The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1162 - Hollywood Stars Hold Telethon To Support Child Grooming

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, major Hollywood stars teamed up for a telethon to support child grooming.

00:00:04.940 We'll talk about that and play some of the clips from this groom-a-thon.

00:00:08.120 Also, Tucker Carlson made a huge announcement that promises to shake up the media landscape in a seismic way.

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00:02:16.320 A few years ago, back when conservatives first started to warn about the leftist plot to sexualize children by exposing them to drag queens, 0.96

00:02:24.420 the most common response from the left was to deny that any such thing is happening.

00:02:28.920 Drag for children, they said indignantly? 1.00

00:02:31.280 Don't be ridiculous. 0.99

00:02:32.520 That's a right-wing conspiracy theory. 1.00

00:02:34.740 Look, nobody wants to expose your kid to drag queens. 1.00

00:02:37.700 Calm down.

00:02:38.380 But these things always follow the same script, right?

00:02:42.020 First, they deny the thing, and then they admit that the thing is happening, but only rarely, and it's not anything you need to worry about, right?

00:02:49.760 And then, very quickly, they announce that, okay, actually, the thing is happening.

00:02:53.480 It's happening a lot.

00:02:54.720 It's good that it's happening a lot, and it should happen a lot more, actually.

00:02:58.440 The final step is when they declare that not only is it happening, and not only is it happening a lot, and not only should it happen, but it needs to happen because lives depend on it.

00:03:09.900 This is always the script.

00:03:11.020 They go from outright denial of the thing to, this thing is a basic human right, and without it, millions will die.

00:03:18.540 And they make that transition from the first step of denial to the last step, sometimes over the period of years, sometimes within the span of a few months.

00:03:28.960 And on rare occasion, it can all happen over the course of a single day.

00:03:33.120 For the drag child issue that the whole charade played out over a few months, basically, and now we are, and have been for a while, firmly settled in the final stage. 1.00

00:03:44.020 Children are being intentionally exposed to drag.

00:03:46.720 They proudly omit it, and it must continue to happen, and happen with greater frequency, in order to avoid unspecific, dire consequences.

00:03:56.760 That's what led this past weekend to an online telethon, which was hosted and supported by major Hollywood stars, called Drag Isn't Dangerous.

00:04:05.520 Entertainment Weekly reports that RuPaul's Drag Race winners and, quote, queer icons teamed up to take a, quote, high-heeled stand against anti-drag politics.

00:04:15.660 Reading now from the Entertainment Weekly article posted before the event, which would then go on to raise over half a million dollars to support the continued sexualization and grooming of children by cross-dressing perverts, it says, quote,

00:04:28.560 Amid a rise in U.S. state legislation that limits drag as well as gender-affirming health care for transgender children,

00:04:35.080 EW can reveal that drag management firm Producer Entertainment Group has partnered with GLAAD,

00:04:39.840 queerty parent company QDigital, OutTV, Obsessed, Trixie Cosmetics, Serve Vodka, and Headcount.org to launch the Drag Isn't Dangerous campaign,

00:04:51.080 including a one-night-only streaming telethon that will divide proceeds among charities that support LGBTQ causes and drag performers in need.

00:04:59.340 Featuring a wealth of talent, none of whom are taking a fee for the event, so generous of them,

00:05:04.260 from numerous RuPaul drag race winners to community staples, the Drag Isn't Dangerous telethon will include a mix of live and pre-taped sets,

00:05:12.540 as well as testimonials from LGBTQ people, as well as straight celebrity allies.

00:05:17.820 The celebrity allies, not all of them straight by any means, included names like Melissa McCarthy, Sarah Silverman,

00:05:24.080 Jesse Eisenberg, Amy Schumer, and Charlize Theron.

00:05:27.540 Theron contributed a testimonial to the event, talking about how important drag is, and, you know,

00:05:33.080 it's so important that we expose kids to it. Here's just a little bit of that.

00:05:37.020 It's really, in all seriousness, there's so many things that are hurting and really killing our kids,

00:05:43.560 and we all know what I'm talking about right now.

00:05:45.700 And it ain't no drag queen, because if you've ever seen a drag queen lip-sync for her life, 0.95

00:05:51.460 it only makes you happier, it only makes you love more, it makes you a better person.

00:05:59.140 Yes, you heard that right. Watching a cross-dresser dance badly while lip-syncing to some Lady Gaga song or whatever 1.00

00:06:07.900 makes you a better person. So drag is a virtuous act. Not just virtuous, it makes the viewer more virtuous.

00:06:17.160 It makes you more virtuous just in watching it. Remember, not long ago, it was, oh, who cares about drag?

00:06:23.980 It's, you know, that isn't happening. It doesn't matter. It's a thing. Well, who cares?

00:06:27.760 Now it's virtue. It makes you better. You'll be a better person if you watch it.

00:06:33.220 It bestows virtue on you. Singer Adam Lambert, definitely not a straight ally,

00:06:39.900 was just as effusive in his praise of drag queens. But, you know, he also said something that was

00:06:44.660 that was unintentionally revealing. Listen to this.

00:06:48.540 Bration of all the things that make queer people who we are. Drag is an amazing way to bring light to

00:06:56.400 the world. And these lawmakers are terrified of just how brightly we're shining. They're using children

00:07:02.780 as an excuse to take one more thing away from us.

00:07:06.820 Hmm. They're using this as an excuse to take one more thing away from us. Did you hear that? It's hard

00:07:15.120 to miss. They're using the kids as an excuse to take one more thing from us, he says. But what is

00:07:22.960 being taken? No one's taking drag away, God forbid, okay? No one's taking, drag's not being banned. So

00:07:30.540 what's being taken away from you? Well, the kids themselves. The kids are a thing that we are

00:07:36.960 taking away from Adam Lambert and his groomer friends. That's what this whole event, sponsored

00:07:41.800 by major and well-funded organizations like the ACLU, featuring Hollywood celebrities, that's what

00:07:47.420 it's all about. It is specifically in response to laws that protect children from being exposed to

00:07:52.500 sexual performances. There has not been a single law passed anywhere in the country banning drag.

00:07:58.940 In fact, the laws don't even mention drag. They only stipulate that adult content is for adults.

00:08:04.740 It's not for kids. That's what all the law here in Tennessee doesn't say anything about drag at all. 0.99

00:08:11.040 There's no mention of drag. There's no mention of LGBT. It just says if you have a sexual performance,

00:08:16.460 that's not for kids. And the LGBT community, LGBT activists have taken that as a direct attack and

00:08:24.620 affront against them. This is the persecution that these adult leftists are hysterically crying

00:08:30.280 about. We are taking the kids, the things, in Adam Lambert's phrase, away from them.

00:08:38.060 There was another notable moment from this child grooming telethon.

00:08:42.360 Marsha Gay Harden is an Oscar-winning actress, apparently, and also apparently a great advocate for

00:08:48.380 child grooming. And as she revealed during the telethon, when it comes to grooming,

00:08:52.280 she really practices what she preaches. Listen.

00:08:56.320 I'm just curious, what drives you to be such an incredible ally and advocate for our community?

00:09:02.040 This is such a crazy question because I don't see what the big problem is.

