Ep. 795 - A Bunch Of Pitiful, Desperate Perverts Begging For Attention
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The VMAs were last night, it was vulgar and debauched and also boring, and nobody cared about it. Also, George Bush gave a speech on 9/11 which has the left celebrating him. And white liberals keep calling Larry Elder a white supremacist. Plus, a new poll shows that Democrat voters consider Trump supporters to be bigger threat than the Taliban or China. And finally, many people in the media have been defending the vaccine mandate on the basis that they have the right to be free from COVID. Is that true?
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, the VMAs were last night. It was vulgar and debauched and also boring
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and nobody cared about it. I think there's an important lesson in that, which I'll explain
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today. Also, George Bush gave a speech on 9-11, which has the left celebrating him. Bush went from
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Hitler incarnate to one of the good ones. What does that tell us? And white liberals keep calling
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Larry Elder a white supremacist. Plus, a new poll shows that Democrat voters consider Trump
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supporters to be a bigger threat than the Taliban or China. And finally, many people in the media
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have been defending the vaccine mandates on the basis that they, in the media, have the right
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to be free from COVID. Is that true? Does any such right exist? We'll discuss that and much more today
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you're thinking. Wait, the VMAs are still a thing? And I know what else you're thinking. Wait, MTV is
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still a thing? I was just as surprised as you on both counts. I only know that this event occurred
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last night because I read through dozens of news articles every morning as part of my job.
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And in my scavenging, I stumbled across a few articles listing the winners of the 2021 VMAs.
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If you're curious, and you probably aren't, the winner for video of the year was Montero by Lil Nas X,
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the one where he twerks on Satan. MTV giving its highest award to a video where a gay man
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Dry Hump Satan is probably the least surprising development of the year. Justin Bieber won Artist
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of the Year, his 27th straight win in that category, I assume. The trophy for best collaboration
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went to Doja Cat featuring SZA, S-Z-A. I have no idea who those people are or even how many people
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they are, but apparently one of them came on stage dressed like some kind of nightmarish sea
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cucumber. So that was interesting. But the most shocking thing, there, there, there she is.
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That is a, that's Doja Cat. Is that Doja Cat or SZA? I don't know. Looks like maybe, uh,
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maybe one of those worms from the movie Tremors. But the most shocking thing about that outfit is
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that it covers more than 3% of her body. Many of the other celebrities, I'm assuming Doja Cat is a
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celebrity, decided to show up in see-through outfits, thongs, and so on and so on. The performances
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on stage were, in keeping with that theme, a woman named Chloe writhed around on stage, twerking,
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slapping her butt in front of a giant blinking sign that said, booty so big. Now that was downright
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subtle in comparison to somebody named Normani, who sang her hit song, Wild Side, I'm assuming it's a hit
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song, while rubbing herself against another woman who was strapped to a bondage board. Meanwhile,
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Lil Nas X strutted the red carpet doing some cross-dressing, some sort of pantsuit slash dress
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combination. And there was no shortage of, uh, of politics to punctuate the debauchery. Sidney
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Lopper, who evidently is still alive, took to the stage to present an award and then rant about
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abortion rights. And speaking of the elderly community, Madonna was also on the scene. She walked
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onto the stage wearing a giant coat and then dramatically, uh, stripped the coat off to
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reveal the skimpy leather dominatrix outfit and thong underneath. I'm not going to show you the
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thong part. Uh, I'll, I'll have some mercy on you, but there's, there's the outfit. Now this is when you
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know that it's time to put Nana in a home. You can make the argument that even allowing her to wander
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on stage looking like that is a form of, of elder abuse. She even looks kind of, you see there in
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the, in, especially in the picture on the right, she looks kind of dazed and confused. She doesn't know
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where she is. She has that sort of uncertain facial expression that Joe Biden has made famous. We can
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only pray that Biden doesn't ever appear in front of cameras dressed in a similar way. But at this point,
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anything is possible. And now I've just pictured Biden in that outfit in my head and I want to cry.
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And yet in a certain way, um, I'm glad that Madonna showed up and stripped off her clothes
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because there's something sort of profound and emblematic about it. Here she is an old woman
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having long since run out of things to say and ways to shock and offend reduced to simply
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stripping on camera in her late nineties, begging for our attention. It's not offensive so much as
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sad and pitiful, dull. You don't want to yell at her about it. You want to give her a coat and a bowl
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of soup and pat her on the head and say, it's okay. You don't have to do this anymore. Grandma, sit down.
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You'll be all right. Let's put, let's, let's just watch some TV. Murder, she wrote is on, I think.
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Now, Madonna in that way is a good representative of the whole event and of the broader pop culture
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that she helped to create. There was last night, plenty of debauchery and perversion and nudity
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and all kinds of desperate sexual attention seeking. And none of it managed to make any waves
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at all. The VMA's ratings have been collapsing for years. Nobody cares. You only know about any of
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this because I'm telling you. And I only, I only know about it because I read a couple of articles
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just so that I can make the point that I'm making right now. Madonna was relevant back during a time
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when pop artists could simply wear revealing outfits and sing about sex. And, um, that was
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enough to create controversy and, uh, drive publicity. You know, she could roll around on stage in a wedding
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outfit, singing about losing her virginity. And that was a big moment. That was revolutionary. Wow.
