The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1012 - Diversity Seminars On The Moon

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, amid sky-high inflation, the Biden administration wants us

00:00:03.860 to take solace in the fact that the Federal Reserve is more diverse and also gayer than 1.00

00:00:08.200 it's ever been. Today we'll talk about diversity and whether it's something that really is worth 0.55

00:00:11.860 celebrating. Also, Republicans are losing their grip on the midterms. Why is this happening and

00:00:16.080 how can the trend be reversed? John Fetterman says that voter ID is racist because black people 0.84

00:00:20.580 don't know how to get driver's licenses, according to him. A school in Wisconsin reintroduces 0.71

00:00:24.660 corporal punishment and the New York Times announces that maternal instinct is a myth

00:00:28.860 invented by the patriarchy. All of that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.

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00:01:40.940 nmls182334, nmlsconsumeraccess.org. This weekend, the AP published the exciting news headline,

00:01:50.580 Fed tackles inflation with its most diverse leadership ever. Apparently, as the Associated

00:01:56.060 Press reports to the great relief of every ordinary American, the Federal Reserve has at this moment,

00:02:01.920 the widest array of races, genders, and orientations that it's ever had. Reading more

00:02:07.600 from the article says, there are more female, black, and openly gay officials contributing 0.96

00:02:11.400 to the central bank's interest rate decisions than at any time in its 109-year history. Many

00:02:16.700 are also far less wealthy than the officials they have replaced. Over time, economists say a wider

00:02:21.120 range of voices will deepen the Fed's perspective as it weighs the consequences of raising or lowering

00:02:25.560 rates. It may also help diversify a profession that historically hasn't been seen as particularly

00:02:30.040 welcoming to women and minorities. Broadly, that's helpful, said William English, a former senior

00:02:35.580 economist at the Fed who teaches at the Yale School of Management. There's evidence that diverse

00:02:41.100 groups make better decisions. Now, surely this is a great comfort to the average American.

00:02:47.100 Our monetary policies have led to sky-high inflation, the worst in decades, which has made it difficult

00:02:51.400 for normal people to feed and clothe themselves and their children. This is a source of enormous

00:02:56.340 stress and heartache. But at least we can all take solace in the fact that the people setting up

00:03:02.780 these disastrous monetary policies are extremely diverse. Indeed, there has never been so many gay 1.00

00:03:09.660 people, black people, and women involved in not solving a problem. And that makes it all better. 1.00

00:03:16.340 I mean, really, it does. Just the other day, I was, this is true, I was at the grocery store,

00:03:19.300 and I overheard a conversation between a husband and wife as they were walking through the dairy

00:03:24.380 section. And the husband was complaining about how everything was so expensive.

00:03:27.920 And the wife said to him, this is what she said. She said, yes, I know, honey, I wish we could afford

00:03:32.680 food also. But remember that there are lots of gays at the Federal Reserve now. And then they just 1.00

00:03:39.660 hugged each other and sobbed tears of joy. And the husband said, you're right, our kids don't need to

00:03:46.380 eat. There have been many exchanges just like this all over the country. At least that's what we're

00:03:52.160 supposed to believe. Truly, we are not far from the point when prisons will start bragging about

00:03:58.300 the diversity of their execution teams. If this isn't happening already, I don't know. I mean,

00:04:02.480 you can imagine someone leaning down to the man strapped to the gurney and saying,

00:04:07.160 we're about to administer the lethal injection. Just thought you should know that the team

00:04:10.880 overseeing your death is the most diverse in history. The guy with the needle right there, 0.99

00:04:14.780 he's actually bisexual. We also have a trans woman and an autistic Korean here as well. So I hope

00:04:19.860 that makes you feel a little bit better about your painful death. That's where we're headed.

00:04:25.340 In fact, this has been a banner week for diversity and not just at the Federal Reserve. On Monday,

00:04:30.100 NASA was scheduled to launch the first voyage of its Artemis mission. Artemis 1 is set to be the

00:04:36.320 first unmanned mission to the moon in many years. Eventually, if all goes to plan, Artemis 2 will follow

00:04:42.840 a year or two behind. And then around 2025, that's the plan anyway, Artemis 3 will launch with a manned crew

00:04:49.320 who will be the first human beings to walk on the moon since 1972. And that will be followed by

00:04:55.100 Artemis 4. And down the road, if all goes again, according to plan, this will lead to manned

00:04:59.760 missions to Mars and beyond. Now, it all seems quite exciting as it represents the next phase of

00:05:07.100 human space exploration, perhaps the inauguration of a new age of discovery. It would be pretty great.

00:05:13.360 That's why I find it exciting anyway. But NASA wants us to be excited for different reasons.

00:05:19.660 On the NASA Artemis Twitter page, I'm given two sentences to describe the purpose and goal of the

00:05:26.180 Artemis mission in their bio, right? So they've got limited space to just tell people this is what the

00:05:33.260 mission is all about. This is the most important thing about the mission. This is what they decided

00:05:37.480 to lead with. This is what it says. With Artemis, NASA will land the first woman and first person

00:05:43.640 of color on the moon. Take the next giant leap with us. So forget space exploration, forget Mars,

00:05:51.680 forget the discoveries that await us out in deep space. Instead, think about the skin pigment and sex

00:05:57.640 of the next people to walk on the moon. Think of the diversity. Think of all the inclusion.

00:06:03.980 I mean, isn't this what gets you most excited? Perhaps we can set up a diversity, equity,

00:06:09.380 and inclusion seminar on the lunar surface. Hopefully they'll do that before they worry

00:06:15.300 about things like figuring out how to build a sustainable human colony. I'm sure that'll

00:06:19.080 be their first priority. Get there and set up the seminars right away. NASA has its priorities

00:06:25.100 straight. Which is why it's been bragging about the diversity of its new space mission all along,

00:06:30.440 leading to headlines like this from a local ABC affiliate in Florida. It says, NASA hopes Artemis

00:06:35.700 mission will inspire diversity inclusion in future of space. This is what they're primarily focused on,

00:06:42.960 it would seem. By the way, unrelated, I'm sure, the Artemis 1 launch failed. One of the engines wasn't

00:06:51.140 working right. So space will have to wait a while longer to be introduced to the importance of

00:06:56.040 diversity. Now, you might ask, what's wrong with the powers that be focusing so much on diversity?

00:07:06.620 I mean, am I against diversity? Am I against a black person or a woman walking on the moon? Is that what I'm

00:07:11.680 saying? No. Here's the problem. You'll often hear that there's tons of evidence proving that diverse groups 1.00

00:07:22.160 of people work better or more productive, more effective, more efficient. I'm sure you've heard

00:07:26.860 these claims before. In fact, we heard that in the AP article I just read. One of the senior economists

00:07:30.820 formerly at the Fed, Yale professor, he said that there's evidence that diverse groups make better

00:07:37.020 decisions. Now, as always, of course, we're meant to just end our inquiry there. We've been assured

00:07:43.740 that the evidence exists. Is there evidence? Yes, there's evidence. We need not actually look at the

00:07:49.820 evidence for ourselves. Just trust that it's out there. And some people have seen it. And those

00:07:54.620 people assure us that it validates all of their preconceived notions conveniently. That's just what

00:07:59.420 it is. I mean, these people, they want there to be evidence that their ideology is correct.

