Ep. 1027 - We Are Going To Make Child ‘Gender Transitions’ Illegal
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Vanderbilt Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee has been accused of performing "child sex mutilation" on minors. Today on the Matt Walsh Show, we have exposed the practices, but now it s time to actually do something about it. I ll explain the plan today. Also, Stacey Abrams says that the fetal heartbeat is a far-right conspiracy, the Pentagon is panicking over their failed military recruitment efforts, and an MSNBC host thinks he has the ultimate gotcha on Ron DeSantis.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, we have exposed Vanderbilt's child mutilation practices,
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but now it's time to actually do something about it. I'll explain the plan today. Also,
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Stacey Abrams says that the fetal heartbeat is a far-right conspiracy. The Pentagon is panicking
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over their failed military recruitment efforts. An MSNBC host thinks he has the ultimate gotcha
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on Ron DeSantis. In our daily cancellation, the Washington Post is the latest outlet to claim
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that there is a racist plot to keep black men out of NFL coaching positions. I'll explain why those
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claims are completely wrong and also stupid. All of that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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promo code Walsh. Welcome back to another exciting Flannel Friday. You know, my expose on Vanderbilt's
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gender clinic continues to make major waves in a major way on a national and local level,
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even as every effort is made on the other side to lie, deflect, change the subject,
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or act like there's nothing here worth talking about in the first place. Vanderbilt has the
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advantage of a national and local media that knows its role in a situation like this. That is
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to act as de facto PR representatives for the institution. For example, our local Nashville
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public radio published an article written by a shameless hack named Blake Farmer, which says,
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the headline is this, Vanderbilt is the latest target in a far right campaign against transgender
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health clinics. That's their headline. And this is supposedly, they position themselves as a
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objective news outlet. The article itself, of course, makes no specific mention of any of the
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details I revealed in my report, except to say that I used inflammatory language when describing
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their practices. Describing them accurately is inflammatory. Meanwhile, the Tennessean, which is another
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major local publication, tried to ignore the issue completely, but was eventually forced to
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acknowledge it with this headline. Vanderbilt clarifies gender affirming care policies amid
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conservative attacks. Now, the national media hasn't been much better. The Daily Beast reported
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on the situation with this framing. Vanderbilt Medical Clinic shuts down its website after transphobic
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attacks. Now, the Washington Post was a little bit more subtle with a fair headline. Social media
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post sparks calls to investigate Tennessee's VUMC, which is fine. And then a relatively even-handed
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report, except that the post's article, like nearly every other article written on the subject from a
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non-conservative outlet, does not specifically mention the procedures that the hospital performs on
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kids. The post says that I criticized Vanderbilt for some of the, quote, services provided to minors,
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but it does not actually specify that those services include double mastectomies for 16-year-old
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girls, irreversible hormone treatments, puberty-blocking drugs that are also used to chemically
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castrate sex offenders. The post will not include those details because it knows that nearly everyone
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who reads it will recoil in revulsion and horror and say to themselves, you're telling me that's not
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already illegal. I should also note here that the progressive Christian community in Nashville,
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otherwise known as, you know, heretics, have taken a special interest in this case and are rallying
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around the hospital. Matthew Paul Turner is a Christian children's book author who came out as gay a few
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years ago and then left his wife and children. And he tweeted, you're a terrible human, Matt Walsh.
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You make nothing better, and one day your sad little existence will reap what it has sown over and over
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again. Now, that last part sounds almost like a threat, though. I can't say I'm too concerned.
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But it is a little disappointing in another way that, you know, again, this is a children's book author.
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His name is also Matthew, and somehow we can't stick together. Maybe he's just upset that my book sold
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more in a week than probably his entire catalog has sold in a lifetime. But anyway, also, Robin Henderson
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Espinoza is a self-described activist, theologian, and clergy member whose preferred pronouns are,
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I'm not making this up, he, they, and doctor. So doctor has been listed as a preferred pronoun
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unironically. Robin tweeted, this is white Christian nationalist terrorizing children. As a trans person
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and clergy member, I stand with the underside of history, not those using the underside for their
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political gain. I have no doubt that Robin is focused on the underside. I, however, am focused
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on protecting children and protecting them from horrific sexual and physical abuse and medical
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experimentation. And in order to do that, to really protect them, action must be taken. You know,
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on the right, we have been historically, I think, pretty good at identifying important issues and
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raising awareness about them. And that needs to happen. The, the rareness, the, the awareness raising,
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the consciousness raising needs to happen. It's important because most people, you know, when it
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comes to this issue, didn't know that this was happening to kids and would have probably assumed that
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it was already illegal. No change can be made culturally until you reach a critical mass of people
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who recognize that there is a problem and, and, and that there is something that must be changed and
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understand why it must be changed. So on the issue of gender ideology, we've been working to build to
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that critical mass. But what happens when you get there? See, this is where the right, again, judging
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historically, typically falters because we tell every, everyone that something bad is happening. And then lots
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of people respond, wow, that's bad. Thanks for telling me. And then we say, well, great talk folks.
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And we move on. The bad thing still fully intact. You know, it's the bad thing still happening.
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So converting attention into action, that is where we fail. The left is very good at that.
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The right historically has been very bad, but not this time. We are going to do something about
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this. Now I've already personally met with two high ranking members of the Tennessee house and
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Senate, and we are working on a bill together that would ban all gender transition procedures for
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minors in the state. No drugs, no surgeries. We are going to shut down Vanderbilt's pediatric gender
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clinic. And we are going to make sure that no one else opens one in this state ever again.
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We're also moving on the federal level. I've been in conversation with Senator Marsha Blackburn,
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who hosted a screening of my film, What is a Woman?, a few weeks ago. And there were many local
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lawmakers, by the way, who attended that screening. And I've been told personally that by some of them,
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that this movie has motivated them to move against gender ideology in the state. I heard the same
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thing from some of those politicians that I hear from average people on the street, which is, again,
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I didn't know this was happening, or I didn't know it was this bad. Now they know. Following our report
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on Vanderbilt, Marsha Blackburn has now issued a letter to the FDA calling for an investigation
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into puberty blockers, which have never been approved for use on children in this way. In fact,
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the very concept of a puberty blocker has never been sufficiently studied or investigated at all.
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The drugs are used off-label for the purpose of blocking puberty, and there has been no effort in the
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medical community to really understand the long-term or even short-term effects of this usage.
