The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 864 - My Heroic Battle With Omicron

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Walsh Show, lots of COVID quote-unquote misinformation has suddenly become

00:00:04.240 information because Fauci and the media are now saying it. We'll talk about that miraculous

00:00:08.420 transformation today, and I'll tell you all about my own harrowing encounter with the dreaded 1.00

00:00:12.180 Omnicorn variant. But Twitter has ramped up its censorship campaign against COVID heretics,

00:00:17.060 even as many of their claims have been proven true, so we've got to talk about that also.

00:00:20.220 Also, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says that all of her critics really just want to date her,

00:00:24.680 and the left uncovers a shocking truth about Ron DeSantis. You're not going to believe this.

00:00:28.320 Plus, the top female Jeopardy! contestant of all time is a man, and in our Daily Cancellation,

00:00:33.460 we'll deal with the Atlantic writer who blew up her marriage because she was bored and believes

00:00:37.620 that she has discovered some deep truths about life from her experience. All of that and more

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00:01:56.620 25% off. You know, the new year is a time for deep reflection, for resolution, for learning lessons

00:02:03.080 and making goals for the future. At least that's what most people seem to think. It's never been

00:02:07.900 very clear to me why you should wait until the arbitrary point when the calendar flips over to a

00:02:12.420 new year to do all of those things. In fact, if you're waiting, that's a pretty good indication

00:02:16.360 that you aren't serious. The only serious resolutions, and most resolutions are not serious at all,

00:02:20.700 no matter when they're made, but the only potentially serious ones are those that are acted upon

00:02:24.780 the moment that they're made. And the most serious of all are the resolutions that are not made out

00:02:30.460 loud, but are just done with no festivities or fireworks, and that's the end of it. So you want to

00:02:36.000 start working out? Okay, well, do some push-ups. You want to stop eating junk? Okay, put down the french 1.00

00:02:40.700 fries. Start what you want to start now. Stop what you want to stop now. All things have to be done

00:02:46.620 in the present anyway. If you're not willing to do them in the present moment and instead are waiting

00:02:51.540 for the new year or for Monday or for next week or whatever, then there's no reason to think that

00:02:55.600 when that future time becomes the present time, that you'll actually follow through. But if I were

00:03:00.000 to humbly suggest a couple of resolutions that you might, we all might adopt this year, resolutions

00:03:05.860 that can be implemented immediately and might help restore perhaps a small amount of sanity to our

00:03:11.280 society in 2022, they would be, number one, to relearn how to use and how to trust your common

00:03:20.680 sense. Now we've witnessed in our age an unprecedented assault on common sense. People have forgotten how

00:03:27.880 to make sound judgments in practical matters, which is what we mean by common sense, or else they've been

00:03:33.420 so battered into mental submission, so bewildered and confused that they're too afraid to listen to

00:03:38.340 their own intuition. We see this at work in, you know, the sorts of areas we talk about all the time

00:03:42.860 on this show, like when it comes to gender. But it's been even more pronounced with respect to the

00:03:48.340 COVID panic, where early on we were forbidden from saying common sense things about the situation.

00:03:54.740 But now one by one, each of those once forbidden common sense observations or intuitions have been

00:04:01.040 vindicated and slowly permitted into the discourse once it's been approved by a ranking member of the

00:04:07.040 thought police. For example, many of us have been saying for years that you're probably not achieving

00:04:12.100 much by putting a thin layer of cloth over your face when you go out in public. If the goal is to

00:04:17.480 look silly, then mission accomplished. But if the goal is to prevent an airborne virus from infecting you,

00:04:22.760 then you might be in for a rude awakening. Now, such ideas were verboten, harmful, dangerous,

00:04:28.460 conspiracy mongering until just a few days ago when the Wall Street Journal published a piece titled

00:04:32.900 Why Cloth Masks Might Not Be Enough As Omicron Spreads.

00:04:37.980 Hmm, who would have thought? Well, a lot of us thought, but we couldn't say it.

00:04:42.080 Another example, many of us have been saying, not saying, like shouting, screaming at the top of our

00:04:46.880 lungs in increasingly desperate fashion that we are harming our children by depriving them of a normal

00:04:51.960 life for fear of a virus that poses very little risk to them. This seemed like a common sense judgment

00:04:57.580 judgment and also a morally sensible judgment, but was condemned as psychotic, suicidal, reckless

00:05:04.320 until the thought police on CNN started saying it themselves. So right before Christmas, Brian

00:05:10.720 Stelter had exactly this epiphany. And of course, he communicates it as though he's the first person

00:05:16.080 to ever say it. Listen. In some media circles, this was the week where getting COVID became an

00:05:22.560 inevitability, that there's this acceptance that everybody's going to get COVID eventually. Tens of

00:05:27.960 millions of Americans already have, and everybody else is going to at some point. Is that the proper

00:05:33.700 approach, just to accept that at some point you'll be infected, which doesn't mean you'll get sick,

00:05:38.940 doesn't mean you'll suffer, but at some point everyone will be infected? Is that the proper

00:05:44.100 approach now? And if so, why is it still so hard to find at-home tests, especially in blue America?

00:05:52.280 By the way, pro tip, if you want to find at-home tests, get somebody in red America in a red state 0.68

00:05:56.960 to mail them to you, since all the stores, at least here in New York that I've seen, are sold out.

00:06:02.440 And here's another question, since we're hearing about schools closing again. We collectively took

00:06:08.320 action to protect the elderly in 2020. Now, shouldn't we be doing more to protect children?

00:06:14.820 By letting them live normal lives? Are we really going to let the kids suffer even more?

00:06:22.180 Wow. How'd you think of that, Brian? Lots of people on the right applauded Stelter for that

00:06:26.720 when he said it a couple of weeks ago. I do not applaud him. If you're wrong for two years about

00:06:31.680 something as serious as this, and then suddenly you switch over to the right team without even giving

00:06:37.620 any credit to the people who arrived at that conclusion two years ahead of you and provided you

00:06:42.660 all the cover to say it now, you're not going to get a pat on the back from me. Shouldn't get it from

00:06:47.080 anybody. This goes doubly for Anthony Fauci, who went on MSNBC on New Year's Eve and finally admitted,

00:06:53.880 and this is pretty amazing in some ways, finally admitted that the COVID hospitalization numbers

00:06:59.980 are perhaps, perhaps not what they first appear. Listen.

00:07:04.900 Many of them are hospitalized with COVID as opposed to because of COVID. And what we mean by that,

00:07:14.200 if a child goes in the hospital, they automatically get tested for COVID and they get counted as a COVID

00:07:21.540 hospitalized individual. When in fact, they may go in for a broken leg or appendicitis or something

00:07:29.480 like that. So it's over counting the number of children who are quote hospitalized with COVID as

00:07:37.540 opposed to because of COVID. Well, this is, this is, this is dangerous. I mean, he just said that there

00:07:46.180 are kids in the hospital potentially with broken legs who are counted as hospitalized as, as COVID

00:07:52.780 hospitalizations. But what he's saying is not everybody hospitalized with COVID is actually

00:07:59.020 hospitalized because of COVID. Hmm. See, this again, it's an argument that we've been making for two

00:08:06.040 years. Only we had to be very careful in making that argument because everything Tony just said there

00:08:11.140 would have gotten you banned from most social media platforms. Maybe it still will. Maybe me

00:08:17.360 repeating what he just said, we'll get the show taken down from YouTube. I don't know.

