Ep. 809 - Killing Your Children Is A Loving Act, According To Democrats
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Dems and abortion supporters ranted, raved and cried during a committee hearing on the Texas abortion law yesterday. Also, the National School Board Association is asking the Biden administration for help in fighting back against domestic terrorists who are saying mean things to them during school board meetings, and a Republican congressman says some brave and necessary things about family and responsibility during a hearing yesterday. And, plus, Demi Lovato has an encounter with aliens and a New York Times oped argues that divorce is an act of radical self-love.
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Today on The Matt Wall Show, Democrats and abortion supporters ranted, raved, and cried
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during a committee hearing on the Texas abortion law yesterday. We'll talk about that. Also,
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the National School Board Association is asking the Biden administration's help in fighting back
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against the, quote, domestic terrorists who are saying mean things to them during school board
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meetings. And a Republican congressman says some brave and necessary things about the family and
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responsibility during a hearing yesterday. And plus, Demi Lovato has an encounter with aliens,
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and a New York Times op-ed argues that divorce is an act of, quote, radical self-love. We'll discuss
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That again is LifeLock.com slash Walsh for 25% off. Yesterday, the House Oversight Committee held a
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hearing about the Texas abortion law. Now, I have been reliably informed that outsiders should not
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get involved in the local politics of states where they don't live. I solved that problem, of course,
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as you know, by moving to Virginia so that I could speak at a school board in Virginia.
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And yet, so far as I know, none of the Democrats in Congress yesterday delivering tearful and angry
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speeches about the Texas abortion law have actually bothered to move there first. That's because, as
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we've seen, the outside agitator rule only ever applies to conservatives. I am allegedly not affected
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by Loudoun County policies, which means I should not have involved myself in Loudoun County issues.
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And yet Democrats from other states who are not affected by Texas laws can still involve themselves
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in Texas issues. Those are the rules, as we have seen. And those rules freed up the Democrats for
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the sickening and theatrical spectacle yesterday. One Democrat after another, along with abortionists
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and others who were called in to testify, took turns in the spotlight, extolling the beauty and
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wonder of dismembering babies. They were effusive in their praise of abortion, which is, for them,
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the highest sacrament, the Holy of Holies, the most sacred of sacred rituals. One of the abortionists
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called to testify actually made this point pretty clear. Listen.
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SB8 has not only caused a near total abortion ban in Texas, it has made it extremely dangerous to be
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pregnant in Texas, where our maternal morbidity and mortality rate is already unconscionably high,
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especially for black women and pregnant people of color. Texas deserves better.
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I know firsthand that abortion saves lives. For the thousands of people I've cared for,
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abortion is a blessing. Abortion is an act of love. Abortion is freedom. We need federal protection now.
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We need laws that elevate science and evidence and recognize the dignity and autonomy of people
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accessing care. What a ghoul. What an absolute demon. She says abortion is a blessing. It's an
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act of love. Freedom. But love for who, exactly? Freedom from what? Well, love for oneself, presumably.
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And freedom from your child, from your responsibilities. She's correct, at least in one sense.
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Abortion is an act of self-love. It is, in some ways, the ultimate act of self-love because you are
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prioritizing your own comfort, convenience, and lifestyle above all else, above even your own
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child. We'll have more on this concept of self-love in the daily cancellation at the end of the show.
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Abortion is the high sacrament of leftism because leftism is a religion of the self. It is the worship
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of the self, which is to say that it is Satanism. So there's a certain truth there. But as for the
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freedom, that's illusory at best. A woman can kill her child to be free of the responsibilities of
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parenthood, but she'll never really be free. Abortion kills the child. It doesn't erase the
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fact that the child ever existed. It doesn't turn the clock back. So while she's free from the
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responsibilities of motherhood, she will have substituted the strain of those responsibilities
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with the crushing burden of guilt, heartbreak, and grief for the rest of her life. Even women who are
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pro-abortion and post-abortive will admit to this, and yet they speak of freedom. It's not freedom.
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It is rather trading one burden for another. And the new burden is much worse than the one you
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were trying to escape. And then there was the ancient feminist Gloria Steinem, who testified
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by video, apparently streaming via camcorder from the year 1994. And Steinem used her time to point
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out that, hey, you know, Hitler also banned abortion. Coincidence? She thinks not.
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That's why what's happening in Texas is not only a local issue or a women's issue. It's a step
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against democracy, which allows us to control our own bodies and our own voices. Remember,
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when Hitler was elected, and he was elected, his very first official act was to padlock the family
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planning clinics and declare abortion a crime against the state. Mussolini did exactly the same
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thing. Because they knew that controlling reproduction and nationalizing women's bodies
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is the first step in a controlling state, an all-controlling state. The huge majority of
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American women stand for democracy and in opposition to Texas Senate Bill 8. We do not want to have our
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bodies nationalized. So Texas making its own laws is an attack on democracy, but Congress trying to
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erase or undermine those laws from the federal position is not. But she says Hitler banned abortion.
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And I guess that means that pro-lifers are Nazis. Of course, Hitler was also a conservationist.
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He was also an environmentalist, which means that they're all Nazis too. And Hitler confiscated guns,
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which makes the gun control crowd Nazis. Hitler also sometimes, from what I understand,
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would eat cereal for breakfast. This casts sinister new light on anybody who's ever had a
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bowl of fruity pebbles. As for Hitler's abortion policy, Steinem is leaving out an important detail.