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So getting the FDA involved is an important first step. I've also been in communication with
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Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, who introduced a bill weeks ago banning child gender transitions
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on the federal level. Now, right now, no bill like that can actually be passed into law, of course,
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but it's important to have them on the table anyway, just as the FDA might right now ignore
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Marsha Blackburn's demands, but it's important to make the demand anyway, and that's because
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we are forcing this conversation. We are making it an issue. The midterms are a few weeks from now.
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We have made sexual indoctrination of children and medical child abuse enormous national issues
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in the lead-up to the election. That is not an accident. Back in January, I tweeted that I was
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planning an all-out assault on gender ideology this year, and that it would begin with a project
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that would change the conversation around the topic. In June, we released What is a Woman?, which
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I think and hope fulfilled that promise and is still fulfilling it. Several weeks ago, I pledged on
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this show that we would take the momentum that we built from that film, and we would turn it into a
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national movement that would lead to tangible results and real action. And that is beginning right
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now. Tennessee is just the start. Most importantly, we are fully on the offense now. Okay, we're not
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waiting around for the left to tell us what topics we should discuss or what positions we should adopt
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as the right has for so long operated. The left tells us the topics we're going to talk about,
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and then they also tell us what position we're going to take by, you know, we just take whatever
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the opposite position of them is. And so they are setting the terms. Okay, but we're not doing that
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now. We are not scrambling to take defensive postures all the time as the left dictates the
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terms of the argument. We are talking about things they don't want to talk about, and we are fighting
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a battle that they desperately don't want to have to fight and are not prepared to fight.
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So this time, we are the ones with the plan of action, and they are the ones scrambling to respond.
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You can tell that they're not used to being in that position, and they don't like it.
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There was one other, of course, there's been a lot of leftists, you know, panicking about this on
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Twitter, but just this one I thought was kind of funny. This is from a guy, John Iadarola. I guess
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he's a, it has something to do with the Young Turks. I don't know. Anyway, he tweeted in response
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to, you know, when I said we're going to pass a law that makes this illegal, he says,
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Matt Walsh has to spend years of his life pretending he gives an S about this all as a distraction to
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help keep billionaire taxes low. What a weird effing way to live. This again, the reason I
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read that to you is because it shows you another disadvantage that the left has. They have a lot
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of advantages with all the institutional power and everything else and the media bias and all that
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stuff. But they also have a lot of disadvantages. Some that we just talked about that this is not
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a conversation they want to have. They're not prepared for it. But also the other disadvantage
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is that they really don't understand us. They just don't. They don't know. They don't understand
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what we're doing. They don't know who they're dealing with or why. And that is an advantage for us
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that we should exploit ruthlessly. So you've got this guy and I believe that he believes this. I
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mean, I believe that he is this stupid and utterly oblivious and clueless that this is what he
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believes and he's not alone. He says, oh, Matt, he doesn't really care about this. He cares about
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keeping billionaire taxes low. Why would I care about that? I never talk about cutting taxes for
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billion. In fact, if I ever talk about cutting taxes, it's usually in the context of complaining
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when Republicans focus on that rather than these more important cultural issues. So I talk about
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the cultural issues, gender ideology, social issues, life, family issues all the time. It's like the
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only thing I focus on. And he has decided that, no, that is all, I don't even care about that.
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That's all, this is all a smokescreen. Because in reality, I'm sitting around every day just hoping
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that Jeff Bezos gets a tax cut. Why in the world would I care about that? Especially when all of
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the billionaires are on your side. They're all a bunch of left, all the, all the most of the
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wealthiest institutions and corporations, they're all on your side. They're with you. I don't like
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these people, but they don't understand. They just, they don't get us. They don't. And that is good.
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That's a good thing. It's why they're constantly being blindsided. It's why they're backed into
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corners. It's why they're on their heels right now. Because they just don't get it.
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And I am, I guess, not going to say any more to disabuse them of, of their false notions. Because
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like I said, it works to our advantage. Yeah, you're right. You're right, John. That's all I care about.
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You know, I wake up every day saying to myself, I hope Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg are making money
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today. That's all I think about. I'm sitting around the dinner table and it's all we talk about.
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I live my entire life fighting for that. And everything, my entire public career has just,
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it's been one long, you know, like I'm working undercover. That's all it is. You've, you've,
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you've blown my cover. All right. This one's Daily Wire says, Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams said in a
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recently service video that at six weeks, unborn babies' heartbeats aren't real, but are a
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manufactured sound design, or rather a manufactured sound designed to take away women's rights.
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Abrams is again campaigning to be the governor of Georgia after a failed run in 2018. Notably,
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the Democrat refused to traditionally concede the race to Republican Governor Brian Kemp,
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suggesting voter suppression and a broken system. So we have that clip and let's, brief clip,
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let's listen to it. That is one of the most deranged conspiracy theories I've ever heard in
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my life. Not only, so there's no heartbeat, it's manufactured and it is specifically manufactured.
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So I guess when you go in for the ultrasound, the ultrasound tech is part of a wide ranging
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far right conspiracy to convince you that babies are people when really they aren't. This is all a
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conspiracy and the, and the ultrasound techs they're in on it. They're all a bunch of Nazis and far right
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extremists, terrorists. Glenn Kessler is a fact checker for the Washington Post. He came to Stacey's
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Defense, of course, says, for what it's worth, fetal heartbeat is a misnomer. The ultrasound picks up
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electrical activity generated by an embryo. The so-called heartbeat sound that you hear is created
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by the ultrasound. Not, not until 10 weeks can the opening and closing of cardiac valves be detected by
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a Doppler machine. Now, look, I'm tempted to just say, just like I would say to John, okay, you want to
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go and believe that we're, that all we care about is tax cuts for billionaires. That's fine. And here I'm
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tempted to say, okay, fine. If you guys want to go out there and make the argument that, well, it's
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okay to kill the baby because the heartbeat isn't technically a heartbeat. The heartbeat is, it's all
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part of a, the fetal, the fetal heartbeat is a right-wing conspiracy. If you want that to be your
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argument, especially going into the midterms, then go for it. Put it on a bumper sticker. I encourage you,
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put it on poster boards, put it on signs, march down the street. Fetal heartbeat is a right-wing
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conspiracy. Go ahead. If you want to parse the definition of heartbeat in order to justify
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destroying human life, if you want to expose yourself in that way, then go ahead.
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I stipulate if you want to expose yourself in that way. I don't mean in like a Jeffrey Toobin kind of
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way, but we should note here, even so, that they're wrong. So to fact check the fact checker,
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back to the Daily Wire article. It says, a peer-reviewed science has found the following.
