The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1130 - The Whole DW Lineup Stars In Dylan Mulvaney's 'Day 365 Of Girlhood' Show

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Walsh Show, infamous male TikToker Dylan Mulvaney had a star-studded

00:00:04.480 extravaganza in New York celebrating his day 365 of girlhood. The entire Daily Wire lineup

00:00:09.760 made an appearance during the show. We'll play the clip and talk about it. Joe Biden lashes out

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00:01:48.900 savings with gold today. This week, a male performance artist, Dylan Mulvaney, celebrated

00:01:54.540 his day 365 of womanhood. Actually, I need to correct myself. He calls it girlhood, not womanhood,

00:02:00.640 because this grown adult man is very specifically imitating an adolescent girl. It was day 365 of

00:02:07.840 girlhood then, to be precise. And I guess I need to correct myself again, because it was actually

00:02:12.260 day zero of girlhood. He has experienced precisely zero days of being a girl or a woman. A year

00:02:18.760 from now, he'll still be sitting at zero days. Another year after that, still zero days. A year

00:02:22.340 after that, zero days. And when he dies, he will leave this earth a man with zero days spent being

00:02:28.540 anything other than a man. And when archaeologists dig up his bones centuries from now, they will know

00:02:34.500 that they are the bones of a man. They won't know the preferred pronouns of the bones. They won't know

00:02:39.820 anything about the bones, except that they belong to a human male. When everything else is forgotten

00:02:45.720 about Dylan Mulvaney, and everything else will be forgotten about Dylan Mulvaney, the only fact that

00:02:50.620 will remain is the one fact he wants us to forget. So with those caveats, we turn to Mulvaney's day

00:02:57.500 365 celebration at the Rockefeller Center. Commemoration really began a day before when Mulvaney appeared on

00:03:05.000 Drew Barrymore's talk show and sat there with a pleased expression on his face when Barrymore

00:03:10.140 literally knelt at his feet and paid tribute to the trans deity. He went from there to the red carpet

00:03:17.840 and an even more adoring crowd. His day 365 included celebrity guests and big musical numbers.

00:03:24.760 He pranced around on stage and he basked in the applause of an adoring crowd who had all come out to

00:03:30.940 congratulate him for pretending to be a girl for the past year. A fawning article in Rolling Stone tells

00:03:36.700 us that Mulvaney spent a week rehearsing his day 365 performance. It also tells us that he started

00:03:43.140 developing the concept six months ago, which means that Mulvaney had only been quote unquote

00:03:48.960 transitioning into a quote unquote girl for six months when he decided that his transition needed

00:03:54.540 to be celebrated with a star studded gala in New York. But not everyone who starred in the show chose to

00:04:01.400 be a part of it. In fact, as it turns out, I made a cameo appearance along with the entire rest of the

00:04:07.640 Daily Wire crew because every good show needs a villain. And that was our role to play. Watch.

00:04:14.900 Things are going really well. Like I just had my first dance as a girl and oh, I can pay my bills and

00:04:22.780 I'm building up a following and I feel supported. And you know what? I'm feeling lucky. Let's Google my name.

00:04:29.000 Dylan Mulvaney is intentionally degrading women every time he does this woman face minstrel show

00:04:46.200 routine. He is insulting and demeaning them and doing it on purpose and profiting off of it. And he

00:04:52.760 doesn't care. If that is the most attractive you will ever look, then I don't even want to imagine

00:04:57.760 what you'll look like when you're at your ugliest. Documenting his creepy fetishized version of what

00:05:04.260 it means to be a girl. Well, Dylan Mulvaney has had some surgery to make his face look more like Bruce

00:05:08.740 Jenner's. Dylan Mulvaney has just given the best proof yet that transgenderism broadly, or at very

00:05:16.500 least the type of transgenderism that he suffers from, is a sexual fetish. I just want to stop it there 1.00

00:05:22.980 just for a second and say that this comment from Michael Knowles is way beyond the pale. I mean,

00:05:27.700 how could you accuse this man of engaging in a sexual fetish? Is it because he has recorded videos

00:05:33.320 singing about his penis bulge? Normalize the bulge. We are normalizing the bulge. Women can have bulges and 1.00

00:05:43.240 that's okay. We're not gonna stare at their crotches while they're wearing their little shopping shorts 1.00

00:05:49.320 at the mall. Oh, thank you. Love you. Bye.

00:05:55.300 Okay. Well, I guess that is pretty good evidence that this is a sexual fetish on second thought.

00:06:00.320 All right. So let's go back to the video then. Dylan is not a woman. Dylan is playing a caricature

00:06:06.820 of a woman. That one can say he is a woman and become one of the most influential women in America

00:06:11.400 in just six months of wearing dresses and ironing his hair. The patriarchy always wins, gang.

00:06:17.800 Oh, and there is Dylan Mulvaney as Audrey Hepburn. The difference being that Audrey Hepburn

00:06:21.080 was an actual woman with a vagina. Okay. Now, that came the right way out. 1.00

00:06:28.940 Who put this hateful mess on up in here? I did. I showed it. What? Why would you give them even a

00:06:35.440 second of your big day? Well, these are the people I have to deal with on a regular basis, so I thought

00:06:39.780 I should include them in the evening. But that doesn't mean you have to listen to them. Well,

00:06:44.540 I've always loved a little constructive criticism. Baby, there's nothing constructive about that.

00:06:48.240 And it's not just criticism. It's indoctrination. Trans and non-binary people have been around for

00:06:53.860 thousands of years.

00:06:56.100 We have to pause it there again because, of course, that's total nonsense. Everything in the video is

00:07:01.420 nonsense. But this always deserves special mention. Billions of human beings lived on this planet for

00:07:07.120 thousands of years. Civilizations rose and fell without anyone inventing anything that even vaguely

00:07:12.540 resembled the modern notion of trans and non-binary. It didn't exist anywhere at all until a group of

00:07:17.900 weirdo psychologists and sexologists in the mid-20th century made it all up. That's the actual history

00:07:24.360 correctly told.

00:07:27.180 My love, they want to silence us. They want to silence us and keep us in the matrix.

00:07:33.260 Well, I think we've established that I really like to talk. So I don't think they're gonna have

00:07:37.740 the best luck silencing me.

00:07:44.200 Truthfully, I don't know what their goal is. But I do know how they make me feel now that

00:07:50.660 I've built up a thicker skin.

00:07:52.120 It doesn't hurt me.

00:07:57.400 Do you want to feel how it feels?

00:08:03.120 Do you want to know, know that it doesn't hurt me?

00:08:07.220 Do you want to hear about the deal I'm making?

