The Matt Walsh Show - January 20, 2023


Ep. 1097 - Frankenstein Gender Surgeons Want To Implant Uteruses In Men


Episode Stats

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1 hour and 6 minutes

Words per Minute

172.52774

Word Count

11,503

Sentence Count

661

Misogynist Sentences

40

Hate Speech Sentences

29


Summary

The Frankenstein doctors in the gender industry have announced their next big plan, which is to implant uteruses into men so that men can have babies. We ll talk about this grotesque story today. Also, hundreds of thousands of pro-lifers marched on Washington as the media pretended not to notice. A man who claims to be devastated that he couldn t use a women s only gym, and the Washington Post worries about second hand exposure.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Walsh Show, the Frankenstein doctors in the gender industry have announced
00:00:04.180 their next big plan, which is to implant uteruses into men so that men can have babies.
00:00:09.060 We'll talk about this grotesque story today.
00:00:11.380 Also, hundreds of thousands of pro-lifers marched on Washington as the media pretended
00:00:15.480 not to notice.
00:00:16.640 Canadian media profiles a man who claims to be devastated that he couldn't use a women's
00:00:21.020 only gym.
00:00:22.020 And The Washington Post worries about secondhand cake exposure, which is a thing now, apparently.
00:00:27.000 All of that and more today on The Matt Walsh Show.
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00:01:30.340 When I was away from work this past week after the birth of the twins, I did make the mistake
00:01:37.260 of checking on the news once or twice.
00:01:39.400 The very first thing I encountered when I briefly dipped my toe back into the news cycle
00:01:43.200 was this story from Fox News.
00:01:45.320 It's the kind of story seemingly designed to punish me for wanting to stay up on current
00:01:50.200 events in the first place.
00:01:51.540 Here's their report.
00:01:52.640 A Pittsburgh Children's Hospital is under fire after its gender program navigator advocated,
00:01:57.680 whatever that title is supposed to mean, gender program navigator advocated for helping
00:02:02.880 transgender women, quote unquote trans women, get pregnant by giving reproductive organs to
00:02:08.520 them from live donors.
00:02:09.840 In a presentation on fertility in the LGBTQIA plus community last May that went viral this
00:02:16.360 week, the community navigator for a youth gender program at the University of Pittsburgh
00:02:20.540 Children's Hospital discussed the criteria the medical community uses for gender transition
00:02:24.960 in adolescence, as well as a 2018 study on uterine transplants for transgender patients.
00:02:31.100 Simpson said that trans men assigned female at birth, quote unquote, would discuss the possibility
00:02:36.320 of giving their reproductive organs to trans females.
00:02:39.080 Simpson, who described coming out as transgender 30 years ago, said the research revealed a
00:02:43.280 majority of trans women, quote, would choose to have female physiological experiences such
00:02:47.460 as menstruation and pregnancy with the aid of a vaginal transplant and a uterine transplant.
00:02:53.400 Yeah, so the medical industry isn't pulling back from experimental gender reassignment surgeries,
00:02:59.280 no matter their sky high complication rates, no matter how many people have their lives ruined
00:03:03.760 and are forced to live with crushing regret in their mangled bodies forever, no matter any of
00:03:09.060 that, in fact, the industry instead is going to go the other way.
00:03:13.340 They're going to plunge forward.
00:03:15.540 These surgeries are already dangerous, experimental, horrific, and now they're searching for ways to
00:03:21.980 make them even more so on all three counts.
00:03:25.320 So here's the video of, we don't need to talk about it and describe it, you can just hear it for
00:03:29.420 yourself.
00:03:29.700 Here's the video of Alison Simpson explaining these, for now, theoretical procedures.
00:03:36.620 Listen.
00:03:37.560 One area that had not been looked at before in any serious way was, could the donors be live donors?
00:03:44.640 Because in the original study, the conclusion was that they would have to be cadaver-based donors
00:03:50.420 or from individuals who were no longer alive, right?
00:03:56.300 So live donation has been something the community has talked about for decades.
00:04:01.240 It was really seen as magical thinking.
00:04:06.880 This would be a live donation from a person who was assigned female at birth but identified
00:04:11.200 as a transgender man.
00:04:12.380 And they said, well, you know, I have these parts.
00:04:17.020 I don't want them.
00:04:17.980 You want them.
00:04:18.940 You need them.
00:04:19.820 So what if I gave them to you?
00:04:22.260 How would that work?
00:04:23.960 And apparently, based on their research, this is actually viable.
00:04:28.280 Anecdotally, many, but not all, transgender women, especially those who transition younger
00:04:34.140 in life, have expressed an interest in having children in a way that is congruent for their
00:04:39.840 own bodies.
00:04:40.320 But it was still surprising to see the data.
00:04:45.320 It was a fairly large study, as transgender studies go, 182 transgender women, 60% of which
00:04:52.560 were aged in the ideal 20 to 29 age range.
00:04:57.020 And most had no children.
00:04:59.300 94% indicated they had a desire for children.
00:05:02.960 Most of them reacted very favorably, something like 90 to 80% in favor of various aspects of
00:05:13.620 having a vaginal transplant, having a uterine transplant.
00:05:20.400 And in UTX, this would all be part of the same transplant.
00:05:24.960 The tissue would be preserved from the parts of the vagina all the way to the uterus.
00:05:31.760 Having menstruation, experiencing gestation and carrying a life inside them.
00:05:38.580 Oh, it's a life now.
00:05:43.020 Wow.
00:05:44.680 The baby is a life if the baby's purpose is to appease the depraved, fetishistic desires of
00:05:54.840 mentally ill men who wish to have periods and bear children.
00:05:59.340 This official at a children's hospital assures us that doctors can and should and eventually
00:06:07.600 will start literally harvesting parts from actual women and giving them to men, thus building a sort
00:06:14.140 of Frankenstein hybrid half-man, half-woman.
00:06:17.640 I mean, I wouldn't even want to watch a horror film with a plot line like that.
00:06:22.820 I would say if that plot line existed in a horror film, I would say it's like morally problematic
00:06:28.120 to even watch it as fiction because it's so disturbing and sick.
00:06:32.340 And yet these people want to do it in real life.
00:06:36.000 Now, let me make a few points about this.
00:06:39.220 First of all, if you're wondering why we still don't have a cure for cancer, it could be partly
00:06:45.000 because this is the sort of thing the medical field is focusing its energies on now.
00:06:49.020 Rather than figuring out better ways to treat and heal people who are physically sick,
00:06:53.780 hundreds of millions of dollars are being invested into turning men into women and women into men.
00:06:58.460 Now, you might point out that, well, the medical field can do both, right?
00:07:01.720 It can make Frankenstein monsters and it can try to cure cancer.
00:07:06.160 Well, yeah, theoretically, it can work on curing and treating diseases while also devoting time
00:07:11.680 to putting vaginas on men.
00:07:13.060 And that's true.
00:07:14.980 The problem is that these two projects are fundamentally at odds.
00:07:19.260 On the one hand, they're trying to make sick people better, while on the other hand,
00:07:23.760 they're exploiting sick people, mentally sick people in this case, and mangling their bodies
00:07:27.980 horrifically for profit.
00:07:30.500 The medical field can't decide whether the sick ought to be helped and treated or exploited
00:07:36.140 and butchered.
00:07:36.760 So they're sort of doing both.
00:07:37.820 But you can't really answer yes to both questions because this creates a disconnect, a conflict
00:07:43.560 of interest that catastrophically undermines the credibility and integrity of the entire
00:07:48.800 industry.
00:07:50.740 Second, a woman is not just a collection of parts that can be removed and reassembled like
00:07:55.920 a potato head doll.
00:07:56.880 This, of course, is the very reductive materialistic view that the left in general has of the human
00:08:03.380 person.
00:08:04.140 But it's not correct.
00:08:05.720 Along with being reductive and degrading, it's also just not correct.
00:08:10.200 Every part of a woman's body, every part is female, which means that every part is ordered
00:08:16.380 towards conceiving and bearing children.
00:08:19.120 A woman is not a man who happens to have a uterus.
00:08:24.200 She's a woman through and through.
00:08:25.520 Her entire body is designed to carry children.
00:08:28.680 A man's body is not.
00:08:30.340 I mean, for one thing, one example of many, a woman has a wider pelvis and a wider pelvic
00:08:35.300 cavity, which is what allows the child to pass through and be delivered.
00:08:39.080 OK, so if you if you want if you want a man to give birth, you're going to have to give
00:08:46.580 him not only a woman's vagina and uterus, but also her pelvis.
00:08:51.600 Or maybe you're going to break his and separate it and then like, in fact, you have to take every
00:08:57.440 part of her body, basically, and reassemble it on his.
00:09:01.840 And even then, it still wouldn't work, most likely.
00:09:04.200 And even if it could work, OK, let's say in some science fiction scenario, you could actually
00:09:09.740 harvest a woman's parts like she's an old Buick at a scrapyard and then use them to,
00:09:15.600 you know, to give men the capacity to emulate female reproduction.
00:09:20.140 You still would not have actually made the man into a woman.
00:09:25.400 OK, that is how not a woman a man is, that you could actually if even if you could turn
00:09:32.000 him into a glorified incubator, a Frankenstein monster, a freak of nature, a hideous abomination
00:09:39.720 like this, even if you did all that, he's certainly still not a woman.
00:09:44.780 In the same way, if it were theoretically possible to cut an eagle's wings off and attach them
00:09:50.000 to me, and if somehow I could even fly with the wings, I still wouldn't be an eagle.
00:09:56.380 And I wouldn't be closer to being an eagle.
00:09:59.260 Nobody would look at me and say, well, you're one step closer to being an eagle.
00:10:04.680 No, I'll never be an eagle.
00:10:07.160 In fact, with the wings, I would be just as far from being an eagle as I was before I had them.
00:10:14.280 But consider something else.
00:10:15.440 In order to go down this road and engage in this kind of human experimentation, you would
00:10:19.960 have to be willing to have many failed experiments and many failed attempts.
