September 10, 2025 • 32 mins
What does history teach us about being a man? To find the answer, we hear from Michael Walsh, the best selling author of Last Stands: Why Men Fight When All is Lost. This writer’s writer researched over twenty-five hundred years of Western Civilization to find what history tells us about being a man – and the answer will startle today’s male role models right out of their skinny jeans.
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on with the show. This episode was originally broadcast on
March twenty sixth, twenty twenty one. What does it mean
to be a man in Today's society? In pop culture,
American men were once portrayed as heroes with the strength
needed to save the day.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
You could ask yourself question, do I feel lucky? Well?
Do you punk?
Speaker 3 (00:51):
And any man that doesn't want to cooperate, I'll make
a moisture he hadn't been born.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
I want to take you to the bank, Senator Trent,
to the Black Bank.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
You sit here and you shut your mouse. This is
going to the next level.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
But now the men on our screens give off a
completely different vibe.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Hi guys, how you doing?
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Hi?
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Her folly?
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Has the ideal man changed that much over the years.
I'm Patrick Carelci.
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And I'm Adriana Cortes.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
And this is Red Pilled America, a storytelling show.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
This is not another talk show covering the day's news.
We're all about telling stories.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Stories. Hollywood doesn't want you to hear stories.
Speaker 5 (01:36):
The media mocks stories about everyday Americans that the globalist ignore.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
You can think of Red Pilled America as audio documentaries,
and we promise only one thing, the truth. Welcome to
Red Pilled America. The modern man portrayed in pop culture
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looks nothing like the celebrated, rugged males of our past. Today,
men are largely depicted as effeminate creatures with testosterone levels
approaching absolute zero. Has the ideal man changed that much
over the years? What does history teach us about being
a man. To find the answer, we hear from Michael Walsh,
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the best selling author of Last Stands, Why Men Fight
when all is lost? This writer's writer researched over twenty
five hundred years of Western civilization to find what history
tells us about what it means to be a man,
And the answer will startle today's male role models right
out of their skinny genes.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
To uncover the true essence of what it means to
be a man, you'd have to have been around long
enough to really see the world, not only through researching
ancient text, but also by studying big world events up
close and personal. Michael Walsh has done all the above.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
And I was in the Soviet Union when Chernobyl exploded.
I was at the Berlin Wall when it came down.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
That's Michael Walsh. He brought together his life experience, writing gift,
and deep research into the history of Western civilization to
write Last Stands, Why Men Fight When All Is Lost.
It's a must read, best selling book that gets to
the essence of what it means to be a man.
Michael uses storytelling to make his argument, with each chapter
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telling a different compelling story of men facing insurmountable odds
yet deciding to fight on. When he started writing Last Stands,
Michael chose the topic using the same method he used
to pick subjects for his previous books.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
You know, the way you write a book is you
find the subject that interests you and then you go.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
By the end of twenty nineteen, he finished writing the
book and decided to read a chapter during a speech
he gave at Hillsdale College.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
I read the first chapter and called it the praise
of toxic masculinity, because obviously at the sage now I'm
seventy one, I've been around for a long time. I've
seen how masculinity has been challenged and devalued and insulted
and everything else.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
After a year of polishing, Michael released Last Stands in
December twenty twenty, and he really had no idea that
he was tapping into the hidden zietgeist of our time.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
There was definitely a hunger for it at a market
which we didn't really suspect to till the books sold
out on day one. Day one, it was gone.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
The book's success shouldn't have come as a surprise. Masculinity
is under attack and people are yearning for a way forward. Also,
Michael is truly a gifted writer. That's why Andrew Breitbart
Ham picked him to become an early editor for Breitbart News.
Michael is one of the few openly conservative writers making
a successful living in the storytelling game dominated by the left.
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So what did he find in his research of men
in Losing Battles. Well, we'll get to that first. Let's
explore Michael's journey to his conclusion his lifelong education started
by watching his father.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
My father is readers of last ans will learn, was
in the Marine Corps. He was a Rine Corps officer
who at the age of twenty four, landed at the
Pusan Perimeter in koreas the Korean War broke out, and
then proceeded up to the Incheon, landing the Battle of
Soul and finally the Battle of the Chosen Reservoir in
the late fall of nineteen fifty and then came home
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and fathered four more children. So I grew up in
the Corps. We moved from duty station to duty station,
fairly standard army brat type thing, as they call us.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
He picked up writing at a very young age.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
I started reading when I was about two, so I
was probably writing by the time I was five. And
that's not that extraordinary. You know, when you find something
you're going to do with your life, usually you write
on it from the beginning. You know. It was pretty
clear Bozart was going to be a great composer by
the time he was four, because he had already written
about twelve symphonies and six operas, So you just go
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for it.
Speaker 5 (06:10):
Aside from writing, Michael picked up the piano at five
years old as well, and has had a lifelong love
for music ever since. He grew up in the nineteen
fifties and sixties in a time when it wasn't rare
for boys and girls to be taught separately.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
I went to a boys' Catholic high school in Honolulu
for two years while we were stationed in Hawaii, and
then I transferred to another boys Catholic high school in Arlington, Virginia.
Speaker 5 (06:34):
By the time he hit seventeen, he was out on
his own.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
I was a national a Merite scholarship winner, and so
I took that scholarship and went to the East School
to Music in Rochester, New York, and never went home again.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
On paper, Michael may appear to be a natural Lefty.
He's a writer, storyteller and went off to study music
at an art school. But he's never fit in the
liberal mold.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
I've always been a conservative. I've never not been a conservative.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
He began his higher education during a very tumultuous time
in America.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
College years were sixty seven to seventy one. So look
at all the things that happened. I have some very
sad news for all of you, and that is that
Martin Luther King was shot and was killed tonight in Memphis.
Speaker 6 (07:16):
Ladies and gentlemen, we've kept the air on because we've
heard an alarming report that Robert Kennedy was shot.
Speaker 7 (07:23):
Mister Chairman, most delegates to this convention do not know
that thousands of young people are being beaten in the
streets of Chicago. And for that reason, and that reason alone,
I request the suspension of the rules for the purpose
of adjournment for two weeks at six pm, to relocate
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the convention in another city. Of the choosing of the
Democratic National Committee and the presidential.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Candidates, with the assassinations of Kennedy and Martin Luther King,
and the Chicago riots during the Democrat Convention and Kent
State happened in May of nineteen seventy.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
That was an incident where four Kent State University students
were killed by National guardsmen at an anti Vietnam War protest.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
And all of a sudden I heard them shooting.
