Dave Smith and Robbie the Fire Bernstein dissect Matthew McConaughey's manipulative Uvalde speech, arguing it exploited tragedy for emotional appeal without proposing specific gun control measures like red flag laws. They contend progressives worship celebrities as demigods to fill a religious void, often substituting state or "woke" ideology for true atheism. By focusing on vague values rather than disarming law-abiding citizens, the actor inadvertently benefits gun manufacturers while exposing Hollywood elites' disdain for public morality and their failure to offer real policy solutions. [Automatically generated summary]
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The Religion of Wokeism00:03:54
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Anyway, I told those guys what the deal was.
Anyway, so moving right along.
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All right.
So as we are getting ready to record this episode, literally right now, it could still be going on.
I'm not sure.
But the White House, look, they've got an agenda and they're getting serious.
And so they were like, let's really take this thing to the next level.
We want to take the American people's guns.
We're going to need some big guns of our own.
And they called in Matthew McConaughey.
I was hoping they'd go for the rock, but they went old school.
They go, no, we need some real acting chops here.
Okay.
So they called in McConaughey.
He went and spoke.
Progressive Twitter is ablaze.
It's unbelievable the response.
Listen, there's something about this that I find really fascinating to watch.
And we will play a little bit of it and we can kind of break down, you know, what's going on here and all this stuff.
But the response, the immediate response, it's, you know, you almost appreciate just people being really happy, even when it's for the wrong reasons.
But there is nothing that makes progressives happier than when they can worship a celebrity.
There's something about that.
I don't know that I completely have it understood, but there's something really powerful to them about that.
Part of it is just the age-old problem with atheism, is that the problem is that you can get rid of a religion.
You can reject a religion from your life, like a particular religion, but the desire to worship is hardwired.
It's just a fact of nature.
There's a reason.
I'm not saying there can't perhaps be individual exceptions to that rule, but there's very few.
And the more you like expand out, like it might be true for one person, it's never true for two.
It's never true for five.
Ten, it's impossible.
Like there's just a reason why every single society in the history of humanity has had a religion, right?
Every single one.
And if you look at that, after a while, you kind of go, oh, yeah, there's something innate here to this, something about worshiping and this whole kind of like ritualistic thing.
This is baked in to the DNA.
And the problem, whenever you have any large group that claims to be atheists, is always the same.
They're not atheists.
There's something, it's a real profound irony there, right?
The problem with atheism is religion.
That's the problem.
And this is true.
If you look at any group of atheists, what's their problem?
It's that they're religious.
So the same problem that they're trying to get away from, they fall into.
And in many times, in the worst ways imaginable.
It's why many of the worst societies ever were atheist societies, but what are they doing?
They're worshiping the state.
So they're not atheists.
They're religion.
They're religious.
They're just the worst of the religious, you know?
And the examples of that are fairly obvious.
But it's true, even if you look at like on college campuses today, where you'd say, oh, yeah, like there's not, I mean, there might be small numbers of like Christians or Muslims or Jews or something, but in general, there's really not a lot of religious people.
They're very atheistic, except they're not, right?
They have an entire religion of wokeism that they worship.
And it's clear, it's the same exact thing as a religion with their sacraments and their rituals and their sacrifices and their excommunications.
Uvalde and Celebrity Culture00:05:22
It's all the same thing.
And celebrities have really like that, those, that's a big, those are real demigods for the progressives.
And I'm not sure exactly what it is.
I think part of it is that they have all of their kind of all of their like vain, self-actualized, very self-absorbed kind of, it's like the perfect god for them, a celebrity, someone who's great at playing pretend and has the nicest house and the nicest cars.
It's everything that they worship, you know, because it's all kind of self-worship.
But anyway, if you just, I don't know, Rob, if you've been on Twitter at all in the last like 20 minutes, but it's unbelievable the level.
It's like when it first happens and they're very excited about it, they're not even guarding themselves against it.
So they're just openly like, Matthew McConaughey should be president.
Like there's just, it's just, he should rule over all of us.
He is the great one.
Beautiful soul, all of these things.
They're all just fucking going crazy about it.
