The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 858 - The Bubba Wallace Noose Hoax Is Resurrected

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, if you were expecting the media to back away from race hoaxes and shame after the Jussie Smollett verdict, think again.

00:00:06.920 Yesterday, ESPN tried to resurrect the Bubba Wallace noose fable.

00:00:10.920 Also, is Amazon to blame for the workers who died when a tornado hit their factory on Saturday?

00:00:15.640 And you've heard about the male swimmer crushing the female competition at the college level.

00:00:20.480 Today, we'll actually watch one of those races to see for ourselves what a farce it all is.

00:00:24.580 Plus, the head of the NIH breaks into song during a press conference and in the Daily Cancellation will deal with the controversy surrounding comments that Ben Shapiro's sister made about Madonna.

00:00:34.980 Am I going to cancel a member of the Shapiro family today?

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00:02:02.600 So people often ask me, you know, why I am so stubborn and hard-headed and closed-minded, refusing to admit when I'm wrong, refusing to apologize, doubling down when people are upset at me, and then tripling down when they're mad that I doubled down. 0.98

00:02:14.300 The answer is that I'm just kind of a jerk, frankly. 0.98

00:02:16.600 I mean, that's the answer. 0.97

00:02:17.220 But also because, although maybe not everyone can or should operate this way, we all have different personalities, some of us need to, because this is the kind of thing we're up against.

00:02:27.700 We cannot all be equivocators and compromisers while we face an ideological opponent who stands firm in his position no matter what, regardless of the facts, regardless of anything.

00:02:38.700 Some of us have to be a bit obstinate, headstrong, or else we'll all be blown around by the breeze like little leaves and twigs.

00:02:47.220 A perfect example of the left's stubbornness, which calls for a proportional response, I think, is this.

00:02:53.540 It's been less than a week since the Jussie Smollett verdict when the left and the media were, all you would think, humiliated after the hoax they promoted was revealed as a hoax.

00:03:03.400 You might assume that they would want to crawl into a hole for a while, lick their wounds, hide their faces, and certainly steer plenty clear of anything else that looks like it might be a race hoax.

00:03:14.900 But that's just not how they roll.

00:03:16.860 And so yesterday, ESPN, with timing that is not a coincidence, decided to air a special on the Bubba Wallace story.

00:03:24.520 Now, you remember that Bubba Wallace was the black NASCAR driver who claimed that somebody hung a noose in his garage last year.

00:03:30.740 NASCAR rallied around him, the media ate the story up, and it all culminated in the dramatic display of all of the drivers at Talladega marching around the track with Bubba Wallace in a show of solidarity.

00:03:44.300 And they all gave him hugs and they were all crying.

00:03:47.540 Of course, there's one really important detail about that noose, quote unquote, which is that it was not a noose.

00:03:53.220 It was a rope that you used to close the garage door.

00:03:57.000 A garage door pull, as, you know, we call it.

00:03:59.280 But anyone who's ever been in a garage might be familiar with these contraptions.

00:04:03.080 They're just like ropes.

00:04:04.380 That's why they're hanging.

00:04:05.260 That's why it's, interestingly enough, hanging from the garage door.

00:04:08.780 You might wonder, oh, why is that rope on the garage door?

00:04:10.860 Oh, because when you pull it, the door goes down.

00:04:14.020 Wow.

00:04:15.500 NASCAR drivers who spend many hours in garages are certainly familiar with these things.

00:04:21.500 They see them all the time.

00:04:22.340 But even if Bubba Wallace and everybody else at the Speedway that day had suffered amnesia and forgotten about the existence of garage door pulls, they still could have easily figured out whether the rope was meant to be some kind of racist message to Bubba Wallace.

00:04:36.360 There are security cameras all over the place.

00:04:39.020 As some of us pointed out when this story was first reported, well, there are security cameras.

00:04:45.600 So couldn't you just quite easy to find out what's going on?

00:04:48.860 Simply go back and check the footage and see how long the rope has been there.

00:04:52.800 If it's been there for longer than a day or two, that means that it could not have been targeted at Bubba Smollett, Bubba Wallace.

00:04:59.940 Sorry, because nobody would have known prior to that point that Wallace would be assigned to that garage.

00:05:05.780 So that's all you got to do.

00:05:07.520 Security cameras, just look at them.

00:05:09.840 Look at the footage.

00:05:11.080 It would take like 10 minutes.

00:05:13.920 Now, as it happens, the FBI showed up with 15 agents to investigate the rope, and they did exactly that.

00:05:19.920 They checked the tape.

00:05:21.060 And when they did, they discovered that it had been there since the previous year.

00:05:24.720 For months, it had been hanging there, and nobody thought anything of it.

00:05:28.360 Did we need 15 FBI agents to look at the footage and discover this?

00:05:33.240 Is there a reason why NASCAR couldn't have done this themselves immediately before running out to the public and telling everyone that there's a suspected potential noose-like structure in Bubba's Garage?

00:05:43.720 The answer to both is no.

00:05:45.880 Well, the real answer is no, they didn't need the FBI agents.

00:05:48.520 They could have checked themselves.

00:05:49.580 But they preferred the narrative of the racist noose, and so they ran with it until they could run no longer.

00:05:55.380 Or you thought they could run no longer.

00:05:57.200 But here they were last night on ESPN, trotting this thing out again a year later.

00:06:03.960 Let's watch some of this clip here.

00:06:09.700 I just wanted to stand with him during the National Anthem to show my support for him, and was appalled by what I had learned.

00:06:15.920 And then as drivers got involved, I think crew members, team managers, team owners, it really started to snowball within a very short period of time.

00:06:24.560 One of them, one were the next week's work I was going to have, haciendo a spacecraft developer.

00:06:26.560 I was thinking, what was that?

00:06:26.820 I've found a rod.

00:06:28.140 I feelingме, what's mio?

00:06:29.000 But I'm a man who I feel the same.

00:06:29.700 I don't know.

00:06:31.640 I 양 achieve it.

00:06:33.140 One was a great as a ton.

00:06:42.140 I'm doing my little bit.

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00:06:51.760 The most incredible, non-competitive moment in sports I've ever seen.

00:07:03.900 That moment, I could feel the weight of that moment, and I think we all did as we were walking.

00:07:10.640 Yes, it may have been one of the most incredible moments in sports.

00:07:13.920 Never in history, never in the history of sports has there been such pageantry and emotion surrounding a garage door.

00:07:20.360 This was quite easily, I think we could say this, right?

00:07:23.140 Quite easily, the most dramatic garage door-related sports moment in world history.

00:07:29.620 But I'm not sure if that's anything to brag about, necessarily.

00:07:33.900 And just because I'm a glutton for punishment, let's keep watching a little bit of this clip here.

00:07:38.680 I get out of the car. 0.79

00:07:41.260 I look back, and I was like, holy s***, it's the whole garage.

00:07:46.600 The whole garage. 0.54

00:07:48.060 And that's when I lost it.

00:07:50.680 In the midst of all the turmoil

00:07:53.100 that was going on in the world, with the black and white, the hatred and everything that was going on,

00:08:06.940 the entire NASCAR family rallied behind my son.

00:08:12.780 Very inspiring.

00:08:17.580 Now, just to remind you, again, it was not a noose.

00:08:22.420 So it was 100% not any kind of racist attack at all.

00:08:25.760 It was just a rope with a loop on it so you could grab hold of it to pull the door closed.

00:08:32.560 And by the way, that's also how we know it's not a noose.

00:08:35.500 Because a noose, and I know people on the left, they don't spend a lot of time outdoors.