00:08:21.940 See, sometimes if a, if a ranking member of the thought police says something, it sometimes means

00:08:26.760 that everyone else is allowed to say it too. But often the exception doesn't extend beyond that one

00:08:31.660 individual. So there, there's a lot that a guy like Tony Fauci is allowed to say, which the rest of us

00:08:37.280 are not. I mean, he is the science after all, the science can say and do what it wants. Those are

00:08:43.500 the rules anyway, but we shouldn't make mistake. The rules for the truth. Common sense has been

00:08:49.540 vindicated time and time again. Remember that the other resolution is I think even more important

00:08:55.640 and that is to stop living in fear. I mean, it's been a bad idea to, to let fear rule your life in

00:09:02.480 general, but fear over COVID is at this point, especially delusional. Now I can speak with some

00:09:08.800 experience now, like almost everybody else in America, it seems I had my turn with Omnicorn

00:09:12.740 over the break, uh, which was good because frankly, I was starting to feel a little bit left out.

00:09:17.300 And, um, the illness began for me as a sort of vague feeling that, uh, I was coming down with

00:09:22.660 something. And then for two days I had a mild fever and I felt pretty miserable. And then the fever

00:09:28.760 went away and I felt almost completely fine, save for a scratchy throat and an occasional sniffle.

00:09:33.740 And, and, and that was it. Now it's not true. It's, it's not true. Not true that Omnicorn is like

00:09:41.360 the flu. In my experience anyway, it wasn't nearly as bad as that. I've had the flu. I actually did go

00:09:47.720 to the hospital for the flu a couple of years ago. And, um, my experience may be anecdotal, but it's far

00:09:53.400 from unusual. Omnicorn has been incredibly mild for the vast majority of people. So, so what have I

00:09:59.500 learned after surviving this, um, tremendous ordeal? Well, after trudging through the fires of a 100.5

00:10:07.540 degree fever and a runny nose and a headache, um, I have learned absolutely nothing that I didn't

00:10:13.600 already know. I was sick. Then I got better. You know, that's how it works. Usually sickness exists

00:10:21.400 in the world. Viruses not only exist, but there are more viruses on earth than there are stars in

00:10:27.440 the sky. Many of those viruses belong to the 200 some species that could potentially infect humans.

00:10:34.380 And some of them are far worse than COVID. Some not as bad. They're also like 100 different kinds

00:10:39.660 of cancer. And over half a million Americans die every year from one type or another. There are

00:10:45.780 countless bacteria floating around out there. Some of them resistant to antibiotics. Many of them

00:10:50.820 haven't even been discovered yet. And diseases are just one sort of danger. Every time you drive a

00:10:55.780 car, you're trusting and hoping that you're not going to cross paths with any of the lethally drunk

00:11:00.240 or distracted drivers that happen to be out on the road at the same time as you. Maybe your gamble

00:11:05.140 will work out. Maybe not. Even in your house, you're under a roof that could collapse. I mean, I am right

00:11:12.160 now. Or walking on a floor that could give in. There are murderers out there and serial killers and

00:11:18.740 terrorists and armed robbers. And we've only considered the hazards that currently occupy

00:11:24.480 the earth alongside you. An asteroid or solar flare could make all of that irrelevant in an instant.

00:11:31.520 That is unless a super volcano erupts and does the job first.

00:11:36.720 So my point is, Happy New Year. If you're looking for something to be afraid of this year,

00:11:41.560 if you really need something, there are many more worthy options than COVID and especially Omnicorn.

00:11:46.880 But the better option is to focus on something other than fear. Live your life while you can.

00:11:54.220 That's the best resolution, I think, for all of us. Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:13:12.080 their How Did You Hear About Us box so they know that we sent you. So a couple of other important

00:13:16.060 notes from the break. First, that I was, for the first time in my life, I was given the very

00:13:22.660 important and sacred duty of making the cookies for Santa. And I wanted to show you these because

00:13:28.780 here's a, I've never baked anything in my life. And for some reason, you know, Santa's coming,

00:13:33.800 so you got to make the cookies. And, uh, and I, and so my wife said to me, can you make the,

00:13:38.480 you know, the cookies for Santa? And I did. And you can see there how those turned out.

00:13:44.480 You might say that I put the duty in sacred duty with this effort. I mean, not literally. I didn't,

00:13:48.580 I mean, I didn't, I wouldn't do that to Santa. Um, and, uh, and I was mocked relentlessly

00:13:53.940 for these cookies by everybody in the house. We had family over.

00:13:57.340 My wife kept asking how the cookies ended up this way. These are supposed to be gingerbread men,

00:14:04.400 by the way. Um, so, and I, and I, and, and, but it's, it's not supposed to look like someone

00:14:08.840 Texas chainsaw massacred a bunch of obese snowmen, but that's how it turned out. And so my wife kept 1.00

00:14:14.140 saying, how did this happen? And like, I don't know. I, I had the dough and I used the cookie cutter

00:14:19.500 thing. And then this is what happened. But Santa did end up somehow he still left presents for the

00:14:24.960 kids. So, and then the new year came and, uh, some people were still sick in the house. So we

00:14:28.940 stayed in though. Of course we would have stayed in anyway, because we're boring. And, um, we let

00:14:33.820 the kids stay up till midnight. So this was their first time staying up till midnight on new year's.

00:14:38.300 And, uh, that was a decision that I regretted by about five in the afternoon because it was at four

00:14:44.500 o'clock when the kids said to me, daddy, can we stay up till midnight on new year's this time?

00:14:48.940 And for some reason I said, yeah, sure. And an hour later I regretted it. So we just,

00:14:54.080 we stayed up all, uh, you know, until midnight and, um, kids get so excited about that. But of

00:14:58.900 course, as an adult, when it gets to midnight, all you're doing is you're running the calculations

00:15:03.740 of how much sleep you're going to get. Everything's a math problem and you're negotiating with your

00:15:08.000 future selves. Like, well, I can do 30 more minutes here. I'll take 30 minutes off the back end.

00:15:12.040 But, uh, the kids were, were, um, really excited. And then, uh, and we sat, we watched the ball drop

00:15:16.920 and then we, um, my wife's idea was that they're gonna let, she was gonna let the kids go outside 0.99

00:15:23.220 and, uh, scream happy new year in the neighborhood. And so that's what we did at midnight. So my

00:15:27.640 apologies to the, to my neighbors for that one. All right. Um, we'll, we'll start with this. Last

00:15:34.160 week, Dr. Robert Malone was permanently suspended from Twitter for alleged COVID misinformation. Now

00:15:40.480 he's been called an anti-vaxxer and a conspiracy theorist. Uh, even though he's a doctor, he's an

00:15:45.620 immunologist, he's a virologist. He's been heavily involved in researching and developing vaccines.

