The Matt Walsh Show - August 26, 2021


Ep. 784 - Governor Kristi Noem Is Offended By My 'Horrible Misogyny'


Episode Stats

Length

59 minutes

Words per Minute

177.10297

Word Count

10,494

Sentence Count

671

Misogynist Sentences

24

Hate Speech Sentences

14


Summary

Kristi Noem of South Dakota has accused me of misogyny for criticizing her. Also, Dylann Roof's death penalty sentence was upheld yesterday, and yet we have not heard any of the anti-death penalty advocates on the left protest that decision. Plus, Nancy Pelosi calls for Congress to pass a law that will stop hurricanes and floods from happening, and our daily cancellation will discuss the DoorDash delivery drivers who are calling for higher wages and better tips.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, the Republican governor of South Dakota has accused me of
00:00:04.280 horrible misogyny, quote unquote, because I criticized her. She used leftist buzzwords
00:00:09.340 and even a Media Matters clip to hit me in hopes of impressing the left. But as always,
00:00:13.960 when Republicans try this kind of move, it has not worked out as she intended. So there's a lot
00:00:17.700 we can learn from this. We'll talk about it today. Also, Dylann Roof's death penalty sentence was
00:00:21.860 upheld yesterday, and yet we have not heard any of the anti-death penalty advocates on the left
00:00:26.480 protest that decision, funny enough. And a freshman orientation seminar at a university
00:00:30.400 claims that straight white Christians are natural oppressors. Plus, Nancy Pelosi calls for Congress
00:00:35.720 to pass a law that will stop hurricanes and floods from happening. I'm not sure what kind of law will
00:00:39.820 do that. And our daily cancellation will discuss the DoorDash delivery drivers who are calling for
00:00:44.180 higher wages and better tips. But do they really deserve it? We'll discuss that and much more today
00:00:49.040 on the Matt Wall Show.
00:00:56.480 Republican legislators in South Dakota have crafted a bill called the COVID-19 Vaccine Freedom of
00:01:04.360 Conscience Act to stop employers from forcing their workers to get the COVID vaccine. But Kristi Noem,
00:01:11.500 the Republican governor of the state, is refusing to sign it. She argues that employees who don't want
00:01:16.760 to be vaccinated can just go work somewhere else. If you don't want to inject this substance into your
00:01:21.700 body, go get a new job, she says. Also, as she stated on Wednesday, if she dictates vaccine policy
00:01:28.300 to businesses, quote unquote, then Joe Biden can do the same. Now, this is a bizarre argument as it
00:01:33.820 suggests that the president of the United States is looking to the governor of South Dakota for guidance
00:01:39.220 or as a precedent. But the president of the United States, like a true Democrat, doesn't even look to
00:01:44.900 the Constitution or the Supreme Court, much less to Kristi Noem of South Dakota. He simply does what he
00:01:50.100 wants and he enacts the policies that he prefers without any concern for what anyone did before him.
00:01:55.840 Where was the precedent for the executive branch telling all landlords across the country that
00:01:59.920 they can't evict delinquent tenants? Biden admitted that there was no precedent, that it wasn't even
00:02:05.420 legal to do it, and yet he did it. But this is the difference between Democrats and feckless
00:02:10.840 Republicans. Democrats use the power that they've been granted, and then they seize additional power
00:02:17.360 that they were not granted on top of it. Republicans oftentimes, most times I would say,
00:02:22.980 will not even use the legitimate authority of the offices they hold for fear that if they act,
00:02:28.780 Democrats will also act. They'd rather let the Democrats act on their own with no response or
00:02:34.160 opposition. It's better to, you know, not get into a fight with your opponent. Better to lay down
00:02:38.240 and let them stomp you into the dust. Because if you fight back, it might hurt even more.
00:02:43.480 That seems to be the Republican approach. Even more than with the vaccine issue,
00:02:49.100 Noam exemplified this way of thinking a few months ago when she refused to sign
00:02:52.920 another Republican bill, which we talked about at the time. This one would have banned biological
00:02:57.640 males from competing in female sports. Noam said she didn't want to extend the ban all the way into
00:03:02.820 the collegiate level because if they do that, then the NCAA might, in her words, quote, punish us.
00:03:09.260 She didn't want to take a stand for science and common sense and truth and decency and reason
00:03:14.380 for fear that such a stand would provoke the ire of people whose ire is constantly provoked anyway.
00:03:20.880 Also, I suspect that it's not a coincidence that Noam's view on the issue lined up perfectly
00:03:25.980 with the South Dakota Chamber of Commerce, which opposed the bill. Noam typically finds herself in
00:03:30.300 alignment with the Chamber of Commerce like a typical Republican, and I don't mean that as a compliment.
00:03:35.160 I also was, admittedly, not complimenting Kristi Noam yesterday on this show, which you may have
00:03:41.300 heard, when I theorized openly that her popularity on the right was due to her looks. She's an attractive
00:03:49.100 woman, especially by political standards. And this, I said yesterday, and still say today,
00:03:57.140 explains, in my opinion, why she garners all of the hype that she does. Now, I didn't say that her
00:04:02.640 looks are the sole reason why she's the governor of South Dakota. I didn't say it's why she has
00:04:07.200 achieved any political success at all. I said that her emergence as a conservative icon on the national
00:04:13.680 stage is due in large part to her appearance. It's true that, you know, Noam never locked down her
00:04:19.880 state, and a lot of people were very, a lot of people on the right were happy about that. She garnered
00:04:24.220 applause on the right for that, well-deserved applause. I still applaud her for it.
00:04:28.040 But other Republican governors also refuse to instate statewide lockdowns or statewide mask
00:04:34.160 mandates, and yet many of them have not gotten the kind of attention that she attracts.
00:04:38.660 Take the Republican governor of Nebraska, Pete Ricketts. Let's take a look at what he looks like.
00:04:44.120 Now, there's Pete Ricketts. I don't mean to insult him. He's a fine-looking person in his own way,
00:04:48.240 I'm sure, but I think he will have to work a little bit harder to get the kind of attention that
00:04:55.120 Kristi Noam gets, okay? And the reason is obvious. It's obvious, and yet it's one of the many obvious
00:05:03.400 things we're not supposed to say out loud. We all know that there are certain benefits and privileges
00:05:09.860 that come with being a physically attractive person. We hear a lot about privilege, okay? Hot
00:05:15.660 privilege, that's a real, that's real privilege. And there are many scientific studies that prove this
00:05:20.460 generally and also specifically when it comes to politicians. There are many of these privileges
00:05:26.420 that come with it, especially being an attractive woman, even more so. Now, we all know that.
00:05:31.240 Every one of us. Without exception. We all know that. And yet, if you vocally acknowledge this thing
00:05:37.720 that we all know and agree with, every single one of us, you'll be condemned as a misogynist.
00:05:44.460 Now, that was my experience yesterday. After discussing this subject on my show, criticizing
00:05:49.640 Noam for her policies and her lack of political courage, and then suggesting that her popularity
00:05:54.120 is due more to her physical features, Media Matters, as is their custom, clipped that part of
00:05:59.680 the program and posted it to their website and to Twitter, trying to gin up some outrage.
00:06:04.900 And the attempt fell rather flat at first. Frankly, I was myself disappointed by their selection
00:06:10.320 because I said many more objectionable things on the show yesterday. And I would have preferred
00:06:14.200 if they'd chosen one of those segments instead. I mean, I knew they were going to choose something
00:06:16.840 because they always do. And they went with that. And my first reaction was,
00:06:20.720 this is what you guys are going with? Of all of the things I said, this?
00:06:27.840 That people are gravitating towards a particular politician because of how she looks?
