Ep. 1156 - Princeton Professor Tries To Debunk Biology, Fails Hilariously
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Summary
A Princeton professor claims he can prove that there are more than two sexes. Also, Ron DeSantis signs a bill imposing the death penalty on child predators. And Dwayne Wade is jeered at and mocked by a crowd who apparently disapprove of his decision to trans his kid.
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Today on The Matt Walsh Show, there have been multiple attempts by major media outlets this
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week to debunk the sex binary. We'll dissect and thoroughly debunk ourselves one article
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written by a Princeton professor who claims that he can prove that there are more than
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two sexes. We'll see how he does today. Also, Ron DeSantis signs a bill imposing the death
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penalty on child predators. Yet another thing for the groomers to get angry about.
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And Dwayne Wade is jeered at and mocked by a crowd of people who apparently disapprove of
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his decision to trans his kid. The footage is very encouraging and heartwarming. We'll play
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that today. And people are randomly outraged about something I said about video games five
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years ago. I'll address the outrage, all of that, and much more today on The Matt Walsh Show.
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I've always been skeptical of the old cliche that you shouldn't judge a book by its cover. I think
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there are often a number of safe assumptions you can make about a thing or a person just based on
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a cursory glance. But there is a slightly altered version of this saying that still holds true. In
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fact, holds even more true today, arguably. So perhaps we should say that you shouldn't judge
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a book by its title or by the category it has been put in. You cannot, for example, trust that
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someone who somebody knows anything about science just because they call themselves a scientist.
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And you cannot trust that a publication is a reliable source of scientific information
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just because it has the word science in the title of the publication. Case in point,
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The Scientific American. This is the outlet which bills itself as the essential guide to the most
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awe-inspiring advances in science and technology. And it is these days, though, most interested in
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finding science-y sounding justifications for left-wing ideas. And the left-wing idea, as we know,
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that is most in need of a science-y sounding justification, or really any justification at all,
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is gender ideology. In fact, The Scientific American has made an appearance in the Daily
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Cancellation before, at least once, due to past failed attempts to scientifically defend
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the most scientifically indefensible theory ever devised by human beings, which is what gender
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ideology is. Now they're back at it with an article written by a Princeton professor named Augustin
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Fuentes. So this sounds pretty, I mean, it's a Princeton professor. His name is Augustin.
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Sounds pretty official. Here's the headline. Here's why human sex is not binary. And this,
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we should note, is in fact the second article published by a major publication this week
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seeking to debunk the sex binary. Actually, it's the second article in the same day. On Monday,
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we had this one, The Scientific American. The other one was in the Washington Post,
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which also was attempting to debunk the sex binary. But The Scientific American is supposed
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to be scientific. So we'll focus on that one. And it sounds like an incredible claim, certainly.
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Yet this is, again, The Scientific American, the science magazine that's been in publication since
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1845. Albert Einstein, Nikola Tesla have contributed to this publication in the past.
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And this is a professor at Princeton, one of the most prestigious schools in the world.
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Surely, this will be a compelling science-based article. And certainly not one that can be
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debunked by some podcaster who dropped out of community college. Surely. So let's read on and
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find out. Starting at the top of the article, it says, there are those politicians, pundits,
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and even a few scientists who maintain that whether our bodies make ova or sperm are all we need to know
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about sex. Okay, well, never mind. We don't even need to keep reading. I mean, we will because this
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segment should be longer than two and a half minutes. But we already see the game that he's
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playing. The headline promises proof that human sex is not binary. This is a big promise. It's
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actually a promise to upend everything the human race ever thought it knew about its own biology.
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If he actually manages to debunk the sex binary, this article in the Scientific American would be
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the most important piece of scientific writing ever composed. These are the expectations that we
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have, or that you might have if you're the hopelessly naive sort, as we head into the article
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itself. But then in the first sentence, Professor Fuentes sets himself up for a very different and much
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smaller task. It's a much smaller house of cards that he wants to knock down. He announces his
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intention to respond to the claim that whether our bodies make ova or sperm are all we need to know
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about sex, except that, well, nobody ever said that ova and sperm are all we need to know about sex.
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They are crucial fundamental facts, but there are, of course, other facts. Just as I might say that
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gravity is the reason we aren't currently floating into space, you know, the reason why we're able
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to walk around on the ground and not float into space is because of gravity. This is a, one of the
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fundamental facts about gravity. It's not, however, the only fact about gravity. There are other things
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we might say about it as well. Fuentes claims that he's going to disprove the sex binary, but while
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pretending to disprove it, we could already see that what he's really going to do is say other things
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about it. Okay, so he's not actually, it looks like going to be disproving it. He's just adding
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on other details. But even if those other details are true, that wouldn't disprove the basic fact that
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there are only male and female gametes, which means that there are only two sexes, which means that sex
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is binary. We see the game he's playing in the very first sentence then. He's not even going to attempt
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to debunk the sex binary. Instead, he's going to set his sights much, much lower and simply try his
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best to complicate the sex binary. But if he succeeds in doing that, which, spoiler, he doesn't,
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he will not have succeeded in doing the thing he promised in the headline to do. Indeed, he won't
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even attempt to do that thing. Reading on, it says, quote, they assert that men and women are defined by
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their production of these gamete cells, making them a distinct biological binary pair, and that our legal
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rights and social possibilities should flow from this divide. Men are men, women are women. Simple.
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But this is bad science. The production of gametes does not sufficiently describe sex biology in
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animals, nor is it the definition of woman or man. The animal kingdom does not limit itself to only
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biological binary regarding how a species makes gametes. Scientifically speaking, animals with the
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capacity to produce ova are generally called female, and sperm producers generally male. While most animal
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species fall into the two types of gametes produced by two versions of the reproductive tract model,
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many don't. Some worms produce both. Some fish start producing one kind and then switch to the other,
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and some switch back and forth throughout their lives. There are even lizards that have done away
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with one type altogether. Fascinating, Professor. You know, there are also wasps that will lay their eggs
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inside caterpillars, and then the eggs hatch, and the little wasp babies eat the caterpillars alive from the
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inside. Pretty gross. That doesn't mean that human childbirth could ever work that way. You know,
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there are many strange phenomena that occur among other species and life forms. We aren't talking about
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other species and life forms. We're talking about human beings. Okay, some worms, you say, produce both
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gametes. Very interesting. Nice to know. But we're not worms. At least I'm not, Professor. I'll let you speak for
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yourself on that subject, I suppose. But I'd prefer if we got back to the actual subject, which is human
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sex. Human biological sex is what we're supposed to be talking about. So, continuing. Quote,
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while sperm and ova matter, they're not the entirety of biology, and they don't tell us all we need to
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know about sex, especially human sex. Well, there it is again. Sperm and ova are not the entirety of
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biology. Well, of course they aren't, you simpleton. Nobody ever said that literally the only thing that
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exists in biology are sperm and ova. Nobody ever claimed that we should open a biology textbook
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and find only the words sperm and ova, the end. These are, again, fundamental facts about human
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sex. They're not the only facts. We've established that. We never really needed to establish it because
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nobody ever questioned it. But still, we've established it twice now. Can we get to the part
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where you prove the existence of a third sex? Because if human sex is not binary, that would mean that
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there is a third sex, right? If it's not, binary means two. So, if it's not binary, then either
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there's only one, that would be not binary, or there's more than two. And you're saying there's
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more than two, so there should be a third sex, and maybe a fourth sex, maybe a fifth. So, if you have
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proof of the non-binary nature of sex, you must have proof of the third sex. And if, again, if you have
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that proof, well, the Nobel Prize is coming your way, because that's the most significant scientific
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discovery ever. Where is this discovery? Let's keep looking. Quote, the bottom line is that while
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animal gametes can be described as binary of two distinct kinds, the physiological systems,
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behaviors, and individuals that produce them are not. This reality of sex biology is well summarized
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by a group of biologists who recently wrote, quote, reliance on strict binary categories of sex
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fails to accurately capture the diverse and nuanced nature of sex. We know that humans exhibit a range
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of biological and behavioral patterns related to sex biology that overlap and diverge. Producing ova or
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sperm does not tell us everything, or even most things, biologically or socially, about an individual's
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child care capacity, homemaking tendencies, sexual attraction, interest in literature, engineering, and math
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capabilities, or tendency towards gossip, violence, compassion, sense of identity, or love of, or love of,
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incompetence for sports. Gametes and gamete production physiology by themselves are only a part of the
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entirety of human lives. For humans, sex is dynamic, biological, cultural, and enmeshed in feedback cycles
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with our environments, ecologies, and multiple physiological and social processes. Given what we know
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about biology across animals and in humans, efforts to represent human sex as binary based solely on what
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gametes one produces are not about biology, but are about trying to restrict who counts as a full human in
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society. Yes, professor, human beings are, you know, they all have different personalities and hopes and dreams,
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right? But biologically speaking, the human species only has two sexes. So a human being can have all the dreams and
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hopes and wishes that he wants. But there's only one of two options for a sex, and we don't get to choose
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it. It's given to us. So when are we going to get to the part where you actually present an argument
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against the biological binary? Where is the proof of the third sex? I guess we have to keep reading.