00:08:12.720 My response going forward, it's not over-explaining myself. It's not pleading. It's not expecting

00:08:26.560 kindness from someone who has no kindness to give. My response is in the next joyous video

00:08:32.020 that I make. That's my response.

00:08:36.480 And if I only could, I'd make a deal with God, and I'd get him to swap our places.

00:08:44.920 Can we pause there?

00:08:47.680 I'm gonna say something that might make people feel a little bit uncomfortable.

00:08:51.760 Um, I'm trying really hard to maintain a relationship with God, and I don't think that he made a mistake

00:08:59.020 with me. Um, and that maybe one day I will actually be grateful for being trans.

00:09:07.360 That this isn't some curse, but it's just a different path to the same destination.

00:09:15.420 Be running up that road. Be running up that hill. Be running up that building.

00:09:24.480 Be running up that hill. Be running up that hill.

00:09:32.820 I'm sorry to cut that off because it's really quite powerful. Um, powerful for a few reasons. One,

00:09:37.220 it proves that somebody can hit all the notes and still sound terrible. And also, uh, it proves

00:09:44.500 all of the points that we have been trying to make about this man. After all, our entire criticism

00:09:51.020 of Mulvaney is, is that he is not a woman, but rather a performer wearing womanhood as a costume.

00:09:57.160 His idea of womanhood is what he learned from Disney cartoons. And how exactly does he respond

00:10:02.040 to that charge? Well, by dressing up as a Disney princess and dancing around on stage and delivering

00:10:09.240 a tearful monologue while singing exactly as a Disney princess would. A monologue that by his own

00:10:14.760 admission, he has been rehearsing for a week as part of a performance he had planned six months ago.

00:10:18.800 So, so his tears are then about as authentic as everything else about him, which is to say they

00:10:22.820 are utterly contrived and staged, just more emotional manipulation meant to shut down valid

00:10:28.600 criticism. I mean, imagine a man, you know, in blackface singing a self-pitying song about how 0.82

00:10:35.960 his, his heart breaks whenever someone tells him that his costume is offensive to black people,

00:10:40.420 that there is no difference here. Mulvaney pretends that he doesn't understand the criticism.

00:10:45.280 That's because the trans agenda runs exclusively on falsehoods, bad faith, and emotional blackmail. 0.99

00:10:52.620 And Mulvaney exemplifies all three. He puts on a cartoonish performance of womanhood that is as 1.00

00:10:57.880 degrading and absurd as possible. He monetizes the performance. He amplifies it through every

00:11:03.520 platform available. And then when the criticism rightly comes his way, he acts like he's just some

00:11:07.660 random person trying to live his private life in peace. Speaking of his critics, he says that he

00:11:12.840 he doesn't know what our goals are. Now I think he does, but for the moment I'll allow for the

00:11:19.140 possibility that he's as stupid and oblivious as he wants us to think he is. And so I will explain

00:11:25.540 our goal is to defend reality. And it really is not any more complicated than that.

00:11:32.780 And here's one reality. No real woman will ever get a red carpet extravaganza at the Rockefeller 0.96

00:11:41.160 Center to congratulate her for simply existing. Okay. No real woman's going to get that for actually 1.00

00:11:48.620 being a woman for a year. That's the kind of spectacle only reserved for Dylan Mulvaney, 0.99

00:11:54.080 a privilege enjoyed by him and people like him. Why is that a problem? Well, for a lot of reasons,

00:11:59.940 but I can illustrate one of the reasons with maybe a brief story. So I think about

00:12:05.040 when our most recent set of twins were born and I'll never forget the moment, of course,

00:12:11.900 two months ago, standing in the delivery room, first baby born successfully, no problems. But

00:12:17.720 then the situation turns dire with the second, the doctor unable to safely deliver because of a

00:12:23.100 prolapsed umbilical cord has to make a split second decision to perform an emergency C-section.

00:12:27.080 Uh, it's, uh, there's a lot of blood. I'd never been in the room for any kind of operation before.

00:12:33.160 I don't know exactly what I was expecting, but I was expecting all that, the blood. And, um,

00:12:38.320 and then there was my wife, you know, laying there calm, but shivering at several points on the verge of

00:12:43.780 passing out. The only thing I could do was hold her hand and tell her the babies are okay and

00:12:47.240 everything's going to be fine. And I did tell her that even though for a period of several minutes,

00:12:50.860 I wasn't sure if it was actually true, but everything was fine in the end. And, uh, my

00:12:56.120 wife has now taken on the task of caring for these two infants along with four other children with

00:13:01.200 incredible grace and joy. And I'm not surprised to see her meet the challenge that way. She's a

00:13:06.960 remarkable woman. I've always known that. That's why I married her. And yet there will never be an

00:13:13.980 event at the Rockefeller Center to celebrate my wife's womanhood. Okay. She's not going to have any 0.98

00:13:19.380 adoring crowds flocking to bask in her presence and applaud her and fawn over her for being a woman. 0.70

00:13:27.300 She knows more about being a woman than Dylan Mulvaney will ever know or could ever know.

00:13:32.200 She's experienced womanhood at the deepest level. She, she bears its scars. Literally,

00:13:37.860 she carries its burdens. She knows its blessings. She's a wife, a mother, a daughter, a sister.

00:13:42.180 She's all the things that Mulvaney and his ilk have never been and can never understand.

00:13:47.100 And yet he is put on the stage with the spotlight and the corporate sponsorships. He is celebrated for

00:13:55.420 being what he isn't. It's like giving the medal of honor to some dude who played call of duty in

00:14:00.520 his basement. Now it's not that my wife would want all of this fanfare. She's not a raging narcissist 1.00

00:14:08.120 like Dylan Mulvaney. The point is simply that by elevating and celebrating these fake cartoon

00:14:14.680 faux women, our society has emptied womanhood of everything that's truly beautiful and meaningful 1.00

00:14:21.600 and important about it. And if there's any solace to women, they, they aren't alone in this boat. Far from 0.92

00:14:28.200 it. The same has happened with manhood. Uh, the same has happened with, with everything.

00:14:33.080 All that is good and true is hollowed out and made artificial and absurd and ugly.

00:14:41.760 You know, it's funny that one of, uh, Dylan's cohorts on stage there says that we, his critics,

00:14:47.180 uh, want to keep them in the matrix. Now, as always, the truth is exactly the other way around.

00:14:56.620 Gender ideology is the matrix. What you just saw there on the screen, that's the matrix. 1.00

00:15:05.120 It's, you know, I'm sad to say it's not nearly as cool as the movie version,

00:15:09.060 but that's our version of the matrix. What you just saw, it is a fake alternate universe. It is

00:15:15.920 an artificial projection meant to obscure reality. And we are urged to play along so as not to ruin the

00:15:23.900 illusion. But we, some of us anyway, are tired of illusions. We are tired of the artificial.

