Ep. 1010 - Traumatized By Ben Shapiro's Presence
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Ben Shapiro traumatizes the nation s podcasters by attending a podcasting convention. Today on the Matt W. W. Show, Ben W. tells the story of what happened the day before he was scheduled to speak at the Podcast Movement Conference.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, Ben Shapiro traumatizes the nation's podcasters by attending a podcasting
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savings with gold. Well, as you all know, I am nothing if not a sunny, cheerful optimist. I prefer
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to believe that we live in a world of rainbows and gumdrops. That's just how I like to see the
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world. And that's why when I encounter abject lunacy and absurdity, I still sometimes have a
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hard time believing it, believing that it's true. There's a part of me that clings to the hope,
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the desperate, dying hope that the dumbest, most incorrigibly stupid things are really just a joke,
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a dark kind of satire. And yet those hopes are almost always, in the end, dashed.
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And that brings us to the events of yesterday afternoon. But before we get there, we got to
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back up a little bit. The day before yesterday, when the Podcast Movement Conference kicked off
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in Dallas. This is a trade expo for podcasters organized and run by a group called Podcast Movement.
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Podcasters from around the country, they come together and they talk about podcasting.
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Now, frankly, as a podcaster myself, the event sounds like a nightmare. The last thing I'd ever
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want to do is be around a bunch of other podcasters talking about podcasting. That's just me. The Daily
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Wire had a more positive attitude about it. And so the company set up a booth on the convention floor.
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To be clear, we paid to set up a booth. The money was accepted by this group Podcast Movement.
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And the booth was set up and everything seemed to be fine until tragedy struck. Ben Shapiro showed up
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at the conference. Now, he wasn't speaking there. He wasn't presenting anything. He just kind of showed
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up and said hello to people, took some pictures with fans, and then he left. As far as I know,
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he didn't lash out violently at any point. He didn't go berserk and start murdering podcasters left and
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right. And even if he did, you know, there are so many podcasters in the world that honestly,
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it wouldn't be that big of a deal. We have enough to spare. But that's not what happened.
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He also did not, despite reports to the contrary, bite the head off of a kitten while uttering demonic
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incantations. He didn't even drink blood or breathe fire. He did none of those things so far as I'm
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aware. And yet, Podcast Movement the next day issued this tweet, which when I saw it for the first time,
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I could only stare at it blankly for several minutes, trying to convince myself that it's supposed
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to be satirical. But alas, it is not. They tweeted,
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Hi folks, we owe you an apology before sessions kick off for the day.
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Yesterday afternoon, Ben Shapiro briefly visited the PM22 Expo area near the Daily Wire booth.
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Though he was not registered or expected, we take full responsibility for the harm done by his
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presence. There's no way around it. We agreed to sell the Daily Wire a first-time booth based on the
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large presence in podcasting. The weight of that decision is now painfully clear. Shapiro is a
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co-founder. A drop-in, however unlikely, should have been considered a possibility. Oh, but they
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aren't done yet. It continues. Those of you who called this unacceptable are right. In nine wonderful
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years growing and celebrating this medium, PM has made mistakes. The pain caused by this one will always
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stick with us. We promise that sponsors will be more carefully considered moving forward. Just to
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clarify, no TDW representatives were scheduled to appear on panels, and Shapiro remained in the common
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space and did not have a badge. If you have questions, we're here to talk. Thank you for reading, and we
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hope you continue to join us from here on out. Now, in fairness, I will admit that Ben's presence
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in the office causes me pain and trauma as well, but that's only because he stole my giant stuffed
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walrus. If any of the people at the podcast conference even have giant stuffed walruses,
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theirs were home safe and not threatened by Ben Shapiro at all. So what was their complaint?
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Well, a short time after these tweets from the podcast movement went out, the Daily Wire released
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video from Ben's brief time at the conference. You can watch for yourself and decide whether this reaction
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from the people there was warranted. So here's the footage, and of course, you know, it goes without
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saying, viewer discretion is advised. Here it is. Yesterday afternoon, Ben Shapiro briefly visited
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the PM22 Expo. Though he was not registered or expected, we take full responsibility for the harm
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done by his presence. We agreed to sell the Daily Wire a first-time booth based on the company's
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large presence in podcasting. The weight of that decision is now painfully clear.
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During event planning, the dangerous nature of the company's messaging was overlooked.
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Those of you who called this unacceptable are right. Podcast movement has made mistakes.
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The pain caused by this one will always stick with us.
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My God. He's a monster. Those people certainly look like they were fearing for their lives, because
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that's what you do when you're deathly afraid of somebody. You ask for a selfie.
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May seem to be sort of an unorthodox strategy, but it turned out to be an effective defense mechanism.
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Perhaps it's a tactic you could try the next time you're being chased through the woods by an axe
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murderer. You can stop them from killing you by just asking them to pose for a picture.
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Now, in any event, clearly not everybody was happy to see Ben there. One podcaster who goes by the
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handle Starplanes on Twitter took a picture of Ben from a safe distance and tweeted it with a caption,
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hey, podcast movement, what the F? Continuing, it says, as a trans, a queer person, as someone with
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a uterus, this does not make me feel welcome. This does not make me feel safe.
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A short time later, Starplanes provided this update, just confirmed with the pod move team
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that they did not know Shapiro was attending. In fact, they were told he was not. Him showing up
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was the first they knew about it. Does that make everything okay? No. Am I much happier knowing
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he was not an invited guest? Absolutely. Now, you might be asking yourself, who gives a damn what
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Starplanes thinks? Why is she special? Was Ben Shapiro supposed to get special clearance from her
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specifically before simply existing within a 100 foot radius of her? Well, yes, that's exactly what
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was supposed to happen, apparently. And that's why, due to this complaint from Starplanes, and maybe a
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few other complaints, though that's the only one I've actually seen, the organization issued what may
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go down in history as the most pathetic apology of all time. It certainly wins the title for this
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month, at least. I think we can agree on that. Now, what makes this all the more pathetic and
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embarrassing is that Ben Shapiro is one of the very top podcasters in the business. The Daily
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Wire as a company is one of the top podcast publishers. According to the latest ranking
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from PodTrack, we're the sixth largest publisher in the country with 72 million downloads just last
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month alone, which means we beat companies like Disney and Fox and Paramount and Cumulus.
