The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 781 - If You're Scared, Stay Home. I'll Be Out Here Living My Life

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Wall Show, as we have seen for many months now, many people in this country and

00:00:04.240 across the West are eager to give up their basic rights and liberties for fear of COVID.

00:00:08.580 They insist that we should all live in the same way, fearful and oppressed like them.

00:00:12.780 But I have a different solution, which I will suggest today. Also, President Biden warns that

00:00:16.360 those in the path of Tropical Storm Henry, they must remember to wear masks when the storm hits.

00:00:21.960 Yes, he really said that, wear masks when the storm hits. And the media claims that there's

00:00:25.500 a rising trend of anti-mask parents physically assaulting teachers. But the trend doesn't

00:00:31.840 exist. They're making it up. We'll look at the facts today. And finally, the cancel mob has taken

00:00:35.400 a special interest in the hunt for a new host of Jeopardy. Why do they care so much? Well,

00:00:40.140 we'll talk about that today and much more on The Matt Wall Show.

00:00:42.740 Well, the situation in Australia seems to get worse by the day. And by situation, I don't mean COVID

00:00:56.860 itself. As far as the virus goes, they're experiencing only four deaths per day in a population

00:01:03.280 of 25 million. And four deaths per day, we should note, represents the worst of it. That's the most

00:01:09.140 they've seen this year and probably the peak or close to the peak of the current wave. By the way,

00:01:14.160 four deaths in a country of 25 million represents 0.00001% of the population. And this has been

00:01:22.540 enough to justify a de facto martial law with nearly all basic human rights and freedom suspended.

00:01:28.780 And public health authorities are now warning citizens that they're not allowed to even speak

00:01:32.620 to each other in public. And this is all horrifying enough. But for those who tend to sympathize,

00:01:38.700 more with the plight of animals than humans, perhaps this will get the point across.

00:01:42.660 A report from Fox News says, a group of dogs that was set to be sent to a rescue were instead shot and

00:01:49.100 killed by local officials, according to local reports. This was apparently done in order to

00:01:53.940 prevent shelter employees from traveling and potentially spreading infection. A watchdog group,

00:02:00.100 the Office of Local Government, says it was informed by the Borkshire Council that the dogs had been shot.

00:02:06.440 The incident occurred in an attempt to prevent volunteers from another area

00:02:09.780 from traveling to that location. So they're now shooting rescue dogs, perfectly healthy dogs,

00:02:16.400 for fear that caring for them may result somehow in the spread of a virus that kills a whopping

00:02:21.940 0.00001% of the population per day. Meanwhile, the government is issuing arrest warrants,

00:02:29.720 and the local media are delivering urgent news bulletins about COVID-positive people

00:02:34.680 who commit the crime of leaving their homes. This is very real. This is not a parody or anything.

00:02:41.060 It's hard to tell the difference a lot of times these days. But watch this.

00:02:45.860 It's those doing the wrong thing driving our record case numbers. Among the most concerning cases,

00:02:52.120 a COVID patient who's tonight on the run from a hotspot. Police and health authorities have issued an

00:02:58.140 urgent appeal. Anthony Karam knows he is COVID-positive when he steps into this public lift. Already

00:03:07.040 breaking so many rules, he doesn't bother to cover his mouth as he sneezes and splutters. The 27-year-old

00:03:15.080 is still infectious, but has gone missing from his Wentworth Point apartment. A warrant now issued for his

00:03:22.540 arrest. This 27-year-old chap, who apparently has expressed the view that he doesn't care less

00:03:29.740 whether he spreads the virus, is one example of the worst of the worst. The worst of the worst.

00:03:37.500 Not murderers, not child rapists. The worst of the worst. A guy who has the virus and got into an 0.96

00:03:44.380 elevator. By himself, we should know. But as always, the most terrifying thing is that the people

00:03:51.920 are cooperating with all this. Going along like mindless cattle. Now, in fairness, a certain brave

00:03:57.780 minority have spoken out and protested this dystopian insanity, but most citizens of the country seem to

00:04:04.480 be just falling in line. The image that many of us outside of Australia have of the kind of plucky

00:04:10.640 and fearless Steve Irwin-esque Aussies who wrestle crocodiles for fun has taken a serious hit, which is a

00:04:17.740 tragedy in its own right. But then who are we to judge in America? We are overrun by scared infantile

00:04:24.760 cowards in this country as well. A sizable portion of our own population would happily go along with all of 0.98

00:04:31.400 the measures that have been put in place in Australia, and then some. The fact that most of those measures have

00:04:36.180 not been put in place in this country, at least not yet, has caused many of our fellow countrymen real

00:04:42.120 distress. They have more freedom than they want. They're begging the government to take freedoms

00:04:49.060 away from them. And they certainly believe that you have more freedom than you should have. And their

00:04:53.980 fear and panic is really tearing the country apart even more than it was already torn apart before all

00:04:58.540 this started. The Wall Street Journal this morning reports on how COVID fear has turned even families

00:05:04.020 against each other. They report, quote, weeks of rising COVID-19 cases have hardened divisions within

00:05:10.000 families, communities, and friend groups over which members have been vaccinated and which have chosen

00:05:14.260 not to do so. Hannah Lindeborg wanted to pull out all the stops for her daughter's second birthday in 1.00

00:05:19.680 July, especially after the pandemic derailed the family celebration for her first birthday last year.

00:05:24.740 The second birthday would be the first big gathering with extended family since COVID-19 came into their

00:05:29.520 lives, Ms. Lindeborg said, adding that she looked forward to hosting everybody over at her home in

00:05:34.600 St. Paul, Minnesota. When she learned some of her family members had chosen not to get vaccinated,

00:05:39.460 quote, it just went downhill from there. From family gatherings to weddings to workplaces,

00:05:44.320 vaccinated Americans are drawing new, sharper lines around who they choose to spend time with

00:05:48.660 amid the rise of the highly transmissible Delta variant. And the unvaccinated are growing testy over

00:05:53.860 being excluded and feeling judged for exercising the right to make their own health choices.

00:05:57.260 The divisions are straining relationships among families, neighbors, and colleagues.

00:06:01.220 Ms. Lindeborg, 30 years old, is an attorney and mother of four, including a five-year-old son with

00:06:05.020 asthma. She and her husband tried to figure out how to host everyone while telling the unvaxxed ones 1.00

00:06:09.840 to remain outside. They considered uninviting the unvaccinated. Ultimately, they just canceled the

00:06:14.720 party. Now, there are many cases like this. Of course, the vaccinated people never seem to pause and

00:06:21.160 think about the fact that they're so terrified of the unvaccinated. If they have faith in the vaccine,

00:06:26.020 then why should they be so scared of unvaccinated people? If they have little faith in the vaccine,

00:06:32.780 that might explain their terror of the unvaccinated, I guess, but it also takes away their right to be

00:06:37.600 angry at them. If you don't believe the vaccine works, how can you blame anyone else for not getting

00:06:44.020 it? Does it work or does it not work? If it doesn't work, then why should anyone get it? If it does work,

00:06:51.100 why do you care if other people don't get it? This is a real logical problem for these people,

00:06:59.140 but they are fearful and panicked. And fearful and panicked people never think through these sorts

00:07:05.120 of things or anything else. There's very little thinking going on, just raw, trembling emotion.

