The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1131 - Media Panics Over 'Dangerous' Trad Wife Trend

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Walsh Show, the media is warning about a dangerous and perverse new

00:00:04.300 trend that has taken over TikTok. It's called being a stay-at-home mom. Very scary stuff,

00:00:09.440 at least as far as the left is concerned. Also, journalists have managed to dig up some shocking

00:00:13.260 dirt on Ron DeSantis. Turns out that he has bad table manners, which is a big deal, I guess.

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00:01:39.020 Recently, our cultural authority figures, the people who decide what we're supposed to think and what

00:01:43.800 we're supposed to do and what our values and goals and aspirations are supposed to be,

00:01:47.640 have become very alarmed by a perverse and dangerous new trend among young women in particular. 0.98

00:01:54.840 Of course, I'm not talking about the trend where young women have their breasts removed and then

00:02:00.240 start injecting themselves with testosterone so that their hair falls out and they grow beards and

00:02:04.640 they become infertile. The gatekeepers are not concerned about that trend at all. If anything,

00:02:09.200 they're worried that the trend isn't even more popular than it already is. No, instead,

00:02:13.880 they're deeply worried about women who choose the so-called trad wife lifestyle. Over the past

00:02:19.880 couple of years, a growing number of women have started posting TikTok videos describing and 0.55

00:02:24.380 documenting their day-to-day existence as trad wives, quote unquote. What is a trad wife? Well, 0.93

00:02:30.300 she is a woman who stays home to take care of the house, takes care of the children while her husband 1.00

00:02:36.080 goes to work. She does most of the cooking and the cleaning. She handles the lion's share of the 1.00

00:02:40.520 domestic labor while relying on her husband to be the provider and breadwinner. In other words, 1.00

00:02:46.300 she is just a normal woman doing what many millions of other normal women have done before her, 0.99

00:02:54.100 which is why my only objection really to the trad wife trend is that we're calling it a trend

00:02:59.460 and we're giving it a cutesy name and a hashtag. That's my only problem with it. My wife would fit 1.00

00:03:05.540 the description of a quote unquote trad wife, but not because she's taking part in a TikTok trend.

00:03:10.100 We've been living this way for 10 years and I wouldn't really call it a lifestyle either,

00:03:14.040 but rather a system that works for us just as it has worked for the majority of families

00:03:20.100 all over the world since the dawn of human civilization, even before the industrial age

00:03:24.380 and the advent of the modern nine to five job. Before that, the phrase or the term stay-at-home mom

00:03:31.640 didn't exist. Still, even then, most families featured a man who would go out,

00:03:37.200 whether to the fields to farm or the forest to hunt or later to the office to earn a paycheck,

00:03:43.240 and a woman who stays in the home to care for the children. This is a very standard arrangement. 0.98

00:03:49.140 The women on TikTok aren't inventing a trend, but rather they're partaking in a way of life that is 1.00

00:03:54.740 ancient and enduring and battle-tested. But that's not how the left sees it. As an article on foxnews.com

00:04:02.040 reports, quote,

00:04:03.040 Donning elaborate dresses, fastening an apron around their waist, and popping in their finest

00:04:08.900 pearl earrings, or at least some iteration of pearls, for another round of household chores or

00:04:13.780 cooking, more and more young women are following in the footsteps of the quintessential mid-century 1.00

00:04:18.400 housewife thanks to the latest TikTok trend. But while some women are eager to shirk all the hustle 1.00

00:04:23.700 and bustle of today's corporate world and channel Barbara Billingsley as June Cleaver, 1.00

00:04:27.940 others are none too happy with the trend. Quote,

00:04:31.200 The new trend for submissive women has a dark heart in history, reads one headline from The Guardian.

00:04:36.140 An article from Hype Bay slapped the videos as disturbing, writing that they, quote,

00:04:41.560 typically feature a cis-straight white woman longing for the 50s, an era where some women could opt out

00:04:48.300 of participating in the corporate working world and be stay-at-home mothers instead. 0.54

00:04:52.620 And a third from Grazia Magazine accused the trend of, quote,

00:04:55.860 Romanticizing an era where sexism and racism ruled.

00:05:00.600 We can also add a recent CNN article which calls trad wives, otherwise known as housewives or

00:05:05.140 stay-at-home moms, a, quote, fringe subculture. Meanwhile, a piece by Insider says that many of

00:05:11.760 these women are promoting white supremacist views. This was the argument made this week in a video by 1.00

00:05:18.220 a left-wing media organization called Novara Media. A woman named Ash Sakhar argues that trad wives are

00:05:24.800 really just agents of a far-right political agenda. Here she is. 0.64

00:05:29.240 Though the idea of women being confined to the home while men do things like go outside and work

00:05:33.860 isn't exactly new, the image of 1950s suburban domesticity has been given a new lease of life

00:05:39.580 by the gals on TikTok.

00:05:41.140 Can you imagine me, the wife of that boorish, painless madame? 1.00

00:05:47.740 Some younger millennials and zoomers have decided to embrace living la vida casserole, 1.00

00:05:53.060 dedicating themselves to cooking, cleaning and child rearing while their husbands or boyfriends,

00:05:57.880 I don't know, chop firewood or go to their job in human resources. And look, I'm not saying

00:06:02.040 there's anything inherently degrading about being a mom or making nice meals. I like cooking elaborate

00:06:07.640 dinners. For that matter, my boyfriend does too. But the trad wife trend isn't just a way to talk 1.00

00:06:14.040 about the experience of being a woman and doing domestic labor. It's saying that being a woman 1.00

00:06:20.840 or expressing your femininity most fully means doing all the domestic labor. Men and women are

00:06:27.440 meant to have rigidly distinct roles in the home, in their relationships and crucially in economic

00:06:33.640 activity. So this isn't just about personal choice or individual preferences. It's advancing a right-wing

00:06:41.240 political ideology and dressing it up as a lifestyle. So why is this important? Three things.

00:06:49.840 These women are often really young, in their twenties, and they're preaching the values of 1.00

00:06:55.460 submitting to a husband to an audience of other young women. The trad wife trend doesn't exist in 0.84

00:07:00.700 isolation. It's linked to deeply regressive political and social movements such as Christian 1.00

00:07:05.860 and white nationalism and anti-feminism. Feminism is an ideology which cannot be defended 1.00

00:07:10.620 by feminists. It's part of a wider shift of young people being dissatisfied with neoliberalism 0.97

00:07:15.500 and wanting social change. Well, she's right about that last point. Not any of the rest of it,

00:07:22.280 but the last point anyway. But before we flesh that out, let's consider a few other points.

00:07:27.900 First, you see how stigmatization is perhaps the left's most common and useful tool. Always has been.

00:07:33.960 I mean, even as they claim that they want people to be free to live their lives without judgment,

00:07:38.720 the truth is that they have a very rigid idea about what sorts of lifestyles should be embraced.

00:07:44.840 And the standard is very simple, actually. It's not complicated. We should celebrate any and all

00:07:49.880 lifestyles that would not be traditionally considered normal. Okay? That's the one rule. So live how you want,

00:07:58.240 just don't be normal. That's why they use a term like fringe subculture to describe a

00:08:03.640 housewife in an apron who would, you know, but they would never put such a label on a man in a wig 0.54

00:08:09.260 and a skirt standing up to pee in the women's restroom. He's not part of a fringe subculture.

00:08:15.780 Instead, a 25-year-old woman with two kids and a husband baking a casserole. She's the fringe 0.99

00:08:20.760 weirdo, the degenerate pervert. Now, if that same woman was doing all the same things, but happened to 1.00

00:08:27.680 actually be a man, then she, or he in this case, would be revered as a bold and powerful woman 0.99

00:08:33.480 daring to live her life as she wishes. The problem with the actual real woman living this way is that 1.00

00:08:39.660 she, again, is normal. And while they shame normalcy as perverse and they treat perversion as normal,

00:08:46.900 they somehow have succeeded in convincing many conservatives to not respond in kind,

00:08:52.380 as we should. So they will openly call stay-at-home moms a fringe subculture while insisting that we 0.99

00:09:00.240 must never use such language to describe lifestyles that are actually degenerate. And again, many

00:09:07.100 conservatives willingly play along with this. They willingly play by this rule. The left accuses the

00:09:13.900 trad wife of engaging in a political act. But the truth is that, you know, what they're really angry

00:09:21.480 about is they're angry that she isn't engaging in a political act. She's simply living in a way that

00:09:29.680 is healthy and traditional, and she's prioritizing her family. She is not turning her entire existence

00:09:37.560 into a political statement. She is focused on things deeper and more meaningful than that.

