The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 881 - Media Matters Doesn’t Like My Dating Advice

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, Media Matters and some others on the left were upset by my analysis

00:00:04.140 of the modern dating scene. Apparently, I'm told that my point of view on the subject is

00:00:07.800 old-fashioned and reactionary, and they're not necessarily wrong about that. Also,

00:00:11.840 a truck carrying infected monkeys from a lab escaped from their cages during a highway accident.

00:00:17.080 Why are these labs allowed to dump pathogens all over the globe without any consequence? That's

00:00:21.280 a question. And Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made a Holocaust analogy during his speech at the

00:00:25.560 anti-mandate protest on Sunday. And yesterday, his own wife came out and denounced him for it. Plus,

00:00:31.200 Kamala Harris lists the most vulnerable victim groups in America, and the list seems to have

00:00:35.220 expanded to encompass every group except one, of course. And finally, Hollywood actor Peter Dinklage

00:00:40.320 says that the dwarves in Snow White are offensive. And the story only gets dumber from there,

00:00:45.720 I promise you. We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:01:56.140 There was a little bit of a delayed reaction, but finally yesterday, Tuesday, the usual suspects

00:02:00.740 decided to be offended by my show on Monday where we talked about, among other things,

00:02:05.160 the perils of modern dating. And as you might recall, during the course of that conversation,

00:02:09.920 I observed that one of the myriad problems with the dating scene is that there are far too many options

00:02:14.280 which are arranged far too conveniently and superficially on dating apps for you to scroll

00:02:19.840 through like you're shopping for a mate on Amazon or something. We've talked about the familiar

00:02:24.940 irony of modern life where the surplus of choices tends to paralyze us. It breeds indecision and anxiety.

00:02:33.180 You know, you're afraid to pick one thing because you're aware that there are a million other

00:02:36.680 options. How can you know that this is the right one? Why not just hold out for the next one and the

00:02:41.960 one after that and one after that forever? Now, I'm far from the first person to point this out.

00:02:46.940 As much as I'd like to take credit for the insight, I certainly can't. The paradox of choice is

00:02:51.980 something that many cultural critics and analysts have noticed over the years. In fact, one of them

00:02:56.980 wrote a book called The Paradox of Choice about this very problem, specifically as it relates to

00:03:02.000 consumers. Another book that touches on these themes, which I read a few months ago, is called

00:03:05.960 The World Beyond Your Head by Matthew Crawford, which I highly recommend. And he talks about how

00:03:10.900 craftsmen will use a strategy called jigging, which intentionally limits or constrains their

00:03:16.860 environment so that they can work in a more focused and efficient way. So again, we see the paradox.

00:03:23.080 Limitations can be freeing in that they enable you to accomplish one particular task, achieve one

00:03:28.760 particular goal in an environment specifically and specially designed for it. What we find is that in a

00:03:34.740 world without limitation where everyone can do everything, nobody ends up doing anything.

00:03:39.680 I think this is part of the story with dating. I also mentioned, as one brief aside, that arranged

00:03:46.880 marriages, which is a system that has been in place historically in many cultures, that exists

00:03:53.900 on the opposite end of this spectrum. They are the extreme antithesis of our current approach to

00:03:59.560 dating. I said that even that, even arranged marriages, would be preferable to our current system.

00:04:06.320 And not too surprisingly, that is the one single sentence in a 14-minute discussion of dating

00:04:11.920 that the left has latched onto. So first, Media Matters published their urgent headline,

00:04:16.780 Daily Wire host endorses arranged marriages. It is without a doubt superior to our system.

00:04:21.800 That's quoting me. Then my good friend Jason Campbell over at Media Matters posted the clip

00:04:25.780 to Twitter. And from there, some of the left-wing blogs and YouTube channels picked it up. And as a

00:04:29.520 consequence of all of this, my inbox this morning was full of some very interesting commentary,

00:04:33.800 much of it revolving around the theme that I am a horrible, backwards, archaic caveman,

00:04:38.420 and I deserve to die a painful and humiliating death. So really just your average Wednesday,

00:04:43.540 I suppose. Of course, contrary to the claims made by my critics here, I didn't say that arranged

00:04:48.340 marriages are the best option, just that they're better than our current system, which I'll say

00:04:52.540 again because it's true. I also think that literally anything would be better than our current

00:04:56.680 system. A national lottery pulling names out of a hat and pairing couples up that way would be

00:05:01.860 better. You could have someone, in fact, I'll volunteer for this job. You could have someone

00:05:05.700 just walk down the street and point to random people like you, marry her, you two get married, 0.97

00:05:10.820 and that would be better. Which speaks not to the wisdom of that alternative, but to the disastrous

00:05:16.460 nature of our modern approach. Best system, the one that I actually do advocate for is, as I said,

00:05:23.500 courtship. You might call that dating with a purpose, goal-oriented dating, whatever label you want

00:05:28.060 to put on it. The point is that couples begin dating with the goal of marriage in mind. Now,

00:05:32.120 I've been criticized quite a bit for that suggestion as well, because it is, I'm told,

00:05:35.660 old-fashioned, out-of-touch, reactionary, and I'll gladly embrace all those labels.

00:05:42.660 But one of the great advantages of the courtship system is that at the moment that either member

00:05:48.580 in this partnership realizes that they cannot or do not want to marry the other person, the

00:05:53.240 relationship is broken off, the marital interview process is concluded, and both can now go and

00:05:58.900 seek different applicants. They don't have to waste so much of their time, because there

00:06:02.760 is a determined end point, which is either marriage or not marriage. And once you realize

00:06:09.640 you've gotten to that point, or it's going to be a marriage, or you know that there's not

00:06:14.520 going to be any marriage, now you can move to the next phase, which would be marriage or

00:06:18.260 just going your separate ways. Now, there's no guarantee that anybody who adopts this strategy

00:06:24.800 will immediately find the love of their lives and live happily ever after, even if you get married,

00:06:29.400 as we all know. That certainly is no guarantee that you'll live happily ever after, because you have

00:06:34.560 to live day by day and moment by moment. We don't live in like chunks where you can just cross some

00:06:39.420 kind of threshold and announce, well, I've done this, so now the next 50 years of my life will be

00:06:43.380 happy and fulfilled. It doesn't work that way. If you want a happy and fulfilled life or a happy

00:06:48.640 and fulfilled marriage, you have to make that choice every day and renew it the next day and

