The Matt Walsh Show - October 10, 2022


Ep. 1038 - Jon Stewart Transitions Into A Blue Haired Trans Activist


Episode Stats

Length

59 minutes

Words per Minute

172.89815

Word Count

10,266

Sentence Count

483

Misogynist Sentences

46

Hate Speech Sentences

27


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, Jon Stewart allegedly delivers the definitive smackdown to conservative bigots who believe that men are men and women are women.
00:00:08.060 Today, we'll take a look at the viral clips from this much celebrated segment and show just how easily and thoroughly it can all be debunked.
00:00:15.120 Also, we achieve a major victory as Vanderbilt announces that it will be pausing all gender transition procedures on minors.
00:00:21.400 Well, a lot to say about that.
00:00:22.420 And the Biden administration decides it must remind parents across the country that your sons and your family names can be ended any time they feel like.
00:00:30.980 And in our daily cancellation, a Christian pastor explains his problem with what is a woman, namely that I'm in it.
00:00:37.820 All of that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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00:01:50.960 Well, last week was, you might say, eventful.
00:01:54.400 It began with three major medical organizations calling for the prosecution of high-profile social media personalities who have been reporting on and criticizing so-called gender-affirming care.
00:02:04.540 Having extremely well-funded and powerful medical associations not so subtly single me out and call for my arrest would have been enough activity for one week, as far as I'm concerned.
00:02:15.420 But the very next day, Media Matters launched their most extensive hit piece against me yet in a transparent attempt to derail our campaign against gender ideology.
00:02:24.780 And while this was all going on, we were also in the first week of our What is a Woman college tour, where throngs of protesters complained that my presence was destabilizing their existence
00:02:33.660 and responded by defiantly singing Bohemian Rhapsody in a vocal performance that resembled the sound of 7,000 chickens choking to death all at once.
00:02:43.000 And then came the big win on Friday, the capstone to all of these events.
00:02:47.900 At the end of a week where I think our enemies thought that they'd landed a knockout blow,
00:02:53.680 it was announced by Vanderbilt in a letter to state lawmakers that they would be pausing all gender transition procedures on minors.
00:03:02.180 So they caved, they surrendered.
00:03:05.460 For perhaps the first time in recent memory, anyway, a left-wing institution caved to pressure from the right.
00:03:14.680 Very rarely does that happen, but we beat them.
00:03:17.860 Battle's not close to over.
00:03:19.100 The fight continues, of course, as we now move on to make gender transitions on minors illegal across the entire state,
00:03:26.300 and then we move across the entire country.
00:03:28.200 But this was a major victory.
00:03:30.160 And I think perhaps in some ways unprecedented.
00:03:34.240 And we'll have much more to say about it in a few minutes, but the week was not over with the Vanderbilt News.
00:03:39.980 That night, Jon Stewart opened the second season of his Apple TV show.
00:03:46.000 Even though nobody watched the first season, he got a second season anyway.
00:03:50.420 A little bit more of that left-wing privilege that he's benefiting from.
00:03:53.400 Most people didn't even know that the first season happened, but it did.
00:03:57.480 Season 2, Episode 1 comes along and focuses on the topic of gender.
00:04:02.820 It is, in effect, Jon Stewart's response to our documentary, What is a Woman?, and even features a brief clip of the film.
00:04:10.220 The left has hailed this episode as the ultimate takedown of the conservative conspiracy theory that women don't have penises.
00:04:20.320 This is the, it just demolishes all of us, we're told.
00:04:24.040 So to begin the show today, we're going to go through what are being celebrated as the most compelling and persuasive moments from this episode.
00:04:32.280 And we will show that Jon Stewart is a shallow, spineless, left-wing hack who has long had the reputation as a free thinker and a sort of bold, comedic mind,
00:04:42.480 even though he has always simply adopted the mainstream corporate position on literally every topic.
00:04:50.320 And that's what he's done now on gender.
00:04:52.700 So we start with a clip shared by the show's Twitter account, and the caption of this clip on their Twitter account was,
00:04:58.620 What is a woman? It's a question that suddenly is everywhere.
00:05:01.740 It turns out, the answer is complicated.
00:05:04.460 Jon breaks down the gender binary and gender spectrum in this week's episode.
00:05:09.940 We are in a new dawn of gender and sex complexity, where those who don't fit into a simple binary are meant to be seen with humanity.
00:05:21.520 It wasn't always like this, people.
00:05:23.040 As recently as, let's say, the 1990s, early 2000s, people were making reductive jokes about the subject.
00:05:31.740 What can I say? The joke rhymed.
00:05:37.900 It would be sad to see Jon Stewart apologizing for his past jokes, disavowing his previous belief that men can't have babies,
00:05:48.500 and groveling for acceptance from a bunch of purple-haired 22-year-olds.
00:05:52.040 But you must realize that Jon Stewart has always been a pathetic fraud.
00:05:56.460 This is fully in keeping with his brand.
00:05:58.340 It's still a sickening, stomach-churning display of self-debasement, as revolting and perverse as watching someone eat themselves on camera.
00:06:08.100 But it's exactly what you ought to expect from a lifelong shill.
00:06:12.560 Let's continue.
00:06:13.560 Any moment of progressive visibility will be met with a vicious backlash.
00:06:20.620 There are two genders.
00:06:21.960 There are two genders, and everyone knows it.
00:06:23.640 Ain't but two genders.
00:06:29.900 That last guy sounded like it's an emergency, and we're running out of genders.
00:06:34.720 Everyone, there ain't but two genders.
00:06:37.120 So here you see the attempt to make a completely self-evident and obvious statement seem absurd.
00:06:47.580 The audience, with the enhancement of a laugh track, giggles at the statement that there are only two genders.
00:06:54.820 Like, this is the move.
00:06:55.620 If you just laugh at something, then that automatically makes it laughable,
00:06:59.360 expecting us to believe that the claim is funny just because they're laughing at it.
00:07:03.300 But they can't make this objectively correct statement funny by laughing about it any more
00:07:08.400 than they can make a statement like, the world is round, or Jon Stewart is a gutless, smirking slug funny by laughing about it.
00:07:16.860 These are all just simply objective, self-evident observations about the physical world.
00:07:21.820 It's really not funny at all, but let's continue along.
00:07:25.760 The point is clear.
00:07:27.780 The human race is defined by a simple binary, a black-and-white understanding.
00:07:32.600 There are men, and there are women, and never the twain shall meet.
00:07:39.160 Trump is an alpha male.
00:07:40.760 Well, okay, yes, there are obviously men who are more man than other men, but that's an aberration.
00:07:48.700 Beta, gamma.
00:07:50.340 Okay, there's an entire Greek alphabet, a continuum of masculinity, but that doesn't mean...
00:07:56.320 Cuck.
00:07:56.780 Pajama boy.
00:07:57.620 Soy boy.
00:07:58.380 Girly man.
00:07:59.100 I hope the children are out of the room.
00:08:10.780 Clearly, masculinity appears to be on a dimmer, not an on-off switch, but ladies are different.
00:08:17.240 I was a big-time boy.
00:08:18.440 These purple-haired, angry freaks.
00:08:20.340 Rabid feminist.
00:08:21.260 Cat lady.
00:08:21.940 High-rolling bimbos.
00:08:23.760 Pretty girly girl.
00:08:24.540 My God.
00:08:29.560 What a cruise line buffet of the gradients in American gender expression.
00:08:35.500 Turns out there's a lot of non-binary sh** happening between the binaries.
00:08:40.440 This is John's whole shtick, by the way.
00:08:45.220 It just, it goes back to The Daily Show.
00:08:47.660 Just play a clip of someone saying something normal and then mug for the camera like it's,
00:08:52.240 you know, an episode of The Office.
00:08:53.860 Just, someone says something normal and you look at the camera like...
00:08:56.460 And then that's the joke.
00:08:57.880 It's like, automatically, that thing is now funny.
00:09:00.780 But these are all just descriptions of personality traits.
00:09:04.460 And most of them are labels used to describe the same sorts of people.
00:09:09.980 So, how does this at all, even slightly, call into question the existence of the man-woman binary?
00:09:18.260 Nobody ever said, John, that every man is exactly the same as every other man or that every woman is the same as every other woman.
00:09:25.540 Squares can also come in many different shapes and colors and, or rather, many different sizes and colors.
00:09:30.640 Not shapes, that's the point.
00:09:31.640 Now, a square is still a square.
00:09:33.620 So, you can color a different color.
00:09:34.920 You can have a big square, a little square.
00:09:37.080 There are lots of different ways you can describe squares, depending on how you decorate them.
00:09:40.960 But a square is still a square.
00:09:42.900 You could do a lot of interesting things with a square.
00:09:45.320 But you can't make it a circle, is the point.
00:09:48.740 So, is that really the best that Stuart can do?
00:09:51.820 Just, like, pointing out that there are different personality traits, different ways that you can describe individual men,
00:09:57.960 different insults you can use against individual women?
00:10:00.540 That's what, is that it?
00:10:02.000 Is that all you have?
00:10:03.720 Is that what the left considers some kind of definitive smackdown of the gender binary?
00:10:08.540 Surely he must have more in his arsenal.
00:10:12.180 I mean, he doesn't, of course, but we'll keep watching anyway.
