The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1223 - Woke Corporations Are Now Pushing 'Fat Liberation'

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, an alleged beauty brand has partnered with a morbidly obese BLM 1.00

00:00:04.420 grifter who's best known for getting a white student kicked out of school based on false

00:00:08.160 accusations. This is what corporate virtue signaling has come to. Also, Cleveland Catholic 0.89

00:00:12.300 schools have banned all things LGBT from their classrooms completely. It's a fantastic policy 1.00

00:00:17.240 that every school should adopt. Plus, John Fetterman has completely lost his mind, but we're

00:00:21.320 not supposed to notice, I guess. And Colin Kaepernick wants to try out for the starting

00:00:24.760 quarterback job on the New York Jets, but isn't that a form of slavery, according to him? We'll

00:00:28.580 talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:01:48.860 that in retrospect was a bit premature. I said that Apple's Mother Nature skit would be by far

00:01:55.700 the cringiest example of corporate virtue signaling over the past few weeks. And in case you missed it,

00:02:01.360 Tim Cook trotted out an overweight black woman playing Gaia, who was written to be as obnoxious 1.00

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00:02:17.340 the Apple executives being the committed pagans that they are, somehow managed to meet all of

00:02:22.020 her demands. And after watching that, in my defense, it didn't seem like any other major

00:02:26.440 corporation could one-up Apple in terms of over-the-top, shameless pandering to the most

00:02:31.540 unappealing, self-loathing elements of the far left. But as it turns out, Apple was not the only big

00:02:37.780 company recently that has been looking to exploit the archetype of a severely overweight black woman 1.00

00:02:43.480 for political gain. Dove, which is supposedly a beauty company, has just doubled down on that

00:02:49.800 strategy. They've hired a morbidly obese BLM grifter by the name of Zyana Bryans. And this effort by them 0.78

00:02:56.760 in terms of wokeness, it really takes the cake in every conceivable sense of the phrase. Dove's latest

00:03:02.480 marketing strategy is not simply cringy. It's not simply calibrated to deliver a very clear anti-white 0.64

00:03:09.600 message. It's also a window into the logical endpoint of leftism, because it's a manifestation

00:03:15.920 of all of the seven deadly sins, really, but especially gluttony and sloth.

00:03:21.300 Now, before I get into why this is such a revealing moment, we should begin with the first Instagram

00:03:27.020 video that Dove has paid this Zyana Bryant person to make. And this is apparently what companies do now

00:03:33.300 when they want to light their reputations on fire. Bud Light did it, and now Dove is getting in on the

00:03:39.260 action. Watch.

00:03:41.040 My belief is that we should be centering the voices and experiences of the most marginalized

00:03:45.360 people and communities at all times. So when I think about what fat liberation looks like to me,

00:03:50.240 it looks like centering the voices and the experiences of those who live in and who maneuver

00:03:55.620 through spaces and institutions in a fat body. It looks like making accessible spaces and having

00:04:01.080 conversations that are aware of the fact that people have different bodies and that they are

00:04:06.080 interacting with space and people and institutions and communities in a different way. Fat liberation

00:04:11.780 looks like fully embracing those differences and having those conversations instead of shying

00:04:16.540 away from them. To learn more about fat liberation and the campaign for size freedom that Dove is

00:04:22.740 supporting, visit dove.com forward slash size freedom. Tap in, join the campaign, support the campaign.

00:04:28.800 This is important and we should all be talking about it.

00:04:30.820 Beautiful woman, obviously goes without saying. Now, notice also she says we have to center the 0.74

00:04:37.860 voices of supposedly marginalized people at all times, at all times. So she should be the center

00:04:44.380 always. There's never a time when anyone else should be at the center. It's always her. Now,

00:04:49.840 this is not the critical point here, but it's always also worth noting the absurd,

00:04:54.080 comically pretentious way that these people speak. The woke crowd speaks in something that is not

00:05:01.300 really a human language. I mean, nobody talks this way. Maneuvering through spaces in a fat body.

00:05:07.900 No normal human being would ever use a phrase like that. Okay. What have you ever heard someone say

00:05:13.160 that in conversation? Well, you know, I'm just maneuvering through this space in a body.

00:05:18.020 You're not maneuvering through a space in a fat body. You're just a fat girl walking into a room. 1.00

00:05:22.940 That's what you're doing. But their worldview is so empty. It's so vacuous. It's so lacking in 0.99

00:05:28.680 any intellectual substance that they have to add 14 extra syllables to every sentence to distract 1.00

00:05:34.040 people from the fundamental stupidity of everything that they're saying. Anyway, Zion O'Brien is a 0.98

00:05:40.060 member of a marginalized group, she says, and she's seeking something called fat liberation. Now, you might

00:05:45.300 assume that the way to achieve fat liberation is to go for a jog and eat a salad, but that's not what

00:05:50.660 she means. And to her, it means that we need to be aware of the fact that people have different

00:05:55.920 bodies. Apparently, that was something that most Americans were not aware of. We needed Zion O'Brien

00:06:00.180 to tell us people have different bodies. And then we all said, oh, people have, I thought everyone had

00:06:04.600 the same body. I didn't realize fat people existed because we somehow didn't notice you when you walked

00:06:10.980 into the room. Now, to understand what the actual purpose of this advertising campaign is,

00:06:16.060 you need to know more about Zion O'Brien and why she's a hero in leftist circles.

00:06:22.220 So that goes back to the summer of 2020, during the BLM riots, when Bryant, who again is supposedly

00:06:29.660 a member of a marginalized group, destroyed the life of a white student at the University of Virginia

00:06:34.760 named Morgan Bettinger. The details of what happened are outlined in Bettinger's recent lawsuit against

00:06:39.920 UVA, alleging anti-white discrimination by the school's administrators who endorsed Bryant's

00:06:45.840 lies. This is a lawsuit that hasn't gotten much coverage, but ultimately it could rival the

00:06:50.620 landmark litigation against Oberlin by Gibson's Bakery, which Oberlin smeared as racist. We talked

00:06:55.520 about that in the past. That lawsuit, as you might remember, ended with a $36 million verdict against

00:07:02.380 Oberlin. And UVA may soon face something similar. So here's the background. On the evening of July 17th,

00:07:09.540 2020, Bettinger was driving through downtown Charlottesville in her Subaru station wagon. And that's when

00:07:15.540 she came across a massive BLM protest that, as BLM protests tend to do, was blocking all of the major

00:07:22.220 roads in town. Demonstrators were lying on the roadway, obstructing traffic. And to protect these

00:07:29.020 protesters from getting hit by cars, the city of Charlottesville deployed a dump truck to block

00:07:34.480 the main road completely. So the city did not arrest the BLM rioters for breaking the law and preventing 0.93

00:07:40.140 people from going where they needed to go. Instead, the city effectively encouraged them and even

00:07:44.660 participated in the riot by blocking the roads to give them space to riot. Which goes back to

00:07:51.580 the infamously several years ago, the mayor of Baltimore said that if people want to riot,

00:07:57.220 we need to give them space to destroy. And that, of course, is what many cities did during 2020,

00:08:02.060 Charlottesville, no exception. So they lent the thugs a dump truck for the purpose of being able to have

00:08:08.060 the riot. Now, Bettinger, understandably, didn't know what to do. She was trying to get home from her 12

00:08:13.480 hour shift at her summer job, and she didn't know, like, how am I supposed to get home? You blocked

00:08:17.520 all the roads. After waiting a bit, she exited her car, approached the dump truck driver to see

00:08:23.760 what was going on. And she said the following words to the dump truck driver, or something to this

00:08:28.180 effect, okay? She said, quote, well, it's a good thing you're here because otherwise they could be

00:08:33.560 speed bumps, referring to the protesters lying in the street. Like saying that, well, it's good you're

00:08:38.120 here because otherwise people are going to run over them and they turn into speed bumps. This was such an

00:08:42.440 innocuous conversation that when university investigators later asked the dump truck driver

00:08:46.800 about it, he had no recollection that Bettinger had said anything to him because it was nothing.

