Ep. 1162 - Hollywood Stars Hold Telethon To Support Child Grooming
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Major Hollywood stars teamed up for a telethon to support child grooming, and we'll talk about that and play some of the clips from this groom-a-thon. Also, Tucker Carlson made a huge announcement that promises to shake up the media landscape in a seismic way. How does that work? The media rushes to debunk alleged misinformation that toddlers are being subjected to gender transitions, but this misinformation is not really misinformation at all. And will artificial intelligence become conscious and enslave mankind? Probably not, but there are plenty of other things to worry about with AI. We ll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show with Matt Walsh ( )!
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, major Hollywood stars teamed up for a telethon to support child grooming.
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We'll talk about that and play some of the clips from this groom-a-thon.
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Also, Tucker Carlson made a huge announcement that promises to shake up the media landscape in a seismic way.
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Donald Trump is found both liable and not liable in a sexual assault lawsuit.
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The media rushes to debunk alleged misinformation that toddlers are being subjected to gender transitions.
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But this misinformation is not really misinformation at all, as I'll explain.
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And will artificial intelligence become conscious and enslave mankind?
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Probably not, but there are plenty of other things to worry about with AI.
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We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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A few years ago, back when conservatives first started to warn about the leftist plot to sexualize children by exposing them to drag queens,
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the most common response from the left was to deny that any such thing is happening.
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Look, nobody wants to expose your kid to drag queens.
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But these things always follow the same script, right?
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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?
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And then, very quickly, they announce that, okay, actually, the thing is happening.
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It's good that it's happening a lot, and it should happen a lot more, actually.
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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.
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They go from outright denial of the thing to, this thing is a basic human right, and without it, millions will die.
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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.
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And on rare occasion, it can all happen over the course of a single day.
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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.
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Children are being intentionally exposed to drag.
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They proudly omit it, and it must continue to happen, and happen with greater frequency, in order to avoid unspecific, dire consequences.
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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.
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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.
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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,
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Amid a rise in U.S. state legislation that limits drag as well as gender-affirming health care for transgender children,
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EW can reveal that drag management firm Producer Entertainment Group has partnered with GLAAD,
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queerty parent company QDigital, OutTV, Obsessed, Trixie Cosmetics, Serve Vodka, and Headcount.org to launch the Drag Isn't Dangerous campaign,
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including a one-night-only streaming telethon that will divide proceeds among charities that support LGBTQ causes and drag performers in need.
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Featuring a wealth of talent, none of whom are taking a fee for the event, so generous of them,
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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,
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as well as testimonials from LGBTQ people, as well as straight celebrity allies.
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The celebrity allies, not all of them straight by any means, included names like Melissa McCarthy, Sarah Silverman,
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Jesse Eisenberg, Amy Schumer, and Charlize Theron.
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Theron contributed a testimonial to the event, talking about how important drag is, and, you know,
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it's so important that we expose kids to it. Here's just a little bit of that.
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It's really, in all seriousness, there's so many things that are hurting and really killing our kids,
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and we all know what I'm talking about right now.
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And it ain't no drag queen, because if you've ever seen a drag queen lip-sync for her life,
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it only makes you happier, it only makes you love more, it makes you a better person.
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Yes, you heard that right. Watching a cross-dresser dance badly while lip-syncing to some Lady Gaga song or whatever
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makes you a better person. So drag is a virtuous act. Not just virtuous, it makes the viewer more virtuous.
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It makes you more virtuous just in watching it. Remember, not long ago, it was, oh, who cares about drag?
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It's, you know, that isn't happening. It doesn't matter. It's a thing. Well, who cares?
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Now it's virtue. It makes you better. You'll be a better person if you watch it.
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It bestows virtue on you. Singer Adam Lambert, definitely not a straight ally,
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was just as effusive in his praise of drag queens. But, you know, he also said something that was
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that was unintentionally revealing. Listen to this.
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Bration of all the things that make queer people who we are. Drag is an amazing way to bring light to
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the world. And these lawmakers are terrified of just how brightly we're shining. They're using children
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as an excuse to take one more thing away from us.