00:06:53.200 the next day and the day after that forever and ever. Love is an act of will. It's a choice. It's

00:06:58.720 not merely an emotion. The emotional experience of love is, if anything, a byproduct. It's not the fuel

00:07:04.360 that keeps your marriage running. The fuel is the choice you both make to serve each other,

00:07:09.420 sacrifice for each other, and remain loyal and faithful. This is another problem. This

00:07:14.800 overemphasis on emotions, where emotions, our emotional fulfillment on purely an emotional

00:07:22.720 level is the entire point for a lot of people. That's what they think. And the problem is that

00:07:27.880 emotions come and go. They ebb and flow. Emotions are fleeting. And so they go off and they get

00:07:34.700 married and they're feeling the emotional rush. The honeymoon, we talk about the honeymoon and

00:07:40.100 these days we say honeymoon and we're talking about the week-long vacation that you take to Europe or a

00:07:45.060 cruise or whatever. But traditionally, honeymoon is a phase of marriage early on. And that's when your

00:07:50.660 emotions are kicked into high gear and all of those things. And there's this effatuation. And when that

00:07:57.980 starts to settle down a little bit, people that are guided only by their emotions, they'll say,

00:08:02.360 oh, well, I guess this wasn't the right one. In fact, I just read an article about Pamela Anderson, 0.63

00:08:09.360 who unfortunately is just divorced. I think it's her fifth husband. And for some reason, I read the

00:08:15.040 article and it quotes her or someone familiar with her as saying that, oh, she realized that he's not

00:08:21.240 the one. So she's like in her 60s now. And she just left her fifth guy because he's not the one.

00:08:28.400 She's still pursuing the one. What do you think you're looking for? You're looking for someone who 0.65

00:08:33.020 will give you that emotional satisfaction every second of the day forever. And the moment those

00:08:39.240 emotions fade away for even a moment, then you say, well, this is not the one for me.

00:08:45.280 Now, in order to even get in the door and have the chance to maintain a marriage or screw it up, 0.99

00:08:50.680 you have to go into your dating quest with a sense of purpose. Life in America today

00:08:55.440 is plagued by purposelessness. You've heard me talk about this many times because I think it's our

00:09:01.060 central problem. This is related to the issue of there being too many choices. That makes that

00:09:07.220 problem all the worse because how are you supposed to know how to navigate all the choices and select

00:09:12.200 the right option if you don't know what you're looking for or why you're looking for it in the first

00:09:16.040 place? Americans are experiencing record levels of despair and anxiety, not because there's some

00:09:21.880 mysterious mental illness going around, but because many people have no sense of meaning or 0.80

00:09:26.540 purpose in their lives. This attitude is brought into their relationships and their pursuit of

00:09:31.540 relationships, and it's why the dating scene is so miserable and marriage rates are plummeting.

00:09:36.780 I suggest that we restore our sense of meaning and purpose.

00:09:41.200 And that's a suggestion that is treated as controversial by those who would prefer

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00:11:08.040 you've heard this story, but here's the latest. A woman who came into close contact with an escaped

00:11:12.420 monkey on the side of an interstate in Pennsylvania said she developed pink eye-like symptoms and is now

00:11:18.060 on preventative medication. Wonderful. A truck hauling 100 monkeys from Africa was headed to a lab in 1.00

00:11:25.420 Missouri when it collided with a dump truck on Friday on Route 54 and Interstate 80 in Valley Township.

00:11:30.920 Michelle Fallon of Danville said she pulled over to help the driver. Fallon said,

00:11:36.060 I thought I was just doing the right thing by helping. I had no idea it would turn out this way.

00:11:39.280 He just asked if his trailer was okay. He never said, if you do come near a crate, don't touch it.

00:11:44.040 If you would have told me that, I would have been more careful. That's when she came face-to-face

00:11:48.240 with an agitated monkey, which hissed in her face. Three monkeys in all escaped during the ordeal.

00:11:54.900 During the search, officials warned the public not to come near the monkeys because they would

00:11:59.020 transmit disease. She said, quote, I was close to the monkeys. I touched the crates. I walked

00:12:04.920 through their feces. So I was very close. So I called to inquire, was I safe? And then apparently

00:12:11.480 she was told by the CDC that, you know, well, basically the CDC told her, eh, maybe not. You

00:12:16.680 might not be safe actually. So monitor your symptoms. And she has, and now she's developing

00:12:21.640 symptoms. So fantastic. Now a couple, a couple of things here, just a good rule of thumb that,

00:12:30.600 um, hopefully it will, we'll never, most of us won't get to a point where we're going to have

00:12:37.200 to actually put this into action, but a good rule of thumb, if you do encounter a situation like this

00:12:41.280 is, um, don't help clean up spilled monkeys on the highway. That's a, that's a good rule. Now I do put

00:12:49.520 a lot of the blame on the driver here. He's the one who got into the accident. And also he didn't

00:12:53.420 think to mention when some woman gets out of her car and comes over and says, Hey, how you doing? 1.00

00:12:59.300 Everything? Okay. And then he, he asks her if everything's okay in the back of the truck and

00:13:04.600 doesn't even mention, Oh, by the way, this truck is full of virus infected monkeys. So get the hell

00:13:10.360 away from us. So I put a lot of the blame on him and I don't mean the victim blame here, but the

00:13:16.900 moment that you see that there are cages with animals inside them, don't go anywhere near them.

00:13:23.820 Just get in your car and drive away. Uh, there, there are people who are supposed to be equipped

00:13:29.740 to deal with these kinds of situations and it's not you. I think the great, the greater issue here

00:13:34.140 is that this is that we know of at least maybe the third occasion where potentially a virus has

00:13:44.260 escaped from a lab or a virus that was headed to a lab escapes on its way there. We know about the

00:13:50.720 big one in Wuhan and there are some very good indications that, uh, although no one has told us

00:13:56.640 this and they probably never will officially tell us just like they haven't officially admitted it in

00:14:00.160 Wuhan and never will. But there are indications that a Omnicorn escaped from a lab or somehow got

00:14:06.260 out of a lab in South Africa. And now we've got this here. So this, this is what, this is what gets

00:14:13.000 me. Uh, if I want to build a patio in my backyard, I need to get 37 permits to do it because of all the

00:14:23.300 safety concerns, apparently of having a patio in my own backyard at our old house. We were doing

00:14:29.480 renovations inside our home and somebody from the County showed up because I guess a very helpful

