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00:00:00.000 We spent a lot of time focusing on the fact that Hollywood constantly churns out woke propaganda

00:00:04.360 pieces disguised as cinema, and that's of course true, and a large part of the reason why audiences

00:00:09.580 are losing interest in movies. This past Thanksgiving box office tally, a time when

00:00:13.600 theaters typically rake in massive amounts of money, saw the weakest performance in over 25

00:00:18.540 years. This in spite of the fact that there, or maybe because of the fact, there were multiple

00:00:23.660 sequels to blockbuster franchise films showing. There was a new Steven Spielberg movie. There was

00:00:29.900 a Disney cartoon about a gay teenage boy and a disabled dog. You know, all these things were

00:00:34.980 in theater, and nobody went. Like I said, wokeness is certainly part of the problem here, but not the

00:00:40.820 whole problem, because the other issue is that so many movies are boring and dull and simply not

00:00:45.500 anything to get excited about, and it seems that the people involved in making these cinematic versions

00:00:51.480 of bland, stale graham crackers are aware at some level of how boring and uninteresting it all is,

00:00:58.020 and that's why they have to go to increasingly desperate lengths to pretend that their films are

00:01:02.460 somehow revolutionary and provocative, even as they serve up the same under-seasoned dish that

00:01:08.460 we've had a million times before. And I think that's part of what was happening this week when

00:01:13.340 Jennifer Lawrence, now somewhat infamously, sat down for an interview with Variety and ended up 1.00

00:01:18.540 claiming a title for herself that people older than 10 years old might find surprising, as it doesn't

00:01:25.360 quite gel with our memories. Lawrence declared that she is the first actress to have ever starred in a

00:01:32.420 Hollywood action film. Now, Jennifer Lawrence is 32, okay? She's not in her 70s or 80s, which she would

00:01:39.200 have to be in order for that claim to have any chance of legitimacy, but let's watch the clip first.

00:01:46.000 I remember when I was doing Hunger Games, nobody had ever put a woman in the lead of an action movie,

00:01:51.140 because it wouldn't work, we were told. Girls and boys can both identify with a male lead,

00:01:57.600 but boys cannot identify with a female lead. And it just makes me so happy every single time I see a 1.00

00:02:05.760 movie come out that just blows through every single one of those beliefs and proves that it is just a

00:02:13.200 a lie to keep certain people out of the movies, to keep certain people in the same positions that

00:02:19.440 they've always been in. And it's just amazing to watch it happen and watch you at the helm.

00:02:24.560 Yes, the Hunger Games, released in 2012, that was the first action film with a female lead.

00:02:31.100 Lawrence then noted that it was also a great honor to co-star in the Silver Linings playbook so that

00:02:35.160 she could get a front row seat to Robert De Niro's first film role. And she's especially humbled to

00:02:40.380 realize that when she played Mystique in X-Men First Class, she was starring in the first

00:02:44.780 superhero movie ever made. Truly a historic career in her own mind, if not in reality. Because in

00:02:51.900 reality, of course, Sigourney Weaver exists, Linda Hamilton exists, Angelina Jolie exists. There have

00:02:56.960 been many female action stars over the decades. Going back to Carrie Fisher and Star Wars, even before 0.99

00:03:01.420 her, there were others. Jennifer Lawrence is not the first to do anything, nor the best. She didn't even

00:03:09.880 come up with a new way of doing something. She just followed a script that had long since been

00:03:14.320 written, trying to pretend that she's breaking glass ceilings that have been laying in shards on

00:03:18.940 the ground for decades. Glass ceilings that, in this case, we should note, never mattered much to

00:03:26.100 begin with. The fact that there are more men starring in action films than women, who cares? It makes sense 1.00

00:03:33.500 that most action stars are men, as men typically make more compelling and believable action stars.

00:03:39.960 Typically. Okay, it's a lot harder to make a female actioner into anything but a silly cartoon. Sigourney 1.00

00:03:46.420 Weaver pulled it off, which is why her performance is still remembered by everyone except Jennifer

00:03:50.840 Lawrence, apparently. And yet more often it ends up being a kind of goofy girl power routine.