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Hmm. They're using this as an excuse to take one more thing away from us. Did you hear that? It's hard
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to miss. They're using the kids as an excuse to take one more thing from us, he says. But what is
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being taken? No one's taking drag away, God forbid, okay? No one's taking, drag's not being banned. So
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what's being taken away from you? Well, the kids themselves. The kids are a thing that we are
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taking away from Adam Lambert and his groomer friends. That's what this whole event, sponsored
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by major and well-funded organizations like the ACLU, featuring Hollywood celebrities, that's what
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it's all about. It is specifically in response to laws that protect children from being exposed to
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sexual performances. There has not been a single law passed anywhere in the country banning drag.
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In fact, the laws don't even mention drag. They only stipulate that adult content is for adults.
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It's not for kids. That's what all the law here in Tennessee doesn't say anything about drag at all.
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There's no mention of drag. There's no mention of LGBT. It just says if you have a sexual performance,
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that's not for kids. And the LGBT community, LGBT activists have taken that as a direct attack and
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affront against them. This is the persecution that these adult leftists are hysterically crying
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about. We are taking the kids, the things, in Adam Lambert's phrase, away from them.
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There was another notable moment from this child grooming telethon.
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Marsha Gay Harden is an Oscar-winning actress, apparently, and also apparently a great advocate for
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child grooming. And as she revealed during the telethon, when it comes to grooming,
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she really practices what she preaches. Listen.
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I'm just curious, what drives you to be such an incredible ally and advocate for our community?
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This is such a crazy question because I don't see what the big problem is.
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What is the big problem? Why are we even having to do this to advocate for human beings
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and lifestyle and imagination and creativity? But what drives me is because it's right,
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because what is happening right now is wrong, and the reductive behavior in the states that's
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happening right now is wrong. What drives me is my children are all queer. My eldest child is
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non-binary. My son is gay. My youngest is fluid. And, you know, they're my kids, and they teach me
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Well, imagine that. What a coincidence. All of her children are queer. All of them. She has a gay
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one, a non-binary one, a gender-fluid one. She's collecting them all like Pokemon. Children are,
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at best for someone like this, accessories. That's what they are to these people. And they want their
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accessories to be up-to-date and fashionable. But, you know, in this telethon, they didn't just talk
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about sexualizing and grooming children. They put it on display. Because among the drag queens who
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performed during the telethon was an underage boy who goes by the stage name Desmond is Amazing.
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Desmond would be 15 or 16 years old by now. And he started out on the drag circuit as a very young
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boy at the age of seven or so is when he started. Here he is back in 2019 talking to Reuters about how
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I would define myself as an inspirational drag kid. But if I had one word, I think it'd be amazing.
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A drag kid is exactly what it sounds like. A kid who does drag. I came up with the idea of
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because I felt like drag, drag queen is too adult. So me and my mom, we thought of something and then
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Now, first of all, if you're listening to the audio podcast, you wouldn't, you wouldn't, you wouldn't,
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you wouldn't have seen the words that go up on the screen there in this Reuters report. But they
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refer to the seven-year-old boy as an LGBT activist and a runway model. And this is something
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that Reuters, that didn't seem strange to Reuters at all. Reuters had no problem referring to a
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seven-year-old, oh, hey, look, everyone's a seven-year-old runway model. It's bad enough to
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call a seven-year-old an activist. Okay. That's already a problem. There's no, there's no such
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thing as a seven-year-old activist. That doesn't exist. Okay. Seven-year-old activists don't exist.
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What, what exists are seven-year-old kids who are used by activists, um, who are used as,
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as, uh, as mascots and, and, you know, symbols by, by activists. But there's no such thing as a
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seven-year-old activist. And least of all, there's such thing as a seven-year-old runway model.
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But what does exist, there are no seven-year-old runway models. There are seven-year-old, um,
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grooming victims, which is what this child is. Now he tells us there that drag was too adult. And I
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should also tell you, by the way, that, uh, that is certainly not the most disturbing video that
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exists of this kid, uh, that's out there. But even there, he says drag was too adult. Um, so he and
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his mom came up with drag kids, which is to say that, that his mom came up with drag kids and he was
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thrown into this world to satisfy her need for attention and whatever other needs and desire she
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has that led to this. Now it's not surprising that Desmond was included in the groomer telethon,
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used and exploited and monetized yet again by these sick freaks, because that's all they've done
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to him. So they've been doing to the kid ever since his mom sold him into this world.
