Ep. 825 - Media Shocked To Discover That Children Need Fathers
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The media is shocked to discover that dads matter. Apparently, children need male role models in their life. Maybe the nuclear family isn t a patriarchal conspiracy after all. Also, the latest on the bizarre and tragic Alec Baldwin story, and the Treasury Secretary now wants to levy taxes on unrealized capital gains. And if you don t know why that s insane and tyrannical, I ll explain. Plus, the White House unveils its national gender strategy, whatever the hell that means, and our daily cancellation.
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Today on The Matt Walsh Show, the media is shocked to discover that dads matter.
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Apparently, children need male role models in their life.
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Maybe the nuclear family isn't a patriarchal conspiracy after all.
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Also, the latest on the bizarre and tragic Alec Baldwin story.
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And the Treasury Secretary now wants to levy taxes on unrealized capital gains.
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And if you don't know why that's insane and tyrannical, I'll explain.
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Plus, the White House unveils its national gender strategy,
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And our daily cancellation, I once again find myself at the center of controversy.
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And outrage this time because I dare to suggest that women should take their husband's last names.
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Shocking stuff. All of that and more today on The Matt Walsh Show.
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So we begin the week with something positive for a change.
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This only happens about once a year on this show.
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CBS News aired a report on Friday about some unique measures being taken
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at a high school in Louisiana to stop the violence and chaos that had been plaguing the campus.
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Southwood High School in Shreveport began the year in September with multiple major brawls
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over 20 kids were arrested for assault and other charges.
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the dads of the community decided to do something about it.
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We decided the best people who can take care of our kids are who?
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A group of about 40 Southwood dads who now hang out at the school in shifts.
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Today, any negative energy that enters the building has to run a gauntlet of good parenting.
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But it's not just the firm stares and stern warnings.
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They just make funny jokes like, oh, hey, your student's on tight, but it's really not on tight.
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And it's that perfect mix of tough love and gentle ribbing that dads do so well that
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The school has really just been, like, happy, and you can feel it.
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Which is why the dads plan to keep coming to Southwood indefinitely.
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Because not everybody has the father figure at home.
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Yes, they've stumbled onto something called fatherhood.
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See, you know, I watch something like this and I want to celebrate it.
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Dad's getting involved, taking charge of their children and their communities.
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And yet I'm frustrated at the same time that so many in our culture, especially those who
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control the narrative, can't connect the dots or refuse to connect them.
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I mean, the media will tell us heartwarming stories like this and they'll rightfully applaud
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Then they'll write the whole thing off as a gimmick, an aberration, or at best as something
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Sure, lots of problems can be fixed when dads get involved, but only at school and only
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when they're wearing matching t-shirts and only when they give themselves a clever name
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Then they'll go back to supporting organizations like BLM, which has the explicit goal of destroying
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And they'll go back to pretending that men and women are interchangeable and identical.
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And they'll go back to celebrating single motherhood as the pinnacle of parenting excellence.
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And they'll go back to calling you racist if you suggest that many of the problems in the
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black community stem from the scarcity of fathers in the home.
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See, this dad's on duty thing is then relegated to a cute little human interest story, a nice
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The broader societal implications are ignored because they, in the media, they're not going
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to stop to ask, you know, why this school experienced a seemingly miraculous change simply
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by the physical presence of firm and attentive men on school grounds.
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This cognitive dissonance goes beyond the media.
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But there are a lot of normal people in our society who struggle with this same disconnect.
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I couldn't help but notice lots of the accounts with BLM in their bio were sharing this video,
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apparently not realizing that the content of the video directly contradicts and flies in
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the face of the stated goals of the organization they pledge allegiance to.
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But if we're able to somehow lift our heads above this swirl of contradictions, we'll see that
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the dads in Shreveport are not some anomalous case, nor are they living in a cultural vacuum.
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Children need fathers, preferably their own fathers.
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And if they can't have their own fathers, either because he's dead or worse, he has chosen to
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abandon them, then they need male leadership somewhere else.
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A child who grows up with no male leadership at all, a child who is raised only by women,
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this is a lot of kids, will be severely disabled psychologically, emotionally, and spiritually.
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That's not because the female influence is bad for a child, but because the female influence
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A child can survive physically on half, but he'll be deeply malnourished.
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Why do they leave an enormous hole behind when they abandon their posts?
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Well, we see it in the clip that was just played.
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For one thing, dads are a more imposing and formidable presence.
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Kids are almost always better behaved when dad is around.
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It's not because they don't respect mom, but because they see mom as a gentler and more
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It's crucial that they have such a presence in their lives, but there's a flip side to
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And the flip side in this case is that they think they can get away with more.
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Dads can be playful and irreverent in a unique sort of way.
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Again, moms have that role as well, but it manifests in different ways.
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And then, of course, there's the most important dad contribution or one of the most important
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Ninety five percent of this job has to be done through demonstration, not lecturing.
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And as a boy grows older, he might forget almost everything his dad ever told him, but he won't
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forget the example that was set, for better or worse.
