The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1206 - ‘Traditional Masculinity’ Is The Solution To The Male Loneliness Epidemic, Not The Cause

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, there is an epidemic of loneliness and despair in our culture,

00:00:03.840 and all the evidence shows that it's hitting men the hardest.

00:00:06.260 But our culture's prescription for this problem only makes it worse.

00:00:09.060 We're told that the way to make men happy is to make them act like women.

00:00:12.320 I'll explain why that's horribly wrong.

00:00:13.940 Also, Michael Orr, the subject of the hit film The Blind Side,

00:00:16.920 now says that he was taken advantage of by the family that took him in,

00:00:19.780 but I am highly skeptical of this story. I'll tell you why.

00:00:22.400 In the story, the star of the Snow White remake just can't stop talking about how much she hates Snow White. 0.99

00:00:27.420 In our daily cancellation, a viral video explains why parents are jerks 0.98

00:00:30.820 if they bring their children basically anywhere in public. 0.98

00:00:33.880 All of that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:01:33.580 If for some reason you're still holding out hope that some of the public health experts

00:01:37.980 that you see all the time in the national news media actually care about the public or health,

00:01:43.840 consider the story that did not dominate the news cycle this week.

00:01:47.200 And here's the headline, 49,449 Americans killed themselves last year.

00:01:54.240 The data just came in a few days ago.

00:01:55.820 That's the highest number of suicides ever recorded in the country's entire history.

00:02:00.720 Now, if you viewed that as a problem worth solving as quickly as possible,

00:02:05.080 as any decent person does,

00:02:06.880 then you'd want to dive much deeper into that data.

00:02:10.520 You'd want to know who exactly is committing all these suicides.

00:02:13.260 You'd want to know their age, sex, race, occupation, and so on.

00:02:17.640 And then you'd present your findings honestly as a starting point to addressing the problem.

00:02:23.440 But nobody from any major media outlet or public health institution is doing that.

00:02:27.920 They're not even trying.

00:02:29.420 Instead, we're getting these quick hit reports like this one from Good Morning America.

00:02:33.360 Watch.

00:02:33.660 Now, with America's favorite doctor, Dr. Zan, and she's looking at a pretty alarming statistic.

00:02:39.300 U.S. suicides hit an all-time high last year.

00:02:42.440 You guys, just under 50,000 Americans died by suicide last year.

00:02:46.880 That is thought to be the highest rate since the dawn of World War II.

00:02:52.080 And, you know, you guys know that I lost my ex-husband to suicide in 2017.

00:02:58.040 He was a physician.

00:02:59.200 There are certain groups at higher risk than others, veterans, physicians, LGBTQ youth.

00:03:05.420 What we do know is that we have got to reverse this trend before someone becomes a statistic.

00:03:13.460 So what the doctor tells us is that veterans, physicians, and LGBTQ youth are particularly at risk.

00:03:19.860 And she doesn't delve more deeply into the numbers, though.

00:03:22.540 Neither does anybody else in that segment, which lasts less than two minutes.

00:03:25.480 You have to wonder if that's deliberate, because there's a certain demographic group that's somehow missing from the ones the doctor mentioned in that segment.

00:03:34.040 It's a demographic group that commits suicide at a far higher rate than any other, and has for many years.

00:03:40.580 And that is men.

00:03:41.680 Last year, men accounted for roughly 80% of suicides.

00:03:46.040 I say that again.

00:03:47.400 80%.

00:03:47.880 I had to go back and check it, because I almost didn't believe the number.

00:03:50.580 80% of suicides are men.

00:03:52.320 Now, men living in rural areas were particularly vulnerable.

00:03:56.240 As of the latest data, men working in the professions of mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction have the single highest per capita suicide rate in the country, and more than 54 deaths per 100,000 men.

00:04:08.360 Construction is the next highest category.

00:04:10.080 Now, ask yourself why Good Morning America made special mention of LGBT youth and physicians, but forgot to mention that nearly all of the suicides are men, and blue-collar men in particular are at the highest risk.

00:04:25.340 You hate to think that media producers in New York don't want you to hear about the fact that men are killing themselves.

00:04:31.440 You'd like to believe that they care about men, and miners, and oil and gas workers, and not just physicians, and LGBT youth.

00:04:39.920 That doesn't appear to be the case.

00:04:42.000 Most outlets are doing exactly what Good Morning America did.

00:04:44.640 In their write-up on the data, for example, Reuters didn't mention the difference between male and female suicide rates at all.

00:04:50.640 Instead, they implied, in the second paragraph of their article, that the problem is not enough gun control.

00:04:56.360 The real problem, according to Reuters, is that there isn't enough gun control.

00:05:00.360 That's where the suicides are coming from.

00:05:02.000 And so that means that the real problem is that you haven't given the Democrat Party enough power. 0.89

00:05:07.140 Which is a very dumb conclusion to draw, first of all because it's an assault on our constitutional rights, 0.57

00:05:11.740 but also because getting rid of guns would simply eliminate one of the dozens of possible ways for a suicidal person to commit suicide. 0.94

00:05:19.820 It wouldn't do anything to address the fact that he is suicidal in the first place.

00:05:25.000 This is a long-standing trend in the media.

00:05:27.380 Scour through the last year or so of coverage on suicide rates in this country,

00:05:31.740 and you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone talking about how many men specifically are killing themselves.

00:05:38.200 To the extent you do find any reports on men committing suicide,

00:05:41.000 it's always filtered through some lens of racial equity and BLM.

00:05:46.000 Here are just a few examples from recent months. Watch.

00:05:49.820 And Boss's death comes on the heels of new CDC data showing suicide rates have risen for Black and Hispanic men between 2000 and 2020.

00:05:58.080 ABC's medical contributor, Dr. Darian Sutton, joins me live now to talk more about this.

00:06:02.480 And we should note that this topic can be triggering.

00:06:05.240 Sometimes we just have to have some tough conversations to bring to light issues plaguing our communities.

00:06:10.880 This morning, we're talking about suicide in Black men. 1.00

00:06:14.480 New research shows an alarming number of young Black men are dying by suicide, and the numbers are growing.

00:06:21.020 Health experts from across the state have gathered in Columbus to address suicide awareness in the Black community.

00:06:27.200 NBC4's Jonathan Jackson met with those experts to discuss what is leading to the growing rate of suicide.

00:06:33.060 So there's an epidemic of suicides by Black men, the media insists.

00:06:37.040 Now, is that true?

00:06:38.660 Well, here are the numbers from the CDC to the extent that you can trust them.

00:06:42.600 Last year, white Americans accounted for more than 37,000 suicides, while Black Americans accounted for a little over 3,800 suicides.

00:06:49.740 Now, accounting for population differences, that means white people are killing themselves at roughly twice the rate of Black people.

00:06:55.860 And that's in keeping with data we have going back the past few years, data that's widely known. 0.53

00:07:01.040 In 2017, the New York Times ran a whole story about how Black people were about one-third as likely to kill themselves as white people.

00:07:08.760 Of course, the Times suggested that there was some unknown flaw in the data that explained the disparity, and they sort of hand-waved it away.

00:07:16.000 But what's really going on here?

00:07:18.220 Why are so many media outlets unwilling to talk honestly and directly about the suicide rate afflicting men in this country?

00:07:25.860 Whatever the reason, they're not just hiding data on suicide rates.

00:07:28.840 They also rarely talk about all the other obvious, verifiable signs that men are suffering in this country in ways they never have before.

00:07:37.820 Approximately 70% of homeless people are men.

00:07:40.520 And the total number of homeless people in this country has more than doubled in the last three decades.

