The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1044 - Dismantling John Oliver's Ridiculous Trans Propaganda

00:00:00.100 Today on the Matt Wall Show, John Oliver goes on the attack to defend so-called trans rights. 1.00

00:00:04.620 His monologue on the subject is supposed to be a sort of definitive takedown of the conservative

00:00:08.500 position. We'll go through it piece by piece today to see if it lives up to the hype. Obviously,

00:00:12.280 it doesn't. Also, a panel of non-binary and trans people on a college campus discuss my film,

00:00:17.580 What is a Woman? And the conversation is as great as it sounds. Plus, colorblind casting is 1.00

00:00:22.480 apparently back in style again, as long as it excludes white people, of course. In our daily 0.95

00:00:27.020 cancellation, outrage and controversy erupt over my comments about anime. Will I backtrack or

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00:02:11.580 Go to expressvpn.com slash Walsh to learn more. All right. So last week, Jon Stewart devoted an

00:02:18.840 episode of his little watched Apple TV show to the subject of so-called transgender rights. It was his 0.86

00:02:24.380 attempt to hit back against those transphobic extremists who believe that human biology exists.

00:02:31.000 Now, Stewart, like so many other aging leftists, is a recent convert to gender ideology. Sometime in the 0.74

00:02:36.600 last few years, he decided that women can have penises and men can have babies. He didn't explain 0.99

00:02:41.760 his conversion. We don't know if there was a road to Damascus moment wherein a pregnant man appeared

00:02:47.000 to him and unveiled the secrets of the universe or if he experienced some other sort of vision.

00:02:51.980 But he did apologize for his past acknowledgement of scientific reality. He regrets it deeply,

00:02:56.400 and he's pledged to never make the same mistake again. Stewart's efforts to debunk biology

00:03:03.040 consisted primarily of him smirking at clips of people saying common sense things.

00:03:08.760 Stewart, of course, belongs to that school of political debate, which teaches that

00:03:12.100 a smarmy grin and a laugh track qualify as a counterargument. He's not the only one to employ

00:03:19.020 this strategy. His understudy, John Oliver, who hosts a slightly more popular but still

00:03:24.340 little watched show on HBO, has also made a career out of this same tactic. Oliver has earned a

00:03:31.640 reputation on the left for thoroughly demolishing conservative arguments, a reputation that is

00:03:36.780 relatively easy for him to maintain because nobody actually watches his show to find out if it's

00:03:41.200 accurate or not. If they did, they would see that his manner of demolishing an argument is to deliver

00:03:47.360 a series of the most standard and banal left-wing talking points imaginable, couched in lies and

00:03:52.960 half-truths. But these rants apparently still count as an epic smackdown because Oliver is extremely

00:03:59.560 snide. I mean, even more snide than your usual leftist. And he peppers in a few lame punchlines,

00:04:05.640 plenty of vulgarity, and also has a British accent. Indeed, the tagline of Oliver's show could be,

00:04:11.500 and for all I know is, last week tonight with John Oliver, the same stuff you hear on MSNBC except

00:04:17.480 British and with the F word. On Sunday, Oliver decided to follow his mentor's lead and bring his

00:04:24.300 brand of snide propagandizing to the trans debate. He spent 30 minutes addressing what he describes as,

00:04:31.760 quote, attacks on transgender rights. And the left ensures us that the entire segment is a brilliant, 0.97

00:04:39.300 breathtaking, bulletproof defense of their position and a devastating takedown of the other side.

00:04:46.080 The same was promised of Jon Stewart's attempt a week prior only to discover that the devastating

00:04:51.320 takedown was the rhetorical equivalent of an overinflated balloon. It only took the slightest

00:04:56.660 pinprick to burst the whole thing. So does Oliver fare any better? Yes, they're both named John.

00:05:03.060 They're both wildly overrated. They're both insufferable, smug little Muppets who imagine 0.89

00:05:08.120 themselves to be about 65 IQ points smarter than they really are. But does that mean that they will 0.97

00:05:13.140 fail both of them miserably in their attempts to engage with critics of gender ideology? Well,

00:05:19.060 the answer, of course, is yes. But don't take my word for it. I will go through now John Oliver's

00:05:24.400 segment piece by piece so that you can see for yourself. Oliver begins by calling out the, I don't

00:05:30.700 know, one or two Democrats in the country who are not yet fully committed members of the gender

00:05:35.280 ideology cult. And we'll start there as well. There are many on the left who seem at best reluctant

00:05:41.520 to engage on this issue and at worst outright hostile to it, either complaining about pronoun police

00:05:47.320 or arguing that this issue will cost Democrats elections.

00:05:50.660 If you go to the middle of the country, people would say, if your conversation during a presidential

00:05:56.660 election is about some guy wearing a dress and whether he, she or it can go to and go to the

00:06:03.740 locker room with their daughter, that's not a winning formula for most people. 0.99

00:06:08.540 Wow. It. Michael Bloomberg can all the way off with that. But also, while this fun sized billionaire

00:06:14.920 is clearly good at a lot of things like making money and end of list, maybe don't take advice

00:06:20.760 on a winning formula for elections from a man who spent over a billion dollars of his own money

00:06:25.120 to lose a presidential bid in just 14 weeks.

00:06:28.160 Now, first of all, it is the grammatically correct gender neutral pronoun. A human being who is neither male

00:06:36.700 nor female, if such a creature existed, which it doesn't, would indeed be an it. It is a singular pronoun,

00:06:44.960 whereas they, in most cases, is a pronoun that indicates multiple individuals. Now, is it dehumanizing?

00:06:51.920 Yes, obviously it is. But a person who rejects their male or female identity has already dehumanized themselves

00:07:00.080 or itself. To be human is to be male or female. There are no other options. If you reject that, then you 0.96

00:07:07.900 reject your humanity. You have dehumanized yourself. Also, as far as Michael Bloomberg goes,

00:07:13.640 Michael Bloomberg goes, yes, his presidential campaign was an abysmal and often hilarious failure.

00:07:19.640 We can agree on that. But the list of things that he's good at actually extends beyond simply making

00:07:25.760 money, as Oliver claims. Here's one other highlight on Michael Bloomberg's resume. When he was mayor of

00:07:32.940 New York, the city was actually livable. And ever since far left or farther left Democrats anyway took

00:07:39.000 over, it has been a dystopian crime-ridden hellscape. And I think that's worth noting. It's also worth

00:07:43.940 noting that John Oliver is so thoroughly wrong about everything all the time that he just forced me to

00:07:49.620 defend Michael Bloomberg. I already feel like I need to take a shower. We've only made it about a

00:07:53.980 minute through this thing. Let's keep going.

00:07:56.740 Let's also remember that it's not actually the left talking about trans rights nonstop.

