The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1190 - Media Celebrated ‘Historic’ First Trans Lawmaker. Turns Out He’s A Child Predator.

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00:00:11.480 What conclusions might we draw from the fact that the very first trans lawmaker in America is a pedophile? 0.87

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00:02:01.660 This is one of the darkest and most disturbing stories you'll ever hear.

00:02:05.620 Last week, a former state representative in New Hampshire, a male who identifies as a woman

00:02:09.820 and now uses the name Stacey Marie Lawton, was charged in federal court with sexually exploiting children. 1.00

00:02:15.540 Authorities say that Lawton conspired with an accomplice who worked at a daycare to photograph

00:02:20.160 the genitals of young children in a private bathroom. 0.92

00:02:23.560 Lawton also discussed his interest in raping a three-year-old.

00:02:26.740 There are text messages that prove all of this, and we'll get back to that in a moment.

00:02:31.520 For the most part, the media would prefer that that's all you heard about this story if you

00:02:36.540 had to hear about it at all.

00:02:37.820 They want you to think that out of the blue, a state lawmaker committed horrible crimes,

00:02:42.400 but fortunately he was caught.

00:02:43.580 Move along, nothing to see here.

00:02:46.560 But what you're not supposed to talk about, and what everyone knows is true, is that Stacey

00:02:50.600 Lawton didn't rise to power despite being a sexual deviant.

00:02:55.140 He rose to power precisely because of it.

00:02:57.880 Lawton first attracted national attention about a decade ago.

00:03:00.100 At the time, Lawton was living with his parents with no achievements in life whatsoever, but

00:03:04.820 he decided to run for state office in New Hampshire anyway.

00:03:07.640 He sensed an opportunity because following the election of Barack Obama, the Democratic Party

00:03:11.360 was all in on identity politics.

00:03:13.540 Even profoundly mediocre candidates could win, Lawton realized, as long as they claimed to

00:03:18.500 belong to one of the party's preferred demographic groups.

00:03:21.200 And so this was Lawton's pitch.

00:03:23.360 As brazen as it possibly could have been, I mean, literally this was his pitch.

00:03:26.920 Quote, Nashua is where I was first inspired to get involved in politics, Lawton wrote when

00:03:32.100 he launched his campaign, I live at home with my family and my miniature dachshund, Winston.

00:03:37.300 I'm also the first openly transgender to run for state office.

00:03:41.480 Inspired yet?

00:03:42.640 It's not quite yes, we can, or make America great again.

00:03:45.440 It's, I live with my mom and I'm pretending to be a woman.

00:03:48.260 Vote for me.

00:03:50.040 Whether you're impressed or not, that pitch thrilled Democratic Party voters in New Hampshire.

00:03:54.280 And soon Lawton became the first self-identifying trans lawmaker elected in the United States.

00:04:00.240 History was made.

00:04:02.520 Media outlets and top officials in the Democratic Party celebrated Lawton's election.

00:04:06.500 The Huffington Post, for example, praised Lawton for making history.

00:04:10.320 The chair of New Hampshire's Democratic Party, Ray Buckley, promised Lawton would bring unique

00:04:14.840 experience and perspective to the office.

00:04:18.000 But just a few days before he was set to take office, Lawton resigned.

00:04:22.580 Because it turned out that he had hidden his criminal record from voters, and that because

00:04:26.280 of his criminal record and the fact that he hadn't paid restitution, he was unable

00:04:30.080 to serve in office.

00:04:31.380 It was not legal for him to serve.

00:04:33.400 He spoke about his resignation briefly in an interview with a local news station at the

00:04:36.740 time, blaming it on his past, quote, turmoil.

00:04:40.560 Now, here are the details about Lawton's past turmoil.

00:04:45.320 In 2002 and 2003, Lawton was arrested for charges like criminal mischief and simple assault.

00:04:50.740 In 2006, Lawton faked a medical emergency in order to get a free ride in an ambulance.

00:04:55.020 And that same year, Lawton slashed the tires of a resident in his apartment building.

00:04:59.720 Then in 2007, Lawton opened a credit card in someone else's name and began buying merchandise

00:05:04.640 with it.

00:05:05.140 So up to this point, while all these crimes were being committed, Lawton's name was Barry

00:05:10.580 Charles Lawton Jr.

00:05:12.480 He was not pretending to be a woman yet, as far as anyone knows.

00:05:16.060 But in 2010, when he was in his mid-20s, Barry decided on a new identity.

00:05:20.420 He began calling himself Stacey Lawton.

00:05:23.000 He formally changed his name in court documents, which helped him hide his criminal record from

00:05:28.760 reporters.

00:05:29.300 Because in the past, you know, a political candidate running under a new name that he

00:05:33.940 only recently assumed would raise all kinds of questions.

00:05:38.780 But because he was a man assuming a woman's name, nobody was allowed to ask any of those 0.97

00:05:43.480 questions.

00:05:44.240 And so nobody went back and looked and said, well, here's Stacey Lawton. 0.99

00:05:48.200 Not a lot of history for Stacey Lawton.

00:05:50.460 What was Barry Lawton like?

00:05:52.020 What was Barry Lawton up to?

00:05:54.000 Nobody asked that question.

00:05:55.040 Nobody looked into it.

00:05:57.160 Now, what Lawton did not do is make any real attempt to pass as a woman, even after he took 0.51

00:06:03.320 on this identity.

00:06:04.140 He just decided, like so many adult men with autogynephilia, that everybody needs to call

00:06:08.920 him a woman because he gets some kind of satisfaction out of it.

00:06:12.860 After Lawton resigned his seat in 2012 because of his criminal history, he continued to break the

00:06:17.920 law by committing various felonies.

00:06:19.540 In 2015, for example, he called in a bomb threat against a hospital.

00:06:24.320 Now, at the time, the media excused this bomb threat as a symptom of Lawton's mental illness.

00:06:30.000 Listen.

00:06:31.340 She said she felt extreme impulsivity when she made the alleged call.

00:06:35.520 She also said she was not under the influence at the time.

00:06:38.440 Of a substance.

00:06:39.700 Now, Stacey gave a statement to my producers.

00:06:42.420 Here's part of what she said.

00:06:44.980 Quote, I suffer from bipolar disorder and PTSD, and at the time of the incident, I was going

00:06:49.520 through a mental health break.

00:06:51.480 One problem was that I was not being properly treated.

00:06:54.040 I was untreated for nearly two years.

00:06:56.980 And Judy, back me up here. 1.00

00:06:58.540 Untreated, bipolar, for two years, you can get really, really goofy, really, really crazy

00:07:02.280 and do all kinds of impulsive, intense, over-the-top things.

00:07:05.000 If you remember the guy that wrote the series about, was it Pony, the African, yeah, and

00:07:12.860 he went down to San Diego in a manic state and threw his clothes off and did all kinds

00:07:16.440 of crazy stuff.

00:07:17.040 That's what mania looks like.

00:07:18.500 People can call in bomb threats and not be bad people.

00:07:20.840 They're just not being properly treated.

00:07:23.720 Yeah, people get a little goofy.

00:07:25.080 They call in bomb threats to hospitals.

00:07:27.000 You know, just things like that.

00:07:28.120 Goofy stuff like that.

00:07:29.200 A little goofy.

00:07:30.620 That's goofy, apparently.

00:07:32.320 Calling in a bomb threat to a hospital.

00:07:33.840 Stop being goofy, you big goof, with your bomb threats.

00:07:37.760 So by the time that that clip aired on HLM 2015, Lawton had slashed other people's tires.

00:07:42.820 He'd faked a medical condition to get an ambulance ride.

00:07:45.300 He'd assaulted someone.

00:07:46.240 He'd committed credit card fraud.

00:07:47.440 And now he's threatening to blow up a hospital.

00:07:49.680 But according to Dr. Drew and his panelists, Lawton is the victim.

00:07:53.940 Now, also remember, keep this in mind, that Stacey Lawton, otherwise known as Barry Lawton,

00:08:00.520 Lawton called in a bomb threat and blamed his mental illness in that he was saying he's so mentally ill,

00:08:06.640 he can't stop himself from calling in bomb threats.

00:08:10.220 That's his excuse.

00:08:11.440 So keep that in mind as we continue along.

00:08:15.360 Shortly afterwards, maybe because he realized he could do absolutely no wrong, Lawton decided to run once again for a seat in the New Hampshire legislature.

00:08:24.120 Okay?

00:08:24.820 After all those crimes and after saying, I'm mentally ill, I'm so mentally ill that I can't stop myself from threatening to blow up hospitals,

00:08:31.240 hey, vote for me.

00:08:33.960 This was in 2020.

00:08:35.540 And of course, Democrats in New Hampshire lined up to support him.

00:08:39.060 Manny Espitea, a two-term New Hampshire representative, endorsed Lawton in a Facebook post,

00:08:43.460 calling it one of the most consequential elections of our lifetime and saying that people should vote for the convicted fraudster and hospital bomb threat maker.

00:08:52.060 The state Democratic Party distributed flyers urging voters to support Lawton.

00:08:56.280 And he ultimately won the seat.

00:08:57.880 Two years later, in 2022, Lawton won re-election with the help of National Democrats this time,

00:09:03.720 including Eric Swalwell and Beto O'Rourke, who campaigned for him.

00:09:06.820 They even took photographs with him, which you can see here.

00:09:10.280 Now, this time around, history repeated itself.

00:09:13.140 Lawton resigned before taking office because, once again, it emerged that Democrats had hidden Lawton's past criminal history from voters.

00:09:20.600 According to Yahoo News, it turns out that in September, just before the election, Lawton was arrested for stalking.

00:09:26.080 So these are new crimes now.

00:09:27.380 We've got all those old crimes.

00:09:29.420 He was elected anyway, then re-elected.

00:09:31.420 They used to commit some new crimes.

00:09:32.640 This time it's stalking.

00:09:34.320 And the year before that, he was arrested for sending false emergency messages to 911.

00:09:38.880 The key point is that none of this criminal behavior was disqualifying to New Hampshire Democrats

00:09:43.480 until Lawton was arrested once again for stalking after the election and then missed his swear-in ceremony.

00:09:50.080 Once that happened and the media coverage was impossible to ignore, Democrats called on Lawton to resign, and he did.

00:09:57.240 Now, Lawton has not been shamed by any of this, and not that you would expect him to be.

00:10:01.480 Someone like this is not capable of shame.

00:10:02.880 I mean, narcissism and gender ideology are effectively synonyms, as we know.

00:10:06.720 So Lawton has instead used his free time to shoot videos like this one from a month ago.

00:10:12.440 In this clip, because parody is now indistinguishable from reality, Lawton endorses, you guessed it, Bud Light.

00:10:19.380 Listen.

00:10:20.220 I don't care about the Dylan Mulvaney controversy.

00:10:24.640 I think Anheuser-Busch is all-American beer.

00:10:28.100 So is Bud Light.

00:10:29.860 So you know what?