00:10:23.600 Experiments, you know, often fail many times before they succeed.
00:10:26.260 And in this case, a failed experiment would mean a dead baby.
00:10:32.800 The medical industry must be willing to kill countless babies, must be willing to experiment
00:10:37.560 with the lives of children in order to find some sort of way to satiate this psychotic
00:10:43.160 desire that some men have to menstruate and bear children.
00:10:46.140 You know, and I'm not surprised that the medical industry would be willing to do that.
00:10:51.180 After all, they don't recognize babies as humans to begin with.
00:10:55.240 This only goes to show the ultimate supremacy that has been granted to the desires of trans
00:11:01.240 people.
00:11:01.580 They will make blood sacrifices of children for the sake of those desires.
00:11:05.980 Finally, this all represents, once again, the commodification of the female body and the
00:11:12.540 male body, in fact, and in the most grotesque form we've yet seen.
00:11:18.220 It's something that I find especially appalling after having just a week ago witnessed, again,
00:11:22.660 the miracle of childbirth.
00:11:24.100 And anyone who's ever seen childbirth or gone through it, certainly, knows that it's miraculous,
00:11:29.020 it's incredible, it's a great blessing in many ways.
00:11:31.900 But it's also an enormous sacrifice because the woman gives her body to her unborn child.
00:11:37.260 She experiences the pain of childbirth for his sake.
00:11:41.760 It is a beautiful and loving sacrifice.
00:11:44.920 It's a sacrifice that keeps the human species alive.
00:11:47.300 It's a sacrifice that civilization depends on for its very existence.
00:11:51.320 And so it's just, it's all the more perverse and blasphemous that these men want to take the
00:11:59.800 selfless sacrifice of childbirth and turn it into a selfish exercise in self-fulfillment and
00:12:07.620 affirmation.
00:12:11.300 The trans movement dirties and sullies and warps everything it touches.
00:12:16.620 And now it seeks to get its dirty, filthy hands on one of the purest, most remarkable and wonderful
00:12:21.420 things in life, which is its beginning, its conception, its birth.
00:12:26.380 There is, in summation, nothing too sacred for these people to try to make profane.
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00:13:43.780 From the Daily Wire, pro-life activists, students, and organizations will gather in
00:13:48.620 Washington, D.C. on Friday for the annual March for Life for the first time since the
00:13:52.560 Supreme Court's historic decision to strike down Roe v. Wade.
00:13:55.320 The gathering comes just days before the 50th anniversary of Roe in which the Supreme Court
00:13:58.580 declared a constitutional right to abortion.
00:14:00.860 With Roe gone, pro-life groups and legislators now see an opportunity to expand protections
00:14:04.020 for life even as deep blue states further entrench abortion in their own state laws and
00:14:08.320 constitutions.
00:14:08.900 So, the March for Life is happening today.
00:14:14.620 And I'm, of course, very glad that it's still happening even after Roe was overturned.
00:14:19.320 I knew that it would.
00:14:20.520 There's no reason for it to stop.
00:14:21.640 In fact, there's all the more reason to continue now with Roe gone.
00:14:26.880 It means that there's a real capacity to actually actively save babies in so many states,
00:14:35.660 which they're already doing.
00:14:36.500 I mentioned the March for Life because, first of all, the media doesn't.
00:14:41.300 The corporate media doesn't.
00:14:42.560 So, and it should be mentioned.
00:14:44.400 It is every single year.
00:14:46.360 It's the largest annual protest political demonstration in American history by far.
00:14:53.260 Like, nothing else even comes close.
00:14:55.340 And so, it is newsworthy for that reason every single year, although it's ignored every single
00:15:02.320 year.
00:15:02.540 But I also bring it up because the March for Life is another example of how the pro-life
00:15:11.220 movement, you know, succeeds and has been successful.
00:15:16.000 And how it should be a model for conservatives, for conservative activists who are, you know, focused on other issues.
00:15:26.560 It should be looking at the pro-life movement as a model rather than, as some conservatives
00:15:32.400 have done, trying to, like, blame them for things.
00:15:35.560 The pro-life movement has been out there for decades.
00:15:39.340 They've been in the trenches, saving babies, and having real successes.
00:15:47.480 Meanwhile, having to endure the finger-pointing from other conservatives and constantly getting blamed by
00:15:52.400 establishing Republicans.
00:15:53.600 And then, most recently, the midterm didn't go the way Republicans thought it would.
00:15:58.880 And so, then some Republicans are blaming pro-lifers, like, this is our fault.
00:16:03.380 Well, if you guys weren't so opposed to murdering children, maybe we would have been more successful
00:16:10.060 in the election.
00:16:11.920 Rather than blaming pro-lifers, how about looking to them as an example?
00:16:14.460 And one thing that pro-lifers are very good at doing, and that pretty much no other conservatives
00:16:24.020 are good about doing, is showing up in person.
00:16:28.580 Getting out there in person, mobilizing, making yourself seen.
00:16:36.320 Now, you're not going to have the media helping you out.
00:16:38.500 We know that for the left, if they've got, if 10 of them, you know, if 15 weirdos for the left
00:16:45.500 gather together, and they have bullhorns, and they're shouting about something, there's going
00:16:48.920 to be, you know, 70 news cameras there.
00:16:52.600 There's always going to be, like, you know, the ratio of news cameras to protesters on the left
00:16:59.420 is always quite extraordinary.
00:17:01.560 So, you're not going to have that.
00:17:02.660 You're not going to have the media's help.
00:17:04.020 That's fine.
00:17:04.600 But, the good news is that we need the corporate media less and less.
00:17:11.060 We can just circumvent them.
00:17:14.000 Keep in mind, the pro-life movement has been circumventing the media since before social
00:17:17.940 media and the internet were even a thing.
00:17:20.240 And now, with that tool, you especially don't need them.
00:17:23.440 So, they get out there, and they make themselves seen.
00:17:26.100 They mobilize in person.
00:17:28.320 And it has an effect.
00:17:29.720 It really matters.
00:17:30.560 It does, it sends a message to the culture.
00:17:34.720 It sends a message to the people that you're opposing.
00:17:38.960 But also, very importantly, it sends a message to people that are on your side.
00:17:42.640 It sends a message to those people that, hey, you're not alone.
00:17:46.040 Look, there are many of us out there.
00:17:48.800 We all feel this way.
00:17:51.000 Let's, you know, come together and achieve something.
00:17:54.440 So, it has a mobilizing effect for people that are on your side as well.
00:18:00.140 It's one of the principal reasons to have a political rally in the first place, is for that.
00:18:07.660 Now, you can always be dismissive of it.
00:18:09.520 And even now, there are conservatives that are dismissive of something like the March for Life.
00:18:12.660 And they say, well, yeah, you can march around with your sign that says, don't kill babies.
00:18:18.560 But no one's going to look at that sign and then say, well, because of that sign, I don't believe in abortion anymore.
00:18:23.000 Well, of course not.
00:18:23.520 That's not how it works.
00:18:26.180 But it's not intended to do that.
00:18:28.620 It's intended to do exactly what I just said.
00:18:33.620 And it's not just at the March for Life.
00:18:35.640 I mean, pro-lifers for decades have been mobilizing.
00:18:38.900 So, you know, you've got the national annual mobilization effort, the big thing, and that's great.
00:18:47.380 But then on a very local level, you have pro-life organizations, pro-life groups.
00:18:53.520 Both big and small, in cities all across the country that are out there.
00:18:59.620 You know, they're standing in front of abortion clinics.
00:19:01.840 They're praying in front of abortion clinics.
00:19:03.540 They're opening pregnancy centers.
00:19:05.140 I mean, they're getting mobilized and they're getting involved.
00:19:06.760 And this is what conservatives across the movement need to be doing, using pro-lifers as a model.
00:19:15.940 All right, here's the headline from Czech News in Canada.
00:19:19.040 I was extremely devastated.
00:19:22.260 Transgender woman told she is not allowed to use women-only gym in Parksville.
00:19:26.900 Says a transgender woman in Parksville is speaking out after she was allowed, she, quote,
00:19:31.980 was allowed to sign up for a women-only gym, then later told that she would only be allowed to access the co-ed gym
00:19:38.760 due to the fact that she is trans.
00:19:42.080 Now, there's this report here that I was going to read, but you know what?
00:19:44.080 I think it actually, it's, I think, more instructive to watch and listen to the report that this news outlet did
00:19:52.920 about this devastated trans person, this alleged lovely woman who just wants to go and exercise with all the other women.
00:20:04.020 Watch this.
00:20:05.740 28-year-old Bridget Klein-Simpson has identified as a woman for years and she wants to get into better shape,
00:20:11.180 so she went to the Body Works Gym for Women in Parksville for a membership.
00:20:15.340 Klein-Simpson says she was initially welcomed, but after one workout, she was informed she was not allowed at the women's only gym.
00:20:21.580 Saying, sorry, we made a mistake, you're not actually allowed to be here, but you're more than welcome to use the co-ed facility,
00:20:28.180 and I kind of just hung up because I was, I mean, I was extreme, extreme, devastated.
00:20:36.240 I mean, there's really no other word for it.
00:20:38.100 Klein-Simpson changed her gender and name legally close to two years ago,
00:20:41.780 and she's been on hormone replacement therapy for more than three years.
00:20:45.260 She says she wants to work out at a women's only gym where she will feel comfortable,
00:20:48.900 unlike her experiences at gyms while in university.
00:20:53.180 I didn't quite understand why that was, like, uncomfortable because I didn't know I was trans at the time.
00:20:57.880 I still thought I was a guy as well.
00:20:59.680 But it was just important to me to, like, be in a place that would be, like, explicitly accepting,
00:21:04.600 like, you know, you are a woman.
00:21:06.740 You can, you know, you're allowed to be here.
00:21:09.040 The gym's owner says members have a diversity of sexual identities,
00:21:13.020 but he believes Klein-Simpson would fit better at their co-ed gym, where there are gender-neutral change rooms.
00:21:19.820 Do we pick the comfort of the transgender person, and they may not be as comfortable at the co-ed gym,
