Ep. 876 - Canada Outlawed Christianity And Nobody Noticed
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Did Canada criminalize Christianity last week, and nobody seems to have noticed? Also, Michael Phelps speaks out about the trans athlete issue, Stephen A. Smith returns to the air to tell about his near-death experience with COVID, and Whoopi Goldberg says that the GOP is going to try to remove voting rights from women. And in our daily cancellation, we'll deal with a sports analyst who tried to prove his anti-racist credentials by bragging about his MLK memorabilia.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, Canada criminalized Christianity last week and nobody seems to have
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noticed. How did that happen? And are we on the same path in this country? Also,
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Michael Phelps speaks out about the trans athlete issue, sort of. Stephen A. Smith returns to the
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air to tell about his near-death experience with COVID, but he seems to have learned the wrong
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lessons from the ordeal. And Whoopi Goldberg says that the GOP is going to try to remove
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voting rights from women. I have to admit that the ladies of The View do make a compelling
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argument for that policy change. And Don Lemon on CNN condemns the, quote, idiots who do their own
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research. And in our daily cancellation, we'll deal with a sports analyst who tried to prove his
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One of the most depressing realities of my life over the last few years is that as I've traveled
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around the country speaking at college campuses, the most aggressive and hostile receptions I've
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received by far have been at the allegedly Christian institutions, especially the Catholic ones.
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In fact, I have not encountered mass protests against my talks except at Christian universities.
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This is certainly not the worst aspect of the fall of Christian education in the United States,
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but it is a revealing symptom of the problem. Here's another, as reported by the Daily Wire.
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DePaul University, the largest Catholic college in the United States, apparently, quote,
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jumped at the opportunity to provide students with at least eight different genders to choose from
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on official college documents and other student life forms, despite the fact that it likely goes
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against Catholic teaching on God's creation of man and woman. The change comes as DePaul's
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Student Government Association recently stated that, quote, misgendering somebody is a, quote,
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act of violence. The college fix recently flagged that DePaul's student portal,
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known as Campus Connect, a website used for keeping information on and for students, faculty,
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and staff for communication and other purposes, now allows students to choose either male, female,
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intersex, non-binary, transgender, male, transgender, female, cisgender, unspecified,
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and I do not wish to self-identify. The announcement was made on January 4th,
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and Michael Wright, Assistant Vice President at DePaul's registrar office, said the college wanted to
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promote ways for students to express their identity if they choose to do so. Now, it's no
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surprise that DePaul has gone this direction. As the college fix reported back in June, according to
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Daily Wire, quote, the Catholic University's LGBTQI Plus Resource Center coordinator in the Office of
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Multicultural Student Success, hold on a second, the LGBTQI Plus Resource Center coordinator in the
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Office of the Multicultural Student Success Center has this to say. His name is Michael Riley. He stated
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that calling somebody by the gender or pronoun they were born with when they've demanded others do not
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do so is, quote, incredibly harmful. Quote, simply put, misgendering folks is harmful because it allows for
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trans and gender expansive folks to be seen as jokes or as less of a person. It can make the person feel
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like they are not important enough to remember, which is incredibly harmful. Riley stated, furthermore,
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incorrectly assuming someone's pronouns also assume someone's gender, which can lead to other
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marginalized and harmful behavior, he added. He or she, I don't know. The first problem, of course,
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is that they created an LGBTQI Plus Resource Center and Multicultural Center to begin with. The rest
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flows logically and inevitably from that starting point. Now, DePaul is, of course, just the latest
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alleged Christian institution to fully endorse the left sexual ideology. Most Christian universities
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have gone down this path. Great many churches have as well. I drove by a church just yesterday
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here in Nashville with a giant rainbow flag and BLM logo hanging outside. Now, a gay pride flag on a
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church was unthinkable as recently as a decade ago. You would have had to wander into the most radical
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parts of San Francisco or Portland or Seattle or something to see something like that. Now,
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it's totally commonplace everywhere in the country, red and blue states alike.
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You know, Canada essentially criminalized Christianity last week, as you heard about on this show.
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You didn't hear about it in many other places, but we talked about it. When their dystopian
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conversion therapy bill went into effect, threatening pastors with half a decade in prison
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if they preach about Christian sexual ethics from the pulpit, it was and is the complete collapse of
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religious liberty in the country. I mean, religious liberty is gone. It doesn't exist anymore in
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Canada. And yet, this situation was hardly noticed. Largely because almost every pastor in Canada had long
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since abandoned Christian moral teachings, especially as it pertains to sex anyway. I mean,
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they weren't talking about it in the first place. A few brave holdouts have spoken out since then,
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but there aren't nearly enough to make a difference. The Canadian government, they would
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never try to criminalize Christianity if the faith was vibrant and alive in the country. A weak little
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worm like Justin Trudeau, he's not up for that fight. Instead, they wait until it's almost entirely dead
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and then they come in with the kill shot. Now, we're headed in the same direction in the United States.
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As always, we're on the same cultural track and train as Canada and Europe, but just a few cars behind.
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A lion will go for the slowest and sickest antelope in the herd. The anti-Christian tyrants in the West
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have been themselves stalking in the grass, waiting until the church has hobbled enough to strike.
