The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1036 - Media Matters Exposes My Dark And Sordid Past

00:00:00.140 Today on the Matt Wall Show, Media Matters exposes my sordid past as an obscure shock jock morning radio host.

00:00:07.220 They believe that this will be the thing that finally brings me down, but spoiler alert, that's not going to happen.

00:00:12.820 Also, Vox admits that kids are being transitioned, but argues that we have to do it for their own sake.

00:00:18.500 Joe Biden declares that the debate over climate change is over because of Hurricane Ian,

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00:01:42.960 So, now it's my turn, and I expected that something like this might happen.

00:01:49.400 It had to, had to happen.

00:01:51.020 I've been successful in fighting against the left's agenda, especially the trans agenda, and especially recently.

00:01:57.320 Those who support the sexual mutilation of children know full well that I am a threat to them.

00:02:03.760 Because we're winning, and they're losing, and they know that too.

00:02:08.920 And they can't engage with our arguments.

00:02:11.420 They can't oppose us on the battlefield of ideas.

00:02:15.560 So, instead, they look for another way.

00:02:18.580 And now they're convinced they found their kill shot against me by using the same method they always use,

00:02:24.320 which is digging up ancient history, doing the internet equivalent of rummaging through garbage cans,

00:02:30.200 to find things that were done and said years ago, which can be used to defame, and they hope, silence me today.

00:02:38.420 So, yes, my PR team over at Media Matters apparently wasn't satisfied to promote just my current show and all the work they do there.

00:02:46.360 So, they decided to go back 15 years to my time as a rock radio host on an obscure station in Delaware, which is also an obscure state.

00:02:57.040 And they spent, it would seem, many tedious hours listening to segments and bits from my time as a shock jock in my early 20s.

00:03:07.120 It could not have been easy to sit through.

00:03:09.060 I commend their persistence, at least.

00:03:11.920 And now they've compiled their findings into an expose that promises to reveal my, quote,

00:03:18.240 sordid past.

00:03:20.100 Honestly, I never thought of myself as having a sordid past.

00:03:24.800 I figured my life was far too boring and sort of banal and normal for that.

00:03:30.620 But it turns out that I'm a more interesting person than I had previously thought.

00:03:34.040 So, as for the vultures at Media Matters and the leftists who've picked up this hit piece and run with it,

00:03:39.640 they are not very interesting.

00:03:42.360 They are doing what they always do.

00:03:44.160 They're as pathetic and desperate as I've always known them to be.

00:03:47.680 The left, they're not interested in investigating children's hospitals that literally castrate and butcher children.

00:03:54.320 In fact, such investigations, I've been told, are an act of terrorism.

00:03:58.360 But they will take the time to scour the Internet for evidence that I made offensive remarks when I was 23 years old.

00:04:05.380 And that, in their minds, is far more relevant to the public.

00:04:09.520 It's a matter of greater national urgency, they think.

00:04:14.520 So, with that in mind, let's talk now, if this is what they want to talk about,

00:04:19.880 for a few moments about the deep, dark secrets of my past,

00:04:24.020 the skeletons that have been hiding in my closet,

00:04:27.360 waiting to be discovered by intrepid reporters at Media Matters.

00:04:31.120 I will tell you the whole ghastly story, even the parts that Media Matters didn't include.

00:04:37.540 I'll tell you the whole story.

00:04:39.000 So, when I was 20 years old, I moved into a one-bedroom apartment in a small town in Delaware

00:04:45.180 and started working at a rock station with a staggering audience that easily reached into the hundreds, I think.

00:04:53.380 Those are my humble beginnings, or maybe the dark and sinister origins of the world's most notorious terrorist,

00:04:59.320 depending on who you listen to.

00:05:01.120 So, I worked at the station until I was 25.

00:05:03.920 For a couple of years during that period, I hosted a morning show

00:05:06.160 where we often did flout the rules of political correctness,

00:05:10.300 as was the custom on morning radio at the time.

00:05:13.760 In their hit piece, Media Matters presents evidence

00:05:15.980 that I used racially insensitive humor,

00:05:20.080 that I told inappropriate jokes,

00:05:23.160 that I engaged in lots of offensive activities.

00:05:26.300 All of that, of course, is true.

00:05:30.620 They also accused me of physically abusing our radio interns

00:05:34.580 by tasing one of them as a joke.

00:05:39.400 That's also true.

00:05:40.640 And I submit, still funny.

00:05:43.540 In fairness, I got tased too.

00:05:45.020 In fact, I invented a game back in those days called Taser Trivia,

00:05:48.640 where, as the name suggests,

00:05:51.260 you are asked trivia questions,

00:05:53.040 and if you get it wrong, you get tased.

00:05:56.100 Media Matters didn't post that video,

00:05:58.200 but they should have, because it's quite shocking,

00:06:00.480 literally and figuratively.

00:06:02.020 So, I'll post it for you now.

00:06:03.840 Here it is.

00:06:04.340 The category will be science and nature.

00:06:09.100 Okay.

00:06:09.920 And the three questions.

00:06:12.500 What astrological chart takes its name from a Greek word

00:06:16.860 meaning circle of little animals?

00:06:19.900 Oh, no.

00:06:21.040 No.

00:06:22.200 Hold on.

00:06:23.320 All right.

00:06:24.220 Astrological chart that takes its name from what?

00:06:27.800 Circle.

00:06:28.900 Let me read this again.

00:06:31.460 This sucks, guys.

00:06:32.340 I'm not getting the Taser out.

00:06:33.040 Circle of Little Animals.

00:06:35.160 Circle of Little Animals.

00:06:36.960 The circle of life.

00:06:39.080 Um, um, uh, it, uh...

00:06:41.760 Just answer it.

00:06:45.740 Uh, the answer is, uh, uh...

00:06:48.860 The, uh, the chart of, um...

00:06:52.580 Of, uh...

00:06:54.080 The chart of Magnesia.

00:06:59.160 Oh, come on.

00:07:01.100 Ow!

00:07:03.040 Now, if I should be canceled for anything,

00:07:07.240 uh, it for, it should be for, for being such a,

00:07:09.820 such a pansy in that video.

00:07:12.400 That was embarrassing, actually.

00:07:15.040 Get it together.

00:07:15.660 I mean, it does hurt to get, to get tased.

00:07:17.420 And for some reason, we decided to add the blindfolds into it as well

00:07:20.200 to just make it more,

00:07:21.020 because you never know when the tase is coming.

00:07:22.960 Our biggest mistake was that we used trivial pursuit questions.

00:07:26.080 We used, like, old-school trivial pursuit

00:07:28.340 as the questions for Ted Taser trivia.

00:07:30.720 I don't think anyone got the answer right,

00:07:32.360 so we just got tased 50 times.

00:07:34.720 Anyway, that's the sort of content that you missed out on

00:07:37.360 if you didn't live in southern Delaware in the early 2000s.

00:07:40.600 But there's more.

00:07:41.880 Media Matters reveals that I once challenged the intern

00:07:44.860 to lick the inside of a dumpster,

00:07:47.240 which, again, is true,

00:07:48.720 but the part they leave out

00:07:50.000 is that afterwards we called a doctor on the air

00:07:52.720 to find out what sort of diseases

00:07:54.240 he might have picked up from the stunt.

00:07:56.380 And from what I recall, the answer was many.

00:08:00.540 Also, again, as Media Matters exposes,

00:08:03.460 like any other hacky morning show at the time,

00:08:06.000 we did prank calls,

00:08:07.240 and some of the prank calls were offensive by current standards.

00:08:10.580 Sometimes on a call, I would imitate a black man.

00:08:13.180 On one occasion, I attempted to portray a man

00:08:15.640 with split personalities,

00:08:17.400 one of whom was black and the other white.

00:08:19.760 It was very high-concept sort of work,

00:08:22.460 and it worked better on paper

00:08:23.780 than it did in execution, I can tell you.

00:08:25.540 But not all of our prank calls were racially charged.

00:08:28.980 Only most of them were.

00:08:30.740 We did one where I called a hotel

00:08:32.820 pretending to be a wizard

00:08:35.840 who had left his magical sword in his room.

00:08:39.360 It was, I think without question,

00:08:41.180 the nerdiest prank call anyone has ever made,

00:08:44.000 and it deserves to be recognized as such

00:08:46.880 in the Guinness Book of World Records.

00:08:48.620 I submit.

00:08:49.880 But Media Matters didn't include that video in their expose.

00:08:52.140 Maybe they can find room for it in the follow-up

00:08:54.100 that I'm sure is coming.

00:08:56.220 Yet, it wasn't all fun and games.

00:08:58.420 Media Matters reports that I made

00:08:59.760 politically inflammatory statements,

00:09:01.660 including at a Tea Party rally

00:09:03.000 where I got into an argument

00:09:04.400 with a guy in the audience

00:09:06.340 while I was on the stage,

00:09:07.780 and it ended with me calling him

00:09:09.440 and, quote, old fart.

00:09:10.900 That's the kind of devastating insult

00:09:14.780 I could throw around

00:09:15.780 before I became one myself.

00:09:18.460 But my political extremism

00:09:19.980 wasn't confined to yelling at people

00:09:21.740 at Tea Party rallies.

00:09:23.900 One thing Media Matters doesn't mention,

00:09:25.640 perhaps doesn't know,

00:09:27.160 but now they will,

00:09:28.300 is that I ran for mayor of my town

00:09:31.060 at that time,

00:09:32.780 and I lost by a vote of,

00:09:34.860 if I remember correctly,

00:09:36.380 450 to 26.

00:09:39.100 The campaign ultimately floundered

00:09:40.860 because I never campaigned,

00:09:43.620 and also I had no platform of any kind,

00:09:46.040 and I mainly just entered the race

00:09:47.600 because I thought it would be funny,

00:09:48.760 and it was.

00:09:49.820 And also, I really wanted to try my hand

00:09:52.240 at making a corny campaign ad

00:09:54.340 where I say absolutely nothing of substance.

00:09:57.280 And that, at the end of the day,

00:09:59.000 was really the only reason I ran,

00:10:00.740 was just so that I could do this.

00:10:03.260 Here it is.

00:10:05.780 All right, if we're going to get this belt off,

00:10:09.120 we need to remove the alternator

00:10:10.280 and slip past the water pump.

00:10:11.500 Let me get that half-inch socket.

00:10:14.320 Thanks.

00:10:17.720 All right, why don't you give it a shot here?

00:10:20.660 Oh, hey, how's it going?

00:10:22.560 Friend cranky, I got himself stranded again.

00:10:25.160 Car broken down.

00:10:26.880 You know something?

00:10:28.560 Just strikes me.

00:10:30.060 I think Georgetown's a little broken down too,

00:10:31.800 don't you?

00:10:33.060 But don't worry.

00:10:34.100 Sometimes you just need a friend to come by

00:10:35.580 and help you out of a jam.

00:10:37.020 And that's all I'm going to do

00:10:37.820 as mayor of Georgetown.

00:10:39.280 But to fix a car,

00:10:40.260 just like to fix a broken city,

00:10:41.880 you need a few things.

