The Matt Walsh Show - January 11, 2022


Ep. 870 - Mass Formation Psychosis Is Real And We're All Living Through It


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55 minutes

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174.75465

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9,705

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650

Misogynist Sentences

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21


Summary

Is our society experiencing an Epidemic of Mass Madness? The regime fact checkers say no, but we ll look at the evidence today. Also, police officers in California pulled a man from a crashed plane minutes before it was hit by a train. Should we still defund the police? And for months, we were told that it s dangerous misinformation to claim that the vaccine interferes with a woman s menstrual cycle. But yet again, what was once misinformation has been vindicated by the evidence. Plus, Navy Boot Camp will now include anti-racism training and our daily cancellation will cancel the LA Times columnists who argue it s our humanitarian duty to mock unvaccinated people when they die of COVID. We ll talk about all that and much more today on The Matt Wall Show.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, is our society experiencing an epidemic of mass psychosis?
00:00:04.760 The regime fact checkers say no, but we'll look at the evidence today. Also, police officers in
00:00:08.640 California pull a man from a crashed plane minutes before it's hit by a train. Sounds like something
00:00:13.580 out of an action movie, but it happened in real life. Should we still defund the police? And for
00:00:17.620 months, we were told that it's dangerous misinformation to claim that the vaccine
00:00:21.800 interferes with a woman's menstrual cycle. But yet again, what was once misinformation has
00:00:26.200 been vindicated by the evidence? Plus, Navy boot camp will now include anti-racism training and
00:00:30.960 our daily cancellation will cancel the LA Times columnists who argue that it's our humanitarian
00:00:34.840 duty to mock unvaccinated people when they die of COVID. We'll talk about all that and much more
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00:01:53.300 You know, one of the most consistent features of our age is that correct ideas are often confirmed
00:01:58.340 by the people who try to debunk them. So if you want to know which ideas are not only right,
00:02:02.860 but the most important and relevant to your life, all you have to do is look for the ones that the
00:02:07.320 so-called experts and self-proclaimed fact-checkers are most vehemently denying. You can almost appreciate
00:02:12.940 the symmetry and simplicity of it. All the things you should believe are the things they're telling
00:02:16.680 you not to believe and trying to punish you for believing. And that brings us to a term that
00:02:20.800 entered the public conscious a couple of weeks ago and which the cultural powers that be have been
00:02:25.360 trying to remove from our conscious ever since. And that is mass formation psychosis. Now, this term
00:02:31.580 did not originate with Joe Rogan's interview of Dr. Robert Malone. Malone himself did not coin it,
00:02:37.560 but he's probably responsible for introducing most people to the concept. During the widely listened
00:02:43.360 to discussion on Rogan's podcast last week, Dr. Malone argued that COVID hysteria among the public
00:02:48.940 could be an example of a kind of mass psychosis event. From basically European intellectual inquiry
00:02:56.700 into what the heck happened in Germany in the 20s and 30s, you know, very intelligent,
00:03:01.940 highly educated population, and they went barking mad. And how did that happen?
00:03:07.560 Um, the answer is mass formation psychosis. When you have a society that has become decoupled from
00:03:15.240 each other and has free floating anxiety in a sense that things don't make sense, we can't understand
00:03:22.300 it. And then their attention gets focused by a leader or a series of events on one small point,
00:03:28.420 just like hypnosis. They literally become hypnotized and can be led anywhere. And one of the aspects of
00:03:36.220 that phenomena is the people that they identify as their leaders, the ones typically that come in
00:03:41.260 and say, you have this pain and I can solve it for you. I and I alone, okay, can fix this problem for
00:03:47.660 you. Okay. Then they will lead, they will follow that person through, it doesn't matter whether they
00:03:52.580 lie to them or whatever. The data are irrelevant. And furthermore, anybody who questions that narrative
00:03:59.740 is to be immediately attacked, they are the other. This is central to mass formation psychosis.
00:04:06.100 And this is what has happened. We had all those conditions. If you remember back before 2019,
00:04:13.180 everybody was complaining, the world doesn't make sense, blah, blah, blah. Um, and we're all isolated
00:04:19.080 from each other. We're all on our little tools. We're not connected socially anymore, except through
00:04:24.520 social media. Um, and then this thing happened and everybody focused on it. That is how mass
00:04:30.780 formation psychosis happens. And that is what's happened here. Now, as if to prove the point shortly
00:04:36.520 after the interview aired, YouTube and Twitter began removing the clips, mentioning mass formation
00:04:41.200 psychosis for a time. If you search the term on Google, it returned no results. When's the last time
00:04:46.400 that happened for anything on Google. Instead, the search would return a note from Google,
00:04:51.180 letting you know that it's looking for reliable sources on the subject and it will update the
00:04:56.180 search results. Once those sources are located, didn't take long for the reliable sources to come
00:05:01.520 along in the form of articles from mass media outlets debunking the concept. But before we get
00:05:06.700 to the alleged debunking, we should note that Malone's interview was not the first time, even recently
00:05:10.580 when the subject of mass formation psychosis was broached on Joe Rogan show. The short time before
00:05:15.560 that, Dr. Peter McCullough brought up the same subject and went into more detail describing the
00:05:20.240 conditions necessary for this phenomenon to occur. We're in what's called a mass formation
00:05:26.740 psychosis. This is very important. I give credit to Dr. Matthias Desmet in the University of Ghent
00:05:34.060 in Belgium. And recently, Dr. Mark McDonald, psychiatrist from L.A. Mark McDonald's got a new book
00:05:39.860 out, The United States of Fear, describing how the mass psychosis developed. What your listeners need to
00:05:45.440 know is a mass psychosis is when there is a groupthink that develops that's so strong that it
00:05:51.300 leads to something horrific. And the examples are these mass suicides that occur in these religious
00:05:55.900 cults. The example is Nazi Germany, when people walk into gas chambers and we're gas, these horrific
00:06:00.840 things. And four elements here is very important, Joe. First, there must be a period of prolonged
00:06:05.960 isolation, lockdowns. Number two, there must be a withdrawal of things taken away from people that
00:06:13.060 they used to enjoy. That's happened. Number three, there must be constant, incessant, free-floating
00:06:18.740 anxiety. All this news cycle, all the deaths and the hospitalizations, more variant mutant strains,
00:06:24.840 everything, people are becoming scared over and over again. And the last thing, number four,
00:06:28.820 the capper. The capper is there must be a single solution offered by an entity in authority. And
00:06:36.700 this case is clear. Worldwide, the solution was vaccination. Don't listen to any of that. Pay no
00:06:42.920 attention to the man behind the curtain. It's all untrue. It's misinformation. Google found its
00:06:47.420 reliable sources, which is why a search of the term will now pull up headlines like this. Quote,
00:06:52.660 so-called mass formation psychosis does not exist, despite what you might have heard on Joe Rogan.