00:09:43.200 And that is what infuriates them. Remember that these are people who've structured their whole lives

00:09:48.760 around opposing traditional values. They're not even pursuing happiness or fulfillment or meaning.

00:09:55.820 They'll settle for misery so long as their misery is a protest against the value systems they despise.

00:10:02.260 Except that, ultimately, their misery only confirms and supports that very same value system.

00:10:08.520 And that's where the woman in the video had it right, I think. People are deeply dissatisfied

00:10:14.520 with the life that leftism has given them. These so-called trad wives, they grew up in a society 0.99

00:10:21.300 that told them that men and women are the same, that we ought to have exactly identical roles in

00:10:27.180 society, that it's demeaning, it's oppressive to prioritize raising children and caring for your

00:10:33.120 family, that fulfillment is found in serving your boss rather than your spouse, that a strong and

00:10:38.880 independent woman is one who depends on her employer rather than her husband. 0.88

00:10:42.180 And they were raised in a culture that takes all of these ideas for granted.

00:10:47.640 They were socialized and conditioned to accept them as gospel truth. And many of them did for a time.

00:10:54.700 And then discovered that it was all a lie. You know, the most basic problem with leftism is that

00:11:00.240 it is just hollow at its core. It doesn't have an answer, or at least not a satisfying answer,

00:11:07.020 to the question of why we're here on this earth and what we're supposed to be doing with our time.

00:11:14.520 This ambiguity, this lack of answers is presented to us as freedom, but it's the freedom of being

00:11:23.680 lost in the woods, the freedom of having no idea where to go or why. That's not freedom, that's

00:11:29.420 abandonment. And this is what has happened to multiple generations of Americans. They've been brought

00:11:35.400 down a path with promises of happiness and fulfillment around the corner, and then they were just left

00:11:41.360 there, abandoned. This is the source of much of the epidemic of despair, what we now call depression

00:11:50.380 in our society. It stems from this, not from mental illness, but from this, that you have generated

00:11:57.580 millions of Americans that were led down a path. They said, well, come this way. Don't go that way.

00:12:02.080 Okay, that's the way that all of your ancestors went. That's the way that people for thousands of

00:12:06.700 years went. Don't go that way. Come this way instead. And all these people listened. They said,

00:12:12.560 okay, I'll go that way. And then one day they looked around and they said, well, where are we exactly?

00:12:17.580 What's the point of this? Where were you taking us? We're just lost here now. We're stuck.

00:12:22.880 So the people who are returning to traditional lives, who are making the radical decision to

00:12:30.480 focus on their families and their marriages and so on, these are people simply deciding to live with

00:12:37.700 some sense of direction, to live with meaning. Okay, that's what they're doing. They're not making

00:12:46.680 some white supremacist radical political statement. They are reclaiming meaning in their lives.

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00:14:15.660 Well, one thing is clear. It's been clear for a long time. The media is terrified of Ron DeSantis

00:14:21.020 and of his candidacy, his potential candidacy for president. Ultimately, they hate DeSantis more than

00:14:28.180 they hate Trump. And I've been saying that for a while. And the reason is that they recognize

00:14:34.040 that Ron DeSantis is effective at wielding state power to advance a conservative agenda. He's done

00:14:42.400 that in Florida. He's able to do that. He's willing to do it. He knows how to do it. That's something

00:14:47.180 that Trump never learned how to do. He didn't. And so Ron DeSantis is a greater threat to them.

00:14:56.120 And it's also why we've seen the personal hit pieces and the rumor mongering pickup steam recently.

00:15:01.240 Um, it's, uh, but, but it turns out that Ron DeSantis is, I guess, squeaky clean and his closets

00:15:09.300 are free of all skeletons because the stuff they're coming up with to hit him with it's, it's, um,

00:15:14.600 well, it's not exactly earth shattering. We can say that. And most of it just makes me like him even

00:15:19.780 more. So for example, a few days ago, reports were circulating that Ron DeSantis, um, wasn't,

00:15:25.960 he was in Congress, of course, before he became a governor of Florida and reports were circulating

00:15:31.600 that he wasn't well liked by his Republican colleagues when he was in Congress. And, uh,

00:15:38.120 he didn't make a lot of friends and he wasn't invited to the parties and he didn't hang out

00:15:41.760 with them. He was kind of a loner. He was on his own. Uh, there was, there was one quote saying he

00:15:46.720 didn't seem to like being in DC. He didn't even want to be there. And this is supposed to make us

00:15:52.240 like him less somehow, which I'm trying to figure out how that works, because that's exactly what I

00:15:57.580 want to hear. The last thing I want to hear is that, um, is that someone who loves being in DC,

00:16:04.980 loves the environment, is making tons of friends. That's who we don't want in the White House.

00:16:13.240 So that just makes me like him more. And then there's this from media. This is the latest. This

00:16:17.760 was the big, uh, expose that was published yesterday, not by media, but by the Daily

00:16:23.620 Beast. And they are reporting on that. A new report on Florida Governor Ron DeSantis provided

00:16:27.200 further detail on his well-documented struggles with personal public engagement, a quirk that

00:16:32.000 reportedly includes unorthodox table manners. A new Daily Beast report on DeSantis, which comes

00:16:37.000 amid ongoing speculation about his 2024 ambitions, tackled concerns about his aloof persona, aversion to

00:16:43.000 public interactions, and the distance he keeps from voters and reporters alike. The reporting

00:16:48.140 on the governor's personality and social graces delved into unflattering stories that the Beast

00:16:52.260 uncovered about him from over the years, namely his propensity to devour food during meetings.

00:16:58.940 From the article, quote, he would sit in meetings and eat in front of people, a former DeSantis

00:17:03.980 staffer told the Daily Beast, always like a starving animal who's never eaten before, getting

00:17:08.640 everywhere. I assume they mean getting food everywhere, not literally getting everywhere.

00:17:14.780 Um, I mean, if that was happening, then I would agree that it's a problem.

00:17:18.280 Enshrined in DeSantis' lore is an episode from four years ago. During a private plane trip from

00:17:22.580 Tallahassee to Washington, D.C. in March of 2019, DeSantis enjoyed a chocolate pudding dessert by eating

00:17:28.600 it with three of his fingers, according to two sources familiar with the incident.

00:17:32.660 Representative for DeSantis' political team did not return a request for comment on it.

00:17:36.380 I can't imagine why not. They have reporters beating down their door asking for comment on

00:17:43.900 a report that he ate pudding with his fingers. I'm surprised to, you know, this is the kind of

00:17:50.380 thing we need to, uh, we need a, an official public statement. We need a press conference.

00:17:56.300 We need all of that. So they actually talked to two sources, multiple sources to confirm that

00:18:02.820 four years ago, Ron DeSantis ate pudding with his fingers. And this is what they come up with.

00:18:08.900 And this is the, like, we can assume, right? We can assume that if they had better stuff than this,

00:18:14.120 they'd be telling us. They've been, they've been, uh, digging through his personal life.

00:18:19.520 They've been talking to anyone who will talk to them. They've been interviewing sources.

00:18:23.560 Okay. They're looking for juicy material about this guy. And the best they can do is that he has bad

00:18:30.160 table manners and that he's, he's not a people person. Doesn't make a lot of friends.