Speaker 5 (08:21):
With massive protests, riots, and even domestic terrorism sweeping America,
it was a crazy time to attend university. It's when
the seeds of most of the chaos gripping America were
first planted so my.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
College has encompassed that period, so it's pretty wild and
crazy time. And I just did not find myself in
agreement with the left, whether it was the anti war left,
whether it was the anti Vietnam left, whether it was
the nascent kind of Marxist left which we now have
in full flower. That wasn't for me.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
Michael didn't succumb to the overwhelming leftist culture shift of
the time. When he graduated, he decided to take a
run at a career in writing.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
I went into journalism at the age of twenty two
on the Rochester, New York Democrat and Chronicle because the
Eastman School is located in Rochester. And I got lucky
and I got a job on the paper and I
did well. And then I went to San Francisco to
become the classical music critic of the San Francisco Examiner
in a great opera town. So it was tons of
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fun for me to really learn opera, which is my
favorite art for him now, and then Time magazine came
and called me in nineteen eighty one and said, how
would you like to be Times music critic. I was
thirty one years old and they were looking for someone
much older, but they took a chance on me.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
He signed on and moved to Germany with his pregnant
wife and two kids. He'd lived there for the next
sixteen years and witnessed up close some of history's most
extraordinary events.
Speaker 8 (09:56):
An official announcement from the Council of Ministers. There has
been an accident at the Chernobyl Atomic power station. One
of the reactors was damaged. The consequences of the accident
are being taken care of. Help is being given to
the victims of the accident.
Speaker 9 (10:10):
From the Berlin Walls specifically, take a look at them.
They've been there since last night. They are here in
the thousands, They are here in the tens of thousands.
Thousands and thousands of West Germans come to make the
point that the wall has suddenly become irrelevant. How do
you measure such an astonishing moment in history?
Speaker 2 (10:27):
So I was present for everything from the Chernobyl explosion.
I was in the Soviet Union when Chernobyl exploded. I
was at the Berlin Wall when it came down.
Speaker 5 (10:38):
But while he was gone, America was experiencing a radical shift.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
I don't ever recall there being political conversations in the
newsroom It just.
Speaker 5 (10:48):
Didn't happen, that is, until a major scandal hit President
Reagan's second term.
Speaker 6 (10:54):
Colonel law, please rise, who you solemnly swear that in
the testimony you're about to give will be the coof
the whole poof and nothing but the truth.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
So help your God. I do even at Time Magazine,
I don't recall political discussions. It didn't happen until around
Iran Contra, and then it began to till.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
In nineteen eighty five, high ranking officials within the Reagan
administration were accused of selling arms to Iran to fund
the contras In You got Agua.
Speaker 10 (11:26):
Are you here telling the committee that you don't remember
whether on November twenty first there was a document in
your files reflecting presidential approval.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
That is a bald faced lie told to the Iranians.
And I will tell you right now, I'd have offered
the Iranians a free trip to Disneyland if we could
have gotten Americans home for it.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
According to Michael, the event triggered an open shift in
his newsroom. By the time he left Time Magazine in
the mid nineties, he returned to a completely changed America.
Speaker 11 (11:58):
As you know, there's a major controversy out in the
Great Northwest over the spotted owl. I don't believe the
northern spotted owl is an endangered species that will be
decided of the Interior Department vision game or something. You know,
It's just a bunch of wacko leftist environmentalists who are
continuing their assault on capitalist America.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Rush Limbaugh came up while I was out of the country,
so I had to kind of catch up with him
and the whole conservative phenomenon.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
The success of rush Limbaugh continued to draw out liberal
bias in the newsroom and in Hollywood. The mass were
beginning to drop, but it didn't FaZe Michael. Instead of
turning away from a storytelling industry shifting to the left,
he entered the belly of the beast Hollywood. By two
thousand and two, he'd already published two novels and was
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finishing a third.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
I had a friend now decease, who introduced me to
a very well known producer, and he looked at the
first forty pages of My Gang, which is called in
All of the Saints. The next thing I knew, I
was on a plane and we had sold that script
for a lot of money to MGM, and that was
how I got my start in Hollywood.
Speaker 5 (13:13):
It was a different time in Tinseltown. Although it was
already openly aligned with the left, there were still some
room for patriots, something that could be seen at the
two thousand and three Oscars and.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
The Oscar goes to bowling for Columbne Michael Michael Donahan.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
When director Michael Moore stepped up to the microphone to
accept his Oscar, he decided to make a political statement
about the Iraq War, and by today's standards, the audience's
response was shocking.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
I've invited my fellow documentary nominees on the stage with us.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
And.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
We would like to they are here. They are here
in solidarity with me because we like nonfiction. We like nonfiction,
and we live in fictitious times. We live in the
time where we have fictitious election results that elects a
fictitious president.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
We live in a time.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Where we have a man sending us the war for
fictitious reasons, whether it's the fictition of duct tape or
the fictitious of Orange alerts. We are against this war.
Mister Bush. Shame on you, mister Bush, Shame on you.
At any time you've got the pop from the.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Fictic sick again.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
The famed lefty director was booed off the stage. As
recent as the early two thousands, Hollywood still had a
patriotic thread running through it, so there was room for
people like Michael Walsh, and he took advantage of it.
He co wrote the original film Cadet Kelly for Disney,
which was at the time the highest rated original movie
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in Disney Channel history, and throughout his time in Hollywood,
Michael took the brave path.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
I've always been an out of the closet conservative ry
my ears in LA I always preached to the other
screenwriters there, just be yourself, write a good movie, don't
write a conservative movie. Don't be afraid. You know. So
many wanted to hide and say, well, I'll get fired
if I do this, and that. I never agreed with that.
I think we have to take We have to stand
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up for who we are, and the more we give up,
the more cancel culture you're gonna get. We have to
stand up and say no, enough, stop it, and until
we do, it won't stop.
Speaker 5 (15:30):
He continued writing scripts and novels, then in twenty ten
he decided to add another talent to a stack. New
media pioneer Andrew Breitbart wanted to add to his growing
Breitbart News empire. He'd already launched Big Hollywood and Big Government,
his news verticals designed to take on Tinseltown and Washington,
d C. Now Andrew wanted to launch Big Journalism to
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take on the mainstream media.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
My goal is to destroy the mainstream media as we
currently know it, so that it is more equitable, so
that it is more fair.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
And he turned to Michael Walsh to become this sites editor.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
That's when I met Michael.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Well. I think Andrew did a great service when he
started the big sites back in the old days as
we like to think of them. Obviously, you wrote for me.
