The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1035 - How Our Culture Teaches Kids To Hate Themselves

00:00:00.120 Today on the Matt Wall Show, my What Is a Woman college tour gets off to a roaring start.

00:00:03.940 There are a few moments from last night that are worth further discussion.

00:00:06.900 We'll talk about that.

00:00:07.480 Also, the governor of Oklahoma pledges to ban child gender transitions.

00:00:11.460 The movement is growing across the country.

00:00:13.140 Plus, after lots of stops and starts, it seems that Elon Musk will finally take over Twitter.

00:00:19.160 And you can imagine the left is not very happy about that.

00:00:21.740 In our daily cancellation, a new dating app targeting conservatives earns derision from the left.

00:00:26.920 We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:01:53.000 So yesterday I began officially my What is a Woman college tour with our first stop at Catholic University in Washington, D.C.

00:02:00.420 I'm happy to report that it was a very successful event, tremendous turnout.

00:02:03.380 We screened the film earlier in the day and filled the room for the screening,

00:02:07.800 and then actually we filled a second room for the screening, too, because there wasn't enough room in the first room.

00:02:11.820 Then we moved to the speech and the Q&A, where we packed the campus auditorium to capacity and above.

00:02:16.680 I'm told we had around 750 people, which I'm also told is the second highest turnout for a speaker at Catholic University in its history behind only the Pope.

00:02:28.300 So I have to take second place to the Pope, which is okay.

00:02:31.540 There was a leftist counter-event that was meant to, I guess, pull attendance away from us,

00:02:37.020 a little bit of counter-programming strategy, and that attracted 40 people.

00:02:41.600 So the final score was 750 to 40, which is like, that's like, you know, if an NBA team played in the WNBA,

00:02:49.080 kind of like that's what the final score would be.

00:02:50.740 And I don't mean to gloat about it.

00:02:51.900 That's not my point.

00:02:52.740 I mean, I do mean to gloat about it.

00:02:54.000 But also I have a couple of thoughts after last night that I wanted to share.

00:02:58.780 A couple of moments I think are worth talking about.

00:03:00.860 So one of the women who got up to speak during the Q&A was a mother from Fairfax County who's been fighting to get pornographic material removed from the schools there.

00:03:11.920 And she's met lots of resistance and so far has not been able to get it all removed, you know,

00:03:18.380 because, of course, it's extremely controversial to suggest that kids should not be given pornography as reading material in class.

00:03:26.180 As she described her efforts and, you know, and talked about it, people in the crowd began to applaud and pretty soon they were all standing.

00:03:34.920 So this mom ended up receiving a lengthy standing ovation for, you know, 0.98

00:03:39.680 what she's been doing to fight against this madness at her school board meetings,

00:03:43.960 which made her quite emotional as well because she said that she felt alone in the fight and felt somewhat helpless and appreciated the encouragement.

00:03:52.580 Now, this is something that I encounter often when I'm on the road, all the time.

00:03:58.900 Conservatives who tell me that they feel like they're totally alone.

00:04:01.900 I hear from people all the time who tell me that they enjoy listening to this show because it makes them feel sane.

00:04:07.880 It lets them know that they're not the only ones in the world who think this way.

00:04:13.220 But, of course, they're not the only ones.

00:04:15.100 Of course they're not.

00:04:16.780 See, this is one of the great lies that our culture tells.

00:04:19.640 It makes you believe that if you have basic common sense, if you have what we now call traditional values,

00:04:27.040 if you believe in basic moral decency, if you think that we shouldn't be giving porn to kids in school, 0.92

00:04:32.580 if you're not on board with the LGBT-ification of everything in life, then you're a freak, we're told. 1.00

00:04:39.340 You're a weirdo. 1.00

00:04:40.160 You're alone, you know. 0.96

00:04:41.720 Because the left owns all of the power structures in society, it can then isolate and alienate those who oppose it. 0.96

00:04:50.240 It can gaslight, telling you that you must be crazy, right? 0.92

00:04:54.160 You're the strange one if you don't believe that men can have babies. 0.79

00:04:58.460 And if it cannot successfully trick you into abandoning your beliefs,

00:05:03.900 you know, it wants to get you to kind of look around and say,

00:05:06.040 well, everyone disagrees with me on this.

00:05:08.080 It seems like, I mean, I feel like it must be true.

00:05:10.220 It's pretty obvious to me.

00:05:11.540 Everyone disagrees.

00:05:13.180 And so maybe I'm wrong.

00:05:14.620 You know, how could the whole world be right or wrong and I'm the only one who's right?

00:05:17.620 But if it can't get you to abandon your beliefs like that, at least they want you to feel hopeless.

00:05:24.300 Like there's no point in defending yourself or your beliefs.

00:05:27.160 The fight is futile.

00:05:29.520 But this, again, is all a lie. 0.50

00:05:32.340 I am a right-wing terrorist extremist, I'm told.

00:05:35.040 And if I can go onto a college campus and have 750 kids show up,

00:05:38.960 that's a pretty good indication that we are larger in number than it may sometimes seem.

00:05:45.080 We're not as alone as we feel at times.

00:05:48.040 And it's important to realize that because the other reason why they want you to think you're alone

00:05:53.720 is so that you don't attempt to mobilize and organize.

00:05:58.080 That's exactly what we need to be doing.

00:06:00.700 There was one other moment last night that might be worth further comment.

00:06:03.760 So there was a young lady who got up to ask, I think, a very fair question.

00:06:08.220 She said, if I'm such a critic of the so-called gender-affirming,

00:06:11.720 if I'm a critic of the gender-affirming model,

00:06:13.920 if I don't believe that we should be affirming a child in their gender confusion, 0.97

00:06:18.720 then what approach would I recommend?

00:06:21.020 That was the question.

00:06:21.800 We'll play that exchange for you now.

00:06:23.440 We can see from your documentary that the affirmative model of treating gender dysphoria

00:06:28.540 through transition is taking the wrong approach of addressing a really serious issue.

00:06:32.780 So my question is, what would you say is a better approach to ultimately help those

00:06:38.000 who experience the real pain of gender dysphoria that does not involve transitioning?

00:06:43.380 Yeah, I think, I guess I would advocate for the approach that was generally used

00:06:50.780 up until extremely recently, which is that if somebody is confused about who they are,

00:06:58.980 about their identity, then we try to treat that confusion.

00:07:03.860 You know, we see the confusion itself as the problem.

00:07:07.140 You're not the problem.

00:07:08.220 You know, your body is not the problem.

00:07:09.520 There's nothing wrong with you as a person, nothing wrong with your body.

00:07:13.540 It's, there's something going on in your mind.

00:07:16.460 And so we're going to help you accept yourself for who you really are.

00:07:21.620 And that's one of the things I hate so much about what they call the gender-affirming model,

00:07:26.740 is that what that means is that you've got people coming in, especially kids,

00:07:31.320 who hate themselves, and they hate their bodies, and they see themselves as ugly and monstrous.

00:07:40.980 And what they're hearing, and there might be rainbow flags and smiles and everything attached to it,

00:07:44.520 but what they're hearing from the therapist is, you're right.

00:07:47.800 You should feel that way about yourself.

00:07:49.300 And I just find that it's abominable.