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Not long after becoming a quote, drag kid, he was performing at gay clubs while adult gay men threw
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money at him. There's a video, um, filmed when he was 11 or 12 years old, uh, where Desmond references
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and actually pantomimes snorting ketamine, strongly suggesting that he is using drugs. The boy has
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been sexualized, drugged, manipulated, exploited out in the open for years with the enthusiastic
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approval of every major media outlet as they have all at one point or another published these
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fawning profiles about the child grooming victim. They appointed Desmond as their drag kid mascot,
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and that's what he is. Actually, he's a, he's a symbol of the left's grooming agenda or really a,
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a tragic cautionary tale, because this is what they want to do to all of our children.
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And they don't just want to do it. They think they have a right to do it. This is something that,
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Tucker Carlson was fired from Fox two weeks ago now, and there's been a lot of speculation about
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what Tucker will do now that he's, uh, been fired. Where will he go? Will he go to some other
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conservative outlets? Uh, will he go out on his own? Will he go to the Daily Wire? You know,
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is that, will he come and be a sidekick on the Matt Walsh show? There was a, there was a ton of
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speculation about that. I think that was really the prevailing theory. It's what everybody thought
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would happen. And, um, and, but it's not apparently, uh, we now have an answer and it's, it's a,
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I think it's a, it's a better answer than anyone had guessed. Let's, uh, listen to this. This is
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what he posted to Twitter yesterday. Let's listen. You can't have a free society if people aren't
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allowed to say what they think is true. Speech is the fundamental prerequisite for democracy.
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That's why it's enshrined in the first of our constitutional amendments.
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Amazingly, as of tonight, there aren't many platforms left that allow free speech. The last big
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one remaining in the world, the only one is Twitter where we are now. Twitter has long served as the
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place where our national conversation incubates and develops. Twitter is not a partisan site.
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Everybody's allowed here. And we think that's a good thing. And yet for the most part, the news that
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you see analyzed on Twitter comes from media organizations that are themselves thinly disguised
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propaganda outlets. You see it on cable news. You talk about it on Twitter. The result may feel like
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a debate, but actually the gatekeepers are still in charge. We think that's a bad system. We know
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exactly how it works and we're sick of it. Starting soon, we'll be bringing a new version of the show
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we've been doing for the last six and a half years to Twitter. We bring some other things too, which
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we'll tell you about. But for now, we're just grateful to be here. Free speech is the main right
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that you have. Without it, you have no others. See you soon.
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I mean, that's huge. And I have to say, I'm feeling pretty good about our decision to bring
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our show to Twitter a couple of weeks ago, because what you just heard from Tucker is the exact
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conversation that I had with my team a few weeks ago after we got demonetized from YouTube.
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And it occurred to us that Twitter is the most powerful free speech platform. It's the only,
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really. When it comes to social media, it's not only the most powerful free speech platform,
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but it's in many ways the only one. And it's also a platform with hundreds of millions of active
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users. So I shouldn't say it's the only free speech platform. There are other platforms that
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allow free speech. But they're, you know, they're, with all due respect to the people that run those
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platforms. They're, they're basically internet ghettos. And there are places where conservatives
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will, will, will banish themselves and congregate for their own echo chamber, but they have no
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cultural relevance. Nobody cares. Nobody's paying attention to them, to these other platforms
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that have been, have been created, you know, oftentimes by conservatives in response to
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the, the censorship that goes on on the big tech platforms.
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Um, but Twitter is not that Twitter has hundreds of millions of active users. It, it drives the
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conversation. Um, it does that in a way that even YouTube doesn't. Now there's no question that
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right now YouTube is a, certainly from a technical perspective, it's a better video platform than
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Twitter is. I don't think anybody would deny that because YouTube has been doing this since
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whatever, 2007, I think is when they, uh, when it first came into existence.
