The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1337 - The Most Anti-Christian President In History Declares Easter 'Transgender Day of Visibility'

00:00:00.080 Today on the Matt Wall Show, Joe Biden escalates his war on Christianity by proclaiming Easter as Transgender Day of Visibility.

00:00:06.260 Leftists then proceeded to spend the day trying to explain why Jesus is pro-trans.

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00:01:44.000 Well, as they've done for thousands of years, Christians celebrated the resurrection of Jesus Christ this past Sunday.

00:01:50.420 All over the world, the faithful gathered to celebrate the joyous news that the Messiah died and rose from the grave for the salvation of mankind.

00:01:56.960 This is the central fact of our faith and the reason why Easter is our most sacred holiday.

00:02:02.000 But at the same time, a cult that was invented mere decades ago and which opposes everything Christianity stands for was holding its own observances on Sunday.

00:02:11.340 In a deliberate attempt to mock the very idea of Easter, they celebrated something called Transgender Day of Visibility.

00:02:17.860 Joe Biden, who claims to be a Catholic, ushered in the festivities with a presidential proclamation that can only be described as not only blasphemous, but also completely counterfactual.

00:02:26.440 So it's not overstating things to say that this proclamation document underscores once again that the Biden administration is the single most radically anti-Christian regime in American history.

00:02:36.900 And it's not even close, actually.

00:02:39.320 In the proclamation, Biden describes so-called transgender Americans as, quote, part of the fabric of our nation.

00:02:45.660 He accuses millions of Americans of being, quote, hateful for supporting laws that ban the castration, sterilization, and mutilation of children, saying that these Americans seek to, quote, target and terrify transgender kids and their families.

00:02:57.320 And he claims that there's a, quote, epidemic of violence against people identifying as trans, without mentioning that this violence almost exclusively relates to domestic incidents, prostitution, drugs.

00:03:09.220 He also fails to qualify this statement with the fact that trans-identified Americans are murdered at a lower rate than the general population.

00:03:16.480 Of course, nowhere in devout Catholic, quote, unquote, Joe Biden's proclamation is there an attempt to explain how the concept of transgenderism is compatible in any way with Catholicism.

00:03:27.640 He doesn't grapple with how a Christian can ascribe to modern gender theory while also accepting what we're clearly told in the first chapter of Genesis.

00:03:35.720 Male and female, he created them.

00:03:39.020 There's no way to grapple with this.

00:03:40.620 These views are diametrically opposed.

00:03:43.560 One can either believe in transgenderism or they can believe in Christianity. 0.64

00:03:47.700 Not both.

00:03:49.060 Just as one can either believe in transgenderism or they can believe in biology. 0.87

00:03:53.500 Not both.

00:03:55.080 And on both counts, Biden chooses, of course, transgenderism.

00:03:58.360 And coming from the same alleged Catholic who pushes the mass murder of the unborn, that's not exactly surprising. 0.97

00:04:03.840 But this decision to issue this blasphemous proclamation on Easter, it was so unbelievable.

00:04:10.240 It's so unprecedented in modern politics that a lot of people wondered if it was real.

00:04:14.240 I was one of them.

00:04:15.040 And I saw it on social media.

00:04:16.140 I had to go check the White House website myself.

00:04:18.940 And I found that, indeed, it was real.

00:04:21.080 And precisely because it's real, because it's easily verifiable and so damaging to the Biden administration at the same time,

00:04:28.620 because of that, so-called fact-checkers instinctively jumped into action to tell us not to believe our lying eyes.

00:04:36.820 And there are many examples of this, so I'll just pick one.

00:04:39.400 Here's the headline from Reuters.

00:04:42.040 Quote,

00:04:42.720 Fact-check.

00:04:44.400 Transgender Day of Visibility falls annually on March 31st, not always at Easter.

00:04:49.920 And then here's the spin.

00:04:51.200 Quote,

00:04:51.820 International Transgender Day of Visibility takes place annually on March 31st to celebrate transgender and gender nonconforming individuals.

00:04:59.500 It was not designed intentionally to fall on Easter Sunday, as claimed by some online accounts.

00:05:04.660 Transgender Day of Visibility has been celebrated on the same date, March 31st, for years.

00:05:08.480 The date of Easter changes each year.

00:05:11.400 Now, the point of fact-checks like this, of course, is to censor posts on social media platforms like Facebook by labeling information as misinformation.

00:05:19.320 And they do this every time, not by debunking a claim, but rather by intentionally confusing an issue or by debunking a claim that nobody's actually making.

00:05:30.160 Nobody made the claim that Transgender Day of Visibility and Easter always fall on the same day.

00:05:37.200 No one has said that.

00:05:38.460 But that's the claim they debunk.

00:05:40.780 And we see this kind of thing again and again.

00:05:42.700 It's like when PolitiFact said that it was false to claim that AOC was photographed crying in front of an empty parking lot because, in reality, they said it was an empty road.

00:05:51.160 Now, they know what people are reacting to.

00:05:54.440 They know what the point is.

00:05:55.540 They know what we're actually saying.

00:05:57.160 And instead of talking about that, they pick some phony misconception related to the episode in order to rate it all as false.

00:06:05.100 Now, the problem with this excuse in this case is that, and this should go without saying, is that Joe Biden did not have to issue any proclamation recognizing the so-called Transgender Day of Visibility.

00:06:19.340 Like, what the defenders are saying, basically, is that, well, Biden can't help that they fell on the same day.

00:06:26.000 It's not his fault.

00:06:27.640 And you're right.

00:06:28.500 He can't.

00:06:29.900 But he can help that he issued a proclamation about it.

00:06:33.460 You don't have to do that.

00:06:35.960 Even Barack Obama never did that, despite the fact that this holiday was invented a year after Obama took office.

00:06:43.280 So that is what people are responding to.

00:06:45.700 Now, of course, no president should recognize any transgender day, regardless of what date it falls on.

00:06:51.920 But if you have any respect at all for the holiest day on the Christian calendar, then you would at least skip the proclamation this year.

00:07:01.480 That's the point.

00:07:03.160 Reuters knows that.

00:07:04.580 And they dodge it on purpose.

00:07:05.740 Secondly, it's not like the Democrats just begrudgingly nodded towards Trans Day because they felt like they had to.

00:07:19.860 Okay, this wasn't a perfunctory checking of boxes.

00:07:23.680 They went out of their way to celebrate the occasion.

00:07:26.260 It wasn't just some staffer in the White House who put out that proclamation with Joe Biden's name on it.

00:07:31.760 They all did it.

00:07:32.780 This went beyond the White House.

00:07:34.040 Here's Gavin Newsom's Easter message, for example.

00:07:36.900 Watch.

00:07:38.160 Today on Trans Day of Visibility, we celebrate the trans individuals in our communities and recognize their struggle.

00:07:44.040 Struggles for recognition and increasingly survival in the face of unfathomable hate.

00:07:49.440 Hate which leads them to often feel unsafe or like they don't belong.

00:07:53.240 And we also celebrate the many contributions that they've made.

00:07:56.980 We've had trans leaders at the forefront of progress in every field imaginable, from STEM to the arts to human rights advocacy to so much more.

00:08:06.640 So much more.

00:08:08.080 Now, it's not necessarily the most important point to make here, but notice how Gavin Newsom's wife claims that trans people have made many incredible contributions to human progress,

00:08:16.760 but then fails to cite one single specific example.

00:08:20.340 She just says they've done a lot of great things and then moves on.

00:08:24.640 But the truth is that trans-identified people have accomplished nothing of significance in this country or any country ever. 0.56

00:08:32.000 All they have done is contributed massively to increased rates of depression and suicide in the last decade by encouraging young people to castrate and mutilate themselves instead of actually improving their mental health.

