The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1185 - The Entertainment Industry Is Collapsing, Thank God

00:00:00.140 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, the media is warning of the impending doom of the entertainment

00:00:03.880 industry as Hollywood actors join the writers on strike. One executive worries that we might

00:00:07.780 soon run out of shows to watch. Imagine that. What a horror. But if the entertainment industry

00:00:12.160 collapses, will this really be the cause? And either way, would it actually be a bad thing?

00:00:16.320 Also, speaking of impending doom, we're told that the rest of the planet will also be destroyed as

00:00:20.500 well because of global warming. In fact, one prominent Democrat claims that this week we

00:00:23.920 experienced the hottest temperatures in 120,000 years. Plus, the Pentagon tries to explain why

00:00:29.600 it's so important to provide abortions for female military members. And a beautiful Johnny 1.00

00:00:33.360 the Walrus parade float causes chaos and consternation in Alaska. We'll discuss that

00:00:37.820 important story and much more today on the Matt Walsh Show.

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00:01:40.860 get protected right now. Expressvpn.com slash Walsh. One of the basic but false expectations people have

00:01:48.680 in democracies is that they get to vote on the things that could change their lives forever. Nothing happens,

00:01:54.060 we think, that reorders the lives of millions of people all at once without some sort of a referendum

00:01:58.980 or an election or whatever. Now, things have never really worked that way, of course, and for a few

00:02:03.900 generations now, since the advent of modern technology, that has become more and more evident.

00:02:08.820 What happens in practice is that some new technology arrives and life changes forever all at once for

00:02:13.880 countless people. In one generation, watching a movie meant driving down to the theater, buying a ticket

00:02:19.040 in person. It meant, you know, doing things like putting on clothes and interacting with other human

00:02:23.980 beings. No alternative was imaginable. But then just a few years later, watching a movie is as simple as

00:02:29.880 sitting inside your house, pressing a few buttons on a remote or yelling commands at your remote like some

00:02:34.760 sort of schizophrenic. It becomes archaic to think of anything else. So we're all used to this kind of rapid

00:02:40.020 social change at this point. These massive shifts happen before anyone studies the effects that these new

00:02:46.020 technologies might have on our brains or our interpersonal relationships. The changes just

00:02:51.080 happen. Very quickly, we all take them for granted. And that's all very familiar. What's not familiar,

00:02:57.460 what most people are not used to, is what happens when there is a rollback on all of this? What happens

00:03:02.580 when a modern convenience, for one reason or another, suddenly just stops? Well, as of this week, that's no

00:03:08.880 longer a hypothetical question. After screenwriters in Hollywood went on strike a few months ago last Friday,

00:03:14.400 the Screen Actors Guild joined them on the picket line. And the combined strike means that for all

00:03:19.080 intents and purposes, the entertainment industry in the United States has been shut down, doesn't exist

00:03:23.260 right now. The strike affects movies, television shows, video games, and more. It's the first time

00:03:29.760 that this kind of strike has happened in more than like six decades, I think, in our always online

00:03:34.760 world of Netflix and Hulu and HBO Max and Xbox Live. This is unprecedented. And for some people,

00:03:41.400 it's quite terrifying. For journalists and corporate media who spend more time glued to

00:03:46.280 screens than anyone on the planet, what we're seeing is something of an extinction-level event.

00:03:50.940 This is a catastrophe approximately on the scale of like a Texas-sized asteroid hitting the Earth.

00:03:57.860 Now, these journalists didn't care much about the explosion of that Russian gas pipeline, even though

00:04:01.920 that might have caused a world war. They didn't care about the strange disappearance of the 911 call

00:04:08.040 from Jeffrey Epstein's jail the night that he died, even though that raised a lot of questions,

00:04:12.320 shall we say, about corruption at the highest levels of the federal government. Journalists

00:04:15.840 didn't bother to panic over any of that, but a strike in Hollywood, well, they're all over that

00:04:20.320 story. The Associated Press, for example, just published this dire headline, quote,

00:04:24.920 Hollywood plunges into all-out war on the heels of the pandemic and a streaming revolution.

00:04:30.740 Well, that sounds pretty serious. And according to the allegedly venerable Sunday show,

00:04:35.000 Face the Nation on CBS, it is quite serious. Face the Nation just invited the former CEO of

00:04:40.340 Paramount, Barry Diller, on the show to explain the fallout of the ongoing strike in Hollywood.

00:04:46.160 And here's what the Hollywood shutdown means for you. And it has really serious implications,

00:04:51.940 okay? This is what it means for you, according to Barry Diller. Listen.

00:04:55.860 At this moment, this kind of perfect storm, it's okay if it gets settled in the next month.

00:05:02.780 But I'll posit what happens if it doesn't. And there doesn't seem to be enough trust and energy

00:05:10.040 to get it settled soon. What will happen is, if in fact it doesn't get settled until

00:05:17.620 Christmas or so, then next year, there's not going to be many programs for anybody to watch.

00:05:24.880 So you're going to see subscriptions get pulled, which is going to reduce the revenue of all these

00:05:31.620 movie companies, television companies, the result of which is that there will be no programs. And at

00:05:37.300 just the time strike is settled, that you want to gear back up, there won't be enough money.

00:05:45.280 Terrifying stuff. So the former Paramount CEO wants you to know that, quote, what will happen is,

00:05:50.240 in fact, if it doesn't get settled until Christmas or so, the next year, there's not going to be many

00:05:54.580 programs for anybody to watch. Do you hear that? Are you trembling in fear yet? There might not be

00:05:59.360 any programs for you to watch next year. The programs are going away. Think of the programs.

00:06:05.140 What will you do without the programs? Now, it's kind of funny when you think about it. The

00:06:10.260 implication conveyed with total sincerity is that it would be somehow a bad thing if people stopped

00:06:15.740 staring at screens for 10 hours a day, actually went outside and got some exercise and maybe developed

00:06:21.080 real human interests and personalities. Barry Diller is assuming that you'll agree with him on that

00:06:27.920 point, that that's all a bad thing, as if it's a given. If people went outdoors and got some sun,

00:06:33.440 Barry Diller fears, then one thing might lead to the next. And after a while, they might be, you know,

00:06:38.460 thinking actual thoughts in their brains and interacting with each other.

00:06:46.360 People's testosterone levels might even go up. We simply can't have that.

00:06:52.280 What Diller said is interesting, not because he's worth listening to,

00:06:55.340 but because his desperation is obvious. Diller and the rest of Hollywood want to make sure that

00:07:00.660 you're always consuming content on one subscription service or another. These people never pause to

00:07:06.000 consider whether the content they're forcing down your gullet is good or worthwhile, whether it helps

00:07:10.580 you to be a smarter, better, more interesting person, whether it makes your life better.

00:07:17.120 Like these are actually things you should consider before consuming any content. I know it's sort of

00:07:20.600 unimaginable that you would take these into consideration at all. They never ask themselves

00:07:25.700 if people actually want to watch and listen to the slop they're putting on these streaming services

00:07:29.780 and in movie theaters. They just expect that you'll be horrified at the prospect that all this stuff is

00:07:34.140 no longer available, that the morphine drip of content has been shut down. Unfortunately for these

00:07:40.440 executives, in recent months, there have been a lot of data points that contradict their theory here.