00:10:43.680 First of all, the right tools.

00:10:45.880 A wrench?

00:10:46.760 Well, works perfect for a car,

00:10:48.300 but not for a city.

00:10:49.720 To fix a city,

00:10:50.400 what you need is some integrity.

00:10:53.160 A little bit of honesty.

00:10:54.600 How about some character?

00:10:56.520 And then there was that LSD

00:10:57.500 we talked about earlier.

00:10:59.040 Loyalty, strength, and devotion.

00:11:00.880 I truly can't believe I only got 26 votes.

00:11:05.840 But it doesn't end there.

00:11:07.800 Other leftists have joined the hunt,

00:11:10.040 digging up their own evidence.

00:11:11.640 And this is when the pile-on starts happening, right?

00:11:15.340 One of them starts it and says,

00:11:16.700 look at all these terrible things.

00:11:18.000 And then everyone else says,

00:11:19.420 I'm going to find more terrible things.

00:11:21.040 And they did.

00:11:21.620 They found more terrible things.

00:11:23.220 One now viral video

00:11:24.880 that's making the rounds online

00:11:26.160 shows me and my co-host

00:11:28.340 burning a book over a charcoal grill.

00:11:31.600 And then we then dance around the flames

00:11:34.140 and make whooping noises like Indians.

00:11:37.800 That's all real.

00:11:39.040 You see that video?

00:11:39.840 It's 100% real.

00:11:40.740 We really did that.

00:11:41.740 But the backstory is that

00:11:42.880 we had the author of that book,

00:11:44.560 whose name I forget,

00:11:45.880 on the show,

00:11:46.780 and he annoyed us

00:11:47.860 for reasons that I also forget.

00:11:49.440 So we said we were going to

00:11:50.760 burn his book in reprisal.

00:11:52.580 And we did.

00:11:54.160 And again, it was funny.

00:11:56.160 Though in hindsight,

00:11:56.940 probably not the best thing to do

00:11:58.140 in the middle of a political campaign.

00:12:00.660 But the left is not satisfied

00:12:02.440 to merely accuse me of racism,

00:12:04.680 terrorism,

00:12:05.920 political extremism,

00:12:07.500 workplace violence.

00:12:09.340 They're also absurdly claiming

00:12:10.680 that I advocated child brides.

00:12:13.920 And for that bit of defamation,

00:12:15.520 they are using another segment

00:12:16.920 from over a decade ago

00:12:18.160 where we discussed the issue

00:12:19.280 of teen pregnancy.

00:12:20.940 And I pointed out that in the past,

00:12:23.060 teen pregnancy wasn't considered a problem

00:12:24.760 because people got married younger.

00:12:26.160 I was attempting to highlight

00:12:27.620 in an admittedly awkward

00:12:28.860 and rambling way

00:12:29.700 in my early 20s,

00:12:30.640 riffing off the top of my head

00:12:31.680 during a rock morning show

00:12:32.680 to an audience of almost no one

00:12:33.960 at the time,

00:12:34.960 the fact that unwed pregnancy

00:12:36.520 is a core problem

00:12:37.560 that plagues our society.

00:12:38.460 And it's still a problem

00:12:39.260 even when the unwed pregnant person

00:12:40.740 is an adult.

00:12:41.800 So no matter the age,

00:12:42.920 I argued at the time,

00:12:43.760 pregnancies become a crisis

00:12:44.780 when they happen outside of marriage

00:12:46.280 without a stable family structure

00:12:48.240 in place to care for the child.

00:12:50.780 This was, again,

00:12:51.540 not an issue in earlier times

00:12:52.860 because people got married young

00:12:54.560 and stayed married.

00:12:55.860 That's not the way

00:12:56.620 our society is today, though,

00:12:57.720 of course.

00:12:58.760 At its core,

00:12:59.600 it's a rather uncontroversial

00:13:01.120 historical observation,

00:13:02.600 but the left has latched on

00:13:04.760 to this point from years ago

00:13:06.140 and tried to use it

00:13:07.240 to flip the groomer label

00:13:08.640 around on me,

00:13:09.780 accusing me of, quote,

00:13:10.740 promoting teen pregnancy

00:13:12.580 and even child rape,

00:13:14.200 as some of the libelist statements

00:13:16.600 would have it.

00:13:17.360 This is a defamatory lie.

00:13:19.440 They know it's a lie,

00:13:20.380 and it shows how desperate they are.

00:13:22.500 They've chosen the most toxic smears available

00:13:25.240 because smears are all they have.

00:13:28.600 Now, in summary,

00:13:29.580 my enemies have thrown

00:13:31.000 every last thing they can at me,

00:13:32.980 the whole kitchen sink

00:13:34.020 and a few of the appliances

00:13:35.260 to go along with it.

00:13:36.780 I'm not the first person

00:13:37.740 to get this treatment, obviously.

00:13:39.120 I certainly won't be the last.

00:13:41.000 Their objective is nothing less

00:13:43.400 than the wholesale destruction

00:13:44.940 of my life and my career.

00:13:46.620 That's what they're going for.

00:13:48.120 That's the price they expect me to pay

00:13:50.620 for opposing them effectively.

00:13:53.240 They hope to force me to submit

00:13:55.340 and apologize,

00:13:56.680 at which point, of course,

00:13:58.240 as it goes,

00:13:58.960 they'll shoo me away

00:14:00.380 with my tail between my legs

00:14:01.740 out of public view,

00:14:02.860 out of the arena,

00:14:03.760 off into obscurity.

00:14:05.440 This is my punishment,

00:14:07.180 you know,

00:14:07.520 the life sentence

00:14:08.400 they expect me to serve

00:14:09.480 for trying to stop them

00:14:10.840 from abusing

00:14:11.820 and butchering children.

00:14:13.540 And it's not just me they're after.

00:14:15.460 You know,

00:14:15.620 they want to send a message

00:14:16.380 to everybody else.

00:14:17.020 They want to send a message

00:14:17.600 to you

00:14:18.100 that if you stand up

00:14:19.580 against them,

00:14:20.420 this is what happens.

00:14:22.100 They want to make me

00:14:23.220 into another head

00:14:24.560 on a spike,

00:14:25.560 one of many.

00:14:26.780 They put out on the edge of town

00:14:28.440 a warning to anyone else

00:14:30.020 who might think about

00:14:31.060 disobeying their rules.

00:14:34.760 So here's my official answer

00:14:36.240 for the record.

00:14:40.160 Kiss my ass.

00:14:41.120 I do not apologize.

00:14:43.380 I do not apologize.

00:14:44.620 In fact,

00:14:45.740 by all rights,

00:14:46.880 you sick freaks

00:14:48.040 should be the ones

00:14:48.840 apologizing to me

00:14:50.400 for lying and defaming me

00:14:52.800 and doing it all

00:14:54.180 because I'm trying to prevent you

00:14:55.940 from sexually mutilating children.

00:14:59.020 You damned monsters.

00:15:01.780 You child-abusing psychopaths.

00:15:04.460 I wouldn't apologize to you

00:15:07.080 soulless parasites

00:15:08.620 if I had a gun to my head.

00:15:12.300 Instead,

00:15:12.900 I'd rather just tell you all

00:15:13.760 to piss off.

00:15:15.020 I apologize for nothing.

00:15:17.280 I concede nothing.

00:15:18.580 I will never surrender

00:15:20.620 even a single inch of ground

00:15:22.440 to a pitchfork mob

00:15:23.840 of degenerate morons.

00:15:27.480 You know,

00:15:28.100 the secret they never say out loud

00:15:29.500 is that nobody is truly canceled

00:15:32.160 unless they consent to it

00:15:33.740 and they willingly play

00:15:35.420 their assigned roles.

00:15:37.380 Well,

00:15:37.740 I do not consent

00:15:38.840 and I'm not going to play the game.

00:15:43.300 I'm not going anywhere.

00:15:45.580 I am more motivated

00:15:47.020 than ever to oppose you

00:15:48.340 and to fight against

00:15:49.920 everything you stand for

00:15:51.160 because I hate

00:15:52.900 everything you stand for

00:15:54.180 and I hate it more

00:15:55.460 with each passing day.

00:15:58.720 So you can try

00:15:59.640 to humiliate me.

00:16:00.660 You can try to ruin

00:16:01.220 my reputation.

00:16:02.160 You can accuse me

00:16:02.760 of all of the most heinous crimes

00:16:04.400 that you can invent

00:16:05.520 in your tiny,

00:16:06.580 feverish little brains.

00:16:08.240 But I am not going anywhere.

00:16:13.100 Staying in a fight.

00:16:14.440 Never leaving.

00:16:16.460 I promise you that.

00:16:18.340 Also for the record,

00:16:20.780 I will always maintain

00:16:21.740 that tasers are a wonderful

00:16:23.320 source of comedy.

00:16:24.860 That's not going to change either.

00:16:27.680 Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:17:28.660 You know,

00:17:29.180 one other thing to note here

00:17:30.100 before we move on

00:17:30.920 is that this is a problem

00:17:33.100 that the left is going to have

00:17:34.380 is that I am uncancellable.

00:17:37.860 I mean,

00:17:38.200 they literally can't do it.

00:17:40.240 You cannot cancel me.

00:17:41.440 It is impossible.

00:17:42.940 And one of the reasons

00:17:43.860 that it's impossible

00:17:44.500 is, as I said,

00:17:45.360 I don't consent to it.

00:17:46.160 I'm not going to go along with it

00:17:47.120 and you always need the person

00:17:48.100 to go along with it.

00:17:49.300 And the other reason

00:17:50.020 is that I work for the Daily Wire

00:17:51.200 who I have their full support

00:17:53.740 and their full backing

00:17:54.680 and that hasn't changed

00:17:57.000 and never is going to change.

00:17:59.600 That's one of the great things

00:18:00.580 about the Daily Wire

00:18:01.240 is that Daily Wire

00:18:02.520 also does not consent

00:18:03.840 to taking part

00:18:05.820 in cancel campaigns,

00:18:08.060 especially ones

00:18:08.980 that are so transparently devised

00:18:11.000 to distract from

00:18:13.040 all of the victories

00:18:14.180 that we're achieving,

00:18:15.620 which is another reason

00:18:16.440 why, you know,

00:18:17.380 if you do support

00:18:18.440 the Daily Wire,

00:18:19.280 I thank you for that.

00:18:20.680 And if you don't,

00:18:21.320 if you're not a member yet,

00:18:22.060 you should really think

00:18:22.920 about joining the team.

00:18:26.680 Speaking of things

00:18:27.420 that we're fighting against,

00:18:28.560 I've had this on the docket

00:18:30.060 for several days

00:18:31.020 and I haven't gotten

00:18:31.840 to it yet,

00:18:32.320 so now seems like

00:18:33.940 a good time to get to it.

00:18:35.160 We'll begin the five headlines

00:18:36.040 with it.

00:18:36.600 This is from Vox

00:18:38.260 and the headline is,

00:18:40.820 What's so scary

00:18:41.700 about a transgender child?

