The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1149 - Here's How We Know That The Bud Light Boycott Is Working

00:00:00.080 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, Bud Light is scrambling to get back into the good graces

00:00:03.880 of its customer base, but all their attempts have hilariously fallen flat so far. However,

00:00:08.240 the company is getting some help from the Republican establishment who apparently want

00:00:11.180 us to back down from the Bud Light boycott in order to protect all of the donor cash that

00:00:15.800 Anheuser-Busch sends to Republicans. I'll explain why that's sure as hell not going to happen.

00:00:20.120 Also, Chicago descended into chaos over the weekend, so no different than any other weekend.

00:00:24.640 But the mayor of Chicago wants us to know that the people looting and rioting are not at fault.

00:00:28.960 We should feel sorry for them, he says. Plus, a Democratic representative embarrasses herself 1.00

00:00:32.600 while trying to make the case for men and women's sports. And in our daily cancellation,

00:00:36.240 I'll be canceling a creepy weirdo on YouTube who also happens to be an extremely famous

00:00:40.760 and successful children's entertainer. All of that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.

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00:01:58.900 There's nothing unusual about watching a major corporation fumble around hilariously in an

00:02:04.420 increasingly desperate and self-defeating effort to handle a PR crisis of their own making. We've

00:02:09.480 witnessed scenes of this sort many times in the past, but what makes the current drama with Bud Light

00:02:14.000 so unique and perhaps really unprecedented in recent times is that in this case, the corporation

00:02:20.860 is clumsily flailing around in the hopes of appeasing conservatives. We are not the group that

00:02:26.480 these companies are usually trying to impress. It's not our outrage that they are normally responding

00:02:31.700 to, but Bud Light's decision to put out a Dylan Mulvaney celebratory can promoting transgenderism and the

00:02:38.020 desecration and appropriation of womanhood has become a tipping point, and things are changing.

00:02:44.180 There's real momentum behind the Bud Light boycott, unlike any other attempted conservative boycott in

00:02:49.360 memory, and that momentum is only growing, even as Bud Light tries to stymie it by doing anything

00:02:55.660 except the one thing that could bring this all to an end, which is to explicitly apologize for pushing

00:03:01.180 gender ideology. They haven't done that yet. They're not ready to do that yet. So instead, 0.99

00:03:05.280 they tried to get around the issue on Friday with a statement from Brendan Whitworth, who's the CEO of

00:03:10.760 Anheuser-Busch, and the statement is remarkable in that it goes on for a long time, but says

00:03:16.540 absolutely nothing at all. It reminds me of every essay I wrote in high school or every Kamala Harris

00:03:21.780 speech. Whitworth wrote, quote, as the CEO of a company founded in America's heartland more than 165 years

00:03:28.420 ago, I am responsible for ensuring every consumer feels proud of the beer we brew. We're honored to be a

00:03:34.620 part of the fabric of this country. Anheuser-Busch employs more than 18,000 people, and our independent

00:03:39.520 distributors employ an additional 47,000 valued colleagues. We have thousands of partners, millions

00:03:45.040 of fans, and a proud history supporting our communities, military first responders, sports fans,

00:03:49.760 and hardworking Americans everywhere. We never intended to be part of a discussion that divides

00:03:54.060 people. We are in the business of bringing people together over a beer. My time serving this

00:03:59.300 country taught me the importance of accountability and the values upon which America was founded.

00:04:03.260 Freedom, hard work, and respect for one another. As CEO of Anheuser-Busch, I am focused on building

00:04:09.500 and protecting our remarkable history and heritage. I care deeply about this country, this company,

00:04:14.360 our brands, and our partners. I spend much of my time traveling across America, listening to and

00:04:18.900 learning from our customers, distributors, and others. Moving forward, I will continue to work

00:04:23.300 tirelessly to bring great beers to consumers across our nation. That was the statement. On second thought,

00:04:30.120 maybe he is saying something significant here, because he said that he's going to work to bring

00:04:34.540 great beers to consumers, which means that that must be him announcing that he's quitting the company

00:04:39.580 and going to work for a beer distributor that actually makes great beers. Because if you want to

00:04:44.180 bring great beers to consumers, then you can't work for Anheuser-Busch. But if that's not what he means,

00:04:48.780 then this statement doesn't say anything, except that Anheuser-Busch is scared and they're panicking,

00:04:54.060 but they have no idea what to do about it. In fact, the statement is a, it's a, it's a masterclass

00:04:59.560 in self-sabotage. So they shot themselves in the foot and then they reloaded and shot themselves in

00:05:05.460 the other foot. Because by refusing to directly apologize to their customer base, they've done

00:05:10.580 nothing to quell the controversy or stop the boycott. But by issuing the statement in the first

00:05:15.920 place, and by admitting at the very least that transgenderism, the transgenderism conversation

00:05:21.400 divides people, even though they didn't say transgenderism, but that's what they're talking

00:05:24.900 about, by, by referring to it as divisive, they also managed to piss off the left. So it's a

00:05:31.440 statement that appeases no one and makes them look worse to everyone. They had a, they had a few

00:05:37.560 possible options for dealing with this PR crisis that they created for themselves. None of them are

00:05:42.000 great. You know, you never have a great option when you're in the middle of a PR thing, but, uh,

00:05:46.660 but some were better than others and they surveyed all of the options and decided to choose

00:05:50.860 the worst possible one. The one with the biggest downside, but no upside to offset, but just

00:05:57.760 brilliant stuff. Later on the same day, they decided to take a somewhat different approach

00:06:01.960 without addressing the controversy at all. Budweiser put out an ad, which was meant to

00:06:06.480 pander to the customer base that they have alienated. Watch.

00:06:09.760 Let me tell you a story about a beer rooted in the heart of America, found in a community

00:06:31.220 where a handshake is a sure contract. Brewed for those who found opportunity in challenge

00:06:40.120 and hope in tomorrow. Raised by generations, willing to sip, share, risk, remember.

00:06:54.220 Remember. This is a story bigger than beer. This is the story of the American spirit.

00:07:10.700 Hmm. Let me tell you a story about a beer. Brewed for those who amputate their own genitals. 0.86

00:07:17.200 That would have been a more honest script. Instead, they went with the old school pitch to the working 0.84

00:07:20.900 class conservatives, hoping that, uh, we forget that their vice president is on the record saying

00:07:25.560 she doesn't want to appeal to that demographic anymore. I mean, they're throwing it. They even 0.69

00:07:29.340 had it. They had a nine 11 reference to that. They're just throwing everything against the wall,

00:07:32.920 but, uh, you know, it's, it's not going to, it's, uh, it's, it's not going to make us lose focus

00:07:38.380 here. We haven't forgotten and we won't. So the boycott is still on. The only thing that brings this to

00:07:44.020 an end is a groveling apology. That's the only way this ends, or else it ends with Bud Light

00:07:49.620 simply deciding to absorb the damage and deal with the financial repercussions. Either result

00:07:54.820 is acceptable to me because they both would achieve the end goal of, of punishing corporate

00:07:59.700 wokeism, claiming a scalp and making an example out of somebody, which is, which is the point here

00:08:05.860 as for the financial damage. There's no way to be sure how much is being inflicted on the company

00:08:10.820 at this point. Um, you know, we'll have clearer picture of that when the quarterly earnings reports

00:08:15.280 and all that stuff starts coming out right now, all we have, um, are anecdotes and the anecdotal

00:08:20.660 evidence makes a pretty compelling case that the boycott is making a serious dent. The New York

00:08:25.220 Post published an article interviewing industry analysts who admit that this boycott quote has

00:08:29.840 legs. Justin Kendall, who's the editor of a beer industry trade publication, Brewbound said that from

00:08:35.900 what he's seen, the anti Bud Light movement has gone from social media and it's made its way into the

00:08:41.160 mainstream. You know, there's reports that have come in from all over the country of bars and

00:08:45.540 restaurants that are refusing to serve Bud Light and other ones that will still serve it, but they're

00:08:49.460 not able to sell it. One of the most telling signs is a cell phone video, which was captured from a

00:08:54.800 concert where the country artist Riley Green was performing and he changed the lyrics in one of his

00:09:00.160 songs. The song usually contains the line, I wish coolers never run out of cold Bud Light. But as his own

00:09:06.680 protest against the beer brand, he changed it to say, I wish coolers never run out of cold Coors Light

00:09:12.240 and listen to the audience's reaction to that. Here it is.

