The Matt Walsh Show - Matt's ＂Walshiest＂ Take - Vote Now!

00:00:00.000 Today, I'm very excited, actually, to cancel a woman by the name of Lindsay Goh. 1.00

00:00:14.160 This, I believe, is one of the most highly deserved cancellations we've done in several

00:00:17.600 weeks, though, of course, they're all highly deserved.

00:00:19.820 Our friend Lindsay is a sports reporter and also the sports director over at WTOC in Georgia.

00:00:24.660 Now, to be a sports reporter in Georgia, you have to know and love college football.

00:00:30.100 Because your audience knows and loves college football.

00:00:32.860 And part of loving college football is loving the atmosphere, the experience.

00:00:37.320 Now, it's not for everybody, certainly.

00:00:39.420 The game of football is fast and violent and intense and sometimes brutal.

00:00:44.300 The experience of watching the game live in the stadium, especially at college stadium,

00:00:48.320 is loud and rowdy and soaked in beer with people screaming out of anger and out of joy,

00:00:53.220 often switching between the two from second to second.

00:00:55.520 And as a football fan myself, this all sounds like a tremendous amount of fun to me.

00:01:00.960 But as I said, it's not for everybody.

00:01:02.940 And I'm afraid it's not for Lindsay.

00:01:04.800 So on Saturday night, Georgia defeated Clemson at home in a hard-fought 10-3 victory.

00:01:10.780 Lindsay was reporting at the stadium and decided to set up for a live shot right at the exits

00:01:16.000 as 90,000 drunk and deliriously excited football fans were filing out.

00:01:20.460 But she chose to set up her cameras in the midst of this swarm and then was less than pleased

00:01:27.640 with the results.

00:01:28.780 Later that night, she tweeted, got all kinds of violated during my first live hit by fans.

00:01:34.380 She also claimed that she'd been groped, quote unquote.

00:01:36.620 And she said after that the experience was that she was stressed by the experience and startled

00:01:42.840 and, quote, frazzled.

00:01:45.040 But courageously, she assured the public that she was OK.

00:01:48.980 Then the next day, as the nation waited with bated breath for an update from Lindsay, who

00:01:53.020 was stressed and frazzled at the football game, she finally released the footage.

00:01:57.780 Now, it's up to the eye of the beholder, or the beer holder, as the case may be, to decide

00:02:02.780 whether Lindsay was, in fact, groped and violated, or whether she was simply greeted with the kind

00:02:08.160 of boozy enthusiasm that literally anyone standing in front of a camera in that situation would

00:02:13.840 have experienced.

00:02:15.000 And that's up to you to decide.

00:02:16.760 But let's watch the footage here.

00:02:18.260 Here it is.

00:02:20.580 Hello.

00:02:21.460 Please don't touch me.

00:02:22.300 Excuse you.

00:02:31.240 It's the L2.

00:02:34.760 Go, dogs. 0.98

00:02:43.520 We're hitting defensive slugfest, and the dogs ran away with it.

00:02:48.820 A 10-3 win here at Bay.

00:02:52.300 How long do I have?

00:02:55.880 Please don't touch my equipment.

00:02:57.800 Please don't.

00:03:02.060 How long do I have?

00:03:03.480 I've got to move.

00:03:08.480 OK, I can hear you, but I'm moving.

00:03:10.860 OK, you know, my only problem watching that is all the people who, you know, they got

00:03:20.820 their time in the sun.

00:03:21.740 They got their time on camera, and then they kind of froze, and they had nothing to say.

00:03:24.580 I mean, if you're going to intrude into the shot, I respect it, because, again, you're

00:03:30.000 at a football game.

00:03:30.560 That's what you do.

00:03:31.780 But you should have something to say.

00:03:33.060 A couple people, they kind of stuck their head into the shot, and they couldn't think

00:03:36.700 of anything to say, so they just walked away.