00:21:26.080 but at least that's an alternative, or do we pick the comfort of the young girls that are working out there?
00:21:30.820 They may not feel comfortable.
00:21:32.520 I don't know if is that fair to them, and what would parents think?
00:21:35.480 What would you think if this is your daughter there?
00:21:36.980 Negra says he's open to ideas and options.
00:21:40.620 Klein-Simpson says she understands some may be uncomfortable with trans people.
00:21:45.320 I mean, all it takes is education.
00:21:46.940 I mean, you know, like, once you...
00:21:48.120 Okay, I just wanted to pause it.
00:21:53.260 So, we see this person here.
00:21:56.380 What's this person's name that they are claiming?
00:21:59.320 I don't know, I don't have it.
00:22:01.820 Okay.
00:22:02.180 Nobody on the planet Earth believes that that is a woman.
00:22:11.040 Not one person.
00:22:12.820 Okay?
00:22:14.540 This is the outrageous absurdity of all of this, that nobody looks at that and says that's a woman.
00:22:20.700 Not anyone.
00:22:22.200 No one.
00:22:25.040 Okay, the people at Media Matters who are watching this right now, they're going to clip everything I'm saying.
00:22:28.880 None of them believe that that's a woman either.
00:22:31.520 Nobody does.
00:22:34.620 And that includes this person, this dude.
00:22:37.920 He also doesn't believe it.
00:22:42.120 Now, he claims that he just...
00:22:43.880 As of two years ago...
00:22:45.800 Two years ago, I thought I was a dude.
00:22:48.100 I still thought I was a dude.
00:22:49.600 Well, yeah, you thought that.
00:22:51.620 You thought that correctly.
00:22:52.540 What changed your mind about that?
00:22:54.580 Tell us about this experience you had.
00:22:57.260 Was it like, were you walking down the road, road to Damascus?
00:23:01.640 You had some sort of blinding light revelation?
00:23:05.900 Where someone told you, oh, actually, it turns out you're a woman.
00:23:12.020 No, I'll tell you what the revelation was for this gentleman.
00:23:15.360 Is that he decided that it makes him...
00:23:20.480 He gets excited by being called a woman and being viewed that way.
00:23:26.960 Or having people pretend it anyway.
00:23:29.460 And he also was excited by the idea of going to a woman's gym and being around and looking at women in the locker room.
00:23:37.280 And so that was his big revelation.
00:23:38.840 But nobody thinks that's a woman.
00:23:44.740 By the way, no one also...
00:23:45.980 Also, nobody believes that he wants to go to the gym.
00:23:48.940 Okay?
00:23:49.360 No one believes that either.
00:23:50.560 Nobody believes any of this.
00:23:54.060 This is our...
00:23:54.900 The suspension of disbelief.
00:23:59.740 The cognitive dissonance that we're all required to display.
00:24:06.480 That's what it is.
00:24:07.400 Because we're all constantly given this incredible burden of the suspension of disbelief.
00:24:16.580 Being told to go along with things when everyone involved, like everyone in the room...
00:24:23.000 So you're being told to go along with something and to pretend that you believe something.
00:24:26.900 And meanwhile, everyone around you, everyone knows that it's not true.
00:24:30.020 Every single person.
00:24:31.320 Including the people telling you to believe it.
00:24:33.180 But I actually, you know, I appreciate stories like this.
00:24:40.220 And I appreciate this guy.
00:24:42.240 The service that he's providing.
00:24:43.720 Because this is so absurd.
00:24:49.080 Okay?
00:24:49.320 This is so ridiculous.
00:24:51.460 And laughable.
00:24:53.300 That it becomes a joke.
00:24:55.180 And people want to just laugh at it.
00:24:56.420 They want to laugh at this guy.
00:24:57.480 And that's exactly what you should do.
00:25:00.060 Okay?
00:25:01.840 The appropriate response to him and to his desire to go and work out with women and go to the women's locker room.
00:25:14.280 The appropriate response.
00:25:15.680 It's not compassion.
00:25:17.420 It's not pity.
00:25:19.220 It's not, I really feel sorry for him.
00:25:21.200 He's confused.
00:25:21.660 No, it is mockery.
00:25:24.460 That is the appropriate response.
00:25:28.580 Stop pretending to take it seriously.
00:25:31.400 He doesn't.
00:25:33.320 This is a game he wants you to play.
00:25:36.660 Because it makes him feel good when you play it.
00:25:40.600 And you should say not only no, but you should laugh in his face.
00:25:46.900 That's the correct response.
00:25:48.700 The morally correct response as well.
00:25:54.820 All right.
00:25:56.860 This is from the Daily Wire.
00:25:58.420 Oh, and by the way, one other thing.
00:25:59.760 So the gym guy, the guy that runs the gym.
00:26:03.660 And he brought up a point that, I brought this point many, many times.
00:26:10.620 And...
00:26:10.980 But I'm just...
00:26:12.620 I've been waiting for someone in his position to make the same point, which seems so obvious.
00:26:18.700 Which is that you're...
00:26:19.400 But he says it.
00:26:20.500 Well, I'm trying...
00:26:21.480 I have to weigh.
00:26:22.480 Okay, so I've got the feelings of this portly gentleman.
00:26:26.860 And then I've got the feelings of all the women at the gym who would be really uncomfortable with this guy standing naked around them.
00:26:36.800 So I've got all of their feelings.
00:26:39.280 And then I got his feelings.
00:26:40.900 Someone's got to win.
00:26:43.880 Someone's feelings have to win.
00:26:47.800 You know, it's a zero-sum game.
00:26:50.580 Like, someone wins.
00:26:52.720 These are mutually exclusive claims that are being made here.
00:26:56.200 Or demands, rather.
00:26:57.500 And so, are you going to say that...
00:27:01.880 Do the feelings of this one guy outweigh the feelings of everybody else?
00:27:08.360 And what the gym owner is saying is, no, they don't.
00:27:11.760 Of course they don't.
00:27:14.280 And you could come to that conclusion even if you, for some reason, felt you wanted to respect this person's self-identity.
00:27:20.740 Which you shouldn't.
00:27:21.420 All right.
00:27:24.860 Here's a report from Luke Rosiak over the Daily Wire.
00:27:27.720 A 14-year-old transgender runaway from Virginia endured a six-month nightmare that saw her twice fall into the hands of sex traffickers.
00:27:34.660 The second time after Baltimore bureaucrats refused to return her to her home state because they accused her adoptive parents of misgendering her.
00:27:43.640 According to records reviewed by the Daily Wire.
00:27:45.560 The child, identified in legal documents as Sage, was adopted by her biological grandmother, Michelle Blair, after the death of her father.
00:27:53.500 Long troubled, Sage began identifying as a male named Draco and ran away from their rural home in late August 2021, only to end up on the mean streets of Baltimore, where authorities rescued her from a convicted sex offender, according to records.
00:28:06.400 But, instead of returning the child to her grandmother, Maryland officials put her in an inner-city group home.
00:28:11.900 The reason, they thought her adoptive, blood-relative parents didn't seem to sufficiently recognize her transgender identity.
00:28:20.660 So, these bureaucrats decided that this young girl is better off in a group home in Baltimore City than with her grandmother.
00:28:32.120 Because her grandmother would commit the sin of recognizing her as a girl, rather than as a boy named Draco.
00:28:39.740 Judge Robert B. Kershaw said,
00:28:44.100 It's not possible to return the child to that home.
00:28:46.960 He said this after an impassioned plea from Baltimore Assistant Public Defender Anissa Khan.
00:28:51.420 Instead, the judge turned Sage over to the Baltimore City Department of Juvenile Services for placement in a hardware-secure therapeutic facility,
00:28:58.720 which makes reasonable accommodation for respondents' expressed male gender and desire to live as a trans male.
00:29:03.980 That meant housing the girl just rescued from a sex offender with some of Baltimore's most troubled biological males.
00:29:13.260 Oh, right, that's the other thing, too, is that they're recognizing that this girl is a boy.
00:29:17.480 You know, because you have a troubled, runaway girl whose father has died and who is not only trying to escape her where she lived physically,
00:29:33.360 but trying to escape her very identity.
00:29:35.240 And rather than giving her the therapy and counseling and the love and support that she obviously desperately needs,
00:29:44.020 because she is deeply confused, understandably so,
00:29:49.720 rather than give her that,
00:29:52.060 they're going to cooperate with the delusion, go along with it,
00:29:56.520 and in fact put her in a group home with a bunch of actual boys,
00:30:00.720 many of whom will be a threat to her physically.
00:30:06.080 After months in Maryland institutions,
00:30:07.860 Sage bolted only to resurface in Texas,
00:30:09.540 where she was once again being allegedly trafficked to pedophiles, according to records.
00:30:14.540 Unlike their counterparts in Maryland,
00:30:15.960 Lone Star officials returned her to her parents,
00:30:17.940 according to an ethics complaint Blair filed against Khan.
00:30:20.980 Khan allegedly told the girl to lie about being abused by her parents,
00:30:24.940 seemingly in order to create a legal precedent allowing states,
00:30:27.580 other than where a teen lives, to refuse to return a runaway teen if transgender issues are in play.
00:30:34.040 Just an amazing, this story goes on and there's much more detail.
00:30:38.040 I can't read the entire thing.
00:30:39.600 So we, you know, I'd be reading for another 10 minutes,
00:30:42.160 but I would definitely recommend you go to dailywire.com
00:30:44.740 and go to read Luke Rosiak's report.
00:30:47.940 This is another one of the really important investigative pieces
00:30:53.000 that The Daily Wire is publishing and it's important that you read it
00:30:58.140 because this is what's happening all across the country.
00:31:01.440 And there are so many cases of this.
00:31:04.660 And by the way,
00:31:06.000 it's not just runaway children
00:31:09.220 who are being taken from their legal parents
00:31:12.920 and legal custodians
00:31:14.260 because, you know,
00:31:15.680 the parent doesn't cooperate with a trans identity.
00:31:18.980 It's not just runaways that they're doing that with.
00:31:20.460 I mean, we're increasingly getting to a point
00:31:23.940 where they will just, like, come into your home and take your kid
00:31:26.240 if it is revealed,
00:31:28.940 maybe to a school counselor or whoever,
00:31:32.020 that you are trying to raise them as their biological sex
00:31:36.440 rather than their, you know, preferred gender.
00:31:40.500 And this is also why,
00:31:43.020 this is one of the reasons
00:31:45.540 why I said we should respond
00:31:48.400 that way to the guy at the gym
00:31:51.040 who wants to be recognized as a woman.
00:31:53.780 And you might think that the way that I say to handle that,
00:31:55.940 which is just a laugh in his face,