00:07:54.700 It really is.

00:07:55.480 And so I would advocate an approach of true self-acceptance.

00:08:00.380 Accept yourself for who you are.

00:08:02.680 If you are a girl, that's a beautiful thing.

00:08:04.660 If you're a boy, that's a beautiful thing.

00:08:05.940 That's a wonderful thing.

00:08:07.220 And it's okay to be that.

00:08:10.280 So what I'm trying to point to there is self-acceptance.

00:08:14.960 So when I was a kid, self-acceptance was a big deal.

00:08:18.680 We heard about it all the time when I was a kid.

00:08:20.720 If you grew up in the 90s, you were constantly hearing about self-acceptance,

00:08:24.140 and you should accept yourself for who you are.

00:08:26.120 It was preached constantly all the time.

00:08:28.800 Love yourself for who you are, they said.

00:08:30.980 And there was a time when, I admit, I kind of argued against that emphasis

00:08:36.260 because I believed that it breeds narcissism and self-involvement.

00:08:40.600 If you're telling people all the time to focus on themselves, accept themselves.

00:08:44.020 Also, I figured, nobody really needs much help in accepting themselves.

00:08:49.080 I mean, you are yourself.

00:08:51.080 What can you do but accept it?

00:08:53.400 But that was before gender ideology grabbed our society by the throat. 1.00

00:08:58.980 Now that it has, self-acceptance takes on a new meaning and new urgency

00:09:05.860 because the culture now encourages people, especially kids, to reject and hate themselves.

00:09:13.640 When a child goes to a therapist or a doctor or a guidance counselor or often now a parent

00:09:18.880 saying that she feels as though her body is all wrong, that she's all wrong,

00:09:23.880 her very person is somehow wrong.

00:09:25.860 She is then greeted with affirmation.

00:09:29.040 But what are they affirming?

00:09:31.100 They're not affirming her as a self.

00:09:34.460 That's not what they're doing.

00:09:35.340 It's herself that she hates and rejects.

00:09:38.020 So they are affirming that hatred and rejection.

00:09:42.900 They're not affirming her.

00:09:44.520 They're affirming how she feels about herself. 0.99

00:09:47.420 They are agreeing with her that herself is wrong, is ugly, is sick, is broken,

00:09:54.220 is in need of drastic medical and cosmetic intervention. 0.97

00:09:59.960 She hates her girlhood. 1.00

00:10:03.140 She hates who she are and she's told, well, yeah, you should hate it.

00:10:07.040 You're not wrong for hating it.

00:10:09.660 Here you go.

00:10:10.080 Take these pills.

00:10:12.340 Get this surgery. 0.80

00:10:13.500 We will help you destroy the parts of you that you cannot bring yourself to accept.

00:10:21.560 That's the affirmation model.

00:10:24.540 And it is, as I said in the clip, an abominable, contemptible message.

00:10:30.280 Now, the gospel preaches about self-denial as a positive good.

00:10:36.860 But this is not the kind of self-denial that we're talking about, okay?

00:10:41.820 It's one thing to subordinate your own desires in service to a greater good,

00:10:47.200 which is the sort of self-denial that we should practice and we should promote.

00:10:52.020 That's good self-denial.

00:10:54.380 But the satanic gospel of leftism urges us to deny our very nature,

00:10:59.980 to deny our very selfhood and to attempt to demolish ourselves

00:11:05.660 and build a new self out of the rubble.

00:11:09.860 But here's the problem, is that when you do that and you tear yourself to pieces

00:11:15.320 and you even cut pieces of yourself off, you're still left with yourself.

00:11:23.600 It's still yourself even after it's been rebuilt.

00:11:27.200 That's the lie.

00:11:28.200 You can't actually escape yourself.

00:11:32.560 You can't escape who you fundamentally biologically are.

00:11:37.280 You can only become a more broken version of what you once were.

00:11:44.320 And that's what happens.

00:11:47.280 And this takes on a very grotesque and literal sort of connotation.

00:11:54.540 Oftentimes when a girl goes in for, you know, quote-unquote bottom surgery 1.00

00:12:01.220 and they are literally peeling parts of her body off to attach to other parts of her body 0.99

00:12:09.020 to try to make a new body.

00:12:11.040 But it's not a new body.

00:12:12.280 It's all still you.

00:12:13.180 It's just been rearranged in a grotesque, unnatural, very disordered way.

00:12:19.700 What was once natural and good and functional is now unnatural and destructive and not functional.

00:12:28.840 So what approach should we be taking?

00:12:33.220 It's an approach of self-acceptance.

00:12:34.760 We say to the people who are struggling with this that there's actually nothing wrong with you.

00:12:40.040 There's nothing wrong with who you are.

00:12:43.540 It's good that you are who you are.

00:12:45.860 And you should accept that and love that about yourself.

00:12:51.620 And then help them get there.

00:12:53.780 That should be the approach.

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00:14:02.440 Okay, so Chris Ruffo reports some good news here.

00:14:05.520 As the movement spreads, he says Oklahoma Governor Stitt has signed legislation blocking Oklahoma Children's Hospital

00:14:15.220 from conducting child sex change interventions, including puberty blockers, hormones, and genital surgeries.

00:14:21.240 He has vowed to ban the practice statewide in the next legislative session.

00:14:27.680 And the statement here from the governor's office, I'm pulling it up, it says,

00:14:31.640 Today Governor Stitt signed SB3XX, which blocks funding to prevent gender transition services for minors

00:14:38.120 at Oklahoma Children's Hospital at OU Health.

00:14:40.280 The bill went into effect immediately upon the governor's signature.

00:14:43.440 Governor Stitt said,

00:14:44.460 By signing this bill today, we are taking the first step to protect children from permanent gender transition surgeries and therapies.

00:14:50.540 It is wildly inappropriate for taxpayer dollars to be used for condoning, promoting,

00:14:54.920 or performing these types of controversial procedures on healthy children.

00:14:58.640 And he continued,

00:14:59.340 I'm calling for the legislator to ban all irreversible gender transition surgeries and hormone therapies on minors

00:15:04.980 when they convene next session.

00:15:06.660 We cannot turn a blind eye to what's happening all across our nation.

00:15:09.160 As Governor, I will not allow life-altering transition surgeries on minor children in the state of Oklahoma.

00:15:13.100 So, by the way, Oklahoma, Governor Stitt, he's definitely one of the good ones.

00:15:19.460 Oklahoma has their act together.

00:15:21.600 And they're one of the states that I believe last year banned CRT in classrooms.

00:15:26.720 And so they're getting it together.

00:15:28.720 And we see how this movement is growing to ban the castration and mutilation of children.

00:15:36.660 And the good news is that there's a snowball effect here because, you know, when one state does it,

00:15:45.540 when you see this movement in one state, in one area, and then the pressure is on in other states,

00:15:51.920 especially red states, like, why haven't you done the same thing?

00:15:55.220 Now, to protect all kids across the country, to legally protect all kids across the country from this kind of abuse,

00:16:08.280 you know, that's not something we're going to be able to do overnight.

00:16:11.680 Because we know in blue states, just like what happened with abortion,

00:16:18.320 when they see that it's being banned in certain states, they're going to respond by being even more radical.

