The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1214 - NBC's Trans Propaganda Accidentally Reveals The Horrific Truth About Trans Ideology

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matwell Show, an NBC report featuring a trans kid has gone viral. The boy is chemically 1.00

00:00:04.780 castrated and put on the path towards sterilization, even as we hear him tell his mother that he's

00:00:09.260 having second thoughts. Also, a new study says that if you wore an N95 mask, you were probably 0.91

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00:00:27.720 video. And Oliver Anthony divides conservatives with his recent comments about politics and

00:00:32.920 quote, conservative news. We'll discuss all that and more today on the Matwell Show.

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00:01:50.040 If there's one thing trans activists desperately do not want you to do under any circumstance,

00:01:55.480 it's think back to what life was like before the rise of trans ideology. They need you to believe 0.93

00:02:00.960 that before we allowed men to compete against women in sports and before every company in the

00:02:05.060 Fortune 500 started spending hundreds of millions of dollars hiring demented activists with blue hair,

00:02:10.460 the old world was a bleak hellscape. Children were killing themselves en masse because their subjective

00:02:15.560 sense of gender identity wasn't being affirmed. In this dark age of transphobia, which ran from

00:02:21.440 basically the dawn of time until yesterday, middle-aged men went insane with despair because

00:02:27.260 they couldn't cross-dress in front of toddlers at the local library. Law firms and consultants simply

00:02:32.300 couldn't give good advice to their clients on account of the fact that they didn't have enough

00:02:35.900 cross-dressers in leadership positions. Things were dire. In order for any sane person to buy into 1.00

00:02:41.680 this narrative, it's vitally important that they not watch any footage from before the mass formation

00:02:47.440 psychosis of trans ideology took hold in this country. So naturally, we'll begin with some of 0.99

00:02:52.740 that footage. Here, for example, is a report by NBC News from the year 2012. And this was resurfaced

00:02:58.120 this weekend by the popular account End Wokeness. And it quickly went viral. And you'll see why. Watch.

00:03:04.140 To me, it seems ridiculous to have a kid at age 12, 13, 14 deciding whether they want to have

00:03:10.660 biological children when they're 20, 30, or 40. I mean... Well, they make the decision to kill 1.00

00:03:15.580 themselves at 12 and 13. That's a pretty powerful decision. We take an oath. First, do no harm.

00:03:21.680 If doing nothing is doing harm, you have to do something. So that's a mainstream news anchor

00:03:27.140 explaining that, quote, it seems ridiculous to have a kid age 13 or 14 deciding whether they want to

00:03:31.760 have biological children. She's saying what most Americans would have agreed with at the time and

00:03:36.200 still do, which is that it's crazy to administer cross-sex hormones, which sterilize patients for 0.97

00:03:41.960 life to young kids who are barely teenagers. They're permanently forfeiting their ability to

00:03:47.540 procreate at an age when they can't possibly understand the implications of such a decision.

00:03:52.680 Just about a decade ago, it was not blasphemy to point that out. It was instead

00:03:56.720 the default position of milquetoast personalities on NBC News. You're not allowed to say those things

00:04:04.160 anymore, and it's easy to see why. The doctor in that clip has no response except to say that

00:04:10.280 children can kill themselves at that age, which she calls a powerful decision. She actually says that.

00:04:17.480 It's a powerful decision for kids to kill themselves. Those are her words. 0.95

00:04:21.200 It's such a deranged answer that it's hard to know where to begin in responding to it.

00:04:27.780 So now a person is capable of informed consent as long as they are physically able to commit suicide?

00:04:35.060 What the hell kind of standard is that? Also, notice how the suicide threat doesn't do anything to

00:04:40.960 answer any of the actual objections of critics. Even if it's true that a child will kill themselves if

00:04:47.700 they don't transition, and it's not true. There's no data to support that, and all of human history

00:04:52.160 shows that that's a lie. But even if it were true, does that mean that a child really can consent?

00:04:59.800 Does it mean that the boy really is a girl? Put it this way. Are we transitioning the boy

00:05:06.000 because the claims he's making about himself are true, or are we doing it as a desperate last-ditch

00:05:15.200 effort to prevent him from killing himself? It has to be one or the other. It can't be both.

00:05:22.000 But it can be neither. And it turns out that it's neither. Now, raising any of these concerns is now

00:05:28.360 forbidden. If that same anchor said the same thing today, as we all know, she'd be driven out of town

00:05:33.160 by a mob of pitchfork-wielding LGBT activists. So this whole NBC News segment is worth scrutinizing 1.00

00:05:39.540 for this reason. It's like a time capsule from before everyone completely lost their minds. And

00:05:44.440 to that end, here's the portion of that NBC News segment where they talk about a young boy by the

00:05:50.540 name of Joseph Romero. Watch.

00:05:53.660 Guidelines developed in Europe suggest waiting until around age 16. And bioethicist Dr. Moon says

00:05:59.980 the few studies that do exist suggest young kids with gender identity problems often grow

00:06:06.200 out of them. A lot of those kids that start out as children who are saying, I'm in the wrong body

00:06:10.380 end up finding out by the time they're middle adolescence that they're actually fairly comfortable

00:06:14.660 with their own gender. But Josie is not one of those kids. Or is she?

00:06:21.560 Maybe I'm a boy inside and a girl outside. Really? Estrogen treatment is irreversible and would make

00:06:30.800 Josie sterile. But Josie and her mother never doubted it was the right thing until an unexpected

00:06:37.340 conversation happened one afternoon. But on the inside where nobody else can see? Yeah. Are you a boy

00:06:44.260 or are you a girl? Maybe I'm a boy inside and a girl outside. Really? Yeah. Is that true? Only you know

00:06:54.060 the answer to that. So if you wanted to grow up to be a man? Yeah. Would you tell me? Yeah. Hey, if you

00:07:05.180 wanted to grow up and be a man, you could. I want to be... Sometimes I think I'm a boy, sort of, but I

00:07:15.780 want to be a girl. Yeah. Would you love me if I'm a boy? Of course. I would love you no matter what.

00:07:22.120 I always have and I always will. Now, the little slight hint of skepticism that we get from NBC in

00:07:30.660 this report, you know, at least showing us that there are some doctors out there who will say that

00:07:38.180 it's not a good idea to make permanent life-altering changes to a child. Like that small, small hint of

00:07:44.800 skepticism these days would not be allowed at all. But the most important part from this clip is we

00:07:50.580 have the child, Joseph Romero, clearly expressing confusion and hesitation. In fact, he says that maybe

00:07:56.900 he's a boy trapped in a girl's body instead of the other way around, even though he already has a

00:08:01.960 boy's body. Or he says, yeah, he says it's a boy trapped in a girl's body is what he says now.

00:08:09.480 This is how turned around and upside down this poor kid's self-perception has become thanks to

00:08:15.620 Munchausen mommy and her enablers. He has no idea what he thinks about himself. He's just, he's confused.

00:08:22.100 Of course he is, because he's a child and he's been put in this environment. He's as confused as

00:08:28.720 any kid would be, as you or I would have been. Yet they went ahead and sterilized him anyway.

