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Feb. 25, 2020 - The Matt Walsh Show
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Ep. 432 - Church of Cowards

I'll discuss my book "Church of Cowards," which was released today. Complacency and cowardice are destroying the church in the West, but what can we do about it? Also, the student debt crisis will be one of the central issues of the 2020 election. But one of the groups most responsible for driving the crisis has mostly escaped the public's wrath. And we'll go over 5 other news stories worth knowing about, plus today I have to cancel a surprising person. Check out The Cold War: What We Saw, a new podcast written and presented by Bill Whittle at https://www.dailywire.com/coldwar. In Part 1 we peel back the layers of mystery cloaking the Terror state run by the Kremlin, and watch as America takes its first small steps onto the stage of world leadership. If you like The Matt Walsh Show, become a member TODAY with promo code: WALSH and enjoy the exclusive benefits for 10% off at https://www.dailywire.com/Walsh Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Welcome to the show, friends, neighbors, comrades.
Today is my new book, Church of Cowards, which you can see displayed very tactfully and subtly beside me, is finally released.
And I want to talk about why I wrote it and what problem I hope it addresses.
Also, the issue of student loan debt is center stage in many ways this campaign sees.
I think it's been one of the central issues of the 2020 election.
And it's central to the rise of Bernie Sanders.
So I want to discuss that, and specifically one of the biggest villains in the story of student debt.
One group that is among the most responsible for driving the crisis, yet has escaped somehow, for the most part, the public's wrath.
So I want to draw attention to that group and talk about that.
Also we'll do a roundup of five other news headlines worth knowing about, and a surprising person today must be cancelled.
On the show, I have to cancel someone who I, it brings me no joy at all to cancel them, but I must do it, and we'll get to all of that coming up.
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Okay, my book Church of Cowards, released today, that is my second book.
And I can tell you that after two books, I very much relate to, I think it was a quote from Dorothy Parker originally, who said, I hate writing, but I love having written.
And that's very much my feeling on the day of a book release.
It's a feeling of, I'm so glad that's over.
To be perfectly honest with you, this book I found especially difficult to write in some ways, and the reason is that it's an emotionally draining topic, one that I think we all may prefer at times to turn away from and ignore, but we can't.
As Christians, we can't do that.
We have to face it, and that's why I wrote the book, and I hope you'll go to Amazon and buy it, or, you know, if you're old-fashioned, you can go to an actual bookstore and pick up a physical copy there and buy it that way as well.
Now, I call this book A Church of Cowards, A Wake-Up Call to Complacent Christians, because I believe that cowardice and complacency is the cancer, the poison that has seeped into the church in America.
Now, you compare our situation To that of Christians in so many other parts of the world, especially in the Middle East, parts of Africa, parts of Asia, particularly North Korea, places like that.
In those regions, Christians are directly, violently, bloodily persecuted, killed, martyred, thrown into concentration camps in a place like North Korea, and yet the faith itself For those who remain alive and free, the faith is vibrant and strong and surviving, persisting.
Christians in those countries really believe, it seems.
Here, though, we're under no real threat of violence, no threat of that kind of direct violent persecution.
You can go to church on Sunday with minimal concern, perhaps not no concern, But minimal, that your physical safety and the safety of your family will be in jeopardy.
And you can live your life as a Christian, go about your day, generally speaking, proclaim your faith.
You can shout it from the rooftop if you want.
And for the most part, the most you're going to face, at worst, is snide remarks, maybe, from strangers.
Insults.
Maybe some frowny face emojis will be tossed in your direction on Facebook.
And yet, In this country, people are leaving the faith in droves.
The situation is worse, really, than the statistics would show.
Because if you look at the statistics, you'll find that the percentage of Christians has dropped over the years.
But it will say, depending on where you look, it'll say that there are, what, 80% or something of the American population is still Christian.
Well, that's a smaller number than it was before, but even that number, I think we all know, is not accurate.
It's not really 80%.
Not really 80% of people who are truly believing Christians on fire with the faith, right?