00:07:11.240 And those emotions are taking an increasingly dark turn. More and more, the panicked people are openly

00:07:16.620 wishing death on those who do not share in their panic. Every day you see another video just like

00:07:21.400 this one. Let's watch this. My daughter just called and her boyfriend has tested positive.

00:07:29.960 He's the only person in his work that's wearing a mask out of, you know, 300 people.

00:07:36.200 And now my daughter who's 29 weeks pregnant is at risk. And, uh, I hate every single one of you 0.98

00:07:49.960 who refuses to wear a mask to protect others. I hope this virus finds you. I hope it finds you. 0.95

00:07:58.580 And I hope it destroys you because the people that are trying to do their part in this are getting 1.00

00:08:06.720 sick because of you stupid, ignorant morons. So please get vaccinated. 1.00

00:08:20.640 Real catch there. You got to feel sorry for her husband. I mean, if she has one still,

00:08:25.840 um, whatever number she's on. So he, he was vaccinated, presumably the son-in-law and,

00:08:33.860 and was wearing a mask and he still got sick. Okay. And if any, but if anyone suggests that perhaps

00:08:41.020 those measures don't work all that well, if anyone were to suggest that, uh, and so they 1.00

00:08:47.420 declined to partake in them, you label them ignorant morons who deserve death. Do you see the 1.00

00:08:54.200 problem here? Well, no, you know, and I, we can't really expect this screaming harpy to see the 1.00

00:08:59.880 problem. She's just looking for someone to blame. Same can be said for, uh, one of my fellow Nashville 0.97

00:09:05.580 residents, Melissa Joan Hart, formerly the star of Sabrina, the teenage witch. And Clarissa explains

00:09:11.220 it all for you nineties kids. She is now sick with COVID and explaining why it's all the fault of 0.90

00:09:16.820 unmasked school children. It's all their fault that she's sick, even though she's vaccinated.

00:09:20.960 Uh, let's watch that. I got COVID. I am vaccinated and I got COVID and it's bad. Um, it's weighing in

00:09:31.420 my chest. It's hard to breathe. Um, one of my kids, I think has it so far. I'm praying that the other

00:09:39.560 ones are okay. I'm mad, really mad because we tried and we took precautions and we cut our exposure by a

00:09:50.360 lot, but we got a little lazy. And I think as a country, we got lazy and I'm really mad that my

00:09:58.120 kids didn't have to wear masks at school. Cause I'm pretty sure that's where this came from. And

00:10:03.720 I nothing I can do about now. My little one, luckily wore a mask every day because he was used

00:10:12.800 to it from last year and he came home bragging every day, mom, I wore my mask and I was so thankful.

00:10:18.420 And now if he does get it, I can at least tell him he was a superhero to those in his classroom

00:10:23.500 because he protected his teacher and his classmates from it. She's, uh, doing everything she can to

00:10:32.040 stay healthy. And by the way, you notice how she says, uh, well, they, I'm mad at the school

00:10:36.460 cause they didn't require my kids to wear a mask. Well, they're your kids. You could have required

00:10:40.660 it. I don't think you should require that of your kids. I think it's abusive to put your kids in,

00:10:46.120 in, um, in a mask, but she obviously doesn't think that.

00:10:48.820 And so just, just imagine that she's blaming that. Why didn't you require my kids to do this 0.89

00:10:55.080 thing? But it's not her kids. Well, it's, it's all your kids fault for not muzzling himself at

00:11:03.180 school. And yet apparently she says she's doing everything. She took precautions, but those

00:11:09.040 precautions did not include canceling her trip to Disney world. A look at the Instagram page where

00:11:14.600 this video was posted reveals that just before this video, she was gallivanting around at a, 0.57

00:11:18.820 at a massive crowded theme park. Could that have been the source of her current ailment? No,

00:11:24.640 of course not. It had to be your fault. And this brings me finally to an important point.

00:11:30.440 And I know this is fruitless now. Um, but, but I'm going to say anyway, again,

00:11:37.160 speaking for myself, I am aware that COVID is endemic, that there will always be new variants.

00:11:45.800 Uh, so when I hear about, well, they got Delta variant and then there's the Lambert variant and,

00:11:51.040 um, you know, it, it, it, it, it's just like, it's, it sounds like frat row at a, at a, at a university

00:11:57.480 with all these different variants and everything. And I know that. And there's always going to be new

00:12:03.200 ones. And I know that I will inevitably be exposed to the virus at some point. If I haven't been already,

00:12:10.420 I know that I'll contract COVID if I haven't already. And even if I have, or I do, I might

00:12:16.800 get it again at some point in the future, just as many people get the flu multiple times throughout

00:12:20.740 their lives. I mean, natural immunity is a thing, but it does, there's no reason to think that it

00:12:25.360 lasts forever. Now this is not an argument against taking precautions. Washing your hands is a good

00:12:32.980 idea in general. Basic hygiene is a worthwhile practice in general. Eating healthy, getting plenty of

00:12:38.700 sun, plenty of vitamins. These are all good lifestyle choices and also good protection from

00:12:42.780 COVID, at least in, in its most serious forms. As for shots, lots of people get flu shots every

00:12:47.460 year, which is a fine thing to do if you want. Just as getting the COVID vaccine is a fine thing to do

00:12:51.620 if you want. With all of that established, I choose to live my life and carry on as, as, as normal.

00:12:59.000 If I had any reason to believe that we could literally get rid of COVID completely by taking whatever

00:13:05.400 steps, then maybe my calculus might change. I don't know. But that's not the situation. We can't.

00:13:12.360 It's here and it's not going anywhere. I don't like it, but that's the truth. I wish it weren't true,

00:13:17.740 but it is. I'm not saying COVID doesn't exist or that it's all made up or that I know for a fact

00:13:24.980 it won't kill me. It probably won't kill me. It probably poses little threat to me, but probably

00:13:34.100 isn't definitely. So that means that it could kill me just as I know many other things could kill me.

00:13:39.520 And yet I choose to live alongside that reality within that reality. And in spite of it, that's

00:13:45.200 my choice. If you feel differently, if you simply are not willing to accept the mild risk of COVID

00:13:54.000 mild for most people, anyway, then you are free to make different choices. You're free to stay home

00:14:01.360 as much as possible. Nobody is forcing you to go to Disney World. Nobody is forcing you to go

00:14:07.500 anywhere, really. In fact, one of the blessings or curses, depending on how you look at it, of modern

00:14:12.200 life is that it enables you to rarely leave your home. You can have most things delivered to you,

00:14:16.600 including your groceries. Lots of people can work from home. If you can't, I know not everybody can,

00:14:22.100 but then if you have to go to work, you're free to go to work in rubber gloves and a gas mask.

