The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1134 - Viral Clip Reveals A Father's Pain Over His Son's Gender Transition

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, a heartbreaking clip goes viral showing the total devastation

00:00:04.460 that gender ideology wreaks on families. Also, DeSantis finally directly responds to Trump's

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00:00:14.380 Joe Biden tries to read poetry, and it goes as well as you'd expect. The governor of Arizona

00:00:18.700 focuses on the real issues by outlawing, quote, hair discrimination. Media Matters comes up with

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00:00:33.120 Michael Knowles. All of that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.

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00:02:06.340 One of the most important websites in existence right now is a substack called Parents with

00:02:10.800 Inconvenient Truths About Trans, or PIT. It's a forum where parents who have

00:02:16.240 felt the devastation of gender ideology up close and personal can discuss their experiences.

00:02:21.800 It does not make for fun reading, I can tell you. In fact, it's some of the most heart-wrenching,

00:02:26.840 some of the saddest material you're likely to ever come across, but it's also some of the most

00:02:31.440 important. So, this week, the lead story on PIT is an article written by an anonymous father with

00:02:36.180 the title, A Father's Anger That Will Not Sleep. And here's what he writes in part. Quote,

00:02:41.140 It's been two years since my 19-year-old son walked into a Planned Parenthood and received

00:02:46.240 HRT drugs on informed consent. His mother and I pleaded with him to not make such a life-changing

00:02:51.880 decision at such a young age, but he would not listen to reason and receive these drugs without

00:02:56.200 any psychological evaluation or supervision and little medical supervision. Since that time,

00:03:02.380 I have experienced bouts of intense anger which have caused my mental health to decline. It's an anger

00:03:07.020 that woke me up at 2 a.m. for nearly a year and still regularly wakes me up at 4 a.m. It has taken

00:03:12.460 a toll on my mind, my body, and mood. I experience depression and anhedonia more often than not. I

00:03:18.680 find little to no joy in hobbies I once relished. I take care of the tasks of daily living and not

00:03:23.460 much else. I honestly did not think it was possible to feel such emotional pain. Now, here we see all

00:03:29.520 the painfully familiar themes. A young person sucked into the gender cult and able to make

00:03:34.160 self-destructive, life-altering decisions while the parents frantically scramble to pull them back

00:03:40.060 from the brink. But over time, they begin to feel that the fight is hopeless because all of the

00:03:46.000 cultural forces are arrayed against them in this fight. The father continues, quote,

00:03:51.120 I am aging and hope for the compensation of feeling I had a life well-led and that I successfully launched

00:03:56.280 my children into the world. But my son has stolen that from me and left me feeling like an utter failure.

00:04:01.100 This was a child that I treated with love, compassion, and generosity. And he has selfishly

00:04:06.220 taken all of that away. I am aware of how this anger is harming my mind and body. What am I trying

00:04:12.240 to do about it? For the better part of a year, I pleaded with my son to stop. His response was to

00:04:16.460 call his mother and I transphobic. Every day for the past two years, I have restrained myself from

00:04:21.120 sending my son a nasty email telling him what I really think about his narcissistic behavior and

00:04:26.080 misogynistic fantasy. Some days I successfully pretend none of this is happening. I enjoy those

00:04:31.720 few moments of morning amnesia where I can't yet recall my current circumstances. I saw a therapist

00:04:36.880 for about a year and a half, but it wasn't helpful. Part of me always saw the therapist as part of the

00:04:41.020 profession enabling this social contagion. I also couldn't trust him with my true feelings as I feared

00:04:46.340 judgment. Several times a week, I have a crying jag that lasts several minutes. I do it when my wife is

00:04:52.180 out walking the dog so as to not burden her with this. If I didn't love my son, all of this would

00:04:57.560 be much easier, but I do. And it is my love that causes the grief that feeds my anger. Now, he also

00:05:05.500 notes that he will never vote Democrat again, which is another common theme in many of these stories.

00:05:10.800 This is the side of gender ideology that is rarely acknowledged, almost never discussed.

00:05:17.180 Transgenderism leaves nothing but destruction in its wake. And it's not just the individual

00:05:21.840 gender-confused person who is irreparably harmed by it. They are, but it's also everyone around that

00:05:28.420 person, everyone who loves him. This week, we've seen this dramatically illustrated in a viral clip

00:05:34.420 from the Dr. Phil show. Now, this clip is from an episode that first aired several years ago,

00:05:38.200 but it started making the rounds on Twitter just recently. It's now been viewed nearly 10 million

00:05:42.600 times. And in the clip, a trans-identified male reveals his female persona to the man who cared for him

00:05:50.780 since he was a baby. Now, that man is actually his biological uncle, but took on the role of the

00:05:55.880 boy's father when he was a newborn and has raised him as a son ever since. So he is the father.

00:06:00.280 And now this father is seeing his son in his woman-faced costume for the first time,

00:06:05.660 and he is devastated by it. Watch.

00:06:18.480 Thank you for being here. I appreciate it. Tell me what's your...

00:06:34.660 thinking and feeling right now, Gary.

00:06:41.500 I'm hurt bad.

00:06:45.060 Really bad.

00:06:51.760 What do you have to say?

00:06:54.200 Why?

00:06:59.260 I just want you to know that you didn't do anything wrong.

00:07:02.420 He feels like he let's you down. He's gone back to the point of, he says, one time for Halloween.

00:07:14.000 Yeah.

00:07:14.540 Uh, talk about that.

00:07:20.760 He dressed up

00:07:21.980 like a girl.

00:07:24.240 Well, I thought it was funny at first.

00:07:29.580 No, I surely don't.

00:07:32.120 I thought it was Halloween.

00:07:34.600 You know, so I just went along with it.

00:07:37.960 Actually pinched him on his behind and said he made a good-looking girl.

00:07:42.120 But I was only joking.

00:07:44.140 He's not a good-looking girl.

00:07:45.420 He's a very beautiful man.

00:07:50.940 One of the most gut-wrenching videos you'll ever see.

00:07:55.320 Made all the more tragic by the trained seals in the audience

00:07:58.000 applauding and cheering the very thing that has broken this man's heart.

00:08:02.000 Now, I don't know how this moment ended up on TV

00:08:03.880 or why the man, Gary, agreed to go through with this on camera

00:08:07.500 or if he even knew what he was getting into, which I doubt.

00:08:09.860 But whatever the case, there is much to be learned here.

00:08:13.740 And we can learn first from the entirely predictable reaction

00:08:16.380 from trans activists who have responded to this clip

00:08:18.520 by, of course, deriding and mocking the father

00:08:21.560 because these are soulless, heartless ghouls

00:08:26.180 who just think that his misery is funny.

00:08:29.880 Now, of course, most of these people have done the same thing

00:08:32.540 to their own families.

00:08:33.420 And so when they attack the father,

00:08:35.220 they're really rationalizing their own behavior.

00:08:37.160 This is the case, whatever a trans activist says,

00:08:40.360 I mean, whatever the trans activist says about anything,

00:08:43.600 they're always really talking about themselves

00:08:46.560 because all they care about is themselves.

00:08:48.940 Gender ideology is narcissism through and through.

00:08:51.620 It is narcissism distilled down to its purest form.

00:08:55.440 It is narcissism elevated to a way of life.

00:08:58.540 And the narcissist doesn't worry about

00:09:00.280 how his decisions impact anyone else.

00:09:02.820 He sees the devastation and heartbreak of a loving father

00:09:05.660 and feels nothing, nothing except anger at the father

00:09:09.960 for daring to have feelings and priorities of his own.

00:09:14.340 Gender ideology teaches the trans-identified individual

00:09:17.080 that the entire world exists simply to affirm him

00:09:20.660 and to prop up and support his self-perception,

00:09:23.320 however deluded it may be.

00:09:25.520 And since the entire world exists for this purpose,

00:09:28.000 so too does his own family.

00:09:30.780 And the job of each of his family members,

00:09:33.600 as he sees it, starting especially with his parents,

00:09:36.000 is to be a soulless, faceless automaton

00:09:38.440 programmed to accept whatever he does

00:09:40.900 and believe whatever he says

00:09:42.260 and affirm every fantasy he has in his head.

00:09:45.640 He demands that his deepest desires be affirmed

00:09:49.820 and his individual expression be respected,

00:09:52.040 but he doesn't care at all

00:09:53.820 about the desires, hopes, dreams, perceptions

00:09:56.520 of the very people he is making this demand of.

00:10:00.240 He doesn't care about that.

00:10:02.340 I mean, they have feelings too,

00:10:03.780 but that never comes into,

00:10:04.940 that never makes it into the equation, does it?

00:10:08.700 This is what the gender ideologue believes.

00:10:10.600 It's what their religion preaches.

00:10:11.940 It's one of their central creeds.

00:10:14.860 Gender ideology's most public proponents

00:10:16.660 are very clear about this.

00:10:18.140 You know, they tell young people

00:10:19.100 that if your parents offer the slightest resistance

00:10:21.380 to your desire to, quote, transition,

00:10:24.000 then your parents are the enemy.

00:10:25.300 Your parents are trying to get you killed

00:10:27.080 and you should cut them out of your life completely.

00:10:30.820 Jeffrey Marsh, creepy groomer, social media influencer,

00:10:33.820 is infamous for telling kids to go, quote,

00:10:36.120 no contact or non-contact with their parents,

00:10:39.320 meaning cut them out of your life.

00:10:42.120 But don't worry, Marsh says,

00:10:43.420 because if you disown your parents,

00:10:45.860 you can always replace them with Jeffrey Marsh.

00:10:49.300 Your parents screwed up.

00:10:53.500 It's okay to say so.

00:10:55.800 That's why I made a Patreon,

00:10:58.360 so that we could talk about it,

00:11:00.340 so that we could connect in a way that has more privacy,

00:11:04.620 so that we could talk to each other in a way that's more open

00:11:09.960 and stuff that we wouldn't share, like,

00:11:11.720 in the comments of a video like this.

00:11:13.780 Because I think you're worthy and valuable,

00:11:18.820 and I wanted to spend more connected time with you,

00:11:24.700 healing together and hearing your deeply inspiring stories.

00:11:31.200 Yes, he wants to connect with you.

00:11:35.360 For the low price of a Patreon subscription,

00:11:37.800 Jeffrey Marsh will be your new father figure,

00:11:39.960 or mother figure, or whatever the hell he's trying to be.

00:11:43.740 Forget about the people who conceived you and birthed you

00:11:46.200 and raised you from diapers and gave you everything,

00:11:49.580 gave you their lives, gave you their hearts.

00:11:53.520 Forget them.

00:11:54.280 I mean, they obviously hate you if they won't immediately

00:11:57.040 and without question accept that you are a sex

00:11:59.500 other than the one on your birth certificate.

00:12:02.440 Jeffrey Marsh has your real interests at heart.

00:12:04.340 Pay him some money and come talk to him privately online,

00:12:07.140 and he'll tell you all about it.

00:12:08.380 This is why we need to call more attention

00:12:12.320 to the callous, narcissistic disregard

00:12:15.460 that the gender ideologue has for his own loved ones.

00:12:18.660 This is, as I said, a central feature of the ideology.

00:12:22.020 There's a reason why so many of transgenderism's

00:12:24.400 most prominent mascots are, you know,

00:12:26.680 grown men who, quote, transitioned later in life

00:12:29.360 and intentionally destroyed their marriages

00:12:31.080 and families in the process.

00:12:33.180 Take Rachel Levine, for example, 65 years old today.

00:12:36.280 That means he decided to, quote,

00:12:37.940 come out as a woman in 2011,

00:12:39.560 which means that he was in his early 50s,

00:12:42.220 you know, when he made that decision.

00:12:44.540 He had a wife who he'd been married to for years.

00:12:48.040 He had two kids.

00:12:50.220 Putting everything else aside,

00:12:51.460 just think about how unfathomably selfish you have to be,

00:12:54.660 how uncaring and heartless to tell your wife

00:12:58.240 that her husband is gone,

00:13:00.440 and now she has to get used to being married to a woman.

00:13:03.380 And guess what?

00:13:03.700 You're in a lesbian relationship now,

00:13:06.020 whether you like it or not.

00:13:08.860 And to tell your children that their father is gone.

00:13:11.660 They no longer have a father.

00:13:12.960 Their father is dead.

00:13:14.620 And now they must simply accept that they have two moms.

00:13:18.460 Consider how disastrously self-absorbed you must be

00:13:21.640 to put this weight, this burden on your family,

00:13:25.040 on those who depend on you.

00:13:28.020 But what is Levine supposed to do?

00:13:29.280 Is he supposed to suppress his deepest desires

00:13:31.420 and live as a man, even if he doesn't feel like one?

00:13:34.180 Even if it makes him uncomfortable?

00:13:38.140 Yes, of course that's what he's supposed to do.

00:13:41.240 Of course.

00:13:43.220 Now this may come as a shock to the left.

00:13:45.120 I know it comes as a shock to them.

00:13:47.100 But there are more important things in your life

00:13:49.660 than your desires,

00:13:51.760 especially desires that are so deeply disordered.