But if you do look at the polls and the surveys, and I cite a number of them in the book, You see that increasing numbers of Christians are denying basic doctrinal tenets of Christianity.
We see that our children, the younger generation, they're not remaining in the faith.
They're leaving, oftentimes around college age.
Now, why should we, in our comfort and our luxury, be falling apart as a church, while the Christian communities that have every external reason to fall apart are not?
Well, I think it comes down to complacency.
We're sort of drifting along.
We don't have to think much about our faith, about religion, about our mortality.
We don't have to make sacrifices.
You know, Christ says, pick up your cross and follow me, but we feel like we don't have to.
Why should we?
Because life is comfortable.
Life is supposed to be comfortable, we believe.
And, you know, I'd rather just, I'd rather leave the cross outside, go inside and watch Netflix or something.
And so there's a spiritual atrophy that happens.
Now, many leaders of the church will not jolt people out of this stupor.
They're not going to call their flocks to deeper and more authentic faith.
They're not going to call their flocks to repentance because they don't want to scare people.
They don't want to upset anybody.
They don't want to run against the cultural grain.
They're cowards.
But their cowardice doesn't pay off on any level, really, because what they find is that their reluctance to challenge the people that are sitting in the pews only leads to those people being bored to death, and deciding that there's really no reason for them to go to church, or to remain active in the faith, or to pay attention to Christianity at all, if this is all it has to offer.
There's a reason why the conservative and orthodox churches tend to be younger, more vibrant, bigger, healthier, more energetic, because those churches give people a reason to come, right?
They give people an experience that is distinct from the culture, an experience that has a purpose, a direction.
But of course, if you take your church in that direction, There's going to be, there might be, initially, a purge that happens first.
There's going to be growing pains, where first the lukewarm Christians who are in the pews are scared away.
So you're going to lose those people.
Before you gain more, you're going to lose those people.
And that's okay, because it's better for lukewarm Christians to run away, to leave, to confront who they are and what they really believe for their own sake.
As I say, that we say is 80% of Christians in this country.
I don't know what the real number is.
It's not 80%.
What is it?
10%?
20%?
5%?
I'm not sure.
That's a thing nobody knows.
But it would be better to get down to that core so we know where we stand as a church.
And then we can build from there.
Now, I go into detail about these issues in the book.
I also offer what I think is a prescription, part of a solution.
And that takes me many pages to explain, so you'll have to read it.
But I will say that it begins with, I think, us as Christians calling each other and calling ourselves to a faith that is active, that is lived, that's authentic, that's distinct, that's noticeable to the outside world.
Because to believe, and I have a whole chapter on this in the book, to believe in Jesus, you know, part of the problem is we I think our concept of what that even means in the West is very superficial.
I think to believe in Jesus is not just an intellectual proposition.
It's not merely an assent to a fact.
It's not just saying, yes, Jesus is God.
I agree with that statement.
That's not faith.
That's agreement.
That's acknowledgement.
Is that all we're meant to do, is just acknowledge something and say, sure, yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, I believe that, yeah, okay, fine.
I think faith is lived.
Faith is something that we do.
It's an act.
It's like love.
You know, you love your spouse, and I think we would all agree, we say we love our spouses.
It's not merely something we feel, even less is it a fact that we acknowledge.
Yes, we acknowledge them.
We know they exist, but that's not what loving them means.
It's something that we do.
It's a sacrifice that we make.
It's a daily task.
And the doing, the acting, the living, it's not that you prove your love that way.
That's not what it is.
It's that you love that way.
That's how you do it.
That's what love is.
And I think love for God is the same.
Faith is the same.
It's not something that you can entirely do while lying on your couch covered in Cheetos dust at all hours of the day.
So, this is a call to an active, lived, public faith and that's really just the beginning of it.
I talk in the book also about the concept of repentance.
I talk about as Christians our interaction with the culture and the need to balance being in the culture with
protecting ourselves from its temptations.
I talk about the reality of evil.
I talk about virtue, false virtues that are often sold in the modern church
versus real virtues and many other things as well.
