The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1199 - Pop Star Falls To His Knees And Apologizes For Saying Boys Are Boys And Girls Are Girls

00:00:00.080 Today on the Matt Wall Show, a pop star comes out against gender transitions for children and then backtracks in humiliating fashion shortly afterwards.

00:00:06.560 It's one of the most cowardly caves we've seen yet, but plenty can be learned from it.

00:00:10.060 Also, the women's national soccer team loses and the country celebrates.

00:00:13.220 Obama's biographer says that he confessed to sexual fantasies about men, and a NASCAR driver is fired for liking a George Floyd meme.

00:00:20.340 All of that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.

00:00:30.000 I am often accused of being a pessimist, but I think that's an unfair charge.

00:00:34.940 I'm not a pessimist, I'm simply a realist, and I understand that human nature is what it is,

00:00:39.000 and therefore people tend to act a certain way, and that results in many predictable conclusions.

00:00:43.560 It's not my fault that those conclusions are often depressing, enraging, perplexing, disappointing.

00:00:48.440 I wish that it wasn't this way, but I prefer to see things as they are rather than as I wish they would be.

00:00:54.440 In other words, again, I'm a realist.

00:00:56.400 But every once in a blue moon, I will put my realist glasses down and try on a pair with a rosier tint.

00:01:02.980 I will try to adopt the mentality of someone who is more naively optimistic.

00:01:07.700 And the thing is that every time I do this, I regret it.

00:01:10.600 Case in point, this weekend the pop star Neo got a lot of attention for some comments that he made

00:01:15.380 during an appearance on a show called Vlad TV.

00:01:18.160 And during the conversation with host Gloria Velez, the singer was asked about his views on gender ideology,

00:01:23.260 and he responded with a lengthy and, I think, rather well-spoken monologue on the topic.

00:01:27.980 You could tell that this is a subject that he spent some time thinking about,

00:01:31.560 and his thoughts were quite lucid on this topic.

00:01:35.460 Listen.

00:01:37.060 Parents have almost forgotten what the role of a parent is.

00:01:40.720 Amen.

00:01:41.340 It's like, okay, if your little boy comes to you and says,

00:01:44.120 Daddy, I want to be a girl, and you just let him rock with that?

00:01:48.340 You just let him...

00:01:49.180 Right.

00:01:49.760 He's five.

00:01:50.760 Right.

00:01:51.520 And where did he get that from?

00:01:52.560 If you let this five-year-old boy decide to eat candy all day, he's going to do that.

00:01:56.220 Exactly.

00:01:56.500 Like, when did it become a good idea to let a five-year-old, let a six-year-old,

00:02:00.500 let a 12-year-old make a life-changing decision for theyself?

00:02:03.780 I can't take credit for it, but I heard somebody say one time, he's like,

00:02:06.840 all right, if your son comes to you and says, Daddy, I want to be a girl,

00:02:09.760 ask your son, Son, what is a girl?

00:02:11.920 Hmm, that's a good one.

00:02:13.020 What is he going to do?

00:02:13.560 He's going to say, well, he might want to play with dolls.

00:02:16.560 All right, you want to play with dolls.

00:02:17.800 Fine, play with dolls, but you're a boy playing with dolls.

00:02:20.720 That's right.

00:02:20.960 I want to wear pink.

00:02:21.580 All right, cool, wear pink, but you're a boy wearing... 1.00

00:02:23.560 That's right.

00:02:24.040 I have no issue with the LBG...

00:02:27.320 I have no problem with nobody.

00:02:29.720 Right.

00:02:29.940 Love who you love, do what you do.

00:02:31.400 Exactly.

00:02:31.880 I just personally come from an era where a man was a man and a woman was a woman, 0.98

00:02:36.760 and it wasn't but two genders, and that's just how I rocked.

00:02:39.400 Me too.

00:02:39.700 You know, you could identify as a goldfish, if you feel like.

00:02:43.020 Right.

00:02:43.880 I agree.

00:02:44.960 That ain't my business.

00:02:46.360 It becomes my business when you try to make me play the game with you. 0.62

00:02:49.020 I'm not going to call you a goldfish, but if you want to be a goldfish, you go be a goldfish.

00:02:52.600 Amen.

00:02:53.620 I mean, it's just...

00:02:55.440 We live in a weird time, man.

00:02:57.900 Now, fans of this show might have a pretty good idea who he was just quoting there.

00:03:01.700 He was, in fact, directly referring to something that I said during my Dr. Phil episode.

00:03:06.480 Here that is.

00:03:07.260 I have four kids.

00:03:09.780 When a four-year-old boy comes to you and says, oh, I'm a girl, here's a good follow-up question.

00:03:14.780 What is a girl? 1.00

00:03:16.260 Ask him what he means by that.

00:03:17.480 What do you mean by a girl?

00:03:18.220 And when you ask him that, here's what he'll tell you.

00:03:20.500 He will tell you what he really means is that he wants to do some of the things that girls do,

00:03:25.640 like play with the dollhouse, or, you know, he likes the color pink.

00:03:29.160 That's fine.

00:03:29.760 Play with the dollhouse.

00:03:30.980 But you're still a boy.

00:03:33.300 So, me and Neo on the same page, a classic collaboration.

00:03:36.500 So far, so good.

00:03:38.520 But, of course, we know that the left cannot allow somebody like Neo to say these kinds of things.

00:03:43.280 They believe they own him. 0.77

00:03:44.640 He belongs to them, both because he's a mainstream celebrity and because he's a black man.

00:03:49.160 By the left's thinking, Neo owes them his unthinking fealty. 0.97

00:03:53.380 So, the outrage mob set to work, screaming that he was a transphobe and a bigot and on and on and on.

00:03:59.180 But he didn't relent at first.

00:04:01.260 In fact, he addressed the comments in an Instagram post where he appeared to double down.

00:04:05.080 He said, quote,

00:04:05.820 So, first and foremost, I condemn no one.

00:04:08.440 Who am I to condemn anybody?

00:04:09.560 Your life, your kids, your choice.

00:04:10.800 I was asked a question and I answered it.

00:04:12.160 My opinion is mine.

00:04:13.340 I'm not asking anybody to agree with me or am I telling you that you can and cannot do with your children.

00:04:17.620 I stated my opinion on the matter and that's that.

00:04:19.980 Why should I care if my opinion upsets you when you don't care if yours upsets anyone?

00:04:24.000 Opinions aren't special.

00:04:24.960 We all have one.

00:04:26.020 People voice them regularly, whether they're asked or not.

00:04:28.380 I was actually asked mine.

00:04:30.280 Agreeing to disagree is not a declaration of war.

00:04:32.340 Y'all do whatever the hell y'all want to.

00:04:34.380 But my feelings on the matter are mine.

00:04:36.360 Same way yours are yours.

00:04:37.620 Meanwhile, I love everybody.

00:04:39.280 Don't agree with some of y'all's ideals.

00:04:41.440 But love you no less.

00:04:44.180 Now, if you inspect this statement closely, you'll begin to see that this is not really a double down.

00:04:50.380 In fact, you can detect the seeds of equivocation already.

00:04:53.940 And it's not very subtle.

00:04:54.720 Which is why I almost tweeted something predicting that he would fully cave to the mob within the next 24 hours.

00:05:02.760 But I stopped myself.

00:05:03.840 I put on my little worn rose-colored glasses and decided to be positive and optimistic instead.

00:05:09.680 You know, because everyone's always like, well, he's so negative about everything.

00:05:11.740 So I don't want to be negative.

00:05:12.700 So I sent out a tweet simply congratulating Neil for taking this stand.

00:05:16.020 And I left it at that.

00:05:18.000 Then an hour later, an hour later, as if to punish me for dabbling with optimism,

00:05:22.980 Neil posted another statement.

00:05:25.100 Here's what it said.

00:05:26.800 After much reflection, I'd like to express my deepest apologies to anyone that I may have hurt with my comments on parenting and gender identity.

00:05:34.140 I've always been an advocate for love and inclusivity in the LGBTQI plus community.

00:05:38.520 So I understand how my comments could have been interpreted as insensitive and offensive.

00:05:43.720 Gender identity is nuanced.

00:05:44.960 And I can honestly admit that I plan to better educate myself on the topic so I can approach future conversations with more empathy.

00:05:52.280 At the end of the day, I lead with love and support everyone's freedom of expression and pursuit of happiness.

00:05:57.180 Now, we've seen many people utterly debase themselves and shed whatever scraps of dignity they still had left,

00:06:05.000 all in a vain attempt to appease the zombie hordes.

00:06:08.440 We've seen many targets of the outrage mob in this exact situation decide to betray the very people who were defending them

00:06:14.320 while bending the knee to a bunch of pitchfork-wielding troglodytes who will still hate them even after they apologize. 0.54

00:06:20.200 We've seen all of this more times than we can count or want to count.

00:06:22.920 But what makes this one especially grotesque is that Neo's original statement was spoken with such force and even eloquence

00:06:30.680 that you can tell this is an issue he really cares about and has long reflected on.

00:06:35.680 In other words, this isn't someone sort of pathetically apologizing for some off-the-cuff remark.

00:06:40.540 This is someone apologizing for saying something that it's clear he truly and deeply believes.

00:06:46.500 Now, if I took this final statement, this apology, seriously, I might ask,

00:06:52.540 what arguments did the other side make to convince him that gender identity is nuanced?

00:06:59.700 Neo, what facts did they present to you to make you question your previous belief that it's a bad idea to transition a five-year-old boy?

00:07:07.560 What actual points did they make to persuade you that actually it's a good idea to castrate and sterilize children?

00:07:14.240 You know, before you said that little children are too young to consent to these things,

00:07:18.660 what happened to make you suddenly feel otherwise?

00:07:22.160 What did the other side say to lead you to the conclusion that you need to educate yourself more on this topic?

00:07:28.480 I would ask you, what, you know, tell us more about this road to Damascus moment.

00:07:34.100 What was said to you in that blinding light?

00:07:36.580 What great truth was revealed?

00:07:38.000 Well, I would ask all that, but we know the answer, right?

00:07:43.160 We all know the answer.

00:07:43.920 The other side made no argument.

00:07:45.700 They presented no facts.

00:07:47.840 They didn't give any reason to actually believe anything they say on this subject.

