The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 862 - Banish The Unvaxxed Because We’re All In This Together

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Walsh Show, more major cities and state draconian mandates segregating the

00:00:04.120 unvaxxed from society. This must be done because we're all in this together, they say. Also,

00:00:08.360 the data on Omnicorn keeps coming in and all of it indicates that there's no reason to panic.

00:00:12.260 Just don't tell the media that. Plus, Louis C.K. has a new comedy special out. The left says that

00:00:16.060 this somehow proves that cancel culture isn't real. Is that true? Plus, in our daily cancellation,

00:00:20.220 we'll deal with the social media influencer who recorded a choreographed dance routine

00:00:23.960 in the hospital with her severely sick newborn baby. All of that and more today on The Matt

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00:01:37.180 that's PolicyGenius.com. You know, from the beginning of the pandemic, we've been harangued and harassed by

00:01:42.940 people screaming at us that we're all in this together. But it's also been clear from the beginning

00:01:47.480 that some asterisks were needed, you know, for that phrase. Actually, every word needs one.

00:01:54.120 What do they mean by we? Who is we? And what do they mean by in this? In what exactly? And in what

00:02:00.320 sense are we, whoever we are, in whatever we're in, together? These questions are left unanswered,

00:02:06.220 but the powers that be continue to insist on this framing in ways and in contexts that are increasingly

00:02:12.020 creepy and Orwellian. So case in point, just yesterday, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu became the

00:02:17.260 latest big city mayor to impose strict vaccine mandates that will exclude unvaccinated people

00:02:22.660 to include young children from participation in pretty much every aspect of everyday life.

00:02:28.700 She's calling this policy her Be Together initiative. That's really what they're calling it.

00:02:34.620 A policy which segregates thousands of city residents from everybody else and prevents them from

00:02:39.860 participating in society is called the Be Together initiative. Here she is explaining it.

00:02:44.880 Today, we're announcing that Boston will be implementing a requirement for proof of COVID-19

00:02:49.660 vaccination for certain indoor spaces, which we're calling our Be Together initiative.

00:02:55.920 Be Together will require proof of vaccination to enter indoor dining. Well, three categories,

00:03:02.460 just so you can keep the count. First, indoor dining, including bars and restaurants.

00:03:07.220 Secondly, indoor fitness venues, such as gyms. And third, indoor entertainment, recreational and event

00:03:14.880 venues, such as theater shows or sports games. Starting January 15th, customers or patrons ages 12

00:03:23.820 and up and employees at these locations will be required to show proof that they've received at least

00:03:29.880 one dose of one dose of the vaccine. And this will phase into requiring two doses on February 15th.

00:03:36.380 We're also setting dates for children to be vaccinated to enter these spaces beginning in March.

00:03:43.120 Yes, we're going to bar them from certain indoor spaces to include all of them, you know, all of the indoor spaces.

00:03:49.580 But we must all be together. Yeah, we must all be together. Now, get the hell out, you sick, filthy bastards.

00:03:56.780 Quite an inspiring message. And it's a message that we're hearing with increasing regularity and ferocity, 1.00

00:04:01.360 supposedly in response to the Omnicorn variant. But the attempt to fear monger over Omnicorn has gone wrong

00:04:07.680 in some kind of hilarious ways. Just this morning, CNN brought the CEO of Northwell Health on the air,

00:04:13.460 which runs dozens of hospitals in the New York area. And instead of getting the scary message they were

00:04:19.480 clearly hoping for, instead, the guy can hardly keep himself from yawning as he discusses the very

00:04:24.960 mild COVID situation in New York at the moment. Listen. Yeah, we're doing very, very well. Very

00:04:31.540 manageable. There's no crisis. So let me just give you a little bit of perspective. We have right now

00:04:38.240 about 460 patients in our hospitals. That's less than 10% of our overall capacity. And this time last

00:04:47.800 year, during the second wave, we had almost a thousand cases this time last year. And compared

00:04:55.700 to where we were back in the first wave, we had 3,500 patients in our hospitals. So when you look at the

00:05:03.180 numbers today, they're relatively modest. And that have been increasing, you know, relatively slowly since

00:05:09.680 Thanksgiving. We do expect an increase now over the holidays, but it is all manageable. We will be able to deal

00:05:17.480 with this. And I think it's time for people to get be a little bit calm, you know, a little bit more rational. And

00:05:25.140 while the positivity rate in the community is increasing dramatically, that does not mean that they

00:05:30.800 automatically convert into hospitalizations. I mean, I love that. It's, you know, it's like everyone

00:05:37.000 be calm. Everything's fine. There's no problem. And my favorite part is the CNN anchor visibly

00:05:42.720 pouting. You could see him. He's pouting as he's told that there's no crisis. Everything's fine.

00:05:48.280 Like, no, people really aren't dying from this very much. And everything's fine. We've got plenty of

00:05:54.460 hospital beds. And this guy, he's, he's distraught. I feel bad for him. I mean, I'm sorry, CNN anchor,

00:06:02.900 that more people aren't dying from this. I know it's tough for you. Tough break for CNN. Really

00:06:06.540 sorry about that. But this isn't going to stop the power mad despots like Mayor Wu or de Blasio or

00:06:12.920 Biden or Fauci or any of the rest of them from ranting about the dangers, the winter of sickness and

00:06:17.600 death that's upon us and instituting more Orwellian policies all under the guise of we're all in this

00:06:23.780 together. Let's stay together, be together. But what does that really mean? Well, when they say it,

00:06:29.460 we must understand that coming from them, we means you. And this refers not to COVID, but to their

00:06:36.520 control. And together is not intended to be understood as any sort of consensual unity.

00:06:41.660 They mean together in the way that hostages during a bank robbery might be together, bound at gunpoint.

00:06:48.240 So we're in this together means you are under their control. And that's how they can justify

00:06:53.760 segregation, division, separation, exclusion in the name of togetherness. We can still be together

00:07:00.960 in the sense that they mean the phrase, even as we're divided like wheat from the chaff. And some

00:07:05.900 portion of us are cast into the furnace. And yet, as we look around, we see that another just today,

00:07:12.120 another well-known Democrat, this time disgraced pervert, Katie Hill, used to be in Congress, 1.00

00:07:17.280 but she couldn't have, she couldn't stop having sex with her, with her staff members. 1.00

00:07:20.260 And now she's not in Congress anymore. She was diagnosed today with COVID. She is double 0.96

00:07:25.060 vaxxed and boosted. She joined Senator Elizabeth Warren, who was triple jabbed, 0.94

00:07:29.640 still came up positive for COVID this week. Senator Cory Booker, another one. CNBC host Jim

00:07:34.320 Kramer is down with COVID now too, despite having three shots. Democrat representative Jason Crowe has

00:07:40.260 COVID now too, along with his three shots of the vaccine. This is all just this week.

00:07:44.880 An outbreak in Congress happening at the same time as an outbreak in the NFL among fully vaccinated

00:07:51.840 NFL players. Lots of people who've gotten three doses of the vaccine in less than a year are getting

00:07:58.960 sick. But we can't ask any questions about that. You know, I recently had to go and get a tetanus

00:08:05.780 booster after getting a rusty nail stuck in my foot, which wasn't a really fun experience. But they

00:08:13.000 recommended it because it had been more than 10 years after my last shot. And that makes sense to

00:08:18.660 me. A booster after 10 years makes sense. Okay. I get that conceptually. I can understand how,

00:08:24.580 and I understand how you would call that a booster. But a booster after six months?

00:08:32.100 Is that a booster shot or more of a, wait, this isn't working. Let's try another one shot.