Church of Cowards, go buy it right now.
I demand.
Okay.
So, next, we're going to discuss student loans and, as I said, the villain in the story that often escapes our wrath.
But first, let's run through a little lightning round of other headlines worth knowing about to get you up to speed.
Number one, we got five stories here.
Number one, at a town hall yesterday, Bernie Sanders was asked about the fact that he's an old geezer.
A person in the audience wanted to know if he's going to pick a running mate because, you know, he's going to die soon.
It wasn't directly said, but that's, of course, the implications.
And Bernie had an interesting response.
This is what he said.
And yes, the answer is we will do that.
But it's a little bit presumptuous right now.
I will tell you one thing, though, you know, is that person will not be an old white guy.
That I can say definitively.
Okay, now here's a question nobody in the media will ever ask.
Hey Bernie, if you have a problem with old white guys, and you think old white guys shouldn't be in power, then why don't you, an old white guy, drop out and throw your support behind someone who is not an old white guy?
I mean, how do you, an old white guy, justify trying to prevent a woman, or a younger person, or a minority from becoming president?
Because that's what you're doing.
You right now, Bernie Sanders, you say, I'm not going to have an old white vice president.
Okay, but you are right now actively trying to prevent a woman from becoming president.
I mean, Elizabeth Warren's a woman and she even has all the same ideas you do.
You're trying to prevent her.
How do you explain that?
But of course that question will never be asked precisely because there's no good answer that Bernie could provide and so the media is not going to Ask him.
Number two, a website called therecount.com has put together an interesting compilation which seems to give more ammunition to those who claim that Pete Buttigieg is trying to be the white Obama.
Look at this the way we do every other election by giving it to the person who got the most votes
Brings us together now this country was built Movement reaching in church basements and barbers and in
our schools universities and with our kids And this is our chance to answer that call now when pete
releases His birth certificate to prove that he wasn't born in kenya
then we're really going to know that this is a copycat situation.
Number three, Harvey Weinstein has been found guilty on two counts, rape and a criminal sex act, so he faces five to 29 years in prison.
Now, I've seen some media people congratulating themselves for all the good work the media did in exposing Harvey Weinstein.
This is the level of self-awareness that the media has.
They were the ones who refused to report on Weinstein's predatory behavior for decades.
Literally decades.
Remember, it was an open secret.
Everybody knew.
So he's going to jail now, but he should have went to jail years and years ago.
And if he had, there are many women who were victimized who would not have been.
Hollywood protected him, the media protected him.
Let's not forget that.
Number four, Pixar has a new movie coming out.
This one is called Onward.
Comes out I think this weekend, maybe next weekend.
It's about, from what I can tell from the previews, it's about two trolls who have to bring their dad's legs to a magical wizard or something so that they can retrieve his torso and the rest of him.
That is actually the plot of the movie, or something like that.
It's unique, at least.
I'll give them that.
But Pixar is... Here's the not-so-unique part.
They're really going for the woke points on this one, because this film will feature Pixar's first-ever lesbian.
There's gonna be a lesbian character, and we're told that her lesbianism will be made explicitly clear.
Hopefully not too explicit.
This is a kid's movie, after all.
But you never know these days.
I will never understand this idea, this claim, that there aren't enough gay characters in movies and on TV, so we have to keep adding them in.
And every time we do, there's cause for celebration.
You know, it seems to me, based on my own anecdotal experience, from what I've seen, there's a gay character on almost every TV show now.
And every year, there are movies about gay love affairs that are getting awards and so on and so on.
So, how much of this do we need before we can say that gay people are represented?
Is it enough yet?
Can we officially say they've been represented or do we need?
What exactly is the quota we're shooting for?
That's my only question.
Finally, five, scientists have discovered the first known animal that doesn't breathe, which I find very interesting.
It has no respiratory genes at all.
Which sets it apart from every other multicellular organism that we're aware of.
This creature is, according to LiveScience.com, a gelatinous parasitic blob.