00:08:01.980 It's Republicans who see an advantage in demagoguing this issue. And to ignore them doing that

00:08:07.280 is to allow them to have real calamitous impacts on people's lives. A few years ago,

00:08:13.040 Vice profiled a girl named Kai Shapley. And just watch how happy she is talking about her hopes for a 0.78

00:08:18.280 future until she remembers something that changes her mood.

00:08:21.640 Mama says I might grow up to be the president.

00:08:25.200 Yeah?

00:08:25.780 Mm-hmm.

00:08:26.300 What would you change about the world if you were a president?

00:08:29.320 Um, let trans people be free and go to the bathroom they want to go to. 0.99

00:08:35.840 Are you able to use the girls' bathroom at school?

00:08:38.640 No. No. And now they just put security guards up for the bathroom security or whatever?

00:08:49.100 Oh, I hate that.

00:08:51.000 That is brutal. It is so dark, it's genuinely hard to watch.

00:08:56.620 Agreed, John. I mean, it is brutal and hard to watch. That is a very young boy who has been

00:09:02.480 convinced by his parents that he is a girl. Not only that, but he is being paraded around on camera

00:09:08.840 and used as a political prop. He has been made not only trans, but into a trans mascot.

00:09:15.880 Very dark indeed. Now, how do I know that the boy is not a girl? Well, because a girl is a human 0.84

00:09:22.300 female child, and that boy is a human child, but is not female. He is male. He is a boy. If you have 0.87

00:09:29.180 some other alternative definition for the world, girl, I'd love to hear it. In fact, nothing you

00:09:35.200 say on this subject, John, no argument you present, no talking point you put forward has any meaning

00:09:40.460 or any value or any significance at all if you cannot or will not define the words you're using.

00:09:48.060 Now, here's something else I know about that boy, aside from the fact that he is one. The other thing

00:09:53.320 I know, John, is that being a child and being confused and being raised in an environment which

00:09:59.520 intentionally fosters confusion means that he has no real concept of what a girl is. That means that

00:10:05.840 when he says, I am a girl, the statement doesn't mean anything. At best, he is trying to express his

00:10:12.760 affinity for or interest in some of the things that he associates with girls, the color pink, long hair,

00:10:18.500 dolls, whatever. None of that actually makes him a girl, John, and that's something that he needs an adult

00:10:24.920 to explain to him. Unfortunately, all the adults in his life are just as confused as he is, or at least

00:10:30.620 are pretending to be, just like you. Jumping ahead a bit, Oliver goes after Abigail Schreier, who's the

00:10:36.580 author of the great book, Irreversible Damage, about the trans epidemic claiming the minds and lives of 1.00

00:10:41.720 countless adolescent girls. But Oliver sees no issue with millions of girls suddenly all at once in unison

00:10:47.600 deciding that they're really boys. This is perfectly normal, John Oliver insists.

00:10:52.940 Schreier sometimes dresses her argument up by using the term rapid onset gender dysphoria, which is total 0.98

00:10:59.260 horseshit. It comes from a study published by a researcher in 2018 hypothesizing that some kids identify as 0.63

00:11:05.520 trans due to peer pressure. But it's worth you knowing that study was based on a survey of parents, not actual

00:11:12.000 trans kids and targeted parents from organizations dedicated to opposing trans ideology, which is

00:11:18.880 instantly disqualifying. It's like citing a study claiming that all postal workers are terrifying hell

00:11:24.500 demons sent to attack your family, but then learning that the researchers only surveyed a collection of

00:11:29.460 anxious dogs. That's some heavy sampling bias that clearly skewed your results. And to be very clear, there is ample

00:11:38.580 evidence of gender variance throughout human history. And as far back as historians have found evidence of trans

00:11:43.860 people, they found trans children. As for the rapid rise in kids identifying as trans, as the writer Julia

00:11:51.300 Serrano has pointed out, when you look at a chart of left handedness among Americans over the 20th century, you see a massive spike

00:11:57.920 when we stopped forcing kids to write with their right hand and then a plateau. That doesn't mean everyone became left handed or that

00:12:06.100 there was a rapid onset Southpore dysphoria. It means people were free to be who they were.

00:12:12.180 Okay. All of that is, should go without saying, nonsense. First of all, we don't need a study to tell us that rapid onset

00:12:21.640 gender dysphoria exists any more than I need to read a study drawing a link between the proliferation of fast food and

00:12:27.980 obesity. Such studies do exist, but people with functioning brains can draw obvious common sense conclusions without needing

00:12:34.660 permission from a research paper to do it. Trans identification has risen 20-fold in the youngest generation.

00:12:42.180 Even that example he gives of left handedness, which is a red herring if I've ever seen one,

00:12:46.080 that shows what, a 6% rise over the course of decades? We're talking about 20-fold in the course

00:12:51.640 of a few years. We went from almost nobody being confused about their gender to huge swaths of young

00:12:59.200 people being confused about their gender. That is rapid. It is gender dysphoria. It seems that calling it

00:13:07.320 rapid onset gender dysphoria makes a lot of sense. Oliver takes issue with the study that coins this

00:13:16.020 phrase, questioning its credibility on the grounds that the researchers only surveyed the parents

00:13:21.300 instead of the, quote, trans kids. Yes, because you're not likely to get a clear or accurate answer if you

00:13:28.440 ask a child whether they're doing something because of peer pressure. See, the children also aren't fully

00:13:35.400 cognizant of their own motivations. If you go up to a child and say, are you only doing that because

00:13:39.580 of peer pressure? You're not likely to get a clear answer because it's a child. As a parent, you should

00:13:46.460 be better equipped to explain your child's behavior than your child is himself. This is the insight that

00:13:51.840 comes with age and maturity, for some of us anyway, obviously not for you, John. Oliver also says that

00:13:57.400 the study is unreliable because the people who conducted it were allegedly biased. Now, that may or may not

00:14:04.060 be true. I don't know anything about the study. It doesn't matter to me. I don't need the study

00:14:07.760 to observe what I can clearly see all around me. But then John goes on through the whole rest of his

00:14:14.240 diatribe to quote studies and experts who not only have clear left-wing biases, I mean, all of them,

00:14:20.620 every single person that he cites as an authority, every single one has a clear left-wing bias. In that

00:14:25.660 very same clip, at the end, he cites a left-wing activist about the left-handed thing.

00:14:30.560 But not only that, not only do most of his authority figures have left-wing biases, they

00:14:36.880 also have a financial stake in promoting and defending gender ideology. So he shows no concern

00:14:43.800 for conflicts of interest in those cases. In fact, just like John Stewart, his entire defense

00:14:50.580 of the mutilation and castration of children is that the people making money off of these procedures

00:14:55.980 think it's a good idea. That is the entirety of his argument. He has no other argument.