00:06:56.980 And, quote, an anti-vax scientist said mass formation psychosis caused people to follow
00:07:02.020 COVID-19 measures. Psychologists say there's no such thing. And, quote, Joe Rogan, mass formation
00:07:08.360 psychosis and why people really believe unscientific things. And, of course, fact check, no evidence of
00:07:15.400 pandemic mass formation psychosis, say experts speaking to Reuters. Those are the first four headlines
00:07:21.760 that come up in the search results. If you take the time to read the articles in search of the
00:07:26.280 apparently ample amounts of evidence that this phenomenon does not exist, here's what you'll
00:07:30.580 find. On the Independent reports, quote, psychology experts have explained that there is no evidence
00:07:36.520 whatsoever to show that a theory aired on Joe Rogan's podcast about people believing in mainstream
00:07:40.460 ideas around COVID is true. Jay Van Bavel, an assistant professor of psychology at New York
00:07:46.560 University, was among many professors of psychology and neurological science to debunk a concept called
00:07:51.740 mass formation psychosis. Quote, to my knowledge, there's no evidence whatsoever that this concept
00:07:56.480 is true, he told the Associated Press on Sunday, or rather Saturday. And then we have Reuters.
00:08:01.860 They're chiming in and says, mass formation psychosis is not an academic term recognized in
00:08:06.480 the field of psychology, nor is there evidence of any such phenomenon occurring during the COVID-19
00:08:10.760 pandemic, multiple experts in crowd psychology have told Reuters. The phrase does not appear in the
00:08:15.780 American Psychological Association Dictionary of Psychology, nor does it appear in the PsychNet
00:08:20.040 database of published research articles. Numerous psychologists have also told Reuters that such a
00:08:25.080 condition is not officially recognized. I've never heard of this concept. John Drury, professor of
00:08:30.200 social psychology and director of research and knowledge exchange at the University of Sussex,
00:08:33.740 wrote in an email to Reuters. Jay Van Bavel, associate professor of psychology and neural science at New
00:08:38.800 York University, said the term doesn't exist as a real academic concept. And then Business Insider
00:08:44.660 confirms, quote, psychology experts told the Associated Press there's no actual support for Malone's
00:08:49.640 claims. The term mass formation psychosis does not even show up in the American Psychological
00:08:53.580 Association's Dictionary of Psychology. Quote, to my knowledge, there's no evidence whatsoever for
00:08:58.000 this concept. Jay Van Bavel, an assistant professor of psychology and neural science at New York
00:09:02.280 University, told the AP. Also in the UK, John Drury, a social psychologist at the University of Sussex,
00:09:07.280 told the AP the idea of mass formation psychosis is similar to mob mentality or the idea that people
00:09:11.760 in a group will lose self-control and their identities. Concepts, he said, have been discredited by decades of
00:09:17.840 research. Now note how they debunk the concept through appeals to a handful of alleged authorities
00:09:24.680 and always the same authority. So all of these articles are saying that so many psychologists have
00:09:30.260 said that this doesn't exist. And then they all tell us about one guy, Jay Van Bavel. He really seems
00:09:36.220 to get around. I have no idea who he is. He's just some assistant professor of psychology in New York.
00:09:40.640 And yet this random guy is quoted as a definitive authority in literally all of Google's top search
00:09:46.640 results on the subject. Some dude named John Drury earns multiple mentions as well. And of course,
00:09:52.600 the American Psychological Association. They all are quite positive that mass psychosis does not
00:09:58.600 exist, which is probably the first time that any of these people have ever shown any skepticism
00:10:03.940 about any mental illness or, you know, mental phenomenon. Because it's due to the work of the
00:10:11.000 American Psychological Association and guys like Jay Van Bavel that we now have millions of boys in
00:10:17.040 school diagnosed as mentally ill because they get bored during math class. I mean, these people and
00:10:23.100 their ilk are why huge swaths of the American public are addicted to psychotropic medication.
00:10:28.140 They have medicalized and disease-ified almost every aspect of the human condition,
00:10:33.520 every personality trait, every difficult emotion, every inconvenient compulsion or behavior.
00:10:38.140 And now they finally discover restraint and skepticism about a psychological concept
00:10:43.460 because it was mentioned on Joe Rogan's show. This is why the experts, quote unquote,
00:10:50.060 especially the alleged psychological and psychiatric experts, can be totally and absolutely dismissed.
00:10:56.780 And I don't just mean about this subject. I mean, in general, I don't care what any of these
00:11:02.140 people say about anything because most of what they do has no scientific basis. You know, they make
00:11:10.560 philosophical judgments about the human condition. They determine how humans are supposed to think,
00:11:17.120 what they're supposed to do, how they're supposed to be, and then they medicalize everything that
00:11:22.940 falls outside of the norms they've determined. But why should anyone care about their philosophical
00:11:27.760 judgments? Who appointed them experts on the human condition? And why should we trust their
00:11:34.360 appointments? These are questions that are never answered. Now, what about mass formation psychosis?
00:11:41.300 We know what Google and Google's appointed mental health experts have to say, but what is the reality?
00:11:47.400 Well, we know that psychosis occurs when people lose contact with reality. That's the definition.
00:11:52.300 It's an extreme disconnect from reality. That's what psychosis is. And we know that this certainly
00:11:59.040 happens on an individual level. Nobody denies that. The only question is, is it possible for it to
00:12:04.860 happen on a larger scale? Can entire populations or huge portions of a population lose contact with
00:12:12.580 reality all at once and in the same way? Well, the answer is obviously yes. Before we examine whether
00:12:20.760 this is happening today, there's no question that it does happen. It has happened. Therefore,
00:12:25.780 it can happen. You could call the phenomenon whatever you want to call it. Mass formation psychosis is
00:12:31.200 just a label for it. A fine label. A little bit too medicalized for my taste, but it's fine.
