The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 869 - Twitter Suspends The World’s Leading LGBT Children’s Author

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Wall Show, the leading LGBT children's author in the world was suspended

00:00:04.040 from Twitter over the weekend. It was an appalling act of homophobia, but there's something even

00:00:07.540 deeper and more important going on, which we'll talk about today. Also, the CDC has finally

00:00:11.160 started admitting some basic truths about the COVID virus just in time for the midterm elections,

00:00:15.360 but that's a coincidence, I'm sure. And a teacher stuffs her son in the trunk of her car so that

00:00:20.120 he doesn't give her COVID. Interesting parenting strategy. Plus, Navy boot camp goes woke, 0.63

00:00:25.800 and we must cancel a prominent doctor who posted a dramatic 25 tweet thread about his son's battle

00:00:32.240 with a cold. All of that and more today on The Matt Wall Show.

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00:02:02.720 So tragedy struck my family on Friday when I got the news, which came completely out of nowhere,

00:02:08.120 hitting like a bolt of lightning from the clear blue sky, that I had been suspended from Twitter.

00:02:13.700 These are truly the times that try men's souls. I was informed of the suspension mere moments

00:02:19.000 after posting a video of me defeating my wife in a plastic sled race in our front yard. Now, at first,

00:02:25.360 I thought that I was being suspended because of that video, perhaps on a bullying charge or something.

00:02:29.820 Either way, you know, that's the kind of indispensable content that the internet was deprived of

00:02:34.300 in my absence. Then I received the email from our Twitter overlords. They informed me that the

00:02:39.520 suspension was for two offensive posts that I had recently authored. One said this, trigger warning,

00:02:45.680 get ready for this. This is what it says. The greatest female Jeopardy champion of all time is a man. 0.88

00:02:50.920 The top female college swimmer is a man. The first female four-star admiral in the public health

00:02:56.620 service is a man. Men have dominated female high school track and the female MMA circuit.

00:03:01.320 The patriarchy wins in the end. The other was a tweet from a few months ago. I think it was a few

00:03:06.900 months ago. And I was responding, I believe, to the news that Demi Lovato had come out as a they,

00:03:11.520 them. She had come out as multiple people where I said in my trademark diplomatic and gentle style,

00:03:17.760 I am not referring to an individual person as if she is two people. Everyone else can run around

00:03:22.180 sounding like maniacs if they want to, but I will not be participating. No, thank you.

00:03:26.840 Well, I did say no, thank you. So I think I was pretty polite about it.

00:03:29.700 What rules did these two posts violate? Well, the company said that I had run afoul of their

00:03:35.740 policy prohibiting hateful conduct. What is hateful conduct? This is the only explanation

00:03:43.160 they offer for that. They say, you may not promote violence against, threaten, or harass other people

00:03:48.740 on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity,

00:03:54.260 religious affiliation, age, disability, or serious disease. Now, it should be noted that you can still

00:04:00.600 promote violence against them if you just disagree with their opinions, because people do that to me

00:04:04.900 every single day. I mean, every day someone is telling me they're going to kill me or wishing

00:04:08.460 death on my entire family. But that's okay, because they just hate me for everything I stand for and

00:04:13.720 believe. And that's totally fine. Hate somebody for their race or gender, on the other hand, well, 0.92

00:04:19.500 that is unacceptable. But did I promote violence? I mean, did I make any threats against anybody?

00:04:25.860 I said the patriarchy wins, but that was simply an observation, not a threat. 0.99

00:04:30.820 I didn't say the patriarchy will win, you fools. You're all going to pay. 1.00

00:04:35.300 That's the kind of thing I might say, but that's not what I mean. That's what I hope it will happen,

00:04:40.860 but that's not what I actually said. So where was the threat? Or was I guilty of harassment?

00:04:47.140 Was I harassing the trans Jeopardy! contestant by simply observing in a tweet where he was not

00:04:52.900 tagged or even mentioned by name that he's a biological male? Now, if I had to guess,

00:04:58.380 and all I can do is guess, because social media companies never deign to explain themselves to

00:05:02.400 plebs like us, but if I had to guess, that's what I would think they probably determined,

00:05:07.400 that I was harassing trans people by making objectively correct statements. 0.97

00:05:11.740 And not even, again, making those statements to them, but just in general.

00:05:17.780 In much the same way that I guess that my math teachers in elementary school harassed me by

00:05:21.940 telling me that I was doing long division wrong. You know, the truth is harassment,

00:05:25.800 if you don't want to hear it. That seems to be the standard, though, rather unevenly applied,

00:05:30.900 of course. Now, fortunately, I was let out of timeout the next day, and I was permitted to

00:05:37.080 continue posting, you know, whatever I want. I mean, posting videos of my sled races if I wanted

00:05:42.680 to. But whether I can continue to post scientifically correct information about sex and gender is

00:05:48.020 another matter. I will continue to do it. We'll just see how much more they tolerate before they

00:05:54.480 ban me. Now, although my Twitter suspension was obviously a great hardship for me, and I'm still

00:06:00.240 struggling with PTSD from the experience, I'm aware that it's not exactly earth-shattering news for

00:06:05.360 everybody else. Especially because this kind of thing happens all the time. The point that has

00:06:10.600 greater implications for society is not that this or that individual person gets suspended or banned.

00:06:16.540 It's that the most powerful social media platforms on the planet have forbidden us from stating basic

00:06:23.220 objective truths. Now, although we have perhaps grown accustomed to it by now, it is nonetheless

00:06:30.060 mind-numbingly deranged that multi-billion-dollar companies have decided that you cannot say

00:06:36.680 biological males are men. Many of the dystopian novelists of the 20th century were able to correctly

00:06:43.440 predict various aspects of our society today, but none of them predicted this. None of them prophesied a

00:06:50.940 future, a near future, where it's considered harassment to observe that an individual with a penis is a man. 0.97

00:06:56.420 This goes far beyond the darkest nightmares of Orwell or Huxley. And it, of course, extends beyond social 0.92

00:07:03.720 media. There are efforts now to impose these kinds of rules on the entire country from the federal level

00:07:08.040 in the form of bills like the Equality Act. School districts have adopted these policies, like in Loudoun

00:07:14.660 County. Major corporations across the spectrum have imposed them on their employees. And we cannot lose sight of

00:07:20.960 just how exceedingly psychotic all of this truly is. Now, of course, I say psychotic in a colloquial

00:07:27.720 sense. The people imposing these rules are not actually crazy. Some of these people that are imposing

00:07:34.600 the rules on behalf of are crazy, but the people coming up with the rules are not crazy. They are acting

00:07:41.200 with intent and with clear and coherent goals in mind. Part of what drives the censorship is that the

00:07:47.500 left's gender ideology is a fragile and vulnerable thing, and they know it. It cannot stand up to the 0.99

00:07:55.540 slightest scrutiny. It can only be defended if all of the opponents are cleared from the playing field

00:08:01.280 ahead of time. It could only stand up if no wind is allowed to blow. Over at the University of

00:08:07.160 Pennsylvania, biological male swimmer Leah Thomas just won, just a few days ago, first place in the 200

00:08:14.260 and 500-yard freestyle races in a meet against females. Now, he was defeated in the 100 freestyle

00:08:21.580 race, however, by Yale's Isaac Hennig, who is also transgender. So a trans person beat another trans 0.94

00:08:30.180 person in the female meet. Now, the interesting thing is that Hennig is a female who now identifies

00:08:35.600 as male, which means that in the women's competition, men who call themselves women are allowed to

00:08:41.180 participate, but so are women who call themselves men. It is total indefensible insanity, though a 0.71

00:08:48.700 journalist on NBC this weekend tried to defend it anyway, and let's listen to that. So let's talk

00:08:53.820 about it now with Joe Yerkeba from NBC Out, who just published this piece with the latest about Leah.

00:08:58.420 Joe, I'm glad to have you here. Talk about what's going on here, right? Because Leah does have support

00:09:04.120 from her team, from her school, from her league, if you will, and yet for some of her detractors,

00:09:09.360 that doesn't seem to be enough. Sure, yeah. So there are a few different arguments happening

00:09:14.400 here. You've got an argument about fairness. There are people who oppose trans women competing

00:09:19.140 in women's sports because they say it's unfair to cisgender women who aren't trans, 1.00

00:09:23.960 most of whom don't receive the athletic advantages of higher testosterone levels during puberty,

00:09:29.900 though then you have folks who say there's very little scientific evidence that shows that those

00:09:34.220 advantages carry over for trans women after transition. So then you've got this argument

00:09:38.760 about fairness and human rights on the other side. And trans advocates say that this question

00:09:43.280 of inclusion is about more than just sports because we're still seeing these efforts at the

00:09:48.180 state level to ban trans people from using the bathrooms of their gender. So they say this debate

00:09:53.500 is really part of a larger conversation about whether trans people can participate in certain aspects

00:09:58.600 of society at all. Just one minute there, and somehow they managed to pack like a half dozen lies

00:10:04.860 into it. Every word of what you just heard is false. It's not true that Leah Thomas has support

00:10:10.260 from his teammates. They hate the fact that he's there. They by no means are thrilled to have this

00:10:15.700 big bulky guy intruding in their space, but they'll be punished if they say anything on the record

00:10:20.600 about it. They have talked off the record, but that's all they can do. As for the claim that there's

00:10:26.000 no scientific evidence that biological males have advantages in sports, that would be true if you 1.00

00:10:31.000 simply ignore literally all of the evidence because every piece of evidence available confirms over

00:10:37.200 and over and over again that males have an advantage. I mean, every single piece of evidence.