So, anyway, I'm surprised to find out that Michael Moore doesn't have lungs.
That was a cheap shot.
But honestly, his name was the first one that popped into my head when I read gelatinous parasitic blob.
It's not my fault.
No offense intended.
No offense!
No offense, but that's just the first thing that popped into my head.
All right.
Now, I want to talk about, as I said, this student loan issue.
There are many villains in the story of the student debt bubble.
The universities that charge exorbitant tuition rates simply because they can, bilking working families out of thousands of dollars for an education that isn't worth even a fraction of that cost, they should be first in line to absorb the blame.
And it seems like, somehow, they're not.
At least when you listen to somebody like Bernie Sanders talk about it, he's not pointing so much to the universities themselves, Because, you know, on the far left, you don't want to upset academia.
Because we want to trust academia.
So, but I think they're first in line.
I'd blame them first.
But it's a long line indeed.
The government has earned a hefty portion of our collective scoring for issuing these predatory loans to kids fresh out of high school with no assets, no income.
And then blame goes to the public schools who are funneling kids into the university system indiscriminately, regardless of an individual kid's aptitudes and skill set, just pushing them all into
colleges.
Parents as well are adding to the pressure, which I'm convinced for many parents,
pressuring their kids in a four-year institution, it has as much to do with
with the parents' own vanity as it does their concern for their child.
I'm not saying they're not concerned for their child, but I think part of it at least
is that the parent wants to be able to say, my kid is going to such and such school.
Parent doesn't want to say, my kid's not in college.
But there's another group.
So we can thank all of those people for the $1.5 trillion in student debt.
There's another group, though, that seems to have largely somehow escaped the public's wrath, despite their unique role in driving this problem, and that would be employers.
We take it for granted that our kids need, quote-unquote, to obtain a college degree because so many jobs require them, but the need is artificial.
In the vast majority of cases, thousands of employers across the country have chosen to artificially inflate their job requirements, often demanding that applicants have degrees for positions that absolutely do not really necessitate them, And they've chosen to do this, and it's only getting worse.
Positions that didn't require any degree 20 years ago now require a bachelor's degree, and positions that required a bachelor's degree 20 years ago now require a master's.
And before you know it, you're going to need to have a PhD to be a sales associate at J.C.
Penney.
This, again, is artificial.
People without degrees could perform the tasks necessary for most of these positions, but employers disqualify them from consideration right out of the gate, and for no good reason.
Now, obviously, and every time I talk about this, I hear from people saying, what about doctors and lawyers?
Yes, obviously, some jobs do require additional formal schooling, but not every job does, and not even most jobs.
Nobody is suggesting that a guy with a high school diploma should be hired right off the street by Johns Hopkins to perform brain surgery.
No one is suggesting that.
But most jobs outside of science and medicine have to be learned by doing.
You know, the vast majority of people who right now have a job, any job, outside of science and medicine, Almost everything they're doing right now, I mean, including you, if you're listening to this and you have a job that is not in the science and medicine field, most likely, if you think about it, everything you do in your job, you learned how to do in the job itself.
Or these were skills that you brought in on your own that had nothing to do with schooling whatsoever.
That's how most jobs are learned.
They're learned by doing.
Now it's not as though, one excuse you hear is, well companies are saving money on having to train new hires by requiring the college degree and so this is about saving money.
That's not the case.
The companies still have to train the college graduates.
You know, these employers are discovering to their shock somehow that, you know, when someone comes in at the age of 23 and they've been in a classroom their whole life and haven't done anything, you still have to train them just as much as you would have to train someone without a college degree.
So what's the point of the degree?
It serves no purpose, no function.
Now, it might be argued that employers look for the degree because even if the degree is in dance theory or comparative religion, it at least proves that the applicant is competent and hardworking and so on.
Well, I would like to see some research supporting that assumption, because I don't believe it.
I see no reason to conclude that college grads are any smarter, any more competent, any harder working than non-college grads.
I understand that that's maybe the assumption that employers are making.
I'm saying it's a bad assumption.