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But now pop stars can hump each other in bondage gear while singing graphically about their genitals
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and it goes unnoticed. They have to go to greater and greater extremes to generate the sort of hype
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that Madonna could once attract with a fraction of the effort. Now, Lil Nas X, speaking of him, got
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some of the attention that he hopelessly yearns for when he made that twerking Satan video. But that
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controversy doubt died down pretty quickly and everybody moved on. And that's why he has to
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dream up new degeneracies every week just to stay within the vicinity of the limelight. Last week,
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he was posing for pictures while wearing a fake pregnancy baby bump. And, uh, and that was supposed
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to be a thing, but even that's pretty boring and standard these days, especially in a culture where
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millions of people actually believe that men can literally get pregnant. There was a time when it
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was considered revolutionary and rebellious to be a vile, vulgar pervert. The perverts were rebelling
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against a culture that rightly disapproved of that behavior. They were seeking to tear down moral
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standards and structures that they claimed were oppressive and restricting and they succeeded.
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The perverts won. But the thing about staging a revolution and winning is that now you are the man,
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you're the system, you're the very institution of power that you once sought to destroy.
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So you stage the revolution and you win. Now you have to take over and run these things that you
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were just five seconds ago trying to tear down. So now the vulgar perverts aren't rebelling against
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anything at all. Madonna is old enough to be the grandmother of most of the rest of the people she
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shared the stage with. That means that as they were bumping and grinding and showing their asses and
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shouting, look at me, look at me. They were behaving exactly as a woman their grandmother's age once
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behaved and still does. There's nothing revolutionary or shocking about it. It's mainstream. It's
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acceptable. It's boring. It's empty. It's feeble. It's pathetic. Of course, this kind of stuff has
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always been empty, feeble, and pathetic. It was empty, feeble, and pathetic back when Madonna was doing
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it 30 years ago and everybody thought it was revolutionary. But decades ago, people made the mistake of
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thinking that artists, quote unquote, who showed their butts and sang about sex were doing something
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brilliant and significant simply because it was rebellious. Now that it's no longer rebellious,
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the shine has worn off and it's easy to look at it and think, wow, these people really just have
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nothing at all to say. I'm bored. What else is on? This is perhaps the most underrated aspect of living
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in a morally decayed culture. Because if you didn't know any better and you weren't living in such a
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culture and you thought about it, you might think, well, that could be fun at least. That's not. It's
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quite boring. I mean, it's many other things as well, but it's certainly boring. As it turns out, evil has a
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rather bland flavor. Now, the good news is that amid all of this dull, hollow decadence, virtue becomes
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exciting and rebellious. I mean, pop stars can spread their legs and take off their clothes and
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scream about their right to kill babies. And none of that is remotely revolutionary or brave. But if one
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of them had appeared on stage to speak in defense of the unborn or to promote chastity and modesty
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or even to defend something like patriotism, that would have been truly shocking and required real
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courage. It would have been a revolutionary act. None of them have the spine for that or the value
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system, so it didn't happen. Yet the fact remains that the moral code these people fight against
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is the moral code of today's true cultural revolutionaries. We are now the guerrilla warriors
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fighting against powerful institutions who despise us and seek to destroy and oppress us.
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It's not a good situation to be in. I would not prefer it if I was given the choice.
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But it does provide an opportunity to connect with people, especially young people,
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who naturally desire to rebel against systems of power. So we can say to them, join us. That's our
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side. The rebels. We're the rebels. Or you can join the naked grandma on stage to defend the boring
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status quo. Now let's get to our five headlines. If you're a pro-lifer and you are firm in that position
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and you know that you believe in protecting babies from being murdered in the womb, but you haven't
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necessary, if that's the category that you fall into, then maybe it's been tough over the last
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And maybe you found yourself in conversations with pro-abortion people.
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Maybe they've thrown some arguments out at you. You know we're wrong, but you don't exactly have
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decadence and decaying cultures. I am very glad to be back from all the traveling we've done over the last
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couple of weeks. And we've been in, I don't know, six or seven different cities. And I could not be happier
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to be home because the cities that we've been to, it's not like I've, you know, it's not like it's my first
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time going to some of these places. But most recently we were in New York. And my God, it is
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just a garbage dump. Who could choose to live in these places? Gross, just gross, gray, dull,
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everything smells everywhere you go. This is the case in New York. This is definitely the case in
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Los Angeles, San Francisco. Everywhere you go, it's, it smells like urine and weed everywhere.
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And just crackheads walking around the street everywhere you go.
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And then, and then to top it off, everything is, is, you know, three times as expensive.
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So that's, that's the reward you get for living amid all of this misery and despair and garbage and crime.
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Every time I go, and I've always felt this way about, you know, these bigger cities, especially New York.
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Hadn't been there in a while. This was my first time back in, in a few years. It's way worse than I remember.
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And I've always thought this, and especially now, I think, how could anyone prefer this?
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If you think, oh, I love living in New York, it's, it's gotta be because you've never been anywhere else.
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There's no way that a, that a human being, that a psychologically stable person, and maybe that's
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the qualifier here that, that, that matters, but there's no way that a psychologically healthy person
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could actually prefer that over living in a place where you have grass and trees and space
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and privacy and quiet and you, and the smell of like nature and, you know, fresh air
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There's no way someone could look at that and say, no, I, I prefer,
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I prefer, I prefer the dystopian hellscape. That's, that's, that's what I prefer to be.
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Horrible. You got to get out of these cities if you live there.
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You, you really don't know. If you're still there, I have to assume you literally don't know
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what you're missing. All right. Um, let's go here. Number one, President Bush speaking at the,
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the Flight 93 Memorial in Pennsylvania, of course, the 20th anniversary of 9-11 was on Saturday
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and he was giving a speech. He made a comparison between the 9-11 terrorists
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and violent extremists at home. Comments that almost everyone has assumed were referring to
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January 6th and Trump supporters, but here he is. Let's listen.
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And we have seen growing evidence that the dangers to our country can come not only across borders,
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but from violence that gathers within. There is little cultural overlap between violent extremists
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abroad and violent extremists at home. But in their disdainful pluralism, in their disregard for human
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life, in their determination to defile national symbols, they are children of the same foul spirit.