00:06:31.620 That's the supposedly offensive thing? Nobody reacted much or cared about it until
00:06:38.320 Kristi Noam herself, the governor of South Dakota, took that Media Matters clip, cut it down even
00:06:44.480 shorter to remove the context and the reason for my criticism, focusing only on the part where I
00:06:49.940 comment on her looks, and posted it to her own Twitter page. In fact, her official governor Twitter
00:06:54.880 page, along with this caption, it read, quote, instead of engaging in a debate about the proper
00:06:59.960 role of government and how it isn't conservative to tell people how to do business, Matt Walsh stooped
00:07:04.560 to horrible misogyny. Eyes up here, Matt. But she wasn't done. She then went to her personal page
00:07:11.460 and posted again, this time also telling on me to my boss by tagging Ben Shapiro.
00:07:18.200 And she said, quote, hey, Ben Shapiro, tell Matt Walsh I was roping bulls, maybe he's a steer,
00:07:24.400 bigger than him when I was in my teens. He couldn't walk a day in my shoes. Girl power.
00:07:29.620 And she's right. I probably wouldn't fit in her shoes. But if she was a college athlete,
00:07:34.640 I could take her place on the team according to her policies. By the way, let's note that a steer,
00:07:40.340 okay, is a castrated bull. So that's the dig she was trying to make there, which is fine.
00:07:45.740 Okay, pretty good insult. I'm not offended by it. I dish it. I can take it. But you can't go for the
00:07:52.400 ruthless insult while also tattling on me to my boss. Hey, guess what Matt said, Ben?
00:08:00.800 And also crying about horrible misogyny. You really got to pick a lane, Christy.
00:08:04.820 You're either the tough as nails woman riding in on your horse, roping bulls,
00:08:08.420 or you're a fragile feminist accusing your critics of misogyny. It's got to be one or the other.
00:08:14.300 Or might I suggest you could choose neither of those characters because they both ring false.
00:08:18.740 The rough and tumble girl power schtick is especially inauthentic, seeing as how, you know,
00:08:24.580 you'll go head to head with a right-wing podcast host while kowtowing to corporate interests and the
00:08:30.220 LGBT lobby. I mean, where was, where were these, where were, where was this backbone that all the
00:08:39.140 courage here? Where was this when the, when the NCAA was coming after her? No, they'll punish us.
00:08:43.680 Not the NCAA. I don't want to be punished.
00:08:45.700 And what about this misogyny charge? Is it, is it sexist? Is it anti-woman for me to accuse
00:08:53.440 Christy Noem of benefiting politically from her physical attractiveness? No, it isn't. Because
00:08:58.320 for one thing, again, it's true and everybody knows that it's true. You can argue about the extent to
00:09:04.420 which it has helped, but if you tell me that it hasn't helped at all, that I'm way off in left field
00:09:09.960 here, then I will know that you're either stupid or lying. Well, let's pretend for a moment that the
00:09:16.740 accusation is not true. Okay. Let's say that I am off in left field. Well, then that would make me
00:09:22.920 wrong. It would make me unfair, perhaps even a jerk. It would make me many things potentially.
00:09:28.700 And I may be all of those things. It still wouldn't make me sexist though, because I heap
00:09:36.420 extremely harsh criticism on politicians all the time. It's one of my favorite pastimes. And I believe
00:09:41.540 it should be a favorite pastime of all red-blooded Americans. I criticize male and female politicians
00:09:46.940 alike. I mean, go back to some of the shows where I was talking about Asa Hutchinson, Governor Asa
00:09:53.660 Hutchinson, when he refused to sign the bill banning the castration of children. Go check
00:09:59.740 out some of the things I said about him. Quite a bit harsher, in fact. Now, is all of my criticism
00:10:05.780 of politicians accurate? I mean, most of it is, yeah. Well, actually all of it is, I think. But
00:10:10.280 even if it isn't, the criticism is motivated by my dislike for politicians, especially the ones
00:10:16.640 that I consider to be weak, ineffectual, and dishonest. It's not motivated by dislike for women.
00:10:22.000 Now, it's probably pointless for me to explain all of this, because the explanation presupposes
00:10:27.040 that the accusation was sincere and honest in the first place, which it wasn't. Noam was using a
00:10:32.120 leftist buzzword and trying to gin up left-wing outrage against me in order to make herself
00:10:36.220 the victim. And that brings us to the most important point, and the reason that I'm talking about all of
00:10:41.780 this. Here we see the critical mistake that conservatives so often make, especially elected
00:10:47.260 Republicans who call themselves conservative. Noam was using a media matters clip and leftist
00:10:53.820 language to hit someone to the right of her, hoping to win favorability points among people
00:10:59.000 to the left of her. There'd be no other reason to do that. You're not going to be using media
00:11:06.660 matters and using the word misogynist and attacking someone to your right if you're trying to appeal
00:11:12.420 to people to your right. No, this was a play for people to her left. Did it work? No, not remotely.
00:11:21.480 Check social media today to see what folks on the left are saying about the Christy Noam versus Matt
00:11:25.560 Walsh feud, and you'll find that they are in wide agreement that we're both terrible people and scum
00:11:31.680 of the earth and disgraceful ignoramuses and so on. The sympathy that Noam has gotten has come in the
00:11:36.600 form of comments like this from a guy named Brian Rosenwald. This is pretty, pretty representative
00:11:41.880 of the kind of things people are saying. He says, I think Christy Noam is terrible and her decisions
00:11:45.620 have cost people their lives, but Matt Walsh's comments were the purest form of misogyny you'll
00:11:50.340 ever see. He wouldn't say the same things about Ron DeSantis with a similar profile. It's a firing
00:11:55.920 offense, but it's conservative media. Well, she got her wish in one respect. People are calling for me
00:12:02.780 to be fired. And yet, and that obviously is what she wanted. That's again, why she tagged my boss in
00:12:08.120 a tweet. And yet the people calling for me to be fired still say that Noam herself is a mass murdering
00:12:13.940 monster. And she is in the same way that I'm a misogynist. At least we have seen Republicans
00:12:20.440 make this mistake a thousand times, thousands and thousands of times. They criticize their own side
00:12:27.580 using leftist frameworks in hopes of impressing the left. And then the whole thing just collapses
00:12:34.660 on them. And they're the only one who gets crushed in the end. And that's the lesson that hopefully
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00:13:54.620 Walsh in there. How did you hear about this box? So they know that we sent you. All right. So,
00:13:59.080 uh, and I have gotten a lot of, uh, requests from the media messages and, uh, people messaging,
00:14:04.840 email me, emailing, asking me, uh, first of all, I'm getting a lot of, uh, requested. Do you want
00:14:10.620 to apologize? Do you want to apologize for what you said about Kristi Noem? Newsweek, a Newsweek
00:14:16.900 reporter is doing an article about this and he contacted me and said to ask if I regret using
00:14:24.340 misogynistic language about Kristi Noem. That was the framing of the question. It wasn't,
00:14:29.520 do you think that your comments were misogynistic? Do you regret using misogynistic language? And
00:14:35.440 then he wanted to know if I want to clarify my comments for him. He was going to give me a chance
00:14:41.000 to clarify before he writes his hit piece, calling me a misogynistic bigot. So here was my response to
00:14:47.300 him. Uh, I emailed back and, uh, his guy's name was Anders. And I said, Anders, feel free to attribute
00:14:52.520 this to me on the record in response to your request for comment. Uh, and then my comment is, no,
00:14:56.380 I do not regret stating an obvious truth. I will however, accept apologies from all of the
00:15:00.180 performative idiots pretending to be offended by it. And, uh, he responded and said that he will
00:15:05.080 include that statement in his Newsweek article, which is great. So that is my, that's my general
00:15:09.440 for anyone in the media. That's my general, you could, you could all take that statement.
00:15:15.540 Uh, as far as apologizing, uh, I can't even say the word apology without laughing.