00:03:39.080 Now, as far as I could tell, only one person made physical contact with her by touching

00:03:43.200 her on the shoulder.

00:03:45.120 And as I always tell my kids all the time, you've got to keep your hands to yourself.

00:03:48.780 It is impolite to touch somebody on the shoulder like that when they don't want to be touched.

00:03:52.080 But does that qualify as groping now?

00:03:56.040 Has a person been violated because another person made non-consensual contact with their

00:04:00.000 shoulder for 10 seconds or two seconds, really?

00:04:03.580 If so, then we have all been groped.

00:04:06.300 We have all been groped and violated thousands of times in our lives.

00:04:10.080 And meanwhile, the stories of women who have actually been groped and violated are buried

00:04:15.100 somewhere under this avalanche of brief, benign, non-sexual, incidental physical contact

00:04:20.420 between human beings.

00:04:22.400 As for the rest of it, Lindsay was encountering what, again, anybody who has set up any kind

00:04:27.800 of camera outside of any college or professional sporting event has encountered.

00:04:32.380 The crazy thing is you can see in her face from the beginning that she has no patience

00:04:37.660 for any noise at all.

00:04:40.080 She doesn't appear to want to be there to begin with.

00:04:42.620 And as soon as people start walking past, she's fuming mad. 1.00

00:04:46.280 But she's the one who set up the camera exactly where thousands of people will be walking.

00:04:51.980 This is like a guy from the Weather Channel reporting live from the beach during a hurricane

00:04:56.500 and whining the whole time because his hair is getting wet.

00:04:59.200 It's like if I tried to make a phone call while sitting in the stands at a NASCAR race.

00:05:03.760 Like, hang on a second.

00:05:04.900 Hey, fellas, can you pump the brakes for a minute?

00:05:06.400 I'm trying to have a conversation here.

00:05:08.340 Of course, that's not to say that reporters can't or shouldn't report live from stadiums.

00:05:13.720 It's just to say that they should be ready to match the volume, intensity, and exuberance

00:05:18.340 of the crowd in the background.

00:05:20.780 And I certainly don't want to claim that this is one of the reasons why men make better sports

00:05:25.800 reporters.

00:05:26.920 I don't want to claim that.

00:05:28.660 So I'm not going to claim that.

00:05:31.200 Instead, I'll just show you an example of how it's supposed to be done.

00:05:33.760 Watch this.

00:05:34.120 Well, it's been 644 days since the last time Williams Price did not have restrictions as

00:05:40.280 to how many fans could be in their stadium.

00:05:42.720 But that ends tonight.

00:05:44.100 And while that ends, a new chapter begins as Shane Beamer begins his new era as the head

00:05:49.340 football coach at the University of South Carolina.

00:05:52.320 Hello, everyone, and welcome to the front lots here at the University of South Carolina.

00:05:56.180 I'm Mike Yuba, and it is game day, something Gamecock fans have been waiting for for quite

00:06:01.200 some time.

00:06:02.100 And look, there's a lot of storylines we can talk about.

00:06:04.500 We can talk about how Shane Beamer is making his debut.

00:06:07.300 We can talk about how Eric Kimry, the former Gamecock quarterback, the coach that he had

00:06:11.440 these last couple of years is making his debut as an assistant coach.

00:06:15.240 But perhaps, perhaps the biggest storyline is the fact that you have a former grad assistant

00:06:21.900 coach, Seth Nolan, way in under center tonight as the starting quarterback.

00:06:27.480 Early in the week, we had a chance to be able to catch up with both Seth and Coach Beamer.

00:06:32.040 Wow.

00:06:33.000 Now, that was Fox reporter Mike Yuba, who, in fairness to Lindsey, Mike is putting on an

00:06:37.120 absolute clinic in that broadcast that few sports reporters could fully match.

00:06:40.780 And before you say that this was different because nobody physically touched him, here

00:06:46.940 he is broadcasting from a bar during March Madness a few years ago.