00:14:26.420 I mean, why not? If you're that afraid of it, then why not do that? You can do that. No one's

00:14:33.100 stopping you. And then come right home every day. No social life. Don't go to any restaurants. Don't

00:14:39.720 go to any theme parks. Don't go to the movies. Don't go for a walk. Don't do anything. Just stay in

00:14:44.880 your home. My point is you are free to drop out of society for the most part or completely.

00:14:51.980 Cower in your home. Hide under your blanket. Lock the door. Who knows? COVID may be able to pick,

00:14:59.040 may be able to turn a door. I don't know if they figured out how to turn the doorknob yet,

00:15:02.400 but make sure you lock the door. Get some dead bolts. Live in fear of this virus. Determined

00:15:08.060 that when you die, which you will, something other than that will be the thing that takes you out.

00:15:14.660 Now, I think that's an insane way to live. I think it's a tragic way to live. I think it's a

00:15:20.340 cowardly and disgraceful way to live, but nobody is telling you that you can't live that way. 0.80

00:15:26.900 What I'm telling you is that rather than trying to impose your paranoia on the rest of us, 0.99

00:15:32.400 rather than insisting that we all be hypochondriac lunatics like you, why don't you just do your 0.99

00:15:38.860 thing? Okay. Live your truth as the left always tells us. This is your truth, right? So go ahead and 0.99

00:15:47.700 live it. Nobody's stopping you. Let the rest of us live our lives. We have made our choice.

00:15:56.200 We'll deal with the consequences. You make yours and good luck to you. Why can't that just be

00:16:04.160 the solution? Well, I know why it can't be. This is all a rhetorical question because really

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00:17:38.700 So I got to tell you about this. I know I've told you several wardrobe malfunctions that I've had

00:17:45.540 over the last few weeks, a real, a real trend. And this one, I guess I got to just tell you about

00:17:53.060 this because this is sort of like the culminating one. And this was my, my real wake up call that

00:17:56.980 maybe I am not qualified to dress myself in the morning. So, you know, my wife, you know, she gave

00:18:03.500 me grief last week because I was wearing the tan on tan outfit, tan shirt, tan pants. And that

00:18:08.340 apparently you can't do. So yesterday we're about to go to church and, you know, my wife says,

00:18:14.380 if you got a shirt for church, I'm going to go iron some stuff. So give me your shirt. And I

00:18:17.720 handed her a shirt, which I had recently purchased. And it was like a blue shirt. And to me, it was

00:18:23.900 just a blue shirt with some patterns on it. It's a kind of like nondescript patterns, but I was going

00:18:28.460 for something, you know, you don't want to go with a solid tan on tan, something with a little bit

00:18:32.020 more character, something with more, um, a little bit more, if I, if I, if I could dare say pizzazz

00:18:37.440 to it. And I handed to her and then she starts laughing hysterically because it is, according

00:18:43.420 to her, it's kind of like a floral pattern. It's a flowery shirt, she said. And then she

00:18:49.600 started saying how it looks like something her dead grandmother would have worn. And she

00:18:52.900 starts calling me a grave robber. And we're having this discussion about the shirt. And then

00:18:57.860 my, my one and a half year old daughter, unprompted, she wasn't, I know she was not set up for

00:19:01.500 this. And she's, you know, she's just recently learning how to speak and put sentences together. 0.97

00:19:07.080 She walks into the room and she points at the shirt and she says, mommy's dress. 0.98

00:19:14.280 And I just got absolutely owned by my one and a half year old daughter. And this is where

00:19:18.540 I realized no matter what I try to do, go with the tan on tan, that's not good. Solid color,

00:19:23.400 not good. Try to go with something a little bit more with a little more character to it.

00:19:28.480 I end up wearing an old lady's dress by accident. I mean, this is, this is the situation I'm in.

00:19:34.500 I think, I think, uh, I just have to accept it, accept when you have a problem and reach out for

00:19:41.860 help. All right. Uh, Joe Biden has a lot of problems, one of which is a non-functioning brain.

00:19:48.460 So here's a very real tweet from Joe Biden in reference to a tropical storm Henry. He says to

00:19:54.480 those in Henry's path, don't forget that you may need to seek shelter while we're still battling

00:20:00.140 COVID-19 in the Delta variant. So wear a mask and try to observe social distancing to everyone across

00:20:05.960 the country. Don't get caught by the next storm. Get vaccinated now. Wait, somehow I, I, I, I missed

00:20:12.640 the second part of this, uh, the, this thing, the third sentence there I missed when I originally read

00:20:17.000 this. Don't get caught by the next storm. Get vaccinated now. So what the vaccine is a, I would

00:20:25.880 like to think that he means storm in a metaphorical sense. COVID is a storm, but you can never be too

00:20:30.900 sure these days. Is he claiming that the vaccine actually protects against hurricanes? It, it really

00:20:39.180 is a wonder drug in that case. I'm not sure if that's what he's claiming, but he is saying that

00:20:45.740 when planning for potentially devastating storm flooding, maybe your house is destroyed, uh, make

00:20:52.020 sure you wear a mask. That's, that should be, now it's interesting here that if, if you got to run to a

00:21:00.560 shelter because of massive flooding and, um, you know, uh, a potentially fatal situation, what he's

00:21:09.260 saying is make, make sure to keep in mind social distancing and wearing masks, even in, even in the

00:21:15.160 face of an emergency situation, always keep that in mind. And yet if you go back and you refer back to

00:21:23.260 the picture of the, um, Afghan refugees who are being loaded onto planes in Afghanistan and brought to our

00:21:32.500 neighborhoods here in the United States, and especially that first picture where you got 600 Afghans in that 0.66

00:21:38.520 crowded onto that plane and some, unfortunately on the outside of the plane as well, most of them, you know,

00:21:45.200 young, young, young males of fighting age, but, but no masks among them. I assume there was no COVID testing

00:21:52.540 done. There was no requirement for a vaccine passport, no masks, crowding them onto this plane and bringing 1.00

00:22:03.780 them over here. So in that situation, they can say, well, we don't have time to worry about any of that, which makes

00:22:13.360 sense in a vacuum. Yeah. It would be crazy in that situation to worry about, oh, we got to make sure

00:22:20.920 everyone has masks on. And yet for American citizens in an emergency situation, you got to run to a

00:22:27.500 shelter with a hurricane bearing down on you, a tropical storm bearing down on you. They want you

00:22:31.140 to worry about the mask. And it's not just Joe Biden. We can't blame only him for this. He is a following

00:22:38.800 marching orders from the CDC, because if you go to the CDC page on preparing for a hurricane,

00:22:44.420 this again is very real. Here's what it says. Preparing for a hurricane. Follow these important

00:22:51.440 hurricane preparedness tips from the CDC. First tip, prepare for a hurricane. Take basic steps now to

00:22:59.120 ensure your safety should, should a storm hit. I like how their first, the first step in preparing

00:23:05.020 for a hurricane is to prepare for a hurricane. Prepare for a hurricane. Step one, prepare for a hurricane.