00:08:41.380 They've also committed several acts of terrorism, but beyond that, you know, they're just not doing anything of significance.

00:08:48.920 And that's not an insult, it's just a fact.

00:08:51.380 Even if I was interested in celebrating the achievements of trans people, even if somehow I wanted to do this on Easter of all days, 0.97

00:08:58.980 I still wouldn't be able to partake in that celebration for the simple reason that there are no achievements to celebrate.

00:09:03.980 But politicians throughout the Democratic Party all over the country pretended otherwise yesterday.

00:09:09.500 In New York, Kathy Hockel issued her own proclamation of Transgender Day of Visibility.

00:09:14.120 It states that New York, quote,

00:09:15.480 reaffirms our commitment to see beyond the gender binary and create equity.

00:09:20.120 And for his part, the HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra put out this message, quote,

00:09:24.760 He also added a picture of a bunch of people without faces because that's what equity means.

00:09:43.080 It means nobody has a face.

00:09:44.260 But, you know, first of all, like Newsom's wife, he doesn't mention what accomplishments transgender people have achieved.

00:09:50.200 That's because there are no accomplishments to mention.

00:09:52.100 On top of that, like the identity of transgender, so-called non-binary and two-spirit are nonsense labels.

00:09:58.320 I mean, the two-spirit thing blew up in Canada a while ago,

00:10:01.260 which is why Justin Trudeau goes around referring to 2SL, LGBTQIA plus people now.

00:10:06.580 But it's not a real thing.

00:10:08.980 It was invented by some woman at a gay and lesbian conference in Canada in 1990.

00:10:14.040 But there are other major problems with this statement,

00:10:16.480 which, again, is from our HHS Secretary, who oversees health in this country.

00:10:20.520 And the biggest one, perhaps, is that you cannot tell us that trans people will kill themselves if you misgender them,

00:10:30.140 which is what they say, and then in the next breath insist that these people epitomize resilience and joy.

00:10:37.480 Because if they really are resilient, joyful people, then we don't have to worry about what kind of language we use around them.

00:10:42.740 They can handle it, right?

00:10:44.420 They can handle a pronoun they don't like with resilience and joy.

00:10:48.320 But if we do have to worry about the words we use, worry, in fact, that the wrong word might cause them to commit suicide en masse,

00:10:54.640 then, you know, there may be many terms you could use to describe them,

00:10:58.360 but joyful isn't one of them, and resilient even less so.

00:11:03.440 As for doubling down on our commitment to their well-being, as the HHS Secretary claims to want to do,

00:11:07.780 the only way to accomplish that is to tell them the truth and stop catering to delusion.

00:11:14.040 But, of course, most importantly, Sunday was Easter.

00:11:17.000 And Xavier Becerra, like all of us, should have spent the day thinking not about trans people, 0.50

00:11:20.780 but about the lordship of Jesus Christ and the state of our own immortal souls.

00:11:26.100 The same is true of Karen Jean Pair, who issued a statement about the courage of the trans community on Sunday.

00:11:31.440 This is the same woman who claimed that trans kids are under attack in this country

00:11:34.920 just three days after a trans terrorist murdered men, women, and children in a Christian school in Nashville.

00:11:40.060 But Karen Jean Pair never praised the courage of the police officers in that incident,

00:11:44.440 who put the trans terrorists down, never mentioned their heroism.

00:11:48.740 They don't need to be visible, apparently, like trans people do. 1.00

00:11:52.300 They don't have their own holiday, like the sacred trans day of visibility.

00:11:56.340 A holiday so apparently important, so ingrained in our national tradition now,

00:12:00.420 that it must be officially recognized by the White House,

00:12:02.940 no matter if it conflicts with Easter or not.

00:12:06.500 Now, it could be interesting to take a look now at the person who started this fake holiday,

00:12:12.020 since we're on the subject.

00:12:14.920 And just for your own reference, for no other reason really, I will show you this.

00:12:19.240 This was invented, this holiday was invented by a man who identifies as a woman,

00:12:22.940 and now uses the name Rachel Crandall Crocker.

00:12:26.420 And here he is.

00:12:27.880 Well, I tried to come out to my parents when I was eight years old, okay?

00:12:38.160 And that was in 1967.

00:12:44.280 Let's just say it didn't go well.

00:12:48.320 I started the Transgender Day of Visibility nine years ago.

00:13:01.880 Yeah, yay! 0.99

00:13:06.700 And I was hoping that maybe a few people would like it.

00:13:12.360 Oh, my God.

00:13:16.400 Oy vey.

00:13:18.060 Um, um.

00:13:22.800 It's even celebrated in Vietnam.

00:13:30.240 I'm not really always fluent.

00:13:34.100 However, I started the International Transgender Day of Visibility.

00:13:39.060 What a beautiful woman. 1.00

00:13:45.000 Now, this is the left's approximation of Jesus, I guess,

00:13:47.800 the man who believes that eight-year-olds can change their gender.

00:13:50.360 That's what he claims there, that he came out at eight years old.

00:13:54.140 And this is who we're valorizing.

00:13:56.300 He achieved the incredible feat of starting a Facebook group back in 2009,

00:13:59.960 which is where Trans Day of Visibility originates.

00:14:02.220 Easter began with the Son of God emerging gloriously from the tomb.

00:14:06.000 Trans Day of Visibility began with a guy starting a Facebook group.

00:14:09.380 I guess this is what passes for a great accomplishment in the trans community.

00:14:13.300 Another irony of this whole Trans Day of Visibility thing, of course, 1.00

00:14:16.540 is that trans people are already more visible than any other group in the history of the world

00:14:23.340 when you compare their population to the amount of media coverage, etc., that they receive.

00:14:27.680 There has never been such a vast gulf between the attention paid to a group of people

00:14:32.560 and the actual size of that group.

00:14:35.780 LGBT people in general are celebrated with dozens of special days and months just for them.

00:14:40.880 We've gone over the full list several times on this show in the past, so I'll spare you.

00:14:44.380 But we know, of course, that they have all of Pride Month.

00:14:47.400 That's 30 days right there.

00:14:48.600 They have the Trans Day of Visibility. 0.94

00:14:50.240 They have Agender Pride Day, International Pronoun Day, National Coming Out Day,

00:14:54.660 Transgender Parent Day, Trans Awareness Week, On the Sexual Visibility Day, Bisexual Visibility Day,

00:15:00.200 Bisexual Awareness Week, International Non-Binary Day, which is also a week for some reason,

00:15:04.880 the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia,

00:15:07.840 the International Lesbian Visibility Day, as well as Gay Uncle Day in August.

00:15:11.740 And there are many more.

00:15:13.080 In all, I counted more than 130 days on the calendar reserved to worship our LGBT deities.

00:15:18.140 And there might be more.

00:15:19.700 I just, you know, gave up counting.

00:15:21.780 Government leaders, especially in the Biden administration, they make a point of recognizing

00:15:27.160 most of these days, they will say something to recognize a great many of these days.

00:15:33.120 Meanwhile, Christianity, the faith that built this country, the faith that many of the most

00:15:37.980 important, most accomplished, most significant human beings in the history of humanity belong to,

00:15:43.760 only has two holidays that somebody like Joe Biden will even pretend to care about.

00:15:48.860 And now one of those two has been overshadowed by one of the 130 LGBT days. 0.81

00:15:55.440 It's outrageous.

00:15:56.780 It's disgusting.

00:15:58.660 But it's also instructive.

00:16:00.420 Because I've been saying for years that LGBT isn't just a collection of sexual and gender

00:16:05.120 identities anymore.

00:16:06.480 It's our new state religion. 0.68

00:16:09.280 And never has that been more clear than it is today.

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00:17:34.080 Now, before we move on from this topic, I want to play one more clip for you.

