The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1210 - Biden Makes It To Hawaii Two Weeks Later. Immediately Insults Wildfire Victims.

00:00:00.000 Today, The Matt Wall Show, hundreds of people are dead or missing in Hawaii after the worst

00:00:03.840 wildfires in a century ravaged the country. Biden's response to this catastrophe has been

00:00:07.900 a disaster in itself. And yet, of course, the media is giving him a pass. Also, a child

00:00:12.000 psychologist declares that some children are gender minotaurs and a Catholic university bans

00:00:17.080 me from campus unless I, quote, change my ways. And also right wing media claims that the ban

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00:01:26.700 As the legend goes, 19 years ago this month, a freak bolt of lightning struck the home of Joe

00:01:32.320 Biden in Wilmington, Delaware. The lightning hit a pond nearby, traveled through some wires,

00:01:37.060 and caused a kitchen fire. Make matters worse, Joe Biden was not at home. He was hundreds of miles

00:01:41.620 away in Washington, being interviewed on Meet the Press. Now, fortunately, or suspiciously,

00:01:46.920 depending on how you look at it, a future doctor named Jill Biden was on the scene. And she called 911. 0.98

00:01:52.640 One, firefighters quickly arrived to find the blaze hadn't spread past the kitchen. Within about 20

00:01:58.100 minutes, everything was fine. We got it pretty early, the local fire chief said. Fire department

00:02:02.860 later called the fire insignificant. There were no casualties. In that respect, and in every other

00:02:09.340 respect, there is no comparison between Joe Biden's kitchen fire from 2004 and what has just unfolded on

00:02:16.260 the island of Maui. Over 100 people are confirmed dead after one of the worst wildfires in this

00:02:20.520 country's history. Roughly 1,000 people are missing, and it's feared that most of them could be

00:02:25.780 children. Countless homes and businesses have been destroyed, damages estimated in the billions. And yet,

00:02:31.540 on Monday, the president of the United States somehow managed to compare all of that devastation

00:02:37.000 to his kitchen fire two decades ago. Touring Maui, he didn't address the bureaucratic ineptitude that

00:02:43.880 led to so many deaths. He didn't explain why it took him nearly two weeks to interrupt his vacation

00:02:48.780 to visit the people of Maui. Instead, he told residents of Maui the familiar story about that

00:02:54.180 lightning strike at his home, this time adding even more details that make absolutely no sense. Watch.

00:03:00.900 I don't want to compare difficulties, but we have a little sense, Jill and I, what it's like to lose

00:03:08.900 a home. Years ago, now 15 years ago, I was in Washington doing Meet the Press, and it was a sunny

00:03:17.960 Sunday, and lightning struck at home on a little lake that's outside of our home, not a lake, a big pond,

00:03:25.920 and hit a wire and came up underneath our home into the heating ducts, the air conditioning duct.

00:03:35.120 To make a long story short, I almost lost my wife, my 67 Corvette, and my cat. But all kidding aside,

00:03:47.000 I watched the firefighters, the way they responded. You know, there's an old expression. I grew up

00:03:56.140 right across the street from a fire hall in Claremont, Delaware. And the expression is,

00:04:03.460 God made man, then he made a few firefighters. 0.84

00:04:08.580 I don't want to compare difficulties, but when I hear about a thousand people dying in a fire,

00:04:13.560 I'm reminded of the time that I stubbed my toe on the kitchen counter.

00:04:18.240 So to recap the timeline, Joe Biden was in Washington. Lightning struck his home in Delaware

00:04:23.260 via his pond and air conditioning vents. Somehow, in the 20 minutes it took to extinguish the fire,

00:04:27.820 Joe Biden raced home from Washington to Delaware, more than an hour away by train,

00:04:32.820 just in time to see firefighters save his wife from near certain death.

00:04:36.800 He also wants you to know that he nearly lost his 67 Corvette in the blaze, a potential loss that

00:04:42.260 he lists alongside his cat and his wife. Like Joe Biden's claims about, you know,

00:04:48.500 overperforming in law school or trying to free Nelson Mandela or seeing gay men casually kissing 0.91

00:04:54.180 on a street corner in the 1950s, this story is yet another lie of fabrication. But Joe Biden's

00:04:59.000 embellishment of his kitchen fire in this context is on another level. It may in fact be the most

00:05:04.900 insulting thing a president of the United States has ever said. Really. As parents scramble to find

00:05:12.260 their missing children, Joe Biden wants everyone in the room to know that he's a victim too.

00:05:17.320 He almost lost his Corvette after all. Now, as you might expect, Joe Biden's display of narcissism

00:05:22.800 in Maui didn't stop there. In his quest to make the unprecedented human suffering in Maui about

00:05:28.720 himself, Joe Biden also talked about the death of his son, as he does at every possible opportunity.

00:05:34.460 No point in playing the clip. It's the same thing he said dozens of other times.

00:05:37.700 The point here isn't to highlight what a terrible person Joe Biden is. Anyone who's been paying

00:05:42.740 attention at any point in his political career understands that well. I mean, we were told that

00:05:47.240 decency was on the ballot when he ran for president, but it turns out that Joe Biden is perhaps the least

00:05:52.480 decent man to ever hold the office, which is really saying something. What's interesting is the lack of

00:05:59.320 outrage in response to what Joe Biden is doing. Somehow neither party is calling for Joe Biden's

00:06:05.840 impeachment over his handling of the disaster in Maui. No rap stars have derailed any disaster

00:06:11.920 relief telethons by claiming that Joe Biden doesn't care about Hawaiian people. Now, for anyone who was

00:06:17.660 alive in 2005, this is all rather startling. Remember when they ripped George W. Bush apart for flying

00:06:25.040 over New Orleans on Air Force One after Hurricane Katrina? That was a mortal sin at the time.

00:06:31.600 He took Air Force One over the city to survey the damage rather than landing and causing a commotion

00:06:38.200 on the ground. The idea was that Bush didn't want to distract from rescue efforts. It also would have

00:06:42.500 been rather impractical and probably unsafe for the president of the United States to repel down into

00:06:47.760 a flood zone. But even 10 years later, I mean, they're still complaining about it. Or rather 10 years

00:06:54.860 after this, they were complaining. Here's Face the Nation on the 10-year anniversary, and this was seven

00:06:58.880 years ago, still talking about what a disaster this was for George Bush. Watch.

00:07:05.060 On the 10-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, we're joined from the heart of New Orleans by

00:07:09.340 historian Douglas Brinkley, the author of The Great Deluge About the Disaster. Mr. Brinkley, I want to start

00:07:15.720 with, help us understand, sort of, help us apportion the blame for the disaster of Hurricane Katrina.

00:07:23.480 Who was at fault and how much were they at fault? Well, George W. Bush did a terrible leadership job

00:07:30.640 during that crisis. He kind of acted like nothing was happening wrong for the first days. He had been

00:07:36.140 in San Diego where he played air guitar, and then he did the famous flyover, being very detached from

00:07:42.260 the devastation. And that photograph that damaged his presidency immensely of him just peering down at

00:07:48.120 the abyss. Yes, he's just peering down at the abyss, flying over the devastation after Hurricane Katrina.

00:07:54.840 It was a scandal, a defining moment of the Bush presidency. It made Bush look detached, according to

00:08:00.600 this historian that Face the Nation was interviewing. Now, the flyover they're complaining about took place

00:08:06.660 on August 31st of 2005. And for those who know their history, that's two days after Katrina made

00:08:14.060 landfall in Louisiana. Two days later, 48 hours later, he was surveying the damage.

00:08:20.560 Now, for comparison, this was Joe Biden nearly a week after the fires in Maui began. Watch.

00:08:27.500 President, any moments on the Biden's capital in Maui?

00:08:32.860 Will you come talk about the Hawaii response, Mr. President?

00:08:36.700 No comment, Joe Biden says, as he gets back to his vacation while children burn in Maui.

00:08:41.960 If only George Bush had tried that tactic. He should have just said no comment while on vacation.