00:08:40.880 They probably don't do a lot of fishing or that kind of thing.

00:08:43.280 So they're not familiar with tying knots.

00:08:45.820 But I can tell you that not every knot is a noose.

00:08:49.240 In fact, most of them aren't.

00:08:51.160 Only one knot is a noose, and it's a noose.

00:08:53.360 And all the others are different kinds of knots.

00:08:55.540 But they might look kind of similar.

00:08:56.700 Because I know, again, if you don't spend a lot of time outside,

00:09:00.100 and all you do is watch corporate media,

00:09:04.400 you see a rope, and maybe you just start breaking down in tears.

00:09:07.820 Because you think, well, why else would that rope be there except to hang somebody?

00:09:12.080 But a noose has a particular application.

00:09:14.620 And so by definition, a noose, when you pull on the loop, it constricts.

00:09:20.720 Because that's what it's made to do.

00:09:23.160 That's what makes it a noose.

00:09:23.860 So if you pull on the loop and it does not constrict, then it's not a noose.

00:09:28.540 And so since this thing was hanging there as a garage door since the previous October,

00:09:34.160 we could probably assume that it was not constricting when you pulled on it.

00:09:36.780 Because that means every time you try to shut the garage door, it would break your hand.

00:09:41.120 And so I'm going to assume that it had not been there for months,

00:09:44.020 where every time you shut the garage door, everyone's getting their hand broken.

00:09:47.960 And no one thinks to change the knot.

00:09:49.240 So I'm assuming that's not the case.

00:09:51.520 Which means that it was a knot that did not constrict.

00:09:54.200 It's not a noose.

00:09:54.700 So this, in other words, this was not a makeshift gallows that had been set up to perform executions

00:10:00.740 before, you know, before the race.

00:10:03.920 We know all of this now.

00:10:05.140 I mean, any intelligent person knew it the moment they heard about the story,

00:10:07.660 even before the FBI brain trust confirmed it. 0.99

00:10:10.180 But now even the dumbest among us knows it. 0.97

00:10:14.260 And still ESPN aired the special. 0.96

00:10:18.020 They reported themselves last year that the FBI confirmed it was not a hate crime.

00:10:23.220 And yet here they are.

00:10:25.540 You thought the media would be embarrassed by Jussie Smollett.

00:10:28.280 Instead, they're saying, oh, yeah, you think we're embarrassed by that?

00:10:30.700 Well, take this.

00:10:32.040 Here's an emotional documentary about a black guy who was afraid of his garage door.

00:10:38.040 So this is the this is the double down.

00:10:40.540 It's also, as I've been explaining for the last few weeks, the reality curation.

00:10:44.960 They are shaping the way people view reality.

00:10:49.740 The actual details don't matter.

00:10:52.840 In fact, in fact, the whole idea that nooses are racist symbols is itself a part of that reality curation.

00:11:01.340 Nooses, actual nooses, like real nooses, have been used for thousands of years for different applications.

00:11:06.500 But yes, often to perform executions.

00:11:08.060 Many thousands of people or millions of all different races have died that way through the course of human history.

00:11:15.400 Many of them have been convicted criminals.

00:11:17.260 In some cases, they are unjustly lynched by violent mobs.

00:11:20.260 But whoever decided that the noose, this this like universal object, is a symbol of special significance to black people.

00:11:29.000 When did that start?

00:11:30.360 Well, the media decided that they decided it some time ago, and they've now turned it into a reality through one hoax after another.

00:11:41.120 They've been so successful in constructing this reality that even people on the right who are skeptical of the individual noose hoaxes still don't stop to question why we're pretending that the noose is a racist symbol in the first place.

00:11:53.540 That's the power of the false reality that the left has constructed, and which permeates and intrudes into the lives of people who would otherwise know better.

00:12:04.200 So it's a very unique situation in modern times.

00:12:06.560 They've always been liars and propagandists in the world, but never with such immediate and all-encompassing access to so many people.

00:12:14.200 And so with this ability to fundamentally reshape how we look at the world, which is all the more reason to remain vigilant and skeptical, and if we stand in the truth, to stand there stubbornly. 0.86

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00:14:01.160 A couple quick notes here about my best-selling children's book, Johnny the Walrus.

00:14:06.520 Really important.

00:14:07.240 First of all, and I think this is brilliant.

00:14:09.540 I think this is great.

00:14:10.200 But I've had some people reach out to me saying that they want to donate the books to their local schools.

00:14:18.980 Especially their local elementary schools.

00:14:20.480 I started with one parent group in Southern California.

00:14:25.880 And what they want to do is get a bunch of the books and then buy a bunch of boxes and donate them very generously.

00:14:33.020 And I think that those elementary schools down there in Southern California will be very, very grateful for these books.

00:14:39.660 And I think it's a great idea.

00:14:42.060 I plan on doing that myself.

00:14:43.460 I'm going to make some—this is good news for the schools around here in Nashville.

00:14:48.220 But I plan on making some very generous donations myself of this book to the schools around here.

00:14:54.860 So if you want to do that, if you want to buy the books in bulk, you can go to bulkbooks.com.

00:14:59.700 And then search for Johnny the Walrus, and then you get the discount buying in bulk.

00:15:04.440 But I'll tell you one place that you cannot go to get Johnny the Walrus, unfortunately.

00:15:08.560 I mean, you can go to Amazon, and you can still find it there.

00:15:10.480 You won't find it listed as an LGBT book because of homophobia and gay erasure, and it was taken off.

00:15:15.280 But it's still there.

00:15:16.000 You can go to johnnythewalrus.com.

00:15:17.960 But you cannot go to Target because the book has been taken off of Target.

00:15:23.100 And they took it off at some point last week, like late last week.

00:15:27.060 They got rid of Johnny the Walrus.

00:15:30.860 And we've been asking—I think it's a fair question.

00:15:34.760 Yeah, I mean, they can decide what books they're going to sell, but I think we have a right to know why they took the book down.

00:15:41.920 This was a decision made by someone.

00:15:45.200 What was your reason?

00:15:47.200 And so we have been contacting Target, reaching out to them, just saying, why would you take down this book, written by a best-selling LGBT author, this delightful book about a young boy pretending to be a walrus?

00:15:58.280 Are you saying that this is prohibited now, that you're not going to sell books about children pretending to be different things?

00:16:08.380 Books of fantasy and imagination, that's no longer allowed at Target?

00:16:12.860 Is that what you're saying?

00:16:13.480 Really fair question.

00:16:15.840 We've been asking them, can't get an answer.

00:16:17.820 If you want to ask Target, then I would very much encourage you to do that.

00:16:21.260 You can—one thing you can do is contact them on Twitter.

00:16:26.060 It's at AskTarget.

00:16:28.980 And that seems to be their account that usually will respond to consumer questions and complaints.

00:16:34.260 But they haven't responded to me yet.

00:16:36.040 So I don't know if it's from Target.

00:16:39.860 This could once again be homophobia, rearing its ugly head, where they're saying, oh, I don't want to talk to the number one best-selling, most revered LGBT author in the country.

00:16:50.280 So this might be something targeted at me.

00:16:52.200 You might have more luck.

00:16:53.980 I don't know.

00:16:54.640 But if you want to do me a favor, do us all a favor, really, and find out why Target took Johnny the Walrus down.

00:17:02.520 Hashtag Free Johnny.

00:17:04.140 Hashtag End Walrusphobia.

00:17:07.580 All right.

00:17:08.900 So let's start here.

