The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 861 - COVID Jumps The Shark In Season Three

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matwell Show, the media is in full panic pushing mode over Omicron.

00:00:04.580 We're told that this is a winter of death and misery is upon us, but how worried should we

00:00:08.520 really be? We'll talk about that. Also, Joe Manchin blocks Biden's agenda. Pope Francis

00:00:12.600 continues his war against conservative Catholics and students in Fairfax County protest a hate

00:00:17.780 crime that happened at one of the schools. But wait until you hear the totally unexpected twist

00:00:21.840 in that hate crime story. And finally, in our daily cancellation, Mark Zuckerberg has launched

00:00:25.880 his virtual reality metaverse, as he calls it. And the metaverse has already had its first

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00:01:52.000 offer code Walsh. Now that COVID has been picked up for a third season with the promising new

00:01:57.340 antagonist Omnicorn taking center stage, the panic porn peddlers have ramped up their fear-mongering

00:02:03.140 to levels not seen really since season one. A few days ago, President Joe Biden delivered his

00:02:07.920 holiday greeting to America by promising us a winter of illness and death, which sounds like a line from

00:02:13.480 a Christmas carol that a goth emo band might perform. Businesses across the country are already

00:02:18.540 preemptively closing as we're warned that more lockdowns might be coming. In some localities,

00:02:23.040 schools have already shifted back to virtual learning, though of course virtual learning is

00:02:27.200 a euphemism for not learning anything at all. Millions of kids have already fallen behind academically

00:02:32.280 while suffering severe mental and emotional damage, which has led to unprecedented levels of

00:02:37.320 childhood suicide and self-harm. But the powers that be have decided that not enough trauma has been

00:02:42.320 inflicted on the young. They need even more. So NBC reports this, it says Prince George's County

00:02:48.440 in Maryland on Friday became the first major school district to announce that all students

00:02:52.900 will transition to remote learning as cases surge. The shift to online learning will begin Monday,

00:02:58.620 four days before the start of winter break, and continue for two weeks after school resumes on

00:03:03.260 January 3rd. And then of course, after those two weeks are over, they're going to say,

00:03:06.740 yeah, you know, we might as well just stick with this until the end of the year. In New York City,

00:03:11.840 the Department of Education has closed 859 classrooms, quadrupled the number of a month ago,

00:03:17.380 and another nearly 2,500 were partially closed as newly reported COVID-19 infections rose sharply in

00:03:22.440 the city. In upstate New York, officials announced that Oswego City School District was transitioning to

00:03:27.780 remote learning from Friday until December 23rd because of rising COVID cases, with 60 cases since last

00:03:34.280 Sunday and staffing shortages. In Missouri, on Monday, the South Notaway School Board voted to

00:03:39.240 cancel the rest of the fall semester and resume on January 3rd after the winter break because of

00:03:43.660 district-wide shortages caused by COVID cases. And the St. Roche Catholic School in St. Louis said it

00:03:49.380 would move to virtual classes this week and return after the winter break because too many students

00:03:53.580 and teachers are out sick. Now, again, you know, a caveat on all that, once again, is that

00:03:57.620 these are temporary measures, and we already know what happens with temporary COVID measures.

00:04:05.040 Pretty soon, temporary becomes a month, two months, and then I think for a lot of these schools,

00:04:11.200 we're going to go to, it's going to be summer break. We're going back to summer break.

00:04:14.520 And then, well, you know, maybe in the fall, we'll see about opening schools again.

00:04:18.380 Meanwhile, the director of the NIH, Francis Collins, has said that we could be facing

00:04:22.600 a million cases a day thanks to Omnicorn in the near future. Now, then again, Collins has apparently

00:04:29.720 lost his mind as he broke into song shortly after saying this.

00:04:36.480 Somewhere past the pandemic, when we're free, there's a life I remember full of activity.

00:04:54.720 Sorry, but I'm sure you understand that I can't mention the name Francis Collins on the show

00:05:01.340 now without playing part of that clip. Now, luckily for you, he's retiring, so there shouldn't

00:05:05.520 be a reason in the future to mention him unless I come up with one, which I'll try. Dr. Leanna

00:05:10.480 Wen, former Planned Parenthood head, current cable news talking head, was singing her own

00:05:14.900 sad song on CNN this morning as she delivered instructions on what you must do if you want

00:05:20.620 to see your family over the holiday. Here's Dr. Leanna Wen. Your two out of three rule for safe 0.68

00:05:28.280 interactions, Dr. Wen. Explain to people what that is. For people who are gathering indoors over the

00:05:35.580 holidays, I would recommend at this point, when there's so much virus around us, that you have

00:05:39.940 two out of the three things, vaccination, testing, or masking. So if you are fully vaccinated and

00:05:46.500 ideally boosted and you want to see other people indoors without a mask, meaning maybe you want

00:05:51.200 to have dinner with them. Ideally, everybody also gets tested that same day with a rapid test. Now,

00:05:56.540 I know that tests are hard to come by in some parts of the country, but that's the ideal is that you get

00:06:00.920 tested. If you're going to be, if nobody is vaccinated or if there's some people there who are

00:06:05.240 unvaccinated, if you're getting together, you should be masked and you should be tested. Basically, 1.00

00:06:09.880 you should have two out of three things, vaccination, testing, or masking at this point with that much

00:06:15.180 virus around us. Really quickly, in terms of testing, as you said, it needs to be done that

00:06:19.240 same day. So if you took a test, let's say Christmas Eve, and you're meeting up with people

00:06:24.160 on Christmas, you were negative on Christmas Eve, doesn't mean you still are Christmas Day.

00:06:29.960 That's exactly right. The closer your test is to when you're gathering with people,

00:06:34.500 the better. And I think this is something that the Biden administration really needs to work on.

00:06:38.540 They've done so well when it comes to vaccinations. That's great. But they now need to put the same

00:06:43.380 amount of effort to increasing access to testing. Why not mail test every American? Why not have to 0.96

00:06:49.980 use the UK or Germany or so many other approaches from around the world where everybody is able to

00:06:55.180 get tests? Testing should not be the limiting factor. Yeah. Why not? Why not test everyone?

00:07:01.020 Well, there's a bunch of reasons why not. We'll get to that in a second. Fauci had a similar message

00:07:06.520 on ABC cautioning Americans that they're permitted to celebrate Christmas in his magnanomy. He will allow

00:07:12.500 it under certain circumstances, but they must not attend any gatherings unless they've obtained the

00:07:18.180 personal medical records of everybody in attendance beforehand. You said earlier this week that if

00:07:24.480 you're vaccinated, you should feel comfortable traveling and celebrating the holidays with your

00:07:29.620 family. Do you still believe that? No, I do. If you are vaccinated and boosted and are prudent

00:07:38.400 when you travel, when you're in an airport, to be wearing a mask all the time, you have to be wearing

00:07:45.200 a mask on a plane. Do not do things like go to gatherings where there are people who you do not know

00:07:53.020 what their vaccination status is. Do not. He's not recommending. This isn't a suggestion. Do not.