00:15:03.900 As for the, quote, ample evidence of gender variance throughout human history, well, I went

00:15:09.280 and read the article that he cites because, you know, he puts the quotes up there on the screen.

00:15:12.740 And what you're supposed to do is just see the quote and then say to yourself, well, he had a quote

00:15:16.420 on the screen. It must be true. But I actually went and looked at that National Geographic

00:15:20.500 article. And what I've found, as always, is that it points to examples from history of spiritual and

00:15:28.040 religious practices where a man acts out the part of a woman. Okay? That is not the same as a man 0.99

00:15:37.920 claiming to actually be a woman. It's not even close to the same. It's not even the same sort of thing. 0.98

00:15:45.620 Unless, John, you're admitting that transgenderism today is a religious and spiritual conviction 0.97

00:15:52.260 because those are all of the historical comparisons that you are making.

00:15:58.400 For the thousandth time, there has never been, ever in history, not once, not anywhere,

00:16:06.580 a culture that believed that men could literally physically be women and vice versa.

00:16:12.840 Ours is the only civilization that has ever believed in pregnant men. There is no precedent for that in 1.00

00:16:22.380 history anywhere. One other point. John, later in the show, cites the high rates of suicide among

00:16:31.300 trans kids. He says that suicidal ideation is as high as 57, I believe he says 57%, almost 60%

00:16:38.340 for quote-unquote trans kids. Now, he blames this on a lack of affirmation. He says, indeed, 0.99

00:16:46.060 the consequence of not affirming trans kids is that many will kill themselves. He also says that 0.96

00:16:52.900 the reason there were not millions of trans kids historically is that they were not free to be who

00:16:58.360 they effing were. Well, according to him then, as I've pointed out many times, there should be

00:17:05.820 historically evidence of millions and millions and millions of kids all over the world every year

00:17:13.260 for thousands of years killing themselves. That's how you connect those dots. High rates of suicide if

00:17:21.480 you don't affirm. There were millions and millions of trans people through history that were not

00:17:25.300 affirmed. And yet, no such evidence exists. It didn't happen. Kids only started killing themselves

00:17:34.220 in significant numbers now, in modern times, in correlation with the rise in trans identifications.

00:17:41.340 So what does that tell you, John? Can you turn the laugh track down for a moment and think clearly

00:17:46.560 about this? It's not very hard to connect the dots. We'll play one more clip. Oliver eventually

00:17:52.640 gets around to offering a defense of so-called gender-affirming care. And let's hear what that

00:17:58.180 sounds like. At the onset of puberty, an adolescent and their family might consider puberty blockers,

00:18:05.320 hormones that delay puberty. And importantly, if that treatment is suspended, then puberty will resume,

00:18:10.920 meaning that this is reversible. Think of it like a pause button, the thing you can't do easily

00:18:15.340 on the HBO Max app.

00:18:17.380 Now, the next potential medical intervention is usually hormone therapy, which boosts levels

00:18:23.200 of testosterone or estrogen. Opponents of gender-affirming care make a lot of alarmist claims about

00:18:28.520 hormone therapy, from saying that it's experimental, which it is not, to arguing that it sterilizes

00:18:33.420 people. And look, for some, in specific situations, there can be risks to fertility. But for others,

00:18:39.480 the effect is anticipated to be reversible if the medication is discontinued. But there is definitely

00:18:45.420 an informed decision to be made there.

00:18:47.340 You will notice that none of what I've mentioned so far is surgery. But when it does come to that,

00:18:51.800 some teens may be eligible, for instance, for top surgery or chest masculinization. But you should know,

00:18:57.880 not only is that pretty rare, it, like all of this, would only happen after a team of medical professionals

00:19:04.500 discussed all of its risks and benefits with their patient and their patient's parent or guardian,

00:19:09.220 all of whom would have to sign off. It is a long, involved process, even before you get to the fact

00:19:14.140 that it is also incredibly expensive, which is why working class families, families of color,

00:19:18.960 and people with less resources are way less able to access it. Basically, no kid is casually dropping

00:19:24.460 into an operating room because they just decided to get their uterus removed with impulsive recklessness 0.61

00:19:29.280 normally associated with getting bangs. Because that is an absolutely ridiculous thing to say. 0.99

00:19:35.400 Yes, it is a ridiculous thing to say, John, which is why nobody is saying it. You have very 0.97

00:19:44.520 impressively torched a straw man, but let's get back to the reality. First, John claims that puberty

00:19:50.140 blockers are totally reversible and merely put a pause on puberty. This is simply a lie. I'm not

00:19:55.920 going to speculate about whether John Oliver is smart enough to know that it's a lie. Everything he says

00:20:00.260 can be explained either by his idiocy or his utter lack of integrity, but it's impossible to know which 0.99

00:20:05.080 aspect of his personality is flaring up at any given moment. What we can say is that the NHS 0.99

00:20:09.720 used to claim that puberty blockers are reversible. They had it on their website.

00:20:15.360 If you go to the website now, it's not there. They removed that claim from their website,

00:20:19.120 and they now admit that, in fact, they don't really know anything about the long-term effects

00:20:24.120 of these drugs on kids. Why don't they know? Well, because we've never put millions of physically

00:20:28.520 healthy kids on this kind of drug regime before, so we don't know. There's no way to know for

00:20:33.240 certain what the long-term effects are. Anyone who claims they know is lying. These kids are being

00:20:39.720 experimented on. We don't yet have the full results of the experiment. It is ongoing right now. Yet

00:20:46.760 common sense would tell us that all drugs have side effects, especially those that intentionally

00:20:51.160 interfere with the natural physical development during childhood. You cannot pause the human body like

00:20:58.660 you pause a television, John, which, by the way, it's not that hard to figure out how to pause on HBO Max.

00:21:03.820 I'm not even sure what you're talking about. This is not science fiction, okay? Human bodies can't just

00:21:09.420 hang out in a state of suspended animation without consequence. That's not how it works.

00:21:16.280 Oliver then acknowledges that hormone therapy for children does sterilize them, but he just kind of hand waves

00:21:23.060 it away and assures us that for some, sure, there are kids that are being sterilized, but for some,

00:21:29.220 the effects of the drugs are anticipated to be reversible if the medication is discontinued in

00:21:35.280 time. That is a lot of qualifiers. A lot of qualifiers attached to that sentence. In other words,

00:21:41.840 yes, it permanently damages a child's body, permanently sterilizes them, but that's okay because

00:21:48.660 sometimes, potentially, maybe, it won't harm them as much if they stop it before the worst side effects

00:21:55.800 set in. In other words, Oliver knows that the drugs harm kids, but he doesn't care. He takes the same

00:22:02.460 approach to mutilation surgeries on minors, assuring us that there are no genital surgeries happening to

00:22:07.720 kids under the age of 18, which is just a lie. And then he also says that chest masculinization,

00:22:13.000 otherwise known as double mastectomy, only happens if all the people who will make money on the 0.99

00:22:17.980 procedure say that it should happen. This is the best defense that Oliver can offer.

