The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1078 - The Biden Administration Is Lying About The Brittney Griner Trade

00:00:00.260 Today on the Matt Wall Show, shocker of shockers, it appears the Biden administration is lying about the Brittany Griner trade.

00:00:05.400 Evidence suggests they did indeed choose her over other Americans trapped in Russia, like former Marine Paul Whelan.

00:00:11.040 We'll talk about that. Also, Elon Musk releases more documents revealing the truth about how Twitter was run behind the scenes.

00:00:17.040 And with this latest release, yet another right-wing, quote, conspiracy theory has been confirmed.

00:00:22.020 Plus, the Biden administration's most notorious luggage thief is added again.

00:00:25.340 And Jennifer Lawrence applauds herself for being the first woman ever to star in an action film.

00:00:30.820 Apparently, Jennifer Lawrence has never seen any movies aside from the ones that she's been in.

00:00:34.600 All of that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:01:43.600 When we first heard the news that WNBA player Brittany Griner was being released from the tainment in Russia in exchange for the world's most notorious arms dealer, a man our own government has nicknamed the merchant of death, some of us were immediately suspicious about the reasoning behind this decision.

00:02:00.000 This was especially the case given the fact that other Americans like former Marine Paul Whalen, schoolteacher Mark Fogle, were left to languish in Russian labor camps while the basketball player was brought home.

00:02:11.680 As we talked about yesterday, the Biden administration claims that they didn't choose to leave Whalen out of it.

00:02:17.260 As far as Fogle goes, they're not even acknowledging his existence at all, really.

00:02:21.320 They say that Russia never gave them any option.

00:02:23.820 It was either trade for Griner or for no one.

00:02:26.940 And of course, if that was the case, given what they're being asked to give up, they should have just chosen no one in that case.

00:02:33.500 I mean, Joe Biden, literally hours before finalizing this deal, and not a lot of people noticed this yesterday, but hours before finalizing this deal,

00:02:41.680 he was speaking at a vigil to honor victims of gun violence, and then proceeded to orchestrate the release of the world's most notorious gun runner.

00:02:50.940 So if they really took gun violence seriously, they wouldn't be so willing to release a man like that back into the wild,

00:02:57.700 especially while they also tell us that Putin is a crazed dictator bent on global destruction,

00:03:05.580 and that the war in Ukraine is just the first step in Russia's attempted takeover of the world.

00:03:10.620 I mean, I've always been quite skeptical of that claim, but if it's true,

00:03:13.260 you probably don't want to give him back his merchant of death at a time such as this.

00:03:17.580 And perhaps, you know, what we're learning here, shocker of shockers, is that the Biden administration,

00:03:24.060 when it comes to the topics of Russia or gun violence or anything else, doesn't take its own hype seriously.

00:03:32.220 But at any rate, most of the analysis, even the critical analysis of the Griner swap,

00:03:36.380 has assumed that it's true that they could only bring home Griner or no one. 0.99

00:03:41.440 If indeed it is true, the trade is still scandalously stupid, 0.96

00:03:47.600 but it becomes a scandal of an entirely different level if it isn't true. 0.98

00:03:51.380 If, in fact, they chose Griner over other Americans who had been, by the way,

00:03:56.200 suffering in captivity for far longer than she had been.

00:04:00.500 Personally, I assumed that was the case from the beginning.

00:04:03.220 I assume it because I reflexively disbelieve everything this administration says.

00:04:07.380 Also because a Griner or no one offer from Russia makes it easier on the White House.

00:04:15.720 Russia would actually be doing the White House a favor by saying,

00:04:18.880 we'll give you her or we'll give you nobody.

00:04:20.880 Because it just makes it a simpler choice.

00:04:23.620 But Russia is not interested in making things easier.

00:04:25.900 It puts Biden in a more precarious and politically difficult situation

00:04:30.980 to make him choose which American he wants.

00:04:34.740 And so it just makes logical sense that Russia would prefer to put him in that situation.

00:04:39.820 Especially because they likely knew that he would humiliate himself and his country by extension

00:04:44.700 by choosing the lesbian basketball player over the Marine. 1.00

00:04:49.360 And by the way, I just saw, and we can't play the clip because it's in Russian,

00:04:52.560 you wouldn't understand it.

00:04:53.740 But I saw a clip circulating of Russian media last night

00:04:57.960 and a woman on Russian media talking about this case

00:05:00.860 and doing exactly this, mocking Biden for choosing.

00:05:05.720 You know, she says that Biden was offered a choice between Waylon or Griner, chose Griner.

00:05:12.520 And as the woman on Russia TV points out,

00:05:16.340 you know, they made that choice because, you know,

00:05:19.620 Waylon goes to the back of the line because he's a white male and heterosexual.

00:05:23.620 So they're mocking him.

00:05:25.460 They're mocking Biden for this.

00:05:27.380 This, of course, is what the Russians wanted. 0.94

00:05:28.980 They wanted the opportunity to mock Biden for making this choice that they knew he would make.

00:05:33.860 And this seemed clear to many of us from the start.

00:05:36.360 But evidence is now emerging, which strongly suggests that our instincts were correct.

00:05:42.200 A journalist named Jordan Satchel is following the trail.

00:05:46.420 He reports on his substack.

00:05:48.000 He says,

00:05:48.220 For several months, the Biden administration had been publicly indicating their intent

00:05:52.120 to try to secure the release of both Griner and Waylon in exchange for Mr. Bout

00:05:56.680 before announcing Thursday that they had secured Griner in a one-for-one exchange.

00:06:01.920 Did the Biden administration choose Griner over Waylon?

00:06:04.480 Although Biden officials and the president himself have denied that that was the case,

00:06:08.340 several pieces of evidence seem to indicate that Griner was indeed prioritized over Waylon

00:06:12.440 and that Moscow allowed the Biden administration to choose either individual for the one-to-one swap.

00:06:17.300 The corporate media, citing senior Biden officials, have delivered clues about the prisoner swap option.

00:06:23.880 NBC News, a known regurgitator of state propaganda,

00:06:26.980 stealth edited its story about the decision to choose Brittany Griner over Paul Waylon.

00:06:32.940 For reasons unknown, NBC News, citing a senior U.S. official,

00:06:36.760 changed its entire narrative about the prisoner exchange.

00:06:40.200 The key paragraph in question for NBC's story first read before being stealth edited.

00:06:44.820 This is what it read originally.

00:06:47.300 Quote, a senior U.S. official told NBC News that the U.S. government had sought to have both Griner

00:06:51.900 and Waylon released as part of a swap with the Kremlin, which wanted the return of Victor Bout,

00:06:56.620 a Russian arms dealer who served 11 years of a 25-year sentence to the U.S.

00:06:59.720 But the official said Russia has treated Waylon differently because he is an accused spy

00:07:03.780 and that the Kremlin gave the White House the choice of either Griner or Waylon or no one.

00:07:11.060 So it wasn't Griner or no one, but Griner or Waylon or no one.

00:07:16.840 That was NBC News report originally.

00:07:19.960 Then they edited it, and this is what the current version says.

00:07:23.480 But the official said Russia has treated Waylon differently because he is an accused spy

00:07:26.840 and that the Kremlin ultimately gave the White House the choice of either Griner or no one

00:07:31.580 after different options were proposed.

00:07:35.980 Huh.

00:07:38.040 After different options were proposed.

00:07:39.840 I wonder what those other options were.

00:07:41.840 So we know they're rolling at full speed with the cover-up when they start rewriting paragraphs

00:07:45.940 of news reports after the reports have already been published.

00:07:49.220 But there's more.

00:07:51.280 Going back to this report, it says,

00:07:52.680 The NBC report also cites Waylon's Russian lawyer.