00:08:35.720 Now, imagine looking at a young boy like that, who's so clearly confused and saying, yeah, I think

00:08:41.560 sterilizing him is a good idea. It's unthinkable. That's exactly what happened. And it happened because

00:08:47.260 Romero's parents wanted it to happen for a long time. Several years before that segment aired on

00:08:52.980 NBC News back in 2009, this was in 2012, but back in 2009, Romero's parents made it clear that they

00:08:58.960 wanted to lock him into his girl identity as soon as possible. So they transitioned him and immediately 0.68

00:09:04.180 announced it to the entire world. He's been, he's been profiled by major media outlets since he was

00:09:08.820 at least eight years old. Now, even if you're crazy enough to think that a little boy can really be

00:09:14.640 a girl in some mystical sense, you still have to see how there is no benefit to the child if you make

00:09:22.040 it a public spectacle. Yet that's what the parents of trans kids so often do. Yet somehow none of the

00:09:29.260 doctors involved in this boy's health care are alarmed by any of these red flags in any way. Instead, the

00:09:34.060 doctor featured in this segment, whose name is Johanna Olson, decides to administer so-called puberty 1.00

00:09:39.200 blockers to Joseph anyway. Watch. Dr. Olson had a decision. You are in the perfect place to start

00:09:47.600 on blockers. And she promises to begin giving her estrogen, female hormones, in two years. Around 13.

00:09:56.480 That's what I think. Yes, you're not going to develop breast buds on the blockers, but you're not going

00:10:02.380 to wait until 16 to start. You know that, okay? Josie received the blockers as an implant in her arm.

00:10:10.460 It's okay if you're crying. So with all the bravery she could muster,

00:10:14.660 you're going to feel a little bit of a... Josie held on tight...

00:10:17.380 Ow! ...as another chapter opened in this young girl's life.

00:10:24.160 It's closing up the skin.

00:10:25.340 A lot of times it strikes me that had this happened just 20 years ago...

00:10:31.880 Thank you.

00:10:32.700 ...I wouldn't have been able to give her blockers, and she would have had to go through male puberty. 1.00

00:10:37.080 That terrifies me. It's all done. Do you want a hug?

00:10:40.120 I don't know that she would have survived male puberty.

00:10:45.440 Now, it's hard to imagine any decent person watching that footage and not calling for the

00:10:50.100 immediate arrest of everybody involved in the production, from the doctors to the NBC news producers

00:10:54.560 to the parents. But nobody called for that back in 2012 when it aired. And that's kind of a big

00:10:59.880 takeaway from this segment, is that conservatives had a chance to shut down the child gender 0.99

00:11:04.080 transition racket early on. If there had been a loud and aggressive response to this agenda in

00:11:09.100 its early stages back in 2012, maybe it never would have made it off the ground. But the conservative

00:11:14.640 movement has historically been incapable of responding to cultural threats until they're so ingrained

00:11:19.960 that they'll take decades to root out and destroy. And this is a prime example of that.

00:11:25.540 The doctors involved in this barbarism have only gotten promotions and more power in the

00:11:30.160 interim. On Twitter, Billboard Chris reports that the doctor in that NBC news segment is

00:11:36.180 now running the gender clinic at Children's Hospital of Los Angeles. This doctor is somewhat

00:11:41.060 infamous for a clip that we played on this show a couple of years ago. And if you don't

00:11:45.240 remember, we'll play it again. Here she is explaining that it's okay to chop off a young girl's 1.00

00:11:50.240 breasts because she can always get new ones if she wants. Watch. 1.00

00:11:54.180 I'm just going to say this. Actually, people get married when they're under 20. Actually,

00:12:01.640 people choose colleges to go to. Actually, people make life-altering decisions in adolescence.

00:12:08.560 All the time. All the time. And honestly, most of them are good. It's just the bad ones that

00:12:15.900 we talk about. Oh my God, the cinnamon challenge, right? I mean, why do we know about it? Because

00:12:21.080 it's a thing and it's not common. Most teenagers aren't eating cinnamon, right? But some are and

00:12:27.220 they're on YouTube and that's stupid. But we don't put on YouTube the things that are really good 0.89

00:12:31.480 decisions, right? Oh my gosh, my kid took the S-18s. Not a very exciting after school special,

00:12:39.600 right? But so what we do know is that adolescents actually have the capacity to make a reason,

00:12:46.060 logical decision. And here's the other thing about chest surgery. If you want breasts at a later 1.00

00:12:52.680 point in your life, you can go and get them. Now, any sane human being watching that clip would

00:12:58.280 think, well, this person shouldn't be anywhere near children, much less running a gender clinic. 0.58

00:13:03.180 The truth is that documentaries and reports about trans kids often cite experts like this who are 0.72

00:13:08.940 clearly activists who are deranged. I mean, everything she says in that clip is either totally false or

00:13:15.580 completely beside the point. She claims that most decisions that teenagers make are good,

00:13:21.820 which is just an insane thing to say. If you've ever met a teenager or been one,

00:13:28.200 then you know how insane that is. She claims that you can go and get breasts at a later point in your 1.00

00:13:33.620 life after you've chopped them off, which is also insane. That's like saying you might as well chop 0.94

00:13:37.960 your arm off because you can always get a new one. No, you can get a prosthetic, but you can never have

00:13:42.920 the actual body part back. Most notably, she lists taking the SATs as a positive life-altering decision

00:13:50.520 that kids make. But that's not life-altering in the same permanent and irreversible and physical

00:13:56.640 way that sterilizing yourself and removing body parts is. And besides, kids don't choose to take

00:14:03.400 the SATs. The SATs are invented and administered by adults. Two kids who were either given no choice in

00:14:11.700 the matter by their parents or were heavily influenced in their decision, quote-unquote

00:14:16.000 decision, by the fact that every adult has told them it's necessary to take the test if you want

00:14:20.760 to be successful in life. So if gender transition is similar to taking the SATs as this doctor claims,

00:14:28.260 that only proves that kids who transition are forced to do it or heavily pressured just as they

00:14:34.760 are with the SATs. She has made the opposite of the point she was trying to make. And this is pretty

00:14:42.140 common. Ininvertently, trans activists often reveal truths that they wanted to keep hidden, 0.74

00:14:46.940 which is especially common in these documentaries like this one from NBC that show the child transition

00:14:53.060 process. We all remember the clips of Jazz Jennings revealing his deep unhappiness to his mother,

00:14:58.780 or recall the HBO documentary called Transhood. The whole film was full of children who clearly

00:15:05.300 didn't want to be a part of the gender cult. And here's just one profoundly disturbing segment from

00:15:11.240 that documentary. Watch. Good morning. Today we choose to recognize, honor, love, and celebrate

00:15:19.180 anyone here who would claim their identity publicly as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender,

00:15:26.740 queer, or questioning, intersex, pansexual, asexual, or any category that I've left out.

00:15:33.520 This is Phoenix. 0.86

00:15:46.920 You're a little shy? Do you want to tell your phone if you're a boy or a girl?

00:15:53.880 I just want to tell them that I'm a girl.

00:15:56.140 No. Okay. You can tell them that.

00:16:01.180 Uh-uh.

00:16:04.020 Okay. Phoenix would like you to know that she's a girl, and she prefers she and her pronouns. 1.00

00:16:11.300 This way.

00:16:12.760 May you be well, safe, and whole. We honor you exactly as you are.

00:16:19.900 So the boy is dragged up on stage at the fake church to announce his fake gender, 0.61

00:16:25.820 but he has no interest in being a part of this spectacle. His mother is literally pulling him

00:16:30.440 along by his hand, bringing him deeper into a, quote, gender identity that she picked out for him.