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Canada got to that point, and now religious liberty is gone. Christian teaching is illegal in Canada
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right now, just up north from us. We're almost there as well. When we lose the will to resist even
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the most radical, depraved, and sadistic elements of left-wing orthodoxy, you know that the situation
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is terminal. Now, it shouldn't need to be explained, but I will anyway. A Christian cannot
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countenance any aspect of the left's gender ideology without forfeiting his faith in the process.
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Every church or university that has shown any tolerance for any part of this doctrine has given
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up its faith. It is now apostate. Because either God creates us and gives us our identity, male or
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female, we are created, as the Bible says in the very first chapter, or we create ourselves and
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determine our own identities. It's one or the other. And if you choose the latter, then you have
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chosen a religious doctrine, but it is not a Christian doctrine. Either God can make a mistake and
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accidentally put a female soul into a male body, some sort of screw-up on the cosmic assembly line,
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making him fallible, error-prone, and frankly stupid, creating messes that we have to clean up
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with drugs and surgery, or God is all-knowing and all-powerful, and his wisdom exceeds our own
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by an infinite margin. Which means that even if you don't like your own identity, your biological
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identity, it's still right. It's the right identity. And it's you who are looking at it the wrong way,
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not God. Those are the two options. If you choose the former, then you have chosen a religious doctrine,
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but it is not a Christian doctrine. And you are not a Christian. So when I talk about the gender issue
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on this show, I usually engage with it from a rational, logical, scientific standpoint. Because
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you don't need to be a Christian to understand that men are not women any more than you need to be a
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Christian to understand that two plus two doesn't equal five. But it's still the case that this
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ideology is fundamentally incompatible with the Christian faith. Not just incompatible, but in
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competition with it. Gender ideology militates against Christian teaching. It was designed to do
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just that. That's the point of it, largely. It becomes a poison in the church's bloodstream.
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And in America, the church has been choosing to take this poison, poisoning itself. Until one day,
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as in Canada, it won't be a choice anymore. Now let's get to our five headlines.
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So we'll begin with this. Michael Phelps was on, I think it was NBC, CNN, doesn't matter,
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they're all the same. And he was asked about the trans sports issue, especially when it pertains to
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swimming, CNN. Okay. Asked about Leah Thomas and what's going on at University of Pennsylvania and
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the swimming and everything. And it makes sense to talk to Michael Phelps about this. And I first
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became aware of this interview in this segment because I saw conservatives on social media,
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some of them kind of celebrating Michael Phelps's answer and saying, oh, he took a stand and he's on
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our side. And that would be fantastic if that was true. Michael Phelps, that these are the kinds of
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voices we need speaking out. But then I went and I watched this segment of the interview where he
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allegedly took a stand and expressed his, he sided with rationality and all of that. I watched it and
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I don't know, I'm not sure I quite see it, but let's watch. There is, as you know, a certain amount
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of controversy around the University of Pennsylvania college, college swimmer by the name of Leah
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Thomas. And there are some people who are questioning her, I'm not sure what the right word
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is, her right to swim on a woman's team. She's transgender. What do you make of that? And she's
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obviously doing exceptionally well. She also has been taking testosterone suppressants, but nonetheless
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does much better, according to the records, than her female contestants. What do you make
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I mean, look, like I'll say, you know, I can talk from a standpoint of doping. You know, I don't think
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I've competed in a clean field in my entire career. So, you know, I think this leads back to the
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organizing committees again, because it has to be a level playing field. I think that's something
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that we all need because it's like, that's what sports are. And for me, I don't know where this
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is going to go. I don't know what's going to happen. I believe that we all should feel comfortable
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with who we are in our own skin. But I think sports should all be played at an even playing field.
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I don't know what that looks like in the future. But it's, it's, it's, it's, it's hard. It's a
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really, honestly, I don't know. It's complicated. It's very complicated. And, and, you know, this is
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this is my sport. This has been my sport my whole entire career. And I honestly, the one thing I would
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love is everybody to be able to compete on an even playing field. That's all I can say.
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Wow. What a skulking little jellyfish, uh, he is, which is, which is appropriate because he is a
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swimmer, but, uh, not a, you know, an invertebrate swimmer is, is Michael Phelps. The one reason why
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this is being celebrated and conservatives are giving him props for saying this is that he said,
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well, we need to be on 11 playing field, but he, he stops way short of actually condemning the insane
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practice of allowing men to compete against women. Stops very short of that. So no, this is not him
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taking a stand. This is him avoiding it. Now he, he indicates that he knows that it's wrong.
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That's what the level playing field thing is about, but he's too afraid to simply come out and say,
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well, obviously men should compete against women. This is insane. He knows that, but he's too afraid
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to say it. This is a, no, this is not him taking the right position. This is not him being on our
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side. This is him being an absolute gutless, despicable coward, even though he, he risks almost
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nothing. I mean, all the endorsement deals and everything he's got, whatever, he's got millions
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and millions of dollars. He'll be fine. He can do whatever he wants with the rest of his life.
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What does he risk in simply standing up and saying what we all know is true?
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It'd be an awkward interview, uh, on CNN and maybe some of his leftist friends will look at him funny,
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but that's, that's it. We need people like this who are in the mainstream. If we're talking about sports,
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then we need athletes specifically to speak out in the, in almost all of them refuse to do it.
