The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1188 - Willful Ignorance And Lies In The Carlee Russell Case

00:00:00.100 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, yet another race hoax has been exposed this week, 0.71

00:00:03.500 showing again that we live in a culture fueled by lies.

00:00:05.920 The media, the government, all of our institutions are in on it.

00:00:08.940 Democrats moved to censor RFK Jr. during a hearing on censorship.

00:00:12.860 Rolling Stone attacks me and other conservatives who've pointed out that those concerns,

00:00:16.780 who pretend to be concerned about violence and music,

00:00:19.060 should be less focused on Jason Aldean and a lot more focused on every rap artist ever, basically.

00:00:24.060 And more Americans than ever are going to therapy.

00:00:26.080 But is there any reason to believe that all of this therapy is actually helping the mental health crisis that we hear so much about?

00:00:31.740 We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.

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00:01:34.380 Imagine that you're a black 25-year-old community college student living in Alabama.

00:01:39.560 You're struggling to pay your bills and you live with your parents.

00:01:43.000 And let's also assume that you're also not a particularly ethical person.

00:01:46.040 So in desperation, you start thinking about robbing the spa where you work part-time.

00:01:50.940 You even Google search terms like, how to steal money from a cash register without getting caught.

00:01:56.280 First tip is, don't Google it.

00:01:58.000 That's the first way to not get caught.

00:01:59.460 A little late for that now.

00:02:00.920 That's how bleak things are, though, for you.

00:02:02.800 So what do you do next?

00:02:04.040 Systemic white supremacy won't let you get a better job or make more money.

00:02:07.720 You know how that is.

00:02:08.640 So what can you do if you're a member of the BIPOC community who needs cash and validation fast, but you aren't getting either of those things?

00:02:16.680 Do you rob a bank?

00:02:18.280 Do you make up some sob story and try to get on American Idol?

00:02:21.300 What do you do?

00:02:21.740 According to the experts who have studied this question for a long time, there's one thing you definitely should not do, and that's fake your own kidnapping.

00:02:28.760 Because if you did that, you'd never get any kind of attention or raise any amount of money because Americans are so racist that they wouldn't care about your disappearance.

00:02:36.960 As the Washingtonian put it recently, quote, missing black people don't receive widespread media coverage.

00:02:42.580 The Harvard Political Review double-checked that finding, and they agreed with it, quote,

00:02:46.420 missing black and indigenous people do not receive the same attention and public support as white women with similar stories.

00:02:51.820 The Washington Post independently looked at all the available evidence, and they concurred with Harvard.

00:02:55.820 They reported that, quote, the media loves missing white women. 1.00

00:02:59.340 Black women are already missing from public view. 1.00

00:03:02.940 That's true.

00:03:03.780 I mean, you'd never see any black women anywhere ever. 1.00

00:03:07.140 Not in media, nowhere.

00:03:09.420 Totally true.

00:03:11.100 So the expert consensus is clear.

00:03:13.000 If you're a person of color, quote, unquote, specifically the black color, then don't pretend to get kidnapped for attention.

00:03:18.740 It would be pretty embarrassing, actually.

00:03:20.760 Like when someone quits their job and no one at work even notices.

00:03:24.060 That's how evil this country is.

00:03:26.700 Now, if there are any experts or left-wing activists who really believe any of that,

00:03:30.760 then the drama that played out over the past week in this country must have come as a tremendous shock to them.

00:03:36.720 Because here's the recap in case you missed it.

00:03:38.440 On July 13th, a black community college student named Carly Russell suddenly disappeared. 0.71

00:03:43.800 Russell called 911 while driving on the interstate,

00:03:45.880 and she said that she was following an abandoned toddler who was walking along the road for some reason.

00:03:52.620 She told the dispatcher that she followed this toddler in her car for about 600 yards.

00:03:57.800 This toddler was walking along the interstate for 600 yards.

00:04:01.300 And then Carly Russell called her brother's girlfriend and then got out of her car to save the child, 1.00

00:04:06.120 at which point she screamed into the phone and vanished. 0.99

00:04:10.460 Very dramatic.

00:04:12.220 What happened next?

00:04:13.940 Presumably, based on the expert insight from Harvard and the Washington Post,

00:04:17.560 the story would just disappear into the ether, just like Carly Russell herself. 0.84

00:04:21.520 No one would ever mention the name Carly Russell ever again.

00:04:23.900 Nobody would care.

00:04:25.560 That's the expected result, per the scholars.

00:04:27.600 But what actually happened is that the entire news media lost its collective mind

00:04:32.160 and covered Carly Russell's disappearance nonstop.

00:04:35.600 Here's just as one example a package from the local NBC station,

00:04:38.920 which aired within a day of Carly's disappearance, and here's what they say about it.

00:04:43.780 A woman in Hoover near Birmingham has vanished after spotting a toddler alone near the side of the interstate.

00:04:50.560 Police say 25-year-old Carlitha Russell was on the phone with her family

00:04:54.560 when they heard her scream and then nothing else, even though her phone stayed on the line.

00:05:00.500 Her car was found near the spot where she reported the toddler.

00:05:03.740 That's where we find Patsy Douglas from our NBC affiliate in Birmingham. 0.66

00:05:07.300 This is where Carly was last seen, here on I-459 near John Hawkins Parkway in Hoover.

00:05:16.420 On Thursday evening, police say Carly called 911,

00:05:20.360 saying a toddler was walking down the side of the interstate.

00:05:23.660 After calling police, she stopped to get the child and called a family member.

00:05:28.540 When police arrived, they found her car and belongings nearby, but no sign of her or the child.

00:05:34.940 Family member is now on the search for Carly, her parents desperate for her return.

00:05:40.300 I'm going to keep applying the pressure to keep this thing going.

00:05:43.840 We really want this to blow up.

00:05:46.000 We want the word of the day to be Carly.

00:05:49.000 We really want this to blow up, says Carly's family, and blow up it did.

00:05:55.280 It wasn't long before media reports indicated that a witness had seen a vehicle with a male

00:05:59.300 with a light complexion near the scene of the crime, which makes sense because white people

00:06:03.740 are always out hiding in the woods, sending out toddlers as bait to lower-in black community 1.00

00:06:08.520 college students.

00:06:09.100 It happens all the time.

00:06:10.780 That version of events checked out with ABC News and their rigorous editorial standards.

00:06:14.660 ABC ran this package as the search for Carly continued. 0.99

00:06:18.620 Watch.

00:06:19.860 Police in Alabama are searching for a woman who vanished under strange circumstances.

00:06:25.600 After she stopped to help a child, she saw walking all alone along an interstate.

00:06:31.040 25-year-old Carlitha Nicole Russell called 911, then a family member about, and told a family 0.95

00:06:36.980 member about the child.

00:06:38.040 Police say that family member on the phone lost contact with Russell, even though the

00:06:42.760 line remained open.

00:06:44.860 Responding officers then found Russell's car, but not her phone, nor the child.

00:06:53.020 Now, I noticed that ABC, like NBC, just comes out and assumes that Carly's story is true.

00:06:57.180 They report, as if it's beyond dispute, that Carly, quote, stopped to help a child she saw

00:07:00.760 walking all alone along the interstate.

00:07:02.780 I'll tell you, there's a real missing child out there without verifying it in any way.

00:07:06.080 That's remarkable for a few reasons, but the main reason is it's remarkable is that it makes

00:07:11.400 absolutely no sense.

00:07:13.360 For one thing, the interstate where Carly Russell pulled over wasn't some desolate stretch

00:07:17.300 of country road.

00:07:18.500 There were a bunch of cars and trucks driving by at the time of her supposed kidnapping.

00:07:22.580 Here's footage of Carly pulling her car over, and you can see it here.

00:07:26.280 And what you see there in the footage is that, you know, many vehicles are driving by as Carly

00:07:31.760 puts her hazards on to find the phantom missing child. 0.79

00:07:34.440 Why did none of the drivers of any of those vehicles call 911?

00:07:39.660 Why was Carly Russell the only person who seemed concerned that a toddler was somehow managing

00:07:44.720 to run 600 yards down the side of an interstate at night?

00:07:48.300 I mean, that's the kind of thing that people will notice.

00:07:51.900 Why was there no evidence of any kind of struggle once she pulled over?

00:07:54.900 Why did no witness see her being abducted?

00:07:56.680 Before we could get answers to any of those questions, a couple days later, if you can

00:08:00.920 believe it, Carly showed up at her parents' house totally unharmed.

00:08:04.900 She told detectives that a white man with orange hair had kidnapped her, then took photos of

00:08:09.620 her naked before she escaped. 0.98

00:08:11.940 Carly's boyfriend, meanwhile, posted on social media that she had to fight for her life in

00:08:15.540 order to secure her freedom.

00:08:16.640 Then shortly afterwards, he took down that post for reasons that remain unclear.

00:08:22.800 Now, at this point, if you're not deranged or hopelessly naive, you're probably getting

00:08:26.320 a little suspicious.

00:08:27.680 But rather than question any of this, the Today Show on NBC held a sympathetic, exclusive

00:08:32.080 sit-down interview with Carly's parents.

00:08:34.060 And it was just like, if you remember that Robin Roberts interview, the infamous one with

00:08:37.760 Jussie Smollett back in the day, where the deeply concerned reporter nods as she's fed

00:08:42.600 obvious lies.

00:08:44.140 So here are some highlights from this latest version of that kind of interview.

00:08:47.760 Watch.

00:08:49.080 That moment you all first laid eyes on her again, what was it like?

00:08:55.020 To me, I mean, just so much joy.

00:08:59.400 This morning, in an exclusive sit-down with NBC News, the parents of 25-year-old Carly Russell

00:09:06.280 are speaking out, describing the moment their daughter appeared on their doorstep after being

00:09:11.900 missing for more than 48 hours.

00:09:14.400 Her parents declined to share what their daughter told them, citing the ongoing investigation.

00:09:20.040 And can you tell me what happened Saturday night?

00:09:23.660 Did you just get a knock at the door?

00:09:25.060 Anything leading to the case itself, we can't discuss that.

00:09:31.220 But they say speculation about the circumstances surrounding Carly's disappearance are only making

00:09:36.620 things worse.

00:09:37.480 She's having to deal with the trauma of people just making completely false allegations about

00:09:44.220 her.

00:09:44.500 And when I talked to you all on Saturday, you also said your daughter is a fighter and she 0.88

00:09:50.180 would find a way back to you.

00:09:52.240 I felt that in my heart.

00:09:53.760 Is that what happened?

00:09:54.980 She did.

00:09:55.760 She found her way back to us.

00:09:57.640 However, we can't discuss the details of that.

00:10:01.760 But they say one thing is clear.

00:10:03.880 Do you believe she was fighting for her life?

00:10:05.820 Oh, she definitely fought for her life.

00:10:07.620 There were moments when she physically had to fight for her life and there were moments

00:10:11.220 when she had to mentally fight for her life.

00:10:17.820 Mentally fighting for her life.

00:10:19.620 She should have done a lot more mental fighting before this whole plan was hatched, I think. 1.00

00:10:23.260 So the parents definitely can't talk about the case for some reason.

00:10:26.660 But they can say, even though they're sitting down for an interview, sitting down for an interview

00:10:29.640 about the case, but we can't talk about the case.