00:08:06.600 And they say that there is evidence. They don't show us the evidence. They just say that it's there.

00:08:10.960 And that's all you should need. But I'm a little more stubborn than that. So I do insist on seeing

00:08:17.260 the evidence, if you can believe it. And what you find, if you look for the data supporting these

00:08:23.760 assertions about diversity, is that the data doesn't exist. It just doesn't. There's a woman 0.97

00:08:29.480 named Alice H. Eagley, a professor at Northwestern University. She looked for the evidence, too,

00:08:34.400 and wrote an article for The Conversation in 2016 with these findings. And by the way,

00:08:39.080 she actually has links to all the studies, which is a different strategy from what you usually get.

00:08:44.020 But here's what she writes.

00:08:46.000 Advocates for diversity generally maintain that the addition of women to corporate boards enhances 0.99

00:08:50.380 corporate financial success. And they hold that diversity in task groups enhances their

00:08:54.860 effectiveness. Abundant findings have accumulated on both of these questions, more than 140 studies

00:09:00.000 of corporate boards and more than 100 studies of socio-demographic diversity in task groups.

00:09:05.440 Both sets of studies have produced mixed outcomes. Some studies show positive associations of diversity

00:09:11.720 to those outcomes, and some show negative association. Social scientists use meta-analyses

00:09:17.360 to integrate such findings across the relevant studies. Meta-analyses represent all the available

00:09:22.340 studies on a particular topic by quantitatively averaging their findings and also examining differences

00:09:26.260 in studies results. Cherry-picking is not allowed. Taking into account all of the available

00:09:31.040 research on corporate boards and diversity of task groups, the net effects are very close to a null

00:09:36.540 or zero average. Also, economist studies that carefully evaluate causal relations have typically

00:09:43.040 failed to find that women cause superior corporate performance. The most valid conclusion at this point 1.00

00:09:48.760 is that, on average, diversity neither helps nor harms these important outcomes.

00:09:53.480 Now, this is the case, even given the enormous handicap, that most studies showing that diversity has a

00:10:01.040 negative or neutral impact will never see the light of day. Almost all the academics and social

00:10:06.520 scientists who set out to investigate this question have a very particular result in mind, which is a big

00:10:12.860 problem. And if they don't get that result, we have to trust that they'll report their findings

00:10:18.200 honestly anyway, but we obviously know that we cannot trust that. And anyway, this is all somewhat beside the

00:10:25.540 point. So, most diversity research simply compares groups of people in a professional environment and finds a way

00:10:34.260 to measure their productivity. You know, so you've got a diverse group and then a less diverse group and then you

00:10:41.480 measure their productivity and hopefully the researchers doing this, they want to be able to say that, oh, look at that,

00:10:46.420 the diverse group is more effective. And then it will just pronounce that diversity is helpful or harmful 0.97

00:10:54.020 based on that measurement. When measured this way, and this is what in the article we just read there, when

00:11:00.020 measured that way, diversity seems to be basically irrelevant. But the real question is about the impact of

00:11:07.620 assembling a team with diversity in mind to begin with. What happens when you recruit people

00:11:14.800 based on diversity quotas and then put them together to accomplish a task?

00:11:21.740 Now, if everyone is hired based purely on their skill and competence, and it just so happens that you

00:11:27.560 end up with a diverse team, great. If you end up with a non-diverse team that way, that's fine too.

00:11:33.360 And if you take two teams that are both put there because of their skill and competence and their

00:11:38.000 qualifications, and one is diverse, one is quote unquote diverse, and one is less diverse, probably

00:11:43.360 they're going to perform about the same. That's what the studies show. Because they're all there for

00:11:46.680 the same reason. The race and sex is basically irrelevant. But what if more qualified people are 0.51

00:11:53.840 excluded because they are not quote diverse? Meaning because they're white or they're male. That's the

00:12:01.500 real question. Considering this is how nearly every major institution now operates. And recent

00:12:08.500 evidence, along with just plain common sense, tells us that productivity and overall effectiveness are

00:12:14.280 definitely harmed when you hire people based on attributes that have nothing to do with their

00:12:20.460 productivity and effectiveness. Okay? When you need to accomplish a task and you recruit people and you base

00:12:29.680 that recruitment on anything other than their ability to accomplish the task, then you're going to end

00:12:35.480 up with groups that are less able to accomplish a task than you would have if you had prioritized

00:12:39.100 accomplishing the task. That's the idea here. Now in NASA's case, this raises a question about whether

00:12:44.640 the first black man and woman to walk on the moon are in that position because they happen to be the

00:12:50.440 best for this extremely dangerous and challenging job. If so, great. Or if they were selected first and

00:12:57.500 foremost, because they checked the desired identity boxes. Did NASA recruit this team and then say,

00:13:04.180 what do you know? This works out great. It just so happens that we're going to have the first woman 0.56

00:13:09.080 and the first black man on the moon. It just works perfectly. Or did they set out to engineer it that 1.00

00:13:16.680 way to begin with? There is every reason to believe the latter is the case. Indeed, there's good reason to 0.99

00:13:21.420 believe that this entire mission mostly exists just to put people from those two identity categories on

00:13:26.300 the moon so that white men will no longer be the only ones to have ever done it. And if that is all 0.95

00:13:33.320 true, then this next phase of space exploration suddenly looks a lot less promising because space

00:13:39.360 is a brutal, deadly, cold, desolate, unforgiving place. If you go there with anything less than the

00:13:45.060 absolute best and most qualified people, you're inviting disaster. Despite what NASA seems to think,

00:13:50.660 space does not care about diversity and inclusion and never will. But there's another problem,

00:13:57.940 a deeper problem with this focus on diversity, which is especially underscored when applied to

00:14:02.680 space exploration, but also it applies across the board. And it's that diversity and inclusion

00:14:09.300 are quite hollow, small, petty concerns. They can't serve as the marching orders for a civilization,

00:14:17.720 not a thriving one anyway. They aren't important or significant enough to hang our collective hopes

00:14:23.280 on. Nobody's ever been motivated to do great things for the sake of diversity, equity, and

00:14:28.740 inclusion. Now, there certainly were civil rights pioneers in history who achieved greatness for the

00:14:33.480 cause of justice and racial equality, but that's not what diversity and inclusion as we know it

00:14:38.140 is about. In a modern context, it means simply checking identity boxes. That's what it means.

00:14:44.160 And box checking does not lead to greatness. Certainly cannot propel us into the unknown,

00:14:50.340 into deep space. Can't take us anywhere really worth going. Because for that, you need things like

00:14:57.240 faith, courage, intelligence, skill. And all of those things have increasingly taken a back seat.

