The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1156 - Princeton Professor Tries To Debunk Biology, Fails Hilariously

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Walsh Show, there have been multiple attempts by major media outlets this

00:00:03.840 week to debunk the sex binary. We'll dissect and thoroughly debunk ourselves one article

00:00:08.640 written by a Princeton professor who claims that he can prove that there are more than

00:00:12.420 two sexes. We'll see how he does today. Also, Ron DeSantis signs a bill imposing the death

00:00:16.340 penalty on child predators. Yet another thing for the groomers to get angry about.

00:00:19.880 And Dwayne Wade is jeered at and mocked by a crowd of people who apparently disapprove of

00:00:23.960 his decision to trans his kid. The footage is very encouraging and heartwarming. We'll play

00:00:28.600 that today. And people are randomly outraged about something I said about video games five

00:00:32.520 years ago. I'll address the outrage, all of that, and much more today on The Matt Walsh Show.

00:00:44.880 I've always been skeptical of the old cliche that you shouldn't judge a book by its cover. I think

00:00:49.980 there are often a number of safe assumptions you can make about a thing or a person just based on

00:00:54.600 a cursory glance. But there is a slightly altered version of this saying that still holds true. In

00:00:59.820 fact, holds even more true today, arguably. So perhaps we should say that you shouldn't judge

00:01:05.720 a book by its title or by the category it has been put in. You cannot, for example, trust that

00:01:12.180 someone who somebody knows anything about science just because they call themselves a scientist.

00:01:17.580 And you cannot trust that a publication is a reliable source of scientific information

00:01:21.980 just because it has the word science in the title of the publication. Case in point,

00:01:28.120 The Scientific American. This is the outlet which bills itself as the essential guide to the most

00:01:33.140 awe-inspiring advances in science and technology. And it is these days, though, most interested in

00:01:39.120 finding science-y sounding justifications for left-wing ideas. And the left-wing idea, as we know,

00:01:45.360 that is most in need of a science-y sounding justification, or really any justification at all,

00:01:50.820 is gender ideology. In fact, The Scientific American has made an appearance in the Daily

00:01:55.780 Cancellation before, at least once, due to past failed attempts to scientifically defend

00:02:02.840 the most scientifically indefensible theory ever devised by human beings, which is what gender 0.95

00:02:08.880 ideology is. Now they're back at it with an article written by a Princeton professor named Augustin

00:02:14.220 Fuentes. So this sounds pretty, I mean, it's a Princeton professor. His name is Augustin.

00:02:20.360 Sounds pretty official. Here's the headline. Here's why human sex is not binary. And this,

00:02:27.740 we should note, is in fact the second article published by a major publication this week

00:02:31.900 seeking to debunk the sex binary. Actually, it's the second article in the same day. On Monday,

00:02:37.220 we had this one, The Scientific American. The other one was in the Washington Post,

00:02:40.120 which also was attempting to debunk the sex binary. But The Scientific American is supposed

00:02:46.200 to be scientific. So we'll focus on that one. And it sounds like an incredible claim, certainly.

00:02:53.120 Yet this is, again, The Scientific American, the science magazine that's been in publication since

00:02:57.200 1845. Albert Einstein, Nikola Tesla have contributed to this publication in the past.

00:03:03.060 And this is a professor at Princeton, one of the most prestigious schools in the world.

00:03:06.640 Surely, this will be a compelling science-based article. And certainly not one that can be

00:03:13.820 debunked by some podcaster who dropped out of community college. Surely. So let's read on and

00:03:20.220 find out. Starting at the top of the article, it says, there are those politicians, pundits,

00:03:25.580 and even a few scientists who maintain that whether our bodies make ova or sperm are all we need to know

00:03:32.300 about sex. Okay, well, never mind. We don't even need to keep reading. I mean, we will because this

00:03:38.460 segment should be longer than two and a half minutes. But we already see the game that he's

00:03:42.820 playing. The headline promises proof that human sex is not binary. This is a big promise. It's

00:03:50.380 actually a promise to upend everything the human race ever thought it knew about its own biology.