00:07:55.980 Quote, Waylon's Russian lawyer, Vladimir Zerenbinkov, we'll say,

00:08:00.900 also said that the deal was an exchange of one-to-one

00:08:03.220 and that choosing Griner 32 appeared more humane, quote-unquote,

00:08:06.420 because she's a woman and an Olympic champion while Waylon was in the military

00:08:10.260 and it's easier for him to be in custody.

00:08:13.080 Zerenbinkov has previously said that Russia offered a one-to-one swap for Waylon

00:08:16.900 in exchange for Bout prior to Griner's detention.

00:08:20.420 This offer was apparently rejected by U.S. officials.

00:08:23.800 Additionally, Waylon's brother has indicated that just days ago,

00:08:26.600 the former U.S. service member was being considered for a one-to-one swap.

00:08:30.000 And these are reports that have surfaced elsewhere that originally,

00:08:35.520 before Griner had ever been arrested,

00:08:38.420 the U.S. had the opportunity to bring Waylon home in exchange for Bout and said no.

00:08:43.840 But then said yes when it was offered for Griner.

00:08:47.140 So it's pretty clear what actually happened here.

00:08:49.580 And that they're now lying about it.

00:08:52.340 And why would they choose Griner over Waylon or any other American incarcerated in Russia?

00:08:58.040 Well, that is clear also.

00:08:59.640 In fact, a report in Politico seemed to accidentally acknowledge the reality here.

00:09:03.180 It says,

00:09:04.180 This moment ends a brutal nine months for Griner,

00:09:06.940 who was detained at a Moscow airport for possession of vape cartridges containing hash oil.

00:09:11.920 She was sentenced in August to nine years in prison, so on and so forth.

00:09:15.600 Along with her sports fame,

00:09:16.960 The fact that she was a gay black woman heaped immense pressure on the Biden administration to get her stateside. 0.99

00:09:27.740 So those of us who noted immediately that she got the call because she's gay and black, 0.94

00:09:33.680 we were castigated by the left.

00:09:35.200 We were accused of bringing race and sexuality into it.

00:09:38.540 But as always, we didn't bring it into it.

00:09:41.320 We only noted the fact that they had been brought into it already.

00:09:45.820 There's a reason why the White House made a special point of noting these demographic details about Griner yesterday.

00:09:51.520 In recent weeks, it became clear that while Russians were willing to reach an agreement to secure Brittany's release,

00:10:00.740 they continued to treat Paul Whelan differently given the nature of the totally illegitimate charges they have levied against Paul.

00:10:11.220 Unfortunately, the choice became to either bring Brittany home or no one.

00:10:16.400 As the president said this morning, he will never stop working to secure Paul's release and return home,

00:10:24.180 and he will not give up.

00:10:27.340 On a personal note, Brittany is more than an athlete, more than an Olympian.

00:10:32.180 She is an important role model and inspiration to millions of Americans,

00:10:36.800 particularly the LGBTQI plus Americans and women of color.

00:10:41.700 She should never have been detained by Russia.

00:10:47.280 And we are, I am, deeply proud of the work that the president has done,

00:10:52.600 this administration has done, to get her home. 0.54

00:10:57.040 Yeah, we want to get Paul Whelan home, sure.

00:11:00.080 Yeah, yeah, fine. 0.98

00:11:01.660 But hey, by the way, Brittany Griner is gay. 1.00

00:11:04.480 Did you hear about that?

00:11:05.260 A role model to the LGBTQI community.

00:11:09.680 Had to get that I in there for intersex.

00:11:12.980 Griner is an inspiration to those with genital deformities, for some reason. 0.82

00:11:17.340 So the claim is that she wasn't chosen because she's gay and black, 0.98

00:11:21.600 but gee, isn't it so great that we brought this woman home who is gay and black? 0.98

00:11:26.040 Let us all celebrate her homecoming for these specific reasons, 0.96

00:11:29.100 yet they had nothing to do with the decision-making process.

00:11:32.580 That's what we're supposed to believe.

00:11:33.440 CNN also joined in the parade.

00:11:36.400 Let's listen.

00:11:37.860 I think I would be remiss if we did not mention also the importance this plays for the LGBTQ community.

00:11:44.040 As we've been talking about black women, this is big. 0.99

00:11:46.140 So this is for the LGBTQ community.

00:11:47.540 Glad releasing a statement, obviously, just summarizing here that they're happy

00:11:50.460 and that shows the struggles and the danger that members of the LGBT community face around the world.

00:11:56.880 But when you look at what is happening with the LGBT community, specifically here in the United States,

00:12:04.940 what does this say?

00:12:06.360 Does this bring attention to that?

00:12:09.080 And it shows us, hey, look, we're all Americans.

00:12:12.400 Listen, Brittany Griner represents everything in this country.

00:12:17.100 She's female, she's LGBTQ, she's black, and she's extraordinary.

00:12:23.980 She's excellent.

00:12:25.080 She's overcome.

00:12:26.320 She's an icon.

00:12:27.560 She's done everything you can do in her sport and more, and yet she still wasn't safe.

00:12:31.500 She represents everyone, he says.

00:12:35.680 She's LGBT, black, a woman, everyone.

00:12:41.820 Though it seems he may have left a few people out of the everyone category.

00:12:46.260 We've got LGBT people, black people, women. 0.93

00:12:49.420 Who's missing here?

00:12:50.620 Hmm.

00:12:51.640 No, never mind.

00:12:52.260 I guess that is everyone.

00:12:53.420 I guess that's all people that exist.

00:12:56.100 We're also told that she's an icon.

00:12:57.600 She's a hero.

00:12:58.380 She's a saint among sinners.

00:12:59.980 But why is that exactly?

00:13:02.400 She plays basketball moderately well against a bunch of women. 0.92

00:13:05.320 I think she averages, I had to look this up.

00:13:08.060 Apparently they keep stats for WNBA players, which I didn't realize that.

00:13:11.720 And so she averages 17 points a game against a bunch of women. 1.00

00:13:15.440 In a league where nobody, when there's been like three dunks in the last 30 years.

00:13:20.860 So she does that. 0.99

00:13:22.460 And then in her personal life, she's a convicted domestic abuser who had to enter into a 26-week

00:13:27.760 domestic violence counseling course a few years ago before getting arrested for bringing drugs into a foreign country.

00:13:34.680 Icon, sure.

00:13:36.520 But in a certain way, you know, she is an icon, I suppose.

00:13:39.060 Icons are, what are icons?

00:13:40.520 They're symbols.

00:13:41.900 And Greiner symbolizes the demographic hierarchy in this country.

00:13:46.180 She's a symbol of the racial and sexual pecking order. 1.00

00:13:50.480 That's what she's a symbol of, the ranking system. 0.99

00:13:55.340 And that has never been more clear than it is now.

00:13:59.220 Let's get to the five headlines.

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00:15:02.200 All right.

00:15:03.680 This had to be, before I move on to the Griner, move on from the Griner news,

00:15:08.300 I wanted to mention this had to be some kind of record, I think, competing anyway, maybe not a record, but competing for fastest cave to the woke mob.

00:15:18.040 Micah Parsons, who's a Cowboys, a place for the Cowboys, a pass rusher, he tweeted immediately after the Griner news was made public,

00:15:25.860 he tweeted in reaction to it and made the point that many of us are making and are still making.

00:15:31.540 He says, wait, no, we left a Marine? Hell no.

00:15:36.540 That's what he said. Okay.

00:15:38.360 So he's upset that we left a Marine, that we're bringing Griner home, but we're leaving Paul Whalen.

00:15:44.360 And he tweeted this.

00:15:46.480 Left was very upset.

00:15:48.240 You know, even though this is the same thing many of us were saying,

00:15:51.280 like thousands of people on social media all at once making the same point,

00:15:55.020 but Micah Parsons is an athlete, and so therefore, as far as the left is concerned, he belongs to them.

00:16:04.320 You know, they own him.

00:16:06.180 And also he's black. 0.82

00:16:07.100 So he's a black athlete, famous guy, and so this is not allowed.