00:09:15.680 Music

00:09:39.240 Music

00:09:39.560 Yes, that's a very convincing sign that Boycott Bud Light is not just a Twitter phenomenon.

00:09:49.080 But the most important sign is the behavior of the company itself.

00:09:51.800 The statement they put out, the ad, you know, none of that says much,

00:09:56.440 but it does say one thing, which is that the company is worried.

00:10:00.640 Yet they're getting an assist.

00:10:02.420 You know, they're worried.

00:10:03.980 The back's against the wall here a little bit.

00:10:06.580 But they are getting an assist from what some may consider an unexpected source.

00:10:12.360 Though if you've been paying attention to politics for longer than, say, 30 minutes, you would very much expect it.

00:10:17.380 The Republican establishment is beginning to circle the wagons around Anheuser-Busch.

00:10:22.700 As the Daily Beast reports, quote,

00:10:24.400 The National Republican Congressional Committee quietly deleted a fundraising page on Saturday

00:10:29.420 that took aim at one of its largest donors, the parent company of Bud Light, Anheuser-Busch.

00:10:34.140 The NRCC's backpedaling follows conservative calls for a boycott of the beer company

00:10:38.780 after it partnered with transgender TikTok personality Dylan Mulvaney.

00:10:43.340 On Saturday morning, the powerful committee that provides support to Republican congressional campaigns

00:10:47.260 blasted out a tweet calling for supporters to donate to the NRCC and, in exchange, be given a custom drink koozie.

00:10:55.300 Thanks to Dylan Mulvaney, we can all finally admit that Bud Light tastes like water,

00:10:58.640 the NRCC said in a sense-deleted tweet that the Daily Beast reviewed and can be seen in the article.

00:11:04.820 With our new koozies, you can make sure that no one confuses Bud Light with real beer ever again.

00:11:09.300 But shortly after it was posted around 9.30 a.m., the tweet was taken down.

00:11:12.720 Later on Saturday afternoon, the corresponding fundraising page was also nixed.

00:11:17.280 The decision to reverse course is almost certainly a reaction to the reality

00:11:20.080 that the parent company behind Bud Light is a major donor to the group.

00:11:24.100 Now, I wouldn't normally trust the Daily Beast's speculations about such matters,

00:11:29.220 but in this case, they appear to be exactly correct.

00:11:31.780 In fact, Donald Trump Jr. has made this argument explicitly.

00:11:35.200 On his podcast a couple of days ago, Trump called for conservatives to, quote,

00:11:38.380 leave the company alone because they donate to Republicans.

00:11:42.560 That was his reasoning. Listen.

00:11:44.780 This is one, like, we're dunking on them now, but when you actually look into it,

00:11:49.660 they'd be one of the more conservative-leaning companies in America.

00:11:53.220 So they've been put on notice. I'm leaving them alone.

00:11:57.620 I think you should probably do the same.

00:11:59.400 And we looked into the political giving and lobbying history of Anheuser-Busch.

00:12:05.280 And guess what? They actually support Republicans.

00:12:09.320 In woke corporate America, Anheuser-Busch supports Republicans.

00:12:14.560 Last cycle, their employees and their PAC gave about 60% to Republicans and 40% to Democrats.

00:12:23.240 That's literally almost unheard of in corporate America.

00:12:27.980 So we should note that Caitlyn Jenner, who was apparently hanging out at Mar-a-Lago this weekend,

00:12:32.680 also came out in defense of Bud Light for the same reasons that Don Jr. articulated.

00:12:38.340 Though Jenner apparently deleted his pro-Bud Light tweet after I called him out for it.

00:12:42.720 Still, it's clear that there is a powerful contingent within the Republican Party

00:12:46.680 that wants us to stand down for the sake of protecting all of that sweet, sweet donor cash.

00:12:52.760 But that's not going to happen.

00:12:55.000 And I will explain why.

00:12:57.400 Okay, first of all, I am well aware that Anheuser-Busch donates to Republicans

00:13:02.800 and has Republican executives and a largely conservative customer base.

00:13:06.460 That's exactly why we should boycott them.

00:13:09.740 Okay?

00:13:10.200 It makes their endorsement of gender ideology all the more outrageous.

00:13:13.700 And it makes them all the more vulnerable to our pushback against that marketing decision.

00:13:20.600 As I tried to explain a couple of weeks ago, before the Bud Light boycott began in earnest,

00:13:24.360 if we want to fight back against corporate wokeism,

00:13:26.880 we have to be strategic and intelligent in choosing our targets.

00:13:31.600 Okay?

00:13:31.740 Anyway, Nike has partnered with Mulvaney, too.

00:13:34.760 You know, Nike had, and we could say in an even more egregious kind of way,

00:13:39.100 Nike sent women's clothing to Mulvaney, including a sports bra,

00:13:42.880 and had this man model it, which is even more, as I said, egregious.

00:13:49.020 And then plenty of cosmetic brands and women's fashion brands have done similar.

00:13:54.580 But we aren't trying to organize a boycott against those companies.

00:13:58.320 Why is that?

00:13:58.820 Because we have very little power over them.

00:14:02.120 Okay?

00:14:02.400 You want, if you're going to try something like this, you have to be able to see the win.

00:14:06.900 There has to be a win at the end of it.

00:14:09.060 In 2022, 84% of Nike's political donations went to Democrats.

00:14:13.560 In 2020, it was nearly 90%.

00:14:15.820 So this is a left-wing company run by left-wing people

00:14:20.860 and catering to a customer base that does not primarily consist

00:14:24.640 of working-class, conservative, middle-aged white men.

00:14:27.960 Like Bud Light.

00:14:30.100 Okay?

00:14:30.360 It's not plumbers from Idaho or truck drivers from Wisconsin

00:14:34.760 who are going out to buy $200 Nike shoes.

00:14:38.060 So it's not going to be very effective to organize a boycott against a company

00:14:43.220 that doesn't care what we think and doesn't need our business.

00:14:47.880 How is that supposed to work, exec?

00:14:49.600 So all these conservatives, and it's not just those in the establishment,

00:14:53.700 high-ranking Republicans and so on.

00:14:55.380 I've seen this on Twitter and on social media.

00:14:58.440 Plenty of conservatives saying, well, what's the point of this?

00:15:00.500 I mean, Nike, this company, that company, they're all woke.

00:15:04.320 What do you think you're going to do about Nike?

00:15:08.040 Bud Light, on the other hand, does need our business.

00:15:11.520 And so they do or should care what we think.

00:15:17.400 This gives us power that we can either choose to actually use for a change

00:15:22.280 or we can sit back quietly and absorb the insult like we always do.

00:15:27.160 And to that second option, I say, hell no.

00:15:30.580 We have power in this case.

00:15:32.800 Let's actually use it.

00:15:34.220 I know that that concept is like mind-boggling to a lot of Republicans.

00:15:39.560 But when you have power, you should use it.

00:15:43.880 This is what the GOP establishment and its donor class don't understand.

00:15:48.900 Okay?

00:15:49.720 We are sick and tired of this.

00:15:51.680 We are sick and tired of watching as our culture is claimed piece by piece by madness and degeneracy.

00:15:58.360 We are not okay with it.

00:15:59.800 We are furious about it, in fact.

00:16:02.300 And we aren't following your lead in the fight against it because you people aren't interested in fighting against it.

00:16:08.120 We're not going to sit around and wait for you to execute your master plan to win back the culture.

00:16:13.540 You have no such plan.

00:16:15.980 You're satisfied to let the culture crumble and decay as long as you can have a hand in ruling over the rubble. 0.97

00:16:20.980 And that's how we got to this point in the first place, where transgenderism is the sort of thing that even Bud Light feels it needs to promote. 0.94

00:16:29.300 That's how the total denial of biological reality became mainstream and seized hold of our society.

00:16:36.620 It happened because the conservative, quote-unquote, leadership tasked with defending our country against evils like gender ideology abdicated their responsibility.

00:16:47.240 They gave up without putting up even the semblance of a struggle.

00:16:50.980 They left it to the rest of us to fight this battle, and so we are.

00:16:56.680 You're asleep.

00:16:57.960 We're taking the wheel.

00:16:58.900 It's that simple.

00:17:00.220 And we don't care about Republican donors.

00:17:03.380 Okay? 0.98

00:17:03.540 The Republican donors are as worthless as the Republicans they donate to. 0.99

00:17:07.740 So I don't give a damn about them. 0.99

00:17:11.120 And you could scoff all you want, right?

