Ep. 858 - The Bubba Wallace Noose Hoax Is Resurrected
Today on the Matt Walsh Show, if you were expecting the media to back away from race hoaxes in shame after the Jussie Smollett verdict, think again. Yesterday ESPN tried to resurrect the Bubba Wallace noose fable. Also, is Amazon to blame for the workers who died when a tornado hit their factory on Saturday? And you’ve heard about the male swimmer crushing the female competition. Today we’ll actually watch one of these races to see for ourselves what a farce it all is. Plus, the head of the NIH breaks into song during a press conference. And in the Daily Cancellation we’ll deal with the controversy surrounding comments that Ben Shapiro’s sister made about Madonna. Am I actually going to cancel a member of the Shapiro family today?
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, if you were expecting the media to back away from race hoaxes and shame after the Jussie Smollett verdict, think again.
Yesterday, ESPN tried to resurrect the Bubba Wallace noose fable.
Also, is Amazon to blame for the workers who died when a tornado hit their factory on Saturday?
And you've heard about the male swimmer crushing the female competition at the college level.
Today, we'll actually watch one of those races to see for ourselves what a farce it all is.
Plus, the head of the NIH breaks into song during a press conference and in The Daily Cancellation, we'll deal with the controversy surrounding comments that Ben Shapiro's sister made about Madonna.
Am I going to cancel a member of the Shapiro family today?
We'll talk about that and much more on the Matt Wall Show.
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So people often ask me, you know, why I am so stubborn and hard-headed and closed-minded, refusing to admit when I'm wrong, refusing to apologize, doubling down when people are upset at me, and then tripling down when they're mad that I doubled down.
The answer is that I'm just kind of a jerk, frankly.
I mean, that's the answer.
But also because, although maybe not everyone can or should operate this way, we all have different personalities, some of us need to.
Because this is the kind of thing we're up against.
We cannot all be equivocators and compromisers while we face an ideological opponent who stands firm in his position no matter what, regardless of the facts, regardless of anything.
Some of us have to be a bit obstinate, headstrong, or else we'll all be blown around by the breeze like little leaves and twigs.
A perfect example of the left's stubbornness, which calls for a proportional response, I think, is this.
It's been less than a week since the Jussie Smollett verdict, when the left and the media were, all you would think, humiliated after the hoax they promoted was revealed as a hoax.
You might assume that they would want to crawl into a hole for a while, lick their wounds, hide their faces, and certainly steer plenty clear of anything else that looks like it might be a race hoax.
But that's just not how they roll.
And so yesterday, ESPN, with timing that is not a coincidence, decided to air a special on the Bubba Wallace story.
Now, you remember that Bubba Wallace was the black NASCAR driver who claimed that somebody hung a noose in his garage last year.
NASCAR rallied around him, the media ate the story up, and it all culminated in the dramatic display of all of the drivers at Talladega marching around the track with Bubba Wallace in a show of solidarity.
And they all gave him hugs and they were all crying.
Of course, there's one really important detail about that noose, quote-unquote, which is that it was not a noose.
It was a rope that you use to close the garage door.
A garage door pull, as, you know, we call it.
Anyone who's ever been in a garage might be familiar with these contraptions.
They're just like ropes, right?
That's why they're hanging.
That's why it's, interestingly enough, hanging from the garage door.
You might wonder, oh, why is that rope on the garage door?
Oh, well, because when you pull it, the door goes down.
Wow.
NASCAR drivers who spend many hours in garages are certainly familiar with these things.
They see them all the time.
But even if Bubba Wallace and everybody else at the Speedway that day had suffered amnesia and forgotten about the existence of garage door pulls, they still could have easily figured out whether the rope was meant to be some kind of racist message to Bubba Wallace.
There are security cameras all over the place, as some of us pointed out when this story was first reported.
Well, there are security cameras.
So couldn't you just quite easy to find out what's going on.
Simply go back and check the footage and see how long the rope has been there.
If it's been there for longer than a day or two, that means that it could not have been targeted at Bubba Wallace.
Because nobody would have known prior to that point that Wallace would be assigned to that garage.
So that's all you got to do.
Security cameras, just look at them.
Look at the footage.
It'd take like 10 minutes.
Now, as it happens, the FBI showed up with 15 agents to investigate the rope, and they did exactly that.
They checked the tape.
And when they did, they discovered that it had been there since the previous year.
For months, it had been hanging there, and nobody thought anything of it.
Did we need 15 FBI agents to look at the footage and discover this?
Is there a reason why NASCAR couldn't have done this themselves immediately before running out to the public and telling everyone that there's a suspected potential noose-like structure in Bubba's garage?
The answer to both is no.
Well, the real answer is no, they didn't need the FBI agents, they could have checked themselves, but they preferred the narrative of the racist noose, and so they ran with it until they could run no longer.
Or you thought they could run no longer.
But here they were last night on ESPN, trotting this thing out again a year later.
Let's watch some of this clip here.
I just wanted to stand with him during the National Anthem to show my support for him and was appalled by what I had learned.
And then as drivers got involved, I think crew members, team managers, team owners,
it really started to snowball within a very short period of time.
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The most incredible non-competitive moment in sports I'd ever seen.
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That moment, I could feel the weight of that moment.
And I think we all did as we were walking.
Yes, it may have been one of the most incredible moments in sports, never in history, never in the history of sports has there been such pageantry and emotion surrounding a garage door.
