The Matt Walsh Show - September 29, 2023


Ep. 1233 - Team Sanity Wins A Major Victory Over The Gender Ideology Cult


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Trans activists never saw this coming. Also, GOP donors are now trying to push Glenn Youngkin into the race to save the day. And Britney Spears was freed from her conservatorship thanks to the Internet mob. Now she s falling apart in front of our eyes.

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00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, a major victory for Team Sanity this week as a judge upholds Tennessee's ban on child gender transitions.
00:00:06.860 Trans activists never saw this coming. We'll talk about it. 1.00
00:00:09.680 Also, GOP donors are now trying to push Glenn Youngkin into the race to save the day.
00:00:14.060 I'll explain why that's a horrible idea.
00:00:16.160 And Britney Spears was freed from her conservatorship thanks to the Internet mob.
00:00:19.500 Now she's falling apart in front of our eyes. Good work, guys.
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00:02:00.460 Last night was a big night because it marked the single most crushing legal defeat that trans activists and corrupt civil liberties organizations and big law firms and big pharma have suffered in years. 0.92
00:02:11.980 Less than 24 hours ago, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, which has jurisdiction over Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and Tennessee, issued a point-by-point refutation of every substantive argument that proponents of transgenderism have made over the past decade.
00:02:26.120 And this was not a ruling on technicalities.
00:02:28.500 This was a well-articulated takedown of their claims in every dimension, medical, legal, logical.
00:02:35.260 And given the makeup of the Supreme Court right now, we can be pretty confident that this ruling is going to cause some major problems for trans activists for the indefinite future.
00:02:44.320 It's hard to see the Supreme Court right now overturning this ruling.
00:02:47.920 And the upshot is that the bans on child gender transitions in both Tennessee and Kentucky will stand.
00:02:54.900 So both are immediately going into effect.
00:02:57.440 You know, when our ban was passed in Tennessee, trans activists gloated that they would easily get it overturned in court. 0.78
00:03:04.120 But they failed.
00:03:05.500 We beat them.
00:03:06.800 Now, in a moment, I'm going to get into specific details about this ruling and what exactly it says and the context for it.
00:03:12.380 But one of the first takeaways is this, that no matter how often you're smeared as a bigot, no matter how often you're told to believe a lie and to just trust the experts, quote-unquote, you have to maintain your convictions.
00:03:22.980 Like, if you know that what you're saying is true, then you stand by that.
00:03:26.960 And if you do that, eventually you'll win.
00:03:29.600 I mean, the truth really does prevail eventually.
00:03:32.940 And in this case, the lives of millions of children are better off because of it.
00:03:36.680 Now, you may remember that it was just about a year ago that we ran a series of video clips from Vanderbilt Medical Center in Tennessee.
00:03:43.260 And these clips showed that medical professionals at Vanderbilt were pushing experimental operations on young people, including children, who claim that they were transgender and born in the wrong body.
00:03:53.500 And in one case that we uncovered, a physician at Vanderbilt admitted that operations like this were a big moneymaker for the hospital.
00:04:01.940 And, in fact, she said that that was one of the ways that she convinced the hospital to get into this business is by pointing out how much money there was in it.
00:04:09.300 And in this footage and many other clips and news reports along these lines were a big part of the reason that lawmakers in this state were spurred to take action.
00:04:17.460 In March of this year, the state of Tennessee enacted a, quote, prohibition on medical procedures performed on minors related to sexual identity.
00:04:24.800 And this law banned health care providers from administering or offering to administer any, quote, medical procedure to a minor for the purpose of either enabling a minor to identify with or live as a purported identity inconsistent with the minor sex or treating purported discomfort or distress from a discordance between the minor sex and asserted identity.
00:04:43.400 Basically, this bans cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers, which is castration and sterilization of children.
00:04:50.200 Among the procedures that were outlawed in Tennessee were operations that involved surgically removing, modifying, altering, or entering into tissues, cavities, or organs, and prescribing, administering, dispensing any puberty blocker or hormone.
00:05:04.980 In fact, this was a total ban on what the media loves to call gender-affirming care for minors, which is really a form of castration and mutilation and sterilization.
00:05:14.080 And Kentucky passed a similar law.
00:05:16.020 Shortly after this bill was signed into law in Tennessee, a judge by the name of Eli Richardson, who, by the way, was appointed by Donald Trump, blocked the law.
00:05:24.900 And Richardson held that the voters of Tennessee don't have a right to overrule the medical experts who say that minors need cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers.
00:05:34.480 There is a constitutional right, Richardson ruled, for parents to dictate the medical treatment of children, as long as major medical associations concurred that the treatment is necessary.
00:05:44.940 Which means that, according to him, there is effectively a constitutional right that parents have to castrate and sterilize their children.
00:05:53.340 This is very confusing because you might go and look at the Constitution and try to find that right, or anything that resembles it, located in that document, and you won't find it.
00:06:02.020 It was a, to put it mildly, bizarre decision, and I outlined this on Twitter at the time, there were a lot of obvious holes in Richardson's ruling.
00:06:12.400 He cited cases that didn't support his argument, for example, and he put a lot of faith in activist doctors and quacks, like the ghouls working at WPATH, who constantly changed their minds about these so-called standards of care of trans patients. 0.94
00:06:25.020 And they're constantly expanding those standards of care, so that they can include more and more people and get more and more people sterilized and castrated.
00:06:33.740 But the end result was that Richardson issued an injunction against the state of Tennessee.
00:06:38.980 He prevented the law prohibiting childhood castration from going into effect, even though this law was passed by democratically elected politicians.
00:06:47.100 And that's what he decided to do.
00:06:49.560 But within days, in an extraordinary move, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals put out a preliminary opinion that rejected Richardson's opinion and overturned his injunction.
00:07:00.600 The Sixth Circuit allowed the Tennessee law to go into effect and promised to issue a final ruling on the injunction by September.
00:07:07.080 And last night, we got that ruling.
00:07:09.120 And that ruling is everything that parents and anyone else who actually cares about children could have possibly hoped for.
00:07:17.580 I mean, it goes far beyond the tepid, wishy-washy, kind of down-the-middle approach that we so often see in so many courts related to this issue.
00:07:26.460 For one thing, the court completely rejects the argument from the ACLU and trans activists that, quote-unquote, experts and medical associations and big pharma should be able to just unilaterally overrule the will of the people.
00:07:42.380 And you hear this argument all the time from these people.
00:07:45.540 They tell you that you have to ignore common sense and ignore all that, ignore your own rights as a parent, and celebrate the butchery of children because the experts know best.
00:07:55.740 And if the experts say that this is what you're supposed to do, then just do it.
00:07:58.380 Don't think about it.
00:07:59.320 Just go along with it.
00:08:01.580 But last night, the appellate court ruled that if a majority of voters in Tennessee or any state think that kids shouldn't be castrated, then their judgment is what matters.
00:08:12.900 That's supposed to be the whole point of living in a democracy, after all.
00:08:16.900 Quoting from the decision, it says, quote,
00:08:18.280 As long as it acts reasonably, a state may ban even longstanding and non-experimental treatments for children.
00:08:23.960 In other words, unless voters are doing something that's clearly going to kill children, then they get to override these so-called experts.
00:08:32.240 But the court didn't stop there.
00:08:34.120 They noted that the experts, you know, as far as that goes, haven't even come close to proving that these gender-affirming treatments, quote-unquote, do anything productive.
00:08:45.160 Quoting from the decision, quote,
00:08:46.280 The court continues, quote,
00:09:05.240 Now, the court was especially harsh on the quacks at WPATH, which is the World Professional Association for Transgender Health. 1.00
00:09:30.820 This is the group that creates the, quote-unquote, standards of care for trans-identifying patients.
00:09:36.740 And then pretty much every major hospital just takes that as gospel.
00:09:41.300 Whatever WPATH says, it goes, as far as the hospitals are concerned.
00:09:46.000 The court noted that WPATH first said that puberty blockers and hormones should be used on children about a decade ago.