00:08:02.960 Fauci is, of course, still pretending that the unvaccinated are the primary drivers of COVID

00:08:07.220 transmission. But right now, there's a COVID breakout in the Senate to include Senators Booker

00:08:12.740 and Warren. There's a breakout in the NFL taking dozens of players out of their games this week.

00:08:18.200 And they had to rearrange a bunch of games, cancel some games. There are breakouts everywhere and

00:08:22.600 often in places where almost everyone is vaccinated. So the dirty little secret, which is not a secret at

00:08:28.520 all, is that the vaccine does not prevent transmission. This is an undeniable fact. But guys like

00:08:35.500 Fauci are not eager to acknowledge it, because if they did, then they would lose the moral high

00:08:40.140 ground over the dreaded unvaccinated. You know, if the unvaccinated are simply taking a risk with 0.58

00:08:45.920 their own health, there's no reason to condemn them. There's no reason to be angry at them.

00:08:50.040 Just making their own decision. They make for unconvincing villains in this story if their

00:08:55.080 vaccination decision is a mere personal matter. But Fauci and company need their villains,

00:09:00.760 and that's why they gloss over the fact that vaccinated people are also spreading COVID.

00:09:07.060 They're not going to change their approach or messaging no matter what.

00:09:10.580 We are going, again, into our third year of COVID with, they say, record numbers of cases.

00:09:16.440 And yet, they say all the measures we've taken to fight COVID have totally worked,

00:09:21.360 and we should keep doing the same thing indefinitely. COVID is worse than it's ever been,

00:09:26.160 they say. But their recommendations for stopping COVID have absolutely worked,

00:09:30.940 and you must not question those recommendations. Cognitive dissonance is the real disease here,

00:09:36.740 I would say. Here's the other fact that they seem not so eager to highlight. Omnicorn,

00:09:41.220 according to the available data, is extremely, extremely mild, according to the data. Ben Shapiro

00:09:47.360 posted these graphs this morning on his Twitter, which sum everything up quite nicely. I think

00:09:50.860 COVID data out of UK. This is out of the UK. And in one graph, you can see cases spiking to a level

00:09:57.640 that we haven't seen all year. That's a big, scary spike in cases that you can see on the graph.

00:10:03.860 But in the other, you can see deaths hardly spiking at all. So the cases graph looks like a mountain.

00:10:11.320 The deaths graph looks like a molehill. Other data seems to show that hospitalizations in South

00:10:17.280 Africa, where all this started with Omnicorn, dropped by 90%. While the death rate for people

00:10:23.420 who were hospitalized dropped by 75%. Again, that's a 75% drop in deaths for hospitalized people

00:10:32.260 specifically. COVID was already a mostly non-fatal illness, mostly. And even less fatal than the numbers

00:10:40.680 suggest. Listen to this report on studyfinds.org. This is from this morning. It says four in 10 COVID-19

00:10:46.780 patients are asymptomatic carriers of the virus responsible for over 800,000 deaths in the United

00:10:51.720 States. Researchers from China say a global study of almost 30 million people found silent cases of

00:10:58.260 the virus are twice as prevalent than previous estimates feared. The results show 40.5% of the

00:11:04.520 confirmed cases of the illness are among people who show no symptoms of the infection at all.

00:11:09.860 Rates rose among certain groups, including pregnant women, air and cruise travelers,

00:11:13.320 and care home residents or staff. Now this is presented as a bad thing, but it underscores how

00:11:20.820 mild COVID has been for millions of people. Not for everybody, but for millions. But it also means

00:11:27.180 more importantly that many millions more certainly had COVID, but they never counted as a case because

00:11:34.520 they never knew there was any reason to get tested. This would mean that the actual mortality rate

00:11:40.260 for COVID is significantly lower than it appears. An Omnicorn is 30 or 40 times less lethal than that.

00:11:50.020 This is all good news, even if it's presented to us like a tragedy.

00:11:55.860 Well, I should say good news, relatively speaking, right? The very low lethality of COVID generally,

00:12:02.820 an Omnicorn specifically, is good news given that COVID was unleashed on us by China and we now live in a 1.00

00:12:08.640 world where it exists. Like given that fact, this is good news in relation to that. Now the best possible

00:12:18.240 news, if we could live in a world, any world we wanted, would be for COVID to go away. And while we're in

00:12:25.380 that fantasy land, we might as well snap our fingers and make cancer disappear too. And it could take diabetes 1.00

00:12:30.440 and arthritis and Alzheimer's along with it. That would be the best scenario, right? I would very much

00:12:36.980 prefer that. But unfortunately, that's not on the menu. A world without COVID is not an option

00:12:43.980 and will never be an option probably. Thanks to China, we exist in a reality where COVID also exists 0.99

00:12:51.740 and will always exist. It's not ever going away. So just put that out of your mind. Don't fantasize

00:13:00.440 about a future point where we no longer have to hear about COVID or worry about it. That's not going

00:13:06.140 to happen. You know, don't hold on to that hope. Let go of the hope. Throw it over a cliff. Let it

00:13:14.960 shatter on the rocks below. We will always live in a world with COVID, which means that your personal

00:13:23.060 COVID prevention strategy must be one that you can live with for the rest of your life.

00:13:30.060 If your personal COVID prevention strategy isn't something you can live with for the rest of your

00:13:34.040 life, you need a new strategy because COVID will be here forever. Find a way to live with it

00:13:41.600 or let it ruin your life. Those are your choices. Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:15:21.800 Well, we're still having Christmas in my house. I don't know about Fauci or anybody else.

00:15:26.640 Anyways, and hopefully you've got your Christmas shopping done. All of my Christmas shopping is

00:15:32.200 done because as I rave about every year, and I have to say it once again, is around the holidays

00:15:38.100 especially. It's why I cannot recommend marriage highly enough. There are a lot of reasons why I

00:15:44.940 recommend marriage, but especially as a man. The holidays used to be pretty stressful for me because

00:15:50.460 I had to go out and I had to shop for all these people. And now that I have a wife, she just does 1.00

00:15:54.520 all of that. I don't have to do any Christmas shopping. It's tremendous. It's like a totally

00:15:59.940 stress-free environment for me. And she enjoys it. She likes shopping for doing Christmas shopping.

00:16:06.120 So it's really, it's a, I am blessing her by, you know, giving her that chore to do, you know,

00:16:13.080 in a way really. Um, I just, I'm assigned like she does, she buys gifts for everybody. And so she buys

00:16:21.640 50,000 gifts and then I'm assigned, of course I buy a gift for her. So I do, I do that. Um, I don't

00:16:27.300 usually put her in charge of buying her own gift, but then she'll assign me like a couple of people.

00:16:31.340 She'll say, Oh, can you just get that? And that, and so this year I was assigned to get a couple of

00:16:35.200 things for, um, for, uh, my, my oldest son. And so I've decided to get him. I went to Bass Pro Shops

00:16:43.360 this, uh, this weekend and I got him a pocket knife and a BB gun. So I'm getting them both.

