The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1008 - When Far Left Activists Masquerade As Pediatricians

00:00:00.100 Today on the Matt Wells Show, you want to be able to trust your child's pediatrician,

00:00:04.080 but the fact is that the entire pediatric field has been captured by the far left.

00:00:08.100 You only have to do a little bit of digging into the American Academy of Pediatrics to

00:00:11.400 see how bad the corruption is.

00:00:13.140 We did some of that digging, and I'll tell you what we found.

00:00:15.080 Also, Biden prepares to make inflation significantly worse with his loan forgiveness plan.

00:00:19.760 A scientist tries to explain the concept of human biology to students at Berkeley.

00:00:23.920 Not an easy thing to do.

00:00:25.000 The Democrat Senate candidate in Pennsylvania has actual brain damage and can't even speak.

00:00:28.860 State's move to abolish forced prison labor, but is that a good idea? 1.00

00:00:32.940 In our daily cancellation, we have a story so incomprehensibly stupid that you might think 0.99

00:00:36.760 I'm making it up. 0.99

00:00:37.540 I promise you, I am not.

00:00:38.920 All of that and more today on the Matt Wells Show.

00:00:50.380 Roe v. Wade has been overturned, and this battle is now finally leaving D.C. and going to the

00:00:55.640 grassroots.

00:00:56.080 No group in America is better positioned than 40 Days for Life to fight this battle.

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00:01:05.840 They have a larger presence in blue states, with California being their largest state.

00:01:09.760 Some former abortion facility directors say that these vigils can cause the abortion no-show

00:01:14.660 rate to go as high as 75%, which is detrimental to their abortion business, to say the least.

00:01:19.840 These law-abiding vigils have closed many abortion businesses in America, and nearly half of those

00:01:23.500 closed abortion facilities were in liberal cities where abortion will remain legal, including

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00:01:31.220 40 Days for Life is effectively changing hearts and minds in the grassroots to end abortion.

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00:01:50.060 Recently, a bewildered father posted a video to TikTok describing a disturbing encounter

00:01:56.480 with his three-year-old's pediatrician.

00:01:58.280 He said that when he brought his son in for a routine checkup, the doctor walked into the

00:02:02.520 room, and despite being able to clearly see the child's sex just by looking at him, and

00:02:06.520 despite having his sex listed on the chart he was holding in his hand, the doctor still

00:02:10.400 asked the young boy whether he was a boy or a girl.

00:02:14.520 Listen.

00:02:14.740 So we just took my three-year-old son in the doctor for a checkup.

00:02:18.640 My three-year-old son.

00:02:20.900 Okay, there's a reason why I'm emphasizing that, and you're about to know why.

00:02:23.660 So my wife and I are waiting in the room with our son, and the doctor comes in, and he sees

00:02:27.480 my son sitting there on the table, and the first question that he asks him is, are you

00:02:31.260 a boy or are you a girl?

00:02:33.280 And I look at my wife like, what the? 0.82

00:02:35.500 So luckily, my son understands obvious tendance of biology at three years old, and says that

00:02:40.560 he's a boy, just like his chart says.

00:02:42.940 So the rest of the appointment, I can't even focus, because I'm wondering why in the world

00:02:46.040 this guy is asking the question.

00:02:47.740 And then I remember, oh yeah, I live in California.

00:02:50.960 And call me paranoid, but this is where I think we're heading based on other things that have

00:02:53.580 happened.

00:02:54.220 An Ohio couple lost custody of their teenager for refusing them hormone treatment.

00:02:57.840 And a divorced Texas couple were in a court battle over whether or not to let their seven-year-old

00:03:01.940 transition from a boy to a girl.

00:03:04.020 And many are saying that the new proposed Equality Act could lead to more parents losing custody

00:03:07.460 of their kids who want gender transition.

00:03:09.060 No, that's not paranoid.

00:03:11.380 That is what we call observant.

00:03:13.640 That is, in fact, exactly what the doctor is doing.

00:03:16.860 And many parents have had similar experiences in recent years.

00:03:19.660 They are building a case, basically, that your child is trans.

00:03:24.260 What that father confronted and what so many other parents have confronted in so many other

00:03:28.400 doctors' offices across the country is the tip of an extremely large iceberg that stretches

00:03:32.340 down into a very dark sea.

00:03:34.980 The rather terrifying fact is that the entire pediatric field has been captured by the far

00:03:41.120 left.

00:03:42.120 Now, there is a chance that your pediatrician is safe and trustworthy.

00:03:46.320 There are plenty of good ones left individually.

00:03:49.200 But there's also a very significant chance that he's an agent of a radical and dangerous ideological

00:03:53.820 agenda, and he will drag your child into it if he can. 0.59

00:03:58.200 And even if your pediatrician is a competent, honest health care provider who actually believes

00:04:03.240 in and abides by the Hippocratic Oath to do no harm, still, he's part of a system that

00:04:09.240 is run by radical leftists and which views trans activism as the primary responsibility

00:04:13.700 of the health care industry.

00:04:15.860 Even the good doctors are hostages.

00:04:18.800 And your child is the ransom.

00:04:21.840 Now, last week, we discussed how the American Academy of Pediatrics, the largest professional

00:04:26.560 association of pediatricians with some 67,000 members, pushes medical transition onto children,

00:04:33.460 doing great harm in the process.

00:04:35.260 And they promote these procedures based on scant and shoddy evidence.

00:04:39.380 That's not my characterization or my words.

00:04:41.940 That's what anonymous whistleblowers within the organization have said.

00:04:45.220 The academy, according to some of its own members, is endorsing and carrying out medical experimentation

00:04:50.440 on children, despite the dearth of evidence to support that approach.

00:04:54.940 But the members who've made these criticisms have been shut down, and they've been silenced.

00:05:00.160 Their calls for an official review of the organization's approach to the transgender issue

00:05:04.400 have been rebuffed.

00:05:06.100 All they want to do is review it.

00:05:08.260 They're saying, hey, can we go back?

00:05:09.360 Can we look at this and talk about it?

00:05:11.760 And the organization says, no, we're not going to talk about it.

00:05:15.660 The AAP is not interested in reviewing or rethinking anything.

00:05:19.500 It does what WPATH, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, tells it to do.

00:05:24.360 And most recently, WPATH has decided that the recommended age for giving somebody a cosmetic

00:05:28.920 double mastectomy is 15.

00:05:31.300 And the best age for cross-sex hormones is 14. 0.58

00:05:35.400 So says WPATH.

00:05:37.280 Thus, so goes the AAP.

00:05:40.560 In fact, the deeper you dig into the American Academy of Pediatrics, the more you see that

00:05:46.000 this is an activist organization masquerading as the nation's preeminent authority on pediatric

00:05:51.560 health care.

00:05:52.920 And we've done some of that digging here, and we found this.

00:05:55.800 On the AAP website, you can access their policy statement on, quote,

00:06:00.720 ensuring comprehensive care and support for transgender and gender-diverse children and

00:06:05.480 adolescents.

00:06:05.900 Now, the statement is one long gender theory manifesto littered with wild and often incoherent

00:06:12.460 assertions rooted not in science but in ideology.

00:06:15.780 Worse, the statement provides a sort of glossary where the definitions of meaningless terms like

00:06:22.500 gender-diverse and gender-perception are provided.

00:06:25.460 And then it says this, quote, for more information, the gender book found at www.thegenderbook.com

00:06:33.420 is a resource with illustrations that are used to highlight these core terms and concepts.

00:06:40.060 Okay, so the AAP has endorsed the gender book as not just any resource, but as an authority

00:06:47.820 on core terms and concepts.