00:08:36.540 Is it a booster or a do-over? That's a question. But these are questions we're not allowed to ask.

00:08:44.800 Whatever you call the third shot or the first two, it's clear enough that people who got all three

00:08:49.500 shots or two shots are contracting and spreading the disease. Lots of them are. The vaccine doesn't

00:08:56.720 stop transmission. If there's compelling evidence that the vaccine even significantly slows transmission,

00:09:02.420 I haven't seen it, though I'd love to see it if it exists. That's why the vaccine mandates are not

00:09:07.920 reasonable. I mean, leaving aside the ethical issues and the constitutional issues, those small

00:09:13.060 details, these measures are not a rational response to the situation because vaccinated people are

00:09:20.140 spreading it also. We are all potential carriers. We can all catch it and spread it. As it is written,

00:09:29.000 there is no one righteous, not even one. Well, it might also be written that there is no one immune

00:09:33.480 from spreading COVID, not even one. They want to separate us into classes of clean and unclean,

00:09:39.440 but it turns out that I guess we're all unclean. And maybe there's a certain beauty in that,

00:09:45.080 a certain unity. Because it turns out they were right all along, though not for the reasons they

00:09:52.200 thought. We really are all in this together, I guess. Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:11:16.580 smart camera optimized for the garage. So a little bit more on Omnicorn because I think that

00:11:22.880 this is just really important with all the fear mongering going on in the media. Even if you know

00:11:29.980 better, it's easy to fall victim to it because the more this is drilled into your head, after a while,

00:11:37.920 it kind of breaks down your defenses. But that's why we have to continue to highlight the fact

00:11:45.180 that when we're talking about Omnicorn, it's extremely mild illness, according to all the

00:11:53.340 data that we have. And according to the, this is how you could tell the real like public health

00:11:57.360 experts, the real doctors from the fake ones, because the real doctors are on TV saying, look,

00:12:03.700 this is not a big deal for most people. And then you see how that message gets filtered through

00:12:10.480 people like Fauci and the way that he interprets that. So here is, this is in the New York Post

00:12:17.100 talking about the telltale symptoms of the surging Omnicorn variant. It says a noted British doctor

00:12:26.140 is highlighting several symptoms that distinguish the Omnicorn variant from the common cold and even

00:12:30.540 other strains of COVID-19, including drenching night sweats. Dr. Amir Khan described the distinguishing

00:12:36.740 episodes as those kinds of drenching night sweats where you might have to get up and change your

00:12:40.920 clothes. The other telltale symptoms of Omnicorn are a scratchy throat, as opposed to a sore one,

00:12:47.180 a dry cough, fatigue, and muscle aches. He said, quote, this is important. It's important that we keep

00:12:55.480 on top of these symptoms. If we're going to track Omnicorn and track it worldwide, we need to be able

00:12:59.520 to test people with these symptoms. So those are the, um, the telltale signs of the Omnicorn variant

00:13:06.380 that your night sweats, which I mean, that's, that's unpleasant when you wake up at night and,

00:13:11.900 uh, you're, you're drenched with, with sweat, a scratchy throat. You're tired. You have some sore

00:13:18.880 muscle aches. Now I know they say that this, this is what distinguishes it from the common cold,

00:13:24.400 but the fact that you can confuse it, the fact that so many people might confuse it with the

00:13:29.840 common cold, I think tells you something. Because to me, I read this and this sounds like a relatively

00:13:36.620 mild illness. This, this is basically a cold. That's what it is. Uh, for all intents and purposes,

00:13:44.760 for most people. And again, the doctor who originally alerted the world about, uh, the Omnicorn

00:13:51.920 variant, she has been ever, ever since then, you know, she, she did the right thing. It's like,

00:13:57.520 this is a variant that's out there. Let's tell people about it. And that was the right thing to

00:14:01.200 do. But then the world freaked out. And ever since then, she's been on TV saying there, everyone

00:14:06.920 calmed down. This is not a, it's not a big, it's really not anything to panic over. So she was also

00:14:13.240 on CNN. She was with the, uh, with the same anchor, I think John Berman, um, talking about the

00:14:19.060 situation in South Africa right now, after Omnicorn surged through, swept through. And

00:14:26.000 that's, there's only been a couple of weeks. I mean, we first heard about this right around

00:14:29.060 Thanksgiving and what's the situation right now? Because keep something else in mind.

00:14:33.940 When you look at the hospital data, the, uh, mortality, we looked at some of those graphs

00:14:39.720 yesterday, some of those, um, some of those charts, and you can see that there's a very distinct

00:14:44.840 separation between cases and hospitalizations and deaths because cases, yeah, cases are surging.

00:14:51.060 That line is going up. Okay. That graph is that's some, that's a mountain right there.

00:14:56.380 Uh, that's like a mountainous peak of cases, but then you look at hospitalizations and death

00:15:02.080 and they're all the way down here. They're lagging far behind.

00:15:05.960 If you go back a year ago, you'll find that obviously the cases, the, the hospitalization

00:15:14.120 and death line was much lower than the cases line, but they were tracking in, in, in kind

00:15:18.420 of the same direction as cases went up. So did if cases, if there was a dramatic rise in cases,

00:15:24.160 there'd be a dramatic rise in hospitalizations and deaths. We're not seeing that right now.

00:15:28.080 Thank God. But one thing that we're told from the panic porn peddlers is that, well,

00:15:35.760 hospitalizations and death deaths, they, they lag behind cases. So just because we're seeing,

00:15:43.620 we're not seeing that a bunch of people are dying right now, that doesn't mean that they

00:15:46.940 won't die in the future. They tell us hopefully, because that's what they want. They actually,

00:15:53.320 they want people to die of this so they can continue selling the fear. But that's why I think

00:15:59.480 it's important to go to South Africa. Okay. If it's, it's been, it's been several weeks now.

00:16:02.980 And, um, if, um, hospitalizations and deaths lag behind cases, then we should see now in South

00:16:10.380 Africa, after this thing tore through the country, we should see that, uh, people are dying left and 0.97

00:16:15.700 right. Is that the case? Let's check in with the doctor.

00:16:18.760 Doctor, we're thrilled to have you because I think in the United States, we can learn a lot

00:16:23.880 about your experience over the last month. You've been dealing with this now for quite a long time.

00:16:29.440 We're just beginning to deal with it now. So I just want to start with cases. What are you seeing

00:16:34.720 in terms of the number of cases at this point? Up, down, stable, what?

00:16:41.800 Um, good, um, good afternoon. Uh, yes, it's very interesting question. What we currently see is our

00:16:48.760 cases is sort of, um, we're over the curve. It's sort of coming down. So, um, you know,

00:16:54.600 in Gauteng, we, which was the epicenter, the numbers much lower, uh, it is, however, still

00:17:01.460 spreading to the Eastern, Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal because of the holidays. Um, but,

00:17:06.880 you know, all over in, in total, if you look at our numbers, it's, it's, it's going down.