00:07:44.980 Meanwhile, men are far more likely than women to use and overdose on virtually every illicit drug that exists.

00:07:50.960 The number of these overdoses has increased dramatically in just the past 20 years.

00:07:54.360 As you can see on this chart here, fewer than 20,000 people overdosed in 1999.

00:07:59.600 In 2021, that number was over 100,000.

00:08:03.040 Men account for the vast majority of those deaths.

00:08:06.680 Women are nowhere close. 1.00

00:08:08.540 Along the same lines, young men report that they're single at more than twice the rate of young women.

00:08:13.520 Statistics concerning unhappiness and depression are similar.

00:08:16.160 We all know that men are far more likely to end up in prison, to drop out of school, to fall victim to violent crime, etc., etc., etc.

00:08:24.920 What's causing this?

00:08:26.500 Is it random statistical noise?

00:08:28.900 Is it some combination of globalization, feminism, hashtag MeToo, and modern monetary theory?

00:08:36.380 No one seems to care, which tells you a lot.

00:08:38.200 To find anyone talking honestly about these problems and what's causing them, you have to turn to YouTube personalities.

00:08:45.280 For example, here's one YouTube channel's attempt to address what's happening to men in this country.

00:08:49.540 And this person begins by talking about social media, the rise of dating apps, the decline of the economy, among other factors.

00:08:55.940 And here's her conclusion.

00:08:57.320 Watch.

00:08:57.560 A lot of men's value comes from the money they make, unfortunately.

00:09:03.640 Men are natural providers, and if they have nobody to provide for, they get into Findom or send random girls on the internet money.

00:09:11.020 I'm just kidding, but the fact is, a lot of men simply feel like they don't have a purpose anymore.

00:09:16.200 Whether a job or a career that's fulfilling and pays well, or a woman or family to protect and take care of and provide for, 0.86

00:09:24.380 men are lacking purpose.

00:09:25.620 And a man will crawl through a broken glass for a purpose.

00:09:30.940 And there's a lot of truth to what she's saying there and in the whole video, which is worth watching.

00:09:35.300 That video has 1.5 million views in just the last week.

00:09:39.020 So you can tell that people are desperate to find answers to this problem,

00:09:42.240 but they can't look to the corporate media to provide it or even to acknowledge that the problem exists.

00:09:46.940 What this YouTuber, who goes by the name Shoe On Head, talks about would go a long way towards explaining the rise of despair,

00:09:53.060 loneliness, listlessness among men.

00:09:57.020 But then it gets to the question of solutions.

00:09:58.980 What is the solution?

00:10:00.980 And that's where this conversation really starts to break down.

00:10:03.440 To show you what I mean.

00:10:04.940 Here's one corporate media outlet that is willing to acknowledge some of the struggles men face,

00:10:09.660 but the prescription they offer is downright terrible.

00:10:13.580 It would be hilarious if the issue wasn't so dire.

00:10:15.900 This article that was just published comes from the Washington Post and is written by a woman, of course.

00:10:21.860 And it's impressive in one sense, which is that it manages to reach exactly the wrong diagnosis on every single aspect of the problem.

00:10:31.260 The article is called,

00:10:32.700 Men's Groups Are Embracing an Alternative Conception of American Masculinity.

00:10:37.500 Now, the whole thing reads like a parody.

00:10:39.200 So if you're able to, you should check it out immediately.

00:10:41.740 I can't recommend it highly enough.

00:10:43.220 Now, the Washington Post wants to give us the real story about why men are lonely and how best to combat that epidemic.

00:10:51.260 And what's their suggestion?

00:10:52.560 Well, just to summarize, basically, they say that dudes should lie around doing breathing exercises and smelling incense

00:11:01.280 while some guy named Rua gropes them and whispers stuff like this.

00:11:05.480 Quote,

00:11:05.760 Now, it's not an exaggeration.

00:11:17.160 That's a direct quote from the article.

00:11:18.900 The men's groups that are, the article profiles are not, these aren't Bible studies or flag football leagues.

00:11:24.380 You know, the kinds of men's groups that men would actually want to join.

00:11:27.420 No, these are new age, touchy-feely group hugs where men learn how to get in touch with their feminine side. 0.89

00:11:33.380 Later in the session, that is being documented there by the article, the men start screaming and sobbing and crying

00:11:41.180 and letting their emotions, quote, flow freely as they are, quote, released into the darkness.

00:11:47.360 Now, the article goes on to quote a bunch of experts who, quote-unquote experts,

00:11:51.180 who all say the familiar things about how men are lonely and lost because of toxic masculinity

00:11:56.300 that encourages us to be too stoic and too reserved and so forth.

00:12:00.820 It laments the, quote, cowboy mentality that has allegedly contributed to the problem.

00:12:06.060 Now, the masculinity expert who coined that phrase about the cowboy mentality is a woman named Niobe Way. 0.53

00:12:12.720 And she, of course, quickly identifies the real victims in the story of male loneliness.

00:12:18.700 Can you guess who the real victims are?

00:12:20.580 Who's most put upon by male loneliness?

00:12:23.220 Well, Niobe says it's women. 1.00

00:12:26.620 Think of the women. 0.77

00:12:27.580 Men are lonely.

00:12:28.740 Women most impacted.

00:12:31.140 She says, quote, women end up being the therapists for their husbands and more are getting sick of it. 1.00

00:12:37.320 Yes, God forbid wives have to listen to their husbands and offer them solace and comfort.

00:12:42.200 They're sick of it, says masculinity expert Niobe. 1.00

00:12:45.640 That's not a conflicting message at all, is it?

00:12:47.620 On one hand, men need to open up more.

00:12:49.340 But on the other hand, if they do open up, then they're putting an unfair burden on their wives who are being asked to do too much emotional labor. 0.82

00:12:57.500 Okay, then.

00:12:59.200 By the way, women, just a quick note. 1.00

00:13:01.920 If you feel like you're sick of hearing about your husband's troubles, just keep in mind that he hears about yours about a thousand times more often.

00:13:09.920 Now, meanwhile, a consultant named Mark Green says this, quote, if a boy expresses too much emotion or too much need for connection, is too giddy, is too joyful, what we say to that boy is, what are you, a sissy?

00:13:22.860 What are you, a girl? 0.99

00:13:23.680 What are you, gay? 0.97

00:13:25.120 It's your job to dominate those around you or you'll lose status and that will increase the number of individuals above you who can dish out dominance to you. 0.89

00:13:31.880 And what we find is that in that system, in that structure, men are constantly in competition with each other and constantly driven by this sense of anxiety.

00:13:40.220 So that's the real problem.

00:13:41.800 Too much competition, too much stoicism, too much men are too combative and aggressive and we've got to calm all that down.

00:13:53.020 Well, the problem with this theory is obvious, or it should be.

00:13:56.840 Okay, if a cowboy mentality and too much macho stoicism is what is driving the epidemic of lost and lonely men, then why is the problem getting worse over time?

00:14:12.020 Everyone agrees it's worse now than ever before.

00:14:14.180 I just went through some of the many statistics that prove that.

00:14:16.640 It's a major problem.

00:14:17.660 Yes, men are in bad shape.

00:14:18.680 But if that's all getting worse, then how can we blame traditional notions of masculinity? 0.97

00:14:25.180 There's no doubt that it's far less common for boys to be called sissies these days or labeled gay as a pejorative. 0.96

00:14:32.800 I can't remember the last time I saw a boy being lambasted as a sissy because he's being emotional. 0.97

00:14:39.560 That almost never happens anymore. 0.84

00:14:41.700 It used to be very common.