00:06:50.060 Well, it's a problem because the gender book is not a medical guide or a textbook or a source 1.00

00:06:56.540 of objective information, but it is rather an activist pamphlet.

00:07:00.660 And I know that because the authors of the book said so themselves.

00:07:06.860 Back in 2014, the androgynous authors of the book decided to punish, basically, their donors

00:07:14.560 by singing a thank you song.

00:07:16.960 And you're going to hear why that's a punishment in just a second, whether you like it or not.

00:07:20.060 In the song, they refer to the book as doing gender activism.

00:07:27.020 So I'm sorry I have to do this to you, but here is that song.

00:07:36.860 Five, six, seven, eight.

00:07:39.240 Because of you, we've secured the first round of printing of the gender book.

00:07:45.380 Because of you, we can offer nearly 600 books back to the community.

00:07:52.100 Because of you, the book will be launched in 27 countries.

00:07:58.580 We're doing gender activism in Botswana, Belgium, etc.

00:08:04.900 And beyond.

00:08:07.340 Woo! 0.99

00:08:07.660 We just want to say thank you.

00:08:10.580 Thank you, thank you, thank you.

00:08:13.380 Oh my gosh, that was worse than I thought.

00:08:16.160 Now, let's just leave aside the fact that when singing, they sound like a dozen cats drowning

00:08:22.060 in a river.

00:08:22.880 The greater point is that the AAP, the supposed authority on pediatric medical care, cites

00:08:29.640 self-professed gender activists as authoritative resources on core terms and concepts.

00:08:35.940 But this is to be expected.

00:08:37.180 After all, the AAP published their very own gender book of sorts just a few months ago.

00:08:42.420 Back in April, the American Academy of Pediatrics released Uology, a puberty guide for everybody.

00:08:47.420 The book promotes the idea that children can be transgender, non-binary, gender diverse, and

00:08:54.740 so on.

00:08:55.580 It was authored by three far-left activists who pretend to be medical professionals, one

00:09:00.520 of whom, Catherine Lowe, appeared on an AAP podcast back in February to talk about the

00:09:06.780 book and to also explain why a baby's gender cannot be determined in the womb.

00:09:13.400 Listen.

00:09:13.540 When people are pregnant, when we're doing prenatal ultrasounds and we're saying it's 0.97

00:09:19.280 a boy or it's a girl, really, we are referring to that baby's genitals, right, and what we

00:09:26.540 see.

00:09:27.520 And we often call that a baby's sex assigned at birth.

00:09:31.380 And that's actually different than gender.

00:09:34.040 So we actually aren't able to know a baby's gender identity prenatally.

00:09:41.100 We can know their genitals and we assign a sex according to those body parts, but that 0.77

00:09:46.680 really isn't gender.

00:09:48.260 So someone's gender or gender identity is really an internal core sense of who they are as a

00:09:55.780 person in regards to being male, female, maybe a little of both or neither.

00:10:02.060 That is gender identity. 0.99

00:10:03.260 So it's more of an internal core sense of who you are as a person.

00:10:06.820 It is not always the same as a baby's genitals.

00:10:11.560 So this is a doctor on a podcast with other doctors hosted by the largest pediatric association 0.96

00:10:20.040 in the country, repeating the absolutely ludicrous claim that sex is not observed, but actually

00:10:26.920 assigned.

00:10:28.580 And she also draws the familiar distinction between sex and gender, but then says that a

00:10:33.780 person's inner experience can be male or female or a little of both.

00:10:38.500 But male and female are sexes, the sexes actually, because there's only two. 0.93

00:10:47.280 But you see, you just said that there's a difference between sex and gender.

00:10:49.400 And then you say that the sexes are genders.

00:10:52.920 This is the incoherence of gender activism. 1.00

00:10:54.880 And it's also the incoherence of the medical field as the distinction between gender activism

00:10:59.140 and medicine has been at this point almost entirely erased.

00:11:03.180 Now, does this mean that, well, what does it mean?

00:11:08.100 Does it mean that you shouldn't take your child to the doctor anymore?

00:11:11.220 Well, no, you have to be able to take your child to the doctor.

00:11:13.640 That's what makes all this so sinister.

00:11:15.800 The trans activists have kidnapped the institutions that you rely on and cannot go entirely without. 1.00

00:11:23.500 Instead, what it means is that you must exercise extraordinary caution.

00:11:28.280 We all must not blindly trusting any of these people.

00:11:34.980 They do not have your child's interests at heart, or at least you certainly cannot assume

00:11:39.880 that they do.

00:11:41.540 There are other interests at work here, ideological, also financial.

00:11:48.640 And those interests, as we've seen, ultimately have come to outweigh everything else, especially

00:11:56.580 your child's well-being.

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00:13:22.160 All right.

00:13:22.700 By the way, I wanted to show you this.

00:13:24.160 You know, the hard thing about having kids is that they tend to be very honest in their

00:13:28.980 assessment of you.

00:13:29.920 So, for example, my five-year-old son drew a picture of me yesterday.

00:13:33.300 I just want to—I'm very proud of it.

00:13:34.680 He was proud of this picture anyway.

00:13:36.220 So here it is.

00:13:37.300 You can see it there on the screen.

00:13:40.680 Apparently, to my child, I look like a character from The Nightmare Before Christmas.

00:13:45.480 I am literally a Tim Burton cartoon to him.

00:13:48.740 Just dead, lifeless eyes.

00:13:51.100 I need a lot of dental work, according to him. 0.99

00:13:55.920 And I'm also fat.

00:13:58.220 And weirdly enough, I wear a suit with cufflinks, which I don't think he's ever seen me wear

00:14:02.100 ever.

00:14:03.560 This is how he sees me.

00:14:05.120 At least I have that cute little button nose there. 0.99

00:14:07.160 Maybe I'm more like a frosty snowman's unemployed uncle.

00:14:10.800 Maybe that's what he was going for.

00:14:11.700 I'd rather be that, I think.

00:14:13.140 All right, so we'll start here.

00:14:18.360 Fox News reports, President Joe Biden is expected to announce a much-anticipated loan forgiveness

00:14:22.800 program Wednesday.

00:14:25.060 Sources familiar with the plan told the Associated Press Americans are poised to foot a nearly

00:14:29.160 $300 billion deal with President Biden's expected announcement on Wednesday to forgive,

00:14:34.480 big quotes around forgive, thousands in federal student loan debt and extend a repayment pause

00:14:40.440 to next year.

00:14:41.060 According to the Penn-Wharton budget model, a one-time maximum debt forgiveness of $10,000

00:14:47.020 for borrowers who make less than $125,000 a year will cost around $300 billion for taxpayers.

00:14:53.820 The cost increases to around $330 billion if the program is continued over the standard 10-year

00:14:59.040 window, according to the figures.

00:15:00.780 The precise details of Biden's plan were being kept to an unusually small circle within the

00:15:04.700 Biden administration as they prepare to announce it.

00:15:06.700 Now, this obviously is one of the most transparent vote-buying schemes we've ever seen, and to

00:15:12.500 call it one of the most transparent is saying quite a lot, I know, because this is all these

00:15:16.560 people ever do.

00:15:18.440 But I actually do, and I think it's important to emphasize this.

00:15:23.760 And just speaking only for myself, I really do sympathize with people who have student loans.

00:15:34.180 I sympathize with them.

00:15:36.200 In fact, I am one of them.

00:15:37.800 I don't have my own student loans because I didn't go to college, but I've been paying

00:15:41.480 off my wife's student loans.

00:15:43.380 So in effect, two become one in marriage, and I'm the income earner in the household.

00:15:51.080 So I have student loans that I'm paying off, too.