00:15:32.300 We are tired of imitations. We want reality. If we're going to celebrate womanhood,

00:15:40.820 then we're going to celebrate the real thing. And that is not you, Dylan. And it never will be.

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00:16:53.000 this is actually from last week. We get to report by KSTP in Minnesota. It says Minnesota Governor

00:16:57.580 Tim Walls, uh, signed in executive order on Wednesday aimed at protecting the rights of

00:17:02.480 Minnesota's LGBTQ plus community and access to gender affirming healthcare. Lieutenant Governor

00:17:07.920 Peggy Flanagan joined Walls for the, uh, signing ceremony at the Capitol shortly before 11 a.m.

00:17:13.400 It comes as a few states around the country consider restricting drag shows. Tennessee's 0.94

00:17:17.620 governor recently banned public drag performances, labeling them as adult cabaret. Several other

00:17:22.860 states, including Idaho, North Dakota, Montana, and Oklahoma are considering similar bans.

00:17:28.140 Walls said that the, uh, the order directs state officials to work with healthcare officials to

00:17:32.540 ensure access to gender affirming care is available to everyone and also made clear that state won't

00:17:36.660 cooperate with any other seeking to restrict the rights of or punish anyone in the LGBTQ plus

00:17:41.940 community. So in other words, this is, this is the bill that we've talked about on the show, the,

00:17:44.760 um, sanctuary, essentially sanctuary state bill, turning Minnesota to a sanctuary state for, uh,

00:17:51.340 child castration mutilation. And so abusive parents can bring their kid to Minnesota to, uh, to be

00:18:01.020 abused in this way. And Minnesota is saying, we're not going to cooperate with any of the states that

00:18:06.200 have made this, this kind of thing illegal. So that was the bill, but I want you to listen to what

00:18:11.980 the Lieutenant governor had to say at, at the signing ceremony, as she was, um, you know, talking

00:18:18.500 about the importance of being able to castrate and mutilate children. Here's what she said.

00:18:22.480 Because let's be clear, this is life affirming and life saving healthcare.

00:18:31.460 When our children tell us who they are, it is our job as grownups to listen and to believe them.

00:18:49.140 That's what it means to be a good parent.

00:18:50.940 That's what it means to be a good parent is to listen to and believe whatever our children say.

00:18:58.420 Now we hear this, we hear this kind of thing so often from, uh, these people and, uh, but it still

00:19:04.800 manages to be shockingly ridiculous every time we see it, you know, every time we hear it because it

00:19:09.720 is the job of a parent is so often to do exactly the opposite of that to, to, uh, in fact, that is

00:19:20.180 always the job of the, there's always the job of the parent to not automatically believe whatever

00:19:26.200 your kid says or go along with whatever they want to do. Now, there could be times when your kid

00:19:32.620 says something that you should believe, because that happens plenty of times, uh, or there, there

00:19:37.040 can be plenty of occasions where a child wants to do something and you say, yes, that's a good idea.

00:19:42.080 Let's do that. But that should never be your automatic reflexive stance.

00:19:50.180 And least of all, should you believe it or go along with it just because they said it?

00:19:56.900 All right. There is, I think there's a, there's a place and some people in, you know, with, with the

00:20:01.960 way, uh, modern parenting strategies don't agree with this, but I would still say, cause I'm somewhat

00:20:07.780 old fashioned. Well, maybe not somewhat that there's definitely a place as a parent for the, uh,

00:20:15.940 because I said so reasoning to your child where you say, we're going to do something, you say

00:20:22.780 something and they don't agree that they ask why that way. And, and your, your response was because

00:20:26.960 I said so. And because, because now if your child is asking questions in a, in a sincere way, and

00:20:33.280 they're really trying to understand that you should try to explain it to them. But sometimes a child can,

00:20:37.580 can go down the why rabbit hole or object. And it's just a, it's just a way of being defiant. And so

00:20:43.480 then you want to train the child to understand that they need to respect you and your authority.

00:20:49.380 And even if they don't understand why they have to do something, um, they still shouldn't do it.

00:20:53.760 Okay. If the child doesn't quite understand why they shouldn't run into the middle of the street,

00:20:57.200 uh, it doesn't matter. Don't run into the street because I said so. So that's parent to child

00:21:05.420 because I said so. And yet these days that, as I said, many people would say, well, that's no,

00:21:11.920 that's, that's authoritarian. You can't parent that way because I said so is never the appropriate

00:21:16.780 response. And yet they want it to go the other way. Essentially, they think that that should be a

00:21:24.260 valid, uh, response from the child to the parent. Hey, mom and dad, we're going to do this. This is

00:21:31.580 how I'm going to live my life. Uh, why do you, because I said so it's because I said so. And, uh,

00:21:37.800 and that means we, you have to go along with it. No, you, your job, you are because, because the

00:21:43.320 child doesn't have the capacity for discernment, certainly not a, a fully developed path capacity,

00:21:52.120 then it is your job to be that, to, you know, you, you are kind of pinch hitting, uh, so often

00:21:59.240 as the person who's able to engage in discernment. Um, so you have to, you have to lend him your

00:22:04.480 discernment powers, which means you're saying no a lot to a child. That's the way it has to go.

00:22:13.300 So this is, it, it, it's not just completely ridiculous when it comes to this particular

00:22:19.440 topic, although it is especially ridiculous and harmful there when it comes to the topic

00:22:23.900 of gender ideology, but, uh, across the board, it makes no sense at all. A similar, uh, similar

00:22:31.520 topic here. Joe Biden this week spoke out against states that are banning child castration and

00:22:37.600 sterilization. And, uh, he had his own reasoning that he offered. Listen to this.

00:22:42.720 Transgender kids is a really harder day thing. What's going on in Florida

00:22:47.640 is, as my mother would say, close to sinful. I mean, it's just terrible what they're doing.

00:22:53.660 It's not like, you know, a kid wakes up one morning and says, you know, I decided I want

00:22:59.500 to become a man or I want to become a woman or I want to change. I mean, what, what, what,

00:23:05.100 what are they thinking about here? They're human beings. They love, they have feelings,

00:23:10.460 they have inclinations that are, I mean, it just to me is, I don't know, it's cruel.

00:23:17.740 And the way we do it is we make sure we pass legislation like we passed on same-sex marriage.

00:23:23.260 You mess with that, you're breaking the law and you're going to be held accountable.