You and I did the series on the East Anglia
climate foolishness very early on. That was so good.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Red Pilled America listeners may remember one of our first
episodes entitled cherry Picking, about the alleged hacking of one
of the world's leading climate change research facilities. Michael was
the first to publish that story on Brepart News, and I.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Was so proud to have helped to get that into print.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
He went on to write conservative theme nonfiction books like
rules for radical conservatives, the people versus the Democrat Party,
and studies on how the left uses art, culture and
critical theory to subvert the West. Then came Last Stands,
Why Men Fight when All Is Lost? And what did
the history Michael found reveal about what it means to
be a man? Well, let's just say that the men
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of your yesterday would call the males of today Mino's
men in name only. More after the break, welcome back.
So Michael Walsh's life journey brought him to write the
definitive book on what it means to be a man.
It's titled Last Stands, Why Men Fight when All Is Lost?
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And what did Michael learn from history? Well, let's just
say that the men of yesterday would call the males
of today Mino's men in name only. A great way
to illustrate what Michael found is a story from Last
Stands about Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle of Shiloh
during the Civil War.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Shiloh is one of the first major battle of the
Civil War, and it's not usually thought of as the
Last stand. In fact, it's pretty well forgotten. Shiloh happened
in April of eighteen sixty two and our hero Ulysses S. Grant,
who I believe is the greatest American who ever lived him.
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As we opened the story, he's down and out on
his luck. He had gone to West Point, which was
quite a different place then than it is today.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
After graduating from the US Military Academy West Point, Grant
served in the Mexican American War until it's end in
February eighteen forty eight. He then came home and married
Julia Dent, a sister of a West Point classmate. That
same year they had two kids.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
He found that being in the service in peacetime really
didn't help him much, and then he got sent out
to far off California and Oregon Territory. And in those
days it took forever. You didn't go over land. You
went up on a boat to the Isthmus of Panama,
and then you walked across and half of his party
died of yellow fever in Malaria. And then you got
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on another boat and went up the west coast of
what's now the United States. So he turned to drink,
and that's where he got his reputation as being an alcoholic.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Being in a far off land away from his wife
and kids. Wasn't working for him, so Grant resigned from
service in July eighteen fifty four, and.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Finally he bustered himself out of the service. He said,
I just can't take it anymore. I want to go
home to Julia and our kids.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
He entered civilian life without a trade to support his family,
so he tried to take up farming, but the venture
wasn't successful. Grant took a stab in real estate as
a bill collector that failed to make ends meet. He
turned to selling firewood on Saint Louis Street corners. In
the spring of eighteen sixty, he decided to move his
family to Illinois.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
He was working in his father's tannery in a little
dinky town in Illinois, Galena, Illinois.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
So when the American Civil War broke out a year later,
he was a nobody.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
And then he realized, hey, I've got a commission. Yeah,
I resigned it, but I can get it back again.
And the Union needs soldiers, and so he organized a
volunteer brigade as they did in those days, and they
gave him a battle command that he went in and
he won several important battles at Fort Belmont, bought and
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couple of other places, and then he got caught at Shiloh.
And that's where this story opened. Shiloh's a little town
down in the extreme southwestern part of Tennessee on the
Tennessee River.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Union General William T. Sherman at his command in Shiloh.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
And they were ambushed by a huge Confederate army that
they never saw coming. On the first day of Shiloh.
The Union forces took such a beating that it set
the standard by which all Civil War bloodshed would henceforth
be considered.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
The killed, wounded, missing, and captured was estimated to be
almost twenty four thousand people.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
They lost more men at Shiloh, killed, wounded, missing than
the US had lost in all other previous works combined
on one day. And Grant was up the river when
the battle started early on that Sunday morning in April.
Sherman was completely taken by surprise and pushed way back,
and the entire Union force was shoved back against the
Tennessee River.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
The Confederates that they had a checkmate, but Grant pulled
his team together and got them back in the field.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
And there's a famous story at the end of day
one of Shiloh. Two things happened. One is Grant's standing there.
It's raining now. What had been a beautiful days turned
to a mud puddle, and Sherman comes up and says, well, Grant,
we had the devil's own time today, didn't we. Grant's
sitting there smoking a cigar on the rain and says, yeah,
but we'll lick them tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Though Grant was asked if they were going to retreat, he.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Said, retreat, I propose, you know, we're going to get
up in the morning and lick them, beat him hard,
whip him, and he did so. That made Grant. If
he had lost Shiloh, the Union would have been completely demoralized.
As it was. The death toll got Granted into a
lot of trouble with the newspapers, who were almost uniformly
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against Lincoln and Lincoln's prosecute the Civil War. We think
the media is bad now, it was just as bad
on those days. But Grant managed to survive that. Had
he lost Shiloh, you never would have heard of Grant.
He would have been either killed or mustard right out
of the army again. And of course Grant went on
to become President of the United States. He won twice.
He ran for a third time but did not get
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the nomination. But what a great great man he was,
and so flawed in so many ways. But the point
of that putting that battle in is that was really
the crucial battle of the Civil War.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Grant could have easily retreated with the staggering numbers of dead, missing, wounded,
and captured. Running away looked like the completely rational option.
But Grant wouldn't retreat with his family and kids waiting
for him at home. He put his life on the
line and pushed forward the next day, turning around the
Battle of Shiloh and eventually the entire Civil War. Why
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throughout history have great men made that decision to fight
and risk their lives and even die in critical moments.
Michael Walsh thinks he knows why men are expendable.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
I think this is what women don't seem to understand.
Men are born to die. That's what they do. If
there's nothing worth dying for, there's nothing worth living for.
We don't incubate and bring up the next generation. We
father them. We have a billion sperm cells that maybe
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one in a gazillion gets lucky and turns into a
human being. That is the end of our biological function.
From that moment on, we are meant to go into
the field and kill that son of a bitch before
he kills you. That is what history teaches us. Men
are not the dominant monsters that the feminists think we are.