00:09:53.020 But before that, the court noted, quote, its guidance documents from 1979 to 2000 generally disfavored using puberty blockers or hormones for minors.
00:10:02.740 And only in 2012 did it abandon age limits for cross-sex hormones.
00:10:07.140 And even now, the court observed WPATH concedes that data on long-term consequences of these hormones are limited.
00:10:13.940 Which is an understatement, but even WPATH admits that the data supporting these procedures is limited.
00:10:21.660 And yet they turn around and say, well, you know, we don't have a lot of data saying that this is okay to do, but do it anyway.
00:10:29.280 To children.
00:10:31.840 Indeed, just before this ruling from the Sixth Circuit came out, we learned that a lot of the key data on puberty blockers,
00:10:38.580 which has been cited by trans activists and doctors for years, is extremely misleading to the point that it's basically useless.
00:10:48.260 So, first, some background on this.
00:10:50.340 For many years, you know, trans activists and medical associations have said that these puberty blockers are completely harmless.
00:10:58.240 They say that they're a pause button on puberty.
00:11:01.000 And that's all they do.
00:11:01.980 They just put a pause on it and you pick it back up like nothing ever happened.
00:11:04.460 Here's one propaganda video on YouTube from one activist group that targets kids.
00:11:08.860 And here is them explaining what it really means to be chemically castrated.
00:11:15.240 Watch.
00:11:16.540 Hi, Fish.
00:11:17.520 Come here.
00:11:18.500 Oh, you need a name.
00:11:20.600 Let's see.
00:11:22.120 Wait a second.
00:11:23.600 What gender are you?
00:11:24.820 A person who is transgender is someone whose internal sense of their gender, being a boy, girl, or something else, doesn't match their physical body.
00:11:36.380 People who feel this way sometimes feel anxious when they begin to reach puberty and their body starts to change in ways that don't match their internal sense of their gender.
00:11:45.520 These feelings are totally normal.
00:11:47.380 If you feel you want more time to explore how you feel about your gender before your body starts to change, it's important to talk with a parent, counselor, therapist, or doctor about the feelings you have regarding your gender.
00:12:00.640 After some discussion and counseling, you may be referred to an endocrinologist.
00:12:05.680 Endocrinologists specialize in hormones, and they are the most likely to prescribe puberty blockers for someone who wants them.
00:12:12.200 Puberty blockers are medications that will stop your body from changing.
00:12:15.640 They are usually given as an injection or an implant.
00:12:19.360 They block the production of hormones to stop or delay the physical changes of puberty.
00:12:24.280 The effects of the medication are only temporary, so if a person stops using puberty blockers, the physical changes of puberty will begin again.
00:12:33.440 So typical trans propaganda there, which is to say deceptive and absurdly misleading. 1.00
00:12:38.140 There's no discussion in that clip of the potential harms that puberty blockers might cause.
00:12:44.120 That, I mean, in fact, not even might.
00:12:47.180 I mean, what the puberty blockers are doing to the body in the first place is disrupting.
00:12:51.840 They are intended to disrupt the natural processes of the body, which you might define as harm already.
00:13:00.560 So, like, by definition, they're doing harm.
00:13:02.800 And those harms are immense and widespread.
00:13:05.520 And among the harms is the psychological damage that they can cause.
00:13:09.080 There's the physical damage.
00:13:10.900 There's also the psychological damage.
00:13:12.840 And the psychological damage is really important to point out because the whole point of the puberty blocker supposedly is to mitigate psychological harm.
00:13:23.640 Now, data on this point about psychological harm has been out there for more than a decade, but scientists and researchers have not disclosed it.
00:13:30.560 So here's what happened.
00:13:31.440 Back in 2011, researchers in Britain published a highly influential study claiming that, quote, overall patient experience of changes on puberty blocker treatment was positive.
00:13:41.380 We identified no changes in psychological function.
00:13:45.700 Now, those findings and similar reports became gospel among trans activists.
00:13:49.740 In fact, when they go around and they say that it's all good, but, you know, it helps all the kids and there's no problem with puberty blockers.
00:13:56.800 It's all fantastic.
00:13:58.380 They are getting that.
00:13:59.740 If they're getting it from anywhere other than their imagination, they're probably getting it from this study.
00:14:04.220 The idea was that, on average, puberty blockers either help kids or at least don't harm them.
00:14:10.420 No peer-reviewed paper was allowed to contest those findings or the data they referenced.
00:14:14.820 But a couple of weeks ago, a retired scientist by the name of Susan McPherson decided to circle back around and double-check that data from that study.
00:14:24.380 And she uploaded her research to a pre-print website, which doesn't require peer review and therefore isn't censored.
00:14:30.160 So she was able to just show everybody what her findings were.
00:14:34.240 McPherson found that the original research from the UK was highly misleading.
00:14:37.960 Specifically, McPherson determined the research methodology obscured the fact that the mental health of many children on puberty blockers had deteriorated in just 12 months.
00:14:48.980 By relying on group averages instead of individual data, the researchers in the UK had managed to hide this fact.
00:14:54.220 They hide the fact that although they're claiming that it worked out great for everybody, in fact, for a lot of these kids, they suffered psychological damage.
00:15:01.700 That was known by the researchers.
00:15:04.460 Essentially, McPherson estimated that in reality, this number of children who suffered adverse mental health responses to puberty blockers could have been as high as one-third of children who were on those blockers.
00:15:16.260 And of course, that number would have likely grown if the researchers had continued monitoring these children past one year.
00:15:21.440 They only monitored them for a year.
00:15:23.080 Already, that's enough reason to basically discount the findings.
00:15:27.140 Because when we're doing something to a child, that's going to have drastic effects to their body and their mind and their mental health and their emotional effects.
00:15:38.000 What we want to know is what are the long-term?
00:15:41.460 Let's check back in with those kids five years from now, seven years from now, ten years from now.
00:15:47.800 A year is not nearly enough time.
00:15:49.620 But even in a year, what the research actually showed is that about a third of these kids suffered psychological damage.
00:15:58.800 Think about that.
00:15:59.200 A third of children on these puberty blockers suffered deteriorating mental health in the first year.
00:16:05.300 A failure rate of over 30% in the first year is astonishingly high for a medical procedure.
00:16:12.800 And it doesn't even tell anything close to the whole story.
00:16:17.480 But again, the whole point of drugging the kids in the first place and altering the natural development of their bodies is allegedly to improve their mental health.
00:16:27.280 This is supposedly the reason doctors are reducing the bone density of young children, giving many of them early-onset osteoporosis.
00:16:34.340 It's to help their mental health.
00:16:37.120 And yet, for roughly a third of these children, it failed right away.
00:16:40.820 It didn't just fail to help.
00:16:43.200 It made their mental state worse.
00:16:45.660 And the researchers failed to mention that.
00:16:47.260 I wonder why.
00:16:48.400 They chose to use a method of data analysis which allowed them to simply claim that, overall, the treatments were helpful.
00:16:54.340 This proves, once again, that there's no data that actually justifies giving children puberty blockers, much less cross-sex hormones, or administering surgeries.
00:17:02.420 It also proves that doctors and, quote-unquote, experts have been lying about the data.
00:17:06.600 Thanks to the Sixth Circuit's ruling, these experts can say whatever they want.
00:17:12.320 Doesn't really matter.
00:17:14.220 None of their half-baked studies provide any legal justification to overturn the will of the voters as the court ruled.
00:17:20.340 And if they had just stopped there, that would have been a major win for children already.
00:17:24.820 But the appellate court didn't simply reject the bunk science behind puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones.
00:17:30.020 They also went after other common arguments from trans activists, including this idea that they're a marginalized group that deserves special legal protections.
00:17:38.840 Here's how the court responded to that claim.
00:17:40.500 So this is them going beyond where they really had to go, but this is fantastic.
00:17:43.660 Quote, the President of the United States and the Department of Justice support the plaintiffs.
00:17:48.080 The major medical organizations support the plaintiffs.
00:17:50.520 And the only large law firms to make an appearance in the case all enter the controversy in support of the plaintiffs.