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The non-profit Charlotte Lozier Institute has outlined, quote,
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the heart, the heart is actively beating at six weeks. Between a conception and birth,
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the baby's heart will beat approximately 54 million times. The baby's average heartbeat is
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98 BPM. This will rise to 175 BPM by nine weeks gestation. The presence of a heartbeat at six to
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eight weeks gestation correlates with a live birth rate of 98% in normal pregnancies without
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intervention. The brain has divided into three primary sections responsible for sensing and
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decision-making, moving and tracking objects, and vital bodily functions. Eyes, ears, and nose
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start forming. So that's all what's happening at six weeks. Also, by the way, we should note that
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even on Planned Parenthood's website, up until just now, they also acknowledge that the heartbeat starts
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at six weeks, interestingly enough. Now, after this went viral, Stacey Abrams, they changed it
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to make their, even though it had been there for years, they changed it to put it more in line with
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what Stacey Abrams said. So there is a heartbeat at six weeks. But think about the wording. Going back
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to Glenn Kessler, think about the wording. He says, the heartbeat at six weeks, he says, is really just
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electrical activity by the embryo. That's all. It's electrical activity generated by an embryo.
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Well, he's right, of course. But then you could say that about the heartbeat at any age.
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Okay? We could say that about Glenn Kessler's heartbeat. That's just electrical activity being
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generated by the body. You could reduce any human at any age down to mere mechanical functions,
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if you want. Glenn Kessler, he's just a skeleton covered with organs and muscle and skin walking
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around. That's all he is. I mean, you really, you get into it. He's just like, he's a bag of bones
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and flesh walking. That's all he is. Glenn Kessler, he's a collection of atoms. That's all he is.
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You care that much about one little atom? So you take one little tiny atom, and we don't care about
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that, and then you add a bunch of them and make Glenn Kessler, and suddenly he matters?
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You could use that language to dehuman, de-person anyone. But it is strange. It's strange how
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selective the left and the media can tend to be on this subject. When exactly, in what scenarios are
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we acknowledging the personhood and humanity of unborn children? So here's a report the exact
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same day this is going on. The Today Show has a report, which also has to deal with, you know,
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those, quote, fetuses that just generate electricity. That's all they do. Let's watch this.
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Wait, so you guys have to see this. Have you heard about this? So this morning,
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we wanted to show you, just trying to change the subject, some amazing baby faces. Look at this.
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So researchers in Britain wanted to know if babies in the womb react when the mom ingests
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the flavor of food, and this is what they saw. Do you want to guess what was on the left?
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So the left is a baby in its resting state. And then on the right, you see how he smiles 20 minutes?
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The mom ate some carrots. On the left would be. There was just a resting state.
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That was the resting, but he liked the carrots. She had like a carrot pill.
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So were there other foods? Yes, there were other foods. I'm glad you asked. You want to look at
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this baby's reaction before? Mom had kale. Wow. Wow. So here's the thing.
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What about if mom had had ice cream? I don't know. Why would they go? Why would they go with
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carrots and vegetables? Let me explain. So the study's co-author says the images could just show
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muscle movements when a baby's reacting to maybe a flavor that's bitter. So you shouldn't interpret it
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whether you know it's happy or distaste. No, I don't think that's how I do it.
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No, I don't think that's how I do it. Because once they get out of the womb, it's the same look.
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Yeah, it's the same look. That's not a problem, but it just goes to show you know what you
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and Jess. Yeah, you are what you eat. And the 3D imagery is pretty cool. They didn't have
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that when I was pregnant. Did you get 3D? Yeah, I got 3D. Really? Honestly, Ollie and Rusty look
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exactly like they do in this picture. It's fascinating. My kids had chalk drawings.
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Every single person up there on camera, all four of them, would adamantly support so-called
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abortion rights. So when it comes to babies experiencing taste from the food that their
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mother is eating, when it comes to that, it's, oh, they're cute. Look at those little babies.
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babies. But if we're talking about actually executing those same babies in the womb, then
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they're just a collection of cells, a clump of cells is all. Let me ask you something.
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If a baby can react to Brussels sprouts and kale in the womb, do you think that the child might
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react to being physically tortured and torn apart limb from limb? Might there be a reaction
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to that? If the baby can experience sensation, taste? What's the experience of being torn apart,
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dismembered while you're still alive? Which is how they perform these abortions, especially
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at the later stages. 3D technology is also, I mean, it's almost miraculous. It's incredible.
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But that only goes to show how on the conservative side, the pro-life side, we line up with science.
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Okay, we are the pro-science side because science only continues evermore to vindicate our position.
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You know, the more we learn about what is happening in the womb, you know, the more we learn about
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human development, the more horrific and barbaric abortion becomes.
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Okay, one of the things, because I have to play this for you too. Speaking of the abortion issue,
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I want you to watch this ad that Tim Ryan posted on his Twitter account. And he's very proud of this ad,
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Hi, my name is Nick Brown. I'm a resident of Willoughby, Ohio. I've lived in Ohio all my life.
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I'm also an Army veteran. I was active duty for four years, and I'm currently a reserve officer in
00:24:52.660
the JAG Corps. This race to me is one of the most important races in America today. This is a race
00:24:59.800
race that is going to change a lot of lives. We've seen what happened recently with Roe,
00:25:07.420
and it's going to take legislative action to be able to change that. And
00:25:18.320
And it's incredible to me how much their lives changed in the last two weeks. Sorry, I'm getting
00:25:31.800
emotional right now. My wife is going to be working on this campaign. She's never been performing
00:25:40.000
in the last two weeks. This is not the America that I have. Tim Ryan is the opportunity to change
00:25:48.880
your life. So this is a man, and I use that term only in the biological sense in this case,
00:25:55.560
this is a man who is crying. It's getting emotional at the thought that his daughters won't be able to
00:26:03.720
to abort his grandchildren. So he is emotional. He's distraught. He's got young daughters, and he's
00:26:10.940
already thinking about the future he wants for them, and he wants to make sure they can have
00:26:16.120
abortions. So he's already thinking about his young daughters' abortions, and he's very upset
00:26:21.780
that his own progeny, his own descendants, his own grandchildren will not be able to be killed,
00:26:28.420
potentially. But I say, yet again, if this is the foot that the Democrats want to put forward, then
00:26:37.220
I say, go for it. All right, follow along with this story. This is from MSN. Headline,
00:26:44.580
Pentagon bedeviled by recruitment failures as solutions prove elusive. I'm always in favor of
00:26:50.460
any headline that can use a word like bedeviled. But it says, the Pentagon has characterized the
00:26:55.200
headwinds in stark terms, saying its recruitment environment is the worst it's been since the end
00:26:59.920
of the Vietnam War. Some of the military services will just barely meet their goals as the fiscal
00:27:03.800
year ends later this month. The Army, the Armed Forces' largest branch, will miss its target by 30,000
00:27:09.240
soldiers, said Senator Kirsten Gillibrand. Senator Tom Tillis said that there's little evidence to
00:27:16.480
suggest the outlook will improve anytime soon, adding bleakly, there is no sunlight on the horizon.