00:18:36.900 Now, as far as eating pudding with your fingers, um, you know, most of the time I would agree that's,

00:18:45.860 that is, that's uncouth. But also what else are you supposed to do if you don't have a spoon? And

00:18:54.640 I, and that's some of the details. If you're going to have this whole report about how he eats pudding,

00:18:59.200 then I think we need more details about why was he eating the pudding with your fingers? What was

00:19:03.860 there a spoon or some other utensil available on the flight? And if there wasn't, then what else are

00:19:09.480 you supposed to do? I ask you this. Okay. You're in a situation where you have pudding, you know,

00:19:15.760 maybe someone hands you chocolate pudding, you ask for a spoon and they tell you, we don't have a

00:19:19.960 spoon. And you say, well, you do, you at least have a fork. I could maybe make that work. They

00:19:23.260 say, we don't have a fork. What are you going to do in that situation? Are you going to not eat the

00:19:28.820 pudding? Are you going to say to yourself, well, I have this delicious pudding here. I'm just not

00:19:32.500 going to eat it. I mean, give me a break. Let's be serious about this. And, uh, in a situation like

00:19:39.900 that, you do what you have to do. What, you know what this tells me? This tells me that,

00:19:45.320 that Ron DeSantis is a man who's not afraid to get his hands dirty, uh, not afraid to do what

00:19:51.480 needs to be done in the moment to get the job done. And that's what I like about him is that

00:19:56.820 he gets the job done. You work with what you have and you make it happen. And that's what he did with

00:20:03.400 this pudding. And so I see it as a, uh, really a microcosm of what makes him an effective governor

00:20:10.120 in the first place. I would argue all the rest of it. I don't care. Look, this, this whole thing,

00:20:16.320 they've been doing this for years where they, um, they want the litmus test for a politician,

00:20:22.100 a president to be, would you want to sit down and have a beer with this person? Would you want to be

00:20:25.780 their friend? I don't give a crap about that. I don't need to feel like now it just so happens that, 0.98

00:20:33.380 uh, I think I could sit down and have a beer with Ron DeSantis and enjoy a conversation with him,

00:20:36.520 but, um, but who cares that I don't need to feel like, well, what are we a bunch of children?

00:20:42.760 Okay. Don't answer that because many voters, that is how we, we act or a bunch of children.

00:20:48.600 We need to, we need to feel like someone running for president can be our friend. Would he be my

00:20:52.600 friend? Who cares? So he doesn't make friends. He's not a personable person. Why does that matter?

00:21:00.200 I don't need that. I don't need you to be friendly. I don't need you to make friends. Um,

00:21:04.940 I don't need you to be a fun guy to hang out with because I'm not hanging out with you. I need you to

00:21:09.560 know how to govern. And I need you to understand how to wield power effectively and in the right way

00:21:16.900 for the right ends. That's what I need. And you know what? It turns out that, that many of the people

00:21:24.520 who fall into that category are, you know, effective leaders. They know how to wield power,

00:21:30.600 um, all those kinds of things. Like often, oftentimes that they're not the most fun to

00:21:37.860 hang out with. It's like a certain, it's a certain personality type, a certain sort of person is good

00:21:44.780 in that role. And often it's not the kind of person that you would want to like sit down and

00:21:52.060 have a beer with. Sometimes the two line up, but it doesn't matter if they do. Um, so what do we

00:21:59.040 learn from this? All we learn is just make sure that like, just make sure Ron DeSantis has a spoon

00:22:03.460 on hand. That's all. I'm pretty sure there are many spoons in the white house. So if you're worried 0.61

00:22:08.820 about this, if you're worried about having a, uh, a, a man in the white house that eats pudding with

00:22:13.400 his fingers, just remember that they have spoons in the white house. I think I'm pretty sure they 0.79

00:22:17.460 probably have a lot of them. So this, this should not be an offense that's repeated. Um, well,

00:22:25.460 it comes to the current occupants of the white house. If you want to know how stupid they are, 1.00

00:22:29.020 uh, here's a, here's a good example. Last week, the house and Senate both unanimously passed a bill 1.00

00:22:35.520 to declassify all the intelligence around the origins of COVID. And this was a unanimous house

00:22:41.680 and Senate. It was zero, no votes. Um, I think there were a couple of people that were voted absent or,

00:22:47.200 you know, not present, but, uh, it was, there was no, it was, it was a, nope, nobody voted against it.

00:22:52.160 Unanimous vote. And I usually say that bipartisan bills are the worst kinds of bills because legislation

00:22:59.060 has to be pretty uniquely terrible to attract the support of both parties, but there are exceptions

00:23:05.540 to every rule. And so this is one, obviously they should declassify whatever information they have.

00:23:11.860 Uh, even if they do declassify it, I'm not going to believe that they really declassified all of it,

00:23:16.760 but still in theory, this is the right thing to do, obviously. Um, now I'm not going to give them

00:23:23.980 much credit for voting for this. They all have reelections or most of them have reelections that

00:23:28.900 they have to worry about. And they don't want to be on the record as being in the minority opposed

00:23:33.640 to transparency when it comes to the origins of COVID. So they really had no choice but to vote in

00:23:38.880 favor of it. Um, and they all did legislation goes to Biden's desk a week later, he still has not

00:23:48.800 signed or even decided what he's going to do with it. And Karen Jean pair was asked about this at the

00:23:53.560 white house yesterday. Let's hear what she said. I wondered if you do have an answer now as to whether

00:23:58.620 or not the president will sign the COVID origins intelligence bill that was announced. So it's,

00:24:04.960 uh, so we are, thank you for the question. I know I was asked about it, I believe on the plane,

00:24:09.120 uh, on Monday, as you just mentioned. So we're looking at it. Uh, we have continued to share

00:24:13.360 information with members of Congress. And as you know, just months after the president came into

00:24:17.620 office, he asked his intelligence community to double down and to take a look of the, of, uh,

00:24:23.420 the origins of the COVID origins, because we believe it's important to get to the bottom of this

00:24:28.320 and to get, and also if, uh, once we have, uh, once the intelligence community has made the,

00:24:33.660 made the assessments, clearly we would share that with the public as it relates to the legislation.

00:24:37.900 We're going to continue to take, we're going to take a look at it and certainly we'll have more

00:24:41.280 to share. We haven't made a decision whether we're just taking a look. We're taking a look into the,

00:24:46.420 uh, into the bill. Just taking a look at it. This is, this is, uh, it should be an easy slam dunk.

00:24:52.960 You don't, you need to spend, uh, first of all, they pass and sign legislation all the time

00:24:59.020 without reading it. So since when do they care about that? This should be, um, I don't know,

00:25:02.560 think about it for half an hour and then sign it. There's nothing really to think about.

00:25:06.760 Yes, obviously the, the public has the right to know everything there is to know about the origins

00:25:12.040 of COVID, but also from a political perspective, you don't have a choice. This is unanimous.

00:25:18.760 It takes two thirds of a vote. Um, it's a, it's a two third vote to override a presidential veto.

00:25:23.120 So even if he did make the politically suicidal decision to, to veto it, it's going to happen anyway.

00:25:28.640 So you might as well just take the win, even if, if Biden would prefer not to declassify

00:25:35.280 because he doesn't want to upset China. Um, you have no choice. So you might as well say,

00:25:39.400 well, yes, absolutely. Of course we're going to sign this right away. We can, this administration

00:25:44.240 cares deeply about transparency. That's going to be the result anyway. So you, from a political

00:25:50.240 perspective, you take ownership of it and pretend that it's what you wanted to do. 1.00

00:25:55.080 Um, but these people are so stupid. They don't even understand that. I don't know why I'm giving 1.00

00:26:00.820 political advice to the Biden administration, not that they'll listen to it anyway. Um, all right,

00:26:06.360 we'll go here in Kentucky, representative Jerry Miller is a former Republican, now Democrat,

00:26:12.400 and he testified against a bill that would ban gender transitions for minors. And here's the, um,

00:26:19.860 the story that he told to explain his position as a grandfather of two girls. I was thrilled to

00:26:27.500 learn my daughter was pregnant with a boy. I thought of all the things we would do together,

00:26:31.720 like playing ball. Uh, that's just not been my reality. Uh, as a toddler, he wasn't interested in

00:26:37.700 balls. He has, uh, she has, uh, focused on, uh, dolls, not balls. He started dressing a girl like 0.99

00:26:49.200 a girl, mainly princess dresses, uh, at age three at home. Uh, my, his mother tried to dissuade him

00:26:57.020 from doing so at age four. My intuitive wife asked the dress chair wearing child if he didn't like being

00:27:02.760 a boy. His response was, quote, inside, I feel like a girl, close quote. My wife accepted that Jonah was

00:27:10.660 different well before I did. I thought it was because he had an older sister that he was competing

00:27:14.820 with. I hoped he would grow out of it, but that has not happened. I still screw up the pronoun thing,

00:27:21.540 uh, but regardless of anything, I'm going to love my grandchild and fight for what I think is best for

00:27:27.880 Jonah. For that reason, um, I urge you to vote against that. Uh, Kentucky constitution, uh, says

00:27:36.840 that we should seek, uh, section one says we are able to seek and pursue safety and happiness.