This was quite easily, I think we could say this, right?
Quite easily the most dramatic garage door related sports moment in world history.
But I'm not sure if that's anything to brag about necessarily.
And just because I'm a glutton for punishment, let's keep watching a little bit of this clip here.
I get out of the car, I look back, and I was like, holy s***, it's the whole garage.
The whole garage.
And that's when I lost him.
In the midst of all the turmoil that was going on in the world, with the black and white, the hatred and everything that was going on, The entire NASCAR family rallied behind my son.
Very inspiring.
Now, just to remind you, again, it was not a noose.
So it was 100% not any kind of racist attack at all.
It was just a rope with a loop on it so you could grab hold of it to pull the door closed.
And by the way, that's also how we know it's not a noose.
Because a noose... And I know, like, people on the left, they don't spend a lot of time outdoors.
They probably don't do a lot of fishing or, you know, that kind of thing.
So, they're not familiar with tying knots.
But I can tell you that not every knot is a noose.
In fact, most of them aren't.
Only one knot is a noose, and it's a noose.
And all the others are different kinds of knots.
But they might look kind of similar.
Because I know, again, If you don't spend a lot of time outside, and all you do is watch corporate media, you see a rope, and maybe you just start breaking down in tears, because you think, well, why else would that rope be there, except to hang somebody?
But a noose has a particular application, and so, by definition, a noose, when you pull on the loop, it constricts.
Because that's what it's made to do, that's what makes it a noose.
So, if you pull on the loop, and it does not constrict, then it's not a noose.
And so, since this thing was hanging there as a garage door for— since the previous October, we could probably assume that it was not constricting when you pulled on it, because that means it would, like, every time you try to shut the garage door, it would break your hand.
And so, I'm gonna assume that it had not been there for months, where every time you shut the garage door, just— everyone's getting their hand broken, and no one thinks to change the knot.
So, I'm assuming that's not the case, which means that it was just a— it was a knot that did not constrict.
It's not a noose.
So this, in other words, this was not a makeshift gallows that had been set up to perform executions before, you know, before the race.
We know all of this now.
I mean, any intelligent person knew it the moment they heard about the story, even before the FBI brain trust confirmed it.
But now even the dumbest among us knows it.
And still ESPN aired the special.
They reported themselves last year that the FBI confirmed it was not a hate crime.
And yet here they are.
You thought the media would be embarrassed by Jussie Smollett.
Instead, they're saying, oh yeah?
You think we're embarrassed by that?
Well, take this.
Here's an emotional documentary about a black guy who was afraid of his garage door.
So this is the double down.
It's also, as I've been explaining for the last few weeks, the reality curation.
They are shaping the way people view reality.
The actual details don't matter.
In fact, the whole idea that nooses are racist symbols is itself a part of that reality curation.
Nooses, actual nooses, like real nooses, have been used for thousands of years for different applications, but yes, often to perform executions.
Many thousands of people or millions of all different races have died that way through the course of human history.
Many of them have been convicted criminals.
In some cases, they are unjustly lynched by violent mobs.
But whoever decided that the noose, this universal object, is a symbol of special significance to black people?
When did that start?
Well, the media decided that.
They decided it some time ago, and they've now turned it into a reality through one hoax after another.
They've been so successful in constructing this reality that even people on the right who are skeptical of the individual noose hoaxes still don't stop to question why we're pretending that the noose is a racist symbol in the first place.
That's the power of the false reality that the left has constructed, and which permeates and intrudes into the lives of people who would otherwise know better.
So it's a very unique situation in modern times.
There've always been liars and propagandists in the world, but never with such immediate and all-encompassing access to so many people.
And so with this ability to fundamentally reshape how we look at the world, which is all the more reason to remain vigilant and skeptical, and if we stand in the truth, to stand there stubbornly, at least as stubborn as the liars are with their lies.
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A couple quick notes here about my best-selling children's book, Johnny the Walrus.
Really important.
First of all, and I think this is brilliant, I think this is great, but I've had some people reach out to me saying that they want to donate the books to their local schools.
Especially their local elementary schools.
I started with one parent group in Southern California, and what they want to do is get a bunch of the books and then buy a bunch of boxes and donate them very generously.
And I think that those elementary schools down there in Southern California will be very, very grateful for these books.
And if you, I think it's a great idea.
I plan on doing that myself.
I'm going to make some, um, this is good news for the schools around here in Nashville, but I plan on making some very generous donations myself of this book, um, to the schools around here.
So if you want to do that, if you want to buy the books in bulk, you can go to bulkbooks.com and then search for Johnny the walrus, and then you get the discount buying in bulk.
But I'll tell you one place that you cannot go to get Johnny the Walrus, unfortunately.
I mean, you can go to Amazon and you can still find it there.
You won't find it listed as an LGBT book because of homophobia and gay erasure and it was taken off, but it's still there.
You can go to johnnythewalrus.com.
But you cannot go to Target because the book has been taken off of Target.
And they took it off at some point last week, like late last week.
They got rid of Johnny the Walrus.
And we've been asking, I think it's a fair question.
Yeah, I mean, they can decide what books they're gonna sell, but I think we have a right to know why they took the book down.
This was a decision made by someone.
What was your reason?
And so we have been contacting Target, reaching out to them, just saying, why would you take down this book written by a best-selling LGBT author, this delightful book about a young boy pretending to be a walrus?