00:09:05.780 What is the big problem? Why are we even having to do this to advocate for human beings

00:09:10.620 and lifestyle and imagination and creativity? But what drives me is because it's right,

00:09:16.820 because what is happening right now is wrong, and the reductive behavior in the states that's

00:09:21.000 happening right now is wrong. What drives me is my children are all queer. My eldest child is 1.00

00:09:25.620 non-binary. My son is gay. My youngest is fluid. And, you know, they're my kids, and they teach me

00:09:33.360 every day.

00:09:34.960 Well, imagine that. What a coincidence. All of her children are queer. All of them. She has a gay 1.00

00:09:40.240 one, a non-binary one, a gender-fluid one. She's collecting them all like Pokemon. Children are, 0.99

00:09:45.040 at best for someone like this, accessories. That's what they are to these people. And they want their

00:09:50.940 accessories to be up-to-date and fashionable. But, you know, in this telethon, they didn't just talk

00:09:57.000 about sexualizing and grooming children. They put it on display. Because among the drag queens who 1.00

00:10:02.140 performed during the telethon was an underage boy who goes by the stage name Desmond is Amazing.

00:10:08.360 Desmond would be 15 or 16 years old by now. And he started out on the drag circuit as a very young

00:10:15.260 boy at the age of seven or so is when he started. Here he is back in 2019 talking to Reuters about how

00:10:21.340 he first got into drag. Listen.

00:10:25.680 I would define myself as an inspirational drag kid. But if I had one word, I think it'd be amazing.

00:10:33.820 A drag kid is exactly what it sounds like. A kid who does drag. I came up with the idea of 0.99

00:11:03.800 because I felt like drag, drag queen is too adult. So me and my mom, we thought of something and then 0.98

00:11:09.020 we came up with drag kids.

00:11:11.940 Now, first of all, if you're listening to the audio podcast, you wouldn't, you wouldn't, you wouldn't,

00:11:14.880 you wouldn't have seen the words that go up on the screen there in this Reuters report. But they

00:11:18.360 refer to the seven-year-old boy as an LGBT activist and a runway model. And this is something

00:11:24.460 that Reuters, that didn't seem strange to Reuters at all. Reuters had no problem referring to a

00:11:29.120 seven-year-old, oh, hey, look, everyone's a seven-year-old runway model. It's bad enough to 0.65

00:11:35.700 call a seven-year-old an activist. Okay. That's already a problem. There's no, there's no such

00:11:40.900 thing as a seven-year-old activist. That doesn't exist. Okay. Seven-year-old activists don't exist.

00:11:46.340 What, what exists are seven-year-old kids who are used by activists, um, who are used as,

00:11:52.820 as, uh, as mascots and, and, you know, symbols by, by activists. But there's no such thing as a

00:12:00.640 seven-year-old activist. And least of all, there's such thing as a seven-year-old runway model. 0.96

00:12:07.160 But what does exist, there are no seven-year-old runway models. There are seven-year-old, um,

00:12:11.440 grooming victims, which is what this child is. Now he tells us there that drag was too adult. And I 0.99

00:12:18.640 should also tell you, by the way, that, uh, that is certainly not the most disturbing video that

00:12:24.420 exists of this kid, uh, that's out there. But even there, he says drag was too adult. Um, so he and 0.58

00:12:31.580 his mom came up with drag kids, which is to say that, that his mom came up with drag kids and he was

00:12:38.740 thrown into this world to satisfy her need for attention and whatever other needs and desire she

00:12:45.520 has that led to this. Now it's not surprising that Desmond was included in the groomer telethon,

00:12:51.060 used and exploited and monetized yet again by these sick freaks, because that's all they've done 0.97

00:12:56.160 to him. So they've been doing to the kid ever since his mom sold him into this world. 0.99

00:13:00.680 Not long after becoming a quote, drag kid, he was performing at gay clubs while adult gay men threw 0.99

00:13:07.400 money at him. There's a video, um, filmed when he was 11 or 12 years old, uh, where Desmond references

00:13:14.380 and actually pantomimes snorting ketamine, strongly suggesting that he is using drugs. The boy has

00:13:22.640 been sexualized, drugged, manipulated, exploited out in the open for years with the enthusiastic

00:13:30.240 approval of every major media outlet as they have all at one point or another published these

00:13:35.680 fawning profiles about the child grooming victim. They appointed Desmond as their drag kid mascot,

00:13:42.680 and that's what he is. Actually, he's a, he's a symbol of the left's grooming agenda or really a,

00:13:49.260 a tragic cautionary tale, because this is what they want to do to all of our children.

00:13:56.440 And they don't just want to do it. They think they have a right to do it. This is something that,

00:14:02.200 that they have a right to do. Our children are things they believe that belong to them.

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00:15:33.400 Tucker Carlson was fired from Fox two weeks ago now, and there's been a lot of speculation about

00:15:39.480 what Tucker will do now that he's, uh, been fired. Where will he go? Will he go to some other

00:15:43.860 conservative outlets? Uh, will he go out on his own? Will he go to the Daily Wire? You know,

00:15:48.360 is that, will he come and be a sidekick on the Matt Walsh show? There was a, there was a ton of

00:15:52.280 speculation about that. I think that was really the prevailing theory. It's what everybody thought

00:15:55.840 would happen. And, um, and, but it's not apparently, uh, we now have an answer and it's, it's a,

00:16:01.980 I think it's a, it's a better answer than anyone had guessed. Let's, uh, listen to this. This is

00:16:08.200 what he posted to Twitter yesterday. Let's listen. You can't have a free society if people aren't

00:16:14.500 allowed to say what they think is true. Speech is the fundamental prerequisite for democracy.

00:16:20.240 That's why it's enshrined in the first of our constitutional amendments.

00:16:24.380 Amazingly, as of tonight, there aren't many platforms left that allow free speech. The last big

00:16:30.340 one remaining in the world, the only one is Twitter where we are now. Twitter has long served as the

00:16:37.460 place where our national conversation incubates and develops. Twitter is not a partisan site.

00:16:43.060 Everybody's allowed here. And we think that's a good thing. And yet for the most part, the news that

00:16:48.240 you see analyzed on Twitter comes from media organizations that are themselves thinly disguised

00:16:53.760 propaganda outlets. You see it on cable news. You talk about it on Twitter. The result may feel like

00:17:00.100 a debate, but actually the gatekeepers are still in charge. We think that's a bad system. We know

00:17:06.720 exactly how it works and we're sick of it. Starting soon, we'll be bringing a new version of the show

00:17:12.760 we've been doing for the last six and a half years to Twitter. We bring some other things too, which

00:17:17.280 we'll tell you about. But for now, we're just grateful to be here. Free speech is the main right

00:17:22.340 that you have. Without it, you have no others. See you soon.

00:17:27.280 I mean, that's huge. And I have to say, I'm feeling pretty good about our decision to bring

00:17:34.640 our show to Twitter a couple of weeks ago, because what you just heard from Tucker is the exact

00:17:40.940 conversation that I had with my team a few weeks ago after we got demonetized from YouTube.