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Oh, wait, we can't, because that's the end of the article. That's it. All of that buildup,
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just to bring us to some completely irrelevant diatribe about the diverse nature of human personality,
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Fuentes promised us a groundbreaking work of scientific literature, which would totally reshape
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our understanding of human biology. But instead, we got a hallmark greeting card about how each
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individual human is unique and beautiful like a snowflake. I mean, just stop to consider what
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kind of bushly garbage we just endured. And this is, and this is, this is, it's not just this article.
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This is every attempt by the left to prove their point when it comes to gender ideology and
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biological sex. It always comes down to this. It's always this same thing.
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They set their mark. They say, we're going to prove this. And then they don't even attempt to
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prove that. Instead, they go off in this direction here. It's always obfuscation. It's always a sleight
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of hand. They can never engage directly with the argument they're pretending they're engaging with.
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In this case, in the context of allegedly trying to disprove the sex binary,
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binary. This Princeton professor mentioned that some people love sports and some people don't.
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What? What in the world does that have to do with anything? He claimed that human sex is not binary,
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but instead he actually argued that human lives are not binary, which of course they aren't.
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There are many different ways to live, many different things a person can do, many different
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ways a person can be, many different hobbies he can take up, many different things that you can do
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every day when you wake up in the morning. There are many things you can say about a person,
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but that doesn't change the fact that a person can only belong to one of two sex categories,
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male or female. If you're suggesting that the existence of personality somehow undermines the
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reality of biological sex, you might as well claim that it also undermines the reality of the human
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species. I mean, does the fact that some humans love sports and some don't love sports prove that we're
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not all the same species? Try to understand this, professor. See if you can wrap your mind around
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it. Variations within a category do not invalidate the category. Every dog is different. Every dog has
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his day, they tell us. That doesn't mean that dogs don't exist. In fact, they need to exist in order for
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us to make a statement like, every dog is different. Males need to exist as a category in order for us
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to say anything about a male, a human male, such as human males are all different. They have different
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expressions. Squares come in all different sizes and colors. That doesn't mean that squares are
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indistinguishable from circles. College professors have varying levels of intelligence. A few of them are
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smart. Many of them have the IQ of a dead turtle. That doesn't mean that college professors don't exist,
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unfortunately. What this professor doesn't see, or is pretending not to see anyway, is that his argument,
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if we can call it an argument, only reinforces the very thing he's trying to dismantle. If he's proven
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anything, he's proven that the sex binary is not restrictive or limiting in the way that the left claims
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that it is. Yes, there are many ways for males and females to act in the world and to participate in
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society and to express themselves. We don't need to radically alter our understanding of human biology to
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account for that. We don't need this modern concept of gender identity. You're a male or a female.
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Those facts are fundamental, but you can still dress however you want. You can act however you want.
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There are some ways of dressing and acting that are ill-advised, but that's a different conversation.
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The point is that we don't need new labels and concepts to accommodate the kinds of variations that
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we find between individuals. Nobody ever denied those variations to begin with. People think and act
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and feel differently, and biologically speaking, all of that thinking and acting and feeling happens
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within the parameters of the sex binary. This is not a difficult concept. It's easy enough that I
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can understand it. It's even easy enough for a Princeton professor to understand it. I believe
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this from Governor Ron DeSantis in Florida. Maybe you've heard of him. He sent out this
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statement yesterday. He says, today I signed legislation that will make child rapists eligible
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for the death penalty with the minimum sentence of life in prison without parole, impose additional
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penalties on fentanyl and drug-related crimes targeted at children, and protect Floridians
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from disastrous bail reform policies. This was a bill that was obviously passed by the
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state legislature and then signed yesterday by Governor DeSantis. Here he is in a press
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conference explaining this legislation a little bit. The other thing we're doing is making clear
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that in Florida, we stand for the protection of children. And unfortunately, in our society,
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you have very heinous sex crimes that are committed against children under the age of 12 years old.
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And these are really the worst of the worst. And what happens is the perpetrators of these crimes
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are oftentimes serial offenders. And if someone does, one, if they rape a child, like, and these are
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very young children, sometimes like six, seven, eight years old, if they do that once, chances are
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they will do it again unless they're stopped and unless they're incapacitated. And so we really believe
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that part of a just society is to have appropriate punishment. And so if you commit a crime that is
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really, really heinous, you should have the ultimate punishment. And so what this bill does is it
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challenges the U.S. Supreme Court for recently deciding, probably six or seven years ago, they decided by
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five to four after over 200 years of our of our Constitution being in place that somehow you could
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never have capital punishment for crimes like rape, even though some of these are some of the worst of
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the worst, even though you can have serial offenders who have violated multiple children under the age of
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12. And so we think that that decision was wrong. We think that in the worst of the worst cases,
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the only appropriate punishment is the ultimate punishment. And so the bill sets up a procedure.
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So obviously there's Governor DeSantis, obviously, to begin with on the merits of this legislation,
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it's clearly the right the right thing. The idea that you can only have we can only impose capital
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punishment on someone who kills another person. It's completely arbitrary. There's no reason. Nowhere
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is that written in the heavens. Certainly the opposite. I mean, if we want to talk about biblical
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precedent, then that's that's not biblical precedent. But it doesn't make sense on any level. You know,
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the idea that's well, as long as as long as a person is not killed, we can't impose the ultimate
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punishment as if murder is absolutely the worst thing a person can ever do. And nothing, nothing
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else could ever be as bad. Well, that clearly is not the case. Child rape is at least as bad as murder.
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And in plenty of cases, it's going to be worse than murder. I mean, there are there are plenty of
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I would prefer not to live next to a violent criminal of any kind. But, you know, if I if I had to choose
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between, you know, living next to a child rapist or, you know, a murderer who killed someone in a
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road rage incident or something like that, I guess I'd take the murder if I had to choose.