00:08:47.880 Then he'd be fine. Makes perfect sense. Now, of course, if George Bush had said no comment

00:08:52.600 after he was asked about the people who died in Hurricane Katrina, it would have been a political

00:08:57.420 scandal that rocked the nation and dominated news coverage for six months. People would still be

00:09:03.580 talking about it. Michael Moore would have done a whole documentary on it. It would be considered one

00:09:08.120 of the most infamous moments in the history of the American presidency. Now, Joe Biden's no comment,

00:09:15.000 on the other hand, did not attract quite that level of outrage or really any outrage at all,

00:09:20.000 at least not from the press. The simple explanation for why the media is excusing what Joe Biden is

00:09:26.120 doing or isn't doing is that he's a Democrat and also Democrats run Hawaii. Bush, on the other hand,

00:09:31.720 is a Republican, so he doesn't get the benefit of the doubt. In Maui, there's no conceivable angle

00:09:37.560 in which Republicans can be responsible. Now, there really wasn't any angle in New Orleans either,

00:09:43.600 given that the city's run by Democrats, but they found a way. Yet they can't find a way with this

00:09:48.340 story, so they simply like it to, they want it to just go away as quickly as possible.

00:09:53.240 The more officials in Hawaii open their mouths, the more believable

00:09:56.380 this theory is. Watch as Maui County Mayor Richard Bisson refuses to say how many children

00:10:02.800 are missing and then threatens to end the press conference when a reporter presses him on it. Watch.

00:10:08.260 I don't know. I wish I knew the answer. Yes, you do. How many children are missing?

00:10:14.780 You know. I wish I knew the answer to that. I would be happy to answer that.

00:10:18.260 You have no estimate as to how many children are missing? Nothing? I guess we can end this right now,

00:10:22.360 if you guys want. This is one of the biggest questions that the people of Lahaina have,

00:10:27.900 and you don't want to answer that. It always takes one or two to ruin it for everybody.

00:10:32.020 Please, this is our first one. This is our only opportunity. Well, we can say that about you.

00:10:35.160 You ruined it for everybody. You're welcome to say it. You're the media. You can say whatever you want.

00:10:39.280 You're a disaster. All right. Okay. Please. 1.00

00:10:41.940 You've been the worst mayor we could possibly imagine.

00:10:46.160 No, you won't even wait. Respect? Respect what? This is the most dismal response we've ever had.

00:10:51.340 You won't wait for your turn. You want to shout over these guys that are legitimate.

00:10:54.700 Why don't you give them the real answers then? Give them the real answers.

00:10:58.120 That's not his question. Let him, let him.

00:10:59.660 Oh, I'm the governor. Yeah, yeah.

00:11:00.980 Okay, yeah. You can go. You can go. He's on the answer.

00:11:03.200 Sorry.

00:11:05.760 So rather than provide any estimate whatsoever, the mayor threatens to end the press conference.

00:11:09.880 He starts fighting with the reporter. What that tells you is that the estimates are dire.

00:11:14.560 The governor of Hawaii, Josh Green, is undoubtedly aware of that.

00:11:17.600 So like the mayor of Maui County, he's been dodging questions.

00:11:21.780 When asked recently why the sirens didn't sound on the island to alert its residents that the fires were happening,

00:11:28.020 the governor started talking about climate change instead.

00:11:31.760 We've been discussing, there are now a lot of questions about all of the policies and procedures.

00:11:36.960 You know, the National Weather Service had issued a fire watch for your state August 6th, a few days before the fire hit.

00:11:45.300 With the siren system, you said to CNN on Monday and again on Tuesday that you believe some of the sirens were broken.

00:11:53.900 When did you learn they weren't fully functional?

00:11:56.080 We assess every siren across the state on the first of the month, and then we ask people to update them and fix them to their abilities.

00:12:06.100 You know, I, of course, I, as a person, as a father, as a doctor, I wish all the sirens went off.

00:12:13.440 Like, the challenge that you've heard, and it's not to excuse or explain anything, the challenge has been that historically those sirens are used for tsunamis.

00:12:23.820 That's when I came to Hawaii 23 years ago, was told when I was living down near the shore.

00:12:29.500 So Josh Green is saying that the problem isn't really Josh Green or Richard Bisson or Joe Biden or even the electric company.

00:12:36.420 It's not their fault that Maui is burning.

00:12:38.860 Sure, the sirens didn't go off, but, you know, the real problem is that you made the world a tenth of a degree hotter.

00:12:44.380 If you hadn't done that, none of this would be happening.

00:12:46.700 That's the excuse we're hearing from the media.

00:12:48.160 That's what we're hearing from the Democrat Party.

00:12:49.260 This is all about climate change.

00:12:51.120 Now, you go down the list of officials in the state, and you'll find more and more incompetence as you do.

00:12:55.000 Take Mr. Khalil Manuel, for example.

00:12:57.920 He's the deputy director of the state's Commission on Water Resource Management.

00:13:01.540 On August 10th, the West Maui Land Company sent a letter to Khalil complaining that his commission had held up a request to free up more water to fight all the fires.

00:13:10.900 And according to the land company, they had tried to expedite water diversion from streams to fight the fires.

00:13:16.760 But in the letter, the land company complains that Khalil's Water Commission had held up the request for several hours on various technicalities,

00:13:23.140 saying that they needed to consult a local farmer first, obtain permission from the fire department, all this red tape.

00:13:29.440 The delay could have cost people their lives.

00:13:32.680 It's hard to say at this point how many.

00:13:36.020 It's also hard to say, hard to know why Khalil's commission held up the water request.

00:13:41.260 You may have seen this clip from well before these wildfires started.

00:13:44.620 It's making the rounds online.

00:13:46.080 I want you to watch Khalil.

00:13:47.480 This is that government official.

00:13:48.960 Talk about the importance of equity and preserving water.

00:13:53.300 Watch.

00:13:53.380 The commission is responsible, per our authorizing statute, to protect and manage all water resources in the state.

00:14:02.500 One water is like taking it and looking at it from a holistic system perspective.

00:14:06.360 And that's not any different than how Hawaiians traditionally manage water.

00:14:10.960 You know, in essence, we treated, Native Hawaiians treated water as one of the earthly manifestations of a god and a kua, kane.

00:14:19.580 And so that reverence for a resource and that reciprocity in relationship was something that was really, really important to our worldview and well-being, right?

00:14:31.700 And living in an island isolated from other, you know, civilizations.

00:14:36.360 And so I think where it shifted to today or over time is that we've become used to looking at water as like something which we use and not necessarily something that we revere as that thing that gives us life, right?

00:14:54.760 I mean, to me, it's a shift in value set.

00:14:56.700 And, you know, if we can start to really look at how we as humans in an island can reconnect to that traditional value set.

00:15:08.380 So really, my motto is always like let water connect us and not divide us.

00:15:12.380 Like we can share it, but it requires true conversations about equity.

00:15:18.980 So that was the guy in charge of the water as the island burned.

00:15:22.640 Now, does this mean that Khalil withheld water from firefighting efforts for the sake of equity?

00:15:28.400 Seems possible.

00:15:30.040 We do know that this man never should have been in any position of authority whatsoever.

00:15:34.900 Take a look at Khalil's biography on the Obama Foundation website and you'll find lines like this.

00:15:40.360 Quote, he believes that ancient wisdom and traditional ecological knowledge of Native peoples will help save the world.

00:15:47.620 In other words, he's an unserious politician and person.

00:15:50.320 And he's the last person you want to determine where water goes in an emergency.

00:15:55.080 Like when the fire is headed towards your home, you don't want ancient wisdom.

00:15:59.460 You don't want someone talking about the reciprocity of our relationship with Mother Earth.

00:16:04.860 You want basic competence and you want water and lots of it.

00:16:10.960 Water that, by the way, you are going to use and not revere or have a relationship with.

00:16:15.860 As it happens, unserious also describes the regulators in charge of monitoring Hawaii Electric, which likely caused this fire.

00:16:23.980 On a substack, investigative journalist Li Feng reports that Hawaii Electric knew about the threat of wildfire.

00:16:29.240 Specifically, in a regulatory filing last summer, Hawaiian Electric disclosed that the, quote,

00:16:33.980 risk of the utility system causing a wildfire ignition is significant.

00:16:37.340 They estimated the work to address that risk would cost about $6 million.

00:16:42.900 Now, the company ultimately spent $245,000 on minor upgrades to their infrastructure.

00:16:48.960 That's hundreds of thousands of dollars less than they spent on lobbying in the past four years.

00:16:54.700 And all that lobbying apparently paid off.

00:16:56.320 Hawaii's chief utility regulator recently appeared in a Puff Beast documentary this year for Hawaii Electric.

00:17:01.020 And regulators never forced the company to make the more expensive safety upgrades that they knew they needed.

00:17:07.880 It falls on substack journalists like Li Feng to report on all this because right now the corporate media isn't interested in any of it.

00:17:15.720 Instead, like the governor of Hawaii, they're pinning these fires on climate change.

