The Matt Walsh Show - August 15, 2023


Ep. 1205 - The Trans Ideology Cult Is Collapsing Under The Weight Of Its Own Absurdity


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Transgender ideology has been around for a long time, and it s only gotten worse the longer it s been around, the crazier it gets. And now, it s even gaining ground in California, where two school districts have adopted policies requiring parents to know if their children identify as the opposite sex.

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00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, the fight against trans ideology is even achieving victories in 0.99
00:00:03.840 California now, where two school districts have adopted policies requiring schools to inform
00:00:08.540 parents if their children are identifying as the opposite sex. Trans activists are furious about
00:00:12.220 these policies because they want to cut parents out of the loop completely, as all cults tend to
00:00:16.200 do. Also, Donald Trump is indicted for the 10,000th time, I think. The question is, how should
00:00:20.740 Republicans respond to this political persecution? The porn industry sues to stop an age verification
00:00:25.160 law from going into effect in Texas. But ask yourself, why the porn industry is so desperately
00:00:29.680 opposes any attempt to prevent children from being exposed to this content? And in our daily
00:00:33.960 cancellation, a pop star comes out of the closet for at least the third time, making him just the
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00:01:58.740 There comes a time in the life cycle of every cult when things become so insane that one way or another
00:02:05.340 the whole operation starts to fall apart. It wasn't too long ago, for example, that a cult called
00:02:09.520 Cut, C-U-T, convinced tens of thousands of people to hide in fallout shelters in Montana. The point was 0.98
00:02:15.700 to save themselves from nuclear apocalypse. But the apocalypse never came. Spoiler. So eventually,
00:02:22.100 the cultists left the bunker and gave up the whole idea. That was in the 90s, if you can believe it.
00:02:26.360 A few decades before that, the same thing happened with the Seekers in Michigan. Back in the 50s, 0.75
00:02:30.740 the Seekers thought that they'd get swept up by aliens and UFOs and taken to some faraway planet.
00:02:36.800 Now, admittedly, that's not the most unreasonable belief. I mean, that's a cult I might have actually
00:02:41.600 joined. But eventually, when they picked specific dates for the aliens' arrival and the aliens never
00:02:47.060 came, even the diehard Seekers gave up and disbanded. Some dreams die hard. Until recently,
00:02:52.940 a notable exception to this general rule, the rule that most cults quickly collapse under the
00:02:57.360 weight of their own absurdity, has been trans ideology. Transgenderism is a far deadlier and 1.00
00:03:02.620 more destructive cult than Cut or the Seekers or anything like that. It also makes a lot less
00:03:07.260 sense. The idea that anyone, even children, can snap their fingers and become the opposite sex is
00:03:11.800 objectively crazier than fretting over nuclear war and much crazier than anticipating the impending
00:03:17.940 arrival of aliens. And yet, for the most part, or for most of the past decade or so, transgenderism 0.88
00:03:23.480 somehow only grew more influential and corrupted more institutions the more unhinged it became.
00:03:30.140 How could that be? Well, whatever explains the remarkable longevity of the cult of transgenderism, 0.99
00:03:36.380 and we've talked extensively about how it came about and why, there's finally some good news to
00:03:41.880 report. At long last, the spectacular slow motion implosion of trans ideology is underway. It's only 0.94
00:03:48.480 a matter of time, though it may be a while yet, before it goes the way of all those other cults.
00:03:53.060 We've seen the signs of this for the past year, past two years. Think about the nearly two dozen
00:03:58.560 states that passed laws outlawing the sterilization of children. Consider the success of What is a Woman, 0.65
00:04:03.780 which became one of the most watched documentaries of all time. And of course, recall the catastrophic
00:04:08.300 market failures of Bud Light and Target when they embraced the most demented aspects of trans 1.00
00:04:13.620 ideology. But now there's yet another sign that the fall of transgenderism is finally upon us. And it 0.95
00:04:19.220 may be the clearest sign yet, because it comes from, of all places, the state of California, where
00:04:25.260 transgenderism is basically the state religion. This week, the Murrieta Valley School District in
00:04:30.820 Southern California voted to require parental notification when students give any indication that they want to
00:04:36.360 change their gender. So for instance, if a student tells his homeroom teacher that he wants to be
00:04:41.380 referred to as a girl all of a sudden, then the homeroom teacher would be obligated to inform that
00:04:46.520 student's parents. Murrieta became the second school district in California to approve such a measure
00:04:51.380 in just the last month after the Chino Valley School District did the same. And this is a policy that
00:04:56.100 trans activists and state Democrats, most notably the state attorney general, desperately want to
00:05:01.040 prevent. They understand that they need to indoctrinate children into the cult of
00:05:05.060 transgenderism as soon as possible in order for the cult to survive. And they understand that this 1.00
00:05:09.500 indoctrination process is a lot more difficult if parents are given the chance to interfere with it.
00:05:15.560 And that's why the corporate media has been united against this. The advocate, for example,
00:05:20.940 ran this headline, quote, California school district will make staff out trans students to
00:05:26.700 their parents. That's the way they're wording this. And yet in California, arguably the most left-wing
00:05:33.200 state in the country, despite all this pressure, the trans activists failed again. How did that happen?
00:05:41.760 Well, to answer that question and to understand the significance of this moment, it's important to
00:05:46.400 start by presenting the trans activist side of the argument, because you really need to see how much
00:05:51.820 they're flailing here. So here's how one school board member began her argument in opposition to this
00:05:59.060 measure this week. So to be clear, she's arguing that teachers should not have to tell parents if
00:06:04.040 their children suddenly start identifying as members of the opposite sex. And watch how she opens up her 1.00
00:06:08.840 argument. Here it is.
00:06:11.060 Governing boards are bound by the state's rights of privacy and anti-discrimination laws that weigh in
00:06:17.660 favor of protecting the students. Quote, California law protects students from discrimination of any kind in
00:06:24.880 the Educational Institutes of State Ed Code 231.5. Trustees take an oath to defend the U.S. Constitution and the
00:06:34.880 state Constitution. Supporting an agenda item that violates multiple laws is a violation of our oath.
00:06:43.280 You would also be asking the staff to break multiple laws, putting the staff in legal jeopardy. School board
00:06:51.120 trustees do not have the authority to ask the staff to break the law. School board trustees can be held
00:06:57.160 personally liable and can't count on taxpayer funds to pay for all of your legal fees. If you want to
00:07:03.740 legalize discrimination in California, go lobby Sacramento as a private citizen. Don't waste millions
00:07:10.880 in tax payer money. And yes, this can run into millions with the lawsuits you guys are leading us into.
00:07:16.260 So this is the first best argument the school board member could come up with. This is her case for
00:07:22.960 why schools shouldn't tell parents that their boy now thinks he's a girl or vice versa. Notice that the
00:07:29.260 school board member doesn't say she's advocating for the best interests of the children. She doesn't
00:07:33.540 say it's the best thing for the parents either. Instead, she issues a threat. She makes an appeal to
00:07:38.420 lawfare. She says that California has created a maze of laws and regulations on this topic.
