The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1027 - We Are Going To Make Child ‘Gender Transitions’ Illegal

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, we have exposed Vanderbilt's child mutilation practices,

00:00:04.360 but now it's time to actually do something about it. I'll explain the plan today. Also,

00:00:08.180 Stacey Abrams says that the fetal heartbeat is a far-right conspiracy. The Pentagon is panicking

00:00:13.280 over their failed military recruitment efforts. An MSNBC host thinks he has the ultimate gotcha

00:00:17.840 on Ron DeSantis. In our daily cancellation, the Washington Post is the latest outlet to claim

00:00:22.120 that there is a racist plot to keep black men out of NFL coaching positions. I'll explain why those

00:00:27.940 claims are completely wrong and also stupid. All of that and more today on the Matt Wall Show. 0.99

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00:01:41.100 promo code Walsh. Welcome back to another exciting Flannel Friday. You know, my expose on Vanderbilt's

00:01:48.700 gender clinic continues to make major waves in a major way on a national and local level,

00:01:54.000 even as every effort is made on the other side to lie, deflect, change the subject,

00:01:59.500 or act like there's nothing here worth talking about in the first place. Vanderbilt has the

00:02:03.680 advantage of a national and local media that knows its role in a situation like this. That is

00:02:09.900 to act as de facto PR representatives for the institution. For example, our local Nashville

00:02:15.540 public radio published an article written by a shameless hack named Blake Farmer, which says,

00:02:22.000 the headline is this, Vanderbilt is the latest target in a far right campaign against transgender

00:02:28.520 health clinics. That's their headline. And this is supposedly, they position themselves as a

00:02:34.360 objective news outlet. The article itself, of course, makes no specific mention of any of the

00:02:39.660 details I revealed in my report, except to say that I used inflammatory language when describing

00:02:45.240 their practices. Describing them accurately is inflammatory. Meanwhile, the Tennessean, which is another

00:02:51.880 major local publication, tried to ignore the issue completely, but was eventually forced to

00:02:56.080 acknowledge it with this headline. Vanderbilt clarifies gender affirming care policies amid

00:03:02.200 conservative attacks. Now, the national media hasn't been much better. The Daily Beast reported

00:03:07.620 on the situation with this framing. Vanderbilt Medical Clinic shuts down its website after transphobic

00:03:14.020 attacks. Now, the Washington Post was a little bit more subtle with a fair headline. Social media

00:03:19.740 post sparks calls to investigate Tennessee's VUMC, which is fine. And then a relatively even-handed

00:03:26.360 report, except that the post's article, like nearly every other article written on the subject from a

00:03:32.020 non-conservative outlet, does not specifically mention the procedures that the hospital performs on

00:03:37.620 kids. The post says that I criticized Vanderbilt for some of the, quote, services provided to minors,

00:03:44.080 but it does not actually specify that those services include double mastectomies for 16-year-old

00:03:50.380 girls, irreversible hormone treatments, puberty-blocking drugs that are also used to chemically

00:03:55.460 castrate sex offenders. The post will not include those details because it knows that nearly everyone

00:04:01.800 who reads it will recoil in revulsion and horror and say to themselves, you're telling me that's not

00:04:07.960 already illegal. I should also note here that the progressive Christian community in Nashville,

00:04:13.700 otherwise known as, you know, heretics, have taken a special interest in this case and are rallying

00:04:18.940 around the hospital. Matthew Paul Turner is a Christian children's book author who came out as gay a few

00:04:25.620 years ago and then left his wife and children. And he tweeted, you're a terrible human, Matt Walsh. 0.99

00:04:31.100 You make nothing better, and one day your sad little existence will reap what it has sown over and over 0.99

00:04:37.820 again. Now, that last part sounds almost like a threat, though. I can't say I'm too concerned.

00:04:44.340 But it is a little disappointing in another way that, you know, again, this is a children's book author.