00:17:20.300 Vanity Fair just published a piece entitled, quote,

00:17:22.500 How bad do things have to get for Joe Biden to declare a climate emergency?

00:17:27.000 Along the same lines, the AP reported that climate change fueled the Maui fires.

00:17:33.320 Already, the effort is underway to absolve these bureaucrats of responsibility.

00:17:37.540 It's likely that in the end, only the utility company will suffer any consequences, if any at all, probably in the form of a fine.

00:17:44.500 That's what happened to the electric company involved in the 2018 campfire in California, which killed 85 people.

00:17:50.120 Government officials in that case made several key errors, including failing to activate an emergency warning system.

00:17:55.580 Sounds familiar.

00:17:57.000 But none of them paid any real price for it.

00:18:00.220 So what we're seeing, it's more complicated than a left-right partisan split where Republicans take heat during disasters and Democrats get a pass.

00:18:07.540 That's part of it, of course.

00:18:08.640 But the reason Democrats are able to avoid any accountability during catastrophes also has a lot to do with one of the main functions of a bureaucracy.

00:18:17.580 Why they exist in the first place, which is to diffuse responsibility.

00:18:21.100 Because when everyone is responsible for disaster, nobody is.

00:18:26.060 They can blame you for making the planet hotter instead of admitting their own failures.

00:18:30.380 They can make up stories about kitchen fires instead of doing anything productive.

00:18:34.700 18 years after Hurricane Katrina, this total failure of leadership, it's not enough to destroy a presidency anymore or even damage a political party.

00:18:45.240 This is what regression looks like.

00:18:48.080 And it all but guarantees that, as horrible as this destruction is, we haven't seen the last disaster like this one.

00:18:55.540 Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:20:07.720 We'll begin with this from the Daily Mail.

00:20:09.540 It says, a chief psychologist at a California children's hospital has claimed that children can identify as gender minotaurs.

00:20:16.640 Dr. Diane Aronsaft is the director of mental health and chief psychologist at the UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Gender Development Center.

00:20:26.940 Her research focuses on the effect of puberty blockers and hormones on children.

00:20:30.680 First reported by Fox News, Aronsaft has made claims that children can identify as gender hybrids, which include gender minotaur.

00:20:37.840 The minotaur in Greek mythology was a creature which had the body of a man but the head of a bull.

00:20:43.320 In a list of terms published by Aronsaft in a paper titled The Gender Affirmative Model,

00:20:48.520 she refers to different ways in which children have described themselves.

00:20:51.100 And one of these included gender minotaur, which is described as being a descriptor for a child who sees themselves as one gender on top and another on their bottom half.

00:20:59.960 Other claims made by the psychologist include what she describes as a gender prius.

00:21:06.700 This is all science, by the way, what you're listening to.

00:21:08.800 This is science.

00:21:09.460 This is pure science.

00:21:10.740 And if you trust the science, then you're going to just trust all of this.

00:21:14.220 Gender prius and gender minotaur.

00:21:17.160 This label is said to have been explained to her by a child who looked like a boy at the front but had a long braid tied in their hair with a pink bow.

00:21:24.540 Okay, so if you're a boy with long hair, you're not just a boy with long hair, you're a gender prius.

00:21:32.060 According to the paper, the child said, you see, I'm a prius, a boy in the front, a girl in the back, a hybrid.

00:21:37.180 Because, by the way, that's definitely how children speak, right?

00:21:41.560 You see, I'm a prius, a boy in the front, a girl in the back, a hybrid. 0.62

00:21:46.440 Yeah, it sounds just like a child, doesn't it?

00:21:48.120 Other terms included a gender smoothie, which is described as a, well, the worst possible menu item at Smoothie King, or it's the variation of being gender fluid.

00:22:00.620 So the same thing as being gender fluid is gender smoothie. 0.85

00:22:03.000 One teenager described it to Aaron Saft as, you take everything about gender, throw it in the blender, press the button, and you've got me, a gender smoothie.

00:22:10.400 Another term shared by Aaron Saft is gender Tesla, which she described as a transgender state some children reach after being gender hybrid.

00:22:18.120 Oh, my God.

00:22:20.840 Aaron Saft is previously told a 2018 talk held at the San Francisco Public Library, quote,

00:22:25.160 I totally agree we're in the midst of a gender revolution, and the children are leading it. 0.78

00:22:29.700 It's a wonderful thing to see, and it's also humbling to know that children know more than we do about this topic of being gender expansive.

00:22:37.160 Okay, so it goes without saying, well, it goes without saying by me and to an audience of rational people that this is all insane,

00:22:45.760 and this is why I am so incredibly cynical about psychologists, especially child psychologists,

00:22:51.660 the whole psychology industry, you know, mental health, so-called mental health professionals.

00:22:59.260 This is why I'm so cynical about them and so critical and skeptical is because this is what we get from these people, gender minotaurs. 1.00

00:23:07.300 And somehow that's not even the most concerning part of this story.

00:23:11.480 The most concerning part is her claim that we so often hear that children are leading and that we should follow them

00:23:18.980 because they know more about this subject than we do.

00:23:22.760 A little kid who says gender minotaur, that is a sign that they know more than you do and you should just listen to them. 0.99

00:23:31.100 And let me explain why that's concerning.

00:23:34.720 Well, there's the obvious reason that children are not meant to be leaders of anything.

00:23:39.120 Okay, you don't follow a child.

00:23:41.040 You don't put a child in a position of leadership.

00:23:44.780 And if a child knows more than you about a particular topic, that's a statement of your own ignorance,

00:23:49.580 not about the child's intelligence or knowledge.

00:23:53.900 Okay, unless the topic is like dinosaurs or something,

00:23:56.440 there are plenty of eight-year-old boys that probably know more about that than you and I do.

00:23:59.420 But for the most part, in general, they are not leaders.

00:24:04.660 They are not meant to be leaders.

00:24:07.400 They don't want to be leaders.

00:24:09.980 Our job is to lead them.

00:24:12.880 And if you want to know why kids have so much anxiety these days,

00:24:16.420 we're told about the epidemic of anxiety.

00:24:19.560 We've got all these anxious kids running around.

00:24:21.260 Well, this is one of the reasons.

00:24:22.580 It's because the kids become very anxious when you put them in the lead,

00:24:27.080 when you put them in the position of making decisions,

00:24:30.120 especially making decisions in an uncontrolled sort of environment,

00:24:33.620 like giving them an unlimited list of options,

00:24:37.200 which is what we're doing with gender now. 1.00

00:24:38.920 It's anything you want.

00:24:40.580 It's not a binary choice.

00:24:42.100 It's not even a choice of five options, any option at all.

00:24:44.660 When you do that with a kid, in any context,

00:24:50.280 you are causing an immense amount of anxiety.

00:24:53.740 So, I mean, just the other day, my kids asked me if they could watch a movie.

00:24:57.040 And I said, yeah, go upstairs and pick out a movie that you want to watch.

00:24:59.880 And then pick it out yourself and then come tell me what you want to watch.

00:25:03.040 Give me your choice and I'll tell you yes or no.

00:25:04.640 And they go up 15 minutes later, they come back downstairs,

00:25:10.040 all stressed out, having not been able to decide.

00:25:14.400 And they just ask me, can you choose one?

00:25:17.700 Because it causes anxiety for kids to be put in a position of like, yeah, just choose.

00:25:24.100 They want you to make the decision or at the very least,

00:25:26.680 they want you to narrow down the options for them and say,

00:25:29.080 you could choose this or that, you know.

00:25:31.120 So now, that's how kids are in general.

00:25:35.880 Now, imagine giving your child the lead on their own biological identity.

00:25:42.720 I mean, it's crazy, it's abusive.

00:25:46.480 But, here's the point.

00:25:49.500 The stuff about, well, we got to give kids the lead, you know, let them decide.

00:25:56.020 That's all a bait and switch, okay?

00:25:58.000 It's a trick.

00:25:58.560 They aren't really doing that.

00:26:02.480 It would be bad enough if they were, okay?

00:26:05.500 If we as a culture were just letting kids decide for themselves what gender they are,

00:26:10.000 that's bad enough.

00:26:10.780 That's a terrible idea.

00:26:12.700 But that's not actually what is happening.

00:26:16.900 So these people love to say that kids are taking charge, kids are in the lead, kids are choosing.

00:26:22.520 Heard the same thing from everybody when I was filming What is a Woman?

00:26:24.800 And everybody on that side, on the crazy side, the bad guys, you know, all of them said, you know,

00:26:29.880 the kids are really taking the lead here.