Are you saying that this is prohibited now?
That you're not going to sell books about children pretending to be different things?
Books of fantasy and imagination?
That's no longer allowed at Target?
Is that what you're saying?
Really fair question.
We've been asking them.
Can't get an answer.
If you want to ask Target, then I would very much encourage you to do that.
One thing you can do is contact them on Twitter.
It's at AskTarget.
And that seems to be their account that usually will respond to consumer questions and complaints.
But they haven't responded to me yet.
So I don't know if it's from Target.
This could once again be homophobia rearing its ugly head, where they're saying, oh, I don't want to talk to the number one best-selling, most revered LGBT author in the country.
So this might be something targeted at me.
You might have more luck.
I don't know.
But if you want to do me a favor, do us all a favor really, and find out why Target took Johnny the walrus down.
Hashtag free Johnny, hashtag end walrus phobia.
All right.
So let's start here.
Jen Pasaki was asked about the sky high inflation.
She's another one who's not very forthcoming with answers.
She doesn't like answering a lot of questions, just like Target apparently doesn't.
But she did have an answer, finally, on this.
Who is to blame for the fact that it costs so much money when you go to the grocery store?
If you want to buy some ground beef or something, it costs a lot of money.
And she says, well, it's not our fault.
This is all the fault of big meat.
Big meat is to blame.
Let's listen.
There are several progressive groups and lawmakers who are increasingly vocalizing the idea that inflation, high inflation, is being driven by corporate greed, including companies with high profits, some of whom have met at the White House with the President in recent months.
Does the President endorse that idea?
Does he think that corporate greed is the big driver of inflation right now?
Well, I think the President thinks the way people across the country, American families, digest inflation is by price increases.
And if you look at industry to industry, it's a little different.
So, for example, the President, the Secretary of Agriculture, have both spoken to what we've seen as the greed of meat conglomerates.
That is an area where people go to the grocery store and they're trying to buy a pound of meat, two pounds of meat, ten pounds of meat.
The prices are higher.
That is in his view and the view of our Secretary of Agriculture because of, you could call it corporate greed, sure.
You could call it jacking up prices during a pandemic.
There are other areas where we've seen increases because of supply chain issues, and we're seeing those increases around the world as it relates to gas prices, oil supply, and things along those lines.
So I would say there are some areas where we have seen corporations benefit, profit from the pandemic, and certainly the president would agree with that component.
I don't know the full context of all of their remarks.
It's various things.
It's the greed of meat conglomerates.
It's supply chain issues.
It's the inflation fairy, and she's invisible, and she goes to the grocery store, and she sprinkles inflation dust over all the food.
That happens too.
The point is, it's everybody's fault but ours.
If this is the greed of big meat, of the giant, shadowy meat conglomerates, then why did they just start getting greedy Once President Biden took office.
What's up with that?
Especially when President Biden, Democrat Party, they're supposed to be the corporate slayers, right?
They're going after and they're taking down the big corporations.
So that's kind of odd.
That in tandem with Biden taking office, that's when coincidentally, all of a sudden, the big meat conglomerates, they've decided to get greedy.
So what has happened in the last year to make big meat so greedy?
Big meat was not as greedy before and now they are.
Biden takes office and they get greedy.
Why is that?
Of course, the excuse doesn't make any sense at all, because that's exactly what it is.
It's an excuse.
Here's another thing that doesn't make any sense, but I have to show you this.
I don't have to, but I'm going to.
And we're going to try to get through this together as much as we can.
The director of the NIH, Francis Collins, is stepping down.
And he gave his last address, I guess, to the public.
This is supposed to be sort of a press conference and address to the public talking about the pandemic, talking about COVID.
And his last act was this.
Listen.
Somewhere past the pandemic When we're free, there's a life I remember full of activity.
Somewhere past the pandemic, masks will come off.
No more need for a nose swab every time we cough.
Okay.
We're gonna pause it.
Just don't pause it because we might go back to it.
If you feel like, if you guys feel like you need to hear more of that.
I don't know.
I was kind of getting into it.
Let's just play a little bit more.
I want to hear a little bit more of this song.
Play, just play a little bit more.
As we are gathered here today, COVID's toll has hit and sent us reeling.
But partners like the ones right here will help to make the pathway clear to find it true.
Okay, now we're going to rewind it and watch the whole thing again, but this time I want you to focus on the sign language interpreter because that's a whole other, no I'm kidding, we're not actually going to play it, but that's a whole different experience when you're watching the sign language interpreter Who you can tell is painfully embarrassed, but she has to just roll with it.
That's not... I swear to you, when I first saw this online, I thought, is this like a deepfake thing?
This has got to be a joke.
This cannot be real.
I know we've seen this all over TikTok.
People love singing about COVID for some reason, but there's no way that Francis Collins, the director of the NHS... But no, this is real.
He actually did that.
That is a thing that happened.
And this shows you a lot of things.
One is, even before he broke out into song, this was the case, that we see how when people get into a bureaucracy, they become bureaucrats.
It has this effect of lessening them, you know?
And that's really a shame with Francis Collins because he, in fact, is a brilliant scientist.
He was one of the guys who sequenced the human genome.
I mean, he's a great, brilliant scientist.
But now this is what he has become as a bureaucrat.
My God.
And we can laugh in a cringy, awkward way at that, because what else are you going to do?
But there is also something kind of sinister about it.