00:17:11.820 Our positivity rate still stays high. It's about, um, around about 30%. And the reason is that

00:17:17.100 people go and dissed. Okay. So that's what we hear. It's, there's a very steep drop-off in cases

00:17:24.060 and then that's cases. But then when we go over to deaths, which they talk about later, in fact,

00:17:28.240 I can look at the graph right now in South Africa, they have a seven day average, um, of deaths at 44

00:17:34.900 in the entire country. And for comparison sake, you can look back at January last year in the winter

00:17:41.620 year. And their seven day average was five at its peak. The seven day average was 577. So peak of

00:17:50.680 577, seven day average. And now they're down to 44 after this dreaded variant of Omnicorn ripped

00:17:59.160 through the country and got everybody sick. This is all very, very positive news. If, if you are

00:18:06.540 irrational and moral person and you don't want people to die and you actually want to be past

00:18:13.820 all of this, then this is very good news. As I've been saying for weeks now, this to me as a non 0.52

00:18:20.200 public health expert and as a non-doctor. Okay. I don't, I don't claim to I'm unlike Fauci. I'm not

00:18:27.340 going to sit here and say that if you disagree with me, you're disagreeing with the science. I don't

00:18:30.520 claim to be an avatar for science, a representative of science, um, because nobody can be, but even I

00:18:36.700 can look at this information and see that, well, this could be the end. This could be COVID's end

00:18:43.620 game. This is a positive development. What I just read was now they think that it's something like

00:18:52.880 70% of all COVID cases in America. I believe I'd have to check that again, but I'm pretty sure it's

00:18:59.160 around 70% of all cases in America right now are the Omicor variant. So this is the dominant strain

00:19:05.240 in America. Now that tells you how infectious this thing is, that it was able to sweep through that

00:19:13.740 quickly, but we haven't seen this stark rise in deaths. Okay. So that, that tells us again,

00:19:20.700 it's very, it's very mild and that's a, that's a good thing. COVID becomes a, basically a mild cold

00:19:27.260 that it's, it's out there and it's kind of seasonal and people get it and they, most of them get over

00:19:31.340 it and then you're fine. Um, on, uh, on COVID, I want to show you this as well. I don't know if

00:19:39.300 you're ready to meet this person. This is the most pathetic man potentially in the history of the 1.00

00:19:44.280 internet. And I know that's quite a statement, but I think he's in the running anyway. He's, 0.99

00:19:49.140 he's in the competition. So this is a guy walking through an airport. Do we have these, uh,

00:19:51.900 pictures? Um, Oh, here we go. So this guy's name is Aiden. And by the way, of course he has his

00:19:59.660 pronouns listed in his bio. I didn't have to tell you that. And you can't really see his picture

00:20:03.280 there very well, but he looks exactly as you expect him to look. And, uh, he says spotted in

00:20:08.580 the United terminal at a San Francisco airport. I've been in four airports this week and far from

00:20:14.420 travelers, far more travelers flaunt the mask regulations in us airports versus the Canadian

00:20:19.540 ones. I hope I'm not sitting next to her on this red eye. And then you see a woman who's just 1.00

00:20:23.740 like sitting on the phone, uh, without a mask on. And so he's taking a picture of this woman to

00:20:29.060 publicly shame her. And by the way, he posted this to Twitter. This is against the rules. Now

00:20:33.620 this is supposed to be against the rules to take up. They, they very, they were very explicit about

00:20:37.140 this to take a picture of someone and post it without their consent is against the rules to get

00:20:41.620 your band, but he's walking through the whole airport and take a picture. Then he gets another guy,

00:20:46.220 man watching something on his tablet at gate E4. So there's just a guy watching something on his

00:20:53.500 tablet and he's taking a picture of this guy, no consent. And he gets, there's another guy. He

00:20:58.040 takes a picture of him. I think there's one in the airplane as well. So he's just walking through

00:21:03.140 man with stylish backpack between gates E4 and F5. So he's given the exact, exact coordinates of these

00:21:09.820 maskless people at the airport. I don't know for what reason does he think the FBI is going to swoop

00:21:14.580 in. I'm not sure what exactly he's trying to accomplish. Um, and then he's got man, super

00:21:20.520 spreader gate F5. That guy is a super spreader. Aiden has decided, of course, his name is Aiden,

00:21:27.460 by the way, everything about this. When I first saw that, I think this is, I thought this gotta

00:21:30.480 be some kind of parody. There's no way this is too perfect. A guy named Aiden with a mustache

00:21:34.900 and pronouns in his bio, walking through the airport, crying as he takes pictures of maskless people.

00:21:40.680 Um, but it's not a parody. This appears to be completely real. And he's just determined that

00:21:47.040 he's also decided by the way, that all of these people are sick. And he goes on and on and on. 0.88

00:21:52.080 How many pictures are there? He's now he's taking pictures of minors, of kids, posting them online

00:21:56.400 without consent. This is perfectly okay. Twitter's not going to take this down. All right. So we get

00:22:01.460 the idea. Um, and he's, he's decided that all of these people are sick. This is the way that his, 0.98

00:22:08.760 his, his broken brain works now or does or fails to work. That every single person he sees,

00:22:16.100 if he sees their face in public, they are direct threat to him and they're all sick and they're all 0.99

00:22:23.260 super spreaders. I mean, that one guy was sitting by himself. There's no one else around. 0.93

00:22:26.300 And, and, uh, but he's a, he's now a super spreader. 0.86

00:22:32.720 This is along with a mental illness. This is also pure cowardice. You know, C.S. Lewis said that, 0.98

00:22:39.100 that courage is the form of every virtue at its testing point.

00:22:44.720 And, uh, which means that, you know, you, you can't, you can't really have any other virtue if you

00:22:51.260 don't have courage because in order to, in order to, um, act upon any virtue in order to be virtuous,

00:23:00.180 then you, that also requires courage to act in that way. So then what does it mean when we become

00:23:08.640 a country of cowards, when we become a country like this with, with me, I hesitate to even call

00:23:14.880 them a man, only in a bi, only in the biological sense to see a man. But what does that mean? 0.91

00:23:20.860 And if we become a country of cowards, it means that we have no virtue at all.

00:23:24.220 You get rid of, uh, courage, you get rid of all virtues. 0.98

00:23:29.200 And these are people who are not only cowardly, but they have no shame. I mean, 0.93

00:23:34.980 there have always been cowards in the world, right? But in the past, you'd, you'd be ashamed

00:23:39.940 of your cowardice. You wouldn't want to advertise it. If you found yourself walking through a public

00:23:46.720 area, uh, shaking like a leaf in fear because you're afraid someone's going to get you sick

00:23:54.880 in the past, you might have that experience if you're a very cowardly person, but you keep it to 0.78

00:24:00.620 yourself. You wouldn't want other people to know. Now you've got people like Aiden advertising their

00:24:08.440 cowardice for all, for everyone to see. They're proud of it. They're proud of being fearful cowards.

00:24:17.480 That has become its own in our upside down world. That has become its own virtue. 0.93

00:24:22.540 Now it's almost as though cowardice is the, is the form of every virtue at its testing point.

00:24:29.060 All right, let's move on to this. Kim Potter's trial went to a jury deliberations yesterday. She's 0.99

00:24:33.940 the officer who shot Dante Wright. And, um, uh, jury went to deliberations yesterday, did not come to a

00:24:42.020 verdict. Here she is. I just want to play this for you. This is a couple of days ago during her

00:24:45.840 testimony. She decided to take the stand and, um, in, in her own defense. And here she is kind of

00:24:53.180 describing the scene. And when you watch this describing what happened with Dante Wright.

00:24:58.480 And when you watch this, you gotta, you gotta think, okay, is this a remorseless killer?

00:25:05.160 Is this someone who really, who we feel needs to be punished in addition to the psychological and

00:25:13.200 emotional torment that she's experiencing? I don't know. You watch this and, uh, you decide.

00:25:17.300 Did you say anything when you saw this? What did you do? We were struggling. We were trying to keep

00:25:29.040 him from driving away. It just, it just went chaotic. I, it, and then I remember yelling,

00:25:46.580 taser, taser, taser, taser, and nothing happened. And, uh, she, there are many scenes like that when

00:26:01.980 she was testifying. She was just totally broken, um, by this experience. Uh, that's, that's pretty

00:26:11.780 clearly not acting. I mean, this is someone who's, who's devastated. She's a, a normal woman.