00:14:38.540 neighbor noticed that we had a lot of construction workers and things coming in and out of the house

00:14:43.040 and they decided very helpfully to call the County and alert them. And so this guy from the County shows

00:14:47.760 up and said, Hey, what are you guys doing here? What's going on? What do you mean? What am I doing

00:14:51.020 here? Um, it's none of your business. It's in our house. Get the hell off my property. 0.98

00:14:56.000 You creep. So that's what happens if you try to, you know, do anything in your own home,

00:15:01.560 try to build a patio, uh, you know, renovate inside or outside of your home. God forbid you

00:15:08.600 try to build some kind of extension on your home. The permitting process for that is basically

00:15:14.680 impossible. Probably 90% of people. And I know this from experience who've even thought about

00:15:20.580 building any kind of addition or extension on their home. 90% probably give up because

00:15:26.000 once they realize how many permits they have to get just to do it and how expensive

00:15:29.820 and complicated the process is. So that's what, if you want to, you know, that's, that's

00:15:36.400 everyday life for just regular Americans, even in your own home. Then you talk to business

00:15:42.040 owners, all the red tape, they have to clear all the permits and licenses and everything they

00:15:48.020 have to get and then get renewed and everything else, all of the ridiculous oversight, the bureaucracies

00:15:53.640 they have to navigate. And yet these virus labs are allowed to just deposit dangerous pathogens all

00:16:02.940 over the planet. And no one just, there's no accountability. Nobody even gets a fine.

00:16:11.620 Has anybody even been fined? Has there even been like a $50 fine for killing 5 million people 0.58

00:16:17.920 by letting a virus out in Wuhan? Has that even happened? And now you've got monkeys that all

00:16:30.000 have viruses and you put them in the back of just a truck, a regular truck and bring it down

00:16:36.420 the highway. And there's no, there's no oversight process there. Apparently, I guess that's, that's,

00:16:49.140 you know, that's less dangerous than me building a patio or me building a fence that's over four

00:16:53.940 feet tall or whatever the arbitrary limit is for when you need a permit for those things.

00:16:57.340 All right. So at the mandate, at the anti-mandate protest on Sunday, RFK Jr. upset some people when

00:17:05.040 he made a Holocaust comparison. And we know now that Holocaust comparisons are suddenly no longer

00:17:13.220 acceptable. So that's another change in the rules. So you can update your rule book. But first,

00:17:18.400 let's listen to what he said on Sunday.

00:17:21.380 Even in Hitler's Germany, you could, you could cross the Alps into Switzerland. You can hide in an attic 0.54

00:17:26.720 like Anne Frank did. I visited in 1962 East Germany with my father and met people who had climbed the

00:17:34.660 wall and escaped. So it was possible. Many died throwing it, but it was possible. Today, the mechanisms

00:17:41.480 are being put in place and we'll make it so none of us can run and none of us can hide. Within five

00:17:49.760 years, we're going to see 415,000 low orbit satellites. Bill Gates says his 65,000 satellites alone will be

00:18:00.700 able to look at every square inch of the planet 24 hours a day. They're putting in 5G to harvest

00:18:09.420 our data and control our behavior. Digital currency that will allow them to punish us from a distance

00:18:15.800 and cut off our food supply. Vaccine passports. 0.84

00:18:23.260 Okay, so he makes the Holocaust analogy and you're not allowed to do that anymore, apparently.

00:18:30.220 Well, it very much depends on what you're talking about because as we know, the left and the media

00:18:36.180 spent four years every single day, multiple times a day. There was probably not a, there was not an

00:18:42.740 occasion over four years. There was not, not, not a day went by where you could turn on cable news,

00:18:49.480 CNN or MSNBC and not hear some kind of Hitler or Holocaust or Nazi analogy related to Trump and his

00:18:58.900 supporters. So they can do that, but now, and they'll still do it as it relates to Trump and

00:19:05.080 his supporters and conservatives in general. Yet, God forbid anyone on the right or anyone in an

00:19:12.900 unsanctioned way draws a Holocaust analogy. Not only is, well, they say it's inaccurate, but it's somehow

00:19:21.100 unbelievably, unthinkably offensive. And it's anti-Semitic, they say, which let's, let's just

00:19:30.620 get, let's make one thing very clear here. The majority of the Holocaust analogies and Hitler

00:19:38.960 analogies that are made across the ideological spectrum, the majority of them are oftentimes

00:19:49.000 off base and ridiculous. It doesn't make them anti-Semitic because the reason why people draw

00:19:56.100 these analogies, there's two reasons why these are the most common analogies that people draw.

00:20:02.000 And one is that it's a, it's a bad thing. So the person making the analogy that there's, there's,

00:20:09.180 there's something bad that they don't like. And so they're trying to highlight how bad it is

00:20:13.620 by comparing it to this other very bad thing. Now you could disagree with the analogy on historical

00:20:19.800 grounds, but the point is not to diminish the severity of the Holocaust. The point is to

00:20:26.000 emphasize the severity of this other thing they're comparing it to. Even if they're wrong, it's not

00:20:31.760 anti-Semitic. And the other reason why these analogies come up so often is that, you know, most people

00:20:38.080 don't have a very comprehensive understanding of, of even recent history. There's only, there are only

00:20:46.620 a few historical events that most people even know about enough to draw any kind of analogy and World

00:20:52.660 War II and Hitler is one of them. So that's why those analogies come up. This is how silly it is

00:20:58.220 that, you know, if you were to say, you know, if you compare something to a concentration camp,

00:21:04.500 for example, and again, only if you're on the right. So that's, that's the qualification here.

00:21:09.100 We know that, but if you're on the right and you compare something to concentration camps,

00:21:15.040 um, that's, oh, you can't do that. That's horrible. That's, that's, that's the worst thing

00:21:19.000 in the world. Yet you, you could compare, you know, take the exact same thing and, and talk about,

00:21:25.140 compare it to the gulags and say, oh, they're going to start shipping us off to the gulags eventually.

00:21:28.940 And somehow that's not offensive. When, when Stalin, um, killed more people than Hitler did.

00:21:39.000 Tens of millions of people were murdered by the Soviet regime. And you could draw those

00:21:45.040 comparisons is perfectly fine for some reason. There was just a, there was a guest on, I saw the,

00:21:51.900 the video on Twitter this morning. There was a guest on, um, oh, here it is. Yeah. A guest on CNN

00:21:58.320 who said that Virginia has become a Soviet style police state. And the reason, of course, 0.90

00:22:05.260 it's a Soviet style police state is that, uh, Glenn Youngkin allows kids to go to school without a

00:22:11.060 mask on. Now, putting aside how absurd that comparison is, it's like the opposite, right?