00:03:56.000 If he actually manages to debunk the sex binary, this article in the Scientific American would be

00:04:01.260 the most important piece of scientific writing ever composed. These are the expectations that we

00:04:08.720 have, or that you might have if you're the hopelessly naive sort, as we head into the article

00:04:13.360 itself. But then in the first sentence, Professor Fuentes sets himself up for a very different and much

00:04:20.180 smaller task. It's a much smaller house of cards that he wants to knock down. He announces his

00:04:27.480 intention to respond to the claim that whether our bodies make ova or sperm are all we need to know

00:04:34.620 about sex, except that, well, nobody ever said that ova and sperm are all we need to know about sex.

00:04:40.700 They are crucial fundamental facts, but there are, of course, other facts. Just as I might say that

00:04:47.520 gravity is the reason we aren't currently floating into space, you know, the reason why we're able

00:04:52.160 to walk around on the ground and not float into space is because of gravity. This is a, one of the

00:04:56.320 fundamental facts about gravity. It's not, however, the only fact about gravity. There are other things

00:05:01.900 we might say about it as well. Fuentes claims that he's going to disprove the sex binary, but while

00:05:08.540 pretending to disprove it, we could already see that what he's really going to do is say other things

00:05:14.260 about it. Okay, so he's not actually, it looks like going to be disproving it. He's just adding

00:05:19.780 on other details. But even if those other details are true, that wouldn't disprove the basic fact that

00:05:27.160 there are only male and female gametes, which means that there are only two sexes, which means that sex

00:05:32.900 is binary. We see the game he's playing in the very first sentence then. He's not even going to attempt 0.99

00:05:38.760 to debunk the sex binary. Instead, he's going to set his sights much, much lower and simply try his

00:05:44.680 best to complicate the sex binary. But if he succeeds in doing that, which, spoiler, he doesn't,

00:05:51.020 he will not have succeeded in doing the thing he promised in the headline to do. Indeed, he won't

00:05:56.100 even attempt to do that thing. Reading on, it says, quote, they assert that men and women are defined by

00:06:01.780 their production of these gamete cells, making them a distinct biological binary pair, and that our legal 0.73

00:06:07.340 rights and social possibilities should flow from this divide. Men are men, women are women. Simple.

00:06:14.100 But this is bad science. The production of gametes does not sufficiently describe sex biology in

00:06:19.780 animals, nor is it the definition of woman or man. The animal kingdom does not limit itself to only

00:06:25.380 biological binary regarding how a species makes gametes. Scientifically speaking, animals with the

00:06:30.540 capacity to produce ova are generally called female, and sperm producers generally male. While most animal

00:06:35.940 species fall into the two types of gametes produced by two versions of the reproductive tract model, 0.85

00:06:41.260 many don't. Some worms produce both. Some fish start producing one kind and then switch to the other,

00:06:46.940 and some switch back and forth throughout their lives. There are even lizards that have done away

00:06:50.460 with one type altogether. Fascinating, Professor. You know, there are also wasps that will lay their eggs

00:06:57.800 inside caterpillars, and then the eggs hatch, and the little wasp babies eat the caterpillars alive from the 0.59

00:07:04.380 inside. Pretty gross. That doesn't mean that human childbirth could ever work that way. You know,

00:07:12.060 there are many strange phenomena that occur among other species and life forms. We aren't talking about

00:07:19.300 other species and life forms. We're talking about human beings. Okay, some worms, you say, produce both

00:07:25.860 gametes. Very interesting. Nice to know. But we're not worms. At least I'm not, Professor. I'll let you speak for

00:07:33.400 yourself on that subject, I suppose. But I'd prefer if we got back to the actual subject, which is human

00:07:38.420 sex. Human biological sex is what we're supposed to be talking about. So, continuing. Quote, 0.67