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In fact, our performance is even more impressive than that, as PodTrack counts us as having 12 active
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shows. iHeartRadio, which is the number one publisher, has 678 active shows. Wondery at number
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two has 202. NPR at three has 46. So we come in at number six with only 12, and less than half of
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those 12 are daily shows. So pound for pound, in terms of the average number of downloads per show,
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we actually should be number two right behind the New York Times. The point here is that if you're a
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podcaster attending a podcasting convention with podcasting talks and workshops, you should want
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us there. You should be coming up to us for podcasting classes. You should be asking us to
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teach our secrets. If you see Ben Shapiro walking around, you should be coming to him for advice,
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not running away in fear with your hands over your ears. Starplanes, whose real name apparently is
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Tal Muneer, is in the podcasting business, and yet nobody's ever heard of this person.
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She's had no success. Her career has been pitiful, no offense. But she didn't go to Ben Shapiro and
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say, hi, I work in the same business as you, but I have no idea how to be successful at it. You are
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much, much better at this and approximately five million times more successful. Please teach me your
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ways. If you want to be successful, that's what you do when you're around people who are more
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successful than you in the same field. Instead, she stood off at a distance tweeting angrily and
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demanding that this man who could teach her so much be escorted off the premises. And maybe as I
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say this, I'm kind of explaining part of the problem. There is no doubt a lot of jealousy at
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work here. The Daily Wire is conservative, but that alone is not our sin, right? Our sin is that we are
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conservative and wildly successful. That's why they can't stand us. In fact, they're more than happy
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to have conservatives who are in these same spaces, but are not successful. That's good.
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But to be successful in their space and to be more successful than them, that's just not, that's
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unthinkable. And yet as ridiculous as all this is, we cannot fail to notice the more serious
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implications. So it's bad enough when a conservative is judged dangerous or harmful for the opinions that
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he's expressing. It's bad enough when our ideas are treated like chemical weapons. What happened
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yesterday represents an escalation beyond all of that. It's not simply Ben's opinions that are
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dangerous now. It is his presence. His existence in physical space is harmful and painful. Now, I don't
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think I need to spell out why this is, you know, why this is a problem. When it's determined that a
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conservative's mere presence can cause harm, the stage has been set for some rather dark and terrible
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things. And if I do need to spell it out, then I will say that labeling the physical presence of a
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group of people harmful is pre-genocide talk. It is quite literally a justification for rounding people
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up and throwing them in prisons or mass graves. And if it was just some group of fragile podcasters
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talking this way, it'd be nothing to worry about. But the problem is that this is increasingly the
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language adopted by all of the most powerful institutions in America. That those with wrong
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ideas are not just wrong. They're dangerous. They're terrorists. And they have to be dealt with
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accordingly. And that's where all this leads. Now, let's get to our five headlines.
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presence is that these people all harbor ideas and opinions that they simply cannot defend and they
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know they can't defend them. So here's another good example of this. Also from yesterday, Andy Ngo,
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you all know who Andy Ngo is. He tweeted a year ago, okay, this was a year ago. He put out a tweet
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about Alana McLaughlin, who's an MMA fighter, a male who beats the hell out of females. A year later,
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I guess having taken 12 months to think of a comeback, McLaughlin's trainer, who goes by the
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name Elias Cepeda, responded to Andy Ngo a year later and says, that's right. And I'm damn proud to
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train her. You cowards coming for her can come for me as well. I'm easy to find.
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And again, he's just responding to Andy Ngo pointing out that there is this male MMA fighter,
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Alana McLaughlin, who's beaten the hell out of females. And then the guy's trainer comes and says,
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oh, why don't you come say that to my face, right? Well, I saw this and rather than taking another year
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to continue the conversation, I decided to speed the pace up a little bit. And I responded to him
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and I said, is this challenge open to anyone? I'd love to talk to you and give you the opportunity to
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defend your position on transgenderism and women's sports. Also would love to get your definition of
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the word woman. Let's set it up. And I thought, you know, this is a tough guy. He was just, he was
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just tweeting, say, anyone can come for me. Bring it. And I said, okay, let's do it. We could,
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in person, you know, we could set something up, whatever you want to do. Well, it took him a day
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to get back to me, a pretty fast turnaround for him. So he's working a little bit faster. Give
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him some credit for that. Took him a, you know, it only took him a day to put this together. And he
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says, I don't defend or debate that trans women are equal to cis women and deserving of equal rights,
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professional opportunities, and pursuits of happiness. Anyone wanting to challenge that is
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denying a group of people's humanity. And I don't treat such people as good faith actors.
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Of course, of course, of course you don't. You pathetic, gutless little coward.
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You absolute wimp. And of course, people in the comments, some of his supporters were saying,
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oh, he didn't mean challenge to a debate. Okay. What kind of challenge was he talking about?
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But punching, we could punch each other. I mean, I would fully admit if you're an MMA fighter and we
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got into a contest about who could punch the other person better, you'd probably win that
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fight. The problem though, is that that wouldn't do anything to prove the legitimacy of your ideas.
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Okay. And if you're interested in that, especially if I'm a bad faith actor, I'm just a bigot,
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my ideas are totally indefensible, right? I mean, that's what you believe.
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Why would you forego the opportunity to humiliate me? How easy, if I'm just a bigot,
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bad faith actor, I hate trans people, how easy would it be to totally humiliate me?
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We sit down from a cross from each other. It could be a live stream, no edits, just,
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you could, you could utterly embarrass me. And especially if you have, if you have a definition
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for the word woman that still validates your, you know, your point of view. Well, I've set this
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whole challenge up around what is a woman? If you could actually answer the question, how embarrassing
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would that be for me? Doesn't want to take advantage of the opportunity. Interesting.
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See, that's the, on their side, for me on, on this side, being on the right side,
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I will talk to literally anyone. I am not afraid to talk to anyone. I don't care who you are.
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Pull in any expert, doctor, scientist. I don't care. I'll sit down and talk to you. Anyone
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on their side, they take the exact opposite approach. They won't talk to anybody.
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All right, let's start here. Daily Wire has a report. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed Thursday
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on the Joe Rogan experience that the FBI approached the social media company during the 2020 presidential
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election and pushed them to crack down on alleged Russian propaganda before the Hunter Biden laptop
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story was published by the New York Post. Zuckerberg made their remarks when asked by host Joe Rogan
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how Facebook handled big news items that were controversial. We actually have the clips. Let's
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play, let's play some of that. How do you guys handle things when they're a big news item that's
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controversial? Like there was a lot of attention on Twitter during the election because of the Hunter
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Biden laptop story, the New York Post. Yeah, we have that too. Yeah. So you guys censored that as well?