00:18:45.420 And then the subheading,

00:18:46.600 Stop worrying about

00:18:47.540 what happens

00:18:48.200 if we let kids transition.

00:18:50.560 Worry about what happens

00:18:51.620 if we don't.

00:18:52.540 So this is the,

00:18:56.020 this is, of course,

00:18:56.880 how the narrative works

00:18:57.780 is that first we're told,

00:19:00.480 I mean, for months

00:19:01.640 and months and months

00:19:02.160 we've been told

00:19:02.740 that they're not transitioning

00:19:03.940 children,

00:19:04.320 what are you talking about?

00:19:04.820 That's crazy.

00:19:05.580 That's not happening.

00:19:06.280 That's misinformation.

00:19:07.120 You're making that up.

00:19:08.220 And now they're saying,

00:19:09.680 what do you mean?

00:19:10.660 What's the big deal with,

00:19:11.600 in fact,

00:19:12.300 we have to transition them

00:19:13.600 because it's,

00:19:14.560 if we don't,

00:19:15.440 the scary thing

00:19:16.260 is if we don't transition them.

00:19:17.440 So it's,

00:19:20.360 it's,

00:19:20.840 that's not happening.

00:19:22.020 That would never happen.

00:19:23.180 Also,

00:19:23.700 it is happening

00:19:24.480 and it must happen.

00:19:26.000 And you're a terrible person

00:19:27.400 if you don't want it to happen.

00:19:28.620 So they are asserting

00:19:29.780 all of those things

00:19:30.740 at the same exact time

00:19:32.020 simultaneously.

00:19:33.940 Reading a little bit

00:19:34.620 from the article,

00:19:35.080 it says,

00:19:35.480 Lily Osler,

00:19:36.520 who is,

00:19:36.960 who is disclosure,

00:19:38.580 a friend in parentheses,

00:19:39.860 perfectly captures

00:19:40.580 the terror of puberty

00:19:41.740 for trans kids

00:19:42.740 in a Waco Tribune

00:19:43.960 Herald piece

00:19:44.800 exploring Texas's

00:19:46.280 ongoing crackdown

00:19:47.340 on trans youth.

00:19:49.140 Now,

00:19:49.400 quoting it says,

00:19:50.100 puberty blockers

00:19:50.780 are reversible,

00:19:51.760 but the puberty

00:19:52.360 that transgender kids

00:19:53.400 would go through

00:19:54.040 without them isn't.

00:19:55.940 Puberty writes itself

00:19:56.920 into our bones

00:19:57.860 without blockers

00:19:59.160 and at an appropriate age

00:20:00.400 hormones.

00:20:01.140 It forces transgender girls

00:20:02.860 who are girls

00:20:03.420 like any other

00:20:03.980 to grow facial hair

00:20:05.300 and broad angular features

00:20:07.100 and forces transgender boys

00:20:09.040 to grow breasts

00:20:09.940 and wide hips.

00:20:11.640 I mean,

00:20:11.960 you have to,

00:20:13.680 you have to appreciate

00:20:14.400 that sentence there.

00:20:16.060 It forces transgender

00:20:17.280 girls who are girls

00:20:18.580 like any other

00:20:19.120 to grow facial hair

00:20:20.720 and broad angular features.

00:20:22.580 Well,

00:20:23.100 that would seem to indicate

00:20:25.000 that they're not girls

00:20:25.920 like any other.

00:20:26.620 I mean,

00:20:26.820 if they're growing

00:20:27.320 full-on beards

00:20:28.920 and,

00:20:29.300 you know,

00:20:29.580 they,

00:20:29.920 and,

00:20:30.340 and,

00:20:30.760 if they're growing

00:20:32.880 the features

00:20:34.660 of a,

00:20:35.160 of a boy,

00:20:35.780 then it would seem

00:20:36.760 to be a pretty good indication

00:20:37.500 that they're not girls

00:20:38.400 like any other.

00:20:41.520 And what forces it?

00:20:42.620 They say,

00:20:42.920 it forces,

00:20:43.680 it forces.

00:20:44.240 So what,

00:20:44.460 what are we,

00:20:45.180 what are we talking about here?

00:20:46.860 We're talking about nature.

00:20:48.120 We're talking about,

00:20:48.940 it's,

00:20:49.520 it is so incoherent

00:20:51.340 to talk about puberty

00:20:52.620 this way.

00:20:53.140 It's incoherent

00:20:53.600 to talk about

00:20:54.160 the,

00:20:54.900 the development

00:20:55.580 of the human body

00:20:56.360 in this way.

00:20:56.680 It's like if I said,

00:20:57.980 you know,

00:20:59.380 I,

00:20:59.620 I am forced

00:21:00.760 to be six foot one.

00:21:03.240 It's really like

00:21:03.900 six foot three quarters,

00:21:05.160 but we'll call it six foot one.

00:21:05.960 I am forced

00:21:07.060 to be six foot one.

00:21:09.540 Now,

00:21:10.080 on,

00:21:10.440 on some level,

00:21:12.020 that's true,

00:21:14.020 I guess.

00:21:14.500 I mean,

00:21:14.760 I,

00:21:14.900 I don't,

00:21:15.280 I don't have a choice

00:21:15.900 in the matter.

00:21:16.280 I don't decide

00:21:16.960 what my height is,

00:21:18.440 but it's such an odd

00:21:20.240 and misleading way

00:21:21.760 of putting it,

00:21:22.340 isn't it?

00:21:22.860 Intentionally misleading.

00:21:24.800 Because force

00:21:25.600 sounds like there's

00:21:26.460 some existential,

00:21:29.460 you know,

00:21:29.880 force that there's like another,

00:21:30.800 there's some other force

00:21:31.840 out there.

00:21:32.320 Some,

00:21:32.660 someone who's doing this

00:21:33.940 to you,

00:21:34.480 who's making you,

00:21:35.680 like someone made me be

00:21:37.840 six foot one,

00:21:39.600 give or take.

00:21:41.380 When that is just,

00:21:42.480 that's just nature.

00:21:43.380 That's,

00:21:43.640 that's simply what I am.

00:21:49.980 Continues,

00:21:50.680 its effects can only be reversed

00:21:52.200 by very expensive

00:21:53.240 and difficult to access

00:21:54.260 surgeries in adulthood

00:21:55.200 and even then

00:21:56.400 only partially.

00:21:58.500 Continuing,

00:21:59.200 it says,

00:21:59.960 quote,

00:22:00.620 this is not experimental care.

00:22:02.380 This is care that's been around

00:22:03.540 in a very formal fashion

00:22:04.640 for over 50 years,

00:22:05.680 said Michelle Forcier,

00:22:06.900 a professor at Browns University

00:22:08.040 Medical School

00:22:08.660 and co-editor

00:22:09.320 of Pediatric Gender Identity.

00:22:11.180 We know that there are studies

00:22:12.400 that demonstrate

00:22:13.040 efficacy and safety.

00:22:14.060 It's also interesting

00:22:17.220 that Michelle Forcier,

00:22:18.940 we read an article,

00:22:20.700 I forget which article it was,

00:22:21.700 we read an article last week

00:22:22.700 where she,

00:22:23.420 she popped up

00:22:24.040 and she was featured

00:22:24.580 in the article.

00:22:25.240 So,

00:22:25.820 she obviously is in

00:22:26.920 What is a Woman?

00:22:27.320 We talked to her

00:22:27.720 in What is a Woman?

00:22:28.200 and now,

00:22:30.260 I'm very loathe to say,

00:22:33.100 to say the sentence

00:22:33.860 I'm about to say,

00:22:34.460 but to her credit,

00:22:36.120 maybe,

00:22:37.660 she is at least willing

00:22:38.780 to talk about this,

00:22:40.880 sort of willing.

00:22:41.720 I mean,

00:22:42.120 she,

00:22:42.580 well,

00:22:42.760 she threatened to get up

00:22:43.360 and leave the room

00:22:44.260 multiple times

00:22:44.980 during our conversation,

00:22:46.040 but she did sit there.

00:22:47.820 She's at least willing

00:22:48.800 to defend,

00:22:50.260 sort of,

00:22:52.020 gender ideology.

00:22:53.640 But it just goes to show

00:22:54.980 that there are so few

00:22:56.480 willing to publicly defend it.

00:22:58.860 There are so few

00:22:59.600 who are willing

00:22:59.980 to publicly defend it

00:23:00.660 even to sympathetic people,

00:23:04.380 even in a sympathetic context,

00:23:06.520 like talking to Vox.

00:23:09.120 There are so few

00:23:09.920 who are willing to do it

00:23:10.620 because they know that they're,

00:23:11.680 at some level,

00:23:12.400 they know their position

00:23:12.960 is indefensible.

00:23:14.200 So,

00:23:14.480 there's a relatively small,

00:23:16.580 even though this ideology

00:23:17.960 has gripped hold

00:23:18.860 of our whole society,

00:23:19.800 there's a relatively small

00:23:21.240 circle of people

00:23:24.000 who they have to pull from.

00:23:26.440 And anytime they want

00:23:26.920 to write an article

00:23:27.820 promoting this stuff,

00:23:29.300 there's only a few people

00:23:30.420 that are available

00:23:31.780 because only a few people

00:23:32.760 are willing to actually

00:23:33.860 defend this stuff.

00:23:37.080 Continues,

00:23:37.620 the recent hyper-focus

00:23:38.600 on trans youth

00:23:39.420 is largely a media invention,

00:23:41.360 says Jill Peterson,

00:23:44.400 a history professor

00:23:45.680 at Johns Hopkins University.

00:23:47.780 Trans people and trans youth

00:23:48.960 were never really objects

00:23:50.260 of the media

00:23:50.780 until recently.

00:23:51.660 I really don't think

00:23:52.400 most people

00:23:53.020 ever encountered the idea

00:23:54.200 that they shared the world

00:23:55.180 with trans youth

00:23:55.960 until the last 10 years.

00:23:59.840 Well,

00:24:00.280 that I actually agree with.

00:24:03.480 Yeah,

00:24:04.020 I know this is not

00:24:05.140 how they mean it,

00:24:06.360 but,

00:24:07.340 quote,

00:24:07.520 trans youth,

00:24:08.240 yeah,

00:24:08.420 that is an invention

00:24:09.320 of the media.

00:24:10.200 And not just the media.

00:24:11.960 I mean,

00:24:12.280 academia,

00:24:13.520 medical industry,

00:24:14.680 lots of other institutions,

00:24:16.020 but largely the media.

00:24:17.320 This is,

00:24:17.580 this is,

00:24:18.440 and you're right.

00:24:19.960 It's absolutely correct

00:24:21.120 that up until 10 years ago,

00:24:22.740 nobody was really talking

00:24:24.180 about trans kids.

00:24:25.680 And we're talking about it now

00:24:27.320 because of the media.

00:24:30.380 But that's because

00:24:31.320 the trans kids didn't exist

00:24:32.580 prior to about 10 years ago.

00:24:36.260 There were almost none at all.

00:24:38.960 There were almost no kids

00:24:40.380 who would identify as trans

00:24:41.660 10 years ago or before that.