00:10:14.240 That hasn't stopped the traditionalists from deploying their newest weapon in the culture war arsenal.
00:10:22.400 The obvious gotcha question.
00:10:24.780 The real basic question.
00:10:26.240 What is a woman?
00:10:28.120 Can you provide a definition for the word woman?
00:10:31.540 For all of recorded history, people have known what a woman is.
00:10:35.060 Yes, yes, all of recorded history.
00:10:38.960 It was simple until, like, a year ago.
00:10:42.420 The answer to what is a woman has always been the same.
00:10:44.940 It's a woman is a deformity that occurred in the ordinary course of nature.
00:10:49.540 I'm sorry, that's, that's Aristotle.
00:10:56.460 I apologize.
00:10:57.100 That's, I'm sorry, that's not what I meant.
00:10:59.700 I meant a woman is a person who has no legal existence once married.
00:11:04.700 That's, I'm sorry, that's, that's early American coverture law.
00:11:09.300 That's, that's not right.
00:11:11.360 No, the, throughout history, it's not a gotcha question.
00:11:15.260 A woman is 30 shekels.
00:11:17.940 That's, I'm sorry.
00:11:20.900 I'm sorry, that's Leviticus.
00:11:25.280 Yes, John, those are different things that different people and institutions have said about women over the course of history.
00:11:34.000 But what is your point?
00:11:36.200 Aristotle and the author of Leviticus and everyone else that you might name from ancient history
00:11:41.900 all agreed on what a woman is fundamentally and physically.
00:11:46.480 They all agreed that a woman can be defined because if they didn't,
00:11:50.380 then they couldn't have said anything about women in the first place.
00:11:54.760 So, see, John, that's what you're not, you're not understanding.
00:11:56.960 You can't even talk about them.
00:11:59.140 You can't say anything about them at all unless there's some shared understanding of what this entity is.
00:12:07.740 What you're proving is that over history, people have had different ideas about the legal standing of women,
00:12:16.200 about their place in society, and so on and so on.
00:12:19.660 But you haven't proved that there was ever, at any time, ever in history, ever, until just now,
00:12:27.120 even the slightest disagreement on the definition of the word.
00:12:32.260 No, indeed, you've proven the opposite, if anything.
00:12:35.320 I mean, there are people who would say different things about Jon Stewart.
00:12:40.840 Some people would say he's a comedic genius.
00:12:43.360 On the other hand, people with functioning brains say that he's a bland, boring chump, desperate for approval.
00:12:49.440 These are all adjectives, some of them more accurate than others.
00:12:53.340 They don't make Jon Stewart into some kind of abstract, undefinable entity
00:12:58.140 whose very objective existence is now up for debate.
00:13:02.480 But Stewart isn't done here.
00:13:03.820 He also interviews Leslie Rutledge, who's the Arkansas Attorney General
00:13:07.900 and a great American who's helped to spearhead the efforts in her state to make it illegal to sexually mutilate children.
00:13:14.820 Yet, not every great American is necessarily equipped to successfully respond to a partisan hack like Stewart
00:13:21.740 while the cameras are rolling.
00:13:23.900 Okay?
00:13:24.420 Not everyone is going to be good in that context.
00:13:26.800 And unfortunately, it doesn't seem like Rutledge really is, which is exactly why she was chosen for this segment.
00:13:33.880 But let's watch a little bit of this.
00:13:35.800 Why would the state of Arkansas step in to override parents, physicians, psychiatrists, endocrinologists who have developed guidelines?
00:13:51.580 Why would you override those guidelines?
00:13:54.740 Well, I think it's important that all of those physicians, all of those experts, for every single one of them,
00:14:00.580 there's an expert that says we don't need to allow children to be able to take those medications.
00:14:07.380 That there are many instances where...
00:14:09.660 Right.
00:14:10.240 But you know that's not true.
00:14:12.000 You know it's not for every one there's one.
00:14:14.920 These are the established medical...
00:14:16.620 Well, I don't know that that's not true.
00:14:18.520 I don't know that...
00:14:19.120 Then why would you pass a law then if you don't know that that's true?
00:14:23.380 Wouldn't you have done so?
00:14:23.700 Well, I know that there are doctors and that we had plenty of people come and testify before our legislature
00:14:28.320 who said that, you know, we have 98% of the young people who have gender dysphoria, that they are able to move past that.
00:14:39.880 And once they have the help that they need, no longer suffer from gender dysphoria.
00:14:44.420 98% without that medical treatment.
00:14:48.020 That's an incredibly made-up figure.
00:14:50.420 That doesn't comport with any of the studies or documentation that exists from these medical organizations.
00:14:58.780 What medical association are you talking about of these doctors?
00:15:02.380 Well, we have all of that in our legislative history and we'll be glad to provide that to you.
00:15:10.180 Okay.
00:15:11.360 Jon Stewart was, of course, extremely careful about which conservative he invited to speak to him about this issue.
00:15:17.060 I don't think I'm inflating myself in any respect by saying that I am primarily the one who's brought the
00:15:25.540 what-is-a-woman question to the forefront, and yet Stewart didn't reach out to me for an interview.
00:15:30.280 If he had, I would have eagerly accepted.
00:15:32.660 And here's how I would have responded.
00:15:35.400 Instead of making the mistake of getting into a credentialism contest, as Rutledge does here,
00:15:41.220 takes the bait, once you do that, it's over.
00:15:43.940 Okay, that's all this conversation is now.
00:15:47.260 I would have said something like this.
00:15:50.240 Jon, you're coming out of the gate with appeals to authority because you don't have any thoughts of your own.
00:15:55.840 That's the first problem.
00:15:57.420 There was a time when a similar appeal to authority could have been used to prove that the earth is the center of the universe
00:16:02.900 or that bloodletting is the cure for every known disease.
00:16:06.600 Okay, there was a time when every medical expert in the world would have told you that
00:16:09.840 if you want to cure any disease, cut yourself open and bleed it out.
00:16:12.880 In this case, your brainless appeals to authority are even more asinine because the authorities you mention all have an obvious financial stake in the very medical practices you're seeking to justify.
00:16:25.320 So what you're telling me is that people who make millions of dollars mutilating kids all say it's a good idea to mutilate kids.
00:16:33.400 Wow, breaking news.
00:16:35.280 The tobacco industry also has funded studies showing that smoking isn't so bad for you.
00:16:40.180 Will you be citing those on your next show, Jon?
00:16:42.300 But this is all beside the point.
00:16:45.440 The burden of proof is not on me to explain to you why we shouldn't castrate and sterilize children.
00:16:52.400 You guys are the ones coming along out of nowhere demanding that we start engaging in those kinds of horrific practices.
00:16:57.120 So you tell me what your evidence is.
00:16:59.660 What studies are you talking about?
00:17:00.920 Tell me, Jon, which credible long-term studies prove that it's a good idea to castrate and mutilate kids?
00:17:06.780 Which ones?
00:17:08.000 Which ones?
00:17:08.700 Here, I'll help you.
00:17:09.680 There are none.
00:17:10.620 They don't exist.
00:17:12.220 These medical institutions don't have studies to support their practices.
00:17:15.780 Our kids are the study.
00:17:18.100 This current generation is the guinea pig, the lab rats.
00:17:21.880 That's the part you're leaving out, you sycophantic gas bag.
00:17:26.460 Now, I'd like to tell you that this conversation progresses from here, but it really doesn't.
00:17:29.820 Stewart spends the entire interview obsessing over the guidelines of medical organizations.
00:17:34.280 That's the only thing they talk about.
00:17:35.840 They say, well, this organization said that we should do it, so we should.
00:17:40.180 That's literally all he has.
00:17:42.800 That's it.
00:17:43.860 His whole case comes down to, these people said we should castrate kids.
00:17:49.560 Which people?
00:17:50.800 Well, the people who make billions of dollars doing it.
00:17:53.620 Oh, great.
00:17:55.900 Good to know.
00:17:57.400 He also lies, of course, and misrepresents the data.
00:17:59.640 Let's check that out.
00:18:00.340 I've got some bad news for you.
00:18:04.020 Parents with children who have gender dysphoria have lost children to suicide and depression.
00:18:11.720 They absolutely have.
00:18:12.440 Because it's acute.
00:18:13.140 And so these mainstream medical organizations have developed guidelines through peer-reviewed data and studies.
00:18:23.400 And through those guidelines, they've improved mental health outcomes.
00:18:28.260 What data is that, John?
00:18:32.380 What are you talking about?
00:18:33.340 You're saying that there is data showing that a child's long-term mental health is improved by castrating and sterilizing and mutilating him?
00:18:40.420 Which data exactly is that?
00:18:42.400 Where is that data?
00:18:43.680 Can you cite it?
00:18:45.620 See, Rutledge, unfortunately, never flips it around on him.
00:18:48.360 He's very lucky that she never thinks to say, what are you talking about?
00:18:51.700 Can you show me?
00:18:53.880 What are you talking about?
00:18:55.220 Can you provide an example?
00:18:56.920 Can you say anything about it other than insisting that it exists?
00:19:00.320 No, you can't because it doesn't exist.
00:19:03.800 It never has existed, and it never will.
00:19:06.260 You're lying.
00:19:07.860 And fortunately for you, your guests didn't call you out on that.
00:19:11.300 But I will.
00:19:12.580 And I'd do it to your face if you had the courage to sit down with someone who won't be so easily railroaded.