00:07:51.180 Instead, his handlers and his PR team and his record label executives told him to bend the knee or else.

00:07:56.760 They threatened him with loss of revenue and who knows what other kinds of blackmail.

00:08:00.620 And they wrote up a statement for him to post, and he posted it.

00:08:04.880 That's why it contains a bunch of language that he would never use.

00:08:07.540 You know, LGBTQI+, I guarantee he's never said that in conversation.

00:08:12.820 Now, this is, of course, by no means meant to let him off the hook.

00:08:16.060 Far from it.

00:08:17.180 He gave up his soul for fear and greed. 1.00

00:08:19.200 He's a coward and a traitor to himself and his own belief system. 1.00

00:08:22.340 Many such cases, and each case is just as shameful and disgusting as the last. 0.99

00:08:25.880 But it's worth reflecting on the fact that out of all the neos of the world who have prostrated themselves before the mob of trans activists and offered their own integrity up as sacrifice for their sins, 0.88

00:08:37.940 out of all these people and all of their forced scripted apologies, not one of them has ever said,

00:08:46.680 you know, the trans activists made such and such point, and it really made me think differently about this situation.

00:08:52.140 You know, here's a point that I said this before, and then the other side made this point, and it really made me think differently.

00:09:01.680 And here's the point that they made.

00:09:03.040 Here's the argument they presented.

00:09:05.380 That has never happened.

00:09:06.920 We've seen a million of these apologies, and we've never seen one like that.

00:09:11.920 Because the trans activists have persuaded many people, but they've persuaded no one. 0.88

00:09:17.140 They have won millions of converts, and also not a single convert. 0.98

00:09:22.500 That's because their position is won so laughably incoherent, so ridiculous and irrational, so nakedly insane, 0.97

00:09:29.000 that no sane person could ever truly be convinced by it. 0.98

00:09:32.040 That's why they don't bother convincing.

00:09:34.340 They can't.

00:09:35.040 Instead, they use intimidation, threats, coercion, fear.

00:09:38.480 That's how they've assembled an army marching under a flag that none of them believe in.

00:09:43.320 They've built a house of cards and imprisoned millions of people inside of it,

00:09:47.000 and all that any of the people inside that house of cards have to do, that prison,

00:09:51.200 all they have to do is just push gently against one of the walls, and it all comes tumbling down.

00:09:55.540 The trans activists recognize this, which is why they must be so quick to squash dissent whenever it arises. 0.96

00:10:03.680 And luckily for them, there are many cowards in the country who are quite easily squashed.

00:10:07.600 But the good news is that these kinds of tactics can only work for so long. 0.91

00:10:14.180 A position so absurd and morally depraved can only be defended for so long.

00:10:19.980 Eventually, that house of cards will come tumbling down one way or another.

00:10:25.740 We're watching it happen right now in the culture as we speak, in fact.

00:10:28.960 And NIO, along with the rest of the coward contingent, will be on the inside when it finally falls.

00:10:38.380 Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:11:46.900 Let's start the headlines today with some good news.

00:11:50.740 The United States, this is from The Daily Wire,

00:11:52.860 The United States women's national team has been eliminated from the FIFA Women's World Cup

00:11:58.120 after losing in a penalty shootout to Sweden, marking the earliest exit in history for the team.

00:12:04.300 Sweden beat the United States in the round of 16 following 120 minutes of play,

00:12:08.300 and a dramatic penalty shootout in which the video assistant referee confirmed a shot by Sweden's Lina Hertig

00:12:15.040 did cross the line, shocking American players and fans who thought it was saved by the American goalkeeper.

00:12:20.900 However, the U.S. women's team has won the tournament four times, more than any other national team,

00:12:25.560 and a win this year would have marked the team's third consecutive championship.

00:12:29.680 But that didn't happen, and they lost.

00:12:31.440 Now, this was truly the worst defeat for the women's team since they lost to a group of high school boys a few years ago.

00:12:38.780 Actually, the Swedish team may have been comprised of high school boys at this point, and, you know, who knows?

00:12:44.220 I don't know. I didn't watch the game.

00:12:45.820 But we haven't gotten to the best part yet.

00:12:48.600 The best part is that Megan Rapinoe, the team captain, who said that she previously said she was going to retire

00:12:53.420 after the end of this season, she had a penalty kick or a free kick or whatever it is.

00:13:00.460 Again, I'm not a communist. I don't watch soccer.

00:13:02.660 I don't know what the rules are, but it was some kind of kick at the end.

00:13:05.160 And a chance to save the day for her team.

00:13:08.140 And instead, as her very last act as a professional soccer player, here's what happened.

00:13:13.720 Let's watch that together.

00:13:18.540 Well, I don't feel bad laughing, first of all, because she's laughing at that kick.

00:13:29.800 That's how terrible it was.

00:13:30.720 Honest to God, I could do better than that.

00:13:34.860 I really could.

00:13:35.600 I've kicked a soccer ball approximately zero times in my entire life, and I could do better.

00:13:40.620 I really could.

00:13:41.900 You know, they could have pulled some dude down from the stands with mustard stains on his shirt 0.75

00:13:47.060 and still eating a hot dog with a hot dog in one hand, and he would get off a better kick than that.

00:13:51.520 So, really a disaster for Megan Rapinoe and the women's team, and great to see. 1.00

00:13:57.900 Now, after this humiliation, Megan Rapinoe was asked about her favorite moments as a soccer player,

00:14:02.920 and that last moment definitely was not one of them, but here's what she said.

00:14:07.560 Is there a memory that stands out to you right now in this moment?

00:14:11.580 Oh, I mean, probably equal pay chance after the final, and I think, you know, they were saying equal pay,

00:14:27.360 but could have been saying a lot of things.

00:14:28.980 I think this team has always fought for so much more, and that's been the most rewarding part for me, of course,

00:14:37.380 playing in World Cups and winning championships and doing all that.

00:14:40.400 But, you know, to know that we've used our really special talent to do something, you know,

00:14:48.080 that's really, like, changed the world forever, I think that means the most to me.

00:14:51.900 And, you know, the players in this locker room here, they're just getting started.

00:14:57.260 And, you know, to all the players that I've played with, obviously, you know,

00:15:00.880 who know what it's like to be in the grind, that's the best part.

00:15:04.340 It's an ironic response because she had just proven why women should not have equal pay with men in soccer. 0.96

00:15:11.960 But that's what she cares about.

00:15:13.940 That's the highlight for her.

00:15:15.000 She spent her career whining that she wants to be paid as much as the men, 1.00

00:15:18.840 and that to her is the main takeaway from her own career.

00:15:21.420 And I basically agree.

00:15:22.380 I think most people do.

00:15:23.120 See, I'm happy that they lost and that she was embarrassed, and many people feel the same.

00:15:29.120 Twitter was full of people gloating about it, deservedly so.

00:15:33.320 But ideally, it shouldn't be this right way.

00:15:36.020 You know, in a healthy country, sports is supposed to be one of those things that unites people,

00:15:41.980 that, you know, we all root for our sports heroes.

00:15:44.260 We all root for, especially if it's a national team, we should all be rooting for that team.

00:15:48.620 It's a national team.

00:15:50.640 And, yeah, maybe what happens on the field or on the court in and of itself doesn't matter that much,

00:15:56.180 but at least it's an opportunity for everyone to just sort of, like, be on the same side about something,

00:16:01.940 as superfluous as that thing might be on the surface.

00:16:07.060 But we don't have that anymore from sports, and we don't have it from this,

00:16:12.380 because these are women who kneeled during the national anthem, 1.00

00:16:15.840 who went overseas disrespecting their own country and flag.

00:16:19.440 These are the women, Megan Rapinoe in particular, who betrayed not only their country,

00:16:23.180 but their own sport, their own profession, and the women who may come after them,

00:16:27.220 when she came out and enthusiastically endorsed letting males compete against females in sports.

00:16:33.020 So these are partisan hacks in an athletic costume.

00:16:37.500 These are ideologues in a jersey.

00:16:40.120 And they aren't even trying to represent the United States.

00:16:42.400 They're representing a very specific viewpoint.

00:16:46.140 Right?

00:16:46.620 That's who they're trying to represent.

00:16:47.880 So they're part of the problem.

00:16:48.800 They are part of the move towards making sports non-unifying,

00:16:53.260 making it partisan and divisive, which it was never supposed to be.

00:16:56.300 It's supposed to be, again, the opposite of that.

00:16:59.880 And the end result is this unfortunate scenario where they're supposed to be representing their country.

00:17:06.520 They lose, and their country is happy about it.

00:17:09.600 But it's their own fault.

00:17:10.860 It's their own fault that their country mocks them when they lose.

00:17:13.480 This is what they've done to themselves.

00:17:14.860 All right, Daily Wire has this report.

00:17:18.380 The biographer for former President Barack Obama made explosive statements during a lengthy interview published this week by Tablet Magazine.

00:17:26.060 Historian David Garrow, who wrote Obama's 2017 biography, Rising Star, The Making of Barack Obama,

00:17:31.560 talked about various aspects of who the former president was, both politically and personally.

00:17:36.380 Journalist David Samuels asked Garrow about how he got some of Obama's former girlfriends to give him letters that Obama wrote to them while in college and law school,

00:17:46.000 and what was the most surprising thing that he found from the letters.

00:17:50.040 Garrow said, quote,

00:17:50.700 He said that he emailed his friend Harvey Clare and told him to go to the Emory archives to see the letters.

00:18:17.300 And Garrow said, quote,

00:18:20.600 He spent his whole life at Emory, but they won't let him take pictures.

00:18:23.220 So Harvey has to sit there with a pencil and copy out the graph where Barack writes to Alex about how he repeatedly fantasizes about making love to men.

00:18:31.060 So that's the, finally the headline there, is that there are these letters. 0.60

00:18:35.200 According to this biographer, there are letters that Obama wrote in college where he talks about his frequent fantasies of having sex with men. 0.73

00:18:44.300 And, I don't know, would anyone really entertain the idea that this isn't true?

00:18:51.220 Like, it's not exactly the most shocking rumor we've ever heard.

00:18:54.340 I think we can just maybe agree on that.

00:18:57.460 But it does go to show.