00:10:30.860 I'm a trans woman here in America.

00:10:33.640 I believe a good beer when I see one.

00:10:37.300 So real women, real men, real Americans, real foreigners, real everybody are welcome to have Bud Light.

00:10:46.320 And I'm going to tell you what.

00:10:47.820 So am I.

00:10:49.320 It's the holiday weekend, folks.

00:10:51.380 Grab a cold one.

00:10:53.340 And enjoy the festivities for Memorial Day this weekend.

00:10:58.780 Ah, there you go.

00:11:01.440 What a woman. 1.00

00:11:02.340 That's a woman for you. 1.00

00:11:03.920 I'm a trans woman here in America, he says.

00:11:07.340 Sounds so feminine. 0.68

00:11:09.780 So you notice how, once again, he's not remotely attempting to pass as a woman.

00:11:13.140 But Democrats in the media, to this day, insist that you call that guy a woman, or else you're a bigot.

00:11:18.520 And they still insist on it, by the way, even now that he's been revealed to be a child predator and a pedophile.

00:11:24.800 They still want you to respect the pronouns.

00:11:27.440 This is the humiliation ritual that they demand you subject yourself to.

00:11:31.320 You must look at the pedophilic Peter Griffin there, a large man with a five o'clock shadow, and pretend that you see a woman.

00:11:37.460 Lawton has shot a lot of videos like this one recently.

00:11:42.840 Here he is, just as one more example, posing as a minister with religious affiliations that include Buddhism, Protestantism, Methodism, Rastafarianism, Tibetan Buddhism, and Unitarian Universalism.

00:11:55.460 It's like something out of a horror movie.

00:11:58.380 Here it is.

00:12:00.420 Well, hello, everyone.

00:12:02.900 It's your favorite new minister, Reverend Stacey Marie Lawton.

00:12:09.560 And today, I have a little bit of a preview of what's to come for the ministry work that I'm, you know, working on.

00:12:21.900 And like I said, it's about praising him even when it's uncomfortable and even when you're going through a dark time.

00:12:37.340 You know what I'm saying?

00:12:38.100 Like, we all go through different things, whether it's a breakup, whether it's, you know, getting set up, somebody did you wrong, say you landed yourself in jail.

00:12:52.900 And it's the part of the heart of the sermon.

00:12:59.400 It comes from, you know, it, you know, like, take, for example, because we're going to talk about jail.

00:13:09.680 When we're sitting in a jail cell, most of the time we think, how did we get here?

00:13:15.220 Oh, can I go?

00:13:19.200 I'll help you with that.

00:13:20.060 How did you get there, Barry?

00:13:21.180 Well, let me let me help you.

00:13:22.600 Credit card fraud, stalking, bomb threats, assault.

00:13:26.240 You know, and then, of course, being a pedophile.

00:13:28.860 Here's just a few of the ways that you've gotten there.

00:13:31.120 I like how he tries to make this into some sort of universal experience.

00:13:34.920 You know, sometimes we all were sitting in a jail cell because we threatened to blow up a hospital.

00:13:38.840 We've all been there before, thinking, how did I get here?

00:13:43.740 Now, everything about that little performance where the child predator plays a reverend, including his she-her pin, is intentional.

00:13:50.700 Lawton understands that trans ideology and Christianity are fundamentally incompatible. 0.71

00:13:54.220 So he's mocking Christians, basically, with a parody of their religion.

00:13:57.840 And now we know that, as Lawton was shilling for Bud Light and pretending to be a Christian minister, he was also exchanging images of children with an accomplice.

00:14:06.360 That accomplice was his, I suppose, girlfriend at the time, a woman named Lindsay Groves, who worked at a local daycare.

00:14:13.640 According to a federal indictment, Lawton would ask Groves to take children to a private bathroom at the daycare,

00:14:19.960 have them lift their clothes over their faces, and then photograph their genitals. 0.93

00:14:26.460 And then he would instruct Groves to send those pictures to him.

00:14:30.060 In some cases, Lawton would instruct Groves also to physically molest the children, to touch their genitals.

00:14:37.900 In one text message, one of many like it, Lawton talks about his desire to rape a particular child.

00:14:43.600 In response, Groves writes, she's not even three yet.

00:14:47.380 And Lawton replies, yeah, I know.

00:14:49.960 Now, I had initially planned to read some of the documentation that prosecutors have compiled,

00:14:56.440 proving that Lawton is a depraved child predator, the conversations he had with Groves, the text messages, and so on.

00:15:02.400 But after reading an article with some of these details laid out, I find it far too disturbing and upsetting to repeat.

00:15:08.360 The details are all there in the affidavit if you want to see for yourself.

00:15:12.280 Just suffice it to say that this man is a true monster.

00:15:16.060 I mean, a demon straight from hell.

00:15:18.720 A predator who preys on toddlers in the most horrific ways imaginable.

00:15:22.520 It's unfortunate that the quote-unquote reverend didn't read the passage in the Gospel of Matthew

00:15:28.640 about drowning in the sea with a millstone around your neck, because it was written for people like him.

00:15:35.120 Now, if you can, try to take a step back from how revolting all of this is, which is impossible to ignore that.

00:15:43.020 But I want you to consider the probabilities at play here.

00:15:48.220 The very first trans lawmaker in the country turns out to be a pedophile. 0.98

00:15:54.180 What are the odds?

00:15:56.200 Now, if there truly is no correlation at all between gender ideology and sexual perversion,

00:16:03.020 then what are the chances that the first trans-identified lawmaker in American history would just so happen to be a child predator?

00:16:10.980 Well, in fact, as we've seen, the chances are pretty good.

00:16:16.900 Here's a thing that everyone knows, but many will not say.

00:16:21.720 It is, to put it mildly, already to begin with,

00:16:26.460 a giant red flag when a man likes to go around dressed as a woman.

00:16:32.120 A great many of these adult quote-unquote trans women are not really confused about who they are.

00:16:38.580 They don't really think that they are women. 0.99

00:16:40.980 They're acting out a sexual fetish.

00:16:43.080 They get a thrill out of presenting as women and forcing everyone to play along. 1.00

00:16:48.880 And if they are engaging in these fetishes in public, you have good reason to wonder what's going on in privates.

00:16:55.020 By calling a guy like this she, as virtually every media outlet has done for a decade, and continues to do even now,

00:17:05.760 you're not only participating in a falsehood, but again, you're also participating directly in a fetish.

00:17:12.160 You're taking an active role in this weird role-play game.

00:17:16.280 I'm not just theorizing about this.

00:17:18.960 The fact that many trans-identified adult males are autogynophiles is well-established. 0.67

00:17:23.940 I mean, that's not up for debate.

00:17:26.700 They don't think they are women. 1.00

00:17:28.460 Rather, they like to think of themselves as women.

00:17:32.020 They get pleasure out of the idea, which is not the same thing.

00:17:35.800 Either way, they're not women. 1.00

00:17:38.620 Either way, we shouldn't be required to feed into it.

00:17:40.800 But we should be clear about what's really going on here.

00:17:44.180 The point is that, in Lawton's case, these latest revelations really come as no surprise.

00:17:49.680 The left might pretend to be surprised, but they aren't.

00:17:54.040 I mean, nobody is.

00:17:56.020 Especially in Lawton's case, as he is a serial criminal, a useless, degenerate scumbag who committed one crime after another,

00:18:03.000 and yet was still elected to public office multiple times.

00:18:07.060 What that demonstrates, what Barry Lawton's whole sordid life story demonstrates,

00:18:10.940 is that the media Democrat complex will enthusiastically endorse and praise anyone who falls into one of their magical protected categories.

00:18:19.940 They hold these people not just to low standards, but to no standard at all.

00:18:26.540 The praise for them only dries up once the protected person gets caught doing something so unbelievably heinous

00:18:33.140 that even the media can't ignore it as much as they would like to.

00:18:37.620 Lawton's rise in New Hampshire politics, orchestrated by the Democrat Party and the media,

00:18:42.200 who, again, all knew, at a minimum, that he was a fraudster and a crook.

00:18:46.000 They at least knew that.

00:18:47.060 It proves, once again, that leftist ideology encourages and embraces evil in very direct ways.

00:18:55.720 They truly don't care who they hurt.

00:18:58.860 Even if, especially if, their victims are among the most vulnerable people on the planet.

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00:20:19.460 Here's a shocking update from the Daily Wire.

00:20:23.060 Carly Russell, the 25-year-old nursing student who claimed that she was kidnapped earlier this month

00:20:27.420 while allegedly checking on a toddler on the side of the road in Alabama,

00:20:31.100 admitted to law enforcement that she fabricated her entire story.

00:20:35.400 I can't believe it.

00:20:37.560 Whoever saw this coming, aside from everyone?

00:20:40.440 Who besides everyone saw this coming?

00:20:43.620 Russell attorney Emery Anthony had originally made an appointment for investigators to speak with Russell,

00:20:47.760 but shortly before the interview was set to begin,

00:20:49.680 Anthony provided a statement to law enforcement and asked that authorities read the entire statement at their press conference.

00:20:54.840 The statement said,

00:20:55.560 There was no kidnapping on Thursday, July 13th.

00:20:57.540 My client did not see a baby on the side of the road.

00:21:00.660 My client apologizes for her actions to this community,

00:21:02.980 the volunteers who were searching for her,

00:21:04.680 to the Hoover Police Department and other agencies as well,

00:21:07.260 as to her friends and family.

00:21:09.200 We ask for your prayers for Carly as she addresses her issues and attempts to move forward.

00:21:13.480 Understanding that she made a mistake in this matter,

00:21:15.220 Carly again asks for your forgiveness and prayers.

00:21:18.900 Hoover Police Chief Nick Dersis said that investigators are still going to meet with Anthony

00:21:22.760 because they have more to discuss in the case,

00:21:25.320 including the possibility that criminal charges will be filed,

00:21:28.080 which of course they absolutely should be.

00:21:30.480 I mean, it would be a disgrace if they weren't.

00:21:34.220 You know, they were filed against Jussie Smollett, as well they should be.

00:21:38.420 This is worse in a lot of ways, just in the amount of law enforcement resources

00:21:43.640 that were taken up because of this.

00:21:46.980 So, it was fake.

00:21:49.360 The story that was the most obvious fake story of all time turns out to be fake.

00:21:53.300 The thing we all knew was fake is fake.

00:21:55.000 That's the big headline.

00:21:57.120 Russell, you know, Carly Russell, she made some missteps here. 1.00

00:22:00.600 There were some mistakes.

00:22:02.300 Some classic fake-your-own-kidnapping mistakes.

00:22:05.180 The first mistake is to do it in the first place.

00:22:07.940 So, that's mistake number one.

00:22:09.620 The first mistake that you make when you fake your own kidnapping

00:22:12.620 is that you're faking your own kidnapping.