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00:16:31.280 All right, one other point about this NASA thing, and mainly this is just an excuse to play a clip

00:16:37.240 from Kamala Harris because you know what a fan I am of hers, and especially I'm an admirer of her

00:16:44.300 eloquence and her insight. And so she, before the mission failed, before the launch failed,

00:16:49.920 she had some thoughts about it, and it plays in exactly to what we were talking about in the opening,

00:16:56.320 but let's listen. I'm so proud of what is happening in terms of our space program and

00:17:02.500 the leadership that the United States is providing to the world. The Artemis program is the beginning

00:17:08.060 of the next era of what we have a history and a tradition of doing, of providing vision and

00:17:15.240 inspiring innovation in a way that is going to benefit all mankind and womankind. And so I'm very

00:17:22.260 excited to be here. Mankind and womankind. Now, never mind that you can't define the word woman 0.93

00:17:28.620 as we know. The point is that you see the division, and this is the other thing that you get from this

00:17:34.440 focus on diversity and inclusion. It's really about, of course, it's always about dividing.

00:17:39.980 It's about putting people into different categories and different little buckets

00:17:42.140 and then treating them differently depending on which bucket they're in. And you see that here too,

00:17:47.100 because, you know, Apollo 11, according to Kamala Harris, it didn't land on the moon for all of

00:17:54.880 humanity. When, you know, the words, the fateful words, one giant leap for mankind,

00:18:04.100 according to her, that just meant men, like literally men. And so now we need another mission

00:18:10.240 for womankind. So we had the man mission for mankind, even though, of course, mankind means

00:18:17.600 humanity. It means everyone. And by the way, if you have a problem with the term mankind,

00:18:23.700 because it has the word man in it, well, the word human also has the word man in it. I got news for

00:18:29.460 you. But that's irrelevant because it just means everybody. And that's what it meant when Apollo 11

00:18:36.920 landed on the moon. But now that's not, no, now we, so we got the mankind mission. So that was the

00:18:43.280 mission for the boys. And now we need, now we need the woman mission. And there's also a black man,

00:18:51.040 because according to the, you know, the identity politics gurus, somehow when they, when they talk

00:18:57.120 about sort of like men in general, especially in a derogative sense, in a derogatory sense,

00:19:03.320 they only ever, they mean white men, of course. So this is not about, this is what it's, it's about,

00:19:10.320 it's missions to space for different identity groups rather than just for everyone. And it used

00:19:16.420 to be that space exploration was about, it was about increasing humanity's understanding of the

00:19:23.820 world, of the universe. That's what, that's why it was such a uniting moment for the country anyway.

00:19:33.320 But not anymore. Okay, this is from The Hill. It says, Republican worries of a midterm flop are

00:19:38.080 growing heading into the critical post-Labor Day campaign season with analysts who had previously

00:19:43.520 predicted massive GOP gains shifting their forecast towards Democrats. Rick Tyler, Republican strategist

00:19:49.040 and analyst, said the environment looks not even close to a red wave election year. The enthusiasm is

00:19:54.680 just not there, Tyler said. Last time Republicans had a good year, they were six points ahead in the

00:19:58.320 generic poll. Now we're barely two points ahead, so it's definitely not going to happen. Real clear

00:20:03.300 politics averages of polls measuring whether voters would prefer Republican or Democratic control of

00:20:07.460 Congress show the GOP advantage slipping from 4.8 points in late April to less than a point as of

00:20:12.340 Friday. At around this point in 2010, when Republicans saw historic gains in Congress, generic polls showed

00:20:18.160 an advantage of four to six points for the GOP. And so this is the, this is the media narrative,

00:20:24.420 is that Republicans are losing their grip on the midterms. And that is the media narrative. This is,

00:20:29.100 of course, the narrative that they want. That doesn't necessarily mean that it's not true. Now, when the

00:20:34.360 media says something, just because they said it doesn't mean you could trust it, obviously. It also

00:20:38.280 doesn't automatically mean that it's not true. And because there are times when the media narrative

00:20:44.160 happens to line up with reality. And when that happens, it's purely incidental. But this is one of those

00:20:49.780 incidental occasions, I believe, where the media narrative lines up with reality, which is that,

00:20:54.280 which is that Republicans, you know, you can decide how much you trust polls, but, but this is what the

00:21:00.460 polls are showing. This is also, I don't know, this is kind of like totally anecdotal, but this is the

00:21:04.820 sense you sort of get from people is that Republicans are losing the steam that we thought they had

00:21:11.960 leading into the midterms. All indications right now are that the promised and hoped for red wave looks

00:21:18.720 less likely than it did a few months ago. It could still happen because things change in a dime.

00:21:23.500 But, and nobody remembers anything from 24 hours ago. So any trend that exists 24 hours ago could

00:21:29.720 go away and reverse itself because we all have the memories of, of fruit flies, but, but that's how it

00:21:36.100 is right now. And I think the reason I agree with Ben Shapiro's analysis of this, which he offered

00:21:42.200 yesterday, I basically agree is that Republicans are, are one of the problems is that one of the big

00:21:46.900 problems is that Republicans are not staying on message. They're losing focus. Um, I think part

00:21:55.580 of the reason for that is, you know, as things, as the conversation among Republicans and on the right

00:22:02.220 has turned more to Donald Trump, uh, with the FBI rate and everything. And there were a lot of

00:22:08.100 conservatives who thought, well, this is, this is what's going to be the red. People are gonna be

00:22:10.500 motivated to go to the polls because of this. Uh, the Dems have really stepped in at this time,

00:22:14.880 but we have to remember is that if the Democrats thought, and when I say the Democrats, I'm

00:22:20.820 including the FBI in that, if they thought that it would hurt them politically to do the raid,

00:22:27.640 they wouldn't have done it. I mean, they're only going to do what they think will help them.

00:22:31.680 And if they thought that talking about Donald Trump a lot and making him the subject, making

00:22:36.940 him the topic, right? If making the election about him, if they thought that would hurt them,

00:22:42.220 they wouldn't do it, but they do it because they've decided that it helps them. It's all they

00:22:48.260 have. It is all they have. Like they want to talk about Donald Trump because they got, they got nothing

00:22:55.320 else. The last thing they want to do is talk about what's actually happening in the country right now

00:23:02.760 and the issues that really affect people on a day-to-day basis. I mean, think about

00:23:06.760 what normal people wake up every day worried about. You don't, you don't have to speculate

00:23:16.780 about this. If you're a normal person, and especially if you're a, you have a family,

00:23:21.240 you're a parent, you have kids, you have a spouse, what are the kinds of things that you wake up as

00:23:25.380 like the first thing you worry about in the morning? You go to bed thinking about it. What are the kinds

00:23:30.600 of things, the cliche about sitting around the kitchen table, but whether it's around your kitchen

00:23:34.560 table or someone else, somewhere else in the house, what are the things that you sit around talking

00:23:37.980 about with your spouse? It's, well, it's, it's finances. Okay. People are worried about their

00:23:44.920 finances. They're worried about their family's safety. They're worried about their children's

00:23:51.720 future. They're heartbroken by America's cultural collapse. It's continuing plunge into insanity.