00:08:52.400 It was a nothing conversation, and there was nothing threatening in her tone. She was making an idle

00:08:57.820 observation to one person about the fact that the dump truck driver was preventing those rioters

00:09:03.480 from getting run over by cars. But some of the BLM rioters nearby heard Bettinger's comment,

00:09:10.660 and they decided that it was somehow a threat. And they swarmed her car and threatened to kill her.

00:09:17.300 One of the BLM activists who didn't hear what Bettinger said, but was nonetheless very offended

00:09:21.020 by it, was Zayana Bryant. Bryant wrote a series of viral tweets claiming that Bettinger's statement,

00:09:26.480 which she heard about secondhand, amounted to a dangerous act of white supremacy. For example,

00:09:32.060 she wrote, quote, email these UVA deans now to demand that Morgan face consequences

00:09:37.500 for her actions and that UVA stopped graduating races. Remember, the BLM rioters swarmed her car,

00:09:46.180 attacking her, but she's the one who needs to face consequences. In response to this,

00:09:52.360 local news outlets accepted Bryant's claims without any hesitation. One outlet, Seaville,

00:09:57.360 reported that Bettinger had issued a chilling and violent threat. Several UVA faculty members

00:10:03.220 openly mocked Bettinger, as well as Bettinger's faith, and called for her immediate expulsion.

00:10:08.220 The school opened not one, but three investigations into Bettinger. And ultimately, UVA kicked her out

00:10:14.520 of school, banned her from stepping foot on campus. They released public statements implying that she's

00:10:20.720 a white supremacist. Very quickly, under the guidance of a UVA dean, a four-member panel of

00:10:26.240 undergraduates convicted Bettinger of misconduct during one of these kangaroo trials at three in

00:10:32.260 the morning. This was not exactly a rigorous judicial process. Evidence shows that if the

00:10:38.260 panel of undergraduates didn't convict her, they feared that the day's big football game would

00:10:43.700 have been canceled by a BLM riot. So under the threat of riots, they convicted her of, they gave the

00:10:50.780 rioters exactly what they wanted. Now, around the same time, as the lawsuit lays out, UVA took other

00:10:58.040 actions that made it clear that they have a strong and pervasive anti-white bias on campus. To give one 0.72

00:11:02.940 example, a black student stood up and told white students to leave the common area on campus because 0.51

00:11:09.480 they're white, and the administration didn't do anything about it. And that incident was caught on 0.81

00:11:14.040 video. Several more examples just like that one in the suit. It wasn't until more than a year after the

00:11:20.140 incident that UVA cleared Bettinger of wrongdoing, although they still treated her like a pariah.

00:11:25.380 And Zyana Bryant, at long last, over a year later, admitted that she might have misheard what she was

00:11:32.340 told secondhand. And so maybe she was wrong about it. But by that point, the damage was done.

00:11:41.100 Bettinger's career prospects were ruined. She wanted to go to law school, but no law school would take her.

00:11:46.460 Her employer fired her. She was smeared publicly nationwide as a white supremacist.

00:11:55.040 After all the death threats and investigations and the public smear campaign, to this day,

00:11:59.800 Morgan Bettinger suffers from an array of serious psychological problems. I mean, real sight, but this is

00:12:04.760 actual real trauma that she's suffering from. And just to emphasize the injustice that was done to

00:12:11.720 Bettinger, consider that this treatment would have been way, way overboard, even if she had really done

00:12:19.160 what they accused her of doing. So even if she had said in a threatening or taunting way that the

00:12:26.320 idiots lying in the road would become speed bumps, or even if she said they should become speed bumps, 1.00

00:12:31.300 even if she got out of her car and yelled and said, you all should become speed bumps. You're lying in the 1.00

00:12:35.160 road, you morons. Let's say she had said that. She didn't, but what if she did? 1.00

00:12:40.920 That still would not even come close to justifying anything that was done to her. In that case,

00:12:46.100 she would be expressing entirely understandable frustration at the moronic thugs clogging up the 1.00

00:12:52.340 roads. And she would be saying and thinking what really almost everyone says, or at least thinks, 0.98

00:12:59.540 when there are a bunch of idiot protesters blocking the road. And she shouldn't face any consequence 1.00

00:13:06.280 at all for that. But that's not what happened. That's not what she said or did. And her life was

00:13:12.100 still destroyed. Zianna Bryant's life, on the other hand, has had a very different trajectory. For

00:13:17.380 destroying a white student at UVA based on a falsehood, Bryant has received one award after another.

00:13:23.000 In 2021, a year after her lies went viral, Bryant was honored by Al Sharpton's National Action Network,

00:13:28.620 which is supposedly a civil rights group. The National Action Network named Bryant as somehow

00:13:35.340 the Youth Activist of the Year. And here's part of her acceptance speech. Watch.

00:13:41.280 Hello, my name is Zianna Bryant, and I am an activist and organizer in Charlottesville, Virginia.

00:13:47.760 I am so honored to be receiving this year's Youth Activist of the Year award.

00:13:53.240 I know that young people have always led the way on the front lines of some of our country's most

00:14:01.020 progressive issues, and even internationally. Young Black youth are so multifaceted, so gifted,

00:14:11.040 so talented, and able to bring together crowds of people of many different ages and many different

00:14:17.900 walks of life. Well, Zianna Bryant definitely demonstrated that she can bring people together, 0.99

00:14:23.680 bring crowds of people together, as she says. That much is clear. What the National Action Network

00:14:28.260 is doing here is honoring someone who gathered a lynch mob to harass, threaten, and defame a young

00:14:33.560 woman, a young innocent woman, solely because of her skin color. Two years later, Dove is doing the

00:14:40.000 same thing. Now, at some level, this isn't surprising. Dove has been on this trajectory for a while.

00:14:44.480 They've unleashed one woke advertising campaign after another. This month, the company set up

00:14:49.260 billboards in New York's Times Square, showing a bunch of women exposing their unshaven armpits. 0.92

00:14:54.720 And as Outkick pointed out recently, Dove is owned by Unilever, which owns Ben & Jerry's,

00:14:59.600 maybe the single most anti-American corporation you can find outside of Tehran.

00:15:03.860 This is a beauty company that is clearly set on promoting ugliness and left-wing propaganda.