00:10:31.800 Okay.

00:10:32.800 And what they can say is that they don't want you to say anything.

00:10:35.900 They don't want you to say anything about how strange and totally unbelievable their daughter's

00:10:39.540 story is, because that's inflicting trauma on her daughter and on all of them. 1.00

00:10:45.060 But the mother can say that her daughter had to mentally fight for her life, whatever that

00:10:49.120 means.

00:10:50.020 The bottom line is that they want you to know that they're the victims.

00:10:54.440 Is that true?

00:10:55.300 Well, shortly after the interview, we learned that Carly had been running some pretty suspicious

00:10:59.800 Google searches on her phone the day of her disappearance.

00:11:02.460 Apparently, Carly stole some stuff from her job and then Googled a well-known action movie 0.89

00:11:06.640 about a woman's kidnapping, the movie Taken with Liam Neeson, which, by the way, in that

00:11:11.640 movie, if you remember, Liam Neeson's daughter was on the phone and then she let out a scream

00:11:17.260 when she was kidnapped, which is the same thing that happened with Carly Russell, allegedly.

00:11:21.440 Only question, I don't know.

00:11:22.380 The person that was on the phone with Carly Russell, did that person then give a speech

00:11:25.300 about how he has a particular set of skills and he will find you and kill you?

00:11:28.380 I don't know.

00:11:30.060 She also searched for information about Amber Alerts ahead of time.

00:11:34.460 She had a premonition.

00:11:35.480 She had a premonition she was going to go missing, so she looked up Amber Alerts.

00:11:39.780 And when cops wanted to talk to her for some follow-up questioning, they haven't been able

00:11:43.060 to get in touch with her.

00:11:44.700 Maybe the white man in orange hair kidnapped her again.

00:11:48.040 Police say that there's no evidence that any part of Carly's story is true.

00:11:51.340 They haven't been able to confirm any part of it at all.

00:11:53.460 And yet the media is still reluctant to point in the direction of the obvious truth here,

00:11:56.820 which is not the whole thing.

00:11:57.620 Obviously, it's a hoax.

00:11:59.460 Even the local police chief is too afraid to come out and say that.

00:12:02.340 Here was his statement, quote, we want to talk in facts.

00:12:05.060 And I do think it's highly, highly unusual to the day that someone gets kidnapped at several

00:12:09.920 seven hours or eight hours before that, that they're searching the internet, Googling the

00:12:12.960 movie Taken about an abduction.

00:12:14.320 I find that very, very strange, he says.

00:12:16.660 Well, there you have it.

00:12:17.200 It's very, very strange.

00:12:19.180 Well, actually, it's not very strange at all.

00:12:20.520 It's totally predictable.

00:12:21.260 When you transform victimhood into a currency, when you reward the most unserious and corrupt

00:12:26.360 people for their behavior, then you get more corruption.

00:12:30.740 Now, I'm going into some detail here about all of this because it illustrates something

00:12:34.900 that's not talked about enough.

00:12:35.980 What we're seeing in this case, and in so many others, is pathological lying from virtually

00:12:42.300 everyone in the media and government.

00:12:44.240 The powers that be, they don't just play on our fears for ratings or clicks.

00:12:47.860 Instead, they actively generate false fears in order to distract us from the things that

00:12:52.720 we should be worried about.

00:12:54.820 Black women are getting kidnapped randomly by white terrorists who use toddlers as bait.

00:13:00.780 They basically just spend the last week saying almost exactly that.

00:13:05.180 They're doing this right out in the open, and they're not ashamed of it.

00:13:09.240 CNN just published what they call a news article.

00:13:11.420 That's the perfect example of this kind of thing.

00:13:13.220 Here's the first sentence of this objective news item, quote, mass shootings in major

00:13:18.040 metropolitan areas in the United States disproportionately affect black people, and

00:13:22.040 structural racism may play a role.

00:13:24.960 The authors complain in the study that, quote, racial and ethnic minority populations are

00:13:29.860 significantly more likely to be victims of mass shootings.

00:13:32.860 According to CNN, quote, the study found that in areas with higher black populations,

00:13:37.380 mass shootings are likelier to occur compared to communities with higher white populations.

00:13:40.880 There are also more black people injured and killed when mass shootings take place, according

00:13:45.220 to the findings.

00:13:46.600 Now, the message is that blacks in the city should be worried about racism because of all

00:13:50.460 the mass shootings.

00:13:51.600 And what, of course, they don't mention is that the overwhelming majority of the so-called

00:13:56.440 mass shootings in cities are perpetrated by black people or Hispanics on occasion.

00:14:01.800 And that's almost everyone who's committing mass shootings in cities.

00:14:05.820 We don't have to guess about that either.

00:14:07.340 The New York Times ran the numbers a few years ago.

00:14:08.880 So they looked at every single mass shooting event that's occurred in the United States

00:14:11.900 everywhere, not just in the cities.

00:14:14.040 And that was in 2015.

00:14:15.720 And roughly 75% of all the mass shootings were perpetrated by black people.

00:14:21.880 Of course, CNN doesn't say that anywhere in the article.

00:14:24.160 Instead, they tell scary ghost stories about systemic racism so that we don't focus on the

00:14:29.320 very real problem of the black community killing itself. 0.65

00:14:32.500 And they cite experts as cover so they don't have to reckon with the obvious absurdity of

00:14:37.940 all of this.

00:14:40.100 All they care about is generating the fear, the false fears about things that don't exist.

00:14:46.060 And it's not just the media that's doing this.

00:14:48.080 This is a social cancer.

00:14:49.360 And therefore, it's much bigger than corporate media.

00:14:51.120 It's endemic in politics as well.

00:14:52.580 You might have seen that Democrats just ran an ad that's gotten a lot of attention.

00:14:57.140 And this is an ad in Ohio.

00:14:59.420 And in the ad, they're claiming that Republicans want to take away birth control.

00:15:03.640 They made an advertisement that was intentionally very salacious and also dishonest because it's

00:15:10.440 supposed to generate all this attention, which it successfully did.

00:15:13.420 But here's the ad.

00:15:16.440 Do you have a condom?

00:15:18.340 Yeah.

00:15:18.520 Sorry, you can't use those.

00:15:23.300 What are you talking about?

00:15:24.740 Who are you?

00:15:25.820 I'm your Republican congressman.

00:15:27.820 Now that we're in charge, we're banning birth control.

00:15:30.620 This is our decision, not yours.

00:15:33.540 Get out of our bedroom.

00:15:34.860 I won the last election.

00:15:36.360 I'm not going anywhere.

00:15:37.740 I'm just going to watch and make sure you don't do anything illegal.

00:15:43.280 Some great acting there as well.

00:15:45.100 Phenomenal.

00:15:45.500 Now, not that it needs to be said, but there is no effort in Ohio or any other state to

00:15:49.920 ban birth control.

00:15:51.200 This is an entirely delusional concern, a fear based in nothing but their own imaginations

00:15:55.460 on the left.

00:15:56.740 The truth is that most conservatives won't even speak honestly about the dangers of birth

00:16:00.120 control, though they should, much less try to ban it.

00:16:04.000 The bill they're talking about in that ad, it's Prop 1.

00:16:07.680 And guess what?

00:16:08.140 It has nothing to do with birth control at all.

00:16:11.260 It's about the procedural requirements needed in order to pass an amendment to the state

00:16:15.640 constitution.

00:16:16.540 That's what the bill is.

00:16:18.940 So why are Ohio Democrats lying about Prop 1 and Republicans' supposed scheme to outlaw

00:16:23.660 birth control?

00:16:25.300 They're warning about evil Republicans coming to steal your birth control so you don't focus

00:16:29.100 on other things.

00:16:30.160 And when it comes to birth control, they don't want you to focus on the fact that basically

00:16:33.200 everything, STDs, divorce rates, unwed pregnancies, has gotten worse since birth control was

00:16:38.020 invented.

00:16:38.280 Take a look at the divorce rates from 1965 and 1975 sometime.

00:16:42.800 Divorce rate doubled five years after the pill was first made available.

00:16:46.500 Again, they're feeding you invented problems so you don't notice the real ones.

00:16:50.200 They're giving you fake things to be afraid of so you don't worry about the real threats.

00:16:54.480 Hollywood and entertainment writers do the same thing.

00:16:56.960 The Atlantic Magazine just published a think piece on the new Barbie movie, and we're getting

00:17:01.800 a lot of think pieces about Barbie.

00:17:04.000 And this one is entitled, What's the Matter with Barbie?

00:17:06.460 Greta Gerwig's Barbie is a charming blockbuster adventure about the tribulations of simply

00:17:11.820 existing as a woman in society.

00:17:15.280 Yes, the tribulations of simply existing as a woman in modern American society.

00:17:20.460 Left unmentioned in this article is that men kill themselves at more than three times the

00:17:24.660 rate of women. 0.50

00:17:25.600 They overdose far more often as well.

00:17:27.380 According to the CDC data, as of 2021, men have a life expectancy in the United States

00:17:31.000 of just 73 years old, whereas women typically live until 79.

00:17:35.540 As Harvard Medical School put it, quote, men die younger than women and they're more burdened

00:17:39.420 by illness during life.

00:17:40.760 They fall ill at a younger age and have more chronic illnesses than women.

00:17:43.580 For example, men are nearly 10 times more likely to get hernias than women and five times

00:17:48.680 more likely to have aortic aneurysms.

00:17:51.580 American men are about four times more likely to be hit by gout.

00:17:54.920 They're more than three times more likely than women to develop kidney stones, to become 0.95

00:17:59.340 alcoholics, to have bladder cancer.

00:18:01.520 They're about twice as likely to suffer from emphysema or ulcers.

00:18:06.840 Although women see doctors more often than men, men cost their society much more for medical 0.96

00:18:10.520 care beyond age 65.

00:18:11.940 When it comes to health, males are the weaker sex throughout life.

00:18:14.480 That's what they said.

00:18:16.500 Although calling it the weaker sex is obviously not a fair characterization.

00:18:19.420 So even when we're listing all of the illnesses that men get, there's a take a shot at men

00:18:24.920 at the end of it.

00:18:26.660 And you're not supposed to think about that just like you're not supposed to think about

00:18:29.120 what's actually happening in black communities or what birth control actually does to women 0.55

00:18:32.660 or why a struggling black community college student would lie about being kidnapped.

00:18:37.240 You're also not supposed to think about the testimony of those IRS whistleblowers or the

00:18:41.440 FBI document showing that Joe Biden is personally implicated in illegal overseas influence

00:18:46.060 peddling operations.

00:18:47.380 There's a media blackout on all those topics.

00:18:50.400 Every power center in this country is willing to lie to you, to your face, as obviously

00:18:54.040 as they possibly can to keep you from thinking any of these unapproved thoughts, to keep you

00:18:59.480 afraid of the phantoms they've created.

00:19:02.120 You know, one of the reasons why hoaxes like the Carly Russell case gain so much traction and

00:19:05.720 seem apparently believable to so many people, at least at first, is that the media has laid

00:19:10.720 the groundwork by telling us about an epidemic of hate crimes against black people and other

00:19:14.620 supposedly marginalized groups.

00:19:17.100 But it's all a lie.

00:19:18.160 There is no such epidemic.

00:19:20.320 You only need to look at the numbers to see the lie for what it is.