00:16:52.800 I can't tell you that's the best decision in the world, but I know he'll enjoy it. It'll be his

00:16:57.100 best Christmas ever. You know, and I, and I, I, cause I've been thinking about this. Do I want to get

00:17:02.080 him something like that for, for Christmas? I think he's old enough. Like he's responsible

00:17:04.880 enough. You know, when you, when you, when you're, I think it's good for a boy to have a,

00:17:08.160 you know, Swiss army knife and a BB gun. Um, and I'm, and I'm trying to convince, convince myself

00:17:14.420 that was the right decision. He's responsible enough, but then he does things that make me

00:17:18.240 second guess it. So I, you know, I went, I got him this stuff. And then yesterday we were outside

00:17:22.520 and he was climbing a tree and he shouts to me. He says, daddy, could I jump from here? And I look up

00:17:28.040 and I'm like, you're 40 feet up. No, you that's, you're just, that's suicide.

00:17:32.600 Right. I'm thinking maybe the pocket knife wasn't the best decision. He's going to take

00:17:37.580 that pocket knife. Daddy, can I stab myself in the eye? We'll see. Uh, but that's what happens 1.00

00:17:42.740 when you put me in charge of, uh, of buying the gifts. I buy dangerous objects and weapons.

00:17:47.540 That's what I do. Okay. A couple other COVID related items here. Um, first of all, we have de

00:17:52.360 Blasio very impressed with himself talking about why mandates are great policies and they,

00:18:00.660 they really work really well. He says, uh, let's listen to him.

00:18:04.420 People want to lead their lives. I mean, the hard thing, you know, I feel it here in New York city,

00:18:09.160 by the way, I'm from Philadelphia. So it's not like I, I, I, I live in a rural area. Um, but I feel it

00:18:15.620 in every block that I walk in New York city. But if I were in the middle part of the country with you,

00:18:20.460 I don't think we'd see masks. I don't think we'd be showing our vax cards anywhere. So I come back

00:18:25.000 to that point where unless everybody's on the same page in the country, we're kind of screwed.

00:18:28.780 You know how you get on the same page. People have to lead. So look, I believe with enough

00:18:32.840 leadership, enough mandates, we're going to get a hell of a lot more people vaccinated.

00:18:37.320 The more people vaccinated, the more we actually make the transition to a time when COVID is in

00:18:42.640 the background, not the foreground. And we know these mandates work and we know people respond.

00:18:47.840 Look, human beings are pretty predictable. If you say your paycheck depends on it or your ability

00:18:52.380 to enjoy life and go do the things you want to do, people will make the practical, practical

00:18:57.460 decision overwhelmingly and they'll go get vaccinated, but we aren't pushing hard enough.

00:19:01.360 We got to go farther. Yeah. So de Blasio has discovered, uh, the, the secret here. Apparently

00:19:06.940 if you threaten people and you say, I'll take your livelihood away and I'll, I'll take away 0.72

00:19:11.220 your ability to feed your family and I'll make your kids starve. If you don't do as I say,

00:19:15.920 they'll do as you say. Amazing. This is a, what a, what a, this guy's like a, he's a, he's an expert

00:19:25.820 in, in human psychology. I guess we could say the same of, uh, of, you know, a lot of the armed

00:19:34.100 robbers who many of them you could find in New York city. What they, they've, they've made similar

00:19:38.700 discoveries, which is that, um, uh, you know, amazingly if they pull out a gun and they put

00:19:42.740 it to someone's head and they say, give me your money, most people will give the money because

00:19:47.580 they don't want to die. Of course, but then there's the, that leaves the, the whole moral

00:19:53.620 and ethical question of, is it okay to manipulate people in that way to coerce behavior in that

00:20:01.340 way? Is it okay to threaten to take people's livelihood away because they're not doing as

00:20:06.780 you say to treat them like criminals when they're not criminals to, um, coerce people into making

00:20:15.740 medical decisions? Is that morally? Okay. But of course for him, morality has nothing to do with

00:20:23.440 it. And also keep up notice something else that he said there. He said, well, we want to go from a

00:20:27.800 point where COVID is in the background rather than the foreground. So they're not even pretending

00:20:35.700 anymore for the most part. I mean, yeah, you have Francis Collins singing about how, uh, one day

00:20:41.280 when we're past the pandemic, like being over the rainbow, but of course that's, that's like a

00:20:45.980 mythical place. So you still have a little bit of that, but most of these people are like de Blasio

00:20:52.420 there. If you listen to what they're saying, they're telling you this it's, it's, it's never going

00:20:55.740 away. It's just background or foreground, but background or foreground is relative. Okay. It's,

00:21:04.580 that all depends on where you position yourself. What happens to be in the background or in the

00:21:10.760 foreground that depends on where you are standing, where you have decided to position yourself.

00:21:17.620 Now, a lot of us have been living just as they, they said in the, in the beginning of that clip,

00:21:22.400 a lot of people are living in places like in Nashville here, where I live, COVID is very much

00:21:28.940 in the background far in the background because that's how people have chosen to live. It's in

00:21:36.720 the foreground in New York because people have chosen to live their lives, you know, staring at

00:21:41.160 COVID every single day and talking about it. And they've, they've even decided to incorporate it

00:21:48.260 into their lives to that extent, but that's a choice that has nothing to do with, with, um,

00:21:53.940 with COVID itself per se. It's your choice, how you decide you want to react to it.

00:22:03.060 And what I can tell you to reiterate the point in the opening, if you ever want to live with COVID

00:22:09.360 merely in the background, then that's a decision you have to make in your own life to live that way.

00:22:16.180 And at this point, part of that decision might be, you've got to move away from places like New York

00:22:22.400 because in New York, they're not going to give you that option. It's always going to be in the

00:22:27.260 foreground. So that, that, in a way that's the right way of putting it. But of course he wants

00:22:35.840 you to learn the wrong lessons from that. It's background to foreground and, uh, and, but it is

00:22:40.500 in the background, you know, it, it, it, it will still be there and it's going to be in the background

00:22:44.260 with a lot of other terrible things. And there, but there will come a time when, when the background

00:22:52.000 becomes more of the foreground for you. If you get sick with COVID, now it's less of a background

00:22:56.280 thing. And when that happens, you deal with it, cross that bridge when you come to it.

00:23:04.400 Um, related in a, President Trump was interviewed on Fox a couple of days ago, and he was asked, uh, a

00:23:12.040 question that I'm, I'm glad someone finally decided to ask him, which is why didn't you fire Fauci when

00:23:17.860 you had the chance? You, you could have done that and you didn't. And, uh, here's his reason for that.

00:23:24.480 Fauci, um, Fauci, Anthony Fauci misled the Senate when he said that the NIH did not fund the gain of

00:23:32.680 function research. Um, should you have fired Fauci?