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Hitler banned abortion for ethnic Germans. He didn't want babies of the master race to be killed,
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but he felt very different about babies of the undesirable races. For them,
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he encouraged abortion or even mandated it. You see, Hitler believed in eugenics. So did Margaret
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Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood. The Hitler abortion comparison cuts against the pro-abortion
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crowd because they, in fact, share many of his attitudes towards the procedure. Consider the fact
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that Hitler and pro-abortion people in America in the year 2021 have the exact same attitude about
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disabled babies in the womb. The vast majority of Down syndrome babies are aborted. In some Western
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countries, Down syndrome people have been almost entirely exterminated. Hitler had the same approach
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to the same group of people. He looks up from hell to the pro-abortion lobby and nods in approval.
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No doubt looking forward to the day when the people in that lobby will be joining him. Speaking of which,
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Ayanna Pressley shared her thoughts at the hearing as well. And one thing you know about her,
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and you got to give her credit for this, she always stays on message. Listen.
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These misguided bans will not actually prevent all abortions. They simply put safe and necessary
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abortion care out of reach for our most vulnerable, specifically our lowest-income sisters, our queer,
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trans, and non-binary siblings, black, Latinx, AAPI, immigrants, disabled, and indigenous folks.
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And none of this is happenstance. It is precise. Like the roots of the anti-abortion movement,
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these bans are rooted in patriarchy and white supremacy.
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Always on message. Yes, queer, trans, and non-binary people are especially hurt by
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anti-abortion laws. This claim is never explained, mostly because it is abject nonsense.
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But Ayanna Pressley simply cannot give her opinion on any subject or talk about anything at all
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without giving this list of special protected identities. I'm sure she's in like the drive-thru
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line at Wendy's going, yes, I, along with the members of the trans, non-binary, queer,
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indigenous, BIPOC, polyamorous, and Latinx communities, would like to order a Frosty.
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So you want a Frosty for all those people or just yourself? I'm confused.
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But out of everyone, Rashida Tlaib probably won the Oscar for best actress at the hearing yesterday.
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Tlaib has taken on in recent times more of sort of the Ringo position in the squad,
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the forgotten member. She doesn't get the same press. That used to be the case for Ayanna Pressley,
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but it seems there's been a reshuffling within the squad, which is really interesting,
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leaving Rashida Tlaib out on the outskirts. And I think she tried to rectify that yesterday.
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You know, I grew up in the most beautiful blackest city in the country, where 85% of the city of
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Detroit is black and it's beautiful. And black mothers are the ones who told my mother to raise
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her voice when she had that heavy immigrant accent at parent meetings. And, you know, I'm sitting
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or listening to people pretending, disingenuously, honestly, that they actually care about the lives
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of my black neighbors. I always get emotional about this because I cannot believe that my
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colleagues, who didn't even vote for the George Floyd Justice for Policing Act, are talking about
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the fact that Planned Parenthood, which I believe is literally one of the only healthcare places
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institutions like cities like mine. The fact that we have some of the worst infant mortality rates in
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the country among black children. We can't even get them to one years old. It's like, why aren't we
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spending the same energy, doctor, in saving those lives, getting them to one year? How come when I was
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in the Michigan legislature, they spent so much time on this that they never wanted to talk about that
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single mother that we needed to make sure that she had the wraparound services?
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Okay, first of all, I can't take you seriously if you start by claiming Detroit is beautiful.
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Detroit is about as beautiful as a highway rest stop bathroom. As for the rest of it, Tlaib says
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she's worried about infant mortality. She wants to make sure that we get babies to one year old.
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And the best way to do that is to kill them intentionally in the womb, apparently.
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This is the kind of argumentation you get from that side. Here's just a little bit more from Tlaib.
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You know, this is about controlling women in our country, period. Stop pretending it's anything but.
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You know, what's so distressful about all of this is the fact that it's not just Texas,
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chairwoman, you know this. This is literally opening the floodgates to the possibility that
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we are actually going to see our country punish and criminalize abortion,
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criminalize women, making a very difficult decision. It would be funny if it weren't so
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gross to watch these ranting, scowling women pretend that there's some higher, nobler reason
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for their rage. This is about controlling women, they shout. Which even if that were the case,
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these megalomaniacs have no problem controlling people, women or otherwise, when it comes to most
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any other issue. They even have no problem making decisions about a woman's body, as we've seen
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with the vaccine and the mask mandates. But of course, it isn't true. And they know that. It
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has nothing to do with controlling women. They know that also. They understand, and as was said
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You know, I think I'm usually pretty low maintenance, but there have been a couple of
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incidents recently where I've had these, I don't know, prima donna moments, I guess.
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Like last night heading to my speaking event here in Memphis, security came to pick me up
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and I realized I forgot to pack a tie. And I was the keynote speaker at a fundraising banquet.
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So I asked them to take me somewhere like on the way so that I could get one. And we went to a
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Walmart because, you know, that's, I mean, that's of course really, really classy. But it was the
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closest thing nearby to the venue. And the security guy was with me and we're walking
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through Walmart and we're walking around the men's section. And apparently they don't sell
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ties at Walmart. That's, that was a revelation for me. So then they said, there's a men's
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warehouse nearby. And I said, okay, let's go to the men's warehouse. And we were already late at this
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point. And a security guy came in with me and we went into the men's warehouse. I had to ask him
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what color my shirt was and he helped me match a tie. And finally I bought one and we're late to the
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event at this point. And I missed, there was supposed to be a meet and greet and I missed it.