It's really quite something.
It's like the Bob Dylan song, you got to serve somebody.
Yes, exactly.
That's exactly it.
Wasn't Matthew McConney talking about running for governor at some point?
I believe he was floating around the idea of maybe running in Texas or something like that.
Maybe he could, he kind of like kind of sounds like a younger Biden.
Maybe he could become the mouthpiece.
Instead of having Biden wonder, you know, whoever makes the decisions can make the decisions and Matthew McConnell could be like the official actor of the White House.
Yeah.
I mean, it's, it's, look, at this point, if you're looking at politicians, we could use some better actors in there.
So, I mean, that I'm not.
Usually got to wait for the biopic to have some Hollywood A-list or play you, but maybe we could just start doing it while you're president.
Yeah.
Well, the funny thing, too, is that it's just like this whole, I mean, this, by the way, this tactic will not work.
This just won't, it won't work ultimately because it's all, it's, it gets the progressives very excited, but they're not the ones who needed to be sold on gun control.
And in fact, as, you know, they've figured out, or you, you'd think they could have figured out right now, this is all really who all this stuff helps is the gun manufacturers, helps them sell a whole lot of guns.
Anytime it's this beautiful, almost like cleansing mechanism in America is that anytime politicians start aggressively talking about taking guns, the response to that by the American people is always to buy a whole lot of guns.
So it's probably work out very well.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Sure must be.
Okay.
Let's play a little bit of Matthew McConaughey and see what he had to say.
I will say I only saw very brief clips of this, so we'll be reacting in real time.
So handsome.
Uvalde, Texas is where I was born.
I swear my mom taught kindergarten less than a mile from Rob Elementary.
Uvalde is where I learned to master a daisy Phoebe gun.
That took two years before I graduated to a 410 shotgun.
Uvalde is where I was taught to revere the power and the capability of the tool that we call a gun.
Uvalde is where I learned responsible gun ownership.
Now, Uvalde called me on May 24th when I learned the news of this devastating tragedy.
I had been out of cellular range working in the studio all day when I emerged, and messages about a mass shooting in the town I was born in began flooding my inbox.
In a bit of shock, I drove home.
I hugged my children a bit tighter and longer than the night before.
And then the reality of what had happened that day in the town I was born in set in.
So the next morning, Camilla, myself, the kids, we loaded up the truck and we drove to Uvalde.
When we arrived a few hours later, I got to tell you, even from the inside of our vehicle, you could feel the shock in the town.
You could feel the pain, the denial, the disillusion, anger, blame, sadness, loss of lives, dreams halted.
We saw ministries, we saw first responders, counselors, cooks, families trying to grieve without it being on the front page news.
We met with the local funeral director and countless morticians who hadn't slept since the massacre the day before.
They've been working 24-7 trying to handle so many bodies at once.
So many little innocent bodies who had their entire lives still yet to live.
And that is there that we met two of the grieving parents, Ryan and Jessica Ramirez.
Their 10-year-old daughter, Alethea.
She was one of the 19 children that were killed the day before.
Now, Alethea, her dream was to go to art school in Paris and one day share her art with the world.
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Okay, so let's pause it.
Ryan and Jessica were eager to share.
This might just show something.
I don't know.
Maybe this is just the difference between my personality type and like the type of person who's really like taken by all of this.
I, and it might just be like a cynicism or something like that, or perhaps like a sense of street smarts, if you want to put a more positive spin on it.
I don't know.
But this doesn't do it for me.
I don't like this stuff.
I don't look at this and go, oh my God, Matthew McConaughey is such a good guy.
Like, oh, this was so beautiful.
The way he, I have a feeling you're the same as me, Rob, like that you have a similar type of attitude.
But I right away just start going, you're performing.
This is you're you're acting.
You're playing this grand person.
And I don't need to be convinced that this is horrible.
I don't need you to convince me that like it's really awful that little kids died.
I got that.
I got that like the second that I heard the story.
I got that.
It was really horrible.
Like, I don't know.
I don't need you to show me in front of the world in front of all of these cameras how much you really care about this.