00:27:42.520 And I ask you, where's Kentucky's compelling government interest, um, in not letting a parent

00:27:48.580 protect their own children's safety and happiness? 0.99

00:27:51.140 What a pathetic excuse for a man. I mean, it's no wonder he supports castration. This is a castrated 0.99

00:28:00.220 man himself. Uh, whether literally, I don't know, but certainly metaphorically just a completely

00:28:08.440 ballless, pathetic, nothing of a man sitting there saying, I'm going to love my grandchild. No, 0.95

00:28:16.180 you don't love him. Actually, you do not love him. You might tell yourself that you do, but you don't.

00:28:21.140 Um, there, there are things that you love a lot more than your grandchild going along with the

00:28:26.420 culture, uh, taking a politically popular position. You know, those things you value a lot more than

00:28:31.400 you do your grandson, because if you loved your grandson, you would fight for, for him and for

00:28:39.420 his wellbeing. And you would, uh, you would do everything you can to protect him from the abuse

00:28:45.560 that he is being subjected to right now. And we, we hear the, the, it's all, it's always the same

00:28:51.800 story. It is always, some of the times that we heard these stories, it's always the same story.

00:28:57.120 Okay. All we've, we've a million times we hear the story about the, uh, the child, the very young

00:29:02.880 child who quote unquote comes out as trans or reveals their true identity, uh, supposedly.

00:29:09.420 And we, we never hear, like, you never hear anything that kind of blows your mind and is,

00:29:17.840 and makes you go, well, wow, you know, maybe that person, maybe that boy really, uh, maybe it really

00:29:22.520 is a girl stuck in a boy's body. Well, I've never heard of anything like that. You never hear any

00:29:26.420 detail. I don't know what that detail would even sound like. I mean, really, there's nothing you

00:29:29.660 could say that would, that would make me accept the proposition that a boy is really a girl because

00:29:35.020 that's a logical contradiction. It doesn't make any sense. There's no way to accept it.

00:29:39.720 But my point is that the story that they tell us always just, oh, it was a boy and he liked to wear

00:29:44.840 dresses when he was two years old. And that's what persuades you that, um, we need to radically alter

00:29:53.440 the very course of life. That's what persuades you that something, that's what persuades you that,

00:29:57.780 that everything you thought you knew about reality itself is wrong because that's what he's actually

00:30:04.060 telling us. What he's telling us is that it turns out that this boy who's a boy in every way is

00:30:11.300 really a girl somehow. Can't explain that. They never explained that. They never tried to explain

00:30:16.020 that. But in order to accept that you would have to first abandon everything you thought you knew

00:30:22.280 about reality, about biology, about everything, everything out the window. And what caused you

00:30:28.100 to radically and fundamentally alter your very perception of reality that a two-year-old boy put

00:30:36.000 a dress on because he was allowed to by his parents? That a two-year-old boy thought that a sparkly thing

00:30:42.480 was pretty? That's what caused you to say, well, maybe everything I think about the world is wrong,

00:30:48.020 it turns out. Um, but I just don't, I don't believe that he's that stupid. And maybe people are, you 1.00

00:30:57.640 know, maybe I've, maybe I have severely overestimated the intelligence of most people. But when I hear

00:31:04.120 stories like that, I think there's no way the guy is that stupid. He cannot be that stupid. 1.00

00:31:10.240 No, he's going along. He, he knows better, but he's going along with it, which makes it even worse. 1.00

00:31:19.520 All right. Um, this video is making the rounds. It's actually from several years ago and it's from

00:31:25.680 an episode of, uh, the price is right. And it's a certain contestant appeared on this show a few

00:31:32.560 years ago and, uh, you may recognize him. Let's watch. You get to spin the wheel, but guess what?

00:31:39.840 You get a second chance in this game first. So, you know, two prices already, which is a great

00:31:47.360 thing. 399 and 599. Which one do you want to keep? I'm going to keep the 599. 599. Something

00:31:54.360 else up here is $5 and 99 cents. You can tell me what it is. You get everything. I'm going to say

00:32:00.040 the soup. Soup. 599. It's pretty fancy. It is. Yes. You got it. Dylan's a winner. Dylan's a winner.

00:32:12.520 Dylan, nice job, man. Look at that. Uh, we're going to spin the wheel right after this. Don't go away,

00:32:19.020 folks. My God. Imagine being the father. Imagine being a dad and you're told that, you know, your

00:32:33.660 son's going to be on price is right. And you sit down and you have a beer and you sit down to watch

00:32:37.960 when price is right. And this is what you see. Imagine seeing your son. I don't know how you go.

00:32:46.240 I don't know how you move on after that. Well, but of course, Dylan. All right. Turn it off,

00:32:55.320 please. Turn. Uh, of course, if Dylan Mulvaney's father thought that this was the worst embarrassment

00:33:02.200 he was ever going to suffer, he had, he was in for a rude awakening as time went on. Now the point

00:33:06.160 here though, is that was a couple of things. First of all, this guy has been starved for

00:33:09.720 attention, you know, for a long time, uh, has been, uh, begging for attention. That's what,

00:33:15.000 that's what all this is about anyway, but also his, you, you note how his performance as a woman,

00:33:24.140 his performance as a woman, as a quote unquote is identical to his performance as a flamboyant

00:33:30.880 homosexual on price is right. And this is a performance as well. Cause like no, no human 1.00

00:33:36.920 being actually acts like that in real life. So this is a before, but it's like, it's a,

00:33:42.000 it's an affect that he's putting on. Um, but it's exactly the same because that's all that a woman is 1.00

00:33:50.400 to the left. That's the left's vision of womanhood. That's all a woman is a woman is a flamboyant gay 1.00

00:33:55.940 man in a dress. So you've got flamboyant gay man. And then you, and then you take that same 1.00

00:34:00.620 flamboyant gay man, change nothing about him, put a dress on him. That's a woman. 1.00

00:34:07.480 That is truly how they see it. Um, okay. We're, uh, moving on quickly. Cause there's

00:34:15.000 several other things we need to talk about, including, okay, we're going to get right to

00:34:18.460 this cause this is the most important. And if I don't mention it now, we might not have time for it.

00:34:22.740 Um, we'll start with the New York post. Pentagon officials said in a draft document last week that

00:34:29.140 aliens could be visiting our solar system and releasing smaller probes, um, uh, missions that

00:34:36.000 are conducted, uh, hold on a second, releasing smaller probes, like missions conducted by NASA

00:34:40.940 when studying other planets. Uh, a draft research report authored by Sean Kirkpatrick, the director

00:34:47.900 of the Pentagon's all domain anomaly resolution office and Abraham Loeb, chairman of the Harvard

00:34:54.180 university's astronomy department was released on March 7th and focuses on the physical constraints

00:34:58.420 of unidentified aerial phenomena. The report read quote, an artificial interstellar object could

00:35:04.960 potentially be a parent craft that releases many small probes during its close passage to earth

00:35:09.980 an operational construct, not too dissimilar from NASA missions. These dandelion seeds could be

00:35:16.360 separated from the parent craft by the title gravitational force of the sun or by a maneuvering

00:35:21.520 capability. The AARO was published in July, 20, 2022, and is responsible for tracking objects in the

00:35:28.740 sky, underwater and in space, or possibly an object that has the ability to move from one domain to the

00:35:33.840 next. Congress tasked NASA to find 90% of all objects near earth that are larger than 140 meters in

00:35:39.800 2005, which resulted in Pan-STARRS telescopes, according to the report. Um, on October 19th,

00:35:48.180 2017, the Pan-STARRS detected an unusual interstellar object that was later named, I never know how to

00:35:54.660 pronounce this or any other word, uh, Uumuamu, we'll just call it O, or, uh, or Scout in Hawaiian. Okay,

00:36:02.400 we'll call it Scout. The object was cigar-shaped, appeared flat, and was propelled away from the sun

00:36:06.960 without showing a commentary tail, leading scientists to believe it was artificial.