00:03:55.360 Men can also see, a man, it's easier for a male actor to elevate goofy action plots and lend them

00:04:04.440 a certain gravitas. Batman is an absolutely ridiculous concept, okay? It is just absurd. You

00:04:12.200 got a guy who dresses up in a rubber costume as a bat running around. It's ridiculous. And yet every

00:04:18.120 man in the role, except maybe George Clooney, has pulled it off with varying degrees of success.

00:04:23.140 Meanwhile, there's never been a bat girl that was anything but cringe on steroids. 1.00

00:04:28.840 Because men are more natural for these roles, and generally speaking, they're just better at them. 0.93

00:04:36.240 All that to say, there was never a problem of too many men acting in action films. There were more men

00:04:45.000 than women acting in them, up until recently now, because now you can't have a white male lead for 1.00

00:04:50.540 anything. But that's not a problem. It wasn't a problem. Any more than there was ever a problem

00:04:56.480 of there being too many men who are roofers. You notice that the feminists are always very selective 1.00

00:05:02.080 about the professions where they demand representation. I think I've seen maybe one female in my life 1.00

00:05:08.520 riding on the back of a trash truck through the neighborhood. Somehow, though, there's no national

00:05:12.920 discourse about the representation problem in the waste disposal industry. So it's okay for gender 0.99

00:05:20.340 disparities to exist in certain contexts for feminists. But in reality, yeah, it's okay in 0.83

00:05:26.640 general. Gender disparities are natural. Because men and women are different. And they gravitate 1.00

00:05:32.720 towards different things. And they have aptitudes in different areas. Women are better in certain 0.90

00:05:38.560 areas generally. Men are better in certain areas generally. That's just, that's just, that's the 0.92

00:05:43.740 nature of, that's human nature. It's the attempts to artificially even everything out that tends to

00:05:51.520 always cause more problems than it solves. But this is somewhat immaterial. Because the point here is

00:05:56.720 that Jennifer Lawrence came along after females had already made their entrance into the action film 1.00

00:06:02.720 genre. She's trying to recycle progressive victories from a generation before her. And we've seen this

00:06:08.820 similar charade with, we see this all the time with the left, but we've seen it in Hollywood. We've seen

00:06:12.920 it with other movies. Such as when Black Panther was celebrated as some kind of breakthrough because it

00:06:18.160 was a film with a mostly black cast. Even though such films have been made by Hollywood for years,

00:06:23.460 for decades. There have been black superheroes before as well. We had them in the 90s.

00:06:27.520 So Black Panther didn't pioneer anything. Ross Douthat made this point in his book,

00:06:34.560 Decadent Society, which he quoted in response to Jennifer Lawrence's flub. And reading from the

00:06:39.740 passage is what he says, the reality of recurrence may be slightly harder for progressives to

00:06:44.120 acknowledge than conservatives because progressivism is more invested in its supposed position at the

00:06:49.240 vanguard of cultural change, pressing boldly on to new frontiers. This makes it difficult for the

00:06:54.000 left to recognize the generational recycling of its ambitions and anxieties. The fact that many

00:06:59.380 progressive breakthroughs are just the cultural cycling, the culture cycling back to something that

00:07:04.120 we did not that long ago, up to and including kick-ass female action heroes such as Wonder Woman, who

00:07:09.360 followed a path blazed by Sigourney Weaver's Ripley in the Alien movies, or the robot wrangling

00:07:14.040 Sarah Connor in the Terminator movies, or even the blaster-wielding Princess Leia in the Star Wars 40 years

00:07:18.820 before that, or the African-American heroes in Black Panther. In truth, black stars were arguably

00:07:23.700 more important in the years of Eddie Murphy and Richard Pryor in The Cosby Show and the

00:07:27.900 young Denzel Washington than in our officially representation-obsessed age. Now, his book,

00:07:33.740 Decadent Society, is about, as you may have guessed, decadence. We are a decadent society in the sense

00:07:38.720 that we, as Doubt It Has It, are locked in this kind of cultural stalemate, treading water, adrift,