00:16:13.860 You're not allowed to express a viewpoint like this that's slightly outside of the accepted talking points.

00:16:22.620 And so the cave began shortly there.

00:16:25.020 About an hour later, he said,

00:16:26.880 My last tweet was no shot at Brittany Griner.

00:16:29.260 I'm super happy she's back home, as she should be.

00:16:31.920 I just have family who have served, and it's crazy to me the president wouldn't bring him home, too.

00:16:35.900 I'm the furthest thing from a Trump supporter, but I'm not a fan of Biden either.

00:16:43.200 And there was nothing in the original tweet that would indicate that he's not happy that Brittany Griner's coming home.

00:16:48.160 He just wants this other guy to come home, too.

00:16:50.660 He has family that serves in the military.

00:16:51.780 It's a very reasonable position to take.

00:16:54.080 But they weren't happy with that, and so the left kept coming after him.

00:16:57.120 And then finally comes the ultimate cave, and this is very clearly not something that was written by him.

00:17:03.320 And so there's a reason why these apologies always sound the same, because they're written by PR people.

00:17:10.120 It says,

00:17:10.440 Just spoke to some people that I respect and trust.

00:17:13.340 I should have been more educated on the topic and not tweeted out of emotion from my family and others who have served.

00:17:19.060 For that, I apologize.

00:17:20.020 Also, if what I'm told about the attempts to bring retired Marine Paul Whelan home are true, then the best outcome was accomplished.

00:17:28.020 I pray Mr. Whelan comes home, but I'm extremely happy for Brittany and her family.

00:17:32.460 I am not too prideful to admit when I've made a mistake.

00:17:35.580 Yeah, this is Micah Parsons talking, right?

00:17:38.180 His original tweet was,

00:17:39.780 What? Hell nah.

00:17:41.180 What is this? Multiple exclamation points? Emojis?

00:17:44.240 And then his apology is,

00:17:46.180 I pray that Mr. Whelan comes home, extremely happy for Brittany and her family.

00:17:50.800 I am not too prideful to admit my mistakes.

00:17:53.400 They don't even try to make it sound like this is him talking.

00:17:55.480 And then the cave is ultimately completed.

00:18:01.340 I will say, the left at least, they came up with a couple of clever nicknames for Micah Parsons.

00:18:06.340 I'll give them credit for that.

00:18:07.400 They started calling him Maga Parsons, which is, that's okay. 1.00

00:18:10.740 But then someone came up with Pass Rush Limbaugh.

00:18:14.920 Pass Rush Limbaugh is a nickname, which is clever.

00:18:17.320 Maybe even a little too clever for a nickname, because you have to kind of think about it for a second.

00:18:20.720 Anyway, that was enough to get him to back down.

00:18:22.560 Doesn't take, doesn't take much.

00:18:26.100 All right.

00:18:27.180 The other big news of the day happened last night.

00:18:30.740 Daily Wire has the report about this.

00:18:32.700 The latest release of the Twitter files Thursday evening revealed

00:18:35.760 that leftists at the highest levels of the company,

00:18:38.700 who have all since been fired or been forced to resign,

00:18:40.900 targeted one of the most popular right-wing accounts on the platform

00:18:43.420 with repeated suspensions, despite the fact that they secretly admitted that she did not do anything wrong.

00:18:48.420 Journalist Barry Weiss released a long Twitter thread in which she showed how Twitter built blacklists,

00:18:54.960 which, by the way, they actually called blacklists,

00:18:58.320 prevented disfavored tweets from trending on the platform

00:19:01.500 and actively limited the visibility of entire accounts and even trending topics in secret

00:19:05.580 without informing users.

00:19:07.700 Weiss noted the different layers of censorship that existed at Twitter

00:19:10.520 that the highest level was the Site Integrity Policy Policy Escalation Support,

00:19:16.060 known as SIPPES, I guess.

00:19:21.200 Weiss said,

00:19:21.540 This secret group included head of legal policy and trust,

00:19:25.720 the global head of trust and safety,

00:19:28.380 subsequent CEOs Jack Dorsey and Parag Agrawal and others.

00:19:32.980 This is where the biggest, most politically sensitive decisions got made.

00:19:36.600 Think high follower account controversial, another employee told us.

00:19:40.140 For these, there would be no ticket or anything.

00:19:42.200 And Weiss showed how libs of TikTok was placed on a trends blacklist

00:19:46.380 and that a special note was placed on the account

00:19:48.700 that said action could not be taken on the account without consulting the SIPPES.

00:19:54.300 The account, which Chaya Reichich began in November 2020

00:19:56.540 and now boasts over 1.4 million followers,

00:19:59.000 was subject to six suspensions in 2022 alone.

00:20:02.580 Each time, Reichich was blocked for posting for as long as a week.

00:20:06.560 Twitter repeatedly informed Reichich that she had been suspended

00:20:08.640 for violating Twitter's policy against hateful conduct.

00:20:13.160 However, those at the highest level secretly admitted

00:20:15.260 that they knew that libs of TikTok did not violate any of the site's rules,

00:20:19.940 yet they wanted her suspended anyway.

00:20:23.060 And then Barry Weiss's thread goes on

00:20:27.520 and there's a lot of documentation.

00:20:28.700 It shows the behind-the-scenes correspondence that was going on

00:20:31.400 and it shows how the head honchos at Twitter,

00:20:36.660 they knew that she wasn't violating any of the hateful conduct policy.

00:20:39.400 They didn't have any specific tweet.

00:20:40.600 They were looking for, they wanted to permanently suspend her, 1.00

00:20:44.840 but they needed ammo to do it.

00:20:47.200 And so they needed a specific tweet that directly violates their hateful conduct policy.

00:20:52.280 But she never gave that to them.

00:20:53.860 And so then instead, they settled on just continually suspending her for a week at a time 0.86

00:20:58.340 with the reasoning that she was indirectly violating the policies.

00:21:03.500 What is indirect violation of the policy?

00:21:05.080 What is that exactly?

00:21:06.340 What constitutes an indirect violation of a policy?

00:21:09.240 Well, obviously anything can constitute that.

00:21:10.840 That's just whatever they decide is an indirect violation.

00:21:14.820 And it's not just Libs and TikTok.

00:21:18.780 In the thread, it shows how a few other examples were given.

00:21:24.180 Charlie Kirk was placed on a blacklist.

00:21:26.960 Dan Bongino was placed on a blacklist.

00:21:30.300 Most egregiously of all, actually, the most outrageous example are,

00:21:33.800 although not surprising, are certain doctors who, in the early days of the COVID panic,

00:21:41.600 were placed on different blacklists and had their content suppressed

00:21:45.060 because they were tweeting things that were not accepted by the left at the time,

00:21:50.420 though have been vindicated by the facts.

00:21:52.260 There was one doctor in particular who tweeted that shutting down schools will be harmful to children,

00:21:59.360 which is a fact that, by the way, everyone agrees with now, even on the left.

00:22:04.000 But at the time that he tweeted that, they decided they were going to suppress his account because of it.

00:22:08.720 And all this is being done without informing anyone.

00:22:14.460 It's being done in secret.

00:22:16.220 And it's being lied about.

00:22:17.400 This, to me, is bigger than the Hunter Biden laptop stuff.

00:22:20.960 I think they probably should have led with this.

00:22:23.040 As Elon Musk is going through and giving these scoops to different reporters that he can trust,

00:22:29.840 I think this should have been the first one.

00:22:31.580 This, to me, is bigger.

00:22:32.160 This is documentation.

00:22:34.380 This is evidence of widespread systemic bias targeted at conservatives on political grounds,

00:22:42.120 censoring them secretly while lying about it.

00:22:45.540 Yes, we all knew this was happening.

00:22:48.080 We knew that shadow banning was a thing.

00:22:50.960 But the left mocked us for talking about that, said it was a conspiracy theory,

00:22:56.180 and now we have documented evidence that was happening.

