The Matt Walsh Show - October 04, 2021


Ep. 810 - The Truth About The Facebook ‘Whistleblower’


Episode Stats

Length

55 minutes

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177.13527

Word Count

9,829

Sentence Count

645

Misogynist Sentences

23

Hate Speech Sentences

31


Summary

The media is promoting the story of the Facebook whistleblower. She was on 60 Minutes last night, revealing alleged secrets about the tech giant. But this story is not exactly what it appears to be. Also, Francis Fauci says that maybe, just maybe, we might be able to get back to normal by Christmas. And a Democratic senator is chased into a bathroom and recorded inside inside the bathroom by crazed left wing activists. And in our Daily Cancellation, we ll discuss a recent article arguing that God needs new preferred pronouns. All of that and more on today s Matt Walsh Show.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, the media is promoting the story of the Facebook whistleblower.
00:00:04.340 She was on 60 Minutes last night, revealing alleged secrets about the big tech giant.
00:00:08.740 But this story is not exactly what it appears to be. We'll talk about that today.
00:00:11.680 Also, Fauci says that maybe, just maybe, we might be able to get back to normal by Christmas, but maybe not.
00:00:17.460 And a Democratic senator is chased into a bathroom and recorded inside the bathroom by crazed left-wing activists.
00:00:24.200 And in our Daily Cancellation, we'll discuss a recent article arguing that God needs new preferred pronouns.
00:00:29.200 All of that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
00:00:40.420 We're going to talk today, to start with, about one of the many companies, Facebook,
00:00:44.920 which is certainly working against us in the culture and is definitely not on our side, even as so many of us patronize it.
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00:01:50.240 So last night, 60 Minutes had a lengthy interview with Frances Haugen,
00:01:54.960 formerly known as the Facebook whistleblower.
00:01:59.460 Haugen had worked for the social media company,
00:02:02.180 and during her time with them, she began leaking documents
00:02:04.340 which were supposed to expose the dark and dirty details
00:02:07.200 about Facebook's internal workings.
00:02:09.880 Now, there's no doubt that Facebook's internal workings are indeed dark and dirty.
00:02:14.460 There's no question that it needs exposing as well.
00:02:17.020 Well, and I'm certainly not here to defend Facebook, far from it,
00:02:19.680 but this whistleblower story that the media is telling us
00:02:24.140 is not as simple as they want us to believe.
00:02:26.940 And we know that from the start because they're the ones telling it.
00:02:30.360 Now, keep in mind that the corporate media and Facebook
00:02:32.260 are part of the same machine, the same system.
00:02:35.080 A whistleblower that was really interested in exposing that system
00:02:38.640 wouldn't be so warmly welcomed by it.
00:02:41.460 60 Minutes gave a platform to Haugen,
00:02:43.380 and, you know, the rest of the corporate media has reported breathlessly
00:02:46.800 on the things that she revealed during that interview.
00:02:49.460 And that's not how things would have worked
00:02:51.020 if Haugen was really an avenger for truth and justice
00:02:53.800 as she's being portrayed with no political agenda.
00:02:57.580 You know, it seems like it shouldn't be necessary to say this anymore,
00:03:00.200 but somehow it is.
00:03:01.760 You cannot trust a single thing the corporate media tells you.
00:03:05.580 Not a single thing.
00:03:07.020 The corporate media are storytellers.
00:03:09.300 Not especially good or engaging ones,
00:03:11.100 but that's what they are.
00:03:12.880 They tell a story,
00:03:14.420 a story about the world, about society,
00:03:16.280 about us, about you,
00:03:17.460 and all of the news that they report
00:03:19.980 has to fit into that story somewhere.
00:03:22.540 If it doesn't, they're not going to report it.
00:03:24.260 And if they do report it,
00:03:25.220 they'll report it in a way that gels with the story.
00:03:27.720 We have to realize that the relativists
00:03:29.660 have long since taken over our culture,
00:03:32.220 and what that means is that our society
00:03:34.020 is being run by people
00:03:35.220 who literally do not believe in the truth.
00:03:38.720 They don't believe in it as a concept.
00:03:41.100 They don't think that the truth exists.
00:03:43.220 The truth is whatever they tell us
00:03:45.320 and whatever they can get us to believe.
00:03:47.860 And that's something to keep in mind
00:03:49.100 as we look at the story of the Facebook whistleblower.
00:03:51.980 Haugen's basic charge is that Facebook promoted
00:03:53.820 misinformation and divisive and unsafe content,
00:03:58.160 and that it does all this for profit.
00:04:00.360 They put profit over safety, she says.
00:04:02.720 Listen to this.
00:04:03.260 Haugen told us the root of Facebook's problem
00:04:08.440 is in a change that it made in 2018 to its algorithms,
00:04:13.940 the programming that decides what you see
00:04:16.320 on your Facebook news feed.
00:04:18.560 So, you know, you have your phone.
00:04:20.980 You might see only 100 pieces of content
00:04:23.520 if you sit and scroll up for, you know, five minutes.
00:04:26.500 But Facebook has thousands of options it could show you.
00:04:29.640 The algorithm picks from those options
00:04:32.580 based on the kind of content
00:04:34.640 you've engaged with the most in the past.
00:04:38.160 And one of the consequences
00:04:39.280 of how Facebook is picking out that content today
00:04:41.860 is that it is optimizing for content
00:04:44.320 that gets engagement or reaction.
00:04:47.060 But its own research is showing
00:04:48.780 that content that is hateful,
00:04:51.100 that is divisive, that is polarizing,
00:04:53.440 it's easier to inspire people to anger
00:04:56.380 than it is to other emotions.
00:04:57.780 Misinformation, angry content is enticing to people
00:05:02.760 and keeps them on the platform.
00:05:06.020 Yes.
00:05:06.780 Facebook has realized that
00:05:08.460 if they change the algorithm to be safer,
00:05:12.020 people will spend less time on the site,
00:05:13.920 they'll click on less ads,
00:05:15.260 they'll make less money.
00:05:16.480 Now, here's the problem.
00:05:17.800 Most of that is certainly true.
00:05:20.060 Facebook does promote divisive content
00:05:22.380 and misinformation.
00:05:24.020 But remember that Haugen
00:05:24.820 and the 60 Minutes reporter, Scott Pelley,
00:05:26.400 are on the same team.
00:05:27.680 They're part of the same system.
00:05:29.320 And that means they're speaking in code
00:05:30.700 to each other and to the audience.
00:05:32.480 What they mean when they say divisive content
00:05:34.440 and misinformation is right-wing content.
00:05:36.580 These words are all interchangeable in their minds,
00:05:38.580 according to the story that they're telling, right?
00:05:40.600 It is, after all, angry, divisive, and false content
00:05:43.780 that's propelled hundreds of BLM riots.
00:05:46.340 Millions of people today now believe
00:05:47.920 that guys like Michael Brown are martyrs
00:05:50.240 and cops are Nazi assassins
00:05:51.900 out hunting and murdering black men
00:05:53.320 and that America is a systemically racist dystopia
00:05:55.860 where it's essentially legal for white people
00:05:58.120 to kill non-white people.
00:05:59.300 I mean, people believe this.
00:06:00.960 And it is thanks to the work done
00:06:02.560 by both social media and the corporate media
00:06:04.340 hand-in-hand.
00:06:05.580 But when Haugen talks about dangerous
00:06:07.040 and unsafe content,
00:06:08.260 she's not referring to any of that.
00:06:09.560 If she was, she wouldn't be on 60 Minutes.
00:06:12.220 For her, it's all about the right-wing perspective.
00:06:14.460 That's all it is.
00:06:15.920 And she finally makes that clear
00:06:17.060 by tying everything back
00:06:18.120 to the quote-unquote insurrection.
00:06:20.320 Complaining that Facebook had shut down
00:06:21.820 the so-called civic integrity units
00:06:23.580 before January 6th,
00:06:25.160 Haugen said, quote,
00:06:26.200 they told us we're dissolving civic integrity.
00:06:28.320 Like, they basically said,
00:06:29.240 oh, good, we made it through the election.
00:06:30.800 There wasn't any riots.
00:06:31.780 We can get rid of civic integrity now.
00:06:33.880 Fast forward a couple months,
00:06:35.040 we got the insurrection.
00:06:37.640 And so there it is.
00:06:38.960 If she had linked Facebook to the Capitol riot
00:06:41.320 and also the BLM riots,
00:06:42.880 then we might be able to trust her motives a bit more.
00:06:45.700 But then again, if she had done that,
00:06:47.100 we never would have seen this interview.
00:06:48.840 We see it because she's on the same ideological team
00:06:51.500 as the people who are amplifying her.
00:06:53.400 She's on the same team as Facebook, too,
00:06:55.080 which is why I don't even buy
00:06:56.300 that she is any kind of whistleblower at all.
00:06:59.640 Facebook already tries
00:07:01.040 to suppress conservative content.
00:07:03.800 That's what it wants to do.
00:07:05.700 Yes, right-wing content is successful
00:07:07.620 on the platform, relatively speaking.
00:07:09.320 And this is, you know,
00:07:09.780 the left uses this absurdly to claim
00:07:12.240 that Facebook is biased in favor of conservatives
00:07:14.660 because they point to how successful
00:07:16.780 the Daily Wire is, for example, on Facebook.
00:07:20.300 That's only because it's the content people want to see.
00:07:22.780 That's why we're successful.
00:07:24.600 The company can only go so far
00:07:25.960 in suppressing the very content
00:07:27.140 that people using its platform want to access.
00:07:30.500 It would like to go further in that regard, no doubt.
00:07:33.520 And the pressure from this whistleblower
00:07:35.420 gives them the onus to do so.
00:07:37.240 Best case scenario for them would be
00:07:39.820 legislation forcing them to suppress it.