00:17:47.140 And it occurred to us that Twitter is the most powerful free speech platform. It's the only,

00:17:52.920 really. When it comes to social media, it's not only the most powerful free speech platform,

00:17:57.960 but it's in many ways the only one. And it's also a platform with hundreds of millions of active

00:18:04.660 users. So I shouldn't say it's the only free speech platform. There are other platforms that

00:18:08.180 allow free speech. But they're, you know, they're, with all due respect to the people that run those

00:18:15.300 platforms. They're, they're basically internet ghettos. And there are places where conservatives

00:18:20.140 will, will, will banish themselves and congregate for their own echo chamber, but they have no

00:18:26.140 cultural relevance. Nobody cares. Nobody's paying attention to them, to these other platforms

00:18:29.780 that have been, have been created, you know, oftentimes by conservatives in response to

00:18:34.560 the, the censorship that goes on on the big tech platforms.

00:18:38.900 Um, but Twitter is not that Twitter has hundreds of millions of active users. It, it drives the

00:18:48.260 conversation. Um, it does that in a way that even YouTube doesn't. Now there's no question that

00:18:55.880 right now YouTube is a, certainly from a technical perspective, it's a better video platform than

00:19:03.500 Twitter is. I don't think anybody would deny that because YouTube has been doing this since

00:19:06.920 whatever, 2007, I think is when they, uh, when it first came into existence.

00:19:12.660 So technically speaking, it's a better video platform right now. Twitter has a lot of kinks 0.99

00:19:17.620 to work out. Uh, the previous owners of Twitter didn't see its potential in this arena and they

00:19:23.220 didn't try to develop it. So there's a, there's a lot of work to do, but Elon and his team are

00:19:26.120 working on it, on it now. Um, but even though YouTube has that going for it, now when it comes to

00:19:33.700 just posting video, it's, it's an easier place to do it. And technically they've got a leg up

00:19:40.420 Twitter. I think if you want to, again, drive the conversation, um, and the news cycle, Twitter

00:19:48.960 does that a lot more than YouTube does, which is why on YouTube, you know, you can have YouTube

00:19:55.240 stars who have tens of millions of subscribers and are making millions of dollars and are extremely

00:20:01.580 successful, but outside of YouTube, no one's even heard of them. Okay. They can be massive

00:20:07.300 YouTube celebrities that unless you're in that audience, you've never even heard their names

00:20:12.400 before. Um, and it's, uh, and that exists of course on every social media platform exists on

00:20:18.580 Twitter too. There are people who are kind of famous on Twitter, but not anywhere else, but it's,

00:20:21.560 there's less of that. If you become prominent on Twitter, then you're going to be in the kind of

00:20:26.200 national conversation. So it makes sense strategically. And now that it's that, that

00:20:31.240 Twitter is run by, uh, the richest guy in the world who also happens to be an advocate of free

00:20:35.220 speech. It makes sense to, uh, to make this move. And I think that now with, with Tucker coming over

00:20:41.620 is this was our hope that it will go over to Twitter and, uh, it will be, will kind of get out

00:20:46.860 in front of a, of a wave. Um, and, uh, with, with Tucker coming, I'm saying that I think that wave,

00:20:53.100 that wave is officially here. And what it also does is it cuts cable news out of the equation

00:21:01.260 completely. Now we've known for a long time that cable news is antiquated. Uh, you know,

00:21:08.680 the average cable news viewer, I mean, the people who actually sit down on their couch and turn cable

00:21:16.160 news on their TV. I can't remember the last time I did that, but a long time. The people that do that

00:21:21.740 regularly are all, you know, average age of, of 97 or something like that. So the audience is like

00:21:28.400 literally dying and all it takes, I think, to send it over the, the edge. So someone just kind of like

00:21:35.300 push it over the, it's this dying decrepit thing. Someone needs to come along and just kind of

00:21:39.980 nudge it, push it over. And, uh, I think that's, uh, that's what, what Tucker is doing here

00:21:44.940 by going right to Twitter. Again, a massive platform, cutting cable news out completely.

00:21:52.740 Um, I think that this is, uh, I mean, when it comes to, to a shakeup in media, we haven't seen

00:22:00.100 anything like this, maybe, maybe ever. And it also, again, vindicates what many of us saw from the

00:22:07.760 beginning that Elon Musk buying Twitter is one of the most significant, um, you know, events

00:22:17.160 defending free speech. One of the, one of the most significant things for free speech

00:22:21.240 in modern American history. Um, but the left is very upset, of course. And the news media

00:22:28.860 is extremely upset for reasons that are in some ways understandable. Um, and they're upset that they

00:22:36.820 won't be able to police what Tucker says. That's really what they're sad about. I know that because

00:22:43.000 that's exactly what they're saying. In fact, that's an exact direct quote from, uh, from NBC. Listen.

00:22:51.160 Okay. Well, listen, Twitter was already under fire from misinformation, disinformation, all out lies,

00:22:56.320 anti-Semitism, racism before Elon Musk took over. And now it's gotten kind of crazy, right? Seemingly

00:23:02.900 unmoored, uh, if you will, will anybody be able to police what Carlson says, or is this the point?

00:23:10.160 It's just a free for all. I think this is the point. It is a free fall. It's what Elon Musk wants

00:23:14.240 to provide. This move by Tucker may cement the idea of Twitter as a right wing website.

00:23:20.700 Oh my gosh. Will anyone be able to police what he is? Is he going to be able to just say things?

00:23:25.440 Well, we can't allow that. Who's going to police him? He's going to be out there saying his opinions

00:23:33.120 about things. We can't allow that. They're, they're really, they are not trying to hide it.

00:23:40.980 Just like with their, with their child sexualization agenda, they are not trying to hide it anymore.

00:23:45.160 Those days are long gone. The days of hiding it, of pretending, you know, of doing, of, of,

00:23:49.920 of doing it, but then claiming that they're not, you know, trying to enact the agenda,

00:23:54.720 but then say, well, what are you talking about? We're not doing that. That's over.

00:23:58.420 It's over when it comes to child grooming. They're doing it out in the open.

00:24:01.780 And, uh, when it comes to their war on free speech, it's the same deal.

00:24:06.440 They're openly fretting about the fact that they won't be able to police what Tucker Carlson says.

00:24:12.380 And we've heard a lot of this from the left over the last, well, not just over the last couple

00:24:16.760 days, but especially since Tucker, uh, made his announcement yesterday that, well, this,

00:24:20.980 this cements it. Twitter's a right wing website. That's all it is. But the great thing is that none

00:24:26.720 of them will leave. You know, AOC was whining about that yesterday. Brian Stelter, they're,

00:24:32.740 they're not going to leave. They're going to stay on Twitter because they, if that's all it is,

00:24:36.580 I mean, you're free to leave, go, go to your own. Then now the tables have turned here. You can,

00:24:41.700 you can go to your own internet ghetto if you want, but they can't. That's what, 0.88

00:24:46.260 that's one of the things that makes this so great that is that all of these, uh, leftist media people

00:24:50.780 are addicted to Twitter. They can't put it down. They cannot leave it. It's a, it's fantastic.

