The Matt Walsh Show - September 29, 2021


Ep. 807 - Local Virginia Man Speaks At School Board


Episode Stats

Length

48 minutes

Words per Minute

186.0538

Word Count

9,102

Sentence Count

358

Misogynist Sentences

19

Hate Speech Sentences

10


Summary

Today on the Matt Walsh Show, we finally descended upon Loudoun County yesterday, my new home, to make our voices heard. Though the School Board threw every possible roadblock in the way, we ll talk about some of those today.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, we finally descended upon Loudoun County yesterday, my new home, to make our voices heard,
00:00:05.620 though the school board threw every possible roadblock in the way. We'll talk about some of those today.
00:00:09.200 But the Loudoun County situation is part of a larger and more important conversation about who exactly should be determining what our kids are taught in schools, the state or the parents.
00:00:17.800 We'll discuss that. Also, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is asked why he won't resign for his failures in Afghanistan.
00:00:24.480 His answer is less than sufficient, I think. Greta Thunberg babbles incoherently and receives raucous applause.
00:00:31.260 And a black teacher in California is not pleased with the special gift basket she was given for being black.
00:00:36.560 And then Will Smith says that his open marriage with his wife is perfect and loving and beautiful.
00:00:41.840 And somehow I doubt that. We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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00:02:09.820 Well, it was a long time coming, not weeks, but really years in the making, as I have revealed to you in some vulnerable and emotionally honest moments on this show recently,
00:02:18.100 that I have long desired to be a resident of the state of Virginia.
00:02:20.820 I've always felt deep down that I really was Virginian, even back when I was living a lie, identifying with the state that was assigned to me at birth.
00:02:29.460 But finally, yesterday, I was able to make the official transition and become a legal resident of Virginia when I signed a lease to rent a woman's basement for $1 a month.
00:02:38.580 It was a little more than I wanted to spend, but I decided to splurge a little bit, and it was worth it because I'm now at peace with myself.
00:02:44.640 I feel at home, in my body, and in my state.
00:02:48.280 And even more importantly, yesterday, we had our rally at the Loudoun County School Board in protest of their radical indoctrination of the kids in the district.
00:02:55.560 The turnout was incredible. The energy in the crowd made it feel even bigger than it already was.
00:03:00.600 Unsurprisingly also, none of the opposition showed up.
00:03:04.080 After sending me threatening messages for weeks, I showed you some of that, some of the things they were saying to me, some of the threats they were making.
00:03:10.480 They all chose to stay home, cooking up their next batch of mean tweets and disgruntled emails, I guess.
00:03:16.600 This is a common theme for people on that side.
00:03:18.860 They'll confront you online.
00:03:21.340 Maybe they'll confront you in real life if they can be confident that they'll have you entirely outnumbered.
00:03:25.980 But outside of that, they prefer to stay hidden in the shadows and insulated.
00:03:30.860 This is especially true of the Loudoun County School Board itself.
00:03:34.400 I did end up speaking before the board, and we'll play that clip in a moment.
00:03:37.560 But consider the hoops we had to jump through just to earn an audience with the royal majesties on the school board.
00:03:45.440 As has been much publicized, they require proof of residence.
00:03:48.980 No problem for me as a man who has been a Virginia resident since you were in diapers.
00:03:54.600 I mean, if you're currently still an infant, then that would be true.
00:03:57.260 We had to also present, you know, we had our proof of residence we had to present outside the building.
00:04:01.920 Then they also demanded that we show our IDs as well.
00:04:04.140 And then next, we had to empty our pockets and undergo a TSA-style security screening.
00:04:10.620 Already the process to speak at a school board meeting, a public school school board meeting, is far more involved and far more secure than the process to vote.
00:04:18.840 And the whole thing felt quite racist to me, frankly, because it certainly would be called racist if they required all of that outside of a voting booth.
00:04:25.560 And we aren't done yet, because next we were ushered into the mostly empty building.
00:04:30.860 And I also have to say, the building where the school board in Loudoun County does its business is enormous, like the size of the Pentagon.
00:04:37.660 No spectators were allowed to sit inside the room with the school board.
00:04:41.840 No one could be in the presence of their highnesses.
00:04:45.820 No one in the public was permitted to attend the public meeting.
00:04:50.120 Some media were allowed inside, but most were outside the building.
00:04:53.140 And we were then told to stand, once we got inside, we were ushered along, we were told to stand in certain marked areas, six feet apart, single file, waiting for our name to be called.
00:05:01.800 At which point, we would have exactly 60 seconds to give our comment.
00:05:05.960 At 60 seconds, a buzzer sounds, and the mic is cut off.
00:05:09.280 And for a final indignity, and the thing that I hated the most, you had to wear a mask.
00:05:14.580 No mask, no mic.
00:05:15.720 That was the policy.
00:05:17.020 All of this, again, to speak at a school board.
00:05:20.280 Of course, as we're standing in the hallway, waiting to be brought before the royal court, we could hear one peasant subject after another get up there, barely articulate a complete thought before being buzzed and kicked out of the room.
00:05:33.040 The school board said, before my arrival, the school board said that I was an outside agitator, and they didn't want me there because they really wanted to hear from the parents of Loudoun County and other community members.
00:05:44.500 Well, that's kind of funny, because if they really wanted to hear from the community, they have an odd way of showing it.
00:05:50.080 They want to hear from the community for exactly 60 seconds apiece, to be specific.
00:05:54.380 Which means, of course, that they don't want to hear at all, because unless you're a very polished speaker, and you do these things professionally, you will not be able to say anything of substance in one minute, put on the spot like that.
00:06:07.340 The people who go to school boards, for the most part, are not professional speakers.
00:06:10.900 It shouldn't have to be.
00:06:12.440 That's what made the whole thing a farce.
00:06:14.540 Though that isn't even the worst of it.
00:06:15.940 Standing in line with the other community members, I was informed that in the past, the school board has set the time limit for public comment to 30 seconds.
00:06:25.900 That's only enough time to basically tell the school board to kiss your ass.