00:23:36.860 So a lot of people ask me that question and I did it right because if you do fire him, you're going

00:23:42.420 to have a firestone on the left again, as usual. Um, and I didn't listen to him. If you think about

00:23:48.340 it, he wanted to keep our country open to China and I closed it. He wanted to keep our country open 0.99

00:23:53.960 to Europe and I closed it. He talked about masks being no good. Well, I'm not a huge mask believer,

00:23:59.720 but I think they have some purpose and now he's a radical masker. I mean, everything he's done,

00:24:04.720 he's a great promoter. He's a bad pitcher. He was telling me what a great athlete he was. I said,

00:24:09.020 you can't throw a baseball 15 feet. I never saw that was other than president Obama. It may be

00:24:13.700 the worst throw I've ever seen to home plate. Uh, no, I think I did the right thing because

00:24:18.580 we would have had a firestorm, less of a firestorm. Now he was fired because he's been wrong so often,

00:24:24.040 but if you think of it, he wanted to keep our country open to China, Europe, and all these places

00:24:30.220 and I didn't do it. Okay. So you didn't do the right thing because the left would have been mad

00:24:41.440 at you. That's what he said. I mean, that's not a straw man. I'm not making a caricature of what he

00:24:47.840 said. I mean, that's, you heard him. That's what he said. It was obviously the right thing. He says

00:24:53.200 all along, he was, he was trying not to listen to Fauci. He's incompetent. So you know, he's 0.99

00:24:58.540 incompetent. You're not going to listen to him, but you let him stay in that position. And the 0.93

00:25:03.440 reason is that he, that the left would have been mad. There would have been a firestorm.

00:25:09.320 There's a firestorm every day. They're mad about everything. They hate your guts.

00:25:13.000 They impeached you twice. 0.95

00:25:16.900 Oh, if I died, we would have done it a third time if I had fired him. Maybe they would have. So what?

00:25:24.660 There's always a firestorm on the left. They're going to hate everything you do,

00:25:27.420 especially if you're Donald Trump. But if you're on the right at all, they're going to hate everything

00:25:30.260 you do. What kind of reasoning is this? If any other Republican had said that in any other

00:25:40.600 context, they were asked, well, why didn't you do X, Y, Z thing? If that reason was, oh,

00:25:48.860 there'd be a firestorm on the left. We would, they'd get killed over that on the right by people

00:25:55.840 like me. Every conservative talk show, every conservative would be, would be killing them 0.99

00:26:00.900 for that. And Trump deserves the same treatment. Okay. He's not special. That is cowardly,

00:26:09.800 stupid reasoning. I'm not surprised that there couldn't have been a good reason. 1.00

00:26:18.120 You have the ability to fire him and you don't. And then you wait until you're out of office

00:26:22.100 to complain about him. How about doing the right thing when you have the power to do it?

00:26:31.500 Of course, there are many examples of this with Trump where he had the power to do things,

00:26:34.760 didn't do it, gets out of office and then talks about how he wishes those things were done.

00:26:39.440 Well, who do you blame for that?

00:26:40.440 And then he starts talking about Fauci as bad at throwing a baseball. How is, yes, he is, but how

00:26:52.360 is this is your chance to talk about Fauci and you spend 60 seconds talking about why he's bad and 15

00:26:59.640 of those seconds are spent on him throwing a baseball? That's not exactly the point, is it?

00:27:04.600 If I were to list the top 100 things I dislike about Anthony Fauci, the baseball is not making

00:27:11.280 the top 100. But for Trump, that's like in the top five, apparently.

00:27:20.960 Yep. The audience doesn't like it when I talk about this, but it's the case. 2024 is going to be

00:27:27.100 here before we know it. Do we want a 78-year-old Trump who doesn't do the right thing because he's

00:27:36.740 afraid of firestorms on the left, who, you know, his last act as president was to pardon a bunch of

00:27:45.380 rappers. And the former, I'm blanking on his name, the former mayor of, I think it was Detroit,

00:27:55.360 Kilpatrick, one of the most absurdly corrupt politicians in modern American history,

00:28:03.600 corrupt to the point of farce almost. And he's a Democrat and Trump pardons him or commutes his

00:28:10.820 sentence on his way out the door. So that's the question. When we get to 2024, do we want that

00:28:19.700 at 78 years old or do we want Ron DeSantis? Somebody who knows how to govern and will govern

00:28:30.360 and will make hard decisions and doesn't give a damn about firestorms on the left. If anything,

00:28:36.180 enjoys it. I mean, with DeSantis, he's going to sign a bill. He's going to sign legislation going

00:28:46.960 after the Biden administration, undercutting the Biden administration. And not only is he going to

00:28:51.980 do it, but he's going to go to Brandon, Florida to sign it. So that's the question. And that's what's

00:29:00.500 really going to come down to. That's why I believe, look, if it is, there's no rational argument that

00:29:10.100 you can make that Trump at 78 years old would be a more effective leader of the country and more

00:29:18.700 effective governor of the country than Ron DeSantis. And I also don't think there's any real argument you

00:29:27.560 can make that Trump would have a better chance in the general election than Ron DeSantis.

00:29:34.520 I think they'd both, it would be a challenge for both of them for all the reasons why it's always

00:29:40.040 a challenge for Republicans. But I, you know, I don't think that there's that argument, but you can

00:29:45.080 certainly make an argument that Trump would walk away with the nomination in the primary and he would

00:29:50.560 probably. That's all the more reason that I think, you know, Trump, if he, if he loves the country,

00:29:55.920 then he will step aside and, and, and, and pass the baton to Ron DeSantis, endorse him,

00:30:03.280 give him a thorough, passionate endorsement

00:30:06.660 and step aside and let, and let Ron DeSantis, a much younger man

00:30:12.480 who has proven that he's able to govern, let him take the reins.

00:30:17.060 If he jumps in there to keep Ron DeSantis out, then that, to me, that's pure ego.

00:30:22.600 That's putting ego over country. And it wouldn't, it's just not acceptable.

00:30:27.260 I don't, I tell you, I don't take this reason. I don't take this from anybody.

00:30:31.420 None of us should. I don't do the right thing because, because the enemy would be mad.

00:30:35.980 Not acceptable. I would go after anybody for saying that.

00:30:40.120 All right. Um, here's someone who actually does the right thing in spite of a firestorm. This is a

00:30:48.680 good example here. Joe Manchin, uh, declared over the weekend that he's going to vote no

00:30:54.340 on Biden's, uh, build back better spending bill. And, uh, here he is announcing that on Fox news.

00:31:00.600 Uh, I've always said this, Brett, if I can't go home and explain it to the people of West Virginia,

00:31:07.640 I can't vote for it. And I cannot vote to continue with this piece of legislation. I just can't.

00:31:14.200 I've tried everything humanly possible. I can't get there.

00:31:17.400 You're done. This is, this is a no.