00:04:49.340 His name is also Matthew, and somehow we can't stick together. Maybe he's just upset that my book sold

00:04:56.160 more in a week than probably his entire catalog has sold in a lifetime. But anyway, also, Robin Henderson

00:05:03.060 Espinoza is a self-described activist, theologian, and clergy member whose preferred pronouns are,

00:05:10.300 I'm not making this up, he, they, and doctor. So doctor has been listed as a preferred pronoun

00:05:17.160 unironically. Robin tweeted, this is white Christian nationalist terrorizing children. As a trans person 0.98

00:05:25.180 and clergy member, I stand with the underside of history, not those using the underside for their

00:05:31.180 political gain. I have no doubt that Robin is focused on the underside. I, however, am focused

00:05:38.740 on protecting children and protecting them from horrific sexual and physical abuse and medical

00:05:44.540 experimentation. And in order to do that, to really protect them, action must be taken. You know,

00:05:52.120 on the right, we have been historically, I think, pretty good at identifying important issues and

00:05:58.020 raising awareness about them. And that needs to happen. The, the rareness, the, the awareness raising,

00:06:04.040 the consciousness raising needs to happen. It's important because most people, you know, when it

00:06:09.240 comes to this issue, didn't know that this was happening to kids and would have probably assumed that

00:06:13.960 it was already illegal. No change can be made culturally until you reach a critical mass of people

00:06:19.760 who recognize that there is a problem and, and, and that there is something that must be changed and

00:06:25.800 understand why it must be changed. So on the issue of gender ideology, we've been working to build to

00:06:31.400 that critical mass. But what happens when you get there? See, this is where the right, again, judging

00:06:37.220 historically, typically falters because we tell every, everyone that something bad is happening. And then lots

00:06:43.840 of people respond, wow, that's bad. Thanks for telling me. And then we say, well, great talk folks.

00:06:50.840 And we move on. The bad thing still fully intact. You know, it's the bad thing still happening.

00:06:59.440 So converting attention into action, that is where we fail. The left is very good at that.

00:07:07.040 The right historically has been very bad, but not this time. We are going to do something about

00:07:14.940 this. Now I've already personally met with two high ranking members of the Tennessee house and

00:07:19.880 Senate, and we are working on a bill together that would ban all gender transition procedures for

00:07:25.940 minors in the state. No drugs, no surgeries. We are going to shut down Vanderbilt's pediatric gender 1.00

00:07:33.360 clinic. And we are going to make sure that no one else opens one in this state ever again.

00:07:39.520 We're also moving on the federal level. I've been in conversation with Senator Marsha Blackburn,

00:07:43.520 who hosted a screening of my film, What is a Woman?, a few weeks ago. And there were many local

00:07:48.160 lawmakers, by the way, who attended that screening. And I've been told personally that by some of them,

00:07:53.260 that this movie has motivated them to move against gender ideology in the state. I heard the same 0.88

00:07:57.540 thing from some of those politicians that I hear from average people on the street, which is, again,

00:08:00.760 I didn't know this was happening, or I didn't know it was this bad. Now they know. Following our report

00:08:07.940 on Vanderbilt, Marsha Blackburn has now issued a letter to the FDA calling for an investigation 0.99

00:08:11.580 into puberty blockers, which have never been approved for use on children in this way. In fact,

00:08:18.240 the very concept of a puberty blocker has never been sufficiently studied or investigated at all.

00:08:23.320 The drugs are used off-label for the purpose of blocking puberty, and there has been no effort in the

00:08:29.260 medical community to really understand the long-term or even short-term effects of this usage.

00:08:34.820 So getting the FDA involved is an important first step. I've also been in communication with

00:08:38.660 Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, who introduced a bill weeks ago banning child gender transitions

00:08:43.560 on the federal level. Now, right now, no bill like that can actually be passed into law, of course,

00:08:49.400 but it's important to have them on the table anyway, just as the FDA might right now ignore

00:08:54.860 Marsha Blackburn's demands, but it's important to make the demand anyway, and that's because

00:08:59.260 we are forcing this conversation. We are making it an issue. The midterms are a few weeks from now.