00:06:29.460 Which, the next time they set it to 30 seconds, that's exactly what every person in line should do.
00:06:33.860 They should have 300 people signed up, and every single person just get up there and say, you know what, kiss my ass.
00:06:40.120 Anyway, finally it was my turn, with 60 seconds on the clock, and a mask muzzling my face, and here's what I had to say.
00:06:45.620 I would thank you all for allowing me to speak to you tonight, but you tried not to allow it, yet here I am.
00:06:49.780 Now you only give us 60 seconds, so let me get to the point.
00:06:51.940 You are all child abusers.
00:06:53.700 You prey upon impressionable children and indoctrinate them into your insane ideological cult,
00:06:57.880 a cult which holds many fanatical views, but none so deranged as the idea that boys are girls and girls are boys.
00:07:03.380 By imposing this vile nonsense on students, to the point even of forcing young girls to share locker rooms with boys,
00:07:08.900 you deprive these kids of safety and privacy, and something more fundamental too, which is truth.
00:07:13.060 If education is not grounded in truth, then it is worthless.
00:07:16.680 Worse, it is poison.
00:07:18.120 You are poison.
00:07:19.360 You are predators.
00:07:20.700 I can see why you try to stop us from speaking.
00:07:22.360 You know that your ideas are indefensible.
00:07:24.460 You silence the opposing side because you have no argument.
00:07:26.840 You can only hide under your beds like pathetic little gutless cowards, hoping we shut up and go away.
00:07:33.120 But we won't.
00:07:34.200 I promise you that.
00:07:35.840 Thank you for your time, and I'll talk to you again very, very soon.
00:07:38.800 Now there's more that could have been said, obviously, but those were the bullet points.
00:07:42.600 The spectacle inside the building was pathetic and pitiful in many ways because of all of this,
00:07:49.200 all of these roadblocks and everything that were put in our way,
00:07:54.120 but it was also a good sign in another way because the board was doing all of this because they're scared,
00:07:59.640 and they're scared and they should be scared because they realize that they no longer have free reign
00:08:03.720 to do whatever they want to do, enact whatever policies they want to enact,
00:08:09.300 impose their value system on kids without pushback or consequence.
00:08:13.100 And that's what this whole debate is really about, if you can call it a debate with the way they've set it up.
00:08:16.880 It was actually, it was thrown into sharp relief during the Virginia gubernatorial debate,
00:08:21.820 which, as it happens, was taking place during the meeting not far away.
00:08:26.640 So not far away from where we were, they were having the gubernatorial debate between Terry McAuliffe and Glenn Youngkin.
00:08:34.900 And when the topic of education came up, Terry McAuliffe, the Democrat, had this to say.
00:08:39.040 Listen to this.
00:08:39.480 The parents had to write to veto bills, veto books, Glenn, not to be knowledgeable about it,
00:08:45.600 also take them off the shelves, and I'm not going to let parents come into schools
00:08:49.000 and actually take books out and make their own decisions.
00:08:52.800 You vetoed it.
00:08:53.760 So, yeah, I've stopped the bill that I don't think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.
00:08:59.240 You know, I get really tired of everybody running down teachers.
00:09:03.420 I love our teachers.
00:09:04.240 And what they have done through COVID, these are real heroes that deserve our respect.
00:09:08.580 And you keep running them down.
00:09:10.600 Yeah, some teachers are heroes, that's true.
00:09:13.240 I talked to a few of them yesterday.
00:09:15.340 Teachers with moral courage who stand against the abuse and the indoctrination of children, they're heroes.
00:09:21.640 Teachers, in general, though, are just people.
00:09:24.940 Some of them are heroes.
00:09:26.200 Some of them are simpering cowards and lazy do-nothings who got a year off of work and still wanted more.
00:09:32.100 Some are propagandists and partisans.
00:09:35.000 Some are much worse than that.
00:09:37.120 So it's a mixed bag.
00:09:38.580 But what you can't do is put everybody into the bag and label the whole bag heroes.
00:09:43.700 More to the point, McAuliffe says that parents shouldn't be telling teachers what to teach.
00:09:50.300 Well, then who should be telling them what to teach?
00:09:54.040 Who should be deciding, ultimately, what kids are taught, what they learn, what values are instilled?
00:10:01.200 This is not a question about the rights of teachers.
00:10:05.480 It's not a question about teachers at all.
00:10:08.240 This is a question about who should have the primary authority over children.
00:10:13.380 And there are really only two possible answers to that.
00:10:18.520 At least there are only two that are ever given.
00:10:22.940 It becomes a binary choice.
00:10:24.840 It's either going to be the state or the parents.
00:10:30.400 McAuliffe says the state.
00:10:31.460 The Loudoun County School Board certainly thinks the answer is the state.
00:10:34.420 More specifically, they think the answer is them personally as representatives of the state.
00:10:38.920 So that could be your answer, that the state has ultimate authority over children, which, again, is what this is about.
00:10:48.900 Who is in charge of children?
00:10:50.620 Another way of putting it is, who do the children belong to?
00:10:57.240 First and foremost.
00:10:59.600 On earth, anyway.
00:11:00.720 You know, as believers, we would say that the children belong to God, first and foremost.
00:11:07.460 But who has God given that authority to on earth?
00:11:12.800 Who has God primarily entrusted those children to?
00:11:17.020 The state or the parents?
00:11:20.980 And we know that the state has been raising its hand for decades and saying, no, no, it's us.
00:11:25.800 It's us.
00:11:26.220 Give us your kids.
00:11:27.080 And for a very long time, parents were happy to just, even if they didn't agree, to sort of go along with that.
00:11:34.120 And usher their children into the arms of the state and say, hey, treat them well now.
00:11:38.400 I'll trust you to have their best interests at heart.
00:11:42.060 Now I think people are finally waking up to the truth.
00:11:45.380 And that is a very good thing.
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00:13:05.120 Well, a little bit of personal news and sad family news, in fact, I have to tell you about, unfortunately.
00:13:13.740 We did suffer a tragedy in our home because we finally got a dog.
00:13:20.560 And I've told you, I've been trying to withstand this pressure campaign from my wife and my kids.
00:13:29.120 And I, I, I stood up to it for as long as I could.
00:13:34.600 Okay.
00:13:35.740 I, I endured it for as long as I possibly could, but finally I, I gave in.
00:13:40.220 And we've now adopted some kind of dog.
00:13:43.040 I don't even know what this beast is that's in our house.
00:13:45.540 I don't even know what kind of dog it is.
00:13:46.900 It's just there hanging out.