00:07:42.660 And if the school board dares to take the side of the parents, then the school board will be sued by
00:07:46.820 the state attorney general. And no matter what, that will cost millions of dollars because lawyers are
00:07:51.020 expensive. And ultimately, parents will have to pay those costs in the form of taxes. That's not an
00:07:55.880 idle threat, by the way. Already, California's attorney general, Rob Bonta, has opened an investigation
00:08:00.940 into the Chino Valley School District for its parental notification policy. But put that aside for a
00:08:06.840 moment. I mean, think again about how callous and brazen this is. She's not opening by saying that
00:08:12.840 her policy makes sense or that it helps anyone, least of all the children she's supposed to care
00:08:17.420 about. She's just saying obey or prepare to deal with bureaucratic hellfire. Now, to be fair, a few
00:08:25.760 minutes later, this same school board member, whose name is Nancy Young, eventually came up with some kind
00:08:32.260 argument, if we can call it that. Here it is. It's not like these kids are not telling their parents
00:08:39.860 that they're LGBTQ. They are. If they don't, they have a very good reason. I had another male student 1.00
00:08:47.360 about five or six years ago who was openly gay. His parents told him to kill himself.
00:08:54.220 And he had an older brother who did kill himself for exactly the same reason. So
00:09:01.680 these laws are there for a reason, because most kids can talk to their parents and do talk to their
00:09:08.940 parents. There are those very few where it's not safe. So let's break this down. Nancy Young is saying
00:09:16.340 that at one point she had an openly gay male student, and this student's parents allegedly told him to kill
00:09:23.000 himself because he identified as a homosexual. Now, put aside just how implausible and made up that
00:09:29.400 story sounds, let's take it at face value for a second, for the sake of argument. Nancy Young concludes,
00:09:35.520 based on that singular anecdote of an obviously deranged hypothetical parent, that no parent in
00:09:41.680 any circumstance has the right to know what his or her child is doing at school. I mean, you might as
00:09:46.620 well point to a story of a suicidal mother driving herself and her children over a bridge and conclude
00:09:52.440 that no parent should have the right to drive their children anywhere for fear that they're all
00:09:57.220 secretly plotting murder suicides. And she also says that, well, if they don't tell, if these children
00:10:03.780 don't tell their parents, they have a good reason. Yes, because we know, we know one thing for sure is
00:10:07.620 that when a teenager decides to conceal something from a parent, it's always for a good reason.
00:10:13.500 You know, children, when they're deciding what to tell their parents, they always exercise perfect
00:10:18.180 judgment. I mean, it's not like a kid has ever been known to keep something from a parent that
00:10:22.920 they should be sharing with them for their own good. That never happens. No, if a child decides
00:10:29.260 that this should be a secret, how could he possibly be wrong? Now, as with all logic, as with all the
00:10:36.280 logic by trans activists, this collapses the moment you pause to think about it for more than two seconds.
00:10:40.940 For one thing, it would justify hiding literally everything from parents. If you follow Nancy
00:10:48.280 Young's line of thinking, then schools shouldn't tell parents if their child was caught with, say,
00:10:52.900 heroin or with a handgun or anything. After all, some parents somewhere might overreact and say
00:10:59.700 something really nasty. Perhaps parents shouldn't be told if a child has bad grades. You never know how
00:11:05.840 the most unhinged parent might react to that information after all. But Nancy Young's reasoning,
00:11:10.940 if you can call it that, is completely anecdotal. It's based on one example she provides with no
00:11:16.900 corroboration whatsoever. Therefore, all we need to refute it is a single child who regrets her decision
00:11:22.880 to supposedly, quote, transition. Two can play at the anecdote game, and the anecdotes on the other
00:11:28.560 side of this discussion are much more powerful, and not to mention they're actually true.
00:11:32.260 And as it happens, one such person was present at this school board meeting in Murrieta.
00:11:37.460 Her name is Chloe Cole, who you've heard from before. Of course, she became one of the
00:11:41.140 most outspoken advocates against so-called gender-affirming care, quote-unquote, reminders.
00:11:47.020 And in Murrieta, Cole testified about her experiences, including getting a double mastectomy
00:11:50.700 as a 15-year-old girl. She also spoke about what happens when kids hide their alleged,
00:11:56.360 quote, gender identity from their parents. Watch.
00:11:59.380 By keeping this information from parents, you're facilitating a child to socially transitioning.
00:12:08.740 And socially transitioning is not benign. I mean, inevitably, down the line, it leads to 0.99
00:12:17.100 a medical transition, whether a student does that as an adult or with the permission of their
00:12:24.980 children. But socially transitioning is also harmful. I mean, it takes away years of necessarily 0.99
00:12:36.520 social development as your biological sex. I mean, I went through pretty much my entire
00:12:44.440 teenhood as living socially as a boy. And I feel like in a lot of ways, I still haven't
00:12:51.300 caught up to my female peers. So now you see why activists desperately want to silence 0.98
00:12:56.800 Chloe Cole. In fact, they wanted to silence her at that very school board meeting. She's
00:13:00.760 a walking refutation of arguments from politicians like Nancy Young. So what else is there? What
00:13:06.000 other possible reason is there to hide information from parents about what their children are doing
00:13:10.760 and saying at school? You probably guessed by now that no other real arguments were presented
00:13:15.780 or are ever presented. But just in case you're curious, here's a sampling of what the trans
00:13:20.020 activists served up much. Whether it is the protection from a violent parent or protection
00:13:26.280 from suicidal actions, every child must be assured that their school will guarantee their safety.
00:13:34.220 That is your job. A job, she says, that weighs a student's safety against the parents' right to know
00:13:40.280 if their child identifies as transgender. How can we expect students to trust these parents 1.00
00:13:46.180 to lovingly support them when they openly admit that they don't want homosexual students? 0.96
00:13:51.920 This policy is truly about homophobia.
00:13:56.460 Agree with us or you're homophobic. Agree with us or you support violence against children.
00:14:01.280 Convinced yet? Probably not. Either way, there is an irony underlying all of this.
00:14:05.480 And it's important to highlight it because it exposes, once again, the incoherence of trans 1.00
00:14:10.900 ideology. As you saw, in California right now, trans activists are arguing that parents don't
00:14:17.260 deserve to know anything about their kids' so-called gender identity in schools. But at the same time, 0.98
00:14:23.420 trans activists in the courts and in Congress are opposing bans on child mutilation on the grounds
00:14:28.300 that parents, as opposed to the government, should be intimately involved in their kids' health
00:14:32.820 care decisions. So right now, for example, the ACLU is fighting to overturn Tennessee's ban on
00:14:37.820 child sterilization. Here's a quote from the legal complaint against Tennessee. Quote,
00:14:43.700 that fundamental right of parents includes the right to seek and to follow medical advice to
00:14:47.700 protect the health and well-being of their minor children. Unquote. A district court judge accepted
00:14:54.200 that argument and he found that, quote, the court therefore agrees with plaintiffs that under binding
00:14:58.460 Sixth Circuit precedent, parents have a fundamental right to direct the medical care of their children,
00:15:03.600 which naturally includes the right of parents to request certain medical treatments on behalf of
00:15:08.340 their children. Now, ultimately, by the way, the appellate court quickly reversed that decision,
00:15:11.880 finding that sterilizing children may not, in fact, amount to constitutionally protected medical
00:15:16.460 care. So that's where that case stands right now. But to recap, on the one hand, trans activists are
00:15:23.060 saying parents have the right to transition their kids. On the other hand, they're saying parents
00:15:28.280 don't have the right to know if their kid is transitioning. Okay, that's the position of 0.99
00:15:34.440 trans activists. Parents have the right to do this to their kids, but they don't have the right to know 1.00
00:15:40.360 if it's being done. That's the best reasoning they can come up with. Now, as another example,
00:15:46.880 here's a Democratic representative at the House Judiciary Committee, a few hearing a few weeks ago,
00:15:51.840 again citing parental rights as an argument against bans on child mutilation. Listen.