00:19:18.460 But in some ways, I'm grateful for the Jon Stewart episode.
00:19:21.860 He's grateful for it because it's the first time anyone has paid attention to him in like eight years.
00:19:25.980 I'm grateful because it's being heralded as the best defense of gender ideology ever put to film.
00:19:33.240 And yet it's laughably weak and can be dismantled with almost no effort at all.
00:19:40.280 And that really tells you everything you need to know about gender ideology and about Jon Stewart.
00:19:46.900 Now let's get to our five headlines.
00:19:48.200 All right, I would be remiss if I didn't just start off on our five headlines with the biggest headline of the day,
00:19:59.780 which is that it's Columbus Day.
00:20:01.460 And happy Columbus Day to everybody who is watching and who celebrates.
00:20:05.520 And hopefully that is everyone who celebrates Columbus Day.
00:20:08.020 Because despite what you have heard and we continue to hear every single year on this day,
00:20:14.820 that, oh, we're not going to celebrate Columbus Day, we're going to celebrate Indigenous People's Day.
00:20:17.700 Despite anything that you've heard, Columbus was one of the most consequential figures in all of history,
00:20:25.500 especially in all of Western history.
00:20:28.080 And all of our lives would be dramatically different for the worse if Columbus never –
00:20:37.000 in fact, we might not even exist, a lot of us.
00:20:39.540 It's one of those things, like one of those people that you go back in time and remove him from the equation,
00:20:45.200 you've just rewritten everything that happens after it.
00:20:48.940 So who knows what would happen from there?
00:20:52.740 But a great man who accomplished extraordinary feats of courage
00:20:58.840 and whose contributions to history have stood the test of time.
00:21:04.580 And yet, of course, as with so many other historical figures,
00:21:09.840 his statues are being torn down, his monuments are being defaced,
00:21:13.060 his name's being taken off of buildings and off of holidays,
00:21:17.080 and he's being posthumously – his whole life is being posthumously relitigated,
00:21:23.480 and he's being convicted of all these crimes long after he's dead.
00:21:26.560 And all of this is happening on the part of people who are pathetic
00:21:32.200 and who have had no impact on history and won't.
00:21:36.940 I mean, whose lives will be instantly forgotten the moment that they die.
00:21:41.600 And yet they feel like they're in a place to cast judgment
00:21:44.680 on one of the most significant men of history.
00:21:46.880 He's one of the most significant men.
00:21:48.680 You're nothing.
00:21:49.820 You're not contributing anything to the world at all.
00:21:54.000 He helped to reshape it.
00:21:56.640 And so that should be reason enough to humble yourself
00:21:59.220 and honor the greater people who came before you
00:22:04.160 and who established this civilization that you live in
00:22:07.840 and that you are happy to live in despite what you may claim.
00:22:12.420 You live in modern Western society, and you are happy that you do
00:22:15.960 because if you weren't, you'd go somewhere else.
00:22:18.000 But you don't.
00:22:18.860 You stay here.
00:22:19.380 You stay here, and you complain about and whine about
00:22:22.660 all of the better people who came before you
00:22:24.980 and gave you all of the things that you take for granted today.
00:22:28.900 That makes you a whiny, insignificant brat.
00:22:33.260 But for everybody else, happy Columbus Day.
00:22:35.860 All right.
00:22:36.220 Now, for more on the story mentioned at the top of the show,
00:22:39.300 the Vanderbilt Pediatric Gender Clinic has agreed
00:22:41.340 to pause all gender transition surgeries on minors,
00:22:45.040 according to a letter from the clinic to a Tennessee lawmaker
00:22:47.720 obtained by the Daily Wire.
00:22:48.600 Vanderbilt also told the lawmakers that it would protect
00:22:50.400 conscientious objectors who worked at the facility
00:22:52.780 and don't want to take part in the controversial treatments.
00:22:56.960 They said, we are pausing gender affirmation surgeries
00:22:59.820 on patients under 18 while we complete this review,
00:23:02.280 which may take several months.
00:23:04.200 The clinic says they've done about five such gender-affirming
00:23:07.380 surgical procedures per year, which I don't believe.
00:23:12.140 But this is what they're claiming.
00:23:13.460 Since they opened in 2018, the letter addressed to,
00:23:16.280 I don't believe because I think it's much more than that,
00:23:20.100 to be clear.
00:23:20.940 The letter addressed to Republican State Representative Jason
00:23:23.540 Zachary was written by C. Wright Pinson,
00:23:26.840 the deputy CEO and chief health system officer
00:23:29.120 at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
00:23:30.380 Pinson said that parental consent had been given in each case
00:23:34.020 for the surgery and that no general procedures had been done,
00:23:36.960 but they're going to stop doing that.
00:23:38.380 But here's the best part.
00:23:39.340 Okay.
00:23:39.480 Well, the best part is that they're pausing the procedures
00:23:41.460 and that is going to really, in real time, save kids,
00:23:47.400 at least buy them some time from being mutilated in this way.
00:23:53.420 So that's the best part.
00:23:54.400 This part's also good.
00:23:56.580 Continuing with the article,
00:23:57.300 says Pinson also said that the clinic complied with existing Tennessee law
00:24:01.940 and would comply with any potential legislation that the legislature may pass.
00:24:06.040 He wrote,
00:24:07.380 In addition, we understand this issue is likely to be taken up
00:24:09.540 by the General Assembly in its next legislative session.
00:24:12.000 As always, we will assure that VUMC's programs comply with any new requirement
00:24:16.640 which may be established as part of Tennessee law.
00:24:21.440 So they're waving the white flag on the legislative fight
00:24:24.400 before it even really begins.
00:24:26.400 Now, you might say,
00:24:27.160 well, all they're doing is saying they're going to comply with the law.
00:24:29.260 What else are they going to say?
00:24:29.920 They're not going to announce ahead of time
00:24:30.840 that they're not going to comply with the law.
00:24:32.760 Well, in fact, they could announce that.
00:24:33.960 I mean, they could come out and say,
00:24:35.120 well, this is, we're putting our foot down.
00:24:36.700 We're not going to go along with this.
00:24:38.620 But they also, one way or another,
00:24:40.520 they didn't need to make a point in the letter of saying,
00:24:43.220 oh yeah, we heard about the fact that you're going to try to make this illegal
00:24:45.700 and we'll go along with it.
00:24:48.300 I certainly read that, I think, within reason as
00:24:51.220 waving the white flag and saying they're not going to fight it.
00:24:56.840 They are surrendering.
00:24:58.020 So again, this represents an occasion,
00:25:02.160 one of the very few occasions where a left-wing institution caves to pressure from the right.
00:25:10.220 I can't remember the last time that's happened.
00:25:13.780 It almost always happens the other way.
00:25:15.400 Institutions cave to pressure from the left.
00:25:17.120 And especially conservative institutions, what few exist,
00:25:22.620 generally also cave to pressure from the left.
00:25:26.500 But it's not an accident that it happened.
00:25:29.580 Okay, we didn't just, like, get lucky in this case.
00:25:32.840 We engineered this.
00:25:34.780 We made it happen.
00:25:35.980 It's all strategic.
00:25:37.500 How do we do it?
00:25:38.120 Well, utilizing a multi-pronged approach.
00:25:40.920 First was the public pressure.
00:25:43.160 Okay?
00:25:43.780 And that involves alerting the public, making them aware.
00:25:48.720 And also, you know, there are many different ways to make people aware that something's happening.
00:25:52.840 You can just say, oh, this is happening.
00:25:55.140 But to really capture people, you need to sort of tell the story of what you want them to know
00:26:01.080 in a way that resonates and makes sense.
00:26:03.860 That's another thing that I think oftentimes the right, we fail in that regard.
00:26:07.200 We kind of like to just take a bullet point approach.
00:26:11.360 Here's what happened.
00:26:11.940 Here's what's happening.
00:26:12.660 Boom, boom, boom.
00:26:14.040 Doesn't resonate.
00:26:15.000 People just, it doesn't, it doesn't capture people.
00:26:17.500 So the first thing is to make, is to make people aware, to capture them.
00:26:22.020 And then we work with lawmakers to generate political pressure.
00:26:24.800 And, and these two together create financial pressure.
00:26:27.420 You got public pressure, political pressure.
00:26:28.900 Now you also have financial pressure because donors and supporters of Vanderbilt
00:26:32.600 threaten you to pull their funds and all the rest of it.
00:26:34.400 So now, now you've got public, political, financial attack from all angles, back them
00:26:41.180 into a corner.
00:26:42.760 You don't wait for them to do the right thing.
00:26:44.740 You don't just hope that they'll have a change of heart.
00:26:47.440 You force them, leave them no option.
00:26:50.760 And that's what happened here.
00:26:52.540 Now, I think it's important to celebrate a victory when it happens.
00:26:55.460 And I, and I do believe again, this is a significant victory.
00:26:57.920 It's not over though.
00:27:01.060 What we can't do, the mistake we can't make is to say, well, well, we won that.
00:27:05.260 Let's just move on to the next thing.
00:27:07.680 No, because it's still legal to do in Tennessee.
00:27:10.120 There are still other, now this might be the big sort of gender clinic in Tennessee,
00:27:14.560 but there are other medical clinics that perform these kinds of procedures.
00:27:18.200 There's, there are plastic surgeons that perform double mastectomies on minors,
00:27:21.060 even, even ones in Nashville who aren't directly connected with, with Vanderbilt.