In fact, that makes me a little suspicious of you.
And I don't need to get sucked into this emotional game.
Like, I just, if I was going to have a moment where I was really like feeling it and going, man, can you imagine like little kids just got murdered in their school?
I'd have that like with my wife privately.
I don't need to like do that in front of everybody.
And I resent when other people try to suck me into these emotional traps because right away I go, you're trying to manipulate me.
Like you have an end here.
Like there's a reason you're doing this.
And you're doing this for whatever to boost your own status, to try to, you know, advocate for some policy, whatever it is.
I immediately, like, my gut reaction is always like, okay, yeah, cut all this bullshit aside.
What's your argument?
What's your argument for whatever it is that you want?
Give me a solid reason.
Now, if you said after this, you go, look, these policies here, this, that, and this, this would have prevented this from happening.
I'm like, okay, what's your argument?
I'm listening now.
But I just do not respond well to all of this fluff.
I don't know.
I have a feeling you're similar to me like that.
I don't know.
I never even liked him that much as an actor.
It's all a little too much.
So this is more of that.
Also, what's the dynamics of this?
Does he call up the White House and go, hey, can I speak?
And no one goes, well, no, because this is the White House.
And like, or someone just shouts.
Yeah.
Like Kamala Harris just shows up at the studio and she's like, We need you, Matthew.
And he's like, I said, I said I'd never give another one speech.
I have no idea.
I wonder the agent, his agent gets a call.
Hey, we're going to need him down here.
And like, all right, the CIA did fund my next film.
Yeah, really.
I don't know.
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Manipulating Tragedy for Guns00:15:25
Ryan and Jessica were eager to share Alethea's art with us and said if we could share it, that somehow, maybe that would make Aletha smile in heaven.
They told us that showing someone else Alethea's art would in some way keep her alive.
Now, this particular drawing is a self-portrait, all right, of Aletha drawing with her friend in heaven looking down on her, drawing the very same picture.
Her mother said of this drawing, she said, you know, we'd never really talked to her about heaven before, but somehow she knew.
Aletha was 10 years old.
Her father, Ryan, this man was steady.
He was uncommonly together and calm.
When a frazzled friend of his came up, he said, how are you so calm?
I'd be going crazy.
Ryan told me, he said, no, you wouldn't.
No, you wouldn't.
You'd be strong for your wife and kids because if they see you go crazy, that will not help them.
Just a week prior, Ryan got a full-time line job, stringing power lines from pole to pole.
And every day since landing that well-paying full-time job, he reminded his daughter Alethea.
He said, girl, daddy going to spoil you now.
Told her every single night.
He said, daddy's going to take you to SeaWorld one day.
But you could see he didn't get to spoil his daughter.
Alethea, she did not get to go to SeaWorld.
Yeah.
Okay.
So just more of the same.
I mean, he asked for the pictures.
He's like, can I get some props?
It's almost.
But wouldn't you like, it's almost as if someone went, if the argument was over, like one side went, I don't really think this is that bad of a tragedy.
Like, I don't really, like, I don't really think it's sad that a little girl gets killed.
And that was the point that he was trying to make.
He's like, no, let me get up here and convince you this is really sad.
You know, I mean, like, her dad, she's got a family and like his dad had made these promises about what they were going to do in the future.
Just got a good job.
No, she'll never enjoy any of that.
It's like, but no one's arguing that.
No one, there's no argument over whether or not this is sad.
Yeah, dude, it's horrifically sad.
Again, for most of us, we got that upon the initial report.
There was no argument about this.
So it's just so bizarre to like go on and on about like trying to get this, like just trying to get this emotional reaction out of you.
And I can already tell you, I haven't seen the rest of this.
Brian, if you could try to find some other clips of where he actually gets into it, maybe we could watch a little bit more of this and see.
But I can already tell you, I know where this is going.
It's so obvious.
I don't not take any credit that I can figure this out.
Any of you guys could.
But it's going to be emotional, tugging at your emotional heartstrings, try to get you worked up, and then just insisting a certain policy gets passed with no argument ever being made as to why this would actually work.
So that's what we're doing here.
