The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1350 - New CEO of NPR Is Everything Wrong With The News Media

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, the new CEO of NPR is a far-left woke activist who rejects

00:00:04.740 the very concept of truth. And in that way, she illustrates everything that's wrong with

00:00:08.100 the news media today. Also, Joe Biden tells another tall tale, this one about an uncle

00:00:12.300 who was eaten by cannibals. A judge in Indianapolis lets a woman off the hook completely after 1.00

00:00:16.700 she confesses to murdering her infant child. And a bunch of grown adults were emotionally

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00:00:25.960 We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.

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00:01:53.300 If you don't remember Car Talk, it was a radio show that lasted more than three decades on NPR

00:01:58.160 until it ended in 2012. And the idea was that people called in with practical questions and

00:02:02.920 dilemmas relating to their cars. And then the host dispensed advice, whether it was about car

00:02:07.500 maintenance or repair or whatever. And the show no longer exists because the NPR that broadcast that

00:02:14.720 show for 35 years no longer exists. The idea of a show that actually addresses people's problems in

00:02:21.140 real life based on knowledge of how markets and automobiles or anything else actually works

00:02:25.700 has been unthinkable to the management of NPR for quite some time. Shows that cover the news from

00:02:31.540 an objective, factual perspective, to the extent that that's possible, are also out of style. And

00:02:37.000 instead, for the past decade, NPR has been controlled, like every other media outlet,

00:02:41.280 by activists who have devoted themselves to two primary pursuits. The first pursuit

00:02:45.740 is blanketing the airwaves with identity politics at every conceivable opportunity.

00:02:50.680 That's why they run segments on diverse gender representation and dinosaur emojis,

00:02:54.960 for example. That's a real NPR thing. And the second pursuit has been shutting down stories that

00:02:59.660 are inconvenient for the politicians who are voting to spend your money to finance NPR's operation.

00:03:05.980 Infamously, NPR's executive editor, Terrence Samuel, claimed that the Hunter Biden laptop scandal

00:03:10.960 wasn't a, quote, real story. He said it was a distraction. And instead of firing Samuel, NPR promoted

00:03:17.060 him. American University even invited Samuel to deliver a lecture entitled, How Journalism Can Save

00:03:22.420 Itself and Democracy. Now, it's harder to think of a better way to summarize what NPR has become.

00:03:30.000 They aren't simply bumbling propagandists. They're also incredibly self-satisfied and narcissistic. 0.89

00:03:34.660 They believe that they alone can save American democracy. And they think that in order to do

00:03:41.640 that, they need to control what kinds of information you can see. It's not that they

00:03:46.600 thought that the Hunter Biden laptop story was unvetted or that it was Russian disinformation

00:03:51.220 or whatever the excuse was. We always knew that it was factually accurate. But just because

00:03:57.540 something is factually accurate, in NPR's eyes, doesn't make it true. According to NPR,

00:04:02.700 truth is subjective. Whatever's most expedient politically for them is what is true. And it's

00:04:08.160 true because it's politically expedient. For a long time now, this position, which really amounts

00:04:12.960 to nihilism, was unstated at NPR, at least publicly. But now it's explicit, thanks to a new CEO and

00:04:18.700 president by the name of Catherine Marr, who recently took over at NPR. Marr very clearly does not believe

00:04:24.620 that the truth is objective. She also doesn't believe that it's worth trying to find out what the

00:04:29.280 truth might actually be. And this is an extraordinary position for the chief executive

00:04:34.440 of a publicly funded news organization to have. But that's her perspective. So here's a speech of

00:04:40.660 hers that's been making the rounds this week. It's from back when she was running Wikimedia,

00:04:44.880 which is mainly known for Wikipedia. Listen to what she says.

00:04:47.780 That perhaps for our most tricky disagreements, seeking the truth and seeking to convince others

00:04:57.040 of the truth might not be the right place to start. In fact, our reverence for the truth

00:05:04.880 might be a distraction that's getting in the way of finding common ground and getting things done.

00:05:12.320 Now, that is not to say that the truth doesn't exist, nor is it to say that the truth isn't

00:05:20.620 important. Clearly, the search for the truth has led us to do great things, to learn great things.

00:05:29.720 But I think if I were to really ask you to think about this, one of the things that we could all

00:05:37.100 acknowledge is that part of the reason we have such glorious chronicles to the human experience

00:05:43.200 in all forms of culture is because we acknowledge there are many different truths. And so in the

00:05:49.880 spirit of that, I'm certain that the truth exists for you and probably for the person sitting next to

00:05:56.280 you. But this may not be the same truth. This is because the truth of the matter is very often for many

00:06:04.980 people what happens when we merge facts about the world with our beliefs about the world.

00:06:11.180 So we all have different truths.

00:06:14.440 Wow. So profound. And this is what passes for good public speaking these days, by the way. But she

00:06:20.260 speaks in a robotic, sing-songy voice that makes it sound like she's a kindergarten teacher lecturing a

00:06:25.740 bunch of five-year-olds. She has the tone of someone who believes firmly in the superiority of her 0.98

00:06:30.960 own intellect, even though what she's saying is so abjectly stupid. She says that truth is subjective 0.99

00:06:36.860 and that everybody in the room has his or her own truth. But here's the problem, of course. Truth

00:06:43.380 exists. There is the truth, objective truth. And truth exists because reality exists. Either something

00:06:50.600 is a part of reality or it isn't. When we say that something is true or not, we say it's true. If we're

00:06:55.320 saying it's true, what we're saying is it's a part of reality. It's reality.

00:06:58.380 reality. So to deny objective truth is to deny reality. And you can't even deny reality without

00:07:04.900 asserting a reality, which is the reality that there is no reality. So the relativistic view is

00:07:09.580 not only false, but so false as to be incomprehensible if you think about it for more than two seconds. 0.99

00:07:16.440 Mars' remarks are the same idiot relativism that you can hear from any freshman philosophy student. 0.97

00:07:22.060 But she goes to great pains to make her take seem, you know, nuanced and innovative. 0.98

00:07:26.840 She talks in circles and ends up back at just saying there are many different truths.

00:07:33.560 And she says this even after acknowledging that the truth exists. Again, those are two contradictory

00:07:41.280 ideas, but that doesn't bother Catherine Maher for a second. Like most of our overeducated elite class, 1.00

00:07:46.680 she's incapable of speaking without a parade of cliches while making tedious and absurd ideas sound 1.00

00:07:52.120 far more complex than they really are. Also, according to Catherine Maher, we have glorious

00:07:58.400 chronicles to the human experience in many different cultures because we have, she says,

00:08:02.160 many different truths. But that's actually not what these glorious chronicles show us. Instead,

00:08:08.860 they show us that the truth is objective and timeless and eternal. Different cultures and people

00:08:14.600 across time have different ways of perceiving the truth, different ways of talking about it and

00:08:20.540 accessing it and embracing it or rejecting it. Yes, that's true. But the truth itself remains the

00:08:27.960 same. That's what makes the study of history and different cultures throughout history so fascinating.

00:08:33.520 It is precisely because all of these different people across time and space lived in the same reality

00:08:40.540 and yet had wildly different ways of existing in it and responding to it. So what? So that's the

00:08:46.840 difference. There's one truth, but our perception of it can be different. But the truth is the same.

00:08:55.720 Now, Catherine Maher, as simple as this is and as easy as it is to understand, you would think.

00:09:04.440 She doesn't seem to understand it, or at least she pretends not to.

00:09:07.920 She repeats her theory of truth at every possible opportunity. So here's some more footage from a

00:09:13.200 conference two years ago. Maher begins by explaining that Galileo was prosecuted for saying that the

00:09:18.780 earth and planets revolve around the sun, which is a basically accurate, if wildly oversimplified,

00:09:25.420 retelling of that historical episode. Although it doesn't prove what Maher seems to think it does.

00:09:30.400 And then she makes an incredible statement. Watch.

00:09:32.320 People resisted the evidence not because it wasn't the truth, but because it challenged their models

00:09:39.520 of how the world behaved, and in doing so, challenged what they believed about who they were.

00:09:45.560 This medieval intellectual wrestling match reminds us of something, which is that truth, by definition,

00:09:53.840 is malleable. It changes and is changing. It has as much to do with what we know, what we can know,

00:10:04.240 and what we don't know, as what we believe and what we uphold in order to make sense of our own lives.