00:23:28.780 So what he's, what he's actually saying here is, uh, if we're to skip right over the sinful

00:23:33.260 part, which really we can't, we can't skip over that. I mean, this is, you know, yet again,

00:23:39.740 the, the left going right to the moral argument. And for so long on the right and conservatives,

00:23:48.380 they've told themselves that, uh, we can't, you know, you don't want to make the moral argument,

00:23:53.820 moral arguments, not persuasive. Uh, people don't, we don't want to legislate morality.

00:23:58.140 We don't want to be accused of that. So we're always going to make the practical argument or

00:24:02.300 the economic argument, the financial argument. Uh, we're going to make an argument rooted in

00:24:07.180 rights and liberties, which is still a moral argument, by the way. Oh, I mean, all these are,

00:24:11.500 even the financial argument, it's an economic arts. It's always in the end, a moral argument,

00:24:15.900 but this is what the conservatives have been convinced of. And for years have gone along

00:24:21.980 with it. And I make, we gotta make, we gotta make an argument that seems practical.

00:24:26.940 Meanwhile, on the left, they go right for the moral argument every single time

00:24:30.540 and the religious argument too. They'll tell us not to do it. So if we say something,

00:24:37.900 you're trying to shove your religion down our throat. 0.97

00:24:39.980 And so often conservatives have, have, have been persuaded by this kind of manipulation.

00:24:48.620 But then what do you hear from Biden? It's sinful. It is a sin. And what is he saying?

00:24:53.340 Is this, it is a sin to not castrate a child to not do that would be a sin.

00:25:02.380 And since he brought it up, I mean, he's bringing sin into the conversation. I'd love to hear him

00:25:09.420 flesh that out some more. Where, where are you getting that biblically? Please point to the point,

00:25:14.620 give me a chapter and verse here of, um, you know, the, the, the, the, the part of, of scripture

00:25:20.620 that leads you to believe that we are, not only is it okay to castrate a child, but we're actually

00:25:27.020 morally obligated to sterilize, castrate, mutilate children. Um, so he says it's sinful. And for that

00:25:37.260 reason, he says it's sinful. And for that reason, um, what he's advocating now is the federal government

00:25:45.580 to get involved and, uh, and step in and stop these States from passing these laws. That's the

00:25:54.460 level that they're, they're playing. They're going to take their moral argument and they're

00:25:57.660 going to translate that directly into legal action. And why are they going to do it?

00:26:04.460 You know, why does he want the federal government to step in and say to Tennessee, for example,

00:26:08.380 you're not allowed to pass a law like that. Why? Well, because it's, it's the right thing to do,

00:26:13.660 they say. So they go right to the moral argument and we, we in effect, surrender that ground to them,

00:26:19.020 which we absolutely shouldn't do. And our response is why shouldn't you be doing these

00:26:25.900 things to children? Well, to begin with it's, it's wrong. It is morally wrong. Uh, and it is

00:26:31.740 grounded in falsehood. This is also funny from Joe Biden. Um, an alleged letter from a child though,

00:26:39.740 based on the, uh, handwriting and spelling, it looks like something could have easily written

00:26:43.820 to himself, but we can put the tweet up on the, um, on the screen. So this is what he tweeted out.

00:26:50.660 First, the letters, a screenshot of the letter letter. It says, dear president Biden, I just

00:26:55.980 wanted to tell something not fair to ladies. Men are getting more money than girls. I think you should 1.00

00:27:01.280 fix this since you're the president. Even I'm a child. And I think that we should do something

00:27:06.440 from Charlotte. And then Biden responds, Charlotte, I couldn't agree more. Women lose thousands of

00:27:14.280 dollars each year and hundreds of thousands over a lifetime because of gender and racial wage gaps. 0.99

00:27:19.960 I'm committed to building an economy where my daughters have the same rights and opportunities 0.93

00:27:24.060 as my sons. Uh, it's always interesting to me when they use children to make their points

00:27:32.640 and they think that that, of course, the reason they do is they think it makes it more powerful.

00:27:37.300 You see, even a child, even a, even a child can understand that why this isn't, isn't right.

00:27:43.360 That there's a, there's a gender wage gap. Even a child can understand that. No, it's not even a child.

00:27:50.220 It's that, um, of course a child will, will have this view of it. If you say to a child,

00:27:58.220 you know, uh, men, men go out and work and there are women who go out and work. And if you add up

00:28:06.760 all the money that men make and women make, uh, men make a little bit more. Now, if you say that to

00:28:14.460 a child in, in their, in their childlike mind, they're going to just assume that this must be,

00:28:21.700 you know, evidence that there's some sort of plot to stop women from, from earning more. 1.00

00:28:25.960 They're not going to ask questions like, well, are we comparing, uh, people who work in the same

00:28:32.880 industry? So are we, are we comparing men in one industry with women in the same industry?

00:28:37.760 Are we factoring in things like hours worked, experience level, uh, skill qualifications,

00:28:45.180 um, all of that kind of thing? Are, are we, are we taking into account things like men are more

00:28:51.620 willing to, uh, move for a job than women are. Men are more willing to take on extra hours than 0.99

00:28:56.920 women are. Men are much more likely to do dangerous jobs and the dangerous jobs very often will pay 0.93

00:29:02.000 more. I mean, working on an oil rig, for example, is a well-paying gig. Uh, and it's also dangerous.

00:29:07.460 A child's not going to ask any of those questions. Okay. So this, so Charlotte, who's however old she is, 1.00

00:29:12.140 let's assume she's seven or eight years old or something. She's not going to ask that because she's a

00:29:16.960 kid. And so when you tell her about the quote wage gap, that's all she's going to think is, okay,

00:29:22.300 well, there must be, there must be some evil plan out there to stop girls from making more. 0.98

00:29:30.660 Um, but it's adults who are supposed to be able to understand that there are a lot of other factors

00:29:36.880 to take into account here. And you can't just do a generalized comparison between all women in the

00:29:44.160 workplace place and all men. That doesn't make any sense to do that. So all he's really proving 0.99

00:29:50.300 is that, um, the, the, the leftist view of the so-called gender wage gap is childish.

00:30:01.280 It's the kind of thing that resonates with a small child. And when you become older and you

00:30:07.940 understand a little bit more about how the world works and you also understand how statistics work,

00:30:11.420 that's when you can understand that this is all nonsense. All right. Here's a, uh, article from

00:30:18.800 the daily mail says Netflix has quietly canceled a woke animated kid show, which features a bison 0.93

00:30:25.460 who comes out as non-binary to its grandmother. Ridley Jones released its fifth and final season last

00:30:31.940 week, which was not given any promotion. According to, according to the show's creator, uh, Chris knee,

00:30:36.540 the two-time kid screen award winner and Emmy nominee series, uh, received harsh criticism online

00:30:42.420 following the release of episode eight of season five called herd day, which centers around a bison

00:30:47.820 called Fred who comes out as non-binary to their grandmother. Who's voiced by Sidney Lauper.