00:22:24.840 It's not only dishonest and deceptive and strikingly stupid, but also morally horrifying. 0.99

00:22:31.220 And notice the two questions that Oliver avoids. He never grapples with the issue of consent. 0.99

00:22:38.960 Can a child under the age of 18 actually consent to any of this? Can a 14-year-old consent to taking

00:22:47.620 a drug that will likely sterilize him? Can a 15-year-old girl consent to having her breasts 1.00

00:22:52.600 removed? Oliver spends 30 minutes dancing around the subject, but never once offers his own theory

00:22:59.300 of consent. Of course he doesn't, because he doesn't want to be on the record arguing that a 14-year-old

00:23:04.940 can consent, because he knows how horrifying and creepy and disturbing that would sound.

00:23:09.480 But he also doesn't want to be on the record acknowledging that these things are happening to

00:23:12.740 kids without their consent. The question of consent presents an impossible problem for his side of

00:23:19.220 the argument, and he knows it, so he ignores it, which makes literally everything he says on the

00:23:25.460 subject of, quote, gender-affirming care for minors irrelevant, as he is slithering around and avoiding

00:23:31.220 one of our primary and most fundamental objections to it. But there's an even more fundamental objection,

00:23:40.100 which he also avoids. And that is this. It is not true that a boy can be a girl, or a girl can be a

00:23:49.380 boy. It is not true that gender is fluid. Gender ideology is false. It does not reflect the actual

00:23:58.000 reality that we find ourselves situated in. John Oliver, like every other propagandist on that side,

00:24:04.160 simply leaps over this point. But you can't leap over it. We're not challenging your views simply

00:24:10.880 on the basis that it causes harm to people, though that is one of our most important objections.

00:24:15.520 We are challenging its factual validity. Okay? We are saying that it is not true. And so,

00:24:23.980 if you have any hope of even coming close to debunking any of our arguments, you must begin

00:24:29.080 by defending the fundamental proposition that a male can be a woman and a female can be a man.

00:24:34.760 If you skip that question, then you skip the whole debate, John. Just as people skip your show on HBO

00:24:42.220 Max. Because unlike you, apparently, they're smart enough to work a remote. The pause button is right

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00:26:06.160 All right, I want to start with this because this just, it makes me happy. I was very annoyed to start

00:26:12.940 the show, which is why I went on for, if I start the show annoyed, then I'm going to go on for 25

00:26:16.220 minutes. But this I like. So YAF has this video that they posted yesterday. There was a panel

00:26:22.080 discussion at St. Louis University, SLU as they apparently call it. And you may remember St.

00:26:28.780 Louis University because that's where I gave a speech last spring, and there were huge protests

00:26:37.120 outside and all the rest of it. They really didn't want me there. And they've kind of been,

00:26:43.380 from what I understand, ever since my appearance there, they've really been grappling with the fact

00:26:48.340 that I was allowed to be there. And the trauma from my visit still has not worn off. I mean,

00:26:54.380 people are still devastated and traumatized by it. So yesterday at St. Louis University,

00:26:58.600 they had a panel discussion featuring trans and quote, unquote, non-binary people.

00:27:03.660 And during this discussion, a line was uttered that is perhaps, in my opinion,

00:27:09.600 the greatest thing ever said during a panel discussion, though I am biased and you'll see

00:27:14.420 why. Let's watch this.

00:27:16.380 It was like, let's talk about these transgender topics. And it made it sound like he was a subject

00:27:22.000 matter expert or that could be even like pro-trans, but it was like, it was a trap. He was going to get 0.89

00:27:28.140 you into that room and then he was going to say a bunch of transphobic stuff. Go ahead.

00:27:31.800 You can't stop the Matt Walsh. Like you can't stop them. I think you can only pour in as much

00:27:37.760 new information to other people.

00:27:38.680 That's true. Okay. Can we stop? Just pause there for a second.

00:27:41.580 You can't stop the Matt Walsh. What makes that so good? If he had just said you can't stop Matt

00:27:46.280 Walsh, that would be great. But he said, you can't stop the Matt Walsh. And for some reason,

00:27:51.260 the the in that sentence makes it so much better. You can't stop the Matt Walsh. We need to get that

00:27:55.360 on a t-shirt that needs to be in the merch store tomorrow. You can't stop the Matt Walsh. And in

00:28:01.220 fact, fact check true. Fact checkers have looked into that claim and have found that it is actually

00:28:06.540 accurate. You can't stop the Matt Walsh. I also want to mention, but right before that, it's the

00:28:10.120 other person as I assume talking about what is a woman and says that, well, we laid a trap and got

00:28:17.320 people in the room and started saying a bunch of transphobic stuff. Well, anyone who's watched the

00:28:22.060 film knows that that's nonsense. I didn't all I said to that. I asked questions. I didn't present

00:28:29.300 any arguments at all, actually, to any of these people. So saying transphobic stuff apparently

00:28:36.120 equals asking questions. And all of the questions, of course, we ask in the film all really just boil

00:28:43.140 down to what are you saying? Like they're saying things and then all of my questions really come down

00:28:50.600 to what does that mean? What you're telling me right now, explain what that means. I'm trying

00:28:56.260 to understand it. I want to understand it. That's transphobic. I don't know what else is in this

00:29:02.600 clip, but we've already heard the best of it. But let's play a little bit more.

00:29:06.840 We're talking about people who, no matter what it is they think that they know or what it is that

00:29:13.720 they're ignorant about. That ignorance or that lack of information or the misinformation is leading

00:29:20.760 them to a place where they are afraid of trans people because they're afraid of what trans people

00:29:26.700 existing might mean for them and their worldview. Whether the woman, you know, as far as trans

00:29:33.460 experience goes, what does it mean for, you know, cisgender women and trans women or trans men

00:29:39.060 and the TERFs and everything because a lot of the times. TERF, really quickly, uh, it's an

00:29:43.700 acronym for Trans Exclusive Radical Feminism. T-E-R-F. So feminists who, in their 0.89

00:29:50.980 place for feminism, will exclude trans folks at best and at worst be like trans folks are impeding 1.00

00:29:57.460 on like women's, cis women's safety. Or it would be a situation of you being intimidated by my look

00:30:05.540 and the fact that I have a nice physique. It's just for me, a lot of the times, I know from my

00:30:11.380 personal experience. Right. Okay. Let's pause that. Or don't pause it. Stop it altogether.