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And it is our continuing duty to confront them. Now, you know, I saw the conversation on social
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media and some of the headlines that Bush had used his speech to attack, you know, to mention January
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6th, the attack Trump supporters. Uh, and then I listened to it and I, I didn't actually, I was
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expecting him based on the commentary. I was expecting that he would directly mention that and he didn't.
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That's all, that's all he said. Uh, the assumption is that he meant that as a slam
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on the right, basically, which maybe he did. I don't know. I mean, it's, it's, it's possible he wasn't
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referring to, to them, but that's the assumption. That's certainly the assumption that the left and
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the media has jumped to here. And so they're, they're hailing this speech as courageous and so
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important and everything. And this is, this is part and parcel of what we've seen when it comes to, uh, to
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George Bush over the last, uh, over the last four or five years specifically. Once there wasn't a
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whole lot of this during Obama's tenure. Um, but once Donald Trump was in there, suddenly there was
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this newfound respect that, uh, the media had for, for George Bush. And it can be easy to forget.
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And in fact, depending on how old you are, if you're younger, you may not remember some of this.
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Uh, you may not remember very vividly, but I do. The way that the media talked about Donald Trump
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for four years, they said the same things about, about George Bush. It was maybe, it was a little
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bit more intense against Trump, but really not that much more because when you're comparing the
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president to Hitler and saying he's a genocidal dictator, it's, it, it's hard to have stronger
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or more strident criticism than that. And they were saying that about George Bush for eight years,
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they said that. And now, uh, and now they, and now they respect him and they said, well, gee,
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that Bush, he wasn't, he wasn't so, he wasn't so bad, was he? And so it may seem impossible to you
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now. You may not be able to even fathom this, but there will come a time and it may not be that far
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off when they're going to be doing the same thing with, with Donald Trump. I know it seems there's
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no way given everything they've done to Trump and said about him over the last half a decade,
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but there will come a time when they're going to say, in fact, we're already starting to hear that a
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little bit. We, we, we played the clip, I think it was a couple of weeks ago. Someone on some cable
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news channel said, well, when you compare Trump to a DeSantis, I mean, DeSantis, Trump is not so bad
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compared to DeSantis. So whoever the most recent guy, whatever, whatever Republican is in office
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or whichever Republican, uh, there, they consider to be the biggest threat. Then all other Republicans
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in comparison to that one are, you know, we're, we're, we're, we're innocent to comparison.
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So that will happen. And, and all that means is that, you know, we say that the left respects Bush
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now or whatever. It's, it's not respect. It's not love. It's not admiration. Uh, it's, of course,
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it's not sincere. It's just that Bush is now useful to them. It's a useful comparison for them to draw.
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And when he criticizes Trump or Trump supporters, whether explicitly or not, that's even more
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useful. So they will quote, respect you when they feel that they can use you. And that's what they're
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doing with Bush now. And meanwhile, I wish that, uh, honestly, I don't, I don't know why Bush is being
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invited to speak at any 9-11 memorial. Uh, I don't want to hear from George Bush.
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He, one of the most disastrous presidencies in American history was George Bush's presidency.
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many of the criticisms, not the overblown dramatic, he's Hitler, you know, all that, not that,
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but there are plenty of criticisms levied against George Bush during his tenure by the media that
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they were, they were right about. And now they're the ones haven't been proven, proven right on the,
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on that. Not that you can give him credit for it because he's a Republican. So they're going to
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criticize him and it's a broken clock thing. It just so happens that they're going to be correct
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sometimes. Um, especially because there are plenty of bad Republicans out there,
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but now they're, they're the ones going back on that and say, Oh, George, but that George Bush,
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he's a lovable guy. Look, he does it. He does his watercolor paintings. Look at this cute old man,
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George Bush. All right. The, uh, the surgeon general on CNN is now saying that actually businesses
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are relieved that they're being forced to mandate vaccines. It's a, there's nothing to complain
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about here. Businesses are, are happy that they're being saddled with this mandate, according to the
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surgeon general. The requirements that we just heard about are one part of that, but they're
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only one part of that includes also measures to increase our testing capacity to shore up our
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hospitals and healthcare systems, which are struggling with Delta. But what the president and what all of us
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have said as public health leaders from the earliest part of this pandemic is that we have to use
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every lever of government. Uh, and we all in the private sector have to do everything we can to
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tackle this virus. The requirements of president announced are an example of that. Uh, earlier in
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the summer, uh, the president had announced requirements for federal workers, uh, to attest
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to vaccination. And this is another step in that direction. Not only will federal workers now be
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required, uh, to vaccinate with an exemption for medical or religious purposes, but also, you know,
