The Matt Walsh Show - August 30, 2021


Ep. 786 - Psychologist Prescribes Mass Suicide For White People


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50 minutes

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184.19006

Word Count

9,314

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549

Misogynist Sentences

7

Hate Speech Sentences

23


Summary

A prominent psychologist suggests that white people should kill themselves, while another worries that White people are haunted by the ghosts of whiteness. It s just more radical leftism for mental health professionals, and the entire industry is rife with it. We ll talk about the consequences of that fact today. Also, Dr. Francis Fauci endorses vaccine mandates for children, and makes a predictably misleading argument in favor of them. A security guard shoots a man because he wasn t wearing a mask and says it s self-defense. Hollywood churns out another woke remake. And, speaking of Hollywood, why was James Corden thrusting his pelvis in the faces of motorists? We ll try to answer that question and many more today on The Matt Walsh Show.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Walsh Show, a prominent psychologist suggests that white people
00:00:03.560 should kill themselves, while another worries that white people are haunted by the ghosts
00:00:07.400 of whiteness. It's just more radical leftism for mental health professionals. The entire
00:00:11.300 industry is rife with it. We'll talk about the consequences of that fact today. Also,
00:00:14.720 Dr. Fauci endorses vaccine mandates for children and makes a predictably
00:00:18.060 misleading argument in favor of them. A security guard shoots a man because he wasn't wearing a
00:00:22.480 mask and says it's self-defense. Hollywood churns out another woke remake. And speaking
00:00:26.920 of Hollywood, why was James Corden stopping traffic and thrusting his pelvis in the faces
00:00:31.780 of motorists? We'll try to answer that question and many more today on The Matt Walsh Show.
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00:01:59.540 and Clinical Social Work is an organization that you've never heard of and you shouldn't need to
00:02:03.780 ever hear of it. It's one of the many associations and organizations for people in the psychology or
00:02:08.820 psychiatry or therapy fields, the psycho industry, as I call it, not so lovingly. You might think that
00:02:14.000 the things these people talk about when they gather for their seminars and so forth would be
00:02:18.080 little interest to you, just sort of dry and academic and only relevant to the members of
00:02:22.260 those professions. But as it turns out, the things they talk about with each other do have a profound
00:02:27.160 impact on the rest of us. For example, I'm reading a book now called Saving Normal by Alan Francis,
00:02:31.980 who's a psychiatrist and one of the guys prominently involved in the discussions and meetings that
00:02:36.000 eventually led to the release of the fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual,
00:02:40.820 or DSM-4. Those conversations really mattered a lot to the rest of us, even if we weren't privy to
00:02:45.500 them. Because as Francis argues in his book, the DSM, especially the next and most recent edition,
00:02:50.280 DSM-5, is a travesty which helped to create a situation where now any and all human emotions
00:02:55.500 and behaviors can be categorized as sort of manifestations of mental illness. Now, the
00:03:01.700 American Association for Psychoanalysis and Clinical Social Work isn't involved in producing anything like
00:03:07.220 the DSM, but this group and its members do have some ideas about what sorts of behaviors and ideas
00:03:13.380 should be considered disordered and how they should be treated. So to that end, the organization held
00:03:18.300 a seminar recently, one in a series of seminars titled Nice White Therapists Deconstructing Whiteness
00:03:24.040 Towards an Anti-Racist Clinical Practice. On their website, they explain that the intention is to
00:03:28.840 devote 2021 to a study of whiteness. Through a series of seminars and small group encounters,
00:03:34.020 our conversation leaders will help us excavate white identity. We will explore our denial,
00:03:38.720 disavowal, disassociation, and even pleasure in the searing traumas of slavery and violence that built
00:03:44.520 this country and form all of our identities as people who are not black. Not black. That's our identity
00:03:50.440 as white people. We're defining the negative now as not black. The speakers have all made the negative
00:03:55.380 connotation extremely clear, if it wasn't already. Clinical psychologist Natasha Stovall kicked things off
00:04:00.560 back in March by rambling about how the ghost of whiteness might zap us of our psychic energy.
00:04:07.100 This is all very scientific, you see. Listen to this.
00:04:09.880 You know, whiteness is like something that white clients are, you know, really split off from often,
00:04:15.800 and that it comes back as a ghost and kind of interferes with psychotherapeutic work,
00:04:21.620 interferes with civilization, with mourning. And then this disavowal from the identification of
00:04:27.040 whiteness, you know, leads to a creation of the self that, you know, cuts one off from like empathetic
00:04:33.240 identification from people who have a different, who are different in some way. And also, and then
00:04:39.340 at the same time drains off, you know, sort of the psychic energy of the person, of the white person.
00:04:45.000 And I think that that's like an incredibly valuable conceptualization that I think immediately kind
00:04:49.960 of, you know, kind of encapsulates something that can be very useful as a way of thinking about the
00:04:55.860 things that you see with white clients, including like these very typical presentations in private
00:05:00.280 practice, anxiety, depression, social isolation, isolation within relationships. Like these things,
00:05:06.040 I think are often, you know, you can be, depending on the situation, can be conceived as not just about
00:05:12.760 whiteness, but not helped by whiteness, you know, exacerbated by whiteness.
00:05:17.000 You know, she sounds more like a racist Miss Cleo than a medical professional. And she wasn't done.
00:05:21.580 She also claimed that whiteness is hostile, violent, destructive, and annihilating. There
00:05:26.560 seemed to be some redundancy going on there, violent and hostile as opposed to violent, but
00:05:30.320 not hostile. I don't know. But that's really the least of our worries here. Listen to this.
00:05:34.760 The really important piece of working with white clients is to keep in mind that, you know,
00:05:40.060 like that when racism or when whiteness is deployed against people who aren't white,
00:05:44.580 it's hostile, it is violent, it is, you know, it's destructive, it is annihilating. And that
00:05:55.160 that's a piece of whiteness that we really need to like reconnect with, like that is something that
00:06:01.920 we need to always be mindful of as white people and white therapists, that like what we see in
00:06:08.260 ourselves and in other white people and from white patients is not the same thing that's seen by people
00:06:12.520 who are on the other end of whiteness. Not to be outdone, the most recent talk in this series was
00:06:18.440 with a professor of psychology at Duquesne University named Derek Hook. Professor Hook
00:06:23.200 actually defended the idea that white people should commit mass suicide as a, quote, ethical act.