00:24:42.760 Now there are a whole bunch

00:24:44.520 thanks to the media

00:24:46.020 and social media

00:24:46.880 and all these other institutions.

00:24:51.160 It says,

00:24:51.940 the recency of the hypervisibility

00:24:53.820 powers the notion

00:24:54.820 that trans healthcare

00:24:55.760 is somehow still experimental,

00:24:57.940 abstracting something

00:24:58.840 that is fraught

00:24:59.540 with life and death stakes.

00:25:01.560 For a trans person,

00:25:02.560 the changes dictate

00:25:03.360 by the body

00:25:04.240 that they were born into

00:25:05.880 prove incredibly painful,

00:25:07.580 destabilizing,

00:25:08.440 or even life-threatening.

00:25:10.400 Jack Turbin.

00:25:11.080 So I told you,

00:25:12.120 they're always pulling

00:25:12.740 from the same pool of people.

00:25:14.780 And Jack Turbin's another guy

00:25:15.760 that always pops up

00:25:18.120 in these articles

00:25:18.660 because there are only a few

00:25:19.840 that are willing to talk about it.

00:25:21.340 The risks of withholding

00:25:22.280 gender-affirming care,

00:25:23.200 he says,

00:25:23.820 vary from patient to patient

00:25:25.080 but often involve

00:25:25.920 things like

00:25:26.960 worsening anxiety,

00:25:28.120 depression,

00:25:28.680 and suicidality.

00:25:30.140 Recent legislation

00:25:30.920 to take affirming

00:25:31.860 medical care

00:25:32.900 as an option away

00:25:34.060 across the board

00:25:34.760 is extremely dangerous

00:25:35.580 and will lead to bad outcomes.

00:25:37.460 A 2022 study

00:25:38.420 published in the

00:25:39.180 Canadian Medical Association

00:25:40.100 Journal found that

00:25:40.740 trans teens

00:25:41.320 were 7.6 times

00:25:42.300 more likely

00:25:42.780 to attempt suicide

00:25:43.540 than their cis peers.

00:25:47.280 And, I mean,

00:25:47.960 that's pretty much

00:25:48.840 the article.

00:25:49.440 I mean,

00:25:49.480 it goes on much longer

00:25:50.140 than that.

00:25:51.240 And yet again,

00:25:53.340 you know,

00:25:53.580 that part is also true.

00:25:55.340 That the suicidality

00:25:58.200 among trans-identified people

00:25:59.900 is, I mean,

00:26:00.760 it's at least 7.6 times higher.

00:26:02.460 I've, you know,

00:26:03.160 there are some statistics

00:26:03.900 that would say,

00:26:04.820 you know,

00:26:06.220 10 times higher and more.

00:26:07.260 The attempted suicide rate

00:26:10.240 I think is like

00:26:10.960 40% or something

00:26:12.180 around there.

00:26:13.260 It's just,

00:26:13.880 it's,

00:26:14.140 these are staggering numbers.

00:26:16.820 But what they,

00:26:18.280 what they don't tell you

00:26:21.920 is,

00:26:23.380 they don't tell you

00:26:23.860 two things.

00:26:24.840 First of all,

00:26:25.420 they don't tell you

00:26:26.060 that it is the,

00:26:27.720 the disconnect

00:26:29.980 that a person has.

00:26:32.100 You know,

00:26:32.600 the fact that they have

00:26:33.660 delusions about themselves,

00:26:34.720 the fact that they're not able

00:26:35.620 to accept themselves

00:26:36.460 for who they are.

00:26:37.220 We talked about

00:26:37.720 self-acceptance yesterday,

00:26:38.720 true self-acceptance,

00:26:39.700 accepting yourself

00:26:40.380 for who you really are.

00:26:41.640 If you're not able

00:26:42.500 to do that,

00:26:43.700 if you're having trouble

00:26:44.240 doing that,

00:26:45.140 then yeah,

00:26:45.760 that's going to lead

00:26:46.200 to despair,

00:26:46.860 that's going to lead

00:26:47.320 to hopelessness,

00:26:48.220 and in the most tragic

00:26:49.800 scenarios,

00:26:50.260 it leads to suicide.

00:26:51.780 So what do you do

00:26:52.720 about that?

00:26:53.300 Well,

00:26:53.500 you help someone

00:26:54.340 to accept themselves,

00:26:55.960 you help them

00:26:56.520 to understand

00:26:57.360 who they actually are

00:26:59.660 and that it's good

00:27:00.320 to be who they are

00:27:01.160 and there's nothing

00:27:01.580 wrong with it

00:27:02.300 and they should embrace it.

00:27:03.560 And yes,

00:27:05.840 there are many

00:27:06.720 different ways

00:27:07.340 to be who you are.

00:27:09.280 So if you're a boy,

00:27:10.480 that doesn't mean

00:27:10.980 that every boy

00:27:11.560 has to wear

00:27:11.980 exactly the same thing,

00:27:13.240 like they're all

00:27:13.660 walking around

00:27:14.060 in uniforms all the time,

00:27:14.980 or they all have to have

00:27:15.680 exactly the same hobbies

00:27:16.680 or exactly the same

00:27:17.800 temperaments and personalities.

00:27:18.960 There are many

00:27:19.280 different ways

00:27:19.700 to be yourself,

00:27:20.900 but you are yourself

00:27:22.140 and you can't change that.

00:27:25.020 And the other thing

00:27:25.660 they don't tell you

00:27:26.140 is that yes,

00:27:27.180 the suicide rate is high,

00:27:28.200 but are there studies

00:27:29.600 proving that this

00:27:31.140 gender-affirming care

00:27:32.300 reduces the suicide rate?

00:27:35.440 And the answer is no.

00:27:35.960 They'll tell you

00:27:36.360 that there are,

00:27:37.020 but the answer in fact

00:27:37.740 is no.

00:27:38.320 And the only long-term

00:27:39.660 incredible study on this

00:27:40.600 has shown that in fact

00:27:41.780 suicide rate is highest

00:27:43.540 after transition

00:27:44.760 than before.

00:27:46.300 All right.

00:27:47.080 Joe Biden went down

00:27:48.460 to Florida

00:27:49.020 to get in the way

00:27:50.100 during the cleanup efforts

00:27:51.600 and he also said this.

00:27:54.300 We're in a situation

00:27:55.100 where the Colorado River

00:27:56.180 looks more like a stream.

00:27:57.960 There's a lot going on.

00:27:59.840 And I think the one thing

00:28:00.860 this has finally ended

00:28:01.880 is a discussion

00:28:02.700 about whether or not

00:28:03.440 there's climate change

00:28:04.320 and we should do

00:28:04.820 something about it.

00:28:06.160 But folks,

00:28:06.800 I also want to,

00:28:08.540 Jill and I have had

00:28:09.820 you all in our prayers.

00:28:12.140 So the hurricane

00:28:13.740 ends the discussion

00:28:14.940 about climate change.

00:28:17.300 Why does it do that exactly?

00:28:19.920 I'm trying to,

00:28:20.700 I'm trying to draw the,

00:28:23.680 figure out the connection

00:28:24.480 and I don't see it.

00:28:25.480 So why would this

00:28:27.340 particular hurricane

00:28:28.340 end the discussion

00:28:30.420 about climate change?

00:28:31.660 Now, does it end the discussion

00:28:32.980 about whether there is

00:28:33.800 climate change?

00:28:35.460 For the millionth time,

00:28:37.200 we can't really end

00:28:38.520 that discussion

00:28:39.140 because there never was

00:28:40.020 a discussion about that.

00:28:41.040 No one is debating that.

00:28:43.440 Nobody denies

00:28:44.420 that the climate's changed.

00:28:46.920 The climate is

00:28:47.460 in a constant state of flux.

00:28:48.580 It's changing all the time.

00:28:49.480 It changes every second

00:28:50.400 of every day.

00:28:51.540 In fact, everything,

00:28:52.700 you know that,

00:28:53.060 that's everything in life.

00:28:54.880 That's one of the

00:28:55.620 sometimes bittersweet,

00:28:57.700 sometimes tragic,

00:28:58.580 but, you know,

00:28:59.360 it's just a,

00:28:59.740 it's a reality of life

00:29:00.800 that everything changes

00:29:02.260 all the time.

00:29:03.060 If you, you know,

00:29:05.100 if I were to get up

00:29:06.100 and leave this room

00:29:07.040 and then I come back

00:29:08.360 to it five seconds later,

00:29:09.540 nothing in this room

00:29:10.340 is exactly the same

00:29:11.280 as it was before I left.

00:29:12.880 Because on some,

00:29:13.960 even at,

00:29:14.300 even at maybe at a level

00:29:15.060 that I can't see,

00:29:15.740 at a microscopic level,

00:29:16.600 things are changing

00:29:17.280 and moving around

00:29:17.660 all the time, right?

00:29:19.720 And then when you,

00:29:20.520 when you expand that out

00:29:21.340 to the macro,

00:29:22.000 that is certainly

00:29:24.440 even more the case.

00:29:26.040 And something like

00:29:26.980 the climate,

00:29:27.700 which is by its nature

00:29:29.740 volatile,

00:29:31.640 ever-changing,

00:29:32.960 ever-developing.

00:29:34.520 So,

00:29:35.320 it doesn't end

00:29:36.580 that conversation

00:29:37.200 because there never

00:29:37.640 was any conversation.

00:29:39.820 But I think,

00:29:40.140 I think what he really means

00:29:41.300 is that it ends

00:29:42.080 the conversation,

00:29:43.100 it ends the debate

00:29:44.000 about

00:29:45.200 the degree

00:29:48.800 to which human beings

00:29:49.940 contribute to climate change

00:29:51.300 and he also thinks

00:29:52.680 it ends the debate

00:29:53.360 about,

00:29:53.960 you know,

00:29:54.780 whether or not

00:29:55.360 we should put

00:29:56.300 all these various policies

00:29:57.640 that Democrats support

00:29:58.520 in place

00:29:59.100 to combat climate change.

00:30:00.440 That's what he really means.

00:30:02.740 And as far as that goes,

00:30:04.200 I'm not sure,

00:30:04.940 does he think

00:30:05.300 this is the first hurricane

00:30:06.060 that's ever happened?

00:30:07.340 Why would this hurricane

00:30:08.440 end the conversation

00:30:09.420 but not the hurricane

00:30:10.300 before that

00:30:10.920 or that or that or that

00:30:11.620 or not,

00:30:12.100 why not the next one?

00:30:14.000 Because the other thing

00:30:16.820 about the climate

00:30:17.360 is that

00:30:18.260 along with changing

00:30:19.260 all the time,

00:30:20.200 as I said,

00:30:20.640 it's volatile

00:30:21.120 and in a constant

00:30:23.240 state of flux

00:30:23.840 and that means

00:30:25.860 that it's constantly

00:30:26.840 creating

00:30:27.380 catastrophic weather events

00:30:29.100 all the time,

00:30:30.020 including hurricanes.

00:30:31.260 And that has happened

00:30:32.120 for literally

00:30:32.740 billions of years.