00:10:43.720 There is no evidence on the other side of this. And yet it's not even our side that needs to produce

00:10:50.420 evidence. If you wish to contradict thousands of years of human knowledge and experience,

00:10:56.020 which are free to do, it's you who must meet the burden of proof. You must provide evidence that

00:11:04.300 they don't have an advantage, which you have not and never will because you can't. And it's also not

00:11:10.720 true that people are trying to stop transgenders from participating in society. Nobody has made any

00:11:16.120 such attempt or suggested anything like that. I am not aware of any law or any proposal anywhere at any

00:11:23.160 point. That would prohibit trans people from using the bathroom. That would not be a sanitary policy 1.00

00:11:30.280 for one thing. It also certainly wouldn't be fair. The question is whether trans people should be 1.00

00:11:35.040 required to stick with their biological sex in these contexts or if they should get special treatment.

00:11:42.940 So once again, everything you heard there was a lie because all they can do is lie, which is no surprise

00:11:50.360 given that they are waging a war on truth. And that's what this is about.

00:11:57.760 But the lies are so brazen, so empty, so glaringly obvious and false that the truth just cannot be

00:12:06.220 allowed within its proximity at all. The lies would shrivel and die. They cannot endure the slightest

00:12:13.980 challenge. That's why they censor. What other choice do they have? Tell the truth? I mean,

00:12:21.600 well, they obviously can't do that. Now let's get to our five headlines.

00:12:31.220 All right. So we start with this, some sad news, troubling news. Congresswoman Alexandria

00:12:37.820 Queza Cortez announced on Sunday that she has tested positive for COVID-19. It's from the Daily

00:12:45.140 Wire reporting now. The announcement comes just a week after the New York representative was caught

00:12:49.060 vacationing in Florida and partying at a drag club with celebrity Billy Porter while skipping voting in

00:12:55.700 person at the Capitol in Washington, D.C. because of the ongoing emergency pandemic, she said.

00:13:00.080 And she also wasn't wearing a mask for much of this. So, but, you know, she went to a super spreader 1.00

00:13:06.440 event, maskless at a drag party, and now she has COVID. I guess, you know, COVID has a crush on AOC.

00:13:15.240 Seriously, COVID, back off. Why are you so obsessed with AOC COVID? It's super creepy, all right?

00:13:24.580 That's all the analysis I have on that. We'll move on to the next thing. From CNN, it says,

00:13:27.540 the Supreme Court's conservative majority on Friday appeared ready to reject one of President

00:13:31.380 Biden's most aggressive attempts so far to combat the spread of COVID-19, a vaccine or testing

00:13:36.540 requirement aimed at large businesses. But in a separate challenge, some justices seemed more

00:13:42.440 open to a vaccine mandate aimed at certain health care workers. The court heard arguments for almost

00:13:47.820 four hours as the number of infections is soaring and 40 million adults in the U.S. are still

00:13:52.100 declining to get vaccinated. The three liberal justices on the court expressed clear approval for

00:13:57.460 the administration's rules in both areas. So, based on the arguments, anyway, it seems likely

00:14:05.180 that the mandate will get, at least huge swaths of the mandate will get, will be shut down as well

00:14:15.940 it should be. But, you know, I didn't listen to all the arguments from the clips that I've heard and

00:14:20.320 what I've read. The, the one fact that I think was not, doesn't seem to be, to have been focused on

00:14:28.200 enough. And to me, this is, this is the decisive fact, right? Is it because we can put all the civil

00:14:35.080 liberty questions aside as important as they are. And obviously in a Supreme Court challenge, you have

00:14:42.080 to focus on those because that's what this is about. It's about the constitution. So it's a constitutional

00:14:46.100 challenge. But you, but in reality, you could really put all that aside and just look at the fact

00:14:53.360 that the vaccines do not prevent transmission of the virus, which the CDC, and we'll play some clips

00:14:59.760 here in just a second, but the CDC is finally admitting that. Even the CDC is saying that at this point

00:15:07.180 it doesn't prevent transmission. So let's, let's just say in a fantasy world that Pfizer and Moderna

00:15:15.200 had come up with a vaccine that does prevent transmission, you know, even then I would not

00:15:23.840 be in favor of vaccine mandates imposed by the federal government because then we go over to the

00:15:28.020 civil liberty issue. But if there could be any argument, if there could be any argument in favor of

00:15:33.920 these things, that argument has to hinge on the vaccine, stopping the spread of, of, of the virus.

00:15:42.760 Because then you're saying that this is a public health necessity. And so we have to put these other

00:15:46.860 liberty issues on pause or whatever. It's a bad argument. It's a weak argument. But if the,

00:15:52.760 if the vaccine does not prevent transmission, there's no argument.

00:15:55.820 That is, you know, the other strategy here. And I just, I just saw this headline pop up that right

00:16:04.060 now the pharmaceutical industry, they are working hard on a, a vaccine specifically for Omicron or I'm

00:16:12.040 sorry, I didn't mean to mispronounce it. Omnicorn. So they're working hard on a vaccine for Omnicorn and

00:16:16.920 they, they hope to have that ready, you know, in the next few months. So sort of like in a, in a similar

00:16:22.420 move, I, you know, I'm, I'm organizing an effort to supply more lifeboats to the Titanic. You know,

00:16:28.060 that's, that's the great thing is that that's one way maybe where the vaccines will work is if you,

00:16:32.900 if you, if you start vaccinating everybody against Omnicorn after everyone's gotten it already.

00:16:40.140 And then, you know, so they'll wait till everyone gets it and it peters out on its own. And then they

00:16:45.380 give the vaccine and a few weeks later they could say, look, no one's getting Omnicorn anymore.

00:16:49.460 It worked. So unless you're using a strategy like that, um, these vaccines are not stopping

00:16:57.160 transmission, which means that there is no rational argument for them at all. The argument is gone

00:17:04.380 because this is not, you're not protecting public health anymore. You're not stopping anyone from

00:17:09.980 getting it. But the real headline for the, from the arguments on Friday was the avalanche of

00:17:15.160 misinformation from the liberal justices. And, uh, going back to the CDC, Brett Baer had the CBC

00:17:21.160 director, Walensky on his show on Sunday and asked her about some of that, uh, the misinformation.

00:17:26.520 And we'll start with this because there was a claim made by Sotomayor that a hundred thousand

00:17:31.500 children are hospitalized with COVID. And, um, Walensky was asked about that and let's, let's listen.

00:17:38.640 We just heard about the U S Supreme court currently deciding the fate of the president's vaccine

00:17:44.400 mandates in the questioning justice. Sonia Sotomayor made this statement.

00:17:49.200 We have over a hundred thousand children, which we've never had before in, in serious condition

00:17:56.880 vaccination and, um, many on ventilators. Now we can find from Friday suggests there are fewer than

00:18:04.800 3,500 current pediatric hospitalizations from COVID-19. Is that true? Yeah, but you know,

00:18:13.400 here's what I can tell you about our pediatric hospitalizations. Now, first of all, the vast

00:18:17.560 majority of children who are in the hospital are unvaccinated. And for those children who are not

00:18:22.520 eligible for vaccination, we do know that they are most likely to get sick with COVID if their

00:18:28.500 family members aren't vaccinated. So the most important thing we can do for those children

00:18:32.860 to keep them out of the hospital is to vaccinate them and to vaccinate their family members around

00:18:37.740 them. Understood. But the number is not a hundred thousand. It's roughly 3,500 in hospitals now.

00:18:45.340 Well, you know, a hundred thousand, 3,500. What's, what's the difference? Uh, later on in the

00:18:52.260 conversation, Walensky was asked whether she feels any responsibility to fact check the Supreme Court,

00:18:58.420 because, you know, that's something that allegedly the CDC has been doing, Walensky has been doing.

00:19:05.200 Uh, we, we know that, that, uh, misinformation supposedly is a big problem. And so when we get

00:19:10.140 misinformation from the nation's highest court, uh, from a, from a platform with that much prestige,

00:19:15.780 is it necessary to fact check it? And, uh, Walensky wasn't so sure about that.