00:30:18.100 Yeah. Oh, that explains, right? That's, um, that is how you explain that these people are so good

00:30:23.780 at lying to themselves and telling themselves the most flattering lies they've possibly

00:30:27.440 can. So according to this person, all of our objections to, uh, gender ideology all boiled

00:30:33.860 down to the fact that we're intimidated, we're intimidated by his, was that a trans, was that a 0.80

00:30:41.240 trans person? His looks? That's, you're, I'm so good looking. That's what, uh, you're just intimidated 1.00

00:30:48.740 by that. No, the fear, see, see, the fear is not on our end.

00:30:57.440 This is what they love to do. They love to accuse us of, uh, we're, we're, we're afraid of

00:31:01.020 trans people. We're, we're, we're just trembling in fear. So we're the ones afraid. Meanwhile, if I go

00:31:09.980 to a college campus, you, you are, you are outside screaming with tears streaming down your face.

00:31:17.860 You don't even want me to show up. You're trying to stop me from even being there. And I'm the one

00:31:21.440 afraid. I am trying to go to a place and you were saying, you don't even want me in your physical

00:31:27.140 vicinity. I'm afraid. No, you're afraid. You're terrified. You're terrified of me. Maybe it's

00:31:35.700 because I'm good looking. Maybe that's also part of the, part of the, part of what's going on,

00:31:39.320 you know, going into this. You want to date me? I don't know. But what I certainly know is that

00:31:45.360 you're afraid of the questions. You're afraid of the ideas. So all of the, you know, trying to shut

00:31:52.900 down conversation, shut down discussion, all of that happens on the left. When it comes to gender

00:31:58.780 ideology, we're on the right. We're not doing any of that. Now we will say that, uh, we don't want

00:32:04.860 discussion of this in like a kindergarten classroom. You know why? Because that's not a discussion.

00:32:10.940 That's indoctrination. The kindergartners that are sitting there, they're not going to be equipped

00:32:15.520 to respond and ask skeptical questions and debate you, which is why you want to relegate these

00:32:23.140 conversations to those kinds of environments where you're talking to people who are not able

00:32:27.900 to contradict you. So yeah, you want to bring gender ideology up in an environment where you know

00:32:34.480 no one's going to ask any skeptical questions. No one's going to make you explain yourself.

00:32:38.260 Um, there's not going to be any debate whatsoever.

00:32:42.480 As far as an actual discussion, it's like, we're the ones trying to engage you in that.

00:32:50.220 All right. So here's another clip that I wanted to play for you. Uh, Colin Wright has this on,

00:32:57.840 on Twitter. He posted this. It says, in Matt Walsh's documentary, he confronted surgeon Marcy Bowers

00:33:02.740 about the logical parallels between surgery justified on the basis of gender dysphoria

00:33:07.300 versus body integrity disorder or body integrity dysphoria. Um, Bowers dismissed the latter claim

00:33:15.260 as kooky, but WPATH standards of care now include BID, body integrity disorder. So then he's got this

00:33:22.720 video, which, um, contrasts that scene in the film with what a presenter at WPATH now says about, uh,

00:33:30.620 this subject. And by the way, Marcy Bowers is the incoming president of WPATH. I think is now

00:33:36.600 officially the president. So, you know, I was told that comparing these two things is totally off the

00:33:45.300 wall. You can't do that. Um, and yet here's what they said at WPATH. And this was just a few weeks

00:33:51.700 ago. Let's watch the clip. I don't know if you've ever heard of people in the trans abled community.

00:33:57.740 These are people who are physically able-bodied, but feel like they should be disabled or identify 0.99

00:34:04.540 as such. There are others who have a feeling that their genitals are not a part of their proper part

00:34:10.900 of their body, body integrity dysphoria. Uh, for example, a man who has two arms, but feels like he

00:34:17.060 should have one. If, uh, if a man in this kind of marginalized community was, went to the doctor

00:34:22.300 and said, I want to have my arm cut off. Do you think that that doesn't have anything to do with

00:34:27.760 gender identity? Uh, this is in the SOC-8. It's also an ICD-11. It's classification 621, or 6C-21.

00:34:38.700 Uh, so it's, it's there in the ICD as well as the standards of care. Well, it's, uh, someone's,

00:34:45.160 someone's self-identity has someone identified. That's someone who has a, um, a, and I'll accept

00:34:53.280 it as a mental diagnosis, a psychiatric condition. I don't even pretend to know what

00:34:59.160 aptomenophilia is all about, but somehow it's the idea that you, you know, you're fascinated or

00:35:04.580 charmed by having a limb or part of a limb missing. Okay. I would say that's, uh, pardon my non-medical

00:35:13.500 language. Kooky. They desire to be not male, to be emasculated, but don't want to be female 0.99

00:35:20.920 either. They have a male to unique gender dysphoria, now part of the SOC-8. You don't see any? You

00:35:30.740 think this is totally irrelevant? Yeah. But I am the first trans-feminine person

00:35:38.160 to be elected president of WPATH, and it's 43 years ago.

00:35:42.980 So there you go. So it went from, uh, we did an interview with Bowers, I don't know,

00:35:50.820 in September. And so less than a year, you know, that's, that's how quickly we're on this,

00:35:57.100 uh, slippery slope here is that it took less than a year for that to go from kooky, irrelevant

00:36:02.400 and kooky to, oh yeah, totally legitimate. That's, uh, it's, it's all part of the same,

00:36:07.120 it's all under the same umbrella now, they admit. That if you want to, because of course it is,

00:36:12.480 of course it is. If we're supposed to take someone's self-identity seriously, as I try to

00:36:17.720 explain, they're taking someone's self-identity seriously. It's how they self-identify. It's their

00:36:21.180 truth. If that's the precedent we're setting, then on what basis can we tell someone that they're

00:36:25.540 wrong? If someone identifies as disabled, they want to have their leg chopped off. 1.00

00:36:28.920 And they say that, you know, they feel like that's how they're supposed to be. They're 0.76

00:36:32.620 supposed to only have one leg. It doesn't make any sense. What do you mean you're supposed to

00:36:36.780 have one leg? Well, it makes as much sense, at least as a man saying he's supposed to be a woman.

00:36:45.000 It actually makes more sense. See, that's the thing. It's, it's, that's one of the problems with

00:36:48.820 the slippery slope. And I, I use the term too, but it's not exactly accurate because it makes it sound

00:36:53.320 like there's this kind of logical progression or regression in this case, where we go from a,

00:37:00.260 you know, one thing to a, to a slightly more extreme thing to slightly more extreme on down

00:37:04.140 the way. But oftentimes what you find is that we go directly to the most extreme thing. And then we

00:37:08.660 kind of circle back and cover all the bases that we skipped. So the legitimizing body integrity

00:37:16.840 disorder, legitimizing someone's claim that they're supposed to have one leg or they're supposed to

00:37:23.220 be a eunuch, that is crazy. Okay. That is perverse and insane, but it is, it still makes more sense

00:37:34.720 than the claim that a man is supposed to be a woman.