00:36:11.960 So this was, um, yes, and then there are images you can see of this, but it's, uh, just a long,

00:36:18.280 flat, it looks like a long, this is, it looks like a cigar. It looks like a long, flat object

00:36:21.780 that, uh, we know is interstellar, and there are some scientists who think that it might be,

00:36:27.400 they don't know exactly, but it might be artificial. It might be some kind of, uh, you know,

00:36:31.420 alien technology. It could be a piece of something that broke off. Who knows?

00:36:36.960 But this is what scientists are now speculating about, that maybe, and this would explain,

00:36:41.960 uh, some of what we see in the skies, some of what military pilots have seen, the Navy pilots,

00:36:47.360 um, where you've got these small, which seem to be vehicles that are moving around in odd ways,

00:36:52.980 and they don't seem to be propelled by their, there's no propulsion device that we can see

00:36:56.860 that's noticeable to us. And so maybe these are probes that are being sent from a larger craft,

00:37:01.280 sent down to check out Earth, and then they go back to the parent craft and, uh, go on their way.

00:37:07.720 It's a possible theory, but you have scientists who are speculating about this.

00:37:12.720 Meanwhile, Tucker Carlson was recently on a podcast and had a really interesting conversation about

00:37:17.200 UFOs. The whole conversation is 10 minutes long, and I debated playing the entire thing on this show,

00:37:22.280 but, uh, I thought that might be pressing it a little bit. So instead we have,

00:37:25.520 it's still kind of long, it's about two and a half minutes, but it's an interesting story,

00:37:29.180 um, and with a little bit of a firsthand account here from Tucker Carlson, uh, just go ahead and

00:37:35.800 listen. The Pentagon was required by the last defense authorization bill to, like, produce some

00:37:41.400 of their files on UFOs, and it turns out they have known about this since the end of the Second

00:37:45.720 World War, which ended in 1945. Been a huge increase during that war, during the war as well.

00:37:52.300 Huge increase in UFO sightings, in UFO crashes, et cetera, et cetera. And it turns out the federal

00:38:00.100 government has been tracking this for 80 years and lying about it. So why? Well, that's a great

00:38:04.540 question, and I can't answer it. I have theories, but I don't know. But here's what I learned.

00:38:09.440 Just to, the first question is, is this real? Or am I just being a crazy person who's spending too

00:38:14.120 much time on the internet? Well, this summer we got a call. We didn't reach out. This person called us.

00:38:19.640 Lexi, who's standing right there, who's a genius, one of our producers, gets his call from this guy

00:38:24.120 who's a tenured Stanford medical school professor, and he wants to come on the show. Now, this guy

00:38:29.600 has a couple patents, and so he's rich. And he's got tenure at one of the most prestigious schools

00:38:34.820 in the world. So, like, he's not a flake. He comes on, and he's like, 11 years ago, the US

00:38:41.000 government reached out to me because I'm an expert on head injuries, on brain injuries, traumatic brain

00:38:46.520 injuries, as a physician. And they had all these court cases from families of US servicemen, over

00:38:52.220 100, who'd been killed by UFOs. And the Department of Defense was refusing to give them death benefits

00:38:59.500 or medical benefits. And I'm like, and he's like, so they were in the courts. And I was like, there

00:39:04.140 are over 100 servicemen killed by UFOs? Like, what? He's like, yeah. And there are court cases about it.

00:39:10.840 I'm like, why isn't this on the front page of the New York Times? I don't know. But he goes,

00:39:14.220 I'm involved in it. I'm the, you know, I'm one of the researchers. I'm the expert witness in these

00:39:17.360 cases. Holy shit. What does that mean? And he's like, for example, UFOs appear to be attracted 1.00

00:39:24.020 for whatever reason to nuclear energy. So, at nuclear missile bases in the upper Midwest,

00:39:29.800 for example, nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, nuclear-powered submarines are all getting buzzed

00:39:35.160 by these objects, including underwater. And in a number of cases, these things have landed

00:39:41.140 on military bases, including famously in Germany, in West Germany in the 70s.

00:39:45.640 And servicemen have approached them. Like, what is this thing? There's this like giant glowing thing

00:39:49.940 on the base. And they approach and they get traumatic brain injury. Like, they are rendered.

00:39:56.840 Yeah, yeah. They get brain damage. Or they're killed. And he studied their brains. And they have,

00:40:05.000 this is all totally real. This is not, this is the Department of Defense, dude. And they've all had

00:40:11.220 this damage from some kind of powerful energy that we cannot identify.

00:40:14.960 There it is. I mean, like I said, the whole conversation is interesting. It's about 10

00:40:20.360 minutes long. And he goes into talking about how, you know, most of the people that have

00:40:25.360 looked at this have, think that many of these objects actually are coming, not from the sky,

00:40:35.980 but coming out of the ocean. And that has also been observed. You know, sounds crazy, but that's,

00:40:41.840 we, there, there's actually video of that that has also been captured by pilots and, uh, and other

00:40:48.100 kinds of videos where you can see things. There's video where you've got objects that come out of the

00:40:53.200 ocean and then go fly up in the sky. Also video of objects going into the ocean at high rates of speed

00:40:58.200 and not exploding on contact. Um, so look, what are you going to do with this? If it's,

00:41:07.580 there's, there is a lot of evidence here and I know we joke about it a little bit, but that's,

00:41:12.880 that's the truth. There's a lot of evidence. Um, now, is it enough to absolutely confirm that,

00:41:19.320 uh, that some sort of beings from another, uh, solar system or galaxy have visited earth? No,

00:41:27.520 because there's a lot of details that we don't have. But even so, I mean, when you, when you start

00:41:31.900 thinking about, well, if it were true that there were, uh, you know, uh, there's an intelligent

00:41:39.520 civilization out there somewhere, maybe multiple, multiple intelligent civilizations that have sent,

00:41:44.220 um, whether manned or unmanned craft here, you think, well, if that were true, what kind of evidence

00:41:50.440 would we have of it? And, and, uh, you know, the skeptics will say, well, we don't have any of that

00:41:56.860 evidence. Well, actually we do though. We have a fair amount of it. We would have video. We got a

00:42:01.800 lot of video and it's not all now, you know, back in the sixties, if we were talking about UFOs,

00:42:07.100 you could say, well, all the video is grainy and all that. That's not true anymore. There's some

00:42:11.140 pretty compelling video, uh, and lots of it, not just a little bit. There's a lot of video evidence

00:42:16.940 of things that are flying around in the sky in ways that should not be possible.

00:42:22.880 Um, so we have that. We also now even have scientists and people that have worked in the

00:42:30.080 government going on the record and saying, this is what we've seen. This is what we're looking

00:42:35.720 into. This is what we've researched. Here's the physical evidence that we have. Tucker Carlson was

00:42:39.460 talking about people that have been suffered traumatic brain injuries because of contact with

00:42:43.820 things, strange things that have landed. And so that's all evidence. Does it confirm? No,

00:42:50.220 but it does mean that if you still are taking the position that no, no, none of this is, uh, this is,

00:42:55.960 none of this is alien in origin. That is actually an irrational position. It's an error. It's quite

00:43:00.840 irrational to say, to just definitively declare, as I hear many people do, um, uh, absolutely not

00:43:08.400 alien in origin. That's irrational because we, we, it's, it's just a fact that there is this evidence.

00:43:16.500 Um, and for you to take that position, you would have to just pretend it doesn't exist

00:43:23.660 or really it would have to be on your part. It would, it would be, it's a position grounded in

00:43:30.180 your assumption that there can't possibly be any other intelligent life in the universe.