00:22:59.220 And we also know, again, they were lying about it.

00:23:01.180 They denied it.

00:23:02.020 Jack Dorsey, when he was still running things at Twitter, was asked many times whether conservatives are shadow banned.

00:23:08.080 And he said no.

00:23:09.200 Here's just one example of him apparently lying about it.

00:23:12.100 The president called you out for shadow banning.

00:23:15.800 What is the truth around that idea?

00:23:18.120 So I think a lot of the statements behind the statement and the question behind the question is, look, shadow banning is a very widely defined term.

00:23:30.180 There's not one single definition.

00:23:32.080 So the definition that we found that seems to resonate with the most people is, you know, not amplifying particular messages.

00:23:42.540 Or if someone puts out a tweet, hiding that tweet from everyone without that person who tweeted it knowing about it.

00:23:50.880 So, but the real question behind the question is, are we doing something according to political ideology or viewpoints?

00:23:59.540 And we are not, period.

00:24:01.600 We do not look at content with regards to political viewpoint or ideology.

00:24:07.460 We look at behavior and we use that behavior as a signal to, to add to relevance.

00:24:15.540 We need to constantly show that we are not adding our own bias, which I fully admit is, is left, is, is more left leaning.

00:24:23.880 And I think it's important to articulate our bias and to, and to, and to share with, share it with people so that people understand us.

00:24:33.400 But we need to remove all bias from how we act and our policies and our enforcement.

00:24:40.740 People have these assumptions that, that you're out to get them or something.

00:24:43.920 And which is why transparency matters.

00:24:48.680 Transparency matters.

00:24:49.640 Although all this was being done behind closed doors in secret and is now being brought to light by Elon Musk.

00:24:55.940 Now it is true that Jack Dorsey was, was kept out of the loop on, on a lot.

00:24:59.420 It would seem there's this vast bureaucracy that was built up on Twitter.

00:25:06.620 And I heard someone on Twitter put it as, as, you know, Twitter had its own, effectively its own deep state.

00:25:13.960 And, but the advantage of Twitter being a private company, it can be taken over and just all those people can be fired, which is exactly what Elon Musk did.

00:25:19.100 So Jack Dorsey was kept out of the loop on something.

00:25:20.980 But, but at the same time, I think that it's pretty clear that he knew what he was saying there is not true.

00:25:25.960 Um, especially the idea that the shadow banning and all of that was, was not ideologically biased.

00:25:33.480 I mean, we have, now we have the documented evidence of the conversations that were going on behind the scenes.

00:25:37.740 And they were targeting certain accounts and looking for reasons to get rid of them.

00:25:40.980 And if they couldn't do that, then they would just suppress them.

00:25:43.200 And, um, and we know that now, now I will admit to a certain amount of jealousy, you know, uh, that's, uh, that they, they released the, the, the, uh, blacklist files for certain accounts.

00:25:57.740 Like, you know, Charlie, Dan, and lives at Tik TOK.

00:26:00.880 I would love to see my own blacklist file.

00:26:02.980 That's, uh, I, I would, I would love to see what that looks like.

00:26:06.120 But it's, I, I know for 100% certain, obviously that I've been targeted the same way.

00:26:12.120 I also know, as I mentioned before, that they did this, you know, Barry Weiss's Twitter thread.

00:26:17.680 She says that they also targeted Twitter.

00:26:19.640 There were certain trends that they would target people that they would shadow ban and suppress, but then also trends.

00:26:25.420 They're like things they didn't want trending.

00:26:27.220 And, uh, one of those things I know for 100% certain was what is a woman, you know, because when we first announced the film and we were promoting it and it was climbing up the trending list and made into the top 10.

00:26:39.280 When we first announced the movie, put the trailer out and, uh, and then in like 30 seconds, it just disappeared from the trending list completely and never returned.

00:26:47.680 Uh, which is pretty clear that something was done behind the scenes saying this is, we're not going to allow this to trend.

00:26:53.640 So I'd like to see my blacklist file, I think, but not just mine, you know, we need to see all of this.

00:27:00.100 So it's, it's good that Elon Musk is doing what he's doing.

00:27:03.700 Um, he's already done more to expose the way things are rigged behind the scenes.

00:27:14.020 He's doing more in that area than anyone else in my lifetime.

00:27:19.000 Certainly any, any more than any other than any, than any elected Republican, for example, has ever done.

00:27:25.300 Um, but we got to go all the way.

00:27:27.760 And so we need to see all of this release all the files.

00:27:31.580 Everybody that was on a blacklist released that release everything, put a database out there so that we can access it and we could see everything.

00:27:37.860 Put it all out in the open.

00:27:39.580 There can't be any half measures.

00:27:40.940 If you're going to do this, then you got to go all the way and we have to see it all.

00:27:44.280 All right, here's a, this story is being reported by, uh, local, uh, CBS news in Las Vegas.

00:27:54.140 It says an energy department official, this is going to sound like a little bit of deja vu.

00:28:02.260 An energy department official is accused of stealing luggage from Harry Reid international airport.

00:28:06.940 The eight news now investigators learned on Thursday, a felony warrant was issued for Sam Britton, a deputy assistant secretary.

00:28:15.680 Sources said the charges for grand larceny with a value between $1,200 and $5,000.

00:28:20.920 Britton is a deputy assistant secretary of the official of, uh, uh, office of spent fuel and waste disposition.

00:28:27.220 Britton faces charges for a similar incident at the Minneapolis airport.

00:28:30.980 He was on leave after charges were filed in connection with that incident.

00:28:34.100 An energy department spokesman said in November.

00:28:36.260 So this guy was arrested for stealing a suitcase and, uh, the original theft was in, was that in, was that in Minneapolis?

00:28:47.200 And now he's arrested again for doing it again.

00:28:49.600 Now it's not clear when, when like, did this theft happen in the last week after he was already arrested for the first one?

00:28:57.880 Or did this happen earlier?

00:28:59.000 So the timeline isn't exactly clear, but what we do know is that he's stolen at least two suitcases now.

00:29:06.260 That on top of everything else we know about him, about him being a dog fetishist, BDSM enthusiast, gives classes on, um, on spanking and, you know, it goes and gives spanking one-on-one classes at college, colleges and all that.

00:29:17.840 So all that stuff we know, and now he's also a, uh, uh, serial luggage thief on top of it.

00:29:25.100 And by the way, just to be clear again, I see some people accusing him of being a kleptomaniac, like he has some sort of compulsion to steal.

00:29:32.700 That's not what this is.

00:29:33.900 He is being driven by compulsion, but it's not a compulsion to steal.

00:29:37.440 It's pretty clear what he's doing here.

00:29:39.840 He's stealing luggage from women because he's a cross-dressing fetishist and, uh, he has a thing for stealing women's clothes and wearing them. 0.98

00:29:49.740 Which is why when the first, uh, item of, uh, was taken, when the first, when the first piece of luggage was taken, they never did recover any of the clothes.

00:29:57.000 Wonder why that is.

00:29:58.580 So that's what's going on here.

00:30:00.360 It's, it's, it's even creepier, a lot creepier than simply being a kleptomaniac. 0.51

00:30:06.200 This is a, uh, a pervert who is being driven by his perversions and has no control over them, apparently.

00:30:15.640 I mean, to, to steal luggage from an airport in the first place, when the whole, when, when, you know, there are 10 cameras watching you at any given moment, that's already insane.

00:30:27.980 But to do it again, after you've already been arrested the first time, uh, this just shows, this is someone who has no control over their actions.

00:30:36.300 A pervert who is driven by those perversions and yet was a high ranking official with a high security clearance.

00:30:44.400 Now, this is a point I want to, I might, I might flesh out a little bit more next week, um, because it's an important point, but I do want to mention one other point, one other thing about this.

00:30:55.280 Which is that I think the Sam Britton case, I mean, it shows a lot.