Because it's this fanciful song about somewhere past the pandemic, everything will be good again.
You could take the masks off.
But just like we talk about somewhere over the rainbow, even in Wizard of Oz, the place over the rainbow doesn't really exist.
It's all a dream in the end.
It's a bait-and-switch.
Which always bothered me, even when I was a kid, I first saw that movie.
So, it's not real, is the point.
The place over the rainbow is, everything is great, but it's in your imagination, it's in your dreams.
It's not a real place.
And that's basically what we're being told there.
And this thing goes from awkward to creepy when you think of it that way.
That what we're being told by the NIH is that the place past the pandemic, it's like the place over the rainbow in that it doesn't exist.
Because we're never going to be past this.
This is how it's going to be forever.
You're never taking the mask off.
If you live in a place where you still have to wear it, you're never taking it off.
If you're in California, where I just was for a few days suffering through, you're never taking the mask off.
That's the real message.
Past the pandemic is a fantasy.
But keep dreaming about it.
Keep thinking about it.
And keep cooperating and obeying.
And maybe one day, this far-off fantasy will come to fruition.
That's the real message of the song.
Alright, let's...
Let's go here.
Amazon.
I wanted to talk about this briefly.
Amazon is coming under fire after a number of employees were killed during the deadly tornadoes on Saturday.
And this was at a warehouse in Illinois.
I think it was six people were killed, I believe.
And then there was a different, not an Amazon factory, but a different factory in Kentucky where dozens and dozens of people were killed.
And especially Amazon is getting criticism.
For whatever reason, I haven't heard as much criticism directed at whatever company runs the factory where those people were killed.
But a lot of the criticism seems to center around the fact that Amazon wouldn't let employees leave during the storm.
You've probably seen that headline all over the place.
They weren't allowed to leave.
They had to stay.
Also, I've seen people going after Amazon for forcing employees to come to work, even though there were tornadoes in the forecast, as I saw somebody phrase it on Twitter.
So I want to touch on these two things quickly.
I'm not one to defend Amazon.
And I don't I don't really care if people are attacking Amazon.
It doesn't doesn't personally offend me in any way.
But I also I hate nonsense.
And there's a whole lot of nonsense related to this situation.
And so I want to explain that.
First of all, was Amazon right in not allowing their employees to leave once the tornado hit, once there was a tornado warning?
Was that the right thing to do, to force employees to stay there?
Yes, absolutely.
And it's obviously a great tragedy that people ended up dying, but it was the right thing to do to make them stay.
Because anyone who's lived in the Midwest, anyone who's lived in a tornado-prone area knows this.
This is standard procedure.
When you get a tornado warning, and in fact now you get them on your phone, you get the alert, and what does the phone tell you?
What does the weather report tell you?
Everyone tells you, stay where you are.
If you're in a building, find the safest place in that building.
But what you don't do is leave.
Of course Amazon wasn't going to send people to their cars out on the road when there's a tornado out there.
A car is the worst place you could be.
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The last thing you want to do, this is not like an action movie where you get into your car, you try to outrun the tornado.
The worst place you could be is a car.
Because there's falling limbs, there's debris, everything, you're very much exposed.
If the tornado goes anywhere near you, I mean, you're in a, as far as the tornado is concerned, you're in a very light, you know, you might as well be a ragdoll that's gonna get tossed around by the storm.
So you don't go in your car.
You find a solid structure, the most solid you can find.
If you're in a building, you find the safest place in that building.
Last year, my wife was out grocery shopping, and there was suddenly a tornado warning.
And they told everyone, don't leave.
Stay in the grocery store.
Now, if my wife had made a run for it, I don't think they would have shot her to make her stay.
But they said, don't leave.
Stay here.
Because we're not gonna send you all out to the parking lot into your cars to make a run for it.
If Amazon had said to their employees, there's a tornado warning, everyone run to your cars and get out, and then six people had died or more, and there could have been a lot more, now they're really liable.
Because they went against standard safety protocols when it comes to tornadoes, which again, the standard safety protocol is stay where you are, hunker down.
Unless you're in a car.
That's the only time you're supposed to leave.
If you're in a car, try to park somewhere and get to a structure if you can.
And then the second thing about, well, there were tornadoes in the forecast and they had their employees come to work anyway.
Again, if you live in a tornado prone area, you already know this.
There are tornadoes potentially in the forecast, like 200 days of the year.
A tornado watch just means that the atmospheric conditions are such that there could be tornadoes, but you can't shut down work every time there could potentially be a tornado.
Then if you live in Kansas or something, you'll never go to work, because almost every day there's a potential, especially in the summer.
So that's all that it means.
There's tornadoes in the forecast.
It just means that there could be somewhere a tornado or maybe not, because those are the weather conditions.
But you still basically go about your day under a tornado watch.
Tornado warning means, OK, now we've seen a funnel cloud.
It's out there, but it's too late to evacuate the town or something.
You've got to hunker down.
There's a reason why you don't hear about towns evacuating in the lead up to a tornado, like they do with hurricanes,
because tornadoes are different than hurricanes.
Hurricanes are these big lumbering things that start out there over the ocean,
and you can see them literally from 1,000 miles away.
And the only speculation is what course they'll take and how strong the winds will be by the time they get to
you.
But as it gets closer and closer, you get a better idea.
And then at a certain point, you really know, with a fair amount of certainty, where it's gonna land
and basically how strong it will be.