00:31:57.380 to not even take it seriously,
00:31:59.220 you might say that's harsh,
00:32:01.820 that's not fair,
00:32:02.640 it's whatever.
00:32:03.860 But this is why.
00:32:04.760 Because
00:32:08.080 it's not just adults we're talking about.
00:32:11.060 These are not just disputes over
00:32:12.760 locker rooms at gyms
00:32:16.220 and all the rest of it.
00:32:20.100 The kids' lives being destroyed,
00:32:21.640 these are families being ripped apart.
00:32:23.360 And the more seriously we take this stuff,
00:32:25.880 okay, if you treat
00:32:28.120 the gender ideology
00:32:29.500 and the claims made,
00:32:32.560 you know,
00:32:32.800 the philosophy of transgenderism,
00:32:36.660 if you treat it as anything other than
00:32:39.540 laughably,
00:32:42.020 hideously ridiculous,
00:32:43.400 if you treat it as anything other than that,
00:32:46.500 you are lending it credibility
00:32:48.420 and you are contributing to these kinds of cases.
00:32:53.180 Because this is where it leads.
00:32:54.380 All right.
00:32:57.000 Here's something a little bit,
00:32:58.100 a little bit more lighthearted.
00:33:00.700 Something that,
00:33:02.180 another thing,
00:33:02.640 I'm a few days behind on this,
00:33:03.780 I realize,
00:33:04.540 but I think it's important to cover
00:33:06.840 because I do give female comedians
00:33:09.600 a hard time.
00:33:11.060 And yet,
00:33:11.720 here's an example of one being funny,
00:33:15.280 you know,
00:33:15.480 actually being funny.
00:33:16.400 This did make me laugh.
00:33:18.180 But laughing at her entirely,
00:33:20.660 to be clear.
00:33:22.200 So here's Chelsea Handler
00:33:23.520 with a startling admission.
00:33:24.780 If you haven't heard this yet,
00:33:25.540 listen.
00:33:27.040 I didn't know,
00:33:28.260 and this is true,
00:33:29.940 I didn't know until I was 40 years old
00:33:31.640 that the sun and the moon
00:33:33.260 were not the same thing.
00:33:35.840 I find this hard to believe,
00:33:37.080 but what are you talking about?
00:33:38.080 I was shocking to me as well.
00:33:41.200 I mean...
00:33:41.900 Of course,
00:33:42.660 it wasn't even more shocking to you.
00:33:43.860 I was like,
00:33:44.580 I was in Africa,
00:33:45.720 we were on safari,
00:33:46.820 my sister and I were riding an elephant,
00:33:48.620 and there was a man riding an elephant
00:33:50.340 for us,
00:33:51.360 because we don't know
00:33:52.020 how to ride an elephant.
00:33:53.060 Yeah.
00:33:53.380 And my older sister Simone
00:33:54.500 looked up at the sky,
00:33:56.720 and she said,
00:33:57.140 Chelsea,
00:33:57.740 Chelsea, look up.
00:33:58.740 It's not often
00:33:59.540 you get to see the sun
00:34:00.980 and the moon
00:34:02.040 at the same time.
00:34:03.700 Yeah.
00:34:04.020 And I was like,
00:34:07.980 I was like Scooby-Doo.
00:34:09.440 I'm like,
00:34:09.680 what?
00:34:11.080 I said it,
00:34:11.820 I go,
00:34:12.080 wait,
00:34:12.480 I go,
00:34:12.740 but they're always together.
00:34:13.980 And as soon as I said that,
00:34:15.300 she turned around,
00:34:15.880 she goes,
00:34:16.060 what did you say?
00:34:16.640 And I was like,
00:34:16.940 oh,
00:34:17.040 shut up,
00:34:17.640 shut up,
00:34:18.020 shut up.
00:34:19.140 I'm like,
00:34:19.940 I knew what I said was wrong.
00:34:21.300 Giddy up,
00:34:21.720 elephant.
00:34:23.080 I was like,
00:34:23.620 let's canter,
00:34:24.320 is that what an elephant does?
00:34:25.560 Oh my God.
00:34:26.160 And she looked at me,
00:34:28.300 she goes,
00:34:28.620 I need you,
00:34:29.320 and I just tried to gloss over it.
00:34:30.740 I was like,
00:34:31.060 never mind what I said,
00:34:32.180 I know.
00:34:33.240 And she said,
00:34:33.820 no,
00:34:34.380 I need you to tell me
00:34:35.520 what you think
00:34:36.680 is happening
00:34:37.780 between the sun
00:34:38.900 and the moon.
00:34:41.660 And I was like,
00:34:42.540 honestly,
00:34:43.140 I just assumed
00:34:44.060 when the sun went down,
00:34:45.900 it popped back up
00:34:46.740 as the moon,
00:34:47.320 you know?
00:34:48.300 A little costume change.
00:34:50.940 Like,
00:34:51.400 is that not what's happening?
00:34:52.500 The man riding the elephant
00:34:53.500 spoke no English
00:34:54.420 and went,
00:34:54.880 and he's just like
00:34:57.800 another dumb American,
00:34:59.180 you know?
00:35:00.460 No,
00:35:00.700 no,
00:35:00.780 no,
00:35:00.940 hey,
00:35:01.180 hey,
00:35:01.540 don't put this on us.
00:35:02.920 Another dumb American?
00:35:05.020 You're the only American
00:35:06.160 in the country
00:35:07.500 who thinks that.
00:35:08.340 So don't try to blame
00:35:09.420 the rest of this.
00:35:09.980 But think about how,
00:35:12.440 and she's trying to pass it off
00:35:13.400 as like this silly little anecdote
00:35:14.820 and,
00:35:15.400 you know,
00:35:15.640 there are things,
00:35:18.680 maybe we've all had experiences
00:35:19.700 of some little minute thing
00:35:22.520 that you didn't,
00:35:23.500 you know,
00:35:23.860 like you didn't realize
00:35:25.020 and then you learned
00:35:26.400 later in life
00:35:28.220 because nobody told you.
00:35:29.380 I don't know.
00:35:29.700 I'm sure people can come up
00:35:30.580 with examples like that.
00:35:33.080 But think about how stupid
00:35:34.500 you have to be.
00:35:36.600 I mean,
00:35:36.820 it's incomprehensibly stupid
00:35:39.100 to think that the sun
00:35:41.100 and the moon are the same thing.
00:35:42.560 My three-year-old daughter
00:35:43.980 knows that that's not the case.
00:35:46.140 She understands
00:35:46.820 that they're two different entities.
00:35:48.500 I mean,
00:35:48.600 I know a lot else about them,
00:35:49.620 but she knows that at least.
00:35:50.360 So the level of stupidity,
00:35:55.660 I mean,
00:35:56.100 how do you,
00:35:56.820 how does she breathe?
00:35:57.940 I mean,
00:35:58.540 how does she walk?
00:36:00.340 Can she tie her own shoes?
00:36:01.660 These are all live questions now
00:36:03.240 that we need answers to.
00:36:05.100 How do you function in society?
00:36:07.020 How is it that you've never,
00:36:08.540 like,
00:36:09.660 there are some things that
00:36:10.780 even if you're not taught directly,
00:36:12.700 you'll just,
00:36:13.160 you encounter,
00:36:14.360 there's realities
00:36:14.980 that you encounter in life.
00:36:17.140 How do you avoid that one?
00:36:18.240 but
00:36:20.160 this is also,
00:36:22.500 I didn't look it up,
00:36:23.540 but Chelsea Handler,
00:36:24.720 I'm assuming,
00:36:25.920 at least graduated high school.
00:36:28.140 So,
00:36:29.140 this is the,
00:36:30.000 this is the modern education system
00:36:32.900 for you.
00:36:33.740 That it's possible
00:36:34.700 in the modern education system
00:36:35.520 for someone to graduate,
00:36:36.920 to go through the education system
00:36:38.000 and to come out on the other end
00:36:39.540 not knowing
00:36:40.840 that the moon and the sun
00:36:42.420 are two different celestial entities.
00:36:46.680 All right,
00:36:47.220 one other quick thing
00:36:47.940 which is also very important.
00:36:50.700 Washington Post,
00:36:51.940 bringing cake into the office
00:36:53.820 to share with colleagues
00:36:54.880 is seen by many
00:36:55.680 as an innocent way
00:36:56.440 to celebrate a birthday,
00:36:57.680 share good news,
00:36:58.440 or even showcase
00:36:59.200 one's baking skills.
00:37:00.640 But the top official
00:37:01.300 at Britain's Food Regulator,
00:37:02.860 speaking in his personal capacity,
00:37:04.660 has suggested
00:37:05.320 that it could be as harmful
00:37:06.360 as secondhand smoke.
00:37:08.440 Professor Susan Jebb says,
00:37:10.900 if nobody brought in cakes
00:37:11.880 into the office,
00:37:12.560 I would not eat cakes in a day,
00:37:13.980 but because people
00:37:14.560 do bring cakes in,
00:37:15.820 I eat them.
00:37:16.400 Oh,
00:37:20.260 this,
00:37:20.700 we needed the professor.
00:37:21.640 It's a professor.
00:37:22.380 We need the analysis
00:37:24.660 from the professor
00:37:25.560 to tell us that.
00:37:26.900 If there were no cakes,
00:37:28.460 I wouldn't eat a cake.
00:37:30.220 But there is a cake,
00:37:31.780 so I ate the cake.
00:37:34.980 There you go,
00:37:35.720 students.
00:37:37.000 Now give me
00:37:37.620 $100,000
00:37:38.660 for your tuition.
00:37:41.000 You know,
00:37:41.200 there is also
00:37:41.580 the other option,
00:37:42.260 though.
00:37:42.380 It's like,
00:37:42.920 no,
00:37:43.800 I admit,
00:37:44.420 that's how the equation
00:37:45.380 works for me also.
00:37:47.720 Any kind,
00:37:48.260 it really works that way
00:37:48.840 for any kind of dessert pastry.
00:37:50.260 It's like,
00:37:50.800 if it's not there,
00:37:51.520 I won't eat it.
00:37:52.620 If it is there,
00:37:53.280 I will eat it.
00:37:54.040 And like,
00:37:54.560 that's all the calculation
00:37:56.240 I need to make.
00:37:56.680 But there is a third option,
00:37:58.220 which is that it could be there
00:37:59.120 and not eat it.
00:38:00.020 That you could really do that.
00:38:02.020 That's physically,
00:38:02.600 it is physically possible.
00:38:03.500 And then it says,
00:38:06.280 we all think we're rational,
00:38:07.480 intelligent,
00:38:07.980 educated people
00:38:08.560 who make informed choices
00:38:09.580 the whole time,
00:38:10.420 and we undervalue
00:38:11.240 the impact
00:38:12.060 of the environment.
00:38:15.220 Okay,
00:38:15.700 so I get what they're going for.
00:38:16.900 So that's,
00:38:17.520 so this is what they mean by,
00:38:18.560 so,
00:38:19.020 you know,
00:38:19.540 you can,
00:38:20.060 you can basically,
00:38:21.740 secondhand cake
00:38:22.900 is a danger
00:38:23.640 we have to work out,
00:38:24.500 look out for.
00:38:25.240 And you don't ingest it
00:38:26.380 the same way
00:38:26.980 you would just
00:38:27.460 secondhand smoke.
00:38:28.740 But it's,
00:38:29.620 if you're in,
00:38:30.440 if it's in the environment,
00:38:31.720 like if smoke
00:38:32.460 is in the environment,
00:38:33.020 you inhale it
00:38:34.020 and they say
00:38:34.720 it's dangerous to you.
00:38:35.720 Well,
00:38:35.920 if cake is in your environment,
00:38:37.520 then because you have
00:38:38.900 no willpower,
00:38:39.760 she's assuming
00:38:40.360 you will inhale
00:38:41.980 that as well.
00:38:43.760 I have to say,
00:38:44.640 I don't like the reasoning,
00:38:45.740 but I am on board though
00:38:46.960 with,
00:38:47.520 with the war on cake.
00:38:49.460 And this is actually
00:38:50.000 why I brought it up.
00:38:51.040 I'm on board with it,
00:38:52.420 for it.
00:38:53.020 I agree,
00:38:53.680 you shouldn't bring cake
00:38:54.360 into the workplace.
00:38:56.160 I agree that cake
00:38:57.840 should not be
00:38:58.460 the default celebratory dessert
00:39:00.300 because it should be pie.
00:39:02.480 And I've been saying
00:39:03.660 this for so long.
00:39:05.520 I think it's,
00:39:06.400 to my mind,
00:39:07.440 it's one of the most
00:39:08.080 important campaigns
00:39:10.040 that I've embarked on.
00:39:11.720 And I'm 100% right,