This is, it's like adults should not make up their mind about what policies they support based on this type of like tugging at emotions.
It's just very childish.
I think they got a good strategy here, which is no guns unless you're a cop, because we know they won't use them.
So we can all feel safe.
They will use them, Rob.
They certainly won't use them when they should.
Yeah, no, they have no problem using them on innocent people.
You really got to hope that these school shooters are unarmed black men.
The only way you'll get a cop to actually go in with their gun.
That's pretty funny.
That's what you should just tell the cops, tell them that every school shooting is an unarmed black man shooting me.
Like, how is he shooting you?
That was Keith Robinson's joke on, that was the best joke ever on Tough Crowd.
Was they I'm realizing I just stole his joke, but it was, they said to him, it was during the Iraq war, we're sending over New York City cops.
How do you think that's going to work?
And he said, well, unless there's black people, how are they going to know who to shoot?
That's pretty good.
Good old Keith Robinson.
Yeah.
So, but this is what you see with the Matthew McConaughey thing, right?
And it's like, it's very interesting to me that so many of these progressives on Twitter are like, oh my God, what an unbelievable performance.
But it's like, that's literally what you're saying.
You're watching this like it's a movie.
And I actually think like that bothers me.
I don't know.
Again, this is just my personality type versus others, but that bothers me.
Like, I think that's cheapening the actual tragedy of the situation.
Like, you're enjoying this like it's a scene out of a movie, but it's not.
There is some real little girl, and that's really her drawing.
It's kind of disgusting to like be using this for your own ends.
Yeah.
And if we're going to do the performances, I prefer the show tunes.
Let's bring back that lady.
I mean, why do we have to go with this dry intense stuff and make fun of some little girl's art?
I mean, she wasn't going to make it.
That's just not nice.
Why do you got to show everybody that?
It's very cruel.
I do find the whole thing to be cruel, though.
I actually, I find this in very bad taste.
And I'm sure there are people, there are people who could find a lot of things I do in very bad taste.
It's somewhat subjective, but I find this to be in bad taste.
Like you're using a real tragedy to like manipulate people.
I don't like this.
It really rubs me the wrong way.
All right, let's play, Brian.
I think you got some other clips.
A chance to make a choice that protects our country now and from this generation.
We've got to take a sober, humble, and honest look in the mirror and rebrand ourselves based on what we truly value.
What we truly value.
We got to get some real courage and honor our immortal obligations instead of our party affiliations.
Enough with the counter punching.
Enough of the invalidation of the other side.
Let's come to the common table that represents the American people.
Find a middle ground, the place where most of us Americans live anyway, especially on this issue.
Because I promise you, America, you and me, we are not as divided as we are being told we are.
No.
How about we get inspired?
Give ourselves just cause to revere our future again.
Maybe somebody.
Let's pause it here for a second.
Give us and we'll go back to this.
So I'd say that the, you know, this talk about us not being so divided.
And look, I agree that I think we are Persuaded by some very powerful interests that we all hate each other a lot more than we actually do, and that our interests are more divided than they actually are.
We talk about that a lot on this show.
You know, like there are a lot of things like, you know, inflation fucks over liberals and conservatives.
You know what I mean?
It's like it's inflation is really only good for a tiny group of very, very rich people.
And it's really bad for everybody else.
There's lots of issues like this where the interests of left-wing America and right-wing America aren't actually diametrically opposed.
In fact, oftentimes they're aligned and were made to, you know, continue to fight each other.
That being said, the idea, nothing perpetuates that divide more than the idea that if we just care enough about dead kids, then we'd all come together and enact this democratic policy, right?
Because the implication there is that one side of the country is just so damn evil that they won't come and do what they know will stop children from getting slaughtered.
That's the implication.
And so if that's true, then you'd really understand why people are so divided.
By the way, you want to really divide people?
Try to confiscate guns.
You want to see the divide in this country get substantially worse?
This would be the issue.
This is like the issue that is like a deal breaker for the right half of the country is the idea that the government's going to come take their guns.
There's kind of a long tradition in this country of the legal right to have guns.
