The Matt Walsh Show - Sneak Peek Inside What Happens In The Walsh Home

Episode Date: November 19, 2022

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All right. You know, I've been going through a tough time at home. There was, I had a difficult moment with my daughter. Last week, we were sitting down to the couch. It's kind of a, kind of a parenting scare. I guess we were sitting down on the couch. And she turns me out of the blue. And she tells me, my seven-year-old daughter, she tells me that she wants to be a vegetarian. And now the, and she didn't know the word actually at first. She said that she's, she's a daddy, what's the when someone only eats vegetables? And I said, vegetarian? And she said, yeah,

I'm that. That's what I want to be. And of course, I'm thinking to myself, no daughter of mine, no daughter of mine is going to be a vegetarian. But I realized there were signs leading up to this. Like, for example, earlier last summer, we were out, I was out fishing with her. And she caught, like it was like a blue deal or something. And she pulled the hook out and I guess caused some internal bleeding.

It happens through the fish back in, catch and release. bob back up to the surface and was just laying there, right? And then she pointed to the fish and said, Daddy, why is the fish laying there? I said, oh, he's probably, probably sleeping. You know, took a lot out of when you caught him. And then it started bleeding. And she said, but what's the red, why is it bleeding? And then I had to admit, well, he's, yeah, you might have killed him. It's okay, though, don't worry. She was devastated by that. Absolutely devastated. I think that was the beginning of her animal rights activism. But anyway, fast forward, she tells me she's a vegetarian and I'm pretty distraught over that

because I can't imagine having a vegetarian in the house. But the next day, I'm talking to her again, and she tells me that she decided that she's a vegetarian, but she can still eat chicken nuggets. So she'll make an exception for that. And the day after that, she said that, well, I'm a vegetarian, but I can eat chicken nuggets, but also, of course, like sausage and bacon with breakfast,

I can have that. And then each successive day, she started adding more meat products onto her vegetarian diet. Until now, she's just back. She's a vegetarian who also eats meat. which is fine, which is perfectly valid. That is a self-identity that I can respect. And her trajectory of vegetarianism, I think, follows a similar trajectory of a lot of people who, you know, announce themselves to be vegetarian.

One of the small joys of parenthood is just seeing the kinds of names and labels that your kids come up with for things, as they're sort of like making sense of the world and that could always be a lot of fun and so it can be fun but it's also a little terrifying at time so I had this experience a couple days ago I was at home we were in the living room at night and my four-year-old son

who he's always got a ton of energy he's like a rabid raccoon run around the house at all hours of the day just full of energy but this was it was getting late was like 8 o'clock, and he had more energy than usual. And I was trying to figure out what was going on with him. And then he said to me, he said, hey, daddy, guess what? And I said, what? And he said, I found some wild beans. I ate some wild beans, and they've made me strong and

crazy. That's what he said. And I thought for a minute, it's like wild beans that you ate, that have made you crazy. What the hell did this kid find an eat? And I'm racking my brain now because I'm thinking, was he, did he find, did he eat like poison berries from outside? Did he, was he in the medicine cabinet? This is a four-year-old. He ate something that he considers a wild bean.

Did he find like a crack rock and eat it? I don't think so. I don't smoke a lot of crack at the house so that he shouldn't have been able to find that. And then my, but my wife quickly put pieced it all together and realized that he had somehow invaded our pantry, and we had a whole bag, I guess, of chocolate-covered raisins. And he had ate the entire bag. I don't know how he got up there where he found them. I didn't even know we had them.

He ate the whole bag, and then he was on a sugar high. So that was the answer. With a four-year-old, though, that could be anything, wild beans. And that's just a great, you know, it's a great way of looking at chocolate-covered raisins, I suppose. You know, established titles is your opportunity to earn the title of Lord or Lady and gain the respect that you so richly deserve. All you need is a one square foot plot of land in Scotland.

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stuff out. And you never know what exactly is going on up there until they open their mouths, as my four-year-old did last night while he was sitting on the couch and he turned to me and he asked, pointing to his older brother, he said, Daddy, if me and Luke switched heads, what would happen. And I said, well, I mean, you die first of all. So don't, that's the first thing. And you probably make a heck of a mess in the process. So, and he kind of goes silent and he thinks about it. And then I start thinking about it too. And now I'm now my wheels are turning. And then I asked him, I said, well, okay, what if you did switch heads with him? Would you now have Luke's body or Luke's head? Like, would giving your head to Luke mean that you go with your head? Or would it be more

accurate to say that you remain with your body and now you just have Luke's head? You see what I'm saying? Very philosophical question. And he processed it for a while and eventually we both agreed that he would probably travel with his head. But it's an interesting question. And then later on, when I was putting him to bed and we're still talking about this question of removing heads and everything, great thing to talk about at bedtime and things are finally clicking and he goes wait a second daddy so so i'm in my head i'm in my bones in my head and he starts knocking on his head like he's knocking on the front door trying to communicate with himself and then we got it when we started talking about the mind body problem and neurology and the soul and it was all very metaphysical after a while um i say we

were talking about that but it was like i was talking and he was just sitting there not understanding anything i was saying but i did make sure to emphasize putting all that aside don't actually try to do this please do not try to take your head off. That's all. That should be the main point here. I was sitting down with my kids dinner last night, and I asked them, as I always ask them, what did you learn today in their homeschool classes?

And in the past, I've asked them, I would ask a broader question like, what happened today or, you know, what did you do today? And I realize with kids, you've got to be more specific because if you ask a broad question, I would always ask, what happened today? And the answer would always be something like, well, we went outside and we saw something in the yard. And we went up to it.

And it was a squirrel. He was dead. And he didn't have eyes. And I would say, wow, dead squirrel, huh? What else happened? Anything? No, that was it. Just a dead squirrel.

What did you do with the dead squirrel? Oh, we played dodge ball with it. Oh, dear God. get away from you all the black plague now um so i get more specific and now i ask what did you learn today and that can be a fruitful thing so i asked that yesterday and um my kids told me that they were learning about one of the one of the things they learned about was persuasion and uh what what is persuasion and how do you persuade people you know especially in the form of writing and they were telling me about that and i said well that's great so uh let's try this out can you persuade me of

something. Just try to persuade me of something. And they couldn't figure out what they should persuade me of. And then, of course, my wife was there. And she chimed in immediately and said, oh, kids, you should persuade Daddy to get a dog because we're still doing the dog thing. And my daughter made an attempt. And her attempt of persuasion was this, Daddy, I am persuading you. You are being persuaded. Get a dog. Get a dog. You're persuaded. And I try to explain to her that's not persuasion. You can't just make your demand louder and louder. But what you're doing here, this is like an exorcism.

The power of Christ compels you. That's not persuasion. But then I also realized that that is basically how arguments go on Twitter. She's ready for her own Twitter account, I think, because that's the way persuasion works. Not just on Twitter, but in society generally.