00:16:23.860 So what they're going to do is they're going to go the opposite way.

00:16:26.340 They're going to start, and we're already seeing this happening, actually,

00:16:28.640 they're going to start lowering the age limit for all of these kinds of surgeries.

00:16:32.360 And as California has done, they're going to say, we're a sanctuary state now for child sex change operations. 0.98

00:16:39.420 You know, come to us and we'll, yeah, we'll mutilate your child's genitals. 1.00

00:16:45.120 That's what's going to happen in blue states. 0.99

00:16:47.540 I'm not, we, of course, cannot be satisfied with that.

00:16:50.400 Okay, this is not one of those things where, well, it's a state's rights issue.

00:16:52.700 And, you know, as long as we can just take care of your own state, and that's all that matters.

00:16:56.860 No, the kids who live in blue states, kids who live in California, it's not their fault they live in California.

00:17:00.820 They didn't choose that.

00:17:02.360 So we're not going to abandon them, but that's going to take federal action.

00:17:06.560 And that means winning back the House and Senate and also winning the White House in 2024.

00:17:12.140 And that also means sending the message to any presidential candidate or any candidate running for the House or Senate

00:17:19.960 that you need to come out fully in support of these laws to ban this kind of child abuse.

00:17:28.780 You know, we, we as voters need to send the message that we are not going to support you unless you make clear that this will be high on your agenda.

00:17:40.000 And, but in the red states, before we get there, you know, there's no reason why we can't pass these bans in every single red state.

00:17:50.960 And as I'm always reminding people, one of the reasons they haven't been banned yet is that many average voters in these states didn't realize this was happening.

00:18:03.900 They just didn't.

00:18:04.540 It was unthinkable to them.

00:18:05.860 They couldn't imagine that this was happening.

00:18:07.380 If anyone brought it up to them, they would have assumed that it's already illegal.

00:18:12.740 And now that we're getting the message across that, no, it is happening.

00:18:16.520 I think pressure is building in the red states to, to ban this, which is good.

00:18:21.180 And it's especially important now as Planned Parenthood gets more and more into the child transition game.

00:18:27.700 And so Planned Parenthood, we've cut into their business significantly, you know, not allowing them to perform abortions in many states.

00:18:36.660 And so they're losing a lot of that child murder money. 0.98

00:18:39.860 And now what they're saying is, well, we'll try to, we'll try to recoup those losses by, if we can't kill the kids in every state, we can at least mutilate and castrate them. 0.95

00:18:51.340 And so here's a video that Planned Parenthood put out, an ad for puberty blockers. 0.99

00:18:56.480 Let's watch this.

00:18:57.700 There's no one-size-fits-all puberty experience.

00:19:01.220 If you're trans, intersex, or non-binary, know that you're not the only one feeling confused.

00:19:07.140 For some intersex people, puberty may start later than age 14.

00:19:11.600 You might experience some of puberty's changes and not others.

00:19:15.300 And your body may or may not go through puberty on its own.

00:19:19.000 There are medicines you can take to help your body start the process, like hormone replacement therapy.

00:19:23.400 Some people decide on hormones or surgeries to help their bodies match up to their gender identity, or how they feel inside about themselves.

00:19:31.380 Your gender identity is real.

00:19:33.320 You should be the one to decide what changes you want to make to your body.

00:19:36.220 If you're transgender or non-binary, you may find that your puberty experiences don't line up with your gender identity, or how you see yourself.

00:19:44.780 That feeling can be uncomfortable, scary, and stressful.

00:19:48.740 If that sounds like you, know that you're not alone.

00:19:51.260 There are medicines you can take to delay puberty for a while.

00:19:55.080 They're called puberty blockers, and they work like a stop sign by halting the hormones testosterone and estrogen that cause puberty changes like facial hair growth and periods.

00:20:04.240 Puberty blockers are safe, and can give you more time to figure out what feels right for you, your body, and your gender identity. 0.96

00:20:10.980 You don't have to have all of the answers right now.

00:20:12.980 So remember, it's all a work in progress, and it may take time to figure out what feels right to you, but talking to a trusted adult and a nurse or doctor may help.

00:20:21.900 Want to learn more? Go to PlannedParenthood.org slash teens.

00:20:26.600 These people are just demonic monsters. 0.96

00:20:31.460 And this is, like I said, it's not a coincidence that we're seeing Planned Parenthood. 0.97

00:20:37.620 They've been giving out hormones and that sort of thing for years now, but they're doubling down on it now,

00:20:42.760 and that's not a coincidence because it's a money-making operation, just like we saw at Vanderbilt.

00:20:47.880 Big money, big money, and it's the same here.

00:20:50.920 So they're looking to recoup their losses from not being able to kill as many kids as they were killing before,

00:20:55.440 and so instead they're going to, you know, can't kill the kids. 0.97

00:20:58.540 You can still, in effect, kill off parts of them anyway.

00:21:03.320 Now, that right there, 90 seconds, is just kind of a perfect summary of the misinformation campaign that promotes this stuff.

00:21:16.080 So they begin by talking about intersex and, you know, actual medical conditions.

00:21:21.760 I mean, there are medical, there's something, there's medical conditions like precocious puberty, for example,

00:21:28.580 where children go through puberty much, much earlier than they're supposed to.

00:21:34.020 So, and then intersex. 0.78

00:21:35.600 Now, that is, those are people that suffer medical conditions, deformities, genetic mutations, and so on.

00:21:41.100 So, they take that and they lump that in with trans and gender identity and all the rest of that when the two things are not related at all.

00:21:52.960 And it is perfectly possible, and in fact, in states that have already banned this stuff,

00:21:57.500 they put things in the law saying that, okay, the medical and surgical gender transition of minors is illegal.

00:22:05.600 So, end of sentence, if a child has an actual physical medical condition, like, for example, precocious puberty, then obviously you can treat that.

00:22:17.520 See, it's not hard to delineate between these two things legally or morally, because they are completely different.

00:22:24.960 The rest of the video is talking about physically healthy children, say, a physically healthy boy, who is unambiguously a boy.

00:22:36.160 There's no question about that.

00:22:37.860 Everything is physically normal.

00:22:40.040 But he comes into Planned Parenthood, and because he has a certain self-perception,

00:22:45.280 we're going to give him drugs to align himself with that self-perception.

00:22:48.480 And you see this notion of selfhood that you get from the left, where it's almost like there's this constant push and pull and battle and negotiation that goes on between yourself and your body.

00:23:05.820 It's this very strange sort of dualism that they envision, where yourself is separate from your body.

00:23:17.580 And it's actually possible to distinguish between the two.

00:23:19.940 There's who you are, and then there's your body.

00:23:22.480 Those are two completely different things, they say.

00:23:25.500 And sometimes they don't align.

00:23:27.500 And so there's this, it's almost like this zero-sum game, this battle between the two.

00:23:34.720 And in order to make yourself align with your body, you can take drugs.

00:23:40.440 Well, it's a stop sign.

00:23:41.740 They always think of new metaphors.

00:23:42.900 Maybe it's pausing music, or in this case, it's just put up a stop sign.

00:23:48.100 You can put up a stop sign, and your biology, your nature will obey that stop sign and just kind of hang out there.