00:07:45.000 bored, recycling the same ideas and themes. Now, I don't agree with all of his thesis, but when it comes to

00:07:52.140 our artistic output, there is no question about it. A decadent society with decadent celebrities

00:07:59.380 clamoring to be cultural revolutionaries in a culture that they have already won, they already

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00:09:48.880 your best sleep tonight. For our daily cancellation today, we take into consideration a recent viral

00:09:56.560 video from a woman who insists that although she's morbidly obese, you must still find her

00:10:00.960 physically attractive. You're not entitled to your own opinions or preferences. You must fall madly in

00:10:06.300 love with her. This is not a suggestion, but rather a requirement, as she clearly explains. Listen.

00:10:13.720 Hey, bestie. You're wrong. I think it's time for another adult pre-K lesson. What do you think?

00:10:22.080 All right. Turn your listening ears on as you catch a bubble in your mouth. Good job. Okay. Here's the

00:10:30.520 thing. Having a preference is something like, I'm looking for a partner who likes kayaking or wakes

00:10:37.780 up early in the morning or loves pizza. But when your preferences exclude an entire group of

00:10:46.900 marginalized people, that's problematic. Okay. That's not nice. That's not a preference. If you 1.00

00:10:52.460 lump all fat people in one group together as though they are not very different individuals,

00:10:57.960 that's fat phobic. Just like lumping all black people in one group and saying, I don't like black

00:11:02.800 people is racist. And lumping all disabled people in one group and saying, I don't think people in

00:11:07.660 wheelchairs are hot is ableist. Do you understand what I'm saying? No, I don't. Okay. So you are

00:11:15.900 allowed to prefer a partner who likes kayaking, which thankfully I think lets us off the hook

00:11:20.220 because something tells me she's not exactly an avid kayaker. But those loopholes aside,

00:11:27.140 it seems that our friend here has stumbled on a rather unique pickup line. Part of me wishes that

00:11:31.400 I had thought of this when I was single. Like, ma'am, you are morally obligated to find me attractive.

00:11:36.400 Now come and date me at once, lest you be guilty of problematic and exclusionary behavior.

00:11:42.180 But something tells me I would have struck out as badly with that line as I'm sure she does.

00:11:46.940 The only difference is that I would have been arrested for harassment and stalking on top of

00:11:50.900 it. Now, a few points to make here. First of all, this woman and my 12 seconds of research tells me

00:11:56.340 that her name is Lexi. And the research was just looking at the bottom of the video there where it

00:12:01.980 says her name. She has a problem that goes beyond her weight. If Lexi finds that most people don't

00:12:08.220 want to be around her, it probably is because of her god-awful personality. I, for one, would rather

00:12:13.540 take a bath in battery acid than be stuck in a room with her for any length of time. And that's

00:12:19.260 got nothing to do with her appearance. It has everything to do with her demeanor, her attitude, 0.97

00:12:23.840 tone of voice, and just way of being. This is something that anyone who struggles to find a

00:12:29.580 partner should take into consideration. Before wondering whether you're being discriminated

00:12:33.560 against based on your physical features, please reflect on the possibility that you might be a

00:12:38.440 nagging, miserable shrew. Now, it can be hard even for the most attractive person to find or at least

00:12:44.700 maintain relationships if they have a repulsive personality. But if you're not a top-notch physical

00:12:50.820 specimen, and most of us aren't, and you also have the character and general disposition of the Wicked

00:12:56.000 Witch of the West, then you really have put yourself in a hole with only yourself to blame for it.