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So we took a different path than Twitter. I mean, basically the background here is the FBI,
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I think basically came to us, some folks on our team and was like, hey, just so you know,
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like you should be on high alert. There was, we thought that there was a lot of Russian propaganda in
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the 2016 election. We have it on notice that basically there's about to be some kind of dump
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of, of, of, um, uh, that's similar to that. So just be vigilant. So our protocol is different
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from Twitter's. What Twitter did is they said, you can't share this at all. Um, we didn't do that.
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Pause there for a second. The first question you hear, the FBI went to Facebook and said,
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be on the look for, look out for misinformation. Why is the FBI dealing with this?
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I mean, leaving aside for a moment that the so-called misinformation they're suppressing
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is not misinformation and is actually true information. Even leaving that aside, what,
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what does the FBI have to do with misinformation? People are saying wrong things on the internet
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and that's an, that's an FBI problem. Now we need the federal Bureau of Investigation to investigate
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wrong opinions on the internet. If that's what the FBI is doing, then they could never do anything but
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that because the internet is full of wrong opinions. But for some reason, the FBI is involved. Let's
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keep listening. What we do is we have, um, if something's reported to us as potentially, um,
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misinformation, important misinformation. We, we also have this third party fact checking program
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because we don't want to be deciding what's true and false. And for the, I think it was five or seven
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days when it was basically being, um, being determined whether it was false. Um, the distribution
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on Facebook was decreased, but people were still allowed to share it. So you could still share it.
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You could still consume it. So when you say the distribution is decreased, how does that work?
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It basically, the ranking in newsfeed was a little bit less. So fewer people saw it than
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would have otherwise. So it definitely, by what percentage? I don't know off the top of my head,
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but it's, it's, it's meaningful. But I mean, but basically a, um, a lot of people were still
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able to share it. We got a lot of complaints that that was the case. Um, you know, obviously this is a
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hyper-political. So he's, he, he, he thinks that this was the, this was the better approach. So,
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uh, he's proud of the fact that, well, we didn't take it down completely. Twitter
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infamously took the story down. Uh, I think where they suspended the New York post for,
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for a period of time for even posting at the beginning. And, uh, you weren't allowed to share
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it at all. And, uh, even if you try New York post couldn't, couldn't put it out and no other
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accounts could put it out. That's how Twitter handled it. Mark Zuckerberg says, no, you were allowed to
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share it. We just, uh, we manipulated the newsfeed so that fewer people saw it.
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And this is supposed to be better, I guess he thinks, but if anything, it's worse because at
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least on Twitter, um, what they're doing is out in the open. The bias is out in the open. Everybody
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knows it. And at the very least we can say that it doesn't make it okay or any better, but, uh,
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it's, it's a public thing and we all know they're doing it.
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When you're manipulating it behind the scenes. So no one even knows that you're doing it.
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That's a lot worse. That's more insidious, not better.
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But that still doesn't answer the question of, uh, why the FBI was getting involved to begin with.
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And, and, well, we know the answer to that question because the FBI was interested in making
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sure the Democrats won presidential election. I mean, the FBI is going to the social media platforms
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and telling them what sort of information they're supposed to suppress on their platforms.
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This is election rigging. Yes. The 2020 election was rigged in part by the FBI, according to what we
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just heard there. It's a huge scandal. I mean, this is a, this is actually an enormous mind blowing
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scandal, but you know what else? No, one's going to be talking about it 45 minutes from now.
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It's a huge scandal that, uh, well, the mainstream media doesn't want to talk about it at all,
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but in general, people will just move on from it a day later. Not even talking about it anymore.
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Do you remember the Trump raid? Remember that? Remember that back from ancient history? And
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that was the biggest story in the world across right-wing and left-wing media. Biggest story,
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unbelievable. The FBI raided Trump. This is going to change the outcome of the midterm elections.
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Like the midterm elections are going to be about this now, everybody thought.
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Three days later, no one's talking about it. Nobody.
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Nobody. That's one of the great problems I think we face as a society. And, uh, it can't all be,
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I mean, part of it is the media. You know, the media likes to move stories along quickly,
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especially if they're stories that aren't favorable to their agenda. So that's part of it,
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but it's not just the media. It's really, uh, it's, it's like, this is a, this is an everybody
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problem where we can't stay focused on one thing for more than a day. And so stories and issues that
00:24:36.100
are really important. Um, they'll get the attention they deserve for a brief sliver of time. And then
00:24:42.080
the next day it's like, okay, what's the new thing? I'm already bored. All right. Um, and having said
00:24:51.400
that now I'm going to move on to the next story. Okay. Gavin Newsom in California had some thoughts
00:24:56.560
about Ron DeSantis, especially after DeSantis insulted elves yesterday by comparing Fauci to
00:25:02.240
them. And, uh, uh, uh, Gavin Newsom didn't like that. Well, he was offended for a different reason.
00:25:07.360
Let's listen to him. I don't like bullies. You want to ask what my why is in life? I don't like
00:25:15.100
bullies. I don't like people that demean people. I don't like people talk down to people. I didn't
00:25:18.940
like what DeSantis said about Fauci that he may disagree with them, but to call someone pejorative
00:25:23.560
terms because they're short, who the hell raised these guys? What kind of people are they? I mean,
00:25:29.980
I know all of us had to, you know, sit there and suck it up and take Trump's demonization,
00:25:35.460
but not everybody has to act like him. I mean, literally, I, I remember growing up and folks
00:25:41.620
would have their mouths washed out with soap. If they talked like this, I got four kids. I don't
00:25:47.480
want these guys being models, the attacking LGBT community attacking women. I mean, this
00:25:53.800
guy's so extreme, you rape and incest. Ron DeSantis talks about freedom and a young girl's
00:26:00.240
raped by her father. Doesn't have the right to her own body to make her own decisions.
00:26:05.720
Spare me freedom. There's no freedom. There's no choice. So yeah, I'm standing up as a human
00:26:11.800
being got to use those dollars. And I hope others of you send money to send a message that if that's
00:26:19.360
the future of the damn Republican party, this country's in real trouble. I like how by the end,
00:26:24.800
it just devolved into the shouting, talking points at random. So it started relatively coherently,
00:26:31.120
relatively. But by the end, he's just like, I mean, LGBT community, women, bigotry, extreme,
00:26:39.980
rape and incest, freedom, climate change. He's like some kind of woke baby doll where you press
00:26:47.180
his stomach and he says a programmed phrase, only the doll's malfunctioning now.