00:09:07.380 We have made sexual indoctrination of children and medical child abuse enormous national issues

00:09:13.700 in the lead-up to the election. That is not an accident. Back in January, I tweeted that I was

00:09:22.000 planning an all-out assault on gender ideology this year, and that it would begin with a project 0.79

00:09:28.220 that would change the conversation around the topic. In June, we released What is a Woman?, which

00:09:32.960 I think and hope fulfilled that promise and is still fulfilling it. Several weeks ago, I pledged on

00:09:39.180 this show that we would take the momentum that we built from that film, and we would turn it into a

00:09:42.940 national movement that would lead to tangible results and real action. And that is beginning right

00:09:48.600 now. Tennessee is just the start. Most importantly, we are fully on the offense now. Okay, we're not

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00:10:14.140 the opposite position of them is. And so they are setting the terms. Okay, but we're not doing that

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00:10:32.600 a battle that they desperately don't want to have to fight and are not prepared to fight.

00:10:37.700 So this time, we are the ones with the plan of action, and they are the ones scrambling to respond.

00:10:48.040 You can tell that they're not used to being in that position, and they don't like it.

00:10:53.460 And that's how it should be, because this is how we win. Now let's get to five headlines.

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00:12:13.920 There was one other, of course, there's been a lot of leftists, you know, panicking about this on

00:12:18.920 Twitter, but just this one I thought was kind of funny. This is from a guy, John Iadarola. I guess

00:12:27.720 he's a, it has something to do with the Young Turks. I don't know. Anyway, he tweeted in response

00:12:32.820 to, you know, when I said we're going to pass a law that makes this illegal, he says,

00:12:38.780 Matt Walsh has to spend years of his life pretending he gives an S about this all as a distraction to

00:12:45.560 help keep billionaire taxes low. What a weird effing way to live. This again, the reason I

00:12:52.720 read that to you is because it shows you another disadvantage that the left has. They have a lot

00:12:59.800 of advantages with all the institutional power and everything else and the media bias and all that

00:13:03.080 stuff. But they also have a lot of disadvantages. Some that we just talked about that this is not

00:13:09.080 a conversation they want to have. They're not prepared for it. But also the other disadvantage

00:13:14.020 is that they really don't understand us. They just don't. They don't know. They don't understand

00:13:21.020 what we're doing. They don't know who they're dealing with or why. And that is an advantage for us

00:13:27.960 that we should exploit ruthlessly. So you've got this guy and I believe that he believes this. I

00:13:36.260 mean, I believe that he is this stupid and utterly oblivious and clueless that this is what he 1.00

00:13:43.060 believes and he's not alone. He says, oh, Matt, he doesn't really care about this. He cares about 1.00

00:13:47.800 keeping billionaire taxes low. Why would I care about that? I never talk about cutting taxes for

00:13:55.780 billion. In fact, if I ever talk about cutting taxes, it's usually in the context of complaining

00:14:00.460 when Republicans focus on that rather than these more important cultural issues. So I talk about

00:14:05.680 the cultural issues, gender ideology, social issues, life, family issues all the time. It's like the

00:14:10.840 only thing I focus on. And he has decided that, no, that is all, I don't even care about that.

00:14:16.620 That's all, this is all a smokescreen. Because in reality, I'm sitting around every day just hoping

00:14:22.820 that Jeff Bezos gets a tax cut. Why in the world would I care about that? Especially when all of

00:14:32.140 the billionaires are on your side. They're all a bunch of left, all the, all the most of the

00:14:36.380 wealthiest institutions and corporations, they're all on your side. They're with you. I don't like

00:14:41.320 these people, but they don't understand. They just, they don't get us. They don't. And that is good.

00:14:48.460 That's a good thing. It's why they're constantly being blindsided. It's why they're backed into

00:14:55.220 corners. It's why they're on their heels right now. Because they just don't get it.

00:15:00.960 And I am, I guess, not going to say any more to disabuse them of, of their false notions. Because

00:15:06.200 like I said, it works to our advantage. Yeah, you're right. You're right, John. That's all I care about.

00:15:10.240 You know, I wake up every day saying to myself, I hope Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg are making money

00:15:17.760 today. That's all I think about. I'm sitting around the dinner table and it's all we talk about.