00:26:18.180 That's all. It's like a normal person who was thrown into this situation and, uh, and did make

00:26:25.840 a mistake. Like, nobody's denying that in this, in this case. Um, I, I still think that that would

00:26:34.120 have been the best defense actually would have been to say, well, I did it on purpose, but she's being

00:26:39.680 honest. And there's also no getting around it because she says on, on, on tape that it was,

00:26:43.900 that it was an accident. So she acknowledges that. But, um, if, if, if it were possible to say that

00:26:51.900 this was, that this was done intentionally, then there'd be no case at all. Because when you're

00:26:57.340 dealing with a violent suspect who is fighting back against you and then tries to climb back into

00:27:02.420 a vehicle, uh, I think you have every right to shoot him because you don't know if he's grabbing

00:27:08.100 for something, you, you know, he's wanted on a weapons charge. You know, he's a violent criminal. 0.99

00:27:13.400 So you don't know if he's grabbing something. And even if he isn't, this is what I said about

00:27:17.620 the Jacob Blake case. Yeah. Jacob Blake was armed. He was reaching and then he was shot.

00:27:23.700 And I guess, and that's the reason why that police officer was never brought up on any charges

00:27:27.780 because he was reaching. But I would say, even if he didn't have a weapon and even if somehow

00:27:34.440 you knew he didn't have any weapons in the car, you'd still be justified in shooting him. 0.96

00:27:39.440 I would have shot him because, because when he gets into the car, that becomes a weapon, 0.80

00:27:45.800 a violent, dangerous suspect in a vehicle is not, that is now a, you know, a multi-ton weapon that 0.99

00:27:54.820 he is going to be driving around at a 60 plus, you know, a hundred miles an hour or whatever.

00:27:58.260 That becomes a giant battering ram, but he can run into anything. And then in Jacob Blake's case,

00:28:04.600 also, there were kids in the car. And so I think taking the gun, taking the knife out of it,

00:28:09.940 taking everything out of it, I think you're perfectly justified in shooting him dead right 0.93

00:28:14.320 there to stop him from getting into the car. And I would say the same thing for Dante Wright.

00:28:19.780 You cannot let him get in the car and start, and start driving away because that's when people,

00:28:23.920 that's when an innocent person might get killed. That's when one of the cops might get killed.

00:28:27.400 So, I mean, suspects use vehicles as weapons against police officers frequently.

00:28:35.660 So if she had simply done it on purpose and said, yeah, I did it on purpose,

00:28:40.260 then I think there'd be no case at all. In this case, though, we know it was an accident,

00:28:45.280 but now the question becomes, you watch that testimony and you think about the whole situation.

00:28:51.940 Does this seem like the sort of person who we as a society need to punish?

00:28:57.400 Is she someone who needs to be, is she a danger to society? Does she need to be segregated from 0.89

00:29:03.100 society? She's already lost her job. Obviously, she's not going to be a police officer anymore. 1.00

00:29:09.300 You could certainly make the argument that she probably never should have been a police officer.

00:29:12.740 But then, you know, that brings up a conversation that nobody wants to have about about there are a lot of female police officers out there who are not physically capable of dealing with violent male suspects. 1.00

00:29:28.700 That's a conversation that nobody really wants to have.

00:29:35.280 So, if she's not a police officer anymore, is she a danger to society? Does she need to be segregated from society for that reason? 0.99

00:29:42.000 Clearly not. 1.00

00:29:42.840 Is she some sort of remorseless, sociopathic killer? 1.00

00:29:48.480 Clearly not. 0.99

00:29:51.160 Did she make a mistake? Clearly she did.

00:29:54.380 She feels terrible about it.

00:29:56.800 It's probably already ruined her life. 1.00

00:29:59.300 Not probably, it has.

00:30:00.400 I don't know what throwing her in prison accomplishes.

00:30:07.140 I look at this in some way similar to a tragic case where you hear about one of those things you, as a parent, you worry about so much.

00:30:16.100 You know, a parent backing out of their driveway backs over their own child and kills them.

00:30:21.000 You know, unless the parent was really being negligent and reckless and was a drug addict and was, you know, like, unless there was something, unless there's some kind of exigent circumstances.

00:30:30.980 Normally, when you look at that, you say, well, are you going to put the parent in prison for that?

00:30:35.860 Their life is already ruined.

00:30:37.640 They are more distraught over this than anybody else.

00:30:41.560 What does the punishment accomplish?

00:30:43.800 Then it becomes just cruel, adding that on top of this tragic event, which has utterly ruined them.

00:30:54.460 So it's similar to that, only not so similar on second thought, because the child in that case is an innocent victim.

00:31:00.960 Dante Wright was not an innocent victim, and he was not a child.

00:31:03.680 He was a grown man, violent criminal, and he's the one who created the situation.

00:31:07.720 So when I look at Kim Potter on trial for her life, distraught, her life is ruined, you know who I blame for that?

00:31:17.960 I blame Dante Wright.

00:31:19.560 You know, I get angry at Dante Wright for doing that to her.

00:31:24.540 He did that to her.

00:31:27.160 If he was alive, he should be the one apologizing, just like Jacob Blake should be the one apologizing to the police officer who had to shoot him. 1.00

00:31:32.040 Because you're a violent scumbag. 0.99

00:31:37.740 You've lived your whole life victimizing people at will, as Dante Wright did. 1.00

00:31:42.840 Victimizing people in brutal, savage ways.

00:31:48.920 And then you have a police officer simply trying to do their job, to bring you in, because you're a dangerous criminal, and that's what they're supposed to do.

00:31:56.080 And you decided to fight, because you don't care about the law, you don't care about the rules, you don't care about anybody.

00:32:02.040 And a terrible accident happened in the process, and someone's life is ruined.

00:32:07.620 A good person's life is ruined because of you.

00:32:09.560 So I put the blame on Dante Wright.

00:32:13.460 All right, let's go to this from the Daily Mail.

00:32:17.140 It says,

00:32:17.680 A hero Wisconsin mother of two died eight days after suffering severe injuries when she saved her four-year-old son from being brutally attacked by the family's pit bull.

00:32:29.280 Heather Pingel, 35, from Bowler, suffered kidney failure, lung damage, and both of her arms had to be amputated after the pit bull viciously attacked her and her son.

00:32:38.720 She was rushed to the Aspirus Hospital, where she died of her injuries on December 16th.

00:32:45.500 Damien received 70 stitches to his leg and is back home recovering.

00:32:51.760 That's her son, Damien.

00:32:53.580 So she had both her arms amputated, and then eventually she died.

00:32:59.480 I bring this case up because it's a horrible case, but also, yet again, I think it emphasizes that it's simply crazy to allow these animals to be owned in our neighborhoods.

00:33:16.780 This kind of thing, it happens every single year.

00:33:20.720 It is not all that rare.

00:33:23.740 Pit bulls are very dangerous animals.

00:33:26.360 They're bred to be dangerous.

00:33:28.300 They are uniquely dangerous.

00:33:30.760 Not every dog breed is equal in that sense.

00:33:33.780 Some dog breeds are more dangerous than other.

00:33:35.160 Pit bulls are the most dangerous because they're bred to be aggressive.

00:33:38.420 They're bred to be fighting dogs.

00:33:40.000 They're built like machines.