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healthcare systems that do business with Medicare and Medicaid, 17 million healthcare
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workers will be required. 80 million, uh, business, uh, workers who have, uh, you know, a hundred
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employees or more will also now be required, uh, you know, under the OSHA rule, uh, which is a process
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to either get vaccinated or to get tested regularly. So the key thing to understand, Dana, is number one,
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the data tells us that these requirements work to increase vaccinations. Number two, a lot of businesses
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are actually relieved that these are going into place. And we've heard a lot of feedback from the
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business round table and others that this will help create safer workplaces. But finally, Dana,
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keep this in mind. This is what we've got to do to get to the next phase of this pandemic response
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so that we can get through this and get back to normal. It sounds ridiculous. And it is,
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except that you could, you could qualify it this way. He, there's, there's one, one qualification
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he forgot to mention. Forgot on purpose. I'm sure. Uh, what he just said is probably true of big,
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like big businesses, mega corporations. They probably are relieved because it takes the problem
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out of their hands and now they can force the, uh, the vaccine on their employees without having to
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worry about getting sued or anything. It just, it just takes it out of their hands. And now, uh,
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allows, allows the government to solve that problem and they're big so they can deal with
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the turnover. If they lose a bunch of employees, they can deal with that. Uh, they have the capacity
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to deal with it. Small businesses, it's a different story. They don't have the capacity
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to enforce these mandates. When you drive employees away, they don't have, they don't have the capacity
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for that. Um, to, to pay the, what is it? $1,400 per, per violation that they're going to have to
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pay. Um, so this, this, again, this is, this is something that affects small businesses. Big
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businesses are fine. Small businesses are the ones that carry the bag on this. There's just, there's
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never been, we've never seen anything like this, this conspiracy by the most powerful in our society
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to utterly destroy small businesses. That's the other thing you see when you travel around the
00:24:55.280
country as I, as I have done, uh, not just in the last couple of weeks, but over the last year and a
00:25:00.140
half and everywhere you go, everywhere you go, you got the Walmarts and the targets and McDonald's
00:25:08.280
and they're all doing fine. But you find shuttered, smaller businesses, boutique type shops,
00:25:16.580
smaller restaurants, everywhere, shut down. And it doesn't matter where you are, smaller towns,
00:25:25.000
bigger cities. And you, and you talk to the locals, they all have the same story. Oh, that place over
00:25:30.920
there used to be a great, great place. We all used to, you know, and now it's gone. Shut down during
00:25:36.700
COVID hasn't come back. But all, you know, meanwhile, the government's handing money out
00:25:46.340
to people, uh, welfare payments, hand over fist. So the money was there to spend. It's just all that
00:25:54.360
money is going to, uh, the consumers have the money and they're spending it. It's just, it's going to
00:25:58.600
Amazon and it's going to Walmart. This is a conspiracy to destroy small business and it has
00:26:07.040
worked. We've never seen anything like it before. Uh, still on the COVID, uh, topic. Here's Fauci
00:26:13.140
on a podcast called skim this. That's the podcast. Never heard of it. Uh, advocating for vaccine
00:26:19.360
mandates for kids and for air travelers. I think this is the first time he's been this explicit about
00:26:24.380
it. Here he is. If we get the overwhelming proportion of the population vaccinated,
00:26:29.220
we will get to herd immunity. If we do it in the next six months, it will happen in the next six
00:26:33.760
months. If we do it in the next two months, it'll happen in the next two months. I would support that
00:26:38.820
if you want to get on a plane and travel with other people that you should be vaccinated. When you
00:26:43.440
hear us say, should you mandate vaccination for children to be able to attend school? Some people
00:26:51.280
say, Oh my goodness, that would be terrible to do that. But we already do that and have been doing
00:26:58.060
that for decades and decades. I don't know what school you went to, but the school that I went to,
00:27:05.040
you had to be vaccinated for measles, mumps, rubella, polio, or otherwise you couldn't go to school.
00:27:12.020
So it is not something new. I have to say again, kids are already vaccinated against COVID.
00:27:19.920
You know, you know what their vaccine is called? It's not Pfizer or Moderna. It's called their
00:27:26.660
immune system. Their immune system provides kids better protection than what is provided by the
00:27:36.680
vaccine to adults. So a child who is unvaccinated is less likely to get seriously sick than a vaccinated
00:27:47.440
adult. That is how significant this protection is for kids that is given to them by their own
00:27:55.620
biology, by their own immune system, by their bodies. So they're already vaccinated. And that's
00:28:02.340
the difference. We're going to keep hearing the same point over and over again. Well, we have these
00:28:06.600
other vaccine requirements. Not all vaccines are the, are the same. First of all, with some of
00:28:15.680
these other vaccines, all of the other vaccines that he just mentioned, they've been around a lot
00:28:20.100
longer. So we know more about them, about the side effects, about the long-term effects.
00:28:26.060
If there are any negative long-term effects to the vaccine for kids, if there are, how could we
00:28:34.800
possibly know that until years down the line from now? There'd just be no way to know that for sure.
00:28:42.180
But more to the point, those other diseases that he mentioned are especially hard on kids.
00:28:54.320
And that's why you could make compelling argument for inoculating kids against them. COVID is not.
00:29:02.140
Thank God it's not. It's something we could breathe. We should be breathing a sigh of relief about. I have
00:29:12.580
this entire time as a parent, I am extremely thankful. You know what? If COVID was as dangerous to kids
00:29:26.100
if that was true, if it was actually as dangerous as they're saying that it is for kids,
00:29:33.060
then my, my own personal calculus would completely change.
00:29:40.820
Because I do believe as a society, we have a special obligation to protect kids.
00:29:50.520
A lot of these people in the media who are pretending to be concerned about kids,
00:29:53.560
because when it comes to anything else, they're not, they're not, they don't care about protecting
00:30:01.360
So if this kid, if, if, if this virus was affecting
00:30:04.580
kids the way that it affects, say, the elderly,
00:30:08.120
then that would probably entirely change my approach to it.
00:30:17.580
All right. Um, a white LA times writer by the name of Jean Guerrero had some thoughts about Larry
00:30:26.340
elder, which, uh, she decided to share on, on CNN. And we we've, we've, we've heard this exact line
00:30:33.860
many times and they're pretty shameless about it, but here it is. Let's listen.