00:19:21.540 From your data, ages 15 to 24, for example, the risk of death is at 0.001%. Um, I, I guess that

00:19:32.700 what I'm getting at in this opening is that the Supreme Court is in the process of dealing with

00:19:36.820 this big issue about mandates. And do you feel a responsibility as a CDC director to correct a very

00:19:42.740 big mischaracterization by one of the Supreme Court justices?

00:19:45.880 Yeah, I, um, here's what I'll tell you. I'll tell you that right now, 17, you're, if you're

00:19:52.920 unvaccinated, you're 17 times more likely to be in the hospital and 20 times more likely to die

00:19:58.120 than if you're on, than if you're boosted. And so what my responsibility is, is to provide

00:20:03.680 guidance and recommendations to protect the American people. Those recommendations strongly,

00:20:08.540 uh, recommend vaccination for our children above the age of five and boosting for everyone above 0.99

00:20:15.980 the age of 18, if they're eligible. Well, you know, we don't, we don't need to worry about 0.53

00:20:21.020 misinformation when it's coming from that side. Uh, she was also asked at a different point,

00:20:25.460 how many of the deaths, because this is now a subject that we're allowed to suddenly talk about,

00:20:29.840 um, how many of the deaths, COVID deaths of the 800 plus thousand, how many of them are deaths

00:20:37.380 from COVID as opposed to with COVID? This was the, the unspeakable thing for about two years. You

00:20:44.100 were not allowed to talk about it. That was going to be, that would be a quick, easy ban from pretty

00:20:48.920 much any social media platform if you had suggested such a thing. And, but now we're allowed to talk

00:20:55.700 about it. She was asked during that same interview, how many of the deaths are from COVID as opposed to

00:20:59.540 with COVID. And she said, well, we got to, I'll look into that and we'll, we'll get that information

00:21:03.960 over to you. You know, we're still, we're still putting the numbers together. Yeah. She's still

00:21:06.420 putting the numbers together two years into it. Um, so she didn't want to answer that question on

00:21:12.880 Fox, but the next morning on good morning America this morning, she, uh, admitted another

00:21:18.660 interesting fact about the COVID deaths. Listen, the overwhelming number of deaths over 75%

00:21:25.440 occurred in people who had at least four comorbidities. So really these are people who

00:21:30.940 were unwell to begin with. Another two years, almost three years into it. First time we've

00:21:39.000 heard that from her, not the first time we've heard it, but from someone like her. So what,

00:21:43.780 what exactly is going on? I mean, we finally have people in the mainstream media

00:21:50.160 talking about the effects that the shutdowns and lockdowns are having on kids and we, how we can't

00:21:55.800 keep doing this, uh, the, the trade-off that that's been made and how much it's damaged children.

00:22:00.780 They're finally talking about that. They're talking about the difference between dying from COVID and

00:22:05.120 with it. Um, we're even getting now admissions about the fact that the vaccines do not prevent the

00:22:11.700 spread of the virus. Why is this happening right now? Well, a cynical person, also just a logical

00:22:18.380 person might look at the fact that we're, we are almost exactly a year into the Biden administration

00:22:23.580 at this point. And Kate cases are surging to record highs. Um, deaths have gone down,

00:22:33.860 which is another thing that now the quote unquote public health authorities and the media,

00:22:39.140 they're also pointing to that, um, which they hadn't done in the past.

00:22:44.000 You know, in the past it was, well, we're just going to focus on cases. And, uh, even if deaths

00:22:50.620 are lagging behind where, you know, let's, let's worry about the cases, but cases are surging to

00:22:56.360 record highs a year into the, to the Biden administration. And we're coming up now on

00:23:02.780 midterm elections. And now they're finally admitting some basic truths about the virus

00:23:08.460 because they realized that Biden promised to shut down the virus hasn't happened. It's never going

00:23:17.300 to happen. The people who were stupid enough to vote for him based on that promise and promises 1.00

00:23:24.820 like it, they're going to be upset and they're going to look, there's go, there's going to be a 1.00

00:23:30.580 price to pay at the polls. So now the media and the Democrat party, they have a, they have several

00:23:36.340 months of this cleanup effort that they can do. And the cleanup is going to be, um, erasing and

00:23:42.860 reversing everything they've been saying for the last two to three years. Now, one other clip I want

00:23:48.700 to play for you, because I thought this was interesting over on water's world on Fox. Uh,

00:23:52.040 he had an expert on to talk about something that I hadn't heard until I saw this, this clip,

00:23:57.880 but the, the possibility that Omicron, Omnicorn, I keep getting wrong. I'm sorry.

00:24:03.220 Was, uh, was also a lab leak. So we know that the original COVID strain was most likely leaked from

00:24:08.440 a lab. Um, another thing that you weren't allowed to talk about for two years. And now suddenly you're

00:24:12.600 allowed to talk about, but, uh, Omicron also was potentially a lab leak. Let's listen to that.

00:24:19.040 Research suggests and evidence suggests that they were doing experiments on mice

00:24:23.480 in a lab in South Africa. We don't know which lab. Do we know which lab?

00:24:29.700 Uh, we do. We have, we have some information from that there. There are actually several

00:24:34.000 laboratories. So we don't have that, that final bit of information. Uh, I just soon not go there on,

00:24:39.700 on, on, on. I understand. And they were trying to do experiments in order to get ahead of the virus

00:24:46.720 in order to make sure that a vaccine would help it or doing research. And it escaped because that's

00:24:53.200 what viruses do it. Would this have been gain of function research in a South African lab?

00:25:00.260 Yeah, it's effectively is gain of function. If you're trying to teach a virus, how to get around

00:25:04.620 human antibodies, it's gaining the function to get around human antibodies growing in mice.

00:25:09.240 It's gaining the ability to grow in mice. So yeah, both of those do qualify as gain of function.

00:25:14.520 All right. Well, I guess the good news is this is a pretty weak strain. Uh, it's not a mutation

00:25:20.580 as far as we can tell, as far as the research shows, and, and it's going to wash through and

00:25:25.420 give the, I guess, hopefully the whole country enough immunity that this thing kind of decelerates

00:25:30.940 and we can turn the page on, on COVID-19. Is that your understanding?

00:25:37.480 Absolutely. Yeah. So it grows faster than Delta in the, in the nose and the, in the throat grows

00:25:43.280 much slower in the lungs. The consequence is that, you know, it's very transmissible, the most

00:25:48.480 transmissible virus we've ever seen. Basically the sneeze heard around the world is enough to,

00:25:53.060 to fill a room with it, but it doesn't go deep in your lungs to cause pneumonia. So it's sort of

00:25:58.320 the white hat, perfect virus. If you could, if you had to engineer one, if you had to engineer one,

00:26:05.140 which it sounds like this one was, uh, even though if, if, if Omnicorn kind of works out because

00:26:12.340 it's a weaker strain taking over for, um, the, the, the, the deadlier strains, but even so another

00:26:20.020 virus potentially escaped from a lab, maybe we should just stop doing this kind of research

00:26:27.040 entirely. It's sort of amazing when you think about all of the, the red tape that governs most

00:26:32.860 of our lives. And especially if you're a business owner, you know, you know, this better than anybody

00:26:37.800 else. Um, all of the, all of the, the, the policies that are put in place, all of the red 0.94

00:26:44.140 tape, every, every, every aspect of everything that you do, you is, has oversight from like three

00:26:50.500 different layers of government to make sure that everything is safe. Nobody gets hurt. And yet you've

00:26:57.540 got these labs across the world that are just, they're just letting, letting, uh, letting viruses

00:27:04.940 escape. And next thing you know, millions of people are dead and we, we, we barely even talk

00:27:10.160 about it. Of course, there's no, no consequences for anybody. Nobody pays any price for that

00:27:16.080 whatsoever. So, you know, if you want to open up a, if you're, if you're a 10 year old daughter

00:27:24.400 wants to open up a lemonade stand, uh, outside your, your front door, that might get shut down

00:27:30.220 by the government. In fact, there's been many cases of that happening where you're going to get a,

00:27:34.560 the government's going to shut that one down because it's not safe. You know, this is, this

00:27:38.520 is unregulated lemonade that's being let loose into the community. Who knows what could happen?

00:27:45.680 Your daughter might be a psychopath lacing it with, with arsenic. 1.00

00:27:51.580 So they're going to shut that down right away. If you try to have the unsanctioned, uh, 0.98

00:27:55.400 lemonade stand without all of the licenses and everything that you need, all the permissions,

00:27:59.540 but you want to open up a virus lab somewhere across the world. That's perfectly fine. Several

00:28:06.380 million people die. Yeah, whatever. Here's a local news report about a teacher who went to,

00:28:12.380 shall we say extreme lengths to protect herself from her son when she thought that he might've had

00:28:20.000 COVID. Listen, the local teacher is accused of putting her son in the trunk of her car while she

00:28:28.120 got tested for COVID. According to the district attorney's office, she said he tested positive

00:28:33.020 and she was trying to isolate him. And now we're learning that that woman is a teacher at a local

00:28:38.300 school district. Our Bill Barajas is live now in Northwest Harris County with the latest. Bill.