00:17:56.020 These are not the hallmarks of a skewed or unfair political process.
00:17:59.840 In other words, when every lawyer, medical organization, and government agency is on your side, you are not marginalized.
00:18:06.600 This is an obvious point to make, but as far as we can tell, this is the first time that any appeals court in this country has made it.
00:18:12.520 Trans activists and politicians get a lot of mileage out of their false claims of victimhood while they're busy punching everybody else in the face. 0.99
00:18:21.200 And they've been using that tactic in court also, and it's been very effective.
00:18:26.000 Now it's been rejected.
00:18:27.980 For good measure, the Sixth Circuit went on to reject the argument from trans activists that we should always defer to what parents want.
00:18:34.020 I mean, you often hear trans activists and many Democrats trot this line out.
00:18:37.400 Half the time, they're saying that kids should be able to hide their alleged sexuality and gender identity from their parents because the parents don't matter.
00:18:46.160 And the other half of the time, they're saying that parents know best and we should always just defer to their judgment, even if they want to castrate their kids.
00:18:53.320 Well, here's how the court responded to that latter argument.
00:18:55.820 Quote,
00:18:55.940 So trans activists and the ACLU and politicians need to go back to the drawing board at this point.
00:19:18.840 There's going to be more litigation in this case and in many other cases like it around the country.
00:19:24.420 But every single one of their major arguments has just been forcefully rejected in a federal appellate court.
00:19:30.720 For a long time now, courts have been cowed by the lies of quote-unquote experts and the false claims of victimhood by these activists.
00:19:38.540 Well, finally, an appellate court has stepped up and said that none of their claims matter.
00:19:42.620 Principles of self-governance matter.
00:19:46.220 Protecting children matters.
00:19:48.960 What voters want matters.
00:19:51.220 Not what Big Pharma wants.
00:19:53.900 Trans activists and the ghouls who profit from butchering children, you know, they're going to regroup. 1.00
00:20:00.700 They're going to keep going.
00:20:02.020 They're not going to give up.
00:20:02.680 But what happened last night is the clearest sign yet that they're not going to win ultimately.
00:20:06.900 Last night, Americans who believe in self-representation and in the well-being of children prevailed over demagogues pushing oligarchy and child butchery.
00:20:18.260 This is a win that trans activists didn't see coming. 0.91
00:20:20.380 It's a win that many on the right didn't see coming.
00:20:23.560 And I think many more victories like it are on the way.
00:20:26.600 As the court noted in its decision last night, 19 states have passed similar laws.
00:20:30.660 What we need now is for appellate courts in those states to uphold all those laws.
00:20:34.200 And if they don't, then we need to take it to the Supreme Court.
00:20:37.980 The Sixth Circuit's ruling is a clear sign, maybe the best sign yet, that our work is paying off.
00:20:45.180 And all that's left to do is take this work to its conclusion and ban this barbarism nationwide.
00:20:52.900 Now let's get to our five headlines.
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00:21:43.320 Some of the biggest Republican donors in the country will converge next month at the historic Cavalier Hotel in Virginia Beach for a two-day meeting to rally behind Governor Glenn Youngkin.
00:21:51.720 The closed gathering, named the Red Vest Retreat after the Fleece-Youngkin War during his 2021 campaign, will begin October 17th and be focused officially on the Republican effort to win full control of the General Assembly in Virginia's upcoming elections.
00:22:04.100 But unofficially, several donors say it will be an opportunity for them to try to push, if not shove, Youngkin into the Republican presidential race.
00:22:12.260 Others say they'll be busy prodding Youngkin and his allies in phone calls from afar.
00:22:18.380 Thomas Peturphy says, quote, he appears to be leaving the door open.
00:22:22.640 This is a billionaire who's already given millions of dollars to Youngkin's PAC.
00:22:26.280 So it continues, and if Republicans win in Virginia, maybe we can talk him into it.
00:22:30.500 He obviously wants to see what emerges, what the state of play is.
00:22:33.540 And then other donors have said that these big billionaire donors have said they want to push Youngkin's.
00:22:40.420 We've heard rumors about Youngkin getting into the race for a while now, and now the rumors are heating up.
00:22:46.540 And I have to say this is a terrible idea.
00:22:49.800 To put Glenn Youngkin, for Glenn Youngkin to enter the race is a terrible idea.
00:22:53.280 But I'm sorry, it just is.
00:22:55.760 And I say that as someone who, I like Glenn Youngkin.
00:22:58.220 I mean, we're a big part of the reason why he's governor to begin with here at the Daily Wire.
00:23:03.160 And I'm proud to say that because he's doing a great job in Virginia.
00:23:07.280 But if you're pushing him into the race right now, then I can only assume that you're some kind of double agent working for the Democrats.
00:23:18.140 Because all you would be doing is taking this guy who's a good conservative leader, part of the next generation of conservative leaders.
00:23:27.800 And all you're doing is taking him, and you're kind of sullying him, and you're hurting his support nationally among conservatives.
00:23:34.560 And you're putting a loss on his resume.
00:23:37.420 Like, what's the plan?
00:23:40.480 Just look at the polling.
00:23:41.760 Here's the latest 538 national polling average.
00:23:45.960 And you've got Trump at about 55%.
00:23:49.680 Next, you have DeSantis pushing to 14%.
00:23:54.760 Then Ramaswamy at 6.7%.
00:23:57.080 Haley at 6.5%.
00:23:58.440 Pence at 4%.
00:24:00.080 Scott at 2.7%.
00:24:01.360 Christie at 2.7%.
00:24:03.020 And then the rest of them at less than 1%.
00:24:06.620 So I'm just looking at this.
00:24:08.720 And even if you don't buy the polls completely, and still, if we could, you know, just using this as a frame of reference.
00:24:16.060 Youngkin gets into the race.
00:24:19.020 What's the strategy?
00:24:20.480 What's the winning strategy?
00:24:23.020 Where does his support come from?
00:24:25.320 Where does it come from?
00:24:26.260 You would think that, you would think, if you didn't know any better, if you're very naive, you would think that billionaire political donors would have some political insight, would understand these basic things.
00:24:41.640 At least would understand them better than I do.
00:24:43.420 But apparently they don't.
00:24:45.580 So where is the support coming from?
00:24:47.360 Do you think that Trump's at 55%?
00:24:51.980 Is Youngkin going to peel off support from Trump?
00:24:54.280 How?
00:24:54.520 Who are the Trump supporters at this point who don't like any of the 50 other options that are currently available to them, including Ron DeSantis, but would abandon Trump for Glenn Youngkin?
00:25:10.800 Who is that?
00:25:12.920 Who is that person?
00:25:15.200 I mean, you would think, looking at the other options, you would think that anyone who is willing to abandon Trump either already has, or maybe if they can be persuaded in the future, they can be persuaded by someone else in the race, namely Ron DeSantis.
00:25:31.560 It's like, it's hard to imagine significant support that has not peeled off already, peeling off for Glenn Youngkin.
00:25:40.740 So does he take the support from everybody else?
00:25:44.500 Well, even if he does, I mean, even if he jumped into the race and he took all of the support from Ramaswamy, Haley, Penn, Scott, Christie, the guys that no one's ever heard of.
00:25:54.980 If he came in and all of them dropped to zero, because all of them went to Youngkin, that still puts him at what, like 20%?
00:26:05.660 The math isn't there, especially with DeSantis in the race.
00:26:09.400 There's no lane for him.
00:26:11.940 If DeSantis wasn't in the race, then that would leave that lane open, but it's not.
00:26:16.320 He's there.
00:26:18.580 Look, the reality, we can all see the reality in front of our face here that as long as Trump is massively ahead, of course, his chances of becoming the nominee are very, very high.
00:26:34.700 The only chance of that possibly changing is not if more people get into the race, but if people start getting out.
00:26:43.480 But that's not what's happening here.
00:26:45.900 You know, this is like it was always destined to be.
00:26:49.380 It's exactly like 2016.
00:26:51.840 We had a whole bunch of people in the race.