00:15:10.200 But I repeat myself. But even by the standards of corporate wokeness,

00:15:14.240 this latest move by Dove is extraordinary. I mean, it's revolting in every sense, yes. And

00:15:18.560 it's a deeply bizarre act of self-sabotage by a brand that's already flailing. But it's also a

00:15:24.800 clear sign that we're approaching perhaps the end of the runaway train of leftist ideology that's

00:15:31.020 taken hold of this country in recent years. The fat liberation movement that they're embracing

00:15:35.880 is, you might say, the logical endpoint of leftism. It's what we've been leading up to after the past

00:15:43.620 decade or so. Fat liberation and body acceptance explicitly promote and glorify hedonism. They

00:15:50.900 enable the most useless people to feel like martyrs and heroes. I mean, all you have to do is lie around 0.98

00:15:58.020 and eat. And suddenly you're part of a movement. And once you're that inert and powerless, there's

00:16:04.920 not much else you can do. There's not really any more activism you can undertake at that point.

00:16:09.420 I expect the fat liberation movement to become more and more popular. 0.53

00:16:12.880 Like, this is the movement of the future. This is the future of leftism.

00:16:17.860 Because it's the perfect opportunity for those who crave victim points.

00:16:22.120 All you have to do is nothing, nothing but eat. And you can gain access to a marginalized group,

00:16:28.960 along with all the social capital that comes with it. It's no surprise that corporate America is a fan

00:16:34.900 of this idea. They want us all to be mindless consumers sitting around sedentary with our mouths open,

00:16:39.800 ingesting whatever they shovel in. That's why it's not just Dove that's pushing this. It's why Apple

00:16:45.120 selected several overweight actors for their little Mother Nature sketch, as I mentioned. It's why

00:16:49.440 Calvin Klein and Abercrombie and Victoria's Secret now throw obese models in our faces. It's why 1.00

00:16:54.660 Gatorade, supposedly a brand that promotes athleticism, is putting fat yoga instructors in

00:16:59.540 its ads, and so on. We see this all over the place. At the height of the Occupy Wall Street movement,

00:17:05.520 which was the last time corporate America was truly worried about the left in this country,

00:17:09.800 there was a saying that you would hear a lot. Outside of the home of J.P. Morgan's president,

00:17:15.260 outside Citibank's corporate headquarters, activists would chant, eat the rich.

00:17:20.420 Well, it took a while, but these megacorporations have finally found a way to stop those chants

00:17:25.240 outside their offices and ensure that they'll never again come back. The race stuff and the BLM 1.00

00:17:31.260 propaganda, the trans hysteria, it's a good start. But now they've identified their finishing move. 1.00

00:17:36.780 They've realized that what they need to do is to convince the left to eat. Not to eat the rich,

00:17:43.340 but just to eat. And as of now, that effort is succeeding beyond their wildest imagination.

00:17:50.220 They are sleeping soundly in the financial district tonight. That's because they know that

00:17:55.160 the fat liberation movement, now unleashed, will soon devour what remains of the left.

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00:19:20.120 what is supposed to be a controversy, even though there's really nothing controversial here,

00:19:25.020 there shouldn't be. Over 100 Catholic schools in Cleveland will no longer tolerate LGBTQ plus 1.00

00:19:30.680 affiliation or behaviors. The changes come from new guidelines on sexuality and gender issued by

00:19:35.960 the Catholic Diocese of Cleveland at the close of last month. In a press release, the diocese

00:19:40.960 clarified that the guidelines were a formal policy version of existing church teachings on the subject.

00:19:45.600 Quote, since questions of sex, sexuality, and gender identity have become increasingly prevalent in

00:19:49.800 our society, it is our hope that the policy will help to ensure these matters are addressed in a

00:19:53.780 consistent and authentically Catholic manner across our diocesan institutions and diocesan Catholic

00:19:59.320 schools, and that those who serve will have a clear understanding about expectations and

00:20:03.500 accommodations related to those matters stated the diocese. Here's basically everything in the policy

00:20:08.460 summarized. The policy requires parental notification in the case of minors experiencing gender dysphoria

00:20:13.820 or confusion, declares that parental rejection of a child's preferred pronouns don't constitute grounds for

00:20:19.380 non-disclosure. In other words, you have to tell the parent if the child identifies as the opposite sex,

00:20:25.320 and even if the child says, well, my parents won't accept it, you still have to tell the parents. It continues,

00:20:32.220 it bans use of preferred pronouns. It restricts bathroom and facility usage to biological sex. It prohibits

00:20:37.020 admission of students to institution programs and activities like sports designated for the opposite sex. It bans same-sex 0.99

00:20:43.500 dates to school dances and mixers. It requires students to comply with dress codes aligning with

00:20:48.380 their biological sex. It bans any celebration or advocacy of LGBTQ plus ideologies or behaviors such as

00:20:54.200 pride flags and bans gender transition of any degree, whether social or medical. Just music, 0.75

00:21:02.760 almost a tear of joy almost comes to my eyes. Music to my ears. This is, well, we'll talk about it in a second,

00:21:08.800 but this is exactly, I mean, this is exactly what the policy should be everywhere, right down, you know, to the

00:21:15.960 very last detail. But we'll continue. The policy acknowledged the existence of gender dysphoria, but rejected the

00:21:22.660 modern belief that feelings determine truth. Quote, this understanding erases those intentional embodied

00:21:28.180 distinctions between men and women. As such, this view is contrary to the divinely revealed reality of our true God-given

00:21:33.640 human nature, stated the policy. Under the policy, individuals experiencing gender dysphoria or same-sex

00:21:38.560 attraction would be admitted into their schools and allowed to participate in activities with the

00:21:42.680 contingency that they don't openly express their disagreement with Catholic teaching on sex, sexuality, or

00:21:47.160 gender. Reverend Edward Molesich, the Bishop of Cleveland, stated in an accompanying letter that

00:21:54.000 biological sex coincides with God's divine plan. He said, quote, the human person is a unity of body and soul.

00:22:01.820 We experience the world through our bodies, and it's through the virtuous expression of our bodies that we

00:22:06.720 reveal God. Through times of questioning and confusion, we must accompany our brothers and

00:22:10.660 sisters in Christ with compassion, mercy, and dignity, so we might lovingly help them navigate the

00:22:15.140 confusion and arrive at truth. Molesich directed those with further questions or concerns to contact

00:22:22.480 the Diocese of Marriage and Family Office. Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb posted on Twitter that he

00:22:27.400 believed the policy represented a shocking betrayal of church teachings. Bibb offered his own definition of

00:22:33.140 Christian faith sans scripture. Bibb said, quote, for me, faith is about universal love and acceptance.

00:22:39.760 Instead, the new policy forces LGBTQ plus kids to hide their authentic selves and attends school in fear

00:22:46.500 of persecution for who they are. Ohio's Democratic Minority Leader for the Senate, Nikki Antonio, said the

00:22:52.640 diocese should not be given school choice funds over the policy. Quote, I'm extremely disappointed that the

00:22:58.260 diocese has chosen to focus on policies of exclusion over acceptance. State taxpayer dollars should not

00:23:02.920 subsidize exclusionary education, and if these policies stand, then the diocese should not accept

00:23:07.280 state-funded vouchers. Okay, so first of all, to reiterate what has already been said, this is obviously a

00:23:15.560 fantastic policy. Every part of it is absolutely what needs to be in place. Every Catholic school, every

00:23:24.700 Christian school of any denomination should adopt this policy. And if you're sending your kid to a

00:23:31.200 private Christian school and they don't have exactly this policy, then you should be going to

00:23:39.420 the administrators and saying, like, show them this article and say, why isn't this policy in place

00:23:43.380 at this school? Put it in place or I'm taking my kid out. I mean, if you're paying money for a private

00:23:51.040 Christian school, these kinds of schools oftentimes are not cheap, and you're paying money for that to

00:23:57.020 send your kid to a school that's supposed to be, why are you sending them there? For the Christian 1.00

00:24:02.980 culture, the Christian education. If you don't want that for your kid, then you're sending them to the 1.00

00:24:08.420 wrong school. And if you do want that and they don't have a policy like this, then you're wasting your

00:24:16.100 money. You might as well have them in a public school. At least you could do that for free.