00:24:00.900 Okay, I'll stop here until you decide what you want to do moving forward.

00:24:05.620 But it doesn't work that way.

00:24:09.120 That's not how our bodies work.

00:24:10.620 That's not how nature works.

00:24:13.720 Okay, nature is an unstoppable force.

00:24:18.580 You can't just put up a stop sign and say, I don't want this.

00:24:24.920 There are things you can do to stymie nature.

00:24:28.560 There are things you can do to try to evade it, to suppress it.

00:24:31.240 You can do all of that, but you're going to pay a price for it.

00:24:37.540 It's always a trade-off.

00:24:40.880 All right, Representative Cori Bush was on ABC, where she was asked about the defund the police movement.

00:24:48.040 And here's what she said about that.

00:24:51.380 You've stuck by it.

00:24:52.600 In fact, you're one of the few Democrats now who still says, let's defund the police.

00:24:56.920 Are you worried at all that that could hurt some of your colleagues going into the midterm elections?

00:25:00.560 See, the thing about defund the police is we have to tell the entire narrative.

00:25:04.940 People hear defund the police, but you know what they'll say?

00:25:07.420 Say reallocate.

00:25:08.400 Say divest.

00:25:09.600 Say move.

00:25:10.620 But it's still the same thing.

00:25:12.140 We can't get caught up on the words.

00:25:14.720 People spend more time focusing on the word defund than they spend on caring and addressing the problem of police violence in this country.

00:25:22.780 Most mainstream Democrats have run, have fled from the defund the police movement.

00:25:28.800 They are now terrified of it, and they are hoping, especially as we go into the midterms, that voters forget any of that ever happened, even though it certainly did happen.

00:25:41.060 And as we've played the clips before, it wasn't all that long ago, I don't know, like a year ago, when every mainstream Democrat right up to the top, right up to the White House was coming out in support of defunding the police.

00:25:53.520 And Cori Bush is correct, and sometimes they used other language.

00:25:56.280 Oh, I don't like the word defund.

00:25:59.160 Well, how about reallocate?

00:26:01.820 Well, we're not going to take the funds away.

00:26:04.420 We're just going to send the funds somewhere else, which seems the same to me.

00:26:09.020 I don't know.

00:26:09.360 So they're running away from it, because as we see, you know, leftist policies, if you're a very naive person, leftist policies maybe can sound appealing in theory.

00:26:27.980 Now, they don't sound appealing to me, even in theory.

00:26:29.940 But if you're very, very naive, maybe they do.

00:26:34.320 I don't know.

00:26:36.500 And so maybe in theory, you might say to yourself, oh, that sounds kind of nice.

00:26:40.780 So we want to send cops into every situation.

00:26:44.080 We'll send a therapist.

00:26:46.700 That sounds like a nice idea.

00:26:48.280 If there's someone who's, you know, a bad guy with a gun shooting people, send a therapist there to talk to him.

00:26:55.320 And maybe the bad guy will say, oh, you know what?

00:26:57.500 You're right.

00:26:57.900 I shouldn't be doing this.

00:26:58.840 He'll drop the gun, turn his life around, and next thing you know, he's a heart surgeon.

00:27:06.000 So if you're very naive, you have no idea how the world works, maybe you find that convincing.

00:27:10.900 But then what happens when the leftists are able to take these ideas and bring them out of the realm of theory and put them into action?

00:27:18.680 What you find is just abject misery and disaster, which is why Democrats are running away from it.

00:27:27.120 But Cori Bush is not.

00:27:27.900 So I really, I appreciate Cori Bush, that she's not willing to let this go.

00:27:32.300 And she is going, I think now she has a memoir.

00:27:35.120 She just wrote a memoir.

00:27:35.960 So now she's on.

00:27:36.780 This is perfect timing, really.

00:27:38.180 So now she's doing the media. 0.97

00:27:39.780 She's doing the media tour to promote her book.

00:27:41.520 And right before the midterms and everywhere she goes, she's reminding people that, no, we as Democrats, we do believe in defunding the police.

00:27:49.080 I appreciate that from her.

00:27:52.360 Here's the latest Project Veritas video.

00:27:54.600 Andy Ngo reports, Tyler Wren is a far-left teacher who resigned in disgrace from Owasa schools, but now teaches in Tulsa Will Rogers High School.

00:28:03.160 Has been exposed in a Project Veritas sting, talking again about indoctrinating students.

00:28:10.180 Let's watch a little bit of this.

00:28:12.940 I don't know how these people keep, I don't know how Project Veritas continues to do this.

00:28:17.920 But, but I appreciate it.

00:28:22.240 I mean, when you're, don't you know by now that you're like, someone sits down with you and they want to get you talking about all your crazy left-wing ideas, but you get a little suspicious.

00:28:35.240 And they've got their, maybe their purse with the hidden camera, you know, right there, pointing right at your face.

00:28:41.360 I don't know, but here's the video.

00:28:43.240 I am an anarchist.

00:28:44.400 The only thing that's a problem here is that House Bill 1775 or something, I can get my license to a vote for it, for being too weak.

00:28:56.720 But I think it's, you know what I mean, you're not overly, there's ways to.

00:29:00.960 That's what I mean.

00:29:01.760 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 0.86

00:29:02.260 Like, trust me, I want to like burn down the entire system.

00:29:06.440 Okay, just to pause it there. 0.94

00:29:07.480 He says, I want to burn down the entire system.

00:29:10.360 Here we have a leftist again, pretending to be raging against the system.

00:29:16.180 Well, how can you burn down the system?

00:29:18.820 You are the system.

00:29:20.700 This is what the system is.

00:29:22.880 You represent the system.

00:29:24.340 As someone who identifies as a far-left militant with purple hair and big earrings, you know, that's the system.

00:29:36.020 That is a perfect representation of the system.

00:29:39.580 So you burn it down, you're burning yourself down.

00:29:42.360 I mean, be my guest.

00:29:44.240 You want to burn down the school system, metaphorically?

00:29:47.020 I'm with you.

00:29:48.780 I'll be right there with you, with a torch, with a metaphorical torch, I mean.

00:29:52.300 Let's keep watching.

00:29:55.220 You know what I'm saying?

00:29:56.280 I broadcasted it too much last semester.

00:29:59.620 Yeah.

00:29:59.980 But like, eventually you want to like remove Christianity from, or religion from progressive thought.

00:30:07.200 Because like, religion is hierarchical.

00:30:09.840 Yes, that is Tyler Wren.

00:30:11.800 He used to teach at the Owasso 8th grade center until he resigned last April after these TikTok videos were highlighted by libs of TikTok. 1.00

00:30:19.520 If your parents don't love and accept you for who you are this Christmas, f**k them. 1.00

00:30:23.800 I'm your parents now. 1.00

00:30:24.940 I'm proud of you.

00:30:25.920 Drink some water.

00:30:26.860 I love you. 1.00

00:30:27.620 F**k. 1.00

00:30:27.880 I have a rather large TikTok following. 1.00

00:30:30.240 I'm an authority figure. 1.00

00:30:32.480 So I'm going to give out a Christmas message of like, hey, if your parents don't love and support you for who you are this Christmas, f**k them. 1.00

00:30:39.340 I'm your parents now. 1.00

00:30:40.500 I love you.