00:13:02.480 Second point, she says that you aren't allowed to exclude entire groups of people from your sexual

00:13:07.500 preference. But that, of course, is exactly what a sexual preference is. That's what any kind of

00:13:12.820 preference is, actually. Preferences exclude by definition. All preferences do. Any preference is

00:13:18.620 exclusionary and discriminatory. That's the whole point. You're preferring one thing over another or one

00:13:24.840 person over another. As for sexual preference specifically, gay men exclude her because she's a

00:13:30.920 woman. Is she going to berate them for that? Well, she might, I guess. As we've seen for years,

00:13:36.960 the left insisted that sexuality is innate and immutable. It can't be changed, and it's not the

00:13:41.500 result of choice. But more recently, they decided that their own arguments no longer hold. Your

00:13:47.020 sexuality can become problematic if it excludes so-called marginalized groups. A gay man who

00:13:52.200 isn't attracted to a woman who identifies as a man is now a transphobe. A straight man who isn't

00:13:57.560 attracted to a man who identifies as a woman is also a transphobe. Anybody who isn't attracted to an

00:14:02.260 obese person is fatphobic. Anyone who isn't attracted to shrill, hectoring, condescending 1.00

00:14:07.620 scolds like Lexi is whatever kind of phobic that applies to. Your sexuality is not your own business. 1.00

00:14:13.460 It is not a private matter anymore, as the left had previously insisted. They will decide who you

00:14:19.180 should be attracted to. And quite often, coincidentally enough, the person putting themselves in the

00:14:23.520 position to make this choice for you will decide that you should be attracted to them personally.

00:14:28.400 Funny how that works. You know, it's like, well, I've run the numbers and I've done the

00:14:33.640 calculations, and it turns out that in order to not be a bigot, you're supposed to be turned on by,

00:14:38.580 uh, what does it say here? Oh, me. Sorry, I don't make the rules. Well, I guess I do, actually.

00:14:45.200 Third point, briefly, referring back to the first. Um, this seems to be something that a lot of people

00:14:50.960 do, even if they aren't on the left. When people have trouble forming and maintaining relationships,

00:14:55.560 both sexual and platonic, they develop a victim complex, deciding that the problem in their

00:15:01.580 personal and romantic lives is that everyone else is being mean to them. And this only exacerbates

00:15:07.820 the problem because nobody wants to be around someone with a victim complex. Even people with

00:15:12.580 victim complexes don't want to be around other people with victim complexes. In fact, people with

00:15:17.460 victim complexes especially don't want to be around other people with victim complexes because then

00:15:21.100 it becomes a zero-sum game, a sort of victimhood competition. The self-determined victim becomes

00:15:26.080 all the more isolated as a result, and their victim mentality only hardens and spreads and

00:15:30.440 metastasizes over time. So if you're looking around and finding that most people don't want to be around

00:15:35.900 you, don't find you appealing or attractive on any level, you could start pointing fingers and making

00:15:41.580 demands, or you can begin the difficult work of changing yourself. And this process should be one that

00:15:48.400 includes both the exterior and the interior, both physical and spiritual. Although this is hard and

00:15:54.180 painful and it requires the kind of honest self-assessment that most people don't have the

00:15:57.680 wherewithal to conduct, the good thing is that you actually have control over yourself. Yourself is a

00:16:03.720 thing you can change by the grace of God. You can't really force anyone else to change. All you can do is

00:16:10.200 scream at them as they back ever farther away until you're all alone, yelling into the void.

00:16:17.700 It's up to you which strategy you choose. We know which one Lexi has chosen, and for that reason today,

00:16:23.540 she is, of course, canceled.

00:16:28.560 Today, we're going to be canceling Samantha Lux, who is a YouTuber and a, quote, trans woman that is a

00:16:35.280 biological male with a YouTube channel, actually a quite popular channel with well over 600,000

00:16:40.020 subscribers somehow. Sam has many videos promoting transgenderism and quite often responding to

00:16:45.040 perceived instances of transphobia. One of the most recent videos on the channel targets, if you can

00:16:50.720 believe it, none other than the leading LGBT children's author on the planet, yours truly.