00:15:23.000 Okay. I, and I, and I really say this sincerely, I would rather be dead than issue any kind of public
00:15:33.620 apology about anything, especially to some sniveling snake in the media. I would prefer death over
00:15:42.960 sending an email to someone in the media. So I sincerely regret and apologize for those comments.
00:15:48.320 And please don't be mad at me anymore. Death seems far more appealing to that because, because
00:15:55.820 that's a, that's a form of death. That's the death of your dignity as a man. And you're never going
00:16:02.560 to get it back. Not ever going to happen. I can tell you that right now. Even if I'm wrong,
00:16:09.620 I will never apologize publicly. You will never hear me say it. Even if I'm wrong and I'm not wrong in
00:16:14.920 this case, but even if I was, even if I did regret my horrible misogyny, the last thing I would ever
00:16:25.520 do is publish a statement or sit here saying, I'm so, I've thought more about it. I deeply regret. I'm so
00:16:31.100 sorry. I think my, my stance on that should be clear by now. The genre of the public apology needs
00:16:40.340 to go away. Shouldn't exist. You're sorry about something. If you're really actually sorry
00:16:48.660 because you caused harm or you damaged somebody, those are the things you should be sorry for. If
00:16:55.020 you actually did something unfair or, or mean or whatever, and you, you, you hurt somebody in some
00:17:00.500 way, then you go and you find them and you apologize to them personally. It doesn't have to be for public
00:17:06.680 spectacle. You don't know the public and apology for anything. And especially not in this case,
00:17:14.520 because I am just unbelievably, absolutely 100% right in everything that I said. Uh, if I apologize
00:17:23.660 for anything, it's just for being so right about it and making other people feel intellectually inferior
00:17:30.120 because of my rightness. If I apologize for anything, it's, it's, it's maybe that. All right,
00:17:35.260 go now to, uh, we'll start with the AP, which has this report. It says a federal appeals court
00:17:41.360 Wednesday upheld Dylan Roof's conviction and death sentence for the 2015 racist slayings of nine
00:17:47.180 members of a black South Carolina congregation saying the legal record cannot even capture the
00:17:52.980 full horror of what he did. A unanimous three judge panel of the fourth U S circuit court of appeals in
00:17:58.900 Richmond rejected arguments that the young white man should have been ruled incompetent to stand
00:18:03.060 trial in the shootings at mother Emanuel AME church in Charleston. And, uh, so now he's, uh, still going
00:18:13.040 to face the death penalty and his mental impairment claim is not panned out, which is great. He, he
00:18:20.380 deserves the death penalty, obviously. Um, the only unfortunate thing here, like with, with, with every
00:18:26.600 death penalty case, the unfortunate thing is that this drags out for years and years and years and years.
00:18:30.520 And we got to go through this whole ridiculous, uh, charade of keeping him alive and, and feeding
00:18:38.340 him and clothing him just so that we can eventually kill him. It's completely ridiculous. Uh, you might
00:18:43.300 as well back in the old days, you're convicted, you're sentenced to death. And then that day or at
00:18:50.700 dawn the next morning, you're marching up the gallows to be hung by your neck until death while a crowd
00:18:56.540 watches. And that's how we should do it now. That's that, that should be the, uh, the way that
00:19:01.880 we go about this. And in fact, it's even worse. It's, it's even worse than that because we're not
00:19:06.440 only housing and feeding these people on death row for years and years and years before eventually
00:19:12.220 killing them. But on top of that, we're actually spending more money on them because these are
00:19:17.840 people who have committed crimes, especially someone like Dylan Roof committed crimes. So heinous
00:19:23.480 that to release them into the general population would be just a death sentence in and of itself.
00:19:30.000 I wouldn't complain about that either, by the way, but we're not going to do that. And so we've got to
00:19:34.880 specially protect them and preserve their lives. Just think about how absurd it is. We have to make
00:19:40.000 this extra effort to preserve their lives and protect them just so that we can march them to the
00:19:48.060 gurney and kill them. It really doesn't make any sense. It's ridiculous. Now, so that's how I feel
00:19:53.700 about this as someone who, um, although I felt differently about the, about the death penalty
00:19:59.580 years ago, and I have kind of gone back and forth on this as I admit, but at this point I'm pretty
00:20:03.880 firmly pro death penalty. So that's, that's where I stand on, on Dylan Roof. That's a, that's an easy
00:20:08.080 one. But the interesting thing is that, you know, there are a lot of people in this country,
00:20:14.420 especially on the left who are, uh, very much opposed to the death penalty. At least they
00:20:20.220 claim that they think the death penalty should be abolished, that it's state sanctioned murder.
00:20:28.400 Now they're, they're opposed to in every case. And there's been, there've been many monstrous
00:20:33.420 people who have faced the death penalty and, um, have been defended by many people on the left,
00:20:41.440 including very prominent people, members of the squad and so forth have come out in defense
00:20:48.220 of absolute murderous monsters. And yet in this case, I have heard none of those voices. As far
00:20:58.560 as I know, I haven't heard any of those people on the left, especially the prominent ones come out
00:21:04.960 and say, no, no, no, this is wrong. Dylan Roof doesn't deserve the death penalty.
00:21:07.740 So they make an exception for him, which is interesting.
00:21:15.020 Why do they make the exception? Well, because for one thing, they, they just, they don't believe in
00:21:20.840 their own principles in any of their own principles enough to actually stand up and say, no, this man
00:21:26.720 who, who, who murdered nine, uh, black people at a church, you know, should, shouldn't, shouldn't be
00:21:32.460 killed. Um, so they don't, they don't believe in their own principles enough for that. But also I
00:21:41.160 think they look at a, at a crime like this and they just, they, they feel that no, this is someone
00:21:48.840 who, who can't exist on earth anymore. You've committed a crime so heinous that you, you don't
00:21:55.640 deserve to be defended. You don't deserve to live anymore. You have forfeited your right to live on this
00:22:00.520 earth. You have forfeited your right to be a member of human society. What you've done is so
00:22:09.340 heinous that we can't even simply segregate you and keep you in human society. We have to remove
00:22:14.860 you completely by your own actions. You have made that choice for yourself. You forced our hand.
00:22:21.620 I think they look at Dylan Roof and that's, that's what they think. And they're right.
00:22:24.700 The problem is they can't extend that to all of the other monsters on death row and they are all
00:22:33.420 monsters. You don't get there unless you are. So they could see that with Dylan Roof. They can't
00:22:41.000 see it with anybody else. A real disconnect there. This is from Fox. It says, uh, James Madison
00:22:47.220 university is under fire for pushing controversial rhetoric as part of its freshman orientation training
00:22:52.040 for student leaders. The PowerPoint presentation and accompanying video address topics like social
00:22:56.860 justice, identity, power, and privilege, and labeled any person who fits the parameters of white,
00:23:02.560 male, straight, and Christian as oppressors in a detailed chart. JMU college Republicans chairwoman
00:23:07.800 Juliana McGrath shared her frustration with Fox news saying the training at the Virginia university
00:23:12.540 that's meant to bring students together will ultimately be divisive. She said, quote, when you're
00:23:18.200 teaching about things like this, the goal is to try to bring people together and try to get people
00:23:21.620 to understand different life experiences. But by saying, because you're white, you're an oppressor
00:23:25.480 because you're straight, you're an oppressor because you're a male, you're an oppressor that
00:23:28.600 actually brings people farther apart. And it doesn't actually accomplish any of the goals of what I