00:10:10.640 No, it doesn't say that. It's perception is malleable. Perception changes, but what is being perceived does not.

00:10:20.420 She says the truth, by definition, is malleable. Well, by whose definition exactly?

00:10:26.580 You can make the case that postmodernist thinkers and their precursors like Machiavelli, Nietzsche, Rousseau,

00:10:32.840 might agree with that statement, but you won't hear that from many traditional thinkers,

00:10:35.760 saying that the truth is malleable. So why should we adopt the postmodern belief

00:10:40.680 and not the traditional one? There has to be some reason to side with one school of thought and not another.

00:10:48.580 And in any event, if truth is merely malleable, if there's no knowable essential structure to what is true,

00:10:55.540 to what is real, then definitions themselves don't mean anything. They're just language games.

00:10:59.880 There's no significance to any of it or anything else. Everything's just a power struggle.

00:11:05.140 And when you get down to it, that's really what Marr is saying.

00:11:07.280 She's asserting that the truth is malleable as an act of political will,

00:11:12.220 because she doesn't believe in any objectively true definitions.

00:11:15.920 She keeps saying over and over again the words, the truth,

00:11:19.040 only to make it clear that she has no idea what that is and categorically rejects it anyway.

00:11:23.480 And from that very shaky foundation, Marr starts to derive some very shaky corollaries.

00:11:29.940 At one point, Marr implies that people don't trust the media anymore,

00:11:34.080 not because the media has lied to them, but because people have different mistaken truths

00:11:39.060 that they're ignorantly clinging to. Watch.

00:11:43.380 We are awash in mistruths, in half-truths, in campaigns of disinformation,

00:11:49.620 in questions about whether the truth exists at all.

00:11:52.160 With our Portuguese hosts here, perhaps as a notable exception, and big props up to Portugal,

00:11:58.580 we've seen global distrust and resistance to health guidance

00:12:01.780 against the backdrop of this deadly pandemic that we've all been living through.

00:12:06.060 Across Western nations, we've seen confidence in the integrity and value of democracy collapse,

00:12:12.720 and an accompanying strengthening of autocratic, xenophobic, and nationalist ideologies.

00:12:19.240 But hold on. You just said there are different truths.

00:12:23.780 Everyone has their own truth. You just said that.

00:12:26.640 And now there are mistruths? How could there be a mistruth?

00:12:29.140 How could there be something that's not true if we all have our own truth?

00:12:32.200 Whatever you're saying is a mistruth. Isn't that just my truth?

00:12:35.000 What are you talking about?

00:12:37.280 Well, it's another revealing statement that Marr makes without any justification.

00:12:40.900 She's implying that democracies aren't or can't be xenophobic or nationalist.

00:12:46.200 But the Greeks were both.

00:12:48.220 Greek democracies were very much xenophobic, if that's how you want to put it,

00:12:51.680 and nationalist in nature.

00:12:53.900 No doubt about that.

00:12:54.760 So why is democracy the goal here?

00:12:57.280 Is that even her goal?

00:12:59.280 Really, her only given justification for thinking our traditional conception of truth is inadequate

00:13:03.120 and needs to be reworked, is that the truth we have now is the product of a history which is also political.

00:13:10.340 History is written by the victors, is one of the many cliches she invokes throughout her speeches.

00:13:14.700 And she says that that excludes various potential sources of knowledge,

00:13:18.100 like indigenous perspectives and practices, or women with their emotional intelligence.

00:13:23.160 But that's not incompatible with the reality that the truth is real and is universal,

00:13:29.420 and many aspects of it have been uniquely uncovered by Western thought and science and technology.

00:13:36.900 Even if you bought into Marr's talking points about a plurality of perspectives being better than one alone

00:13:42.040 for getting at the truth, the fact remains that it took 2,000 years of Western, Eurocentric,

00:13:47.340 supposedly white supremacist, heteronormative, misogynistic history

00:13:51.960 for us to reach the point at which these minor tail-end improvements she's suggesting could be made.

00:13:58.320 It took 2,000 years of history to create the civilization that Marr is now critiquing.

00:14:03.120 And if she thinks that this new approach will cause some kind of scientific revolution, it won't.

00:14:07.920 The more likely outcome is that it will destroy the civilization that was built over those thousands of years,

00:14:12.620 and that is the point, after all.

00:14:14.880 This is the essence of what we call wokeness, by the way.

00:14:17.260 The left likes to put conservatives on the spot by demanding a definition of woke.

00:14:22.580 Well, here it is.

00:14:24.460 The rejection of truth as a category.

00:14:27.660 That's what wokeness is.

00:14:29.040 When boiled down to its most fundamental part, that's what it is.

00:14:33.600 As for Marr, it's tempting to dismiss all this footage as the ramblings of a single woman 0.73

00:14:37.880 who has no idea what she's talking about, but it's a bit more significant than that.

00:14:41.440 Marr was selected to lead NPR after an allegedly careful vetting process.

00:14:45.060 There's no way that NPR didn't scrutinize her beliefs, which Marr has expressed many times over the last few years

00:14:50.000 in public social media posts, numerous speeches, and so on.

00:14:53.380 Now, on Twitter, Chris Ruffeau has exposed some of the more deranged posts from this woman. 0.80

00:14:58.100 There are really too many to mention, but suffice it to say,

00:15:00.480 she's like a woke AI bot that churns out the least original woke liberal woman talking points 1.00

00:15:05.560 you can possibly imagine.

00:15:07.220 She uses the word folks with the X at the end.

00:15:09.860 She says latinx.

00:15:11.540 She called Donald Trump a racist and cried with joy when Biden took office, of course.

00:15:15.480 She wrote that she once dreamed of going on a road trip with Kamala Harris eating nuts and baklava.

00:15:21.700 She expresses her happiness when she logged into a public Wi-Fi at a COVID clinic,

00:15:26.700 and the password was he, she, they, because it recognized the lived experience of non-binary patients.

00:15:33.640 She calls the internet sexist.

00:15:35.260 At one point, she apologized for using the phrase people who identify as women

00:15:39.100 because it's a form of trans erasure.

00:15:41.440 She writes about the importance of transit justice and vegetarian thanksgiving.

00:15:47.620 She rants about the male gaze and late-stage capitalism,

00:15:51.020 even as she drew a salary of $800,000 a year. 0.61

00:15:55.100 There are many more examples.

00:15:56.400 Chris Ruffeau's feed has categorized many of them.

00:15:59.600 And to burnish her intellectual credentials even further,

00:16:02.040 Marr even sat on a panel with Lizzo at a TED conference where tickets cost more than $10,000,

00:16:08.200 because that's that late-stage capitalism we always hear about.

00:16:10.840 And the name of Lizzo's talk was, quote,

00:16:14.640 The Black History of Twerking and How It Taught Me Self-Love. 0.88

00:16:19.720 But Marr doesn't need lessons on self-love.

00:16:21.660 She has that covered.

00:16:23.100 What she's looking for now is power.

00:16:25.360 In a video posted by the Atlantic Council and unearthed by Ruffeau,

00:16:28.680 Marr explains that the First Amendment, which you'd think journalists would support

00:16:32.020 since it's the one thing keeping journalists out of prison,

00:16:34.340 but she says it's not a sacred constitutional principle.

00:16:38.180 Instead, she says it's a challenge to be overcome.

00:16:41.540 Watch.

00:16:41.780 The number one challenge here that we see is, of course, the First Amendment in the United States

00:16:48.300 is a fairly robust protection of rights.

00:16:53.460 And that is a protection of rights both for platforms,

00:16:56.060 which I actually think is very important that platforms have those rights

00:16:58.580 to be able to regulate what kind of content they want on their sites.

00:17:01.780 But it also means that it is a little bit tricky to really address some of the real challenges

00:17:08.040 of where does bad information come from

00:17:10.840 and sort of the influence peddlers who have made a real market economy around it.

00:17:14.960 You know, the only people who view the First Amendment as a challenge

00:17:17.800 are government censors who want to shut down any dissent by force.

00:17:21.380 And now that she's running a state-funded media outlet, that's exactly what Marr is. 1.00

00:17:24.620 She's a state-funded censor. 0.99

00:17:26.540 And to that end, she no longer believes in transparency.