00:18:59.320 It's sort of incredible that even now,

00:19:04.640 much of Barack Obama's life and backstory,

00:19:07.620 and also that of his wife, by the way,

00:19:10.220 so much of it is still a mystery.

00:19:12.400 He was in office for eight years.

00:19:16.380 He's been out now for almost eight years.

00:19:19.100 And just very, very shrouded, very cloudy is his backstory.

00:19:25.600 Because the very moment he emerged on the national scene,

00:19:28.500 it was made clear that you can't ask any questions about him.

00:19:33.220 You can't ask about his biography.

00:19:34.580 You can't ask about his background.

00:19:35.740 You have this guy that is a state senator.

00:19:39.560 He just, like, comes out of nowhere.

00:19:43.220 And he's a community organizer, state senator after that.

00:19:46.780 And he comes out of nowhere onto the national scene.

00:19:49.100 And everyone, you know, we're saying, well, where did this guy come from?

00:19:52.140 What's his background?

00:19:53.340 Seems like a fair question to ask.

00:19:55.720 Somebody who wants to be president?

00:19:57.860 Weren't allowed to ask it, though, because it's racist.

00:19:59.500 Can you imagine if, imagine what we'd find out if Barack Obama was subject to even, like, a tenth of the scrutiny of Donald Trump?

00:20:12.360 That's one of the many incredible things about Trump and the way that, and how his, you know, presence on the national scene as a political figure is so different from anything else we've seen.

00:20:22.620 We know everything about him, which was already sort of the case before he ran for president, because he's been living in the public eye for 30 years before that, and he was on TV forever and everything.

00:20:33.980 So it's like everyone knew the guy.

00:20:36.040 Everyone knew.

00:20:36.840 There's already been biographies written about him and everything.

00:20:39.020 And then the media and the deep state go to work exposing every last detail they can, some of it made up, some of it not, ripping his life apart.

00:20:55.720 And so we've seen, we've seen everything there is to see about Donald Trump.

00:20:59.740 We've seen the very worst of it.

00:21:02.800 And we've also seen that the worst of it really isn't that bad.

00:21:06.760 It's like, it's not nearly as bad as they would have this, but I mean, they, they, they wanted us to believe this is, you know, once, once, once we find out the truth about, about Trump, you'll be shocked how deep his corruption is and everything.

00:21:17.840 And then, and then you find out the, you know, what's going on behind the scenes.

00:21:20.340 It's just kind of like what you expect.

00:21:21.980 Oh, so Trump is Trump.

00:21:24.120 So it's basically what we found out is that the guy that he presents himself as is exactly who he is behind the scenes.

00:21:29.780 There's really no, he's an open book, really.

00:21:32.900 Which is why, as, as I've often said, like the, the scrutiny trying to paint Trump as, as this sort of like deeply corrupt political figure has only had the opposite effect of proving how not corrupt he really is.

00:21:53.040 Because if there was something else there, we, we can guarantee that we would see it by now.

00:21:59.180 They would let us know and they have it.

00:22:01.100 They've given us the best or the worst.

00:22:06.160 The worst is that he, like, he kept some documents because he thought it was cool to have them.

00:22:10.480 That's the worst.

00:22:11.180 It's the best.

00:22:11.640 That's, that's the worst they can find.

00:22:15.380 And again, can you imagine if someone like Obama had even a fraction of that kind of scrutiny?

00:22:25.080 Well, we can only imagine.

00:22:26.200 We can only imagine what they would find because we're, we are only, we are left to only imagine.

00:22:32.100 Daily Wire has this story.

00:22:33.660 NASCAR faced backlash online over the weekend after it suspended a driver for, quote, his actions on social media.

00:22:40.760 Noah Gragson was suspended by NASCAR and Legacy Motor Club after he reportedly liked a meme on Instagram that mocked George Floyd's death.

00:22:48.940 And we'll, we'll show you that meme in a second.

00:22:50.500 Before we do, let's get, let's just get the whole story.

00:22:53.380 I mean, this guy was fired for not even, he didn't post the meme.

00:22:58.240 He didn't even like retweet it to, to propagate it, get it in front of more people.

00:23:04.160 He just liked it.

00:23:05.120 And by the way, the way, you know, I don't, I don't like tweets at all, but people that, that do that, it's not even, even though it says like, sometimes they do it as a, people do that because they're just bookmarking it so they can go back later.

00:23:18.520 People have different reasons for clicking like on something.

00:23:23.000 Or maybe just because they like it.

00:23:25.220 So who knows?

00:23:25.720 Maybe, maybe he bookmarked it.

00:23:27.200 Maybe he saw the meme and that said, you know, this is an interesting thing.

00:23:30.700 I want to, I want to revisit it later.

00:23:32.220 Think more about it.

00:23:33.020 Who knows?

00:23:33.620 Who knows what his, what his motives were.

00:23:34.720 But all he did was click like on it.

00:23:37.100 Click the little, little heart button on it.

00:23:40.380 NASCAR said in a statement, quote, NASCAR fully supports Legacy Motor Club's decision to suspend Noah Gragson.

00:23:46.220 Following his actions on social media, NASCAR has determined that Gragson has violated the member conduct section of the 2023 NASCAR rulebook and has placed him under indefinite suspension.

00:23:56.120 Legacy Motor Club said in a statement, we've made the decision to suspend Noah Gragson effective immediately regarding his actions that do not represent the values of our team.

00:24:03.020 Josh Berry will drive the number 42 entry for this weekend, NASCAR Cup Series race at Michigan.

00:24:08.820 Now we get immediately to the inevitable here.

00:24:11.000 So there was no, there's no, with Neo, there was a little bit of lag time.

00:24:15.260 There's a little bit of time in between.

00:24:16.240 But in this case, right away, we get the next paragraph, which tells us that Gragson apologized for liking the meme, writing, quote,

00:24:23.100 I am disappointed in myself for my lack of attention and actions on social media.

00:24:27.200 I understand the severity of this situation.

00:24:29.020 He continued.

00:24:29.520 I love and appreciate everyone.

00:24:30.640 I try to treat everyone equally, no matter who they are.

00:24:33.660 I messed up, plain and simple. 0.98

00:24:35.980 So another coward. 0.99

00:24:37.060 It's a coward bonanza today. 0.99

00:24:38.560 That is what we're dealing with.

00:24:41.220 And yet again, as always, is this going to do anything for him?

00:24:46.620 Is he going to be invited back into the fold?

00:24:48.460 Is he going to get his job back? 0.81

00:24:49.540 All the people that have torn him down and said that he's a horrible racist and all the rest of it. 0.99

00:24:54.700 He's terrible. 1.00

00:24:55.540 He's a fascist. 1.00

00:24:56.340 Whatever they're saying about him. 0.95

00:24:57.860 Are they going to go back and say, well, you know, he apologized.

00:25:02.120 And let's give him another chance.

00:25:04.140 Let's be.

00:25:04.400 It was just a meme, guys.

00:25:05.540 And he apologized for it.

00:25:06.640 And let's be reasonable about it.

00:25:08.500 OK, we don't have to tear this guy's whole life apart for a meme.

00:25:11.040 He did apologize.

00:25:11.880 Are any of them going to say that?

00:25:13.280 Is even one person in the outrage mob going to say that?

00:25:16.080 The answer is no, of course not.

00:25:17.780 No one's going to say that.

00:25:20.520 Which is why even as a matter of just pure, we don't have to appeal to your courage even.

00:25:28.300 It'd be good if we could.

00:25:29.860 Like, I wish we could appeal to your courage if you're Noah Gregson or Neo.

00:25:34.120 And just say, you know, have some backbone.

00:25:38.240 Stand by what you said.

00:25:39.280 Don't cave to the mob.

00:25:41.240 Just don't do it.

00:25:43.220 Have a little bit of courage.

00:25:44.320 I wish we could say that.

00:25:45.300 That's a non-starter with a lot of people.

00:25:48.440 But we don't even have to appeal to that.

00:25:49.940 It's also just pure self-interest.

00:25:53.380 It's like, not only is it the best thing to do morally to stand by your actions and not to cave to the mob,

00:26:00.160 it's also just strategically the best approach.

00:26:04.100 Because you're already labeled this way, and you're never going to get that label off you.

00:26:09.860 Whatever the leftist mob is saying about you, they're going to say that about you forever now.

00:26:15.620 Sorry to say.

00:26:16.400 That's just the way it's going to be.

00:26:17.360 But you do at least have some people defending you and sticking up for you.

00:26:24.160 And so you might as well.

00:26:26.100 For pure self-preservation, your best move is to stick by them and to stand by what you said.

00:26:33.100 And that's why Gregson should have come out.

00:26:35.340 The smartest strategic thing for him to say is to come out and say, hey, you know what?

00:26:39.300 It was a joke.

00:26:40.160 It's a meme.

00:26:41.140 All you people crying about it. 1.00

00:26:42.460 You're all a bunch of hypocrites and crybabies. 1.00

00:26:45.700 Okay? 1.00

00:26:46.040 You know that if you agree with me politically and I liked a meme going the other way, you'd have no problem with it. 0.99

00:26:52.600 You're all a bunch of frauds and phonies. 0.98

00:26:54.100 I apologize to none of you. 1.00

00:26:56.000 Kiss my ass. 1.00

00:26:57.940 You disgusting cry bullies. 1.00

00:27:00.740 You know what? 1.00

00:27:01.340 And then he goes and posts the meme again.

00:27:03.060 Here's the meme again.

00:27:04.520 I'm going to blow this meme up and put it on a billboard on the highway now because of you people.

00:27:09.080 That's what I'm going to do.

00:27:10.820 That's what he should have said.

00:27:13.600 But he didn't.

00:27:14.300 Instead, he apologized.

00:27:16.320 I understand the severity.

00:27:18.000 That's the part that gets me the most.

00:27:19.120 I understand the severity of it.

00:27:20.860 Really?

00:27:21.160 The severity of this situation?

00:27:23.460 What is, tell me, Noah, what's the severity of you like a NASCAR guy, a NASCAR driver liked a meme?

00:27:33.340 Really?

00:27:33.860 What's the severity of that?

00:27:36.040 I understand the severity of this situation.

00:27:38.920 No, that's what you say if, like, I don't know.

00:27:41.940 That's what your doctor says to you, maybe, if they're letting you know that you have terminal cancer.