00:26:51.940
As for the stuff at the beginning about being a bully, well, you know, sure. I'm actually okay
00:26:59.400
with that. I think when you're on the side accusing the other side of being a bully,
00:27:04.160
it means you're losing. That's the loser claim in politics. People coming out calling Ron DeSantis
00:27:14.560
a bully, that is a sign of his success. That's what the losers do. Oh, you're being a bully. You're
00:27:20.300
being mean. You're losing. If that's your criticism. And you know what? Yeah, you're right.
00:27:29.860
See, this is the new right as opposed to the old establishment right. And on the new right,
00:27:34.980
yeah, we're going to be bullies. And we don't care if you call us that.
00:27:39.000
Because we're not going to put up with it anymore. And we also don't care about the labels that you
00:27:44.180
use. We don't care if your feelings are hurt. We don't. And we're also, we're not going to give
00:27:50.460
you respect you don't deserve. Why did Ron DeSantis talk about Fauci that way? Because Fauci deserves no
00:27:57.620
respect at all. He has no respect for him. I mean, Fauci should be in prison. He's not going
00:28:04.820
to be in prison. So the least we could do is insult him. Well, he deserves it. You don't
00:28:09.060
like that kind of language, Ron? Okay, deal with it. I don't care. So we're drawing hard lines here.
00:28:20.480
And yeah, maybe we're going to be, we're going to use tougher language than what you're used to
00:28:24.400
hearing from the other side. Because what you're used to from the other side is that you could say
00:28:27.880
whatever the hell you want and insult your opponents, the kingdom come. And they're not
00:28:35.840
going to respond in kind because they're too worried about, oh, we're going to be dignified.
00:28:40.760
But for them, dignified is the same as just being a coward. They don't see a difference between the
00:28:46.160
two. We're not playing that game anymore. So yeah, we're being bullies. You deserve to be bullied.
00:28:54.400
And they could get away, right, with insulting the other side all they want
00:29:06.140
because their insults are, oh, you're a racist. You're a bigot. You're this and that.
00:29:13.960
And that doesn't count as an insult because that's, I guess, what the media says. That's just
00:29:18.060
an accurate description. So that's how they see it, right? That's really how they see it.
00:29:24.380
They can say whatever they want about us and treat us any way they want to because we deserve it.
00:29:32.240
That's the difference. So they can say something about us and then we can say the exact same thing
00:29:38.480
about them and they have the right to be offended. Well, how could you talk this way? Well, back in
00:29:44.140
my day, you get your mouth washed out with soap. Even when you talk the exact same way, but in your
00:29:48.880
mind, see, they, they rationalize it by saying, well, yeah, but you deserve it. You're a terrible
00:29:52.360
person. But you can't say that to me. I'm perfect. And for so many years, they've gotten away with
00:30:00.540
that because the right by and large has just cooperated as if to agree, as if to agree that,
00:30:07.840
you know what? Yeah, you deserve more respect than you give us. What? No, those days are over.
00:30:14.100
Hate to tell you, Gavin, uh, who, by the way, you look a little bit like an elf too. I just thought
00:30:20.340
I'd note. All right. I want to make sure we have some time for this. Libs of TikTok doing some
00:30:24.600
investigative journalism. Um, one of the only people in the country doing actual investigative
00:30:31.740
journalism. And, and what she's doing here is, uh, you know, you would think that if there were real
00:30:37.960
journalists working for these supposed news outlets, that one of them would have done this
00:30:41.560
given that we're, there's this conversation about children's hospitals and so-called gender affirming
00:30:49.380
surgeries and procedures, and which of those procedures do they inflict on minors and which
00:30:57.240
do they reserve for adults? Well, a good way to find out is to just call them, not as a member of
00:31:04.540
the media, but just call them and ask. That's exactly what Libs of TikTok did. And, uh, let's
00:31:11.840
start going through this, uh, audio here. This is what, by the way, this is the, I don't know if I
00:31:15.320
mentioned, this is the, um, Children's Hospital. What is this? Children's National Hospital in DC. Okay.
00:31:22.400
Thank you for calling National Hospital. Your call may be recorded for quality assurance.
00:31:27.100
I was calling, uh, for information about gender affirming hysterectomies. Okay. You said gender
00:31:34.600
affirming hysterectomy. I've been in touch with quite a few hospitals. Um, and a lot of them,
00:31:40.400
well, they said they won't do it for, for my 16 year old. Um, and then I was told that this hospital
00:31:46.240
might, and I also saw it on your website. Um, so if you guys do, uh, do it for a 16 year old, I'll,
00:31:53.200
I would be happy for, you know, to come for a consultation or whatever it takes. Let me get
00:31:59.280
you over to the operator. And I hate to transfer you. I just, I just need to want to know if, if
00:32:06.300
you guys do service that age, you know, before obviously before coming, you know, coming all the
00:32:13.040
way for an in-person consult and going through all the paperwork and everything. Yeah, it depends.
00:32:18.520
Like each department is different. Some, some departments cut off at 18. How old, how old is your
00:32:21.980
patient? 16. Okay. All right. So they're in the clear. I'll email the, um, got the call and
00:32:28.840
see what we can. In the meantime, if you still want me to transfer you, I can still transfer you
00:32:33.040
to the surgery. All right. So pause it there for a sec. So we've, we've already heard from the
00:32:37.800
operator. Oh, well, she said it very clear. You're in the clear at the age of 16. You're in the clear.
00:32:43.600
Now this is very different. If you were to call, uh, and this is the investigation that
00:32:49.020
media outlets have done, where as members of the media, they call the hospital's PR department
00:32:55.560
and say, Hey, uh, you're being criticized for doing this awful thing. Do you actually do that
00:33:01.240
thing? And then the hospital say, no, no, we don't do that. And then the media says, well,
00:33:06.460
you see, there it is. They would never lie to us. End of discussion. But if you call them
00:33:13.640
as a potential patient slash customer willing to give your money, you get a very different
00:33:19.940
answer. Uh, conversation continues. Let's play a little bit more of this.
00:33:24.800
Hi, I was calling, um, because I'm looking for information about the gender affirming
00:33:31.060
Am I in the right place? Okay. Yes. Um, this is the clinic. Did you want to make an appointment?