I'm saying it's an assumption based on nothing.
In fact, I would wager that the scales probably tip the other way.
Because a 23-year-old who's been working and supporting himself since the age of 18 has already demonstrated, at a minimum, that he has the basic life skills necessary to be a functioning adult in society.
There are many college grads who don't even have that!
Because if you graduate college with a bachelor's degree, congratulations, not taking anything away from you.
But it doesn't prove that you know how to do anything.
It doesn't prove you have any skills at all.
It doesn't prove that you're a functioning adult.
It doesn't really prove anything.
What it proves in and of itself, in and of itself, if you tell me The only information I have about someone is they have a college degree.
You tell me that, you know, Bob Smith has a college degree.
What does that tell you about Bob Smith?
The only thing it tells you is that he either had the money to get a college education or he was willing to take on the debt.
That's the only thing it tells you.
Now, it might be that Bob Smith is a brilliant guy, a hard worker, so on and so forth.
What I'm saying, though, is that the fact of the degree doesn't tell you that.
You gotta look deeper into who Bob Smith is.
But if we're looking deeper into who people are, then why can't you do that with non-college grads?
Well, we all know the truth.
I think.
Employers demand the high-priced degrees for entry-level positions.
Entry-level positions that, in many cases, a moderately intelligent monkey could learn in less than a week.
The reason why they require it is that it's just out of laziness.
The degree requirement is a way to call the herd of applicants to whittle things down a little bit, making it easier to sift through.
It's just, you know, it's all, it's just, it's just sort of, you got a stack of 100 applications or resumes, and you just, you toss 50 of them out.
Just because it's hard to go through 100, you'd rather go through 50.
And, and that's basically the reason.
That's why these, these employers do it.
If qualified applicants are tossed to the side, that's a sacrifice the employer is willing to make for the sake of streamlining the process.
But if it wasn't for the demands of these lazy, the arbitrary demands of these lazy HR departments who don't feel like doing their jobs, don't feel like actually evaluating applicants based on the individual merits of the people who are coming in for the job, If it wasn't for that, kids out of high school may not feel the need to take on crushing debt just to obtain a piece of paper that may only ever function as a symbolic calling card that prevents their resume from automatically being thrown in the trash.
It's crazy.
It's crazy that we tolerate this as a society, that we just take it for granted, that this is the way it is.
Perhaps the companies that unjustly discriminate against competent workers who lack a piece of paper should finally start absorbing some of the scorn and the blame that we direct at everybody except them.
Now, yes, they have every right to come up with whatever unnecessary and expensive job requirements they want, but they deserve to be named and shamed for it.
They should have to explain.
You know, these companies that are requiring degrees for jobs that will 100% be learned on the job regardless, they should have to explain why they're doing that.
They should have to give us a good reason.
I don't think they can.
They can't.
It's pure laziness.
And as I said, we accept it because that's just the way it is.
We say that's the way it's always been.
It's not the way it's always been.
This is a very new thing that we've decided.
It's very new, very recent.
In modern history, we've decided that if you want to get a basic job that anyone could do, you first need four years at a university and you need to spend $90,000 on a degree.
It's not always been this way.
There's no reason why it needs to be this way.
We've just decided that it will be.
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And today I'm afraid that I have to cancel someone and I have to cancel myself.
I am canceled and I wish I didn't have to be canceled, especially on the day that my book comes out.
It's not a very advantageous time, but I have no choice.
There's, of course, a list of reasons five light years long for why I should be cancelled, and I have been cancelled time and time again.
The reason this time, though, is that this weekend, for the second time in as many weeks, I managed to dump a whole cup of coffee in a Starbucks.
A whole venti cup of coffee, dumped on the ground, splattered everywhere.
Everywhere.
If you've ever spilled something in public, you know that somehow it manages, it defies the laws of physics.
And you dump it, and a hundred feet away, there's splatters still.
That's what I did.
This is going to sound like an exaggeration, but it's really not.
I have now spilled an entire cup of coffee in a Starbucks five times in the last year.