We're very simple, protoplasmic amba like creatures that are animated
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by a very few basic instincts, let's face it. And
one of them is to fight, the other one is
to appropriate. And that's all that we do and somehow
to have Where now the guys that got together with
all the other cave dudes in the year one million BC,
it made a plot against women that they would never
be allowed to achieve anything ever, because we were going
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to keep them down. This is just lunatic taught.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Michael draws from the most enduring Republican history to understand
how toxic masculinity has actually led to stability.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
I've done an awful lot of reading in Roman history
for these last few books, and that's not a society
in which today's feminists would be comfortable. It was, however,
society in which the feminists of its time were very
comfortable because they knew exactly what their place was. They
knew how to get and achieve power. There were many,
many successful women in ancient Rome. They just weren't the emperor,
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that's the thing. So if you just look at political achievement,
the glass ceiling, why hasn't there been a women president?
Most women throughout history would look at these. Today's feminists
say are you insane? Why would you want that? We
bought into the whole feminization concept of how society should
be organized. That is, if you can imagine a worse
hell than this, you tell me, but a society of passive,
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aggressive committees who sit around and talk and stab each
other in the back, but never ever take the field
and move forward. And that is the problem with a
feminine centric world. War's not going to go away, girls.
At some point, some big guy is going to come
up and grab you, or break into your house, or
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try to kill your husband or something. You cannot outlaw that.
You cannot breed it out of people. So this is
why I got to admire the third wave feminists. They
want all men dead. They that's their final solution to
the problem is to kill us, and then they'll live
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in that committee with doughnuts and backstabbing and passive aggression,
and nothing will ever get accomplished. As Camille Paulia said
in the first chapter of Sexual Persone, if women were
in charge, we'd all still be living in grass huts.
Speaker 12 (26:04):
You know, when there's a blood when there's an ice storm,
you know when the electric wires, you know, fall, Okay,
and you have a horrible dangerous situation. Who is going
out there, okay, in the middle of the night and
risking their life and picking up these broken wires and
the restoring power, I mean, in the most brutal condition,
it's men.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Okay. So we have to reject the idea that a
that a matriarchal society is somehow better than a patriarchal
That doesn't say it patriarchal societies are perfect. They're obviously not.
But good Lord, the Roman Empire, starting with the Republic,
it's in the earliest days, lasted two one hundred years,
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and that's because it was the most sexist, toxically maculine
society that we ever had in Western civilization.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
When did this feminization of men start? I mentioned to
Michael that it seemed to begin with the breakdown of
all male schools.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
I think you're right. I think it started with co education. Actually,
if you go back patrick to look at what people
said about co education and women's suffrage in the early
twentieth century, every single thing they predicted would happen did happen.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
And we did look back, and we found Mary Ashton Livermore,
an American journalist and women's rights activist that spoke on
the issue around the end of the nineteenth century. Mary
argued that co education caused flirtations among the sexes, masculine women,
effeminate men, and lower moral standards.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
At the time, people said, oh, that will never happen.
That'll you know how the left always goes, that'll never happen.
It's just one thing. Blah blah blah. What's wrong with you?
The sun comes up tomorrow, Yeah, yeah, yeah. Then the
next thing you know in your civilization is lying in
a wreck, and you wonder why it happened.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
By nineteen six D three D feminist activist Betty for
Dan spelled out very clearly what women's liberation would look like.
Speaker 13 (28:08):
In my opinion, the other half of the women of
the revolution, the other half of women's liberation movement, is
the boys in my country and in yours wearing their
hair long, you know. And those boys who are wearing
their hair long are saying no to the mascimstique. They
are saying no to that brutal, sadistic, tight lipped crew
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cut you know, Prussian big muscle you know, or turn
heming away, kill bears when there are no bears to
kill and Nate palm all the children in Vietnam Cambodia
to prove that I'm a man, you know, and be
dominant and superior to everyone concerned and never show any
any softness. Well, these boys that are wearing their hair
long are saying no, I don't have to be all
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that crew cut and tight lipped. I don't have to
be dominant and superior to it anyone. I don't have
to have big muscles because there aren't any bears to
kill you. I don't have to kill anybody to prove anything.
I can be tender, and I can be sensitive, and
I can be compassionate, and I can admit sometimes that
I'm afraid, and I can even cry. And I am
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a man, and I am my own man. And that
man who is strong enough to be Geno, that is
a new man.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
This ideology seeped into education, Hollywood, music, literature, and the
rest became history.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
I think the sexist do need to be segregated, and
I think it's good for men, and I think it's
good for women. The problem that the women have had
is they've listened to these third wave feminists who basically
posit this that the highest and most perfect form of
a woman is a man. That is the most insulting
thing you could say to a woman, that she's an
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imperfect man. And of course they've been hearing that since
Genesis for crying out loud, and yet they fell for it.
And women need to be segregated for lots of reasons
that men do too. It's a good thing as the
sexes learn to work together that they're not in competition,
but they are complimentary. And the notion that we are
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in death competition with females now or they with us,
has really damaged the relationship between the sexes. I think
it's the worst single thing that's happened in Western civilization
and it will bring it down eventually if it's loud
to continue.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Which leads us back to the question, what does it
mean to be a man.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
At the most elemental level, it means to punch the
other guy in the face and claws eyeballs out if
he's attacking you, or your woman, or your children, or
your property. That may not sound very friendly, but it's
the truth. And we have how many years of Western
history at least twenty five hundred to tell us that.
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And furthermore, I would say ninety nine percent of the
women would agree with me on that that that is
the truth. And yet, as usual, we've let the cult
course of the post war twentieth century now into the
twenty first say that up is down, black is white,
it is out, And who are you going to believe
you know me or your lying eyes? And this is
where we're at.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Men and women have a role with one another that
have stood the test of thousands of years. It doesn't
mean a woman can't have a career or a man
can't show emotion, but it does mean that when we
go against our nature, we're on the road to ruin.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
When a man finds his rightful place, a woman finds
her rightful place. I think the sex is a great idea.
We love the invention. We think that we're complimentary, not antithetical,
And the more we can educate our children, the better
off will be. I'll say this, I get a lot
of letters from women about this book. Oh my god.
I bought this book on Audible and I listened to
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it when I was driving or running a blah blah blah.
Then I bought two more copies and I gave them
to my husband, to my son. Then I bought more
copies and gave them to every man I know and said,
read this bar be sure.
Speaker 5 (32:04):
To grab Michael Walsh's Last Stand, Why Men Fight When
All Is Lost wherever you buy your books. He also
has an audio version for those that love that format.