00:13:55.060 Your responsibility to your family

00:13:57.000 is one of those things.

00:13:58.360 And now we get to the part

00:14:01.460 that very few people ever say out loud.

00:14:04.640 And I have, as you know,

00:14:06.180 many arguments against gender ideology.

00:14:08.280 I've articulated all of them many times.

00:14:11.180 But here's another point,

00:14:12.600 in addition to those,

00:14:13.620 that needs to be acknowledged.

00:14:16.140 You know, as we know,

00:14:16.980 you cannot be any sex

00:14:18.560 other than the one you were born as.

00:14:20.540 Any attempt to transition

00:14:21.660 is ultimately doomed to failure.

00:14:23.180 It fails before it even begins.

00:14:26.780 But also,

00:14:27.700 not only do you have no choice

00:14:29.420 but to be the sex that you are,

00:14:31.460 you also have the responsibility

00:14:32.960 to accept that fact

00:14:35.660 and live accordingly.

00:14:38.240 A man has the responsibility

00:14:40.000 to live as a man

00:14:42.320 and act as a man

00:14:44.000 and a woman as a woman.

00:14:45.680 You have a responsibility,

00:14:47.320 in other words,

00:14:47.900 to live in reality.

00:14:49.200 We are not atomized individuals

00:14:53.580 living in our own universes,

00:14:55.340 divorced from the next person's reality.

00:14:58.140 We have lives

00:14:58.980 that are intertwined with each other.

00:15:00.640 We, in fact,

00:15:01.780 do live in a society,

00:15:03.460 it turns out.

00:15:04.120 We also live in families.

00:15:05.480 And our lives are

00:15:06.400 more intertwined

00:15:08.400 the closer we are tied to each other,

00:15:09.960 whether by blood or by marriage.

00:15:11.840 What this means is that

00:15:12.900 when you decide to totally reject

00:15:14.900 the non-negotiable realities of the world,

00:15:17.260 and even to reject

00:15:18.420 your own physical nature,

00:15:19.860 you are not making

00:15:21.280 a neutral decision

00:15:22.620 that affects no one but yourself.

00:15:24.400 You are tied to other people,

00:15:26.720 whether you like it or not,

00:15:27.940 and you are pulling them with you

00:15:29.760 into this dark, twisted,

00:15:31.860 alternate universe

00:15:32.580 that you have constructed.

00:15:35.260 You are imposing it on them.

00:15:39.800 That man in the clip

00:15:41.060 is a father.

00:15:41.940 That is a bond

00:15:42.620 that will forever tie him to his son

00:15:44.280 and forever define both of them.

00:15:47.260 When the son decides

00:15:48.680 to be a woman,

00:15:50.060 quote-unquote,

00:15:51.200 he is doing that

00:15:53.300 to his father.

00:15:55.000 He is not just

00:15:56.040 radically changing

00:15:57.040 his own life.

00:15:58.540 He is radically changing

00:16:00.100 his father's life

00:16:01.400 and demanding

00:16:02.640 that his father

00:16:03.300 be okay with it.

00:16:04.700 This is my life,

00:16:06.000 he might say.

00:16:07.300 But it is not just his life.

00:16:09.900 There are many other lives

00:16:11.860 bound up with his life,

00:16:13.900 and he is seeking

00:16:14.460 to fundamentally alter

00:16:15.860 all of them.

00:16:17.820 Now, if you were

00:16:19.800 some sort of

00:16:20.940 immortal being

00:16:22.360 that materialized

00:16:23.960 out of the ether

00:16:24.660 and was passively

00:16:25.840 floating in space

00:16:27.520 somewhere out

00:16:28.060 near the asteroid belt,

00:16:29.780 that it might be true

00:16:30.700 that your decisions

00:16:31.400 and lifestyle choices

00:16:32.260 don't affect anyone else.

00:16:34.140 Okay?

00:16:34.460 If you're just floating

00:16:35.240 out in space

00:16:35.800 and you materialized

00:16:37.040 out there,

00:16:37.720 then yes,

00:16:38.240 then you can rightly say,

00:16:39.840 oh, what I do

00:16:40.320 has no effect

00:16:40.920 on anybody else,

00:16:41.700 so what is it to you?

00:16:42.520 But if you're

00:16:44.540 a human being

00:16:45.500 born to human parents,

00:16:47.920 raised in a family

00:16:48.840 and living in a community,

00:16:50.680 then nearly everything

00:16:51.800 you do has an impact

00:16:52.980 on others,

00:16:53.520 and that impact

00:16:54.040 is felt more profoundly

00:16:55.240 the closer someone

00:16:56.540 is to you.

00:16:57.860 For the guy

00:16:58.660 in that Dr. Phil segment,

00:17:00.460 his refusal to live

00:17:02.520 as the person

00:17:03.360 that he is,

00:17:04.440 his denial of reality,

00:17:06.080 his rejection

00:17:07.240 of his basic responsibility

00:17:09.000 as a man,

00:17:10.080 starting with the responsibility

00:17:11.080 to be a man

00:17:12.460 and act as a man

00:17:13.640 and accept the fact

00:17:14.680 that he is a man

00:17:15.500 becomes now

00:17:17.480 a giant cross

00:17:18.520 that everyone

00:17:19.160 who loves him

00:17:20.000 must carry.

00:17:21.220 He has exploded

00:17:22.300 all of their lives

00:17:23.400 so that he can live

00:17:24.180 as he wishes.

00:17:26.720 Now, he may be a victim

00:17:27.900 in his own right,

00:17:29.200 a victim of brainwashing,

00:17:30.440 a victim of the lies

00:17:31.400 that he has come to believe,

00:17:32.620 but now he makes victims

00:17:34.440 of his family,

00:17:35.620 of the people

00:17:36.660 who love him the most,

00:17:37.560 and nothing

00:17:40.140 will ever make that okay.

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00:19:00.040 So we're going to begin here

00:19:01.960 just because,

00:19:02.700 well, it's great.

00:19:03.600 Yesterday, Joe Biden

00:19:04.680 attempted to read a poem

00:19:06.180 off of the teleprompter,

00:19:08.180 and it went as well

00:19:09.800 as you might anticipate.

00:19:12.720 Here it is.

00:19:14.100 Richard Blanco

00:19:15.100 returned to a poem

00:19:17.240 he wrote

00:19:17.740 from the second inaugural

00:19:19.100 of Barack and me.

00:19:20.420 A poem won today.

00:19:22.640 It says,

00:19:22.820 And always one moon

00:19:25.020 like a silent drum

00:19:26.480 tapping at every rooftop

00:19:28.040 and every window

00:19:29.960 of every county,

00:19:33.740 country.

00:19:34.480 Let me start this over again.

00:19:37.240 I'm getting so intimidated

00:19:39.020 by being here.

00:19:41.680 And always one moon

00:19:43.340 like a silent drum

00:19:44.700 tapping on every rooftop

00:19:46.060 and every window

00:19:47.020 of one country,

00:19:49.320 county,

00:19:50.480 county,

00:19:51.220 all of us

00:19:51.980 facing the stars.

00:19:53.540 Hope,

00:19:54.060 a new constellation

00:19:54.980 waiting for us to map it,

00:19:56.740 waiting for us to name it

00:19:57.840 together.

00:19:59.680 It was country,

00:20:00.680 by the way.

00:20:01.080 He settled on county,

00:20:02.100 finally,

00:20:02.540 because he can't read.

00:20:04.100 He can't tell the difference

00:20:05.160 between country and county,

00:20:06.300 but it is country.

00:20:07.320 What do you mean?

00:20:08.060 All of us as one county.

00:20:09.740 Why would that be the word?

00:20:11.300 I mean,

00:20:11.560 even if you're going,

00:20:12.200 if you can't read

00:20:12.820 for some reason,

00:20:13.720 going based on context clues,

00:20:16.000 all of us together

00:20:16.860 as one county.

00:20:19.780 Whose idea was this?

00:20:20.900 Who the hell

00:20:21.800 came up with the idea

00:20:23.020 that our dementia in chief

00:20:25.060 should read a poem?

00:20:26.300 Who suggested that?

00:20:28.540 I want to be in the meeting

00:20:29.760 when that was suggested.

00:20:32.940 I have to assume

00:20:33.720 it's somebody working

00:20:34.380 for the other side,

00:20:35.220 in which case,

00:20:35.860 well done, sir.

00:20:36.740 This must be some sort of

00:20:38.000 secret agent working,

00:20:39.580 maybe not so secret,

00:20:40.560 because it's really obvious

00:20:41.740 the sabotage.

00:20:42.240 This is sabotage.

00:20:44.140 This is the opposite

00:20:45.300 of playing to your strengths,

00:20:46.940 whatever Biden's strengths

00:20:48.080 are at this point.

00:20:48.820 I mean,

00:20:48.940 his strength is like

00:20:49.760 taking an afternoon nap.

00:20:51.360 That's his strength.

00:20:52.080 So when he does that,

00:20:53.360 that's when he's really

00:20:54.120 in his element.

00:20:55.020 But reading poetry,

00:20:56.500 I mean,

00:20:56.740 that is like if,

00:20:59.880 for some reason,

00:21:00.820 they did roll call

00:21:01.880 here at the Daily Wire

00:21:03.020 every day,

00:21:03.760 where you had to read off

00:21:04.540 the names,

00:21:05.080 and they put me in charge

00:21:06.320 of reading the names,

00:21:07.340 when I can't pronounce

00:21:08.180 any names at all.

00:21:09.200 Like the name could be

00:21:09.940 John Smith,

00:21:10.780 and I would somehow

00:21:11.900 mispronounce it.

00:21:13.220 Jan Smythe?

00:21:13.760 It would basically be

00:21:17.280 that Key and Peel skit

00:21:18.340 with the substitute teacher,

00:21:19.720 but in real life,

00:21:20.260 which would actually

00:21:20.780 be hilarious,

00:21:21.680 you know,

00:21:22.240 just like the poetry

00:21:22.940 reading was hilarious,

00:21:23.740 but not hilarious

00:21:24.780 in the way

00:21:25.720 that you want

00:21:27.120 the President

00:21:27.700 of the United States

00:21:28.440 to be.

00:21:30.120 So,

00:21:30.720 what are you going to do?

00:21:32.120 Also, by the way,

00:21:32.780 the poem is terrible.

00:21:33.700 I also have to mention,

00:21:34.720 poems need to rhyme,

00:21:37.060 and I will die

00:21:38.920 on that hill,

00:21:39.620 just like so many

00:21:40.260 other hills

00:21:40.680 that I will die on,

00:21:41.720 and I will die

00:21:42.280 on this hill.

00:21:42.760 A poem needs to rhyme.

00:21:43.600 It does not count.

00:21:44.840 Poems don't count.

00:21:45.700 I'm sorry,

00:21:46.460 if they don't rhyme.

00:21:47.540 They just don't.

00:21:48.480 Because anyone

00:21:49.160 can write a poem.

00:21:50.820 What makes writing poetry

00:21:52.240 difficult is the rhyming part,

00:21:54.000 is to be able to,

00:21:55.120 you know,

00:21:55.740 put together,

00:21:57.180 put something together

00:21:58.220 and paint the picture

00:21:59.380 in a way where it rhymes

00:22:00.640 and it has rhythm,

00:22:02.000 but it doesn't sound

00:22:02.920 like you're stretching

00:22:03.740 to make the words rhyme.

00:22:04.740 That's the difficult part.

00:22:06.600 So, you know,

00:22:08.340 maybe this makes me

00:22:09.040 some kind of Philistine.

00:22:10.040 I'm sure I am,

00:22:11.300 but I still believe

00:22:12.200 that poems need to rhyme.

00:22:14.140 So, a bad poem

00:22:15.540 that was badly told.

00:22:20.440 From the Daily Wire,

00:22:21.420 Florida Governor Ron DeSantis

00:22:22.640 punched back

00:22:23.860 at former President Donald Trump

00:22:25.160 after enduring months

00:22:25.940 of attacks

00:22:26.360 from the man

00:22:26.740 he appears increasingly

00:22:27.460 likely to challenge

00:22:28.160 for the 2024 presidential,

00:22:29.760 Republican presidential nomination.

00:22:31.920 DeSantis made the remarks

00:22:32.740 in an interview

00:22:33.180 with Piers Morgan

00:22:33.920 on Fox Nation's

00:22:35.060 Piers Morgan Uncensored

00:22:36.160 that is set to air

00:22:36.960 later this week.

00:22:37.620 The remarks from DeSantis

00:22:38.500 come after the former president

00:22:40.260 has launched multiple attacks

00:22:42.280 on the governor

00:22:42.680 since the midterm elections

00:22:43.900 ended,

00:22:44.300 including trying to brand

00:22:45.080 the governor

00:22:45.420 with derogatory names,

00:22:46.500 promoting Basel's claims

00:22:47.460 that DeSantis is a groomer,

00:22:48.940 and claiming that

00:22:49.360 the Democrat billionaire

00:22:50.580 George Soros

00:22:51.480 endorsed DeSantis.