00:07:46.440 Look at the pathetic box office returns of the new Flash movie or the Mission Impossible sequel that

00:07:50.800 just came out, performing in a pretty mediocre way, at least when measured against expectations,

00:07:57.000 or the Indiana Jones and Little Mermaid catastrophes. All of these failures reveal that people are

00:08:01.740 growing weary of what Hollywood is producing. They're exhausted by it, bored of it, but the numbers

00:08:07.100 make that clear. For example, The Flash had a budget of roughly $220 million, and as of the latest

00:08:12.720 estimates, it's barely broken even. The latest Indiana Jones film cost around $300 million,

00:08:17.960 made about as much in the global box office, so that's a wash. The latest Mission Impossible movie,

00:08:23.400 meanwhile, had a budget of around $300 million as well. As of today, it's only made less than $250

00:08:27.900 million. Now it's only been out for a week or two, but again, well below expectations.

00:08:34.440 These kinds of shortfalls happening so consistently for big budget films are unheard of in Hollywood. I mean,

00:08:39.640 it's bomb after bomb after bomb. So what's going on here? What could possibly explain these numbers?

00:08:46.700 Rather than confront that question honestly, corporate media is rushing to blame, can you guess,

00:08:51.560 COVID. According to the AP, quote, disaster loomed in Hollywood when COVID-19 in March 2020

00:08:57.260 shuttered movie theaters, emptied TV studios, and shut down all production. The recovery is still

00:09:02.140 ongoing. Box office remains about 20 to 25 percent off the pre-pandemic pace. Now, in other words,

00:09:08.460 by the media's telling, the problem isn't the content of these Hollywood movies. It's not that

00:09:13.760 people are tired of woke propaganda or derivative storylines or franchises that tell one story

00:09:20.040 repeating itself ad nauseum, never coming to a conclusion. That's not the problem. The problem

00:09:25.960 is that more than three years ago, COVID happened, and that's what explains all this. So it's like the

00:09:31.580 same excuse that the government used to fundamentally change the election system in this country is also

00:09:35.740 the same excuse that explains why no one is watching Hollywood movies anymore. That's what

00:09:39.620 explains everything. Whenever the corporate media needs it to explain something, they can always pull

00:09:43.180 out COVID and say, well, that explains it. And it's always COVID, by the way, that they blame,

00:09:47.740 not the shutdowns. It's not the government's response to COVID, but COVID itself.

00:09:53.340 It's all a pretty neat explanation, but is it true? Well, let's see.

00:09:57.500 Because if that explanation made any sense whatsoever, you expect that every movie, regardless of genre,

00:10:01.620 would be having similar problems, you expect that viewers would be tuning out across the board.

00:10:05.600 But that's not what's happening. Not even close. The film Sound of Freedom, which tells a true story

00:10:10.100 about a hero who rescued sex-trafficked children, is currently pushing $100 million at the box office.

00:10:17.060 Word of mouth is especially strong. The film's audience in its second week in theaters grew by nearly 40%.

00:10:21.560 And now, you might say, well, it's $100 million. It's less than $200 to $300 million that, say, Indiana Jones made.

00:10:29.760 You said that was a failure. But the difference is that Sound of Freedom managed to make all that money

00:10:34.600 and build all that buzz on a shoestring budget of less than $15 million. That's $1.5 million.

00:10:40.720 Somehow, the pandemic from three years ago didn't cut into their revenues. How is that possible?

00:10:45.980 When all is said and done, Sound of Freedom will likely earn something like 10 times its production budget.

00:10:52.020 And to put that into perspective, for Indiana Jones 5 to earn 10 times its production budget,

00:10:56.100 it would need to make $3 billion at the box office. And to put it simply, that ain't happening.

00:11:03.540 As it happens, it's not just Sound of Freedom that's reaching a large audience on a small budget.

00:11:07.600 The Christian horror film Nefarious managed to make it into the box office top 10 despite basically

00:11:11.860 no marketing, no budget, no stars. Nefarious came out at the same time as the Super Mario movie

00:11:17.680 and still managed to beat expectations. And there are many more examples of this.

00:11:21.240 Also this year, of course, my own documentary, What is a Woman, became arguably the most viewed

00:11:24.780 documentary of all time. Again, with very little marketing compared to something like

00:11:28.340 Indiana Jones or Mission Impossible. So what explains all this?

00:11:32.300 The answer is that people are still interested in films. They are still interested in the art form.

00:11:40.460 The pandemic hasn't changed that. No matter what the AP and Hollywood executives tell you,

00:11:45.160 what has changed is that people have grown tired of Hollywood. Mainstream films are redundant and hollow

00:11:50.900 and blatantly politicized. It's an industry entirely out of ideas and people are noticing.

00:11:56.340 And they're also noticing that it treats its customers with contempt.

00:12:00.380 That's what's really underpinning the crisis.

00:12:02.020 And it's why, despite what the panic executives and journalists will tell you,

00:12:07.300 the collapse of the mainstream entertainment industry would be no tragedy. In fact, it's a

00:12:11.840 necessary step in the process of creating something sustainable, an industry that produces content

00:12:16.600 people actually want to watch. And that industry is coming, whether Hollywood executives and screenwriters

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00:13:29.500 Well, it's summertime and that means that it's hot outside. If you hadn't noticed, that's generally

00:13:34.640 how it works. It's generally how it has worked. As long as the earth has had seasons, it's summertime and

00:13:42.800 then it gets hot. And that's like, it's a, it's kind of a, it's a, it's a process that we've seen

00:13:47.600 play out a few times now, at least. And with the summer season comes certain traditions. People go

00:13:53.160 on summer vacations and they go to the pool and they go to the beach and the more stylish men break

00:13:58.480 out their cargo shorts and all the rest of it. Lots of great, wonderful traditions. And then there's

00:14:03.060 the not so great modern summer tradition of panicking hysterically because it's hot outside.

00:14:09.340 And this is when the media, as it does every year, claims that the hot weather is a sign of our

00:14:15.400 impending, uh, planetary doom. So here's CNN, just a quick clip. We'll play for you reporting on our

00:14:22.200 quote, heat hell. That's what they're calling it. It's not summer. It's not just hot out. It's a heat

00:14:26.760 hell. Uh, watch. These long stretches of extreme heat are what they see as cause for alarm. That extreme

00:14:36.480 heat is not just being felt here in the United States. It's being felt by millions of people

00:14:40.340 all around the world as the heat wave sweeps across parts of Europe and Asia too. One top

00:14:45.260 climate group warns that quote, heat hell is worldwide at the moment and that those extreme

00:14:50.700 temperatures are nothing short of dangerous. Bill Weir, we don't usually see these record

00:14:55.380 breaking temperatures that we usually until later in the summer. Why is this summer expected

00:15:00.920 to be hotter than last summer? Cooling patterns in the Pacific there, which actually hit a lot of

00:15:06.400 the pent up energy in the oceans, which have been hiding a lot of the heat for the last century or

00:15:11.840 so. Right now, every second of every day, uh, our planet absorbs as much extra heat as 10 Hiroshima

00:15:18.820 sized atomic bombs per second. And now we're seeing the full result of that. Now we have wildfire smoke,

00:15:26.340 which is a result of drier forests up in Canada and easier burning, uh, conditions there. We have

00:15:32.100 those devastating flash floods that took the lives of those children, as you were describing north of

00:15:36.980 Philadelphia. Those are the results. But heat is really the engine of all of this. A warmer planet

00:15:42.500 holds too much water in some places, not enough in others. And the rate that it's going up now,

00:15:46.980 scientists are used to seeing sort of ocean temperature records broken by a half a degree.

00:15:52.260 It's been shattered by five degrees in the North Atlantic.