00:06:29.740 No big deal here. Just a guy who teaches psychology actually advocating for suicide and advocating for
00:06:34.360 it on a racial basis, no less. Here he is. Listen to this. He made the assertion that white people
00:06:39.320 should commit suicide as an ethical act. And here's a quote from him directly. The reality in
00:06:43.860 South Africa today is that most white people spend their whole lives only engaging black South
00:06:48.640 Africans in subservient positions. My question is then how can a person not be racist if that's the
00:06:54.020 way they live their lives? The only way then for white people to become part of Africa is not to exist
00:06:58.720 as white people anymore. If the goal is to dismantle white supremacy and white supremacy is white
00:07:04.660 culture, then the goal has to be has to be to dismantle white culture and ultimately white people
00:07:09.000 themselves. The total integration into Africa by white people will also automatically then mean the death of
00:07:14.420 white people as white as a concept would not exist anymore. So here's the kind of crazy gambit of this
00:07:22.140 talk. I want to suggest that psychoanalytically we could even make the argument that there was something
00:07:27.320 ethical in Delport's statements. Now, I suppose, you know, parenthetically, we could say that
00:07:32.120 Delport's kind of a young fired up academic, and maybe, you know, there's a little bit too much of
00:07:37.140 a dramatization in some of his his comments. But nevertheless, I want to make the argument that
00:07:41.060 there is some kind of ethical dimension to his his provocations. I think that Delport took his white
00:07:47.140 audience to the threshold of a type of symbolic extinction, or at least the contemplation of what
00:07:51.840 that might be. He took them to a proposed end of whiteness, or in more psychoanalytic terms, we could
00:07:56.720 say that Delport offered his white audience the opportunity, one they didn't seem to appreciate for the
00:08:00.600 most part, but the opportunity to contemplate what we could call the castration of whiteness.
00:08:06.860 Of course, the most immediate response to Professor Hook might be, you know, you first, chief,
00:08:11.780 you're whiter than a jar of mayonnaise buried under a foot of snow. If you think white people should
00:08:15.880 commit suicide, well, why haven't you led by example? Not that I want you to, okay, only a malignant
00:08:21.840 psychopath would want people to kill themselves. And unfortunately, we have malignant psychopaths
00:08:26.580 teaching and training the next generation of psychologists in this country. So that's not
00:08:31.240 what I would want to see happen. But that's what he says he wants. None of this comes as a surprise.
00:08:36.260 We know that the psycho industry is overrun with steeped in down to its core, far left radicalism.
00:08:42.740 And this fact is most profoundly demonstrated by the gender issue, which we talk about all the time.
00:08:47.600 Of course, most psychologists, psychiatrists, therapists, counselors, and all of their various
00:08:51.500 organizations now affirm the idea that a five-year-old boy might have the essence of a
00:08:55.980 girl trapped mystically inside him, or a 16-year-old girl might really be a boy yearning to escape her
00:09:01.060 female shell, or she might not be anything in particular, in which case our mental health
00:09:05.500 professionals will happily refer her over to the plastic surgeons where she can undergo non-binary
00:09:10.400 surgery, which is a thing now, to remove all sexual indicators from her body, or at least the ones
00:09:15.660 they can remove. They still can't remove her DNA, of course, but I'm sure they're working on that
00:09:19.780 problem as we speak. Now, the point is that what you just heard there in those clips is not an
00:09:26.660 exception or an aberration. That was not a window into the fringes. That's mainstream. That's what
00:09:32.360 the mental health experts believe. This is what they say. This is what they tell their patients.
00:09:36.600 The exceptions and aberrations are on the other side, you know, the normal ones. Now, we know that
00:09:43.520 every institution in our culture has been infiltrated by the far left. There's no reason why the
00:09:47.940 psycho industry should be any different, but the militant leftism among mental health professionals
00:09:52.800 is especially dangerous, and it's worth thinking about because these people, those with the prefix
00:09:59.220 psych on their job title, are in the business of identifying, diagnosing, and treating sicknesses of
00:10:04.500 the mind. If somebody has a neurological condition like dementia, they'll go to a neurologist. So Joe
00:10:10.820 Biden, you know, he may also consult a psychiatrist, but dementia is a physical disease of the physical
00:10:15.360 brain, and therefore it's outside of the psychiatrist or psychologist purview. No, so they're concerned
00:10:20.100 with mental illnesses, sicknesses of the mind. In other words, they're concerned with deciding how
00:10:25.040 and what a person is supposed to think and what sorts of behaviors those thoughts are supposed to
00:10:29.580 produce. When it comes down to it, they're really dealing with human nature. They decide whether a mind
00:10:35.080 falls within the normal scope of human nature or whether it falls outside of it. Now, I've explained
00:10:41.080 before why I'm frankly skeptical of the whole business. I'm not totally convinced that anyone can
00:10:46.880 diagnose the mind, especially because nobody can even say for sure what the mind is and how it works and
00:10:52.080 how it exists and why. The idea that anyone can go to school for a few years and then be in a position
00:10:56.920 to determine whether an individual's mind is working properly or not is to me questionable. That's not to say
00:11:03.540 that mental disorders don't exist or that they can't be reliably identified and treated. It's simply to say that
00:11:08.360 it's a very tricky business. It's trickier than most people probably realize and so tricky that
00:11:13.280 it would require an immense amount of scientific discipline and restraint, not to mention a deep
00:11:18.300 wisdom and insight to do correctly. But this industry has not operated with discipline or restraint and
00:11:24.300 certainly not wisdom. It has instead run roughshod over the human condition, relegating thousands of
00:11:29.680 normal human behaviors and thought processes to the mental illness bin. And it's acted politically and
00:11:35.040 cowardly, changing its own positions, not based on science, but on political pressure and social
00:11:39.520 trends. That's how a man who calls himself a woman went from, clinically speaking, a deluded mental
00:11:44.900 patient to a hero speaking his truth in the span of just a few years, really. There was no science to
00:11:51.040 support this shift. There was none. There were only politics and ideology, and that's the primary concern
00:11:56.140 of the mental health industry. And yet, in spite of these issues, people still trust
00:12:01.960 these people to tell them about themselves, to decide what is normal and what's not,
00:12:07.120 what's healthy and what's not, what is natural and what's not, what is true and what's not.