00:24:22.400 So every Christian school should have this. Every school period, including public schools,

00:24:29.260 should have a policy like this. Because what is the policy really? It's like sexuality, LGBT, 0.70

00:24:37.220 all that stuff does not belong in the school. That is not for the school. That has nothing to do

00:24:44.100 with what the school is supposed to be doing. And certainly, the school is supposed to be a place,

00:24:51.880 any school, any educational environment is supposed to be a place of clarity and truth,

00:24:58.660 which means that we teach biological sex. That's all that exists. That's all we teach. 0.90

00:25:07.760 And we don't affirm confusion. If any kid is confused about it, we try to help them through

00:25:16.520 that confusion. We don't affirm the confusion. This again, any educational environment, that's what

00:25:23.920 it should be. But this is also, on top of just being what every school should adopt, this is a very

00:25:35.300 simple, extremely basic distillation of Catholic teaching. And there is no disputing that. I mean,

00:25:45.040 you can dispute it. Like the mayor, what was it, the mayor of Cleveland? Yeah, the Cleveland mayor,

00:25:49.720 Justin Bibb. Bibb might try to dispute it. Oh, this is not Catholic teaching. Yes, it is.

00:25:58.720 And that's not ambiguous. Okay? Like when we're talking about what Catholic teaching is on things

00:26:06.220 like sexuality, gender, it's actually not ambiguous. Now, if you listen to many of your average sort of

00:26:17.260 Novus Ordo priests in America, it may seem somewhat ambiguous. I mean, they're not going to talk about it

00:26:24.420 at all, most of them, because many of them are cowards. And so they're not going to approach these 0.96

00:26:28.820 issues at all. And so you might think based on that, that it's ambiguous. And even what you hear

00:26:36.060 from the Pope sometimes might make it sound like there's some gray, there's not. That's the beautiful

00:26:42.800 thing here when it comes to these teachings. They are written out. Okay? You could pick up a catechism

00:26:48.380 and it's the Catholic church saying, here's the Catholic teaching on these subjects. And it is

00:26:54.280 very detailed and very clear. And there is no room for ambiguity.

00:27:02.860 So even putting aside the fact that this is just right, this is the correct, you know,

00:27:06.980 these policies are correct by any objective measure. There is certainly no way that a reasonable

00:27:15.660 person could deny that they are at a minimum, actually the Catholic church's teachings.

00:27:22.900 Because again, it's all written out and it's right there. And if you want, you can read it.

00:27:29.460 And if you're not, if you oppose Catholic teaching, well, you're allowed to in America,

00:27:37.040 don't send your kid to a Catholic school. Okay? If you're sending your kid to a Catholic school

00:27:42.400 and you fundamentally oppose Catholic teaching, well, then you're an idiot. That's your fault. 1.00

00:27:50.160 No one is required. There's not any law saying that you have to send your kid to a Catholic school.

00:27:54.600 You're not being forced to do it. In fact, you have to pay money for the privilege.

00:27:59.040 So you're going to the Catholic school and saying, here's money. I really want to send my kid here.

00:28:04.480 And they're telling you, okay, we're a Catholic school. It's right there in the name.

00:28:09.880 So we go by Catholic teaching here because it's a Catholic school.

00:28:16.100 And you have the opportunity there to either say, oh, well, I'm not interested in that. I'll take

00:28:19.720 my money elsewhere. Or you could say, okay, I'm on board. You know, by sending your kid there and

00:28:25.920 paying the money, that is you agreeing that you're on board. You can't then turn around and whine

00:28:31.780 that the Catholic school is Catholic. It's no different from going to a mosque 1.00

00:28:43.400 and then complaining that you're hearing Muslim teaching at the mosque. It's exactly the same kind 1.00

00:28:52.180 of thing. It's like walking into the mosque and you hear Muslim teaching, Islamic teaching,

00:28:57.460 and then you complain. Well, what is this? I don't want to hear this. I'm not a Muslim.

00:29:02.620 I don't want to hear this stuff. Why'd you walk into the mosque then?

00:29:09.220 So that all is very clear. The second point to the mayor Bibb's claim, he says, for me,

00:29:18.720 faith is about universal love and acceptance. Okay. Well, the first part of that can be correct

00:29:27.520 if you have the appropriate understanding of love. So Christian faith, is it about universal love?

00:29:36.120 Yes. But what do you mean by love? If you mean love the way that it's understood in Christian

00:29:44.980 teaching, the love to willing the good of the other, that's what means to love someone. It means

00:29:50.300 you want what is good for them and you want to help them achieve the good in life and to be good

00:29:59.060 people, then yes, we should want the good for everybody. That's not how he means it though,

00:30:09.700 because then he adds on acceptance. And the Christian faith, to be very clear about this,

00:30:17.020 the Christian faith is certainly not about universal acceptance. It is, if anything,

00:30:25.280 the opposite of universal acceptance. That is not what you get from the Christian faith. It's not 0.98

00:30:32.500 what you're supposed to get. I mean, you can't get universal acceptance anywhere actually from any

00:30:40.880 belief system, any belief system, any religion, any ideology, anything like that, any political

00:30:51.320 system, any system of beliefs. There's never going to be universal acceptance. As part of the beliefs,

00:30:57.800 there are going to be things that we believe and things we don't believe. We have our principles,

00:31:04.120 we have our worldview, we have our teachings, we have our moral teachings, and then we have the

00:31:09.720 things that are not, that are outside of that. If we accept everything, then it's nothing. The moment

00:31:16.900 that any belief system accepts everything, it ceases to become a belief system. It evaporates,

00:31:23.640 it disappears. So if Christianity, as this ridiculous mayor says, if Christianity was really 0.99

00:31:31.940 about universal acceptance, that's just another way of saying that Christianity doesn't exist. 0.99

00:31:39.940 Christianity would destroy itself, would commit suicide if it was really about universal acceptance.

00:31:46.440 But that's not what it is. No, we're not opening our arms and accepting everything that everybody

00:31:58.640 does and says and believes. No. It's the same thing when you hear that churches should be welcoming.

00:32:09.420 Churches should be universally welcoming. Yes, churches should be welcoming.

00:32:12.440 We should be welcoming. We should be ready to welcome anyone who wants to come in the doors of

00:32:18.840 the church. But you have to come in ready for repentance, ready to change, ready to accept what

00:32:26.300 you hear, to accept the teachings and beliefs that are going to be offered at the church.

00:32:33.180 If you're not ready to accept that, so it's really the burden of acceptance. You have all these

00:32:38.760 people. I want to be accepted. The burden of acceptance is on you. You have to be willing

00:32:45.560 to accept that there are changes that you need to make in your own life. And we all do.

00:32:56.340 So that's where the acceptance comes in. It's not what this guy is talking about. All right.