00:17:13.580 But this boycott matters.

00:17:14.780 It does.

00:17:15.180 It matters because it's obviously not just about one beer company.

00:17:21.540 It's about making a statement.

00:17:23.780 It's about achieving a victory for truth and sanity.

00:17:27.240 It's about doing the things that you people won't do.

00:17:30.380 So step aside and let us handle it.

00:17:34.700 Okay?

00:17:35.760 We'll do everything.

00:17:37.560 You'll do nothing.

00:17:38.760 And then later on, when we get the win, you can run campaign ads pretending that you did something, as always.

00:17:44.400 And that's fine.

00:17:46.400 I don't even care about that.

00:17:48.340 I just want the win.

00:17:50.080 That's all that matters.

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00:19:13.980 Okay, this is from Fox News.

00:19:17.000 Hundreds of teenagers stormed the streets of downtown Chicago, smashing car windows, attacking bystanders,

00:19:22.900 and sending panicked tourists running from the sound of gunfire.

00:19:28.400 A woman who was identified as a Chicago native told Fox 32, where are their parents at?

00:19:33.020 That's my question.

00:19:34.300 Very good question.

00:19:35.620 Fox 32 cameras captured video of teenagers crowding the streets and police seeking to restore order to the area.

00:19:40.860 Large groups of teens were seen blasting music from Bluetooth speakers and roaming in front of traffic,

00:19:46.120 with some attempting to gain access to the city's Millennium Park,

00:19:49.620 which is off-limits to those under 21 after certain hours, and the Downtown Art Institute.

00:19:54.360 Some teens in the group began jumping up and down on cars, smashing windows, attacking people inside.

00:19:59.040 And so there's just general mayhem.

00:20:02.000 And we do have some of the footage of this.

00:20:03.580 Let's play some of the footage.

00:20:04.720 Let's play some of the footage.

00:20:04.780 Let's play some of the footage.

00:20:05.720 Let's play some of the footage.

00:20:10.860 All right.

00:20:26.380 Here's the general idea.

00:20:28.120 A lot of video like that from Chicago.

00:20:30.880 And in some ways, it looks like just your standard weekend in Chicago.

00:20:33.660 But I guess this was a little bit more than usual, a little more chaos than usual. 0.83

00:20:37.620 Now, speaking of weak, pathetic statements that don't say anything, the new mayor of Chicago, Brandon Johnson, put out his own Bud Light-esque statement. 0.65

00:20:47.760 But in response to this, reading from Newsweek, it says, 0.76

00:20:51.060 Johnson, a progressive Democrat who won Chicago's mayoral race earlier this month, issued a statement on Sunday responding to the unrest.

00:20:57.580 In no way do I condone the destructive activity we saw in the loop in Lakefront this weekend.

00:21:02.560 It is unacceptable and has no place in our society.

00:21:04.240 However, it is not constructive to demonize youth who have otherwise been starved of opportunities in their own communities.

00:21:11.080 Our city must work together to create spaces for youth to gather safely and responsibly under adult guidance and supervision to ensure that every part of our city remains welcome to both residents and visitors.

00:21:21.360 You know, this is the kind of thing where, you know, very often, especially in public statements, when there's a but or a however, you can just forget everything that happened before it.

00:21:32.940 OK, this is one of those howevers that has the effect of erasing everything that came before it.

00:21:38.300 And so when you say there was violence and chaos in the city, I don't condone it.

00:21:42.660 However, OK, now we get to the part that he really wanted to say, which is that let's let's let's be nice to these these poor, helpless, you know, lost and confused youth who just they just want opportunities.

00:21:57.780 Is that what we're pretending?

00:22:01.740 That these kids, they really just want a job is what they want.

00:22:04.340 They want to be constructive, contributing members of society, but there are no opportunities around.

00:22:08.920 And so instead, they just go around, you know, shooting and killing each other because, you know, there's no opportunities.

00:22:17.000 This is not a response or surprising response from Johnson.

00:22:19.800 After all, the 2020 riots, this is a clip that's gone viral in the last couple of days, even though it goes back to 2020 before he was mayor.

00:22:28.700 And he was on local news and he was asked about the riots back in 2020.

00:22:33.640 And this is how he responded.

00:22:36.180 Because that's how they can eat.

00:22:39.240 The real answer is, how do we make sure the question is, how do we make sure that people can eat?

00:22:45.600 Look, no one is going to condone, you know, behavior that, quite frankly, speaks to a level of desperation.

00:22:54.160 So you're not, you're not condoning looting.

00:22:56.740 I'm saying that people are acting out of desperation.

00:23:00.840 We don't want a society that is acting out of desperation, but you have to pay attention to the cries that people have.

00:23:07.380 So you're not condoning looting?

00:23:10.520 There's no way to embrace that.

00:23:13.440 What I'm saying is, you can't condone the looting that corporations continue to do every single day when they take tax dollars from black, brown, white folks all over the city of Chicago so that they can turn a profit.

00:23:27.280 Can't even bring, he can barely bring himself.

00:23:29.960 It took three times and he finally said, and he didn't even say, I don't condone it.

00:23:34.380 He said, well, you can't condone it.

00:23:36.480 And he means that literally, like, I can't condone it.

00:23:39.760 I can't, I can't publicly condone it, but I do, is what he's really saying.

00:23:45.640 You know, it's just, it's a, it's an outrageous absurdity here, especially the, the talking point that we're getting from him.

00:24:00.480 And then we get from these people all the time is this thing about opportunities.

00:24:04.000 These people want opportunities.

00:24:04.660 Well, if you want opportunities, I assume you mean like job opportunities and that sort of thing.

00:24:09.920 Well, then stop looting and robbing and burning down the companies and the businesses that are in your community.

00:24:19.080 Okay.

00:24:19.840 Why aren't there more opportunities in some of these communities?

00:24:22.740 Because all the businesses are being chased out because they don't want to be robbed.

00:24:26.600 They don't want to be shot.

00:24:27.480 They don't want, they don't want their employees to be shot.

00:24:29.400 They don't want to, they don't want people walking in with garbage bags and just filling them with items and strolling out.

00:24:34.780 They don't want that.

00:24:36.620 And so they're leaving.

00:24:39.120 Okay.

00:24:39.520 If you want businesses and companies and you want job opportunities in your communities, then you should embrace the business owners when they're there.

00:24:49.420 And I don't mean embrace like tackle them to the ground so you can steal a bunch of stuff and run out.

00:24:53.680 I don't mean embrace like that.

00:24:55.380 I mean, provide a welcoming environment for them.

00:24:57.900 Now, there are two things that we can learn from videos like this of all the chaos and everything in Chicago.

00:25:03.480 Or rather, this is not anything that we should be learning right now.

00:25:06.960 We should already know this.

00:25:07.980 But there are really two things that lead to this.

00:25:11.200 One, as a member of the community has quoted in that one article, yes, it's a total lack of parenting.

00:25:19.460 Okay.

00:25:19.760 If you do, this is why I don't want to hear anything from Brandon Johnson or anybody else about racism in Chicago.

00:25:26.320 I don't want to hear anything about that.

00:25:27.860 Okay. 0.99

00:25:28.120 Just shut up about racism. 1.00

00:25:30.160 The entire city is run practically by people who are not white. 1.00

00:25:36.480 Okay.

00:25:37.180 Just systemically all the way down the line.

00:25:39.540 This is a city run by Democrats and most of them are not white.

00:25:44.600 So I don't want to hear about racism. 1.00

00:25:45.820 How about you parent your damn kids? 1.00

00:25:49.880 Okay. 1.00

00:25:50.100 How about you do the bare minimum to take care of your own kids and parent them and teach them how to be contributing decent members of society? 0.93

00:26:00.880 I mean, just like the bare minimum is all I'm asking.

00:26:03.780 Something.

00:26:04.600 Like rather than doing nothing, because a lot of those kids that you see in Chicago there, they've had zero parenting.

00:26:10.480 There's been no effort made at all to instill any kind of value system, any sort of moral formation, nothing.

00:26:20.680 So rather than going from, so right now we have 0% effort on the parenting side of things.

00:26:26.100 Let's get it up to like 15%.

00:26:27.640 Here's a crazy idea.

00:26:31.300 Let's keep the fathers around.

00:26:33.180 Okay.

00:26:33.620 There's a decision.

00:26:35.360 I mean, the fatherless problem in the inner city is like 80% or something.