00:23:33.200 feel like they were trying to do. According to McGrath, the most shocking inclusion in the
00:23:37.600 presentation was the implication that followers of the Christian faith specifically were deemed as
00:23:42.540 oppressors, even though all religious individuals, regardless of denomination, believe in the same
00:23:45.940 thing, a higher power. She said, quote, in our chapter of college Republicans, we actually have a very
00:23:50.440 diverse chapter and we have people of different races of different backgrounds and specifically
00:23:54.080 of different religious beliefs. And that's always been very welcome. I feel like no matter your
00:23:58.240 political beliefs, you always find some type of common ground. I think sometimes religion is the
00:24:02.340 common ground. So on and so forth. Okay. A lot of this, unfortunately, is unremarkable because we've
00:24:09.140 these, this is the kind of reeducation that we see in colleges across the country. Most universities at
00:24:17.380 this point, this is their primary function. This is a feature, not a bug. It's not like you send your
00:24:25.460 kids to college and then they just so happen to be brainwashed into leftist dogma. That's why the
00:24:31.820 universities exist at this point. That is their primary goal. So that makes this unremarkable, but,
00:24:39.560 but still important. But I'm really, I really zero in on what she said here. Um,
00:24:49.060 Juliana McGrath, she said, the goal is to try to bring people together and try to get people to
00:24:54.360 understand different life experiences. But when you do all of this, you're, you're, you're tearing
00:25:00.440 people apart and that doesn't accomplish any of the goals that you're, that you're trying to
00:25:05.500 accomplish. She said, well, no, Juliana, let me explain this to you. It is important that you
00:25:11.940 understand. I don't want to be accused of mansplaining here. Okay. I don't need that on
00:25:15.700 top of all the other crimes I've committed. Maybe that'll be next. Maybe Christy Noem tomorrow will
00:25:20.820 tweet about how I mansplained. So at this point, just dye your hair pink, cut it down, call me a
00:25:27.540 mansplainer. Why not go full feminist? Anyway, it is important to explain this, uh, to anyone who
00:25:34.320 doesn't understand. I think there are a lot of people on the right who still don't understand
00:25:37.060 this. Um, no, these, these, these, these kind of indoctrination seminars where they're saying that
00:25:44.240 white people and males and Christians are oppressors and evil and all that. This is not a
00:25:48.980 misguided, but well-intentioned attempt to bring people together and to make people understand each
00:25:55.120 other's life experiences. No, this is not something that's clumsy and we'll say, well, they're,
00:26:01.440 they're trying to accomplish something. They're just not accomplishing it. They just so happen to
00:26:05.080 be doing the opposite of what they're trying, trying to accomplish. No, they are accomplishing
00:26:08.760 their goal. 100%. The goal is not to bring anyone together. That is not the goal.
00:26:17.000 The division, the hostility, the suspicion that's engendered by these sorts of programs.
00:26:23.640 That is the point. That's why they're doing it. There is nothing well-intentioned about this at
00:26:31.760 all. They are trying to drive that wedge in between you, in between all of us and not one wedge, but a
00:26:41.840 million wedges dividing people into a million different categories and subcategories. Even one
00:26:48.800 single individual person is now divided in, is, is chopped into, into a thousand different pieces
00:26:54.340 and put into different compartments and different labels and everything. Everybody's warring against
00:26:58.100 each other. That is totally the point. It's why they're doing it. So when you say they're not
00:27:06.880 achieving what they want to achieve, yes, they are. They're doing a great job of accomplishing their
00:27:14.840 goals. They want to divide the American population. They, to, to inflame tribalism. That's part of the
00:27:24.260 point here. And also to, to tear down our history and all of the authorities of the past, you know,
00:27:37.600 to separate us from our own history. We, Western civilization is informed, shaped by Christian
00:27:47.580 values, by the Christian religion. And that's why, that's one of the main reasons why they hate it.
00:27:55.540 And that's why, if you notice, they focus on Christianity much more than they focus on something
00:28:01.320 like Islam. Because they are trying to destroy, eat away at, chop down the foundations of Western
00:28:11.760 civilization. That, that is the point. They want us to live fully immersed in modernity, severed from
00:28:24.160 all of the ties of the past, hating everybody that came before us, our ancestors, all of the people
00:28:32.520 who built this civilization that we now live in. They want us to hate all of them and hate all,
00:28:37.940 I hate our past, hate anybody connected with our past. They want to identify the villains of the past
00:28:45.440 in a very simplistic way. Well, if you're white, if you're a Christian, if you're a male,
00:28:49.700 those are all the villains of the past. Any, any of the, your historical heroes who you thought were
00:28:56.460 heroes? Well, if they're, if they were white, male, whatever, and they weren't heroes, they were,
00:28:59.480 they were oppressors. And their progeny to this day, still oppressors.
00:29:07.120 That is, again, the whole entire point. And it is crucially important for us to understand that.
00:29:14.080 All right, next, Nancy Pelosi yesterday talked about what we can do to prevent floods
00:29:19.020 and storms. And here she is on that.
00:29:22.820 We, when we talk about challenges that we have in our country, we have these fires in the West,
00:29:29.200 floods in Tennessee. President approved a major disaster declaration for Tennessee,
00:29:35.660 middle Tennessee region has had flooding and deaths in California. We have the river in the West,
00:29:41.920 we have the river and Dixie fires, which the president has declared major disaster for as well.
00:29:49.300 And so we have to understand how, again, many of us think if we take, if we can address the climate
00:29:56.520 crisis, we can deal in a better way to prevent some of this.
00:30:02.080 Yeah. So we want to pass legislation that's going to stop floods from happening and stop hurricanes and
00:30:10.300 fires. That's what they're, that's what they're calling for. This is, this is, we should be heaping
00:30:16.980 ridicule and scorn and contempt on this sort of thing. I'm afraid that we don't treat it as
00:30:24.800 in, in, in, you know, as absurd as it really is. We don't treat it like the absurdity that it actually
00:30:32.040 is. And part of it is that like so many other absurdities in modern culture, we're used to it by
00:30:38.540 now. We're used to hearing politicians, seeing them stand in front of cameras, talking about laws they
00:30:46.420 can pass to change the weather. And we hear it so often that we, it kind of goes right over our head.
00:30:54.800 But think about how insane that is. You think that, that some politicians sitting in the, in the,
00:31:04.240 in the Capitol can, you know, type out some legislation and then vote on it. And it's going
00:31:10.460 to change the weather. You think you're that powerful? Not only is this anti-scientific, which
00:31:18.420 it is, but it speaks to the incredible narcissism of these people. And I, and I believe that they
00:31:27.700 really believe it. They believe that they are gods, that they are more powerful than the sun itself,
00:31:37.000 which as we talked about yesterday is actually the thing, this enormous ball of gas, which you could
00:31:43.240 fit a million earths inside of it, burning 27 million degrees Fahrenheit at its core, 10,000 degrees
00:31:48.800 on the surface, gravitational force extending 12, 12 trillion miles into space. Like that is the
00:31:57.000 thing that determines the weather on this puny, tiny little planet is there's nothing you can do.
00:32:04.680 Nancy Pelosi, I'll tell you this right now, not a single thing you can do to make any significant
00:32:10.360 changes to it. And the earth's temperatures and its climate, it changes. Climate is meant
00:32:19.700 to change. So even the phrase climate change is redundant. That's what climates do. Of course
00:32:27.240 they change. And the earth, but the earth endures. The earth has endured super volcano eruptions.