00:22:53.860 DeSantis was slammed

00:22:55.340 by the former president

00:22:56.020 on Monday

00:22:56.400 after he spoke out

00:22:57.140 against the prosecution

00:22:57.800 of Trump

00:22:58.180 by the Manhattan district attorney,

00:22:59.880 and we talked about that.

00:23:01.540 So what did DeSantis say?

00:23:05.380 He said,

00:23:06.260 and there'll be clips of this

00:23:07.400 because they're going to air,

00:23:08.200 it looks like Thursday

00:23:08.760 they're going to air the interview,

00:23:10.040 but this is some of what he said.

00:23:12.120 He says,

00:23:12.720 I have what it takes to be president

00:23:14.020 and I can beat Biden.

00:23:15.000 This is DeSantis now.

00:23:16.040 If I were to run,

00:23:16.760 I'm running against Biden

00:23:17.920 like we,

00:23:19.400 he and Trump,

00:23:20.080 are competing

00:23:20.540 for the Republican nomination

00:23:21.460 potentially.

00:23:22.060 I get that,

00:23:22.560 but ultimately

00:23:23.060 the guy I'm going to focus on

00:23:24.500 is Biden

00:23:24.980 because I think

00:23:25.460 he's failed the country.

00:23:26.740 I think the country

00:23:27.240 wants a change,

00:23:28.040 he added.

00:23:28.440 I think they want a fresh start

00:23:29.480 in a new direction

00:23:30.100 and so we'll be very vocal

00:23:31.000 about that.

00:23:32.540 When asked about differences

00:23:34.460 between himself and Trump,

00:23:35.580 DeSantis said that

00:23:36.180 there were several.

00:23:37.360 Quote,

00:23:37.600 the approach to COVID

00:23:38.340 was different.

00:23:38.920 I would have fired

00:23:39.480 somebody like Fauci.

00:23:40.680 I think he got way too big

00:23:41.800 for his britches

00:23:42.420 and I think he did

00:23:42.900 a lot of damage.

00:23:44.020 I also think just in terms

00:23:44.820 of my approach to leadership,

00:23:46.000 I get personnel in the government

00:23:47.620 who have the agenda

00:23:48.440 of the people

00:23:49.040 and share our agenda.

00:23:50.500 You bring your own agenda

00:23:51.440 in, you're gone.

00:23:52.560 We're just not going to have that.

00:23:53.780 So the way we run the government

00:23:54.680 I think is no daily drama,

00:23:56.200 focus on the big picture

00:23:57.100 and put points on the board.

00:23:58.420 I think that's something

00:23:59.080 that's very important.

00:24:00.620 And then DeSantis laughed

00:24:01.540 off Trump's derogatory nickname

00:24:02.840 saying,

00:24:03.340 I don't know how to spell

00:24:04.100 the sanctimonious one.

00:24:05.260 I don't really know

00:24:05.760 what it means,

00:24:06.320 but I kind of like it.

00:24:07.880 It's long.

00:24:08.400 It's got a lot of vowels.

00:24:10.240 Okay.

00:24:10.900 We'll go with that.

00:24:11.640 That's fine.

00:24:12.240 I mean, you can call me

00:24:12.800 whatever you want,

00:24:13.340 just as long as you also

00:24:14.000 call me a winner

00:24:14.720 because that's what

00:24:15.520 we've been able to do

00:24:16.140 in Florida.

00:24:16.380 Okay, so maybe there's more

00:24:19.460 to it, but the media

00:24:21.360 has been hyping up.

00:24:23.320 I've seen a lot of headlines

00:24:24.380 about DeSantis launches

00:24:28.020 into Donald Trump.

00:24:30.420 It's, you know,

00:24:31.420 the war of words

00:24:33.220 has finally begun.

00:24:36.120 And the vicious attack

00:24:38.320 on Donald Trump.

00:24:39.560 I've heard that from the media.

00:24:40.620 I've also heard from Trump supporters

00:24:41.640 on social media

00:24:42.700 responding to this.

00:24:43.560 How dare he?

00:24:45.040 How dare DeSantis?

00:24:46.380 I mean, all Trump has done

00:24:47.600 is attack him relentlessly

00:24:50.640 for months

00:24:51.700 and DeSantis finally responds directly

00:24:54.940 and it's,

00:24:55.680 I can't believe this.

00:24:56.940 The disloyalty to say anything.

00:24:59.420 No, your responsibility

00:25:00.440 apparently as DeSantis

00:25:01.480 is to just be attacked

00:25:02.960 and never respond

00:25:03.900 because Trump has some sort

00:25:05.020 of God-given right

00:25:06.020 to say whatever he wants

00:25:07.520 to anyone about anyone

00:25:09.180 and never have anyone

00:25:10.520 say anything to him.

00:25:12.020 That is, you know,

00:25:13.220 if you're in the cult of personality,

00:25:15.160 that's what some people think.

00:25:16.920 But the reality,

00:25:18.040 like back in realityville, right,

00:25:19.700 this was actually pretty tame.

00:25:22.160 He, like I said,

00:25:23.140 you know, we'll see

00:25:23.620 the full interview.

00:25:24.480 Maybe there's more in there,

00:25:25.700 but if that's it,

00:25:27.820 then that's pretty tame.

00:25:29.420 All he's doing,

00:25:30.220 he's asking a question,

00:25:31.320 he's answering a question

00:25:32.020 that was asked of him.

00:25:33.840 What are the differences

00:25:34.640 between you and, you know,

00:25:35.640 what Trump did

00:25:36.180 and what you would do?

00:25:37.760 And so he outlines

00:25:38.820 the differences.

00:25:40.480 And yes, he thinks

00:25:41.480 he'd be a better president.

00:25:42.500 He doesn't even say that,

00:25:43.520 but we can assume he does.

00:25:44.380 I mean, if he runs for president,

00:25:45.420 it means that he thinks

00:25:46.000 he's qualified for the job

00:25:46.900 and be better than the next guy,

00:25:48.000 just like anyone else who runs.

00:25:50.120 So it's not,

00:25:52.520 the media is starving

00:25:54.620 for a full-on war

00:25:56.680 between DeSantis and Trump.

00:25:58.340 And so far,

00:25:58.840 it's been basically one-sided

00:26:00.300 with Trump attacking DeSantis,

00:26:01.560 DeSantis not responding.

00:26:02.880 And now they finally get

00:26:04.040 a response

00:26:04.840 and some criticism.

00:26:06.520 I mean,

00:26:06.640 they're pretty mild criticisms,

00:26:08.360 really,

00:26:08.820 but they finally get

00:26:11.300 a response.

00:26:12.380 And so they're going

00:26:13.040 to latch onto it

00:26:13.900 and try to,

00:26:15.240 you know,

00:26:15.480 and they're going to wait

00:26:16.020 for the response from Trump

00:26:17.020 and Trump's going to respond

00:26:17.900 in a way that's,

00:26:18.700 you know,

00:26:18.960 that's far more vicious

00:26:21.740 than what DeSantis said.

00:26:24.140 And that's the way

00:26:24.860 it's going to go back and forth.

00:26:28.980 All I would say

00:26:29.840 for those of us

00:26:30.500 who are conservatives

00:26:31.160 and if our ultimate goal

00:26:33.360 is for a not-Democrat

00:26:36.100 to be in the White House

00:26:36.880 in 2024,

00:26:37.620 because that is our ultimate goal.

00:26:39.560 Everyone knows

00:26:40.040 I'd like to see DeSantis in there.

00:26:41.280 I think he's proven

00:26:42.480 based on his,

00:26:43.860 based on his tenure

00:26:47.760 as governor of Florida,

00:26:48.660 he's proven that he knows

00:26:50.240 how to enact

00:26:50.780 a conservative agenda.

00:26:52.160 He has the ability,

00:26:53.160 not just the willingness

00:26:53.840 to follow through,

00:26:54.420 but the ability to do it.

00:26:55.580 I know it's different

00:26:56.720 when you're doing it

00:26:57.260 on a national scale,

00:26:58.240 but, you know,

00:26:59.660 he has taken the opportunities

00:27:00.840 that were given to him

00:27:01.560 and he has proven

00:27:02.060 that he's a capable

00:27:02.720 conservative leader.

00:27:04.080 And so I'd like to see him in there.

00:27:05.360 But ultimately,

00:27:07.200 if it's not him,

00:27:08.020 I want someone

00:27:08.980 who's not a Democrat.

00:27:09.900 I want someone

00:27:10.280 who's not Joe Biden

00:27:11.460 at the age of 82

00:27:12.600 starting his second term

00:27:13.840 or if it's not him,

00:27:15.120 then whatever,

00:27:15.580 whoever else,

00:27:16.240 whatever crazy person

00:27:17.060 they put up in his place.

00:27:19.680 So that's my,

00:27:20.460 that's what I want to see.

00:27:21.060 I want to see a,

00:27:22.400 if it can't be DeSantis,

00:27:24.800 I want to see someone

00:27:25.460 who is not a Democrat

00:27:26.500 in the White House.

00:27:28.680 And if we all,

00:27:29.840 you know,

00:27:30.040 as any conservatives,

00:27:30.840 if we all share

00:27:31.800 that opinion,

00:27:32.440 then we can't get sucked into,

00:27:34.320 we can't be manipulated

00:27:35.060 in this way

00:27:35.760 by, you know,

00:27:37.940 pretending that,

00:27:39.220 like,

00:27:39.640 anything DeSantis says

00:27:41.120 in response to Trump

00:27:42.140 is automatically

00:27:43.320 this, like,

00:27:45.300 vicious,

00:27:46.620 unheard of

00:27:47.620 insult,

00:27:49.020 right?

00:27:50.000 Like,

00:27:50.280 this kind of drama

00:27:50.940 they're trying to stir up.

00:27:51.780 We can't,

00:27:52.120 we can't allow ourselves

00:27:52.820 to get sucked into that.

00:27:55.180 Instead,

00:27:55.820 we should

00:27:56.160 try to be rational

00:27:57.720 and fair

00:27:58.420 at least.

00:28:00.200 You're going to support

00:28:00.740 whoever you support

00:28:01.460 in the primaries.

00:28:02.640 We should all be rational,

00:28:04.080 fair-minded people.

00:28:05.900 And if you're a rational,

00:28:06.920 fair-minded person,

00:28:07.660 then you hear that

00:28:08.340 and you say,

00:28:08.820 well,

00:28:09.040 it's like,

00:28:10.160 what else is he going to say?

00:28:11.000 Did you,

00:28:11.320 is he going to be asked

00:28:12.100 that question

00:28:12.580 and say,

00:28:12.920 oh,

00:28:13.120 no,

00:28:13.420 Trump is perfect

00:28:14.340 and would make

00:28:15.320 a perfect president?

00:28:16.200 Is that really

00:28:16.940 what he's required

00:28:17.760 to say?

00:28:18.360 Come on.

00:28:18.680 And what he said

00:28:20.580 is true.

00:28:21.120 Like,

00:28:21.460 it is just true

00:28:22.580 that Donald Trump

00:28:24.060 handed the country

00:28:24.960 over to Dr. Fauci,

00:28:26.700 not only didn't fire him,

00:28:28.240 but awarded him,

00:28:29.180 awarded him,

00:28:29.860 gave him an award

00:28:30.800 at the end of it all.

00:28:33.180 Okay?

00:28:34.080 Awarded him

00:28:34.800 for his efforts

00:28:36.300 rather than firing him.

00:28:38.440 That's what Trump did.

00:28:39.920 And I know that's,

00:28:41.300 you know,

00:28:41.480 some of the,

00:28:42.100 some Trump supporters

00:28:42.900 are going to want us

00:28:44.080 to just forget

00:28:45.100 what happened,

00:28:45.900 but it did happen.

00:28:47.380 Now,

00:28:49.020 you could question,

00:28:50.020 well,

00:28:50.340 if DeSantis was,

00:28:51.340 it's all,

00:28:51.600 it's all what it could have,

00:28:52.520 should have,

00:28:52.800 and it's all hypothetical.

00:28:53.980 If DeSantis was in office,

00:28:55.980 would he have fired Fauci?

00:28:58.040 He says he would.

00:28:59.640 No way to know for sure.

00:29:02.300 I think,

00:29:03.700 based on his track record,

00:29:05.100 very good reason

00:29:05.840 to think that he would have.

00:29:07.780 And this is what he has done

00:29:09.140 in Florida.

00:29:09.620 He has not afraid

00:29:11.620 to fire people like this.

00:29:13.460 He's actually gone in

00:29:14.680 to the government agencies

00:29:15.740 in Florida

00:29:16.320 and clean these people out.

00:29:19.640 All right.

00:29:21.500 State Department spokesperson

00:29:22.760 John Kirby

00:29:23.540 insisted Tuesday

00:29:24.380 that LGBTQ plus rights

00:29:26.160 are a core part

00:29:27.160 of the United States

00:29:27.940 foreign policy.