00:26:33.260 But, no, that's a lie.

00:26:37.280 They are feeding these ideas to kids and then pretending that the kids came up with it.

00:26:42.860 So they are taking the lead.

00:26:45.340 And when I say they, I mean the psychologists, the quote-unquote mental health experts, the teachers, and so on.

00:26:52.740 They are instilling this stuff into the minds of children and then telling us, the parents, that it was the kids' idea

00:26:59.460 and we should let them take the lead and go along with their revolution.

00:27:05.180 Okay?

00:27:05.700 The child psychologist says that he presents it this way because he doesn't want to say the truth.

00:27:14.360 So this psychologist says to you as the parent, let your kid decide who he is.

00:27:25.060 Because what she doesn't want to say is, let me decide who your child is.

00:27:31.720 But that is actually what is happening.

00:27:34.280 That's actually what she wants.

00:27:36.840 She's saying, let me decide.

00:27:38.140 The psychologists are saying, we will decide.

00:27:40.440 We will decide what your kid is.

00:27:42.720 They're not deciding.

00:27:45.340 You certainly aren't deciding as the parent.

00:27:48.000 And most of all, biology and reality aren't deciding.

00:27:51.040 We will decide.

00:27:53.320 And we know that's the case because there's just no way in hell that any kid would come up with gender minotaur.

00:28:02.680 That is not a concept that some crazy, abusive, you know, 52-year-old child psychologist comes up with.

00:28:16.680 That's not something a seven-year-old says.

00:28:19.040 The whole idea of being, oh, I'm one gender on top and one gender on the bottom.

00:28:24.860 Again, that is not something that a kid, that's not a concept a kid comes up with.

00:28:29.760 The idea of, like, dividing yourself into two and seeing yourself not as one holistic whole person, but as, like, somehow a combination of two different things.

00:28:40.800 And that's not a natural insight that anyone comes up with, at least of all, a child.

00:28:46.520 That doesn't make any sense.

00:28:47.440 How can a child make sense of that?

00:28:49.740 Children barely understand the concept of being anything.

00:28:53.100 I mean, they have very, you know, their ability to be self-aware and their understanding of themselves is developing as their children.

00:29:01.560 It develops over time.

00:29:02.620 So, adding this extra layer of, well, you could be one, you're one half this, you're one half that, you're like a mystical being, a creation.

00:29:16.120 That doesn't mean, I mean, it doesn't mean anything to anyone because it's nonsense.

00:29:19.800 But it's especially not, it's not something that a child would invent.

00:29:26.820 Even if they did, you don't go along with it.

00:29:28.940 You tell them that, no, that doesn't make any sense.

00:29:30.780 But this is entirely, again, the adults that have come up with this.

00:29:40.440 Let's see.

00:29:42.600 YAF has this report.

00:29:43.920 The University of San Diego, a Catholic institution, is refusing to allow its conservative student organization to host Matt Walsh for a campus lecture this fall,

00:29:51.620 claiming that the Daily Wire personality's so-called grossly offensive common-sense beliefs would create an unsafe environment for different populations of people.

00:29:59.080 Last semester, members of the USD College Republicans filed a request for funds from the student government that would allow them to cover expenses associated with the proposed lecture.

00:30:10.740 Members of the student government unanimously voted to deny the request in full.

00:30:15.480 Isabella Sevilla, a leftist student senator, said, quote,

00:30:18.300 But as a Catholic institution, I do think it is one of the most important things that we hold our Catholic faith first.

00:30:22.720 And if he does not align with the values of the Catholic Church, then that is something we should consider regarding allocating funding.

00:30:29.060 Claiming that I, my views don't align with the Catholic Church.

00:30:31.800 When these are proponents of transgenderism, you know, abortion, same-sex marriage, all of which are entirely repudiated by the Catholic Church.

00:30:46.940 And people who promote these things by Catholic teaching are guilty of mortal sins and in danger of the fires of hell if they don't repent.

00:30:57.080 I mean, that's Catholic teaching.

00:30:58.240 It simply is.

00:30:59.640 Period.

00:31:00.520 And there's no disputing that.

00:31:02.040 It's not ambiguous.

00:31:03.420 It just is the teaching of Catholic Church.

00:31:06.040 But yet, no, I'm the one who's denying Catholic teaching, not those people.

00:31:09.240 Senator Jacob Aragon cited baseless calls by the leftist medical organizations for Walsh to be prosecuted by the Department of Justice as a consequence of speaking out against gender ideology as his rationale for voting against the lecture.

00:31:21.380 Another student government member's ridiculous argument was that conservative free speech and expression should not be allowed on campus because that may lead to those on the left being too uncomfortable to express themselves.

00:31:31.480 Quote, you say that you value freedom of expression, but do you really think people would feel comfortable to express themselves with someone who is known notoriously for what is a woman?

00:31:39.240 And also for being the recipient of the Transphobe of the Year 2022 award.

00:31:42.720 So what they're saying is that my mere presence for a couple of hours on campus would infringe on the freedom of expression of everybody else on campus because even if they're not there, their knowledge that I am there makes it impossible for them to express themselves somehow.

00:32:00.180 Now, which, I mean, look, all I'm going to say to that is there's only been a few times that I've gone to a college campus and before starting my lecture, I go around campus listening for people who are expressing themselves and saying things I don't agree with.

00:32:22.420 And then I physically assault them for it.

00:32:25.520 It's only happened a few times.

00:32:26.640 Only a few times I've done that.

00:32:28.500 It's not a normal thing.

00:32:29.800 OK, every once in a while.

00:32:32.640 And if you're saying University of San Diego, you don't want me to do that, then I won't just say that.

00:32:37.000 That's all.

00:32:37.440 Well, but normally what happens is I just go and I and I say my point of view in one specific location and then you can have a different point of view somewhere else and nothing is not there's not going to be in fact, you got a different point of view in the room with me and tell me that point of view.

00:32:56.040 In fact.

00:32:56.700 And again, and even in that case.

00:33:00.520 We do these talks.

00:33:02.060 Students get up.

00:33:03.600 They may disagree with me.

00:33:04.620 We have a Q&A.

00:33:05.400 They express their disagreement.

00:33:08.420 And once again, there's only been a few cases where someone has expressed themselves differently from me and I physically assaulted them on the spot there in the room.

00:33:16.120 It's only happened a few times.

00:33:17.640 It rarely ever happens.

00:33:21.780 So.

00:33:23.640 Let's just be clear about that.

00:33:25.900 Let's see.

00:33:27.620 I just thought this was interesting.

00:33:28.940 Finally, Jennifer Lee, director of student activity, said that Walsh would need to denounce his transphobic beliefs and change his ways before stepping on campus, which she doesn't think will happen.

00:33:40.940 OK, so.

00:33:42.440 That's what this all comes to.

00:33:43.560 So they're saying I'm banned from campus.

00:33:46.340 But.

00:33:47.960 Not necessarily permanently, because if I denounce my beliefs or I think she means renounce them, if I renounce my beliefs and give up the transphobic beliefs,

00:33:56.440 if I change my ways, then I could be I could give a talk on campus.

00:34:00.860 But she doesn't think that will happen.

00:34:02.180 And all I'm going to say, Jennifer Lee, is why do you think that that won't happen?

00:34:06.340 A man can change.

00:34:07.400 You have to believe that.

00:34:08.900 You have to have hope.

00:34:09.760 In fact, I have changed.

00:34:12.760 I have like right in this second at this exact moment.

00:34:15.500 You just you're witnessing a change happen right now.

00:34:18.160 I no longer believe in biological reality.

00:34:21.840 I just changed right now.

00:34:23.480 This second.

00:34:24.720 I might change back.

00:34:25.760 I don't know.

00:34:26.100 But right now you're right.

00:34:27.360 You know what?

00:34:27.800 Because here's what here's what happened.

00:34:29.780 What you said about my beliefs being transphobic, it really resonated with me. 0.98

00:34:34.240 I've never heard that before.

00:34:35.840 No one's pointed that out before.

00:34:37.780 OK, so I've gone along saying things like biology exists. 0.98

00:34:41.560 Women don't have penises, so on and so forth. 1.00

00:34:43.460 And I've said all these things. 0.99

00:34:44.800 And but no one ever spoke up and said, you know, that's transphobic.

00:34:47.640 No one ever said that.

00:34:48.800 But you're the first person.

00:34:49.900 And when you said that, I heard it.

00:34:51.400 And I thought, wow, you're right.

00:34:52.480 It is.