00:12:38.080 Whatever label you go with, it's clear that the phenomenon it describes is real. Cults,
00:12:44.200 as mentioned, mass suicides, witch hunts. These are just a few obvious historical examples.
00:12:53.180 Dr. McCullough identifies four conditions necessary to bring this about. One is isolation,
00:12:57.860 then despair, then anxiety or fear, then an authority figure offering a solution.
00:13:03.880 Again, call that whatever you want, but it is not debatable that historically these factors have come
00:13:09.720 together to produce these kinds of results being described. As mentioned in the clips, Nazi Germany
00:13:14.700 would seem to be an appropriate example. Now, is this what's happening with COVID?
00:13:20.820 Well, just look at the results. Might we say that there's been a disconnect from reality when a mother
00:13:26.440 locks her teenage son in the trunk of her car because she doesn't want him to give her COVID?
00:13:32.300 What about the people triple vaxxed who walk around outside with masks on? What about the masked woman
00:13:40.600 I saw a few months ago walking past us while we were hiking in the mountains, in the woods?
00:13:47.480 She's by herself in the woods with a mask on. Is that not psychotic behavior? Is that not a
00:13:55.860 disconnect from reality? People wearing masks alone in their cars? What about those who've cut
00:14:03.960 themselves off from society, locked themselves in their homes for two years, isolated themselves and
00:14:08.480 their children for fear of a virus that poses almost no significant threat to the vast majority
00:14:13.900 of healthy people? Is there a disconnect from reality when people push for mandated vaccines,
00:14:19.980 even though the vaccines don't even stop the spread of the virus? Yes, it's exceedingly clear
00:14:26.520 that the mass amounts of people have lost contact with reality. They are at this point incapable of
00:14:32.780 seeing reality or being reasoned with, and their behavior, if viewed objectively, is psychotic.
00:14:40.300 Everybody would have agreed prior to last year that a healthy person who wears a medical mask all day,
00:14:45.160 every day, is psychotic. I mean, we would have all seen that as paranoid, OCD behavior.
00:14:53.540 Many might view it differently now, but that's only further proof of the mass psychosis itself.
00:15:00.460 In fact, I would take it one step further, because I think we live in an era of mass psychosis,
00:15:09.640 and it didn't begin with COVID. Even if let's pretend China had never invented the virus and
00:15:16.240 set it loose on the globe, even if that never happened, we could still talk about mass formation
00:15:21.340 psychosis, because we would still live in a society where, for example, millions of people in the span of
00:15:27.040 just a few years came to believe that men can have babies, and millions more were coerced into
00:15:32.800 pretending they believe it, even if they don't. One delusional belief after another enters our
00:15:39.420 culture and spreads with rapid efficiency, often infecting the younger generations first and
00:15:44.260 foremost. Why is that? Well, because the internet, for one thing, is a pipeline for psychosis.
00:15:51.440 It not only spreads the psychotic ideas, but because it's addictive, it takes over people's
00:15:57.160 lives. It isolates them from the real world. Everyone you see walking around with their heads
00:16:03.400 buried in their phone all the time, everywhere, they don't know how to sit in a chair for more
00:16:09.260 than 30 seconds without looking at their phone. These are isolated people. They have isolated
00:16:13.540 themselves in cyberspace, thus fulfilling one of the necessary conditions for mass psychosis.
00:16:23.060 There's other kinds of isolation too, by the way. There's a very real effort in our culture
00:16:29.920 by the powers that be, especially in the education system, the government, to isolate children from
00:16:36.000 their parents, to sever their ties with their family, to break down the heteronormative patriarchal
00:16:45.900 family structure as BLM has declared it wants to do. That is another hallmark of cults. That's what
00:16:55.180 cults do. You start getting involved in a cult, and one of the first things they do is they turn you
00:17:03.080 against your family. For a pretty obvious reason. They can't have you connected to anybody else. They
00:17:09.480 need you to be totally invested in their world and their reality that they are constructing for you.
00:17:16.240 You cannot have any contact. You can't have a foot still in any other world, but their world.
00:17:25.140 And, you know, given that there has been a generalized loss of meaning in our society as materialism and
00:17:30.580 nihilism become the dominant philosophies of the day, the conditions of both despair and anxiety are
00:17:36.220 also met. As for an authority figure offering a solution, there's no shortage of those. All of the
00:17:43.280 teenage girls taking hormone pills and chopping their breasts off are relying on solutions presented
00:17:49.960 to them by the authority figures they trust. And those authority figures might just be like social
00:17:55.980 media influencers, but for them, that's an authority. So we are a society which has severed itself from
00:18:04.500 reality and from truth, and now which floats untethered in the ether. We are preconditioned for
00:18:13.320 one mass psychotic episode after another. Right now it's COVID hysteria. Eventually it'll be something
00:18:19.080 else. There's no limit. There's no floor. We are in an intellectual and moral free fall,
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00:19:44.300 Uh, you know, I'm going through, I gotta, I gotta, I just mentioned this really briefly.
00:19:48.580 So I think it's important for everybody to know that I'm going through a difficult time here at
00:19:52.240 work. I don't mean to bring office drama out in the open like this, but I have to say
00:19:55.600 we recently changed studios. We just, we, we just, we just moved to a different, uh, a different room
00:20:00.260 in the building. But somehow during that switch, I lost, uh, my chair or rather my chair was
00:20:06.260 appropriated. It was stolen. My ex chair, very comfortable chair. It has heating and massage
00:20:11.060 capabilities. I've talked about it before. Uh, it's nowhere to be found. I've looked everywhere
00:20:15.400 for it. I've checked every desk in the building I've asked around. And the, the worst thing is
00:20:20.560 when I ask somebody, you know, where my chair is, they like, they look at me like this is some kind
00:20:24.460 of unimportant problem as if they have more pressing concerns than finding my chair. I asked
00:20:29.800 my producer McKenna yesterday, if she knows where the chair is, she says, ask around. But then three
00:20:34.400 hours later, I don't mean to call her out, but I saw her sitting at her desk working on something
00:20:38.680 else. And I still didn't have my chair. So there's a real problem with priorities. I think around
00:20:43.620 here, here's the, here's the point. You cannot take a man's chair from him because a man forms a
00:20:49.440 special bond with his chair becomes part of him. Especially if that man is a lazy fat ass like
00:20:55.580 myself, I feel out of play. I feel disoriented now disturbed. And I know exactly what's happening.