00:27:24.820 So the fight certainly continues and which is why it's all the more important now.
00:27:30.460 If you are able to come out on October 21st here in Nashville, 4 PM, we're going to have our rally.
00:27:38.120 We're still having our rally, even more important than ever to show up and speak out against us.
00:27:43.280 So we hope, we hope to see you there.
00:27:45.120 All right, look at this tweet from the selective service.
00:27:47.400 This is, I don't even know exactly how to process this, but this is real.
00:27:52.860 Okay, this is from the government.
00:27:56.120 Very real.
00:27:57.280 It says, parents, if your son is an only son and the last male in your family to carry the family name,
00:28:04.460 he is still required to register with SSS.
00:28:08.060 Learn more about who needs to register at SSS.gov.
00:28:12.400 What?
00:28:13.740 Now, here's the translation.
00:28:14.680 Parents, we may kill your son and end your bloodline and your family name for the sake of defending some irrelevant pile of sand
00:28:21.740 in some godforsaken corner of the globe that holds no worth to you or your family whatsoever,
00:28:26.280 but that's just what we're going to do.
00:28:29.860 Now, it's hard to understand why they would even say something like this.
00:28:33.900 Now, yeah, it's true that there is no provision in the law that says that you don't have to register your son
00:28:38.740 if he's the last male in your family.
00:28:41.300 So, yes, technically accurate, but why would you come out and say that?
00:28:46.980 Like, why?
00:28:47.660 And it seems confusing until you remember back to what we talked about a couple of weeks ago
00:28:55.280 when Lizzo was playing the flute.
00:28:58.920 And it may seem like these two things are pretty unrelated, and they are,
00:29:02.320 except in this one area where this is about demoralization.
00:29:06.180 That's the only way to understand this thing from the Selective Service.
00:29:10.540 Why else would they put that out there?
00:29:12.420 Just, hey, just letting you guys know, just reminding you that we can take your sons and kill them
00:29:17.440 and erase your family name and bloodline from history.
00:29:21.820 Why else would you come out and say it other than to demoralize people?
00:29:26.820 It's the only reason you would ever say that.
00:29:30.100 It's to demoralize people and to sort of let you know, let us know where we fall in the hierarchy,
00:29:36.100 that we are the peons, and that they can come along at any time and take our children
00:29:40.360 and have them killed off.
00:29:42.400 And, you know, in some war that if it's anything like the military engagements that we've had in recent history,
00:29:50.400 it'll be something that is completely irrelevant to our national interests.
00:29:56.340 Speaking of the draft, this is from Postmillennial.
00:29:58.700 This is also from today.
00:30:00.420 It says,
00:30:00.640 Almost all male U.S. citizens and male immigrants who are 18 through 25
00:30:14.960 are required to register with Selective Service,
00:30:17.440 and that includes males who identify as transgender.
00:30:19.760 Guidance on requirements from the Selective Service system say,
00:30:23.860 U.S. citizens or immigrants who are born male and change their gender to female
00:30:26.720 are still required to register.
00:30:28.480 Individuals who are born female and change their gender to male
00:30:31.100 are not required to register.
00:30:34.940 As soon as Biden took office, he enacted an executive order,
00:30:37.700 one of many, that said those who identify as transgender
00:30:40.240 should be treated by the military according to their gender identity
00:30:43.460 and not according to their biological sex.
00:30:47.220 Okay.
00:30:48.620 So this is very interesting.
00:30:50.700 Now, we know that there's this effort to,
00:30:54.860 and there's been a push in recent years,
00:30:56.820 to make women eligible for the draft.
00:31:00.780 And I know there have even been some people on the right who've supported this,
00:31:04.400 not because they support it in principle,
00:31:06.040 but because they see it as kind of a,
00:31:09.120 they see it as an FU to the feminists.
00:31:10.900 And they say, oh, so you want to be treated like a man?
00:31:12.880 Well, now you're going to be drafted.
00:31:15.280 Now, I can't get behind that because it's not, you know,
00:31:18.280 what feminists are you thinking you're flipping the finger to here?
00:31:21.920 You see, you have in your mind, like,
00:31:23.780 feminist college professors and gender studies professors.
00:31:27.380 They're not the ones who are going to get drafted.
00:31:29.360 Okay.
00:31:29.760 It's like my daughter gets drafted and yours.
00:31:33.980 So you line up behind this
00:31:36.020 because you think that it proves some point to the feminists.
00:31:38.980 They're not the ones that are going to suffer and die.
00:31:42.040 It'll be your own daughters.
00:31:45.540 I don't want my daughters to have nothing to do with this.
00:31:48.020 Yes, it's true that our culture has bought into this feminist lie,
00:31:51.040 this leftist lie in general,
00:31:52.940 that men and women are the same.
00:31:54.640 My daughters have nothing to do with that.
00:31:56.140 It's not their fault.
00:31:57.220 Why should they have to pay the price for that?
00:31:58.480 So I don't, the idea of drafting women, I think, is horrific
00:32:07.600 and immoral in the extreme
00:32:10.880 and a sign of a civilization that's simply given up.
00:32:16.180 You know, when you get to the point where you're sending your,
00:32:18.680 you are conscripting your daughters to go die on the battlefield,
00:32:22.420 that is a civilization that has surrendered,
00:32:25.220 that has given up completely.
00:32:30.840 So we don't know if that will ultimately go through or not,
00:32:34.140 that women are going to get drafted.
00:32:37.160 But until that does, now there is this,
00:32:39.600 once that goes through,
00:32:41.140 then it's like, whatever, they're drafting everybody.
00:32:43.260 But until that point,
00:32:44.440 now they really have a little bit of an issue on their hands
00:32:46.800 because we're told the Biden administration in particular
00:32:49.580 says that even in the context of the military,
00:32:52.240 in most other contexts,
00:32:53.760 they say that a male who identifies as a woman
00:32:55.800 is a woman and should be treated that way always,
00:33:00.040 even to the point of being sent to a women's prison.
00:33:03.560 You have a male sex offender,
00:33:05.660 a male rapist should be sent to a women's prison,
00:33:08.080 locked in a prison cell with women
00:33:09.420 because he is a woman, they tell us.
00:33:12.860 And yet, the only time when it's not going to work,
00:33:18.820 the only government agency or department,
00:33:23.940 the only organ of the government
00:33:25.580 that will not recognize your female self-identity
00:33:29.460 is selective service,
00:33:31.100 are the people who would draft you.
00:33:32.400 They're the only ones.
00:33:34.640 So they're going to go along with it.
00:33:35.920 We're going to pretend you're a woman in every context,
00:33:38.120 including in contexts where it's going to hurt other,
00:33:39.940 real women,
00:33:40.540 especially in those contexts.
00:33:45.340 But when we need you,
00:33:48.800 you know,
00:33:49.020 when the politicians need to send you overseas
00:33:51.000 to die for one of their wars,
00:33:54.020 that's when the act is dropped.
00:33:57.000 Now we're not pretending anymore.
00:33:58.540 That was all cute and fine.
00:33:59.960 Not anymore.
00:34:03.300 Really tells you everything you need to know.
00:34:05.960 All right.
00:34:08.020 One other thing here.
00:34:09.820 What do we got?
00:34:10.500 There's a couple to choose from.
00:34:12.660 And we're running out of time in the five headlines.
00:34:15.720 All right.
00:34:16.000 I want to mention this because it's kind of related.
00:34:17.380 This is from the Daily Wire.
00:34:18.680 It says,
00:34:18.860 author J.K. Rowling slammed the idea that she's right wing
00:34:22.120 simply because she cares about child safeguarding
00:34:24.760 and said she's been on the liberal left all her adult life.
00:34:28.220 Rowling, the famed Harry Potter author,
00:34:29.820 who's been the target of transgender activists
00:34:31.780 because of her defense of biological women,
00:34:33.640 made several comments on Twitter Friday
00:34:35.220 explaining that future historians
00:34:36.640 will be able to trace the path of the culture
00:34:38.160 as it relates to radical gender ideology.
00:34:40.300 She says,
00:34:40.620 I say this as someone who's been on the liberal left
00:34:42.340 all her adult life.
00:34:43.940 Own goals don't come any more spectacular than
00:34:46.820 if you care about child safeguarding,
00:34:48.940 you must be right wing.
00:34:51.320 The crazy thing about this is
00:34:53.140 it's all been documented virtually minute by minute.
00:34:55.700 Future historians won't be struggling to find out
00:34:57.360 how this cultural moment happened.
00:34:59.460 Think how many books, blogs, videos, speeches,
00:35:01.440 and documentaries will be available to them.
00:35:04.640 So she is once again reasserting her bona fides
00:35:08.260 as a leftist.
00:35:09.520 And we've seen this from her before.
00:35:11.060 We know obviously when she disavowed me a few months ago
00:35:14.340 and said,
00:35:15.940 yeah, I thought what is a woman was fine,
00:35:17.260 but not this guy.
00:35:19.100 I don't want to be on the same side as this guy.
00:35:20.680 So this is not anything new for her.
00:35:23.120 I just wonder,
00:35:24.880 and I once again,
00:35:26.300 as I've said so many times,
00:35:27.220 but I do feel the need to reiterate
00:35:29.320 because it's true
00:35:30.080 that she's had a lot of courage on this issue.
00:35:33.560 Serves a lot of credit for that.
00:35:35.140 Yes, she's a multi-billionaire.
00:35:36.540 Yes, she has enough money to retire
00:35:38.960 for the next one million lifetimes.
00:35:40.720 And so you might say that she's got nothing to lose,
00:35:42.500 but you do have something to lose.