00:34:53.660 Never mind then.

00:34:54.460 You know what?

00:34:56.340 Here's what I said to myself.

00:34:57.460 If reality is offensive to Jennifer Lee, then reality must be fake.

00:35:01.220 That's what I decided.

00:35:02.180 That's what I realized.

00:35:02.800 So I've come to the conclusion right now that biology isn't real.

00:35:07.720 Gravity isn't real.

00:35:09.080 Math isn't real.

00:35:10.160 Reality isn't real.

00:35:11.820 You're right.

00:35:12.720 So I agree with you.

00:35:13.940 OK, you're proven wrong.

00:35:14.960 I can change.

00:35:15.500 In fact, I would like to come to the university and give a speech titled.

00:35:21.860 Why Biology is a Right-Wing Conspiracy.

00:35:26.560 That's the speech I want to give.

00:35:29.500 That's the opposite of transphobic.

00:35:31.100 I mean, it'll be the most trans-affirming speech of all time.

00:35:35.040 So that's what I'm saying now.

00:35:36.440 That's my response.

00:35:38.020 And I think that clears it up.

00:35:39.420 And there's no reason why I can't speak in a way that'll be very affirming.

00:35:42.780 Very affirming for everybody.

00:35:44.160 I promise you that.

00:35:46.880 So I'm glad we could clear that up.

00:35:49.800 Let's see.

00:35:52.820 Briefly, there's this from the New York Post.

00:35:55.060 To mask or not to mask?

00:35:57.160 That is the question facing many doctors, public health officials, and concerned citizens

00:36:01.180 nationwide as cases of COVID-19 once again tick upward.

00:36:04.760 Meanwhile, the Centers for Disease Control Prevention warned on Thursday there's a new

00:36:08.200 highly mutated variant of the coronavirus named BA-286.

00:36:13.160 That's spreading worldwide.

00:36:15.820 They're going to have to come up with a better name for that.

00:36:18.080 Usually they try to come up with a scary-sounding name.

00:36:20.880 They haven't even put the effort in yet.

00:36:23.260 I mean, frankly, I found it insulting.

00:36:25.020 So they want to do the fear-mongering thing.

00:36:29.740 But you can't do that with variant BA-286.

00:36:32.940 You've got to come up with something, you know, the turbo deadly variant or whatever.

00:36:38.320 But recent data from the New York State Department of Health released August 2nd show that COVID

00:36:43.280 cases spiked by 55% over the prior week, with an average of 824 reported cases per day across

00:36:50.460 the state.

00:36:50.900 And the rise in COVID-19 cases isn't limited to New York.

00:36:54.060 The CDC recorded 10,320 U.S. hospital admissions for COVID-19 in the week ending August 5th,

00:36:59.440 a 14.3% increase from the week prior.

00:37:02.880 And so that's why the conversation has moved back to masking.

00:37:07.460 Should we mask again?

00:37:08.760 In fact, at least one college has already announced that they are going to reinstate mask mandates.

00:37:15.460 I think it was a private school in Atlanta, a small school.

00:37:18.820 Will that be, is that the tip of the iceberg?

00:37:21.380 And now we're going to have all these schools bringing masks back?

00:37:23.220 I don't know.

00:37:24.420 The question, I mean, there's no doubt that the powers that be, the elites, would like to,

00:37:34.000 you know, they'd like to go back to the COVID days, back to the lockdown days.

00:37:38.500 Of course they would.

00:37:40.300 They'd like to have the remake, you know, the 2.0 and do it all over again, the good old days.

00:37:45.940 They'd like to put everybody in muzzles again, especially as we head closer to an election, 0.98

00:37:49.980 you know, so the timing here is not a coincidence.

00:37:52.880 The question is just whether most people can be convinced to go along with it again,

00:38:00.200 whether most people can be convinced to wear the mask again.

00:38:05.200 And I'm very hesitant to say this because, you know, almost always when I show any faith in mankind,

00:38:12.220 that is, I come to regret it.

00:38:13.940 Like, those are the only times that I'm wrong about something, is when I have too much faith,

00:38:17.560 when I'm too optimistic.

00:38:18.540 So I have to say this, but I think the answer is probably no.

00:38:23.160 I think that they will not be able to get most people to go along with this again.

00:38:29.520 They can reinstate mask mandates and most people will defy them, I think.

00:38:33.220 And the answer, I mean, the reason for that is pretty simple, that the fear has, like, coronavirus is not novel anymore.

00:38:43.320 It's not a novel thing for people.

00:38:44.900 And it was novel back in 2020.

00:38:49.860 It was new.

00:38:51.340 And so it was very easy to use it to scare people.

00:38:54.740 But now we've all lived in a world where this just exists.

00:38:57.400 It's endemic.

00:38:58.040 It's like the flu.

00:38:58.780 People get it.

00:38:59.360 It's a seasonal thing, sort of.

00:39:00.700 You know, it comes in waves.

00:39:02.720 It's like any other virus.

00:39:04.280 There are a million of them out there.

00:39:05.640 And it's just part of the background.

00:39:07.740 It's like, it's just there.

00:39:08.620 Yeah, okay.

00:39:08.980 Now, I think for most people, you hear that someone has COVID, it's like, okay, it's like hearing, okay, they had a cold, they had a flu, right?

00:39:15.660 It happens.

00:39:17.800 So I think that's what they're going to run into is that they won't be able to reignite the fear.

00:39:24.340 You know, for them, they can't recapture the magic.

00:39:26.320 It's just, it's gone.

00:39:27.160 They won't be able to get it.

00:39:28.980 So they're going to need something new.

00:39:30.280 They're going to need something that's not COVID.

00:39:31.840 You know, they're going to need a new virus, a new something.

00:39:34.640 And I'm sure they're working on that in a Chinese lab somewhere. 0.84

00:39:41.360 All right, finally, a couple of weeks ago, we told you the story of the face-peeling aliens down in Peru who've been detected by Peruvian villagers and proven to exist.

00:39:51.880 This story is 100% proven true, beyond a shadow of a doubt.

00:39:55.800 How do I know that?

00:39:57.020 Because literally dozens of witnesses have attested to it.

00:40:00.060 They all said the same thing, that the aliens come, that they can fly.

00:40:04.320 They fly in.

00:40:05.280 They peel your face.

00:40:07.080 This has been the testimony of many witnesses.

00:40:10.480 And what do they do with your face?

00:40:11.940 We don't know.

00:40:12.800 Sometimes they borrow your face.

00:40:14.060 They give it back to you later.

00:40:15.260 Sometimes they keep it.

00:40:16.080 Sometimes they lose track of it.

00:40:17.640 Different things can happen.

00:40:19.220 But the point is that the alien sightings have been proven, at least to my satisfaction.

00:40:26.680 And as you know, I have a very high standard of evidence when it comes to these sorts of cases.

00:40:31.680 If you want me to believe it, that's a very high standard.

00:40:36.140 Like, in order for me to believe that an alien sighting is real, you need to first claim that you saw an alien.

00:40:44.000 And second, well, I mean, you need to claim that you saw one, at least.

00:40:52.480 So that's the point.

00:40:53.420 And if, so that's the standard.

00:40:56.140 That's a very high standard.

00:40:57.000 But anyway, somehow not everyone is convinced about these Peruvian aliens.

00:41:02.880 And now they're going to extreme lengths to disprove it.

00:41:05.520 So this is, this is from Vice, okay?

00:41:08.020 This is a report from Vice.

00:41:09.640 This is what they say.

00:41:11.280 The mysterious attacks began on July 11th.

00:41:13.460 Strange beings, locals said, visiting an island indigenous community in rural Peru at night, harassing its inhabitants and attempting to kidnap a 15-year-old girl.

00:41:22.820 These gentlemen are aliens.

00:41:25.680 Nicely, they call them gentlemen anyway.

00:41:26.900 You got to be respectful.

00:41:28.060 They seemed, they seem armored like the Green Goblin from Spider-Man.

00:41:31.760 I have shot one twice and it didn't fall.

00:41:34.500 Instead, it elevated and disappeared.

00:41:36.280 Jairo Avila, a local leader of the indigenous Iquitu group living in the northwestern Mayanus province, told Peruvian radio station RPP on August 1st.

00:41:46.040 First, we're frightened by what is happening in the community.

00:41:49.180 Their color is silver.

00:41:50.200 Their shoes are round in shape.

00:41:51.860 And with those, they rise up.

00:41:54.320 They float one meter high and have a red light on their heel.

00:41:57.800 Their heads are long.