00:30:39.300
He's essentially been running his campaign on Fox news and on right-wing media outlets. Um, he he's
00:30:45.240
refused to talk to large, you know, to, to nonpartisan and media outlets and to journalists
00:30:51.800
who are critical of him, uh, has refused to answer difficult questions, often uses, uh, the few
00:30:57.240
interviews that he does give as an opportunity to give a performance on, on social media, uh, you know,
00:31:03.000
denouncing those journalists and, um, playing the, the victim. Um, but he has been able to reach the,
00:31:09.780
the minority of voters in California who embrace his, his white supremacist worldview. Um, and you
00:31:16.520
know, he's, he's co-opted this line by my fellow columnist, uh, from, from the headline, you know,
00:31:22.120
calling him the black face of white supremacy, but he refuses to engage with the actual substance
00:31:27.960
of our reporting. You know, the idea that he, his, I, his, um, views were shaped by a well-known
00:31:34.240
white supremacist named Jared Taylor, who he repeatedly quoted in early writings, um, that he
00:31:39.280
plans to reverse all of the state's progress on immigrant rights and racial justice. Um, and that
00:31:44.780
he poses a very real threat to communities of color for all of the reasons that we've reported it in the
00:31:49.840
past. Just a, just another example of, of how white supremacy has become this doesn't, of course,
00:31:56.800
doesn't mean anything at all. It's this religious, it's this religious idea. Um, this sin that, you
00:32:04.560
know, it's, it, it actually goes beyond white people. If you have the wrong ideology, then you're
00:32:10.000
automatically a white supremacist. And it's important to remember this too, because, um, you have to kind
00:32:16.640
of adjust the equation on the, on the, uh, the victim hierarchy, the victim pyramid that I've talked
00:32:22.580
about before. We know there's a, a hierarchy of victimhood on the left. And, uh, and there's always
00:32:30.080
this jockeying for position that goes on and the, the group at the top tends to change over time.
00:32:37.320
Uh, it could change even on a monthly basis as there's this struggle to who's going to be the,
00:32:41.700
the Uber victim. And as it stands right now, top of the victimhood pyramid, the victimhood hierarchy
00:32:49.380
are, uh, trans people and specifically, uh, trans people of color. They're the very,
00:32:55.480
you, you cannot get more victim-y than that. They're the very, very top. Um, and then as you
00:33:01.040
go, as you go down the ladder, there's really no one challenging trans people right now for top
00:33:07.260
victim spot. So they're pretty comfortable. They might not be there forever, but they're pretty
00:33:11.820
comfortable at that spot right now. Um, and then as you go down the ladder for the different victim
00:33:16.820
groups, that's where the positions tend to change. I think it's pretty interesting, but that said,
00:33:23.600
there is the ideological qualification here, which is really important.
00:33:29.780
So normally Larry Elder as a black man would be a pretty high up on the victim hierarchy,
00:33:35.660
like above women. There was a time not long ago, and that's why I say things change during the Me Too
00:33:41.440
movement. The women had their time in the sun as the Uber victims, and they were at the very top,
00:33:46.080
probably even above trans, uh, and now they've fallen precipitously.
00:33:53.060
So, you know, normally you would say, and we know that on the victimhood pyramid,
00:33:59.140
the criticism can only go down. Okay. Someone who's a lower on the hierarchy as a victim cannot
00:34:05.540
criticize anyone above them. Trans people at the top, they can criticize everybody. Criticism can only
00:34:11.680
go downhill, right? Um, so normally a white woman attacking a black man this way would not be
00:34:21.380
acceptable, but that's where the ideological qualification comes in because he's a conservative.
00:34:27.560
None of this counts. Conservatives are at the very, very, very bottom of the, of the ladder.
00:34:32.480
And once you get down there, races, identity, none of that matters. They're all white supremacists.
00:34:39.520
They're all Nazis. That's all. So that's the way, that's the way this, uh, that equation works.
00:34:44.720
All right. This is from, uh, scottrasmussen.com says 57% of democratic voters believe supporters
00:34:51.040
of Donald Trump are a serious threat to the nation. A Scott Rasmussen national survey found that 56% of
00:34:56.400
those in president Biden's party also consider the unvaccinated a serious threat. That's a higher level
00:35:01.080
of concern than Democrats expressed about the Taliban. 44% see it as a serious threat, China
00:35:06.160
or Russia. Uh, so Trump supporters are greater threat than the Taliban and, uh, Russia. And I,
00:35:13.520
I give that, um, as context, which brings us to, to this, a point that Bill Maher made on his show
00:35:22.380
last night. And of course it's upset a lot of people, which Bill Maher to his credit is willing
00:35:27.380
to do. He's willing to upset people on the left. And here he is explaining why he often
00:35:31.260
criticizes the left, but he says something about the, uh, the black national anthem, which
00:35:35.560
they're now singing before football games. They sang it before opening day on Thursday
00:35:39.000
night. Uh, and he has some thoughts on that, that, that some people on the left are upset
00:35:44.660
People say to me sometimes like, boy, you know, you go after the left a lot these days. Why? I'm
00:35:49.980
like, because you're embarrassing me. That's why I'm going after the left in a way you never did
00:35:56.560
before because you're inverting things that I am not going to give up on being liberal. This is what
00:36:03.300
these teachers are talking about that, that you're taking children and making them hyper aware of race
00:36:08.980
in a way they wouldn't otherwise be. I mean, I saw last night on the football game, uh, Alicia Keys
00:36:15.460
saying lift every voice and sing, which now I hear is called the black national anthem. Now, maybe we
00:36:21.840
should get rid of our national anthem, but I think we should have one national anthem. I think when you
00:36:27.080
go down a road where you're having two different national anthems, colleges sometimes now have many of
00:36:33.520
them have different graduation ceremonies for black and white separate dorms. This is what I mean.
00:36:40.600
Segregation. You've inverted the idea. We're going back to that under a different name.