00:06:50.100 Here's a better example.

00:06:50.820 Watch this.

00:06:52.660 Eight seconds, seven seconds, five seconds.

00:06:56.840 Gamecock fans have learned to hear it.

00:06:59.040 From the first time since 1973, USC is running to the Sweet Sixties.

00:07:05.800 Wow.

00:07:06.360 It is unbelievable here at the Village Idiot and the Blind Boys. 0.99

00:07:11.900 I am going to cover the beer.

00:07:13.820 As you can hear, the beers are just absolutely loving it.

00:07:17.680 Unbelievable.

00:07:18.940 What a night.

00:07:21.300 Unbelievable.

00:07:27.520 This is crazy.

00:07:31.680 People are a little bit excited.

00:07:33.980 You know, they're a little excited.

00:07:35.360 But covered in beer, people grabbing onto his back and his shoulders.

00:07:39.900 Lindsey would be in counseling for a year after that experience.

00:07:42.880 That's what I want to see Lindsey in that environment. 1.00

00:07:46.400 She would break down in tears.

00:07:49.260 She'd be telling stories about the trauma to her grandchildren 40 years from now.

00:07:53.300 And who knows how the story would evolve by then.

00:07:55.720 Now, I was trying to do a live shot from the bar and all these basketball fans with machetes 0.97

00:07:59.440 and chainsaws started hacking me to pieces.

00:08:02.400 Maybe not literally, but metaphorically.

00:08:03.980 There are metaphorical chainsaws.

00:08:06.680 Now, it wouldn't be fair to say that all female sports reporters are like Lindsey. 1.00

00:08:12.300 But even so, I must say, this situation only demonstrates why I personally prefer for sports

00:08:20.080 broadcasts, especially football broadcasts, to be handled mostly by men.

00:08:24.380 Lindsey, though worse than the average, even as far as female sports reporters go, is definitely 1.00

00:08:29.320 not the only female to enter into this mostly male space and seek to feminize it. 0.99

00:08:34.200 She wants the football stadium to be quiet and gentle, considerate, respectful of personal

00:08:39.760 space.

00:08:40.920 She wants it to be a more feminine environment. 1.00

00:08:43.720 She's not trying to assimilate herself into the culture of football fans. 0.99

00:08:47.460 She is rather hoping that they assimilate themselves to her.

00:08:51.180 This is a problem across our culture.

00:08:52.620 Sports just happen to be an area where the problem is especially pronounced and obvious.

00:08:56.860 Females enter into areas that have typically catered and mostly belong to men. 1.00

00:09:01.720 And then, often quite successfully, they try to change them, to emasculate them, and thereby

00:09:08.000 destroy the primary reason for their existence in the first place.

00:09:11.600 This phenomenon is so far-reaching in football especially that they're even changing the rules

00:09:15.680 now to make the game itself more gentle and feminine.

00:09:18.920 Football is still violent, but it's less violent than it used to be.

00:09:22.880 This year, they're even focusing on penalizing players who say mean or rude things to each other

00:09:29.120 on the football field.

00:09:30.000 They've been doing this during the preseason in the NFL.

00:09:33.120 All of this, along with the token female sideline reporters and the female analysts at halftime,

00:09:38.820 it's an effort to make the game less appealing to the people the game was invented for to begin with.

00:09:44.420 Now, meanwhile, it should be acknowledged,

00:09:46.900 women are experiencing the same problem in the reverse. 1.00

00:09:49.140 Female spaces are being invaded by men, often the most private spaces, like locker rooms, for example. 1.00

00:09:55.520 But it's a different kind of invasion.

00:09:58.000 Not better. It's actually worse, but it's different.

00:10:01.100 Because the men invading female spaces do try to assimilate themselves, but they assimilate themselves too much. 0.96

00:10:08.840 They assimilate themselves to the point of pretending to actually be women. 0.87

00:10:12.420 And the effect, ultimately, is that women don't just lose their spaces, as men have lost ours, 0.89

00:10:18.220 they also lose their identity in the process.