00:27:22.540
Military leaders teach a three-word mantra, adapt and overcome to every service member.
00:27:27.560
It's part reminder and part roadmap for how to meet challenges head on. During the testimony,
00:27:31.480
military officials offered a litany of reasons why factors outside of their control undermine
00:27:35.140
recruitment efforts with vague promises to consider potential solutions and problems raised by the
00:27:41.200
committee. And then it goes on with more of the problems they face. Only one in 11 people ages 17 to
00:27:48.800
24 have a propensity to serve, said Lieutenant General Caroline Miller, Senior Air Force Personnel
00:27:54.100
Official. And they list some of the other problems leading to this. Americans are obese,
00:28:02.820
competitive job market, all the rest of it. Okay, so that's the problem.
00:28:07.920
They can't recruit anyone, and that is a problem. If you can't get recruits for the military,
00:28:11.740
that's a problem. But listen to how MSN begins the article, okay, because I skipped the first paragraph.
00:28:16.180
It says, military officials and lawmakers on Wednesday painted a grim picture of recruiting
00:28:20.880
efforts within the Defense Department. As a recent study suggests, worrisome shortfalls could grow
00:28:26.580
worse if more women declined to serve over restrictive abortion laws in many Republican-led states where
00:28:32.960
U.S. personnel are based. Oh, so there you go. So yeah, there's a problem with recruitment,
00:28:39.780
but it's because women don't want to serve in states where they can't get abortions.
00:28:44.020
So that's why we're not getting enough people to serve is because there aren't enough abortions
00:28:49.000
happening. That explains it. So it's not like the woke messaging and recruiting ads that are chasing
00:28:55.740
people away. In fact, it's chasing away all of the sorts of people you actually want and need in
00:29:01.480
the military, making them head for the hills. It's not that. It's not political correctness and leftist
00:29:07.140
indoctrination driving people away. It's not VAX mandates and other tyrannies inflicted on our
00:29:12.260
service members. It's not that people fundamentally don't trust the government and don't want to be
00:29:17.240
sent overseas to fight wars that have nothing to do with us. It's not any of that. It's that women
00:29:23.080
can't get abortions. That's why there's a recruitment problem. Right. Okay, next we have
00:29:29.900
Mehdi Hassan on MSNBC, and he has some thoughts about DeSantis and immigration. And we'll play,
00:29:36.720
this is kind of a long clip. We'll play some of this. Go ahead. I want to tell you the story of
00:29:41.960
Luisa Colucci. Back during the First World War, she was stuck alone in Italy with her teen daughters,
00:29:47.580
but the homeland had become too dangerous. So in 1917, they boarded a ship to America,
00:29:52.960
where her husband and son had already settled for work years earlier. On that trip, German U-boats were
00:29:58.500
just one of the hazards they faced. While Luisa and her girls were still at sea, America, which had
00:30:03.580
already allowed in thousands of Europeans, passed the Xenophobic Alien Act. It banned migrants from
00:30:09.720
Asian countries as well as immigrants who couldn't read. That was a problem for Luisa. Passenger
00:30:15.040
records show that she and her daughters were illiterate. But Luisa was lucky. The Alien Act
00:30:20.520
would not take effect until that May. She and her children were put on a train to be reunited with
00:30:25.680
Luisa's husband and son. Luisa lived for four more decades as an American with a great big American
00:30:31.700
family. It's a story that millions of immigrants to America can tell. Because despite all the anti-immigration
00:30:38.760
sentiment back then, America had pretty open borders compared with today. It didn't even have a
00:30:44.840
militarized border patrol yet. And migrants like Luisa Colucci didn't have to worry about being put
00:30:49.900
on a plane under false pretenses and shipped thousands of miles away for an anti-immigration stunt.
00:30:55.240
Of course, that's what Florida Governor Ron DeSantis did to about 50 mostly Venezuelan migrants who were
00:31:01.320
tricked into boarding a plane in Texas that dumped them on Martha's Vineyard. The sheriff of Bear County,
00:31:07.280
Texas, where those migrants were picked up off the street, is now investigating the case as a possible
00:31:12.100
crime. What DeSantis did, what he and conservatives are bragging about, was gross, inhuman, cold-hearted.
00:31:19.760
And it's even worse when you think of Luisa Colucci trying to get into America over a hundred years
00:31:25.480
ago. Because you see, Luisa Colucci is Ron DeSantis' maternal great-great-grandmother.
00:31:32.400
Okay, good. I was waiting for the M. Night Shyamalan twist at the end. Ron, you tell me a guy with the
00:31:40.260
last name DeSantis has an immigrant in his family? Shocking. My God, this changes everything.
00:31:47.960
I thought DeSantis' family had always been here. I thought with a name like DeSantis,
00:31:52.460
he was a, you know, I thought he was a Native American by ancestry.
00:31:58.940
These people are so stupid. This guy in particular, I don't know much about him, but I've seen a few
00:32:04.120
clips of him. He's always so proud of himself. You can tell he thinks, okay, the gap between
00:32:10.000
how he perceives his own IQ and what it actually is, is vast. It's big enough to fit a whole other IQ
00:32:16.960
in between it. And so he thinks this is a big gotcha moment. And it isn't. Okay, let me explain
00:32:26.220
why. First of all, it's very interesting that on the left, when it comes to so many other issues,
00:32:33.260
climate change, abortion in particular, they are very quick to bring up the, you know, the myth of
00:32:41.180
overpopulation, right? There's too many people on earth, like it's full or the entire, and they say,
00:32:48.340
you know, overpopulation is a myth when we relate it to the entire world. Okay, we're not anywhere near
00:32:57.640
the carrying capacity of the globe. We're not anywhere close to that. I mean, you could still
00:33:02.540
take every single person on earth and fit them like in Texas. And in fact, they would, you know,
00:33:08.440
everyone could live in a townhouse and have a little, you know, you wouldn't have a lot of room.
00:33:11.420
You have a little postage stamp size room. Maybe, I don't know, you'd have a tenth of an acre or
00:33:15.820
something. And you could do that. Okay, that's how much room there is on the planet earth. And there
00:33:21.160
is vast, vast, vast swaths of land that are empty. And I'm not just talking about Antarctica where nobody
00:33:28.020
can live. I'm talking about places that people could live. Fruitful lands are still available.