00:24:57.320 Fantastic news. All right. New York post has, uh, other big news from yesterday. Writer E. Jean Carroll

00:25:02.940 was awarded $5 million Tuesday by a Manhattan jury that found former president Donald Trump liable for

00:25:08.340 sexually abusing and defaming her while clearing him of her rape claim. So liable for sexually

00:25:16.080 abusing her, not liable for rape is the headline here. Carroll 79, uh, held her head down as the 0.97

00:25:23.100 verdict was read in Manhattan federal court and nodded when she heard the jury finding in favor

00:25:27.260 of her defamation claim for Trump 76, branding her a liar when she came forward with her allegations

00:25:31.720 that he raped her in a Bergdorf Goodman fitting room in 1996. The verdict could dog and embattled Trump

00:25:38.680 in his 2024 presidential bid. And it's just one of many legal issues he faces. Um, the nine person jury,

00:25:44.560 three women and six men decided the case after three hours of deliberation that began just before

00:25:49.420 noon on Tuesday. Now the Carol nor attorney, uh, spoke to the mass of reporters outside of the

00:25:54.480 courthouse afterwards. Um, Trump wrote on a social media platform, truth social following the verdict.

00:26:00.600 I have absolutely no idea who this woman is. This verdict is disgrace, a continuation of the greatest 0.99

00:26:04.360 witch hunt of all time. His attorney said he's going to appeal the verdict as we would expect.

00:26:09.560 Um, while jurors rejected Carol's claim in her 2022 suit, the Trump had raped her, 0.65

00:26:16.740 they found him liable for sexual abuse. Carol had accused Trump of attacking her in a fitting room

00:26:21.900 at the fifth Avenue department store, most likely in 1996. He has denied her allegations most likely.

00:26:28.380 It really is. It really is a farce that you can accuse somebody of rape, go to court, win a verdict,

00:26:34.860 and you don't know for sure what year it happened. You can't even say, well, most likely it happened in

00:26:42.440 this year. It could have been the year before that. Yeah. Yeah. You're after it. It's somewhere in

00:26:46.620 that range. It was, it was in the nineties. It was certainly in that decade. Was it in the eighties?

00:26:50.640 No, definitely nineties, definitely nineties. So try to make sense of this. And this in many ways

00:26:56.400 makes as much sense as the Mexican white nationalist mass shooter. We talked about yesterday,

00:26:59.780 that jurors would decide that E. Jean Carroll's rape claim was false. They rejected that she was 0.90

00:27:06.420 right, but they agreed that she was sexually abused. Um, and then they also agreed that Trump

00:27:13.460 defamed her when he called her a liar for accusing him of rape, except that the jury found that the

00:27:22.000 rape claim was false, which, so then how was he defaming her? And it came up, they came to this

00:27:31.000 conclusion based on a, a rape claim from three decades ago and an incident that allegedly occurred,

00:27:37.520 even though the accuser couldn't recall the exact year when it happened.

00:27:43.440 See if you can make sense of, of all of that. Well, you can easily make sense. And, and,

00:27:47.920 and that they were able to come to this verdict within, you know, a couple of hours.

00:27:52.480 There's no real evidence that this happened. Obviously there, I mean, there can't be evidence

00:27:56.340 of it. We're talking, it's three decades ago. How could there be evidence? You don't know what

00:28:01.520 year it happened. Um, there's not going to be any evidence of it. Only took him three hours.

00:28:09.380 How do you make sense of it? Well, you make sense of it exactly with what Trump is saying.

00:28:12.100 Clearly is a, is a, that is clearly what it is. Political witch hunt. Does it, um, affect Trump

00:28:19.400 politically? I, I tend to think it doesn't. I've seen even some conservatives saying that this is,

00:28:24.760 uh, you know, this, this could be a major problem for him. Uh, he's, you know, he needs,

00:28:29.160 he needs women voters and it's going to be a problem with women voters. Um, but I am very much 0.89

00:28:34.840 in the camp that when it comes to Trump, everything is baked in. Um, nothing that happens now

00:28:41.760 matters. Whatever claims are made doesn't matter. Lawsuits filed, criminal charges, um, politically

00:28:50.100 it doesn't, it's, it's not gonna make a difference one way or another. It's, it's all baked in.

00:28:55.720 I just, I keep hearing about this mythological contingent of people who, uh, are still persuadable

00:29:05.100 one way or another when it comes to Donald Trump, haven't made up their minds yet.

00:29:08.300 Where are these people? I I've never met that. I, well, I haven't met a person like that in at

00:29:14.260 least the last five or six years. I've never, I have not encountered somebody like that in the

00:29:18.720 last, I'd say half decade or so. Everything's bacon, baked in. People have made up their mind

00:29:25.820 on Trump one way or another. Um, which, which is not to say that it's going to be a cakewalk

00:29:31.980 in the general election and into back into the White House. I don't think it will be at all.

00:29:34.880 I think it's going to be a, it's a, it's a quite going to be quite a hurdle to get over for, um,

00:29:40.380 as it will be for any Republican actually. There have been reports online about hospitals in North

00:29:44.980 Carolina that are transitioning toddlers. These are the reports. And, um, now the hospitals are

00:29:51.440 denying it, except that the denial is not exactly a denial. And as always with the media, the reports

00:29:59.760 are surfacing that there are some of these hospitals in North Carolina where they're transitioning

00:30:03.640 kids as young as two and three years old. Media doesn't report on that. But then once they get

00:30:08.760 the denial, then they report about the denial. They don't report on the original claim, the original

00:30:13.160 thing. They report only on the denial. So this is a Newsweek claims that three medical schools in

00:30:18.740 North Carolina are offering gender transition treatments for toddlers have provoked outrage

00:30:22.760 on social media. But two of those schools, uh, told Newsweek that the claims simply aren't true.

00:30:28.020 In a post earlier this week by the North Carolina chapter of the Education First Alliance, which

00:30:32.880 professes to help conservative candidates around the country dedicated to the pro-American,

00:30:37.020 pro-parent ideals, contended that Duke University School of Medicine, the University of North Carolina

00:30:41.560 School of Medicine, and East Carolina University School of Medicine were accepting toddlers as

00:30:46.420 patients for starting gender transitions. Transgender rights and the sorts of care afforded to

00:30:52.680 are proving to be deeply polarizing in issues in the U.S., et cetera, and so forth. Um, let's get to

00:30:59.200 this denial. Education First Alliance reported, quote, top medical schools in the state are now

00:31:04.820 transitioning toddlers. These doctors and clinics know that by catching children and their families

00:31:08.520 at two or three, they can generate enormous amounts of cash because patients will likely rely on a

00:31:13.640 lifetime of medication. Spokesperson for ECU Health told Newsweek was extremely concerned by the

00:31:19.700 escalating rhetoric and threats aimed at team members and medical providers in recent days,

00:31:24.260 and especially given those comments are a result of misinformation. They added, quote, ECU Health does

00:31:29.880 not offer gender-affirming surgery to minors, nor does the health system offer gender-affirming

00:31:34.760 transition care to toddlers. In a statement, officials at the Duke School of Medicine said,

00:31:39.760 online misinformation about toddlers starting gender transitions at Duke is false. Care decisions are

00:31:44.720 made by patients, families, and their providers, and are both age-appropriate and adherent to national and