00:17:11.360 Jen Psaki was asked about the sky-high inflation.

00:17:15.540 She's another one who's not very forthcoming with answers.

00:17:19.340 She doesn't like answering a lot of questions, just like Target apparently doesn't. 1.00

00:17:21.960 But she did have an answer, finally, on this.

00:17:25.100 Who is to blame for the fact that it costs so much money when you go to the grocery store if you want to buy some ground beef or something?

00:17:32.860 It costs a lot of money.

00:17:33.800 And she says, well, it's not our fault.

00:17:35.820 This is all the fault of big meat.

00:17:38.220 Big meat is to blame.

00:17:39.500 Let's listen.

00:17:40.960 There are several progressive groups and lawmakers who are increasingly vocalizing the idea that high inflation is being driven by corporate greed,

00:17:48.740 including companies with high profits, some of whom have met at the White House with the President in recent months.

00:17:54.360 Does the President endorse that idea?

00:17:56.080 Does he think the corporate greed is the big driver of inflation right now?

00:17:59.220 Well, I think the President thinks the way people across the country, American families, digest inflation is by price increases.

00:18:07.440 And if you look at industry to industry, it's a little different.

00:18:10.000 So, for example, the President, the Secretary Kerry of Agriculture have both spoken to what we've seen as the greed of meat conglomerates.

00:18:17.660 That is an area where people go to the grocery store and they're trying to buy a pound of meat, two pounds of meat, ten pounds of meat.

00:18:23.980 It is the prices are higher.

00:18:25.620 That is, in his view, and the view of our Secretary of Agriculture because of you could call it corporate greed.

00:18:31.880 Sure.

00:18:32.140 You could call it jacking up prices during a pandemic.

00:18:36.580 There are other areas where we've seen increases because of supply chain issues,

00:18:41.680 and we're seeing those increases around the world as it relates to gas prices, oil supply, and things along those lines.

00:18:48.220 So I would say there are some areas where we have seen corporations benefit, profit from the pandemic,

00:18:54.500 and certainly the President would agree with that component.

00:18:58.040 I don't know the full context of all of their remarks.

00:19:01.540 It's various things.

00:19:03.640 It's the greed of meat conglomerates.

00:19:05.660 It's supply chain issues.

00:19:06.920 It's the inflation fairy, and she's invisible, and she goes to the grocery store, and she sprinkles inflation dust over all the food.

00:19:14.500 That happens, too.

00:19:15.680 The point is, it's everybody's fault but ours. 0.88

00:19:19.480 If this is the greed of big meat, of the giant, shadowy meat conglomerates,

00:19:25.240 then why did they just start getting greedy once President Biden took office?

00:19:33.940 What's up with that?

00:19:36.240 Especially when President Biden, Democrat Party, they're supposed to be the corporate slayers, right?

00:19:42.420 They're going after, and they're taking down the big corporations.

00:19:45.160 So that's kind of odd that in tandem with Biden taking office, that's when coincidentally, all of a sudden,

00:19:54.880 the big meat conglomerates, they've decided to get greedy.

00:19:59.240 So what has happened in the last year to make big meat so greedy?

00:20:07.260 Big meat was not as greedy before, and now they are.

00:20:10.580 Biden takes office, and they get greedy.

00:20:12.180 Why is that?

00:20:16.240 Of course, the excuse doesn't make any sense at all, because that's exactly what it is.

00:20:19.600 It's an excuse.

00:20:20.560 Here's another thing that doesn't make any sense, but I have to show you this.

00:20:24.780 I don't have to, but I'm going to.

00:20:26.500 And we're going to try to get through this together as much as we can.

00:20:30.380 The director of the NIH, Francis Collins, is stepping down.

00:20:36.260 And he gave his last address, I guess, to the public.

00:20:40.200 This was supposed to be sort of a press conference, an address to the public, talking about the pandemic, talking about COVID.

00:20:47.660 And his last act was this.

00:20:51.620 Listen.

00:20:51.900 Somewhere past the pandemic, when we're free,

00:21:04.900 There's a life I remember, full of activity.

00:21:16.580 Somewhere past the pandemic, masks will come off.

00:21:24.520 No more need for a nose swab, every time we cough.

00:21:35.160 Okay.

00:21:36.480 We're going to pause it.

00:21:37.920 Just don't pause it, because we might go back to it.

00:21:42.120 If you guys feel like you need to hear more of that.

00:21:45.900 I don't know.

00:21:46.260 I was kind of getting into it.

00:21:48.560 Let's just play a little bit more.

00:21:49.660 I want to hear a little bit more of this song.

00:21:50.860 Just play a little bit more.

00:21:51.700 As we are gathered here today, COVID's toll has hit and sent us reeling.

00:22:02.760 But partners like the ones right here will help to make the pathway clear to find it true.

00:22:11.040 Okay, now we're going to rewind it and watch the whole thing again.

00:22:13.640 But this time I want you to focus on the sign language interpreter, because that's a whole other.

00:22:16.880 No, I'm kidding.

00:22:17.260 We're not actually going to play it.

00:22:18.080 But that's a whole different experience when you're watching the sign language interpreter.

00:22:21.620 Who you can tell is painfully embarrassed, but she has to just roll with it.

00:22:28.260 That's not...

00:22:29.600 I swear to you, when I first saw this online, I thought, is this like a deepfake thing?

00:22:35.240 This has got to be a joke.

00:22:36.300 This cannot be real.

00:22:38.080 I know we've seen this all over TikTok.

00:22:39.880 People love singing about COVID for some reason.

00:22:42.800 But there's no way that Francis Collins, the director of the NHS...

00:22:45.680 But no, this is real.

00:22:46.680 He actually did that.

00:22:47.620 That is a thing that happened.

00:22:51.260 And this shows you a lot of things.

00:22:53.680 One is, even before he broke out into song, this was the case, that we see how when people

00:22:59.180 get into a bureaucracy, they become bureaucrats.

00:23:03.500 It has this effect of lessening them, you know?

00:23:07.240 And that's really a shame with Francis Collins, because he, in fact, is a brilliant scientist.

00:23:11.840 He's one of the guys who sequenced the human genome.

00:23:13.980 I mean, he's one of the...

00:23:15.460 He's a great, brilliant scientist.

00:23:18.400 But now this is what he has become as a bureaucrat.

00:23:22.920 My God.

00:23:25.060 And we can laugh in a cringy, awkward way at that, because what else are you going to do?

00:23:31.620 But there is also something kind of sinister about it.

00:23:34.900 Because it's this fanciful song about somewhere past the pandemic, everything will be good again.

00:23:41.860 You could take the masks off.

00:23:44.980 But just like we talk about somewhere over the rainbow, even in Wizard of Oz, the place

00:23:50.140 over the rainbow doesn't really exist.

00:23:51.280 It's all a dream in the end.

00:23:52.480 It's a bait and switch, which always bothered me.

00:23:55.140 Even when I was a kid, I first saw that movie.

00:23:57.700 So it's not real, is the point.

00:24:00.340 The place over the rainbow is, everything is great, but it's in your imagination.

00:24:04.780 It's in your dreams.

00:24:05.720 It's not a real place.

00:24:06.700 And that's basically what we're being told there.

00:24:11.600 And this thing goes from awkward to creepy when you think of it that way.

00:24:17.260 That what we're being told by the NIH is that the place past the pandemic, it's like the place over the rainbow in that it doesn't exist.

00:24:24.980 Because we're never going to be past this.

00:24:27.020 This is how it's going to be forever.