00:30:41.640 Drink some water.

00:30:42.500 You're proud of me.

00:30:42.860 His TikTok page backdoors his secret curriculum.

00:30:47.000 Here is a list of books that Tyler wants to hide from parents on his TikTok link tree.

00:30:52.880 I would say Gen Z is like super progressive.

00:30:56.700 Oh, I know.

00:30:57.200 I taught in Missouri last year.

00:30:58.860 Not last year, but two years ago.

00:31:00.280 I taught like a philosophy, like 101 class.

00:31:03.380 We took a political quiz.

00:31:04.440 We always hear this from these people that, you know, Gen Z, they're super progressive.

00:31:11.740 They're totally on board for this.

00:31:14.400 In my film, What Is A Woman, which you can watch if you go to whatisawoman.com, is something we heard from a lot of the leftists we talked to where they said, you know, Gen Z, they're taking, you know who gets it?

00:31:29.900 Gen Z, the youngest generation. 0.88

00:31:31.360 They get it.

00:31:32.860 They're taking the lead here.

00:31:34.440 And, of course, first of all, no, you don't put the youngest generations in a position of leadership.

00:31:42.940 We don't look to the young generation for leadership.

00:31:45.820 We're supposed to be leading them.

00:31:47.520 So that's backwards to begin with.

00:31:50.260 But also, why are they super progressive?

00:31:53.900 Well, because of you.

00:31:55.840 So he's sitting here admitting that he has embarked on this indoctrination campaign that he's hiding from the parents.

00:32:03.680 And then he says, oh, all these kids, they're super progressive.

00:32:06.920 Well, I wonder why that is.

00:32:09.960 When they're indoctrinated pretty much from birth in the public school system.

00:32:14.100 And by the time they get to eighth grade, they're, quote, super progressive.

00:32:18.560 I mean, what a coincidence.

00:32:20.420 Who could have ever imagined that outcome?

00:32:22.360 And this is, again, full-on cult indoctrination.

00:32:30.080 It cannot be emphasized enough that this is, in fact, that's not, you know, we use the word cult and cultish probably too much.

00:32:38.280 It gets overused.

00:32:39.580 But that is actually what is happening in the public school system.

00:32:42.420 And so if you send your kids to public school, there may be some public schools where it's not as bad as others, but there isn't any good public school left because it's all a part of this system.

00:32:54.780 And it's a fundamentally broken system.

00:32:57.080 But if you send your kid to the public school system, then you are sending them in to encounter and endure and probably be destroyed by this cult-like method of indoctrination.

00:33:16.400 What does he do?

00:33:20.140 He says, oh, your parents don't love you.

00:33:21.940 I love you.

00:33:23.240 I'm the one who really cares about you.

00:33:25.800 You don't need your parents.

00:33:28.000 You have me.

00:33:31.240 Now, that's a grooming tactic also. 0.99

00:33:33.560 That's a tactic of a sexual abuser. 0.96

00:33:35.480 That's a grooming sexual abuse tactic. 1.00

00:33:38.900 It's also a cult indoctrination tactic.

00:33:40.500 These things are all related.

00:33:42.560 What do you want to do?

00:33:43.400 You sever a person's attachments to other people in their life.

00:33:48.840 If there's anyone else that a person, the potential cult inductee, if there's anyone else that they look to for advice, for guidance, for leadership, if they are orienting themselves based on anyone else, you want to sever that relationship because you want them looking to you and to the system that you are a part of.

00:34:11.640 That's what's happening there.

00:34:14.500 All right. 0.96

00:34:14.740 The Daily Mail has this rather pathetic story. 0.86

00:34:18.080 It says, Howard Stern left his house for the first time in two years to dine with other A-listers, including Jennifer Aniston and Jason Bateman, despite admitting it was too much for the germaphobe.

00:34:30.620 Stern, 68, finally left his $20 million apocalypse bunker in Southampton to enjoy an Israeli meal at Laser Wolf in Williamsburg, Brooklyn on Friday night after he and his wife, Beth, were invited out by late night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel.

00:34:46.060 Remember there was a time when Howard Stern was seen as some sort of rebel?

00:34:50.620 He was a kind of provocative, rebellious figure. 0.89

00:34:55.220 And now he's this pathetic old man hiding in his mansion for two years and only finally, because he's scared and only finally comes out to have a swanky dinner with A-list actors.

00:35:08.780 Despite being in great company, rubbing elbows with the likes of Justin Theroux and Jon Hamm, the radio host said he was in a panic the whole time. 0.96

00:35:18.900 I said to my wife, I don't want to go.

00:35:20.720 I'm in a panic.

00:35:21.600 I don't want to get COVID.

00:35:22.880 I know our president has told us the pandemic is over and everyone is walking around without masks.

00:35:27.320 I still just don't want to get COVID.

00:35:30.580 Who, as I guess that's what he was saying on his show after the fact.

00:35:33.360 Who is still listening to his show is my question.

00:35:37.800 What's the audience for this?

00:35:40.080 I know the audience, like back in the day, the audience for Howard Stern was just working class men who appreciated Howard Stern because he was politically incorrect.

00:35:49.320 And he was, again, a rebellious kind of figure.

00:35:51.380 And he just, you know, and he was funny.

00:35:53.100 And so that's why they liked him.

00:35:55.440 Are there still working class people?

00:35:58.800 Are there like plumbers driving to their next job and listening to this 68-year-old multimillionaire talk about the fact that he's still scared of COVID so he hides in his mansion but he finally went out because he wanted to meet Jennifer Aniston and Jon Hamm for dinner?

00:36:16.600 Is that the kind of thing that working class people are listening to? 0.99

00:36:21.780 So I am curious about that.

00:36:23.280 Who exactly is the audience?

00:36:24.380 Maybe, I mean, probably there just isn't one anymore.

00:36:26.220 But it does go to show how, again, how the COVID panic was always driven, maybe oddly, kind of counterintuitively by a rejection of our mortality.

00:36:37.920 Not an acknowledgment of it, but a rejection.

00:36:42.380 It's not that the people who are panicking over COVID and some of them still are, like Howard Stern.

00:36:47.460 It's not that they have more of a respect for our frail human condition than the rest of us do.

00:36:55.300 No, they actually reject their mortality.

00:36:59.020 Howard Stern is almost 70 years old.

00:37:03.000 He's only got, you know, average life expectancy would put him at, you know, maybe he's got 15 years left if he lives the average lifespan for a man.

00:37:12.400 On the upper end of that, maybe he's got two decades left at most.

00:37:17.000 You know, he has lived the vast majority of his life.

00:37:19.380 The vast majority of his lifespan is behind him, for sure.

00:37:24.880 And yet he's hiding in his house so he doesn't get sick.

00:37:29.800 As if by, so he's giving up on, you know, the last years of his life to avoid dying, even though death is a certainty anyway.

00:37:42.020 Like, Howard, you're definitely going to die within 20 years.

00:37:48.280 Probably sooner than that. 0.87

00:37:50.100 It is 100% going to happen.

00:37:52.640 And you're also going to get sick.

00:37:55.680 You're going to get cancer if you haven't already.

00:37:58.720 Did you know that?

00:37:59.500 If you live long enough, everybody gets cancer.