00:22:15.200 But if you're going to do it,

00:22:16.820 and I'm not encouraging anyone to do it, certainly,

00:22:19.720 and I don't mean to give advice on how to do it properly,

00:22:22.460 but, like, some basic, I've never done it myself.

00:22:26.380 I've never even considered faking my own kidnapping.

00:22:28.020 But even I would know, like, don't Google kidnapping movies

00:22:34.080 the day before you're faking your kidnap.

00:22:37.520 Don't stop for snacks on your way to being kidnapped.

00:22:42.360 That's generally not how it works.

00:22:44.220 Because, for one thing, you know, if you're being kidnapped,

00:22:45.520 you wouldn't know it, usually.

00:22:46.840 And even if you did know it somehow,

00:22:48.280 the kidnappers are not going to let you bring snacks.

00:22:51.500 And, you know, I've never been kidnapped, so I don't know,

00:22:53.760 but I'm pretty sure they won't generally.

00:22:55.840 Like, if you're getting kidnapped, they won't.

00:22:57.120 And you say, wait a minute, I got some trail mix in my car.

00:23:00.340 Can I go grab it?

00:23:00.900 Oh, yeah, sure, grab it.

00:23:01.580 We don't want you to get hungry.

00:23:03.580 So don't stop for snacks like she did.

00:23:06.740 Here's a big one.

00:23:07.620 Don't stage the kidnapping on the side of a major highway.

00:23:12.260 You know, the list goes on, but that last part is a very common mistake by hoaxers.

00:23:16.580 Think about Jussie Smollett.

00:23:17.780 He staged his whole thing, you know, on a street corner in the city

00:23:21.800 with his security cameras all over the place.

00:23:23.800 Think about Althea Bernstein, the girl who claimed that she was set on fire

00:23:28.040 by a group of white supremacists in Hawaiian shirts while she was waiting at a stoplight.

00:23:33.940 Some Hawaiian shirt white supremacists rappelled down from a helicopter or something

00:23:37.820 and set her on fire in the car.

00:23:40.100 But she claimed this happened at an intersection in a city.

00:23:46.980 And then you've got Carly Russell.

00:23:48.880 So they're always faking these things in really well-populated areas

00:23:52.480 where there are witnesses who would be able to see it happen if it did happen

00:23:57.400 and there are cameras and all the rest of it.

00:23:59.100 So if you're going to do it, go out into the country somewhere.

00:24:02.120 Like, go out into the woods.

00:24:03.480 Claim that you were on a camping trip or something.

00:24:07.840 Claim that it happened out on the Appalachian Trail.

00:24:10.100 Because at least then there's always plausible deniability.

00:24:13.420 Nobody will be able to prove that you're lying.

00:24:16.220 So if you say that you were on the Appalachian Trail

00:24:18.240 and you were taken,

00:24:20.700 you were kidnapped by a gang of whoever

00:24:24.180 and taken to a shack in the woods somewhere.

00:24:28.260 I think a lot of people will doubt the story,

00:24:30.040 but prove it didn't happen.

00:24:32.540 You can't.

00:24:32.960 It happened in the woods.

00:24:33.980 What do you know?

00:24:35.880 The thing is, if you stage it on the side of a highway

00:24:38.600 or on a busy street corner,

00:24:40.880 people can actually prove that it didn't happen.

00:24:43.500 They can prove the negative.

00:24:45.420 So those are all some things to keep in mind.

00:24:47.460 But the best thing you could really do

00:24:49.380 is not go this route at all in your life.

00:24:51.620 Just find whatever you're looking for,

00:24:54.020 attention, sympathy.

00:24:56.600 There are other ways to achieve that goal,

00:24:59.860 which even that goal you shouldn't be pursuing.

00:25:03.380 So what happens next?

00:25:04.660 Well, we know what's going to happen next.

00:25:06.060 In fact, Carly's boyfriend has already sort of set the stage.

00:25:08.820 I want you to listen to this report

00:25:09.960 from Good Morning America.

00:25:11.620 Listen.

00:25:13.020 And now to new questions about Carly Russell's disappearance.

00:25:15.580 Her boyfriend is talking about what happened

00:25:18.120 and asking people to stop bullying her.

00:25:20.700 Eva Pilgrim joins us now with the latest.

00:25:22.960 Good morning, Eva.

00:25:23.640 Good morning, Lindsay.

00:25:24.260 There are a lot of questions this morning.

00:25:25.680 And police say they think only one person

00:25:27.780 can provide those answers, Carly Russell herself.

00:25:30.920 They are urging her to speak with them.

00:25:33.320 The theories as to what happened growing.

00:25:35.840 Now, one of those closest to her coming out on her behalf.

00:25:40.040 This morning, as questions swirl

00:25:42.220 around Carly Russell's disappearance,

00:25:44.140 her boyfriend speaking out, defending her.

00:25:46.820 Russell claims she was kidnapped but escaped

00:25:49.520 to return home 49 hours later.

00:25:52.820 To Marla Trill-Simmons telling the New York Post,

00:25:55.180 I want everyone to stop bullying her.

00:25:57.660 I know what it seems like what she did.

00:26:00.060 Just stop bullying on social media.

00:26:02.480 Adding, think about her mental health. 1.00

00:26:05.020 Nobody deserves to be cyber bullied.

00:26:07.040 Oh, on the contrary, sir.

00:26:10.860 Some people do deserve to be cyber bullied.

00:26:13.460 And your girlfriend is one of them

00:26:14.900 or your ex-girlfriend, I guess.

00:26:16.420 Now, I will say that that was a statement yesterday,

00:26:18.320 I believe.

00:26:19.160 But this morning, he came out with another statement

00:26:20.880 where he denounces her and basically says,

00:26:23.320 you know, he's horrified by it.

00:26:25.500 And he had no idea.

00:26:26.120 I don't believe, like, I don't believe

00:26:29.500 that her family and her friends

00:26:31.220 didn't know that she was faking it.

00:26:35.120 You know, her boyfriend came out defending her.

00:26:37.580 Her parents did a tearful interview

00:26:40.100 talking about how traumatized she was.

00:26:42.380 And I just don't buy.

00:26:44.180 No way for me to know.

00:26:45.120 I don't know what was going on inside their heads.

00:26:47.260 I personally don't buy at all

00:26:49.820 that they didn't know that she was faking it.

00:26:52.860 Which isn't to say that they were in on it

00:26:54.660 or helped her stage the hoax.

00:26:56.520 But I certainly think that they knew

00:26:58.620 even when they went out claiming that it was real.

00:27:02.460 Now, admittedly, if you have a close family member

00:27:06.280 or friend who does something like this,

00:27:07.960 they've put you in a really difficult spot

00:27:10.500 because you might not want to go out to the media

00:27:12.400 and denounce your own family member or your child.

00:27:16.100 I can understand that.

00:27:18.240 But then what you do, see, if this was me

00:27:20.560 and I had a child who did something like this,

00:27:23.140 I'm probably not going to immediately go out to the media

00:27:27.200 and say, oh, this person's a liar. 0.61

00:27:29.740 Don't listen to them.

00:27:30.540 No, I'm going to go to my child and say,

00:27:32.420 you need to go and tell the truth.

00:27:35.540 You know, or I will.

00:27:36.760 But you need to do it.

00:27:41.080 But what you don't do is go on,

00:27:43.860 do media interviews

00:27:45.600 repeating the lie that you must know

00:27:50.140 or at least strongly suspect is a lie.

00:27:53.260 So, but the bit you heard there about mental health,

00:27:59.260 you know, that's where this is going to,

00:28:01.360 that's where they're going to take this, right,

00:28:03.620 is that you already heard kind of a,

00:28:06.380 there was an allusion to that

00:28:07.620 in the statement from the lawyer.

00:28:09.540 She has to work through her issues

00:28:11.000 and the boyfriend talks about mental health

00:28:13.320 and so that's what they're going to say.

00:28:15.180 This is a mental health,

00:28:16.340 like very similar to the excuse for Stacey Lawton,

00:28:20.320 Barry Lawton calling in the bomb threat

00:28:21.880 that we heard from Dr. Drew.

00:28:23.140 Oh, it's a mental health episode.

00:28:26.000 No, like we're not, we're not doing that.

00:28:28.880 This is where they always take it.

00:28:31.360 Blaming poor mental health.

00:28:33.380 It's a mental health episode 0.57

00:28:34.840 or whatever, whatever else.

00:28:37.140 But mental health is not an excuse

00:28:39.680 for bad character, for bad choices,

00:28:42.440 for being a liar and a cheat 0.65

00:28:44.440 and a hoaxer and being manipulative.

00:28:47.700 It's not an excuse.

00:28:50.000 Mental health becomes this catch-all,

00:28:51.880 excuse for everything

00:28:53.200 and no matter what anyone does,

00:28:55.660 they can always fall back on,

00:28:57.360 oh yeah, I was suffering from bad mental health.

00:29:00.040 So it's never something that you did.

00:29:01.460 It's something that you're suffering from.

00:29:02.820 It's something that's happening to you.

00:29:05.940 So externally, it seems like very much

00:29:09.240 you are making deliberate choices.

00:29:11.200 Carly Russell planned this out.

00:29:13.280 She planned it dumbly.

00:29:14.640 She planned it stupidly.

00:29:16.800 It's very bad planning,

00:29:18.220 but she did plan it.

00:29:19.700 It's an extremely deliberate act

00:29:21.960 with forethought put into it.

00:29:29.020 So this was not some sort of full-on psychotic break

00:29:33.960 where someone loses their grip on reality

00:29:35.940 and thinks that they're a space alien

00:29:38.900 or the Queen of England or something.

00:29:40.020 No, it's a deliberate choice.

00:29:43.800 And more and more what you find

00:29:45.340 is that we are taking choice

00:29:47.440 out of the equation.

00:29:49.480 We're taking character out of the equation

00:29:51.880 because every bad choice

00:29:54.300 is because of bad mental health.

00:29:58.540 All bad character traits,

00:30:01.000 character flaws,

00:30:02.120 oh, that's just a product of bad mental health.

00:30:04.700 Put them on drugs and they'll be fine.

00:30:06.140 So that's going to be the excuse here, guaranteed.

00:30:10.380 Okay, New York Post has this

00:30:11.600 British environmental activist

00:30:12.800 demonstrating on the roads

00:30:13.940 of West London Friday

00:30:15.080 blocked a desperate mother 0.84

00:30:16.500 who claimed that she needed to

00:30:17.700 cut through the crowd

00:30:18.920 to take her child to the hospital.

00:30:21.200 And despite her pleas,

00:30:23.020 the protesters continue to stand

00:30:24.820 directly in front of her car

00:30:25.960 while other stalled vehicles

00:30:27.200 honked at the crowd to disperse.

00:30:29.180 We have footage of this altercation.

00:30:30.860 Let's watch it.

00:30:31.280 Now, now, I want a few more babies. 0.99

00:30:35.100 I want you, I want you to do it.

00:30:39.520 I'm not scared of you.