00:15:54.040 I didn't even go to college.

00:15:56.900 So I really can sympathize.

00:16:00.300 I can both sympathize and empathize with people who have this.

00:16:06.380 And I agree that if you have these loans, you basically got scammed, right?

00:16:14.480 Most, a great many people, most people with student loans got scammed.

00:16:19.700 You got suckered.

00:16:21.260 You took the loans on.

00:16:23.220 You didn't understand, even if it was written in the fine print, you didn't read the fine

00:16:27.020 print.

00:16:27.680 And if you did read the fine print, you didn't understand what you were reading.

00:16:30.620 You didn't understand all the stuff about the interest rates and what that's going to

00:16:34.280 mean.

00:16:34.620 And it's going to mean that you're paying back.

00:16:36.560 You could pay back the loans for 15 years and pay it every month.

00:16:42.960 And at the end of the 15 years, you've only shaved like $5,000 or $10,000 off the loan

00:16:47.420 because of the interest.

00:16:49.620 It was all there in the fine print, but you didn't understand that.

00:16:54.120 Maybe because you signed on the dotted line when you were 18 years old.

00:16:57.800 And even worse than that, you were buying something that, for so many people, is effectively

00:17:02.620 worthless.

00:17:03.060 You know, you bought it on the promise that if you purchase this thing, which is a college

00:17:10.040 degree, this piece of paper, you will be virtually guaranteed a successful life.

00:17:17.140 Didn't work out that way.

00:17:19.720 So you got scammed.

00:17:20.780 You got suckered.

00:17:22.220 You, for so many people, bought this worthless thing for way too much money, and you got nothing

00:17:27.580 in return except a lifetime of debt.

00:17:30.140 And so I get all that.

00:17:34.580 And of course, I sympathize with people in that position.

00:17:38.000 But here's the point that I always go back to.

00:17:41.780 If you don't pay it back, somebody else will have to.

00:17:46.920 So someone has to pay the loan.

00:17:49.680 Someone has to carry the burden.

00:17:51.040 It's a burden that should not exist, but it does.

00:17:55.060 It shouldn't exist because we should not be pushing millions of kids into this system

00:18:00.540 just as a default strategy and telling them, hey, spend $100,000 on a college education and

00:18:09.280 then later on figure out what to do with it.

00:18:10.900 That is madness.

00:18:12.440 That's total madness.

00:18:15.820 Shouldn't happen, but it is.

00:18:17.160 It did happen, and it is happening.

00:18:21.340 And of course, most of the people talking about student loan forgiveness, they don't

00:18:24.820 want to talk about what to do in the future, okay? 0.99

00:18:30.120 Because we're constantly surrounded by morons who are just looking for Band-Aid solutions. 0.99

00:18:34.900 That's all politicians ever do is Band-Aid solutions. 1.00

00:18:37.200 And unfortunately, there are a lot of really dumb people in the public who also, that's all 0.99

00:18:42.440 they care about. 1.00

00:18:42.940 They just want the Band-Aid.

00:18:43.800 So we're not, so you have all these, give me student loan forgiveness.

00:18:47.640 What are we doing in the future?

00:18:49.280 What are we doing about this problem?

00:18:51.000 Because just forgiving the loans, that's not going to make the underlying problem go away.

00:18:55.700 It only makes it worse.

00:18:58.040 The underlying problem is that college is ridiculously expensive, and we are funneling millions of

00:19:05.560 kids into this system for no good reason.

00:19:07.580 That's the underlying problem.

00:19:08.820 We're not doing anything about that.

00:19:10.080 No one's talking about what we're going to do about that.

00:19:11.840 So we're not even having that conversation.

00:19:18.240 And so the problem's not going to go away.

00:19:20.360 But as it pertains to you, if you have the loans, well, they're there.

00:19:23.680 So that's when it becomes a question of who's going to pay them.

00:19:27.440 As I said, I'm already paying my wife's loans.

00:19:29.940 She's my wife.

00:19:30.980 I'm married to her.

00:19:32.360 I have an obligation to my wife.

00:19:35.700 What's hers is mine.

00:19:36.980 What's mine is hers. 0.95

00:19:37.780 I agreed to that when I got married to her.

00:19:41.260 I didn't get married to you.

00:19:43.540 Okay?

00:19:44.460 Whoever's watching this, you're not my wife. 0.94

00:19:46.360 My wife is.

00:19:47.220 So your obligations are not mine.

00:19:50.780 My wife's obligations are mine, and vice versa. 0.99

00:19:54.640 Again, two become one in marriage.

00:19:56.380 That's not the case for you.

00:19:58.060 So I can feel bad about the obligations that you agreed to without understanding what you were doing.

00:20:05.920 I can feel bad about it.

00:20:06.720 I do feel bad about it.

00:20:07.700 But it's not my obligation.

00:20:08.960 It is yours.

00:20:11.380 I don't know why this is so difficult to understand.

00:20:14.220 I don't think it is difficult.

00:20:15.440 I think people understand it.

00:20:16.260 They just don't want to understand it because it's hard.

00:20:24.480 So that's what we're left with.

00:20:27.620 The loans are there.

00:20:28.580 What do we do about it?

00:20:29.660 The debt is there.

00:20:30.360 What do we do about it?

00:20:32.220 And no matter what you do, someone is going to suffer.

00:20:35.280 And the question, as always, is, who should suffer for your bad decisions?

00:20:44.900 Who should suffer for them?

00:20:46.320 Should it be you or somebody else?

00:20:49.540 I don't know how you can argue for somebody else.

00:20:54.380 I don't see how you can make that ethical argument.

00:20:57.340 And, you know, talking about this and what I've been told many times is that, well, a couple things I'm told.

00:21:07.720 One is that this is the federal government.

00:21:10.980 They're just forgiving it.

00:21:13.000 The federal government's going to cover it.

00:21:14.500 It doesn't come out of anybody's pocket.

00:21:17.080 Where does the federal government's money come from?

00:21:20.920 Despite how they've positioned themselves, the federal government is not, you know,

00:21:26.100 the federal government is not your daddy who's got his own wallet that he can pull out

00:21:32.360 and just, you know, get you out of a bad situation by pulling the money out of his wallet.

00:21:39.280 Where does the federal government's money come from?

00:21:42.080 It comes from us.

00:21:44.000 If the federal government is covering it, we are covering it.

00:21:48.280 Okay, but then the response is, well, they'll just print the money.

00:21:51.200 They'll just print it.

00:21:52.140 And, you know, just like that.

00:21:53.980 Magic.

00:21:57.060 There is, in fact, according to a lot of people, a magical money tree, basically.

00:22:02.320 And they'll just pluck some of the dollar bills off of that, you know, a few billion,

00:22:06.540 a few hundred billion dollar bills off of that very large magic money tree, and everything is fine.

00:22:12.780 Everything is not fine because we're experiencing right now the results of that kind of strategy.

00:22:19.600 And the results are sky-high inflation.

00:22:22.120 And people suffer.

00:22:22.880 So either the money is coming directly out of our pockets, or it ends up coming indirectly out of our pockets in an even worse way

00:22:32.500 because you print the money and cause even more inflation.

00:22:36.980 One way or another, who's left holding the bag?

00:22:40.180 The taxpayers, the average working man, is made to suffer.

00:22:44.500 So no matter what, we come back to the question, the ethical quandary here.

00:22:53.160 You made a reckless decision, a bad decision.

00:22:56.060 You have excuses for having made it because you were too young to make it.

00:22:58.880 And I agree you were too young.

00:23:00.840 You did get scammed, but you unfortunately got legally scammed.

00:23:03.320 It's legal for them to do that.