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The boys at that school in Shreveport, most of them, have probably never had a man around
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to show them how men are supposed to conduct themselves.
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Millions of boys are being raised in this way on a sort of island, and it becomes very
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much a Lord of the Flies situation, which becomes all the more pronounced in urban schools.
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Because these are boys who are walking a path to manhood with no man walking in front of
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them, no footsteps to follow, no guidance of any kind.
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Almost every bad thing we see in society, drug abuse, suicide, you know, crime, violent
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crime, all of it stems back largely to this issue.
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And we really have no right to expect any other result when we remove male leadership from
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All right, so Halloween's coming up, of course.
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My kids have already started their 12 days of Halloween.
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Now, I don't know if it's like this in other families, and I'm always pointing this out
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to my wife, that somehow these days, kids, at least my kids, celebrate each holiday like
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So my kids had a trunk or treat thing over the weekend, and that's just where you go to
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a parking lot, and they go, and everyone's lined up in their cars, and they hand the
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And they'll have another one this week, and then they have like a Halloween party with
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their friends, I think, and then they got actual Halloween.
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It's celebrated in phases, kind of like stages of celebration.
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When I was a kid, the holiday was one day, and that was it.
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And my parents sent me out on Halloween alone with a pillowcase, and I wandered the streets
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until about 3 a.m., and then I came back with nine pounds of candy, and half of it was
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There was a lot of poisoning of candy back when I was a kid.
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That's not really a thing that we worry about anymore, but back then, it was a big deal.
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And also, holidays were, so they were simpler, and they were more intense, but they were more
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Like one year, and I remember this distinctly, I wanted to be a knight in shining armor for
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But my parents didn't want to go out and buy one of those costumes, and so my mom took a cereal
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box and covered it in aluminum foil and put it on my head, and then I had a little plastic
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sword, and that was my knight in shining armor costume, and then every single house I went
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to, they thought I was an astronaut, and so I had this conversation a million times.
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Oh, look at you, cute little astronaut, and I'd have to say, what?
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And then I realized that would actually be a cooler costume, to be a sword-wielding astronaut.
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So, we'll start with this shocking, bizarre, terrible news that you've no doubt heard many
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times over the weekend from the set of a new Alec Baldwin movie.
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The cinematographer and director were both shot by Alec Baldwin.
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The cinematographer is now dead because Baldwin fired a prop gun, quote-unquote, that apparently
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It says, the gun that claimed the life of Halyena Hutchins might have been more than
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It was also being fired recreationally, even when cameras weren't rolling.
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Multiple sources directly connected to the Rust production, which is the name of the western
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they were filming, Rust, which obviously now will never see the light of day.
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It says, they tell TMZ, the same gun Alec Baldwin accidentally fired, hitting the DPN director,
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was being used by crew members off-set for target practice.
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We're told this off-the-clock shooting, which is allegedly happening away from the movie lot,
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was being done with real bullets, which is how some who worked on the film believed a live round
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Originally, when I heard this story, I thought there's no way you could blame Baldwin for this
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or hold him criminally liable in any way because he obviously didn't know the gun was loaded.
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And he was acting out a scene in a movie, or apparently now they were practicing a certain
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shot they were going to do in the film where he's pointing the gun directly at the camera.
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So, as the audience, you're getting the perspective of the person who's, you know, about to be shot.
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And, you know, I thought, well, he's probably fired or held or used hundreds of prop guns
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in dozens of movies over 20 or 30 years of acting.
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And I assume never once did any of them have actual bullets in them.
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So, you can't blame him for what was clearly a horrific accident.
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But then I learned, number one, that he was the executive producer on the film also,
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not just the actor, which means his responsibility is increased.
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But the other important thing that I learned is that apparently, from what I've read since then,
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they usually don't, and this is, maybe this is a dumb assumption that I had.
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I always assume that they use fake guns on the sets of movies, that these are not real guns,
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they're basically like toy guns, but apparently not.
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Most of the guns they use in these kinds of movies are real, but they're loaded with blanks.
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And that changes things for me, I think, because ignorantly, I'd assume that they were all fake guns,
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like very realistic toy guns, and that a lot of the sound and everything is added in post-production.
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But if that's the case, and it's a real gun, then the rules of gun safety apply.
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And one of the main rules of gun safety is that you have to assume every gun is loaded,
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which means once the gun is handed to you, even if you've got a prop guy on set or whoever
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who tells you that it's a cold gun, which is apparently what they said as they handed it to him,
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it's a cold gun, there's no bullets in it, you still have to check it yourself, which he didn't do.
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And so, that goes back to his own responsibility.
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Now, there are other complicating factors here.
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Like, we talk about the standard rules of gun safety, and there's been a lot of this commentary
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on social media about, well, rules of gun safety.
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Yeah, but we also have to acknowledge that many of the standard rules of gun safety are
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I mean, you're doing a lot of things on a film set with a gun that you would never do at a gun range.
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Like, pointing it at somebody else, for example.