00:37:38.040 It makes more sense because it is at least, you know, it's, it's, if you're, if you have two legs

00:37:45.120 as a man, you can become a one-legged man. That is possible. You, that's, that is a possible thing

00:37:50.900 that can happen. It happens to many men. Um, whereas there is nothing, if you're a man that could ever

00:37:57.620 make you a woman, it's impossible. It is impossibility. So it's the difference between identifying,

00:38:04.120 it's the difference between identifying some, identifying as something that is possible

00:38:09.140 versus identifying as something that is impossible. So we, we went to the most extreme thing

00:38:16.820 and now everything else that happens that we consider to be sort of, uh, down the slippery slope

00:38:22.020 is actually further up the slippery slope, not further down. All right. We got to do sort of an

00:38:28.900 abbreviated five headlines because I spent so much time on John Oliver, but

00:38:33.020 we've got another John that's causing a problem today. I also wanted to mention this. This is from

00:38:37.600 the Daily Mail. It says John Leguizamo. It's not been a great couple of weeks for Johns. John Leguizamo

00:38:43.680 has slammed the all white cast of Super Mario Brothers, uh, the new film that's coming out and

00:38:49.340 the lack of Latinx leads on, uh, he said this on Saturday, the actor 62 who played Luigi in the 1993

00:38:55.800 live action film critiqued the casting choices as the film sees Chris Pratt take on the iconic role of the

00:39:02.260 Italian plumber Mario. Following the release of the first trailer for the upcoming film,

00:39:07.060 John voiced his concerns while praising the groundbreaking colorblind casting of the original.

00:39:13.240 Taking to Twitter, he said, quote,

00:39:15.400 So glad Super Mario Bros. is getting a reboot. Obviously it's iconic, but too bad they went all

00:39:23.200 white. No Latinx in the leads. Groundbreaking colorblind casting in the original. Plus I'm 0.70

00:39:29.460 the only one who knows how to make this movie work script wise. Latinx is a term that is intended to

00:39:35.180 be gender neutral. Okay, we know that. He attached three screenshots of himself as Luigi and Bob Hoskins,

00:39:40.260 who played Mario for the 1993 film. In the photo caption, he wrote, apologize to this movie right

00:39:45.600 now. Okay, so his, his real problem is that just, he's not being cast in the film and he has, he's

00:39:51.660 somehow convinced himself that the original Super Mario Brothers film was some sort of iconic

00:39:58.100 masterpiece and he made the script work. Now there's, there's like nothing that can make the script

00:40:03.920 work in that film or in this one, by the way. I mean, it is a, a film based on a video game

00:40:11.320 about Italian plumbers who are in some sort of hallucinogenic state and have magical powers and

00:40:20.340 are fighting oversized turtles. So like there's, there's really nothing that can happen that can

00:40:24.920 make that script make any sense at all. But he seems to imagine that, uh, that that's what he did.

00:40:29.600 But, but here's the, here's the real point about this. It's just shows how these, it's just the,

00:40:35.220 the, it's fruitless and hopeless to point out the hypocrisy, but I still, I can't help but do it.

00:40:41.520 Because John Liguizamo, just a few weeks ago, was taking issue with the, uh, casting of James Franco

00:40:50.340 as Fidel Castro. And his issue, then he called for a boycott of the upcoming Fidel Castro

00:40:55.800 biopic, which is by the way, I'll be boycotting it just, uh, by default because I have no interest

00:41:02.160 in watching a biopic about Fidel Castro. That's not his problem with it. And he agrees with Fidel

00:41:06.700 Castro politically, but he doesn't want to see Fidel Castro besmirched and degraded by having a 0.90

00:41:12.240 white guy betray him. He said that there should be, there should be quote, latinx person betraying

00:41:16.540 Fidel Castro. So that, that was his criticism for the Castro film is that there shouldn't be a white 0.83

00:41:21.600 guy because you need to make the ethnicities accurate, need to reflect, you know, the character

00:41:27.100 that they're portraying. But then on this one, he has the exact opposite criticism. So his problem

00:41:34.400 with Fidel Castro film is that they did colorblind casting. His problem for Mario is that it's,

00:41:41.400 is that it's not colorblind casting. So what is his real issue here? His real issue is just with

00:41:48.320 hiring white people to act in films. That's it. He just doesn't like seeing white people in films 0.84

00:41:52.760 because he is a raging, despicable racist. All right, let's get now to the comment section. 1.00

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00:43:05.860 slash Walsh. That's LifeLock.com slash Walsh for 25% off. Granny Holmes, referring to these woke 0.68

00:43:14.260 cosmetic and beauty companies that we talked about to start the show yesterday, says they're not

00:43:18.760 marketing to women, Matt. They're marketing to men who have to buy a lot of makeup because they 0.94

00:43:22.800 have to cake on so much. You're right. It is a minstrel show. By the way, I have to say, and I wish I

00:43:28.080 could take credit for this, but I saw somebody on Twitter, I don't remember who, but someone on Twitter

00:43:31.260 yesterday said that this woman-faced performance of men dressing up like women, I called it a 0.99

00:43:39.020 minstrel show, but the better term for it would be minstrel show, and that is brilliant. I so wish

00:43:46.140 that I had thought of it that I could steal it, but I can't in good conscience because it's so good,

00:43:49.220 but I will be using it from now on. So it is a minstrel show. Now, you say that they're marketing

00:43:54.700 to men and not to women, but that's why you're wrong. See, that's the point. That's what makes all of

00:43:59.040 this all the more outrageous and absurd is that they are still marketing to women.

00:44:03.960 Ulta Beauty and Revlon and CoverGirl and all the rest of them that have bought into this,

00:44:13.020 to what they called yesterday the degenderization, they are still, even though they're using male

00:44:18.820 mascots now and they're bringing men in to pontificate about the beauty of girlhood,

00:44:25.060 quote-unquote, they are still marketing to women. If they didn't have women customers,

00:44:31.580 they would all go under. There are not enough gender-bending males out there to keep any of 1.00

00:44:37.560 these makeup companies in business, and there never will be. There never will be, and they know that.

00:44:45.060 So it's not just that their core customer base consists of women, but that's still pretty much,

00:44:50.380 in effect, their only customer base. And yet, they are intentionally alienating and degrading and

00:45:01.200 demeaning their customer base for the sake of scoring woke points. And I don't know if it's so

00:45:09.280 much that they are willing to lose money. I think it's more that they're confident they won't.