00:38:02.300 Everyone, if you live long enough.

00:38:03.440 If you live a life and never get cancer, it's because you died of something else before you could get it.

00:38:10.980 And you can't hide from cancer.

00:38:14.080 You could stay in your multi-million dollar bunker for the next 10 years.

00:38:17.500 It's not going to stop cancer from getting you.

00:38:19.200 Cancer comes from within.

00:38:22.720 That's happening inside your body.

00:38:26.360 So what's the point exactly?

00:38:27.760 It's like, that was what many of us who were not panicking said all along.

00:38:31.760 It's, no, yeah, I get that.

00:38:33.320 We could die.

00:38:34.180 I understand that.

00:38:35.820 I understand that we're mortal.

00:38:37.580 But that's why I'm going to continue to live my life.

00:38:39.340 Because I'm going to die anyway.

00:38:41.000 And life has a 100% death rate.

00:38:45.860 So what are you trying to accomplish?

00:38:49.680 Very sad.

00:38:53.420 Oh, we have to mention this from the Daily Wire.

00:38:55.360 Twitter indicated Tuesday afternoon that they are moving forward with letting Elon Musk acquire the company

00:39:01.120 after the billionaire entrepreneur informed the company in a letter that he wanted to proceed with the purchase for the original offer of $54.20 per share.

00:39:10.860 Musk made the proposal in a letter to Twitter executives, which sent share prices surging by as much as 22%.

00:39:15.720 The company said in a statement, Twitter issued this statement about today's news.

00:39:19.040 We received the letter from Musk parties, which they have filed with the SEC.

00:39:22.300 The intention of the company is to close the transaction at $54.20 per share.

00:39:27.880 Twitter had been battling Musk in court over his attempt to cancel a previous offer to buy the company for $44 billion.

00:39:34.300 Musk had expressed concern that the actual share of fake accounts on the platform could range as high as 33% rather than the company's reported 5%.

00:39:41.660 So anyway, he was trying to get out of it, but it seems like he realized that he was going to lose in court.

00:39:49.440 And so now Elon Musk is being forced to purchase this multi-billion dollar company, which is the kind of problem you can only have if you're the richest man in the world.

00:39:59.640 You're being forced to purchase a multi-billion dollar company.

00:40:02.800 Maybe, unfortunate for him, works out great for the rest of us.

00:40:05.920 I mean, I couldn't be happier about it because it seems as though Elon Musk is actually going to take over Twitter.

00:40:14.460 And I am just going to go crazy on Twitter with the misgendering.

00:40:19.580 I'm going to be misgendering everybody all over the place, and I am very excited for that.

00:40:25.940 Now, there are two reactions to this that I want to note, kind of representative of the whole.

00:40:31.080 So first, this is from Ben Collins, who's a senior reporter for NBC News, and he obviously is very upset about this.

00:40:42.520 And he says, for those of you asking, yes, I do think this site can and will change pretty dramatically if Musk gets control over it.

00:40:50.420 No, there is no immediate replacement.

00:40:52.620 If it gets done early enough, based on the people he's aligned with, yes, it could actually affect the midterms.

00:40:58.020 If Musk is really taking this site private, there are no real guardrails anymore.

00:41:04.400 Rulemaking can be capricious.

00:41:06.500 He can elevate any idea or person he wants through recommendations and UX choices, and there will be no oversight on this as a private company.

00:41:16.920 This is great for a few reasons.

00:41:18.420 First of all, he's admitting that Twitter suppresses and censors and does it to help the Democrats in the midterms.

00:41:26.720 And what that means is that if they're not able to do that anymore, then it will affect the midterms and it will be worse for the Democrats.

00:41:34.500 But I also love how he says that, well, when Musk takes over, there's rulemaking will now, now all of a sudden, the rules on Twitter will be arbitrary and capricious.

00:41:45.400 Yes, I can only imagine.

00:41:47.780 It's hard to imagine a scenario where Twitter or any other social media company would have arbitrary and capricious rules that are enforced unfairly and unevenly targeting certain groups of people while letting others off the hook.

00:42:06.480 Can you imagine that?

00:42:08.240 Can you imagine that?

00:42:08.380 I can't.

00:42:10.300 Nothing like it has ever happened.

00:42:12.240 I also can't imagine this from Robert Reich, a Berkeley professor.

00:42:17.080 He says, when multi-billionaires take control of our most vital platforms for communication, it's not a win for free speech.

00:42:25.680 It's a win for oligarchy.

00:42:27.200 Well, once again, I also cannot imagine this.

00:42:33.580 I cannot imagine billionaires owning social media companies.

00:42:38.560 This will be the first one.

00:42:40.160 Elon Musk will be the first billionaire.

00:42:43.200 Maybe he's breaking a glass ceiling in a certain way.

00:42:45.840 He's going to be the first billionaire, apparently, really the first rich guy to own a social media platform.

00:42:52.440 Before this, all the social media platforms were owned by working class people. 1.00

00:42:57.260 They were owned by, you know, like plumbers and they were owned by working class people.

00:43:03.960 You know, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, even Twitter prior to this.

00:43:13.680 The Twitter board consisted of, I guess, I don't know, school teachers and electricians and people who work at Walmart.

00:43:21.080 It's what we're supposed to believe anyway, which, of course, is totally absurd.

00:43:25.500 Now, let's get to the comment section.

00:43:27.780 Who makes a Twitter mob fly off the handle with rage?

00:43:33.700 Who's to blame?

00:43:36.540 It's a sweet baby gang.

00:43:41.460 Scott says, Knowles told us today that you two did, in fact, decide on what the bet would be in your fantasy football game.

00:43:48.400 And he's saying that because you lost, you took your, he took your sweet daddy title and wants to be called sweet daddy Knowles.

00:43:55.360 But don't worry, daddy, because all your sweet babies know this is just an outrageous lie and we will not acknowledge his self-proclaimed title.

00:44:03.960 Trust me, says, hey, Matt, I've been a mole on Michael Knowles' show and he's actively claiming the sweet daddy title and viciously slandering you.

00:44:11.700 I did the best I could to pop his bubble and stand up for the SPG.

00:44:16.800 But unfortunately, comments on a YouTube video can only do so much.

00:44:20.700 Stand up and fight.

00:44:22.120 You've earned the title and no one else can claim it.

00:44:24.940 SPG for life.

00:44:25.760 So I've got a lot of comments like this.

00:44:29.460 Knowles, apparently, is just moving forward and referring to himself as sweet daddy, appropriating our culture.

00:44:37.660 He's a, he's in fact, this is cultural appropriation of the sweet baby gang.

00:44:41.240 And he's doing that also when he knows that I'm out traveling the country for my what is a woman college tour.

00:44:49.320 So I can't confront them on it directly.

00:44:51.980 But the fact remains that, yes, we talked about a bet for our fantasy football matchup this past weekend.

00:44:59.560 We talked about it, but we never settled on, on what the bet was.

00:45:03.700 You can go back, check the tape.

00:45:05.180 All right, go back, watch the members block.

00:45:07.440 I think from this past Friday, we discussed what the bet might be.

00:45:12.520 You know, what happens if you lose?

00:45:13.720 And we talked about various different things.