00:23:11.740 Oh, well, thank you, CDC. That's some, that's some, some very useful advice. Step two, get a COVID-19

00:23:18.440 vaccine as soon as you can. So that is the second thing they want you to do in preparing for a hurricane

00:23:26.000 is to get, is to get a COVID vaccine. Again, the question is, do, are they claiming, do they think

00:23:34.540 that the vaccine actually protects against hurricanes? I would like to assume they can't

00:23:41.580 possibly be claiming that, but I don't think we can assume that. Um, also speaking of masks,

00:23:46.760 uh, this pediatrician, I want to show you this. A pediatrician, uh, is Scott Hadland is his name,

00:23:56.060 Dr. Scott Hadland. And, uh, he put up this post on Twitter a couple of days ago with this smug

00:24:02.080 grin where he's got his mask pulled down and he says, pediatrician here, kids should wear masks

00:24:07.660 in school. That is all. Thanks. I love the, that is all at the end. He is decreeing this.

00:24:16.120 Uh, the pediatrician has spoken. Well, he said it. So I guess this a smug bastard right here says the

00:24:24.040 kids have to wear masks in school. Who are we to question? But then you notice something you can, 1.00

00:24:28.760 you can barely see it, but right behind him on his bulletin board in his office,

00:24:35.020 there is a, a little chart there with what, what appears to be like a pink elephant. Do you see

00:24:40.340 that sort of a pink elephant wearing a suit? That is, if you zoomed in on that, you would see that

00:24:48.780 that is the gender elephant, which is something that's used, uh, with kids to indoctrinate them

00:24:55.320 into gender theory. It's one of the many creepy sort of worksheets that they hand out in school.

00:25:02.980 Sometimes, sometimes it's a gender elephant. Sometimes it's the gender bred man, 0.99

00:25:08.060 but you talk about a, a, uh, not exactly a shocking twist

00:25:16.580 that this guy telling kids to wear masks in school also happens to have the gender elephant

00:25:22.900 hanging in his, uh, in his office. I wouldn't personally let that guy anywhere near my kids.

00:25:30.080 I mean, any pediatrician saying that kids should wear math, saying that it's a good idea for kids

00:25:34.780 to wear masks for seven, eight hours a day. I'm not gonna let them anywhere near my kids.

00:25:39.980 They've got the gender elephant hanging in their office on top of that. That's, 1.00

00:25:43.560 that really is the icing on the cake, isn't it? All right. Number two, MSNBC has this screaming 1.00

00:25:49.900 headline, very startling. It says the next COVID war school vaccine and mask mandates far-right

00:25:56.280 extremists, anti-maskers, and now parents are fueling a rising pattern of violence against

00:26:02.040 educators, a rising pattern of violence against educators. Well, that's very, that's pretty

00:26:07.900 startling, isn't it? There's a, there's a rising pattern of the teachers being physically assaulted.

00:26:15.040 Nobody wants to see that. It's a terrible thing. Um, and it makes you want to click on the article

00:26:22.720 and read some more. Except what, what, of course, what MSNBC wants you to do, they want you to click

00:26:27.560 on the article so they get the clicks, but they don't want you to read it. They want you to see it,

00:26:32.760 react to the headline, click on it, and maybe do a real brief skim and then share it. That's all

00:26:37.740 they want you to do. They don't want you to really bear down and read each sentence, but we're going to do

00:26:43.920 that right now. And you tell me if something seems a little bit amiss here. They remember,

00:26:48.500 they're alleging a rising pattern of violence against educators. And here's what the article

00:26:53.380 says. A California elementary school teacher was hospitalized this week after allegedly being

00:26:58.520 assaulted by a parent who was upset about the school's mask mandate for children. The attack

00:27:02.640 is part of a rising pattern of violence against educators by parents, anti-maskers, and far-right

00:27:07.020 extremists targeting schools that champion critical race theory, transgender rights, and other issues

00:27:11.480 over the past several months. Let's see. But with the school year getting underway across the

00:27:17.480 country, it's the war on masks currently igniting parent protesters and in ways that are rapidly

00:27:22.740 turning violent. Anti-mask protesters and far-right extremists like the Proud Boys have shown up at

00:27:28.040 school board meetings to protest mask and vaccine mandates, heckling and threatening masked people,

00:27:33.380 accusing educators of child abuse, and calling on schools to unmask the children. Well, first of all,

00:27:38.720 I don't know who would go to a school board meeting and accuse, say that it's child abuse

00:27:44.660 to put your kid in a mask. I don't know who, I don't know what sort of extremist would say such

00:27:48.780 a thing, but I condemn that individual, whoever that happened to be. Anyway, continuing, it says,

00:27:54.580 in Texas, repeated altercations between parents and teachers led to a superintendent's letter to

00:27:59.640 parents asking everyone to be kind and stop fighting mask wars in our schools. In a Colorado district,

00:28:04.280 sheriff's deputies were stationed outside schools on the first day of classes to ensure protests did not

00:28:08.720 stop student learning. In some ways, the violence we've seen outside schools reflects broader

00:28:13.600 tensions rippling across the country. You've noticed we're reading all this. They keep saying

00:28:18.640 rising trend, violence. Where is the violence? They haven't actually told us about any incidents

00:28:24.280 of violence except that one. And now trying to jump ahead a little bit here, where do we get to the

00:28:31.200 actual violence? Then they start telling us over a third of parents across the U.S. do not think

00:28:36.720 schools should require unvaccinated students and staff to wear masks. Maybe that's the violence. 1.00

00:28:41.720 They have a, their opinion is a form of violence, is maybe what they're saying. And you keep reading,

00:28:51.840 you keep reading, and that is really it. That one, a rising trend of violence, and they have one case.

00:29:00.740 And actually, when you read into that one case, here's a local news report from the NBC affiliate

00:29:06.940 talking about that case where a teacher was allegedly assaulted. And here's what they say

00:29:11.620 about it. A California elementary school teacher was allegedly assaulted by a parent Wednesday during

00:29:16.280 an argument over their child having to wear a mask. The Gibson, who's the district superintendent,

00:29:24.760 Torrey Gibson said the male parent verbally assaulted the school's principal when his daughter walked out

00:29:29.160 of a school building wearing a mask. When a male teacher stepped in, the situation escalated,

00:29:35.200 and a physical altercation happened, resulting in injuries. Now, that is a far cry from saying that,

00:29:43.300 that, um, that this was an assault where the parent was solely to blame. Maybe he was, I don't know.