00:30:41.320 Move! 0.97

00:30:42.240 I want my baby.

00:30:43.480 Move! 0.97

00:30:44.080 Now!

00:30:45.200 Now!

00:30:45.900 Move! 0.97

00:30:46.240 That's the baby in that car.

00:30:47.540 That's the baby in that car.

00:30:48.220 Now, move! 0.99

00:30:48.980 Now, move! 0.99

00:30:50.980 What kind of people are you, guys?

00:31:07.080 It's illegal, eh?

00:31:08.220 What kind of people are you?

00:31:10.200 It's illegal.

00:31:11.520 Move the car.

00:31:12.260 Someone is going to the hospital.

00:31:13.420 This woman has a really new born baby, guys.

00:31:16.560 So they're...

00:31:17.420 Okay, so you get the...

00:31:20.580 You see there,

00:31:21.420 they're not getting out of the way

00:31:22.560 for the car.

00:31:23.160 The mother's saying 0.70

00:31:23.780 she has to get her baby

00:31:24.460 to the hospital.

00:31:25.200 They don't care.

00:31:26.560 I think there are two points

00:31:28.000 that I want to make here.

00:31:30.420 Two important points.

00:31:32.740 The first is,

00:31:34.840 well, I think it's a pretty obvious point

00:31:36.640 that you are

00:31:38.640 fully morally justified

00:31:42.320 in plowing these people over

00:31:44.620 and running over them

00:31:45.420 to get your child to the hospital.

00:31:47.420 Okay, they are a direct threat

00:31:49.000 to your child's

00:31:50.300 health and safety and life.

00:31:52.940 And if they're not going to get out of the way,

00:31:55.120 you are fully justified.

00:31:56.420 So if she had just plowed right over them 0.56

00:31:59.020 and killed five of them in the process,

00:32:02.100 it would have been 100% justified.

00:32:06.680 Now,

00:32:07.980 is that the way that the court system

00:32:10.860 in the UK would look at it

00:32:12.660 when they're stacking this mother up 0.99

00:32:14.600 against these environmental activists?

00:32:16.020 Probably not,

00:32:17.400 but that's a reflection of

00:32:18.460 how broken the court system is

00:32:21.560 both in the UK and here.

00:32:23.840 But from a moral standpoint,

00:32:27.300 totally morally justified.

00:32:31.780 And the people that are blocking traffic,

00:32:35.900 they have no right to be there

00:32:38.460 in the middle of the road.

00:32:39.380 You know,

00:32:41.260 whatever happens to them,

00:32:42.440 when you've got protesters

00:32:43.400 standing in the middle of the street,

00:32:44.800 in the middle of the highway,

00:32:45.500 blocking traffic,

00:32:46.760 whatever happens to them,

00:32:48.700 that's on them.

00:32:50.480 And I'm not going to shed a single tear.

00:32:53.220 I don't care at all.

00:32:54.220 You get in the middle of traffic,

00:32:55.740 that's completely on you.

00:32:57.200 You've made your choice.

00:32:59.380 You live with it or die with it.

00:33:00.740 But what you really see

00:33:04.340 from these environmental activists,

00:33:07.620 and I think this particular video

00:33:10.500 demonstrates it

00:33:11.620 in a really profound way,

00:33:15.180 which is that

00:33:16.340 they are concerned,

00:33:19.960 these protesters are,

00:33:21.980 they're deeply concerned

00:33:23.100 for humanity, right?

00:33:25.300 They care about humanity.

00:33:26.800 They're worried about

00:33:27.720 human life on Earth,

00:33:29.960 supposedly.

00:33:31.660 But they don't care about

00:33:32.940 individual humans.

00:33:35.660 You notice.

00:33:37.480 So they're worried about

00:33:39.760 life on Earth

00:33:40.500 and about these,

00:33:42.200 climate change

00:33:43.740 and the fact that

00:33:44.400 there's going to,

00:33:44.980 they claim

00:33:45.960 there's an extinction level event coming

00:33:47.920 and it's always 10 years away.

00:33:49.780 Somehow it was 10 years away

00:33:51.000 10 years ago

00:33:51.680 and now it's another 10 years away.

00:33:52.880 It always works that way.

00:33:54.080 But that's what they worry about.

00:33:55.020 All the whole human species

00:33:56.420 and not just human beings

00:33:57.940 but animals

00:33:58.560 and plants

00:33:59.480 and trees

00:34:00.500 and all life.

00:34:01.780 They're so deeply concerned

00:34:03.520 about all life.

00:34:06.080 But they don't give a damn

00:34:07.740 about individual humans.

00:34:10.340 Because then when they're presented with,

00:34:12.360 here's an actual human being

00:34:14.600 in the flesh,

00:34:15.320 a real person,

00:34:17.440 a distinct human entity,

00:34:19.540 and what you are doing

00:34:21.160 is putting them in danger.

00:34:24.120 They don't care.

00:34:24.480 They can't even be bothered

00:34:25.540 to move to the side of the road

00:34:27.100 for five seconds

00:34:27.840 for that person.

00:34:29.540 So this is environmentalism

00:34:31.160 in a nutshell.

00:34:32.940 It cares deeply about humanity

00:34:34.820 but not about individual people.

00:34:37.140 Which is another way of saying

00:34:38.220 they don't really care

00:34:39.460 about humanity at all.

00:34:41.120 They care about it

00:34:42.580 like in the abstract

00:34:43.500 as a kind of concept,

00:34:45.240 as a slogan,

00:34:46.420 as something that you put

00:34:48.780 on a poster,

00:34:49.900 on a bumper sticker.

00:34:50.860 It's only in the abstract

00:34:54.080 do they care.

00:34:56.400 But when it comes to the

00:34:57.860 health and well-being

00:34:59.300 and safety of actual,

00:35:01.020 real, live people,

00:35:03.100 they don't care.

00:35:05.580 This is a slightly less

00:35:08.720 drastic example

00:35:10.500 but still really terrible

00:35:12.100 is when you see

00:35:13.180 these same kinds of protesters

00:35:14.580 defacing great works of art.

00:35:17.180 That's something that

00:35:19.740 if you actually cared

00:35:21.520 about individual people,

00:35:23.080 if you cared about human beings,

00:35:24.680 not humanity

00:35:25.500 in the abstract

00:35:27.340 as some sort of concept,

00:35:29.340 but human beings,

00:35:30.640 if you cared about human beings,

00:35:31.820 you wouldn't destroy

00:35:32.400 great works of art.

00:35:33.660 And you wouldn't do that

00:35:34.720 because number one,

00:35:35.460 that great work of art

00:35:36.120 was made by a human being

00:35:37.380 who you should respect.

00:35:40.160 And respecting them,

00:35:41.380 even if they're long since dead,

00:35:42.680 means respecting

00:35:43.640 what they've created,

00:35:45.020 the beauty they've created.

00:35:45.720 But also,

00:35:48.280 great art brings joy

00:35:50.180 and happiness

00:35:50.880 to human beings.

00:35:53.960 It brings beauty

00:35:55.160 into the lives

00:35:56.520 of actual humans.

00:35:59.160 And so if you cared

00:35:59.900 about actual humans,

00:36:00.680 you would never do that.

00:36:01.460 You would never deface

00:36:03.400 what is beautiful and good.

00:36:05.940 You especially wouldn't do it

00:36:07.360 in the name of humanity.

00:36:10.280 So when it comes down to it,

00:36:12.660 they don't really care

00:36:13.480 about anyone but themselves.

00:36:16.320 These are full-on sociopaths.

00:36:18.680 And I'm probably doing them

00:36:21.360 too much of a favor

00:36:22.140 by saying they don't care.

00:36:23.620 You know,

00:36:23.780 they pretend to care

00:36:24.480 about humanity,

00:36:25.000 but they don't care

00:36:25.700 about individual people.

00:36:27.420 It's actually worse than that.

00:36:28.820 It's not just they don't care

00:36:29.660 about individual people.

00:36:30.400 They actually hate

00:36:31.320 individual people.

00:36:32.200 They despise human life.

00:36:36.400 Many of them.

00:36:38.160 Perfect example of it there.

00:36:40.060 All right,

00:36:40.220 I wanted to

00:36:40.760 talk about this briefly.

00:36:43.600 Washington Post

00:36:44.140 has an interesting headline.

00:36:46.460 The headline is this.

00:36:48.120 There's a new way

00:36:49.100 to avoid getting some STDs

00:36:50.840 without wearing a condom.

00:36:53.040 Now,

00:36:53.740 so there's a new way.

00:36:54.700 This is the Washington Post.

00:36:55.440 They're very excited about it.

00:36:56.800 Headline story.

00:36:58.160 There's a new way

00:36:59.120 to avoid getting STDs

00:37:01.300 without wearing a condom.

00:37:03.740 They have a new

00:37:04.660 and innovative approach

00:37:05.780 to this.

00:37:07.620 Now,

00:37:08.260 you already in your head,

00:37:10.800 you might be able to think

00:37:11.720 of a way

00:37:12.820 to achieve that.

00:37:14.880 But we'll get to that

00:37:15.480 in a minute.

00:37:16.520 You might have an idea

00:37:17.660 in your head about,

00:37:18.440 hmm,

00:37:18.620 how can I avoid

00:37:20.900 getting an STD

00:37:21.920 while still being

00:37:25.020 sexually active 0.54

00:37:26.440 but I'm not using

00:37:28.960 contraception?

00:37:29.860 How can I do that?

00:37:32.260 So maybe you have an idea,

00:37:33.560 but let's see

00:37:33.960 what the Washington Post says.

00:37:35.680 Let's see if they arrive

00:37:36.720 at the same conclusion

00:37:37.460 that perhaps you have.

00:37:39.160 Here's what they say.

00:37:41.600 Public health officials

00:37:42.420 are deploying

00:37:42.960 a powerful new weapon

00:37:44.340 in the war against

00:37:45.180 rising sexually

00:37:46.120 transmitted infections,

00:37:47.160 a common antibiotic

00:37:48.600 that works as a

00:37:49.800 morning-after pill.

00:37:50.840 Okay,

00:37:51.120 well that's their answer.

00:37:52.160 Probably wasn't yours,

00:37:52.980 but that's theirs.

00:37:54.500 It's the latest advancement

00:37:55.440 as the sexual health field

00:37:56.740 shifts to preventative medicine,

00:37:58.240 not just condoms,

00:37:59.220 abstinence,

00:37:59.660 and tests,

00:38:00.420 as the best hopes

00:38:01.420 for quashing the pathogens

00:38:02.600 that can spread during sex. 0.93

00:38:04.540 For the past decade,

00:38:05.680 people have been able

00:38:06.280 to have unprotected sex 0.66

00:38:07.580 with a low risk

00:38:08.320 of contracting HIV

00:38:09.320 thanks to daily pills

00:38:10.680 known as

00:38:11.360 pre-exposure prophylaxis,

00:38:13.500 but they were still

00:38:14.580 susceptible to bacterial bugs,

00:38:16.040 including the recent spike

00:38:16.880 in syphilis,

00:38:17.440 gonorrhea,

00:38:17.860 and chlamydia

00:38:18.280 until now.