00:32:36.300 The earth has endured, uh, asteroids, the size of entire states hitting the, the, the, the earth
00:32:43.960 or the size of cities. Anyway, I should say, um, the earth endures all of that
00:32:51.400 because we're that we are not that powerful. You're the SUV that you drive or the HVAC system
00:32:59.020 that you turn on. It's not quite as powerful as you want it to be. And the legislation that you're
00:33:03.840 right is also not as powerful as you want it to be. I hate to inform you. All right. This
00:33:10.100 is an interesting case from the BBC.com. It says Spencer Eldon, the man who was photographed
00:33:14.120 as a baby on the album cover for Nirvana's Nevermind is suing the band, alleging sexual
00:33:18.560 exploitation. The cover depicts Eldon as a four month old in a swimming pool. I mean, you've
00:33:24.580 seen this cover. It's an iconic cover. Uh, you got a four month old baby naked in a swimming
00:33:29.120 pool and he's grasping for a dollar bill that's dangled in front of him. The dollar bill was
00:33:33.120 superimposed into the, uh, picture after it was taken. Um, but now Eldon says that his parents
00:33:40.400 never signed a release authorizing the use of his image on the album. And he also alleges the nude
00:33:46.020 image constitutes child pornography. He said, quote, uh, or legal papers filed in California say the
00:33:52.540 images exposed Spencer's intimate body part and, uh, displayed Spencer's genitals from the time he was
00:33:58.140 an infant to the present day. Eldon's lawyer, Robert Lewis argues that the inclusion of the
00:34:03.040 dollar bill makes the minor seem like a sex worker. I hadn't seen that until I just read
00:34:09.440 this. The legal case also alleges that Nirvana had promised to cover Eldon's genitals with a
00:34:13.520 sticker, but the agreement was not upheld. Well, this is clearly, clearly absurd. Well,
00:34:18.400 this also means that every baby that's been in like a diaper advertisement, they can all sue
00:34:25.700 for, uh, based on child pornography. First of all, if you're going to sue anyone, then it would be
00:34:32.300 your parents. They're the ones who brought you for this album cover shoot and apparently threw you
00:34:39.660 into a pool. So I think they're the ones who I would be, uh, who I would take this up with. But if
00:34:45.360 you really want to know how absurd this is, this guy, Spencer Eldon, he has through the years on like
00:34:52.180 three or four different occasions has recreated that album cover, uh, to mark the anniversaries
00:34:59.180 of the album. So like the 10th anniversary, 15th, 20th, I think, I think all three of those he went
00:35:05.460 and he recreated, he was very happy about it. He's recreating this album cover that he now says was
00:35:11.100 child pornography and exploitation. But I, this, this is the world we live in. You might, you,
00:35:17.980 you see a chance in our litigious society. You see a chance to file a lawsuit, make some money.
00:35:23.020 Why not do it? And that's what's going on here. And finally from the daily wire, it says though
00:35:26.440 comedy central has been airing reruns of NBC's beloved long running sitcom, the office for years.
00:35:32.060 There's one episode you may not be able to find on the network going forward. And that is diversity
00:35:36.060 day. The episode is famous for its politically incorrect storyline, which features boss, Michael
00:35:39.760 Scott forcing the paper company staff to participate in a racially in a racial diversity seminar where he
00:35:45.220 speaks in an exaggerated Indian accent and reprises Chris Rock's notorious standup routine about
00:35:50.320 different kinds of black people. According to barstool sports, the channel, the cable channels
00:35:54.120 quietly omitted the episode from the rotation. Uh, comedy central has not admitted that they're doing
00:36:01.440 this, but if you watch the whole rotation of office reruns on comedy central, you're not going to find
00:36:09.980 that one. And this of course is no shock. This is, this is only a matter of time.
00:36:14.240 People who are fans of the office, like myself, at least I'm a fan of the office from, uh, the first
00:36:19.840 season until the middle of the fourth season. And I don't acknowledge any other episodes of the
00:36:24.720 office after that, because it fell off of a cliff, especially after Steve Carell left in season six.
00:36:29.440 Uh, but fans of the office, we have, have known for a long time that this is coming
00:36:34.040 all, all, all good comedy eventually will be canceled
00:36:39.320 because it's all offensive
00:36:42.680 because almost all comedy, almost all good comedy anyway
00:36:47.040 is based on, uh, you know, poking fun at human
00:36:51.120 beings and human nature.
00:36:54.480 Comedy is supposed to
00:36:56.120 kind of point us to things that we're not supposed to talk
00:37:00.980 about. Comedy is supposed to kind of desecrate
00:37:04.820 the sacred cows in, in, in culture. That, that is one of the functions of comedy and comedians.
00:37:10.220 That's the service they provide to their societies. And it's an important service,
00:37:14.260 but we can't have that anymore. So this is only a matter of time.
00:37:20.820 And of course the irony is that we all knew that these episodes were going to go away,
00:37:25.500 especially diversity day. I mean, for years, office fans have been saying this,
00:37:29.200 that they're going to start getting rid of these episodes. And that's going to be the first one to go
00:37:33.060 because it's all based around, uh, racial stereotypes and so on.
00:37:38.380 But the irony is that we're supposed to be, we're not laughing really at the racial stereotype.
00:37:43.460 You're supposed to be laughing at Michael Scott, who is this
00:37:46.060 oaf who doesn't understand social conventions and doesn't understand.
00:37:50.900 He's not even intentionally being politically incorrect. He just is because he's stupid.
00:37:54.860 That's the joke anyway.
00:37:57.760 So you're not even laughing at the racial stereotype. You're laughing at the person.
00:38:03.060 Who is engaging in these racial stereotypes.
00:38:07.480 And even that you're not allowed to do because it acknowledges the stereotype to begin with.
00:38:14.520 And yeah, part of what makes it funny and kind of cringy
00:38:17.340 is that there's, there's some truth to most stereotypes.
00:38:20.680 So you can't do that.
00:38:24.960 That's going to go away. And this is, this is progress though.
00:38:27.200 When we start erasing these episodes, can't laugh about it. Can't joke about it.
00:38:33.480 It's supposed to be progress.
00:38:34.360 In reality, it's the exact opposite.
00:38:41.020 Because you know that you've achieved, there's never going to be and was never going to be in any culture,
00:38:46.540 including our own absolute perfect utopian racial harmony.
00:38:51.380 That's, there's never going to be any kind of perfect utopian harmony in this life anyway.
00:38:55.140 That's what the next life is for.
00:38:57.420 But you know, you've gotten as close to that as you can possibly get
00:39:02.560 when you've got different groups of people who can joke about themselves and each other
00:39:08.700 and they can laugh about it.
00:39:12.840 That's how you know a group of friends are really close friends
00:39:15.860 when they can poke fun at themselves, but also poke fun at each other,
00:39:19.700 make fun of each other, even be kind of ruthless
00:39:21.300 in their insults and laugh about it.
00:39:25.340 That's how you know you're comfortable with somebody else.
00:39:30.060 And we could do that when it came to racial jokes,
00:39:32.520 even as recently as, you know, 12, 13 years ago.
00:39:38.000 And now you can't.
00:39:39.160 And that's, that's a sign that we're going in the wrong direction.
00:39:43.780 All right, next, we move to our comments.
00:39:46.140 Cool Papa J Magic says,
00:39:47.580 I love how Gen Z are actually the ones saying pornography is ruining our lives,
00:39:51.680 while middle-aged men are saying it's our right to watch.
00:39:54.880 It seems backwards, but it makes total sense.
00:39:57.140 Yeah, I've noticed that as well.
00:39:58.500 I don't know if we looked at the surveys.
00:40:00.500 I'm sure they would find that the majority of people in Gen Z
00:40:03.580 have very permissive attitudes about pornography.
00:40:06.360 But it is also interesting to note
00:40:08.340 that right now, these sort of anti-porn movement
00:40:12.700 is fueled largely by young people,
00:40:15.320 even people younger than myself.
