Did I say it?

00:41:49.340 Was I quoting someone and I said it?

00:41:50.800 I don't know what you're talking about.

00:41:51.720 Okay.

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.

00:42:01.260 A lot of comments like this.

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.

00:42:13.580 And his life has been very well documented.

00:42:18.620 In fact, I looked on YouTube.

00:42:20.380 There's like a 60-part documentary or something about this guy.

00:42:23.400 I don't know.

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.

00:42:34.800 Let's see.

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.

00:42:58.020 Let's see.

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.

00:43:04.640 It was Joe Biden.

00:43:05.520 He said he regretted the 1994 crime bill.

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.

00:43:15.380 Yeah, you're right about that.

00:43:17.060 So that's one example.

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.

00:44:14.780 It says, hey, love the show.

00:44:15.860 I would love to hear your take on married couples having separate finances. 0.93

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.

00:44:27.540 But I will say this very briefly.

00:44:29.600 Yeah, separate finances doesn't make any sense to me when you're married.

00:44:35.180 You're either going to be married or not.

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.

00:44:52.720 Nothing good ever comes from that, by the way.

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.

00:45:12.060 I mean, that's one thing.

00:45:14.640 But to say, here's my account, here's your account, nothing good ever comes of that.

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00:47:04.060 That was Kate Hudson.

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.

00:47:13.880 That was Katie Holmes.

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. 1.00

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.

00:48:35.660 It says, quote,

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.

00:49:35.120 Worth it for the laughs, at any rate.

00:49:38.640 So, she writes,

00:49:41.520 The beginning is often the best part of love.

00:49:44.900 Fireworks, magnets, rebellion, the attraction.

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.

00:49:58.500 Side note there, who the hell splits a burger? 0.99

00:50:00.460 Now, I love my wife, but she has to order her own damn burgers, for God's sake, okay? 1.00

00:50:06.260 Anyway, buy a bottle of whiskey and share shots. 0.99

00:50:09.940 Pour me a waterfall.

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.

00:50:17.260 Inherently, we fear an ending.

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.

00:50:26.420 The great unknown.

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.

00:50:40.700 To us, this is truth.

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.

00:51:07.500 The connection does not simply disappear.

00:51:09.280 The love deepens.

00:51:10.160 The heart expands.

00:51:11.420 We know the 4 a.m. calls are coming.

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? 0.97

00:51:38.740 Wow, what a tremendous load of s**t. 0.67

00:51:44.880 Although I think I did her some favors in my performance of that Instagram post, I think. 0.99

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. 0.97

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.

00:52:26.300 To sever that bond is to choose not to love.

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,

00:52:41.040 you're still 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

00:52:55.500 just because your spouse is consenting to it.

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 1.00

00:53:08.720 like the one we just read.

00:53:10.200 The point is this.

00:53:12.120 Love is an act.

00:53:14.420 Okay, it's not a feeling.

00:53:16.600 Love is a thing you do.

00:53:18.580 It's not an emotion you feel.

00:53:21.220 To understand how and why that's the case,

00:53:23.320 just think about another virtue, closely related and one that Kate Bosworth also humbly

00:53:27.660 and falsely attributes to herself, courage.

00:53:30.840 Okay?

00:53:31.700 Is courage an act or a feeling?

00:53:33.960 Well, it's obviously an act.

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,

00:53:46.420 then they're not really being all that brave.

00:53:48.460 Because anyone can do something if they're not afraid to do it.

00:53:51.220 That's nothing impressive about that.

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.

00:54:16.360 The same goes for love.

00:54:17.520 If you act lovingly towards someone because you feel enamored with them,

00:54:21.220 that's fine.

00:54:22.140 I mean, it's nice to feel those feelings, but anyone can do that.

00:54:25.140 There's nothing special about 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

00:54:36.440 or you're feeling resentful or whatever.

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.

00:54:56.080 So you see, it's all about you in the end.

00:54:58.360 You're married to yourself.

00:54:59.500 Your spouse is just a stand-in for your own ego. 1.00

00:55:03.460 They're kind of like a brick wall and you're just over there

00:55:05.760 bouncing a tennis ball off of them.

00:55:08.780 The love is a tennis ball that you bounce off of them

00:55:11.200 only because you know it comes back to you.

00:55:12.740 There's no sacrifice.

00:55:15.560 You're not giving anything.

00:55:17.920 Your relationship is a mercenary endeavor.

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,

00:55:34.440 but it's how they approach 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.

00:55:49.720 We are humans, after all.

00:55:51.240 Feelings are part of the bargain in any human arrangement

00:55:53.500 and we can never say that they don't matter.

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

00:56:07.780 and less fickle than that.

00:56:10.400 To be rooted in feelings is to not be rooted at all. 0.98

00:56:14.520 Your marriage is then just a light and flimsy little pathetic thing 0.95

00:56:17.780 laying on the surface, waiting for a mild breeze to blow it away. 0.98

00:56:22.100 And that breeze will certainly come.

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.

00:56:38.760 Hope you all have a great weekend.

00:56:39.820 We'll talk to you on Monday.

00:56:41.180 Godspeed.

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The Matt Walsh Show - August 06, 2021

Ep. 770 - Save Your Kids. Get Them Out Of The Public School System

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