00:45:14.340 It's not going to gain them anything, but they figure, well, we can virtue signal to the woke left and

00:45:18.660 earn some points that way, and we can keep the pitchfork mob from coming after us. 0.93

00:45:23.540 But, you know, the customers will just deal with it. Even if they don't like it, they'll still buy

00:45:27.880 from us. And that's where it's up to the customers to prove them wrong. All right. Aaron says,

00:45:36.280 I feel like there's a chance Matt will complain so much about watching the WNBA game. Then when he

00:45:40.940 gets there, he'll have an amazing time and become a lifelong fan. I would not put any money on that bet,

00:45:46.260 Aaron. Now, you know, granted, like almost every other American, I've never watched a WNBA game.

00:45:56.420 So I guess I can't say for sure that I won't enjoy it. But I hope you don't put too much money on that

00:46:02.580 on that's a wager. Tom says, I'm a 70 kilogram person, and it makes me so angry that I'd have to

00:46:09.580 pay extra for bags. But a 120 kilogram person is allowed the same weight of bags as I am and is

00:46:15.840 allowed to take over my personal space. I agree with you, but please stop using those fake British 1.00

00:46:20.580 measuring units. Okay. They're called pounds. I don't know what this kilogram stuff is. This is

00:46:25.640 America. We speak American here. Tom. Lagoon JL says, Matt, I feel a trend coming on where you tend to

00:46:33.540 agree to terms, not wholeheartedly thinking about the consequences. For example, the interpretive

00:46:37.960 dance fiasco. I still feel cheated. And now the WNBA bet, the old saying rings true. Don't let your

00:46:43.500 mouth write checks that your ass can't cash. Have fun at the game. Still love and honor you SBG for 1.00

00:46:49.240 life. Yet that's not a trend that's developing or coming on. That is the story of my life. I will

00:46:55.980 basically agree to anything if it's more than one week away, because if it's more than one week in the

00:47:02.220 future, I'll just agree to it. Somebody could come up to me and say, hey, Matt, in two months,

00:47:07.060 I was wondering if you want me to come and shoot you directly in the head. And I would just 1.00

00:47:12.620 absentmindedly look up and say, two months? Yeah, sure. Go ahead. But just put it on my Google

00:47:16.720 calendar and I'll, yeah, that's fine. Yeah. Okay. The future isn't real to me. I don't know. It's

00:47:22.540 the curse of a procrastinator. This is how we work. We work in the present and the future is just,

00:47:28.340 it's an abstraction. It's an idea. That's all. Time is a flat circle. I don't know.

00:47:34.160 Red Nick Roy says, if Matt tells his wife he's leaving for the night for a WNBA game,

00:47:38.500 she's going to think he's having an affair. In my case, no, because she's, my wife is used to me 0.99

00:47:44.480 doing totally bizarre things that involve me leaving the house sometimes for extended periods

00:47:49.760 of time. I mean, keep in mind, I had to have the conversation with my wife last year at some point

00:47:53.780 that I want to go to a third world country on a 26 hour plane ride to go talk to primitive 1.00

00:48:00.740 tribesmen about transgenderism. Like that's, that's a conversation I had to broach with her

00:48:05.080 and it's, and it's a, it's a conversation that we had. So that's what she's, those are the kinds

00:48:10.580 of ideas she's used to hearing from me. And finally, Forklift Certified Gentleman says,

00:48:15.740 Bubba Wallace acts like someone who's named Bubba. I totally disagree. And that's actually one of my

00:48:23.080 biggest problems with Bubba Wallace is that I think he's a disgrace to the name Bubba. I don't,

00:48:28.640 when I think of Bubba, I don't think of this whiny, attention starved guy who's also always

00:48:36.120 complaining about being a victim. Like when you think of a Bubba, you think of someone who sees

00:48:40.280 a garage door pull and collapses onto the ground in a fetal position and starts weeping. That's what 0.97

00:48:47.580 you think of when you, when you hear the name Bubba. I don't know, not me. That's a, don't try to put that

00:48:53.140 on all Bubbas everywhere. That is not fair. Well, if you know me, you know how much I love

00:48:57.920 Halloween and how excited I am to dress up for the holiday. Now I may have to settle for a run

00:49:04.000 of the mill superhero costume. That's, you know, that's my default every year. Just pull out the

00:49:08.720 Batman costume, but there's still hope for you. This year I will be going as my favorite anime

00:49:14.720 character. But this Halloween, you could be the star of the year's breakout hit documentary,

00:49:19.220 What is a Woman? That's right. You can head over to dailywire.com slash shop and check out my 0.81

00:49:24.940 collection to get your very own Matt Walsh Halloween costume. As you know, they did all

00:49:30.020 this without my consent or approval and they have put my likeness out there and my very identity is

00:49:35.140 now being appropriated as a costume. And that's okay because we're making some money off of it. I

00:49:40.300 have principles after all. So be sure to post on social media and tag me in the Daily Wire to show

00:49:44.300 off your costume. You might even make it on the show. Remember, not all heroes wear capes. This

00:49:49.020 one wears a sandwich board. Also, the Daily Wire is hiring. Oh, come on. The Daily Wire is hiring a

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00:50:36.160 just applied for this damn job. Now let's get to our daily cancellation. 1.00

00:50:42.880 Yesterday on the show, I briefly mentioned a controversy that had at the time only recently

00:50:50.660 started simmering. It was a controversy surrounding comments made by the humble host of this very

00:50:56.220 podcast. And if you've been paying attention at all, you know that when my comments spark

00:51:00.340 controversy, it's always because I have broached a very important subject and raised an issue of

00:51:06.040 urgent national importance, such as, of course, the backlash over my advocacy for the rights of

00:51:10.580 translucent mermaids. The topic this time around isn't quite that serious, but almost. So as I

00:51:18.380 detailed yesterday during an all-access live chat this past Friday, I was asked to give my opinion on

00:51:24.480 the subject of anime. And I spent about 35 seconds on the subject in which I stated that from my vantage

00:51:30.540 point, anime is satanic. Now I acknowledge that I have no argument to support that view. I have no perhaps

00:51:38.140 reason or justification for it. It is rather, as the kids say, a vibe. Anime has a satanic vibe.