00:10:20.820 So, it's a big confused mess, all in all.

00:10:24.040 And it all starts from the incorrect assumption that there is something wrong with men and women having their own spaces,

00:10:30.540 their own interests, their own identities.

00:10:34.320 Sports reporter Lindsay didn't create this problem, but she is just one more example of it. 1.00

00:10:39.160 And for that reason, she is today, I must say, canceled.

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00:11:49.960 Today we have the exciting opportunity to cancel a pet food company.

00:11:54.300 The Better Choice Company makes super-premium natural pet food for millennial and Gen Z pet parents.

00:12:01.980 Now, we've already have enough fodder here just in the opening sentence to cancel everybody in sight,

00:12:06.640 but it gets better.

00:12:07.940 As Yahoo Finance reports, the very unaptly named Better Choice Company

00:12:11.380 has launched a new ad campaign for its Halo dog food brand.

00:12:15.320 And here's the marketing pitch according to Yahoo.

00:12:16.880 It says, quote,

00:12:18.160 Let's face it.

00:12:19.060 Pets are the world's best kids.

00:12:20.680 That's why Better Choice Company, a pet health and wellness company,

00:12:23.980 unveils its new marketing campaign to celebrate pet parenthood.

00:12:28.820 The new Halo pet campaign sets out to validate and empower the new generation of pet moms.

00:12:35.440 The campaign launches in support of the company's new brand, Halo Elevate,

00:12:39.180 a super-premium natural pet food backed by science.

00:12:42.220 Millennials are delaying having children. 0.84

00:12:44.220 They are, however, enthusiastically embracing pet parenthood,

00:12:47.300 with 76% of millennials owning a pet.

00:12:49.080 The new campaign from Halo is speaking to these pet moms and saying,

00:12:53.380 We see you.

00:12:54.380 We get you.

00:12:55.380 We are you.

00:12:57.080 Now, if I was a narcissist,

00:12:58.640 I might think that this ad campaign was made specifically to annoy me personally,

00:13:04.000 because it's got all of the elements there.

00:13:07.200 And those suspicions are not much allayed by the actual ad itself,

00:13:10.860 which we will watch now.

00:13:12.820 Halo makes the world's best food for the world's best kids.

00:13:16.100 No, not that kid.

00:13:17.500 This kid.

00:13:18.380 You can leave this kid alone for 10 minutes,

00:13:20.480 and they won't destroy your house.

00:13:21.900 Yeah!

00:13:22.720 With these kids, you can actually sleep in.

00:13:25.420 Yeah!

00:13:26.440 And shopping never ends in tears.

00:13:28.480 Ezra, Ezra, please.

00:13:29.620 Maybe being a human parent is overrated.

00:13:31.820 No!

00:13:32.520 So if you're gonna have a kid,

00:13:33.800 make it a furry one.

00:13:34.940 And feed them Halo Elevate.

00:13:37.020 Natural, science-based nutrition for their optimal health.

00:13:40.260 Halo, the world's best food for the world's best kids.

00:13:44.480 Okay.

00:13:45.620 Where to begin?

00:13:46.600 I don't deny that having kids is actually more difficult than having a dog,

00:13:50.160 and we'll get to that in a moment.

00:13:51.220 But first of all,

00:13:52.820 dogs don't destroy your house or wake you up?

00:13:56.160 What?

00:13:57.200 I find it a bit concerning that nobody at this dog food company

00:13:59.680 has ever actually met a dog, apparently.

00:14:01.780 In fact, dogs tend to be way more destructive than children.

00:14:05.160 They also can be significantly noisier and more annoying.

00:14:08.980 My kids have never eaten my boots

00:14:10.940 or gnawed on the legs of my couch

00:14:13.320 or chewed on the carpet.

00:14:15.760 My kids don't eat out of the trash.