00:14:42.600 And again, it certainly was more common back in the day, 50 years ago, or at any other time in human history.

00:14:53.620 Indeed, historically, the push for a man to be strong and dominant and unemotional was much more pronounced than it is today.

00:15:01.900 In fact, historically, if a man didn't exhibit those traits, then he would die and his whole family would die.

00:15:09.520 It's only in recent times that it's even been a feasible option for men to be feminine and soft and in touch with their feelings.

00:15:18.220 And it's also in recent times that men have lost all sense of themselves and their purpose and place in the world.

00:15:24.780 Speaking of the cowboy mentality, why didn't actual cowboys have these problems?

00:15:29.680 If a cowboy mentality leads to despair and suicide, then we should find a whole hell of a lot of it when we look back at the latter half of the 19th century, which was the era of the cowboy.

00:15:41.460 But that's not what we find.

00:15:43.940 You know, the Post's overall thesis can probably be best summarized in this sentence from the article.

00:15:48.140 The absurdity of the premise could not be any more clear.

00:16:04.660 Would anyone argue that the cultural belief that men should be self-reliant and hide their emotions is more pervasive today than it was half a century ago?

00:16:14.100 Of course not. So again, if that's the cause of the problem, why is the problem worse today?

00:16:23.260 The trends are clearly going the other way.

00:16:25.600 The correlation works entirely in the other direction.

00:16:28.780 As society loses traditional notions of masculinity, suicides increase.

00:16:33.440 This is undeniable. It's not debatable.

00:16:35.460 You could try to explain that correlation away all you want, but if you deny it or pretend it doesn't exist, you lose all credibility in this discussion.

00:16:45.420 Now, these experts are correct that men need fellowship, and men are missing it these days, and that is part of the problem.

00:16:53.800 Definitely.

00:16:55.080 But they even miss the point on that end, too.

00:16:57.660 Even when they're right, they end up being wrong because they encourage men to fellowship in the way that women fellowship. 0.99

00:17:03.860 You know, they tell men to sit around and talk about their feelings, do some yoga, listen to soft music, hold each other and cry.

00:17:10.860 That's not the kind of fellowship men need or want.

00:17:15.020 Okay, we can't expect corporate media's masculinity experts to understand this because their masculinity experts are all effeminate.

00:17:21.200 But any normal man can attest that men tend to bond while engaging in a shared activity.

00:17:28.220 And I don't mean yoga, okay?

00:17:29.460 I mean, like, one that doesn't require a lot of talking, like sitting and watching the game or fishing or golfing, playing pickup basketball and so on.

00:17:37.040 I went out fishing with my brother-in-law a few weeks ago, and when we came back, my wife asked me what we talked about.

00:17:45.240 And I said, I don't know, nothing really.

00:17:48.000 You didn't talk about anything?

00:17:49.780 You didn't talk about anything?

00:17:50.440 Well, we talked about fishing.

00:17:52.580 You went fishing?

00:17:53.320 You just talked about fishing?

00:17:54.880 What's going on in his life?

00:17:55.920 What's going on?

00:17:56.620 What did you talk about?

00:17:58.200 We didn't talk about much.

00:17:59.140 She was shocked and confused because women don't operate that way. 1.00

00:18:03.640 But men and women are not the same.

00:18:07.000 And you cannot hope to help men nor offer them any roadmap out of despair if you don't start by acknowledging that basic fact.

00:18:16.620 Now, when it comes to true male fellowship, the problem is that society has closed off many of the opportunities for that kind of fellowship.

00:18:23.940 There are no men's lodges anymore.

00:18:26.180 There are very few bowling leagues and that sort of thing.

00:18:28.360 Most men's spaces have either been shut down or feminized.

00:18:32.020 It's been decided that men should socialize like women and with women or not at all.

00:18:38.460 You know, women barge into every male space and say, I want to be a part of this too. 1.00

00:18:43.860 Include me.

00:18:46.520 And then the men just end up walking away from it.

00:18:48.700 It's pointless now, now that you're here, frankly.

00:18:52.340 It's like the men's lodge exists to be a place where you aren't so that we don't have that.

00:18:57.760 We don't want that here.

00:19:00.340 Well, that hurts my feelings.

00:19:01.680 I want to be included in everything.

00:19:04.880 And then those same women turn around and say, well, why aren't men fellowshipping at all?

00:19:09.780 Well, maybe because you won't butt out.

00:19:12.220 Maybe because you won't allow it.

00:19:14.620 Maybe because you want to make everything about you.

00:19:16.320 This is the message across the board.

00:19:19.980 Society beckons to men and tells them that their salvation is to be women.

00:19:24.120 And then we wonder why so many men are killing themselves.

00:19:27.820 We live ultimately, ultimately, for all the talk of patriarchy, we do not live in a patriarchy.

00:19:33.600 Ultimately, we live in a matriarchal society with institutions either run by women or by effeminate men 1.00

00:19:39.480 who, in their arrogance, simply cannot accept the fact that men are different from women

00:19:44.000 and have different needs and desires.

00:19:47.760 So this is the real problem.

00:19:50.000 It's not that men are too focused on masculinity.

00:19:52.440 It's that masculinity has been neutered, castrated, driven out of society,

00:19:56.340 leaving men feeling lost and without purpose.

00:19:59.340 Our notions of masculinity aren't too traditional.

00:20:01.960 On the contrary, they aren't nearly traditional enough.

00:20:07.140 The solution isn't that we sit around and talk about our feelings.

00:20:10.540 It's that we do a whole lot less of that sort of thing and get back to being men again.

00:20:15.240 And if we can be men in a society that embraces and values our masculinity,

00:20:20.440 suddenly this tide of male loneliness and despair will start to ebb.

00:20:26.220 That is the solution.

00:20:28.180 There is no other.

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00:22:00.000 I want to start with this story that's gotten a lot of attention recently.

00:22:03.500 And here's the report from ESPN a couple days ago.

00:22:07.700 We'll have the update in a moment, but here's the report.

00:22:10.140 Retired NFL star Michael Orr, whose supposed adoption out of grinding poverty by a wealthy

00:22:16.540 white family was immortalized in the 2009 movie The Blind Side, petitioned a Tennessee court Monday

00:22:22.080 with allegations that a central element of the story was a lie concocted by the family

00:22:26.100 to enrich itself at his expense.

00:22:28.300 The 14-page petition filed in Shelby County, Tennessee, alleges that Sean and Leanne Toohey,

00:22:34.160 who took Orr into their home as a high school student, never adopted him,

00:22:37.580 claims that they never adopted him.

00:22:40.180 That's the claim.

00:22:41.880 Instead, less than three months after Orr turned 18 in 2004, the petition says,

00:22:45.580 the couple tricked him into signing a document making them his conservators,

00:22:50.240 which gave them legal authority to make business deals in his name.

00:22:53.980 The petition further alleges that the Toohey's used their power as conservators

00:22:57.220 to strike a deal that paid them and their two birth children millions of dollars in royalties

00:23:01.800 from an Oscar-winning film that earned more than $300 million,

00:23:04.960 while Orr got nothing for a story that would not have existed without him.

00:23:09.000 In the years since, the Toohey's have continued calling the 37-year-old Orr their adopted son

00:23:13.240 and have used that assertion to promote their foundation, as well as Leanne Toohey's work

00:23:16.780 as an author and motivational speaker.

00:23:18.140 After, quote, the legal filing, quotes,

00:23:21.180 the lie of Michael's adoption is one upon which co-conservators Leanne Toohey and Sean Toohey

00:23:26.720 have enriched themselves at the expense of their ward, the undersigned Michael Orr.