00:23:59.500 These are the things that really trouble people and for good reason. And this is what they're

00:24:05.100 thinking about. This is what Republicans should be speaking to. That's how they win. And I would

00:24:11.780 suggest that you could see a direct correlation when Republicans are on message about that stuff,

00:24:18.240 economy, crime, the, you know, the grooming and indoctrination and mutilation and drugging of

00:24:23.560 children, the cultural decay, like these kinds of things. People live immersed in these issues

00:24:29.580 every day. It's what affects them most directly. It affects not, affects their wallet and their bed

00:24:34.600 cap, but also, you know, it speaks to the, also you need to go beyond that too. The issues that speak

00:24:38.340 to their, to their heart, their deepest concerns. And that's what deals with like what's going to

00:24:42.620 happen to their kids. What kind of world are we leaving behind for their kids? When Republicans are

00:24:47.240 talking about that, I think you see in the polls that they do well. When they get away from that,

00:24:50.720 they start to trail off. That's the correlation I think we see.

00:24:55.780 Everything else is a distraction.

00:25:00.480 Republican politicians and candidates who can't speak consistently and compellingly to these kinds

00:25:05.520 of issues and who haven't shown an ability and willingness to take action to fix it

00:25:10.200 should be disregarded, really, no exceptions. There are, we know there are plenty of Republicans who have

00:25:17.760 been stuck in a 1990s mentality for a long time. These are like the establishment Republicans have

00:25:24.380 been stuck. They still think it's 1995 and they're useless. But same goes for Republicans who are stuck 0.99

00:25:31.140 in 2016. Also, that's going to make you useless because we live in a different world now and it's

00:25:37.800 changing every day and not for the better. That's why Republicans need to be dialed in and focused on

00:25:44.080 that. When something relevant happens with Donald Trump, well, of course, you talk about it. He gets

00:25:50.660 raided by the FBI. That is outrageous and it's something that should be discussed. But you can't

00:25:57.000 make that the focus. The more that's the focus, then we're not talking about all these other things

00:26:00.940 over here that the Democrats don't want you to talk about. The fact that communities all across the

00:26:07.520 country are being ravaged by crime and nothing is being done to stop it. They don't want to talk about

00:26:11.840 that. It's the last thing they want to talk about. It's very clear they don't want to talk about the

00:26:18.420 trans agenda and how that's affecting kids. I mean, they so badly don't want to talk about it that they 0.99

00:26:23.880 will accuse you of being a terrorist if you do talk about it. That's how desperate they are to not

00:26:28.600 talk about it, which is exactly why we should be. What you have to do strategically, think about the

00:26:39.680 things that your opponent doesn't want to talk about, and talk about those. Real simple strategy.

00:26:46.640 If there's a subject that your opponent really, really wants to discuss,

00:26:50.720 that's probably what you should stay away from as much as you can or spend a second on it and move

00:26:55.960 on to the next thing. All right. John Fetterman is letting his racist flag fly. Now, I will give him

00:27:09.040 credit here. I really am impressed by this, actually, that this is, I think, a 30-second clip

00:27:13.120 and he is able to string together 30 seconds worth of, you know, sentences. And it's basically

00:27:23.040 coherent. So I'll give him that. But that's the most I can say about this. Let's listen.

00:27:27.240 In my own state, they are going to pass, attempt to pass a constitutional amendment,

00:27:33.620 making sure that universal voting ID for every time you vote, not just when you sign up to vote,

00:27:39.400 but every time you vote, because they understand that at any given time, there's tens of thousands

00:27:44.120 of Pennsylvanians who typically are on the poor side and are people of color that are less likely

00:27:51.920 to have their ID at any one given time. Oh, yeah. Well, you know, black people, 0.53

00:27:58.720 they're not, they don't know how to get IDs. So it's that old canard again. This is, this is not 0.97

00:28:04.540 even, this is not, this is something worse than bigotry of low expectations. You know, because when

00:28:11.120 you say that a certain group of people don't know how to get photo IDs, that's, that's, that's worse

00:28:15.780 than low expectations. That's just no expectations whatsoever. And it is, of course, not even close

00:28:21.620 to true. Well, you know, black people are less likely to have IDs. What? First of all, once again, 0.96

00:28:29.240 if you are an adult, a functioning adult in modern society, so you're not homeless, but like outside

00:28:40.100 of the homeless population, if you're an adult modern society, you, you must have some kind

00:28:46.340 of photo ID because you can't do anything without it. What, what you can't rent, where do you live?

00:28:53.040 You can't rent an apartment. You certainly can't buy a house. You can't get a credit card. You can't,

00:28:59.920 you can't do anything. You can't get a job. You cannot do anything without a photo ID.

00:29:05.440 So if you refuse to get a photo ID, then you've handicapped yourself, not just with voting, but

00:29:12.040 with everything in life. And there's no reason to handicap yourself that way because getting a

00:29:15.780 photo ID is enormously easy. Anyone can do it. You know, when you go to the DMV, they, they make it

00:29:22.740 very easy. It's, it's tedious. Okay. And it's annoying, but they make it very easy so that, you know,

00:29:30.740 anyone can do it. It doesn't matter who you are. You don't have to be some kind of like a,

00:29:36.500 you don't have to have a, be an expert. Who, who exactly, I'm not sure I've ever met

00:29:44.220 an adult that does not have a photo ID at all and has never had one.

00:29:52.640 Who, who are these adults? Again, outside of the homeless population, even them,

00:29:57.100 probably many of them have one, at least at one point had one. So I'm not sure I've met an adult

00:30:03.280 who doesn't have a photo ID. I would like to meet an adult like that just so I can talk to them.

00:30:09.940 I have so many questions. Why don't you have one? How do you function? Uh, is, is this a choice?

00:30:16.900 Why? This must be a choice that you're making. Why is that a choice? I mean, maybe if you want to

00:30:20.660 live off the grid completely, no photo ID, burn your social security card, go, go live in a hut in the 0.91

00:30:26.720 woods. I mean, I, that's, that's an appealing option, but outside of that,

00:30:32.300 this is one of the most, this is one of the most, the most ridiculous straw men that you hear from 0.97

00:30:38.880 the left. And I know that's saying quite a lot acting as though it is some great burden 0.97

00:30:45.600 to go get a photo ID, even though one is required for everything else. And even though, as we know,

00:30:53.360 as, as, as we know, they, they had no problem requiring vaccine cards and all the rest of it.

00:31:01.080 So they can require you to go and inject something into your body

00:31:04.700 and take a card and carry that around with you. But going to get a photo ID is a,

00:31:12.000 is a burden that is too cumbersome for people to carry or not people. They say specifically,

00:31:19.220 too cumbersome for black people to carry, they say, which it's, it's hard to think of something 0.98

00:31:26.740 more degrading, insulting and paternalistic than that. And also again, completely false. 0.99

00:31:35.820 All right. You know, we are just months away from the Salem witch trials. I would say this is from 0.71

00:31:41.720 People Magazine. Sydney Sweeney is, she's an actress, I think. Yeah, she's an actress. She's

00:31:48.800 facing backlash over photos from a recent family function. After throwing a surprise hoedown themed

00:31:55.520 party in Idaho for her mom's 60th birthday, the current Emmy Award nominee responded to online

00:32:01.300 criticism of a photo that shows one relative wearing a Blue Lives Matter t-shirt. Her brother,

00:32:06.360 Trent Sweeney, also shared photos that showed guests wearing parody MAGA hats printed with