00:31:19.720 This is a no on this legislation. I have tried everything I know to do and the president has

00:31:29.020 worked diligently. He's been wonderful to work with. He knows I've had concerns and, and, and the

00:31:34.160 problems I've had. I think it was a good, a good juxtaposition there. Um, because on one hand you

00:31:40.280 have, I don't want to do the right thing. Cause it's going to make the left mad here. Joe Manchin

00:31:43.960 is he's actually is a Democrat for him. It really matters, uh, what, what the left and what the

00:31:50.320 Democrats think about you because you're on their team, you're on their side, you live in their world

00:31:54.560 and it would benefit you greatly for them to like you as a Republican president. You're not going to

00:32:02.360 get the left to like you. And even if you did get some leftist to like, it's not, it's not really

00:32:05.640 going to do anything for you. It's not going to benefit you much, but Joe Manchin doing the right

00:32:10.500 thing in spite of that. So I think that this is, this is, that's what real political bravery

00:32:21.260 looks like. So you got to give him credit for that. Um, next, this is from the AP. It says Pope

00:32:27.780 Francis doubled down Saturday on his effort to quash the old Latin mass, forbidding the celebration

00:32:32.840 of some sacraments, according to the ancient right and his latest salvo against conservatives

00:32:36.900 and traditionalists. The Vatican's liturgy office issued a document that clarified some questions

00:32:41.580 that arose after Francis in July reimposed restrictions on celebrating the old Latin mass

00:32:46.020 that Pope Benedict the 16th had relaxed in 2007. Um, Francis said then that he was reversing his

00:32:52.540 predecessor because Benedict's reform had become a source of division in the church and been exploited

00:32:57.420 by Catholics opposed to the second Vatican council. Uh, the Vatican repeated the rationale on Saturday

00:33:03.420 saying the clarifications and new restrictions were necessary to preserve the unity of the church

00:33:08.100 and its sacraments. Archbishop Arthur Roche in an introductory note said as pastors, we must not

00:33:14.820 lend ourselves to sterile polemic, uh, polemics, uh, capable only of creating division in which the ritual

00:33:21.620 itself is often exploited by ideological viewpoints. And then they went through this clarification is

00:33:27.700 really basically it amounts to new rules. They're putting down to clamp down in the Latin mass and 1.00

00:33:33.580 all of that amounts to trying to get rid of it. Um, and you know, they, of course the rationales

00:33:41.780 provided are dishonest at best because we're told that this is all about unity in the church. And that's

00:33:49.900 why we don't want divisions in the church. Well, part of the rules here, for example, uh, one rule is

00:33:58.420 that you can't have the Latin mass and, um, you know, the new, the Nova Sordo, the new mass that cannot

00:34:05.240 be celebrated at the same church, or at least you cannot have a priest who does both like on the same

00:34:12.120 day. Um, rules like that, you know, so while they say that this is about unity and not division,

00:34:20.600 they're actually creating more division in an effort to send the Latin mass more to the sidelines,

00:34:26.600 marginalize it, marginalize it, uh, make it harder and harder to keep it going. Uh, so the, so that

00:34:32.200 there, there's really no place for it to go. And if you want to celebrate the Latin mass, you're not 1.00

00:34:36.080 gonna be able to find anywhere to do it and then to get rid of it. But this is, this is devise,

00:34:40.080 this is like a divide and conquer kind of strategy in the name of unity.

00:34:46.940 And I know if you're not, you know, this is the kind of thing, it's very inside baseball. So if

00:34:50.500 you're not Catholic, you think, well, what's, what's the significance of that? Why does it

00:34:53.340 matter to me? And it's not going to affect you in your daily life. If you're not, if you're not a

00:34:56.400 Catholic, even if you are a Catholic, most Catholics don't go to Latin mass. So it probably won't affect

00:34:59.840 your daily routine very much. There, there are many Catholics though, who the Latin mass is,

00:35:05.120 is crucial to them. It's very important to them and their spiritual life.

00:35:10.080 And so trying to take it away

00:35:13.280 and in, in doing so, treating them like an enemy will have a profound impact.

00:35:22.500 But the larger theme here is that, um,

00:35:26.320 you know, or I guess the larger point is that the Latin mass

00:35:32.620 appeals greatly to young Catholics, especially. This is something those of us who've been to Latin

00:35:41.100 mass, we've, we've, you can't help, but notice this when you go into a Latin mass, you go into 0.76

00:35:46.660 a church that celebrates the Latin mass, what do you find? You find young families, young, large

00:35:53.540 families everywhere inside these, these churches. And why is that? Well, because

00:36:00.480 I think for a lot of reasons, number one, young people tend to be, have a more kind of revolutionary

00:36:06.700 spirit. And they could take a more critical eye to some of these things.

00:36:12.260 I think maybe older people grew up with this, with what really is the new mass and they don't

00:36:18.820 really think much about it. They haven't been critical of it. Uh, young people have a more

00:36:21.860 kind of adventurous spirit or more, or more revolutionary in spirit.

00:36:27.800 But then I also think that younger people growing up in this decaying, empty, secular society 1.00

00:36:35.100 are just hunger for something real and true and, uh, mystical, you know, they, they, and

00:36:45.220 transcendent, like we talked about last week, transcendence. Uh, they're, they, they hunger

00:36:49.980 for that because they've been deprived of it and they find that in the Latin mass and it's

00:36:57.400 bringing people in and they're finding spiritual nourishment and Pope Francis and his, uh, comrades

00:37:04.200 they see that as a, as a problem. In fact, they would rather get rid of all those young, 1.00

00:37:10.440 younger people. If getting rid of the Latin mass means alienating those younger families 1.00

00:37:15.620 and scaring them away, that's fine with him because this is a war on tradition when it

00:37:23.240 comes down to it. Really pretty horrifying. Um, next we got, uh, let's say there were, there

00:37:30.760 were protests at a school in Fairfax last week over an alleged racist attack against a Muslim

00:37:37.900 student that happened. Here's the, uh, CBS affiliate talking about it.

00:37:43.040 An estimated 350 students protested at Fairfax high after they say a student was attacked here

00:37:49.640 Tuesday afternoon because she's Muslim. 0.98

00:37:52.720 She couldn't breathe. She was laid on the floor. She couldn't move out of her position.

00:37:56.040 Students accused the school system of trying to sweep the incident under the rug.

00:38:00.760 The school's trying to cover it up and said I had a panic attack, which that did not happen.

00:38:05.460 Ekran Mohammed says some students made racist drawings in a marketing class,

00:38:10.580 became increasingly aggressive, and then one of them assaulted her.

00:38:14.000 My backpack bumped into him and then he got mad and he pushed me and then he grabbed my hijab.

00:38:20.100 Mohammed says he pulled her hijab off and when she fought back, he shoved her hard into a desk.

00:38:25.700 Everybody was outside waiting for the buses and we saw the ambulance come into the school.

00:38:29.300 Physically, my whole left side of my body is bruised. Um, mentally, I'm okay because I have

00:38:35.760 all the support around me today.

00:38:37.580 Mohammed says she and the student were given the same punishment, a one-day in-school suspension,

00:38:43.880 which they served Wednesday in the same room where she says the student kept looking at her.

00:38:48.520 That's entirely unacceptable and that's something I want to go back to see with staff,

00:38:52.200 how we can do better in the future.

00:38:53.860 County school board member Abrar Omash, the only elected official in Virginia who wears a hijab,

00:38:59.620 says she's concerned by the response. The school system told us it is investigating and quote,

00:39:05.060 no further details can be shared at this stage as administrators work to establish the facts.