00:15:50.940 So he's a, he's a leading expert in the world on the subject, but they banned him because he raises

00:15:58.440 questions and concerns that fall outside of the accepted narrative. And a couple of days later,

00:16:04.080 he appeared on Joe Rogan show and the whole episode, I very rarely promote other people's

00:16:08.760 podcasts unless they're paying me to, um, Joe Rogan of course is not, but this is a, an episode worth

00:16:14.160 watching. The whole thing is where it's like three hours long. Listen to the whole thing,

00:16:16.820 but I want to play just a couple of clips for you and, um, just a few choice, uh, bits here that

00:16:22.780 I think are important. So first here is, uh, Dr. Robert Malone talking about the pharmaceutical

00:16:29.700 industry, especially Pfizer and the conflicts of interest that you deal with when it comes to the

00:16:35.320 pharmaceutical industry. Listen to this. Well, that's one of the more disturbing things. The opposite

00:16:40.420 of that is one of the more disturbing things about this pandemic is how people have just decided

00:16:45.880 because they're scared and because they want a solution that the pharmaceutical companies

00:16:51.880 have their best interests at heart and that they're not these machines that are designed to make money

00:16:59.440 and they, they sell drugs and the drugs are often beneficial, but their main goal is to make money.

00:17:06.280 And if they can fudge the data, if they can move the numbers around, if they can delete negative

00:17:11.800 consequences, Pfizer is one of the most criminal pharmaceutical organizations in the world based

00:17:19.080 on their past legal history and fines. What do those fines include? Bribing physicians. Okay. It is a

00:17:27.800 cost benefit analysis in the pharmaceutical industry about misbehavior. They are not grounded in the ethical

00:17:35.720 principles that you and I as average people believe in. They don't live in that world. As you appropriately

00:17:42.760 point out, they are about profit return on investment. And furthermore, the overlords that own them,

00:17:52.600 BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street, et cetera, these large, massive funds that are completely decoupled from

00:17:59.160 nation states have no moral core. They have no moral purpose. Their only purpose is return on investment.

00:18:05.240 So nothing that you just heard there is, uh, although of course it's condemned as conspiracy theories and

00:18:12.920 there's, there's nothing conspiratorial about it. There's nothing especially shocking about it,

00:18:17.480 actually. Um, we know it's a, it's a simple fact of life. We know that money corrupts

00:18:23.640 and, uh, these pharmaceutical industries are multi-billion dollar corporations. There's a lot

00:18:29.560 of money at stake and that's going to create conflicts of interest. And it seems interesting at first that

00:18:34.120 you know, on the left, I mean, if you, if you didn't know any better and you're maybe a little

00:18:39.640 bit more naive, you might expect that criticisms of the pharmaceutical industry would be, there'd be

00:18:46.120 kind of a bipartisan deal or people on both sides of the aisle can agree because we know that people

00:18:53.800 on the right tend to be skeptical of the pharmaceutical industry to a certain extent.

00:18:57.160 And then, and then, but people on the left, uh, it's, it's, this is a major corporation with

00:19:01.000 billions of dollars and you're supposed to be skeptical of all of them. And for good reason,

00:19:06.520 by the way. And yet it seems that, um, the left, this is one multi-billion dollar industry that

00:19:15.480 they'll circle the wagons around and say, oh no, not them. And that might seem interesting at first

00:19:22.600 or confusing, but then you realize that, uh, you know, from the leftist point of view,

00:19:27.400 big pharma, you know, these are basically the priests. These are the, the, uh, the witch doctors 0.58

00:19:33.880 of the human condition because the human condition from the left's point of view is a, is entirely a

00:19:40.820 medical problem. And every problem that you have can be solved through, through medicine. You need big

00:19:47.680 pharma for that. So any, and that's, that goes beyond viruses, any uncomfortable emotion or thought

00:19:57.600 or, or, uh, personality traits that you don't want. Well, you just go to big pharma and they'll solve it

00:20:04.480 for you. No, everything from despair to anxiety, everything can be solved through, through a big

00:20:12.960 pharma. If you don't like the biological identity that you were born with, you can go to big pharma

00:20:21.520 and they'll solve that problem for you. So you have to understand how the left views the pharmaceutical

00:20:26.900 industry. They do, they do view it in a, in a, in a kind of religious light. And that is primarily why

00:20:35.160 they cannot brook any criticism of, uh, of the pharmaceutical industry. All right. So a couple others

00:20:40.800 here that I wanted to play for you that I think are interesting. So here's Robert Malone's clip

00:20:45.040 three, talking about the ways that hospitals are incentivized, um, when it comes to COVID. And this,

00:20:54.160 this, this, these are his claims. This is what he's saying as someone who has a lot of background

00:20:58.720 knowledge. And, uh, I think it's important for us all to hear it. Here's what he says.

00:21:03.600 The observation that I can make if we follow the money is that hospitals are incentivized to,

00:21:10.080 to treat COVID patients. The thing that ties all this little part of this story together,

00:21:15.280 including the suppression through the government, um, of early treatment. Hospitals are incentivized

00:21:21.680 financially to treat COVID patients. If COVID patients are being treated outside of the hospital

00:21:27.200 and prevented from going to the hospital, such as the case in the Imperial Valley, um, where Brian Tyson

00:21:33.840 and George Farid have saved thousands and thousands of lives of indigenous Latinos that are coming

00:21:39.760 across the border and working the fields. I mean, they're, they're breaking their backs to save the

00:21:44.000 poor. Amazing story there with early treatments. Um, and I guess they're left alone because they're in

00:21:50.240 the Imperial Valley. Nobody cares. They're all poor, but in these urban environments, there is all these

00:21:55.200 incentives for hospitals to treat COVID patients. And if people are giving treatments that are keeping

00:22:00.800 those people out of the hospitals, then they're not getting that revenue. So your speculation,

00:22:05.600 if I just could unpack this, that doctor in Maui who was giving early treatment, you re you think

00:22:13.200 that the reason why he was targeted because he was directly costing the hospital money because people

00:22:17.120 weren't going in. I'm not saying I, I'm saying that the observation is that early treatment keeps

00:22:22.560 people out of the hospital and that hospitals have financial incentives, including death incentives,

00:22:27.920 financial incentives, to discourage early treatment. That's outrageous. I wish I hadn't played that.

00:22:34.560 I'm sorry. Um, he said Latinos, which is very offensive. Latinx is what he means. But here again,

00:22:40.560 we hear about the, the potential conflicts of interest that could arise. Um, and he also talks about how,

00:22:48.960 according to him, he alleges that, you know, there's this, there's this intense focus on

00:22:58.080 the so-called preventative, what's supposed to be preventative measures like, like vaccines.