00:32:10.820 Make 60 Great Again. And Sweeney, so there was a, apparently a big backlash against this,

00:32:18.280 big enough that she responded to it. She said, you guys, this is wild. An innocent celebration

00:32:22.140 for my mom's milestone 60th birthday has turned into an absurd political statement,

00:32:25.800 which was not the intention. Please stop making assumptions. She was met with criticism,

00:32:30.740 further criticism in the replies to that post. Someone wrote, then you should have selected other

00:32:35.200 pictures to post that wouldn't be left up to interpretation in this manner. Lesson learned for you,

00:32:40.160 I assume. Others came to her defense and, but generally this was what the fans are coming

00:32:46.320 after for. Now, this is ridiculous for many reasons, but apparently I'm learning from this

00:32:52.460 article. This actress is in the show Euphoria and she's been in some other shows too, but that's

00:32:58.500 primarily what she stars in, which I've never seen the show. I don't claim to know a lot about it,

00:33:05.120 but I think it's safe to say that if somebody was, you know, deeply conservative with conservative

00:33:12.680 values, they're not going to star in that show of all shows. So she would seem to be pretty safe.

00:33:20.200 You don't have to worry. She's not one of those right-wing witches that you do have to find and 0.99

00:33:24.240 burn at the stake. She's not one of them. But even being indirectly associated with things that 0.94

00:33:32.440 aren't really conservative or ideological, but that themselves can be associated with conservative

00:33:37.940 people. So you've got multiple degrees of separation. But even that very indirect, circuitous path

00:33:47.760 to connecting with conservatives, even that is unacceptable.

00:33:52.400 And she has to, you know, issue clarifications and everything. Now, if she hasn't issued an

00:33:58.860 apology yet or disowned her family, rebuked her own family, I think would probably wait a couple 0.99

00:34:05.080 days for that. If the outrage doesn't die down in a couple of days, we'll see where she is. But I

00:34:09.680 would not be, that's usually the trajectory of these kinds of things.

00:34:13.640 Staying in the world of, you know, of media and that sort of thing, Olivia Rodrigo, who's

00:34:23.420 the pop star who sang about getting her driver's license or her learner's permit or whatever it

00:34:27.880 was, she performed with Billy Joel a couple of days ago. And Variety put this clip from the

00:34:34.920 performance out on Twitter. And, you know, they put it out in a positive way. Like, oh, listen to this

00:34:39.840 great performance. But I don't know. Listen to it for yourself. Here it is.

00:34:44.160 The greatest thing with, can we go, can we get a screenshot just the very end there? Because

00:35:12.160 you see Billy Joel stare. I didn't notice it the first time I watched this clip. I think because

00:35:16.420 I did, I actually, this is the first time I watched the clip the whole way through. It's only about 15

00:35:19.360 seconds. It, I, it's too, it's really difficult to watch. It's so embarrassing. There's just something

00:35:26.080 about someone, someone singing badly. That is, for some reason, it's so, so difficult. Not just

00:35:32.420 because it hurts your ears, but because it's so embarrassing for them. But you can see Billy Joel

00:35:37.640 in the background. He's looking at her like, what the hell is this? What am I doing here? Who is this

00:35:41.840 person? You've got, this guy's in his seventies. He has no idea what Olivia Rodrigo's. I think she's a,

00:35:46.160 she's, she's a pop star whose career began on TikTok, I believe. Right. And so she's only a pop

00:35:54.460 star because she would dance on TikTok. And then that was her. And then the, some record label came

00:35:59.400 along and said, oh yeah, we're going to make you a pop star because that's how it works now. Of

00:36:04.000 course, it's worked that way for a long time. We'll just take someone. You don't have any

00:36:07.000 ability whatsoever, no musical ability, but it used to be that, I mean, there was a time. I mean,

00:36:14.220 pop music has for a long time been vacuous and, and, and bad. And, um, it's been a long time since

00:36:23.520 in general, pop musicians were actual musicians. So they have no musical ability,

00:36:29.400 but it keeps getting worse because I think there was a time at least when they could do something.

00:36:34.620 So you go back far enough and anyone who was a famous musician, it's because they could play

00:36:40.420 music. They could write music. They could just produce music. Right. And it was all them.

00:36:46.060 And then that went away. And of course they're not writing their own music anymore,

00:36:50.360 but at least they could, they basically had pretty good voices. They could sing and they

00:36:55.100 could dance. And so those are, those are skills. They hadn't got that going for them.

00:36:58.460 And now we're at a point where you don't have to be able to do any of that to be a, to be a,

00:37:06.540 I think she just won a Grammy to a Grammy award-winning millionaire pop star.

00:37:13.800 Cannot sing, cannot dance, can't do anything. And yet she's on stage with Billy Joel,

00:37:18.500 who was clearly regretting all of his life choices. All right. I wanted to mention this too. This is

00:37:23.480 interesting story from MSN. It says a school district in Southwest Missouri is bringing back

00:37:29.660 a measure it last resorted to over two decades ago to address disciplinary problems. That is spanking

00:37:35.680 students. Classes started Monday for the 1900 students in Classville R4 school district about

00:37:43.320 an hour west of Branson and some 15 miles from the Arkansas border. During open house, families were

00:37:47.660 notified that the school board had adopted a policy in June allowing physical force as a method of

00:37:52.780 correcting student behavior. Parents were handed forms to specify whether they authorized the school

00:37:58.460 to use a paddle on their child. Formerly known as corporal punishment, the disciplinary measure

00:38:04.140 usually involves striking students on the buttocks with a wooden paddle. In Cassville, staff members

00:38:11.300 will employ reasonable physical force without a chance of bodily injury or harm in the presence of a

00:38:16.780 witness. This is according to the new policy. Now, what exactly constitutes reasonable physical force

00:38:22.380 is unclear, but that's what they're going to do. Now, this is interesting to me because it kind of,

00:38:27.460 again, highlights some of the fundamental problems with the school system, the public school system.

00:38:34.100 It's true that there's a total lack of discipline in the school system.

00:38:39.100 Kids don't respect their teachers or the administrators. They don't care about the punishments.

00:38:44.580 Suspension in particular is a really, and I think this is where the paddling idea originally came from,

00:38:52.460 is that they were looking for another form of punishment instead of suspension. 0.97

00:38:58.720 And that makes sense in a certain way because suspension is a particularly stupid form of punishment 0.98

00:39:04.120 because the kinds of kids who get suspended are also the kinds of kids who love nothing more than 0.98

00:39:11.120 to stay home from school. And they're likely to be the kinds of kids whose parents aren't going to

00:39:15.960 hold them accountable at home. So by suspending them, you're not really accomplishing anything.

00:39:20.500 Suspension only works as a disciplinary tool if the child being suspended, number one,

00:39:25.980 wants to come to school, and so you're taking something away from him that he wants.

00:39:30.340 And two, has parents who will react with appropriately severe, you know, with appropriate severity

00:39:37.000 to their child being suspended in the first place. So you need both of those criteria to be met in order

00:39:43.420 for the suspension to work as a punishment. But usually, neither of the criteria are met.