00:17:28.740 The irony is that when she was running Wikimedia, Marr kept talking about the importance of

00:17:32.580 showing people everything that's going on inside the company.

00:17:35.440 Every edit on Wikipedia, she said, is public for a reason.

00:17:39.520 Disclosure is sometimes painful, she said, but it's necessary.

00:17:42.180 Transparency is key, she said at the time.

00:17:45.000 But apparently this is one of the malleable truths that she has decided to discard.

00:17:49.200 Because as you probably heard, she just forced out an NPR whistleblower 0.99

00:17:52.080 who wrote a damning column in the free press about the organization's corruption

00:17:56.320 and its overwhelming political bias.

00:17:58.740 And she suspended this 25-year veteran of NPR without pay

00:18:02.500 because he pointed out that the organization is now completely one-sided,

00:18:06.140 which it clearly is.

00:18:07.680 For example, the whistleblower wrote, quote,

00:18:09.680 Concerned by the lack of viewpoint diversity, I looked at voter registration for our newsroom.

00:18:13.520 In D.C., where NPR is headquartered and many of us live,

00:18:15.920 I found 87 registered Democrats working in editorial positions and zero Republicans.

00:18:21.300 None.

00:18:21.640 Now, that's the kind of transparency that the new NPR CEO appreciates,

00:18:29.180 or used to appreciate, but not anymore.

00:18:32.340 She's happy to talk about how NPR employs too many white men, 0.94

00:18:36.580 but she definitely doesn't want to talk about political bias, 0.92

00:18:39.000 or how useless NPR has become because of it.

00:18:43.700 It used to be that NPR at least pretended to be embarrassed about this sort of thing.

00:18:46.900 In 2011, NPR CEO at the time, Vivian Schiller,

00:18:50.880 resigned after a Project Veritas thing exposed what she thought about the conservatives

00:18:55.020 and the Tea Party movement.

00:18:56.340 And to summarize, there's a whole video you can watch,

00:18:58.820 but just to summarize, she didn't like them, as maybe you would expect.

00:19:02.820 And Schiller had to resign once her views came to light.

00:19:05.220 Because back then, NPR believed that the appearance of fairness

00:19:08.600 was at least a little bit important.

00:19:11.440 But that was back at the tail end of the car talk era of NPR.

00:19:15.300 Now they believe their CEO can categorically reject the idea

00:19:18.700 that there's any truth to report on in the first place.

00:19:22.540 This is a belief system that's now very much in vogue

00:19:24.940 in newsrooms all over the country.

00:19:26.780 It's a big reason for the rise of transgenderism, COVID hysteria, 1.00

00:19:30.740 all the media's lying we had to endure under the previous administration.

00:19:35.220 This is the belief system that insists that men can become women 0.94

00:19:38.160 because the meaning of the words men and women are subjective.

00:19:42.540 And it's a belief system, the belief that rejects truth

00:19:46.200 is a belief system that will spell the end of Western civilization

00:19:50.020 unless we reject it.

00:19:52.700 That is, of course, the point of everything that Mar and her,

00:19:56.540 everyone in her club is saying.

00:19:59.300 In the absence of truth, there's only a struggle for power.

00:20:01.800 And right now, though hopefully not for very much longer,

00:20:07.380 it's people like Catherine Marr who have that power. 0.99

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00:21:10.340 Joe Biden is back to his old tricks again.

00:21:12.380 He was in Pennsylvania yesterday where he addressed reporters

00:21:14.680 after visiting, I guess, a war memorial.

00:21:17.620 And that's when he made a startling claim.

00:21:20.380 He said that his uncle was eaten by cannibals.

00:21:23.780 And I know that when you hear that,

00:21:25.860 you immediately think to yourself, as I did,

00:21:27.900 well, that's what Biden's uncle gets for visiting Haiti.

00:21:30.640 But this actually didn't happen in Haiti, surprisingly, and allegedly.

00:21:36.460 So here's the full story as Joe Biden tells it.

00:21:39.600 Listen.

00:21:41.600 When we called him Uncle Bozy, he was shot down.

00:21:46.100 He was in the Army Air Corps before there was an air force.

00:21:49.260 He flew single-engine planes to reconnaissance flights over New Guinea.

00:21:54.560 He had volunteered because someone couldn't make it.

00:21:58.060 He got shot down in an area where there were a lot of cannibals in New Guinea at the time. 1.00

00:22:05.900 They never recovered his body, but the government went back when I went down there

00:22:10.140 and they checked and found some parts of the plane and the like.

00:22:13.680 So he was eaten by cannibals in New Guinea, which, you know, that's a tough break.

00:22:19.240 It happens, though.

00:22:19.960 It happens to the best of us.

00:22:21.220 Who among us doesn't have a relative who, at least one relative,

00:22:24.220 who was eaten by cannibals in New Guinea?

00:22:26.380 I personally lost two uncles and three cousins that way.

00:22:29.380 I mean, it does happen.

00:22:30.760 Now, needless to say, of course, Biden is lying here.

00:22:34.000 The military says that his uncle was shot down over the Pacific, like the ocean, and died that way in the ocean.

00:22:41.760 There's no record of any Biden family member ever being consumed by cannibals at any point.

00:22:47.180 So this is another tall tale from Grandpa Joe. 0.99

00:22:50.380 And it's a shame because I have to say, you know, Biden is useless in almost every respect, worse than useless, in fact. 0.98

00:22:57.400 But he's pretty good at this. 0.98

00:22:59.520 He's pretty good at making up these kinds of stories.

00:23:01.600 He has a lot of great stories, and like so many great stories told by elderly men, you know, they are all at least somewhat dubious. 1.00

00:23:11.760 But, you know, that's what a man his age should be doing.

00:23:15.520 It's just like telling stories, and you never know.

00:23:17.340 It's like some of the stories are true.

00:23:18.500 A lot of them aren't.

00:23:19.200 There's maybe a grain of, like there's a kernel of truth to some of it.

00:23:24.400 This is what he should be doing.

00:23:25.340 He should be sitting on a rocking chair on his front porch spinning yarns, you know, for his grandchildren.

00:23:32.340 That's, you know, hey, kids, did you hear about the time that my great-grandfather was captured by pirates or whatever?

00:23:37.880 Like, this is what he should be doing, telling stories while rocking on his rocking chair, waddling around the house, whatever.

00:23:48.620 And instead, he's the leader of the most powerful country in the world.

00:23:53.680 All right, Fox 59 has this report.

00:23:55.880 An Indianapolis mother is found not guilty after being accused of neglect, resulting in the death of her two-month-old daughter.

00:24:02.880 Inside a home on Burton Avenue in August 2022, police found a two-month-old girl unresponsive.

00:24:07.420 The newborn child, identified as Alona Lacey, died on the scene.

00:24:10.280 Five months later, in January 2023, the girl's mother, Dasha Lacey, was charged with causing her child's death.

00:24:18.920 Before announcing his verdict, Judge Mark Stoner told the suspect she was a bad parent and she was not innocent.

00:24:24.260 The judge believed she was guilty of involuntary manslaughter, but because she wasn't charged with that crime, he instead found her not guilty of neglect, resulting in death.

00:24:33.460 Court records show that the mother gave a lengthy confession in which she tearfully admitted she smothered her daughter in the couch cushions because she was high on meth and wanted the child to stop crying and be quiet so she could get some sleep.

00:24:44.020 At the end of her trial, Judge Stoner chastised Lacey, saying her actions were reckless.

00:24:48.580 Stoner, though, insisted prosecutors didn't prove that she intentionally harmed her daughter.

00:24:53.320 Stoner told prosecutors that they charged the suspect with the wrong crime.

00:24:56.400 So, all right, so this sounds really bad.

00:24:58.460 I mean, it sounds really bad.

00:25:00.280 Not just the crime itself, which is obviously heinous, but the fact that she was found not guilty, it sounds bad.

00:25:06.960 The woman killed her infant child, admitted it, said what the reason was, not that there could possibly be a justifiable reason, obviously, but the reason is she was annoyed that the child was crying, and yet she's found not guilty by the judge.

00:25:23.860 Sounds terrible.

00:25:26.020 Well, wait until you hear what the judge said to the woman as he was releasing her back out into society. 0.79

00:25:32.120 Because as bad as it sounds, it's even worse than you think.

00:25:38.440 Listen.

00:25:39.500 Court accordingly enters judgment of not guilty, reluctantly.