00:39:13.880 and everybody knows it,
00:39:15.220 that we all,
00:39:16.280 we all just go along
00:39:17.520 with cake.
00:39:18.020 Yeah,
00:39:18.500 look,
00:39:18.620 again,
00:39:19.760 if cake is there
00:39:20.780 and there's nothing else
00:39:21.720 and there are no other
00:39:22.540 dessert options,
00:39:23.480 I'll eat the cake
00:39:24.220 because what am I going to do?
00:39:24.960 Not eat the cake
00:39:25.560 when it's there?
00:39:26.680 I'm not crazy.
00:39:28.200 But if there are
00:39:29.680 other options,
00:39:30.160 I'm going to the other options
00:39:30.980 like most people would.
00:39:33.300 Cake,
00:39:33.480 there's no reason
00:39:34.020 why cake should be,
00:39:35.100 well,
00:39:35.260 it's a birthday,
00:39:35.720 you bring a cake.
00:39:36.160 If there's something
00:39:36.440 to celebrate,
00:39:36.820 it's an anniversary,
00:39:37.400 a wedding,
00:39:37.760 bring a cake.
00:39:38.280 There's no reason for this.
00:39:39.980 There are better
00:39:40.840 dessert dishes
00:39:41.640 that are more widely loved
00:39:44.000 and more consistently good.
00:39:45.660 That's the other problem
00:39:46.140 with cake
00:39:46.640 is that there's a,
00:39:48.680 there's a,
00:39:49.180 with cake quality,
00:39:51.000 there's a wide spectrum.
00:39:52.660 And there are some cakes
00:39:53.960 that are just plain terrible.
00:39:56.880 But even cake
00:39:57.920 at its very best,
00:40:00.040 cake at its best
00:40:01.080 does not hold a candle
00:40:02.440 to a mediocre pie
00:40:04.300 or a mediocre brownie
00:40:06.300 or a mediocre
00:40:07.080 homemade chocolate chip cookie.
00:40:10.540 And then what about
00:40:11.340 its worst?
00:40:11.760 Like what's the worst
00:40:12.760 homemade chocolate chip cookie
00:40:14.100 you've ever had in your life?
00:40:16.180 You can't remember an occasion
00:40:18.300 because like they're always good.
00:40:19.860 It's,
00:40:20.080 they're not ever bad.
00:40:20.980 A homemade brownie,
00:40:22.540 always good.
00:40:24.300 Pies,
00:40:24.920 you,
00:40:25.060 most pies are just good.
00:40:26.880 Even if you buy,
00:40:27.380 you can pick up a pie,
00:40:28.600 a pre-made pie
00:40:29.360 from the grocery store.
00:40:30.060 It's gonna be pretty good.
00:40:32.400 Yeah,
00:40:32.600 you can remember times
00:40:33.380 in your life
00:40:33.660 when you had cake
00:40:34.380 that was plain terrible.
00:40:37.960 And yet we all live
00:40:39.060 under this tyranny of cake.
00:40:40.520 It doesn't make any sense.
00:40:42.940 Let's free ourselves of it.
00:40:45.220 Should be pie.
00:40:46.460 Celebrate,
00:40:46.900 celebrating a birthday,
00:40:48.320 bring out the pie.
00:40:48.900 Wedding,
00:40:51.120 there's no reason
00:40:51.520 why you can't have pie.
00:40:54.300 All right.
00:40:55.180 Glad we could talk about this.
00:40:56.780 Time for the comment section.
00:40:58.460 Who saved Virginia
00:40:59.660 after leaving there
00:41:00.960 just for a day?
00:41:04.120 There's someone to thank.
00:41:07.240 He leads the sweet baby gang.
00:41:09.140 JB Amazing says,
00:41:13.360 when Matt celebrated
00:41:14.060 his new twins,
00:41:14.860 people on social media
00:41:15.500 got very mad at the fact
00:41:16.500 that Matt has a better life
00:41:17.740 than them,
00:41:18.480 yet they'll never put in the work
00:41:19.640 to have a life like Matt.
00:41:21.880 Well, that's true,
00:41:22.560 but it's not just,
00:41:23.420 it's like,
00:41:23.760 there's nothing
00:41:24.680 unattainably,
00:41:27.840 you know,
00:41:28.960 incredible
00:41:29.540 about my life.
00:41:31.460 I mean,
00:41:31.620 there are things in my life
00:41:32.380 that I find incredible
00:41:33.500 and great,
00:41:34.060 like my family
00:41:35.660 that I love.
00:41:36.080 But the point is
00:41:36.980 that these are normal things
00:41:39.060 that people can have.
00:41:40.820 It's not like I've achieved
00:41:41.960 some crazy,
00:41:43.480 incredible thing.
00:41:45.900 But,
00:41:46.260 so this is anyone.
00:41:47.780 Like if you have
00:41:48.920 just a good life,
00:41:52.280 no one's life is perfect,
00:41:53.520 but it is possible
00:41:54.160 to have a good life.
00:41:56.300 And what does a good life
00:41:57.220 consist of?
00:41:57.980 All that means
00:41:58.620 is that you have,
00:41:59.600 that you,
00:42:00.260 you know,
00:42:00.620 you have people
00:42:01.080 that you love around you,
00:42:02.720 people that you're caring for
00:42:04.420 and that you love,
00:42:05.140 that you have a family,
00:42:07.180 that you have
00:42:07.680 that companionship as well,
00:42:10.480 that you're doing something
00:42:11.540 in your life
00:42:12.280 that you care about.
00:42:12.980 Like,
00:42:13.080 that's just what a good life is.
00:42:15.640 And if that's the kind of life
00:42:16.920 you live,
00:42:17.680 then as we talked about yesterday,
00:42:19.220 you will be hated automatically
00:42:21.080 by all the many people
00:42:22.500 who are not living
00:42:23.160 the good life.
00:42:25.080 And one of the reasons
00:42:26.780 why they're not living
00:42:27.440 the good life
00:42:27.900 is that,
00:42:28.360 you know,
00:42:28.580 they have no concept
00:42:30.800 of what that even would be.
00:42:31.940 Or they've convinced themselves
00:42:35.420 that there is no such thing
00:42:37.000 as a good life.
00:42:38.060 There is no such thing
00:42:38.920 as a life
00:42:39.300 that has any sort of fulfillment
00:42:40.180 or happiness.
00:42:40.900 They've never felt it
00:42:41.880 and so they've convinced them
00:42:42.760 that they've told themselves
00:42:43.680 and made themselves
00:42:44.100 feel better about it
00:42:45.020 that,
00:42:45.680 well,
00:42:45.760 it must not be possible.
00:42:46.820 That must not be
00:42:47.380 on the menu of options,
00:42:49.100 right?
00:42:49.920 And then they see you
00:42:50.940 come along
00:42:51.580 living your good life
00:42:52.780 and you're content
00:42:53.400 in your life
00:42:53.820 and it interferes
00:42:55.800 with this narrative
00:42:56.860 that they told themselves
00:42:57.640 and they get very angry.
00:42:58.400 Shaggy says,
00:43:02.160 what happened to
00:43:02.760 we just want to exist
00:43:03.800 and be left alone?
00:43:04.800 Now it turned into
00:43:05.520 you better show pride for us
00:43:06.840 or we will destroy
00:43:07.520 your livelihood.
00:43:08.180 This is absolutely atrocious.
00:43:09.780 This will only get worse
00:43:10.840 before it gets better.
00:43:11.680 Well,
00:43:11.800 I'll tell you what happened
00:43:12.400 to we just want to exist
00:43:13.240 and be left alone
00:43:13.960 is that that never existed,
00:43:15.560 right?
00:43:16.160 That was always a game.
00:43:17.940 That was always an illusion,
00:43:20.060 okay?
00:43:20.320 That's all that ever was.
00:43:22.180 Like a,
00:43:22.600 that,
00:43:23.680 you know,
00:43:23.980 as I always said,
00:43:24.700 that was a sleight of hand trick,
00:43:26.980 okay?
00:43:27.240 It wasn't,
00:43:28.100 it wasn't actually real,
00:43:29.620 those claims that you heard.
00:43:31.820 Now,
00:43:32.300 you heard people say that,
00:43:34.100 ah,
00:43:34.280 just leave us alone.
00:43:36.460 But that was never the intention,
00:43:38.100 that was never the agenda.
00:43:40.260 Remember what we talked about,
00:43:42.060 it's,
00:43:42.420 uh,
00:43:43.400 tolerate,
00:43:44.540 then celebrate,
00:43:45.740 then participate.
00:43:47.360 That is always how it goes.
00:43:50.780 Christopher says,
00:43:51.640 calling hockey soccer on ice
00:43:53.580 is literally the most offensive thing
00:43:55.460 Matt Walsh
00:43:56.700 has ever said.
00:43:58.460 Well,
00:43:58.940 the truth can be upsetting sometimes.
00:44:00.660 I understand that,
00:44:01.220 Christopher.
00:44:02.380 Although,
00:44:02.700 the more that I think about it,
00:44:04.240 I guess,
00:44:04.560 yeah,
00:44:04.720 hockey isn't exactly
00:44:05.720 soccer on ice.
00:44:07.140 And,
00:44:07.540 uh,
00:44:07.720 now I'm thinking,
00:44:08.540 why doesn't that exist?
00:44:09.420 I,
00:44:09.620 I would,
00:44:10.280 that's something I would watch.
00:44:11.880 Okay,
00:44:12.140 I'm not,
00:44:12.500 I'm not into soccer at all.
00:44:13.580 I'm not really into hockey.
00:44:15.780 Combine,
00:44:16.320 if you really combine the two
00:44:17.480 and had soccer on ice,
00:44:18.740 which is people
00:44:19.360 that,
00:44:20.320 not with skates,
00:44:21.100 running on ice,
00:44:22.640 trying to kick the soccer ball,
00:44:23.720 that sounds like the kind of thing
00:44:25.580 I'd enjoy watching.
00:44:29.260 Amy says,
00:44:30.160 I think the internet actually shows
00:44:31.760 a clearer picture
00:44:32.560 of who a person is.
00:44:33.600 You know,
00:44:34.000 the saying that you can tell
00:44:35.000 who a person is
00:44:35.580 based on how they behave
00:44:36.520 when nobody is looking.
00:44:37.660 The internet allows people
00:44:38.420 to hide behind a screen
00:44:39.300 and act out as if nobody can see them.
00:44:41.160 Now we're seeing the real you.
00:44:42.460 I couldn't agree more.
00:44:43.280 I mean,
00:44:43.640 I 100% agree with you,
00:44:45.340 um,
00:44:45.720 which is why when people say
00:44:46.620 the internet isn't real life
00:44:47.760 and the things people say
00:44:48.840 to the internet,
00:44:49.280 well,
00:44:49.420 it's not real life.
00:44:50.160 They're not,
00:44:50.900 it's the opposite
00:44:52.160 is the truth.
00:44:53.120 It's like,
00:44:53.500 not only is it real life,
00:44:55.140 but in the way
00:44:56.780 that it reflects
00:44:57.500 a person's character,
00:44:58.480 it's more real
00:44:59.680 than oftentimes
00:45:02.120 what you see in person.
00:45:04.760 So yeah,
00:45:05.320 the kind of person,
00:45:06.200 for example,
00:45:07.060 the standard internet troll
00:45:08.620 who,
00:45:09.080 uh,
00:45:10.240 you know,
00:45:10.700 you say an opinion
00:45:13.060 that they don't agree with
00:45:14.560 and that has nothing
00:45:15.300 to do with them
00:45:15.980 and then they come
00:45:17.460 to your YouTube channel
00:45:18.400 or your Twitter page
00:45:19.060 or Facebook or whatever
00:45:19.820 and they tell you
00:45:20.340 to kill yourself
00:45:21.100 because of it.
00:45:22.280 Okay,
00:45:22.420 that kind of person.
00:45:24.120 It's true that that,
00:45:25.240 if you met that person
00:45:26.200 in person,
00:45:27.020 if you were like
00:45:28.120 in the grocery store
00:45:29.080 at,
00:45:29.420 in the checkout line
00:45:30.320 and this person
00:45:31.540 overheard a conversation
00:45:32.280 you're having
00:45:32.500 with somebody else
00:45:32.900 and they didn't agree
00:45:34.100 with what you were saying,
00:45:34.920 they would not turn around
00:45:35.920 and say,
00:45:36.140 why don't you kill yourself?
00:45:37.600 They wouldn't do that.
00:45:38.580 They would never,
00:45:39.720 ever do that in person.
00:45:43.640 So,
00:45:44.200 but then they say it online.
00:45:45.420 So the question is,
00:45:46.360 what's the,
00:45:46.880 what's the more real version
00:45:48.560 of them?