00:27:46.560 They talk about the severity of the situation.

00:27:49.120 There's no severity to you liking a meme.

00:27:52.800 No one's hurt by it.

00:27:54.580 That hurts no one.

00:27:56.240 No one's actually offended.

00:27:58.620 All the people pretending to be offended are actually happy, okay, because you're a NASCAR driver.

00:28:05.240 You're automatically suspect as far as they're concerned, politically and ideologically.

00:28:09.440 And so they have a chance to drag you down.

00:28:11.160 It's also just fun.

00:28:12.200 It's recreation for them.

00:28:13.920 They'll rip your life apart and move on to the next one. 0.87

00:28:15.860 It's all fun for them.

00:28:16.580 So they're happy.

00:28:17.360 They're really happy about it.

00:28:19.560 Nobody was hurt.

00:28:20.140 It's not a serious situation.

00:28:21.660 But he apologizes anyway.

00:28:22.620 Now, before we go any further, I think we should probably take a look at this meme in the interest of journalism.

00:28:30.700 This offensive, unsightly meme.

00:28:32.300 So let's put it up on the screen here.

00:28:33.380 So there's the meme that he liked.

00:28:36.480 And as you can see, it says, under the knee, under the knee.

00:28:42.340 And then it's George Floyd's face on the body of a lobster.

00:28:45.840 Recalling, of course, Sebastian from The Little Mermaid, who sang famously, under the sea.

00:28:53.440 And so that's the joke.

00:28:55.180 Now, there's the joke there.

00:28:58.660 That's what it is.

00:28:59.300 Now, I want to say something here.

00:29:03.080 I don't see why.

00:29:03.840 I want you to leave this up.

00:29:05.160 I want you to leave this up the entire time as we talk about it.

00:29:07.180 I don't see why we would assume that this is meant to mock George Floyd.

00:29:15.620 I don't see it.

00:29:16.440 I mean, Sebastian's a lovable character.

00:29:19.620 This imagines George Floyd reborn as this lovable character.

00:29:23.280 I think those mourning George Floyd's death could even be comforted by this.

00:29:28.300 I think it's deeply.

00:29:29.500 I think.

00:29:30.200 I mean, you could make the argument that Noah Gregson wanted to comfort those who are still mourning the passing of George Floyd these three years later.

00:29:38.360 And he's saying, you know, George Floyd's in a better place now.

00:29:40.780 He's reincarnated as a lobster deep in the sea.

00:29:43.980 Why is that a bad thing?

00:29:46.660 Some people believe in reincarnation.

00:29:49.460 Are we going to be judgmental of those people?

00:29:51.220 So that's what I take from this.

00:29:55.400 I think if you're really mourning George Floyd, you should be.

00:29:57.800 It should make you happy to think, well, you know, maybe George Floyd is in the ocean singing songs to a mermaid.

00:30:05.640 A much better place.

00:30:09.820 But if it is, and this is a big if.

00:30:12.740 This is a huge if.

00:30:14.180 If it's meant to be mocking.

00:30:16.680 Which I think we don't know that.

00:30:18.800 We'll never know.

00:30:21.220 If it is, then the only reason why this would be considered way, way out of bounds and just absolutely awful.

00:30:28.300 You know, the kind of thing that you would lose your job over.

00:30:30.300 Is if you agree that George Floyd is a martyr and a saint and not a violent criminal and drug addict who died as a direct result of his own life choices and his own behavior.

00:30:42.540 You know, and if you believe the latter, right?

00:30:48.580 If you believe what is, in fact, the reality, which is that George Floyd, again, was a violent criminal and a queer criminal drug addict and died as a direct result of his own actions. 0.83

00:30:58.300 Then this kind of thing, again, if it is meant to mock him, then you're making fun of somebody dying, so it's in poor taste.

00:31:06.000 At worst, that's what it is.

00:31:07.540 Not something you lose your job over.

00:31:09.160 You lose your job over that.

00:31:10.240 It only becomes a severe situation and something where people have been hurt and deeply offended if you think that George Floyd is a saint.

00:31:23.460 This is St. George Floyd.

00:31:24.660 He's a great man, a wonderful member of his community, one of the greatest Americans this country has ever produced.

00:31:30.920 And that's why he has murals, and that's why he has statues now, and he's deserving of all of that.

00:31:36.860 That's the only way that this becomes, this graduates to the level of something that you'd lose your job over.

00:31:43.400 Because then it becomes an act of blasphemy.

00:31:45.980 And that's how it's being treated.

00:31:47.960 This is why the left reacts to something like this.

00:31:50.400 It's not because it's a joke and poor taste about someone who died.

00:31:53.520 They don't care about that.

00:31:55.240 Like, nobody really cares.

00:31:56.300 Everyone understands.

00:31:57.060 You know, morbid humor is something that everyone engages in sometimes.

00:31:59.740 It's not a big deal.

00:32:02.540 Most of the people pretending to be offended by this, I guarantee there have been 9-11 and Holocaust jokes that those people have laughed about.

00:32:08.900 And this is one guy who died, and they're pretending that they're horrible.

00:32:14.280 Every single person who's, by the way, every single person who's pretending to be offended by that, every single one of them, you check their Twitter account,

00:32:19.800 at some point they've posted a meme mocking, say, Ashley Babbitt, who died on January 6th.

00:32:25.460 So, it's all, you know, it's all a charade.

00:32:32.000 And that's why they don't really care.

00:32:33.340 It's not that, well, we never make jokes about people who died.

00:32:35.780 We never do that.

00:32:37.140 Everyone's done that.

00:32:37.940 Everyone has done that.

00:32:40.380 That's not the point.

00:32:41.020 For them, it's blasphemy.

00:32:42.160 It's blasphemy against a sainted, hallowed, blessed figure.

00:32:46.080 That's the way that they see it.

00:32:48.560 And that's the way NASCAR sees it.

00:32:51.600 You know, NASCAR, and this is just the latest example of this, NASCAR is, I mean, fully woke all the way.

00:32:59.260 You know, I mean, they are not quite NBA tier, but they're close.

00:33:06.540 I would even, in wokeness factor, over the last several years, I put them, it's like NBA is at the top of the woke pyramid,

00:33:14.820 and NFL is actually a few notches below that, and NASCAR is above that now.

00:33:19.820 They're climbing the woke ladder.

00:33:21.820 All right, we can take that down now, George Floyd, in a better place.

00:33:30.820 Let's see.

00:33:32.160 We have time for maybe one more.

00:33:33.480 This is, you know, we're going to skip ahead to this.

00:33:35.840 Okay, so the media has been enthralled by a story, by a certain story, and they're very excited about it.

00:33:42.660 They're having a field day.

00:33:43.700 Very, very excited about this.

00:33:45.800 The story, as reported in the Daily Mail, repeated by every corporate media outlet,

00:33:50.360 and I'll read you with Daily Mail reports, and then you can, I mean, every corporate media outlet has put out a report just like this,

00:33:58.400 which is phrased almost exactly the same way, like a cut and paste job.

00:34:03.080 So here it is.

00:34:05.020 One of the funders of the film Sound of Freedom has been arrested for kidnapping a child, according to court records.

00:34:11.280 Fabian Marta, 51, was one of thousands of donors who gave funds for the production of the film

00:34:15.760 based on former Department of Homeland Security agent Tim Ballard's efforts against child trafficking.

00:34:21.120 The St. Louis, Missouri resident was charged with felony child kidnapping last month.

00:34:26.300 The Sound of Freedom movie tackles a very tough subject and took extraordinary effort to bring it to movie theaters.

00:34:30.440 That's from Marta, who wrote that on Facebook in a now-deleted post, as reported by Newsweek.

00:34:36.900 I'm proud to have been a small part of it.

00:34:38.320 If you see the movie, look for Fabian Marta and family at the very end of the credits.

00:34:41.840 And sure enough, Fabian Marta is in the credits of the film.

00:34:48.180 And in some cases, that's the way it's been phrased in the headlines.

00:34:52.180 You know, there have been headlines saying a funder of Sound of Freedom charged with, you know, child trafficking, child kidnapping.

00:34:58.960 And then there are other headlines that say, you know, man who appears in credits of Sound of Freedom charged with child kidnapping.

00:35:08.240 He could face 10 years in prison.

00:35:09.880 Now, so that's the headline.

00:35:12.100 And again, the media is very excited about this.

00:35:13.680 I mean, they're getting these reports out everywhere.

00:35:15.380 And if you look at the leftists on social media, they're gloating about it.

00:35:18.540 They're happy about it.

00:35:19.560 They're very happy that this happened.

00:35:21.320 They're very happy about the story.

00:35:22.660 This is a story allegedly about a child who's kidnapped and the left cannot contain their glee.

00:35:28.660 They can't even pretend to contain it.

00:35:30.520 They're excited.

00:35:34.040 Here's the part they don't highlight.

00:35:36.380 First of all, this film had 6,000 people who funded it with an average of 500 bucks each.

00:35:43.460 So Fabian Marta probably, you know, I don't think we know the exact amount that he gave.

00:35:48.820 But everyone, you know, if he's around the average, then he gave 500 bucks or so.

00:35:54.060 Or that's all he would have needed to give to count as a funder.

00:35:59.960 So that is the big time funder.

00:36:01.700 Someone who gave 500 bucks to the film.

00:36:04.760 The second point is that according to follow-up reports on this story,

00:36:08.980 Fabian Marta is a landlord who provided lodging to a woman and her child.

00:36:14.900 And that woman is involved in a custody dispute. 0.55

00:36:19.440 And that's the story.

00:36:21.680 Now, what are the details from there?

00:36:23.840 Did Marta actually do anything wrong? 0.99

00:36:26.780 Was he involved in some kind of conspiracy?

00:36:28.940 What are the details with the child and the custody dispute?

00:36:30.980 And who's in the right and who's in the wrong?

00:36:32.560 I have no idea.

00:36:33.940 I don't know the slightest idea.

00:36:35.040 I don't know anything else.

00:36:35.940 And I don't think the media knows anything else.

00:36:37.440 And, you know, it's a very complicated situation.

00:36:41.760 But this is, we know at least, some kind of obscure custody-type dispute between a woman,

00:36:48.320 a child, a father, presumably, and a landlord.

00:36:52.260 And one of the people involved in this dispute gave a few hundred bucks to a film.