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So technically speaking, it's a better video platform right now. Twitter has a lot of kinks
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to work out. Uh, the previous owners of Twitter didn't see its potential in this arena and they
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didn't try to develop it. So there's a, there's a lot of work to do, but Elon and his team are
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working on it, on it now. Um, but even though YouTube has that going for it, now when it comes to
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just posting video, it's, it's an easier place to do it. And technically they've got a leg up
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Twitter. I think if you want to, again, drive the conversation, um, and the news cycle, Twitter
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does that a lot more than YouTube does, which is why on YouTube, you know, you can have YouTube
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stars who have tens of millions of subscribers and are making millions of dollars and are extremely
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successful, but outside of YouTube, no one's even heard of them. Okay. They can be massive
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YouTube celebrities that unless you're in that audience, you've never even heard their names
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before. Um, and it's, uh, and that exists of course on every social media platform exists on
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Twitter too. There are people who are kind of famous on Twitter, but not anywhere else, but it's,
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there's less of that. If you become prominent on Twitter, then you're going to be in the kind of
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national conversation. So it makes sense strategically. And now that it's that, that
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Twitter is run by, uh, the richest guy in the world who also happens to be an advocate of free
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speech. It makes sense to, uh, to make this move. And I think that now with, with Tucker coming over
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is this was our hope that it will go over to Twitter and, uh, it will be, will kind of get out
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in front of a, of a wave. Um, and, uh, with, with Tucker coming, I'm saying that I think that wave,
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that wave is officially here. And what it also does is it cuts cable news out of the equation
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completely. Now we've known for a long time that cable news is antiquated. Uh, you know,
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the average cable news viewer, I mean, the people who actually sit down on their couch and turn cable
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news on their TV. I can't remember the last time I did that, but a long time. The people that do that
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regularly are all, you know, average age of, of 97 or something like that. So the audience is like
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literally dying and all it takes, I think, to send it over the, the edge. So someone just kind of like
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push it over the, it's this dying decrepit thing. Someone needs to come along and just kind of
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nudge it, push it over. And, uh, I think that's, uh, that's what, what Tucker is doing here
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by going right to Twitter. Again, a massive platform, cutting cable news out completely.
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Um, I think that this is, uh, I mean, when it comes to, to a shakeup in media, we haven't seen
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anything like this, maybe, maybe ever. And it also, again, vindicates what many of us saw from the
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beginning that Elon Musk buying Twitter is one of the most significant, um, you know, events
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defending free speech. One of the, one of the most significant things for free speech
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in modern American history. Um, but the left is very upset, of course. And the news media
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is extremely upset for reasons that are in some ways understandable. Um, and they're upset that they
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won't be able to police what Tucker says. That's really what they're sad about. I know that because
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that's exactly what they're saying. In fact, that's an exact direct quote from, uh, from NBC. Listen.
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Okay. Well, listen, Twitter was already under fire from misinformation, disinformation, all out lies,
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anti-Semitism, racism before Elon Musk took over. And now it's gotten kind of crazy, right? Seemingly
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unmoored, uh, if you will, will anybody be able to police what Carlson says, or is this the point?
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It's just a free for all. I think this is the point. It is a free fall. It's what Elon Musk wants
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to provide. This move by Tucker may cement the idea of Twitter as a right wing website.
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Oh my gosh. Will anyone be able to police what he is? Is he going to be able to just say things?
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Well, we can't allow that. Who's going to police him? He's going to be out there saying his opinions
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about things. We can't allow that. They're, they're really, they are not trying to hide it.
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Just like with their, with their child sexualization agenda, they are not trying to hide it anymore.
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Those days are long gone. The days of hiding it, of pretending, you know, of doing, of, of,
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of doing it, but then claiming that they're not, you know, trying to enact the agenda,
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but then say, well, what are you talking about? We're not doing that. That's over.
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It's over when it comes to child grooming. They're doing it out in the open.
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And, uh, when it comes to their war on free speech, it's the same deal.
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They're openly fretting about the fact that they won't be able to police what Tucker Carlson says.
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And we've heard a lot of this from the left over the last, well, not just over the last couple
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days, but especially since Tucker, uh, made his announcement yesterday that, well, this,
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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,
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
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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
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
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,
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
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
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.
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
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
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,
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,
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,
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
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
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.
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
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.
00:43:41.300
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has AOC said anything about the motive the gun had? I mean, to coerce a young Hispanic man with a
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.
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,
00:50:29.460
your, the quality of your experience at the restaurant depends to a, to an enormous degree
00:50:33.620
on the quality of the server. Because if it's a bad waiter, even if the food is good, if it's a bad
00:50:38.760
waiter and, uh, they're screwing up and they're not checking in and you're whatever, and they leave
00:50:43.020
you sitting there forever and you're not able to make your order. That's what makes this, the,
00:50:46.360
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00:50:52.440
it's a, it's a reward for a job well done. It's also an incentive to, uh, perform well the next time.
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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
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
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
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.
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
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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.