00:16:37.040 Also in the same HBO documentary, we see a young child being recruited

00:16:40.280 by his mother to become a trans activist, even as the boy objects and says that it's ruining his life.

00:16:47.320 Watch.

00:16:47.680 Soon, D.C., we're going to be moving to the White House presidential area to throw a book in Donald Trump's face.

00:16:58.400 I don't think that we want to say that, no.

00:17:00.820 This one is Time to Thrive, and it's for people who work with LGBTQ youth.

00:17:05.760 We actually go and meet with our senators and representatives.

00:17:09.660 After we do that, we go and sit and sell some of Avery's books for a little while.

00:17:15.320 I don't know. Avery. Manners.

00:17:19.140 I just don't want to even have a book. I've done too much in this world. It's ruined my life enough,

00:17:25.320 and now everyone in this world is going to know. If I sell my book, it's going to go on the news along with me for, like, the 50th time at this point.

00:17:36.820 And it's just going to make my life worse.

00:17:40.140 A couple years ago, you wanted people to know. 0.99

00:17:43.000 Yeah, I did, but now that was a really stupid, silly mistake, and now I don't. 0.97

00:17:47.580 Yeah, that's something. 0.98

00:17:52.720 We'll go back now.

00:17:56.220 So you'll listen to the mother there. She says, well, a couple years ago, you wanted this.

00:18:00.500 Yeah, when he was seven, you moron. 0.99

00:18:04.660 What, you said you wanted something when you were seven that you don't want a couple years ago? 1.00

00:18:08.600 That's unheard of.

00:18:10.540 Who's ever known a seven-year-old to change their mind?

00:18:12.480 The child says it's ruined his life.

00:18:16.920 Now, keep in mind that these are the, quote, trans kids who they put on TV.

00:18:22.880 These are supposed to be the mascots for child gender transition.

00:18:27.660 These are supposed to be the case studies that make the child gender transition industry look good.

00:18:33.020 These are the ones that they have hand-picked.

00:18:36.420 And yet these kids are clearly in pain and confused and abused.

00:18:42.480 And they want out.

00:18:44.920 So what about all those kids who aren't on TV?

00:18:48.580 What about the ones who don't make the cut to be profiled by HBO or NBC or TLC?

00:18:55.520 Watching clips like these, it's clear there's a reason the media has been much more careful in recent years

00:19:00.440 about putting so-called trans kids on camera.

00:19:03.360 They only do it now for very short propaganda pieces.

00:19:06.580 They don't let the kids say too much.

00:19:08.440 They're careful not to show too much.

00:19:10.300 It's the same reason they don't want you talking about news reports from a decade ago.

00:19:15.940 Trans activists desperately don't want the truth to slip through the cracks.

00:19:20.740 They know that the more people are able to distance themselves from the relentless propaganda of the moment,

00:19:25.540 the more people can get an unfettered look at the lifelong debilitating consequences of trans ideology on children, 0.72

00:19:31.460 the more transgenderism is exposed for the fraud that it is. 1.00

00:19:34.140 The bad news is that for the past several years, trans activists have largely succeeded in hiding the damage that they've done. 0.97

00:19:41.400 But the good news is that finally, the truth is coming out.

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00:21:32.120 So on Friday, we talked about the war on plastic straws,

00:21:35.660 which was waged at the behest of a nine-year-old boy

00:21:38.240 in order to save the planet from certain destruction.

00:21:41.120 And because of this war, we switched over to paper straws,

00:21:43.280 which are pretty much the least efficient, least effective material to make straws with.

00:21:47.140 But, you know, if you prefer to drink your straw rather than to drink with your straw,

00:21:51.520 then they're perfect because they dissolve into the liquid,

00:21:53.820 and, you know, you drink the—so you're consuming the straw itself.

00:21:57.660 Well, as it turns out, paper straws are not going to save the planet

00:22:00.360 because, in fact, they're made with what are called forever chemicals,

00:22:03.280 which last longer than plastic, and they also cause cancer and other ailments.

00:22:08.520 So we were told to go along with the paper straw thing

00:22:10.840 because it's only a small sacrifice for the greater good,

00:22:13.540 but it turns out that it's a small sacrifice that achieves nothing

00:22:17.140 and, in fact, actually causes more problems than it solves.

00:22:22.020 And that brings us to the latest update, which is not about paper straws,

00:22:25.000 but rather about a different product that was also supposed to save humanity a few years ago,

00:22:30.360 and this is from the Daily Mail.

00:22:32.280 Quote,

00:22:33.280 The surgical N95 mask has been held up as the gold standard

00:22:36.820 when it comes to protecting against COVID,

00:22:38.580 but a study quietly re-shared by the National Institutes of Health in spring

00:22:42.340 suggests the tight-fitting mask may expose users to dangerous levels of toxic chemicals.

00:22:48.560 Researchers from Jeon Buck National University in South Korea

00:22:52.680 looked at two types of disposable medical-grade masks

00:22:55.180 as well as several reusable cotton masks.

00:22:57.380 The studies found that the chemicals released by these masks

00:23:00.340 had eight times the recommended safety limit of toxic, volatile, organic compounds, TVOCs.

00:23:07.720 Inhaling TVOCs has been linked to health issues like headaches and nausea,

00:23:11.140 which, while prolonged and repeated use,

00:23:14.820 has been linked to organ damage and even cancer.

00:23:17.900 Quote,

00:23:18.180 It's clear that particular attention must be paid to the VOCs associated with the use of KF94 medical masks

00:23:24.580 and their effects on human health, the researchers wrote in a study published in April.

00:23:30.040 However, there are ways to reduce the damage, they said.

00:23:33.140 Exposure can be significantly reduced if a mask is opened and left to sit for at least 30 minutes,

00:23:37.360 the researchers wrote.

00:23:38.980 This suggests that the packaging of these masks could play a role in the amount of chemicals they have.

00:23:43.020 Once again, our basic common-sense intuitions have been vindicated.

00:23:50.480 All right?

00:23:51.020 Like, this is not a surprise to most of us.

00:23:54.220 Now, we may not have said anything before about toxic, volatile compounds.

00:24:00.100 Okay?

00:24:00.240 I don't remember back when the mask debate was really raging.

00:24:02.980 I don't remember the anti-mask crowd.

00:24:05.500 Of course, myself being in that crowd.

00:24:07.480 I don't remember any of us saying, well, but there are toxic, volatile compounds in these masks.

00:24:13.080 We didn't say anything about that specifically because we didn't know about that.

00:24:16.680 But many of us could intuit the fact that it's probably not healthy to strap a mask to your face all day.

00:24:26.300 Why isn't it healthy?

00:24:27.340 Isn't it healthy?

00:24:27.960 Well, because the healthiest thing, it seemed to us, is to have direct access to the air outside.

00:24:35.740 The healthiest thing is to breathe in the actual air. 1.00

00:24:40.540 And, of course, when we said that three years ago, we were shouted down by a bunch of smarmy idiots saying, 1.00

00:24:46.960 oh, yeah? 1.00

00:24:47.820 You think the mask isn't healthy?

00:24:49.280 What are you, a scientist?

00:24:51.140 Where are the studies, huh?

00:24:52.840 You have any studies about that?

00:24:54.880 What studies did you read that says that it's not a good idea to muzzle yourself all day?

00:24:59.360 You don't have any studies.

00:25:00.340 The answer, as always, is that the studies to confirm what any rational person already knew

00:25:06.860 would be coming in the future, but they weren't there yet.

00:25:11.160 And why is that?