00:15:58.620 Access to gender-affirming care is essential to the mental health and well-being of trans youth.
00:16:04.040 This care is tailored to both the mental and physical health needs of patients, as well as
00:16:10.240 their developmental stage in life. And the parents and guardians of these children are involved in
00:16:15.120 every phase of decision-making. There's nothing radical about that. So when our Republican
00:16:21.360 colleagues allege that gender-affirming care raises particular dangers or due process issues,
00:16:26.460 that is fear-mongering at its worst, picking on already vulnerable kids in order to stir up chaos
00:16:34.500 that they hope to ride to success at the ballot box, no matter how deceitful or dangerous those claims
00:16:40.640 are. As a mother of three, I certainly never found myself at my children's pediatric appointments
00:16:46.100 wishing for medical advice from the House Judiciary Committee.
00:16:50.200 Hmm. Okay. So a leading Democrat says that parents are, quote, involved in every phase of
00:16:55.680 decision-making involving child transgenderism. Any suggestion to the contrary, she says, is fear-mongering.
00:17:02.380 As we showed you a few weeks ago, a Republican member of the committee later asked that same Democrat
00:17:07.320 whether she would therefore support a law requiring parental involvement in any child gender transition,
00:17:13.460 and she stammered and stuttered and refused to commit to that. That's because the parental rights 1.00
00:17:18.460 line is a total farce. It's a shield they use whenever it's convenient, and then they drop it
00:17:24.280 the moment they have no use for it. They pretend to defend the fortress of parental rights, but at a
00:17:29.720 moment later, they've turned around and trained their guns on the very thing they were claiming to
00:17:34.480 defend just a second before. And in this case, the hypocrisy and the self-contradiction,
00:17:40.620 it's not just academic. These are, there are real-world consequences. After all, trans activists 1.00
00:17:47.460 are the first to point out that trans-identified kids are much more likely to be suicidal, which is
00:17:52.320 true. And yet, if a parent has a child who is in a group that makes him a high risk for suicide,
00:17:59.820 trans activists believe that this fact should be concealed from the parent? A child is a high risk 0.92
00:18:05.880 for suicide, and you think the parent shouldn't know that? How many children have died because
00:18:12.360 they were convinced to hide their gender confusion from their parents? How many suicides do these
00:18:17.800 trans activists have on their blood-drenched hands? Many. Too many to count. And yet, these callous, 1.00
00:18:26.260 narcissistic sociopaths don't care. They don't care. Every time they talk about kids and they
00:18:34.060 want to protect kids, it doesn't matter how many kids die and kill themselves, these people don't
00:18:39.080 care. They only care about themselves. Every trans activist, they are only interested in themselves 1.00
00:18:43.660 and no one else. Every kid on earth could die for all they care. It is only about their own
00:18:48.840 affirmation, their own self-affirmation, making themselves feel better. That's what this is always
00:18:52.800 about. But this is what happens. This is what is revealed. Without fail, anytime you allow trans 1.00
00:18:59.560 activists and pro-trans politicians to speak, and you consider what they're saying, the true horror 0.99
00:19:05.860 of their ideology comes into view, along with its incoherence. They contradict themselves. They reveal
00:19:11.300 their own hypocrisy. They lie. They obfuscate. And they do all that because they know, in the end,
00:19:17.080 every cult suffers the same fate. It collapses under the weight of its own absurdity,
00:19:21.820 and then is forgotten and disgraced forever by history. That is the future of trans ideology. 0.99
00:19:29.780 And it's coming sooner than trans activists like to think. Now let's get to our five headlines.
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00:20:31.220 We start with the news from The Daily Wire. A Fulton County, Georgia grand jury returned a 98-page
00:20:36.180 indictment on Monday night in the criminal investigation into former President Donald Trump's alleged efforts
00:20:41.020 to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. The 41-count indictment charges 19
00:20:46.680 individuals, including Trump himself, Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, Mark Meadows, Jenna Ellis,
00:20:53.340 and about 15 other people are all charged. Fulton County District Attorney Fannie Willis
00:20:58.920 pursued charging individuals under Georgia's RICO Act, which allows prosecutors to string together
00:21:04.760 crimes committed by different people toward one common goal. Axios reported, which makes it very
00:21:10.920 difficult for defense attorneys to implement a coherent trial strategy. The lengthy prison
00:21:15.440 sentence that comes with being convicted of RICO violations are a major incentive for co-defendants
00:21:19.820 to seek deals in return for new evidence, the report added. And also we should add that,
00:21:27.620 because I've seen some confusion about this among conservatives on social media, that in the state
00:21:35.940 of Georgia, you know, it's not as simple as the governor just, because I, there are some people
00:21:40.900 on social media saying, well, uh, the governor Kemp needs to just pardon Trump. Well, he can't,
00:21:45.000 he doesn't have the legal authority to do that. So in Georgia, the governor does not have pardon
00:21:49.360 authority. Um, he doesn't, he doesn't have any power here at all. That's the way the law is written
00:21:54.000 in that state. And, uh, also, uh, these are charges that a U S even a U S president wouldn't be able to
00:22:02.380 pardon Trump for because their state charges. So obviously the charges are ridiculous. I mean, they
00:22:10.680 have things like, uh, tweets that Trump posted listed in the indictment as evidence of a criminal
00:22:17.240 conspiracy to overturn the election. So when he sent tweets out about what's going on in Georgia,
00:22:24.380 that's part of a criminal conspiracy now to overturn the election. That's how flimsy and weak. All of
00:22:31.360 this is speaking of a, something being a farce, you know, like we talked about in the opening,
00:22:34.980 like this is a farce. It absolutely is. But I go back to the same point that I hammer with each new
00:22:41.160 indictment, which is where are the red state DAs investigating and prosecuting corrupt Democrats?
00:22:49.200 Where is that happening? It's happening nowhere. Why isn't it happening?
00:22:57.240 Okay. Because that's how you respond to this.
00:23:01.160 We get our own DAs and you find corrupt Democrats who are all over the country and you, and you
00:23:06.120 prosecute them, you throw them in jail. Okay. As I'm always having to point out, this is not a
00:23:16.980 slippery slope. Okay. So this is not a situation where, well, they're, they're prosecuting a former
00:23:22.800 president. Uh, they're indicting him every other week with something. It's a slippery slope. Uh, what
00:23:29.000 will they do next? It's not a slippery slope because the Democrats, as always, they
00:23:35.840 start with the most extreme iteration of the thing. So when it comes to prosecuting your political
00:23:43.200 enemies, going after a former president is the most extreme version of that. And so they've,
00:23:51.000 they're already, they just, they, they jumped all the way down the slope. So they're at the bottom
00:23:56.680 of it already. And now it's just a matter of going back and covering the bases that they skipped.