00:24:28.120 You're never taking the mask off.

00:24:30.340 If you live in a place where you still have to wear it, you're never taking it off.

00:24:35.080 If you're in California, where I just was for a few days suffering through, you're never taking the mask off.

00:24:39.040 So that's the real message.

00:24:42.340 Past the pandemic is a fantasy.

00:24:46.180 But keep dreaming about it.

00:24:47.940 Keep thinking about it.

00:24:50.000 And keep cooperating and obeying.

00:24:53.240 And maybe one day, this far-off fantasy will come to fruition.

00:24:59.340 That's the real message of the song.

00:25:01.560 All right, let's go here.

00:25:05.860 Amazon, I wanted to talk about this briefly.

00:25:08.240 Amazon is coming under fire after a number of employees were killed during the deadly tornadoes on Saturday.

00:25:14.660 And this was at a warehouse in Illinois.

00:25:16.940 I think it was six people were killed, I believe.

00:25:20.300 And then there was a different, not an Amazon factory, but a different factory in Kentucky where dozens and dozens of people were killed.

00:25:27.940 And especially Amazon is getting criticism.

00:25:30.580 For whatever reason, I haven't heard as much criticism directed at whatever company runs the factory where those people were killed.

00:25:37.840 But a lot of the criticism seems to center around the fact that Amazon wouldn't let employees leave during the storm.

00:25:46.020 You've probably seen that headline all over the place.

00:25:50.120 They weren't allowed to leave.

00:25:51.060 They had to stay.

00:25:51.580 Also, I've seen people going after Amazon for forcing employees to come to work, even though there were tornadoes in the forecast, as I saw somebody phrase it on Twitter.

00:25:59.720 So I want to touch on these two things quickly.

00:26:01.340 I'm not one to defend Amazon.

00:26:02.620 Um, and I don't, I don't, I don't really care if people are attacking Amazon and doesn't, doesn't personally offend me in any way, but I also, I hate nonsense.

00:26:12.680 And there's a whole lot of nonsense related to this situation.

00:26:16.240 And I, so I want to explain that.

00:26:19.820 First of all, was, was Amazon right in not allowing their employees to leave, uh, once the tornado hit, once there was a tornado warning?

00:26:29.920 Was that the right thing to do to force employees to stay there?

00:26:32.860 Yes, absolutely.

00:26:34.480 And it's obviously a great tragedy that people ended up dying, but it was the right thing to do to make them stay because that is anyone who's lived in the Midwest, anyone who's lived in a, in a tornado prone area knows this.

00:26:49.780 This is standard procedure when you get a tornado warning.

00:26:53.320 And in fact, now you, you, you get them on your phone, you get the alert.

00:26:56.500 And what does the phone tell you?

00:26:58.160 What is the weather report?

00:26:59.260 Everyone tells you stay where you are.

00:27:01.420 If you're in a building, find the safest place in that building.

00:27:05.920 But what you don't do is leave.

00:27:07.620 Of course, Amazon wasn't going to send people to their cars out on the road when there's a tornado out there.

00:27:14.180 The car is the worst place you could be.

00:27:16.660 And if you didn't know this, then this is, this is a useful segment right now on this show.

00:27:21.200 Maybe it'll save your life one day.

00:27:22.340 The last thing you want to do, this is not like an action movie where you get into your car, you try to outrun the tornado.

00:27:27.060 The worst place you could be as a car.

00:27:28.260 Because there's falling limbs, there's debris, everything.

00:27:32.500 You're very much exposed.

00:27:33.760 If the tornado goes anywhere near you, I mean, you're, you're in a, as far as the tornado is concerned, you're in a very light, you know, you might as well be a rag doll.

00:27:42.980 That's going to get tossed around by the storm.

00:27:44.380 So you don't go in your car, you find a solid structure, the most solid you can find.

00:27:51.380 If you're in a building, you find the safest place in that building.

00:27:54.280 Last year, my wife was out grocery shopping and there was suddenly a tornado warning and they told everyone, don't leave, stay in the grocery store.

00:28:02.040 Now, if my wife had made a run for it, I don't think they would have shot her to make her stay, but they said, don't leave, stay here. 0.99

00:28:09.620 Because we're not going to send you all out to the parking lot into your cars to make a run for it.

00:28:13.180 If Amazon had said to their employees, there's a tornado warning, everyone run to your cars and get out.

00:28:16.780 And then six people had died or more, and there could have been a lot more.

00:28:21.920 Now they're really liable because they went against standard safety protocols when it comes to tornadoes, which again, the standard safety protocol is stay where you are, hunker down.

00:28:33.180 Unless you're in a car, that's the only time you're supposed to leave.

00:28:35.980 If you're in a car, try to park somewhere and get to a structure if you can.

00:28:39.700 Um, and then the second thing about, well, there were tornadoes in the forecast and they had their employees come to work anyway.

00:28:48.320 Again, if you live in a tornado prone area, you already know this.

00:28:51.220 There are tornadoes potentially in the forecast, like 200 days of the year.

00:28:56.440 A tornado watch just means that the, that the, that the atmospheric conditions are such that there could be tornadoes, but you can't shut down work every time there's, there could potentially be a tornado.

00:29:07.960 Then if you live in, in some of these, if you live in Kansas or something, you'll never go to work because it's almost every day.

00:29:15.000 There's a potential, especially in the summer.

00:29:18.240 So that's all that it means is there's tornadoes in the forecast.

00:29:21.560 It just means that like there could be somewhere a tornado or maybe not because that those, those are the weather conditions.

00:29:28.160 But you still basically go about your day under a tornado watch.

00:29:31.060 Tornado warning means, okay, now we've seen a funnel cloud.

00:29:34.460 It's out there, but it's too late to, you know, evacuate the town or something.

00:29:39.940 Uh, you got to hunker down.

00:29:41.280 There's a reason why you don't hear about towns evacuating in the lead up toward tornado.

00:29:48.180 Like they do with hurricanes because tornadoes are different than hurricanes.

00:29:51.340 Hurricanes are these big lumbering things that start out there, uh, over, over the ocean.

00:29:55.800 And you can see them literally from a thousand miles away.

00:29:58.620 And the only speculation is what course they'll take and how strong the winds will be by the time they get to you.

00:30:03.280 But as it gets closer and closer, you get a better idea.

00:30:05.700 And then, and then at a certain point, you, you really know with a fair amount of certainty where it's going to land and basically how strong it will be.

00:30:11.700 And so then you can, you can evacuate far ahead of time.

00:30:14.440 You can't do the tornadoes.

00:30:15.320 That's what makes tornadoes so uniquely dangerous.

00:30:17.760 Is that all you know is that, well, there could be, and then, and then it's here and that's it.

00:30:22.840 And once it's here, it's too late to leave.

00:30:24.900 You stay, you hunker down.

00:30:26.660 So I don't think it's fair to hit Amazon on either of those points.

00:30:30.520 Um, but being that they were in a relatively tornado prone area, if they didn't have any kind of shelter within the building, then I think you, I think that you can hold them at fault for that.

00:30:45.620 I think they claim that they did have a shelter, but some of the employees chose not to enter the shelter for whatever reason.

00:30:50.700 I don't know if that's true or not, but if they didn't have a shelter, that's a problem.

00:30:53.900 But these other things, I wouldn't, I wouldn't go after them for that.

00:30:56.520 I think these are, these are people who don't understand tornadoes or how they work.

00:31:00.260 And so that's how they work.

00:31:02.600 All right.

00:31:04.020 Here is, uh, okay.