00:35:45.660 Yeah, when you've got a lot of money,
00:35:46.700 like when you're a billionaire,
00:35:47.540 you just kind of take that for,
00:35:48.280 okay, you're rich
00:35:49.480 and you always will be
00:35:50.680 and you just like,
00:35:51.420 you take that for granted
00:35:52.220 at a certain point.
00:35:54.480 You don't think of that
00:35:55.320 as something that you can lose
00:35:56.320 because you can't,
00:35:57.000 but there are other things you can lose
00:35:58.280 that you still value and cherish
00:35:59.460 and you might cherish them even more
00:36:00.580 now that money is like
00:36:01.380 not an issue anymore to think about.
00:36:03.520 Things like your reputation,
00:36:05.260 your, you know,
00:36:07.060 the admiration people have for you
00:36:08.940 in the mainstream.
00:36:10.580 So those are things
00:36:11.800 that she had and she's now lost
00:36:14.040 in the mainstream anyway.
00:36:16.580 For someone like me,
00:36:18.960 it's gone the opposite.
00:36:19.580 I respect her health a lot more
00:36:20.880 than I did before,
00:36:21.640 but she doesn't really care.
00:36:23.180 She's made it clear.
00:36:23.660 She doesn't care what I think
00:36:24.460 or what you think.
00:36:26.580 So she has lost the respect
00:36:28.440 of people that,
00:36:30.480 whose opinion she otherwise cares about.
00:36:34.900 And that's something.
00:36:36.160 That's a lot.
00:36:37.280 That takes guts.
00:36:39.700 So all that said,
00:36:40.700 I do wish that at some point,
00:36:43.380 J.K. Rowling and everyone,
00:36:46.580 in her kind of camp,
00:36:47.780 what they call themselves
00:36:49.180 gender-critical feminists,
00:36:50.560 they're derisively called
00:36:52.340 TERFs by the other side.
00:36:54.940 But I wish that they would all
00:36:56.020 just stop and think for a second.
00:36:58.340 I mean, you still claim
00:37:00.160 you're fealty to the left
00:37:01.840 and you say you've been a liberal
00:37:02.800 and you still believe all of that.
00:37:05.580 Maybe stop and think about,
00:37:08.280 okay, why is it that your side
00:37:09.980 has lost its mind?
00:37:11.560 If you notice that,
00:37:12.300 it's only on your side.
00:37:14.460 You still claim this
00:37:15.440 as your side broadly
00:37:16.660 in the ideological struggle.
00:37:20.220 And yet,
00:37:21.020 you are on the side
00:37:22.120 that has totally lost
00:37:23.500 its grip on reality.
00:37:26.160 Maybe you should think about that.
00:37:27.820 And you should think about
00:37:28.580 whether you still want to
00:37:30.100 align yourself with that.
00:37:34.860 You should think about,
00:37:36.000 are there some fundamental,
00:37:38.040 like,
00:37:38.160 is it just a coincidence
00:37:39.700 that this gender ideology,
00:37:41.940 this trans stuff,
00:37:42.680 came along on the left?
00:37:43.960 Is that a coincidence?
00:37:44.820 Could it have been either one?
00:37:46.440 It could have been the right.
00:37:47.260 You know,
00:37:47.460 it could have been conservatives.
00:37:48.380 But it just ended up being
00:37:49.600 just some quirk of history.
00:37:51.760 It just ended up being leftists
00:37:53.100 who got all behind gender ideology
00:37:54.600 and, you know,
00:37:55.700 women have penises
00:37:56.360 and all the rest of it.
00:37:58.280 Is it that?
00:37:59.440 Or is there something
00:38:00.600 fundamentally in leftism
00:38:02.800 that inevitably led to this?
00:38:05.200 Because I think it's very much
00:38:06.220 the latter.
00:38:08.540 And there's a lot there
00:38:09.500 that we could talk about
00:38:10.400 that we don't have time for,
00:38:11.780 but I'll point to one thing,
00:38:12.940 the rejection of objective truth.
00:38:15.540 Leftism is inherently
00:38:16.820 a relativistic worldview.
00:38:22.440 Always has been.
00:38:24.440 And that's where all this stems from,
00:38:26.640 ultimately.
00:38:27.520 There's a lot more
00:38:28.080 that goes into it.
00:38:30.380 Leftism is also anti-family.
00:38:32.540 It's anti-anything
00:38:33.680 that has the stench
00:38:37.980 of tradition,
00:38:38.940 you know,
00:38:39.280 in their minds.
00:38:40.900 Anything like that.
00:38:41.520 So they're anti all of that,
00:38:42.540 inherently destructive,
00:38:43.460 inherently anti-truth.
00:38:46.560 That's where it comes from.
00:38:48.860 Maybe think about that
00:38:49.760 and say,
00:38:50.120 well,
00:38:50.420 maybe I'm not a liberal.
00:38:51.860 Maybe I'm not on the liberal left
00:38:52.980 or I shouldn't be.
00:38:55.820 Something to think about
00:38:56.600 as we get into our
00:38:58.080 comment section.
00:38:58.840 Daily cancellations
00:39:00.740 are the law and order
00:39:01.980 of the day
00:39:03.420 with the Sweet Baby Gang.
00:39:09.480 Well,
00:39:09.980 this is a,
00:39:10.560 the segment of the show
00:39:11.560 dedicated to the SBG.
00:39:13.280 Really every segment
00:39:14.120 of the show
00:39:14.720 is dedicated
00:39:15.140 to my dear sweet babies,
00:39:16.480 but this in particular.
00:39:18.800 And because of that,
00:39:19.980 I need to make sure
00:39:20.640 to give special credit
00:39:21.540 and issue accommodations
00:39:22.580 to the SBG
00:39:24.500 who showed up
00:39:25.120 to an event
00:39:25.700 on Saturday
00:39:26.300 in Michigan
00:39:27.060 where I was speaking,
00:39:28.620 a great conference
00:39:30.140 called the Body of Christ
00:39:31.120 in the Public Square
00:39:31.840 event conference.
00:39:33.700 And it's a wonderful event
00:39:35.020 run and attended
00:39:35.740 by some very solid Christians.
00:39:38.180 But the SBG was there
00:39:39.320 and to understand
00:39:40.440 why their presence
00:39:41.560 was so especially
00:39:42.620 important and inspiring,
00:39:45.960 just need a little bit
00:39:46.680 of background.
00:39:47.920 The background goes back
00:39:49.400 to the greatest controversy
00:39:50.720 of this current century,
00:39:52.200 of course,
00:39:52.540 which I don't need
00:39:53.380 to tell you,
00:39:54.220 is Walruscape.
00:39:55.400 The controversy
00:39:55.960 which did not conclude
00:39:57.940 and was not settled
00:39:59.140 when Ben Shapiro
00:40:00.040 finally released his grip
00:40:01.260 on my life-sized
00:40:02.860 stuffed walrus,
00:40:04.220 that was only
00:40:04.660 the end of chapter one.
00:40:05.940 That was one struggle
00:40:06.900 and the beginning
00:40:07.480 of another one
00:40:08.880 because now that it's been
00:40:10.160 officially given to me,
00:40:11.820 in theory anyway,
00:40:13.060 the next step
00:40:13.620 is to bring it home.
00:40:15.180 But home
00:40:15.940 is where my wife lives
00:40:18.100 and she has never
00:40:19.780 been on board,
00:40:20.920 I'm afraid to say,
00:40:21.880 with the giant
00:40:22.460 stuffed walrus.
00:40:23.020 She has never
00:40:23.800 understood my pain
00:40:25.080 over its absence
00:40:26.380 nor my desire
00:40:27.240 for its presence
00:40:28.040 and that's why
00:40:29.420 to this day,
00:40:31.360 the walrus
00:40:32.020 still is not
00:40:32.820 at my house.
00:40:33.780 It's not there.
00:40:34.520 It's still at work,
00:40:37.160 still in the studio.
00:40:38.640 In fact,
00:40:38.960 my wife
00:40:39.540 went around me,
00:40:41.280 she usurped me,
00:40:42.640 and started texting
00:40:44.300 and calling people
00:40:45.220 at work
00:40:45.800 to prevent them
00:40:46.420 from bringing it home.
00:40:47.660 This is true.
00:40:48.180 It's what she did.
00:40:48.700 I was actually
00:40:50.480 on the air one day
00:40:51.640 and she was conspiring.
00:40:54.160 She and my assistant,
00:40:55.160 Tessa,
00:40:55.540 in particular,
00:40:56.440 reached some sort
00:40:57.160 of agreement
00:40:57.740 whereby now
00:40:59.320 the walrus
00:40:59.760 is still at the office.
00:41:01.360 It's not at my house.
00:41:03.800 You have to understand
00:41:04.640 that my wife,
00:41:05.260 by the way,
00:41:05.500 has a direct line
00:41:06.460 to everyone I work with
00:41:08.440 and will simply
00:41:09.700 go around me
00:41:10.280 whenever it suits her.
00:41:11.460 She has the numbers
00:41:12.480 of everybody
00:41:12.900 in the wardrobe department
00:41:13.940 and she has no problem
00:41:15.280 calling them
00:41:15.760 to give her opinion
00:41:16.380 about wardrobe issues.
00:41:18.160 She obviously
00:41:19.060 is in touch
00:41:19.500 with everybody
00:41:21.320 and somehow
00:41:24.680 this agreement
00:41:25.740 was sorted out
00:41:27.120 and so I don't have
00:41:28.860 the walrus now.
00:41:31.000 So anyway,
00:41:32.080 my wife's argument
00:41:33.640 against the walrus
00:41:35.600 is that number one,
00:41:36.340 she thinks we don't have
00:41:37.100 room for it in the house,
00:41:38.480 which is absurd
00:41:39.480 because if we lived
00:41:41.100 in a damned
00:41:41.640 double-wide trailer,
00:41:43.100 I would still say
00:41:43.880 we have room
00:41:44.740 for the walrus.
00:41:45.820 Get rid of the couch
00:41:46.600 and put the walrus there.
00:41:47.420 You can sit on it too
00:41:48.120 by the way
00:41:48.560 and she says
00:41:50.160 we can't fit it
00:41:50.820 through the door
00:41:51.480 which, okay,
00:41:52.620 you can take the door off,
00:41:54.200 you can cut a hole
00:41:54.760 in the side of the house,
00:41:55.580 it's been done before,
00:41:57.560 it can bust through the wall
00:41:58.920 like the Kool-Aid man,
00:42:00.140 whatever you gotta do,
00:42:00.980 these are not real problems,
00:42:02.580 these are excuses,
00:42:03.520 I'm a solution man,
00:42:04.360 I'm not an excuses guy,
00:42:05.540 I don't wanna hear
00:42:06.040 the excuses,
00:42:07.120 tell me the solutions
00:42:07.960 and if you don't have them,
00:42:08.940 I'll tell you what they are.
00:42:10.140 Cut a hole in the wall,
00:42:11.120 that's it,
00:42:11.520 that's the solution.
00:42:13.340 This brings us
00:42:13.960 to the event this weekend
00:42:14.640 which my wife attended
00:42:15.400 with me and she was
00:42:16.540 in the audience
00:42:17.020 when someone came
00:42:17.680 to the microphone
00:42:18.320 during the Q&A,
00:42:20.380 addressed me as
00:42:21.380 Sweet Daddy Walsh
00:42:22.360 which creeps my wife