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I mean, standard rules, again, standard gun safety rules, you never point your gun,
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even if it's not loaded, you never point a gun at anything that you don't intend to destroy.
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On a film set, they do that all the time in the course of making the movie.
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So, not all of the normal rules apply, but this is one, if they're using real guns, that has to.
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And, I mean, it's, obviously, there's no malice involved here.
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But then it becomes, it seems to me, not a legal expert, but it becomes very similar to
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having one too many drinks, getting behind the wheel of a car, and you kill someone.
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Now, I think that's what Alec Baldwin is facing here.
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If he knew, if he knew that it was a real gun, even if he thought that it was cold or whatever,
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if he knew it was a real gun, didn't check it, pulled the trigger, that's it.
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Treasury Secretary Danny DeVito has a new plan, along with wanting to monitor all bank accounts
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with $600 in transactions, which is almost all bank accounts, probably like 90% of bank accounts.
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Now she also wants to tax, quote, unrealized capital gains, i.e. net worth.
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I think what's under consideration is a proposal that Senator Wyden and the Senate Finance Committee
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have been looking at that would impose a tax on unrealized capital gains on liquid assets
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held by extremely wealthy individuals, billionaires.
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I wouldn't call that a wealth tax, but it would help get at capital gains,
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which are an extraordinarily large part of the incomes of the wealthiest individuals.
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And right now escape taxation until they're realized and often they're unrealized and at death benefit from so-called step up of basis.
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So it's not a wealth tax, but a tax on unrealized capital gains of exceptionally wealthy individuals.
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This is truly the penguins most dastardly plot yet.
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Secretary DeVito, what is it if it's not a wealth tax?
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This is literally the definition of a wealth tax.
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We are taxing someone's net worth, their overall wealth, not their income.
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So what that means is, for example, your home, that would count here as you haven't sold it, but it's part of your net worth.
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And when we talk about someone's net worth, if you own a home, the equity in the home, that all factors in.
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And you would get taxed on other investments, even if you haven't sold.
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Which means going back to the house, for example, and this would apply to all, I mean, stock market, everything.
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Where you're getting taxed on investments that you have not actually sold.
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So think about the phrase unrealized capital gains.
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So these are gains that you have not realized, that haven't happened, don't exist.
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When we talk about, I think people have this notion in their head when we talk about someone's net worth.
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And we say, I mean, let's talk about the billionaires for a second.
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We say that Mark Zuckerberg's net worth is a hundred gazillion dollars or whatever it is.
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And I think most people don't understand the first thing about basic economics.
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They imagine a Scrooge McDuck vault in his house where he's got all of that, the hundred gazillion dollars.
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It's all in gold coins in a vault and he just dives in and swims through it.
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We're not talking about how much cash he has on hand or what he has in his checking account.
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We're talking about the value of everything that he owns or has a stake in.
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They want to tax your real estate investment, which could be the home you live in.
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And that would mean for a lot of people, if this trickles down the tax to non-billionaires, that would mean you have to sell your home to pay that tax.
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And when you sell your home, you're already getting taxed.
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And the scope by the government, the expanse of government power and oversight that would be needed to enforce something like this is unthinkable.
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I mean, it's difficult to wrap your mind around it.
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And if you think that this will, what they're telling us right now is that this will only be the billionaires.
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Keep in mind, the monitoring of transactions of $600 or more, they say that that is also focused on the uber wealthy and the billionaires.
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They want to, you know, they want to smoke out all the billionaires that are hiding transactions.
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And so they're starting at $600 rather than $60,000 or something more realistic if they're targeting billionaires.
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So while they say that they want to go after the billionaires, when it comes to the bank account monitoring, there's going to be a whole lot.
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I mean, tens of millions of middle class people swept up in that and not by accident.
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And I can guarantee you with this, it'll be the same damn thing.
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Even if it starts with, okay, we're only targeting this little sliver of one half of one half of 1% of people.
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You look at the entire history of taxation in the United States of America.
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Or we could even start with the institution of the income tax itself.
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And you will see that every single time a tax is proposed, including the income tax itself, it is always very, very limited.
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It's this only this one little small percentage of people that are going to be affected by that, by this.
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It starts there, and then it increases and increases and increases.
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And the net, which is originally supposed to be this very small net to catch a small number of fish, has this habit of growing and growing and growing until all the fish in the sea are caught up in it.
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Because when you give the government power, I mean, I don't know how many times we have to say it.
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When you give the government power, it will never give that power back, ever.
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So if, in principle, we say that this is the kind of thing the government can do and should do, which is to keep track of our net worth and to tax us on things we haven't even sold yet,
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you know, to tax you on the sale price of something you haven't sold.
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If we say, in principle, it's the kind of thing that the government can do, then it's the kind of thing they can do.
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I mean, I use phrases like total madness to describe this, but it's actually not, this is not madness at all.
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This is a very considered plan with, for them, a definite end point that they won't tell us.
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And I know why tyrants in the government would want to do something like this.
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But I don't care where you fall on the political spectrum, which side of the aisle you're on.