00:12:12.220 And the industry has used this power in really insidious ways, and the results have been catastrophic.
00:12:19.120 So what does that mean? Does it mean that you shouldn't trust any psychiatrist or psychologist
00:12:22.680 or therapist? No, it just means you should understand the context. You should understand that
00:12:27.800 these people are fruits growing from a tree that is poisoned at its roots. You can still find a good
00:12:33.640 apple in there, but you have to be, you have to look and be very careful. And then again, you know,
00:12:38.300 I would say the same for teachers. I would say the same for politicians, people in my line of work and
00:12:42.460 media. Caution and discernment is the way. Err on the side of skepticism, because you have no choice.
00:12:49.260 That's what it's like to live in a collapsing civilization. You cannot trust the institutions,
00:12:52.900 especially not the ones who have helped to cause the collapse in the first place.
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00:14:30.540 So Joe Biden, we'll start with this. You've probably seen this video by now, but we'll play
00:14:37.380 it as well because we can't just gloss over it. Joe Biden was at the dignified transfer of 13 troops
00:14:45.360 killed in Afghanistan at Dover Air Force Base over the weekend. This was yesterday. Actually,
00:14:50.600 Joe Biden had kind of a big weekend because before that he was meeting in the White House
00:14:56.580 with the Prime Minister of Israel and he appeared to nod off and start sleeping in the middle of the
00:15:02.220 meeting. And the fact checkers have jumped to his aid and said, no, he wasn't sleeping. He was just,
00:15:09.360 I think what they're saying now is he was resting his eyes. While someone was talking to him,
00:15:14.200 he started just kind of resting his eyes for about, for about 15 solid seconds. He wasn't
00:15:19.260 falling asleep. He was resting his eyes. That doesn't make it much better. You know,
00:15:22.920 if the president of the United States can't even sit and talk to a person for a few minutes without
00:15:28.200 having to rest his eyes. So that happened on Saturday. And then on Sunday, he was at the
00:15:34.180 dignified transfer as these troops were killed in Afghanistan, tragically were brought home.
00:15:38.500 And we'll play the clip here. This is from the Fox News feed. And the audio doesn't, isn't the
00:15:46.820 point. It's more what you see. So if you haven't seen this yet, let's play this and see what you see,
00:15:50.960 see if you can catch Joe Biden doing anything that seems a little bit inappropriate.
00:15:55.400 As you talked about Sergeant Nicole G, who was one of the two female Marines who were killed among the
00:16:02.660 13, she was the one who posted that Instagram post holding the baby saying, I love my job just a few
00:16:09.740 days ago. So he goes and he goes for the watch check very, very quickly. And then he realizes
00:16:15.720 what he did. So he tries to play it off like he was just adjusting his hands, you know, and he waited
00:16:19.940 until he had his hand on his heart and he waited until they were bringing their hands down and he could
00:16:24.120 just sneak the look real quick. Now, look, if this was, was someone else, I might say that the
00:16:30.980 criticism is unfair and kind of tacky. I don't wear watches normally, but when I do, uh, I often will
00:16:38.540 check them just sort of like reflexively, not because I'm bored or I want to leave wherever I
00:16:43.500 am. I mean, it might be because of that, but also it's just kind of like you have it on. So you just
00:16:46.740 sort of, it's a reflex. In fact, even though I don't wear watches very often, I'll sometimes look at
00:16:52.660 my wrist as if I have one, I'll do that move. Um, so you'd like to give Joe Biden the benefit of the
00:16:59.700 doubt. And if it was somebody else who's has proven their patriotism and their love for country
00:17:05.680 and their concern for other human beings, and you saw them doing that, then maybe you'd give
00:17:09.440 them the benefit of the doubt. But, um, here I can't give Biden the benefit of the doubt because
00:17:13.520 of his general indifference and callousness, not just him, but everybody running the country right
00:17:20.480 now, the whole ruling class. That's, I think a big, a big part of the story that they don't,
00:17:26.280 they don't care that much about Americans. They don't care that much about the lives that
00:17:32.440 are lost. Um, I would have said that even before everything that's happened over the
00:17:38.120 last, uh, over the last couple of weeks, but, but especially now, I don't know how else to
00:17:42.020 explain what we've seen where there are Americans who are still trapped in Afghanistan and now have
00:17:49.820 been officially abandoned. They're on their own. Apparently the total lack of urgency.
00:17:56.280 Instead of having the attitude that we're going to find these people, no matter what it takes,
00:18:02.680 and we're going to get them all home safe and alive, no matter what we're going to get
00:18:05.840 our people home, all American citizens. They just have this lackadaisical attitude about it,
00:18:12.620 which if you really care about Americans, if you care about people in general, you wouldn't be,
00:18:18.820 you wouldn't be able to help, but have a really urgent attitude, but that's not what they've
00:18:23.980 had. So because of that, because of this background on Joe Biden, I see that. And I think, well, it,
00:18:30.380 it, it is exactly what it looks like. He can't be bothered. He's, he's been inconvenienced.
00:18:38.540 These 13 troops who, um, he got killed that their blood's on his hands.