00:25:11.860 Well, because prior to COVID, it was never considered an option to have billions of people

00:25:17.420 wearing masks all day, every day, everywhere, all the time.

00:25:23.020 Nobody had really studied that because nobody had been crazy enough to do it.

00:25:27.140 And the left is always using this kind of thing to their advantage, right?

00:25:31.440 They implement some insane new policy, and then they go, oh, yeah?

00:25:36.440 How do you know this is insane?

00:25:37.900 How do you know it?

00:25:39.880 Nobody's studied it.

00:25:41.920 Yeah, well, there's a reason for that, it turns out.

00:25:44.100 Now, that's not to say that they were mistaken or something.

00:25:49.460 This is all by design.

00:25:52.260 And the design is to get us to question and ultimately reject our own common sense judgments.

00:26:01.300 You know, they don't want you to use common sense.

00:26:03.660 It was to the point, as I'm sure you recall, where, you know, you had people wearing N95 masks 1.00

00:26:12.880 while they were exercising, like going for a six-mile jog around town and wearing an N95 mask.

00:26:21.580 And once again, those with common sense among us looked at that and said, there's no way that's healthy.

00:26:26.640 It just can't be.

00:26:27.440 It cannot be healthy to wear that thing on your face while you're jogging in the heat.

00:26:31.740 And the response always was, can you prove it?

00:26:35.720 How do you know?

00:26:36.140 It's like, I don't need to prove it.

00:26:37.580 It's just obvious.

00:26:38.780 It's common, self-evident.

00:26:41.200 Of course, that's not a healthy thing.

00:26:45.980 No, you got to wait.

00:26:46.700 You got to wait three years.

00:26:48.320 And then they'll come back around and say, oh, yeah, well, okay.

00:26:50.920 So there might have been something to that.

00:26:53.980 Common sense is the enemy of leftism.

00:26:56.140 So they demand that you ignore common sense.

00:26:59.460 You ignore your own brain.

00:27:00.580 The voice in your own head, your own instincts, your own intuition.

00:27:04.800 And instead, blindly follow them while they proceed to lead you directly into a ditch.

00:27:11.280 And then another ditch.

00:27:13.200 And the ditches get progressively deeper.

00:27:16.140 But the more you follow, the more you're conditioned towards pure obedience, just for the sake of it.

00:27:22.080 And that's the game.

00:27:23.420 That's the way the game is played.

00:27:24.440 And we all need to stop playing it.

00:27:29.240 So I have to mention this.

00:27:30.320 You've probably seen it by now.

00:27:31.660 But look, I'm a sucker for heartwarming videos.

00:27:34.820 I just am.

00:27:35.740 That may surprise you to learn about me.

00:27:37.300 But I love the heartwarming.

00:27:40.300 Anytime I see one of those videos that comes up on the feed of a young child getting a hearing aid for the first time and hearing his mother's voice for the first time, very heartwarming.

00:27:53.120 I always stop and watch those videos to warm my cold, dead heart.

00:27:57.480 But of all the heartwarming videos I've seen online in recent weeks, I think none were quite so nice as this one.

00:28:07.580 Let's watch it together.

00:28:22.160 Did anyone get that?

00:28:23.380 Yeah.

00:28:27.480 Get out, get out, get out, get out, on the ground, all of you on the ground now, get on the ground, get on the ground, don't move.

00:28:48.080 We're environmental protesters.

00:29:02.780 Please.

00:29:06.080 Sorry, I'm getting a little emotional.

00:29:11.800 Like I said, I'm just, I'm a sucker for these kinds of videos.

00:29:14.000 So that was the, that was the tribal police in Nevada dealing with climate protesters who were blocking the highway.

00:29:20.600 And as you can see, they just ram right through the barricade.

00:29:23.920 They throw the protesters on the ground, cuff them, drag them off while they cry and whine.

00:29:31.200 We're nonviolent.

00:29:33.260 It's just fantastic to see.

00:29:35.220 And there are a bunch of other videos like this from different angles.

00:29:38.820 And you could see the whole interaction.

00:29:41.020 It's fantastic.

00:29:41.840 I love every second of it.

00:29:43.980 It's worth watching all of it.

00:29:46.140 And the great thing is that the protesters themselves are the ones who filmed this and posted it, thinking that we would sympathize with them.

00:29:55.160 That we would watch this and go, look at what those mean police did.

00:29:59.180 That's terrible.

00:30:01.160 Except, except that literally everyone who saw these videos said, wow, that's awesome.

00:30:05.080 Good for those cops.

00:30:05.980 That's great.

00:30:06.680 Well done. 0.98

00:30:07.080 And this is how cops should deal with these clowns everywhere. 0.99

00:30:12.300 No patience, no mercy, throw them in cuffs and drag them away. 0.99

00:30:17.100 Ram through the barricades and just deal with them like that.

00:30:21.520 It's all great.

00:30:23.320 And it's great because for one thing, okay, blocking the road is not nonviolent.

00:30:29.220 You are using physical force.

00:30:31.140 You're using your own bodies to impede the movements of thousands of people.

00:30:35.600 That is not nonviolent.

00:30:38.160 And you have no idea where those thousands of people are going or where they need to be.

00:30:43.160 They could be going to the hospital with a sick child.

00:30:46.160 You know, you don't know.

00:30:46.840 Not to mention, you're trapping all these people in their cars in the heat out in the desert.

00:30:52.740 So, yeah, that's a violent act and it should be treated as such.

00:30:58.660 But notice something else and really take note of this.

00:31:03.360 Everybody loves the fact that these cops are just shutting these a-holes down. 1.00

00:31:08.800 Everyone loves it.

00:31:10.860 There was a climate protester group called Climate Defiance and they posted that video that I just showed you

00:31:16.680 with an outraged caption that says, words fail, words utterly fail.

00:31:22.060 Today, a police truck plowed into a peaceful climate blockade.

00:31:26.380 These are the people entrusted to keep us safe.

00:31:29.120 These are the people we've granted a monopoly on the use of force.

00:31:32.580 How is this okay?

00:31:34.920 And the thing is, every single comment responding to that post, every single one was like,

00:31:39.400 it's okay with me.

00:31:41.080 Looks great to me.

00:31:43.300 That's how everyone feels.

00:31:44.680 Okay, if you were to put this video in front of all 330 million people in the country,

00:31:50.280 it's guaranteed that at least 329,999,993 of them would love the video.

00:32:01.420 Very close to 100%.

00:32:02.880 And why is that?

00:32:06.220 Well, because the average person is sick of this.

00:32:10.220 They're just sick of it.

00:32:11.520 You know, I think like 10 years ago, maybe, that same exact video might get a slightly,

00:32:20.540 I think still most people would be on the side of the cops, but there might be a few more people

00:32:24.580 who would see that video 10 years ago and say, oh, that was a little excessive.

00:32:29.300 Come on, you don't have to do that.

00:32:30.360 But these days, people are sick.

00:32:33.780 They're tired of the lawlessness. 1.00

00:32:35.280 They're tired of these kinds of jerks interfering with your day for no reason. 0.99

00:32:41.320 They're tired of people who make your life harder and more miserable just because they can. 1.00

00:32:47.420 They're tired of the lack of accountability, the fact that people just do whatever they want

00:32:51.800 and the law is not enforced, they're sick of it.

00:32:57.160 And they're ready for some tough love, some rough and tumble.

00:33:03.160 That's what they're ready for.