00:21:00.000 I'll tell you exactly what's happening. Somebody took the chair and they're hiding it until the heat
00:21:04.800 is off, right? Until they think the coast is clear. And then they're going to start fitting,
00:21:08.360 sitting in the chair. But I'll tell you, I'm never going to forget. I will find my chair one way or
00:21:12.800 another. I promise you that. Okay. What are we going to talk about first? Here's Nancy Pelosi.
00:21:19.400 Here's another really important subject. She's still milking this January 6th thing. And,
00:21:23.820 and, and she says that, you know, there's January 6th, the, the actual event, but then there's a sort
00:21:30.160 of legislative January 6th, which the Republicans are engaging in by not doing exactly what she wants
00:21:36.440 them to do all the time. So let's listen. What the Republicans are doing across the country
00:21:42.320 is really a legislative continue continuation of what they did on January 6th, which is to undermine
00:21:49.820 our democracy, to undermine the integrity of our elections, to undermine the, the voting power,
00:21:59.720 which is the essence of a democracy. I think, uh, those eyebrows are basically that that's January
00:22:08.000 6th all over again. Those eyebrows are a bigger tragedy than January 6th, actually. Uh, why I'm
00:22:16.260 going to totally put aside everything she just said, because who cares? I don't understand why people do
00:22:22.380 this. Why do, you know, especially like shallow older women, not all, not all older, but, but
00:22:29.600 shallow ones like Nancy Pelosi, they seem to think that looking perpetually surprised is somehow a good
00:22:35.380 substitute for looking young. Because when you do that with the fake eyebrows and the Botox and
00:22:41.280 everything, that's all you accomplish. You just, you look like, like, uh, someone just jumped out of
00:22:48.440 the closet naked right in front of you perpetually. That's what, that's always the expression on your,
00:22:53.380 on your face, which is not the same thing as looking younger. Here's an idea for you just,
00:23:00.020 and I, and I say this to men and women, because both, both sexes are guilty in different ways.
00:23:06.220 When you get, just look old. It's okay to look old when you're old because you are. It's not a secret.
00:23:11.780 Everybody knows that. Everyone knows that Nancy Pelosi is 152 years old. We all, we're all aware of
00:23:18.660 that. So embrace it. Age with dignity. This is all part, you know, this is all, there's many things
00:23:28.900 going on here. Part of it is the, um, the, our, our still, our fear of death, our refusal to acknowledge
00:23:36.000 our own mortality. And that makes it so people are somehow embarrassed to be older. And so they'll
00:23:42.780 do whatever they can. They can't make themselves look young, but they can look like barely even human
00:23:48.200 now. So yeah, I'll look like some sort of lizard creature. And that's better than looking like an
00:23:52.380 old human. It's not just look like an old person. That's fine. That's why I don't, I don't go along
00:24:00.560 with this stupid thing we do in, uh, in our culture where, uh, it's embarrassed. You're not supposed to ask
00:24:05.160 somebody their age. I do that all the time. I think it's an interesting fact to know about
00:24:09.400 someone. I'll say, Hey, how old are you? And usually, especially if my wife's with me, she'll
00:24:14.600 elbow me. Don't ask that. Why not? How's it embarrassing? So if you're, let's say 72 years
00:24:22.180 old, it's, it's, you're embarrassed that you've been on earth for 72 years. If anything, younger
00:24:27.420 people should be embarrassed that they haven't been around that long, that they're still new around
00:24:33.440 here. They're newbies. That should be the embarrassing thing. If anything, you should
00:24:36.620 be lying to say that you're older than you really are. I don't get it. Anyway, uh, let's
00:24:43.960 move on to this from USA today. Officers in California saved a pilot who crashed onto a railroad
00:24:51.580 track seconds before a train smashed the wreckage into pieces. On Sunday, a Cessna 172 made an
00:24:57.960 emergency landing around 2 p.m. shortly after takeoff from, um, Whiteman airport, according to
00:25:03.620 the Associated Press, and then landed right on the train tracks. As a train was coming, two officers
00:25:08.480 from the LA police department can be seen on body camera footage, pulling the bloodied pilot to safety
00:25:13.420 moments before the train collided with the aircraft. That is not an overly dramatic description.
00:25:17.940 That's actually what happened. We have the footage here. Let's watch this footage real quick.
00:25:21.000 Okay. So you can see them. This guy's right on the plane train tracks. You got, looks like four
00:25:28.780 officers there and they're taking their lives into their hands because there you go. So I think you
00:25:38.580 can count about five seconds. That is something right out of a movie right there. It's you count
00:25:43.700 about five seconds they had and they could have still, you know, even clearing it after five seconds,
00:25:50.200 it could have been debris that they hit them or anything. So they were taking their lives into
00:25:52.900 their hands to save a complete stranger. And I think that's, it's, it's worth pointing to this
00:26:01.360 video for, I think three reasons. Number one, it's just an incredible video. Uh, number two, this is a
00:26:07.060 great example of actual heroism in a culture where the term heroism, you know, heroic, courageous,
00:26:14.320 all these terms are so often misused and abused and misappropriated. And, uh, we use it to describe,
00:26:21.340 um, uh, you know, a, a teacher who comes out as non-binary to her sixth grade students.
00:26:27.980 That's, oh, it's heroic. Now that's creepy. This is actually what heroism looks like. You're making a
00:26:37.080 sacrifice. Number one. Um, and you're putting yourself in danger and some kind of danger doesn't
00:26:44.480 always have to be physical danger to be heroic. Could be, you know, you could be taking, uh, you
00:26:48.520 know, intellectual risks or, you know, it could be something like that, but you're taking a real
00:26:52.400 risk for the sake of someone else. That's what courage and heroism looks like. And then the third
00:26:56.660 reason to bring it up is, um, you look at that video and you say, is social, are we still defunding
00:27:01.700 the police? Is that still an idea? We're going to send the social workers in to do that? When's the
00:27:07.880 last time you met a social worker who would do that? A team of a social workers, guidance counselors,
00:27:13.660 therapists. I'll tell you what, we, we defund the police and we send the, uh, the squad of therapists
00:27:19.920 and guidance counselors in. They're going to stand off at a safe distance and counsel that guy in the
00:27:26.580 plane so that he feels better about the fact that he's about to get pancaked by a train.