00:29:28.780 Kirby's remarks came

00:29:29.580 during a White House

00:29:30.400 press briefing

00:29:31.140 following a question

00:29:32.420 about whether it was

00:29:33.200 a concern

00:29:34.020 for the State Department

00:29:34.840 that Russia may be attempting

00:29:36.000 to influence Africa's

00:29:37.640 anti-LGBTQ movement

00:29:39.440 to drive a wedge

00:29:40.300 between it and the U.S.

00:29:42.500 Oh, right.

00:29:43.040 And of course,

00:29:43.440 because we know

00:29:45.480 in Africa,

00:29:46.660 in many of these

00:29:47.200 African nations

00:29:48.340 and cultures,

00:29:49.440 they are not on board

00:29:50.800 with the LGBT agenda.

00:29:52.760 They're not on board

00:29:53.180 with any of it.

00:29:53.640 They're not on board

00:29:54.040 with the trans stuff.

00:29:56.000 I encountered that

00:29:57.180 firsthand,

00:29:57.720 as you know,

00:29:58.240 in what is a woman.

00:29:59.420 They're not on board

00:29:59.960 for it.

00:30:00.620 And so what we hear,

00:30:01.440 of course,

00:30:01.880 the media as well,

00:30:02.640 it's because Russia,

00:30:04.000 it's all Russia.

00:30:06.020 Russia is manipulating

00:30:07.160 the African nations

00:30:08.640 to be against

00:30:09.340 the LGBT stuff.

00:30:11.000 Right.

00:30:12.620 But John Kirby

00:30:13.620 had an answer to that

00:30:14.600 and here's what he said.

00:30:16.680 I mean,

00:30:17.520 President Biden

00:30:18.280 has been

00:30:18.880 nothing but consistent

00:30:20.500 about his belief,

00:30:23.580 foundational belief

00:30:24.360 in human rights

00:30:25.400 and LGBTQ plus

00:30:27.580 rights are human rights.

00:30:29.480 and we again,

00:30:31.760 back to the earlier question,

00:30:33.020 are never going to shy away

00:30:34.160 and be bashful

00:30:34.820 about speaking up

00:30:36.160 for those rights

00:30:36.760 and for individuals

00:30:38.880 to live as they deem fit,

00:30:41.200 as they want to live.

00:30:42.540 And that's something

00:30:43.140 that's a core part

00:30:43.920 of our foreign policy

00:30:44.660 and it will remain so.

00:30:46.560 No, LGBT rights

00:30:47.640 are not human rights.

00:30:49.100 Human rights

00:30:49.740 are human rights.

00:30:50.920 Okay.

00:30:51.160 You don't need,

00:30:52.280 you don't need

00:30:53.000 to divide it

00:30:54.380 and come up

00:30:55.940 with different labels

00:30:56.720 and categories

00:30:57.440 and subcategories

00:30:58.340 for human rights.

00:30:59.000 Human rights

00:30:59.300 are human rights.

00:31:00.460 You know,

00:31:00.860 human rights are,

00:31:03.760 as it says

00:31:04.180 the Declaration of Independence,

00:31:05.100 are endowed

00:31:05.600 by the creator.

00:31:06.320 They come

00:31:06.900 as a consequence

00:31:08.680 of our human nature

00:31:09.540 and they're the same

00:31:11.560 for everybody.

00:31:14.340 So,

00:31:14.920 if you are

00:31:15.600 a gay person,

00:31:16.480 do you have human rights?

00:31:17.460 Well,

00:31:17.640 obviously,

00:31:18.140 everybody does.

00:31:20.520 But do you have

00:31:21.300 special categories

00:31:22.560 of rights?

00:31:23.380 Are there like

00:31:23.840 special additional rights

00:31:25.800 that you have

00:31:26.920 if you're in one

00:31:27.500 of these protected groups?

00:31:28.940 No.

00:31:30.520 At least not now.

00:31:31.680 Those rights

00:31:32.160 can be invented

00:31:33.000 by the state

00:31:33.860 as they are.

00:31:35.280 So,

00:31:35.520 for example,

00:31:36.460 you know,

00:31:36.800 the Democrats,

00:31:37.820 they want to give

00:31:38.540 and they have

00:31:38.960 in many cases

00:31:39.540 given

00:31:39.940 trans,

00:31:41.460 you know,

00:31:42.040 trans-identified male

00:31:43.300 the right

00:31:44.400 to go into

00:31:45.220 whatever bathroom

00:31:45.780 he wants.

00:31:46.780 That is not a right

00:31:47.820 that's enjoyed

00:31:48.700 by anybody else

00:31:49.280 or ever was enjoyed

00:31:50.140 by anybody else.

00:31:50.920 So,

00:31:51.100 that's a special

00:31:51.920 right,

00:31:52.820 privilege,

00:31:53.920 that they want

00:31:54.520 to give to this group.

00:31:55.560 And so,

00:31:55.800 when they say

00:31:56.140 LGBT rights,

00:31:56.720 that's what they're

00:31:57.080 talking about.

00:31:58.180 Because if they

00:31:58.820 weren't talking about

00:31:59.460 those special

00:32:00.020 additional rights,

00:32:00.720 then we wouldn't

00:32:01.060 need to say

00:32:01.440 LGBT rights,

00:32:01.980 just say human rights.

00:32:04.760 When they specify

00:32:06.680 in that way,

00:32:07.240 you know that they're

00:32:07.800 just like when they

00:32:08.320 say women's rights.

00:32:09.800 You know,

00:32:09.980 very often they're

00:32:10.620 talking about

00:32:11.320 the right to kill

00:32:12.420 a baby.

00:32:14.320 That's not a human right.

00:32:15.420 That's not a right

00:32:15.980 that is endowed

00:32:16.900 in us by the creator.

00:32:19.120 And that's not a right

00:32:20.040 that's enjoyed

00:32:20.480 by all human beings.

00:32:21.360 Men don't have the right

00:32:22.220 to kill a baby.

00:32:23.720 That's a special

00:32:24.680 privilege,

00:32:25.860 if we can call it that.

00:32:28.020 The satanic

00:32:28.860 privilege

00:32:29.640 that the Democrats

00:32:31.680 want to give to the women

00:32:32.320 and have.

00:32:33.880 So,

00:32:34.300 it's the same thing here.

00:32:35.880 These are

00:32:36.800 these additional rights

00:32:39.160 that are granted

00:32:40.360 by government powers.

00:32:41.500 They are not

00:32:42.140 inherent to our human nature.

00:32:44.080 They are not endowed

00:32:44.740 by God.

00:32:45.300 Certainly not.

00:32:47.220 As far as LGBT rights

00:32:48.440 being a core part

00:32:49.220 of our foreign policy,

00:32:50.180 well this,

00:32:50.580 if that's the case

00:32:53.000 and it is

00:32:54.280 for this administration,

00:32:56.680 that is just to say

00:32:58.180 that the administration's,

00:32:59.360 this administration's

00:33:00.120 current foreign policy

00:33:01.220 is,

00:33:02.440 their real foreign policy,

00:33:03.440 their real strategy

00:33:04.140 is to take

00:33:05.260 all of the worst parts

00:33:06.780 of the foreign policy

00:33:08.020 of the past 30 years

00:33:09.340 and then make it

00:33:11.340 even worse.

00:33:12.640 So,

00:33:13.200 to embrace

00:33:13.700 all of the worst aspects

00:33:15.500 of the foreign policy,

00:33:17.340 of, you know,

00:33:17.600 American foreign policy

00:33:18.660 of the last 30 years

00:33:19.600 and amplify

00:33:20.700 those bad parts

00:33:22.260 because

00:33:23.300 it was bad enough

00:33:25.140 when we were

00:33:25.760 gallivanting around

00:33:26.940 the globe

00:33:27.380 trying to

00:33:28.340 export democracy

00:33:30.180 and a, quote,

00:33:31.280 way of life

00:33:32.000 to places

00:33:32.500 that didn't want it

00:33:33.740 and shouldn't have

00:33:34.780 been forced to have it.

00:33:37.020 Well, now,

00:33:37.860 we're still doing

00:33:38.280 the same kind of thing,

00:33:39.240 but we're trying

00:33:39.980 to export

00:33:40.500 the most left-wing

00:33:41.580 aspects

00:33:42.180 of this way of life.

00:33:43.880 And these are

00:33:45.560 the aspects

00:33:46.120 that are the most

00:33:47.380 viscerally objectionable

00:33:50.260 to large swaths

00:33:51.960 of the world.

00:33:54.520 Those portions

00:33:55.240 of the world

00:33:55.640 that we're trying

00:33:56.180 the most to impose it on.

00:33:59.040 All right,

00:33:59.520 Fox Phoenix

00:34:00.580 has a very important story.

00:34:02.920 I wasn't sure

00:34:03.200 if we'd have time

00:34:03.680 for this,

00:34:04.040 but it is,

00:34:04.560 like I said,

00:34:04.900 it's just really,

00:34:05.700 they're doing important things

00:34:06.860 over there in Arizona.

00:34:09.100 So let's,

00:34:09.620 let's watch this.

00:34:10.240 Governor Hobbs

00:34:11.840 signing an executive order

00:34:12.980 this afternoon

00:34:13.660 banning discrimination

00:34:14.640 on the basis

00:34:15.500 of natural hairstyles

00:34:17.000 or texture.

00:34:18.900 This would apply

00:34:19.620 only to state workers

00:34:21.300 and contractors,

00:34:22.300 but the governor says

00:34:23.140 she wants to send a message.

00:34:24.800 Fox 10's Irene Snyder

00:34:25.980 spoke with some stylists

00:34:27.580 about what this means.

00:34:29.380 Irene.

00:34:31.840 Well, good evening,

00:34:32.720 John and Christina.

00:34:33.500 Governor Katie Hobbs

00:34:34.420 signing that executive order

00:34:35.620 today.

00:34:36.180 Tempe and Tucson

00:34:36.840 already passed

00:34:37.980 similar bans.

00:34:38.900 And while,

00:34:39.180 as you mentioned,

00:34:39.620 this is not going

00:34:40.480 to be a statewide protection,

00:34:42.240 the governor's saying

00:34:42.940 she hopes,

00:34:43.600 she hopes it will inspire

00:34:45.040 future legislation.

00:34:47.300 This is our hair.

00:34:48.540 To have a freedom

00:34:49.200 of doing like whatever

00:34:50.340 to our hair

00:34:51.020 is very powerful.

00:34:52.800 Hairstylist,

00:34:53.300 Kiera Jones,

00:34:54.120 says she knows

00:34:54.700 what it's like

00:34:55.360 to be discriminated

00:34:56.360 based on her chosen hairstyles.

00:34:58.300 She's seen it with clients

00:34:59.460 at our Gilbert Salon too.

00:35:00.920 The times my clients

00:35:01.820 will sit in my chair

00:35:02.620 and they'll be like,

00:35:04.060 okay,

00:35:04.480 so I'm very limited

00:35:05.540 of styles

00:35:06.160 because I'm going

00:35:07.160 to this job

00:35:08.060 and you know,

00:35:08.720 I'm the only one

00:35:09.520 that looks like me.

00:35:13.340 Governor Katie Hobbs

00:35:14.680 signing an executive order

00:35:15.900 today banning discrimination

00:35:17.460 against state employees

00:35:18.620 and contractors

00:35:19.380 because of natural

00:35:20.580 and protective hairstyles.

00:35:21.880 I'm hopeful

00:35:22.500 that this inspires legislation

00:35:24.360 to end this kind of inequity

00:35:26.400 across the board.

00:35:28.060 It's often referred to

00:35:28.920 as the Crown Act,

00:35:30.260 which stands for

00:35:30.900 creating a respectful

00:35:31.980 and open workplace

00:35:32.920 for natural hair.

00:35:34.100 This includes styles

00:35:34.980 often associated with race,

00:35:36.440 like braids,

00:35:37.600 twists,

00:35:38.120 and locks.

00:35:38.840 The styles that we're doing

00:35:39.580 on his hair

00:35:40.120 are two-strand twists.

00:35:41.540 Styles is kind of like endless.

00:35:42.920 You can do braids.

00:35:44.340 You can be very creative

00:35:45.600 with braids.

00:35:46.460 Shante Fox

00:35:47.200 owns a salon in Tempe

00:35:48.520 specializing in curly textured styles.

00:35:51.020 She says many of her clients

00:35:52.540 in the past

00:35:53.100 have damaged their hair

00:35:54.040 trying to conform

00:35:54.860 to straight hairstyles

00:35:55.900 using heat

00:35:56.440 and hair relaxers.

00:35:57.500 Or it can be damaging

00:35:58.500 to the hair follicles.

00:36:00.440 I can't deal with that.

00:36:03.200 I'm not in the mood.

00:36:03.880 I'm never in the mood

00:36:04.560 for this.

00:36:06.000 These damned clowns.

00:36:08.480 Everything that's happening

00:36:09.500 in this country,

00:36:10.420 you know,

00:36:10.600 you got a crime wave epidemic,

00:36:13.400 economies in shambles,

00:36:15.120 everything.

00:36:15.800 And this is what

00:36:17.660 they're focused on.