00:41:59.000 Their mask is long.

00:42:00.340 And their eyes are sort of yellowish.

00:42:02.620 News of the alleged extraterrestrial attackers quickly spread online as believers, skeptics, and internet sleuths around the world analyzed grainy videos posted by members of the Iquitu community.

00:42:11.560 The reported sightings came on the heels of U.S. congressional hearings about aliens, as we know.

00:42:17.220 Okay, now let's get to the, so that's what happened.

00:42:20.780 And you hear all that and you think, okay, well, so there's flying aliens in Peru.

00:42:24.500 Okay, that's what's happening.

00:42:26.080 What else is there to talk about?

00:42:27.160 What else is there to think about?

00:42:29.420 Listen to their absurd explanation.

00:42:31.280 Members of the Peruvian Navy and police traveled to the isolated community, which is located 10 hours by boat from the Minas provincial capital of Iquitos, to investigate the strange disturbances in early August.

00:42:43.440 Last week, authorities announced that they believe the perpetrators were members of illegal gold mining gangs from Colombia and Brazil using advanced flying technology to terrorize the community.

00:42:55.140 Carlos Castro Quintanilla, the lead investigator in the case, said that 80% of illegal gold dredging in the region is located in this river basin where the Iquitu community is located.

00:43:07.500 And we're being told that they were using state-of-the-art technology like thrusters that allow people to fly.

00:43:12.540 He said that after looking the devices up on Google, he believed that they were jetpacks.

00:43:18.120 Okay, so this is what they're going with, if you can believe it.

00:43:22.500 They aren't aliens, they are gold miners with jetpacks, which, first of all, I don't even know where to begin, but why would gold miners need jetpacks? 0.80

00:43:36.440 Okay, bringing a jetpack into a gold mine, it's like bringing your scuba gear when you're skydiving.

00:43:43.760 It just does, it's out of place.

00:43:45.040 And second, why would illegal gold miners call attention to themselves in this way?

00:43:49.620 Why would they say they're mining gold illegally?

00:43:52.940 Like, why would they say, let's put on this enormously visible display to call all this attention to ourselves, all for the sake of freaking out some Peruvian villagers? 1.00

00:44:04.660 And third, where does the face peeling come into play here?

00:44:09.580 This whole article, I read the whole thing, they don't even mention it.

00:44:12.280 This whole detail, you know why, because it's an inconvenient detail for the skeptics.

00:44:17.620 So they just pretend that that's not part of the story.

00:44:20.440 So are the gold miners peeling faces also? 0.98

00:44:23.660 Is that part of the prank?

00:44:27.180 Aha, peeled your face off, gotcha. 0.99

00:44:29.240 You've been pranked. 0.98

00:44:30.320 You have no face.

00:44:31.580 Is that what we're supposed to believe?

00:44:33.980 Ask yourself this.

00:44:34.920 Ask yourself what's more plausible.

00:44:36.700 Okay, this is what I want you to ask yourself.

00:44:37.740 That creatures from another solar system came to Peru to fly around and peel faces off, or that gold miners have jetpacks. 1.00

00:44:50.000 Well, don't ask yourself that, actually.

00:44:51.420 That doesn't prove the point I want to prove.

00:44:53.300 But, you know, here's what you should ask yourself.

00:44:56.000 This is a better question to ask yourself.

00:44:57.560 What do you believe in your heart?

00:44:59.660 Ask yourself what you feel deeply in your soul.

00:45:02.040 And I know the answer for me.

00:45:05.920 And I know that I have faith in Peruvian villagers.

00:45:11.480 When they say they're getting their faces peeled off by aliens, I believe them. 1.00

00:45:15.960 And frankly, too, I have faith in illegal South American gold miners. 0.98

00:45:19.800 I just do.

00:45:21.140 They wouldn't do this, okay?

00:45:22.840 They wouldn't act this way.

00:45:24.180 They wouldn't terrorize Peruvian villagers by flying around in jetpacks.

00:45:27.760 And they just, they wouldn't do it.

00:45:28.880 I've known a lot of illegal gold miners in my day.

00:45:30.940 This is what's a mantra they all follow.

00:45:33.300 I've heard it a million times.

00:45:34.600 They always say, they always say this.

00:45:36.300 They always say, we never terrorize Peruvian miners or Peruvian villagers with jetpacks.

00:45:40.800 They always say that.

00:45:41.740 It's just a thing that they say.

00:45:42.780 So it's been one of their basic principles for a long time.

00:45:44.800 So let's just cut it out.

00:45:45.700 Let's be, let's be serious for change.

00:45:49.760 And let's just stop with the outlandish theories and accept the basic fact that flying face peeling aliens are real.

00:45:59.000 And that's all.

00:45:59.760 Grow up already, is what I'm going to say.

00:46:04.060 Let's get to the comment section.

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00:47:05.980 Sparks Wayne said, whether we like it or not, what Garland did, Judy Garland did, was acceptable at the time.

00:47:12.400 This was entertainment.

00:47:14.360 Yeah, I mean, that's the point.

00:47:15.260 Most people, you know, most people do whatever is considered acceptable in their day and age.

00:47:21.300 And that doesn't make it objectively right, of course, but it does mean that most people aren't in a position to judge others from other time periods.

00:47:28.620 Who simply followed the tide of their culture, because that's what most people today are doing.

00:47:34.800 And, you know, people in 1930s were racially insensitive, let's say, and basically everyone was.

00:47:44.620 And you may not be racially insensitive these days, but there are probably a whole host of behaviors, a whole host of things that you do and say and think are acceptable and don't even question.

00:47:55.280 Because everyone does, everyone else does and says them and thinks they're acceptable.

00:48:00.620 And a lot of those things, you know, people from the 1930s could see that.

00:48:04.080 It's like, especially with entertainment.

00:48:06.520 So we look at that, someone in blackface, oh, that's a horrible entertainment. 1.00

00:48:09.640 That's crass and offensive and outrageous.

00:48:13.640 Why do you think, some of the 1930s, like, they might not feel that way about blackface. 0.97

00:48:16.940 But they're going to look at a lot of the things that we find entertaining today and say, what the hell is wrong with you, savages? 0.97

00:48:23.660 What the hell? 0.96

00:48:24.340 This is what? 0.98

00:48:25.360 So, you know, we, again, we have our own blind spots.

00:48:32.580 Blueberry Juice says, Matt Walsh continues to be one of the most human humans to ever roam the earth.

00:48:39.160 I do have that going for me, at least.

00:48:40.460 I am human.

00:48:41.360 Whatever else you can say about me.

00:48:43.300 I am that.

00:48:44.880 Real Wally says, putting on makeup and a wig to look like another race is something a lot of people pretend to find offensive, even though they don't care at all.

00:48:51.040 Everyone needs to stop letting others tell them what they should be offended by.

00:48:53.660 It never ends.

00:48:54.640 Well, especially because there are a whole lot, you know, there are a lot of people putting on makeup and wigs these days.

00:48:59.200 So that still exists.

00:49:00.700 Just not pretending to be another race in the process. 0.74

00:49:02.680 So that's one thing, you know, of course, we're talking about, I don't think it came up in the cancellation yesterday.

00:49:07.260 That's another one of those that goes without saying things, I would think, at this point.

00:49:10.700 But, you know, people are very offended by blackface these days because it's a caricature and it's degrading and everything else.

00:49:18.660 But, of course, drag is woman face and it's every bit as degrading and every bit the caricature and really even more so. 0.96

00:49:29.600 Another comment says, Matt should have elaborated on what he meant by back in the 1930s it wasn't a big deal.

00:49:36.620 Examples to illustrate that would have been helpful, but he just made a statement without any elaboration or examples whatsoever.

00:49:41.180 Well, what examples do you need?

00:49:42.340 You know, if you need, do you need examples, really, to show why blackface wasn't considered a big deal in the 1930s?

00:49:48.700 Well, we showed you the only example you really need.

00:49:50.560 Like, Judy Garland was making a film for MGM and it had blackface in it. 0.99

00:49:57.800 Okay, so that's very much just considered a mainstream, acceptable sort of thing.

00:50:06.100 I would think that's all the example you really need.

00:50:10.460 Jeremiah says, I love Matt, but I think he's wrong on one thing.

00:50:13.760 I think blackface, even then, was a big deal, at least to black folks.

00:50:17.380 But more importantly, Hattie McDaniel from Gone with the Wind played Mammy, a stereotypical black housemaid, 1.00

00:50:21.740 and then played the role of a mammy in many other films and shows.