00:07:43.160 The social media companies would like very much
00:07:44.940 to control the information that you can access,
00:07:46.800 the ideas that you can encounter,
00:07:48.720 the opinions that you hear.
00:07:50.020 They already do, in large part.
00:07:52.120 And yet, iconoclastic voices still sneak through.
00:07:54.980 That's in spite of big tech's efforts,
00:07:57.340 not because of them.
00:07:59.280 The media feels the same way.
00:08:01.040 The reason that they hate social media,
00:08:02.600 at least as it's currently constructed,
00:08:04.080 is because it gives people an avenue to ideas
00:08:07.840 that the corporate media has not sanctioned.
00:08:10.640 The corporate media believes that it's entitled
00:08:12.580 to be the gatekeepers,
00:08:13.680 determining what you believe,
00:08:15.320 what you're told,
00:08:16.120 who is, and especially who is doing the telling.
00:08:19.220 When they talk about the dangers of social media,
00:08:21.500 that's what they mean.
00:08:22.380 It's the danger of them losing control.
00:08:25.920 And that brings us to the other big revelation
00:08:28.420 from the whistleblower.
00:08:29.440 That social media, especially sites like Instagram,
00:08:32.680 are harmful to kids.
00:08:33.980 Here's Haugen on that.
00:08:35.400 Listen.
00:08:36.320 One of the Facebook internal studies that you found
00:08:39.180 talks about how Instagram harms teenage girls.
00:08:42.820 Oh, yeah.
00:08:43.920 One study says 13.5% of teen girls
00:08:47.940 say Instagram makes thoughts of suicide worse.
00:08:52.100 17% of teen girls say Instagram
00:08:55.440 makes eating disorders worse.
00:08:57.440 And what's super tragic
00:08:59.700 is Facebook's own research says
00:09:01.960 as these young women
00:09:03.680 begin to consume
00:09:05.540 this eating disorder content,
00:09:07.220 they get more and more depressed,
00:09:08.880 and it actually makes them use the app more.
00:09:11.980 And so they end up in this feedback cycle
00:09:14.060 where they hate their bodies more and more.
00:09:16.900 Facebook's own research says
00:09:18.440 it is not just that Instagram
00:09:20.860 is dangerous for teenagers,
00:09:22.800 that it harms teenagers,
00:09:24.720 it's that it is distinctly worse
00:09:26.800 than other forms of social media.
00:09:29.040 Facebook said just last week
00:09:31.020 it would postpone plans
00:09:33.160 to create an Instagram
00:09:34.440 for younger children.
00:09:37.020 Again, I mean,
00:09:38.540 this is certainly true.
00:09:39.520 Social media is bad for kids.
00:09:41.960 But is the media
00:09:43.020 really worried about your kids?
00:09:45.220 If they were,
00:09:45.900 they'd be more concerned
00:09:46.600 about the fact that millions of nine-year-olds
00:09:48.240 are accessing hardcore porn
00:09:49.640 through Pornhub and similar sites.
00:09:51.740 Besides,
00:09:52.380 when it comes to your kids
00:09:53.120 using social media,
00:09:53.760 there's a pretty simple solution.
00:09:56.420 As I've argued in the past,
00:09:58.540 don't give them smartphones.
00:09:59.900 On average,
00:10:00.520 kids are now given their first smartphone
00:10:01.860 at the age of 10.
00:10:02.740 That means millions are getting them
00:10:04.000 at 9, 8, 7, even younger.
00:10:05.980 There's no valid reason for it.
00:10:07.800 Oh, you want to be able
00:10:08.340 to get a hold of your kid
00:10:09.240 at any moment?
00:10:09.820 Well, you know,
00:10:10.360 I think that's a bit excessive,
00:10:11.360 but fine.
00:10:12.040 Get him a flip phone
00:10:12.860 with no internet access.
00:10:14.740 They still sell those.
00:10:16.540 Why does he need a phone
00:10:17.320 with internet and apps
00:10:18.320 and games at the age of 8
00:10:19.380 or 10 or 11 or 12 or 13?
00:10:21.560 Why does he ever need one?
00:10:23.240 Why would you ever buy him one
00:10:24.520 before he has a job
00:10:25.400 and is able to buy it for himself?
00:10:26.640 Answer,
00:10:26.940 there is no good answer.
00:10:28.760 He doesn't need a smartphone.
00:10:29.980 No child in history
00:10:30.800 has needed a smartphone,
00:10:31.680 which is how so many children
00:10:33.220 manage to survive without them.
00:10:35.520 And I've had this discussion
00:10:36.280 with parents many times,
00:10:37.200 and the only justification
00:10:37.840 I've ever heard
00:10:38.660 is that,
00:10:40.200 well,
00:10:40.280 the world is different now,
00:10:41.440 and this is what kids do.
00:10:43.260 You know,
00:10:43.440 they all have phones.
00:10:45.140 Yeah,
00:10:45.300 it is what they do.
00:10:46.620 They do it
00:10:47.160 because we allow them to do it.
00:10:48.780 We don't just allow it,
00:10:49.700 we facilitate it,
00:10:50.520 fund it.
00:10:50.800 We make actual financial sacrifices
00:10:52.280 to ensure
00:10:53.160 that they can have this device
00:10:54.620 that will destroy their ability
00:10:55.780 to relate with other human beings
00:10:58.080 and have a normal childhood.
00:11:00.180 Why do we sit here as parents
00:11:01.600 acting utterly powerless
00:11:03.000 to exercise any influence
00:11:04.620 over the children we're raising?
00:11:06.540 Who runs your household?
00:11:08.220 Who owns everything
00:11:09.160 and makes all the money?
00:11:10.740 If you don't want your 10-year-old
00:11:11.740 to spend his entire childhood
00:11:12.760 staring lifelessly into the void
00:11:14.320 like some kind of lobotomy patient,
00:11:16.020 patient,
00:11:16.980 you have absolute power
00:11:18.280 to impose that desire on him.
00:11:20.900 Just don't buy him a phone.
00:11:21.980 It's very simple.
00:11:23.440 What's he going to do?
00:11:24.100 Beat you up?
00:11:25.300 Rob a bank
00:11:25.820 so he can buy one himself?
00:11:28.380 Well,
00:11:28.760 that would at least be
00:11:29.280 some form of physical activity.
00:11:31.360 So what are you afraid of?
00:11:32.860 Why are people so petrified
00:11:34.120 of not obeying
00:11:34.980 their child's every demand?
00:11:37.460 The only defense
00:11:38.600 of the phone itself
00:11:39.480 is that
00:11:40.000 maybe it won't be that bad.
00:11:41.920 Well,
00:11:42.140 if I oversee their phone habits,
00:11:43.660 maybe they won't be
00:11:44.440 completely addicted to it.
00:11:46.500 But they will become
00:11:47.580 completely addicted to it.
00:11:48.580 And anyway,
00:11:49.060 in that defense,
00:11:49.680 you have admitted
00:11:50.120 that nothing really good
00:11:51.420 or constructive
00:11:51.900 will come from the phone.
00:11:53.100 You've conceded
00:11:53.700 that it's a bad thing
00:11:54.600 by and large.
00:11:55.360 Your only hope
00:11:55.880 is that it won't be so bad.
00:11:57.980 So that's the answer,
00:11:59.020 a part of the answer,
00:11:59.800 a big part,
00:12:00.860 when it comes to social media's
00:12:02.140 effects on kids.
00:12:04.000 But the 60 Minutes report
00:12:05.340 never even mentions parents.
00:12:08.120 It never acknowledges
00:12:09.000 the possibility
00:12:09.780 that we might be
00:12:10.600 able to address
00:12:11.920 some of these problems
00:12:12.780 on our own,
00:12:13.380 in our own homes.
00:12:14.160 That's because
00:12:15.580 it's not interested
00:12:16.460 in solving problems.
00:12:18.100 Not the actual problems,
00:12:19.580 anyway.
00:12:20.660 It's interested only
00:12:21.880 in telling its story
00:12:22.860 and convincing us
00:12:24.420 to believe it.
00:12:25.820 And we need to all
00:12:26.700 be smarter than that.
00:12:28.180 now let's get to our
00:12:29.740 five headlines.
00:12:37.180 Now, a quick word
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00:12:40.520 banning abortion
00:12:41.460 has abortion advocates
00:12:42.900 going insane,
00:12:43.840 and that's good news,
00:12:44.740 but you need to be prepared
00:12:45.560 as abortion is coming up
00:12:46.620 in daily conversation
00:12:47.560 more now than ever.
00:12:49.360 More now than ever.
00:12:50.060 So if you're struggling
00:12:51.000 on what to say
00:12:51.740 and how to say it
00:12:52.520 when abortion is the topic
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00:13:14.300 that have worked
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00:13:16.220 people on the fence,
00:13:17.020 abortion supporters,
00:13:17.980 even Planned Parenthood workers.
00:13:19.080 The book is from
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00:13:41.020 A couple things
00:13:41.700 before we jump
00:13:42.160 into the headlines.
00:13:42.820 I saw this
00:13:44.580 just a second ago
00:13:46.340 that there was
00:13:47.940 a terrible tragedy,
00:13:49.600 a really unfortunate
00:13:50.460 situation,
00:13:51.000 where another
00:13:52.740 George Floyd statue
00:13:54.060 was vandalized.
00:13:56.580 There was,
00:13:57.200 it's not funny,
00:13:58.020 I would never
00:13:58.580 laugh about it.
00:14:00.840 It's more of a
00:14:01.600 nervous laughter,
00:14:02.640 you know,
00:14:03.000 because this is
00:14:05.740 not the first time
00:14:06.700 this has happened.
00:14:07.380 It's like every time
00:14:08.000 a George Floyd statue
00:14:08.800 goes up,
00:14:09.340 it's vandalized
00:14:10.000 very quickly.
00:14:12.960 And there's video,
00:14:14.240 there's a guy
00:14:14.600 skateboarding.
00:14:15.320 This was in
00:14:15.900 Union Square
00:14:16.920 in New York,
00:14:18.540 and it was
00:14:19.080 this big monument
00:14:20.520 to George Floyd,
00:14:22.520 you know,
00:14:22.800 the guy who
00:14:23.640 barged into
00:14:25.060 a woman's home
00:14:25.600 at gunpoint
00:14:26.480 and robbed her,
00:14:28.140 which is the only
00:14:28.980 significant thing
00:14:29.800 he ever did
00:14:30.320 in his life.
00:14:31.560 The only thing
00:14:32.300 that made any
00:14:32.680 real impact
00:14:33.240 was that.
00:14:33.780 He didn't do
00:14:34.060 anything else.
00:14:36.160 Just a,
00:14:36.800 you know,
00:14:37.000 a violent felon
00:14:37.720 and drug addict
00:14:38.220 and then he died.
00:14:39.640 And that's why
00:14:40.260 we have a monument
00:14:40.840 to him.
00:14:42.520 But,
00:14:42.860 so apparently
00:14:43.360 this skateboarder
00:14:44.400 guy was,