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on with the show. This episode was originally broadcast on
March twenty sixth, twenty twenty one. What does it mean
to be a man in Today's society? In pop culture,
American men were once portrayed as heroes with the strength
needed to save the day.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
You could ask yourself question, do I feel lucky? Well?
Do you punk?
Speaker 3 (00:51):
And any man that doesn't want to cooperate, I'll make
a moisture he hadn't been born.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
I want to take you to the bank, Senator Trent,
to the Black Bank.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
You sit here and you shut your mouse. This is
going to the next level.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
But now the men on our screens give off a
completely different vibe.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Hi guys, how you doing?
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Hi?
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Her folly?
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Has the ideal man changed that much over the years.
I'm Patrick Carelci.
Speaker 5 (01:21):
And I'm Adriana Cortes.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
And this is Red Pilled America, a storytelling show.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
This is not another talk show covering the day's news.
We're all about telling stories.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Stories. Hollywood doesn't want you to hear stories.
Speaker 5 (01:36):
The media mocks stories about everyday Americans that the globalist ignore.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
You can think of Red Pilled America as audio documentaries,
and we promise only one thing, the truth. Welcome to
Red Pilled America. The modern man portrayed in pop culture
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looks nothing like the celebrated, rugged males of our past. Today,
men are largely depicted as effeminate creatures with testosterone levels
approaching absolute zero. Has the ideal man changed that much
over the years? What does history teach us about being
a man. To find the answer, we hear from Michael Walsh,
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the best selling author of Last Stands, Why Men Fight
when all is lost? This writer's writer researched over twenty
five hundred years of Western civilization to find what history
tells us about what it means to be a man,
And the answer will startle today's male role models right
out of their skinny genes.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
To uncover the true essence of what it means to
be a man, you'd have to have been around long
enough to really see the world, not only through researching
ancient text, but also by studying big world events up
close and personal. Michael Walsh has done all the above.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
And I was in the Soviet Union when Chernobyl exploded.
I was at the Berlin Wall when it came down.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
That's Michael Walsh. He brought together his life experience, writing gift,
and deep research into the history of Western civilization to
write Last Stands, Why Men Fight When All Is Lost.
It's a must read, best selling book that gets to
the essence of what it means to be a man.
Michael uses storytelling to make his argument, with each chapter
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telling a different compelling story of men facing insurmountable odds
yet deciding to fight on. When he started writing Last Stands,
Michael chose the topic using the same method he used
to pick subjects for his previous books.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
You know, the way you write a book is you
find the subject that interests you and then you go.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
By the end of twenty nineteen, he finished writing the
book and decided to read a chapter during a speech
he gave at Hillsdale College.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
I read the first chapter and called it the praise
of toxic masculinity, because obviously at the sage now I'm
seventy one, I've been around for a long time. I've
seen how masculinity has been challenged and devalued and insulted
and everything else.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
After a year of polishing, Michael released Last Stands in
December twenty twenty, and he really had no idea that
he was tapping into the hidden zietgeist of our time.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
There was definitely a hunger for it at a market
which we didn't really suspect to till the books sold
out on day one. Day one, it was gone.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
The book's success shouldn't have come as a surprise. Masculinity
is under attack and people are yearning for a way forward. Also,
Michael is truly a gifted writer. That's why Andrew Breitbart
Ham picked him to become an early editor for Breitbart News.
Michael is one of the few openly conservative writers making
a successful living in the storytelling game dominated by the left.
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So what did he find in his research of men
in Losing Battles. Well, we'll get to that first. Let's
explore Michael's journey to his conclusion his lifelong education started
by watching his father.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
My father is readers of last ans will learn, was
in the Marine Corps. He was a Rine Corps officer
who at the age of twenty four, landed at the
Pusan Perimeter in koreas the Korean War broke out, and
then proceeded up to the Incheon, landing the Battle of
Soul and finally the Battle of the Chosen Reservoir in
the late fall of nineteen fifty and then came home
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and fathered four more children. So I grew up in
the Corps. We moved from duty station to duty station,
fairly standard army brat type thing, as they call us.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
He picked up writing at a very young age.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
I started reading when I was about two, so I
was probably writing by the time I was five. And
that's not that extraordinary. You know, when you find something
you're going to do with your life, usually you write
on it from the beginning. You know. It was pretty
clear Bozart was going to be a great composer by
the time he was four, because he had already written
about twelve symphonies and six operas, So you just go
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for it.
Speaker 5 (06:10):
Aside from writing, Michael picked up the piano at five
years old as well, and has had a lifelong love
for music ever since. He grew up in the nineteen
fifties and sixties in a time when it wasn't rare
for boys and girls to be taught separately.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
I went to a boys' Catholic high school in Honolulu
for two years while we were stationed in Hawaii, and
then I transferred to another boys Catholic high school in Arlington, Virginia.
Speaker 5 (06:34):
By the time he hit seventeen, he was out on
his own.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
I was a national a Merite scholarship winner, and so
I took that scholarship and went to the East School
to Music in Rochester, New York, and never went home again.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
On paper, Michael may appear to be a natural Lefty.
He's a writer, storyteller and went off to study music
at an art school. But he's never fit in the
liberal mold.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
I've always been a conservative. I've never not been a conservative.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
He began his higher education during a very tumultuous time
in America.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
College years were sixty seven to seventy one. So look
at all the things that happened. I have some very
sad news for all of you, and that is that
Martin Luther King was shot and was killed tonight in Memphis.
Speaker 6 (07:16):
Ladies and gentlemen, we've kept the air on because we've
heard an alarming report that Robert Kennedy was shot.
Speaker 7 (07:23):
Mister Chairman, most delegates to this convention do not know
that thousands of young people are being beaten in the
streets of Chicago. And for that reason, and that reason alone,
I request the suspension of the rules for the purpose
of adjournment for two weeks at six pm, to relocate
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the convention in another city. Of the choosing of the
Democratic National Committee and the presidential.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Candidates, with the assassinations of Kennedy and Martin Luther King,
and the Chicago riots during the Democrat Convention and Kent
State happened in May of nineteen seventy.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
That was an incident where four Kent State University students
were killed by National guardsmen at an anti Vietnam War protest.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
And all of a sudden I heard them shooting.