00:14:18.280 My kids don't poop on the floor, usually.

00:14:21.500 My kids don't wake me up in the middle of the night barking.

00:14:24.920 I don't have to take my kids outside of the dead of winter

00:14:27.300 and stand there waiting for them to take a dump in the grass.

00:14:30.500 None of my kids have ever vomited on the kitchen tile

00:14:33.120 and then tried to eat it.

00:14:35.280 Dog's done that, though, multiple times.

00:14:37.860 I came home a few days ago,

00:14:39.280 and someone in the house had torn into my bookshelf

00:14:41.600 and eaten two of my favorite books.

00:14:44.760 Guess who did that?

00:14:45.740 It wasn't my kids, I can tell you.

00:14:48.020 Now I'm starting to wonder, actually,

00:14:49.140 what kind of kids these people have encountered.

00:14:51.780 You know what my kids can do?

00:14:53.240 They can clean up after themselves.

00:14:55.140 Okay, sure, it does take a lot of coaching,

00:14:56.620 and often I have to deploy various methods of encouragement,

00:15:01.320 shall we say, to get them to clean up.

00:15:02.600 But you can actually raise your kids

00:15:05.000 to clean up after themselves.

00:15:06.400 A dog will never do that.

00:15:07.960 If a dog picks up a shoe in his mouth

00:15:10.160 and walks it over to the other side of the room

00:15:12.660 and drops it there, everybody will applaud.

00:15:15.300 Oh, look at the dog, he's so great.

00:15:16.480 It would take the dog about 19 hours

00:15:18.700 to clean a whole room at that pace.

00:15:20.820 My kids can do it in at least 18 hours.

00:15:24.360 My kids can do other things, too,

00:15:25.560 like they can pour their own bowls of cereal in the morning.

00:15:27.920 They can bathe themselves.

00:15:29.860 In fact, they can do literally thousands of things

00:15:33.160 that the dog cannot do and will never be able to do.

00:15:36.080 And as my kids get older,

00:15:37.260 they'll become even more self-sufficient,

00:15:38.980 while my dog will still be barking at leaves

00:15:41.200 and crapping all over the place. 0.58

00:15:43.000 But here's the main difference

00:15:44.200 between my children and the dog.

00:15:47.240 They are my children.

00:15:48.840 The dog is not my child.

00:15:51.480 He's a dog.

00:15:52.820 I'm not the parent of my dog.

00:15:55.020 And you are not the parent of your dog.

00:15:57.820 So stop saying that you are.

00:15:59.800 You are not a dog mommy.

00:16:02.140 Do you know who your dog's mommy is?

00:16:03.920 Another dog.

00:16:05.440 There's a dog that mated with another dog

00:16:07.940 and had a dog,

00:16:08.880 and that dog gave birth to your dog,

00:16:11.200 and that dog is your dog's mommy. 0.68

00:16:13.660 You didn't mate with a dog and have a dog.

00:16:16.560 I sure hope you didn't.

00:16:18.720 Okay?

00:16:19.200 Not only are you not your pet's parent,

00:16:21.300 but in fact,

00:16:21.820 your relationship with and to your pet

00:16:24.680 bears no resemblance at all

00:16:27.760 to the relationship a parent has

00:16:29.240 with and to their actual human child.

00:16:32.160 Aside from all the many functional differences

00:16:33.860 between dogs and kids,

00:16:35.340 the other major difference

00:16:36.160 is that within a human nuclear family,

00:16:38.300 there's an opportunity for a loving bond

00:16:41.560 which far surpasses anything

00:16:43.520 you will ever experience

00:16:45.060 with any other human,

00:16:47.040 much less a mangy, four-legged beast.

00:16:49.880 I love my kids in a way

00:16:51.480 that I could never love an animal.

00:16:53.540 I know them in a way

00:16:54.760 that I could never know an animal.

00:16:55.980 I was there with them when they were born.