00:23:31.240 Michael Orr discovered this lie to his chagrin and embarrassment in February of 2023,

00:23:35.980 when he learned that the conservatorship to which he consented on the basis that doing so

00:23:39.340 would make him a member of the Toohey family, in fact, provided him no familiar relationship

00:23:43.180 with the Toohey's at all. And that's the basic story. So the media loves this story. They're so

00:23:49.120 happy about this. ESPN reporters, it's orgasmic for them. They are in orgasmic delight over this

00:23:56.840 story. Because you have to understand, the media and the left hated the Michael Orr story. They hated

00:24:01.780 the blindside story because it's a story of a white family rescuing a black kid from his abusive and

00:24:07.220 neglectful parents and giving him a better life. It's a story, in their phrase, of a white savior. 0.54

00:24:12.480 And so they hate it. Now, when the movie first came out, a movie that I didn't particularly like,

00:24:18.400 by the way, I thought it was like cheesy and hammy, and I didn't like it that much.

00:24:23.240 But when it first came out, the media loved it. And it won Oscars and everything like that.

00:24:28.120 Because that was in 2009, before Barack Obama had a chance to set race relations back 50 years.

00:24:33.960 But in recent years, the leftists started to view the movie very differently. And now they hate it.

00:24:39.200 And then Michael Orr comes out. And what do you know? Look at that. Turns out, the media realized

00:24:46.500 suddenly that the story was actually bad. And soon after that, Michael Orr also realized that the story

00:24:52.440 was bad and went to the media and said, hey, by the way, you're right. It was bad. This is all very

00:24:57.720 bad. Let me tell you how bad it was. And the media goes, oh, we were right that we were right.

00:25:02.180 But I mean, we have a narrative, and it just so happens that it fits right into the narrative.

00:25:08.220 Wow, that's great. So this already makes me highly skeptical. I mean, if you hear about this

00:25:13.660 story as told by ESPN or any outlet like that, and you accept it at face value, then I don't know

00:25:20.620 what to say. You are too stupid. Just in general. Like, you need to not be that stupid. Stop being stupid. 1.00

00:25:28.860 You need to not be stupid anymore. If you hear a story like this, you'll see many people on social 1.00

00:25:35.220 media, including conservatives, sharing this. I can't believe that they would do that to him.

00:25:43.640 Clearly, you know, the original reporting on this story must be absolutely correct. There's nothing

00:25:49.160 to be skeptical about it at all here. And I am shocked and appalled.

00:25:52.700 No. Anytime something allegedly happens that seems like the media wished it into existence,

00:26:04.060 you need to take it with an enormous heap of salt. Now, it doesn't mean that it's automatically

00:26:08.680 false. Just playing the odds, like every once in a while, something will really happen in real life

00:26:16.440 that works with the media narrative. Most of the time, they have to lie to make things fit the

00:26:21.340 narrative. Every once in a while, just, again, play the odds. Like, every once in a while,

00:26:25.220 something will happen that the media doesn't even need to lie about. And they'll say, well,

00:26:31.000 that's nice. We can take a break from lying for the next 45 seconds. But that's very rare. That's

00:26:39.460 few and far between. And so you've got to be very skeptical. And I am here. This one doesn't pass the

00:26:43.840 smell test at all. You know, I go with my gut on these kinds of stories. And I've literally never

00:26:48.900 been wrong. Okay. I mean, I'm batting a thousand. So when I see a story like this and it's race

00:26:54.920 involved and all this, like this kind of thing, I go with my gut. I make a call. I've never been

00:27:01.060 wrong. I've never led you astray. So when I'm looking at something like this and I say, no,

00:27:05.040 this isn't right. This doesn't sound right. I've never, I just, I've never been wrong. And so I'm

00:27:09.400 telling you, and if this ends up being the first time I'm wrong about it, then fine. But I'm telling

00:27:14.360 you this, I'm not buying it. I don't buy it. And more is going to come out about this thing that

00:27:19.800 is going to cast, we're going to start to see, you know, start to see it very differently. That's

00:27:25.280 my prediction. And now that's, obviously we know that the blind side movie is a movie. Okay. So you

00:27:37.300 don't need to tell me, well, you know, it's not all correct or detail. Of course it's not all right.

00:27:41.380 It's a movie. I'm not a moron. Like I know that. Okay. It's, it's, it's probably 85% made up. 0.89

00:27:48.620 That's it's based on a true story. Usually means like maybe 15% correct. Even if they can have 2%

00:27:55.420 correct, they can still say that it's based on true story. Um, so that I don't doubt, but if you

00:28:01.260 want to tell me that the two is are actually, you know, and if you want to tell me that they're not,

00:28:06.440 well, you know, they're, they're not selfless heroes. That it's more complicated than that.

00:28:09.980 I believe that too. Most people aren't selfless heroes. Most people are just human beings. And,

00:28:14.560 uh, so that doesn't surprise me, but the narrative we're getting now feels to me like a shakedown

00:28:22.520 and it doesn't make a lot of sense. Okay. Uh, like he's 37 years old and just found out that he wasn't

00:28:28.700 adopted. He didn't know that before at the age of 37. You just, how, how did you not know that?

00:28:34.920 Also, where did anyone ever claim that he was adopted? Now I admit that I haven't watched the

00:28:42.980 movie in a long time, but I don't think that claim was even made. The ESPN starts their,

00:28:49.540 their article. How do they phrase it? Um, whose supposed adoption, did they ever claim that he

00:28:58.100 that was illegally adopted? So, so what's going on here? Did Michael or squander his NFL money?

00:29:09.000 And now he's turning on this family to try to shake them down. Is he going full Kaepernick?

00:29:14.320 Is he looking for relevance and attention? Does he want another movie deal? Here's the real blind 1.00

00:29:18.960 side story. You know, that kind of thing. Um, that to me seems more plausible. And then we get the

00:29:26.660 update. This is from the New York post. Michael or the ex NFL star whose story inspired the Oscar

00:29:31.380 winning, uh, film, the blind side allegedly asked his adopted family for $15 million, not to go public

00:29:39.140 with claims. They swindled him according to the family's attorney. Sean and Lee Antui said through

00:29:44.920 their legal representatives, there is no credence to or his claims that he was fooled into a conservatorship

00:29:49.240 and rubbished claims. The couple made millions off his life story. Their lawyer told TMZ sports or was

00:29:55.300 instead the principal offender who has repeatedly threatened to plant a negative story about the

00:29:59.520 two is in the press. If they didn't cough up an eight figure check. Attorney Marty Singer said over

00:30:05.200 the years, the two is have given Mr. Orr an equal cut of every penny received from the blind side.

00:30:11.060 Even recently, Mr. Orr started to threaten them about what he would do unless they paid him an

00:30:14.960 eight figure windfall. And as part of that shakedown effort, refused to cash the small profit

00:30:19.020 checks from the two is they still deposited Mr. Orr's equal share into a trust account. They set up for

00:30:24.500 his son. So that's, that is the, now the good thing is there's, this is a dollar and cents thing,

00:30:30.500 much of it. So if they get, you know, they're saying, yeah, we gave him plenty of money.

00:30:35.480 And if that's not true, if they're lying, then it'll be easily disproven or it could be easily

00:30:40.920 proven if it is true. It's like, this is one of those literally show the receipts thing. If they

00:30:45.580 can show the receipts, then the whole claim is bunk by Michael Orr. So maybe they're making some kind

00:30:52.240 of claim publicly that they, that is false and that can be easily disproven. I tend to doubt it.