00:24:00.000 And the reason that they take that approach where it's like, it's not this incremental thing. Well,
00:24:06.260 first we do this and then we do that. And then we do that. Cause if you do it that way, then you
00:24:10.520 have to make a new argument each step of the way and say, well, we did that. So now we should do this.
00:24:15.420 No, they skip all that. They go right for the most extreme so that we've already accepted
00:24:20.920 everything else. In other words, if we accept the fact that they're trying to put their primary
00:24:26.540 political opponent and rival in jail, if we accept that, then we've already accepted them going after
00:24:32.780 everybody else. I mean, start throwing senators and congressmen in jail, Republican senators and
00:24:38.500 congressmen in jail too. Start going after activists even more. Start going after conservative
00:24:45.500 commentators, people like me. It's like, that's already, that, that, that will be less extreme than
00:24:50.460 what they're doing now. So if they get away with that, then all the rest of that is definitely
00:24:54.460 happening. It's already been accepted at that point. So the way forward is either
00:25:05.180 full unconditional surrender and begging for their mercy. I don't like that. I mean,
00:25:14.020 and I will never take part in that or a war of attrition. Those are the two options. And you could
00:25:21.420 say, well, I don't like those options. That, that, that, that doesn't make me feel good. I don't want
00:25:25.340 to be in a culture, country like that. I don't like that. Well, you don't have to like it, but
00:25:31.200 that's the reality. So it's either the right, broadly speaking, just fully surrenders to the left
00:25:37.580 because now they've gotten to the point where it's like, well, if you disagree with us, we're going to
00:25:41.460 put you in jail. And so we can respond to that by saying, okay, leave us, okay, we'll do whatever
00:25:46.520 you want, but don't, don't, it's gone too far. Or we can say, all right, if that's how you want to play
00:25:53.100 it, you know, if that's what you want to do, um, then that's the way the game's going to be played.
00:26:03.340 And I don't know how this is going to shake out in the end, but you are not going to come out of
00:26:06.640 this unscathed. Okay. Your own people are going to jail. That's what's going to happen next.
00:26:12.920 Those are the two options. And of those two options, uh, the latter, the war of attrition is
00:26:20.040 clearly, clearly the, uh, the right path. It's, it's, it's the, it's the only, it's really the only
00:26:26.580 option. So start line them up, lining them up, frog marching them into jail. That's, it's, if you
00:26:35.480 don't do that, if we don't do that, then it is, then it is a full unconditional surrender.
00:26:39.840 All right. This is from Vice. It says, Pornhub, along with several other members and activists
00:26:47.540 in the adult industry, are suing Texas to block the state's impending law that would require age
00:26:52.400 verification to view adult content. The complaint, which was filed on August 4th in U.S. District
00:26:58.040 Court for the, um, Western District of Texas, Texas, and the law will take effect on September
00:27:03.600 1st, unless the court agrees to block it. Governor Greg Abbott passed HB 1181 into law in June.
00:27:09.540 The plaintiffs, including Pornhub, uh, the adult industry advocacy group, free speech
00:27:14.200 coalition, and several other site operators and industry members claim that the law violates
00:27:18.700 both the constitution of the United States and the federal communications decency act.
00:27:22.880 In the complaint, the plaintiffs write that the act employs, quote, the least effective and
00:27:26.960 yet also the most restrictive means of accomplishing Texas stated purpose of allegedly protecting
00:27:31.860 minors. And that minors can easily use VPNs, uh, and other sorts of things, uh, to bypass
00:27:38.820 it on-device content filtering could be a better method of restricting access to porn for children.
00:27:44.160 They write, and that's the argument that they're making. Now it's true. First of all, that kids,
00:27:54.540 if they have phones, like at a minimum, there should be content filtering on those phones and
00:27:59.100 there should be parental locks put in, put on those ones. Now, you know that I, that, you know,
00:28:04.080 it's not an issue for me and my family with my kids because we don't give our kids phones to begin with
00:28:07.840 and we're not going to, but if you do make the mistake of giving your kid a phone with internet
00:28:11.940 access, then at the very least you can put the, uh, the parental locks in place. Like it's true that
00:28:17.940 that should be happening. And it's also true that the age verification system is not perfect.
00:28:23.200 Um, it isn't bulletproof, but the other option is to have no system, right? Like that's the other
00:28:36.340 option. And so what they're saying is, well, uh, this is an imperfect system and, um, kids can bypass
00:28:43.400 it. And so that's why we should go back to having no system. Cause if some kids are going to bypass it,
00:28:48.800 it might as well not be there at all, which is a ridiculous argument. I mean, the age verification
00:28:55.360 system for all adult oriented products and services is imperfect. Okay. Who among us didn't
00:29:03.840 manage to get their hands on an 18 pack of crappy light beer when they were underage? It's not that
00:29:08.720 hard to do. Does that mean there should be no system? Is that an argument for just abolishing the
00:29:14.500 drinking age? No one's advocating for that. I haven't heard anyone advocate for that.
00:29:18.800 Like we all know that, that any 16 year old can get their hands on some beer if they want to.
00:29:25.260 Like if they're really motivated, they can probably do it. And yet we would all agree that if a 16 year
00:29:31.760 old walked into a liquor store and, and announced that he was 16 years old, I'm 16. I'd like to buy
00:29:36.600 this bottle of liquor. And the, the liquor store sold it to him knowingly that that, that store
00:29:44.200 should, should, should go out of business. The guy who sold it should go to jail. Like everyone agrees
00:29:49.780 with that. It's not a perfect system, but of course you need something in place.
00:29:58.000 And so we all understand that. And we all agree with that with every other adult oriented business,
00:30:04.420 including when we, when we talk, when we get into the sex industry, quote unquote, okay? Strip clubs. 0.81
00:30:12.560 You know, uh, if you got to show an ID to get into a strip club, imperfect system, kids can get fake IDs. 0.97
00:30:20.160 Does that mean that we should just openly allow 13 year olds to walk into strip clubs?
00:30:24.960 Now, maybe we're at a point where people would actually say, yeah, absolutely.
00:30:31.980 But I would hope most people would, would agree that, well, of course not.
00:30:37.880 So most reasonable, well, all reasonable people agree that with any other product or service
00:30:44.220 that is not appropriate for kids, there, there are age limits and there is some system in place to
00:30:50.940 verify the ages. And for every other product or service that falls under that umbrella, everyone
00:30:57.240 agrees that there should be some system in place. And then when it comes to internet porn, suddenly
00:31:00.900 there's a conversation, there's a debate about whether there should be any system at all.
00:31:06.240 It's crazy. It doesn't make any sense.
00:31:10.440 What is the argument against age verification? We've already covered that the fact that it's
00:31:15.080 imperfect is not an argument against it. I mean, that's an argument for, for coming up with an even
00:31:20.180 stricter policy, if anything. Like if you can come up with an even better way to verify ages, then by
00:31:25.420 all means propose it. What I'm saying is that the best, whatever the best available system is for
00:31:35.640 verifying ages on these porn sites, that should be the system that's in place. The best available.
00:31:40.700 We come up with a better system, then let's put that in place.