00:16:57.600 I've cared for them every moment of their lives.

00:16:59.540 I've gotten to know them more deeply

00:17:00.900 as time has gone on.

00:17:01.840 We can talk and have conversations.

00:17:03.880 We can share experiences

00:17:05.260 on a much deeper and more meaningful level

00:17:06.980 than you can share any experience with a dog.

00:17:10.320 My children have brought me great joy.

00:17:12.760 More joy than any animal can bring.

00:17:14.280 They also can make me much angrier

00:17:16.100 and more frustrated

00:17:16.940 than any animal can make me,

00:17:18.220 but that's only because

00:17:19.160 they are human beings.

00:17:20.800 They are complex.

00:17:21.680 They can be rebellious and strong-willed.

00:17:24.560 They're self-aware.

00:17:25.320 They have their own ideas about the world.

00:17:28.200 My dog has no ideas about anything.

00:17:30.920 He's an idiot and always will be.

00:17:33.720 It is much more complicated

00:17:35.380 to discipline a child, right?

00:17:37.900 And there's more at stake.

00:17:39.760 So if you fail as a parent,

00:17:41.720 your child might become a monster

00:17:43.400 who inflicts unimaginable suffering

00:17:45.220 on himself and the world.

00:17:46.400 If you fail as a dog owner,

00:17:47.940 your dog might bite the mailman or whatever.

00:17:50.820 Does this mean that it's better to own dogs

00:17:53.020 because it's easier?

00:17:54.360 No.

00:17:55.220 It means that owning dogs

00:17:56.360 is simpler and easier in some respects,

00:17:58.300 but also much less important.

00:18:00.680 There's much less potential

00:18:02.080 for greatness and for love

00:18:04.300 in its fullest and deepest form.

00:18:06.160 Just as you could climb a mountain

00:18:08.080 or you could sit on your butt 0.72

00:18:10.300 and watch TV.

00:18:11.080 A lot less can go wrong watching TV.

00:18:13.320 It's easier and takes less effort.

00:18:14.880 Does that mean it's better to watch TV?

00:18:16.440 Does that mean that you should

00:18:17.120 never climb any mountains,

00:18:18.300 whether literally or metaphorically?

00:18:20.760 Sure, if you want to live

00:18:21.660 a shallow and meaningless life.

00:18:23.900 But here's the thing.

00:18:24.760 If you avoid the difficult things in life,

00:18:26.700 you also are avoiding

00:18:28.280 the greatest joys

00:18:29.480 and most fulfilling

00:18:30.940 and most meaningful experiences

00:18:32.440 that life has to offer.

00:18:34.300 This is the bargain you make

00:18:35.880 when you elect to be a dog parent,

00:18:38.120 quote unquote,

00:18:38.780 instead of a real parent.

00:18:40.360 And if your goal is just to be comfortable

00:18:42.360 and live with ease,

00:18:43.540 then why not get an ant farm

00:18:45.360 instead of a dog?

00:18:46.020 Why not stick with a goldfish

00:18:47.560 or a pet rock?

00:18:48.820 Because the further you go down

00:18:50.020 the intelligence and self-awareness ladder,

00:18:52.020 the easier it is to be a parent,

00:18:54.300 quote unquote,

00:18:54.820 of those kinds of creatures.

00:18:55.880 But there's also far less potential,

00:18:58.500 again, for love, for joy,

00:18:59.940 for purpose, for meaning.

00:19:02.980 And Lord willing,

00:19:04.100 my kids will grow older.

00:19:06.240 And long after my dog dies,

00:19:08.580 my kids will start having kids of their own.

00:19:11.080 And their kids will have kids.

00:19:12.300 And eventually I will die.

00:19:13.520 And as I'm laying on my deathbed,

00:19:14.980 I will know and take comfort in the fact

00:19:16.700 that my children are alive.

00:19:19.120 They'll be there for me in my final days,

00:19:21.100 just as I was there in their first days.