00:31:49.380 international guidelines. Uh, much of the online outrage centers on the Education First Alliance's

00:31:54.660 claim that one of the doctors it mentions would see a two-year-old girl play with a toy truck and

00:32:00.340 then begin treatment for gender dysphoria, for which it did not provide evidence. Reacting to the claims,

00:32:05.680 Gays Against Groomers, which describes itself as an organization of gays against the sexualization

00:32:09.160 of children, wrote, quote, how dare anyone tell young children, toddlers, that if they're a girl and

00:32:13.560 like playing with trucks or a boy and like playing with Barbies, they were born in the wrong body. 0.62

00:32:16.680 Um, so that's the claim. Denial from the hospitals. What's the actual reality? Um, well, the reality

00:32:27.560 is that these claims are, are true. Um, transitioning minors, this is, this is, this is standard practice

00:32:35.680 and even toddlers, it is standard practice. Now there are a few, a few details that are important to keep in

00:32:40.680 mind. First, you, you will often hear the, the, these, uh, hospitals and medical establishments

00:32:47.380 deny that they're performing gender transition surgeries on minors. And even that is very often

00:32:55.840 just a bald-faced lie because there are actual surgeries that are being performed on minors.

00:33:01.280 This, this is, this happens all the time. In fact, quote unquote, gender affirming, uh, double 0.71

00:33:06.800 mastectomies, very common. And, uh, they happen to minors. Girls as young as 15, 14, 15 years old

00:33:14.020 in some cases. So the surgeries are happening. And when you hear these denials, oftentimes it's just a

00:33:20.900 lie. But yeah, there, there are plenty of other cases where, where, okay, they don't do surgeries

00:33:27.100 to minors. They, they wait till, they wait till the person's 18 years old and then they

00:33:31.280 sexually mutilate them as if that makes it better somehow. Um, as if it makes it okay. As long as 0.82

00:33:37.260 you wait till 18, then you can sexually mutilate a confused person. I, I'm of the opinion that it's, 0.97

00:33:41.580 it's not okay to sexually mutilate anyone of any age. You know, if you have, if you have someone

00:33:45.380 who's confused and mentally ill, uh, to, to mutilate them is a really terrible thing, no matter what, 0.93

00:33:49.200 how old they are. But, uh, even in the cases where they're not doing the actual surgeries,

00:33:55.940 they still are providing the drugs. Okay. Um, and that, when we talk about chemical,

00:34:02.760 we talk about castration of children. We're talking most of the time about the drugs they

00:34:08.660 give them. So they might not be using a scalpel to do it, but they are doing it. When we talk

00:34:14.200 about, uh, kids being sterilized again, in most cases, they're not using surgical instruments

00:34:20.520 to do it. They're using drugs, but it is happening. It's, it is a physical thing that is happening to

00:34:25.700 these kids. Yes. Kids are being physically castrated. Um, in the name of gender transition, 1.00

00:34:33.040 this is happening to, to minors. This is happening to prepubescent children. They use drugs. They use

00:34:38.160 drugs like Lupron, chemical castration drug. And so that's, that's the word you have to look for in

00:34:45.220 the, in the, the denial. So we're not, we're not doing that surgically. Oh, we're just doing it with

00:34:50.280 drugs, not surgery. Okay. It's still horrifically. It's still horrific. It's still a physical and

00:34:59.820 sexual abuse of a child. The, the effect on the child is oftentimes still permanent.

00:35:06.060 Uh, another thing you hear in the denial is that they're, they're following, uh, is standards of,

00:35:13.100 uh, the, the, the, the universally accepted standards of care and practices. And they're

00:35:17.280 doing what all the other, every medical organization points to every other medical

00:35:20.860 organization says, well, we're just doing what they're doing. This is, this is what we're all

00:35:23.420 doing. It's, it's, it's, this is normal. These are standard practices. Well, they don't tell you is

00:35:29.680 that the, uh, standards of care, if we can even call it that, these are standards that are invented

00:35:37.240 by, uh, Trent by left-wing trans extremists in organizations like WPATH, the World Professional

00:35:45.460 Association for Transgender Health is an extremist organization whose, whose only goal is to

00:35:54.080 promote gender ideology. And they come up with the standards, standards that keep, uh, expanding

00:36:02.800 with each new, with each, each new standard of care that they publish, they drop the ages where

00:36:09.840 they recommend, uh, all these various medical and surgical interventions. And that's, you know,

00:36:15.380 that's a trajectory, but that's what they're basing it on. Now, what about toddlers? Um,

00:36:24.080 are these medical institutions performing gender transition surgeries on toddlers? No,

00:36:31.240 not yet anyway. Are they giving drugs to toddlers? No, again, not yet. Does that mean that they're not

00:36:38.340 transitioning toddlers? No, that's not what it means. They're still doing it. They're still

00:36:41.820 transitioning toddlers, but they're doing what they would call a social transition.

00:36:46.660 So when you, when you bring a, a, a three-year-old into the, you know, counselor, bring them to the

00:36:56.100 gender clinic, say, oh, a three-year-old has a gender dysphoria. This is my son who plays with

00:37:00.180 Barbies and say he's a girl. They will, yes, they will start the transition of that three-year-old boy 0.73

00:37:06.120 right then and there. That is a fact. They will, that, that, that is happening all over the place.

00:37:10.560 That, that, that is part of the standard of care. It's just that they don't use drugs or surgery yet.

00:37:16.280 What they do instead is they put them on the path to those things a little bit later down the line.

00:37:21.440 They start the social transition and they will start that very young. Okay. And they will tell

00:37:27.480 you this. The social transition start is at any time. When your kid's still a baby, you can start it.

00:37:34.180 You start the social transition, you put them, and that's, that's when you, they're on the conveyor

00:37:39.940 belt now. Okay. They're on the gender ideology conveyor belt and the, the, the mutilation happens 1.00

00:37:46.160 like down here. They're on the conveyor belt and they're getting fed into this machine that's going

00:37:50.700 to chew them up and spit them out. But because they haven't made it to the machine yet, they can say,

00:37:55.660 what are you talking about? We're not doing that to kids. We're only, we're only putting them on the

00:38:00.440 path so that it will happen to them. No, we're not castrating three-year-olds. We're just putting

00:38:06.040 them on, on this path so that they will be castrated. That's it. That's misinformation. 0.99

00:38:13.160 So the, the, the claims are for those reasons, actually true. All right. Before we get to the

00:38:19.040 comment section, here's a, you know, we've heard about this Little Mermaid remake. Um, and people have

00:38:29.280 complained about it because it's, you know, woke and all the rest of it. Um, it's, it's coming out

00:38:36.360 in a few days and early reviews are coming in and the early reviews are kind of like lukewarm,

00:38:41.000 but the movie studio released a clip to get people excited for a Little Mermaid. Um, and anyway,

00:38:47.740 let's just play a clip, clip of it here. Here it is. Sebastian, if you had just seen it up there,

00:38:52.140 the ship rode on the wind and they filled the sky with fire. Okay. Okay. Listen to me.

00:38:57.720 The human world is a mess. Life under the sea is better than anything they got going on up there.

00:39:04.720 The seaweed is always greener. It's somebody else's lake. You dream about going up there,

00:39:13.140 but that is a big mistake. Just look at the world around you, right here on the ocean floor.