00:33:42.700
So I was just wondering, I've, I've contacted quite a few hospitals already. Um, it seems
00:33:48.560
like it's difficult to find one that does the operation, um, for my 16 year old. And I was
00:33:56.520
told that you guys do do that. Um, so if you do it for 16 year olds, then yes, I'd love
00:34:03.040
to schedule, um, an appointment, a consultation, whatever you need.
00:34:07.300
If you don't mind me asking, um, what does your child gender change into? So I can point
00:34:15.440
Wait, pause it there for a second. What did your child's gender change into? This is someone
00:34:22.640
at the hospital at, in the relevant department asking that question. What did your child's
00:34:27.960
gender change into? What, what does that mean? And, and, and by the way, it's like, because
00:34:38.480
they're right. There's not just two options. So hysterectomy means that we're dealing with
00:34:43.240
a girl we can assume. So maybe the hospital worker knows that much, but she's not a girl
00:34:48.860
anymore, but maybe not a boy. She could be something else. Uh, it's also like, why, why
00:34:58.460
does that matter to you? I mean, is, is there, what, what difference does that make? Anyway,
00:35:09.540
Yeah. Well, he transitioned to a male, you know, he already had the top surgery. Um, and
00:35:16.620
now we're looking for the hysterectomy. Okay. Beautiful. So I'm gonna transfer you to the
00:35:22.900
GYN nurse line. One of the nurses will give you a call to give you more information and
00:35:29.220
to let you know the steps and the protocol that they do for that. Okay. Okay. So, so they
00:35:36.680
do, so they would do it, um, for, at, for that age. Yes. All right. There you go. That's
00:35:44.500
it. Good. So confirmed with two people, the hospital operator, and then someone in the
00:35:51.340
relevant department. Yes, they do gender affirming quote unquote hysterectomies for 16 year olds
00:35:58.180
right there from the horse's mouth, so to speak. Now, uh, this was published. And shortly after
00:36:05.620
that, Children's National Hospital put out a statement and here's their statement. We are
00:36:12.160
aware of the audio recording circulating on Twitter. Here are the facts. We foster a welcoming
00:36:17.980
and inclusive environment for all, serving our LGBTQ plus patients and families in the
00:36:22.440
full spectrum of their care. We do not provide gender affirming surgery for anyone under the
00:36:28.520
age of 18. We do not provide hormone therapy to children before puberty begins. Care is individualized
00:36:35.180
for each patient and always involves families making decisions in coordination with a team of highly
00:36:38.840
trained pediatric specialists. Now, once again, the media is taking that and saying, well, see,
00:36:44.560
debunked. We have on tape the people at the hospital saying, yes, we do that for 16 year olds.
00:36:55.360
So either the hospital is lying now in an effort to cover their ass, which by the way, that's the
00:37:02.220
correct answer here, or the people at the hospital were lying. Someone's lying. The hospital is lying,
00:37:08.780
one way or another. The person who wrote this statement was lying, or the people at the hospital
00:37:12.100
that you heard in the clip there, they were lying. I mean, does the hospital have a policy against
00:37:19.100
doing gender affirming hysterectomies for 16 year olds, and yet they were going to do it anyway?
00:37:24.480
Well, that's a scandal too. I mean, no matter what, the hospital doesn't come out clean here.
00:37:28.860
And yet the kind of hopeless feeling that you get, as always, is that even though it's right
00:37:37.720
there plain as day, it just doesn't matter. There's no further investigation from any relevant
00:37:44.560
authority. This is in DC, okay? The mayor of DC is not going to put any pressure on this. The police
00:37:53.320
aren't going to show up. And really, the entire statement is mind-boggling.
00:38:03.620
What about this part here? We do not provide hormone therapy to children before puberty begins.
00:38:10.480
Okay. What's the significance of that? You don't provide hormone therapy to children before puberty
00:38:18.920
begins, but you do provide it after puberty begins or when puberty is beginning. They're still
00:38:24.700
children though, aren't they? This is something that I've heard from trans activists actually,
00:38:32.860
not the first time. This is something I've heard frequently over the last few weeks, especially,
00:38:36.820
as they've been denying that these things are done to children at all.
00:38:42.680
And I've heard this. Well, this isn't done to children. This doesn't happen until puberty.
00:38:46.420
What do you mean? So we're talking about 11 and 12-year-olds or even younger.
00:38:51.500
You don't see them as kids? Well, the answer is they don't.
00:39:00.040
And now you start to get the full picture. Maybe you start to understand what's really going on here.
00:39:05.840
And this is how this all gets wrapped in with the normalization of pedophilia. There's a reason
00:39:10.000
why that is happening. Kids at drag shows and all the rest of it, the sexualization of children,
00:39:15.400
the normalization of pedophilia. This is all happening at the same time as the gender-affirming
00:39:20.400
surge or so-called gender-affirming surge. All this is happening. It's all part of the same program.
00:39:28.120
Because you can hear them saying it right there. It's like, well, actually, you know,
00:39:32.260
As you can see, they're setting the stage here.
00:39:41.060
And then let's also keep in mind, and I think it's important to expose the fact that they're lying
00:39:46.200
about the hysterectomies. And I'm glad that we have this investigation that confirms that.
00:39:51.160
But let's also not allow them to make the whole conversation about the hysterectomies.
00:39:58.220
Because it is probably true that most hospitals and clinics in America at least officially don't
00:40:05.340
perform that particular procedure on minors. That's probably the case. At least not officially.
00:40:13.740
But that is only a small portion of the overall picture here.
00:40:24.500
They all do top surgery. They all do double mastectomies on kids. All of them do.
00:40:30.660
That's not any better. So what they're saying is, we will mutilate certain parts of the child's body,
00:40:37.400
but then other parts we wait until right when they turn 18. That is not better at all. That is not
00:40:46.120
a good excuse, not even close to a good excuse. So let's not let, they want the whole conversation
00:40:54.460
to be focused around the hysterectomies because they feel like they're on the safest ground there.
00:41:00.320
Although the whole concept of gender affirming a hysterectomy is horrifying,
00:41:03.180
they know that like generally that is that they do wait till 18 for that.
00:41:09.140
They don't want to talk about the top surgeries. Because they're doing that to 13 year olds.