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And we had to do it after because I was getting the tie. But then as we, as we pulled up, I looked
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and I realized that it was a more casual event than I thought. And so I said, nevermind, I'm not
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going to wear the tie. And so it was all of that. And I didn't even wear it. And you know, so you have
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little moments like that, but I think, I think for the most part, I'm pretty, still pretty low
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maintenance guy. All right. So we've been playing a lot of clips from this, from this hearing
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from the bad guys. And I don't mean to oversimplify it, but I mean, it really is that
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simple. They're just, they're the bad guys. And when, when, when this is what you're, you're
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standing for and this is what you're, this is what you're enraged about is that we're going
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to be killing fewer babies than you're, that's the bad guy side. And there's a very clear line
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that we can draw there. So we played some of the bad guy clips. There's one of the clip I wanted
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to play for you and I'm saving it for here because representative Burgess Owens, he's on
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the good side. He, uh, in the midst of all of this lunacy, he interjected with, I'm trying to
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stop myself from using the phrase truth bombs because I hate that phrase, but I'll allow it
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here. Just this one time is the only time you'll ever hear me say it because I think these really
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are, if anything qualifies as a truth bomb, then, then this actually is. Listen to what he has to say.
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I think we're going to ever get to resolving the issues we're having in the black community.
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We got to be honest, my friends. Uh, we just heard that, uh, a pushback on the fact that we're
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getting black men in the black community, not doing their job. Well, let me give you the facts
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real quick. First of all, when I, when I was growing up in the sixties, we led the country and
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men committed to marriage over 70%. Black women could, could, could rely on getting married more
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than white women until white women until 1970. We now have between 70 to 80% of black fathers who
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desert their families. And we're not willing to be honest about that. We're not willing to, to say
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that these, these guys need to man up. Maybe when we start telling, maybe we start telling our, our
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kids that they're being nothing but whiners, weas and wimps. If men cannot take care of their own
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kids, that might be a good start. I reject the words of this gentleman. Mr. Chairman, I call for
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order. I call for order. We, we right now, the facts are in. Mr. Big says the time. The facts are in.
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Facts. Black fathers, 70 to 80% are deserting their families. You talk to, talk to these black
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single women out there and see what they think about this. We sit in this little bubble where
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we're living the life. We were married, many of us, and we cannot be honest about what's
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happening in our urban communities. While these kids are growing up with no fathers, no example.
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Do we have solutions? At the end of the day, there's a reason why our kids are being led toward
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these, this, these options of hopelessness. And for us to sit here in 2021, no, not right now. I'm sorry.
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Let me just finish. To sit here in 2021 and not point out the fact that we have fatherless homes.
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We have 70 to 80%. These are the facts, my friends. 70, 80% will not marry the mothers of their
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children and instead would probably try to convince them so they, to dissolve them from their issues
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to go and get an abortion. We've lost 20 million black babies over the last 40 years. 40% of my race
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has been exterminated because we don't have men. Yeah. I wanted, I wanted to play as much of that
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clip as I could. It wasn't even the whole, the whole thing. It goes on for a few minutes. And, uh,
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I think it's, I think it's great. It, it, two things are great about it and very instructive and revealing.
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Uh, the one is what he's saying, but also you hear the woman, I'm not even sure which, which
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congresswoman that is, but frantically trying to cut in. It's, I object to this language that's being used.
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He, he actually says, well, we got to take responsibility, care for our families. I
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object to that language. This is offensive. I can't believe what's being said. Can I, can I,
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are you finished? Can I, can I, they're, they're so terrified to have that conversation. They don't
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want to have this conversation at all about taking responsibility for yourself and your own families.
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They don't want to talk about the state of the family in the black community and across the country
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and how that ties into all of our problems. Every single problem that we're having, societally
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speaking, every single one can be traced, uh, in large part back to the collapse of the family.
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This, this is no great secret and it shouldn't require any courage to point it out.
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And I shouldn't be so impressed that there's a, someone in Congress making this point because it's
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so obvious. You, you can't have a society without the family. You know, we've got, we've got thousands
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of years of history to look at with human civilization. And we can look out throughout the world and
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throughout history to every single civilization that's ever existed on the planet, every human
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civilization. And there's never been one that has tried to do it without the family structure
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at the foundation of it. It can't happen. You can't do it because that, that is, that is the
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fundamental building block for, for everything else. Everything else rests upon the family.
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And if you abandon the family, there's, there's nothing else that can come in and sufficiently
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take its place. That's the experiment that we are conducting right now, especially in the cities.
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Can we get rid of the family, say we don't need the family and have the government come in and,
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and, uh, and take over that responsibility. You know, we don't need, we don't need fathers to be the
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breadwinners and the providers and the protectors. The government could, we can do that. We can put them
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on the social programs and put them on the welfare programs. Um, and we, you know, we have a bunch
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of cops there and, and, you know, so we, we will fill all with provider protector. We fill all those
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roles as the government. So we have watched this experiment play out in the cities for decades
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and to put it mildly, it has not worked. I mean, it's been a catastrophe. It has been an apocalyptic
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catastrophe. That's why when you walk through cities today, it looks like a literal apocalyptic
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wasteland you're walking through. And all, all that you're seeing there, that is the debris
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of the nuclear family, which has collapsed in the cities and also across the country, increasingly.
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Fatherless homes are a problem, uh, across the country. People are abandoning marriage,
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abandoning nuclear family. I mean, this is, this is a social trend that you find everywhere.