00:30:54.200 Some viewers blasted the show on Twitter claiming Fred's non-binary identity was slipped into the

00:30:59.260 show's narrative. So the, okay. So the series is called Ridley Jones about a bison. I've never even

00:31:06.160 heard of this show before. One viewer asked, quote, do your kids watch Ridley Jones? It features a

00:31:11.680 female bison who identifies as neither male nor female and wants to be referred to with they them

00:31:16.580 pronouns. Quietly slipped in there. Drip, drip, drip. What a message to send to young girls in 0.99

00:31:20.920 particular. The creator who's a lesbian mom addressed the cancellation in a tweet last Wednesday 0.85

00:31:25.700 says doesn't surprise me that Netflix has quietly dumped the first preschool show that has a non-binary

00:31:30.820 character coming out. I realize in this day and age dumped means many things, just zero promotion

00:31:36.740 of the episode. First of all, I'm pretty sure this is not, unfortunately, I wish I could say that this

00:31:43.060 was the first preschool show that has a non-binary character. I'm pretty sure that's not the case.

00:31:47.420 I mean, they've got, you know, they're, they're doing a pride parades and drag queens in Blue's Clues

00:31:54.640 now. So this is ground that has been tread before, but I think we have the clip from the show. Let's

00:31:59.480 watch this name. Fred, that's because I'm non-binary and Fred is the name that fits me best. And I also

00:32:07.360 use they and them because calling me a she or a he doesn't feel right to me. I'm sorry I used the wrong

00:32:15.900 name and pronouns. Well, exactly as we, exactly as we were told. A, uh, a non-binary bison in the 0.83

00:32:26.520 kids show. And it is, uh, it's, it is at least encouraging that the show is a total flop. And

00:32:35.440 now it's being quiet. You know, of course, Netflix, isn't going to make a big scene about it, but, um,

00:32:41.820 it's a flop. People aren't interested. People don't want this. And now they have to cancel the

00:32:45.820 show. That is, that is encouraging because as much as, uh, you know, we have a problem with woke

00:32:51.400 parents who want to, uh, indoctrinate their kids into this. What we see is that still the vast

00:32:57.800 majority of parents do not want this. They're not interested in it. And that includes plenty of

00:33:05.520 parents who otherwise might be mistakenly okay with some of this kind of stuff. There are probably

00:33:12.940 still, and this, this is a changing as the woke crowd becomes ever more radicalized by the day,

00:33:17.720 but there are still plenty of parents who would say something like, well, uh, you know, non-binary,

00:33:24.000 I support that. You know, they would legitimize the idea of being non-binary, but they still, 1.00

00:33:29.320 they're not going to sit their kid down to watch a show with that stuff in it.

00:33:33.500 And then there's also a group of parents who, who would support that and might even say that they

00:33:39.040 would sit their kids down to watch something like this, but then in reality, they're not going to.

00:33:43.060 Um, so that's the positive anyway. This is from the blaze. It says a transgender UK doctor known for 0.98

00:33:51.440 being a fatness advocate expressed outrage that thin people were being celebrated for the whale

00:33:56.860 movie at the Oscar award ceremony on Sunday. The movie about a man dealing with his obesity problem

00:34:01.960 and directed by Darren Aronofsky garnered Oscar awards for best makeup and hairstyling and for best

00:34:06.880 actor. Dr. Asher Laramie, who also identifies as non-binary, of course, unleashed a furious tirade 0.88

00:34:13.680 on Twitter over the fat phobic incidents. Quote, once again, just a reminder that the whale was

00:34:20.140 written by, directed by, and produced by four thin white, rich, able-bodied cisgender men.

00:34:25.960 Oh, and check it out. Uh, check out. It's fat star who was celebrated and honored at the Oscars last

00:34:30.860 night. What an effing joke. Laramie added, quote, are we able to wrap our heads around this one yet,

00:34:36.300 folks? Someone won an Oscar for making Brendan Fraser a currently straight-sized man. Wait,

00:34:42.380 what? Straight-sized man? Is that what we're referring to? Someone who's not, you know,

00:34:49.440 overly obese is straight-sized? Anyway, someone won an Oscar for making Brendan Fraser a currently

00:34:56.260 straight-sized man look fat. No one else finds this disturbing? Well, no, no one else finds this

00:35:03.220 disturbing because it's, uh, it's acting. And there's all, and yet again, there's this, uh, you

00:35:10.160 know, on one hand, we live in a culture that is extremely paranoid about appropriation, and, and

00:35:19.880 that's what this is. It's considered appropriation. And at the exact same time, you have what we talked

00:35:26.640 about in the opening monologue with Dylan Mulvaney, which is an example of actual appropriation.

00:35:33.480 What is appropriation? You know, in, in a, in a movie, it's like, we're not supposed to actually

00:35:39.940 believe that Brendan Fraser is a 600-pound man. It's a, it's a film. He is, he is openly portraying a

00:35:46.800 character. No one's pretending otherwise. He's not identifying as this character. He's just,

00:35:52.300 he's telling a story. And to be able to, we've talked about this before, but, you know, this is

00:35:58.520 supposed to be, I would think, the real art of acting. And if there's any, anything honorable

00:36:04.640 about the profession, if there is anything, it would be this, that, uh, you, you have to have,

00:36:09.440 you know, in order to, to inhabit, um, a character that is not you, and to be able to do it persuasively,

00:36:16.600 you have to have some kind of empathy, you know, and that's what makes, I watched the movie. That's

00:36:21.280 what makes it a, a compelling performance is that even though Brendan Fraser is not a 600-pound man,

00:36:27.120 uh, who's living through the last, what's going to end up being the last week of his life,

00:36:31.400 spoiler alert, um, you still, while you're watching the story, you believe it. And in order for him to

00:36:37.560 make you believe it, he has to kind of understand this character in a way. So it's a, it's a, it's a,

00:36:41.420 it is an empathetic performance. And, uh, almost any good performance is. But it's also not

00:36:47.760 appropriation because, again, it is, it is, it is, uh, everyone understands that it is a performance.

00:36:53.900 He's not taking ownership of this and saying, oh, I now identify as a 600-pound man.