00:23:05.820 It shouldn't be, but it is.

00:23:10.320 So that happened.

00:23:11.920 Who has to suffer for it?

00:23:13.320 You don't want to suffer for it.

00:23:15.040 But if you don't suffer, the rest of us do.

00:23:18.020 And when I say the rest of us, I mean, like, don't think about me.

00:23:21.400 Think about just average, you know, working class person at the grocery store can barely afford groceries already. 0.99

00:23:35.700 And now we're going to make inflation even worse.

00:23:39.100 Because you didn't want to suffer for your choices you wanted someone else to.

00:23:44.400 Look, I know that this is not popular.

00:23:46.380 No politician is going to get up here and say this.

00:23:48.940 I wish that somebody would.

00:23:50.120 I wish some politician would have the guts to just go in front of the American people and say, listen, bad decision was made.

00:23:57.220 Someone's got to suffer for it.

00:23:58.280 I'm sorry.

00:23:58.740 It's got to be you.

00:23:59.720 Because I'm not going to be responsible for making someone else suffer for a choice they didn't even make.

00:24:05.340 If it's unjust that you have to pay back the loans, how much more unjust is it that someone else has to, whether directly or indirectly, pay them back?

00:24:16.980 Nobody wants to say that.

00:24:18.100 But certainly no politician in D.C. wants to say it because they don't have the guts to say it.

00:24:22.600 But it's the truth.

00:24:25.440 Here's a guy who wants to be a politician in D.C., John Fetterman in Pennsylvania.

00:24:29.780 And he is just not well at all.

00:24:33.700 He simply isn't.

00:24:35.540 And so he's only done a couple of public events and speeches over the last several months.

00:24:41.920 And you can kind of tell why.

00:24:43.560 So here he was yesterday trying to get the crowd fired up.

00:24:46.380 But he's having trouble getting them fired up because he can't really speak.

00:24:50.140 So listen.

00:24:50.860 I'm honored to be standing in the shadow of your amazing building.

00:24:58.200 Do you think that the 10 homes Dr. Oz have has a union hall across their home?

00:25:07.620 If you say you think the word of steel worker, what words come to your mind if you say steel workers?

00:25:17.960 Of all the words that bring to your mind when you hear the word steel workers, does the word crudite come to your mind?

00:25:28.440 That's not a word that's going to come to my mind.

00:25:31.300 Crudite is wrong with demanding for an easy, safe kind of their income.

00:25:44.500 This is one simple and one simple truth.

00:25:48.440 If you send me to Washington, D.C., and there's going to be choices in front of me as the next senator.

00:25:54.300 And it's going to be.

00:25:55.460 It's going to be what?

00:25:57.020 Are you going to stand with a union?

00:25:58.800 We got the idea there.

00:26:00.240 But he can't speak.

00:26:01.560 I mean, he has brain damage.

00:26:03.240 He actually does.

00:26:06.280 And that should be it.

00:26:07.840 I mean, he has brain damage.

00:26:10.240 He can't function.

00:26:11.280 He's brain damaged.

00:26:11.940 But he can still win, which shows you something about the voters in Pennsylvania.

00:26:18.020 But it also shows you, which still is a reflection of the voters in Pennsylvania, the quality of the opposition.

00:26:23.940 I mean, the fact that the Republican challenger in Pennsylvania, Dr. Oz, might lose to someone who is brain damaged and can't speak.

00:26:33.940 I mean, I can't think of anything more humiliating for the Republican Party than that.

00:26:39.880 But this is, you're not a serious country when people like this are elected.

00:26:50.100 This, again, is like late stage, end of civilization type of stuff here.

00:27:01.280 Not that John Fetterman is going to end human civilization if he becomes a senator.

00:27:06.020 He's not going to do anything at all. 0.93

00:27:07.060 He's basically a vegetable.

00:27:08.360 It's just a symptom of, once again, a civilization just giving up on itself. 0.99

00:27:14.180 That it's going to say, oh, yeah, he's got brain damage.

00:27:16.120 He can't speak. 0.98

00:27:16.860 He's a vegetable. 0.97

00:27:17.480 But we're going to put him in there anyway.

00:27:18.700 Why not?

00:27:20.180 I mean, we've already got a vegetable running the whole country.

00:27:23.420 So what's another vegetable?

00:27:24.800 We'll build a whole produce section.

00:27:28.580 All right.

00:27:29.700 This is from MSNBC.

00:27:31.140 It says, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene introduced a bill in Congress on Friday that

00:27:36.200 would ban gender-affirming care for transgender minors across the country.

00:27:40.060 Gender-affirming care, also known as mutilation and sterilization of children.

00:27:43.680 It's the most sweeping and draconian piece of legislation conjured by an ever more radicalized

00:27:48.540 violent anti-trans movement.

00:27:51.520 Literally no examples of violence are provided ever.

00:27:54.160 A violent movement, but not one example of violence.

00:27:59.740 They can't provide one example of an, quote, anti-trans person acting out violently against

00:28:05.700 trans people.

00:28:06.240 Not one example.

00:28:07.040 Can't do it.

00:28:08.200 Doesn't exist.

00:28:13.800 I'll tell you one thing.

00:28:14.680 You can find examples in the reverse.

00:28:17.700 While the bill sports only 14 Republican co-sponsors, its passage would likely become a priority if

00:28:23.760 the GOP were to retake Congress this fall.

00:28:27.140 That's another humiliating statement about the Republican Party that only has 14 co-sponsors.

00:28:32.700 I mean, the Marjorie Taylor Greene bill, and it doesn't matter how you feel about Marjorie Taylor

00:28:39.140 Greene personally.

00:28:40.080 It makes no difference.

00:28:40.860 She, this bill, every single Republican in Congress should support it.

00:28:47.360 We should demand that they all support it.

00:28:49.400 The bill is very simple, and it's exactly what the federal government needs to do.

00:28:52.620 It is exactly what we need Republicans in D.C. to be doing or trying to do.

00:28:59.020 It would simply ban doctors from castrating or mutilating kids.

00:29:06.380 Period.

00:29:06.920 That's it.

00:29:07.280 You can't do it.

00:29:07.860 It continues.

00:29:11.680 Since the 2020 presidential election, reactionary forces in the U.S. have increasingly become

00:29:16.720 more focused on trans issues.

00:29:19.900 Physicians and staff members at Boston Children's Hospital were threatened last week by a far-right

00:29:25.080 gender-critical internet mob that spread lies about the facility's work with transgender

00:29:30.820 adolescents.

00:29:32.220 The harassment campaign was kicked off by Shia Reitchick, who runs the anti-LGBTQ,

00:29:37.860 social media account, Libs of TikTok, along with anti-abortion and anti-LGBTQ media personality,

00:29:43.560 Matt Walsh.

00:29:44.580 Both told the lie that the hospital was performing hysterectomies on children.

00:29:49.560 Well, that in and of itself is a lie, because that's actually not what I said.

00:29:53.140 I didn't say that the hospital is definitely performing, quote-unquote, gender-affirming

00:30:01.860 hysterectomies on children.

00:30:04.060 There's certainly evidence that they have, reason to think that they have.

00:30:08.380 But what I actually said is it's almost irrelevant, because we know they're doing it to 18-year-olds,

00:30:13.920 which is still horrifying.

00:30:18.340 And by the way, if an 18-year-old is not mentally competent to sign on the dotted line for a college loan,

00:30:25.800 and is so incompetent that we have to forgive those loans after the fact,

00:30:29.420 that merely presenting the option to an 18-year-old is a scam.

00:30:34.840 Well, if that's the case, then what?