00:17:37.780 This is David Jolly on MSNBC with Al Sharpton calling out Republicans for daring to object

00:17:43.640 to the White House honoring trans people on Easter.

00:17:47.020 And here's what he said.

00:17:48.300 Listen.

00:17:48.440 Why are Republicans choosing this battle as a way to take on the president?

00:17:56.800 Yeah, I'm not quite sure, Rev, to be honest.

00:17:59.620 I mean, there's a little bit of dirty political pull here, but I think we've got to hit it

00:18:03.820 head on and suggest to President Trump and Mike Johnson and Senator Blackburn and others

00:18:08.800 who are relying on the words of their Christ and their Jesus they celebrate today to condemn 0.98

00:18:13.820 Joe Biden to suggest to them that actually the Jesus they celebrate today would be inclusive

00:18:19.160 of the transgender community and would be supportive of the transgender community and

00:18:24.560 command all Christians, including Donald Trump, Mike Johnson, and others who celebrate today

00:18:29.300 that, in fact, they should love the transgender community as they love their own God.

00:18:33.700 I am not sure the theology upon which they rely to criticize Joe Biden.

00:18:39.300 I would say politically it's stupid because among the five to ten percent of actual persuadable

00:18:44.640 voters, part of their concern about today's Republican Party is exactly this behavior.

00:18:49.860 Why would you use time politically if you are Republicans to celebrate that you want to

00:18:55.120 condemn and exclude fellow Americans, that you do not want to provide equity and equality to

00:19:00.360 all people? Because that is essentially the message that was received by millions of Americans

00:19:04.940 today. And I think it's wrong theologically, it's wrong morally, and it's absolutely stupid politically.

00:19:12.100 I mean, stupid politically, you know, well, let's let's I'd like to see a poll on this.

00:19:18.380 How many Americans are thrilled that that Biden issued a proclamation for transgenders on Easter? 1.00

00:19:26.120 I'm willing to bet that most Americans are going to be on our side on this one.

00:19:32.560 So you see a few things going on here. First, we see the usual routine. We see the game. We know how the game is played.

00:19:39.840 Somebody on the left does something outrageous and ridiculous and repugnant, and then we react to it and we look at it and we say,

00:19:47.240 wow, that's outrageous, ridiculous and repugnant.

00:19:50.020 And then the left reacts in shock and horror at us for the way that we react. So they are shocked

00:19:57.200 and horrified that we are shocked and horrified by the shocking and horrifying thing they have just

00:20:01.440 done. That's the game. And there are too many examples of this to count. I mean, just think back

00:20:05.440 when they first started dressing in drag and reading to kids at libraries, you know, when drag queen story

00:20:10.580 hour first became a thing. And obviously, people were disturbed by this. People still are disturbed by it,

00:20:15.600 as they should be. But on the left, there was never a single moment where they said, even at the

00:20:20.940 beginning, they never said, hey, look, you know, I know this is kind of alarming. Nobody has done this

00:20:25.260 before, but it's a good idea and we'll explain why. Now, they never said that because, of course,

00:20:29.980 it's not a good idea and they can't explain it. But also because the moment, the moment they decided

00:20:36.080 to do it, the moment they decide to do something, no matter how bizarre it is, no matter how much it breaks

00:20:41.480 from tradition, no matter how much it breaks from what people are accustomed to, no matter how much

00:20:46.160 it defies common sense and our basic sense of morality and decency, the moment they decide to

00:20:51.640 do it, we are expected to embrace it totally, absolutely, without hesitation. So when Joe Biden

00:20:57.980 becomes the first president in history of the country to issue a proclamation on Easter that ignores

00:21:03.360 Easter and instead celebrates trans people, the left will not permit us to be even slightly taken aback 0.94

00:21:09.640 by this, despite the fact that it's never happened before. You would think that they could at least

00:21:14.920 admit that it's like somewhat provocative. It's a little bit controversial. You'd think if they were

00:21:21.180 honest people, they could at least admit that, but they can't. They can't. They never do.

00:21:29.700 No matter what they do, the moment they are doing it, you not only are supposed to accept it,

00:21:35.540 but you are supposed to accept it like you're not even surprised that it's happening.

00:21:40.300 Accept it like you've seen it a thousand times already.

00:21:44.020 And then there's the theological claim that Jolly makes, and he says that Jesus would be inclusive

00:21:48.960 and supportive of the transgender community. The problem with this statement is that, in fact,

00:21:51.780 Jesus never says a word about transgender people. In fact, the Bible never mentions them anywhere

00:21:57.620 at any point. Instead, the Bible again and again and again and again affirms the reality of only two

00:22:04.620 sexes, male and female. There is no indication anywhere that we can switch sexes or we can 0.83

00:22:09.820 transition from one to the other. Again, everything in the Bible leads to the opposite conclusion. We are

00:22:14.360 told that we are designed, we are knitted together in the womb. And if we are male, then we are made to 0.65

00:22:21.060 be male. If we're female, we are made to be female. That's what the Bible says. And this is a major problem

00:22:25.920 for guys like David Jolly because he would claim, right, that trans people are not a modern invention,

00:22:32.760 which in fact they are. But he would say that this is not a modern invention. He would say that

00:22:36.740 we did not come up with this category five seconds ago. He would claim that trans people have always

00:22:41.180 existed. You know, that there were trans people back, you know, back in the time of Christ who

00:22:47.620 were walking around and identified as female, even though they were men. But maybe they didn't say,

00:22:53.960 you know, they just didn't come out and say it because they were so afraid. Well, if that's true,

00:22:58.380 then that means, that makes it, you know, even more noticeable that they were in fact excluded from

00:23:06.080 the Bible. Jesus would never exclude trans people. He did. I mean, according to you,

00:23:12.320 if trans people existed back then, he did exclude them. He never mentioned them one time. In fact,

00:23:17.280 again, everything that is said on the topic of sex in the Bible is the kind of thing that if you heard

00:23:23.820 someone say today, you would accuse them of transphobia. So he did. He actually did in fact exclude

00:23:29.700 them. They're excluded completely from the Bible. And again, not just, it's not just that they were

00:23:37.960 not mentioned. It's the fact that their claims about human biology and the nature of human identity

00:23:42.480 are refuted and repudiated again and again and again. So there's the rub. Either the trans category 0.96

00:23:51.300 is a modern invention, in which case Christians should deny its legitimacy, or it's an ancient 0.97

00:23:57.820 invention, which was excluded entirely from the Holy Scripture, while the binary, quote unquote,

00:24:03.400 was affirmed countless times, in which case Christians should deny its legitimacy. So either 1.00

00:24:08.760 way, you end up at the same place. Now, does that mean that Jesus rejects trans-identified people?

00:24:19.720 You know, does it mean he turns them away, but he doesn't love them? Of course it does not mean that.

00:24:25.600 Rather, Jesus says to the trans-identified person, as he does to all of us, repent and believe. 0.98

00:24:32.960 Give up your sin. Go and sin no more. Jesus says that we must bow to him as Lord over our lives,

00:24:39.040 ourselves, our identities, that we are not God over ourselves, that we do not determine our own identity,

00:24:45.860 that it is in fact assigned to us, not at birth, but at conception.

00:24:56.360 That's when our identity is assigned. And we don't get to come up with our own. We don't get to say,

00:25:01.680 well, identify as this. Doesn't matter what you identify as. You're not God. You don't make that

00:25:05.380 choice. Sorry. And the rejection of your biological nature, the claim that you can make your own

00:25:12.720 identity. This is pride. This is blasphemy. This is sin. So what does God say to the trans person? 0.99

00:25:22.760 It says the trans person must repent, just as any sinner must. Leave your sin behind. Leave behind 1.00

00:25:29.060 your pride. Put on the armor of God. Follow Christ. Same for all of us. So is that a rejection? No,

00:25:34.600 absolutely not. No, Jesus does not reject the trans label. Instead, he calls on you to reject it.