00:15:22.940 I live my entire life fighting for that. And everything, my entire public career has just,

00:15:30.500 it's been one long, you know, like I'm working undercover. That's all it is. You've, you've,

00:15:36.060 you've blown my cover. All right. This one's Daily Wire says, Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams said in a

00:15:42.340 recently service video that at six weeks, unborn babies' heartbeats aren't real, but are a

00:15:47.280 manufactured sound design, or rather a manufactured sound designed to take away women's rights. 1.00

00:15:54.820 Abrams is again campaigning to be the governor of Georgia after a failed run in 2018. Notably,

00:15:59.080 the Democrat refused to traditionally concede the race to Republican Governor Brian Kemp,

00:16:02.760 suggesting voter suppression and a broken system. So we have that clip and let's, brief clip,

00:16:07.580 let's listen to it. That is one of the most deranged conspiracy theories I've ever heard in

00:16:29.200 my life. Not only, so there's no heartbeat, it's manufactured and it is specifically manufactured.

00:16:34.600 So I guess when you go in for the ultrasound, the ultrasound tech is part of a wide ranging

00:16:40.980 far right conspiracy to convince you that babies are people when really they aren't. This is all a

00:16:48.880 conspiracy and the, and the ultrasound techs they're in on it. They're all a bunch of Nazis and far right 0.97

00:16:53.660 extremists, terrorists. Glenn Kessler is a fact checker for the Washington Post. He came to Stacey's 0.99

00:17:01.640 Defense, of course, says, for what it's worth, fetal heartbeat is a misnomer. The ultrasound picks up

00:17:07.560 electrical activity generated by an embryo. The so-called heartbeat sound that you hear is created

00:17:12.940 by the ultrasound. Not, not until 10 weeks can the opening and closing of cardiac valves be detected by

00:17:18.440 a Doppler machine. Now, look, I'm tempted to just say, just like I would say to John, okay, you want to

00:17:25.020 go and believe that we're, that all we care about is tax cuts for billionaires. That's fine. And here I'm

00:17:29.780 tempted to say, okay, fine. If you guys want to go out there and make the argument that, well, it's

00:17:36.440 okay to kill the baby because the heartbeat isn't technically a heartbeat. The heartbeat is, it's all 0.74

00:17:43.080 part of a, the fetal, the fetal heartbeat is a right-wing conspiracy. If you want that to be your

00:17:50.160 argument, especially going into the midterms, then go for it. Put it on a bumper sticker. I encourage you,

00:17:54.520 put it on poster boards, put it on signs, march down the street. Fetal heartbeat is a right-wing

00:17:59.400 conspiracy. Go ahead. If you want to parse the definition of heartbeat in order to justify

00:18:06.880 destroying human life, if you want to expose yourself in that way, then go ahead.

00:18:17.120 I stipulate if you want to expose yourself in that way. I don't mean in like a Jeffrey Toobin kind of

00:18:20.960 way, but we should note here, even so, that they're wrong. So to fact check the fact checker,

00:18:26.780 back to the Daily Wire article. It says, a peer-reviewed science has found the following.

00:18:30.880 The non-profit Charlotte Lozier Institute has outlined, quote,

00:18:34.420 the heart, the heart is actively beating at six weeks. Between a conception and birth,

00:18:40.000 the baby's heart will beat approximately 54 million times. The baby's average heartbeat is

00:18:45.120 98 BPM. This will rise to 175 BPM by nine weeks gestation. The presence of a heartbeat at six to

00:18:52.160 eight weeks gestation correlates with a live birth rate of 98% in normal pregnancies without

00:18:56.340 intervention. The brain has divided into three primary sections responsible for sensing and

00:19:01.080 decision-making, moving and tracking objects, and vital bodily functions. Eyes, ears, and nose

00:19:05.420 start forming. So that's all what's happening at six weeks. Also, by the way, we should note that

00:19:08.980 even on Planned Parenthood's website, up until just now, they also acknowledge that the heartbeat starts

00:19:14.980 at six weeks, interestingly enough. Now, after this went viral, Stacey Abrams, they changed it

00:19:20.500 to make their, even though it had been there for years, they changed it to put it more in line with

00:19:25.220 what Stacey Abrams said. So there is a heartbeat at six weeks. But think about the wording. Going back

00:19:31.980 to Glenn Kessler, think about the wording. He says, the heartbeat at six weeks, he says, is really just

00:19:37.940 electrical activity by the embryo. That's all. It's electrical activity generated by an embryo.