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Um, now the fact that this is happening and the consequences of it are inescapable
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and the Democrats know that. And so they're, they're only, there's nothing they could say in
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response to it. So instead they just try to ignore it and they, they always deflect and say,
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let's look over there. Look at the, let's look at the, no, no, no, no, no. We don't need to talk
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about, let's talk about guns. Let's, let's talk. If there's, if there are, you know, young men in the
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cities running around shooting each other for no reason, uh, let's talk about how they got their
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hands on those guns. That's the problem. Let's not discuss why those young men would want to behave
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that way in the first place. What went so horribly wrong in their upbringing, in their home lives
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that if they have guns, they're just going to go out and shoot each other for no reason.
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Let's not talk about that part of it. No, no, no. Let's just discuss the gun. So that's what
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Democrats want to do. And if someone sits there, especially some Burgess Owens, Burgess Owens,
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a black man, uh, if, if he sits there and talks about this, they get very angry and they,
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they don't want to discuss it. And that tells you everything you need to know. In fact, at one
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point, I think she actually said, she said something like, well, what are your solutions?
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You're not, you're not coming up with any solutions. Yeah, he is. He gave the solution.
00:23:21.540
That's the solution was take fathers, take care of your families.
00:23:28.300
You know, when you have kids get married, preferably before you have the kids,
00:23:32.980
but worst case after, if that's what, if that's what you need to do and, uh, and then, and, and,
00:23:40.140
and stay with your kids and raise them. That's the solution. Have kids, a woman, a man have kids.
00:23:48.960
They stay in the same house and they raise those kids. That's the solution. If you're saying, well,
00:23:58.040
give us a solution besides that, let's not do that. And think of a different solution.
00:24:04.200
There isn't one, there is no other solution. There is no plan B because they've been looking
00:24:09.400
for a plan B for decades and they haven't found one. So if we're giving up on the family, then we're,
00:24:14.460
then we just, we've given up on society. We've given up on civilization. There's no point in even
00:24:18.000
talking about any of this stuff. Just forget about it. There's no point. We've given up,
00:24:22.700
let it all collapse and we'll, we'll all live in the ruins, I guess.
00:24:27.980
If you want a real solution, it has to begin there. Yeah. There are other things we can do.
00:24:33.820
It's not like if we have a strong nuclear family in, in, uh, in America that we're going to live
00:24:39.180
in a utopia, there's still going to be other problems we have to fix, but we've got to start
00:24:42.520
there. Have kids, stay at home with them. If we're ruling that out, if you're not going to do that,
00:24:50.560
then, then there's no hope. Then we are hopeless at that point. So it's this or it's nothing.
00:24:58.520
All right. Here's a CBS report about the national school board association asking for Biden's help
00:25:03.860
to stop the domestic terrorists. That's their phrase. Um, the domestic terrorist attacks against
00:25:09.300
them, otherwise known as parents giving their opinions at school board meetings. Here's that
00:25:15.840
report. School board officials are calling for help tonight following increasingly violent incidents
00:25:25.840
like this in Minnesota, a man complimenting school board members during a debate over masks,
00:25:31.480
who's then charged by an unmasked man writing to president Biden, the national school boards
00:25:38.040
association asked for help investigating the violent incidents and suggested the FBI monitor threats to
00:25:45.200
board members likening these heinous actions to domestic terrorism. The impact of the pandemic
00:25:50.560
on public schools is creating this, all this heightened rhetoric around the nation. And
00:25:54.700
unfortunately, in some places it's leading to threats and actual incidents of violence.
00:26:00.760
Former Nevada school board member, Kurt Thigpen said that he resigned after the constant harassment over
00:26:07.320
email, phone and social media made him think about suicide. He cited the January 6th insurrection as a
00:26:14.500
trigger for the unruly behavior. They were coming after me and my colleagues consistently every day
00:26:21.860
through multiple mediums. They saw me as a target for their hate. The White House responding today to
00:26:29.280
the school board letter saying that they're looking at what more the administration can do.
00:26:34.680
Obviously these threats to school board members is horrible. They're doing their jobs.
00:26:39.140
Obviously local police are still going to have a presence at these very contentious, sometimes violent school
00:26:46.500
board meetings. But what school officials nationwide want is for the feds to provide some level of
00:26:53.020
intel that will give them some sense of what kind of threats are heading their way.
00:26:57.620
Yeah, we keep hearing about the heinous, heinous actions at these school board meetings.
00:27:02.920
Violence, domestic terrorism. And then they show us clips. I mean, I'm assuming they're showing us
00:27:09.900
the worst of it. If there's something worse, they would have showed us that. And the clips for the
00:27:16.060
most part, it's like people yelling and getting upset. And every once in a while, all these school
00:27:23.720
board meetings across the country, there have been a couple of cases of minor scuffles breaking out
00:27:29.340
that are broken up and no one is seriously injured. So this is, this is, that, as far as violence goes,
00:27:38.800
that's it. A couple of minor scuffles, that's it. That's the end of that. And, and by the way,
00:27:44.820
it's, it's not as though this is entirely on the part of the conservative parents, which is what we're
00:27:49.180
supposed to take away from this. As you know, I have been to some of these meetings and very often
00:27:56.400
there are people on the other side as well. And then that's where, that's where the arguing and
00:28:00.200
shouting comes from. So a couple of minor scuffles, no one's seriously injured. And then
00:28:05.700
outside of that, it's, it's mostly just people getting upset and, uh, you know, maybe raising
00:28:12.060
their voices a little bit. And this is a, this is a domestic terrorist crisis. We, we, we can't have
00:28:19.520
that. Well, the real crisis here is that these people on these school boards that are, that have
00:28:25.500
been so accustomed for years, they've had such a great job where they get to go in and they go to
00:28:30.440
their meetings and, and, and really no one in the public shows up and nobody cares. And they set the
00:28:34.920
policies and they do exactly what they want and they're uncontested. And, um, they have an enormous
00:28:41.360
amount of power in setting education policy in their districts, deciding what kids are going to be
00:28:47.640
taught, how they're going to be treated, this enormous power they have. And for years, it's
00:28:52.980
like nobody noticed that they had this power. And finally people are noticing and they're saying,
00:28:59.100
wow, you know what? There's people on those boards. They, they, uh, they have a significant
00:29:05.960
amount of control over my kids and my family. Really? I think I want to have a say in this.