00:25:47.180 Jesus doesn't say to the trans identified person, I reject you. He says to the trans identified person, 1.00

00:25:52.700 reject your trans identification because it's not real. It is pride. It is pride. You are not the Lord 0.94

00:26:00.360 over your own life. You do not get to determine that. I made you a male. That is what you are. It

00:26:06.580 doesn't matter if you don't want to be. You must conform your mind to the identity that I have given

00:26:15.120 you. That is what God says. And if you think, if you're of the opinion that this issue and this

00:26:24.260 community of people should be discussed more in the Christian church, I actually agree with you.

00:26:30.580 But that's what the discussion will be. That's what the discussion should be anyway. And I think

00:26:37.560 probably that's actually not a discussion that you want, is it? No, actually what you want is you want

00:26:43.680 Christ to bow before you as God and say, you know what? Yeah, it's totally up to you who you are.

00:26:49.780 I made a mistake. Oops. I gave you the wrong identity somehow. I put, I put a soul in the

00:26:55.780 wrong body. I made a mistake. My bad. You should correct the mistake that I made. That's what you

00:27:00.800 want the Lord of the universe to say to you in your pride. All right. There's a, this is from

00:27:08.800 mynbc5.com. There's a new bill currently moving through the state house aiming to create stronger

00:27:15.720 regulations and provisions for libraries in Vermont. There are many aspects of it, such as

00:27:20.200 establishing school policies to prevent books from being removed based on gender identity,

00:27:23.880 race, and sexual health. Another is creating a state library consultant in the agency education

00:27:28.120 to support librarians. However, one major part of it highlights confidentiality for minors accessing

00:27:34.980 resources in libraries. Mary Danko, Fletcher of the, the director of Fletcher Free Library,

00:27:42.060 says libraries value privacy. We want anyone that borrows material from our library to know

00:27:46.840 what they take out is confidential. So what this law would do is it would, uh, lower the, it would,

00:27:53.780 it would, uh, lower the age from 16 to 12, where if a 12 year old takes out a book at the library,

00:28:01.740 uh, their parents are not able to find out what the book is. Their parents cannot go check their

00:28:06.940 library records of their 12 year old child to find out what book they took out. Uh, here's a local news

00:28:13.280 report on this. Wendy Hisco is the Brownell Library Director in Essex Junction. She feels the age limit can

00:28:20.740 be lowered. Age 12 seems reasonable for kids who are really starting to explore who they are. Hisco has

00:28:25.960 worked in two previous states that had no age limits. She's also a mom of an 11 year old and feels

00:28:31.260 allowing her kid to have free reign is the best approach. We always call it doors and windows. So 0.88

00:28:36.000 maybe opening a door or seeing a window to identify with somebody else. So I think that's really just a

00:28:41.280 great way to think about information at the library. Benjamin Morton feels it's essential for a child's

00:28:47.980 growth. They can't really grow and develop as a person because they aren't experiencing new things

00:28:54.400 and they aren't encountering things that go contrary to what their parents espouse. His mom

00:29:00.940 Barb agrees, but she can see how some parents may feel the bill unfairly restricts their rights. Some

00:29:06.620 people are go with the flow. Some people are not. So it depends on the Fletcher Free Library Director

00:29:13.100 Mary Danko, who has been working in libraries for 20 plus years, says her message to those parents is

00:29:19.000 at the end of the day, kids will process information at their own pace. Even if you are reading a book

00:29:25.000 that maybe is a little bit above your level, you don't take that in because it's your own mind and

00:29:31.340 your own development at the time that is taking the information that it needs. So they want to ban

00:29:38.640 parents from finding out what their 12 year old kids are reading. And now you notice something here.

00:29:44.800 Well, you might notice a lot of things. They claim that they just want the kids to have

00:29:48.980 privacy. You know, they want the kids to be able to check out any book that they want

00:29:52.860 without adults monitoring them. You heard the one guy there in the mask

00:29:56.140 with the stains all over his shirt, just a quite unsightly specimen. You heard him say that the way

00:30:05.580 that a child grows as a person is to do things that are contrary to what their parents espouse.

00:30:13.280 They're just flat out saying it now. Like this is how a child grows is by rejecting their parents

00:30:17.680 outright. I mean, these people are, this is the enemy. Okay. What you just saw there, like this,

00:30:24.440 this is the enemy we face in our culture. Those people, the people that say things like that,

00:30:30.700 the people that believe things like that and will say it out loud, that will directly say that they

00:30:36.180 want to sever the bond between you and your own child. That's the enemy.

00:30:42.400 Um, and, but you notice that, that, you know, they say they want privacy for the child,

00:30:49.340 but as always, that's not what's actually happening here. If it was, if that was the actual issue,

00:30:56.040 this law would still be horribly wrong, but it isn't. It's worse than that, right? Because when

00:31:02.240 you hear that schools want privacy, want kids to have privacy from the parents, that the library wants

00:31:07.520 kids to have privacy from the parents, what they're actually saying is that they, the adults in charge

00:31:13.020 of those institutions want to have exclusive access to this information about the child.

00:31:18.100 That's what they're actually saying. This is not privacy, right? The kids, the kids activity will

00:31:23.080 still be known by other adults. It's just that the other adults will be the librarians, uh, or the,

00:31:29.680 the school staff members rather than the parents. So with these policies, the adults that run these

00:31:35.260 institutions, what they are saying is I, I should know this, not you. That is what they're actually

00:31:40.740 saying. The librarian is saying that she should have the exclusive rights to know what your 12

00:31:46.240 year old child is checking out of the library. Librarian wants to know more about your child

00:31:51.480 than you do. Same for teachers who push similar policies in school and they frame it as privacy

00:31:56.040 rights for the child, but really it is access rights. Okay. They want more access to your child

00:32:02.000 than you, than you have. That's what they want. And, uh, what does that mean? It means that a, that a

00:32:10.960 creepy librarian can take your child aside and recommend a bunch of LGBT books, load them up with 1.00

00:32:16.800 those books. And you as a parent have no right to know, uh, the staff at the library wants to be able

00:32:22.840 to keep secrets with your child. And this is, I know we're not supposed to say groomer anymore,

00:32:30.240 but spade is a, you know, spades a spade here. Groomer is a groomer. This is a classic grooming

00:32:36.200 tactic. When an adult says to a child, this is between me and you, you don't have to tell your

00:32:41.360 parents about this. Don't tell your parents. We'll, we'll keep this between me and you. That is always,

00:32:46.520 always, always a major red flag. There is really no context where that is ever. Okay. The only

00:32:54.160 possible context is, is when a child confides in another adult that he, the child is being abused

00:33:00.240 at home. Okay. But even then it, it, it, it, it, uh, it wouldn't work that way because it's not,

00:33:06.460 it there's, it's not a secret to being kept by the child and the, and that one adult because the

00:33:11.320 adult hopefully is going to go and get help for the child. So many other people are going to be

00:33:16.500 brought in on this. It's not a secret. We're not just keeping this a secret, but of course,

00:33:21.360 um, that's, that's, uh, that's not what's happening here anyway, because these are not

00:33:26.960 abused children that are seeking refuge or seeking safety, right? This is a, this is the adult saying

00:33:33.880 to the child, oh yeah, this is something I know about you, but don't tell your parents. Just let me

00:33:40.120 know. And keep this in mind also, as referenced, uh, in, in the opening monologue,

00:33:46.500 we are constantly being told that kids who identify as LGBT are at a vastly increased risk

00:33:53.120 of suicide and other self-destructive behaviors. And that's true. You know, I, I certainly concede

00:33:57.560 that point, which means that if your child considers himself to be in that group, if he

00:34:02.100 considers himself to be gay or, or trans or whatever, then he is at an increased risk of

00:34:07.500 suicide. And that's one thing that everybody agrees on. There's not many things on these issues

00:34:11.440 that everyone could agree, but everyone agrees on that because it's statistical reality.