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Cowardice. One of the, one of the real epidemics we face in this country is just a,
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an enormous amount of cowardice. He says it's complicated. It's not complicated. There's
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nothing complicated at all about this. And, and he knows that. Oh, you know, it's very,
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very complicated. We've got the way to, no, not at all. Are you a man? Well, you belong with the men.
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That's it. Really as simple as that. There's, there's nothing complex about this issue.
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The fact that a minority of people would get their feelings hurt if they were not allowed to
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compete against women, that does not make this complicated at all. And again, he knows that
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almost everyone in the country knows that almost everyone knows that this is crazy,
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And this is also not about, we cannot emphasize this enough. When we talk about this issue with
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women's sports, um, the primary concern here is not fairness. It's not protecting women's sports
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for the sake of protecting women's sports. That's not the primary concern. That's not the fundamental
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concern. And that's not what makes this wrong. Primarily. The primary concern as always is just,
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is truth. It's, is, is reality. So why is it wrong to have Leah quote unquote Thomas competing against
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women? Yeah, it's unfair to the women. It destroys women's sports. That that's a problem.
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But the main reason that, uh, we should be against it is that it's, it's, it's not true.
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But the more that we, this is what makes me really uncomfortable because even many of the
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conservatives, especially Republicans who are willing to talk about this and with Republican
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lawmakers and governors and everything, it took a while. It was a lot of cajoling that went into,
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uh, getting it to the point where they were willing to talk about this issue at all.
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But even when they do, most of the time they're, they're framing this all about,
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Oh, I just care so much about women's sports. I'll be perfectly honest with you. I don't really
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care that much about women's sports for its own sake, especially if the women themselves and the
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people who run these, these leagues are not willing to stand up and defend their own sports.
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As far as that goes, I mean, you made your bed and I'll lie in it.
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If you're a female athlete and you're going to go and actually participate in this charade,
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that's on you. I don't feel any great need to go in there for you and do the job that you're
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not willing to do. That's this is it's, it's your sport protected. If you're a female athlete,
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protect your own sport. If you're not willing to do it and female sports go away,
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that's your fault. It's nobody else's fault. The reason I care about it is because again,
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it's it, this is an untruth and I care about the truth a lot more than I care about women's sports
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or men's sports for that matter or fairness. You know, truth is a lot more important than fairness.
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I would say. All right. Stephen A. Smith over at ESPN has been off of his show for a month.
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Apparently I didn't notice, but he's been gone and he's, he's battling COVID
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and he's, he's vaccinated. I think it's triple vaxxed. I would assume he came back yesterday
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with a harrowing story to tell. And also with, uh, with the lesson that he feels he's learned
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from the experience. Let's watch. I had 103 degree fever every night, woke up with chills and
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pool of sweat. Uh, headaches were massive coughing profusely. And it got to a point that right before
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new year's Eve, I was in a hospital, new year's Eve into new year's day. That's how I brought in
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the new year. And they told me, had I not been vaccinated, I wouldn't be here. That's how bad
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I was. I had pneumonia in both lungs. My liver was bad. Um, and it ravaged me to the point where
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even now I have to monitor my volume, got to get in the gym every day, walk before you run and
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work your way back because I'm still not a hundred percent with my lungs, but I'm COVID negative and
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all of that stuff. And I'm on the road to recover me to recovery.
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Yeah. That's, that's the lesson is, uh, he's triple vaxxed and he got COVID anyway and ended
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up in the hospital anyway and was on the verge of death anyway, despite multiple doses of a vaccine
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that's supposed to protect against all of this. And, and the lesson is thank God for the vaccine.
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So that's the great thing. Unfalsifiable, of course, is the, um, the argument for the vaccine,
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because if somebody, uh, is vaccinated and doesn't get COVID at all, then we can say, well,
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thank God for the vaccine, protect them against COVID. And, uh, if they get COVID anyway, then we
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could say, well, thank God for the vaccine. They weren't hospitalized. And if they're hospitalized
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anyway, well then thank God for the vaccine. They weren't, they didn't die. And if they die
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anyway, then thank God for the vaccine. It was, uh, it was less painful than it would have been
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otherwise. But what exactly, first of all, you run into the problem of how do you know that
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you say, if you, if you didn't have vaccine, you'd be dead. Well, how do you know that you don't?
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Almost the vast majority of people who get COVID, especially this, the, the, uh, current strain
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of it don't die, whether they're vaccinated or not. So how could you possibly know what would have
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happened in this other potential universe where you didn't get the vaccine, but also what exactly
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is the, this is just a question. What is the vaccine doing for you? I mean, a vaccine where you
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could get three doses in a year and not only get the virus that it's supposed to prevent,
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No, you can't question the efficacy of the vaccine. You can't do that.
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And in fact, the times of Israel reports, uh, this week, it says a study conducted at
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Sheba Medical Center indicates a fourth shot, a fourth shot of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine
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provides insufficient protection against the Omnicorn Omnicorn variant of the virus.
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The data appears to raise serious questions regarding Israel's current strategy of boosting
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all people over the age of 60. So they're on four shots now, and, uh, it still doesn't,
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it's, it's insufficient protection. So if you're not, listen, if you're not willing to get five
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shots of the vaccine in a year, then you're anti-science. You are, we, we have now reached
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a point. We've, we've leapfrogged over number four. And now if you're not willing to get five
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shots of the, of the, the vaccine every single year, you are, you are an anti-vaxxer and an
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extremist, only an anti-vax, anti-science extremist would have any hesitation about
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getting five shots of a vaccine where you only need the five shots because the first four didn't
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work. The first four didn't work, uh, well enough. Let's say, let me qualify that YouTube.