00:27:32.260 So they're going to provide him mental, they're going to focus on, uh, on, uh, you know, helping
00:27:38.340 him in his mental health in the five seconds before he dies. Now, the reason you need cops
00:27:46.140 is that you need actual people to go into these situations and do what, uh, most people are
00:27:53.160 not willing to do. All right, let's move to this. For months, we've been told that there's
00:27:58.560 no evidence that the vaccine interferes with the, uh, with the, the menstrual cycles of women
00:28:04.480 or of men because men and women both got menstrual cycles. I'm told at least I have to think that in
00:28:11.100 order to be on Twitter. So, uh, here's just an example. Here's good morning America. This is from
00:28:16.640 several weeks ago. I don't know exactly when it's from, but they, they were talking about this,
00:28:20.020 this claim that the vaccines might interfere with menstrual cycles. And they said, ah, it's all
00:28:24.200 misinformation. It's not true. Listen, we're going to turn now to our Dr. Jen Ashton, who has some
00:28:29.380 answers to some of your more pressing medical questions. We'll start with the first one. Dr. Jen,
00:28:34.040 is there a relationship between the vaccines and menstrual cycles? We've definitely talked about
00:28:40.120 this. Oh, we sure have you guys. And this is really spreading like wildfire on social media with
00:28:44.060 zero scientific or medical basis for this. Remember in medicine, every time we talk about a study,
00:28:50.860 a finding, what is the first thing we say? Big difference between association and causation.
00:28:56.900 So yes, women can get the vaccine and then experience changes in their menstrual cycle.
00:29:01.660 That does not mean that one causes the other. And in fact, if you look at the biology of how these
00:29:07.600 vaccines work, there is zero hormonal interaction. So please let's put that to rest. Yes. This got a
00:29:15.160 lot of attention because a school actually in Florida was telling teachers that they use sighted this
00:29:19.840 as a reason for not being vaccinated. Defies science. So always good to repeat. Thank you,
00:29:24.520 doc. And another one here. By the way, I think I just found my chair. It's right over there.
00:29:32.180 Oh, okay. Anyway, what's, uh, so we just heard there, it was all misinformation. There's no
00:29:40.260 effect on the menstrual cycle. There's no evidence for it. That was then. This is now New York times is
00:29:47.080 New York times this week, a couple of days ago. This is the article shortly after coronavirus
00:29:50.060 vaccines were rolled out about a year ago, women started reporting erratic menstrual cycles after
00:29:54.700 receiving the shots. Some said their periods were late. Others reported heavier bleeding than usual
00:30:00.040 or painful bleeding. There's already some transphobia here. I mean, in this New York times article,
00:30:05.700 they're, they're saying women were reporting erratic menstrual cycles. So I'm personally offended by
00:30:12.220 that, but we'll try to just go through it. Anyway, some post-menopausal women who hadn't had a period
00:30:18.440 in years, even said that they started menstruating again. A study published on Thursday found that
00:30:23.600 women's menstrual cycles did indeed change following vaccination against the coronavirus. The authors
00:30:29.400 reported that women who were inoculated, inoculated had slightly longer menstrual cycles after receiving
00:30:34.740 the vaccine than those who were not vaccinated. Well, there you go. Are we going to go back now
00:30:40.800 and remove all of those clips online and all the articles and everything claiming that there is
00:30:45.960 not true? It's misinformation? Of course not. Now, the articles that are admitting this now,
00:30:52.300 they hasten to add that, well, it's only slight changes. It's temporary. There's no long-term harm,
00:30:58.520 which might or might not be true. But the problem is number one, how could you possibly know that?
00:31:04.180 Number two, yeah, but you told us before that there was no change. And now you say, well,
00:31:09.340 there's a change, but it's only slight and temporary. How do we know that six months from now,
00:31:14.980 it's not going to be, oh, gee, actually, some of the, sometimes it could cause long-term,
00:31:19.680 lifelong problems. How do we know? You have no credibility. We can't trust anything you say.
00:31:29.380 But we know why they were desperate to shut all this kind of stuff down, because
00:31:33.580 if you're admitting that there are any side effects at all, that there are any potential
00:31:41.640 complications, even my, let's say for the sake of argument that these are only minor complications
00:31:47.900 and that the changes to menstrual cycle are temporary and that's it. Let's say that's true
00:31:55.700 for the sake of argument, which again, we can't possibly know that right now. But even so,
00:32:02.140 that is a, that still qualifies as a complication, a side effect.
00:32:08.680 And what that means is that now there are, when deciding whether or not to get the vaccine,
00:32:14.780 there are actual factors you have to weigh. It's not all a fantasy. This is not all,
00:32:20.060 this is not just people, QAnon conspiracy theorists, who are picking things up from Facebook memes.
00:32:29.420 No, totally reasonable people who are aware of the evidence and the science
00:32:33.540 now have factors to weigh. And you start doing calculations. If you're a woman and you say,
00:32:44.580 hmm, the vaccine doesn't really stop the spread of the virus, I can still contract it. You know,
00:32:50.980 I'm young and healthy. There's very little risk to me already from the virus, especially now with
00:32:58.100 the Omnicorn going around and that's mild for almost everybody. And then on the other hand,
00:33:03.640 it affects my menstrual cycle and we don't know a lot about that. And they just, they just admitted
00:33:07.480 to it yesterday. So who knows what else is going on? Now you got to weigh all these things. Maybe you
00:33:12.600 decide to still get the vaccine, but it, it's, it would be perfectly reasonable and rational to
00:33:17.480 say, Hey, I don't know if it's worth the risk. It's just, they cannot, the regime cannot admit
00:33:27.640 that there's any rational thought process like that for people who are hesitant about the vaccine.
00:33:36.880 The whole narrative falls apart unless they're all painted as a bunch of wacky conspiracy theorists.
00:33:42.600 Meanwhile, the CEO of Pfizer, uh, made some admissions himself about the vaccine. Again,
00:33:47.200 this is the CEO of Pfizer and let's listen to his anti-vax extremism.
00:33:54.580 Uh, and we know that, um, the three, the two doses of the vaccine offer very limited protection.
00:34:00.020 If any, the three doses with a booster, they offer reasonable protection against hospitalization
00:34:06.740 and deaths, uh, um, against deaths, I think very good, um, and less protection against the infection.