00:19:22.820 For instance, when they insist, as they often do, that trans people are being murdered in 0.69

00:19:26.460 hate crimes by the dozens every year, one quick look at the stats shows that in order to support

00:19:30.660 that assertion, they're categorizing literally every single murder of a trans person as a

00:19:35.940 hate crime.

00:19:36.360 Even though the data indicates that maybe one or two of the victims each year are killed

00:19:41.540 for being trans, not much of an epidemic.

00:19:45.920 But the pathological lying is right out in the open.

00:19:48.060 Now, the only good news here is that pathological lying is the easiest kind of lying to spot,

00:19:52.840 and it's the easiest kind of lying to reject, therefore.

00:19:55.300 What's needed is for people in power to actually do that, to reject this insanity.

00:20:00.200 Because if they don't, then, you know, more desperate lunatics will start running into

00:20:04.380 the woods pretending to be kidnapped.

00:20:06.440 They'll take advantage of every weak-willed police chief and every corrupt media outlet in 0.96

00:20:10.020 this country.

00:20:10.440 We're already seeing that happening.

00:20:12.500 It'll happen more often until it happens constantly, until you can't get away from it.

00:20:17.600 Lies will become indistinguishable from reality.

00:20:19.860 And once that happens, you don't have civilization anymore.

00:20:22.460 You have something unrecognizable, something that you can never prepare.

00:20:28.220 Now, let's get to our five headlines.

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00:21:28.060 Okay, I want to start with this because it is the most important.

00:21:32.320 We begin with the latest on the saga that has gripped the nation, a story that you will

00:21:37.680 agree deserves to be the first thing mentioned in the five headlines.

00:21:40.580 A couple days ago, we told you about the controversy in Alaska that erupted when a school board candidate

00:21:44.980 entered a parade with a giant Johnny the Walrus parade float.

00:21:48.000 And he won first prize thanks to the lib judges of the parade who didn't realize what Johnny

00:21:54.360 the Walrus is, didn't know that it's a book written by the transphobe of the year.

00:21:58.140 And they realized after the fact they were devastated, outraged, incensed, even though the float is

00:22:03.360 beautiful.

00:22:03.940 I mean, easily the most incredible, most magnificent parade float ever made.

00:22:07.000 And yet still, despite its beauty, it is the center of such controversy.

00:22:11.600 Well, here's the latest from the local channel KUAC quack, I guess we call it, in Alaska.

00:22:17.800 Let's listen to this report.

00:22:19.800 A school board candidate in Fairbanks has made a statement about keeping gender identity options

00:22:24.980 out of schools with a giant inflatable Walrus.

00:22:28.500 Michael Humphrey, who has not filed yet, is running for a seat on the Fairbanks North Star

00:22:32.940 Borough Board of Education.

00:22:34.220 He and his family entered a float in the Golden Days Grand Parade last weekend in Fairbanks

00:22:39.360 and won the award for Best Political Float.

00:22:42.880 I ordered it off of a website that they manufactured them overseas and gave them my logo and they

00:22:47.820 sent it to me in three days.

00:22:49.500 The 20-foot walrus sported the name tag Johnny, which Humphrey says is from the book Johnny

00:22:54.700 the Walrus by blogger and commentator Matt Walsh.

00:22:58.320 The people who already knew about Johnny can appreciate it and those who didn't can learn a

00:23:03.180 little bit more.

00:23:03.600 The Johnny the Walrus book talks about a boy who imagines he is something he's not and

00:23:09.340 his mother, feeling peer pressure, tries to transform him until Walsh, as a zookeeper,

00:23:15.340 tells her Johnny is just a boy.

00:23:17.820 After the parade, a controversy erupted on social media with many Fairbanks and saying the book

00:23:22.860 is a message against LGBTQ plus people and the float is also.

00:23:27.480 That float does not represent the values of the chamber or any of the employees or the

00:23:33.560 guest judges.

00:23:34.820 Greater Fairbanks Chamber of Commerce CEO Jeremy Johnson says parade judges only saw the walrus

00:23:41.060 as an Alaskan animal appropriate for the parade.

00:23:44.260 They even thought Humphrey was using the walrus to cleverly refer to his own mustache.

00:23:49.500 Johnson says he's received emails saying the chamber supports hateful ideas and as a non-profit

00:23:55.000 should not be endorsing candidates.

00:23:57.600 He says they don't and will talk more at a regular board meeting Monday.

00:24:01.740 This is going to be a topic of discussion, whether this float judging category should

00:24:07.180 even be included.

00:24:08.240 Well, I'm glad to hear that they are going to be holding a board meeting about this.

00:24:13.840 So the controversy over the parade float continues in Alaska.

00:24:20.240 I'm not saying that up in Alaska, they apparently don't have much to worry about, but maybe they

00:24:24.960 don't, which is a good thing.

00:24:26.440 It's like one of the good.

00:24:27.480 So when you live in a state where it's like only five other people live, you don't have

00:24:33.680 many of the same problems, which I think is one of the reasons why people move there.

00:24:36.300 And there's no better evidence than this story, which I just find phenomenal.

00:24:40.380 And as I said, you know, Michael Humphrey, the schoolbird candidate, I don't know anything

00:24:46.800 about him.

00:24:47.460 I don't know his campaign platform.

00:24:50.220 I know he's opposed to gender ideology, which is really all I need to know.

00:24:53.200 But even before that, I unequivocally endorse any and all political candidates who make Johnny

00:25:00.140 the Walrus parade floats.

00:25:02.080 Your opinions on the issues don't matter.

00:25:04.300 So for me, I'm a single issue voter and it is Johnny the Walrus parade floats.

00:25:09.560 And so that's why I support Michael Humphrey.

00:25:12.380 And he's really the only candidate I can support right now because he's the only one who has

00:25:16.900 done this, which raises a question about all the other political candidates.

00:25:20.320 Why haven't you?

00:25:21.240 This is a you should ask that of anyone running for any political office.

00:25:24.740 Where do you stand on Johnny the Walrus parade floats and why have you not made one yet?

00:25:28.320 All right.

00:25:30.660 This is from Daily Wire.

00:25:32.280 Some would argue a slightly more important story, but I don't think so.

00:25:35.500 House Democrats tried and failed to censor Robert Kennedy Jr., a Democrat Party candidate

00:25:39.640 for president at a hearing on censorship.

00:25:41.960 So that's the irony here is a hearing on censorship.

00:25:43.920 And they tried to censor him during the hearing.

00:25:46.560 Democrats are immune to irony.

00:25:49.660 They don't even notice it.

00:25:50.760 It's all like their whole existence is that.

00:25:52.360 So they don't even notice it anymore.

00:25:53.360 Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz moved to shift the select subcommittee on the

00:25:58.280 weaponization of the federal government hearing on Thursday to executive session because Mr.

00:26:02.280 Kennedy has repeatedly made despicable anti-Semitic and anti-Asian comments as recently as last

00:26:07.360 week.

00:26:08.220 The congresswoman cited a House rule against testimony found to defame, degrade or incriminate

00:26:12.980 any person, which would allow the committee and aside to determine whether to allow such

00:26:17.400 testimony during the open hearing.

00:26:18.820 Now, of course, he hasn't said anything anti-Semitic.

00:26:23.560 All these accusations are false in the first place.

00:26:26.080 And I say that as we've talked before about Robert Kennedy Jr. and all of the credit that

00:26:34.280 he's being given by people on the right.

00:26:36.580 There's even a lot of conservatives saying it's like, I've all but endorsed him for president.

00:26:41.280 All but.

00:26:42.060 And I don't go nearly that far because he is a Democrat.

00:26:47.800 So the best you could hope for a Democrat is that by Democrat standards, they'll be not

00:26:53.660 as bad as the others.

00:26:56.680 But that still means it's someone you someone you could never actually support.

00:27:02.440 Because they're still a Democrat.

00:27:03.860 I mean, if this is someone who was was worth supporting, they wouldn't be a Democrat anymore.

00:27:07.520 So to be a Democrat at all requires you to sign on to some some some really basic tenets.

00:27:14.720 And those tenets are all horrific.

00:27:17.780 So but with that said.

00:27:20.380 It doesn't mean that every accusation they make about him is true.

00:27:23.300 In fact, most of them aren't.

00:27:24.600 And this is one of them.

00:27:27.060 But it's also interesting that this happens only a couple of days after we had Barack Obama

00:27:32.780 come out and we talked about this on the show a few days ago.

00:27:35.260 He published his his letter, you know, to the librarians of America lamenting all the

00:27:43.000 efforts to shut down conversation and center censor and ban books and all the rest of it.

00:27:49.220 And he talked about how how important it is, how important it is for us to have conversations

00:27:53.740 and to express our ideas and the controversial ideas or ideas people don't like.

00:27:59.440 Those are the ones that need to be protected.

00:28:00.520 Most of all, he said, and while claiming that in reality, of course, pretty much all of the

00:28:08.780 censorship efforts are happening on one side.

00:28:12.680 And that really is the case.

00:28:14.040 It's not hyperbole.

00:28:16.880 You don't find that on the other side.

00:28:18.760 You don't find that among conservatives.

00:28:21.920 And and it's that's just because we don't believe in it.

00:28:24.320 For one thing, it's it's against our principles.

00:28:26.380 But also strategically, it doesn't make any sense for us, like strategically for Democrats,

00:28:30.920 for the left, censorship is all it's their only strategy.

00:28:36.760 So it's all they can do because they can't engage on the issues.

00:28:40.540 And if you can't engage in the best you could do is try to shut down the other side.

00:28:43.620 But for us, it's no, if you if I know that you're wrong about something, then I want your

00:28:53.980 wrongness to be put on a full display.

00:28:56.920 The crazier you are, the more I want people to see it.

00:29:01.980 So that I can engage with it and I can show why it's wrong, although oftentimes we don't

00:29:07.500 even need to do much work to show why it's wrong.

00:29:10.500 That's our approach.

00:29:11.500 Their approach is entirely different because they know they don't have the truth on their

00:29:13.960 side.

00:29:14.920 Rolling Stone published this article yesterday.

00:29:19.700 All week long, a culture war has been raging around country star Jason Aldean's Try That

00:29:23.900 in a Small Town, a turgid power ballad wrapped around an unsubtle warning to protesters and

00:29:29.400 other outsiders.

00:29:30.960 Try that in a small town.

00:29:32.080 See how far you make it down the road, quoting the song.

00:29:34.480 To many observers, that sounds uncomfortably close to the kind of threat that the Klan used

00:29:38.020 to issue to civil rights activists and that modern day racists continue to spout today.

00:29:43.380 The music video, which juxtaposes stock footage of Canadian protesters with scenes set at the

00:29:47.560 site of a 1927 lynching, didn't help dispel that impression.

00:29:52.980 Scholars have noted the obvious parallels.

00:29:55.160 Oh, the scholars.

00:29:56.180 We've heard from this.

00:29:56.780 So the scholars have chimed in on this on this pop song and they've noticed the uncomfortable

00:30:01.840 parallels between Try That in a Small Town and white nationalist ideology.

00:30:06.460 Aldean claims he's just singing about community and neighborly harmony.

00:30:10.740 But here's where we get to the good part.