00:39:52.220 So what are you left with? They don't really expel kids anymore unless they're found guilty of

00:39:57.980 misgendering, in which case we may, you know, then you can toss them out. There's detention,

00:40:02.360 but that only goes so far. And what if a kid refuses to show up to detention? What do you do?

00:40:08.220 This is the kind of hopeless situation that lots of teachers and administrators are in. There's

00:40:14.180 like, there's nothing they can do. The kids are not listening. They don't care. They have no respect.

00:40:20.520 They have no, you know, they haven't been raised to respect their elders or anything like that. So

00:40:24.620 it's just, what are you supposed to do with them? And it's what makes you think, well, maybe it's time

00:40:29.000 to introduce corporal punishment as another option. But then here, here comes another

00:40:35.080 complication because if I'm a parent sending my kid to public school in the year 2022, I am not

00:40:44.060 going to be okay with paddling because there's no way in hell that I trust the teachers or

00:40:49.740 administrators to dole out a punishment like that appropriately or responsibly. I just don't trust

00:40:54.940 them. And so when you're using physical force in that way and you're authorizing another adult,

00:41:00.600 a stranger to use it, you have to really trust. There's to be a lot of trust there.

00:41:06.020 But I'm not going to have that kind of trust in any of the adults working in the school system

00:41:10.520 right now. I just don't trust you. So no stranger, especially not one in public school,

00:41:16.340 is laying a hand on my kid. I don't trust them. I don't trust any adult with that, especially not

00:41:20.280 government workers in a government, in the government school system. Yeah, I'm not going

00:41:26.560 to, I'm not going to entrust government employees to physically punish my child. No, this is the

00:41:34.820 conundrum that you deal with. The lax discipline doesn't work, but harsher discipline requires a

00:41:42.380 certain amount of trust between school and parent. And that trust doesn't exist. And largely that's

00:41:47.620 the fault of the schools because they've destroyed all that trust.

00:41:53.680 So what's the answer? Well, I'll tell you what the answer is.

00:41:57.920 Get your kid out of the public school system. That's the answer.

00:42:01.600 All right, let's get to the comment section.

00:42:03.980 Do you know their name? They're the sweet baby gang.

00:42:12.040 Oh, by the way, I'm going to get to the comments in a second, but I do have to mention this because

00:42:17.460 we were just talking about horrible, you know, pop music and all of that. And I had this also on the

00:42:23.300 docket to mention because I can't fail to mention it. Taylor Swift has a new album coming out that

00:42:30.340 she just announced. I think she announced it at the VMAs. And so it's really exciting. It's an album

00:42:34.140 called Midnights. And I think the album, the idea is that these are all songs that she wrote in the

00:42:40.160 middle of the night or something like that. And now she, most of her music, especially recent music

00:42:46.540 is really, really bad. You give her credit though, because she does actually write her own music and

00:42:51.200 she can basically sing. So she's got that going for her at least. But she's also a terrible writer 0.99

00:42:56.760 at the same time. So this is her Instagram post announcing the new album. This is what she wrote.

00:43:04.060 And this is like middle school, creative writing level stuff here. Okay. We lie awake in love and

00:43:14.960 in fear, in turmoil and in tears. We stare at walls and drink until they speak back. We twist in our

00:43:23.220 self-made cages and pray that we aren't right this minute about to make some fateful life-altering

00:43:30.120 mistake. This is a collection of music. This is a collection of music written in the middle of the

00:43:36.200 night, a journey through terrors and sweet dreams, the floors we pace and the demons we face for all

00:43:42.740 of those who have tossed and turned and decided to keep the lanterns lit and go searching, hoping that

00:43:48.040 just maybe when the clock strikes 12, we'll meet ourselves. I guess this is what passes for poetry

00:43:55.800 these days. It's better than Amanda Gorman at least. But all I can say is, first of all, what's this

00:44:01.960 we stuff? Speak for yourself. So she's talking about this as if this is a common, you know, we've all,

00:44:06.420 we've all been through this. You're lying awake at night drinking so much that, so that the walls are

00:44:12.800 talking to you. I've never had that experience. I don't think that's a, is that a universal human

00:44:17.920 experience? I've never been through that before. Praying that you don't make a fateful life-altering

00:44:24.500 mistake. What the hell are you doing at night? Now I'm kind of interested in actually listening 0.60

00:44:30.400 to the album. I, I, uh, this has taken a very dark turn. All right. Lisa says, Matt, your segment

00:44:35.860 about homelessness was not correct. Not all homeless or drug addicts, actually less than 40% abuse drugs.

00:44:42.020 There are a lot of comments, uh, in this vein taking me to task because I said that in the homeless

00:44:48.300 population, almost all of them are homeless because they are drug addicts and or have serious mental

00:44:53.740 illnesses. And there were a few people that were upset by that. And, uh, and I did hear this

00:44:59.000 statistic quoted a few times. Oh, only 40% are drug addicts. I don't know where you're getting that

00:45:04.580 information. I'll believe that you got it from somewhere. Maybe there's some kind of study or

00:45:08.440 something that was done. I, I, I believe it. I don't buy it though. That's it. Come on. That's it. It's

00:45:12.280 just, it, you have to be able to use your common sense sometimes. Is that really what you think?

00:45:17.780 Less than half of, of homeless people are abusing drugs. Have you been, I mean, go anywhere where

00:45:26.720 there are homeless people and what you're saying is clearly just your claim just evaporates

00:45:33.380 in the face of reality. Go anywhere where there are homeless people and walk around and what you see

00:45:40.840 drug abuse and mental illness everywhere. Now it may not be literally everyone. There may be a few

00:45:47.160 exceptions here and there, but that is largely what leads a person to end up sleeping on the street,

00:45:54.600 you know, on, on a cardboard mattress. That that's what largely will end, will, will, will lead someone

00:45:59.120 to that point. That's not a, an insult. That's not anything. It's simply the reality. And it's important

00:46:09.380 to confront that and acknowledge that because if you want to actually do something about the homeless

00:46:14.940 problem, you have to be able to understand why the homeless problem exists in the first place,

00:46:20.160 what's causing it. All right. Uh, Jay Stoss says, Matt said that the podcast group apologizing over

00:46:29.120 Ben Shapiro showing up was the most pathetic apology he'd ever seen. I'd say that John Cena,

00:46:34.000 an American groveling to China and Chinese over calling Taiwan a country was even worse. That was one

00:46:39.260 of the most pitiful, emasculating things I've seen. I forgot about that one. That might,

00:46:44.220 it's a competition. They're both in the top five. Um, maybe I forgot about the John Cena one cause he

00:46:49.320 wasn't, he wasn't speaking in English. It wasn't, you know, you couldn't tell exactly what he was

00:46:52.100 saying, but, um, yeah, that's certainly, that's in the, that's, that's in the running. We must, uh,

00:46:58.400 admit. Ninja Squirrel says this whole hotel thing, they tried that already in, uh, Amarillo, Texas

00:47:04.900 in less than 72 hours, there was a number of fires. So this is, they tried opening up the hotel rooms,

00:47:09.920 empty hotel rooms to homeless people. And this is what Ninja Squirrel, and this is a source you can

00:47:14.020 trust. This is what he says happened in less than 72 hours. There was a number of fires,