Speaker 5 (08:21):
With massive protests, riots, and even domestic terrorism sweeping America,
it was a crazy time to attend university. It's when
the seeds of most of the chaos gripping America were
first planted so my.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
College has encompassed that period, so it's pretty wild and
crazy time. And I just did not find myself in
agreement with the left, whether it was the anti war left,
whether it was the anti Vietnam left, whether it was
the nascent kind of Marxist left which we now have
in full flower. That wasn't for me.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
Michael didn't succumb to the overwhelming leftist culture shift of
the time. When he graduated, he decided to take a
run at a career in writing.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
I went into journalism at the age of twenty two
on the Rochester, New York Democrat and Chronicle because the
Eastman School is located in Rochester. And I got lucky
and I got a job on the paper and I
did well. And then I went to San Francisco to
become the classical music critic of the San Francisco Examiner
in a great opera town. So it was tons of
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fun for me to really learn opera, which is my
favorite art for him now, and then Time magazine came
and called me in nineteen eighty one and said, how
would you like to be Times music critic. I was
thirty one years old and they were looking for someone
much older, but they took a chance on me.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
He signed on and moved to Germany with his pregnant
wife and two kids. He'd lived there for the next
sixteen years and witnessed up close some of history's most
extraordinary events.
Speaker 8 (09:56):
An official announcement from the Council of Ministers. There has
been an accident at the Chernobyl Atomic power station. One
of the reactors was damaged. The consequences of the accident
are being taken care of. Help is being given to
the victims of the accident.
Speaker 9 (10:10):
From the Berlin Walls specifically, take a look at them.
They've been there since last night. They are here in
the thousands, They are here in the tens of thousands.
Thousands and thousands of West Germans come to make the
point that the wall has suddenly become irrelevant. How do
you measure such an astonishing moment in history?
Speaker 2 (10:27):
So I was present for everything from the Chernobyl explosion.
I was in the Soviet Union when Chernobyl exploded. I
was at the Berlin Wall when it came down.
Speaker 5 (10:38):
But while he was gone, America was experiencing a radical shift.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
I don't ever recall there being political conversations in the
newsroom It just.
Speaker 5 (10:48):
Didn't happen, that is, until a major scandal hit President
Reagan's second term.
Speaker 6 (10:54):
Colonel law, please rise, who you solemnly swear that in
the testimony you're about to give will be the coof
the whole poof and nothing but the truth.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
So help your God. I do even at Time Magazine,
I don't recall political discussions. It didn't happen until around
Iran Contra, and then it began to till.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
In nineteen eighty five, high ranking officials within the Reagan
administration were accused of selling arms to Iran to fund
the contras In You got Agua.
Speaker 10 (11:26):
Are you here telling the committee that you don't remember
whether on November twenty first there was a document in
your files reflecting presidential approval.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
That is a bald faced lie told to the Iranians.
And I will tell you right now, I'd have offered
the Iranians a free trip to Disneyland if we could
have gotten Americans home for it.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
According to Michael, the event triggered an open shift in
his newsroom. By the time he left Time Magazine in
the mid nineties, he returned to a completely changed America.
Speaker 11 (11:58):
As you know, there's a major controversy out in the
Great Northwest over the spotted owl. I don't believe the
northern spotted owl is an endangered species that will be
decided of the Interior Department vision game or something. You know,
It's just a bunch of wacko leftist environmentalists who are
continuing their assault on capitalist America.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Rush Limbaugh came up while I was out of the country,
so I had to kind of catch up with him
and the whole conservative phenomenon.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
The success of rush Limbaugh continued to draw out liberal
bias in the newsroom and in Hollywood. The mass were
beginning to drop, but it didn't FaZe Michael. Instead of
turning away from a storytelling industry shifting to the left,
he entered the belly of the beast Hollywood. By two
thousand and two, he'd already published two novels and was
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finishing a third.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
I had a friend now decease, who introduced me to
a very well known producer, and he looked at the
first forty pages of My Gang, which is called in
All of the Saints. The next thing I knew, I
was on a plane and we had sold that script
for a lot of money to MGM, and that was
how I got my start in Hollywood.
Speaker 5 (13:13):
It was a different time in Tinseltown. Although it was
already openly aligned with the left, there were still some
room for patriots, something that could be seen at the
two thousand and three Oscars and.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
The Oscar goes to bowling for Columbne Michael Michael Donahan.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
When director Michael Moore stepped up to the microphone to
accept his Oscar, he decided to make a political statement
about the Iraq War, and by today's standards, the audience's
response was shocking.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
I've invited my fellow documentary nominees on the stage with us.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
And.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
We would like to they are here. They are here
in solidarity with me because we like nonfiction. We like nonfiction,
and we live in fictitious times. We live in the
time where we have fictitious election results that elects a
fictitious president.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
We live in a time.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Where we have a man sending us the war for
fictitious reasons, whether it's the fictition of duct tape or
the fictitious of Orange alerts. We are against this war.
Mister Bush. Shame on you, mister Bush, Shame on you.
At any time you've got the pop from the.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Fictic sick again.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
The famed lefty director was booed off the stage. As
recent as the early two thousands, Hollywood still had a
patriotic thread running through it, so there was room for
people like Michael Walsh, and he took advantage of it.
He co wrote the original film Cadet Kelly for Disney,
which was at the time the highest rated original movie
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in Disney Channel history, and throughout his time in Hollywood,
Michael took the brave path.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
I've always been an out of the closet conservative ry
my ears in LA I always preached to the other
screenwriters there, just be yourself, write a good movie, don't
write a conservative movie. Don't be afraid. You know. So
many wanted to hide and say, well, I'll get fired
if I do this, and that. I never agreed with that.
I think we have to take We have to stand
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up for who we are, and the more we give up,
the more cancel culture you're gonna get. We have to
stand up and say no, enough, stop it, and until
we do, it won't stop.
Speaker 5 (15:30):
He continued writing scripts and novels, then in twenty ten
he decided to add another talent to a stack. New
media pioneer Andrew Breitbart wanted to add to his growing
Breitbart News empire. He'd already launched Big Hollywood and Big Government,
his news verticals designed to take on Tinseltown and Washington,
d C. Now Andrew wanted to launch Big Journalism to
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take on the mainstream media.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
My goal is to destroy the mainstream media as we
currently know it, so that it is more equitable, so
that it is more fair.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
And he turned to Michael Walsh to become this sites editor.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
That's when I met Michael.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Well. I think Andrew did a great service when he
started the big sites back in the old days as
we like to think of them. Obviously, you wrote for me.