00:15:56.820 Hmm. So in other words, it's hot. Uh, yes, it is hot. The hottest it's ever been,

00:16:02.540 they tell us. It's never been hotter than this. Representative Ilhan Omar tweeted this. This is the

00:16:06.780 claim that she's making and not just her. She said the earth just broke the record for the hottest day

00:16:12.620 in 120,000 years. In fact, we broke in on three separate days. We broke it. I think she meant to say

00:16:20.200 we broke it on three separate days. National climate emergency now. Wow. The hottest day in

00:16:28.760 120,000 years. Now, I mean, that sounds pretty bad. I admit if we just experienced the hottest day in

00:16:35.180 120,000 years, then, uh, then something's going on. Like that's, that's a, that's bad news.

00:16:41.060 Probably. We still couldn't do anything about it. You can't actually do anything about it,

00:16:45.580 but that would be bad news. The hottest day in 120,000 years that, I mean, that's significant

00:16:50.140 at the very least. Uh, but before you go building your arc in preparation for the coming worldwide

00:16:55.900 floods from the, uh, polar ice caps melting and all the rest of it, you should take some solace in

00:17:00.080 the fact that what Ilhan Omar has claimed here is total absolute nonsense. Okay. That's the one,

00:17:05.860 there's really only one problem with it. The one problem is that it's completely bogus. Other than

00:17:09.860 that, it's, it's, it's true. Other than the fact that it's entirely false, it's actually true. Now,

00:17:15.800 how do I know that it's bogus? Well, because needless to say, we do not have daily temperature

00:17:23.280 records dating back 120,000 years. Okay. So you can't, you can't say it's the hottest day in 120,000

00:17:31.420 years because that would require you to know how hot it has been every day for the last 120,000 years.

00:17:38.900 And you don't know that nobody does. In fact, we can't get anywhere close to that in terms of

00:17:45.540 our records. And that's why it's not possible to go and look and find out what the weather was like

00:17:51.300 on say, I don't know, August 7th in the year 4,000 BC, much less the year 40,000 BC. That

00:17:59.400 information does not exist. We have no idea. It was not recorded. So what the hell is she babbling

00:18:05.100 about? I mean, where is Omar and where's the rest of the media getting this? Is she getting it from her

00:18:08.840 own fevered imagination? Sort of, but, but not entirely. Her imagination is being fed by the

00:18:14.660 media. So the Hill, for example, published an article with this headline a couple of weeks ago.

00:18:19.240 And here's the headline. We're experiencing earth's hottest weather in 120,000 years,

00:18:24.400 and it's just getting started. So that's, that's probably pretty directly where she got it from.

00:18:29.880 Although even there, you see, it's, it's, that's not exactly the same claim. She said,

00:18:34.780 this is the hottest day in 120,000 years. And, but the headline is we're experiencing

00:18:39.100 earth's hottest weather, which is a little bit more vague. Um, but even so, how do they know that?

00:18:46.340 I mean, uh, uh, how could they possibly know that we're, that we're experiencing the hottest weather

00:18:52.020 120,000 years? Well, they answer that question. They pretend to answer it anyway with this. So I'm

00:18:57.560 reading now. It says, how can experts be so confident of these bold assertions? As a climate

00:19:03.360 specialist, I'll do my best to explain. It's all fairly simple and fully expected by the climate

00:19:07.680 science community. First, researchers know using observations that temperatures over the past

00:19:12.300 decade have been warmer than any ever seen since record keeping began in the 1800s. Since then,

00:19:17.520 earth has warmed by 1.2 degrees Celsius or two degrees Fahrenheit. Scientists also know through

00:19:22.980 sophisticated methods of examining copious climate clues in proxy data, like tree rings, ice cores,

00:19:29.100 ocean sediments, et cetera, that earth's average temperature has not been this warm since the

00:19:33.280 ice age ended 20,000 years ago. Between 10,000 years ago in today's rapid man-made warming,

00:19:39.520 earth's average temperature was relatively constant, allowing human civilization to thrive. There were

00:19:43.320 disruptive regional cooling episodes like the disparate, uh, little ice age events, but the

00:19:48.380 impact on overall global temperature was relatively minor. Since at the peak of the last ice age,

00:19:53.900 earth's average temperature is about 10 degrees cooler than today. And it's not been this warm since the

00:19:58.900 last ice age. We call that time the last interglacial in between glacial periods, which peaked around 125,000

00:20:05.280 years ago. Okay. So that's it. That's the, uh, that's the science using proxy data like tree rings and ocean

00:20:13.240 sediments. Scientists can come up with a guess as to the average global temperature dating back thousands

00:20:20.000 of years, supposedly, but here's the problem. Well, there are too, there are too many problems to count,

00:20:25.100 but let's, I mean, here's one, even if these guesses are correct or approximately correct, and that's a

00:20:31.740 big if, okay, they are averages. They are not precise daily measurements. Okay. Ilhan, that's not what they

00:20:41.660 are. You can't look at a tree ring, Ilhan, and find out what the temperature was at 4 56 PM on July 13th

00:20:48.120 in the year 7 AD. Tree rings are not that specific. Just doesn't work that way. Which means that the

00:20:56.180 claim that yesterday was the hottest day in over a hundred thousand years or 120,000 years is not

00:21:01.020 supported by any science at all. It just is not. There's no basis for it. Um, even the more ambiguous,

00:21:06.700 more vague version of that claim, there is still no science for it. There, there simply isn't,

00:21:12.620 uh, none at all now. So that's all, that's all nonsense, but there's one other point that I have

00:21:19.980 to make here. And this is, uh, so if there's a tradition of panicking over the hot weather,

00:21:24.400 or at least some people, the media and Democrats panicking over it, the other tradition is where

00:21:28.480 it seems like every year I have to explain what I'm about to explain here. Um, and, and it, and it's

00:21:33.280 this, and I know for a lot of you, this is not going to be news to you, but just bear with me because

00:21:37.560 there are some people who need to hear it. Now, here's what I'll tell you. If you're wondering about the

00:21:42.560 hot weather, you're looking around and you're saying, wow, man, it's hot out. Where's all this

00:21:45.820 hot weather coming from? Where's it coming from? Is it coming from my, my SUV that I drive to the

00:21:50.620 store? Is that where it's coming from? Um, is it coming from all the cows farting and sending a

00:21:55.380 methane gas to the air? Is that what it is? Well, I'll, I'll, uh, point your gaze in a different

00:22:00.960 direction. Although don't look directly at it because in case you hadn't noticed there is up in the sky,

00:22:05.640 about 90 million miles away, a giant glowing ball of gas, uh, which is big enough to fit a million

00:22:11.940 earths inside of it. And it burns at its core at about 27 million degrees Fahrenheit. It is so big

00:22:18.500 and so powerful that it's gravitational pull extends 50,000 astronomical units into space.

00:22:25.100 And one astronomical unit is 93 million miles. So 93, uh, million times 50,000. You do the math on

00:22:35.820 that. That's how far this object's influence extends in modern terms. You might even say that

00:22:42.280 when I'm talking about here is the sun. If you didn't already guess the sun is the greatest

00:22:46.300 influencer in the solar system. You could search all of Tik TOK and you would find very few influencers

00:22:52.760 who are as influential as the sun. That's how influential it is. So here's my point. That big

00:22:58.120 old thing in the sky, that glowing ball of gas. Um, we just heard a comparison to, uh, atomic bombs.