00:36:20.020 You know,

00:36:20.680 we are such a stupid society

00:36:22.800 and can we get stupider?

00:36:24.440 I know we can.

00:36:25.220 So don't answer that question.

00:36:27.100 Protected hairstyles?

00:36:28.820 What?

00:36:30.160 This is what

00:36:31.060 you're worried about.

00:36:32.700 Is discrimination

00:36:33.820 against hairstyles.

00:36:37.640 And by the way,

00:36:39.100 talking about all the,

00:36:40.000 you know,

00:36:40.500 the very real epidemics

00:36:41.960 and crises that we face

00:36:43.100 in this country

00:36:46.080 and in the world.

00:36:47.860 Like I said yesterday,

00:36:48.880 I think it's,

00:36:50.140 these people,

00:36:50.880 Democrats,

00:36:51.680 would add additional

00:36:52.960 crises

00:36:54.220 that I wouldn't even mention.

00:36:55.180 I mean,

00:36:55.260 these are the ones

00:36:55.780 that say that we're,

00:36:56.940 the world's about to end

00:36:58.380 because of global warming.

00:37:01.660 They think that.

00:37:02.900 I don't.

00:37:04.580 Do you think

00:37:04.880 the world is on the brink?

00:37:06.860 We're on the brink

00:37:07.460 of global destruction.

00:37:10.640 And you have time

00:37:12.380 to sign a bill

00:37:13.800 like ensuring people

00:37:15.400 can wear braids to work?

00:37:18.360 And where do we get this idea?

00:37:19.900 I mean,

00:37:20.560 this,

00:37:21.120 I know where we got it

00:37:21.760 from this victim mentality,

00:37:22.780 but you know,

00:37:23.160 so rhetorically,

00:37:23.760 where do we get this idea

00:37:25.280 that only black people

00:37:27.140 are subject to dress codes

00:37:28.760 involving hair?

00:37:30.980 So if a black person

00:37:32.320 is told,

00:37:32.960 well,

00:37:33.060 this is the hairstyle,

00:37:33.920 you know,

00:37:34.060 these are the kind of hairstyles

00:37:34.820 you can have on this job.

00:37:35.820 Oh my goodness,

00:37:37.480 this is a,

00:37:38.100 this is oppression.

00:37:39.640 How could you say this to me?

00:37:41.020 I have,

00:37:41.940 everyone has to deal with that.

00:37:43.740 Get over yourself.

00:37:45.560 We all,

00:37:46.060 that's,

00:37:46.380 jobs that have dress codes,

00:37:49.140 which many do,

00:37:49.840 it applies to everyone.

00:37:52.140 Okay.

00:37:52.460 If you went to a job

00:37:53.740 where they said,

00:37:54.480 if you're black,

00:37:56.780 there's a dress code.

00:37:57.520 If you're white,

00:37:58.020 there isn't.

00:37:58.320 Now,

00:37:58.640 if you encounter that at a job,

00:38:00.280 then I would agree

00:38:00.820 that that's discrimination,

00:38:01.560 but that is not happening anywhere.

00:38:03.580 That has never,

00:38:04.980 ever happened to you.

00:38:05.920 Never.

00:38:06.480 And it never would.

00:38:07.940 So the most that's happened to you

00:38:09.400 is you've gone to a job

00:38:10.600 where there is a dress code

00:38:12.140 that applies to everyone,

00:38:13.840 but because you are,

00:38:15.220 in keeping with the theme of today,

00:38:16.580 a raging narcissist

00:38:18.600 who has become a psycho,

00:38:21.040 your victim mentality

00:38:22.240 has driven you psychotic

00:38:23.780 because of that.

00:38:25.280 You assume that this dress code

00:38:26.800 that involves everyone

00:38:28.460 and affects everyone

00:38:29.440 and that everyone

00:38:30.220 has been abiding by

00:38:31.280 for decades with no problem

00:38:32.700 is somehow a personal attack

00:38:34.840 on you individually.

00:38:37.800 I mean,

00:38:38.000 the correct response

00:38:39.200 from society

00:38:40.520 to someone like that

00:38:41.400 is shut the hell up

00:38:42.720 and get over yourself.

00:38:43.900 Like,

00:38:44.080 go cry about it.

00:38:45.040 You're crying

00:38:45.780 because you can't.

00:38:46.740 I want to wear braids.

00:38:47.800 So what?

00:38:48.640 Who cares?

00:38:49.920 Just wear the hairstyle

00:38:50.900 they're telling you to wear.

00:38:52.160 That's it.

00:38:53.220 That should be the response.

00:38:54.760 But because we are,

00:38:55.760 again,

00:38:55.900 a very stupid society,

00:38:57.080 instead,

00:38:58.180 we hear people

00:38:59.060 complaining about this

00:38:59.900 and we say,

00:39:00.220 oh,

00:39:00.340 tell me more about it.

00:39:01.160 That must be really hard for you.

00:39:03.440 Oh,

00:39:03.640 you had to change your hairstyle.

00:39:05.900 Like,

00:39:06.000 I can't imagine that.

00:39:08.320 No one has ever

00:39:09.160 had to do that before.

00:39:10.260 They are the first one.

00:39:12.320 So desperate for victimhood.

00:39:14.500 So desperate.

00:39:15.460 But this is what

00:39:16.300 we are down to.

00:39:19.740 Protected hairstyles.

00:39:23.840 All right.

00:39:26.280 We have one more thing here

00:39:27.980 that is also important.

00:39:31.640 Well,

00:39:31.800 not important at all,

00:39:32.380 but I wanted to mention it.

00:39:33.500 The latest Media Matters

00:39:35.180 hit job,

00:39:35.980 you know,

00:39:36.180 because apparently

00:39:36.620 we aren't providing them

00:39:37.580 enough fodder

00:39:38.200 just based on

00:39:39.000 what we say every day

00:39:39.920 on all of our shows.

00:39:41.100 Now they're going back

00:39:41.860 and they're combing through

00:39:43.000 Media Matters

00:39:43.700 is our entire

00:39:44.620 like catalog

00:39:45.580 of old videos.

00:39:47.820 And

00:39:47.960 Ariel Drennan,

00:39:49.720 who's a male employee

00:39:50.920 at Media Matters,

00:39:52.340 found a video

00:39:53.020 from a bit

00:39:54.000 that all of the hosts

00:39:55.300 filmed a couple of years ago

00:39:56.360 on Valentine's Day.

00:39:57.020 And I forgot that this existed,

00:39:58.280 that we even did this.

00:39:59.100 But

00:39:59.200 the basic gist

00:40:00.780 is that our wives

00:40:01.740 were asked questions

00:40:03.980 about us

00:40:04.540 and then we were asked

00:40:05.520 the same questions

00:40:06.440 and whoever's answers

00:40:07.900 lined up the best

00:40:08.920 with what the wife said

00:40:10.400 won.

00:40:11.800 And

00:40:12.040 I don't,

00:40:12.660 I think,

00:40:13.340 I think Drew won this,

00:40:15.000 this,

00:40:15.580 but he's been married

00:40:16.120 the longest.

00:40:16.600 It really was not fair.

00:40:18.120 Anyway,

00:40:18.940 Drennan and

00:40:19.760 a bunch of leftists

00:40:20.920 who reacted to this clip

00:40:22.020 were especially offended

00:40:23.200 by,

00:40:25.080 and by the way,

00:40:26.400 they were,

00:40:28.300 I know as soon as they saw

00:40:29.360 that this clip existed,

00:40:30.300 that we did some kind

00:40:30.920 of Valentine's Day,

00:40:31.820 you know,

00:40:32.140 big fake game show thing

00:40:33.720 involving,

00:40:34.860 you know,

00:40:35.180 talking about our

00:40:35.980 relationships with our wives.

00:40:37.380 As soon as they saw that,

00:40:38.640 they knew that they had

00:40:39.360 hit a jackpot

00:40:40.100 because they knew

00:40:40.720 that they're automatically

00:40:41.900 going to be able

00:40:42.380 to find something offensive.

00:40:43.660 Like it's impossible,

00:40:44.900 in their twisted worldview,

00:40:46.620 it's impossible

00:40:47.220 for a straight male

00:40:48.820 to say anything

00:40:50.680 about his relationship

00:40:52.040 with his wife

00:40:52.500 that won't automatically

00:40:53.680 be offensive.

00:40:54.540 And so,

00:40:55.620 they really had their

00:40:56.980 pick of the litter

00:40:57.500 on this one

00:40:58.440 and this is what they,

00:41:00.300 this is what they decided

00:41:01.440 was offensive.

00:41:02.580 Let's watch it.

00:41:03.720 All right,

00:41:04.400 Matt.

00:41:05.040 It's kind of a trick question

00:41:06.100 because I hate them

00:41:07.040 both equally,

00:41:08.160 so I,

00:41:08.640 but I guess I would say

00:41:09.980 I would rather do

00:41:11.900 the dishes,

00:41:12.940 but I'd prefer

00:41:13.360 if she just did

00:41:13.940 both of the things.

00:41:14.920 Michael,

00:41:15.320 to you.

00:41:15.740 Dishes,

00:41:16.180 it's no question.

00:41:16.960 I'm not sure

00:41:17.340 in our entire marriage

00:41:18.380 if I've ever done

00:41:19.320 a full load of laundry,

00:41:20.940 so I think I have that one.

00:41:22.360 I like it.

00:41:22.960 All right,

00:41:23.380 Drew?

00:41:24.200 Well,

00:41:24.580 this is a trick question

00:41:25.540 because I have not done

00:41:26.280 anything around the house

00:41:27.320 for 40 years.

00:41:29.060 I've been a completely useless,

00:41:30.580 but it's clear

00:41:31.540 that if I had to choose,

00:41:32.940 it would be,

00:41:33.700 it would have to be dishes

00:41:34.960 because she was just

00:41:35.820 out of town for a month

00:41:36.640 and I actually called her up

00:41:37.660 and said,

00:41:37.980 how do you do laundry?

00:41:39.560 So,

00:41:40.240 I think this is the only thing

00:41:41.440 I know how to do.

00:41:42.600 All right,

00:41:43.100 to the answers,

00:41:44.160 Ben,

00:41:44.420 you answered dishes.

00:41:45.820 Mrs. Shapiro said,

00:41:47.000 I'm not sure Ben knows

00:41:48.020 how to do laundry,

00:41:48.920 so I'll go with the dishes,

00:41:50.520 which he does quite often

00:41:51.800 and she threw in

00:41:52.720 a little thanks, hon.

00:41:53.880 Matt,

00:41:54.380 you answered,

00:41:55.540 I hate them both,

00:41:57.000 but dishes,

00:41:57.760 your wife said dishes

00:41:58.900 and she also threw in

00:42:00.480 he doesn't know

00:42:00.980 how to do the laundry.

00:42:01.900 Again,

00:42:02.160 being going under the bus.

00:42:03.220 True.

00:42:03.640 Michael,

00:42:04.200 you answered dishes,

00:42:05.600 your wife said neither,

00:42:06.960 but if there was a gun

00:42:07.860 to his head,

00:42:08.860 he would choose dishes.

00:42:10.640 And Drew,

00:42:11.300 finally,

00:42:11.880 you answered,

00:42:12.740 I don't do anything

00:42:13.520 but the dishes

00:42:14.320 if I had to

00:42:15.240 and your wife put,

00:42:16.340 again,

00:42:16.560 in all caps here,

00:42:17.360 very forceful answer,

00:42:18.720 since he doesn't know

00:42:19.500 how to do laundry,

00:42:20.380 as we learned

00:42:20.980 when I was out of town

00:42:21.660 for several weeks,

00:42:22.780 I'm guessing it's the dishes.

00:42:25.720 Hmm.

00:42:26.520 You caught us.

00:42:27.760 You caught us.

00:42:29.280 We are normal people

00:42:32.320 and men

00:42:33.200 who are in normal,

00:42:34.500 happy marriages

00:42:35.060 and we have a sense of humor

00:42:36.260 and our wives do too.

00:42:38.680 You caught us.

00:42:39.500 You caught us red-handed.

00:42:40.920 You caught us red-handed

00:42:41.740 being in healthy,

00:42:43.440 well-adjusted,

00:42:44.120 normal marriages

00:42:44.780 where we have

00:42:46.180 a sense of humor

00:42:46.820 about things.

00:42:47.980 Caught us.

00:42:48.460 I don't know what to say.

00:42:49.400 I mean,

00:42:49.700 we,

00:42:50.240 and I know

00:42:51.100 a sense of humor

00:42:52.700 and a happy marriage

00:42:53.400 are two things

00:42:54.000 that nobody at Media Matters

00:42:55.340 has ever had

00:42:56.580 or will ever have

00:42:57.680 and so for them,

00:42:59.080 this is like shocking stuff

00:43:01.040 and just so you know,

00:43:05.260 like some of what you saw there,

00:43:06.420 I know I have to kind of

00:43:07.260 break it down

00:43:08.080 for you freaks.