00:42:24.640 out to no end
00:42:25.200 so I was so glad
00:42:26.060 she was there for that
00:42:26.700 and then also asked
00:42:27.880 about the walrus
00:42:28.480 and it gave me
00:42:29.700 an opportunity
00:42:30.340 on the stage
00:42:32.120 with the microphone
00:42:32.860 to make my case
00:42:35.280 for bringing the walrus home
00:42:36.460 and I was able
00:42:37.020 to get the audience
00:42:38.340 to applaud along with me
00:42:39.500 so it was like
00:42:40.200 400 against one
00:42:41.920 and you have to understand
00:42:43.340 in a marriage
00:42:44.360 it's a man-woman argument
00:42:45.680 men are often
00:42:47.000 at a disadvantage
00:42:47.720 but when you have
00:42:49.340 the microphone
00:42:49.960 and she doesn't
00:42:50.960 that's a whole
00:42:52.600 different ballgame.
00:42:53.160 It made me think
00:42:53.600 that I should have
00:42:54.360 a stage and a microphone
00:42:55.280 in my house
00:42:56.180 so that anytime
00:42:57.160 we're arguing about something
00:42:58.080 I'll just get up
00:42:58.660 on the stage
00:42:59.260 and I'll
00:43:00.200 you know
00:43:01.980 just start shouting
00:43:03.840 it into the microphone.
00:43:05.200 Maybe I'll start
00:43:05.620 live streaming it too
00:43:06.460 so the SPG
00:43:07.260 can see the argument
00:43:08.100 and everyone
00:43:08.600 will get on my side.
00:43:09.320 Anyway
00:43:11.400 the walrus still isn't home
00:43:12.400 even after all that.
00:43:13.820 Jack Strahl says
00:43:14.640 I drove 49 miles last night
00:43:16.720 to hear Sweet Daddy's lecture
00:43:17.900 I got detoured
00:43:18.940 by road construction
00:43:20.020 on campus
00:43:20.600 and by the time
00:43:21.160 I found parking
00:43:21.740 it was 7.55
00:43:22.680 and couldn't get in
00:43:23.820 there I stood
00:43:25.060 ticket in hand
00:43:25.680 and unable to hear
00:43:26.340 Matt Wall speak
00:43:27.060 this is at the college event
00:43:27.920 by the way
00:43:28.200 not the other thing
00:43:29.620 I tried to bargain
00:43:30.620 with the person at the door
00:43:31.640 to no avail
00:43:32.260 so I sat outside the hall
00:43:33.620 and watched it on YouTube
00:43:34.480 it was a long trip
00:43:35.340 but it was not for naught
00:43:36.600 because I was able
00:43:37.700 to trigger a protester
00:43:38.680 by misgendering it
00:43:39.880 I'm glad to hear that part
00:43:41.800 and I hate that you
00:43:42.480 couldn't make it in though Jack
00:43:43.400 you know
00:43:45.200 tell you what
00:43:45.520 we'll send you
00:43:46.460 we'll get in touch with you
00:43:47.020 we'll send you
00:43:47.380 a signed t-shirt
00:43:48.440 and a signed book
00:43:51.060 and a stuffed walrus
00:43:53.240 and a couple stickers
00:43:56.420 and a leftist tears
00:43:59.960 mug signed
00:44:00.940 and I just promised
00:44:02.660 all those things
00:44:03.220 so we have to do it now
00:44:04.260 otherwise I'd be a liar
00:44:05.540 A. Reid says
00:44:07.280 the optics of these events
00:44:08.440 are always exactly
00:44:09.340 what you'd expect
00:44:10.140 massive crowds
00:44:11.060 of normal looking
00:44:11.880 well behaved people
00:44:12.840 versus small groups
00:44:13.880 of colorful cry babies
00:44:15.260 and social parasites
00:44:16.460 those are
00:44:17.980 those are indeed the optics
00:44:18.860 and so you can watch
00:44:19.720 and just decide
00:44:20.260 whose side you're on
00:44:20.940 it's really up to you
00:44:22.220 Gray Webb says
00:44:25.420 if your presence
00:44:26.080 makes her feel unsafe
00:44:27.080 why is she in the same
00:44:28.180 building you're in
00:44:29.120 yeah that is
00:44:30.780 that is really
00:44:31.360 the ultimate question
00:44:32.320 and as we were talking
00:44:34.000 about the protesters
00:44:34.660 and how they felt unsafe
00:44:35.760 and they were complaining
00:44:36.400 and all that
00:44:36.900 well if you're really
00:44:38.600 that unsafe
00:44:39.000 why are you
00:44:39.960 you could leave
00:44:41.040 the building
00:44:41.460 you don't have to
00:44:41.960 I'm not forcing you
00:44:42.720 to be in the building
00:44:43.320 I didn't show up
00:44:44.260 to the building
00:44:44.720 that you were in
00:44:45.340 I didn't like show up
00:44:46.280 I didn't chase you down
00:44:47.880 I wasn't chasing you
00:44:48.580 across the campus
00:44:49.260 so if you're really
00:44:49.860 if you really feel unsafe
00:44:51.060 then you would
00:44:52.600 they just go somewhere else
00:44:54.660 but that's an easy solution
00:44:57.680 and that's exactly
00:44:59.060 what they don't want
00:44:59.480 they want the excuse
00:45:00.100 they want the excuse
00:45:00.820 to complain
00:45:01.760 they don't actually want
00:45:02.520 the solution
00:45:04.600 happy Columbus Day folks
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00:45:35.200 now let's get to
00:45:36.220 our daily cancellation
00:45:37.040 today for our daily cancellation
00:45:42.840 we go back a few months
00:45:44.320 to a video posted in June
00:45:46.120 which is reacting to my film
00:45:48.060 What is a Woman
00:45:48.620 I wasn't aware
00:45:49.580 that this video existed
00:45:50.520 until someone happened
00:45:51.320 to send it to me last week
00:45:52.360 and we'll take a look at it
00:45:54.460 we'll talk about it now
00:45:55.440 because it helps me
00:45:57.140 illustrate a point
00:45:58.680 that I want to make
00:45:59.900 and that's when you
00:46:01.320 that's a good way
00:46:02.300 to get into the cancellation
00:46:03.080 is if you say something
00:46:04.260 that just plays into
00:46:05.800 an overall overarching point
00:46:07.140 I feel like making
00:46:08.020 and so that's what's happening here
00:46:09.960 and the guy in this clip
00:46:11.160 is someone named
00:46:12.140 Jordan B. Cooper
00:46:13.160 who's a theologian
00:46:14.080 and author
00:46:14.480 president of the
00:46:15.740 American Lutheran
00:46:16.720 Theological Seminary
00:46:18.060 he also hosts a podcast
00:46:19.560 I believe
00:46:20.040 based on what very little
00:46:21.220 I know about the guy
00:46:22.180 I'm assuming the two of us
00:46:23.720 probably agree
00:46:24.360 on a great many important issues
00:46:25.780 in fact we agree
00:46:26.940 about the issue
00:46:27.580 that lies at the center
00:46:28.420 of the film
00:46:29.020 that we're really
00:46:29.920 on the same page
00:46:30.560 in so many ways
00:46:31.160 and Cooper seems
00:46:32.340 to appreciate the film
00:46:33.580 and has some nice things
00:46:34.500 to say about the content
00:46:35.780 and about the approach
00:46:36.780 that we took
00:46:37.680 and yet
00:46:38.080 you can't get fully behind it
00:46:39.940 because as he sees it
00:46:41.180 my documentary
00:46:42.760 has one fatal flaw
00:46:44.080 I'm involved
00:46:45.540 let's listen
00:46:47.100 so I think there
00:46:49.240 there are some
00:46:50.080 things I want to say
00:46:51.240 about about the film
00:46:52.300 the first of those
00:46:54.000 is
00:46:54.440 honestly I think the film
00:46:55.840 would have been more effective
00:46:56.740 if it was not put out
00:46:58.060 by the Daily Wire
00:46:58.820 and particularly Matt Walsh
00:47:00.000 and I don't mean this
00:47:01.580 I don't mean that
00:47:03.360 as an insult to him
00:47:04.260 or them as an organization
00:47:05.220 in any way whatsoever
00:47:05.860 they are a
00:47:06.860 they're a political group
00:47:07.840 so they do political things
00:47:09.440 and he's a political figure
00:47:10.300 and this has
00:47:10.680 you know
00:47:11.660 very much has
00:47:12.540 political implications
00:47:13.460 but the reason I say that
00:47:15.340 is because
00:47:16.460 these issues of gender
00:47:18.460 really extend far beyond
00:47:20.980 the conservative
00:47:22.700 quote-unquote
00:47:23.240 conservative-liberal divide
00:47:24.520 or republican-democrat divide
00:47:26.120 of course these things
00:47:26.820 affect people
00:47:27.300 from all over the world
00:47:27.880 it's not just our
00:47:28.420 American political context
00:47:29.480 that determines
00:47:30.060 everything
00:47:31.200 even though us Americans
00:47:31.920 tend to think
00:47:32.400 everything centers around us
00:47:33.520 but it doesn't
00:47:34.500 these are
00:47:36.480 much broader
00:47:38.260 philosophical claims
00:47:40.320 that are being made
00:47:42.280 surrounding gender
00:47:43.040 that don't have
00:47:43.840 really anything
00:47:44.600 to do with politics
00:47:45.800 there are assertions
00:47:47.960 about what a male is
00:47:49.080 and what a female is
00:47:50.080 and questions
00:47:50.720 maybe more than assertions
00:47:51.820 because there are
00:47:52.320 no real answers
00:47:53.060 that are dependent
00:47:54.620 upon particular
00:47:55.740 philosophical constructs
00:47:57.420 that have not
00:47:58.120 in any way
00:47:59.040 been proven
00:48:00.060 but are instead
00:48:01.420 being forced upon people
00:48:03.160 yes that Matt Walsh movie
00:48:08.240 which Matt Walsh made
00:48:09.780 would be a lot better
00:48:10.880 without Matt Walsh in it
00:48:12.620 there are some major
00:48:14.080 logical problems
00:48:14.820 with such a criticism
00:48:15.540 of course
00:48:15.960 like if I made a painting
00:48:17.020 and you said
00:48:17.840 that you really
00:48:18.960 liked the painting
00:48:19.780 it wouldn't make
00:48:21.060 any sense
00:48:21.520 to then add
00:48:22.200 that the painting
00:48:23.220 would have been better
00:48:24.000 if I hadn't been
00:48:24.860 the one to paint it
00:48:26.260 now it may be true
00:48:27.560 that other people
00:48:28.180 could make better paintings
00:48:29.520 but this specific painting
00:48:31.420 wouldn't exist at all
00:48:32.720 without me
00:48:33.780 so if I wasn't involved
00:48:35.160 in the making
00:48:35.640 of the painting
00:48:36.340 you wouldn't have
00:48:37.540 a better version
00:48:38.300 of the painting
00:48:38.800 you just wouldn't have
00:48:39.880 this painting
00:48:40.360 in the first place
00:48:41.180 it wouldn't exist
00:48:41.720 so we'll pick up
00:48:43.180 on that thought
00:48:43.580 in just a moment
00:48:44.040 but here's a little bit more
00:48:44.860 of Jordan Cooper