00:39:09.980 Fairfax County Public Schools and City of Fairfax Schools support the rights of students to peacefully protest.

00:39:14.860 So there they are protesting over this, uh, this hate crime. And we heard it's a, it's a hate crime.

00:39:20.400 There were racial slurs that were used. Um, this, uh, anti-Muslim hate crime and all that.

00:39:26.380 So now we get to the twist ending that I'm sure you saw coming from a million miles away.

00:39:31.340 This is from a WTOP. It says a city of Fairfax police department investigation has determined that

00:39:35.740 a physical altercation at Fairfax high school on Tuesday was not a hate crime. According to a press

00:39:40.660 release, the investigation revealed there were no racial comments made by either student. According

00:39:45.380 to police, police said that the female student confirmed her hijab became partially undone during

00:39:50.920 the altercation, exposing her hair. The female student told police that the information posted on

00:39:55.300 several social media sites stating that racial comments were used during the altercation were

00:39:59.460 false. Uh, it not just on social media sites, but as you, as you heard, the media itself has been

00:40:05.200 reporting this. Um, nonetheless, hundreds of students from Fairfax high school in Virginia walked out in

00:40:10.240 protest on Thursday, showing their support for a student they say was attacked in an Islamophobic

00:40:15.220 incident. The student herself is saying that's not what happened. Well, she's saying that now. I think

00:40:21.840 initially that that that's where they got this story, but very quickly she backed away and she

00:40:26.480 said there were no racial slurs used this. What, what, here's what it was. It was a, a fight that she

00:40:31.420 got into a mutual fight as happens in high schools, uh, with another student. The other student, by the

00:40:37.260 way, not white. So these were two non-white students who got into a fight and during the fight, her, you

00:40:44.280 know, her, uh, headdress was, was partially dislodged and it showed a little bit of her hair. 0.92

00:40:51.840 And then this story arises. Now I don't, I don't know what motivated her to come up with this

00:40:59.780 version of the story. It's not hard to come up with some theories. Maybe one of them is she didn't

00:41:08.100 want to get in trouble for being in a fight. So she, so she came up with the hate crime story instead.

00:41:14.460 It seemed like a pretty logical assumption here. I don't know if that's true or not. Oh, who knows?

00:41:18.340 Who knows? Who knows what motivates these people to invent these kinds of stories?

00:41:23.980 But we know, we know generally speaking, what motivates it is that, uh, is that she's growing,

00:41:29.000 growing up in a world and she looks around and she sees that, you know, victimhood pays.

00:41:36.260 Uh, victimhood gives you some points. You can cash them in. You can cash in those, those tokens

00:41:40.540 in a lot of different ways and benefit from it. Get yourself out of a tight spot. It's kind of like

00:41:48.420 a get out of jail free card. Maybe a get out of suspension free card here.

00:41:54.280 But if you're a rational person, even I, I saw this story a couple, a few days ago when they were

00:41:58.520 first walking out over this anti, this alleged Islamophobic hate crime. As soon as I saw it,

00:42:05.900 my first reaction was, yeah, that probably didn't happen. Because yet again, this is, this is a,

00:42:13.920 it's actually, it's good news. It should be good news that this sort of thing just isn't happening.

00:42:21.280 It's, it's simply not happening in the country. You're not going into a modern high school in

00:42:28.160 modern America and there are white students tearing the hijabs off of, uh, off of Muslim girls and, 0.94

00:42:34.200 and shouting Islamophobic slurs at them. That's not happening. 0.97

00:42:39.940 We could celebrate that because that's, that's, that's a great thing that those,

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00:45:14.560 section. The ghost of Patrick Henry says, I've been listening for years. I do not have a daily

00:45:28.480 wire membership or purchase product, but the free content is great. My only gripe are the ads. Can

00:45:33.740 you stop running them? Thanks and Merry Christmas. I think you might be joking here a bit. I want to,

00:45:38.140 I want to believe that you are, but this is the attitude a lot of people have, which is that,

00:45:43.720 you know, they love the content, but they begrudge any attempt that the content creators make to make

00:45:48.260 money off of that content. So I love the content, keep producing it. I really appreciate it, but,

00:45:52.960 but, but don't, don't make a living off of it at all. Don't make, please any attempt to make a living

00:45:57.760 off of it offends me. So I want this, I want this free content. I want you to provide it for free.

00:46:04.120 And, um, and I want to contribute nothing at all to it, which is, which is, I mean, I understand

00:46:10.200 that attitude. That's the attitude I have about most of the stuff that I consume online, but, um,

00:46:15.740 we might say it's a little bit of entitlement that goes into that. Zach says, Matt, I'm glad to hear

00:46:21.940 you open, you open up about your closeted bass headedness. It only makes me agree with your

00:46:26.340 viewpoints even more now. By the way, my favorite three bait baits are deer crank baits, swim jigs,

00:46:31.000 and last but not least frog slash toads. I don't think I've been closeted about. I think I've been

00:46:35.360 pretty open, loud and proud, um, about my, my self-identification as an angler. And I love the

00:46:43.180 frog baits too, but it's, you know, those are a little bit harder to set the hook on. So you've

00:46:46.120 got to, you got to make sure you have the right gear for that. Uh, my ex-wife says, Matt, I have to

00:46:51.320 record myself giving a speech for my finals and I want it to be like one of your old videos.

00:46:56.140 Like what, in your car? I don't know if I'd recommend that for your finals. So if you can give me some

00:47:00.580 tips on how I can do that and how to be more confident on camera, the topic of the speech is

00:47:04.940 if guys gossip more than girls, maybe you can share your thoughts on that. If guys gossip more

00:47:12.160 than girls. Well, I don't think that guys do gossip more than girls. In fact, I'm positive that they

00:47:15.980 don't. Gossiping is, it's not exclusively a girl thing, but it mostly is. But here's, I don't want to

00:47:24.580 tell you what to give your speech about, but, but here's an interesting angle to explore. We could

00:47:28.840 ask what, like, why is it that girls gossip so much? And I think it's actually rooted in a gossip 1.00

00:47:35.500 itself is bad most of the time, but it's, it's, it's rooted in something positive and a positive

00:47:41.560 female trait, a positive feminine trait, which is, which is empathy. You know, women are far more 1.00

00:47:46.680 empathetic than men and being empathetic means that you relate to other people. You know, you really care

00:47:53.000 about other people. And, um, what that means is that, you know, the, the negative side of that

00:48:00.700 is that, uh, you're going to be talking about other people, what's going on in their lives and

00:48:04.900 everything. And, uh, and, and sometimes you'll be talking about the positive things happening in

00:48:09.160 other people's lives. And sometimes it's going to be the negative things. That's where it's,

00:48:11.400 that's where it's gossip. But I think it's rooted in that empathy. The reason why men don't gossip

00:48:15.660 mostly, it's not because we're, we're morally superior. It's just that we don't care that much

00:48:21.680 about what's happening in other people's lives. We just, we just don't care that much.