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And in fact, if we if we have this weird rule that we've imposed on ourselves, that we can only
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execute one either murderers or child rapists, like if we had to choose between those two categories of
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people to execute, then I would say, well, if we could only do one, then I'd probably murder the I'd
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probably execute rather execute legally the the child rapist. But in fact, we don't have to choose.
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You know, that's the wonderful thing. That's the one of we don't have to make choices. We can execute
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all of them. We should be able to anyway. Execute all the all the worst people, all of the worst
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criminals. Just just execute them all. And and this is this is the right first step. There's a lot more
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that needs to be done. I mean, this is actual criminal justice reform. OK, so all the Republicans
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that have lined up behind criminal justice reform and many of them have many of them have lined up
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behind criminal justice reform and they're talking about the kind of reform where we are letting the
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criminals out of jail and we're trying to make sure that fewer people go to jail in the first place.
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Fewer criminals go to jail. Now, if fewer people are going to jail because fewer people are committing
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crimes because there's been some sort of spiritual and moral rebirth in society. And so then the
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jails empty out because no one's committing crimes anymore. Then I would say, great, fantastic. But
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that's not happening. So instead, we have the criminal justice reform where there's still a lot
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of crimes being committed. In fact, more crimes than ever being committed. But we're putting fewer
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people in prison, which means that you've got a lot of a lot of leftover criminals who are just
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still wandering around out in the free world. That's the kind of criminal justice reform we
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so often hear about. But this is the type of criminal justice reform that we should have.
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It's the type of reform where we are reforming the system by putting more criminals in prison for
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longer and instituting harsher penalties on criminals. And child rapists should be at the top of the list.
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Because as DeSantis correctly notes, the other thing about someone who commits a crime like that
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is that they can simply never be trusted in society ever again. Again, there are forms of murder.
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Murder obviously legally comes in degrees and it's not all the same sort of situation.
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But there are forms of murder where it is conceivable that a person who commits that kind of
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murder could be potentially reformed. They should still go to jail for a long time, but potentially
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they could be reformed and maybe they could be trusted back in society again. But with a child
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rapist, they can never be trusted in society. Once a person has gotten to that point where they're
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committing that crime, where they're willing to do, where they, number one, want to do something like
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that, and then act on that, they can never be trusted in society ever again.
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And then we have to ask what, so okay, so you've got people who have committed the worst kind of crime
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by their own actions and their own choices. They can never be trusted in society ever again.
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So what is our responsibility as a society to those people? Do we have any responsibility to them?
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Is it our responsibility to keep them alive and fed in prison for decades?
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Is it our responsibility to not only keep them in prison, keep them fed, but to protect them?
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Because the other thing about the worst of the worst, the people that commit the most heinous
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sorts of crimes, like child rape, well, they are so evil and so monstrous that even the other criminals
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in prison don't want to be around them. Which means that we don't put them in the general population,
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so then they are in protective custody. So we're spending more money, society is spending more
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money just to keep these absolute lowest of the low dirt bags alive. I would say that along with
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everything else, it is an unjust and undue burden on society. As a taxpayer, I should not be required
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to keep child rapists alive just because we're too squeamish to execute them as we should.
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And if we're really starting to understand as a society, and if we're really starting to reform
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the system, you know, then we're going to start talking about not only are we executing these
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people, but we're doing it quickly. We're not giving them 30 years to appeal, okay? The conviction is
00:24:35.100
passed down, you're convicted, you're guilty, you've been found guilty, and then the execution is carried
00:24:41.180
out the next day. Carried out, how about go back to carried out at dawn following the conviction.
00:24:51.820
So you're convicted, we take you to a holding cell somewhere, the execution will be carried out at dawn
00:24:57.820
by hanging. We don't need to do anything complicated with all the lethal injections and everything.
00:25:01.820
And, you know, things go wrong with the lethal injection. There are all these debates about the
00:25:07.340
cocktails of drugs that are used and everything. We don't need any of that. Take them up, take them
00:25:12.860
out to the gallows, you bring them up on the platform, you tie a rope around their neck,
00:25:16.540
pull the lever, boom, it's done. And so within 24 hours of them being convicted, they're gone.
00:25:22.620
We bury them in an unmarked grave, and we forget they ever existed. That is justice. And not only is it
00:25:29.500
justice for that person, they're getting what they are due, justice again means, you know,
00:25:33.020
giving a person what they're due. That is the definition of justice. And that is what you are due
00:25:39.980
if you're a child rapist. And so not only are we giving them justice, but also if there's any hope of
00:25:49.740
of dissuading the next potential scumbag criminal, that's the way that you do it.
00:25:55.340
As far as DeSantis is concerned, you know, this is also called, this is what governing looks like.
00:26:03.660
He's actually governing. And it's why, listen, you know, we get into the primary season. I know that
00:26:12.140
some people are, of course, there are a lot of big Trump supporters. There are supporters of the,
00:26:17.420
well, there are really no supporters of the other candidates. So it's really Trump or DeSantis.
00:26:20.540
And if you're Trump supporter, that's fine. But let's not, okay, for the sake of supporting Trump,
00:26:27.980
let's not pretend that DeSantis is anything less than a very effective conservative governor. I mean,
00:26:34.220
he is, he simply is, he's doing these kinds of things. I don't need to, it's got nothing to do
00:26:39.580
with him personally, his personality. I don't care about that. Who cares? I don't need him to have a
00:26:44.060
great personality. It's got nothing to do with even what he says or tweets. Again, I don't care about
00:26:49.260
that. Anyone can say the right things. Anyone can send out a tweet. Anyone can get up a, you know,
00:26:54.060
I think DeSantis does well at press conferences, mixing it up with the media. And I like those
00:26:58.140
moments. I don't care about those moments that much. Okay. That's, I don't care about that.
00:27:03.180
What are you doing? Let's show me what you've done. Okay. You get into office, the ball is here.
00:27:09.580
You got to advance the ball down the field. And so when you've been in office for a while,
00:27:13.260
I want to see where is it? Is it the ball still sitting where it was when you got into office?
00:27:16.700
Is it further, further back? Is it farther back in the other direction even? Have we regressed or have
00:27:22.860
you moved it forward? And he is moving it forward. Something like this is moving the ball forward.
00:27:28.220
It's undeniable. And so we should at least appreciate that. All right.
00:27:37.820
Some more good news. This is from St. Louis today. It says sales of Bud Light have been plunging since
00:27:44.620
the company enlisted the help of transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney in a marketing campaign
00:27:48.380
a month ago. In the week that ended on April 22nd, the brand's in-store sales plummeted more than 26%,
00:27:55.900
according to figures reported by Bump Williams Consulting, a Connecticut-based firm that specializes
00:28:00.380
in the alcoholic beverage industry. And the decline is only accelerating. The week before,
00:28:06.060
sales dropped by 21%. The week before that, it was 11%. Bud Light is still the best-selling
00:28:12.140
beer in America by far, said Bump Williams, the founder, president, CEO of the agency that bears
00:28:15.580
his name. In 2022, Anheuser-Busch InBev sold more than $4.8 billion worth of it in stores,
00:28:21.980
he said, far outpacing Modela and Michelob Ultra. But they're way above the pack. And so to
00:28:35.500
knock them all the way down takes more time than a month. But even so, this all began on April 1st.