00:22:18.760 This is, this is, uh, him withdrawing him saying, no, the government is not going to force you to

00:22:25.180 cover your face when you're gone in public. Now, this is more freedom. And so more freedom equals a

00:22:32.800 Soviet style police state, but even putting that aside, but so that's a, we're, we're allowed to

00:22:38.180 draw those comparisons. Again, the Soviet style police state killed tens of millions of people.

00:22:43.720 Um, but nonetheless, people were very upset about this. And, um, even RFK jr's wife, Cheryl Hines,

00:22:56.600 who's, uh, I guess a Hollywood actress, and I know she's on Curb Your Enthusiasm and maybe she's 0.95

00:23:01.040 been on other stuff as well, but she put out a tweet yesterday morning and it says, my husband's

00:23:05.960 reference to Anne Frank at a mandate rally in DC was reprehensible and insensitive. The atrocities that

00:23:12.880 millions endured during the Holocaust should never be compared to anyone or anything. His opinions are

00:23:18.720 not a reflection of my own should never be compared to anyone or anything yet. This is, I'm guessing the

00:23:27.000 first such comparison, even though those comparisons are made every single day on cable news and on the

00:23:32.360 internet, this is the first such comparison that she's been offended by. Not to mention should never

00:23:38.040 be, I agree that it's too often compared to, to, um, other things, but never. So there's nothing

00:23:45.800 that could ever happen that would be analogous to it. Uh, and then Robert F. Kennedy jr. Not long after

00:23:53.240 that says, I apologize for my reference to Anne Frank, especially to families that suffered the

00:23:58.340 Holocaust horrors. My intention was to use examples of past barbarism to show the perils from new 0.98

00:24:02.860 technologies of control. Uh, to the extent my remarks caused hurt, I am truly and deeply sorry.

00:24:10.360 Well, you know how I feel about the public apology. Perfect example of why

00:24:13.260 that's a genre, which should be abolished. Um, he's apologizing to the people that he's hurt. He

00:24:19.420 hasn't hurt anybody. Nobody was actually hurt by this. Who's the, who's the person? There's no way

00:24:25.280 you could survive in modern America or especially on the internet. If you're hurt by, uh, high, you

00:24:34.760 know, hyperbolic Holocaust comparisons, considering they're all over the place. So nobody was hurt by

00:24:41.680 that. I apologize to those who I, who I hurt. Well, you didn't hurt anybody. They were happy. Okay.

00:24:48.100 They were happy for the opportunity. They were pleased with it because there's this huge global

00:24:56.600 march against mandates and for freedom. And, um, they don't like that. They don't like the fact

00:25:02.500 that so many people are coming together over this issue across the ideological spectrum. In fact,

00:25:08.080 and they're looking for a way to change the subject and for a reason to be offended and you gave it to

00:25:13.780 them. So they're, they're happy. They're very happy that you, that you made that comparison.

00:25:20.560 But apologizing to the mob on your own behalf is bad enough. Apologizing to the mob on your spouse's

00:25:28.080 behalf is, uh, takes it to a new level of pathetic and cowardly. You know, maybe this again, maybe goes

00:25:37.480 to me being old fashioned. You know, I guess I was just raised a little bit differently, but you never

00:25:43.340 denounce your family or your spouse in public ever. I don't care what they said, especially not over

00:25:50.480 something like this, but I don't give a damn what he said. It could have been the worst thing anyone's

00:25:56.440 ever said about anything. You don't go in front of the mob and denounce your own husband.

00:26:04.960 How about some loyalty? How about some faithfulness? You've got a problem. You pull

00:26:12.100 your spouse aside and talk to them in person. You don't, you don't throw your spouse to the wolves

00:26:17.800 and say, Oh, get him. Not me. That's not me. We're different.

00:26:24.480 So much for a to death do we part, I suppose. Um, that's, and again, it does, it doesn't even matter

00:26:33.080 what he said. And this is also a very good lesson here. Um, because a really good case

00:26:41.380 study because she, she comes out, denounces her husband and bows before the mob and says,

00:26:47.500 I'm not with him. I mean, I'm married to him, but I'm not with him. And you read the comments

00:26:52.800 under that tweet from the left and are any of them satisfied? You take a guess. Are any of

00:26:59.900 them saying, okay, well, all right, I'm glad that you denounced him. You two are, are, are separate

00:27:04.880 and we're, we're just mad at him, not you, but you're good. Is anyone saying that? No.

00:27:11.480 Every single one of them saying that's, that's not enough. This is too little, too late. You

00:27:16.080 shouldn't have married him in the first place. You really want to prove something to us. Now you 0.70

00:27:20.780 have to divorce him, divorce him and then come talk. 0.99

00:27:24.720 And she might in fact do that. And when she does that, of course, that's not going to be enough

00:27:30.460 either. It's the same story we've seen a million times. You try to appease the mob. And not only is

00:27:36.680 that a cowardly and pathetic move, but it's also futile. You know, even if you could appease the mob

00:27:44.720 by throwing your spouse under the bus, it would still be the wrong thing to do, but you can't even

00:27:49.640 appease them anyway. It won't work. So you might as well just be loyal then. All right. I missed this

00:27:56.840 yesterday, but this is great. Um, from the daily wire, it says it sounds like Spotify will need to

00:28:02.100 choose a side. Musician Neil Young issued a bold ultimatum and a now deleted message to his management

00:28:07.380 team and record label. The letter said the 76 year old musician was planning to refuse the music,

00:28:12.780 the music streaming service access to his catalog of albums until they cut ties with podcast host,

00:28:18.840 Joe Rogan. Young shared in the letter, quote, please act on this immediately today and keep

00:28:24.260 me informed of the time schedule. I want you to let Spotify know immediately that I want all my

00:28:29.780 music off their platform. They can have Joe Rogan or Young, not both. Now, Joe Rogan is by far the

00:28:39.660 biggest attraction on, uh, on Spotify. He makes them hundreds of millions of dollars. Whereas Neil Young

00:28:45.580 makes them, I don't know, hundreds of dollars at most, this is like me storming into Jeremy's office