00:23:02.720 But, um, what about treatment after the fact? I mean, what about, what about actual therapeutics?

00:23:08.000 We don't hear as much about that. He alleges that there's been an effort to suppress that information

00:23:13.760 and there might be financial reasons for that. There could also be political reasons.

00:23:19.520 I think personally, I would guess if that's going on, a big part of it is political

00:23:24.640 because Trump early on was talking about, you know, Ivermectin and those sorts of things.

00:23:30.720 And as soon as Trump says it, then, well, that can't be the answer because Trump said it.

00:23:36.960 So one other clip, this is kind of a longer one, but I think, but this, this to me of,

00:23:41.920 of everything that was said in the whole three hour conversation, this to me, to me, this was the

00:23:47.600 headline. Uh, this is clip four. Uh, he he's talking about a province in India where they've

00:23:54.320 basically shut down. Remember Joe Biden said he's going to shut down COVID. And you might notice that

00:23:59.440 it has not been shut down because cases are higher than they've ever been. Well, in one province in

00:24:03.840 India, they have basically shut it down. They've crushed it, but we're not being told what exactly

00:24:09.040 they did, which is, which is sort of interesting. Listen, Pradesh, as you know, has crushed COVID.

00:24:16.080 Yeah. To explain what they did to do that, because it's kind of fascinating.

00:24:18.720 It's, it's not clear. Um, what are the drugs? So what they did do, what we do know,

00:24:23.840 and there, there's some backstory to this that we could go into if you want to,

00:24:27.600 but the observation is there was a decision made. The virus was just ripping through Uttar Pradesh.

00:24:32.160 It has almost the same population as the United States. It's huge. Okay. Um, dense, urban, poor,

00:24:38.080 all the characteristics of the stereotypes of the Indian countryside. Um, and, uh, the virus was just

00:24:42.880 ripping through there and causing all kinds of death and disease. And the decision was made out of

00:24:47.120 desperation in that province to deploy early treatments as packages widely throughout the

00:24:54.080 province. And it included a number of agents. The composition has not been formally disclosed.

00:25:00.080 It was done in coordination with the United, with, um, WHO and whatever was in those packages,

00:25:07.200 um, was rumored to include ivermectin. Um, but there was a specific visit of Biden to Modi and, um,

00:25:17.520 a decision was made in the Indian government not to disclose the contents of those packages that were

00:25:23.280 being deployed in Uttar Pradesh, which they're still there. And Uttar Pradesh is flatlined right now. The rest of

00:25:29.040 the world is yelling about Omicron and, and, and hospitalizations. Well, South Africa isn't,

00:25:34.240 but, uh, Uttar Pradesh is still flatlined in terms of deaths.

00:25:36.800 So they were visited by someone in the Biden administration?

00:25:38.880 No, there's a meeting between Joe Biden and, and, um, Modi.

00:25:42.160 And you believe that out of that meeting they decided?

00:25:45.120 I don't know what they said. I didn't, wasn't invited. All I know is that immediately afterwards,

00:25:48.960 there was a decision not to disclose the contents of what was being deployed in Uttar Pradesh.

00:25:52.960 It's so crazy to imagine that in the middle of a pandemic, there's one place, uh, one area of

00:25:58.080 India that's extremely successful in combating the virus, and they're not going to say how they did

00:26:01.920 it. I mean, that's, that's nuts. That's, I, you know, so that's, that's where I kind of,

00:26:08.240 my stance in all of this is to say, here are the facts, here are the verifiable data, draw your own conclusion.

00:26:15.040 So there you go. Um, so what do you, what do you do with, with information like this? I mean, does it

00:26:21.120 mean that, um, you can't trust anything anyone ever says about this? Does it mean that you, we just,

00:26:28.560 you, you abandon pharmaceuticals and everything? I'm not, I, I, I am never very quick to grab a bottle

00:26:36.560 of pills, but on, you know, I take Tylenol if I have a headache every once in a while. So are you

00:26:41.440 going to say, well, I'm never going to, uh, everything that big pharma does is bad. Well,

00:26:45.860 that would be absurd too. No, I think what we do with this information or the right response

00:26:51.720 is, should be to let everything out in the open and to have these conversations openly.

00:27:00.040 Let people with different perspectives, let guys like Robert Malone say his piece.

00:27:06.960 And then once all the information is presented and you've got all the different sides,

00:27:12.160 might be, it might seem kind of bewildering, but you've got, you know, and now there's

00:27:16.060 potentially at least a chance of arriving at some kind of a conclusion as an adult based on all the

00:27:22.920 information. And you could decide what your own risk calculus is going to be. That would be the

00:27:31.420 right thing to do. But the problem is that that's, that isn't being allowed. You know, big tech shuts it

00:27:38.200 down. They say, well, this is not allowed. You're not allowed to hear. It's not because it's not

00:27:41.580 necessarily because what you're hearing there is false. It's just that from their perspective,

00:27:46.560 it might lead you to the conclusions that they don't want you to, uh, to arrive at.

00:27:50.700 And so that's why he got kicked off of Twitter. Um, Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene was,

00:28:01.980 was also kicked off of Twitter. That's the most, the most recent thing. She was kicked off of

00:28:06.540 Twitter yesterday after supposedly committing whatever it is, four or five strikes. It always

00:28:11.760 changes. And what are her, her violations? Well, just because she has an opinion about all of this 0.98

00:28:19.080 that, um, that might sway people in a direction that our big tech overlords don't want them to be

00:28:25.960 swayed. You know, another thing we have to consider here is, is we look at, like we talked to start the

00:28:33.740 show about all of these sort of common sense judgments, common sense observations that many of us

00:28:41.140 have been making for years. And, um, we were shouted down and condemned and now they're circling back

00:28:49.180 around Brian Stelter, Fauci, the CDC. They say, Oh, you know, maybe there might be something to some

00:28:53.520 of that. Only they're not phrasing it like that because they don't want to give us credit.

00:28:59.120 And what we find is that the, especially early on, many of the so-called public health experts,

00:29:05.380 many of the doctors failed us. And why is that? Well, one of the reasons is aside, if we, if we're

00:29:14.120 to put aside political partisanship and everything else, and that's of course a big part of the,

00:29:17.900 the equation. But, um, one of the reasons is that we were turning to doctors to answer questions

00:29:28.040 that are outside of their purview. So in an ideal scenario, in an ideal scenario, if you're talking

00:29:35.860 to a doctor who you can trust, um, and he doesn't have any conflicts of interests and he's not a

00:29:41.300 political hack, what, what he, what he might be able to tell you is that, okay, if you engage in,

00:29:48.280 in this activity, um, here is the, the physical risk that might come with that. So if you go and

00:29:54.460 gather with your family on Christmas, the degree of risk from COVID is going to be X, Y, Z.