00:28:45.280 Well, Cypher ISD tells us she is a 41-year-old Sarah Beam, a Cypress Falls high school teacher.

00:28:51.480 According to court records, that teacher went to Pridgen Stadium's testing site on Monday with her

00:28:57.880 son in the trunk of her car because he had tested positive for COVID and she did not want to be

00:29:03.340 exposed. So she has been now charged with endangering a child. Well, when I first heard this

00:29:11.240 story, I know it doesn't, it doesn't surprise me that it's a teacher. I probably could have told you

00:29:15.480 that. I just, you hear these kinds of stories and it sends chills down my spine. When I think about

00:29:24.780 the kids who are in, who are in, in, in these households governed by these COVID psychopaths,

00:29:32.840 imagine, I mean, this poor kid, imagine what he's had to endure. I mean, seriously,

00:29:38.000 imagine what he's had to endure for the last two to three years.

00:29:43.620 And it always goes back like we've been talking about, you know, it goes back to,

00:29:46.920 yeah, this is a germophobia and all of those kinds of things. Super paranoid people. And

00:29:55.840 many of them have just been, their brains have been broken by the media. The media, by the way,

00:30:02.280 you know, condemning this woman, but of course it's partly their fault. They're, they're partly

00:30:06.420 responsible for this kind of thing. They have intentionally broken everybody's brains. And then,

00:30:10.560 and then this is what happens as a result. So all of that factors into it, but then also there is

00:30:16.100 this, this obsessive self-centeredness from these parents who are not primarily concerned

00:30:25.480 with the safety of their own kids. They're just thinking about themselves

00:30:28.620 and they will inflict any torture on their children to keep themselves safe.

00:30:35.140 All right, let's move on to this from the Daily Wire. It says, on Wednesday nights,

00:30:39.480 Kevin Porter Jr. of the Houston Rockets knocked down a three-pointer with 0.4 seconds left in the

00:30:43.580 game to beat the Washington Wizards 114-111. The game-winning shot should have been the story,

00:30:47.240 but it was the reaction by a member of the Wizards broadcast team that stole the show.

00:30:51.680 On the replay of the shot, Wizards broadcaster Glenn Consor made a comment that immediately set

00:30:56.960 social media on fire. Consor said, what a well-designed play. You got to give credit. Kevin

00:31:03.640 Porter Jr., like his dad, pulled that trigger right at the right time. That's what he said in the

00:31:09.480 broadcast. And, you know, pulling the trigger is kind of a common phrase that you hear from

00:31:16.800 sports broadcasters, common metaphor. But it says, the problem with the reference to Porter Jr.'s

00:31:22.840 father is that Brian Kevin Porter Sr. spent more than four years in prison for the 1993 shooting

00:31:28.440 death of a 14-year-old girl and then was shot and killed in 2004. According to USA Today,

00:31:35.080 Porter Jr.'s father, Brian Kevin Porter Sr., pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter and

00:31:39.880 shooting death of a 14-year-old girl in 1993. He was sentenced to four and a half years in prison.

00:31:44.260 Porter Sr. then died in 2004 after being shot in a South Seattle bar.

00:31:49.700 The Rocket Star was four years old when his father was killed.

00:31:52.160 Now, of course, so he makes this comment, ends up on social media. And because, I mean,

00:32:01.680 you have to keep in mind that of everyone watching the Wizards game, and they heard that comment,

00:32:07.120 99.999%, if not all of them, they wouldn't have any idea about the criminal history of Kevin

00:32:16.000 Porter Jr.'s father. They would have heard that comment, and they would have thought nothing of

00:32:19.880 it. They would have assumed that this basketball player has a father who played in the NBA at one

00:32:28.260 point, and that's what they would have assumed. But, you know, one person on social media does the

00:32:35.000 Google search, makes the connection, puts it out there, and next thing you know, this guy is getting

00:32:41.320 blasted by everyone. He's calling for him to be fired and everything else. LeBron James jumps on

00:32:46.580 the dog pile. LeBron James tweeted, oh, he thought this was cool, huh? Nah, we ain't going for this.

00:32:52.600 Sorry, but this ain't gonna fly. How insensitive can you be to say something like this? Beat it, man.

00:32:58.420 I pray for you, but there's no place in our beautiful game for you. Yeah, I pray for you. I want your life

00:33:03.080 to be ruined, and I'm going to use my immense platform to do it, but I'm praying for you as I ruin your

00:33:09.400 life. Immediately following the call, many wondered whether Concer was referring to former NBA player

00:33:16.420 Kevin Porter mistakenly believing him to be Porter Jr.'s father, and then it turns out that the

00:33:23.820 broadcaster, that's exactly what happened. He put out a statement apologizing where he apologizes and

00:33:30.620 said he was sincerely sorry for it, but then he says, I mistakenly thought Kevin was the son of former

00:33:35.980 Washington player Kevin Porter and was unaware that the words I chose to describe the game-winning

00:33:41.280 shot would be in any way hurtful or insensitive. I've reached out to Kevin to personally apologize

00:33:45.320 and hope to be able to talk with him soon. So, again, most people will hear this, not think

00:33:51.760 anything of it. Then when you look into it and you see that, okay, well, this guy's name is Kevin

00:33:56.160 Porter. He's playing for Washington. Years back, there was another guy named Kevin Porter who played for

00:34:01.660 Washington. This broadcaster was aware of that and assumed that there was a family relation and

00:34:06.680 that's what he was talking about. So, this was just a mistake, an accident. It happens. And yet,

00:34:13.860 even after he explained this, which is a perfectly logical explanation, and that makes a lot more sense.

00:34:21.820 I mean, we can't know what was going on in this guy's head and what his motivations were.

00:34:26.020 But either he mistakenly thought that the old Kevin Porter was the father of this Kevin Porter,

00:34:32.180 and that's the reference, or he was making a joke about an NBA star's father killing someone

00:34:40.380 because he wanted to destroy his own career. Either this was a simple mistake or this broadcaster

00:34:47.820 committed an act of random career suicide for no apparent reason. Which explanation makes the most

00:34:55.920 sense? Well, obviously, the simple mistake makes the most sense. And yet, even after he explained

00:35:01.180 and provide a very reasonable explanation for the comment, still people want him fired anyway,

00:35:08.020 including LeBron James, who after his most recent game, he was talking to the media and he's still

00:35:13.860 offended by this, still very upset, and he still wants this guy punished for it. Let's listen.

00:35:18.960 I stand by my tweet and I stand by everything I said. So, okay, let's just say,

00:35:23.220 let's just say he thought that was the case. So, we get scouting reports on players.

00:35:34.780 And I know you guys from the media, y'all get memos and stuff from players and stuff before the game,

00:35:40.080 right? Y'all get like packets and stuff when y'all come to the game and what's going on in the game's way.

00:35:45.180 And I believe that I'm not a play-by-play person, but I believe that they do due diligence as well

00:35:52.980 and they get their reports on teams that they're about to play as long as their own team, right?

00:35:58.680 So, I was actually watching the game live last night when I heard it. And I waited. I didn't do it

00:36:05.480 right away. As you've seen from my tweet, I was watching the game. So, if that's the case,

00:36:11.360 if I am a play-by-play announcer, right? And I'm covering a team in my local team. In his case,

00:36:23.960 he's covering the Wizards. So, he remembers the Kevin Porter who used to play for the Bullets,

00:36:29.240 correct? The first thing I would have done, I would have said, oh, Kevin Porter Jr. is coming

00:36:38.060 in the town. Let me see if that's his son. Okay. All right. Thanks, LeBron. Shut up, shut up,

00:36:43.380 shut up. So, yeah. So, really, this guy, the broadcaster, the announcer, he still deserves 1.00

00:36:50.260 to be fired. Consort deserves to be fired because, as LeBron points out, you know, it was his job to

00:36:57.900 research the family tree of every single player that is involved in a game that he's calling.

00:37:05.080 And the fact that he didn't do that means that, sorry, sorry, bud, your life's over. You know,

00:37:10.000 you should have known better. Before you call a game, you got to look up the rosters in every

00:37:14.360 single person, maybe the starters, but also the bench players, because they might take the court.

00:37:19.060 And if you think that you might be referring to them, you got to look up their entire family tree,

00:37:23.240 going back at least 100 years. And if you didn't do that, well, sorry, your life is over.

00:37:29.920 Sure. That's what LeBron is like. You see here, again, how cancel culture, of course,

00:37:35.060 has absolutely nothing to do with holding people accountable. It's also not even really

00:37:40.500 like an overreaction to people who do or say bad things. Because there's a complete disconnect here.