00:45:16.080 I suggested that if he loses, he should have to eat a whole jar of mayonnaise just because that's the first thing that came to mind.

00:45:21.760 It would be gross and funny to watch him try to attempt it.

00:45:24.340 But we never settled on it.

00:45:25.580 We never, we never arrived at any conclusion.

00:45:27.720 We said we would reconvene.

00:45:29.360 We never did.

00:45:30.540 And so what that means is the bet was off by default.

00:45:33.620 And then I went on to lose.

00:45:38.560 But even so, the bet was off.

00:45:41.440 You can see it for yourself.

00:45:45.240 John Smith says, Matt Walsh isn't some based conservative.

00:45:48.340 He's just a regular dad from the 90s that accidentally tripped into a time wormhole and started a podcast.

00:45:53.560 I don't know if you meant that as an insult or not, but I have, I take no issue with that characterization.

00:46:01.520 I think that that's actually a pretty good description.

00:46:03.780 That is how we should start describing the show in its description on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

00:46:12.320 Anyway, Gen Z says, I knew this letter calling on the DOJ to arrest you was coming.

00:46:21.080 I just knew it.

00:46:21.960 And I knew that you would never back down.

00:46:23.220 This truly is your mission, Matt.

00:46:24.760 Thank you so much.

00:46:25.520 We're with you all the way.

00:46:27.600 Well, of course it's not.

00:46:30.920 I mean, this is, here's what I would say.

00:46:34.280 If I ever backed away from this and said, well, you know, I'm not going to talk about this issue anymore.

00:46:41.420 I'm going to de-emphasize it or, you know, maybe the other side, maybe there is something to what they're saying.

00:46:48.240 If I ever said that, then really you should assume that I've completely lost my mind.

00:46:55.620 You should call guys in white coats to come take me away.

00:46:59.180 Because it would mean that I've completely lost it.

00:47:01.020 But that would also never happen.

00:47:03.040 There is, as I said, literally nothing they could threaten.

00:47:08.260 Because then I'd be, what, abandoning objective truth?

00:47:13.600 And once you abandon objective truth, there's nowhere else to go.

00:47:16.280 There's nothing else to do.

00:47:18.260 There's nothing else to talk about.

00:47:22.380 Eyes Like the Summer says, one of my favorite quotes from as far back as my childhoods is,

00:47:28.180 I wish, this is from Lord of the Rings, I guess.

00:47:31.660 I wish it need not have happened in my time, said Frodo.

00:47:34.120 So do I, said Gandalf.

00:47:35.620 And so do all who live to see such times.

00:47:37.440 But that is not for them to decide.

00:47:39.000 All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us from the Fellowship of the Ring.

00:47:45.060 A little bit of inspiration there.

00:47:46.280 From Lord of the Rings, which I'm fine with.

00:47:49.880 A brand new series is available now on Daily Wire Plus, and it's called Breakaways with Alison Williams.

00:47:55.620 If you don't know the story, Alison was a successful ESPN sideline reporter.

00:47:59.760 But when ESPN made the vaccine mandatory for all employees, she refused to get it for very valid reasons.

00:48:05.060 She was trying to get pregnant and was worried about the potential side effects. 0.96

00:48:07.500 Rather than take the risk, she quit.

00:48:09.620 Well, on Breakaways, Alison sits down with athletes who took a stand for their beliefs.

00:48:14.380 The first four episodes feature Jonathan Isaac, Nick Rolovic, Ennis Cantor-Freedom, and Dana White.

00:48:20.480 Those episodes are available right now with four episodes coming soon.

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00:48:32.680 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:48:34.080 So last week, a brand new dating app launched.

00:48:41.780 It enters into a crowded marketplace already populated by something like 65 million other dating apps.

00:48:47.440 But it seeks to set itself apart by specifically targeting conservatives.

00:48:51.620 Some people from the Trump camp apparently have teamed up with Peter Thiel to bring us what's called The Right Stuff,

00:48:59.460 which is a service which says that it was created for conservatives to connect in authentic

00:49:03.720 and meaningful ways.

00:49:05.000 Other dating apps have gone woke, the website reads, but we bring people together with shared values and similar passions.

00:49:11.240 Now, a commercial for the app went viral on social media last week.

00:49:15.140 And here it is.

00:49:15.740 Check it out.

00:49:17.020 Today, we brought in a group of conservative young women and wanted to get their honest opinions about what they're looking for in the guys they date. 0.99

00:49:24.720 What are you looking for in a partner?

00:49:30.860 They just have to be a conservative.

00:49:33.060 Definitely someone that wants to have kids. 0.66

00:49:35.540 I like an independent man.

00:49:37.360 Personally, I like the alpha male vibe.

00:49:39.580 I want a man who really loves his family.

00:49:42.480 Definitely someone whose faith is important to them.

00:49:44.960 For me, it's someone who actually wants to meet my parents.

00:49:47.740 Why do you want to date a conservative?

00:49:50.840 For me, at least I know that we're going to start off with some shared values.

00:49:54.540 Well, the conservative men I've dated at least know how to treat me like a woman.

00:49:57.960 In my personal experience, conservative guys have better manners.

00:50:02.160 I like that they understand their role in the relationship as a man.

00:50:06.880 I just prefer my men to be masculine.

00:50:10.020 And what's the biggest red flag when it comes to dating?

00:50:12.960 A Democrat.

00:50:13.860 No Democrats.

00:50:14.600 A Democrat.

00:50:15.640 Can't be a Democrat.

00:50:17.000 A Democrat.

00:50:18.080 That's easy.

00:50:18.940 A Democrat.

00:50:20.020 No Democrats.

00:50:21.180 So no.

00:50:23.820 Find the right match.

00:50:25.540 Download the right stuff today.

00:50:28.340 Now, the acting in the commercial may not be award-worthy exactly.

00:50:32.880 But then again, the acting in most commercials isn't award-worthy.

00:50:36.180 The main point is the concept.

00:50:37.900 And it's the concept that the left has been mocking relentlessly.

00:50:41.640 Almost all of the reporting on the new app is focused on how much people hate it and

00:50:45.500 are making fun of it.

00:50:46.880 The Independent reports, quote, people are mocking new conservative dating app The Right

00:50:51.120 Stuff.

00:50:51.960 And the article helpfully documents some of the lame jokes that trolls have made about

00:50:55.940 it.

00:50:56.500 Quote, conservatives are such dorks launching a dating app called The Right Stuff, one

00:51:00.860 person tweeted. 0.93

00:51:01.780 While another said, the Right Stuff dating app sounds like the stuff nightmares are made

00:51:05.540 of.

00:51:06.500 Can't wait to not sign up, someone else joked.

00:51:09.720 These are apparently the best insults they could find for this article.

00:51:12.720 Proving yet again that although leftists may love to troll, which is a passion that I,

00:51:17.100 in fact, share with them, they are really not very good at it.

00:51:20.520 Meanwhile, The Daily Dot reports, quote, some had a hard time believing that most young women 1.00

00:51:24.860 looking for love would be content with the type of relationship dynamic this ad suggests.

00:51:29.780 Quote, wait until their masculine conservative says, when I want your opinion, I'll ask for 0.72

00:51:34.600 it, or calls you every day at noon to ask what's for supper and tells you how his mother

00:51:38.280 did it.