So these are nice words in some sense, but his actions are completely like the opposite of what you would be looking for if that's what you believed.
So there's that.
It's like, it's unbelievable.
I'm sorry.
And you go ahead in a second, but it's unbelievable that like it's like people who are on the progressive side of this issue.
Because I don't know if Matthew McConaughey is truly a progressive, but people who are on the progressive side of this issue, it's like they're incapable of letting go of the idea that the argument is over whether or not it's horrible that kids get killed.
That's why he has to start with this whole thing of like, let me convince you how horrible it is that these kids got killed with this performance.
But that's not the argument.
The argument is about whether or not turning law-abiding gun owners into criminals is going to do anything to help the situation.
Go ahead.
No, you know, I'm a huge spaz and I don't think I would enjoy carrying a gun around with me because I'd feel like I needed to check it every two minutes and then I was going to shoot off my own foot.
It's just, it wouldn't be good for my OCD.
I would be leaving it in places.
I'd have to go back.
I'd be like, hey, your kids have my gun.
I think I left it here.
It's not a lifestyle for me.
There's a lot of people that carry a gun with them everywhere they go.
And I mean, that gives you a sense of security that if something were to happen, I'd be prepared for it.
And you're really like taking something from people.
Like, that's not part of my reality.
I don't live my life walking around with a gun.
But the people that do, it's like you're really taking a sense of security that they have away from them.
Or even if they don't walk around with it, even if they just have it in their home, they're like, hey, my home is a safe place.
Like when my kids and my wife are home, they're safe because I will protect them.
Yeah, that's quite something to take away.
And they can't.
And I think people that just don't own guns or conceptualize that the cops will be there for them don't quite understand the reality of the people that like having their guns and what that feeling that you'd be taking from them is like it's not.
You know what I mean.
It's like almost like you'd have to take like mushrooms to understand you know what I mean.
It's like a perceived standard to perceive the reality of what someone enjoys by owning their gun and knowing self-reliant.
And this person also knowing that they're no threat to children whatsoever and they're like, right, i'm not, like me, having my gun is not going to pose any threat to children, you know?
Um, all right, let's keep playing reason to tell them, hey, listen and watch these these, these men and women, these are great American leaders right here.
Hope you grow up to be like them.
And let's admit it, we can't truly be leaders if we're only living for re-election.
Let's be knowledgeable and wise and act on what we truly believe.
Again, we got to look in the mirror, lead with humility and acknowledge the values that are inherent to, but also above politics.
We got to make choices, make stands, embrace new ideas and preserve the traditions that can create true, true progress for the next generation with real leadership.
Let's start giving us all of us with real leadership.
Let's start giving all of us.
Okay, so pause it for a second here.
I love this shit.
It's always like where he's literally said nothing this entire time.
It's just like the values that are a part of politics and above politics, and real leadership, and not just getting an election, but real leadership.
It's always all this fluff, and then what that means is doing exactly what Joe Biden wanted to do to begin with.
That's real leadership.
That's transcending the partisan divide and that's really, you know, answering to our higher calling, is doing what the Democrats have been pushing for 30 years i'll.
I also love this like poetry reading with the hands.
It's like, uh, the intro, it's a performance yeah, yeah.
And then the narcissism of uh hey, usually I let the politics do the politicking, but when things get bad enough, I have to take a pause from acting and actually explain the situation to everybody.
Yeah, I got to really come give a performance.
There is like this unbelievable narcissism that runs through Hollywood, like that.
You're like, when things get really serious, we'll just have to act our way to the truth.
You know, like i'll just have to act my policy into effect.
It's really like, it's unbelievable.
I mean, like I, I don't know like, but outside of like the kind of insanity of the, the Woke insanity of the last few years.
Like I like the movies as much as the next guy and I like some actors, and there's there's some Matthew Mcconaughan movies that I like, you know it's like but um just, I don't, I never took them that seriously and I don't think You should, because like they're fucking they professionally play make-believe.
It's like, oh, you put on a fun little show.
All right.
It's unbelievable how much they think they should be more than that.
And this is true in general.
It's a big theme in our country.