00:37:49.620 This was, intention does not matter. Motivation doesn't matter.

00:37:54.240 It's especially if you're not in a victim class. So, Consor, who I believe is a white guy,

00:38:05.180 as a member of a non-victim class, when he says something, he does not get to decide

00:38:13.300 the intentions of his own words. He doesn't get to determine why he said something or what he meant.

00:38:19.100 His own intentions and motivations are not up to him.

00:38:24.800 They're up to members of the victim class, like LeBron James, who's certainly a victim.

00:38:30.020 He's worth like a billion dollars. He's beloved and world famous and everything.

00:38:35.820 But he's a victim. He's certainly more of a victim than just some local broadcaster for the Wizards,

00:38:41.600 apparently. And so, LeBron,

00:38:45.540 as a member of a victim class, he gets to decide

00:38:48.180 what your motives

00:38:50.220 and intentions were.

00:38:53.320 And that's what this is about.

00:38:54.740 Alright, one other thing before we get to the comment section.

00:38:57.180 I thought this was just great. Check out this tweet

00:38:59.220 from a guy named John Reese.

00:39:02.340 So, he tweeted this.

00:39:03.940 He says,

00:39:04.520 Even after a 12-hour night shift at the hospital last night,

00:39:08.000 my wife still has the energy 1.00

00:39:09.160 to shovel the driveway.

00:39:10.180 God bless her and all our frontliners. 1.00

00:39:13.880 Time to make her some breakfast. 0.51

00:39:16.200 And then there's a picture that he took of his wife down there

00:39:19.360 after a 12-hour shift

00:39:20.820 shoveling the driveway.

00:39:23.660 John still has his pajamas on.

00:39:25.120 You know, he's sipping a cup of coffee.

00:39:26.800 Looking out there. So proud of his wife.

00:39:29.180 But this is really outrageous.

00:39:30.300 I gotta say, I saw this tweet and I was pretty upset.

00:39:32.900 I mean, what is this guy thinking?

00:39:35.140 He's making her breakfast?

00:39:37.420 She's perfectly capable, obviously.

00:39:40.820 I mean, honestly,

00:39:41.920 you're telling me she came home

00:39:44.120 and it's, what is it,

00:39:46.020 8 o'clock in the morning?

00:39:47.620 John, your wife comes home for the 12-hour shift 0.95

00:39:49.600 and then immediately went out

00:39:51.080 to shovel the driveway

00:39:51.960 and didn't make you breakfast?

00:39:55.360 Does she want you to starve to death? 0.99

00:39:56.920 It's 8 o'clock in the morning.

00:39:58.020 She had breakfast already. 0.96

00:39:59.880 How selfish is this woman? 1.00

00:40:01.080 I just hope she finished the laundry 0.99

00:40:04.300 before she went to bed after that

00:40:05.860 because those clothes won't fold themselves.

00:40:07.980 Ladies.

00:40:09.240 Now let's get to the comment section.

00:40:10.920 Daily cancellations are the law and order of the day.

00:40:16.300 We're the Sweet Baby Gang.

00:40:18.540 Ilberto says,

00:40:22.880 Next Matt needs to film the podcast in a parking lot

00:40:26.080 where he can yell at people

00:40:27.100 not returning their carts in between thoughts.

00:40:30.140 That's not a bad idea,

00:40:31.100 but there actually is already,

00:40:33.820 it's not really a show,

00:40:36.000 but there's an account,

00:40:36.720 at least on Twitter,

00:40:37.420 called CartNarks.

00:40:39.260 And I think they're on YouTube as well,

00:40:41.220 CartNarks.

00:40:41.820 And this is what they do.

00:40:43.500 This is the service that they provide.

00:40:45.140 They patrol parking lots.

00:40:47.200 And when they find someone not returning cart,

00:40:49.840 they go and yell at that person

00:40:51.720 and shame them publicly.

00:40:54.520 But needless to say,

00:40:55.760 it's heroic.

00:40:57.400 And so that service is already being provided.

00:41:00.560 But otherwise,

00:41:01.040 maybe I would think about doing that.

00:41:02.600 Warfan says,

00:41:03.820 I honestly don't care about January 6th

00:41:05.640 where politicians felt unsafe for a few hours.

00:41:08.400 Compared to my city of Atlanta

00:41:09.820 being destroyed by thousands of rioters,

00:41:12.220 it was like something out of a movie

00:41:13.320 with police cars torched and flipped over

00:41:15.160 and businesses completely destroyed.

00:41:17.200 Not big stores either,

00:41:18.840 local shops that still have not reopened

00:41:21.040 and probably never will.

00:41:23.980 Yeah, this is the inversion

00:41:26.580 where we're supposed to feel

00:41:28.220 great sympathy for politicians

00:41:32.140 who had an unpleasant afternoon,

00:41:35.120 but nothing for average citizens

00:41:38.180 who watched their neighborhoods

00:41:39.360 burn to the ground.

00:41:43.320 David says,

00:41:46.160 I love how the other Daily Wire hosts

00:41:47.880 get a quality upgrade.

00:41:48.900 And Matt says,

00:41:50.060 no thanks,

00:41:50.700 I'll go back to my car.

00:41:52.160 I hope you enjoyed that though.

00:41:53.580 That was our one trip down memory lane,

00:41:55.920 but that era is officially over,

00:41:58.140 so I'm not doing that again.

00:42:00.040 By the end of the second show of doing that,

00:42:02.800 when it's 18 degrees outside,

00:42:04.800 and I'm just freezing my ass off out there,

00:42:09.160 doing my podcast in my car,

00:42:10.840 and I'm thinking,

00:42:11.380 you know,

00:42:12.460 what am I doing with my life right now?

00:42:14.820 What was the point of this exactly?

00:42:16.560 So I hope it was worth it.

00:42:18.540 Never happening again,

00:42:19.500 I can tell you.

00:42:21.420 Alex says,

00:42:22.240 is anybody in the Daily Wire

00:42:23.200 going to talk about the Ted Cruz situation,

00:42:25.440 or are we also going to play

00:42:27.020 the liberal media role

00:42:28.260 and ignore when convenient?

00:42:29.920 Is Tucker the only journalist

00:42:31.240 holding him accountable?

00:42:34.080 I'm not avoiding talking about it.

00:42:35.800 It's also sometimes when there's an issue

00:42:40.020 that has already been discussed ad nauseum,

00:42:43.320 I'm not sure if I have much worthwhile

00:42:44.900 to add to the conversation.

00:42:47.040 But yeah,

00:42:47.320 Ted Cruz in Congress last week,

00:42:50.320 I'm sure you heard,

00:42:51.140 and then he went on Tucker the next day

00:42:52.640 to talk about it,

00:42:53.800 but he referred to January 6th

00:42:57.180 as a terrorist attack.

00:42:59.300 And he went on Tucker's show

00:43:01.660 to talk about it,

00:43:02.420 which I think was,

00:43:02.980 in hindsight,

00:43:04.700 pretty clearly a mistake to do that.

00:43:06.480 But he has since backed away from that

00:43:08.900 and said that he was being sloppy

00:43:10.120 in his wording.

00:43:12.020 Yeah, I totally disagree

00:43:13.580 that it was a terrorist attack.

00:43:14.940 I don't think that's,

00:43:15.540 it was a riot.

00:43:16.480 That's what it was.

00:43:20.020 It also wasn't simply a protest.

00:43:22.540 So we can't be like the leftists

00:43:23.940 in doing that,

00:43:25.200 where we're going to look at a riot

00:43:26.100 and say,

00:43:26.540 oh, it's just a protest.

00:43:27.780 That's clearly a riot.

00:43:28.760 I mean,

00:43:29.380 there were plenty of people there

00:43:30.980 who did not take part in a riot.

00:43:32.980 And it began as not a riot,

00:43:35.260 but it did devolve into that.

00:43:36.820 And there's no doubt about it.

00:43:37.820 So that's what it was.

00:43:39.220 That's everything that it was.

00:43:40.540 It was a riot.

00:43:42.180 And as we have talked about

00:43:43.640 at great length,

00:43:44.700 it was not nearly as violent,

00:43:49.060 deadly, dangerous,

00:43:51.320 harmful as the BLM riots.

00:43:54.000 But that's what it was.

00:43:55.160 And that's what we should call it.

00:43:56.140 It was not a terrorist attack.

00:43:57.100 It was not an insurrection.

00:43:58.720 So I disagree with Ted Cruz there.

00:44:00.600 I think he was wrong.

00:44:02.240 He shouldn't have said that.

00:44:03.480 He's backed away from it,

00:44:04.740 which is good.