00:30:02.520 So doctors can do that. And, and, and, and again, if you could trust them, if they're trustworthy

00:30:06.780 doctors, we could call them an expert in that area of assessing that sort of physical risk as it relates

00:30:13.600 to this or that, um, activity. Okay, fine. But what doctors can't tell you once they've given you the

00:30:24.340 risk, which is just an estimate anyway, right? It's a guess, but they've given you the risk.

00:30:30.240 What they can't do is tell you whether the risk is worth it because that's not a medical judgment.

00:30:38.060 That's a philosophical judgment. So pulling a number out of thin air,

00:30:44.960 gathering with your family on Christmas, if there was a, I don't know, 3% chance that you would get

00:30:50.960 COVID doing that. Uh, maybe you could look at the statistics and you could figure out what the exact

00:30:56.060 percentage chance is. Fine. Well, is that 3% risk worth it? Is that a worthwhile risk?

00:31:07.680 Is the potential cost worth what you would gain?

00:31:14.240 Who's an expert on that? That's something that can only be, that can only be an individual judgment

00:31:18.900 because it's your own life, your own family. And these are the things you're weighing.

00:31:25.860 And it is again, at the end of the day, uh, a, uh, a philosophical judgment.

00:31:31.900 Now I would say 100% definitely worth, worth the risk. Uh, we got together with our families,

00:31:37.720 you know, in my family, we got together with family on Christmas and, uh, we all got COVID. Okay.

00:31:44.200 Was it worth it? Definitely. If I could go back in time and just cancel Christmas ahead of time

00:31:51.400 so that I didn't get COVID, would I do it? No.

00:31:57.180 What did we gain out of it? Well, we got to be with our families on Christmas.

00:32:03.400 You know, our, our, our children got to celebrate Christmas.

00:32:05.940 You only get so many Christmases as a kid. It was a very, it's a very precious time.

00:32:13.300 So was that worth the physical pain that was relatively mild that came after it? Yeah.

00:32:18.860 For me, for our family, but that's a judgment you have to make on your own.

00:32:24.080 And so this is the, this is the conflation that's been going on for years now.

00:32:27.740 Where the, where we're supposed to turn to doctors, not just to, to tell us the, you know,

00:32:36.000 the data and the numbers and all of that and the percentages, but also to, to, to, to give us

00:32:42.380 these philosophical judgments of whether or not this or that risk is worth it.

00:32:48.160 You know, and that's really a question of what, what sorts of things should you value the most

00:32:53.160 in your life? Should you value physical safety above everything else?

00:33:00.180 I would say the answer to that is definitely no.

00:33:06.460 And I'm not sure why doctors would have any special insight into that.

00:33:11.380 All right, let's move to this. From the Daily Wire, it says,

00:33:15.240 Representative Alexandria Queza-Cortez lashed out at critics on Friday after she was caught

00:33:19.780 hanging out in Miami, Florida, as her city deals with a record-breaking number of daily

00:33:24.200 coronavirus cases. National Review reported that according to photographs obtained by the

00:33:28.100 publication, Queza-Cortez was seated outside in Miami Beach and she was drinking a cocktail.

00:33:34.360 She didn't have a mask on. And she responded to one of her critics calling her out saying,

00:33:39.040 if Republicans are mad, they can't date me. They can just say that instead of projecting their

00:33:43.180 sexual frustrations onto my boyfriend's feet, I guess, because someone made a comment about the 0.98

00:33:47.440 fact that her boyfriend has ugly feet, which it seems like he does. Then she said, you creepy 0.99

00:33:52.400 weirdos. And she continued, it's starting to get old, ignoring the very obvious, strange, and deranged 0.96

00:33:58.720 sexual frustrations that underpin the Republican fixation on me, women, and LGBT plus people in 0.97

00:34:05.380 general. These people clearly need therapy. They won't do it. And they use politics as their outlet

00:34:10.840 instead. It's really weird. And this actually prompted, this is a whole day-long meltdown on AOC's

00:34:19.580 part where she was insisting that everyone who criticizes her is actually sexually attracted to

00:34:24.700 her. And this stems from two things. Number one, she is a very, very stupid person. And I certainly

00:34:35.720 don't say that about everybody on the left. I think there are plenty of smart people on the left,

00:34:39.860 evil, but intelligent. And the Democrat party as well, unfortunately. But that's not the case for

00:34:49.400 her. She's very, very stupid. And she's not able to engage intellectually with any point that anybody 1.00

00:34:56.120 makes. And so she retreats to the common thing, which is to just label. If you can't engage with an

00:35:04.720 argument, then you simply, you label it. And usually we're going to, oh, it's homophobic,

00:35:10.240 it's transphobic, it's sexist. And in this case also, it's an expression of your deep-seated sexual 0.98

00:35:18.400 frustrations. And there's a lot of projection that goes into that as well. Now, people on the left,

00:35:24.280 they see sexual frustration everywhere they go that is supposedly driving the behavior of everyone

00:35:32.040 around them. But all we can assume based on that is that that's their own experience. That's how

00:35:40.940 they operate. And so they assume that everyone else operates the same way.

00:35:45.700 So there's that, there's projection, there's stupidity, and there's also simply narcissism. 1.00

00:35:53.560 You know, she assumes again that everyone is sexually attracted to her. And so 1.00

00:35:57.800 anytime anyone talks to her or says anything about her, it must be fueled by that.

00:36:05.520 Narcissistic, shallow, and that's what you get from AOC. All right. So this is big news. I think

00:36:11.420 this is even bigger news. I need to show you this. A right-wing watchdog group, that is a watchdog

00:36:16.060 group that watches the right wing. They've uncovered something quite sinister related to Ron DeSantis.

00:36:21.880 So this is, put up 10A. Okay. So this is the Twitter account Patriot Takes. And they tweeted out,

00:36:29.780 Ron DeSantis' family is wearing the exact same clothes in both their Christmas and New Year

00:36:35.900 Instagram posts. This is, this is stunning. This is a stunning, I think there's going to be a

00:36:44.320 Pulitzer Prize for this. This is maybe the great, perhaps the greatest political scandal,

00:36:51.960 certainly of the 21st century. That Ron DeSantis' family, they're wearing the same clothing

00:36:57.060 in, in what's going on here exactly. And you, you click on that tweet and you read all the comments

00:37:02.040 underneath it. And it's a bunch of people asking that, what's going on? What's, what's, what is,

00:37:06.460 what's happening? What does this all mean? Wearing the same clothing in two different,

00:37:13.000 well, I just have a one theory here. If I, if I could, it could be that there's something really

00:37:20.180 sinister happening. I don't know. Or it could be that Ron DeSantis got his family together for a

00:37:26.940 photo shoot. And I can guarantee you it wasn't his idea. It was his wife's idea. It's never the man's

00:37:32.220 idea. So I should say, Ron DeSantis' wife got the family together for a photo shoot,

00:37:38.040 forced them all there. And then what, what they did was they took multiple photos.