00:30:13.400 It says, the article says, some right-wing trolls, though, don't want you to think too

00:30:16.960 hard about any of that.

00:30:18.360 They'd rather talk about rap music.

00:30:20.500 Alleged Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy is moaning about Ice-T's 1992

00:30:24.920 song Cop Killer and sex and violence and hip-hop.

00:30:28.760 Frequent hate monger Matt Walsh whines that nearly every rap song for the past 30 years has

00:30:33.520 directly and enthusiastically glorified murder, drug dealing, robbery, and every other violent

00:30:37.200 crime.

00:30:37.540 And these people say nothing.

00:30:39.020 True.

00:30:40.620 TV comedian turned far-right fringe voice Roseanne Barr got in on the act too with a salty tweet 1.00

00:30:45.860 about gangster rap.

00:30:47.940 This is a familiar pattern, Rolling Stone says, to anyone who's paid attention to the past few

00:30:52.220 decades of conservative punditry.

00:30:54.240 When the heat gets too high on the right wing, they try to change the subject to hip-hop.

00:30:58.140 It's why when shock jock Don Imus was under fire for his nasty racist remarks about the

00:31:02.680 Rutgers women's basketball team in 2007, some people wanted to talk about rappers' language

00:31:06.980 instead.

00:31:08.860 It's why Bill O'Reilly, okay, so we're coming.

00:31:11.680 So they're accusing, so I like he's accusing us of changing the subject and bringing up the

00:31:15.480 ancient past.

00:31:16.600 And then he goes immediately to Don Imus and Bill O'Reilly.

00:31:21.980 Examples from 2007 and 2003, respectively.

00:31:25.300 But this is always the game, is to say, oh, well, this is whataboutism, you're changing

00:31:31.500 the subject.

00:31:32.340 No, we're not changing the subject.

00:31:34.000 Yes, it is a whatabout, but guess what?

00:31:37.140 Whatabout arguments are completely valid.

00:31:41.420 Yes, maybe we've attached ism to it, but that doesn't mean that it's not valid.

00:31:47.180 So, yes, all a whatabout argument does.

00:31:53.480 It's a way of establishing that you, that this principle that you're espousing, you don't

00:32:00.840 apply consistently.

00:32:02.300 So you have stated a principle, you've made a statement, you've applied it to this one

00:32:07.700 very localized area.

00:32:10.360 And we're saying, well, what about all these things over here that this would also apply

00:32:15.180 to?

00:32:16.920 What about those?

00:32:20.560 Part of the whatabout is to try to get to what you're actually saying.

00:32:27.020 What point are you actually trying to make?

00:32:29.340 So on this topic, up on the left and in the media, they're pretending to be terribly scandalized

00:32:38.200 by violence, by violent rhetoric in a song, right?

00:32:43.640 And they're worried about what it might encourage people to do and what it might provoke.

00:32:49.340 They're saying things like the song is dangerous.

00:32:51.740 And what we're saying is, OK, if you're worried about violent lyrics in songs, what about all

00:33:03.900 of this stuff over here?

00:33:05.100 What about like almost every rap song that's ever been made?

00:33:08.700 Does that there's there's a lot of violence there and it's it's much more explicit.

00:33:15.500 And we laid this out a few days ago, not only is it much more explicit, but whereas Jason

00:33:20.160 Aldean, if he's encouraging violence at all or talking about it in a favorable way, he's

00:33:25.220 talking about violence in defense of the innocent, violence in defense of your community, violence

00:33:29.980 in self-defense.

00:33:32.020 Which, yeah, those are all good kinds of violence.

00:33:34.480 Not all violence is made equal.

00:33:35.700 Not all violence is bad.

00:33:37.360 Violence in defense of the innocent, violence in defense of yourself.

00:33:39.600 That is good.

00:33:40.540 There's a good form of violence.

00:33:42.780 It's not good that it comes to that.

00:33:44.420 But it's it's it is.

00:33:49.600 It is good to defend yourself and defend the innocent.

00:33:53.980 So that's what he's talking about, whereas the big difference with violence and a lot

00:33:58.540 of rap songs is that while it's being explicitly promoted and glorified.

00:34:03.720 by people who, by the way, oftentimes have actually engaged in this kind of violence themselves

00:34:09.240 and are bragging about it.

00:34:12.340 On top of that, the violence they're talking about is not violence in defense of the innocent

00:34:16.540 or in defense of anyone, even self-defense.

00:34:21.180 It's violence just to prove how tough you are.

00:34:23.520 It's violence, you know, it's violence motivated by greed.

00:34:27.160 You're robbing someone.

00:34:28.420 It's violence motivated by just pure indifference to human life.

00:34:31.260 So it is entirely valid for us to say, well, if you have an issue with violence in music,

00:34:37.760 why are you giving all of that a pass?

00:34:41.720 So you're proposing that something is a problem.

00:34:44.700 You're skipping over all of the worst examples of that problem.

00:34:51.040 And you're you're sifting through all of that.

00:34:54.180 You're digging through all of it.

00:34:55.680 You're discarding.

00:34:56.320 It doesn't matter.

00:34:56.920 It doesn't matter.

00:34:57.440 It doesn't matter.

00:34:58.000 Until you find this one little thing to pin the whole issue on.

00:35:05.500 That's what we're pointing out, because if we are going to have any kind of meaningful conversation

00:35:11.660 about violence in music, violence in media, that can be a worthwhile conversation.

00:35:16.620 But it's not a worthwhile conversation if we don't get the full picture first.

00:35:19.580 We don't get the full picture of what we're of what we're dealing with.

00:35:25.660 I go on here, but I'm not going to.

00:35:28.820 This Rolling Stone article, do they get to the point in the article of actually dealing with these comparisons, like explaining?

00:35:38.680 So you're upset about the Jason Aldean thing.

00:35:40.460 You don't care about any of this stuff with the rap music.

00:35:42.340 Why is that?

00:35:43.820 Why is all of that violent rhetoric in like literally thousands of rap songs through the decades?

00:35:50.700 Why is all of that okay?

00:35:52.980 And it doesn't concern you and you never bring it up.

00:35:58.140 He never gets around to engaging with that question or answering it, of course, because there is no answer.

00:36:03.460 All they can do is point at what we're saying and say, what about ism?

00:36:09.220 It doesn't count.

00:36:11.360 Oh, you see, if you bring up our hypocrisy and our double standards, then it is automatically invalid to bring up our hypocrisy and double standards.

00:36:24.200 Very convenient.

00:36:27.840 Not a lot of insight there, but maybe if we go to The View.

00:36:30.180 The View had dealt with this Jason Aldean song yesterday, and let's listen to what they had to say.

00:36:36.920 Maybe they'll have something more intelligent to offer.

00:36:39.400 We can always hope.

00:36:40.900 This was, to me, something where about half the people in my life see it one way and half the people in my life see it a different way.

00:36:45.760 So I'm trying to like kind of see what are we disconnecting on.

00:36:49.240 I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt that his intent wasn't to, you know, stoke division, glorify violence or racism.

00:36:55.860 I'm going to give him that benefit of the doubt.

00:36:57.600 I don't know.

00:36:58.160 But I'll say this, there was a line, so for the many folks who are offended by this, there's a line in it that says, try that in a small town.

00:37:04.300 See how far you make it down the road.

00:37:06.040 Around here we take care of our own.

00:37:07.860 So for a lot of my friends and family who are legal gun owners in small communities, they're like, yeah, that's what we do if someone breaks into a story.

00:37:13.700 He's talking about the right to defend yourself.

00:37:15.380 What I thought of when I read that was Ahmaud Arbery.

00:37:17.600 I think of a black man in a small town in the South who literally just got shot for doing nothing wrong.

00:37:22.400 So I think what becomes problematic is that there's a lack of recognition of what this means to about 50 percent of the country whose experience isn't Jason Aldean's.

00:37:30.840 I like him.

00:37:31.500 I've always liked his music.

00:37:32.560 I'm kind of a country gal about like a quarter of the time.

00:37:34.740 But this is also, for the folks on the right who are defending this, they see the BLM riots, many, like I think many can acknowledge protests and riots, that George Floyd's death and murder was evil.

00:37:47.860 It was wrong.

00:37:48.540 It was unacceptable.

00:37:49.480 But so was the killing of someone like David Dorn, a black retired police officer who was defending his friend's store and was shot during the riots and aftermath of that movement.

00:37:57.760 So I think if people of good faith can see both sides, they can see there is an issue with this song because of what it means to a lot of communities.

00:38:04.120 But there is an issue of violence, of looting, of rioting.

00:38:07.280 Yes, but why are you linking it to black people?

00:38:09.620 Well, that's what I'm talking about.

00:38:10.580 That's the issue.

00:38:11.180 That's the issue.

00:38:12.280 The imagery is what becomes very problematic.

00:38:15.860 Well, once again, there's I guess we gave it a shot.

00:38:20.900 We gave it a shot to see if there's anything insightful being said on The View.

00:38:23.580 But apparently there isn't.

00:38:24.980 A long conversation, though, has went on for a long time.

00:38:28.040 In every major media outlet, all the shows have been talking about this.

00:38:31.280 Once again, you're not going to find this kind of conversation about any other violent form of music, which is a shame.

00:38:40.880 Because as I said, this is actually a worthwhile conversation to have.

00:38:46.720 And you could throw Jason Aldean's song into it.

00:38:49.160 I'm fine.

00:38:49.520 No, I think his song is fine.

00:38:51.380 I don't particularly like the songs.

00:38:53.320 Because it's not something I'm going to listen to myself.

00:38:55.580 I just don't enjoy how it sounds.

00:38:57.140 The message is fine.

00:38:58.940 But if you want to have a broader discussion about, okay, well, you've got your violence that's portrayed in movies and in TV shows.

00:39:09.440 It comes up in music.

00:39:11.560 In many different contexts.

00:39:14.180 When is it a bad thing that we should be worried about?

00:39:17.160 When is it good?

00:39:18.040 Is it always bad?

00:39:19.340 Or is it always fine?

00:39:20.480 These are all things that we can talk about.

00:39:25.040 But we can't do that when you've just decided to give, again, to take all the worst examples of this and to give them all a pass.

00:39:34.980 That's when it doesn't work.

00:39:36.020 Finally, I wanted to play this.

00:39:38.260 I've had this for a few days and haven't had a chance to play it yet.

00:39:41.240 But I enjoyed this video posted to Twitter by the account Leftism4U.

00:39:46.520 And this woman is upset over her ex-husband's parents or ex-in-laws showing her trans child what is a woman. 0.98

00:39:58.680 Now, let's just play the video and then we'll talk about it.

00:40:00.280 My ex-in-laws today forced my child, who has come out as transgender, to sit and watch what is a woman. 1.00

00:40:15.500 They called me to vent and talk to me about it because they needed a safe space to talk.

00:40:28.120 And I'm very glad that I am that safe space.

00:40:30.460 That is a very precarious power to behold, being the safe space.

00:40:39.100 I casually suggested that, as revenge, they should salt the coffee pot while everybody's asleep.

00:40:48.440 Because then, you know, the salt will dissolve.

00:40:51.560 Nobody would know.

00:40:53.140 I didn't think they'd actually f***ing do it.

00:40:58.780 They did it.

00:41:00.460 Well, I don't know anything else about these in-laws, but I will say credit to them for this.