00:07:45.920 while sperm and ova matter, they're not the entirety of biology, and they don't tell us all we need to

00:07:51.320 know about sex, especially human sex. Well, there it is again. Sperm and ova are not the entirety of

00:07:56.960 biology. Well, of course they aren't, you simpleton. Nobody ever said that literally the only thing that

00:08:01.880 exists in biology are sperm and ova. Nobody ever claimed that we should open a biology textbook

00:08:07.460 and find only the words sperm and ova, the end. These are, again, fundamental facts about human

00:08:14.100 sex. They're not the only facts. We've established that. We never really needed to establish it because

00:08:18.620 nobody ever questioned it. But still, we've established it twice now. Can we get to the part

00:08:24.260 where you prove the existence of a third sex? Because if human sex is not binary, that would mean that 0.56

00:08:28.440 there is a third sex, right? If it's not, binary means two. So, if it's not binary, then either 0.73

00:08:33.660 there's only one, that would be not binary, or there's more than two. And you're saying there's

00:08:38.560 more than two, so there should be a third sex, and maybe a fourth sex, maybe a fifth. So, if you have

00:08:43.540 proof of the non-binary nature of sex, you must have proof of the third sex. And if, again, if you have 1.00

00:08:52.320 that proof, well, the Nobel Prize is coming your way, because that's the most significant scientific

00:08:58.020 discovery ever. Where is this discovery? Let's keep looking. Quote, the bottom line is that while

00:09:04.740 animal gametes can be described as binary of two distinct kinds, the physiological systems,

00:09:10.440 behaviors, and individuals that produce them are not. This reality of sex biology is well summarized

00:09:15.300 by a group of biologists who recently wrote, quote, reliance on strict binary categories of sex

00:09:20.120 fails to accurately capture the diverse and nuanced nature of sex. We know that humans exhibit a range

00:09:26.460 of biological and behavioral patterns related to sex biology that overlap and diverge. Producing ova or

00:09:32.400 sperm does not tell us everything, or even most things, biologically or socially, about an individual's

00:09:37.260 child care capacity, homemaking tendencies, sexual attraction, interest in literature, engineering, and math

00:09:42.260 capabilities, or tendency towards gossip, violence, compassion, sense of identity, or love of, or love of,

00:09:47.720 incompetence for sports. Gametes and gamete production physiology by themselves are only a part of the

00:09:53.700 entirety of human lives. For humans, sex is dynamic, biological, cultural, and enmeshed in feedback cycles

00:10:00.160 with our environments, ecologies, and multiple physiological and social processes. Given what we know

00:10:05.860 about biology across animals and in humans, efforts to represent human sex as binary based solely on what

00:10:11.580 gametes one produces are not about biology, but are about trying to restrict who counts as a full human in

00:10:18.360 society. Yes, professor, human beings are, you know, they all have different personalities and hopes and dreams,

00:10:26.520 right? But biologically speaking, the human species only has two sexes. So a human being can have all the dreams and

00:10:34.220 hopes and wishes that he wants. But there's only one of two options for a sex, and we don't get to choose

00:10:40.360 it. It's given to us. So when are we going to get to the part where you actually present an argument

00:10:45.620 against the biological binary? Where is the proof of the third sex? I guess we have to keep reading. 0.99

00:10:53.180 Oh, wait, we can't, because that's the end of the article. That's it. All of that buildup,

00:10:58.180 just to bring us to some completely irrelevant diatribe about the diverse nature of human personality,

00:11:04.220 Fuentes promised us a groundbreaking work of scientific literature, which would totally reshape

00:11:09.940 our understanding of human biology. But instead, we got a hallmark greeting card about how each

00:11:14.340 individual human is unique and beautiful like a snowflake. I mean, just stop to consider what

00:11:20.000 kind of bushly garbage we just endured. And this is, and this is, this is, it's not just this article.