00:14:45.200 you know,
00:14:45.340 felt like
00:14:46.060 he wasn't
00:14:47.820 very happy
00:14:48.340 about the fact
00:14:48.900 that we have
00:14:49.160 this big monument
00:14:49.960 to this
00:14:51.620 violent felon
00:14:52.460 who contributed
00:14:53.000 nothing positive
00:14:53.840 to society
00:14:54.380 at all.
00:14:55.860 And so he
00:14:56.360 vandalized it
00:14:57.220 and it's all
00:14:57.560 on tape.
00:14:58.320 And,
00:14:58.380 man,
00:15:02.140 there are still
00:15:02.960 other monuments
00:15:03.560 out there of
00:15:04.040 George Floyd
00:15:04.420 that have not
00:15:04.780 been vandalized
00:15:05.360 yet.
00:15:08.380 And I would
00:15:09.060 never say
00:15:09.680 that if you
00:15:12.200 come across
00:15:12.640 any monument
00:15:13.340 or mural
00:15:13.900 of George Floyd,
00:15:15.020 you should do
00:15:15.340 exactly the same
00:15:16.000 thing.
00:15:16.260 I would
00:15:16.480 never say
00:15:16.920 that.
00:15:18.680 I would
00:15:19.260 never say
00:15:19.740 that.
00:15:20.780 I would
00:15:21.180 never say
00:15:21.660 it.
00:15:22.840 Okay?
00:15:23.920 And,
00:15:24.560 okay,
00:15:25.660 also,
00:15:26.120 one other
00:15:26.520 note,
00:15:26.800 I was in
00:15:27.120 D.C.
00:15:27.440 yesterday,
00:15:28.800 or this
00:15:29.140 past weekend,
00:15:30.860 and the
00:15:32.280 mask cultists
00:15:33.680 in D.C.
00:15:34.660 are just,
00:15:35.900 it's probably
00:15:36.640 the worst city
00:15:37.360 as far as
00:15:37.760 the mask cult
00:15:38.500 goes.
00:15:39.860 It's absolutely
00:15:40.640 out of control
00:15:41.340 there.
00:15:44.160 That's one
00:15:44.880 of those
00:15:45.100 places
00:15:45.420 where I
00:15:45.640 was actually
00:15:45.940 yelled at
00:15:46.360 by at least
00:15:47.000 one person
00:15:47.620 who said,
00:15:48.500 put your
00:15:48.700 mask on,
00:15:49.780 very simply
00:15:50.580 like that,
00:15:51.040 and then I
00:15:51.260 just said no
00:15:51.820 and kept
00:15:52.140 walking.
00:15:53.160 And I have
00:15:53.780 found the
00:15:54.200 simplicity.
00:15:55.160 I've worked
00:15:56.100 on different
00:15:56.520 responses in
00:15:57.260 these situations
00:15:57.880 where someone
00:15:58.320 said,
00:15:58.500 put your
00:15:59.380 mask on.
00:16:00.340 And there
00:16:00.720 are different
00:16:01.240 comebacks you
00:16:01.720 can come up
00:16:02.020 with,
00:16:02.220 but I think
00:16:02.500 the simplicity
00:16:03.160 of just saying
00:16:03.880 no,
00:16:04.720 and just keep
00:16:05.740 walking,
00:16:06.580 I find that
00:16:07.660 to be the
00:16:07.920 most powerful.
00:16:08.380 And it's
00:16:11.000 especially bad
00:16:12.020 now in
00:16:13.000 this,
00:16:14.600 this COVID
00:16:16.600 panic has
00:16:17.620 made elevators,
00:16:19.040 has turned
00:16:19.440 elevators into,
00:16:20.780 elevators were
00:16:21.360 already awkward.
00:16:23.380 And now that's
00:16:24.700 awkward on
00:16:25.520 steroids because
00:16:26.300 of COVID.
00:16:27.960 I don't know
00:16:28.280 how often you've
00:16:28.800 been on elevators
00:16:29.580 while this is
00:16:30.020 happening,
00:16:30.300 it kind of
00:16:30.560 depends where
00:16:30.960 you are
00:16:31.200 regionally.
00:16:33.280 But people
00:16:34.040 feel like they
00:16:34.540 have to ask
00:16:34.960 permission to
00:16:35.740 come on the
00:16:36.080 elevator with
00:16:36.660 you now.
00:16:37.900 If you get
00:16:38.460 on the
00:16:38.680 elevator without
00:16:39.480 asking,
00:16:42.080 that scene
00:16:42.780 now is a
00:16:43.160 social faux pas.
00:16:45.400 And so it's
00:16:45.660 sort of flipped
00:16:46.040 the other way
00:16:46.340 and I'm
00:16:46.500 starting to
00:16:46.880 enjoy it.
00:16:48.620 Because now I
00:16:49.220 get on an
00:16:49.540 elevator without
00:16:49.940 asking,
00:16:50.300 especially without
00:16:50.600 my mask on,
00:16:51.740 and the other
00:16:52.180 people on the
00:16:52.500 elevator will
00:16:52.880 crowd to the
00:16:53.640 other side,
00:16:54.540 like huddling
00:16:55.000 in a corner,
00:16:55.960 especially in a
00:16:56.480 place like D.C.
00:16:58.200 And I have
00:16:58.780 come to enjoy
00:16:59.280 that.
00:16:59.460 You have to,
00:16:59.920 I guess you
00:17:00.340 have to find
00:17:01.060 ways to enjoy
00:17:02.840 these sorts of
00:17:03.320 things.
00:17:04.120 Now,
00:17:04.440 I think on a
00:17:05.240 similar note,
00:17:05.880 Dr. Fauci,
00:17:06.660 was doing
00:17:08.560 an interview
00:17:08.880 as he so
00:17:10.660 often likes to
00:17:11.220 do, and he
00:17:11.480 was asked if
00:17:12.940 we might be
00:17:13.440 able to get
00:17:13.820 back to
00:17:14.300 normal, maybe
00:17:15.540 we'll be past
00:17:16.160 all this stuff
00:17:16.760 with the masks
00:17:17.380 and the
00:17:17.780 elevators and
00:17:18.220 everything, by
00:17:19.120 Christmas.
00:17:19.600 Can we get
00:17:20.060 back to
00:17:20.400 normal by
00:17:20.880 Christmas of
00:17:22.240 2021?
00:17:23.500 And if this
00:17:23.940 feels like
00:17:24.320 deja vu, we
00:17:25.040 were having
00:17:25.260 the exact same
00:17:25.840 conversation before
00:17:27.060 Christmas of
00:17:27.520 2020.
00:17:28.440 And back then
00:17:29.020 he said,
00:17:29.380 maybe we'll
00:17:30.220 see.
00:17:31.780 And fast
00:17:32.400 forward a year
00:17:32.960 and he's saying
00:17:33.460 the same thing.
00:17:34.000 Let's listen.
00:17:34.340 But we can
00:17:35.560 gather for
00:17:36.040 Christmas or
00:17:36.560 it's just too
00:17:37.020 soon to
00:17:37.360 tell?
00:17:39.500 You know,
00:17:40.180 Margaret, it's
00:17:40.980 just too soon
00:17:41.680 to tell.
00:17:42.200 We've just
00:17:42.520 got to
00:17:42.780 concentrate on
00:17:43.740 continuing to
00:17:45.040 get those
00:17:45.640 numbers down
00:17:46.520 and not try to
00:17:47.740 jump ahead by
00:17:48.620 weeks or months
00:17:49.500 and say what
00:17:50.420 we're going to
00:17:50.820 do at a
00:17:51.180 particular time.
00:17:52.360 So maybe we
00:17:53.460 could get back
00:17:53.960 to normal by
00:17:54.520 Christmas, which
00:17:56.540 is always funny
00:17:57.420 to those of us
00:17:58.060 who have been
00:17:58.420 normal since
00:17:58.920 last Christmas
00:17:59.540 and since
00:18:00.620 before that.
00:18:01.800 Those of us
00:18:02.240 who never
00:18:02.660 stopped living
00:18:03.100 a normal
00:18:03.320 life.
00:18:03.780 But what I
00:18:04.080 will say
00:18:04.540 is, now
00:18:06.920 I don't have
00:18:07.360 this experience
00:18:07.860 in my family
00:18:08.460 so I can't
00:18:08.880 relate to it.
00:18:11.200 Thankfully, all
00:18:12.880 the people in
00:18:13.280 my immediate
00:18:13.740 family anyway
00:18:14.500 are sane
00:18:15.820 people.
00:18:16.640 So I have
00:18:17.300 all sane
00:18:17.920 people in
00:18:18.320 my family
00:18:18.680 which is
00:18:18.940 very nice.
00:18:20.120 So no
00:18:20.800 one in my
00:18:21.240 family has
00:18:22.060 been waiting
00:18:22.740 around for
00:18:23.300 Fauci to
00:18:23.780 give them
00:18:24.060 permission to
00:18:25.500 gather together
00:18:26.180 for a family
00:18:26.800 reunion or to
00:18:27.700 get together
00:18:27.960 for the holidays.
00:18:28.460 No one's
00:18:28.740 been doing
00:18:29.000 that in my
00:18:30.080 family.
00:18:30.380 But if
00:18:32.260 someone in
00:18:32.620 your family
00:18:32.940 is still
00:18:33.540 doing that,
00:18:34.060 I don't
00:18:34.240 care who
00:18:34.560 it is.
00:18:36.260 If there's
00:18:36.820 someone in
00:18:37.160 your family
00:18:37.500 who's still
00:18:38.040 sitting there
00:18:38.500 waiting,
00:18:39.780 say, hey
00:18:40.040 guys, we
00:18:40.360 can't make
00:18:40.640 Christmas plans
00:18:41.260 yet because
00:18:41.680 Fauci hasn't
00:18:42.220 given us the
00:18:42.620 go-ahead,
00:18:44.460 then you're
00:18:44.920 better off
00:18:45.380 without them
00:18:45.980 at the family
00:18:46.560 gatherings anyway.
00:18:47.820 You've got to
00:18:48.380 be at a point
00:18:49.580 now where you
00:18:49.940 see this as a
00:18:50.480 blessing.
00:18:52.760 Because you've
00:18:53.920 just weeded out
00:18:54.720 the people who
00:18:55.400 are so mentally
00:18:56.640 and emotionally
00:18:57.240 unbalanced that
00:18:58.860 it's better not
00:18:59.720 to have them
00:19:00.280 there.
00:19:01.420 So I
00:19:01.960 wouldn't be
00:19:02.220 worried about
00:19:02.620 this at all.
00:19:04.400 Go do what
00:19:05.100 you want to
00:19:05.400 do.
00:19:05.520 If there's
00:19:05.800 anyone in
00:19:06.300 your family,
00:19:06.900 anyone who
00:19:08.020 still even
00:19:09.020 now is
00:19:10.640 hesitant about
00:19:13.380 getting together
00:19:13.960 with you because
00:19:14.660 Fauci hasn't
00:19:15.340 said so,
00:19:15.820 then it's
00:19:16.160 better off.
00:19:17.080 Just move
00:19:18.820 forward without
00:19:19.380 them.
00:19:20.260 You have no
00:19:20.760 choice now.
00:19:22.940 Also,
00:19:23.560 Fauci over the
00:19:24.240 weekend had
00:19:24.840 some thoughts
00:19:25.460 on your
00:19:28.300 responsibility
00:19:29.200 to society.
00:19:31.140 He had a
00:19:31.300 little bit of
00:19:31.560 lecture about,
00:19:32.540 and he's
00:19:32.740 been doing
00:19:33.000 this more
00:19:33.460 now,
00:19:34.100 how do we
00:19:34.460 balance
00:19:35.060 freedom versus
00:19:36.900 our responsibility
00:19:37.740 to society?
00:19:38.860 And he had
00:19:39.400 some more
00:19:39.700 thoughts about
00:19:40.140 that.
00:19:40.440 Listen.
00:19:41.700 But you
00:19:42.320 are a member
00:19:43.060 of society.
00:19:44.580 And as a
00:19:45.340 member of
00:19:45.820 society,
00:19:47.320 reaping all
00:19:48.120 the benefits
00:19:48.900 of being a
00:19:49.680 member of
00:19:50.080 society,
00:19:51.080 you have a
00:19:51.600 responsibility
00:19:52.300 to society.
00:19:54.160 and I
00:19:55.240 think each
00:19:55.800 of us,
00:19:56.540 particularly
00:19:57.040 in the
00:19:57.580 context of
00:19:59.160 a pandemic
00:19:59.820 that's
00:20:00.300 killing
00:20:00.920 millions of
00:20:02.520 people,
00:20:03.660 you have
00:20:04.260 got to look
00:20:04.900 at it and
00:20:05.380 say there