00:30:39.000 But an 18-year-old has the mental faculties necessary to agree to get a hysterectomy for cosmetic reasons?

00:30:49.200 Well, that makes no sense.

00:30:50.500 But what I actually said is that that's what I said.

00:30:52.460 Even if it's at 18, it's still horrifying.

00:30:54.460 And besides, whether or not they're doing this particular mutilation procedure on kids,

00:31:01.720 whether or not they're doing that, we know that they're performing cosmetic double mastectomies on kids.

00:31:08.140 We know that they are chemically castrating kids.

00:31:10.960 We know that.

00:31:12.900 So that's what I said.

00:31:16.020 So in accusing me of lying, of course, MSNBC is lying.

00:31:18.980 Not that they care.

00:31:20.220 There are any standards here at all.

00:31:23.900 We did send them something, you know, saying they need to retract this.

00:31:27.840 But already for the media, we know that there's very little accountability.

00:31:35.440 And when it comes to anything in the trans world, as we've seen,

00:31:39.440 they have full license to just say anything they want to say.

00:31:44.320 It doesn't matter.

00:31:46.240 It doesn't matter how far-fetched it is.

00:31:49.780 It makes no difference.

00:31:52.180 Meanwhile, there was a debate at UC Berkeley about transgenderism.

00:31:54.840 And I want you to listen to what this molecular geneticist has to say.

00:32:01.400 Now, you may not think.

00:32:03.480 You may think a debate at UC Berkeley about transgenderism.

00:32:08.280 You might think that the topic of the debate, given that it's at Berkeley,

00:32:11.820 the topic would be like, are transgender people oppressed or really oppressed?

00:32:18.360 We'll debate and find out.

00:32:19.500 But, no, in this case, they actually have someone up there who disagrees with the whole concept of transgenderism

00:32:26.340 based on her scientific background.

00:32:28.980 Let's listen to a little bit of what she has to say.

00:32:31.400 Trans women should be legally treated as women. 0.98

00:32:33.740 Tell me why you're strongly disagreeing.

00:32:36.780 Because I'm a molecular geneticist.

00:32:38.560 Being male or being female is a developmental process.

00:32:45.120 You can't go backwards.

00:32:47.200 So you can't change your sex. 0.90

00:32:49.840 Like, you cannot do that.

00:32:51.940 And the truth is that currently in California prisons and prisons in other parts of the country,

00:32:58.120 women are getting impregnated by other women. 1.00

00:33:02.760 And there's just no way that, I mean, this is against the UN.

00:33:09.400 When, after World War II, there was like a, I don't remember what body came up with this statue,

00:33:18.620 but it was against, I believe it was the, hey, you cannot house female prisoners with male prisoners 0.85

00:33:25.660 because they get raped. 0.95

00:33:28.220 And that's happening today. 0.97

00:33:31.100 You know, I go to the women's, I go to the women's changing room at my gym,

00:33:36.700 and there's a dude in there.

00:33:38.360 He's putting on makeup and hoop earrings.

00:33:41.660 And this is not something a woman does when she goes to work out. 1.00

00:33:46.260 Nor do women beat each other to death. 1.00

00:33:48.640 But men do.

00:33:50.360 You know, and it's just, it's so sad.

00:33:51.960 Pause it there for a second.

00:33:52.300 Of course, everything that she's saying here is 100% correct.

00:33:58.040 And it's a very sad thing that we need to bring a molecular geneticist in to explain,

00:34:04.260 you know, that men are men and women are women. 0.93

00:34:08.120 Housing women with men in prison is one of the most grotesque human rights violations imaginable.

00:34:16.880 Almost as grotesque, but not as grotesque as chemically castrating kids.

00:34:22.300 But the point that she makes there, because there are a lot of, like, slightly more subtle things.

00:34:27.720 And so what she says there about, like, the fact that you go, so she's in California,

00:34:33.360 so she probably encounters this a lot at the gym with the guys going into the women's changing room.

00:34:38.860 And they're putting on big earrings and makeup and stuff before they work out.

00:34:41.760 And she says, women don't do that. 1.00

00:34:46.100 And so, you know, this is something that all women, women are already, tend to be sort of more naturally intuitive than men,

00:34:54.780 picking up on subtle things.

00:34:56.540 And this is not, you know, having a guy in the women's restroom or locker room putting on the clown makeup is not very subtle.

00:35:04.200 But I guess the point is that, like, all women, they see the performance of womanhood that's carried on by these men.

00:35:16.780 And every woman, even the ones on the most, the ones farthest to the left, they see it and they all know.

00:35:23.920 Like, that is not what women do. 1.00

00:35:26.440 This isn't even a convincing performance.

00:35:29.800 So I think every woman recognizes that, but they don't feel like they're allowed to say it.

00:35:38.520 And even this woman, you can tell that she's emotional and she's also very nervous saying all of these really true and basic things.

00:35:46.840 Let's listen to the rest of this.

00:35:48.380 Sad that women have internalized misogyny to the point where the man's comfort takes precedence over the woman's safety.

00:35:56.480 There's a reason why they don't want to be in men's prisons, because men beat each other to death. 1.00

00:36:03.520 Women don't do that. 1.00

00:36:05.780 What, if anything, would cause you to move to the disagreeing?

00:36:09.460 Is there anything you heard here tonight that would convince you to move one line over?

00:36:15.460 It's okay to say no.

00:36:16.180 I'm just trying to figure this out.

00:36:17.240 No, I have figured it out.

00:36:19.840 And you're confident?

00:36:21.600 I am as confident as I am that this is my hand in front of my face instead of yours.

00:36:28.200 There is absolutely...

00:36:30.760 This is the most insane thing that has ever happened to me in my life, that women are a feeling now. 1.00

00:36:40.540 Almost every single person that listens to that knows that it's true.

00:36:47.760 And that includes almost all the people who would say otherwise.

00:36:53.380 And that is the fundamental and very deep frustration that everyone feels on this issue, that I feel all the time.

00:36:59.880 Is that you're arguing for something, and you're arguing against people who know that you're right.

00:37:08.280 Everyone knows that we're right.

00:37:12.760 You know, you're sitting in front of a brick wall, standing next to someone, saying that brick wall exists.

00:37:20.560 And they're looking right at it and saying, well, no, it doesn't.

00:37:24.100 But it does, and you know that it does.

00:37:27.040 That's why you're not actually trying to walk through it.

00:37:29.380 That's why you're not bashing your head against it.

00:37:30.680 You know it's there.

00:37:34.320 Now, what she says about internalized misogyny, that's, you know, the kind of left-wing feminist framing of this. 1.00

00:37:41.160 And whatever.

00:37:42.940 I mean, they kind of frame it however they want to frame it, as long as they're opposing this madness.

00:37:46.780 That's how I feel about it.

00:37:47.940 But I will say that it's not actually internalized misogyny.

00:37:51.580 It's fear, right?

00:37:55.820 It's mainly just fear of the consequences of speaking out against this.

00:38:01.520 And then it's kind of an internalized self-loathing, I think, also.

00:38:08.020 Which the left, you know, propagates.

00:38:11.960 Wants people to hate themselves.

00:38:15.520 Because women that speak out, not women and men.

00:38:17.960 We are screamed at and hectored constantly. 0.85

00:38:21.480 And we're told that you're a bigot and you're all transphobe and you're all these things. 0.93

00:38:25.700 And for me, given that I'm a far-right, stochastic terrorist extremist, those labels mean nothing to me. 0.95

00:38:36.040 I laugh at them, okay?

00:38:37.760 I've never felt—it's hard for me to even relate to the people who care about being labeled that way.

00:38:41.460 So I've never cared at all.