00:25:47.300 I do hope that you all take the opportunity to get the counseling that you need, to get the counseling for the children that you need.

00:25:57.800 I do hope that you learn from this behavior, and hopefully the rest of the community learns from this behavior, that you cannot go out and party on the weekend and be with children.

00:26:12.120 The play may not have been a safe place to put...

00:26:14.580 Toxicology report did show meth in Dacia Lacey's system, but Judge Mark Stoner said if she had been charged with reckless homicide or involuntary manslaughter, he could have found her guilty.

00:26:26.740 But she's not guilty of neglect of a dependent resulting in death.

00:26:32.260 I hope you learn from this behavior.

00:26:34.140 I hope you learn from this behavior, young lady.

00:26:36.400 Me and your mother are very disappointed in you.

00:26:38.640 You do it again, you're going to go to your room without supper.

00:26:43.900 Run along now.

00:26:45.320 Do better next time.

00:26:47.020 I mean, this judge is scolding this woman like he's a disappointed father talking to a mischievous five-year-old.

00:26:54.600 Or maybe the father of a teenager.

00:26:56.760 Well, I hope you learn from this behavior.

00:26:58.000 You cannot go out partying on the weekends.

00:27:01.040 Learn from what behavior, Your Honor?

00:27:03.740 Oh, murdering her own child? 1.00

00:27:05.700 That's the behavior you want her to learn from? 1.00

00:27:07.880 Then even worse, he says, I hope the community learns from it.

00:27:10.820 No, the community doesn't need...

00:27:13.000 The rest of us don't need to learn this.

00:27:14.900 We know.

00:27:15.540 We know that.

00:27:16.500 We know you don't murder children.

00:27:17.760 I mean, as cynical as I am, as little faith as I have in the criminal justice system, if you played me just the judge's speech to the woman without context, and then you told me what crime she committed, I would not believe you.

00:27:33.360 I wouldn't believe it.

00:27:34.120 I would say, no way.

00:27:36.440 Things cannot be that bad.

00:27:38.420 It just...

00:27:39.040 Things have...

00:27:39.760 No, there's no way.

00:27:40.360 I mean, surely, surely, this woman was arrested for, like, vandalizing someone's mailbox or something. 0.99

00:27:46.780 That has to be it.

00:27:49.040 I just...

00:27:49.640 I wouldn't believe it.

00:27:50.220 I don't want to believe it.

00:27:51.580 Even now, I just...

00:27:52.480 I wish that I could choose to not believe.

00:27:54.760 I wish the truth was malleable, as Catherine Marr of NPR says.

00:27:58.280 I wish that we did all have our own truth.

00:28:00.040 Because if I had my own truth, I would...

00:28:01.480 Certainly, my truth would be that this doesn't happen.

00:28:03.700 This does not exist.

00:28:04.460 This cannot exist.

00:28:05.260 This can't happen.

00:28:08.280 And yet it is true.

00:28:10.000 And, you know, there's only one point I want to make here.

00:28:13.000 Only point that I think it's necessary to make.

00:28:14.940 Because I don't need to explain, I think, why this is insane.

00:28:18.080 Why this is unjust. 0.99

00:28:19.500 Why this woman deserves the death penalty for her crime. 1.00

00:28:22.540 And why this judge deserves, you know, things that I...

00:28:29.440 Well, we'll move on.

00:28:31.400 I don't need to explain that.

00:28:33.720 Because I think you all know that.

00:28:35.080 So here's the only point that I do want to make.

00:28:36.660 And this is important.

00:28:37.380 Which is, please do not go around saying that this judge is soft.

00:28:44.000 That he's too sensitive.

00:28:45.220 That he's a bleeding heart liberal or whatever.

00:28:48.840 That's not what's happening here.

00:28:50.620 Okay?

00:28:50.900 That is not the case.

00:28:52.360 That judge actually is callous. 0.98

00:28:54.160 That judge is a hard-hearted, callous, cruel, absolutely monstrous, despotic tyrant is what he is. 0.98

00:29:02.540 Okay? 0.97

00:29:02.840 It is not an overabundance of compassion for the woman that brings him to that conclusion.

00:29:08.640 That is not what's happening.

00:29:10.480 And even if it was, it still would not be, of course, justified.

00:29:12.880 And it would be just as heinous as it is now.

00:29:15.520 But what motivates it is his utter and complete disregard for the victim.

00:29:21.240 Okay?

00:29:21.560 It is his total lack of compassion for the victim.

00:29:25.300 The child.

00:29:25.860 His lack of compassion both for the current victim and for future victims.

00:29:29.580 Because there will be future victims.

00:29:31.520 I mean, this woman is free. 0.61

00:29:33.940 She murdered a child and she's free to go. 0.98

00:29:35.920 It's like it never happened.

00:29:37.260 And so she's going to have another child.

00:29:40.220 Right?

00:29:40.540 I mean, just think about that.

00:29:42.720 She's almost certainly going to go out and have another child. 1.00

00:29:46.140 Um, so what happens when the new baby makes the mistake of crying as all babies do?

00:29:53.200 It's going to happen again.

00:29:54.400 We know that.

00:29:56.100 That child was not this ghoulish woman's last victim. 1.00

00:29:59.780 And the judge knows that too.

00:30:01.100 The judge absolutely knows that.

00:30:02.900 He doesn't care.

00:30:04.880 You know, he's, he's not sensitive.

00:30:06.800 He's not overly sensitive. 0.97

00:30:07.860 He, he is the most callous, most cruel monster that we have seen sitting at the bench, uh, 0.97

00:30:16.260 in a very long time. 0.98

00:30:17.260 You know, a, a sensitive, loving person would throw this woman in prison for as long as they 0.99

00:30:22.400 possibly could.

00:30:23.820 That's what you do if you have any love in your heart at all, any compassion for past

00:30:28.920 and future victims, uh, for the innocence, the innocent people, that's, that's what you

00:30:35.100 would do.

00:30:35.380 And, and those are the people that these judges and the court system and the judicial system

00:30:39.640 generally is supposed to be protecting, protecting society, protecting innocent people.

00:30:43.760 That's your job.

00:30:45.200 And he doesn't do it.

00:30:46.580 And the reason he doesn't do it is because he just doesn't care. 0.98

00:30:49.100 That's an absolute sociopath, um, who will release this murderous monster out into society. 0.98

00:30:58.760 And he'll sleep like a baby tonight. 0.99

00:31:00.280 He won't even, he won't even think about it.

00:31:02.280 He'll sleep fine.

00:31:03.180 And when that woman does go on to kill someone else, he won't have a, he won't have a moment

00:31:07.820 of, of self-reflection or remorse at all.

00:31:11.340 Guaranteed.

00:31:12.560 None of these people ever do.

00:31:14.480 Here's a video posted by libs of TikTok with this caption.

00:31:17.160 The caption is, uh, this extremely bizarre video was shown to fourth graders at Bramlett

00:31:21.280 Elementary School in Georgia.

00:31:22.540 It depicts a dog who thinks he's a cat to promote LGBTQ inclusivity and acceptance.

00:31:27.000 This is what they're teaching to your kids in school.

00:31:29.420 Pure propaganda.

00:31:30.780 The school did not respond to our request for comment.

00:31:32.820 Okay.

00:31:33.020 So this is, uh, apparently according to libs of TikTok, this was a video that is, uh,

00:31:37.500 shown at least to one group of, uh, of, of public school students.

00:31:42.400 Let's watch a little bit of the video here.

00:31:45.160 Hi, I'm Gulliver.

00:31:46.320 And this is Emmett.

00:31:47.760 Hey.

00:31:48.780 Oh, hi.

00:31:49.860 I'm Barry.

00:31:50.940 Oh, hey.

00:31:51.880 We are so excited you're here.

00:31:54.660 We could use another dog.

00:31:56.120 Oh.

00:31:56.800 Yeah.

00:31:57.600 Oh, nice collar.

00:31:59.400 Hmm.

00:32:00.260 Oh, thank you.

00:32:01.020 I like it.

00:32:01.720 So, what do you want to do first?

00:32:03.480 Uh, find a two toy?

00:32:04.640 Oh, oh, chase our tail?

00:32:05.960 Oh, I know.

00:32:06.660 Let's sniff.

00:32:07.280 Uh, no, actually, I like to play with yarn.