00:33:03.560 Here's something from the website Market Watch. It says, Bill Maher and Drew Barrymore recently

00:33:09.940 announced plans to resume their shows amid the Hollywood's writers and actors strike,

00:33:14.500 drawing backlash from union officials and public figures alike. Maher hosts real time with Bill

00:33:19.380 Maher on HBO, while Barrymore is behind the syndicated Drew Barrymore show. Maher, who announced

00:33:24.400 his decision Wednesday, said in a post on Twitter that it's time to bring people back to work and that

00:33:29.260 much of his staff is struggling mightily. But Maher also said that he will honor the spirit of the

00:33:33.220 strike by not doing a monologue or his popular new rules segment. In other words, elements of the

00:33:37.720 show that require writers. Still, union leadership didn't take kindly to Maher and Barrymore's decision.

00:33:43.680 The Writers Guild said Wednesday that Maher's plan to return was disappointing, and the union has

00:33:48.400 already picketed tapings of Barrymore's show. Frank Lieberman, an entertainment executive,

00:33:54.200 told Market Watch that there's no question that some people in the industry are indeed hurting

00:33:58.040 financially and need to find work. But he also thinks that the decisions by Maher and Barrymore go beyond

00:34:02.960 that. It's all about greed, he said. Okay, so I have this story. It's worth mentioning, I thought,

00:34:10.200 but I have no dog in this fight, of course. I don't care either way. If the Hollywood writers get

00:34:17.620 everything they want in this dispute that's been going on for however many months now, they get

00:34:23.040 everything they want out of it, then fine. If they get nothing that they want out of it, that is also

00:34:28.720 fine. Don't care either way. It's hard to assess who deserves what, because on the one hand,

00:34:35.960 you've got the Hollywood studios, and they are, they're the ones, they are who the strike is

00:34:42.380 targeting. And the Hollywood studios, it's not like anyone has any sympathy for them. I mean,

00:34:48.220 they're godless cesspools. On the other hand, Hollywood writers these days are awful, 0.96

00:34:53.020 unoriginal, unoriginal, untalented. I mean, in many ways, they could not have timed this strike

00:35:01.720 worse. There could not be worse timing, because most of them are so bad at their job. I mean,

00:35:08.260 the writing in Hollywood is just terrible these days. So all you can really do in this match,

00:35:15.260 I guess, is root for injuries, metaphorically. Metaphorically, I mean, this is a game where you're

00:35:19.180 just rooting for injuries, because you can't, you can't root for either side. That said, you do see

00:35:23.020 the kind of inherent selfishness of these sorts of strikes and organized labor protests, and why it's

00:35:31.700 always absurd when you hear from these people that, that they care about, you know, the working man,

00:35:38.440 and this is all about justice and all the rest of it. No, it's not. The people, the writers picketing

00:35:45.460 outside, they don't care about justice. They don't care about helping people who are hurting. They don't

00:35:50.940 care about any of that. Because you've got thousands of other people who are not part of

00:35:59.700 this strike, and are not going to benefit from any of the concessions that you may extract, and all of

00:36:07.340 them are out of work. I mean, Bill Maher's show, there's dozens of other people who are not writers

00:36:15.340 who work on that show and rely on it for an income, obviously. You know, and, and they're not making an

00:36:26.460 income right now, and they don't benefit at all from any of this. And if the writers get whatever they're

00:36:32.220 asking for, and I don't even know what they're asking for, because I don't care, but if they get whatever

00:36:35.740 they ask for, these other people are not going to see any of those benefits. And so they want to get

00:36:40.880 back to work so they can feed their families. And then the, the, the writers on strike have the audacity

00:36:47.660 to be angry about it. They're saying, how dare you feed your own families? I'm trying to get a raise

00:36:54.900 over here. That's what a strike is. Like, you want a raise, you want your own money, and so you're going to

00:37:03.300 make everybody else suffer. Not the bosses, like the Hollywood studio bosses, they're not, they don't

00:37:08.920 care. They obviously don't care. That's why they're not, that's why they're going to let this strike

00:37:12.820 continue. They got, they got money to burn. You're not hurting them any. You're hurting everybody else

00:37:19.660 who are not millionaires. Many of them make less money than you do as a writer on these shows.

00:37:24.860 They have no concern about that at all. They don't care.

00:37:30.980 All right. John Fetterman has made the mistake of speaking on camera a few times lately. And,

00:37:38.280 you know, he kind of, he got into office, then he was in an institution for mental problems for

00:37:48.280 several weeks. And, you know, and we were supposed to have no issue with that whatsoever, right? Because

00:37:54.580 he said it was depression. And, and anytime someone talks about depression, there's supposed

00:37:58.700 to be sort of hushed silence and reverence around it. And when no one is allowed to make any criticisms

00:38:05.260 whatsoever. And so we couldn't point out that like, this guy was just elected to Senate and now he's in

00:38:09.100 the hospital for psychological issues. Is that, is that okay? We're just okay with that? For a

00:38:18.020 senator? And that happened and he finally got out of the hospital. We haven't heard much from him,

00:38:23.860 but he's finally, he's, he's appearing in front of camera, in front of the camera again recently.

00:38:28.580 He has a few times. And, and if you're wondering if things have gotten any better for him, they haven't.

00:38:33.900 So here, here he was, uh, a few days ago, earlier in the week when asked about the possibility of a

00:38:40.520 Biden impeachment. Let's watch.

00:38:42.820 I was asking about this news that, uh, Speaker McCarthy has formally launched an impeachment

00:38:47.260 in, or has said he's going to. Oh my God, really? Oh my gosh. You know, oh, it's devastating.

00:38:54.500 Ooh, don't do it. Please don't do it. Oh no. Oh no.

00:38:59.220 Okay. So there he was a few days ago. And if somehow, uh, you might think it can't get any

00:39:06.380 weirder than that, but it can, because there was a few days later, another journalist followed up

00:39:12.120 with him on this question. And this time he's, for reasons that are unclear, he's wearing a, uh, a Bob

00:39:22.680 Casey mask, Senator Bob Casey. He has a mask of Senator Bob Casey that he's wearing and that's

00:39:30.140 never explained. Um, and here's how he responds. You basically dared house Republicans to launch

00:39:38.940 this impeachment inquiry. Now they have regret it. No, please don't do it. It's just like those

00:39:45.780 dangerous man over there. You know, the, the cheap thrills and everything. I don't know. It's just,

00:39:51.220 to me, it's, it's just like, if they got to do it, they got to do it. You know, it's a political

00:39:55.940 loser. So his response was just like those dangerous man over there, the cheap thrills 0.95

00:40:04.720 and everything. If you got to do it, you got to do it. And I, I watched that clip several times

00:40:12.080 because I, I'm look, I want to believe I wish the best for, uh, for Fetterman. I want to believe

00:40:17.840 he's, he's getting better. I want to believe just for my own sake as an American citizen

00:40:21.840 that, um, that we don't have a sitting U S Senator who has completely lost his mind entirely. So I

00:40:31.240 would like to believe that he's getting better and can speak coherently, uh, at least. And so I

00:40:38.140 listened to that clip a few times and I'm like, okay, let's give him the benefit of the doubt.

00:40:41.180 So, you know, maybe, maybe that made sense. Let's try to make sense of it.

00:40:49.360 Just like those dangerous man over there, the cheap thrills and everything. I, that does, I can't,

00:40:54.620 I can't, I can't make sense of it. That doesn't mean anything. So he's, he's, he's babbling

00:41:01.260 nonsensically. He's walking through the halls of Congress, wearing a mask of a different Senator,

00:41:09.920 babbling nonsensically, and no one knows what he's even trying to say.