00:29:12.760
People are, the public is noticing they're going to public meetings and this is, this, this is a crisis
00:29:19.640
because these school boards, they can't, they cannot defend their policies. They can't argue
00:29:28.040
in favor of them. So all they can do is just label you, say you're a domestic terrorist. And now they're
00:29:34.600
going to the Biden administration. And next thing, you know, we're going to have, um, uh, federal
00:29:40.860
involvement in school boards. And yet again, I got to go back and, and to, to, to the irony here,
00:29:47.220
uh, and the hypocrisy of, uh, uh, you know, I go to Loudoun County school board and I'm interfering.
00:29:52.340
Now the school boards themselves are going to the federal government and saying, please interfere.
00:29:59.420
So while they're, while they're telling the outsiders, the agitators don't come,
00:30:04.320
they are the ones going and getting outsiders and saying, please come here
00:30:07.820
and stop these, these mean people from, uh, saying all these, these horrible things about us.
00:30:18.400
I'm sorry. I, I just don't have any sympathy. I don't want to hear about, oh, we, we got this,
00:30:23.040
we've got death threats. We've got everything for number one. Like I always say with death threats,
00:30:27.980
I, I don't, I don't believe it until you, until you show me the receipts on that. Everyone's always
00:30:32.640
claiming every time someone, you know, is, is, is being criticized in public. We always get these
00:30:38.880
claims. Oh, there's so many death threats, death threats coming all over the place. I just don't
00:30:42.960
buy it until you like show it to me that you're actually getting those death threats or I don't
00:30:46.180
believe it. I think there are a lot of people just claiming they get death threats. Um, and even if you
00:30:52.280
are that, that I get death threats as well. I know what that's like. It's not fun. I've experienced that.
00:30:57.760
Uh, but even if you get death threats, that's not good. I don't know proof of that,
00:31:03.900
but it doesn't suddenly vindicate whatever you were doing that upset people.
00:31:12.700
All right. Um, what else we got here? Oh, this is really important. We got it. We got to cover this.
00:31:17.800
So Demi Lovato, as you know, I'm a big fan of Demi Lovato, uh, who mostly, I think she,
00:31:24.660
what is she non-binary now? Or no, she pansexual or no lesbian, but she's, or she was lesbian and
00:31:30.580
then, and then went pansexual. And most recently she's non-binary. So she's been going through this,
00:31:35.160
uh, this little bit of transformation. And, um, now she has also come out as a believer in aliens.
00:31:43.540
And so this brings together, it's like two of my worlds are colliding Demi Lovato, aliens.
00:31:49.740
She's, she even has a show now, I think, where she goes on, on the hunt for, for aliens.
00:31:55.220
And here she is on the E! News channel talking about her own experiences with, uh, space aliens.
00:32:05.240
Well, Demi Lovato does in her news show, Unidentified with Demi Lovato.
00:32:10.980
Demi drags their sister and best friend into the woods to hunt for the unexplained.
00:32:18.340
What is that? Look at that! Oh my goodness. Wait, this is so grossy.
00:32:23.700
Convince us why we should watch the show. We laughed a lot and we saw some really interesting
00:32:29.620
things that we catch on camera. I just have a curiosity about this topic that I've always,
00:32:34.740
I've always, I've always had. And, um, and so I wanted to find out for myself.
00:32:42.580
And you two were pretty skeptical at first. What was the turning point for you?
00:32:47.300
Yeah, I mean, I identified as a non-believer coming in and I would say I'm definitely a lot
00:32:54.340
With all this UFO stuff, like, you know, being open and being ready to accept it helps.
00:33:02.660
And Demi, you had an encounter before shooting the show.
00:33:05.700
Can you please give us the details on that experience?
00:33:08.260
We went out into the desert in Joshua Tree and I basically saw like this blue orb that,
00:33:16.180
was about 50 feet away, um, maybe less. And it was just, it was kind of like floating above the
00:33:24.420
ground, just like 10 or 15 feet, but was keeping its distance from me. And I don't know, it just,
00:33:30.420
um, it was really, it was a really beautiful and incredible experience.
00:33:34.980
Yeah. I think those might've been the drugs that you were taking, but no,
00:33:37.940
actually, no, I, I believe, listen, I believe you, Demi Levi, I believe you on this.
00:33:45.540
Uh, some of the other claims you've made about yourself, I, I find a little bit hard to believe,
00:33:50.100
like that you're both, both man and woman all, all, all at once contained within one person.
00:33:56.260
That part I'm not sure about, but aliens, I believe, I believe you. I hear you. You are valid.
00:34:03.140
And I, I just, I buy it. And I say that mostly unironically. There, there are too many people
00:34:11.860
who have had these experiences. And how do you, how do you explain it all? I mean, I guess,
00:34:18.660
you know, there, there are a lot of, a lot of potential explanations, but none of them as
00:34:23.860
interesting as the explanation that we're being visited by, uh, space aliens. Why do they keep
00:34:29.060
coming here in their, in their orbs and then leaving? It's just coming a long way and then
00:34:34.820
leaving. And then they just, they keep coming. You'd think whatever they were looking for,
00:34:37.540
they would have found by now and realize that this is not where they want to be.