00:28:51.940 and saying, listen, you can have Ben Shapiro or me. It's Shapiro or Walsh. Not both. Okay. Well,

00:28:57.940 we'll take Ben then. Definitely. Oh, well, uh, you know what? Nevermind. Forget we had this

00:29:03.080 conversation. And the other great thing here is that apparently Neil Young doesn't even own his

00:29:10.140 catalog. He sold the rights to his catalog. So not only is he making an ultimatum, he's, he's making

00:29:17.000 the, probably the least effective threat in the history of threats, but he doesn't have the right

00:29:22.620 to make the threat because he does not own his own music. That's what happens when you sell the

00:29:25.920 rights to the catalog. Good stuff from, uh, from Neil Young. He had another aging hippie, by the way, 1.00

00:29:32.220 who used to pretend to be, um, you know, against the system and the man and all of that. And now

00:29:39.640 he's coming out strongly and in support of the man. All right. Kamala Harris speaking, who knows where

00:29:47.760 or why? Uh, I don't think that matters. Well, she's at the white house, but what is she talking

00:29:52.700 about? I don't know. Here's what she had to say. We are focused on the most vulnerable and based on my

00:30:00.200 experience, the most vulnerable are women and girls, racial and ethnic minorities, LGBTQI plus

00:30:08.320 people, indigenous people, people with disabilities, migrants, and children in the foster care system.

00:30:18.300 When we identify who is most vulnerable, we can tailor our tactics and improve our strategy.

00:30:25.720 Okay. So the most vulnerable people are, I think I have the list here. Um, and this is based on her

00:30:33.220 experience. She says, so she knows it's based on her experience. Uh, the most vulnerable are women 0.99

00:30:37.640 and girls, but what are those? She, she wouldn't be able to tell us that, uh, racial and ethnic 1.00

00:30:44.220 minorities, LGBTQI plus people, indigenous people, people with disabilities, migrants, and children in

00:30:52.620 the foster care system. So in other words, um, everyone, everyone is the most vulnerable person

00:31:00.400 except straight white males. And it'd be a lot easier and quicker to just come out and say that

00:31:06.840 I am here to protect. And I care about everyone except straight white males. And I guess there's 0.70

00:31:14.160 one other group, which would be children in the womb. Now notice how she says she doesn't just say

00:31:18.400 children, which in fact, children are a vulnerable group. Um, that's, that's one category of person

00:31:25.360 that belongs in this, in this, uh, in this list. Uh, most of the rest of them don't. LGBT people are, 1.00

00:31:33.280 are vulnerable in, in, in what way? Certainly not vulnerable to any kind of systemic oppression.

00:31:41.680 These are the most celebrated and visible people pound for pound of, of any group in America.

00:31:53.840 Probably in the history of the United States. There has never been such a concerted,

00:31:58.680 all encompassing effort to specifically celebrate and prop up any group of people the way that we do

00:32:04.720 with LGBT. Um, and, uh, similar thing can be said for many of these other groups. Children though,

00:32:09.680 are a vulnerable group, but she's very specific about it. She says children in the foster care

00:32:14.720 system, which agreed they're vulnerable to very vulnerable. What about children in the womb?

00:32:21.020 They have no legal rights whatsoever. Their moral worth is not recognized by many people in this

00:32:28.180 country. It's not recognized by the legal system. They have zero human rights. 60 million of them have

00:32:34.060 been executed. They have been subject to the worst, um, mass execution, systematic execution in history.

00:32:50.600 So, but those are the two that we're leaving out. Straight white men and, uh, and women, uh,

00:32:55.940 children in the womb rather. All right. One other thing here, a report on insider.com that was making

00:33:00.860 the rounds yesterday online. It says black teachers are overwhelmed by increased responsibilities at

00:33:06.580 schools and it's making some quit the profession. We'll go to the article. It says, uh, circling the

00:33:12.540 school hallways, reminding students throughout the day to raise their masks over their nose and mouth

00:33:16.860 has become Xavier McDougald's new normal. The San Francisco teacher told insider that every time he

00:33:22.720 walks into the school he teaches at, he's on patrol duty as the mask enforcer. His health and his

00:33:28.460 students health are critical. He told insider. That's why he doesn't understand why there is a

00:33:31.660 national debate during the most infectious point of the pandemic so far on whether students and

00:33:35.680 teachers should be ushered back into the classroom. McDougald said, uh, I feel like a lot of administration

00:33:41.320 is choosing not to see it from a teacher's perspective. People are still getting COVID. It was hard teaching

00:33:46.820 online, but I just think it's more worth it to stay online. Yeah. More worth it to you to stay online

00:33:52.440 because you say it was hard teaching online. It wasn't hard for you.

00:33:56.080 You get to stay home. You get, you get a glorified vacation. It, um, and it's kind of all the same

00:34:04.760 to you, especially if you don't really care. Now for teachers who actually care about their kids

00:34:09.560 and are worried about the information getting across and the kids absorbing the information

00:34:15.520 for those teachers, um, uh, online teaching was very, very difficult. And I've heard from many teachers

00:34:20.760 like that. It brought them a lot of distress to know how futile all of this was. And the fact

00:34:25.860 that, that these kids are not absorbing the information, they're not getting what they need.

00:34:30.520 But to somebody like this, it doesn't really care about the kids and is totally self-centered as is

00:34:33.900 already obvious from everything we've heard here. Um, it's teaching online was not hard at all. It was

00:34:38.620 hard on the kids, but there's also the question of why, why the focus on black teachers here?

00:34:44.400 When does this become racial? Let's keep, uh, let's keep reading. Um, let's see. Insider spoke

00:34:51.840 to black teachers who said the last two years have been the hardest of their careers. They become the

00:34:55.820 mask enforcers, juggled heated discussions on education curriculum, and they become the on the

00:35:01.500 job racial sensitivity educators after the murder of George Floyd. Nikita Gibbs Nolan said, when this

00:35:08.620 pandemic first hit, I was actually as the, uh, union rep having weekly meetings with teachers to ask,

00:35:13.660 how are you doing? Because it was so overwhelming to some people. Some people were considering

00:35:17.420 quitting. Some people were fearful of going back. Um, and then, uh, going on more complaints.

00:35:23.880 McDougald said from microaggressions triggered by supervisors to clogs in career advancements,

00:35:29.320 simply because of how they run their classroom for black teachers, it has always been difficult.