00:11:26.020 This is every attempt by the left to prove their point when it comes to gender ideology and

00:11:31.520 biological sex. It always comes down to this. It's always this same thing. 0.97

00:11:36.400 They set their mark. They say, we're going to prove this. And then they don't even attempt to

00:11:39.860 prove that. Instead, they go off in this direction here. It's always obfuscation. It's always a sleight

00:11:43.600 of hand. They can never engage directly with the argument they're pretending they're engaging with.

00:11:49.800 In this case, in the context of allegedly trying to disprove the sex binary,

00:11:53.300 binary. This Princeton professor mentioned that some people love sports and some people don't.

00:12:00.680 What? What in the world does that have to do with anything? He claimed that human sex is not binary,

00:12:07.300 but instead he actually argued that human lives are not binary, which of course they aren't.

00:12:11.940 There are many different ways to live, many different things a person can do, many different

00:12:15.920 ways a person can be, many different hobbies he can take up, many different things that you can do

00:12:20.660 every day when you wake up in the morning. There are many things you can say about a person,

00:12:25.380 but that doesn't change the fact that a person can only belong to one of two sex categories,

00:12:29.600 male or female. If you're suggesting that the existence of personality somehow undermines the

00:12:35.640 reality of biological sex, you might as well claim that it also undermines the reality of the human

00:12:39.720 species. I mean, does the fact that some humans love sports and some don't love sports prove that we're

00:12:45.700 not all the same species? Try to understand this, professor. See if you can wrap your mind around

00:12:52.000 it. Variations within a category do not invalidate the category. Every dog is different. Every dog has

00:13:02.660 his day, they tell us. That doesn't mean that dogs don't exist. In fact, they need to exist in order for

00:13:09.300 us to make a statement like, every dog is different. Males need to exist as a category in order for us 0.98

00:13:15.000 to say anything about a male, a human male, such as human males are all different. They have different

00:13:19.940 expressions. Squares come in all different sizes and colors. That doesn't mean that squares are

00:13:25.200 indistinguishable from circles. College professors have varying levels of intelligence. A few of them are

00:13:30.540 smart. Many of them have the IQ of a dead turtle. That doesn't mean that college professors don't exist,

00:13:35.340 unfortunately. What this professor doesn't see, or is pretending not to see anyway, is that his argument,

00:13:41.740 if we can call it an argument, only reinforces the very thing he's trying to dismantle. If he's proven

00:13:46.440 anything, he's proven that the sex binary is not restrictive or limiting in the way that the left claims

00:13:52.360 that it is. Yes, there are many ways for males and females to act in the world and to participate in

00:13:57.200 society and to express themselves. We don't need to radically alter our understanding of human biology to

00:14:02.320 account for that. We don't need this modern concept of gender identity. You're a male or a female.

00:14:07.680 Those facts are fundamental, but you can still dress however you want. You can act however you want.

00:14:13.100 There are some ways of dressing and acting that are ill-advised, but that's a different conversation.

00:14:19.480 The point is that we don't need new labels and concepts to accommodate the kinds of variations that

00:14:26.260 we find between individuals. Nobody ever denied those variations to begin with. People think and act

00:14:33.800 and feel differently, and biologically speaking, all of that thinking and acting and feeling happens

00:14:38.520 within the parameters of the sex binary. This is not a difficult concept. It's easy enough that I 0.94

00:14:46.220 can understand it. It's even easy enough for a Princeton professor to understand it. I believe

00:14:53.280 that they can. I have faith in them. Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:16:11.620 this from Governor Ron DeSantis in Florida. Maybe you've heard of him. He sent out this

00:16:17.580 statement yesterday. He says, today I signed legislation that will make child rapists eligible

00:16:24.920 for the death penalty with the minimum sentence of life in prison without parole, impose additional

00:16:29.220 penalties on fentanyl and drug-related crimes targeted at children, and protect Floridians

00:16:33.800 from disastrous bail reform policies. This was a bill that was obviously passed by the

00:16:41.640 state legislature and then signed yesterday by Governor DeSantis. Here he is in a press

00:16:47.420 conference explaining this legislation a little bit. The other thing we're doing is making clear

00:16:53.480 that in Florida, we stand for the protection of children. And unfortunately, in our society,

00:17:10.320 you have very heinous sex crimes that are committed against children under the age of 12 years old.