00:23:04.780 Well, the, the, the sun generates the equivalent of like several billion atomic bombs of energy every

00:23:12.880 second. And that's what calls the shots on earth. It determines the temperature. Uh, it determines

00:23:19.700 everything in terms of weather. And it could get a, you know, the sun could get a case of indigestion

00:23:25.720 tomorrow and burp and, uh, knock out our entire power grid, send us back to the stone age. That

00:23:32.140 thing, that thing is what you can blame the temperature on. And until you figure out a way

00:23:39.440 to literally control the sun, there is basically nothing we can do to intentionally and significantly

00:23:47.320 raise lower or otherwise affect the temperature on earth because they're going to be competing with

00:23:53.140 that thing in the sky there. Um, and that's, that's what we are not as significant as apparently

00:24:01.220 we are not as powerful. Uh, we are not as powerful as many people, especially corporate media apparently

00:24:10.480 think we are. Um, here's a tweet from someone whose ego is about as big as the sun. Barack Obama posted

00:24:19.000 this. He said, today, some of the books that shaped my life and the lives of so many others

00:24:24.320 are being challenged by people who disagree with certain ideas or perspectives. And librarians are

00:24:30.100 on the front lines fighting every day to make the widest range of viewpoints, opinions, and ideas

00:24:34.360 available to everyone. So that's what he tweeted. And then he included this letter. Let me see if I

00:24:38.920 can pull it up. Um, this is very interesting. You need to hear this. This is what, uh, this is what,

00:24:45.500 this is the letter that he, that he posted as well to the dedicated and hardworking librarians of

00:24:51.000 America. In any democracy, the free exchange of ideas is an important part of making sure that

00:24:55.460 citizens are informed, engaged, and feel like the perspective matters. So important. In fact,

00:24:59.340 that here in America, the first amendment of our constitution states that freedom begins with our

00:25:02.960 capacity to share and access ideas, even, and maybe especially the ones we disagree with more often

00:25:08.640 than not, someone decides to write those ideas down in a book more often than not. So of all the

00:25:16.380 ideas that have ever been had more often than not, they are written in books. I don't think that

00:25:22.300 makes any sense, but we're not going to get, we don't have time to get hung up on all the little

00:25:25.060 details here. Books have always shaped how I experienced the world. Writers like Mark Twain

00:25:29.340 and Toni Morrison, Walt Whitman, James Baldwin taught me something essential about our country's

00:25:33.640 character. Reading about people whose lives were very different from mine, showed me how to step

00:25:37.460 into someone else's shoes, blah, blah, blah, blah. Today, some of the books that shaped my life and

00:25:41.800 the lives of so many others are being challenged by people who disagree with certain ideas of

00:25:45.080 perspective. It's no coincidence that these banned books are often written by or feature people of

00:25:48.800 color, indigenous people, and members of the LGBTQ plus community. All right. So

00:25:54.940 the headline here is that Barack Obama has finally come out as gay. We knew it would happen 1.00

00:26:02.540 eventually. And, and, and, and here we are, it finally happened officially. At least that must be

00:26:09.880 what he's saying. I can only assume that's what he's saying because he says that the books that are

00:26:15.300 being challenged, quote unquote, are the ones that shaped his life. But literally the only books that

00:26:22.520 anyone on the right is challenging are pornographic books about gay sex. Okay. Those books are the, 0.99

00:26:30.620 the focal, not just the focal point. They are the entirety of the discussion about quote unquote

00:26:35.880 banning books that you find on the right. That's what we're looking at. Those are the only ones

00:26:39.600 that, that anyone on our side has raised an objection to. And when it comes to challenging them,

00:26:48.460 we have specifically challenged their presence in schools. We have challenged the schools

00:26:54.520 that distribute pornographic books to kids. That is what we are challenging. That is the challenge

00:27:01.900 that Barack Obama is referring to. That's it. That's the whole challenge.

00:27:10.160 And so if some of these challenged books are what shaped his life, then we can only assume that his life 0.99

00:27:17.100 was shaped by pornographic books about gay sex. That's what Barack Obama is saying. 0.99

00:27:24.900 I'm not going to pretend it's breaking news. I'm not going to pretend it's a huge surprise,

00:27:28.140 but, but that's what he's saying.

00:27:32.720 And that of course, as always is when we hear about banned books

00:27:35.500 from the left, that is always what they're talking about.

00:27:39.340 We are, are we trying on the right? Are we trying to ban books in a certain context? Yeah,

00:27:45.840 we are. We, we want to ban pornographic books from schools. Absolutely. Um, we want to

00:27:52.980 ban anyone, whether they're working at school or not from, uh, distributing pornographic material to

00:27:59.620 children. That's what we're looking to do. But when they talk about book bans, that is 100% of the

00:28:05.340 time what they're referring to. And you notice something else too, that, uh, it's, it's very

00:28:12.340 easy. It's very interesting and convenient that when you have people on the left, like Barack Obama,

00:28:16.820 um, who talk about the, you know, the importance of, of being able to access ideas and access

00:28:26.260 perspectives, it's our capacity to share and access ideas, even, and maybe especially the ones we

00:28:32.080 disagree with. Okay. He says freedoms, freedom begins with that, that we can't have the first

00:28:37.980 amendment without that, without the ability to, uh, to freely access and share ideas,

00:28:43.320 including ones we disagree with. Well, it's, it's really interesting that anytime they talk about

00:28:49.180 that, um, they, they want to relegate it to books. And that's why he immediately in the next sentence

00:28:55.200 makes the kind of odd claim that more often than not, these ideas people have are written down in

00:29:02.360 books, which of course, most of the time, that's not the case. Like most people have never written

00:29:06.000 a book. Everyone has ideas and opinions and the vast majority of people will never write them in a

00:29:11.100 book. Most people are not authors. So they want to relegate it to that. They want the conversation to

00:29:17.080 be about books, physical books that you can go out and pick up and read. And even then it's

00:29:23.580 actually, it's, it's an even, it's a much more limited conversation than that, because once again,

00:29:27.780 no one is trying to ban books broadly. Uh, so what they're really talking about are books and

00:29:34.080 specifically pornographic books in schools. But you notice what they're leaving out of all this?

00:29:42.600 Um, what about the ideas and opinions that are shared in every other context? Like on social media,

00:29:49.460 on the internets. Okay. Cause everyone has ideas and opinions that they want to share.

00:29:57.480 Almost no one, save a very small minority are writing them in actual physical books,

00:30:02.120 but most people in the modern world are sharing them online.

00:30:08.260 And so if you really believe that freedom begins with our capacity to share and access ideas,

00:30:13.600 then before we talk about books, you should, you should be starting with, uh, the, you know,

00:30:19.360 social media needs to be a place where people can openly share their opinions, especially Barack Obama

00:30:26.240 says the ones we disagree with, but he's not going to say that because he knows that in these forums,

00:30:34.000 you know, the exact forums where regular people actually do go to share and access ideas.

00:30:39.920 Most people are not writing books that end up in libraries and most people are not going to

00:30:46.340 libraries these days, but people are online. Uh, but it's in that, it's in that forum of the

00:30:54.760 internet where you're not going to hear someone like Barack Obama talk about the importance of

00:30:58.800 free speech because it's exactly there where they want to shut down free speech and they want to shut

00:31:04.800 down, uh, you know, the free exchange and expression of ideas and opinions.

00:31:10.860 That's when their, their, uh, tone suddenly changes really drastically.