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Um, all right. So protesters took to the steps of the Capitol yesterday to call for a legislation
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protecting voting rights. Let's just play a little bit of this footage here. You can see
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the, the, um, let's see them and they're, they're singing a little, uh, gospel hymn here.
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Not going to let no filibuster turn me around. They're singing. And, uh, I'm informed by Twitter
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that they also are, they're on a hunger strike, which it looks like for a few of them that might
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actually benefit them. So it isn't a bad idea. You got them singing and chanting for voting rights.
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Meanwhile, they, they have it. They have all the voting rights in the world. Every single person
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there protests and going on a hunger strike for voting rights. They all have it. Someone just
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needs to walk down those steps and say, Hey guys, uh, good news. You can all vote.
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Wow. Does that mean that the voting rights law was passed? Uh, no, no, no. You you've had this right
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literally your whole life. So just go, you're fine. Go. This is how desperate people are to
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tell themselves that they're in some sort of struggle that they're suffering when they're not
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really desperate to be victims. Of course desperate to be oppressed. Uh, whoopi Goldberg over at the view.
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She says that, um, that as bad as it is now with voting rights and no one can explain what the
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problem is or how anyone's being prevented from voting. She says that, um, this, this current
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phantom attack on voting rights will only lead to even scarier phantoms in the future. Listen to this.
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This is part of the big plan. This is part of the big plan to control what happens in America. I
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believe what happens in America, if you take those voting rights away, people are going to be so
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angry, but there'll be nothing they can do about it because we're in charge. Next thing comes the
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women. We're going to take your rights away. Just like we're taking X, Y, and Z because there'll be
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nothing you can do this country seemingly or many people in it seemingly want to be
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manipulated. Oh, I was gonna say to destroy it. Well, I don't know if they realize that it will
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be destructive. I don't, I, because listen, when we talk about antisemitism and we talk about Anne
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Frank and we can't teach what happens to black people and we, you know, there's all kinds of
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stuff that's suddenly starting to disappear now. That isn't that is being sort of called is well,
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yeah, it's just you whining. That's just you saying this is happening to me.
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You got to take away the women's voting rights. That's what she thinks. As I said, I mean, there's,
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there's, I have not advocated for taking women's voting rights away. I haven't heard anyone advocate
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for that seriously. Um, as you know, I am in favor of removing voting rights from lots of people and
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probably everybody on the view, but not specifically based on gender or race, just based on, um, how,
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how stupid they are. And that's why, you know, certainly the, the, the bar that we would set,
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even if it was a fifth grade civics exam, that would exclude everybody on the view.
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But, you know, then again, since she raised the point, I mean, I'm not the one who brought this
00:26:12.780
up, but she brought it up about taking voting rights away from women. Again, I, I'm not in favor of
00:26:18.860
that, but when I watched the view for even a moment, you do start to think maybe there's an argument,
00:26:27.680
like the best argument for taking voting rights away from women is, is actually the view. So
00:26:32.240
that's kind of the irony here, but that's, that's not what it's about. And as you know, I'm, I'm the
00:26:39.320
only, I'm a voice in the wilderness crying out. Nobody else is talking about removing voting rights
00:26:43.900
from anybody. That is just not, that's, that's not a thing that's happening, but this is what the
00:26:50.820
Democrats are focused on. This is what Joe Biden is focused on. Joe Biden, who has, uh, just
00:26:58.300
completed what I think we can say without exaggeration is the worst first year of any
00:27:03.180
president in American history. And his approval ratings are plummeting. Now they're at, uh, at
00:27:09.320
last I saw, what was it? 32 or 33%. And this is what people in this country are facing a lot
00:27:18.200
of practical problems in their, in their lives. Real problems. Inflation is a real problem.
00:27:26.780
The price of milk and bread. These are real problems that affect your everyday life. Price
00:27:32.020
of gasoline is a real problem. Um, but Democrats are all fighting mythical dragons, slaying the monster
00:27:42.560
that wants to take voting rights away. Totally imaginary. Meanwhile, Don Lemon on his show last
00:27:48.200
night had some interesting words for you idiots out there who think that you can go off and do your
00:27:54.780
own independent research. How dare you? How dare you think that you could research things on your
00:28:00.580
own and arrive at your own conclusions? That's Don Lemon's job. Don Lemon's job is to tell you what
00:28:04.880
you should know and what conclusions you should reach. As he clearly explains here.