00:19:45.240 Well, he's right, of course. But then you could say that about the heartbeat at any age.

00:19:52.680 Okay? We could say that about Glenn Kessler's heartbeat. That's just electrical activity being

00:19:57.440 generated by the body. You could reduce any human at any age down to mere mechanical functions,

00:20:07.140 if you want. Glenn Kessler, he's just a skeleton covered with organs and muscle and skin walking

00:20:15.380 around. That's all he is. I mean, you really, you get into it. He's just like, he's a bag of bones

00:20:22.520 and flesh walking. That's all he is. Glenn Kessler, he's a collection of atoms. That's all he is.

00:20:29.920 You care that much about one little atom? So you take one little tiny atom, and we don't care about

00:20:38.100 that, and then you add a bunch of them and make Glenn Kessler, and suddenly he matters?

00:20:42.840 You could use that language to dehuman, de-person anyone. But it is strange. It's strange how

00:20:52.160 selective the left and the media can tend to be on this subject. When exactly, in what scenarios are

00:21:01.240 we acknowledging the personhood and humanity of unborn children? So here's a report the exact

00:21:07.620 same day this is going on. The Today Show has a report, which also has to deal with, you know,

00:21:13.280 those, quote, fetuses that just generate electricity. That's all they do. Let's watch this.

00:21:19.200 Wait, so you guys have to see this. Have you heard about this? So this morning,

00:21:23.540 we wanted to show you, just trying to change the subject, some amazing baby faces. Look at this.

00:21:28.660 So researchers in Britain wanted to know if babies in the womb react when the mom ingests

00:21:33.840 the flavor of food, and this is what they saw. Do you want to guess what was on the left?

00:21:39.480 So the left is a baby in its resting state. And then on the right, you see how he smiles 20 minutes?

00:21:45.580 The mom ate some carrots. On the left would be. There was just a resting state. 0.99

00:21:49.840 That was the resting, but he liked the carrots. She had like a carrot pill. 0.95

00:21:52.480 So were there other foods? Yes, there were other foods. I'm glad you asked. You want to look at

00:21:55.580 this baby's reaction before? Mom had kale. Wow. Wow. So here's the thing.

00:22:00.980 What about if mom had had ice cream? I don't know. Why would they go? Why would they go with

00:22:05.320 carrots and vegetables? Let me explain. So the study's co-author says the images could just show

00:22:09.800 muscle movements when a baby's reacting to maybe a flavor that's bitter. So you shouldn't interpret it

00:22:14.920 whether you know it's happy or distaste. No, I don't think that's how I do it.

00:22:18.360 No, I don't think that's how I do it. Because once they get out of the womb, it's the same look.

00:22:21.000 Yeah, it's the same look. That's not a problem, but it just goes to show you know what you

00:22:25.180 and Jess. Yeah, you are what you eat. And the 3D imagery is pretty cool. They didn't have

00:22:30.320 that when I was pregnant. Did you get 3D? Yeah, I got 3D. Really? Honestly, Ollie and Rusty look

00:22:36.160 exactly like they do in this picture. It's fascinating. My kids had chalk drawings.

00:22:40.720 Every single person up there on camera, all four of them, would adamantly support so-called

00:22:50.060 abortion rights. So when it comes to babies experiencing taste from the food that their 0.75

00:22:56.800 mother is eating, when it comes to that, it's, oh, they're cute. Look at those little babies. 1.00

00:23:01.640 babies. But if we're talking about actually executing those same babies in the womb, then

00:23:08.140 they're just a collection of cells, a clump of cells is all. Let me ask you something.