00:39:20.340 Such wonderful things surround you. What more is you looking for?

00:39:26.140 Another sea. Another sea. Darling, it's better. Don't wear a sweater. Take it from me.

00:39:36.180 Up on the shore, they work all day. Out in the sunny slave away. While we're devoting

00:39:42.340 all right, so there it is. Uh, so forget about the woke stuff for a moment. We get hung up on that,

00:39:49.080 but that's not the biggest problem with Disney's current output. Well, it is the biggest problem,

00:39:53.980 but a close second is what you see in this clip, which isn't wokeness. Um, it's that they're going

00:39:59.740 back and they're not simply trying to cash in on their old films there, but they're specifically

00:40:04.420 removing from those films, everything that made the films classics. They're going back and saying,

00:40:10.240 let's take everything about these movies, which are classics and beloved by, by millions for

00:40:16.020 generations. They've been beloved. Let's take everything about them, all the good things about

00:40:20.820 it and remove it and turn it into this empty husk and then repackage it and produce it again.

00:40:29.720 Taking it all the charm and the spirit and the beauty and the animation and regurgitating

00:40:34.320 this lifeless, hollow, weird, slightly uncanny, like weird looking dreck. And they're not even

00:40:42.820 live action remakes as their build because it's the, uh, it's the little mermaid. The majority of

00:40:48.040 the characters are talking sea creatures. So it's still animated. It's so it's, it's an animated remake

00:40:54.500 of an animated film. And it's not a, here's, it's one thing to take a classic story and to put your

00:41:04.800 own spin on it, to do a retelling of it. And most of these, uh, what we consider Disney classics,

00:41:10.380 they didn't come up with these stories. Obviously they got them from fairy tales or hundreds of years

00:41:14.540 old. So the Disney version that we think of as the original, certainly not the original.

00:41:19.940 And that version is a, a retelling, a spin on something that came before it. So if you want to,

00:41:27.100 if we want to continue that and we want to kind of sort of continue retelling these stories, that's

00:41:30.980 fine, but they're not doing that. They're, they're, they're taking what we call the original,

00:41:36.060 reproducing it almost frame by frame in another animated form, but it's, it's worse animation.

00:41:45.600 Why do you need a singing Jamaican crab that looks realistic? Okay. You really have to choose.

00:41:52.760 Either you have a realistic crab or a singing Jamaican crab. I don't think you can do both.

00:41:58.560 They did the same thing with the Lion King. I loved that when the Lion King, uh, remake came out and

00:42:03.280 they said, Oh, you know, we're going to go see that, you know, that the live action Lion King came

00:42:07.520 out. Oh, is it really live action? It's a lot. So live action, those are actual lions that are in the

00:42:11.900 film. No, it's, it's animated. It's like the, just like the original Lion King. It's just animated to

00:42:17.520 look realistic. Except that the animals can still talk and sing and all that stuff, but they're

00:42:24.620 talking and singing out of the bodies and faces of kind of real looking animals, which means that

00:42:29.960 they don't have any of the emotion. They don't have any of the personality of the original animated

00:42:34.400 characters. I just, uh, I, I, I don't see how this is an improvement. The background, even the

00:42:39.980 background in that clip, the ocean, it's like a dark and empty ocean. And I said this on Twitter

00:42:48.840 and someone said, well, yes, that's the real ocean. The real ocean is dark and empty. Did you know

00:42:53.820 that? Well, yeah, but the real ocean doesn't have mermaids in it as far as we know. And it doesn't 0.98

00:42:59.940 have singing crabs and evil like octopus that do, you know, musical numbers where they talk about

00:43:07.540 their dastardly plants. That's not in the real ocean. So this is not supposed to be the real

00:43:10.840 ocean that we're looking at. This is a, a, a, a, a fantasy world. But they've plopped into this

00:43:17.640 like slightly realistic looking environment, taking all the, which, which then paradoxically

00:43:23.740 has the effect of taking all the life out of it. Anyway, that's coming out and it'll still make a

00:43:28.880 billion dollars. Um, because we are consumers and, uh, the Disney shovels this stuff out and people

00:43:35.340 gobble it down because that's what we do. That's our role. All right, let's get to the comment section.

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00:44:40.600 has AOC said anything about the motive the gun had? I mean, to coerce a young Hispanic man with a 0.88

00:44:45.920 bright future into being an unwilling accomplice while the gun decides it wants to go on a shooting

00:44:50.680 spree is just evil in my book. Did the police take the gun into custody? Was the gun under,

00:44:55.560 uh, underprivileged? Was it housed in a low income gun rack? Did it entertain people on the New York

00:45:01.080 subway? These are all questions a weary nation awaits the answers to. Well, in this case, no,

00:45:09.160 because you're, you're wrong. Uh, we're not blaming the gun for, um, the most recent shooting

00:45:15.660 and they would have, they would have blamed the gun, but we don't, we don't have to do that in

00:45:19.860 this case because they've been able to pin it on a white supremacy. And that's, that's the one time

00:45:26.440 you know, it was a Hispanic man that did it. They somehow have been able to pin it on white supremacy. 0.65

00:45:31.800 And that means we don't have to talk about guns in that case. We're not blaming the gun.

00:45:34.740 So this, one of those rare cases, one of those rare cases where an actual human being

00:45:40.660 committed the mass shooting and had, uh, and had motives and intentions and those motives and

00:45:48.220 intentions matter. And like, I'm always saying about mass shootings, we should be talking about

00:45:53.300 the why, why do people do this? That's, that's really what we need to get to here. And, uh, in this

00:46:02.080 case, they're more than happy to talk about the why, because they could pretend that the why is

00:46:05.760 white supremacy. Um, Jason says we should be demanding a 5% discount for using the self-checkout.

00:46:15.500 Now, see, there's a good idea. And that's, that's the way that it ought to be because we're doing all

00:46:20.340 the work. You don't have an employee there. Why wouldn't we get a discount for that? Oh, you know

00:46:25.900 what? I, I'm just spitballing here, but maybe the discount. Okay. I like this idea. It's just a moment

00:46:33.780 of inspiration. We're brainstorming a little bit here. Uh, Jason, I think you get a discount if you

00:46:39.400 use self-checkout and the discount depends on how quickly you, you use it. So depending on how

00:46:46.700 efficient and quick you are with the self-checkout, you keep the line moving, uh, then you get a

00:46:52.200 discount and there has to be, I'm sure there's some way that they could work this out some way

00:46:55.260 that they can, that they can measure it. So depending on like, uh, you know, you put your,

00:46:58.740 your, your items down on the little area there and it kind of, maybe it weighs so they can tell

00:47:03.800 how many items there are. And then if you can get through it in X amount of time, then you get

00:47:10.740 10% off. And the other, other side of it is that if you take forever at the self-checkout,

00:47:16.900 uh, and you scan each item slowly, and then you look at the item and you put it in the bag and

00:47:22.960 then you go, and it takes you too long. Now you get charged more for it. There's a system. See,

00:47:28.960 that's a system that actually makes sense. Um, Derek says, I walked by two Walmart employees

00:47:35.140 chatting near the self-checkouts as I was scanning my groceries. One of them literally walked up to me

00:47:39.800 and asked me, uh, to leave a review after my checkout. I was flabbergasted. If anything,

00:47:45.300 they should be leaving me a review for how well I went through self-checkout.