And so then you can evacuate far ahead of time.
That's what makes tornadoes so uniquely dangerous.
Is that all you know is that, well, there could be, and then it's here.
And that's it.
And once it's here, it's too late to leave.
You stay, you hunker down.
So, I don't think it's fair to hit Amazon on either of those points.
But, being that they were in a relatively tornado-prone area, if they didn't have any kind of shelter within the building, Then I think you, I think that you can hold them at fault for that.
I think they claim that they did have a shelter, but some of the employees chose not to enter the shelter for whatever reason.
I don't know if that's true or not, but if they didn't have a shelter, that's a problem.
But these other things, I wouldn't, I wouldn't go after them for that.
I think these are, these are people who don't understand tornadoes or how they work.
And so that's how they work.
All right.
Here is a, okay, I got to play this for you.
This is an interesting and instructive video.
Leah Thomas, quote-unquote Leah Thomas, is the male swimmer at University of Pennsylvania.
You remember this story we've talked about over the last week.
you know, over the last week. He was, I don't know if he was a, he wasn't, I don't
think he qualified as necessarily a top male athlete as a swimmer for the
first three years of his college career, but he was he was certainly competitive.
He was a competitive male athlete as a swimmer for three years.
In his final year, he says, you know what?
It turns out I'm a woman.
And he decides to go over and compete against the women.
And now he's dominating the competition.
Dominating.
Because he was competitive.
This is different from some of these other cases where you've got very mediocre male athletes or poor male athletes who come over to the female side and they win pretty handily.
But it's not the same level of domination.
So, we could talk about that.
I mean, we could talk about how he's dominating the competition.
I can tell you that, for example, in one of his recent meets.
He finished first and second place was 40 seconds behind him.
Now, in terms of swimming, in terms of a race, unless it's a marathon, 40 seconds might as well be four months.
That's how big the gap is.
But we could talk about that intellectually.
We could think about it intellectually.
I think to see it is a whole different matter.
So I want to play.
This is a recent race, and I'll have to narrate it a little bit.
And if you're watching on audio, then maybe go dailywire.com or go to YouTube when you get a chance to see this footage for yourself, because you have to see this.
So let's play this.
This was a recent race, and you see, um, the arrow there, okay, kind of the middle lane, there's the arrow, that is Leah Thomas.
Okay, he's finished.
And listen, do you hear anybody cheering in the crowd?
They're not cheering.
He finished, he won.
So middle lane there, where the arrow was, he's done.
And now he's waiting.
Now here's, we see some female competitors, they're coming up to the wall.
Are they going to be second?
No, they still have a whole other lap to go.
And we've got someone else, some people on the far lane there.
Are they coming?
Is that going to be second?
Are they second place?
No, not second.
We still haven't got the second place.
They've got a whole other lap to go.
OK, now finally we get second place.
There is.
And listen, listen to this.
Oh, don't listen.
OK, we cut it off.
The crowd starts cheering for that person because the crowd knows.
The crowd knows the score.
Leah Thomas finishes.
I think that you might have heard one person clapping.
I don't know if that's someone in his family.
And then the real winner finishes and then you get the crowd cheering.
That's what 40 seconds looks like in a race.
As I said, it may as well have been four months.
Thomas could have gotten out of the track and started eating a snack or something.
He could have got out of the track, got a Hot Pocket, went to a microwave, heated it up, started eating it, and then come back and watch the rest of the race, and then he would have seen second place.
That's how far ahead he was.
That is the difference, biologically, between men and women.
That's the advantage that your physiology gives you, if you're a male.
It is an insurmountable advantage.
You think any of those women there, as talented as they may be against women, what are they going to do to shave 40 seconds off their time?
Maybe if they start taking steroids.
But even then, probably not.
Because he's on steroids.
That's the thing.
When you're a male, Racing against women.
It's cheating.
You have a chemical advantage very similar to the advantage that someone with performance-enhancing drugs has.
It's a similar advantage.
You have similar chemicals coursing through your veins, except naturally rather than artificially.
And even if you can diminish those chemicals because you're suppressing hormones or whatever, you're taking estrogen, you still have all of the other advantages.
That come with being a male.
They give you a 40 second head start.
Total farce, total joke.
And yet, yeah, we could appreciate the crowd for cheering for the right winner, but they still held the race.
And all those, you know, the parents came and they watched.
As long as you're doing the race and participating in it, then you are participating in this farce.
You're propping it up.
up, you're supporting it.
We need more than people kind of passive aggressively not cheering for Thomas.
That's good, but we need a lot more than that.
There need to be protests, there need to be female athletes coming together and agreeing that they're not going to participate in races where he's there.
You do that and maybe we'll start seeing some change.
Maybe.
Alright, one other thing.
This is from the Daily Caller.
It says, Superstar Billie Eilish opened up about how she started watching porn around the age of 11 and said she feels watching it has destroyed her brain.
A 19-year-old singer shared during an appearance on the Howard Stern Show,
"As a woman, I think porn is a disgrace. I used to watch a lot of porn, to be honest.
I started watching porn when I was like 11. I think it really destroyed my brain.
I feel incredibly devastated that I was exposed to so much porn.
I'm so angry that porn is so loved, and I'm so angry at myself for thinking that it was okay."
The way that vaginas look in porn is effing crazy.
No vaginas look like that.
Women's bodies don't look like that.