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I mean, you have to be the biggest moron on earth to go along with something like this.
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Unless you live your whole life and never own anything.
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Okay, if you live your whole life never owning anything, never investing in anything.
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You know, always living in homes other people own.
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Never having any permanent, no permanence at all, no ownership.
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If you live your life that way, then you wouldn't be affected by this.
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And that is, in fact, how the government would like us to live.
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So, the White House has just announced a national gender strategy.
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And Kamala Harris made the announcement over the weekend.
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It's their fact sheet on the national strategy on gender equity and equality.
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The strategy identifies 10 interconnected priorities.
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It says, these priorities are inherently linked and must be tackled in concert.
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And, of course, it also adopts an intersectional approach that considers the barriers and challenges
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faced by those who experience intersecting and compounding forms of discrimination and bias
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related to gender, race, and other factors, including sexual orientation, blah, blah, blah, yada, yada.
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So, this is their gender strategy to combat, you know, gender-related discrimination
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And we're looking at all these areas that have nothing to do with gender whatsoever.
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What in the world does that have to do with gender?
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And whether there's man-caused climate change or not, and to what degree it's happening,
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and whether we're barreling towards an apocalypse in 10 years or 12 years or 15 years or wherever
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they move the goalposts to, you would think that we're all equally as affected by it.
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If half of the country is going to be underwater in the next 10 years, I think whether you're a man
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or a woman, I mean, I don't think that that has anything to do with stopping you from drowning.
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So, of course, none of these have anything to do, or, you know, 9 of the 10 have nothing
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But this also goes back, and you know I have to point it out, because I simply have to,
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that they have a whole plan for helping women and making sure that women aren't just killed
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And they have this plan, and yet they don't know what a woman is, and that's a problem.
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That should be, before you can institute a plan like this, you would think, number one,
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you should have to define your terms, but of course they can't do that.
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All right, next, Attorney General Merrick Garland continues to prove himself to be a shill
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Thank God the Republicans prevented this nutcase from getting on the Supreme Court, by the way.
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It's one of the only real accomplishments, and it was an accomplishment, one of the only
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real accomplishments of the Republican Party in the last 20 years has been keeping this guy
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But unfortunately, they couldn't stop him from getting in the Department of Justice,
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at the top of the Department of Justice as the Attorney General.
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Along with our partners at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Office of the Comptroller
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of the Currency, we are also announcing our first settlement under the initiative and our
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second redlining settlement in the last two months.
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Redlining contributed to the large racial wealth gap that exists in this country.
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The practice made it extremely difficult for people of color to accumulate wealth through
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the purchase, refinancing, or repair of their homes.
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That discrepancy in wealth is clearly reflected in current homeownership rates.
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Today, a white family is 30% more likely to own a home than a black family.
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This present-day gap in homeownership rates is larger than it was in 1960.
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Well, yeah, and they want black families to own more homes so that they can tax them into
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bankruptcy like the rest of us, which is what their plan is.
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But this raises the question of why is the Attorney General talking about homeownership
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And this relates to another clip that may not at first seem to be related, but I'm going
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to play this for you and then we'll tie it all together.
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Uh, here's Obama stumping for Terry McAuliffe in Virginia and they are, they're floundering
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and they're desperate and they're panicked in the McAuliffe campaign.
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And that's why they're bringing in, I mean, they're bringing in everyone they can.
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Almost none of them actually live in Virginia, uh, bringing them all in to stump for Terry
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But here's Obama dismissing concerns on the right, especially about school boards as, uh,
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We don't have time to be wasting on these phony trumped up culture wars.
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This fake outrage that the right wing media's pedals to juice their ratings and the fact
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that he's willing to go along with it instead of talking about serious problems that actually
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Instead of forcing our communities to cut back at a time when we're just starting to recover,
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we should be doing more to support people who are educating our kids and keeping our neighborhoods
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Uh, you want to support people who are keeping the neighborhood safe?
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We mean police officers, but, but of course this, this coward, you know, wants to, uh, he's,
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he's obfuscating a little bit and he's not going to be direct in what he's saying, but it's very
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clear, especially at the end there that what he's saying is that the, the, the parents showing up at
00:30:58.800
school board meetings are participating in a phony right-wing culture war.
00:31:07.020
So parents who go to school board meetings because they're concerned about, they're getting
00:31:11.840
involved in their children's education and they're concerned about what their kids are
00:31:19.360
And, and, uh, and, and especially in Loudoun County where parents are upset because a girl
00:31:26.340
was raped in a bathroom and the Loudoun County school board covered it up.
00:31:30.440
According to Barack Obama, that's phony outrage to worry about girls getting raped in school.
00:31:44.880
And this coming from someone on the left and it's all, it is always absurd.
00:31:52.780
Anytime anybody on the left, especially Obama of all people,
00:31:55.820
accuses anyone else of participating in a phony culture war, phony outrages.
00:32:04.220
That is all they do every single day is invent new battlegrounds for the culture war.