00:51:45.840 That's all. Have I ever seen anime? Do I even know exactly what anime is? These questions aren't

00:51:53.700 relevant. All that matters is that, as I said in response to a live question someone asked, anime is

00:51:58.580 the work of the devil. That's my truth that I live in every day. Now there are some who might assume

00:52:06.220 that this comment was simply a half-assed, off-the-cuff joke about cartoons, and that's all. Now there are

00:52:13.540 some who might observe that I've also argued for cyclists to be imprisoned. I've said that people who

00:52:18.820 leave their shopping carts in the parking lot are morally equivalent to serial killers and should be 0.99

00:52:22.680 executed on the spot. I've called for legislation outlawing small talk in elevators and the use of

00:52:27.460 emojis by males over the age of 18. I even spent three months on this show attacking my own employer

00:52:33.040 over his refusal to give me a giant stuffed walrus. So you might assume that my theories about anime's

00:52:39.260 satanic origins should be taken in the same spirit as all those other sorts of comments. And you're

00:52:45.760 right, because I'm totally serious about all of it. It's good then that social media took it with the

00:52:52.640 seriousness that it was intended. I was one of the top trending subjects on Twitter nationwide yesterday,

00:52:57.180 again, this time due to my controversial stance on anime. A great many accounts with anime avatars

00:53:04.020 expressed their hurt and anger over my opinion, leading me to believe that maybe I was wrong about

00:53:08.960 anime causing demonic possession. Maybe it actually just causes you to become an extremely whiny dork. 0.99

00:53:14.340 That's another theory. Meanwhile, the news media jumped into action. My randomly muttered hot take 0.99

00:53:19.920 about anime made it into the headlines of several major news outlets. Yahoo News reports, Daily Wire

00:53:26.720 troll Matt Walsh denounces anime as satanic, though he doesn't know why. Denounces. I denounced it.

00:53:35.880 Mediaite says, Matt Walsh declares anime satanic, but admits he's not sure why. The Independent says,

00:53:43.640 Matt Walsh says he thinks all anime is satanic and adults shouldn't be watching cartoons.

00:53:47.520 Newsweek takes a slightly different angle. They say, Daily Wire host who called anime satanic

00:53:53.060 blasted by real satanists. Oh, well, if real satanists are angry about it, then I guess I'm

00:54:01.200 more right than I ever realized. So I can now, with more confidence than ever, say that I stand by my

00:54:08.480 comments, obviously. Anime is satanic and it leads to demonic possession in upwards of 87% of cases,

00:54:17.240 studies show. Recent reports suggest that half, listen to this, listen to this, half of all Pokemon

00:54:25.280 fans will become mass murderers. The other half will also become mass murderers. If any of my critics

00:54:33.020 had ever studied history, they would know that Adolf Hitler, Genghis Khan, Caligula, all were anime fans

00:54:39.820 or would have been if it existed. In fact, and this statistic is the most shocking of all. I want you

00:54:45.680 to listen closely to this. Nearly 100% of all violent criminals in the country have seen Dragon Ball Z

00:54:53.300 or have heard of it or know someone who has seen or heard of it. The numbers speak for themselves.

00:55:01.920 Though in fairness, there is perhaps no reason to single out Japanese animation in this way.

00:55:06.740 Sure, it's especially weird and unsettling, but it's from Japan after all, so what do you expect? 1.00

00:55:11.060 Really though, every cartoon is satanic. That's the only clarification that I'll offer here.

00:55:16.300 Every cartoon is satanic. Look at Paw Patrol, for example. Talking dogs with dead, lifeless eyes who

00:55:22.460 engage in all manner of sorcery. The whole town of Adventure Bay cowers in fear under the tyrannical

00:55:29.060 regime of these beasts. Even the mayor, who's really a figurehead, obeys their every whim. 0.57

00:55:34.920 There are no checks and balances in this system. The Paw Patrol are given free reign to be judge,

00:55:39.680 jury, and potentially executioners. Now, when you consider that scripture often uses wolves to

00:55:45.280 symbolize the forces of evil, you begin to see in the Paw Patrol a sort of perverse satanic fable.

00:55:50.420 And this is still one of the tamer shows. What about Cocomelon? A bizarre, deranged,

00:55:56.480 plotless, hypnotic spectacle which places toddlers into an insensible, trance-like state where they

00:56:02.020 mutter incantations, summoning dark forces that they don't understand? These are yet more cartoon-related

00:56:09.260 opinions that I am seriously stating and which I hope will be taken as seriously as I mean them.

00:56:14.900 Of course, hypothetically, as a thought experiment, if you were to pretend for a moment that with my

00:56:23.960 infamous anime commentary I was actually just making a random spur-of-the-moment joke about a

00:56:29.000 subject that I really don't care about at all, and that Media Matters is creating a controversy over

00:56:33.560 something that I forgot I even said 45 seconds after I said it, then in this alternate universe,

00:56:39.440 one might make the following observation. It is sad that we live in a culture where you can't speak 0.95

00:56:47.480 off the cuff or offer an opinion even ironically or in jest or only half seriously without it being

00:56:52.660 clipped and isolated and turned without your consent into your die-hard mantra or fundamental

00:56:58.140 belief system. I had people yesterday demanding to know why I've chosen to die on this hill. Why am I

00:57:04.960 ranting about anime? Why do I care so much about what other people choose to watch? Well, am I dying

00:57:10.900 on a hill by making a flippant hyperbolic remark on a subject that someone else asked me about?

00:57:16.940 Is literally everything you say a hill you're dying on? Are you seriously pretending that you never

00:57:22.740 exaggerate or engage in hyperbole or say something outrageous for comedic effect? Are you pretending that

00:57:28.620 you've never articulated an edgy or weird opinion, maybe seriously, maybe as a joke, maybe as some mixture

00:57:33.720 of the two? Are you pretending that you don't understand these methods of human communication

00:57:38.700 that are utterly commonplace and a feature of nearly every conversation you've ever had in your life?

00:57:44.780 Yes, you are pretending that. You are pretending so that you can score whatever point you think

00:57:49.720 you're scoring here. And the effect over time is that authentic conversation is stifled and people

00:57:55.160 feel as though they have to constantly speak like they're reading from a press release written by a

00:57:59.420 corporate PR firm. The color and flavor of human conversation, the stuff that makes it fun and

00:58:05.380 interesting, just kind of fades away. These are all things that you might say if you believe that I was

00:58:12.020 not being totally serious when I declared all animation made in Japan satanic. But again, I was serious. 0.99

00:58:19.400 I'm serious about everything. If I was joking, I would laugh. Deadpan humor has never been my thing,

00:58:26.740 as you well know. And that is why, in the end, with all that said, anime is still canceled and cast back

00:58:37.540 down into the fiery hell flames from whence it came. That'll do it for this portion of the show as we

00:58:43.940 move over to the members block. Hope to see you there. If not, talk to you tomorrow. Godspeed.

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The Matt Walsh Show - October 18, 2022

Ep. 1044 - Dismantling John Oliver's Ridiculous Trans Propaganda

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