00:28:09.780
We have to start doing things for the greater good of society and not for idiots who think that they
00:28:14.740
can do their own research or that they are above the law and they can break the rules. Australia,
00:28:22.540
Novak Djokovic, Australia said, no, no, no, no, no. We're going to look at the greater good of everyone
00:28:28.060
in our society. And you're not part of that. We don't. How dare you try to, an idiot, only an idiot
00:28:34.900
would try to do research. Now, in fact, I do agree with some of the skepticism, not pertaining
00:28:46.360
specifically to anti-vaxxers, but in general, I can, I can agree with some of the skepticism people
00:28:52.920
have when someone on the internet claims that they've done their own research on really any
00:28:56.960
topic. Because I run into this all the time. Someone says, oh, I've, I've done my, you need
00:29:02.780
to do your research. And you know that 99% of the time, a person who claims that they've done their
00:29:07.220
own research, what, what do they mean by research? They mean, um, I looked up a couple articles on
00:29:12.420
Google. I read, um, the headline in the first paragraph, checked Wikipedia, and then watched a
00:29:17.900
couple of YouTube videos and saw a Facebook meme. And, um, and, and that's my research. And of course,
00:29:22.640
the whole time that the person is doing this research, and again, this, this is, this pertains
00:29:26.640
to like any subject at all for anybody. Um, the whole time they're doing this research, they're
00:29:31.540
specifically pursuing information that confirms what they already believed going in.
00:29:40.160
So, and that's not what research is. I mean, research is a much longer process. If you're doing
00:29:46.160
one way, you know, you're not doing real research and onto any, into any topic is if you're not reading
00:29:50.620
any books about it because real research usually involves reading like actual books for one thing.
00:29:55.820
And you're also going to be reading, um, perspectives from both sides and you're
00:29:59.460
gathering all kinds of information. It's a long kind of drawn out process. That's what research is.
00:30:05.760
And I, I of course realize that as I think we all do, that most of the people on the internet who
00:30:10.760
say they've done their own research have, have done no actual research at all. They are, they are in
00:30:15.420
fact pursuing talking points to support what they, to confirm their priors, to support what they
00:30:20.380
already believed. Um, but why, why, why is that? I mean, what, why have we reached the point
00:30:28.940
where people, you know, are just loose on the wilds of the internet trying to sift through and find
00:30:38.240
information? It's not the most ideal scenario, but the reason is people like Don Lemon and CNN
00:30:45.820
that everyone realizes they can't trust the, are sort of official disseminators of information.
00:30:56.700
You can't trust CNN. You can't trust what the news media says about, about anything.
00:31:03.240
You especially can't trust that, um, that they're giving you all the information that you need.
00:31:09.500
So there's the problem of the information they're giving you. Is it true or not?
00:31:15.740
Oftentimes it's not, but the bigger problem is what, what are they not telling me?
00:31:22.160
And so there's, there's a total breakdown in trust, um, trust in all of our institutions,
00:31:31.080
especially the institutions that are supposed to be informing us, teaching us. You can't trust
00:31:38.940
academia. You can't trust the school system. You can't trust the media. And so people have
00:31:43.980
no choice, but to go quote, do their own research. Um, a lot of people don't, don't go about that in a,
00:31:53.720
in a, in an honest way. And I think a lot of people also don't really know how to research things.
00:31:58.120
Cause that's another thing that the school system is supposed to teach you,
00:32:00.880
but isn't really interested in teaching you that because the school system isn't interested in
00:32:08.380
inculcating, um, critical thinking skills. So that's entirely your fault, Don Lemon,
00:32:16.000
and not just you, but all of a CNN and the media generally. All right, here's a, an important story.
00:32:21.520
The most important story before we get to the comment section is from Fox news says a Starbucks
00:32:25.980
drive-through customer has gone viral for ending a 23 car pay it forward streak. When he learned the
00:32:31.640
customer behind him had an order total of $46 in a Tik TOK video, anonymous user, I'm blessed 55
00:32:39.220
documented his experience, which showed that he ordered a Venti Frappuccino. And then he found out
00:32:45.300
about this pay it forward thing. And he found out that, um, the car behind him had a tab of $46,
00:32:51.460
whereas his was $6. And I, I, we've talked about this on the show. I think I, then I canceled pay
00:32:56.620
it forward. I canceled them and they're still happening somehow. Um, but this man, this is what
00:33:02.340
we need. We would talk about the need for people to take a stand, have courage. Well, this I think
00:33:07.220
is real courage to take a stand right there and say, no, I'm not going to participate in this.
00:33:10.820
And as you know, the, the pay it for, we call it pay it forward. It's actually pay it backward
00:33:15.320
because that's the, that's the game. Like someone decides to start this empty virtue signaling
00:33:23.000
process and they say, Oh, I'm going to, I'm going to pay for the order of the car behind me. And then
00:33:28.460
you pull up and they say, Oh, the car in front of you paid for paid for you yours. And at first you
00:33:33.380
think, well, great. That was very nice of them. You want to drive away. But then the cashier says,
00:33:37.400
would you like to pay for the car behind you? Why? Why would I want to do that?
00:33:43.460
This is a perfect illustration of, uh, of what, of what virtue and charity and generosity
00:33:50.220
has become in our country today. It's totally empty and pointless.
00:33:56.520
I mean, everybody in line at Starbucks, they, they all have expendable income. That's why they're
00:34:02.260
there. These are not, if you want to, if you want to give money to help the poor, then certainly
00:34:07.380
go do that. Why are you going to waste money paying for the coffees in the car behind you?
00:34:15.240
Now, absolutely. The right thing to do is accept, accept the generosity of the person behind you,
00:34:20.180
cut it off and go about your life. Let's get to the comment section.
