The Matt Walsh Show

In the movie The Crucible, after John Proctor refuses to sign a false confession admitting to witchcraft, thereby signing his own death warrant, right before he's taken off to be hanged, he kisses his wife and he says to her, give them no tears. Show them a stony heart and sink them with it.

I think a lot about the, uh, I've mentioned this comparison before, I think, but the, the play slash movie, The Crucible, uh, I see so much similarity between that and our situation today, you know, the Salem witch trials where these people were, uh, forced to, you know, confess and apologize for being witches.

And, uh, there's the great scene at the end there where John, they're trying to get John Proctor to, you know, apologize and confess for being a witch. And, uh, he refuses and he says, is there no good penitence, but it be public.

You should read this book. It's called Desperate Remedies I believe which is a history of psychiatry which is one atrocity after another completely outside of science.

You should read this book. It's called Desperate Remedies I believe which is a history of psychiatry which is one atrocity after another completely outside of science.

He described the board book C is for Consent, noting it's for ages zero and up, a short board book aimed at toddlers.

He recounted the story where Grandpa asks consent to kiss Finn, Mom says ask for consent first, and Finn is allowed to say no, emphasizing consent.

He criticized the book, saying it sexualizes physical contact between family members and that the author is Eleanor Morrison.

we have C is for Consent - a picture book that goes into detail about consent with your body with family

All right, we've played several clips of Michelle Obama on her book tour as she hawks her fashion book, her book of pictures of herself called, what was it called? The Look.

The book is called Look at Me, The Book.

She was on that very podcast promoting a book called The Look that she's selling, where it's a bunch of pictures of her wearing outfits.

She wants to be known for more than her outfits and yet here she is with a book where it's just, I want to know... I want to be known for more than my clothing.

Yes, that dude is reading a book titled Hot and Unbothered, okay? I looked it up and apparently the full title is Hot and Unbothered, How to Think About, Talk About and Have the Sex You Really Want.

So yes, behind the scenes here, okay? The CNBC crew came to this dink's house. They wanted to get some Broll of this couple sitting on a couch and pretending to read together, which is something they've probably never done even once in real life, okay? They've never sat on a couch and read together. They're just on their phones all the time, not even looking at each other. But they wanted to get this. And so this guy decided to pull Hot and Unbothered from the shelf for the scene.

That's the kind of book that if you have it, you take it down from your shelf and you hide it under the couch when the film crew comes. It's not a book that you deliberately showcase, but then again, these are obviously not people who have much of a capacity for shame because they're dinks.

Hot and Unbothered. Hot and Unbothered. How to think about, talk about and have the sex you really want.

They wanted to get some Broll of this couple ... so this guy decided to pull Hot and Unbothered from the shelf for the scene. That's the kind of book that if you have it, you take it down from your shelf and you hide it under the couch when the film crew comes.

That is something that Lawrence Keeley explains in depth in his book War Before Civilization which is worth reading if you haven't

According to the book, War Before Civilization by archaeologist Lawrence H. Keeley, ...

According to Keeley, ... somewhere between 90 and 95% of known societies in all of human history were warlike.

According to Keely's book, War Before Civilization, at 25 sites in the American Southwest, anthropologists have discovered cannibalized human remains dated from roughly the year 900 to 1300.

I finished the book Skeletons on the Zahara. It tells the story of James Riley, captain of the merchant ship Commerce, which shipwrecked off the coast of North Africa in 1815 and the crew's subsequent enslavement as white slaves.

You know, over the weekend I finished the book Skeletons on the Zahara. It tells the story of James Riley, captain of the merchant ship Commerce, which shipwrecked off the coast of North Africa in 1815. Riley, along with his entire crew, were stranded in the Saharan desert, seized and enslaved by desert nomads, and forced to endure starvation, beatings and being treated as property far beneath camels and donkeys.

Even Abraham Lincoln named his book Sufferings in Africa as one of his greatest inspirations.

Captain James Riley would become a household name. Even Abraham Lincoln named his book Sufferings in Africa as one of his greatest inspirations.

but the the titles are and to think that I saw it on Mulberry Street if I ran the zoo McElligot's Pool which I've never even heard of that one I consider myself a Seuss expert but I've never heard of that one before on Beyond Zebra Scrambled Egg Super and The Cat's Quizzer.

Dr. Seuss Enterprises told the Associated Press that the books, here are the books, and to think that I saw it on Mulberry Street, if I ran the zoo, McElligot's Pool, On Beyond Zebra, Scrambled Egg Super, and The Cat's Quizzer will no longer be published due to hurtful depictions in the books.

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It reminds me of a great scene in Man for All Seasons that I think I mentioned before.

down and the devil turned around on you. Where would you hide, Roper? The law's all being flat. This country is planted thick with laws from coast to coast, man's laws not God's. And if you cut them down and you're just a man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I give the devil benefit of law for my own safety's sake.

One of my favorite movies, uh, which was originally a play, uh, it's called a man for all seasons.

Daniel Kahneman, he's a famous Nobel Prize-winning economist. He has a very good book called Thinking Fast and Slow.

The books of the Bible, like Daniel, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Matthew, and Revelation.

Height made their marks while speaking to Firing Line with host Margaret Hoover about his new book, The Anxious Generation. How the great rewiring of childhood is causing an epidemic of mental illness.

He explained that the great rewiring refers to a fiveyear period between 2010 and 2015 when society fundamentally changed for adolescents with the emergence of smartphones and social media.

There was this documentary called The Secret a decade ago or so that had basically this message about manifestation but combined with the idea that the powers that be are hiding this knowledge from us.

When it comes to The Secret, the idea that there is some deep dark secret about the universe that is being hidden from you is very appealing.

It appeals to your ego as well. Oh, I know The Secret. It's like the manifestation TikTokers.

And then when I tell you, you'll know it and other people won't. So it appeals to ego.

Discuss his book The End of Race Politics Arguments for a Colorblind America.

I would most recommend actually over even over the free will book is uh he wrote a book called The Moral Landscape and that's his attempt to um rebut the moral argument for God which I think is one of the strongest arguments.

When I was age 20, I read a book by Vance Packard called Hidden Persuaders, which opened my eyes to the invisible forces that are controlling how we think.

Tolstoy famously begins Anna Karenina, which is his novel about the 19th century Russian version of this woman, Honor Jones. With this line, he says, all happy families are alike. Each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

the representation of hell in Dante's Inferno. You start with the land of venal sins, and then Virgil guides you down the rabbit hole, right to the depths of hell itself.