00:33:41.660 And you could say all you want, that I have a pit bull, and he's so cute, and I put funny hats on him, and he would never hurt anybody.

00:33:49.180 No, he's an animal.

00:33:51.520 Okay?

00:33:52.820 And if he has a bad day, or something snaps, or something triggers, you know, someone does something innocent, but that triggers an instinctive reaction in the animal, he's going to become a death machine. 0.99

00:34:07.320 Mauling children, killing women. 0.98

00:34:08.980 This happens every single year.

00:34:09.940 In fact, the website, banpitbulls.org, which I think they put their biases right there in the URL, but even so, the information is good.

00:34:20.880 It says pit bull attacks in the U.S. rose 700, so this information is a little bit old, but since 2014, it says pit bull attacks in the U.S. rose 773% between 2007 and 2014.

00:34:37.420 In the 10-year period from 2005 to 2014, pit bulls killed 200 Americans and accounted for 62% of the 326 total recorded deaths by dog bites.

00:34:48.900 And then it goes on with more statistics.

00:34:55.140 Well, you can look up yourself, but the vast majority of maulings happen by pit bulls.

00:35:01.220 Now, if you want to look at dog bites in general, including just like a nip on the hand, pit bulls might not be at the top there.

00:35:07.780 Probably like a poodle would be at the top, but poodles aren't killing anybody.

00:35:10.640 So, severe maulings, pit bulls by far and away responsible for most of them.

00:35:18.500 They killed 200 people in the span of seven years.

00:35:21.480 Now, yeah, you could say, well, you know, many more people die of car accidents every year, so on and so forth.

00:35:26.900 But we're talking to hundreds of people mauled to death by animals, by animals that we allow into our communities. 0.99

00:35:37.600 Why?

00:35:40.220 So, I know what the argument is for not allowing pit bulls.

00:35:43.500 Say, ban pit bulls. 0.88

00:35:44.500 The argument is that these can be very, very dangerous animals, uniquely dangerous, and they kill hundreds of people, and they maul thousands of people, and young kids get their faces ripped off.

00:35:56.680 And so, that's why we should not allow pit bulls. 0.94

00:36:00.140 That's the argument for banning them. 0.96

00:36:02.660 What exactly is the argument for allowing them?

00:36:06.460 The argument is they're cute, I like them.

00:36:10.300 That's really the whole argument.

00:36:12.040 That is not an argument.

00:36:14.500 Pit bulls are not, this is not, we talk about the right to bear arms, because I know that's another thing pit bull apologists will often make this comparison.

00:36:24.500 Oh, well, what you're doing, this is just what the gun control crowd does with guns. 1.00

00:36:29.420 Yeah, you have a constitutional right to bear arms.

00:36:33.740 There's no constitutional right to bear pit bulls. 0.99

00:36:37.900 Pit bulls are an animal.

00:36:40.020 And there are all kinds of animals that you're not allowed to bring into neighborhoods.

00:36:43.660 And I would think that most of us would agree with most of those laws.

00:36:46.580 You can't bring a lion into, most communities will not allow you to just own a lion and have it hanging around in the backyard.

00:36:55.360 Is that an infringement of your constitutional rights?

00:36:59.220 No.

00:36:59.640 And why don't we allow lions? 0.99

00:37:00.760 Well, because, yeah, I mean, there are probably cases of people having domesticated lions and not getting mauled by them.

00:37:07.780 But they are uniquely dangerous.

00:37:09.380 These are wild animals.

00:37:11.700 It presents a threat to the community.

00:37:14.860 And there's just no good reason to do it.

00:37:17.860 So your desire to have a lion does not outweigh the desire of your neighbor to not have his child's face bitten off.

00:37:26.480 That to me is the argument.

00:37:29.960 Okay.

00:37:30.480 This is from the New York Post.

00:37:31.400 It says, the headline, Louis C.K.'s new sorry special proves cancel culture isn't real, critics say.

00:37:38.800 And the article says, Louis C.K.'s sorry act is no laughing matter to some social media watchdogs.

00:37:44.740 The controversial comic is hyping a new comedy special.

00:37:47.320 As many viewers learned this weekend over a commercial break during a very sparse episode of Saturday Night Live due to the fresh COVID-19 outbreak in New York City.

00:37:56.300 The aptly titled Sorry shot over the summer at Madison Square Garden is the 54-year-old comedian's first since he faced numerous allegations of sexual misconduct in 2017.

00:38:08.620 And that's actually not true.

00:38:10.080 He's done a couple of comedy specials, so they're wrong about that.

00:38:12.220 But anyway, he recorded this comedy special and he streamed it on his website where you could go and buy it for $10.

00:38:19.080 And that's where it was.

00:38:20.280 It wasn't on Netflix.

00:38:21.340 It wasn't on Amazon or anything like that.

00:38:23.240 And there were a lot of leftists on social media who were saying, oh, you see, you say the cancel culture is real, but now Louis C.K. is still performing comedy.

00:38:35.000 He's got a comedy on his website.

00:38:38.460 How does that negate the reality of cancel culture?

00:38:42.220 Um, we know that Louis C.K. was canceled because this comedy special was not streamed on Netflix or Amazon prior to the scandal, right?

00:38:55.340 This would be on Netflix and he would have gotten paid, you know, hundreds of millions of dollars to do a series of specials like Dave Chappelle has for Netflix.

00:39:03.880 So he's doing this on his own website.

00:39:06.880 He has been he has been barred from most of these platforms.

00:39:11.100 They're not going to go anywhere near him.

00:39:12.360 They're not going to touch him.

00:39:13.660 And he's not, you know, he's not doing the late night shows to promote it like he would have done beforehand.

00:39:20.220 And he's got to just put it out on his website.

00:39:21.840 So, yeah, that that that still qualifies as canceling.

00:39:25.280 Doesn't disprove anything.

00:39:26.240 But it does make me wonder, you know, the advocates of cancel culture, while they claim that it doesn't exist, what they really mean is that they think it should go a lot farther than it does.

00:39:40.400 Because you're taking issue with Louis C.K. doing a comedy special and and putting it up on his own website.

00:39:46.520 You think you think he should be prevented from doing that?

00:39:53.380 I mean, it's a free country.

00:39:54.540 He's not in jail.

00:39:56.300 He's a comedian.

00:39:57.580 So this is what he does.

00:39:58.680 This is his craft.

00:39:59.740 And so he's still going to tell jokes.

00:40:01.140 So what you seem to be saying, though, if you're on the side of, oh, this proves cancel culture isn't real.

00:40:06.020 What you're really saying is that you don't think that he should be able to do that.

00:40:12.460 So walk me through that exactly.

00:40:14.020 Somebody ends up in a scandal that they're they're not brought up in charges.

00:40:19.700 They don't go to jail.

00:40:20.380 So they're still a free person walking around.

00:40:24.240 And somehow you think that they ought to be prevented from.

00:40:28.820 Producing content and putting it on their own website, that's all he's doing.

00:40:35.080 Or maybe it's because maybe we're saying cancel culture isn't real because, yeah, he's free to do the comedy that he wants to do and he's free to release it on his website.

00:40:44.020 But the real what they're really taking issue with is that there's an audience for it.

00:40:49.180 That's what they really are upset about.

00:40:51.540 That probably I don't I don't think we have those numbers, but probably millions of people went and downloaded it.

00:40:58.640 And people still go to Louis C.K.'s shows.

00:41:00.980 So maybe that proves that cancel culture isn't real.

00:41:04.320 No, you know what that proves?

00:41:05.180 Here's what it proves.

00:41:06.360 It proves that Louis C.K., whatever you think of him in his private life, is a very good comedian and he's funny.