You and I did the series on the East Anglia
climate foolishness very early on. That was so good.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Red Pilled America listeners may remember one of our first
episodes entitled cherry Picking, about the alleged hacking of one
of the world's leading climate change research facilities. Michael was
the first to publish that story on Brepart News, and I.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Was so proud to have helped to get that into print.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
He went on to write conservative theme nonfiction books like
rules for radical conservatives, the people versus the Democrat Party,
and studies on how the left uses art, culture and
critical theory to subvert the West. Then came Last Stands,
Why Men Fight when All Is Lost? And what did
the history Michael found reveal about what it means to
be a man? Well, let's just say that the men
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of your yesterday would call the males of today Mino's
men in name only. More after the break, welcome back.
So Michael Walsh's life journey brought him to write the
definitive book on what it means to be a man.
It's titled Last Stands, Why Men Fight when All Is Lost?
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And what did Michael learn from history? Well, let's just
say that the men of yesterday would call the males
of today Mino's men in name only. A great way
to illustrate what Michael found is a story from Last
Stands about Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle of Shiloh
during the Civil War.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Shiloh is one of the first major battle of the
Civil War, and it's not usually thought of as the
Last stand. In fact, it's pretty well forgotten. Shiloh happened
in April of eighteen sixty two and our hero Ulysses S. Grant,
who I believe is the greatest American who ever lived him.
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As we opened the story, he's down and out on
his luck. He had gone to West Point, which was
quite a different place then than it is today.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
After graduating from the US Military Academy West Point, Grant
served in the Mexican American War until it's end in
February eighteen forty eight. He then came home and married
Julia Dent, a sister of a West Point classmate. That
same year they had two kids.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
He found that being in the service in peacetime really
didn't help him much, and then he got sent out
to far off California and Oregon Territory. And in those
days it took forever. You didn't go over land. You
went up on a boat to the Isthmus of Panama,
and then you walked across and half of his party
died of yellow fever in Malaria. And then you got
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on another boat and went up the west coast of
what's now the United States. So he turned to drink,
and that's where he got his reputation as being an alcoholic.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Being in a far off land away from his wife
and kids. Wasn't working for him, so Grant resigned from
service in July eighteen fifty four, and.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Finally he bustered himself out of the service. He said,
I just can't take it anymore. I want to go
home to Julia and our kids.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
He entered civilian life without a trade to support his family,
so he tried to take up farming, but the venture
wasn't successful. Grant took a stab in real estate as
a bill collector that failed to make ends meet. He
turned to selling firewood on Saint Louis Street corners. In
the spring of eighteen sixty, he decided to move his
family to Illinois.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
He was working in his father's tannery in a little
dinky town in Illinois, Galena, Illinois.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
So when the American Civil War broke out a year later,
he was a nobody.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
And then he realized, hey, I've got a commission. Yeah,
I resigned it, but I can get it back again.
And the Union needs soldiers, and so he organized a
volunteer brigade as they did in those days, and they
gave him a battle command that he went in and
he won several important battles at Fort Belmont, bought and
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couple of other places, and then he got caught at Shiloh.
And that's where this story opened. Shiloh's a little town
down in the extreme southwestern part of Tennessee on the
Tennessee River.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Union General William T. Sherman at his command in Shiloh.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
And they were ambushed by a huge Confederate army that
they never saw coming. On the first day of Shiloh.
The Union forces took such a beating that it set
the standard by which all Civil War bloodshed would henceforth
be considered.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
The killed, wounded, missing, and captured was estimated to be
almost twenty four thousand people.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
They lost more men at Shiloh, killed, wounded, missing than
the US had lost in all other previous works combined
on one day. And Grant was up the river when
the battle started early on that Sunday morning in April.
Sherman was completely taken by surprise and pushed way back,
and the entire Union force was shoved back against the
Tennessee River.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
The Confederates that they had a checkmate, but Grant pulled
his team together and got them back in the field.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
And there's a famous story at the end of day
one of Shiloh. Two things happened. One is Grant's standing there.
It's raining now. What had been a beautiful days turned
to a mud puddle, and Sherman comes up and says, well, Grant,
we had the devil's own time today, didn't we. Grant's
sitting there smoking a cigar on the rain and says, yeah,
but we'll lick them tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Though Grant was asked if they were going to retreat, he.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Said, retreat, I propose, you know, we're going to get
up in the morning and lick them, beat him hard,
whip him, and he did so. That made Grant. If
he had lost Shiloh, the Union would have been completely demoralized.
As it was. The death toll got Granted into a
lot of trouble with the newspapers, who were almost uniformly
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against Lincoln and Lincoln's prosecute the Civil War. We think
the media is bad now, it was just as bad
on those days. But Grant managed to survive that. Had
he lost Shiloh, you never would have heard of Grant.
He would have been either killed or mustard right out
of the army again. And of course Grant went on
to become President of the United States. He won twice.
He ran for a third time but did not get
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the nomination. But what a great great man he was,
and so flawed in so many ways. But the point
of that putting that battle in is that was really
the crucial battle of the Civil War.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Grant could have easily retreated with the staggering numbers of dead, missing, wounded,
and captured. Running away looked like the completely rational option.
But Grant wouldn't retreat with his family and kids waiting
for him at home. He put his life on the
line and pushed forward the next day, turning around the
Battle of Shiloh and eventually the entire Civil War. Why
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throughout history have great men made that decision to fight
and risk their lives and even die in critical moments.
Michael Walsh thinks he knows why men are expendable.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
I think this is what women don't seem to understand.
Men are born to die. That's what they do. If
there's nothing worth dying for, there's nothing worth living for.
We don't incubate and bring up the next generation. We
father them. We have a billion sperm cells that maybe
(23:28):
one in a gazillion gets lucky and turns into a
human being. That is the end of our biological function.
From that moment on, we are meant to go into
the field and kill that son of a bitch before
he kills you. That is what history teaches us. Men
are not the dominant monsters that the feminists think we are.