00:31:00.580 Um, it, it, it shows why it's suicidally stupid to hire people based on, um, you know, diversity, equity, and inclusion for that to be the litmus test. 0.81

00:31:15.000 So it obviously demonstrates that. 0.71

00:31:16.940 I think it also demonstrates why we need to bring back bullying in this country.

00:31:20.800 We, we need a lot more bullying, not less.

00:31:23.160 I think we've made a massive mistake by, um, our, our anti-bullying efforts have been misguided, I think.

00:31:31.600 And we've made a mistake by raising our kids and, and telling them that the worst thing you can ever do, that's the worst thing.

00:31:40.280 Bullying is the worst thing.

00:31:41.900 Um, you know, you, you should never mock or belittle something that's weird, something that's strange.

00:31:48.760 And, and, and even the freakiest weirdos among you, don't, don't, don't make fun of them.

00:31:54.140 Don't point and laugh.

00:31:55.500 Don't mock them.

00:31:57.740 Right.

00:31:58.620 Uh, treat, treat them like it's normal.

00:32:01.120 Even the weirdest, strangest things, treat it like normal.

00:32:06.020 Because if you don't, then you're bullying.

00:32:08.000 And that's the worst thing in the world.

00:32:11.060 And then what happens?

00:32:12.420 You end up with people like Sam Britton.

00:32:13.780 Who feel totally empowered to act out their weirdest, most disgusting compulsions in public.

00:32:25.140 And they have, at a point now, they have no control over it.

00:32:29.780 Because they've been empowered this way.

00:32:32.520 Sam Britton is someone who would have benefited from a lot of bullying when he was younger.

00:32:38.180 And probably if you listen to his story, he'll tell you, I was bullied a lot.

00:32:40.780 No, it's, it's pretty clear that he wasn't.

00:32:42.960 He needed to be.

00:32:44.600 He needed people to point at him and say, the way you're acting right now, this is, this is freaking weird, man.

00:32:49.200 Stop it. 0.98

00:32:50.300 You're acting like a freak. 0.98

00:32:51.360 Stop all this. 0.99

00:32:53.840 He needed to feel that, that shame.

00:32:56.180 And he needed to stop and say, well, why is everyone's pointing and laughing at me?

00:32:59.100 I'm, I'm, I'm ashamed.

00:32:59.940 Like there's something wrong with me.

00:33:01.680 He needed to feel that.

00:33:03.020 And then he needed to be told not that, oh no, everything's fine with you.

00:33:05.740 No, yeah, there is something wrong with you.

00:33:09.140 You know, we need to get you some therapy, some counseling.

00:33:12.340 You get, you get a thing for wearing dog masks and, and leather in public.

00:33:19.360 Like that's not, that's, that's not, that is strange.

00:33:22.780 That is something that we should mock and laugh at.

00:33:25.120 That, that is, that's an appropriate natural reaction, right?

00:33:32.800 Mockery, laughter, all of that.

00:33:35.860 That's an appropriate natural reaction to bizarre perverted things.

00:33:40.560 And we should, that's the reaction we should have.

00:33:45.700 But we like beat that reaction out of people and insist that they treat everything like it's normal, even if it's not.

00:33:52.080 And then you end up with Sam Britton.

00:33:53.700 All right, John Kerry, whose official title is U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for the Climate, was asked this week about the possibility of the U.S. paying climate reparations, whatever those are.

00:34:08.400 And not just on its own behalf, but on behalf of other countries, too.

00:34:14.060 Footing their bill to pay money to heal the climate, to appease the nature gods.

00:34:19.680 And here's what he said.

00:34:21.560 So back on the loss and damage fund, though, I mean, is there going to have to be U.S. taxpayer money that helps the United States?

00:34:28.600 Presumably the United States is going to have to be one of the nations that contributes to that.

00:34:31.780 Well, it would be great if there were some.

00:34:34.840 I mean, the United States of America, proudly, is the largest humanitarian donor in the world.

00:34:43.940 The American people already do an enormous amount around the world.

00:34:52.040 So we should be doing some of that, he says.

00:34:53.920 We should be paying for other countries.

00:34:56.840 We all need to be paying climate reparations.

00:34:58.600 And again, it's not exactly clear what that is or how that would.

00:35:02.260 So you pay money, and then it changes the weather.

00:35:07.280 Not sure I see the connection there, but we should be doing it on behalf of other countries, too.

00:35:11.760 And then I always love when these people say, well, the American people, they're already contributing so much and doing so much.

00:35:19.900 Yeah, we are, because this is our money.

00:35:22.480 But you make it sound like it's our choice, which it isn't.

00:35:25.180 You're making it sound like this is our, you know, all the foreign aid that we give out, all the money that we give to foreign governments.

00:35:32.900 No taxation, you know, there's no taxation.

00:35:35.760 There's no representation in this taxation.

00:35:37.900 We're giving money to foreign governments.

00:35:39.780 Have no idea how they're going to spend it.

00:35:41.700 Have no control over how it's spent.

00:35:44.540 We don't benefit.

00:35:45.600 American families don't benefit from that money because we give it to foreign governments.

00:35:49.080 And yeah, we're doing all of that, but it's not our choice.

00:35:51.040 This is all happening against our will.

00:35:55.840 But, you know, we've long since normalized this idea, and a lot of people have grown accustomed to this idea of the United States government handing out checks to foreign governments.

00:36:08.060 Billions and billions and billions of dollars to dozens and dozens of foreign governments every single year with no accountability whatsoever.

00:36:15.560 All right, what else do we have here?

00:36:20.340 I think we've got to skip right ahead to this because I want to make sure we don't lose our opportunity to talk about it.

00:36:28.220 Okay, here it is from the Washington Post.

00:36:29.760 Lisa Whitenack loved sharks as a kid. 0.98

00:36:35.040 She spent rainy days leafing through a guide to sharks and Reader's Digest.

00:36:39.540 Every summer, she would watch Shark Week, which is Discovery's annual TV event that spotlights the ocean predator with seven days of dedicated programming.

00:36:49.260 But when the scientists appeared on her TV screen, she rarely saw any women she could look up to.

00:36:55.040 Why would I know I could do that, Whitenack said?

00:36:57.460 I don't come from a family of scientists.

00:36:59.780 I didn't see very many people that looked like me on television.

00:37:02.940 Whitenack, now a biology professor at Allegheny College in Pennsylvania, found her way into shark research anyway. 0.83

00:37:08.480 When the pandemic lockdowns began in 2020, she saw an opportunity to study the sources of her old misconceptions.

00:37:14.480 Was Shark Week feeding audiences the wrong messages about sharks and who studies them?

00:37:20.340 Whitenack led a team of researchers to examine hundreds of Shark Week episodes that aired between 1988 and 2020.

00:37:26.180 This is the kind of research that's being done.

00:37:28.980 This is the kind of scientific research that's being funded these days.

00:37:34.180 If you're wondering what the scientists are working on, you know, like why haven't we gotten back to the moon yet?

00:37:40.720 Why don't we have a cure for cancer yet?

00:37:42.160 Well, the scientists are working on this sort of thing.

00:37:44.840 Looking into the diversity in Shark Week programming.

00:37:49.840 In a study published last month by the Public Library of Science, their research claims that Discovery's programming emphasized negative messages about sharks, lacked useful messaging about shark conservation, and overwhelmingly featured white men as experts, including several men with the same name.

00:38:09.180 The programming featured more white experts and commentators named Mike than women. 1.00

00:38:15.060 So they're even looking at, there are not just too many white men who are studying sharks, but there are too many white men named Mike.

00:38:22.600 Can we at least get some other names in there?

00:38:24.020 Anyway, it goes on.

00:38:29.420 Let's see.

00:38:31.260 David Schiffman is a conservationist at Arizona State University, was a co-author on the study.