00:32:12.060 Yeah.

00:32:12.900 It's fun.

00:32:13.920 Yeah.

00:32:14.140 Yeah.

00:32:14.200 Yeah, or, uh, I like to clean my paws, like this.

00:32:19.720 And you clean your face, too.

00:32:21.780 Yeah.

00:32:22.380 Or, or, or we could practice purring, like this.

00:32:27.240 Puring?

00:32:28.120 Oh.

00:32:28.920 Yeah.

00:32:29.820 Yeah.

00:32:30.160 And we could try to meow.

00:32:32.440 What?

00:32:33.000 Meow.

00:32:34.480 Meow.

00:32:36.220 Meow.

00:32:37.420 Like that.

00:32:38.560 Um.

00:32:38.940 It's great fun.

00:32:39.620 You should try it.

00:32:41.320 Why not?

00:32:42.480 Yeah, let's go.

00:32:43.500 Meow.

00:32:44.320 Excuse me, would you?

00:32:45.760 I, uh, I just, uh, I have to go for a second.

00:32:48.820 I'll be right back.

00:32:49.540 No problem.

00:32:51.040 Meow.

00:32:53.900 Miss Madison?

00:32:55.000 Miss Madison?

00:32:56.180 Oh, hey, Gulliver.

00:32:57.200 You're back.

00:32:58.060 Did you find Barry?

00:32:58.880 Yeah.

00:32:59.660 We've got to talk.

00:33:00.980 He seems like a nice guy.

00:33:02.180 Oh, great guy.

00:33:03.100 Great guy.

00:33:04.600 He thinks he's a cat.

00:33:07.020 He thinks he's a cat?

00:33:08.140 Yeah.

00:33:08.980 He's over there, talking about yarn, purring, woof, and licking.

00:33:15.120 Well, that's okay, isn't it?

00:33:16.780 Well, I think you should talk to him.

00:33:19.240 About what?

00:33:20.720 Well, about being more like a dog.

00:33:23.600 Gulliver, you're really struggling with this.

00:33:25.460 Ugh.

00:33:26.480 It's weird.

00:33:27.820 It's not weird, just different.

00:33:29.740 I couldn't ask Barry to change who he is.

00:33:33.380 That would make him really sad.

00:33:35.400 But, but.

00:33:37.000 Gulliver, accepting people for who they are is a very important skill.

00:33:40.900 Woof.

00:33:41.740 We accept you for who you are.

00:33:43.700 Woof.

00:33:44.200 That's different.

00:33:45.080 I'm a dog who acts like a dog.

00:33:47.620 That's normal.

00:33:48.760 Not normal, just more common.

00:33:52.280 I don't understand.

00:33:53.720 It's okay to have questions.

00:33:55.520 Questions are good if they help you.

00:33:57.060 It's not normal, it's just more common.

00:33:59.140 Yeah, well, that's what normal means.

00:34:00.680 Okay, a common thing is normal.

00:34:02.300 That's what, that's what that means.

00:34:04.500 So this is really an amazing video.

00:34:06.500 And the thing that makes it remarkable is that the video wants to be pro-trans propaganda.

00:34:12.700 That's very, that's quite, quite explicitly the intention.

00:34:17.560 But accidentally, it proves the, it disproves the point it's trying to make.

00:34:22.960 Okay, it's, it's, it proves the point it's trying to disprove and disproves the point that

00:34:27.740 it's trying to make.

00:34:28.300 And in fact, I could take this exact video.

00:34:31.180 I could take this exact video and make no changes to it.

00:34:33.960 I might swap out the actress there because the acting was a little bit subpar. 1.00

00:34:36.860 So I might, that's the only change I make is I'd put in a different, I'd recast the role

00:34:41.140 of the teacher there.

00:34:42.260 And, but everything else would be exactly the same.

00:34:44.520 And I could use it as a teaching tool to show why trans ideology is false. 1.00

00:34:48.800 And it works much better as an argument against trans ideology than it does as an argument 0.75

00:34:55.400 for it.

00:34:56.980 Why?

00:34:57.540 Well, because in that little skit with the puppets, the dog identifies as a cat, but is

00:35:02.580 clearly not really a cat.

00:35:05.080 That's, it's, it's not like he's a, he is a cat, but the other dog is too bigoted and so

00:35:10.320 can't see his true cat nature or something like that.

00:35:14.140 No, this is a, this, or, or it's not like a cat walks up and the dog wants the cat to

00:35:18.960 be a dog.

00:35:19.460 And so tries to put him in this box of like, that's not what's happening.

00:35:23.460 This is a dog in, in the story that they have chosen to tell.

00:35:28.080 This is a dog who thinks he's a cat, but isn't.

00:35:31.820 In fact, they've even, they've added in details again that like, I, it's almost a little subtle

00:35:38.200 details that, that would make it a pretty smart, you know, metaphor to disprove trans ideology.

00:35:47.620 So they, they have him imitating a cat in ways that are not very convincing.

00:35:52.780 So like he tries to do the meow, but it's supposed to be funny because the meow comes

00:35:57.160 out like a, like a wolf, like a dog bark.

00:36:00.020 So, which, which is a good metaphor for when, when, when men try to imitate women is that

00:36:07.480 they, they, they do it in this kind of, you know, they, they know some of the behaviors

00:36:11.460 and some of the mannerisms they're supposed to be aping and they try to do it.

00:36:14.320 But even in their way of trying, they try to be women in ways that only a man would.

00:36:21.220 So they, they, they're, they're, they're fact that they're actually men comes out in

00:36:25.200 their imitation of women. 0.63

00:36:27.780 And so even that seems to be like, I don't even know from the perspective of a pro trans

00:36:33.660 person, why would you include that detail?

00:36:35.960 Why would you have the little detail where he meows, but he still sounds like a dog?

00:36:39.120 Unless you're trying to make our point, I don't even know what, how does that in your

00:36:44.540 own mind, how do you think that proves your point?

00:36:47.200 What point are you even trying to make?

00:36:48.500 I don't even know anymore.

00:36:50.640 And so what, what do kids learn from this?

00:36:53.460 Kids learn from this, that trans people are confused, that a trans person, a man who says

00:36:58.980 he's a woman is just like a dog who says he's a cat. 0.98

00:37:03.900 And why does a dog think he's a cat?

00:37:05.660 Think he's a cat?

00:37:06.180 Well, because he likes yarn and, uh, and, and he likes to purr or whatever, like things

00:37:11.720 like that, that of course, okay, well maybe you'll have some dogs that are a little eccentric

00:37:15.640 and do enjoy things that, uh, that usually cats enjoy, but it's still a dog.

00:37:20.840 So you know what this is?

00:37:21.740 This is actually, this is Johnny, the walrus.

00:37:25.160 They've actually stolen from me.

00:37:26.740 I think this is plagiarism.

00:37:28.100 This is the plot of Johnny, the walrus is just, we've, it's with puppets and we've made

00:37:31.700 it dogs instead of humans, but it's essentially that this is, this is the, the, the point I

00:37:37.240 was making in Johnny, the walrus with my children's book, my of course, renowned, critically

00:37:41.060 acclaimed children's book, uh, bestselling children's book is, is what they've done with

00:37:45.580 this video here.

00:37:46.300 So that's how, that's how absurd, uh, trans ideology is and how, how incoherent it is that 1.00

00:37:54.420 you can't even propagandize for it effectively without accidentally making the opposite point.

00:38:01.440 It's, it's not pot, like whatever you do, whatever, and you especially, you, you especially

00:38:06.240 can't come up with an analogy.

00:38:08.400 This is, by the way, this is a good, it's a good indication that your point is wrong.

00:38:11.800 If you can't come up with any analogy that actually works, because any analogy that they

00:38:17.240 try to reach for to express, uh, their, you know, transgenderism or trans ideology, whatever

00:38:25.700 analogy they choose, it always ends up just communicating the message that, oh yeah, well,

00:38:31.260 a trans person is just someone who's claiming to be something that they aren't someone who's 0.92

00:38:34.480 confused.

00:38:35.680 Now on the other end of it, those of us who are on team sanity and are opposed to trans

00:38:40.800 ideology, uh, we have a never ending supply of analogies and this one works too, but you

00:38:46.160 know, it's, it's, it's ample, anything, anything in the world you could, you could pull from

00:38:51.420 for an analogy to, uh, to illustrate your point.