00:34:41.380
So I can't explain any of that. I mean, in Demi Lovato's case, I guess I can't explain it.
00:34:49.380
If these, uh, these aliens came all this way, many light years, and they're, they're about to land on
00:34:55.100
earth. And the first people they see are Demi Lovato and her crew. You can't really blame them for
00:35:02.820
saying, nevermind guys, we made a mistake. Let's get out of here. Let's go check out Jupiter instead.
00:35:06.820
All right. Let's, uh, okay. One other thing, I think, before we get to comments, uh,
00:35:14.420
let's see this from the daily wire says former tonight show host, Jay Leno knows comedy having
00:35:19.960
started in standup way back in the early 1970s. But Leno says the recent emergence of cancel culture
00:35:24.520
has changed the rules of comedy during an appearance this week on the people everyday
00:35:29.620
podcast. The 71 year old comedian said that those who hope to succeed nowadays will have to adapt.
00:35:33.920
Uh, Leno said, I think it's like any other thing. You either change or die in football.
00:35:39.660
You have certain rules. And when the rules change, if you don't conform to them, you're out of the
00:35:43.440
game. Leno said sexist, racist, and homophobic jokes were once considered okay, but all that has
00:35:49.060
changed. Now everybody has a voice. He said, you have to change the material to the times you live in.
00:35:54.540
My attitude is, look, these are the new rules. You want to adapt. If you don't, fine,
00:35:59.100
don't get up and tell jokes then. This is really kind of amazing to hear from a comedian. He said,
00:36:07.040
he's, he's, he's openly saying that if you want to be a comedian, you have to conform and follow the
00:36:13.120
rules. Now, silly me, I thought that the point of, of comedy was exactly the opposite of that.
00:36:20.680
Especially if you're in the business of being a standup comedian.
00:36:27.020
Your, your job is to find all of the societal rules and the things that people are conforming to.
00:36:35.260
And you break those rules on purpose. You point out the absurdity of them.
00:36:41.180
That might not be the, the, the, the single thing that comedy does, but it's one of comedy's most
00:36:46.240
important functions. And I think it's actually, it is an important thing for society. We need that.
00:36:53.740
I actually believe that comedians have performed a valuable service in our country, in the past
00:37:02.300
anyway, by pointing to finding these, uh, these sacred cows, these elephants in the room that nobody
00:37:10.660
talks about and pointing to the elephant and saying, look at that elephant. Isn't that funny? Like that,
00:37:14.420
that we, you need that in society, I think. And you're also holding powerful people accountable.
00:37:20.760
Uh, but now we have comedians saying, oh, no, no, no, here are the rules. You don't want to follow
00:37:25.780
the rules and conform. They just don't tell any jokes. All right, let's get now to reading the
00:37:34.880
Uh, almost forgot the song, but I didn't. This is knit girl says, if we are so influenced by the
00:37:57.820
pictures of a no name person on Instagram, that companies will pay thousands. Uh, so that said
00:38:03.320
person will peddle their shampoo on their feed. And I think it's safe to say that as a culture,
00:38:07.480
we're influenced by the content we consume. We canceled our Netflix subscription last November
00:38:11.340
and subscribe to DW with that money. Good, good choice. Uh, I've encouraged several others in my
00:38:17.640
little circle to do the same little by little. This is a response, I guess, to our conversation we had
00:38:21.820
about, uh, the squid game show on Netflix right now, the most popular show on Netflix. Uh, there are
00:38:27.840
some other perspectives on that though. Joshua Gibbon says, I think that article about squid game
00:38:32.240
was completely over the top. It's nowhere near that focused on gore as it implies. Saw is far
00:38:38.340
worse. It might not be your cup of cup of tea or your cup of key. Totally fine, but I won't really
00:38:44.300
call squid game torture porn. It doesn't really focus on the gore though. It does have it. And
00:38:48.340
it's general point is that these things are bad. The focus in squid game is on the characters. The
00:38:51.880
gore is incidental, exactly like you described in saving private Ryan and Hanky Hankerson says,
00:38:56.620
I respectfully disagree with your interpretation of squid game. I've only seen the first episode so far,
00:39:00.340
but it's clear just from that episode that the game and the violence in the, in the game is framed
00:39:04.240
as an extreme product of the social slash economic dysfunction endemic in North and Korea. The Korean
00:39:09.900
economy is a highly competitive world with a handful of big winners and a large number of distraught
00:39:13.960
losers. The series is a clever critique of that reality. I think you should watch the first episode,
00:39:18.380
then come back to the, to the show and let viewers know what you think. Okay. Yeah, I haven't watched it.
00:39:24.360
I have no interest in watching it. Um, I mean, this idea that you can't make any judgment calls
00:39:29.820
about a show or a movie without watching it, I think is ridiculous. I mean, there, there,
00:39:33.860
there are certainly things where, uh, there are plenty of movies and shows where you can kind of
00:39:39.660
understand the basic gist without actually having to watch it. Um, I mean, I've never watched
00:39:44.260
the bachelor, but I, I, I, I think I'm, I'm pretty safe in making some assumptions about that show,
00:39:51.560
which is why I don't watch it. Um, as for this, I mean, this idea that it's a parody of social and
00:39:59.720
economic, uh, situation in, in, in Korea and across and across the world, maybe it is. I'm
00:40:07.260
skeptical because I heard that exact same rationalization with, uh, what was that movie
00:40:11.280
that came out and won all the Oscars? Um, it was a parasite. Yeah, I think that was the one.