Five times.
This is my fifth time doing it.
All in different locations.
I'm like a terrorist on a spilling spree all across the eastern seaboard.
Now, I'm not doing it on purpose.
I am just a very clumsy and awkward person, and I have long limbs that I can't control, so when I walk I'm just flailing all over the place, knocking things over everywhere I go.
I'm like a drunken Gumby, basically, barreling around.
Although I have to say that Starbucks, in fairness to me, Starbucks should be partially cancelled as well.
This is partially their fault, because part of the problem Yes, I'm a bumbling oaf, that's true.
But their tables are so small.
So I'm sitting at their thumbtack-sized table, and I've got my laptop, and I got the cup of coffee.
I move my laptop slightly, cup knocks over.
This has happened five times already the last year.
And then there's the awkward thing of, I have to go to the counter and tell them that I spilled something.
And then I always offer to clean it, but it's more symbolic because I know that they can't accept my offer, so they have to send the girl out with the mop.
And then there's the even more awkward thing where I have to ask for another coffee because I still need my coffee.
Let's be real here.
And then as the girl is mopping it up, I just slink out the other door and disappear into the fog, never to be seen again.
Though, nothing could be worse.
I mean, that was bad enough.
Nothing could be worse than the time, and this happened in the past year also, the time when I dropped a bottle of red wine in the grocery store.
As I was going up to pay for it, I dropped it.
Red wine.
Everywhere.
I mean, everywhere.
And the guy came up, the employee came up, and he saw it, and these were his exact words.
He said, oh my God.
Just like that.
You never want that reaction when you're out in public, from anybody, for any reason.
And I, you know, I tried to, I admit, I tried to pass the buck a little bit.
I said, yeah, you know, I don't know what, I don't know what happened.
I think the glass in your wine bottles is kind of weak.
You guys have a weak glass problem.
You should probably look into that.
I don't know what, you know, someone could get hurt.
I don't know.
Well, I don't know how this happened.
It wasn't, it's not me.
I mean, it just happened.
And then again, I left and I never, I never returned to the places where I spill things.
At this point, my options of places where I can go has been severely limited.
So that's why I unfortunately have to be canceled.
I don't exempt myself from the cancelling.
I never would do that.
But I forge on ahead anyway, in spite of being cancelled.
All right, let's go to emails.
We'll read a few emails now.
This is Matt Walshow at gmail.com.
mattwalshow at gmail.com is the email address.
This is from Michael.
Says, Hey Matt, as a former infantry marine with two deployments to the Middle East, I appreciate your commenting on that story that the Commandant of the Corps says that he has new priorities.
It's beyond dumb and is going to make the Corps more combat ineffective.
Anyway, thanks for throwing that in there.
Notice you haven't been answering questions on the show recently, but I'll ask a question anyway.
When you rise to your rightful place as the supreme tyrannical dictator, will you allow the Marines and other services to grow beards while serving?
Thanks, man.
Love the show.
Well, Michael, not only will I allow the Marines to grow beards, but I will require it.
I think this should be a requirement.
I believe that the prohibition of beards in the military is one of the great moral outrages that we currently face as a society.
I also think it puts lives at risk because everybody knows that men become stronger and more resilient as they grow their facial hair.
And so I think, look, you go back to the Civil War.
And there were glorious facial hair styles on display.
In fact, back in those days, it was understood that one of the primary roles of the military was to promote facial hair and model new facial hair styles.
And I would like to get back to that point.
So, yes, absolutely.
This is from Matt.
Says, Matt, as a fellow Matt, I have to say that you missed the mark on today's show when you stated that ten years from now nearly all leftists will be arguing in favor of pedophilia.
Although the leftists are absurdly arguing that children can choose their own gender, I highly doubt that even a significant portion of leftists will actually advocate pedophilia.
Yes, you could argue that if a five-year-old child has the mental and emotional capacity To choose his or her gender, then the natural extension of this is that they must have enough maturity to consent to sexual activity.
However, I just don't buy it.
There is no way that our society will allow things to progress that far.