00:30:36.040 All right,

00:30:36.320 this is from Daily Wire.

00:30:36.940 It says,

00:30:37.200 months after an Ohio

00:30:38.220 high school

00:30:39.080 hosted a drag event

00:30:40.100 featuring multiple

00:30:41.160 performers

00:30:41.640 who encouraged students

00:30:42.600 to explore

00:30:43.160 their gender identities,

00:30:44.940 one mother

00:30:45.400 wearing the same outfit

00:30:46.360 as one of the performers

00:30:47.180 blasted school board members

00:30:48.540 over their alleged failure

00:30:49.820 to address parental concerns.

00:30:52.420 So she came

00:30:53.360 to the school board meeting

00:30:54.680 wearing one of the outfits

00:30:56.220 that a drag performer

00:30:59.120 at the school

00:30:59.620 had worn.

00:31:00.540 And she was doing that

00:31:01.160 to make a point.

00:31:02.280 As revealed

00:31:02.940 by a previous report

00:31:03.840 from the Daily Wire

00:31:04.580 and videos captured

00:31:06.140 by libs of TikTok,

00:31:07.440 the Gay Straight Alliance Club

00:31:08.980 at N. Kenny High School

00:31:10.940 invited drag queen performers

00:31:12.240 in May for their

00:31:13.100 end-of-year meeting

00:31:14.020 without obtaining permission

00:31:15.280 from administrators.

00:31:16.520 One of the drag queens

00:31:17.400 donned a one-shouldered

00:31:18.960 black leotard

00:31:20.380 and long black boots

00:31:22.180 before performing

00:31:22.980 a provocative dance

00:31:24.080 for students.

00:31:25.200 Kimberly Rikes,

00:31:26.140 the founder of parental rights group

00:31:27.780 Iowa Mama Bears,

00:31:29.820 noted during public comments

00:31:30.840 at a Monday school board meeting

00:31:32.140 that officials have neglected

00:31:33.620 to provide the results

00:31:34.580 of their investigation.

00:31:35.600 Halfway through her remarks,

00:31:36.440 the mother of seven

00:31:37.020 removed her sweatpants

00:31:38.040 and her jacket

00:31:39.020 to reveal the same outfit

00:31:40.400 that the drag queen

00:31:41.160 had been wearing.

00:31:42.240 She says in the clip,

00:31:43.740 she says,

00:31:44.120 does this outfit

00:31:44.580 make your head turn?

00:31:45.780 Does this outfit

00:31:46.280 seem appropriate

00:31:46.840 for anybody here to see?

00:31:48.840 This is what the man

00:31:49.880 dressed like

00:31:50.520 in front of your kids.

00:31:52.080 So if this makes

00:31:52.840 your head spin,

00:31:53.500 if this pisses you off

00:31:54.340 in any way,

00:31:54.820 shape, or form,

00:31:55.460 it should,

00:31:56.460 because I'm embarrassed

00:31:57.240 to stand here

00:31:57.820 in the outfit

00:31:58.220 that I'm in today,

00:31:59.140 but I have a point

00:32:00.700 to prove

00:32:01.180 that this outfit

00:32:02.060 should not ever be accepted

00:32:03.140 in our schools anywhere.

00:32:04.360 And that is a,

00:32:08.240 I mean,

00:32:10.440 a pretty brilliant maneuver

00:32:11.360 on her part.

00:32:12.880 And it really does,

00:32:13.880 I think,

00:32:14.200 send a message.

00:32:14.760 It makes the point

00:32:15.400 that, you know,

00:32:19.560 the absurdity,

00:32:22.060 just the abject absurdity

00:32:23.600 of all of this

00:32:24.300 is that, you know,

00:32:27.540 it is now considered

00:32:29.360 appropriate

00:32:31.120 for men

00:32:33.140 to wear

00:32:33.740 women's outfits,

00:32:35.640 certain types

00:32:36.240 of women's outfits

00:32:37.680 in context

00:32:38.900 when it would not

00:32:39.880 be considered appropriate

00:32:40.760 even for a woman

00:32:41.760 to wear them.

00:32:44.600 I think this is

00:32:45.180 just a perfect way

00:32:46.720 to prove that point.

00:32:48.380 Yeah,

00:32:48.700 she looks ridiculous

00:32:50.020 wearing that outfit

00:32:51.020 at a school function.

00:32:52.640 It's just not

00:32:53.020 an appropriate outfit.

00:32:55.320 It's not even appropriate

00:32:56.320 for women.

00:32:57.080 And if it's not appropriate

00:32:57.680 for women,

00:32:58.280 it would be,

00:32:58.880 it's not that it's

00:32:59.420 less appropriate for men,

00:33:00.220 it would be even more

00:33:00.880 inappropriate for men.

00:33:04.660 Obviously.

00:33:06.600 Now,

00:33:07.000 I point this out

00:33:07.460 all the time

00:33:07.900 with the drag shows

00:33:10.620 where they invite kids

00:33:11.440 to it.

00:33:13.000 This is what's insane

00:33:14.600 about it,

00:33:14.880 one of the many things

00:33:15.500 that's insane about it,

00:33:16.680 that if you were

00:33:17.540 to take all those men

00:33:18.680 and keep everything

00:33:20.620 the same,

00:33:21.940 outfits are the same,

00:33:24.000 performances are the same,

00:33:26.340 the, you know,

00:33:26.980 giving tips,

00:33:27.680 the kids running up there

00:33:28.900 with money,

00:33:29.620 cash tips

00:33:30.620 to give to the performers,

00:33:32.560 keep all that the same,

00:33:34.160 but instead,

00:33:36.360 make them women.

00:33:38.480 If that was the case,

00:33:39.500 then everyone

00:33:40.120 would probably agree

00:33:41.240 that this is not

00:33:42.020 appropriate for kids.

00:33:44.620 Because if they're

00:33:45.380 actual women

00:33:46.060 rather than men

00:33:46.720 dressed up like women,

00:33:48.020 it becomes

00:33:49.140 what it is,

00:33:50.620 which is a burlesque

00:33:51.680 performance.

00:33:53.520 Drag is,

00:33:54.220 is male burlesque.

00:33:55.820 It is a male burlesque

00:33:56.940 performance.

00:33:58.900 Now,

00:33:59.500 you can feel however

00:34:00.280 you feel about

00:34:00.740 burlesque performances,

00:34:02.040 and if you're an adult

00:34:03.420 and you're in Las Vegas

00:34:04.560 and you want to go

00:34:05.040 to something like that,

00:34:06.620 you can,

00:34:08.280 but would anyone

00:34:09.000 really think

00:34:09.660 that it's appropriate

00:34:10.600 to bring a kid

00:34:11.380 to a burlesque performance,

00:34:14.300 much less to have one

00:34:15.440 at a school?

00:34:18.400 And anyone who suggested

00:34:19.500 that,

00:34:19.760 you would say,

00:34:20.100 well,

00:34:20.280 why?

00:34:21.500 Why do you want this

00:34:22.340 in the school?

00:34:23.480 What's the point

00:34:24.180 of all the things,

00:34:25.060 of all the ways

00:34:26.480 that we could use

00:34:27.060 the time?

00:34:27.680 You want to bring

00:34:28.200 someone in

00:34:28.780 and we want to use

00:34:29.520 the auditorium

00:34:30.220 and we could do

00:34:31.520 something education

00:34:32.140 and you want to

00:34:32.380 have a burlesque?

00:34:34.000 We would totally

00:34:35.580 reject that for women,

00:34:37.020 but you switch them out

00:34:40.080 and make them men

00:34:41.040 and it's supposed

00:34:42.040 to be now

00:34:42.580 suddenly acceptable.

00:34:46.080 All right,

00:34:46.680 moving on,

00:34:47.180 this is from

00:34:47.840 The Daily Wire.

00:34:49.140 It says,

00:34:49.340 the Satanic Temple

00:34:50.220 filed lawsuits

00:34:51.160 in federal court

00:34:52.080 against Idaho

00:34:53.460 and Indiana

00:34:53.980 last month

00:34:54.640 over near-total

00:34:55.500 abortion bans

00:34:56.240 in both states,

00:34:57.640 citing a list

00:34:58.160 of accusations

00:34:58.780 surrounding religious

00:34:59.600 rights blocking

00:35:01.000 a woman's right

00:35:02.360 to engage

00:35:02.820 in the Satanic

00:35:03.680 abortion ritual.

00:35:05.580 In the wake

00:35:06.440 of the U.S. Supreme Court

00:35:07.480 overturning Roe v. Wade

00:35:08.480 with the Dobs' decision,

00:35:09.740 James McNaughton,

00:35:11.100 who's an attorney

00:35:11.740 representing

00:35:12.320 the Satanic Temple,

00:35:14.540 told Axios

00:35:15.240 that the historic

00:35:16.320 reversal that returned

00:35:17.420 abortion access

00:35:18.100 to the states

00:35:18.800 has, quote,

00:35:20.200 woken a sleeping giant

00:35:21.660 among women politically

00:35:22.740 and have stirred up

00:35:23.520 a hornet's nest

00:35:24.300 of legal issues.

00:35:27.220 McNaughton added,

00:35:28.160 quote,

00:35:28.520 Gorsuch,

00:35:29.540 you want a national

00:35:30.400 debate on abortion?

00:35:31.680 Congratulations,

00:35:32.460 you have one.

00:35:33.940 Now,

00:35:35.380 yeah,

00:35:35.600 we've seen a lot

00:35:36.440 of headlines about this

00:35:37.280 and the Satanic Temple

00:35:38.880 has been very involved.

00:35:40.460 They were very upset

00:35:41.580 about abortion,

00:35:44.120 so-called abortion rights

00:35:45.060 being taken away

00:35:46.020 in some states,

00:35:46.800 even though that's

00:35:48.560 happening in states

00:35:49.300 where I'm guessing

00:35:50.640 there are very few,

00:35:52.040 you know,

00:35:53.760 professing Satanists.

00:35:55.700 But even so,

00:35:56.500 they're very upset about it,

00:35:57.540 and so the Satanic Temple,

00:35:59.520 they want to position

00:36:00.540 themselves

00:36:01.140 at the forefront

00:36:02.300 of this conversation.

00:36:03.220 They want to make

00:36:03.920 themselves leaders

00:36:05.060 in the fight

00:36:07.500 for, quote,

00:36:08.780 unquote,

00:36:09.080 abortion rights,

00:36:10.120 and I think that's great.

00:36:11.620 I think it's just fantastic.

00:36:14.080 I hope they continue

00:36:15.600 in these efforts.

00:36:16.800 I really do.

00:36:18.580 And I also agree

00:36:21.240 that they should be

00:36:22.260 at the lead.

00:36:23.440 They should be

00:36:23.780 in the forefront.

00:36:24.700 They should be

00:36:25.060 at the head of the parade.

00:36:27.760 Because it is exactly right

00:36:29.460 that abortion

00:36:30.540 is a Satanic ritual.