We don't f**k them like that.
The first few times I had sex, I was not saying no to things that were not good.
It was because I thought that's what I was supposed to be attracted to.
Okay.
I mean, this is... On one hand, if you want to look at it from a pessimistic angle, it is...
Frustrating that some of us have been saying this about pornography for, uh, for years.
And we've been shouted down and mocked and everything.
Oh, let's put porn.
It's just, it's just images on a screen.
What's the big deal.
It's just a fantasy.
Oh, what do you mean?
Porn harms, harms, harms women.
Oh, that's silly.
That's ridiculous.
Um, and now when a 19 year old pop star starts saying it, people take it a little bit more seriously.
So that's a pessimistic angle of it, but.
You know, whoever the source needs to be, I'm glad that this is happening.
And she's not the first one.
This, in fact, is what we need.
We need people.
Yeah, I mean, someone like me, I could sit here all day and talk about that and say what a harm it is.
But to a certain extent, it's always going to be dismissed as religious puritanism or whatever.
But Billie Eilish, as far as I know, I could be wrong, I'm assuming, not a devout Christian, and she's telling you her own experience.
She's not alone in this.
In fact, there's a whole generation of people, if you would listen to them, people about Billie Eilish's age, just now becoming adults.
And they grew up with this stuff.
They are the first generation that grew up with online porn.
And I don't want to hear anything from older people about, Oh, what are you talking about?
When I was a kid, there was a playboy under my dad's mattress, that whole canard.
I mean, if your dad had pornography under his mattress and he was allowing you to access it, then your dad was a creep.
And I'm sorry about that, but that is nothing like this.
Okay.
Magazines.
Magazine images on pieces of paper.
Nothing like the permeation of hardcore porn that children, young children, I mean, she says at age 11, she started looking at this stuff.
So these are prepubescent kids.
She says it destroyed her brain.
She's right.
Now, fortunately, the damage is not permanent.
There's a way to overcome it, I think.
But there are certain effects that will linger forever because this is during your formative years.
This is before puberty.
Your idea of human sexuality is very much shaped by all this stuff that you're watching online.
You get a little bit older and you realize that it was shaped in this way and misshaped by it, then that's when you can start to recover.
But it does have an effect.
To a certain extent.
I mean, you know, I just said a second ago that it's not permanent.
I think, in fact, some of the damage actually is permanent.
It doesn't doom you to a dysfunctional sex life or dysfunctional relationships your whole life, but there is some permanent damage done.
Because of what these kids are being exposed to, how early they're being exposed to it, how much of it they're exposed to, how often.
And so if you listen to the kids, who are not kids now, they're adults, but if you just listen to them, so many of them will say exactly this, I grew up with this, And I wish that I hadn't.
You'd be hard-pressed to find someone who's 20 years old right now, and is happy that they've been watching hardcore porn since the age of 8 years old.
You're gonna be hard-pressed to find somebody like that.
You're gonna find plenty of people who have not had this awakening moment that Billie Eilish has, where they realize the damage that's done, But if you ask them if this, you know, if they look back at their childhood, their life, has this helped them?
Was that time well spent?
Do they wish they had watched even more?
I think the answer to all those questions is going to be no.
So this is very, very different from the magazine under the mattress deal.
These are kids that are exposed to the most, I mean, the most grotesque imagery that you can imagine.
Like, images right from the bowels of hell that have been brought up and bubbled up and that our kids are now, their minds are marinating in for years and years and years.
Does that cause trauma?
Yeah, it does.
And if you don't believe that, then think about, I mean, if you heard about a case of sexual abuse where a 10-year-old kid, a 9-year-old kid was allowed to be in the room While something like what you would see in porn was happening right in front of them.
Okay?
We would all agree that that is sexual abuse.
That this is a- that child is a sexual abuse victim.
That this is a- that he was molested.
Even if he wasn't physically touched, he is a victim of sexual abuse and molestation.
I think we'd all agree with that.
I would hope we'd all agree with that.
And that the adults who were performing this sexual act in front of the child should go to prison.
As sexual abusers.
Well, if we could all agree that that is traumatic sexual abuse, then how is it any different when the kid is viewing this stuff on a screen?
Does that magically make it all okay?
Does that screen act as some sort of psychological or emotional barrier where the damage that would be done if they were in the same room isn't done anymore?
It doesn't make any sense.
If you agree that simply encountering those images And viewing an act like this at that age, if you agree that it can be emotionally and psychologically traumatic and damaging and tantamount to sexual abuse.
If you agree that that's the case in person, then you should agree with that when it comes to pornography, which means that we have an entire generation and now multiple generations of sexual abuse victims.
Like all of these kids.
Are sexual abuse victims because of what they've been exposed to.
That's also why I think you can make a very strong argument for banning this stuff because it is sexual abuse.
You're putting this stuff out there where you know that kids not only can access it, but millions of them are every single day.
And you are purposefully making a contribution to that.
Contributing to the sexual abuse of children.
I think you could ban it for that reason alone.
That's my view.
Okay, let's get now to the comment section.
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Susan Epps says, I urge everyone to read Gifted Hands by Ben Carson.
He says he frequently was mistaken for an aide or orderly, and that's fine because they're important members of the surgical and hospital staff.
He addresses it so gracefully.
Well, Ben Carson, no surprise there.
I think a better man than Dr. Smollett from our Daily Cancellation a few days ago.