00:20:05.780 comes a
00:20:06.320 time when
00:20:07.800 you do
00:20:08.240 have to
00:20:08.780 give up
00:20:09.420 what you
00:20:10.500 consider your
00:20:11.300 individual
00:20:11.900 right of
00:20:12.860 making your
00:20:13.480 own decision
00:20:14.300 for the
00:20:15.480 greater good
00:20:16.020 of society.
00:20:17.620 Well,
00:20:18.460 no,
00:20:19.080 you don't.
00:20:20.280 That's the
00:20:21.000 exact opposite
00:20:21.720 of the
00:20:22.520 ideas that
00:20:23.180 lay at the
00:20:23.480 foundation of
00:20:23.980 this country.
00:20:25.040 It's the
00:20:25.420 exact opposite.
00:20:28.280 And he's
00:20:29.260 outright saying
00:20:30.160 that,
00:20:30.340 well,
00:20:30.580 give up your
00:20:31.360 freedoms and
00:20:32.300 your rights
00:20:32.660 for society.
00:20:36.460 And the
00:20:37.120 other problem
00:20:37.560 is,
00:20:37.780 you notice how
00:20:38.300 he's not
00:20:38.600 saying,
00:20:39.880 because on
00:20:40.300 the left,
00:20:40.720 they don't
00:20:40.920 have language
00:20:41.500 for patriotism.
00:20:43.400 So he's not
00:20:44.120 saying,
00:20:44.680 well,
00:20:45.100 give up your
00:20:45.560 rights for
00:20:46.020 the good of
00:20:46.400 the country.
00:20:48.360 I wouldn't
00:20:48.880 agree with
00:20:49.220 that either,
00:20:50.320 because especially
00:20:51.140 if you're
00:20:51.360 living in a
00:20:51.700 country that's
00:20:52.280 founded on
00:20:52.980 the notion
00:20:53.320 of human
00:20:53.640 rights,
00:20:54.700 you can't
00:20:55.100 give up your
00:20:55.540 human rights
00:20:56.040 for the good
00:20:56.600 of that
00:20:56.860 country,
00:20:57.880 because you're
00:20:58.320 undermining the
00:20:58.980 very thing it
00:20:59.520 was founded
00:20:59.900 upon.
00:21:01.220 So you're
00:21:01.780 destroying the
00:21:02.460 country for
00:21:02.980 its own good,
00:21:03.580 which doesn't
00:21:03.920 make any sense
00:21:04.400 at all.
00:21:05.640 But he's
00:21:07.060 not,
00:21:07.380 you notice how
00:21:07.900 they don't
00:21:08.320 say that.
00:21:08.800 He's not
00:21:09.040 saying it's
00:21:11.600 for the good
00:21:12.100 of the country
00:21:13.220 or even
00:21:15.560 like Western
00:21:16.220 civilization or
00:21:17.140 anything like
00:21:17.620 that.
00:21:17.900 It's just
00:21:18.300 this broad
00:21:19.080 kind of
00:21:19.480 amorphous
00:21:20.320 concept of
00:21:21.680 society.
00:21:23.960 What do you
00:21:24.700 even mean by
00:21:25.400 that?
00:21:25.500 What are you
00:21:25.740 referring to?
00:21:26.840 So we're
00:21:27.160 left with this
00:21:27.700 kind of
00:21:28.120 generalized
00:21:28.860 amorphous
00:21:29.640 idea of
00:21:30.460 society,
00:21:31.540 not the
00:21:31.800 country,
00:21:32.120 but society,
00:21:33.160 which of course
00:21:33.780 raises the
00:21:34.140 question of
00:21:34.520 what exactly
00:21:35.020 are you talking
00:21:35.460 about?
00:21:36.340 Our duty to
00:21:37.420 society in
00:21:38.600 general?
00:21:39.060 What precisely
00:21:40.200 are you referring
00:21:40.740 to?
00:21:41.820 And it doesn't
00:21:42.400 matter what he's
00:21:42.840 referring to,
00:21:43.480 because again,
00:21:44.300 in this country,
00:21:45.480 you don't sacrifice
00:21:46.760 your basic human
00:21:47.840 rights.
00:21:49.060 There's nothing
00:21:50.340 that's more
00:21:50.700 important than
00:21:51.100 that.
00:21:53.340 But even so,
00:21:54.760 you notice again
00:21:55.600 what the left
00:21:56.480 always does,
00:21:57.300 and it's
00:21:58.100 effective,
00:22:00.620 is they're
00:22:01.320 always framing
00:22:02.400 things around
00:22:03.400 the notion of
00:22:04.800 duty and
00:22:05.680 responsibility,
00:22:07.480 moral obligation,
00:22:09.700 calling you to
00:22:10.440 make sacrifices.
00:22:12.980 Now, they're
00:22:13.840 always calling you
00:22:14.620 to make the
00:22:14.980 wrong kinds
00:22:15.520 of sacrifices.
00:22:18.060 They're asking
00:22:18.780 you to sacrifice
00:22:19.380 the wrong
00:22:19.980 things for
00:22:20.980 the sake of
00:22:21.560 the wrong
00:22:21.900 things.
00:22:23.700 And their
00:22:24.360 ideas about
00:22:25.220 our moral
00:22:25.980 obligations are
00:22:26.760 completely twisted
00:22:27.580 and perverse.
00:22:29.520 And same for
00:22:30.420 our responsibilities
00:22:31.140 and our duties,
00:22:32.060 but that's
00:22:33.260 always the way
00:22:34.000 they frame
00:22:34.420 their messaging.
00:22:37.220 And it's
00:22:38.600 compelling to
00:22:39.380 people.
00:22:41.360 And this is
00:22:42.140 why I'm always
00:22:42.880 saying to the
00:22:43.420 right that we
00:22:44.080 need to pick
00:22:45.180 up on that
00:22:45.780 and realize,
00:22:46.360 because for
00:22:46.780 too long on
00:22:48.520 the right,
00:22:49.480 we've had this
00:22:50.280 idea that,
00:22:50.720 well, you
00:22:50.860 can't talk,
00:22:51.440 you know,
00:22:51.660 we don't want
00:22:52.120 to talk about
00:22:52.500 obligations,
00:22:53.100 responsibilities,
00:22:53.800 sacrifice,
00:22:54.200 because that's
00:22:54.480 scary to
00:22:55.060 people.
00:22:56.540 You know,
00:22:56.800 people don't
00:22:57.140 want to make
00:22:57.500 sacrifices,
00:22:58.380 so let's
00:22:58.940 just always,
00:22:59.580 let's talk
00:23:00.160 about nothing
00:23:00.620 but their
00:23:01.200 rights and
00:23:02.020 all of that.
00:23:05.300 But rights
00:23:06.020 and responsibilities
00:23:06.620 are two sides
00:23:07.960 of the same
00:23:08.360 coin.
00:23:08.900 You can't
00:23:09.260 have one
00:23:09.500 without the
00:23:09.860 other.
00:23:11.940 And this is
00:23:12.660 something that's
00:23:13.180 compelling to
00:23:13.620 people.
00:23:15.020 You call
00:23:15.720 people to
00:23:16.100 make sacrifices.
00:23:18.000 You talk
00:23:18.700 about what
00:23:18.980 their
00:23:19.080 responsibilities
00:23:19.560 are.
00:23:22.440 Especially
00:23:22.880 in our
00:23:23.240 society today,
00:23:24.360 where people
00:23:24.820 are lost
00:23:25.940 with no
00:23:26.580 sense of
00:23:27.020 purpose.
00:23:28.480 This is the
00:23:29.160 kind of
00:23:29.420 message they're
00:23:29.900 looking for.
00:23:31.560 And they
00:23:32.120 only get it
00:23:33.260 from the
00:23:33.560 left.
00:23:33.800 That's the
00:23:34.100 only place
00:23:34.580 they get
00:23:34.880 it.
00:23:36.940 Listen to
00:23:37.500 Alexandria
00:23:37.980 Ocasio-Cortez
00:23:38.800 speak,
00:23:40.060 or Bernie
00:23:40.780 Sanders,
00:23:41.840 or anyone
00:23:42.360 in the
00:23:42.680 squad,
00:23:43.180 when they
00:23:45.860 are arguing
00:23:47.520 in favor
00:23:48.000 of their
00:23:48.400 policies and
00:23:49.140 their
00:23:49.280 positions,
00:23:50.220 it's always,
00:23:51.620 well, we
00:23:52.000 need to do
00:23:52.300 this because
00:23:52.560 it's the
00:23:52.860 right thing.
00:23:54.340 Yeah, it
00:23:54.660 may require
00:23:55.120 sacrifices, but
00:23:55.940 we need to
00:23:56.280 do it because
00:23:56.580 it's right,
00:23:57.480 it's moral.
00:24:00.160 And still,
00:24:01.480 conservatives are
00:24:02.100 afraid to speak
00:24:02.700 in the same
00:24:03.080 language.
00:24:04.620 Which is a
00:24:05.340 shame because
00:24:06.000 we actually
00:24:07.140 are the ones
00:24:08.780 who have a
00:24:09.560 notion about
00:24:10.060 what our
00:24:11.020 real
00:24:11.620 responsibilities
00:24:12.220 as human
00:24:12.840 beings and
00:24:13.440 Americans
00:24:13.760 actually are.
00:24:16.600 And we
00:24:17.440 have, or
00:24:18.080 we should
00:24:18.500 have, an
00:24:20.160 understanding
00:24:20.760 of objective
00:24:21.840 moral truth.
00:24:22.640 and so we
00:24:25.400 could be the
00:24:25.780 ones representing
00:24:26.560 that.
00:24:27.460 What are our
00:24:28.680 actual moral
00:24:29.400 obligations?
00:24:31.460 I say this all
00:24:32.400 the time when it
00:24:32.760 comes to the
00:24:33.080 pro-life
00:24:33.380 conversation.
00:24:34.900 It amazes me
00:24:36.660 that when we're
00:24:38.820 talking about
00:24:39.240 abortion, why
00:24:39.760 abortion is
00:24:40.260 wrong, you
00:24:41.980 hardly ever
00:24:42.940 hear pro-lifers
00:24:44.680 say anything
00:24:45.580 about parental
00:24:46.480 obligation.
00:24:47.040 you almost
00:24:49.840 never hear
00:24:50.400 this.
00:24:50.660 You never
00:24:51.040 hear them
00:24:51.400 say, well,
00:24:52.660 you have a
00:24:53.620 responsibility to
00:24:54.200 your kids.
00:24:57.440 Yeah, I
00:24:58.120 understand you
00:24:58.760 don't want to
00:24:59.240 be responsible
00:24:59.660 for them, but
00:25:00.140 you are.
00:25:00.680 You have a
00:25:00.900 responsibility to
00:25:01.580 them.
00:25:03.640 It's a very
00:25:04.620 basic and
00:25:05.100 fundamental
00:25:05.340 message that
00:25:06.920 we're afraid
00:25:07.420 to say.
00:25:09.580 And so we
00:25:10.640 surrender all
00:25:11.640 that ground
00:25:12.140 and all that
00:25:13.200 language to
00:25:13.720 the left.
00:25:15.540 And they use
00:25:16.340 it effectively.
00:25:17.040 When you're
00:25:19.900 talking about
00:25:20.260 responsibilities and
00:25:20.900 obligations, it's
00:25:21.540 always going to
00:25:22.200 appear that you
00:25:22.980 have the stronger
00:25:23.820 position, you
00:25:24.920 have the more
00:25:25.320 serious position.
00:25:29.920 This has been
00:25:30.660 the trick for
00:25:31.580 communists for
00:25:35.080 decades and
00:25:35.640 decades.
00:25:38.580 You know,
00:25:38.800 communists are
00:25:39.380 always talking
00:25:40.140 about our
00:25:40.780 what's making
00:25:42.460 sacrifices for the
00:25:43.500 greater good,
00:25:44.460 our obligations to
00:25:45.880 society and to
00:25:46.920 our brothers and
00:25:47.920 sisters, our
00:25:48.600 comrades.
00:25:51.560 And that
00:25:52.320 stuff is very
00:25:54.280 compelling to a
00:25:56.320 lot of people,
00:25:56.700 especially young
00:25:57.140 people.
00:25:59.300 The Christian
00:26:01.040 churches that have
00:26:01.820 figured this out,
00:26:03.120 they reap the
00:26:04.600 rewards because you
00:26:05.980 go into these
00:26:06.660 really conservative,
00:26:08.740 serious Christian