00:36:32.680 So the more the Satanists

00:36:34.060 outright profess Satanists,

00:36:36.020 the more they're involved,

00:36:38.120 the more it puts this issue

00:36:40.760 in the correct framing,

00:36:42.940 puts it in its proper place,

00:36:44.760 that abortion

00:36:46.540 is a Satanic ritual.

00:36:49.020 And why is it

00:36:49.780 a Satanic ritual?

00:36:50.860 Why do they consider it sacred?

00:36:53.040 Well, you can ask them that,

00:36:53.780 and they'll tell you.

00:36:54.260 They're pretty open about it.

00:36:55.640 And the reason is that

00:36:56.660 the people that profess

00:36:59.220 themselves to be Satanists,

00:37:00.800 most of them

00:37:02.080 don't think of themselves

00:37:04.200 as literally

00:37:05.140 worshiping the devil.

00:37:06.120 In fact,

00:37:08.600 they would reject

00:37:09.660 that the devil

00:37:10.560 even exists.

00:37:11.720 And yet they've named

00:37:12.880 themselves after him.

00:37:14.720 Why is that?

00:37:15.320 Because

00:37:15.680 rather than

00:37:17.580 openly worshiping

00:37:19.400 the devil,

00:37:20.460 they are doing,

00:37:21.340 they're modeling

00:37:21.940 themselves after Satan.

00:37:23.260 They are doing

00:37:23.740 what Satan does.

00:37:25.080 So instead of WWJD,

00:37:26.560 it's WWSD for them.

00:37:28.440 And Satan

00:37:29.480 worshiped himself

00:37:30.900 while he was cast

00:37:32.300 out of heaven,

00:37:32.900 right?

00:37:33.740 As Scripture tells us.

00:37:34.540 So that's what

00:37:36.260 Satanists do.

00:37:37.560 Satanism is the worship

00:37:38.680 of the self.

00:37:39.660 It's not really

00:37:40.280 the worship of Satan.

00:37:41.120 It's the worship of

00:37:42.680 what Satan worshiped,

00:37:43.360 which is the self.

00:37:45.500 And when it comes

00:37:45.940 to worshiping the self,

00:37:48.440 if you have made

00:37:49.000 the self

00:37:49.600 into your God

00:37:50.900 and that's

00:37:51.980 your religion,

00:37:53.940 then yeah,

00:37:55.720 abortion for them

00:37:56.520 becomes this

00:37:57.300 sacred sacrament,

00:37:58.880 this unholy sacrament.

00:38:01.760 Because you are

00:38:02.520 sacrificing.

00:38:03.320 It is a blood

00:38:04.060 sacrifice

00:38:05.000 to the self.

00:38:07.840 You are sacrificing

00:38:08.880 your own children

00:38:09.840 for yourself

00:38:13.180 so that yourself

00:38:14.120 can be,

00:38:14.900 you know,

00:38:15.080 so that you can

00:38:15.800 have comfort

00:38:17.860 and luxury

00:38:18.360 and not be inconvenienced

00:38:19.600 and everything else.

00:38:21.860 It's really

00:38:22.500 the ultimate statement.

00:38:24.540 It's,

00:38:24.800 if you can think

00:38:25.980 of a statement,

00:38:28.840 there's no more

00:38:30.080 profound and dramatic

00:38:30.980 way to make the statement

00:38:32.000 that I care about

00:38:33.320 myself above

00:38:34.380 anything and everything

00:38:36.020 in the universe.

00:38:40.280 The ultimate declaration

00:38:42.120 is by

00:38:43.720 killing your own child.

00:38:46.780 You're saying,

00:38:47.820 I don't even,

00:38:48.220 I put myself

00:38:49.260 even above my own child.

00:38:52.160 All right,

00:38:52.660 this is from Fox News.

00:38:53.780 It says,

00:38:53.980 the animal rights activist

00:38:55.120 who ran onto the field

00:38:56.500 with a pink smoke bomb

00:38:58.080 at Levi's Stadium

00:38:59.000 in Santa Clara, California

00:39:00.160 on Monday night

00:39:00.680 during a game

00:39:01.460 between the Los Angeles Rams

00:39:02.480 and the San Francisco 49ers

00:39:03.480 has filed a police report

00:39:04.980 for assault

00:39:05.900 by Rams players

00:39:07.720 who tackled him

00:39:08.600 to end his demonstration.

00:39:10.500 Before I read this

00:39:11.400 any further,

00:39:12.300 we should probably

00:39:12.780 watch that moment.

00:39:14.800 Purely for educational purposes.

00:39:18.320 Okay,

00:39:18.760 here we put it up.

00:39:19.220 Okay,

00:39:19.360 there's the guy.

00:39:20.200 He's not nude at least.

00:39:21.040 Usually these streakers are.

00:39:22.080 And then,

00:39:22.340 oh,

00:39:22.480 he gets taken out.

00:39:23.820 See,

00:39:24.000 that is,

00:39:24.280 well,

00:39:24.400 let's go back

00:39:24.820 and look at that again.

00:39:25.780 Yeah,

00:39:25.940 that's a form tackle.

00:39:27.100 There's no helmet-to-helmet there.

00:39:29.000 He's leaning.

00:39:29.820 So he's leaning.

00:39:31.140 He's leading with his shoulder.

00:39:33.580 And it's really,

00:39:34.380 it's a shoulder-against-shoulder tackle.

00:39:36.020 That is well within the rules

00:39:37.960 of the NFL.

00:39:41.680 And if you step onto

00:39:42.980 the NFL field,

00:39:45.480 if you step onto

00:39:45.840 the football field,

00:39:46.920 well,

00:39:47.180 now you are,

00:39:48.100 it's what matters

00:39:48.860 are the rules of football.

00:39:51.580 Yeah,

00:39:51.760 in a normal circumstance,

00:39:52.980 if you're just taking a jog

00:39:54.720 down the street

00:39:55.360 and someone runs up

00:39:57.120 and tackles you,

00:39:57.840 then that's assault.

00:39:59.660 But on a football field,

00:40:02.140 you know,

00:40:03.220 in between the sidelines,

00:40:05.100 the rules are different.

00:40:07.820 A person close to Alex Taylor,

00:40:09.960 the man who was taken down

00:40:11.160 by Rams linebacker,

00:40:12.360 Bobby Wagner,

00:40:13.260 and defensive end,

00:40:14.360 Takaris McKinley,

00:40:15.900 during this demonstration,

00:40:17.640 told Fox News

00:40:18.240 that he's considering his options,

00:40:19.440 including legal action

00:40:20.640 against the players involved

00:40:22.000 and the NFL.

00:40:24.260 Direct action everywhere

00:40:25.500 is the organization

00:40:26.260 took responsibility

00:40:27.000 for the demonstration

00:40:27.740 by Taylor and Allison Flutie,

00:40:29.820 who was apprehended

00:40:30.800 before running on the field.

00:40:32.600 Taylor was able to avoid

00:40:33.420 Levi's Stadium security

00:40:34.420 before Wagner McKinley

00:40:35.500 stepped in

00:40:36.060 and put an end

00:40:36.580 to the demonstration.

00:40:38.300 And now he's,

00:40:38.820 okay,

00:40:39.000 so now he's thinking

00:40:39.560 about suing

00:40:40.180 or filing charges

00:40:41.080 because he was assaulted.

00:40:42.160 And Wagner was asked

00:40:45.900 about this

00:40:46.600 and he said that

00:40:47.620 he doesn't really want

00:40:48.940 to talk about it anymore.

00:40:49.800 He's already addressed it.

00:40:50.920 But he also says

00:40:52.260 that actions have consequences.

00:40:54.860 He says there's consequences

00:40:56.140 for your actions,

00:40:57.320 which I think

00:40:58.800 just about summarizes it.

00:41:00.340 This is probably

00:41:01.680 the ultimate example

00:41:02.780 of a F around

00:41:04.640 and find out,

00:41:05.400 as the kids would say.

00:41:06.880 Let's get to

00:41:07.580 the comment section.

00:41:08.300 If you're a man,

00:41:10.020 it's required

00:41:10.720 that you grow a beard.

00:41:12.200 Hey,

00:41:13.880 we're the sweet baby gang.

00:41:18.840 Well,

00:41:19.500 I've been debating

00:41:20.400 telling this story

00:41:21.420 because it's somewhat embarrassing,

00:41:24.820 but it's also funny.

00:41:26.980 And at this point,

00:41:28.240 what difference does it make?

00:41:30.520 So here's another story

00:41:31.640 from my sordid past.

00:41:33.560 Another skeleton

00:41:34.540 buried deeply in my closet.

00:41:36.640 Secret that I've kept hidden

00:41:37.940 for so long.

00:41:38.600 In this case,

00:41:39.000 I've kept it hidden

00:41:39.560 for about four days,

00:41:40.820 to be precise.

00:41:42.540 So this past Saturday,

00:41:43.720 I went with my wife

00:41:45.500 and some other members

00:41:46.480 of the Daily Wire crew,

00:41:48.460 Michael,

00:41:48.980 Brett Cooper,

00:41:50.140 the God King Jeremy Boring,

00:41:51.660 other members

00:41:52.340 of the executive team.

00:41:53.740 We went to the

00:41:54.560 Gary Sinise Foundation

00:41:56.020 fundraising banquet

00:41:57.020 for veterans

00:41:57.700 at the Gaylord

00:41:59.240 here in Nashville.

00:42:00.700 It's a very nice event,

00:42:01.600 very swanky,

00:42:02.560 sort of event

00:42:03.560 where I feel horribly

00:42:04.540 out of place.

00:42:05.360 There were lots of famous people

00:42:06.460 milling around.

00:42:07.100 Renee Zellweger,

00:42:07.940 it was there.

00:42:09.000 It was emceed

00:42:09.720 by Kelsey Grammer

00:42:10.660 and Patricia Heaton.

00:42:11.820 Mark Wahlberg

00:42:12.480 made a surprise

00:42:13.340 appearance by video.

00:42:15.660 And it may sound

00:42:16.560 like I'm only telling you

00:42:17.220 this story

00:42:17.520 so I can brag

00:42:18.280 about this fancy dinner,

00:42:19.500 but you'll soon see

00:42:20.720 that that is not the case.

00:42:22.400 That's not the point.

00:42:24.060 So early on in the night,

00:42:24.980 before the main course

00:42:25.800 was served,

00:42:26.880 they're doing a lot of,

00:42:27.900 there's a lot of introductions,

00:42:29.100 formalities,

00:42:29.900 ceremonial type stuff,

00:42:31.180 which is normal

00:42:32.000 for an event like this.

00:42:33.400 And there are lots

00:42:34.320 of reasons to stand.

00:42:35.680 And so we're getting

00:42:36.420 our cardio in,

00:42:37.440 you know,

00:42:37.740 standing,

00:42:38.360 doing standing ovations

00:42:39.260 and so on.

00:42:39.900 We stood for the anthem.

00:42:41.000 We stood for various

00:42:41.960 other things.

00:42:42.920 About 20 minutes into this,

00:42:44.420 I get a little distracted.

00:42:45.860 They come by,

00:42:46.440 they're picking up

00:42:46.820 the salad plates.