00:40:17.140 I don't even know if I qualify as a young person anyway.
00:40:19.060 But it is, that is a, it's a young movement
00:40:20.980 that is speaking out against this.
00:40:23.880 And even if they're not in the majority,
00:40:25.440 which I'd say they almost certainly aren't,
00:40:27.100 though I wish they were,
00:40:28.380 that's a powerful statement.
00:40:30.660 And one of the things that makes it powerful
00:40:32.240 is that, especially with Gen Z,
00:40:34.680 these are people, kids, who grew up with this.
00:40:39.740 I mean, a lot of these kids,
00:40:40.700 a lot of these young men now,
00:40:43.140 who are speaking out against porn culture,
00:40:45.460 they were probably exposed to it for the first time
00:40:48.560 when they were like seven.
00:40:52.240 And so when they talk about the dangers of pornography,
00:40:56.100 they're not talking in a theoretical academic sense.
00:41:00.880 They're saying, if you listen to them,
00:41:02.700 they're saying,
00:41:03.380 this is what it's done to me.
00:41:05.080 This is the effect it's had on me and my friends.
00:41:07.120 I've lived in this culture and this environment.
00:41:09.260 I know what it's like.
00:41:10.880 And it's dreary and depressing and perverse
00:41:13.600 and corrupting and empty and hollow.
00:41:18.360 They're speaking very much from experience.
00:41:21.580 All of the older people, middle-aged people,
00:41:24.240 the boomers who are still valiantly defending
00:41:27.180 the rights of pornographers and pimps and smut peddlers,
00:41:30.500 they didn't grow up in that kind of environment.
00:41:33.620 They created that kind of environment
00:41:35.500 for their kids to grow up in,
00:41:36.860 but they didn't grow up in it.
00:41:38.660 They got to have their innocence,
00:41:40.420 at least for a time.
00:41:43.620 Their kids never got it.
00:41:46.600 And if they were to listen to their kids,
00:41:47.960 their kids are mourning the fact
00:41:48.960 that they never had that innocence.
00:41:52.760 All right, Liam says,
00:41:54.120 to further Matt's idea of adult content
00:41:56.200 actually being sex starved,
00:41:57.780 it's something akin to how you can starve a cat
00:41:59.560 by feeding them tuna.
00:42:00.640 Please don't.
00:42:01.160 They'll eat the tuna because of the taste
00:42:02.960 and they think it's satisfying,
00:42:04.140 but it also has almost zero nutritional value for them.
00:42:07.120 The same is true for people
00:42:07.900 that only consume those types of videos.
00:42:10.180 They're not really getting anything they need
00:42:11.780 and what's more,
00:42:12.800 they'll continue to not seek out something fulfilling.
00:42:15.880 Well, right, that's exactly right.
00:42:16.860 That's why it breeds addiction
00:42:21.000 like any other drug.
00:42:24.120 Yeah, you could use the example of,
00:42:25.460 well, tuna for a cat
00:42:26.340 or you could use the example of junk food,
00:42:28.860 someone who sits around drinking soda all day.
00:42:31.340 It tastes good in the moment,
00:42:32.800 but you're not actually hydrating yourself.
00:42:35.100 You're destroying your body in the process.
00:42:37.580 But I think drugs provide the best example
00:42:41.160 because there's certainly nothing fulfilling there.
00:42:43.720 You get the high in the moment.
00:42:46.120 The high diminishes
00:42:47.320 and you have to keep chasing it
00:42:49.120 and chasing it and chasing it.
00:42:51.000 And that's where a lot of times
00:42:52.040 you go to the harder drugs and everything else.
00:42:53.340 And it's the same thing with pornography.
00:42:56.900 And there is, as you note,
00:42:58.640 there is no fulfillment.
00:43:00.580 That's the one thing that is missing.
00:43:03.780 In an actual human romantic relationship
00:43:06.680 with a flesh and blood person,
00:43:08.940 it's not going to be perfect.
00:43:10.200 You're going to have your arguments and your strife,
00:43:12.140 but there's real fulfillment there.
00:43:14.140 You feel fulfilled with this person.
00:43:15.740 You feel content.
00:43:18.760 If it's a good relationship
00:43:19.860 and you found the right person,
00:43:20.800 there's no contentment with pornography.
00:43:27.360 Nick says,
00:43:28.160 I will genuinely always regret
00:43:29.900 not throwing my hat in the ring
00:43:31.380 for the Sweet Baby Gang anthem,
00:43:32.840 but whatever anthem is selected,
00:43:34.440 I will stand by it till the end.
00:43:36.040 Well, thank you, sir.
00:43:37.260 And I mourn
00:43:38.900 your own regrets.
00:43:42.260 And I know that there are many such cases
00:43:44.020 because
00:43:45.020 the deadline is over.
00:43:47.480 No more submissions.
00:43:48.420 And now it's just a matter of
00:43:50.940 discovering who is going to be our
00:43:52.600 true,
00:43:53.700 what will our true
00:43:54.720 Sweet Baby Gang anthem be?
00:43:56.180 And we're going to find that out
00:43:56.940 very soon.
00:44:00.140 Let's see.
00:44:03.120 Rich says,
00:44:03.680 I like Matt,
00:44:04.320 but his arguments on prostitution
00:44:05.920 slash sex work
00:44:06.980 sucks.
00:44:09.780 Phrasing, Rich.
00:44:10.780 Phrasing.
00:44:11.780 Using his logic,
00:44:12.860 he's not really different
00:44:13.740 than a sex worker.
00:44:14.560 a sex worker.
00:44:16.940 Okay.
00:44:18.160 That's what you're going to have
00:44:19.040 to explain a little bit.
00:44:20.120 How am I similar to a...
00:44:23.180 Maybe I don't want to know
00:44:24.420 in what way you find me
00:44:25.900 similar to a sex worker.
00:44:28.660 Now, if you mean,
00:44:29.720 I think I already addressed this,
00:44:31.400 that
00:44:31.560 yeah, everybody in a...
00:44:34.940 You can try to claim
00:44:36.500 that everybody who has a job
00:44:38.260 and makes a living
00:44:39.020 is selling their body
00:44:40.780 because they're using their body
00:44:42.200 to do whatever they do.
00:44:43.900 Unless they're using
00:44:45.080 the powers of ESP
00:44:46.300 or mental telepathy
00:44:47.240 or something
00:44:47.680 and just sitting there
00:44:48.740 and moving objects around
00:44:49.640 with their mind,
00:44:50.820 unless they have that ability,
00:44:52.520 the rest of us
00:44:53.020 are going to be using our body
00:44:54.060 in some way
00:44:54.800 to perform a task.
00:44:57.580 And that goes for
00:44:58.700 podcast hosts
00:44:59.900 and construction workers
00:45:01.600 and everybody, right?
00:45:04.160 But as I explained,
00:45:05.920 the difference is
00:45:07.000 in all these other jobs,
00:45:08.460 you're using yourself
00:45:12.260 to perform
00:45:13.600 some sort of task,
00:45:14.620 some kind of skill
00:45:15.560 and it's that skill
00:45:17.700 that you're...
00:45:18.580 or the thing
00:45:19.060 that you're producing
00:45:19.860 which you're selling.
00:45:20.800 In this case,
00:45:21.220 I'm making a podcast
00:45:22.060 and that's the product
00:45:23.820 that I'm selling
00:45:25.040 as it were, right?
00:45:28.280 If you build tables
00:45:29.840 that you're using your body
00:45:30.880 to build a table
00:45:31.640 and you're selling that.
00:45:35.340 But in the case
00:45:36.140 of a so-called sex worker,
00:45:37.420 especially somebody
00:45:39.200 as we talked about,
00:45:40.080 we were specifically speaking
00:45:41.260 about people on OnlyFans,
00:45:42.360 although it goes for all of them,
00:45:43.560 but especially the prostitutes
00:45:45.300 on OnlyFans,
00:45:47.760 you know,
00:45:48.000 they're just displaying
00:45:49.120 their body on camera.
00:45:50.400 There's no art.
00:45:51.000 There's nothing to it.
00:45:51.620 There's no skill.
00:45:53.460 And they're selling their body.
00:45:55.040 That is the object
00:45:56.580 of the product
00:45:57.320 that is on the shelf
00:45:58.500 to be bought.
00:46:00.020 It is objectification
00:46:01.100 by its definition.
00:46:02.240 It is dehumanizing
00:46:03.180 by its definition.
00:46:05.700 It has to be dehumanizing.
00:46:08.420 You know,
00:46:08.680 the porn consumer
00:46:10.660 is,
00:46:14.660 the whole thing
00:46:15.240 doesn't work
00:46:16.040 if the porn consumer
00:46:17.120 really thinks
00:46:18.380 of the person
00:46:19.360 behind the screen,
00:46:20.760 on the other side
00:46:21.220 of the screen,
00:46:21.640 as a person,
00:46:22.540 as a human being.
00:46:24.600 As the porn consumer,
00:46:25.880 if you really reflect
00:46:26.900 on the humanity
00:46:27.780 of this person
00:46:28.720 and the fact
00:46:30.180 that this might be
00:46:30.820 a mother,
00:46:31.300 this is a daughter,
00:46:32.300 this is someone who,
00:46:33.900 you know,