00:28:41.100
It's now May 2nd. So it's been almost exactly a month. And in their most recent week of sales,
00:28:47.180
they saw a 26% decline, which was a decline on top of the decline before that and the decline before
00:28:53.020
that. So this is, there's, as I've been saying now for a couple of weeks, there's no denying,
00:28:59.100
no getting around the fact, this has been an absolutely devastating boycott for Bud Light.
00:29:05.340
Easily the most effective conservative boycott in modern American history. I don't know what,
00:29:11.900
Um, and it's one of the few examples of conservatives saying,
00:29:17.580
no, we're going to draw a line here. You're going to pay a price for this,
00:29:21.500
saying that to a corporate America. And then we see how that price has been exacted on them.
00:29:27.660
Uh, and the other great thing and encouraging thing for me, anyway, encouraging a certain way,
00:29:32.220
is that this has been a totally grassroots effort. We don't have the advantages that the left has.
00:29:37.980
They have all, they can astroturf everything all day long because they have all the institutions
00:29:42.300
with that, that, you know, have all the money and all the power. Um, and so on, on our side,
00:29:50.940
if we're going to get anything done, it has to be on a grassroots level,
00:29:53.500
like actual real people doing it. And that's what happened here. Um, in fact,
00:29:58.620
the Republican establishment and many of the most prominent Republicans in the country came out against
00:30:02.700
the Anheuser-Busch Bud Light boycott because Anheuser-Busch is a big donor to them. And they
00:30:09.100
say, Oh no, no, no, let's, let's back off the donors folks. No, no, no, no, no. Wait a second. Uh,
00:30:14.540
Bud Light, you know, they, they donate a lot to Republicans because they have a heavily conservative,
00:30:19.020
uh, customer base. Uh, and they even have conservatives and Republicans who, you know,
00:30:23.580
run the company and work for the company. And so that makes them really susceptible to us,
00:30:29.100
which is why we never want to take advantage of that. Instead, Republican establishment said,
00:30:35.580
let's focus on boycotting all those companies that we can't, where we can't even make a dent.
00:30:39.740
Okay. Look, let's focus on, on things that are totally fruitless and futile.
00:30:45.900
That's what they want. Oh yeah. They, they love conservative boycott campaigns. Uh, but they
00:30:50.620
just don't, the Republican establishment, they don't want any kind of boycott campaign or really any
00:30:55.820
action taken by conservatives that will actually have an impact of any kind. That's what they don't
00:31:00.140
want. But that's what happened here. And it's not over. Um, so we should recognize this continuing
00:31:07.740
victory. Uh, I think I, you know, I think it's really important to recognize the victories and
00:31:12.460
to acknowledge them not because we want to give ourselves a pat on the back and feel great about
00:31:16.380
ourselves, but because, um, it gives us, it gives us a path forward. So, oh, we're having a victory
00:31:22.300
here. This works. We should do more of this. You've got plenty of, um, conservatives who
00:31:30.780
they're addicted to losing. They don't want to admit that anything is a win. Part of that is jealousy.
00:31:38.380
You know, plenty of conservatives that, that especially conservatives in media and so on,
00:31:42.380
if they're, if there's a win and they're not involved in it, um, or if they were even arguing
00:31:47.660
against the tactic that ended up working, uh, they're going to say that it's not a win because
00:31:51.840
they're jealous. But then you have plenty of others, I think, who are just, you know, it's the
00:31:55.860
kind of doomer, uh, mentality. It's, we're always losing. Nothing's ever a win. Nothing matters.
00:32:02.140
And there's a certain comfort that people take in wallowing in their sorrows in that way. Um,
00:32:08.500
and it's a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you declare that nothing is ever a win, we can never win
00:32:13.520
anything. Well, then we won't, but if it will at least take the time to say, Oh, wow, this is
00:32:18.640
working. This has been a win, uh, 26% sale. I mean, overall, so we're talking about like a 50%
00:32:24.240
drop in sales for Bud Light in the span of a month. It's massive.
00:32:31.740
So we say that we acknowledge that. And then that also gives us a clue of what we should be doing
00:32:36.140
going forward. Um, more good news. Oh, we're really on a roll today. This is a very encouraging.
00:32:43.800
Former NBA star Dwayne Wade was booed and had transphobic comments hurled at him as he left
00:32:49.420
the Knicks game against the Miami Heat with wife Gabrielle Union, according to the Daily Mail.
00:32:55.080
The 41-year-old who played for the Heat for 16 years was at Madison Square Garden on Sunday to
00:32:58.920
watch his former team rout the hosts. However, the retired three-time NBA champion winner,
00:33:03.480
who is a father of 15-year-old transgender model Zaya, faced homophobic jeers as he left the game.
00:33:13.520
Very, that's, that's, I'm really encouraged by that. I don't know. There's a lot of context that
00:33:34.900
we're missing. The media has been circulating, circulating this clip and saying how terrible
00:33:39.540
it is. And it's what we heard in the Daily Mail article, transphobic jeers. Um, I'm not even sure
00:33:45.580
that all of the, uh, all of the shouting had anything to do with the fact that he's a child
00:33:50.760
abuser. But to the extent that it was related to that, I think it's a great thing. Uh, because Dwayne
00:33:56.620
Wade is a despicable, disgusting, monstrous child abuser, um, who has, uh, imposed this, um, trans,
00:34:07.100
you know, this is another Munchausen by proxy, trans Chalzen by proxy, uh, uh, case. And he has imposed
00:34:16.900
this identity on his, uh, his son, you know, at an age when the son could not possibly have chosen it.
00:34:23.840
We know where this came from. We know where it came from. And, and we also know where it came from
00:34:28.240
because, um, he's, you know, he's, he's not helping his child. He's not making any sincere attempt to
00:34:34.540
help his child navigate gender dysphoria. Uh, no, he's, he's putting this out in public.
00:34:43.800
So the moment that Zaya, I'm not even sure what the child's real name is. Uh, maybe it was
00:34:49.060
I originally, I'm not sure, but the moment that Zaya, you know, allegedly said to Dwayne Wade,
00:34:55.860
Oh, I think I'm a girl. It's like that moment. Practically Dwayne Wade is in front of cameras.
00:35:02.460
Now it's as if the moment he was told that he ran outside of his door and went to the nearest
00:35:08.520
news camera and said, Oh, guess what? Because he's so excited about it. He's so excited to parade
00:35:14.800
his son around that he's abusing to a braid his, to parade his son around like some sort of trophy.
00:35:19.520
And it's disgusting. And this is a net, this is a necessary part of fighting back against this
00:35:26.660
madness is to shame these people. Dwayne Wade, everywhere he goes should be
00:35:31.820
jeered and mocked and shouted at everywhere he goes. That should happen because that's
00:35:38.860
how a healthy society treats child abusers. When you are imposing this horrific identity crisis onto
00:35:51.060
your child, which will lead to, uh, if it hasn't already, I'm not sure where the poor child is in
00:35:56.560
the medical transition process, but leads inevitably to, uh, castration, sterilization,
00:36:02.380
all the rest of it. You know, this is, this is some of the worst abuse that a parent can inflict
00:36:10.120
on their child. And again, a healthy society, a well-ordered society is one that has no tolerance
00:36:18.200
for that. And I, what, what should happen is that Dwayne Wade should be in prison, but because he's
00:36:24.280
not in prison, um, he should at least be rejected and scorned by society. And I think it's a wonderful
00:36:31.500
thing to see. Honestly, I'm not, I'm not the emotional type, but when I first saw that video
00:36:37.560
of crowds of people jeering at this disgusting child abusing monster, I, it's like tears of joy
00:36:46.960
welled up in my eyes. It was, it was really a wonderful thing to behold. And I hope that there's
00:36:51.900
a lot more of it in the future. It could not happen to a more deserving scumbag than Dwayne Wade.