00:33:05.100 And I think Republican politicians would do well to take note of that.

00:33:09.540 That is the mood.

00:33:11.100 That's the national mood right now.

00:33:12.640 One where people just want law and order.

00:33:16.020 That's what they want.

00:33:18.440 That's what we should always want.

00:33:20.880 But especially now, that's what people want.

00:33:26.080 All right, I want to talk about, well, there's this Oliver Anthony thing.

00:33:31.180 Last week, Anthony, of course, I mean, of course, the guy that's behind the Richmond,

00:33:35.820 North of Richmond song, he put out a video, I think it was late last week,

00:33:40.420 maybe on Friday, that got a lot of attention.

00:33:42.640 And really seemed to sort of divide people on the right.

00:33:46.000 There are two camps now that when it comes to Oliver Anthony and especially this video,

00:33:53.340 let's watch the video first and then we'll talk about it.

00:33:55.740 If there is anything for me to address at all with you, it's that,

00:33:59.040 you know, it's the one thing that has bothered me

00:34:07.620 is seeing people wrap politics up into this.

00:34:12.640 I'm disappointed to see, like, it's aggravating seeing people on conservative news

00:34:21.200 try to identify with me like I'm one of them.

00:34:24.480 It's aggravating seeing certain musicians and politicians act like we're buddies and act like we're fighting the same struggle here,

00:34:34.700 like that we're trying to present the same message.

00:34:36.680 You know, I've had a lot of people reach out to me and I've tried to be polite to everybody and I've talked to hundreds of people the last two weeks.

00:34:48.900 It seems like certain people want to just ride the attention of this song to maybe make their own selves relevant.

00:34:55.240 And that's aggravating as hell.

00:34:56.700 The other thing that I find aggravating is, well, you know, like, it was funny seeing my song in the,

00:35:05.480 it was fun, it was funny seeing it at the presidential debate.

00:35:08.520 Because it's like, I wrote that song about those people, you know?

00:35:12.820 So for them to have to sit there and listen to that, that cracks me up.

00:35:19.840 But it was funny kind of seeing the response to it.

00:35:22.260 Like, that song has nothing to do with Joe Biden, you know?

00:35:26.140 It's a lot bigger than Joe Biden.

00:35:27.780 And, um,

00:35:29.020 that song is written about the people on that stage.

00:35:34.980 And a lot more too, not just them, but, but definitely them.

00:35:39.440 Okay, now Anthony has come out and clarified his political stance since that video,

00:35:44.100 kind of restating that he's a centrist and that he said it's, it's, the song's not about Joe Biden, but,

00:35:49.960 but, well, it's not just about Joe Biden, he meant.

00:35:54.220 It's about, you know, it's bigger than Joe Biden and all that.

00:35:57.320 Which, of course, the problem is bigger than Joe Biden.

00:35:59.340 Um, but what he says in the video is interesting because it, it seems to have divided conservatives.

00:36:05.780 And there are some who say that they like the guy even more now, uh, that he, he,

00:36:09.780 this just makes him more, even more real and authentic and anti-establishment and all the rest of it.

00:36:15.400 And it's all great.

00:36:16.800 And then there are others who say that Anthony is trying to distance himself from conservatives,

00:36:20.580 that he's basically throwing his own fan base under the bus to appease the left.

00:36:25.160 And they're upset about that.

00:36:28.400 I'm not really in either camp exactly.

00:36:30.580 And here's the way that I see it.

00:36:31.680 First, to Anthony's credit, or in his defense, I guess,

00:36:35.160 um, he never planned to become nationally known overnight.

00:36:39.360 Um, he obviously wasn't prepared for the fame because you really can't be prepared for it until you have it.

00:36:44.880 And for him, he went from, he went from like very not famous, right?

00:36:48.500 He went from very obscure to famous in, in 24 hours.

00:36:52.900 And that doesn't happen very often.

00:36:55.260 Um, and even if it happens over the span of, uh, you know, if you climb up the ladder of fame over the course of years,

00:37:00.740 it still is, it's still, you get to a certain point where it's, it's, there's not, you know,

00:37:06.020 there's no guidebook that you can really read that will tell you how to navigate it.

00:37:11.260 Um, there are a lot of people, you know, there are publicists and consultants and whatever else,

00:37:15.860 you know, whatever people that, that claim that they're the experts.

00:37:18.660 And so, and then some of them are, are good, you know, do have good advice and others don't.

00:37:23.640 Um, but even being able to navigate that and know who you should listen to and who you shouldn't listen to,

00:37:27.860 again, there really isn't, it's just, you're kind of, you feel like you're on your own.

00:37:31.160 So, um, so he's dealing with that and that's, and that's bewildering and overwhelming.

00:37:35.960 And, uh, we can only imagine.

00:37:38.220 Also, he's a, he's a singer.

00:37:40.020 Uh, he's not, uh, a political pundit.

00:37:42.660 He's not an analyst.

00:37:44.260 Um, he's not a talking head.

00:37:46.320 Uh, he's also not a philosopher, right?

00:37:48.260 He's a musical artist.

00:37:50.040 And that's all he wants to be, which is fine.

00:37:52.840 That's good.

00:37:54.040 That's all we should ask of him.

00:37:55.860 Okay, we, we shouldn't want musicians to be political pundits.

00:38:00.100 And if a musician comes along that has a, and he has a message that resonates with people on the right,

00:38:04.520 it's very much a mistake to take that guy and insist that he become a Fox News pundit.

00:38:11.860 That's the worst thing you could do.

00:38:14.240 Uh, we don't need, we don't need to have him defending some party line, right?

00:38:18.760 You don't need musical artists to do that.

00:38:20.300 You don't need artists in general to do that.

00:38:21.960 They shouldn't be focused on a party line.

00:38:23.520 They should just be, uh, uh, you know, uh, they, they should be engaged with their art.

00:38:29.760 And, um, expressing themselves that way.

00:38:32.980 So that's on the one hand, on the other hand, uh, look, nobody cares if Oliver Anthony is

00:38:41.860 criticizing Republicans.

00:38:42.800 We all do that.

00:38:44.320 Nobody criticizes Republicans more than conservatives.

00:38:46.920 It's our favorite pastime.

00:38:48.260 We all do it all the time.

00:38:49.300 That's, that's all fine.

00:38:50.360 Okay.

00:38:50.640 So I don't care about that.

00:38:52.720 But just to be totally honest, when he says that he's aggravated by people in quote, conservative

00:39:00.180 news, I guess there are various ways of interpreting that, but that would seem to me very much to

00:39:07.180 be a reference to the people who gave him a platform to begin with people who, um, you

00:39:14.680 know, people who connected his song to other people.

00:39:19.480 Now people connected with the song because it's a good song and that's all on him.

00:39:23.200 He made a good song, but they heard it to begin with because of conservative media and

00:39:29.180 conservative personalities and influencers.

00:39:32.020 Prior to that, Oliver Anthony had an audience of basically no one on YouTube.

00:39:37.240 Um, and that's just a fact, you know, he, he wouldn't have an audience without the conservative

00:39:44.120 media personalities that he is now aggravated by.

00:39:48.160 And look, I'm old fashioned.

00:39:49.660 And I admit, I tend to think, uh, you know, like a thank you is perhaps more in order than

00:39:56.740 expressions of aggravation.

00:39:58.160 I don't know.