00:16:56.740 Sam stumbled across my children's book, Johnny the Walrus, which is still available for pre-order over

00:17:00.680 at johnnythewalrus.com, by the way, and does not approve. Specifically, my video where I read the

00:17:06.900 book to a group of children has provoked Sam's ire in a video titled, Transphobes are writing

00:17:12.640 children's books. Trans girl reacts. This is good. You know, I am sincerely interested to hear how a

00:17:19.420 trans girl, quote, unquote, reacts to Johnny the Walrus. Perhaps this will be a point-by-point rebuttal. 0.97

00:17:24.760 Perhaps evidence and science and logic and bulletproof moral arguments will all be marshaled,

00:17:29.640 and by the end of the video, I will have completely changed my mind, realized the error in my ways,

00:17:35.720 repented of my anti-trans beliefs. Maybe even because of this video that we'll watch together,

00:17:41.140 I will become trans myself. It's possible. So let's watch some of this and see what our friend

00:17:46.720 Samantha Lux brings to the table. Now, if you're familiar with the content that I create here on my

00:17:51.140 channel, if you're familiar with the arguments that conservatives love to make about trans people,

00:17:55.480 you would be familiar with transphobes' claim that we are indoctrinating their children,

00:17:59.860 that we're making their children gay, that we're forcing their young tomboy daughter to become a 1.00

00:18:04.180 boy. That's not me. Who, me? Who, me? I would never. I love you trans girl. I love your tomboy

00:18:10.740 daughter. She is great. What I don't love is a hypocrite. Matt Walsh, if you are not familiar with,

00:18:16.500 is like an infamous transphobe on YouTube. This ho- 1.00

00:18:20.880 posted a video one week ago, reading his book, Johnny the Welfrist, to a bunch of little kids.

00:18:26.980 Okay, so we're off to a rough start here already. A few points. First, I do not believe, Sam,

00:18:32.740 that you are forcing any child to do anything, or making any child, or making any child do anything.

00:18:38.380 I am accusing you and your fellow propagandists of trying to heavily influence children with

00:18:45.640 falsehoods, distortion, lies, and other forms of insanity that they, the children, do not have the

00:18:50.560 mental capacity to sort through. So indoctrination does not often involve physical force because you

00:18:57.820 cannot physically force someone to believe something. Belief requires mental assent, not

00:19:03.620 physical assent. But you can coerce and trick people into believing things. And when they're

00:19:09.920 children, that's very easy to do, as you know from experience. Also, by the way, I appreciate being

00:19:16.780 called infamous, and I won't take any issue with that label. But I am not an infamous transphobe

00:19:21.680 because I'm not a transphobe at all. And when I say I'm not a transphobe, I'm not saying it to gain

00:19:26.960 your approval or to convince you that I'm not bigoted. You know, I couldn't give a less of a damn if you

00:19:31.640 think that I'm bigoted or not. I mean, it doesn't matter to me. I am instead concerned with definitions.

00:19:36.360 And the definition of phobia is irrational fear. I'm not afraid of trans people. If I was, I wouldn't

00:19:43.560 spend so much of my time saying things that I know will make you angry. My fear, and it is not

00:19:49.260 irrational, is of the effect that trans propaganda has on society, and especially on kids. Okay? So we 0.98

00:19:57.120 have that clarified. Let's continue. We're gonna have to skip around a little bit because Sam's video is

00:20:00.400 long, and it seems like a little too self-involved even for me to spend too much time reacting to

00:20:04.980 somebody else reacting to one of my videos. But we'll watch enough to get the gist and to discover

00:20:08.880 whether Sam will be able to make any arguments that will disprove or undermine my central points.

00:20:14.300 Let's keep going. All right. Do you understand the comparison that's going to be happening here?

00:20:17.880 He's like, this book is about a little boy who thinks he's a walrus, and his mom, you know,

00:20:22.240 also is convinced that he's a real walrus. Do you get the correlation? It's going to be about a

00:20:26.720 little boy that thinks he's a girl or something, and the mom is convinced that he's a real girl.

00:20:30.660 How creative. How did you ever come up with such a creative, powerful analogy for children

00:20:35.720 who don't understand what you're talking about? Yeah, well, you're right. It's not creative.

00:20:40.120 It's not creative at all. I mean, the comparison between somebody identifying as a different sex

00:20:44.060 and someone identifying as an animal has been done a million times. I'm not the first to do it.

00:20:48.560 South Park did it a decade ago. But the problem is that nobody on your side has ever come up

00:20:53.200 with anything approaching an effective response to the analogy. You've never been able to explain

00:20:58.460 why it's wrong. All you can do, all you ever do is just scoff that you've heard the point before.