00:31:17.020 And now instead of talking about how freedom begins with our capacity to share and access ideas,

00:31:21.680 now they're going to talk about things like stochastic terrorism, how you could be a terrorist

00:31:26.040 for having a viewpoint that other people find disturbing. Yeah. They care so much about,

00:31:32.100 uh, sharing and access, accessing ideas, but they think that you should be banned from every social

00:31:38.540 media platform in the world. If you say that, you know, a male is a man and not a woman, that's how 0.76

00:31:46.760 much they care about free speech, obviously. All right, moving on. Here's Pentagon spokesman,

00:31:51.360 John Kirby, um, answering an important question. Let's listen.

00:31:57.580 Why is the new DOD policy on abortion critical to military readiness?

00:32:02.520 I'm really glad you asked that question. No, I mean, I really am. One in five members of the U.S.

00:32:10.900 military are women, 20%. We're an all volunteer force. Nobody's forcing you to sign up and go.

00:32:17.880 People volunteer to go. You raise your right hand. You say, I'm going to, I'm going to do this for a few

00:32:24.480 years or even for my life. And it might cost me my life to do it. And when you sign up and you make

00:32:29.680 that contract, you have every right to expect that the organization, in this case, the military is going

00:32:37.080 to take care of you and they're going to take care of your families. And they're going to make sure

00:32:40.220 that you can serve with dignity and respect, no matter who you are, who you love, uh, or, uh, or

00:32:45.920 how you worship or don't. And, um, and our policies, whether they're diversity, inclusion, and equity,

00:32:53.280 or whether they're about transgender individuals who qualify physically and mentally to serve to be

00:32:59.380 able to do it with dignity, or whether it's about female service members, one in five, or female family 0.95

00:33:07.060 members, being able to count on the kinds of healthcare and reproductive care specifically

00:33:11.180 that they need to serve. Uh, that is a foundational sacred obligation of military leaders across the

00:33:19.060 river. Uh, I've seen it myself and it matters because it says we're invested in you because you

00:33:24.800 are being willing to invest in us. You're investing your life, your family's livelihood with us. We owe you

00:33:31.000 that back in return. I had a chance a couple of weeks ago to meet with some military spouses here at 0.97

00:33:35.800 the White House. Um, some were active duty members, some were spouses, all were women. And 201, they told

00:33:43.220 me, uh, that abortion laws in this country that are now being passed are absolutely having an effect

00:33:50.260 on their willingness to continue serving in uniform or to encourage or discourage, in this case,

00:33:56.020 their spouses from continuing service. Wow. So he had a bunch of, uh, military members and

00:34:03.960 military spouses, all female at the, uh, at the White House or the Pentagon. And every single one 0.94

00:34:12.580 said that abortion, that being able to kill babies is a, is a necessity in order to have women in the 1.00

00:34:19.860 military. Well, all right, here's an easy solution. Then here's my solution. If that's the case, 0.97

00:34:25.860 I'll adopt your premise for a moment. Well, then get women out of the military, you know, 1.00

00:34:32.680 ban women from the military. That's the solution. Get women out. I have never heard a better argument 1.00

00:34:41.140 for excluding women from the military than this. There are actually a bunch of arguments for it. 0.97

00:34:46.980 All of them quite compelling. Um, but this is the best argument. He claims that, that a, a necessary

00:34:55.460 prerequisite for having women in the military is killing babies. That's what he is saying. That's 1.00

00:35:01.580 the spokes spokesman for the Pentagon. In fact, using tax money to kill babies, tax funded baby 0.99

00:35:09.400 murder is necessary. Kirby claims in order to have women serve. Well, okay, then get them the hell out. 1.00

00:35:18.520 If children must be sacrificed on the altar of female inclusion, then that is the best possible 1.00

00:35:24.860 indication that there should be no female inclusion in this facet of society, which is the military. 1.00

00:35:34.240 Best argument you can make. Now we know that oftentimes historically members of the military

00:35:40.280 have been called on to sacrifice their lives, which is a heroic sacrifice. And, uh, we honor that.

00:35:47.720 What we do not honor is a member of the military or anybody else sacrificing their children

00:35:54.200 for, for, for the sake of their own opportunities. That is an exact inversion. Okay. That is the

00:36:00.860 opposite of what someone in the military should be doing. Right. Ideally, you join the military to

00:36:08.380 protect your children and other people's children. You, you, you, you go there to protect your country

00:36:14.140 and especially the future generations, the current younger generations, children,

00:36:18.740 but children being killed. So for the sake of these members of the military is, um, backwards.

00:36:34.000 It is again, a complete inversion of, of the, the, what is supposed to be the basic function and purpose

00:36:41.000 of the military. And there's a lot of that going on. We know, uh, the Biden administration wants to

00:36:48.420 invert everything, especially when it comes to the military so that in every area it, it, it does

00:36:53.520 exactly the opposite of what it's supposed to do and functions in exactly the opposite, uh, way that

00:36:59.740 it's supposed to function. But we can begin here. If that's what it takes, then no problem. Just get

00:37:09.920 women out of the military. Um, you know, historically we know that, uh, you know, in every thriving and 1.00

00:37:20.020 successful civilization, uh, that, that men are what are the people that go to war to defend it

00:37:26.040 anyway, to begin with. And this is not a problem that you have. Like when men are exclusively in the 0.85

00:37:35.020 military, this is not even a conversation we even need to have. Maybe that should tell us something.

00:37:42.660 All right. One of the thing I want to play for you, another quick clip, and I haven't even seen

00:37:46.600 this whole clip. I just saw it pop up, uh, right before we started filming today. Speaking of women, 1.00

00:37:51.920 Jared Polis, governor of Colorado and Spencer Cox, who's the governor of Utah, that is a Democrat and

00:37:58.260 alleged Republican have come together for some sort of PSA. They have combined their cringe powers.

00:38:04.360 When their cringe powers combine, it creates, uh, this. Let's watch.

00:38:10.180 I'm Spencer Cox, Republican governor of Utah. And I'm Jared Polis, Democratic governor of Colorado.

00:38:17.240 And we're here to help save your family dinners. You know what we're talking about. You're halfway

00:38:21.940 through your second helping of mashed potatoes when your MAGA uncle decides to share his thoughts

00:38:26.960 on the latest election conspiracy. We all have that uncle. Or instead of passing the salt,

00:38:32.380 your woke niece passes along a particularly controversial fact that she read on social media.

00:38:37.580 Or maybe you're the one with the strong opinions. You know you're right. And the other side is a bunch

00:38:43.260 of misguided weirdos. But there's a healthy way to deal with conflicting opinions. Actually,

00:38:48.540 it's okay to disagree. It's not just okay. It's crucial. Did you just disagree with me about

00:38:53.340 disagreeing? Healthy disagreement means not assuming that the other side is deluded, misinformed,

00:38:59.800 or actively trying to overthrow America. A little respect and curiosity keeps resentment off the

00:39:05.640 dinner table. And out of your social media feeds. Our nation was founded by people who profoundly

00:39:11.480 disagreed. So next time your uncle, your niece, or anyone else brings up that one topic that just

00:39:18.660 drives you nuts, take a deep breath. Be curious. Ask questions. If you still disagree, that's okay.

00:39:24.580 But you might find that you aren't as far apart as you think. Conflict isn't bad. It's the way we

00:39:30.560 disagree that matters. Please join us in showing America the right kind of conflict. Together,

00:39:36.860 we can disagree better.