00:38:19.900 Recent studies show

00:38:20.760 the antibiotic

00:38:21.500 doxycycline

00:38:24.280 taken after sexual encounters

00:38:26.100 works as a

00:38:26.840 post-exposure prophylaxis

00:38:28.440 to prevent those infections,

00:38:29.620 but experts are also worried

00:38:30.640 about unintended consequences.

00:38:32.620 The Centers for Disease Control

00:38:33.700 and Prevention

00:38:34.200 plans to release guidelines

00:38:36.280 later this summer

00:38:37.020 for deploying the treatment

00:38:38.020 known as DOXYPEP

00:38:39.660 in hopes of addressing fears

00:38:40.860 among medical professionals

00:38:41.700 that preventative use

00:38:43.100 would fuel

00:38:43.660 antibiotic resistance

00:38:44.840 and the rise

00:38:45.820 of drug-resistant

00:38:46.660 superbugs.

00:38:48.760 Okay, so this is great.

00:38:50.080 We are gearing up

00:38:51.760 to have another

00:38:52.380 STD superbug, right?

00:38:54.860 This is like monkeypox

00:38:56.060 and COVID

00:38:56.540 and all of that

00:38:57.640 combined turbocharged.

00:38:59.580 That's what they're

00:39:00.500 cooking up for us

00:39:01.220 with this drug.

00:39:04.080 Jonathan Merman,

00:39:05.760 who leads

00:39:06.180 STI prevention

00:39:06.860 for the CDC,

00:39:07.560 says,

00:39:07.820 it's the first

00:39:08.480 major intervention

00:39:09.540 we've had for STIs

00:39:10.840 since the vaccine

00:39:11.860 for human papillomavirus,

00:39:14.640 but it's a new intervention

00:39:15.840 and because of that

00:39:16.480 there are potential benefits

00:39:17.480 and potential risks.

00:39:19.480 Doctors,

00:39:19.880 public health officials

00:39:20.720 and sexual health clinics

00:39:21.740 have embraced

00:39:22.380 preventative pills

00:39:23.160 as a realistic way

00:39:24.160 to curb STIs

00:39:25.100 because they preserve pleasure

00:39:26.900 while protecting partners.

00:39:28.720 Some doctors

00:39:29.200 have started

00:39:29.660 prescribing it

00:39:30.380 to a narrow segment

00:39:31.300 of the gay community

00:39:32.220 considered at elevated

00:39:33.620 risk for STIs.

00:39:35.360 Jorge Roman,

00:39:36.340 Senior Director

00:39:36.860 of Clinical Services

00:39:37.640 at the San Francisco

00:39:38.600 AIDS Foundation,

00:39:39.660 said,

00:39:40.380 just like PrEP

00:39:41.120 was a game changer,

00:39:42.180 this empowers individuals

00:39:43.260 to make choices

00:39:43.960 about their sexual health.

00:39:45.680 It doesn't always

00:39:46.900 have to be about condoms.

00:39:49.320 Oh, this pill

00:39:50.260 empowers you

00:39:51.040 to make choices

00:39:51.840 about your sexual activity. 0.63

00:39:53.520 So prior to this pill,

00:39:54.600 you didn't have

00:39:55.080 the ability

00:39:55.700 to make a choice?

00:39:56.360 Really?

00:39:57.800 So these,

00:39:58.460 as we're being told,

00:40:00.740 these members

00:40:01.880 of the gay community

00:40:02.940 who are at elevated risk,

00:40:05.640 they don't have

00:40:06.520 the ability

00:40:06.840 to make choices

00:40:07.340 right now?

00:40:07.880 Are they animals

00:40:09.560 acting on instinct?

00:40:10.440 They can't make choices?

00:40:11.360 They can't control

00:40:12.440 their own sexual behavior?

00:40:13.400 I mean,

00:40:13.460 is that what you're saying?

00:40:15.000 That you need a pill

00:40:15.920 to empower you

00:40:16.900 to make a choice?

00:40:19.060 What is this choice pill?

00:40:21.780 So that's,

00:40:22.580 so choice,

00:40:23.480 the free will.

00:40:25.500 So I thought free will

00:40:26.600 is what enables you

00:40:27.680 to make choices,

00:40:28.840 but you're telling me

00:40:30.720 that it's in a pill.

00:40:31.360 You got to take

00:40:31.720 the free will pill,

00:40:32.740 and now you can

00:40:34.080 make choices.

00:40:37.340 No,

00:40:37.780 what he means is

00:40:38.440 it's not that it empowers

00:40:39.620 individuals to make choices.

00:40:41.060 I mean,

00:40:41.260 individuals have always

00:40:42.580 had that power.

00:40:45.140 Gay,

00:40:45.440 straight,

00:40:45.680 or otherwise,

00:40:46.420 you always have

00:40:47.100 the ability

00:40:47.680 to make a choice.

00:40:49.220 So what he really

00:40:50.260 needs to say

00:40:50.780 is that it empowers

00:40:51.660 individuals to make

00:40:52.480 choices about

00:40:53.480 their sex life

00:40:54.800 while he hopes

00:40:57.340 being shielded

00:40:59.280 from some

00:41:00.260 of the consequences.

00:41:02.900 Okay,

00:41:03.300 which is not

00:41:03.940 the same thing

00:41:04.660 as being empowered

00:41:05.320 to make a choice.

00:41:05.860 You always had that,

00:41:07.400 but now it's

00:41:08.520 how do we escape

00:41:09.500 these consequences?

00:41:11.300 Okay,

00:41:11.600 well,

00:41:12.680 I guess this is a good

00:41:13.320 time to get to

00:41:14.020 what may have been

00:41:15.000 your answer

00:41:15.480 to that riddle

00:41:16.100 in the headline

00:41:16.680 and what certainly

00:41:17.240 is my answer.

00:41:19.820 They're talking

00:41:20.440 about magic pills.

00:41:21.360 We've got to find

00:41:21.700 another magic pill,

00:41:22.760 and yeah,

00:41:23.120 it might create

00:41:23.580 a superbug,

00:41:24.620 but you know,

00:41:25.320 it's worth the risk.

00:41:29.280 So that gay men 1.00

00:41:30.960 can have more sex.

00:41:32.720 This is what

00:41:33.080 they're telling us.

00:41:34.600 There's another way,

00:41:35.260 though.

00:41:36.300 A way to avoid

00:41:37.020 getting some STDs

00:41:37.720 without wearing a condom.

00:41:39.420 Well,

00:41:39.820 the other way to do it

00:41:40.680 is to be

00:41:41.840 in a monogamous

00:41:42.900 marriage.

00:41:44.700 It's to get married

00:41:45.800 and stay married

00:41:47.160 and to practice

00:41:50.320 monogamy

00:41:50.940 within a marriage

00:41:51.600 as all marriages

00:41:52.400 are supposed to be

00:41:53.060 monogamous.

00:41:54.360 If you do that,

00:41:55.160 you don't have to

00:41:55.440 worry about STDs.

00:41:58.020 You know something?

00:41:58.980 I'm married

00:42:00.580 for 11 years.

00:42:02.000 I don't have to

00:42:02.640 worry about STDs

00:42:03.220 at all.

00:42:03.560 I never think

00:42:03.960 about it.

00:42:05.220 Never think

00:42:05.880 once about it.

00:42:07.020 It's not something

00:42:07.700 in my life

00:42:08.380 that I have to

00:42:08.860 worry about.

00:42:10.180 I don't ever

00:42:11.820 have to go to

00:42:12.240 the doctor

00:42:12.660 and have an

00:42:13.480 embarrassing

00:42:13.800 conversation

00:42:14.400 where I talk

00:42:15.060 about getting

00:42:15.820 checked for an

00:42:16.400 STD.

00:42:17.240 Never have to

00:42:17.880 do that.

00:42:20.840 You know what

00:42:21.400 else?

00:42:21.900 I don't have to

00:42:22.280 worry about

00:42:22.880 pregnancy,

00:42:23.980 which isn't to

00:42:24.740 say that my

00:42:25.380 wife hasn't gotten 1.00

00:42:25.860 pregnant.

00:42:26.220 She has.

00:42:26.580 Obviously,

00:42:26.740 we have six kids.

00:42:27.840 I don't have to

00:42:28.260 worry about it.

00:42:28.980 It's okay.

00:42:31.140 It's good.

00:42:31.840 It's wonderful.

00:42:32.580 We have a family.

00:42:33.480 We're building our

00:42:33.960 family.

00:42:34.980 If she gets

00:42:35.540 pregnant, it's a 1.00

00:42:36.020 wonderful thing.

00:42:36.560 It's not a fear.

00:42:37.500 I don't have to

00:42:37.940 fear it.

00:42:39.000 It's going to

00:42:39.520 destroy my life

00:42:40.760 if the woman I'm

00:42:43.140 with gets pregnant. 0.98

00:42:44.640 That's a fear

00:42:45.500 that is not part of

00:42:46.420 my life at all.

00:42:48.500 STDs, a fear

00:42:49.280 that's not part of

00:42:50.100 my life at all.

00:42:51.760 While you've got

00:42:52.360 other people who

00:42:53.520 apparently live in

00:42:54.880 terror, live in fear,

00:42:56.040 and they need

00:42:56.560 pills, and they

00:42:57.460 need to go to

00:42:58.080 the doctor and

00:42:59.280 get prescriptions,

00:42:59.920 and they've got to

00:43:00.540 keep going back to

00:43:01.220 the pharmaceutical

00:43:01.720 industry to bail

00:43:03.040 them out time and

00:43:03.840 time again.

00:43:06.860 One way about

00:43:07.680 that, one way

00:43:08.700 around that.

00:43:10.300 Man, woman, 1.00

00:43:11.860 true,

00:43:12.860 monogamous

00:43:14.580 marriage.

00:43:16.240 That is the

00:43:17.760 solution to this

00:43:18.680 problem.

00:43:19.040 What we're really

00:43:21.820 doing, though, by,

00:43:23.260 you know, as

00:43:23.840 always, trying to

00:43:24.660 get around what is

00:43:25.720 that one solution,

00:43:26.940 like, monogamous

00:43:28.380 marriage is the

00:43:31.160 solution to

00:43:32.360 so-made, STDs,

00:43:34.720 unwed pregnancy,

00:43:38.220 you know,

00:43:38.780 it's maybe not

00:43:43.900 the final solution

00:43:45.720 to things like

00:43:46.280 poverty.

00:43:46.840 You'd still have

00:43:47.500 poverty and drug

00:43:49.000 addiction, even

00:43:50.180 if everyone was

00:43:51.420 getting married and

00:43:51.920 staying married, but

00:43:52.420 there'd be a lot

00:43:52.820 less of it,

00:43:53.920 because we know

00:43:56.300 that unwed

00:43:57.480 pregnancy and all

00:43:58.160 these sorts of

00:43:58.640 things contribute

00:43:59.940 to those factors.