00:23:14.340 If a baby can react to Brussels sprouts and kale in the womb, do you think that the child might

00:23:21.780 react to being physically tortured and torn apart limb from limb? Might there be a reaction

00:23:26.760 to that? If the baby can experience sensation, taste? What's the experience of being torn apart,

00:23:40.140 dismembered while you're still alive? Which is how they perform these abortions, especially 1.00

00:23:44.900 at the later stages. 3D technology is also, I mean, it's almost miraculous. It's incredible.

00:23:52.460 But that only goes to show how on the conservative side, the pro-life side, we line up with science.

00:24:00.420 Okay, we are the pro-science side because science only continues evermore to vindicate our position.

00:24:10.300 You know, the more we learn about what is happening in the womb, you know, the more we learn about

00:24:16.640 human development, the more horrific and barbaric abortion becomes.

00:24:26.800 Okay, one of the things, because I have to play this for you too. Speaking of the abortion issue,

00:24:32.060 I want you to watch this ad that Tim Ryan posted on his Twitter account. And he's very proud of this ad,

00:24:39.580 but I want you to watch this.

00:24:42.080 Hi, my name is Nick Brown. I'm a resident of Willoughby, Ohio. I've lived in Ohio all my life.

00:24:47.820 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, 0.77

00:25:07.420 and it's going to take legislative action to be able to change that. And

00:25:14.340 I have two daughters.

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 0.99

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 0.99

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. 1.00

00:28:44.020 So that's why we're not getting enough people to serve is because there aren't enough abortions 1.00

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 0.93

00:29:23.080 can't get abortions. That's why there's a recruitment problem. Right. Okay, next we have 1.00

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 1.00

00:30:15.040 records show that she and her daughters were illiterate. But Luisa was lucky. The Alien Act 0.86

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 1.00

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. 0.91

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. 1.00

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 1.00

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 0.71

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, 0.90

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 1.00

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 0.68

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 1.00

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 1.00

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, 0.99

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. 0.86

00:38:28.780 And she blew the lid off of it on this scandal and, you know, put out a video on TikTok 0.71

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 1.00

00:39:44.700 and he's betraying his wife and his family. No big, no big, no breaking news there. Okay. I think 1.00

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 0.93

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 0.74

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, 1.00

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. 0.61

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, 0.83

00:41:59.840 but a rock star hitting on some Instagram model bimbo who's an adult that is grooming. 0.99

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, 0.99

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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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 0.98

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

00:46:57.920 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 1.00

00:48:06.960 of anti-gender ideology news site. I imagine that the people who run it would probably hate my guts. 0.88

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

00:49:32.700 and agreeing with that and say, Oh, that's not realistic. That's not how people look. And I only

00:49:36.140 responded to that saying, how well, what other arrangement could you possibly have? Are you,

00:49:40.760 are you people really sitting down for dinner every night and making a separate meal for your kids?

00:49:46.720 Is that what people really do? Uh, no, we don't do that. And we also don't have picky eaters in our

00:49:52.560 house. And I'm sorry, I do think now I know it might be more difficult with some kids

00:49:57.240 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

00:50:08.160 parents who complain, Oh, my kid's a piggy, won't eat anything. So we have to make a separate meal for

00:50:11.520 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

00:50:24.260 that's fine. But generally picky eaters, that is a product of conditioning and first world luxury.

00:50:33.080 So I would say that if your child is a picky eater, it's because you are allowing your child to be

00:50:37.260 because you've made that an option. If you go to a third world country, there are no picky eaters.

00:50:42.940 And so how do you get past having a child as a picky eater? Well, you give them the food. You say,

00:50:48.940 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

00:50:58.460 they'll start to actually eat the food that's provided to them. They're not going to starve

00:51:01.080 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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00:51:52.260 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.

00:52:18.560 So it's a confusing mix of emotions and doesn't put me in the right frame of mind to discuss any

00:52:23.940 football-related topic. But the Washington Post today has left me no choice. So WAPO is out this

00:52:30.820 week with a report titled, How the NFL Blocks Black Coaches. Nearly two decades after the NFL enacted the

00:52:36.800 Rooney Rule, teams hiring and firing practices still disadvantage black coaches at every turn.