00:30:58.120 But this is the version that sounds like that, that lines up with just what makes sense. It's,

00:31:04.140 it's the most plausible version. It's exactly what it sounds like to me. You know, even before I saw

00:31:08.840 this update about their, them saying this is a shakedown, he was demanding money from us so that we

00:31:14.160 wouldn't, I wouldn't, he wouldn't go public. Like before I read that update, it's exactly how it seemed to

00:31:20.280 me. And if that's the case, then this is a guy who was, who was taken out of this horrible

00:31:29.820 circumstance, rescued from an abusive and neglect of house, you know, neglectful house and family

00:31:36.000 cared for by this other family, given a chance in life. And now he's turning around in public

00:31:45.000 and, and, and throwing them under the bus for money, which, you know, even if he has some legitimate

00:31:55.280 complaints, which he probably does, like in any human relationship that goes bad, there's almost

00:32:03.400 always blame, some kind of blame on both sides. It's very rare that you've got a clear cut villain and

00:32:10.440 then a clear cut victim and the victim hasn't done anything wrong at all. Doesn't usually work that

00:32:14.940 way in human relationships, especially when there's time and money involved. So even if he has some

00:32:25.760 legitimate complaints, he can say, oh, they did this, they did that, whatever. You are still turning on

00:32:31.280 these people in public, throwing them under the bus, crucifying them in public, people who have cared for

00:32:38.580 you and you're doing it for money. And there, there are, that is almost never justified because

00:32:49.340 that's what it's all about. Like he's a, they're all millionaires. He's a millionaire. If he's not a

00:32:53.420 millionaire, millionaire anymore, then he's an idiot who managed to, to waste all that money. 1.00

00:32:59.840 And I don't know if that's the case. Wouldn't surprise me, but, uh, he was been paid millions of 1.00

00:33:07.000 dollars and he's doing this for money. And even he doesn't deny that. And it's just, to me, it's

00:33:13.980 just despicable. All right. I also want to mention this story. It's from a couple of days ago. Um,

00:33:21.580 and some people are asking me about it. You know, I kind of skipped over it. I suppose the Daily Mail

00:33:25.500 candy brand Skittles is facing backlash after partnering with GLAAD and alerting some of its,

00:33:30.880 uh, altering rather some of its packaging to include black trans lives matter messaging.

00:33:36.540 Images of the packet on social media prompted an outpouring of criticism on Twitter with many

00:33:41.640 likening the woke marketing to Dylan Mulvaney being used in Bud Light advertising. It's the

00:33:46.500 fourth year Skittles has teamed up with GLAAD to support the LGBTQ plus community by amplifying and

00:33:51.400 celebrating their stories according to Skittles official website. So, um, that's the story.

00:33:57.160 They put the trans stuff on the packaging and, uh, there, and there were, there have been calls

00:34:01.680 that I've seen on social media, uh, over the last few days of conservatives to boycott Skittles.

00:34:09.100 And I think this is just, and that has not gone anywhere. Um, those calls, uh, haven't gone anywhere.

00:34:15.920 And so if you're, there are people asking, well, why didn't you jump on the Skittles thing? Why

00:34:19.260 weren't you calling for a boycott? Well, because boycotts, as I've, as I'm always preaching,

00:34:24.640 boycotts are not, if they're going to be effective, it's not just an opportunity for

00:34:29.880 you to vent for your frustrations. That's not what a boy, that's how conservatives have handled

00:34:34.100 boycotts historically. That when we say boycott, we just mean I'm mad. And I just want to say that

00:34:40.260 I'm mad. So I'm saying boycott because I'm mad. Um, I'm not interested in that. Boycotts are

00:34:46.740 strategic. They have to be strategic, which means that you pick your targets strategically just because

00:34:53.160 a company does something egregious as Skittles did, that doesn't make them necessarily a good

00:34:59.620 target. And that's why I didn't jump on the boycott bit. Now I'm not going to go. I don't,

00:35:04.640 yeah, don't buy Skittles. Absolutely. I don't buy Skittles anyway. I have no interest. Um,

00:35:09.880 I'm not going to buy Skittles for my kids. Okay. And I certainly won't now. That's true. So yeah,

00:35:15.000 I'm not going to buy Skittles and you shouldn't either. Um, but they're not a, they are, they are

00:35:23.020 not a good strategic boycott target. Um, Bud Light, very good strategic target because we as

00:35:33.760 conservatives, the ones who are rightly, rightly upset about this, about what Bud Light did,

00:35:38.220 we had a lot of leverage that we could use. Okay. Cause we could say to Bud Light, like you need,

00:35:44.640 you can't exist as a brand without us. So you have just spit in the face of the people you need.

00:35:52.380 And that was a mistake. And now you're going to feel the pain and we're going to make an example

00:35:55.480 out of you. And we did Skittles as conservatives. We don't have a whole lot of leverage. Like do we

00:36:01.160 have do red state conservatives, uh, does that make up the predominant, you know, customer base

00:36:08.040 for Skittles? Probably not. So that's the main point. It's just, there's not enough leverage to

00:36:14.860 have a successful boycott campaign. And, um, if, if you don't have the leverage to make the campaign

00:36:20.600 successful, then it's just dumb to call for one because then it doesn't work and you look bad. 1.00

00:36:25.680 You look stupid. Uh, it sends exactly the wrong message. So this is one of those things where it 1.00

00:36:32.660 makes much more sense to say, that's gross. That's stupid. I'm not going to buy Skittles. Um, 1.00

00:36:37.540 and then, and then just kind of, and then move on. Um, uh, because this is what we don't want.

00:36:45.300 We don't want conservatives calling the shot and say, we're going to boycott. And then nothing

00:36:49.820 happens. And the, and the, the, the brand suffers no losses whatsoever. Again, for, for years,

00:36:57.020 that's what happened with conservatives. We call it boycott them, boycott them, boycott them.

00:37:00.600 Um, and it amounted to nothing because we were randomly choosing targets that we had no leverage

00:37:06.840 over at all. And it made us look bad. And it sends the wrong, it sends exactly the opposite message

00:37:11.460 that we want to send. And the message is like, we have, we have power here. We're going to use it.

00:37:16.280 We're going to leverage it. And so you better stop spitting in our faces. Um,

00:37:21.700 and also again, just don't buy it. It's good. It's like basically poison. You're giving kids

00:37:26.080 Skittles. You're like, you're, you're essentially giving them poison. Why would you do that?

00:37:30.220 Uh, let's see. Here's a one, here's one where we do have some leverage. Daily wire

00:37:35.340 has this report. Branding experts warn that Disney's live action Snow White remake could become a

00:37:42.100 colossal failure based on comments made by the lead actress, Rachel Zegler. The 22 year old star

00:37:47.860 had been making headlines recently for comments regarding the original 1937 film storyline,

00:37:52.500 which is based on a German fairy tale. Zegler said she hated the classic love story and thought

00:37:56.440 it was weird. Plus labeled the prince as a stalker. Uh, these are the latest comments. I think we have

00:38:01.680 those. Let's play those. I mean, you know, the, the original cartoon came out in 1937 and very

00:38:07.160 evidently. So, um, there's a big focus on her love story, um, with a guy who literally stalks her

00:38:14.900 weird, weird. So we didn't do that this time. So no prints or a different kind of prints? We have

00:38:22.260 a different approach to what I'm sure a lot of people will assume is a love story just because

00:38:27.080 like we cast a guy in the movie, Andrew Burnup, great dude. Um, it's, uh, it's one of those things

00:38:33.620 that I think everyone's going to have their assumptions about what it's actually going to