00:37:43.600 And now his social media team is putting those photos up at various different times.

00:37:48.620 Because what I can tell you from experience again, is that, um, this is one of the reasons why

00:37:55.060 as a man, it'll, it'll never be your decision to take any kind of photo shoot. Cause it's, it's not,

00:37:59.360 want to talk about cost benefit analysis, never worth the cost because first you got to get all

00:38:04.540 those kids in the nice clothing. And that's a whole ordeal. And you've got to, the clothing has

00:38:10.220 to stay nice. At least the part that's visible for the camera has to stay nice long enough for

00:38:14.480 the pictures to be taken. And that's usually feasible with, so he's got two girls there that 0.99

00:38:19.000 that's okay. You can put them in nice clothing and let them walk around the house a little bit and

00:38:23.480 they'll be fine. But with a boy, you put them in nice clothing and within five minutes,

00:38:28.900 it's, it looks like he was rolling around in a barn. So you do all that, you keep them clean.

00:38:35.420 You, you, you get them into an environment. You got the photographer there and to actually get them

00:38:41.000 to look at a camera and smile. If you can, if you can get them in that, the mood where they're

00:38:47.580 actually going to do that, where you're going to take full advantage and take as many pictures as

00:38:51.740 you can, especially if your wife is forcing you. So I think that probably explains 0.92

00:38:57.540 how this happened. If anyone is wondering. All right. Uh, this is from, I guess, two weeks ago is,

00:39:07.380 is, uh, right after our last show here before Christmas Eve, but I did want to mention it

00:39:11.680 because we followed this case of, uh, Kim Potter, who is the officer in the Dante, Dante Wright shooting.

00:39:17.720 She was, uh, on trial for manslaughter, uh, for accidentally shooting Dante Wright while trying

00:39:24.540 to arrest him after traffic stop, because he was wanted on, uh, on a warrant for, uh, for, uh,

00:39:31.060 on an illegal weapons warrant, which stems from an armed robbery case. And, uh, anyway, the,

00:39:36.060 the verdict came down and she was found guilty of manslaughter. Now she's awaiting sentencing.

00:39:40.560 And here's Minnesota, Minnesota attorney general, Keith Ellison, after the verdict was read talking

00:39:47.300 about Dante Wright. And, uh, he's happy about the verdict of course, but he's, he's still very sad

00:39:53.180 because of, of the kind of man that Dante Wright could have turned out to be. And, and we are now

00:39:58.580 going to be deprived of Dante Wright because of Kim Potter. Here's Keith Ellison.

00:40:02.300 At this moment, I ask us all to reflect upon the life of Dante Wright and who he could have been

00:40:10.920 had he had a chance to grow up. At 20, Dante could have done anything. Maybe he could have gone into

00:40:18.720 the building trades. Maybe he could have started a business. What we know is that he was a young,

00:40:25.440 new dad, and he was so proud of his son, Dante jr. We know that he loved his mom and he loved his dad

00:40:35.780 and he loved his siblings and his big, beautiful family. He had his whole life in front of him

00:40:42.380 and he could have become anyone. All of us miss out on who Dante could have been.

00:40:51.320 Oh, we're, we're missing out. That's, that's pretty terrible. We're, we're missing out on who

00:40:58.040 Dante could have been. Well, I don't think we need to speculate very much because even though he was

00:41:02.900 only, what was it? I think he said 20 years old. So a grown man, but a young man. And in that short

00:41:09.520 amount of time, he had robbed a woman at gunpoint while choking her and sexually assaulting her.

00:41:14.360 He had shot a kid in the face at a gas station, crippling him for life. And he was implicated in

00:41:22.340 at least one, in a carjacking, I believe. And those are just the ones we know about.

00:41:29.100 And, and that's, that's what he did in his very young life. And that was all in the span of like

00:41:32.300 a year or two, a couple of years. So we don't need to speculate. Uh, what, what sort of man would

00:41:38.820 have been, who could he turn it? Well, that that's, that's it. And the thing is generally

00:41:44.040 speaking, when there are no consequences for your actions, or at least no consequences that

00:41:50.700 are proportional to what you're doing. Most of the time, you're not going to magically convert

00:41:56.820 into a better person. I mean, it can happen. The Lord works in mysterious ways, but usually

00:42:03.820 that requires a con some sort of confrontation. You have to hold people accountable.

00:42:08.820 And we have a justice system that does not hold people like Dante Wright accountable.

00:42:14.800 That's how he was still walking around after, out there after shooting somebody in the face.

00:42:23.460 And Keith Ellison says, we're, we're deprived now communities. No, the, the sad reality is

00:42:29.520 that Dante Wright's community is it's safer now because Dante Wright is not in it.

00:42:35.680 His community is better off now that he's not in it.

00:42:41.620 That's not my own judgment. That's just a fact. He was a dangerous man who preyed upon the vulnerable,

00:42:48.120 the weak people weaker than him.

00:42:49.960 So that's, that's it. That's what's going on with the community. Now that Dante Wright isn't there.

00:42:57.780 We got a couple other quick things. We got to move on. A lot of news that we missed.

00:43:02.280 Betty White died at the age of 99. Earlier in the week, John Madden died at 85. So that was,

00:43:06.640 that was last week. And I bring this up because we got to think about Betty White died at 99.

00:43:11.560 John Madden died at 85. Uh, the same year that was all before new year's and the same year Alex

00:43:18.680 Trebek died, Norm MacDonald died. And those were four of the only universally beloved figures left

00:43:28.480 in America. And I know that not all of them were American, but we adopted them. Alex Trebek, we

00:43:32.560 adopted. Um, so who's left then? I think that leaves us maybe Dolly Parton and like Denzel Washington

00:43:43.360 and that's it. And I would have put Keanu Reeves on that list, but I think he's off it now because

00:43:47.780 of matrix four. So that's it. That's all we've got. And there, there does something seem to be

00:43:55.240 something significant about this that we don't produce in our culture anymore. Universally beloved

00:44:01.280 cultural icons that everybody admires. There are a few that were left because they were

00:44:07.520 grandfathered in. I mean, Betty White, 99 years old, but I don't think there are any new ones.

00:44:14.580 So once Dolly Parton and Denzel Washington depart their mortal coil, that's, I think that, I think

00:44:20.520 that's it. And finally, from the Daily Wire, it says a Planned Parenthood in Knoxville, Tennessee,

00:44:25.840 uh, burned down early Friday morning. According to the Knoxville News Sentinel,

00:44:29.320 fire crews were called about 640 AM as heavy smoke was coming out of the back of the structure.

00:44:34.860 There were no injuries reported. Um, the building was being renovated and, uh, the clinic, it was not

00:44:40.360 being used at the time, but now it's burned down. We don't know exactly how it happened or what

00:44:46.280 started the fire. And, uh, you know, it's, it's a, it's a real shame, but look on the bright side.