00:39:40.560 No, I was expecting cringe, but that was overload. That was a lot. And I don't apologize

00:39:49.280 for very much on this show. But I am sorry to have inflicted that on you. I didn't realize quite,

00:39:56.180 like I said, I didn't read the whole, I didn't watch really any of it before. I just saw,

00:40:00.000 I saw it. I saw the thumbnail and then that was it. And we played it and now we've all experienced

00:40:06.000 it and there's no going back. We can't go back. We can't go back to who we were before. We just sat

00:40:11.140 through that for 90 seconds. First of all, who speaks like, no one speaks like this. What do you do

00:40:18.280 if your niece passes along a controversial fact that she read on social media? This is not,

00:40:24.220 it's not how human beings speak. And we, of course, also don't need politicians to

00:40:29.860 tell us how to function as human beings. That's not what they're there for. That's not what we

00:40:36.200 elected them. Like, we don't need you to help us become better people. That's not your job,

00:40:43.780 which is a good thing because you two in particular are not equipped for that job whatsoever.

00:40:49.320 Whatever. But, you know, and most of this you could say is basically harmless. It's just your

00:40:56.780 standard cliches and platitudes about, oh, why don't we all get along?

00:41:04.580 And for the most part, that's what it is. It's cringy, it's embarrassing, all that,

00:41:09.060 but you can roll your eyes and move on. But what underlies this is really a misconception

00:41:15.860 and it's, it's a, it is a fact, talking about controversial facts, is a fact that many people

00:41:27.240 are too afraid to face, which is that what we just heard from one of those guys there

00:41:32.860 that, well, a lot of times you think you disagree, but you find out you're not that far apart.

00:41:38.140 The fact is that that is not true. We want to believe that. That's what we tell ourselves.

00:41:46.280 So we look at all the contention in our culture and the disagreements and the culture war battles

00:41:52.540 that, that rage. And we want to believe that, you know, we're really, we're really all the same at

00:41:59.160 heart and we, we want the same things and we have the same basic values. And so most of these arguments

00:42:05.240 and, uh, and everything, but most of this is, these are all really grounded in, in, in, uh,

00:42:09.900 misconceptions, miscommunications. Really, that's what all this is.

00:42:15.940 That's not the case. I, I wish that were the case. Okay. I wish that was true, but it's not

00:42:22.960 because what we find in our culture, as I've, uh, said many times, there is a, you know,

00:42:31.840 it is an oversimplification to talk about two sides because each side is fractured into splinter

00:42:36.460 groups, apparently, especially on our side being, uh, conservatives, whatever you want

00:42:40.520 to call us, uh, that you, you find that fracturing and splintering, especially, um, among people

00:42:47.040 on the right. But if we were to broadly lump the two groups together and talk about left

00:42:52.320 and right, which you can do, and it's coherent, it's a coherent thing to do. Um, what you find

00:42:58.040 in between these two groups is a vast and deep Canyon, uh, and it's, it's far too wide

00:43:06.600 for any bridge to be built across it. Okay. There are, well, it turns out, um, we as Americans

00:43:19.720 do not share any universal principles or universal fundamental beliefs about life and about the

00:43:30.460 world. We, we don't, we used to, that used to be the case. I mean, you could go back 150 years

00:43:38.760 to a time when there were, when there was obviously intense disagreement about really important issues

00:43:43.300 and even civil wars that were fought. Uh, but if you get down to it, you would find that there are

00:43:50.360 some basic fundamental agreements and we don't have that anymore. Now, obviously, you know, on this show,

00:44:00.120 uh, we talk a lot about gender ideology and, uh, and everything related to that. And one of the

00:44:06.280 reasons we talk about that, that is one of the most glaring examples of this total lack of commonality

00:44:13.020 between the two sides, because that's one of the things you go back to, you know, the civil war,

00:44:18.840 600,000 Americans died. They were killing each other on the battlefield. Um, but if you had taken a

00:44:26.320 poll of everybody involved in the civil war on both sides and ask them, um, do women have penises? 0.99

00:44:33.120 You would find that 0% say yes. So at least they all understood like basic facts of physical reality 0.98

00:44:43.200 that they all understood. They had that in common, at least. Um, they all also, almost all of them would

00:44:51.040 have also believed in God, would have believed, uh, therefore in some of the, you know, the, the

00:44:54.880 basic ideas about the meaning of life and the purpose of human beings. I mean, these things are

00:44:58.800 important, but we don't have any of that anymore, at least not shared across both sides and across

00:45:05.320 the culture. Um, and that's, that's the reality. And you might find that in your own family. A lot

00:45:10.920 of people do might have somebody in your own family. So this is not just annoying conversations

00:45:15.020 at the dinner table. Uh, you might have an uncle or niece or whoever, or a parent or, uh, uh, you know,

00:45:21.600 sibling, God forbid a spouse who it's not just that you disagree with them. It's that they might as well

00:45:27.020 live in a different universe. Their conception of reality is completely foreign and alien to you.

00:45:37.400 That's, that's what we're dealing with. And, uh, you know, we have to begin by at least recognizing that.

00:45:47.440 Um, let's get to the comment section.

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00:46:56.240 That's prepare with walsh.com. Okay. Lifted in faith says, what is so funny about the height

00:47:03.900 swapping of the seven dwarves is that in their attempt to not perpetuate the discrimination of

00:47:08.520 little people that are actively taking jobs away from little people. Yeah, that's exactly the point 1.00

00:47:13.480 that I think I made also on the show, uh, yesterday that this is, it's one of the many ironies here,

00:47:19.840 um, is that, is that actually snow way in the seven doors, but that was an opportunity to actually,

00:47:26.020 we, we, we hear about, it's so important to have representation and opportunities for all different

00:47:30.540 kinds of people. Well, if you are, um, if you are, if you are someone suffering from dwarfism and you're

00:47:36.520 an actor in Hollywood, it's like, they're not, they're not many roles that are open to you.

00:47:42.060 And so if they're making a snow white remake, well, here's an opportunity.

00:47:46.980 And in their wokeness, Disney came back around and said, no, nevermind.

00:47:50.300 We're going to exclude you in the name of inclusion, in the name of inclusion, we're going to exclude

00:47:56.740 you. That's often the way it goes. Knowledge and faith says no white and the seven Dwights. 1.00

00:48:04.220 But I like that one. I mean, seven Dwights doesn't make a lot of sense, but it kind of does. I, I, 0.98

00:48:09.600 I sort of understand what you mean by that. Um, Sylvia says something is wrong with your hair.

00:48:15.900 Well, I think, uh, what's wrong with it is that we're on the road and I don't have, uh,

00:48:20.260 hair and makeup. Not that I use that anyway, but that's what, if there's anything wrong with how

00:48:26.000 I appear, that's, that's who you can blame it on. Um, because of course I don't know how to groom

00:48:30.260 myself or comb my own hair. The cultured swine says, I don't think you understand how close some

00:48:34.100 of the SPG came to converting to Michael Knowles's creme de la creme while you were gone. Glad you're

00:48:38.640 back. Please never leave for that long. Yeah. Well, they're not, they're SPG for life. Well, it's don't,

00:48:42.980 don't insult me by saying SPG for life. If you're going to then, if you're SPG for life after you

00:48:47.240 just said that after three weeks, you're going to convert to Michael Knowles's cult. So it's not

00:48:54.360 SPG for life is it? It's SPG for, for, you know, three and a half weeks. How dare you? Creme de la

00:49:01.680 creme. Come on. That's almost as bad as Candace's attempts. Look, there's just, there's just, uh,

00:49:07.880 everyone at the daily wire has tried to make their own cult. It's end and it doesn't,

00:49:12.280 you know why it doesn't work because it's too intentional. As I've tried to explain the SPG

00:49:16.840 was, uh, it, it was, it was something that happened organically. It was almost, it's like it fell out

00:49:22.800 of the sky. It was, it was birthed by the universe itself. I would even say not to put too fine a point

00:49:29.060 on it. And what you have from the other people at daily wire is that they look at that and say,

00:49:34.640 I want my own. I want my own. You end up with creme de la creme. Come on. Uh, Christina says,

00:49:41.860 so they don't know who had access to a secure area of the white house and are dropped off hard

00:49:45.960 drugs. What else did this person slash group have access to? Sensitive documents talk about

00:49:49.760 massive security breach. They are trying to cover their ass, but end up making a situation look even 0.96

00:49:53.900 worse. Right. It's, it, it's whoever left the cocaine in the white house. Um, and we can assume 1.00

00:50:04.100 that it's someone that is close to people in power in the white house because we can assume that

00:50:09.100 because if it wasn't, they would just tell us if it really was some visitor.