00:41:16.460 And this is okay. This is an okay situation for all of us.

00:41:22.400 We're not allowed to, to, to question it.

00:41:27.660 Uh, yeah, we talked about this earlier in the week, but this is, we are just not a serious country.

00:41:33.620 We are not a serious country. When you have people like this running it, we are not a serious

00:41:39.560 country. Um, okay. We got to get to the next segment here, but there's a couple other stories

00:41:44.360 I wanted to mention briefly if we have time, which we don't, but I will anyway. Um, I do want to

00:41:49.380 mention this for Sports Illustrated. So I've had this for a couple of days. Uh, it says the intrigue

00:41:53.580 surrounding the Jets quarterback position following Aaron Rogers, week one injury quickly picked up steam.

00:41:58.680 Aaron Rogers, of course, if you don't follow football, he left the Packers and went over to the Jets.

00:42:02.580 At the age of, I don't know how, I think he's 38 or 39 now. Went over to the Jets and it's getting a lot

00:42:09.680 of hype in the off season. Aaron Rogers is going to revitalize his career. Uh, finally, the Jets are

00:42:16.360 going to be relevant, you know, for the first time in 600 years, maybe the Jets will, uh, have a chance

00:42:21.540 at a Superbowl. And then Aaron Rogers runs out of the tunnel and, uh, for the first series on offense

00:42:27.520 on Sunday. And within about 75 seconds, he's torn his Achilles. He's out for the, he's out for the

00:42:33.100 season. Uh, which is, I mean, it's, it's terrible. Um, but in a very, in a very dark way, there's a

00:42:44.000 certain humor to it because this is just the Jets. If you know anything about football, the Jets really

00:42:49.460 are cursed. And, uh, it, it, it, it's exactly what we all kind of expects. It's shocking, but also

00:42:57.720 exactly what you expect. And it's also why I could, when they announced that Aaron Rogers was going to

00:43:03.620 the Jets, I couldn't, it's like, of all, why would you do that? Of all the places you could go when

00:43:09.980 you're Aaron Rogers, there's got, there have to be other options, including just going to the golf

00:43:14.620 course and retiring. You can do that too. You're going to go to the Jets. That always ends in tragedy

00:43:21.100 for everyone. Every person who's ever gone to the Jets, it ends in tragedy. Why would you do it?

00:43:28.380 That's exactly what happened here. So anyway, he went down with the injury. He's gone for the season.

00:43:31.900 Um, and continue with, uh, Sports Illustrated. While we know Zach Wilson is the team's starting

00:43:37.640 quarterback and there won't be any form of competition. There's plenty of debate over

00:43:40.240 the backup job. Things took an interesting twist on Tuesday when it was reported that former 49ers

00:43:45.360 quarterback Colin Kaepernick had entered his name into the conversation. According to NFL reporter

00:43:49.420 Jordan Schultz, who said he spoke with Kaepernick directly, the 30, 35 year old agent reached out to

00:43:54.540 the Jets about an NFL return following the injury to Rogers. Um, quote Schultz said, I just spoke with

00:44:01.020 Colin Kaepernick who tells me his agent has reached out to the Jets about his desire to make an NFL

00:44:05.100 return. Kaepernick remains on the West coast working out. Uh, but 24 hours later, the Jets

00:44:10.380 made it clear that they're not interested in Colin Kaepernick. Um, now anytime you get a story like

00:44:17.540 this about every single year, it's the same thing. It's been the tradition now going on seven years

00:44:21.780 that a starting quarterback goes down with an injury and then there's all the speculation. Oh,

00:44:25.440 maybe they'll call it Colin Kaepernick. Um, and the first thing you always have to point out is

00:44:30.360 that Colin Kaepernick is the guy, uh, infamously in his Netflix special who, who said that NFL owners

00:44:37.860 are, are like plantation owners and being on an NFL squad, being a starting quarterback for an NFL team

00:44:45.060 and making millions of dollars plus millions more with endorsement deals is like slavery. It's just

00:44:50.300 like being a slave. It's just like being forced to pick cotton in the fields in the, in the 1840s.

00:44:55.700 Exactly the same. He said, and yet somehow this guy is eager to get back on the plantation. He wants

00:45:02.600 to be owned again. He wants to be enslaved again. Very interesting thing. But I also love, I love this

00:45:09.700 tradition of the Colin Kaepernick speculation because it always shows the people who know football and

00:45:15.580 the people who don't. Um, and so this time around it was people like Jamil Hill. She's always in the,

00:45:22.040 in the mix. He was out there pushing for the jets to, to pick up Colin Kaepernick and putting

00:45:28.840 everything else aside about Kaepernick, right? Like if you know, if you have even basic football

00:45:35.020 knowledge, you know, that there's just zero to 35 years old. He hasn't played football in seven years

00:45:42.980 and he was already on, he was already past his prime when he left the NFL. He, he, he was on the

00:45:52.960 bench. He'd got kicked out of his, uh, his starting job for, for Blaine Gabbert before he left. And now

00:46:00.440 he's been gone for seven years making a shoe commercials and you think he can come back at 35 and, uh,

00:46:09.700 and succeed in the NFL. We'll just kind of shows, shows us what your, uh, the extent of your football

00:46:16.520 knowledge, I suppose. All right, let's get to, was Walsh wrong?

00:46:29.700 That is the, uh, just kidding. It's the comment section today. The comment section lives on, uh,

00:46:34.600 on Fridays, as I explained, uh, recently. So, uh, I've got a few comments we'll read through from,

00:46:40.840 um, the shows this week. White Squall says, I used to be a hundred percent confident that,

00:46:46.100 uh, Matt was trolling everyone, especially Ben Shapiro about his certainty that aliens exist,

00:46:51.040 but now I'm not so sure. Well, obviously I'm not trolling at all. I'm a hundred percent serious,

00:46:56.420 but everything I say when it comes to aliens, um, but at the same time, I will admit that,

00:47:01.820 you know, I have you exactly where I want you. This is exactly what I want. I want you to be unsure

00:47:06.480 if I'm serious about anything that I'm saying, everything that I'm saying, all of it could just

00:47:12.520 be one. It could be one big, this could be performance art, the whole thing. You never know.

00:47:17.600 You never know. Um, Jay Bird says there was this documentary called The Secret a decade ago or so

00:47:26.160 that had basically this message about manifestation, but combined with the idea that the powers that be

00:47:31.640 are hiding this knowledge from us. It was for some reason, a huge success where I live and I was

00:47:36.260 dumbfounded at the amount of seemingly normal people who bought into that nonsense. Yeah.

00:47:39.800 We talked about the manifestation trend, which is a, especially popular on Tik TOK. Of course,

00:47:43.640 a lot of people brought up this thing called The Secret, which I'd never actually heard of before,

00:47:48.680 but I was aware that, you know, manifestation, as I said, during that segment, it's just,

00:47:53.900 it, it, it is itself a manifestation of earlier trends going back years and years and years.

00:47:58.480 So, so it always just pops, something like this pops up and becomes trendy every decade or so

00:48:03.340 has its own version of the same basic thing. Why is it? It's not hard to see why it's appealing

00:48:08.460 to someone. First of all, when it comes to The Secret, you know, the idea that there is some

00:48:13.860 deep, dark, uh, secret about the universe that is being hidden from you and that, that, that,

00:48:21.660 you know, you, you can obtain this knowledge somehow. That's very appealing to people.