00:50:24.500 While others, particularly in the black community, saw it as degrading, she replied, quote,

00:50:27.760 I work as a maid for $7 a week or I can play one for $700 a week.

00:50:31.920 I think we need to give more grace to women actors in that time period who didn't have a lot of options in life. 0.97

00:50:36.240 And Jammin says sort of the same thing.

00:50:38.640 LOL, it was a great sin back then, too, just not to white people. 0.86

00:50:41.600 Well, the insensitivity and unawareness Matt has towards some racial issues are concerning.

00:50:46.260 Don't get me wrong, though.

00:50:46.960 There shouldn't be a story today because who cares?

00:50:49.120 But you have to be more informed and understanding.

00:50:52.320 Well, you might be right.

00:50:52.920 I don't know.

00:50:53.540 I can't speak for how black people in the 1930s felt about it.

00:50:56.300 I don't think you can either.

00:50:58.580 I suspect they were not as offended by it as we are today.

00:51:01.700 I suspect that.

00:51:03.660 But it doesn't matter, to my point.

00:51:06.080 In Judy Garland's life, in her mind, according to the culture and world that she was a part of,

00:51:10.580 wasn't considered a big deal.

00:51:13.380 That's it.

00:51:15.480 Badis says, Daily Wire supporter here and pay for a yearly subscription.

00:51:19.020 I'm a conservative through and through.

00:51:20.160 I agree with a lot of what you say, Matt, but I have to humbly disagree on this one.

00:51:24.280 Wrong is wrong no matter when or where you were born. 0.53

00:51:26.860 I look at Jesus' words and standards, and those haven't changed in more than 2,000 years.

00:51:30.980 Should we cancel Garland?

00:51:31.920 Well, no, we can't because she's immortalized, but wrong is wrong.

00:51:35.820 Well, I don't think you understand the point I was trying to make about moral truth versus moral culpability.

00:51:40.920 Moral truth does not change at all over time.

00:51:43.920 What is true morally in today's day and age was true 1,000 years ago and 5,000 years ago.

00:51:50.700 So the moral truth does not change.

00:51:52.960 What does change, not just by time, but by circumstance, by individual, by age,

00:51:58.580 by many different factors is the culpability of an individual for committing an immoral act.

00:52:06.180 And of course, that's not even really controversial.

00:52:10.380 Everyone agrees.

00:52:12.880 Again, we don't have to go back in history to look at this, but somebody does or says something that you think is wrong.

00:52:19.400 We all instinctively do this.

00:52:20.780 We have a court system that is made to do it. 0.52

00:52:22.640 It might do it imperfectly and terribly in many cases, but you look at all the different factors surrounding that individual

00:52:29.460 and those circumstances to determine not whether the thing was wrong, we know that, but how culpable they are for it.

00:52:36.280 And when we're talking about some of these things that were done in history, the day and age, the time period really does factor in in a major way towards culpability.

00:52:49.500 Finally, conservative grifters won't cancel blackface, but when DEFCON 3 cancellation of Bud Light for sending beer to a guy in a dress, make this make sense. 0.75

00:52:58.400 Well, I'll make it make sense for you.

00:52:59.760 That's because the guy in a dress is a million times more objectionable than blackface. 0.99

00:53:03.940 You know, approximately, really more than a million times.

00:53:07.740 It's infinite.

00:53:09.720 And in fact, it's infinitely more degrading and offensive and also harmful for the culture.

00:53:16.280 So hopefully that helps you.

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00:54:14.620 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:54:20.160 Cancel culture is a real phenomenon and a dangerous one.

00:54:23.720 Lives have been destroyed by it.

00:54:24.820 History has been rewritten. 0.99

00:54:26.460 A generation of ridiculous cry bullies have been empowered in all the worst ways imaginable. 0.99

00:54:31.280 Cancel culture is an epidemic. 0.77

00:54:32.760 But cancel culture is also, at this point, a slogan that makes for fodder for three-minute Fox News segments.

00:54:41.220 Along with being a real problem, it is as well cheap and easy boomer bait.

00:54:46.660 Cancel culture is bad.

00:54:48.640 And you can always earn cheap applause by saying cancel culture is bad.

00:54:53.180 This doesn't mean that we should stop saying it or that we should stop fighting cancel culture.

00:54:56.260 But it does mean that when someone claims that something or someone is being canceled, we should stop and take a moment to scrutinize those claims.

00:55:04.000 Because, you know, the fight against cancel culture, because it makes for a quick Fox News segment, and because there is applause to be earned by pretending you're a part of the fight,

00:55:12.860 that means there's an incentive to pretend that you are the victim of cancel culture or that something else is the victim of cancel culture when, in fact, that isn't true.

00:55:20.080 Now, the good news is that it only takes a little bit of critical thinking, a little bit of digging, to sort through all this and get to the truth.

00:55:26.560 And that brings us to the latest alleged cancel culture victim, the 70s rock band Queen.

00:55:32.460 The headlines started pouring in fast and furious yesterday.

00:55:35.180 Queen has been canceled.

00:55:36.440 The woke mob is at it again.

00:55:38.480 Specifically, one Queen song called Fat Bottom Girls has fallen prey to political correctness, we're told.

00:55:43.640 As the Independent reports, quote, Queen fans left fuming as Fat Bottom Girls left off Greatest Hits release.

00:55:50.540 The Sun declares, Queen drops classic track from Greatest Hits due to woke cancel culture. 1.00

00:55:57.320 The Daily Mail says, classic Queen song Fat Bottom Girls is mysteriously dropped from the group's new Greatest Hits collection.

00:56:03.980 The conservative website The Federalist had this headline,

00:56:06.940 Amid era of body positivity, Queen's Fat Bottom Girls gets canceled. 1.00

00:56:11.080 Meanwhile, the New York Post in an editorial pleaded,

00:56:14.500 Don't stop Fat Bottom Girls from making the rocking world go round. 1.00

00:56:19.140 Right on cue, social media was flooded with posts lamenting the cancellation of Queen and their classic song about girls with fat bottoms.

00:56:25.840 The topic was trending on Twitter all day long, and nearly everyone seemed to agree that this cancellation was outrageous, ludicrous, Orwellian.

00:56:33.580 Many conservative pundits, including ones that I like and respect, expressed their outrage over this.

00:56:38.240 And, of course, Fox News got in on the action.

00:56:41.560 In their article, they claim that, quote, legendary rock band Queen's 1978 classic Fat Bottom Girls has become cancel culture's latest victim.

00:56:50.000 And here's how they, how Fox News, covered the issue in a segment yesterday.

00:56:54.240 Watch.

00:56:54.500 Gotta get your thoughts on this, just so I can say this line.

00:56:58.200 We will, we will woke you.

00:57:00.960 That's the headline in the Daily Mail as Queen's classic song, Fat Bottom Girls, mysteriously goes missing from the group's new Greatest Hits collection.

00:57:09.480 Joe, your reaction?

00:57:10.800 I mean, you watch that movie, Robbie Malick, and it was a great portrayal of Queen and how they came to be one of the biggest bands of the 70s.

00:57:21.680 And they were politically incorrect at the time.

00:57:24.580 You remember, their producers wanted them to play it safe as far as what songs they released and Bohemian Rhapsody.

00:57:31.140 How could you possibly even do a song like that?

00:57:33.020 It's completely off the grid.

00:57:34.560 They took chances, Queen did.

00:57:36.880 And now, to see this, and Robbie Malick obviously is not a late Robbie Malick, I don't think he would stand for this.

00:57:43.220 I'm pretty sure he wouldn't if I believed that the portrayal that I saw in that movie.

00:57:47.460 So, yeah, to say, all right, that song never existed is utterly ridiculous. 0.66

00:57:53.500 Well, he's absolutely right.

00:57:54.840 We should not pretend the song never existed.

00:57:57.240 We should not erase the song from every platform.

00:57:59.900 We shouldn't go look for a Freddie Mercury statue to tear down.

00:58:03.540 But here's the good news.

00:58:05.820 None of that is happening.

00:58:08.280 Okay?

00:58:08.560 It's all fake.

00:58:09.700 In fact, Queen is not canceled at all.

00:58:11.580 This song is not canceled.

00:58:12.900 The entire story is fake.

00:58:14.540 This is a lot of fake outrage over nothing, as it turns out.

00:58:19.180 Here's what's really happening.

00:58:21.460 One single audio platform has decided to start offering Queen's Greatest Hits Collection without that one song.

00:58:28.480 That song has not been removed from the Greatest Hits Collection on every platform or on any platform except for just this one.