00:43:37.540 And I think that is what really explained almost everyone who says, no, none of this is alien in

00:43:42.640 origin. It absolutely can't be almost all of them. They're saying that because they refuse to even

00:43:47.720 consider the possibility that there are any other intelligent beings in the universe. And that is

00:43:53.000 also an irrational position to take. It just is the universe is vast and is absolutely loaded with

00:43:59.940 things that we don't understand. And so to sit here and say, I know that this isn't out there.

00:44:06.320 I have seen none of the universe. Okay. I have seen none of it. I, I haven't even seen like,

00:44:11.920 it's not even a thimble compared to the ocean. Even that it's like a molecule of the ocean

00:44:17.320 compared to the entire ocean. I have seen that molecule. And because of that molecule,

00:44:21.880 I know for a fact that there is nothing else out there. Um, that's, that's basically what you're

00:44:28.960 declaring. And it is, it is irrational. So that's it. What are you going to do with the information?

00:44:34.140 Maybe it's scary for people to think about, but these things are happening. Nothing we can do

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00:45:50.280 is simply smarter wireless. All right. Happy St. Patrick's day, uh, by the way, very important

00:45:55.480 holiday for, um, rampant cultural appropriation. Uh, but it's the kind of cultural appropriation

00:46:01.240 you're allowed to do because you're appropriating from Irish people who are white. So it's okay. 0.89

00:46:06.480 Those are the rules. Remember you can celebrate Irish culture by getting drunk and wearing a shamrock 0.99

00:46:11.280 and, you know, drinking green beer and eating lucky charms. And you can put a pin on that says,

00:46:16.740 kiss me. I'm Irish. And all of that is fine. But if you wear a native American headdress on Halloween, 0.97

00:46:22.360 then that makes you a genocidal racist. Um, makes sense when you think about it.

00:46:30.360 I'm sorry. It makes sense when you don't think about it. Actually, some of this is our fault

00:46:35.100 though. I'll admit, I mean, ours and people of Irish ancestry because the squeaky wheel gets the

00:46:39.980 oil as they say. And, and, um, and we don't complain about the St. Patrick's day stuff because

00:46:45.300 we're not petty and ridiculous. And also we have a sense of humor. So it is, it is funny. We can laugh

00:46:50.520 about it. And speaking of having a sense of humor, I also want, and speaking of Ireland,

00:46:54.520 um, I, I finally watched a couple of nights ago, I watched the movie. This is a, maybe it's a good

00:46:59.540 movie to watch in St. Patrick's day. If you're looking for a St. Patrick's day movie, there's the,

00:47:02.700 uh, the, the, the film, uh, Banshees of Ennis Sheeran, which, uh, I think was, you know,

00:47:08.540 I think it won a couple of Academy Awards, who cares, but it was nominated for some stuff.

00:47:12.520 And, uh, I have to say based on the description of this film, I wasn't very excited about watching it,

00:47:18.200 but I, a couple of people that I, whose opinions I value recommended it. And so I decided to watch

00:47:24.040 it and I should have watched it, you know, when it first came out, I should have been first in line

00:47:29.900 to see this film at the, in the theaters because it, it resonated with me on such a deep and personal

00:47:35.700 level because the film, at least on the surface level, now there's a lot of symbolism going on and

00:47:40.400 all that, but, uh, plenty of metaphor, but on the surface, it is really a movie about a guy

00:47:47.820 Brendan Gleeson who hates small talk so much that he will chop off his own fingers to avoid it.

00:47:56.560 That's really the movie. He doesn't, he's tired of pointless small talk and he starts amputating

00:48:01.280 his own fingers in protest to try to get this other guy to stop talking to him because he finds

00:48:06.920 the conversation that uninteresting. And, uh, on that kind of surface level, I've, I've never found a

00:48:14.540 movie more relatable. It's like, it's two and a half hours of a guy trying to avoid small talk

00:48:20.140 and going to increasingly desperate lengths to avoid it. I found it to be, uh, quite powerful.

00:48:26.280 So something worth watching. All right. Uh, bad Mr. Frosty says, when you Google your name and the

00:48:33.040 whole cast of the daily wire is what comes up talking against you talking about Dylan. Now,

00:48:36.860 you know, it's time to subscribe to daily wire plus. Yeah. I mean, what's that, that maybe tells

00:48:42.140 you all you need to know. Dylan Mulvaney did his three 65 celebration and he wanted, uh, villains.

00:48:47.840 He wanted the villains for his, for his big show. And, uh, he chose the entire cast of the daily wire,

00:48:54.060 um, as the, as the villains and nobody else in, in conservative media was just us.

00:49:01.020 Um, Denise says, the best thing we could do is not repeat this individual's name ever and not share

00:49:09.100 its image across the media's vast ocean. We're talking again about Dylan Mulvaney and yeah, I, I,

00:49:15.740 I understand that argument. And, uh, but I would also say that that has been the conservative argument,

00:49:22.540 um, about all this stuff for years and it hasn't really worked out that way.

00:49:31.020 You know, I can remember back, think about when Bruce Jenner came out as Caitlyn Jenner

00:49:36.460 and was celebrated as woman of the year and all that. And when that happened back in whenever that

00:49:41.260 was in 2015 or something, and it was the same thing. I mean, I was talking about that and I was,

00:49:46.860 uh, I was very vocally opposed to Bruce Jenner being accepted by society as a woman. I was very opposed

00:49:55.580 to it. And what I heard from many conservatives was, well, let's just not give any attention

00:50:01.000 to this person. They just want attention. Let's not give them attention. And if we don't give

00:50:05.080 them attention, it'll go away. Well, how did that work out? Like how did that strategy of say, well,

00:50:11.180 let's not pay attention to this. Yeah. They're taking a man and celebrating him as a woman. Let's 1.00

00:50:15.400 not pay attention. It's a trend. It's there's attention starved. How did that work out for us?

00:50:21.560 Has that strategy of ignoring these sorts of things, has that proven to be effective?

00:50:27.240 Now, if, if we don't oppose this, okay, Dylan Mulvaney, he's, he is being taken, he's been

00:50:36.460 selected by the powers that be. As you know, there's a reason got all corporate sponsorships

00:50:40.900 and everything behind him. There's a reason why he could afford to throw a big bash at the

00:50:44.760 Rockefeller Center. Um, he's got money behind him from all these corporate sponsorships and everything

00:50:49.180 else. So they have taken the, the cultural elites, the cultural powers that be have taken this

00:50:53.700 guy and said, he's going to be our new mascot. Um, he's going to be our, our vehicle for,

00:50:59.200 you know, getting this stuff out into the masses and making it appealing and acceptable

00:51:03.420 and mainstreaming it. So if I don't talk about it and the other people at Daily Wire don't talk

00:51:09.540 about it and we decide to ignore it, do you think that like, what's going to happen? Do you think

00:51:14.360 all the corporate sponsorships are going to go away? Do you think the left's going to say,

00:51:18.800 oh, okay, we're not interested in it anymore? No, then, then he's just running unopposed.

00:51:24.520 No, then they will continue their campaign of normalizing this stuff and it will be a campaign

00:51:31.960 that runs unopposed. The campaign is happening regardless. Okay. It's like, it's like a,

00:51:40.500 think of an actual political campaign. Somebody's running for office. Are you going to stop him

00:51:44.820 from, um, being elected to the office by making sure that no one runs against him?

00:51:51.680 It's the same sort of thing. Uh, Mary Smith says, um, Matt, um, Matt, the issue is that women get 1.00

00:51:59.220 paid approximately 30% less than men doing the exact same job. I worked as a scientist in big

00:52:05.320 pharma and no one ever discusses salary, but after I left and compared salaries with former colleagues,

00:52:09.820 it was really infuriating to realize this was true. And by the way, I worked harder,

00:52:13.380 was smarter than my male counterparts, but I was not able to schmooze on golf courses, 0.99

00:52:18.440 shoot the shit over beers at their clubs or talk sports over lunch. 0.99

00:52:22.380 Male bonding goes a long way to determine compensation in corporate America. Well, 1.00

00:52:27.020 Mary, first of all, I'll tell you that you're, you're not the first person who, uh, feels as though

00:52:32.540 they're, they're being undercompensated at work or that they're more talented or, you know,

00:52:37.380 better qualified than colleagues who are making more money. Uh, this is a complaint of, I don't know,

00:52:42.980 maybe approximately 99% of all people in the working, in the workplace, men and women alike,

00:52:49.160 but it doesn't necessarily reflect the reality. Okay. So you think that you were better qualified,

00:52:58.840 you worked harder, you were more skilled than the people that were working, making more than you.