00:39:59.540 But what, what really rubbed me the wrong way most of all is not even that when he says

00:40:03.180 musicians, he throws musicians into that and he says, I'm aggravated by the musicians

00:40:07.080 who are pretending to be buddies with me.

00:40:08.540 Like who, which musicians are you referring to?

00:40:13.020 Because only, only a very, very, very few prominent musicians ever acknowledged that the

00:40:19.600 guy even exists.

00:40:21.380 I mean, John Rich is the only one I could even think of.

00:40:23.640 There might've been a few others, but, uh, and, and John Rich was not pretending to be

00:40:28.640 Oliver's buddy.

00:40:29.680 He was, he was trying to help him get his music out.

00:40:31.740 Um, almost all the other musicians just never said a single word about Oliver Anthony at

00:40:39.740 all.

00:40:40.100 So, and the few who did were complimenting him and supporting him.

00:40:43.960 And he's saying that he's aggravated by them, which is interesting.

00:40:48.160 And finally, he says that he's aggravated by the fact that the song was played at the Republican

00:40:52.340 debate.

00:40:53.900 Well, you know, an interesting fact here is that Fox called him and asked for permission

00:40:59.840 to play it at the debate.

00:41:01.940 And we know that because the Fox anchors who were the moderators have said that they said

00:41:05.500 they got permission, but even if they didn't say that, we already know anyone who knows

00:41:08.380 how these things work already knows, you know, when I heard it, that heard it playing at the

00:41:13.520 debate myself, I immediately knew that, that Oliver Anthony approved that because of copyright

00:41:17.720 law.

00:41:18.080 And they're not going to just play the song without permission.

00:41:20.480 I mean, they could, but, but they're probably not going to, they're going to get the,

00:41:24.100 they're going to get permission.

00:41:25.640 And they said that they did.

00:41:26.960 And so he approved the song being played and then said he's aggravated by it and then said

00:41:35.260 he doesn't want the song, the song politicized and he approved it being played at a political

00:41:39.140 debate.

00:41:40.940 So it doesn't make a lot of sense.

00:41:42.620 So that's where I'm at here.

00:41:43.500 You know, I, I do think he seems to be playing sort of both sides of the fence a little bit.

00:41:46.940 And I don't mean politically.

00:41:48.660 I don't care that he's a centrist.

00:41:51.380 Centrist, centrism is incoherent.

00:41:54.240 It's, it's never made less sense to be a political centrist than it does today.

00:41:59.920 When the, when the two sides are so fundamentally opposed on the fundamental realities of life,

00:42:05.820 there really is no middle ground on these issues.

00:42:09.460 An issue like, for example, is a woman, can a woman be a man or not? 0.87

00:42:13.920 Like there's no middle ground.

00:42:15.420 It just, you can't, it doesn't exist.

00:42:17.620 So you really do have to choose a side.

00:42:19.480 You just do, period.

00:42:20.700 Um, so centrism, it makes no sense, but, but I don't care about that.

00:42:26.180 You know, if you're a musician and you say you're a centrist, whatever, who cares?

00:42:29.840 That's not the point.

00:42:31.460 Um, it's the, what could be perceived as throwing people who've helped and supported you under

00:42:39.620 the bus.

00:42:41.600 That's the thing I don't like.

00:42:42.720 But then again, you know, the guy doesn't have a PR firm helping him through this.

00:42:48.360 That's the point.

00:42:49.220 So it is what it is.

00:42:50.560 That's what we're left with.

00:42:52.000 That's my take.

00:42:53.720 Um, okay.

00:42:56.260 Let's see.

00:42:56.840 One other story here.

00:43:00.080 Rock legend, Carlos Santana had some, had some choice words at a concert last week.

00:43:06.780 And let's, let's listen to that.

00:43:09.720 And then we'll talk about what happened after this, but go ahead.

00:43:13.780 There is no virtual reality.

00:43:19.760 When God made you and me, before we came out of the womb, you know who you are and what

00:43:27.080 you are.

00:43:27.600 Later on, when you grow up and you see things and you start believing that you could be something

00:43:40.860 that it sounds good, but you know, it ain't right because a woman is a woman and a man is 0.99

00:43:50.820 a man.

00:43:51.200 Whatever you want to do in the closet, that's your business.

00:44:02.400 So I'm okay with that.

00:44:04.840 I am like this with my brother, Dave Chappelle.

00:44:08.400 So there we go.

00:44:09.120 There's Carlos Santana.

00:44:10.260 Well said.

00:44:10.900 Well done.

00:44:11.420 Nicely put.

00:44:13.480 Woman is a woman. 1.00

00:44:14.140 A man is a man.

00:44:15.020 Shouldn't take any real courage to say that.

00:44:17.780 But, but that's the world we live in.

00:44:19.760 And he said it.

00:44:21.200 And notice, notice the reaction from the crowd.

00:44:23.820 Everyone is, there's no one booing.

00:44:25.180 Everyone's cheering him, which I think tells you where the culture is right now.

00:44:29.780 But now we start the countdown clock.

00:44:33.260 How many days before he issues the inevitable apology to the trans community for making these

00:44:38.780 bigoted and biologically correct statements?

00:44:41.100 How many days will it take?

00:44:42.260 That's, that's the question.

00:44:43.780 Well, it turns out if you said one day, then you were exactly right.

00:44:48.420 It took one day.

00:44:49.260 A day later, we have this.

00:44:52.000 From the Daily Wire, rock legend Carlos Santana issued an apology this week after a clip of

00:44:56.160 him went viral from a concert where he said, a woman is a woman, a man is a man, that's

00:45:00.160 it.

00:45:01.380 The 76-year-old guitarist said in a post on social media, quote, I'm sorry for my insensitive

00:45:05.720 comments.

00:45:06.380 They don't reflect that I want to honor and respect all persons' ideals and beliefs.

00:45:10.680 I realized that what I said hurt people, and that was not my intent.

00:45:14.500 I sincerely apologize to the transgender community and everyone I offended.

00:45:18.200 I want to honor and respect all persons' ideals and beliefs, whether they're LGBTQ or not.

00:45:23.100 This is the planet of free will, and we've all been given this gift.

00:45:25.800 It takes courage to grow and glow in the light that you are, and to be true, genuine, and

00:45:30.540 authentic.

00:45:31.400 We grow and learn to shine our light with love and compliments.

00:45:35.300 Have a glorious existence.

00:45:36.960 Peace.

00:45:37.240 There we go.

00:45:40.260 Now, they posted that on Facebook, and it appeared, I think, that it was deleted shortly

00:45:46.360 after it was posted, but then it was reposted.

00:45:48.480 And so, as far as I know, right now, it's still on Facebook.

00:45:52.000 And maybe there are people that want to give Carlos Santana the benefit of the doubt and

00:45:58.140 say that, oh, this must have been the publicist again.

00:46:00.020 It was like the Neo situation. 0.62

00:46:01.520 A publicist posted it.

00:46:03.680 I don't really buy that.

00:46:04.880 I didn't buy that excuse for Neo.

00:46:06.500 I don't buy it here.

00:46:07.500 I certainly wouldn't buy it in this case, especially because that statement did not

00:46:11.720 come off like a publicist statement.

00:46:13.420 That came off like Carlos Santana.

00:46:16.460 It came off like an aging rock musician issuing an apology.

00:46:21.740 That very much came off that way.

00:46:23.900 It actually came off like he wrote it.

00:46:25.460 And maybe having been given some bullet points from some publicists who said, you need to

00:46:35.320 apologize, and here are some points you need to make when you apologize.