00:26:53.840 You know, you had 19 candidates, something crazy.
00:26:56.420 And almost all of them claimed that, you know, Donald Trump should not be the guy.
00:27:00.780 Yet they all stayed into the race to the very bitter end so that the non-Trump vote could never, never had a chance to coalesce around any one particular person.
00:27:09.680 It was just broken up into all these little pieces.
00:27:12.440 So the only chance of Trump not being the nominee, the only chance, and even then it's a relatively small chance, but the only chance is if almost all of these people drop out.
00:27:23.660 Well, really all of them but DeSantis because he's the only viable candidate who's not Trump.
00:27:29.280 Let's be real about it.
00:27:30.200 You know, I know that there are people out there that like Ramaswamy.
00:27:32.700 He's not, it's not going to be Ramaswamy, okay?
00:27:36.180 He's not going to be the GOP nominee.
00:27:37.880 Like, let's, let's, as I said, let's deal with the actual reality.
00:27:43.440 The only thing that Ramaswamy can do, the only function he's serving right now, is to take support away from DeSantis.
00:27:49.600 That's the only thing he can do.
00:27:53.380 And same for Yonkin, if Yonkin gets in there.
00:27:56.960 Okay, moving from politics to pop culture.
00:27:59.980 Britney Spears went viral this week for all the wrong reasons, which is the only reason that she ever goes viral anymore these days.
00:28:06.820 And of course, she's always, you know, she's always on Instagram posting videos of herself, dancing half naked or fully naked, rambling incoherently.
00:28:14.060 Just coming off like a very disturbed person, she recently got divorced from her husband after 12 seconds, and he claimed that she abused him.
00:28:23.120 I don't know if that's true or not, but we do know that she, it was definitely not the first time that somebody close to her said that she is volatile and dangerous. 0.83
00:28:30.460 This has been what most of the people close to her have been saying for a long time.
00:28:34.580 Anyway, the video this week that went viral was her dancing with butcher knives, and she claims that the knives were fake.
00:28:41.120 They very much appear not to be fake.
00:28:44.920 But here, let's look at that video for a second.
00:29:03.200 The dogs in the background are terrified.
00:29:06.680 There it is.
00:29:07.320 I didn't even realize, I never actually even watched the video, so I didn't realize that she was dancing.
00:29:12.780 What is that, a Gregorian chant?
00:29:14.100 Is that like a, somehow it's even more disturbing than you originally thought with the Gregorian chant in the background.
00:29:23.680 While you've got this half naked woman dancing with butcher knives. 1.00
00:29:29.560 And those knives are not fake, by the way.
00:29:31.080 Those are not what fake knives look like.
00:29:32.300 Those are real.
00:29:32.700 So, and the cops didn't think that the butcher knives were fake either, which is why they showed up at her house for a wellness check.
00:29:41.160 And they were, the cops, they were not called by fans who were concerned.
00:29:46.300 They were called apparently by a friend of hers who was worried, that, you know, was worried about her.
00:29:52.600 And listen, it's all very sad.
00:29:56.060 And it's even sadder because we're watching this woman fall apart in front of us.
00:30:01.220 And it just seems very likely that in the not too distant future, she's going to do something drastic and really hurt herself or worse.
00:30:08.520 And it's like we all, it's a slow motion train wreck and we all know that's going to happen.
00:30:13.800 I think we all kind of understand she's what, in her early 40s now, the chance that she, that Britney Spears turns 50 seems to be pretty low.
00:30:21.340 And we all know it.
00:30:23.960 So, which is why her conservatorship was in place to begin with.
00:30:29.300 So, once again, I was right.
00:30:34.040 And I said back during the whole Free Britney movement, you may recall, and I got a lot of flack for it, a lot of flack.
00:30:42.240 But I said at the time, when everybody was demanding that Britney Spears be freed from her conservatorship, and why were they demanding it?
00:30:47.900 It's because they saw some documentary on FX or whatever, and most of them didn't even see the documentary.
00:30:52.900 They just, they just, other people saw it.
00:30:54.540 And then it was trending on Twitter, hashtag Free Britney.
00:30:57.780 And so, a bunch of people jumped on the bandwagon.
00:31:00.780 And I said at the time, okay, people don't get conservatorships placed on them for no reason.
00:31:07.400 It doesn't happen.
00:31:09.600 Use your head.
00:31:11.700 Stop following internet trends.
00:31:14.280 Now, none of us know even like 1% of what goes on behind the scenes in anybody else's life, much less in Britney Spears' life.
00:31:25.240 We don't know.
00:31:26.060 But we can use our heads and we can figure out that you don't lose legal rights to make decisions over your own life for no reason.
00:31:38.340 Now, of course, everyone claimed that it was a conspiracy by the people who wanted Britney's money.
00:31:42.680 Britney, okay, well, once again, use your head. 1.00
00:31:47.740 There are a lot of rich celebrities out there.
00:31:52.140 There's a lot of rich female celebrities out there who probably have people in their lives who covet their wealth, and yet they're not under conservatorships. 1.00
00:32:02.860 Britney is.
00:32:03.700 Why is that?
00:32:04.680 Could it be because Britney very publicly had a mental breakdown and repeatedly revealed herself to be a danger to herself and those around her, including her children? 0.94
00:32:15.180 Could that be it?
00:32:15.800 I tried to explain this at the time.
00:32:18.240 Britney, a wealthy, famous woman, lost custody and lost visitation rights. 0.96
00:32:24.720 She lost visitation rights and custody over her kids in a court in Los Angeles.
00:32:32.280 Do you understand how difficult that is to do?
00:32:37.860 You're a woman, you're in Los Angeles, and you're rich and famous, and you lose total custody over your kids and you can't even visit them? 0.82
00:32:48.840 Do you know how hard it is for a woman to pull that off, even if they're not rich and famous, even if they're not in a Los Angeles court?
00:32:56.000 Very, very hard.
00:32:59.040 So you have to be a monstrously terrible mother for that to happen. 0.99
00:33:03.480 You just do.
00:33:05.320 Like, is there a small chance that it's all some big, giant conspiracy against you?
00:33:08.960 Yeah, I mean, anything's possible.
00:33:12.260 But if you don't have any, if you know nothing else about someone, but you know that they're a woman who lost custody of their children,
00:33:19.340 then that's, you know, 99.9% chance that this is a, this is like a bad mother doesn't even begin to describe it.
00:33:28.940 And in Britney's case, we know about some of what preceded that decision.
00:33:32.840 We know, for instance, that she barricaded herself in her home with her children. 0.63
00:33:36.700 She had a standoff with emergency personnel with her kids.
00:33:41.520 Reportedly, she threatened to kill herself in front of them.
00:33:44.680 We know about that.
00:33:45.620 That was reported.
00:33:46.180 That happened publicly.
00:33:46.840 Okay, if that kind of thing's happening publicly, do you think it's better behind the scenes?
00:33:51.440 Do you think what's happening privately is less disturbing?
00:33:56.120 There's a reason inner kids don't want to be around her right now.
00:33:58.360 Again, like, you know, if your kids, especially your sons, as they get older, don't want to be around you as a woman,
00:34:05.560 pretty good chance that you, there's a reason for that.
00:34:10.620 So you can look at these things and you can use your damned head and you can realize that obviously this woman is not competent. 1.00
00:34:16.840 And needs help.
00:34:18.840 Or you can believe a hashtag trend.
00:34:21.900 And a lot of people chose the hashtag trend.
00:34:24.380 And now this woman's going to get herself killed. 1.00
00:34:26.520 She's going to overdose. 1.00
00:34:28.080 Something like that.
00:34:28.960 She's going to end up dead.
00:34:30.380 And you know something?
00:34:31.580 If you were screaming free Britney, then that's going to be partly on you.
00:34:34.680 It just is.
00:34:35.240 And I hope you're prepared for that.
00:34:36.260 It turns out that, like, just joining mindlessly in some internet mob, there are real world implications to that.
00:34:44.880 It's just not, it's not something you can just do.
00:34:47.280 Like, it's not all fun and games.