00:26:09.620 churches, like
00:26:10.260 especially the
00:26:11.360 Latin Mass, if
00:26:12.740 you're Catholic, and
00:26:14.520 that's where you'll
00:26:15.020 actually hear
00:26:15.580 messages about
00:26:16.900 moral obligation.
00:26:17.960 And when you
00:26:18.280 look out in the
00:26:18.760 pews, what do you
00:26:19.240 see?
00:26:20.500 You see tons of
00:26:21.900 young families
00:26:22.840 there hungry for
00:26:23.880 that message.
00:26:26.300 All right, so
00:26:27.340 Kristen Sinema is a
00:26:28.580 Democrat senator from
00:26:29.440 Arizona.
00:26:30.060 She has upset
00:26:31.160 leftists because she's
00:26:32.020 not supporting Biden's
00:26:32.940 agenda all the way.
00:26:34.720 I'm sure you followed
00:26:35.420 some of that.
00:26:36.460 Don't need to review
00:26:37.660 all of it.
00:26:38.080 She's not showing
00:26:38.740 proper deference to
00:26:39.860 the leftist
00:26:41.020 agenda, and
00:26:41.400 they're mad at
00:26:41.800 her, so they
00:26:42.960 tracked her down at
00:26:43.920 Arizona State.
00:26:44.680 In fact, the day
00:26:45.580 before this, they
00:26:46.380 were at her house
00:26:47.060 with megaphones
00:26:48.560 harassing her, and
00:26:50.260 they felt like that
00:26:51.720 didn't get the
00:26:51.980 message through, so
00:26:52.840 they tracked her
00:26:54.140 down at Arizona
00:26:54.620 State, and they
00:26:56.720 caught her in the
00:26:57.300 hallway on the way
00:26:59.040 to the bathroom, and
00:27:00.420 they followed her
00:27:01.080 into the bathroom
00:27:01.800 to heckle her, and
00:27:04.900 let's listen to
00:27:05.420 some of that.
00:27:06.360 Okay, I'll be
00:27:07.720 back.
00:27:08.040 Actually, I am
00:27:11.900 heading out.
00:27:13.520 But right now is a
00:27:14.960 real moment that our
00:27:16.360 people need in order
00:27:17.160 for us to be able to
00:27:17.960 talk about what's
00:27:18.560 really happening.
00:27:19.740 We need a Build
00:27:20.520 Back Better plan
00:27:21.220 right now.
00:27:23.700 We knocked on doors.
00:27:25.200 We need solutions.
00:27:27.480 The Build Back Better
00:27:28.320 plan has the
00:27:29.960 solutions that we
00:27:30.760 need.
00:27:31.220 We knocked on
00:27:31.920 doors for you to
00:27:32.860 get you elected, and
00:27:33.980 just how we got you
00:27:34.780 elected, we can get
00:27:35.700 you out of office if
00:27:36.620 you don't support
00:27:37.360 what you promised
00:27:38.340 us.
00:27:39.100 We need 7 million
00:27:40.220 citizenship for 7
00:27:41.240 million.
00:27:42.060 We need the Build
00:27:43.720 Back Better plan
00:27:44.420 right now.
00:27:47.460 My name is Blanca.
00:27:49.140 I was brought here
00:27:49.880 to the United States
00:27:50.560 when I was three
00:27:51.180 years old, and in
00:27:53.020 2010, my grandparents
00:27:54.380 both got deported
00:27:55.440 because of SB 1070.
00:27:57.360 And I'm here because I
00:27:59.100 definitely believe that
00:28:00.200 we need a pathway to
00:28:01.220 citizenship.
00:28:02.140 My grandfather passed
00:28:03.180 away two weeks ago,
00:28:04.500 and I was not able
00:28:05.540 to go to Mexico and
00:28:07.100 visit him because there
00:28:08.140 is no pathway to
00:28:09.020 citizenship.
00:28:10.060 And if we have the
00:28:10.740 opportunity to pass it
00:28:11.740 right now, then we
00:28:12.900 need to do it because
00:28:13.700 there's millions of
00:28:14.660 undocumented people just
00:28:16.160 like me who share the
00:28:17.220 same story or even
00:28:18.540 worse things that
00:28:19.480 happened to them because
00:28:20.520 of SB 1070.
00:28:23.000 So these are, at least
00:28:24.340 one of them, is an
00:28:25.420 illegal alien tracking a
00:28:28.440 sitting U.S.
00:28:29.360 senator into the
00:28:30.040 bathroom.
00:28:31.780 Now, you can only
00:28:34.280 imagine the reaction if
00:28:35.640 this was a member of
00:28:36.640 the squad, let's say.
00:28:38.180 This is Alexandria
00:28:38.980 Ocasio-Cortez.
00:28:41.280 I mean, think about
00:28:41.800 some right-wing
00:28:43.120 protesters who are
00:28:44.380 upset at Alexandria
00:28:45.320 Ocasio-Cortez.
00:28:48.360 And they find her in
00:28:50.000 the hallway.
00:28:50.560 They don't even have
00:28:50.920 to follow her into the
00:28:51.600 bathroom.
00:28:52.580 If they just followed
00:28:53.480 her down the hallway
00:28:54.340 for 10 feet and said,
00:28:57.040 Congresswoman, can we
00:28:57.660 talk to you?
00:28:58.080 That would be enough
00:28:58.640 right there.
00:28:59.040 That would be another
00:29:00.240 insurrection.
00:29:02.260 And Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
00:29:03.680 would be doing
00:29:04.120 Instagram live videos
00:29:05.280 about it and crying and
00:29:06.460 saying how she almost
00:29:07.040 died and telling wild
00:29:09.160 stories about how they
00:29:10.000 came after her with,
00:29:10.860 you know, nunchucks and
00:29:12.400 spears.
00:29:14.460 And that's if they just,
00:29:15.840 think about them
00:29:16.540 following her into the
00:29:17.800 bathroom and she's in
00:29:20.120 the stall and they're
00:29:20.940 yelling at her and
00:29:22.540 there's a guy in there
00:29:23.260 too.
00:29:24.720 A guy came into the
00:29:25.920 bathroom.
00:29:26.220 Now, you can only
00:29:30.880 imagine the response
00:29:32.340 from the media, but in
00:29:34.800 this case, it's Sinema,
00:29:36.600 who is also a Democrat,
00:29:38.140 but she's being harassed
00:29:39.580 by people who are
00:29:41.160 further to the left
00:29:42.520 than she is.
00:29:44.800 And the basic rule,
00:29:45.980 of course, is that
00:29:46.600 whoever's further to the
00:29:47.520 left is always right.
00:29:48.420 And so these people are
00:29:50.660 being, are being
00:29:51.700 defended for the most
00:29:53.640 part by lots of people
00:29:55.960 on the left and in the
00:29:57.540 media.
00:29:59.140 Meanwhile, one of these
00:29:59.960 people confesses to being
00:30:01.220 an illegal immigrant.
00:30:04.500 Now, in what other
00:30:05.440 country could you get
00:30:06.180 away with that?
00:30:07.920 In what other country
00:30:08.740 could you be there
00:30:11.000 illegally and then track
00:30:14.000 down a government
00:30:14.920 an official on video
00:30:16.860 and confess on video
00:30:19.440 to being there
00:30:19.860 illegally and then
00:30:20.720 harass them in a
00:30:21.620 bathroom and the
00:30:24.800 next day you're still
00:30:25.460 in the country?
00:30:28.620 What other nation,
00:30:29.600 maybe I should ask,
00:30:30.340 what other non,
00:30:31.120 what non-Western
00:30:32.380 nation, let's see,
00:30:34.080 I could see that in
00:30:34.940 plenty of European
00:30:35.600 countries, but in what
00:30:36.420 non-Western country
00:30:38.400 could you do that?
00:30:40.540 Can you think of a
00:30:41.000 non-Western country
00:30:41.860 where I could go there
00:30:42.600 illegally, find one of
00:30:44.500 their government
00:30:44.820 officials and start
00:30:46.840 harassing them and
00:30:48.620 demanding that they
00:30:49.240 make me legal,
00:30:50.480 follow them into a
00:30:51.120 bathroom?
00:30:52.680 Deportation would be
00:30:53.280 the least of my
00:30:54.160 worries if I did that.
00:30:57.520 But here, you know,
00:30:58.860 she's, the next day
00:30:59.900 she's painted as a
00:31:00.600 victim.
00:31:01.820 If we were a serious
00:31:02.900 country, that night
00:31:06.160 she would have
00:31:06.940 immigration officials
00:31:08.300 at her door
00:31:09.320 carting her butt
00:31:10.820 back to Mexico.
00:31:12.080 That's what they
00:31:12.500 would be doing in a
00:31:13.100 serious country.
00:31:13.620 you're here
00:31:14.640 illegally, you're
00:31:16.060 harassing a government
00:31:16.860 official in the
00:31:17.380 bathroom, and you're
00:31:18.860 also recording them in
00:31:19.620 a bathroom, which last
00:31:20.500 time I checked, recording
00:31:21.740 someone in a bathroom
00:31:22.820 against their consent is
00:31:24.520 a crime.
00:31:26.680 That's what a serious
00:31:27.520 country would do, but
00:31:28.320 we're not a serious
00:31:28.880 country.
00:31:30.820 And so she's allowed to
00:31:31.820 get away with this.
00:31:32.440 And she's also allowed to
00:31:33.220 get away with it,
00:31:33.780 she's allowed to get away
00:31:37.580 with it fundamentally
00:31:38.520 because the belief on
00:31:40.680 the left is that if
00:31:41.960 you're not fully on
00:31:44.840 board with the agenda,
00:31:46.800 then you, you're not
00:31:49.880 worthy of any basic
00:31:51.400 respect or dignity or
00:31:52.620 anything.
00:31:54.660 There's no treatment of
00:31:56.140 you that could be
00:31:56.920 considered too harsh or
00:31:58.360 out of bounds.
00:31:59.140 You deserve all of
00:32:00.380 it.
00:32:01.920 By the way,
00:32:03.840 let's see,
00:32:06.860 someone else, this is
00:32:07.920 Sofia Marjinovich, who
00:32:10.500 is, I guess, one of the
00:32:12.040 people who was involved
00:32:13.760 in this altercation, and
00:32:15.300 she posted on Facebook
00:32:16.340 talking about this, and
00:32:18.020 she said,
00:32:18.360 I will speak about the
00:32:19.520 controversy regarding
00:32:20.400 following Senator Sinema
00:32:21.960 into the bathroom when I
00:32:22.800 have the time.
00:32:23.900 None of you have a right
00:32:24.580 to tone police my
00:32:25.760 desperate demands for
00:32:27.120 labor protections after
00:32:28.240 what I have endured as a
00:32:29.260 human trafficking survivor
00:32:30.180 due to the effed up gig
00:32:31.940 economy.
00:32:32.920 For now, connect with the
00:32:34.000 fact that you are on
00:32:34.920 stolen indigenous land,
00:32:36.600 and indigenous women and
00:32:37.540 children go missing and
00:32:38.860 murdered because we don't
00:32:39.900 have access to stable
00:32:40.800 jobs, stable housing,
00:32:41.720 clean water, clean food,
00:32:42.720 or stable decent health
00:32:43.760 care, despite the fact
00:32:44.420 that indigenous people have
00:32:45.220 upheld our end of the
00:32:46.160 treaty in assimilating and
00:32:47.060 getting educated.
00:32:47.580 Arizona is among the
00:32:48.880 top three states in the