00:21:04.760 Well, we know you've heard it, and you're going to keep hearing it over and over again until you

00:21:08.660 answer it. All right, let's continue. What is this thing doing at the home?

00:21:14.080 We don't have to worry about that. We're going to read the book now.

00:21:16.040 This man has never met a kid in his whole life, never interacted with one child. He's like,

00:21:20.620 I don't give a shit. Sit down. We're going to read the book. I'm here for the half an hour,

00:21:24.240 and then I got to go. So sit down so I can film. Okay. Thank you, Brad.

00:21:28.240 No, I think the problem is that you've never been around a dad before, which maybe I would

00:21:32.720 have already guessed. I'm around kids all the time because I have four of them. But I have by now

00:21:37.980 developed a critical case of dad syndrome. And that means that I'm just snapping my fingers and I'm

00:21:42.680 keeping people on task. That's what I do. I'm dad. You should see me during chore time every night in my

00:21:47.560 house. You get over there, pick up those shoes. You come over, vacuum the rug. I don't even

00:21:52.160 remember anybody's names anymore. That's another symptom of dad syndrome. Okay. Skipping ahead.

00:21:57.960 But Johnny's mom's phone said it's not just pretend. So she went on her phone and there were people

00:22:03.300 telling her that this isn't pretend. He's really a walrus. Only a bigot would say that. How dare you

00:22:08.580 offend? What's a bigot? Anybody know? I don't even, I don't know how old these kids are. I'm not good at

00:22:13.980 estimating age, but they don't know what you're talking about. You don't see their face. Did he

00:22:18.780 run this past like an actual children's author and be like read it to a kid and see what they

00:22:23.340 thought before he published it? I think he just went for it. Of course they don't know what a bigot is.

00:22:28.720 They're four. I mean, it does make sense that he would go for children because, you know,

00:22:32.420 they have the same capacity for intellectual thought as him. Like babe, if you're going to write a

00:22:36.040 children's book, write it for children. Write it using words that they understand and that they know and

00:22:41.060 that you don't have to explain for them to understand what you're trying to say through

00:22:44.780 your book. First of all, don't call me babe. Second, did I run it by an actual children's

00:22:49.900 author? Yes. I ran it by myself. And when myself came to myself and said, self, what do you think

00:22:55.520 of this children's book idea? Myself responded, self, that's an exceptional idea. So I did get the

00:23:00.740 go-ahead from an expert in the field of children's literature, if that matters to you. Now, Sam also

00:23:05.200 says that some of these concepts are above a child's head. Yeah, Sam, that's the point.

00:23:11.640 Now you're getting it. If a silly story about a kid transitioning into a walrus is inevitably too

00:23:17.000 weird and abstract for children, then what happens if we mix sex and gender into it?

00:23:22.460 Does it suddenly become more appropriate for children? If a child, as you say, isn't even

00:23:28.200 old enough to understand what a bigot is or to hear the word, then is he old enough to be introduced

00:23:33.860 to a concept like transgenderism? If he can't understand bigots, can he understand what it means

00:23:38.700 for a boy to have a girl mystically trapped inside him? If my book is above his head, what

00:23:43.980 about a choice that will fundamentally change his life and alter him physically and biologically

00:23:47.440 forever? Is that above his head too? What do you think? Connect the dots, Sam. You can

00:23:52.840 do it. You'll need to eat worms and to put on gray makeup. The worms give you whiskers. The 0.99

00:24:00.840 gray blends you in, the doctor says. And a simple procedure cuts feet into fins. The doctor

00:24:07.920 wants to cut into Johnny and make him into a walrus. It's gross eating worms, mom. They're 0.93

00:24:15.640 all so dang twitchy. He doesn't want to eat worms. Our children, you see what he's doing

00:24:20.300 here? With the analogies that he's drawing, he's arguing that parents are forcing their

00:24:24.020 young children to take medications that they don't want to take or to have surgeries that

00:24:27.560 they don't want to take or to transition when they don't want to transition. That's not what

00:24:31.160 happens. You know, children have a say in the process. Children are allowed to make their

00:24:35.540 own decision. Of course, with the help of medical professionals, of course, of course. But like

00:24:39.820 this whole part that Johnny's like, I don't want to eat worms. That would be the end of

00:24:42.660 it. That's the end of it. Johnny doesn't want to eat worms. No worms for Johnny. No worms.