00:36:58.960
Oh, and also we should note that, um, everything I'm saying, well, maybe not in these exact words,
00:37:03.280
but the general sentiment is shared by that child's mother, which is not Gabriel Union, but, um,
00:37:10.120
his actual mother is not on board with this and has said so. All right. The, uh, well,
00:37:19.600
the media is calling it a war, the war between Tucker Carlson and Fox news, but it's rather
00:37:23.600
one-sided because all the, uh, all the blows, all the shots are being taken by, by one side,
00:37:28.120
which is Fox news. The most recent thing, this was trending yesterday. This is a video
00:37:32.660
of Tucker Carlson, um, on set, but not, you know, this is off camera or he thought off camera
00:37:40.500
talking to somebody who was trying to apparently book for some sort of interview. And this video
00:37:45.060
was leaked to media matters. Media matters then posted it and they're making a big deal about
00:37:50.080
this. Cause I guess it's supposed to make Tucker Carlson look bad. I don't know. We'll watch a
00:37:53.780
little bit of this. I don't want to be a slave to Fox nation, which I don't think that would
00:37:58.080
people watch anyway. Um, we're gonna, uh, because I, I, I, you know, I'm like a representative
00:38:03.980
of the American media now speaking to an exile in Romania and welcoming him back into the brotherhood
00:38:11.020
of journalists. Yeah. It would help us out if you wore a sweater though, because we asked him
00:38:16.120
not to wear a suit. Like he was panicking about it. So you don't have to talk. It's going to be
00:38:20.340
looking casual. That's how our show looks. Is that okay?
00:38:27.920
I mean, this is airing on the nighttime show and I want it to look official. I don't want
00:38:38.500
it to be like bro talk. And I, and I, you know what I mean?
00:38:43.200
Yeah, but the majority of it, like if we go like 45 minutes, it's going to be for Fox nation.
00:38:47.500
But nobody's going to watch it on Fox nation. Nobody watches Fox nation because the site sucks.
00:38:51.980
So I'd really like to just put the dump the whole thing on YouTube. Um, but anyway,
00:38:57.740
that's just my view. Well, if you're, if you're watching this and you're waiting for the scandalous
00:39:01.460
part, um, I hate to disappoint you, but it never comes. That's it. Uh, just Tucker Carlson saying
00:39:07.040
that the Fox nation streaming service sucks and nobody watches it. And he goes on to talk about
00:39:11.160
how the website's a disaster and all the rest of it, which is all true. Um, it's also, you know,
00:39:16.200
an employee complaining about stuff involving his employer that, uh, will not surprise you
00:39:23.340
learn that he's not the only employee to ever do that in the history of employment. Um, and
00:39:29.140
everything that he's saying is true. So what is it's him being honest with someone who he's
00:39:33.560
trying to book for an interview. And also think about the fact that there's, you know, like
00:39:38.460
there's any of us in this business there, there's, there's going to be hundreds and hundreds
00:39:43.960
of hours of footage like that, you know, where we're not on camera yet, but the cameras are
00:39:49.760
rolling and we're just sitting here and we're speaking sometimes too openly. Like for any one
00:39:55.880
of us, there's tons of footage like that. And so they've been, they've been crawling through
00:40:01.040
the footage of Tucker off and that's the best they could define. They're trying to find something
00:40:05.720
scandalous or whatever, embarrassing or offensive that he said when he was off camera or rather
00:40:12.400
off, off air, but on camera. And that's what they come up with.
00:40:18.200
Um, I'm almost disappointed in Tucker. I, you know, I, I, they got to find better than that. I'm
00:40:23.000
sure he said, I'm sure it's, there's been some examples of him saying some like actually vaguely
00:40:27.020
offensive things I would hope. Um, but that's the best thing to come up with. But the real point is
00:40:32.340
where did this video come from? How did media matters get this video? They don't tell us, but I
00:40:38.420
think we can, the only safe assumption is that Fox news leaked the video to media matters. Tucker
00:40:43.440
Carlson wouldn't have leaked it. He wouldn't, he wouldn't have access to that footage anyway. He
00:40:46.660
doesn't keep all the footage himself. So this is something that Fox news would have. And we can
00:40:49.980
assume that Fox news leaked it. Now, the fact that the footage completely fails to make Tucker look
00:40:55.820
bad is irrelevant. Really. The point is that Fox news apparently is leaking footage to media
00:41:01.500
matters like the lowest of the low. Um, when it comes to the left and the media and that kind of
00:41:12.340
intersection, you, you, you don't get any lower than media matters. And that's who they're giving
00:41:18.600
footage to should tell you something about Fox news. If you're still a Fox news viewer, you should just
00:41:26.920
ask yourself, do I, do I trust these people, the kinds of people that would kick their star host
00:41:33.500
off the air and then try to embarrass him by giving footage to media matters.
00:41:40.400
All right, before we get to the comment section, this is, um, a viral video that is, uh, maybe the
00:41:46.960
most important, maybe the most important subject we can cover today is a viral video about someone's
00:41:51.180
experience at Disney world. And they posted this to Tik TOK talking about how much they,
00:41:56.400
they spend at Disney world. And, uh, yeah, I've never been to Disney world. I never plan on going
00:41:59.800
to Disney world. I've always been aware that it's expensive, but this surprised me even let's watch
00:42:06.580
this. So here's how much we spent at Disney day two of five, a mediocre breakfast at Hollywood and
00:42:13.360
fine cost us $223. Then we headed over to toy story land. And even with lightning lane,
00:42:19.620
we still only got to ride one ride. Ice cream was $25 and popcorn was 16. Then over at galaxy's edge,
00:42:27.700
three lightsabers cost us a whopping $800. They also no longer hold them for you until the end
00:42:33.520
of the day. Plus different airlines have different restrictions when flying home. So we opted to ship
00:42:38.280
them to us for an additional cost. Every ride had 120 minute wait time. So we only got to ride one
00:42:44.360
ride in this section of the park as well. We tried the infamous blue and green milk and had lunch
00:42:49.460
at back lot and funnel cakes at Epic East photo pass was an extra $170 for cell phone quality pictures.
00:42:56.620
And finally we had dinner at planet Hollywood factoring in our 90 hotel rate of $997 brings
00:43:03.680
our total to $3,758. Oh my, I'm sorry. I, I don't even know where to start. Was that $800 on
00:43:13.080
lightsabers? Did I hear that right? I'm actually not sure if I heard that right. Was it $800 on
00:43:16.940
lightsabers? It was $800. How many lightsabers was it? Was it, was it 50 lightsabers? Three,
00:43:23.000
three lightsabers, $800 on three. Were they real? Like they better be real lightsabers,
00:43:27.460
actual laser that can cut things in half, uh, and deflect, you know, other lasers that are being
00:43:33.080
shot at you. I'm, I can't really go into much, much more detail about how lightsabers work, but,
00:43:36.940
uh, if they're real lightsabers, then I could see maybe spending that kind of money on it,
00:43:42.100
but I'm expecting, I suspect that they're not and that the laser is actually made of plastic.