00:18:44.380 You know, if he were a decent person, you'd think he, he, he would be there weeping. He would be
00:18:51.400 overcome by not only sadness for the families, but also personal guilt, thinking about what he just
00:18:59.600 did because he so badly botched this evacuation plan. And he had our troops there facility, just
00:19:06.820 standing around the airport for, for, for days and days, facilitating the evacuation of thousands
00:19:11.940 and thousands of Afghan civilians and citizens while our own people are trapped. Um, and so this
00:19:18.180 is on him and you, and you would think if that really registered on him, then the last thing he'd
00:19:22.300 be doing is checking his watch. He, maybe he'd be looking at his hands and the blood on his hands,
00:19:29.940 but not his watch. So no benefit of the doubt for Joe Biden at all. Also no benefit of the doubt for
00:19:36.500 Dr. Fauci, who has now come out fully in favor of vaccine mandates for children. This is another
00:19:42.160 one of the many issues that he's, he is a flip flopped on and he's taken one side of it and the
00:19:46.900 other side and back to that side and back and back again. And now he's on the side of, um, of
00:19:51.160 mandating vaccines for children in public school, especially the reasons that he gives
00:19:57.600 for advocating this policy are as usual, extremely misleading. Listen,
00:20:03.260 I want to ask you about some local issues. Culver city unified school district in California became
00:20:09.260 the first public school district in the U S to require vaccinations, not only for teachers and
00:20:14.580 staff, but also for eligible students who are 12 and over. Now that the vaccine has full approval
00:20:20.600 from the FDA, the Pfizer vaccine, would you like to see it mandated for students elsewhere in the U S
00:20:27.200 and once it's approved for kids under 12, should it be mandated for them to, you know, I know that a
00:20:34.920 lot of people will be pushing back against that, but if you get the imprimatur about the safety and the
00:20:41.120 strong benefit risk ratio for the children, when that gets established, which I believe it certainly
00:20:47.600 will by the FDA and the ACIP, I believe that mandating vaccines for children to appear in school
00:20:55.180 is a good idea. And remember, Jake, this is not something new. We have mandates in many places
00:21:02.360 in schools, particularly public schools, that if in fact you want a child to come in, we've done this
00:21:08.440 for decades and decades requiring polio, measles, mumps, rubella, hepatitis. So this would not be
00:21:15.700 something new requiring vaccinations for children to come to school. Yeah. It's not anything new,
00:21:22.140 but notice what he, the, the examples he gives, measles, uh, mumps, polio, rubella.
00:21:32.200 What, what are those, uh, what are those hepatitis aside? What are those other illnesses,
00:21:38.060 diseases have in common? Well, they all especially impact and affect children.
00:21:44.400 COVID does not. And, and that's, that's the point. Okay. COVID does not, it's not just that it doesn't
00:21:55.600 especially affect children. It's that it very rarely has any severe effect at all.
00:22:01.860 And I've been beating this drum for months and months now. I've said this over and over again.
00:22:06.900 We got to keep saying it because it's true. That's, that's not like an irrelevant fact here.
00:22:15.000 Now, Dr. Fauci and the people in charge, they want us to think that this is irrelevant. The fact
00:22:20.720 that COVID is very, very mild with kids. We hear about all of it. It sounds very scary when you hear
00:22:26.500 about the, the spike in cases for kids and, and all the millions of kids who've gotten it. I mean,
00:22:32.220 it was supposedly 42 million a month ago and probably more than that. I mean, those are just
00:22:38.020 the cases that we know about. Um, and that sounds really scary, but then you realize that in the vast
00:22:45.480 majority of those cases, this, it was, they had the sniffles, you know, they may had a mild fever.
00:22:51.200 They had a little bit of cough, maybe, or maybe less than that. And that's the point. That's the
00:22:57.920 difference. That's the difference between COVID-19 where kids are concerned and like polio.
00:23:05.000 And it's an important difference. And that factors in with vaccine mandates. It factors
00:23:11.200 in with mask mandates or it should anyway. But what they want us to do is they want us to pretend
00:23:18.880 that everybody is equal in this regard. That everyone has, is, uh, we have to operate as though
00:23:28.120 everybody has a, a, you know, is in the severe risk, is in a high risk group, even when they're
00:23:35.180 clearly not. That's how the, that's how they want the policies to be written, which doesn't make any
00:23:40.420 sense. Now it has never made any sense at all. All right, next, this is from a CWB in Chicago. It says,
00:23:47.000 a liquor store security guard was acting in self-defense when he shot a customer three times
00:23:51.900 because the customer was putting other lives at risk by not wearing a COVID mask. The guard's
00:23:57.640 private defense attorney said during a court, a bond court hearing on Wednesday, he was, you know,
00:24:02.800 defending this and saying, well, he was in self-defense. Um, the argument did not sway Cook
00:24:07.340 County judge Mary Morubio, who said, quote, the victim fled the store, fell outside, followed by the
00:24:12.640 defendant who, according to the surveillance video shot a second time. The defendant then paces back
00:24:18.160 and forth and shot a third time. Holmes, who was barred from possessing a weapon because he's a
00:24:23.620 four-time convicted felon and registered child sex offender, but was working as a security guard,
00:24:27.980 apparently was working as an armed security guard at the store on the 6,000 block, uh, of South Racine
00:24:34.280 Avenue when a 28 year old man walked in without a COVID mask around 9 53 AM. Uh, Holmes and the victim
00:24:40.460 argued about the mask policy and the victim eventually left. And then he turned around
00:24:45.400 and walked back in. And when he did, Holmes met him with a drawn handgun and then shot him.
00:24:51.820 Um, and now the defense, which fortunately is not playing out exactly, but the defense is that,
00:24:58.680 that he was operating in self-defense because this guy was basically a biological terrorist and
00:25:02.080 didn't have him, he didn't have a mask on. Now we're going to leave aside the fact that this was
00:25:05.680 an armed security guard that got a job somehow, even though he was not legally able to possess a
00:25:11.180 firearm and he was a convicted felon and child sex offender. So that raises a lot of questions,
00:25:16.760 but putting that to the side, he, he was, this is someone who was taking what he's told about COVID
00:25:26.340 and masks seriously. I mean, if everything we're told about masking is true, then actually we should
00:25:35.840 let this guy out of prison. I mean, I heard very similar things when I was at the, uh, the, uh,
00:25:43.760 school board meeting, listening to pro mask. They didn't have guns. They weren't shooting anybody.