00:13:47.980 And, uh, and, you know, for, for the most part, it hasn't been as bad as I expected because
00:13:53.460 the dog's pretty calm.
00:13:55.600 Um, he doesn't jump on the furniture so far.
00:13:58.000 He doesn't, he doesn't like chew pillows and stuff like that.
00:14:00.940 Uh, although really if you started chewing pillows, I think I'd be fine with that because
00:14:04.640 we have way too many of those in the house.
00:14:05.820 That might be a good thing.
00:14:06.520 Um, but the worst thing about having the dog so far is that, is that, uh, we have become
00:14:12.020 the sort of family.
00:14:13.040 And when I say we have become the sort of family, this is really like 100% my wife, but we become
00:14:17.380 the sort of family where that, that takes 20 pictures of the dog every day and like sends
00:14:23.780 it around to family members in group text messages.
00:14:27.120 So look what our dog did.
00:14:28.460 Look what our dog just did.
00:14:29.600 Isn't this cute?
00:14:30.140 I'm looking at all these text messages.
00:14:33.420 My wife is sending with pictures of the dog and I'm thinking to myself, what have we become?
00:14:37.700 I don't recognize this anymore.
00:14:41.320 And maybe there's a little bit of jealousy too, because I, I, I'm getting this feeling
00:14:44.520 like I've been replaced by the dog in some ways.
00:14:47.660 Like the other day, just on Sunday before I left, uh, the kids were going to the park
00:14:51.260 and, uh, and I wasn't able to go cause I had to finish up some work and they came to me.
00:14:54.980 They said, dad, are you, are you, are you able, are you coming to the park?
00:14:56.940 And I said, well, I can't cause I gotta, gotta finish some work.
00:14:58.960 They said, oh, it's, oh, okay.
00:15:01.940 Well, can the dog come?
00:15:03.020 Yeah, the dog come.
00:15:03.960 Yay.
00:15:04.500 And then he just ran off.
00:15:05.760 What do you need dad for when you got the dog?
00:15:08.640 It's a tragedy.
00:15:09.780 This is what we are now.
00:15:11.140 All right.
00:15:11.480 So the chairman of the joint chiefs, uh, of staff, general Mark Milley testified before
00:15:15.720 the Senate armed services committee.
00:15:17.400 Tom Codden asked him the question that we've all had, which is why hasn't he resigned given
00:15:23.000 that the Afghan, uh, Afghanistan withdrawal was a, was a tremendous disaster that killed,
00:15:28.000 uh, resulted in the deaths of, of many people, not even counting the seven children and three,
00:15:35.100 uh, adults who were murdered via drone strike with claims that they were terrorists.
00:15:40.100 And it turns out that they weren't.
00:15:41.760 So why is this guy still in a position of power?
00:15:44.540 Why hasn't he resigned?
00:15:46.220 Here's his answer to that question.
00:15:47.540 As a senior military officer, um, resigning is a really serious thing.
00:15:54.580 It's a political act.
00:15:55.540 If I'm resigning in protest, my job is to provide advice.
00:15:59.180 My statutory responsibility is to provide legal advice or best military advice to the
00:16:03.280 president.
00:16:04.140 And that's my legal requirement.
00:16:05.620 That's what the law is.
00:16:07.360 Um, the president doesn't have to agree with that advice.
00:16:10.140 He doesn't have to make those decisions, uh, just because we're generals and it would be
00:16:15.080 an incredible act of political defiance for a commissioned officer to just resign because
00:16:20.680 my advice is not taken.
00:16:21.820 This country doesn't want generals figuring out what orders we are going to accept and
00:16:27.860 do or not.
00:16:28.800 That's not our job.
00:16:30.440 The principle of civilian control of the military is absolute.
00:16:33.000 It's critical to this Republic.
00:16:34.720 In addition to that, just from a personal standpoint, you know, my, my dad didn't get a choice
00:16:39.040 to resign at Iwo Jima and those kids that are at Abbey Gate, they don't get a choice
00:16:42.480 to resign and I'm not going to turn my back on them.
00:16:45.280 Uh, I'm not going to reason they can't resign.
00:16:47.500 So I'm not going to resign.
00:16:48.460 There's no way.
00:16:49.440 Yeah.
00:16:49.760 That kind of misses the point.
00:16:50.960 Doesn't it?
00:16:53.380 I mean, that's, that's, that's not the, that's not the point.
00:16:56.520 We're not, we're not saying that you should resign in protest.
00:17:01.280 Okay.
00:17:01.660 We're, we're saying it's not, it's not that you should resign in protest.
00:17:04.720 Because other people screwed up and you're upset about it.
00:17:07.940 It's that you screwed up and that's why you should be gone because you're incompetent.
00:17:12.980 And much of what's happening right now is your fault.
00:17:16.500 So I feel like someone had to clear that confusion up for him.
00:17:20.360 Um, similar confusion here, political controversy.
00:17:25.000 I'm reading now from the, from the daily wire.
00:17:27.400 It says Republican governor, Kristi Noem on Tuesday slammed the media for trying to destroy
00:17:32.780 her children following a report from the Associated Press claiming that Noem engaged in a conflict
00:17:37.660 of interest, a claim the governor's office, uh, has denied as a wholly political attack.
00:17:43.780 The Associated Press reported on Tuesday, just days after a South Dakota agency moved to deny
00:17:49.140 her daughter's application to become a certified real estate appraiser.
00:17:52.260 Governor Kristi Noem summoned to her office, the state employee who ran the agency, the
00:17:56.940 woman's direct supervisor and the state labor secretary.
00:18:00.160 Noem's daughter attended to Cassidy Peters, then 26, ultimately obtained the certification
00:18:05.020 of in November of 2020, four months after the meeting at her mother's office.
00:18:09.360 Peters told the AP, my upgrade to become a certified residential appraiser was very lengthy and I
00:18:13.500 was expected to navigate through many obstacles from the very beginning.
00:18:16.080 I'm glad I have it now and that I have the privilege to serve my clients in South Dakota.
00:18:20.800 Uh, so this is, this is the claim anyway, from, from the Associated Press that Kristi Noem
00:18:25.080 used the power of her office to get this position for her daughter.
00:18:30.140 So some, some nepotism there.
00:18:32.300 And if, if it's true that she did this, and I don't know if it's true or not, there would
00:18:37.020 be quite a lot of irony and hypocrisy in that because, you know, this is the same woman
00:18:42.000 who has refused, for example, to step up and prevent employers from firing employees in
00:18:50.460 the state if they're not vaccinated.
00:18:51.900 And she, and she, she refused to, um, prevent, you know, colleges from allowing men onto the,
00:19:01.360 onto the female sports teams.
00:19:03.080 Uh, she went along with the trans agenda and the re and the reason she did all of that,
00:19:06.460 or she didn't do any of that rather is because she, she felt that it would be an inappropriate
00:19:11.580 use of state power.
00:19:14.860 And it would be, it would be wrong for her to use her power in that way.