00:38:56.560 But with, with transgenderism, if you're pro trans, there's really nothing, whatever analogy 0.90

00:39:01.740 you go for, whatever you reach for is going to end up, uh, again, proving the point that you are

00:39:09.540 trying to, uh, debunk.

00:39:12.240 So it's really pretty, pretty fascinating.

00:39:15.000 Um, all right.

00:39:16.460 Uh, New York post finally has this report that nobody's going to care about, but I'm going

00:39:25.620 to read it anyway.

00:39:26.460 Another special cosmic event is to occur this year and it would be a once in a lifetime viewing

00:39:30.480 opportunity.

00:39:30.900 According to NASA, it's a Nova explosion located in a star system, 3000 light years away from

00:39:36.060 earth.

00:39:36.280 And astronomers predict that it will be visible to the unaided eye sometime in 2024.

00:39:41.020 So we already had the, uh, we had the, the eclipse and now we're going to have this.

00:39:44.700 Bill Cook says, unfortunately we don't know the timing of this as well as we know the eclipse,

00:39:48.680 but when it happens, it'll be something you'll remember.

00:39:50.820 The, uh, T. Corinea Borealis, oh, Corinea Borealis, nicknamed the blaze star is one of

00:39:56.460 10 known recurrent novas in the galaxy.

00:39:58.520 A typical nova consists of a star, like a red giant, a star bigger than the sun and a white dwarf,

00:40:03.480 which is a star about the size of earth.

00:40:06.080 And that red giant is dumping material on the surface of the white dwarf, and they're

00:40:10.700 orbiting each other.

00:40:12.080 And they're real close together.

00:40:13.880 When enough material is dumped on the surface of the white dwarf, the temperature gets so

00:40:17.200 hot that it starts a thermonuclear runway on the surface of that white dwarf.

00:40:21.440 And then there's an explosion, which apparently happens every 79 years or so.

00:40:24.540 Anyway, this is a, this is fascinating stuff.

00:40:27.520 And what makes it so mind blowing, you know, as we always have to remember is that this,

00:40:31.260 this star explosion actually occurred because it's 3,000 light years away and it's going

00:40:37.300 to be visible this year.

00:40:38.500 So it actually, it occurred 3,000 years ago.

00:40:41.820 And so when you view this event in the night sky, you'll be gazing back in time 3,000 years.

00:40:48.240 So this is something that this happened a thousand years before the birth of Christ.

00:40:51.400 This happened, uh, uh, uh, you know, 1100 years before the first Mayan pyramid was built

00:40:58.220 and 500 years after the last Egyptian pyramid was built.

00:41:00.760 So it was a long time ago.

00:41:01.860 This is time traveling.

00:41:03.180 It's time traveling.

00:41:04.020 You're traveling back in time to witness an event from history.

00:41:08.340 And this is something you can actually do without getting in time machine.

00:41:10.580 You can just go outside and look and you can see it.

00:41:12.080 Think about that.

00:41:12.540 It's just, it's extraordinary.

00:41:14.180 And you think about the scale of an event like this, when we, when we, if we can see it

00:41:18.240 from 3,000 light years away, uh, so there's 6 trillion miles in a light year.

00:41:23.300 So 3,000 times 6 trillion, do the math on that.

00:41:26.460 So that's, that's, uh, you know, 18, uh, quadrillion miles or whatever it is.

00:41:32.640 And the fact that we can see something that far away is staggering.

00:41:39.280 And of course we can see stars every night in the sky that are farther away than that.

00:41:43.960 And this is a world we live in.

00:41:45.160 This is the universe, uh, in which we reside.

00:41:48.640 And it's also why there's no excuse to ever be bored. 1.00

00:41:51.400 Like only idiots are bored. 1.00

00:41:52.960 If you're ever bored, then you're stupid. 1.00

00:41:54.820 Like you have to be a child or, or stupid, uh, to be bored. 1.00

00:41:59.260 You should never be bored. 1.00

00:42:00.820 How can you be bored when there are mind boggling realities like this to contemplate?

00:42:05.700 I, I re I don't get it.

00:42:07.320 Like how can you not fascinate yourself just with, with your own reflections about the,

00:42:12.640 uh, the, the, the immensity of the universe and the mystery of it.

00:42:18.280 I give the same speech to my kids all the time.

00:42:20.360 They say, Oh dad, I'm bored.

00:42:21.780 Oh really?

00:42:22.180 You're bored.

00:42:22.960 You can go outside at night and look up at the sky and see things that are trillions

00:42:26.100 of miles away and you're bored that you're bored.

00:42:29.980 No excuse to ever be bored.

00:42:31.100 Especially again, if you're an adult, one thing for children, but adults should never

00:42:35.040 be bored because reality is far too fascinating and exciting to, uh, justify boredom.

00:42:42.540 And yet so many people are.

00:42:43.800 In fact, a lot of people are bored right now at this very moment, listening to me drone

00:42:47.360 on about this.

00:42:48.080 But if that's the case, uh, then, uh, then shame on you.

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00:44:49.100 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:44:50.280 So there's been some conversation about the show Bluey this week.

00:44:59.860 It began with reports that Bluey had gone woke, one of the last holdouts, one of the

00:45:04.120 last remaining unwoke kid shows.

00:45:06.000 One of the very few to stave off the woke virus had finally succumbed to the contagion.

00:45:10.360 That was the claim anyway.

00:45:11.420 It was helped along by various leftists on Twitter and TikTok who were anxious to believe

00:45:15.200 that the show had taken this turn.

00:45:16.880 It all stems from one brief scene in the most recent episode, which is apparently the season

00:45:20.880 finale, where a character is supposedly revealed to have two moms.

00:45:24.360 Here's a woke TikToker explaining.

00:45:27.640 Watch.

00:45:28.920 Bluey has officially confirmed their first LGBTQ plus character or characters, should I say,

00:45:34.640 in the new Bluey episode, The Sign.

00:45:36.460 Now I must admit, this is kind of like a blink and you'll miss it sort of moment because I

00:45:40.440 know when I first watched the episode, I missed it.

00:45:42.800 It wasn't until I went back and watched it with subtitles and then actually listened that I noticed

00:45:46.540 that we have our first gay couple.

00:45:48.520 They're two lesbian moms and they are the moms of Pretzel. 1.00

00:45:52.020 So if you go all the way back into the Calypso scene, when Pretzel is talking about his guinea

00:45:55.860 pig running away, he says, my moms.

00:45:58.960 And the subtitles also have it as moms as well, confirming that, yeah, he has two moms and 0.89

00:46:04.280 that's our first real actual like gay couple or lesbian couple, LGBTQ plus couple that we've

00:46:10.080 had confirmed in the show.

00:46:11.640 And I love it.

00:46:12.480 I think it was a really nice and organic way to do it.

00:46:15.160 It is one of those like really subtle ones that I feel like a lot of people will miss.

00:46:18.080 But in general, I thought they handled it really well and it was just a natural way to be like,

00:46:22.040 yeah, some people have two moms and that's just part of real life. 1.00

00:46:25.660 But what did you think?

00:46:26.880 Let me know in that comment section down below.

00:46:28.340 Did you notice that he said moms the first time you watched it or did you need to rewatch

00:46:32.340 it to see it or did you not know until you saw this video?

00:46:34.720 And also what other kind of families do you want to see in the future in Bluey?

00:46:37.940 Because yes, there will be a future and we do have one more episode to come in this season.

00:46:41.980 The sign was not the finale.

00:46:44.680 Now, there's some disagreement about whether the show really intended to convey that the

00:46:48.560 character has two moms. 0.99

00:46:50.060 Scholars have debated this point fiercely.

00:46:52.760 Some have insisted that this was meant in the way that people say pops, like just kind

00:46:56.900 of a slang way of referring to one mom.

00:46:59.380 I don't know if people say mums to refer to one mom in Australia.

00:47:03.900 I don't know.

00:47:04.420 They have all kinds of weird words they use down there.

00:47:07.040 Or maybe the character didn't really say moms at all.

00:47:09.960 You know, it's difficult to tell exactly.

00:47:11.300 Or maybe, and this unfortunately is probably the most likely scenario, is maybe it's precisely

00:47:15.600 what it sounds like, that they are introducing a character with two moms, in which case my

00:47:20.060 kids, of course, will be done with Bluey.