00:44:04.060 So that is one

00:44:05.200 way to solve a

00:44:06.420 lot of these

00:44:06.720 problems, and

00:44:07.600 then for the

00:44:07.980 ones that it

00:44:08.440 can't perfectly

00:44:08.980 solve, because we

00:44:09.740 live in a fallen

00:44:10.200 world, it will

00:44:10.800 certainly make

00:44:12.320 those problems a

00:44:12.820 lot better.

00:44:13.420 That's one way

00:44:13.900 to do it, but

00:44:14.220 when you're not

00:44:16.320 willing to go

00:44:17.240 with that solution,

00:44:18.080 solution, you

00:44:18.840 end up looking

00:44:19.420 for these other

00:44:20.600 solutions that

00:44:21.260 ultimately only

00:44:22.240 make the problems

00:44:23.000 worse, because

00:44:24.000 they are finding

00:44:25.860 ways to facilitate

00:44:27.180 bad choices.

00:44:30.680 That's what this

00:44:31.420 pill is really

00:44:31.960 for.

00:44:33.380 It's like saying,

00:44:34.620 if you want to

00:44:36.720 have a reckless

00:44:37.560 sex life, where

00:44:39.320 you're hopping in

00:44:39.860 bed with random

00:44:40.440 strangers, here's a

00:44:42.940 way to do that,

00:44:44.180 here is a safer

00:44:45.400 way to do that.

00:44:47.240 It's all part of

00:44:47.980 the safe sex myth,

00:44:49.740 which it is a

00:44:50.420 myth most of the

00:44:51.840 time, because when

00:44:52.400 we talk about safe

00:44:53.060 sex, what is really

00:44:55.900 meant, the context

00:44:56.900 is, what's a safe

00:44:58.420 way to have random

00:44:59.460 sex with strangers?

00:45:00.820 I want to have safe

00:45:01.580 sex with strangers.

00:45:02.900 It's impossible.

00:45:04.520 I don't care what

00:45:05.360 kind of contraception

00:45:06.060 you're using, that's

00:45:06.860 never going to be a

00:45:07.580 safe thing to do.

00:45:08.560 That's not a safe,

00:45:09.400 that is a high-risk

00:45:10.740 activity, no matter

00:45:12.100 how you go about

00:45:13.060 it.

00:45:15.100 You might as well

00:45:15.800 talk about, what

00:45:16.780 are safe ways to

00:45:17.740 drive drunk?

00:45:19.760 Now, I suppose, if

00:45:21.860 you want to put it

00:45:22.300 this way, there are

00:45:23.160 safer ways to drive

00:45:25.040 drunk, like if

00:45:25.740 you're going to

00:45:26.000 drive drunk, it's

00:45:27.360 better to wear a

00:45:27.940 seatbelt than not.

00:45:31.400 Wear a seatbelt and

00:45:32.320 a helmet and drive

00:45:33.160 drunk.

00:45:33.500 You're going to be

00:45:33.780 better off than if

00:45:34.580 you were not wearing

00:45:35.140 a seatbelt at all,

00:45:35.820 it had no helmet.

00:45:38.820 But would anyone

00:45:39.540 call that safe,

00:45:41.380 drunk driving?

00:45:43.060 Just because it's

00:45:43.960 marginally safer than

00:45:45.500 the even more

00:45:47.980 reckless options,

00:45:48.840 does that make it

00:45:49.460 safe?

00:45:52.300 What if somebody

00:45:53.300 came up with,

00:45:56.280 what if some

00:45:57.160 company came up

00:45:58.020 with a special

00:45:58.880 helmet that you

00:46:00.720 can wear that

00:46:02.500 will decrease, and

00:46:04.060 if you put it on

00:46:04.840 and you drive

00:46:05.560 drunk, it will

00:46:06.680 decrease your

00:46:07.420 chances of dying

00:46:08.600 in a drunk driving

00:46:09.600 accident by

00:46:11.180 60%, would

00:46:14.320 that be a good

00:46:14.840 thing if somebody

00:46:15.560 were to make

00:46:16.220 that helmet, this

00:46:17.580 magical helmet, and

00:46:18.400 release it to the

00:46:18.980 public?

00:46:19.640 Would we celebrate

00:46:20.260 this?

00:46:20.760 Now, on one hand,

00:46:21.460 you could argue it

00:46:22.760 might actually save

00:46:23.360 lives.

00:46:25.180 There are a lot of

00:46:25.820 people that are going

00:46:26.140 to drive drunk no

00:46:26.760 matter what, and

00:46:27.460 maybe if they have

00:46:28.100 this magical helmet

00:46:28.820 available to them,

00:46:29.820 they'll put it on,

00:46:30.600 and a certain number

00:46:31.980 of those people would

00:46:33.420 have died if they

00:46:34.060 hadn't had it, and

00:46:34.600 now they're not

00:46:34.980 going to, and so

00:46:35.900 you could really argue

00:46:36.960 that it actually will

00:46:37.720 save lives in the

00:46:38.740 short run anyway.

00:46:39.400 But no, everyone

00:46:41.960 would recognize that

00:46:43.060 as a horrible thing

00:46:44.120 because even though

00:46:44.980 in individual cases

00:46:46.140 in the short run

00:46:47.000 arguably it might

00:46:48.060 save lives, ultimately

00:46:49.360 you are facilitating

00:46:51.680 horrifically destructive

00:46:54.140 choices and

00:46:55.200 encouraging more of

00:46:56.600 it.

00:46:56.900 You're making it

00:46:57.640 easier for people

00:46:58.800 to do really bad

00:47:00.720 things, and that is

00:47:02.000 not good ultimately.

00:47:04.420 So I see the same

00:47:05.660 thing with something

00:47:06.480 like this, a magic

00:47:08.380 morning-after pill

00:47:09.620 to cure your

00:47:10.660 STDs.

00:47:13.660 In the short run,

00:47:14.600 there may be people

00:47:15.140 who would have had

00:47:15.780 an STD and now

00:47:16.400 they won't, but in

00:47:17.020 the long run, all

00:47:18.340 you're doing is

00:47:18.980 facilitating reckless

00:47:20.520 destructive behavior,

00:47:22.040 thereby ensuring that

00:47:23.740 there will be more of

00:47:24.300 it, which is not a

00:47:24.980 good thing.

00:47:26.500 But it does mean more

00:47:27.820 money for the

00:47:28.320 pharmaceutical industry,

00:47:29.580 which is really all

00:47:30.840 that matters, as we

00:47:31.560 know.

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00:48:43.260 Critter Refuge says,

00:48:44.860 imagine having a little

00:48:45.640 girl who just wants to 0.99

00:48:46.500 see an innocent movie

00:48:47.240 about her favorite doll

00:48:48.200 and she gets bombarded

00:48:49.140 with this adult woke

00:48:50.220 nonsense that she's too 1.00

00:48:51.480 young to understand.

00:48:52.480 Yeah, but true and that

00:48:56.740 there's probably a lot of

00:48:57.600 that happening with the

00:48:58.240 Barbie movie, but at the

00:48:59.320 same time, as a parent

00:49:02.180 and I have heard from

00:49:04.060 plenty of parents and

00:49:05.700 especially mothers who 1.00

00:49:06.580 took their daughters to 0.98

00:49:07.360 see this and then were

00:49:09.020 shocked and appalled by

00:49:10.320 how woke and how

00:49:11.480 political and how

00:49:12.240 anti-man it is and all

00:49:13.340 the rest of it.

00:49:14.920 And we talked about this

00:49:16.020 yesterday and how this

00:49:16.660 was obviously a decision

00:49:18.240 made by the marketing

00:49:19.120 company to hide the real

00:49:20.960 nature of this film and

00:49:22.680 what the plot actually is

00:49:23.940 and what it revolves

00:49:24.440 around and that's a bad

00:49:26.060 thing, but also you

00:49:29.040 should know better than

00:49:30.080 to bring your daughter

00:49:30.760 to a movie like this.

00:49:33.100 What did you expect?

00:49:35.400 It is a PG-13 rated

00:49:37.200 Barbie movie being made

00:49:38.960 by Hollywood in the year

00:49:39.940 2023.

00:49:42.360 Did you think there was

00:49:44.180 any chance it wouldn't

00:49:46.440 be intensely political

00:49:48.140 and woke and everything

00:49:49.220 else?

00:49:50.960 Was there any chance of

00:49:52.680 that in your mind?

00:49:56.240 Because if so, then you

00:49:57.560 really need to wake up

00:49:58.400 and figure out what's

00:50:00.040 going on in the world

00:50:00.600 around you.

00:50:01.800 Pam says, there was also

00:50:02.720 an insane amount of

00:50:03.580 advertising money that

00:50:04.560 went into the Barbie

00:50:05.360 movie.

00:50:05.780 It was on my Echo show

00:50:07.160 screen for what seemed

00:50:08.720 like weeks.

00:50:10.960 That's another reason

00:50:11.780 why I'm never, I'm

00:50:14.220 never impressed with the

00:50:15.580 box office haul of any

00:50:17.080 of these big blockbuster

00:50:18.540 films because yeah, when

00:50:21.540 you spend hundreds of

00:50:23.320 millions of dollars

00:50:24.680 marketing something and

00:50:26.840 then you make hundreds

00:50:27.680 of millions of dollars,

00:50:30.220 that's good for you.

00:50:33.580 Like you needed to make

00:50:34.660 at least that much to

00:50:35.720 make the marketing

00:50:36.760 investment worthwhile,

00:50:37.540 but it's not impressive.

00:50:39.500 There's nothing impressive

00:50:40.500 about that.

00:50:42.040 Sound of Freedom is

00:50:43.120 actually impressive

00:50:44.180 because they spent, you

00:50:45.700 know, the whole budget of

00:50:46.920 the film was 10 or 15

00:50:47.900 million dollars and they

00:50:50.000 made over a hundred

00:50:50.900 million.

00:50:52.440 Okay, it's like you're

00:50:53.360 you're 10x when you get

00:50:54.600 10x on your money.

00:50:55.640 That's impressive.

00:50:57.540 But hundreds of millions

00:50:58.820 spent on production and

00:51:00.140 marketing hundreds of

00:51:01.040 millions made on the

00:51:01.680 box office.

00:51:02.560 Yeah, okay.

00:51:04.180 But you had to do that.

00:51:06.020 You had to do at least

00:51:07.180 that or it would be a

00:51:08.300 failure.

00:51:11.100 And speaking of Sound of

00:51:12.380 Freedom, the fan without a

00:51:13.460 face says was wondering

00:51:14.340 when Matt would tackle

00:51:15.160 this, though surprised he

00:51:16.260 hasn't talked about Sound of

00:51:17.320 Freedom yet.