00:31:05.800 I got to play this for you.

00:31:06.540 This is an interesting and instructive video.

00:31:09.600 Leah Thomas, quote unquote, Leah Thomas, uh, is the male swimmer at, uh, University of Pennsylvania.

00:31:18.080 You know, you remember this story we've talked about the last, you know, over the last week, uh, he was, I don't know if he was a, he wasn't, I don't think he qualified as necessarily a top male athlete as, as a swimmer for the first three years of his college career.

00:31:33.580 But he was, he was certainly competitive.

00:31:35.220 He was a competitive male athlete as a swimmer for three years in his final year.

00:31:39.960 He says, you know what?

00:31:42.240 It turns out I'm a woman.

00:31:43.140 And he decides to go over and compete against the women.

00:31:45.920 And now he's dominating the competition, dominating because he was competitive.

00:31:52.420 This is different from some of these other cases where you've got very mediocre male athletes or, or poor male athletes who, um, come over to the female side and they win pretty handily, but it's not the same level of domination.

00:32:07.160 So we could talk about that.

00:32:10.340 I mean, we could talk about how he's dominating the competition.

00:32:12.500 I can tell you that, for example, in one of his recent meets, he, he finished first and second place was 40 seconds behind him.

00:32:22.660 Now in the, in terms of swimming, in terms of a race, unless it's a marathon, 40 seconds might as well be four months.

00:32:31.660 That's how big the gap is, but we could talk about that intellectually.

00:32:34.940 We could, we can think about it intellectually.

00:32:37.360 Um, I think to see it is a whole different matter.

00:32:40.680 So I want to play, this is, this is a recent race and I'll have to narrate it a little bit.

00:32:45.120 And if you're watching on audio, then maybe go dailywire.com or go to YouTube.

00:32:48.280 And if you, when you get a chance to see this footage for yourself, cause you have to see this.

00:32:52.340 So let's play this.

00:32:53.200 This was a recent race and you see, um, the arrow there.

00:32:57.720 Okay.

00:32:57.920 Kind of the middle lane.

00:32:58.800 There's the arrow.

00:32:59.300 That is Leah Thomas.

00:33:00.060 Okay.

00:33:00.220 He's finished.

00:33:01.920 And listen, do you hear anybody cheering in the crowd?

00:33:04.840 They're not cheering.

00:33:05.540 He finished.

00:33:06.080 He won.

00:33:07.420 So middle lane there where the arrow was, he's done.

00:33:11.440 And now he's waiting.

00:33:12.360 Now here's, we, we see some, some, uh, some female competitors. 1.00

00:33:15.000 They're coming up to the wall.

00:33:16.720 Is that, are they going to be second?

00:33:18.160 Uh, no, they still have a whole other lap to go.

00:33:21.860 And we've got someone else, some people on the far lane there.

00:33:24.560 Are they coming?

00:33:25.420 Is that going to be second?

00:33:27.300 Are they second place?

00:33:29.780 Uh, no, not second.

00:33:30.880 We still haven't got the second place.

00:33:32.780 They've got a whole other lap to go.

00:33:34.240 Okay.

00:33:34.580 Now, finally, we get second place.

00:33:36.200 There is, and listen, listen to this.

00:33:39.400 Oh, don't listen.

00:33:40.140 Okay.

00:33:40.440 We cut it off.

00:33:41.200 Uh, the crowd starts cheering for that person because they're not, the crowd knows.

00:33:44.700 The crowd knows the score.

00:33:47.920 Leah Thomas finishes.

00:33:50.920 Um, I think that you might, you might've heard one person clapping.

00:33:55.220 I don't know if that's someone in his family.

00:33:57.300 And then the, the, the real winner finishes and then you get the, the crowd cheering.

00:34:01.920 Um, that's what 40 seconds looks like in a race.

00:34:06.220 As I said, it may has, well, been four months.

00:34:11.400 Thomas could have gotten out of the track and started eating a snack or something.

00:34:16.180 He could have got, got out of the track, got a hot pocket, went to a microwave, heated it up,

00:34:20.660 started eating it and, uh, and then come back and watch the rest of the race.

00:34:23.720 And then he would have seen second place.

00:34:26.420 That's how far ahead he was.

00:34:30.220 That is the difference biologically between men and women. 0.96

00:34:34.560 That's the advantage that your bio, that your, uh, physiology gives you.

00:34:41.160 If you're a male, it is an insurmountable advantage.

00:34:47.400 You think any of those women there, as, as talented as they may be against women, 0.99

00:34:53.720 what are they going to do to shave 40 seconds off their time?

00:34:58.800 Maybe if they start taking steroids, but even then probably not.

00:35:05.060 Because he's on steroids.

00:35:06.660 That's the thing.

00:35:07.180 When you're a male racing against women, it is, it's, it's cheating.

00:35:12.520 You have a chemical advantage, very similar to the advantage that, uh, someone with performance

00:35:17.760 enhancing drugs has.

00:35:19.120 It's a similar advantage.

00:35:20.420 You have similar, uh, chemicals coursing through your veins, except, except naturally rather

00:35:26.980 than, uh, artificially.

00:35:29.640 And even if you can diminish those chemicals because you're, you're suppressing hormones

00:35:33.740 or whatever, you're taking estrogen, you still have all of the other advantages that come

00:35:39.600 with being a male.

00:35:40.360 They give you a 40 second headstart.

00:35:43.620 Total farce, total joke.

00:35:48.520 And yet, yeah, I, we could appreciate the crowd, uh, for cheering for the right winner,

00:35:55.600 but they still held the race.

00:35:59.900 And all those, those, you know, the parents came and they watched.

00:36:03.460 As long as you're doing the race and participating in it, then you are participating in this farce.

00:36:13.240 You're propping it up.

00:36:14.340 You're supporting it.

00:36:18.900 There, you know, we need more than people kind of passive aggressively, not cheering for

00:36:25.220 Thomas.

00:36:26.540 That's good, but we need a lot more than that.

00:36:30.880 There need to be, there need to be protests.

00:36:32.700 There need to be female athletes coming together and, and agreeing that they're not going to 1.00

00:36:38.220 participate in races where he's there.

00:36:42.020 You do that and maybe we'll start seeing some change.

00:36:44.520 Maybe.

00:36:46.700 Um, all right.

00:36:48.880 One other thing, this is from the Daily Caller.

00:36:50.480 It says, superstar Billie Eilish opened up about how she started watching porn at around the

00:36:54.760 age of 11 and said, she feels watching it has destroyed her brain.

00:36:59.060 A 19 year old singer shared during an appearance on the Howard Stern show. 0.99

00:37:02.460 Um, as a woman, I think porn is a disgrace. 1.00

00:37:04.600 I used to watch a lot of porn, to be honest. 0.97

00:37:06.840 I started watching porn when I was like 11.

00:37:08.980 I think it really destroyed my brain.

00:37:10.360 I feel incredibly devastated that I was exposed to so much porn.

00:37:13.840 I'm so angry that porn is so loved and I'm so angry at myself for thinking that it was okay. 0.99

00:37:18.940 The way that vaginas look in porn is effing crazy. 1.00

00:37:21.920 No vaginas look like that. 1.00

00:37:23.000 Women's bodies don't look like that. 1.00

00:37:24.100 We don't come like that.

00:37:25.840 Uh, the first few times I had sex, I was not saying no to things that were not good.

00:37:30.480 It was because I thought that's what I was supposed to be attracted to.

00:37:35.080 Okay.