00:35:33.620 And now with the pandemic teachers told insider it's worth worse rather in the study, black teachers 1.00

00:35:39.520 said administrators didn't acknowledge their contributions and peers questioned their

00:35:43.520 intelligence and curriculum choices or viewed their assertiveness as anger. McDougald said

00:35:49.020 in his experience after Floyd's murder, he spent a lot of time educating the predominantly white

00:35:54.320 staff at his school on cultural competency, but they didn't put the information into practice.

00:35:59.760 Quote, I felt like it's been mostly my responsibility to fill in the gaps. I also feel like it's an extra

00:36:05.140 burden to be a disciplinarian. And as a black male that teaches I'm tall and I have a deeper voice,

00:36:09.740 I do try to use it to my advantage. Okay. So this is a poor guy. You know, he, he was educating the

00:36:16.720 other adults around him, telling them what they're supposed to do. And, and some of them didn't do

00:36:23.380 it. He was instructing the other adults, the white people, and, uh, and they have to listen to him

00:36:30.740 because they're white. And, and probably a lot of them did, but, but some of them, can you believe

00:36:37.080 what this man has to go through in his life? That there are some white people who, who he could, he 0.63

00:36:42.560 could look them right in the eye and tell them what to do and what to think. And they still refuse

00:36:46.500 to do it. Truly, no one has suffered like this man or woman. I forget who it is. And then also the

00:36:55.640 complaints about, oh, they, our, our, our contributions aren't being recognized. You know, there's

00:37:02.120 misunderstandings at work. Sometimes when I assert myself, people accuse me of being angry. Hey, look,

00:37:07.100 I've got news for you here. That's the case for every person on earth, every person, especially

00:37:14.240 every person at every job, in every profession, in every position feels as though their contributions

00:37:22.000 aren't being sufficiently recognized. That's everyone. And also for every person, when you

00:37:30.940 try to assert yourself, sometimes it can come off as angry. I know that from experience.

00:37:36.420 So these are, as we often see, um, universal facts of the human experience.

00:37:43.600 And yet, because everything's put into a racial framework, now someone who's bought into the

00:37:51.040 racial framework, if they're part of a racial minority and they experience one of these universal

00:37:56.620 facts of human existence, one of the more uncomfortable facts of human existence, they,

00:38:00.580 they immediately assume, because this is the framework that they have, that, oh, it must be,

00:38:03.960 it must be racism. Even though every white person experiences it too. When it happens to me,

00:38:08.900 it has to be racism. A certain ill logic to that, I would say.

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00:39:32.120 Who makes a Twitter mob fly off the handle with rage? Who's to blame? It's a sweet baby gang.

00:39:45.360 All right, if you want to leave a video comment or submit a video comment, you can go to

00:39:48.640 dailywire.com slash sweetbabycomments. And let's go to the video and start with clip nine.

00:39:54.720 Hey, Matt. We are on day six of homeschool. We decided to pull out our four kids. It is 11,

00:40:05.000 10, 8, and 7. Thanks to a lot of the stuff that we heard, just giving us the confidence to make

00:40:12.300 that switch. And I wanted to share a short story with you that when we went to pick up our kids from

00:40:17.820 school and all their supplies, stopped by one of the teacher's classrooms, and she asked if my son

00:40:23.600 could come back for the honor roll celebration that they would be having off campus because they

00:40:28.380 weren't allowed to have it on campus this year. And when I asked her why that was, as the celebration

00:40:33.640 was usually on campus, she had told me that our school had done away with honor roll because it

00:40:40.260 was making kids feel bad who did not make the honor roll. That just gave me even more confidence in

00:40:48.060 our decision to pull them out. And just wanted to get your thoughts on the lack of observing excellence

00:40:55.580 and promoting greatness and rewarding those kids who work hard and do well. SBG for life.

00:41:04.140 You know, first of all, my house sounds exactly like your house. So it's always refreshing to hear

00:41:08.640 other parents in their natural environment with children running around and screaming like jungle

00:41:14.320 animals in the background because that's my house as well. So I do appreciate that. As for the rest of

00:41:19.900 it, congratulations on embarking on your homeschool journey. There are a lot of reasons why this will

00:41:26.620 be better than public school. But the thing you mentioned is certainly one reason where excellence

00:41:32.780 is not rewarded or encouraged in the public school system the way that it should be and the way that

00:41:37.040 maybe at one time it used to be. But it's kind of a twofold problem because yes, schools are often

00:41:41.880 no longer rewarding and recognizing excellence. They're trying to smash everyone together in the

00:41:47.680 mediocre middle and anyone who pokes their head above the rest gets chopped down like a weed in the

00:41:53.780 grass. So that's happening and that's a problem. But then also to the extent that they do still

00:41:59.520 recognize excellence, I don't really trust their ability to actually identify excellence in the right

00:42:08.280 way. Because I think it's better to have these kinds of programs and have different tracks for

00:42:14.640 kids so that the ones who are really excelling can move at a faster pace. I think it's better to have

00:42:19.260 it than to not have it, especially given the reason for abolishing this stuff or de-emphasizing it.

00:42:27.560 The reason is that we don't want to hurt people's feelings. So it's better to have it. But even when you do

00:42:33.860 have it, and back when I was in school, most of these things were determined by standardized testing

00:42:40.520 and that sort of thing. And there's a problem there too, because there are a lot of really

00:42:45.880 intelligent, talented kids with very bright futures who just don't perform well on tests.

00:42:53.980 They perform well academically, but they're not great testers.

00:42:57.920 And the school system doesn't have any way of, at least with the way it's currently constructed,

00:43:05.540 they don't have any way of analyzing kids or measuring them aside from just that.

00:43:11.080 Are you able to regurgitate the information on this sheet of paper? And if you can't, then

00:43:16.460 we lump you into one category. The people that can regurgitate are in another category.

00:43:22.240 So there's always multiple layers to all the problems you have in public school,

00:43:25.500 which is a good reason to homeschool. All right, let's go to clip 14.

00:43:32.280 Hey, SDW. I'm having child. My video's coming in a little bit late. I really had to think about

00:43:39.980 whether or not I wanted to further boost your ego by proving once again that you're always right.

00:43:47.060 So the other day, I was listening to your show, just driving around, running my errands,

00:43:52.500 and I was wholeheartedly just disagreeing with you regarding your comments about women being

00:44:00.720 terrible drivers. Like I did not agree. And I thought you were totally off base with that.