00:38:36.140 be. But, uh, it's really not about the love story at all, which is really, really wonderful. And

00:38:40.540 whether or not she finds love along the way is anybody's guess until 2024. Um, all of Andrew's

00:38:45.760 scenes could get cut. Who knows? It's Hollywood baby. Okay. I gotta say one of the reasons why

00:38:50.960 I find this so personally annoying is that, uh, I have enjoyed, I have enjoyed joking around about

00:38:58.740 like taking these stories way too literally. This is a, what she just said there is a joke that I have

00:39:04.200 made in the past, I think on this show about Snow White, where I just take the story way too

00:39:08.540 literally. And in a literal version of the story, you've got this woman who's like, first of all,

00:39:12.320 breaks into the house with a bunch of midgets and like just spreads out on their bed and falls asleep. 0.99

00:39:20.280 Like who does that? And the prince shows up out of nowhere and she's like dead as far as he knows 0.98

00:39:24.560 and kisses her. Um, it's a necrophilia. Uh, and, but now it's not funny anymore because now the people

00:39:32.940 actually remaking the story are unironically taking that perspective of taking it way too

00:39:39.460 literally and deciding that it's creepy. So they've taken the joke and now they are literally

00:39:44.800 interpreting the story that way and correcting it accordingly. Uh, and this is only the latest

00:39:51.340 comment from Rachel Zegler, who this is apparently the marketing strategy by Disney to take the lead

00:39:58.340 actress for Snow White and have her spend the year up to the release of the film talking openly about

00:40:08.760 how much she hates the story. And she has made this very clear in many comments and many public

00:40:16.040 comments. She despises this story. She has no affection for it whatsoever. And so we're, we're long

00:40:22.900 past the days where Disney does a remake and the remake is kind of bad, but at least the actors who

00:40:29.280 involved in a remake come out and they talk about how much the story means to them and how much they

00:40:32.900 want to stay faithful to the original. And it just means so much. And they're so excited to be a part

00:40:36.840 of it. She's not doing that anymore. She's like, I hate this story. This sucks. Okay. And this is the

00:40:44.960 strategy that Disney is. This is the marketing strategy that Disney has decided to go with. Uh, and it's,

00:40:50.100 it's going to be, I mean, they are, they are gearing up for, I think many of these recent Disney remakes

00:40:55.320 have been flops. They're gearing up for what might end up being Disney's worst flop of all time. Uh, I

00:41:01.520 think this is what they're, they're headed for because this isn't unlike with Skittles. This is an area

00:41:05.500 where we, as the people who are annoyed by this, we have a lot of leverage because we're the ones with

00:41:10.200 kids who would take our kids to see a movie like this, like not even conservative, but just normal

00:41:16.380 families and parents with kids. We are the ones Disney that you need. You need us to buy tickets

00:41:24.240 for this movie. You need us to find the story and the movie appealing and say, wow, I want to take my

00:41:29.960 kids to that. And not only do I want to take my kids to that, but I want to sit and watch it. I want

00:41:33.300 to, I want to experience this as a family. And so we're all watching this and saying, no, I want no

00:41:39.540 part of this. Why would I want, this is not a remake. This is like a, this is, this is reparations.

00:41:45.880 This is a correction. Okay. That's what we need to start looking at these. That's how we need to

00:41:49.800 start looking at these Disney remakes. They're not remakes. They are corrections. They are PC

00:41:55.340 corrections. This is the 2023 correction of Snow White where they're going back and they're not

00:42:01.600 retelling the story. They are correcting it according to their own ideological proclivities.

00:42:07.860 companies. And very few people would have any interest in that whatsoever. You're advertising

00:42:16.100 ahead of time. You know what? We're taking all the magic out of this, all the charm, all the romance,

00:42:21.500 all the love, all of that. Everything is gone for the sake of being empowering because that's

00:42:27.940 empowering, right? I know I feel empowered. Just watching something that is lifeless and dull and

00:42:37.120 cynical and just with no charm or magic to it. Very empowering. All right. Here's something

00:42:46.500 empowering too. One more thing before we get to the comments. Subway is from Forbes. Subway,

00:42:50.260 the international quick service restaurant chain is offering free sandwiches for life to one lucky

00:42:54.660 winner who agrees to legally change their first name to Subway and said Tuesday, nearly 10,000 people

00:43:00.380 answered the call in just four days. This is not the first time Subway has asked fans to commit

00:43:04.260 outrageous acts in exchange for free sandwiches. In 2022, Subway gave James Coons of Fort Collins,

00:43:10.580 Colorado, free sandwiches for life via a $50,000 gift card after he got a 12 by 12 inch tattoo of the

00:43:18.540 logo of Subway's latest promotion, the Subway series. It's amazing there are people that are this loyal to

00:43:26.820 the Subway brand. I mean, a $50,000 gift card to Subway is not a gift. It's a punishment. It's like a life

00:43:33.280 sentence because Subway is awful. And I'm not even just talking about the whole thing where they made

00:43:38.500 their brand, uh, synonymous with a pedophile. And yet people still want to change their name to it,

00:43:43.140 which is, uh, amazing. But the product itself is also terrible. Like every Subway smells weird to

00:43:50.380 begin with. They don't, they don't smell like fresh bread or deli meat. I don't know what that smell is.

00:43:54.380 They smell bizarre. They smell like sadness. Uh, they smell, I've never been inside one,

00:43:59.540 but they smell to me like the, the, maybe the employee break room at a DM, like a DMV.

00:44:06.260 I don't know why they just, they do. I can't explain that. They do. And the bread is always

00:44:11.660 stale. The deli meat tastes like it's been sitting at room temperature since last Wednesday,

00:44:16.940 because it was, the lettuce is wilted. The green prep peppers taste like E. coli. The service is

00:44:23.460 usually terrible. The employees are high. I mean, they put these things in gas stations. So you got a guy

00:44:28.260 that was just cleaning up a gas spill at pump 12, now making your Italian BMT. And, uh, don't get

00:44:33.480 me wrong. I'll still eat it. Like I was just at a Subway a couple of days ago. So I'll still eat

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00:46:20.960 Sarah says, Matt, I know you're a big advocate for marriage, but what do you say to a wife whose

00:46:25.060 husband transitions, quote unquote, to a woman without her consent or agreement? Is she justified 0.99

00:46:29.380 in leaving him? I believe in preserving the marriage, but in some cases of extreme abuse or

00:46:33.980 infidelity, the marriage cannot be saved. Does this rise to that level? No, it doesn't rise to that

00:46:40.160 level. It rises considerably above that level. Uh, your husband transitioning is worse than abuse 1.00

00:46:47.620 and it's worse than infidelity because it's an extreme form of both combined. Um, he is abusing

00:46:56.160 you and your children, you know, if you have children, abusing emotionally, psychologically,

00:47:02.680 spiritually. He's inflicting his delusions and fetishes on you and the family. And it's infidelity

00:47:08.580 because he's betraying his vows. He's betraying you, betraying the family for the sake of, uh,

00:47:12.520 chasing his fetish. So should you leave him? Well, absolutely. No question. That's not even

00:47:17.560 a tough call. Um, he's already made the call. He's gone. I mean, he's committed basically a form

00:47:23.820 of suicide, killing off the husband and father that you knew and the one you pledged yourself to

00:47:28.780 and your life to. And what stands in his place is still a man. Yes, but it's not, it's not that man. 1.00

00:47:34.280 It's something else. Are you required to stay in a marriage with a guy who's mutilated himself and

00:47:39.640 spends every day pretending to be a woman? Absolutely not. Uh, I mean, not only are you 1.00