00:36:59.520 In other words, there's no story here.

00:37:01.620 You know, the fact that a guy is a landlord and he's involved in this dispute and there's a custody dispute

00:37:08.460 and he gave five hundred bucks to Sound of Freedom a few years ago, that's not a story.

00:37:13.500 That's not anything.

00:37:15.660 You would hear that if you didn't have the media's framing of it and you hear that and someone tells you that.

00:37:20.520 It's like, imagine someone just ran into your living room and you had no reference, no frame of reference.

00:37:27.200 And they just told you this story.

00:37:30.140 Guess what?

00:37:30.920 Listen to this.

00:37:31.720 You're not going to believe it.

00:37:32.660 What?

00:37:32.860 What's going on?

00:37:34.020 So there's a guy who's a landlord for a woman who has a child and they're in a custody dispute

00:37:39.740 and he's just been arrested for kidnapping because he's involved.

00:37:43.060 And he gave five hundred bucks to a movie that deals with child trafficking.

00:37:49.300 And that's the story.

00:37:51.160 Can you believe it?

00:37:53.020 If you heard that, you say, what?

00:37:54.780 Okay.

00:37:55.840 What's the relevance of that?

00:37:57.600 Why is this headline news?

00:37:58.940 Why are you so excited about it?

00:38:01.380 It's not a story at all.

00:38:03.080 But the left is very excited about it because they see it as something that somehow discredits the movie.

00:38:09.980 Which, of course, even if like the worst version of this story was true,

00:38:14.700 when you read the headlines, you're supposed to imagine in your head that Fabian Marta is,

00:38:19.760 when you hear investor or funder of film, you're imagining like this millionaire who gave millions of dollars to make the film.

00:38:26.480 And when you hear that he's involved in kidnapping, you are supposed to imagine that he actually physically kidnapped a child and stole the child and all of that.

00:38:36.560 And that's not apparently what actually happened.

00:38:38.140 But even if it did, that wouldn't, the movie's based on a true story.

00:38:43.240 It's an anti-child trafficking movie that doesn't discredit the point of the film.

00:38:47.320 What?

00:38:47.580 So does that mean that now child trafficking is good or something?

00:38:49.960 So even in the worst version of the story, it doesn't discredit the film.

00:38:56.540 And it especially doesn't, given what we actually know to be true about this story.

00:39:02.780 But it does raise the question of why is the left so desperate?

00:39:06.620 What do you have against this movie?

00:39:08.160 Like, the movie didn't blame you for anything.

00:39:12.560 What do you have against it?

00:39:16.640 Maybe you've seen the movie and it's hard for me to believe that you even watched objectively or that you objectively analyzed it.

00:39:23.840 But even if you think that, oh, the acting isn't very good, the script's not good, whatever.

00:39:27.460 What do you have against it?

00:39:29.320 Why are you so desperate to find some reason to discredit it?

00:39:33.780 So really, this raises a lot of questions about you.

00:39:38.600 Why would you see?

00:39:40.460 Those of us who are normal, we can't even put ourselves in this mentality.

00:39:45.020 There's a movie out there.

00:39:46.440 It's an anti-child trafficking movie.

00:39:48.700 It's a movie about kids being rescued from trafficking.

00:39:52.840 Maybe you want to see the movie.

00:39:54.160 Maybe you don't.

00:39:57.100 Maybe it's the kind of subject matter that's too upsetting for you.

00:40:00.540 So you don't want to watch the movie.

00:40:01.620 I know there are many, many people that I've talked to who said,

00:40:04.320 I don't want to watch the movie because the subject matter is so upsetting.

00:40:08.040 I just don't want to sit there and watch it.

00:40:09.900 So maybe whatever your perspective is.

00:40:12.420 But why would you hate the very idea of the movie?

00:40:15.800 Why would you have some kind of agenda against the movie?

00:40:20.100 It's a very good question.

00:40:22.440 And all of the potential answers to those questions are not very flattering for the people on the left.

00:40:31.620 It says a lot about them.

00:40:34.800 And none of it is good.

00:40:38.360 We can leave it at that.

00:40:39.820 Let's get to the comment section.

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00:41:35.300 Maddie Sheehan says,

00:41:36.440 The fact that Matt actually didn't know who Maya Khalifa was or how to pronounce her name is truly heartwarming.

00:41:43.700 Well, I knew of Maya Khalifa because her name had come up before for saying dumb things on social media. 1.00

00:41:48.300 So she's one of these people that provides that kind of fodder every once in a while. 1.00

00:41:53.020 But yeah, I don't know how to pronounce her name.

00:41:57.100 I'm not familiar with her body of work, shall we say.

00:41:59.780 And the reason for that is that I don't watch this stuff.

00:42:07.380 And it's always interesting to me, and this is not directed at you, Maddie,

00:42:11.060 but every time I talk about the problems of porn,

00:42:17.180 I always hear from people who are like,

00:42:20.540 Well, I know your hard drive is full of porn, right?

00:42:23.100 Everyone looks at porn.

00:42:24.660 You're only saying this because, you know, you're protesting too much. 0.89

00:42:27.920 You're only saying this because you watch a lot of porn or whatever.

00:42:32.480 Which, even if that was true, by the way,

00:42:34.300 it wouldn't disprove whatever I'm saying about pornography being harmful.

00:42:37.820 You know, it would actually be basically irrelevant.

00:42:39.740 But it's not true.

00:42:40.900 You know, I just actually don't watch it.

00:42:43.080 I just simply don't.

00:42:44.760 And if this is, that's it.

00:42:48.280 I don't.

00:42:49.060 I don't know what to tell you.

00:42:50.220 There's a lot of people that find that fact very,

00:42:52.360 I can't believe this.

00:42:54.900 It's kind of like what we talked about earlier.

00:42:56.100 You know, if that's your perspective,

00:42:58.420 it says a lot more about you than me.

00:43:01.320 If it's like impossible,

00:43:03.820 this is what you get from many people.

00:43:06.840 It's impossible for them to believe

00:43:09.400 that there could be anyone who doesn't watch porn.

00:43:12.580 They can't even wrap their minds around the possibility.

00:43:17.440 And if that's your mentality,

00:43:19.020 then again, it says something about you.

00:43:21.600 But, on the other side of it,

00:43:27.520 if you're someone who is struggling with this,

00:43:29.440 with this compulsion to watch porn all the time,

00:43:33.320 and, you know, the people who act like,

00:43:36.260 well, everyone watches porn.

00:43:37.380 There's no way to not watch porn.

00:43:39.400 The people saying that with this kind of defeatist mentality,

00:43:42.360 they're saying that to you because they don't want you.

00:43:44.800 They want you to, you know,

00:43:46.020 people that have a vice,

00:43:47.280 they, you know, misery loves company. 0.59

00:43:48.260 They take solace in knowing that other people share it with them.

00:43:51.900 They don't want you to pull yourself out of it.

00:43:54.120 But what you should know is that it is actually,

00:43:56.040 like, it is definitely possible

00:43:58.140 to have a life that doesn't involve pornography.

00:44:00.720 That is 100% a possibility.

00:44:02.520 It is a very realistic goal.

00:44:05.020 You can achieve that.

00:44:06.560 It is possible.

00:44:07.580 I can tell you that.

00:44:09.100 All right.

00:44:10.840 Gary says, 1.00

00:44:11.700 porn star, 1.00

00:44:12.760 Matt got it right by calling them cyber prostitutes, 0.99

00:44:15.420 and he was being polite. 0.94

00:44:16.400 Yeah, polite,

00:44:18.880 I don't know if it's polite or not,

00:44:19.980 but I do prefer to use that term whenever I can

00:44:22.840 because I just think it's more accurate.

00:44:25.680 It gives a more accurate,

00:44:27.460 you know,

00:44:30.380 kind of illustration of what these people do.

00:44:32.700 It is a,

00:44:33.440 it's cyber prostitution. 1.00

00:44:36.340 Which is why,

00:44:37.040 you know,

00:44:37.160 one of my arguments about pornography

00:44:38.680 is that

00:44:39.520 I think most people,

00:44:42.680 unless you're very libertarian,

00:44:45.140 most people basically agree

00:44:47.140 that prostitution should be illegal.

00:44:49.500 You know,

00:44:50.020 whether they think about it a lot

00:44:51.040 or how strongly they feel,

00:44:52.620 I don't know,

00:44:53.400 but most people,

00:44:54.580 you know,

00:44:54.700 there is not any great push

00:44:56.720 out there

00:44:57.680 in most areas of the country

00:44:59.460 to legalize prostitution.

00:45:01.220 And in fact,

00:45:03.700 if there was a movement

00:45:04.780 in your own community,

00:45:06.240 if you lived in an area

00:45:07.380 where prostitution is not legal

00:45:09.080 and there was a movement to say,

00:45:10.660 you know,

00:45:10.840 prostitution needs to be legal here 0.99

00:45:12.380 in your neighborhood,

00:45:14.260 you would probably object.

00:45:15.820 Most people would object

00:45:17.060 because you're going to say,

00:45:18.700 you know,

00:45:19.100 that's not going to make our community any,

00:45:20.340 but there's no way,

00:45:21.720 you're going to look around and say,

00:45:22.540 there's no way that my community

00:45:23.640 will be improved

00:45:24.760 by legalizing prostitution here.

00:45:26.880 There's no possible improvement

00:45:29.600 that I could possibly foresee

00:45:31.180 by the legalization of prostitution.

00:45:34.380 So that's how I think

00:45:36.500 most people view it.

00:45:38.760 And yet,

00:45:39.200 if you mention banning,

00:45:42.300 prohibiting,

00:45:42.820 or even just simply regulating pornography,

00:45:45.920 a lot of those very same people

00:45:47.900 recoil in horror.

00:45:50.800 They can't imagine that.

00:45:53.400 They're perfectly fine

00:45:54.160 with prostitution being illegal.

00:45:56.880 But they can't imagine

00:45:57.600 the same would apply to pornography.

00:46:00.060 Well, why not?