00:31:42.820 So what is the argument against it then?
00:31:48.360 Well, we all know what the argument is. The argument is that for the porn, well, there's two
00:31:54.820 arguments, okay? There's the porn industry itself, places like Pornhub. Their argument against age
00:32:01.780 verification is that it is precisely, it's not that they're worried that it won't, they aren't worried
00:32:09.520 that age verification will not be successful enough in stopping kids from using the site. No, they're
00:32:15.100 worried that it will be successful, and they know that it will be successful, in some cases at least,
00:32:19.840 so they're going to have fewer kids visiting their site, which means less money for them, okay?
00:32:24.440 Put the age verification in, and they will get fewer clicks on their website, which means they are going 0.52
00:32:30.360 to lose money. Pornhub is fully aware of the fact that there are plenty of underage kids using their
00:32:37.000 site, and they are monetizing that, and they're perfectly happy with it, because these are scumbag,
00:32:42.620 dirtbag pornographers who have no moral standards whatsoever, okay? These people have the morality
00:32:49.120 of rats, okay? And they are exposing children to this content and monetizing it, and so that's why
00:32:57.020 they don't want it. What's the argument from just normal people? If you're not in the porn industry,
00:33:04.460 and you say, I don't want this, really? It's like, what, because you're worried that porn,
00:33:09.920 that Pornhub will make less money? Is that really something that concerns you? No, the argument from
00:33:14.200 normal people is that age verification inconveniences them in their pursuit of masturbation material.
00:33:24.840 That is the argument. They won't say it quite like that, but if there's some sort of system put in
00:33:30.320 place where you have to enter your age, you have to submit an ID, credit card, something like that,
00:33:35.900 it's an inconvenience. It adds a couple of seconds to the process of them pursuing
00:33:44.320 their masturbation material, and they don't want to be inconvenienced. That's the whole argument,
00:33:50.460 and is that supposed to be persuasive? Like, the rest of us are supposed to give a damn?
00:33:55.200 Well, I don't want to do that, because then I have to go get my ID when I want to masturbate to
00:33:59.720 pornography, they're saying. So, is that actually supposed to be persuasive? Like, we're supposed,
00:34:06.780 okay, is that your big problem? Is that your big problem in life? And so that really is,
00:34:14.600 those, they can, they present other arguments, but it really boils down to, for Pornhub,
00:34:19.280 they want to be able to expose kids to this and monetize it, and for the user, they don't want
00:34:24.720 to be inconvenienced in their pursuit of masturbatory material, and that's it. Those are the two arguments
00:34:29.100 against age verification, and they are, to call them bad arguments would be a rather massive
00:34:38.880 understatement, let's just say. From the New York Post, here's a story that, for some reason,
00:34:45.380 is still happening. New York Post, the foul-mouthed Texas native who was kicked off an American
00:34:51.760 Airlines flight after a caught-on-camera meltdown issued a mea culpa on Sunday, saying her behavior
00:34:56.240 was completely unacceptable. The marketing executive was booted from the July 2nd flight from Dallas to
00:35:04.220 Orlando after she accused another passenger of stealing her AirPods and bizarrely stated that
00:35:09.820 that mother effer is not real. We're all familiar with that. Anyway, she's put out this
00:35:14.720 statement that she published on Twitter, and let's just watch. Here it is.
00:35:20.100 Hi, everyone. It's me, Tiffany Gomez, probably better known as the Crazy Plain Lady, which is
00:35:29.560 completely warranted. As you know, I have been unwilling to speak on the viral video, but I do
00:35:36.780 finally feel that it's time. First and foremost, I want to-
00:35:42.780 Okay, first of all, let's just pause it for a second. I think the first problem with this video
00:35:46.320 is that that's not her, okay? That mother effer right there is not real. That's not her, right?
00:35:52.480 That's not the same person. Let's put up the screenshot from the video, from the viral video.
00:35:58.440 Do we have that? Okay, so there's the person in the video. Now go back to the-
00:36:03.160 That's not the same person. Am I crazy or is that just not the same? I don't know. I don't know who
00:36:08.540 that is. I don't know if that's AI. I don't know what that is, but that to me does not look anything
00:36:13.240 like her. I don't usually get into the whole body double conspiracy theory thing, but, well,
00:36:22.140 with Joe Biden, I kind of buy that also, given that the real Joe Biden is like probably half dead
00:36:29.400 in a nursing home right now. But here, it just doesn't look like the same person. So if we could
00:36:35.440 somehow put aside the fact that this is not even the same person, let's continue watching a little
00:36:38.960 bit of this video. I have been unwilling to speak on the viral video, but I do finally feel that it's
00:36:45.820 time. First and foremost, I want to take full accountability for my actions. They were
00:36:55.980 completely unacceptable. Distressed or not, I should have been- I should have been in control of my
00:37:04.280 emotions and that was not the case. My use of profanity was completely unnecessary and I want
00:37:15.020 to apologize to everyone on that plane, especially those that had children aboard. Can't imagine going
00:37:21.020 through that. Go back to that screenshot again. That's not the same person, right? That's just not,
00:37:28.820 that's, there's a two, to me, there's a two obviously different people. So I don't know what's
00:37:32.680 going on with that, but again, I'm going to try to put that to the side. So for the sake of argument,
00:37:37.680 pretending for a moment that the person who issued that apology is the same person that had the freak
00:37:44.500 out on the plane, of course, like the whole, I mean, the fact that this is still in the news,
00:37:49.220 that they're chasing this woman down, that they're publishing her name and where she works and her
00:37:53.520 picture of her house, it's like, and now she's giving, issuing the public apology,
00:37:59.420 even though she is actually the victim here. Okay. Yeah. She, she had a freak out on a plane.
00:38:06.260 She shouldn't have done that. She cussed in front of kids. She shouldn't have done that. 1.00
00:38:10.480 But the penalty for that has been international shame and embarrassment, which, which is not a
00:38:19.400 proportional penalty. And I know we struggle with this these days, but not everything that happens
00:38:26.360 needs to be just because something happens in front of you. It doesn't mean that 8 billion other
00:38:35.260 people need to be involved. It doesn't make it relevant to the entire world. So you can say all
00:38:40.660 you want that show it was her fault. She had that. Yes, but she had to freak out in front of a hundred
00:38:46.500 people on a plane. Does that automatically mean that it should become a national story?
00:38:54.040 I think, I think she, she, the penalty for having a freak out in public is that you embarrass yourself.
00:39:01.900 Okay. And, but being embarrassed in front of a hundred people is probably enough. Like that's,
00:39:06.240 you, you, you did something embarrassing in front of a hundred people, a hundred people now look at
00:39:10.880 you like you're crazy and that's a proportional punishment. And that's the punishment for what
00:39:15.100 you did. Uh, but instead it, it, it, you know, the entire country gets in on the mockery. To me,
00:39:24.600 this is not a proportional, uh, penalty, which is why she doesn't deserve an apology. You know,
00:39:31.060 like I'm always telling it saying about public apologies, this is maybe the, one of the perfect
00:39:34.380 examples of it. Um, public apologies as a genre shouldn't exist. There's, there's almost no
00:39:46.880 circumstance that I can think of where, where a person, uh, where it's appropriate or necessary for
00:39:55.640 a person to issue a public apology. The only circumstance I can think of is when it's a, say
00:40:00.280 a politician, an elected representative, a representative of the public who is caught in
00:40:05.220 some sort of a corruption or scandal that actually affects the public. And then therefore,
00:40:11.920 yeah, you apologize to the public. You have betrayed the people who voted for you. You have
00:40:16.440 done something that betrays the public trust. You've misused public funds, you know, something like
00:40:20.980 that. Well, that involves the public. And so, yes, you should apologize to the public, but
00:40:25.520 in, in, in almost any other case outside of that, you don't need to apologize to the public
00:40:31.760 because the public had nothing to do with this. We were not affected by this.