00:40:17.580
And I heard the same exact thing, like a very violent movie. And, uh, there are, there are
00:40:23.160
scenes that might seem gratuitous, but it's actually, it's, it's this, this really clever,
00:40:29.440
uh, critique of social inequality. And it's a, it's a comment on the class system and class
00:40:36.440
structures. And I watched the movie with that in mind. And no, it's not. It's just a, it's,
00:40:43.920
if you, if you, if you, you could try to turn any movie into that if you want to,
00:40:49.100
but I didn't see it with parasite. I thought that movie was pretty bad.
00:40:53.760
And with this maybe, but, but I'm skeptical. I mean, again, the point with violence
00:40:59.040
in a, in a, in a, in a film is, you know, is it a necessary part of the story?
00:41:07.940
And like, that's why I use saving private Ryan is one of many examples, but in a movie like that,
00:41:14.140
if you're going to tell a story about things that happen in war, if you're going to tell a war
00:41:19.540
story, then violence is a necessary part of that. You take violence out of that and you might as well
00:41:24.240
not tell the story. You can't tell a story without the violence because it's a part of it. And I think
00:41:28.480
we can all agree that there are plenty of stories worth telling, um, that have happened in, uh, in the
00:41:33.200
context of war. So that's obviously the case there. Um, and you just have to ask yourself that with
00:41:40.800
this, with this show or any other, is this violence part of the story? Is it moving the
00:41:45.220
story forward? Is it, is it an important and necessary element or is it just something for
00:41:51.200
us to gawk at? Is the violence and end in itself in the film or in the show where, where at least part
00:41:59.760
of the entertainment value is simply watching the violence itself play out? There's a lot
00:42:03.820
of that. Of course, there are a lot of shows like that, a lot of movies like that. Not all
00:42:09.160
of them are over the top gory, but I think violence in that context, no matter how gory it is, you
00:42:16.800
know, can, can be a problem. It's, I think it, it, that's when it qualifies as gratuitous.
00:42:22.380
Um, okay. I mean, it's the same thing with like sexual content in a, in a, in a film. I mean,
00:42:30.720
we can all agree that, that romance and love, these are important parts of stories sometimes,
00:42:36.480
but very, very often the filmmakers go far beyond that and they show you things, uh, that were not
00:42:44.560
necessary for the story at all. And the only reason they're putting that in there is for this,
00:42:49.260
is for us to just gawk at. So, all right. Uh, Parva says the great thing about dating apps is
00:42:57.240
that as a person who approaches people in person, I have almost no competition. Well, you're right
00:43:02.120
about that because it's like nobody does that anymore. So yeah, I guess the field is open for
00:43:07.060
you. It's a good strategy. Uh, JK says, Hey Matt, what airline do you normally fly with? Whichever
00:43:12.440
one gets me there the fastest and is, has the best prices. I, I don't have any loyalty to any
00:43:18.980
airline because they're all pretty terrible. Um, there was a time when maybe you would say
00:43:23.060
Southwest is sort of different, but I think Southwest, especially with the masking stuff
00:43:26.260
in recent, uh, in recent months has kind of fallen off. So at this point there's, they're all equally
00:43:31.640
as abysmal. So there's no point in even getting that particular about it. And finally, Dan says,
00:43:37.620
you can't really blame Jada Pinkett Smith for what she did. She didn't want to do it.
00:43:41.220
But she cheated against her will. Dan, there are some who would ban you from the show for that,
00:43:48.800
but I will not because I appreciate a good pun, sir. So thank you for that. I can still remember
00:43:53.020
when I was a kid, we had these things called, you kids don't know about this, but we had these
00:43:57.420
things called photo albums and it wasn't something on a phone. We didn't have them on the phones.
00:44:01.280
Phones were connected to the wall. There was no photos on them. Uh, but it was an actual book that
00:44:05.100
you would open up and you would flip through it. And there would be like, you'd put physical
00:44:08.180
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00:44:13.820
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There are days when it's hard to find something to cancel. Well, that's not exactly true. I mean,
00:45:16.400
there are always millions of options, but today the cancellation presents itself to me,
00:45:19.740
taking the decision out of my hands entirely. I have no choice but to cancel this. This is an op-ed
00:45:24.300
just published in the New York Times, written by a professor at the University of San Francisco
00:45:28.160
School of Law named Laura Malzone. And the title is Divorce Can Be an Act of Radical Self-Love.