00:34:15.740 Now we are working on a, on a new version of our vaccine, the 1.1, let me put it that way,
00:34:22.620 that, uh, will cover Omicron as well. And, uh, of course, uh, we are waiting to, to have the final results.
00:34:31.340 The vaccine will be ready in March.
00:34:36.440 Huh.
00:34:38.900 Two doses is not enough. It's not going to do anything. It doesn't stop the spread. I mean,
00:34:44.160 these are all things that by now we've heard, we've heard many times, but this is the,
00:34:47.140 it just, just, it, it, it, it cannot be emphasized enough that you now have the CEO of Pfizer saying
00:34:53.020 things that not, but three weeks ago would have got you banned from YouTube and Twitter.
00:34:58.540 And maybe it still will if you're not, you know, if you're not an approved person
00:35:02.800 making these exact same statements. All right, before we get to the comments, I have to,
00:35:06.900 I've mentioned it now in the opening twice. So I have to actually talk about it a little bit.
00:35:11.180 It's from the daily mail, uh, says training goes woke bootcamp for the Navy to include classes on
00:35:17.080 suicide prevention, hazing, racism, and sexual assault after numerous crisis over the past
00:35:22.920 number of years. So the U S Navy said it would expand its eight week bootcamp program to include
00:35:28.200 two more weeks of classes focusing on suicide prevention, sexual assault, hazing, and racism.
00:35:33.700 The change, the first major overhaul in nearly 20 years comes as the Navy grapples with major
00:35:38.760 issues aboard the ships over the years that include failures to address sexual assaults,
00:35:43.200 fires, and deadly collisions, and the rise of extremism within the ranks.
00:35:47.080 Um, uh, rear Admiral Jennifer Couture, who heads the Naval Service Training Command told the
00:35:54.440 Associated Press that the two extra weeks of classes would reinforce the behavior desired in a U S
00:36:00.400 Naval officer. She said, quote, we're telling our recruits, here are all the things that we expect
00:36:05.680 you to do. And here's how we expect you to behave and act. She said, adding that it involves treating
00:36:09.660 people with respect and holding peers accountable. So this is Navy bootcamp. Now teaching about racism,
00:36:18.140 whole treating people with respect. Um, the kind of thing that you would get from a, from a guidance
00:36:26.700 counselor, you know, and now this is, this is what we're doing in the military. You know, I guess I'm
00:36:34.780 old school and old fashioned and, uh, I still believe at least for me, um, as a, as a citizen of the United
00:36:44.300 States relying on the military to protect us. The only thing I care about for people in the military
00:36:50.700 is that they're very good at killing the bad guys. That is really it. At least if I were to make a list
00:36:59.560 of the qualities that I would think are the most important, that's number one, two, three, four,
00:37:05.600 and five. And then maybe we could list a couple of things underneath that, but that's, that's,
00:37:11.240 that's the top five right there. Good at killing the bad guys. And then when you find out about
00:37:16.840 the chaos aboard these ships, collisions, fires, and they're telling us themselves, this is, this is
00:37:23.240 happening more often now than it used to. Might that be because we are not emphasizing skill
00:37:32.800 as much as we used to? Of course that's it. But their way of solving that problem is to do
00:37:41.000 more of the thing that caused the problem in the first place. All right, let's get now to the
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00:38:52.220 there. How did you hear about us, Bach? So they know that we sent you.
00:38:54.440 Missanthrope says, would Matt Walsh criticize Ted Cruz more if Cruz had called parents at a school
00:39:01.020 board meeting terrorists for their conservative beliefs? We all know the answer to that question.
00:39:05.620 Shame on Walsh for his lack of consistency and being weak because Knowles and Cruz probably told
00:39:10.600 him to defend Cruz and not cancel the traitor. Well, you're right. Knowles instructed me to defend
00:39:16.800 Ted Cruz. And I said, yes, sir, Mr. Knowles, as you wish. But to answer your question, yes,
00:39:22.760 I would criticize him a lot more if he called parents at school board meetings terrorists.
00:39:27.840 In fact, I would just criticize him. That's a deal breaker without even having to think about it.
00:39:31.980 That's your you're done as far as I'm concerned. That is that's that is irredeemable to call parents
00:39:37.920 at school board meetings terrorists. But I don't react that way to this because the the what you
00:39:45.480 mentioned, calling parents at school board meetings terrorists, that would be a far more egregious
00:39:49.780 and harmful thing to say far more. The January 6th rioters were rioters, and they were also absolute
00:39:58.100 abject morons who did something self-destructive and politically and personally suicidal.
00:40:05.340 And now we all have to deal with the consequences of that forever as the left exploits it to no end.
00:40:12.960 I said this at the time when it was happening, that these people are doing something that the rest of
00:40:19.880 us are gonna have to live with forever. Congratulations, guys. You were feeling angry,
00:40:27.320 you were overly emotional, and you wanted to vent your frustration. Now the rest of us have to deal
00:40:32.940 with it forever. Now, that doesn't make them terrorists. It just makes them rioters. And
00:40:42.580 there's certainly a big difference, which is why I would never call them terrorists. And I object to
00:40:47.460 that categorization. And I object to Ted Cruz saying he shouldn't have said it. But they're not on the
00:40:54.860 same playing field as parents who are attending school board meetings to complain about the
00:40:59.020 curriculum. So, you know, yes, we don't want to go, we don't want to adopt the left's playbook,
00:41:09.920 of course, with this and guys start talking about terrorism and insurrection, because that's just
00:41:14.080 not true. It's not factually true. Terrorism has a definition. It's not that. An insurrection has a
00:41:21.040 definition. It's not that. As we've discussed many times, this was not an effort to actually
00:41:27.100 overthrow the US government. There certainly was never any chance of that happening. And that's
00:41:31.600 not actually what these people were intending to do. Pretty clear, because once they got in the
00:41:34.760 building, they just kind of wandered around and took some selfies and left. So, we can make that
00:41:46.040 point. But the two things that you're trying to equate, I find that totally absurd.
00:41:51.820 All right. History and Headline says, how concerned are you that you cannot say honest
00:41:55.260 statements without fear of being banned, harassed, etc.? I'm not very concerned about it, honestly.