00:48:26.340 So I would never sit down with another guy and spend 30 minutes. Oh, guess what? Do you know

00:48:30.740 what's happening with so-and-so and what, and then this, we just, we just don't care. It doesn't

00:48:35.340 interest us. Uh, cause we're all a bunch of sociopaths, I guess. AT says, I love how Matt 0.96

00:48:42.200 Walsh complains about people saying happy holidays while also using the phrase, the holidays and happy

00:48:46.740 holidays in the sponsorships that he does. Way to stick with your principles. I don't complain about

00:48:50.780 people saying happy holidays. In fact, I think I've, uh, I think I've said several times in the

00:48:54.180 past that I think the war on Christmas is real. I think there are real examples of a, what you might 0.79

00:49:02.600 call a war on Christmas, but somebody wishing you happy holidays, that's not war on Christmas.

00:49:09.200 I have in fact defended people do. I don't get upset when I'm at the store or something and the

00:49:14.620 cashier says happy holidays. That doesn't offend me. It's fine. You know, there are multiple holidays

00:49:21.540 happening in this, in a season. So it's just kind of a general greeting. Someone's attempting to be

00:49:26.220 nice. Doesn't, doesn't bother me. Um, let's see. The Duke family says, Matt, great show as always.

00:49:34.680 What the commenter meant about Catholicism and its doctrines is that most of the doctrines in the

00:49:38.680 Catholic church are unbiblical. Mary papal infallibility are two of the more notable ones. 0.93

00:49:43.360 As you yourself frequently say about Joe Biden, you can't be Catholic unless you believe its 0.98

00:49:47.440 doctrines. You're left in a tough place there because you have an obvious leftist Pope, but

00:49:51.340 you're forced as a Catholic to believe he's the vicar of Christ on earth. Having listened to you 0.88

00:49:54.820 for some time, I can say with much certainty that you do not believe that. So you're not Catholic 1.00

00:49:59.040 according to your own standards. I will also say, I appreciate any time you mentioned the Bible on your

00:50:02.260 show, but as a Catholic, you are not free to interpret what any passage of the Bible actually means.

00:50:06.100 That's up to your magisterium to interpret for you. Those are both Catholic teachings and

00:50:10.880 doctrines that you will need to deal with going forward. My prayer is that you will leave the

00:50:13.540 Catholic church and join a church that believes in the true gospel, not a false gospel that Rome

00:50:17.540 teaches. Well, your assumptions about what I believe are not accurate, but I'd like to just focus on,

00:50:21.880 on a basic conceptual problem here for a second. Um, you say that the Bible is, uh, is the sole

00:50:28.440 authority. There shouldn't be any doctrines outside of it. And also you lament that as Catholics,

00:50:32.620 that as a Catholic, I am not free to interpret it as I please. And you're right about that last 0.94

00:50:38.440 part, but, but, but, but here's your problem. First of all, you do not interpret the Bible as you

00:50:43.880 please, which is actually a good thing because that's not how the Bible is meant to be read.

00:50:50.300 Okay. It's not, it's not, it's not supposed to be a Rorschach test where it's, it's something

00:50:54.040 different to everybody. Um, and if you, without any kind of framework of understanding or anything

00:51:02.500 without any training, without any background knowledge, without any instruction from anybody,

00:51:06.900 if you picked up the Bible and tried to read it cover to cover, you're probably going to come to

00:51:13.060 all kinds of conclusions that are incorrect. If you had no previous instruction, if nobody

00:51:20.180 was telling you, you know, how to interpret various parts of the Bible.

00:51:25.580 So, but nobody really does that now. And you didn't do that. Your interpretations fall into a

00:51:30.820 system that was designed by human beings and passed down to you. Nothing wrong with that. I'm

00:51:36.160 just pointing it out. The idea that doctrines outside of the Bible are not valid is itself a

00:51:41.800 doctrine that itself is not in the Bible. The Bible never says anywhere that you shouldn't accept

00:51:46.560 doctrines outside of it. Also, here's the big issue. The Bible itself was written and compiled

00:51:53.520 by humans, right? And given to you. So I'm not sure how I see how you could accept the Bible without 0.85

00:51:59.800 accepting the authority of the person who gave it to you. You know, if someone hands you a book and

00:52:05.180 says, this is the word of God, it doesn't really make a lot of sense to say, oh, I don't trust you.

00:52:09.420 You're full of it. But, uh, give me that book. Yeah, sure. I believe that. Based on what?

00:52:14.760 If someone hands you something and you accept it as an authority, then you are accepting the

00:52:21.620 authority of the person who handed it to you. I'm not sure how you get around that exactly.

00:52:26.400 If you didn't accept their authority, then on what basis would you come to believe

00:52:29.480 that this collection of writings is true or meaningful or whatever?

00:52:36.040 Now, none of this means that the Bible is not true or the Bible is not, is not the word of God.

00:52:40.620 All I'm, all I'm pointing out is that God worked through people to compile. It was not like the

00:52:46.860 Bible was written in the heavens and then literally descended from the clouds, right? It was, it worked 0.97

00:52:50.960 through people. And so you're trying to remove people from the equation or the authority of people.

00:52:58.140 And I'm not sure how you do that. It doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

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00:54:53.160 Infamous automaton Mark Zuckerberg has been working over time to bring his metaverse dream to fruition.

00:54:58.620 And he's noticed that our lives have already been almost entirely consumed by the internet to the

00:55:02.960 point where most of us are now essentially cyborgs, half robot, half human, except without any of the

00:55:08.220 cool superpowers that cyborgs and science fiction usually possess. In the movies, a cyborg has all of

00:55:13.160 the best qualities of humans and machines. In reality, we have the worst ingredients of both.

00:55:18.400 So we're fat and lazy like people, but we're also amoral and emotionally vacuous like computers.

00:55:23.460 So we're kind of like mermaids, but if the mermaid had a fish's head and a human's body,

00:55:28.880 it's like the worst possible combination. A combination more monstrous than mythical,

00:55:33.180 I guess. And this is what our near total reliance on and addiction to the internet has done for us.

00:55:38.780 But Mark Zuckerberg has seen all of this and determined that we still have not invested

00:55:42.180 enough of ourselves into cyberspace. And that's where the metaverse comes in. With the metaverse,

00:55:47.340 we can actually enter into the internet, submerge ourselves in it, lose ourselves inside it like a

00:55:52.920 dream, a bad dream. If you've ever visited Reddit or you've read the comments under a viral tweet or

00:55:58.900 you scrolled through TikTok and thought to yourself, wow, I wish I could be trapped inside a three-dimensional

00:56:03.520 virtual prison cell with these people, then the metaverse will be right up your alley. But if you're

00:56:08.080 a sane person, you probably feel differently. And yet it doesn't matter how you feel. This is where

00:56:13.200 we're headed. The metaverse is, it's happening, whether you like it or not. And 15 years from now,

00:56:18.500 you'll be sitting around your virtual dinner table with your virtual family, eating your virtual food

00:56:23.700 while your physical body is encased in a pod and connected to wires and tubes. And you'll be telling

00:56:28.360 your virtual child who prefers to use a Peppa the pig avatar all about the old days when the internet

00:56:32.760 was contained almost exclusively inside your phone. And Peppa will laugh and say, that's silly, 0.81

00:56:37.700 daddy. And you'll pretend to laugh too. And nobody will be able to see you cry because they don't

00:56:42.860 have tears in the metaverse because meta president Mark Zuckerberg has declared that everyone must

00:56:47.380 always be happy inside his domain. Anyway, so the point is that I'm not a big fan of this whole idea,

00:56:53.300 but it's happening anyway. And though the metaverse is still in its infancy, it has already had its

00:56:59.280 first Me Too moment. The New York Post reports, it says a beta tester has claimed that she was

00:57:06.000 virtually groped in the metaverse VR platform Horizon Worlds for Meta, the company formerly known as

00:57:11.620 Facebook. Meta revealed the incident on December 1st, saying it occurred on November 26th.