00:46:00.620 It's the same thing. 0.99

00:46:02.600 Prostitution is when you're having sex for money. 1.00

00:46:05.080 That's what prostitution is. 1.00

00:46:06.240 It's like the definite,

00:46:07.260 what's the definition of prostitution? 1.00

00:46:08.420 Having sex for money. 0.98

00:46:10.520 Pornography, 1.00

00:46:10.980 you're having sex for money. 0.99

00:46:13.060 Whether it's, 0.97

00:46:13.920 whether you work,

00:46:14.620 you know,

00:46:14.920 officially for the quote unquote

00:46:16.040 porn industry

00:46:16.880 or you are OnlyFans,

00:46:20.820 you know,

00:46:21.060 you know,

00:46:21.720 whatever,

00:46:22.020 even if you're putting videos out

00:46:23.420 on your own or whatever,

00:46:24.280 it's,

00:46:24.520 in the end,

00:46:25.560 it's for money.

00:46:26.260 It's being monetized.

00:46:27.920 Somebody is monetized.

00:46:28.840 So it is for money.

00:46:30.020 All the videos on Pornhub,

00:46:31.480 that is,

00:46:31.940 those are all being monetized.

00:46:33.260 Pornhub makes billions of dollars

00:46:34.460 or at least millions of dollars.

00:46:38.180 Many millions at the very least,

00:46:39.240 Pornhub makes.

00:46:40.980 So, 0.99

00:46:42.080 prostitution is sex for money. 0.99

00:46:43.800 Pornography is sex for money. 1.00

00:46:44.980 And the only difference 0.99

00:46:47.520 with prostitution

00:46:50.580 as we traditionally think of it

00:46:51.860 and pornography

00:46:52.600 is that with pornography,

00:46:54.740 a third party

00:46:55.700 is being invited in

00:46:57.420 to witness 0.69

00:46:59.060 the sex for money. 0.91

00:47:01.900 And what,

00:47:02.520 that makes it better?

00:47:05.140 That,

00:47:05.460 that means it should be,

00:47:07.040 that's an argument

00:47:07.840 for it being legal?

00:47:09.320 I don't understand.

00:47:09.960 So most people are fine

00:47:12.680 with the fact

00:47:13.140 that it's not legal

00:47:14.100 to bring a prostitute 0.93

00:47:15.340 to the motel room 1.00

00:47:16.280 and have sex with a prostitute 1.00

00:47:17.160 and pay her. 1.00

00:47:18.480 Most people are,

00:47:19.200 you know,

00:47:19.360 that's not legal in most places

00:47:20.520 and most people are okay with that.

00:47:22.460 Yet,

00:47:22.860 if we brought a third party

00:47:23.920 in to watch,

00:47:25.460 now it's okay?

00:47:28.720 Or,

00:47:29.180 or,

00:47:29.520 or you just,

00:47:30.360 you,

00:47:30.680 you do the exact same situation

00:47:32.380 but put a camera there

00:47:34.420 and film it

00:47:35.920 so that people can watch

00:47:36.700 on the computer

00:47:37.100 and now we're fine with it.

00:47:38.160 Now,

00:47:38.480 now it should be totally legal.

00:47:39.880 I don't,

00:47:40.120 it's just,

00:47:41.180 it doesn't make any sense.

00:47:42.420 The argument doesn't make any sense.

00:47:45.240 So it seems to me

00:47:46.120 that there should be,

00:47:47.140 there should be some symmetry here.

00:47:51.540 Either prostitution

00:47:52.540 is legal everywhere

00:47:53.560 just as pornography is

00:47:54.840 or pornography is illegal

00:47:56.600 for the same reason

00:47:57.240 prostitution is. 0.92

00:47:59.000 I don't see how you differentiate 0.65

00:48:00.240 between the two.

00:48:00.860 They're exactly the same thing.

00:48:02.920 The only difference

00:48:03.960 is that

00:48:04.820 whatever the harms

00:48:06.080 of prostitution are,

00:48:07.240 those harms are

00:48:08.820 exacerbated

00:48:09.700 by about

00:48:10.660 a factor of like

00:48:11.660 a million

00:48:12.240 by pornography.

00:48:13.640 So the only difference

00:48:14.240 between pornography

00:48:14.840 and prostitution

00:48:15.420 is that pornography 0.87

00:48:16.020 is a lot worse.

00:48:19.060 And finally,

00:48:20.640 the fact that many men

00:48:21.500 fear marriage

00:48:22.160 because of ending up

00:48:22.860 with someone like

00:48:23.300 Mia Khalifa

00:48:23.960 is definitely not

00:48:25.460 an irrational fear.

00:48:26.800 The problem is

00:48:27.360 that they start believing

00:48:28.240 that every woman

00:48:28.920 is like that

00:48:29.580 which is as

00:48:30.960 irrational

00:48:31.720 as it gets.

00:48:34.080 Yeah,

00:48:34.280 I think that's kind of

00:48:34.800 what it comes,

00:48:35.280 what it comes down to.

00:48:36.140 And that's why

00:48:38.440 I was trying to emphasize

00:48:39.220 this is the

00:48:40.720 little nuance here

00:48:42.680 that is not that hard

00:48:43.780 to detect

00:48:44.260 but we should recognize

00:48:46.540 that the young men

00:48:48.740 who are

00:48:49.520 shying away

00:48:51.900 from marriage

00:48:52.520 that for a lot of them

00:48:54.240 it's because they see

00:48:55.240 women like this 1.00

00:48:56.140 and they see

00:48:57.160 the Instagram video

00:48:58.220 where she's laughing

00:48:59.040 about divorcing

00:48:59.960 all these men

00:49:00.700 and encouraging women

00:49:02.000 and saying,

00:49:02.480 hey,

00:49:02.600 if you're not

00:49:02.940 feeling fulfilled

00:49:04.540 every second of the day

00:49:05.880 in your marriage

00:49:06.420 then just leave

00:49:07.120 and go find somebody else

00:49:08.120 and this is the cultural

00:49:09.660 it's not just 0.99

00:49:10.280 this porn star 0.97

00:49:12.140 saying that 0.98

00:49:12.600 this is the cultural

00:49:13.460 atmosphere.

00:49:15.780 This is the message

00:49:16.540 you get everywhere

00:49:17.080 and these men

00:49:18.540 they hear that

00:49:19.260 and so it makes them

00:49:21.540 very nervous

00:49:23.680 about getting married

00:49:24.420 and we should acknowledge

00:49:25.600 that

00:49:25.840 we should acknowledge

00:49:26.460 that their apprehensions

00:49:28.520 are justified

00:49:29.100 but then

00:49:30.860 what they should

00:49:31.360 but what they need

00:49:32.300 to realize

00:49:32.860 is that actually

00:49:33.960 in almost every case

00:49:35.820 when it comes to

00:49:38.580 these kinds of women 1.00

00:49:39.400 it's very easy

00:49:41.180 to detect them

00:49:42.760 early on

00:49:43.660 it should take

00:49:45.080 basically one conversation

00:49:46.900 if you didn't know

00:49:48.960 anything about

00:49:49.620 Maya Khalifa

00:49:50.320 at all

00:49:51.580 and you just

00:49:54.720 happened across her

00:49:55.560 you know,

00:49:56.680 on the street

00:49:57.080 and you had

00:49:57.780 a conversation

00:49:58.520 with her

00:49:58.820 how long

00:50:00.620 in that conversation

00:50:01.380 do you think

00:50:01.780 it would take you

00:50:02.580 before you realize

00:50:04.000 what kind of woman 1.00

00:50:04.480 this is?

00:50:06.180 Do you think

00:50:06.640 there's any chance

00:50:07.360 that you could have

00:50:07.740 a conversation

00:50:08.240 with Maya Khalifa

00:50:08.740 again having no

00:50:09.420 frame of reference

00:50:10.020 at all

00:50:10.420 but is there any chance

00:50:11.240 you could have

00:50:11.540 a conversation

00:50:12.000 with her

00:50:12.580 in any context

00:50:13.660 and you would

00:50:14.260 walk away

00:50:14.720 thinking

00:50:14.960 you know what

00:50:15.280 that's a woman 1.00

00:50:16.320 of high integrity

00:50:16.980 she's very intelligent

00:50:17.920 got a lot of character

00:50:18.900 great depth

00:50:20.000 in the way

00:50:21.820 this woman thinks 0.99

00:50:22.560 and views the world

00:50:23.380 that's a great woman

00:50:24.960 would anyone

00:50:26.080 think that?