00:34:50.220 And whether the subject is Britney Spears or anybody else, when you jump on into an internet mob without thinking straight, you know, that's, it's not just, I know people like to say, oh, Twitter, it's not the real world.
00:35:03.060 No, it's the real world.
00:35:04.020 This is happening in the real world.
00:35:06.280 It's not, we're not dreaming it.
00:35:08.620 And by the way, I fully acknowledge that this, that this woman was screwed up by all the fame from a young age.
00:35:14.520 Not just fame, but, but a very obviously sexualized kind of fame.
00:35:18.940 I mean, how old was she when, when Hit Me Baby One More Time came out? 1.00
00:35:21.720 She was what, like 16 or 17 or something?
00:35:24.180 And all that is terrible.
00:35:25.820 And her parents certainly never should have allowed that, much less should they have facilitated it and pushed it as they did.
00:35:31.460 But the point is that whatever the reasons for how she turned out, like, this is who she is now.
00:35:37.340 And you have to deal with who she is.
00:35:39.780 If she's incompetent and she's a danger to herself and others, then that doesn't become less the case or less relevant just because there's a reason why she ended up that way. 0.81
00:35:48.620 Like, guess what, every, every bad person, every deranged person, every dangerous person, every crazy person, every incompetent person has a reason why they turned out that way.
00:35:59.500 You take anyone who falls into any of those categories and you can be pretty sure that their childhood probably wasn't great.
00:36:04.440 Like, there's probably stuff that happened to them, you know, in the past that was pretty bad.
00:36:08.900 But that doesn't change the reality of the current situation.
00:36:11.400 We have to deal with that reality.
00:36:12.980 And also, I have to say that if a man is judged to be a danger to his own kids, if he barricades himself in his house with them, has a standoff and all of that, nobody is going to be saying that we should be sympathetic because of how he was raised.
00:36:30.500 Like, men lose custody in court all the time.
00:36:32.700 They lose custody of their children all the time.
00:36:35.120 It's a lot easier to do if you're a man.
00:36:37.160 And in many cases, they lose custody for bad reasons, for illegitimate reasons.
00:36:41.440 Sometimes they lose custody for good reasons.
00:36:45.420 But you rarely hear anyone giving a damn one way or another about their upbringing.
00:36:50.900 So it doesn't usually work that way, including also with plenty of dysfunctional, you know, celebrities out there who are, whatever, going out and being self-destructive and all that.
00:37:02.660 Usually, if it's a male celebrity, nobody says, well, think about how they were raised.
00:37:06.300 Think about that.
00:37:06.760 No one says that.
00:37:07.800 Everyone says, like, this person's a lunatic.
00:37:09.820 So although the narrative is trying to make Britney Spears into some sort of victim of the patriarchy, it's actually completely the opposite.
00:37:17.700 You know, if everything's exactly the same with Britney Spears, but she's a man, no one cares. 0.95
00:37:22.360 There's none of the free Britney movement.
00:37:24.360 None of that happens.
00:37:25.300 There's no documentary about it.
00:37:26.720 Nobody cares.
00:37:27.220 Everyone just assumes that she or he, in that case, you know, is crazy, and that would be the end of it.
00:37:34.900 So the only reason that Britney was freed is because she's a woman, which ultimately, when she winds up dead, and the chances of that, again, are very high, that's what taking down the patriarchy gets you, I suppose.
00:37:47.760 All right, one other thing that I think is very, very important that we have to talk about is that Disney just dropped a trailer for a new film.
00:38:00.440 And this is funny to me because they hope that it'll be their next big hit, which would be their first big hit in a while.
00:38:09.240 Disney's trying to get back on track.
00:38:10.560 Like, Disney is way off track right now.
00:38:12.460 They've had a lot of flops.
00:38:13.440 And obviously, this is a legendary movie studio has put out some of the classic films of all time.
00:38:20.980 But recently, it's been nothing but terrible movies and big flops and everything.
00:38:25.120 So they got this big movie.
00:38:25.880 It's getting a lot of hype already because it's like tailor-made to be.
00:38:31.040 This is, it's like everything, all the algorithms, it's all engineered for that to be a big blockbuster hit.
00:38:37.780 And the movie is called Wish.
00:38:39.920 And one of the things that the studio is excited about and the people behind the film, you know, they talked about in interviews, is that this movie will see the return of the classic Disney villain.
00:38:50.000 So this is not what we see recently in Disney movies.
00:38:52.280 This is not a tragic villain or an unintentional villain like in whatever Frozen or something.
00:38:56.680 This is like a classic Disney villain, just an evil person who's evil for the sake of it, like in the old days.
00:39:03.720 Straightforward bad guy who is voiced by Chris Pine.
00:39:06.580 Because, of course, you already know that if Disney is putting an actual villain in a movie, it has to be a white guy.
00:39:12.840 It's the most predictable result ever.
00:39:17.680 When you hear that Disney's got a real classic villain in there, oh, it's a white guy.
00:39:21.580 Of course it is.
00:39:22.660 And you already know also that the hero, of course, is a non-white girl.
00:39:25.520 All that you already know.
00:39:26.740 But what's great about this trailer is that you can tell immediately that this movie is going to be garbage.
00:39:32.760 Disney desperately trying to get back on track.
00:39:34.740 You can tell just from the trailer that this is a miss.
00:39:39.600 And you could say that I'm not the target demo for this trailer, so obviously I think that.
00:39:44.800 But actually I am.
00:39:46.240 I have six kids.
00:39:47.120 I have two daughters.
00:39:48.080 I'm the one who has to pay for the movie ticket.
00:39:50.140 I'm the target demo.
00:39:51.900 And I won't be paying for tickets for this.
00:39:54.020 But let's watch a little bit of this trailer.
00:39:55.580 Here it is.
00:39:55.880 Where your heart's desire can become a reality.
00:40:06.260 What if I told you that place is within reach?
00:40:10.020 All you have to do is give your wish to me.
00:40:18.260 I wish.
00:40:30.640 Whoa, whoa.
00:40:32.520 What was that?
00:40:38.060 Whoa, what are you doing?
00:40:40.020 Valentino, don't eat that.
00:40:41.100 It didn't work.
00:40:45.920 When does the magic happen?
00:40:49.140 I'm talking.
00:40:50.120 I am talking.
00:40:51.320 Who knew?
00:40:52.020 So the plot of the film is that, we didn't even see it in that clip, but the prince is,
00:40:59.940 or the evil bad guy is this white guy, and he's a king, and he has the ability to grant wishes.
00:41:06.320 And all the wishes in the kingdom are sent to him, and then he decides who gets to grant the wishes.
00:41:14.080 But he's not going to grant everyone's wish.
00:41:17.160 And then the heroic brown girl finds out that he is able to grant all these wishes, but he chooses not to.
00:41:23.220 He only wants to grant the wishes that he thinks are going to be best for the kingdom and the common good.
00:41:28.460 And she's very upset about that, and so then she goes out to make sure that she can grant all the wishes.
00:41:33.240 So this is what, it's great.
00:41:36.800 Disney doing everything they can to get back on track, to really have a major hit.
00:41:41.260 And all they have to do is just make a classic, like an actual classic Disney film.
00:41:45.800 You already have the roadmap right in front of you.
00:41:51.320 It's there.
00:41:52.180 Just go back and look at what you did 30 years ago and do that.
00:41:56.380 But they can't do it.
00:41:57.280 They just can't do it.
00:41:58.140 They're incapable.
00:42:00.260 So the issue here, and we'll leave aside the underwhelming animation style.
00:42:03.300 I mean, the animation in all these movies, not just Disney, but in all these kids' movies now,
00:42:08.020 it just looks cheap.
00:42:11.200 It doesn't look artistic.
00:42:12.280 It's not interesting.
00:42:13.320 It's kind of lifeless and bland and all the rest of it.
00:42:15.260 But leaving that aside, in an effort to put out a blockbuster crowd pleaser,
00:42:19.180 they've made a film where the villain is an evil white man who refuses to grant everyone's wishes
00:42:23.380 and needs to be vanquished by the heroic brown girl who will create a utopia by letting everyone get exactly what they want, 1.00
00:42:30.180 which is really, it's like a parody of a modern Disney film.