00:46:34.000 this was at one point
00:46:35.360 a young child,
00:46:36.960 this was an innocent
00:46:38.460 young child at one point
00:46:39.440 whose life went horribly wrong.
00:46:40.780 I mean,
00:46:40.860 if you start reflecting
00:46:41.620 on all of those things,
00:46:43.140 then that's going to
00:46:46.520 take you out of the mood
00:46:47.300 that you want to be in
00:46:48.060 as the porn consumer.
00:46:50.900 So it depends
00:46:51.840 on the person
00:46:52.740 dehumanizing themselves
00:46:54.060 and you going along
00:46:55.640 with that.
00:46:57.040 You've both kind of agreed
00:46:58.280 to put their humanity
00:46:59.480 and your own,
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00:49:01.880 Today,
00:49:02.360 for our cancellation,
00:49:03.340 we have a fun twist
00:49:04.380 on an old story.
00:49:05.240 A DoorDash delivery driver
00:49:06.460 who goes by the handle
00:49:07.460 French Fry Thug online
00:49:09.800 recently recorded a video
00:49:11.340 where he claims
00:49:12.100 that he had gotten
00:49:13.220 a little bit of revenge
00:49:14.360 on a customer
00:49:15.040 who didn't tip him.
00:49:16.300 Here it is.
00:49:17.580 This video is for Amy.
00:49:19.240 Amy,
00:49:19.500 I just delivered your food.
00:49:20.620 Hi.
00:49:21.560 I left you a note
00:49:22.780 with your food.
00:49:23.640 It says,
00:49:24.080 Dear Amy,
00:49:24.660 if you can't afford to tip,
00:49:25.740 then you should go
00:49:26.200 pick it up yourself.
00:49:27.420 Who do you think you are
00:49:28.300 to order food
00:49:28.880 and have someone come
00:49:29.580 and bring it to your door
00:49:30.400 for free?
00:49:31.260 For free?
00:49:32.140 I just drove my personal car
00:49:33.540 to your house
00:49:34.240 to deliver your food for fun?
00:49:36.020 Nah,
00:49:37.020 not today.
00:49:38.360 You can right your wrongs below.
00:49:40.380 Venmo,
00:49:40.820 I forgot to tip.
00:49:42.380 Amy,
00:49:42.700 no hard feelings.
00:49:43.460 You just can't have people
00:49:44.280 bring you your food for free,
00:49:45.700 okay?
00:49:46.200 This is a learning lesson
00:49:46.980 for everyone,
00:49:47.520 all right?
00:49:48.880 So,
00:49:49.420 we're used to hearing stories
00:49:50.580 where a waiter
00:49:51.220 or delivery driver
00:49:52.280 claims that a customer
00:49:53.180 left them a nasty note,
00:49:54.600 but in this case,
00:49:55.180 the delivery driver
00:49:55.800 claims that he left
00:49:56.880 the nasty note.
00:49:58.520 Now,
00:49:58.760 as we saw even just last week,
00:49:59.920 the nasty note stories
00:50:01.300 are almost always hoaxes,
00:50:03.460 and I say almost
00:50:04.080 only to leave open
00:50:04.860 the slight possibility
00:50:05.540 that there's been
00:50:06.100 a real incident
00:50:06.820 at some point this century,
00:50:08.000 though if there was
00:50:08.540 a real one,
00:50:09.020 I don't think we ever
00:50:09.820 heard about it.
00:50:10.800 What about this one,
00:50:11.520 though?
00:50:11.600 Well,
00:50:12.200 here again,
00:50:12.680 he's saying that
00:50:13.660 he left the note.
00:50:15.460 Can't we trust that?
00:50:16.680 I mean,
00:50:16.880 would he lie
00:50:17.620 about leaving his own note?
00:50:19.060 Would someone
00:50:19.480 really be so starved
00:50:20.920 for attention
00:50:21.980 and also so much
00:50:22.860 of a passive-aggressive coward
00:50:24.060 that they would pretend
00:50:25.480 to have left a note
00:50:26.380 that they didn't really leave?
00:50:27.820 Would they?
00:50:28.280 Is it possible?
00:50:30.120 Well,
00:50:30.320 as it turns out,
00:50:30.820 the answer to all
00:50:31.360 those questions is yes.
00:50:32.900 The driver typed out
00:50:34.080 that letter,
00:50:34.680 printed it,
00:50:35.160 but never actually
00:50:36.180 gave it to the customer.
00:50:37.920 So I think we could
00:50:38.600 probably declare now,
00:50:39.500 first of all,
00:50:39.860 at this point,
00:50:40.280 that all notes
00:50:41.420 or letters left
00:50:42.460 for or by waiters
00:50:43.860 or delivery drivers
00:50:44.960 or anyone associated
00:50:45.940 with the food industry,
00:50:46.820 they're all fake.
00:50:47.960 All of them.
00:50:49.020 There is something
00:50:49.560 about people
00:50:50.220 in the restaurant business
00:50:51.040 that compels them
00:50:52.060 as if by some unseen
00:50:53.660 mystical force
00:50:54.580 to write fake notes.
00:50:55.960 I don't know what it is.
00:50:56.620 If you're in the restaurant industry,
00:50:57.720 maybe you can tell me.
00:50:59.380 What's going on exactly
00:51:00.580 with you people?
00:51:01.260 Why do you keep doing this?
00:51:02.220 I can't explain it
00:51:04.520 and this guy
00:51:04.840 doesn't really explain it himself.
00:51:06.080 Here's the New York Post.
00:51:06.920 They say,
00:51:07.480 quote,
00:51:07.560 a DoorDash delivery man
00:51:08.600 who went viral last week
00:51:09.880 for leaving a passive aggressive note
00:51:11.280 for a habitual non-tipper
00:51:12.540 now says that the stunt
00:51:14.020 never happened.
00:51:15.560 Quote,
00:51:15.880 Amy is real.
00:51:16.720 She's a real habitual non-tipper,
00:51:18.180 but I didn't leave the note
00:51:19.940 at Amy's house.
00:51:21.740 He posted on Saturday,
00:51:22.840 four days after he shared
00:51:23.640 a now unavailable video
00:51:24.680 claiming to have left the note
00:51:25.680 along with the female
00:51:26.400 customer's order.
00:51:27.880 A subsequent video
00:51:28.660 showed French fry thug
00:51:29.960 supposedly distributing the money
00:51:31.720 that he said he received
00:51:32.560 from strangers on Venmo
00:51:33.740 to fellow underpaid DoorDashers.
00:51:36.380 Well, there you go.
00:51:37.580 He included his Venmo
00:51:38.660 in the fake note
00:51:39.380 and the strangers,
00:51:40.460 you know,
00:51:41.200 online for mysterious reasons
00:51:42.780 were once again eager
00:51:44.160 to send him money.
00:51:45.880 There are charities
00:51:46.880 and non-profits out there
00:51:48.320 that work with actual poor people
00:51:50.040 and sick people
00:51:50.700 and yet struggle to raise funds.
00:51:52.640 Meanwhile,
00:51:53.000 any random dummy with a phone
00:51:54.580 can rake in hundreds
00:51:55.340 or thousands of dollars
00:51:56.360 with the lamest sob story.
00:51:59.100 Children's cancer research
00:52:00.440 probably gets less funding
00:52:01.560 than whiny waiters
00:52:02.580 and delivery drivers
00:52:03.760 on TikTok at this point.
00:52:05.360 It's quite a sad state of affairs.
00:52:07.440 But what about this issue
00:52:08.540 of tipping DoorDash drivers?
00:52:10.240 Let's look at the larger
00:52:11.840 and more serious issue.
00:52:13.360 And this is a serious issue,
00:52:14.340 we're told.
00:52:15.320 DoorDash drivers
00:52:15.940 actually just went on strike
00:52:17.040 for a whole day
00:52:17.820 a few weeks ago.
00:52:19.220 Among their demands
00:52:20.220 were a higher base pay.
00:52:21.660 Right now,
00:52:21.960 they make between
00:52:22.440 two and ten dollars
00:52:23.200 per delivery as a base.
00:52:24.740 And they want to know
00:52:25.700 the tip amount
00:52:27.560 from a delivery
00:52:28.400 before delivering it.
00:52:30.080 Because when you order
00:52:30.680 on DoorDash,
00:52:31.160 you're expected to pay
00:52:31.900 the tip beforehand.
00:52:32.960 But apparently,
00:52:33.640 DoorDash doesn't tell
00:52:34.460 the drivers
00:52:34.980 what the full amount is
00:52:35.880 until they've completed
00:52:36.600 the order.
00:52:37.800 And the drivers insist
00:52:38.580 that they should know
00:52:39.240 the tip ahead of time
00:52:39.900 and then be able to decide
00:52:40.860 if they want to complete
00:52:42.160 the order or not
00:52:42.860 based on that.
00:52:44.100 Now, of course,
00:52:44.520 this is all backwards.
00:52:46.380 I can tell you right now,
00:52:47.360 I say unapologetically,
00:52:49.280 I tip very little
00:52:50.640 or most of the time
00:52:52.040 not at all
00:52:52.620 when I order
00:52:53.500 from a food delivery service.
00:52:55.020 Uber Eats, DoorDash,
00:52:56.560 sorry guys,
00:52:57.600 I'm not tipping you.
00:52:59.540 And for one thing,
00:53:00.360 because I'm not going
00:53:00.940 to tip you
00:53:01.360 before you've completed
00:53:02.560 the task
00:53:03.260 that I am tipping you for.
00:53:05.400 The tip is supposed
00:53:06.140 to be in response to
00:53:07.280 and calibrated
00:53:07.900 based on
00:53:08.600 the quality
00:53:09.560 of the service provided.
00:53:10.520 How can I reward you
00:53:11.260 for the quality
00:53:11.680 of your service