00:37:00.300 On the other hand, you have someone like Dylan Mulvaney, who is actually trying to take,

00:37:05.540 yes, it's a performance, but he's trying to take ownership of the performance and say,

00:37:09.780 this is really me. This is who I am. So that's appropriation, but we have it exactly flipped

00:37:15.640 around. Meanwhile, uh, Jamie Lee Curtis won an Oscar for her role in, uh, the film Everything

00:37:21.580 Everywhere All at Once, which, uh, I did watch that one. I, well, I watched two-thirds of it and I

00:37:28.500 couldn't get through the rest. And I, I don't often, you know, I'll turn a, I'll frequently turn a

00:37:35.340 movie off in the first five minutes because it's not worth my time. If I got two-thirds of the way

00:37:39.080 through, I almost always finish because you figure, well, I've made it this far. I've

00:37:42.620 already wasted my time. I might as well see how it all ends. But this film was so obnoxious

00:37:47.660 and pointless that I couldn't, I couldn't do it anymore. And I turned it off. But she won

00:37:52.200 the Oscar anyway for a small role. And here she is talking about her Oscar trophy.

00:37:57.320 Oh, look at this. Here, here they are. Have we named her? Who was her? I'm, I'm in support

00:38:07.160 of my daughter, Ruby. I'm, I'm having them be a they them. Oh, I'm, I'm gonna just call them

00:38:16.560 them. They them. And, um, they are doing great and, uh, they're settling in. Um, and, um, I couldn't,

00:38:25.440 I mean, I just, in my life, I never thought in a million years that I would have this couple days.

00:38:34.460 And I'm, I'm, um, very, very moved by the whole thing. Wow. That's powerful. Her Oscar trophy is a

00:38:42.920 they them. You know, I saw someone, uh, I don't know, I confess, I don't know anything at all about

00:38:46.880 Jamie Lee Curtis's, um, uh, you know, her, her personal life and, and her biographical details.

00:38:53.380 But I saw someone on Twitter mentioned this, that she has, I guess, two kids. And one of them is,

00:39:01.780 uh, identifies as a, I think a non-binary trans furry or something. And is a YouTuber, um, furry demon. 0.98

00:39:12.040 I think, and that's Ruby. And then Jamie Lee Curtis also has a daughter, a real daughter,

00:39:21.400 who's like a normal person and is a teacher or something and works with, uh, works with kids

00:39:26.800 and, and people with, uh, with, uh, disabilities. And yet she spends most of her time talking about

00:39:34.020 the trans furry, you know, YouTuber. That's who she apparently is the most proud of.

00:39:41.540 Tells you everything you need to know about Hollywood, I suppose.

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00:41:02.980 for more details and safety information. I have to briefly mention this because my wife,

00:41:09.540 though being a great woman, as mentioned earlier, also almost got herself canceled today. She almost 0.99

00:41:14.480 made it into the daily cancellation. It's been a little while since she's been there and she,

00:41:18.820 she almost earned another trip. So here's what she did. She, she went out and I can't,

00:41:27.480 don't ask me to explain this because I can't, but she went out and bought harmonicas,

00:41:33.040 harmonicas for all of our kids, except the two babies. So she didn't get harmonicas for the

00:41:39.360 infants at least. So for the four kids, she got harmonicas again, can't explain why can't even

00:41:44.880 theorize, but she got them all harmonicas. And so this is what my house sounded like all weekend.

00:41:52.440 Yeah. You can hear my six-year-old silence everyone for a moment so that they can hear

00:42:17.440 his harmonica solo. And that was my, that was my life all weekend. It was just that I kept

00:42:22.820 confiscating the harmonicas and, but then they would end up back in circulation again. And I,

00:42:28.800 you know, I, I would, I took them out to eat on Saturday at a restaurant. Two of them pulled out

00:42:33.820 their harmonicas at the, at the restaurant and started playing them. My daughter started playing

00:42:38.600 harmonica in the car, almost drove into a tree. And I, the thing is, I, this is what makes it,

00:42:43.460 I like the harmonica, or at least I used to. And so we're, we're driving in the car and all the

00:42:48.840 songs I put on that are on my Spotify playlist, all of them have, have harmonicas in them because

00:42:54.100 prior to this, I thought that there's no bad way to play a harmonica and a harmonica improves every

00:43:01.540 song. And so I put, you know, I'm just listening to music. The kids are in the car and my, my daughter

00:43:07.100 pulls out the harmonica, starts playing along to the music, debunking my theory about a harmonica,

00:43:12.580 making everything sound better. It was like being followed around by a, by a, like a blues traveler

00:43:16.920 cover band all weekend. The good news now is that they've all been lost. So that's, you know, you,

00:43:23.800 you buy your kids a noisy toy and within three, three, four days, they're all gone. And when I say

00:43:28.980 lost, I mean, quote unquote, they've been lost. I don't know what happened to them. William Baker

00:43:33.480 says, I was in Nashville and saw a bachelorette party with their cash app handle displayed. I did the

00:43:38.120 fair and equitable thing and requested $5 from them. They still have not paid.

00:43:42.580 Uh, I think that's a great response. That's what people need to start doing.

00:43:45.800 This is a big thing in Nashville. I don't know. I've complained before about this. I don't know

00:43:49.700 how common it is. I do a fair amount of traveling. I don't see it as much in other cities, but

00:43:54.960 in particular, because Nashville is unfortunately the bachelorette party capital of the, of the world,

00:44:02.640 we get a lot of this of, you know, women driving around in their cars with their cash app or Venmo or 1.00

00:44:09.780 whatever proudly displayed on their windshield panhandling. And these are all like, it's okay.

00:44:17.360 If you're a woman, you can, you came with all your friends to Nashville for a bachelorette party 1.00

00:44:21.280 that already tells me you might not be rich, but you're not impoverished. If you've got the money to

00:44:26.800 go to another city for a, for a, to party all weekend, then, uh, you're not, uh, you're not exactly

00:44:33.780 a person in need. And yet they, there's no compunction about essentially you put it on

00:44:40.540 your windshield. Then every single person who happens to be behind you in traffic, you're

00:44:44.920 asking them for money. Um, no shame at all. Jared says, I had the opposite problem as Kaepernick.

00:44:53.540 I asked my parents for a rat tail and they were 100% on board. Now I have pictures of myself with a

00:44:59.820 rat tail hairstyle and a, uh, teenage mutant Ninja turtle sweater. Well, that was just the nineties

00:45:04.940 for you, but that is, uh, it just goes to show. It's like we talked about during the headlines.