00:42:34.600 And the funny thing is that the movies are getting so woke that they now undercut their own messaging.
00:42:39.380 Because in this case, the guy who's supposed to be the villain is like clearly the good guy.
00:42:45.940 And yes, Disney has always had a problem where their villains are actually kind of right.
00:42:52.040 We've talked before about Gaston in Beauty and the Beast.
00:42:57.220 He was basically right.
00:42:58.500 I mean, at the very least, he had a point.
00:43:00.280 But here it's kicked into overdrive.
00:43:03.540 The evil king is absolutely correct that you can't grant everybody's wishes.
00:43:07.240 In fact, if you had the power to grant wishes, the morally correct thing would be to either grant nobody's wishes,
00:43:19.040 probably would be best, or only a few.
00:43:23.680 And the ones that you would grant are the ones that advance the common good and the good of the kingdom.
00:43:29.200 And that's the only way to do it.
00:43:31.460 That's the actual correct, wise approach.
00:43:33.580 Very clearly, I think, to almost everyone.
00:43:37.180 Which is why the comments on this video is like everyone, this trailer, everyone watches the trailer and says,
00:43:41.600 well, what do you mean?
00:43:42.040 That guy's right.
00:43:43.340 What's the point here?
00:43:45.440 So, that's Disney.
00:43:47.080 They just can't, at this point, they are incapable of creating anything that comes close to their classic films.
00:43:53.720 Let's get to the comment section.
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00:45:01.380 We're reading a couple of comments from this past week.
00:45:04.000 First of all, on Tuesday, and if you haven't seen this video yet, then you need to go and watch it.
00:45:11.340 I think it's the most important video.
00:45:14.140 We've certainly most important video we've posted to YouTube in the history of the channel.
00:45:18.680 But it is my, as you know, period on Dancing with the Stars, and it's my Dancing with the Stars,
00:45:25.100 my first rehearsal with my dance partner, and we have that in its entirety pretty much on YouTube.
00:45:31.160 You can go check out the video.
00:45:32.700 And I think anyone who's seen the video already knows that the rehearsal went very, very well.
00:45:36.960 And look, I'll admit, when it was first announced that I was going to be on Dancing with the Stars,
00:45:41.640 I kind of talked a big game about my dancing prowess and about my history as a dancer.
00:45:46.440 Also, a lot of things that I think people, especially people who are not big fans of the show,
00:45:52.360 are not familiar with the lore, were maybe even surprised to hear.
00:45:57.420 So I talked a big game.
00:45:59.620 That video was my opportunity to show what I can really do, to show what my moves are.
00:46:04.900 And I have to say, I really delivered, I think.
00:46:09.880 And the comments agreed.
00:46:10.920 So one comment says,
00:46:11.700 It was so stunning and brave of Matt to let out his inner butterfly and be vulnerable enough to show us his performance.
00:46:17.380 The man was born to dance.
00:46:20.800 Another one says,
00:46:21.480 As a professional ballroom dancer, I approve of this sketch.
00:46:24.620 Well, it's not a sketch.
00:46:26.000 Well, forget that comment.
00:46:27.040 Anyway, focus on the first comment.
00:46:30.660 It was, I'll admit to, you know,
00:46:32.500 when I started this whole journey with Dancing with the Stars,
00:46:35.040 I was a little bit nervous because,
00:46:38.300 and I don't get nervous very often,
00:46:39.760 but I was nervous in this case because,
00:46:42.020 because dancing is such a vulnerable thing.
00:46:44.200 And it's, it's, you know,
00:46:47.140 you know what I like to say is that dancing is a language.
00:46:51.220 It's when you learn how to dance,
00:46:53.080 you're, you are learning,
00:46:54.020 you're almost becoming bilingual
00:46:55.120 because you're learning a whole different language,
00:46:58.280 but it's a universal language.
00:46:59.380 Um, and, but through that language,
00:47:01.920 you're expressing things that are deep within your heart
00:47:03.840 and you're expressing things that,
00:47:05.440 that, you know, that you cannot convey in any other way.
00:47:08.340 And so the first time that you let that all out into the public,
00:47:11.480 it'd be very, it'd be very nerve wracking thing,
00:47:13.100 but I really appreciate all the support.
00:47:15.760 Um, and, uh, yeah, this was great.
00:47:19.280 Okay.
00:47:20.100 A comment on, uh, the issue of that UK dating show,
00:47:23.040 uh, where people present themselves naked.
00:47:26.000 Um, this has been around for years,
00:47:28.200 chaos flowers since it's been around for years in the UK.
00:47:30.220 It was always vile as expected.
00:47:31.840 It started off fairly normal, uh, boy and girl, Jack and Jill,
00:47:35.480 but progressively it became more rainbow alphabet.
00:47:38.420 In the latter seasons,
00:47:39.580 the wobbly woe Jack and blue haired wobbly woe Jill contestants
00:47:44.080 were an awful shape, which made it even more vile.
00:47:47.700 I don't know if we could say that it ever started off normal.
00:47:51.220 Uh, unless when the show first began, they were actually clothed.
00:47:57.500 And then as the show went on into later seasons,
00:48:00.300 they progressively started taking more and more items of clothing off.
00:48:04.500 Then we could say it started off fairly normal.
00:48:07.480 But in this case, as far as I understand it from the very beginning,
00:48:10.200 uh, it was a one contestant deciding who that person wants to date
00:48:15.640 by looking at naked people in boxes.
00:48:17.620 So never exactly normal Lauren says, but otherwise I get your point.
00:48:23.420 The show is a direct impact of having pornography available to everyone. 0.50
00:48:27.420 Porn is directly and indirectly destroying everything good we once had.
00:48:31.580 Um, that of course is, is correct on a lot of levels.
00:48:35.200 It's desensitizing people.
00:48:37.520 It also like it moves the boundary.
00:48:40.960 So we all, here's what happens.
00:48:42.680 It's like hardcore pornography, I think everyone basically understands
00:48:47.680 is the most gratuitous thing, the most objectionable, like the most inappropriate.
00:48:56.480 But the, the issue, but as that becomes more and more mainstream,
00:49:01.660 you know, um, porn hub is, you know, like billions of hours of, of footage are watched
00:49:11.420 by people, uh, in this country alone every single year.
00:49:14.660 So as that becomes more and more acceptable for hardcore pornography,
00:49:18.860 then of course, everything that is not hardcore pornography,
00:49:23.320 even the things that just bump up against the line of hardcore pornography,
00:49:27.660 but don't cross it, well, if hardcore porn is considered mainstream and acceptable,
00:49:32.480 then that, all that, all that automatically is ushered in.
00:49:36.860 So the moment that we accept pornography as a normal, healthy thing,
00:49:42.320 which in our society, tragically we have,
00:49:45.000 then you're correct that automatically everything that is not as gratuitous as that
00:49:51.220 becomes normal by default.
00:49:55.000 Uh, comment about the presidential or the, the, uh, Republican nominee debates.
00:50:02.980 Peanut Senpai says,
00:50:04.280 Joe Rogan needs to host a real debate with Trump, Vivek, and DeSantis, only ones that matter.
00:50:09.200 Let them speak for as long as they need to.
00:50:11.460 Giving someone 15 seconds to respond to questions is insane.
00:50:14.840 The worst part is that these people who watch this stuff, uh, and use it to decide who to vote for.
00:50:20.780 I, I completely agree.
00:50:22.020 That is, that's, that's the only kind of debate that I would be interested in.
00:50:25.800 And I think one actually hosted by Joe Rogan would be phenomenal.
00:50:29.720 But even if it's not hosted by Joe Rogan, it is that style.
00:50:33.560 It's like a Joe Rogan interview.
00:50:35.200 You sit down for two and a half hours.
00:50:37.020 There's no time limit on your answers.
00:50:39.760 And it is a free flowing conversation.
00:50:42.660 That's the only kind of debate that would really matter.