00:34:15.400 You can't deny it. Um, not that the left has any problem denying reality, but this is

00:34:19.520 one reality they won't deny. So you, as the parent, the person who raises him, who lives

00:34:27.180 with him every day, like it would seem that you would need to know that if we actually

00:34:33.240 want to protect these kids, if we want to make sure they don't hurt themselves, then

00:34:36.340 you need to know that your child is at an increased risk of suicide. But these schools

00:34:40.940 and now these libraries, they want to hide that information from you, uh, the information

00:34:45.420 that you need to protect your own child. How many children are dead right now? How many

00:34:49.880 children killed themselves because they were in a high risk group and the adults who knew

00:34:54.780 that didn't tell the parents? How many kids are dead because of that? We'll never know the

00:35:01.000 answer, but I can guarantee you it's not zero. It's a lot more than zero. I can guarantee

00:35:05.160 you that. Um, so that's one of the many problems here, but the main point is just again, uh,

00:35:14.140 to summarize, just get the hell away from my kids. You creeps. This is why I can never

00:35:19.380 live in a place like Vermont. This is why I could never send my kids to public school.

00:35:22.720 Um, I could not surrender my children to a system that thinks that it has more authority

00:35:26.640 over my kids than I do. I can never do it. Nobody is more qualified to raise my kids than

00:35:32.160 I am. No other adult should know more about my kids than I do. And my wife does. Uh, I

00:35:39.160 could never let these people anywhere near my kids. No parents should. Parents should

00:35:42.040 be the ultimate earthly authority. The ultimate earthly authority over their own children

00:35:46.060 should be the parents. Now, yes, a parent can lose, uh, that authority. A parent can

00:35:50.020 lose their rights to their own kids. A parent can lose their right to everything and be sent

00:35:53.320 to prison, um, if they're abusive, neglectful, and so on. But as a default position, as a default

00:35:59.180 position, authority must go to the parents. Why is that? Well, even aside from the fact

00:36:04.140 that the people trying to take that authority away happen to be creepy weirdos with insane

00:36:08.180 ideas about everything. Even aside from that, the point is that as a parent, okay, I love

00:36:15.460 my child. I care about my child in a way that you, you out there, you know, uh, any of you,

00:36:22.060 whether you work at a school or library or anywhere else, uh, in a way that you never could

00:36:25.800 and never would. So you might work at a school or a library and, and interact with my child

00:36:31.680 in that context. But when's the last time you laid awake at night worried about my children?

00:36:38.800 You never have. I have many times. How much sleep have you lost over my kids? None at all.

00:36:46.760 I've lost plenty. If my children died, how devastated would you be? That librarian in Vermont who says,

00:36:55.260 uh, I should know this and the parents should, if any one of those kids were to die, how devastated

00:36:59.560 would you actually be? Would you never be able to find happiness in the world again? In a world

00:37:04.660 deprived of, of, of their presence? No, if that was my child who died, that would be me, right? I life.

00:37:12.260 I would barely be able to find a purpose in living anymore without them. Um, but you would be fine.

00:37:17.180 You know, you, I mean, you might be sad, but you would ultimately be fine.

00:37:22.000 Are, are you animated every day to make sacrifices and endure hardships and take on enormous amounts

00:37:28.540 of stress and heartache so, so that my children can be provided for and happy and healthy?

00:37:33.840 You aren't. I am. You know, I love my children. I would die for them. I would kill for them.

00:37:42.820 I would do any moral thing to protect them. And I would probably do a lot of immoral things too,

00:37:47.080 to be perfectly honest with you. Uh, this is how I feel about my own kids, not anybody else's.

00:37:52.080 I love other people's kids in the sort of universal charitable way that we should love

00:37:55.440 other people, especially children. But my kids are mine. They're my own.

00:37:59.460 And, and for that reason, and maybe not that, not that reason alone, but for that reason to begin

00:38:09.940 with, for that reason, primarily the parent is, is the ultimate earthly authority over the child.

00:38:18.860 Unless something happens where we have to change that arrangement. But when we change it,

00:38:24.060 we realize, or we should realize what a serious, significant thing that is, which is why you only

00:38:30.240 change it in the worst possible circumstances. It's really a question. Who, who, who should have

00:38:38.100 ultimate earthly authority over the child by default? Should it be the parents who love the child beyond all

00:38:46.940 measure? You know, the people for whom that child is, is, is their, their purpose, their mission from God,

00:38:54.520 their vocation on this earth? Or should it be government employees at a school or librarians

00:39:03.180 who, who barely know the kid's name? That, that's really the question. And I think it's just,

00:39:12.780 the answer to that question is so exceedingly clear that it, we shouldn't even, it should not be a

00:39:20.300 conversation. All right. Another thing I want to mention is from Fox News headline, movie producer

00:39:30.420 of Cabrini responds to critics that film fails to show none's faith motivation. That's the headline.

00:39:36.440 The movie Cabrini now in theaters is getting a lot of positive reviews for its cinematography,

00:39:39.740 acting, and storytelling. But some of the most piercing criticisms of the film

00:39:42.440 have come from the faith media. The Catholic Exchange asked whether Cabrini is a feminist 0.99

00:39:47.020 social justice warrior or a Catholic saint. The EWTN critique said the movie is gutted of

00:39:51.940 religious meaning. In Catholic World Reports, Father Henry Graby commented on his review,

00:39:57.120 oddly missing from the film are several characteristics that would be considered

00:39:59.440 essential for anyone striving towards sainthood, namely holiness and prayerfulness.

00:40:03.960 The film reveals the struggles of Mother Cabrini, born Frances Xavier Cabrini, an Italian woman who was

00:40:08.740 the youngest of 13 children, became a Catholic nun. The film elevates her feistiness, which enabled her

00:40:13.260 to defy her frail health and challenge the power structure of the Catholic Church in the city of New

00:40:17.320 York to build orphanages, hospitals, and schools. And she came here in the late 1800s, and that's sort of

00:40:25.340 the story. But this film is sustaining some criticism from conservatives and Christians on the grounds

00:40:33.780 that Fox News mentions here. And I bring this up because I bring it up now because I just watched

00:40:39.640 the film last night with my family. And I'll be honest with you about this, that the honest truth

00:40:45.620 is that they sent me a screener of the film weeks ago, Angel Studios did, and I was hesitant to watch it.

00:40:51.720 In fact, I was not excited to watch it. I didn't jump at the chance to watch it. And the reason is

00:40:56.200 that it's a faith-based movie about a saint. And I've seen a lot of those kinds of movies over the

00:41:01.800 years. And in my experience, they are almost always boring, dull, poorly acted, poorly written,

00:41:10.040 clunky, sappy, corny, just not good films. And that's the case with most faith-based films 1.00

00:41:17.200 historically, for as long as they've been making them. Now, even though the stories they're telling

00:41:22.340 are important, are oftentimes the most important stories, but they tell the stories poorly. They

00:41:29.240 just don't tell the stories well. And so it's, and the fact that they are not only making a bad movie,

00:41:34.920 but they're making a bad movie about such an important story, makes it not only boring,

00:41:38.760 but actually frustrating to watch. I've actually been, I've watched these kinds of movies in the past,

00:41:42.720 and I get angry watching them because I say like, how can you ruin this, this story? How could you

00:41:49.800 not manage to tell it well? It's, it's, it's mind boggling. Now, Angel Studios, of course, made

00:41:57.920 Sound of Freedom, which was a good movie. But even with Angel Studios, again, to be honest, based on my

00:42:01.440 own experience of watching these kinds of films, I was skeptical that they could continue to grow,

00:42:06.180 that they could, you know, continue to improve artistically, actually do something interesting

00:42:11.280 and compelling with a story like this. Nothing against Angel Studios, you know, my skepticism,

00:42:16.000 not based on them, but just based on decades worth of Christian films. And that was the problem.