00:53:03.240 And in order to, um, explain that to yourself, like explain this disparity, you came up with this

00:53:09.540 story about sexism and how you weren't able to go to the golf course and all the rest of it.

00:53:14.320 Um, maybe that story is true, but there's no reason to assume that it is because it is, again,

00:53:23.180 it's a story that you've told yourself to explain why you made less money.

00:53:26.580 So rather than looking at antidote, anecdotes, let's look at the actual statistics

00:53:31.500 and the actual statistics are this, this is what the data says. Um, the 30%, you know, the women make 1.00

00:53:39.040 30, make 70 cents on the dollar. I think, I think now it's up to 82 cents. They say, um, so women make 1.00

00:53:44.580 82 cents on the, on the dollar for every man, for every dollar that a man earns. That statistic comes

00:53:50.080 from, as we've been talking about a, uh, just a one-to-one comparison grouping all women and all

00:53:56.680 men together and comparing their salaries, uh, without taking into account anything else. When

00:54:02.640 you don't control for any other factors, that's what you come up with. And so it is a meaningless

00:54:07.800 statistic. Now, when you actually do factor in, um, industry job type, hours worked experience level

00:54:18.600 over, you know, uh, over time, all that kind of stuff. When you factor all of that in, here's

00:54:24.340 what you come up with. And I'm getting this from the website, payscale.com. And they've, uh, they've

00:54:30.200 compiled all the information about this. And here's what they say. The controlled gender pay gap is 0.97

00:54:36.140 99 cents for every $1 a man makes. That's the pay gap. One penny between when, when we control for

00:54:45.920 all these factors, one penny between the woman and the man, which is to say the gender pay gap 1.00

00:54:52.380 doesn't exist because one penny is a rounding error. That is margin of error. It doesn't,

00:54:57.100 statistically, it doesn't exist. And this, by the way, this is from a source that is not a right-wing

00:55:03.280 source. Like they, they are reporting this, but then also claiming that, uh, there is still a gender

00:55:09.320 pay gap because it goes on in the same report to say, um, although 99 cents may seem very close to a

00:55:15.060 dollar, small differences in earnings on the dollar can compound over the course of a lifetime.

00:55:19.040 The gender pay gap should be zero. It is not zero. So they're still trying to pretend they are biased 0.96

00:55:25.260 in favor of trying to, uh, uh, you know, create a gender pay gap or pretend that there is one. 1.00

00:55:31.000 And that's why they're pretending that one penny still constitutes, uh, a problem when it doesn't,

00:55:38.980 because again, statistically it is a, it's margin of error. And it's also, it's just, it's not,

00:55:43.760 it's, it's not possible that you would control for all these factors and then make this comparison

00:55:49.880 and they would be exactly the same. That doesn't happen in real life.

00:55:55.260 So it's effectively the same. And that's what the data tells us.

00:55:58.980 You know, in addition to me, the daily wire has a couple other hosts you may have heard of. One of

00:56:02.960 them is named Ben Shapiro. You might know something about him. Well, it's Ben guy who it turns out is

00:56:07.900 actually pretty smart and interesting. Just premiered the second season of his show,

00:56:12.120 The Search. And his first guest is actor, comedian, and eccentric British man, Russell Brand.

00:56:17.380 Here's a teaser of their episode. Check it out.

00:56:19.880 Ben, I can smell weed right now. Right now. Are we going to just sit here?

00:56:28.280 Ben!

00:56:28.980 There's a difference between innocent and good.

00:56:30.400 Ah, oh. Let me think about that for a couple of months.

00:56:34.800 Give me the Talmud, because if it's not in there, I want to know what the hell's going on.

00:56:41.040 Can you smell it?

00:56:41.900 I'm not going to be the one who says the weed is kosher.

00:56:43.440 I'm 20 years clean. I didn't think this is how I was going to fall off the wagon.

00:56:46.860 I've been with Bill Maher.

00:56:48.280 I thought it was you and Rogan.

00:56:49.660 I've been with Rogan. Maher, Shapiro that takes me down.

00:56:53.340 For God's sake.

00:56:54.360 Well, if you haven't seen The Search yet, you should. It's not an interview show. It is a

00:57:06.260 conversation show. There is a difference that you'll see when you watch this show. The episodes

00:57:09.840 are unscripted. They're loose. They're always entertaining. Plus, Ben has some, a great guest

00:57:13.700 in store for this season, including a sit down with Megyn Kelly as well. To watch the now streaming

00:57:17.420 episode with Russell Brand become a Daily Wire Plus member today, you'll get exclusive access to

00:57:21.880 The Search, plus all Daily Wire Plus hit shows and movies, including my personal favorite film,

00:57:26.360 What is a Woman? You can join today and check out The Search by going to dailywireplus.com. 0.95

00:57:31.980 Now let's get to our daily cancellation. 0.90

00:57:37.500 Well, it's still pretty early, but we already have a candidate for the dumbest internet controversy 0.96

00:57:41.980 of the year. And it all began, as it usually does, with a tweet. A tweet that countless news 0.97

00:57:47.320 articles have described as mean, offensive, sexist, very, very bad. A tweet which has led to thousands

00:57:53.620 upon thousands of people expressing their outrage while jumping on an internet dogpile that has lasted

00:57:58.220 for days now. A tweet that's provoked reactions from members of the media, from celebrities,

00:58:04.540 even from people who aren't mentally ill as well. So what was this tweet? What was this outrageous,

00:58:10.980 unthinkable, calamitous tweet which will live eternally in infamy? This tweet that will

00:58:16.820 have monuments built to it so that generations can come and mourn together and remember the tweet

00:58:22.160 and lament the tweet? Well, here is the tweet. Get ready for it. It was posted by journalist

00:58:27.640 Lachlan Markey a couple of days ago, and here's what it said. Quote,

00:58:32.360 The tragedy of the White Stripes is how great they would have been with a half-decent drummer.

00:58:36.860 Yeah, yeah, I've heard all the, but it's a carefully crafted sound, man, takes. I'm sorry,

00:58:41.820 Meg White was terrible, and no band is better for having percussion. That's it. That's the whole

00:58:47.620 thing. Lachlan posted an opinion about an early 2000s rock band, which he said didn't have a good

00:58:54.920 drummer. He didn't like the drummer. He said the drummer of a band that broke up over a decade ago

00:58:58.980 was terrible, and that is what caused mass outrage. This is what prompted not one think piece,

00:59:06.040 but many. Just the first page of Google News results has 10 articles about this opinion

00:59:11.780 from major media outlets, all condemning it as wrong, offensive, of course, misogynistic.

00:59:19.120 Other musicians like Questlove from The Roots have joined in to voice their disapproval.

00:59:23.700 Questlove responded, quote,

00:59:25.000 I try to leave troll views alone, but this right here is out of line AF. Actually, what is wrong with

00:59:32.200 music is people choking the life out of music like an Instagram filter, trying to reach a high of music

00:59:37.220 perfection that doesn't even serve the song or music. Out of line, he says. It is out of line to

00:59:44.600 dislike the drummer from the White Stripes. You are not allowed to dislike her. You have to like her

00:59:50.360 drumming. It is entirely out of bounds to have any other opinion about her drumming skills. This is also

00:59:56.880 apparently the opinion of Jack White, of course, the former lead singer of White Stripes, who responded

01:00:01.800 to the controversy with a lengthy poem that he wrote as a tribute to Meg White. Yes, that's correct.

01:00:09.060 They are memorializing her as if the tweet literally killed her. They're writing poems in tribute to her

01:00:17.040 because someone criticized her drumming on Twitter. So this is what Jack White posted on Instagram.