00:47:22.160 And the left will cry, as they always do.

00:47:24.440 But they'll say, well, but some people have two moms. 0.80

00:47:26.080 It's part of life.

00:47:26.760 Why shouldn't it be represented in the show?

00:47:29.320 The problem with that argument is that, no, it's not part of life.

00:47:31.900 Nobody has two moms. 0.88

00:47:33.400 Nobody on the planet has two moms, or has ever had two moms, or will ever have two moms

00:47:37.080 in the future.

00:47:37.820 Every child has one mom and one mom only. 0.65

00:47:39.920 There cannot be a second mom. 1.00

00:47:41.460 A child's mom might be shacking up with some other woman, but that other woman is not the 1.00

00:47:46.160 child's mom.

00:47:46.580 A kid show that goes along with the fiction that children can have two moms is a kid show 0.85

00:47:52.460 that is trying to confuse kids and indoctrinate them into an ideology that doesn't represent

00:47:57.040 reality, but rather distorts and subverts it.

00:48:00.220 And if Bluey has gone down this road, I'm sure that will be obvious in the coming episodes.

00:48:05.560 Because once a kid show crosses the woke threshold, as we've seen, it's not long before they have

00:48:10.760 episodes featuring drag queens and gay pride parades, which is what happened with that other

00:48:15.120 children's show featuring a blue dog.

00:48:16.880 But let's put the wokeness question to the side for a moment, because there was more

00:48:21.040 Bluey news this week. 0.91

00:48:23.160 Bluey also trended this week as legions of adults gushed over the season finale, and not

00:48:29.600 because of the possible lesbian mom reference, but because the episode itself touched them

00:48:33.960 so deeply.

00:48:34.780 They said that it was affecting and moving and emotional and devastating and profound.

00:48:39.400 These are grown adults, I remind you, discussing a cartoon show for small children.

00:48:43.560 Here's the USA Today headline, quote, parents are sobbing over Bluey episode, The Sign.

00:48:48.420 Is the show ending?

00:48:49.520 Here's what to know about the poignant season three finale and what may be ahead for Bluey.

00:48:54.300 According to USA Today, the plot of the episode revolves around the father dog, Bandit, getting

00:48:58.900 a new job that requires the family to move to a new town.

00:49:01.560 And Bluey doesn't want to move, and neither does her mom.

00:49:04.620 And therein lies the emotional pull of the episode.

00:49:07.800 But by the end of the episode, spoiler alert, Bandit decides at the last minute that he isn't

00:49:12.480 going to move, and Bluey and the mom dog are very happy.

00:49:15.340 And this is the poignant plot that USA Today refers to.

00:49:20.120 So let's go to the article now to find out how grown adult human beings reacted to this.

00:49:25.480 Quote, needless to say, some parents were in their feelings after such a heart-stirring

00:49:29.120 finale.

00:49:30.100 Quote, now that's what we call a stellar season finale.

00:49:32.560 Also, how dare this show for preschoolers make adults get all emotional?

00:49:36.560 Jazz Tenke, an editor of Variety, posted on social media site X.

00:49:40.120 Pro wrestler and father Johnny Gargano posted on X that the new episode is straight-up Avengers

00:49:44.980 Endgame level for all of us fans.

00:49:47.540 Quote, what a fantastic emotional rollercoaster.

00:49:50.080 It's like watching SpongeBob as an adult, except it rips your heart out.

00:49:53.780 That, according to fan Jack Caparucho, wrote on X.

00:49:58.760 My therapist isn't going to know what hit her.

00:50:00.980 Sensational television fan Sam Gavin wrote on X.

00:50:04.640 No, I'm not joking.

00:50:05.620 Bandit and Chili are parenting goals.

00:50:07.500 I love these characters so much, fan Brittany Bailey wrote on X.

00:50:11.120 But her husband wrote, she wrote on X that her husband woke her family up to watch the

00:50:16.520 episode, and then her husband cried his eyes out.

00:50:20.560 Quote, the last time he cried was at the birth of our baby.

00:50:23.740 Bluey is so much more than a kid's cartoon.

00:50:26.860 On Instagram, influencer Bethany Kratt joked that Oppenheimer was cool and everything, but

00:50:31.140 did you see the Bluey episode, The Sign?

00:50:32.760 You can't tell me these Bluey episodes aren't cinematic masterpieces, Kratt wrote, adding

00:50:38.460 that her family dog is named after the character Bandit.

00:50:41.300 They generate more feelings and emotions than any movie ever has, and I feel like I need

00:50:45.000 to give my therapist a call to unpack things after each one.

00:50:49.940 By the way, here's the picture that the Bluey fan Brittany Bailey provided, showing her husband

00:50:55.000 weeping as he watched the cartoon.

00:50:57.640 So this is a, this is a, there you go, this is a grown adult man sobbing uncontrollably

00:51:03.840 over an episode of a cartoon show aimed at preschoolers.

00:51:07.600 And the kid's not even paying attention.

00:51:09.400 You know what I mean?

00:51:09.740 Look, the kid's looking at it, he's bored by it.

00:51:11.840 And the grown adult man is watching, he's absolutely absorbed by it, and he's breaking

00:51:19.960 down in tears.

00:51:21.300 This is perhaps, you look at this image here, and I don't mean to pick on this guy.

00:51:24.560 I don't know anything about him.

00:51:25.240 He might be a nice guy, but this is perhaps the least manly image that has ever been captured

00:51:29.740 on film.

00:51:30.200 It is modern masculinity personified.

00:51:32.740 Now, before we analyze this any further, let's just watch the climactic scene where Bandit

00:51:39.780 changes his mind about the move.

00:51:43.280 This is the scene that absolutely wrecked so many adult Bluey fans.

00:51:48.200 And I have this clip because it was posted to Twitter by a guy named John Cartwright, another

00:51:52.140 grown adult male, who posted it with this caption.

00:51:55.380 It's absolutely crazy to have this air with all the other toddler shows.

00:51:58.980 It's on such a different level.

00:52:00.780 The clip we should note has been viewed 20 million times, with thousands of comments from

00:52:05.880 other adults calling the scene incredible and beautiful, a masterpiece, heart-wrenching,

00:52:10.580 and so on.

00:52:11.840 Many adults are treating this scene like it's one of the most profound pieces of art they

00:52:16.740 have ever seen in their entire lives.

00:52:18.360 And that's not an exaggeration, and they're not being ironic.

00:52:20.920 They really mean it.

00:52:22.440 So let's watch a little bit of this.

00:52:24.020 Here it is.

00:52:24.320 I feel it in the morning I feel how low it lies And then I hear you call it

00:52:35.760 And then I start to rise I feel it in the morning I feel how low it lies

00:52:47.720 And then I hear you call my name And then I start to rise

00:52:55.720 And when I hear you calling Like you were always there

00:53:03.160 I rise until I'm hanging in the middle of the air

00:53:11.420 But when I hear you calling I split like I'm a snake With golden light-like fingers

00:53:22.800 I get the idea.

00:53:24.120 It was so beautiful.

00:53:25.220 So beautiful.

00:53:26.060 It changed my life.

00:53:26.900 It's life-changing.

00:53:28.480 I've never seen anything as beautiful as this in my entire life.

00:53:31.920 That's basically it.

00:53:32.780 The scene that ripped the hearts out of so many adults, it's the most beautiful thing

00:53:37.040 they've ever seen in their lives.

00:53:38.420 Bluey's dad changes his mind about moving

00:53:40.320 And he rips the for sale sign out of the yard

00:53:43.140 And the family is happy.

00:53:45.340 The end.

00:53:46.600 Now, I don't want to overanalyze this scene.

00:53:49.440 There's been enough of that already.

00:53:50.760 I will say that first of all

00:53:52.300 And I don't know what led up to this and everything.

00:53:54.080 I didn't watch the episode.

00:53:55.020 But just as a real estate note here

00:53:59.740 You cannot back out of selling your house at the last minute like that.

00:54:03.680 It's a violation of your contract.

00:54:05.300 You'll probably face a lawsuit.

00:54:06.380 So I don't know if that's going to be the first episode of the next season

00:54:08.740 Is a bandit facing a major lawsuit

00:54:11.860 And because of families like homeless

00:54:14.540 They were going to move in.

00:54:15.500 They already sold their house.