00:26:39.260 We're talking about 70, 80% of these kids grow up in homes without fathers.

00:26:45.780 These are choices that are made.

00:26:47.620 These are choices that are made.

00:26:49.200 These are choices that men make to create babies and then leave. 0.88

00:26:54.420 It's choices that women make to have babies with those sorts of men. 0.82

00:26:59.540 Okay.

00:26:59.680 So these are choices that people are making.

00:27:02.480 Stop making those choices.

00:27:04.120 Make better choices.

00:27:06.560 How's that for an idea?

00:27:07.580 Okay, because when you have a mother who's not interested in parenting, you have a father who's not even around, and then you have all this peer influence, all the gang activity, the crime, and everything.

00:27:18.880 I mean, it's like there's no hope.

00:27:20.980 There's no chance.

00:27:22.560 You can make all the policy changes you want.

00:27:24.640 It won't make a damn bit of difference.

00:27:26.120 So give yourself a chance.

00:27:29.000 Give the community a chance.

00:27:31.380 Raise your own kids.

00:27:34.020 And you could be the best parent in the world, and you could raise your kids in a two-parent household.

00:27:39.460 And they can still make terrible choices.

00:27:41.800 You know?

00:27:42.860 Because kids are human beings, and they make choices.

00:27:45.560 And you can't control.

00:27:46.820 We talk about controlling kids.

00:27:48.040 And you can't control them like puppets.

00:27:50.600 You can't control what they think, certainly.

00:27:52.240 But you can influence them.

00:27:53.780 So instead of talking about controlling kids, we shouldn't be talking about influence.

00:27:58.520 But you can do it.

00:27:59.380 There's a lot of influencing you can do with your children, for better or worse.

00:28:05.460 And this, what we're seeing in that video, that is a result of parental influence.

00:28:11.460 Or a total lack thereof.

00:28:13.340 You know, but a lack of influence is an influence in and of itself.

00:28:18.660 So yeah, you could do it perfectly, and your kid could still go out and do something crazy.

00:28:22.980 But you give yourself and your community and your children a heck of a better chance if you just do the bare minimum.

00:28:31.880 And the bare minimum is being there for them, having two parents in the house, and being there physically.

00:28:37.260 Let's start with that.

00:28:38.240 And then we can move on to some of the sort of like higher level parenting skills.

00:28:45.320 So that's what leads to this.

00:28:46.600 No parenting.

00:28:47.340 And then as an extension of that is just no personal accountability at all.

00:28:55.660 No sense of like taking control of your own life and making better decisions.

00:29:03.340 And this comes all the way from the top.

00:29:05.300 Now, this is what the people who are in charge in cities like Chicago and every other city, and also people in charge of our country at the national level, they don't want personal accountability.

00:29:16.940 Okay?

00:29:17.120 They want you to feel like you are totally helpless.

00:29:21.180 They want you to feel like you are a puppet on a string.

00:29:22.980 And you need someone to be the marionette and make you dance around.

00:29:28.460 Because you have no ability to move your limbs yourself and operate in the world as a human agent who makes choices and has to live with those choices.

00:29:39.900 They don't want you to feel like that.

00:29:41.560 They want you to feel totally helpless and vulnerable.

00:29:43.880 Like a child.

00:29:47.540 Not even a child.

00:29:48.600 Some sort of robot that needs better programming.

00:29:51.840 That's how they want you to feel.

00:29:53.060 That's how they want us all to feel.

00:29:55.740 And as long as that continues, we're going to continue to see this sort of thing in Chicago.

00:30:01.700 All right.

00:30:02.260 Moving on to Representative Katie Porter, who's a Democrat from California. 0.99

00:30:05.840 Now, like any Democrat from California, she's a repulsive human being. 1.00

00:30:10.740 Deeply unlikable on every level. 0.98

00:30:12.460 And she's also now running for Senate. 0.99

00:30:14.000 And she has a book coming out.

00:30:16.040 Or it already came out.

00:30:17.100 Who knows?

00:30:17.440 I don't know.

00:30:17.700 Nobody's going to buy it.

00:30:19.760 Literally no actual human being on Earth will read Katie Porter's book.

00:30:25.980 Katie Porter hasn't even read it.

00:30:27.500 It will probably end up on a New York Times bestseller list because the publisher will coordinate mass bulk purchases of the book to get it up on the list.

00:30:35.320 But no flesh and blood human is going to buy it.

00:30:39.300 That much we know for sure. 0.95

00:30:41.000 The other thing about Katie Porter is that according to her ex-husband, she's a psychotic domestic abuser, according to him, allegedly. 0.99

00:30:48.740 So the court documents tell us, and this actually came out when she first ran, I think, for Congress several years ago.

00:30:56.600 They're making the rounds again, and she's been doing the media tour.

00:30:59.380 Katie Porter is accused of many things, but screaming like a madwoman in their home, smashing things, screaming at and insulting their young children. 0.99

00:31:10.100 At one point, her husband says that she dumped a hot bowl of mashed potatoes on his head. 0.93

00:31:16.180 So an unpleasant woman, in other words. 1.00

00:31:18.980 Yet she managed to get married anyway.

00:31:20.940 And I don't know how that's possible because it's not because of her looks.

00:31:23.600 I can say that.

00:31:24.680 So there's no telling how her husband fell into this trap, but he did.

00:31:28.660 In any case, she's doing the media tour now, and she appeared on Bill Maher's show alongside Piers Morgan.

00:31:33.560 And a debate about trans people in sports began.

00:31:38.380 And she kind of went back and forth with Piers Morgan, especially.

00:31:42.740 And it didn't go well for her.

00:31:44.420 Watch this.

00:31:44.720 Nobody, including Riley Gaines, who I disagree with strongly, should be physically...

00:31:50.840 What do you disagree with, out of interest?

00:31:52.980 I think that it should be up to sporting bodies to make the decisions about who and how she can be. 1.00

00:31:59.480 What has she said that's actually wrong?

00:32:01.120 I think that what she has done is try to turn this...

00:32:04.640 We talked about people, you know, becoming...

00:32:06.880 Using things to kind of get likes and get clicks.

00:32:10.220 That's not what she's doing.

00:32:11.700 It's not?

00:32:12.040 I've got no truck for Riley Gaines personally, but all I've seen her do is stand up for women's rights to fairness and equality. 1.00

00:32:17.560 She has been?

00:32:18.260 She actually competed against Leah Thomas, and it was obviously unfair.

00:32:22.700 Leah Thomas won one of the races in the NCAA championships by 50 seconds against a bunch of biological females who simply couldn't keep up. 1.00

00:32:31.260 That cannot be right.

00:32:32.560 It cannot be fair.

00:32:33.760 That is something that I trust, I think our sporting bodies should be dealing with.

00:32:40.820 And by the way, Riley is speaking up for herself, and that is her prerogative, and I respect her free speech.

00:32:47.460 I think she's speaking up for pretty much every female athlete in the world. 1.00

00:32:51.880 I...

00:32:52.280 I mean, wasn't that the point of Title IX, Title IX in the early 70s was something that was...

00:32:58.560 It was a major event in feminism that we finally have this law that says at colleges, right, and I think high schools too, but definitely colleges, women's sports have to be given equal to men's sports, so that women aren't getting... 1.00

00:33:11.560 You know, and this led to the WNBA and lots of other stuff. 1.00

00:33:14.620 This seems to be the opposite of that.

00:33:16.140 It seems to be so many instances, I think, where wokeness is the opposite of what I grew up as liberalism.

00:33:23.920 Liberalism was, let's give the women an equal shot. 1.00

00:33:26.460 I mean, well...

00:33:26.680 This is, let's put a male in the swimming pool with the women. 1.00

00:33:29.780 I don't get it.

00:33:30.440 It's crazy.

00:33:30.960 And meanwhile, trans people who genuinely want to compete in athletics and swimming or whatever it may be, they're the ones who are suffering here.

00:33:38.840 They need to be found a way to compete fairly and justly.

00:33:42.900 Well, what's your answer then?

00:33:43.780 I think there's one or two answers.

00:33:45.440 I think they either compete against their biological sex, as many of them did before, or you create an entirely new category for a transgender athlete.

00:33:54.600 And then they're able to compete fairly.

00:33:56.540 But what you cannot do is continue to allow more and more trans athletes to start decimating women's records, in some cases irrevocably. 1.00

00:34:05.800 All right.