00:51:18.300 I haven't, I've talked

00:51:19.180 about Sound of Freedom

00:51:19.700 as I just did.

00:51:20.800 I haven't talked about it

00:51:21.680 in detail because I haven't

00:51:22.340 seen it yet.

00:51:22.820 And the reason I haven't

00:51:23.320 seen it yet is because,

00:51:24.520 well, as I've, as you're

00:51:26.060 aware, I have six kids.

00:51:27.300 So getting to the movie

00:51:28.600 theater is an extremely

00:51:30.800 difficult feat to pull

00:51:32.200 off.

00:51:32.600 And we are rarely able to

00:51:36.100 do it.

00:51:36.460 So we are relegated to

00:51:38.100 waiting for these things to

00:51:39.960 be available in streaming.

00:51:40.860 And so that's what we're,

00:51:41.800 what we have to do here.

00:51:42.580 Um, another comment

00:51:46.500 says, man, it's good to

00:51:47.420 see Matt attack feminism. 0.99

00:51:49.280 It took a deceptive box

00:51:50.620 office smash to do it, but

00:51:51.940 got to give credit where

00:51:52.860 credit is due.

00:51:54.220 Let's see how this

00:51:54.960 monumental, unprecedented

00:51:56.000 movie does in the

00:51:56.780 following weeks.

00:51:57.600 Hey, yeah, you're right.

00:51:59.100 It's good to see me

00:51:59.680 finally attack feminism. 1.00

00:52:01.280 Something I've never done

00:52:02.440 before.

00:52:04.100 Uh, these, some of these

00:52:05.000 comments I get, I read

00:52:06.200 from people sometimes.

00:52:06.960 Uh, I, it's what, what

00:52:11.880 show have you been

00:52:12.760 watching?

00:52:13.280 I guess the answer is you

00:52:14.080 don't watch the show at

00:52:14.780 all, but you're, you're

00:52:15.900 presenting the comment as

00:52:16.860 if you did say, well, it's

00:52:17.840 finally Matt's talking

00:52:18.840 about this.

00:52:21.120 Um, yeah, up until this,

00:52:23.060 I guess I've been pretty

00:52:23.700 shy about my feelings on

00:52:24.980 feminism, right? 1.00

00:52:26.600 The audience before we,

00:52:28.060 but the Barbie movie came

00:52:28.880 out, my audience had no

00:52:30.620 idea whether I was in

00:52:32.020 favor of feminism or not. 0.99

00:52:33.600 They thought maybe I was a

00:52:34.480 feminist.

00:52:34.840 They weren't sure.

00:52:35.460 Because I, I'd been, I

00:52:37.200 had been totally silent on

00:52:38.700 the subject up until right

00:52:40.100 now, right?

00:52:42.200 Uh, you know, another topic

00:52:43.120 I never talk about is, uh,

00:52:44.620 is, uh, trans, trans

00:52:46.000 ideology.

00:52:46.520 Never talk about that.

00:52:47.500 So no one knows, no one

00:52:48.840 knows what, it's not like

00:52:49.460 these are the subjects I

00:52:50.260 mostly talk about.

00:52:52.760 Um, and finally, Lorraine

00:52:56.240 says, I went to watch it in

00:52:57.820 Texas, exclamation point.

00:52:59.680 No children were there.

00:53:00.840 Adult couples cried 0.59

00:53:02.060 together because the message

00:53:03.220 was so profound,

00:53:04.180 exclamation point.

00:53:04.900 You people who are being

00:53:05.980 threatened by the message

00:53:06.860 aren't gentlemen.

00:53:07.680 It's PG-13, not PG or G,

00:53:09.460 exclamation point,

00:53:10.180 exclamation point,

00:53:10.820 exclamation point.

00:53:11.580 So those parents who took

00:53:12.400 their really young children

00:53:13.160 are stupid, exclamation 0.91

00:53:14.120 point.

00:53:14.700 My sister didn't want to go 0.99

00:53:15.700 and I asked her to do so.

00:53:16.520 She did, exclamation point.

00:53:17.600 And she loved it, exclamation

00:53:18.640 point.

00:53:19.160 It's a beautiful movie,

00:53:20.120 exclamation point.

00:53:20.840 So yes, Matt Walsh, you

00:53:21.820 have to see it first before

00:53:22.760 judging a book by its cover.

00:53:24.080 We all walked out of there

00:53:24.940 laughing and having cried

00:53:25.880 together, exclamation point.

00:53:27.220 In Texas, where the

00:53:27.980 gentleman I've grown up

00:53:28.780 with say, yes, ma'am,

00:53:29.620 because this is a man's world 0.92

00:53:30.640 and men are supposed to be

00:53:31.380 helpful and supportive of

00:53:32.220 women, exclamation point. 1.00

00:53:33.480 But we still have manners

00:53:34.420 and beat up our own bullies

00:53:35.440 and don't get brainwashed

00:53:36.220 by any of the mass media

00:53:37.180 nonsense that we're all

00:53:38.060 full of big cities that

00:53:39.400 have small town feels,

00:53:40.500 exclamation point.

00:53:41.360 Try to riot in San Antonio

00:53:42.660 or Dallas and watch what

00:53:43.540 happens, but our men are

00:53:44.480 the best, exclamation point.

00:53:47.240 That was the comment.

00:53:48.060 There are a lot of

00:53:48.500 exclamation points in that

00:53:49.440 comment, so I don't know

00:53:50.440 if you noticed.

00:53:51.700 I'm not quite sure what's

00:53:53.560 being said here, but I was

00:53:55.000 distracted by the

00:53:55.620 exclamation points.

00:53:58.720 Except that you're

00:53:59.440 claiming, Lorraine, that

00:54:00.820 adult couples were crying,

00:54:05.500 were walking out of the

00:54:07.080 theater crying because they

00:54:08.700 were so moved by the

00:54:09.620 movie.

00:54:09.920 Were these lesbian couples 0.97

00:54:11.100 that were crying?

00:54:12.500 I certainly hope you're not

00:54:13.600 claiming that men and women,

00:54:15.880 like a husband and wife,

00:54:16.980 went and they were crying

00:54:17.840 at the Barbie movie, at the

00:54:20.640 profound message of the

00:54:22.060 Barbie movie.

00:54:22.540 Listen, Lorraine, the Barbie 0.51

00:54:25.420 movie, yeah, it's feminist 1.00

00:54:29.780 claptrap, it's all of that,

00:54:32.160 woke messaging, but it's also

00:54:34.360 primarily a toy commercial.

00:54:37.240 It's a feminist toy commercial, 1.00

00:54:38.920 but that's mainly what it is.

00:54:41.060 That's why the movie exists.

00:54:43.800 Okay, this is like Mattel.

00:54:45.120 This movie was made by Mattel,

00:54:47.460 for all intents and purposes,

00:54:48.780 a toy company.

00:54:51.340 So Barbie movie is a two-hour-long

00:54:53.960 toy commercial.

00:54:55.200 Every Marvel movie is a toy

00:54:57.080 commercial.

00:54:57.500 That's why they exist.

00:54:58.860 That's really why they exist,

00:55:00.040 is to sell merchandise.

00:55:02.020 And so if you're saying that

00:55:02.920 you were profoundly moved by

00:55:03.980 it, then you were moved by a

00:55:05.220 Barbie toy commercial.

00:55:08.200 Well, all right then, in that

00:55:10.040 case.

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00:57:12.220 For our daily cancellation today,

00:57:13.880 I feel I must say something about

00:57:15.280 the major controversy that erupted

00:57:17.280 last week involving a country singer.

00:57:19.520 And I'm not talking about Jason

00:57:20.860 Aldean.

00:57:21.880 I'm talking about Miranda Lambert,

00:57:23.620 who ignited a fierce and important

00:57:25.140 debate when she made the decision

00:57:27.220 to stop in the middle of her concert

00:57:28.860 in Las Vegas to lecture some fans in

00:57:30.940 the front row who were taking selfies.

00:57:33.320 If you haven't seen this clip yet,

00:57:35.080 here it is.

00:57:35.460 I'm going to stop right here for a sec,

00:57:46.920 Danny.

00:57:47.220 I'm sorry.

00:57:51.180 These girls are worried about their 1.00

00:57:52.660 selfie and not listening to the song.

00:57:54.140 It's pissing me off a little bit.

00:57:55.260 So apparently these fans were busy

00:58:22.200 taking pictures of themselves instead

00:58:23.740 of watching the show.

00:58:24.860 And so Lambert decided to shame them

00:58:26.660 in front of thousands of people,

00:58:28.080 a decision that many on social media

00:58:29.480 and in the media decried as excessive

00:58:31.760 and bullying, but one that I fully

00:58:35.020 and enthusiastically support.

00:58:36.720 And I'll explain why in a moment.

00:58:37.900 But first, we have to get to the other

00:58:39.700 side of the story from the selfie

00:58:42.200 culprits themselves.

00:58:43.220 What do they have to say for themselves?

00:58:44.660 Well, they were interviewed about the

00:58:45.860 traumatic incident on Good Morning America.

00:58:47.740 And here's what they had to say.

00:58:49.500 Adela Kalin says she and her friends

00:58:52.500 were taking these pictures when Miranda

00:58:54.620 told them they should be paying attention

00:58:56.420 to the show instead of taking photos.

00:58:59.280 She said, these girls are more interested 1.00

00:59:02.260 in taking selfies.

00:59:04.460 And then she said, sit down.

00:59:06.940 I thought, I feel like I'm being back in school

00:59:09.800 and me and my friends did something

00:59:13.060 that annoyed the teacher.

00:59:15.080 And she scolded us and she told us to sit down.

00:59:18.080 After the incident at the 7,000-person venue

00:59:20.760 Planet Hollywood, where Lambert is doing

00:59:22.960 her Las Vegas residency,

00:59:24.820 she restarted the song from the beginning.

00:59:27.300 Shall we start again?

00:59:29.940 Everybody was having such a great time.

00:59:33.080 We would stand up at times and dance.

00:59:35.940 It was great energy.

00:59:37.080 But after that happened, it was not the same.

00:59:42.380 A representative for the singer

00:59:43.740 telling ABC News overnight,

00:59:45.440 Lambert had, quote, no statement to add.

00:59:48.520 Experts saying fans snapping pictures at concerts

00:59:51.360 is typically all a part of the show.

00:59:54.500 Taking photos at concerts seems to be

00:59:56.320 like a very normal occurrence.

00:59:57.840 But I do think that as a performer,

00:59:59.800 these sorts of incidents do happen all the time.

01:00:01.900 And it seems like Miranda just took this

01:00:03.300 a little bit too personally.

01:00:04.320 Well, I'm glad that we heard from the experts.

01:00:08.140 The experts on phone usage at concerts.

01:00:11.160 Good Morning America brought in

01:00:12.120 the licensed credentialed concert selfie experts

01:00:15.040 to give us the news

01:00:16.160 that people take selfies at concerts a lot.

01:00:19.160 We could not have known this without them.