00:50:27.300 Of course not

00:50:28.140 so in almost

00:50:30.340 every case

00:50:31.000 you don't actually

00:50:32.200 have to worry

00:50:32.680 about women like this 0.99

00:50:33.460 even though they exist

00:50:34.500 and there are men

00:50:35.900 who exist like this

00:50:36.640 on the other end of it

00:50:37.420 but you don't really

00:50:39.240 have to worry

00:50:39.840 much about it

00:50:40.400 because if you just

00:50:41.660 have your eyes open

00:50:43.520 and your ears open

00:50:45.260 it's easy

00:50:46.440 to detect them

00:50:47.320 and so therefore

00:50:49.960 they're easily

00:50:50.560 avoidable

00:50:51.160 let's get to

00:50:53.140 the daily cancellation

00:50:53.800 you know

00:50:58.220 it used to be

00:50:58.640 conventional wisdom

00:50:59.460 in the field of economics

00:51:00.740 that corporations

00:51:02.200 should do everything

00:51:02.760 they can

00:51:03.140 to make a profit

00:51:03.960 and maximize

00:51:04.820 shareholder value

00:51:06.020 that was the whole

00:51:06.640 point of a corporation

00:51:07.420 it was taught

00:51:07.940 in every high school

00:51:08.920 econ textbook

00:51:09.660 just like the principle

00:51:11.040 of supply and demand

00:51:11.960 there was this idea

00:51:12.780 that if for some reason

00:51:13.740 a corporation decided

00:51:14.660 to spend a ton of money

00:51:15.780 on social causes

00:51:16.500 instead of growing

00:51:17.160 the business

00:51:17.620 then they were doing

00:51:18.560 something wrong

00:51:19.140 they were misusing

00:51:20.200 shareholder funds

00:51:21.140 they were engaging

00:51:21.880 in a form of

00:51:22.620 social engineering

00:51:23.920 which is unethical

00:51:24.800 and maybe even illegal

00:51:25.720 pretty much everyone

00:51:27.120 agreed with that

00:51:27.700 in the last decade

00:51:28.400 or so

00:51:28.880 though

00:51:29.440 this reasoning

00:51:30.500 has fallen

00:51:31.020 completely out of favor

00:51:32.140 major corporations

00:51:32.920 now

00:51:33.300 they see social engineering

00:51:34.900 as their primary objective

00:51:36.320 whatever the consequences

00:51:37.260 might be

00:51:37.940 BlackRock and Vanguard

00:51:39.580 are fixated on ESG scores

00:51:41.480 which means

00:51:42.000 making sure

00:51:43.260 that companies

00:51:43.880 are promoting values

00:51:45.540 like sustainability

00:51:46.400 and inclusivity

00:51:47.660 and so on

00:51:48.280 they care about ESG

00:51:49.940 more than profitability

00:51:50.780 in some cases

00:51:51.560 now you often hear

00:51:52.600 this phenomenon

00:51:53.120 being described

00:51:53.840 as wokeness

00:51:54.660 but that doesn't

00:51:55.120 really capture

00:51:56.140 what's happening

00:51:56.840 wokeness implies

00:51:58.320 a kind of

00:51:58.820 pie in the sky

00:52:00.100 naivete

00:52:01.340 it suggests

00:52:02.520 that corporate executives

00:52:03.440 from the coastal states

00:52:04.380 are being earnest

00:52:05.140 when they for example

00:52:06.040 schedule pride nights

00:52:07.180 at NHL games

00:52:08.080 or pay Dylan Mulvaney

00:52:09.640 to promote Bud Light

00:52:10.520 what's actually happening

00:52:11.860 is more sinister

00:52:12.560 corporate wokeness

00:52:14.420 is coordinated

00:52:15.280 it's disingenuous

00:52:16.800 it's aim

00:52:17.360 is not inclusivity

00:52:18.580 whatever that means

00:52:19.300 instead

00:52:19.580 the goal of these corporations

00:52:21.080 is to ensure

00:52:21.760 that conservatives

00:52:22.380 never hold any power

00:52:23.540 in this country

00:52:24.040 ever again

00:52:24.540 that's it

00:52:25.540 what's often called

00:52:26.760 wokeness in reality

00:52:27.680 is best described

00:52:28.400 as a hatred

00:52:29.020 of traditional values

00:52:29.980 it's an effort

00:52:30.540 to stamp out

00:52:31.340 conservatives 1.00

00:52:31.840 and to destroy them 0.69

00:52:33.060 with very few exceptions

00:52:34.920 no matter what the company

00:52:36.000 no matter what the industry

00:52:37.200 this is the goal

00:52:39.060 of corporate America

00:52:39.960 they don't see their role

00:52:41.880 as selling products

00:52:42.640 they understand

00:52:43.120 that their true purpose

00:52:44.080 is to promulgate

00:52:45.020 left wing ideology

00:52:46.300 to the point

00:52:46.780 that it's dominant

00:52:47.580 and totally unchallenged

00:52:49.540 in the culture

00:52:49.980 now companies

00:52:51.680 rarely admit this

00:52:52.580 out loud

00:52:52.940 for obvious reasons

00:52:53.680 usually they bombard you

00:52:54.720 with left wing marketing

00:52:55.660 they don't tell you

00:52:57.040 what their actual

00:52:57.800 objective is

00:52:58.640 there is though

00:53:00.460 at least one

00:53:01.200 notable exception

00:53:02.080 that we've just found

00:53:03.420 we've come across

00:53:03.980 a company that

00:53:04.580 internally at least

00:53:05.400 is willing to say

00:53:06.760 that yes

00:53:07.560 they want to wage

00:53:08.940 political warfare

00:53:09.720 on conservatives

00:53:10.480 and to bring back

00:53:11.320 the glory days

00:53:12.100 of the Obama administration

00:53:13.260 this is a company

00:53:14.580 that effectively

00:53:15.220 acknowledges

00:53:15.800 that it's woke marketing

00:53:17.080 and indeed

00:53:17.580 it's entire product line

00:53:19.020 is a kind of

00:53:20.320 Trojan horse

00:53:21.100 for something

00:53:21.620 very different

00:53:22.260 and the company

00:53:23.800 is called Harry's

00:53:24.600 and they make razors

00:53:25.760 you might know

00:53:26.560 that Daily Wire

00:53:27.020 has some history

00:53:28.040 with them

00:53:28.540 Harry's surfaced

00:53:29.660 a few years ago

00:53:30.240 as a low cost

00:53:31.160 alternative

00:53:31.740 to big brands

00:53:32.500 like Gillette

00:53:33.140 but I want you

00:53:34.360 to take a look

00:53:34.880 at this recent

00:53:35.920 advertisement

00:53:36.480 from Harry's

00:53:37.360 and get a sense

00:53:38.040 of their marketing

00:53:39.520 these days

00:53:40.400 watch

00:53:40.760 okay

00:53:51.980 so that's a

00:53:52.760 that's a

00:53:53.260 woman first of all

00:53:54.400 if you didn't

00:53:54.900 already

00:53:55.300 get the drift

00:53:56.960 and as you can see

00:53:58.020 from the text

00:53:58.460 in the video

00:53:58.880 Harry's is promoting

00:53:59.760 this idea

00:54:00.200 that it's gender

00:54:01.000 affirming

00:54:01.580 for women

00:54:02.020 to buy razors

00:54:02.820 and shave

00:54:03.340 and the point

00:54:03.860 of buying

00:54:04.880 Harry's razors

00:54:05.420 in this case

00:54:05.900 isn't really

00:54:06.900 to fulfill

00:54:07.400 any useful function

00:54:08.200 it is to make

00:54:08.700 women feel like men 1.00

00:54:09.560 the ad is

00:54:10.900 among other things

00:54:11.440 an endorsement

00:54:12.040 of self-mutilation

00:54:12.920 Harry's has selected

00:54:13.900 an actor

00:54:14.440 apparently a woman 1.00

00:54:15.180 who had her breasts 1.00

00:54:16.280 cut off 0.99

00:54:16.780 and they're celebrating 0.57

00:54:18.220 that decision

00:54:18.840 pause for a second

00:54:20.560 to consider how

00:54:21.080 remarkable this is

00:54:21.900 you might remember

00:54:22.340 that it was

00:54:22.700 it wasn't too long ago

00:54:23.560 that the left claimed

00:54:24.280 to abhor female

00:54:25.340 general mutilation

00:54:26.160 in places like Africa

00:54:27.060 and now here they are

00:54:28.820 endorsing the practice

00:54:29.760 of you know

00:54:30.800 female self-mutilation

00:54:32.540 to sell cheap razors 0.54

00:54:34.100 the key question is

00:54:36.180 why is Harry's doing this

00:54:37.380 do they really think

00:54:38.560 that this is going

00:54:39.260 to help them sell

00:54:39.940 more razors

00:54:40.560 are they just

00:54:41.840 hopelessly naive

00:54:42.700 we don't have to

00:54:44.180 look far to find

00:54:45.020 an answer to that

00:54:45.960 question

00:54:46.360 here's the CEO

00:54:47.180 of Harry's

00:54:47.840 suggesting that

00:54:48.500 something else

00:54:49.780 might be going on

00:54:50.580 this is a clip

00:54:51.100 that was just unearthed

00:54:51.860 by the popular

00:54:52.660 Twitter account

00:54:53.240 End Wokeness

00:54:54.160 I want you to watch this

00:54:55.720 you know

00:54:57.060 created a really

00:54:57.980 sort of unbalanced

00:54:58.980 dynamic

00:54:59.420 and made the

00:55:00.940 co-parenting thing

00:55:01.700 really hard

00:55:02.200 to actually live

00:55:02.720 in practice

00:55:03.340 and so

00:55:04.860 you know

00:55:05.200 that experience

00:55:06.060 you know

00:55:06.820 was one that led us

00:55:08.000 to this conclusion

00:55:08.640 that hey

00:55:09.000 we need

00:55:09.480 not just a general

00:55:10.380 parental leave policy

00:55:11.360 but an equal

00:55:11.960 parental leave policy

00:55:13.060 that treats birthing

00:55:14.620 and non-birthing

00:55:15.600 parents equally

00:55:16.320 so we've implemented

00:55:17.620 that and give

00:55:18.260 everybody four months

00:55:19.080 regardless of

00:55:19.800 whether you're

00:55:20.180 the birthing parent

00:55:20.840 or the non-birthing parent

00:55:21.800 thanks

00:55:25.660 and then last

00:55:27.800 we also

00:55:28.840 as a company

00:55:29.480 have always tried

00:55:30.100 to sort of

00:55:30.640 be socially minded

00:55:32.220 and not just be

00:55:33.160 about bottom line

00:55:34.560 profits

00:55:35.060 the CEO of Harry's

00:55:37.460 is using terms

00:55:38.180 like birthing parents 1.00

00:55:39.500 to describe women

00:55:40.360 and non-birthing parents

00:55:41.760 to describe men

00:55:42.580 he sounds more like

00:55:43.680 a Berkeley co-ed

00:55:44.740 than the leader

00:55:45.280 of a major company

00:55:46.080 if you ran a poll

00:55:47.780 you'd probably find

00:55:48.400 that a very small

00:55:49.280 percentage of the country

00:55:50.140 talks like this

00:55:50.800 maybe something like

00:55:51.540 .00001%

00:55:54.140 it's like that guy

00:55:55.660 and three other guys

00:55:56.400 and they're the only people