00:57:16.440 The woman had reported the assault, the assault in virtual reality on the Horizon Worlds beta testing

00:57:24.240 Facebook group. Sexual harassment is no joke on the regular internet, but being in VR adds another

00:57:29.820 layer that makes the event more intense, she wrote, according to The Verge. Not only was I groped last

00:57:35.240 night, but there were other people there who supported this behavior, which made me feel isolated in the

00:57:39.280 plaza, the virtual environment's central gathering space. Severe encounters of online harassment,

00:57:45.020 including physical threats, stalking, and repeated harassment, are on the rise, according to a 2020 Pew

00:57:49.280 research poll, with the percentage of users reporting such incidents jumping from 15% in 2014

00:57:53.840 to 25% today. While much of it takes place on social media, VR is still nascent and already an

00:58:00.060 apparent venue for harassment. Horizon Worlds operated by VR company Oculus, which is also owned by Meta.

00:58:05.460 Meta is billed as a pleasant, productive digital escape, a place to create in extraordinary ways

00:58:11.460 and find experiences that matter with your avatar friends. Groped virtually on the internet is what

00:58:18.320 we're dealing with. And that's a pretty serious crime, we have to admit. In fact, it brings back the

00:58:24.540 trauma that I suffered as a child when I was virtually assaulted by a South Asian man with very long arms 1.00

00:58:29.800 while playing Street Fighter. At another point, playing a different game, I was virtually cannibalized by a huge

00:58:34.740 yellow head. I have been virtually beaten, shot, stabbed, tortured in all manner of ways. Though I

00:58:41.460 suppose I'm no saint myself, in the same game Street Fighter, I committed virtual battery against an obese 1.00

00:58:46.120 sumo wrestler, which was arguably a hate crime as well, given that the victim was a video game

00:58:51.900 character of color. But then again, my character was green, so I'm not sure how this all works.

00:58:56.560 I don't know how we work out the intersectionality part of that. But anyway, a little bit more from the

00:59:00.300 article. It says, in its statement about the incident, Meta pointed to its safe zone feature,

00:59:05.960 which allows users to place a block against interaction with other users. However, the company

00:59:10.600 admitted that it needs to work on making the feature trivially easy and findable, says Vivek Sharma,

00:59:16.620 the vice president of Horizon, in a statement to The Verge. Meta spokesperson Christina Milian also told

00:59:22.020 MIT Technology Review that users are required to complete training that covers safeguarding tools

00:59:26.400 before joining Horizon World, while reminders are also prompted during users' experiences.

00:59:33.140 Sexual harassment in virtual reality is sexual harassment in real life, full stop, experts have

00:59:38.120 said. Quote, at the end of the day, the nature of virtual reality spaces is such that it is designed

00:59:43.300 to trick the user into thinking they are physically in a certain space, that their every bodily action

00:59:49.020 is occurring in a 3D environment. Catherine Cross, a PhD student researcher on online harassment at the

00:59:54.740 University of Washington, told Technology Review. Quote, it's part of the reason why emotional reactions

00:59:59.880 can be stronger in that space, and why VR triggers the same internal nervous system and psychological

01:00:05.600 responses. Those who have suffered sexual harassment in VR elsewhere say that Meta's safe zone feature

01:00:11.860 isn't enough. Okay, so sexual harassment in virtual reality is sexual harassment in real life,

01:00:18.380 according to experts. It's the same. I wonder if they've asked any actual real life victims of

01:00:24.720 sexual assault. You know, people who've had their physical bodies violated, not the bodies of

01:00:29.780 cartoon characters on the internet. How do they feel about this? Do they agree that their experience

01:00:35.880 was exactly the same as the experience of somebody whose fake metaverse avatar was fake groped by another

01:00:42.420 fake character in a fake world? I'm guessing they'd say no. Another big difference between real life

01:00:49.060 assault and virtual assault, these real victims might point out, is that the virtual victim can

01:00:55.160 simply turn off their headset and the problem goes away. No such escape valve exists for the real life

01:01:02.580 victim, they might remind us. But then again, you know, they aren't the experts. The experts are the

01:01:07.840 experts. And we know who the experts are because they belong to a group called the experts, and the media

01:01:12.480 tells us how they feel about stuff like this. And we're supposed to nod our heads in agreement and say

01:01:16.480 nothing else. Now, this is all quite ludicrous, of course. By definition, you cannot be groped in 0.89

01:01:21.720 virtual reality because groping is a physical act. Nothing physical is occurring in that realm.

01:01:28.020 There's a reason we don't prosecute people for vehicular homicide based on incidents that occur in

01:01:33.340 Mario Kart. And yet, at the same time, Catherine Cross, the PhD researcher, she's correct when she says

01:01:40.520 that VR technology tricks the user into thinking they are physically in a certain space.

01:01:45.760 But the key word is tricks. It's not real. They're not actually in that space. Nothing that happens

01:01:52.040 to them in that space is actually happening to them. It's happening to a computer code on a screen.

01:01:57.200 So one computer code is interacting with another computer code. It feels real, but it's not.

01:02:03.340 But the fact that people can be fooled in this way, you know, that doesn't mean that we need more

01:02:09.860 rules or policies or regulations, or that we have to have legal protections put in place for cartoon

01:02:15.600 avatars. You know, we don't need laws that will wind up putting 12-year-olds behind bars for

01:02:20.080 first-degree homicides committed in call of duty. That's not the conclusion that we should draw from

01:02:24.640 this. Here is the conclusion. That the internet is often not very good for your brain,

01:02:30.420 and virtual reality will be even worse. The fact that virtual reality tricks you and makes it hard

01:02:37.320 to distinguish between reality and virtual reality is not an argument for treating virtual reality like

01:02:42.380 it's reality. But it may be an argument for not using virtual reality at all. The last thing we need

01:02:49.260 is yet another tool to tear us away from our physical existence and immerse us in a world that is fake

01:02:54.680 but feels real. That's the last thing we need. And that's the lesson here. We don't need more

01:03:01.580 virtual reality. We need more reality reality. That's the world we should be living in most of

01:03:07.560 the time. So that's why, in the end, I think the metaverse is what we have to cancel today.

01:03:14.060 And we'll leave it there for today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Have a great day.

01:03:18.800 Godspeed.

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