00:45:50.380 Okay,
00:45:50.920 what is more reflective
00:45:52.360 of who they really are?
00:45:55.160 And I would say
00:45:55.960 it's clearly
00:45:57.460 on the internet
00:45:57.980 when they're saying
00:45:58.780 the things that
00:45:59.600 they won't say elsewhere
00:46:01.980 because they're afraid to,
00:46:03.640 because they're,
00:46:04.640 you know,
00:46:04.840 it would be too socially awkward,
00:46:06.600 whatever,
00:46:07.020 because they're afraid
00:46:07.540 of getting punched
00:46:08.240 in the mouth.
00:46:13.160 So,
00:46:13.740 yeah,
00:46:13.920 I couldn't agree more.
00:46:14.660 Finally,
00:46:16.760 your mother was a hamster,
00:46:18.620 says,
00:46:19.660 great username,
00:46:20.920 dear Candace,
00:46:21.540 the magic of the sweet baby gang
00:46:22.880 cannot be astroturfed.
00:46:25.700 And you're,
00:46:27.080 once again,
00:46:28.000 it's all agreement
00:46:29.180 and kumbaya
00:46:30.220 in the comment section today
00:46:31.500 because you couldn't be
00:46:32.320 more right either.
00:46:33.600 That's,
00:46:33.920 that's what it comes down to.
00:46:34.880 You can't,
00:46:35.340 this is not something
00:46:36.420 that as much as Candace
00:46:37.780 wants to,
00:46:38.620 wants to
00:46:39.280 conjure
00:46:41.100 this magic,
00:46:42.380 you can't do it.
00:46:43.600 That's why,
00:46:43.980 look,
00:46:44.800 if I had decided
00:46:46.080 before the sweet baby gang existed
00:46:48.180 that I wanted to have
00:46:49.600 my own,
00:46:50.220 you know,
00:46:51.040 gang
00:46:51.480 and I'd gone to Twitter
00:46:53.160 like she did
00:46:53.720 to solicit suggestions,
00:46:55.680 nobody would have said,
00:46:56.760 oh,
00:46:56.840 we should call ourselves
00:46:57.500 the sweet baby gang.
00:46:58.920 We should have a slogan
00:46:59.960 with a bearded baby
00:47:01.820 with a diaper.
00:47:03.220 Nobody would have said that.
00:47:04.660 These are the things
00:47:05.500 that can only come up
00:47:06.460 organically in the moment.
00:47:07.780 That's how you know
00:47:08.460 that they're really magical.
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00:47:21.620 Here's what
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00:48:38.920 There is no cancellation today
00:48:40.420 because there's something else
00:48:41.400 that I need to talk about.
00:48:43.160 And this is something
00:48:43.800 that I very much
00:48:44.720 do not want to talk about.
00:48:47.040 The kind of drama
00:48:47.720 that I normally stay out of.
00:48:49.820 And if you watch this show,
00:48:50.860 you know that.
00:48:52.100 But an exception
00:48:53.480 has to be made in this case
00:48:54.640 because when my friends
00:48:55.840 and allies
00:48:56.400 are dishonestly attacked
00:48:57.840 and unfairly maligned,
00:48:59.320 I am going to defend them.
00:49:01.500 So, Stephen Crowder,
00:49:04.380 you've probably heard
00:49:06.780 about the saga by now.
00:49:08.060 In fact,
00:49:08.340 you've heard way more
00:49:09.440 about big money
00:49:10.320 conservative media contracts
00:49:11.820 this week,
00:49:12.420 I imagine,
00:49:13.560 than you ever wanted to
00:49:14.600 or needed to.
00:49:15.900 You probably wake up
00:49:17.300 every morning
00:49:17.760 worried about
00:49:18.400 how you'll care
00:49:18.980 for your family
00:49:19.960 and feed your children.
00:49:21.440 Not so worried
00:49:22.440 about whether rich
00:49:23.200 and famous conservative
00:49:24.160 pundits are happy
00:49:25.600 in their contracts.
00:49:28.440 That's why
00:49:29.100 I don't want to spend
00:49:30.060 much time talking
00:49:30.640 about contracts,
00:49:31.380 but it's important
00:49:31.840 that we lend context.
00:49:34.300 So, here's a quick summary.
00:49:36.900 A few days ago,
00:49:37.840 Crowder,
00:49:38.480 Stephen Crowder,
00:49:38.980 published a video
00:49:39.700 titled Stop Big Con
00:49:41.400 where he attacked
00:49:42.560 unnamed
00:49:43.380 conservative media companies
00:49:44.700 who he accused
00:49:45.440 of being essentially
00:49:46.160 con artists
00:49:46.880 in bed with big tech.
00:49:48.680 And the main source
00:49:49.760 of his complaint
00:49:50.740 against, quote,
00:49:51.540 Big Con
00:49:52.080 was a contract
00:49:52.980 offered to him
00:49:53.840 by one company
00:49:54.820 which he claimed
00:49:55.500 was exploitative
00:49:57.020 and revealed
00:49:57.840 that this company
00:49:58.460 was acting
00:49:59.160 as an enforcement arm
00:50:00.280 for the big tech overlords.
00:50:01.920 And he said
00:50:02.240 that the contract offer
00:50:03.140 was tantamount to slavery.
00:50:04.540 He complained
00:50:04.860 that this company
00:50:05.420 wanted to deduct his pay
00:50:06.900 if he missed a day of work
00:50:07.960 or if he was deplatformed
00:50:09.480 by any of the major
00:50:10.140 social media platforms.
00:50:11.760 He framed this
00:50:12.720 as an unthinkably
00:50:13.680 sinister ploy.
00:50:15.080 He said that it was
00:50:15.620 so upsetting
00:50:16.200 that he's not sure
00:50:16.960 that he even wants
00:50:17.980 to continue in the business.
00:50:19.180 That's how terrible it was.
00:50:20.820 Now, he didn't name
00:50:21.740 the company,
00:50:22.380 but he gave
00:50:23.100 enough information
00:50:23.800 so that obviously
00:50:25.000 everyone would know
00:50:25.820 that it was a Daily Wire
00:50:26.640 and they wouldn't know it
00:50:27.320 because there was
00:50:29.000 only a few companies
00:50:29.920 it could be.
00:50:30.500 It wasn't the Blaze.
00:50:31.080 He just left the Blaze.
00:50:31.940 It wasn't Fox.
00:50:32.700 You know,
00:50:32.820 he already worked for Fox
00:50:33.580 and he's gone from there.
00:50:34.640 Also, the Fox
00:50:35.160 doesn't do ad reads
00:50:37.040 with their hosts
00:50:37.540 so it couldn't be them.
00:50:38.540 It couldn't be any
00:50:39.180 of the non-profit,
00:50:40.860 you know,
00:50:41.100 conservative groups.
00:50:41.780 So it's like
00:50:42.280 it had to be us.
00:50:44.260 And everyone knew that
00:50:45.580 and Crowder, of course,
00:50:46.360 knew that everybody
00:50:47.120 would know that.
00:50:49.040 So that put
00:50:51.600 Daily Wire in position
00:50:52.960 and the next day
00:50:54.120 our CEO,
00:50:55.100 Jeremy Boring,
00:50:55.700 did the only thing
00:50:56.540 he really could do
00:50:57.580 and certainly the thing
00:50:58.360 that was the most
00:50:59.000 transparent and honest.
00:51:00.680 And he released a video
00:51:02.280 admitting that this
00:51:03.820 supposedly nefarious contract
00:51:05.380 came from him
00:51:07.100 and from the Daily Wire
00:51:07.700 management team.
00:51:08.480 He then went through
00:51:09.320 the contract line by line,
00:51:10.920 the whole thing.
00:51:11.460 I'm pretty sure
00:51:13.520 this is the first time
00:51:14.620 ever that a CEO
00:51:16.580 of a media company
00:51:17.620 has walked through
00:51:19.640 a talent contract
00:51:21.280 line by line
00:51:22.620 for an hour.
00:51:24.300 Can't get more
00:51:24.920 transparent than that.
00:51:26.120 And so that's what he did,
00:51:27.060 revealed every detail of it
00:51:28.100 so that there could be
00:51:28.660 no confusion.
00:51:30.500 He didn't attack Crowder.
00:51:33.060 He was, you know,
00:51:34.160 said that he respects Crowder,
00:51:36.060 respects the work that he does
00:51:37.000 and all the rest of it.
00:51:37.640 But here's the contract.
00:51:39.180 Here's the truth.
00:51:40.660 He explained that they
00:51:41.500 offered Crowder $50 million
00:51:42.640 for a four-year contract,
00:51:43.880 but the document
00:51:45.460 that Crowder showed
00:51:46.380 on the air
00:51:46.980 in his initial video
00:51:47.900 was not the four-year contract.
00:51:49.840 It was a term sheet.
00:51:50.720 It was an offer in writing,
00:51:52.120 a first salvo
00:51:53.100 in what was supposed to be
00:51:54.020 a negotiation.
00:51:56.160 Crowder wanted,
00:51:56.960 among other things,
00:51:57.560 a lot more money.
00:51:58.300 He wanted $30 million a year,
00:51:59.700 not $50 million for four years.
00:52:01.160 That's what he wanted.
00:52:04.040 And, you know,
00:52:05.100 you can't be blamed for that.
00:52:06.060 You're supposed to want more
00:52:07.620 than whatever
00:52:08.200 you're first offered.
00:52:09.900 Part of the negotiation.
00:52:11.460 And if you think
00:52:12.060 you can get $120 million,
00:52:13.160 you should ask for it.
00:52:14.400 Okay?
00:52:14.680 If I thought that
00:52:15.540 I could get that,
00:52:17.060 I would go ask for
00:52:17.900 I want $120 million.
00:52:19.280 Anybody would.
00:52:20.900 But that is what he asked for.
00:52:23.100 As for the penalties
00:52:24.060 that Crowder complained about,
00:52:25.700 as Jeremy explained,
00:52:26.980 they would give him
00:52:27.780 four weeks of paid vacation
00:52:29.120 every year.
00:52:29.960 Pretty good amount.
00:52:30.900 But beyond that,
00:52:31.680 they didn't want to pay him
00:52:32.480 for episodes
00:52:33.180 he didn't actually make.
00:52:34.720 And if he lost advertisers
00:52:36.220 or platforms,
00:52:37.140 then obviously his show
00:52:38.040 would make less money,
00:52:38.920 which means that he would
00:52:39.860 make less money.
00:52:41.340 Okay?
00:52:41.440 The initial contract
00:52:42.140 was, of course,
00:52:42.900 a calculation based on
00:52:44.240 the initial offer, rather.
00:52:45.640 A calculation based on
00:52:46.580 the revenue that Crowder
00:52:47.760 was expected to bring in.
00:52:49.500 And part of that calculation
00:52:50.680 is looking at the platform
00:52:51.800 access that he has.
00:52:53.160 All of that is monetizable.
00:52:55.020 Crowder monetizes it right now.
00:52:56.320 We all do.
00:52:57.100 And so it's worth something.
00:52:58.640 And so they're making
00:52:59.380 a contract offer
00:53:00.040 based on that.
00:53:01.280 Like, this is how,
00:53:02.360 what all that is worth.
00:53:03.860 We're going to pay you
00:53:04.420 this for that.
00:53:07.040 If that goes away,
00:53:08.780 then it doesn't have
00:53:09.400 the same value anymore
00:53:10.780 because it's not there.
00:53:14.040 Now, the offer wasn't meant
00:53:15.200 to be a charitable donation.
00:53:16.480 If something were to happen
00:53:17.680 causing him to bring in
00:53:18.480 a lot less revenue,
00:53:19.260 then they would want
00:53:20.400 to pay him less income
00:53:21.620 because he makes less.
00:53:22.340 This is a very normal
00:53:23.120 aspect of any business.
00:53:24.760 It's how all businesses operate.
00:53:26.200 It's how Crowder himself
00:53:27.040 operates his own business.
00:53:29.280 It's not shocking
00:53:30.140 or scandalous.
00:53:30.780 Though it should be noted
00:53:32.780 that according to the term sheet,
00:53:34.380 even if Crowder got demonetized
00:53:35.900 and banned from every platform,
00:53:37.420 the Daily Wire would still
00:53:38.160 pay him millions of dollars a year
00:53:39.360 to make content
00:53:40.240 for the Daily Wire's platform.
00:53:41.900 And please note that
00:53:42.540 if he didn't want his money