00:38:36.800 When there are hundreds of people of color interested who work in this field, and when my field is more than half women, maybe it's not an accident anymore that they're only featuring white men.

00:38:47.180 Discovery did not respond to a request for comment on the study's findings.

00:38:50.080 And by the way, that's not because Discovery is just going to laugh this off, as they should, okay?

00:38:55.920 It's not because they're laughing it off and saying, what their response should be, yeah, their response should be like, are you kidding me?

00:39:01.220 Who cares?

00:39:03.280 But no, they're just, they're talking to their PR people, and eventually they're going to issue some, you know, mea culpa, come to Jesus, great, grand apology.

00:39:11.640 If they haven't already, I haven't even looked up, this story's a few days old, so they may have already done this.

00:39:15.360 You know, outlining all the steps they're going to take to make sure there's more diversity in Shark Week programs.

00:39:22.800 That's what's going to happen.

00:39:24.900 The company told NBC Boston that it wouldn't comment on a study that has yet to pass any scientific approvals after a preliminary version was presented in 2021.

00:39:32.700 It has since undergone a scientific review.

00:39:35.780 Okay.

00:39:36.780 Well, we could continue reading that if you want, but I think we probably don't need to.

00:39:39.420 We are, and we are so far beyond the bounds of parody at this point that I did, I read through the entire thing because I was honest to God expecting that they would also say that the focus on great white sharks in particular is racist,

00:39:53.840 or that there's some kind of encoded message there that we're always taught, oh, great white.

00:39:58.660 I was really expecting that.

00:40:00.320 Like, unironically, I was expecting that would be in there, and it wasn't, but nearly as absurd as that.

00:40:07.420 And remember, it's not just that there's not enough diversity among people who are talking about sharks, but also that it is painting a negative message about sharks.

00:40:24.120 Sharks are actually quite friendly.

00:40:26.480 Like, nothing to worry about.

00:40:27.240 If you're swimming in the ocean and you see that dorsal fin go by, nothing to worry about.

00:40:31.700 Don't make assumptions.

00:40:33.720 Don't make biased, stereotypical assumptions just based on the fact that there is this prehistoric death machine swimming right next to you.

00:40:44.320 One thing for sure, next year's Shark Week, okay, after this, next year's Shark Week, you've never seen diversity like what they're going to do.

00:40:53.160 Every single shark expert, I guarantee you there will not be one white male shark expert allowed in next year's Shark Week.

00:41:00.260 Certainly none named Mike.

00:41:03.000 You're going to see, there's going to be a black shark expert.

00:41:04.920 They're going to find women, they're going to throw in some trans shark experts. 1.00

00:41:09.740 And if there aren't any trans shark experts, they'll just bring in some trans people in general, whether they know anything about sharks or not. 0.54

00:41:15.280 Maybe they'll bring in a trans person who's seen the movie Jaws and get their comment on it.

00:41:20.520 But you've never seen diversity like what we're going to see next year.

00:41:26.140 All right, let's get to the comment section.

00:41:27.680 T'was a show before Christmas and through the studio, no other host was stirring, not even Shapiro.

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00:42:14.480 Then over on Twitter there arose such a clatter, I was trending on the timeline for some erroneous matter.

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00:43:53.020 Tie My Shoes says, I'm convinced Dylan is a top-tier troll.

00:43:56.500 He's playing the long game. 0.84

00:43:58.180 And then Reg Pither agrees.

00:44:00.640 Dylan Mulvaney is clearly playing a character role to the hilt like Sacha Baron Cohen's Borat or Bruno. 0.92

00:44:05.500 And he's laughing at everyone who is embracing his clearly ridiculous portrayal of girlhood while also raking in the dollars, some kind of twisted genius. 0.92

00:44:13.820 I've seen this a lot. 0.97

00:44:14.740 There are other comments like this.

00:44:15.840 And this to me seems like a cope.

00:44:17.260 This is just cope. 0.99

00:44:18.120 This is, I heard there were similar theories were bandied about that the Canadian teacher with the ridiculous prosthetic breasts. 0.99

00:44:27.860 And there were people theorizing that maybe this is a troll. 0.97

00:44:31.380 Maybe this is actually someone who's conservative and is trying to make a point about, you know, the excesses of gender ideology.

00:44:39.820 So that seems to be the theory here as well.

00:44:41.720 Again, the theory really is that, so if this is true, then Dylan Mulvaney, not only a comedic genius, but this would actually be quite heroic.

00:44:49.840 Because if this is a troll and he's doing all of this to mock gender ideology, he's getting all of these sponsorships and everything, when eventually he says, hey, see, I got you.

00:45:00.040 This is all a troll.

00:45:00.760 When he says that, he's going to be deplatformed from everything.

00:45:05.860 He's just pissed off like every corporation that's sponsoring him right now.

00:45:09.700 And he's going to be public enemy number one.

00:45:11.220 So this is kind of like a kamikaze mission to expose the absurdity of gender ideology. 0.59

00:45:17.160 That's, I suppose, your theory.

00:45:18.720 And I think that's a cope.

00:45:20.120 I don't think that's the case at all.

00:45:21.420 I think you want that to be true because you look at Dylan Mulvaney and you say to yourself, like, there's no way this can be sincere.

00:45:28.300 I mean, we're actually supposed to take this seriously?

00:45:30.360 There's no way.

00:45:30.980 This has got to be a joke.

00:45:31.840 You're just because you're a normal person and you don't want to deal with how insane the culture has gotten.

00:45:42.060 And so you see something like this and you think it's got to be a joke.

00:45:44.840 But it's not.

00:45:45.640 Just like the Washington Post article I just read about the lack of diversity in Shark Week.

00:45:52.980 You might hear that and say, well, that's got to be a joke.

00:45:55.040 It's not a joke.

00:45:56.900 I mean, it is a joke in a certain sense, but it's not an intentional joke.

00:46:01.840 Let's put it that way.

00:46:04.320 Now, on the other hand, if what you're saying is, well, Dylan Mulvaney, he's not really trans.

00:46:11.300 Well, sure, in a certain sense, you're right.

00:46:13.080 He's not really trans because nobody really is. 1.00

00:46:15.220 Like, he's not actually a woman.

00:46:16.320 He's claiming to be a woman.

00:46:17.500 He's not really that.

00:46:18.520 So we know that.

00:46:21.300 But is this intended by him to be some kind of troll?

00:46:24.100 I think no.

00:46:24.720 I think it's entirely sincere.

00:46:28.120 All right.

00:46:29.440 Dool says, you're jealous, Matt.

00:46:32.120 Angry, bitter, and jealous.

00:46:35.140 So I'm trying to think who I talked about in yesterday's show that I would be jealous of.

00:46:39.720 Sometimes you see these comments and they're outside.

00:46:41.460 I have no context for them because they're reacting to a certain part of the show, but

00:46:44.500 they don't tell me what part it is.

00:46:45.840 So who am I?

00:46:47.020 Angry, bitter, and jealous.

00:46:47.940 Who am I jealous of?

00:46:48.900 You're saying I'm jealous of Brittany Griner?

00:46:50.500 That's who we started the show with yesterday.

00:46:53.300 And you know what?

00:46:53.840 I kind of am.

00:46:55.800 Because she's, you know, she's made millions of dollars with her mediocre basketball talent. 1.00

00:47:02.020 And I'm somewhat jealous of that.

00:47:04.940 I'm probably as good at basketball as she is.

00:47:07.480 And yet she's making millions of dollars off of it. 0.99

00:47:10.040 So yeah, in a way, I kind of, I guess I am.

00:47:12.180 Jack says, ADHD isn't just inattentiveness.

00:47:17.180 It's a deficiency of certain receptors in the brain to process dopamine.

00:47:20.920 Most people with ADHD only get that high from dopamine when engaging in novel or exciting

00:47:25.120 things and can quickly lose it when those things get boring.