00:38:44.400 It's not going to hurt my feelings in the slightest.

00:38:47.660 But for a lot of people, women especially, that are more moderate and then closer on the left, being called those words, like having those labels applied to them really hurts.

00:38:58.840 Because they've been conditioned that way.

00:39:01.180 And so that's what it is.

00:39:02.440 All right.

00:39:05.620 Let's see.

00:39:06.340 We have time to mention—

00:39:08.240 Okay.

00:39:08.800 This is from Pew.

00:39:10.020 It says,

00:39:10.540 More than 150 years after it was officially outlawed in the United States, slavery will be on the ballot in five states in November as a new abolitionist movement seeks to reshape prison labor.

00:39:21.320 Voters in Alabama, Louisiana, Oregon, Tennessee, and Vermont will decide on state constitutional amendments prohibiting slavery and involuntary servitude, in some cases except for work, by incarcerated people.

00:39:31.620 Advocates say the amendments are needed to strip antiquated language from state constitutions and to potentially transform the criminal justice system by making all work in prisons voluntary.

00:39:40.880 So this is what they're calling the new anti-slavery abolitionist movement is to get rid of involuntary prison work because that's slavery.

00:39:50.060 And I found this interesting because just recently we were talking about slavery on the show and what is slavery and how you define it.

00:39:55.500 I think the only definition of slavery that makes sense is slavery is the ownership of people as property.

00:40:03.940 That's what slavery is. 1.00

00:40:04.840 Which would mean that if you own somebody as property and never made them work, they are still a slave.

00:40:13.760 Like, no matter what they're doing, it's still slavery because you are owning them, buying and selling them as property.

00:40:21.040 That's how I would define slavery, which means that forced prison labor is not slavery.

00:40:27.120 Okay, prisoners are not bought and sold, maybe in a sense within the prison environment amongst themselves.

00:40:36.800 There's some amount of that, but that's not what prison is.

00:40:43.260 It is, it's punishment.

00:40:46.140 Okay, it's punitive.

00:40:46.840 It also just makes sense, I think, that you have all these people who cannot be trusted in society, and so they need to be segregated.

00:40:58.440 But then society says, no, you still need to contribute.

00:41:01.760 Like, you don't get out of this.

00:41:02.900 You still have to do something. 1.00

00:41:05.400 You went to prison because you're a murderer or scumbag, whatever. 0.99

00:41:09.360 That doesn't magically get you out of the responsibility to contribute in some way to society. 1.00

00:41:13.680 So now we're going to force you to.

00:41:16.840 And we're going to force you to, largely as a punitive measure.

00:41:21.060 Work can be, you know, you want to talk about rehabilitation.

00:41:24.600 Well, you can't have rehabilitation without work.

00:41:29.500 Work can be rehabilitative.

00:41:33.560 Suffering is rehabilitative.

00:41:35.360 If you force people to work and they find some amount of suffering out of that, that's good.

00:41:41.340 You cannot have rehabilitation without suffering.

00:41:44.060 That is one of the core things that people get wrong when we talk about rehabilitating prisoners.

00:41:51.500 You know, rehabilitation should not be the primary point of prison.

00:41:54.560 The primary point is punitive.

00:41:56.540 The second point is segregation, you know, safety.

00:42:00.020 It's basically a self-defense mechanism, society's self-defense mechanism.

00:42:02.980 But if you're going to be, depending on the sentence, if you're letting some of these people back out, then, yeah, you want to work towards some kind of rehabilitation.

00:42:10.080 But you cannot do that without work and suffering.

00:42:12.780 You have to make people suffer, confront, and suffer for their crimes.

00:42:18.240 Well, there's not going to be rehabilitation.

00:42:19.260 Not only do I think that there should be prison labor, there should be a lot more of it.

00:42:26.140 I mean, we need to bring back chain gangs.

00:42:28.420 We need to bring all that back.

00:42:30.800 Prisoners should be doing a lot more labor, hard labor.

00:42:33.860 Long, hard, painful labor is what prisoners should be doing. 0.54

00:42:37.540 You know, just ask yourself, we got rid of all that, just like we got rid of public executions.

00:42:43.920 We got rid of all these things, saying that they're draconian and we're uncomfortable with them and they're icky and I don't like them.

00:42:50.060 Has the problem of crime gotten better or worse in the meantime?

00:42:56.340 Just something to think about.

00:42:57.680 Let's get to the comment section.

00:42:58.860 Who makes Twitter mob fly off the handle with rage? 0.94

00:43:05.000 Who's to blame?

00:43:08.080 It's a sweet baby gang.

00:43:13.260 Wolfie says, Matt, what time do you have to wake up to be able to shoot these amazing videos and have the editing team do their work?

00:43:19.940 I wake up at 5 a.m. most mornings.

00:43:21.780 I wake up absurdly early, hours and hours before we actually film.

00:43:26.820 And while I say I wake up at 5 a.m., I should amend that and say that if my wife is here, she'd be quick to point out that actually what I do is I set my alarm for 5 a.m.

00:43:37.160 And then 5.05 a.m. and 5.15, 5.20, 5.25, 5.30, 5.35, 5.40, 5.45, and then I wake up at 5.45 while the alarm goes off repeatedly in the interim.

00:43:49.080 And my wife lays there cursing my name. 1.00

00:43:53.600 And that's my strategy.

00:43:55.680 But it's my process in the morning.

00:43:58.220 It's all part of the process.

00:43:59.280 Kathleen says, I was just thinking this morning how weird internet fame is.

00:44:04.120 A guy once came to play kid songs through our library who sat at a table to sign his autograph afterwards, and no one took him up on that.

00:44:12.100 It was very obvious no one knew who in the world he was, but he had a YouTube channel and thought he was pretty big stuff.

00:44:17.860 Oh, that's, that is, oh, man, that's the stuff of nightmares.

00:44:23.320 Sit there for the, uh, at the autograph table and no one comes up.

00:44:29.340 Who was this YouTuber?

00:44:30.680 Can you just tell us who, now I need to know who it was.

00:44:34.380 Um, it is amazing.

00:44:36.920 And I think the fact that we talked about yesterday, it's kind of, fame is very cheap now and, uh, and easily obtained.

00:44:43.980 And so that makes this problem worse where, you know, the, the smallest audience and the smallest platform can go to people's heads.

00:44:53.260 I've seen it happen so many times in this business.

00:44:56.400 Somebody shows up, they're not here that long, and they have a little bit of, not even that much, like the smallest amount of success.

00:45:02.400 And then next thing you know, their ego is bigger than the, they can't even fit in the door.

00:45:05.280 The ego is bigger than the building.

00:45:06.880 Um, it, it can go, it can basically, in this, in the, in the business, it can go, it can go one of two ways.

00:45:15.060 It usually goes that way.

00:45:17.820 You know, being in front of the camera just has that effect on people where they, now they just feel, it, they, it drives them insane.

00:45:24.600 And now they, they walk around like they're, you know, world fame.

00:45:27.900 They walk around like they're Brad Pitt, right?

00:45:30.020 Um, and that's how plugged in I am to pop culture, that that was the celebrity reference I went with.

00:45:35.240 But then it can also go the other way where the camera becomes more of a, of a challenge where you have to kind of like justify yourself all the time.

00:45:43.680 The, the, the bigger the platform, then, um, sort of the, the more you feel you need to work to justify the fact that you even have this platform.

00:45:52.800 I think that's a better way of approaching it.

00:45:56.080 Um, let's see.

00:45:58.940 There's one I wanted to get to.

00:46:00.020 Okay.

00:46:00.260 Dodo says, hmm, on this occasion, I do disagree with Matt on this one.