00:55:57.380 so why is he doing it

00:55:59.480 if he's not trying

00:56:00.400 to increase profits

00:56:01.120 or grow his business

00:56:01.780 what is he doing exactly

00:56:02.720 those are good questions

00:56:04.260 so after seeing that clip

00:56:05.920 we decided to take

00:56:06.520 a closer look

00:56:07.240 and now we have

00:56:08.200 the clearest possible

00:56:09.060 answer to that question

00:56:09.760 we've unearthed

00:56:10.380 Harry's internal

00:56:11.100 global strategy agenda

00:56:12.460 from 2018

00:56:13.200 the document is called

00:56:15.060 Painting the World Orange

00:56:16.560 Positioning Our Way

00:56:17.600 into a More Progressive Future

00:56:19.060 it was put together

00:56:20.240 by an external agency

00:56:21.180 that Harry selected

00:56:21.960 and here's a direct quote

00:56:23.940 from that document

00:56:24.980 as you hear this

00:56:26.080 keep in mind

00:56:26.680 that again

00:56:27.340 this is supposedly

00:56:28.360 a company with the

00:56:29.000 primary purpose

00:56:29.820 of making razors

00:56:30.700 but this is the quote

00:56:31.420 quote

00:56:31.700 we recognize

00:56:33.380 that rigidly binary

00:56:34.900 gendered constructs

00:56:36.400 were part of the

00:56:36.960 toxic scaffolding

00:56:38.100 we needed to slowly

00:56:39.000 dismantle

00:56:39.680 the future as orange

00:56:41.260 became our internal

00:56:42.220 shorthand to refer

00:56:43.080 to the thinking

00:56:43.680 and to the thinking

00:56:45.060 and orange we hoped

00:56:46.100 would begin to refer

00:56:47.460 to all the behaviors

00:56:48.580 by which we would embody

00:56:49.680 progressive values

00:56:50.800 for men everywhere

00:56:51.720 we were excited

00:56:52.820 this was a brave

00:56:53.700 bold positioning

00:56:54.440 that could we hoped

00:56:55.260 shift culture significantly

00:56:57.080 the document goes on

00:56:58.920 to mourn the fact

00:56:59.520 that Barack Obama

00:57:00.300 is no longer in office

00:57:01.320 it then explains

00:57:02.060 that if you voted

00:57:03.260 for Trump

00:57:03.740 if you supported

00:57:04.240 Brexit

00:57:04.640 if you recognize

00:57:05.820 that boys are boys

00:57:06.640 then you're blatantly

00:57:07.600 racist 0.96

00:57:08.060 divisive

00:57:08.640 and quote

00:57:09.100 toxic

00:57:09.660 the strategy

00:57:11.120 document states

00:57:12.420 that Harry's

00:57:13.000 as a company

00:57:13.540 needs to

00:57:14.160 needs to fight

00:57:15.720 quote unquote

00:57:16.920 Harry's staffed up

00:57:18.100 accordingly

00:57:18.440 per the strategy document

00:57:19.480 Harry's then took

00:57:20.120 a company wide turn

00:57:21.300 to become quote

00:57:22.040 an army of energized

00:57:23.140 and motivated

00:57:23.940 social change agents

00:57:25.420 for progressive masculinity

00:57:27.300 now what's amazing

00:57:28.440 about all this

00:57:28.940 is that it contradicts

00:57:29.860 Harry's own studies

00:57:30.820 on this topic

00:57:31.560 around the same time

00:57:32.360 when this strategy

00:57:33.500 document was released

00:57:34.220 Harry's commissioned 0.65

00:57:34.840 something called

00:57:35.320 a masculinity report

00:57:36.680 and the report found

00:57:37.640 that men who value

00:57:38.580 traditional gender roles 0.91

00:57:39.620 were more likely

00:57:40.680 to have a positive mindset

00:57:42.100 than men who didn't

00:57:44.020 but Harry's didn't

00:57:45.660 change their approach

00:57:46.400 in light of this research

00:57:47.460 their own research

00:57:48.220 instead they enacted

00:57:49.460 a policy to cut off

00:57:50.460 business relationships

00:57:51.220 with companies

00:57:51.720 who don't align

00:57:52.520 with their radical views

00:57:53.560 on this topic

00:57:54.400 or presumably any other

00:57:55.520 in other words

00:57:56.440 you must share

00:57:57.900 Harry's progressive values

00:57:59.280 or you'll lose

00:57:59.740 any contract

00:58:00.340 that you had

00:58:00.940 with Harry's

00:58:01.480 now one of the companies

00:58:02.640 that Harry's dropped

00:58:03.440 as you have probably heard

00:58:04.740 was the Daily Wire

00:58:05.940 Harry's was upset

00:58:07.120 allegedly that Michael

00:58:07.960 Knoll said

00:58:08.360 boys are boys

00:58:08.860 and girls are girls

00:58:09.500 Jeremy Boring

00:58:10.300 launched Jeremy's Razors

00:58:11.220 in response

00:58:11.740 but Harry's didn't

00:58:13.000 simply cut off

00:58:13.680 companies like the Daily Wire

00:58:14.520 they also started

00:58:15.120 putting a lot of money

00:58:15.880 into groups

00:58:16.500 that sexualized children

00:58:17.620 at the same time

00:58:18.760 since 2019

00:58:20.300 for example

00:58:20.820 Harry's has partnered

00:58:21.560 with the Trevor Project

00:58:22.560 which bills itself

00:58:23.600 primarily as a suicide

00:58:24.760 hotline

00:58:25.400 Harry's has given

00:58:26.620 seven figures

00:58:27.600 and contributions

00:58:28.240 to the Trevor Project

00:58:29.320 in fact

00:58:29.780 as we mentioned before

00:58:30.920 on this show

00:58:31.480 the Trevor Project

00:58:32.080 has lately been pushing

00:58:32.960 the lie that castrating

00:58:34.020 and surgically mutilating 0.99

00:58:34.940 children will somehow 0.99

00:58:36.160 reduce their mental distress

00:58:37.980 when in fact

00:58:38.860 the opposite is the case

00:58:40.140 the New York Post reports

00:58:41.680 that the Trevor Project

00:58:42.400 also runs a chat room

00:58:43.720 for children

00:58:44.300 in which adults discuss

00:58:46.020 quote

00:58:46.360 nullification surgery

00:58:47.880 which means removing

00:58:48.900 all external genitalia

00:58:50.480 that's nullification

00:58:51.980 people in the chat room

00:58:53.560 also detail their

00:58:54.340 masturbation addiction 0.95

00:58:55.260 their autogynephylic tendencies

00:58:57.500 their BDSM practices

00:58:59.480 all of which

00:59:00.940 can be viewed by children

00:59:02.040 Harry's also donated

00:59:03.840 100% of the profits

00:59:04.840 from its recent

00:59:05.620 Pride campaign

00:59:06.580 to organizations

00:59:07.280 such as the UK

00:59:08.560 organization

00:59:09.160 Mermaids

00:59:10.240 which is unapologetically

00:59:11.520 in favor of sexualizing

00:59:12.740 and supposedly 0.99

00:59:13.180 transitioning minors

00:59:14.440 quote unquote

00:59:14.920 transitioning

00:59:15.520 the Daily Telegraph

00:59:16.740 found that Mermaids 0.82

00:59:17.560 offered quote

00:59:18.140 advice to users

00:59:19.380 who present themselves

00:59:20.140 as young as 13

00:59:21.040 that controversial

00:59:22.400 hormone blocking drugs

00:59:23.440 are safe

00:59:23.960 and totally reversible

00:59:24.940 which is not true

00:59:25.880 additionally

00:59:27.340 Mermaids offers

00:59:28.020 chest binders

00:59:28.860 to children

00:59:29.200 as young as 13 years old

00:59:30.340 without any parental consent

00:59:31.740 a Mermaids moderator

00:59:33.540 also reportedly

00:59:34.280 quote

00:59:34.640 congratulated a teenage user

00:59:36.380 for deciding

00:59:36.880 that they were transgender

00:59:37.640 by the age of 13

00:59:38.700 and decided they wanted drugs

00:59:40.400 and all the surgeries

00:59:41.300 at the age of 13

00:59:42.200 it's clear that

00:59:44.120 regardless of how

00:59:44.820 they build themselves

00:59:45.540 Harry's isn't really

00:59:47.060 a razor company

00:59:47.960 it's a vehicle

00:59:48.580 for left-wing ideologues

00:59:49.840 who want to transform

00:59:50.840 the country

00:59:51.580 and they're very open

00:59:54.080 about that

00:59:54.620 and Harry's is not alone

00:59:56.440 the only thing

00:59:57.820 that separates Harry's

00:59:58.820 from pretty much

00:59:59.220 every other major corporation

01:00:00.280 in the country

01:00:00.680 is that they put all this

01:00:01.980 in writing

01:00:02.400 that's it

01:00:03.360 so-called woke corporations

01:00:05.640 like Harry's

01:00:06.280 they're not misguided

01:00:07.140 they're not overly idealistic 0.84

01:00:09.780 they're not stupid 0.97

01:00:10.600 they know exactly 0.95

01:00:11.800 what they're doing

01:00:12.340 they hate you 0.55

01:00:14.100 and they want to destroy you 0.55

01:00:15.060 and it is nothing less

01:00:17.200 than an act

01:00:17.780 of self-flagellation

01:00:18.940 to voluntarily give your money

01:00:20.980 to businesses like this

01:00:22.120 they are spitting in your face

01:00:24.160 and you are paying them

01:00:25.940 for the service

01:00:26.720 and if that's how Harry's

01:00:29.280 or any other left-wing company

01:00:30.340 wants to operate

01:00:31.000 that's their prerogative

01:00:31.900 but we're still a country

01:00:33.540 where the vast majority

01:00:34.460 of people

01:00:34.860 don't refer to mothers

01:00:35.940 as birthing parents

01:00:36.820 and don't think

01:00:37.480 it's a good idea

01:00:38.100 for women

01:00:38.760 to have cosmetic

01:00:40.520 double mastectomies 0.89

01:00:41.420 and don't believe

01:00:42.540 in sterilizing

01:00:43.280 and castrating children 0.99

01:00:44.140 which means that 0.99

01:00:45.100 we are a country

01:00:45.900 where companies like Harry's

01:00:47.880 should go bankrupt

01:00:48.840 it's up to us

01:00:50.720 to make sure that happens

01:00:51.620 which is why

01:00:53.120 we should all be saying

01:00:54.000 that Harry's is today

01:00:55.260 and forever cancelled

01:00:57.460 and that'll do it

01:00:58.480 for the show today

01:00:59.040 thanks for watching

01:00:59.600 thanks for listening

01:01:00.120 talk to you tomorrow

01:01:00.820 Godspeed

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01:01:04.840 on the casino

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01:01:09.280 our next level

01:01:11.880 and thanks to the

01:01:12.100 we're gonna walk

01:01:13.160 and see you tomorrow

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The Matt Walsh Show - August 07, 2023

Ep. 1199 - Pop Star Falls To His Knees And Apologizes For Saying Boys Are Boys And Girls Are Girls

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