00:34:06.360 So that was just a total decimation by Piers Morgan of Katie Porter.

00:34:09.980 And it's not the only example, by the way, in this conversation.

00:34:12.380 It went to other subjects in the same thing.

00:34:13.780 This woman has nothing to say whatsoever. 0.98

00:34:17.920 She's the white Stacey Abrams, basically. 1.00

00:34:22.220 And especially on this topic, though.

00:34:25.280 I mean, there's no argument.

00:34:27.820 No argument exists that could possibly begin to defend the idea that somebody like Lea Thomas should compete against women.

00:34:35.860 Because he feels like he is one.

00:34:38.140 I mean, that is the argument. 1.00

00:34:40.140 And no matter how many times you hear it, it can never fail to astound you by its sheer stupidity and incoherence. 0.99

00:34:48.240 That men should be able to compete against women if they feel like they are one. 1.00

00:34:55.840 What?

00:34:56.240 That's really the only response that you need to give to that.

00:35:00.000 What?

00:35:01.620 And throw it back to them.

00:35:03.020 Like, continue.

00:35:03.880 Go ahead.

00:35:04.560 Tell me more about why that should be the case.

00:35:07.000 She can't.

00:35:07.520 She has no... 1.00

00:35:08.140 All she can ever do is...

00:35:09.400 And this is all these people.

00:35:10.880 This is what they always do.

00:35:11.760 On this topic in particular, they defer to the governing bodies.

00:35:15.000 Well, you know, the governing bodies, I'd leave it up to them to decide.

00:35:18.300 Well, except that if those bodies, the governing bodies and the medical health organizations, all the rest, if they start...

00:35:27.000 You know, if something were to happen, some miracle were to occur, and they come to some sane conclusions on these topics,

00:35:34.980 well, then we'll hear from the Katie Porters of the world that this is systemic discrimination. 1.00

00:35:40.300 So that's the thing.

00:35:40.860 That either the big organizations agree with Katie Porter, and so therefore are the authorities, and we should simply defer to them completely.

00:35:50.300 We shouldn't even talk about it.

00:35:51.680 Just defer to them.

00:35:53.200 Or they disagree with Katie Porter, in which case that is a proof of systemic oppression against trans people, and we should discard them utterly.

00:36:02.480 That's how the game works.

00:36:04.840 The only thing I disagree with Piers Morgan about was at the very end there, when he was asked, well, what's the solution to somebody like Leah Thomas?

00:36:10.860 And he starts by saying, make them compete against their biological, you know, in their correct biological category, which is the right answer. 0.69

00:36:17.380 And then he says, or we could make a separate category for trans people.

00:36:20.960 That part, no.

00:36:22.800 Okay?

00:36:23.320 Because that would be absurd, first of all, is there's not nearly enough people to fill out a whole category of trans.

00:36:30.800 And the other side, that's not a compromise that the other side's going to accept.

00:36:36.940 Because Leah Thomas doesn't want to be seen as a trans woman in a trans category.

00:36:41.300 He wants to be seen as a woman competing against women.

00:36:43.720 And for these men that suddenly discover their inner female identity, their inner femaleness, the whole point is to get, you know, on the field or in the pool or whatever against women.

00:36:56.240 That's why they want to be there.

00:36:57.620 So they're never going to accept this other compromise position, which is why we shouldn't offer it.

00:37:01.660 But also we shouldn't offer it because it's not right.

00:37:03.340 No, there's no real problem here, okay, except for the one that these trans identified people and the transgender, you know, in general is creating. 0.98

00:37:12.700 They are creating a problem for themselves.

00:37:15.160 And so our response should be, that's your problem.

00:37:18.180 You made this for yourself.

00:37:19.300 You deal with it.

00:37:19.980 I don't know.

00:37:20.940 It's not up to me.

00:37:22.100 It's not a problem we have to solve for you.

00:37:24.920 Well, I've decided to identify as a woman and dress up as a woman and live my life as a woman.

00:37:28.820 And so now I feel uncomfortable competing against men.

00:37:31.600 And, um, sorry about your luck.

00:37:34.480 I don't, don't do that.

00:37:36.040 I don't know.

00:37:37.900 That's not our problem.

00:37:40.200 Okay.

00:37:40.640 99.9% of the world has no issue here.

00:37:42.780 They use the right bathrooms. 0.79

00:37:43.860 They use, they go on the right teams.

00:37:45.000 That's the way it's always been.

00:37:46.220 You come along and say, well, I've made personal decisions and I've decided to dress and present myself in a way that makes me uncomfortable in the category that I belong in.

00:37:55.860 And then you throw it and then you, and then you pass the buck to us to make us figure out how to deal with that.

00:38:01.600 No, there's no issue here.

00:38:06.020 Males compete against males. 1.00

00:38:07.200 That's it.

00:38:08.680 What if there's, what if there are males who don't feel right?

00:38:10.660 They don't want it.

00:38:11.220 Okay.

00:38:11.400 Well, then don't compete.

00:38:12.060 I don't know.

00:38:12.840 Do something else with your time.

00:38:14.480 Take up baking.

00:38:15.340 I don't care.

00:38:16.480 Go for a jog.

00:38:17.260 Like go, go for, do whatever you want to do.

00:38:19.240 It doesn't matter.

00:38:20.400 Except you can't compete against the women. 1.00

00:38:21.800 That's one thing you can't do because you're not one.

00:38:23.420 That should be the answer.

00:38:26.080 But still, I think overall, here's Morgan.

00:38:30.700 Handled himself quite well there.

00:38:32.620 All right.

00:38:33.240 Pete Buttigieg, transportation secretary, is at least pretending to focus on transportation related issues.

00:38:41.380 That's the one good thing I can say about this clip.

00:38:43.320 But the problem is that he has to focus on them through a leftist identity politics lens, which leads to situations like this.

00:38:52.260 We've got a crisis when it comes to roadway fatalities in America.

00:38:56.280 We lose about 40,000 people every year.

00:39:00.020 It's a level that's comparable to gun violence.

00:39:02.520 And we see a lot of racial disparities, black and brown Americans, tribal citizens and rural residents, much more likely to lose their lives, whether it's in a car or as a pedestrian being hit by a car.

00:39:15.860 There are a lot of reasons related to discrimination, related to even the ways that roads are designed and built.

00:39:23.200 Who has access to a safe street design that's got crosswalks and good lighting?

00:39:28.940 Who doesn't have that access?

00:39:30.300 That can drive disparities.

00:39:32.640 And we have a responsibility to act on that.

00:39:36.820 Yeah, it's true. 0.97

00:39:37.660 Yeah, the racist roads were set up in a way to cause fatal car accidents for black people. 0.98

00:39:44.020 That's true. 0.85

00:39:44.980 They've actually, the white supremacist people, they've actually built the roads, especially in a lot of these inner cities.

00:39:51.100 They've, for example, just one example I'll throw out at you.

00:39:52.980 They have these spring mechanisms where if you're driving along the road, the road will actually eject you.

00:39:58.820 It's like the spring-loaded thing and it'll eject you into the sun. 0.97

00:40:02.740 And that's just one of the things that the dastardly white supremacists have done. 0.91

00:40:07.380 So if you're wondering, when Pete Buttigieg talks about the roads are racist themselves, how could that possibly be the case? 0.96

00:40:13.000 Well, that's how.

00:40:13.760 That's how I'm explaining it to you.

00:40:14.600 In reality, of course, these people cannot express any concern about anything without running it through the identity politics filter.

00:40:24.220 And this is a confession that these people don't care about people.

00:40:28.160 They don't care about human beings in general.

00:40:30.460 Because if they did, okay, if Pete Buttigieg gave a damn about people, then he would just say, hey, a lot of car accidents, a lot of people are dying.

00:40:41.160 It's terrible.

00:40:41.860 We need to find a way to cut down on car accidents because people are getting hurt and people are dying.

00:40:45.720 That's good enough.

00:40:46.800 Like, we all agree.

00:40:49.320 No one's happy with the number of car accident fatalities.

00:40:52.300 Let's talk about ways to reduce them.

00:40:53.860 You don't have to, you know, do anything else to help the argument.

00:41:00.860 We all are on the same page with that.

00:41:04.240 But Pete Buttigieg and people on the left, that's not good enough.

00:41:08.400 To simply say, oh, this issue affects all of humanity.

00:41:12.440 The left's going to say, well, what do I care about all of humanity for?

00:41:15.560 No, it especially affects, you know, people of color and LGBT people.