00:46:07.200 There are some pretty significant voices who are children who hung, hung out with Michael Jackson, who said he never did anything inappropriate.

00:46:13.880 I don't think he was ever found guilty of anything.

00:46:16.140 Maybe I'm wrong, but I think the only case against him was a lawsuit.

00:46:18.680 And it seemed more likely that the family was doing it for money, not because he actually did anything.

00:46:22.920 I'm open to being corrected if I'm wrong.

00:46:24.480 Well, I'm glad you're open to being corrected because I'm going to correct you.

00:46:27.340 First of all, um, the, the defense of, well, a few of the kids he hung out with said he didn't rape them is really the worst defense imaginable.

00:46:38.180 But this is what the Michael Jackson defenders do.

00:46:39.940 They start listing the kids he didn't rape.

00:46:42.800 I mean, think about what you're doing.

00:46:45.660 So your defense is that he didn't rape every kid he came across.

00:46:48.780 And second fact that he was actually accused multiple times.

00:46:54.860 And yes, accusations are not in and of themselves 100% confirmation that something actually happened.

00:47:01.180 But, okay, almost all of us can go our entire lives without being accused of raping any children.

00:47:09.240 If you have this happening a lot, it's not just once, but, but this is constantly happening to you, then something is wrong here probably.

00:47:19.760 It could just be a conspiracy among the nation's children to paint you as a child rapist, but probably not.

00:47:26.880 But, especially when you consider that Michael Jackson, and this, this to me is decisive, Michael Jackson admitted to inviting young boys to his house and having sleepovers with them, sleeping in the same room and sometimes often in the same bed.

00:47:43.920 Now, well, I want to play this interview.

00:47:45.540 There's a clip of this interview that this, this was back, you know, this interview came out like 20 years ago.

00:47:50.160 And it was a big sensation at the time.

00:47:52.960 Maybe it's already been forgotten.

00:47:54.280 The video quality is a little bit weird here from YouTube, but all that matters is the audio.

00:47:58.140 Just, okay, you listen to this and you tell me if it's like outlandish to think that this guy might be a pedophile.

00:48:05.480 Go ahead.

00:48:07.140 He deserved all the joys of life.

00:48:08.920 And so it was that we came back to our meeting at Neverland with 12-year-old Gavin.

00:48:14.460 I'd found this easily the most disturbing moment of the past eight months.

00:48:19.220 You know, some have, and they say, is that really appropriate?

00:48:24.760 When you're talking about children, we met Gavin.

00:48:27.800 And it was a great privilege to meet Gavin because he's had a lot of suffering in his life.

00:48:32.360 Yeah.

00:48:33.000 When Gavin was there, he talked about the fact that he shares your bedroom.

00:48:36.040 Yes.

00:48:37.400 Can you understand why people would worry about that? 1.00

00:48:40.720 Because they're ignorant. 0.92

00:48:41.760 But is it really appropriate for a 44-year-old man to share a bedroom with a child who is not related to him at all? 0.99

00:48:51.740 That's a beautiful thing.

00:48:53.260 That's not a worrying thing?

00:48:55.220 Why should it be worrying?

00:48:56.420 Who's the criminal?

00:48:57.300 Who's Jack the Ripper in the room?

00:48:58.820 This is a guy trying to help heal a child.

00:49:03.400 I'm sleeping in a sleeping bag on the floor.

00:49:05.780 I gave him the bed because he has a brother named Star.

00:49:09.300 So him and Star took the bed.

00:49:11.320 And I'm on the floor in the sleeping bag.

00:49:12.700 Did you ever sleep in the bed with them?

00:49:14.280 No.

00:49:14.500 But I have slept in the bed with many children.

00:49:17.320 I sleep in the bed with all of them.

00:49:18.900 When Macaulay Culkin were little, Kieran Culkin would sleep on this side.

00:49:22.860 Macaulay Culkin's on this side.

00:49:24.580 His sister's in there.

00:49:25.600 We're all just jamming the bed.

00:49:28.160 Okay.

00:49:29.260 I mean, why do people embarrass themselves?

00:49:31.720 You listen to that and you say, oh, it doesn't mean there's anything wrong with it.

00:49:36.260 You wouldn't be saying that if he wasn't a good dancer.

00:49:39.560 If you didn't like his dancing and the way that he sings, you would not be saying that.

00:49:43.460 You would not give that kind of leeway to any other human being on earth.

00:49:48.900 If your neighbor across the street was a 44-year-old man inviting little boys over for sleepover parties,

00:49:54.960 what would you think?

00:49:56.000 Would you let your son go over?

00:49:57.280 Would you let your son, is there any world ever in which you would allow your 10-year-old son

00:50:04.100 to go sleep in bed with a neighbor across the street?

00:50:07.560 Of course not.

00:50:08.980 Nobody ever would.

00:50:10.240 Why?

00:50:12.120 Why?

00:50:12.880 Because you know that the chances that something horrible is happening are astronomically high.

00:50:19.400 And so you know that for every human on earth.

00:50:22.280 But you say, no, Michael Jackson's different.

00:50:25.300 Why is he?

00:50:25.660 If anything, it's even more certain in his case that he was doing something.

00:50:31.020 Because how could you look at Michael Jackson and say, well, no, he's the only one who would

00:50:35.100 never do that.

00:50:36.380 He's the only one who would never?

00:50:37.920 How is that your judgment?

00:50:40.080 And not, he's like the most likely one out of all of the creepy men who sleep with kids in their bed.

00:50:45.200 He's sleeping with little kids in his bed because he wants to heal them, and you buy that?

00:50:59.380 I'm not just, by the way, I'm not just yelling at the guy who left the comment.

00:51:01.840 I mean, I am yelling at you, but just everybody.

00:51:03.400 Snap out of it.

00:51:06.500 I mean, the guy's been dead now for over a decade.

00:51:09.620 Can you like, has the spell worn off yet?

00:51:11.560 I mean, how did it not wear off the minute he started looking like, you know, like some

00:51:21.060 kind of undead goblin walking around?

00:51:23.640 But it didn't.

00:51:24.500 I mean, okay, but now he really is dead.

00:51:26.360 And so you're still under this spell of there might be an appropriate reason why a man would

00:51:33.860 invite boys over.

00:51:36.200 He's holding hands with a young boy there.

00:51:39.480 My God, come on, just stop.

00:51:43.960 And then, he's sharing his bed with little boys, and then some of them come out and say,

00:51:52.020 hey, he molested me, and you still won't believe it?

00:51:57.400 Do you actually, what do you need?

00:51:59.700 Do you need to like have walked into the room and witnessed it yourself?

00:52:08.020 Maybe then you would even make, still make excuses.

00:52:10.440 It just, it's mind-boggling.

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00:54:08.360 Now let's get to our daily cancellation. 1.00

00:54:10.020 Well, our daily cancellation today is like a Russian nesting doll of dumbness. 0.99

00:54:20.060 You start with something dumb, only to find that there's something dumber inside it, 0.99

00:54:23.480 and then something even dumber inside the dumber thing, and so on forever, ever, and ever into the abyss. 1.00

00:54:27.820 On final analysis, when surveying the whole web of idiocy in its entirety, 0.99

00:54:32.300 you're left with something so inconceivably ridiculous that it would be too outlandish, 0.99

00:54:36.320 even as a Babylon Bee headline. 0.88

00:54:38.400 That's how I'm setting this up.

00:54:39.580 And I don't think I'm exaggerating. 0.99

00:54:42.280 We begin here, as we start to peel back the layers on this onion of idiocy, 0.97

00:54:47.460 there was a group of computer programmers who invented the world's first AI rapper. 0.98

00:54:55.140 Okay, so imagine Siri or Alexa if they were drug dealers, and you basically get the idea here.