00:44:08.260 You know that I'm not afraid

00:44:09.640 to hold politicians on our side

00:44:12.380 and the Republic,

00:44:12.880 if we can even say

00:44:13.660 the Republican Party is our side.

00:44:15.340 I'm not afraid to hold them accountable,

00:44:16.980 to criticize them.

00:44:18.460 In fact,

00:44:18.760 not only am I not afraid to do it,

00:44:20.100 I quite enjoy it.

00:44:21.240 Any opportunity to criticize a politician,

00:44:22.620 I will take advantage of.

00:44:27.180 But I also think,

00:44:28.640 you know,

00:44:29.620 there are very few Republicans

00:44:33.740 that are any good at all.

00:44:36.860 Very few that we can trust.

00:44:38.300 Very few that we can rely on.

00:44:39.680 Very few solid conservatives

00:44:41.000 in the Senate or in the House

00:44:43.380 or on the political scene at all.

00:44:46.460 We only have a few.

00:44:49.220 Ted Cruz is one of the few.

00:44:51.160 And so we have to ask ourselves,

00:44:52.620 he makes one mistake.

00:44:54.380 He says one thing that's wrong.

00:44:56.080 Are we just going to

00:44:56.860 toss him overboard completely

00:44:58.360 and say we're done with you

00:44:59.740 forever because of that?

00:45:02.720 It seems like there are

00:45:03.760 plenty of people on the right

00:45:04.760 who are taking that approach.

00:45:05.980 I just don't,

00:45:07.840 to me that seems kind of 0.87

00:45:09.240 penny wise and pound foolish.

00:45:11.960 I'm not sure I agree with that 0.78

00:45:13.000 as a long-term strategy.

00:45:16.020 Because he said this one thing

00:45:17.660 that I certainly disagree with

00:45:18.940 and was wrong.

00:45:20.320 Does that mean that he never,

00:45:21.440 he has nothing else to offer us?

00:45:25.500 We should want to get rid of him

00:45:26.820 and put someone else in there?

00:45:28.800 Come re-election?

00:45:29.960 I don't see it that way.

00:45:31.820 All right.

00:45:35.120 Jess says,

00:45:35.860 I told my husband

00:45:36.460 I inducted our daughter

00:45:37.480 into the SBG

00:45:38.480 and he asked what that was

00:45:40.080 and I told him

00:45:40.760 the first rule of the SBG,

00:45:42.560 he now thinks I'm on drugs.

00:45:45.020 Well,

00:45:45.980 then that means

00:45:48.000 that you are a true member

00:45:49.000 of the Sweet Baby Gang.

00:45:49.880 You handled that

00:45:50.480 very well.

00:45:52.040 I applaud you for that.

00:45:54.320 And let's see what else.

00:45:56.800 Aaron says,

00:45:57.540 Matt, you have scarred me.

00:45:58.700 In the middle of your show,

00:45:59.840 you did a segment

00:46:00.440 on a woman 0.79

00:46:00.960 who sells her farts. 0.99

00:46:02.320 I was so shocked

00:46:03.140 and disgusted

00:46:03.760 that there'd actually be

00:46:04.780 a market for that kind of thing.

00:46:06.320 As I recovered from the shock,

00:46:07.500 I then focused my attention,

00:46:09.120 expecting to hear

00:46:09.720 your commentary

00:46:10.360 and most importantly,

00:46:11.040 your reasoning

00:46:12.000 for why you'd fill

00:46:12.740 a segment slot with that.

00:46:14.460 You then made some fart jokes

00:46:15.760 and moved on.

00:46:17.040 I couldn't believe

00:46:17.760 you would implant

00:46:18.320 such a thing in my brain

00:46:19.560 for the sake of a few

00:46:20.240 subpar dad jokes.

00:46:21.720 Thanks for that.

00:46:22.380 I'm now thoroughly scarred.

00:46:25.480 Really?

00:46:25.920 Well,

00:46:26.140 I gotta say,

00:46:26.980 I don't know if you're

00:46:27.560 a true member

00:46:27.980 of the Sweet Baby Gang.

00:46:28.680 You might be banned

00:46:29.160 from the show for this.

00:46:30.960 You didn't see that

00:46:31.860 coming from a mile away?

00:46:33.280 You didn't,

00:46:33.660 shall we say,

00:46:34.280 sniff that one out?

00:46:36.500 What else am I gonna do

00:46:37.460 with a story like that?

00:46:38.220 Of course,

00:46:39.300 all I can do

00:46:39.860 is just make fart puns. 0.64

00:46:42.020 You're banned

00:46:42.340 from the show.

00:46:43.440 Well,

00:46:43.660 when everybody else

00:46:44.220 is kneeling,

00:46:44.960 some men have the courage

00:46:46.140 to stand alone.

00:46:47.260 One of those men

00:46:47.740 is NBA star Jonathan Isaac,

00:46:49.260 who despite facing

00:46:49.980 heavy criticism

00:46:50.640 from the media

00:46:51.220 for his views

00:46:51.780 on social issues

00:46:52.580 and vaccines

00:46:53.120 over the past few years,

00:46:54.360 still stood strong,

00:46:55.420 which is why I'm

00:46:55.880 extremely excited

00:46:56.480 to announce

00:46:56.820 that he's dedicated,

00:46:58.040 decided rather,

00:46:58.780 to write a book

00:46:59.440 with The Daily Wire

00:47:00.020 called Why I Stand.

00:47:01.740 Jonathan's book

00:47:02.300 will be about

00:47:02.800 the rise of his

00:47:03.500 basketball career,

00:47:04.640 his journey into faith,

00:47:05.880 and his strength

00:47:06.420 to stand alone

00:47:07.180 in the face

00:47:08.180 of immense pressure.

00:47:09.560 Check out the teaser.

00:47:10.040 The Orlando Magic's

00:47:11.580 23-year-old

00:47:12.220 starting forward

00:47:12.860 is deeply religious

00:47:13.720 and proudly unvaccinated.

00:47:15.700 On Friday,

00:47:16.460 Isaac got attention

00:47:17.280 for choosing

00:47:17.920 not to kneel

00:47:18.800 in unison with his teammates

00:47:20.100 or to wear

00:47:20.940 a Black Lives Matter shirt.

00:47:22.640 My name is Jonathan Isaac.

00:47:24.460 I play for the Orlando Magic,

00:47:25.600 and I'm writing a book

00:47:27.400 with The Daily Wire.

00:47:31.760 Courage does not mean

00:47:33.100 the absence of fear.

00:47:34.780 And in today's day,

00:47:35.700 there are so many things

00:47:36.720 that you can be afraid

00:47:38.120 of facing

00:47:38.760 because of believing

00:47:39.760 what you believe

00:47:40.500 or deciding to stand

00:47:41.620 for what you believe in.

00:47:42.960 And I believe this book

00:47:44.080 gives you a blueprint

00:47:44.900 of my story

00:47:45.980 of how Christ has made

00:47:47.180 the difference in my life.

00:47:48.200 From a young kid

00:47:49.060 who struggled

00:47:49.520 with fear,

00:47:50.240 anxiety,

00:47:51.340 self-insecurity

00:47:52.340 to a man willing

00:47:53.560 to stand for

00:47:54.380 what he believes in.

00:48:06.880 Jonathan's book

00:48:07.620 will be one of the first

00:48:08.880 under The Daily Wire's

00:48:09.840 new publishing arm.

00:48:10.720 Not the very first.

00:48:11.520 That was Johnny the Walrus.

00:48:12.780 But one of the first

00:48:13.760 under our publishing arm,

00:48:14.960 DW Books,

00:48:15.920 and we couldn't be happier

00:48:16.920 to have him on board.

00:48:18.180 The book is available

00:48:18.720 for pre-order now

00:48:19.500 at Amazon,

00:48:20.320 so reserve your copy today.

00:48:21.680 Now let's get to

00:48:22.160 our daily cancellation.

00:48:27.000 So today we cancel

00:48:28.020 alleged COVID expert

00:48:29.120 Dr. Bob Wachter.

00:48:31.120 I first became aware

00:48:32.160 of Bob and his plight

00:48:33.100 from a San Francisco

00:48:33.960 Chronicle article

00:48:34.720 that someone shared

00:48:35.840 on Twitter.

00:48:36.260 It said,

00:48:36.840 the headline was,

00:48:37.700 Medicine Meets Emotion.

00:48:39.580 COVID Experts

00:48:40.320 Shares What Happened

00:48:41.200 When His Son

00:48:41.760 Tested Positive.

00:48:43.100 The article tells us,

00:48:44.520 the retweets,

00:48:45.520 likes,

00:48:45.780 and comments

00:48:46.260 lit up for hours

00:48:47.140 Saturday after a well-known

00:48:48.160 San Francisco COVID expert

00:48:49.360 posted an extraordinary

00:48:50.440 story on Twitter.