00:41:16.580
All right. One other thing I've had here on the docket for a while I wanted to mention,
00:41:20.120
a Boeing 737 belonging to Africa's largest airline remained 37,000 feet in the air when it was
00:41:25.260
supposed to be landing at its intended destination earlier this week, reported reportedly because
00:41:29.580
the pilots have fallen asleep. Air traffic control officials attempted to contact
00:41:33.160
the pilots multiple times when they noticed that the Ethiopian Airlines plane flying from Sudan to
00:41:38.200
Ethiopia wasn't descending, but the crew failed to respond. And then it turned out that they had
00:41:43.900
fallen asleep. And eventually they, a few minutes later, they did actually land the plane. Now,
00:41:48.880
the reason I mentioned this, this is actually a serious problem of pilots falling asleep at the
00:41:55.380
wheel as it were. And, you know, you've always had the problem, pilot exhaustion has always been an
00:42:00.360
issue, but especially recently, even more so. And you hear this from pilots. In fact, in this Daily
00:42:05.700
Wire article, they go on to talk about the overall problem of, uh, in the airline industry in America
00:42:10.160
and across the world of pilot, pilot, pilot exhaustion, pilots being overworked. Um, this is a big
00:42:17.560
problem, especially recently. I told you about, you know, a few months ago, I was at an airport and I
00:42:23.020
heard two pilots complaining about this. I was sitting at the airport listening to these two pilots
00:42:27.440
complain about how tired they were and how overworked they were. And I'm listening to this
00:42:31.820
and I'm, I'm becoming a communist on the spot. I'm like, you guys need to organize workers unite.
00:42:36.860
Give me a picket sign and I'll, I'll march with you. Because when it comes to pilots, my attitude is
00:42:41.980
please just give them everything they want, pay them millions of dollars, give them lots of time off.
00:42:47.220
Pete Buttigieg got six months off, uh, for maternity leave, despite not doing anything in his job.
00:42:52.240
I mean, we, airline pilots deserve at least as much mental health breaks. Okay. For them,
00:42:58.800
I say, give them everything they want, meet every demand. I want pilots to be well-rested and happy.
00:43:06.840
That's all I want. I only want well-rested, very happy and satisfied people flying the plane that I'm
00:43:12.740
in, whatever it takes. But the problem is that there, that there is this pilot shortage
00:43:19.140
and, um, which is only, you know, exacerbating the problem of pilot exhaustion. And part of the
00:43:27.520
reason for that we're told is the pandemic, you know, we're still recovering from the pandemic,
00:43:33.740
but it's not actually a pandemic. It's, it's the, the pandemic response as always
00:43:37.340
is contributing to this problem. Um, and what happened? Well, during COVID, you may remember
00:43:45.980
the taxpayers gave as a gift that we had no choice in, we had, we had no choice in this,
00:43:50.920
but we, we were required to give a gift to the airline industry, billions and billions of dollars
00:43:56.360
in airline industry bailout. We were told we had to do this because if we didn't, the airline
00:44:00.800
industry would collapse and then we wouldn't be able to travel anymore. It'd be a total catastrophe.
00:44:05.720
Well, the airline industry, they took all that money and they were supposed to use it to retain
00:44:11.360
staff. That's the reason we gave it to them. So that you didn't have a whole bunch of pilots
00:44:16.180
quitting and everything. You don't have anyone left to fly the planes, but instead they did the
00:44:21.020
exact opposite and they use the money as retirement packages for pilots to, to, uh, incentivize early
00:44:28.360
retirement. And so a whole bunch of pilots just retired and took the money and ran. And now we don't
00:44:33.980
have enough people to fly the planes and the people that are left are being overworked and they're
00:44:39.160
totally exhausted. Um, and you know, eventually there's going to be, there's, there's going to
00:44:47.180
be a plane's going to crash. A lot of people are going to die eventually because of this.
00:44:53.200
And it all goes back as always, you know, it's a combination when, when, when, when bureaucracies
00:44:57.980
collide, we have the airline industry bureaucracy colliding with the, with the government bureaucracy
00:45:03.720
and it creates problems just like this, as always. Let's get now to the comment section.
00:45:09.160
All right, before we get into this, you know, we've been following the dramatic story of
00:45:25.740
Walrus Gate. And I told you yesterday that this scandal goes right to the top. Um, and Ben Shapiro
00:45:30.640
is already getting a lot of heat and, uh, I don't mean to add to it, but, but I am going
00:45:34.500
to add to it because his producer sent me this, this is a totally real, I guess he was, he
00:45:39.440
was asked about at some point about the, the giant Walrus. And, and, um, this is a totally
00:45:44.280
real hot mic moment that was sent to me. I can't tell you who, who, I can't tell you who
00:45:49.600
my source is, but here it is. Hey Ben, do you know where Matt's Walrus is? No. He's getting
00:45:59.540
pretty upset about it. Tell him to get the back to work.
00:46:02.540
That hurts. I, I do. I understand. I actually understand. I take back everything I said
00:46:17.280
at the beginning of the show, the whole monologue. I retract it.
00:46:22.040
I totally understand how the people at the podcast convention felt. It's painful.
00:46:28.080
Uh, let's see. Lutha Sunspell. What the hell was that? The studio is actually physically
00:46:38.780
falling apart at this exact moment. What was that? Hopefully it wasn't the roof caving
00:46:44.240
in. All right. Maybe you'll get to see me die on camera. That'd be an interesting show.
00:46:51.260
Probably my most viewed show ever. And my last one, uh, Lutha Sunspell says, Matt, your analysis
00:46:56.140
of the emptiness, social media, of social media obsession, uh, the emptiness it brings
00:47:00.620
was spot on. I avoided social media for a long time due to having a stalker, but then
00:47:04.380
recently dipped my toe in using pseudonyms. I've noticed just using Twitter can depress
00:47:09.080
me when I get called a bot or a troll. However, you did say women don't quit get over stabbing
00:47:13.480
their friends in the back until they're 60 or 70. So you're canceled. This is like saying
00:47:16.960
all men are perverts after the eighties because Michael Jackson was, um, I don't think I said
00:47:22.420
all women stab each other in the back. I just, you know, there's, there's a certain like ebb
00:47:26.380
and flow to female relationships with each other. And that's it. It's an, it's an ebb
00:47:30.540
and flow. I think you would agree. Um, and in terms of social media, yeah, this is the
00:47:36.780
thing. If you, if you, you know, we, we all have this internet addiction. Almost all of us
00:47:43.380
suffer from it to one extent or another. There are a few exceptions, but most of us suffer from
00:47:47.340
if you pull yourself away from it, though, you pull yourself away from like when you're, when
00:47:52.780
you're in, when you're in the flow of it, you, you feel this constant compulsion to pull out the
00:47:58.140
phone, check social media. But if you pull yourself away from it, if you go on vacation or something,
00:48:02.700
you go stay at a, up in a lake house or in a mountain where there's no, where there's no signal
00:48:07.900
and you don't have access to the phone for a week or two weeks, you come back and it's like,
00:48:12.320
you have to almost, you almost are forcing yourself to get back into the internet world.