00:55:00.720 The robot rapper is named FN Mika, and he has, over the past year or so,

00:55:06.760 apparently released a number of songs, despite not actually existing in physical form,

00:55:11.880 that is a handicap which has not prevented him from creating masterpieces like this one.

00:55:16.040 Okay, who knew that the singularity would be so obnoxious?

00:55:36.240 And yet, it must be admitted that FN Mika also sounds indistinguishable from most other rappers.

00:55:41.940 This AI-generated song is lifeless and empty and depressing and terrible,

00:55:46.780 and for that reason, it's totally at home amid today's landscape of rap and pop music.

00:55:51.820 It's not that artificial intelligence has become so sophisticated.

00:55:55.180 It's rather that popular music has become so atrocious.

00:55:59.420 This is the great twist ending to the story of humanity.

00:56:04.520 It's the thing that no sci-fi writer saw coming.

00:56:07.580 They all thought that computers would gain souls and become like humans,

00:56:11.940 but instead, humans lost their souls and became like computers.

00:56:17.740 And because most popular music is soulless and hollow,

00:56:20.420 it can be supplanted by Siri's ex-con boyfriend.

00:56:23.720 Even the pop songs ostensibly created by human beings

00:56:27.320 are still, for all intents and purposes, artificially generated.

00:56:31.480 The average Beyoncé song has like 25 writers,

00:56:34.580 and yet the lyrics sound like something Dr. Seuss might have written 0.96

00:56:37.120 if he was brain damaged and addicted to crack cocaine.

00:56:40.580 There's no truth or beauty or soul in any of it,

00:56:43.160 and so nothing is lost by replacing modern pop stars with actual robots.

00:56:47.900 Capitol Records certainly felt that way,

00:56:49.460 which is why they signed FN Mika last week,

00:56:52.520 gave him a record deal,

00:56:54.140 making him the first non-existent person to ever obtain a record deal.

00:56:58.360 As the website Hot New Hip Hop noted at the time,

00:57:01.720 the rapper is the creation of Brandon Lee and Anthony Martini of Factory News,

00:57:05.960 which is a virtual record label that was the first to sign the robot.

00:57:09.540 Martini claims that the rapper's voice is that of a real human,

00:57:12.540 but everything else about him,

00:57:13.840 from his lyrics to the chords and tempo underpinning his music,

00:57:16.700 is based on AI.

00:57:18.440 FN Mika is a big sign for Capitol Records, 0.95

00:57:20.540 as the virtual being has over 10 million followers and a billion views on TikTok.

00:57:25.280 Ryan Rudin of Capitol Records describes Mika as this way,

00:57:29.040 it meets at the intersection of music, technology, and gaming culture.

00:57:32.580 It's just a preview of what's to come.

00:57:34.260 Yes, a preview of what's to come, or so he thought.

00:57:39.440 A few days after Capitol Records had triumphantly announced its partnership

00:57:42.520 with a semi-literate chatbot,

00:57:44.820 the partnership had tragically come to an end.

00:57:48.620 FN Mika, despite not actually existing,

00:57:52.920 was canceled because he used the N-word.

00:57:57.040 That's correct.

00:57:57.860 A non-existent, artificial robot rapper was fired because he used a racial slur

00:58:03.780 that a million actual human rappers have used a million times a day.

00:58:09.260 Stereogum reports,

00:58:10.440 Capitol Records has severed ties with the recently signed AI rapper FN Mika,

00:58:15.200 who came under intense scrutiny after clips of the project using the N-word went viral.

00:58:19.380 Social media users also surfaced an old image from Mika's Instagram,

00:58:22.620 showing that the rapper is in a scene of police brutality.

00:58:25.780 Capitol Records sent a statement,

00:58:27.660 CMG has severed ties with FN Mika, effective immediately.

00:58:31.180 We offer our deepest apologies to the black community 1.00

00:58:33.120 for our insensitivity in signing this project.

00:58:35.380 Without asking enough questions about equity and the creative process behind it,

00:58:38.900 we thank those who have reached out to us with constructive feedback in the past couple of days.

00:58:43.340 Your input was invaluable as we came to the decision to end our association with the project.

00:58:49.540 Well, it's a good thing that they apologized to the black community. 1.00

00:58:52.000 This will come as a relief to all of the ordinary black people

00:58:54.980 who were feeling deeply traumatized and emotionally burdened

00:58:58.000 by the inappropriate language used by a rapping computer program.

00:59:01.940 Except, of course, that no ordinary black people were traumatized by this or even aware of it. 0.98

00:59:06.640 This was the work of brain-dead activists 0.95

00:59:08.920 who complained that FN Mika was a caricature and stereotype of black culture. 0.98

00:59:14.700 And they're correct, of course.

00:59:15.940 I mean, it's exactly what he was.

00:59:17.320 Except that most human rappers are also caricatures of black culture. 0.89

00:59:24.040 They are more cartoonish and insulting. 0.95

00:59:25.800 In their case, you would think the caricature is even more degrading

00:59:29.500 because there's a human being behind it.

00:59:32.800 And if the N-word is objectionable, which it is,

00:59:36.220 you would think that the offense would be all the greater

00:59:38.540 when an actual flesh-and-blood human rapper utters it.

00:59:41.580 But that's not the rule as outlined in the Book of Wokeness.

00:59:45.780 According to those scriptures, the rules are pretty clear.

00:59:49.000 The N-word is a magical incantation 0.78

00:59:51.300 which is empowering and positive when uttered by black people 0.99

00:59:54.540 but horrifying and dangerous 0.98

00:59:55.900 when it passes through the lips of someone with a lighter skin tone.

00:59:59.400 It is a combination of syllables

01:00:00.860 whose offensiveness is determined by skin pigmentation.

01:00:04.340 And if you have no skin pigmentation at all

01:00:07.020 because you have no skin because you don't exist,

01:00:09.420 then you're not entitled to say the word.

01:00:12.080 And that's all there is to it.

01:00:13.920 There's no logic to this rule.

01:00:15.320 There's no sense.

01:00:16.060 There's no moral coherence.

01:00:17.320 But there is consistency, at least.

01:00:19.880 Never mind the fact that the programmers

01:00:21.200 use the voice of an actual human

01:00:23.520 who happens to be black to generate FN Mika's voice.

01:00:28.300 In fact, it's not clear to me that FN Mika actually is an AI at all.

01:00:31.740 It seems that he's essentially a computer-animated avatar

01:00:34.360 voiced by an actual person.

01:00:36.920 I mean, he's not a robot any more than Buzz Lightyear or Shrek are robots.

01:00:40.660 But I don't know.

01:00:41.760 Forget about all that.

01:00:43.160 Nothing needs to make sense in the world of the woke scolds.

01:00:46.700 All they know is that they are outraged.

01:00:49.200 The reasons don't matter.

01:00:51.920 And today they are outraged by a computer-animated avatar.

01:00:54.940 And that is why they, along with that avatar, are canceled.

01:01:00.940 And that'll leave it.

01:01:02.500 And that will not end it for us.

01:01:04.160 I'll get used to this eventually.

01:01:05.100 We're going to move into our members block of the show.

01:01:07.820 And if you're not a member yet, please become one

01:01:09.560 so you can join us for that segment.

01:01:13.460 Otherwise, talk to you tomorrow.

01:01:15.060 Godspeed.

01:01:23.200 You

01:01:25.520 Thank you.

The Matt Walsh Show - August 24, 2022

Ep. 1008 - When Far Left Activists Masquerade As Pediatricians

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