00:43:11.000 So a lot of what

00:43:12.040 you just saw there,

00:43:13.020 it's called

00:43:13.660 and it's,

00:43:16.160 it's called a joke,

00:43:17.640 okay?

00:43:18.540 And joke's very interesting

00:43:19.580 where it's a J-O-K-E

00:43:20.720 is how you spell it

00:43:21.400 and so this is,

00:43:23.300 this is what's,

00:43:23.900 this is what's called,

00:43:24.580 it's like just being

00:43:25.400 kind of humorous

00:43:26.160 and laughing about something.

00:43:30.340 Do I know how to do

00:43:31.200 the laundry technically?

00:43:33.080 Of course I do.

00:43:34.180 It's like you just,

00:43:34.840 you throw the stuff in

00:43:35.860 and you hit the button.

00:43:37.020 It's not that hard.

00:43:37.580 You put the detergent in.

00:43:38.640 Of course we know

00:43:39.340 how to do that.

00:43:40.060 Now,

00:43:40.740 as far as sorting

00:43:41.500 the laundry by color

00:43:42.660 or whatever

00:43:43.600 and all that kind of stuff

00:43:44.460 or checking the labels

00:43:45.740 on all the,

00:43:46.360 all the,

00:43:47.180 all the individual,

00:43:48.440 you know,

00:43:48.860 items of clothing

00:43:49.700 to see what setting

00:43:51.000 to put it on.

00:43:52.160 I'm not going to do that.

00:43:53.520 Do I know how to do it?

00:43:54.500 Can I read the label

00:43:55.420 physically?

00:43:56.460 And I can,

00:43:57.580 but I'm not going

00:43:58.440 to do that.

00:43:59.200 So I take,

00:44:00.580 it's more of a kamikaze approach.

00:44:02.020 If,

00:44:02.280 if ever my wife

00:44:03.260 makes the mistake

00:44:03.960 of,

00:44:05.040 you know,

00:44:06.560 putting me anywhere

00:44:07.220 near the laundry,

00:44:08.200 I'm going to take

00:44:08.760 a more kamikaze approach

00:44:10.060 of just,

00:44:10.980 you know,

00:44:11.560 it's,

00:44:12.000 it's kamikaze style,

00:44:13.760 throw it all in there

00:44:14.660 and whatever happens,

00:44:15.780 happens.

00:44:17.240 In fact,

00:44:17.820 just recently,

00:44:18.420 I did a load of laundry

00:44:20.200 and everything came out

00:44:21.560 pink.

00:44:22.340 And my point was,

00:44:23.740 it's kind of a fun game.

00:44:25.520 You know,

00:44:25.900 you just throw stuff in.

00:44:27.260 You don't know

00:44:27.580 what's going to happen.

00:44:28.460 You don't know

00:44:28.760 what color it's going

00:44:29.380 to come out.

00:44:29.980 You don't know how,

00:44:30.560 how,

00:44:31.040 what size the things

00:44:32.180 will be when they

00:44:32.720 come out of the laundry.

00:44:34.000 You never know.

00:44:35.340 It's a lot of fun.

00:44:36.260 It's kind of like a game.

00:44:38.420 My wife doesn't

00:44:39.620 appreciate that approach

00:44:40.660 as much.

00:44:41.100 So I don't do

00:44:42.240 much of the laundry

00:44:43.020 and that's fine.

00:44:45.640 That's how you,

00:44:46.360 you know,

00:44:46.700 this is,

00:44:47.000 this is a thing

00:44:47.500 people do

00:44:48.220 in marriages

00:44:49.100 and it's like

00:44:49.740 in normal life

00:44:50.940 where it's kind

00:44:52.400 of hyperbole

00:44:53.140 and,

00:44:53.520 but it's,

00:44:53.840 it's sort of not

00:44:54.500 and you're joking around.

00:44:55.500 There's a grain of truth

00:44:56.140 to it.

00:44:57.020 Again,

00:44:57.500 that's like a,

00:44:58.140 it's being a normal human.

00:45:00.820 That's stuff

00:45:01.580 that comes with that.

00:45:02.780 It's that it comes

00:45:03.540 with that territory.

00:45:05.340 But you see

00:45:06.120 just how angry

00:45:07.440 these people are

00:45:09.880 at normalcy.

00:45:11.120 They really hate it,

00:45:11.780 which is why,

00:45:12.700 you know,

00:45:14.220 they always,

00:45:15.240 it's,

00:45:15.440 it's,

00:45:15.500 it's,

00:45:15.780 it's,

00:45:16.040 it's,

00:45:16.300 it's always so easy

00:45:17.300 to predict ahead of time

00:45:18.980 what bits

00:45:21.580 and what things

00:45:22.460 people at Media Matters

00:45:23.560 are going to take

00:45:24.180 and try to blow up

00:45:25.020 and make a big thing about

00:45:25.960 because it's always,

00:45:27.200 I always know

00:45:27.940 at the end of every show

00:45:29.900 I can look back

00:45:31.020 and say,

00:45:31.500 what are the most normal

00:45:32.680 common sense things

00:45:33.680 I said today?

00:45:34.340 Of all the things I said,

00:45:36.100 what were the most normal

00:45:37.300 and common sense things?

00:45:38.260 And it's always going to be

00:45:39.460 those things

00:45:40.500 that they are going to post

00:45:42.700 and say,

00:45:43.000 you can't believe

00:45:43.500 what Matt Walsh said this time

00:45:44.880 because they really hate normalcy

00:45:48.340 and they don't,

00:45:49.540 and they've never experienced it

00:45:51.100 and they don't understand it.

00:45:52.540 And,

00:45:53.000 and that's all fine.

00:45:57.040 Though I will,

00:45:59.840 just another thing

00:46:00.600 that's very important

00:46:01.260 for me to clarify

00:46:01.760 is that I also hate

00:46:03.280 doing the dishes.

00:46:04.100 So I don't want you to think

00:46:05.280 that I am pro dishes at all.

00:46:10.800 Fortunately though now,

00:46:12.200 my,

00:46:12.520 my kids are old enough

00:46:14.200 where they can really start

00:46:14.880 doing a lot of those chores.

00:46:15.940 So I've been able

00:46:16.860 to offload that as well.

00:46:18.520 It's been great.

00:46:20.180 Let's get to the comment section.

00:46:21.400 Who makes Twitter mob

00:46:23.280 fly off the handle with rage?

00:46:27.600 Who's to blame?

00:46:30.480 It's a sweet baby gang.

00:46:35.000 Elizabeth Weaver says,

00:46:36.480 the Uvalde shooting story

00:46:37.720 just makes me think

00:46:38.520 of the C.S. Lewis quote.

00:46:39.880 We make men without chess

00:46:41.080 and expect of them

00:46:41.900 virtue and enterprise.

00:46:43.300 We laugh and honor

00:46:44.340 and are shocked

00:46:44.880 to find traitors in our midst.

00:46:47.000 And,

00:46:47.280 and then to add to it,

00:46:49.040 we screamed about

00:46:49.660 toxic masculinity

00:46:50.400 and are surprised

00:46:51.440 in our hour of greatest need

00:46:52.760 to find no masculinity

00:46:53.920 at all.

00:46:54.860 absolutely tragic

00:46:55.760 and I'm heartbroken

00:46:56.600 to think of the families.

00:47:00.940 Yeah,

00:47:01.420 I mean,

00:47:01.580 that,

00:47:01.720 that applies in general.

00:47:03.420 It applies in this case as well.

00:47:05.260 I mean,

00:47:05.400 you can also add to that

00:47:06.540 and say that,

00:47:07.260 you know,

00:47:08.860 we,

00:47:09.140 we,

00:47:09.740 in,

00:47:10.340 in particular,

00:47:11.300 we were very concerned.

00:47:12.800 When I say we,

00:47:13.440 I mean,

00:47:13.760 at least the left,

00:47:14.880 you know,

00:47:15.260 the culture,

00:47:15.900 very concerned about

00:47:16.920 toxic masculinity

00:47:17.800 specifically

00:47:18.740 in law enforcement

00:47:20.880 where they,

00:47:21.700 it was,

00:47:22.000 it was a big concern

00:47:23.020 and,

00:47:23.580 well,

00:47:24.480 there was none of that

00:47:25.360 in Uvalde,

00:47:25.940 so,

00:47:26.520 congratulations.

00:47:28.780 Jelena says,

00:47:29.640 not only did the little mermaid

00:47:30.680 in the original film

00:47:31.660 want to leave the sea

00:47:32.680 before she met the prince,

00:47:34.500 the original tale

00:47:35.420 is a love story,

00:47:36.620 a tragic one,

00:47:37.480 yes,

00:47:37.760 but a love story.

00:47:39.480 Hans Christian Andersen

00:47:40.300 wrote it as a metaphor

00:47:41.280 for his love life

00:47:42.580 or rather for his love

00:47:44.220 for a man

00:47:44.920 that he could never be with.

00:47:45.980 So I,

00:47:48.300 that's,

00:47:49.060 I had never heard that before.

00:47:50.320 I looked it up

00:47:50.900 after you read,

00:47:51.660 after I read your comment

00:47:52.560 that The Little Mermaid

00:47:53.980 was originally written

00:47:54.580 by Hans Christian Andersen

00:47:55.620 as some kind of,

00:47:56.820 you know,

00:47:57.140 gay love affair

00:47:58.900 or at least a gay infatuation

00:48:00.860 is what led him

00:48:01.540 to write this story

00:48:02.280 and it's kind of

00:48:02.860 a metaphor for that

00:48:03.840 and the story

00:48:04.840 was inspired by that

00:48:05.800 and so I did look it up

00:48:06.520 from what little I read,

00:48:08.100 I spent about three minutes

00:48:09.060 researching that claim

00:48:10.380 and from what little I read,

00:48:12.500 this sounds,

00:48:13.480 it sounds like

00:48:13.860 a highly speculative theory

00:48:15.780 based on like

00:48:17.720 someone else's interpretation

00:48:18.960 of various different things

00:48:20.240 and a letter that he wrote

00:48:21.080 and all the rest of it.

00:48:22.580 He certainly never came out

00:48:23.820 and said that's what

00:48:24.460 the story was about to be,

00:48:25.580 was supposed to be about.

00:48:27.500 So I don't know.

00:48:29.720 I,

00:48:29.920 I find it kind of dubious

00:48:31.420 but,

00:48:31.900 but either way

00:48:32.600 it does go to show again

00:48:34.440 that these old classic fairy tales

00:48:37.080 are,

00:48:37.760 they are very layered

00:48:38.940 and there's a lot going on

00:48:41.120 and often they have

00:48:42.880 some pretty dark elements.

00:48:44.460 In fact,

00:48:44.860 most of them do.

00:48:45.540 Like the classic fairy tales,

00:48:47.460 it's,

00:48:48.320 you know,

00:48:49.520 there's love

00:48:50.200 and there's romance involved

00:48:51.340 and there's all these different things

00:48:52.360 and there's magic

00:48:53.020 and everything

00:48:53.360 but it's also,

00:48:54.300 it's also,

00:48:54.720 it can get quite dark.

00:48:58.800 Yet in modern times,

00:49:00.320 we take these classic stories

00:49:02.180 that have been around forever

00:49:03.120 and we add nuance to them

00:49:06.340 just like the Halle Berry,

00:49:08.480 which it was,

00:49:09.880 the Little Mermaid,

00:49:11.200 the new one,

00:49:12.200 Bailey,

00:49:12.440 Halle Bailey,

00:49:14.160 like she was saying yesterday

00:49:14.960 we were talking about,

00:49:16.300 well,

00:49:16.560 we want to add nuance.

00:49:17.660 We're making it more nuanced.

00:49:19.560 But every single time

00:49:20.740 you're adding nuance

00:49:21.680 to the story

00:49:22.640 by taking the nuance out of it,

00:49:27.280 by taking all the depth

00:49:28.900 and all the layers

00:49:29.680 and everything,

00:49:30.480 like taking all that out

00:49:31.680 and,

00:49:32.820 and coming up with something

00:49:34.400 just like this sterilized kind of,

00:49:37.020 even,

00:49:37.280 even aesthetically,

00:49:38.760 when you look at these,

00:49:39.800 these live action remakes

00:49:41.980 of the old cartoons

00:49:43.160 and,

00:49:44.540 yeah,

00:49:44.700 the themes,

00:49:45.440 they've,

00:49:45.940 they've neutered all the themes

00:49:48.060 and all the rest of it.

00:49:48.960 They've made it even more

00:49:49.740 politically correct

00:49:50.380 than it already was

00:49:51.240 even though many of these stories,

00:49:52.920 as we said yesterday,

00:49:53.620 were already pretty politically correct

00:49:55.140 because a lot of these cartoons

00:49:56.160 were made in the 90s

00:49:57.060 which wasn't exactly,

00:49:58.680 I mean,

00:49:58.980 it's not like it is now

00:49:59.960 but it wasn't exactly,

00:50:01.360 you know,

00:50:01.900 I mean,

00:50:02.680 there was,

00:50:03.060 the PC police

00:50:04.000 were already a problem back then

00:50:05.060 but on top of that,

00:50:08.560 aesthetically,

00:50:09.660 like you end up with something

00:50:11.460 that's just,

00:50:12.020 it's not nearly as vibrant

00:50:13.160 or interesting,

00:50:14.020 it's just kind of gray

00:50:15.040 and washed out

00:50:15.900 and ugly

00:50:17.040 and boring

00:50:17.720 and,

00:50:18.860 so that is their version

00:50:21.520 of adding nuance.