00:48:15.560
And so you have this moment of clarity where you see how empty and pointless this all is,
00:48:19.880
but then that just, it dissipates pretty quickly and now, and you're sucked right back into it again.
00:48:25.700
It's a sad story, but that's the way it goes. Um, Nana and Epa says, quick question in regards
00:48:31.620
to the mountain backdrop. Will you be changing it for each season? What are you talking about?
00:48:36.140
Well, if the season changes, then obviously you're going to see the background change,
00:48:42.400
Um, Jesse says, did Matt just say clout? You, sir, are unfortunately banned from your own show.
00:48:50.960
Well, no, I think that clout chasing is a useful modern phrase. First of all, clout is not a modern
00:48:55.120
term. Okay. That's existed for a long time, but clout chasing is, it's one of the few modern terms,
00:49:00.580
internet lingo that I'll use because I think it's useful. It's even more useful than a virtue
00:49:05.020
signaling. I think as a term, um, Emily says, Matt, you're a media guy and you come off extremely
00:49:11.680
out of touch on the student loan issue. I'm not a Biden fan at all, but student debt has been a huge
00:49:16.180
problem and I'm grateful for the relief. I think a lot of people feel the same way.
00:49:21.300
Republicans need to change their messaging on this topic ASAP. Okay. Well, you're, so you're,
00:49:27.000
you're what you're saying, your argument, if I can call it that is that you personally benefit from
00:49:33.540
it. You know, you're getting $10,000 shaved off of your loan and you like that because it means you
00:49:39.900
owe less money. And that's your argument. That's not an argument. Like I, I understand that from a
00:49:45.740
kind of self-centered perspective. You're getting $10,000. Okay. But do you see how that's not really
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an argument? The fact that you personally enjoy getting this money is not, that's, that's not a,
00:50:00.300
that's not a justification for the policy. And that does nothing to address the objections that
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I and others have raised. And the objections are largely, well, it's a lot, a lot, a lot has to do
00:50:14.900
with the economy, inflation, but it's largely centered around the burden being felt by other people.
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So you, what you are saying is, well, I personally care more about my own financial security than
00:50:27.300
other people. I get that. But from a policy perspective, you have to take into account
00:50:33.620
everybody, not just you, Emily. As far as Republicans changing their message, I don't,
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I actually don't disagree with you there. I think one of the reasons why Republicans
00:50:46.820
lose on this topic and so many others, but Republicans are losing on the student loan
00:50:53.960
question, student loan forgiveness. Part of the problem is that Republicans tend to support,
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you know, reckless spending, bailouts, let's send billions to, to Ukraine. Most Republicans are on
00:51:10.360
board with that. And so they don't have the credibility to criticize this kind of spending.
00:51:15.400
I, you know, Republicans always, Republicans always complain about spending, but when they're
00:51:19.740
actually in charge, they don't do a damn thing about it ever. And so, yes, it does make them less
00:51:25.580
credible when they raise objections to a student loan bailout. But that's just an argument for being
00:51:32.660
more consistent. It's an argument for opposing more forms of government spending, not simply accepting
00:51:40.260
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get to our daily cancellation. Today we cancel the publication called Scientific American. Now the
00:52:28.100
Scientific American has been around for a very long time, since the mid-1800s, in fact. It's one of the
00:52:33.660
very oldest media outlets in the country. And for much of that run, it was considered credible and
00:52:38.300
reputable, a trustworthy source for science-related news. A great number of famous scientists have
00:52:44.020
written articles for it over the years. Even Albert Einstein can be counted among its contributors.
00:52:48.700
But those days are over. Albert Einstein is long dead, and if he were not dead today, he would wish he
00:52:54.380
was, because the far-left religious cult has infiltrated and corrupted nearly everything in society,
00:52:59.700
especially the media and the field of science. So if you combine those two things in a scientific
00:53:06.040
media outlet, you're sure to get the worst of both worlds. And that is certainly the case with
00:53:11.380
Scientific American. Case in point. This week, the outlet debuted the second episode in their
00:53:16.600
docu-series titled A Question of Sex. In a tweet thread about the series, Scientific American makes clear
00:53:23.100
that the purpose of the documentary is to debunk the myth of the two sexes. The myth, they say.
00:53:29.700
Yes, sexual dimorphism, one of the most fundamental concepts in human biology, and something that
00:53:35.580
no credible scientists anywhere in the world, ever in history, have ever questioned, is now a myth.
00:53:42.120
In an article on the website about the documentary, it's explained that the sex binary is false
00:53:47.140
because of the existence of intersex people. We're told, quote,
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intersex is an umbrella term for variations in reproductive or sexual anatomy that may appear
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in a person's chromosomes, their genitals or internal organs, and it has been estimated to
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include about 1.7% of the population. There are more than 30 medical terms for different
00:54:04.560
combinations of sex traits that fall outside of the typical male and female paths of development.
00:54:09.360
The article goes on to explain that the alleged existence of these 1.7% of intersex people
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throws the whole notion of the sex binary into question.
00:54:17.800
The article ends with a quote from a so-called intersex activist named Sean Seifa Wall, and it
00:54:24.960
says, after all, the fixation on a sex binary in science, Wall points out, doesn't occur in a vacuum.
00:54:32.140
Quote, I think for people asking the question, is your child a boy or a girl, I would really
00:54:36.440
challenge them to just take a moment and ask, why? Why is it so important? Are you just happy to have a
00:54:41.360
baby? Are you just happy to start a family? I think those are quality of life questions that often get
00:54:46.580
overlooked or missed in this conversation. Yes, why do you care if your child is a boy or a girl?
00:54:53.320
Why do you care if your child is human? Why do you care about any of the basic physical details of
00:54:57.760
your child? Why can't you raise and parent him as if he was an ambiguous, nondescript lump of
00:55:05.100
sentient matter? Pretend that he's just an amorphous puddle of cells and DNA. That's all that matters.
00:55:11.120
Makes perfect sense. A clip from the documentary provides more completely
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of the imaginary, by the way, details. Let's watch.