00:37:35.600 I mean, this is on one hand, if you want to look at from a pessimistic angle, it's, uh,

00:37:41.660 it is frustrating that some of us have been saying this about pornography for, uh, for years.

00:37:50.120 And we've been shouted down and mocked at everything.

00:37:54.020 Oh, what's with porn?

00:37:54.860 It's just, it's just images on a screen.

00:37:56.500 What's the big deal?

00:37:58.080 It's just a fantasy.

00:37:59.280 Oh, what do you mean? 0.77

00:37:59.820 Porn harms, harms, harms women. 1.00

00:38:02.040 Oh, that's silly. 1.00

00:38:02.860 That's ridiculous. 0.99

00:38:03.500 Um, and now when a 19 year old pop star starts saying it, people take it a little bit more 0.99

00:38:08.480 seriously.

00:38:09.280 So that's a pessimistic angle of it, but you know, whoever the source needs to be, I'm

00:38:15.340 glad that it's that, that this is happening.

00:38:17.960 And she's not the first one.

00:38:19.140 We, this is, this in fact is what we need.

00:38:20.580 We need people.

00:38:21.580 Yeah.

00:38:21.800 I mean, someone like me, I can sit here all day and talk about that and say what a, what

00:38:25.760 a harm, um, it is.

00:38:29.320 But to a certain extent, it's always going to be dismissed as religious puritanism or whatever.

00:38:36.720 But Billie Eilish, as far as I know, I'm, I'm assuming I could be wrong.

00:38:40.460 I'm assuming not a, not a devout Christian.

00:38:43.460 And, uh, she's telling you her own experience.

00:38:45.280 She's not alone in this.

00:38:47.540 In fact, there's a, there's a whole generation of people.

00:38:49.780 If you would listen to them, people about Billie Eilish's age, just now becoming adults.

00:38:57.040 And, uh, they grew up with this stuff.

00:38:59.220 They are the first generation that grew up with online porn.

00:39:02.920 And I don't want to hear anything from older people about, Oh, what are you talking about? 0.53

00:39:06.320 When I was a kid, there was a playboy under my dad's mattress, that whole canard.

00:39:12.520 Uh, I mean, if your dad had pornography under his mattress and he was allowing you to access 0.94

00:39:16.500 it, then your dad was a creep. 0.54

00:39:17.600 And I'm sorry about that, but that is nothing like this.

00:39:22.560 Okay.

00:39:23.680 Magazines, magazine images on pieces of paper.

00:39:30.540 Nothing like the, the permeation of hardcore porn that children, young children.

00:39:36.540 I mean, she says at age 11, she started looking at this stuff.

00:39:38.800 So these are prepubescent kids.

00:39:42.820 She says it destroyed her brain.

00:39:44.520 She's right.

00:39:45.700 Now, fortunately the damage is not permanent.

00:39:47.980 There's a way to, to overcome it, I think.

00:39:50.740 But there are certain effects that will linger forever because this is during your formative

00:39:55.880 years.

00:39:57.860 This is before puberty.

00:40:00.860 Um, your idea of human sexuality is very much shaped by all this stuff that you're watching

00:40:05.160 online.

00:40:06.960 You get a little bit older and you realize that it was shaped in this way and misshaped

00:40:10.840 by it.

00:40:11.400 Then that's when you could start to recover.

00:40:13.280 But I, but it does, it does have an effect.

00:40:16.460 That's to a certain extent.

00:40:17.580 I mean, you know, I just said a second ago that it's not permanent.

00:40:19.580 I think in fact, some of the damage actually is permanent.

00:40:23.520 It won't, it doesn't doom you to, uh, to a dysfunctional sex life or dysfunctional relationships

00:40:29.620 your whole life, but it is, there are, there is some permanent damage done because of what

00:40:35.060 these kids are being exposed to, how early they're being exposed to it, how much of it

00:40:39.720 they're exposed to, how often.

00:40:42.820 And so if you listen to the kids who are not, you know, not kids now, they're adults, but

00:40:47.400 if you just listen to them, so many of them will say exactly this.

00:40:51.480 I grew up with this and I wish that I hadn't.

00:40:56.720 I mean, you, you, you'd be hard pressed to find someone who's 20 years old right now and

00:41:02.720 is happy that they've been watching hardcore porn since the age of eight years old.

00:41:06.940 You're going to, you're going to, you're going to be hard pressed to find somebody like that.

00:41:11.240 You might, you're going to find plenty of people who have not had this awakening moment

00:41:13.960 that Billie Eilish has, where they realize the damage that's done.

00:41:16.660 But if you ask them if this, if this, you know, if they look back at their childhood, their life,

00:41:24.380 has this helped them?

00:41:25.760 Was that time well spent?

00:41:27.600 Do they wish they had watched even more?

00:41:29.040 I think the answer to all those questions is going to be no.

00:41:33.300 So this is very, very different from the magazine under the mattress deal.

00:41:37.380 Um, these are kids that are exposed to the most, I mean, the most grotesque imagery that

00:41:46.440 you can imagine, like images right from the bowels of hell that have been brought up and

00:41:53.100 bubbled up and that our kids are now, their minds are marinating in for years and years

00:41:58.300 and years.

00:42:01.140 Does that cause a trauma?

00:42:02.820 Yeah, it does.

00:42:03.360 And if you don't believe that, then think about, I mean, if you heard about a case of

00:42:10.960 sexual abuse where a 10 year old kid, a nine year old kid was allowed to be in the room

00:42:18.660 while something like what you would see in porn was happening right in front of them. 0.79

00:42:25.460 Okay. 0.95

00:42:26.860 Uh, we would all agree that that is sexual abuse, that this is a, that that child is a sexual

00:42:32.480 abuse victim, that this is a, that he was molested, even if he wasn't physically touched, he is 0.59

00:42:37.360 a victim of sexual abuse and molestation.

00:42:40.080 I think we'd all agree with that.

00:42:41.200 I would hope we'd all agree with that.

00:42:42.620 And that the adults who were performing this sexual act in front of the child should go to

00:42:47.220 prison as sexual abusers.

00:42:49.440 Well, if we could all agree that that is traumatic sexual abuse, then how's it any different when 0.75

00:42:57.580 the kid is viewing this stuff on a screen?

00:43:01.300 Does that magically make, make it all okay?

00:43:05.600 Does that, does it, does that screen act as some sort of psychological or emotional barrier

00:43:10.000 where the damage that would be done if they were in the same room isn't done anymore?

00:43:13.720 It doesn't make any sense.

00:43:14.400 If you agree that simply encountering those images and viewing an act like this at that

00:43:24.220 age, if you agree that it, that it can be emotionally and psychologically traumatic and damaging and

00:43:29.640 tantamount to sexual abuse, if you agree that that's the case in person, then you should

00:43:34.380 agree with that in, uh, when it comes to pornography, which means that we have an entire generation

00:43:41.160 and now multiple generations of sexual abuse victims, like all of these kids are sexual

00:43:50.500 abuse victims because of what they've been exposed to.

00:43:54.900 That's also why I think that's, that's also why I think you may, you can make a very strong

00:43:58.380 argument for banning this stuff because it is sexual abuse.

00:44:02.100 You're putting this stuff out there where you know that kids not only can access it, but

00:44:08.240 millions of them are every single day.

00:44:11.620 And you are purposefully making a contribution to that. 0.92

00:44:18.280 Contributing to the sexual abuse of children.

00:44:20.080 I think you could ban it on for that reason alone.

00:44:23.940 That's my view.

00:44:25.400 Okay.

00:44:25.800 Let's get now to the comment section.