00:25:49.340 Thank God. But they got up there in front of the, front of the microphone. And they said that,
00:25:54.680 Hey, if you let your, your child will murder my child. If you let him wear, go without a mask
00:26:00.980 around my kid, bare faced people are going to murder me. When you, when you go out, when your
00:26:06.940 kid goes out, when you go out without a mask on, you're killing other people. I heard that at the
00:26:11.820 school board meeting. We've heard that at many school board meetings. That's why they put these
00:26:14.440 mask mandates in place. And we've all heard this from the mask cult over and over and over again.
00:26:21.440 You walk around without a mask, you're killing, you are directly killing people.
00:26:25.740 And there's no evidence for that whatsoever. It's totally insane and hysterical,
00:26:29.240 but that's the, that's the claim anyway. And if that's true, I mean, if not wearing a mask is an,
00:26:36.480 is a, is a murderous act, then it would seem to me that, um,
00:26:41.520 this security guard acted reasonably, given that fact.
00:26:50.440 Which of course he really didn't act reasonably at all. But this, this just goes to show this
00:26:54.140 rhetoric about masking, it has consequences. Okay. Like it, it, it, it leads to things.
00:27:02.920 This is not happening in a vacuum. This is the consequence when you go around telling people
00:27:10.900 that if they see someone else simply bearing their face in public, walking into a store briefly
00:27:18.540 without a mask on, that they are a, an immediate dire, potentially fatal risk to you. Well,
00:27:26.840 this is the consequence because there are a lot of insane people out there and they listen to that
00:27:32.660 and they take it seriously. Now, when you say it, you might not mean it seriously. This for you is
00:27:37.440 all a game. This is just rhetoric for you, but there are a lot of people who believe it.
00:27:46.400 And, uh, this, this falls on you ultimately, I would say. All right. Next year, the Mississippi,
00:27:51.760 Mississippi, uh, Governor Tate Reeves is being criticized today for some comments he made at a
00:27:56.300 fundraiser. Uh, this is from Salon. It says Tate Reeves told a Tennessee audience that Southerners
00:28:02.080 are a little less scared of COVID-19 due to their religious faith. The, uh, Mississippi Free Press
00:28:07.360 reported on Saturday, the state has now recorded 800, 8,279 fatalities, but Governor Reeves does not
00:28:13.380 seem that worried. He said, I'm often asked by some of my friends on the other side of the aisle
00:28:17.960 about COVID. And why does it seem like folks in Mississippi and maybe in the Mid-South
00:28:21.680 are a little less scared, shall we say? Uh, Reeves said in a fundraiser, when you believe in eternal
00:28:27.340 life, when you believe that living on this earth is but a blip on the screen, then you don't have to
00:28:31.880 be so scared of things, he said. Uh, now God also tells us to take precautions, to take necessary
00:28:36.860 precautions. Uh, so he's getting a lot of criticism for this, but this of course is true. And there's
00:28:44.780 nothing wrong with saying it. The point isn't that, that if you believe in eternal life, um, that you
00:28:51.620 should be reckless or suicidal and not care about your physical life in this, in this life. It's
00:28:57.700 just that if you believe that this life is it, and that death is like a portal into a black abyss
00:29:05.720 into nothingness, and all of you will be erased forever and ever, then that would naturally cause
00:29:15.020 a crippling, incapacitating fear of death. So it's okay to be afraid of death. You don't want to die.
00:29:23.120 Nobody wants to die. If you want to die, then you're suicidal. But what we're seeing now, what we've seen
00:29:28.480 with COVID, it goes far beyond that. It's people who are clinging on to this life so desperately
00:29:34.960 to the point of not accepting even, even the most reasonable risks, not wanting to walk outside their
00:29:41.340 house without a mask on, that kind of thing. You know, driving in a car by yourself with a mask on,
00:29:47.240 jogging down the street with a mask on, that kind of thing. These are people who their fear of death
00:29:52.400 is crippling and incapacitating. It paralyzes them. They can't function. Because in order to function
00:30:00.260 as just a normal human in society, you need to be able to accept the inevitability of death
00:30:07.040 and the possibility of death as you go about your daily life. I think it's easier for people
00:30:13.260 who believe in eternal life and people who believe in an afterlife to do that.
00:30:19.420 If you don't believe in that, then in a way, I can't really blame you. Because what you're,
00:30:24.940 what you believe is that after you die, your body will decay into the dirt and you'll be eaten by worms.
00:30:30.560 And you will just be nothing. The black abyss of nothingness is a, it is hard to feel anything but
00:30:42.520 crippling existential dread when you think about that, if that's what you believe.
00:30:46.940 So I think it's a reasonable point. It's an important point that he raises there. But of course,
00:30:51.340 reasonable, kind of nuanced, important philosophical points are not things that you can make these days
00:30:55.980 without people crying about it. And next, a couple of Hollywood news items here.
00:31:02.440 Because the networks haven't had an original idea in about three decades, ABC is now coming out with
00:31:07.220 a reboot of The Wonder Years. The original, a classic, came out in the 80s, was set in the 60s,
00:31:14.220 so it was nostalgic for most of the audience that watched it at the time. You know, they were like
00:31:18.480 thinking about when they grew up in the 60s. So if you're going to do a reboot, you would think that,
00:31:23.200 which you shouldn't, but if you are, you'd think that it'd be set in the 90s, so that it's nostalgic
00:31:28.240 for the audiences that will watch it now. But because Hollywood can't even execute its own
00:31:33.960 rehashed ideas correctly, this one is also set in the 60s. So it's the same exact time frame as the
00:31:40.080 original, but this time with a black cast. So keep the same time, swap out the races. This, of course,
00:31:46.660 destroys the whole point of the show, as most of the people who watch it aren't going to be people
00:31:51.240 who grew up in the 60s. They're going to be people who grew up in the 80s and the 90s.