00:33:37.400
So the problem is that we, with overpopulation and the way we get this misperception of overpopulation
00:33:42.280
is that we all choose to live in like bunched up communities, which is why whenever you read
00:33:48.360
about overpopulation, they always show pictures of Tokyo or New York or something with people all
00:33:53.240
crammed in, walking down the sidewalk, they don't show you vast rural areas. They don't include that.
00:34:00.380
Now, all that being said, it's still interesting to me that if you imagine that there is an
00:34:07.360
overpopulation problem, we have too many people on earth, then already how can you draw a comparison
00:34:12.820
between immigrants from 100 years ago or 200 years ago to immigrants today? Because by your own
00:34:19.920
admission, there's just like too many people. That's one big difference.
00:34:26.240
So that's a difference or an argument that should resonate with them as believers in overpopulation.
00:34:34.280
But let me say what the actual difference is. It's not really about the number of people in America.
00:34:39.000
I mean, there are a lot more people today than there were when DeSantis' great-great-grandmother came
00:34:45.420
here. I still wouldn't say that we're at carrying capacity exactly. The difference though, it's about
00:34:52.540
the systems that are in place. Okay, so when immigrants came to this country 100 years ago,
00:35:00.720
they were still, now the land was fully settled back in the 1920s, but they were still in a large way
00:35:07.640
helping to build the country. They were coming and immediately helping to build it.
00:35:15.700
This is the case 100 years ago. It's especially the case when you go back farther than that,
00:35:21.320
because the other thing that we hear from guys like Mehdi Hassan is that we're all immigrants.
00:35:25.440
We're all descended from immigrants, right? And so they'll take you, even if your family came here
00:35:30.300
200 years ago, 250 years ago, 500 years ago, you're not off the hook. Yeah, but again, these
00:35:37.980
were, and it's more and more the case the farther you go back, these were people coming and helping
00:35:43.420
to build the country. With a country that was not built the way it is today, and they were coming to
00:35:49.520
help build it. They were coming legally, another important distinction. They were coming legally,
00:35:54.780
and if you want to say it's because the laws were different or our approach to immigration was
00:35:57.780
different, fine. They were coming legally, though. Already a definitional difference between that
00:36:04.120
and illegal immigrants of today who are sneaking across the border. But it's not just that. They
00:36:08.780
were coming legally to help build the country. I mean, if somebody came here 200 years ago,
00:36:12.420
many of the immigrants who came, say 200 years ago, they came, and they were the ones who went out
00:36:18.700
west, okay? They went out onto the frontier. A lot of them died in the process. What about today?
00:36:25.920
Well, the country is fully built now. All the systems are in place. And so now when illegal
00:36:32.740
immigrants come, or even legal immigrants, they are coming to take advantage of systems that are
00:36:39.180
already in place. And when we talk about systems, primarily I'm talking about the welfare system,
00:36:45.680
the welfare system. We have a massive trillion dollar, multi-trillion dollar welfare state that
00:36:52.000
these people are coming and they are taking advantage of. And it's not sustainable. It becomes
00:36:59.320
an enormous and has been and is now an enormous strain and drain on our country.
00:37:07.640
When Ron DeSantis' great-great-grandmother came here,
00:37:11.820
those systems were not in place like they are now.
00:37:15.600
So you have immigrants in one hand from 100 years ago, 200 years ago, 250 years ago,
00:37:21.980
are coming to build a country as opposed to now where they're coming to take advantage of what
00:37:27.500
the country has already built. Big difference. And if anyone can't see the difference, I'm not sure
00:37:35.080
what else I can do to explain it other than just say what it is. And if you can't connect the dots
00:37:39.700
there, I'm not sure what to tell you. All right. Let's see. What else do we got here?
00:37:46.640
I was slightly interested in this, only mildly. So maybe we'll play a little bit of this clip.
00:37:52.600
Some celebrity gossip from the Daily Wire. It says,
00:37:55.340
Hyper-woke Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine cheated on his Victoria's Secret model wife
00:38:01.440
Bahati Prinsloo with Instagram model Sumner Stroh and tried to name his child with Prinsloo after the
00:38:08.940
mistress. So this is one of these things that's been in my peripheral, just so you go on, you go
00:38:13.120
on social media and there are people talking about Adam Levine and I guess screenshots of text messages
00:38:18.840
that he had sent his mistresses. But anyway, what interested me more about it is this act,
00:38:24.100
the mistress herself, what's her name again, Sumner Stroh, who's an Instagram model.
00:38:28.780
And she blew the lid off of it on this scandal and, you know, put out a video on TikTok
00:38:34.720
making herself into the victim of an affair that she participated in. Let's play a little bit of
00:38:41.800
this. I've retaken this like 10 times now. Essentially, I was having an affair with a man
00:38:49.160
who's married to a Victoria's Secret model. At the time, you know, I was young, I was naive. And
00:38:55.540
I mean, quite frankly, I feel exploited. I wasn't in the scene like I am now. So I was definitely very
00:39:02.420
easily manipulated. Maroon 5 is practically elevator music at this point. So I'm sure you know who Adam
00:39:09.580
Levine is. But Adam and I were seeing each other for about a year. After I stopped talking to him
00:39:16.520
over, you know, a period of months, this is how he came back into my life. He said, okay, serious
00:39:24.640
question. I'm having another baby. And if it's a boy, I really want to name it Sumner. You okay with
00:39:30.300
that? Dead serious. Right. I don't care about this. Fine. Here's my only point about this.
00:39:38.040
So Adam Levine is cheating on his wife and he's a celebrity, you know, musician and he's a scumbag
00:39:44.700
and he's betraying his wife and his family. No big, no big, no breaking news there. Okay. I think
00:39:50.300
that's not a big surprise. It's bad. It's not a big surprise. What I'm looking at though,
00:39:56.180
is that like this, this, and we've seen other examples of it even recently with women who were
00:40:03.700
involved in sexual relationships with, with men as adults. So they're adults who got into consensual
00:40:12.040
sexual relationships with, with men. And then after the fact claiming they were groomed and exploited,
00:40:18.060
you're, you're a grownup. You, you made a choice to be involved. And now you're,
00:40:23.900
you're one of the victims. You're with a married man. Now, okay. He's scumbag number one here. I
00:40:28.920
don't deny that at all because he's the one who made a pledge. He made a commitment to his wife
00:40:36.500
and he's betraying her. So he's scumbag number one, but you're scumbag number two. Okay. And it's,
00:40:42.340
it's a pretty close second because it does, as they say, it does take two to tango in this case
00:40:46.480
or however many people may have been involved in any particular episode. Um, you chose to be there.