00:34:23.380
All right. As you know, we are now accepting video comments as well. Dailywire.com slash
00:34:38.700
sweet baby comments. And, uh, we put those in the front of the line before we get to the written
00:34:43.280
comments now. So let's start, let's just go through these. We'll start at clip nine and, uh,
00:34:47.660
and go through these comments here. Hey, Matt. Well, I generally agree with your opinion on
00:34:52.740
selfies. I actually happen to take a lot. Um, I take them for my husband who's deployed and he takes
00:34:58.780
them and sends them right back to me. Um, his own selfies. Uh, I absolutely love it. I love being able
00:35:05.740
to have these pictures taken because I have three boys under five and they are not good at taking
00:35:11.360
pictures of me. Um, so the selfie, as much as I hate it on social media and stuff, and my selfies
00:35:20.320
never go on social media, they're very, very helpful, um, to help keep me connected with my
00:35:26.760
husband, uh, SPG for life. All right. Okay. I will carve out a deployment exception for my selfie
00:35:36.640
moratorium. I will do that. I'm, I'm a generous man. Maybe not in a pay it forward drive-through
00:35:42.320
line, but in other contexts I can be. So I'm willing to do that. But the understanding here,
00:35:47.600
the pledge that you're making is that you will cease any and all selfie activity once your husband
00:35:53.080
returns home. And you're never going to post any of them online. We do that and we can, we can work,
00:35:57.640
we can work out, we can compromise. Good. Um, okay. Let's go to number 10.
00:36:01.700
Hi, Matt. I just have to say that I'm very disappointed that all bumper stickers are
00:36:07.560
canceled. I guess I'll have to rip this off. So we do have sweet baby gang bumper stickers,
00:36:14.380
which by the way, if you go to dailywire.com slash shop, uh, you can find all the great daily wire
00:36:20.520
stores, but mine's the best and you can go there and, and, and apparently buy bumper stickers. And I
00:36:25.980
did specifically say, didn't I say this yesterday that, um, that my bumper stickers, if I, if I could,
00:36:32.160
I would criminalize bumper stickers in general, except for mine, those don't count. So absolutely
00:36:36.560
go buy a bumper sticker, sweet baby gang bumper sticker and, uh, and get a t-shirt while you're
00:36:41.520
there and a mug and all the rest. All right. Let's go to the next one.
00:36:45.780
Hi, master Matt. It's gibberish here. Pronouns are he, him, wall rocks. Um, I just wanted to say that
00:36:54.080
when we're uploading our video comments, we should all be wearing a mask because, uh, seeing maskless
00:37:00.560
videos that might spread the virus, uh, especially Omicron with how contagious it is. So I just wanted
00:37:06.440
to put that out there for everyone. Um, other than that, SBG for life, uh, hope to see you soon.
00:37:12.580
Thank you. That's a good point. That's a very good point. In fact, and I, I apologize for not,
00:37:17.360
for not encouraging that to begin with. Uh, and also we have to keep in mind, you gotta be safe
00:37:21.380
because there's a lot we don't know as he points out with this virus. Can it transmit
00:37:25.560
digitally? Um, there, there are digital viruses. Your computer can get a virus. So it's not as,
00:37:32.680
as, uh, unlikely as you may think. But then also I think, um, we have to keep in mind how startling
00:37:38.860
and traumatic it is for people to see maskless faces in the first place these days, especially
00:37:44.960
if you're ugly, but really in general. So I think that's a good, good suggestion. And, uh, let's
00:37:49.780
watch one more. Hey, sweet daddy, Matty, Max, Maxine here from, uh, Sydney, Australia. Uh,
00:37:56.820
go by Dirk Dam pronouns. Mate, we talk about Trump derangement syndrome, and I just wanted
00:38:01.700
to know what your thoughts were on the other side of that, that coin where you've got, um,
00:38:06.800
bunch of Americans over there that can't get over this undying loyalty to Trump and, um,
00:38:11.760
can't see past him to, uh, what is clearly a better candidate in Roger Santis, both globally
00:38:16.600
and for you guys. Um, so I wanted to know your thoughts on that. Also, I saw your bare
00:38:21.740
naked face on an old Facebook profile picture. It was disgusting. Please remove it immediately.
00:38:26.640
Sweet baby gang for life. Cheers, Matty. See you, mate.
00:38:30.800
First of all, I don't know what you're talking about at the end there. I was born with a beard.
00:38:33.760
Haven't you seen the sweet baby gang logo? So I don't know what you're, what you are even
00:38:37.860
referring to. Um, as far as, uh, Donald Trump and the loyalty to Donald Trump, I think it's,
00:38:43.200
it's the, it's the, it's the power of branding really is what it is. Uh, why do people still
00:38:48.140
watch Disney movies? You know, and, and Disney has been putting out nothing but, nothing but
00:38:52.580
tripe for, for years. People still watch it. It's branding. Um, they're loyal to the Disney brand.
00:38:58.540
Even if Disney hates their guts, they're still loyal to the Disney brand. And, um, and so for Trump,
00:39:04.360
I don't think he hates, you know, if, if you're loyal to his brand, I don't think he hates your guts,
00:39:09.120
but, but it is, it's a, it's a branding thing. And that's, that's Trump's expertise. Um, that's
00:39:15.640
one of the ways that he made, uh, all his money was, was by being a kind of a marketing and branding
00:39:20.900
expert, which is obviously powerful and important skill to have, which is why I would really love,
00:39:30.180
I mean, the, the, the best case scenario, the dream team, I think is not putting Trump on a ticket
00:39:37.260
with somebody like DeSantis. Dream team is Trump as the kingmaker behind the scenes,
00:39:45.240
lending his branding and marketing knowledge and resources to somebody like DeSantis.