00:36:49.160
Now the points he raises there are, are good points. And I'd like to agree with it that we
00:36:53.680
shouldn't have two national anthems. You know, we should have, I don't agree with this point that
00:36:57.720
we should get rid of the, maybe we could get rid of the national anthem that we, the real national
00:37:01.440
anthem, but we should only have one. Um, I think, I think our national anthem, the national anthem is,
00:37:08.040
uh, is, is good. I'm, I'm, I'm happy with it. Uh, it's worked for us and I think it could continue
00:37:16.640
to work, but his point that, uh, well, you know, we should just have one because we're one nation.
00:37:23.440
I wish that was true, but it's really not. I mean, if anything, uh, we should have 50 different
00:37:36.260
national anthems at this point because we're so fractured and broken. I mean, there, there is not
00:37:43.320
one united country anymore. So the fact that we're now having multiple national anthems, that is a
00:37:51.620
reflection of a reality. I don't like it. I wish it was not the reality. I very much wish that it
00:37:57.300
wasn't, but it is, you know, that's, that's something that I struggled with on, uh, on Saturday
00:38:05.860
as well with national, with the 9-11 anniversary. And I just had to stay offline and not watch any news
00:38:15.580
or anything because when I hear people in these moments still talking about, Hey, you know, this
00:38:22.840
is a, we think back to that day. This is why we need to come together as a country, just like we did
00:38:28.540
on nine 12, right after nine 11. And there was unity. And I, yeah, we all talk about that. I remember it
00:38:32.700
too. I can remember that period of time, which in reality was probably only a few months, but there
00:38:41.640
was definitely a period of time when there felt, when it felt like we were united as a country.
00:38:48.520
That's what it seemed like. Most of the fighting and everything had been put to the side.
00:38:53.900
But now when we talk about that, I mean, it just sounds sort of sad and pathetic. It sounds to me
00:39:01.620
like someone, some broken old person reminiscing when they were in their prime in high school and how
00:39:09.140
they were the football, you know, they were the quarterback and captain of the football team.
00:39:14.840
Now those were the good old days. Yeah, maybe they were, but they were long gone now and they're
00:39:21.240
never coming back. You know, if something like nine 11 were to happen, it's something really like nine
00:39:28.160
11, not January 6th, which was not nine 11, but something actually similar to nine 11 or worse were
00:39:33.460
to happen. Now we wouldn't have that nine 12 effect. There wouldn't even be six minutes of unity,
00:39:41.460
not even close to it. We're not a one country anymore. And that's why the Scott Rasmussen poll Democrat
00:39:54.460
voters consider Republicans to be the greatest threat to them. Doesn't surprise me either.
00:40:03.620
Those are the kind of poll numbers you see in a country that has come apart at the seams. That
00:40:08.040
is not one united country anymore. Because as I always talk about unity, you cannot have unity for
00:40:17.260
its own sake. That's why the unity on right after nine 11 didn't last. It was nice. It was emotionally
00:40:25.920
cathartic and, and it felt sort of emotionally healing, but it didn't last because it wasn't real.
00:40:35.200
It was kind of unity for its own sake. Nice in the moment, but what, what are we actually unifying
00:40:41.840
around? There has to be some kind of unifying principle. Now in many other countries across
00:40:47.680
the world, um, they have a shared heritage. They have, they have, uh, you know, in many countries,
00:40:55.940
they have shared religion, shared race, racial identity. You know, that's, that's the case for
00:41:02.060
many countries across the world. That's never really been the case in our country.
00:41:11.820
If not any of that, then it would have to be unity around shared principles and shared
00:41:18.840
values, which is a nice idea to have a country united around something like that. These higher
00:41:27.760
ideals. And there was a time when we were, but we're not anymore.
00:41:31.220
Does we all, we all love freedom? No, we don't. We all have a shared, uh, passion for human
00:41:41.760
rights. No, we don't. We're united around our sense of equality. I don't even know what
00:41:47.200
equality is. We certainly don't have a quality of law quality anywhere else doesn't exist.
00:41:56.520
So we are many nations. And I thought the same thing going back to when I was some of these
00:42:00.700
other cities that I, that I've kind of touring and looking at in horror and thinking, how can
00:42:05.260
people live like this? I don't recognize this. I don't want any part of this. And I can't relate
00:42:15.020
on any level to someone who's like, this is, this is their ideal society. So where do we go from
00:42:23.860
there? Uh, I don't know. I think eventually we, we go into pieces.
00:42:31.940
Fun thought. Let's get now to our reading the YouTube comment section and, um, we'll start
00:42:36.660
with this. Let's, it's been pretty heavy. Let's get, let's have some good news. I think now we
00:42:40.440
finally have some good news and, um, I can announce after a week of, of buildup, I can announce the winner
00:42:48.120
of the sweet baby gang anthem contest. And the winner is Walsh's Anthem by Joshua Wathen. I thought
00:42:55.040
all five contestants were phenomenal. And I, I want to thank them all deeply and sincerely from
00:43:03.440
the bottom of my heart, uh, because I know the, the, the talent that they put into those songs and
00:43:08.540
those videos and the emotional energy. I feel that emotional energy as well. Uh, so thank you for that.
00:43:15.540
And all of them were wonderful, but I thought, I do think that this song is a deserving winner and
00:43:19.600
let's all, for the first time now on the Matt Wall show, experience that song together. Here it is.
00:43:24.740
Who makes a Twitter mob fly off the handle with rage? Who's to blame? It's a sweet baby gang.
00:43:52.940
Who's rocking polka dot and flannel shirts without shame. Do you know their name? They're the
00:44:05.180
sweet baby gang. Now there's no more crying. Ain't got time for your leftist tears. If you're a man,
00:44:14.220
it's required that you grow a bit. Hey, we're the sweet baby gang.