00:51:39.160 Another person tweeted, one Twitter user observed that The Right Stuff is basically the dating

00:51:43.340 app version of a safe space for right-wingers.

00:51:46.600 Quote, let's connect to hate immigrants and women's rights, someone else quipped. 0.97

00:51:51.480 Another joked, someone said they're trying to build a domestic terrorist database.

00:51:57.840 Well, if I wanted to build a database of the lamest nerds with the worst insults, I think 1.00

00:52:02.220 we're off to a good start here. Although there may actually be some truth to what the last

00:52:07.340 guy said, I wouldn't be surprised if the feds used an app like this to catfish and entrap

00:52:13.400 conservatives. Now, the good news, though, is that you can usually spot the federal agents

00:52:17.700 based on the haircut. Or if he starts suggesting on the first date that you should try to kidnap

00:52:22.420 the governor or something, then that's a pretty good indication. But in any case, other leftist

00:52:27.180 outlets have accused the right stuff of many other things, promoting misogyny, promoting

00:52:32.160 traditional gender roles, God forbid. They've blasted it for being archaic, old-fashioned,

00:52:37.260 divisive, et cetera, et cetera. They've mocked it, belittled it, been offended by it, and so

00:52:41.000 on. They just really hate the idea of conservatives trying to meet each other, get married, have

00:52:46.880 babies. They really do hate it. The Daily Show with Trevor Noah. Noah got in on the action

00:52:51.640 this week with a painfully unfunny skit ridiculing the conservative dating app. On the bright side,

00:52:58.340 the bit did extend Trevor Noah's perfect unbroken streak of unfunny jokes. And he just announced

00:53:04.880 that he's leaving The Daily Show, apparently, soon. So it looks like he'll retire with a batting

00:53:09.800 average of 1,000 when it comes to being painfully witless and unfunny. So congratulations to him.

00:53:14.980 It is an impressive accomplishment. But there are a few things here, a few points to make,

00:53:19.080 I think. First, you have to keep in mind that the people who make fun of things like this

00:53:24.340 are, almost without exception, single, childless, and lonely, and likely destined to always remain

00:53:32.080 so. Much of what drives so many people in our society today is the fact that they are lonesome

00:53:38.560 and miserable, and they want you to be lonesome and miserable, too. It's one of the universal,

00:53:43.840 timeless facts of life. Misery loves company. Why does misery love company? Well, because miserable

00:53:48.440 people tend to believe that happiness is kind of graded on a curve. So if they can make everyone

00:53:53.460 else less happy, then their own happiness score sort of is raised when compared against the average.

00:54:00.240 Now, the math doesn't really work that way, but that won't stop them from employing that strategy

00:54:04.740 anyway. In fact, they will not only try to steer you away from things that will make you happy,

00:54:10.480 but will even try to convince you that you are unhappy when you aren't. So, for example,

00:54:16.000 ever since I announced that we have another set of twins on the way, I have heard many nasty comments

00:54:20.880 from trolls insisting that I cannot actually be happy as a married man with six kids. The idea of

00:54:27.980 finding contentment and joy in a life of service to my wife and children simply doesn't compute with

00:54:34.500 these shallow, flimsy, self-centered little nothings. Their lives are devoted entirely to their TVs and

00:54:40.780 their phones and maybe their pets. So I will grow old with my children and grandchildren by my side.

00:54:46.640 They will grow old with their TikTok accounts and then they'll die and be forgotten and leave behind

00:54:51.560 no legacy. This is the path to fulfillment, they insist. And since my path is the opposite of what

00:54:58.560 they've chosen, they must convince me that I should be miserable about my life choices.

00:55:03.380 But that's an impossible uphill battle because sadly for them, I love my wife and children and

00:55:11.420 can't imagine a life without them. Second point, I don't know anything about this particular dating

00:55:16.580 app aside from the commercial. I don't know if the user base is large enough for it to actually work.

00:55:21.000 I don't know anything about the app's functionality or lack thereof. When it comes to the execution,

00:55:25.820 it could be a great service, it could be terrible, it could be somewhere in between. I'm not really in a

00:55:29.020 position to test out data gaps, so I can't give you a personal testimony one way or another.

00:55:34.720 But what I can say is that the idea behind it, the idea that people on the left are deriding ruthlessly

00:55:40.900 is good. And I want to focus on that, on the idea, just the idea for a moment. Because if you are a

00:55:49.280 mature adult, not looking to waste time, not looking for cheap hookups, but rather desiring a healthy and

00:55:57.180 committed and serious relationship, most dating apps currently on the market are a waste of time

00:56:01.340 because they simply are not designed to facilitate that sort of thing. They're not designed for you.

00:56:06.240 They're designed for and mostly used by people who want to use each other for momentary pleasure and

00:56:12.100 then move on to the next. So it can be difficult to sift through all of that debris to find actual spouse

00:56:18.500 material. For that, you need to find someone who shares your fundamental values. You don't need to align

00:56:25.840 perfectly on every last issue. You're not looking for your carbon copy. My wife is not a carbon copy

00:56:30.920 of me. I wouldn't want that. I wouldn't want to marry me. I don't know how she does it, frankly. 0.96

00:56:36.820 But we do share our core values and beliefs. We're building from the same foundation.

00:56:41.860 And if you build from the same foundation, it's okay to disagree about some of the furnishings and

00:56:45.440 decorations and everything, which we do in my marriage in a both literal and figurative sense.

00:56:49.380 The other key is that both people in a relationship have to see marriage as the

00:56:54.560 logical and desired endpoint of dating. Dating is not an end in itself, but rather a vehicle

00:56:59.800 that takes you somewhere else. So you have to look at it. It's a vehicle. And if both people

00:57:07.040 cannot agree on the destination or even that there is a destination, you just remain stuck in neutral

00:57:13.100 forever until one or both of you gets bored and bails out of the car, which will likely happen very

00:57:18.080 quickly. And finally, the man in the relationship must embrace his role as a man and the woman as a

00:57:29.580 woman. A relationship doesn't work if both people involved don't understand that they bring something 0.62

00:57:36.340 unique and essential to the arrangement. That's what the much hated and feared gender roles are really 1.00

00:57:43.200 about. It's just about emphasizing and acknowledging and highlighting the fact that as a man, you bring

00:57:52.000 something unique and special to the relationship. As a woman, you bring something unique and special.

00:57:56.100 By rejecting sex differences and gender roles entirely, people in romantic relationships make

00:58:00.820 themselves redundant and useless with no idea about what they're supposed to do or why. Confusion and

00:58:08.220 paralysis sets in and then the whole thing breaks down. So it certainly is the right approach, the

00:58:14.440 right stuff, you might say, to go into the dating scene looking for someone who shares your values,

00:58:18.760 who sees marriage as the end goal of dating, and who embraces their masculinity as a man or their

00:58:23.040 femininity as a woman. Now, whether this particular dating app will successfully facilitate all that,

00:58:28.020 I don't know. But I do know, certainly, that the leftist critics in this case are today

00:58:34.340 canceled. And that will do it for us today. Talk to you tomorrow. Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - October 05, 2022

Ep. 1035 - How Our Culture Teaches Kids To Hate Themselves

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