01:00:20.580 We needed their guidance and insight.

01:00:22.280 We need the experts to help us navigate

01:00:24.460 through every facet of life

01:00:25.660 and answer every question,

01:00:26.720 no matter how seemingly obvious and banal.

01:00:29.420 Thank God for the experts.

01:00:30.860 All hail the experts.

01:00:32.320 Trust the experts.

01:00:33.920 Trust in them.

01:00:35.520 God be with them.

01:00:37.000 But this still leaves the question

01:00:38.400 about whether Miranda Lambert was right

01:00:40.120 to publicly scold a group of women

01:00:41.700 for taking a few selfies.

01:00:43.320 And the answer is that yes, she was.

01:00:45.740 It is about time that somebody

01:00:47.040 in a position of influence,

01:00:48.260 however mild that influence may be,

01:00:51.180 stands up and speaks out against

01:00:53.000 the selfie scourge that has gripped hold

01:00:54.780 of our society for decades now.

01:00:56.860 It has become so endemic, so inherent,

01:00:59.360 that it seems pointless to complain about it.

01:01:01.020 But the pointlessness of a complaint

01:01:02.420 has never stopped me before,

01:01:04.280 and it won't now.

01:01:06.140 You do not need to take a picture

01:01:08.060 of every single thing you experience in your life.

01:01:11.040 You really don't, I promise you.

01:01:12.480 You do not need documentation of every moment.

01:01:14.800 You especially do not need documentation

01:01:16.240 of yourself experiencing every moment.

01:01:19.640 See, I've never understood the motivation here,

01:01:21.280 which is why I never take selfies

01:01:22.660 unless someone stops me in public and asks for one.

01:01:25.520 And even then, I only do it

01:01:26.580 because I'm afraid that if I refuse,

01:01:28.400 they'll call up TMZ and complain about

01:01:29.980 how rude Matt Walsh is,

01:01:31.620 at which point TMZ will respond,

01:01:33.400 wait, who is Matt Walsh?

01:01:34.360 And that will make the whole thing

01:01:35.160 even more embarrassing.

01:01:36.100 So I just take the picture.

01:01:37.060 But the point is that selfies, selfies are pointless.

01:01:40.300 Millions of people carry around phones

01:01:43.900 stocked with hundreds of pictures

01:01:45.720 of their own faces.

01:01:48.340 Just think about that for a moment.

01:01:50.620 And do any of them actually go back

01:01:52.600 and scroll through those pictures,

01:01:54.280 reminiscing about how their faces looked?

01:01:57.080 Yep, that's my face at Disney World.

01:01:59.300 Oh, there's my face at Applebee's.

01:02:00.700 I remember that.

01:02:02.040 I'll never forget the time

01:02:02.860 that my face went to Applebee's.

01:02:04.860 And wow, there's my face at grandma's funeral.

01:02:07.440 Is that what people do?

01:02:09.300 Of course, I realize that they aren't

01:02:10.520 primarily taking pictures

01:02:11.580 in order to store them away as keepsakes,

01:02:13.120 but rather to post them on social media

01:02:14.560 so that everyone else can see.

01:02:16.360 But that's even more pointless.

01:02:18.560 Okay, because nobody cares

01:02:20.040 that you were at a Miranda Lambert concert.

01:02:22.220 But if anyone does care for some reason,

01:02:26.000 they probably want to see a picture

01:02:27.400 of Miranda Lambert up on stage.

01:02:30.260 They don't need to see you in the stands.

01:02:33.240 Recently, I saw a picture of a guy,

01:02:35.880 the guy posted of himself on vacation

01:02:38.020 and on social media.

01:02:39.500 And he was visiting the pyramids in Egypt.

01:02:41.900 And the picture was a selfie

01:02:43.000 with a pyramid in the background

01:02:44.540 posted to social media for all to enjoy.

01:02:48.240 But if the rest of us want to see a picture

01:02:49.980 from your vacation at all, and we don't,

01:02:52.500 we'd rather just see the pyramids

01:02:54.060 without your face crowding up the frame.

01:02:55.980 How egotistical do you have to be

01:02:57.520 to think that these magnificent

01:02:58.800 3,000-year-old structures

01:03:00.280 can be improved by adding your face to them?

01:03:03.900 See, this is the real tragedy of selfie culture.

01:03:05.920 It encourages you to experience life

01:03:07.940 with your back turned to it,

01:03:09.500 putting yourself at the center of something

01:03:11.840 that you aren't even paying attention to.

01:03:14.200 Our obsession with documenting everything we do,

01:03:16.780 and worse, documenting ourselves doing it,

01:03:19.980 rather than documenting the thing itself,

01:03:22.720 has ironically made it so that we miss out

01:03:25.260 on the very things we're documenting.

01:03:27.020 This is a familiar observation, even cliched,

01:03:29.260 but it's true.

01:03:29.820 We are so obsessed with creating digital proof

01:03:32.720 that we were there,

01:03:33.940 that we aren't really there at all.

01:03:36.120 We need to learn how to simply occupy the space

01:03:39.160 that we are standing in, right?

01:03:40.920 Existing in and absorbing each present moment

01:03:43.420 as it comes.

01:03:44.680 Personally, I would never go

01:03:45.960 to a Miranda Lambert concert,

01:03:47.240 but if you do go,

01:03:49.300 if you buy the tickets,

01:03:50.380 if you spend the money,

01:03:51.340 too much money,

01:03:52.400 to have that experience,

01:03:54.380 then have that experience.

01:03:56.340 Be there for it.

01:03:57.640 Which means not being on your phone.

01:03:59.960 Now, you might argue

01:04:01.220 that taking one quick selfie,

01:04:02.740 while a pointless act,

01:04:04.780 is not going to significantly intrude

01:04:06.320 on your or anyone else's ability

01:04:07.960 to enjoy the moment.

01:04:09.780 But we all know that these girls 1.00

01:04:11.240 were not taking one quick selfie.

01:04:13.040 No, that doesn't exist,

01:04:14.280 especially for women like that. 1.00

01:04:15.580 They were taking a series of shots

01:04:17.780 from different angles.

01:04:18.860 They were posting on Instagram.

01:04:20.080 They were doing little videos for TikTok.

01:04:22.280 Then they were taking more selfies

01:04:23.620 and on and on and on.

01:04:24.500 I mean, we all know.

01:04:25.620 I wasn't there,

01:04:26.500 but I know just from looking at that woman 0.98

01:04:28.200 and listening to her speak

01:04:29.060 for five seconds

01:04:30.020 that that's the way it went.

01:04:32.580 Even if I'm wrong,

01:04:33.920 even if it was just one brief selfie incident,

01:04:36.180 I would still defend Lambert's response.

01:04:38.560 Because what you have to understand

01:04:40.060 is that some of us

01:04:42.120 have grown exhausted with all of this,

01:04:43.800 with the fact that people can't look up

01:04:45.480 from their phones,

01:04:46.360 with the constant need to document

01:04:47.900 and take pictures and videos.

01:04:50.280 And so we react

01:04:51.400 in what some might consider

01:04:53.260 disproportionate ways

01:04:54.480 when somebody pulls out a phone

01:04:56.060 or takes a picture.

01:04:57.100 My wife will tell you

01:04:58.040 that I have only grown

01:04:59.540 more and more resistant

01:05:00.800 to being involved in any picture

01:05:02.580 or selfie activity

01:05:03.620 as time has gone on.

01:05:05.720 If we go on vacation,

01:05:06.540 we go anywhere,

01:05:07.320 and she pulls out the phone,

01:05:08.400 we got to take a picture.

01:05:09.460 I'm very resistant,

01:05:10.780 and only more so as time goes on.

01:05:12.340 It's not that I flat out refused

01:05:13.800 to be in a picture

01:05:14.560 or even to take one on occasion.

01:05:17.080 In fact,

01:05:17.320 I just took a picture a few days ago

01:05:18.480 of a nice bass that I caught.

01:05:19.860 It was probably about six pounds.

01:05:21.180 I mean, arguably seven pounds.

01:05:22.620 It was probably about 23 inches,

01:05:25.320 but it was a fat fish.

01:05:27.660 It was a great, great fish.

01:05:29.360 Anyway, obviously,

01:05:30.700 I'm going to get a picture of that.

01:05:32.780 Actually, most of the pictures

01:05:33.540 in my phone

01:05:34.200 are not photos of my own face,

01:05:35.440 but are photos of various fish

01:05:37.320 that I've caught.

01:05:37.940 And that's different

01:05:38.620 because I need documentation

01:05:40.600 of the behemoths

01:05:41.920 that I'm landing,

01:05:42.960 or else nobody will believe me.

01:05:45.740 Anyway,

01:05:46.700 aside from these exceptions,

01:05:48.080 generally,

01:05:48.580 I'm resistant to posing

01:05:49.960 for pictures of selfies,

01:05:51.540 much to my wife's chagrin.

01:05:53.340 But my point to her

01:05:54.220 is that we don't need

01:05:55.440 photographic evidence

01:05:56.940 of every moment.

01:05:57.960 It is good enough

01:05:59.100 that we live those moments.

01:06:01.280 We immerse ourselves

01:06:02.360 in those moments

01:06:03.520 and hold the memories

01:06:04.860 in our hearts

01:06:05.600 as people have always done.

01:06:07.700 We don't need

01:06:08.680 any more selfies.

01:06:09.440 Nobody does.

01:06:10.700 We need to put down the phone,

01:06:12.460 turn our gaze back

01:06:13.480 upon this great wild world

01:06:14.780 and these wonderful experiences

01:06:17.040 that are so much larger

01:06:18.160 than a screen

01:06:18.760 if only we would look up

01:06:19.860 and see it.

01:06:21.680 And yes,

01:06:22.160 I will give this whole speech

01:06:23.720 to my wife

01:06:24.560 rather than stop

01:06:25.280 for five seconds

01:06:25.900 to take a picture

01:06:26.800 because someone

01:06:28.420 has to take a stand.

01:06:29.640 And I'm glad to see

01:06:30.600 that I am not totally alone,

01:06:31.800 which is why

01:06:32.280 Miranda Lambert

01:06:33.620 certainly is not canceled today.

01:06:35.420 Instead,

01:06:35.800 it is the perpetual

01:06:36.500 selfie takers

01:06:37.760 who are with a vengeance

01:06:39.280 today canceled.

01:06:41.600 That will do it

01:06:41.960 for this portion of the show

01:06:42.660 as we move over

01:06:43.060 to the members block.

01:06:44.540 Hope to see you there.

01:06:45.140 If not,

01:06:45.500 talk to you tomorrow.

01:06:47.100 Godspeed.

01:06:47.420 We'll see you next time.

01:06:57.420 We'll see you next time.

01:07:01.240 We'll see you next time.

The Matt Walsh Show - July 25, 2023

Ep. 1190 - Media Celebrated ‘Historic’ First Trans Lawmaker. Turns Out He’s A Child Predator.

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