00:17:18.520 And these are really the worst of the worst. And what happens is the perpetrators of these crimes

00:17:26.040 are oftentimes serial offenders. And if someone does, one, if they rape a child, like, and these are

00:17:34.540 very young children, sometimes like six, seven, eight years old, if they do that once, chances are

00:17:41.240 they will do it again unless they're stopped and unless they're incapacitated. And so we really believe

00:17:46.860 that part of a just society is to have appropriate punishment. And so if you commit a crime that is

00:17:53.980 really, really heinous, you should have the ultimate punishment. And so what this bill does is it

00:18:00.300 challenges the U.S. Supreme Court for recently deciding, probably six or seven years ago, they decided by

00:18:08.780 five to four after over 200 years of our of our Constitution being in place that somehow you could

00:18:17.420 never have capital punishment for crimes like rape, even though some of these are some of the worst of

00:18:26.220 the worst, even though you can have serial offenders who have violated multiple children under the age of

00:18:32.860 12. And so we think that that decision was wrong. We think that in the worst of the worst cases,

00:18:38.780 the only appropriate punishment is the ultimate punishment. And so the bill sets up a procedure.

00:18:45.500 So obviously there's Governor DeSantis, obviously, to begin with on the merits of this legislation,

00:18:50.860 it's clearly the right the right thing. The idea that you can only have we can only impose capital

00:18:57.740 punishment on someone who kills another person. It's completely arbitrary. There's no reason. Nowhere

00:19:03.660 is that written in the heavens. Certainly the opposite. I mean, if we want to talk about biblical

00:19:09.020 precedent, then that's that's not biblical precedent. But it doesn't make sense on any level. You know,

00:19:15.500 the idea that's well, as long as as long as a person is not killed, we can't impose the ultimate

00:19:20.540 punishment as if murder is absolutely the worst thing a person can ever do. And nothing, nothing

00:19:28.700 else could ever be as bad. Well, that clearly is not the case. Child rape is at least as bad as murder.

00:19:34.860 And in plenty of cases, it's going to be worse than murder. I mean, there are there are plenty of

00:19:39.820 I would prefer not to live next to a violent criminal of any kind. But, you know, if I if I had to choose

00:19:48.620 between, you know, living next to a child rapist or, you know, a murderer who killed someone in a

00:19:55.420 road rage incident or something like that, I guess I'd take the murder if I had to choose.

00:19:59.900 And in fact, if we if we have this weird rule that we've imposed on ourselves, that we can only

00:20:07.180 execute one either murderers or child rapists, like if we had to choose between those two categories of

00:20:12.700 people to execute, then I would say, well, if we could only do one, then I'd probably murder the I'd 0.98

00:20:18.380 probably execute rather execute legally the the child rapist. But in fact, we don't have to choose.

00:20:26.700 You know, that's the wonderful thing. That's the one of we don't have to make choices. We can execute

00:20:30.220 all of them. We should be able to anyway. Execute all the all the worst people, all of the worst

00:20:35.660 criminals. Just just execute them all. And and this is this is the right first step. There's a lot more

00:20:41.980 that needs to be done. I mean, this is actual criminal justice reform. OK, so all the Republicans

00:20:48.940 that have lined up behind criminal justice reform and many of them have many of them have lined up

00:20:54.140 behind criminal justice reform and they're talking about the kind of reform where we are letting the

00:20:58.140 criminals out of jail and we're trying to make sure that fewer people go to jail in the first place.