Alexandra says, Matt, death penalty question.
After the Rittenhouse trial, an interesting point was made on Tim Pool's show that since we were this close to setting an innocent kid to jail for political reasons, how can we trust the state to properly decide who they're going to kill?
It made me think and I actually decided that my distrust in the state and political establishment is so deep that I can no longer support the death penalty, especially with current tyrannical practices around the world.
What do you think?
You know, I understand that argument, but I don't find it persuasive for a few reasons.
I'll focus on one, which is that Why aren't you arguing against life in prison without parole?
I mean, by that logic, then we shouldn't be doling out any punishments at all.
There's a chance that the state could send people to prison for their whole lives, lock them in a cage, even if they're innocent.
And I'm sure that has, in fact, happened.
I don't think it happens very often.
But I think we would be pretty sure that there have been cases of someone going to jail, spending 60 years in jail, locked in a cage.
Although they're innocent, they die in jail.
So in order to avoid that risk and that eventuality, should we get rid of life sentences or prison sentences in general?
No, I don't think the answer is to do away with these punishments and these penalties, which I think you need in a civilized society.
We're not going to give up on having a civilized society.
We're not going to give up on justice.
That's the other thing.
This is not just about, it's partly about segregating dangerous people.
Life in prison, you're segregating dangerous people from society.
And then when it comes to the most depraved and the most dangerous people who have done the worst kinds of things, and who have been reduced themselves to monsters, to animals, basically, through their behavior, I think they call for the safety of society, for the sake of society.
I think they call for the ultimate form of segregation from society, which is the permanent death penalty.
That's part of it, but the other part is justice.
And are we going to give up on that?
I think when you, when you do certain things, a man rapes and kills a child, justice demands the death penalty.
Anything less than that is not justice.
And so the argument here is, well, let's give up on that because sometimes justice is, is, is not done correctly.
Sometimes there is injustice in the, in the name of justice.
Sometimes justice is misapplied or, you know, I think the answer is just to work on the justice
just to make sure it's done correctly. Lex says, "You mentioned again today abolishing
the Department of Education.
Do you want to abolish the whole public school system too?
What would take its place?
Do you really think we can privatize all of education?
Well, yes to all those questions, but with a very important qualifier.
So when it comes to education, like most things in life, I'm a believer in subsidiarity, and that means that it should be handled on the most local level possible.
So I want education to be private, And local.
And the local part is really important.
Sometimes that gets left out of this conversation.
Now, the most localized form of private education is homeschool.
It's also the most private form of private education, and that's why I think it's great and I'm a homeschool advocate.
But I am in favor of local private schools also.
The local part is very important, and here's why.
If, in my fantasy, the public education was abolished tomorrow, and it doesn't exist anymore, Department of Education is gone, public education system is gone, government is out of the education business, if that were to happen tomorrow and that was it, and there was nothing else put in place, and all we cared about was, let's just get rid of this, and anything is better than that, well, you know what we would have next?
The next week?
There would be Amazon Elementary, Coca-Cola Middle School, Disney High, right?
These mega-conglomerates would move in and they would take over education.
And all the things that we hate about public education right now would be present, in fact, probably be even worse.
Because at least with public education, there is the pretense, the hope at least, that you can have some influence on what happens in the school system through the school board and so on.
And we've seen that actually happen successfully, especially recently.
But with privatized conglomerate education, there isn't even the possibility of that.
So, um, so that's why I have this really important qualifier.
Yes, I'm in favor of getting rid of the public education system, but what comes in its place must be local and private.
One of my problems with public school education is that it is not local.
You're taking this thing, which should by its nature be as local as it possibly can be, and as personalized as it possibly can be, and you're turning it into this kind of factory assembly line strategy.
And you've got this federal agency overseeing all of it.
That's the wrong way to approach it.
And I would not be in favor of getting rid of this massive bureaucracy overseeing education just to put a different one in its place.
And this is something I think conservatives in general are slow to understand, that big corporations are oftentimes just as bad as the government, sometimes worse.
Because they are large politicized bureaucracies run by elites, just like the government.
All right.
And let's see, Gianna says, why is Eureka O'Hara always making his way onto the Matt Walsh show?
He was also the drag queen at the Dave Chappelle protest outside the Netflix office.
Okay, I thought I recognized him.
Yeah, so the drag queen from our daily cancellation yesterday, the large one, the Ursula-looking one.
I thought he was at the Dave Chappelle protest.
I usually remember faces, unless I consciously try to suppress them for my own mental well-being, which I might have done here.
I don't know.
Maybe drag queen Eureka O'Hara is becoming the primary antagonist of the Matt Wall show.
There's always someone.
Right, as we go through the seasons of this show, there's always a main villain, and I think prior to this it was probably Demi Lovato, and before it was like maybe Lil Nas X, and now it's Eureka O'Hara, the final boss.
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Now let's get to our daily cancellation.
Today we have a reverse cancellation, not in my own defense, but in defense of Ben Shapiro's sister, Abby.
I'm doing this segment today because Ben said we all had to do it or we'd be fired, but mostly I'm doing it because Abby is being unfairly maligned for something she said on Twitter a few days ago.
She has a nice social media following of her own, and she posted a side-by-side picture of Madonna and Nancy Reagan.
Madonna is, this is a picture, for Madonna, this is a picture from a few days ago.
She's spread out on a bed in lingerie with her nipple poking out.