00:32:17.420
The attorney general, it's exactly what he was doing.
00:32:21.700
Talking about, uh, you know, finding it is, here's another battleground for the culture war.
00:32:35.140
We're in the middle of a, of a, of a supply chain crisis.
00:32:38.660
He's still, still on paternity leave, but he, but he took time to do an interview a couple of days ago.
00:32:45.360
And, uh, he said that now he's, he's really focused on raising awareness about paternity leave.
00:32:56.120
Why is he talking about, forget about the fact that he went on paternity leave and is still on paternity leave for, for two months and counting.
00:33:02.860
Why, why, why is he talking about, about that on cable news?
00:33:09.600
The transport, well, because that's, this is all they do.
00:33:14.100
As far as they're concerned, this is their entire job.
00:33:18.260
Phony outrages, culture war issues on every level.
00:33:24.080
I mean, we, we played that, uh, clip of the teacher in, uh, I forget where the Riverside, I think in California, the trigonometry teacher doing the Sokatoa dance with the Indian feather headdress.
00:33:39.380
And she was, you know, kind of having a mental breakdown in the middle of school.
00:33:43.740
And we, and, and, and I did defend her on the basis that like, she's, this is a mnemonic device and she's trying to get the kids to remember Sokatoa.
00:33:51.640
And as I said, I, I remember it, you know, a few days later, those kids will never forget that.
00:33:58.140
And so she was successful in that way, but she was suspended.
00:34:00.540
You can make an argument for suspending her because, because it was, it was a little bit of a psychotic break that she appeared to have, uh, in the middle of the class.
00:34:07.040
But they left-wing activists showed up at the school and held a rally.
00:34:14.900
And, you know, I was looking at some of the pictures of them.
00:34:16.720
They got, they got the fist raised, you know, they've got their poster board signs.
00:34:20.580
They're marching outside the school about this because of some weird, awkward video of a, of a, of a trigonometry teacher chanting Sokatoa.
00:34:41.740
Not because it's insensitive to Native Americans.
00:34:44.540
Even that, even that where everyone agrees that it's bizarre and like, fine, you suspend her.
00:34:52.240
Um, I'm the only, I think I'm the only person in the country actually defended her.
00:34:58.020
Even that becomes a battleground for the culture.
00:35:13.260
Um, it says the CDC is very carefully monitoring the Delta plus variant.
00:35:20.020
And it's terrible, honestly, you know, I'm pretty shaken by the Delta plus.
00:35:24.760
Because the last thing we need right now in the world is another streaming service.
00:35:31.120
Actually Delta plus sounds more like an upgrade you pay for on the plane to get free wifi and more leg room or something.
00:35:37.160
I'll tell you what Delta plus doesn't sound like.
00:35:39.680
It doesn't sound like anything you need to worry about.
00:35:45.640
Oh, speaking of, speaking of phony outrageous, uh, going back to the Dave Chappelle story very briefly.
00:35:51.640
I just want you to get ready for this because the cave is coming.
00:35:57.000
It says Dave Chappelle said he's willing to sit down with Netflix employees who organized a company walkout earlier this week in protest of controversial jokes that he made in his comedy special.
00:36:08.980
Um, but now his team is saying that they, uh, they want to sit down and they want to, they want to, they want to have a conversation with the, with the protesters.
00:36:16.380
And they're complaining that, you know, the protesters don't want to sit down and have a conversation.
00:36:23.980
A spokesperson for Chappelle tells Yahoo Entertainment.
00:36:26.180
Both sides of the street are talking and Dave is listening.
00:36:30.100
At some point when everyone is open, I'm sure our communities will come together.
00:36:33.340
As Dave said in his special, no more jokes about transgenders until we can all laugh together.
00:36:39.840
I bring this up only again so that you can prepare yourself.
00:36:42.560
Uh, if you had latched on to Dave Chappelle as some sort of a champion, some sort of warrior against cancel culture, get ready for the fact that he will cave.
00:36:53.460
He already, he already has really with this response saying, okay, no more jokes like that.
00:37:04.020
And, um, the reason why I think the cave is inevitable is that he's getting little support from the people that he likes and whose respect and admiration he desires, like his fellow comedians, other celebrities.
00:37:15.820
There have been, have there been any major comedians who've come out in defense of Dave Chappelle?
00:37:21.440
Maybe there've been a couple, but even guys like, you know, Bill Burr, Jerry Seinfeld, who have spoken out against cancel culture in the past.
00:37:29.000
Maybe they have, um, but he's getting very little support from, from that crowd.
00:37:34.760
Meanwhile, he's getting a lot of support from people he doesn't like.
00:37:39.360
Like us, he doesn't really like us as conservatives.
00:37:44.880
And if you want to know how he really feels about us, then go back to one of his other, one of his other recent specials, uh, what he said about Candace Owens.
00:37:54.000
Um, that's how he feels about conservatives, especially female conservatives.
00:38:00.000
And, and also the actual comedy special itself, I think tells you where this is headed because I hadn't watched it until this past weekend.