00:41:14.920 And so people still want to hear him tell jokes.

00:41:18.940 That's all that proves.

00:41:19.960 In fact, if he can survive the scandal and still have an audience and still do these shows.

00:41:28.280 And that's that's just a testament to the fact that he's a very, very good comedian.

00:41:35.040 That's all.

00:41:35.720 And it also shows that a lot of people in the audience are able to separate a person's private life from their craft or their art.

00:41:46.400 And if you're on the right, you know, you've you've gotten very accustomed to this.

00:41:55.580 That's one of the reasons why there isn't much of a cancel culture on the right.

00:41:58.080 There isn't one at all.

00:41:59.560 I mean, the main reason, as I've said before, is that the left owns all of the institutions and cancel culture is something that is that is that that happens from the top down.

00:42:08.580 It's an it's it's it's institutional power.

00:42:11.660 You know, cancel culture is a mechanism. 0.91

00:42:13.140 It's a tool of institutional power.

00:42:14.980 The right doesn't have any institutional power.

00:42:16.400 But the other thing is that is that I think people on the right.

00:42:21.320 Don't really bother going after people for their things have in their private life and scandals and all of that, because we we have gotten so accustomed to separating who a person is and what they do in their private life from the craft.

00:42:34.920 Because if we if we were not able to separate those things, we would never be able to listen to any music.

00:42:39.900 We would never be able to watch anything on TV.

00:42:42.860 We wouldn't be able to enjoy any kind of entertainment at all.

00:42:44.940 Because when it comes to private life and all of that kind of stuff, we object to almost all of these people.

00:42:52.640 And yet, if they are good at their craft, we can still separate that and enjoy the craft what it is.

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00:45:07.160 All right, let's get now to the comment section.

00:45:18.060 Jolene says, I think you're right about 2024, Matt.

00:45:20.340 If Trump would endorse DeSantis, that would be amazing.

00:45:22.860 I would just hope Florida would get just as good a governor to replace him,

00:45:27.720 and maybe someday PA will be that lucky, LOL.

00:45:30.280 Well, yeah, that's actually the one argument against DeSantis running that I'm sympathetic to,

00:45:36.140 especially if you live in Florida, and I've heard this before, that no, I don't want DeSantis to run

00:45:39.980 because then we lose him as governor.

00:45:41.880 So I understand that argument.

00:45:42.940 But, you know, I think that because he is a governor, specifically, he has shown an ability to govern.

00:45:53.700 And so that's a skill that we know will carry over into the presidency.

00:46:00.240 I mean, you could have a very talented conservative senator who's really good in their position.

00:46:05.100 It doesn't necessarily mean they'd be a good president because it's a different skill set.

00:46:11.600 I mean, if there's actually any skill involved in being a senator, which I'm not totally sold on.

00:46:15.320 But there is definitely skill involved in being an effective governor.

00:46:21.500 Catherine says, Matt, I'm glad you found something for your son.

00:46:24.420 Boys are easy to shop for.

00:46:25.880 But in my experience, grown men are hard to shop for.

00:46:28.640 Why are you guys so picky?

00:46:29.920 See, I don't understand this.

00:46:30.540 I hear this complaint from women a lot that men are hard to shop for. 1.00

00:46:34.060 We are so easy to shop for.

00:46:36.700 You know why?

00:46:37.440 See, women, you make this more complicated than it needs to be. 1.00

00:46:41.620 And with all due respect, you tend to do that in general in life.

00:46:44.380 You make things more complicated than they need to be because you're overthinking it.

00:46:48.200 Men are very easy to shop for.

00:46:49.620 All you have to do, here's the process, okay?

00:46:54.360 There's a man in your life you're buying a gift for, whether it's your father, your husband, whatever.

00:46:57.560 Boyfriend, boyfriend, so here's what you do.

00:47:03.100 You go up to them and you say, hey, what do you want as a gift?

00:47:08.420 And they'll tell you, and then just go and get that thing, whatever it is.

00:47:12.080 That's all.

00:47:14.660 The problem for women is that, well, you actually know what the men in your life would like as a gift, 1.00

00:47:20.920 but you don't want to get them that because it doesn't feel creative enough.

00:47:25.440 You know, you think that it's the thought that counts the most.

00:47:29.780 What you don't understand is that it's the thought that counts.

00:47:33.380 That's a female mentality. 1.00

00:47:36.300 That's not how we look at it as men.

00:47:39.820 Like, we actually don't care about, if I'm given a gift that I want and it's something that I want,

00:47:45.960 I don't care if there was no thought put into it at all.

00:47:48.460 It makes no difference to me.

00:47:49.520 So that's your own mentality.

00:47:54.020 So ask the men in your life what they want and then go buy it.

00:47:57.300 And yeah, here's the thing.

00:47:58.220 Like, every man in your life, there's only like two or three things that he wants.

00:48:01.700 And it's always the same.

00:48:03.480 And so what that means is that for every gift-giving occasion, you're just getting him the same thing.

00:48:06.720 And that's fine.

00:48:08.200 I mean, the gift is for him, right?

00:48:09.460 It's not for you.

00:48:10.080 So get him what he wants.

00:48:10.920 Like, my dad, for example, all he ever wants as gifts are gift cards to restaurants where he likes to eat.

00:48:21.740 That's it.

00:48:22.160 That's like the only thing that he wants.

00:48:24.260 And so for every gift-giving occasion, and we have tried through the years, especially my sisters and my mom,

00:48:28.340 I mean, they've tried through the years to try, like, get him something else.

00:48:31.020 Oh, we thought this would be cute to get you instead.

00:48:33.260 Maybe you'd be interested in this.

00:48:36.220 But then he's going to see that as a project, as almost like an assignment, a chore.

00:48:40.920 Where you're giving him something he's not interested.

00:48:42.520 Now he's got to develop a whole new set of interests and a whole new hobbies to use this gift.

00:48:46.720 No, just give him what he wants.

00:48:47.840 That's all.

00:48:51.820 Freedom Underground says, Walsh is an ageist. 1.00

00:48:54.340 LOL, damn. 0.99

00:48:55.400 Yeah, I'm ageist against 78-year-old presidents. 1.00

00:48:57.560 I am.

00:48:58.520 I'm 100% ageist against 78-year-old presidents.

00:49:02.640 I am ageist against anyone over the age of, say, 75 running for president, and I think that it should be banned.

00:49:08.080 And I think it's crazy that it's not banned.

00:49:09.560 35 to 75, that should be the time frame.

00:49:13.200 Run for president.

00:49:14.000 You got 40 years to get it done.

00:49:15.760 You can't get it done.

00:49:16.960 Then that's it.

00:49:17.900 You had 40 years to try.

00:49:19.980 Nice try.

00:49:20.820 Now go home and be with your grandchildren.

00:49:23.060 Live your remaining years in peace.

00:49:24.600 It's actually, it's really a gift, in fact, that you're not going to be president.

00:49:28.740 There's already this problem where oftentimes the people least qualified to be president are the ones who most want to be president.

00:49:42.300 In fact, the very desire to be president is a red flag in and of itself.

00:49:50.620 And so that's the catch-22.

00:49:52.540 But that is even more the fact for when someone is elderly.

00:49:55.840 I mean, if you're 78 years old and you want to be president at that age, you actually want to take that on. 0.60

00:50:07.960 That just tells me that you are a narcissist, an egomaniac, power mad, all the rest of it. 0.66

00:50:13.180 I mean, look at Joe Biden. 0.97

00:50:16.980 Let's see.