00:40:54.040
And now you're saying you were groomed as a grownup. So this is this backwards, topsy-turvy
00:41:01.820
world we live in where we can't talk about children being groomed. So the idea of children
00:41:08.340
being groomed is they tell us non-existent. It's not happening. We can't even talk about it.
00:41:12.240
In fact, if you even talk about it on Twitter, they'll ban you.
00:41:17.620
So no, children are being groomed. That's not a problem. But grown adults,
00:41:22.460
Instagram models are being groomed by the rock stars they're choosing to have sex with.
00:41:29.220
There was another, there's another, uh, musician recently. I think it was the arcade fire guy.
00:41:32.680
I'm pretty sure had his own sort of sex scandal where he was involved with grownups
00:41:37.660
who were claiming that they were groomed and exploited. But again, not, not, not with the
00:41:45.640
kids. The kids is, that's not a problem. We're not talking about that. So kids being taken to
00:41:52.100
drag shows or kindergartners being taught about gender identity and sexuality, that's not grooming,
00:41:59.840
but a rock star hitting on some Instagram model bimbo who's an adult that is grooming.
00:42:10.520
All right. Finally, from the New York Post, I hate to say I told you so, but here it is.
00:42:16.760
A Tasmanian woman has shared her incredible find on the sand at Bruni Island,
00:42:22.000
mistaking an almost completely transparent fish for a piece of seaweed. We'll put a picture up on the
00:42:28.460
screen. Uh, it says that this is, this is a transparent fish. Apparently they hatch out
00:42:34.700
in the ocean and they're initially part of the plankton. They're actually, they're a species
00:42:38.700
of eel and they're totally transparent. You can like see right through them. So I told you,
00:42:46.140
you see that picture there? That's what Ariel should look like. Scientifically speaking,
00:42:50.960
I couldn't have called this any better. We just had the translucent fish discourse
00:42:56.980
less than a week ago. And now we have this discovery of, uh, it's transparent,
00:43:02.900
not translucent, but still. So there you go. Let's get to the comment section.
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country. Please don't become weary in well-doing. Well, not to sound corny, but it's not people like
00:44:48.220
me. It's people like us, Judith. And I, and I actually do mean that it's, uh, obviously I'm,
00:44:52.520
I'm very far, even here at the Daily Wire, I'm very far from a one-man band. We have a whole team,
00:44:56.900
um, and everyone here on the team does great work, but, but even beyond that, like, you know, it's,
00:45:01.320
we also need our, our members and our supporters. Uh, we couldn't do any, any of this without them.
00:45:07.760
And then there are people outside the Daily Wire that are doing, doing, uh, great work as well.
00:45:11.400
Okay. Bobby Frost says, your and Candace's comments about porn last night were spot on. So this was
00:45:17.140
two nights ago at the backstage. My hubby and I were a little surprised at the other's responses.
00:45:21.980
We've been married 22 years and together 25 years. I've never watched porn together or alone since,
00:45:25.960
since being together. We both had minimal exposure to it before we were together and always felt wrong and
00:45:30.840
not in a sexy way. To be watching others engaging in sex acts. We have a healthy and active love life
00:45:35.940
and neither of us have ever stepped out. So porn is not a given or a necessity in a relationship.
00:45:40.880
I commend you all for saying that and sticking to it. Um, thank you for the housewife that would
00:45:45.460
feel betrayed if my husband was upstairs watching porn while I feed the kid. And you should feel
00:45:49.580
betrayed because it is in fact a betrayal. Um, S says, I saw someone just yesterday claiming to be a
00:45:59.080
security guard for that hospital who posted on Reddit, calling you a doxing terrorist for literally
00:46:04.120
just showing videos. The hospital itself made public. Absolutely amazing. Yeah. Doxing is
00:46:10.200
when you find private information. And first of all, let's, let's also stipulate that doxing
00:46:17.060
is something that happens against an individual, a person. I'm not exactly sure how you dox an institution,
00:46:23.880
but, uh, doxing, we talk about doxing, at least in a negative way. It's a private individual.
00:46:31.080
You're releasing private information about them because you want to embarrass them or get them
00:46:35.400
hurt or oftentimes both. In this, in this case, we are taking resources that they themselves have made
00:46:44.640
and have provided to the public. And we're saying, Hey guys, look at this stuff.
00:46:49.480
Um, Pat Co says, I don't look at it as a membership. I look at it as a donation to a
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cause I believe in. Thank you. Well, I appreciate that, but you shouldn't look at it as a membership
00:47:02.300
because it's actually not a donation. You know, this is, we're, we're not a nonprofit charity
00:47:07.120
begging for donations. We are a, we're a business. And part of the deal here is that, uh, yeah, if you
00:47:12.860
are a Daily Wire member, you're taking part, you're a part of something important, part of a movement,
00:47:17.460
but you're also getting something in return for your money. We're not asking for, uh,
00:47:21.620
you know, we're not, we're not, we're not a charity case. And that's, that is one approach. I mean,
00:47:27.360
there are a lot of, uh, nonprofits out there, conservative nonprofits, and some of them do
00:47:31.460
good work, but they are in the position of sort of always being a charity case of having to solicit
00:47:35.640
donations. Like just give us your money and then we'll promise down the line to do something
00:47:39.500
worthwhile with it. Uh, this is different. This is a business transaction and we want to keep it that
00:47:43.780
way. Um, and MN32 says, hi Matt, aside from the Daily Wire, what other news sources do you like
00:47:54.600
and trust? Well, aside from us, uh, the post-millennial, you hear about them. A lot of
00:47:59.020
news sources you hear me read from a lot on the show, the post-millennial, they do great, great
00:48:02.100
work. Also, there's a site called Redux that I mention often on the show. They're a feminist kind
00:48:06.960
of anti-gender ideology news site. I imagine that the people who run it would probably hate my guts.
00:48:11.780
I don't know that for a fact, but the people in that group generally do based on my experience,
00:48:18.180
but they still, even so, uh, however they feel about me, I appreciate their work. There are a lot
00:48:21.640
of other outlets too, you know, and then also individuals. Um, I mean, obviously, you know that
00:48:26.240
I, I harvest material from libs of TikTok all the time. She remains, as I've said for months,
00:48:31.500
one of the most important journalists working in America today. Same for Chris Ruffo, who you hear me
00:48:35.740
mention often. Jack Posobiec too, seems to always have great scoops. So there are, um,
00:48:41.840
there are people who, as I said, and what, what all of us are doing is we're trying to,
00:48:48.000
in many ways, we're doing a favor for, as we go into the midterms for Republican politicians.