00:38:08.340
And I, I finally said, okay, I'll sit down and watch some of it.
00:38:12.720
And I watched most of it, but I didn't finish it because honestly, first of all, it wasn't that good.
00:38:24.080
There, there, there just aren't that many jokes.
00:38:26.080
And many of the jokes that he does tell that are pretty good have already been told a bunch of times on Twitter.
00:38:31.640
And I know because I told some of them, like his bit about DaBaby.
00:38:35.660
You heard that, you heard that bit on this show, like a month ago.
00:38:39.660
Um, not saying he plagiarized it more that just, these are jokes that have been out there.
00:38:43.980
And, uh, you know, the stuff he said about Caitlyn Jenner, women, winning woman of the year.
00:38:48.140
It's like, yeah, that's absurd, but we've all, that observation has been made many times.
00:38:52.920
Um, but more importantly, the whole thing to me, and what kind of surprised me about it,
00:38:58.580
what I wasn't expecting based on the reaction is that the whole thing seems like a, kind of a mea culpa.
00:39:03.700
It's very defensive, him kind of explaining himself.
00:39:08.500
And he, and he really wanted the audience to know that he's not a bad guy.
00:39:13.320
That's a lot of it was, was him defending himself against claims of bigotry.
00:39:17.520
Um, he spent a lot of time trying to convince people of that.
00:39:21.600
So it was not the in your face, bold, kind of, um, politically incorrect spectacle that
00:39:34.560
And now get ready for our reading the comments section.
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Who's rocking polka dot and flannel shirts without shame?
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Jonathan Swank says, these pronouns are not even pronouns anymore.
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These people are just egomaniacal attention seekers at this point.
00:40:01.000
Well, I only take exception with your, at this point qualification there.
00:40:08.200
That's what, that's what gender ideology, gender theory has always been about, but it's
00:40:14.520
Uh, big boy says, I can't believe I'm here wishing physical bullying was still around.
00:40:19.420
Yeah, I, I, I think that you, you do find, um, evidence of that, that there are a lot of
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people who never got punched in the nose because we took this zero tolerance policy towards any
00:40:36.200
And if there's even a fight, you know, everyone gets suspended no matter who was responsible
00:40:41.260
Um, and, uh, and, and, and we do see some of the fruits of that, that there is an advantage
00:40:48.900
to getting punched in the nose at a certain age.
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And a lot of kids have never had that experience.
00:40:57.100
Um, joy says, I wonder what the advertisers think of Matt's advertising skills.
00:41:02.000
Wonder if they ever watched these clips and just squirm when he said, when he says those
00:41:07.560
Unlike the normal advertising commercials, his actually bring me to tears and make me
00:41:12.920
If I ever want to leave the house again, well, thank you.
00:41:15.920
I break you down psychologically, try to embarrass and humiliate you and shame you into buying
00:41:22.180
And that's, that is one strategy that I think really works.
00:41:26.100
Um, cool Papa J magic says over the last couple of months, Matt seems much more willing to share
00:41:33.620
Well, I started drinking heavily before each show, so I think that probably is what did
00:41:38.580
Um, female Casey Royals fan says, Matt, if you want the dog to like you, you should get
00:41:47.940
And me and the dog are not on speaking terms right now because he ate, um, the, our remote.
00:41:52.600
And so I actually, my, my wife and kids were out of town for the night and, uh, I was looking
00:42:00.960
And I went downstairs for me and I came back up and, uh, the dog had, had, had eaten the
00:42:06.900
And so really, that meant that if I wanted to turn the TV, I had to get up and like physically
00:42:19.420
Uh, Derek says, surely Matt must now realize there's no going back from the decision to
00:42:24.620
I'm fully expecting a festive office for every holiday now.
00:42:27.960
That's, I understand what sort of toothpaste I've squeezed out of the tube here.
00:42:33.040
Uh, Fat Daddy says, my name is Legion for, for we are many.
00:42:41.540
Don Smith says, uh, Matt needs to talk about people who are faking mental illnesses more
00:42:47.320
like multiple personality syndrome and Tourette's.
00:42:52.360
I don't think it's, it's intentional faking in most cases, just as I don't think the enormous
00:42:55.580
spike in gender dysphoria is in most cases, intentional faking.
00:42:59.100
I think the human mind is incredibly susceptible to suggestion.
00:43:03.220
And we all know that that's where, you know, that's the stock and trade of hypnotist, um,
00:43:11.140
So if you think about it, you can actually manifest physical symptoms of an illness in
00:43:17.460
your body by convincing yourself that you have that illness.
00:43:24.760
So you have one set of symptoms, let's say, then you look it up on WebMD and it says that,
00:43:28.980
well, if you have those symptoms along with a stomach ache, that means that your illness
00:43:33.180
is the black plague and you'll be dead in 36 hours.
00:43:40.040
So if our minds can create physical sensations through the power of suggestion, how much more
00:43:46.240
can our mind manifest diluted mental states through the power of suggestion?