00:48:25.900 Um, it appeals to people because, uh, for one thing, it's like a movie. It's very cinematic

00:48:31.400 and everyone wants to feel like they, you know, people live dull lives and they want to feel like

00:48:35.060 they're living in a movie. Um, it appeals to your ego as well. Oh, I know the secret.

00:48:41.460 It's like the manifestation Tik TOKers. I know this. I know the secret. I know the trick. 1.00

00:48:46.020 I know the secrets of the universe. I know how to make everything work. I know when you don't,

00:48:49.660 I can tell you. And then when I tell you, you'll know it and other people won't.

00:48:52.740 So it appeals to ego. But most of all, most of all, it appeals to, uh, laziness and that as always,

00:49:00.520 you know, for any trend to really, uh, pick up steam these days, it has to first and foremost

00:49:08.760 appeal to people's lazy side. It has to be something that they can do by doing nothing.

00:49:16.020 And manifestation is perfect for that. You do nothing at all except think something and everything

00:49:23.580 in your life gets better. Um, Travis says, my daughter said stuff like this and I asked her

00:49:30.220 to concentrate on heat really hard and manifest a fire. And then she saw the stupidity. Sometimes 1.00

00:49:36.140 kids need to be reminded that life can be harsh. Um, but working through that harshness is what

00:49:41.580 creates success. You and your efforts, not the universe to the universe. You are like a bacterium

00:49:47.580 on a dust speck. Well, that's exactly right. The universe, as we said, the universe doesn't, 0.94

00:49:53.480 the universe has no feelings about you whatsoever. Uh, the universe will, you know, the earth,

00:50:00.240 the sun will explode one day and incinerate the entire solar system and the universe won't care at

00:50:07.160 all. It won't mean anything to the universe because the universe is, is, is a big mindless vacuum.

00:50:11.520 So if you're appealing to the universe, then you're already on the, uh, the wrong side of things.

00:50:16.200 Um, life starts now says, Matt, I love the new intro. I don't know why it's getting so much hate

00:50:22.140 being that you were kind enough to grace us with some beautiful banjo music, of course,

00:50:25.960 played by you, I'm sure. Well, thank you. At least one person has the right feeling about the intro,

00:50:30.840 which is again, objectively better than the old one. And yes, uh, did, uh, am I the one who plays the

00:50:37.100 banjo in the, in the intro? Of course I do. In fact, I play it live every single show. You don't

00:50:42.040 see it cause we don't, we're not, but I'm that, that is all live music. Every show me playing the

00:50:46.240 banjo. It's true. Uh, and then a bunch of comments about my upcoming appearance on Dancing with the

00:50:51.140 Stars. Cornbread Oracle says, I really admire Matt for taking the time to keep giving us great content

00:50:56.520 while he's busy with his new Dancing with the Stars gig. Truly stunning and brave. Um, yeah,

00:51:01.520 that, that's something that, that's, uh, obviously I had to take some time off in the summer

00:51:06.280 because I was, you know, I was doing a lot of dance practice, but, um, for the most part,

00:51:12.920 I'll be able to keep doing the show. Uh, I wake up early in the morning. I, I do, uh, some dance

00:51:17.420 practice, but I've always done that. I wake up first thing I do in the morning is I dance, um,

00:51:22.440 for about an hour. And so I'll be able to do that, get off the show, go to the dance studio. So I'll be

00:51:28.360 able to fit all this in and hopefully I won't miss too many shows. Um, Dream Weaver says, I can't wait to

00:51:34.400 watch Matt twirls way down the stage and leave us all in awe of his grace and talent. Jay Journey

00:51:40.600 says, Victor Korkiglyov choreographed Madonna's Material Girl video in 1987. He also worked with

00:51:45.840 Janet Jackson. He mentioned Matt in an interview last year saying the Matt Walsh, he good for the

00:51:50.100 dance. Like vodka, he melt ice cube. Make him proud, Matt. Um, that's, uh, that's true. In fact,

00:51:57.160 if you, if you research, uh, the, the, uh, choreographer, uh, you'll, you'll find that exact

00:52:02.820 quote. Um, and finally, absolutely love the way you milked this on Twitter for days. The negativity

00:52:09.260 just kept coming and coming and you just kept replying and replying. I was laughing my off and

00:52:14.660 you're still doing it now. Kudos dude. Chef's kiss. Well, sir, keep your on because, uh, I was not

00:52:20.500 joking. No part of this is a joke and I don't know what else you need. I think we showed the

00:52:27.000 evidence, didn't we? Variety reported that Matt Walsh is going to be on Dancing with the Stars.

00:52:32.180 I don't know what else, what else do you need to understand that this is not a joke at all.

00:52:36.040 When Dr. Jordan B. Peterson made the decision to join Daily Wire Plus, it was a major win for those

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00:53:35.560 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:53:43.080 Today for our daily cancellation, we turn to a publication that we haven't mentioned in a while,

00:53:47.340 but has historically provided a lot of fodder for this segment. And that would be the Gay 1.00

00:53:51.300 News site, Pink News, which makes its way back onto our radar today with a recent article titled

00:53:55.680 Same-sex couples feel like second-class citizens and face gay tax trying to start families. Now,

00:54:02.040 this may be the first time you've ever heard of the gay tax, given that it doesn't exist. But

00:54:06.360 let's read on to find out more about this fictional phenomenon. Quote,

00:54:10.120 for Whitney and Megan Bacon-Evans, having a family has always, was always in the cards. But the

00:54:15.480 influencers, like other queer couples, say they never imagined the gay tax they'd face 0.99

00:54:19.600 on their fertility journey. Now, just another side note here, and not to get too technical,

00:54:23.980 but having a family is most certainly not ever in the cards for two women or two men.

00:54:29.860 The word have, in this context, usually means create or make. It means that the two of you

00:54:35.540 together are making a family, creating children, becoming mothers. But that's not something that

00:54:40.460 two women can ever actually do. One woman can create a baby with an anonymous man who loans his sperm 1.00

00:54:46.040 for the purpose. And she would be the mother of the child. But the other woman is not anything at 0.98

00:54:52.000 all in relation to the child. And this is actually not just a technicality. It's the whole point. But

00:54:57.220 we'll get back to that in a minute. Reading on, quote, the couple who have been together for almost

00:55:01.420 15 years knew within six months that they wanted to have children together one day, even picking

00:55:05.820 out names for their future kids. Whitney tells Pink News that the couple was really in the dark

00:55:10.220 because there were no examples of families that looked like theirs who accessed fertility treatment

00:55:14.500 through the NHS. Then when they finally got an NHS consultation, they were given the wrong

00:55:19.040 information. The couple, known collectively online as Wegan, were told that they needed to go through

00:55:24.120 at least six cycles of intrauterine insemination, IUI, in the clinic before they're eligible for NHS

00:55:30.220 in vitro fertilization, IVF. But they later found out that, in fact, it was actually 12 cycles,

00:55:35.560 which costs upwards of 1600 euros, I suppose, for each cycle. They say, quote, they say six of which

00:55:43.840 had to be at the clinic, but you can't do home insemination with sperm from a sperm bank. So 12 0.86

00:55:48.540 of which would have to be IUI in the clinic, Megan says. So you're looking at around 25,000 euros to