00:47:28.640 Hence the struggle with homework, but not video games.

00:47:30.680 It also presents as extreme hyperfixations and hobbies when they find something that gives

00:47:34.540 them that hit of dopamine.

00:47:35.920 Medication for ADHD increases dopamine levels in the brain to baseline levels so they can

00:47:40.340 regulate mood and focus better.

00:47:42.100 It's very easy to mistake, especially in children, with just being hyper or bored.

00:47:45.340 It's wildly overdiagnosed today, but it is a real thing.

00:47:47.960 Being an adult with severe ADHD sometimes verges into being debilitating, especially when working

00:47:52.220 from home.

00:47:53.860 But the best medicine isn't microdosing meth.

00:47:55.960 It's going outside, exercising regularly, and balancing your diet.

00:47:59.480 Okay, so at the very end there, I can, I agree with you that the best medicine,

00:48:05.760 the best medicine for a, quote, condition like this is not, you know, psychotropic drugs.

00:48:13.660 It's lifestyle changes and all that.

00:48:15.520 So that I can agree with you.

00:48:17.860 But connecting ADHD to dopamine and receptors in the brain and all of that, I mean, you're

00:48:23.880 stating this like it's a fact.

00:48:25.320 But when I look into it, what I find are, you know, you know, reports about studies that

00:48:31.340 indicate a potential link maybe between ADHD and dopamine, but they don't even know what

00:48:37.760 exactly the link is.

00:48:38.860 So that's, that's, so you, you are, you are making a much stronger case than what the evidence

00:48:45.540 actually allows.

00:48:46.760 It's actually quite similar to the serotonin theory of depression, which of course has

00:48:53.840 since been revealed to be, you know, essentially a myth.

00:48:57.220 But that was built from, there were a few studies done that indicated maybe there's a connection,

00:49:02.380 possibly, maybe.

00:49:03.580 And the next thing you know, according to doctors and pharmaceutical companies, it's a 100% fact.

00:49:09.040 And that's just, that's not how it works.

00:49:10.360 That's not how science works.

00:49:13.180 And by the way, if ADHD, and this is the same point I always made about depression, it's the

00:49:17.500 same point I make about a lot of these supposed mental illnesses.

00:49:20.100 If it is something that is entirely based in brain chemistry, if it's something that can

00:49:27.060 be located in the brain, then why don't they diagnose it with brain scans?

00:49:34.160 Why not?

00:49:35.780 That's not how they diagnose it.

00:49:39.160 Okay, they don't diagnose ADHD by looking at the child's brain.

00:49:42.540 They don't do that at all.

00:49:43.900 What they ask you are questions about his behavior.

00:49:47.880 That's all they ask.

00:49:49.060 And then they make the diagnosis based on that.

00:49:52.620 Are they going to, you know, do they do the behavior survey?

00:49:56.760 And then they say, well, we think your child might have ADHD.

00:50:00.420 Let's do some brain scans and take a look.

00:50:03.300 And then would they look at the brain scan and say, well, you know, it looks like it's

00:50:06.560 not actually ADHD.

00:50:07.460 No, they don't do that.

00:50:11.520 And that's because it's not based in brain chemistry.

00:50:14.960 It's based in, you know, this is entirely an invention based on behavior that we find

00:50:22.100 troublesome or inconvenient.

00:50:25.880 So this is a diagnosis of behavior.

00:50:29.340 It's not a diagnosis of the brain.

00:50:31.440 You know, we recently launched a brand new biblical series by Dr. Jordan B. Peterson.

00:50:35.400 This series is called Exodus.

00:50:36.740 And in it, Jordan Peterson sits down with other scholars to read the book of Exodus and to

00:50:40.640 discuss what it means and why it remains significant thousands of years after it was

00:50:43.820 written.

00:50:44.260 Scholars at the table include Dennis Prager, Jonathan Pagot, and many more.

00:50:48.380 The first few episodes are available to stream right now, and there are more new episodes

00:50:52.580 coming soon.

00:50:53.400 Trust me, you don't want to see, to miss this.

00:50:56.720 Check out the trailer.

00:50:58.380 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

00:51:05.160 Turns out that a book is more durable than stone.

00:51:08.640 It's more durable than a castle.

00:51:10.060 It's more durable than an empire.

00:51:11.380 You don't get away with anything.

00:51:18.000 And so you might think you can bend the fabric of reality and that you can treat people

00:51:21.620 instrumentally and that you can bow to the tyrant and violate your conscience without cost.

00:51:26.060 You will pay the piper.

00:51:27.380 It's going to call you out of that slavery into freedom, even if that pulls you into the

00:51:32.120 desert.

00:51:35.800 God is ethic-centered, not ethnic-centered.

00:51:39.100 Well, do you want the Pharaoh on your side, or do you want God on your side? 0.73

00:51:43.080 That's kind of the question.

00:51:47.300 There's a profound sense here that what is going on with the Israelites is the contrast

00:51:52.600 to Pharaoh, right?

00:51:53.900 Like, under no terms will you go, and the Israels have to say, we will go under any terms.

00:51:59.320 And we're going to see that there's something else going on here that is far more cosmic and

00:52:04.240 deeper than what you can imagine.

00:52:06.160 The highest ethical spirit to which we're beholden is presented precisely as that spirit

00:52:14.680 that allies itself with the cause of freedom against tyranny.

00:52:19.340 Yes, exactly.

00:52:20.440 I want villains to get punished.

00:52:21.940 But do you want the villains to learn before they have to pay the ultimate price?

00:52:25.300 That's such a Christian question.

00:52:26.660 Well, you've got to be a member to watch.

00:52:31.620 So head to dailywire.com slash Walsh to become a member and watch Exodus today.

00:52:36.180 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:52:42.040 We spent a lot of time focusing on the fact that Hollywood constantly churns out woke propaganda

00:52:46.500 pieces disguised as cinema.

00:52:48.180 And that's, of course, true.

00:52:50.100 And a large part of the reason why audiences are losing interest in movies.

00:52:53.280 This past Thanksgiving box office tally, a time when theaters typically rake in massive

00:52:57.840 amounts of money, saw the weakest performance in over 25 years.

00:53:01.540 This in spite of the fact that there, or maybe because of the fact, there were multiple sequels

00:53:06.320 to blockbuster franchise films showing.

00:53:09.540 There was a new Steven Spielberg movie.

00:53:11.780 There was a Disney cartoon about a gay teenage boy and a disabled dog.

00:53:15.340 You know, all these things were in theater and nobody went.

00:53:19.420 Like I said, wokeness is certainly part of the problem here, but not the whole problem. 0.52

00:53:23.840 Because the other issue is that so many movies are boring and dull and simply not anything

00:53:28.020 to get excited about.

00:53:29.460 And it seems that the people involved in making these cinematic versions of bland, stale

00:53:34.980 graham crackers are aware at some level of how boring and uninteresting it all is. 1.00

00:53:40.160 And that's why they have to go to increasingly desperate lengths to pretend that their films

00:53:44.420 are somehow revolutionary and provocative, even as they serve up the same under-seasoned

00:53:49.880 dish that we've had a million times before.

00:53:52.360 And I think that's part of what was happening this week when Jennifer Lawrence, now somewhat

00:53:57.340 infamously sat down for an interview with Variety and ended up claiming a title for herself 1.00

00:54:02.180 that people older than 10 years old might find surprising, as it doesn't quite gel with our

00:54:08.800 memories.

00:54:10.820 Lawrence declared that she is the first actress to have ever starred in a Hollywood action film.

00:54:16.380 Now, Jennifer Lawrence is 32, okay?

00:54:19.220 She's not in her 70s or 80s, which she would have to be in order for that claim to have any

00:54:23.540 chance of legitimacy.

00:54:25.480 But let's watch the clip first.

00:54:27.400 I remember when I was doing Hunger Games, nobody had ever put a woman in the lead of

00:54:33.000 an action movie because it wouldn't work.