Although, as I type this, I realize that in 2010, I would have stated that ten years from then, there is no way our society would be advocating that five-year-old boys could decide that they're actually five-year-old girls.
Who knows, maybe they are that crazy.
Well, Matt, you said it yourself.
Ten years ago, you could not have possibly imagined or predicted that ten years in the future, in 2020, all leftists in the country, all of them, including, you know, in the mainstream, Democrats, presidential candidates, would be saying that three-year-old boys can choose to become girls.
You would not have predicted that, and if somebody had predicted that to you ten years ago, you would have thought they were crazy.
And so, that should be enough reason to give you pause.
When I talk about this, you know, you would have reacted 10 years ago to that the way you're reacting now when I talk about how 10 years in the future the left's going to be advocating for pedophilia.
There's a logical progression here.
I'm not issuing some kind of prophecy based on a vision of the future I had in a dream.
That's not what's happening here.
I'm saying there's a logical conclusion.
If children have the emotional and psychological capacity to decide to change their gender, if they have this capacity even as toddlers, and if their decisions should be respected so much and trusted so much that we even give them drugs to chemically castrate them to aid them in their transformation into girls, then it's not a far leap to say that they have the mental and emotional capacity to consent to sex.
If they can consent to a sex change, Then why not a sex act?
So yes, ten years from now, we will be told that we need to respect the lifestyle choices of adults who have sex with children.
That's what we're going to be told.
We're going to be told that children are perfectly able to consent, and that if they want to be in these relationships, we should respect it, and it's bigotry for us to do otherwise.
That's where we're headed.
Unless we, as a culture, revolt against this nonsense and put a stop to it.
But if we let it continue on the path it's going, that's where it goes.
Finally, this is from Connor says, Matt, I read your article about blaming employers for the debt
problem.
You sound like a socialist yourself.
First of all, employers have the right to make these decisions.
What happened to the right of business owners?
Second, it is perfectly valid for them to focus on college graduates.
They will know that college graduates at least have basic literacy and
are capable of completing tasks.
Your rant was silly.
Thank you.
Well, Connor, I never said that employers don't have the right.
Okay, so I'm talking about what is the right thing to do.
I'm not talking about what we have the right to do.
This is a two different concepts, so that's completely irrelevant.
Second, I need a citation needed.
Okay, you say that college graduates are going to be better able to complete tasks and they have basic literacy.
Well, as far as basic literacy, you can easily tell that.
You don't need a college degree to tell if someone's basically literate.
Just by interviewing them and by looking at their resume, that should be enough to tell you.
And if you need, how about adding an additional step, an additional test?
You could even just have a brief questionnaire with essay-style answers.
Talking about why, you know, asking applicants to explain why they want the job or why they'd be best suited for the job.
And just based on that, you can tell that they're literate or not, and you can tell a lot about their intelligence.
As far as being able to complete tasks, well, call me crazy, but if somebody has work experience, if they've been at a job, especially a related job for a number of years, that tells me they can complete tasks.
They can do things.
It tells me more than a degree does.
You know, you've got two candidates.
One has been in college the last four years.
The other has been working in the working world.
You're telling me that the former, the college grad, has better proven his ability to work, to do things?
To complete things?
How so?
I mean, even if the other guy's been at McDonald's for the last four years, well, that tells me that he's reliable, he gets up when he comes to work, he's trainable, he's teachable.
There's a number of things you can tell right away.
And you can also call up his boss and ask him.
So the point is, for most of these jobs, there's just no good reason to rule out non-college grads.
Plenty of them could be better suited, could be better workers than college graduates.
The only reason they're ruled out for the job is, as I said, laziness.
I don't think that's right.
I don't think that's enough of a reason.
I don't think the need that employers have to streamline a process and not put any effort into it, I don't think that's a good enough reason to justify $1.5 trillion in student debt.
That's my point.
And we will leave it there.
Again, my book, Church of Cowards, is out now.
Please go buy it, and I will talk to you tomorrow.
Godspeed.
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