00:21:03.580 Fewer criminals go to jail. Now, if fewer people are going to jail because fewer people are committing

00:21:07.820 crimes because there's been some sort of spiritual and moral rebirth in society. And so then the

00:21:13.340 jails empty out because no one's committing crimes anymore. Then I would say, great, fantastic. But

00:21:18.780 that's not happening. So instead, we have the criminal justice reform where there's still a lot

00:21:23.100 of crimes being committed. In fact, more crimes than ever being committed. But we're putting fewer

00:21:26.620 people in prison, which means that you've got a lot of a lot of leftover criminals who are just

00:21:30.780 still wandering around out in the free world. That's the kind of criminal justice reform we

00:21:37.100 so often hear about. But this is the type of criminal justice reform that we should have.

00:21:42.460 It's the type of reform where we are reforming the system by putting more criminals in prison for

00:21:49.340 longer and instituting harsher penalties on criminals. And child rapists should be at the top of the list.

00:21:57.260 Because as DeSantis correctly notes, the other thing about someone who commits a crime like that

00:22:05.660 is that they can simply never be trusted in society ever again. Again, there are forms of murder.

00:22:13.820 Murder obviously legally comes in degrees and it's not all the same sort of situation.

00:22:20.380 But there are forms of murder where it is conceivable that a person who commits that kind of

00:22:25.580 murder could be potentially reformed. They should still go to jail for a long time, but potentially

00:22:30.060 they could be reformed and maybe they could be trusted back in society again. But with a child

00:22:34.780 rapist, they can never be trusted in society. Once a person has gotten to that point where they're

00:22:40.380 committing that crime, where they're willing to do, where they, number one, want to do something like

00:22:46.060 that, and then act on that, they can never be trusted in society ever again.

00:22:55.820 And then we have to ask what, so okay, so you've got people who have committed the worst kind of crime

00:23:01.740 by their own actions and their own choices. They can never be trusted in society ever again.

00:23:09.100 So what is our responsibility as a society to those people? Do we have any responsibility to them?

00:23:15.100 Is it our responsibility to keep them alive and fed in prison for decades?

00:23:20.620 Is it our responsibility to not only keep them in prison, keep them fed, but to protect them?

00:23:27.740 Because the other thing about the worst of the worst, the people that commit the most heinous

00:23:33.660 sorts of crimes, like child rape, well, they are so evil and so monstrous that even the other criminals

00:23:42.860 in prison don't want to be around them. Which means that we don't put them in the general population,

00:23:48.460 so then they are in protective custody. So we're spending more money, society is spending more

00:23:53.180 money just to keep these absolute lowest of the low dirt bags alive. I would say that along with

00:24:01.260 everything else, it is an unjust and undue burden on society. As a taxpayer, I should not be required

00:24:10.060 to keep child rapists alive just because we're too squeamish to execute them as we should.

00:24:18.460 And if we're really starting to understand as a society, and if we're really starting to reform

00:24:23.980 the system, you know, then we're going to start talking about not only are we executing these

00:24:28.060 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,

00:29:09.900 I'm not sure what second place would even be.

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.

00:33:09.960 Let's listen to a clip of that.

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, 1.00

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 0.99

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.

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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

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00:49:00.480 GenuCell.com slash Walsh. Uh, okay. Well, let, here's one tweet. I wanted to put this from my,

00:49:06.860 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 1.00

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, 0.82

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 0.75

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 0.91

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. 0.72

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, 1.00

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. 0.90

00:53:38.820 Well, no, I, I could definitely pass as trans for sure. I could because trans women are dudes in 1.00

00:53:46.080 dresses and they look like dudes in dresses because that's what they are. So to pass as trans, 1.00

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 1.00

00:53:55.800 looks like a man could pass as trans because that's what, that's what trans is. All right. 0.96

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00:54:41.380 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 0.84

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.

01:07:26.440 Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - May 02, 2023

Ep. 1156 - Princeton Professor Tries To Debunk Biology, Fails Hilariously

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