00:54:16.560 Now, they got nowhere to go.

00:54:17.900 You refuse to move out of your house.

00:54:19.100 Maybe they're squatters now.

00:54:19.940 They're squatters.

00:54:20.340 They refuse to leave.

00:54:20.940 It's like that's what happens in the next season.

00:54:22.820 The next season is Bluey's family becomes squatters. 0.86

00:54:26.580 And second, this is actually a terrible message for children.

00:54:29.640 It's actually an awful message.

00:54:31.280 This is the worst.

00:54:32.580 It's the worst.

00:54:33.720 Well, I'm not going to say it's the worst message I've ever seen in a children's show.

00:54:36.760 But it's not great.

00:54:38.360 Because sometimes families have to move.

00:54:41.120 You know, I've had to move my family several times.

00:54:43.340 It's difficult for kids.

00:54:44.500 Yeah, it is.

00:54:45.060 But that's why it would be more useful for parents if the show ended with the family actually moving

00:54:51.720 and Bluey learning to love the new house and the new neighborhood.

00:54:55.960 Because in real life, your dad is not going to change his mind

00:54:59.120 and dramatically rip the for sale sign out of the yard

00:55:01.580 on the day that you're supposed to pack up and move.

00:55:03.800 And if he did, by the way, your mom in the front seat would not be ecstatic with glee. 0.96

00:55:09.700 She would be incredibly pissed off that her husband just made this decision

00:55:13.100 without consulting her at all.

00:55:15.400 She didn't even mention it.

00:55:17.020 They didn't even ask her.

00:55:18.260 You know, in real life, you know, if you're supposed to be moving, kids, you're moving.

00:55:23.500 It's just, it's happening.

00:55:24.860 And these kinds of shows are supposed to be made for children

00:55:28.220 to teach them helpful little life lessons.

00:55:31.540 But the lesson taught here is not helpful at all.

00:55:34.600 In fact, the lesson seems to be if your daddy really loves you, he won't make you move.

00:55:40.160 So thanks a lot, Bluey.

00:55:41.800 Thanks a lot.

00:55:43.240 But that's not the point.

00:55:44.460 The point is that, again, fully grown adults are treating this episode of a preschool children's

00:55:50.560 show like it's the most beautifully devastating work of art they have ever laid their eyes on.

00:55:56.120 And I can maybe excuse some of this to some extent for women.

00:56:00.480 Like my wife would probably cry if she watched that scene, but she cries when anything vaguely sad or heartwarming happens on screen.

00:56:07.400 I've seen her tear up watching a 30-second life insurance commercial.

00:56:10.600 Women are emotional in that way. 1.00

00:56:12.300 Now, my wife would certainly not cry over that scene and then declare that it was an artistic masterpiece.

00:56:18.700 Instead, she would maybe tear up a little bit and she would say something like, oh, that was kind of sweet.

00:56:23.860 And then she'd move on with her day and that would be it, right?

00:56:26.800 I can excuse women crying over a sappy scene in a children's show about a cartoon dog, 1.00

00:56:31.100 but not then acting like the children's show about a cartoon dog is a work of cinematic brilliance that puts Citizen Kane to shame.

00:56:39.960 Yet the greater problem here is the men.

00:56:43.360 We have grown men not only weeping over a cartoon, but then announcing it publicly to the world without shame.

00:56:50.160 And then saying they're going to talk to their therapist about it.

00:56:53.100 That's how affected they were, is that they're going to talk to their therapist about Bluey.

00:57:01.120 Now, look, you may think that I have gone too far at times in my demand for stoicism from men.

00:57:06.440 Even if you think that, you must admit there should be limits.

00:57:09.100 Now, I personally believe that as a man, your wife and your children should almost never see you cry.

00:57:15.120 Only in the most extreme circumstances, in response to the most devastating tragedies, should they witness such a display.

00:57:23.380 A man should have, and I don't say that ironically or to be funny, that's what I really believe.

00:57:28.900 A man should have control over his emotions and should not show weakness,

00:57:32.420 especially in front of people who depend on him to be the strong and confident one.

00:57:37.180 And if you cry as a man, especially in front of your kids and your wife, you make them feel vulnerable.

00:57:43.840 You make them feel like you don't have control over the situation.

00:57:48.760 And again, only in the extreme circumstances should you put your family members in a spot like that.

00:57:55.520 You do it too often or you do it for frivolous reasons, and they will start to feel unsafe and unsecure,

00:58:02.100 and they'll lose respect for you.

00:58:03.840 Your wife will lose respect for you.

00:58:05.500 It's like for a woman, and some will say this out loud, most won't, but this is what they all think. 0.73

00:58:09.780 And for a woman to witness a man crying for a dumb reason is the most repulsive thing that they could possibly witness. 0.99

00:58:17.920 It's disgusting to them. 0.99

00:58:19.240 It really is. 0.89

00:58:20.020 Like a deep, primal level, it's revolting.

00:58:24.200 So it's just something that you should realize.

00:58:26.240 Now, perhaps you think that I'm too stringent in this regard.

00:58:28.980 Fine.

00:58:29.860 We can debate that another day.

00:58:31.220 What we should be able to agree is that whatever the appropriate circumstances for men to cry, 0.96

00:58:37.280 that umbrella, however wide or narrow it might be, does not cover a children's show about cartoon dogs.

00:58:45.140 We must have some standards here.

00:58:48.140 And by the way, it's not like anything really tragic or profound happened in the episode.

00:58:52.620 They just decided not to move.

00:58:55.060 Really?

00:58:56.380 That's an emotional roller coaster for you?

00:58:58.840 Is that the characters were going to move and then didn't?

00:59:02.300 Really?

00:59:03.240 Now, I can see why a child might find that plot to be, like, really emotional.

00:59:07.560 But an adult?

00:59:10.300 Here's the thing.

00:59:11.060 We live in a culture where adults are profoundly moved by children's entertainment.

00:59:15.700 That is not because all of these adults are deeply emotional people.

00:59:20.540 Now, they may be emotional, but not deeply.

00:59:22.700 There's no depth there.

00:59:23.980 They are shallow.

00:59:25.000 They are superficial.

00:59:26.520 They have grown physically, but not mentally or emotionally.

00:59:30.420 Like, if you as an adult are really deeply stirred by something like that,

00:59:35.100 by this corny, like, over-the-top, very emotionally manipulative,

00:59:39.260 they've got this song playing.

00:59:40.460 The song is way too much.

00:59:42.340 It's way too far for this scene.

00:59:44.920 And if you can be manipulated that easily as an adult, 0.97

00:59:49.340 then that's because you are a shallow person.

00:59:51.960 And that's why adults still respond to children's entertainment the same as they did as children.

00:59:57.600 It's like being an adult who still prefers microwaved chicken nuggets and a juice box

01:00:04.260 over a nice home-cooked meal.

01:00:07.060 Okay?

01:00:07.180 It's like if you go to someone's house and they're serving up a delicious home-cooked meal,

01:00:10.940 but maybe there's some kids there and they're just making microwave chicken nuggets for the kids

01:00:15.160 and giving juice boxes.

01:00:16.580 And you said to your host, oh, can I have those instead?

01:00:18.960 Yeah, the Tyson chicken nuggets that came out of the microwave.

01:00:21.200 Can I get one of those?

01:00:23.100 It's like, it goes beyond just, well, people have different tastes.

01:00:28.220 You shouldn't have that taste.

01:00:29.340 That's a wrong taste to have.

01:00:30.600 That's embarrassing.

01:00:32.160 It shows a simplicity, but not the good kind of simplicity.

01:00:35.420 This is the simplicity of someone whose palate hasn't developed,

01:00:39.860 whose tastes and interests haven't matured.

01:00:42.960 They've become adults, but they have not put away childish things.

01:00:46.040 And now they're weeping over preschool entertainment

01:00:48.400 and declaring it the greatest piece of art since the Sistine Chapel.

01:00:53.000 It is embarrassing, even if they don't realize that they should be embarrassed.

01:00:58.840 And that's why these adults are today canceled.

01:01:03.460 That'll do it for the show today.

01:01:04.320 Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening.

01:01:05.540 Talk to you tomorrow.

01:01:06.600 Have a great day.

01:01:07.580 Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - April 18, 2024

Ep. 1350 - New CEO of NPR Is Everything Wrong With The News Media

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