00:19:17.900 That's, that was the reason she gave.
00:19:20.940 So if she's saying that it would be an inappropriate use of state power to stand up for the rights
00:19:24.980 of the citizens of her state, and yet she's using her power in this way, that would be,
00:19:30.120 there would be quite a lot of irony and hypocrisy in that.
00:19:31.560 So, but this is where, this was her response.
00:19:35.120 Um, she says, posted this to Twitter.
00:19:38.720 She says, listen, I get it.
00:19:40.440 I signed up for this job, but now the media is trying to destroy my children.
00:19:44.620 The story is just another example of the double standard that exists with the media
00:19:47.860 going after conservatives and their kids while ignoring liberals.
00:19:52.700 Hashtag ask the big guy.
00:19:56.700 Now I'm just looking if there's more to this because that, first of all, that's not exactly
00:20:00.320 a denial, is it?
00:20:01.560 I don't see that as a denial.
00:20:06.520 And also it once again, purposefully misses the point.
00:20:11.480 Just like with Mark Milley.
00:20:12.840 No, we're not saying that you should resign in protest of other people screwing up.
00:20:16.780 We're saying that you're the screw up.
00:20:18.360 You're the incompetent.
00:20:20.420 You're unfit for the office.
00:20:21.600 And that's why you need to be gone.
00:20:22.780 And this case, no, no one's attacking your, your child.
00:20:26.300 Who's an adult, by the way.
00:20:28.560 Uh, what they're attacking you.
00:20:30.540 They're saying that you acted inappropriately.
00:20:32.160 So if you use the power of your office in this nepotistic way to secure a position for your
00:20:39.620 daughter, and we say we disapprove of that, we're not attacking your daughter, as you well
00:20:44.360 know.
00:20:44.600 So I don't know if this is true or not.
00:20:48.420 I, of course I can't, I can't say that, but it does make me kind of suspicious that this
00:20:55.500 was Kristi Noem's response.
00:20:56.560 There's no denial in it.
00:20:59.820 And she's intentionally missing the point.
00:21:03.860 That, that always makes me suspicious because Joe Biden, as she references in the hashtag,
00:21:09.660 I'm sure if I went back and looked, I could see examples of Kristi Noem criticizing Joe
00:21:14.800 Biden because of the Hunter Biden stuff.
00:21:16.260 I don't know that for sure, but I'm going to guess that I could.
00:21:21.860 And what has been Joe Biden's response to all the criticisms of how he allegedly used the power
00:21:26.400 of his office to secure favors and positions for Hunter Biden?
00:21:30.980 His response has been, stop attacking my family.
00:21:33.080 You're attacking my kids.
00:21:35.440 My precious little child, my, my little boy who's in his fifties or forties or whatever.
00:21:39.800 So she's using the exact same approach here, which just makes me suspicious.
00:21:46.820 I'm also suspicious of this person, Stephanie Grisham, reading now from the Hill.
00:21:51.640 It says, former White House press secretary, Stephanie Grisham claimed that a new book that
00:21:55.300 she sought to shield a young female aid from former president Trump after he, at one point,
00:22:00.240 invited her to his air force cabin to look at her.
00:22:04.540 Grisham writes in her new book, I'll take your questions now, set to be released on October 5th,
00:22:09.300 that she tried to keep a young female aid away from Trump after the former president
00:22:12.660 repeatedly invited her up to his Air Force One cabin, including one time to look at her
00:22:17.060 and use an expletive to describe her rear end.
00:22:20.440 Grisham also writes that Trump told her to promote the aid and keep her happy,
00:22:24.760 according to the New York Times, which received a manuscript of Grisham's book.
00:22:29.420 And I'm not even going to go on reading that because I, because I don't really care.
00:22:32.760 This is always my problem with these tell all books after the fact.
00:22:35.620 If you have a bunch of deep, dirty, dark secrets that you can tell, and you held on to all those
00:22:44.280 secrets, and you continued working for this person for years, just so that once they're
00:22:51.420 out of power, you can write your tell all book and get a big advance and make a lot of money
00:22:55.940 off the royalties, then I'm automatically going to be suspicious of that as well.
00:23:00.820 And the other interesting thing about these, these revelations about Donald Trump, we've seen so
00:23:07.860 many tell all books about Donald Trump with either anonymous revelations, people who claim to be so
00:23:14.680 deeply concerned about what Trump did and when he was in office and all of his alleged abuses of
00:23:19.780 power, yet they remain anonymous. They won't put their name behind the accusations. Or people who wait
00:23:24.660 until they're gone. They work for Trump for years, oftentimes wait until they're fired, and then they
00:23:29.680 come out with the tell all. But what you find is that most of the time, these accusations and these
00:23:37.860 revelations, if they're even true, do not at all live up to what you would expect, given what the
00:23:46.220 media tells us about Donald Trump. Donald Trump, they tell us that he's literally Hitler, he's a
00:23:52.320 dictator, he's evil incarnate, this power mad megalomaniac, a threat to our republic, a threat
00:23:59.040 to democracy. I mean, they, they again, put him on, they very explicitly put him on par with the great
00:24:06.800 monsters of history, Pol Pot, Hitler, Stalin. I'm not even sure if they would call Stalin a monster at
00:24:13.140 this point. But, and then, and then, and then Donald Trump goes, goes right in that same, that's
00:24:18.680 unholy Mount Rushmore, I suppose. And yet, in the, all of these tell all books and all these
00:24:24.700 revelations, all we ever really hear is about Donald Trump saying, being kind of a jerk and a
00:24:30.280 jackass and a boar, and being a pig, allegedly, using inappropriate language. That's the most we ever
00:24:39.400 hear. At worst, that's who Donald Trump is, which is what I kind of expected him always to be.
00:24:48.680 You never get the kind of revelations that live up to the, uh, live up to the billing from the
00:24:53.580 Democrats. All right, next, Greta Thunberg was speaking at some kind of, another climate summit.
00:24:58.160 So we've got a, basically, there's a new climate summit every week, every two weeks. And this was
00:25:03.260 Youth for Climates. And, uh, Greta Thunberg, I thought, made a very eloquent case for protecting
00:25:10.740 the environment. Listen to this.
00:25:16.020 There is no planet B. There is no planet blah. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
00:25:25.680 This is not about some expensive, politically correct, green act of bunny hugging, or blah, blah,
00:25:32.200 blah. Build back better. Blah, blah, blah. Green economy. Blah, blah, blah.
00:25:38.840 Net zero by 2050. Blah, blah, blah. Net zero. Blah, blah, blah. Climate neutral. Blah, blah, blah.
00:25:47.260 That's where we are now. That's the point we've reached. Where Greta Thunberg can get up in front