00:19:24.260 I'm not going to be thinking about

00:19:26.840 my dead dog in those moments.

00:19:28.480 This dog I have now

00:19:29.460 will have been replaced

00:19:30.260 five or six times over by then.

00:19:32.180 But my legacy will live on

00:19:33.560 in my children and in theirs.

00:19:35.380 My blood will run through their veins. 0.72

00:19:37.880 We'll be connected forever

00:19:39.220 in this life and the next.

00:19:40.960 That's parenthood,

00:19:42.520 not pet ownership.

00:19:45.540 Now, this perhaps has gotten

00:19:46.640 a little too serious

00:19:47.400 for a conversation that began

00:19:48.640 with a dog food commercial.

00:19:49.940 But as you may have noticed,

00:19:51.740 there are a few things I hate more

00:19:53.320 than when people act

00:19:54.400 as though pets are equivalent

00:19:55.620 to children they are not.

00:19:58.720 And that is why

00:19:59.660 the Better Choice Dog Food Company

00:20:01.920 is today canceled.

00:20:07.400 We've talked a little bit

00:20:08.440 about the unintended consequences,

00:20:11.360 the trade-offs,

00:20:12.540 you know,

00:20:13.080 when it comes to efforts

00:20:14.660 by the climate alarmists

00:20:15.960 and the environmentalists

00:20:16.980 to supposedly save the planet.

00:20:18.980 Here's another one.

00:20:19.940 This is from the Daily Wire.

00:20:20.700 It says,

00:20:21.480 a law to conserve

00:20:22.440 a species of fish

00:20:23.640 may have inadvertently led

00:20:24.880 to a recent uptick

00:20:25.840 in shark attacks

00:20:26.800 in the state of New York.

00:20:27.740 Experts interviewed

00:20:28.260 by the New York Post

00:20:28.880 said that sharks

00:20:30.100 are returning to the waters

00:20:31.060 off Long Island Sound

00:20:32.100 because of a boom

00:20:32.760 in the population

00:20:33.500 of Atlantic Menhaden.

00:20:36.000 I think that's how you pronounce

00:20:36.800 the species of fish,

00:20:39.320 which is a species of fish

00:20:40.200 native to the area.

00:20:41.100 That means sharks

00:20:41.680 have been approaching

00:20:42.340 Long Island beaches

00:20:43.160 and the process

00:20:43.740 have been coming dangerously close

00:20:44.980 to and in some cases

00:20:45.620 biting beachgoers.

00:20:47.880 And there have been,

00:20:50.540 according to the executive director

00:20:51.620 of the South Fork

00:20:52.340 Natural History Museum

00:20:53.260 Shark Research

00:20:54.040 and Education Program,

00:20:55.500 the reason why people

00:20:56.240 are interacting with sharks

00:20:57.640 more often this year

00:20:58.680 and more than last year

00:20:59.520 is because of the

00:21:00.040 conservation efforts.

00:21:02.960 And I think it said

00:21:03.840 there have been,

00:21:05.160 it said there have been

00:21:05.660 six beachgoers

00:21:06.660 who have been victims

00:21:07.600 of shark attacks

00:21:08.260 already so far this summer

00:21:09.680 in New York.

00:21:11.360 By the way,

00:21:11.920 I love that euphemism

00:21:13.020 for,

00:21:14.940 and I like that there are

00:21:15.760 people out there

00:21:16.440 doing some PR cover

00:21:18.100 for sharks

00:21:20.300 by saying it's an interaction.

00:21:22.300 I had an interesting

00:21:24.380 interaction with a shark today.

00:21:27.160 And you show your

00:21:28.240 bloody stump of a leg.

00:21:30.740 Now you might expect

00:21:31.880 that my take here

00:21:32.860 will be that

00:21:33.540 the fish conservation

00:21:34.460 was a bad idea

00:21:35.720 because now humans

00:21:37.440 are suffering from

00:21:38.240 shark attacks

00:21:38.820 because of it.