00:41:04.960 And, you know, it does bring up kind of an important point that I've wanted to make about this.

00:41:08.400 Because people ask me all the time whenever this movie comes up.

00:41:12.280 And I get the question from parents a lot about is the movie appropriate for kids?

00:41:18.420 And they say kids of whatever.

00:41:19.380 And they say how old their kids are.

00:41:20.660 Should I play this movie for my kids?

00:41:22.980 And, you know, the exact age when you feel comfortable playing it for your kids, that's obviously a determination you have to make on your own.

00:41:31.820 As a parent, there's a judgment call that you have to make.

00:41:33.760 I can't make it for you.

00:41:34.820 What I will say, especially for younger kids, I wouldn't show them what is a woman or, you know, any other kind of media that deals seriously with this issue for younger kids.

00:41:47.400 If they haven't been exposed to this, like I'm not, my oldest kids are 10 years old.

00:41:51.860 They haven't seen the movie.

00:41:53.600 They're not going to see it anytime soon.

00:41:56.220 Because I'm not going to expose them to these concepts.

00:41:58.860 They still have their innocence.

00:42:00.200 They haven't been exposed to this.

00:42:01.360 And I'm not going to be the one to do that.

00:42:02.700 But if you have a kid who's already been exposed to this, and they've been not only exposed to it, but they've been sucked into the cult already, then that is a time for not only a really serious conversation about this issue, but even to show them a movie like What is a Woman?

00:42:27.900 Because it could lend some clarity.

00:42:30.320 You know, this is a kid who's very, very confused and is living in a state of, like, mental fog right now that's been intentionally imposed on him by the adults in his life, including his mother.

00:42:47.960 And clarity is exactly what he needs.

00:42:49.260 So I think that's a good thing.

00:42:50.460 Now let's get to the comment section.

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00:44:00.860 There is someone who made it into the, almost made it into the daily cancellation today,

00:44:04.140 but I decided that I wanted to rant about something else instead in that segment.

00:44:07.180 So instead, an honorable mention that I'll give is to my wife.

00:44:10.240 And she tweeted yesterday, and I should say last night she tweeted this.

00:44:14.120 I want you to understand that she went to bed last night.

00:44:18.480 She said she was tired and she had to go to bed, and that's fine.

00:44:20.760 So I was out in the living room, and she had gone to bed, I thought, supposedly sleeping.

00:44:25.400 When I see this pop up on my Twitter feed from my wife, it says,

00:44:29.160 Who in the Nashville area is selling pygmy goats?

00:44:31.480 I want to get two in a few months.

00:44:33.340 Anyone have a wait list on litters?

00:44:35.440 In my spare time, I'm going to have a hobby farm.

00:44:37.700 So here's the first issue.

00:44:39.340 She's supposed to be sleeping, but instead she's awake in bed researching goats for this goat farm that she wants to have,

00:44:44.680 but will not have because this is not happening.

00:44:46.760 You know, I have lost every argument in my house about animals that we've ever had.

00:44:51.840 Every animal I said I didn't want, we ended up getting from cats to dogs to chickens.

00:44:57.100 But so my record is not good.

00:44:59.380 My batting average is very bad.

00:45:01.360 But on this, I will prevail.

00:45:03.840 We're just, we're not going to do this.

00:45:05.840 So I'm telling you right now, if you live in the Nashville area, do not give this woman your goats. 1.00

00:45:13.180 Don't do it.

00:45:13.980 Your goats are not welcome on my property.

00:45:16.280 I don't care what she says.

00:45:17.280 You will not be sending them to a loving home.

00:45:19.920 I hate your goats and I don't want them.

00:45:22.240 You are sending your goat off to its demise.

00:45:26.060 Okay.

00:45:26.280 You know, when she was doing this last night, I was looking up recipes for goat stew last night when my wife was researching her goat farm.

00:45:32.960 Because that's what's going to happen to your goats. 1.00

00:45:34.500 Fair warning.

00:45:35.180 I want you to know that.

00:45:36.720 Why would I want goats?

00:45:37.960 They don't do anything.

00:45:39.020 They serve no purpose.

00:45:39.840 My wife says, oh, we could say goat's milk.

00:45:43.860 Really?

00:45:44.280 Are you going to get up every morning to go milk the goat?

00:45:46.600 Are you going to do that?

00:45:47.760 Because I don't think you are.

00:45:48.840 And who's drinking it?

00:45:49.900 I know I'm not.

00:45:50.760 I know I come in the house with goat milk.

00:45:53.000 Fresh from the animal that I can see down there out the window.

00:45:58.000 No, I'm not drinking that.

00:45:59.360 And if I wanted goat milk, I just go to the store.

00:46:01.440 Five minutes away.

00:46:02.920 No, but it's cheaper to get your goat milk fresh.

00:46:04.780 Is it really?

00:46:05.280 I don't think it is.

00:46:06.660 It's a cheaper option.

00:46:07.940 Really?

00:46:08.380 Buy the goats.

00:46:09.240 Get the goat feed.

00:46:10.240 Build the goat pen.

00:46:11.400 Maintain these animals.

00:46:12.380 Care for them.

00:46:13.380 Is that cheaper?

00:46:14.160 I don't think it's cheaper.

00:46:15.020 Even if it is, it's not worth the effort for a minor savings on a beverage that we don't even drink.

00:46:22.100 But of course, it's not even about the milk.

00:46:23.780 It's because she thinks the goats are cute. 0.63

00:46:25.900 And my kids think the goats are cute.

00:46:28.280 And my three-year-old daughter really wanted a pet goat.

00:46:30.420 And she asked me for one.

00:46:31.540 And I said yes.

00:46:33.140 But only because I'm a dad and she's the three-year-old daughter.

00:46:35.780 And like any dad of a three-year-old daughter, I always say yes to her.

00:46:38.600 And she gets everything she wants.

00:46:40.920 It's just the way.

00:46:41.640 I can't help it.

00:46:42.200 It's just nature.

00:46:43.360 Like my older kids will come in the kitchen and say,

00:46:44.980 Dad, can we have a snack?

00:46:45.920 And I'll say, no, you ate a meal 10 hours ago.

00:46:48.220 You don't need a snack.

00:46:49.260 And then my daughter will come in and say,

00:46:50.600 Daddy, can I have a snack?

00:46:51.720 And I'll say, sure, princess.

00:46:53.200 Would you like pudding or ice cream?

00:46:55.480 That's the way it goes, okay?

00:46:56.580 It's just the way it goes.

00:46:57.280 The point is it's not fair to take advantage of that.

00:47:01.420 To try to blackmail me into getting a goat.

00:47:04.160 It's not going to happen.

00:47:05.060 So this one right here.

00:47:06.840 This is a, this is, I will prevail on this.

00:47:09.140 We are not getting a goat.

00:47:10.240 It is not happening.

00:47:12.540 Especially a pygmy goat.

00:47:14.680 You know what that is.

00:47:16.220 Sounds annoying, though.

00:47:17.720 Billy says,

00:47:18.180 I'm completely on board with the M. Night Shyamalan-esque celebration of hot dogs.

00:47:21.980 I need to watch Signs again now.

00:47:23.740 Between the love of hot dogs and aliens,

00:47:25.260 I bet Signs is Matt's all-time favorite movie.

00:47:28.160 Not at all.

00:47:28.780 In fact, it's the reason, you know,

00:47:30.460 because I appreciate aliens so much and have so much respect for them

00:47:33.880 is one of the reasons why I hate Signs so much.

00:47:36.460 Because of the way that, I think we've talked about this,

00:47:39.180 the way that it portrays the aliens as somehow morons

00:47:42.240 who come to a planet that's almost entirely comprised of water,

00:47:47.820 with water in the atmosphere,

00:47:50.260 and yet water is fatal to them.

00:47:53.900 Not to mention they can't figure out how to navigate through a locked basement door,

00:47:57.900 even though they were able to make it, you know, 500 light years across space.

00:48:01.140 So not really my favorite.

00:48:04.920 Garrett says,

00:48:05.560 With your endorsement of hot dogs,

00:48:06.780 does that mean that now that hot dogs are the official food of the SBG?

00:48:09.540 I said, yeah, I guess so.

00:48:11.140 We'll go with that.

00:48:13.780 Rain Man says,

00:48:15.540 We're always told that these hormones are life-saving medications.

00:48:17.960 If that's the case,

00:48:19.520 then that would disqualify a trans person from enlisting in the armed forces.

00:48:22.660 I tried to enlist in the army,

00:48:24.080 but was denied because of my asthma and dependence on my daily medicine.

00:48:29.040 That is a very good point.

00:48:32.060 That's actually a really good point.

00:48:33.080 I wish I had thought to make myself.

00:48:35.560 It's a very good point,

00:48:36.580 and it's also futile.

00:48:38.720 Because once again,

00:48:39.900 you're pointing out this inconsistency,

00:48:42.620 because in most other cases,

00:48:45.520 if you depend on life-saving medicine,

00:48:48.520 if there's a certain kind of medicine

00:48:49.900 that you need to take every single day

00:48:52.120 to save your life,

00:48:53.920 then they're not going to allow you in the military,

00:48:56.100 and they shouldn't.

00:48:58.380 You're not going to have the physical fitness required

00:49:00.660 to be in the military.

00:49:01.940 And also, you know,

00:49:03.280 we can't be guaranteed

00:49:05.100 that you're always going to be in a situation

00:49:06.740 where you're going to have access to that medicine.

00:49:08.880 So for your own sake,

00:49:10.120 and the sake of national security,

00:49:11.480 and for the country,

00:49:12.000 we can't allow people like that

00:49:13.220 in the military.

00:49:15.120 And yet,

00:49:16.880 we let trans people

00:49:18.340 with the so-called gender-affirming care,

00:49:20.680 which they also say is life-saving.

00:49:22.040 And they would say that it's like,

00:49:25.260 you know,

00:49:25.540 they would look you straight in the eye,

00:49:27.360 and they would say

00:49:27.960 that for a man,

00:49:30.700 his estrogen pills

00:49:32.400 are life-saving

00:49:34.740 in exactly the same kind of way

00:49:37.380 that an inhaler is life-saving

00:49:39.500 for somebody having an asthma attack.

00:49:41.020 They would say it's exactly the same kind of

00:49:43.060 life-saving medical intervention.

00:49:46.960 And yet, in one case,

00:49:47.760 they'll still let you in the military,

00:49:48.860 and the other not.

00:49:50.880 Another inconsistency.

00:49:52.380 As many of you know,

00:49:53.360 I wasn't super thrilled

00:49:54.220 when my family got a dog.

00:49:56.140 But they are obsessed with it,

00:49:57.940 which is why,

00:49:58.520 despite my own distaste

00:49:59.660 for the mangy beast,

00:50:00.760 I love making my family happy.

00:50:02.820 And part of doing that

00:50:03.540 is keeping this freeloader

00:50:04.620 as healthy as possible,

00:50:05.500 which is why

00:50:06.000 I give my dog Rough Greens.

00:50:07.960 Dr. Dennis Black,

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00:50:12.520 Little did I know,

00:50:13.240 before I got Rough Greens,

00:50:14.640 dog food is dead food.

00:50:16.040 Everybody knows that

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00:52:04.120 Now let's get to

00:52:04.580 our daily cancellation.