00:50:13.300 That's what they keep telling us. They keep saying that us, you know, it's an area that

00:50:17.360 visitors have access to hundreds of visitors. You really want us to believe that a visitor to

00:50:23.620 the white house brought cocaine? Like someone, what, maybe someone's going for a tour.

00:50:28.420 Someone is stopping by for a tour of the white house. Some tourist

00:50:31.760 decided to bring some Coke into the white house. And then really what the halfway through the tour

00:50:36.940 said, Oh crap, I brought my cocaine with me and then took it out. It just left it somewhere.

00:50:42.660 Uh, we're supposed to believe that of course that doesn't make any sense, but if it is true,

00:50:45.860 they have no idea than that. That does indeed raise lots of questions about, uh, security or

00:50:50.980 lack thereof at the white house. Michael says, honestly, Disney is trying to cater to a much

00:50:56.440 larger and more diverse audience than they did in the 1950s. The backlash is partly cultural

00:51:00.580 dissonance because things are changing. Partly hate speech. Yes, it's hate speech. If you don't

00:51:05.260 want to go watch the new, uh, uh, snow white, of course, what you're saying is completely wrong on

00:51:10.780 many levels, starting with the fact that, um, it is not catering to a much larger audience. Okay.

00:51:15.840 I can guarantee you that the snow white remake will not reach a larger audience than did the original

00:51:24.240 snow white. How many people have seen the original snow white that was made in what it's in 1940s or even

00:51:30.440 earlier, perhaps how many people have seen it? It's like, I don't, I'm sure we could probably look

00:51:34.720 that number up as hundreds of millions, if not more than that. Um, and it's not just people that

00:51:44.160 have seen it. It's how it's, it's the influence that, that, um, that that film has had on the

00:51:51.260 culture and on people. Do you think that the, the, the remake is going to come anywhere close to that?

00:51:57.520 No, of course not. Like these remakes are not even reaching, uh, the new generations and the newer

00:52:07.840 audiences. I know that for my own kids, they have no interest in watching any of the remake versions

00:52:15.540 of any of these films. They're, they're bored to death by all of them. So if this is about reaching

00:52:23.640 a larger and more diverse audience, it totally fails in that regard. It would be hard to reach

00:52:30.680 a larger audience than the Disney classics have already reached. And because they reach everyone,

00:52:36.300 everyone knows about those films and has seen them. So what they're going to reach a larger audience than

00:52:42.160 everyone. You know, that's the thing about, um, fairy tales, right? It's like fairy tales.

00:52:49.320 These are stories that have been written and have been retold and passed down through the ages and

00:52:56.180 that they are designed already to connect with people of all ages and all backgrounds and quote

00:53:02.860 unquote diverse audiences. That's what fairy tales already do. That's why these, these stories have

00:53:09.320 stood the test of time, not just since the original Disney films, which we call original, but you know,

00:53:15.540 they're not, they didn't originate the stories. These stories go back, many of them go back hundreds

00:53:20.160 of years, if not longer. So you're not going to improve on them. Um, and often what, what ends

00:53:27.340 up happening, not often, every time what ends up happening in the woke remakes is that they take

00:53:30.580 these, these enduring stories that have stood the test of time and they remove everything about them

00:53:35.760 that made them enduring, that made them relatable in the first place. Um, and finally, Nick says,

00:53:44.380 Matt, seriously, man, I'm starting to think you didn't work on for the past. It seems like a

00:53:48.860 month. Well, you have little faith. You will. I like it keeps telling you is that, is that listen,

00:53:56.540 I know there are many people in media, even in conservative media that they like to hype things

00:54:00.500 up and they like to say, Oh, we've got some, something big's coming. And then, and then they

00:54:04.400 don't follow through. So I'm aware that that happens, but I would hope that at this point,

00:54:07.860 you at least have noticed that when I say, Oh, we've got some big stuff coming. Like we actually,

00:54:12.160 we're going to do it. I don't say that if it's not true. So just patience is all we need.

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00:56:26.820 This may very well be my favorite story that I've covered all summer. Though in fairness,

00:56:31.720 I've only done like three shows this summer, so the bar is not very high. Be that as it may,

00:56:35.880 we must extend a hearty congratulations to Fairbanks school board candidate Michael Humphrey,

00:56:40.280 who won the prize for the best political float at the city's Golden Day Festival Parade.

00:56:45.660 I have no idea what the Golden Day Festival is, except that the parade is apparently the largest

00:56:49.440 in the state every single year. This is a big deal as far as Alaskan parades go. I mean,

00:56:54.220 it is the biggest one. Suffice to say that it is an enormous honor for Mr. Humphrey,

00:57:00.060 who won the award, and also for yours truly, as the winning float was apparently inspired

00:57:04.140 by my best-selling children's book, Johnny the Walrus. Now, as you can see here, I put the

00:57:08.200 pictures up. It is a, it is a, the float is a massive walrus with the name Johnny emblazoned on

00:57:13.660 the front. Now, this should be a time of celebration in Fairbanks. Celebration of the Johnny the Walrus

00:57:21.980 float. Indeed, it should be a time of celebration across the entire world. Michael Humphrey's Johnny the

00:57:26.780 Walrus float has achieved the highest honor ever awarded to a giant inflatable walrus. And yes, we

00:57:33.460 have kept daily records on that, and so I know I can say that. If we cannot all come together to

00:57:39.240 applaud this man and his walrus in this time and honor their accomplishments, then what does that say

00:57:44.880 about us as a culture, I ask you? But that is where this story takes a dark turn. That becomes a tale

00:57:51.760 of treachery and betrayal. The judges who gave the award to Johnny the Walrus have now come out,

00:57:58.440 after giving the award, have now come out and denounced Johnny the Walrus. As it turns out,

00:58:04.640 these judges are libs who did not understand until after the fact that the walrus they awarded is based

00:58:10.100 on my children's book. These poor libs, like so many libs before them, did not even realize they were 0.84

00:58:15.240 being owned. And by the time they found out, it was too late. The website Must Read Alaska reports,

00:58:21.520 the judges awarded the walrus the top prize, and then the fun started. Someone figured out that this

00:58:25.220 was Johnny from the pro-child book Johnny the Walrus. One of the judges, a hardline leftist, went to

00:58:30.180 Twitter to express her utter horror that she had helped Johnny the Walrus win. She didn't know, she said,

00:58:34.800 that Johnny the Walrus was transphobic. Quote, so it turns out that the best political float was an

00:58:39.100 anti-trans float. The judges had no idea. We had two floats to choose from for political. You know what I hate?