00:44:52.460 The building was really just a clump of bricks when you think about it. So this was the termination of

00:44:59.100 an unwanted clump of bricks. Was it even a building? How do you define building? I mean,

00:45:04.900 what is a building exactly? And anyway, as our BLM friends would say, it was insured. So, you know,

00:45:12.280 no harm, no foul, right? That's the bright side of this. Let's get now to the comment section.

00:45:17.580 Okay. So it's been a while since we've done a show. So I figured, um, instead of going to the

00:45:31.900 YouTube comments, I would go to my DMs and read some of those and stuff, because those are more

00:45:37.980 recent. And so that's what we're going to do. This is from internal Saintoku says, Hey Matt,

00:45:44.140 just wanted to wish you good luck with coming up with more stupid in 2022. You've done such a good 0.99

00:45:49.520 job this year, and I'm sure you're only getting started. You'll make so many people that much

00:45:53.400 dumber with your nearly unintelligible rambling. Best luck, bud. Well, thank you. I appreciate that. 1.00

00:45:58.540 I do. Sequence says, I come from a pretty broken home and just wanted to know, is it normal for every

00:46:03.720 couple to have an argument every once in a while? Since you have a good marriage, I would love to know

00:46:07.920 from yourself. Uh, yeah, it is. It's, it's, in fact, we'll, we'll have more on this in the daily

00:46:13.680 cancellation come up here in a second, but, uh, it's not only normal, but it's healthy. I mean,

00:46:18.600 I, I hear from couples sometimes that say, Oh, we never argue. I never argue with my,

00:46:21.880 my spouse. Um, that just tells me that one or both of you, probably one of you and probably the

00:46:28.020 husband that you're, you're keeping your mouth shut and you're not expressing your anger when you,

00:46:32.100 when you feel it, or when you're uncomfortable with something, you're not saying it. So if there's

00:46:36.180 any kind of actual communication in your marriage, there's going to be arguments. Uh, if you're

00:46:40.600 having, uh, arguments every single day, then that's different, but this is this in moderation,

00:46:45.700 all things in moderation, especially arguments. Um, dancing Beck says, can you, can you explain

00:46:51.340 what should I exist means in your Panda sweatshirt? My husband bought it for my son for Christmas,

00:46:57.560 but neither one of us know what it means. Well, I appreciate that you had no idea what it meant.

00:47:01.940 You bought it anyway. Um, am I going to explain it? No, you should know that by now. If you listen to

00:47:09.400 the show, we don't explain anything. Lots of very, as the last DM said, lots of unintelligible

00:47:15.240 things come out of the show. We don't explain it. We just move on. All right. Going back to the DM

00:47:19.960 says, Ryan, uh, Ryan says, Hey Matt was really sorry to hear that you got COVID and didn't die.

00:47:26.000 Wishing better luck on the next virus. And then another comment says, damn you ugly. 1.00

00:47:31.520 I'm, I'm starting to regret the whole idea of going to the DMs. I think, um, 0.99

00:47:39.920 this was not the best decision to start the new year, but thank you so much for those comments.

00:47:43.840 We're going to go back to the YouTube comments after this. You know, the phrase do not comply

00:47:47.520 has taken on an entirely new meaning for the daily wire this week. This Friday, the Supreme court will

00:47:51.620 convene to hear arguments on the legal legality, legality and constitutionality of the mandate.

00:47:56.500 And that means this week is going to be pivotal in our fight against the Biden administration's

00:48:00.880 authoritarian vaccine mandate. We have over now 1 million signatures on our do not comply

00:48:05.820 petition currently, but it's vital that the number increases before Friday. When you sign the petition

00:48:10.940 at dailywire.com slash do not comply, you help us send a message that the American people will not

00:48:16.980 comply again, head to dailywire.com slash do not comply right now and sign the petition. Now let's get to

00:48:23.020 our daily cancellation. So for our cancellation today, we move from new year's resolutions to

00:48:30.600 something even worse, the dreaded new year's reflection. And worst of all, the kinds of

00:48:35.460 reflections inflicted upon us by middle-aged divorced writers, which are not really reflections,

00:48:40.360 but more rationalizations of their horrendous lifestyle choices. So last week there were two

00:48:44.780 pieces published in this genre, one in the Atlantic by a woman ironically named Honor Jones titled

00:48:50.020 How I Demolished My Life, but another in the New York Times by Heather Haverleski titled Marriage

00:48:56.160 Requires Amnesia. So we'll start briefly with Heather, who's at least still married, though perhaps

00:49:01.980 not for long. And here she is reflecting on her marriage. And in her reflections, she's decided that

00:49:07.460 the healthiest and wisest course of action is to vomit out all of her most bitter and unseemly thoughts

00:49:13.180 about her husband and publish them for all the world to read. So here are a few choice morsels

00:49:17.720 of the vomit. Disgusting. She says, when encountering my husband, Bill, in our shared 0.99

00:49:24.480 habitat, I sometimes experience him as a tangled hill of dirty laundry. Who left this here? I ask

00:49:30.260 myself. And then the laundry gets up to fetch itself a cup of coffee. This is not an illusion,

00:49:34.860 it's clarity. Until Bill has enough coffee, he lies in a jumble on the couch, listening to the

00:49:39.500 coffee maker, waiting for it to usher him from the land of the undead. He's exactly the same as a heap

00:49:44.060 of laundry, smelly, inert, almost sentient, but not quite. This is why surviving a marriage requires 0.88

00:49:49.660 turning down the volume on your spouse so you can barely hear what they're saying. You must do this

00:49:55.240 not only so you don't overdose on the same stultifying words and phrases within the first

00:49:59.060 year, but also so your spouse's various grunts and sneezes and snorts and throat clearings don't

00:50:04.120 serve as a magic flute that causes you to wander out the front door and into the wilderness, never to

00:50:08.980 return. And then after complaining for a while about the sound that her husband makes when he

00:50:12.840 sneezes, because this is the kind of stuff that gets published in the New York Times, by the way,

00:50:16.920 I mean, she literally spends paragraphs talking about what he sounds like when he sneezes.

00:50:20.560 Heather then drops this. She says, 0.88

00:50:22.160 Do I hate my husband? Oh, for sure. Yes, definitely. I don't know anyone who's been married for more than

00:50:28.940 seven years who flinches at this concept. A spouse is a blessing and a curse wrapped into one.

00:50:33.820 How could it be otherwise? How is hatred not the natural outcome of sleeping so close to another

00:50:39.000 human for years? Unless you plug a propofol drip into your arm every single night, how do you

00:50:44.140 encounter those unwelcome grunts and gravelly snores as anything but oppressive? Unless you spend most of

00:50:49.320 your waking hours daydreaming, how do you tolerate this meddling presence? Rearranging stuff but never

00:50:54.620 actually putting it away? Opening bills but never actually paying them? Shedding his tissues and his

00:50:59.420 dirty socks all over your otherwise pristine habitat. Well, Heather, hello, my name is Matt.