00:24:46.900 I will say we got exactly the reaction to the doctor page with the bone saw that I had in

00:24:51.560 mind when we included that page. And I fought for that page. Now, there was, I will tell you

00:24:54.620 a little bit behind the scenes. There was some discussion over here about that particular

00:24:59.620 page with the doctor with the bone saw chasing the child. And I fought for that. I said,

00:25:04.060 that's got to be in there. And it was. No, Sam, but see, you say children make their own

00:25:09.180 decisions, but children can't make their own decisions. If I'm arguing that a certain course

00:25:14.120 of action is harmful for a child, bad for them, damaging to them, it does no good to retort

00:25:19.720 that the child wants to do it. Children who want to do harmful things should still be prevented

00:25:26.320 from doing those things. Why? Because they're children. They don't understand what they're

00:25:32.480 saying. They don't know what they want. And often they don't actually want what they think

00:25:36.580 they want. At Red Robin the other day, my five-year-old told me he wanted to order salmon

00:25:41.100 for his dinner. Now, I knew damn well that that kid did not want salmon. He wanted chicken tenders

00:25:49.080 and fries because that's what he always wants. And it's the only thing he'll ever actually eat

00:25:52.240 at a restaurant. So I didn't let him have the meal that he wanted because I knew that he didn't

00:25:56.960 really want it because he's a kid. And that's just for something as frivolous as a meal at Red

00:26:02.680 Robin. What if your son says he wants to become a girl or a salmon for that matter? Not only can

00:26:09.640 you be sure that he doesn't really want that because he doesn't understand what he's saying

00:26:12.860 or what it means or what the implications are because he can't because he's just a kid. But also

00:26:17.140 in this case, whereas it's at least possible to actually order salmon, it's not possible for him to

00:26:21.880 actually become a girl, which is reason enough to not give him what he says he wants.

00:26:27.580 All right, let's skip ahead again and see if Sam saves the best rebuttals for the very end.

00:26:32.560 What's the moral of the story? What's the lesson here? Aren't children's books supposed to have

00:26:36.500 like a lesson that's, you know, clear? Because I don't know what this is trying to say. I don't

00:26:40.640 know what this lesson here is. The other lesson is don't listen to the creepy people in your phone.

00:26:45.560 Don't trust medical professionals. Well, is this our mean? Like, oh my goodness. Maybe it's

00:26:50.580 like a writing class or something. Ask a kid, like, do you know what this book is about?

00:26:54.920 Because none of them did. Like, you could argue that this book is made for adults.

00:26:58.420 Write a book for adults. Write a book for adults. Or is it that you have to dumb down these analogies

00:27:03.780 and these arguments for children brain because they don't hold any weight in actual adult language?

00:27:08.820 But yeah, that is it for this video. What do you guys think? You're going to go get Johnny

00:27:12.860 the walrus the book? Hmm? Well, since you asked, what do I think? I think you should probably in the future

00:27:19.680 have some kind of rebuttal if you're going to make a rebuttal video. You rebutted my points in the same

00:27:24.840 way that my dog rebuts the deer that he sees running through the backyard by just barking incoherently

00:27:29.760 at them. Yeah, you're right that I did dumb down the arguments and analogies, but apparently I wasn't

00:27:35.140 able to make them dumb enough for you to understand. My story about a kid pretending to be a walrus was,

00:27:40.520 it would seem, slightly above your reading level. And that's a shame because it's a message that you

00:27:46.000 might've really benefited from. And instead, I'm forced to say finally, Samantha Lux,

00:27:51.520 that you are sadly, tragically canceled. But everybody else can buy my book, Johnny the Walrus

00:27:56.840 at johnnythewalrus.com. And we'll leave it there for today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening.

00:28:01.060 Have a great day. Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - March 13, 2025

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