00:32:49.640 U.S. where indigenous
00:32:51.160 women and children go
00:32:52.000 missing and murdered.
00:32:53.360 Give my indigenous
00:32:54.040 relatives to the south of
00:32:55.240 the U.S.-Mexican border
00:32:56.160 citizenship now.
00:32:59.580 Now, I'm not sure what
00:33:02.040 she means by a human
00:33:03.140 trafficking survivor
00:33:04.920 because of the gig
00:33:05.980 economy.
00:33:07.540 Is she saying that she
00:33:08.380 was in the gig economy
00:33:09.360 and that's tantamount to
00:33:10.620 human trafficking, I
00:33:11.400 suppose?
00:33:14.080 But here we go back to
00:33:15.160 this stolen land
00:33:17.340 idea, which doesn't
00:33:22.720 make any sense.
00:33:23.760 You're saying that this
00:33:24.420 entire country is
00:33:26.160 illegitimate, it's
00:33:27.940 stolen, and therefore
00:33:30.840 you demand that people
00:33:32.220 be made official citizens
00:33:34.040 of this illegitimate
00:33:35.380 government on this
00:33:36.100 illegitimate land that we
00:33:36.980 don't belong on in the
00:33:37.580 first place?
00:33:38.020 So you want more people
00:33:42.300 to come in and take
00:33:43.380 advantage of this, all
00:33:44.580 this stolen land and the
00:33:46.300 stolen, you know,
00:33:48.760 rewards that we're
00:33:49.560 reaping?
00:33:49.920 That doesn't make sense to
00:33:51.100 me, but of course it's not
00:33:51.760 supposed to make sense.
00:33:54.100 This is an emotional
00:33:55.340 temper tantrum.
00:33:57.920 And they feel entitled.
00:33:58.840 I mean, this again, also
00:34:00.200 the speed with which
00:34:04.540 people develop this sense
00:34:06.000 of entitlement after
00:34:08.140 getting to this country is
00:34:09.260 really amazing.
00:34:12.140 People come here and
00:34:13.540 immediately feel entitled
00:34:15.220 to everything.
00:34:18.600 You know, there was, I
00:34:19.300 don't think we ever talked
00:34:19.920 about this, but there was
00:34:21.760 one of the Afghan, a few
00:34:23.780 weeks ago, one of the
00:34:24.600 Afghan refugees on a
00:34:27.140 military base who had
00:34:27.920 been saved from his
00:34:29.060 country, brought over
00:34:29.740 here, you know, arms
00:34:32.460 extended open, even if
00:34:35.420 not everybody feels that
00:34:36.260 way, but the government
00:34:36.800 anyway extended it, and
00:34:37.960 he was brought over here
00:34:38.740 and he had some posts that
00:34:40.540 went viral on Twitter
00:34:41.260 because he was
00:34:41.740 complaining about the
00:34:43.320 meals that he had been
00:34:44.020 given.
00:34:45.900 You know, he's brought,
00:34:46.720 he's brought out of his
00:34:47.440 country, brought to this
00:34:48.340 country, offered a home,
00:34:51.980 and as soon as he gets
00:34:54.000 here, he's complaining
00:34:54.860 because the meals at the
00:34:56.720 refugee, you know, the
00:34:58.740 military base that they're
00:34:59.500 giving the refugees, not
00:35:00.500 good enough.
00:35:01.640 It's not enough.
00:35:02.800 Oh, and also he complained
00:35:03.600 that the Wi-Fi speed was
00:35:04.680 too slow.
00:35:06.900 It's farcical, really.
00:35:10.200 And this has become, you
00:35:11.640 know, I talk all the time
00:35:12.380 about as Americans, what
00:35:13.960 unifies us, what brings us
00:35:15.960 all together.
00:35:18.360 We talk about if we are one
00:35:20.120 country, what is it that
00:35:23.660 ties all of us together?
00:35:26.280 Aside from the fact that we
00:35:27.180 all live in the same
00:35:27.780 geographical sort of basic
00:35:29.960 region of the globe.
00:35:32.140 Especially when we can't,
00:35:33.000 we can't rely on that
00:35:33.700 distinction anymore because
00:35:34.480 the borders don't exist.
00:35:37.420 And what is it?
00:35:38.580 And we hold no real value,
00:35:41.080 we have no values in common.
00:35:42.400 If there's anything that
00:35:45.000 ties everyone together or
00:35:46.000 most people in this country
00:35:46.640 together, it's the sense of
00:35:47.500 entitlement.
00:35:49.900 All right, finally, this is
00:35:51.060 from Yahoo.
00:35:52.160 I just love the way that
00:35:52.940 this is written.
00:35:53.740 It says, criminal charges
00:35:54.820 were filed against
00:35:56.320 Teresha Lucas, a 30-year-old
00:35:58.560 black woman, in an unexpected
00:36:00.080 turn of events.
00:36:01.600 This week, authorities in
00:36:02.560 Georgia revealed they
00:36:03.420 believe a black woman is
00:36:04.600 behind the racially charged
00:36:05.880 notes that have been
00:36:06.940 terrorizing her neighborhood.
00:36:08.600 Since last December, a
00:36:09.700 Douglasville, Georgia
00:36:10.620 neighborhood has been
00:36:11.740 gripped in fear due to
00:36:13.320 racially charged messages
00:36:14.340 that have anonymously
00:36:15.400 been left in mailboxes of
00:36:17.580 residents of color.
00:36:18.980 But now officials say
00:36:19.800 police said that they
00:36:21.060 have made an arrest and
00:36:21.820 the alleged culprit is
00:36:22.840 not who anyone would
00:36:24.360 have expected.
00:36:25.940 Wednesday, the
00:36:26.560 Douglasville Police
00:36:27.340 Department confirmed that
00:36:28.360 they had filed criminal
00:36:29.340 charges against Teresha
00:36:30.360 Lucas.
00:36:30.780 Lucas is a 30-year-old
00:36:31.540 black woman who they
00:36:32.680 believe threatened people
00:36:33.520 in her community while
00:36:34.260 posing as a Ku Klux Klan
00:36:36.020 member.
00:36:37.400 In an unexpected turn of
00:36:38.440 events, okay, I already
00:36:39.860 read that part.
00:36:40.860 Let's see, there was
00:36:41.600 another funny part here.
00:36:43.580 In the notes, threats
00:36:44.960 were made to burn down
00:36:47.520 homes and kill their
00:36:48.380 occupants.
00:36:48.860 The author of these
00:36:50.000 disturbing messages also
00:36:50.960 made it a point to
00:36:51.680 describe themselves as a
00:36:53.560 six-feet-tall white male
00:36:55.140 with a long red beard who
00:36:57.080 did not live in the
00:36:57.800 neighborhood.
00:37:00.540 Shouldn't that have been
00:37:01.760 your first clue that
00:37:03.640 something is slightly
00:37:04.860 amiss here for all these
00:37:06.420 residents who are
00:37:07.240 allegedly terrified?
00:37:09.920 Well, the first clue is
00:37:11.040 that you're getting the
00:37:11.660 racist notes from a KKK
00:37:13.280 member in the first place
00:37:14.440 when there are, you know,
00:37:16.100 like seven KKK members in
00:37:17.800 the entire country and
00:37:19.080 they're all in some
00:37:19.600 basement somewhere.
00:37:20.280 They're not leaving any
00:37:20.960 nasty notes on anybody's
00:37:22.120 doorstep.
00:37:24.160 So that's your first clue.
00:37:26.160 And your second clue is
00:37:27.200 that like every single
00:37:28.580 racist note that's been
00:37:30.100 written in the last 25
00:37:31.420 years has been a hoax.
00:37:34.880 I'm still waiting for an
00:37:36.060 example of one real one.
00:37:37.160 But then, if that's not
00:37:41.260 enough to get through to
00:37:41.960 you, the fact that this
00:37:44.060 racist Ku Klux Klan member
00:37:46.820 would describe themselves in
00:37:48.280 the note, says a bunch of
00:37:51.200 racist stuff and then signs
00:37:52.380 it, a six-foot-tall racist
00:37:54.680 white man with a long red
00:37:57.040 beard.
00:37:58.080 P.S. I don't live in this
00:37:59.140 neighborhood.
00:38:00.700 P.P.S. I am not the black
00:38:02.400 woman three doors down.
00:38:04.420 That is not me.
00:38:07.520 And yet this neighborhood
00:38:08.500 was gripped in fear.
00:38:09.920 And then Yahoo News says
00:38:11.020 that the outcome that
00:38:15.680 anyone who's been paying
00:38:16.560 attention would expect is
00:38:19.000 unexpected.
00:38:20.080 Who could have ever seen
00:38:21.080 this coming?
00:38:21.540 Besides literally everyone
00:38:22.960 with a brain.
00:38:24.000 All right, let's read now
00:38:25.100 from the YouTube comments.
00:38:27.600 Who's rocking polka dot and
00:38:29.560 flannel shirts without shame?
00:38:32.060 Do you know their name?
00:38:36.680 They're the sweet baby gang.
00:38:40.940 Okay, so the good Texan says
00:38:43.000 Matt Walsh does not own a
00:38:44.360 stove, oven, or microwave
00:38:45.660 because canceling is a dish
00:38:47.240 best served cold.
00:38:49.500 That's actually true.
00:38:51.080 I don't, we, well, we have a
00:38:52.600 stove and an oven, but we
00:38:53.360 actually do not own a
00:38:55.200 microwave at all.
00:38:56.540 And this has been a point of
00:38:58.880 contention in my house.
00:39:02.200 We went through a period
00:39:03.140 without a microwave because
00:39:03.980 ours broke or something and
00:39:04.840 we were just too lazy to get
00:39:05.600 a new one.
00:39:06.840 And my wife, I guess, got,
00:39:10.720 just liked the idea of this.
00:39:12.360 This was one of our, this
00:39:13.420 is like a small protest against
00:39:14.640 modern society, I guess.
00:39:17.100 And everyone has to have at
00:39:18.400 least that one modern
00:39:19.220 convenience that they don't
00:39:20.180 use so they can brag about it.
00:39:22.080 And so, and so microwaves
00:39:24.560 became our thing.
00:39:25.500 I didn't want them to be our
00:39:26.400 thing.
00:39:27.060 I really like microwaves.
00:39:29.580 And, but, but so it's, it's,
00:39:31.420 it's a constant argument in
00:39:32.380 our house.
00:39:32.840 My wife just refuses to put a
00:39:34.540 microwave in the house.
00:39:35.360 So we, so for that reason,
00:39:36.300 you're actually right about
00:39:36.940 that.
00:39:40.180 All right.
00:39:41.740 This is from, this guy's the
00:39:43.740 limit.
00:39:44.760 Says Matt, thought you
00:39:45.760 deserve to know Planet Fitness
00:39:46.920 is a gym for snowflakes.
00:39:48.920 They don't allow customers to
00:39:50.180 bring water over a certain
00:39:51.240 volume.
00:39:52.240 A gallon is gym-timidating,
00:39:54.020 they say.
00:39:55.020 They have lunk alarms, which
00:39:56.200 go off of a lifter grunts or
00:39:57.720 makes too loud a noise.
00:39:59.580 They have donut and pizza
00:40:00.640 days to celebrate the
00:40:01.640 milestones you've made.