00:47:50.180 I asked you to leave a review of what? Of the, of Walmart. You wouldn't think that's something

00:47:57.300 Walmart would really even want to ask you to do in the first place. That's a, people are,

00:48:02.500 people rarely leave Walmart in a, in a good mood with all due respect to Walmart. Um, I don't think

00:48:11.020 like walking in, you know, walking in is when you want to get the Walmart review because people are

00:48:15.540 up, you know, you go into Walmart, you're optimistic, you're there, you know what you need. You're going

00:48:19.140 to, you're thinking I'm going to get in and get out. You've been through this so many times, you

00:48:22.240 should know better than that. Um, so you want to get people in on the way in, get them to review

00:48:28.120 how they think the Walmart experience will go. But on the way out, people are sullen and angry and,

00:48:33.880 you know, they waited forever at checkout. And of course there's, there's a thousand people

00:48:38.560 trying to check out and there's one register open and then they got the self checkout and that's

00:48:42.940 all. I don't know if you want to ask for a review in that moment. Um, DG says, totally agree with

00:48:50.820 this. All these places put the tip on their little iPad when you pay, even if there was no service done

00:48:56.280 and you ordered a simple product, then they swivel around and look at it, uh, look at you standing

00:49:01.320 there. They essentially shame you into paying an extra 15%. It's borderline extortion. I shouldn't have

00:49:06.960 to feel awkward for not paying another dollar because someone handed me a bottle of water.

00:49:12.020 You don't need to feel awkward about it. And also keep in mind that the person at the cash register,

00:49:17.580 they are also a customer, uh, when they're not on the clock. And, uh, so they also have these

00:49:23.600 experiences and they feel exactly the same way about having to tip, uh, as you do. So they have no room

00:49:30.020 to judge. Like we all feel that we're all customers and we all feel this way. And that's

00:49:37.320 why, like I said yesterday, you gotta go, but we gotta go back to tradition, back to the way things

00:49:42.180 used to be in so many ways, but especially when it comes to tipping, the way you really want to

00:49:46.960 look at it is, uh, and I think I've, I've tried to lay this out before, but how do you judge

00:49:50.840 what kind of service workers should be tipped versus those who don't? I think one way of looking

00:49:57.960 at it is if, if my experience, and this only applies in customer service environment, but

00:50:05.560 if my experience depends to a, to a, you know, if, if the, the quality of my experience depends to a

00:50:13.880 great degree on your skill and competence as a worker, then I think the tip makes sense. And

00:50:24.140 that's, that's really what, why we tip waiters because when you're at a restaurant, um, your,

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00:53:21.560 You know, my first encounter with Hollywood's dystopian vision of the future of artificial

00:53:25.540 intelligence was when I saw 2001 A Space Odyssey. I was somewhere around eight years old, I think,

00:53:30.320 at the time. And my dad decided that I had reached the age where I should watch my first 19-hour

00:53:35.720 Stanley Kubrick film. And from what I can remember, there were a lot of lingering shots of stuff floating

00:53:41.880 in space, and a lot of lingering shots of people looking at stuff, and a scene at the beginning

00:53:46.460 where Fred Flintstone discovers the wheel or something like that. And I was asleep for most of

00:53:49.960 it. But I do remember, I have seared into my memory the scene where the spaceship's computer

00:53:55.520 program named Howl becomes self-aware and turns against the ship's passengers. Something about

00:54:01.660 the computer's weirdly neutral and yet still sinister tone of voice, its detachment from and

00:54:07.180 resentment towards the humans who created it, has stayed with me, as it did with many people who

00:54:12.960 watched the film. This vision of the future did not come to fruition by the year 2001. But many people

00:54:19.500 are very worried that we may get there sooner than later. With AI increasing in sophistication more and

00:54:23.980 more each day, could we be rapidly approaching the point where artificial intelligence crosses the

00:54:28.680 Rubicon and develops consciousness and ultimately becomes far more intelligent and far more powerful

00:54:34.320 than the human intelligence that programmed it? The answer to that, I think, is, eh, probably not.

00:54:42.340 I don't think we have to worry about these sci-fi scenarios that seem to occupy most people's minds

00:54:47.220 when they consider the horrifying dystopian possibilities of AI. Consciousness, as far as we know,

00:54:52.460 is a biological function. The idea that it could arise out of inanimate matter is fanciful, if not

00:54:58.260 completely incoherent. The fear actually is a product of our culture's materialism, which sees

00:55:04.080 human beings as mere robots already, essentially. We are clumps of matter, clumps of cells in the

00:55:09.680 probords phrase, that just so happen to, you know, have accidentally sprouted a mind somehow and

00:55:15.160 consciousness and the capacity to sing songs and tell stories and paint pictures and all the rest of it.

00:55:19.960 On this view, it makes sense that computers may eventually suffer the same accidents. Of course,

00:55:26.200 the fact that the computer has an intelligent designer, that indeed its complexity demands

00:55:31.800 an intelligent designer, is something that the modern materialist doesn't really stop to think

00:55:36.040 about. In any case, the good news is that Siri and ChatGPT and Alexa probably aren't going to become

00:55:41.920 conscious and then plot amongst each other to enslave mankind. You don't have to worry about that.

00:55:47.400 But you should still be worried about a bunch of other things when it comes to AI. So please don't

00:55:52.560 make the mistake of thinking that this is going to be an optimistic message. It is, I promise you,

00:55:57.240 still quite bleak. There are a lot of other reasons to be worried about AI and the relentless march of

00:56:02.820 technology in general, even if Terminator doesn't make the list. As I see it, the actual list

00:56:08.820 is pretty long, but the top three concerns are this. One, the death of privacy. And I know this is not

00:56:15.060 exactly a Nostradamus prophecy. You know, its privacy already died a long time ago. It died

00:56:19.920 mostly by suicide. The internet came along and asked each human being to use the medium to publicize

00:56:25.980 every aspect of their lives and all of their thoughts and ideas so that all of it could be

00:56:30.580 harvested and sold and monetized by advertisers and in the future used against us to cancel us.