00:47:44.020 not required to, but you shouldn't. He chose a fantasy over your family and now, and now he can

00:47:50.060 be alone with that fantasy. That's the only way. In fact, it's almost certain that the marriage was

00:47:55.460 never valid to begin with if the husband transitions at any point, really. I mean, uh, to me, that is,

00:48:01.180 that is a very clear indication when the husband transitions, very clear indication that the

00:48:06.420 marriage never even existed. Actually, uh, it was never real because the man apparently had these

00:48:12.820 delusions and fantasies that he never disclosed. Um, so the marriage was on false pretenses. Like

00:48:18.800 this is a, this is a crucial fact that right. If you're a woman in a situation like this, a crucial

00:48:25.760 fact that if the man had told you this, oh, by the way, I think I'm a woman. I like dressing up

00:48:31.140 like one. If he had told you that you would not have married him. Um, and he, and he withheld that

00:48:36.200 information. And so the marriage is on false pretenses. It never existed in a, in the Catholic 0.61

00:48:40.140 church. It's, you know, in my mind would be a definite, like slam dunk case for annulment. Um,

00:48:48.580 and so, uh, yeah, you, you, uh, I would say to any woman in that situation, you should leave or, or more 1.00

00:48:54.540 precisely, you don't leave. He leaves, kick his ass out and he can go get an apartment somewhere and have 0.99

00:49:00.240 his little fantasy, but not around you and not around the kids. Um, all right. Cool Papa J magic 1.00

00:49:09.780 says, apology doesn't help when you're facing a social lynching. It makes everything worse.

00:49:14.420 You absolutely must double down and stick to your guns. Uh, yeah, that's the only thing you really

00:49:20.620 can do. It's, it's, it's, that's why I'm always, uh, preaching against the public apology. And, um,

00:49:28.660 the only course of action that you even have available to you is exactly that is to double

00:49:34.180 down, refuse to apologize. And at the very least, if you do that, then you have your defenders on your

00:49:42.460 side. But, you know, one of the many problems with the public apology is that once you've done that,

00:49:48.220 the people that are, you know, the, the people in the, the outrage mob, they're not going to be

00:49:53.820 satisfied with it. They're not going to be on your side, even after you apologize, the people that you,

00:49:57.120 that have been defending you. Now you've stabbed them in the back. You've pulled out the rug from 0.98

00:50:01.880 under them. And now you're left really alone and isolated. Um, Anna Maria says, no, you're not crazy.

00:50:10.180 You are correct. That is not the same person talking about the plain, uh, plain lady who,

00:50:15.140 who did issue a public apology in the video. Didn't look the same to me at all. And there was

00:50:19.060 a lot of comments saying, Oh, she's just wearing makeup. Uh, you know, I don't know. Maybe it's

00:50:25.300 makeup. Maybe it's lighting. Maybe it's a deep fake who knows, but it does not look like the same

00:50:31.420 person to me. Um, Justin says, I want an apology, but from the lizard person who upset the nice lady.

00:50:40.220 That's a very good point. And I mean, I, and I say this in all sincerity. Okay. Cause I actually

00:50:45.240 had this thought too. Okay. She thought she saw some kind of shape-shifting lizard person on the

00:50:53.960 plane. Um, she thought she saw someone who's not real and, and maybe she was wrong. Maybe like we

00:51:01.580 don't even know if she was wrong or not. That has not been confirmed yet. And I don't think it ever

00:51:05.580 will, but she, that's what she thought she saw. So, so what does she, if you think that you saw

00:51:13.080 a lizard person on the plane, in fact, alerting everybody is it's, that's a selfless act. That's

00:51:20.060 pretty courageous. Honestly, I mean, you can make the argument that what she did was pretty courageous.

00:51:24.460 You know, setting herself up for, uh, for mockery because she thought she saw something. They always

00:51:30.820 say, if you see something, say, say something. And so what, if you think you see a lizard person

00:51:35.800 on the plane, you're not going to say anything. Here's my point. If I'm on the plane and you think

00:51:41.440 you see a lizard person, definitely tell me, okay, maybe you're wrong, but I would rather know. And 0.91

00:51:46.860 give me a chance to look, cause I might look back and I'll say, no, it's just an ugly person. That's 0.97

00:51:50.420 not a lizard person. I don't think. So give us all a chance to assess the situation. What I would not 0.97

00:51:56.800 want you to do is to say, oh, that's a lizard person on a plane. And then just quietly get off 0.55

00:52:01.600 and then whisper, good luck, everybody. And walk and walk off and go get a different flight. Right.

00:52:07.520 That's not what I would want you to do. Um, I don't think that's the right approach. And so I,

00:52:12.340 here's what I'm worried about is that from all of this, now we're going to have a real problem

00:52:16.920 where we've set a precedent that if you see a lizard person on a plane, you don't say anything.

00:52:20.980 And now there might be a lot of, uh, you know, plane crashes in the future from lizard people 1.00

00:52:28.340 taking over planes because the people who see it don't say anything because they're remembering

00:52:34.120 crazy plane lady. So that's a whole other way of looking at this situation, whether it's changing

00:52:44.120 the definition of words or trying to convince you that two plus two actually equals five. It sometimes

00:52:48.320 feels like the current culture is doing its best to make you stupid. When wokeness is permeating 1.00

00:52:52.900 every aspect of your life, it's hard to know where to turn for guidance, but I got some good news for

00:52:57.540 you. Our good friend, Dennis Prager has all the answers in his daily wire plus PragerU master's

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00:53:12.460 good person. Plus so much more in a world that wants to make you woke. Dennis Prager's on a mission to

00:53:17.800 make you wise. All episodes are now available, but only for daily wire plus members. So don't

00:53:22.080 wait, go to dailywireplus.com to become a member and watch PragerU master's program today. Now let's

00:53:27.300 get to our daily cancellation. Well, a couple of times a year as a nation, we return to this topic,

00:53:36.440 this great question, where should parents be allowed to bring their kids? What parts of society

00:53:43.520 should families with young children have access to? Now I'm not talking about the debate over

00:53:48.280 children at things like drag shows, which is not a debate at all. They just simply shouldn't be

00:53:52.140 there. The problem with, with bringing your child to a drag show is that the content of the show

00:53:56.340 is not appropriate for the child. It is for the child's sake that we object to the child being there.

00:54:01.860 What I'm talking about is the debate that centers around the needs and preferences of other adults.

00:54:05.760 In what context is your child's presence going to be an unfair burden on other adults?

00:54:11.080 Predictably, it's always the childless adults who have very strong feelings about this subject. And

00:54:16.960 this week, one such childless adult went viral with her video demanding that parents stop bringing

00:54:21.540 their kids to bars, breweries, and potentially dozens of other places as well. This video has

00:54:26.620 150,000 likes. So apparently a great many people agree with her. And here's what she says. Watch.

00:54:32.820 2023 parents are my favorite. Like we're not just bringing our kids. We're making ourselves at home.