00:42:47.680 It's making clanking noises.

00:42:48.960 Like people,

00:42:49.320 there's chatting going on.

00:42:51.260 I'm distracted.

00:42:52.060 I'm only half listening

00:42:53.220 to what's being said

00:42:54.140 up on the stage.

00:42:55.760 And what I hear,

00:42:56.620 I hear the person say,

00:42:58.320 something,

00:42:58.780 something,

00:42:59.360 please rise,

00:43:00.860 something,

00:43:01.160 something.

00:43:02.240 So I instinctively thought

00:43:04.020 that,

00:43:04.520 you know,

00:43:04.780 we were rising maybe

00:43:06.020 for the prayer before the meal

00:43:07.640 or the pledge

00:43:08.540 or something like that.

00:43:09.220 So I stand

00:43:10.320 because she said,

00:43:11.020 please rise.

00:43:11.480 And we've already been

00:43:12.380 standing a lot.

00:43:12.980 So I just,

00:43:13.360 I stood.

00:43:14.460 And after I stand,

00:43:15.940 I look around

00:43:16.660 and I realize

00:43:17.840 that not everyone

00:43:19.340 is standing.

00:43:20.440 In fact,

00:43:21.180 only about a third

00:43:22.000 of the room

00:43:22.640 is standing.

00:43:23.780 But at this point,

00:43:25.140 I'm already committed.

00:43:26.120 I can't sit back down.

00:43:27.260 I'm in too deep.

00:43:28.560 Right?

00:43:29.240 And at first,

00:43:30.040 I thought,

00:43:30.380 well,

00:43:30.800 hey,

00:43:31.040 maybe we're

00:43:31.940 the more patriotic ones.

00:43:33.220 Maybe we're,

00:43:33.620 you know,

00:43:33.860 we're standing to,

00:43:35.020 for whatever it is

00:43:36.180 we're standing for.

00:43:36.900 Maybe it's because

00:43:37.460 we're the more patriotic ones.

00:43:38.720 But then to my horror,

00:43:40.040 the rest of the audience

00:43:41.700 begins to applaud us

00:43:43.560 who are standing.

00:43:45.520 And now I'm panicking

00:43:46.640 in my head

00:43:47.180 because I'm thinking,

00:43:48.840 all right,

00:43:50.120 I stood to be applauded

00:43:51.900 for something.

00:43:52.720 I don't know what.

00:43:53.780 Did they ask

00:43:56.900 for podcasters

00:43:57.800 to stand up

00:43:58.420 and be recognized?

00:43:59.540 Let's hope it's that.

00:44:00.780 It seems unlikely.

00:44:03.160 Then I sit back down

00:44:04.140 and Knowles,

00:44:05.180 who is just beaming

00:44:06.580 with glee

00:44:07.180 at this point,

00:44:08.060 turns to me

00:44:08.740 and goes,

00:44:09.840 thank you for your service.

00:44:12.460 And then I realized

00:44:13.740 that they asked

00:44:14.420 military members

00:44:15.320 to stand

00:44:15.920 and I stood.

00:44:17.980 But I didn't serve

00:44:18.800 in the military.

00:44:19.260 So I stole valor.

00:44:21.860 I am guilty

00:44:22.540 of stolen valor

00:44:23.960 accidentally.

00:44:24.600 But here's the worst part.

00:44:25.320 This is why I really

00:44:25.880 want to bring this up.

00:44:26.960 I was at a table

00:44:27.980 with my friends,

00:44:30.280 my colleagues,

00:44:30.760 my wife,

00:44:31.680 my own wife,

00:44:32.380 and none of them

00:44:33.360 told me to sit down.

00:44:34.420 None of them tugged

00:44:35.160 on my jacket

00:44:35.680 and said,

00:44:36.200 hey, sit down,

00:44:36.980 idiot.

00:44:37.280 It's not you.

00:44:38.720 Instead,

00:44:39.220 apparently,

00:44:39.580 they were just like

00:44:40.520 giggling like schoolgirls,

00:44:42.760 enjoying my humiliation,

00:44:44.520 allowing me

00:44:46.000 to accidentally

00:44:46.460 steal valor

00:44:47.060 for 35 seconds.

00:44:49.320 This is all

00:44:49.960 really their fault

00:44:50.660 is what I guess

00:44:51.560 what I'm trying to say.

00:44:53.480 And then for the rest

00:44:54.400 of the night,

00:44:54.800 every time there was

00:44:55.600 another occasion

00:44:56.980 to stand,

00:44:57.940 my wife would lean in

00:44:58.920 and say,

00:44:59.480 you can stand for this.

00:45:01.780 And then at one point,

00:45:02.840 Jeremy comes over

00:45:03.580 from another table

00:45:04.420 and he says,

00:45:05.140 oh, so I was just

00:45:05.660 over there Googling,

00:45:06.860 did Matt Walsh

00:45:07.520 serve in the military?

00:45:09.120 Everyone had a good

00:45:09.860 laugh over that.

00:45:11.580 I was very much

00:45:12.420 the butt of the joke

00:45:13.060 the entire evening.

00:45:14.440 And then I made

00:45:15.080 the mistake of telling

00:45:15.720 Sean, my producer,

00:45:16.840 about this on Monday

00:45:17.660 and later that afternoon

00:45:18.780 we're boarding a plane

00:45:20.260 and they call

00:45:20.880 for boarding group one

00:45:21.900 and I walk by

00:45:22.740 and Sean says,

00:45:23.560 are you boarding

00:45:24.020 for first class

00:45:24.760 or because you're

00:45:25.300 in the military?

00:45:26.280 So these are the jokes

00:45:27.520 that I have invited.

00:45:30.280 So what's the real lesson?

00:45:33.180 I guess it's like,

00:45:35.040 don't just stand

00:45:36.060 because everybody else is.

00:45:38.900 I guess, no,

00:45:39.320 that puts the blame

00:45:39.840 back on me.

00:45:40.320 I was trying to shift it

00:45:41.040 and I'm shifting it back over

00:45:41.960 to the people

00:45:42.320 that are there with me.

00:45:43.340 All right,

00:45:43.740 Smintz says,

00:45:44.580 imagine being in the hotel room

00:45:45.700 next to the sweet daddy

00:45:46.720 and hearing him do the podcast

00:45:48.240 through the walls.

00:45:48.980 I actually think about that

00:45:50.260 every single time

00:45:51.320 we're in a hotel room

00:45:52.300 doing the podcast

00:45:53.520 because, you know,

00:45:54.580 hotel room walls

00:45:55.820 are pretty thin.

00:45:57.160 And so, yeah,

00:45:57.800 there is,

00:45:58.480 at every single hotel

00:45:59.120 we stop at,

00:45:59.900 there's at least one person

00:46:01.680 who, against their will,

00:46:03.560 is forced to experience

00:46:04.820 the Matt Walsh show podcast.

00:46:07.580 And if they were forced

00:46:08.580 to experience this one

00:46:09.420 in particular

00:46:09.840 without context,

00:46:10.840 they are going

00:46:12.160 to be very confused.

00:46:14.320 Cheriaki says,

00:46:15.540 your first showing

00:46:16.100 of what is a woman

00:46:16.680 had more in attendance

00:46:17.600 than bros had

00:46:18.740 in over 3,000 theaters.

00:46:21.520 Yeah, that's sort of true.

00:46:22.920 Like, I would like to say

00:46:23.880 that, so we've done,

00:46:25.220 okay, well,

00:46:25.600 we had the screening

00:46:26.680 at the Catholic University.

00:46:29.660 Before that,

00:46:30.440 our one real sort of screening

00:46:32.700 in a movie theater

00:46:33.560 happened in Franklin, Tennessee,

00:46:35.400 just south of Nashville.

00:46:37.220 And we had, I think,

00:46:38.300 we sold the place out,

00:46:39.100 we had like 350 people.

00:46:41.180 And I did do the math on it.

00:46:43.860 And I think bros

00:46:45.000 would have averaged

00:46:46.080 150 per screening.

00:46:49.300 So we doubled them.

00:46:51.280 So we got that going at least.

00:46:55.960 And Curtis says,

00:46:57.040 Matt's message

00:46:57.660 about self-hatred

00:46:58.580 resonates with my experience

00:46:59.880 with men who transitioned

00:47:00.940 to women

00:47:01.400 while I was working

00:47:02.040 in mental health.

00:47:02.780 They were unhappy

00:47:03.400 with how they were.

00:47:04.120 They were convinced

00:47:04.860 that getting surgery

00:47:05.680 and hormones

00:47:06.100 would make them happy.

00:47:07.320 And when it didn't,

00:47:08.120 they were filled

00:47:08.580 with rage and depression.

00:47:09.680 Back then,

00:47:09.960 it was harder to transition.

00:47:11.500 There was a requirement

00:47:12.100 for psychiatric evaluation.

00:47:13.460 With that now gone,

00:47:14.340 I'm sure it is much worse.

00:47:16.820 Yeah, you know,

00:47:17.240 in a lot of ways,

00:47:18.100 thinking that you can transition

00:47:19.900 and make yourself happy,

00:47:22.040 it's the kind of mistake

00:47:25.000 and misunderstanding

00:47:26.440 that everybody makes,

00:47:29.080 oftentimes in much less

00:47:30.420 dramatic and permanent ways.

00:47:31.960 but it's a kind of common

00:47:34.860 human misconception

00:47:35.640 that if you're very unhappy,

00:47:38.860 that you could just change

00:47:40.180 some external thing

00:47:41.440 and that'll fix it.

00:47:43.060 So you'll hear someone's like,

00:47:44.580 they're unhappy,

00:47:45.020 so they're just going to like

00:47:45.900 move to another town

00:47:47.160 or, you know,

00:47:47.740 they're just like,

00:47:48.360 they look for these external things

00:47:50.280 that they can change,

00:47:51.960 thinking that's going

00:47:52.680 to make them happy.

00:47:53.920 But it very rarely works

00:47:56.020 because that happiness

00:47:58.060 is, it's internal, right?

00:48:00.800 A lot of that is emanating

00:48:02.560 from within.

00:48:03.980 It's coming from within.

00:48:04.800 It's not from without.

00:48:06.860 And so you can change

00:48:07.660 the external,

00:48:08.420 but it's not going to change

00:48:09.040 what's going on inside.

00:48:10.320 And again, that's,

00:48:11.260 so gender transition

00:48:12.320 is just the most horrific,

00:48:14.020 permanent, dramatic example

00:48:15.860 of that kind of misconception

00:48:16.940 where in this case,

00:48:17.860 someone's saying,

00:48:18.240 I'm going to change

00:48:18.780 all of these external

00:48:20.080 aspects of my body

00:48:22.980 and hope that that does it.

00:48:24.900 But it still doesn't

00:48:25.840 because the problem, again,

00:48:27.120 is internal.

00:48:27.920 It's inside you.

00:48:28.360 You know, this Monday,

00:48:30.100 we will celebrate

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00:49:10.620 Now let's get

00:49:10.980 to our daily cancellation.