00:46:38.380 And then he kind of, because he starts rambling at a certain point about love and compliments

00:46:42.680 and glorious existence.

00:46:44.180 Yeah, whatever.

00:46:44.660 So, he apologized for speaking basic facts.

00:46:51.660 And I don't know what's more depressing, the fact of the apology or the fact that we all

00:46:57.540 knew it was coming, how predictable it is.

00:47:00.380 And just the sheer cowardice.

00:47:06.540 Of course, anytime somebody speaks out and then apologizes for speaking truth, it's always

00:47:11.840 cowardice.

00:47:12.880 And they should always be condemned for it.

00:47:15.880 Okay?

00:47:16.340 This is far worse than never saying anything at all.

00:47:19.380 And that's why I always say, look, if you don't have the guts to stand by your words, then

00:47:26.660 just shut your mouth and don't say anything. 0.64

00:47:31.040 That's a lot better.

00:47:32.500 Now, I think everyone should speak out and speak the truth and stand by the truth boldly

00:47:38.720 and loudly and all that and with courage.

00:47:41.800 But if you don't have the guts, then just don't say anything. 1.00

00:47:46.440 Just play the damn song and shut up. 1.00

00:47:49.380 That's it. 1.00

00:47:51.020 And then none of this happens.

00:47:54.080 It's so much worse and so much more damaging when you say the truth and then apologize for

00:47:59.640 it.

00:48:01.300 And you do so immediately, which tells me that you weren't prepared.

00:48:06.300 It's not even like somebody says something that's true and then they get the left descends

00:48:14.860 upon them and rips them to shreds and ruins their lives and their livelihood.

00:48:19.380 And, you know, a month later, they come out because they've just everything's been destroyed.

00:48:25.060 Their life's been destroyed.

00:48:26.060 And then they finally apologize because they're desperate and they've had enough.

00:48:29.320 Right.

00:48:29.800 And they give in.

00:48:31.580 That would be that wouldn't be good either.

00:48:33.280 I mean, I would still condemn that as cowardice.

00:48:35.280 But that would at least be better than this when it's like a day late, 12 hours later.

00:48:42.460 So you weren't prepared to withstand any criticism of your statements.

00:48:48.640 Just the first criticism you get, the first time one trans activist says, you know, that's

00:48:54.640 transphobic.

00:48:56.240 In that first moment, you go, oh, you think that?

00:48:59.180 Well, never mind.

00:48:59.740 I apologize for everything I said.

00:49:00.820 But if that if you are that spineless, then just don't say anything.

00:49:07.680 But in this guy's case in particular, you're 76 years old and you're rich.

00:49:13.220 I don't know what his net worth is, but it's got to be tens of millions.

00:49:15.820 So you're worth tens of millions of dollars.

00:49:19.720 You're a very wealthy person.

00:49:21.940 You're a rock musician.

00:49:26.380 You're playing to crowds who agree with what you said, clearly, based on the reaction from

00:49:31.400 the crowd.

00:49:33.380 And you're an elderly man.

00:49:34.820 Like, what do you care?

00:49:36.060 Why would, of all the people who might care what others say about them or what trans activists 0.97

00:49:40.680 say about them, why would you care?

00:49:42.580 That is what is so kind of demoralizing, is that we need, you know, there are, when it

00:49:53.300 comes in particular to trans ideology, there are so many people that know that it's wrong.

00:49:59.840 I mean, almost everyone does.

00:50:02.180 And of all the people that know that it's wrong, there are certain people who are in a position

00:50:06.160 where they can speak out against it and they really risk nothing.

00:50:09.220 They have nothing, nothing is on the line, really.

00:50:11.660 Because they're in a position, either because of their fame or their wealth or whatever,

00:50:16.320 or their age or a combination of factors where there's really nothing that anyone can take

00:50:20.780 from them.

00:50:22.400 And so those people should be the first ones speaking out.

00:50:26.020 And yet they're not.

00:50:26.960 I mean, J.K. Rowling is pretty much the only one who said, well, she said, I've got a billion

00:50:32.660 dollars.

00:50:33.680 I'm rich.

00:50:34.860 I'm rich enough to live, you know, a million years.

00:50:38.480 What are these people going to do?

00:50:40.320 They can't do anything.

00:50:41.340 So I might as well.

00:50:43.420 So she speaks out.

00:50:45.220 And every time they complain, that's kind of her response back to them.

00:50:48.300 Like, what are you going to do about it?

00:50:49.120 You can't do anything about it.

00:50:50.600 You can't touch me.

00:50:51.640 I'm uncancellable.

00:50:53.820 It's good that she's doing that.

00:50:55.060 But there are so many more who could be in her.

00:50:57.260 It might not have a billion dollars, but they are, you know, in a position where they could

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00:52:59.240 A prominent author named Andrea Bartz reignited a familiar conversation over the weekend when

00:53:04.180 she tweeted about the joys of being, quote, child-free.

00:53:07.600 Here's what her post said.

00:53:08.520 And she's first quoting people on the other side.

00:53:11.360 She says, child-free people will never experience the joy of watching their child touch grass

00:53:15.180 for the first time.

00:53:16.600 And she responds to that by saying, okay, but do parents know the joy of being 37 and

00:53:20.300 sleeping in and drinking coffee in silence and then leaving the house on a moment's notice

00:53:23.960 whenever the F I want?

00:53:26.360 Every few months we get another attempt by a childless woman. 1.00

00:53:29.020 It is almost always a woman to try and convince us that it's actually a great idea to live 1.00

00:53:34.060 only for yourself and die by yourself and make yourself into an ancestral dead end, leaving 0.87

00:53:39.120 behind no progeny and no legacy.

00:53:41.460 And every once in a while, the woman making this case is someone other than Chelsea Handler.

00:53:45.520 But whether it's Chelsea Handler or not, the argument is always effectively the same.

00:53:50.180 If you don't have kids, you can sleep in, relax, drink coffee in peace, leave the house whenever

00:53:54.200 you want, and enjoy conveniences and luxuries that are beyond the reach of people with

00:53:58.460 children.

00:53:59.580 Now, the first and most obvious response to this kind of claim is that it's simply untrue.

00:54:05.240 It's a false premise.

00:54:06.680 Parents can and do know what it's like to do all of those things, sleep in, drink coffee

00:54:12.020 peacefully, et cetera.

00:54:13.140 We know because we experienced those things before we had kids.

00:54:16.860 And once our kids get older, we'll have just as much access to them as Andrea Bartz does.

00:54:22.160 In fact, all of the luxuries she mentions really only become difficult when you have young

00:54:27.640 kids.

00:54:28.060 And this is almost always the case when child-free, quote-unquote, people talk about what they

00:54:32.340 imagine the irritations and sufferings of parents must be.

00:54:35.280 They're almost always talking about parenting young children.

00:54:39.380 If your kids are, say, 10 or older, however, there's no reason why you can't sleep in or

00:54:44.360 enjoy silence in your home or even leave the house without much hassle.

00:54:47.820 So if these things do fall out of reach, it's only for, in most cases, maybe a 10-year window

00:54:55.200 or so.

00:54:56.580 In my case, the window's a little bit longer because we have 87 kids.

00:55:00.060 Still, it's not a permanent situation.

00:55:02.640 And even when you have young kids, even if you have 87 young kids, you can still experience

00:55:07.060 the joy of sleeping in and relaxing and so on.