00:54:37.420 Now you can consider me biased because I'm aggressively opposed to the idea of having

00:54:43.800 children for myself. That is. But if you take your child to a place where they are actively engaged in

00:54:53.580 the process of producing or processing an age restricted substance, alcohol, marijuana, cigarettes,

00:55:02.880 whatever. If you take your child into one of these places, you are objectively and unequivocally the

00:55:09.200 asshole in that situation. It's a non-negotiable. It's there's nothing to debate. You are the asshole 1.00

00:55:15.540 in that situation, not only because your child just doesn't belong there, but because you are actively 1.00

00:55:21.480 making the experience worse for every other adult present. You don't want me to curse around your

00:55:29.040 child. You don't want me to talk about who I was on over the weekend. You don't want me to have an

00:55:34.720 adult conversation around your child. Here's a thought. Stop bringing your children into bars

00:55:40.100 and breweries. There's literally nothing for them to do there. They're bored and you're all. Thank you so

00:55:46.680 much. Okay. Now, because this point of view is widely shared by other bitter childless spinsters, 0.99

00:55:54.040 it's worth responding to in some detail. And we're going to leave aside the irony that this woman would

00:55:58.920 almost certainly tell us that children shouldn't be allowed in places that serve alcohol unless that

00:56:04.480 place is a drag show. I highly, highly doubt that this person agrees with our law here in Tennessee,

00:56:09.900 for example, banning children from attending sexualized performances. I highly doubt she agrees

00:56:15.360 with that, but we will not allow that glaring issue to sidetrack us. There are too many other glaring

00:56:20.140 issues to deal with. So first, you don't want children in places that produce or process an 0.84

00:56:27.640 age-restricted item. And you then list bars as one of those places, which means that by process,

00:56:32.480 you apparently mean sell. And if that's the case, then you have also banned children from nearly

00:56:37.800 every restaurant, every plane, every gas station, most grocery stores, every pharmacy, every convenience

00:56:43.560 store, every Best Buy or Walmart that sells R-rated Blu-rays, et cetera. You've basically banned

00:56:49.120 children from all of society, which I understand is a feature, not a bug as far as you are concerned,

00:56:54.180 but that is what you're talking about. Second, you say that, you know, I as a parent, that I don't

00:57:00.560 want you talking about who you were having sex with over the weekend because my kids might hear you. 0.85

00:57:05.180 And it's true that I don't want my kids to hear that gross conversation, but I don't want to hear

00:57:09.160 it either, even if I don't have my kids with me. Okay, you shouldn't be going around having

00:57:13.320 conversations like that loud enough that any stranger of any age can hear it. Actually, it's better just to

00:57:17.720 not have that conversation at all. See, part of the miscommunication here is that you think that

00:57:21.800 we don't want you to act like a gross, vulgar pig because our kids are with us, but you're only half 0.99

00:57:26.420 right. We also just don't want you to act like that at all, period. So you don't have a problem 0.98

00:57:32.600 with kids. You have a problem, apparently, with being a civilized human being. You say that cussing

00:57:37.520 loudly and talking about your revolting sexual exploits is an adult conversation, but this only reflects 0.89

00:57:42.340 the very unfortunate way in which the word adult in our culture has come to mean profane and crass.

00:57:48.720 But that's not what it really means or should mean. The kind of conversation you're talking about,

00:57:52.800 it's not an adult conversation, and the behavior you want to engage in is not adult behavior. It's actually

00:57:57.300 childish, not in content, but in the fact that you apparently have a problem conforming yourself to a basic

00:58:03.220 standard of conduct. Ironically, you don't want to be around children because you are childish. 0.88

00:58:08.620 It's not that children prevent you from acting adult. It's that they interfere with your ability

00:58:12.980 to act like a child. So it's not that you want there to be no children at the brewery.

00:58:18.740 You just want to be yourself the only child at the brewery. Third, I am biased also, I admit.

00:58:26.180 You're lonely and single. I have a family and six kids, but it's not just my bias talking when I tell you

00:58:31.500 this. If you hate children and don't want to be around them at all, anywhere, then you are the

00:58:38.680 asshole in this situation and in life generally. It is not okay to hate children. That's just like 1.00

00:58:43.960 not an okay opinion to have. You can have it, can't stop you, but it's not an okay thing to think.

00:58:50.860 You shouldn't think that. It reflects a profound character flaw in yourself. It reveals a deep

00:58:55.820 sickness in your soul. Of all the people to reflexively despise, children are the absolute

00:59:02.260 least deserving. Kids are innocent, naive, energetic, fun. Sure, they can wear on the

00:59:09.020 nerves sometimes, but at least they have a valid excuse whenever they act annoying and disruptive.

00:59:13.480 They're kids. They're still learning. Their brains aren't fully developed.

00:59:17.320 You, on the other hand, are an obnoxious, irritating jerk without any of those built-in excuses. 1.00

00:59:22.080 You don't want to be around kids. I don't want to be around people like you, but we live in a society 1.00

00:59:28.200 together, so I know that I have to deal with such encounters just like you do. It's funny to me that

00:59:33.380 our culture pretends to oppose bigotry, and yet the one group of people that it's socially acceptable

00:59:38.200 to openly despise, aside from heterosexual white men, is children. We have no problem with someone 0.97

00:59:44.860 simply stating that they don't like kids and don't want to be around them. And yet, if I said the same

00:59:49.720 thing about any other group, it would be considered horribly bigoted. Meanwhile, again, kids are the

00:59:56.400 least deserving of that treatment out of all the groups on earth. If you're going to have an

01:00:01.820 instinctive revulsion towards any group, kids should be the very last on that list. But the good news,

01:00:09.280 for me anyway, is that your hang-ups and your bitterness are your problem. That's why I will gladly

01:00:16.520 walk into any environment with my six kids. We just went to a restaurant on Sunday, and I will think

01:00:23.420 nothing of the dirty looks we get. And we get a lot of them, okay, when we go in there with our circus.

01:00:29.480 And parents of large families, they know these looks very well. People do not disguise their disgust

01:00:35.020 and reflexive contempt as soon as we walk in the door. Our presence is already a burden on everyone else,

01:00:41.820 even before my kids have opened their mouths. It's like they don't even, we don't even get a chance to prove

01:00:47.180 how well-behaved my kids are at public, because as soon as they're there, everyone's looking, oh my god,

01:00:51.720 look at this. And some parents of large families are bothered by this treatment, but I'm not, I'm really

01:00:57.320 not. I will come and sit right next to you with my school bus load of kids, and if you don't like it,

01:01:02.560 that's your problem. You can glare all you want. I don't care. You can ask for the check and leave if you

01:01:07.840 want. We've seen that too. Doesn't matter. Doesn't bother me. It's your problem. My family is allowed

01:01:14.400 to participate in society same as you. My children aren't going to stay locked up in the house until

01:01:19.600 they turn 18 for fear that their presence might be an encumbrance on any resentful losers we happen 0.95

01:01:24.280 to come across. Society should welcome and celebrate families. It should go out of its way to include us

01:01:32.540 as much as possible. That's what a healthy society does. In a healthy society, people are happy when

01:01:39.880 they see families with young, happy kids. This should make you happy to see that. If it doesn't,

01:01:46.780 again, there is something wrong with you. You know, as families with young kids, we make the world

01:01:53.180 younger, more vibrant, more beautiful, more alive. We ensure the very future of the human species. What

01:01:59.720 the hell are you doing besides gossiping at the bar about sexual conquest that, let's be honest, 0.99

01:02:04.680 you're probably making up? That's what you should ask yourself. While I order my kids some chicken 0.99

01:02:10.740 tenders from the kids' menu and you glare at us, secretly resenting the fact that we have the life

01:02:16.180 you want but will never have. And that's why you're canceled. And I'll do it for this portion of

01:02:21.880 shows. Move over to the members block. You become a member today by using code Walsh to check out for

01:02:24.980 two months free on all annual plans. Hope to see you there. If not, talk to you tomorrow.

01:02:28.880 Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - August 16, 2023

Ep. 1206 - ‘Traditional Masculinity’ Is The Solution To The Male Loneliness Epidemic, Not The Cause

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