00:54:35.600 We were told girls and boys can both identify with a male lead, but boys cannot identify with

00:54:42.600 a female lead.

00:54:43.560 Oh, absolutely.

00:54:44.320 And it just makes me so happy every single time I see a movie come out that just blows

00:54:50.700 through every single one of those beliefs and proves that it is just a lie to keep certain

00:54:57.880 people out of the movies, to keep certain people in the same positions that they've

00:55:02.220 always been in.

00:55:02.940 And it's just amazing to watch it happen and watch you at the helm.

00:55:07.720 Yes, the Hunger Games, released in 2012, that was the first action film with a female lead.

00:55:14.240 Lawrence then noted that it was also a great honor to co-star in the Silver Linings playbook

00:55:17.980 so that she could get a front row seat to Robert De Niro's first film role.

00:55:22.540 And she's especially humbled to realize that when she played Mystique in X-Men First Class,

00:55:26.640 she was starring in the first superhero movie ever made.

00:55:30.240 Truly a historic career in her own mind, if not in reality.

00:55:34.580 Because in reality, of course, Sigourney Weaver exists.

00:55:37.620 Linda Hamilton exists.

00:55:38.660 Angelina Jolie exists.

00:55:39.760 There have been many female action stars over the decades.

00:55:42.420 Going back to Carrie Fisher in Star Wars, even before her, there were others.

00:55:45.560 Jennifer Lawrence is not the first to do anything, nor the best.

00:55:52.400 She didn't even come up with a new way of doing something.

00:55:55.040 She just followed a script that had long since been written, trying to pretend that she's

00:55:59.400 breaking glass ceilings that had been laying in shards on the ground for decades.

00:56:04.320 Glass ceilings that, in this case, we should note, never mattered much to begin with.

00:56:09.720 Okay, the fact that there are more men starring in action films than women, who cares? 0.99

00:56:15.520 It makes sense that most action stars are men, as men typically make more compelling and

00:56:21.440 believable action stars.

00:56:23.080 Typically. 0.59

00:56:23.960 Okay, it's a lot harder to make a female actioneer into anything but a silly cartoon. 1.00

00:56:29.220 Sigourney Weaver pulled it off, which is why her performance is still remembered by everyone

00:56:33.380 except Jennifer Lawrence, apparently. 0.93

00:56:34.600 And yet, more often, it ends up being a kind of goofy girl power routine.

00:56:39.640 Men can also see, a man, it's easier for a male actor to elevate goofy action plots and

00:56:47.200 lend them a certain gravitas. 0.94

00:56:49.520 Batman is an absolutely ridiculous concept, okay? 0.97

00:56:53.500 It is just absurd. 0.97

00:56:55.320 You've got a guy who dresses up in a rubber costume as a bat running around. 0.97

00:56:59.500 It's ridiculous.

00:57:00.400 And yet, every man in the role, except maybe George Clooney, has pulled it off with varying 0.78

00:57:05.520 degrees of success.

00:57:06.660 Meanwhile, there's never been a Batgirl that was anything but cringe on steroids. 0.99

00:57:11.980 Because men are more natural for these roles, and generally speaking, they're just better 1.00

00:57:17.620 at them.

00:57:19.380 All that to say, there was never a problem of too many men acting in action films.

00:57:25.340 There were more men than women acting in them, up until recently now, because now you can't

00:57:31.840 have a white male lead for anything.

00:57:34.760 But that's not a problem.

00:57:36.160 It wasn't a problem.

00:57:37.840 Any more than there was ever a problem of there being too many men who are roofers.

00:57:42.940 You notice that the feminists are always very selective about the professions where they 1.00

00:57:46.380 demand representation.

00:57:48.280 I think I've seen maybe one female in my life riding on the back of a trash truck through 1.00

00:57:53.260 the neighborhood.

00:57:53.660 Somehow, though, there's no national discourse about the representation problem in the waste

00:57:59.200 disposal industry.

00:58:00.860 So it's okay for gender disparities to exist in certain contexts for feminists. 1.00

00:58:07.060 But in reality, it's okay in general.

00:58:10.460 Gender disparities are natural. 1.00

00:58:13.260 Because men and women are different. 0.98

00:58:14.960 And they gravitate towards different things.

00:58:17.080 And they have aptitudes in different areas.

00:58:20.540 Women are better in certain areas, generally. 1.00

00:58:22.540 Men are better in certain areas, generally.

00:58:24.700 That's just, that's the nature of, that's human nature.

00:58:30.260 It's the attempts to artificially even everything out that tends to always cause more problems

00:58:36.020 than it solves.

00:58:37.440 But this is somewhat immaterial.

00:58:39.080 Because the point here is that Jennifer Lawrence came along after females had already made their 0.98

00:58:44.700 entrance into the action film genre.

00:58:46.180 She's trying to recycle progressive victories from a generation before her. 0.97

00:58:51.180 And we've seen this similar charade with, we see this all the time with the left, but we've seen it in Hollywood.

00:58:55.780 We've seen it with other movies, such as when Black Panther was celebrated as some kind of

00:58:59.660 breakthrough because it was a film with a mostly black cast, even though such films

00:59:04.120 have been made by Hollywood for years, for decades.

00:59:07.820 There have been black superheroes before as well.

00:59:09.860 We had them in the 90s.

00:59:10.660 So Black Panther didn't pioneer anything.

00:59:15.280 Ross Douthat made this point in his book, Decadent Society, which he quoted in response to Jennifer

00:59:20.220 Lawrence's flub.

00:59:22.160 And reading from the passage is what he says.

00:59:23.680 The reality of recurrence may be slightly harder for progressives to acknowledge than conservatives

00:59:28.240 because progressivism is more invested in its supposed position at the vanguard of cultural

00:59:33.340 change, pressing boldly on to new frontiers.

00:59:35.880 This makes it difficult for the left to recognize the generational recycling of its ambitions and

00:59:40.840 anxieties.

00:59:42.000 The fact that many progressive breakthroughs are just the culture cycling back to something

00:59:46.640 that we did not that long ago, up to and including kick-ass female action heroes such as Wonder 0.99

00:59:51.680 Woman, who followed a path blazed by Sigourney Weaver's Ripley in the Alien movies, or the 0.63

00:59:56.360 robot wrangling Sarah Connor in the Terminator movies, or even the blaster-wielding Princess

01:00:00.420 Leia in the Star Wars 40 years before that, or the African-American heroes in Black Panther.

01:00:05.260 In truth, black stars were arguably more important in the years of Eddie Murphy and Richard Pryor

01:00:09.640 in The Cosby Show and the young Denzel Washington than in our officially representation-obsessed

01:00:14.460 age.

01:00:15.880 Now, his book, Decadent Society, is about, as you may have guessed, decadence.

01:00:19.880 We are a decadent society in the sense that we, as Doubt That Has It, are locked in this

01:00:24.540 kind of cultural stalemate, treading water, adrift, bored, recycling the same ideas and

01:00:31.280 themes.

01:00:32.760 Now, I don't agree with all of his thesis, but when it comes to our artistic output,

01:00:36.460 there is no question about it.

01:00:39.100 A decadent society with decadent celebrities clamoring to be cultural revolutionaries in

01:00:46.580 a culture that they have already won.

01:00:48.800 They already own it.

01:00:51.260 And that, ultimately, is why Jennifer Lawrence is today canceled.

01:00:56.280 And that'll do it for the show today.

01:00:57.580 Talk to you on Monday.

01:00:58.820 Godspeed.

01:00:59.180 Godspeed.

01:01:11.780 Godspeed.

01:01:15.420 Godspeed.

01:01:16.640 Godspeed.

01:01:18.740 Godspeed.

01:01:20.900 Godspeed.

01:01:22.820 Godspeed.

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Ep. 1078 - The Biden Administration Is Lying About The Brittney Griner Trade

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