It's really become very clear over the last few years, but that the kind of elite class, and particularly in Hollywood, they really do feel like they have some moral lecturing to do to the regular average American.
And I don't think they understand how much regular people resent them for that.
Like no one is looking to you for like moral guidance.
No one.
I mean, I suppose some progressives are, but like the rest of us are not.
Not to say that any of these individuals aren't talented, but the reason we look to them is because we love successful people.
And some of these people are successful based on luck, which is not to say that they aren't talented, but I'm sure that there are other people that could fill virtually every role.
Like think about any movie.
You probably could replace that actor with another actor.
And the movie's going to be pretty good.
It's not going to be a train wreck.
You know what I mean?
So a lot of these people, they kind of buy into their own success and what they've achieved.
And they think that it's not just like they kind of downplay the luck aspect.
Yeah, they also get very good at pretending to be very impressive people.
But I think after a while, they believe that.
Like they've all played enough characters of people who were like the hero that they're like, oh, I guess I'm the hero now.
I was look, I just pretended to be a hero and everyone bought it.
So I guess I really am the hero.
Restoring Family Values00:11:10
All right, let's keep playing a little bit.
That the American dream is not an illusion.
So where do we start?
We start making the right choices on the issue that is in front of us today.
We start by making laws that save innocent lives and don't infringe on our Second Amendment rights.
We start right now by voting to pass policies that can keep us from having as many Columbines, Sandy Hooks, Parklands, Las Vegas's Buffaloes, and Uvaldes from here on.
We start by giving Alethia the chance to be spoiled by her dad.
So just pause it for a second.
Oh, oh, oh, Rob, I didn't get it.
We stopped these shootings from happening.
Ah, geez.
All right.
I was thinking, see, I was thinking we make them happen more.
But now I see that the answer is, in fact, to stop them, to save people.
That's it.
We write laws and we protect the Second Amendment and we stop the shootings from happening.
I'm so glad that was cleared up by this brilliant actor.
Okay.
Anyway, let's keep playing.
Let's see if he actually.
What the brilliant solutions is he keeping from us?
Well, yeah, I mean, I shouldn't say if he says words, but he hasn't said anything yet.
This is the performance that everyone on Twitter is freaking out about how great it is.
It's goddamn hilarious.
All right.
We start by giving Mate a chance to become a marine biologist.
Start by giving Ellie a chance to read her Bible verse at the Wednesday night service.
We start by giving Irma and Joe a chance to finish painting their house.
Maybe retire.
Get that food drop.
We start by giving McKenna, Layla, Miranda, Nevea, Jose, Javier, Testro, Helio, Eliana, Annabelle, Jackie, Azuya, JC, Jayla, Ava, Amory, and Lexi.
We start by giving all of them our promise that their dreams are not going to be forgotten.
We start by making the loss of these lives matter.
Okay.
Oh, really?
He didn't even call for the disarming.
See, I saw people were saying he called for national, you know, red flag laws or something like that.
Hold on, let me see if I can pull up some more information on this.
But yeah, wow, that was a lot of nothing.
I think he also just said at the end, all kids' lives matters, which is very offensive.
Very, very offensive.
I mean, to take the language of Black Lives Matter and then, you know, repurpose it to try and help white kids, it's disgusting.
It really is.
And probably a lot of Hispanic kids, which is a, I'm not sure if that's okay or not.
I don't know.
I got to check with MSNBC.
I'm not sure if they're like racial appropriation.
Is that the word?
Perhaps.
Cultural appropriation.
There you go.
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So McConaughey calls for gun control action at White House.
I just, you know, we didn't watch the entire thing.
So maybe there were some parts in there where he actually called for some specifics.
That's what happens when you mumble and say nothing.
Everyone gets to imagine that you said something and fill in the blanks.
So people on Twitter are probably just filling in the blanks.
Okay.
So one of the quotes was: we need to invest in mental health care.
We need safer schools.
We need to restrain sensationalized media coverage.
We need to restore our family values.
We need to restore our American values.
Yeah, we also need less inflation.
We need everyone to respect their elders.
We need people to live longer.