00:45:09.740 You know, you can't, you cannot say yes to everything your kids want. And in the nineties,

00:45:13.920 for some reason, there were a lot of parents who said yes to the rat tail. And I, even at the time,

00:45:21.160 I never quite understood that. I mean, it's work. You call the hairstyle a rat tail. It doesn't

00:45:28.640 even sound appealing based on the, based on the name. And yet there were many parents and now

00:45:34.220 their, their children have to live with those, uh, photos in circulation for the rest of their lives.

00:45:40.060 Um, Kitty Gaming Toons says, I'd like to see Matt Walsh debate Dylan Mulvaney. That'd be a fun

00:45:46.720 video idea. Well, that would, that would certainly never happen. Uh, none of these people are going to

00:45:53.560 put themselves in a position, intentionally put themselves in a position of being, uh, of being

00:45:58.960 scrutinized. I think that's one thing that we've, that we've learned. Becca says, I'll be honest.

00:46:04.060 Up until recently, I was very left-wing, very liberal. I heard all the nasty things said about

00:46:07.820 Matt Walsh and I believe them, but to make a long story short after digging around for myself and

00:46:11.520 actually watching your content, I'm really, really, really starting to question my political opinions.

00:46:16.160 I've always thought the gender ideology stuff was kind of strange, but I figured it was probably some

00:46:19.580 kind of internalized insert, insert buzzword phobia. Now I'm thinking that my first reaction was right.

00:46:25.560 It is strange and worse than that. It's wrong and dangerous. That has led me to questioning a lot of

00:46:30.960 stuff. And it's also led to me beginning to really love your videos and all that you're doing. Mr.

00:46:35.520 Walsh, keep it up because you're changing people and doing good. Well, Becca, I appreciate that. Um,

00:46:41.320 although I'm, I'm, uh, sorry, I have to be the one to tell you this, but you don't exist, Becca. I don't

00:46:47.500 know if you realize that, but you don't exist. At least I've been told, I've been reliably informed

00:46:51.440 that people like you don't exist. That would be someone on the left who can be persuaded by

00:46:58.140 simple, sometimes blunt arguments that are presented without, you know, a lot of, uh,

00:47:04.580 without going out of the way to make them make it, you know, make it gentle and give a soft landing.

00:47:10.980 That's what I'm told. Like the way that I approach things, it could never be persuasive to someone like

00:47:17.000 you. So either what I'm being told is wrong or you don't exist. I don't know. We'll have to think

00:47:23.760 about that. What if I told you there's one book that has done more for literacy than any other book?

00:47:29.120 It's shaped literature, art, culture, government, countless lives. I'm of course referring to,

00:47:34.720 uh, Johnny the Walrus. No, I'm referring to the Bible. Actually, Johnny the Walrus is second place.

00:47:39.520 You know who else has, uh, has, uh, it's had an influence on that is Jordan Peterson. In addition to

00:47:43.440 his Exodus series, Jordan has a documentary called Logos and Literacy, where he traces the Bible

00:47:47.900 through history to show you the impact it's had on the Western world. Uh, here's the trailer. Check

00:47:52.460 it out. I was very much struck by how the translation of the biblical writings jump-started the development

00:48:00.180 of literacy across the entire world. Illiteracy was the norm. The pastor's home was the first school

00:48:06.960 and every morning it would begin with singing. The Christian faith is a singing religion. Probably 0.97

00:48:13.960 80% of scripture memorization today exists only because of what is sung. This is amazing. Here

00:48:19.640 we have a Gutenberg Bible, Bible printed on the press of Johann Gutenberg. Science and religion

00:48:27.480 are opposing forces in the world, but historically that has not been the case. Now the book is available

00:48:34.520 to everyone. From Shakespeare to modern education and medicine and science to, to civilization itself.

00:48:43.800 It is the most influential book in all of history and hopefully people can walk away with at least

00:48:50.700 a sense of that. Now, you know, this is the part where I normally tell you that Logos and Literacy

00:48:57.240 is only for Daily Wire Plus members, but actually we're making it available for free for everyone

00:49:02.200 at dailywireplus.com. But it's only for a limited time. We don't do this very often, so take advantage

00:49:07.380 of it. Go watch Logos and Literacy today at dailywireplus.com. Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:49:18.180 Last week, the Daily Wire published the book Stolen Youth by Carol Markowitz and Bethany Mandel.

00:49:24.360 And the book exposes the left's assault on childhood, which is waged largely through indoctrination

00:49:29.400 campaigns by the media, the education system, the entertainment business, and of course the medical

00:49:33.540 industry. It's an important book on a crucial topic. I'd recommend that you pick up a copy and

00:49:37.580 give it a read. Of course, the problem with writing a book is that once it comes out, you have to promote

00:49:42.520 it. And promoting it means you have to do an ungodly number of interviews where you answer the same sorts

00:49:47.860 of questions over and over and over and over again. And you would hope that the repetition would make you

00:49:53.140 sharper. You know, you have better honed answers each time, but it doesn't always work out that way.

00:49:57.540 The excessive exposure to cameras and microphones can instead lead to minor flubs and gaffes, brain farts

00:50:04.760 to use the medical term. And this wouldn't be a huge deal except for the fact that we live in the era of

00:50:10.500 social media where the peanut gallery is looking for any opportunity to turn a brief mental lapse into an

00:50:15.660 entire news cycle. That's what happened this week to one of the authors of the book, Bethany Mandel, when she 0.92

00:50:21.480 appeared on a show called Rising yesterday to promote her book. And she was asked in the interview to

00:50:27.440 define the word woke. And through being asked that question, Mandel momentarily fumbled over the

00:50:35.360 answer. And that was all the left-wing mob needed. Her name was soon trending nationwide, thousands of 0.99

00:50:40.620 people jumping on the dogpile. There were articles published in mainstream media outlets like the

00:50:45.400 Washington Post and the Independent. The left ruthlessly mocked her for not having a pithy definition 0.62

00:50:51.440 of woke ready to go. Claiming that this lapse somehow proves that the conservative critique of

00:50:56.420 wokeness is illegitimate. The Washington Post headline summarizes this line of thinking.

00:51:02.300 It said, quote, a viral moment reinforces the hollowness of woke as an attack. Meanwhile,

00:51:08.040 leftists on social media claimed that the viral moment is evidence somehow that the term woke is a

00:51:13.340 bigoted term. A guy named Torre posted, quote, at this point, woke is a slur. The way the right uses it

00:51:19.340 is an undercover way of saying those people or non-white people. It's a polite way of saying 1.00

00:51:24.680 the N-word. But in this case, the N-word includes blacks, LGBTQ folks, and other marginalized groups.