00:42:00.880 You can't worry about that. I'm just going to continue saying what is true. And what happens,
00:42:07.900 happens. You can't get to the point. You've got to be smart about it. Because I think being able to
00:42:15.400 use these platforms, these platforms can be a powerful tool. So, you don't want to just jump
00:42:21.080 on a grenade for no reason. You don't want to self-immolate for no reason. So, you want to be
00:42:29.060 a little bit smart in how you navigate these things. But if you get to the point where you
00:42:32.360 abandon the truth entirely, and you say, I'm not going to say the truth anymore because I'll get
00:42:35.420 kicked off the platform. Well, there's no point anymore. There's no point to even having the
00:42:38.480 platform. Or the only point at that point is your own, you know, just your own personal brand,
00:42:44.000 your own profit. And that cannot be our primary concern. LJY says, Matt, why are you still on
00:42:53.160 Twitter? Disappointed you don't just give up the platform. Yeah, I really don't understand this
00:42:58.340 point of view. You're certainly not the only person to say that to me. I really don't understand it.
00:43:03.220 If I'm able to use the left's platform against them, why wouldn't I? Now, as I said, if it gets to
00:43:11.000 a point where you simply cannot use the platform at all while still speaking the truth, well, then
00:43:18.800 forget about it. But as long as it's possible to use these platforms against them and to use it to
00:43:26.600 get the truth out and get the message out and to mobilize people, why wouldn't you do it?
00:43:33.800 I mean, just one example, the the movement at school boards, mobilizing parents at school boards
00:43:42.060 that was organized largely through social media and largely not, you know, not not through the
00:43:47.820 kind of conservative social media platforms, but through the left wing social media platforms like
00:43:51.380 Facebook and Twitter. Now, those platforms didn't like the fact that we were using the platform in
00:43:56.780 that way, but we were able to. So what's the downside? I mean, I'm all about if you want to
00:44:03.120 go use alternative platforms, but but abandoning the most powerful and visible platforms just in
00:44:11.040 protest to me doesn't make any sense because that's what they want you to do. I can tell you Twitter.
00:44:17.140 As far as I'm concerned, not that they're sitting around worried specifically about me all the time,
00:44:21.400 but I but if they had a choice, like they would much prefer for me not to use the platform
00:44:25.400 and people like me. So am I going to give them what they want
00:44:28.940 until they force my hand? No, I'm not going to. Um, pig penis. I don't know what that's supposed
00:44:38.940 to mean says, thank you for not calling the guy. She or her. It's ridiculous. Well, listen,
00:44:45.260 pig penis. If I ever do that, if I, if you ever hear me using the preferred pronouns,
00:44:51.980 calling a man, a she, what I want you to do is grab the nearest hammer and beat me with it until
00:44:59.900 I'm dead. That's what I want. Might be a little bit extreme, but that's at the very least. Stop
00:45:05.240 listening to my show. Stop taking anything I say seriously. If you ever catch, you won't ever
00:45:09.520 catch me doing that. But if I do, that's like invasion of the body snatchers. My mind is gone.
00:45:14.180 Abandon all hope. Okay. That's how strongly I feel about that. Uh, Tupac, Tupac lives says
00:45:24.420 world's leading children's LGBT author. Dude, that is not funny anymore. You ran that joke into the
00:45:30.680 ground real quick. Also, that book is not as hilariously clever as you think. Neither are you.
00:45:34.840 First of all, it's extremely funny still for sure. Uh, second, it's not a joke. It's, it's literally
00:45:41.360 just a fact. I am quite literally by definition, the leading LGBT author and voice in the country.
00:45:50.720 I don't know what you want me to tell you. That's just, that's it. And, uh, finally is Matt's
00:45:56.380 background just an image? Well, let's find out. I think so. Yeah, actually it is. It's just a,
00:46:06.400 it's just a screen. This is, this is like the moment in the, in the Truman show where he runs
00:46:11.300 into the horizon and finds out it's just a big giant dome. So I know it's very disheartening
00:46:16.340 for a lot of you. Uh, actually, like I said, we, we changed studios. So, uh, we're building a real
00:46:21.860 one I'm told, but for right now I have a, just a screen behind me. So there are other clues as
00:46:26.940 well. Like that, that banjo back there, we gave that banjo away and yet it appears again. So
00:46:33.960 in fact, what, what we, we, we went away on a Christmas break. And, uh, what I was told was
00:46:39.560 when I get back to the studio, there's gonna be a, like a brand new studio bill is going to be great
00:46:43.380 and wonderful. And I was looking forward to it. And then I got here, you know, starting the new year
00:46:47.340 and I walk in and, uh, Oh no, it's just the old studio, but this time in the form of a sheet.
00:46:51.860 So still waiting on that real one. If you haven't heard of Jonathan Isaac yet, then you might be
00:46:57.400 living under a rock. I mean, get with the time you loser. The NBA star, uh, stood strong with his
00:47:02.180 values while everyone else kneeled and faced heavy criticism from the media for his views on social
00:47:06.760 issues and vaccines over the past few years, which is why I'm very excited to announce that he's
00:47:11.020 decided to write a book with the daily wire, uh, which is called why I stand Jonathan's book will
00:47:16.080 be about his rise in his basketball career, his journey into faith and his strength of character
00:47:21.840 to stand alone in the face of immense, immense pressure. Check out the teaser.
00:47:26.340 The Orlando magic's 23 year old starting forward is deeply religious and proudly unvaccinated.
00:47:31.440 On Friday, Isaac got attention for choosing not to kneel in unison with his teammates or to wear a
00:47:36.880 black lives matter shirt. My name is Jonathan Isaac. I play for the Orlando magic and I'm writing a book
00:47:43.120 with the daily wire courage does not mean the absence of fear. And in today's day, there are so
00:47:51.760 many things that you can be afraid of facing because of believing what you believe or deciding to stand
00:47:57.280 for what you believe in. And I believe this book gives you a blueprint of my story of how Christ has
00:48:02.640 made the difference in my life from a young kid who struggled with fear, anxiety, uh, self insecurity,
00:48:08.160 to a man willing to stand for what he believes in. Jonathan's book will be one of the first under the
00:48:24.320 daily wires, new publishing arm DW books, and we couldn't be happier to have him on board. The book
00:48:28.480 is available for pre-order now at Amazon. So reserve your copy today. Let's get down to our daily
00:48:33.380 cancellation. Sticking with the theme of mass formation psychosis today, we cancel LA times
00:48:41.820 columnist and somehow Pulitzer prize winning writer, Michael Hiltzik for this piece recently
00:48:48.720 published by the times titled mocking anti-vaxxers COVID deaths is ghoulish. Yes, but may be necessary.