00:29:50.360 But all we're told is that this, this parent showed up, he was upset about the masks,

00:29:55.060 justifiably so. He confronted the principal, justifiably so. You know, we don't know the

00:30:01.440 full content of what he said because we're not told that. And then a male teacher steps in and an

00:30:08.400 altercation happens and the teacher is, is injured in the process. So this sounds to me like a fight

00:30:17.120 between two guys. And one of them got the better of the fight. Who started it? Who hit first? Was,

00:30:26.180 was the parent reacting in self-defense? Was he hit first? We don't know. So all that to say, we have

00:30:32.480 maybe, maybe one teacher who was assaulted in the entire country. One, maybe, and that's a big maybe.

00:30:40.020 No others. And this justifies for MSNBC and other, um, media outlets, a rising trend. This justifies

00:30:50.720 the claim of a rising trend of violence against educators. In fact, it gets even more absurd than

00:30:55.820 that because in this article, um, from MSNBC, when in the first paragraph, they say the attack is part

00:31:02.860 of a rising pattern of violence. It's a hyperlink and you can click on that rising pattern of violence

00:31:07.680 and it's blue, you know, and you click on it and it brings you. And of course, when you see that link

00:31:11.280 rising pattern of violence and it's in blue and that signals that, oh, it's a link and you assume

00:31:16.380 you'll click on the link and it will take you to some other article documenting other cases of

00:31:21.440 violence. And yet you click on that link and it takes you to a CNN article about the exact same

00:31:27.280 one single incident that happened with this elementary school. Um, and it, oh, I know I will say in

00:31:35.200 fairness, later on in the article from MSNBC, they do mention one other case where a parent allegedly,

00:31:40.800 uh, ripped a mask off of a, of a teacher's face. So if we want to call that physical assault,

00:31:47.160 then we've got, and that's a stretch that we've got maybe two, maybe, and this is a rising trend.

00:31:56.760 How do they justify that? Well, because they have no problem simply lying, but also technically,

00:32:03.180 arguably, you know, arguably two is, it's rising. It's more than there were before.

00:32:11.920 It could be the start of a trend. This, this is a 200% increase over the month before.

00:32:22.340 They hope it's the start of a trend. That's really what they're going for here.

00:32:24.880 Um, they, they want to see more of this a lot more. Um, and, and really the point is that they

00:32:33.980 can't, the arguments that the so-called anti-maskers are making. And once again,

00:32:39.020 we have to stipulate that, um, the, the people who don't want kids to be forced to wear masks in

00:32:45.460 school, they might be anti-mask and that they, they don't want to wear masks. They don't think

00:32:50.020 anyone should wear masks or anyone should have to wear masks. That's where I am personally.

00:32:55.040 Um, but there's a great number of, of these people. And I've talked to many of them

00:32:59.240 who have no problem with masks. They even wear masks themselves.

00:33:03.440 They just don't think kids should be forced to wear them for seven hours a day.

00:33:09.680 But the argument made by that side, which is labeled the anti-mask side, um,

00:33:15.180 it's an argument that they have no response to. They don't have the data on their side. They don't

00:33:21.520 have the science on their side. They know that. And so all they can do instead is paint us as violent

00:33:27.620 extremists and make up these narratives of teachers being assaulted left and right.

00:33:32.660 Okay. The Daily Mail has a story that's, uh, is also not a parody though. Though, again,

00:33:37.220 it's very hard to tell these days. Some police in the UK will now be driving rainbow cars.

00:33:42.320 It says police are painting rainbows on the side of their squad cars in a bid to beat

00:33:47.560 online hate crimes and give confidence to the LGBT plus community. Critics have said forces should be 0.99

00:33:53.140 focused on real issues such as knife crime and that the colorful cars might seem less intimidating

00:33:57.640 to the public. You think so? Um, but deputy chief constable Julie Cook says that the, uh, this is a

00:34:04.480 really good idea. And she was interviewed about this and she explains why it's important to have

00:34:09.320 rainbow police cars. And here she is.

00:34:12.320 The rainbow cars, the hate crime cars, whatever we want to call them, they are part of our vehicle

00:34:18.960 fleet. So, you know, we're always replacing vehicles. They get, um, all of the police sort

00:34:24.160 of insignia put on them as normal, but there will normally be then something added on that

00:34:28.080 is to do with the rainbow side of things. Um, but they're out there as normal patrol vehicles.

00:34:32.760 Sometimes people will ask us, um, how can you afford to do that? You know, that's not right

00:34:37.040 to, to spend money on putting a rainbow on a car. Well, actually the cost is quite minimal,

00:34:41.680 but the confidence that it can bring by just having that rainbow on there. And people say

00:34:46.240 to me, you know, the impact of seeing the rainbow is so huge. And the idea is that the cars are there

00:34:51.280 in the communities, generally on normal policing patrol, just again, to show the community that

00:34:56.160 we want you to come forward. If something is happening that, you know, isn't right,

00:35:00.400 then we absolutely want you to come forward. So it is there to try and give confidence

00:35:04.400 to our LGBT plus community, but also to other underrepresented groups.

00:35:10.400 Well, there's nothing that would give me greater confidence, right? Than, than seeing police officers

00:35:14.560 driving around in literal clown cars, because that's what they look like. They actually look like

00:35:19.120 actual clown cars. And what could give you more confidence than that? She says that people say to

00:35:25.200 her, the impact of seeing the rainbow is so huge. She claims that's a direct quote from people. Really?

00:35:30.000 Is that what people say? You know, uh, uh, constable, the impact of seeing that rainbow is so huge,

00:35:36.720 such a huge impact. Do they actually say that? Because I don't think they do.

00:35:40.480 But, um, this is when we, as we've discussed many times in this, you want to talk about a real rising

00:35:50.240 trend, um, that I've warned about is that, is that, you know, in our culture now and across the West,

00:35:58.560 the most important thing, of course, is, is a person's psychological state is their, their psychological

00:36:04.720 well-being. And, um, and, you know, and of course not their actual psych, because actual psychological

00:36:10.720 well-being is important. It's not the most important thing, but it is important. Um, but

00:36:15.840 what we consider psychological well-being is just, you know, affirming however a person happens to

00:36:21.360 feel in the moment, even if it's not good for them in the long, in the long run. And since we've decided

00:36:27.200 that this is the most important thing, then it kind of makes sense that the next step now is that

00:36:33.280 police officers, their primary job is to protect, not to protect the physical health and safety

00:36:41.280 of the public, but to, but to primarily protect their psychological health.

00:36:46.880 And that's where the rainbow police cars come in. That's why you're going to have police rolling up

00:36:52.400 in rainbow cars upon reports of, uh, you know, someone saying mean words or being, being mean online to

00:37:00.000 somebody else. This is absurd and, and, uh, embarrassing and also kind of hilarious

00:37:07.920 in a very morbid way, but it's also a logical extension

00:37:13.760 at the same time. All right. Next, uh, you may remember Shacheri Richardson. She was the woman who

00:37:19.040 was disqualified from the Olympics, a sprinter disqualified because she tested positive for weed

00:37:23.680 and she was made into a martyr for this. Everyone felt sorry for her. She was, uh, you know, she's a martyr.