00:45:36.560
The professor begins, I used to believe that divorce is a terrible thing, particularly when
00:45:40.420
children are involved. Growing up, I absorbed cultural tropes about absent fathers and efficiency
00:45:44.940
apartments, mothers struggling to support themselves, and awful step-parents and unwanted
00:45:48.740
step-siblings. To this day, divorce is portrayed as precarious and grim. Well, yes, it is portrayed
00:45:54.260
that way because it is that way. But the professor says that she has had a revelation. She sees it
00:46:00.320
differently now. She continues, but I've learned that divorce can also be an act of radical self-love
00:46:05.240
that leaves the whole family better off. My divorce nearly seven years ago freed me from a relationship
00:46:09.840
that was crushing my spirit. It freed my children, then five and three, from growing up in a profoundly
00:46:14.820
unhealthy environment. And then, amid all of the disingenuous rationalizations, she says something
00:46:21.520
shockingly honest. She says, quote, there was no emotional or physical abuse in our home. There was
00:46:27.240
no absence of love. I was in love with my husband when we got divorced. Part of me is in love with him
00:46:32.560
still. I suspect that will always be the case. Even now, after everything, when he walks into the room,
00:46:37.360
my stomach drops the same way it does before the roller coaster comes down. I divorced my husband,
00:46:42.300
not because I didn't love him. I divorced him because I loved myself more. Now, I want to focus
00:46:48.640
on that last sentence there. But first, let's just read how she wraps all this up first. She writes,
00:46:53.460
quote, talking to the subset who are divorced, I found a common theme, even a sisterhood. Divorce is
00:46:59.200
painful and heartbreaking, but it can also be liberating, pointing the way toward a different
00:47:02.860
life that leaves everyone better off, including the children. I no longer think of divorce as shameful
00:47:07.200
or feel sorry for people who tell me that they have decided to end their marriages. There are many ways a
00:47:11.700
family can be broken. Sometimes the healthiest decision is to remove the cracking shell of
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the nuclear family before the shards embed themselves in the precious little people nestled
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inside. My divorce spared my children that pain and let me live the life that I was meant to.
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I view that as an accomplishment. Now, in between that final paragraph and the bit about loving
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herself more, she explains that the reason for the divorce was her own refusal to put her marriage
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and family before her career. She was always primarily focused on her job, even when she was
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at home. And she doesn't say that in a reflective or remorseful way. She's proud of the ways that she
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neglected her children and her spouse. And she's even prouder of wrecking her marriage and destroying
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her family. This is all an accomplishment, she says. She claims, as these people always do,
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that it's been better for the kids. And you can tell that she doesn't really believe that.
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It doesn't care anyway. You know, she doesn't love her kids all that much. At least she doesn't
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love them as much as she loves herself. She makes that clear. Her kids barely figure into the story
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at all. She simply waves them away with a few lines about how they're doing well and they're super happy
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about this broken home situation. Divorced people will often tell this kind of story about how the
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kids are better off. What they mean is that the kids have adapted. They've made the best of the
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circumstances and they've internalized a lot of the pain and trauma of what you've done to them.
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That's the kind of better off we're talking about. Often I'll hear, and the author makes a similar
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case, that, hey, the kids are better off with divorced parents than with parents who are miserable
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and angry and fighting all the time and creating an emotionally and psychologically tumultuous
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environment at home. Okay, but why are those the two options? I mean, yeah, if you say to the kids,
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listen, you can either have divorced parents or you can have parents who are awful to each other every day
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and screaming at each other and pitting you guys against each other. You know, if you present those
00:49:01.260
options, maybe lots of kids would choose the former. But what about the option where mom and dad grow up
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a little and stop thinking about themselves so much and go out and get the counseling they need
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and fight for their family and their marriage and stay together that way? Why has that been taken
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off the table? And if you've taken it off the table, stop saying the kids are better off.
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They're better off, arguably, between these two false and bad options you've given them.
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But this woman has enough honesty and self-awareness to admit the truth. She loves herself more.
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She doesn't say it like it's an omission. She's proud of it. She has the wrong view of her own
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radical self-love, but she has at least identified the real point. She loves herself more. And indeed,
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no marriage can work that way. No family can function when the people who are supposed to be keeping it
00:49:50.240
together are primarily focused on their own comfort and well-being. Marriage is the radical
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giving of the self to another. It is a radical act of love, outward love. You cannot give yourself to
00:50:01.160
another while prioritizing yourself over the other, as this woman has discovered. Now, I say that she's
00:50:06.180
right to identify her self-love as the source of her marital disintegration, but really, self-love
00:50:10.540
probably isn't the right term. You know, it's a bit of an oxymoron, if anything. Love, after all,
00:50:14.460
is a choice. It's a thing you do. It's an act of sacrifice. Affection is a feeling. Love is an
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activity. So, how can you really love yourself sacrificially? How can you sacrifice for yourself?
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If it's for yourself, then it's not a sacrifice, by definition. It seems that when people talk about
00:50:32.880
loving themselves, what they mean is either conjuring warm feelings about themselves, which is not love,
00:50:38.240
or they mean simply putting themselves first before everyone else, which is just selfishness.
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The word love doesn't belong in either scenario. Love is inherently outward. It goes out from within
00:50:50.000
to lift up and elevate the other. Love that goes out and comes back like a boomerang to elevate the
00:50:55.700
lover herself is, again, selfishness. So, let's not sully a noble word like love by associating it with
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that. So, this woman has chosen selfishness over love, over her family, over her marriage. She claims to be
00:51:07.720
happy with a choice for now, and maybe she is for now, but if she has any sort of conscience at all,
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that she already has at least some quiet moments, home alone, after work, where the loneliness sets in,
00:51:19.560
she feels deeply isolated by her own selfishness, wonders what any of this striving and effort and
00:51:24.620
career ambition is really worth when she's doing it just for herself. Those moments will become more
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frequent, less quiet as she grows older and older, and she'll no doubt find other people to blame,
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but that's not going to change anything, or relieve her misery. And I know that it will play out this
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way because it always does. It's inevitable. When people prioritize themselves above all else,
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when they live lives of selfishness, they eventually get exactly what they wanted.
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Just themselves, alone, isolated. No one to love or be loved by. It's how the story always ends.
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And that's why it's better to choose love, real love, outward sacrificial love. That's also why
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the writer of this article, Laura Belzone, is today canceled. And that'll do it for us today
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