00:50:45.460 It's the only kind of debate that would show us what these people actually think and what they actually believe.
00:50:50.500 Because now you're taking them away from their prepared talk.
00:50:53.500 In the way debates are set up right now, all the candidates, of course, come in with their prepared talking points.
00:50:58.540 And that's all they're ever required to deliver.
00:51:01.260 We never get past their prepared talking points because they're never allowed to talk for more than 60 seconds.
00:51:05.660 And I say they're never allowed to talk for more than 60 seconds.
00:51:09.520 You could also say they're never required to talk for more than 60 seconds.
00:51:12.320 So they can hide behind their talking points.
00:51:14.000 So at the end of it, we don't even, we don't know.
00:51:15.740 You watch an entire debate, you can sit there for three hours and watch a debate.
00:51:19.320 And by the end of it, you don't even know what any of these people think about anything.
00:51:21.740 All you know is what their team, what the consultants and everything, their advisors,
00:51:25.740 all you know is what was fed to them to say.
00:51:28.680 You don't know what they think.
00:51:29.800 You could find out actually what they think if you just put them in an environment where they have to speak for more than a minute at a time.
00:51:39.840 And 15 seconds, I meant to remark on that in that clip we played yesterday where Haley goes after Vivek Ramaswamy
00:51:48.900 and goes after him on the issue of TikTok and the fact that originally Ramaswamy said he wanted to ban TikTok.
00:51:56.400 Now he's on TikTok.
00:51:57.280 Haley goes after him for that.
00:51:59.680 And Haley says that every time Ramaswamy speaks, she feels dumber.
00:52:03.600 And so she lays into him, right, with this whole long harangue.
00:52:09.440 And then the moderators go to him and they say, you have 15 seconds to respond.
00:52:14.680 15 seconds?
00:52:17.020 So she just laid all those charges at his feet.
00:52:20.100 And he is, what can you say in 15 seconds?
00:52:24.320 What kind of response can you possibly offer?
00:52:27.280 Someone just sat there and said, you're a hypocrite.
00:52:30.400 You're an idiot.
00:52:31.000 Nothing you say makes any sense.
00:52:33.020 You're a liar.
00:52:33.800 You're terrible.
00:52:34.640 You're awful for the country.
00:52:37.240 Okay, sir, you have 15 seconds to respond to that.
00:52:40.540 There's nothing I can't.
00:52:41.540 You cannot say anything worthwhile in 15 seconds.
00:52:43.340 You just can't do it.
00:52:44.080 I know we live in the soundbite culture.
00:52:48.540 But you can't say anything worthwhile in 15 seconds.
00:52:51.180 You can't even say anything worthwhile in a minute.
00:52:53.960 Especially on, you know, it's one thing if we're looking at, if this is an ESPN panel of football analysts talking about the games last weekend.
00:53:03.500 And, okay, yeah, you should be able to say everything that needs to be said in 30 seconds, 30, 45 seconds.
00:53:08.540 We're talking about real substantive issues.
00:53:13.860 You need to give someone, I don't know, 10 minutes to lay out their whole, you know, to lay out their perspective and defend their point of view.
00:53:26.660 More than 10 minutes.
00:53:28.460 So, yeah, say Joe Rogan debate.
00:53:29.520 I'll give a vote to that as well.
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00:54:06.300 You know, sometimes I think that parents get a bad rap these days.
00:54:10.220 Sure, being a parent myself, there may be some personal biases that have helped to lead me to that conclusion.
00:54:15.720 But I think that there's some truth to the idea.
00:54:18.560 It's extremely challenging to raise children in our culture.
00:54:21.400 In fact, I would say, and I have said before, it has never been more challenging to raise kids than it is right now.
00:54:28.680 I mean that in a literal sense.
00:54:30.280 That parenting is harder today than it ever was in the whole history of the human species.
00:54:35.040 And I don't think that that statement is hyperbole.
00:54:37.460 Now, granted, life is easier today in a number of very important ways.
00:54:40.420 If I was parenting six kids in the 1700s, for instance, the chance that all of them would make it to adulthood would be pretty slim.
00:54:47.200 So for that extremely significant reason alone, I am happy to be living today rather than back then.
00:54:52.820 But when it comes to the actual act of parenting, of trying to raise your children to be competent, well-adjusted, decent, functional, virtuous human beings in the world,
00:55:02.800 we parents in the modern age have to navigate around certain enormous obstacles that did not exist until very recently.
00:55:09.260 The biggest challenge is that while we're raising our children, civilization is decaying all around us.
00:55:14.060 We live in a decadent, depraved, morally insane culture, one that actively wants to steal our kids' minds and souls and turn them into hollowed-out husks of human beings.
00:55:24.440 Now, of course, people have lived and parented in degenerate societies before.
00:55:28.440 This, unfortunately, is a common experience in the history of human civilization.
00:55:32.200 The difference now is that it's nearly impossible to escape the degeneracy.
00:55:36.720 It's all around us.
00:55:37.480 And homes today are filled with devices that become access points, places where our debased culture can reach in and grab a child and make him its prisoner.
00:55:49.240 A child can be lost to the culture before he graduates elementary school.
00:55:55.420 And he doesn't even need to leave his house.
00:55:58.720 And when I say lost to the culture, I mean lost in ways previously unheard of.
00:56:02.680 His entire sense of his own identity, his grasp on reality itself, may be destroyed.
00:56:08.380 So that's the unique challenge.
00:56:10.480 It's the thing that no other generation of parent has really had to deal with, certainly not in the same way or to the same extent.
00:56:16.540 So there is no roadmap for us.
00:56:18.260 There's no how-to guide.
00:56:20.400 The parenting wisdom passed down through the generations before us kind of runs off the tracks before it reaches us.
00:56:26.220 And we're left out on our own to figure it out.
00:56:29.380 This is why parents today deserve some grace.
00:56:32.400 I believe.
00:56:33.480 We're out here in the thick of it.
00:56:34.860 We're in the trenches, doing our best, cut us some slack.
00:56:39.080 Well, some of us at least.
00:56:40.860 Some of us are doing our best to raise our children to be decent people in spite of all this.
00:56:44.600 And some of us, on the other hand, are doing our best to make our children into the worst human beings the world has ever seen.
00:56:50.020 And in some cases, we must admit, the hardest parenting environment has been met by the most insufferably awful parents of all time.
00:57:00.720 And that's where our criticism should be pointed.
00:57:03.080 Pointed, for example, at this woman.
00:57:05.100 Her name is Arlie.
00:57:06.780 And she has a TikTok account where she posts about and promotes her unique parenting style.
00:57:12.980 A style that, as it turns out, is not nearly as unique as it should be.
00:57:18.360 In fact, there are a lot of parents that parent basically like this.
00:57:22.260 So here's one video that's gone viral this week.
00:57:24.100 It now has nearly 2 million views.
00:57:25.680 And more depressingly, it has almost 70,000 likes.
00:57:29.160 The video shows various pictures and videos of her toddler son along with captions explaining her parenting strategy.
00:57:36.500 And I will read the captions as we watch it.
00:57:38.620 Here's the video.
00:57:40.500 It says, controversial ways we're raising our son.
00:57:43.880 He has his own iPad.
00:57:45.200 Screen time is not limited.
00:57:47.340 He eats what he likes.
00:57:48.060 He's never forced to eat something he doesn't like.
00:57:49.700 And if there's nothing he likes, we go buy him something that he will eat.
00:57:54.580 He's allowed to try and have candy, juice, soda, etc.
00:57:59.600 We co-sleep and contact nap, whatever that is.
00:58:02.820 If he wants something from the store, he will get it.
00:58:05.380 He doesn't have a strict bedtime routine.
00:58:08.660 He will not be made to do something he does not want to do.
00:58:10.780 His feelings and boundaries are just as valid as ours.
00:58:18.420 When he says no, it means no.
00:58:22.900 There we go.
00:58:24.740 Poor kid.
00:58:26.320 All right.
00:58:26.660 So, no means no.