00:48:54.880
Okay. We've made these things part of the conversation and we're, we're trying to hand
00:48:58.520
you the reins guys. So take the reins all the way to victory. Finally, this is a Twitter DM. Beth
00:49:04.800
says, Matt, I usually agree with you, but your comments about picky eaters really just shows me
00:49:09.880
that this is a parenting problem. You've never dealt with. You're lucky, but don't judge other
00:49:14.620
parents, please. Yes. This was someone on Twitter yesterday who, uh, I think it was a, some kind of a
00:49:19.580
parenting advice columnist, I think, who said that, you know, she's tired of parents who say of their
00:49:27.360
children. Oh, well, the kids just eat whatever we eat. And a lot of people were retweeting that
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and agreeing with that and say, Oh, that's not realistic. That's not how people look. And I only
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responded to that saying, how well, what other arrangement could you possibly have? Are you,
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are you people really sitting down for dinner every night and making a separate meal for your kids?
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Is that what people really do? Uh, no, we don't do that. And we also don't have picky eaters in our
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house. And I'm sorry, I do think now I know it might be more difficult with some kids
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than it is with others. My son, my oldest son, for example, has always been like a garbage disposal.
00:50:02.580
He'll just, you'll eat anything. So you can get, you can get lucky in that way. But I do think that
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parents who complain, Oh, my kid's a piggy, won't eat anything. So we have to make a separate meal for
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our kid. And I've been to many houses where they're eating dinner and the kid has their own, you know,
00:50:16.260
everyone's eating a real meal. The kid has just like chicken nuggets and, uh, Kraft macaroni and cheese or
00:50:21.380
whatever. And sometimes you're going to do that. Sometimes you're going to have quick dinners and
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that's fine. But generally picky eaters, that is a product of conditioning and first world luxury.
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So I would say that if your child is a picky eater, it's because you are allowing your child to be
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because you've made that an option. If you go to a third world country, there are no picky eaters.
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And so how do you get past having a child as a picky eater? Well, you give them the food. You say,
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this is what we're eating for dinner. If they won't eat it, then you say, okay, we're going to
00:50:53.700
go hungry tonight. And it's only going to take a few times of that, of them being hungry before
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they'll start to actually eat the food that's provided to them. They're not going to starve
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themselves. They're not going to literally just say, okay, I'll starve to death.
00:51:05.700
Eventually they'll eat if they're hungry enough. Well, this is exciting. Tonight, you could see a brand
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Alison was a successful ESPN sideline reporter, but when ESPN made the vaccine mandatory for all
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Well, I'm hardly in the mood to discuss anything related to football as I'm currently in the process
00:51:56.680
of losing badly in our Daily Wire Fantasy Football League. If this continues, I'll eventually be doomed
00:52:02.400
to suffer the agreed upon punishment, which is a courtside seats at a WNBA game. The very thought
00:52:08.540
fills me with grief and an intense sense of dread, though behind both of those feelings is also,
00:52:13.260
I admit, a hint of excitement about what an incredible trolling opportunity that would be.
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So it's a confusing mix of emotions and doesn't put me in the right frame of mind to discuss any
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football-related topic. But the Washington Post today has left me no choice. So WAPO is out this
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week with a report titled, How the NFL Blocks Black Coaches. Nearly two decades after the NFL enacted the
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Rooney Rule, teams hiring and firing practices still disadvantage black coaches at every turn.
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And it's getting worse, a post-investigation found. Now this is nothing new, of course. Every year
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around this time, as the NFL season ramps up, we get a new flurry of moral panic and media hand-wringing
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over the alleged conspiracy to keep black people out of head coaching positions in the NFL. And every
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year, there are new reports. And every report simply, in more words than is necessary, restates the fact
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that there are more white coaches than black in the NFL. And then follows that data point with a
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whole string of wholly unsupported and absurdly irrational assumptions about why this disparity
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exists. As the post says in its headline, the NFL is blocking black coaches. But they have no evidence
00:53:25.640
of black coaches being blocked. They have only evidence of black coaches being fewer in number than
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white coaches. This in itself does not prove or even realistically indicate a racist conspiracy.
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I could just as well point to all the people that are astronauts and observe the data point that I am
00:53:42.940
not an astronaut and thereby conclude that there's a deliberate conspiracy to prevent me specifically
00:53:48.920
from being an astronaut. There's a conspiracy to stop me from being an astronaut. Well, how do you know
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that? Because I'm not an astronaut. This is what passes for critical thinking among our media elite.
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But this time around, they've also enlisted current and former black coaches to help
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make the victim case. So let's take a look at that.
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What everyone is looking for in a head football coach. All right, this is what it's supposed to look
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like. What I couldn't accept, though, was that, OK, I'm black and we're not supposed to get
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opportunity. So this is just how it's going to be. Lovey. I couldn't accept that.
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I was in this business to teach guys to be the best football player they could be.
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In my era, we played, but you didn't see a lot of African-American coaches. So it wasn't,
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I love playing the game. And when I was done, I was going to coach.
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I knew if I had success that that would open the door for people.
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And I kind of realized it was like a network of black coaches trying to help younger coaches
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You always kind of feel, you know, that way. You have the responsibility to do this the
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right way because there's many people who were career-long NFL assistants who never got that
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opportunity. I think we got to do a better job with ourselves to put ourselves in better
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position to make guys like Tony Proud, to make guys like Herm Proud.
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There's only 32 jobs in this league. So whether you get a second chance or not,
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I do think the words genius, guru, quarterback whisperer are all phrases that they use to
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It's as if we don't have the same IQ, intelligence level as some of our other brothers.
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You can go out and catch the ball. You can throw the ball. But can you lead?
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Now, let's make a few points here. First, the guy at the end of that clip is Romeo Cornell.
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He's a black man who had a long career as an NFL coach before retiring a couple of years ago
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in his 70s. The first guy in the clip is Lovie Smith. He's a current black NFL coach
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who has also had a long career. Now, Smith is a picture of mediocrity with a career win-loss record
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of almost exactly 500. He's lost as many games as he's won as head coach. And yet he's still a coach
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and was just hired by a new team this year, in spite of the fact that during his previous two
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seasons as a coach with a different team, he finished with a total of eight wins and 24 losses
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combined. As for Romeo Cornell, he coached three different teams over the course of 15 years and
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finished with a combined record of 32 and 63. So mediocre would be a high compliment in his case.