00:44:22.620
This theocratic fascist dictatorship is on its way. Daily cancellations are the law and order of
00:44:29.500
the day. We're the sweet baby gang. This theocratic fascist dictatorship is on its way. Daily cancellations are the
00:44:42.060
law and order of the day. We're the sweet baby gang.
00:44:47.500
Well, there it is. And get used to that song because you're going to hear it every single day
00:44:58.060
now. That is our anthem. I don't know. I don't know the national anthem. We have a bunch of different
00:45:05.180
national anthems now. That is our anthem. And we will all stand with our hands on our hearts and
00:45:11.080
listen to that whenever it plays. And I expect you to do that, by the way, every time I play that song
00:45:14.080
now. I don't want any Kaepernicks. There's not going to be any Kaepernicks in the in the SBG gang.
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00:46:34.720
of fat people? It's not like it's hard to run from them. Brandon, that's not acceptable. That's
00:46:43.220
juvenile. It's not funny. How dare you, Brandon? We don't partake in those kind of juvenile insults
00:46:52.500
on this show. We don't do that. I'm not going to ban you from the show, though, for it. Maybe it gives
00:46:59.740
you an idea of my real feelings. Veronica says, since we're becoming a dictatorship anyway, can we
00:47:03.780
just have Matt take over and rule with an iron rod? At least his rule would be logical. I totally
00:47:09.620
agree, Veronica. Thank you. Big Boy says, Matt, I was a submariner. We didn't dress formally just to
00:47:14.760
be locked in a metal tube. I'm going to just wear normal clothes on an airplane. Don't be silly.
00:47:20.360
As long as you're presentable and hygienic, who cares? Well, maybe we don't have to go all the way to
00:47:27.820
formal clothing, but it's more about the environment. It's like the message that that
00:47:32.100
sends to people. Okay. It's not that I necessarily have any objection to sitting next to someone who's
00:47:39.780
wearing jeans, but the point of the dress code on the airplane is, yeah, number one, to stop people
00:47:47.240
from wearing pajama pants, stop them from wearing sandals, even shorts. Okay. I don't want you in
00:47:54.920
shorts sitting right next to me on the plane. I've got your, your hairy, sweaty leg is rubbing
00:48:00.280
up against mine. I don't want any part of that. So that's one reason for the dress code, but also
00:48:05.140
it's about sending a message of the kind of environment. It's about kind of classing up the
00:48:09.800
environment. And I think it makes people, when you dress nicer, you behave better psychologically.
00:48:16.280
I don't know if that's actually true, but it's my theory.
00:48:24.260
OJH says, I don't know, Matt, I'm 25 and your planned evening sounds ideal to me too. Maybe it's
00:48:29.280
just an introvert thing, not an aging thing. However, although, although General So's chicken
00:48:32.840
is my dish of choice at Chinese places too, I recommend Indian or Thai takeout next time you
00:48:37.760
want to change it up. Once you're on the phone with the Indian place, it's too late to wuss out and
00:48:42.600
order the general again. Yeah, I agree with you that it is a, that's kind of how I guess you could
00:48:48.400
define whether you're an introvert or not. The evening that I had planned for myself that I
00:48:52.600
mentioned on Friday, had the whole, had the, you know, had the night to myself, my kids and wife
00:48:57.740
weren't there. And my idea anyway, was just to order food and sit in a chair and read a book and
00:49:02.420
that's, and go to bed early. That was like my, that, that to me would have been the ideal night.
00:49:06.060
And if that sounds ideal to you, it's a pretty, that's a pretty good indication of, uh, of introversion,
00:49:09.940
which is not the same thing as shyness. A lot of people don't understand that.
00:49:13.000
Not the same thing as being shy. It's just about where do you, where do you find your energy?
00:49:16.700
You know, what's, what's the most ideal setting to you? All right. Andrew Shelley says, Matt,
00:49:21.640
as the head of the household, you should take a leaf out of the leftist playbook and begin
00:49:24.760
indoctrinating your children into the SBG, get t-shirts, um, baby grows, et cetera, for them,
00:49:31.500
SBG forever. That would cause problems you cannot imagine in my house. Uh, so as it stands right now,
00:49:37.620
my children have not been indoctrinated into the sweet baby gang cult. I mean, one of the reasons is that
00:49:41.980
it would feel very weird to me to show my kids, uh, you know, like a shirt of, of me in a,
00:49:47.500
in a diaper so that there's something, I think psychologically for them, that wouldn't be the
00:49:50.920
healthiest thing. Um, and maybe when you think about it, if I wouldn't even want to show this
00:49:57.080
shirt to my kids, should we be selling it? Is this whole thing just way too bizarre? I mean,
00:50:02.340
that you might arrive at that conclusion. I don't know, but I've told you how my wife feels about it. So
00:50:07.740
that would cause a civil war in the house. If I tried to, if I tried to do that, I'm not ready
00:50:12.680
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cancellation. I said last week that it's troubling to see all of these people, most recently Howard Stern,
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who are now marching under the banner of F your freedom. Some members of the COVID cult are now
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quite open and shameless about their opposition to freedom. They're explicitly calling for your
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freedoms to be abridged or destroyed, and they want you to be oppressed in this way for their
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own sake, and they're very clear about that. Now, I said this is a disturbing development in our
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culture. Of course, there's nothing new about the fact that many people don't really care about
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freedom at all. What's new, arguably, is that so many people are willing to admit to it,
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to come out and say, F your freedom. And I still think that this marks a new and terrifying stage
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in our societal decay. But I must say that the F your freedom crowd annoys me a little bit less
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than the people who are still pretending that they support vaccine mandates and masking laws
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for the sake of freedom. This has been especially common talking point on cable news. For example,
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New York Times health reporter Cheryl Stolberg appeared on MSNBC this weekend to argue that, in fact,
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we are not taking away your rights by forcing a drug into your body. Rather,
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by not taking the drug, you are depriving her of her rights.