00:40:35.720 So Tiffany Gomez, if that's really her is issuing an apology. She's apologizing to me,
00:40:40.920 right? I'm part of the public. She's apologizing to you. Well, it's okay, Tiffany, you don't do
00:40:45.300 anything to me. I wasn't affected by this. In no way was I harmed by you embarrassing yourself
00:40:50.180 on that plane. I appreciate the apology. In fact, I don't appreciate it. Like stop apologizing.
00:40:55.520 Um, and that's the problem with the public apologies here. You're, you're apologizing
00:41:01.260 to people. So you've, you've, even if you've done something wrong, you're going and you are
00:41:06.900 making a show of your, uh, of your contrition to people who are not affected by it. You know,
00:41:14.140 one misconception about my position on this sort of things, people will say that, well, I, you know,
00:41:18.640 that, that I don't believe in apologizing that I think, no, that's not true. Of course,
00:41:22.880 there are times when you should apologize. You do something wrong, you should apologize.
00:41:26.600 You should apologize anytime you do something wrong, but you apologize to the people that
00:41:33.020 you have wronged and nobody else, nobody else needs to be involved. Okay. So if you, um, shout
00:41:46.220 at your neighbor and, uh, cuss out your neighbor, okay, then go knock on your neighbor's door and 0.56
00:41:51.960 apologize to him. But don't come, you know, don't walk to some random, uh, house five blocks away
00:42:01.380 and say, Hey, you know, uh, I know you don't know who I am, but I cussed out my neighbor two days ago 0.68
00:42:06.660 and I want to apologize to you. Why are you apologizing to them? They were not involved. They,
00:42:12.100 they were not affected by this. They didn't even know about it until you brought it up.
00:42:18.400 Um, so public and just because the public is made aware of something because everything is public now,
00:42:24.180 again, that doesn't mean that the public is owed an apology.
00:42:29.600 So I, I think that this, uh, woman, her, um, she has, uh, long since suffered the appropriate
00:42:37.200 penalty for, uh, freaking out on the plane and just like, go live your life. It's just go,
00:42:44.700 just go live. Just be a, be a person, go be a person and live your life. That's all you have
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00:44:04.080 That's free ruffgreens.com slash Matt or call 844-ROUGH-700 today. David says this man,
00:44:11.340 Oliver Anthony, he's referring to, already admitted to his faults. He used to be a drunk. He used to
00:44:15.560 enjoy cocaine, anything to numb him from the drab of everyday life. It's been addressed in his songs.
00:44:21.560 He's admitted and repented. No one can get a gotcha question because he recognized his own faults and
00:44:27.060 speaks openly about them. This man is a real man. Start taking notes. Well, exactly. And when they start
00:44:33.200 digging through his past, which I'm sure they've already started doing, he's already said, well,
00:44:41.280 I've done this. I'm a changed man. And we actually have to allow that, allow redemption, allow people
00:44:47.580 to change as, as people do. And, and, you know, also like in general, the good thing is that nobody
00:44:57.320 cares about this sort of thing anymore. The digging through, we've seen enough of the whole routine
00:45:03.260 of digging through someone's closet for skeletons from the past. And we've seen this so many times
00:45:08.280 and we just don't care anymore. When the media comes to us and says, oh, uh, guess what this
00:45:13.640 person said or did 15 years ago? We say, well, no, that's all right. We don't, we don't care.
00:45:19.680 Oh, he said and did some stuff years ago that might be embarrassing for him now. Okay. Yeah. Who,
00:45:26.280 who hasn't? Good to know. Now piss off. Thanks. So when, and again, I'm, I'm, I'm not aware of,
00:45:34.800 I don't know Oliver Anthony. I don't, I'm not aware of, uh, of anything, um, embarrassing from
00:45:39.200 his past, aside from the things that you point out that he's already admitted to and talked about
00:45:42.880 in his own testimony. I'm just, I know how the media operates. And so I'm sure they are already
00:45:49.500 looking for a reason to destroy this guy. And so, I mean, I'm sort of anticipating that,
00:45:54.280 although I hope it doesn't happen. Another comment says it's a good song, but I don't listen to music
00:45:58.900 with profanities. I know that Oliver is new to faith and I pray he will be inspired to make songs in the
00:46:04.340 future that truly honor God. Matt, I know you say that the language isn't a problem, but would you
00:46:08.800 let your kids speak that way, uh, speak the way he does in the song? Yeah, I've been arguing about
00:46:14.580 this today. I mean, look, first of all, the S word is not a profanity. I don't mean to be pedantic
00:46:19.360 here, but the S word, and I hate that I even have to call it the S word because it'll be bleeped out,
00:46:26.040 which I don't even think the Daily Wire should bleep out. It's, it's not a, it's a dumb thing to bleep
00:46:29.520 out. It just is. But, um, it's not a profanity because the profanity is profane and to be profane
00:46:38.740 is to disrespect or sully something that is sacred. That is, that is a profanity. Okay. Um,
00:46:48.600 so when you say BS, you're not profaning cow manure. The thing that the S word is referring to is not a
00:46:58.000 sacred thing. So the word is not profane. It may be crass, but there's nothing intrinsically
00:47:03.600 immoral about the language. Um, and that's how people express frustration oftentimes, you know,
00:47:08.760 and it's real and it's raw. And, and, and frankly, I don't think it would have sounded
00:47:13.240 as powerful if, you know, instead of I've been selling my soul working all day, overtime hours
00:47:18.900 for bullshit pay. Instead of that, if it was, I've been selling my soul working all day, uh,
00:47:24.240 overtime hours for inadequate pay or whatever, that, that language would not be as powerful.
00:47:31.840 It just, it wouldn't sound as good. It wouldn't be, it wouldn't connect with people as much.
00:47:34.760 I think the language he chose again is real and it sounds like how people actually talk.
00:47:39.500 And that's part of what gives it its power. Would I let my kids use that language? Absolutely not.
00:47:45.000 That doesn't make it profane either. There are lots of words that I don't let my kids say,
00:47:48.880 you know, like shut up, uh, idiot, stupid. I mean, I don't let my kids say any of that stuff.
00:47:55.080 And, um, that doesn't make it a profanity. It's just, I don't let my kids talk that way.
00:47:59.580 Uh, I mean, I wouldn't let my kids talk about selling their souls in a metaphorical way.