00:52:09.360 If you are in therapy,

00:52:11.900 you're probably wasting your time.

00:52:13.480 Worst, you're probably

00:52:13.960 doing yourself more harm

00:52:15.040 than good.

00:52:15.540 That's the case

00:52:16.320 that I want to make today

00:52:17.240 in this segment.

00:52:18.380 But first,

00:52:18.880 let's establish

00:52:19.460 some necessary background

00:52:20.760 to begin with.

00:52:23.120 That starts with this.

00:52:24.120 Recently,

00:52:24.540 The Hill published a report

00:52:25.980 telling us what we already know,

00:52:27.280 which is that Americans

00:52:28.100 love going to therapy.

00:52:29.600 According to the outlet,

00:52:30.360 quote,

00:52:30.540 the number of Americans

00:52:31.660 seeking mental health treatment

00:52:32.780 is almost twice as high

00:52:34.260 as it was two decades ago,

00:52:35.540 reflecting a historic

00:52:36.420 recent decline in mental health,

00:52:38.300 but also an increase

00:52:39.120 in virtual care

00:52:40.080 and positive trends

00:52:41.760 of destigmatization.

00:52:43.560 In 2004,

00:52:44.320 just 13% of adults

00:52:45.500 said that they had visited

00:52:46.300 a therapist,

00:52:47.300 psychiatrist,

00:52:47.860 or other mental health

00:52:48.440 professional within the past year,

00:52:49.640 according to Gallup polling.

00:52:50.880 In 2022,

00:52:51.640 that number was up to 23%.

00:52:53.880 Now, to put this in perspective

00:52:56.060 in terms of raw numbers,

00:52:57.540 if these percentages are accurate,

00:52:58.920 then somewhere around 60 million adults

00:53:01.480 in this country are in therapy.

00:53:03.560 Reading on,

00:53:04.200 quote,

00:53:04.820 a majority of psychologists

00:53:05.840 reported seeing more patients

00:53:07.200 seek help for disorders

00:53:08.240 related to anxiety,

00:53:09.140 depression,

00:53:09.460 or stress in 2020,

00:53:10.680 and again in 2021 and 2022,

00:53:12.660 according to an annual survey

00:53:13.540 from the American

00:53:14.140 Psychological Association.

00:53:15.860 Many health experts

00:53:16.880 link to increased demand

00:53:18.960 to plummeting mental health

00:53:20.200 during the pandemic,

00:53:21.060 which led to spikes

00:53:22.060 in the numbers of Americans

00:53:23.240 reporting depression and anxiety.

00:53:24.940 Some health experts

00:53:25.600 think the numbers

00:53:26.160 tell another story,

00:53:27.060 however,

00:53:27.280 one about the success

00:53:29.280 of teletherapy.

00:53:31.300 Now, it's important to note

00:53:32.040 that success in this sentence

00:53:33.660 doesn't mean that this type

00:53:34.640 of therapy has proven effective

00:53:36.060 at helping people

00:53:37.220 solve their problems.

00:53:38.640 It just means that teletherapy

00:53:40.200 has become more and more common

00:53:42.760 as therapy customers

00:53:44.360 find it easy and convenient

00:53:45.820 to sit in the comfort

00:53:46.700 of their own homes

00:53:47.440 and attend therapy

00:53:48.600 over FaceTime.

00:53:50.160 This is part of what

00:53:50.720 has increased the demand.

00:53:52.740 You know,

00:53:52.840 it's what is driving

00:53:53.820 the increased demand.

00:53:55.120 The article also puts

00:53:55.880 a lot of the blame on COVID.

00:53:58.300 But these are all trends

00:53:59.920 that far predate COVID

00:54:01.260 and FaceTime.

00:54:02.700 In fact,

00:54:02.980 I found an article

00:54:03.560 from the American

00:54:04.320 Psychological Association

00:54:05.240 noting the significant increase

00:54:07.120 in Americans seeking

00:54:07.880 mental health services.

00:54:09.040 And that article

00:54:09.460 was published in 2004.

00:54:11.240 So in 2004,

00:54:12.300 they were already noticing

00:54:13.540 this big increase

00:54:15.600 in people going to therapy.

00:54:16.840 And now we know

00:54:17.740 compared to 2004,

00:54:18.820 it's doubled since then.

00:54:21.100 The trends become

00:54:22.000 even more evident

00:54:22.680 when you break it down

00:54:23.800 generationally.

00:54:24.600 The Hill notes that

00:54:25.500 as of 2019,

00:54:27.000 which means that

00:54:27.420 all these numbers

00:54:27.900 are higher now,

00:54:29.420 37% of Gen Z

00:54:31.000 had received therapy,

00:54:32.500 35% of millennials,

00:54:34.020 and 26% of Gen Xers.

00:54:36.720 So it's clear

00:54:37.140 that something like COVID

00:54:38.720 is a relatively

00:54:39.560 minor factor here.

00:54:40.820 Therapy is becoming

00:54:41.520 more and more popular

00:54:42.840 generation after generation.

00:54:45.240 And these trends

00:54:45.820 have become,

00:54:46.480 have been observable

00:54:47.720 for decades.

00:54:49.720 Which is interesting

00:54:50.760 when you consider,

00:54:51.540 again,

00:54:51.720 the very first sentence

00:54:53.640 of this article,

00:54:54.920 which says,

00:54:55.920 the number of Americans

00:54:56.720 seeking mental health

00:54:57.520 treatment is almost

00:54:58.180 twice as high

00:54:58.700 as it was two decades ago,

00:55:00.080 reflecting a historic

00:55:01.200 recent decline

00:55:02.420 in mental health.

00:55:04.900 So,

00:55:05.580 it's not just

00:55:06.520 the Hill noticing

00:55:08.020 this either.

00:55:08.580 I mean,

00:55:08.700 the rest of the media,

00:55:09.720 along with our public

00:55:10.420 health authorities,

00:55:11.000 also insist that

00:55:11.820 mental health is declining

00:55:13.100 at a historic rate.

00:55:15.440 Well,

00:55:15.920 that's a funny thing,

00:55:16.820 isn't it?

00:55:17.880 Correlation doesn't

00:55:18.600 always mean causation,

00:55:19.660 but still,

00:55:20.460 the correlation here

00:55:21.640 is hard to ignore.

00:55:23.520 Over the decades,

00:55:24.240 we're told,

00:55:24.720 mental health is getting

00:55:25.480 worse and worse,

00:55:26.480 even though more and more

00:55:27.980 people are going to therapy.

00:55:29.940 Each year,

00:55:30.900 more people go to therapy,

00:55:32.780 and yet the problem

00:55:33.580 only gets worse.

00:55:35.660 There's a bit of a chicken

00:55:36.940 and egg conundrum here,

00:55:38.080 of course.

00:55:38.480 Maybe more people

00:55:39.620 are going to therapy

00:55:40.240 because mental health

00:55:41.020 is allegedly so bad,

00:55:42.060 you could always argue.

00:55:43.540 But even then,

00:55:44.340 if therapy works,

00:55:45.680 if all of the

00:55:46.400 collective billions

00:55:47.680 that Americans

00:55:48.320 have spent on therapy

00:55:49.440 was actually money

00:55:50.520 well spent,

00:55:52.140 then shouldn't we see

00:55:52.860 those benefits

00:55:53.400 manifest themselves

00:55:54.720 in the culture

00:55:55.400 at some point?

00:55:57.500 Instead,

00:55:57.960 we just see more

00:55:58.720 and more people

00:55:59.140 going to therapy

00:55:59.700 while all the problems

00:56:00.680 therapy is supposed to fix

00:56:01.760 only continue to get

00:56:02.660 worse and worse

00:56:03.500 year after year

00:56:04.820 after year after year.

00:56:06.840 Just to use a quick

00:56:07.860 football analogy,

00:56:09.000 shortly after the end

00:56:10.200 of the 2022 season,

00:56:11.440 the Baltimore Ravens

00:56:12.220 fired their strength

00:56:13.440 and conditioning coach

00:56:14.260 by the name of

00:56:14.820 Steve Saunders.

00:56:16.260 He had been in that job

00:56:17.440 for several years,

00:56:18.200 and each year

00:56:19.000 under his tenure,

00:56:20.220 it seemed as though

00:56:20.860 players were getting

00:56:21.600 injured at an unusually

00:56:23.240 high rate,

00:56:23.920 and the problem

00:56:24.400 only got worse

00:56:25.240 over time.

00:56:26.960 A rash of injuries

00:56:28.120 plagued the Ravens

00:56:29.660 every year.

00:56:30.580 Now, you might argue

00:56:31.560 that if players

00:56:32.380 are getting injured

00:56:32.980 a lot,

00:56:33.840 that's all the more

00:56:34.440 reason to not fire

00:56:35.820 your strength

00:56:36.400 and conditioning coach.

00:56:37.720 He's got a lot

00:56:38.340 of work to do.

00:56:39.580 There's all the more

00:56:40.120 reason why we need him.

00:56:41.740 Just let him do his work.

00:56:43.660 But of course,

00:56:44.320 the trend indicates

00:56:45.140 that whatever Steve Saunders

00:56:46.340 was doing to help

00:56:47.180 prevent injuries

00:56:48.060 wasn't working.

00:56:49.940 If you have a good

00:56:50.640 strength and conditioning

00:56:51.300 coach, you should find

00:56:52.480 that player health

00:56:53.220 and fitness is

00:56:54.020 trending up.

00:56:55.080 If it trends down

00:56:56.400 year after year,

00:56:57.260 it probably means

00:56:58.120 that you need to

00:56:58.900 seriously revamp

00:57:00.440 your strength

00:57:01.000 and conditioning department

00:57:01.880 and fire the people 0.85

00:57:03.320 in charge of it.

00:57:04.720 So a similar point

00:57:05.760 can be made about

00:57:06.260 the people tasked

00:57:06.900 with ensuring

00:57:07.420 that mental,

00:57:08.980 the mental strength

00:57:10.120 and conditioning

00:57:10.640 of Americans.

00:57:12.600 We have seen

00:57:13.460 nothing but decline

00:57:14.780 in that area

00:57:15.720 decade upon decade,

00:57:17.460 which probably means

00:57:18.300 that a whole lot

00:57:18.980 of people in the

00:57:19.540 mental health industry

00:57:20.340 should be fired.

00:57:22.420 On a macro societal level,

00:57:25.560 there simply is

00:57:26.180 no reason to believe

00:57:27.300 that most of these people

00:57:28.440 are doing us

00:57:28.960 any good at all.

00:57:30.720 On the micro level,

00:57:31.820 you can see this as well.

00:57:32.900 It's not a coincidence

00:57:33.580 that many of the worst

00:57:35.220 and most dysfunctional

00:57:36.220 people you'll ever meet

00:57:37.300 have been in therapy

00:57:38.500 for years.

00:57:39.160 Now, there's no sign

00:57:40.900 that it's doing them

00:57:41.400 any good,

00:57:42.600 that it's prompting

00:57:43.780 any improvements,

00:57:45.040 but they keep at it.

00:57:47.580 It reminds you

00:57:48.200 of a morbidly obese person

00:57:49.680 who's been seeing

00:57:50.220 a dietician for 15 years.

00:57:53.160 Something just isn't

00:57:53.920 working here.