00:50:23.980 Their version is to take all,

00:50:25.200 take all that out.

00:50:30.240 Nick says,

00:50:31.100 hey Matt,

00:50:32.040 I lead the college Republicans

00:50:33.440 at Kent State.

00:50:34.160 Yesterday we had a screening

00:50:35.240 of what is a woman

00:50:35.940 and we had a huge turnout.

00:50:37.360 I have now been accused

00:50:38.120 of genocide

00:50:38.720 and all of our ads

00:50:39.820 for our club

00:50:40.460 around campus

00:50:41.560 were ripped down

00:50:42.320 by the tolerant left.

00:50:43.360 Any tips on continuing influence

00:50:44.800 on campus in the future?

00:50:46.040 Thanks.

00:50:47.720 Well,

00:50:48.080 the one thing I would do

00:50:48.800 is I would put up,

00:50:51.060 put the ads back up

00:50:52.020 and do the screening again.

00:50:53.920 When they get mad at you

00:50:54.840 for doing something,

00:50:55.640 that's the rule number one.

00:50:56.680 They get mad at you

00:50:57.120 for doing something,

00:50:57.800 do it again.

00:50:58.460 Keep doing it.

00:51:01.060 Another comment says,

00:51:01.880 Matt,

00:51:02.080 if the aesthetic in your office

00:51:03.140 doesn't fit the giant

00:51:04.140 walrus,

00:51:04.780 then you went

00:51:05.280 for the wrong aesthetic.

00:51:07.600 That is a,

00:51:08.360 you know,

00:51:08.940 that is a rebuke

00:51:09.920 that I will take

00:51:11.200 and I will take

00:51:12.160 into consideration,

00:51:12.920 but I still don't want

00:51:14.260 the walrus in my office

00:51:15.080 only because

00:51:15.940 I want

00:51:17.000 the whole family

00:51:18.120 to be able to

00:51:19.100 enjoy it.

00:51:22.420 Jay Anderson says,

00:51:23.640 I mean,

00:51:23.940 we all knew Matt

00:51:24.520 desperately needs therapy,

00:51:25.480 but after him ragging

00:51:26.360 on Ted Lasso

00:51:27.260 as if it had committed

00:51:28.380 some personal offense,

00:51:29.760 proves once and for all

00:51:31.120 this poor man-child

00:51:32.780 is broken.

00:51:34.240 Like,

00:51:34.500 I know

00:51:34.840 these are hard sayings

00:51:37.660 for many of you

00:51:38.780 and you don't want

00:51:39.220 to hear it about Ted Lasso.

00:51:40.840 I think what happened,

00:51:41.660 here's my theory

00:51:42.160 with Ted Lasso

00:51:42.560 because again,

00:51:43.480 when you watch that show,

00:51:45.480 mildly charming

00:51:46.400 for an episode or two

00:51:47.720 and then it

00:51:48.340 falls off a cliff

00:51:49.520 and it's really

00:51:52.260 quite terrible

00:51:52.960 but,

00:51:54.940 and not funny

00:51:55.760 at all,

00:51:56.640 you know,

00:51:56.900 any attempt at humor,

00:51:58.000 most of it falls flat

00:51:59.020 and the writing

00:51:59.720 is bad and lazy

00:52:00.840 and also,

00:52:02.900 by the way,

00:52:03.260 in some of the later episodes,

00:52:04.100 like very woke.

00:52:06.100 It's always interesting

00:52:06.900 to me,

00:52:07.120 the people that,

00:52:08.000 you know,

00:52:08.500 are rightfully sensitive

00:52:10.480 to the woke stuff,

00:52:11.140 they don't want

00:52:11.460 to be subjected to that,

00:52:12.520 they don't want

00:52:12.840 woke moralizing

00:52:13.680 and yet there are,

00:52:15.360 they make exceptions

00:52:16.860 in certain cases

00:52:18.360 and so Ted Lasso,

00:52:19.340 there's a lot of wokeness

00:52:20.340 in that show

00:52:20.820 all over the place,

00:52:21.920 not even like

00:52:22.400 isolated incidents of it

00:52:23.820 and,

00:52:25.640 but for some reason

00:52:26.120 that's looked over,

00:52:26.740 I don't know why.

00:52:28.360 So,

00:52:28.840 yeah,

00:52:29.060 but here's my theory,

00:52:30.180 why,

00:52:31.260 how did that show

00:52:31.820 become so popular?

00:52:33.100 My theory is that

00:52:34.080 it came out

00:52:34.900 in the summer of 2020

00:52:36.580 and I think people were,

00:52:39.640 you know,

00:52:39.840 a lot of people

00:52:40.140 have been locked

00:52:40.600 in their houses

00:52:41.120 for months

00:52:42.400 and people were going

00:52:43.560 stir crazy

00:52:44.200 from the lockdowns

00:52:45.280 and I think

00:52:46.260 that's what it was,

00:52:46.860 I think it just came out

00:52:48.040 at that time

00:52:48.800 when people were

00:52:50.600 stir crazy,

00:52:51.740 they were also like

00:52:52.380 starving for human connection

00:52:53.880 and,

00:52:55.060 and then

00:52:56.200 they come along

00:52:56.960 with this cheesy show

00:52:57.800 about soccer

00:52:58.380 and for whatever reason

00:52:59.600 people latched on to that

00:53:00.660 and so there's

00:53:01.040 this emotional attachment

00:53:02.100 but if you can,

00:53:03.360 if you can look past

00:53:04.240 the emotional attachment

00:53:05.060 you will see that

00:53:05.640 objectively

00:53:06.200 it's not a good show.

00:53:09.220 Old Schooled says,

00:53:10.140 I hereby nominate

00:53:10.820 Michael Knowles

00:53:11.460 for your next

00:53:11.940 daily cancellation.

00:53:12.820 If I'm not mistaken,

00:53:13.560 he basically likened you

00:53:14.500 to a lib

00:53:15.160 because of your

00:53:15.740 deep founded belief

00:53:16.660 in aliens.

00:53:18.280 Well,

00:53:19.240 funny you should mention that.

00:53:21.260 That's coming up next.

00:53:22.160 You know,

00:53:23.360 I'm not going to lie to you

00:53:24.260 because I don't have to

00:53:25.780 and I refuse to.

00:53:26.560 I don't like shaving.

00:53:27.440 It's why I have a beard

00:53:28.340 but what I really don't like

00:53:29.520 are leftist razor companies

00:53:31.020 that hate our values

00:53:32.260 yet feel entitled

00:53:33.220 to our money.

00:53:33.800 It's why

00:53:34.120 I spiked them all

00:53:35.680 by buying Jeremy's razors

00:53:37.040 and Jeremy's beard kit.

00:53:38.820 A year ago,

00:53:39.600 Jeremy's declared war

00:53:40.900 on Woke Incorporated

00:53:42.060 with the launch

00:53:42.700 of its six-bladed

00:53:44.060 Founder Series razor.

00:53:45.940 After taking in feedback

00:53:47.080 from all of you,

00:53:47.820 something Jeremy

00:53:48.300 is much more willing to do

00:53:49.580 than I am.

00:53:50.560 A second razor

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00:54:30.440 Well, I want you to know

00:54:31.620 to start with

00:54:32.480 that I never wanted it

00:54:33.620 to come to this,

00:54:34.620 but I have been left

00:54:35.580 with no choice.

00:54:36.440 I must today cancel

00:54:37.520 my friend and colleague,

00:54:38.860 Michael Knowles.

00:54:40.280 Of course,

00:54:40.720 I've known for a long time

00:54:41.660 that Michael is not

00:54:42.480 a believer in aliens.

00:54:43.400 I've listened to him

00:54:44.060 repeatedly slander

00:54:45.200 the alien believer community,

00:54:46.780 ABC,

00:54:47.040 and I have shown

00:54:48.920 great and admirable restraint,

00:54:50.500 choosing not to respond

00:54:51.420 in kind,

00:54:52.020 but now he has crossed

00:54:53.680 a line.

00:54:54.560 So for a little bit

00:54:55.240 of background

00:54:55.760 behind the scenes here,

00:54:58.340 yesterday,

00:54:58.900 as I was passing Michael

00:55:00.200 in the hallway

00:55:00.840 on the way

00:55:01.240 to film my show

00:55:02.800 after he had just

00:55:03.400 filmed his,

00:55:04.600 he excitedly shouted to me,

00:55:06.180 hey,

00:55:06.360 I talked about aliens today.

00:55:08.420 He was baiting me

00:55:09.680 to watch this segment

00:55:10.660 and I took the bait.

00:55:12.160 I was expecting it

00:55:13.180 to be ignorant

00:55:14.440 and factually incorrect

00:55:15.540 and it lived up

00:55:16.320 to those expectations

00:55:17.140 or down to them,

00:55:18.100 but I did not expect

00:55:19.380 the level of vitriol

00:55:20.600 and hate

00:55:21.140 that I encountered.

00:55:22.740 He launched a vicious,

00:55:24.200 defamatory broadside

00:55:25.720 against the entire ABC,

00:55:27.240 even calling me out

00:55:28.080 by name,

00:55:28.760 which means he's attacking

00:55:29.600 the ABC and the SBG,

00:55:31.060 the ABC-SBG.

00:55:32.600 He stopped short of saying

00:55:33.580 that we should be eradicated,

00:55:34.660 but I know he was thinking it.

00:55:36.340 You know,

00:55:36.500 there's been a cold war

00:55:37.820 over the alien issue

00:55:39.100 at the Daily Wire

00:55:39.820 for years now,

00:55:41.080 but now Michael Knowles

00:55:42.800 is firing shots.

00:55:44.580 Here's the clip.

00:55:45.540 Another story

00:55:46.720 I had to get to today.

00:55:49.700 This is out of UCI,

00:55:52.780 the University of California,

00:55:54.300 Irvine.

00:55:55.060 Terminator zones

00:55:56.260 on distant planets

00:55:57.760 could harbor life,

00:55:59.900 UC Irvine astronomers say.

00:56:03.360 These in-between regions

00:56:04.840 could be prime sites

00:56:06.180 for liquid water.

00:56:08.760 In a new study,

00:56:09.920 University of California,

00:56:10.800 Irvine astronomers

00:56:11.440 describe how extraterrestrial life

00:56:12.840 has the potential to exist

00:56:14.060 on distant exoplanets

00:56:15.820 inside a special area

00:56:17.600 called the Terminator zone,

00:56:18.800 which is a ring on planets

00:56:19.920 that always have one side

00:56:21.340 facing its star

00:56:22.240 and one side

00:56:22.700 that's always in the dark.

00:56:24.740 And the thing is,

00:56:26.980 no, they couldn't.

00:56:32.300 The thing is,

00:56:33.120 I'm not even going to read

00:56:33.720 the rest of the article.

00:56:34.340 I'm certainly not going

00:56:35.120 to read the study.

00:56:36.680 No,

00:56:37.660 the Terminator zones

00:56:38.800 could not harbor life

00:56:40.340 because extraterrestrial aliens

00:56:42.920 aren't real.

00:56:44.300 They're not real.

00:56:45.660 And the Libs,

00:56:46.520 just they love it.

00:56:47.520 They're so fascinated by it.

00:56:48.740 It's just,

00:56:49.200 it made me think

00:56:50.100 about how many

00:56:52.060 completely ridiculous things

00:56:54.060 the Libs believe in.

00:56:55.440 And yet they call us

00:56:56.400 the gullible ones.

00:56:57.220 They call us

00:56:57.700 the fantastical ones.

00:56:59.720 The Libs believe

00:57:00.820 in catastrophic global warming

00:57:02.200 is going to kill us all

00:57:02.940 in five minutes.

00:57:03.900 The Libs believe

00:57:04.800 that boys can secretly be girls

00:57:06.920 and girls can secretly be boys.

00:57:08.840 And the Libs believe

00:57:10.300 in ET.

00:57:12.880 It's not real.

00:57:14.060 There is.

00:57:15.520 I know this is controversial

00:57:16.480 on the right.

00:57:17.080 I know my colleague

00:57:17.660 Matt Walsh here

00:57:18.360 is very pro-ET.

00:57:19.880 There is

00:57:20.520 zero evidence

00:57:23.080 that extraterrestrial life

00:57:26.040 exists

00:57:26.600 anywhere

00:57:27.700 zero.

00:57:29.680 The best evidence

00:57:30.980 taken muster is

00:57:31.460 well,

00:57:31.860 the universe is really big.

00:57:33.920 Okay.

00:57:35.180 Yeah.

00:57:37.780 Okay.

00:57:38.300 First of all,

00:57:39.620 why are you reading off

00:57:40.700 of an actual piece of paper?