00:43:52.960
And that is, that is, that explains a great percentage of the gender dysphoria and everything
00:44:01.040
Um, finally from FLK, Matt, you've given a lot of commentary about planes, but you've yet
00:44:08.520
Why are they designed so that only a child can fit comfortably in them?
00:44:12.320
I mean, I don't think they're designed for children at all.
00:44:14.020
I mean, you ever try to take a child, you ever had this experience, try to take a child
00:44:21.600
Um, and now there's two of you inside this little, this little box.
00:44:26.980
And if it's a boy that you're taking to the bathroom while he's standing while he's doing
00:44:30.500
his business and, um, he already has issues with aim cause he's, you know, a small child
00:44:33.800
and, but, and, and that's on solid ground and now you're in a plane and it's shaken up
00:44:40.900
and down and it's really just a recipe for disaster.
00:44:42.480
I can remember taking my son's probably a TMI, but I remember taking my son to a bathroom
00:44:47.420
on a plane when he was about four or five years old and I don't want to get too graphic,
00:44:51.420
but it was, it was, um, it was like a sprinkler system in there.
00:44:55.720
And, you know, just, it was, and I'm going to him, stop, get it in the toilet, in the
00:45:03.220
And it just got everywhere and I had to clean it up.
00:45:05.180
And there's a backlog of people waiting to get into the, into the restroom.
00:45:12.880
Parenting in a bathroom is a whole other subject.
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I could write a memoir about that, but, uh, I won't get into it right now.
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as always, the objective is to make a play, get the turnover, put the offense on defense.
00:47:20.300
That's why I'm playing in the dime right now, six DBs on the field, free safety, back deep,
00:47:25.440
Kind of losing track of the point I was trying to make with this analogy.
00:47:28.440
Anyway, the point is this weekend, I was again the subject of outrage.
00:47:31.500
And this is embarrassing for me as someone who's normally quite meek and gentle and non-confrontational.
00:47:37.080
I also consider myself to be a people pleaser, and I have other deluded ideas about my own
00:47:41.600
personality, but we won't continue down that path right now.
00:47:44.300
What upset the internet this time is a discussion that began on this podcast on Friday.
00:47:48.660
I read a comment from a listener during the reading the comments segment of the show where
00:47:52.560
he asked whether his fiance's refusal to take his name upon marriage should be considered
00:47:58.820
And I said that not only is it a red flag, but it's a deal breaker.
00:48:01.460
As a man, I would not marry a woman who didn't want to share my name.
00:48:06.120
I would recommend that other men draw the same line.
00:48:09.860
Now, I repeated this point on Twitter later that afternoon.
00:48:12.520
Everything that followed is therefore really the fault of the listener who brought this
00:48:20.780
So over the course of the next three days, a familiar chain of events followed.
00:48:24.600
Thousands of people very upset that I would suggest that women ought to take their husband's
00:48:28.460
The fact that I would call this issue a deal breaker was all the more abhorrent to the
00:48:33.280
They've let me know that I'm a sexist, a misogynist, a bad husband, a tyrant, a bigot, a barbarian.
00:48:37.780
One guy said that my opinion on the subject is evidence that I might be murderous and actually
00:48:42.320
a physical danger to my family just because I want to share my name with them.
00:48:47.780
Others went a different direction saying that my perspective proves that I'm a sexually repressed
00:48:52.020
virgin, a fact that will no doubt come as a great shock to the mother of my four children.
00:48:56.140
But rather than give a general overview, I think it'd be helpful in this case to read
00:49:05.040
And this, I think, is a good representative sample.
00:49:07.860
I'm choosing only from the blue check squad, verified accounts, media people, authors, academics,
00:49:16.720
Bethany says, I really don't hold much importance to my surname, a random name my granddad chose
00:49:23.000
My mom has a different surname now, too, but I definitely would keep my name just to spite
00:49:34.160
Therefore, it isn't a requirement for us to be branded with your surname.
00:49:38.520
It's rare to hear of men taking women's surnames.
00:49:40.560
So if you won't do the same for us, keep quiet.
00:49:43.580
Rachel says, would consider it a deal breaker if any boyfriend expected me to take his name.
00:49:49.300
Any man who expects a woman to give hers up for him without discussion clearly doesn't
00:49:54.460
Heather says, damn, how do I break it to my fiancee that after 11 years, we're going to
00:49:58.280
have to end things because I'm not planning to change my name?
00:50:07.040
And even if I weren't an author, et cetera, marriages may come and go.
00:50:13.920
Of course, the really funny thing about all this and most of the rest of the responses
00:50:18.180
from feminists on the subject is that they all seek to prove that they're strong and
00:50:22.380
independent women by refusing to take their husband's names and instead keeping their
00:50:26.520
father's names, quite literally participating in the patriarchy while pretending to dismantle
00:50:32.520
The other thing almost as funny is that each response only underscores rather than undermines
00:50:39.780
Bethany says that she would refuse to take her husband's name purely out of spite.
00:50:45.660
Now, fortunately for her, this probably won't ever come up.