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In fact, of all the black coaches featured in the video, only one Tony Dungy is or was successful
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from a win-loss perspective. All the rest ranged from terrible to average. Hugh Jackson also featured
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survived for 40 games as the head coach of the Browns and won, get this, three of them. He won
00:57:00.220
three games out of 40. And only at that point did he finally get fired. What's my point? My point is
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simply that if there's a conspiracy to keep black men out of head coaching positions, it doesn't make
00:57:11.300
any sense that so many mediocre and even downright awful black coaches could have such long and somehow
00:57:16.960
still lauded careers. Now, there are a lot of white NFL head coaches who also are terrible or
00:57:23.600
mediocre and manage to just hang around. And it's very confusing and it's like frustrating for the
00:57:28.500
fans. So this happens with white coaches and black coaches. But my point is that if there's a
00:57:33.300
conspiracy, the theory of an anti-black conspiracy and NFL coaching does not predict that there would
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be an army of bad black coaches who still get and keep those jobs. And when you have a theory that
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does not predict what you observe in reality, it means the theory is wrong. That's how you test a
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theory. But there's more. As is often rightly pointed out in these discussions, the NFL suffers
00:57:59.300
from enormous racial disparities in other places as well. For example, almost every cornerback in the
00:58:04.320
league is black. Almost every safety linebacker wide receiver is black. If racial disparities on the
00:58:09.460
sidelines are evidence of racism, then racial disparities on the field should also be evidence
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of racism. Of course, the race hustles will try to flip this around. You know, they'll acknowledge
00:58:18.160
that there are many more black people than white playing football. But then they'll declare that this
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is all the more reason why there should be more black people coaching. But I could just as easily
00:58:28.160
make the argument the other way. Since there are so many white people on the sidelines, there ought to be
00:58:32.260
more white people playing. So the left posits that black people are condemned to make millions of
00:58:38.680
dollars playing the game rather than coaching it. But I might just as well argue that whites are
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condemned to make millions coaching it rather than playing it. These disparities exist across the
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league. But the left's explanation for the disparity makes no sense. And they can easily be refuted by their
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own arguments turned against them. So how do we actually explain it? Well, it's kind of an interesting
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question. Like if you can get past the racial stuff, it's actually interesting. So let me present a
00:59:07.800
hypothesis that has the advantage of lining up with reality and common sense. So many children grow up
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dreaming of being in the NFL. Very few of them, I imagine, dream of being coaches. That's not what
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kids are, you know, out on the field. Like you find kids out throwing footballs around and everything
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else. You don't find very many that choose to have a whistle or, you know, standing on the sideline with a
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clipboard because they want to be a coach. Almost everyone who wants to be in the football business
00:59:36.880
wants to play. Yet black people are more likely to succeed on the field as these statistics clearly
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show. It's just a statistical reality, which means that white people who cannot make it as players,
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but yet still love the game, are motivated to make the transition into coaching sooner and in greater
00:59:55.880
numbers. You'll note that many of the greatest coaches currently in the league and through the history
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of the sport were mediocre players who became legendary coaches. A lot of times they had short
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careers. Sometimes they didn't even make it into the NFL, or if they did, they were only there for a few
01:00:09.560
years, and then they washed out. Then they became legendary coaches. In fact, being a mediocre player
01:00:17.580
gave them an advantage in coaching, perhaps, not just because they got into it sooner, but because
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their lack of physical skill, even as players, forced them to look at the game differently and seek
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mental advantages to compensate for their physical disadvantages. This also explains why great
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players, not just in the NFL, but in every sport, and not just black, but also white, often make very
01:00:39.120
bad coaches. So it doesn't make any sense to say, well, there are so many great black players, though, why
01:00:43.940
would there be more black coaches? It doesn't make any sense because being a great player does not in any
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way automatically translate into being a good coach. If anything, history indicates that it's a
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hindrance. Mike Singletary was featured in that Washington Post video. He was an abysmal failure
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as a coach. He was a terrible coach, but he was a Hall of Famer as a linebacker for the Chicago Bears.
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Many such cases. As I said, this holds true in other sports. Wayne Gretzky was not a good hockey
01:01:10.220
coach. Michael Jordan isn't a coach, but he proved himself to be totally inept as the owner of a
01:01:15.760
basketball team. And you find this trend in many other fields outside of sports. Great salesmen often make
01:01:20.520
really bad sales managers. Great scientists often make bad science teachers. People who are experts
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at doing things are often shockingly incompetent when it comes to teaching other people how to do
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those things. Why? Well, I think part of it is what I already theorized, that those who are in a certain
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field or profession but are not gifted at actually performing the tasks will by necessity have to
01:01:43.400
cultivate other skills in order to remain in the field. But there's more to it than that. I think people
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who are instinctively great at doing something might, in a sense, be too close to the skill to
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understand it abstractly. So teaching and coaching is all about abstraction. It doesn't matter if you
01:01:59.080
can do it. All that matters is that you can understand and can explain how it's done. Actually,
01:02:05.360
if you're really great at playing a sport or making a sale or playing an instrument, it means that you are
01:02:10.540
in the process of performing the skill doing lots of things unconsciously. Yet the fact that they are
01:02:15.920
unconscious means that you will not necessarily be equipped to explain them to someone else,
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much less teach them how to do it. You can probably find examples of this in your own life. In my case,
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much of my job revolves around public speaking. I speak in public in different forums that all require
01:02:30.240
different but related skill sets. Giving a speech is different from hosting a podcast, which is
01:02:33.960
different from doing a three-minute hit on a cable news show, which is different from publicly debating
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somebody. I like to think I've had some success in all of those areas, but could I teach a class on it?
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Probably not. I can do it. I'm not sure if I could tell you how to do it. So if I'm not hired as a
01:02:49.100
public speaking coach, is that because the public speaking world is conspiring against me? Obviously
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not. I've had a lot of success in that world. No, it's just because explaining a thing is not the
01:02:58.240
same as doing it. And being good at one does not mean you'll be good at the other. If anything,
01:03:03.440
it often means the opposite. So this is my theory to explain the racial unbalances in NFL coaching.
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I think it makes sense. It takes into account statistical facts and realities of human nature.
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It's not insulting to anyone. And it makes predictions that can be observed in reality.
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But it doesn't help anyone become a victim. And that's why it will be, of course, discarded
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in favor of the racism claim, as always. And that is all why, who's canceled today? I guess
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the Washington Post. We'll just go with them. They are today canceled. And that'll do it for
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this portion of the show as we move over into the members block. Hope to see you there. If not,
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talk to you on Monday. Happy Flannel Friday. Godspeed.