00:48:05.400 If my six-year-old came down from, from, uh, cleaning his room and said, uh, I'm tired of
00:48:11.420 selling my soul, dad, working all day for this terrible allowance. If he said that to me,
00:48:17.260 he'd be in trouble like five times over, but that doesn't mean that adults can't use that
00:48:23.460 language. And this is actually important because if you're, if you're saying that when an artist
00:48:30.580 puts his lamentations and frustrations to words, that he must only use words that we would allow
00:48:38.040 a six-year-old to say, then you really have put some very unnecessary, uh, and suffocating
00:48:44.960 limitations on his artistic expression. And you're also demanding that we take something
00:48:50.540 raw and real and we sanitize it. And I just don't agree with that. So look, if you take
00:48:58.220 this hardline position on, on cuss words, on what you would call inaccurately profanities,
00:49:04.480 um, it's not a big deal. I can respect that. I mean, congratulations. You found one area where
00:49:10.380 you are to the right of me, where you're, where you're more conservative than me, arguably. Uh,
00:49:15.100 so that's the one, it's the only time you can, you can sort of like out angle me on the, on the way
00:49:19.960 you can take a better angle and get to the, get to the right quicker than I can. Um, so congratulations
00:49:25.880 on that. And if you, if, if that's your position, then it's not a big deal. It's like, it's not worth
00:49:30.720 really getting into a big argument about, but, uh, I also just think that it's wrong. Like, I think
00:49:35.520 that there's, there's a time and a place for certain words that we wouldn't allow kids to say.
00:49:40.160 And, uh, when it comes to an adult singing about his sorrows and when it comes to art, you know,
00:49:44.580 sometimes that sort of stuff comes out and I think we have to, uh, allow for that. And, um,
00:49:50.640 to me, it is a silly thing to complain about. It just is. All right. Let's see.
00:49:56.840 Uh, Trent says this whole Oliver Anthony thing seems astroturfed and fake in my opinion.
00:50:03.860 The song was produced by a right-wing influencer named Jason Howerton. Look it up.
00:50:10.240 KM says, Matt, I like Oliver Anthony's voice and he seems like a nice guy, but his lyrics,
00:50:14.340 you have to admit, are simplistic and politically all over the place. The stuff about taxes and
00:50:17.980 welfare is pure establishment Republican stuff. Okay. Uh, and please stop this too,
00:50:24.200 because I've seen a lot of this, both of these kinds of comments. First, Oliver Anthony was not
00:50:28.100 astroturfed. Jason Howerton offered to pay to produce his, his album in the future. Like,
00:50:33.860 he didn't produce the song that made him go viral. He's saying, if you want to make an album in the
00:50:37.960 future, I'll pay to produce it. Uh, how did it go viral? Well, somebody posted it on Twitter and a
00:50:43.940 few big accounts saw it, myself included, and we liked it. And so we reposted it and a bunch of
00:50:50.100 other people liked it. And so they reposted it and that's how it started. You know, uh, that's not fake.
00:50:55.140 It's not astroturf. Not everything is a dastardly plot for God's sake. And if you see a guy singing
00:51:01.540 a folk song in the woods on an obscure YouTube channel and you think, man, there must be a lot
00:51:05.680 of money and a huge conspiracy behind this, then I don't know what to say. Um, you're, you're dealing
00:51:11.060 with a terminal brain rot in that case. And I really don't know what else to tell you. Um, and as for
00:51:16.800 the lyrics, they aren't simplistic. They're simple. There's a difference. They're simple lyrics that
00:51:22.580 communicate raw emotion and real human suffering that others can relate to. This is, it's folk
00:51:26.580 music in other words, right? That's what folk music does. That's the art form. So, so what do
00:51:31.540 you want? Do you want something that like, sounds like it was made by a guy who went to the Juilliard
00:51:36.900 school or something? That's not what this is. This is good old fashioned folk music, Americana, roots,
00:51:42.220 country, whatever you want to call it, whatever genre you want to call it. And, and he's, and Anthony is
00:51:46.580 not a political pundit. Okay. I see this on the right. There's been some of this going on of like
00:51:50.980 dissecting the national review, had an article about it and they were dissecting the politics
00:51:56.200 of it. Just, just stop. Okay. Relax. So this, this is when people on the right just start acting
00:52:04.180 like a bunch of dorks, honestly. Um, well, let's look at the politics. And according to this, he's,
00:52:09.720 this, he's, he, this is where he lies on the political spectrum of
00:52:12.820 he's offering lamentations that are familiar to normal people. Uh, some of it might qualify as
00:52:21.200 populist. Some of it might fall outside that label as it's traditionally understood. Who cares?
00:52:27.180 Is that what we, what we do with music now? Is that what we do with art? Try to figure out what
00:52:31.780 ideological label to put on it. And then we wonder why there's not enough art on the right,
00:52:35.260 because the moments anyone that is, you know, not on the left puts out a piece of art,
00:52:40.600 we have to start tearing it to shreds. Politically analyzing every last syllable
00:52:49.680 coming up with all these conspiracy theories. Oh, where'd this guy come from? There's something
00:52:54.660 going on here. There's someone behind this. Like, just shut up. If this is how you respond to stuff,
00:53:00.800 then don't complain when we don't have art and entertainment on the right, because you are the
00:53:05.700 reason why you make it impossible. You just can't accept anything. You can't accept. You just can't
00:53:12.820 take anything and say, well, you know, that's a powerful moment. This is good. It's someone you
00:53:16.820 just, you can't, you, you, you're incapable of it. And there's a, there's some conservatives like
00:53:22.260 that. It drives me crazy. Okay. So give it a rest. And I will too, for the time being.
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00:54:22.280 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.
00:54:23.680 Last week, I put a pause on the daily cancellation because I wanted to use that segment to discuss
00:54:33.180 Oliver Anthony and his great song, Richmond, North of Richmond. And some in the audience were worried
00:54:37.780 that I'd grown soft because this is a part of the show that's supposed to be reserved for
00:54:41.480 destroying people with facts and logic. But instead, I used it to say nice things, which was troubling to
00:54:49.060 some members of the audience. Well, I'm afraid to say that if you have this concern, it will not be
00:54:53.840 alleviated by today's segment. Because once again, I must set aside this portion of the program
00:54:58.100 to pay tribute to someone that I find personally inspiring and even heroic. Jason Mraz, the guy who
00:55:06.440 sang that song called I'm Yours and also some other songs too, I assume, has finally and bravely and
00:55:11.780 with steely resolve and incredible courage come out of the closet. Again, the homosexual 1.00
00:55:18.880 news outlet Pink News reports that Mraz is done broadcasting as hetero and is now, quote,
00:55:24.480 fully accepting his queerness. Now we're told that in a recent interview, Mraz blamed homophobia for
00:55:30.040 causing him to present himself as heterosexual for so many years, but now he will be fully queer in 0.92
00:55:35.180 public. What makes this coming out announcement so historic and bold is that it's just the latest in
00:55:41.000 a series of coming out announcements, each one more audacious than the last. So we're told that
00:55:45.840 Mraz first came out as bisexual in 2005, admitting to having a bisexual open mind. And then 13 years
00:55:52.600 later in 2018, Mraz came out as bisexual a second time when he wrote the lyrics, I am by your side
00:55:58.500 always with by spelled B-I. And shortly after that, he added an addendum to this second coming out,
00:56:05.160 bringing his coming out total to 2.5. In a clarification, he announced that he's bi in the
00:56:10.300 sense of being two-spirit. He explained, quote, I've had experiences with men even while I was
00:56:15.120 dating the woman who became my wife. It was like, wow, does that mean I'm gay? And my wife laid it
00:56:20.440 out for me. She calls it two-spirit, which is what the Native Americans call someone who can
00:56:24.620 love both man and woman. I really like that. Of course, not to get technical, but that's not
00:56:30.240 actually what two-spirit is supposed to mean. That was a term invented by gay activists in 1990,
00:56:34.680 which is supposed to be the Native American version of trans. So Mraz came out of the closet 0.81
00:56:39.360 and walked right into cultural appropriation by accident. His closet is like the one from the
00:56:44.900 Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. It leads to a fantastical alternate dimension, and you never know
00:56:49.460 what's going to happen or where you'll end up. But after accidentally culturally appropriating a term
00:56:54.820 that actually isn't a part of Native American culture at all, Mraz issued another clarification,
00:56:59.140 this time to the New York Post, announcing, quote, now for the third time, that he is bisexual.