00:55:09.220 It just requires a little bit of planning.

00:55:11.180 You have to hire babysitters.

00:55:12.460 You have to get the grandparents to watch the kids so you can spend a few days just with

00:55:15.940 your spouse or something.

00:55:17.000 There are many ways to orchestrate some relaxation time, no matter how many kids you have and

00:55:21.260 no matter how young they are.

00:55:22.180 You just have to put in some effort and some planning and be intentional to make those sorts

00:55:26.980 of joys available.

00:55:28.000 In fact, I would argue that only parents of young kids can experience those joys, however

00:55:33.080 fleetingly.

00:55:34.060 Sure, a 37-year-old woman without kids can wake up late in the morning and have a cup of 1.00

00:55:37.400 coffee in silence, but this is not any great treat for her.

00:55:40.600 It's just her life.

00:55:41.360 It's her every day.

00:55:42.620 She has nothing to compare it to.

00:55:43.740 I had many quiet cups of coffee before I had kids, but I didn't find actual joy in those

00:55:48.780 moments because it's all I ever knew.

00:55:51.040 You take it for granted.

00:55:53.460 Yeah, I admit I don't get very many quiet moments at this stage of my life, but when I do get

00:55:58.920 a single moment like that, I guarantee I enjoy it a thousand times more than Andrea has enjoyed

00:56:03.860 all of her quiet moments combined.

00:56:05.960 So she has me beat on quantity, but I'm winning on quality.

00:56:09.960 It's a simple and perhaps kind of depressing reality of the human condition that we can't

00:56:17.640 really appreciate something unless we've experienced its opposite.

00:56:22.360 You know, unless you have something to compare it to, you can't really appreciate it.

00:56:25.940 You just can't.

00:56:26.640 You can't really enjoy being full unless you've been really hungry.

00:56:30.260 You can't enjoy lying in bed unless you've been very tired.

00:56:33.540 You can't really enjoy walking out of the house without hassle unless you've actually

00:56:38.000 experienced trying to walk out of the house with a gaggle of small children who can't find

00:56:42.940 their shoes, their jackets, and are wearing clothing that has somehow become filthy and

00:56:46.720 stained in the 30 minutes since you put it on them.

00:56:51.100 If you've experienced that, then yes, in the moments when you get to walk out of the house

00:56:54.620 and everything's fine, you go, wow, that's a relief.

00:56:56.640 What this means is that only people with children can actually experience the kinds of joys that

00:57:03.400 are supposedly only available to people without them.

00:57:06.560 Life has an ironic way about it, you know, in that way.

00:57:10.700 Besides, when it comes to quiet, you know, not all moments of quiet are made the same.

00:57:16.760 So for example, last night at, you know, about 10 o'clock, Andrea Bartz, I assume, was most

00:57:23.480 likely in her house alone, wherever she lives, and I'm sure it was very quiet, and I was in

00:57:29.980 my house where I live, and it was also very quiet, but it was a full kind of quiet.

00:57:34.640 It was a warm quiet, not an empty and cold quiet.

00:57:38.020 My children were asleep.

00:57:39.480 My wife had gone to bed.

00:57:40.800 I went up to my kids' rooms.

00:57:42.440 I checked on them, tucked them back in, and then I sat on my couch and I read a book.

00:57:47.520 The house was as quiet as a house can get, just as it is every night, even though it was

00:57:52.240 full of kids.

00:57:53.320 So we were both relaxing in the silence, but mine was not a solitary silence.

00:57:57.820 Mine was the silence you get after you tuck your children into bed and kiss them goodnight.

00:58:02.580 Hers was the silence that you get when you have no children to tuck in and nobody to kiss

00:58:07.180 goodnight.

00:58:08.380 And I'll take mine any day.

00:58:09.860 I'll take both my loud and my quiet, my noise and my silence.

00:58:15.240 There's joy available in both, and I think to a much greater degree.

00:58:18.960 But that's the key word, you know, available.

00:58:20.980 And I made this point before, but I think it's worth repeating because it's something

00:58:24.500 that, quote, child-free advocates seem to miss.

00:58:27.840 I think many people miss it in many contexts in modern society.

00:58:31.580 Now, they're correct when they point out that parenting brings all kinds of challenges that

00:58:38.520 might cause parents to feel irritated and overwhelmed.

00:58:42.100 There's plenty in parenthood that can cause real suffering.

00:58:45.540 I mean, all of that is true.

00:58:46.900 It's also true that some parents are never happy.

00:58:48.880 They regret having kids.

00:58:50.500 They resent their kids for existing.

00:58:53.180 There are parents like that, no doubt about it. 0.99

00:58:56.040 They're miserable. 0.99

00:58:57.420 And their kids will rightly grow to hate them for being so miserable, which will only heap 1.00

00:59:02.040 more misery on top of misery.

00:59:04.260 All of that is true.

00:59:05.100 But that's because the joy of parenthood is available, but it's not imposed on us against

00:59:12.320 our will.

00:59:12.800 It will not sprinkle down on us like rain from the clouds.

00:59:15.660 It's made available, but you have to choose to experience it.

00:59:19.660 And choosing joy is all about focus.

00:59:22.500 What are you deciding to focus on?

00:59:24.820 What are you paying attention to?

00:59:26.600 You can take joy in those hectic mornings when your house is full of life and noise and energy.

00:59:34.340 That could be a joyful thing.

00:59:36.280 Or you can focus on the fact that you can't drink a cup of coffee in peace.

00:59:39.840 You can pay attention to what you aren't getting, what you can't do.

00:59:45.100 Or you can pay attention to the beauty in those moments.

00:59:48.600 That's how you take the joy that's available or not.

00:59:51.980 You can take it or you can turn it down.

00:59:54.260 That's it.

00:59:54.700 Life is presenting it, says, here's some joy.

00:59:57.080 You can feel it right now if you want.

00:59:59.480 But a lot of times people say, no, because I'd rather be focused on this thing that annoys

01:00:02.880 me.

01:00:04.660 Now, this is about as self-helpy as you'll ever hear me sound, but there's an important

01:00:08.400 point in it, which is that literally all of the joys of a child-free, quote-unquote,

01:00:12.820 life are absolutely available to those with children.

01:00:16.420 You just might have to work a little harder to get them, or you might have to wait a little

01:00:20.460 while and be a little patient.

01:00:22.360 But the joys of parenthood are absolutely not available to those who are not parents.

01:00:28.740 It's a whole category, an entire genre of joy that is out of reach for the childless.

01:00:36.240 Whether they want to choose it or not, it's just not available.

01:00:39.360 Life, it's not an option on the menu.

01:00:43.440 Now, I'm not trying to rub it in or gloat.

01:00:45.140 And I'm just trying to convey to anyone who's hesitant to have kids because they're worried

01:00:49.440 that they'll be unhappy, that you'll only be unhappy if you choose to be.

01:00:54.400 But a whole new level of happiness will be open to you if you choose that instead.

01:01:00.580 That's what Andrea Bartz and so many others who brag about being, quote, child-free don't

01:01:07.100 see.

01:01:07.380 And that's why they are today, again, canceled.

01:01:10.840 That'll do it for the show today.

01:01:11.660 Thanks for watching.

01:01:12.300 Thanks for listening.

01:01:13.080 Have a great day.

01:01:14.240 Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - August 29, 2023

Ep. 1214 - NBC's Trans Propaganda Accidentally Reveals The Horrific Truth About Trans Ideology

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