00:50:18.200 Alexander says, sorry, Matt, DeSantis already said he isn't running, so leave your TDS at the door and get on the MAGA train.

00:50:25.400 Well, he didn't say that he's not running as far as I know.

00:50:27.120 He said he is going to run for re-election for governor, but that doesn't mean he's not going to run for president.

00:50:30.920 And TDS, Trump derangement syndrome.

00:50:33.600 Criticizing Trump is not TDS, okay?

00:50:35.320 I criticize lots of politicians on this show.

00:50:37.640 If you watch this show, you know that.

00:50:39.000 Do I have derangement syndrome about every politician that I criticize?

00:50:44.060 Or is Trump the only one that you can't criticize without being deranged?

00:50:50.360 Even when he does and says things that you would criticize anyone else for doing and saying?

00:50:56.440 Still, it's derangement to criticize him?

00:50:58.480 Come on.

00:51:01.560 FreeCat says, gossip is negative by definition.

00:51:04.220 It does not refer to casual sharing of stories.

00:51:06.340 It's usually embarrassing or completely made up.

00:51:08.180 Given today's climate, you should treat your home like a military base.

00:51:11.560 The less people know, the more secure your home is.

00:51:16.120 I agree.

00:51:16.980 And my point about gossip is simply that women gossip because they actually care about what's happening in other people's lives. 1.00

00:51:24.920 And that can take on negative forms at times where they care about the things that are really private and they shouldn't be talking about.

00:51:32.260 But I think it's born from something positive, which is that they actually care about what's happening.

00:51:38.240 Whereas men largely don't care that much about what's happening in other people's lives.

00:51:42.940 That's not what we feel like talking about.

00:51:46.120 Like we're not going to sit down and talk about.

00:51:48.620 We might talk a little bit, but we're not going to sit down and have an hour-long conversation about what's happening in somebody else's life.

00:51:54.120 Not because of any moral superiority, but we just don't care.

00:51:58.740 Like I'd rather talk about football or politics or something like that.

00:52:02.460 And finally, Paul says, Matt, I have to ask you if you think COVID is real or is it something you think our government is using for power?

00:52:08.700 Because it seems like it's affecting the whole world.

00:52:10.740 I agree mandates are dangerous, but your attitude is equally dangerous.

00:52:14.260 So why can't it be both?

00:52:17.720 I mean, it's real and it's something the government is using.

00:52:21.500 So there's a little bit of a false choice there.

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00:54:27.920 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:54:33.680 Today, we have to cancel a woman named Whitney Levitt, 1.00

00:54:37.140 who has amassed a following of half a million fans on TikTok,

00:54:40.960 mostly from what I can tell by lip syncing and dancing while pregnant.

00:54:44.500 Now, TikTok has proven that there's an enormous market out there

00:54:46.920 for 12-second videos of people lip syncing and dancing.

00:54:49.400 But in order to really make it big on the platform, you need to discover your own niche

00:54:53.440 within that category, your own twist.

00:54:55.960 So some people lip sync and dance while only partially clothed.

00:54:59.260 Some people lip sync and dance while not clothed at all.

00:55:02.740 Others lip sync and dance while wearing funny outfits.

00:55:06.180 There are people lip syncing and dancing while cross-dressing. 0.76

00:55:08.620 I saw one woman who was lip syncing and dancing while being very old.

00:55:13.040 So that was her own special variation on the theme.

00:55:15.320 And all these people have lots and lots of followers on TikTok.

00:55:17.960 But Whitney had the pregnant lip sync dance genre cornered 1.00

00:55:21.780 until her TikTok career was derailed because she had her baby. 0.70

00:55:24.780 And so she was no longer pregnant.

00:55:26.600 And searching for some new creative inspiration,

00:55:28.760 she found her opportunity when her newborn child came down with the respiratory virus RSV.

00:55:33.800 Now, three of my kids had RSV as babies.

00:55:37.000 All of them had to go to the hospital for it.

00:55:39.520 And I can tell you it's an extremely scary experience

00:55:41.980 because while the virus manifests as a cold in adults, much like Omnicorn,

00:55:46.680 it can kill a very young child, unlike Omnicorn.

00:55:51.640 It would be an understatement to say that while at the hospital

00:55:54.560 with my severely sick children, I was not in a dancing mood.

00:55:58.320 Now, to be fair, I'm never in a dancing mood.

00:56:00.080 But if I were to ever experience the strange and arbitrary urge

00:56:03.760 to move my body to the rhythm of music,

00:56:05.580 it would not be at the hospital with a sick child.

00:56:08.800 Now, Whitney, on the other hand, takes a different approach to parenting. 0.98

00:56:11.280 And so she recorded and posted this video at the hospital

00:56:14.140 while standing next to her newborn child who was struggling to breathe.

00:56:17.640 Let's watch.

00:56:18.020 Now, for those listening only to the audio, let me paint the mental picture for you.

00:56:33.400 Whitney, wearing a bright pink Nirvana sweater,

00:56:36.100 despite, I'm sure, not being able to name more than two Nirvana songs at most.

00:56:39.800 That's beside the point.

00:56:41.080 Whitney is standing in a hospital room next to her newborn child

00:56:44.020 performing a choreographed dance routine

00:56:46.360 while the captions on the screen inform us that he has RSV,

00:56:49.700 has low oxygen levels, and cannot breathe well on his own.

00:56:53.980 Now, we should note that it's not even a sad song and dance either.

00:56:57.300 This isn't like an interpretive performance

00:56:58.980 where she's communicating her sadness and anxiety through dance.

00:57:03.100 That would also be completely insane.

00:57:05.420 This somehow manages to be even crazier

00:57:07.380 because the song and dance are upbeat.

00:57:10.120 Meanwhile, her son is lying helplessly in the bassinet

00:57:12.480 looking at the camera with a distinct get-away-from-me-woman expression on his face.

00:57:18.340 Now, if you really wanted to make excuses for Whitney, which I don't,

00:57:22.680 you might argue that all of the dancing nurses over the last two years

00:57:25.760 have given people the mistaken impression

00:57:27.180 that hospital rooms also double as dance studios.

00:57:30.220 I'm just glad that this trend took hold after my Achilles surgery a few years ago

00:57:34.600 because if I had the same procedure today,

00:57:36.560 I'd probably wake up from anesthesia

00:57:37.880 to discover that there's a viral video on TikTok

00:57:40.300 of my surgeon dancing around my unconscious body

00:57:42.940 while he stitches together my shattered tendons.

00:57:46.560 So I think I've escaped that sort of thing.

00:57:49.080 But now my nightmare is that sometime in the future,

00:57:51.560 I'll go in for some routine blood work or something

00:57:53.720 only to have the doctor and 15 nurses come dancing into the room 0.94

00:57:57.100 with a marching band to inform me that I have stage 4 cancer

00:57:59.940 and I'll be dead in three months.

00:58:01.600 That's where this is headed.

00:58:03.040 Now, all that being said, this is no excuse for Whitney,

00:58:06.000 who should have known better all the same.

00:58:08.320 And she now acknowledges that,

00:58:09.520 and she issued a tearful apology a couple of days later

00:58:12.180 after her video failed to receive the applause that she was hoping for.

00:58:16.060 This is what she said.

00:58:17.680 I understand people are upset with the video that I made.

00:58:23.000 I just want to be clear and communicate that

00:58:28.120 that was me just trying to be positive.

00:58:32.900 I think it's important to just not just assume

00:58:36.140 what someone's going through.

00:58:40.400 Anyways, I took the video down

00:58:42.060 because I could see, you know,

00:58:45.480 where somebody could get the wrong idea.