A heavily photoshopped image, by the way, to the point where this is more of a cartoon than a photograph.
And then Nancy Reagan in the picture taken decades ago is dressed in an outfit appropriate for a woman her age and surrounded by her children, grandchildren, her husband.
And Abby captions, this is Madonna at 63.
This is Nancy Reagan at 64.
Trashy living versus classic living.
Which version of yourself do you want to be?
Now the reaction, perhaps predictably, was an eruption of outsized, hyperbolic rage and mockery from the left.
Abby was trending on Twitter for a few days because so many people were lining up to dunk on this tweet, as the kids would say.
It was supposed to be somehow not only wrong, but self-evidently outrageous to suggest that perhaps it's not ideal for 63-year-old women to be presenting their naked bodies to the public for attention.
But as always, The people pretending to be wounded or vexed by this statement are simply trying to rationalize their own life choices.
It is one enormous act of overcompensation.
Now, if Madonna wanted to dress that way for her husband, there'd be no reason for complaint.
I mean, none of us would know about it.
So no reason for us to complain.
No reason for her husband to complain, I imagine.
But I'm pretty sure Madonna doesn't have a husband because she divorced all of them and she's now dating the pool boy or whoever.
And so this is not something done in the privacy of her home, but broadcast to the world for public consumption.
It is pathetic and humiliating and degrading for a person of any age to offer up their body as an object to strangers, but it's especially pitiful for a woman of Madonna's age.
You know, there's a certain dignity that's supposed to come with age.
And it's good to gain dignity with age because it takes the place of what you lose.
And you do lose some things with age.
Namely, you lose a certain degree of physical beauty and vitality.
So this is the bargain that our mortality makes with us.
It says to us, okay, I'm going to take your beauty and your youthful energy, but I'll trade you wisdom, maturity, and dignity.
So that's what you get.
And you may as well take mortality up on this bargain, because it's going to extract its cost regardless.
Even if you say, no thank you, I'm not interested in your wisdom and dignity, which is what Madonna has said.
Well, still, mortality says, well, but I'm taking youthfulness anyway, and I'm taking beauty.
And you're going to be left with plastic surgery and Photoshop.
And so now, women like Madonna are just old, wrinkled, desperate, dumb, immature weirdos.
In Madonna's case, she has had attention her whole life.
She's been famous way longer than she was a normal person.
She defines herself by attention and fame, but unfortunately she lacks the ability to attract it artistically.
She hasn't made a relevant song in about 30 years probably, so this is all she has.
Her half-naked body.
It's the only way to gain the spotlight that she craves and that she needs.
Contrast that with Nancy Reagan as depicted in the photo, and you see an older woman who has grown into her role as an older woman, embraced it, accepted mortality's bargain, and benefited from the trade.
So which version of ourselves should we want to be?
I mean, I think that's pretty obvious.
In fact, it's interesting to note that Abby is not alone in making this point.
The rapper 50 Cent, who probably does not line up with the Shapiro family very often when it comes to political and cultural views, actually made a similar observation in his own way, commenting on these photos when they were posted to Instagram.
50 Cent said, "Yo, this is the funniest sh*t, lol.
That's Madonna under the bed trying to do like a virgin at 63.
She shot out if she don't get her old ass up."
So that's basically what Ben Shapiro's sister was trying to say.
And you could decide who communicated the point more eloquently.
As it happens, Madonna's response to 50 Cent's comments, she responded calling them misogynistic, ageist, and sexist.
So she's playing the standard game of parading her naked body around in front of millions of strangers, and then recoiling in horror when a few of those strangers dare to express their opinion about the spectacle.
But she has no room to complain.
If she didn't want to hear 50 Cent's opinion about her appearance as she lays naked on a bed, then she shouldn't have went through the trouble of documenting herself in that condition and posting it on social media for millions of people to see.
Once you present something like that to the world, once you present anything to the world, once you take anything and say, here you go, world, look at this, the world has a right to pass its judgment.
If you really don't want to hear the world's judgment, or you think the world has no right to make such judgments, then keep it to yourself.
That goes for your naked body.
It goes for your opinions.
If you express an opinion to the world, I do it all the time.
Hey world, here's my opinion about this.
And if people attack me for it, I might respond to those attacks.
I might hit back, but I'm not gonna sit here crying that they disagree.
How dare you give your opinion about my opinion?
But Madonna understands this, but this is the game she plays.
It's a pretty common game, especially in the internet age, but usually it's played by people who are young and dumb and who struggle to differentiate between what should be private and what should be public.
Madonna is old and still struggling in that way.
Mainly because she never formed any sort of real personal identity outside of her role as celebrity.
That's what makes this sort of exhibition so woefully depressing.
Because it's empty.
I mean, this is an empty person grasping out for attention because it's the one thing that gives her life meaning.
By her age, she ought to have a full life, deeply moored in family and relationships, as Nancy Reagan clearly had at that point in her own life.
So which fate would you rather share?
Do you want to be the woman less than a decade away from turning 70, prostituting yourself with images photoshopped to make you look 50 years younger?
Or do you want to be surrounded by family and by love and by loyalty?
And to leave behind a real legacy?
I think we all know which we would prefer.
That's the point Abby was making.
And she could not have been more right about it.
Which is why the people cancelling her are today, finally, cancelled.
And we'll leave it there for today.
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Thanks for listening.
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