00:39:52.700
That's best case scenario. Okay. Now you've got the real, like two headed monster type of thing.
00:39:58.720
And that's, that's what I would love to see. All right, let's move to some of the written comments.
00:40:03.280
Scott says Vosch or Vosch. I don't know how to pronounce it. Reacted to your reaction,
00:40:08.920
to his reaction to Johnny, the walrus, please react to his reaction of your reaction.
00:40:13.660
After a while, it does get with these reaction videos, it does get a little bit, a little bit,
00:40:17.100
what kind of, it's like inception where we get lost in, in, in it's, and, um, it does feel a little
00:40:22.720
bit self-serving after a while, but who knows? I'll, I'll watch his reaction. I'm sure it was quite
00:40:28.900
interesting. David says, Matt, I can proudly and truthfully say that I've never taken a selfie.
00:40:33.620
I'm truly living a vanity free life. Please feature my comment on your show. That's what
00:40:39.460
someone who has no vanity would say, right? But thank you for your service in that regard anyway.
00:40:44.660
Um, and Kip says, uh, Matt have, have loved the show for a long time. Easily one of the greatest
00:40:52.880
shows to ever grace YouTube by far. Agree. However, you struck a nerve in the opening when you mentioned
00:40:57.580
men not having beards while discussing masculinity. I grow a beard so hideous. It makes Luke Bryan's
00:41:01.940
beard look decent. And it is an insult to beards everywhere. Please don't be a beardist. I feel
00:41:07.540
triggered now. SBG for life. Uh, I hear this a lot from men. It's, I don't think it's a, it's an
00:41:13.200
excuse. You're capable of growing some kind of beard. I don't, um, if I was a real, if I was
00:41:18.340
discriminatory, if I was a bigot, then I would be discriminating against other types of beards. I
00:41:23.040
don't. That's who you are. That's, that's your true identity deep down. And you should
00:41:28.620
be proud of it. There, there are no ugly beards. I'll say that there are ugly faces and a lot of
00:41:35.540
them, which is one of the reasons why you want to cover it with a beard. Let's get to our daily
00:41:38.740
cancellation. Today we canceled Darren Rovell, who is I'm told by Wikipedia, a sports business analyst
00:41:48.660
who previously worked for ESPN. Somehow this line of work has enabled him to amass an enormous
00:41:52.640
social media following 2 million on Twitter alone. But unfortunately for him, that enormous
00:41:58.100
following only meant that there was a very large audience watching this week when he imploded like
00:42:03.560
a dying star, creating a black hole of cringe, so potent and powerful that it threatens to annihilate
00:42:08.780
anything in its orbit. It all began when somebody on Twitter called, uh, called Rovell racist.
00:42:13.780
Now, not that it matters, but from what I can tell, the initial charge of racism came from some
00:42:18.900
random account called Bob M with literally one follower. So Bob M with one follower argued that
00:42:25.780
Rovell's stance against paying college athletes is racist because he is quote, trying to cut off the
00:42:30.940
only lifeline that some of the poor underprivileged minority college athletes are able to get.
00:42:35.720
Now the issue of paying college athletes is contentious. There are reasonable positions to be
00:42:39.960
held on either side of it. I happen to be in favor of it only because otherwise the corrupt NCAA gets
00:42:45.480
to keep all the money profiting to the tune of billions while pretending that college athletics
00:42:49.960
is amateur, which is a big joke. That's my opinion. You might have a different one. Your opinion is
00:42:56.220
wrong if it's different, but you know, it's not racist. So Rovell could have simply ignored Bob M with
00:43:02.040
one follower, but instead he felt the need to defend himself. Sensing, I guess, an opening to virtue signal,
00:43:07.960
Rovell responded, quote, calling me a racist is cute on this day, especially I have one of the
00:43:14.300
largest at Martin Luther King jr collections in the world. And some of my closest friends are black.
00:43:20.560
Now you may be wondering what a Martin Luther King jr collection is exactly. I mean, he's an
00:43:25.660
historical figure, not a Pokemon. That's just one of the questions that arises from this tweet,
00:43:30.140
though. He initially didn't seem eager to explain it. He deleted the tweet almost as quickly as he posted
00:43:34.140
it, but it was too late. The internet had gotten ahold of it and it was on its way to going viral.
00:43:38.880
Rovell was mocked ruthlessly and deservedly. And he was also shocker of shockers, accused of being
00:43:45.120
racist for denying that he's racist. Now you might think that Darren would now crawl away into a cave
00:43:51.360
somewhere, hide there until all this blows over, protect whatever bit of his dignity remains,
00:43:57.360
but you'd be wrong. He was not done humiliating himself. So later that day, he called into some
00:44:03.980
sort of Miami hurricanes fan broadcast and tried to further defend himself. What you're about to hear
00:44:10.860
is, um, very real may sound like a comedy skit or maybe a deleted scene from the office, but I assure
00:44:17.580
you that this is real life. Listen to the fan base. So we, everybody can get on the same page.