Yeah, I just, I don't know.
Again, like I said before, it's, it's, it's interesting in a way, like there really is, I do think there's something like a personality trait or something like that to how different people see this stuff.
I just, I find this to be so gross.
That's, that's really my take on it is that I go like, so Matthew McConaughey is very, very rich, certainly worth tens, if not hundreds of millions of dollars.
Um, go do something quietly behind the scenes.
I understand this is your hometown and you're shaken up by that.
And I can understand particularly in like a not, you know, it's not like, you know, my, my hometown is like New York City, like I'm from Brooklyn.
It's a little bit different.
It's not quite as personal when something happens in like a big city.
But like if you're from a town and something like that, I can understand that really shakes up the town.
So go do something, but don't use this tragedy to have your moment where you get up there in front of all the cameras and put on this performance.
I don't find anything about that to be noble.
You know what I mean?
I find that to be like, like exploitative, like you're, you're like taking advantage of this situation.
I don't find it to be like beautiful when you like hold, like start telling personal stories of this family.
The reason why I would feel so uncomfortable doing something like that is because I'd go, oh, I don't, I don't actually know this girl or her family.
I met them for 20 minutes with a bunch of cameras around.
I'm literally just regurging the few stories that they told me, like regurgitating those few stories that wouldn't like, it wouldn't feel authentic.
It would be like, no, this is me kind of like using them.
And then if that in any way like boosted my image, I'd be like, wait, so am I like benefiting off telling someone else's sob story?
I don't know.
I just find that so wrong.
And I also am just very unimpressed with people diving into these issues that aren't saying anything interesting.
You know, I'm not, look, I'm a fucking stand-up comic who just started diving into these fucking issues.
And now I'm like known to some degree for talking about all this shit.
So I'm not above anybody.
Like, I'm not, I'd be a hypocrite to criticize an actor or an entertainer or something like that for talking about politics.
But if you're going to talk about it, you got to have something to say.
That's the minimum requirement.
You have to have something to say before you start talking about this.
And if all you have to say is like, oh, killing kids is really bad and we got to do all the good things to make sure this doesn't happen.
What the fuck have you added?
What have you added to this conversation?
So when you strip away the performance aspect of this, there was zero substance.
And I don't like that because this is when people on the heels of tragedies like this, this is like when people get manipulated into supporting the worst tyrannical government policies.
This is always how it happens is that they exploit this feeling that many of us have of like this sense of like community and like morality that, okay, this horrible thing has happened.
We have to come together to do something right to fix it.
And it's always in those moments when the worst exploitation happens and the worst tyranny happens, whether it's after 9-11, whether it's after, you know, the COVID is unleashed, whether it's all this shit.
It's always then that we're exploited and tyranny is imposed.
So fuck that.
I don't appreciate any of this.
I think this was awful.
Yeah, give it a couple days.
Yeah, really.
Yeah, really.
Also, go ahead.
I did learn that shifting around while you talk doesn't look as cool as I thought it did.
No, it doesn't.
Does not look great.
Does not look great.
Anyway, I guess the bright side of all of this is that this isn't going to do shit.
This isn't going to move the needle at all.
You're not, this is just going to build up more.
People are not parting with their guns easily.
And people do not appreciate being lectured morally by Hollywood actors.
They just don't appreciate it.
And it's like, I understand Matthew McConaughey, but like you clearly you care so much.
You care so much more than all of the rest of us about dead kids that only you could bring us the wisdom of we have to pass laws to make sure this doesn't happen again.
Thank you.
Brilliant.
But actually, you don't care any more about dead kids than the rest of us.
We all care.
We all think it's horrible and you don't need to fucking, but we didn't need your help on this one, McConaughey.
So thanks.
But just go back to making whatever movie you are making.
And if it's a good movie, I'll enjoy it.
And if it's not, I'll talk about how it's crap.
And I think that's what our relationship should be going forward.
All right.
We're going to wrap up on that one.
There's an interesting little impromptu show that I didn't exactly have planned out, but that's our show for today.
I'll be back home for the next episode and we'll be back to our normal schedule.