00:43:46.880
And so you're spending $800 on that. I mean, I like, even if you're, even if you're a millionaire,
00:43:53.460
I think spending that kind of money on a plastic toy is an exorbitant and gratuitous expense.
00:43:59.580
I can't understand this. Like we, you know, we all, we all, some of us work for a living and you get,
00:44:05.960
you don't get a lot of time off. Uh, and it's precious, precious time when you have off,
00:44:09.620
especially if you have a family and you want to spend time with your family. And so you had,
00:44:12.560
let's say you have a week off and you decide that you want to spend that week down in the heat and
00:44:19.160
in the, in the humidity, standing in lines among crowds of tourists. These are all things that I
00:44:26.960
like spend my life trying to avoid. And you have a week off and you're going to, and you're going to
00:44:31.640
pay money for the privilege of standing in lines and being around huge crowds in the heat and the
00:44:39.200
humidity and, and spending $300, $300 on at best, like Applebee's tier food. Like this is Applebee's
00:44:49.760
food at, at the best. And you're spending 300 bucks on it at dinner. Um, everything about that seems
00:44:59.020
horrific to me. And, but people choose to endorse it. And now this was what makes, okay.
00:45:06.760
If you're a parent and you have kids and you decide that you want to go through all of this
00:45:13.340
for the sake of your kids, I think it's misguided. I think it's a mistake. You don't,
00:45:16.160
and I think you don't need to do this. You can give your child a wonderful time. You can make
00:45:21.880
memories with your child and spend a third of the money and have way more fun, but at least it's the
00:45:30.380
thought that counts. And so if you decide, I want to go down to Disney world for the sake of my kids
00:45:33.580
and spend $50,000 on cheap plastic toys and crappy food and waiting in line for three hours so that I
00:45:40.480
can ride two rides for the whole week that we're there. If you decide you want to do that for your
00:45:43.560
child, you know, it, I mean, it's a sacrifice. This is a sacrifice. And I, and I, uh, misguided,
00:45:48.840
but I can respect that. But there are adults who do, who do this without kids for their,
00:45:56.460
for themselves. I mean, imagine that for a second. You're an adult. You can, you, you have some time
00:46:03.660
off of work. You don't have any kids. You have, you obviously have the fact that you're in Disney
00:46:06.860
world means you have a lot of expendable income and you could go anywhere in the world, right? You
00:46:12.500
could, it's like, if you have no kids and you're adult and you have expendable income, the whole,
00:46:17.740
the world's your oyster. You can go anywhere on vacation and you decide to go to Disney world.
00:46:24.560
You know what you could do? I mean, my wife and I, we can't do this right now.
00:46:29.860
You get on a plane and you could fly in the summertime to Alaska where it's beautiful and
00:46:35.980
it gets 70 degrees, you know, at the height of the summer and it's sunny almost all day in the
00:46:41.920
summer in Alaska. And there's just wildlife and it's the most beautiful, one of the most beautiful
00:46:46.660
places on earth that you can go to and you can, and you can bask in that natural beauty and have
00:46:53.740
quiet and fresh air and everything. And you say, no, I don't want that. I want to go
00:46:58.460
and sweat my off in huge crowds of people. I don't understand it. It is. It's a, it is the last
00:47:10.080
thing I'll say. And I think at least we can agree on this part. Maybe up to now you don't agree,
00:47:14.880
but at least we can say that adults who enjoy Disney world are mentally ill. There's a, there's
00:47:19.680
obviously some sort of mental illness going on here. Um, I don't know if it's in the DSM or not,
00:47:24.360
but I think more research needs to be done on that. Uh, let's get to the comment section.
00:47:29.300
Do you know their name? They're the sweet baby gang.
00:47:37.180
People are raving about GenuCell products. For example, you might remember Jacob the PA from my
00:47:42.040
YouTube series where I was forced to play video games. I played against Jacob in a game of Mario,
00:47:46.180
uh, rather mortal combat. And I completely annihilated him. Well, I ran into Jacob in the
00:47:50.500
hall the other day and I was taken aback by how sickly and tired he looked. I'm obviously an
00:47:55.460
incredibly caring person. So of course I asked if he was okay, thinking maybe he still hasn't
00:47:59.560
recovered from the complete embarrassment of a middle-aged man beating him. Well, turns out
00:48:04.160
Jacob just hasn't been sleeping at all over the last few days because he's been binge playing the
00:48:08.700
new star Wars game that came out. Now I was not only repulsed by his face, but also repulsed by him
00:48:15.360
completely by everything about him in utter disgrace. And unfortunately I can't cure all
00:48:20.840
the things that ail him, but I can at least cure the disgusting, hideous appearance of his face
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GenuCell.com slash Walsh. Uh, okay. Well, let, here's one tweet. I wanted to put this from my,
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from my, uh, my dear wife. She, uh, posted this, that the walrus skate continues. Um, and we had a,
00:49:16.100
a fan that created this, um, large wooden walrus that actually is a lot heavier than it looks.
00:49:25.600
And, uh, it, apparently there was a nice letter that went with it that the fan made this, this
00:49:29.040
walrus for me. And, um, and apparently they didn't realize, this is the great thing about it,
00:49:35.780
is that this person didn't even realize that Johnny, the walrus, the stuffed walrus had met
00:49:41.120
his demise. And I don't know, maybe he started making this and sent it before, before that
00:49:45.320
happened. So in his mind, he was just adding more. It's like, he thought that we already had the big
00:49:51.740
walrus. So my wife was annoyed by that. And he was giving me another large walrus to bring into the
00:49:55.300
home. Uh, so that's how he saw it. But actually this is now we'll, we'll serve as a replacement for
00:49:59.900
the giant stuffed walrus, uh, which we will, I told my wife, we're going to, uh, proudly hang it
00:50:06.020
above our couch in the living room for all to see. Uh, there it is there. Yep. As you can see,
00:50:12.460
not quite as big as the stuffed walrus, but here's what I love. You know, this is, this is one of the
00:50:16.740
many great things about sweet baby gang, um, is that they're always so eager to help me in my quest
00:50:22.780
to annoy my wife. And I really appreciate that. You know, it's a very, um, fulfilling, uh, relationship
00:50:29.840
for everybody involved. All right. Chris Altman says, I hope more political commentators post
00:50:34.720
full episodes of their shows on here. I'm all for it makes this app so much better. I have seen
00:50:40.680
talking about on here being Twitter. Uh, I have seen a few more people doing it. I think, uh, I think
00:50:45.440
I was hoping that we would start a trend because as we said, when we made this decision to start
00:50:50.920
posting the show on Twitter, it's not, it's not like a gimmick. It's Twitter is the most powerful
00:50:56.600
free speech platform in the world. And, uh, and so especially if you aren't welcome on the other
00:51:04.260
big, uh, social media platforms with your content, it's a good place to go. Uh, Bert says, guys, I think
00:51:13.340
we're starting to see some gray in the beard of our sweet granddaddy Walsh. You are, I hope that you
00:51:17.540
are. As I've said, I have no, uh, uh, you know, I have no, uh, compunction about that. I have no
00:51:24.060
hesitation. I think that gray in the beard is good. It's distinguished.
00:51:29.340
I've been looking forward to going gray for, for years. So this has been a great development.