00:44:25.300
Sure. I ha I have, uh, over nine MLK signed items. I am a humongous fan of what he's done. Uh,
00:44:34.480
and over the last seven years, I've collected a lot of things. Uh, it's not only MLK, it's a lot of
00:44:41.440
black history. I own a Rosa Parks, uh, signed N double ACP card. So it was pretty shocking today
00:44:50.540
how I was called racist. Um, when, when I am a student and lover of black history and it was,
00:45:00.400
it was, I never expected the reaction that I, that I got today. Hmm.
00:45:05.600
I'm so, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. If people think that a white man, uh, can't, uh, uh, love Martin
00:45:25.800
Luther King. But to me, that seems pretty counterintuitive.
00:45:30.080
Uh, somehow amid all of that, perhaps the funniest part to me is when he says of Martin
00:45:38.320
Luther King, I'm a humongous fan of what he's done, which is the kind of thing you might say
00:45:42.440
about a tight end when he goes over a thousand receiving yards on the season. And that was very
00:45:46.480
funny though. Maybe not as funny as bragging that you have a Rosa Parks trading card. And I'm not
00:45:52.880
impressed by that anyway, because, uh, I have the Frederick Douglas rookie card and a signed limited
00:45:57.640
edition Harriet Tubman Jersey. My anti-racist credentials are far more impressive and worth
00:46:02.920
more on Amazon incidentally. Now, as mentioned, this self-defense strategy by Rovell not only led
00:46:08.280
to mockery, laughter, and derision, all very well warranted, but also to further charges of racism.
00:46:14.360
Deadspin ran an article with the headline, Darren Rovell is why white America needs to leave MLK day
00:46:19.980
alone. The article by Karan Phillips calls Rovell disgusting, a sadist, and demented for what you
00:46:28.780
just heard there. It was suggested that he needs to quote, take a CRT class, which I'm sure he'll be
00:46:34.680
more than willing to do. Um, this is what he gets for showing off his anti-racist resume. And this is,
00:46:41.880
this is the lesson to take away from this. What's wrong with what Rovell said? Now, the popular view
00:46:47.660
is that you shouldn't try to prove you aren't racist by saying you have black friends and that
00:46:52.080
you appreciate black history because according to this view, that only proves all the more so that
00:46:56.360
you're racist. But that's ridiculous, of course. I mean, in fact, having black friends is compelling
00:47:01.100
evidence that you're not racist against black people. Admiring Martin Luther King Jr. is another
00:47:06.480
good piece of evidence. It's ridiculous to suggest that a man who despises black people would
00:47:12.320
nonetheless surround himself with black people and look up to black historical figures as his personal
00:47:17.280
heroes. So the problem with Rovell's attempt to prove he's not racist isn't that he's incorrect,
00:47:23.480
but that he's trying to prove he's not racist. He is groveling before a mob of people who will hate
00:47:30.020
him regardless. He's presenting evidence in the court of public opinion, even though the verdict
00:47:34.060
has already been decided. Darren Rovell might be a cringy, self-important weirdo, but there's no reason
00:47:41.140
to think he's racist unless you're the sort of person who thinks everybody with his skin pigmentation is
00:47:46.280
racist. I mean, think about that article. It's not an attack just on Darren Rovell, but he lumps in
00:47:52.500
all white people, white America, because we're all the same. In that case, there's no evidence that
00:47:59.560
will ever convince you otherwise. And your opinion is irrelevant anyway. So why should anyone try to
00:48:05.840
convince you of anything? Who cares what you think? These days, there are only two effective and worthwhile
00:48:11.500
responses to the racism charge. One is to simply ignore it. And this is going to be the best course of action
00:48:17.880
95% of the time, especially when the accusation is coming from an anonymous account named Bob with one
00:48:23.180
follower. The second option for the other 5% is to say to your accuser, I don't care that you think that.
00:48:31.260
Your opinion means nothing to me. Your feelings are unimportant. I have no desire to be liked or
00:48:39.460
respected by you. That's how completely irrelevant you are to me. Good day, sir. Now, you could put that
00:48:47.360
into your own words, but that's the message. Under no circumstances should you ever make any sincere
00:48:53.080
attempt to disprove the racism charge. The category of racism is so broad and defined in such an
00:49:01.000
arbitrary and ad hoc way that it's unfalsifiable. It cannot be disproven. And at any rate, the people
00:49:07.580
who wield this hammer are lazy and manipulative bullies. By trying to prove anything to them,
00:49:12.900
you've lowered yourself, not down to their level, but below it. You're now lying prostrate on the
00:49:18.660
ground, kissing their feet and begging for mercy, which you will not receive. It's pathetic. It's
00:49:24.360
embarrassing. Also kind of hilarious sometimes, as Darren Rovell demonstrates, which is why today
00:49:29.920
he is finally canceled. And we'll leave it there. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Have
00:49:36.040
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Mike Coromina, hair and makeup is done by Cherokee Heart, and our production coordinator is McKenna
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Waters. The Matt Wall Show is a Daily Wire production, copyright Daily Wire 2022.
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Canada outlaws the truth. A Waukesha judge bans ballot drop boxes, and a Democrat Senate candidate
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puffs the sin spinach in a campaign ad. Check it out on The Michael Knowles Show.
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Canada outlaws theustrade for us. Gotta suit yourself.
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Canada outlaws theschwand.com, which is my family co-op, right? What do you think that's
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ganska technology? If you need your home at this time, get it really loose and
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the andariania, do you think, you get lost? To protect yourself. Car I'm not