00:48:46.060 but I think
00:48:47.980 because of the nature
00:48:48.800 of the fact
00:48:49.280 that it is Matt Walsh
00:48:50.660 making the documentary
00:48:51.560 that it will turn
00:48:53.180 a lot of people off
00:48:54.100 from it
00:48:54.680 and make
00:48:55.160 and I think
00:48:55.720 give the impression
00:48:56.560 that this is just another
00:48:58.480 kind of Republican
00:48:59.480 Democrat issue
00:49:01.080 and it's really not
00:49:02.940 and you see that
00:49:03.720 especially even
00:49:04.220 through the people
00:49:04.580 interviewed throughout
00:49:05.420 and people that are
00:49:06.220 speaking up on these issues
00:49:07.340 that this
00:49:07.840 this absolutely
00:49:09.280 100%
00:49:10.240 should not be
00:49:10.960 a Democrat
00:49:11.600 Republican issue
00:49:12.580 this is a question
00:49:14.460 of who is
00:49:15.900 the human person
00:49:16.760 what determines
00:49:18.860 what and who you are
00:49:20.180 is it what you say
00:49:21.440 you are
00:49:21.920 is truth determined
00:49:23.040 just by whatever
00:49:24.160 linguistic concept
00:49:26.980 society happens to use
00:49:28.300 even if it can't
00:49:28.920 define it
00:49:29.380 or is there something
00:49:30.260 real about
00:49:31.180 what we encounter
00:49:32.180 in our everyday experiences
00:49:33.340 what philosophically
00:49:35.020 would be referred to
00:49:35.660 as realism
00:49:36.400 or essentialism
00:49:37.360 that I know
00:49:38.920 is a bad word
00:49:39.800 among gender theorists
00:49:41.980 but unfortunately
00:49:42.720 I do think
00:49:43.280 that the fact
00:49:43.720 that Matt Walsh
00:49:44.300 is involved
00:49:44.620 is going to make
00:49:45.020 a bunch of people
00:49:45.360 kind of turn it off
00:49:46.160 and say
00:49:46.500 it's just some
00:49:47.220 political thing
00:49:47.720 well I'm sorry
00:49:51.340 for being involved
00:49:51.980 in my own project
00:49:52.740 I should have known better
00:49:54.060 though his critique
00:49:55.280 about the alleged
00:49:56.040 political nature
00:49:56.760 of the film
00:49:57.160 makes it sound
00:49:57.720 like we spend
00:49:58.200 the whole run time
00:49:58.940 ranting against Democrats
00:50:00.080 and shilling for Republicans
00:50:01.200 and there is in fact
00:50:02.080 none of that
00:50:03.100 in the movie
00:50:03.520 we do interview
00:50:04.220 and ultimately
00:50:05.300 embarrass a Democrat
00:50:06.260 politician
00:50:06.760 but his humiliation
00:50:08.160 is entirely self-induced
00:50:09.600 so what is
00:50:11.160 Cooper's actual
00:50:11.700 criticism
00:50:12.060 he tries to sort of
00:50:13.480 make it about
00:50:14.220 the approach
00:50:14.720 of the film itself
00:50:15.400 but ultimately
00:50:16.000 it's clear that he likes
00:50:17.260 the approach
00:50:17.660 he just doesn't like
00:50:18.340 or at least
00:50:18.700 doesn't terribly respect
00:50:19.880 at least in this case
00:50:22.240 me or the Daily Wire
00:50:23.360 now he's far from
00:50:24.760 the only Christian
00:50:25.260 in a position of leadership
00:50:26.140 who's voiced
00:50:27.040 this kind of objection
00:50:28.000 to not only
00:50:28.720 what is a woman
00:50:29.180 but all of the other work
00:50:30.480 that we're doing
00:50:31.000 on the gender ideology issue
00:50:32.200 and in the culture
00:50:32.940 in general
00:50:33.860 so I hear this kind of thing
00:50:36.680 a lot
00:50:36.900 they appreciate the work
00:50:38.140 but they really wish
00:50:40.200 we weren't the ones
00:50:41.380 doing it
00:50:41.940 because they're so
00:50:43.640 deeply uncomfortable
00:50:44.360 with us
00:50:44.980 and about various
00:50:45.660 different things
00:50:46.060 about us
00:50:46.540 they wish that we
00:50:48.020 could leave it
00:50:48.500 to more credible
00:50:49.220 Christian voices
00:50:50.060 to you know
00:50:50.740 handle these kinds
00:50:51.420 of things
00:50:51.800 those who could make
00:50:53.020 more robust
00:50:53.780 theological arguments
00:50:54.880 those who have
00:50:55.560 PhDs in moral theology
00:50:57.540 the problem with me
00:50:59.160 they say
00:50:59.600 is that
00:51:00.020 I'm too polarizing
00:51:02.380 I'm too abrasive
00:51:03.940 I'm too controversial
00:51:04.840 and what's more
00:51:05.760 I'm not educated enough
00:51:06.680 not eloquent enough
00:51:07.660 not the right kind
00:51:09.200 of Christian
00:51:09.740 not the right sort of voice
00:51:11.320 and to those criticisms
00:51:13.560 I say yes
00:51:14.520 basically true
00:51:16.960 I am too much
00:51:17.780 of some things
00:51:18.380 and not enough of others
00:51:19.280 I am a very flawed vessel
00:51:20.540 so why did I make
00:51:22.880 the film
00:51:23.420 well because
00:51:26.160 no one else did
00:51:28.580 why am I
00:51:30.960 fighting at the front lines
00:51:32.340 in this battle
00:51:32.840 well because
00:51:33.240 there aren't very many
00:51:34.340 other people
00:51:35.020 scrambling to get up here
00:51:36.520 there especially
00:51:38.080 aren't
00:51:38.740 aren't very many
00:51:39.520 Christian leaders
00:51:40.420 coming to the front
00:51:41.420 it's not as though
00:51:42.940 the foxhole is full
00:51:44.160 okay if you came up
00:51:45.000 we're not going to say
00:51:45.460 oh we don't have room for you
00:51:46.240 we got too many people
00:51:47.260 who want to be here
00:51:48.120 no no no
00:51:48.800 we got plenty of room
00:51:49.800 down in the trenches
00:51:50.420 we invite any
00:51:52.600 educated
00:51:53.380 PhD wielding
00:51:54.900 Christian pastor
00:51:55.720 or theologian
00:51:56.340 who wants to
00:51:57.100 jump down into the mud
00:51:58.220 with us
00:51:58.840 and get their hands dirty
00:51:59.740 we invite you all
00:52:00.900 to come
00:52:01.560 there's a few
00:52:03.540 here already with us
00:52:04.660 but not that many
00:52:05.540 instead they seem
00:52:07.500 to prefer to stay
00:52:08.260 far back
00:52:08.880 from where most
00:52:09.460 of the real fighting
00:52:10.180 is going on
00:52:10.860 lobbing grenades
00:52:11.920 that ultimately
00:52:13.080 end up hitting us
00:52:14.040 rather than the enemy
00:52:15.060 now at the Daily Wire
00:52:17.000 we encounter this sort of
00:52:17.960 thing pretty frequently
00:52:18.720 and this is why
00:52:20.420 it's maybe just
00:52:21.340 really annoys me
00:52:22.320 at this point
00:52:22.780 one other quick example
00:52:24.440 we released the
00:52:25.580 Jeremy's Razors commercial
00:52:26.640 back in March
00:52:27.420 of this year
00:52:27.960 and we did something
00:52:28.980 that no other
00:52:29.640 conservative organization
00:52:30.320 has done to my
00:52:31.520 knowledge
00:52:31.820 which is a high
00:52:32.880 price sponsor
00:52:33.700 left us
00:52:34.940 because it opposed
00:52:35.620 our values
00:52:36.220 and rather than
00:52:36.800 changing our values
00:52:37.760 to keep the sponsor
00:52:38.580 we told the sponsor
00:52:39.460 to go to hell
00:52:40.740 and we made a product
00:52:41.580 to directly compete
00:52:42.420 with them instead
00:52:43.040 big win
00:52:44.540 it's an important
00:52:45.280 cultural counterpunch
00:52:46.540 but some Christians
00:52:48.360 were uncomfortable
00:52:49.060 with it
00:52:50.060 it's uncomfortable
00:52:50.740 Toby Sumter
00:52:52.120 is a prominent pastor
00:52:53.140 co-host of a popular
00:52:54.120 podcast called
00:52:54.960 CrossPolitik
00:52:55.840 do a lot of good
00:52:57.120 things on the podcast
00:52:58.580 I've listened to it
00:52:59.360 but he wrote a
00:53:01.220 lengthy article
00:53:01.900 attacking the
00:53:02.720 Jeremy's Razors ad
00:53:03.660 claiming absurdly
00:53:04.920 that we somehow
00:53:06.240 had sold out
00:53:07.320 by making it
00:53:08.560 and he explained
00:53:09.640 all the ways
00:53:10.160 that it could have
00:53:10.540 been done better
00:53:11.080 he also threw
00:53:11.960 an irrelevant
00:53:12.480 blindside punch
00:53:13.800 at me and Michael
00:53:14.480 Knowles
00:53:14.780 accusing us of being
00:53:15.800 papist idolaters
00:53:17.240 you see the whole
00:53:18.800 Jeremy's Razors campaign
00:53:19.900 is a nice idea
00:53:21.060 he says
00:53:21.500 but he knows
00:53:22.780 how it could have
00:53:23.220 been done better
00:53:23.860 he could have
00:53:25.760 done it better
00:53:26.260 and yet
00:53:27.820 he isn't doing it
00:53:29.700 better
00:53:29.960 and never has
00:53:31.640 has he ever
00:53:32.900 produced anything
00:53:33.560 with the cultural
00:53:34.120 relevance of what
00:53:34.880 the Daily Wire
00:53:35.340 creates
00:53:35.720 has he ever
00:53:36.140 had a real
00:53:37.280 substantive win
00:53:38.140 in the culture
00:53:38.600 in the way that
00:53:39.160 we have
00:53:40.080 that we're changing
00:53:41.460 laws and saving
00:53:42.360 kids from getting
00:53:42.980 mutilated
00:53:43.380 and making content
00:53:44.260 that has a real
00:53:44.780 lasting noticeable
00:53:45.580 impact for the
00:53:46.220 good in our
00:53:46.600 culture
00:53:46.860 is Toby Sumter
00:53:48.300 doing that
00:53:48.620 is Jordan B. Cooper
00:53:49.620 by the way
00:53:51.540 it won't surprise
00:53:52.020 you to learn
00:53:52.520 that the cross
00:53:53.060 politic guys
00:53:53.660 also criticized
00:53:54.480 what is a woman
00:53:55.020 on the grounds
00:53:56.280 that I'm
00:53:57.000 Catholic
00:53:57.360 which means
00:53:57.860 the film
00:53:58.340 in terms of
00:53:58.900 impact
00:53:59.300 quote
00:53:59.900 won't do
00:54:00.420 much
00:54:00.780 and B
00:54:01.860 I didn't
00:54:02.660 bring Jesus
00:54:03.260 into the film
00:54:04.160 in the scene
00:54:04.980 where I'm
00:54:05.380 debating
00:54:05.760 the pro-trans
00:54:06.500 pediatrician
00:54:07.220 they wanted
00:54:08.220 me to launch
00:54:08.900 into a sermon
00:54:09.660 about the
00:54:10.260 saving power
00:54:10.960 of Jesus Christ
00:54:11.800 in the middle
00:54:12.160 of the movie
00:54:12.580 and because
00:54:13.740 I didn't
00:54:14.340 that's a big
00:54:15.280 problem
00:54:15.640 once again
00:54:16.780 they could have
00:54:18.360 made a much
00:54:18.760 better version
00:54:19.360 of the movie