00:51:07.440 Now we've met and you can say that you've met at least one married person who doesn't hate his spouse

00:51:11.560 and you could probably walk outside of your house and quite easily find many more like me.

00:51:17.380 Maybe you haven't left your house in a long time. Maybe that's part of your problem. I don't know.

00:51:21.260 But what I can say is that hating your spouse is not normal or okay. Anger is one thing like we just

00:51:26.700 talked about. Of course, you're going to get ticked off at your spouse sometimes. That's just an

00:51:30.680 emotion. But to love is to will the good of the other. That means to hate is to will the bad of

00:51:37.880 the other. It's to want bad things to happen to somebody and to actively work to make those bad

00:51:43.380 things happen. This sort of thing has no place in a marriage. I mean, that belongs on a battlefield

00:51:48.460 or, you know, on Twitter, not in your home, not between you and the person you've vowed your life

00:51:54.940 to, especially when you consider why you hate your spouse. You know, your hatred is wrapped up in a

00:52:01.340 product of your self-involvement, your narcissism, your ego, your fantasies, your self-deceptions.

00:52:07.840 So let's take just one line, which I thought was pretty revealing. When you said, you know,

00:52:13.080 you hate him because he sheds his tissues and his dirty socks all over your otherwise pristine habitat.

00:52:19.080 Now, even if this were true, the fact that you hate somebody for inconveniencing you only shows

00:52:23.880 that the problem again is you. But also, what about the messes you make? Who's to say that your habitat

00:52:29.340 would be pristine if not for him? And who says that it's your habitat to begin with? See, the way you

00:52:34.720 see it, you own everything. It's all yours. This is your life, your home, your marriage, not his.

00:52:40.060 And you're perfect. And so anything not perfect that happens is a direct assault and affront to you.

00:52:45.480 The problem again is you. And probably him too, to some extent. But the only person you can directly

00:52:51.400 fix is yourself. And you haven't even begun to consider that option yet. Which is why your

00:52:56.400 marriage eventually will fail. Unless you figure out how to confront your own weaknesses. But this

00:53:02.060 is all downright wholesome and healthy compared to the other piece, the one in the Atlantic titled

00:53:05.740 How I Demolished My Life. The writer Honor Jones describes how she rather dishonorably divorced her 0.98

00:53:12.260 husband for no reason other than that she was bored. She says that she was bored in her house

00:53:17.680 and bored of her husband. And that's what led to this revelation. She says, I didn't have a secret

00:53:23.320 life, but I had a secret dream, which might have been worse. I loved my husband. It's not that I

00:53:29.160 didn't, but I felt that he was standing between me and the world, between me and myself. Everything I

00:53:34.960 experienced, relationships, reality, my understanding of my own identity and desires,

00:53:38.820 were filtered through him before I could access them. The worst part was that it wasn't remotely

00:53:43.960 his fault. This is probably exactly what I asked him to do when we were 21 and first in love,

00:53:49.040 even if I never said it out loud. To shelter me from the elements, to be caring and broad-shouldered.

00:53:54.260 But now it was like I was always on my tiptoes, trying to see around him. I couldn't see,

00:53:58.560 but I could imagine. I started imagining other lives, other homes. I wanted to be thinking about art

00:54:04.520 and sex and politics and the patriarchy. How much of my life, I mean the architecture of my life,

00:54:09.240 but also its essence, my soul, my mind, had I built around my husband? What could I be if I wasn't his

00:54:15.860 wife? Maybe I would micro-dose. Maybe I would have sex with women. Maybe I would write a book. 0.98

00:54:22.620 God, I hope not. Now, these are great ambitions. You see, these are her great ambitions. The great

00:54:28.060 summit she wants to climb now that she's free. To have sex with women and micro-dose. Then she 1.00

00:54:35.080 describes how she told her husband that she was leaving him for no reason. And she also throws in

00:54:39.960 that she has kids too, by the way. They're an afterthought, of course. Their well-being is of

00:54:43.800 no concern to her whatsoever. Then she says this,

00:54:46.780 There were days when the magnitude of what I've done bore down on me. I kept wondering if I'd feel

00:54:51.940 regret or remorse. It's hard to admit this. It makes me cold. As cold a woman as my ex-husband 1.00

00:54:57.560 sometimes suspects I am, but I didn't. I felt raw and I liked it. There was nothing between me and

00:55:04.060 the world. It was as if I'd been wearing sunglasses and then taken them off and suddenly everything

00:55:08.420 looked different. Not better or worse, just clearer, harsher. Cold wind on my face. I'd caused so much

00:55:14.420 upheaval, so much suffering, and for what? He asked me that at first, again and again. For what?

00:55:19.380 So I could put my face in the wind. So I could see the sun's glare. But I didn't say that out loud.

00:55:25.220 Well, it's good you didn't say that out loud. I can't imagine being the husband in that scenario.

00:55:31.560 And my wife has just told me that she's ruining my life and our kids' lives and destroying everything 1.00

00:55:35.240 we've built. And I ask why. And she says, Oh, to put my face in the wind and see the sun's glare.

00:55:41.400 Uh, what? That doesn't mean anything. It literally doesn't mean anything.

00:55:46.080 And I could read more of this piece to you, but it's all like that. None of it means anything.

00:55:51.880 Because it's all just a supremely shallow, self-absorbed, narcissistic woman trying to find 1.00

00:55:56.940 poetic language to obscure the fact that she tore her family apart because she was bored. 0.99

00:56:02.820 She's like a sadistic child pulling the legs off of a spider for fun. Except in this case, 0.96

00:56:07.020 she's pulling her family apart, ripping it limb from limb and feeling quite entertained by the

00:56:13.460 spectacle, apparently, or at least numb to it, as she confesses. Worst of all, she thinks this

00:56:18.880 makes her interesting, but it doesn't. You see, shallow, selfish people who can't keep their 0.96

00:56:24.740 promises are a dime a dozen. There's nothing fascinating or provocative about the concept.

00:56:30.660 Tolstoy famously begins Anna Karenina, which is his novel about the 19th century Russian version of,

00:56:35.600 you know, this woman, Honor Jones, with this line. He says, all happy families are alike.

00:56:40.220 Each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. But I think that's exactly backwards because most

00:56:46.640 unhappy failing marriages and the unhappy divorced people they produce are the same. They're usually

00:56:53.700 just a bunch of childish, you know, selfish people at the center of it. The same story repeated a 0.78

00:57:00.240 billion times. But intact, successful marriages and families are much more dynamic and unique and

00:57:06.660 interesting. Maybe somebody should write a New York Times or Atlantic article about one of those

00:57:12.280 sometimes. But for now, to start the new year, both of those publications who printed those pieces

00:57:18.160 and the women who were responsible who wrote them are, of course, canceled. And we'll leave it there

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Ep. 864 - My Heroic Battle With Omicron

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