00:58:35.620 And the thing you should know about this one platform, where Fat Bottom Girls will not be available, 1.00

00:58:40.480 is that it is specifically an audio platform for children.

00:58:44.540 The platform is called YOTO.

00:58:46.300 It is an audio player without a screen that plays music and audio books.

00:58:51.280 Now, to give you an idea of the age range this device is designed for,

00:58:54.760 here are just three of the audio book titles it offers, okay?

00:58:58.440 Stuart Little, Winnie the Pooh, and Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood 5-Minute Stories.

00:59:03.460 In other words, this is a device not just for kids, but for very young kids.

00:59:08.000 On its website, the YOTO players are listed with an age range of 3 to 12.

00:59:13.640 The company very specifically curates material that is supposed to be appropriate for preschool-aged kids.

00:59:20.880 And they judged that Fat Bottom Girls probably isn't appropriate for that age, and they left it off,

00:59:26.920 which to me seems extremely reasonable and certainly not worth an outraged segment on Fox News.

00:59:33.780 Now, I can't vouch for this platform at all, really, to be clear.

00:59:40.780 I mean, they may well have books and other songs that I would not consider appropriate for little kids.

00:59:44.700 I have no idea either way. I haven't checked.

00:59:46.560 In fact, if anything, the real problem here is not that they excluded that one Queen song,

00:59:51.080 but that they are including every other Queen song.

00:59:53.480 You know, there are some other Queen songs I can think of off the top of my head that I wouldn't want my kids singing along to,

01:00:00.180 especially when they're three years old, but that's not the point.

01:00:03.200 The point is that people, conservatives especially, are apparently angry that a song called Fat Bottom Girls

01:00:11.140 is not being made available for three-year-olds on a children's audio device.

01:00:16.240 A song, by the way, that contains these lyrics.

01:00:19.880 Okay, this is the song that Fox News is so upset that they're not going to play for kids.

01:00:25.220 These are the lyrics.

01:00:27.140 I was just a skinny lad, never knew no good from bad, but I knew life before I left my nursery.

01:00:33.360 Left alone with big fat Fanny, she was such a naughty nanny. 1.00

01:00:37.520 Heap big woman, you made a bad boy out of me. 1.00

01:00:40.840 Oh, won't you take me home tonight, down beside your red firelight,

01:00:43.300 and you give it all you got, Fat Bottom Girls, you make the rockin' world go round. 1.00

01:00:47.520 Now, if this sounds like this is a song about an overweight nanny molesting a child in the nursery,

01:00:53.640 that's because that's exactly what the song is about.

01:00:56.480 Okay, that is the song.

01:00:57.800 It's not a hidden message.

01:00:59.280 There's nothing subtle about it.

01:01:01.460 Freddie Mercury is singing about a kid in a nursery being made into a, quote, 0.57

01:01:05.280 bad boy by a, quote, naughty nanny, who also happens to be big and fat. 0.96

01:01:09.920 Okay, you don't need to read the lyrics upside down and backwards or search for invisible ink

01:01:14.400 in between the lines to understand what's happening in the song.

01:01:16.820 It's very clear.

01:01:19.180 It's not cancel culture to suggest that perhaps we wouldn't want a five-year-old

01:01:23.460 to go around singing along to those kinds of lyrics.

01:01:28.640 And in fact, even if you take out the extremely clear and undeniable references to child molestation, 1.00

01:01:34.200 still the song is vulgar and stupid. 1.00

01:01:36.080 Okay, even if it was just a song about having sex with women with large butts, 1.00

01:01:40.700 which seems to be what most people assume, 0.99

01:01:42.860 it still would clearly be inappropriate content for young kids.

01:01:47.480 And I say that not because I'm politically correct,

01:01:50.620 but because I'm something called a parent.

01:01:53.800 Now, I understand that the song was made 50 years ago,

01:01:56.780 which by sheer passage of time makes it a classic.

01:01:59.380 But despite what wistful boomers might tell you,

01:02:03.160 not everything that pop culture produced in the 60s and 70s

01:02:06.260 was an artistic masterpiece that we should teach our kids. 1.00

01:02:09.860 In fact, a lot of the stuff from that era was degenerate and stupid. 0.98

01:02:15.740 It doesn't suddenly become brilliant once it reaches the 50-year mark. 0.99

01:02:19.920 You heard the lyrics.

01:02:21.440 Again, putting aside all the child molestations of it,

01:02:23.460 which is kind of hard to put aside, 0.99

01:02:24.300 but these are just dumb lyrics. 0.97

01:02:26.780 This is not something, 0.99

01:02:27.440 this is a masterpiece.

01:02:29.340 This is true art, kids.

01:02:32.120 If you heard that exact same song today

01:02:34.420 and it didn't exist at any other point before,

01:02:36.560 you would hear that song and say, 1.00

01:02:37.540 this is the dumbest freaking song I've ever heard in my life. 0.99

01:02:41.680 Yet it happened, it was made 50 years ago 1.00

01:02:43.580 and suddenly it's a classic.

01:02:45.280 This is amazing.

01:02:46.340 This is real music. 0.90

01:02:49.660 Cardi B's music is incredibly gross and bad today.

01:02:52.420 In the year 2070, it'll be considered a classic,

01:02:55.040 an oldie from simpler times.

01:02:56.740 But it'll still be gross and bad.

01:03:00.340 And in fact, this is an important point that is so often lost. 1.00

01:03:03.340 If you lament the degeneracy and stupidity of current pop culture, 0.99

01:03:07.360 you should realize that current pop culture 1.00

01:03:09.380 didn't fall out of the sky one day

01:03:11.720 or come lumbering out of the ocean like a twerking Godzilla.

01:03:15.260 No, it is the end result of a process

01:03:17.500 that can be traced back to the 70s and before.

01:03:20.580 It's all part of the same heritage.

01:03:23.400 Pop artists today like to sing 1.00

01:03:24.920 very dumb and crass songs about sex. 0.99

01:03:27.180 Bands like Queen paved the way 1.00

01:03:28.660 with their own very dumb and crass songs about sex. 0.99

01:03:33.020 It doesn't make sense to be offended by Fat Bottom Girls 0.99

01:03:35.680 if you think that WAP is a musical masterpiece.

01:03:37.740 That's true.

01:03:38.860 And I've heard a lot of people pointing that out.

01:03:39.940 Well, you're offended by Fat Bottom Girls, 1.00

01:03:41.740 but what about WAP?

01:03:43.960 Okay, and anyone who likes WAP

01:03:45.480 and thinks Fat Bottom Girls is offensive, 1.00

01:03:47.380 you're right, you got a good point.

01:03:49.040 But it also doesn't make sense to be offended by WAP

01:03:53.020 if you think that Fat Bottom Girls was a musical masterpiece.

01:03:57.140 That doesn't make sense either.

01:03:59.420 Now, artists back then were actual musicians.

01:04:01.800 They actually composed the music.

01:04:03.300 They played the instruments,

01:04:04.120 which is far more than we can say for pop artists today.

01:04:06.920 But these artists, including the artists in Queen,

01:04:12.020 were also, for the most part, 1.00

01:04:13.320 drugged out, sex-crazed, godless, degenerate, pervert heathens, 1.00

01:04:17.280 explicitly promoting that kind of lifestyle to their listeners. 1.00

01:04:21.340 We should at least be honest about that,

01:04:23.280 rather than acting like current pop culture came out of nowhere,

01:04:26.480 as if there was no precedent for any of this stuff.

01:04:28.620 But then again, boomers in general like to look around at the culture today 0.92

01:04:33.000 and pretend that we are not living in exactly the world that they created.

01:04:38.920 So this is in keeping with that theme.

01:04:41.720 They lament the vulgarity of modern music

01:04:44.240 while also lamenting that Fat Bottom Girls 1.00

01:04:47.340 isn't being placed into a catalog alongside Winnie the Pooh.

01:04:52.160 It's totally absurd.

01:04:53.480 And that is ultimately why

01:04:56.300 the people complaining about Queen getting canceled

01:04:58.320 when Queen, in fact, is not getting canceled

01:05:00.220 are today canceled.

01:05:03.480 And that'll do it for the show today.

01:05:04.900 Thanks for watching.

01:05:06.140 Thanks for listening.

01:05:07.020 Talk to you tomorrow.

01:05:08.080 Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - August 22, 2023

Ep. 1210 - Biden Makes It To Hawaii Two Weeks Later. Immediately Insults Wildfire Victims.

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