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00:45:50.220 Susan Epp says, I urge everyone to read Gifted Hands by Ben Carson. He says he frequently

00:45:54.780 was mistaken for an aid or orderly and orderly. And that's fine because they're important members

00:45:59.000 of the surgical and hospital staff. Uh, he addresses it so gracefully. Well, Ben Carson,

00:46:05.640 no surprise there. Uh, I think a better man than, uh, than Dr. Smollett from our daily

00:46:09.920 cancellation a few days ago. Uh, Alexandra says, Matt death penalty question. After the Rittenhouse

00:46:15.800 trial, an interesting point was made on Tim Pool's show that since we were this close to sending an

00:46:19.640 innocent kid to jail for political reasons, how can we trust the state to properly decide who

00:46:24.200 they're going to kill? It made me think, and I actually decided that my distrust in the state

00:46:27.780 and political establishment is so deep that I can no longer support the death penalty, especially with

00:46:31.720 current tyrannical practices around the world. What do you think? Uh, you know, I understand that

00:46:36.420 argument, but I don't find it persuasive for a few reasons. I'll focus on one, which is that,

00:46:40.320 you know, why aren't you arguing, arguing against life in prison without parole? I mean,

00:46:45.420 by that, by that logic, then we shouldn't be doling out any punishments at all.

00:46:52.960 You know, there's, there's a chance that the state could send people to prison for their whole

00:46:57.640 lives, lock them in a cage, even if they're innocent. And I'm sure that has in fact happened.

00:47:05.440 I don't think it happens very often, but I think we'd be pretty sure that there have been cases of,

00:47:11.360 of someone going to jail, spending 60 years in jail, locked in a cage, although they're innocent,

00:47:15.120 and then they die in jail. So in order, in order to avoid that risk and that eventuality,

00:47:22.700 should we get rid of life sentences or prison sentences in general? Um, no, I don't think the

00:47:31.320 answer is to do away with these punishments and these penalties, which I think you need in a

00:47:36.140 civilized society. We're not going to give up on having a civilized society. We're not going to

00:47:41.260 give up on justice. That's the other thing. This is not just about, it's partly about segregating

00:47:47.860 dangerous people, life in prison. You're segregating dangerous people from society.

00:47:53.420 And then when, when it comes to the most depraved and the most dangerous people who've done the worst

00:47:57.940 kinds of things and whoever do, who have been reduced, reduced themselves to monsters,

00:48:03.040 to animals basically through their behavior. Um, I think they call for, for the, for the safety of

00:48:07.960 society, uh, for, you know, for the sake of society. I think they call for the ultimate form

00:48:14.540 of segregation from society, which is the permanent, you know, death penalty. That's part of it, but the

00:48:18.780 other part is justice. And, um, are we going to give up on that? I think when you, when you do certain

00:48:26.380 things, a man rapes and kills a child, justice demands the death penalty, anything less than that

00:48:35.640 is not justice. And so the argument here is, well, let's give up on that because sometimes justice is,

00:48:42.780 is, is not done correctly. Sometimes there is injustice in the, in the name of justice. Sometimes

00:48:48.680 justice is misapplied or, you know, I think the answer is just to work on the justice system to make

00:48:53.740 sure it's done correctly. Um, Lex says, you mentioned again today, abolishing the department

00:49:01.760 of education. Do you want to abolish the whole public school system too? What would take its place?

00:49:06.060 Do you really think we can privatize all of education? Well, yes, to all those questions, but with a

00:49:12.040 very important qualifier. So when it comes to education, like most things in life, uh, I'm a believer

00:49:18.480 in subsidiarity and that means that, that it should be handled on the most local level possible.

00:49:23.880 So I want education to be private and local. And the local part is really important. Sometimes that

00:49:30.040 gets left out of this conversation. Now the most, the most localized form of private education is

00:49:35.440 homeschool. It's also the most private form of private education. And that's why I think it's

00:49:39.520 great. And I'm a homeschool advocate, but I am in favor of local private schools. Also the local part

00:49:45.800 is very important. And here's why. If in my fantasy, um, the public education was abolished tomorrow

00:49:52.380 and it doesn't exist anymore. Department of education is gone. Public education system

00:49:56.100 is gone. Government is out of the education business. If that were to happen tomorrow and

00:50:00.360 that was it, and there were, there was nothing else put in place and, and, you know, all we

00:50:06.020 cared about was let's just get rid of this and anything is better than that. Well, you know

00:50:11.220 what we would have next? The next week there would be Amazon elementary, you know, Coca-Cola

00:50:17.080 middle school, um, Disney high, right? These mega conglomerates would move in and they would

00:50:22.720 take over education. And all the things that we hate about public education right now would

00:50:27.860 be, would, would be present. In fact, probably be even worse because at least with public

00:50:32.280 education, there is the pretense, the hope at least that you can have some influence, um,

00:50:37.380 on what happens in the school system through the school board and so on. And we've seen that

00:50:41.460 actually happen successfully, especially recently, but with privatized conglomerate education,

00:50:46.620 there isn't even the possibility of that. So, um, so that's why I have this really important

00:50:54.680 qualifier. Yes, I'm in favor of getting rid of the public education system, but what, what comes

00:50:59.320 in its place must be local and private. One of my problems with, with public school education is

00:51:06.220 that it is not local, but you're taking this thing, which should by its nature be as local as it

00:51:11.580 possibly can be and as personalized as it possibly can be. And you're turning it into this kind of

00:51:16.440 factory assembly line strategy. And you've got this federal, uh, agency overseeing all of it.

00:51:22.840 That's the wrong way to approach it. And I would not be in favor of getting rid of this massive

00:51:28.540 bureaucracy overseeing education just to put a different one in its place.

00:51:34.380 And this is, this is something I think conservatives in general are slow to understand,

00:51:37.480 uh, that big corporations are oftentimes just as bad as the government, sometimes worse

00:51:42.980 because they are large politicized bureaucracies run by elites, just like government.

00:51:50.800 All right. Um, and, uh, let's see. Gianna says, why is Eureka O'Hara always making his way onto

00:51:58.540 the Matt Walsh show? He was also the drag queen of the Dave Chappelle protest outside the Netflix

00:52:03.840 office. Okay. I thought I recognized him. Yeah. So the, the drag queen from our daily cancellation 1.00

00:52:08.720 yesterday, uh, the, the, the large one, the Ursula looking one. Yeah. I thought he was at the,

00:52:14.180 the, the Dave Chappelle protest. I usually remember faces unless I consciously try to suppress them from

00:52:19.220 my own mental wellbeing, which I might've done here. Um, I don't know, maybe drag queen Eureka O'Hara

00:52:25.220 is becoming the primary antagonist of the Matt Walsh show. There's always someone, right? As we go

00:52:30.920 through the seasons of this show, there's always a main villain. And I think prior to this, it was

00:52:35.580 probably Demi Lovato. And before it was like maybe Lil Nas X. And, uh, and now it's Eureka O'Hara,

00:52:42.360 the final boss. Not only was the daily wire first in the nation to sue the Biden administration for

00:52:47.240 their unconstitutional mandate, but we're getting closer to a million signatures on our do not

00:52:51.020 comply petition every single day. Why? Well, because people are realizing that if we don't

00:52:55.500 actively fight for our freedom, the government will take it. We have a goal of reaching 1 million

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00:53:12.880 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:53:18.480 Today, we have a reverse cancellation, not in my own defense, but in defense of Ben Shapiro's sister,