00:25:52.460 of an audience, a crowd of hundreds of people, and literally just say, blah, blah, blah.
00:25:58.620 Blah. And, uh, and that becomes an applause line. That was an actual applause line. In fact, I think
00:26:06.580 the, the, the transcript there, she said, planet blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. What? What? That doesn't
00:26:14.360 mean anything. But that, of course, means nothing. And that was a rousing applause line from the people
00:26:21.160 in the, in the audience. This, this is one of the things that sometimes makes me want to become,
00:26:27.360 you know, a leftist because you, it's, it's very easy to impress people
00:26:31.360 when you're speaking to that crowd. A very, a very easily impressed crowd. Very easy to pander to.
00:26:39.640 You don't even have to say words anymore. You can just stand in front of there. You know,
00:26:43.940 I do a lot of public speaking. Uh, you know, I give a lot of, a lot of speeches and, um, I,
00:26:48.420 I always feel this pressure. It's enormous pressure. You know, you're standing in front
00:26:52.540 of a crowd to say something meaningful. You know, I'll actually write like real words onto a page
00:26:59.360 and I'll, I'll, you know, I'll read the words, but to be able to stand there and simply say,
00:27:05.960 blah, blah, blah. And that's your speech. That is pretty amazing. Here's a video that's gone viral.
00:27:10.260 Thanks as always to the iconic libs of TikTok Twitter account, except this isn't a lib. This is a
00:27:15.800 black teacher from California. Uh, I think this is this videos from a couple of months ago, I think
00:27:19.780 because she's no longer a teacher anymore. She's left, but she's doing an unboxing video as the
00:27:25.460 kids call it showing us, uh, what gift her school district gave to her. And it would seem all of the
00:27:31.580 black educators. This is the, the little gift basket they were given watch last year. I went to
00:27:38.940 go pick up this gift from the district thinking maybe it's a, I was already pretty insulted by it,
00:27:43.580 but I wanted to see what it was. And so I went and picked it up from the district because we were
00:27:47.200 of course teaching online the whole year. And I, um, I got this, I picked up the gift and here it is
00:27:55.940 right here. Um, in it was of course the black educators matter mask, which I would never wear
00:28:03.400 in front of my students. Imagine if someone wore a white educators matter mask.
00:28:06.820 My God. Patronizing, insulting, degrading. This is why I always say as a, you know, I know that as a,
00:28:20.760 as a white man, the left hates me. I'm, I'm the, as a, as a white quote unquote, cis man. Um,
00:28:28.960 I'm the villain, right? I'm the Uber villain. And I understand that.
00:28:32.020 But I would, I would much rather be in that position and be treated that way than be infantilized
00:28:42.120 like this. I really think in a lot of ways I have it better. I would, I would rather just be
00:28:47.320 insulted and have you tell me that, uh, that I'm a scumbag and I'm a horrible person that to be
00:28:53.680 treated like a, like a child, like a, uh, a dumb child infantilized and degraded.
00:29:03.920 But it has this, cause it has the same effect in the end. It's just as insulting,
00:29:07.480 but at least with me, they're going to be pretty straightforward about it and just say,
00:29:13.280 we hate you. You're horrible. Okay, good. Fine. Um, and also we've got this, I don't know if you're
00:29:20.840 ready for some comedy, but check this out from Stephen Colbert show this, I'm not sure when this
00:29:25.620 aired. We'll only play there's, there's, there's not a big audio component of this. So only play a
00:29:30.480 few seconds of it, but this was a, I guess a comedy bit on Stephen Colbert show where they, he, he brings
00:29:37.500 on a bunch of people dressed like giant vaccine needles and they dance through the crowd doing the
00:29:43.960 cha-cha to a song about the vaccine. Just watch this.
00:29:47.540 Vaccine!
00:30:09.540 kings play
00:30:16.020 high school
00:30:17.880 in the
00:30:20.740 bottom
00:30:22.920 in
00:30:25.560 in
00:30:27.300 close
00:30:27.880 in
00:30:31.260 zu
00:30:33.240 in
00:30:35.320 so let me tell you my my conspiracy theory this this is my this is my this is my this is my
00:30:49.220 preferred conspiracy theory uh when i see videos like that which i guess i can only assume based
00:30:57.560 on context the context of this being on a late night alleged comedy show i can only assume that
00:31:03.400 there are that they're trying to accomplish two things with that with that bit uh one is they're
00:31:09.080 trying to be funny i guess again i can only assume and also they're they're trying to promote the
00:31:15.120 vaccine but when i see this and i see really every effort that's been made to promote the vaccine
00:31:24.800 by the media by hollywood by government by my biden administration
00:31:28.860 and and and almost all of them are as cringy inducing as that or worse when i see that i
00:31:36.080 think you know this is all part of a plan to make people more vaccine hesitant
00:31:40.100 this is this is not much of a conspiracy theory i think it's just become
00:31:45.000 an obvious conclusion that we have to draw
00:31:47.740 i watch that and i i think well there's there's no way that they think that's actually going to
00:31:58.040 reach anybody who hasn't been vaccinated
00:31:59.780 the only thing you can hope is that the most die-hard vaccine cultists will will see that and
00:32:06.660 maybe they'll be pleased by it and they'll get up and they'll start dancing uh in their living room or
00:32:11.380 something but there's just no way that they think that anyone who's vaccine hesitant is going to see
00:32:17.940 that and say you know what after seeing these dancing vaccine needles uh with stephen colbert
00:32:23.600 doing the cha-cha down the aisle on a late night show i think i think it's time i think i'll go out
00:32:28.400 and get the jab i think i'll go out and put this you have convinced me to put this substance into my
00:32:32.320 body i was hesitant about it i wasn't sure but now yeah i'll do it it's clearly not going to have
00:32:38.720 that effect and i don't i don't believe that they think that
00:32:41.500 i think they're trying i think they don't want those people to get vaccinated
00:32:47.860 the unvaccinated the anti-vaxxers they provide a good foil they're they're a good villain group
00:32:56.280 a very um useful villain group for the left and for the media
00:33:03.020 and they wanted to stay that way
00:33:07.240 and all of their all of the failed policies that are supposed to
00:33:13.260 you know stop the spread of the virus every single policy has failed
00:33:18.000 going back to 15 days to slow the spread up until now
00:33:22.620 um but now they have a group that they can blame
00:33:26.020 even though these policies have been failing all along
00:33:30.420 and they tell us that vaccinated people are also spreading the virus that's what they tell us
00:33:34.340 but it gives them a handy group that they can blame and i think they want that group to stay there