We're very simple, protoplasmic amba like creatures that are animated
(23:50):
by a very few basic instincts, let's face it. And
one of them is to fight, the other one is
to appropriate. And that's all that we do and somehow
to have Where now the guys that got together with
all the other cave dudes in the year one million BC,
it made a plot against women that they would never
be allowed to achieve anything ever, because we were going
(24:12):
to keep them down. This is just lunatic taught.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Michael draws from the most enduring Republican history to understand
how toxic masculinity has actually led to stability.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
I've done an awful lot of reading in Roman history
for these last few books, and that's not a society
in which today's feminists would be comfortable. It was, however,
society in which the feminists of its time were very
comfortable because they knew exactly what their place was. They
knew how to get and achieve power. There were many,
many successful women in ancient Rome. They just weren't the emperor,
(24:45):
that's the thing. So if you just look at political achievement,
the glass ceiling, why hasn't there been a women president?
Most women throughout history would look at these. Today's feminists
say are you insane? Why would you want that? We
bought into the whole feminization concept of how society should
be organized. That is, if you can imagine a worse
hell than this, you tell me, but a society of passive,
(25:08):
aggressive committees who sit around and talk and stab each
other in the back, but never ever take the field
and move forward. And that is the problem with a
feminine centric world. War's not going to go away, girls.
At some point, some big guy is going to come
up and grab you, or break into your house, or
(25:29):
try to kill your husband or something. You cannot outlaw that.
You cannot breed it out of people. So this is
why I got to admire the third wave feminists. They
want all men dead. They that's their final solution to
the problem is to kill us, and then they'll live
(25:50):
in that committee with doughnuts and backstabbing and passive aggression,
and nothing will ever get accomplished. As Camille Paulia said
in the first chapter of Sexual Persone, if women were
in charge, we'd all still be living in grass huts.
Speaker 12 (26:04):
You know, when there's a blood when there's an ice storm,
you know when the electric wires, you know, fall, Okay,
and you have a horrible dangerous situation. Who is going
out there, okay, in the middle of the night and
risking their life and picking up these broken wires and
the restoring power, I mean, in the most brutal condition,
it's men.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Okay. So we have to reject the idea that a
that a matriarchal society is somehow better than a patriarchal
That doesn't say it patriarchal societies are perfect. They're obviously not.
But good Lord, the Roman Empire, starting with the Republic,
it's in the earliest days, lasted two one hundred years,
(26:45):
and that's because it was the most sexist, toxically maculine
society that we ever had in Western civilization.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
When did this feminization of men start? I mentioned to
Michael that it seemed to begin with the breakdown of
all male schools.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
I think you're right. I think it started with co education. Actually,
if you go back patrick to look at what people
said about co education and women's suffrage in the early
twentieth century, every single thing they predicted would happen did happen.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
And we did look back, and we found Mary Ashton Livermore,
an American journalist and women's rights activist that spoke on
the issue around the end of the nineteenth century. Mary
argued that co education caused flirtations among the sexes, masculine women,
effeminate men, and lower moral standards.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
At the time, people said, oh, that will never happen.
That'll you know how the left always goes, that'll never happen.
It's just one thing. Blah blah blah. What's wrong with you?
The sun comes up tomorrow, Yeah, yeah, yeah. Then the
next thing you know in your civilization is lying in
a wreck, and you wonder why it happened.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
By nineteen six D three D feminist activist Betty for
Dan spelled out very clearly what women's liberation would look like.
Speaker 13 (28:08):
In my opinion, the other half of the women of
the revolution, the other half of women's liberation movement, is
the boys in my country and in yours wearing their
hair long, you know. And those boys who are wearing
their hair long are saying no to the mascimstique. They
are saying no to that brutal, sadistic, tight lipped crew
(28:31):
cut you know, Prussian big muscle you know, or turn
heming away, kill bears when there are no bears to
kill and Nate palm all the children in Vietnam Cambodia
to prove that I'm a man, you know, and be
dominant and superior to everyone concerned and never show any
any softness. Well, these boys that are wearing their hair
long are saying no, I don't have to be all
(28:54):
that crew cut and tight lipped. I don't have to
be dominant and superior to it anyone. I don't have
to have big muscles because there aren't any bears to
kill you. I don't have to kill anybody to prove anything.
I can be tender, and I can be sensitive, and
I can be compassionate, and I can admit sometimes that
I'm afraid, and I can even cry. And I am
(29:17):
a man, and I am my own man. And that
man who is strong enough to be Geno, that is
a new man.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
This ideology seeped into education, Hollywood, music, literature, and the
rest became history.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
I think the sexist do need to be segregated, and
I think it's good for men, and I think it's
good for women. The problem that the women have had
is they've listened to these third wave feminists who basically
posit this that the highest and most perfect form of
a woman is a man. That is the most insulting
thing you could say to a woman, that she's an
(29:51):
imperfect man. And of course they've been hearing that since
Genesis for crying out loud, and yet they fell for it.
And women need to be segregated for lots of reasons
that men do too. It's a good thing as the
sexes learn to work together that they're not in competition,
but they are complimentary. And the notion that we are
(30:11):
in death competition with females now or they with us,
has really damaged the relationship between the sexes. I think
it's the worst single thing that's happened in Western civilization
and it will bring it down eventually if it's loud
to continue.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Which leads us back to the question, what does it
mean to be a man.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
At the most elemental level, it means to punch the
other guy in the face and claws eyeballs out if
he's attacking you, or your woman, or your children, or
your property. That may not sound very friendly, but it's
the truth. And we have how many years of Western
history at least twenty five hundred to tell us that.
(31:01):
And furthermore, I would say ninety nine percent of the
women would agree with me on that that that is
the truth. And yet, as usual, we've let the cult
course of the post war twentieth century now into the
twenty first say that up is down, black is white,
it is out, And who are you going to believe
you know me or your lying eyes? And this is
where we're at.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Men and women have a role with one another that
have stood the test of thousands of years. It doesn't
mean a woman can't have a career or a man
can't show emotion, but it does mean that when we
go against our nature, we're on the road to ruin.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
When a man finds his rightful place, a woman finds
her rightful place. I think the sex is a great idea.
We love the invention. We think that we're complimentary, not antithetical,
And the more we can educate our children, the better
off will be. I'll say this, I get a lot
of letters from women about this book. Oh my god.
I bought this book on Audible and I listened to
(31:53):
it when I was driving or running a blah blah blah.
Then I bought two more copies and I gave them
to my husband, to my son. Then I bought more
copies and gave them to every man I know and said,
read this bar be sure.
Speaker 5 (32:04):
To grab Michael Walsh's Last Stand, Why Men Fight When
All Is Lost wherever you buy your books. He also
has an audio version for those that love that format.
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