00:57:42.080 This is the year 2023.

00:57:43.360 What are you trying to prove?

00:57:44.840 Do you do show research

00:57:45.780 with the Dewey Decimal System too?

00:57:47.500 I mean,

00:57:47.680 I believe in returning to tradition,

00:57:48.940 but let's be serious here.

00:57:50.700 Second,

00:57:51.940 I don't even know

00:57:52.660 why I'm asking about show research.

00:57:54.040 It's clear on this topic anyway

00:57:55.300 that you don't believe in research.

00:57:56.500 You claim that there's

00:57:57.060 no good reason

00:57:57.520 to believe in alien life,

00:57:58.740 but then refuse to read anything

00:58:00.180 that might threaten

00:58:00.840 to explode

00:58:01.580 your bigoted,

00:58:03.160 ET-phobic,

00:58:04.420 preconceived notions.

00:58:05.840 That study from UCI,

00:58:07.100 which you printed out

00:58:08.320 and then discarded,

00:58:09.180 literally murdering trees

00:58:10.280 for no reason,

00:58:11.580 says that planets orbiting

00:58:13.020 red dwarf stars

00:58:14.180 could,

00:58:14.640 in fact,

00:58:15.520 have the right conditions

00:58:16.420 to harbor life.

00:58:17.000 Now,

00:58:17.120 this is significant

00:58:17.800 because it vastly expands

00:58:19.300 the number of extrasolar planets

00:58:21.060 that could potentially have life.

00:58:22.620 You're correct

00:58:23.200 that the size of the universe

00:58:24.220 does not itself indicate

00:58:25.300 that there's life

00:58:25.860 elsewhere in the universe.

00:58:26.960 Indeed,

00:58:27.940 if we lived in a vast universe,

00:58:29.900 hundreds of trillions

00:58:30.540 of light years across,

00:58:31.440 and there were no other planets,

00:58:33.020 then we can assume

00:58:33.640 that aliens aren't real,

00:58:34.680 as you say.

00:58:35.200 But in fact,

00:58:36.080 we do live,

00:58:37.560 we do not live

00:58:38.360 in an endless vacuum

00:58:39.160 with only one planet

00:58:40.380 orbiting one solitary star.

00:58:42.520 We live in an endless vacuum

00:58:43.680 with billions of planets

00:58:45.140 orbiting billions of stars.

00:58:47.280 The existence of the planets

00:58:48.980 doesn't prove that the planets

00:58:51.040 are inhabited,

00:58:51.900 obviously,

00:58:52.300 and we know just based

00:58:53.200 on chemical composition

00:58:54.100 and atmospheric conditions

00:58:55.340 that a large portion of them

00:58:56.260 are almost certainly

00:58:57.040 not inhabited,

00:58:57.740 but that still leaves

00:58:58.840 billions of planets

00:58:59.760 where the potential

00:59:00.440 for life exists.

00:59:02.280 Each planet is potential

00:59:03.740 and that potential

00:59:04.460 is repeated billions

00:59:05.680 upon billions of times.

00:59:07.280 You say there's no evidence

00:59:08.160 of ET.

00:59:08.740 That's true in the sense

00:59:09.880 that we haven't seen

00:59:10.620 like an alien skyscraper

00:59:12.080 through a telescope

00:59:13.240 or whatever,

00:59:13.960 but we can calculate

00:59:15.460 the number of potentially

00:59:16.640 habitable planets

00:59:17.820 and that number

00:59:18.720 goes up all the time.

00:59:19.640 So there's evidence

00:59:20.340 of ET's potential

00:59:21.460 and that potential

00:59:22.760 is repeated

00:59:23.480 in essentially

00:59:24.240 infinite number of times.

00:59:26.280 It's possible

00:59:26.900 that you could visit

00:59:27.900 every planet

00:59:28.720 in every solar system

00:59:29.900 in every galaxy

00:59:30.740 and even after spending

00:59:31.920 trillions of years

00:59:33.240 on that sightseeing tour

00:59:34.620 still find not one

00:59:35.860 living species

00:59:36.540 anywhere else.

00:59:37.700 That's possible,

00:59:39.080 but it's not

00:59:39.520 the most likely scenario.

00:59:41.660 Okay, you certainly

00:59:42.140 have no rational basis

00:59:43.440 for assuming it

00:59:44.680 and you definitely

00:59:45.160 have no rational

00:59:45.820 or evidentiary grounds

00:59:46.780 for declaring from the outset

00:59:47.960 that there's nothing

00:59:48.740 to find in the first place.

00:59:50.460 By way of analogy,

00:59:51.380 consider this.

00:59:51.980 We now know

00:59:53.580 that there are something

00:59:54.540 like 3.5 trillion fish

00:59:56.700 living in the oceans.

00:59:58.220 500 years ago,

00:59:59.320 we knew very little

01:00:00.640 about what lived there.

01:00:01.880 People came up

01:00:02.360 with all kinds

01:00:02.840 of wild theories,

01:00:03.920 many of which

01:00:04.420 ended up being incorrect,

01:00:05.920 but the sheer size

01:00:08.160 of the ocean

01:00:08.840 was evidence

01:00:11.000 in itself

01:00:11.960 that it probably contained

01:00:14.120 billions and trillions

01:00:15.200 of living creatures.

01:00:17.360 So yes,

01:00:18.100 the fact that the ocean

01:00:19.220 was big

01:00:20.140 was reason enough

01:00:21.860 to speculate

01:00:23.840 that there's probably

01:00:25.680 billions and trillions

01:00:26.620 of fish in it.

01:00:28.800 That was an assumption

01:00:29.800 that could be reasonably made

01:00:31.280 and it would have been

01:00:32.140 irrational and ridiculous

01:00:33.220 for a person

01:00:33.760 500 years ago

01:00:34.580 to assume

01:00:35.220 that the ocean

01:00:35.760 only contains

01:00:36.600 the number of fish

01:00:37.400 that he can see

01:00:38.420 when he stands on the shore

01:00:39.440 and looks out.

01:00:40.520 That's what you're doing

01:00:41.300 in essence.

01:00:41.740 You're standing on the shoreline

01:00:42.700 and saying,

01:00:43.080 well,

01:00:43.260 I see a horseshoe crab

01:00:44.440 and a clam,

01:00:45.060 I guess that's all there is.

01:00:46.420 And if everybody

01:00:46.880 was standing on that shoreline

01:00:47.880 with you

01:00:48.240 and nobody had seen

01:00:49.160 any more of the ocean,

01:00:50.160 then we would have to admit

01:00:51.440 that your assumption

01:00:52.220 could prove correct,

01:00:53.580 but even without checking,

01:00:54.880 we would still know

01:00:55.520 that it is not

01:00:56.140 the most plausible theory.

01:00:58.280 Yet you're doing

01:00:58.880 something more absurd here

01:00:59.800 because you're standing

01:01:00.480 billions of miles away

01:01:02.120 and declaring

01:01:03.020 that all of the oceans

01:01:04.100 and all of the land

01:01:05.040 on all of the planets

01:01:05.980 and all of the solar systems

01:01:07.040 and all of the galaxies

01:01:08.380 are all empty.

01:01:09.940 Now,

01:01:12.160 let us examine

01:01:13.680 the charge

01:01:14.600 which you make

01:01:15.080 later in the clip

01:01:15.880 that,

01:01:18.140 and you make

01:01:19.120 what we heard there,

01:01:20.420 that I am a lib

01:01:21.880 on this issue.

01:01:23.680 I will concede

01:01:24.520 that whoever is the most,

01:01:26.220 is most the lib

01:01:27.480 when it comes

01:01:28.000 to the question

01:01:28.440 of alien life

01:01:28.980 is least likely

01:01:30.300 to be correct.

01:01:30.880 There is,

01:01:31.320 of course,

01:01:31.640 an inverse correlation

01:01:32.780 between libness

01:01:33.700 and correctness.

01:01:35.240 You say that I'm the lib

01:01:36.300 because,

01:01:36.740 because,

01:01:37.440 you know,

01:01:37.720 libs want to believe

01:01:38.640 that human beings

01:01:39.320 aren't special

01:01:40.140 and that can be achieved

01:01:42.120 by postulating

01:01:43.040 the existence

01:01:43.600 of other beings

01:01:44.520 in the universe.

01:01:45.920 But that is not

01:01:46.840 my position.

01:01:48.380 Now,

01:01:48.540 I can't speak

01:01:49.020 for the actual libs

01:01:49.840 who may or may not

01:01:50.560 believe in alien life,

01:01:51.760 but what I can say

01:01:52.840 for myself

01:01:53.240 is that I know

01:01:53.860 human beings

01:01:54.320 are special

01:01:54.760 because we were made

01:01:55.540 by God

01:01:56.080 and we have rational souls.

01:01:57.240 I also know

01:01:57.740 that God has chosen

01:01:59.000 to place the human species

01:02:00.080 inside this

01:02:01.140 unfathomably boundless universe

01:02:03.500 populated by something

01:02:05.000 like 700 quintillion planets.

01:02:08.000 Did he create

01:02:08.500 all these planets

01:02:09.120 and all these galaxies,

01:02:10.120 the vast majority

01:02:10.800 of which we will never see,

01:02:12.140 not even in a telescope,

01:02:13.400 only to keep them all empty?

01:02:15.300 It's possible,

01:02:16.060 I suppose,

01:02:16.640 but he also may have created them

01:02:17.980 in order to fill them

01:02:18.700 with life,

01:02:19.180 which will glorify him

01:02:20.160 in ways that we perhaps

01:02:20.980 will never understand.

01:02:22.320 I would submit

01:02:23.100 that insisting

01:02:24.540 on an empty universe

01:02:25.580 is an attempt

01:02:26.740 to limit God.

01:02:27.940 It is to say

01:02:28.420 that God must operate

01:02:29.640 in ways

01:02:30.280 that we understand

01:02:31.780 and that he cannot

01:02:32.720 have created

01:02:33.300 other life

01:02:34.300 on other planets

01:02:34.800 because the existence

01:02:35.740 of such life

01:02:36.600 raises questions

01:02:38.640 that are uncomfortable

01:02:39.800 for us.

01:02:41.200 This, I would say,

01:02:42.360 is hubris.

01:02:43.600 As for the specialness

01:02:44.800 of human beings,

01:02:46.240 why would humans

01:02:47.360 be less special

01:02:48.500 just because

01:02:49.120 other life exists?

01:02:50.420 Is each individual

01:02:51.260 human less special

01:02:52.240 just because there are

01:02:52.920 8 billion of us?

01:02:53.760 There were 400 million people

01:02:55.220 on Earth

01:02:55.560 500 years ago.

01:02:56.580 Today there are 8 billion.

01:02:57.540 Has our individual stock

01:02:58.640 somehow gone down

01:02:59.680 just because we now

01:03:00.800 find ourselves

01:03:01.480 on a planet

01:03:02.020 far more populated

01:03:02.880 than anyone

01:03:03.380 in the 16th century

01:03:04.220 ever could have imagined?

01:03:05.580 No, not at all.

01:03:07.480 And so,

01:03:07.820 if I am not worth

01:03:08.760 any less,

01:03:09.480 no matter how many

01:03:10.220 people live on Earth,

01:03:11.200 how would I be worth

01:03:12.000 any less

01:03:12.520 by the addition

01:03:13.160 of life on planets

01:03:14.140 I will never visit

01:03:15.200 or see anyway?

01:03:17.620 Human beings

01:03:18.240 are not commodities

01:03:18.980 whose worth

01:03:19.560 is determined

01:03:20.000 by the law

01:03:20.580 of supply and demand.

01:03:21.480 The universe

01:03:21.920 could be teeming

01:03:23.580 with life

01:03:24.000 and I believe

01:03:24.480 it very well may be

01:03:25.440 and that would not

01:03:26.660 undermine our worth

01:03:28.040 or our purpose

01:03:29.000 by one iota.

01:03:30.580 We have our place

01:03:31.980 on this vast

01:03:34.060 cosmic tapestry

01:03:35.740 even if that tapestry

01:03:37.340 is far more alive

01:03:38.720 and vibrant

01:03:39.760 than you assume.

01:03:42.280 And that assumption,

01:03:43.660 that assumption,

01:03:44.760 if anything,

01:03:46.180 makes you a lib, sir,

01:03:48.320 and a scoundrel.

01:03:49.720 And it also makes you

01:03:51.020 today canceled.

01:03:53.960 That'll do it

01:03:54.680 for this portion of the show.

01:03:56.000 As we move over

01:03:56.440 to the members block,

01:03:57.680 you can become a member today

01:03:58.940 and use code Walsh

01:03:59.820 at checkout

01:04:00.160 for two months free

01:04:00.980 on all annual plans.

01:04:02.140 Hope to see you there.

01:04:02.940 If not,

01:04:03.480 talk to you tomorrow.

01:04:04.820 Godspeed.

01:04:05.140 Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - March 22, 2023

Ep. 1134 - Viral Clip Reveals A Father's Pain Over His Son's Gender Transition

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