00:51:35.740
Um, another comment says, Matt, I've always thought that the least absurd trans identity
00:51:40.340
is still absurd is racial. Like some people are lighter than others. Like there truly is a spectrum
00:51:44.680
of race, but there isn't with your sex. Why can't that guy just be the lightest skin, black guy,
00:51:49.680
you know? But I mean, of course, of, of all the made up spectrums, right? Um, and of all the made up,
00:51:56.940
uh, social constructs where we can choose our identity, race is definitely the least absurd one
00:52:03.440
for all the reasons that you said, the reasons that I gave yesterday, that race, race actually is
00:52:10.200
fluid and you can actually be like, everybody is more than one. We're all, uh, if you go back and
00:52:16.160
you go to ancestry.com and you trace your lineage and all that, you're going to find, uh, you're, you're
00:52:20.920
a mix of ethnicities and nationalities and you have ancestors from all over the place, right? That's
00:52:26.700
actually true. Whereas with sex, there's only two and nobody is both. You know, your, your mother
00:52:33.840
is a black, your father's white, and then creates you and you're, now you're biracial, but your mother
00:52:43.080
is a woman and your father is a man creates you. That doesn't make you half woman and half man.
00:52:50.780
Um, let's see. Reality party says, Matt loves reminding you that he doesn't understand
00:52:58.760
transgenderism in any way. This guy's handle is reality party, but apparently hasn't invited
00:53:04.400
himself to his own party because that's, you're right. I don't, I don't, I don't understand
00:53:08.760
transgenderism in the sense that it's impossible to fully understand nonsense. Um, so in that sense,
00:53:15.580
I think you're, you're correct. And finally, Elon ashamed says, why is it that all the dudes
00:53:23.440
raving about trans people also look like they could pass as trans coincidence? So it's interesting
00:53:31.080
that what now we're talking about passing as trans. I thought it was that if you're, if you're trans,
00:53:34.480
you want to pass as the sex you're pretending to be. And now it's, we want to pass as trans.
00:53:38.820
Well, no, I, I could definitely pass as trans for sure. I could because trans women are dudes in
00:53:46.080
dresses and they look like dudes in dresses because that's what they are. So to pass as trans,
00:53:51.300
all I would have to do is put on a dress and I could pass as trans. I won't, but any man who
00:53:55.800
looks like a man could pass as trans because that's what, that's what trans is. All right.
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watching. Now let's get to our daily cancellation. You know, I speak, I speak publicly through several
00:54:49.520
different mediums every day of my life. And you might think that those who wish to be outraged by
00:54:54.200
my comments would find more than enough new fodder every day to keep them satiated. But somehow that is
00:54:59.760
not the case. The outrage mob demands even more reasons to be mad at me. And so they will not only
00:55:04.740
sift through my daily comments, but they'll also dig through everything I've said over the past 10 years
00:55:09.300
to find more ammunition. And this creates a situation where nearly every day I have factions
00:55:15.700
of the outrage mob screaming at me because of things I said that day. And then I have other
00:55:20.740
factions screaming at me arbitrarily over something I said years ago. So they'll come banging on my door
00:55:25.660
metaphorically shouting, hey, remember this thing you said on September 14th, 2016? And I'll say,
00:55:31.440
no, I actually don't. That was a long time ago. I don't, what are you talking about? And they'll say,
00:55:35.020
well, here's what you said. And you said it and we're mad about it seven years later.
00:55:40.040
And I'll say, okay, well, have fun with that, I guess. I don't know what to do for you.
00:55:43.700
And that'll go about my day. That's usually the way it works. But every once in a while,
00:55:48.100
this randomly reignited outrage provides me with an opportunity to revisit or expand upon an
00:55:53.940
important point. And that's what happened yesterday when, for some reason, my Twitter
00:55:59.300
mentions became filled with people upset over something that I tweeted on March 8th, 2018.
00:56:05.420
And here's the offending tweet. This was me. Video games are a sacred cow because our country is
00:56:13.500
filled with adults who are obsessed with them. That's why we all pretend insanely that there's
00:56:17.700
nothing wrong with or disturbing about a child spending all day killing people in a virtual world.
00:56:23.920
Shocking stuff. Apparently in 2018, I made the provocative claim that children shouldn't spend
00:56:31.400
all day playing violent video games. Lots of people apparently disagree. They, I guess,
00:56:37.880
think that children should spend all day playing violent video games. I mean, I could see a response
00:56:43.880
where you say, well, no, no kids played spending all day playing violent video games.
00:56:47.340
But to respond like you disagree with the statement is, is another thing entirely, but that's what
00:56:54.760
happened. Now, part of the reason why people dig up old tweets is that it gives them, or they believe
00:57:00.700
it gives them a rhetorical advantage because they can pluck one statement from the past, completely remove
00:57:07.940
it from the broader context and conversation it was a part of, ignore everything else I may have said
00:57:14.700
about that subject at the time to flesh out my views. And instead they can engage with this one
00:57:19.900
statement as if it was made in a void. You know, it's a clever way to make a straw man out of somebody's
00:57:25.680
argument, even while quoting them directly. It may be a correct quote, like I did say that, but it's only
00:57:31.920
one part of a larger thought. And the larger thought is lost, leaving only the one single piece that you
00:57:39.320
have isolated. For an example of how this works, here's what a guy named George Alexopoulos, who has
00:57:46.180
a relatively large social media following apparently, here's what he tweeted at me yesterday in response
00:57:50.320
to my tweet from five years ago. He said, quote, video games are a medium, not a genre, you bearded
00:57:55.940
puritanical Philistine. If your child is only playing games where he's murdering people, get educated and
00:58:01.300
buy him Minecraft, Rocket League, Mario Maker. Better yet, play games together and bond. Debate me, Matt.
00:58:07.960
He wants to debate me about this point from five years ago. Now, I'm aware that non-violent video
00:58:16.180
games exist. However, in that one particular statement five years ago, I was specifically
00:58:22.340
talking about violent video games, which also exist. Yes, violent video games are a genre,
00:58:28.980
and I was talking about that genre. Okay? So just because I'm talking about one thing in particular,
00:58:35.620
it doesn't mean that I'm denying that other things also exist. It's just that this is what I'm talking
00:58:41.080
about right now, or what I was talking about five years ago. There was much more strawmanning where
00:58:46.700
that came from. The Quartering tweeted, quote, the right's weird obsession with disavowing video games,
00:58:52.060
anime, and social media is why they will never appeal to most of Gen Z. The base is literally dying
00:58:57.460
off, and most of the voices in the community are actively refusing recruits. Well, with all due
00:59:03.280
respect to Jeremy from The Quartering, I think it's safe to say that I have recruited more people
00:59:08.020
into conservatism than he ever has or ever will. I do sometimes, I have to admit, get a little bit
00:59:15.560
tired of hearing lectures on effectiveness from people who are far less effective. At a certain point,
00:59:22.500
these people need to maybe take a second, realize that maybe you could learn something.
00:59:31.280
Okay? Maybe you could learn something from people who are achieving more than you are in this fight.
00:59:36.600
Possibly. It's also, at the very best, a gross oversimplification to accuse me of disavowing
00:59:43.160
video games and social media. You have me on the anime point, however. As we all know, I do literally
00:59:47.920
think that anime is demonic, and every single person who has ever watched it has become possessed
00:59:52.980
by the devil. Literally, that's what I think. But for the rest of it, not so much. These were the most
00:59:59.000
coherent and intelligent rebuttals to my tweet from half a decade ago. Most of the rest were like these.
01:00:04.540
Ah, conservatives returning to their cancel culture roots. Feels like the 1990s all over again.