00:37:28.880 And then she was, she was appearing in Nike ads and that sort of thing. Um, and you know, in truth,

00:37:37.520 does it make sense to disqualify Olympians because they tested positive for smoking weed? Uh, marijuana

00:37:44.240 is not a performance enhancing drug. So does it really matter? Does that rule make a lot of sense?

00:37:47.840 I don't think it does, but it was the rule and she knew that. So this is a person. She, she knew

00:37:55.600 that it was the rule for the Olympics that she was going to get tested or she could get tested

00:38:01.120 and she chose to, uh, roll the joint or pack the bowl anyway. So whose fault is that?

00:38:08.480 It might be a dumb rule, a pointless rule, but you know, the rule is there. And if you really care

00:38:12.080 about the Olympics and pursuing that dream, then maybe you just lay off the weed for a few weeks.

00:38:17.840 Possibly hard to see her as the victim, but that's how she was painted.

00:38:22.560 And then, uh, and then the Olympics happened and she starts kind of, she's, she's being very annoying

00:38:26.640 about the whole thing. As one would expect, she starts gloating online when the American women 1.00

00:38:32.000 who were actually in the Olympics were struggling at one point, the, you know, the relay team was

00:38:36.480 struggling and she tweeted miss me yet. And then there's this big buildup to her return to the

00:38:43.120 track after her suspension, but it didn't go well. ESPN reports sprinters to Cherry Jefferson, 0.76

00:38:49.600 or rather Richardson's return to the track after not being allowed to compete at the Tokyo Olympics

00:38:54.320 did not go as she had hoped, but she stressed that she's not done.

00:38:57.520 Richardson finished last in a field of nine runners in the, uh, 100 meters and withdrew from the 200

00:39:03.520 meters. Um, uh, on Saturday, her time of 11.14 seconds in the, uh, 100 was well behind winner,

00:39:11.520 Elaine Thompson-Hara, um, who was the Olympic gold medals from Jamaica who clocked

00:39:16.320 10.54 seconds for the second fastest women's time in history. So she came in after all of this buildup 0.98

00:39:22.720 and all of her gloating, but how we missed her presence in the Olympics. She comes in dead last,

00:39:29.680 which I think is just great and hilarious, but here she is after the race and she's still not 1.00

00:39:34.640 done gloating. Let's watch this. This is one race. I'm not done. You know what I'm capable of.

00:39:41.680 Count me out if you want to talk all the you want, cause I'm here to stay. I'm not done. I'm the six

00:39:48.480 fastest woman in this game ever. And can't nobody ever take that from me. Well, they can actually 0.97

00:39:56.000 the sixth fastest woman that isn't it. Look, don't get me wrong. That's an accomplishment

00:40:00.800 to be the sixth fastest, but it does sound kind of funny for someone to be bragging about it.

00:40:04.800 I'm the sixth fastest ever, the sixth fastest. And nobody could take that from me. Well,

00:40:11.600 I mean, they can, I mean, someone else could become the sixth fastest. You're not,

00:40:13.920 you're not as it stands right now. You're not. Look, I'm not saying that, um, all female athletes 0.96

00:40:25.440 are irritating, self-aggrandizing people like this, but there's been a lot of them,

00:40:32.960 especially surrounding the Olympics. You know, a few exceptions. Remember that female wrestler was 1.00

00:40:39.920 the Olympic gold medalist. She was fantastic. We need some more like that. We need some more 1.00

00:40:43.840 really males and females. We need some athletes who are not just absolutely repulsive and annoying. 0.93

00:40:49.760 Um, because that's what we're getting.

00:40:55.520 It's, it's just, it's impossible to root for someone like this

00:41:01.520 because you're not, whether it's, it's the Olympics or even, you know, just watching professional

00:41:05.920 sports in, in, you know, in American league, you're, you're not really rooting just for the

00:41:11.040 individual in the Olympics. You're rooting for your country. Uh, if you're watching the NFL or

00:41:15.360 something, you're rooting for your football, the NBA, you're rooting for your team.

00:41:19.840 And so when you have athletes who all they care about is themselves and they're very open about

00:41:24.720 that, it's just, it was never about you. There seems to be a misunderstanding.

00:41:29.760 So you think we care so much about you individually. We don't. It's what you represented that we cared.

00:41:37.360 It's not about you being special.

00:41:41.920 But when you throw all that to the side and you say, well, it's all about me,

00:41:45.600 then you lose all your fans. Nobody cares anymore.

00:41:48.480 Finally, here's, uh, the second story like this in as many weeks. First, last week, there was a,

00:41:56.640 there was a big brawl at an NFL game after some guys were arguing and then a woman comes in and 0.69

00:42:03.200 throws a soda at one of the guys. And, uh, she, so these guys were arguing and this woman comes in

00:42:08.720 from behind and just chucks a soda into the middle, like, like I've thrown her grenade into the middle of

00:42:14.000 the thing. And then this big brawl starts big, big fight. And of course the woman stands back and 1.00

00:42:17.920 watches all of it. And then this week on Sunday at a Steelers game, a similar kind of situation,

00:42:23.760 a woman is in a guy's face screaming at him. It's unclear what happens. We don't know what led to

00:42:29.260 this. We don't know who's in the wrong, who started it or whatever. Uh, and it's not clear what exactly

00:42:33.160 happens next, but he kind of lightly shoves her back and says, don't touch me indicating that she

00:42:39.440 had touched him. Although you can't really see that if that happened or not, but then she hauls off 0.97

00:42:44.180 and slaps this guy across the face. And then the man retaliates and the guy who was with the woman

00:42:51.440 stands up and starts throwing punches and he gets knocked out in the scuffle. It's a whole thing.

00:42:56.240 I know you're hoping I'll show you the footage, but, uh, that would be, I think inappropriate.

00:42:59.920 We're not going to gawk at something like, I'm just kidding. Of course we're going to show it.

00:43:02.420 Let's, let's play this footage here of this, uh, fight. Okay. So you can kind of see them arguing

00:43:07.400 and what? And then the guy jumps up because he has to. Now the other guy's wailing at all of them.

00:43:15.600 And now he gets knocked. Look at that. He gets just knocked out cold. All right. Now

00:43:21.800 a couple of things, a couple, a couple of points to make here. First of all, and this goes for

00:43:28.480 everybody involved in this. And again, I don't really know what led to it, but in general,

00:43:33.080 you're just trash. If you're getting into fights at football games, I know there's alcohol involved 0.98

00:43:38.320 most of the time, but really, I mean, I don't care who you are. It's a game. You're rooting for a team

00:43:44.060 because they have a certain colored Jersey and a certain mascot on their helmet. It's the most

00:43:48.800 unserious thing in the world. And most of these fights, I don't know if that was the case here,

00:43:54.460 but most of these fights start because number one, there's alcohol, but number two, it's a fan from

00:43:58.840 one team, a fan of one team versus a fan of another. No, our team has the better colors.