00:33:39.440 that's my theory all right this is from cnbc um amazon has announced a home robot called astro
00:33:47.320 astro is equipped with a rotating screen that's mounted onto a base with wheels
00:33:51.400 amazon designed the robot to appear animated and friendly with eyes and expressive body movements
00:33:56.820 that respond to user interaction
00:33:58.440 the robot can move on its own from room to room
00:34:01.180 and is capable of navigating around objects on the floor
00:34:04.240 or braking to avoid colliding with obstacles such as a pet that moves into its path
00:34:08.860 a periscope camera attached to the base of the device can be raised or lowered
00:34:13.040 to view objects that are high up
00:34:15.240 so this is a
00:34:16.520 this is a little robot like r2d2 thing that i guess you're supposed to have in your house
00:34:22.840 and it'll it'll follow you around the house
00:34:24.620 and it has a camera and it can respond to you
00:34:27.220 and it could also spy on you and see everything in your house
00:34:30.720 which is the real reason why amazon wants to put this out there
00:34:33.880 i just think i see all of these these new innovations
00:34:36.380 and i and i know and apparently this is gonna be on sale for a thousand dollars
00:34:39.720 which is less than i thought it would be
00:34:40.860 it's not on sale yet but when it is
00:34:43.080 we all know there's going to be lines around the block to buy this damn thing
00:34:46.720 and all of the people who are lining up
00:34:49.480 to spend a thousand dollars of money they don't have
00:34:52.540 uh to to put a a spy robot into their home
00:34:57.560 along with all the other spy robots they already have in their home
00:35:00.340 every single one of them if you ask them
00:35:02.660 they'll tell you that they are deeply concerned with their privacy
00:35:05.600 and they're very worried about big tech spying on them
00:35:08.600 privacy is you know you you go up to that line of people
00:35:11.960 and ask every single one of them
00:35:13.080 how important is privacy to you is it is that a big priority of yours
00:35:16.580 oh yeah absolutely
00:35:17.480 i'm very concerned with my own privacy
00:35:20.860 while they have an apple watch on
00:35:23.280 they're getting the robot to spy on them
00:35:24.620 they already have alexa
00:35:25.440 there's there's a there's a real disconnect there i think
00:35:29.640 all right let's move now to reading the comments
00:35:32.460 and badger boy says quoting uh one of the women
00:35:49.700 in that news report that we played during the cancellation yesterday
00:35:52.560 if you don't have a kid at the school why would you want to testify
00:35:55.200 badger boy says someone should tell her the vast majority of school board members
00:35:58.700 do not have kids at the school they sit on the board for that's a very good point
00:36:02.700 that's a point that i i think i have missed myself and haven't brought up very often
00:36:06.160 but yes that's an excellent point
00:36:08.140 on on these these not just allowed in county but school boards all across the country
00:36:12.980 your own school board
00:36:14.560 go take a look sometime and see how many of the people on that board
00:36:18.280 actually have kids in the district
00:36:20.400 some of them are childless some of them have kids that
00:36:23.440 have long since grown up
00:36:24.720 i mean oftentimes they'll have they'll have kids
00:36:27.500 school-aged kids but they put their own kids in private school
00:36:30.100 uh
00:36:32.420 and uh king of cali says
00:36:35.700 matt's first job was retrieving carts
00:36:37.800 his disgust with people leaving their carts
00:36:40.160 makes sense now
00:36:41.120 yeah that is my that's my origin that's my villain
00:36:43.240 oh no that's my no that's my superhero origin story
00:36:46.160 because i am a superhero when it comes to carts anyway
00:36:48.820 that is a real
00:36:50.320 that is that is where i think i demonstrate heroism in my life
00:36:54.320 um
00:36:55.500 and another comment says
00:36:57.260 matt trying to camouflage with his hotel surroundings
00:36:59.340 is actually quite an endearing quality
00:37:01.040 despite it being aesthetically jarring
00:37:04.080 uh
00:37:05.240 my style choices
00:37:07.540 i mean endearing is a word you could use for them
00:37:09.440 i've heard i've heard many other words
00:37:10.900 that are
00:37:12.480 not quite as complimentary but thank you for that
00:37:15.060 uh sp2 says
00:37:17.360 matt between this and abuela you've reached legend trolling
00:37:20.200 status
00:37:20.660 well i well thank you thank you for that
00:37:22.760 and i will tell you that
00:37:23.980 when it comes to to that
00:37:26.220 we've got more where that is
00:37:28.360 where that comes from
00:37:29.300 we're upping the ante
00:37:30.180 i can't say anything else other than that
00:37:31.960 but just stay tuned is all i'm going to say
00:37:33.620 and ej says
00:37:34.960 i like how matt is bragging about the fact that he's virginian now
00:37:37.500 like it's some sort of badge of honor
00:37:39.120 it is a badge of honor
00:37:40.660 okay ej when it's your truth
00:37:43.360 okay when it's when it's when it's something that you've wanted deep down in your bones
00:37:49.540 for as long as you can remember
00:37:52.160 to be a resident of virginia
00:37:54.000 it is something to brag about
00:37:55.160 thank you very much
00:37:56.420 and you're banned from the show
00:37:57.220 uh
00:37:58.860 scott says
00:38:00.440 i hope matt isn't going to wear skinny jeans to the school board meeting
00:38:02.760 because the people behind him won't be able to listen to him without being distracted if he is
00:38:06.480 well
00:38:06.780 scott
00:38:07.760 i don't wear skinny jeans to your band from the show
00:38:09.500 but also
00:38:10.620 there was nobody behind me in the school board meeting
00:38:12.400 because they don't let the public
00:38:13.380 remember they don't let the public into the building
00:38:14.940 to actually hear the comments
00:38:16.200 you don't have to worry about that at all
00:38:17.480 uh
00:38:18.700 and finally crystal says
00:38:22.020 matt you should start a side gig as a consultant
00:38:24.320 people could contact you if they get karen'd
00:38:26.700 before they make a statement on their social media
00:38:28.520 you could call yourself the sweet baby justice warrior
00:38:31.900 uh
00:38:32.940 i don't think anybody would hire me as a pr consultant
00:38:35.240 but i will tell you that
00:38:36.300 i think most pr consultants are
00:38:38.560 are terrible at their job
00:38:40.600 because they want to keep their job
00:38:42.020 and so you know
00:38:43.660 the real pr advice to
00:38:46.440 for for many people who find themselves
00:38:48.500 in the middle of of some big controversy
00:38:50.400 and the you know the social media mobs coming after them
00:38:53.780 the lynch mobs coming after them
00:38:55.100 in in many cases
00:38:57.760 what they should do
00:38:59.560 especially if it's a public figure
00:39:00.860 all you have to do is say nothing at all