00:40:03.260 If you want to cancel, you
00:40:04.280 have to send in a handwritten
00:40:05.220 letter to top it off.
00:40:06.380 I once asked another customer
00:40:07.520 after about two weeks of
00:40:08.520 attending, if he knows where
00:40:09.780 there's a scale.
00:40:10.400 And he said, do you not know
00:40:11.780 they don't have scales at
00:40:12.700 Planet Fitness because it may
00:40:13.580 offend people?
00:40:15.780 Well, I'm not going to take
00:40:18.020 this kind of slander of one
00:40:20.780 of our great sponsors.
00:40:22.080 which is Planet Fitness.
00:40:24.200 And listen, I've been to
00:40:24.980 Planet Fitness.
00:40:25.740 I know they have the lunk
00:40:26.800 alarm.
00:40:27.240 I've never seen it go off.
00:40:29.240 And if they do use it, they
00:40:30.480 have good reason to use it.
00:40:33.140 Don't be a lunk at the gym,
00:40:35.240 whatever exactly that is.
00:40:37.580 Let's see.
00:40:38.680 Another comment says, Matt, you
00:40:39.900 said that you haven't seen a
00:40:40.620 great film in several years.
00:40:41.900 What about The Green Book or
00:40:43.160 1917?
00:40:44.160 I haven't seen The Green
00:40:44.620 Book, but I have seen 1917.
00:40:46.220 And that was a few years ago.
00:40:48.040 I think it's just been a few,
00:40:48.820 I said it's been a few years
00:40:50.400 since I've seen a great movie.
00:40:51.760 And that might be the most
00:40:52.960 recent great one that I've
00:40:53.960 seen.
00:40:56.020 I thought 1917 is a very good
00:40:58.480 film and war film.
00:41:00.700 And what I like about it as a
00:41:01.960 war movie is the simplicity of
00:41:05.620 it.
00:41:07.540 Because these days, you know,
00:41:09.260 two of my favorite genres, my
00:41:10.540 two favorite genres, war films and
00:41:12.340 westerns.
00:41:12.920 And the problem with Hollywood
00:41:14.180 now is they think that if they
00:41:16.100 make either of those kinds of
00:41:17.260 movies, they have to kind of
00:41:18.620 like, especially with westerns,
00:41:19.940 this is a problem, but you see
00:41:20.840 with war movies too, they feel
00:41:22.080 like they have to deconstruct the
00:41:23.540 genre and they have to do all
00:41:24.740 these groundbreaking things
00:41:26.560 rather than just make the movie
00:41:28.320 and tell the story within the
00:41:29.960 constructs of that genre.
00:41:32.640 But 1917, they don't do that.
00:41:35.340 It's a war film.
00:41:36.200 It's a very simple story, but
00:41:37.320 also a compelling one.
00:41:39.340 And yeah, that's a great one if
00:41:40.320 you haven't seen it.
00:41:42.220 Let's see.
00:41:42.720 Michael says, I like ties and
00:41:44.320 all, but who the hell was the
00:41:45.400 first person to decide to hang
00:41:47.160 fabric around their neck and
00:41:48.680 also said it looked good?
00:41:50.880 Yeah, I don't like ties at all.
00:41:52.140 This is why women need to stop
00:41:53.480 complaining about, say, well,
00:41:55.100 women are, you know, we have
00:41:56.100 childbirth and everything.
00:41:57.100 Okay.
00:41:58.520 You have childbirth, allegedly.
00:42:01.100 I mean, I'm told these days men
00:42:02.100 can give birth too, so I'm not
00:42:02.960 even sure if that's true.
00:42:03.780 But even for the sake of
00:42:06.860 argument, let's say only women can
00:42:08.060 give birth.
00:42:09.060 So you've got that.
00:42:09.700 Okay.
00:42:09.880 That is a burden you have to
00:42:11.840 carry.
00:42:12.880 I don't envy that.
00:42:15.540 In fact, I quite enjoy the fact
00:42:18.120 that I'm not the one who has to
00:42:19.200 carry children and give birth to
00:42:20.520 them.
00:42:21.160 But think about it, formal
00:42:23.120 occasions.
00:42:25.520 You know, you can wear outfits that
00:42:28.620 are appropriate for the season.
00:42:31.740 You know, you can take a look
00:42:32.640 outside, look at the weather, look
00:42:33.800 at the temperature and say, oh,
00:42:34.860 this is what I'll wear.
00:42:36.040 You know, it's hot out.
00:42:36.680 I'll wear something a little bit
00:42:38.160 lighter.
00:42:39.160 But for us, we only have, for
00:42:40.900 formal occasions, we just have the
00:42:41.860 one thing.
00:42:42.420 We only have one option, and it's a
00:42:43.960 suit.
00:42:44.980 So at a minimum, we're wearing two
00:42:46.540 layers.
00:42:47.660 If it's 112 degrees outside,
00:42:49.260 doesn't matter.
00:42:50.400 And you've got to wear the tie around
00:42:53.040 your neck, choking yourself half to
00:42:54.200 death.
00:42:55.820 That's a cross we bear, ladies.
00:42:57.120 You don't know anything about that.
00:42:59.900 Let's see.
00:43:00.460 This is from Todd.
00:43:05.340 What did you think of the Ravens
00:43:06.540 padding their stats at the end of
00:43:07.880 the Broncos game yesterday?
00:43:09.380 Classless move.
00:43:10.380 Oh, I thought it was great.
00:43:11.220 Yeah, the Ravens played the Broncos
00:43:12.500 yesterday, and they had the game
00:43:14.720 fully in the bag.
00:43:16.660 They had won the game.
00:43:17.380 There was about three seconds left
00:43:18.260 of the game, and they were up by
00:43:19.520 like two scores, and they had the
00:43:20.480 ball.
00:43:20.920 You know, in football, the tradition
00:43:22.340 is if in a situation like that, you
00:43:24.780 just take a knee, let the clock run
00:43:26.000 out.
00:43:26.320 You don't keep running plays because
00:43:27.560 you've already won the game.
00:43:28.340 Well, the Ravens had a record on the
00:43:31.260 line where they were one away from
00:43:34.980 tying the Steelers with the most
00:43:37.400 100-yard rushing games in a row.
00:43:39.280 They had like 42.
00:43:40.160 The Steelers in 1970-something had
00:43:42.120 43, and so they were one away.
00:43:44.580 And at this point in the game, they
00:43:46.020 had 97 yards rushing.
00:43:47.840 And so the head coach, John
00:43:48.860 Harbaugh, ran a play to try to get
00:43:51.420 those extra yards to get the record,
00:43:55.000 and they did it.
00:43:55.700 They got five yards and got the
00:43:56.680 record.
00:43:56.900 And there's been complaints about
00:43:58.200 that.
00:43:58.460 Oh, it's classless.
00:43:59.580 Yeah, I don't want to hear about
00:44:00.380 that, especially from other players
00:44:02.660 and coaches complaining about it.
00:44:04.960 You play a game for a living, number
00:44:07.520 one.
00:44:08.460 Number two, if you don't like it,
00:44:09.720 stop them.
00:44:11.040 So I don't believe in that, taking a
00:44:12.520 knee.
00:44:12.960 You play to the whistle.
00:44:15.980 That's it.
00:44:18.160 And let's see.
00:44:20.480 Oh, Maximilian says, Matt, your sweet
00:44:22.160 babies are worried you haven't given
00:44:23.820 us an update on Pooh for months.
00:44:27.260 Yeah, well, Maximilian, I haven't
00:44:28.320 talked about it because it's too
00:44:29.160 painful.
00:44:30.900 All right.
00:44:31.520 My guy, Pooh Shiesty, is in jail.
00:44:34.580 He's facing federal charges.
00:44:38.560 Do you want to bring this up now,
00:44:40.420 this traumatic thing for me, in the
00:44:42.420 middle of the show?
00:44:44.140 And they're trying to pin everything
00:44:45.300 on him.
00:44:47.100 I mean, Pooh would never hurt a fly.
00:44:48.600 Certainly he would never steal drugs
00:44:51.100 from a fly, and that's what they're
00:44:52.320 claiming he did.
00:44:52.840 It's ridiculous.
00:44:55.040 I mean, where would a fly even keep
00:44:56.180 drugs to begin with?
00:44:57.000 So the whole thing's a mess.
00:44:58.180 It's a setup.
00:45:00.260 And they're trying to take Pooh
00:45:01.520 Shiesty down.
00:45:03.600 Do you want to see me cry?
00:45:05.000 Is that what this is about, Maximilian?
00:45:06.980 I'm not going to give you that
00:45:07.760 satisfaction.
00:45:09.600 You're banned from the show.
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00:46:13.240 Let's get to our Daily Cancellation.
00:46:20.200 So for our Daily Cancellation today,
00:46:21.500 we have an onion of stupid with
00:46:23.800 layers that we must peel our way
00:46:25.400 through one by one.
00:46:26.280 We start with a priest by the name of
00:46:27.780 Thomas Reese, who a few days ago
00:46:30.180 shared an article from Religion News
00:46:31.840 titled, Why Our Preferred Pronouns for
00:46:34.640 God Should Be They.
00:46:36.940 Now, if you know anything about these
00:46:37.920 matters, you've already guessed that
00:46:39.080 Reese is a Jesuit.
00:46:39.920 He's also an author with a large
00:46:41.980 social media following.
00:46:42.900 The article in question was written
00:46:44.060 by a guy named Mark Silk, who is,
00:46:45.940 according to his bio, the professor
00:46:47.720 and director of Greenberg Center for
00:46:49.280 the Study of Religion in Public Life
00:46:50.860 at Trinity College, as well as an
00:46:52.740 editor for Religion News.
00:46:54.240 Now, he begins his screed writing,
00:46:56.880 he says, quote,
00:46:57.980 Writing last week in the New York
00:46:59.080 Times, linguistic professor John
00:47:00.540 McWhorter waxed enthusiastic about
00:47:02.920 the advent of they as our all-purpose
00:47:04.980 third-person singular pronoun.
00:47:07.580 Now, we'll get back to the blasphemy in
00:47:08.860 the first article in just a moment,
00:47:09.900 but I want to take a step to the side
00:47:11.680 here to read a few lines from that
00:47:12.900 New York Times article first, as it
00:47:14.780 apparently inspired the other one.
00:47:16.480 That piece is titled, Gender Pronouns
00:47:18.300 Are Changing, It's Exhilarating.
00:47:20.900 And this alleged linguistic professor
00:47:22.560 writes,
00:47:23.540 The other day I had occasion to use
00:47:24.820 the pronoun they in the new way,
00:47:26.420 referring to a specific person, not
00:47:27.900 your grandfather's singular they with
00:47:30.140 its generic meaning.
00:47:31.860 A student can hand their paper in early
00:47:33.680 if they want to, but they as in
00:47:36.020 Roberto wants a haircut, and they also
00:47:37.940 want some highlights.
00:47:39.660 I wangled it.
00:47:41.580 Wangled.
00:47:42.600 I don't know what that means, but it