01:00:09.320
Don't be left-wing, don't be right-wing, have both wings and fly. Someone else said,
01:00:14.060
how is playing video games any different than reading works of fiction, watching TV shows,
01:00:17.940
or movies, or any other form of fictional entertainment? I swear, miserable people just
01:00:22.580
want others to be equally as miserable as they are. Another one says, you can tell Matt's parents
01:00:27.520
didn't get him a Nintendo or a Sega for Christmas when he was young. Such a sad childhood he must have
01:00:32.980
had. Then someone else says, the life of Matt Walsh is empty. You could end his life, and not a soul
01:00:38.860
would mourn his passing. Well, if you want to prove my point that video games are a sacred cow
01:00:45.640
in this country, and many adults are far too invested in them, then wishing death on me for
01:00:51.180
mildly criticizing some video games is definitely one way to do it. Also, same with the claim that
01:00:57.780
a childhood without video games must have been sad. As it happens, I did have a Nintendo growing up,
01:01:03.660
but most of my most cherished childhood memories have nothing to do with anything I played,
01:01:08.740
or watched on a screen. I remember things like going on hikes in the woods with my dad,
01:01:15.060
playing kickball out in the backyard, running around outside all day in the summer, drinking
01:01:19.600
out of a garden hose, coming back for dinner, which was always homemade, and we always ate as a family
01:01:24.420
around the dinner table. Those are the kinds of things that I remember. That's what I spent my
01:01:28.440
childhood doing. How sad. What a sad childhood. Yeah, all that stuff is great, but you didn't
01:01:36.140
spend enough time playing Mario. Really sad. Now, we've heard from everyone who misses the point,
01:01:42.840
but what is the point exactly? Well, there are a few points that matter, I think, but you won't be
01:01:48.480
able to hear them if you insist absolutely that no statements even vaguely critical of video games
01:01:54.120
can ever be uttered in your presence. Okay, if video games are a religion for you, then there's
01:01:58.540
not much I can say to get through to you. But for everybody else, here's what it boils down to.
01:02:03.660
There is obviously nothing inherently wrong with video games as a medium. Okay, it's just another
01:02:07.680
form of screen-based entertainment. And when it comes to our children, and to ourselves too as adults,
01:02:11.960
but we're just going to focus on children for now, the two things we have to take into consideration
01:02:15.500
with screen-based entertainment of all kinds are, one, the messages embedded in the content,
01:02:21.180
and two, the amount of time spent on the content. Now, as to the first point, now, I think all
01:02:27.340
reasonable people understand that the screen is a very powerful messaging system. There is a reason
01:02:32.040
why the corporate world spends literally billions of dollars every year marketing through the screen.
01:02:37.860
They know that it's a very effective way to influence people, especially children. There are
01:02:41.580
plenty of studies that prove this point if you're into that sort of thing, but you don't need a study.
01:02:45.200
You're living in the study. You are the study. We live in a culture shaped by and around the screen.
01:02:51.180
Go to any school, and you'll find a building full of kids whose values, beliefs, priorities, tastes
01:02:55.480
have been nearly completely determined by the content they spend their days ingesting through
01:03:02.000
the screen. Video games are not the only example of this, or even the most potent example, but they
01:03:07.080
also obviously aren't an exception. They're in that category. There are all kinds of ideas and images
01:03:13.820
that kids encounter in astronomically large quantities every day. Graphic violence is one category.
01:03:19.740
You know, it's not good for kids to spend an exorbitant amount of time consuming graphically
01:03:24.080
violent content, even if the content is fictional and virtual and imaginary.
01:03:29.220
It doesn't mean that it has no influence just because it's fictional.
01:03:32.880
Among other things, it can have the effect of desensitizing their minds and their souls to
01:03:36.600
violence. And the kind of casual cruelty and violence that we so often see among kids today
01:03:42.680
is a pretty good evidence of this desensitization. Like, it kind of boggles my mind that anyone could
01:03:49.120
hear an argument like this, you know, kids are being desensitized to violence. Then you hear people
01:03:53.600
say, well, what do you mean? Where's your evidence of that? Where's my evidence of it? Look around you.
01:03:59.180
What are you talking about? You're living in the evidence. Now, this doesn't mean that kids should
01:04:04.860
never be exposed to any form of violence at all. Violence is part of the world. It's not always bad
01:04:09.300
either. There's heroic violence. There's violence in defense of the innocent and so on. It's good for
01:04:14.240
kids to be given examples of that kind of violence, even if the examples are sometimes fictional,
01:04:18.240
even if they're cartoonish. You know, superheroes, for example, are, you know, an example of heroic
01:04:23.380
violence. But when the violence is gratuitous and amoral and overly graphic, when it is violence for
01:04:30.640
the sake of violence, when it's violence where the entertainment comes from simply watching someone
01:04:36.040
suffer, even if in a fictional context, that is when it becomes a problem, especially for kids.
01:04:43.000
There's a message in that kind of content too. And it's a message that undermines human dignity and
01:04:48.020
desensitizes the viewer, especially if the viewer is a child. So I think we should be very careful
01:04:53.640
about the kind of violence that kids are exposed to, whether it's through a film, a television,
01:04:57.580
a show, a video on social media, or a video game. Second point, putting the quality of the content
01:05:06.700
aside, which you really can't do because the quality through all of these mediums is so often
01:05:10.740
garbage. But setting that aside, volume is the other great concern. Whether we're talking about
01:05:17.240
social media, shows, movies, or games, kids are spending a huge portion of their formative childhood
01:05:22.300
years staring at screens. They aren't having real childhood experiences. They aren't learning how
01:05:28.240
to relate to each other and to the world. They're becoming fat and depressed. They can barely even
01:05:32.680
speak to each other. They can't look you in the eye. They don't stand up straight. They're just
01:05:38.140
staring at the phone all the time. And all of this can be traced back to a life dedicated to these damned
01:05:46.360
screens. This is why we don't do video games or phones or computers in our home with our six kids.
01:05:52.800
It's not because we're afraid they're going to spontaneously combust if they ever hold a phone
01:05:57.280
in their hand or play Minecraft or whatever, but it's because the screen is a tyrant. It demands
01:06:03.900
obsessive attention and it usually gets what it demands. There's an undeniable addictive quality to
01:06:10.220
all this stuff. And most of us know that from experience. You know, it's possible to moderate,
01:06:16.360
your own usage. It's possible to moderate your child's usage of the device. It's possible to
01:06:20.480
moderate the kind of content they're exposed to on these devices. But the vast majority of parents
01:06:25.220
fail to impose that kind of moderation. And that's why it seems more effective to us in my home and a
01:06:32.960
sure bet to simply keep it all away for now. After all, our kids will have a whole lifetime in front
01:06:37.780
of them to waste away staring at screens if that's how they choose to spend their adulthood. I hope they
01:06:42.360
don't, but they can, you know, when they're adults, they can do what they want. But they'll never be
01:06:47.000
able to get this time back. They can never have a second childhood. As much as my generation might
01:06:52.040
try to pull that off for ourselves, you know, trying to have a second childhood, you can't actually do
01:06:56.640
that. Our kids will have time for the screens, more than enough time, way too much time. For now,
01:07:04.000
I want them to have a childhood. And whether you let your kids play video games or not, I hope you
01:07:08.840
don't allow the video game or the TV or the phone to become their childhood. That's the issue.
01:07:16.920
And that's why ultimately it's the parents who allow the screens to dominate their children's
01:07:21.720
lives who are today canceled. And that'll do it for us today. We'll talk to you tomorrow. Have a great day.