00:58:45.240 Hateful people. Of course, the irony is lost on her on that. She continued, we both feel sick about it, 0.84

00:58:52.320 and especially on how it reflects in our community to those who don't know that the judges did not

00:58:56.400 have context. We thought, guy has a mustache like a walrus. We're in Alaska. That's a walrus

00:59:01.240 inflatable. Okay. The controversy quickly spread from there to other social media platforms.

00:59:06.420 On Facebook, a Fairbanks resident anonymously posted, quote, this was afloat in today's Golden

00:59:12.080 Day Parade in Fairbanks, Alaska for school board candidate Michael Humphrey. His giant walrus named

00:59:16.520 Johnny is a reference to a transphobic kids book that compares being a trans child to pretending to

00:59:21.320 be a walrus. Please help get the word out about this disgusting candidate and ensure that he does 0.99

00:59:26.140 not get elected. He is running against incumbent Tim Doran. Soon, TikTok got in on the action where a man

00:59:32.700 with a Hanna-Barbera cartoon villain mustache expressed his deep outrage. Listen.

00:59:39.140 So, get a load of this transphobic bullshit that just showed up in Fairbanks. So, you may ask 0.99

00:59:43.240 yourself, how does a walrus equate to transphobia? Well, let me explain. So, Michael Humphreys,

00:59:47.440 he's a conservative Christian Republican who's running for a school board in the Fairbanks area.

00:59:51.360 He decided to announce his candidacy by running afloat in the Gold Days parade through Fairbanks as a giant

00:59:56.840 walrus. Oh, neat. Most people thought that the walrus's name is Johnny. Well, for those of you who are not

01:00:02.700 Johnny the walrus actually means a lot more than it appears. Johnny the walrus is a book that was

01:00:06.080 written by Matt Walsh. Johnny the walrus is based off of a kid who has an overactive imagination. One

01:00:10.460 day he wants to be a dinosaur. One day he wants to be a knight in shining armor. Well, one day he

01:00:13.520 decides he wants to be a walrus. He puts spoons in his mouth, tells his mom he's a walrus. His mom

01:00:17.420 thinks it's adorable, puts a picture of him online. That's when the internet people come and get her and

01:00:21.880 tell her that she's a bigot if she doesn't help him transition to be a walrus. So, the mom complies and 0.84

01:00:25.720 starts forcing Johnny to become a walrus. And that's when Johnny's like, I don't know if I want to be a walrus.

01:00:29.700 So, this is trying to draw false parallels with the trans community and gender-affirming healthcare

01:00:33.300 and trans kids. It's utter bulls**t. It has no place. And the fact that this guy has the audacity 1.00

01:00:37.280 to go out in public and actually announce this is embarrassing. Unfortunately, this is a dog whistle.

01:00:41.860 He's meaning to appeal to an extremist base. Because you go to his website, guess what? It just backs it

01:00:46.660 up. He says he wants to fight gender ideology when it comes to kids. These kind of people have no place

01:00:51.140 in elected office. Fairbanks, your election is October 3rd. Do your part, Fairbanks.

01:00:54.940 Okay. First of all, it's not a dog whistle. A dog whistle is like something subtle. And

01:00:59.860 it's a giant inflatable float, parade float. It's not a dog whistle. I don't think it's hiding.

01:01:08.460 It's not hiding what it is. Now, not to resort to cliches here, but this guy really does say the

01:01:14.300 quiet part out loud. He insists directly that people who want to fight gender ideology when it

01:01:19.020 comes to kids have, quote, no place in elected office. According to Mustache Man, endorsing a radical

01:01:24.700 sexual ideology and indoctrinating children into it should be a prerequisite for holding public 0.99

01:01:29.640 office. You must be a cult member in good standing, an evangelist for the cause. This, of course,

01:01:36.200 is what everyone on the left believes, but it's always interesting when they state it so explicitly

01:01:40.040 as he does here. That part of the video is disturbing, but I appreciate the rest of it because

01:01:45.340 he at least offers a pretty decent synopsis of the book, which you can buy for yourself at

01:01:48.780 johnnythewalrus.com. It's amusing that he meant to criticize Johnny the Walrus, but instead spent

01:01:53.160 almost the entire rant simply summarizing the plot. In any case, putting all that aside,

01:01:58.980 I do have some questions about this whole saga. Really just one question, actually.

01:02:04.220 For the parade judges who accidentally gave the award to a transphobic walrus,

01:02:08.700 what did you think the walrus signified? I mean, even if somehow you've never heard of the greatest

01:02:13.900 piece of children's literature ever written, didn't you wonder why a giant walrus was submitted under the

01:02:19.260 political category? Like, didn't you stop and say, hmm, it's a political parade float featuring

01:02:24.940 a 20-foot walrus named Johnny. What's that all about? What's the significance? This is why it's

01:02:31.640 so important to do your own research, because if you don't, you might accidentally give the first

01:02:35.520 place prize to a giant transphobic marine mammal. It happens all the time. Now, I'm not agreeing that

01:02:41.220 Johnny is transphobic. Johnny is just an innocent walrus, for God's sake. He harbors no ill will towards

01:02:46.280 anyone, but my point is that if these judges feel somehow misled, they only have themselves to blame,

01:02:51.300 okay? Though I can understand why they might have been swept away by Johnny's sheer beauty and majesty,

01:02:58.000 perhaps lost their ability to think clearly in the process. I get that. I do.

01:03:03.260 Of course, there will always be something very funny about the claim that my children's book is

01:03:06.840 transphobic, given that the book never once mentions transgenderism or gender at all.

01:03:11.560 So, if you truly believe that there is simply no comparison between a boy pretending to be a

01:03:17.400 walrus and a boy identifying as a girl, if these situations are, in your mind, truly not analogous

01:03:23.520 at all, then you should have no issue with the book. Indeed, you could even buy the book for your

01:03:28.340 own children with no fear that it will cause them to question the trans agenda, God forbid.

01:03:33.420 If, again, you truly believe that there is no similarity between a child pretending to be an animal and a

01:03:38.480 child identifying as the opposite sex, then you should have no issue with this book, no fear about

01:03:43.020 its effect on children. From your perspective, Johnny the walrus should then simply be a silly 0.99

01:03:49.000 little story about a boy playing make-believe. But you see, these leftists know better, despite how it

01:03:55.520 may seem. They know that there really isn't any substantive difference between a young boy pretending

01:04:00.220 that he's a walrus and a young boy pretending that he's a girl. In both cases, it is nothing more than

01:04:05.360 an imaginative game being played by an innocent and impressionable child. They know this, which is

01:04:12.080 why they hate Johnny the walrus so much. And that ought to tell you something about, or rather tell

01:04:17.940 them something about their own ideology, and tell us. Because, you know, if you have to fear that a

01:04:22.860 preschool board book about a kid in a walrus costume might somehow undermine your worldview,

01:04:29.240 then there's something deeply wrong with your worldview. And that is where the problem lies here.

01:04:34.640 It does not lie with Johnny the walrus, or Michael Humphrey, or his brilliant award-winning

01:04:40.360 parade float. And that is why Johnny the walrus's detractors are yet again, his detractors and

01:04:47.380 betrayers, I must say, are yet again today canceled. And that'll do it for the show today, or rather this

01:04:53.980 portion of the show, so we move over to the members block. Hope to see you there. If not, talk to you

01:04:57.240 tomorrow. Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - July 18, 2023

Ep. 1185 - The Entertainment Industry Is Collapsing, Thank God

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