00:42:20.260 So I wasn't excited to watch it. We did finally watch it, though. Seemed like a good Easter movie

00:42:23.500 to watch. And, and I was wrong. I mean, it was an exceptionally well-made, well-shot film, powerful,

00:42:30.400 subtle performances, good writing, top, top shelf cinematography. Just the camera work was

00:42:36.280 fantastic. And, uh, it manages to suck you in. And the very first scene, you, you, you're,

00:42:42.140 you're brought in and you're, you're in it and you're with it. Um, a movie about a nun who opens

00:42:48.520 an orphanage in orphanage for immigrant children in New York could have easily lapsed into schmaltz

00:42:54.540 and melodrama, but, uh, it really never does. It feels authentic the way it's shot, the way it's lit,

00:42:59.880 the performances, it just, the script, it feels like, it feels real. Um, the problem that Christian 1.00

00:43:04.540 films have had in the past is that they, they depict dramatic things happening and they want

00:43:09.320 you to feel deep emotion while you're seeing these things, but you don't feel those emotions

00:43:14.700 because, because nothing about the film seems real or authentic. You know, there's kind of this gloss

00:43:18.980 over everything. It's all sort of sanitized, even the way I mentioned the lighting, even the way a lot

00:43:24.080 of Christian films in the past, but they all been lit sort of the same way. You feel you're watching a

00:43:27.820 commercial. It doesn't even, everything about it feels wrong. It feels acted. It feels not real.

00:43:33.180 Um, so maybe, you know, I've seen Christian films in the past, whatever, it's about a, a marriage,

00:43:39.440 a couple struggling with marriage or someone struggling with their faith or, uh, someone is

00:43:44.700 dying of cancer, you know, or whatever. And by all rights, you should be emotionally invested in that

00:43:50.780 sort of thing. Cause it's like the story itself is, well, that's a dramatic story, you know, but you

00:43:56.040 aren't because the writing is sort of bland and one dimensional and the performances lack the nuance to

00:44:00.980 make them feel real, uh, and all of that. But, you know, with this film, you're supposed to feel,

00:44:07.260 uh, like these Italian immigrants are in a desperate situation and you do, as you watch it, 1.00

00:44:11.840 you're supposed to feel sad and frustrated when Cabrini suffers setbacks throughout the story

00:44:15.820 and you do feel it. You're supposed to feel like the pain and triumph and everything on the screen.

00:44:20.040 And you feel all that as you watch it. It's just a good film. It's what good films do.

00:44:22.880 And, uh, and this is just talking about the artistry of the film, not even the message,

00:44:27.200 uh, but our artistic grounds alone, I think Angel Studios, uh, with this movie, again,

00:44:32.560 Sound of Freedom was good, but, uh, I think with this movie in particular, they've announced

00:44:36.460 themselves as serious, sophisticated players in the, in the film industry. And I'm really excited

00:44:42.380 about that. And that, you know, using the word sophisticated, it's hard to use that word

00:44:45.460 without sounding, you know, uh, uh, pretentious or something, but yeah, that's just it. I mean,

00:44:53.180 a lot of conservative Christian type films, if you were to sum up what they lack is they lack

00:44:58.560 sophistication. These are not sophisticated artists or really artists at all. Uh, and,

00:45:04.080 but this hasn't, it's, it's, it's a sophisticated film. Now, what are the critiques? Well, the movie's

00:45:09.000 20 minutes too long for one thing. And it also goes pretty heavy on, uh, the girl power stuff.

00:45:13.820 A little bit too much, you know, and, and sure, it's a true story. Cabrini really did encounter,

00:45:19.240 uh, St. Cabrini encountered obstacles in her quest to set up orphanages. Um, because, and,

00:45:26.020 and some of those obstacles were because she's a woman. I get that, but there must've been seven,

00:45:30.120 seven or eight different scenes where somebody, some man shouts, you can't do that. You're a woman.

00:45:35.180 It's a bit heavy handed, you know, after a while, but not so much that it ruins the movie.

00:45:38.900 And then there's the critique mentioned in this article, which we'll finally get to.

00:45:41.880 Um, and, uh, I was talking about this on Twitter yesterday and I heard some of this as well from,

00:45:48.340 from other people who were much stronger in the criticism than in some of the things I quoted

00:45:53.380 in the Fox news article. But the criticism is that it downplays the spiritual aspects of the story.

00:45:59.000 You know, that it's, uh, it, it downplays the religious themes, uh, even though this is a story

00:46:06.180 of a saint and it's a fair critique and there's truth to it. Now, religion is front and center 0.91

00:46:13.560 in the whole movie because basically every frame of the movie, the religion is front and center

00:46:18.720 because it's a, it's a movie about a Catholic nun. And there's several scenes where faith is discussed,

00:46:24.020 scripture is quoted and so on. But it's true that the film seems to explore Cabrini's personality

00:46:29.860 and character more than it explores her faith. Now, these things are all interwoven. They aren't

00:46:35.680 clearly distinguishable anyway, but there's some truth to that observation is what I'm saying.

00:46:41.760 Yet, I still think it's foolhardy for Christians to dismiss the film entirely because, because of 0.99

00:46:46.260 that, uh, as some have done from what I've seen. Because the fact is, this is a family friendly

00:46:51.900 movie about a heroic, uh, historical figure who's also a Catholic nun. Um, now I say family friendly,

00:47:00.400 by the way, it is, it's intense. So it might not be, you know, you might not want to sit your,

00:47:04.260 uh, four-year-old down to watch it, but it's, it's, uh, you know, it's still, I think very much

00:47:10.100 a family film. And, um, and not only are the religious people in the film not portrayed as

00:47:16.180 oafish villains as they would be in any mainstream Hollywood film, but, uh, they're the heroes

00:47:21.720 of the movie. And the most villainous creatures in the movie are politicians and bureaucrats.

00:47:27.420 So, I mean, you know, come on. And that on top of the fact that it is, again, a very well-made

00:47:31.940 film, uh, if, if that's not enough to see the movie as at least a net positive, then I don't know what

00:47:40.600 to tell you. Um, and, uh, you know, one thing you have to understand, and I think some conservatives

00:47:47.980 and Christians struggle with this, but you have to understand that, you know, filmmakers have to

00:47:54.220 put the story first. Their first priority, if they're good filmmakers, is to tell a compelling

00:47:58.900 story. That's the first thing that matters before anything else. The number one priority is to tell

00:48:05.200 a compelling story. Everything else, the message, everything else is second. It has to be, it has to

00:48:12.280 be because that's what they're doing. They're, they're telling us as storytellers that you have to

00:48:15.040 tell the story. And that requires them to make artistic choices and to take some risks for the

00:48:20.580 sake of the story. And the reason why Christian films were so God awful for so many years is that 0.99

00:48:26.180 filmmakers didn't put the story first. They didn't treasure the story and the craft and art of

00:48:31.940 storytelling the way that they should. Instead, they just looked at, at the story as nothing but a

00:48:36.780 vessel to deliver a message. And so you ended up with, with movies that were terrible stories, but they

00:48:41.460 were, you know, relatively, uh, sufficient sermons and that's all they were. Um, and they were flat,

00:48:48.420 boring stories that were poorly told, but you had the message in there. The problem is that nobody,