00:41:20.400 Oh, well, then obviously we have to do something about it.

00:41:23.860 By the way, this is all nonsense, obviously.

00:41:26.000 Policy Genius has sponsors of the show.

00:41:29.140 They have a list of states with the most fatal car accidents versus the least.

00:41:33.160 I did look this up.

00:41:34.980 Not that this is really something we need to engage with on a serious level at all, but I looked it up anyway.

00:41:39.320 So here are the states with the most car accidents, fatal car accidents, rather.

00:41:44.780 California, Texas, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina.

00:41:48.460 Okay, those are the most fatal.

00:41:49.200 And then least fatal, Washington, D.C., Alaska, Vermont, Rhode Island, Hawaii.

00:41:55.220 So what do we notice about the states with, and Washington, D.C. is not a state, by the way, but it's on the list.

00:42:01.700 What do we notice about the states with the most fatal car accidents?

00:42:05.880 Lots of people in those states, and also in many states, a lot of bad weather.

00:42:13.400 Okay, Texas, Florida, North Carolina, a lot of bad weather, a lot of rain, you know, that sort of thing.

00:42:19.680 And what about the states with the least fatal car accidents?

00:42:25.760 Plenty of bad weather in places like Alaska and Vermont, sure, but nobody lives there.

00:42:30.420 And that's the thing.

00:42:31.500 Most of these states, low population density, especially as compared to other states.

00:42:37.820 Washington, D.C. is the only outlier, but they also have a police force that is dedicated to doing literally nothing but giving out traffic tickets.

00:42:45.800 Have you ever been to D.C.?

00:42:46.640 That's the only thing the cops in D.C. do.

00:42:48.600 They don't do anything else, as we've learned.

00:42:51.160 There's a carjacking, anything.

00:42:52.860 They're not going to do anything about that, but they will.

00:42:55.340 If you try to park illegally or you go seven miles over the limit, they're going to get you for that.

00:42:59.560 That's the only thing they care about.

00:43:01.400 And so that's what's happening there.

00:43:03.620 Other than D.C., there's a pretty clear equation.

00:43:06.620 If you live in a place with lots of people and population density, and then you also throw in bad weather, you get car accidents.

00:43:15.260 Crazy, I know.

00:43:16.020 And then you're going to think, well, how do we factor race into all this?

00:43:19.560 How does race factor?

00:43:20.480 You don't.

00:43:21.420 You don't factor it in because it's got nothing to do with it.

00:43:25.460 Glad I could clear that up.

00:43:26.880 Let's get to the comment section.

00:43:28.580 Daily cancellations are the law and order of the day.

00:43:32.460 John says, Matt, as someone who used to watch Mr. Beast, Chris Tyson was the last person I ever expected to transition.

00:43:44.000 He and Mr. Beast literally made a video making fun of gender ideology back in 2016, and the Alphabet Mafia even tried to cancel both of them over it back in 2021.

00:43:52.720 That, along with Chris just always being the seemingly masculine man and always seemed to have conservative Christian viewpoints, which seemed to change right after the pandemic.

00:44:01.480 And then early 2022 is about the time he stopped posting family photos with his wife and kid, which is also when he started painting his nails.

00:44:08.840 I believe Chris said that they had separated for a while, so she probably knew something was wrong and left him.

00:44:13.360 Yeah, I've, as I said last week, I never followed Mr. Beast.

00:44:18.100 I didn't really even know he existed until recently, and so I have been hearing from a lot of former fans of the Mr. Beast channel, and I've heard this a lot, that Chris Tyson, the guy who decided to transition, is, you know, was the last one you would ever expect.

00:44:36.840 And I think you learn a few things from that.

00:44:39.660 One is that you never know with the person.

00:44:41.740 You never know what's going on inside their minds.

00:44:44.220 You never know what's going on behind the scenes, obviously.

00:44:46.000 But also, you know, you see how quickly this gender confusion can grab hold of somebody. 0.80

00:44:56.660 This is not something that needs to happen over the course of decades.

00:44:59.220 This is something that can happen practically overnight.

00:45:03.240 In my film, What is a Woman? 1.00

00:45:05.280 Would you go to whatisawoman.com and you can watch that film if you haven't watched it yet?

00:45:08.420 But this is something that we cover in the film, that, you know, Scott Nugent talks about it.

00:45:14.980 And it's a female transitioned, I think it was in her 40s. 1.00

00:45:22.060 And she says, it's the same kind of thing.

00:45:25.820 It took hold very, very quickly.

00:45:28.060 And this can happen even to adults.

00:45:31.980 You kind of get lost.

00:45:33.200 And then I think once they start going down this path in their minds and then and now the Internet is like a portal into this whole world and they start exploring it and they start Googling things and going to different forums and whatever else.

00:45:47.140 And they discover a whole lot of people that have been having the same thoughts and confusions and they think, well, this, I found my identity.

00:45:55.480 This is what I was meant to be.

00:45:58.840 And I think also, especially for men, pornography plays a major role in this as well.

00:46:04.860 Which, you know, if we had a medical and psychological establishment that was worth anything, that is something that they'd be exploring and researching.

00:46:16.420 You know, because I don't know what the numbers are, but I would really like to know the correlation between men who have pornography addictions and especially and they get into the really weird porn,

00:46:27.200 which apparently, according to old tweets and stuff that have been deleted, Chris Tyson was, and then how does that lead very often to this gender confusion, if it's even confusion at all, or they're just acting out a fetish?

00:46:41.040 How do all these things tie together?

00:46:43.560 There's a lot of research that should be done about that, but I think we can arrive at some common sense conclusions about it to begin with.

00:46:49.860 Wendy says, I feel for these wives whose husbands have decided to throw a grenade into their marriages. 0.98

00:46:53.800 After 22 years of marriage and four children, my husband decided he had to be true to himself and live the rest of his life as a gay man.

00:47:01.840 He told me that he never loved me as a husband and was supposed to love a wife and that he could go to therapy for the rest of his life, but he didn't want to.

00:47:08.140 He expected that we would be best buddies and hang out together as a family still with new significant others.

00:47:13.900 I, too, wasn't allowed to be angry or I'd be selfish and a homophobe.

00:47:16.820 So he's now, quote-unquote, married to a man and moved 5,000 miles away from his children and now grandchildren so he could be happy.

00:47:26.980 Another example.

00:47:28.420 This is, it's the celebration of the self.

00:47:30.480 It's the worship of the self.

00:47:32.920 This is, before anything, it is just, it's narcissism on steroids.

00:47:36.620 Where you're putting, and you are, and the people that do this, they have no compunction about being basically honest about it.

00:47:46.180 They say, well, I'm going to do this.

00:47:47.680 I'm going to rip my whole family apart because it's going to make me happy.

00:47:52.940 And, of course, it doesn't work out that way.

00:47:54.400 They don't end up being happy.

00:47:55.260 But in pursuit of their own, what they perceive to be their own happiness and their own fulfillment, they are going to completely destroy their marriages, their families, their children.

00:48:07.800 And they have no problem with it.

00:48:11.560 Afternoon Walk says the entire trans movement has turned into, I'm a guy and I want to dress and act like a woman.

00:48:17.380 This is not what a true trans person is. 1.00

00:48:20.200 This is absolutely crazy.

00:48:21.520 I blame the internet entirely.

00:48:22.820 The internet has confused the hell out of these men.

00:48:26.460 Well, you're right in blaming the internet largely.

00:48:29.540 Now, a lot of this stuff, as we've talked about, you go back to John Money, Alfred Kinsey, and even before that.

00:48:36.340 So, there were the seeds of our current mania before, our current cultural mania.

00:48:43.240 You can trace this back to before the internet even existed.

00:48:46.480 The internet plays a large role in it.

00:48:48.200 Although, I will take exception with what you said, quote, unquote, true trans people.

00:48:52.820 Well, there's no such thing as a person who is truly trans means beyond, you know, something that's beyond. 0.99

00:48:59.820 So, you're sort of beyond gender, you're some other category. 0.54

00:49:03.640 That's not something that actually exists.

00:49:05.920 That's not a legitimate category of existence.

00:49:07.740 So, to put true in front of that as a qualifier doesn't really make sense.

00:49:14.180 James says, Matt, I've disagreed with you in the past but never been disappointed in you until now.

00:49:19.240 You not only murdered Johnny the Walrus but have completely moved on from him like he meant nothing to you.