00:31:56.140 Well, the people who watch it won't have grown up at any time in history because nobody will watch
00:32:01.360 it. Those people don't exist. But if anyone did watch it, it's going to be people who grew up in
00:32:07.420 the 80s and 90s. So why would they do this? I mean, why would they do a reboot in the same time period
00:32:14.620 at the 60s, but just switch the races? What's the point of doing that? Well, let's check out the
00:32:21.740 trailer. Maybe we can find out. Let's watch this. It's weird to grow up in a time when your mom and
00:32:26.200 dad have to give you the police talk, or when a presidential election creates a racial divide.
00:32:31.220 But it was 1968, the year I turned 12, the age of locker rooms, bullies, and girls.
00:32:42.580 My mom's making me wear pantyhose. Yuck. Yeah. Some people didn't feel like we needed to mix black
00:32:49.900 people with white people. I didn't understand all that. What's happening, Chad? How's it going,
00:32:54.640 Quentin? Black Jesus. You're trying too hard. But I decided what my bag would be. The Great Uniter.
00:33:04.700 Think about how positive it'd be to have our teams play to each other. Why would you want to play
00:33:08.200 with a bunch of white boys? Why does that matter? How do you know if you don't try? Isn't that what
00:33:13.180 you're always telling me? Oh, okay. So that's why, of course. They want the whole point to be that
00:33:20.060 white people are evil, and that's a lot easier to do if you said it in the 60s. So that's really
00:33:25.880 what it all comes down to, and that's why no one's going to watch that show. But they just can't help
00:33:29.140 themselves. I mean, they must know at some level there's not going to be any audience for that.
00:33:34.420 But they can't help themselves. They just can't. Speaking of not being able to help themselves,
00:33:39.900 there's more Hollywood news here. There's this new Cinderella movie coming out, a woke Cinderella.
00:33:44.600 Woker than the last one, which I assume was also woke. But the fairy godmother is played by a dude in a
00:33:49.840 dress. That's the main thing. That's the main thing that makes it woke. Anyway, apparently nobody
00:33:55.060 cares about this movie or wants to see it, so the producers had a great idea. And so what they
00:34:00.360 decided was, let's have the stars of the film go out into the street and stop traffic and thrust
00:34:07.080 their pelvises into the faces of irritated motorists. It's an unorthodox plan. I don't know if it paid off,
00:34:14.180 but here's the footage of James Corden in a mouse costume and the fairy godmother dude and
00:34:19.820 someone else all dancing in the street. Let's, let's, let's, let's check that out.
00:34:23.040 Let's get in love, let's get in love, let's get in love, let's get in love, let's get in love.
00:34:35.040 Oh, wow.
00:34:37.720 Ain't nobody gonna tell you what you gotta do.
00:34:41.560 Now I want you to imagine something. Imagine that you're running late to a job you hate.
00:34:50.520 Maybe you just got word that there's, I don't know, mold in your basement and it'll cost $4,000 to rip the
00:34:56.360 drywall out and get rid of it. And then on your way to work, you know, you stop at Starbucks and
00:35:01.880 they get your order wrong. But the line is too long to go back around. And now you're late to your crappy
00:35:08.800 job and you're sitting in traffic and you're wondering what the hell is causing the holdup.
00:35:12.160 And then out of nowhere, James Corden comes running up with a, with a, with a J-Lo song playing and
00:35:20.600 start jiggling his genitals in your face in a mouse costume. I mean, that's the last straw right there.
00:35:26.200 That's when you go full Michael Douglas in falling down, you know, that's when you experience a,
00:35:31.760 a sudden and mysterious problem with your breaking system, I think. And yeah, you just plow through
00:35:37.420 those lunatics. And, and some, some would say, some would say, I do not say this. I don't say
00:35:43.280 this, but some would say you would make the world a better place in the process. If you were to keep
00:35:49.800 just driving through those people, I shame on the people who say that because I don't say it, but
00:35:54.380 shame on them. All right. Um, moving on now to reading the YouTube comments.
00:36:01.500 Uh, this is from mind traveler says one could make it's raining them a hundred times better
00:36:08.680 by imagining it's about the giant man-eating ants from the 1954 movie them. Uh, yeah, I mean,
00:36:17.760 that's, that's one way you could improve it. It's raining them as we played during the daily
00:36:21.420 cancellation on Friday. Another way to improve it is just for it to not exist at all. I think
00:36:26.640 probably is the way to go. Uh, BK Lee says, Matt, the member of the weather girls is Martha Wash,
00:36:33.040 not Walsh. She's an outstanding singer. I did get that one wrong. I identified, uh, that is,
00:36:39.660 that's a fact check. Very rarely do I let anybody in the comment section or, or in general fact check
00:36:45.080 me, but here, this is one fact check and I admit you are correct. I did identify the lead singer of
00:36:49.540 the weather girls as Martha Walsh. And I was very excited thinking maybe this is someone who's
00:36:53.260 related to me somehow, although it seemed unlikely given, you know, the racial differences. Uh,
00:36:58.420 but apparently it's Wash, not Walsh. So I jumped the gun on that one. Uh, Tip Dia says, if Matt
00:37:04.340 experiences hot privilege, then blindness is an epidemic. How dare you? But good one. And also
00:37:13.000 you're banned from the show. Colton says, Matt, to be fair, you have to think about the hundreds of
00:37:16.880 people trying to enter the Capitol that day. While one unarmed woman might not seem very threatening,
00:37:21.640 the mob that she was included in was, I'm not saying Byrd is in the right, but he definitely
00:37:26.480 has a case for himself. And his non-apology was very Matt Walsh-esque. Okay. Yeah. I've heard this
00:37:32.940 argument, uh, many times in, you know, defending the officer who shot Ashley Babbitt, but that goes
00:37:40.900 back to the question that I raised on, on Friday, which is if that's the case, then why didn't any
00:37:45.960 other Capitol police officer fire his weapon that day? You know, why was he the only one who did it?
00:37:55.020 If, if, if this was necessary, I mean, there were, there were mobs of people all over the Capitol.