00:51:31.300 Well, of course, you know, obviously woke is a racial slur. It's a term conservatives use after

00:51:36.340 all, which means that it's racist automatically. Whatever else we can say about it, we must begin

00:51:42.080 by calling it racist and also end by calling it racist. Because of course, everything is racist.

00:51:46.640 As for the clip that has provoked all of this reaction, let's just watch that and then we'll

00:51:52.260 discuss. Here it is.

00:51:54.100 Native Americans consider themselves very liberal and probably fewer of them consider themselves to

00:51:59.200 be woke. And so, you know, when we talk about traditional- What does that mean to you?

00:52:02.740 Would you mind defining woke? Because it's come up a couple of times and I just want to make sure

00:52:05.740 we're on the same page. So, I mean, woke is sort of the idea that, this is going to be one of those

00:52:21.620 moments that goes viral. I mean, woke is something that's very hard to define and we've spent an

00:52:25.980 entire chapter defining it. It is sort of the understanding that we need to totally reimagine

00:52:32.560 and redo society in order to create hierarchies of oppression. Sorry, it's hard to explain in a 15

00:52:44.080 second soundbite. Okay, so two points here. First, if I was asked to define woke, I would say that it's

00:52:52.380 a cult or a secular religion, which teaches that society is systemically oppressive towards certain

00:52:59.400 supposedly marginalized groups. The cult believes that our institutions were built expressly with

00:53:04.500 the purpose of oppressing these groups. And the only way to combat the oppression is to tear down the

00:53:09.320 institutions and restructure them according to the doctrines of the cult. Nothing can exist for its

00:53:15.100 own sake when it comes to wokeness. No institution can have any purpose above or beyond the enforcement

00:53:21.580 of those doctrines. The ultimate goal, according to the cult, is equity. And equity simply means that

00:53:27.360 the imagined oppression of their favored groups has been counteracted by policies that artificially

00:53:33.900 elevate those same groups. And of course, in the woke religion, the Satan figure is the

00:53:38.800 heterosexual white male. And each member of this group inherits the collective guilt of the 0.59

00:53:44.980 oppressor. In fact, you could probably define the term woke this way, too. A woke person is anyone who

00:53:50.680 thinks that heterosexual white males are the villains of history. If they hold that belief, then it's almost

00:53:56.200 always certain that the rest of it will come with it. Now, if some conservatives struggle maybe to define

00:54:03.200 the term woke, it's only because they're being too generous. You know, there are some on the right who

00:54:08.340 want to see the woke left as distinct from the left generally. They seek to define wokeness in a way

00:54:14.680 that lets what they consider to be the average leftist off the hook. But there's no way to do that.

00:54:21.280 Wokeness is just another term for leftism. You can also define it that way. What's a woke person? A leftist.

00:54:26.640 That's what we're talking about. There is no daylight between like the stereotypical blue-haired woke

00:54:33.540 tick-tock they-them and the most mainstream Democrat political figure. Okay, there's no daylight

00:54:39.840 ideologically between these two. They are identical ideologically. The term woke only becomes complicated

00:54:45.880 and hard to define when you're trying to find some way to differentiate mainstream leftism from

00:54:52.000 wokeness. But they can't be differentiated. Woke is another word for leftist, which is why I personally

00:54:59.060 don't use the term woke very often because leftist suffices just fine. Second point, leftists, you know,

00:55:06.700 the woke crowd, whatever you want to call them, they are certainly not in a position to make fun of

00:55:12.080 anyone else for struggling to define a word. If there's another defining feature of wokeness is that

00:55:18.780 it creates a world governed from top to bottom by double standards. And here we find yet another

00:55:24.460 one. These people can't objectively define any of the terms they use, and yet they point and laugh

00:55:31.200 at someone else for fumbling over a definition. Most infamously, of course, they can't define the word

00:55:36.800 woman. But the difference between woman and woke is that the latter is an ideology, which means that

00:55:43.620 it actually is a human construct. It actually is somewhat fluid and changing. It really does exist

00:55:50.980 on a spectrum of sorts. You know, ideologies really do exist on a spectrum. There are bits of it,

00:55:59.760 many bits, in fact, that are murky and vague. This means that it's not terribly shocking or hilarious

00:56:05.900 when a person fails to come up with a pithy definition on the spot. I can guarantee that none of

00:56:09.880 these leftists making fun of Bethany Mandel would perform any better if we asked them to define

00:56:14.580 fascism on the spot. And although they throw the term fascism around all over the place,

00:56:19.860 I wouldn't necessarily blame them for not having a one-sentence definition ready to go,

00:56:23.840 because ideologies are a bit more complicated than that, and a bit more abstract, and sometimes

00:56:31.120 ambiguous. A woman, on the other hand, is not an ideology. Woman is an objective biological reality. 0.98

00:56:37.540 Human beings didn't invent womanhood the way that we invent ideologies. It's not an idea. It's not a

00:56:43.500 political concept. Woman has a basic one-sentence definition, adult human female, that every rational 0.98

00:56:49.500 person should know and should be able to cite whenever asked. And yet the left, the woke mob,

00:56:56.020 cannot provide this definition. I mean, Mandel briefly struggled to define an idea. That's what she'd be.

00:57:03.400 How do you define this idea? Well, these people struggle to define ideas, but they also struggle

00:57:09.220 to define literally everything else, including the fundamental biological realities of nature.

00:57:15.800 It's one thing to put an ideological label on someone else and then briefly struggle to define

00:57:21.820 that label. It's another thing entirely to label yourself something, like saying, I identify as a woman,

00:57:28.960 and then being completely unable to define what you labeled yourself. Okay, because that's the gotcha

00:57:36.100 moment here, right? They say, the left, they say, well, you call all these people woke, and then we ask

00:57:41.140 you what you mean by woke, and you can't tell us. Well, no, we can tell you. It might take more than one

00:57:46.900 sentence, but we can tell you. Meanwhile, you're calling yourself something that you can't then explain.

00:57:53.320 How much more ridiculous is that? It's not just a minor gaffe or a gotcha moment. Rather, it reveals

00:58:00.380 the fundamental incoherence of your entire worldview. But that, again, is another feature of

00:58:05.620 wokeness. Perhaps it's a defining feature before anything else. It is an ideology that contradicts

00:58:11.140 and negates itself at every turn. An ideology that asserts things as true and yet denies that truth

00:58:17.860 exists. It is an ideology of confusion, most of all. Maybe that's how we would define it.

00:58:25.020 Wokeness is confusion made into an ideology. I think that works, too. And that is why Bethany Mandel

00:58:32.160 is not canceled. Instead, her woke cancelers are today canceled. And that'll do it for the show today

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00:58:47.700 talk to you tomorrow. Godspeed.

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