00:49:24.460 You aren't the man I thought you were.

00:49:27.180 Well, how dare you, sir?

00:49:28.200 You have no idea what's going on inside my heart.

00:49:34.300 You don't understand the burden that I carry.

00:49:36.860 You don't understand the pain.

00:49:39.480 And just because I internalize it doesn't mean that I don't feel it.

00:49:42.820 Okay?

00:49:43.040 People grieve in different ways.

00:49:45.940 But I will always remember Johnny the Walrus.

00:49:49.360 You know, I made my documentary, What is a Woman, because I had to expose the radical gender ideology that had been going on right under our noses for years. 0.95

00:49:56.800 In some ways, my documentary helped spark a national debate about what our children are being taught and where this country is headed.

00:50:02.820 If you saw What is a Woman, I thank you for your support.

00:50:05.020 But if you haven't, I have some news for you.

00:50:06.860 This is your last chance to get 30% off your Daily Wire Plus membership when you use code WOMAN at checkout.

00:50:12.860 If you haven't seen the film or if you know someone who hasn't, tell them to watch it.

00:50:16.660 It's time for more people to come back to the side of truth and reality, which is what we're fighting for.

00:50:21.160 So to watch What is a Woman, join now at dailywire.com slash subscribe. 0.84

00:50:24.380 Use code WOMAN to save 30% off your membership today.

00:50:28.060 Now let's get to our Daily Cancellation.

00:50:33.200 Last week, we opened the show with a discussion, as we were just talking about, of the wildly popular YouTuber MrBeast,

00:50:38.940 who attracts a following of many millions of people, most of them kids.

00:50:41.580 And this is a problem because now MrBeast also prominently features a gender-transitioning man in most of his videos. 0.50

00:50:49.120 Not MrBeast's choice, we can assume.

00:50:51.280 His sidekick and co-star decided to destroy his life and marriage and career by going on hormone therapy to become a woman or a non-binary or whatever he's trying to be. 0.98

00:50:59.720 MrBeast has chosen to keep the man in his videos, even publicly accusing his critics of transphobia,

00:51:05.600 which means that his content is no longer suitable for the millions of children who currently consume it.

00:51:11.400 And parents should take note of that.

00:51:13.200 But since that conversation, I have heard from many parents who are raising concerns about other YouTubers who are popular among the younger demographics.

00:51:21.760 There's a whole world of YouTubers out there for teens and for young children that I am generally unfamiliar with,

00:51:28.660 mostly because my kids aren't allowed to watch any YouTube at all.

00:51:31.380 Okay?

00:51:31.780 I'm on this platform every day.

00:51:33.300 I have one of the larger channels among conservative commentators anyway, and I would never let my kids go on this site.

00:51:41.500 Okay?

00:51:41.700 Especially without parental supervision.

00:51:43.140 And that should tell you something.

00:51:44.820 But many parents do allow their children on this hellscape, and even their very young children.

00:51:50.160 And that's given rise to a booming, multi-million dollar industry of child-centric YouTube channels.

00:51:55.360 This is a whole ecosystem filled with content, and a small fraction of which is arguably acceptable in small doses.

00:52:03.460 But much of the rest of it is loud, obnoxious, often overtly creepy.

00:52:09.120 There's a subset of this genre which consists of actual children who have been conscripted into the content creation coal mines by their parents.

00:52:16.800 One of the most popular channels on the entire platform is called Kids Diana Show, with 110 million subscribers.

00:52:23.300 110 million.

00:52:24.980 And it stars an 8-year-old girl named Diana.

00:52:29.220 Now, the videos themselves are basically unobjectionable from what I've seen,

00:52:33.720 except that there's kind of a note of tragedy to them,

00:52:36.100 considering that Diana's parents have been harvesting her for content since she was one year old.

00:52:41.700 Now, a hugely profitable franchise rests on her small shoulders,

00:52:46.840 and the parents say that, well, she can stop whenever she wants. 0.99

00:52:49.600 If she ever stops having fun, then they'll end the channel, they claim.

00:52:53.500 But something tells me that they wouldn't let go of the cash cow that easily.

00:52:57.540 Besides, the child's entire life has been consumed by internet celebrity.

00:53:02.500 She's been one literally since she was born, almost.

00:53:05.900 She's never known existence without it. 0.99

00:53:08.380 So to pretend that this is her choice is asinine. 0.96

00:53:11.980 So influencers and content creators have found a wide-open loophole in our child labor laws, 0.89

00:53:16.680 which is a conversation we should probably have in more detail at some other point.

00:53:20.800 The greater concern for us today are the kid-focused YouTubers who are not kids themselves.

00:53:28.200 And there's one in particular that's been mentioned to me many times over the last few days.

00:53:31.820 He's a man who plays a character named Blippi.

00:53:34.660 And now, I had never heard of Blippi up until this point.

00:53:36.700 And prior to his name being mentioned to me, I had been living what apparently was a carefree,

00:53:41.980 blissful, Blippi-free life. 1.00

00:53:44.440 And I didn't realize how good I had it.

00:53:46.280 I wish I could go back to that time now.

00:53:47.840 I wish I could recapture my lost innocence.

00:53:50.200 But it's too late.

00:53:51.560 After learning about Blippi, I felt compelled to spend some time researching this guy.

00:53:56.360 And I found myself tumbling through a dark portal into a bizarre and hellish and, most of all,

00:54:01.340 extremely annoying world.

00:54:03.440 Blippi is apparently a very successful children's YouTuber, boasting 17 million subscribers on his

00:54:08.240 main channel, another 10 million on his secondary channel, and there are various offshoot channels

00:54:12.500 with hundreds of thousands or millions of subscribers each, not to mention his spinoff series on

00:54:16.620 Amazon, his live stage shows.

00:54:20.080 So Blippi is an unstoppable force in kids' entertainment, which is a problem because 1.00

00:54:24.700 he's also incredibly creepy and weird.

00:54:27.880 Now, the first thing you should know about Blippi is that he's a character created by a

00:54:31.120 man named Stephen John.

00:54:33.380 And over the past year or so, another guy named Clayton Grimm has also started starring as

00:54:37.600 Blippi in some of the YouTube videos.

00:54:39.820 I don't know anything about Clayton Grimm's past, but I do know that Stephen John, who's

00:54:43.460 the original Blippi and still the reigning king of the Blippi universe, used to be an

00:54:48.240 internet personality who went by the moniker Steezy Grossman.

00:54:51.780 Now, back in 2013, under the name Steezy Grossman, Stephen John posted a video so revolting,

00:54:57.560 so nauseating, that I am very hesitant to describe it to you.

00:55:02.000 But considering that I have so many young parents in my audience and a sizable portion of them

00:55:05.340 probably allow their children to watch Blippi videos, I feel compelled to tell you about it.

00:55:10.280 And there's no way to put this lightly, so I'll just come out and say it. 0.99

00:55:12.480 In 2013, Stephen John made a video where he defecated on another man's naked butt. 0.97

00:55:22.540 And John has unsurprisingly gone to incredible lengths to eradicate this video from the internet, 0.98

00:55:27.700 but it was made, and it is real, and he really did that, and he filmed it, and he published it.

00:55:32.960 Now, less than a year after making the poop video, John posted his first Blippi video. 0.89

00:55:40.460 Okay, so there's a, not even a year passes between when he's doing that and when he's a children's

00:55:47.500 entertainer. Now, I will say, everyone has a past, everyone has made bad decisions.

00:55:53.820 Taking a dump on a naked man and filming it, that is several steps beyond your typical youthful 0.84

00:56:00.600 indiscretion. And certainly it's the kind of thing that should preclude you from ever becoming a 0.94

00:56:05.420 children's entertainer. Now, if Stephen John had taken a crap on a guy and then went on to find 0.57

00:56:10.060 success in some other job, if he had become, let's say, a CNN anchor, for example, I wouldn't 0.94

00:56:14.320 have a problem with it. You know, for CNN anchors, public defecation is relevant job experience. They

00:56:18.080 do a version of it every day on air, basically. But John went from filming these incredibly repulsive

00:56:23.560 R-rated videos to making content designed for three-year-olds in less than a year. And that

00:56:31.060 tells us that John is not only a deranged weirdo, but that he's a man absolutely desperate for 0.97

00:56:36.360 attention and clicks. Okay, he didn't get enough traction by being shocking and disgusting. So 0.99

00:56:41.660 instead, he went all the way to the other extreme, and suddenly the clicks came rolling in. So this is

00:56:46.460 not someone who has a passion for teaching and helping children. Okay, that's not what this is.