00:58:48.120 But that honestly was just me

00:58:51.360 just trying to be positive in this situation.

00:58:54.840 But I do want to say thank you

00:58:57.300 for people who have reached out to me and my family.

00:59:00.960 And I just really appreciate it.

00:59:05.220 Yeah, well, she's the victim here, you see. 0.56

00:59:07.100 The victim of the content that she posted on the internet

00:59:09.260 to her massive crowd of followers.

00:59:11.980 She says that she was just trying to be positive.

00:59:14.500 Well, and there's certainly nothing wrong with that.

00:59:16.160 People try to stay positive.

00:59:18.520 I've been to plenty of funerals

00:59:19.660 where people are laughing and joking,

00:59:21.460 finding joy even in grief.

00:59:23.240 That's a very common coping mechanism.

00:59:25.600 But the problem here is not positivity.

00:59:28.260 The problem isn't even necessarily the dancing.

00:59:30.680 Now, if I walked into a room

00:59:32.000 and found a mother dancing alone around her sick child,

00:59:35.220 I would think that it was super weird

00:59:36.520 and I'd be very uncomfortable having witnessed it.

00:59:38.780 But I'd probably assume that it was some kind of

00:59:40.440 like religious ritual or something.

00:59:42.740 The main point is that it would be none of my business.

00:59:45.020 If I were to just walk into a room and see that.

00:59:48.720 If that's how you cope in private,

00:59:51.340 well, okay, that's your affair.

00:59:53.360 But this was not private.

00:59:55.640 She made the decision to record, edit,

00:59:58.260 and post this content to the internet.

01:00:01.620 She wasn't merely staying positive.

01:00:03.740 She was using her child's sickness 0.98

01:00:05.660 as content for social media.

01:00:08.560 She didn't stay positive.

01:00:10.300 She stayed posting.

01:00:11.800 And that's the issue here.

01:00:12.820 Speaking of funerals,

01:00:14.580 this reminds me of the influencer a few weeks ago,

01:00:16.820 I think I mentioned on the show,

01:00:18.320 who found herself in the middle of a similar firestorm

01:00:20.460 when she posed for seductive photos

01:00:22.740 next to her father's open casket

01:00:24.440 and posted them to Instagram.

01:00:26.540 And she captioned it,

01:00:27.760 Butterfly, fly away.

01:00:29.580 RIP, Poppy. 1.00

01:00:30.560 You are my best friend.

01:00:31.640 A life well lived.

01:00:33.400 Now, once again,

01:00:34.100 there's nothing wrong with that sentiment.

01:00:36.760 The problem is that she felt the need

01:00:38.280 to post pictures of herself

01:00:39.740 with her dad's corpse on social media.

01:00:42.620 That's not coping.

01:00:44.040 That's content.

01:00:46.100 What should have been a very personal

01:00:47.620 and private moment

01:00:48.400 becomes an opportunity

01:00:49.300 to bring attention to yourself.

01:00:52.040 Now, she justified herself,

01:00:53.440 the one with the corpse,

01:00:54.560 after the fact by saying,

01:00:56.280 everybody handles their loss of a loved one

01:00:58.300 in their own way.

01:00:59.360 Some are more traditional,

01:01:00.700 while others might come across as taboo.

01:01:03.080 For me, I treated the celebration

01:01:04.400 as if my father was right next to me,

01:01:06.620 posing for the camera

01:01:07.460 as he had done on many occasions prior.

01:01:10.580 But again,

01:01:11.520 she's free to grieve in her own way,

01:01:13.300 to celebrate her father's life

01:01:14.440 in her own way,

01:01:15.160 to go through this privately

01:01:16.560 in whatever way she sees fit.

01:01:18.380 It's none of our business

01:01:19.320 unless you make it our business,

01:01:22.560 which in this case she did.

01:01:24.960 And when that happens,

01:01:25.940 we are free to ask why.

01:01:27.820 I mean, what motivates people

01:01:29.020 to bring these sacred and intimate moments

01:01:31.760 into the public sphere,

01:01:32.940 exploiting their own trauma for content,

01:01:36.800 cashing in their grief and misery

01:01:38.240 for likes and shares.

01:01:39.540 Why do people do it?

01:01:40.840 I think there are a few factors,

01:01:41.880 but one that we can consider

01:01:43.020 is that, you know,

01:01:44.880 this new crop of social media influencers

01:01:46.920 grew up with the internet,

01:01:49.560 on it, in it.

01:01:51.120 They've never had a private life.

01:01:53.420 They've been on stage, effectively,

01:01:55.400 almost since birth,

01:01:56.520 living in front of an audience.

01:01:58.280 Now, everybody knows that child actors

01:01:59.880 usually grow up to become

01:02:01.060 deeply disturbed and troubled adults.

01:02:02.600 Why is that?

01:02:03.140 Well, because they never experienced

01:02:04.960 normal human existence.

01:02:07.580 They were famous

01:02:08.500 before they could understand

01:02:09.600 what fame meant

01:02:10.240 and certainly before they could

01:02:11.060 really choose it for themselves.

01:02:12.820 They've been performing for so long

01:02:14.460 that they never had a chance

01:02:15.420 to develop a real personality,

01:02:17.240 a real interior life.

01:02:19.740 So they grow into these

01:02:20.920 stunted, hollow people.

01:02:22.860 And they try to fill that gap in,

01:02:24.620 that hollowness in,

01:02:25.500 with drugs and everything else.

01:02:27.260 Well, the problem is that now

01:02:28.400 all kids have child actor syndrome.

01:02:30.560 The only difference is that

01:02:32.460 most of them don't have

01:02:33.200 millions of dollars to show for it.

01:02:34.800 But they get on the internet

01:02:36.020 and social media early in life

01:02:37.800 and they begin cultivating

01:02:39.600 their own little audience.

01:02:41.440 And they become small-scale

01:02:43.100 public figures

01:02:43.980 performing for the crowd,

01:02:45.720 trying constantly to appease

01:02:47.120 and grow their fan base.

01:02:49.140 But they can't explain

01:02:50.200 what they gain from it.

01:02:51.940 And this is true of adults, too.

01:02:53.320 Everybody is a public figure now.

01:02:54.580 on one scale or another.

01:02:56.800 Everyone is famous

01:02:57.860 in their own way.

01:02:59.560 Only most people get

01:03:00.500 the worst parts of fame.

01:03:02.360 The lack of privacy,

01:03:03.680 the narcissism,

01:03:05.080 the constant crushing fear

01:03:06.900 that you'll become irrelevant.

01:03:09.620 But none of the perks,

01:03:11.000 money, admiration, success.

01:03:13.340 And this is how we end up

01:03:14.420 with people who put everything

01:03:15.560 on the internet,

01:03:16.840 who publicize every detail

01:03:18.500 of themselves,

01:03:19.500 who use every experience

01:03:21.140 and every thought

01:03:21.840 and every misfortune

01:03:23.060 and trauma as content,

01:03:25.260 mere fuel to shove

01:03:26.600 into the fire.

01:03:27.900 That's how Whitney Levitt happens. 1.00

01:03:30.260 Though this is not an excuse.

01:03:32.200 We still must hold

01:03:33.360 individuals accountable

01:03:34.260 for their own behavior,

01:03:35.280 which is why today

01:03:35.960 she is still,

01:03:37.640 at the end,

01:03:38.280 canceled.

01:03:39.280 And we'll leave it there

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The Matt Walsh Show - December 21, 2021

Ep. 862 - Banish The Unvaxxed Because We’re All In This Together

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