00:49:16.260 So today for our daily cancellation,

00:49:17.700 we turn to the contentious subject

00:49:19.260 of gender reveals.

00:49:20.960 Of course, a gender reveal

00:49:22.080 is the, I believe,

00:49:23.140 quite modern tradition

00:49:24.100 of an expecting couple

00:49:25.260 announcing the baby's sex

00:49:26.780 through some elaborate

00:49:27.880 bit of pageantry.

00:49:30.060 People sometimes go

00:49:30.800 to exorbitant lengths

00:49:31.960 to reveal their baby's gender.

00:49:34.040 Unfortunately,

00:49:34.520 these methods tend to involve

00:49:35.540 pyrotechnics and fireworks.

00:49:37.300 And over the last few years,

00:49:38.620 many thousands of innocent lives

00:49:39.880 have been lost

00:49:40.860 due to gender reveal mishaps.

00:49:42.900 I believe the current estimate

00:49:43.720 is that one out of every five people

00:49:45.340 in the country

00:49:45.800 will die from a gender reveal

00:49:47.840 related accident.

00:49:49.460 I think that's an actual statistic

00:49:50.660 that I just made up.

00:49:52.260 The death toll has had

00:49:53.020 the effect of making gender reveals

00:49:55.100 slightly less popular over time

00:49:56.840 and certainly more controversial.

00:49:58.560 Now, some argue

00:49:59.260 that revealing the gender

00:50:00.440 is worth any price

00:50:01.900 humanity must pay for it.

00:50:03.360 Others argue that

00:50:04.200 they would prefer

00:50:05.180 not to have their home

00:50:06.300 and family incinerated

00:50:07.340 because somebody wanted

00:50:08.200 to set off fireworks

00:50:09.180 that spell the words

00:50:10.160 it's a boy in the sky.

00:50:11.940 So there's something

00:50:12.380 to be said, I think,

00:50:13.000 for both perspectives.

00:50:14.240 Both are valid.

00:50:15.660 But all of this

00:50:16.640 has given rise

00:50:17.500 to a new favorite

00:50:18.480 American pastime.

00:50:19.940 So on one hand,

00:50:20.680 there is the gender reveal,

00:50:22.040 and on the other,

00:50:23.040 there is the increasingly

00:50:23.880 popular tradition

00:50:24.880 of complaining

00:50:25.920 about gender reveals.

00:50:27.420 This will become

00:50:27.920 a war of attrition

00:50:28.800 once the anti-gender reveal

00:50:30.520 factions start using fireworks

00:50:32.240 to spell out their arguments.

00:50:34.800 At that point,

00:50:35.460 it won't be long

00:50:36.000 until the whole world

00:50:36.740 is aflame.

00:50:37.960 We inch closer

00:50:38.760 to that apocalyptic reality

00:50:40.740 every day,

00:50:41.400 especially the more

00:50:42.220 we hear stories like this.

00:50:44.000 This is from Yahoo News.

00:50:45.520 A gender reveal party

00:50:46.480 in Brazil last month

00:50:47.660 sparked an investigation

00:50:48.540 after a local waterfall

00:50:49.940 was dyed blue

00:50:51.100 during a couple celebration,

00:50:53.160 according to authorities.

00:50:55.200 Last month,

00:50:56.060 Mato Grosso's

00:50:57.120 Environment Protection Agency

00:50:58.480 said the 59-foot waterfall

00:51:00.120 known as,

00:51:01.440 I'm not even going to

00:51:02.260 attempt that.

00:51:02.840 Yes, I will.

00:51:04.300 Cacoera

00:51:04.780 Kimape.

00:51:07.180 Cacoera Kimape.

00:51:10.820 Cacoera Kimape.

00:51:13.460 Anyway,

00:51:14.300 was dyed blue

00:51:15.140 by a family member

00:51:16.200 of the expectant couple,

00:51:17.380 according to Washington Post.

00:51:18.500 According to SEMA,

00:51:19.240 the waterfall feeds

00:51:20.360 into a river

00:51:20.860 that serves as a water source

00:51:22.280 for another thing

00:51:23.940 that I won't pronounce,

00:51:24.840 which has been experiencing

00:51:25.740 droughts in recent years,

00:51:27.040 the paper reports.

00:51:27.920 The original video,

00:51:28.500 which has since been deleted

00:51:29.200 off Instagram,

00:51:29.780 showed the moment

00:51:30.280 the waterfall turned blue

00:51:31.800 to indicate the couple

00:51:32.820 are expecting a boy,

00:51:34.140 according to the independent.

00:51:35.040 Clips that have

00:51:35.600 been shared online

00:51:36.880 also show the party's

00:51:37.820 balloon decorations,

00:51:38.780 powder cannons,

00:51:39.540 and cheering guests.

00:51:40.840 The video has sparked backlash

00:51:41.960 with many social media users

00:51:43.340 criticizing the use

00:51:44.360 of the dyed waterfall

00:51:45.520 at the gathering.

00:51:46.220 First of all,

00:51:48.380 aren't waterfalls

00:51:48.960 already kind of blue

00:51:50.120 in the first place?

00:51:51.820 It seems unnecessary.

00:51:53.780 Now, yes,

00:51:54.140 it may seem gratuitous

00:51:56.340 to contaminate

00:51:57.440 a whole water supply

00:51:58.640 in order to tell the world

00:51:59.780 you're having a boy.

00:52:01.600 We have never elected

00:52:03.260 in our family

00:52:04.260 that sort of strategy

00:52:05.740 with any of our children

00:52:06.660 personally.

00:52:07.220 For us,

00:52:07.540 it's always seemed easier

00:52:08.680 to tell people

00:52:09.280 the sex of the child

00:52:10.260 by, well,

00:52:11.900 just telling them

00:52:12.900 the sex of the child.

00:52:14.320 We just use our vocal cords

00:52:16.220 to express ourselves

00:52:17.400 in that regard.

00:52:18.700 And that's why

00:52:19.180 I'm sympathetic

00:52:19.820 to the criticisms

00:52:20.960 of gender reveals.

00:52:21.820 In fact,

00:52:22.080 I believe that in the past

00:52:23.040 I have actually canceled

00:52:24.040 gender reveals

00:52:24.600 during this very segment

00:52:25.720 for the reasons

00:52:26.860 that have already been outlined.

00:52:28.880 But I've had a change of heart.

00:52:30.940 I don't think I've ever

00:52:31.620 done anything like this before.

00:52:33.380 But today,

00:52:34.980 you know,

00:52:35.360 today is a day of firsts

00:52:37.580 in so many ways.

00:52:38.620 Today,

00:52:39.060 I am canceling

00:52:40.020 my cancellation.

00:52:41.560 It is not gender reveals

00:52:42.600 that are canceled.

00:52:43.200 I've decided

00:52:43.840 but the critics

00:52:45.400 of gender reveals.

00:52:47.120 Except me.

00:52:48.400 And the reason is simple.

00:52:50.060 We live in a culture

00:52:51.240 where it is now actually,

00:52:52.460 I think it is now

00:52:53.160 actually worthwhile

00:52:54.380 to celebrate

00:52:55.440 and acknowledge

00:52:56.420 a child's gender

00:52:57.540 before birth.

00:52:58.980 There is value now

00:53:00.520 in making special note

00:53:02.120 of the fact

00:53:02.760 that the child

00:53:03.720 has a gender

00:53:04.540 and that the gender

00:53:05.480 is knowable

00:53:06.200 and it is known.

00:53:08.340 Every gender reveal

00:53:09.480 signifies a child

00:53:11.760 who will be born

00:53:12.640 with an identity

00:53:13.620 rather than

00:53:14.300 an identity crisis.

00:53:16.720 This may not be

00:53:18.020 the explicit intention

00:53:19.020 of the people

00:53:19.620 who engage in this practice

00:53:20.720 but in effect,

00:53:22.080 it is a celebration

00:53:22.980 of biological truth.

00:53:24.280 It flies directly

00:53:24.880 in the face

00:53:25.340 of the absurd

00:53:26.480 modern notion

00:53:27.160 that a baby's gender

00:53:28.100 can't be determined at all

00:53:29.240 and we have to wait

00:53:29.900 for him to decide

00:53:30.560 for himself.

00:53:31.900 You might also say

00:53:33.020 that the gender reveal

00:53:33.840 is a celebration

00:53:34.580 of the humanity

00:53:35.460 of the child in utero.

00:53:36.780 It's a very pro-life tradition,

00:53:38.400 you could argue.

00:53:39.460 According to the left,

00:53:40.180 the baby in the womb

00:53:40.820 has no personhood

00:53:41.820 at all,

00:53:42.360 let alone a gender.

00:53:43.600 He is a nondescript,

00:53:44.920 ambiguous clump

00:53:45.740 of organic matter

00:53:46.700 and then he's born

00:53:48.560 and through his passage

00:53:50.760 to the birth canal

00:53:51.400 somehow he is imbued

00:53:53.240 magically

00:53:53.780 with the breath of life,

00:53:55.900 they say.

00:53:56.920 But he's still ambiguous.

00:53:59.540 He's neither male

00:54:00.580 nor female.

00:54:01.700 He is this sexless being

00:54:03.680 stuck in limbo

00:54:04.720 until one day

00:54:06.300 he picks up a Barbie doll

00:54:07.640 and that's what makes

00:54:08.540 him a girl.

00:54:09.760 So this is how the left

00:54:10.680 imagines that gender

00:54:12.140 is determined

00:54:12.760 and it's why they have argued,

00:54:14.280 Demi Lovato said this recently,

00:54:16.080 that gender reveal parties

00:54:17.560 are transphobic.

00:54:19.460 Forget contaminating

00:54:20.380 the water supply

00:54:21.100 or burning down

00:54:21.740 a thousand acres of forest,

00:54:22.940 what they really hate

00:54:23.760 about the gender reveal

00:54:24.320 is that it reveals

00:54:25.520 the gender.

00:54:26.800 It tells the secret

00:54:27.780 that they would rather

00:54:28.540 keep hidden away

00:54:29.360 even from the child himself.

00:54:30.680 It asserts

00:54:31.920 an objective reality

00:54:33.520 and there is nothing

00:54:35.300 the left hates

00:54:35.940 more than that.

00:54:37.640 And that ultimately

00:54:39.160 is why I must finally

00:54:40.760 come to the defense

00:54:41.640 even if nobody else will

00:54:43.760 of the gender reveal

00:54:45.280 and say to its detractors

00:54:48.200 with whom I used

00:54:49.520 to align myself,

00:54:51.020 you are canceled.

00:54:53.220 And that'll do it

00:54:53.960 for us today

00:54:54.720 as we move over

00:54:55.220 to the members block

00:54:56.180 of the show.

00:54:57.200 Hope to talk to you

00:54:58.020 then.

00:54:59.440 If not,

00:55:00.040 talk to you tomorrow.

00:55:00.640 Godspeed.

00:55:00.980 or you are

00:55:06.500 now.

00:55:07.340 We'll be right back.

The Matt Walsh Show - October 06, 2022

Ep. 1036 - Media Matters Exposes My Dark And Sordid Past

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