00:37:59.100 If it was necessary to fire a gun to stop them and they had to do this to like, what,
00:38:04.620 disperse the crowd. Is that, is that the idea? So it wasn't even that she individually
00:38:09.760 posed a threat, but that, um, but that they had to do this to disperse the crowd.
00:38:21.100 I mean, it's not just that no one else in the, at the Capitol did that.
00:38:25.380 It's that from all of the riots that we've seen across the country, um, that never happened anywhere.
00:38:32.140 So officer Byrd was, was the only officer at the Capitol that day who felt that he had to kill
00:38:39.340 someone to disperse the crowd. If, and, and he's also the only officer involved in any riots across
00:38:44.740 the country anywhere this entire time, who's, who's, who's felt that he had to do that to take that step.
00:38:53.300 And the person that he felt he had to kill was Ashley Babbitt, an unarmed five foot two,
00:38:58.140 five foot two inch woman who was climbing through a window at the time. And you think he could have
00:39:05.520 easily just grabbed her and pulled her down. You know, she was in a very vulnerable spot right
00:39:12.440 there. She didn't have her hands. She was, she was pulling her through. And so, so it was, was there,
00:39:16.720 were there, were there no other, uh, options aside from the, from the fatal option? I find that very hard to
00:39:25.040 believe. Um, another comment says, Matt, actually the case against Lieutenant Byrd is even stronger
00:39:31.440 than you described. You claim that he said that he doesn't know whether Ashley Babbitt was armed.
00:39:35.980 Uh, he admits something worse. He said that knowing whether Ashley Babbitt was armed or not
00:39:39.620 wouldn't have made a difference to his decision to shoot her. How is he not being prosecuted? Well,
00:39:44.700 yeah, that's the point that I also made. I don't think I, I don't think I phrased it as you
00:39:48.420 said that I phrased it. That's how the media is phrasing it. Where officer Byrd said that he didn't
00:39:52.480 know if she was armed. Um, that would be one thing. Okay. If he had said that, it'd be one
00:39:59.160 thing. If you said, you know, I thought she was armed, but I didn't know, or, or, or no, no,
00:40:02.900 rather the way the media is phrasing it is he didn't know that she wasn't armed. Okay. But in reality,
00:40:11.660 what he said was that whether or not she was armed was irrelevant. That's what he actually said,
00:40:20.060 which is just an incredible statement that no other officer would ever be able to get away with
00:40:27.180 ever. What did you think? That the suspect was armed before you shot them? Well, it didn't make
00:40:32.540 any, make a difference. Really? It didn't. No other officer would have been able to get away with
00:40:39.120 that. Not even close. Now let's get to our daily cancellation. So bringing the show around full
00:40:48.080 circle, there's been a newly intense focus on mental health in this country over the past few
00:40:52.480 months, especially more specifically in the sports world. As we all certainly remember,
00:40:56.380 Simone Biles became a champion for mental health when she courageously quit on her team in the middle
00:41:01.700 of the Olympics. And then even more courageously cured her own mental health problems just in time to,
00:41:08.140 you know, compete for an individual medal. Before Biles, Naomi Osaka is a tennis star paved the way by
00:41:14.700 dropping out of the French Open because she was afraid to take questions for the media. She said
00:41:18.780 that taking questions might damage her mental health. And then a few months later, when she
00:41:22.800 started taking questions again, this was a few weeks ago, a reporter promptly reduced her to tears and was
00:41:28.180 condemned as a bully by her agent because he very gently asked a couple of really fair and banal
00:41:34.000 questions. That reporter deserved the reaction that he got, though. He should have known better than to ask
00:41:38.560 questions at a press conference. The job of the press at a press conference, as the White House press
00:41:43.060 Corps could certainly tell you, is to take terms complimenting the person behind the microphone.
00:41:49.940 Unless that person is a confirmed or suspected Republican, of course, in which case it's a
00:41:54.220 totally different deal. Your job then is to destroy them. So it's kind of a, there's a nuance there.
00:41:58.260 The overwhelming emotional fragility of our nation's athletes has led to some important
00:42:02.700 changes, though. For example, the U.S. Open will now have quiet rooms for athletes to retreat to
00:42:07.420 to get in touch with their emotions and maybe have a good cry. And that actually kind of reminds me of an
00:42:12.900 idea that I've had, should I ever run my own business. My plan is to have special cry rooms
00:42:18.700 where anyone in the company can go and cry and get in touch with their emotions. And, you know,
00:42:23.220 there will be a mirror there so that they can stare at themselves and repeat their self-help mantras and
00:42:27.100 affirmations. But the mirror will be double-sided. And people on the other side can gather and laugh
00:42:32.780 at the weakling. And then the sprinklers will turn on inside the cry room and the sobbing weirdo
00:42:37.580 will emerge humiliated, at which point they'll be fired in front of the whole office.
00:42:43.380 I'll only be able to do this like once before I'm sued into bankruptcy and probably arrested,
00:42:47.500 but it'll be totally worth it, needless to say. Anyway, the U.S. Open has a very different
00:42:53.520 approach. And Naomi Osaka herself certainly has a different approach to mental health.
00:42:58.880 Just yesterday, she published a lengthy note on social media talking about her mental health
00:43:02.960 journey and what she's learned. She's being widely held for these reflections. It's being called
00:43:08.180 brave and wise. And everyone says it's a very wonderful thing and very, you know, very affecting
00:43:12.060 what she wrote. Here's what she said. She says, recently, I've been asked, asking myself, why do
00:43:16.220 I feel the way I do? And I realized one of the reasons is because internally, I think I'm never
00:43:20.200 good enough. I never tell myself that I've done a good job, but I do know I constantly tell myself
00:43:24.920 that I suck or I could do better. I know in the past, some people have called me humble, but if I
00:43:29.080 really consider it, I think I'm extremely self-deprecating. Every time a new
00:43:32.720 opportunity arises, my first thought is, wow, why me? I guess what I'm trying to say is that I'm
00:43:38.660 going to try to celebrate myself and my accomplishments more. I think we all should.