00:44:07.840 Well, I then proceeded to hit the curb. And once again, I was shown that you were always right

00:44:16.520 about everything. So please don't cancel me for doubting you. And that's it. SPG for life.

00:44:27.000 Well, that's good. The first step is to realize that you have a problem, though. I think maybe one

00:44:32.860 way to solve this problem is to identify as a man. I mean, that's really the ultimate experiment here, 0.90

00:44:38.040 I guess, is can a man really become a woman? Well, if you change your self-identity and then 0.84

00:44:47.720 discover that you suddenly drive without slamming into curbs, that might actually prove me wrong

00:44:54.040 about the whole gender question. So that'll be interesting to experiment. And let's go to,

00:45:00.820 where's the one I wanted here? Um, where is it? Uh, 12? Hi, I'm Casey, and I'm 14 years old. I'm

00:45:10.440 Audrey, I'm 12, and we're both homeschooled. And we live in the Shandoo Mountains an hour away from

00:45:16.280 the nearest grocery store. Because we live in the mountains, there aren't roving bands of woke mobs

00:45:21.460 patrolling the streets. And obviously, my sister and I aren't on social media. So we don't get much

00:45:28.680 hands-on experience debating liberals. Any suggestions for how we can improve our debating

00:45:35.700 skills? Also, are you accepting interns at the Daily Wire? I guess that's all. Let's go,

00:45:43.280 Brandon, and SPG for life. So you guys are living the dream. Congratulations on that. I mean,

00:45:48.300 that's how you know you're off the grid, by the way, if you're off the beaten path, is you can judge

00:45:51.940 it by your proximity to a grocery store. Now, as far as tips on debating leftists, the first thing,

00:45:57.440 I mean, what I would say, honestly, is that you're, what, 12 and 14. So you're living the good life

00:46:02.860 out in the woods, in nature. You're away from all this stuff. You're not on social media, which I love

00:46:08.760 to hear. So I would actually say don't worry about debating the leftists right now. It's not part of

00:46:14.180 your life. It doesn't need to be right now. There will come a time for it, but I wouldn't worry about

00:46:17.460 it. You don't need to debate anyone. Enjoy your childhood. You only have it for a few more years.

00:46:22.860 That's my, that's my advice. All right. Um, a couple of written comments. Here's one that says,

00:46:28.560 Matt, what's your take on Wordle? I don't know. I have no idea what that is. Maybe someone can

00:46:32.720 explain it to me. I see it all over Twitter. I have no idea what it is. My pattern is that I

00:46:36.120 usually figure out what a new fad is, you know, about three minutes before it's no longer a thing.

00:46:41.880 So the moment that I even figure out what it is, that means that, uh, people are just going to move

00:46:45.880 to the next thing. Um, let's see. Heath says, how is it that the handsome and brilliant Matt

00:46:53.200 Walsh doesn't have at least 1 million subscribers just for the sarcasm alone is enough to watch or

00:46:56.700 listen. I'm being oppressed. That's why. Uh, Jasmine says, I have to say, I actually disagree

00:47:01.700 with Matt when he said he would, uh, make a new office and toss out the diversity and inclusion

00:47:06.140 one in Virginia. Abortion disproportionately is directed at black and Latino communities and

00:47:10.840 diversity is a great thing to have among the living. So we should definitely work towards more

00:47:15.100 diversity in life by not killing the unborn in those diverse communities. Well, your, your point,

00:47:21.640 you exactly prove my point, I think, in the way that you phrase that, um, there, there are a lot of

00:47:28.520 very good reasons to not kill babies. And yes, I suppose that when you kill babies, you are

00:47:35.100 decreasing diversity, but that is not at all the point. The reason you shouldn't kill babies is

00:47:44.280 because they're human beings and it is a moral atrocity to intentionally and directly kill

00:47:49.180 innocent and defenseless human beings. That's why you shouldn't do it. It's, it's a great moral evil.

00:47:55.160 And so in trying to put this within the leftist framework and use their language,

00:48:02.320 you end up undermining your own point. There's just no reason to do it. Who cares about diversity?

00:48:09.060 We're talking about mass murder here. So that's my point. So thanks for the comment.

00:48:14.560 The next episode of Adam Carolla's comedy series, Truth Yeller, airs tomorrow. Adam is joined by

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00:48:26.280 We got a guy up here that has a shirt on that says, do not comply. And so I don't have, yeah,

00:48:33.520 that's right. And that's nice because I don't have to ask if you've been vaccinated or if you care

00:48:40.260 about the elderly or anything like that. I already know from your shirt. I'm like,

00:48:44.940 he'd kill my grandmother and not think a second time about it. He would just go home,

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00:50:15.220 So Peter Dinklage is a Hollywood actor and a little person, a person of short stature,

00:50:20.420 an individual of less than average height, a human of smaller persuasion. I'm not sure what

00:50:24.160 the politically correct term is these days. I think dwarf is still okay, though for some reason 1.00

00:50:27.720 midget has been thrown out. In any case, you could choose which label makes you feel the most

00:50:32.000 comfortable. What matters today is that Dinklage is bravely speaking out against the woke Snow White

00:50:36.780 remake, currently in the works over at Disney, although his complaint is that it's not nearly

00:50:40.820 woke enough, obviously. Now, as we know, Disney has been diligently focused on ripping off,

00:50:45.180 degrading, mutating, mutilating, destroying all of their own classics, and not just their classics

00:50:49.960 either. Even their middle-tier cartoons like the Aristocats have been placed on the docket for

00:50:55.640 remakes. In this case, a live-action remake, I'm told. It's not exactly clear how a movie about

00:51:00.340 talking cats could be live-action, but that's neither here nor there. Snow White is a little bit

00:51:06.200 easier to reimagine in that format, and to woke-ify. So the new version will feature Disney's first

00:51:12.920 Latina, excuse me, Latinx Disney princess. The non-white princess will play a character 1.00

00:51:19.000 who is named Snow White, literally because, according to the original fairy tale, her skin 0.97

00:51:24.480 is white as snow. Now, recasting a character like this with a non-white actress, it's like recasting 1.00

00:51:31.100 Black Panther with Chris Pratt in the lead role. Of course, if Disney did something like that,

00:51:37.060 there would be riots in the street. Al Sharpton would rappel down from a helicopter and hold a

00:51:41.660 press conference denouncing them. It would be unthinkably offensive to cast a white actor in a

00:51:47.540 traditionally non-white role, whereas it is unthinkably offensive to complain about the reverse

00:51:52.700 happening. Those are the rules. And yet, none of this is enough to satisfy Peter Dinklage,

00:51:58.340 who took some time on Marc Maron's WTF podcast to complain about the insufficient wokeness of

00:52:03.700 Disney's woke Snow White. Let's listen.