00:57:54.800 Now, you see the morbidly

00:57:55.680 obese person

00:57:56.240 and you find out

00:57:56.960 they're seeing a dietician.

00:57:57.820 You say, well, that's good.

00:57:58.560 That's the kind of person

00:57:59.180 who needs a dietician. 0.72

00:58:00.520 But then you hear,

00:58:01.480 oh, I've been going

00:58:01.900 to this guy for 15 years.

00:58:04.820 Okay, unless you started

00:58:06.320 at 7,000 pounds

00:58:08.360 and now you're down

00:58:09.360 to 300,

00:58:10.800 unless that's the case,

00:58:11.920 then clearly there's

00:58:12.600 a problem with the dietician.

00:58:14.780 Something's not working here.

00:58:17.620 Yesterday on the

00:58:18.420 on the members block,

00:58:19.460 we watched this video

00:58:20.540 of a twice-divorced woman

00:58:21.780 explaining why

00:58:22.640 none of the bad things

00:58:23.780 in her life

00:58:24.260 are her fault.

00:58:25.100 Let's watch that again.

00:58:25.800 Things I stopped

00:58:27.660 with after my divorce.

00:58:29.240 People who judge me

00:58:30.100 based off of my choices.

00:58:31.580 Oh, you would never

00:58:32.120 get a divorce

00:58:32.740 no matter what?

00:58:33.640 Cool.

00:58:33.980 Well, I've had to.

00:58:35.160 Be well.

00:58:35.680 Also stopped

00:58:36.160 with the narrative

00:58:37.040 that something was wrong

00:58:38.400 with me.

00:58:38.920 Nothing is wrong with me.

00:58:40.060 Things happened to me

00:58:41.660 that made me the person

00:58:43.160 that I was

00:58:43.840 and have the struggles

00:58:44.840 that I had.

00:58:45.660 You can fix that.

00:58:46.640 Anything that you don't like,

00:58:48.280 anything that is

00:58:49.000 no longer serving you,

00:58:50.400 change it.

00:58:52.800 Change it.

00:58:53.300 Go to therapy.

00:58:54.060 Do the journaling.

00:58:54.940 Practice meditation.

00:58:55.940 Do the things

00:58:56.540 that you need to do

00:58:57.520 to be the person

00:58:58.440 you want to be.

00:59:00.440 Go to therapy,

00:59:01.400 she says.

00:59:02.100 If we can assume

00:59:03.020 that she's taken

00:59:03.660 her own advice,

00:59:04.480 we see again

00:59:05.020 how therapy

00:59:05.500 has not helped

00:59:06.320 this truly awful person

00:59:07.780 be any less awful.

00:59:09.580 If anything,

00:59:10.000 it seems to have reinforced

00:59:10.920 all of her worst

00:59:11.880 attitudes and beliefs.

00:59:13.900 By the way,

00:59:14.560 this woman,

00:59:15.040 Leah Marie is her name.

00:59:16.320 She is a life coach

00:59:17.660 who specializes

00:59:18.520 in helping coach women

00:59:19.800 through their own divorces.

00:59:21.940 The About Me

00:59:22.640 on her website

00:59:23.140 says this,

00:59:24.120 My second divorce

00:59:24.900 was the ugliest

00:59:25.620 wake-up call ever.

00:59:26.860 That's when I knew

00:59:27.420 I needed to do things

00:59:28.320 differently

00:59:28.660 if I was going to find

00:59:29.820 the happiness

00:59:30.360 I really wanted.

00:59:31.560 So I did all the things.

00:59:33.160 Therapy,

00:59:33.780 journaling,

00:59:34.260 meditation,

00:59:34.840 reading books,

00:59:35.540 listening to podcasts.

00:59:36.600 I wanted to learn

00:59:37.120 as much as I could

00:59:37.860 about rebuilding

00:59:38.560 my self-esteem,

00:59:39.680 loving myself,

00:59:40.740 taking better care

00:59:41.560 of myself,

00:59:42.220 and knowing my worth.

00:59:44.320 She went to therapy

00:59:45.320 apparently and discovered

00:59:46.200 that nothing is her fault,

00:59:48.100 that everything

00:59:49.160 is everyone else's fault,

00:59:50.420 that she's been divorced twice

00:59:51.680 and yet it was something

00:59:52.480 that happened to her 0.99

00:59:53.680 each time,

00:59:54.660 not something that she did

00:59:55.960 or is at fault for.

00:59:58.460 And now she's on a journey

00:59:59.880 of trying to live

01:00:00.860 the most selfish life

01:00:02.360 she possibly can

01:00:03.220 by helping other women

01:00:04.320 do the same.

01:00:05.960 By its fruits

01:00:06.960 shall we know it

01:00:08.540 and the fruits

01:00:09.520 as we have seen

01:00:10.260 with therapy

01:00:10.860 are very rotten indeed.

01:00:13.100 Now there's a lot

01:00:13.800 that goes into this,

01:00:14.840 many culprits

01:00:15.540 that could be named,

01:00:16.620 a lot driving the problem,

01:00:18.340 but I would like to suggest

01:00:19.160 that part of the issue

01:00:20.420 is that in many cases,

01:00:21.840 not all but many,

01:00:23.240 therapy turns out

01:00:24.140 to be not only

01:00:24.760 a waste of time

01:00:25.400 but something that will

01:00:26.100 ultimately do more harm

01:00:27.600 than good.

01:00:28.700 Now why might that

01:00:29.500 be the case?

01:00:30.020 Well for one thing,

01:00:31.200 as is the case

01:00:31.900 with whoever has been

01:00:32.820 counseling Leah Marie,

01:00:34.400 the divorce coach,

01:00:35.360 you know,

01:00:35.540 that we just watched,

01:00:36.980 a great many therapists

01:00:37.960 and psychologists

01:00:38.780 and counselors

01:00:39.480 and others in the psych industry

01:00:40.740 have a deeply

01:00:41.780 and fundamentally

01:00:42.540 disordered view

01:00:43.620 of humanity

01:00:44.260 and what constitutes

01:00:45.360 healthy behavior

01:00:46.300 and good habits

01:00:47.160 of thought and action.

01:00:48.160 if therapy has any chance

01:00:50.180 of helping you at all,

01:00:51.480 it depends largely

01:00:52.240 on the assumption

01:00:52.840 that the therapist

01:00:53.640 will have correct

01:00:55.080 and useful insights

01:00:56.580 into life

01:00:57.500 and the human condition.

01:00:58.860 But there is no license,

01:01:00.460 there's no degree,

01:01:01.400 there's no resume,

01:01:02.300 there's no credential

01:01:03.120 that ensures that someone

01:01:04.640 is wise and insightful

01:01:05.880 much less that they have

01:01:06.760 a correct understanding

01:01:07.960 of the human condition.

01:01:09.980 And what we find

01:01:10.560 in many cases

01:01:11.060 is that the people

01:01:11.940 in this industry

01:01:12.600 not only have no special insight

01:01:14.400 into any of this

01:01:15.020 but in fact

01:01:15.420 are more confused

01:01:17.000 than half of the people

01:01:18.220 who come to see them

01:01:19.020 seeking guidance.

01:01:21.020 Consider the fact

01:01:21.860 that many people

01:01:22.540 who declare themselves trans

01:01:23.900 have this idea

01:01:25.680 first suggested to them

01:01:27.160 by a therapist

01:01:28.060 or a counselor.

01:01:29.820 This issue alone

01:01:30.840 absolutely proves

01:01:31.780 that the therapy industry

01:01:33.100 is a disaster.

01:01:33.960 Most therapists

01:01:34.500 will not only affirm

01:01:35.940 the notion

01:01:36.440 that a woman 0.98

01:01:36.920 can be trapped

01:01:37.420 in a man's body

01:01:38.160 but will even suggest it.

01:01:40.980 Now,

01:01:41.460 if your problems

01:01:43.040 have nothing to do

01:01:43.680 with gender

01:01:44.160 and you have your head

01:01:45.240 screwed on

01:01:45.720 straight enough anyway

01:01:46.440 that you aren't worried

01:01:48.160 about being coaxed

01:01:49.040 and developing

01:01:49.580 your own case of dysphoria

01:01:50.780 maybe you wonder

01:01:52.820 well do I have to worry

01:01:55.100 about this

01:01:55.520 even if the therapist

01:01:56.280 endorses gender theory

01:01:57.400 is that a problem for me?