00:48:51.860 What followed in 25 tweets

00:48:53.400 revealed a kind of

00:48:54.500 wrestling match

00:48:55.220 within Wachter.

00:48:56.460 An internal contest

00:48:57.460 between the data-savvy

00:48:58.820 physician who knew

00:48:59.800 that a young triple-vaccinated 0.94

00:49:00.940 person would probably

00:49:01.680 weather COVID just fine

00:49:02.580 and a loving father

00:49:03.840 who felt the pandemic's

00:49:04.920 pain up close,

00:49:06.340 perhaps for the first time.

00:49:08.300 Wow,

00:49:08.700 it sounds pretty harrowing.

00:49:10.280 Now at this point,

00:49:10.960 let's just jump over

00:49:12.680 to the thread itself.

00:49:13.600 It is,

00:49:13.900 as mentioned,

00:49:14.620 25 tweets long.

00:49:16.420 I have literally

00:49:17.500 written books

00:49:18.320 shorter than that.

00:49:20.080 Johnny the Walrus,

00:49:20.740 available at

00:49:21.200 johnnythewalrus.com.

00:49:22.500 By Twitter standards,

00:49:23.320 25 tweets is like

00:49:24.400 war and peace.

00:49:25.180 This is what it would

00:49:25.760 have been like

00:49:26.340 if Twitter existed

00:49:27.300 in the 19th century

00:49:28.220 and Russian novelists

00:49:29.680 were on the platform.

00:49:30.880 But let's see if the story

00:49:32.140 Dr. Bob tells

00:49:33.160 is worth the page

00:49:34.600 as it takes to tell it.

00:49:35.920 He begins,

00:49:36.380 I've been tweeting

00:49:37.640 about COVID

00:49:38.140 for nearly two years.

00:49:39.420 But this week,

00:49:40.120 it became personal

00:49:40.780 when my 28-year-old

00:49:41.800 younger son got it.

00:49:43.160 With his permission,

00:49:43.900 I'll describe his experience

00:49:45.020 and how I approached

00:49:45.740 the situation

00:49:46.320 given the realities of life

00:49:47.920 and the rapidly

00:49:48.600 changing evidence.

00:49:49.920 My son,

00:49:50.400 who lives in San Francisco,

00:49:51.240 is generally healthy

00:49:51.920 but overweight,

00:49:53.000 placing him in a

00:49:53.640 moderately high-risk group.

00:49:55.220 He's been quite careful

00:49:56.000 since March 2020,

00:49:57.220 has received three Modernas.

00:49:59.160 He used to wear

00:49:59.700 a two-ply cloth mask

00:50:00.900 since AMI.

00:50:01.960 He's switching to a

00:50:03.100 KN95 with my encouragement.

00:50:06.440 Let's pause there

00:50:06.960 for a second.

00:50:07.600 So his son had three shots

00:50:09.240 and wears an N95 mask

00:50:10.680 and he still got COVID.

00:50:12.300 There would seem

00:50:12.680 to be a lesson there.

00:50:14.060 But as usual,

00:50:14.780 this COVID expert

00:50:15.700 isn't perceptive

00:50:16.480 or honest enough

00:50:17.100 to learn it.

00:50:18.220 Instead,

00:50:18.540 he rambles on and on

00:50:19.360 about his son's diagnosis,

00:50:20.520 throwing in dramatic details

00:50:21.900 such as how he called

00:50:23.360 his son a day

00:50:23.980 after he first started

00:50:24.680 feeling sick,

00:50:25.660 didn't receive an answer,

00:50:27.200 so he went to his apartment,

00:50:28.920 let himself in

00:50:29.640 with the key

00:50:30.040 that he apparently has

00:50:30.700 and found him asleep.

00:50:31.540 Now, already we get

00:50:33.340 the impression

00:50:33.760 that he treats

00:50:34.300 his 28-year-old son

00:50:35.320 like it's his 0.52

00:50:36.060 eight-year-old son.

00:50:37.480 Then he tells us

00:50:38.280 that he gave his son

00:50:39.400 a COVID test.

00:50:41.400 Quote,

00:50:42.140 the 15-minute wait

00:50:43.380 and then

00:50:44.560 dot, dot, dot,

00:50:46.560 the pink line.

00:50:48.100 He was positive.

00:50:49.460 Like millions

00:50:50.000 of other young people,

00:50:50.860 my son had COVID.

00:50:52.920 I felt a strange guilt,

00:50:54.540 not entirely rational,

00:50:55.860 but real,

00:50:56.800 for not having protected him.

00:50:59.680 Protected him?

00:51:00.880 Dude, he's 28.

00:51:02.680 What might you have done

00:51:03.720 to stop your 28-year-old

00:51:05.160 from getting a virus

00:51:06.300 that everyone in the world

00:51:07.380 is getting?

00:51:08.820 I mean,

00:51:09.100 I suppose you could have

00:51:09.680 kept him contained

00:51:10.380 in a large glass box

00:51:11.660 in your home

00:51:12.200 like some kind of gerbil.

00:51:14.300 Maybe give him a giant wheel

00:51:15.480 to run on for recreation.

00:51:16.780 He is overweight after all.

00:51:18.000 But short of that,

00:51:19.060 there's literally

00:51:19.680 nothing you could have done

00:51:21.140 or should have attempted to do.

00:51:23.620 Your son is one

00:51:24.640 in a line of millions

00:51:25.700 who did everything right,

00:51:27.160 quote-unquote,

00:51:27.700 in order to escape

00:51:28.920 the fate of everyone else

00:51:30.180 only to share in it anyway.

00:51:32.600 Again,

00:51:33.040 that should be the lesson.

00:51:35.100 But you have to be

00:51:35.800 both smart and humble

00:51:36.600 enough to see it,

00:51:37.340 and Dr. Bob is neither

00:51:38.520 of those things, apparently.

00:51:40.000 But maybe I'm giving

00:51:40.660 the good doctor

00:51:41.240 a hard time unfairly.

00:51:42.320 I mean,

00:51:42.480 we haven't found out

00:51:43.540 if his kid fared,

00:51:45.340 how his kid fared

00:51:46.120 with the illness yet.

00:51:46.860 Maybe he was severely

00:51:47.700 or even deathly sick,

00:51:49.460 which would explain

00:51:50.160 why Dr. Bob is being

00:51:51.180 so frantic and dramatic

00:51:52.260 about the whole thing.

00:51:53.440 Reading on.

00:51:54.660 He called in sick to work,

00:51:56.320 set himself up

00:51:56.980 for at least five days

00:51:58.160 of strict isolation,

00:51:59.540 and I set out

00:52:00.140 to figure out his prognosis

00:52:01.340 and if treatment was merited.

00:52:03.700 Wait, pause again.

00:52:04.900 Why are you doing

00:52:05.760 all of this

00:52:06.280 for your grown-ass son? 0.79

00:52:08.480 Can't he call 0.94

00:52:08.980 the doctor himself?

00:52:10.600 I got COVID

00:52:11.340 a few weeks ago,

00:52:12.020 and my dad didn't come

00:52:12.840 busting into my house

00:52:13.820 early in the morning

00:52:14.400 to make sure

00:52:14.740 I was still alive.

00:52:16.560 Nor did he call

00:52:17.280 the doctor for me.

00:52:18.880 I guess he respects me

00:52:19.880 as a man

00:52:20.420 and knows I can do it myself,

00:52:21.580 or he hates me.

00:52:22.700 You know,

00:52:22.940 those are the two options.

00:52:23.680 Maybe both.

00:52:25.200 Continuing,

00:52:25.720 after several more tweets

00:52:26.580 talking about all the

00:52:27.360 treatment options

00:52:27.960 and blah, blah,

00:52:28.720 he tells us,

00:52:29.700 quote,

00:52:30.600 I called his doctor

00:52:31.560 because, of course,

00:52:32.600 he's calling

00:52:33.760 his son's doctor for him.

00:52:35.740 I wonder if his son

00:52:36.760 still goes to a pediatrician.

00:52:38.280 I'm guessing he does.

00:52:39.620 I called his doctor

00:52:40.320 who noted that the pills

00:52:41.300 have benefit,

00:52:41.920 the COVID pills,

00:52:42.800 I think it's the Pfizer

00:52:43.780 COVID pills,

00:52:44.600 have benefit

00:52:45.180 when used before day five.

00:52:47.040 I'd err on not treating,

00:52:48.240 he said wisely,

00:52:49.240 but might consider

00:52:49.900 if things worse

00:52:50.600 in the next couple of days.

00:52:51.940 It's now day four.

00:52:53.680 Pulse oximeter is fine.

00:52:55.460 Heart rate has slowed.

00:52:56.680 He's a bit less flu-ish,

00:52:58.140 but his throat still hurts like hell.

00:53:00.100 When five days are up,

00:53:01.080 we'll do another rapid

00:53:01.820 if I can find one.