00:44:05.960 We have a cooler mascot. That's basically what the fight's about.

00:44:11.880 And you're risking felony charges over that. Second point, I think more, more, uh, more to the point.

00:44:18.500 And this goes to the ladies. And I know you already know this. They're all too aware of it, 0.99

00:44:24.080 but I'm going to say it anyway. Please remember in these situations that you are writing checks

00:44:31.380 that your man has to cash. Okay. You're not really the one cashing him. He's going to have to.

00:44:37.340 So reflect on that. So that woman screaming at that guy, again, I don't know what precipitated it.

00:44:42.560 I don't know who started it. I don't even know who hit first exactly, but, but you slap a man across

00:44:48.600 the face. Guess who has to live with that decision? Not really you. It's the guy who's

00:44:56.320 with you. He has to. So you should, you should have a certain sense of responsibility. I think

00:45:02.140 because of that, this man did his duty, he stood up, but the thing is whether the woman was in the

00:45:08.540 right or the wrong, who knows? He still has to, he has to throw himself into the middle of that

00:45:13.520 and get risk getting knocked out. So all I would ask is, you know, just keep that in mind.

00:45:21.000 You're at a football game, you know, as, as a woman, you start getting in someone's face and 0.97

00:45:24.280 screaming at them. Every word you say, this is a big check you're writing and you're passing it off

00:45:30.920 to the guy with you. Just with, with great power comes great responsibility as uncle Ben would say.

00:45:38.720 All right, next, let's read some of the comments here. Let's see. Paul says, I really hope Carrie

00:45:46.860 Underwood makes a submission for the sweet baby gang anthem. Now that is great. I, somehow I doubt

00:45:52.000 she will, but Carrie Underwood, you know, I was hoping that the, the, all the, the huge controversy

00:45:58.560 over her liking my tweet, I was hoping she would say something about it. It would have been great if

00:46:02.980 she had spoken up and, and doubled down on it. But, uh, I think she's, she's, she has said nothing

00:46:08.800 one way or another. And I'll give her credit for that because most, most celebrities in her position

00:46:13.640 would have just apologized and she didn't do that. And so I'll give her some credit for that.

00:46:17.000 And really, uh, her decision to say nothing at all was, was objectively from a PR standpoint is the

00:46:22.020 smartest, smartest thing. Um, in, in, in most of the time in these situations, if you simply say

00:46:30.920 nothing, it will go away, which it has for Carrie Underwood. So people were upset about it online

00:46:37.560 for a few days, say nothing about it. They move on and everything's fine. Um, Brennan says, Matt,

00:46:44.540 you're the only person in public life who stands up for us members of the anti-dog community.

00:46:49.460 Please don't give in to the pressure. Uh, I, I, I, I can understand that we are a very, very small

00:46:56.940 minority. And I do, it does, I do get the sense that I am committing a form of treason by potentially

00:47:05.200 getting a dog myself. And I do live with that guilt, Brennan. I want you to know that. Um,

00:47:11.740 and, uh, Graham says, Matt, I agree with you about men crying, but I have one acceptable addition to 0.99

00:47:18.420 the list. After an 18 day stay in NICU in which he almost passed, we brought my now healthy son home

00:47:24.560 to God be the glory. Well, Graham, that certainly would be an exception for crying and, uh,

00:47:28.780 congratulations to, to you and to, uh, your son and to your family. And we'll, we'll leave the

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00:48:28.740 get to our daily cancellation. You know, one of the hallmarks of any dictatorial regime is

00:48:36.700 pettiness. This is certainly one thing that comes through in Solzhenitsyn's account of Stalin's Russia

00:48:41.080 or any account of nearly any autocrat throughout history. They are ruthless and megalomaniacal tyrants 0.76

00:48:48.780 with broad and usually horrifying aspirations, but they also focus just as much, if not more,

00:48:54.580 on the slight and trivial. After all, uh, you know that you really have control over a populace

00:49:00.840 if they will obey you, even when it comes to the most trifling of matters. If they will not only

00:49:06.780 submit to and go along with your grandest ambitions, but also conform themselves to your

00:49:11.680 demands in every minor and seemingly insignificant way, then you have total control. The people are

00:49:16.440 your marionettes and you are their puppet masters. They've ceded everything to you, given up nearly

00:49:21.140 all of their personal agency. This is the goal ultimately. And it's depressing to see how often

00:49:25.260 this goal has been realized in different countries and civilizations at different times in history.

00:49:29.400 And we're seeing this principle at work, of course, across the world right now, as we discussed

00:49:32.940 in the name of stopping the spread of COVID. And we've talked plenty about that and we'll continue

00:49:37.120 to discuss it. But right now I want to focus on something else because this is also the point

00:49:42.420 behind what we call cancel culture. We've come to think of cancel culture as its own thing,

00:49:47.560 right? A separate phenomenon, but really it's all a part of the left's overall plan to control

00:49:52.400 and dominate society. We might think of cancel culture as the specific mechanism by which the

00:49:59.000 left imposes itself in those especially petty and seemingly trivial ways. That is exactly why cancel

00:50:05.800 culture is such an important issue and such a threat. The pettiness is the point. The pettiness

00:50:11.120 is power. And speaking of petty, it doesn't get more petty than this. As I briefly discussed

00:50:17.100 on the show on Friday, the cancel culture mob has taken a special interest in the hunt for

00:50:21.060 a new host of Jeopardy. Why do they care so much about this? Why does the search for a game

00:50:27.540 show host matter? Well, because it doesn't matter. It matters because it doesn't. It's important

00:50:33.560 because it isn't. In this case, after weeks of auditioning potential hosts, the decision was

00:50:38.680 made to bring a guy named Mike Richards on board as host. Now, Mike Richards also happens to be the

00:50:43.660 executive producer of Jeopardy. Given that the executive producer of Jeopardy is one of the guys

00:50:48.040 primarily responsible for finding a host of Jeopardy, it would seem that he kind of went through

00:50:52.880 this whole talent search only to say, never mind, I'll actually do it myself. It may even seem like

00:50:58.080 the talent search was a ruse, kind of a symbolic gesture at most. And maybe it was, but who cares?

00:51:04.120 They can hire whoever they want to be host of Jeopardy. The decision has no effect, large or

00:51:10.180 small, on anyone else's life. Well, maybe I should speak only for myself and say that I have never in

00:51:15.900 my life experienced any form of deprivation or suffering that could be traced back to a network

00:51:21.280 TV game show. I can't imagine how anyone could have a different experience in that regard. Say what

00:51:28.080 you want about Pat Sajak, for example, and I like him personally, but even if you don't, I can't imagine 0.99

00:51:32.780 anyone in a moment of anguish and despair crying out, damn you, Pat Sajak, this is all your fault. 0.88

00:51:39.320 Nevertheless, the canceled mob has decided that the game show host issue is now of urgent national 0.99

00:51:44.860 importance. And that's why once Mike Richards was anointed the new host or anointed himself,

00:51:49.380 I should say, the new host, they immediately set out to destroy him. As if he was a front runner for

00:51:54.720 the presidential nomination, the mob went digging for dirt, looking for any skeletons they might find.