00:58:30.020 Well, that's a problem for me because my kids say no to doing their chores,
00:58:35.080 to going to bed, to brushing their teeth, to getting dressed in the morning, etc.
00:58:38.420 Well, let me clarify.
00:58:40.440 My kids absolutely would never say no to me when I tell them to do any of those things.
00:58:46.220 They know that saying no to dad isn't going to fly.
00:58:49.120 But if they thought they could get away with it,
00:58:51.220 they would absolutely say no to all of those things.
00:58:53.380 If no was an option on the menu,
00:58:55.900 they would choose it for nearly every productive and healthy thing I tell them to do.
00:59:00.960 That's because kids have an extremely limited ability to understand
00:59:03.900 that there are benefits to doing something you don't want to do.
00:59:06.680 The concept of delayed gratification is very difficult for a child to grasp.
00:59:12.840 And at a certain age, they literally just don't get it at all.
00:59:15.460 They don't understand the concept.
00:59:17.700 It's impossible at a certain age.
00:59:19.980 Now, that child there in the video, my daughter is not much older than him.
00:59:24.780 And I have on many occasions, just for fun,
00:59:28.680 asked her to explain why she doesn't want to do something that she says she doesn't want to do.
00:59:34.280 Like, I'll ask her to do something, I'll tell her to do something,
00:59:37.460 and she'll say she doesn't want to do it.
00:59:39.460 And I'll say, well, why don't you want to do it?
00:59:42.640 And the answer is almost always, because I don't want to.
00:59:46.260 Which isn't her being disrespectful or defiant.
00:59:48.280 She literally doesn't know why she doesn't want to do the thing. 0.70
00:59:52.400 Or why she does want to do something.
00:59:54.220 She doesn't understand her own feelings.
00:59:56.840 Certainly not well enough to articulate them.
00:59:58.620 She may have a good reason for not wanting to do something,
01:00:02.660 or she may have a bad reason, or she may have no reason.
01:00:04.580 She can't figure that out.
01:00:06.060 That's why she has two loving, intelligent parents to figure it out for her. 0.52
01:00:11.100 Now, most of the parenting choices, if you can call them that,
01:00:13.940 that you see in that video, if you can call them parenting choices, anyway,
01:00:18.080 that you see in the video are so over-the-top ridiculous
01:00:20.460 that you would hope they'd require no further comment.
01:00:22.460 And obviously, giving unlimited screen time to a toddler is deranged.
01:00:27.020 You are guaranteeing that he will be hooked on screens
01:00:29.700 and spend his entire childhood sitting around staring at a little box.
01:00:33.380 That's what you're guaranteeing.
01:00:35.120 It's not that it might turn out that way.
01:00:37.000 It is 100% guaranteed to turn out that way.
01:00:40.200 And letting a child eat whatever he wants,
01:00:42.020 especially combined with the unlimited screen time,
01:00:44.200 means that he will be morbidly obese well before he makes it to high school.
01:00:48.300 Guaranteed.
01:00:49.540 Giving him whatever he wants from the store
01:00:51.140 means that he will be spoiled and materialistic.
01:00:53.400 Again, it doesn't mean that he might turn out that way,
01:00:55.920 but that he absolutely, with total certainty, will turn out that way.
01:00:59.880 All of this, you would hope, is obvious.
01:01:02.880 But if you look at the way many parents handle their kids these days,
01:01:06.760 it would seem that these points are not so obvious.
01:01:09.720 And whether parents are making all these mistakes or not,
01:01:12.900 or making them to this extreme degree or not,
01:01:15.720 it's certainly the case that many struggle to understand
01:01:18.140 one basic fact about raising children.
01:01:20.460 And the fact is this.
01:01:22.680 Kids need structure, boundaries, routine, and guidance.
01:01:27.640 They need all those things.
01:01:28.720 And when I say they need those things, I mean they need them.
01:01:31.700 They need them in the same way they need food and clothing
01:01:34.340 and a roof over their heads.
01:01:36.140 That doesn't mean that we should never give our children the ability to choose something,
01:01:41.140 to actually have a choice, the ability to pick a path and walk down it.
01:01:45.760 It means that their choices, especially when they're very young,
01:01:47.940 should be extremely limited and controlled.
01:01:51.120 And as they get older, you progressively expand their choices,
01:01:54.120 and you drop some of the limitations until they're adults.
01:01:56.920 At which point, if you've done your job,
01:01:59.280 they can go out into the world of limitless options and relative freedom,
01:02:02.260 and they can make, hopefully, the right choices,
01:02:04.400 because they've been given the moral formation they need to make the right choices.
01:02:09.020 Now, if you don't give your child structure, boundaries, routine, and guidance,
01:02:11.940 then not only do they grow up to be terrible people due to a lack of moral intellectual formation,
01:02:16.000 but they also grow up to be plagued with anxiety and uncertainty.
01:02:20.680 You know, we're told that childhood anxiety is on the rise.
01:02:23.060 It's reached epidemic levels, we're told, that kids are so anxious.
01:02:28.500 Well, that's not because there's some kind of mysterious mental illness going around.
01:02:33.060 It's simply because many kids are growing up in environments without structure,
01:02:37.320 without boundaries, without routine, and without guidance.
01:02:39.900 This makes them uncertain, confused, flustered, overwhelmed,
01:02:43.340 which is another way of saying anxious.
01:02:47.200 The reason that kids ask a million questions every day
01:02:49.900 is because they don't understand very much about the world,
01:02:52.980 and this lack of understanding makes them uneasy.
01:02:55.600 And they look to their parents to shine some light
01:02:58.000 so that they can feel more confident and comfortable in the world.
01:03:01.880 But what if all they hear from their parents is,
01:03:03.860 I don't know, it's up to you.
01:03:04.700 You make your own decisions, do whatever you want,
01:03:07.160 be whoever you want to be, the world is your oyster.
01:03:10.720 Well, this is not an empowering message for kids.
01:03:12.980 It's not liberating.
01:03:14.120 It's actually suffocating because it drowns them in unease and uncertainty.
01:03:18.580 It leaves them lost and alone.
01:03:21.420 Now, does that mean that we should take away our children's freedoms? 0.97
01:03:26.380 Yes, in a certain sense, if by freedom you mean the ability to do whatever you want.
01:03:30.580 But in another deeper sense, no, this is actually giving your child freedom.
01:03:35.840 In fact, a childhood full of structure and rules and guidance is really the most freeing sort of childhood.
01:03:43.700 I've used this analogy before, but if you've got a guy who's lost in the wilderness
01:03:47.880 and you want to free that guy, do you free him by taking away his compass and map
01:03:55.500 so that no one's telling him what to do?
01:03:58.340 Or do you free him by giving him a compass and a map?
01:04:02.100 So the man may be out in a wide open space.
01:04:04.560 He may be able to go wherever he wants.
01:04:06.860 The essence of freedom, if by freedom we just mean doing whatever you want.
01:04:10.900 But he's trapped because he doesn't know which way he should go or where any of the paths lead.
01:04:19.700 And a person who comes along and eliminates most of those potential paths
01:04:23.460 and tells him which direction to walk is limiting his environment and taking away options,
01:04:29.900 but also at the same time freeing him.
01:04:33.740 True human freedom is not simply being able to do anything you want,
01:04:37.600 but it's understanding what you should do.
01:04:40.900 You cannot really choose anyway unless you know what you're choosing
01:04:44.320 and you know what the consequences are.
01:04:46.380 And that's what parents are for.
01:04:49.100 But some parents, too many, including the one on TikTok here,
01:04:53.040 don't understand that basic fact.
01:04:55.000 And those parents are today canceled.
01:04:58.560 That'll do it for the day and the week.
01:05:00.460 Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening.
01:05:01.540 Have a great weekend.
01:05:02.820 Talk to you on Monday.
01:05:04.000 Godspeed.
01:05:10.900 Godspeed.
01:05:12.580 Godspeed.
01:05:15.520 Godspeed.
01:05:26.480 Godspeed.
01:05:28.560 Godspeed.
01:05:28.860 Godspeed.