00:53:44.360 to be tied to ad performance
00:53:45.620 and platform reach,
00:53:47.640 you know, that's one way
00:53:48.660 to structure a contract.
00:53:49.960 It's not the only way.
00:53:52.000 And if he didn't want that,
00:53:53.140 he could have negotiated
00:53:53.820 for a lower base salary,
00:53:55.700 which would still be
00:53:56.340 millions a year,
00:53:57.360 in exchange for guarantees
00:53:58.620 that he would receive it
00:53:59.580 regardless of those factors.
00:54:02.000 This, again,
00:54:02.460 in any kind of contract situation,
00:54:04.880 if you want, you know,
00:54:06.500 if you want guaranteed,
00:54:08.620 like if you want guaranteed
00:54:09.760 salary is one thing,
00:54:11.280 if you want incentive-based salary,
00:54:13.160 that's going to be higher.
00:54:14.200 But if you don't,
00:54:14.660 but if you don't want to be
00:54:15.260 beholden to any incentives
00:54:16.180 or anything like that,
00:54:16.960 then it's going to be
00:54:17.540 a lower salary
00:54:18.080 because it's guaranteed.
00:54:19.180 And there's a risk
00:54:19.940 for the company
00:54:20.640 that they're guaranteeing it
00:54:22.360 no matter what you do.
00:54:24.100 If you lose money,
00:54:25.300 if you, whatever,
00:54:26.060 if you, whatever happens,
00:54:27.860 we're going to guarantee this.
00:54:29.600 Well, that's a risk,
00:54:30.180 so it's going to be
00:54:30.520 a little bit less.
00:54:31.240 Could have countered with that.
00:54:32.720 He didn't,
00:54:33.520 and instead he went public.
00:54:35.320 Now, the next day,
00:54:37.240 after Jeremy released his video,
00:54:38.780 Crowder responded
00:54:39.900 with another video.
00:54:41.880 After having accused
00:54:42.800 The Daily Wire
00:54:43.300 of being in bed
00:54:43.960 with big tech
00:54:44.620 based on a mangled reading
00:54:47.140 of extremely normal
00:54:48.320 contract language,
00:54:49.760 and having essentially
00:54:50.480 accused his friends,
00:54:51.720 Jeremy and Ben,
00:54:52.440 who he's known for a decade
00:54:53.400 and who have supported him
00:54:54.500 many times over the years,
00:54:55.660 of being sellouts
00:54:56.480 and con artists,
00:54:57.560 he then played snippets
00:54:58.400 of a phone call
00:54:59.120 that he had with Jeremy,
00:55:00.520 which he secretly recorded.
00:55:02.660 In the call,
00:55:03.860 Jeremy says
00:55:04.420 most of what he said publicly
00:55:06.320 in his first response video.
00:55:08.900 The big gotcha,
00:55:09.860 apparently,
00:55:10.140 is that Jeremy,
00:55:10.620 in this casual
00:55:11.280 and he thought private
00:55:12.220 conversation with a friend,
00:55:13.680 said that new content creators
00:55:15.580 have to come on
00:55:16.680 and be, quote,
00:55:17.360 wage slaves for a little bit
00:55:18.680 until they build up
00:55:19.640 enough of a brand
00:55:20.200 to be worth the kind of money
00:55:21.200 that Crowder is.
00:55:23.820 Pretty normal.
00:55:26.080 You've got to earn your way.
00:55:29.460 You have to earn your way
00:55:30.420 in the business.
00:55:30.980 That's another way
00:55:32.040 of putting it.
00:55:32.840 Wage slave is a normal expression
00:55:34.600 that most of us have used.
00:55:36.880 It's not offensive,
00:55:38.080 but which is supposed to be
00:55:38.900 so sinister,
00:55:40.460 coming from Jeremy's mouth,
00:55:42.060 that it justified publicly releasing
00:55:44.540 a private phone conversation
00:55:46.020 with a friend who trusts you
00:55:47.240 or trusted you.
00:55:49.420 In the phone conversation,
00:55:50.440 Crowder sticks up
00:55:51.560 for the up-and-coming
00:55:52.420 young creators
00:55:53.060 who he says
00:55:53.640 he's most concerned about.
00:55:55.140 He says that he would,
00:55:56.160 he wants to teach
00:55:57.100 The Daily Wire
00:55:57.640 how to run their business.
00:55:59.480 He knows the way to do it
00:56:00.600 and The Daily Wire doesn't.
00:56:02.120 He wants to tell them
00:56:02.700 how to do it.
00:56:03.820 He says that he doesn't want
00:56:04.820 to be beholden to big tech.
00:56:06.000 He wants to be liberated from it.
00:56:07.120 He presents this
00:56:07.640 as a revelatory idea
00:56:08.820 and one that The Daily Wire
00:56:09.740 somehow disagrees with.
00:56:11.100 Of course, he says all this
00:56:12.060 in a conversation
00:56:12.700 that he knew he was recording
00:56:14.760 and he knew he would release it
00:56:16.700 to an audience
00:56:17.320 because that's why you record it.
00:56:19.080 He also insisted
00:56:20.160 that The Daily Wire
00:56:20.860 should adopt his business model
00:56:23.440 of trying to get away
00:56:24.420 from big tech dependents
00:56:25.560 which doesn't make
00:56:26.080 a lot of sense
00:56:26.600 because that is
00:56:27.340 The Daily Wire's
00:56:28.200 business model.
00:56:29.320 We have built up
00:56:29.940 a subscriber base
00:56:30.840 of a million plus
00:56:31.820 with the intent
00:56:32.840 of creating
00:56:33.440 our own institution.
00:56:34.520 This has been
00:56:34.780 The Daily Wire's
00:56:35.300 business model
00:56:36.140 since long before
00:56:37.380 they made an offer to him.
00:56:40.760 This is something
00:56:42.080 that in the company meetings
00:56:44.480 that Jeremy has
00:56:47.220 with all staff here
00:56:48.280 including myself
00:56:48.720 that are live streamed
00:56:50.420 for the public to see
00:56:51.560 okay
00:56:52.500 this is talked about
00:56:54.380 all the time
00:56:55.140 that this is our goal
00:56:56.140 to become an institution
00:56:57.580 the left has all the institution
00:56:59.800 the right doesn't
00:57:00.460 doesn't have any
00:57:01.080 and so we want to be
00:57:01.880 our own
00:57:02.560 so we're not beholden
00:57:04.300 to
00:57:04.520 to these big tech companies.
00:57:08.140 In fact,
00:57:08.400 bringing Stephen Crowder
00:57:09.080 on board was supposed
00:57:09.660 to be in service
00:57:10.560 to that ultimate goal
00:57:11.500 but it's a goal
00:57:12.040 that takes time
00:57:12.900 and it requires money
00:57:14.100 and a lot of it
00:57:14.840 and in the meantime
00:57:15.660 we do indeed depend
00:57:17.260 partly on sites like YouTube
00:57:18.580 to access an audience
00:57:20.160 and generate revenue.
00:57:22.200 Of course we do
00:57:23.020 so does Stephen Crowder
00:57:24.020 so does nearly every
00:57:25.120 conservative media company
00:57:26.200 and personality.
00:57:27.560 Yeah, that's the issue, right?
00:57:28.600 That's the problem
00:57:29.180 we all recognize
00:57:29.840 is that we're all dependent
00:57:30.880 on these platforms
00:57:31.720 they own everything
00:57:33.000 and we want to get away
00:57:35.140 from that
00:57:35.620 but that's a strategy
00:57:37.760 it's a game plan
00:57:38.800 it takes time
00:57:39.640 you have to stick with it.
00:57:41.100 You can't just snap
00:57:41.800 your fingers and say
00:57:42.300 I'm independent now
00:57:43.140 and you can do that
00:57:45.120 but if you haven't
00:57:46.420 taken the time
00:57:47.000 and put the groundwork
00:57:47.760 in place
00:57:48.160 you'll get crushed.
00:57:49.900 We want to be the first
00:57:50.980 to be entirely independent
00:57:52.380 of all these platforms
00:57:52.920 or among the first
00:57:53.520 to be entirely independent
00:57:54.380 of all these platforms
00:57:55.380 but again
00:57:55.880 that takes time.
00:57:57.500 We nearly doubled
00:57:58.620 our subscriber base
00:57:59.580 last year.
00:58:00.860 I mean it is doubtful
00:58:01.680 that any other
00:58:03.240 subscription service
00:58:04.120 in existence
00:58:04.720 grew at that rate
00:58:05.980 so we're going
00:58:06.960 as fast as we can
00:58:08.080 I mean we're going
00:58:08.560 faster than almost anybody
00:58:10.040 and yet it still
00:58:11.540 takes time.
00:58:13.960 Okay so
00:58:14.580 here's what I want
00:58:15.460 to say about all this
00:58:16.140 that was all
00:58:17.140 10 minutes of context
00:58:18.920 but I felt like
00:58:19.480 it's been
00:58:19.820 you know
00:58:20.380 you need to hear it.
00:58:23.220 As for Crowder
00:58:24.540 I don't know him
00:58:25.860 I've never met him
00:58:27.400 I never had an issue
00:58:28.880 with him before
00:58:29.760 I think he's a
00:58:30.520 great talent
00:58:31.100 I think he's an
00:58:31.560 effective communicator
00:58:32.420 I also think
00:58:33.840 I know
00:58:34.840 that he is
00:58:35.660 intentionally
00:58:36.280 misrepresenting
00:58:37.380 the Daily Wire
00:58:37.960 and its business model
00:58:38.920 and I even more
00:58:40.440 think and know
00:58:41.340 that calling a friend
00:58:42.480 and an ally
00:58:43.200 and secretly recording it
00:58:44.380 and using it against him
00:58:45.400 in public
00:58:47.440 is the lowest
00:58:48.940 thing I've ever seen
00:58:50.940 anyone do
00:58:51.780 in this business
00:58:52.300 and I've seen
00:58:52.980 people do
00:58:53.920 some very low things.
00:58:55.960 Keep in mind
00:58:56.600 that the recorded call
00:58:57.600 came weeks after
00:58:59.260 weeks after
00:59:00.620 the contract negotiations
00:59:01.800 ended amicably
00:59:03.080 between Crowder and DW.
00:59:04.660 It was over
00:59:05.320 they had both
00:59:05.720 gone separate ways.
00:59:06.360 He wanted money
00:59:08.380 they couldn't pay
00:59:08.980 so they just went
00:59:10.140 separate ways
00:59:10.400 it happens
00:59:10.880 it happens in business
00:59:11.780 everyone had moved on
00:59:13.080 we thought
00:59:13.500 and then Stephen Crowder
00:59:16.020 called Jeremy
00:59:17.220 weeks and weeks after
00:59:19.040 and said
00:59:20.160 I've got to talk to you
00:59:21.020 and Jeremy called him
00:59:22.960 and they started talking
00:59:24.620 about their family
00:59:25.580 and their kids
00:59:26.260 and Crowder was
00:59:28.220 recording it
00:59:29.520 the whole time
00:59:29.880 he already had bought
00:59:31.620 the Stop Big Con
00:59:32.980 domain name
00:59:33.660 he already had this
00:59:34.280 plan in place
00:59:34.860 so he called him
00:59:36.120 specifically to get him
00:59:37.860 to say the things
00:59:38.560 that he could use
00:59:39.260 against him
00:59:39.780 trying to lay the trap
00:59:41.680 that he could use
00:59:42.500 in public
00:59:43.040 and as I said
00:59:44.280 it was before this
00:59:45.180 actually that he
00:59:45.660 registered the Stop Big Con
00:59:47.300 website
00:59:47.680 clearly showing
00:59:48.840 what the plan was
00:59:49.560 so Jeremy got set up
00:59:51.680 by a man that he has
00:59:52.820 known and helped promote
00:59:53.720 constantly over the years
00:59:55.100 that's what happened
00:59:55.700 but let's get to
00:59:58.300 my actual point
00:59:59.220 there are many
01:00:00.380 accusations flying around
01:00:01.500 about Jeremy Boring
01:00:02.840 about Ben Shapiro
01:00:03.600 about the company
01:00:04.480 they founded together
01:00:05.340 all the accusations
01:00:06.360 center around the claim
01:00:07.500 that they are
01:00:08.780 exploiting their talent
01:00:10.380 they are suppressing
01:00:11.440 and stifling us