00:47:18.060 four stabbings and one shooting, seven accounts of rape, et cetera. Three whole floors were ruined

00:47:23.040 due to vandalism, not counting the fires, mind you, to such an extreme that the entire hotel was forced

00:47:27.100 to close forever. Am I saying that Los Angeles can do better? Um, definitely. I'm willing to bet money

00:47:32.900 on the fact that Los Angeles can do it in under 24 hours. Yeah, this is, Los Angeles would not be

00:47:38.320 the first city to try this. There are other cities that have done similar things and it always ends

00:47:42.480 in disaster. And, and, and also going back to the first comment and anyone else who took exception

00:47:46.880 to me saying that, you know, homeless people by and large, drug addicted, mentally ill, um, unstable,

00:47:52.820 you say that you, that's not true. That's not fair. Oh, really? But like what,

00:47:59.240 if that's the case, you know, and if you don't believe that, then, uh, okay,

00:48:02.280 you've got two hotels to choose from in one, your entire floor is going to be comprised of

00:48:08.540 homeless people who have been given those rooms. And in the other, if they're all paying customers,

00:48:13.420 which one are you choosing, which one are you going to go to? Is it just a flip the coin?

00:48:19.100 Doesn't matter to you? No, you know that you would not feel safe on the floor of homeless people

00:48:25.340 because so many of them are drug addicts and mentally ill and unstable, prone to violence, 0.94

00:48:31.540 all of these things. Um, Mad says, my husband's a corrections officer in Utah, which doesn't have 0.95

00:48:40.180 near the problem of homelessness that's that California does, but he deals with more homeless

00:48:44.180 and mentally ill people than actual criminals. There's a large group that just rotates in and

00:48:48.300 out of jail. They get to sleep in a warm bed and get food. Then two weeks later, they let out. Most

00:48:52.640 county jails are treated as mental institutions and it does not help the homeless people in the

00:48:56.800 slightest. Yep. Just another, nothing but band-aids. That's all we're doing with the homeless problem

00:49:01.500 and in every, pretty much every other problem in society, a bunch of band-aid solutions because we

00:49:04.920 don't want to get to the core of it. You don't want to get to the root of it because we can't even talk

00:49:07.840 about the root of the problem because as soon as you do that, people start getting offended for some

00:49:11.720 reason. John Williams says, seriously, Matt, speaking for many on behalf of the Sweet Baby Gang,

00:49:17.780 we missed the flannel shirts. The blazers look fine, but perhaps you could switch back and forth just

00:49:21.440 saying. Grenade Away says, wow, Matt, you've got a new studio and now you wear blazers every day.

00:49:26.120 So I guess you sold out. That's what makes me sell out. Man, you've got, you've got a low bar

00:49:32.880 for selling out. You've got me in a pretty tight box here. Just wearing slightly nicer clothing

00:49:39.560 and doing a show that's not in front of a sheet is selling out.

00:49:49.060 Well, then I guess I'm a sellout. What can I say? Well, if you can believe it, which of course you can

00:49:55.120 because I've been the butt end of a sick joke for weeks now, the walrus destined for my possession

00:50:01.640 is still being withheld. And it was announced yesterday that Ben, who had access to my walrus

00:50:06.540 before me, released little stuffed walruses. He even held up the wrong one yesterday because

00:50:12.500 he has so many walruses. He's like drowning in walruses while I have none. That's a mistake. I'm not

00:50:18.940 sure I'll ever have the luxury to make. And now not only has he withheld my walrus from me,

00:50:23.520 but his fans are buying their walruses before you, which is unacceptable. This is all getting

00:50:30.340 very weird. So go to dailywire.com slash shop or click the link in the description to get these

00:50:35.580 adorable cuddly companions to my book, Johnny the Walrus, which you can also get by the way.

00:50:39.780 And that also makes a perfect gift for any child or sweet baby. They actually did a great job with

00:50:43.880 this. This is really high quality walrus material. Rather than buying another stuffed animal for your

00:50:48.220 kids from woke companies that hate your values, buy these walruses instead. My kids will

00:50:53.040 really enjoy this. And I'm sure your kids will too. My kids will mostly enjoy the big giant walrus,

00:50:57.720 which I still have not been given, but this will be the consolation prize, I suppose.

00:51:01.700 Head over to dailywire.com slash shop to get yours now. Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:51:11.980 Much of what passes for modern journalism today consists of taking some obvious feature of physical

00:51:17.600 reality and declaring that it's a myth. This claim is then supported with a series of assertions

00:51:22.220 along with frantic assurances that there's at least one study out there somewhere that supports

00:51:26.540 whatever they're asserting. We discussed an egregious example of this last week with the

00:51:30.220 Scientific American's documentary series seeking to debunk the concept of the sex binary. And this

00:51:36.260 week, the New York Times has gotten in on the action with this op-ed titled,

00:51:39.480 Maternal Instinct is a Myth that Men Created. Now, once again, you see, the thing that you always 1.00

00:51:47.920 thought existed, you've always known existed, and you've witnessed yourself and maybe experienced

00:51:53.140 yourself and which all of human society has believed in and professed and bore witness to

00:51:57.300 is a myth. Not only that, but it's a myth very recently invented by patriarchal men sometime around

00:52:04.200 the dawn of the industrial revolution. This is the claim that the writer Chelsea Conoboy,

00:52:08.780 a journalist specializing in health, it says in her bio, wants you to believe. The article itself

00:52:14.380 is lengthy and takes many irrelevant detours into anecdotes about women who suffer from postpartum

00:52:18.900 depression. She talks about a commercial that she saw once. At one point, she cites a stand-up special

00:52:24.220 by a comedian named Ali Wong. This is all evidence that she marshals to prove her point. There's a lot of

00:52:30.560 fat to trim from the bone, but I think this portion here, which I'll read to you, captures the essence

00:52:35.940 of her argument. So this is what she writes. The notion that the selflessness and tenderness babies

00:52:41.500 require is uniquely ingrained in the biology of women, ready to go at the flip of a switch, 1.00

00:52:45.920 is a relatively modern and pernicious one. It was constructed over decades by men selling an image

00:52:51.200 of what a mother should be, diverting our attention from what she actually is and calling it science. 1.00

00:52:56.420 It keeps us from talking about what it really means to become a parent, and it has emboldened

00:53:00.080 policymakers in the United States, generation after generation, to refuse new parents, and

00:53:04.600 especially mothers, the support they need. Today, many proclaim that motherhood is neither duty nor

00:53:09.800 destiny, that a woman is not left unfulfilled or incomplete without children. But even as I write

00:53:14.420 these words, I doubt them. Do we collectively believe that? Maternal instinct is still frequently

00:53:19.400 invoked in science writing, parenting advice, and common conversation. And whether we call maternal

00:53:23.740 instinct by its name or not, its influence is everywhere. Belief in maternal instinct and the

00:53:28.080 deterministic value of mother love has fueled pro-family conservative politicians for decades.