00:39:04.260 just remain quiet
00:39:06.240 and wait for it to go away
00:39:08.220 and then pretend it never happened
00:39:09.420 because the mob almost always moves on
00:39:12.360 to the next target
00:39:13.780 that's the one thing you have going in your favor
00:39:16.780 is that yeah it's overwhelming in the moment
00:39:19.640 but these people have the memories
00:39:23.000 and the attention span of fruit flies
00:39:25.040 and they're going to move on to the next target
00:39:26.780 so just don't say anything
00:39:28.420 but i think pr consultants
00:39:30.340 if they give that advice
00:39:31.500 if they give the advice of oh don't say anything
00:39:33.040 then it's like what do we need you for
00:39:35.840 so they have they have to you know
00:39:38.040 they have to justify their jobs
00:39:40.060 by crafting some sort of statement
00:39:41.620 and say here's what our strategy is going to be
00:39:43.400 so if i was a pr consultant
00:39:46.480 that's all i would say
00:39:47.260 i'd charge you a thousand dollars
00:39:49.340 and i would say okay good
00:39:50.060 just don't say anything
00:39:50.840 and you'll be fine
00:39:52.700 you know i consider myself
00:39:54.220 to be something of a fitness guru
00:39:55.560 that might be overstating it dramatically
00:39:57.660 maybe not a fitness guru
00:39:58.640 but i do think it's important
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00:40:34.380 all right let's get now
00:40:35.700 to our daily cancellation
00:40:36.540 for our daily cancellation today
00:40:42.500 we must cancel will smith
00:40:44.220 we could cancel him
00:40:45.340 because he hasn't made a good movie
00:40:46.740 in 20 years
00:40:47.340 but his filmography
00:40:48.800 isn't the topic of contention today
00:40:50.180 our focus now
00:40:50.860 is on smith's
00:40:51.960 recent interview in gq
00:40:53.520 where he discusses
00:40:54.260 the beauty and wonder
00:40:55.080 of being in an open marriage
00:40:56.980 will smith is in an open marriage
00:40:58.860 with his wife jada pinkett smith
00:41:00.280 though it appears that
00:41:01.000 the marriage was initially
00:41:02.020 opened against his will
00:41:04.840 the couple infamously
00:41:06.380 sat across from each other
00:41:07.360 for a red table talk
00:41:08.680 on facebook last year
00:41:09.680 where they awkwardly
00:41:11.000 in front of the cameras
00:41:11.900 discussed an affair
00:41:13.500 that jada had years before
00:41:15.320 i've never been able to watch
00:41:17.620 more than a minute
00:41:18.340 of this conversation
00:41:19.260 because the cringe factor
00:41:20.320 is so overwhelming
00:41:21.380 but just to refresh our memories
00:41:23.260 here's a little bit
00:41:24.440 of that discussion
00:41:25.000 watch this
00:41:25.400 you
00:41:26.260 during that time
00:41:28.240 launched into
00:41:29.260 an interaction
00:41:30.520 with august
00:41:32.220 what do you feel like
00:41:33.760 you were looking for
00:41:36.860 i just wanted
00:41:38.160 to feel good
00:41:39.600 it had been so
00:41:41.720 long
00:41:43.000 since i felt
00:41:45.560 good
00:41:46.540 and it was really
00:41:48.200 a joy
00:41:48.840 to just
00:41:49.980 help heal somebody
00:41:51.640 yeah
00:41:52.100 i think that has a lot
00:41:53.840 to do with
00:41:54.780 my
00:41:55.500 codependency
00:41:56.960 which is another thing
00:41:58.780 that i had to learn
00:41:59.840 to break in this cycle
00:42:01.080 just that idea
00:42:02.360 of needing to fix
00:42:03.820 and being drawn
00:42:05.100 to people that need help
00:42:06.760 whether it's your health
00:42:07.900 or whether it's
00:42:08.720 your addictions
00:42:10.080 there's something
00:42:11.300 about
00:42:11.960 that childhood trauma
00:42:14.320 that
00:42:16.840 feels as though
00:42:18.580 it can be fixed
00:42:20.040 through
00:42:21.040 fixing people
00:42:22.260 yeah well that's one way
00:42:24.540 to put it
00:42:25.020 she was not starting
00:42:26.280 an affair
00:42:26.740 she was
00:42:27.280 as will puts it
00:42:28.120 launching into
00:42:29.260 an interaction
00:42:29.980 there's some nice
00:42:31.280 euphemistic language
00:42:32.100 that you might want to try
00:42:32.860 if you're a dirty
00:42:33.880 rotten cheater
00:42:34.480 caught in the act
00:42:35.100 oh no honey
00:42:35.580 i wasn't cheating
00:42:36.180 i was really just
00:42:36.900 i was having an interaction
00:42:38.440 you know we kind of
00:42:39.600 launched into this interaction
00:42:40.840 there was an exchange
00:42:41.840 you might say
00:42:42.500 an understanding
00:42:44.020 was reached
00:42:44.700 a meeting of the minds
00:42:46.720 and of other parts
00:42:48.160 of course i'm imagining
00:42:50.540 the cheater
00:42:51.180 making the excuses
00:42:51.940 for themselves here
00:42:52.840 but actually will smith
00:42:54.000 is the one providing
00:42:54.860 the euphemisms
00:42:55.580 to the wife
00:42:56.400 who cheated on him
00:42:57.140 and for her part
00:42:58.320 she's a little bit
00:42:58.800 more direct
00:42:59.320 because he asks
00:43:00.100 what were you looking for
00:43:01.060 when you cheated on me
00:43:01.880 and she says
00:43:02.500 i just wanted to feel good
00:43:03.560 and he says
00:43:04.900 oh okay
00:43:05.580 as if that sheds
00:43:07.300 comforting new light
00:43:08.240 on the situation
00:43:08.940 but obviously she cheated
00:43:09.980 because it made her feel good
00:43:10.840 that's why any cheater cheats
00:43:12.300 it's why any bad person
00:43:13.540 does anything bad
00:43:14.640 that's the motivating factor
00:43:16.080 behind all sin
00:43:17.040 you do it because
00:43:18.100 it makes you feel good
00:43:18.860 and you have prioritized
00:43:20.120 feeling good
00:43:20.680 over all other concerns
00:43:21.960 especially your commitments
00:43:23.440 your promises
00:43:24.020 your moral obligations
00:43:25.100 that's why every bad person
00:43:26.540 does bad things
00:43:27.160 so that was last year
00:43:29.500 now will smith is in gq
00:43:31.200 talking about his free
00:43:32.360 and open marriage
00:43:33.340 and how happy
00:43:34.220 and loving it all is
00:43:35.100 reading from the daily wire report
00:43:36.600 it says
00:43:36.940 uh quote
00:43:38.180 jada never believed
00:43:39.080 in conventional marriage
00:43:40.020 smith told gq
00:43:41.020 jada had family members
00:43:42.340 that had an unconventional relationship
00:43:43.880 so she grew up in a way
00:43:44.920 that was very different
00:43:45.680 than how i grew up
00:43:46.580 there were significant
00:43:48.040 endless discussions
00:43:48.780 about what is
00:43:49.560 relational perfection
00:43:50.900 smith recalled
00:43:51.620 and for the large part
00:43:52.980 of our relationship
00:43:53.440 monogamy was that choice
00:43:54.880 not thinking of monogamy
00:43:57.760 as the only relational perfection
00:43:59.140 the pair have
00:44:00.380 given each other
00:44:01.200 trust and freedom
00:44:02.160 within their relationship
00:44:02.920 page six noted
00:44:03.700 since marriage
00:44:05.160 can't be a prison
00:44:05.980 will smith said
00:44:06.920 quote
00:44:07.720 i don't suggest