00:48:53.000 you know, the message didn't really get to anybody. It didn't affect anybody deep down

00:48:56.760 because it was wrapped inside an uninteresting story. And the problem is that when filmmakers try

00:49:03.100 to go the other way and they actually put the story first, there are going to be some members of

00:49:08.060 the audience, those who actually watched those bad Christian films and pretended to like them,

00:49:12.080 you know, cause those films did have an audience. Um, they were preaching to the choir,

00:49:16.500 but they did have an audience. Well, those people, they'll, they'll get angry, right? They'll get

00:49:22.460 angry when the storyteller like makes some artistic storytelling decisions in order to make sure the

00:49:27.300 story is good. Um, and, and, uh, you know, and that's when you get criticism of like, well,

00:49:33.200 we didn't see her praying enough, but, you know, look, you could have included a few more scenes of her

00:49:37.180 praying, but also it, it's just not, we're not going to sit for five minutes and watch somebody

00:49:41.540 pray in a movie. It's just not, it's just not praying. Praying is incredibly important to do,

00:49:46.680 but in this context of a film, when it's already kind of too long already, uh, it's, it's just not,

00:49:54.480 that's not a compelling thing to watch someone to do in a story most of the time. So it might be one

00:49:59.580 of the reasons why they didn't have it. And the problem is that, you know, again, some conservatives

00:50:04.040 will watch it and they'll, they'll go, well, why don't you check this box? And why don't you check

00:50:07.080 that box? And, and what about this one? And why didn't you, well, what about this sermon that you

00:50:11.440 could have told and you didn't? And they get mad when an artist tries to actually make art instead

00:50:16.860 of a homily. It's one of the reasons why the way, you know, we, we complain all the time that there

00:50:20.640 aren't enough movies about, um, by the Bible, you know, they're not a biblical stories being made into

00:50:26.840 films anymore. And I agree with that. I'd love to see, I mean, of course the whole Bible, we could have,

00:50:31.520 we could have 50 incredible films made in the last 20 years, um, just based on the Bible alone. But

00:50:38.520 yeah, the major reason why that doesn't happen, obviously, is that Hollywood is mostly a bunch of

00:50:43.760 heathen, uh, degenerate perverts who have no interest in, in telling those stories. But then

00:50:50.440 the other problem too, is that, is that the few filmmakers who would maybe want to tell those

00:50:56.480 stories and, and could tell a good story. They're hesitant because they know that they're going to,

00:51:02.780 any of these biblical stories, you're going to have to make artistic choices. You're going to have to,

00:51:06.920 you have to turn it into a film. These are not films. And a lot of these stories are, are, you know,

00:51:11.740 if you were just to tell, if you were to just make a movie and all you see is what's on the page,

00:51:18.200 the movie will be like 17 minutes long. It's like, you'd have to flesh it out and, and add in details

00:51:25.180 that are not included in the text. Um, it's the only way that you could tell, uh, a story.

00:51:31.220 Maybe the one exception to this is the passion of the Christ. But if you want to, if something

00:51:35.440 beyond that, it's going to require you to make artistic filmmaking decisions. And, um, so I think

00:51:41.640 a lot of those filmmakers, they, they just realized like, well, it's a, it's a lose-lose because,

00:51:45.500 you know, the, the, the non-Christian audience, they might not like it because they feel like 0.82

00:51:50.120 I'm proselytizing, but even the Christian audience, like they're going to be breaking, 1.00

00:51:53.540 they're going to have a fine tooth comb going through this film, looking for what they consider

00:51:57.820 to be, uh, exegetical or theological problems. Um, and so that's why we, we often don't end up

00:52:06.960 with a lot of the art that we could otherwise have. So anyway, that's a long way of saying,

00:52:10.100 uh, Cabrini, pretty good movie. You should check it out.

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00:53:31.360 And every once in a while, I'll take a position that I realize is risky. Even while I'm saying it

00:53:35.640 out loud on camera, I am conscious of the fact that I may well come to regret having said what I'm

00:53:40.320 saying. You might argue that it makes me imprudent and reckless to say something publicly that I know

00:53:44.860 I might soon wish I didn't say. Or you might argue that it makes me courageous. At least I'll try to

00:53:49.120 argue the latter case, but the former is probably more true most of the time. Either way, the problem

00:53:54.220 with venturing out onto a precarious limb, of course, is that the limb might snap and send you hurtling

00:53:59.020 down to the forest floor. And that is what happened to me after I publicly stated a few weeks ago that

00:54:04.620 Beyonce's new country song wasn't that bad. Now, I didn't say that it was good objectively. I didn't say

00:54:08.880 that I would be putting it on my Spotify playlist. I didn't say that it was a great song. I just said

00:54:14.280 it wasn't terrible. It was catchy. It was kind of not awful. It wasn't much of a ringing endorsement,

00:54:20.140 but it was the closest thing to an endorsement that I've ever given Beyonce. And so it was inevitable

00:54:24.740 that I would live to rue the day that I vaguely praised one of her songs, sort of. And in fact,

00:54:29.320 she's made me regret it multiple times in the intervening weeks. But the real catastrophe struck

00:54:33.060 when Beyonce released her new country album. And one of the other songs on that album made the

00:54:39.320 rounds online. And it's Beyonce's rendition of the classic Dolly Parton hit, Jolene. Now,

00:54:45.220 if you're a red-blooded American, then you are well familiar with the original song. It is

00:54:48.700 Dolly's mournful plea to the woman, Jolene, who is trying to steal her man. Let's listen to a little

00:54:55.460 little bit of that.

00:54:56.780 Your beauty is beyond compare with flaming locks of auburn hair with ivory skin and eyes of emerald

00:55:04.120 green. Your smile is like a breath of spring. Your voice is soft like summer rain and I cannot

00:55:13.460 compete with you, Jolene. He talks about you in his sleep and there's nothing I can do to keep

00:55:23.320 from crying when he calls your name, Jolene. And I can easily understand how you could easily take

00:55:33.640 my man, but you don't know what he means to me, Jolene.

00:55:38.980 Okay, now what makes this song unique and interesting, which has caused it to resonate

00:55:42.980 over the five decades since it was made, is the vulnerability and the heartbreak and the longing

00:55:48.100 in the lyrics and the performance. Dolly Parton is insecure, fearful, desperately in love with a man 0.99

00:55:52.900 who she believes she cannot afford to lose. Those opening lyrics are iconic because of how they

00:55:57.060 kind of invert expectations. She's singing to the woman who is trying to break up her relationship, 0.72

00:56:01.700 but instead of attacking her, she praises her rival's beauty. And already there's more poetry

00:56:06.940 in those opening lines than in every Beyonce song ever written combined, but we'll get to Beyonce

00:56:11.380 in a moment. Later on in the song, Parton pleads with Jolene, quote, you can have your choice of men, 0.64

00:56:16.340 but I can never love again, which is really the essence of the song. She sees this woman of surpassing

00:56:20.680 beauty, who can have any man she wants, trying to take the best man that Dolly Parton thinks 1.00

00:56:25.060 she'll ever have. And that's where the song's sadness comes from. It's also why so many people

00:56:29.600 have related to it. Now, when I heard that Beyonce was covering the song, I of course knew that her

00:56:34.540 cover wouldn't get within a thousand miles of Dolly's original. Beyonce just doesn't have the soul 1.00

00:56:38.860 and gravitas to do a song like that any justice. But at the same time, in a weird way, I was initially

00:56:43.860 impressed with the idea. Because after all, it is a very tender, very feminine song expressing deep

00:56:49.280 insecurity and vulnerability. And Beyonce just doesn't make songs like that. So this seemed to

00:56:53.080 be an interesting departure, even if her performance was destined to pale in comparison.