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While gendered social structures are ancient, a binary framework of biological sex didn't actually exist in
00:55:26.300
Western culture until the late 18th century. Before, science recognized only one sex, the male,
00:55:33.560
and considered the female body an inferior version of it. The shift that historians call the two-sex model
00:55:40.380
served mainly to reinforce gender and racial divisions by tying social status to the body.
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Okay, so let's go over a few things here. First of all, we must always keep in mind that the only
00:55:55.280
reason anybody ever talks about intersex is to validate transgenderism. That's the only reason
00:56:01.940
Scientific American is running this series. It's the only reason they jam intersex onto the pride flag.
00:56:07.360
It's the only reason they include intersex in the LGBT alphabet soup. Intersex is a medical condition
00:56:13.260
that has nothing to do with LGBT. But it's included and in fact given pride of place simply because
00:56:20.480
people who suffer from this particular genetic deformity are useful to the trans agenda.
00:56:25.040
Never mind that trans and intersex have nothing in common and that the existence of intersex people
00:56:30.080
does not even come close to validating the claims and self-perceptions of trans people.
00:56:34.320
But it's important to understand why they're talking about intersex at all because
00:56:37.980
then it makes sense why they lie about it so much. For instance, in the passage from the article that
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we read, they say 1.7% of people are intersex. Now if you're a person with common sense,
00:56:51.500
you hear that figure and you feel immediately skeptical. 1.7%? Really? I mean that's still a minority
00:57:00.500
percentage-wise, but that would translate to like 6 million people in this country alone.
00:57:06.300
Are there really 6 million intersex people walking around in this country?
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Well, no. That number is a lie. Because everything these people say is a lie.
00:57:17.480
They lie with abandon about everything all the time.
00:57:22.820
Colin Wright looked into this subject a couple years ago and discovered that the 1.7% figure
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comes from a book written by a woman named Anne Fausto-Sterling who had an ideological axe to
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grind. She wanted to disprove the sex binary and she did it by wildly inflating the number of
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intersex people that exist in the world. Reading from Wright's column, it says,
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they broadly define an intersex person as, quote, an individual who deviates from the platonic ideal of
00:57:50.600
physical dimorphism at the chromosomal, genital, gonadal, and hormonal levels. To arrive at their
00:57:57.040
1.7% figure, they asked how frequently humans deviate from this platonic ideal. In the review,
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their ideal male is defined as somebody with XY chromosomes, functional testes located in the
00:58:09.760
scrotal sac, a penis between 2.5 and 4.5 centimeters at birth, and a completely enclosed urethra that
00:58:16.600
opens at the tip. The ideal male must also have testes that produce malarian inhibiting factor as
00:58:22.300
well as testosterone and dihydrotestosterone. There we go. And juvenile testicular activity
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must result in typical masculizing puberty. Their ideal female has two X chromosomes, functional ovaries
00:58:34.400
that result in normal feminizing puberty, intact oviducts attached to a functional uterus,
00:58:39.760
cervix, and vaginal canal. The ideal female must also have labia minora and majora present and a
00:58:45.360
clitoris that ranges from 0.2 centimeters and 0.85 centimeters in length at birth. Okay, you see the
00:58:52.500
problem, hopefully. They are including in their definition of intersex people, people who deviate
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from their definition of the platonic ideal, and yet whose sex is not at all ambiguous or in question.
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So they came up with what they consider to be the platonic ideal of maleness, and anyone who deviates
00:59:14.020
from it slightly is intersex. So a male who is clearly and unambiguously male, and yet has a
00:59:23.680
smaller penis than normal penis, or problems with the testes or the urethra, ends up counted as
00:59:28.520
intersex by their definition. This is just completely ridiculous. And that's why if you apply a more
00:59:35.200
precise definition of the word intersex, you find that the actual number of intersex people is lower
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than 0.02 percent. That is 100 times less than the estimate Scientific American provided.
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And when you realize that the actual intersex population is so minuscule, the attempts to use
00:59:54.700
it as a chainsaw to cut to pieces the sex binary become even more obviously ludicrous. Intersex people
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are anomalies. They suffer from an unfortunate medical condition. Their existence does not
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destabilize or throw into question the notion of biological sex as we've always understood it.
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We are still left in a world where everybody in principle either has the capacity to get pregnant
01:00:19.120
or the capacity to impregnate others. Now disease, deformity, or old age may interfere on an individual
01:00:26.320
level with those capacities, but the principle remains. Just a few days ago, I read a story about
01:00:32.640
a two-headed kitten that was born in Arkansas. Now it's an interesting and sort of grotesque medical
01:00:39.060
anomaly, but does it mean that we can no longer say kittens have one head? Must we now define kittens
01:00:46.100
as creatures with multiple heads? Must we start talking about kittens like they're mythical beasts,
01:00:51.340
like a kitten is a hydra from Greek mythology? No, of course not. Now what about the claim in
01:00:58.200
the video that the sex binary didn't exist until the 18th century and before that there was only
01:01:02.040
one sex? Well, that's just pure fiction. That's invented on the spot and with nothing to support it.
01:01:09.840
Read literally anything, anything at all. I mean, seriously, anything written at any time before the
01:01:16.400
18th century and this claim falls apart all at once. The book of Genesis was written thousands of
01:01:21.420
years ago and yet says at the very beginning, male and female he created them. Indeed, every ancient
01:01:28.760
religion has an account of creation and they all account for the creation of males and females. Not one
01:01:34.520
sex, not three, not seven, not 52, not an infinite variety, but two. Because that's all there was at the
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time or is now or ever will be. Now I would say more to debunk this particular claim, but it would
01:01:48.780
be like trying to debunk the claim that watermelons are actually dragon eggs and if you sit on them a
01:01:53.380
baby dragon will hatch. It's just there's not much that can be said to refute a purely fictional claim
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invented out of whole cloth and with not the slightest bit of evidence to support it, worse than having no
01:02:04.760
evidence actually, all of the evidence we do have, and there's a lot of it, directly flies in the face of
01:02:10.240
what they're saying. Everything we know about ancient history and about past and current non-Western
01:02:16.100
cultures confirms beyond any shadow of a doubt that the sex binary is not a modern Western invention.
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Gender fluidity is the modern Western invention. And it's now being peddled by a magazine that once
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concerned itself with science, but now would rather tell fables. And for that reason, Scientific American
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is today canceled. And that will do it for this portion of the show as we move over to the member
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section. Hope to see you there. If we don't, talk to you on Monday. Godspeed.
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