00:43:42.880 You get up in the morning and didn't procrastinate on something? Champion. Figured something out at
00:43:47.560 work that's been bugging you for a while? Absolute legend. Your life is your own and you shouldn't
00:43:52.440 value yourself on other people's standards. I know I give my heart to everything I can. And if that's
00:43:58.640 not good enough for some, then my apologies, but I can't burden myself with those expectations
00:44:03.540 anymore. So that's what she wrote. Now, this advice is pretty standard. It's not all wrong by
00:44:09.940 any means. To begin with, she correctly identifies, which is important, the distinction between being
00:44:13.980 humble and being self-loathing. A person who's self-loathing may appear humble, but humility
00:44:18.320 is when you recognize your gifts and your talents and your positive qualities and yet you don't dwell on
00:44:24.580 them or expect anyone else to dwell on them. If you don't recognize those good things about yourself
00:44:28.940 at all or you deny them or you're overcome by doubt about them, then there can't be humility
00:44:34.740 because there's no opportunity for humility because you aren't even acknowledging the existence of the
00:44:39.220 things that you should be humble about. So she's correct about that. She's also correct, of course,
00:44:44.100 that you shouldn't be overly focused on living up to the public's expectations of you,
00:44:48.700 mainly because the expectations of the masses of the mob will differ wildly from person to person
00:44:55.680 and many of the people in that mob really have no reason or right to expect anything from you at all.
00:45:01.580 But does that mean that you should ignore everyone's expectations? Does that mean that you
00:45:05.340 shouldn't try to live up to anyone's standards but your own? No, absolutely not. There are people in
00:45:11.800 your life who, in various contexts, should have certain expectations where you're concerned,
00:45:17.000 certain standards that they want you to live up to, and you absolutely should care about that.
00:45:21.240 You should try your best to get over those bars where they've been set. So at a very basic level,
00:45:27.000 I know that my family expects that I'll be a protector and provider for them. My wife expects
00:45:31.000 that I'll be faithful and loyal, live up to my vows. My employer expects that I'll do the job
00:45:35.160 that they hired me to do. In my job also, there are even expectations from the public or some people
00:45:41.320 in the public that I do feel bound to live up to. I think the audience expects that I'll be honest
00:45:45.760 about my opinions and straightforward. I won't pull my punches and so on. So with every title
00:45:49.960 that I hold, father, husband, even podcast host, not to mention an American, most importantly,
00:45:56.300 Christian, there are expectations that come as a part of the bargain, responsibilities that I have
00:46:01.680 to something bigger than myself. And that's the case for everyone in every area of your life,
00:46:06.860 big areas and small areas. If you're an Olympic athlete, it's expected that you'll go out there
00:46:12.080 and do your best for your country. Compete to the best of your ability. These are expectations
00:46:17.080 and standards that we should try to live up to. And if we don't live up to them or even try,
00:46:22.500 then we're rightly labeled failures. Failure is always judged against expectations, which is why
00:46:28.300 people want to get rid of expectation so they can get rid of failure. But it doesn't work that way.
00:46:34.100 One other point, I've made this point many times, but I think it's worth repeating. Osaka says,
00:46:37.740 I'm going to try to celebrate myself and my accomplishments more. She says, if you get up
00:46:43.520 in the morning and you don't procrastinate, then you're a champion. If you figure out something at
00:46:47.320 work, you do your job, then you're a legend. That's what she says. But none of this is the
00:46:53.400 solution to the problem that Osaka apparently has. It's not the solution to the problem that
00:46:57.500 lots of us have. Her problem, again, shared by everyone to some degree,
00:47:02.100 is one of self-doubt and anxiety and self-loathing. You can't you-go-girl yourself out of that state.
00:47:11.620 You can't convince yourself to stop hating yourself by pretending that functioning as a
00:47:16.320 responsible adult is some kind of major achievement. You can celebrate yourself all you want. You can
00:47:21.420 pop the champagne, drop the confetti every time you complete an assignment on time or brush your
00:47:26.180 teeth in the morning or tie your shoes, but nobody will be convinced by those theatrics, least of all
00:47:32.180 yourself. The answer is not to think of yourself differently, but to think of yourself less.
00:47:38.840 Osaka seems to, you know, be up in her own head, constantly thinking about herself, how she feels
00:47:43.100 about herself, how other people feel about how she feels about herself. It's like getting stuck in
00:47:47.680 this self-obsessed vortex, the same vortex that most people in our society cannot seem to escape from.
00:47:52.720 They're always looking within, trying to convince themselves to feel differently about what they
00:47:57.220 see. And they may have intermittent success with that, moments where they can say, you know what,
00:48:02.480 I feel great about myself, and actually believe what they're saying about themselves. But those moments
00:48:07.980 are fleeting because they always eventually fall back into the vortex, back into the cycle of self-hate
00:48:13.860 and self-doubt. Here's an alternative suggestion. Don't worry about how you feel about yourself.
00:48:22.720 Stop thinking about it. Think about something else, anything else. I don't mean pick up your phone
00:48:29.480 and try to take your mind off it because your phone will always just direct you back into your own
00:48:33.060 ego. I mean, look outward, actually outward. Go play with your kids or read a book about a random
00:48:39.400 subject or go for a run or learn how to whittle or something or pray, not about your own problems,
00:48:43.660 but about someone else's. Or pick up beekeeping. That's a good one. I mean, do anything but focus on
00:48:49.540 your own feelings about yourself. Try to spend most of your day doing things other than that.
00:48:55.100 Turn your eyes back around, facing the direction they're supposed to face. Extend your thoughts
00:49:00.080 out in the direction of something other than your own reflection. Just forget yourself for as long as
00:49:06.420 you can. It takes practice, but you learn. And that's the key. And that's the way for all of us,
00:49:12.200 including Naomi Osaka. Though still, because this is the segment, even though I'm trying to help her,
00:49:21.380 in the end, I have to still say to her that she is today canceled. And we'll leave it there for today.
00:49:28.100 Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Have a great day, everybody. Godspeed.
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