00:51:59.080 The reason for their opposition to Richards is pretty obvious. As described in many articles,

00:52:04.260 including this one from the AP, it says, quote, giving the flagship show to Richards,

00:52:08.560 who's firmly in the cookie cutter host of a cookie cutter host mold of a white square jawed young man

00:52:14.640 struck some as proof of an insincere effort by the studio to consider a woman, a person of color,

00:52:19.520 or someone from the LGBTQ community. More than half of the guest hosts fall into one or more of those

00:52:25.200 groups. So Mike Richards had committed the sin of being white and male. That's really the problem.

00:52:30.040 Of course, Alex Trebek was also white and male, and everybody loved him. Even the left loved him.

00:52:36.620 But I think Trebek was kind of grandfathered in. He was a beloved figure who became beloved

00:52:42.040 before it was decided that all white men are evil bastards. The left kind of allowed him to retain his 1.00

00:52:48.860 beloved status, a magnanimous exception fueled by their own nostalgia. But no such exception would be

00:52:55.020 granted to poor Mike Richards. So it didn't take long before they found what they were looking for.

00:52:59.320 Apparently Richards had made a few offensive jokes on a podcast about eight or nine years ago.

00:53:05.100 Again, does it matter that the host of Jeopardy made crude jokes about almost a decade ago

00:53:09.680 on a podcast that nobody listened to? Is there any reason why this should preclude him from holding

00:53:15.200 note cards and asking trivia questions? No, but once again, the pettiness is the point.

00:53:20.140 Richards, not one to break from the mold, immediately issued the standard groveling apology. In a

00:53:26.880 statement, he said, quote, it is humbling to confront a terribly embarrassing moment of misjudgment,

00:53:31.560 thoughtlessness, and insensitivity from nearly a decade ago. Looking back now, there's no excuse,

00:53:36.100 of course, for the comments I made on the podcast, and I am deeply sorry. The podcast was intended to

00:53:41.320 be a series of irreverent conversations between longtime friends who had a history of joking around.

00:53:45.840 Even with the passage of time, it's more than clear that my attempts to be funny and provocative

00:53:50.520 were not acceptable, and I have removed the episodes. My responsibilities today as a father,

00:53:55.060 husband, and a public personality who speaks to many people through my role on television means

00:53:59.300 that I have substantial and serious obligations as a role model, and I intend to live up to them.

00:54:04.780 That was a statement. Now, of course, what he should have said was something like,

00:54:08.860 it's come to my attention that many of you are pretending to be offended by comments I made

00:54:12.260 on a podcast that nobody listened to or cared about until five seconds ago. But I also realized

00:54:17.020 that most of the offended people are too stupid to even watch Jeopardy! in the first place, 1.00

00:54:20.340 so what do I care? Go watch a sub-95 IQ game show like Wheel of Fortune instead, you dummies. 0.98

00:54:26.400 Now, if Richards had issued a statement like that, I actually would vote for him for president.

00:54:31.520 But we've yet to find almost anyone with the guts to stand up to the cancel mob in such an

00:54:35.060 aggressive way, or really in any way at all. And Richards certainly wasn't going to be the first.

00:54:39.720 He apologized. They didn't accept it. And then he was forced to step down from the role.

00:54:45.620 The same song on repeat over and over and over again. And it doesn't stop there because it never

00:54:50.880 does. You see, the producers of Jeopardy! had already tried to preempt the inevitable outrage

00:54:57.640 over choosing a white male by actually appointing two hosts of Jeopardy! They selected a woman, 0.97

00:55:03.840 actress Mayim Bialik, who was on Big Bang Theory and some other stuff, I don't know,

00:55:08.040 to host the primetime Jeopardy! specials that they plan on doing periodically.

00:55:12.840 So really, they invented these specials that they're going to start doing just so that they

00:55:19.320 could appoint a female host and then not be accused of prioritizing males over females. They

00:55:25.480 were trying to be equitable and equal and all that kind of stuff. And that didn't work either.

00:55:30.080 The problem is that Bialik is not a person of color and is not trans and is not even gay or 0.99

00:55:35.820 lesbian or gender nonconforming, as far as anyone knows. And you know what that means. 0.56

00:55:39.820 Here's Newsweek with the latest article. They say, quote, Mike Richards stepped down Friday from

00:55:45.000 his recently announced appointment as Jeopardy! host due to controversial comments he made years

00:55:49.080 ago. Now, some people on social media are calling on Mayim Bialik, who was hired to host the primetime

00:55:54.200 version of the show and specials to do the same. Yes, she has to go too. Why? Well, they went looking

00:56:00.400 for reasons and they discovered that about nine years ago, she said that she didn't want to get

00:56:04.680 her kids vaccinated. That's how much they're scraping the barrel right now to find a reason. 0.95

00:56:11.680 And that's it. She expressed some measure of vaccine hesitancy nearly a decade before COVID-19 existed.

00:56:18.060 And that's their pretense for calling for her ouster. But the real reason is that she is,

00:56:24.600 by the canceled mob's estimation, too straight and too white. The mob has decided that the true host 0.54

00:56:30.520 of Jeopardy!, the man who is destined for the position, as if it is written in the stars,

00:56:35.460 is LeVar Burton, known to my generation as the man from Reading Rainbow. The problem is that LeVar

00:56:40.160 Burton tried out for the gig and was pretty terrible. But this is no problem at all to the canceled mob.

00:56:45.420 It doesn't matter if he's good at it or not, or if he deserves the job on the merits. 0.96

00:56:50.700 All that matters is that he's black. And having a black host of Jeopardy! is the one piece missing. 1.00

00:56:57.000 The one box left to check. The one thing that will finally heal our national wounds and

00:57:02.080 bring about an era of peace and prosperity. Or maybe not, but it doesn't matter. The point is to

00:57:08.420 impose themselves and to bully Jeopardy! into selecting a host that they prefer simply for the sake of it.

00:57:13.880 Because they can. Because that's what petty tyrants do. Everything matters to the petty tyrant, 0.63

00:57:20.900 especially the things that don't matter at all. And that's why the canceled mob has made Jeopardy!

00:57:26.280 into a central battlefield. And it's also why they today, paradoxically, are the ones who are

00:57:31.140 canceled. And we'll leave it there for today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening.

00:57:35.620 Have a great day. Godspeed.

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00:58:22.680 The Matt Wall Show is a Daily Wire production. Copyright Daily Wire 2021.

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The Matt Walsh Show - August 23, 2021

Ep. 781 - If You're Scared, Stay Home. I'll Be Out Here Living My Life

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