00:56:58.060 But then I listened to Beyonce's version. Here's a little bit of it.

00:57:03.060 You're beautiful beyond compare. Takes more than beauty and seductive stars to come between a

00:57:10.660 family and a happy man. Jolene, I'm a woman too. The games you play are nothing new, so you don't

00:57:21.420 want no heat with me, Jolene. We've been deep in love for 20 years. I raised that man, I raised his

00:57:31.600 kids. I know my man better than he knows himself. I can easily understand why you're attracted to

00:57:42.540 my man. But you don't want the smoke, so shoot your shot with someone else.

00:57:48.980 You heard me.

00:57:51.080 Ah, well, there you go. Of course. Just when you think that Beyonce might be growing ever so slightly

00:57:57.880 as an artist and a person, she proves you wrong. It turns out that she has taken this song full of

00:58:02.480 pain and yearning and emotional honesty and turned it into yet another mediocre girl boss anthem.

00:58:07.980 She has, in other words, taken everything that makes the song great and replaced it with everything

00:58:13.200 that makes modern pop music terrible. Now, in Beyonce's molestation of the original, she sings,

00:58:17.920 your beautiful beyond compare. Takes more than beauty and seductive stares to come between a

00:58:20.940 family and a happy man. Jolene, I'm a woman too. The games you play are nothing new, so you don't

00:58:24.460 want no heat with me, Jolene. And later she adds, but you don't want this smoke, so shoot your shot

00:58:28.900 with someone else. And then sings, Jolene, I know I'm a queen, Jolene. I'm still a Creole

00:58:33.080 banjee from Louisiana. Don't try me. And finally, she warns, I'd hate to have to 0.51

00:58:37.940 act a fool. So, in other words, if you liked the original, but you always thought that it

00:58:42.800 needed less honesty, less heart, less soul, more feminist platitudes and a healthy heaping 1.00

00:58:48.880 of urban slang, well then, here you go. Your wish is Beyonce's command. And the problem

00:58:53.860 with this new version, aside from the fact that the performance is flat and uninteresting,

00:58:58.220 the lyrics are clunky and kind of stupid, and that Beyonce has ripped the song's heart out 0.97

00:59:02.940 of its chest and eaten it like some kind of nightmarish Aztec ritual, the problem is that

00:59:08.120 it lacks the vulnerability of the original song. In the original, Dolly Parton is desperate. 0.94

00:59:14.080 She's worried. She's anxious. She's lying awake at night listening to the man in bed next

00:59:17.820 to her as he dreams about a woman more beautiful than herself. In Beyonce's version, she's a

00:59:23.360 confident queen. She's unbothered. She's tough and independent and perfect and wonderful and

00:59:28.360 unafraid, and her man would never cheat on her anyway. Which, if that's the case, then why should

00:59:33.320 anyone even care about the story you're telling us in the song? There's no emotional resonance because

00:59:39.120 there's no emotion. There's no tension. There's no fear or longing or heartbreak. Beyonce's the

00:59:44.080 greatest. She's a queen. She's perfect. Everything's perfect. So, who cares? Why are you even telling us

00:59:49.100 about this? Like, why has this moved you to song in the first place? How am I supposed to be

00:59:55.480 emotionally invested in your own alleged perfection? This is what most pop and rap music

01:00:01.200 is these days. Not all, but most. It's a bunch of millionaires bragging about themselves. And the

01:00:07.100 question, among others, the main question is, why should anyone care? Your boasts are not interesting.

01:00:13.640 They are also not relatable to the rest of us mere mortals. Beyonce is a strong, confident queen, 0.98

01:00:20.760 she claims. Well, the rest of us are human beings. We're not kings and queens. We're just,

01:00:24.640 we're people. We have insecurities and pains and fears, anxieties, hopes, dreams, desires.

01:00:30.420 Music at its best expresses those universal human experiences. But Beyonce's music expresses nothing

01:00:36.380 more than how awesome Beyonce thinks Beyonce is. Never mind the fact that she isn't nearly as awesome 0.99

01:00:41.840 as she believes herself to be. If she is that awesome, then what are we even supposed to feel

01:00:46.960 while we listen to her brag about it? If her bluster is true, then it makes her music totally boring and

01:00:52.340 pointless. I can't think of anything less interesting than listening to a famous rich person

01:00:58.780 sing songs about how great they are. But the thing is, it isn't even true. And that's the biggest

01:01:06.300 problem with just about every song she's ever made and with much of modern popular music generally.

01:01:11.120 It just isn't true. It's not saying anything true about the human experience. It's not connecting

01:01:17.240 with anything real inside us. Because the truth is that any woman, okay, Beyonce included,

01:01:24.560 any woman who sees another woman, a beautiful, radiant woman, hitting on her boyfriend or her

01:01:29.940 husband will at some level feel insecure and threatened. If she's a human being, that's how

01:01:36.320 she'll react. That's how humans react in those situations. It's real. It's true. Like no woman would 1.00

01:01:42.560 just wave that off and say, whatever, I'm a badass queen. No man would ever leave me. Now she might 1.00

01:01:47.840 say that out loud perhaps, but deep in her heart, she'll have doubts. In fact, it would have been

01:01:53.560 interesting if Beyonce's version began with the blustery confidence. But then as the song went on,

01:01:59.800 the cracks start to show and she reveals herself to be insecure and anxious about the situation.

01:02:04.640 That would have been a smart artistic direction to take. It's still not as good as the original,

01:02:08.300 but at least a creative twist. But Beyonce has no capacity for creativity and has none of the 1.00

01:02:14.460 artistic intelligence or honesty to even conceive of something like that. So instead we get a version

01:02:19.680 that will only appeal to women who are as dishonest and lacking in self-awareness as she is. 1.00

01:02:24.680 But if it appeals to those women or men, it's not because they relate to Beyonce's corny feminist

01:02:30.860 bravado, but because they want to relate to it. That's the whole reason people like to listen to

01:02:36.200 rappers and pop stars brag about themselves. It's because they, the listeners, want to feel

01:02:41.780 as arrogant and self-assured as those rappers and pop stars pretend to feel about themselves.

01:02:46.740 It's all an act, right? And in reality, Beyonce is so incredibly insecure that she's won like 32 0.92

01:02:54.680 Grammys, but still whines because she hasn't won album of the year. She's won more awards at the

01:03:01.040 Grammys than any artist in history. And it's not enough. That's how desperate for affirmation and

01:03:08.040 approval she really is. And you know what? That would be an interesting subject for a song. If

01:03:13.120 Beyonce explored the fact that she has praised the world over, showered with money and fame and

01:03:19.480 critical acclaim, and yet she still hungers for approval. That would be honest. That would be

01:03:25.760 interesting. I would listen to a song like that. It would even be relatable actually, because none of

01:03:31.680 us have won 32 Grammys and most of us aren't nearly as rich as she is, but we all know that in our minds,

01:03:37.220 one insult outweighs a hundred compliments. Why is that? Well, that's the kind of thing a real artist

01:03:46.000 who has the courage to be vulnerable and honest might be able to explore. But Beyonce is not a real

01:03:54.820 artist. She's a mediocre hack. She's been making music for 25 years. And during that entire time, 1.00

01:03:59.820 she's never managed to say one interesting or insightful thing ever. She's bland and dull and

01:04:06.980 arrogant. And worst of all, she's a liar. And also, frankly, not a very good singer. And that is why 0.96

01:04:13.580 she is today canceled. That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening.

01:04:18.940 Have a great day. Talk to you tomorrow. Godspeed.

01:04:24.820 Godspeed.

01:04:25.820 Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - April 01, 2024

Ep. 1337 - The Most Anti-Christian President In History Declares Easter 'Transgender Day of Visibility'

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