00:54:20.860 a much more
00:54:21.380 Christian
00:54:21.840 much more Christian
00:54:22.700 much holier version
00:54:23.640 and yet they
00:54:25.860 haven't
00:54:26.200 they didn't
00:54:27.640 they aren't
00:54:30.020 see
00:54:31.100 Christian leaders
00:54:32.160 those who
00:54:32.660 actually pastor
00:54:33.540 churches
00:54:34.020 and have
00:54:34.460 degrees in
00:54:34.960 theology
00:54:35.420 and so on
00:54:36.000 they've spent
00:54:38.060 the last
00:54:38.440 several decades
00:54:39.200 suffering
00:54:40.020 one defeat
00:54:40.940 after another
00:54:41.580 in an
00:54:42.060 unrelenting
00:54:42.800 and unbroken
00:54:43.740 chain
00:54:44.400 of failure
00:54:45.140 our culture
00:54:47.160 has slipped
00:54:47.620 ever further
00:54:48.340 into madness
00:54:49.100 into moral
00:54:49.720 confusion
00:54:50.220 and abject
00:54:50.860 insanity
00:54:51.280 and all while
00:54:51.980 they preside
00:54:53.120 in their positions
00:54:53.800 of alleged
00:54:54.300 leadership
00:54:54.820 doing
00:54:56.060 nothing
00:54:57.220 look
00:54:58.880 there are
00:54:59.340 two kinds
00:54:59.920 of culturally
00:55:00.540 ineffectual
00:55:01.280 Christian leaders
00:55:01.940 in the country
00:55:02.440 the first
00:55:03.940 and I would say
00:55:04.440 the more
00:55:04.760 common brand
00:55:05.640 are those
00:55:07.080 pastors
00:55:07.520 and other
00:55:07.860 people in
00:55:08.220 positions of
00:55:08.660 spiritual
00:55:08.940 leadership
00:55:09.280 who have
00:55:10.000 simply
00:55:10.240 surrendered
00:55:10.780 the moral
00:55:11.380 fight
00:55:11.760 outright
00:55:12.200 right
00:55:13.040 they run
00:55:13.500 from
00:55:13.940 any issue
00:55:15.520 that might
00:55:15.820 be considered
00:55:16.260 controversial
00:55:16.880 they choose
00:55:17.860 instead to
00:55:18.360 drone on
00:55:18.900 about the
00:55:19.360 faux virtues
00:55:20.140 of tolerance
00:55:21.000 and inclusivity
00:55:21.860 some of them
00:55:22.940 haven't just
00:55:23.340 fled from the
00:55:24.000 controversial
00:55:24.380 fights
00:55:24.780 but instead
00:55:25.140 have actually
00:55:25.500 adopted the
00:55:26.200 mainstream
00:55:26.520 positions
00:55:27.220 in those
00:55:28.620 arguments
00:55:29.040 now using
00:55:29.880 their undeserved
00:55:30.620 credibility
00:55:31.080 to directly
00:55:31.700 shill
00:55:32.160 for
00:55:32.640 gender
00:55:33.280 ideology
00:55:33.800 abortion
00:55:34.320 the destruction
00:55:34.900 of marriage
00:55:35.420 in the family
00:55:35.960 and so on
00:55:36.520 this is
00:55:38.080 one category
00:55:39.440 but it's
00:55:41.380 certainly the
00:55:41.760 more pathetic
00:55:42.240 and shameful
00:55:42.780 one to be sure
00:55:43.600 but it's not
00:55:44.880 the one I'm
00:55:45.240 concerned with
00:55:45.800 today
00:55:46.100 because there's
00:55:46.620 this other
00:55:46.980 category that
00:55:47.680 doesn't get
00:55:48.240 criticized
00:55:48.960 quite as much
00:55:49.800 the other
00:55:51.780 type of
00:55:52.160 ineffectual
00:55:52.840 Christian leader
00:55:53.560 is the type
00:55:55.560 who maintains
00:55:56.720 his belief
00:55:57.540 in and defense
00:55:58.560 of Christian
00:55:59.080 values
00:55:59.560 rejects the
00:56:01.700 spirit of the
00:56:02.280 age
00:56:02.620 adopts the
00:56:03.680 correct
00:56:04.000 positions
00:56:04.580 talks about
00:56:06.220 important
00:56:06.640 things
00:56:07.160 but only
00:56:09.780 talks about
00:56:10.340 them
00:56:10.560 he's very
00:56:12.080 impressed with
00:56:12.680 his theological
00:56:13.340 and philosophical
00:56:13.940 training and
00:56:14.660 wants us to
00:56:15.060 be impressed
00:56:15.460 too
00:56:15.620 he pontificates
00:56:16.460 in the
00:56:16.680 abstract
00:56:17.100 saying many
00:56:17.940 intelligent
00:56:18.820 things and
00:56:19.500 impressing
00:56:20.000 everyone who
00:56:21.300 already agrees
00:56:21.980 with him
00:56:22.260 anyway and
00:56:22.880 who shares
00:56:23.600 his level
00:56:24.060 of education
00:56:24.680 and erudition
00:56:25.440 this type
00:56:26.680 not only makes
00:56:27.600 no real
00:56:28.180 inroads in
00:56:28.820 the culture
00:56:29.240 not only fails
00:56:30.020 to win
00:56:30.420 any battles
00:56:30.980 but indeed
00:56:31.500 prefers not
00:56:32.760 to win
00:56:33.240 them
00:56:33.560 because he
00:56:35.160 likes being
00:56:35.580 on the losing
00:56:35.980 side
00:56:36.340 this is his
00:56:36.840 brand
00:56:37.220 it's his
00:56:37.580 MO
00:56:37.900 and it's
00:56:38.480 his cover
00:56:39.080 because the
00:56:40.280 culture's lost
00:56:40.900 anyway he
00:56:41.500 reasons there's
00:56:42.020 no point in
00:56:42.540 putting up a
00:56:43.040 fight
00:56:43.260 he can't
00:56:45.020 win
00:56:45.260 none of us
00:56:46.120 can he says
00:56:46.780 which means
00:56:47.160 that nobody
00:56:47.920 can judge
00:56:48.360 him for not
00:56:48.780 winning
00:56:49.000 which means
00:56:50.220 that there's
00:56:51.420 no way to
00:56:51.760 discern whether
00:56:52.440 he is
00:56:52.740 achieving
00:56:53.100 anything at
00:56:53.580 all in
00:56:53.820 his career
00:56:54.200 so there's
00:56:54.560 really no
00:56:54.820 pressure
00:56:55.160 we can't
00:56:56.180 accuse him
00:56:56.480 of losing
00:56:56.900 because we're
00:56:57.400 all losing
00:56:57.840 all the time
00:56:58.340 and that's
00:56:59.200 how he likes
00:56:59.600 it this
00:57:01.840 is why
00:57:02.060 someone who
00:57:02.440 belongs to
00:57:02.860 this category
00:57:03.380 actually actively
00:57:04.440 opposes any
00:57:05.500 attempt by
00:57:06.260 conservatives to
00:57:07.060 make progress
00:57:07.880 in the culture
00:57:08.500 the only reason
00:57:10.760 to engage with
00:57:11.480 the culture
00:57:11.860 at all
00:57:12.420 they think
00:57:13.280 is to
00:57:14.160 virtue signal
00:57:14.660 to it
00:57:15.380 he doesn't
00:57:16.480 want to
00:57:16.660 change the
00:57:17.020 culture
00:57:17.240 he just
00:57:17.500 wants the
00:57:17.860 culture to
00:57:18.360 know
00:57:18.740 how different
00:57:19.720 he is
00:57:20.380 from it
00:57:21.020 now
00:57:23.120 not every
00:57:24.380 pastor
00:57:24.760 priest
00:57:25.180 christian
00:57:25.580 leader in
00:57:25.880 the country
00:57:26.200 falls into
00:57:26.780 one of
00:57:27.120 these
00:57:27.260 categories
00:57:27.700 but most
00:57:29.540 do
00:57:29.820 and if
00:57:31.520 they
00:57:31.680 didn't
00:57:32.160 we
00:57:32.660 wouldn't
00:57:32.960 be in
00:57:33.460 the
00:57:33.660 position
00:57:34.060 that
00:57:34.380 we're
00:57:34.520 in
00:57:34.800 this
00:57:36.700 used to
00:57:37.060 be a
00:57:37.300 christian
00:57:37.580 society
00:57:38.060 it is
00:57:39.320 no longer
00:57:39.840 and hasn't
00:57:41.380 been for a
00:57:41.860 long time
00:57:42.400 it slid all
00:57:43.440 the way down
00:57:43.800 the slippery
00:57:44.220 slope
00:57:44.520 and off
00:57:44.820 into the
00:57:45.120 abyss
00:57:45.360 while most
00:57:46.100 of the
00:57:46.280 people tasked
00:57:46.900 with preventing
00:57:47.520 such a
00:57:47.940 decline
00:57:48.240 were at
00:57:49.020 the wheel
00:57:49.400 too afraid
00:57:50.500 or too
00:57:50.960 distracted
00:57:51.420 by the
00:57:51.740 sounds of
00:57:52.060 their own
00:57:52.280 voices
00:57:52.560 to bother
00:57:53.020 steering us
00:57:53.540 away from
00:57:53.880 destruction
00:57:54.280 so now
00:57:57.920 the job
00:57:58.260 falls to
00:57:58.760 other people
00:57:59.620 i mean
00:58:00.840 it falls to
00:58:01.280 people who
00:58:01.740 may be a
00:58:02.200 little bit
00:58:02.500 edgier than
00:58:03.120 you'd like
00:58:03.500 a little
00:58:03.800 rough around
00:58:04.440 the edges
00:58:04.800 a little
00:58:05.180 problematic
00:58:06.340 not the
00:58:07.580 right kind
00:58:07.880 of christians
00:58:08.400 not christian
00:58:09.880 at all
00:58:10.140 in some
00:58:10.380 cases
00:58:10.680 this
00:58:12.360 rogues
00:58:13.120 gallery
00:58:13.580 this
00:58:13.880 collection
00:58:14.320 of
00:58:14.540 misfits
00:58:15.000 will be
00:58:15.540 out there
00:58:16.060 in the
00:58:16.460 fight
00:58:16.760 doing
00:58:17.820 what needs
00:58:18.240 to be
00:58:18.520 done
00:58:18.840 and what
00:58:21.080 you never
00:58:21.480 did
00:58:21.880 and refuse
00:58:23.320 to do
00:58:23.720 even now
00:58:24.240 you can
00:58:26.420 stand back
00:58:27.040 safe and
00:58:27.580 out of
00:58:27.840 range
00:58:28.160 criticizing
00:58:28.840 and pontificating
00:58:29.820 and telling
00:58:30.760 us what a
00:58:31.420 better job
00:58:32.180 you would
00:58:32.620 be doing
00:58:33.060 if you
00:58:33.420 were doing
00:58:33.740 anything
00:58:34.020 at all
00:58:34.420 you can
00:58:36.180 make yourself
00:58:36.500 feel better
00:58:36.920 that way
00:58:37.320 while the
00:58:39.800 battle is
00:58:40.240 fought
00:58:40.620 and ultimately
00:58:41.740 won
00:58:42.240 by others
00:58:43.320 and that's
00:58:46.240 why because
00:58:46.740 this is
00:58:47.240 the segment
00:58:47.960 we're doing
00:58:48.380 you are
00:58:49.400 today
00:58:49.700 cancelled
00:58:50.280 that'll do
00:58:51.480 it for
00:58:51.980 today
00:58:52.700 we'll talk
00:58:53.220 to you
00:58:53.360 tomorrow
00:58:53.680 have a
00:58:54.700 great
00:58:54.860 day
00:58:55.160 god
00:58:55.840 speed
00:58:56.100 hey there
00:59:03.900 this is
00:59:04.300 john
00:59:04.580 bickley
00:59:04.880 daily
00:59:05.200 wire
00:59:05.420 editor-in-chief
00:59:06.100 and co-host
00:59:06.800 of
00:59:07.040 morning
00:59:07.320 wire
00:59:07.600 on today's
00:59:08.800 episode
00:59:09.180 the u.s.
00:59:09.980 labor market
00:59:10.540 slows
00:59:11.020 vanderbilt
00:59:12.020 university
00:59:12.600 pauses its
00:59:13.360 gender
00:59:13.760 surgeries
00:59:14.240 for children
00:59:14.900 and will
00:59:15.840 new york
00:59:16.280 elect a
00:59:16.860 republican
00:59:17.300 governor
00:59:17.740 join us
00:59:18.800 and get
00:59:19.160 the facts
00:59:19.480 first on
00:59:20.000 the news
00:59:20.320 you need
00:59:20.540 to know
00:59:20.840 with our
00:59:21.260 show
00:59:21.600 morning
00:59:22.140 while