00:52:06.780 I was a little taken back by the very, very, they're very proud to cast a Latino actress as

00:52:15.040 Snow White. Yeah.

00:52:16.140 But you're still telling the story of Snow White and Seven Dwarfs. Sure. Take a step back and look

00:52:22.640 at what you're doing there. Makes no sense to me. You're progressive in one way, but you're still

00:52:28.440 making that f***ing backward story of seven dwarfs living in a cave. What the f*** are you doing, 0.92

00:52:36.360 man? Have I done nothing to advance the cause from my soapbox? I guess I'm not loud enough.

00:52:47.140 Still, I don't know what studio that is, but they were so proud of that. And all love and respect to

00:52:53.060 the actress and to the people who thought they were doing the right thing. But I'm just like,

00:52:57.520 you know, what are you doing? There we go. Snow White is offensive to dwarfs. Now the film,

00:53:04.880 I guess, I don't know, the film commits some literal microaggressions, you might say.

00:53:08.740 Though it must be noted that contrary to Dinklage's claims, the dwarfs and Snow White,

00:53:12.720 they don't live in a cave, first of all. They live in a charming cabin in the woods.

00:53:17.020 They work in a cave, which is actually a mine, where they apparently discovered a rather lucrative

00:53:21.940 mineral deposit. And they enjoy mining those resources, which is why they whistle while

00:53:25.940 they work. But perhaps more to the point, the dwarfs and fairy tales like Snow White,

00:53:31.040 just like the dwarfs and fantasy stories like the Lord of the Rings, are not disabled humans who suffer

00:53:35.880 from dwarfism. They're mythical creatures. They're like leprechauns or elves in these stories.

00:53:41.960 If you're going to be offended by mythical characters because of a vague physical resemblance,

00:53:46.580 then Brian Stelter should be offended by Humpty Dumpty. Nancy Pelosi should be offended by

00:53:50.180 Cruella de Vil. Bill de Blasio should be offended by the Muppets. But you don't see them complaining.

00:53:55.260 Well, you do see them complaining, just not about that. Now this is all to say nothing of the fact

00:53:58.900 that Dinklage has already played mythical dwarves in films many times. He also appeared in the movie

00:54:05.420 Elf for just one scene, where the whole joke was that Will Ferrell's character thought he was an elf

00:54:11.380 from the North Pole. Now this kind of moral hypocrisy is, of course, quite common among the woke,

00:54:17.420 especially the older woke, many of whom just decided recently to adopt this stance over the past

00:54:23.300 five years after a lifetime of relative sanity. They've now decided that they could act a certain

00:54:29.420 way and do certain things and make certain jokes and indulge in certain stereotypes and make money

00:54:34.800 in certain ways, but nobody else is allowed to do it. Their views have evolved and now they have no

00:54:40.120 patience for anyone who fails to evolve along with them. People who carry on exactly as they did just

00:54:45.740 12 seconds ago are persona non grata. I mean, what if there were younger dwarves, like Dinklage once 0.94

00:54:51.820 was, who were looking forward to the Snow White remake because it would be their chance to break

00:54:56.040 into the film industry just as he did. Sorry, says Dinklage. That path was open to him, but it now has

00:55:02.740 to be closed to everybody else. He's drawing up the bridge behind him. No one else, sorry, pulling up

00:55:08.540 the ladder. He was the last one through the door and he's locking it behind him. And then he's turning

00:55:12.540 around, staring out the window and sneering at everybody still stuck outside. And it looks like he'll get

00:55:18.680 his way. The Hollywood Reporter has a Disney statement about all this, quote, to avoid reinforcing

00:55:23.900 stereotypes from the original animated film, we're taking a different approach with these seven

00:55:28.040 characters and have been consulting with members of the dwarfism community. We look forward to sharing

00:55:32.660 more as the film heads into production after a lengthy development period. A Disney spokesperson

00:55:36.820 sent a statement to Hollywood Reporter, still years from release, Snow White will have cultural consultants

00:55:41.480 just like other live action films such as Aladdin and Mulan. Film has been in development for

00:55:46.660 three years. The studio has been reimagining the dwarf characters since the earliest stages.

00:55:52.300 Yeah, we wouldn't want stereotypes of mythical creatures. Perhaps next we can get a campaign

00:55:57.680 to end the stigma surrounding vampires and werewolves. So to review, in the new Snow White and the seven

00:56:04.460 dwarves, Snow White will no longer be Snow White and the dwarves will no longer be dwarves. Nothing can be

00:56:10.460 what it was before. All that existed in the past is now offensive simply because it existed in the

00:56:15.740 past. Fairy tales especially must be abolished and rewritten, as Disney has set out to do, and this

00:56:22.680 is why they're doing it. Well, the first reason they're doing it is for the money. The second is

00:56:27.380 this, because fairy tales cannot be allowed to continue existing. Fairy tales commit the aforementioned

00:56:32.800 sin of being very old, and that's no good. Also, fairy tales deal with universal themes, and universal

00:56:39.840 themes are problematic because they don't cater specifically enough to the particular concerns of

00:56:45.100 individual victim groups. And fairy tales always revolve around a conflict of good versus evil,

00:56:51.200 but that's also offensive because the categories of good and evil require moral judgment, and moral

00:56:55.840 judgment is no longer allowed. Moreover, and the biggest thing of all is that fairy tales quite often

00:57:00.600 feature a romance which is based in traditional notions of chivalry and gender roles. Obviously,

00:57:06.040 we can't have any of that. Those are the defining elements of fairy tales, and very often the defining

00:57:11.200 elements of stories in general. That's why we have to move past it. It's time we move past

00:57:16.880 storytelling altogether. Abolish all films and television shows, and burn all books. We can spend

00:57:22.800 our time sitting in silence, staring at blank screens and empty pages. It's the only way to ensure that

00:57:30.760 nobody is ever offended. But in the meantime, we have to say to Peter Dinklage that he is, of course,

00:57:37.020 today. Canceled. And we'll leave it there. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Have a great day.

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The Matt Walsh Show - January 26, 2022

Ep. 881 - Media Matters Doesn’t Like My Dating Advice

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