00:53:02.940 If negative,

00:53:03.660 he'll leave isolation

00:53:04.440 and wear a KN95.

00:53:06.900 Okay,

00:53:07.320 that answers that question.

00:53:08.460 His son had flu symptoms

00:53:09.700 for a few days.

00:53:10.860 He was never seriously ill,

00:53:12.560 and now he's mostly fine,

00:53:13.940 but he has a sore throat.

00:53:15.640 The end.

00:53:17.440 Well,

00:53:17.840 not the end of the thread.

00:53:18.580 He goes on for like

00:53:19.160 five more paragraphs,

00:53:20.080 but that's the whole story.

00:53:21.220 So to summarize,

00:53:22.100 his 28-year-old son

00:53:23.180 had a cold.

00:53:24.460 Now he's fine.

00:53:26.180 Somehow his dad found a way

00:53:27.480 to turn it into

00:53:28.120 like the epic of Gilgamesh.

00:53:30.280 Perhaps I'm jealous

00:53:31.060 of his creativity.

00:53:31.940 My whole family got COVID,

00:53:32.980 including all my kids,

00:53:33.960 and I couldn't get more

00:53:34.920 than about 90 seconds

00:53:35.900 of content out of it

00:53:36.840 on this show.

00:53:38.060 And I call myself

00:53:38.900 a content creator. 0.96

00:53:39.940 I'm a disgrace 0.79

00:53:40.620 to my profession.

00:53:42.320 I should also tell you,

00:53:42.920 by the way,

00:53:43.140 that when my kids got COVID,

00:53:44.300 I didn't have any

00:53:45.020 like internal crisis.

00:53:46.780 I didn't feel guilty.

00:53:48.080 I didn't freak out

00:53:50.440 at all.

00:53:53.680 I said,

00:53:54.260 oh, well,

00:53:54.500 I got COVID.

00:53:54.920 It was going to happen eventually.

00:53:57.700 Or maybe,

00:53:58.320 you know,

00:53:58.520 Dr. Bob is the one

00:53:59.500 who should feel embarrassed,

00:54:00.480 though he's not alone.

00:54:01.300 Social media is full

00:54:02.260 of these kinds

00:54:02.920 of lengthy confessionals.

00:54:05.220 Whenever somebody

00:54:05.960 in the public eye

00:54:06.520 gets COVID

00:54:07.040 or their family gets it,

00:54:08.760 they feel the need

00:54:09.640 to narrate

00:54:10.400 the whole experience

00:54:11.220 at length

00:54:11.780 in exorbitant detail,

00:54:12.900 even if nothing significant

00:54:14.420 ever actually happened.

00:54:16.100 So we see here

00:54:16.960 that narcissism

00:54:17.900 is partly what drives

00:54:18.720 the COVID panic.

00:54:20.500 First,

00:54:21.020 there's the narcissism

00:54:21.820 of actually believing

00:54:22.800 that you and your loved ones

00:54:24.020 somehow will never

00:54:25.180 contract this virus

00:54:26.220 that billions

00:54:26.900 have already contracted.

00:54:28.600 These people feel shocked

00:54:29.940 when COVID finally

00:54:30.700 knocks on their door

00:54:31.380 because they had assumed

00:54:32.660 that COVID would pass over them

00:54:34.060 like the angel of death

00:54:35.100 if they performed

00:54:36.400 the necessary rituals

00:54:37.360 and smeared the right kind

00:54:38.380 of blood on their doors.

00:54:40.300 Everybody else can get it,

00:54:41.460 they think,

00:54:41.820 but I should not get it

00:54:43.080 and therefore

00:54:44.080 when I do get it,

00:54:44.980 it's a big deal.

00:54:46.380 Yes,

00:54:46.600 a billion people

00:54:47.260 already had this experience

00:54:48.260 but none of those people

00:54:49.500 are me.

00:54:50.640 My experience is profound

00:54:52.120 because it's my experience.

00:54:55.380 These are the kinds of people

00:54:56.320 who go to a famous

00:54:57.080 tourist spot

00:54:57.780 that 100 million people

00:54:58.720 have already visited

00:54:59.300 before them

00:54:59.820 and take 1,000 pictures

00:55:01.480 and then force you

00:55:02.480 to look at them.

00:55:03.700 Hey, look at these pictures

00:55:04.360 I took of the Grand Canyon.

00:55:06.120 Why?

00:55:07.200 You think I've never seen

00:55:07.940 a picture of the Grand Canyon?

00:55:10.020 Your Grand Canyon trip

00:55:11.060 may be significant to you

00:55:12.300 but to the rest of us

00:55:13.060 there's nothing significant

00:55:14.180 about the fact

00:55:14.700 that you visited

00:55:15.260 one of the most famous

00:55:16.020 tourist destinations

00:55:16.680 in the world.

00:55:18.640 So,

00:55:19.540 kind of a similar situation here.

00:55:21.240 But there's something else

00:55:21.860 going on as well.

00:55:23.740 Most of us live lives

00:55:24.960 of previously unimaginable

00:55:26.700 comfort

00:55:27.160 and ease

00:55:27.860 and luxury.

00:55:29.140 We simply don't have

00:55:30.440 very many

00:55:30.980 truly harrowing experiences.

00:55:32.900 Most of us don't.

00:55:34.280 We don't suffer very much

00:55:35.600 because every aspect

00:55:36.560 of modern life

00:55:37.300 is obsessively focused

00:55:38.500 on preventing suffering

00:55:39.960 for better or worse.

00:55:41.340 But we've discovered

00:55:41.960 that actually

00:55:42.840 humans need to suffer 1.00

00:55:44.960 a little bit.

00:55:45.580 It's hard to see

00:55:46.240 the purpose in life

00:55:47.140 if everything goes your way

00:55:48.420 all the time.

00:55:50.120 It's hard to know

00:55:51.020 where to go

00:55:51.680 if every obstacle

00:55:52.520 you encounter

00:55:53.100 just magically moves

00:55:54.240 out of the way

00:55:54.840 and clears the path

00:55:56.020 for you.

00:55:57.180 Sometimes you need

00:55:57.860 to run into something solid,

00:55:59.180 something that will

00:55:59.580 push back a little bit.

00:56:01.540 A life of relentless comfort

00:56:03.060 gets sort of boring

00:56:04.440 after a while.

00:56:05.680 It's exhausting

00:56:06.560 in its own way, really.

00:56:07.520 Maybe not exhausting physically,

00:56:09.000 but spiritually, intellectually.

00:56:11.060 All of this to say

00:56:11.960 that the people afflicted

00:56:12.900 by this much comfort

00:56:13.740 tend sometimes

00:56:15.420 to latch on

00:56:16.120 to the little bits

00:56:16.740 of suffering

00:56:17.200 they do experience.

00:56:18.580 They cling to those experiences.

00:56:20.880 They walk over flat

00:56:22.120 and easy terrain

00:56:22.800 for years on end

00:56:23.680 and then encounter

00:56:24.600 one little speed bump

00:56:25.720 and to them

00:56:26.140 it's as if they climbed Everest

00:56:27.260 and they've got to tell

00:56:27.840 everybody about it.

00:56:29.260 I think that's at least

00:56:30.200 part of the story here.

00:56:31.960 Part of why some people

00:56:33.000 are turning their cold symptoms

00:56:34.200 into an epic saga.

00:56:35.260 Of course,

00:56:36.900 many people really

00:56:37.540 have suffered immensely

00:56:38.420 from COVID.

00:56:38.980 Many people have actually died

00:56:40.100 but most have not.

00:56:42.320 Most had experiences

00:56:43.260 much like Dr. Bob

00:56:44.400 and his son

00:56:44.940 and we in that category

00:56:47.100 should simply be grateful.

00:56:50.000 Yet more suffering

00:56:51.160 we've been spared.

00:56:53.040 Isn't that good enough?

00:56:55.100 Apparently not.

00:56:56.660 And that's why Dr. Bob

00:56:57.540 is today

00:56:58.100 along with his son

00:56:59.200 I'm afraid to say.

00:57:00.780 He's a collateral damage

00:57:02.100 canceled.

00:57:03.040 And we'll leave it there

00:57:04.840 for today.

00:57:05.420 Thanks for watching.

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00:57:57.740 women's menstrual cycles.

00:57:58.780 Just as Sonia Sotomayor

00:58:00.280 spreads COVID misinformation

00:58:01.580 during oral arguments

00:58:02.800 over the vaccine mandates

00:58:03.960 and Yale's transgender swimmer

00:58:06.600 beat Penn's transgender swimmer

00:58:09.300 during a women's swimming competition.

00:58:12.300 Check it out

00:58:12.640 on the Michael Knowles show.

The Matt Walsh Show - January 10, 2022

Ep. 869 - Twitter Suspends The World’s Leading LGBT Children’s Author

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