01:02:00.120 But you still have to worry

01:02:00.820 about it

01:02:01.080 because you have to ask yourself

01:02:02.040 is the therapist

01:02:02.860 that you're paying

01:02:03.420 an exorbitant hourly rate

01:02:04.800 to the kind of person

01:02:06.480 who thinks women 0.99

01:02:07.500 can be trapped

01:02:08.060 in men's bodies 0.56

01:02:08.800 and if so

01:02:09.560 this is a person

01:02:10.780 so delusional

01:02:11.860 so confused

01:02:12.960 so captured

01:02:14.100 by far-left ideology

01:02:15.380 that their insights

01:02:16.520 cannot possibly

01:02:17.420 be trusted

01:02:17.900 on any subject

01:02:18.740 at all

01:02:19.260 and yet the majority

01:02:21.080 of therapists

01:02:21.560 fall into this category

01:02:22.700 but the pitfalls

01:02:24.880 with therapy

01:02:25.380 don't just lie

01:02:26.100 with the fact

01:02:26.600 that so many therapists

01:02:27.620 are bad and stupid

01:02:28.800 before we can even

01:02:30.360 get to the point

01:02:31.120 of analyzing

01:02:31.780 the quality

01:02:32.360 of the therapist

01:02:33.180 we have to deal

01:02:33.940 with the problems

01:02:34.680 inherent to the very

01:02:35.620 practice of therapy

01:02:36.820 itself

01:02:37.360 and the biggest one

01:02:38.840 is this

01:02:39.200 that many people

01:02:39.900 go to therapy

01:02:40.460 simply because

01:02:41.200 they want to talk

01:02:41.980 about themselves

01:02:42.860 it feeds

01:02:43.620 their narcissistic

01:02:44.720 impulse

01:02:45.160 to talk incessantly

01:02:46.400 and think incessantly

01:02:47.780 about themselves

01:02:48.780 this is the real reason

01:02:50.440 why therapy

01:02:50.900 is so popular

01:02:51.560 in our culture

01:02:52.060 and why it becomes

01:02:52.680 more popular

01:02:53.340 with each generation

01:02:54.240 it's not that

01:02:56.100 mental health

01:02:57.060 is declining

01:02:57.640 it's that narcissism

01:02:58.680 is increasing

01:02:59.360 and narcissism

01:03:00.020 is not so much

01:03:00.820 a mental health problem

01:03:01.840 as a character flaw

01:03:03.040 and this is primarily

01:03:04.960 what drives

01:03:05.540 the mad rush

01:03:06.200 to therapy

01:03:06.740 lots of narcissists

01:03:08.800 who are willing

01:03:09.300 to pay by the hour

01:03:10.440 just to have

01:03:11.820 the privilege

01:03:12.380 of having

01:03:12.880 a 60 minute block

01:03:14.040 reserved exclusively

01:03:15.060 to conversation

01:03:15.860 focused on themselves

01:03:17.340 but this is exactly

01:03:19.700 the opposite

01:03:20.360 of what many

01:03:21.540 of these people need

01:03:22.460 what they need

01:03:24.520 instead

01:03:24.840 is to stop

01:03:25.660 talking about themselves

01:03:26.860 stop thinking

01:03:27.980 about themselves

01:03:28.760 stop dwelling

01:03:29.840 on their own

01:03:30.340 petty problems

01:03:31.000 stop trying to make

01:03:31.940 every obstacle

01:03:32.580 they face

01:03:33.060 into some great

01:03:33.720 saga of trial

01:03:34.820 and triumph

01:03:35.320 and instead

01:03:36.000 just go live

01:03:36.660 their lives

01:03:37.100 with some humility

01:03:37.840 and sense of perspective

01:03:38.820 the best advice

01:03:40.440 anyone can give you

01:03:41.220 for 90% of the problems

01:03:42.440 that you bring

01:03:42.840 to a therapist

01:03:43.300 is this

01:03:43.800 get over yourself

01:03:45.080 and quit whining

01:03:45.880 go for a jog

01:03:46.780 get a hobby

01:03:47.460 do something more

01:03:48.800 just don't buy goats

01:03:50.040 do something more

01:03:51.160 interesting with your life

01:03:52.140 than constantly

01:03:52.940 analyzing your own feelings

01:03:54.480 your feelings

01:03:56.620 aren't that interesting

01:03:57.340 or important

01:03:57.900 are you sad

01:04:00.180 are you stressed out

01:04:01.140 well welcome

01:04:02.300 to human existence

01:04:03.340 okay that's part

01:04:04.400 of the bargain

01:04:04.920 not every difficult

01:04:06.420 emotion or personal

01:04:07.340 experience needs to be

01:04:08.340 hashed out

01:04:08.920 and analyzed

01:04:09.620 and focused on

01:04:10.520 you shouldn't even

01:04:12.240 need to talk

01:04:12.840 about most of it

01:04:13.580 life is hard

01:04:14.360 yours probably

01:04:15.380 isn't as hard

01:04:15.840 as you think

01:04:16.300 if you have enough

01:04:17.860 money to spend

01:04:18.400 $150 an hour

01:04:19.460 to talk about yourself

01:04:20.340 that automatically

01:04:21.520 means you have

01:04:22.180 an easier life

01:04:22.960 than like 3 billion

01:04:24.160 other people

01:04:24.720 on the planet

01:04:25.280 I mean there is

01:04:26.060 a whole family

01:04:26.740 starving to death

01:04:27.580 in a hut

01:04:28.020 made out of plywood

01:04:28.840 somewhere in the world

01:04:29.780 while you cry

01:04:31.140 to a therapist

01:04:31.700 that your dad

01:04:32.360 missed your dance

01:04:32.980 recital when you

01:04:33.580 were 7 years old

01:04:34.380 this doesn't mean

01:04:36.200 that none of your

01:04:36.680 problems are serious

01:04:37.400 but it does mean

01:04:38.000 that most of them

01:04:38.880 probably aren't

01:04:39.720 most of your

01:04:40.240 complaints you should

01:04:40.940 keep to yourself

01:04:41.680 and tell no one

01:04:43.340 and move on

01:04:44.400 with your life

01:04:44.860 you should have

01:04:46.300 a whole host

01:04:47.100 of worries

01:04:47.580 and concerns

01:04:48.120 that you have

01:04:48.620 never told anyone

01:04:49.800 that nobody

01:04:50.900 knows about

01:04:51.520 because you

01:04:52.240 carry them

01:04:52.940 yourself

01:04:53.660 with quiet

01:04:54.380 dignity

01:04:54.920 if you are

01:04:56.820 the sort of

01:04:57.160 person who has

01:04:57.680 never had a problem

01:04:58.480 you didn't tell

01:04:59.220 someone about

01:04:59.780 or a complaint

01:05:00.560 you didn't

01:05:00.920 complain about

01:05:01.540 then therapy

01:05:02.380 is the last

01:05:03.080 thing you need

01:05:03.900 except for the

01:05:05.500 therapy I'm giving

01:05:06.080 you right now

01:05:06.540 the therapy that

01:05:07.160 says grow up 1.00

01:05:08.060 you whiny child

01:05:09.700 this is what a

01:05:11.300 huge number of

01:05:11.940 therapy customers

01:05:12.780 need to hear

01:05:13.420 but they won't

01:05:14.040 hear it

01:05:14.540 because most

01:05:15.280 therapists won't

01:05:15.980 say it or

01:05:16.440 anything like it

01:05:17.160 that's because

01:05:18.420 here's the really

01:05:18.940 big ingrained

01:05:20.200 problem

01:05:20.560 the therapist's

01:05:22.260 income depends

01:05:23.360 on your not

01:05:25.260 getting over

01:05:25.840 yourself

01:05:26.200 there is a

01:05:26.720 conflict of

01:05:27.360 interest here

01:05:27.840 it's the same

01:05:28.240 conflict of

01:05:28.640 interest every

01:05:29.040 time Apple

01:05:29.560 releases a new

01:05:30.200 phone

01:05:30.520 you know

01:05:31.040 we know

01:05:31.320 if the phone

01:05:31.860 is too good

01:05:32.360 if it's too

01:05:32.780 durable

01:05:33.100 if it works

01:05:33.560 too well

01:05:34.080 if it's too

01:05:34.760 reliable

01:05:35.160 then you're

01:05:36.060 not going to

01:05:36.340 need to buy

01:05:36.660 another one

01:05:37.060 for a long

01:05:37.420 time

01:05:37.700 and that's

01:05:38.020 why they

01:05:38.240 always make

01:05:38.580 sure that

01:05:38.900 their products

01:05:39.280 will not be

01:05:39.900 durable or

01:05:40.740 reliable

01:05:41.140 last month

01:05:42.240 the company

01:05:42.580 behind the

01:05:43.100 instant pot

01:05:43.780 filed for

01:05:44.300 bankruptcy

01:05:44.740 instant pot

01:05:45.320 was a

01:05:45.760 phenomenon

01:05:46.220 just a few

01:05:46.780 years ago

01:05:47.200 everyone in

01:05:47.640 the country

01:05:47.880 went out

01:05:48.460 and bought

01:05:48.800 one

01:05:49.040 now the

01:05:49.480 company's

01:05:49.800 going under

01:05:50.240 why

01:05:50.560 well the

01:05:51.240 product

01:05:51.520 was too

01:05:51.940 good

01:05:52.240 everybody

01:05:52.980 bought

01:05:53.280 one

01:05:53.520 and nobody

01:05:54.420 needed to

01:05:54.760 buy another

01:05:55.080 one

01:05:55.300 because instant

01:05:55.900 pots work

01:05:56.560 and they stay

01:05:57.000 working for

01:05:57.520 several years

01:05:58.160 at least

01:05:58.580 the company

01:05:59.680 made the

01:06:00.140 mistake of

01:06:00.880 creating a

01:06:01.400 well-made

01:06:02.040 durable

01:06:02.560 product

01:06:03.020 the mistake

01:06:03.520 that not

01:06:04.260 many companies

01:06:04.820 in America

01:06:05.180 make these

01:06:05.680 days and

01:06:06.200 even fewer

01:06:07.080 will now

01:06:07.980 this is also

01:06:09.660 the issue

01:06:09.980 for therapists

01:06:10.520 if they give

01:06:11.100 you the

01:06:11.420 instant pot

01:06:12.220 version of

01:06:12.800 therapy

01:06:13.160 if their

01:06:13.600 therapy is

01:06:14.100 useful and

01:06:14.700 efficient and

01:06:15.200 effective and

01:06:15.820 offers durable

01:06:16.460 practical

01:06:16.940 long-lasting

01:06:17.560 solutions

01:06:18.040 then you're

01:06:18.760 not going to

01:06:19.040 need to

01:06:19.260 come back

01:06:19.700 every week

01:06:20.140 and pay

01:06:20.420 $150 an

01:06:21.260 hour to

01:06:21.800 rehash the

01:06:22.440 same issues

01:06:22.960 over and

01:06:23.320 over again

01:06:23.760 the therapist

01:06:25.000 will have

01:06:25.280 helped you

01:06:25.580 become a

01:06:25.940 better more

01:06:26.440 stable more

01:06:27.020 well-adjusted

01:06:27.620 person but

01:06:28.260 he'll have

01:06:28.520 lost a

01:06:28.980 revenue stream

01:06:29.600 at the same

01:06:29.980 time

01:06:30.340 some

01:06:31.200 therapists

01:06:31.620 a small

01:06:32.060 minority are 0.98

01:06:32.620 willing to

01:06:33.000 make that

01:06:33.420 trade but

01:06:33.800 most are

01:06:34.200 not so

01:06:34.980 this is

01:06:35.240 where we're

01:06:35.520 left if

01:06:36.320 therapy will

01:06:36.780 have any

01:06:37.100 chance of

01:06:37.480 helping you

01:06:37.900 at all the

01:06:38.320 therapist would

01:06:38.900 need to be a

01:06:39.760 very wise

01:06:40.520 person with a

01:06:41.300 keen understanding

01:06:42.060 of the human

01:06:42.500 condition great

01:06:43.740 moral insight

01:06:44.620 enough life

01:06:45.180 experience to

01:06:45.760 serve as a

01:06:46.160 competent guide

01:06:46.920 whose objective

01:06:48.180 is to stop

01:06:48.740 whose objective

01:06:49.680 is to stop

01:06:51.020 earning money

01:06:51.740 from you

01:06:53.160 okay the good

01:06:54.480 therapist is one

01:06:55.080 who doesn't want

01:06:56.020 your money

01:06:56.600 anymore who

01:06:58.040 wants you to

01:06:58.700 get over it

01:06:59.240 and move on

01:06:59.800 and actually

01:07:00.720 possesses the

01:07:01.400 wisdom skill

01:07:02.040 intelligence

01:07:02.520 character and

01:07:03.100 insight to

01:07:03.680 guide you in

01:07:04.380 that direction

01:07:04.980 now this sort

01:07:06.500 of therapist

01:07:07.040 certainly does

01:07:08.440 exist they exist

01:07:09.440 out there in

01:07:10.220 the wild world

01:07:10.860 but they are

01:07:11.960 very very rare

01:07:12.980 most come from

01:07:14.520 a more common

01:07:15.120 stock the sort

01:07:15.740 of therapist who

01:07:16.380 counsels the

01:07:17.300 lost and

01:07:17.760 confused and

01:07:18.300 narcissistic but

01:07:19.120 is just as

01:07:19.820 lost confused

01:07:20.520 and narcissistic 0.53

01:07:21.220 as they are

01:07:21.920 and those are

01:07:23.640 the therapists

01:07:24.200 that are today

01:07:25.440 canceled

01:07:26.420 and that will

01:07:27.580 do it for

01:07:28.100 the show

01:07:28.760 today and

01:07:29.380 this week

01:07:29.720 thanks for

01:07:30.040 watching

01:07:30.240 thanks for

01:07:30.540 listening

01:07:30.760 talk to you

01:07:31.720 on Monday

01:07:32.180 Godspeed

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The Matt Walsh Show - July 21, 2023

Ep. 1188 - Willful Ignorance And Lies In The Carlee Russell Case

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