00:53:12.140 before you performed it?
00:53:14.320 And what happens
00:53:14.960 when,
00:53:15.240 as has happened to me
00:53:16.240 in the past
00:53:16.640 before I adopted
00:53:17.280 this new policy,
00:53:18.200 what happens when
00:53:18.600 I leave a generous tip
00:53:19.400 and then the driver
00:53:19.880 takes their merry time
00:53:20.820 bringing the food
00:53:21.360 to me cold and soggy
00:53:22.360 and I'm sconding
00:53:23.380 with the tip
00:53:23.760 that I already gave them.
00:53:25.520 But the other issue
00:53:26.220 is that DoorDash
00:53:26.920 and Uber Eats
00:53:27.380 both charge delivery fees
00:53:29.400 along with other taxes
00:53:30.480 and service fees.
00:53:31.620 What that means
00:53:32.080 is that I'm already
00:53:32.700 paying 65 bucks
00:53:33.980 for a hamburger
00:53:34.520 and french fries
00:53:35.140 and now you want me
00:53:36.040 to add an additional tip
00:53:37.200 on top of it?
00:53:38.180 There are limits
00:53:39.000 to my generosity
00:53:39.800 or to my capacity
00:53:41.500 for financial mismanagement,
00:53:43.100 however you want
00:53:43.900 to look at it.
00:53:45.300 But there are two other
00:53:45.880 factors at work here
00:53:46.600 as well,
00:53:46.860 which are a little bit
00:53:49.800 broader and larger.
00:53:51.620 The first is
00:53:52.440 the rather new idea
00:53:54.200 that tipping
00:53:56.040 is an act
00:53:56.880 of unconditional charity
00:53:58.340 that we're expected
00:54:00.460 to perform
00:54:01.020 for people
00:54:01.860 in the service industry.
00:54:03.800 And as tipping
00:54:04.280 has turned into
00:54:04.900 a form of financial
00:54:05.820 assistance,
00:54:06.780 a sort of endowment
00:54:07.700 that we're supposed
00:54:08.820 to bequeath
00:54:09.480 on people,
00:54:10.200 it's also expanded
00:54:11.600 exponentially.
00:54:12.740 Now you're expected
00:54:13.300 to walk through life
00:54:14.240 handing out tips
00:54:14.940 to anyone
00:54:15.460 who wears a name tag
00:54:16.380 or works a cash register
00:54:17.380 or hands you food
00:54:18.400 in a plastic bag.
00:54:19.980 It's completely
00:54:20.660 out of control.
00:54:22.240 Social convention
00:54:23.080 had already determined
00:54:23.860 who gets tipped
00:54:25.160 and who doesn't.
00:54:26.220 And I don't see
00:54:26.760 any reason to change
00:54:27.440 any of that.
00:54:28.420 Yeah, it might have been
00:54:28.980 relatively arbitrary
00:54:29.800 in some cases.
00:54:30.580 We don't tip our plumbers,
00:54:31.560 for example,
00:54:32.040 even though a good case
00:54:32.720 could be made for them.
00:54:34.220 But you have to
00:54:35.080 draw the line somewhere
00:54:36.100 and it's been drawn.
00:54:37.700 More importantly,
00:54:38.880 I'm supposed to tip
00:54:39.840 based on the quality
00:54:41.420 of the service
00:54:42.000 that was provided to me,
00:54:42.980 not on the level
00:54:43.620 of my own personal guilt.
00:54:45.560 Or on the victimhood
00:54:46.660 resume of the service worker
00:54:47.860 that I'm dealing with.
00:54:49.620 It's not my job
00:54:50.580 as the customer
00:54:51.280 to make sure
00:54:52.240 that you're paid
00:54:52.840 a fair wage.
00:54:54.240 I got news for you.
00:54:55.740 You have to work that out
00:54:56.760 with your employer.
00:54:58.540 So when you hear
00:54:59.200 from people
00:54:59.660 in the service industry,
00:55:00.440 well, I'm not paid
00:55:01.280 a fair wage,
00:55:01.800 that's why you got a tip.
00:55:03.520 No, see,
00:55:04.360 that's not my,
00:55:05.620 I'm not your employer.
00:55:06.640 I don't decide
00:55:07.320 what your wage is.
00:55:08.100 How did that become
00:55:08.940 my issue all of a sudden?
00:55:11.240 See, I was at
00:55:11.700 an airport recently
00:55:12.480 and I heard
00:55:13.140 two pilots
00:55:14.300 complaining about
00:55:15.000 their insufficient compensation.
00:55:16.640 They were in the terminal.
00:55:17.440 They were just sitting
00:55:17.800 there talking about it.
00:55:19.100 They were overworked
00:55:20.120 and underpaid apparently
00:55:20.940 from what they were saying.
00:55:22.100 Which disturbed me greatly,
00:55:24.320 I have to say.
00:55:25.600 And maybe their compensation
00:55:26.780 is insufficient.
00:55:27.820 I don't know.
00:55:28.360 But it would have been
00:55:29.060 pretty strange
00:55:29.800 and rather concerning
00:55:30.580 if they were in the plane
00:55:31.960 and they left the cockpit
00:55:32.940 and walked down the aisle
00:55:33.960 with a tip jar
00:55:34.680 expecting the passengers
00:55:36.140 to cover the difference.
00:55:37.800 The passengers are already
00:55:38.940 paying for the flight.
00:55:39.920 They've done their part.
00:55:40.800 The rest is not their concern
00:55:41.860 and shouldn't be.
00:55:44.060 The second factor
00:55:44.940 is this idea
00:55:45.560 that every job
00:55:47.440 should provide
00:55:48.680 a living wage, right?
00:55:50.500 DoorDash drivers are upset
00:55:51.520 that they aren't paid enough.
00:55:52.420 They demand that their customers
00:55:53.360 make up for it.
00:55:54.120 Even if the customer
00:55:54.740 is already paying $29
00:55:55.680 in additional fees
00:55:56.740 for a $12 bag
00:55:58.080 of fast food tacos.
00:55:59.720 But how much
00:56:00.240 should a DoorDash driver
00:56:01.160 really expect to make anyway?
00:56:02.740 You're simply taking
00:56:03.400 a bag of food
00:56:04.400 from one location
00:56:06.040 to another.
00:56:07.880 It's something that
00:56:08.760 literally anyone
00:56:09.800 with a driver's license
00:56:10.860 could do.
00:56:12.000 And even a lot of people
00:56:12.700 without a driver's license
00:56:13.580 could probably do it.
00:56:14.880 And probably do,
00:56:15.620 in fact, do it.
00:56:16.920 $2 to $10
00:56:17.600 plus a few bucks
00:56:18.520 for tip per delivery
00:56:19.820 seems pretty fair
00:56:20.680 for that menial task.
00:56:22.780 In fact,
00:56:23.040 it seems surprisingly high,
00:56:24.080 if anything.
00:56:25.180 How much do you want
00:56:25.980 if that's not enough?
00:56:27.260 $20 per delivery?
00:56:28.580 $40?
00:56:29.900 Should you pull down
00:56:30.820 an astronaut's salary
00:56:31.960 for picking up
00:56:32.560 someone's Kung Pao chicken
00:56:33.520 at Panda Express
00:56:34.240 and driving it
00:56:35.080 eight miles
00:56:35.520 to their apartment?
00:56:37.440 I mean,
00:56:38.000 how much is the labor
00:56:38.920 actually worth?
00:56:39.940 That's the question
00:56:40.620 that we are always
00:56:41.780 losing sight of.
00:56:42.780 How much is this labor
00:56:43.760 actually worth?
00:56:44.940 How much could it
00:56:45.720 possibly be worth?
00:56:47.560 People are already
00:56:48.060 paying a premium
00:56:48.780 just so they don't
00:56:49.300 have to put on pants
00:56:50.060 and drive to Panda Express
00:56:51.000 themselves,
00:56:51.640 but there are limits
00:56:52.580 to our laziness.
00:56:54.160 And you make that premium
00:56:55.660 much higher
00:56:56.200 than it already is,
00:56:57.340 and we'll probably
00:56:57.840 just choose the pants instead.
00:56:59.620 Not every job
00:57:00.520 is meant to be a career.
00:57:01.600 Not every job
00:57:02.180 is supposed to be
00:57:02.800 something that you can
00:57:03.740 live off of.
00:57:05.700 I mean,
00:57:06.540 DoorDash driving?
00:57:08.400 Some jobs are meant
00:57:09.400 for teenagers
00:57:10.060 who live at home
00:57:10.960 or people who are
00:57:11.540 looking to make a bit
00:57:12.240 of extra cash
00:57:12.940 on the side.
00:57:14.140 If you're running
00:57:14.860 DoorDash orders
00:57:15.680 as your main source
00:57:16.880 of income,
00:57:17.660 you probably should find
00:57:19.420 another main source
00:57:20.200 of income.
00:57:22.200 And the good news
00:57:23.000 is that there's
00:57:23.480 10 million jobs
00:57:24.240 out there,
00:57:24.620 so you shouldn't
00:57:25.060 have any trouble
00:57:25.480 finding it.
00:57:27.540 That would be
00:57:28.180 your wisest course
00:57:28.880 of action,
00:57:29.340 I would say.
00:57:29.800 Or you could
00:57:31.860 make fake notes
00:57:32.500 and solicit
00:57:32.980 PayPal donations
00:57:33.620 as well.
00:57:34.800 That may be
00:57:35.420 your most lucrative
00:57:36.440 path after all.
00:57:37.340 Though,
00:57:37.980 if you choose
00:57:38.460 that path,
00:57:38.980 you will still be
00:57:39.700 in the end,
00:57:41.160 as this DoorDash
00:57:42.060 driver is,
00:57:43.140 of course,
00:57:43.800 canceled.
00:57:45.040 And we'll leave it
00:57:45.640 there for today.
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