01:00:21.760 He posted, quote,

01:00:22.880 To be born in another time, any era but our own would have been fine. A hundred years from now,

01:00:29.160 a thousand years from now, some other distant, different time, one without demons, cowards,

01:00:35.020 and vampires out for blood, one with the positive inspiration to foster what is good, an empty field

01:00:41.480 where no tall red poppies are cut down, where we could lay all day every day on the warm and subtle

01:00:47.040 ground, and know just what to say and what to play to conjure our own sounds, and be one with the others

01:00:54.260 all around us, and even still the ones who came before, and help ourselves to all their love, and pass

01:00:59.640 it on again once more, to have bliss upon bliss upon bliss, to be without fear, negativity, or pain,

01:01:05.560 and to get up every morning and be happy to do it all again. Just to remind you, that is a poem

01:01:13.600 written in response to one random guy who said Meg White wasn't a good drummer. He is the demon, 0.95

01:01:21.440 coward, and vampire out for blood in this poem. He is the source of fear, negativity, and pain. 1.00

01:01:27.960 And if you think that is just a tad melodramatic, wait until you hear Lachlan's inevitable apology

01:01:32.580 tweet, which we knew was going to happen. Actually, it's more like an apology essay. Now,

01:01:37.240 before we read it, you know, if it were me, and yes, I'm a contrarian a-hole, I know that,

01:01:47.900 but if I had voiced a music opinion that prompted Jack White to write a tearful poem,

01:01:54.480 I would think that the whole thing was absolutely great. It'd be the greatest thing ever, and incredibly

01:02:00.800 funny, of course. I'd probably respond by randomly insulting other musicians just to see if I could

01:02:05.220 get more of them to write retaliatory poems. I'd start thinking even bigger, actually. Maybe if I

01:02:11.680 bullied enough rock stars, eventually they'd all band together and record a kind of We Are The World

01:02:16.580 type charity single to stand up against my hate. That's what I would do. That's my dream.

01:02:22.740 But Lachlan adopted the opposite strategy, and instead of enjoying this hilarious moment, he ran

01:02:27.020 away in fear. He deleted the offending tweet, he locked down his Twitter account, and he posted this

01:02:32.780 apology. Quote, by now you've probably seen an ill-advised and since-deleted tweet that I sent

01:02:38.820 out yesterday about the White Stripes and Meg White. It was an over-the-top take on the White Stripes and

01:02:43.580 White as a drummer, and it was, let's face it, just truly awful in every way. Petty, obnoxious, just plain

01:02:50.580 wrong. I don't know if Meg White herself saw that tweet. I hope not, because I imagine it wouldn't feel

01:02:55.580 great to see a stranger dumping on you like that. So to Meg White, I am sorry, really. And to women in music,

01:03:02.360 in the music business generally, who I think are disproportionately subject to this sort of

01:03:06.140 I am sorry to have fed that as well. I'm really going to try to be more thoughtful in the future,

01:03:11.620 both on here and off. I've been thinking to myself, as all this, again, completely justified hate

01:03:16.660 comes in over the last 24 hours, why did I actually write that? It's not what I really think, and I like

01:03:22.060 to think I'm not what made me out to be, or at least I try not to be. I think the answer in part is

01:03:27.000 that the sort of vicious sniping is something that we, as online folks, tend to reward with

01:03:31.620 eyes and clicks. And I think I got caught up in that implicit incentive structure with a needlessly

01:03:36.520 inflammatory, downright mean, and most importantly, false take.

01:03:43.380 Well, that is also embarrassing that I felt secondhand shame just from reading it out loud. 0.97

01:03:49.780 I mean, we have seen some truly pathetic, groveling public apologies in the past, 0.82

01:03:53.740 many of them, but this one manages to sink to new depths of self-degradation. He is pretending now 0.90

01:04:00.960 that his tweet about a band that existed 20 years ago was some kind of trolling, intentionally

01:04:07.860 inflammatory hot take. You know, as if he wrote that tweet about Meg White as a drummer, thinking

01:04:14.980 that it would attract reactions from millions of people. But of course, that's not the case. It was

01:04:21.140 just an innocuous opinion that was not intended to be the subject of a week-long national discourse.

01:04:27.680 Meg White is a millionaire and a former rock star. She's not a victim. She's not a victim because some 1.00

01:04:32.700 dude on Twitter doesn't like her drumming. All musicians encounter criticism. They have to be

01:04:38.700 able to deal with it. They are not damsels in distress. Actually, the person being bullied here

01:04:43.800 is Lachlan. He's the one being targeted and harassed by thousands of rabid hyenas who are enraged

01:04:49.060 for reasons that they can't even explain. But Lachlan doesn't have the balls to make this point 0.99

01:04:53.460 in his own defense, which means that all of my sympathy for him, of course, evaporates. 0.98

01:04:58.280 Most pathetic of all, Lachlan is now confessing that the opinion he held up till three days ago 0.60

01:05:03.020 about Meg White's drumming is now wrong. He's been convinced that his opinion was wrong. How was he 0.89

01:05:09.140 convinced? Well, because lots of people were upset about the opinion. But how does that work exactly?

01:05:13.500 You didn't like her as a drummer. You said you didn't like her as a drummer. A bunch of people

01:05:17.480 cried about it. And now you do like her as a drummer. Their hurt feelings convinced you that

01:05:23.220 your analysis of her artistic talents was incorrect. How does that work? And of course,

01:05:29.520 just to make matters more ridiculous, the opinion that Lachlan articulated about Meg White used to

01:05:33.760 be widely shared by nearly everyone. Because in fact, Meg White isn't a great drummer. It was never 1.00

01:05:39.220 controversial to say that until everyone arbitrarily decided that it is controversial. In fact, many of the

01:05:44.020 media outlets that are now valiantly defending Meg White used to publish reviews ripping her to 0.99

01:05:48.900 shreds. For example, Pitchfork condemned Lachlan's tweet as a bad take. But back in 2003, here's what 0.52

01:05:55.420 they wrote in a review for the White Stripes album Elephant. This is what they wrote. Quoting now,

01:05:59.260 quote,

01:05:59.760 The naivete of Meg's playing deflates any big rock aspirations. Meg's pancake-handed drumming drips 0.65

01:06:06.800 solvent over the whole experiment. Now, just to clarify here, pancake-handed drumming is not meant as a

01:06:13.300 compliment. In fact, it's a pretty clever insult. And this is the kind of fun and vivid imagery we

01:06:18.440 used to get from music and film critics before it was decided that the last thing a critic should

01:06:22.540 ever do is engage in, you know, actual criticism. But this is not a surprise, really. I mean, there

01:06:27.920 are many, many widely held beliefs and opinions from 20 years ago that are now treated as utterly

01:06:33.280 shocking. Opinions about Meg White's drumming chops are the least of it. But this is how the game is 1.00

01:06:39.380 played now. Opinions, no matter how innocuous or valid or both, you know, are treated like war crimes.

01:06:46.040 At least some opinions, right? Because the rules are meant to be arbitrary. There's always this

01:06:49.780 element of Simon Says to it. After all, it's not as though we live in an era of niceness where everyone

01:06:55.600 is expected to be nice to each other and polite and gentle with their wording. There's still plenty

01:07:00.940 of viciousness to go around. We live in a culture that is, in many ways, far nastier, far more negative,

01:07:06.520 far uglier, far more cruel than it was 20 years ago, back when music critics delighted in finding

01:07:11.300 creative ways to insult rock stars. It's just that the cruelty can only be sent in certain directions

01:07:16.800 at people who are not accepted members of assigned victim groups. And if anyone commits the ultimate

01:07:22.180 sin of wrong think, then there's essentially nothing you can say or do to him that would be considered

01:07:28.220 overboard. But Meg White, though a millionaire musician, can claim membership in a recognized victim 1.00

01:07:34.760 group as a woman, which means that any criticism of her is a human rights violation. These are the

01:07:40.840 rules now, and they are insane, which is why the cancel mob coming after Lachlan is canceled. But since

01:07:49.700 he bowed and apologized to the mob, Lachlan himself is also, I must say, today canceled. That'll do it for

01:07:56.280 this portion of the show. Let's move over to the members block. Hope to see you there. If not,

01:07:59.480 talk to you on Monday. Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - March 17, 2023

Ep. 1131 - Media Panics Over 'Dangerous' Trad Wife Trend

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