00:55:55.520 50,000, potentially depending on tests, the cost of sperm, which is expensive as well, let alone anything

00:56:00.780 else that goes with it. Now, as you listen to this, you may still be waiting for the part where they

00:56:05.080 explain how gay couples are specifically penalized or taxed. Well, you'll be waiting around forever 1.00

00:56:11.300 because they never do get around to that because, again, it doesn't exist. Continuing, we were just

00:56:16.900 really shocked because we're like, hang on a minute. There's clearly a big unfair financial burden that's

00:56:21.440 been placed on same-sex female couples in this situation because the criteria for a cis heterosexual

00:56:26.060 couple is two years of unprotected sex. So while we know that it takes its toll and it's not a fun

00:56:32.360 process for anyone to go through trying to conceive, there's no evidence required and there's

00:56:36.360 no financial cost. There's just a clear divide where there's a gay tax, if you will, being put

00:56:41.620 on lesbian couples. Whitney says she felt like a second-class citizen, that the couples weren't

00:56:45.900 worthy of having a family as a result of this unequal treatment. So in 2021, they launched a

00:56:51.500 landmark judicial review into these hurdles, campaigning for fertility equality across the UK.

00:56:57.320 While sharing their story and campaign online, Megan and Whitney heard from other couples facing this

00:57:01.960 challenging situation with one saying they spent €100,000 but still didn't meet the criteria from

00:57:08.740 the NHS. Now, the rest of this story is that after Megan and Whitney went to the courts, they, of course,

00:57:16.260 got what they wanted. An NHS group called the Frimley Integrated Care Board stepped up to, quote,

00:57:22.180 volunteer to give same-sex couple, female couples, the same access to fertility treatment as heterosexual

00:57:27.300 couples, as The Guardian reported a few weeks ago. So they whined about it, and the people they were

00:57:32.120 whining at caved immediately, as expected. And they're now free from the burden of the fictional

00:57:38.140 gay tax. But what is the gay tax exactly? You know, it's hard to tell what they're even talking about

00:57:45.240 in this article. I read, unfortunately, two other articles on the case, and they always leave it

00:57:50.360 somewhat vague. But here's the crux of it. If you live over in the UK, the healthcare system there,

00:57:56.120 the NHS, will help fund your fertility treatments if you're a couple having problems with your

00:58:01.280 fertility. So the two years of unprotected sex line in the article refers to the requirement that

00:58:06.060 a couple, a man and a woman, try to conceive naturally for two years. And if they can't,

00:58:11.880 then the assumption is that they're suffering from infertility, and the NHS will help them obtain

00:58:16.320 treatment. The problem is that two women or two men cannot conceive naturally to begin with.

00:58:25.460 They are, in principle, by their nature, unable to have kids. Whitney and Megan and many other gay 1.00

00:58:32.880 couples in the UK say that that means that they should automatically get free IVF. But the NHS,

00:58:40.220 prior to folding like a lawn chair, had a different view. The funding for IVF was supposed to go to

00:58:45.540 people who have fertility disorders of some kind. So if lesbian couples want that funding, 1.00

00:58:51.420 they have to prove that one of them has a fertility disorder. Being lesbian is not a fertility disorder. 0.99

00:58:58.340 If two women try to get together and get pregnant, and they're unable to, that doesn't prove that they

00:59:02.660 have a fertility disorder. It's like trying to toast a piece of bread with a toaster unplugged,

00:59:07.680 and then claiming that the machine is broken.

00:59:09.380 So the old NHS rules were actually holding lesbian couples to the same standard. 0.99

00:59:15.340 But the lesbian couples wanted a special new standard, and they got it. Or they're in the 1.00

00:59:20.600 process of getting it as the wheels of bureaucracy turn slowly. So that's why this story is relevant.

00:59:27.260 It's a perfect encapsulation of our culture, and especially of the LGBT movement.

00:59:31.500 Same-sex couples claim that they want the same rights as everybody else, but really they want 1.00

00:59:36.900 new rights. They want special rights. They want special privileges that nobody else gets.

00:59:44.120 The NHS had offered fertility treatment funding for people with infertility problems.

00:59:51.540 And those people had to prove that they were infertile. There was a process.

00:59:55.640 And then the lesbian couples come along, and they declare they should get funding right away

01:00:01.360 automatically, even if they aren't infertile. They want a rule where straight couples have to 1.00

01:00:08.880 be infertile to get funding, but they get funding whether they're infertile or not. So in the name of

01:00:15.460 equal rights, they demand special rights. It's a tale as old as time, or at least as old as the LGBT 1.00

01:00:21.660 movement itself. So to understand this dynamic, you have to understand its underpinnings.

01:00:29.480 Traditionally, the Western world has viewed a human right as something fundamental to our human

01:00:35.200 nature. By our nature, we have rights. All men are created equal, endowed by their creator with

01:00:41.020 certain unalienable rights. So through the creator, by our nature, we have rights. This is what's always

01:00:48.860 been meant by the doctrine of human rights. But the LGBT movement comes along, and they reject this

01:00:55.180 idea completely. They do not claim the rights that we possess by our nature as human beings. They claim

01:01:02.400 rights over and above nature. They claim rights over nature itself. In fact, they say that our nature,

01:01:11.420 rather than giving us rights, actually infringes on our rights. And so they demand rights that

01:01:16.980 transcend nature itself. Nature, or really nature's creator, has decided that new human beings can only

01:01:26.200 be conceived by one male and one female. By our nature, two women can never create a child, can never 1.00

01:01:34.420 make a family, just as two men can never create a child, can never make a family. That's just how it 0.97

01:01:39.220 is. This is the way it's been set up. Claiming to be persecuted by this fact is like claiming that

01:01:45.520 you're persecuted because you can't fly or you can't breathe underwater. It might be nice to fly.

01:01:51.780 It might be nice to breathe underwater. You might wish that you could. But the fact that you can't

01:01:57.220 isn't any kind of infringement against you. It's simply reality. It is what it is. You might have

01:02:04.560 the desire to sprout wings and fly, but you don't have the right to sprout wings and fly.

01:02:09.720 But the LGBT movement says that it somehow has the unalienable and fundamental right to do things

01:02:18.500 that are impossible. It has the right somehow to transcend nature itself. A man declares that he has

01:02:26.240 the right to be a woman. Two women declare that they have the right to conceive children. 0.84

01:02:31.240 But the man cannot be a woman. And the two women cannot conceive children. Because it's impossible. 1.00

01:02:38.880 It's just impossible. It's not how nature is set up, whether you like it or not. It just isn't so.

01:02:49.520 So then they insist that if they can't do these things, society must step in. We in society must

01:02:56.320 help them pretend that they can do what they really can't do. It's our responsibility to

01:03:02.680 call the man a woman, even though he isn't. It's our responsibility to fund fertility treatments for 0.98

01:03:09.060 the two women so that they can create a baby in a petri dish and pretend to be a family. 1.00

01:03:14.400 Nature itself has deprived them of the ability to do what they feel they have the right to do,

01:03:18.740 and so society must compensate. This is what the LGBT camp always means when it talks about rights. 0.93

01:03:26.160 It is the fundamental arrogance and entitlement that underlies the entire movement.

01:03:31.940 It's what our friends Whitney and Megan are really demanding. And it's also why they are today

01:03:37.400 canceled. That'll do it for the show today and this week. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening.

01:03:44.060 Have a great day. Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - September 15, 2023

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