00:44:08.420 our road for anybody
00:44:09.360 i don't suggest
00:44:10.020 this road for anybody
00:44:10.920 but the experiences
00:44:12.200 that the freedoms
00:44:12.920 that we've given
00:44:13.620 one another
00:44:14.200 and the unconditional support
00:44:15.500 to me
00:44:16.000 is the highest definition
00:44:17.140 of love
00:44:17.720 it was
00:44:19.300 a lot of that
00:44:20.000 was quite incoherent
00:44:20.860 but hopefully
00:44:21.300 you basically got the idea
00:44:22.180 the highest definition
00:44:23.140 of love is betrayal
00:44:24.380 he says
00:44:24.900 or rather
00:44:25.760 it's doing what makes
00:44:26.860 you feel good
00:44:27.460 individually
00:44:28.080 in other words
00:44:29.560 the highest love
00:44:30.280 in a marriage
00:44:30.680 is self-interest
00:44:31.800 that is what
00:44:33.080 will smith proposes
00:44:33.980 and what makes it
00:44:34.620 all the sadder
00:44:35.180 and more pitiable
00:44:35.780 is that you can tell
00:44:36.780 he doesn't really
00:44:37.440 believe a word
00:44:38.140 of what he's saying
00:44:38.700 this is how
00:44:39.720 these open marriages
00:44:40.560 work
00:44:40.980 there's usually
00:44:41.740 one member
00:44:42.340 of the couple
00:44:42.780 who feels betrayed
00:44:43.800 and is being betrayed
00:44:45.140 it has to convince
00:44:46.380 themselves that
00:44:46.960 they're not being
00:44:47.400 betrayed
00:44:47.680 when you listen
00:44:48.840 to the stories
00:44:49.440 of couples
00:44:49.920 and open marriages
00:44:50.460 you always hear
00:44:51.520 either the husband
00:44:52.100 or the wife
00:44:52.500 say yeah
00:44:52.940 you know
00:44:53.160 my spouse
00:44:53.640 decided that
00:44:54.160 it'd be a good
00:44:54.520 idea for them
00:44:55.120 to sleep
00:44:55.800 with other people
00:44:56.440 and you know
00:44:57.040 I was utterly
00:44:57.580 and completely
00:44:58.020 devastated
00:44:58.520 and destroyed
00:44:59.000 by it at first
00:44:59.620 but over time
00:45:00.440 I've learned
00:45:00.780 to accept it
00:45:01.400 and I'm really
00:45:02.340 so happy now
00:45:03.340 when I'm not
00:45:04.360 locking myself
00:45:04.960 in the bathroom
00:45:05.460 and weeping
00:45:06.080 uncontrollably
00:45:06.720 five times a day
00:45:07.460 an open marriage
00:45:08.820 is after all
00:45:09.700 betrayal as a lifestyle
00:45:11.700 and betrayal
00:45:13.060 doesn't become
00:45:13.700 any less traitorous
00:45:14.760 just because
00:45:15.240 it's done
00:45:15.780 in the open
00:45:16.420 that actually
00:45:17.820 makes it worse
00:45:18.400 if anything
00:45:18.860 because now
00:45:20.060 you've enlisted
00:45:20.700 your spouse
00:45:21.320 to be an accomplice
00:45:22.340 in your infidelity
00:45:23.160 you don't even
00:45:24.440 have the decency
00:45:25.100 to cheat in secret
00:45:25.920 and save them
00:45:26.700 the indignity
00:45:27.380 and the shame
00:45:28.180 of pretending
00:45:28.640 that they're okay
00:45:29.160 with it
00:45:29.800 an open marriage
00:45:30.840 is also an oxymoron
00:45:32.000 it's a contradiction
00:45:32.640 in terms
00:45:33.220 it's like open borders
00:45:34.600 if you open a border
00:45:36.460 then it's not a border anymore
00:45:37.600 if you open a marriage
00:45:38.520 then it's not a marriage anymore
00:45:39.420 a marriage by definition
00:45:40.720 is closed
00:45:41.360 a marriage can't be open
00:45:42.740 for the same reason
00:45:43.360 that you know
00:45:44.020 you can't build a house
00:45:45.120 without walls or a roof
00:45:46.300 the walls and the roof
00:45:47.440 are the whole point
00:45:48.220 of the house
00:45:48.760 get rid of those
00:45:49.680 and now you're homeless
00:45:50.420 a blanket laid out
00:45:52.300 on the pavement
00:45:52.880 is not an open house
00:45:54.260 or a new house
00:45:55.180 or a consensually
00:45:56.740 non-walled house
00:45:57.960 it's just not a house
00:45:59.720 it's a non-house
00:46:00.820 it's literally
00:46:01.880 the opposite of a house
00:46:02.860 and if we start calling that a house
00:46:04.660 then we haven't expanded
00:46:05.540 the definition of a house
00:46:06.520 but instead
00:46:06.920 we've done away
00:46:07.600 with the very concept
00:46:08.420 of a house entirely
00:46:09.340 and I think that would be
00:46:10.740 a very stupid thing to do
00:46:11.940 because houses
00:46:12.700 are very useful things to have
00:46:13.880 just like marriages
00:46:14.640 marriage has its own walls
00:46:16.800 and its own roof
00:46:17.500 and it's within those walls
00:46:18.900 and under that roof
00:46:19.540 that your family
00:46:20.260 must be formed
00:46:20.960 and maintained
00:46:21.640 monogamy is but one of the bricks
00:46:23.700 used to build this structure
00:46:24.960 procreativity is another
00:46:27.580 which also has been
00:46:29.020 largely abandoned
00:46:29.740 by our culture
00:46:30.400 but these building blocks
00:46:32.260 are the only things
00:46:33.280 that make a marital union
00:46:34.500 distinct from any other
00:46:35.940 kind of union
00:46:36.680 they're the whole point
00:46:38.500 of the marriage
00:46:39.040 to decide on an open marriage
00:46:41.560 is to tear down
00:46:42.220 the walls of your house
00:46:43.040 and take shelter
00:46:44.320 in the rubble
00:46:44.960 and the fact that the adultery
00:46:46.340 is mutually agreed upon
00:46:47.620 and consensual
00:46:48.580 doesn't make it any less
00:46:49.820 adulterous
00:46:50.460 or any better at all
00:46:51.460 really
00:46:51.740 our culture has developed
00:46:53.300 this idea that
00:46:53.980 it's okay to commit
00:46:55.200 an evil action
00:46:55.900 if we're open
00:46:57.020 and honest about it
00:46:58.040 but that so-called honesty
00:47:00.400 is born from your pride
00:47:01.920 and your lack of concern
00:47:03.440 for how your wickedness
00:47:04.720 will hurt those closest to you
00:47:06.120 at least a man
00:47:07.360 who hides his affair
00:47:08.320 has acknowledged first
00:47:09.280 that it's base
00:47:09.920 and shameful
00:47:10.780 and second
00:47:11.420 that it's harmful
00:47:11.960 to his family
00:47:12.560 but somebody who advertises
00:47:14.240 his infidelity
00:47:14.780 is a sociopath
00:47:15.960 with no shame
00:47:16.800 he's much further
00:47:18.160 from redemption
00:47:18.880 I think
00:47:19.300 and his marriage
00:47:19.800 much further from healing
00:47:20.780 than the guy
00:47:21.980 who claims
00:47:22.480 that he's staying late
00:47:23.160 for work
00:47:23.540 so that he can meet
00:47:24.120 his mistress
00:47:24.660 at a motel 6
00:47:25.440 I mean it's all bad
00:47:27.400 in the end
00:47:27.960 of course
00:47:30.360 and it's why
00:47:32.180 fidelity
00:47:32.640 is the much better course
00:47:33.880 that's where you have
00:47:35.660 a real marriage
00:47:36.360 a loving marriage
00:47:38.260 a marriage
00:47:39.280 that is
00:47:39.760 actually a marriage
00:47:41.140 and that is why
00:47:43.160 Will Smith today
00:47:44.100 much like his marriage
00:47:45.400 I must say
00:47:46.420 is cancelled
00:47:47.500 and we'll leave it there
00:47:48.880 for today
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