00:50:48.380
I mean, she can actually force her cats to take whatever name she wants to give them.
00:50:52.060
But still, she confesses to being driven by spite.
00:50:55.720
Steph and Rachel see the unity of sharing a name as branding.
00:50:59.900
They would consider it a deal breaker in the other direction if their future husband dared
00:51:03.380
to request that they have a shared family name.
00:51:06.160
Heather says that she's getting married to her boyfriend after 11 years.
00:51:13.040
This is someone whose commitment issues are probably terminal at this point.
00:51:17.100
Doubly so for Amy Alcon, who says, again, marriages may come and go.
00:51:23.240
So you see in these answers, not just that cat ownership tends to make women very bitter,
00:51:30.040
One, that the trend to move away from sharing the husband's name is driven primarily by an
00:51:37.140
ideologically fueled hatred of our cultural traditions.
00:51:40.340
And two, that it's a symptom of a society that fears commitment.
00:51:44.360
So let's talk about both of these in reverse order.
00:51:49.360
Marriage, if it's anything worth doing, is the bonding of two people into one marital unit.
00:51:59.540
And even in many ways, to share your identity with somebody else.
00:52:02.900
It's not that you lose your identity when you get married, but rather that your identity
00:52:06.080
is changed and it's bonded to this other person, fulfilled by them and by the love you share.
00:52:11.240
If this all sounds like a bunch of hocus pocus to you, that's fine.
00:52:18.620
If you don't believe in what I'm saying, then you don't believe in marriage.
00:52:22.200
And the worst thing you can do when you don't believe in marriage is get married.
00:52:26.100
If you do believe in marriage, then the very first thing you should do, the very first
00:52:30.720
thing you should want to do is come together under the same name.
00:52:47.760
It symbolizes unity, commitment, togetherness, a shared life.
00:52:58.400
That the decision to keep your own name is a symbolic gesture in its own right.
00:53:05.180
It symbolizes separation, detachment, disunion.
00:53:13.940
The left recognizes it, which is why they make such a big deal out of demanding that people
00:53:17.720
respect the new name of a trans person after they, quote, transition.
00:53:21.800
To call somebody by their old name, their dead name, as it's called, is an egregious offense.
00:53:30.560
John Proctor in The Crucible would rather be marched to the gallows than sign his name
00:53:38.220
He was willing to have the whole town told that he gave it.
00:53:46.540
It's the name that his sons will carry down to their children and through the ages.
00:53:52.640
In our deluded yet materialistic and utilitarian age, we don't understand things like dignity
00:53:58.300
We pretend not to even understand why the symbolism of a shared marital name is so crucial.
00:54:03.300
Yet the people on that side admit to the truth when they say something like marriage
00:54:08.320
They see marriage as temporal and fleeting while names are deep and rich and permanent.
00:54:12.540
But marriage is supposed to be deep and rich and permanent also, which is why it should
00:54:21.380
But then, why share the man's name and not the woman's?
00:54:25.180
Well, a big part of the answer for me is that I believe the man is supposed to be the
00:54:30.100
That may be unfashionable to say, but I care about fashionable opinions about as much as
00:54:34.260
I care about the outrage from childless cat ladies.
00:54:41.000
Because it's a significant and enduring cultural tradition.
00:54:45.400
As already established, we live in a utilitarian age and also a stupid and shallow age.
00:54:50.940
So we tend to look at tradition as totally unimportant, superfluous, or worse.
00:54:56.440
We think that it's noble to break traditions just for the sake of breaking them.
00:55:01.320
We feel oppressed by them because traditions come from our ancestors, and we think that
00:55:05.700
our ancestors should have no say in how we live our lives, even though we live in the
00:55:15.700
I think that if you're going to dismantle a tradition, you better have a good reason.
00:55:20.560
And the reason shouldn't be indifference or spite or half-baked notions of female empowerment.
00:55:25.780
You know, G.K. Chesterton said that, you know, there are many fences in the world that are
00:55:31.180
worth tearing down, but you damn well better understand why the fence was erected before
00:55:38.100
Tearing down fences on a whim because they obstruct the path you wanted to walk is foolish and
00:55:42.900
arrogant and a good way to get your face eaten by a Rottweiler.
00:55:46.200
A similar thing can be said about our cultural fences, our traditions, which these days we dismantle
00:55:51.820
with no notion as to why, no coherent reason, and the result is that we lose the sturdy and
00:55:57.360
beautiful things our ancestors gave us, and we replace those things with nothing at all.
00:56:02.180
Sharing the husband's name is, among other things, a meaningful tradition dating back
00:56:07.260
There are those who want to discard this tradition like they discarded so many others, which speaks
00:56:11.260
not only to their ignorance and their contempt for their own history and the voice of their
00:56:18.820
It speaks to their disregard for the whole institution of marriage.
00:56:21.820
That's why I said what I said, and I stand by it, and why I say now to those who are upset
00:56:29.520
about it, that you are, once again, I'm terribly afraid to say, canceled.
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