01:00:12.520 and they're only interested
01:00:13.420 in the bottom line
01:00:14.180 rather than fighting
01:00:14.800 for the culture
01:00:15.300 these accusations
01:00:16.760 are being made
01:00:17.340 by some people
01:00:17.960 who absolutely
01:00:18.820 know better
01:00:19.640 in many cases
01:00:20.940 by people
01:00:21.420 who Jeremy and Ben
01:00:22.260 have befriended
01:00:22.900 and promoted
01:00:23.420 and helped
01:00:23.880 only to now be
01:00:24.540 stabbed in the back
01:00:25.280 by them in public
01:00:26.700 but the accusations
01:00:28.860 are also being amplified
01:00:29.620 by people who don't
01:00:30.360 know better
01:00:30.720 people in the audience
01:00:31.400 who are caught in the middle
01:00:32.380 trying to make heads or tails of it
01:00:33.460 and it's for the benefit
01:00:34.220 of that latter group
01:00:34.980 that I now want to say
01:00:35.700 a few things
01:00:36.160 about my own experience
01:00:37.580 at the Daily Wire
01:00:38.200 because I was myself
01:00:40.900 a young up and coming
01:00:42.580 content creator
01:00:43.580 when I joined the company
01:00:45.440 five years ago
01:00:46.180 so I'm that guy
01:00:47.760 that Steven Crowder
01:00:48.520 is pretending to be
01:00:49.320 concerned about
01:00:49.980 that's me
01:00:51.040 here I am
01:00:52.100 hello
01:00:52.440 today I have one of the
01:00:54.720 top news commentary
01:00:55.500 podcasts in the country
01:00:56.480 I didn't start that way
01:00:57.620 so I think my perspective
01:00:59.840 is relevant
01:01:00.620 to this conversation
01:01:01.460 though I realize
01:01:03.320 that I'm in a lose-lose situation
01:01:05.020 because if I ignore
01:01:06.060 all of this
01:01:06.580 and I say nothing
01:01:07.480 in defense of Jeremy
01:01:08.420 and the company
01:01:08.880 my silence will be taken
01:01:10.540 as an admission
01:01:11.320 that the attacks are true
01:01:12.420 but if I speak up
01:01:14.720 then the critics
01:01:15.780 will simply assume
01:01:16.580 that I'm only saying this
01:01:17.420 because I was forced to
01:01:18.300 there is nothing
01:01:19.520 I can say or do
01:01:20.480 that's the game here
01:01:22.000 right
01:01:22.240 this is the game
01:01:22.880 we find ourselves
01:01:23.520 in this business sometimes
01:01:24.380 the game is
01:01:25.460 there is nothing
01:01:26.480 I can say or do
01:01:27.220 that won't confirm
01:01:28.520 whatever the critics
01:01:30.040 already thought
01:01:31.040 so be it
01:01:32.800 if I have to take
01:01:33.860 the lumps here
01:01:34.680 either way
01:01:35.240 I might as well
01:01:35.700 do the right thing
01:01:36.500 and speak up
01:01:37.240 for the men
01:01:37.660 that I respect
01:01:38.260 and a company
01:01:39.440 that I'm grateful
01:01:40.000 to work for
01:01:40.640 to that end
01:01:42.080 I will say that
01:01:42.660 the Daily Wire
01:01:43.180 brought me into the fold
01:01:44.040 back when I was
01:01:44.820 a relatively unproven
01:01:46.140 former blogger
01:01:47.120 with no platform
01:01:48.680 aside from my
01:01:49.420 Facebook page
01:01:50.260 that's all that I
01:01:51.540 had at the time
01:01:52.460 and they gave me
01:01:54.620 an opportunity
01:01:55.020 they didn't give me
01:01:55.540 success
01:01:56.060 nobody can give you that
01:01:57.000 I'd have to work
01:01:57.620 for that
01:01:58.060 and it would be
01:01:59.240 a collaborative effort
01:02:00.360 involving an entire team
01:02:01.840 but they would give me
01:02:03.260 the opportunity
01:02:03.820 to reach success
01:02:04.900 far from being
01:02:06.080 exploited
01:02:08.020 you know
01:02:08.760 far from exploiting me
01:02:10.340 or trying to suppress
01:02:11.220 my ideas
01:02:11.740 they instead
01:02:12.720 kept me around
01:02:14.080 they kept paying me
01:02:14.820 they invested more
01:02:15.780 and more in me
01:02:16.800 they gave me free reign
01:02:18.140 to talk about
01:02:18.740 anything I wanted
01:02:19.580 to talk about
01:02:20.280 while my platform
01:02:21.600 profile grew
01:02:22.380 very slowly
01:02:23.120 at first
01:02:23.640 my podcast
01:02:24.820 turned
01:02:25.400 basically no profit
01:02:27.660 and had a very small
01:02:28.400 audience
01:02:28.740 for multiple years
01:02:30.200 and they gave me
01:02:31.740 all that time
01:02:32.420 to prove myself
01:02:33.740 because they believed
01:02:34.700 in me
01:02:35.340 and saw the potential
01:02:36.060 that at times
01:02:37.120 if I'm being honest
01:02:37.780 even I struggled
01:02:38.620 to see in myself
01:02:40.020 two years ago
01:02:41.600 the show finally
01:02:42.220 started to gain traction
01:02:43.220 and that's thanks
01:02:44.100 not just of course
01:02:44.740 to my own contributions
01:02:45.560 but to the work
01:02:46.200 of the team
01:02:46.680 DW put around me
01:02:47.980 especially my producer
01:02:48.740 Sean
01:02:49.140 and a year ago
01:02:50.660 we started to grow
01:02:51.300 even faster
01:02:52.000 after the Dr. Phil interview
01:02:53.480 an interview
01:02:53.900 which by the way
01:02:54.760 was offered
01:02:55.960 originally to Ben Shapiro
01:02:57.660 it was a great
01:03:00.260 interview offer
01:03:00.880 okay
01:03:01.300 that Dr. Phil appearance
01:03:02.620 was a perfect environment
01:03:04.040 for someone like us
01:03:05.100 to be put on that panel
01:03:06.400 talking about that issue
01:03:07.560 and it would have been
01:03:08.480 great for Ben
01:03:09.220 Ben passed it to me
01:03:11.120 because he wanted me
01:03:12.340 to have the opportunity
01:03:13.640 then what is a woman
01:03:15.480 hit
01:03:15.860 and we reached
01:03:16.720 a whole new level
01:03:17.320 every step of the way
01:03:19.400 I've been supported
01:03:20.400 by Jeremy
01:03:21.000 Ben
01:03:21.380 the whole team
01:03:21.940 here at the Daily Wire
01:03:22.480 I've had complete
01:03:24.000 and total freedom
01:03:24.980 to discuss
01:03:25.600 whatever issues
01:03:26.700 I want to discuss
01:03:27.620 for as long
01:03:28.500 as I want to talk
01:03:29.120 about them
01:03:29.480 in whatever way
01:03:30.400 I want to talk
01:03:30.900 about them
01:03:31.300 and to be myself
01:03:33.000 for better or worse
01:03:33.980 and anyone who listens
01:03:36.460 to this show
01:03:37.060 or follows me
01:03:37.680 on Twitter
01:03:38.260 knows that
01:03:39.220 okay
01:03:40.440 I will die
01:03:41.440 on every hill
01:03:42.100 I will talk
01:03:42.680 about anything
01:03:43.440 I will say
01:03:44.440 anything
01:03:45.200 again
01:03:47.860 for better or worse
01:03:48.840 I wouldn't be
01:03:50.540 where I am
01:03:51.520 without this team
01:03:52.340 without Jeremy
01:03:52.920 without the Daily Wire
01:03:53.540 that's the honest truth
01:03:54.440 and you should know that
01:03:56.340 more importantly
01:03:59.040 and this is the most
01:04:01.120 important thing
01:04:01.760 together here
01:04:04.040 at the Daily Wire
01:04:04.640 we are
01:04:05.180 we are fighting
01:04:06.180 for the country
01:04:06.900 for the culture
01:04:07.820 we're achieving
01:04:08.560 real success
01:04:09.980 in just the past 12 months
01:04:11.860 the Daily Wire
01:04:12.460 and this is a
01:04:14.240 this is a partial list
01:04:15.360 helped to defeat
01:04:16.880 Biden's vax mandate
01:04:17.980 released one of the most
01:04:19.700 culturally influential
01:04:20.600 documentaries
01:04:21.200 of the century
01:04:22.100 took down
01:04:23.580 Vanderbilt's
01:04:24.200 child gender clinic
01:04:25.060 we took it down
01:04:26.320 we did that
01:04:27.120 we held the largest
01:04:29.240 anti-gender ideology
01:04:30.360 rally in the country
01:04:31.140 resulting in a ban
01:04:32.360 on child mutilation
01:04:33.120 across the entire state
01:04:34.340 we invested tens of
01:04:35.580 millions of dollars
01:04:36.100 into children's content
01:04:37.100 to compete with
01:04:38.380 woke companies
01:04:38.900 like Disney
01:04:39.380 we launched a product line
01:04:40.820 to compete directly
01:04:41.800 with an advertiser
01:04:42.640 who tried to cancel us
01:04:43.560 if you go back
01:04:44.360 another year
01:04:44.900 year and a half
01:04:45.400 you'll find us
01:04:45.860 exposing a major
01:04:46.760 cover up in Loudoun County
01:04:48.120 mobilizing a movement
01:04:49.520 that helped flip
01:04:50.080 the entire state red
01:04:51.120 that's what we're doing
01:04:53.120 we have had more
01:04:54.920 tangible achievements
01:04:55.820 in the past two years
01:04:56.820 than any other
01:04:57.600 conservative media company
01:04:58.680 or personality
01:04:59.480 and it's not close
01:05:00.860 and I defy you
01:05:02.660 to give me an example
01:05:03.720 that would refute
01:05:06.200 what I just said
01:05:06.940 it's not bragging
01:05:08.480 that's just a factual statement
01:05:09.820 that's what we've been doing
01:05:11.940 nobody else is doing it
01:05:13.980 we're not just talking
01:05:16.300 there are a lot of people
01:05:18.180 in this business
01:05:18.880 who like to say
01:05:21.880 that they're fighting
01:05:22.700 everyone use it
01:05:24.260 I know sometimes
01:05:24.840 it's like just white noise
01:05:28.620 when you hear people
01:05:29.660 like us say
01:05:30.280 oh we gotta fight
01:05:30.980 we gotta fight
01:05:31.480 we gotta fight
01:05:31.940 it's white noise
01:05:32.900 after a while
01:05:33.380 because you've noticed
01:05:34.560 that most of the people
01:05:35.800 saying they're fighting
01:05:36.460 they're not actually
01:05:36.980 doing anything
01:05:37.640 they're just talking
01:05:38.560 into a camera
01:05:39.140 they're not doing
01:05:39.780 anything else
01:05:40.680 they're not out there
01:05:42.560 doing anything
01:05:43.360 but we are
01:05:46.180 we're racking up
01:05:47.960 real wins
01:05:48.580 and we're doing it
01:05:50.120 with your investment
01:05:51.480 and your support
01:05:52.460 and we need
01:05:54.460 a lot more of it
01:05:55.260 we're very open
01:05:56.940 about that
01:05:57.400 very open
01:05:58.180 about what the plan is
01:05:59.020 this is still
01:06:01.040 ground floor
01:06:01.780 level that we're at
01:06:03.120 we know that
01:06:03.700 and I'd like to get
01:06:06.780 back to that now
01:06:07.360 I'd like to get back
01:06:08.520 to the battles
01:06:08.980 that actually matter
01:06:09.740 battles that I will
01:06:10.880 fight alongside
01:06:11.820 anyone who has
01:06:12.840 the same goals as me
01:06:13.780 I don't care who they are
01:06:14.540 that includes Stephen Crowder
01:06:15.520 or anyone else
01:06:16.760 so my proposal
01:06:19.720 my term sheet proposal
01:06:22.720 is that we put this
01:06:24.200 all aside now
01:06:24.920 and we get back
01:06:26.440 to trying to
01:06:27.080 save the country
01:06:27.840 which is what matters
01:06:29.500 to me
01:06:29.840 and that'll do it
01:06:32.620 for this portion
01:06:33.580 of the show
01:06:33.960 as we move over
01:06:34.420 to the members block
01:06:35.400 hope to see you there
01:06:36.560 if not
01:06:37.060 talk to you tomorrow
01:06:37.940 or rather on Monday
01:06:39.280 Godspeed