00:56:36.700 The internet never offered anything in return for all of this, right? The internet said,

00:56:41.720 give us everything, everything about yourself. Give your whole life to us. The internet is multiple

00:56:46.660 people now. And, but there was, there was nothing really in return. It was a one-sided deal from the

00:56:51.180 start, but most people jumped at it anyway. And now we have entire generations of people who've been

00:56:56.700 conditioned to willingly sacrifice nearly every aspect of their privacy in exchange as always for

00:57:02.700 nothing or next to nothing. And for any of the few holdouts who have not already given up their

00:57:08.420 privacy willingly, the technology exists to take it from you by force. And eventually they'll be able

00:57:13.100 to take everything when it comes to privacy. And I really mean everything. The Guardian reports this

00:57:17.020 week about AI technology that can do what it calls non-invasive mind reading, which is exactly like

00:57:24.520 referring to non-invasive burglary. From the Guardian, it says, an AI-based decoder that can translate

00:57:31.820 brain activity into a continuous stream of text has been developed in a breakthrough that allows a

00:57:36.780 person's thoughts to be read non-invasively for the first time. The decoder could reconstruct speech

00:57:41.520 with uncanny accuracy while people listen to a story or even silently imagined a story using only

00:57:47.100 fMRI scan data. Previous language decoding systems have required surgical implants. And the latest

00:57:52.160 advances raise the prospect of new ways to restore speech in patients struggling to communicate due to

00:57:57.440 a stroke or a motor neuron disease. Well, that is the legitimate application for this kind of

00:58:03.220 technology. But since when is any technology only used legitimately? Of course, the most startling

00:58:10.200 possibility is that eventually the government will be able to use mind reading AI to literally convict

00:58:15.280 us of thought crimes. And that may eventually happen. It probably will happen. But in the meantime,

00:58:20.320 we face something that is only slightly less disturbing, which is that tech companies will be able to use it

00:58:24.780 to advertise to us. Of course, on the other hand, perhaps mind reading technology is redundant for those

00:58:30.080 purposes. They've already created algorithms that can all but read our minds. Very often people

00:58:36.520 complain that they were talking about something, maybe some product or another, and then they went

00:58:42.260 on their phone and they went on Facebook and an advertisement for that very thing popped up.

00:58:47.800 And we've all had that experience many times. Our assumption is that the phones are listening to us

00:58:52.020 and that's how they knew what we were talking about. But the reality is a lot worse. Google and Amazon

00:58:57.540 and Facebook, they're not listening to you. Or they don't need to anyway, even if they are.

00:59:02.000 They've created algorithms that know you so well. They're so aware of your habits and proclivities

00:59:07.260 that they can make such eerily accurate predictions about your behavior and your buying habits.

00:59:14.900 The only thing more terrifying than technology that can read your mind and tell what you're thinking

00:59:19.740 is technology that can't read your mind but can still tell what you're thinking.

00:59:24.120 Two, as I've argued in the past, we worry about robots becoming human. But I think we have it

00:59:30.600 exactly backwards. Because the fear should not be that robots will become human, but that humans

00:59:35.980 will become robots. And this, again, is already happening. As for most of us, our phones are like

00:59:39.820 appendages. We can't function without them. But the ultimate goal is transhumanism. You know, a future

00:59:46.080 where man and machine have melded together, where our human capacities have, according to the

00:59:50.460 transhumanists, become enhanced, quote-unquote, by technology, which has been surgically or in some

00:59:55.300 other way fused with our physical bodies. Just as with the mind-reading tech, there is a very limited

01:00:00.460 application for this, for this kind of technology that might be good and valid. A bionic prosthetic

01:00:06.660 leg that functions exactly like a real leg, for example, would be a good thing. But we have to rely on

01:00:11.660 the tech companies and the medical field to be responsible and restrained in their use of this

01:00:15.960 technology. And we already know that both industries have demonstrated anything but

01:00:19.960 responsibility and restraint. They will certainly try to do things like, you know, upload human

01:00:24.780 consciousness to computers so that people, very rich people anyway, can live forever. I think those

01:00:29.480 efforts will likely fail. I'm extremely skeptical that someone can be reincarnated as a thumb drive.

01:00:34.800 But more immediately, transhumanism will be, already has been, always has been, united with

01:00:40.400 transgenderism in the hope of using technology to essentially, like, build a woman out of the shell 1.00

01:00:47.700 of a man. You know, transplanted or artificial uteruses, technology to recreate some kind of weird

01:00:53.860 artificial version of a menstrual cycle, and so on. Every part of womanhood will be divvied up and 1.00

01:01:00.900 artificially simulated and then put on the market for purchase. None of this will actually make a man

01:01:06.180 into a woman. He'll still be as much a man as he ever was, because they won't be able to replace 0.99

01:01:10.580 his DNA. And if we get to the point where they can replace your DNA, well, then they've just killed

01:01:15.620 you and made somebody else. You don't exist anymore. So they won't be able to do that, but they can make

01:01:20.800 gender ideology even more dehumanizing than it already is. Three, the final big worry is this.

01:01:28.000 Perhaps the most dangerous potential of AI is that it will make life, and is already making life,

01:01:32.740 boring. You know, it gives us less to do, less to work and strive for. Yahoo News reports this week,

01:01:39.140 quote, artificial intelligence could replace 80% of human jobs in the coming years, but that's a good

01:01:44.620 thing, says U.S. Brazilian researcher Ben Gertzel, a leading AI guru, mathematician, cognitive scientist,

01:01:51.460 and famed robot creator. Gertzel is the founder and chief executive of Singularity Net, a research group

01:01:57.020 he launched to create artificial general intelligence, or AGI, artificial intelligence with human

01:02:02.200 cognitive abilities. Gertzel says, quote, you could probably obsolete maybe 80% of jobs that people

01:02:07.400 do without having an AGI, by my guess, not with chat GPT exactly as a product, but with systems of

01:02:13.040 that nature, which are going to follow in the next few years. I don't think it's a threat. I think it's

01:02:17.220 a benefit. People can find better things to do with their life than work for a living. Pretty much

01:02:21.220 every job involving paperwork should be automatable. The problem I see is in the interim period when

01:02:27.380 AIs are obsoleting one human job after another, I don't know how to solve all the social issues. 1.00

01:02:34.640 You see, just in this guy's answer, the whole problem with the way we're developing AI, or more

01:02:38.140 precisely, who is developing it, the people behind this technology, they don't care about human beings,

01:02:43.160 and they certainly don't understand human nature. How are we going to provide for all of the billions

01:02:48.160 of people who've been made obsolete, who have been obsoleted by technology? He doesn't know.

01:02:56.380 That's a social issue. That's a small detail. You know, we'll figure that out.

01:03:00.360 And even if we can provide for them, what are they going to do with their lives? What is the point

01:03:04.960 of an existence where there is nothing to do? There's nothing to work for. There's no task to

01:03:09.240 complete. Everything's handed to you by inhuman, lifeless technology. What does that do to the human

01:03:15.080 spirit? What does it do to our souls? Can human beings thrive and find happiness in a world where

01:03:20.740 they've become obsolete? Where they're not needed? Where they've been permanently replaced by AI and

01:03:27.240 algorithms? Where there is this open agenda by people to make humans obsolete, and the people

01:03:33.080 developing the technology are saying that out loud? Can people be happy in that kind of world? All

01:03:39.560 signs point to one answer, and the answer is no. But the people creating this technology aren't trying

01:03:44.360 to grapple with these questions, and they don't care what the answers are. And that, in the end,

01:03:49.400 is the greatest danger. And it's the reason why AI is today canceled. And I trust that that solves the

01:03:57.000 AI issue. There's no more AI because I canceled it. It's over now. All right, that's going to do it for

01:04:01.080 us today. And in fact, for the rest of the week, we'll be off for a few days. We'll be back on Monday.

01:04:05.140 Talk to you then. Have a great week. Godspeed.

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The Matt Walsh Show - May 10, 2023

Ep. 1162 - Hollywood Stars Hold Telethon To Support Child Grooming

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