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I'm sorry to be to be coarse about this, but there are hundreds of thousands of people who are
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dead because they did not take the vaccine. What I mean, the science is playing out before our eyes.
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Right. So a couple of things about what the governor said. First of all, in an infectious disease
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outbreak, getting vaccinated is not a personal choice. It's not. It's something that we do for
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the community. And this has been long upheld with legal precedent. Second of all, the governors who are
00:54:01.360
complaining about Biden's mandate failed to note that he, in fact, gave businesses an out. Their
00:54:07.040
employees can opt for mandatory weekly testing. And third, he talked about, well, there's a long history
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with those other vaccines. Well, how do you think we got that long history? We got that long history
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because the vaccines were mandated. And she was not the only one at The New York Times to strike this
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chord. David Leonhardt made the exact same argument. Listen to this. I mean, there are two ways to think
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about freedom, right? One is, does someone have the freedom not to get a vaccine shot? That's a legitimate
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question. The other is, do we as Americans have the freedom to go out and know that we are less
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vulnerable to a deadly virus? That is also a form of freedom. And that's why I think that the sort of
00:54:50.280
pro-freedom case for vaccine mandates is actually stronger than the anti-freedom case. Americans deserve
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the freedom to go to school without fear. They deserve the freedom to go to school without health risks.
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They deserve the ability to go to football games and go to Broadway plays. And the long history of
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vaccine mandates shows two things. They make a lot of people mad, or at least a small percentage that
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often translate to a lot of people in a big country. And they save lives. And I think that is the likely
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effect of these vaccine mandates. They are going to push a whole bunch of people who weren't getting
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vaccinated before to do it, because otherwise their lives are going to be really inconvenient.
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Okay, let me answer the first question for you, David. Do we as Americans have the freedom to go
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out and know that we are less vulnerable to a deadly disease? No, we don't have that freedom.
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We don't have that right. In Sheryl Stolberg's phrase to not get killed by an infectious disease,
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that right doesn't exist. That is not a right that exists. It can't exist. You don't have the right to
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be free from infectious diseases for the same reason that you don't have the right to be free from
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osteoporosis, or asteroids, or shark attacks. These are all risks that come with being mortal
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creatures living within a natural reality that we cannot control. If infectious diseases infringe
00:56:09.240
on your rights, what or who is doing the infringing? Granted, a person who intentionally infects you with
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a disease, intentionally, may be reasonably accused of infringing on your rights. Just as you could say
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that your rights are infringed if somebody physically throws you into a shark tank. But aside from direct
00:56:25.820
and intentional acts of biological terrorism, sickness and disease are an inextricable part of
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life. To say that you have a right to be free from these risks is to say that you have a right to be
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free from the basic facts of reality. You may as well jump out of a window on the basis that you have
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the right to be free from gravity. This confusion is probably why, and this is going to sound maybe
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surprising, we should all stop talking about the right to life. Or talk about it at least in a qualified
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and more specific way. Even in the pro-life movement. Now this is going to seem like heresy, but in fact
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you don't have any sort of universal inherent right to life. To say that you have an absolute
00:57:11.660
right to life is to say that whenever you die, no matter how you die, it's an infringement on that
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right. The problem with abortion is not that the baby has a right to never die. Nobody has that right,
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of course. The problem is that the parents and the abortionist do not have the right to intentionally
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destroy human life. What's more, the parents have a positive duty, a positive responsibility
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to care for their child. Abortion is a rejection of that responsibility through an act which no
00:57:44.140
person has the right to perform. That's why I've long said that. I think when we talk about the pro-life
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case against abortion, we could talk about rights, but we should really be talking more about
00:57:57.220
responsibility. Do parents have a responsibility to their children or not? They do. And that's a better
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and more precise and more clarifying way to speak about the right to life. The right to life,
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shouted as a broad and unqualified mantra with no other specifications to it, tends to lead people to
00:58:20.440
the conclusion that even nature itself owes them immortality, but you're owed no such thing.
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It's not my job to make sure that you don't get sick. Okay. I was not born with that obligation.
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That's not a responsibility that I have to you as a stranger to make sure you never get sick.
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You're not owed that. The world doesn't owe you that. You're not owed safety either or the feeling of
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safety. Because that's something that the David Leonhart said, well, do we have the, should we
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have the freedom to know? And he may as well have said to feel that when we go out, we're going to
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be safe from infectious diseases. And that's really what they're talking about. The right, the freedom
00:59:08.420
to feel safe. But that's not something that you're owed either. None of that comes with the package when
00:59:16.080
you enter into this world. It's not on the brochure. And if it was on the brochure, the brochure lied to
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you. You need to get a new travel agent. The good news though, is that you can take whatever precautions
00:59:27.240
you want on your own accord of your own will and volition. To grant you freedom from COVID is not my
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job. It's not the world's job. It's not your neighbor's job. It's not the government's job.
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Okay. No, I don't get the vaccine to protect you. Just as you didn't get the vaccine to protect me.
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You get it for yourself. It's supposed to grant you protection.
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protection. And if you really believe in the vaccine and you trust it and you trust the science
01:00:08.080
behind the vaccine, then you have already granted yourself that protection. Not because you have a
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right to it, but just because it was available to you. And that's a precaution that you chose to take.
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And that is your responsibility, not anybody else's. And so for that reason, those two people on CNN
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and everybody else talking about their right to be free from COVID or free from infectious disease,
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they are all today, of course, finally canceled. And we'll leave it there. Thanks for watching.
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