00:48:56.160 Now that title is pretty bad, but it's actually slightly an improvement over the original option.
00:49:01.140 And the URL for the article indicates that it was first posted with this title. Why shouldn't we
00:49:06.400 dance on the graves of anti-vaxxers? Well, anybody, anybody with a soul can immediately think of
00:49:11.840 probably a dozen reasons off the top of the head why you shouldn't do that. But Hiltzik has not been
00:49:16.740 burdened with a human soul, which enabled him to write this quote, among all the ways that COVID-19
00:49:21.440 affects our lives, the pandemic confronts us with a profound moral dilemma. How should we react to the
00:49:27.280 deaths of the unvaccinated? Well, again, that's not a dilemma at all for any morally decent human
00:49:33.020 being. That's a dilemma in the same way that like, should I kill and eat my neighbor is a dilemma.
00:49:39.160 If you find yourself needing to pause for even a moment to consider the question, that's a bad sign
00:49:44.060 for both you and your neighbor. Anyway, Hiltzik continues, on the one hand, a hallmark of civilized
00:49:49.860 thought is the sense that every life is precious. On the other, those who have deliberately flouted sober
00:49:55.040 medical advice by refusing a vaccine known to reduce the risk of serious disease from the virus,
00:49:59.280 including the risk to others, and end up in the hospital of the grave can be viewed as receiving
00:50:03.100 their just desserts. Now, needless to say, though both hate speech and misinformation are ostensibly
00:50:10.160 banned from Twitter, this article and its author have not been removed from the platform, even though
00:50:14.900 it commits both infractions. Not only is he delighting in the death of an entire group of people,
00:50:19.980 which I would call hate speech. I don't know what hate speech is, if it's not that.
00:50:23.860 But he's also making factually incorrect statements about the vaccine.
00:50:28.780 Vaccinated and unvaccinated people both spread the virus, which means that the unvaxxed do not
00:50:33.980 represent any special or unique risk to others. If they're putting anybody at risk at all, it would
00:50:39.160 be themselves, which frames this entire column in an even more sinister light. Continuing, the issue of
00:50:46.320 how to think about the deaths of the unvaccinated has been thrown into high relief locally by the case
00:50:49.860 of Kelly Earnby, a prominent Orange County Republican and deputy district attorney who advocated against
00:50:54.380 vaccine mandates and died of COVID around New Year's Day unvaccinated. So what then is the proper
00:50:59.180 response to the deaths of anti-vaxxers or other determined foes of public health? First, we must
00:51:03.760 acknowledge that the enemies needing to be stamped out are misinformation, lies, and stupidity being
00:51:09.580 injected into the fight against COVID. Second, we must view every one of these deaths as a teachable
00:51:13.960 moment. They demonstrate in the most vivid way imaginable the folly of vaccine refusal and of
00:51:19.580 flouting responsible public health measures. They underscore the dire consequence of turning public
00:51:25.080 health into a partisan football. It may be not a little ghoulish to celebrate or exalt in the deaths
00:51:31.120 of vaccine opponents, and it may be proper to express sympathy and solicitude to those they leave
00:51:35.840 behind. But mockery is not necessarily the wrong reaction to those who publicly mocked anti-COVID
00:51:41.400 measures and encouraged others to follow suit before they perished of the disease, the dangers of
00:51:46.080 which they belittled. There may be no other way to make sure that the lessons of these teachable
00:51:51.140 moments are heard. So now may be a good time to show you what our friend Michael Hiltzik actually
00:51:55.660 looks like. And here he is there in all his glory. As you can see, he's both fat and old. So it's rather
00:52:01.400 a bold move for an elderly, obese man to mock anyone for dying, given that he's likely so near death
00:52:08.000 himself. Also, as the triple chin indicates, he doesn't take his own health nearly as seriously
00:52:12.920 as he pretends. Now, normally, I would say that his exorbitant waste and his surplus of lard and
00:52:17.800 chins is none of my business. But because he's decided that other people's medical decisions are
00:52:23.320 his business, it's fair to treat his medical decisions as a public matter as well. It's what
00:52:28.580 he wants, apparently. Now, perhaps he would want us to mock his death, too, when it comes sooner rather
00:52:34.440 than later. People who die of obesity have their own choices, largely to thank for it.
00:52:39.600 Can we make fun of them? What about promiscuous people who contract STDs? Say a prostitute who
00:52:45.460 dies of hepatitis. What about people who die from alcohol or drug abuse? Is it necessary for the
00:52:52.920 greater good that we dance on the graves of all these people? I suppose Hiltzik would say no,
00:52:58.220 that's different because the unvaccinated pose a unique danger to others. He would say that
00:53:03.220 because he's a greasy, disgusting, ugly liar. In reality, as established, the data clearly proves
00:53:09.680 that the unvaccinated are not special drivers of the pandemic. Everyone is spreading it.
00:53:14.400 And even if they were primarily responsible for spreading the virus, still to delight in the
00:53:18.640 deaths of ordinary people, mothers and fathers who leave children and spouses behind, would be
00:53:24.440 twisted and evil beyond words. But to gloat over their deaths when their medical decisions had no
00:53:30.040 special impact on anyone but themselves is a whole new level of deranged. It's clear in that case that
00:53:36.620 you take joy in their death and suffering simply because you hate them. And you hate them not because
00:53:42.080 they did anything to you, but because they refuse to comply with your wishes and your demands.
00:53:47.500 They belong to the other group. You know, they behaved in ways that you found foreign and distasteful.
00:53:53.740 They held opinions that you disagree with. And so you want them dead. You want their families
00:54:00.240 ripped apart. You want their children to mourn them. Now there's plenty of historical precedent for
00:54:05.680 this kind of bloodlust towards the out group. And history teaches us that it leads always and every
00:54:11.340 time to extraordinary suffering and misery and violence. Hiltzik has aligned himself with quite
00:54:19.060 literally all of the worst people of history. And he's not alone in that way of thinking,
00:54:24.640 which is the scariest thing of all. And it's why he is today finally canceled. And we'll leave it
00:54:31.540 there for today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Have a great day. Godspeed.
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