00:52:41.620 And it's getting worse, a post-investigation found. Now this is nothing new, of course. Every year

00:52:47.100 around this time, as the NFL season ramps up, we get a new flurry of moral panic and media hand-wringing

00:52:54.240 over the alleged conspiracy to keep black people out of head coaching positions in the NFL. And every

00:52:59.880 year, there are new reports. And every report simply, in more words than is necessary, restates the fact

00:53:06.940 that there are more white coaches than black in the NFL. And then follows that data point with a

00:53:12.420 whole string of wholly unsupported and absurdly irrational assumptions about why this disparity

00:53:18.120 exists. As the post says in its headline, the NFL is blocking black coaches. But they have no evidence 0.65

00:53:25.640 of black coaches being blocked. They have only evidence of black coaches being fewer in number than

00:53:31.380 white coaches. This in itself does not prove or even realistically indicate a racist conspiracy.

00:53:37.920 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

00:53:54.240 that? Because I'm not an astronaut. This is what passes for critical thinking among our media elite.

00:54:01.380 But this time around, they've also enlisted current and former black coaches to help

00:54:04.760 make the victim case. So let's take a look at that.

00:54:09.240 What everyone is looking for in a head football coach. All right, this is what it's supposed to look

00:54:15.220 like. What I couldn't accept, though, was that, OK, I'm black and we're not supposed to get

00:54:19.700 opportunity. So this is just how it's going to be. Lovey. I couldn't accept that.

00:54:27.660 I was in this business to teach guys to be the best football player they could be.

00:54:31.040 In my era, we played, but you didn't see a lot of African-American coaches. So it wasn't,

00:54:36.380 you know, your path or your thought process.

00:54:39.180 I love playing the game. And when I was done, I was going to coach.

00:54:43.760 I felt compelled to give back.

00:54:45.340 I knew if I had success that that would open the door for people.

00:54:53.420 And I kind of realized it was like a network of black coaches trying to help younger coaches

00:55:01.080 like get in.

00:55:02.440 You always kind of feel, you know, that way. You have the responsibility to do this the

00:55:07.820 right way because there's many people who were career-long NFL assistants who never got that

00:55:13.200 opportunity. I think we got to do a better job with ourselves to put ourselves in better

00:55:17.160 position to make guys like Tony Proud, to make guys like Herm Proud.

00:55:21.280 There's only 32 jobs in this league. So whether you get a second chance or not,

00:55:25.600 you're lucky no matter what color you are.

00:55:27.380 I do think the words genius, guru, quarterback whisperer are all phrases that they use to

00:55:40.080 describe non-African-American coaches.

00:55:42.880 It's as if we don't have the same IQ, intelligence level as some of our other brothers.

00:55:49.280 You can go out and catch the ball. You can throw the ball. But can you lead?

00:55:54.000 Now, let's make a few points here. First, the guy at the end of that clip is Romeo Cornell.

00:55:59.940 He's a black man who had a long career as an NFL coach before retiring a couple of years ago

00:56:07.020 in his 70s. The first guy in the clip is Lovie Smith. He's a current black NFL coach

00:56:12.020 who has also had a long career. Now, Smith is a picture of mediocrity with a career win-loss record

00:56:18.680 of almost exactly 500. He's lost as many games as he's won as head coach. And yet he's still a coach

00:56:23.540 and was just hired by a new team this year, in spite of the fact that during his previous two

00:56:27.540 seasons as a coach with a different team, he finished with a total of eight wins and 24 losses

00:56:32.060 combined. As for Romeo Cornell, he coached three different teams over the course of 15 years and

00:56:37.600 finished with a combined record of 32 and 63. So mediocre would be a high compliment in his case.