00:56:51.120 Rather, he has a passion for getting attention. And for some ungodly reason, millions of parents

00:56:58.300 are happy to give it to him. Now, a lot of Blippi content consists of John, who's the original Blippi,

00:57:04.440 running around playgrounds like he's mentally disabled. Here's one of the most popular videos 0.97

00:57:10.440 on the channel. This video has garnered 500 million. Okay, that's half a billion views.

00:57:17.620 And almost all those views coming from kids who are like three or four years old.

00:57:21.120 Watch.

00:57:24.300 So much to learn about. It'll make you want to shout Blippi! 1.00

00:57:28.300 Hey! It's me, Blippi!

00:57:30.480 Oh, and it's nighttime, and we're in a parking lot. There's so many stores. Wow! Look at this

00:57:38.420 store! It's the Kinderland Indoor Playground in Las Vegas, Nevada. Come on!

00:57:43.980 Wow! This place is so colorful! Before we play, we need to take off our shoes.

00:57:53.880 All right. One shoe, two shoes. Now we're ready to play. Come on! 0.98

00:58:09.560 Whoa! Look at this!

00:58:23.840 Hello!

00:58:24.320 That's enough of that. I don't mean to overstate this, but I would rather jump feet first into a

00:58:32.000 wood chipper than continue watching that. And, you know, no offense to Blippi. And that's a video

00:58:39.800 from five years ago. But the newer Blippi content is exactly like this. Of course it is, because he 0.98

00:58:44.820 got 500 million views on this. This is children's content created by a weirdo degenerate through an 0.89

00:58:51.860 algorithm. Okay? That's what this is. Here's a video from five days ago, which features the new 0.53

00:58:58.520 Blippi in exactly the same sort of situation. Let's watch some of that. 1.00

00:59:03.500 So much to learn about. It'll make you want to shout Blippi! 1.00

00:59:11.580 Whoa! Hey! It's me, Blippi!

00:59:14.820 And it's me, Mika!

00:59:17.400 Whoa! 0.71

00:59:18.200 And today we're at Candyland Indoor Playground!

00:59:20.960 In Sherman Oaks, California!

00:59:22.460 Yeah! Whoa! Oh, and Mika, I have an idea.

00:59:25.380 Yeah?

00:59:25.840 You normally want to start your day with breakfast, but today is opposite day. So let's start it with

00:59:31.960 dinner, because breakfast and dinner are opposite.

00:59:35.420 Hey, I saw a supermarket back there. Let's dance backwards!

00:59:39.780 Okay, let's go find some food.

00:59:41.240 Good. You cut it off.

00:59:43.080 Now, again, I'm not trying to be insulting to Blippi, but all I will say is that these videos

00:59:48.880 make me long for this sweet release of death. On the plus side, I've actually overcome my fear of

00:59:54.800 my own mortality just by watching short clips of Blippi. It made me realize there are some things

00:59:59.940 worse than death. And these are things that millions of parents allow their children to be

01:00:05.320 subjected to. They actually put that on for their three-year-old and say, come and watch these weird

01:00:12.360 adults dancing around a playground. If I came in a living room and found my three-year-old daughter

01:00:17.960 watching Blippi, I would throw the TV out the window, and then I'd walk outside and gather up 0.99

01:00:21.660 the broken pieces and light them on fire. And that would be less scarring for my daughter to witness

01:00:26.160 than one episode of Blippi. And yet again, millions of parents willingly put this on for

01:00:32.300 their kids. And they sit back and they watch as the sheer stupidity of this kind of content causes 1.00

01:00:38.140 their children's brains to melt and literally drip out of their ears. And they have no problem with that. 1.00

01:00:43.560 There's an important lesson to be learned here. Woke kids content is not the only sort of kids content

01:00:51.780 that we should be watching on for. Many of the shows and YouTube videos that parents allow their

01:00:56.020 children to watch may not be overtly woke, but they are harmful in their own way. Okay, yes, it is

01:01:02.620 actually harmful to put this on for your kid. It actually is. Because even if there's no explicit

01:01:08.220 ideological agenda, the content is still incredibly stupid and loud and obnoxious and weird and creepy 1.00

01:01:14.920 and lifeless. You got Blippi, a grown adult man, playing alone on a child's playground at night, 1.00

01:01:23.200 hopping around on plastic toys under fluorescent lights in an otherwise empty building. I mean,

01:01:28.560 this is the stuff of nightmares. This is the kind of thing that you, you know, if you have bad Chipotle

01:01:35.440 and you go to bed and you're, it's like, this is the kind of things, nightmares that you have.

01:01:40.040 We wouldn't typically call this woke, but the atmosphere is sterile and depressing and slightly

01:01:45.740 uncanny. And also ironically for children's content, totally free of actual children,

01:01:50.560 which is the kind of culture that the woke crowd seeks to create as it happens.

01:01:56.260 And there will always be something viscerally unsettling about adults who act like preschool

01:02:00.760 age children. That's never normal or okay. And this is not what children's entertainment

01:02:06.860 should be or used to be. Now, I've heard some people say that, well, Blippi is the modern Mr. Rogers.

01:02:13.820 Okay, how dare you, first of all, keep Mr. Rogers' name out of your mouth, as Will Smith might say.

01:02:21.580 He's not Mr. This is the anti-Mr. Rogers. Fred Rogers was a kind, grandfatherly figure. He didn't

01:02:28.720 act like a child. He acted like a grown man who knew how to speak to children. And there's a massive

01:02:34.800 difference. Adults should not behave like children in order to connect to children. Adults should act

01:02:40.340 like adults so that children can one day become adults themselves in the future. It is possible to

01:02:46.460 engage with a child on his level without acting like a child yourself. There is therefore no real

01:02:53.100 educational value in a child watching Blippi, a repressed, overgrown man-child with the emotional

01:02:59.040 maturity of a five-year-old. He's not the modern-day Mr. Rogers, but the modern-day, you know, Michael

01:03:03.500 Jackson, if anything. And the fact that this is all an act, a persona adopted entirely for the purpose

01:03:09.320 of gaining YouTube views, makes it even more creepy, not less. Now, Blippi is an extreme example, but much 0.95

01:03:16.200 of modern kids' programming is just like this. It's quite often patronizing, idiotic, loud, cold, 1.00

01:03:22.080 ugly, dreary. Even the animated fare, Paw Patrol and the like, you know, it has no character. It has 1.00

01:03:29.360 no beauty. It has no charm. It has no point other than to keep the child occupied, staring at the

01:03:35.060 screen slack-jawed so those parents can do other things. And doing other things for the parents

01:03:40.120 usually means that the parent is in a different room staring at different screens, slack-jawed and

01:03:45.540 distracted. Conservatives spend so much time worrying about overtly political or ideological messaging

01:03:51.580 and children's content, and rightly so, but they don't spend nearly enough time worrying about

01:03:55.980 content that works as a kind of mental numbing agent, like a psychological Novocaine, so that

01:04:01.660 their children are entranced and distracted, but not gaining anything of value from the experience.

01:04:07.960 That's why in my house, we have banished most children's shows, except for a select few.

01:04:12.580 Okay, I'm not going to let my kids watch anything with a hint of wokeness,

01:04:15.020 and I won't let them watch anything that will make their IQs plummet, you know, to the floor in real

01:04:20.700 time. And you know the other thing I do? I listen to my own parental intuition. And if something looks

01:04:27.380 relatively harmless on the surface, but still seems bizarre, seems off to me, and Blippi definitely seems 1.00

01:04:35.220 bizarre and off, I listen to that intuition, and I ban that show from my house. This is why especially

01:04:43.860 I'm not going to let my kids watch YouTube kids content from random weirdos. I'd rather they

01:04:49.740 spend their time playing games or, you know, running around outside or doing arts and crafts

01:04:55.000 projects. I'd even prefer that my kids, if they're bored, there's nothing else to do, I'd prefer that

01:05:00.320 they bicker and fight with each other and annoy the hell out of me than sit half-conscious in front

01:05:05.900 of a screen while their childhoods dwindle away. And I'd rather they do literally anything with their

01:05:12.900 time than watch something like Blippi, who is today very much canceled. That'll do it for this

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The Matt Walsh Show - April 17, 2023

Ep. 1149 - Here's How We Know That The Bud Light Boycott Is Working

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