00:47:43.780 required a bit of conscious effort.
00:47:45.660 Pronouns sit deeply in our cognition,
00:47:47.800 used constantly and bound by habit.
00:47:50.120 It's their turn to use the kite, don't
00:47:51.840 you think?
00:47:53.180 I said, thinking consciously about my
00:47:54.880 sentence in a way that I don't have to
00:47:56.580 usually.
00:47:57.540 I know some find it wearying.
00:47:59.520 Why does language have to change all
00:48:00.940 the time, with all we have to think
00:48:02.120 about?
00:48:02.740 But we're not unique.
00:48:04.120 There are times when the language
00:48:05.300 firmament shifts under people's feet,
00:48:06.820 and they get through it.
00:48:08.260 And then he goes through a number of
00:48:09.300 examples of times when language has
00:48:10.760 changed in the past, insisting that this
00:48:12.660 is no different.
00:48:13.680 And he wraps it up this way, he says,
00:48:15.280 They tell you mountains become sand,
00:48:17.200 but you never get to see it.
00:48:18.640 Language change happens faster, and you
00:48:20.480 actually get to witness it.
00:48:22.540 It's something to treasure.
00:48:24.540 Yes, you see, it is in fact a great
00:48:25.920 privilege to have a bunch of people with
00:48:27.940 blue hair and nose piercings make up
00:48:29.780 new rules of grammar on the spot and
00:48:31.880 demand that you follow them.
00:48:32.760 It is exhilarating and majestic, like
00:48:35.200 watching mountains become sand.
00:48:37.620 Granted, some of the people in this
00:48:38.780 group may have the girth of mountains,
00:48:41.080 but the comparison still seems like a
00:48:42.820 stretch.
00:48:43.460 And anyway, I'll have more to say about
00:48:44.620 the, you know, in response to that.
00:48:45.940 But first, let's get back to Mark Silk
00:48:47.580 over at Religion News, who, in his
00:48:49.800 article, inspired by this New York Times
00:48:51.920 piece, writes, quote,
00:48:53.420 In contrast to being humans, it has long
00:48:55.980 been accepted that God is not gendered,
00:48:58.200 at least within the main Abrahamic
00:49:00.440 theological tradition. A phrase such as
00:49:02.720 God the Father should be treated as a
00:49:04.260 metaphor. And for those concerned about
00:49:06.080 the embedded misogyny of the tradition,
00:49:07.860 to say nothing of post-binary folks, a
00:49:09.860 deeply problematic one. As a result, we
00:49:12.100 have been faced liturgically as well as
00:49:13.600 theologically with the imperative of
00:49:15.420 gender-neutral language, which means
00:49:17.340 being obliged to repeat the word God,
00:49:19.400 where a gendered pronoun would normally
00:49:20.760 be used, and to have recourse to the
00:49:22.640 unattractive neologism God-self, lest,
00:49:25.620 God forbid, we find ourselves saying
00:49:27.280 himself. They, theirs, them, and
00:49:29.720 themself, or maybe themselves, solves
00:49:31.680 the problem. As in, praise God for whom
00:49:34.240 all blessings flow. Praise them, all
00:49:36.340 creatures here below, etc.
00:49:38.420 Alright, now that we have the whole
00:49:39.740 picture here, confused as it is, a few
00:49:42.240 responses. First, on the issue of
00:49:45.000 language evolution in general, we must
00:49:47.400 continue to note that this pronoun stuff
00:49:49.140 is not a natural evolution. It's true
00:49:52.260 that language changes over time. Language
00:49:54.740 is fluid in that way. Language is a
00:49:57.240 symbol. It's a sound meant to represent
00:49:59.020 something. You could argue that language
00:50:01.520 is fundamentally arbitrary in that way.
00:50:03.920 We say elephant to talk about elephants
00:50:05.420 and camels to talk about camels, but
00:50:07.120 things could have worked out so that we
00:50:08.520 say camels to talk about animals we now
00:50:10.500 call elephants and elephants for camels.
00:50:12.880 There's no reason why we had to use the
00:50:14.580 particular sounds we used to represent
00:50:16.220 those animals. That's just how it worked
00:50:17.940 out. That's why language can shift and
00:50:20.280 change over time. That's true. Now, in the
00:50:22.660 Times article, many examples are given of
00:50:24.840 past shifts in language. It's argued that
00:50:28.360 what we're experiencing today is just
00:50:30.120 more of the same. But it's not. It's very
00:50:32.800 different. Because most changes in
00:50:35.180 language happen relatively organically.
00:50:38.120 Due to a wide combination of influences,
00:50:40.300 people begin to slightly adjust the
00:50:41.920 verbal symbols they use for certain
00:50:43.780 things, and eventually the official
00:50:44.920 grammatical rules, as written in grammar
00:50:47.060 textbooks and so forth, will change also.
00:50:49.220 But they change descriptively, not
00:50:51.160 proscriptively. They are describing and
00:50:53.520 codifying a change that is already
00:50:55.120 underway. What's happening with
00:50:57.580 pronouns is not like this. Rather, it's a
00:50:59.440 top-down change. The grammar rules are
00:51:02.240 being changed proscriptively. Our culture
00:51:05.660 elites have decided for ideological
00:51:07.180 reasons that we ought to be using
00:51:08.580 different words, and they plan to
00:51:10.240 berate and scold and punish us until we
00:51:11.920 comply. This is not a natural evolution
00:51:14.480 of language. This is an intentional
00:51:15.800 manipulation of language, which is a
00:51:17.780 very different thing. So just look what
00:51:19.540 they're doing with the made-up,
00:51:20.720 nonsensical word latinx, or Latinx.
00:51:24.580 Nobody in that community uses the word
00:51:26.080 or likes it, and yet the cultural
00:51:27.740 elites keep using it and pushing it and
00:51:29.380 pushing it, hoping that eventually
00:51:30.740 people will submit and start adopting
00:51:32.720 it in daily use. If and when that day
00:51:35.020 happens, they'll then turn around and
00:51:36.380 say, look at that, language evolved.
00:51:38.760 But calling that natural evolution is
00:51:40.420 like injecting drugs into a lab rat and
00:51:42.260 calling it natural evolution when it
00:51:43.620 grows a third ear. Now, there have been
00:51:46.240 other examples of this kind of unnatural
00:51:47.740 imposed evolution of language. The
00:51:49.580 Times piece mentions a few, like when
00:51:50.940 African-American became the preferred
00:51:52.400 term in the 90s to supplant black, and
00:51:55.200 then we went back to black again, which
00:51:56.620 was then replaced by people of color,
00:51:58.400 which is considered politically correct,
00:51:59.660 while colored people is horrifically
00:52:00.840 racist. All of that is arbitrary and
00:52:02.940 ludicrous, and it's mostly the result of
00:52:04.580 cultural elites, again, telling us what
00:52:06.340 words we should be using. And yet even
00:52:08.660 this isn't as bad as the pronoun changes,
00:52:10.620 because in this case, the verbal symbols
00:52:12.640 to describe a certain reality are being
00:52:15.540 changed. But with the pronouns, they wish
00:52:17.680 to change the symbols and the thing
00:52:20.240 that's being symbolized. The point of
00:52:23.460 making pronouns fluid and genderless is
00:52:25.680 to give the impression that people are
00:52:27.900 fluid and genderless. They're not just
00:52:30.200 trying to change the way we describe
00:52:31.760 things, they're also trying to change that
00:52:34.240 which is being described. Overall, you
00:52:36.480 know, language is supposed to convey
00:52:37.940 meaning. Language, if it changes, is
00:52:40.100 supposed to change in order to make
00:52:41.480 meaning more clear. But in this case,
00:52:43.060 language is changing in order to make
00:52:44.540 our meaning more obscure. That's the
00:52:46.140 difference. And it's a pretty big
00:52:47.640 difference. And that brings us to the
00:52:49.480 issue of God's pronouns. Notice how the
00:52:51.820 article refers to our preferred
00:52:53.560 pronouns for God. That's instructive
00:52:55.580 because the author doesn't seem concerned
00:52:56.880 with God's preferred pronouns for
00:52:58.500 himself. On that end, if you're an
00:53:00.500 adherent to any of the Abrahamic
00:53:01.680 religions, there's no question about
00:53:02.960 it. God prefers to be referred to as
00:53:04.800 he. That's how his book refers to
00:53:07.200 him. That's what his prophets call
00:53:09.440 him. And if you're a Christian, you
00:53:11.160 know that the Son of God, emphasis on
00:53:12.540 Son here, not only called God
00:53:14.920 Father, but also was himself a him. It's
00:53:18.440 true that God has no biological sex
00:53:20.300 because God created biological sex. He
00:53:22.120 created biology. He transcends male or
00:53:24.460 female. He does. We don't. And yet God
00:53:28.120 wants us to understand his relationship
00:53:29.800 to us as that of a father to his
00:53:31.760 children. Do I fully understand what
00:53:33.200 that means? Can I fully comprehend that
00:53:35.640 cosmic analogy? No. Neither can you. But
00:53:38.220 that's what God has told us and that's
00:53:40.040 what he's given us. I find it quite
00:53:42.400 telling that according to some people
00:53:43.680 like the writer of this article and the
00:53:45.000 priest who shared it, we should respect
00:53:47.120 everybody's preferred pronouns except
00:53:48.880 for God. For him, we can impose our own
00:53:52.220 onto him. We have our preferred pronouns
00:53:55.760 for him rather than respecting the ones
00:53:57.700 that he prefers for himself. Because
00:54:00.400 that's what all of this is really about
00:54:01.580 in the end, isn't it? It's about putting
00:54:03.740 us at the center and what we want at
00:54:06.100 the center rather than subjecting
00:54:08.320 ourselves to any greater truth like
00:54:11.180 God or even like grammar. And that's
00:54:14.540 why everyone associated with that
00:54:16.740 article, they're all canceled. And we'll
00:54:20.280 leave it there for today. Thanks for
00:54:21.380 watching. Thanks for listening. Have a
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