00:53:22.660 Abby. Um, I'm doing this segment today because Ben said we all had to do it or we'd be fired,

00:53:26.580 but mostly I'm doing it because Abby is being unfairly maligned for something she said on Twitter a few 1.00

00:53:31.140 days ago. She has a nice social media following of her own and she posted a side-by-side picture

00:53:35.880 of Madonna and Nancy Reagan. Madonna is, this is a picture for Madonna. This is a picture from a few

00:53:40.840 days ago. She spread out on a bed in lingerie with her nipple poking out a heavily photoshopped image, 0.94

00:53:46.580 by the way, to the point where this is more of a cartoon than a photograph. And then Nancy Reagan in

00:53:50.960 the picture taken decades ago is dressed in an outfit appropriate for a woman her age and surrounded

00:53:55.200 by her children, grandchildren, her husband. And Abby captions, this is Madonna at 63. This is Nancy

00:54:00.660 Reagan at 64. Trashy living versus classic living. Which version of yourself do you want to be? 0.75

00:54:08.000 Now, the reaction, perhaps predictably, was an eruption of outsized hyperbolic rage and mockery

00:54:13.780 from the left. Abby was trending on Twitter for a few days because so many people were lining up

00:54:18.020 to dunk on this tweet, as the kids would say. It was supposed to be somehow not only wrong,

00:54:23.800 but self-evidently outrageous to suggest that perhaps it's not ideal for 63-year-old women to be

00:54:28.260 presenting their naked bodies to the public for attention. But as always, the people pretending

00:54:34.160 to be wounded or vexed by this statement are simply trying to rationalize their own life choices.

00:54:38.840 It is one enormous act of overcompensation. Now, if Madonna wanted to dress that way for her husband, 0.95

00:54:46.720 there'd be no reason for complaint. I mean, none of us would know about it. So no reason for us to

00:54:51.660 complain. No reason for her husband to complain, I imagine. But I'm pretty sure Madonna doesn't have a 1.00

00:54:56.880 husband because she divorced all of them and she's now dating the pool boy or whoever. And so this is

00:55:01.640 not something done in the privacy of her home, but broadcast to the world for public consumption. 0.97

00:55:07.300 It is pathetic and humiliating and degrading for a person of any age to offer up their body as an 1.00

00:55:12.780 object to strangers. But it's especially pitiful for a woman of Madonna's age. You know, there's a 0.98

00:55:18.620 certain dignity that's supposed to come with age. And it's good to gain dignity with age because it

00:55:23.480 takes the place of what you lose. And you do lose some things with age. Namely, you lose a

00:55:27.680 certain degree of physical beauty and vitality. So this is the bargain that our mortality makes with

00:55:33.340 us. It says to us, okay, I'm going to take your beauty and your youthful energy, but I'll trade you

00:55:39.420 wisdom, maturity, and dignity. So that's what you get. And you may as well take mortality up on this

00:55:46.360 bargain because it's going to extract its cost regardless. Even if you say, no, thank you. I'm not

00:55:52.600 interested in your wisdom and dignity, which is what Madonna has said. Well, still mortality says,

00:55:57.880 well, but I'm taking youthfulness anyway, and I'm taking beauty. And you're going to be left with

00:56:03.060 plastic surgery and Photoshop. And so now women like Madonna are just old, wrinkled, desperate, dumb, 1.00

00:56:11.180 immature weirdos. In Madonna's case, she has had attention her whole life. She's been famous way longer 1.00

00:56:17.720 than she was a normal person. She defines herself by attention and fame, but unfortunately she lacks

00:56:23.360 the ability to attract it artistically. She hasn't made a relevant song in about 30 years probably. So

00:56:28.460 this is all she has, her half naked body. It's the only way to gain the spotlight that she craves and

00:56:34.840 that she needs. Contrast that with Nancy Reagan as depicted in the photo. And you see an older woman 0.99

00:56:39.840 who has grown into her role as an older woman, embraced it, accepted mortality's bargain,

00:56:44.780 and benefited from the trade. So which version of ourselves should we want to be? I mean,

00:56:50.920 I think that's pretty obvious. In fact, it's interesting to note that Abby is not alone in

00:56:54.940 making this point. The rapper 50 Cent, who probably does not line up with the Shapiro family very often

00:56:59.960 when it comes to political and cultural views, actually made a similar observation in his own

00:57:04.000 way, commenting on these photos when they were posted to Instagram. 50 Cent said, yo, this is the

00:57:09.920 funniest shit, LOL. That's Madonna under the bed trying to do like a virgin at 63. She shot out if 1.00

00:57:15.720 she don't get her old ass up. So that's basically what Ben Shapiro's sister was trying to say. And 0.99

00:57:20.560 you could decide who communicated the point more eloquently. As it happens, Madonna's response to

00:57:24.560 50 Cent's comments, she responded calling them misogynistic, ageist, and sexist. So she's playing

00:57:30.660 the standard game of parading her naked body around in front of millions of strangers and then 0.92

00:57:34.680 recoiling in horror when a few of those strangers dare to express their opinion about the

00:57:39.260 spectacle. But she has no room to complain. If she didn't want to hear 50 Cent's opinion about 1.00

00:57:44.980 her appearance as she lays naked on a bed, then she shouldn't have went through the trouble of

00:57:50.720 documenting herself in that condition and posting it on social media for millions of people to see.

00:57:55.940 Once you present something like that to the world, once you present anything to the world,

00:58:01.880 once you take anything and say, here you go, world, look at this, the world has a right to pass

00:58:07.300 its judgment. If you really don't want to hear the world's judgment, or you think the world has no

00:58:12.960 right to make such judgments, then keep it to yourself. That goes for your naked body. It goes

00:58:19.540 for your opinions. If you express an opinion to the world, I do it all the time. Hey world, here's my

00:58:25.320 opinion about this. And if people attack me for it, I might respond to those attacks. I might hit back,

00:58:32.900 but I'm not going to, I'm not going to sit here crying, that they disagree. How dare you give your

00:58:38.080 opinion about my opinion? But Madonna understands this, but this is the game she plays. It's a 0.97

00:58:45.600 pretty common game, especially in the, in the internet age, but usually it's played by people 0.91

00:58:48.940 who are young and dumb and who struggle to differentiate between what should be private 0.89

00:58:52.300 and what should be public. Madonna is old and still struggling in that way, mainly because she never 0.99

00:58:58.220 formed any sort of real personal identity outside of her role as celebrity. That's what makes this sort

00:59:02.960 of exhibition so woefully depressing because it's empty. I mean, this is an empty person grasping

00:59:08.720 out for attention because it's the one thing that gives her life meaning. By her age, she ought to have

00:59:14.140 a full life, deeply moored in family and relationships as Nancy Reagan clearly had at that point in her

00:59:19.040 own life. So which fate would you rather share? Do you want to be the woman less than a decade away

00:59:25.560 from turning 70, prostituting yourself with images, Photoshop to make you look 50 years younger?

00:59:30.380 Or do you want to be surrounded by family and by love and by loyalty and to leave behind a real 0.99

00:59:38.680 legacy? I think we all know which we would prefer. That's the point Abby was making and she could not

00:59:45.920 have been more right about it, which is why the people canceling her are today finally canceled.

00:59:51.720 And we'll leave it there for today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Buy my book at

00:59:55.100 johnnythewalrus.com. Godspeed. Somewhere past the pandemic, when we're free, there's a life I remember

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The Matt Walsh Show - December 15, 2021

Ep. 858 - The Bubba Wallace Noose Hoax Is Resurrected

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