00:53:34.720 Oh, God forbid. Those pro-family politicians, you know, a sinister bunch. And we get to the substance

00:53:43.260 of the argument there, such as it is, which I think can be handled pretty quickly. First of all,

00:53:50.780 whether maternal instinct exists or not, and it does, we'll get to that in a second,

00:53:54.880 the idea certainly is not modern. You can read ancient writings from across the world, including

00:54:00.380 the Bible and texts even older than that, and find beautiful homages written to the special bond

00:54:07.540 between a mother and a child. Like, every ancient civilization has noticed this and remarked upon

00:54:14.700 it. Not just remarked upon it, but built their civilizations with that in mind. If there's anything

00:54:22.080 unique about our view of the subject, it's the opposite of what the author claims. Only in the

00:54:27.680 modern industrialized West, we even think to question whether a mother has a special bond with 0.72

00:54:33.100 and duty to her own child. This is not even a subject of discussion in other cultures, nor was

00:54:38.100 it through history because the answer was so obvious. Maternal instinct was self-evident to our

00:54:43.660 ancestors. And like so many of their insights, this one has only been confirmed and validated by

00:54:49.320 modern science, even if the New York Times would like to claim otherwise. There was an article

00:54:53.400 written in the Smithsonian Magazine in 2021 titled, The New Science of Motherhood, and it goes into

00:54:58.300 great detail about the biological and neurological changes a woman goes through when she becomes a

00:55:03.040 mother, which serves to bond her even closer to her child. This stuff has been measured. You can see it.

00:55:09.380 In fact, the New York Times itself, the New York Times itself in 2008 published an article with the

00:55:13.580 headline, Maternal Instinct is Wired into the Brain. It reports the results of one of the many dozens of

00:55:20.400 other scientific studies showing how a mother's brain is miraculously wired to connect with her

00:55:26.320 own child. Reading from the article, it says, Tokyo researchers use functional magnetic resonating

00:55:31.040 imaging, MRI, to study the brain patterns of 13 mothers, each of whom had an infant about 16 months

00:55:37.320 old. First, the scientists videotaped the mothers smiling at their, rather videotaped the babies smiling at

00:55:42.800 their mothers during playtime. Then the women left the room and the infants were videotaped crying

00:55:47.060 and reaching for their mothers to come back. All of the babies were dressed in the same blue shirt for

00:55:52.100 the video shoot. MRI scans were taken as each mother watched videos of the babies, including her own with

00:55:57.300 the sound off. When a woman saw images of her own child smiling or upset, her brain patterns were

00:56:01.960 markedly different than when she watched the other children. There was a particularly pronounced change in

00:56:06.560 brain activity when a mother was shown images of her child in distress. The scan suggests the particular

00:56:11.320 circuits in the brain are activated when a mother distinguishes the smiles and cries of her own 0.67

00:56:15.100 baby from those of other infants. The fact that a woman responds more strongly to a child's crying 1.00

00:56:19.100 than to smiling seems to be biologically meaningful in terms of adaptation to specific demands associated

00:56:23.880 with successful infant care, the study authors noted. But the maternal instinct doesn't just kick in

00:56:30.640 when a woman actually has a baby. I mean, lots of things do happen and a mother's brain is wired a certain way 1.00

00:56:36.580 and there are hormonal changes and all these things. But girls from a young age are much more

00:56:42.260 inclined on average, long before they have kids of their own, they're still much more inclined on

00:56:47.140 average to exhibit maternal traits. There's a reason why girls play with baby dolls. That's what playing 1.00

00:56:51.240 with a baby doll is all about. I mean, think about it. You've got little girls who are, my daughter's

00:56:56.320 two years old. She's already pretending to be a mother. This is what she loves to do more than anything 1.00

00:57:00.360 in the world is to carry her baby dolls around. Now, sure, there are some boys who might show an interest in

00:57:05.180 baby dolls also, but they're the exception. Nearly all parents on earth and who have ever lived on

00:57:11.520 earth have noticed in their daughters an inclination towards these sorts of things. 0.69

00:57:16.580 The left wants us to doubt what we've all seen, what we all know to be true. And all they can give

00:57:22.300 us to justify the doubt are anecdotes about exceptions to the rule. And yet at the same time, these very

00:57:27.980 same people validate what they claim are unfair stereotypes by in the next breath insisting that a

00:57:32.860 boy who shows maternalistic traits is probably actually a girl. They can't get their own story

00:57:37.640 straight. So I couldn't take them seriously even if I wanted to, and I don't. Also, we haven't taken

00:57:44.320 into account the animal kingdom, where the females of any given species are not only on average the 0.95

00:57:49.440 most likely to be primary or sole caretakers of the young, but also where even among animals,

00:57:55.020 mothers are often observed sacrificing themselves to protect their young.

00:57:58.120 How do we explain that? Are chickens and polar bears and elephants also subject to social

00:58:04.800 conditioning and political pressure? Have they been manipulated by dastardly conservative politicians?

00:58:11.720 Now, of course, human beings are different from chickens and polar bears and elephants in that we

00:58:16.500 are self-aware and we're capable of making moral choices. And this is the one possible criticism of

00:58:22.460 maternal instinct as it relates to humans that I would entertain, is that you might argue that calling a

00:58:28.840 human mother's love and devotion to her child an instinct diminishes it. You know, when a mother 0.55

00:58:34.640 rushes into a burning building to rescue her child, it's not just instinct. It is, she's making a choice.

00:58:41.580 She's making a heroic choice. And we should acknowledge that. She's not merely obeying her biology like some

00:58:48.120 kind of machine. But all that means is that human mothers have a maternal instinct along with 0.94

00:58:53.900 something far more powerful, which is a soul, a mind, capable of making these kinds of choices.

00:59:03.060 The writer of this article is aware of that, actually, and that's really her point.

00:59:07.660 She wants women to use their higher faculties to reject their maternal instinct, overwrite it, 1.00

00:59:14.360 turn it against itself, and deny everything that makes them special and unique.

00:59:20.820 Many women in our culture have done exactly this, tragically, violently rejecting their motherly 0.98

00:59:25.240 vocation through abortion. Increasingly, there are women who reject womanhood entirely and have

00:59:30.720 doctors cut out their female reproductive organs so that they can live as some bizarre mutilated 0.99

00:59:35.420 approximation of a man. And this is what the writer ultimately wants, and what the left wants,

00:59:42.300 generally. Which is why, when they deny that things are a certain way, what they really mean

00:59:51.940 is that they think that things ought not be that way. This is one of the most important things to

00:59:57.880 understand about the left. When they look at physical reality and they say, oh, no, it's not like

01:00:03.060 that. No, no, they know that it is like that. What they're saying is, it shouldn't be. This is

01:00:08.640 something we should destroy to the best of our ability. They want us to live as if a certain

01:00:15.280 reality is not the reality. Maternal instinct exists, but it shouldn't. I mean, that's Chelsea 1.00

01:00:23.260 Connoboy's real point. And it's why she is today, finally, canceled. And that'll do it for this portion 0.91

01:00:29.640 of the show as we move over to the members block. Hopefully you have become a member by now. If you

01:00:32.840 haven't, make sure you do that so you can join us for the rest of the show. Otherwise, we will see you

01:00:36.400 tomorrow. Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - August 30, 2022

Ep. 1012 - Diversity Seminars On The Moon

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