00:21:39.980 But I'm going to

00:21:41.920 surprise you and say

00:21:42.800 no, that's actually

00:21:43.440 not my opinion.

00:21:44.200 That's not my take

00:21:45.740 because the reason

00:21:46.840 is that it's hard

00:21:47.500 for me to sympathize

00:21:48.880 with shark attack

00:21:50.620 victims at all

00:21:51.360 because

00:21:52.880 the act

00:21:54.940 of getting into

00:21:55.600 the ocean

00:21:56.100 is such a strange

00:21:58.320 thing to me.

00:22:00.180 It's one of the

00:22:01.480 strangest

00:22:02.140 behaviors

00:22:02.940 that humans

00:22:03.940 engage in

00:22:04.700 is to get

00:22:06.020 into the ocean.

00:22:07.480 You've got this

00:22:08.380 massive

00:22:09.080 vat of water

00:22:11.120 hundreds of feet

00:22:12.600 deep

00:22:12.940 pummeling the

00:22:14.340 shore violently

00:22:15.280 with waves

00:22:16.440 this deep

00:22:17.720 dark

00:22:18.180 salty

00:22:18.700 pool

00:22:19.180 of death

00:22:19.880 filled with

00:22:21.080 man-eating

00:22:21.720 monsters

00:22:22.260 and other

00:22:22.680 beasts

00:22:23.420 unknown to us.

00:22:25.180 We don't even know

00:22:26.160 everything that's down there.

00:22:27.660 We just know that it's

00:22:28.860 hideous and monstrous

00:22:29.900 looking.

00:22:31.400 And you're

00:22:32.120 floating around

00:22:32.760 and you have

00:22:33.060 all of that

00:22:33.840 death

00:22:34.920 underneath you.

00:22:37.200 It's impossible

00:22:38.060 to know exactly

00:22:38.580 what's lurking

00:22:39.060 under the surface.

00:22:39.760 And our response

00:22:41.340 is to get

00:22:42.000 into it.

00:22:43.680 And then

00:22:43.920 the worst

00:22:44.400 are people

00:22:44.740 that if you

00:22:46.360 surf or something

00:22:47.220 then I can

00:22:47.740 it's not my

00:22:49.120 thing but okay

00:22:49.980 that's a

00:22:50.460 recreational activity

00:22:51.300 I can sort of

00:22:51.840 understand.

00:22:52.280 It does look

00:22:52.660 sort of fun

00:22:53.220 to do but

00:22:54.780 most people

00:22:55.840 who get into

00:22:56.580 the ocean

00:22:57.020 they don't even

00:22:57.480 do anything.

00:22:58.340 They just kind of

00:22:58.940 like stand

00:23:00.600 there and let

00:23:01.660 the salty water

00:23:02.540 pummel them in the

00:23:03.360 face for 45

00:23:04.200 minutes and then

00:23:04.660 they get out.

00:23:06.580 It's a very

00:23:07.180 odd behavior.

00:23:08.040 So you are

00:23:08.620 look when you

00:23:09.060 get into the ocean

00:23:09.700 you are getting

00:23:10.580 in this is where

00:23:11.180 the sharks live

00:23:11.720 this is their

00:23:12.100 home.

00:23:12.960 They can't live

00:23:13.440 anywhere else

00:23:13.980 in fairness to

00:23:14.520 them.

00:23:15.400 So you are

00:23:16.320 entering into

00:23:17.060 the home

00:23:17.360 you are knocking

00:23:17.960 on the door

00:23:18.580 of Mr.

00:23:19.280 Shark and saying

00:23:19.860 may I come in

00:23:20.520 and that's

00:23:21.180 when you look

00:23:22.220 at it like that

00:23:22.660 it just doesn't

00:23:23.080 make a lot of

00:23:23.460 sense.

The Matt Walsh Show - August 10, 2022

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