00:57:03.380 And this led finally to the historic events of this past week, where according to the advocate,
00:57:09.640 Mraz announced that he was finally coming into his own as a queer person, quote, unquote.
00:57:14.900 It takes enormous bravery to come out of the closet once. How much more strength must be required to
00:57:21.200 come out like three and a half times? But incredibly, Mraz is not the only celebrity who has managed to shock
00:57:29.100 and inspire the world this year by coming out after having already come out.
00:57:32.440 Demi Lovato is, of course, the coming out record holder. Her closets are like a Russian nesting doll.
00:57:38.620 She comes out of one closet, finds herself in a new and bigger closet, and she keeps emerging from closet
00:57:43.740 after closet. And each time, we can only look on in awe.
00:57:48.080 This summer, Lovato came out as she, her, after having previously come out as they, them,
00:57:52.380 after having previously come out as pansexual, after having previously come out as bisexual.
00:57:56.220 And now Lovato has come out of so many closets that she finds herself back where she started as a woman.
00:58:02.460 The process of coming out can now start again from the beginning, in a never-ending cycle.
00:58:07.460 Scientists speculate that the sun will burn out in five billion years, and Demi Lovato
00:58:11.320 will still be there coming out of closets.
00:58:13.780 Now, you may feel like you are already as inspired as you possibly can be, but you don't know the half of it.
00:58:21.800 In fact, the website Out.com, which keeps track of this sort of thing, tells us that so far this year,
00:58:29.220 25 celebrities have come out. That is a staggering rate of three per month so far.
00:58:34.880 We are very nearly at the point where a celebrity comes out once a week,
00:58:38.220 and there's no reason to think it will stop there.
00:58:40.100 In the old days, you know, towns used to mark each hour with the chime of a church bell,
00:58:46.220 and soon we'll be able to set our watches by a celebrity coming out. 0.60
00:58:49.660 That will just be Demi Lovato. That's to say nothing of these other heroes.
00:58:53.780 Now, there's no time to go through them all, but I think special mention should go to someone named Diplo,
00:58:57.760 who is apparently a DJ and a producer, who came out in March as not, not gay.
00:59:04.720 That's a quote.
00:59:05.220 The British actor Alexander Lincoln was only slightly less ambiguous when he came out in January as not straight.
00:59:11.640 Now, you can understand the strategy that these men have adopted.
00:59:14.400 They're really pacing themselves, you know, make sure that your first coming out is vague
00:59:19.040 so that you still have like five or six coming outs still to go, and that's kind of what they're doing.
00:59:23.960 Then there's the actress Alison Brie, who came out as bisexual in February.
00:59:27.580 Someone named Young Miami from something called City Girls also came out as bisexual.
00:59:31.140 And according to Out.com, opened up about her, quote, flirtationship with another female rapper. 0.99
00:59:37.560 Now, indeed, you might already be thinking this, but this has been a big year for bisexuals, 1.00
00:59:42.380 who had been suffering major losses over the previous several years as other newer sexual identities came in
00:59:48.580 and poached some of their star recruits.
00:59:51.060 But now the pendulum is swinging the other way, it seems, which I think is very exciting.
00:59:54.980 The former Bachelor contestant Josh Sater came out as bisexual as well after having previously come out as pansexual.
01:00:01.260 Now, can anyone explain how these two sexualities are different?
01:00:03.900 Maybe not.
01:00:05.160 But let's not be distracted from how brave this all is.
01:00:09.280 Whatever the hell this all is.
01:00:10.500 The coming out spree extended even into the sports world, where a coach for the Jacksonville Jaguars came out as gay.
01:00:17.460 And this was a landmark moment, needless to say.
01:00:20.480 But it also doesn't change the fact that the Dallas Cowboys are still the gayest team in the league by far. 0.70
01:00:25.120 Meanwhile, a soccer player named Jacob Jankto announced that he is gay,
01:00:28.540 an announcement that was inspiring, even if a little bit redundant.
01:00:31.920 I mean, he does play soccer, after all, so you don't really have to tell us.
01:00:35.540 And these were not the only people in sports to come out of the closet.
01:00:38.720 In fact, the LGBT bonanza extends into every sport, into every area of entertainment,
01:00:44.960 athletes, actors, musicians, reality TV stars.
01:00:48.160 They have all formed a single file line waiting their turn to tell us just how gay they are. 0.99
01:00:54.380 And each time, with each new announcement, we can only applaud uproariously and marvel at their audacity
01:01:00.360 to do this thing that literally everyone in their industry is doing and most have done multiple times.
01:01:07.100 Now, there are some who will claim that this is all very conclusive evidence that the LGBT community is not remotely oppressed.
01:01:18.180 That, in fact, LGBT people are uniquely privileged, which is why every famous person is anxious to gain membership to their club.
01:01:25.120 There are some who would say that the real bold and courageous move would be for a celebrity to come out and announce that he is heterosexual
01:01:31.020 and in a monogamous marriage with his wife, that they have several children together,
01:01:36.000 and that he plans to remain married to his same wife until death do they part.
01:01:39.840 That would be a truly unprecedented announcement in the modern entertainment industry, some would argue.
01:01:45.420 And those people might be right factually, and they might be right morally, and they might be right in literally every way.
01:01:53.500 But there is no reason why that should get in the way of us doing something that doesn't make sense,
01:02:00.740 which is to stand up and applaud these famous people who are doing the safe and popular thing
01:02:07.060 and also very often conveniently timing their coming out announcements for the moment when they have a new project to promote.
01:02:12.960 Like Wayne Brady, who came out as pansexual about a week after his new reality series on Hulu was announced.
01:02:19.880 So, maybe this is all self-serving.
01:02:23.460 Maybe it's often kind of fake.
01:02:26.520 Maybe it's all completely meaningless.
01:02:29.520 Maybe.
01:02:31.040 But it's also inspiring, somehow.
01:02:35.100 And that is why anyone who is not inspired every time a celebrity comes out of the closet,
01:02:39.380 no matter how many times they come out, is today canceled.
01:02:46.420 And that will do it for the show today.
01:02:47.700 Thanks for watching.
01:02:48.240 Thanks for listening.
01:02:48.880 Talk to you tomorrow.
01:02:49.980 Godspeed.
01:02:50.460 We'll be right back.