00:56:43.760 In fact, of all the black coaches featured in the video, only one Tony Dungy is or was successful

00:56:48.840 from a win-loss perspective. All the rest ranged from terrible to average. Hugh Jackson also featured

00:56:53.720 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

00:57:06.380 simply that if there's a conspiracy to keep black men out of head coaching positions, it doesn't make 0.97

00:57:11.300 any sense that so many mediocre and even downright awful black coaches could have such long and somehow 1.00

00:57:16.960 still lauded careers. Now, there are a lot of white NFL head coaches who also are terrible or 0.99

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 0.84

00:57:33.300 conspiracy, the theory of an anti-black conspiracy and NFL coaching does not predict that there would

00:57:40.920 be an army of bad black coaches who still get and keep those jobs. And when you have a theory that 0.94

00:57:47.760 does not predict what you observe in reality, it means the theory is wrong. That's how you test a

00:57:53.300 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 0.84

00:58:09.460 sidelines are evidence of racism, then racial disparities on the field should also be evidence

00:58:13.680 of racism. Of course, the race hustles will try to flip this around. You know, they'll acknowledge 0.84

00:58:18.160 that there are many more black people than white playing football. But then they'll declare that this

00:58:23.540 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 0.95

00:58:32.260 more white people playing. So the left posits that black people are condemned to make millions of 0.97

00:58:38.680 dollars playing the game rather than coaching it. But I might just as well argue that whites are 1.00

00:58:42.880 condemned to make millions coaching it rather than playing it. These disparities exist across the

00:58:49.300 league. But the left's explanation for the disparity makes no sense. And they can easily be refuted by their

00:58:55.960 own arguments turned against them. So how do we actually explain it? Well, it's kind of an interesting

00:59:02.240 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

00:59:14.680 dreaming of being in the NFL. Very few of them, I imagine, dream of being coaches. That's not what

00:59:21.200 kids are, you know, out on the field. Like you find kids out throwing footballs around and everything

00:59:26.520 else. You don't find very many that choose to have a whistle or, you know, standing on the sideline with a

00:59:32.380 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 1.00

00:59:44.940 show. It's just a statistical reality, which means that white people who cannot make it as players, 0.61

00:59:51.120 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

01:00:00.300 of the sport were mediocre players who became legendary coaches. A lot of times they had short

01:00:05.200 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

01:00:21.960 their lack of physical skill, even as players, forced them to look at the game differently and seek

01:00:27.200 mental advantages to compensate for their physical disadvantages. This also explains why great

01:00:33.440 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 1.00

01:00:48.100 way automatically translate into being a good coach. If anything, history indicates that it's a

01:00:53.260 hindrance. Mike Singletary was featured in that Washington Post video. He was an abysmal failure

01:00:58.960 as a coach. He was a terrible coach, but he was a Hall of Famer as a linebacker for the Chicago Bears.

01:01:04.300 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 0.67

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

01:01:27.620 at doing things are often shockingly incompetent when it comes to teaching other people how to do

01:01:32.520 those things. Why? Well, I think part of it is what I already theorized, that those who are in a certain 0.96

01:01:37.800 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

01:01:48.180 who are instinctively great at doing something might, in a sense, be too close to the skill to

01:01:54.440 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,

01:02:20.400 much less teach them how to do it. You can probably find examples of this in your own life. In my case,

01:02:25.300 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

01:02:38.080 somebody. I like to think I've had some success in all of those areas, but could I teach a class on it?

01:02:42.560 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

01:02:53.320 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.

01:03:10.300 I think it makes sense. It takes into account statistical facts and realities of human nature.

01:03:16.420 It's not insulting to anyone. And it makes predictions that can be observed in reality.

01:03:24.200 But it doesn't help anyone become a victim. And that's why it will be, of course, discarded

01:03:29.160 in favor of the racism claim, as always. And that is all why, who's canceled today? I guess

01:03:36.140 the Washington Post. We'll just go with them. They are today canceled. And that'll do it for

01:03:41.160 this portion of the show as we move over into the members block. Hope to see you there. If not,

01:03:43.960 talk to you on Monday. Happy Flannel Friday. Godspeed.

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The Matt Walsh Show - September 23, 2022

Ep. 1027 - We Are Going To Make Child ‘Gender Transitions’ Illegal

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